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ANA MARIE A. SALAMAT Make-up Artist I.A.T.S.E. Local 798
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ZOOMAN AND THE SIGN
THE GREEN BIRD
© ANA MARIE A. SALAMAT
Workplace Comedy Is Tough Sell
By Peter Marks
Tuesday, March 3, 2009; Page C07
At first, Studio Theatre's "The Receptionist" appears to belong in the same tower of corporate irony as NBC's "The Office." Set in the bland, Muzak-filled confines of a generically outfitted reception area, Adam Bock's short play starts down the promising road of deadpan workplace satire.
But while "The Office" manages to remind audiences weekly of the bottomless comic potential in businessman banality, "The Receptionist" inadvertently reveals some of the genre's pitfalls. Intended both to send up office folkways and to creep us out over the nefarious transactions that such a sterile environment might disguise, Bock's play and Studio's production are only marginally successful at either. The evening is neither as funny nor as spooky as it strives to be.
Bock is a social satirist of eccentric charm, as he demonstrated in his loopy shark-dates-man play "Swimming in the Shallows" last year at Catalyst Theater. In "The Receptionist," he is melding notions cute and sinister, a combination that director Kate Van Burek Davis and her cast cannot, for the most part, bring together harmoniously for Studio's 2ndStage program.
The observational comedy of Bock's play requires a refined degree of timing that's not consistently achieved here. Although there are funny moments -- especially in the exchanges between Rachel Holt's high-strung office worker Lorraine and Nancy Paris's Beverly, the nosy lady who guards her inventory of pens at the reception desk -- Davis's choppy production exhausts the situation long before the house lights come back up.
Comedies enshrining workaday tedium, such as the aforementioned "Office" and Mike Judge's cult-classic movie "Office Space," have conditioned us to expect drollery at the sight of any room with a water cooler. That's why we are happy to be absorbed into the uninviting grayness of Hannah J. Crowell's set: the kind of place where no one should ever be forced to spend more than a day.
Over Beverly's horseshoe-shaped desk hangs the curious company logo, a star and two vertical stripes -- vaguely, perhaps even ominously, patriotic.* "Northeast office!" is the chirpy phone greeting of Beverly, who wears over her blouse a vest embroidered with cardinals resting on tree branches, the kind she might have sewn in adult-education class. (Kudos to costume designer Ana Marie A. Salamat.)*
For the longest time, we are flies on the wall, witnesses to Beverly's dull office rituals. Meanwhile, Lorraine zips in and out of her office, fretting over her unsatisfying love life while awaiting the arrival of the branch manager, Mr. Raymond (John Brennan). The day's routine is interrupted with the unscheduled surfacing of Mr. Dart (Adam Jonas Segaller), a persistent young man with a crazy, forced smile who has come from the "central office" on an urgent errand.
What that assignment might be takes "The Receptionist" into the realm of the chilling -- but not as surprisingly as the playwright might imagine.
Enjoyment of the play depends on an appreciation of Beverly. She's one of those low-on-the-totem-pole workers who by dint of personality and dedication threads herself into the very fabric of the place. While Paris lets you believe in Beverly as de facto ruler of the roost -- especially as she acts out the day's mindless drudgeries -- you're not quite as aware as you want to be of Beverly's utter self-confidence, her pride in her little kingdom. So it's not as devastating as you'd expect when the control of her domain begins to unravel.
Awkwardness manifests itself in some of the performances. Holt's Lorraine, however, is a swell creation, and ultimately the actress carries off a nifty bit of deception. It's the cleanest sleight-of-hand this slight entertainment allows.
Washington Post Review--"All That I Will Ever Be"-- The Studio Theatre
An L.A. Story Fueled By Seductive Charm
By Celia Wren
Special to The Washington Post
Thursday, February 21, 2008; Page C02
How apt that decor resembling a tick-tack-toe board occupies the center of the Studio Theatre's Stage 4 these days. The drama now housed there -- "All That I Will Ever Be," Hollywood writer Alan Ball's slickly packaged fable about sex and identity -- depicts a Los Angeles in which every relationship is a play-to-a-draw power struggle.
Suitably enough, director Serge Seiden's taut and intermittently racy production for the Studio's 2ndStage takes place on a set whose floor-level panes of opaque white glass, frequently lighted from below, seem to invite a high-stakes game of noughts and crosses.
The set, designed by Luciana Stecconi, is the centerpiece of an arena-style staging that brings us disturbingly close to the play's mysterious central character, Omar (Carlos Candelario), a hunky, young cellphone salesman of undetermined nationality who moonlights as a prostitute. With his ambiguous sexuality, exotic looks and elusive accent -- is it Egyptian? Iranian? -- Omar is well-positioned to exploit people's erotic obsessions, but his business teeters when he falls for Dwight (Parker Dixon), a sweet, Noam Chomsky-quoting rich boy still reeling from his mother's suicide.
The play explores this precarious situation and teases out the riddle of Omar's background, in scenes that are elliptical and voyeuristic: hesitant confidences, awkward confrontations, witty bickering, sex and talk about sex (the production features nudity).
Ball, who created the HBO series "Six Feet Under" and wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for "American Beauty" (he also has previous play credits), whisks in some arch humor on a couple of shopworn themes: the shoddiness of the movie business and the cynicism, ruthlessness and superficiality of the people who run it. "Hot doesn't cut it," sniffs Cynthia (Leayne Freeman), Omar's movie-exec girlfriend. ". . . You have to be perceived as being smart. That's why I wear these glasses that make me look like a Dutch architect, even though I had Lasik surgery over a year ago."
Seiden's cast deftly navigates this mingling of parody and sincerity. Candelario is, by turns, compellingly dour, seductive, vulnerable and sphinxlike: A sequence in which Omar, killing time, segues from one-handed push-ups (what biceps!) to a campy belly dance, mirror in hand, speaks volumes about the character's carefully maintained defenses. Dixon is appealingly scruffy as the weed-smoking Dwight and, in a smaller role, Richard Mancini draws a poignant picture of Raymond, an elderly businessman who is better traveled -- and less gullible -- than most of Omar's clients. John Kevin Boggs is pleasantly cartoonish as a movie mogul from hell.
As Cynthia, Freeman is icy and terrifically glamorous, whether in a pantsuit or a gold sheath and matching heels (Ana Marie A. Salamat designed the expressive costumes). Further evoking Tinseltown privilege, Stecconi's set is periodically enriched by an item or two of pitch-perfect furniture, like the restaurant table with its vase for a single orchid, or the hot tub that turns out to be lurking beneath the glass floor. Erik Trester's sound design -- sometimes Middle Eastern music, sometimes smooth jazz -- accentuates the play's concern with culture clash.
Given the glitzy setting, the sensational story and the savvy, wisecracking dialogue, "All That I Will Ever Be" has the guilty-pleasure quotient of Vanity Fair's Hollywood issue. Ultimately, though, there's something a little glib about how Ball coordinates his motifs, which are tinged with a self-help ethos ("We deserve to be loved, purely and unconditionally," Raymond tells Omar). The challenges of staking out an identity as a sexual being; of being a foreigner in an insular America; and of seeking happiness and fulfillment, generally, in a cutthroat modern world -- these themes lie in tidy alignment, like a winning row of X's on a tick-tack-toe grid.
All That I Will Ever Be, by Alan Ball. Directed by Serge Seiden; lighting, John Burkland. With McKenzie Bowling, Chris Dinolfo, Danny Gavigan and Steve Nixon. Two hours. Through March 9 at the Studio Theatre, 1501 14th St. NW. Call 202-332-3300 or visit http://www.studiotheatre.org.
nytheatre.com review of BRIDE
Martin Denton · March 17, 2008
Bride, the new theatre piece by Kevin Augustine and Lone Wolf Tribe, is monumental, epic, and audacious. It is imperfect, as all great art necessarily is; but it takes its audience to a world of singular vision and grotesque beauty—a place surely none of us has ever been before.
It's a story of creation and of the Creator. If you've been lucky to witness the growth and evolution of Augustine's work since his first piece, Once Vaudeville, about ten years ago, then you know that his prime obsession is more or less the same as Mary Shelley's theme in Frankenstein: what does it mean to create life, as Augustine does in his shows, where he crafts the rest of his cast (puppets) from foam rubber and literally animates them right before our eyes every night? How does a creator cope with the (deep, probably subconscious) knowledge that all of his creations are imperfect, that if he can just make the one perfect Thing then the quest of his Art/Life will be fulfilled?
Bride is comprised of three sections, or movements, that each explore a part of this framework. The first segment introduces us a to a God who has become overwhelmed by what He's wrought. He's presented as an old man on a throne, working a kind of celestial switchboard, over which are transmitted calls for assistance, presumably from the humans on Earth. (At one point we hear God's "voicemail" play a recorded message to the effect that He has 46,000 unplayed messages.) God's only assistant is a monkey, who helps keep Him focused by referring Him to an enormous book that appears to contain the texts of all the holy scriptures known to man.
Augustine himself plays this character, referred to in the program as Father, and his performance is extraordinary. Under layers of makeup (designed by Ana Marie Salamat), he looks decades older than he really is, and his entire physicality suggests burdens that long ago became too much to bear. Rob Lok, also remarkably costumed and made up, portrays the ape assistant with eerie grace.
The first section concludes with a spectacularly theatrical moment which leads the Father to realize that he needs help of some kind—in Augustine's vision, God Himself destroyed the other gods who used to be worshipped by the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, et al, and maybe now he regrets this. But His next stratagem, which is pursued in the second part of Bride, is the attempted manufacture of a perfect rendition of His prime creation (e.g., Man). This takes the form (familiar for an Augustine show) of the evolution and training of an unnamed puppet, from baby to insecure but eagerly hopeful adolescent. The puppet, made of foam rubber, is worked, sort-of-bunraku style, by a small chorus of puppeteers; and, occasionally, by Augustine himself. Some of the animation of this creation is breathtaking. At one point, dancer James Graber appears as a manifestation of Father's thoughts, illustrating the kind of perfect grace in movement He wants His new child to achieve—another singularly beautiful moment in the show.
I don't want to give too much away, but the third and final segment of the piece moves the story toward a resolution that the second section fails to provide. In it, the title character—a 15-foot puppet representing an elemental earth goddess—literally puts herself back together in order to give the Father the help He hasn't understood He needed. Whether her presence represents the need for a Mother figure specifically, or more generally the notion of collaboration in the face of awesome circumstance, (or something else entirely), I will leave for you to decide for yourself.
Bride is as fragmented as this description suggests—the text lacks the cohesiveness that would tie the piece together in a neat package. But each of the movements in Bride represents a remarkable feat of imagination, and the realization of them—by Augustine and his co-director, Ken Berman, with collaborators Dave Malloy (sound), Shima Ushiba (costumes), Tom Lee (set and video), music (Andrea La Rose; played live by six onstage musicians), and Miranda Hardy (lighting)—is astonishing and artful. Bride explores the deepest yearnings and ponderings of the artist, in the form of undiscovered countries wrought large on stage.
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What’s The Next Step? – chapter 1
By Leong Qi Tyng Last updated Nov 14, 2018
Chapter 1: Guilt
It was the third day we stayed with the elves. The man who brought us to his home is called Legolas. He looked so much better in real life.
The elves lived in a beautiful valley. We stayed in his castle. We have a private suite and a bathroom each. As I wondered down the never-ending corridor, I wondered how many rooms the eves need. Their diet were mostly vegetarian. More berries. I don’t know how they get their energy.
I noticed that Amalina and Teva kept checking the berries before popping into their mouth. We didn’t mean to be rude but we do not want to have mutant berries in our mouths. Our drinks were either the choice of fruit juice or from the stream.
Legolas asked us to stay longer because he received news that there were Dark Seekers roaming nearby. Dark Seekers are more or less similar to Death Eaters in the world of Harry Potter . We agreed willingly. We didn’t want to leave and are safe to wander around the village.
My friends and I sat with his children at the long table on the balcony. We could see the whole valley from where we sat. It was more of a floating patio. it had water features and a playground for the kids.
Teva played with Ames and Rose. They were about 6 or 7 years old. They have long, blond hair, pointed ears and fair skinned. “You’re sure that this balcony patio will not collapse?” Ling asked. She gripped the armrests of her chair tightly. “No, I don’t think so,” Tyng replied. Tyng walked towards us with a pair of binoculars in her hand.
“The view is wonderful here.”
“I want to see,” Daphne said excitedly. Tyng passed the binoculars to Daphne before sitting down. “Don’t fall off!” I yelled. Tyng read the newspaper. Ling scooted near to Tyng to read the paper too.
“Trisha, don’t you want to see?” Daphne asked and called me over.
I stood at the furthest edge I dare to stand on and looked through the binoculars. I saw villagers trying to sell their goods and children playing hide and seek. I could also see Legolas visiting his people. I turned the knob on the binoculars to see further and deeper into the forest. I saw the colour green everywhere. I was about to hand back the binoculars but then I saw the most unexpected thing.
I looked away and blinked a few times before viewing the binoculars again. There! I was about to call my friends over but Legolas appeared at the balcony.
“How is everything my..” Legolas said and stopped when Ling gave him an odd stare. “Everything is fine,” I said and smiled. “Good. I’m just letting you know that all of you are invited as guests of honour to my royal ball tonight. My friend will be visiting me and she wants to meet all of you. She will be staying for a night with us,” Legolas said in his calming and patient voice.
I looked at my perfect uniform and the others. “A ball?” I squeaked. “We can’t go to a ball wearing this,” I said.
Legolas rolled his eyes. “Of course I thought of that. Your dresses are waiting in your bedrooms. Someone will help you get groomed,” he replied. Oh. He could have told us earlier. “So I’ll be meeting all of you outside the grand hall at 7 p.m. sharp,” he said and turned to go downstairs.
“If we’re going to the ball, it means that I have to wear a dress?” Amalina asked. All of us laughed. “I hate dresses! It’s not funny!” Amalina exclaimed.
The dress that were picked out for us fits us perfectly. It was a simple ball gown yet it looked very glamourous when I looked at myself in the mirror. Two maids helped me to do up my hair. The make up they used on me were sparkly and natural. I wonder how my friends look like in their clothes especially Amalina.
The door creaked open and I saw Teva, Tyng and Ling come in. They look stunning as well. “How do we look?” Teva asked and did a small twirl for us to look. Tyng looked uncomfortable wearing heels. Ling and her sat on the edge of my bed. “You guys look beautiful. What about me?” I asked. “Ugly,” Teva teased. “Eh,” I started. “Just joking. You look beautiful too,” Teva said quickly when the elves looked at her sternly.
Suddenly, the door burst open and Daphne came in. “Wah, Trisha!” Daphne said and hugged me. “At least she said something nice,” I pointed out. Daphne grinned and sat with Tyng and Ling when we complimented her. I noticed that they put flowers and gemstones onto our hair.
“My head feels heavy,” Tyng said and cocked her head one side. “Anyone seen Amalina?” Ling asked curiously. “Nope. Where is she? I want to see her in a dress!” Teva said excitedly. She held a new camera in her hand and was snapping pictures. I wondered where she got the camera.
“I heard somebody saying my name,” Amalina piped up. She entered the room slowly. The elves exited the room.
“You look beautiful in a dress. Why do you hate dresses?” I told her. “These heels can kill me,” Amalina muttered. She looked remarkable in a dress. Since she was not allowed to wear pants, she requested that she be allowed to put on a headscarf and wore a long-sleeved dress. It took us awhile to explain to the elves about the do’s and don’ts of Amalina’s religion.
“Well, you can kick people with those heels,” Teva replied. Amalina changed her mind about the heels and gave an evil smile.
Ames and Rose passed by my room. They told us to go down to the hall now or the guests will get impatient. They waved goodbye before hurrying off. “Are we in demand or something?” Daphne asked as we streamed out of my bedroom. I closed the door behind me and headed to the lift with my friends. The open-air lift could take all of us.
“I read this interesting book in the library. It was recorded that in every ten years, seven maidens will come to Inkspell and they will be welcomed gladly,” Ling mused. “There’s only six of us,” Tyng said. “I’m just sharing what I read,” Ling replied. “Anyway, why do the maidens come to Inkspell for?” Tyng asked. Ling shrugged. “The words after that were in the elf language. I haven’t got around translating yet,” Ling explained.
We were given lessons like nay other elves. The things that we learn in Inkspell are almost similar to what we learn back home. The plus side is that we don’t need to wear uniforms.
Finally, we reached the entrance to the grand hall. Guards in white uniforms lined up along the corridor to the huge wooden door. The guards held out their shiny bows proudly. Legolas was already waiting for us near the door. “Just in time,” he said as one guard opened the door.
It was like a fairytale where a princess enters the ball. Elves were twirling on the dance floor to the music. The band playing were seated on the first floor. Everything stopped when Legolas stepped in. Everyone gave way as we followed Legolas from the back.
“Welcome, elves of Inkspell!” Legolas said loudly. “Hail King Legolas!” his people said in return. Their love and loyalty to their king were tremendous. Suddenly, I felt very insignificant. Teva, Amalina, and Tyng looked around them. Teva took pictures. Ling tried her best to smile and Daphne did the same. I smiled a little too.
“Today, I’m not that important. As promised, I give you the seven maidens!” Legolas announced to the whole hall and gestured towards my friends and I. The crowd erupted with applause. “Doesn’t he know how to count? There are only six of us. I think he got the wrong group of maidens,” Amalina whispered. “There are seven now,” a voice behind me said. I turned around to look and was caught by surprise.
The lady who spoke had jet black hair and fair skinned. However, her cheeks are rosy and so was her lips. I know that she’s an elf. Her eyes were almond shaped and green.
“You have come, my friend,” Legolas greeted and embraced her. “Yes, Legolas. A promise is a promise,” she replied and smiled. “This is Arwen Pekkala,” Legolas said. We greeted her in turns. “Shall we?” Legolas said and motioned us to sit on our ‘thrones’. He sat in the middle of course. Four of us on his right, three on his left. There was one extra seat beside Amalina. Legolas and Arwen did not mention anything so neither of us brought the subject up.
We sat and faced the people. There were performances and more dancing. I was getting bored and restless just sitting. I was about to ask Legolas whether I could dance with my friends when something caught my eye. I froze and asked Teva how I looked. Teva frowned. “Normal. You look fine,” Teva replied.
Before I could reply, I overheard someone asking Legolas permission to dance with one of us. It was the guy who I saw with my binoculars a few days ago and today. “It is up to her young man,” Legolas said and both of them looked at me. “Huh?” I blurted.
“He’s asking whether you would like to dance with him,” Legolas said. Arwen gave an encouraging smile. In a daze, I held his hand and was lead to the dance floor.
He could dance pretty well. He looked smart in his black tuxedo. I saw no pointed ears and wondered whether he’s a human living in Inkspell. “I’m not an elf. I’m a vampire,” he said, like he read my thoughts. I stared at him and stopped moving.
Fight or flee?
“Relax. I’m related to the Cullens. I’m sure you heard of them,” he said and chuckled. “You mean Carlisle’s family?” I asked. “Yes, that Cullen,” he replied as we began to glide on the dance floor again. I saw my friends being invited to dance when I twirled pass the throne. “What’s your name?” I asked. “My name is Edmund,” he replied and spun me around.
“I thought only elves are allowed into the castle,” I said. “My family are good friends with the king,” Edmund said. I lost my balance but he caught me in time. Apparently, I accidentally stepped on another elf’s dress. I apologized to her.
“I think we need to drink,” he said when the elf went away. A waiter passed by and Edmund took two glasses. “You can drink this right?” he asked as he handed the glass containing clear liquid to me. “What is it?” I asked and held the glass towards the light. He drank the whole glass in one gulp. “Some special juice that the elves love. Do you like sweet stuff?” Edmund asked and placed his empty glass onto a tray.
“Not really. It wouldn’t kill me if I drink it right?” I asked and laughed. “Well, your friend opted for fruit juice,” Edmund said and gestured behind me with his head. I turned to look. It was Tyng with a guy who obviously loves to show off.
“That’s my cousin from Alaska. Name’s Caleb and he’s actually a very quiet person. That’s not him tonight,” Edmund said. “Quiet?” I asked. Weird name too. Edmund widened his eyes as if he heard what I thought too. “You have to understand that we vampires are not from your modern times,” Edmund explained. He shoved his hands into his pockets. “Your friend do not find him weird. They have lots in common.” We could hear their laughter.
I didn’t say anything and tried to look for my friends. Daphne and Suet Ling were at the buffet table. Amalina was chatting with Arwen. Teva mingled around. She waved at me when she caught my eye and continued chatting to a couple. Caleb was no longer showing off. He whispered something to Tyng. Tyng scanned around the room, looking for someone. Caleb laughed when Tyng failed to look for the particular person and turned her around by holding her shoulders, facing us. Both of them waved at Edmund and I and giggled.
What is this? A waving party? I waved back. Edmund raised a glass towards them before drinking. “I’m sorry,” I said when I realized I ignored him for a moment. “It’s alright. Everyone treats my family like we’re outcasts anyway,” Edmund said indifferently and smiled.
“Just ignore them, Edmund,” a voice said. It was Edward’s. Bella was with him. She was pale than I am. She wasn’t a full fledge vampire yet. “No, Edward is still against turning me into one of them,” Bella said. “I’m Bella Swan. Well, Bella Cullen now,” she said nervously. I shook her hand and introduced myself. “Can you read minds?” I asked while Edward took Edmund aside to discuss some matters.
“I’m partly vampire and partly human thanks to James,” Bella said and held up her bitten hand. She said his name in a low growl. I can see Edward stealing a quick glance at us.
“Caleb challenged Tyng to dance and we are expected to join them,” Edward piped up when he made his way towards us. “Shall we honour Caleb’s request?” Edmund asked and held out his hand. Both of us headed to the dance floor again.
“Tyng doesn’t dance,” I said to Edmund. “Caleb gave her no options.”
A medium tempo song filled the hall. I recognized the tune. Caleb, Tyng, the Cullens, Edmund and I got ready at the center of the hall. People made way for all of us. I could hear Daphne and Ling cheering for us. They got invited to dance too. Amalina smiled smugly with Teva. Teva worked her camera.
Tyng looked spooked at first. I don’t know what Caleb did but he made her feel calm suddenly. Then it hit me. “That was Jasper’s doing wasn’t it?” I asked Edmund. He never answered.
Edmund was a great dancer. He said that Edward and Rosalie were way better. “Caleb isn’t bad too,” I added. “He wants to know if he has any competitors,” Edmund said.
The song ended pretty quickly. It was time for everyone to leave. “You mean he wants to know whether he’s the only one after Tyng?” I asked for confirmation. Edmund rolled his eyes. “She has a boyfriend back in the real world,” I said. “He knows that. He’s asking about this world,” Edmund said. I shook my head. “Who are my competitors then?” he asked as he escorted me to the door. I entered the lift and turned to look at him.
“Why don’t you find it out yourself?” I said and waved goodbye. He laughed and waved. I saw a glint in his golden eyes before the doors of the lift closed. I wonder whether he’s really a good vampire. Maybe he’ll lure me like how the witch lured Hansel and Gretel. Anything could happen in Inkspell.
“He was head over heels about you and you should not have commented about their names!” Daphne said suddenly. I didn’t realize that the lift stopped and the door was open. Daphne stood in front of the lift. “Daphne! You gave me a fright,” I said and exited the lift.
“When did you enter the lift?” I asked.
“We didn’t. You reached already,” Amalina said. I must have daydreamed on the way up.
“Anyway, how did you know what I said?” I asked Daphne and stifled a yawn. “I just knew. I’m tired. Going to have an early night,” Daphne said and trudged off to her bedroom. She entered her room and we heard her drop something on the floor. We also heard her grumbling.
“According to my watch, it is 12.15 a.m. now,” Tyng said. She yawned. “I guess I better go to bed too,” she said and went her way. “Good night,” I called out to my friends. I locked my room door and plopped down on my soft bed. It rained heavily then.
The next thing I knew was it was daylight. I must have fallen into deep slumber. I made my way to the bathroom to pick out the remaining gems and flowers from my hair and began to take a long shower. I was about done showering when there was a furious knock on the door.
“I’m almost ready!” I shouted back when it didn’t stop. “You have to hurry up, Trisha!” Edmund said urgently. Edmund? What was he doing here? The urgency scared me and I dressed quickly. When I opened the door, I was immediately flung over his back and he ran.
“Whoa! What about my friends? I have to tell them!” I shouted as he leapt over the balcony. We landed soundlessly. All the elves were running everywhere. “Caleb has come for Tyng. The others are safe,” he replied quickly as he sprinted away from the castle.
I had to close my eyes when the wind hurt my eyes. Edmund went superhumanly fast. I could hear screams and glass breaking all over me. I knew we were out of the castle when I could feel the raindrops.
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VAUGHAN WINS COSTA FLW SERIES TOURNAMENT ON ST. LAWRENCE RIVER PRESENTED BY REALTREE FISHING
Anglers Channel Posted On September 21, 2019
Sixth-Year Costa FLW Series angler Earns First Career Victory
MASSENA, N.Y. (Sept. 21, 2019) – Pro Wayne Vaughan of Chester, Virginia, caught a five-bass limit Saturday weighing 20 pounds, 11 ounces, to win the three-day Costa FLW Series on the St. Lawrence River presented by Realtree Fishing.
Vaughan’s three-day total of 15 bass weighing 63 pounds, 5 ounces was enough to earn him the victory by a 1-pound, 9-ounce margin over second-place pro Scott Dobson of Clarkston, Michigan, and earn him $83,340, including a new Ranger Z518L boat with a 200-horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard. The tournament was the third and final regular-season tournament of the year for anglers competing in the Costa FLW Series Northern Division presented by Gajo Baits.
“I caught a few fish this week on a tube, but every fish that I weighed in came drop-shotting a Redbone-colored Z-Man Jerk Shadz,” said Vaughan, who earned his first career victory in FLW competition. “I fished basically from takeoff all the way down to Clayton, hitting 20 to 25 spots each day.
“The first day my numbers were not that great – I think I only caught 10 fish,” Vaughan continued. “On the second day I caught around 25, and today I only caught 10. I was fishing around the ends of points – I caught them all in 35- to 55-feet-of-water. Yesterday the current was moving really well, so it had the fish up a little higher – around 35 feet. Today, I couldn’t get them that shallow and had to go real deep. I caught one down 55 feet.”
When asked what he felt was the key to his victory, Vaughan was honest and blunt with his answer – “luck.”
“I had no keys,” Vaughan joked. “I think my key was luck. I had caught a couple of fish in practice, but the last day I caught a 6-pounder way out deep. I told myself, ‘That is definitely where the big ones live, and I’m committing myself to this.’ It was a grind – I was only getting one or two fish on each of those spots.
“It’s been a great year, and to win at the last event of the year is just a great way to end the season,” Vaughan went on to say.
The top 10 pros on the St. Lawrence River finished:
1st: Wayne Vaughan, Chester, Va., 15 bass, 63-5, $83,340
2nd: Scott Dobson, Clarkston, Mich., 15 bass, 61-12, $14,199
3rd: A.J. Slegona, Pine Bush, N.Y., 15 bass, 59-7, $11,115
4th: Casey Smith, Macedon, N.Y., 15 bass, 58-12, $9,096
5th: Jason Burger, Bridgeton, N.J., 14 bass, 54-10, $8,186
6th: Neil Deleeuw, Fenwick, Ontario, Canada, 15 bass, 54-4, $7,277
7th: Ken Golub, Pittsford, N.Y., 14 bass, 54-1, $7,967
8th: Brian Hughes, Barrie, Ontario, Canada, 15 bass, 53-8, $5,458
9th: Jonathan Kelley, Old Forge, Penn., 15 bass, 50-4, $5,548
10th: Bryan Thrift, Shelby, N.C., 15 bass, 50-0, $3,638
A complete list of results can be found at FLWFishing.com.
Vaughan weighed in a 6-pound, 5-ounce bass Friday – the heaviest of the tournament in the Pro Division – and also earned the day’s Boater Big Bass award of $256.
Noah Winslow of Naugatuck, Connecticut, won the Co-angler Division with a three-day total of 15 bass weighing 50 pounds, 11 ounces. For his win, Winslow took home the top prize package of a new Ranger Z175 boat with a 115-horsepower outboard motor, worth $27,100.
The top 10 co-anglers on the St. Lawrence River finished:
1st: Noah Winslow, Naugatuck, Conn., 15 bass, 50-11, $27,100
2nd: Dexter Andrews, King George, Va., 15 bass, 50-3, $4,874
3rd: Grant Loney, Beamsville, Ontario, Canada, 14 bass, 49-2, $3,723
4th: Jeff Zeisner, Arva, Ontario, Canada, 15 bass, 49-1, $3,258
5th: Gary Haraguchi, Antioch, Calif., 14 bass, 48-6, $3,042
6th: Michael Sciacca, Augusta, N.J., 14 bass, 43-2, $2,327
7th: Will Litchfield, London, Ontario, Canada, 14 bass, 40-13, $1,862
8th: Joshua Hertzog, Ephrata, Penn., 14 bass, 39-0, $1,729
9th: Jeff Melsop, East Liberty, Ohio, 12 bass, 38-12, $1,396
10th: D. Brett Walker, Kansas City, Mo., 11 bass, 33-1, $1,163
Henry McKee of Haddon Heights, New Jersey, caught the biggest bass of the tournament in the Co-angler Division Friday, a fish weighing 6 pounds, 4 ounces. He earned the day’s Co-angler Big Bass award of $170.
The Costa FLW Series on the St. Lawrence River presented by Realtree Fishing was hosted by the Town of Massena. It was the third and final tournament in the 2019 regular season for Northern Division presented by Gajo Baits anglers. The next tournament for FLW Series anglers will also be in the Western Division, the Costa FLW Series at the California Delta presented by Power-Pole, held Sept. 26-28 in Bethel Island, California. For a complete schedule, visit FLWFishing.com.
The Costa FLW Series consists of five U.S. divisions – Central, Northern, Southeastern, Southwestern and Western – along with the International division. Each U.S. division consists of three regular-season tournaments with competitors vying for valuable points that could earn them the opportunity to compete in the season-ending Costa FLW Series Championship. The 2019 Costa FLW Series Championship is being held Oct. 31 – Nov. 2 on Lake Cumberland in Burnside, Kentucky.
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She Mates, She Kills — and That's OK With Male Brown Widows
by Jesslyn Shields Mar 28, 2018
A male brown widow spider will go out of his way to coax an older female into mating with him, even though there's a good chance she'll eat him afterwards. Mark Boster/LA Times/Getty Images
A lot of people like their love affairs to be a little bit risky — who knows why? As 17th-century theologian Blaise Pascal and countless Pinterest quote boards have mused, "The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know."
New research suggests the same might be said for brown widow spiders (Latrodectus geometricus). This cousin of the dreaded black widow spider is a sexual cannibal — male spiders go through an elaborate rigmarole in order to coax a female into mating with them, even though there's a good chance she'll end up eating them. Lots of spiders, as well as several groups of insects, engage in this gory courtship ritual.
The study, published in the journal Animal Behaviour in March 2018 finds that while individual males of many species do their very best to avoid being snacked upon during copulation, brown widow males actually seem to go out of their way to become amuse-bouche for the mother of their children. This is evidenced by the fact that males seem to strongly prefer mating with older females. The study demonstrated this to be puzzling for a couple different reasons.
The research team introduced virgin brown widow males to females of different ages: adolescent, young adult and mature lady spiders, all were capable of reproducing, although the younger spiders were more fertile than the older ones. But the males didn't seem to know this, or else they didn't care — they spent significantly more time courting the older females than the younger ones, and paid hardly any attention to the adolescents, even though it turned out these very young females hardly ever cannibalized their mates. When given the choice, males preferred to court the oldest lady spiders, even though their chances of survival weren't good — of those who chose to mate with the most mature females, 57 percent were eaten, compared the males who mated with young adults, who were cannibalized 48 percent of the time.
The research team isn't exactly sure what could possibly possess these males to make such strange mating choices, but they think it may have something to do with female pheromones: Older females might give off a more enticing scent to trick the males into thinking they're more fertile than they are in reality.
Female dark fishing spiders (Dolomedes tenebrosus) normally eat their mates. In fact, the ones that do, lay more and larger eggs that hatch into better-surviving offspring than those that are fed a post-coital cricket instead.
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Antonio Bachour grew up in Puerto Rico and was hooked on pastry from a young age, thanks to a childhood spent in his family’s bakery. He dedicated his first few years honing his trade in Puerto Rico as a pastry cook at Sand Hotel and Casino and Westin Rio Mar. In search for a better place to continue growing professionally, 2001 found Bachour States-bound, in Miami Beach, as executive pastry chef at Talula. Pretty soon he was trying his hand at Italian delicacies at both Devito South Beach and Scarpetta in New York and Miami.
In 2009, Bachour was asked by KNR Food Concepts to be a part of the opening team at the W South Beach Hotel. Shortly after, he took over responsibility for all pastries for The Trump Soho hotel and its restaurants. In April 2011 Bachour trained in France with renowned chef Philippe Givre at L’ Ecole Valrhona and that same year he was selected as one of the “Top 10 Pastry Chefs” in America plus was finalist in the 2011 International Chef Congress Pastry Competition.
Bachour’s local and international fame was cemented during his tenure at the Bal Harbour St. Regis where he was Executive Pastry chef from 2011 until 2016. In 2012, Johnson and Wales University selected Antonio for the Zest award for Baking & Pastry Innovator.
Bachour’s hyper-creative desserts have been featured in numerous pastry publications, such as So Good Magazine, Dulcypas, Saber y Sabor (Spain), Starchefs (The Architecture of New York), Gourmet Magazine, Dessert Professional, Pastry Art & Design, National Culinary Review (Magazine of the American Culinary Federation).
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Remarks on Vasiľiev's investigations of contradictions
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/LLP.1999.012
Looking at Vasiľiev’s works we notice the influence of Neo-Kantians’ views, why we have to separate the real world from the world of thought before we start philosophical-logical investigations. From the point of view of logic, Vasiľiev adopted two assumptions. First, the essence of logic is the division into truth and falsehood. It is not possible to deal with logic if we cannot differentiate between the two. The second assumption is that logic comprises two types of rules: the first are rules of a purely rational nature, they are absolute and form a part of metalogic — the universal part of logic, which is not subject for change.
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Canadian singer/songwriter Bad Child, 22, gained rapid success after releasing his debut self-titled track, Bad Child. He is currently on the Canadian leg of his tour. (Submitted photo)
From Soundcloud to the main stage: Canadian singer Bad Child sets his own boundaries in music
October 28, 2019 By Perushka Gopalkista
In high school, we don’t really think about the implications of our actions, unless it’s the impact of thousands of fans responding to an online hit single.
Canadian singer/songwriter, Isaiah Steinberg (a.k.a. Bad Child) released his first self-titled track Bad Child in 2015, through the waves of Soundcloud.
Having grown up in Kitchener, Ont., Steinberg credits the town for its eclectic and unique sound. At the age of nine, he started playing instruments, however, he wanted to isolate himself in order to find his own sound.
And by the time he was in high school, he released his first single. “I just wanted to use it as a way that I could escape,” said Steinberg. “I [wanted] to work in private and explore this world with no boundaries and not mingle too much,”
When he began creating music at a young age, he didn’t think a career he’d make a career of it. Steinberg, who is now 22, had plans to study photojournalism at the University of Toronto, but he thought because he was young, he should pursue his passion instead. “It was something that I did almost as a diary to just explore myself emotionally.”
The singer, who is currently embarking on a tour to cities such as Ottawa, Toronto as well as back to his hometown, said that touring has been a memorable experience in it of itself.
He’s performed at multiple festivals over the summer such as Ottawa Blues Festival and the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago. One of the memorable moments that he recalled was when he met up with American singer/songwriter Jaden Smith. “Overall, it’s just been really positive,” he said. “I mean, interacting with people on a soulful and meaningful level is just so rewarding.”
Steinberg describes his music style as “Neapolitan ice-cream” because it incorporates a wide range of elements, with no restrictions in place. He doesn’t believe in creating one particular style of music but rather encapsulating a wide range.
“I think it’s just so important that people can explore music freely and not have any restraint,” he said. “(When) you make music and be free and honest with it, it’s so much more satisfying.”
After the release of his single, fame and fortune was not something he was striving for, but sharing music from the soul, he discovered, was a way to connect with listeners. He also shared advice to newer musicians to recognize their intention of why they’re making music in the first place.
“You need to work from the soul and make any meaningful impact you need to. You just need to do what’s truthful to yourself,” said Steinberg. “When it comes to music, there’s no greater education than just going and doing it.”
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"Actually, the 'Rocket Man' reference leads to 'burning out his fuse up there alone'..."
"... which is an apt characterization of Kim Jong Un’s domestic political situation. But I don’t expect denizens of The View to get this," writes Glenn Reynolds after a "View" co-host, Sarah Haines, characterizes "Rocket Man" as a "phallic reference to masculine dominance." Watch the video at the link to catch the comic inflections and to experience the byplay with the other Viewsters.
Haines is taking the position that Trump's calling Kim Jong Un "Rocket Man" was "a smart move," because "If you think of Putin and you think of Kim Jong Un and you think of Donald Trump they love these phallic references to masculine dominance." That is, these men don't just enjoy talking about their phallus, they experience power as a phallic, making them vulnerable to taunts that call their masculinity into play.
It's really a very obvious observation of a sort that I've heard all my life. In "The Number of the Beast" (1980), Robert A. Heinlein wrote:
"No, she's absolutely right," said Zeb, patting the enormous pistol at his hip. "This is a penis substitute. After all, if I could kill at a range of thirty meters with my penis, I wouldn't need to carry this thing around, now would I?"
That's quoted at the TV Tropes article "Phallic Weapon":
Guns, cannons, swords, daggers... they're all penises.
After all, most of them are vaguely phallic (any object longer than it is wide = phallic), they penetrate human flesh, and killing people is a sign of virility. In the case of guns, they even "ejaculate" bullets, while swords tend to have a suggestive shape, guard positions where the hilt is held crotch height, and thrusting attacks. Even better if they are combined (bayonets on guns are the simplest applications of this, as well as any syringe-like weapon).
Glenn's taunt, aimed at the "View" women is "EVER SINCE TRUMP APPEARED, LATENT PHALLOPHOBIA HAS BECOME BLATANT PHALLOPHOBIA." If a nuclear weapon is the phallic symbol, the fear is justified and not a phobia. I don't think anyone has an exaggerated, unrealistic fear of a nuclear weapon because of its resemblance to a phallus. And it is realistic to think about how sexuality affects political and military decisionmaking. The women on "The View" handle the subject in a very fast-moving, light-hearted way, but it's a serious topic, and I think that Donald Trump has chosen to boldly display masculinity and to flaunt his superior masculine weaponry to intimidate Kim Jong Un. In this context, "Rocket Man" does translate — psychologically — into mocking Kim Jong Un for having a small penis. To point that out is not phobia, but straightforward analysis of Trump rhetoric and psychology in foreign relations.
Remember how we laughed at Kim Jong Un when his rockets failed:
Of course, it's phallic. It's phallophobia not to see the phallus aimed straight at your face.
Or does Glenn Reynolds expect us to believe that Trump wanted us to simply fill in the line with "burning out his fuse up there alone." Now, it's certainly true that — at least here in America — we associate Kim Jong Un with loneliness...
... and, sure, let's give Trump credit for needling Kim about his pathetic loneliness as well as his small penis — it's a taunt, and taunts can be multidimensional — but the line "burning out his fuse up there alone" has always been hard to hear. I listened to the song a hundred times without understanding the line, which eventually I read or... I don't know... heard William Shatner enunciate the hell out of...
Key phrase: I'm not the man they think I am at home....
That's self-doubt about masculinity. If we can imagine Kim Jong Un thinking through Bernie Taupin's lyrics, the "they" is the North Korean people, brainwashed to believe in Kim's greatness. But if he's Rocket Man, that's not enough. He knows he's not that man at all.
Tags: Chaplin, Instapundit, masculinity, nuclear war, phallic symbol, psychology, scary, Shatner, South Park, The View, Trump and foreign policy, Trump rhetoric
Sometimes a penis is just a penis.
Ralph L said...
Kind of weird Taupin song. Wife and child--yet higher than a kite and phallus all over.
Was he growing up and not happy about it?
If Trump sees himself as "Captain Fantastic" then who is "The Brown Dirt Cowboy"?
When did Whoopi get so wide? Nothing phallic about her now.
Mamy North Koreans are not brainwashed. They pretend to go along with it for fear of prison camp.
Many*
The American spoiled brat left will side with ruthless dictators if it means they can take a shot at Trump.
I always figured it was "burning out his fuel" but that would make too much sense.
Tiny fingered Trump is definitely jealous of Kim's huge rockets. Not to mention how many Koreans are named "Hung" That is what is wrong with Trump, he has no class, when a guy whips his dick around, like Kim does, it's best not to mention it and pretend you didn't see it. Lack of class tells.
Who is "The Brown Dirt Cowboy"?
Wasn't he in Brokeback Mountain?
rwnutjob said...
The left's focus on guns as phallic symbols does sort of explain their odd focus on grabbing them
...ground control to Kim Jong Un...
Enlighten-NewJersey said...
And I think it's gonna be a long long time
'Till touch down brings me round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Oh no no no I'm a rocket man
Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone
"Of course, it's phallic." Of course. Of course.
Everything discussed on "The View" comes back to the penis, eventually.
Then again, everything discussed by women comes back to the penis, eventually.
The Penis is the Uber-Symbol of Humanity.
Chicks know this, and it upsets some of them.
Sometimes the upset ones get a TV show.
One thing I haven't seen yet, from any article or pundit, is how Rocketman would be translated into Korean and how such a nickname would be perceived in Korean culture, in both general terms and its North Korean variant.
Maybe Rocketman is a compliment. Hell, he WANTS to be Rocketman, doesn't he? He's building rockets.
Look at this list of Kim Jong Un's honorific titles:
백두광명성
(百頭光明星) Shining Star of Paektu Mountain
향도의 해발
(嚮導의 해발) Guiding Sun Ray
21세기의 향도성
(21世紀의 嚮導星) Guiding Star of the 21st Century
Rocketman may be insufficiently elaborate. But how about: "Dear Leader, who is a perfect incarnation of the Rocketman"
No pissing contests at The View.
JZ said...
You (Ann) made me think of a picture from the 80s of Trump with girlfriend Rowanne Brewer. Trump is wearing an extra long neck tie and Rowanne is displaying ample cleavage. Camille Paglia pointed to it somewhere, commenting on the hyper hetero sexuality. Those were the days!
Women's studies gonna gender study.
Some alternative universe are fun to visit, whimsical even
but i have a tough time skimming this "parsing/free association" post to the end.
Rocket Man?
Ultra-Man.
Strap-on man.
How. would Hillary have handles a threatened launch of a missile at Guam? I mean without making any references to anything remotely phallic? I guess it would be the same way a woman might deal with it when in a social situation, she encounters a man with an inappropriate hard-on. "Uh, Mr Kim,,, Ummm..... Your.... Mr Kim, would you like to excuse yourself for a minute?" Or she could go the female privilege route and say to Kim "Who are you going to terrify with that?!?! I've seen missiles before and that's no missile!"
There is a reason (phalli?) are shaped the way they are. I suppose if humans laid eggs, we could have cloacas, but evolution rejected that option. Dicks are thus shaped to penetrate and inject. Swords only need to penetrate, guns inject lead at a distance. Missiles need to slip through the atmosphere in the same way that a dick has to slip through the vagina to reach the target. This theorizing is x amount of nonsense.
Women seem to prefer to use poison to murder men. That's probably why the patriarchy decided that chemical weapons should be banned.
There is a song about "Texas Red" and the guy with "the big gun on his hip" who was exceptionally fast with a gun. Now there you have a phallus substitute because if your gun is too heavy, it's going to slow you down. A big heavy gun is stupid, it should only be as big and heavy as needed to effectively kill at the desired range. If you were to say that most of the guns in movies were basically phallic symbols, I couldn't argue with you.
The real problem is applying techniques of analysis that apply to deconstruction literature to the real world. In a novel. if it is well written, just about every detail has a meaning. But in real life, we call people who believe that paranoid schizophrenics.
I think it's gonna be a long long time
Before the View says something that's sublime.
Ron Winkleheimer said...
The Number of the Beast makes me think that I bought that book at a airport book/magazine stand. Which makes me think that back then science fiction was a popular enough genre that convenience stores stocked racks with SF books. Books that had covers that did not resemble the ones on romance novels. Some of them did have rockets though. To get this back on topic.
Oh, I bought the novelization of Star Wars before the movie came out, and never saw it in theaters. Irma Bombeck wrote a column, "Ten Things To Say To Stop Conversation At A Party." One of them was, "I haven't seen Star Wars, but I have read the book."
Arugula Man.
"It's really a very obvious observation of a sort that I've heard all my life."
It might be common but it's not "obvious" because it's just some Freudian bullshit that feministas and their ilk use to insult men and masculinity.
"After all, if I could kill at a range of thirty meters with my penis, I wouldn't need to carry this thing around, now would I?"
Pretty poor example to support the nonsense because "if I could kill at a range of thirty meters with my penis" then his penis would be a gun substitute, not vice-versa.
Would you argue that in use "homophobia" means irrational fear of homosexuals? Because it doesn't. Neither does "phallophobia" mean irrational fear of either phalluses or bombs. Both alleged phobias refer to an attitude of hostility.
@Enlighten-NewJersey
Thanks for the correction on the lyric I quoted. "Home" — I had "all" — fits my point better.
Corrected in the post.
" It's phallophobia not to see the phallus aimed straight at your face."
Pity the blind women in porn.
They never see it coming.
That's who we need to deal with this problem Chauncey Gardener.
"It might be common but it's not "obvious" because it's just some Freudian bullshit that feministas and their ilk use to insult men and masculinity."
The fact that the idea is most associated with Freud proves it's not just some feminist bullshit. Most feminists, back in the day when Freud was revered, hated Freud. He wasn't seen as furthering the feminist cause.
As an incarnation of the Penis, William Shatner isn't bad.
YoungHegelian said...
Wouldn't Madman Across the Water be a more appropriate song?
I have to reread Number of the Beast... I've read it a zillion times but I do not remember that quote - at all. I know this is OT, but can anybody suggest where it occurs in the book? (If it does. I haven't entirely abandoned the thought that Prof. Althouse is messing with me. Us. Whatever.)
Just thinking about this from a geometric perapective, Althouse believes only squares, circles, cubes, and spheres are non-phallic.
That's an interesting data point. I am pretty sure it's an odd way to see the world.
Frankly, it seems as stupid as thinking every word with 'he in it is oppressive to women. And also as stupid as thinking every use of the word black is racist.
I suppose that "Coefficient of Drag" refers to gender bending, but here anyway, is a table of shapes and their corresponding drag coefficients http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/drag-coefficient-d_627.html
If you can find a shape with a lower drag coefficient than a "long streamlined body" that is capable of both carrying an engine and a warhead, something not shaped like a penis that is fit for purpose, let us know. I suppose that is because science is patriarchal.
If we were in the vacuum of space, and still a penis like shape was insisted upon, when any shape would do, you would have a point.
The fact that The View took Kim's side, a guy who just used VX nerve gas to assassinate a rival on foreign soil, just to take one example, is pretty telling of where they are.
The fact that the idea is most associated with Freud proves it's not just some feminist bullshit.
That association doesn't prove anything at all.
I would love to see a non-patriarchal gun design. One that didn't waste too much material, but was able to direct a projectile, with due speed and accuracy, at a target, that didn't somehow resemble a penis. In programming there is a concept called "design patterns" Works in natural selection too, and engineering.
"Of course it's phallic. It's phallophobia not be see the
phallus aimed straight at your face."
Rockets are engineered to achieve the purpose of launch and flight. I understand the original shape was vaginal in shape but they realized that was not an efficient design.
exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...
"After all, most of them are vaguely phallic (any object longer than it is wide = phallic), they penetrate human flesh, and killing people is a sign of virility."
Well, I dunno. When Zog wanted to kill a wild animal or the caveman next door, did he think "Aha! I will choose this stick as my weapon because it reminds me of my penis, which is also a weapon!" Or did he pick it because a pointed stick , or a piece of flint with the edge honed sharp, gives you a better chance at killing someone or something that standing there throwing rocks? Weapons penetrate because penetrating the flesh and slicing an artery or the jugular is the quickest way to kill someone.
Primitive peoples also dug deep holes in the ground and covered the hole with leafy branches, hoping that their enemies or tomorrow's dinner would walk over the hole and fall in. Is that -or any sort of trap - ever described as a vaginal symbol?
Rockets are phallic looking because long pointed objects have better trajectory than a rocket shaped like a boob would have.
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...
We sure spend a lot of time talking about dicks and vaginas around here. But sometimes we don't talk about the Left.
Althouse becomes a lot less trenchant when feminist shibboleths are involved, I have noticed. It's like she gets set from the the bourgeoisie constraints of evidence and logic.
MaxedOutMama said...
Way over my head, but I keep reading comments in German on German newspaper articles that refer to Kim as "Raketenmann". It stuck. It worked. What Trump wanted to do was focus everyone's attention on the firing of the rockets over/around other countries, and his "injudicious" language appears to have done that.
"It works" might be Trump's operational guideline.
Are trebuchets phallic?
Sling shots?
"I have to reread Number of the Beast... I've read it a zillion times but I do not remember that quote - at all. I know this is OT, but can anybody suggest where it occurs in the book? (If it does. I haven't entirely abandoned the thought that Prof. Althouse is messing with me. Us. Whatever.)"
I'm trusting the TV Tropes website.
I tried using Google books to search the book and didn't find the quote. I wonder if there are different versions of the book with different edits.
It seems like something you'd remember if you'd read it many times. I had some thought that maybe it was a different Heinlein book, but the character in NOTB is named Zeb...
exiledonmainstreet,
The holes with sharps sticks at the bottom to trap animals are vagina dentata.
I noticed back in grade school that paper airplanes seemed to travel a lot farther and faster than paper roses. So I threw the airplanes and glued the flowers to pieces of construction paper instead.
wendybar said...
Anybody who thinks the women of The View of liberals (they fire women who don't tow the line) is to be taken seriously should go to their shrinks fast. They sure don't represent my view, or any of my friends views. They are vile, mean and DUMB
I'd like to bring the subject back to boobs. This is a subject that not only has greater inherent interest but is more conducive to understanding the deep contradictions of sexual politics....,,.. Boobs are women's phallic symbols. In cartoons, if not in real life, women with power and a mission to save the world are always shown as having sharp, pointy tits. Here's the problem with that. Whilst sharp, pointy tits are nothing to be sneezed at, they are a secondary sex characteristic and not the ultimate source of a woman's sexual power......The penis, by contrast, shows an admirable unity of purpose and function. All of man's procreational and recreational faculties are located in one handy organ. These faculties are more diffuse and widespread in a woman's body........Her greatest power lies in her uterus which has the power to create life, and that's potent indeed. It's hard, however, to draw a potent uterus symbol for an action hero. Jennifer Lawrence would look pretty clumsy wiping out super villains if she were seven months pregnant....,,Beyond this, lies the sad fact that the locus of a woman's greatest sexual pleasure is nowhere near her uterus, and there is no universally recognized symbol for it. The clitoris simply doesn't have the clear, simple lines of a penis, and who even knows what g-spot looks like........The sharp, pointed breast is the best way to symbolize a woman's power, but, on reflection, there's something contradictory about that. The point of a tit is to nurture life, not to project power over life........I think women will continue to be mired in penis envy until such time as we can invent a really cool phallic symbol that they can embrace. Hillary's pantsuit is a welcome step in that direction but more work needs to be done.
@Ferdinande: "Ann Althouse said...
That association doesn't prove anything at all"
Sorry, Ferdinande. I have to side with Althouse here. The association proves that it is at the very least also Freudian bullshit, hence "not just" some feminist bullshit.
I have to reread Number of the Beast... I've read it a zillion times but I do not remember that quote - at all.
I don't remember it either, and I remember where LL states that if he didn't dispose of casual fiction after reading it his spaceship wouldn't be able to lift off.
pdug said...
C S Lewis compares space rockets to phalluses
Prelude to Space
An Epithaliamium
So Man, grown vigorous now,
Holds himself ripe to breed,
Daily devises how
To ejaculate his seed
And boldly fertilize
The black womb of the unconsenting skies.
Some now alive expect
(I am told) to see the large,
Steel member grow erect,
Turgid with the fierce charge
Of our whole planet's skill,
Courage, wealth, knowledge, concentrated will,
Straining with lust to stamp
Our likeness on the abyss-
Bombs, gallows, Belsen camp,
Pox, polio, Thais' kiss
Or Judas, Moloch's fires
And Torquemada's (sons resemble sires).
Shall we, when the grim shape
Roars upward, dance and sing?
Yes: if we honour rape,
If we take pride to Ring
So bountifully on space
The sperm of our long woes, our large disgrace.
The penis is the casting of the vagina.
One reason women should not be in combat arms units of the military. They are not trained from age one to shoot straight, so they don't put firepower on the target. Another terrible terrible male supremacy to be atoned for.
any object longer than it is wide = phallic
What about a can of corn? Asking for a friend.
Why Rocket Man instead of:
Missile Man
Missile Boy
Atomic Boy
Caviar Boy
Caviar Man
Brilliant branding by Trump. Not too over the top, or downplays. But builds an image of a menace.
Hard to pretend Rocket Man is not a threat.
JOB said...
I’m surprised no one linked to this one - never gets old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSWUWPx2VeQ
And I’ll put Rebney up against the “Os” any day.
Dude1394 said...
It is a little disquieting that some people see a penis in anything that is longer than it is wide. I mean...that is some serious penis envy going on.
I guess every little AC electrical outlet has two vaginas in it. Good GOD, I'm surrounded by vaginas!!!! Heh
Dude1394,
My electrical outlets have 6 vagines. Three openings per plug. Don't even get me started on the screen door.
gg6 said...
“Rocket man…...burning out his fuse up there alone…”
This is brilliant. Gives an entirely new and complete meaning to the Trump tweet re crazy Kim.
And, btw, who ever knew William Shatner could be so cool?!
I have a dream. Someday humanity will create weapons that will look like a big hairless vulva flying through the air, comin' to getcha. Wouldn't that be nice?
PatHMV said...
Don't forget that the word "vagina" was originally a latin term referring to a sword's sheath or scabbard.
"The fact that the idea is most associated with Freud proves it's not just some feminist bullshit."
It proves it's bullshit. Does it matter that it's not specifically feminist bullshit?
They are vile, mean and DUMB
Agreed. They really are nasty women in exactly the way Trump meant it, not in the self-congratulatory sense liberal women apply the term to themselves. They see themselves as feisty; everyone with any sense they are loudmouthed, ignorant shrews who would have been sentenced to the dunking stool in colonial New England.
Night Owl said...
Phallic schmallic. We just like throwing things at each other.
When we're kids we throw rocks at each other. In comedies we throw pies. Angry women throw fragile objects that explode into tiny pieces near their cheating husband's head-- well, in the movies they do. Even on the internet we get a kick out of hurling invectives. There's nothing overtly macho about throwing things. It's what we do. It's why our dogs think we're gods-- we can throw things!
In battles we hurl projectiles. Over time our projectiles have gotten bigger and deadlier. That some of them happen to be phallic-shaped is just a coincidence of physics.
OT, but anyone know why 'Fernandinande' is so difficult to spell right?
George Grady said...
Exactly. It just proves that feminists are willing to use whatever bullshit is lying around if it serves their purposes.
As much as I want to launch the Kim "Respect the Dong" meme, this shat from the View is female cackling.
Yes and Freud has gotten credit for more crap than anyone in history.
Sophocles wrote the Oedipus plays a thousand years before Freud.
Sometimes a rocket is just a rocket.
Sorta seems like you're pretending this is an example of thinking deeply about as subject but somehow your conclusion is one that a shallow freshman psychology student would give--everything is phalluses!
Counterpoint/fun fact: a key Nork missle goes by the name Nodong
Annie C. said...
Well, the USS Enterprise looks like a uterus and fallopian tubes.
Robert Crumb creates a perfect image of women talking about sexual politics
The Korean Police Action proved one thing: that the Norks (now in a Truce with the UN) are as stubborn an any enemy as we have ever faced. And they will honor no rules of engagement...none...never. Any war against them has to be one that goes on until it ends in their total destruction.
Which is why Russia, China, Japan, South Korea and the EU/German State have to be OK with the USA conducting that type of War. Which is exactly what DJT has been working on, and what the Dems and Globalist GOP Senators are complaining loudest about.
tim in vermont said...If you can find a shape with a lower drag coefficient than a "long streamlined body" that is capable of both carrying an engine and a warhead, something not shaped like a penis that is fit for purpose, let us know. I suppose that is because science is patriarchal.
Tim those are FACTS. We're not talking about FACTS. We're talking about FEELINGS.
It FEELS like the shape of a rocket reinforces male domination, ok? Whether you and your FACT-lovers can come up with some "scientific" explanation for the shape or not is immaterial--that does not address how the shape makes people FEEL.
The "I fucking love science" crowd happens to be the same group equating the prevalence of "penis shaped" launch vehicles with patriarchal oppression, yes. IF that strikes you as absurd in some way it's only because you don't understand the FEELINGS involved here, ok? You need to check your fact privilege, Tim.
Maybe empirical reality is patriarchal! I bet you never thought about that, did you Tim? How do you think that makes us FEEEEEL?
John Nowak said...
I regretfully have to disagree with our host.
Pointing out that rockets look like willies tells us nothing about nuclear strategy. Some turnips look like willies. The Area Rule means many supersonic aircraft look like a woman's waist; but it tells us nothing about air superiority.
To a feminist with a hammer, everything looks like a penis.
"Rocket Man" contains one of the dumbest lines ever, if applied to a real-life astronaut, but it probably suits Fat Boy well:
"And all this science I don't understand..."
exiledonmainstreet said...
Actually that line describes the womyn of "The View" pretty well too.
JAORE said...
Gender appropriation?
Maddad said...
"Rocket Man" struck me as weirdly specific. We know that the Kims have an interest in western popular culture, could this be a signal to Un that "we know more about you than you think"?
Oh yeah, thanks for clarifying two things.
I thought it was:
"... burning up my fuel....",
and the TV show was The Shrew....
Amexpat said...
Wow, that Shatner cover of Rocket Man is so bad that it's not even good in a bad way.
Bricap said...
My favorite Shatner video would have to be
his cover of Harry Chapin's Taxi.
"Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" is pretty good too.
Yes, that one's good, too. I love how he describes "tangerine trees, and marrrmalade skies..."
It's why our dogs think we're gods-- we can throw things!
My dog figures if I throw something I must not want it any longer, so she doesn't bother bringing it back.
Corona said...
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
and she's Gone Gone Gone gone gone gone...
Strawberry flavored malt liquor
Maybe empirical reality is patriarchal!
It is..and racist too....at least to the Lefty loonies.
"My dog figures if I throw something I must not want it any longer, so she doesn't bother bringing it back."
Lol! My dog won't retrieve anything either, unless she thinks she can eat it.
Jose_K said...
6 vagines. Three openings per plug. .. yes , they are called male and female for a reason
Washington Monument anyone
"Number of the Beast" started very well indeed, but then fell into the late-Heinlein mess.
The only one of his late work that remained tight and focused was "Job".
That's not Kim Jong-Un in the "Team America: World Police" clip. It's Kim Jong-Il, Kim Jong-Un's father.
Oh double bullshit. Young men, men who served in the Armed Forces year ago, learned this valuable lesson --
This is my weapon, this is my gun (holding the crotch area)
One is for fighting, one is for fun.
Straighten the fuck out, you civilians. Get with the program.
"The American spoiled brat left will side with ruthless dictators if it means they can take a shot at Trump."
It's not just Trump.
The left in America openly rooted for the Soviet Union during the entire Cold War.
This is not new.
The laws of nature have conspired against feminists to make everything that goes fast in a fluid environment look like a cock. Even stuff that moves in a vacuum can look masculine. Compare this to this. Cool, huh? Planets could perhaps be female symbols. There's a vague semblance evident when this is juxtaposed to this. Earth is a planet sometimes known by feminine names. Gaia is one. Terra (first declension noun) is another. Gaia spent a billion years baking her cookies, when a nasty masculine comet came and ate 'em all up, sorta like this.
Mother Nature is such a bitch. You'd think she'd be more into sisterhood. But no, most planets are big fat useless wastes of space like this, NO! NO! like this! (Whew, that was close...)
Notice that the View bitches never ever spoke of Obama and penises in the same conversation. He may or may not have been our first crypto-socialist president, but Obama certainly was the biggest nancy boy to live in the White House since Buchanan.
Brocolli Boy. Much more rigid.
Brocolli Boy with Cheese
Vagina shaped things do not make very good weapons. Unless they have teeth. Boobs on the other hand do have merit.
Un Cheese Whiz
Look at how fat he is, then look at the skinny guy next to him. Yeah - skinny guy not smiling.
A simple test of time, will give your good examples of alpha males vs beta males.
Michelle Dulak Thomson said...
Um, that isn't Kim Jong Un in "Team America"; it's his dad.
Vagina shaped things do not make very good weapons.
My earlier thesis was cylindrical stuff is masculine while round things are feminine. I stand on firm ground, I think. Freud agrees with me (speak up, Ziggy, the whole world is watching...). Now given that contemplate this
Peder said...
re: the Heinlein quote, I don't think that quote is real. I've read Number of the Beast at least half a dozen times and I don't remember that at all. Plus, it doesn't read like Heinlein. He was very pro-gun and that quote is very dismissive.
The trick is to distract 'em with something vagina shaped then hit with 'em something phallic.
"Key phrase: I'm not the man they think I am at home....
That's self-doubt about masculinity"
Not necessarily. Maybe he has an unusual hobby that the folks back home don't know about, maybe he doesn't flush every time, or maybe he hates dogs but keeps it hidden. Maybe only Mr. Taupin knows, or maybe even he doesn't. Maybe "Rocket Man Part II" will explore the true meaning.
I'm not the man they think I am at home.
I thought that it was explained with the "All this science, I don't understand"
As far as breast shaped military systems, the French employed hot-air balloons for a while, but even they went to the more phallic shape
It's the science is patriarchal, not that machines that have to conserve power while moving through a fluid have to solve the same fundamental problem as a penis.
To quote Sigmund Freud, who knew a thing or two about phallic symbols, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
Goes to show you that feminists can't even come up with their own bullshit. They need men for that. Bicycle and all that.
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Home Car News Ford Mustang Mach-E: first images of all-new electric SUV leaked
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Ford Mustang Mach-E: first images of all-new electric SUV leaked
Saturday, 23 November 2019, 08:19 EST
Modified date: Saturday, 23 November 2019, 08:19 EST
The Ford has been leaked on the firm’s on-line configurator before its official reveals on Sunday before the LA Motor show.
The images and a few USA verbal description and valuation info were discovered shortly once the name of the pony Mach-E, that is formed as a superior rival to the Tesla Model Y, was formally confirmed. The vehicle had antecedently been said as ‘Mustang-inspired’ however had not been given a reputation.
Chief among the data within the restricted verbal description discovered was the revelation that the pony Mach-E is going to be out there with a spread of various power outputs, giving 0-60mph times rated between mid-three seconds and mid-six seconds.
Vary for these models is quoted at between 230 and three hundred miles on the Environmental Protection Agency system, whereas all-wheel drive and rear-wheel drive are out there reckoning on that model is chosen.
The move suggests that Ford is aiming to grow the pony plate into a fuller model line, taking advantage of its heritage within the USA market, whereas disposition it authority in the critical Chinese market.
Sales of this pony in Europe, wherever it dominates its sector, conjointly recommend the name resonates globally.
Ford conjointly declared nowadays that it’ll begin taking deposits for the pony Mach-E within the USA and Europe now once it’s discovered, with the primary wave of consumers being offered the choice of an extremely specced 1st Edition model.
Also Read: New Custom Ford F-100 Rocks The Voodoo V8 Of A Mustang GT350
However, full valuation hasn’t nonetheless been declared, whereas Chinese consumers won’t be able to place down a deposit till a later date.
Deliveries of the pony Mach-E are expected to start in 2020, suggesting the automobile in l. a. are going to be a production model instead of a plan. Ford is known to possess had vast internal debates overexploitation the pony name in production.
The new model was given the ‘Mach 1’ tag throughout early development as a result of sturdy vox populi against the employment of the stigmatization traditionally reserved for Mustangs. However, Ford has currently set to mix each.
The new automobile is that the 1st Ford designed as an electric car from the bottom up, with a bespoken new platform sanctionative each rear and simple machine drive.
It’ll crown the brand’s wide-reaching electrification set up underneath that European customers are going to be offered a hybrid, plug-in hybrid or electrical version of each new model launched.
Also Read: Kia E Niro- Discover the new Kia e-Niro
The only technical detail Ford has formally discovered is that the car’s vary: it’ll be capable of 370 miles of WLTP-certified range on one charge, beating the Tesla Model X (351 miles) and Felis onca I-Pace (292 miles). A more cost-effective version with less battery capability and vary is additionally expected.
Ford claims to charge are going to be “effortless,” and it’s “redesigning the possession expertise to make sure it addresses client pain points that are presently twiddling my thumbs broad [electric car] adoption.”
Also Read: Ford Mustang Mach-E Debuts With 300-Mile Range, Four Doors, Fast Looks
The car’s performance remains unrevealed, though chairman Bill Ford has antecedently claimed it “is getting to go like hell.”
At a Bank of America summit last month, a Ford presentation showed that it’d supply a higher-performance variant of the electrical crossover, targeting a lot of increasing versions of Tesla’s EVs.
Like several of Ford’s recent models, it’ll be a globally built vehicle with few changes between regions. Britain’s deliveries are tipped to start in late 2020.
It’s not the sole energy unit in Ford’s product set up, as a result of the Michigan-based maker is additionally engaged on a cheaper electrical crossover.
Codenamed CX430, it’ll be supported the most recent Focus platform and be the same as the Kuga. The CX430 has been in Ford’s product set up for many years.
The long-awaited push into electrification comes once news that Ford is going to be dropping former best-sellers from its USA line-up: the Taurus, Fusion, and Focus, aboard the feast. Ford’s supermini ne’er found vast quality within the USA.
However, the critical call to finish Ford’s 110-year presence within the USA traveler saloon market sent a clear signal that profitableness, not diversity, is that the new focus for the complete.
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Gombrowicz is one of the most original and gifted writers of the twentieth century: he belongs at the very summit, at the side of his kindred spirits, Kafka and Céline.
— Washington Post Books World
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Broken Mirrors
by Elias Khoury
Translated from Arabic by Humphrey Davies
Broken Mirrors quantity
Karim Chammas returns to Lebanon, his family, and his past after ten years of establishing a new life in France. Back in Beirut, Karim reacquaints himself with his brother Nasim, now married to his former love Hend, and old friends from the leftist political circles within which he once roamed under the nom de guerre Sinalcol. By the end of his six-month stay, he has been reintroduced to the chaos of cultural, religious and political battles that continue to rage in Lebanon. Overwhelmed by the experiences of his return, Karim is forced to contemplate his identity and his place in Lebanon’s history. The story of Karim and his family is born of other stories that intertwine to form an imposing fresco of Lebanese society over the past fifty years. Broken Mirrors examines the roots of an endemic civil war and a country’s unsettled past.
[Khoury] is a writer of panoramic scope and ambition, and Broken Mirrors is rich with sly ironies, incisive political observations, and a cosmopolitan array of ideas and literary allusions...its narrative jumps about, swirls with overlapping stories and constantly amends itself, reflecting in form the dislocation of the civil war.
— Azadeh Moaveni, Financial Times
Khoury’s capacious and entrancing novel, masterfully translated by the award-winning Humphrey Davies, is an extraordinary achievement.
— Malcolm Forbes, The National
Within a finely rendered sociopolitical framework, Lebanese novelist Khoury (Gate of the Sun) dives down deeply to portray enduring personal pain.
— Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal Reviews
Broken Mirrors is a masterful achievement in form and style, moving us seamlessly back and forth in time, as it tells the story of Karim Shammas’ return to Beirut after a decade of living in France, and of his life before exile. It is a book which beautifully interrogates our past, our families, the cost of betrayal, and the difficult terrain of filial and romantic love, all inside the maze of human memory. Loss and the effects of war permeate the book’s consciousness, as does an awareness of how stories shape the world and of how, in actuality, our memories are part of the fields of our imaginations: they are the multi-faceted mirror by which we perceive ourselves and others.
— Micheline Aharonian Marcom
[A] stunning literary voice of Beirut’s despair and resilience.
— Public Books
A lyrical, antic, sometimes-plodding embodiment of the complications of self and nationhood.
A wonderful, scintillating web of a tale...superbly translated by the gifted, award-winning Humphrey Davies.
— Paul Blezard, Banipal (UK)
Within a finely rendered sociopolitical framework, Lebanese novelist Khoury (Gate of the Sum) dives down deeply to portray enduring personal pain.
— Library Journal
Humphrey Davies’s supple translation of Broken Mirrors appears at an opportune time for American readers...to read Khoury’s literary account of this war is to gain a deeper appreciation for the range of identities, philosophies, and political ambitions that energize conflicts in the Middle East.
— Jacob Berman, LA Review of Books
Elias Khoury interviewed in Haaretz, then in Granta.
A profile of Elias Khoury in The Daily Beast.
Khoury’s 2014 lecture, “Commitment and Beyond in Modern Arabic Literature”, delivered at Brown University is available online, as is his keynote speech at the 2012 Inverted World Congress, in which he discussed the evolving politics of North Africa and the Middle East.
Azadeh Moaveni Financial Times
Malcolm Forbes The National
Barbara Hoffert Library Journal
Nahrain al-Mousawi Qantara
Nathaniel Popkin Public Books
Paul Blezard Banipal (UK)
Jacob Berman LA Review of Books
Mitchell Abidor Jewish Currents
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US Pressures IMF to Walk Away From Greece: Déjà Vu, All Over Again
Posted by Mish | March 17, 2017 1:57:05 | Economics
Greece is in reverse. Greek Unemployment Rose to 23.1%, GDP contracted 1.2% last quarter, and now the US is pressuring the IMF to back away from continued bailouts.
4th “Bailout” Needed
Greece’s labor market seems immune to the broader improvements in jobs growth seen elsewhere in Europe where average unemployment has now fallen to a four-year low of 9.8 percent.
The economy, which has the highest debt burden in the bloc at 180 per cent, also suffered a sharp growth setback in the last three months of the year, contracting by 1.2 per cent.
It was the worst GDP performance since the height of its debt crisis in the summer of 2015 and reflects renewed uncertainty in its bailout talks. Average eurozone GDP rose 0.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016.
“Bailout” History
US Pressures IMF to Walk Away From Greece
Now, conservatives in US Congress say Europeans should solve the crisis on their own. This puts the IMF Under Pressure Over the Greek Bailout.
In what was labeled an “America First” budget revealed on Thursday, the president proposed a $650m cut in US funding over the next three years for multilateral development banks including the World Bank. He also this week nominated two conservative economists with a history of criticizing the IMF and the Bank for the two top international posts at the US Treasury.
But conservative Republicans in Congress are eager for him to go a step further. They want him to assert US power over such bodies by taking a hard line and opposing further IMF involvement in Greece, which is sliding towards another crisis this summer unless its European creditors agree to cover billions more in debt payments.
A bill introduced on Thursday by Bill Huizenga, a Michigan conservative who was first elected to Congress with Tea party backing in 2011, calls for the Trump administration to oppose any further IMF participation in a Greek bailout. Should the US fail to achieve that aim, the bill would also require the US to oppose any broader IMF quota reforms until Greece had repaid all of its debts to the IMF.
“The IMF is supposed to be a lender of last resort, not a fig leaf of first resort for eurozone members,” Mr. Huizenga said.
“The IMF isn’t a fund to rescue political parties in creditor nations, nor should it be a junior partner to outside organizations that lack the commitment to do their work,” he said. “For seven years now, the IMF has been used to shield eurozone officials from their voters, which has tarnished the fund’s reputation, prolonged Greece’s misery, and put off hard choices about Europe’s future that must be made regardless.”
Grexit Déjà Vu
The Council on Foreign Relations writer Robert Kahn reports Greece on the Brink: Déjà Vu, All Over Again.
Greece appears to have neither the will nor the resources to make its payments, so avoiding default will require European creditors to disburse from their existing loan programs.
Bottom Line: Greece and its creditors are again locked in a showdown over reforms, cash, and debt relief. Another cliff-hanger ahead of heavy July debt payments looks likely. Extend-and-pretend is a dead end for Greece and an increasingly populist Europe, and a more ambitious agreement seems ruled out by bailout fatigue in creditor countries. Markets are once again underestimating the risks of “Grexit.”
Conclusion: All of this suggests that, for economic and political reasons, the window may be closing on a comprehensive resolution of Greece’s crisis. I would not bet against a deal to buy time, though probably without the involvement of the IMF. With each showdown, the risk increases that the Greek government will decide that its economic future is better outside the eurozone.
Key Differences This Time
In regards to bailouts, Kahn notes two key differences between now and past last minute deals.
The IMF has taken a much firmer stance against the current program, and its fire has been aimed at both the creditors and the debtor.
The second new element is the rising populist backlash against continued bailouts in the European Union (EU). Notably, it is extraordinarily difficult for a Dutch or German policymaker, pressured by anti-immigration and anti-EU sentiments at home during an election period, to make precedent-setting concessions to Greece on debt.
Greece is Hopeless
Clearly, Greece is hopeless.
But nothing has changed. Greece is no more hopeless today than it was in 2009, three “bailouts” ago.
Of course, those bailouts were never designed to help Greece. They were designed to help Greece’s creditors and to calm down Eurozone fissures.
With new and more important fissures to worry about, Germany and the rest of the Eurozone countries are increasingly prepared to throw Greece under the bus. On its part, Greece was never willing to implement much-needed reforms.
So here we are, Grexit has been staved off so many times now, most think it can never happen.
38 thoughts on “US Pressures IMF to Walk Away From Greece: Déjà Vu, All Over Again”
Don Last said:
what is that definition of insanity?
to persist with a confirmed failure.
Lars said:
Greece private sector is barely € 100 bn in GDP terms. Total govt debt is getting closer to € 500 bn when adding Target 2 debt, contingent liabilities to the € 320 bn official debt. The EU has to keep the show going because a € 500 bn default would destroy Brussels.
The € and the EU have been a disaster for Greece. Wealth destruction and suffering with 25% of population below the € 370 a month poverty line.
floridasandy said:
and they were supposed to absorb immigrants too?
that shows you the complete insanity of the European Union right there.
Huizenga for Secretary of Treasury
Reads like he speaks some sense.
john wetherhold said:
What cannot be paid back, will not be paid back.
Diogenes said:
I’m for term limits for all government office holders in the western democratized world. That means everybody, both left and right.
“Whatever cannot be voted for, will not be elected.”
Five years of 23% or higher unemployment. Has it been worth it?
samijr said:
Of course it has. Merkel can claim victory.
Anker M. Bell said:
And blame Trump when it implodes
ankerbell said:
and nationalist/populist movements in general.
Chris Wagner (@kf6vci) said:
Merkel has assured the taxpayers that a) it’s a great deal and b) that every € will be reapid. c) German parliament’s support hinges on continued IMF involvement.
Has any one seen an enumeration of lies by Schäuble (“aka Gollum”) and Merkel? It’s astonishing :—(
They won’t even mention Greece’S i. Target 2 debt or ii. ECB debt.
All these lies: the day of reckoning will be ugly. and the lenders will be n a k e d
KM said:
“As long as the money rolls in…and goes to bank accounts outside Greece”
All the money being ‘lent’ to Greece goes to pay debt issued by Greece’s creditors, after it was moved off insolvent Euro banks onto Euro taxpayers… if you don’t know that you haven’t been paying attention. But of course, you quote, as if it is relevant that:
“Greece was the very first country to default on its debt since 377BC”
Greeks are as about the same people in 2016 as they were in 377bc. Just like Americans are exactly the same people in 2017 as they were in 377bc.
This level of discourse….
Oops meant to reply this further below, apologies.
Drango said:
Why is American money being used to bail out European banks? That’s all this is. Germany has huge trade surpluses. Surely it can afford to spend some to avert a financial crisis. Let them pay for their mistakes. It’s the only way they’ll learn.
It’s circular. EU money is used to bail out US banks whose money is used to bail out EU banks. Rinse. Repeat. Those who cannot see the wisdom in this are either unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent. While contemplating which one(s) you are, please marvel at the emperor’s new clothes.
“You’re gonna need a bigger bail-out.”
vooch said:
this time around Schäuble will be having a little collateral call. The bankers will then sell the greek
assets to pay down debt.
schäuble happy
deutsche bank happy
Paris banks happy
goldman, blackstone, and carlyle the happiest
CJ said:
It’s about time the US quit being the world’s policeman AND the world’s sugardaddy. In some ways Trump is better than I expected; now if he can just get the RINOs to go along with him.
And like always, the Greek debt links to Goldman Sachs fraud during the 2008-9 crisis. This was released today from James Corbett:
What part did Draghi have to play in it when at GS?
“now if he can just get the RINOs to go along with him”
Considering that the vast majority of pols from both major parties cannot run self-funded campaigns, they’re all owned by pretty the same special interests and, as a result, are pretty much just two sides of the same bought and paid for coin. Besides, to make any significant dents re: swamp draining, HUGE changes would be required to HUGE and powerful sectors like the VAST armies of fed bureaucrats, insurance, finance, pharma and even to the dominant GARBAGE economic theory. We will be very lucky to get even minor ones.
An excerpt from “Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-America Century” by Dmitry Orlov, someone who experienced the collapse of the Soviet Union and the various effects of that collapse on life there:
People in the United States have a broadly similar attitude toward politics with people of the Soviet Union. In the U.S., this is often referred to as “voter apathy”, but it might be more accurately described as non-voter indifference. The Soviet Union had a single, entrenched, systemically corrupt political party, which held a monopoly on power. The U.S. has two entrenched, systemically corrupt political parties, whose positions are often indistinguishable, and which together hold a monopoly on power. In either case, there is, or was, a single governing elite, but in the United States it organized itself into opposing teams to make its stranglehold on power seem more sportsmanlike. (Actually, it’s to maintain the ILLUSION of voter control, that illusion revealed by the results of the 2014 Princeton University study I’ve previously quoted here – Winston)
Although people often bemoan political apathy as if it were a grave social ill, it seems to me that this is just as it should be. Why should essentially powerless people want to engage in a humiliating farce designed to demonstrate the legitimacy of those who wield the power? In Soviet-era Russia, intelligent people did their best to ignore the Communists: paying attention to them, whether through criticism or praise, would only serve to give them comfort and encouragement, making them feel as if they mattered. Why should Americans want to act any differently with regard to the Republicans and the Democrats? For love of donkeys and elephants?
Probably the explanation of current situation I’ve ever read.
Greek culture is corrupt on par with Nigeria and Russia, and has been so for some time. Beware of a Greek bearing gifts goes back to the Peloponnesian wars 2,500 years ago. The Greeks got themselves into this fix by their own deceit, and the Germans are snickering at their just reward. When the Greeks decide to reform their culture then their suffering will end. Reforms would include paying taxes, an end to socialist welfare, honoring debt, honoring contracts, and fair value work for honest wages.
1/2 of americans pay no income taxes
IMF as been in love with the Euro project and thereby over involved itself.
I don’t think EU populists would be anti Greek assistance. There is considerable sympathy to the plot of the Greeks.
It’s the foundations of the Euro that it’s to blame and slack vetting on the admission of Greece that was assisted to join by a well known global bank outfit. A bank outfit that is well represented at the top table in Europe – political and financial.
Scorzone said:
As stated these bailouts were never intended to help Greece; As usual it is about making the interest payments and bailing out the creditors. I would be the worlds best investor if someone else picked up all the risk.
Longshanks (@Longshanks55362) said:
I’ve been to Greece.
33% say: “All I really want is a decent job”
67% say: “I want a government check every month– it’s my birthright”
or—- “I want a government job doing pretty much nothing”
Until these percentages change, nothing will ever really change.
I’ve also been to Greece many times and met some decent hardworking people including those involved in rejecting the push for development of Vidos Island into an Arab playboy centre in exchange for cash. Russians were all over the place offering this, that and the other. To their credit the Greeks put value before price.
There are problems there but a good proportion of people very willing to work and do their part and proud to be Greek and considered part of Europe. A beautiful country with big economic problems.
As is common elsewhere, they have also been let down by their politicians, cronyism and corruption in high places. Deals behind closed doors with banks etc.
There are problems with tax evasion but less so in the real working class, more so further up the pyramid in the professional classes. Unfortunately it’s those at the bottom that suffer the most.
The people of Greece understand that their government is hopelessly corrupt — as in honest people do not go into politics (in Europe or in the USA). Honest people go into banking or organized crime or prostitution — but not politics.
Greece the country collapsed some 2000 years ago, and it hasn’t had an honest or functioning government since (except in the imagination of big corrupt government advocates).
Somehow, houses get repaired and rebuilt. Late at night, little elves and minotaurs sneak in and do all the repairs / construction — because they are invisible and don’t have to pay fees and taxes and bribes to corrupt government officials.
Greece (the people) have better longevity than many first world nationals. But Greece the government is a hopeless cause that will never take care of the people of Greece, never mind repay the clueless wonders in Brussels.
The IMF is as corrupt as the French government, because it essentially is the rejects from French elections.
All together now:
“The Greek insolvency is resolved ONCE AND FOR ALL.”
— Mario Draghi
KPL said:
As usual with politicians you can never be sure which way they will turn. At the last minute they will do a deal because otherwise stock market will plunge and that is something our present masters of the universe read central bankers will not allow at any cost. It will have nothing to do with Greece.
The notion that Greece hasn’t undertaken reforms is unbelievably wrong. The structural changes it has undertaken have never before been accomplished by an economy to this level in this short a period of time without a revolution or likewise catastrophic event. This is a myth that I simply don’t understand how it perpetuates.
” the risk increases that the Greek government will decide that its economic future is better outside the eurozone”
This is 1000% wrong. Greece and the Greek people are wholeheartedly committed, absolutely and with no hesitation, to the EU. This is why there has been no revolt. Even those hardest hit by the crisis are in favor of remaining. The political class which is also the elites and wealthy, will never intentionally exit the EU either as they exploit the relationship to their own benefit (and to the detriment of Greek people at large).
What people don’t understand is just how bad the lack of control over your own Central Bank is. Three examples of recent events in Greece:
1) Tax refunds for overpayment: All have been eliminated from the books. Anyone who overpaid (as certain people known to me have) and due a refund cannot and will not recieve it.
2) “Solidarity” tax: This was also actually a ‘net-worth’ tax that required anyone with anyone with a certain level of assets to make a payment to the tax coffers to keep Greece current on its obligations, above and beyond any existing legal and in-force tax charges.
3) Elimination and recapture of Business Development funds: The government ran grant programs to match private investment of business development with government funds of up to 20% of the total investment. First they reduced the percentage. Then they eliminated it. Then they sent out notices to those who had received some funds that they had to pay it back.
Explain to me, in light of the above, how anyone can invest or generate business in the current economy, with no access to lending (capital controls), government subsidies, and onerous taxation…
“Greece and the Greek people are wholeheartedly committed, absolutely and with no hesitation, to the EU.”
As long as the money rolls in…and goes to bank accounts outside Greece. Just to that point and then it’s insolvency and default time.
“A few days ago, I was speaking to a friend of mine who had decided to go back in economic history and do some research on defaults. Turns out, Greece was the very first country to default on its debt since 377BC. Moreover, since its independence in 1829, Greece has spent around half its time in default on its sovereign debt.”
Olde Reb said:
Buy stock in the banks.
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Best Brick-and-Mortar Turned Pop-Up
Making the less-traditional transition from brick-and-mortar to mobile pop-up, A16 is finally offering its hearty Monday meatballs and signature wood-fired Neapolitan pizzas without the inconvenience of needing to book a table.
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February 26, 1997 Music
By Curtis Bonney, Michael Batty, Cath Carroll and Sam Prestianni Wednesday, Feb 26 1997
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Suburbia
(DGC)
First Romeo & Juliet, then Beavis and Butt-head, and now Bogosian and Linklater. The whole idea of the soundtrack album has become that of a compilation for the alienated teen. (Not that this is a new concept, or even a bad thing. It's just that the corporate lube has reached extreme penetration.) Hear the young execs hashing out racehorse strategy in the Geffen boardroom: "We're building a soundtrack with integrity, damn it. Four hits deep, minimum. Catchy, angry stuff. Decent airplay. The real alternative. These kids aren't stupid. Johnson, get Sonic Youth on the horn. Pass them the reins. Use the recorded Linklater confession if you have to." Meanwhile, the doors swing open at the Geffen paddock, and Boss Hog, Elastica, and Beck are trotted out. Calls are made to other stables: Warner, Mo' Wax, American, Touch and Go. And the Alterna Stakes are on: the gritty leg in the Saggy Crown.
As a "modern rock" sampler, the Suburbia soundtrack isn't all bad (for 13 throwaways and a Gene Pitney oldie). It may, in fact, be better than the movie it's supposed to aurally extend. Three tracks by Sonic Youth and one solo number by Thurston Moore form the alternative backbone. "Bee-Bee's Song," a pretty/creepy Kim Gordon special (melodic, heavy bass, airy vocals) is by far the best of their cuts, and Thurston's four-track, off-key teen lamentation "Psychic Hearts," from an earlier release by the selfsame name, may be the worst song I've heard in a very long time (and I'm pretty sure it's not a joke). If Sonic Youth's noodling doesn't carry enough "cred" for you, then there's Elastica with Stephen Malkmus (of Pavement) doing an inoffensive cover of X's "Unheard Music"; jangle wimps Superchunk doing a catchy "Does Your Hometown Care?"; the Butthole Surfers re-releasing "Human Cannonball," a pounding one-chord ditty from 1987; and Skinny Puppy (still) crackling and bleeping on a forgettable "Cult."
Points of interest (or, the odds-on faves): Girls Against Boys' decidedly rocking Stooges-style drone-a-thon "Bullet Proof Cupid"; the Flaming Lips' happy crumble "Hot Day," which unfortunately is a minute too short to amount to a mouthful of caterpillar fuzz; U.N.K.L.E.'s silly, sci-fi dancetronic butt-shaker "Berry Meditation," a must for your next body-paint Tupperware party; and Beck's melancholic Gordon Lightfoot "homage," "Feather in Your Cap." In fact, because "Feather in Your Cap" achieves an emotional complication that quietly slips past all the alternapretense (while remaining stylish), it may be the only element of this whole project, including the movie, that won't seem a bit worn a year (or week) from now. Big surprise, Beck wins the Saggy Crown, going away. (If he couldn't make music, you know he could have been a jockey.)
-- Curtis Bonney
Royal Trux
(Virgin)
Let me ask what should be the obvious question: What exactly are the merits of Royal Trux, other than providing slop for intellectually starved pop critics? The recurrent and graceless position taken in most Royal Trux reviews is not so much missionary as a pink ass wiggling from an empty trough. Nowhere else in rock journalism will you find so much furtive and fruitless rooting about for nuggets of meaning. It doesn't matter whether Sweet Sixteen is the latest or oldest release in the career of Trux partners Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema: No matter how many new, swoopy studio gimmicks they use to frost their gleet, they're nothing more (or less) than an incompetent Rolling Stones cover band. No need to dust off the signifiers from a semiotics term paper (or from a press release), no need to apply so great an analytical distance that we're above saying the music ain't so hot. It ain't.
Why have Trux become critical and hipster darlings? It's probably the clothes -- the junkie furs, the belt buckles, the star-spangled polyester. Either that, or it's their "habits": heartwarming reminders of a time when rock stars were ugly, dirty, drug-addicted, impulsive, and childish. Lots of face-down floaters, lots of TVs boosted over hotel balconies, lots of giggles, lots of statutory rape. And though Hagerty and Herrema have apparently cleaned up, they still dress the same. Shop like a rock star, get arrested like a shoplifter. Careful accessorizing of both the wardrobe and one's public behavior is obviously nothing spared from the Hagerty/Herrema repertoire: rock-star affectation upon white-trash posture by a pair of amiable Beltway brats. And while this is certainly amusing in a globs-in-a-petri-dish fashion, the music still leaves much to be desired. Is it catchy? Does it rock? Should it remain anything other than an underground spectacle? No, no, and no. Stumbled onto at some remote Ramada Inn, Royal Trux's act would gain a sense of bumpkin proportion, and would lack the crowd of sophisticates stroking chins.
(Sugar Hill)
"Goodbye to all my friends/ It's time to leave again." Townes Van Zandt, who passed away last New Year's Day at the age of 52, often addressed the subject of his departure -- from friends, places, and life itself. Judging from his songs, death and goodbyes did not unduly alarm him. Leaving seemed to be a bittersweet inevitability, life's only certainty. His engaging legacy constitutes a rather black-humored Chicken Soup for the Soul, the wise troubadour dispensing countless edifying observations, many along the lines of "Where you've been is good and gone/ All you keep is the getting there" ("To Live Is to Fly").
Rear View Mirror, re-released from 1993, is a collection of live performances of songs written over three decades. You can hear the echoes of several centuries of folk music as his dolorous, brackish voice notes the cycle of life. The droll, depressive voice of "Flying Shoes," "Tecumseh Valley," and "Waitin' Round to Die" is always saved from misery by the writer's wry wit and easy acceptance. He doesn't sound like a man who would fight fate: "Ain't much of a lover, it's true/ I'm here and I'm gone and I'm forever blue" ("No Place to Fall").
His songs are enlivened by a dueling of earnestness and playfulness. He unleashes indignant conversational speculations that rise in flailing crescendos -- "I don't intend to stand here/ And be the friend from whom she must hide" -- crammed into rather formal and dignified Mexi-folk melodic frames. Just before the narrator's exasperation peaks, the song will resolve itself in a kindly, though resigned, couplet: "Maybe she just has to sing for the sake of the song" ("For the Sake of the Song"). Townes Van Zandt wasn't hailed as a songwriting genius for nothing, gentle reader.
Van Zandt's other great talent is gothic folk. Track 4, "My Mother the Mountain," teems with a melodramatic whirling and whipping of metaphorical cloaks and skirts. The devilish sawing and plucking of strings comes from accompanying musicians Owen Cody (fiddle) and Danny Rowland (guitar), who appear throughout this collection.
Although Van Zandt never had any giant hits in his own right, country stars Merle Haggard, Don Gibson, Emmylou Harris, and Willie Nelson all took his songs into wider arenas. Featured here are the darkly hilarious "Whitefreight Liner Blues" ("Well, it's bad news from Houston/ Half my friends are dyin' "), the persuasive "If I Needed You," and the fitful campfire ballad "Pancho and Lefty," with its gently sardonic refrain that lodges so stubbornly in the brain.
All the federales say
They could have had him any day
They only let him slip away
Out of kindness, I suppose.
-- Cath Carroll
Boogie With the Hook
(Leo)
Eugene Chadbourne and Paul Lovens
(Victo)
It's the improviser's prerogative to be whimsical. But what seems fun or appropriate for the musician reveling in the moment does not always translate as such for the listener -- even a sympathetic one. This problem is glaringly evident on CD. Half the thrill in checking out improv shows, after all, is getting a firsthand glimpse of how players pull off their fanciful sonic contortions. Yet when improvisers get caught up in the perplexities churning from their instruments -- at the expense of developing an actual song -- and nothing visual can enhance the experience, then the recordings fall flat. Case in point: Eugene Chadbourne's live discs Boogie With the Hook and Patrizio.
An unabashed anti-folk hero for misfits of all persuasions (from jazz to bluegrass), the North Carolina-bred Chadbourne is backwoods cuz of arena-rock technicians Steve Vai and Joe Satriani. Like his guitar-wanking brethren, Chadbourne's technical dexterity is flawless; but unlike the Guitar Player wonders of the world, his uniquely quirky vision on National dobro, Communist five-string banjo, or electric rake (yes, a souped-up leaf-gathering tool) is far more inventive. He's got style in spades, and that's what fans love about "Eu-gene," especially in concert. But on Patrizio, a record of live dates from last spring with German percussionist Paul Lovens, Chadbourne's capricious improvisations amount to little more than imaginative noodling.
There are moments (deconstructed Appalachian finger-picking, beautiful broken solos, uncanny midflight detunings, flashes of controlled feedback), but you have to patiently weather almost an hour of rambling -- slovenly chords pointlessly slapped up against disconnected rhythms, and bluesy folk strums set to out-of-context percussion. Is it worth the wait? That's debatable. If you delight in Chadbourne's zany vocal asides (his Tom Waits impersonation works for a minute), then you might enjoy many parts of this album. However, if you wish he'd can the foolishness and focus on instrumental prowess, you'll find Patrizio wanting.
Boogie With the Hook, a bootleg-quality tribute of sorts to blues legend John Lee Hooker, documents two decades of on-the-road duets with mighty improvisers John Zorn, Han Bennink, Derek Bailey, Charles Tyler, and Volcmar Verkerk. Dutch drummer Bennink puts in an extraordinary performance (as usual) on pizza box and giant bass autoharp, while Chadbourne wails a convincing rendition of Hooker's "Whiskey and Women." "In Between Comme C and Come Saw," the skewed Chadbourne composition deftly negotiated by Tyler on baritone sax and B-flat clarinet, makes a strong case for improv on a written theme over totally "free" jamming. Despite world-class company like Zorn and Bailey, the so-called freer tracks often devolve into experimental fuzziness with too much meandering and seemingly random choices that rarely jell. It was probably fun for clubgoers to watch the various twosomes try to find their way into the music, but that thrill of exploration is lost on disc, as if the boogie can't find the hook.
-- Sam Prestianni
Tags: Music, Beck (Musician), Eugene Chadbourne, Paul Lovens Patrizio, Sonic Youth
Curtis Bonney
Cath Carroll
Sam Prestianni
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Community Development & Support...
Aster Volunteers from Qatar along with Lalcares Mohanlal Fans Qatar Unit, Radio Suno 91.7 Malayalam FM, Radio Olive 106.3 Hindi FM and Ibin Ajyn Group distributed around 30000 drinking water bottles to the public in DOHA, Corniche, Asian Town and labours city providing some much needed relief to the victims of soaring mercury and unfortunate circumstances.
Every day, accidents claim the lives of around 2,000 children worldwide.
In order to educate parents about the seriousness of this issue, Aster CMI Hospital Bangalore is launching a book on child safety, titled "Playful". Written by Chetan Genigeron, the book will educate parents about safety both at home and outside it. And what's more, all the proceeds from the sale of the book will go to the Aster Sick Kids (ASK) Foundation.
Manoj is a Learning & Development executive, who was inspired to take up volunteering by the promise of helping someone out selflessly and because he was curious about seeing life from the perspective of those who need help the most.
Manoj Kumar Sundaram
Passion is at the heart of volunteering says student volunteer Darshan. It’s not about how you feel, rather about how you make others feel. And he is one of our oldest members, offering his time right from when Aster Volunteers was established.
Darshan Murali
Poornima is a senior executive who has been following the various events conducted by Aster Volunteers closely and hoping that the platform would open up to external volunteers from outside of the Aster organisation.
Poornima Seetharaman
A fourth year student at Gulf Medical University, Nitha has always wanted to participate in volunteering events to serve the community. The opportunity to help those less fortunate than her has made her less self-centred and more aware of the blessings in her own life.
Nitha Zulfiquar
Taking inspiration from the courage and dedication of Aster Volunteers, Rana decided to become one herself. She feels blessed for the privilege to help people around her who may be struggling.
Rana Fanek
A senior software developer working for Nokia Networks in Bangalore, Sagar has wholeheartedly participated in various initiatives with Aster Volunteers. From providing computer and English coaching lessons to underprivileged children to actively volunteering in the Aid Kerala mission, there's no stopping Sagar.
A senior marketing and business development executive by profession, Azza believes in the ancient wisdom of the proverb “A selfless act is an eternal act”. She has been an Aster Volunteer for 1.5 years and is grateful for the opportunity to help many through the platform.
Azza Al Rubeiay
Azif Abdul Rahman has been volunteering with Aster for over 3 years. An internal audit professional, he made a conscious decision to spend less time on Facebook and YouTube and instead dedicate his free time towards doing good.
Azif Abdul Rahman
Ebtsam is an insurance clerk who has been volunteering for 1 year with Aster. It has helped her discover the unconditional joy a few small actions from her can bring out in the life of others. To her, this is a feeling beyond happiness.
Ebtsam Jouma Albuloshi
There is no greater privilege than being able to help someone in need, says Abhijit Gavali. A doctor by profession, he began working at an Aster Adhar Hospital in Kolhapur and has participated in various Aster Volunteers programmes.
Abhijit Gavali
Manjushree is a clinical counsellor and academic coordinator. When she began getting actively involved with Aster Volunteers activities, she discovered the potential of contributing to her community.
Manjushree Maheshkumar Pardeshi
Ayesha has been a part of Aster Volunteer initiatives since 2013. She works in an administerial position as a manager and her involvement with Aster Volunteers helps her deal with stress by giving her a sense of fulfilment.
Ayesha Samir Raut
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Stiga Evolution Table Tennis Racket Review
Andro April 16, 2015 Racket
Previously, there have been complaints from the people about the table tennis rackets that they don’t last as long as they are said to be or they show weakness more often, people often say that companies exaggerate in giving information about the qualities and people get disappointed about what they get but the Stiga Evolution Table Tennis Racket is not like others but it is an innovative and enhanced table tennis racket which brings evolution in the manufacturing and qualities of the table tennis rackets.
Shock Dispersion Technology (SDT)
This enhanced table tennis racket is featured with shock dispersion technology, which could not be found in ordinary table tennis rackets.
The SDT helps in absorbing the vibration which you get while playing a stroke and this technology transfers it into energy which will enable you in playing much better shots with a superior control and swift.
ITTF Approved Rubber
The rubber used in this table tennis racket is approved by the International Table Tennis Federation itself for the performance level for tournaments. This support by ITTF is another proof that the table tennis racket is not like other table tennis rackets, but it is the one used by the professionals themselves.
So you might be experiencing the international level table tennis once you get this evolved and amazing table tennis racket for yourself.
The specifications of the Stiga Evolution Table Tennis Racket speak in favor of the table tennis racket:
The table tennis racket is available in multicolor.
The weighing of the racket is 6.4 ounces, which surely says that is much lighter than others
The dimension of the product is 12 x 7.3 x 2.8 inches so it is easy to handle as well.
The blade of the racket is 6-ply light which will provide maximum speed with control.
The handle of the racket is concave pro.
The dimension of the sponge of the product is 2 mm.
The rubber classification of the threating table tennis racket is premium.
The features just like specifications give you an idea about how beneficial it can be for you and which is going to play a vital role in giving you a one sided victory over your opponent.
This remarkable and startling table tennis racket is featured with Nano Composite Technology which provides much sturdier, tougher and tighter bonds in and between the rubbers which as a result will provide increasing spin and speed.
It is also featured with ACS technology, which gives air capsules in the ultra-light rubber which gives a combination of top speed, maximum swirl, supreme elasticity and unresolved govern over your table tennis racket.
Crystal technology is another one of the modern era technologies of the rackets which strengthens and stabilizes the surface of the blade which increases speed to a large extent and this outstanding table tennis racket is featured with it too.
WRB; Weight recovery, Rate of recovery and Ball sensitivity, it is governed by it as well. Weight recovery shifts the balance to the point of contact where the Rate of recovery helps in stabilizing back after each stroke and Ball sensitivity provides a delicate touch to the ball.
Performance rating- speed: 96, Spin: 94 Control: 90.
Customers reviews and Scores
This is what people have to say about this astonishing table tennis racket: When you start with this racket you just get used to it in few seconds like you have been playing with it for a long time.
The opponents used to beat with his racket and all I wanted is to even the competition or get ahead in it and this has done the same. If you want to increase your level of game that it is the best choice.
The average rating given to the product at Amazon store is 4.6 out of 5.0, 72% people are 100% satisfied with the product and they can’t resist applauding it.
Every spec is an evolved spec, the one which is one step ahead from the last one.
It is the lightest in weight.
The handle is concave pro with a slight flare as well.
The Cons:
The rubber cannot be replaced. It will not require rubber replacement as it is advanced with the rubber technology, which will not be needed to be replaced.
It is available at the price range from $59.99 to $67. You will get what you pay for whereas it is also available at lower costs than this at various stores.
The product is the advanced table tennis racket with enhanced and innovative specs and features. If you want to take your level of playing to the next level, then you have nowhere to go but Stiga Evolution Table Tennis racket which will give you all you want.
check the price and discount at amazon.com
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Middlebury Earns Split at #11 Tufts
Middlebury (20-13) 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 4 3 0
Tufts (25-7-1) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
Tufts (26-7-1) 0 1 2 3 0 0 X 6 4 2
Justin Han belted his team-leading fourth home run in the opening game on Sunday.
2B: Kevin Woodring
HR: Justin Han
2B: John Moschella
2B: Justin Han
2B: Tommy O'Hara
The Middlebury baseball team knocked off 11th-ranked Tufts 4-0 in the opening game of a doubleheader, but the Jumbos came back to earn the split with a 6-1 triumph in the second game Sunday in Massachusetts. The Panthers (20-14), which posted their first 20-win season since 2006, return to action at Colby against Bates in the NESCAC Tournament on Friday.
The opening game was scoreless into the fifth inning when the visitors got on the board. Justin Han belted his team-leading fourth home run to right field for a 1-0 lead.
Middlebury pitcher Colby Morris got out of a jam in the bottom of the inning when the Jumbos put runners at first and second with one out. A pair of fly outs kept the difference at one.
The Panthers added some insurance in the top of the seventh, when Kevin Woodring delivered a base-clearing double. Woodring's two-out hit increased the lead to 4-0.
Conor Himstead closed out the win, tossing a scoreless inning of relief. Morris (5-3) was stellar as he earned his team-leading fifth victory, scattering five hits over six scoreless innings with two strikeouts.
The Panthers were limited to three hits, but two were for extra bases.
Tufts pitcher Speros Varinos (8-1) suffered his first loss of the season, giving up just one run on one hit in five innings. John Moschella had a double for the Jumbos.
In the night cap, the hosts jumped out to an early lead with an unearned run in the bottom of the second. Ryan Day started the inning with a walk and later scored on a Panther throwing error.
Middlebury benefitted from a pair of Jumbo miscues in the third to tie the game at 1-1. Grant Elgarten reached on an error and raced home on a fielding miscue in the outfield following a single by Phil Bernstein.
Tufts (26-7-1) quickly regained its lead in the bottom of the third via a double down the line in right field by Tommy O'Hara that drove home Elias Varinos. O'Hara increased the lead to 3-1 when he crossed the plate on a base hit by Day.
In the fourth inning, the hosts tacked on three more runs with Will Shackelford driving in the first with a RBI single. The Jumbos extended the lead to 6-1 when Oscar Kutch scored on a wild pitch and Harrison Frickman touched the plate following a Panther error to close out the scoring.
Han and Raj Palekar each finished with two hits for Middlebury, while Colin Waters (2-3) took the loss on the mound. Waters went four innings, allowing six runs (one earned) on four hits with four strikeouts.
Tim Superko (6-0) kept his record perfect for the Jumbos, throwing six innings and giving up only an unearned run.
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Tag: Reinforced concrete
Steps of Poured Concrete with Balanced Reinforcing
Old wooden steps
At the east end of our old house on South Avenue was a set of rotting wooden steps giving access to the outside door of what we called the Downstairs Cold Room—from the fact that, in our first year or so, that wing of the house had no heat and, in winter, the broken windows upstairs allowed snow to pile up on the floor.
Under the old steps was Meg’s “house” and she wasn’t happy to hear that progress was about to change it.
The existing steps at the front and kitchen doors (and the two terraces) were monolithic blocks simply poured against the foundation and, unfortunately, directly against the wooden siding of the house itself. Already, in a previous year, I had had to rebuild the front entrance owing to moisture induced rot in the sill and the consequent depredations of carpenter ants. I vowed that new steps would not so compromise the structure of the house.
In contrast to the solid mass of the existing steps I thought to make something “lighter” and more graceful, and so I set to work at the drawing board to see what might be forthcoming.
Supporting arches
Beams of concrete alone, if relatively thin, cannot be employed in long spans. This is because concrete, while strong in compression, has only a small ability to resist corresponding tension. Gravity bends a simple beam under load downward; the beam resists the load by developing compression in its upper surface (chord) and tension in its lower chord. In the extreme the concrete cracks at the bottom. The solution to the weakness is to embed steel in those parts of concrete structures under tension. And this leads to a structural concept called balanced reinforcing. Concrete is used in compression up to its design load limit
Two-way slab form
on top, and embedded re-bars in tension to their limit at the bottom. That is, under extreme load, one could not predict for sure whether the concrete would crumble on top or the steel bars below pull apart. Achieving such a balance yields the most economical use of material in the structure as a whole.
Fortunately my engineering handbooks provided sufficient technical detail to permit creating a balanced design using 3/8” rods (re-bars). The straight rods had to be bent and for this I made a jig embedded in a sturdy block of concrete buried in the ground with two bending posts protruding at the surface.
At the top a 4-way* slab for the landing, so called because of its proposed support at the four corners producing bending in two directions. I assumed as design load a 250 pound mover in the center carrying half a piano. The steps going down are the same as the slab only narrow. In the center the re-bars are in the lower chord and, at the overhangs, in the upper chord because here the bending tension has moved to the top.
Step form
Slab and step spans are three inches thick at the center, tapering to two and a half at the ends to give a light effect.
Slab and steps are supported on two arches leaning against the house foundation.
I assembled the wooden concrete pouring form first for the left arch. After that pour having set we stripped it and reassembled it for the right arch. Matthew helped me mix concrete and aggregate in the wheelbarrow. The form for the landing slab included pockets for the end posts. Re-bars wired in place and supported on “chairs” of small stones become incorporated into the final mass. The form for the narrow steps was a strip cut out of the slab form. By the time we poured the bottom step that form had been stripped and reassembled twice and was almost a wreck.
We cast the date (1971) into the upper slab and all three children added their hand prints. When one jumps on the slab and steps they have a nice stiff “ring.” And Meg got her “house” back. Today the steps are forty-five years old; a bit weathered, but as stiff as ever.
*Technically not quite true.
Bill Atkinson Design Leave a comment November 2, 2017 February 3, 2019 3 Minutes
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Posts Tagged ‘Talks’
First ever Moroccan art fair to launch in October
MARRAKECH MOROCCO ART FAIRS ARAB ART
In October this year, the tourist hotspot Marrakech, Morocco, will host the country’s first modern and contemporary art fair. The fair points towards a growing trend of interest and investment in art in the Middle East where Dubai, currently the top art city in the Middle East, is facing increasing competition from upcoming art ventures in Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. (Read our report on this recent trend.)
Gjdn Neshat's 'Untitled96'. Neshat is a participant in this year's Marrakech Art Fair.
Morocco, characteristically, is a country that culturally and geographically straddles the “east meets west” junction. That the Marrakech Art Fair shares some of these characteristics make it all the more special. Out of the thirty galleries exhibiting at the fair, half come from the Arab world, primarily North Africa while the other half come from Europe. For art lovers, this could provide an incredible opportunity to sample international contemporary art.
The city also plans to host simultaneous art events throughout the days of the fair. Some of these are special exhibitions at select museums and galleries in Marrakech. The idea behind engaging the city as a giant art fair in itself is to offer rare insights into Moroccan heritage and its contemporary art world.
The Marrakech Museum, for example, is hosting “Resonance: Contemporary Moroccan artists across the world”, which showcases fifteen artists of Moroccan origin who are based outside of Morocco. Inventing and re-thinking ideas of identity versus the global, these artists will work through various mediums such as painting, installation and video art to map new thoughts about the reality of art in Morocco. Another interesting intervention looks at the culmination of popular culture and art. Six graffiti artists will create spontaneous art to the music of Moroccan rapper BIGG over the period of one night.
Zoulikha Bouabdellah's 'Love'. Bouabdellah is a participant in this year's Marrakech Art Fair.
Other events include talks such as the panel discussions led by Roxana Azimi, a specialist in the international art market, that will deal with the twin issues of “Art market in the Arab world” and “The role of patrons and collectors.” Pascel Amel, a writer and director, will lead a debate on “Art in Morocco at the dawn of globalization.” The talks seem to be marked with hope and enthusiasm for the place of Moroccan art in the world market as well as a belief in the possibility of internal development.
Fifteen of the galleries invited to the fair will respond to a set theme of “From Orientalism to nowadays.” The Jean Brolly gallery is one such participant that intends to showcase work by two artists of different origins – Mahjoud Ben Bella and Francois Morellet. Local galleries are active participants at the fair. The Tindouf Gallery and the Galerie 127 are based in Marrakech itself. Other galleries that are showing at the fair come from Tunisia, the UAE, France and Morocco. The fair will be held from 9 to 11 October this year. For more details, visit the fair’s website.
AM/KN
Related Topics: art fairs, Middle Eastern art, promoting art
Sheikh Sultan opens private collection to public putting Sharjah on UAE art map – August 2010 – we take a look at how a personal collection might indicate growing interest in Middle Eastern art
Globalisation of contemporary art market evident in growth of art fairs – The Economist – August 2010 – points discussed include the hierarchy of art fair location, the lack of local artist representation
Sotheby’s to hold first ever international auction house sale of calligraphy in Doha – July 2010 – Sotheby’s interest in heritage Asian art predates the recent contemporary boom and rakes in the largest sales, here’s a look at a recent sale in Doha
Antonia Carver named Art Dubai director, lends Middle Eastern insight to fair– July 2010 – we take a look at how Carver’s experience in the Arab art world will effect the fair’s success
Xu Zhen takes on Middle Eastern identities and cultures as the new artists’ collective alias Madeln at Ikon Gallery, UK – June 2010 – an in-depth look at how conceptual artist Xu Zhen fabricates his own identity
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Murihiku Regional Arts Strategy 2020-2030
Media and promotion
RITA ANGUS TO DICK FRIZZELL Landscapes from the Kelliher Art Trust Collection
Eastern Southland Gallery - Gore
The Kelliher Art Collection includes 100 paintings, the majority of which are New Zealand landscapes that won prizes or awards in the Kelliher Art Competition, held most years between 1956 and 1977. The purpose of the competition was to support the painting of ‘realistic and traditional’ landscapes of New Zealand and to encourage artists to record a New Zealand identity that fitted with Sir Henry Kelliher’s idea of the kind of country and people that made New Zealand. Since 2000 the Trustees have added to this ‘historical’ collection by purchasing more recent landscape paintings by major New Zealand artists, consistent with the Kelliher ethos, to make the collection more comprehensive and extend it into the 21st century.
This presentation from the Kelliher Art Trust Collection, only the second time that an exhibition of Kelliher paintings has been shown in the South Island, represents both strands of the collection. A selection of classic Kelliher landscapes features paintings by Peter McIntyre and Austen Deans, while recent acquisitions include some of the best-known artists of the era such as Toss Woollaston, Michael Smither, Dick Frizzell and Stanley Palmer.
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Global Marketing Place
by Asif J. Mir in 21st Century Corporate Strategy Tags: abroad, adapt, agreement, alliance, almost, and creation, around, attempt, basis, border, Brand, bring, buyer, campaign, case, change, citizen, commerce, common, computer, Consumer, country, create, cultural, currency, different, difficult, Domestic, economic, economy, electronic, Euro, Europe, event, evidence, Export, Extend, facilitate, factor, finish, firm, first, force, global, globe, goods, growth, identical, illustrate, increase, interdependence, international, introduction, isolate, legal, major, market, marketer, Marketing, marketplace, material, name, nation, national, need, negotiate, often, output, outside, own, place, play, previous, produce, Promotion, purchase, rather, raw, reality, relate, requirement, result, Role, second, seller, service, several, significant, since, spectacular, standardize, strategy, taste, technology, today, trade, union, unique, Use, view, world
Several factors have forced countries to extend their economic views to events outside their own national borders. First, international agreements are being negotiated in attempt to increase trade among nations. Second, the growth of electronic commerce and related computer technologies brings previously isolated countries into their marketplace for buyers and sellers around the globe. Third, the interdependence of the world’s economies is a reality since no nation produces all of the raw material and finished goods purchased by its citizens or consumers of all its output without some exporting to other countries. Evidence of this interdependence is illustrated by the introduction of the Euro as a common currency to facilitate trade among the nations of the European Union and the creation of trade alliances.
Service firms also play a major role in today’s global marketplace. In many cases, global marketing strategies are almost identical to those used in domestic markets. Rather than creating a different promotional campaign for each country, marketers use the same ad with spectacular results.
Domestic marketing strategies may need significant changes to adapt to unique tastes or different cultural and legal requirements abroad. It is often difficult to standardize a brand name on a global basis.
Incorporated Business
by Asif J. Mir in 21st Century Corporate Strategy Tags: approve, block, board, business, change, company, consist, control, decision, director, entity, incorporate, involve, legal, maintain, operation, outrageous, own, owner, person, policy, president, purchase, responsible, secretary, separate, share, shareholder, significant, stipulate, strict, suggestion, treasurer
When you incorporate, your business becomes its own separate legal entity. The business consists of shareholders who purchase shares in the business and who are responsible for its operation. You can incorporate a one-owner business and own all the shares of that company. The company has a president, and if more than one person is involved, a secretary-treasurer and directors. Stricter control can be maintained with a board of directors, who can make decisions. Outrageous suggestions by one person can be blocked if company policy stipulates that any significant changes must be approved by the board.
Res Judicata
by Asif J. Mir in Res Judicata Tags: almost, appeal, apply, civil, close, competent, complaint, conclusion, conclusive, consistent, court, decide, decision, decree, determine, dispute, fact, final, follow, former, higher, judgment, jurisdiction, later, Latin, lawsuit, legal, litigant, lower, matter, mean, merit, party, phrase, point, prevent, principle, quite, Res Judicata, rule, set, settle, suit, trial, unfavorable, unsuccessful
The old Latin legal phrase, res judicata, means a thing already decided and settled. Res judicata is a legal principle quite consistently followed by almost all courts. It is the rule that a final judgment or decree on the merits of a matter by a court of competent jurisdiction will be final and conclusive as to any later lawsuit on all points or matters determined in the former suit. This means that between the parties themselves the dispute is closed at the conclusion of trial. However, this does not prevent a lower court decision from being appealed to a higher court.
This principle of res judicata prevents an unsuccessful litigant from taking an unfavorable decision to another trial court for a second lawsuit on the same complaint or same set of facts. Res judicata applies between the parties in a civil lawsuit, affecting those parties and no others.
Public Policy and Courts
by Asif J. Mir in Public Policy and Courts Tags: acceptable, act, agreement, bargain, Behavior, broad, change, concept, condition, constitute, contract, contrary, court, define, degree, desirable, determine, differ, difference, discretion, earlier, economic, feel, flexibility, healthy, illegal, immoral, impossible, include, interest, legal, particular, Performance, policy, precise, provide, province, public, question, realistic, rule, ruling, simple, social, society, state, system, time, today, unacceptable, unethical, vice versa, view
Public policy is a broad concept that is impossible to define precisely. Perhaps the only realistic way to define it is to say that a court’s view of public policy is determined by what the court feels is in the best interests of society. Public policy may change with the times; changing social and economic conditions may make behavior that was acceptable in an earlier time unacceptable today, or vice versa.
There is therefore no simple rule for determining when a particular bargain is contrary to public policy and illegal. Public policy includes immoral and unethical agreements, even though they may not call for the performance of an illegal act. The courts have broad discretion in ruling on questions of public policy, and the discretion can provide the legal system with a degree of healthy flexibility. However, the courts may differ in their views of what constitutes desirable public policy—a difference that can make a contract legal in one state/province and illegal in other.
Role of Government
by Asif J. Mir in Role of Government Tags: accomplish, acquire, activity, aged, agency, appropriate, back, basic, channel, Competition, conduct, Consumer, control, economic, economy, encourage, environment, foundation, function, general, goods, government, income, legal, legislation, marketplace, payment, payroll, producer, property, provide, recipient, redistribute, regulation, revenue, Role, rule, Sales, segment, service, short, social, society, spend, tax, taxation, transfer, veteran, welfare
In general, government has three basic economic functions. First, government provides a legal foundation and an appropriate social environment for the conduct of economic activity. Second, government both encourages competition in the marketplace and controls it. This is accomplished through legislation and government agency rules and regulations. Finally, government redistributes income from some segments o the economy to others. Government acquires revenues through taxation—taxes on income, property, sales, and payroll. These revenues are channeled back into the economy through spending and transfer payments to veterans, the aged, welfare recipients, and others in society. In short, government is a consumer of goods and services and not producer of them.
Judges as Social Engineers
by Asif J. Mir in Judges as Social Engineers Tags: act, action, adherence, belief, branch, business, businessman, businesswoman, certain, confident, court, critic, decision, decisis, direct, duty, economic, effect, enact, engage, engineer, engineering, favor, feel, follow, furnish, government, holding, idea, individual, intend, interest, judge, known, law, lawyer, legal, legislature, modern, observer, operate, opposite, outright, passage, permit, personal, practice, precedent, privilege, responsibility, shape, social, society, stare, system, tailor, time, trade, usual, usurpation, way
Our courts still follow the idea of stare decisis. This adherence to precedent furnishes a system whereby a businessman or businesswoman may act in a certain way, confident that this action will have a known legal effect. At times, however, some modern judges feel that it is their duty to engage in the practice that lawyers term social engineering—shaping the law to the judge’s own individual social and economic beliefs.
When a judge tailors a decision to personal ideas about how society should operate, the holding of the court may be directly opposite to what the legislature intended by the passage of the law. Many legal observers feel that this social engineering by judges is an outright usurpation of the privileges and responsibilities of the legislature. Many critics feel that the laws should be made by the legislative branch of government, not by the holding of a court. Business and trade interests usually favor the idea of permitting the legislature to enact the laws.
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RFID News
NFC For Luggage - No More Lost Baggage
West Chester, PA (PRWEB) October 29, 2013
26 million bags go missing every year. Richard Warther, Vanguard ID Systems’ President and Founder, has the solution. Vanguard is announcing the new E-Ink based ViewTag® with a display that changes via the traveler’s phone. Vanguard ID Systems has been working with IATA (International Air Transport Association) members to solve the problem. Vanguard will demonstrate the changeable permanent tag at the 2013 IATA World Passenger Symposium in Dublin, Ireland. The tag acts like a digital license plate that allows the customer to control the process of checking their bag at home, using their cell phone through the tags QR Code or the NFC embedded module in the tag. The customer receives a text message telling them where their bags are located throughout their journey.
ViewTag® is a solution that took ten years to develop. “We had to wait for the technology to catch up,” said Warther. “Everyone I show it to loves the idea. Both traveler, and Airline want a better solution, and this solves the problem. It’s a real breakthrough!”
Warther and his team have developed an economical method of controlling an E-Ink Display. The thin flexible display changes using the coupling power of an NFC (Near Field Communications) enabled cell phone. The ViewTag® (patented) is a joint effort with Vanguard ID Systems and Powercast Corporation of Pittsburgh, PA. “Known for Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power for Low Power Applications, Powercast was a natural fit for us to work with,” said Warther.
By eliminating the large bar coded labels used today, one of the world’s largest personalized documents will be kept out of landfills. Fully customizable to include logos and personalized artwork, the ViewTag® is created with an environmentally safe material. Vanguard currently holds numerous RFID (radio-frequency identification) related patents for RFID Tags.
Vanguard ID Systems is a pioneer and leading manufacturer of bar coded and RFID cards and tags. Sitting beneath 1,700 solar panels, 24 miles West of Philadelphia; this eco-friendly manufacturing plant recently celebrated its 26th year in business.
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Reference: Judges, The Book Of
The time comprised extends from Joshua to Eli. Divisions:
(1) Introduction (Judges 1 - 3:6). Judges 1, Israel's relations to Canaan, geographical and political, what the several tribes and houses achieved, or otherwise, in conquering the land; Judges 2 - 3:6, Israel's relations religiously to the Lord, this second portion tells us the reason of Israel's failure to drive out the Canaanite remnant and of their falling under oppressors, namely, apostasy; Jehovah leaving those nations in order to prove Israel whether they would obey Him. Hengstenberg suggests that Judges 1 presents the events before Joshua's death, Judges 2 the death itself and the events following it. The general lessons of the book are summed up in Jg 2:11 ff, namely, Israel's high calling and yet apostasy, Jehovah's chastening, and then raising up of judges because of His own pity for their groanings; then Israel's relapse into idolatry upon each judge's death.
(2) Jg 3:7-16. The opening formula (Jg 3:7) is resumed from Jg 2:11, "the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord," etc. Political events are subordinated to spiritual. Of the 13 judges, the account of six (Ehud, Deborah and Barak, Gideon, Abimelech, Jephthah, Samson) is full, that of the remaining seven very brief. In Gideon's case alone his sons' history is detailed, because it illustrates the great lesson of the book. His sin in making the ephod issued in his family's slaughter by Abimelech with the men of Shechem's aid, these in turn mutually punishing one another. Abimelech's was the first effort to substitute an earthly king for the Lord of the theocracy, Samson's history illustrates Israel's, whom he represents, strength and weakness, strength in separation to Jehovah, utter weakness when the consecration became severed, as Samson's locks, by lust. Othniel is the only representative of Judah; the greater number of judges belonged to northern and eastern Israel.
(3) Judges 17-21. The appendix. It records:
(1) Micah's idolatry in Mount Ephraim, and the Danite adoption of it in Laish, the conquest of which is narrated. A time "when there was no king in Israel" (Jg 19:1), before Samson's days (compare Jg 13:25 margin with Jg 18:12); also before Jabin, 150 years after Joshua, had established a strong Canaanite kingdom in the N., when Dan could not have taken Laish; perhaps shortly after Joshua's death (Jg 18:30). A comparison of Jg 18:1 with Jg 1:34; Jos 19:47, implies that this history occurred at the earliest part of the judges' period. The Danites set up Micah's graven image, and Jonathan's sons were its "priests until the day of the captivity of the land," i.e. the removal of the ark by the Philistines (compare Ps 78:59-64; Jer 7:12-14; 1Ch 16:34-35). Jehovah's giving up His glory (the ark) into captivity was a virtual giving over of Israel to captivity, i.e. to their enemy's power; for the sanctuary was the land's "kernel and essence" (Hengstenberg), and the completeness of Israel's prostration under the Philistines appears in 1Sa 13:19-23. No mention of the judges occurs in this appendix. The appendix records
(2) Gibeah's awful wickedness and Benjamin's countenancing it, and Israel's unitedly punishing almost to extermination the sinning tribe. The unanimity of the tribes implies an early date; also the mention of Aaron's grandson Phinehas (compare Jg 20:28 with Jos 22:13; 24:33). These two histories appended depict the spirit of the age morally and religiously.
HISTORIC TRUTH. The comparison with the heroic age of Greece is unwarrantable. Though the judges were heroes, it was an age preceded by the Mosaic legislation and the due settlement of the people by Joshua in their inheritance; not an age of lawless semi barbarism. Jahn (Hebrew Commonwealth) truly says the Book of Judges is a record of the exceptional diseases of the body politic, while the years of health are passed over in silence. The ability to write a description of the Succoth elders, 77 men, on the part of a young man taken at random implies it was no age of ignorance; contrast the Homeric age, in which only dubious traces of the existence of writing occur (Jg 8:14, margin). Israel's servitudes occupy 111 years, the time of peaceful independence 319 years (i.e. taking the whole period as 430). Hence, the oft recurring phrase, "the land had rest ... years" (Jg 3:11,30; 5:31; 8:28). Hence too in the millennial future restoration of Israel Isaiah (Isa 1:26) announces from God, "I will restore thy judges as at the first," as in Israel's most peaceable days: Joshua, the judges, and Samuel (compare Isa 32:1; Mt 19:28).
The chequered history of Israel at this period is too modest to be the work of a forger to glorify Israel. The mention of the Canaanite chariots accords with the Egyptian accounts which make the Cheta chariots their main strength. A hieroglyphic inscription of Rameses II mentions Astert as the Cheta or Hittite divinity, so Jg 2:11-13. The Shasous in Egyptian monuments resemble in habits the Midianites and Amalekites (Judges 6-8). Philistine power increases in Judges and 1 Samuel parallel with Egypt's decline in the monuments. The usages, mutilation (Jg 1:6-7), blood feuds (Jg 8:19), the intermixture of ruling people and subject tribes (Jg 1:19-36), the hiding of the oppressed in caves (Jg 6:2), earrings worn by men (Jg 8:24-26), women peeping through the lattice (Jg 5:28), fables (Jg 9:7), riddles (Jg 14:12) to be solved at a forfeit, all accord with oriental usage, and occur so naturally and incidentally as to exclude suspicion of design.
DESIGN. The aim is not to give a continuous history of the period between Joshua and Samuel, but to illustrate in striking particular deliverances the divine principle of dealing with Israel laid down in Jg 2:16-19. The judges imperfectly realize the ideal. Each only delivered one part of Israel: Shamgar the region toward Philistia; Deborah and Barak northern Israel (Jg 4:10); so Gideon (Jg 6:35), Jephthah, eastern Israel; Samson, Judah, Dan and the region adjoining Philistia. Gideon corrupted the worship of God, Samson yielded to lust, Jephthah made a rash vow and took revenge upon Ephraim. The possession of inspired gifts did not always ensure the right use of them, just as the miraculous gifts at Corinth were abused (1 Corinthians 14). This is analogous to God's mode of dealing as to natural gifts; we are not judges of what God does, but learners from what He has done when He was pleased to create free agents. The time was one of transition before the kingly era.
As yet Israel developed itself freely under the Mosaic law and theocracy, which are taken for granted; each did what was "right in his own eyes" (Jg 17:6), thus giving scope, as a common central government could less do, to the operation of that particular providence which gave prosperity or adversity according to the obedience or disobedience, not only of the nation but of each tribe and family (Jg 1:1-19,21-33). The judges were God's vice-gerents in carrying out part of that particular providence which distinguished Israel's God from the idols of the pagan around. Historical facts not subserving the Spirit's design are passed by, as Ephraim's victory over Oreb and Zeeb (Jg 8:3; Isa 10:26). Eli and Samuel are not included, because Eli was high priest, and as such was officially judge, not, as the rest, especially called to be judges. Samuel was the Lord's prophet, delivering Israel, not by the sword, but by the word and by prayer (1Sa 7:3-10). Samson was the last extraordinary judge.
Samson was born during Eli's high priesthood, for before his birth the Philistines ruled Israel (Jg 13:5); "he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines." Samuel completed Israel's deliverance from them which Samson began. Throughout the inspired writer views Israel's history in the light of God's law. Israel's unfaithfulness punished by the foe's oppression, and Jehovah's faithfulness in raising up judges to deliver them at their cry, are the two hinges upon which the history turns (Keil). Only the tribes oppressed at a particular time are noticed; the rest walking according to the law, and therefore at peace, do not come under considera
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Exo 3:1-6
Meanwhile Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. Then the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire within a bush. As Moses looked, he saw that the bush was on fire but was not consumed. read more. So Moses thought: I must go over and look at this remarkable sight. Why isn't the bush burning up? When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from the bush, "Moses, Moses!" "Here I am," he answered. "Do not come closer," He said. "Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground." Then He continued, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.
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Exo 13:21
The Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to lead them on their way during the day and in a pillar of fire to give them light at night, so that they could travel day or night.
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Num 32:41
Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages, which he renamed Jair's Villages.
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Deut 12:8
"You are not to do as we are doing here today; everyone [is doing] whatever seems right in his own eyes.
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Josh 4:13
About 40,000 equipped for war crossed to the plains of Jericho in the Lord's presence.
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Josh 15:13-19
He gave Caleb son of Jephunneh [the following] portion among the descendants of Judah based on the Lord's instruction to Joshua: Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron; Arba was the father of Anak). Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, descendants of Anak. read more. From there he marched against the inhabitants of Debir whose name used to be Kiriath-sepher, and Caleb said, "I will give my daughter Achsah as a wife to the one who strikes down and captures Kiriath-sepher." So Othniel son of Caleb's brother, Kenaz, captured it, and Caleb gave his daughter Achsah to him as a wife. When she arrived, she persuaded Othniel to ask her father for a field. As she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, "What do you want?" She replied, "Give me a blessing. Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me the springs of water also." So he gave her the upper and lower springs.
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Josh 15:63
But the descendants of Judah could not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem. So the Jebusites live in Jerusalem among the descendants of Judah to this day.
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But, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. So the Canaanites live in Ephraim to this day, but they are forced laborers.
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The descendants of Manasseh could not possess these cities, because the Canaanites were determined to stay in this land.
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When the territory of the Danites slipped out of their control, they went up and fought against Leshem, captured it, and struck it down with the sword. So they took possession of it, lived there, and renamed Leshem after their ancestor Dan.
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The Israelites sent Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest to the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead.
Then Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance. After these things, the Lord's servant, Joshua son of Nun, died at the age of 110. read more. They buried him in his allotted territory at Timnath-serah, in the hill country of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash. Israel worshiped the Lord throughout Joshua's lifetime and during the lifetimes of the elders who outlived Joshua, and who had experienced all the works the Lord had done for Israel.
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And Eleazar son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, which had been given to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim.
Judg 1:1
After the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of the Lord, "Who will be the first to fight for us against the Canaanites?"
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Judg 1:1-6
After the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of the Lord, "Who will be the first to fight for us against the Canaanites?" The Lord answered, "Judah is to go. I have handed the land over to him." read more. Judah said to his brother Simeon, "Come with me to my territory, and let us fight against the Canaanites. I will also go with you to your territory." So Simeon went with him. When Judah attacked, the Lord handed the Canaanites and Perizzites over to them. They struck down 10,000 men in Bezek. They found Adoni-bezek in Bezek, fought against him, and struck down the Canaanites and Perizzites. When Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, seized him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.
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When Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, seized him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes. Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up [scraps] under my table. God has repaid me for what I have done." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
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Judg 1:7-10
Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up [scraps] under my table. God has repaid me for what I have done." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there. The men of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it. They put the city to the sword and set it on fire. read more. Afterwards, the men of Judah marched down to fight against the Canaanites who were living in the hill country, the Negev, and the Judean foothills. Judah also marched against the Canaanites who were living in Hebron (Hebron was formerly named Kiriath-arba). They struck down Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.
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Judg 1:10-11
Judah also marched against the Canaanites who were living in Hebron (Hebron was formerly named Kiriath-arba). They struck down Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai. From there they marched against the residents of Debir (Debir was formerly named Kiriath-sepher).
From there they marched against the residents of Debir (Debir was formerly named Kiriath-sepher). Caleb said, "Whoever strikes down and captures Kiriath-sepher, I will give my daughter Achsah to him as a wife."
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Caleb said, "Whoever strikes down and captures Kiriath-sepher, I will give my daughter Achsah to him as a wife." So Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's youngest brother, captured it, and Caleb gave his daughter Achsah to him as his wife.
So Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's youngest brother, captured it, and Caleb gave his daughter Achsah to him as his wife. When she arrived, she persuaded Othniel to ask her father for a field. As she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, "What do you want?"
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When she arrived, she persuaded Othniel to ask her father for a field. As she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, "What do you want?" She answered him, "Give me a blessing. Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me springs of water also." So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.
She answered him, "Give me a blessing. Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me springs of water also." So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs. The descendants of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, had gone up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah, which was in the Negev of Arad. They went to live among the people.
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The descendants of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, had gone up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah, which was in the Negev of Arad. They went to live among the people. Judah went with his brother Simeon, struck the Canaanites who were living in Zephath, and completely destroyed the town. So they named the town Hormah. read more. Judah captured Gaza and its territory, Ashkelon and its territory, and Ekron and its territory. The Lord was with Judah and enabled them to take possession of the hill country, but they could not drive out the people who were living in the valley because those people had iron chariots.
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The Lord was with Judah and enabled them to take possession of the hill country, but they could not drive out the people who were living in the valley because those people had iron chariots. Judah gave Hebron to Caleb, just as Moses had promised. Then Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak who lived there.
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Judah gave Hebron to Caleb, just as Moses had promised. Then Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak who lived there. At the same time the Benjaminites did not drive out the Jebusites who were living in Jerusalem. The Jebusites have lived among the Benjaminites in Jerusalem to this day.
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Judg 1:21
At the same time the Benjaminites did not drive out the Jebusites who were living in Jerusalem. The Jebusites have lived among the Benjaminites in Jerusalem to this day.
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At the same time the Benjaminites did not drive out the Jebusites who were living in Jerusalem. The Jebusites have lived among the Benjaminites in Jerusalem to this day. The house of Joseph also attacked Bethel, and the Lord was with them.
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The house of Joseph also attacked Bethel, and the Lord was with them. They sent spies to Bethel (the town was formerly named Luz).
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They sent spies to Bethel (the town was formerly named Luz). The spies saw a man coming out of the town and said to him, "Please show us how to get into town, and we will treat you well."
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The spies saw a man coming out of the town and said to him, "Please show us how to get into town, and we will treat you well." When he showed them the way into the town, they put the town to the sword but released the man and his entire family.
When he showed them the way into the town, they put the town to the sword but released the man and his entire family. Then the man went to the land of the Hittites, built a town, and named it Luz. That is its name to this day.
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Then the man went to the land of the Hittites, built a town, and named it Luz. That is its name to this day. At that time Manasseh failed to take possession of Beth-sheanand its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the residents of Dor and its villages, or the residents of Ibleamand its villages, or the residents of Megiddo and its villages. But the Canaanites refused to leave this land.
At that time Manasseh failed to take possession of Beth-sheanand its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the residents of Dor and its villages, or the residents of Ibleamand its villages, or the residents of Megiddo and its villages. But the Canaanites refused to leave this land.
At that time Manasseh failed to take possession of Beth-sheanand its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the residents of Dor and its villages, or the residents of Ibleamand its villages, or the residents of Megiddo and its villages. But the Canaanites refused to leave this land. When Israel became stronger, they made the Canaanites serve as forced labor but never drove them out completely.
Slavery, In OtWarfare, Examples OfForced Labour
When Israel became stronger, they made the Canaanites serve as forced labor but never drove them out completely.
When Israel became stronger, they made the Canaanites serve as forced labor but never drove them out completely. At that time Ephraim failed to drive out the Canaanites who were living in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived among them in Gezer.
Slavery, In OtWarfare, Examples OfForced LabourTribes Of Israel
At that time Ephraim failed to drive out the Canaanites who were living in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived among them in Gezer.
At that time Ephraim failed to drive out the Canaanites who were living in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived among them in Gezer. Zebulun failed to drive out the residents of Kitron or the residents of Nahalol, so the Canaanites lived among them and served as forced labor.
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Zebulun failed to drive out the residents of Kitron or the residents of Nahalol, so the Canaanites lived among them and served as forced labor.
Living TogetherForced Labour
Zebulun failed to drive out the residents of Kitron or the residents of Nahalol, so the Canaanites lived among them and served as forced labor. Asher failed to drive out the residents of Acco or of Sidon, or Ahlab, Achzib, Helbah, Aphik, or Rehob.
Asher failed to drive out the residents of Acco or of Sidon, or Ahlab, Achzib, Helbah, Aphik, or Rehob. The Asherites lived among the Canaanites who were living in the land, because they failed to drive them out.
The Asherites lived among the Canaanites who were living in the land, because they failed to drive them out. Naphtali did not drive out the residents of Beth-shemesh or the residents of Beth-anath. They lived among the Canaanites who were living in the land, but the residents of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath served as their forced labor.
Naphtali did not drive out the residents of Beth-shemesh or the residents of Beth-anath. They lived among the Canaanites who were living in the land, but the residents of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath served as their forced labor.
Naphtali did not drive out the residents of Beth-shemesh or the residents of Beth-anath. They lived among the Canaanites who were living in the land, but the residents of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath served as their forced labor. The Amorites forced the Danites into the hill country and did not allow them to go down into the valley.
The Amorites forced the Danites into the hill country and did not allow them to go down into the valley. The Amorites refused to leave Har-heres, Aijalon, and Shaalbim. When the house of Joseph got the upper hand, the Amorites were made to serve as forced labor.
The Amorites refused to leave Har-heres, Aijalon, and Shaalbim. When the house of Joseph got the upper hand, the Amorites were made to serve as forced labor. The territory of the Amorites extended from the ascent of Akrabbim, that is from Sela upward.
Forced LabourBoundaries
The Angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, "I brought you out of Egypt and led you into the land I had promised to your fathers. I also said: I will never break My covenant with you.
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The Angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, "I brought you out of Egypt and led you into the land I had promised to your fathers. I also said: I will never break My covenant with you. You are not to make a covenant with the people who are living in this land, and you are to tear down their altars.But you have not obeyed Me. What is this you have done?
Covenant breakersGuardiansProperty, LandThe Promised LandGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptGod Keeps CovenantAngelic GuardianshipForbidden AlliancesAllegiancesDestruction Of Satan's WorksWhat Do You Do?
You are not to make a covenant with the people who are living in this land, and you are to tear down their altars.But you have not obeyed Me. What is this you have done? Therefore, I now say: I will not drive out these people before you. They will be thornsin your sides, and their gods will be a trap to you."
Forbidden AlliancesAllegiancesDestruction Of Satan's WorksWhat Do You Do?IrritationTrapNot Driving Them OutEvil TrappingNo Help In Other Gods
Therefore, I now say: I will not drive out these people before you. They will be thornsin your sides, and their gods will be a trap to you." When the Angel of the Lord had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly.
IrritationTrapNot Driving Them OutEvil TrappingNo Help In Other GodsSuffering, Emotional Aspects Of
When the Angel of the Lord had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly. So they named that place Bochim and offered sacrifices there to the Lord. read more. Joshua sent the people away, and the Israelites went to take possession of the land, each to his own inheritance. The people worshiped the Lord throughout Joshua's lifetime and during the lifetimes of the elders who outlived Joshua. They had seen all the Lord's great works He had done for Israel. Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of 110. They buried him in the territory of his inheritance, in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
Suffering, Emotional Aspects OfGod, Greatness OfServanthood, In Life Of BelieversServants Of The LordAge At Death
The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord's sight. They worshiped the Baals
Adultery, SpiritualServanthood, And Worship Of GodSin, Nature OfGod's People Sinning
The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord's sight. They worshiped the Baals and abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of Egypt. They went after other gods from the surrounding peoples and bowed down to them. They infuriated the Lord, read more. for they abandoned Him and worshiped Baal and the Ashtoreths.
Adultery, SpiritualServanthood, And Worship Of GodSin, Nature OfGod's People SinningAbandonmentRenunciationBowing To False GodsDifferent GodsGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptServing Asherah
The Lord raised up judges, who saved them from the power of their marauders, but they did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods, bowing down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the Lord's commands. They did not do as their fathers did. read more. Whenever the Lord raised up a judge for the Israelites, the Lord was with him and saved the people from the power of their enemies while the judge was still alive. The Lord was moved to pity whenever they groaned because of those who were oppressing and afflicting them. Whenever the judge died, the Israelites would act even more corruptly than their fathers, going after other gods to worship and bow down to them. They did not turn from their [evil] practices or their obstinate ways.
God, As SaviorDeliverance, Means OfLeaders, PoliticalDeliverersethics, basis ofGod's WaysProstitutionRevelation, Responses ToDifferent GodsCruelty, God's attitude toGrace, In OtSensitivitySympathyGod Saving From EnemiesGod With Specific PeopleGod Showed MercyHabitsSin, Nature OfSelf WillBowing To False GodsDeath Of Office HoldersGod's People Sinning
The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord's sight; they forgot the Lord their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs.
ForgettingBaal Worship, HistorySuccessServing AsherahGod's People Sinning
The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord's sight; they forgot the Lord their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs. The Lord's anger burned against Israel, and He sold them to Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram of the Two Rivers,and the Israelites served him eight years. read more. The Israelites cried out to the Lord. So the Lord raised up Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's youngest brother as a deliverer to save the Israelites. The Spirit of the Lord was on him, and he judged Israel. Othniel went out to battle, and the Lord handed over Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram to him, so that Othniel overpowered him.
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The Spirit of the Lord was on him, and he judged Israel. Othniel went out to battle, and the Lord handed over Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram to him, so that Othniel overpowered him. Then the land was peaceful 40 years, and Othniel son of Kenaz died.
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Then the land was peaceful 40 years, and Othniel son of Kenaz died. The Israelites again did what was evil in the Lord's sight. He gave Eglon king of Moab power over Israel, because they had done what was evil in the Lord's sight. read more. After Eglon convinced the Ammonites and the Amalekites to join forces with him, he attacked and defeated Israel and took possession of the City of Palms. The Israelites served Eglon king of Moab 18 years. Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord, and He raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjaminite, as a deliverer for them. The Israelites sent him to Eglon king of Moab with tribute [money]. Ehud made himself a double-edged sword 18 inches long. He strapped it to his right thigh under his clothes
Forty YearsThe Number Forty40 To 50 YearsTime Of Peaceenemies, of Israel and JudahPower, HumanGod's People SinningAmalekitesAmmonitesDefeat Of God's People15 To 20 YearsThose Subjected To PeopleHandsTaxationTributesAnswered PrayerLeft HandedThighsTwo SidedDimensions Of Other ThingsOther Right Parts
Moab became subject to Israel that day, and the land was peaceful 80 years.
Conquest80 To 100 YearsTime Of Peace
Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord, because Jabin had 900 iron chariots, and he harshly oppressed them 20 years.
BeggarsOppression, God's Attitude ToPrayer, As Asking GodAnswered PrayerAfflictions, Benefits OfCrying To GodSeven To Nine Hundred20 To 30 YearsIron Objects
Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; 10,000 men followed him, and Deborah also went with him.
Fighting TogetherTens Of Thousands
Israel chose new gods, then war was in the gates. Not a shield or spear was seen among 40,000 in Israel.
Forty Thousand And UpNo Help In Other GodsVolunteering
The princes of Issachar were with Deborah; Issachar was with Barak. They set out at his heels in the valley. There was great searching of heart among the clans of Reuben. Why did you sit among the sheepfolds listening to the playing of pipes for the flocks? There was great searching of heart among the clans of Reuben. read more. Gilead remained beyond the Jordan. Dan, why did you linger at the ships? Asher remained at the seashore and stayed in his harbors.
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Sisera's mother looked through the window; she [peered] through the lattice, crying out: "Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why don't I hear the hoofbeats of his horses?"
Love, And The WorldLooking Through WindowsPeople Who Delayed
Lord, may all your enemies perish as Sisera did. But may those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its strength. And the land was peaceful 40 years.
DawnDeborahNoonThe Number Forty40 To 50 YearsEnemies Of GodTime Of PeaceLove And StrengthSunPeace And Strengthcrusades
and they oppressed Israel. Because of Midian, the Israelites made hiding places for themselves in the mountains, caves, and strongholds.
CavesPower, HumanSelf DefenceStrength, HumanStrongholdsFortsDensEscaping To MountainsPeople In CavesCaves As Places Of Refuge
When the Israelites cried out to Him because of Midian, the Lord sent a prophet to them. He said to them, "This is what the Lord God of Israel says: 'I brought you out of Egypt and out of the place of slavery. read more. I delivered you from the power of Egypt and the power of all who oppressed you. I drove them out before you and gave you their land. I said to you: I am the Lord your God. Do not fear the gods of the Amorites whose land you live in. But you did not obey Me.' " The Angel of the Lord came, and He sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash, the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in the wine vat in order to hide it from the Midianites.
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The Spirit of the Lord enveloped Gideon, and he blew the ram's horn and the Abiezrites rallied behind him. He sent messengers throughout all of Manasseh, who rallied behind him. He also sent messengers throughout Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, who [also] came to meet him.
The Spirit Of The LordTrumpets For SignallinggideonMessenger
God handed over to you Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian. What was I able to do compared to you?" When he said this, their anger against him subsided.
Named Gentile RulersThose God Gave Into Their Hands
He captured a youth from the men of Succoth and interrogated him. The youth wrote down for him the [names of the] 77 princes and elders of Succoth.
elders, as community leadersInterrogatingSeventies
So he said, "They were my brothers, the sons of my mother! As the Lord lives, if you had let them live, I would not kill you."
Kept Alive By MenRestraints From Killinggideon
Then he said to them, "Let me make a request of you: Everyone give me an earring from his plunder." Now the enemy had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites. They said, "We agree to give them." So they spread out a mantle, and everyone threw an earring from his plunder on it. read more. The weight of the gold earrings he requested was about 43 pounds of gold, in addition to the crescent ornaments and ear pendants, the purple garments on the kings of Midian, and the chains on the necks of their camels.
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So Midian was subdued before the Israelites, and they were no longer a threat. The land was peaceful 40 years during the days of Gideon.
The Number FortyConquest40 To 50 YearsLifting HeadsTime Of Peace
When they told Jotham, he climbed to the top of Mount Gerizim, raised his voice, and called to them: Listen to me, lords of Shechem, and may God listen to you:
Pay Attention To People!Will God Pay Attention?
But the olive tree said to them, "Should I stop giving my oil that honors both God and man, and rule over the trees?"
TreesThe Honourable Will Be HonouredOlive Trees
Judg 10:4
He had 30 sons who rode on 30 young donkeys. They had 30 towns in Gilead, which are called Jair's Villages to this day.
BackThirtyGiven Names To This DayMultitudes Of Donkeys
Judg 10:9-10
The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim. Israel was greatly oppressed, so they cried out to the Lord, saying, "We have sinned against You. We have abandoned our God and worshiped the Baals."
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Judg 10:10-11
so they cried out to the Lord, saying, "We have sinned against You. We have abandoned our God and worshiped the Baals." The Lord said to the Israelites, "When the Egyptians, Amorites, Ammonites, Philistines,
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The Lord said to the Israelites, "When the Egyptians, Amorites, Ammonites, Philistines, Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you, and you cried out to Me, did I not deliver you from their power?
Judg 10:12
Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you, and you cried out to Me, did I not deliver you from their power?
Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you, and you cried out to Me, did I not deliver you from their power? But you have abandoned Me and worshiped other gods. Therefore, I will not deliver you again.
Forsaking GodBeing ForsakenUnfaithfulness, To GodDifferent GodsCompetition
But you have abandoned Me and worshiped other gods. Therefore, I will not deliver you again. Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them deliver you in the time of your oppression."
Forsaking GodBeing ForsakenUnfaithfulness, To GodDifferent GodsCompetitionFalse ReligionemptinessSarcasmPraying Amiss
Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them deliver you in the time of your oppression." But the Israelites said, "We have sinned. Deal with us as You see fit; only deliver us today!" read more. So they got rid of the foreign gods among them and worshiped the Lord, but He became weary of Israel's misery.
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While Israel lived 300 years in Heshbon and its villages, in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, why didn't you take them back at that time?
100 Years And MoreArnon
The Spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah, who traveled through Gilead and Manasseh, and then through Mizpah of Gilead. He crossed over to the Ammonites from Mizpah of Gilead.
Judg 13:3-5
The Angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, "It is true that you are barren and have no children, but you will conceive and give birth to a son. Now please be careful not to drink wine or other alcoholic beverages, or to eat anything unclean; read more. for indeed, you will conceive and give birth to a son. You must never cut his hair, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from birth, and he will begin to save Israel from the power of the Philistines."
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for indeed, you will conceive and give birth to a son. You must never cut his hair, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from birth, and he will begin to save Israel from the power of the Philistines."
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for indeed, you will conceive and give birth to a son. You must never cut his hair, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from birth, and he will begin to save Israel from the power of the Philistines." Then the woman went and told her husband, "A man of God came to me. He looked like the awe-inspiring Angel of God. I didn't ask Him where He came from, and He didn't tell me His name. read more. He said to me, 'You will conceive and give birth to a son. Therefore, do not drink wine or other alcoholic beverages, and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from birth until the day of his death.' " Manoah prayed to the Lord and said, "Please Lord, let the man of God you sent come again to us and teach us what we should do for the boy who will be born." God listened to Manoah, and the Angel of God came again to the woman. She was sitting in the field, and her husband Manoah was not with her. The woman ran quickly to her husband and told him, "The man who came to me today has just come back!" So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he asked, "Are You the man who spoke to my wife?" "I am," He said. Then Manoah asked, "When Your words come true, what will the boy's responsibilities and mission be?" The Angel of the Lord answered Manoah, "Your wife needs to do everything I told her. She must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine or drink wine or other alcoholic beverages. And she must not eat anything unclean. Your wife must do everything I have commanded her." "Please stay here," Manoah told Him, "and we will prepare a young goat for You." The Angel of the Lord said to him, "If I stay, I won't eat your food. But if you want to prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the Lord." For Manoah did not know He was the Angel of the Lord. Then Manoah said to Him, "What is Your name, so that we may honor You when Your words come true?" "Why do you ask My name," the Angel of the Lord asked him, "since it is wonderful." Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the Lord, and He did a wonderful thing while Manoah and his wife were watching. When the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the Angel of the Lord went up in its flame. When Manoah and his wife saw [this], they fell facedown on the ground. The Angel of the Lord did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. Then Manoah realized that it was the Angel of the Lord. "We're going to die," he said to his wife, "because we have seen God!" But his wife said to him, "If the Lord had intended to kill us, He wouldn't have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us, and He would not have shown us all these things or spoken to us now like this." So the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the Lord blessed him. Then the Spirit of the Lord began to direct him in the Camp of Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
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Then the Spirit of the Lord began to direct him in the Camp of Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
Inspiration Of The Holy Spirit, Means OfMoving On
"Let me tell you a riddle," Samson said to them. "If you can explain it to me during the seven days of the feast and figure it out, I will give you 30 linen garments and 30 changes of clothes.
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The Philistines went up, camped in Judah, and raided Lehi. So the men of Judah said, "Why have you attacked us?" They replied, "We have come to arrest Samson and pay him back for what he did to us." read more. Then 3,000 men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, "Don't you realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?" "I have done to them what they did to me," he answered. They said to him, "We've come to arrest you and hand you over to the Philistines." Then Samson told them, "Swear to me that you yourselves won't kill me." "No," they said, "we won't kill you, but we will tie you up securely and hand you over to them." So they tied him up with two new ropes and led him away from the rock. When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came to meet him shouting. The Spirit of the Lord took control of him, and the ropes that were on his arms became like burnt flax and his bonds fell off his wrists.
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In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did whatever he wanted.
Eyes, Figurative UseChaosSelfishnessAnarchyNo King
In those days, there was no king in Israel, and the Danite tribe was looking for territory to occupy. Up to that time no territory had been captured [by them] among the tribes of Israel.
No King
The five men left and came to Laish. They saw that the people who were there were living securely, in the same way as the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting. There was nothing lacking in the land and no oppressive ruler. They were far from the Sidonians, having no alliance with anyone.
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They went up and camped at Kiriath-jearim in Judah. This is why the place is called the Camp of Dan to this day; it is west of Kiriath-jearim.
Given Names To This Day
The Danites set up the carved image for themselves. Jonathan son of Gershom, son of Moses, and his sons were priests for the Danite tribe until the time of the exile from the land.
Priests, Institution In Ot TimesExile In Prospect
The Danites set up the carved image for themselves. Jonathan son of Gershom, son of Moses, and his sons were priests for the Danite tribe until the time of the exile from the land. So they set up for themselves Micah's carved image that he had made, [and it was there] as long as the house of God was in Shiloh.
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So they set up for themselves Micah's carved image that he had made, [and it was there] as long as the house of God was in Shiloh.
The House Of God At ShilohThe Temple At Shiloh
In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite living in a remote part of the hill country of Ephraim acquired a woman from Bethlehem in Judah as his concubine.
ConcubinesKingship, HumanBethlehemNo King
and Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, was serving before it. The Israelites asked: "Should we again fight against our brothers the Benjaminites or should we stop?" The Lord answered: "Fight, because I will hand them over to you tomorrow."
Those God Gave Into Their Hands
1 Sam 1:3
This man would go up from his town every year to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli's two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were the Lord's priests.
PilgrimageSacrifice, In OtWorship, Places OfNames Of GodArk Of The Covenant, EventsEvery YearGod As A Warrior
1 Sam 3:21
The Lord continued to appear in Shiloh, because there He revealed Himself to Samuel by His word.
Appearances Of God In OtGod Appearing
When the troops returned to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, "Why did the Lord let us be defeated today by the Philistines? Let's bring the ark of the Lord's covenant from Shiloh. Then it will go with us and save us from the hand of our enemies."
Why Does God Do This?
1 Sam 7:3-9
Samuel told them, "If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, get rid of the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths that are among you, dedicate yourselves to the Lord, and worship only Him. Then He will rescue you from the hand of the Philistines." So the Israelites removed the Baals and the Ashtoreths and only worshiped the Lord. read more. Samuel said, "Gather all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord on your behalf." When they gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out in the Lord's presence. They fasted that day, and there they confessed, "We have sinned against the Lord." And Samuel [began to lead] the Israelites at Mizpah as [their] judge. When the Philistines heard that the Israelites had gathered at Mizpah, their rulers marched up toward Israel. When the Israelites heard [about it], they were afraid because of the Philistines. The Israelites said to Samuel, "Don't stop crying out to the Lord our God for us, so that He will save us from the hand of the Philistines." Then Samuel took a young lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. He cried out to the Lord on behalf of Israel, and the Lord answered him.
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1 Sam 7:9-10
Then Samuel took a young lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. He cried out to the Lord on behalf of Israel, and the Lord answered him. Samuel was offering the burnt offering as the Philistines drew near to fight against Israel. The Lord thundered loudly against the Philistines that day and threw them into such confusion that they fled before Israel.
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1 Sam 7:10-14
Samuel was offering the burnt offering as the Philistines drew near to fight against Israel. The Lord thundered loudly against the Philistines that day and threw them into such confusion that they fled before Israel. Then the men of Israel charged out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines striking them down all the way to a place below Beth-car. read more. Afterwards, Samuel took a stone and set it upright between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, explaining, "The Lord has helped us to this point." So the Philistines were subdued and did not invade Israel's territory again. The Lord's hand was against the Philistines all of Samuel's life. The cities from Ekron to Gath, which they had taken from Israel, were restored; Israel even rescued their surrounding territories from Philistine control. There was also peace between Israel and the Amorites.
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1 Sam 13:19-22
No blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, "Otherwise, the Hebrews will make swords or spears." So all the Israelites went to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles. read more. The price was two-thirds of a shekel for plowshares and mattocks, and one-third [of a shekel] for pitchforks and axes, and for putting a point on an oxgoad. So on the day of battle not a sword or spear could be found in the hand of any of the troops who were with Saul and Jonathan; only Saul and his son Jonathan had [weapons].
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So on the day of battle not a sword or spear could be found in the hand of any of the troops who were with Saul and Jonathan; only Saul and his son Jonathan had [weapons]. Now a Philistine garrison took control of the pass at Michmash.
1 Sam 15:6
He warned the Kenites, "Since you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came out of Egypt, go on and leave! Get away from the Amalekites, or I'll sweep you away with them." So the Kenites withdrew from the Amalekites.
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1 Sam 30:29
to those in Racal, in the towns of the Jerahmeelites, and in the towns of the Kenites;
The king and his men marched to Jerusalem against the Jebusites who inhabited the land. The Jebusites had said to David: "You will never get in here. Even the blind and lame can repel you," thinking, "David can't get in here."
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At Thebez, who struck Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth?Didn't a woman drop an upper millstone on him from the top of the wall so that he died? Why did you get so close to the wall?'-then say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.' "
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1 Kgs 9:18-22
Baalath, Tamar in the Wilderness of Judah, all the storage cities that belonged to Solomon, the chariot cities, the cavalry cities, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, or anywhere else in the land of his dominion. read more. As for all the peoples who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not Israelites- their descendants who remained in the land after them, those whom the Israelites were unable to annihilate-Solomon imposed forced labor on them; [it is this way] until today. But Solomon did not consign the Israelites to slavery; they were soldiers, his servants, his commanders, his captains, and commanders of his chariots and his cavalry.
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1 Chron 16:39
[David left] Zadok the priest and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the Lord at the high place in Gibeon
At that time the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the desert, and the altar of burnt offering were at the high place in Gibeon,
Psa 78:59-64
God heard and became furious; He completely rejected Israel. He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where He resided among men. read more. He gave up His strength to captivity and His splendor to the hand of a foe. He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged with His heritage. Fire consumed His chosen young men, and His young women had no wedding songs. His priests fell by the sword, but the widows could not lament.
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Isa 1:26
I will restore your judges to what they once were, and your advisers to their former state. Afterwards you will be called the Righteous City, a Faithful City."
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Isa 10:26
And the Lord of Hosts will brandish a whip against him as [He did when He] struck Midian at the rock of Oreb; and He will raise His staff over the sea as [He did] in Egypt.
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Isa 32:1
Indeed, a king will reign righteously, and rulers will rule justly.
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Isa 63:8-9
He said, "They are indeed My people, children who will not be disloyal," and He became their Savior. In all their suffering, He suffered, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. He redeemed them because of His love and compassion; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of the past.
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Jer 7:12-14
"But return to My place that was at Shiloh, where I made My name dwell at first. See what I did to it because of the evil of My people Israel. Now, because you have done all these things"-[this is] the Lord's declaration-"and because I have spoken to you time and time again but you wouldn't listen, and I have called to you, but you wouldn't answer, read more. what I did to Shiloh I will do to the house that is called by My name-the house in which you trust-the place that I gave you and your ancestors.
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Matt 19:28
Jesus said to them, "I assure you: In the Messianic Age, when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne, you who have followed Me will also sit on 12 thrones, judging the 12 tribes of Israel.
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New Trump Approval Poll Released Confirms Massive 2020 Blue Wave
In just about three weeks, the first votes in the presidential primary season will be tallied when Iowan voters gather to weigh in on party presidential nominees. In the meantime, there’s a new poll out of the state that has bad news for President Donald Trump. Although he and his allies have consistently claimed to have some kind of overwhelming support against impeachment from Americans at large, even in the “red” state of Iowa, which Trump won by just over nine percent in 2016, only a slim plurality of voters oppose Trump’s impeachment.
Only 45 percent of respondents said that they actively disapprove of Trump’s impeachment, while 43 percent of respondents said that they were in favor of it. That’s hardly an overwhelming leading margin for the opposition! Even fewer Iowa voters say that they’d definitely vote to re-elect Trump if the general election were held today. More — 44 percent of respondents — say they’d definitely vote to elect someone else, while Trump’s “definite” base topped out at just 34 percent of respondents. How exactly is he going to win the state with barely a third of the voters “definitely” in support of his candidacy in the midst of one of the final spikes in the presidential campaign season? From here on out, it’s campaign time until November — and Trump seemingly doesn’t have a winning base in place even in Iowa.
Partisan divides on the various questions fall pretty predictably, although glaringly — only 59 percent of Republican respondents said they believe that “it is not OK for a US presidential candidate to try to gain political advantage over an election rival by seeking help from foreign countries.” Just 59 percent! The president’s plot to get Ukraine to investigate his political rivals ahead of 2020 is what drove House Democrats to impeachment. As CNN notes, “92% of Democrats say it’s not OK, as do 73% of independents ” — both of which are, of course, larger majorities of people willing to admit the obvious than are found in the Republican camp.
Meanwhile, 87 percent of Democrats say they approve of Trump’s impeachment, while 90 percent of Republicans say they disapprove. “Among independents, more disapprove of the impeachment (48%) than approve (39%),” CNN adds. Overall ratios are similar on the question of whether the president should be removed from office in his upcoming Senate trial. “48% say the President should not be removed from office, while 40% think he should be,” CNN says. Only 51 percent of independents oppose his removal. On the general election question, 40 percent of independent respondents said they’d definitely vote for someone other than Trump, while just 32 percent supported Trump.
Meanwhile, Trump is keeping up the pressure and public complaints. On Sunday, he petulantly tweeted:
‘Why should I have the stigma of Impeachment attached to my name when I did NOTHING wrong? Read the Transcripts! A totally partisan Hoax, never happened before. House Republicans voted 195-0, with three Dems voting with the Republicans. Very unfair to tens of millions of voters!’
Why should I have the stigma of Impeachment attached to my name when I did NOTHING wrong? Read the Transcripts! A totally partisan Hoax, never happened before. House Republicans voted 195-0, with three Dems voting with the Republicans. Very unfair to tens of millions of voters!
Well, he’s impeached because of all the crimes! Democrats have made their impeachment case evidence public to the tunes of hundreds of pages. He can’t just wish that out of existence.
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Are there any stochastically dependent proof of work algorithms?
In bitcoin, the probability of discovering a block on the X-th hash is the same1 as it is on the Y-th hash. As such, the probability of discovery is stochastically independent.
Are there proof of work algorithms that are stochastically dependent? Miners using one might have no idea how close to a discovery they are, but they would know that they are "getting closer".
Read on if you would like a quick and dirty description of why I think such an algorithm could be interesting:
A consequence of bitcoin's stochastical independence is that whenever a miner discovers a block, none of the other competing miners are "any closer" to rediscovering the same block (with a different, yet valid hash also meeting the difficulty). It is of course only natural then that bitcoin doesn't provide any incentive/reward for rediscovering blocks, as that proof of work is better spent attempting to discover the newest block. Unfortunately though, an attacker with enough hashing power and time has a good chance of besting the competition several times in a row; which is why it's said that to be safe you need to wait for 6 confirmations, which amounts to an hour of transaction waiting time for. We could say that in bitcoin confirmations are serial.
In contrast, stochastically dependent proof of work could allow for efficient implementation of parallel confirmations; thereby greatly reducing transaction waiting time, since rediscoveries could be expected to follow shortly after the first discovery of a block. Assume a cryptocurrency using such proofs to reward not just the first discovery of a block, but also the first X of its rediscoveries. The payment receiver then only needs to verify that the transaction is listed in all the block's discoveries (or at least a high enough percentage thereof). The amount of hash power needed by an attacker to make rediscoveries should ideally be the same as it was for the initial discovery (grow linearly). These rediscovery hashes could be recorded in the same way as transactions, by being included for a fee/reward in a child block.
1Actually, the probability increases ever so slightly when no blocks have been discovered yet, and only a fixed minimum of bits are altered such as when only the nonce field is increased; but the difference is so small as to make no matter, given the astronomical number of possible hashes meeting the current difficulty.
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I don't think your footnote is correct, because you are not guaranteed that you will ever find a solution. Feel free to explain and prove me wrong, though. – morsecoder Jan 21 '15 at 21:13
Are there proof of work algorithms that are stochastically dependent?
Yes. Another idea similar to the one that Nick described:
Add an extra 8 bytes to the end of each transaction when making the merkle tree, in a field called nEffort. The nBits field in the header describes the total amount of work that must be done (on average) on the block. Split that work up by the number of transactions in the block, and then you can mine each transaction individually by altering nEffort until the leaf of the merkle tree hashes to a low enough value. Note that this does not replace Transactions IDs, it would essentially just be an extra field of each leaf element of the merkle tree.
To check the work, you make sure that each leaf of the merkle tree meets the difficulty/Number_of_transactions parameter.
The downsides of this:
A block header cannot be verified without having all of the transaction data, which is obviously very limiting for SPV nodes where the security of their transactions is based on how many blocks are including it.
This could also make double spends easier. Just mine a transaction giving coins to yourself and release it after you send coins to someone else.
It would disincentivize adding new transactions to your block, as each new transaction would mean all previously mined transactions count for less work.
It's probably not a good idea, but it's another way to do a stochastically dependent proof of work.
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Then the block wouldn't meet the proof of work. Same as in Bitcoin, I could relay a block and replace a transaction, but it would be rejected by everyone... I think the problem you're talking about is replacement. In the method I proposed, I could replace a transaction in a block with another mined transaction, and it would still validate. Hence, not a viable PoW method. – morsecoder Jan 21 '15 at 21:33
You saw nothing! I thought of a better attack: if I see your block on the network, couldn't I replace the coinbase of your block with my own coinbase, assuming it had enough work attached? – Nick ODell Jan 21 '15 at 21:41
@NickODell Haha, that is better. I thought of a fix, and then a way to break my fix, so I'm just going to quit now, obviously this would never work. :P – morsecoder Jan 21 '15 at 21:52
Miners using one might have no idea how close to a discovery they are, but they would know that they are "getting closer".
Yes, this is possible.
Instead of requiring one block header with difficult A, you could require 16 block headers with difficulty A/16. This would make it possible to figure out how far along you are in the process.
In contrast, stochastically dependent proof of work could allow for efficient implementation of parallel confirmations; thereby greatly reducing transaction waiting time, since rediscoveries could be expected to follow shortly after the first discovery of a block. Assume a cryptocurrency using such proofs to reward not just the first discovery of a block, but also the first X of its rediscoveries.
That's possible too. You could do this by having each block in Bitcoin have 1 or more parents. You'd need some sort of way rule to decide which transactions to keep in a merge block (since some would inevitably conflict).
Drawbacks of the previous two changes:
Normally, a miner includes transactions as soon as they hear about them. Including a transaction doesn't mean that you lose any progress. But if you were getting closer, you wouldn't want to abandon that.
Only the X strongest miners and mining pools would stay in business. Everyone else may as well not bother with mining.
Full nodes would need X times more bandwidth to verify blocks. Once the blocks were verified, it would also take extra storage. If the blocks were very different, it could take X times more storage space. If the blocks were identical, it would be only an extra ~350 bytes per block (coinbase and block header).
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In the last point, don't you mean SPV nodes? Also, it wouldn't be exactly X times, since some of the header data can be reused. – Meni Rosenfeld Jan 21 '15 at 20:04
This might work if the TX set mined was append-only. And I agree with @MeniRosenfeld, it seems like it would only be X times the storage for SPV nodes, but marginally more storage for full nodes. One interesting aspect of this proposal is that pools would be incentivized to find out how far along other pools are. i.e. if another pool has 13/16 headers solved but your pool (same hashing power) got unlucky and only has 2/16 solved, then the other pool would be much more likely to win, so it would probably not be profitable for your pool to continue to mine until the other pool solves the block. – morsecoder Jan 21 '15 at 20:47
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Barkan Promises To Fight For Free Tuition & Fair Pay At SUNY & CUNY
Liena Zagare| April 11, 2018 @10:52 am April 11, 2018 @10:52 am
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BAY RIDGE – Ross Barkan, a graduate of Stony Brook University who is running for New York State Senate seat representing District 22, has released his education platform, promising to fight for free tuition, “no strings attached”, for New York state residents attending City University of New York (CUNY) or State University of New York (SUNY) schools. He also insists that the schools be fully funded – both teaching staff and capital expenditures – and proposes that one way to do that may be to legalize and tax marijuana.
“We must restore true tuition-free education, end unnecessary price-gouging, and pay our faculty what they deserve. New York succeeded when higher education was an actual priority. We can lead the country and the world—all we have to do is invest in education,” Barkan says.
While CUNY has seen its popularity surge, with 40% more undergraduate students enrolling than in 2000, funding per student has dropped almost 20%, and facilities have seen half a century of deferred maintenance. Take a look at this Facebook account that documents and advocates for fixing of the facilities at Brooklyn College – broken bathrooms, missing tiles, holes in ceilings, bedbugs …
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Barkan has put getting resources CUNY and SUNY need high on his agenda. The Excelsior Scholarship, the program that currently offers free tuition to qualifying students, did not help typical students attending these colleges, NY Times wrote last year. Most students did not benefit because of the class load and graduation requirements the program insisted on, and the program did not cover room and board, leaving graduates with significant expenses. “No student should be forced to choose between getting a job to help out their family and pursuing a college education”, Barkan believes, and that should apply to DREAMers as well – a proposal that has been blocked by Republicans in the state senate.
He also thinks “there should be no strings attached—if a student graduates and lands a job beyond the borders of New York, a scholarship should not be transformed into debt.”
Fully funding CUNY and SUNY also includes paying above poverty wages for its teaching staff. The number of adjuncts at the colleges has almost doubled since 2000 to just under 15,000 in 2015. Currently adjuncts with full time class loads make about $25,000 a year making them some of the poorest New Yorkers. “Overworked, underpaid adjuncts cannot bear the brunt of this status quo any longer, ” Barkan insists.
So how will he get this done if elected?
“We will do this by increasing state funding for education and creating a more progressive tax structure—closing the carried interest loophole and introducing a new millionaire’s tax, for example”, Barkan says.
“We will be able to raise new revenue for education if we legalize and tax marijuana statewide. SUNY must also cease wasteful spending on initiatives that have nothing to do with academics. We do not need new football stadiums, opulent gymnasiums, and overpaid athletic coaches at our SUNY’s. We need educational opportunities.”
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Ross has excellent ideas its been over 100 years since we made k-12 free education its about time we increased it to cover college as well k-16!
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Online learning combined with games to grow by 38% in 2-4 years
Companies have been combining technology as well as games to impart skill in almost every sector
The combination training method, involving online learning and games, is gaining momentum and is expected to grow by up to 38 per cent in the next 2-4 years with corporates trying to enhance skills of their workforce, according to industry experts.
"Learning in the context of work, though essential, isn't always enjoyable and engaging, therefore, new models of training, more relevant to the workforce of today and tomorrow are being explored and games-based learning is one such model," Schoolguru Eduserve CEO and founder Shantanu Rooj told PTI here.
"The combination method of skilling, a recent phenomenon in corporates, is used across sectors providing play-like simulation with the additional learning or improving functional proficiency and social interaction. I expect 38 per cent growth in the segment to about Rs 3,000 crore in the next two years," he added.
As newer generations enter the workforce, technology adoption into learning is no longer just a need, but also a demand and corporates are advancing rapidly towards blended learning modules, he added.
Michael Page India Regional Talent Development Facilitator Dhruv Srivastava opined that gaming and simulations have been utilised across organisations to drive learning impact, however, as newer generations enter the workforce, technology adoption into learning is no longer just a need, but also a demand.
"Corporates are advancing rapidly towards blended learning modules," he said.
Companies have been combining technology as well as games to impart skill in almost every sector for an improved engagement and performance, however, it is predominantly present in manufacturing companies, banking, pharmaceutical organisations and even the retail sector, he added.
Echoing a similar view, Mercer|Mettl CEO Siddhartha Gupta said most of the employees are already too tired before they take any traditional online training course.
Games and technology provide the option to make training interesting, fun and can be measured, he added.
"I see a 30 per cent increase in the combination method for training in the next 3-4 years as industry-specific skills change quickly. So every industry is in expanding their budgets for training differently," he said adding that BFSI, IT/IteS, internet and electronic, services and HR and consulting firms will gain from such a development.
Udacity India managing director Ishan Gupta opined that traditional training requires a lot of investment in the form of time, money and efforts from the corporate.
"Moreover, in a traditional training set up updating the course content regularly is a major challenge. Hence, the demand for online training is picking up fast. The benefit of having an online and gamified training platform is that it can help corporates to manage their ever-changing skill requirements quickly," he added.
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Clinical Negligence & Birth Injury
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Fibromyalgia sufferer receives £1.5M in compensation following a road traffic accident.
Solicitor, Alex Cohen of Brian Barr Solicitors and Counsel, Marcus Grant of Temple Garden Chambers secure large settlement for fibromyalgia sufferer.
Ms O. was involved in a road traffic accident in August 2012 when a vehicle collided with the rear of her vehicle at around 30mph.
Initially it appeared that she had suffered relatively minor injuries. However, she quickly developed widespread chronic pain which became progressively worse. Physiotherapy did not help. A diagnosis of fibromyalgia was made by her GP in early 2013.
Prior to the accident, Ms O. was working in a well-paying job and enjoyed an active lifestyle, including marathon running and dancing. As her fibromyalgia worsened, work became too difficult and she was made redundant.
Her symptoms progressed in the following years to the point where she had to use a mobility scooter to get around and required assistance with everyday activities such as getting dressed and showering.
Ms O. instructed Brian Barr Solicitors in October 2013. After obtaining the expert opinions of a consultant rheumatologist, consultant psychiatrist and a care expert, it became apparent that the accident had triggered Ms O.’s fibromyalgia and that her chances of returning to good health without needing constant care and assistance were slim.
The Defendant instructed eminent experts who argued that Ms O.’s fibromyalgia was unrelated to the injuries she had sustained in the accident. However, her legal team eventually secured £1,500,000 in compensation for Ms O.
In her own words Ms O. describes her experience: ‘Alex Cohen and his team were nothing but amazing. They fully explained everything I needed to know throughout my entire case (which was just over 5 years!) with a great deal of compassion and care. I would have no hesitation in recommending Brian Barr solicitors if a member of my family or friend ever needed it.’
Alex Cohen commented: ‘This was a hugely satisfying case both professionally and personally. Ms O’s life was turned upside down as a result of a car accident which was not her fault. The Defendant insurer, realising the potential value of the claim, invested a huge amount of time and resources into defending the claim but we were ultimately able to secure a settlement of £1.5 million, a very significant sum of money which will make a real difference to Ms O’s life as she continues to struggle with severe Fibromyalgia’
Marcus Grant commented: “This settlement illustrated the respect shown by certain insurers that there can be a link between trauma and fibromyalgia, and that link is the interruption of REM sleep cycles depriving the patient of the benefit of restorative sleep for days, weeks or months before the emergence of centrally sensitised chronic widespread joint pain, headaches, acute fatigue accentuated by exertion and cognitive slowing, a cluster of symptoms encapsulated by the diagnosis of ‘post traumatic fibromyalgia’. The scale of this settlement illustrates that fibromyalgia operates along a spectrum, at the most severe end of which it causes acute disability. Ms O made a sympathetic claimant because she was a Zumba instructor in the peak of health before the accident and rendered wheelchair bound by the post traumatic fibromyalgia that was triggered by her whiplash-induced sleep disturbance”.
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I Left Watford For China Because Of Money – Odion Ighalo
Former Super Eagles striker, Odion Ighalo, has admitted that he left Premier League side, Watford to join Chinese side, Changchun Yatai back in 2017 because of ‘money’.
Ighalo scored 33 goals in 82 matches for Watford during his spell at the English club.
“There’s lot of reasons I went there [China]. I wasn’t playing much in Watford and I did not want to keep sitting on the bench,” Ighalo told the Watford Observer.
“Watford fans don’t know it but I had an offer from Crystal Palace on the table and West Bromwich but the club was looking for big money and that’s why I accepted Changchun Yatai at the time. So, instead of me sitting down there and not playing I had to move.
“When the opportunity came for me I accepted it because China could pay what Watford wanted. But this is past tense now. I am happy and Watford are happy because they made a lot of money with me. And they are still my team in the Premier League.
“I don’t know about other players. Maybe they go there for different ambitions. Me? Yes, I went there for the money I am honest but I don’t know why other players go there for.”
He added: “The league is really growing, they have a lot of foreign coaches and players who improve the league.
“All I can say is that the Chinese Super League is improving every day and I am very happy about my choice. Regrets? No everything is going well, I am happy there and working hard.”
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Theater Latte Da hires new managing director
Marianne Combs February 1, 2011, 8:08 PM Feb 1, 2011
The Minneapolis theater company known for presenting musical theater in an intimate setting has got a new manager.
John Thew has been selected as Theater Latté Da’s new Managing Director effective immediately. Thew replaces Kimberly Motes who was recently appointed Vice President of Institutional Advancement at the College of Saint Benedict.
Thew is the former Director of Public Relations and former Director of Development for New York’s Tony Award-winning Second Stage Theatre, and a former Production Manager for Twin Cities Public Television. Most recently Thew has been a consultant for AchieveGlobal.
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Science Results Packed for Return to Earth Aboard Dragon Monday
The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft approaches the International Space Station on May 6, 2019, to deliver than 5,500 pounds of research, equipment, cargo and supplies to the Expedition 59 crew.
The Expedition 59 crew is starting the weekend preparing the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft for its departure from the International Space Station on Monday. The space residents are also juggling a variety of research work and lab maintenance tasks today.
NASA TV is broadcasting the robotic release of Dragon from the station live on NASA TV beginning Monday at 11:45 a.m. EDT. Robotics controllers will command the Canadarm2 robotic arm to release the space freighter around 12:09 p.m. while astronaut David Saint-Jacques monitors from the cupola. Dragon will splashdown in the Pacific about 5:48 p.m. and will not be seen on NASA TV.
Several critical experiments have wrapped up aboard the orbiting lab with the completed results and hardware being packed inside the Dragon this weekend. After the space freighter splashes down Monday, it will be towed to shore where the finalized research will be distributed to labs around the world for analysis.
Astronauts Anne McClain and David Saint-Jacques are cleaning up and inspecting the Life Sciences Glovebox (LSG) today. This comes after the crew completed a month-long study of the immune system’s response to weightlessness inside the LSG. Samples from that study will also return to Earth aboard Dragon Monday.
The pair first joined Flight Engineer Nick Hague during the morning checking out space biology hardware and transferring more frozen research samples into Dragon’s science freezers. Hague and McClain then participated in regularly scheduled eye exams in the afternoon.
Christina Koch of NASA is helping cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Alexey Ovchinin clean up after the duo’s spacewalk on Wednesday. She stowed the U.S. tools they used back in the Quest airlock while the cosmonauts serviced their Russian Orlan spacesuits in the Pirs airlock.
Author Mark GarciaPosted on May 31, 2019 Categories Expedition 59Tags Canadian Space Agency, dragon, European Space Agency, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NASA, Roscosmos, science, spacewalk, spacex3 Comments on Science Results Packed for Return to Earth Aboard Dragon Monday
Light Science Duties as Crew Sleeps in After Spacewalk
Cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin (foreground) and Oleg Kononenko work on a pair of Russian Orlan spacesuits inside the Pirs docking compartment’s airlock.
The six-member Expedition 59 crew had a chance to sleep in the day after wrapping up a successful spacewalk on the Russian side of the International Space Station. The cosmonauts are cleaning up this afternoon from yesterday’s excursion while the rest of the orbiting crew focuses on exercise research and other light science duties.
NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch woke up after lunch today and strapped themselves into an exercise bike inside the U.S. Destiny laboratory module. The duo took turns working out on the specialized bicycle attached to sensors for the experiment measuring oxygen uptake and aerobic capacity.
Flight Engineers Anne McClain and David Saint-Jacques checked on a couple of life science experiments during their relaxed afternoon. McClain updated software for the Photobioreactor study exploring how microalgae can create a hybrid life support system for astronauts and Earthlings. Saint-Jacques turned off and stowed the Canadian Bio-Monitor device that can quickly analyze human biological samples in space.
Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin are reconfiguring the Pirs airlock, cleaning spacesuits and stowing tools following Wednesday’s six hour and one minute spacewalk. The cosmonauts also debriefed spacewalk experts on the ground discussing their hardware removal and experiment jettisoning tasks.
Author Mark GarciaPosted on May 30, 2019 Categories Expedition 59Tags Canadian Space Agency, European Space Agency, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NASA, Roscosmos, science, spacewalk2 Comments on Light Science Duties as Crew Sleeps in After Spacewalk
Two Cosmonauts Wrap Up the Fourth Spacewalk at the Station This Year
Spacewalkers Oleg Kononenko and Alexey Ovchinin work outside the Pirs docking compartment during the fourth spacewalk of the year at the International Space Station.
Expedition 59 Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos have completed a spacewalk lasting 6 hours and 1 minute.
The two cosmonauts opened the hatch to the Pirs docking compartment to begin the spacewalk at 11:42 a.m. EDT. They re-entered the airlock and closed the hatch at 5:43 p.m.
During the spacewalk, the duo completed the planned tasks, including installing a handrail on the Russian segment of the complex, retrieving science experiments from the Poisk module’s hull; removing and jettisoning the plasma wave experiment hardware; and conducting maintenance work on the orbiting laboratory, such as cleaning the window of the Poisk hatch.
The spacewalk was the 217th in support of station assembly, maintenance and upgrades and the fourth outside the station this year.
This was the fifth spacewalk in Kononenko’s career and the first for Ovchinin, who will become station commander next month. Kononenko is scheduled to return to Earth June 24, with crewmates Anne McClain of NASA and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency, wrapping up a six-and-a-half-month mission living and working in space.
Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on Twitter as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.
Author Mark GarciaPosted on May 29, 2019 Categories Expedition 59Tags Canadian Space Agency, European Space Agency, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NASA, Roscosmos, spacewalk5 Comments on Two Cosmonauts Wrap Up the Fourth Spacewalk at the Station This Year
Russian Spacewalkers Wish Happy Birthday to First Spacewalker Alexei Leonov
At the start of today’s spacewalk, cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko (left) and Alexey Ovchinin commemorated Russia’s first spacewalker Alexei Leonov, who turns 85 on Thursday, with signs attached to their Orlan spacesuits (see translations below).
Shortly after beginning their spacewalk, Expedition 59 Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos recorded birthday greetings for the first person to spacewalk, Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov. Leonov’s 85th birthday is tomorrow, Thursday, May 30.
See the video on Twitter
On 18 March, 1965, Leonov became the first person to leave a spacecraft in a spacesuit to conduct a spacewalk, exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for a 12-minute spacewalk.
Kononenko and Ovchinin also added signs to the backs of their Orlon spacesuits to honor the first spacewalker. Kononenko’s suit with the red stripes bears a sign that says “1st spacewalker”, and the sign on Ovchinin’s suit with the blue stripes says, “Happy birthday, Alexei Arkhipovich,” Leonov’s family name.
Alexey Leonov: First Human to Walk in Space
Author Mark GarciaPosted on May 29, 2019 May 29, 2019 Categories Expedition 59Tags Canadian Space Agency, European Space Agency, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NASA, Roscosmos, spacewalk4 Comments on Russian Spacewalkers Wish Happy Birthday to First Spacewalker Alexei Leonov
Two Cosmonauts Spacewalking Outside Station’s Russian Segment
Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko is pictured during a spacewalk in 2012 as an Expedition 30 crewmember with fellow spacewalker Anton Shkaplerov.
Expedition 59 Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos began a planned six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk when they opened the hatch of the Pirs docking compartment of the International Space Station at 11:42 a.m. EDT.
Both spacewalkers are wearing Russian Orlan spacesuits. Kononenko is designated extravehicular crew member 1 (EV1), wearing the suit with red stripes, and Ovchinin is EV2, in the suit with blue stripes.
Coverage of the spacewalk continues on NASA Television and the agency’s website. Views from a camera on Kononenko’s helmet are designated with the number 18, and Ovchinin’s is labeled with the number 11.
It is Kononenko’s fifth career spacewalk and Ovchinin’s first.
Author Mark GarciaPosted on May 29, 2019 May 29, 2019 Categories Expedition 59Tags Canadian Space Agency, European Space Agency, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NASA, Roscosmos, spacewalkLeave a comment on Two Cosmonauts Spacewalking Outside Station’s Russian Segment
NASA TV Broadcasting Live Russian Spacewalk for Station Maintenance
Expedition 59 Commander Oleg Kononenko (left) and Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin ready a pair of Russian Orlan spacesuits inside the Pirs docking compartment’s airlock.
Expedition 59 Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos are preparing for their exit from the station’s Pirs docking compartment airlock at approximately 11:44 a.m. EDT to begin a planned six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk at the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Christina Koch is helping the cosmonauts prepare for their spacewalk.
Coverage of the spacewalk is now underway on NASA Television and the agency’s website.
Kononenko and Ovchinin will install handrails on the Russian segment of the complex, retrieve science experiments from the Poisk module’s hull, and conduct maintenance work on the orbiting laboratory.
Author Mark GarciaPosted on May 29, 2019 Categories Expedition 59Tags Canadian Space Agency, European Space Agency, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NASA, Roscosmos, spacewalk3 Comments on NASA TV Broadcasting Live Russian Spacewalk for Station Maintenance
Station Readies for Spacewalk, Begins Packing Dragon With Science
Expedition 59 Flight Engineers Christina Koch of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos ready a pair of Russian Orlan spacesuits inside the Pirs docking compartment’s airlock.
Two Expedition 59 cosmonauts are finalizing reviews before Wednesday morning’s spacewalk for maintenance outside the International Space Station. Meanwhile, the orbital residents are also readying completed experiments for return to Earth inside the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft next week.
Commander Oleg Kononenko is set to begin his fifth career spacewalk Wednesday at 11:44 a.m. EDT. He will lead first-time spacewalker Alexey Ovchinin during the six-hour-15-minute excursion on the Russian segment of the orbital lab. They will retrieve experiment hardware, clean lab windows and jettison old cables among other tasks.
The duo reviewed their spacewalk tasks and worksites alongside NASA astronaut Christina Koch this morning. Koch will assist the pair with their Russian Orlan spacesuits in the Pirs airlock before and after Wednesday’s spacewalk.
The SpaceX Dragon launched a multitude of life science experiments studying immunology, crystallography, microphysiology and other space phenomena to the station May 4. The completed research samples and science hardware will now return to Earth inside Dragon after it departs the station’s Harmony module June 3. NASA Flight Engineer Anne McClain is readying the commercial space freighter for departure and beginning the work to pack the finalized experiments for analysis in labs across the globe.
Astronauts Nick Hague and David Saint-Jacques spent Tuesday maintaining station systems and hardware. Hague first measured airflow in the Japan’s Kibo laboratory module before routing power cables in the U.S. Destiny laboratory module. Saint-Jacques reconfigured a robotics computer and routed communication cables then checked components on the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device.
Author Mark GarciaPosted on May 28, 2019 May 28, 2019 Categories Expedition 59Tags dragon, European Space Agency, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NASA, Roscosmos, science, spacewalk, spacex1 Comment on Station Readies for Spacewalk, Begins Packing Dragon With Science
Space Biology, Physics and Suit Checks Start Memorial Weekend
The aurora australis, also known as the “southern lights,” is pictured as the International Space Station orbited 264 miles above the Indian Ocean south of the Australian island state of Tasmania.
The Expedition 59 crew is starting the Memorial Day weekend studying biology, physics and orbital manufacturing techniques. The space residents will also be busy on the U.S. holiday conducting more research and getting ready for the year’s fourth spacewalk at the International Space Station on Wednesday.
Astronaut David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) analyzed his own blood sample today testing the new Bio-Analyzer. The biomedical device from the CSA tests a variety of biomarkers to measure molecular signs of health on the station. He also worked on another biology platform that can produce gravity levels up to 2g for research on an array of materials and small organisms.
Japan’s Kibo laboratory module enables astronauts to place and retrieve space exposure experiments outside of the orbiting lab. Flight Engineer Nick Hague swapped some of those exposed samples today from a platform inside Kibo. The long-running materials exposure studies at the station help scientists understand how microgravity and radiation affect a variety of materials.
Christina Koch of NASA continued exploring the production of superior quality optical fibers inside the U.S. Destiny lab module’s Microgravity Science Glovebox. The variety of elements used in the manufacturing process are difficult to control on Earth with gravity bearing down on them. The space-created samples will be analyzed on the ground for their potential to improve a variety of applications such as medicine, navigation, communication and atmospheric monitoring.
At the end of the day, Flight Engineer Anne McClain checked out emergency space navigation techniques using a sextant. She peered at constellations from the cupola during an orbital night period while inspecting and calibrating the hand-held device.
Meanwhile, Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin continued setting up their spacesuits and tools today. Next week they will review procedures and timelines for their approximately six-hour spacewalk for external maintenance scheduled for around 11:45 a.m. EDT Wednesday.
Author Mark GarciaPosted on May 24, 2019 Categories Expedition 59Tags Canadian Space Agency, European Space Agency, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NASA, Roscosmos, science, spacewalk1 Comment on Space Biology, Physics and Suit Checks Start Memorial Weekend
DNA, Physics and Robotics Pack Station Research Schedule Today
NASA astronaut Nick Hague of Expedition 59 sequences DNA samples for a study exploring how increased exposure to space radiation impacts crew health.
The Expedition 59 astronauts focused on DNA editing, high-end physics and free-flying robotics aboard the International Space Station today. Two cosmonauts are also ramping up their preparations for next week’s spacewalk.
A docked Russian cargo craft fired its thrusters for 20 minutes today increasing the station’s altitude by about 2.5 miles. The orbital reboost places the station in the correct trajectory for the undocking and landing of three Expedition 59 crewmembers June 24.
The wide range of advanced space research taking place every day on the orbiting lab benefits humans on Earth and in space. Scientists use the results to treat terrestrial ailments and the negative impacts of microgravity more effectively. Engineers also take the data to improve industrial and commercial processes and design safer, more advanced spacecraft and habitats as NASA prepares to go to the Moon in 2024.
NASA astronaut Nick Hague is researching how space radiation damages DNA today using the CRISPR genome-editing tool. The Genes in Space-6 study also uses DNA extraction and sequencing tools to observe how the damaged DNA repairs itself in space. Results may advance the development of treatments for radiation exposure hazards in harsh environments.
Space manufacturing eliminates the detrimental effect of Earth’s gravity and may provide superior results than on the ground. Flight Engineer Christina Koch of NASA set up hardware in the Microgravity Science Glovebox to explore the production of high-quality optical fibers on the station. The study seeks to create a high commercial value product benefitting both Earth and space industries.
The Astrobee robotic assistant is being checked out today by Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques. He set up the cube-shaped robotic free flyer to map the inside the of Kibo laboratory module and spun it rapidly afterward calibrating its navigation camera. Astrobee is being tested for its ability to perform routine maintenance duties and provide additional lab monitoring capabilities.
Two cosmonauts are ensuring their physical readiness and outfitting a pair of Russian Orlan spacesuits ahead of a May 29 spacewalk. Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin each spent over an hour on an exercise bike today measuring their cardiovascular response. Flight surgeons want to make sure the spacewalkers are able to endure the several hours of intense physical exertion. The duo also installed lights and other components onto the spacesuits.
Author Mark GarciaPosted on May 23, 2019 May 23, 2019 Categories Expedition 59Tags Canadian Space Agency, European Space Agency, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NASA, Roscosmos, scienceLeave a comment on DNA, Physics and Robotics Pack Station Research Schedule Today
Midweek Immunology Research and Spacewalk Preps for Lab Residents
This oblique nighttime view of Western Europe and the well-lit coasts (from left) of Spain, France and Italy was taken from the International Space Station as it orbited 256 miles above the Mediterranean Sea.
Immunology research has been keeping the Expedition 59 astronauts busy since the SpaceX Dragon space freighter delivered new science gear in early May. Two cosmonauts are also one week away from starting the fourth spacewalk this year at the International Space Station.
NASA astronaut Anne McClain was back inside Japan’s Kibo laboratory module today observing how the immune systems of mice, which are similar to humans, respond to the lack of gravity. She teamed up with Flight Engineers Christina Koch and David Saint-Jacques for the on-orbit research to help doctors improve astronauts’ immunity in space. The potential for advanced vaccines and therapies may also benefit Earthlings as well as future astronauts exploring the Moon and beyond.
A variety of other space biology and human research took place today as Flight Engineer Nick Hague collected and stowed his blood and urine samples for later scientific analysis. He also worked on the Biolab hardware before stowing the Biomolecule Sequencer that sequences DNA aboard the space station. The advanced science gear is part of the Genes In Space-6 experiment researching how space radiation impacts DNA and the cell repair mechanism.
Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin were back on spacesuit duty today. The Roscosmos cosmonauts transferred their Orlan spacesuits to the Pirs airlock and installed portable repressurization tanks in the Russian lab module. Next week they will review procedures and timelines for their approximately six-hour spacewalk for external maintenance scheduled for Wednesday, May 29.
A docked Russian Progress cargo craft will fire its engines for 20 minutes raising the station’s orbit on Thursday. The reboost will place the orbiting complex in the correct trajectory for the undocking and landing of three Expedition 59 crewmembers June 24.
Author Mark GarciaPosted on May 22, 2019 May 22, 2019 Categories Expedition 59Tags Canadian Space Agency, European Space Agency, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NASA, Roscosmos, science, spacewalk1 Comment on Midweek Immunology Research and Spacewalk Preps for Lab Residents
Crew Works Human Research, CubeSats and Gears Up for Spaceship Departures
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Commercial Crew
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Mr. Trudeau’s Photo Album
John Robson
To suggest legislating morality in Canada today would invite ridicule involving doilies, antimacassars and a bust of Queen Victoria if not the Spanish Inquisition. Yet progressive advocates of diversity are often strong proponents of hate speech laws and other legal sanctions against acts that are not criminal in the sense of involving force or fraud, but are immoral as we now understand the term like, say, refusing to bake a wedding cake for a gay marriage. So, while there is much room to debate what constitutes immorality, it’s silly to pretend we don’t legislate against it.
The very word “morality” can trigger emotional palpitations in a culture where it is considered immoral to be what the kids now call “judgy”. But consider the police officer in London Ontario subjected to ritual public humiliation for an online picture of her in “tribal costume” including blackface at a Halloween party 12 years ago. She was forced to issue a public apology and her chief ordered the whole force into cultural sensitivity and racial awareness training. No crime was committed, but she was judged guilty and sentenced to compulsory moral re-education, and nobody batted an eye.
There can be no mistaking the moralism of the response. Likewise the public crucifixion of former Ontario Tory leader Patrick Brown for conduct no one suggests was criminal. Brown was destroyed for being lustful (although it was also a convenient way to get rid of a leader whom some in his party had decided was a loser), so what of the claim that the law should steer clear of such moralizing?
Devlin for the defence
Let me summon as witness for the defence of legislating morality one Patrick Devlin, Law Lord and Baron Devlin to his friends, whose fascinating 1965 book The Enforcement of Morals, based on his 1959 Maccabean Lecture in Jurisprudence at the British Academy, tackled whether the law ought to take account of popular morality.
The specific subject was decriminalization of homosexuality, which he reluctantly endorsed. Readers are warned that attitudes have changed so radically since 1965 that much of what Devlin wrote might now land him in court, which proves that we still aggressively legislate morality, arguably more aggressively than ever. If he was lucky, some of Devlin’s ideas might merely get him laughed off the modern stage, including his assertion that “the parallel between the ‘professional’ in abortions and the ‘professional’ in fornication is quite close”. But if we scoff at Devlin’s claim that “the most controversial question of all” was “the conditions under which the State should permit a second marriage when the other party to the first is still alive”, let us recall that he was not misreading the public mood of the early 1960s when we were just setting out on the path to “free love”. And it’s possible his fundamental arguments still matter in our superficially very different world.
We might instinctively recoil from his claim that “Not everything is to be tolerated. No society can do without intolerance, indignation, and disgust; they are the forces behind the moral law…” especially given its context of homosexuality. But our dogma of tolerance abruptly ends at any sign of bigotry, which we meet with indignation, disgust and indeed legislation. So much for “you do you”.
Devlin continues that “there is hardly anyone nowadays who would not be disgusted by the thought of deliberate cruelty to animals. No one proposes to relegate that or any other form of sadism to the realm of private morality or to allow it to be practised in public or in private.” This is even more true in today’s hyper-anthropomorphic world. But animal cruelty laws are based solely on morality. It may be argued that we ban murder partly because it is wrong and partly on the pragmatic ground that we do not personally wish to be murdered. But we cannot be subject to animal cruelty; we ban it just because it is wrong.
Dog-fighting bans are by no means the only example of contemporary law grounded in morality going far beyond the narrow libertarian view that force and fraud are wrong. From labour codes to hate speech to public accommodation, the law forbids or compels all sorts of conduct simply because it is judged vile or virtuous under the strictures of progressivism.
Do not be deceived by terms like “micro-aggression” or “safe spaces” that transplant the language of force into the realm of voluntary interaction. We openly legislate morality to promote social cohesion in defiance of freedom of contract and adult autonomy.
Devlin noted that “the law prescribes the shape and obligations of the contract of marriage” without regard for freedom of contract. And, he added, even “if the modern law reformer wanted greater freedom in this respect than the law allows (and I doubt if he does) he would have to remember that freedom of contract is now much less fashionable than it was” under British law generally, including strong statutory rules about rental contracts, for dwellings and for farmland.
The 2018-style “modern reformer” seems more conflicted about marriage than Devlin thought his or her predecessor was on the eve of the 1960s upheaval. Progressives now wish to loosen its bonds while extending its boundaries. One wonders, for instance, how popular gay marriage would be without no-fault divorce. But there is little hesitation today to impose measures like rent control on grounds not of utility but of supposed fairness, and to impose elaborate restrictions on individual freedom and property rights in the name of safety and the environment. And within marriage, for the time being we still ban polygamy, despite our fervent declarations that “love is love”, because it is judged harmful to women even among consenting adults.
Likewise we still struggle, as Devlin did, with the question, “If prostitution is private immorality and not the law’s business, what concern has the law with the ponce or the brothel-keeper or the householder who permits habitual prostitution?” And we still say, as in his day, that exploitation of women is sufficient grounds for the prosecution of pimps or johns. And while our laws against the making of pornography involving violence, children or bestiality protect people and animals, we also ban pornography that only pretends to involve these acts because, plainly, we feel strongly that it is so wrong to enjoy such depictions that it must not be permitted. (Oddly, our Supreme Court ruled in 2016 that bestiality without penetration or injury is OK which might mean such acts can now legally be filmed and distributed in these “enlightened” times.)
So the state never really left the bedrooms of the nation, and it certainly has invaded its boardrooms.
Patrick Brown leaves a press conference after categorically denying sexual harassment allegations.
The abortion consensus
Consider next the federal Liberal attempt to deny Canada Summer Job grants to organizations that will not publicly applaud abortion on demand. Of course we are far from requiring everyone to endorse abortion, or even everyone seeking any government subsidy… so far. But in dismissing the issue as a “kerfuffle”, our Prime Minister said “an organization that has the explicit purpose of restricting women’s rights by removing rights to abortion and the right for women to control their own bodies is not in line with where we are as a government, and quite frankly where we are as a society.”
Maybe not. But since we pride ourselves on praising the dissenter, the rebel, the lonely voice challenging authority, why is the Liberal administration attempting to compel conscience, to “open windows into men’s souls” as Elizabeth I famously refused to do in less enlightened times?
This is the same prime minister who claimed “there is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada”, and in the next breath acknowledged “there are shared values — openness, respect, compassion, willingness to work hard, to be there for each other, to search for equality and justice.” It’s anybody’s guess which of those two contradictory statements he actually believes, if either, but he does seem quite certain that our “shared values” are precisely his own. And he seems to share Devlin’s view that the law “does not discharge its function by protecting the individual from injury, annoyance, corruption, and exploitation; the law must protect also the institutions and the community of ideas, political and moral, without which people cannot live together. Society cannot ignore the morality of the individual any more than it can his loyalty…”
Hating hate speech
Hate speech is an even more striking example of legislated morality. The current Canadian criminal code explicitly protects public safety and security when it forbids public incitement of hatred “against any identifiable group where such incitement is likely to lead to a breach of the peace”. But where it also bans advocacy of genocide or making a statement that “other than in private conversation, willfully promotes hatred”, it is merely censoring free, albeit noxious, speech. Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act did the same thing, unrestricted by due process, until the Harper Conservative government repealed it. Now, inspired by their moral certainty, the Trudeau Liberals are considering reenacting it.
I do not dispute that such speech is gravely immoral. But on what basis do we ban it? Lord Devlin claims “it is no more possible to define a sphere of private morality than it is to define one of private subversive activity….” and compares tolerating widespread drunkenness or promiscuity to tolerating treason. If that seems a little reactionary, consider the arguments used to sanction Wilfred Laurier teaching assistant Lindsay Shepherd, which assumed that permitting free expression of allegedly transphobic ideas would be fatal to social cohesion.
When it comes to bigotry, we don’t just regulate speech. It is illegal to refuse to do business with a person because of their race or sexuality. Of course only a very nasty person would bar someone from their restaurant because of the colour of their skin or their gender identity. But it does no harm beyond hurt feelings if one or two restaurants won’t serve you, because countless others will. Still we vigorously legislate against it – even absent force or fraud – evidently because we are as certain as we are fearful of the tendency of the public to be bigots.
Devlin notes that English law refused to enforce contracts to perform illegal acts and “extends this embargo to acts which although not contrary to law are contrary to morality, such as fornication. The courts will not enforce a covenant to provide for a mistress.” And while “fornication” and “mistress” may seem quaintly moralistic, contemporary Canadian courts have struck down otherwise valid wills because the main beneficiary was judged to be a racist organization.
Who needs morality?
Devlin cites “a celebrated passage” from his contemporary jurist Lord Atkin, who argued that “Acts or omissions which any moral code would censure cannot in a practical world be treated so as to give a right to every person injured by them to demand relief…. The rule that you are to love your neighbour becomes in law, you must not injure your neighbour; and the lawyer’s question, Who is my neighbour? receives a restricted reply.’” Yet the law today does increasingly order us to love our neighbour rather than merely forbid our chucking a brick at him. More evidence that we are moral legislators on steroids.
Many readers will disagree with some of the laws I have mentioned. But mighty few, I am convinced, would abolish all our purely moral prohibitions, including on animal cruelty. Devlin presciently observed that “if the criminal law were to be reformed so as to eliminate from it everything that was not designed to preserve order and decency or to protect its citizens… it would overturn a fundamental principle. It would also end a number of specific crimes. Euthanasia or the killing of another at his own request, suicide, attempted suicide and suicide pacts, duelling, abortion, incest between brother and sister, are all acts which can be done in private and without offence to others and need not involve the corruption or exploitation of others.”
Most of these “crimes” have indeed been legalized, or at least destigmatized, although there may be vestigial sanctions against duelling. But what of hate speech, incest, or fictional “snuff” films? So as long as we prate about non-judgementality we merely prevent ourselves from thinking clearly about why we legislate morality, and how.
Devlin claims starkly “If the whole dead weight of sin were ever to be allowed to fall upon the law, it could not take the strain.” But since the state can legislate morality but cannot generate it, “the free-thinker and the non-Christian can accept, without offence to his convictions, the fact that Christian morals are the basis of the criminal law and that he can recognize, also without taking offence, that without the support of the churches the moral order, which has its origin in and takes its strength from Christian beliefs, would collapse.”
Such an argument would hardly command majority support today. And Devlin, recognizing 19th century British poet Matthew Arnold’s “melancholy, long, withdrawing roar” of the sea of faith, sometimes veers hard into utilitarian territory. If “a State which refuses to enforce Christian beliefs has lost the right to enforce Christian morals”, it should still legislate for “the smooth functioning of society and the preservation of order”. Moreover, “the weakness of the free-thinker’s position is that he offers no substitute for religion as a social force…. Morality and religion are so inextricably intertwined in the mind of the ordinary man that the wise sociologist has to accept that they cannot just be wrenched apart…. The question for the social reformer is not whether Christianity is right or wrong but whether it is dispensable. If he has his feet on the ground, he knows that it is not.” But they have been wrenched apart, and there’s a free for all going on to determine a substitute moral framework for law making.
Christians, like “free-thinkers”, disagree on many fundamentals. But whatever the source of our conception of right and wrong, we can no more say the law is indifferent to morality or should be today than when Lincoln memorably skewered Stephen Douglas for taking that position on slavery in 1858.
Whose and how far?
So we must recognize that we do it, and think sensibly about how we do it and why. As Devlin says, “The corruption of youth is a well-recognized ground for intervention by the State… But if similar protection were to be extended to every other citizen, there would be no limit to the reach of the law.”
Our culture clearly agrees with the first part of his argument if not perhaps his terminology, retaining the offense of statutory rape, regarding child molesters with particular horror, and seeking to keep tobacco, alcohol and other drugs from minors. But there seems little appreciation for his caution that if the state tries to protect all citizens from such corruption, there will be no limit to its reach.
Before endorsing suffocating paternalism and enforcement of often false orthodoxy we would be well advised to ponder one of Devlin’s concluding points: “The last and biggest thing to be remembered is that the law is concerned with the minimum and not with the maximum; there is much in the Sermon on the Mount that would be out of place in the Ten Commandments. We all recognize the gap between the moral law and the law of the land. No man is worth much who regulates his conduct with the sole object of escaping punishment, and every worthy society sets for its members standards which are above those of the law.”
Again his language, especially the Biblical references, might conceal from most Canadians the ongoing relevance of his underlying argument. Especially in a society that believes it has moved beyond good and evil, we cannot criminalize every breach of decency. It would be a morally impoverished society of brittle and resourceless individuals who considered such a thing necessary, and of clueless ones who considered it possible.
So let us, like good Victorians, give less thought to law and more to morality: what it says, why and how. Otherwise we risk swinging the policeman’s truncheon in blind fury, and freedom will soon go the way of faith.
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Brian Van Belle overcame injuries and three years in junior college to get to the mound inside Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field on Sunday.
All of the obstacles were worth the wait, as the redshirt junior turned in a brilliant debut and earned his first win as a Hurricane. Van Belle struck out five and allowed just five hits over six shutout innings to help the Hurricanes (3-0) secure a sweep over Rutgers (0-3) with a 9-3 victory on Sunday afternoon.
"I feel like my fastball was working really well," Van Belle said. "I kept it too high and I'd like to keep it lower. Other than that, I just tried to get quick contact and keep a fast tempo."
Van Belle was matched by Rutgers starter Tevin Murray over the first 2.2 innings of the game, as the junior lefty held Miami hitless in its first trip through the batting order. But back-to-back doubles from Tony Jenkins and Anthony Vilar ended the no-hit bid and the shut out, as Vilar's shot to the leftfield wall pushed Jenkins around to score.
One batter later, Rutgers third baseman Carmen Sclafani threw a ball away trying to retire Freddy Zamora at first. Instead of ending the inning, Zamora ran all the way to third and Vilar scored from second to put Miami up, 2-0. Vilar finished the weekend 7-for-11 (.636) with four doubles, eight runs scored and four RBI.
Two innings later, Miami chased Murray from the game when it loaded the bases with two outs in the fifth. Vilar sparked the rally with a two-out base hit, while Zamora walked and Adrian Del Castillo was hit by a pitch before Murray was replaced by freshman right-hander Garrett French. The reliever threw a 1-2 wild pitch to the backstop that allowed Vilar to score and give the Hurricanes a 3-0 lead.
"Del Castillo has been special from Day 1, so we all knew that," head coach Gino DiMare said. "I was really, really impressed and certainly happy to see Vilar swing the bat. We faced some lefties and these guys hit off some lefties where they stayed in there and drove the ball the other way, which is a great sign for hitters."
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New rules for accessing the 27.5% company tax rate from 1 July 2017
The Treasury Laws Amendment (Enterprise Tax Plan Base Rate Entities) Bill 2017 was introduced into the House of Representatives on 18 October 2017.
This Bill amends the Income Tax Rates Act 1986 (Cth) (Rates Act) to ensure that, from the 2017-18 income year, a company will qualify for the lower company tax rate for an income year if:
No more than 80% of the company’s assessable income for that income year is ‘base rate entity passive income’; and
The company’s aggregated turnover for the income year is less than the aggregated turnover threshold for that income year (for the 2017-18 income year, the threshold is less than $25 million).
These amendments will modify the requirements that must be satisfied for a company to qualify as a ‘base rate entity’ by replacing the ‘carrying on a business’ test with a passive income test. Under the passive income test, companies that are generating predominantly passive income (eg rent, royalties etc) will not be eligible for the lower company tax rate.
The purpose of this legislation is to ensure that passive investment companies cannot access the lower company tax rate that is otherwise available small businesses.
Currently, to qualify as a ‘base rate entity’ in order to apply the lower company tax rate, a company must be ‘carrying on a business’ as well as meet the relevant aggregated turnover threshold.
The Bill will apply prospectively from the 2017-18 income year.
An amount of assessable income is ‘base rate entity passive income’ includes items such as:
A distribution that is not a ‘non-portfolio dividend’;
Franking credits attached to such a distribution;
Interest income (as defined in the income tax legislation);
A royalty;
Rent; and
A net capital gain.
When does a company carry on a business? ATO releases guidance
The ATO has released draft Taxation Ruling TR 2017/D7 Income tax: when does a company carry on a business within the meaning of section 23AA of the Income Tax Rates Act 1986? for consultation.
This draft Ruling provides guidance on when a company carries on a business within the meaning of section 23AA of the Rates Act.
A company will be a ‘base rate entity’ under section 23AA if it carries on a business and meets the aggregated turnover requirement. For the purposes of section 23AA, ‘business’ is defined in the income tax law to include ‘any profession, trade, employment, vocation or calling’, but excludes ‘occupation as an employee’.
The draft Ruling confirms that it is not possible to definitively state whether a company is carrying on a business. It does however confirm that ‘Limited’ and ‘No Liability’ companies are likely to be carrying on a business where they are established and maintained to make a profit for their shareholders, and invest their assets in gainful activities which have both a purpose and prospect of profit.
The draft Ruling addresses whether a company carries on a business in a general way. It does not address what the scope or nature of a company’s business is. This is a separate question that needs to be answered in order to work out the taxation consequences of the transactions a company undertakes, such as whether a gain made is ordinary income or a capital gain, or whether an outgoing or loss is capital in nature.
A variety of examples are included in the draft Ruling to assist a taxpayer to understand when a company may be ‘carrying on a business’.
Note!The issue of whether a company is ‘carrying on a business’ is relevant under the current law. However, if the Treasury Laws Amendment (Enterprise Tax Plan Base Rate Entities) Bill 2017 becomes law, the draft Ruling will not be relevant from 1 July 2017 going forward.
You should discuss with your tax agent or adviser whether your company may be eligible to access the lower company tax rate.
Small business tax concessions at a glance
The ATO has prepared a table that is available on their website which sets out at a glance all the tax concessions that may be available to small businesses. These include:
Simplified depreciation rules (eg the instant asset write-off, accelerated depreciation for primary producers);
Eligibility for the lower company tax rate;
PAYG instalment concessions;
Simplified trading stock rules;
Simpler BAS;
Accounting for GST on a cash basis; and
The various small business CGT concessions.
Your tax agent or adviser will be able to assist you to work out which of these concessions your small business may be entitled to.
Deductions for small business
The ATO has published answers to the most common questions taxpayers have been asking about deductions for small business. Find out more on the ATO website.
Safe harbour reforms for company directors
The Treasury Laws Amendment (2017 Enterprise Incentives No. 2) Bill 2017 (the Bill) passed both the House of Representatives and the Senate on 12 September 2017 and awaits Royal Assent.
The Bill amends the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) to: create a safe harbour for company directors from personal liability for insolvent trading if the company is undertaking a restructure outside formal insolvency; and Corporations Act 2001 and Payment Systems and Netting Act 1998 (Cth) to make certain contractual rights unenforceable while a company is restructuring under certain formal insolvency processes.
The Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, the Hon Kelly O’Dwyer MP, said that the Government has delivered on its commitment under the National Innovation and Science Agenda (NISA) to improve Australia’s corporate insolvency system with the Bill receiving passage through Parliament.
Ms O’Dwyer also said the Bill promotes a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation by providing a ‘safe harbour’ for company directors from personal liability for insolvent trading if they are pursuing a restructure outside formal insolvency. It also makes ‘ipso facto’ clauses unenforceable during and after certain formal insolvency procedures.
The safe harbour provisions will commence on Royal Assent. The stay on the operation of ipso facto clauses will commence from 1 July 2018 to provide time for businesses to adapt to the new settings.
The operation of the safe harbour will be subject to an independent review two years after commencement.
The Government will shortly consult with key stakeholders on the Regulations to support the operation of the stay on ipso facto clauses.
To do!Are you a company director? If so, you should consult your tax adviser about whether this legislation impacts on you at all.
Tax consequences of trust splitting
The ATO is developing guidance in relation to the tax consequences of trust splitting arrangements.
A trust splitting arrangement occurs when separate trustees are appointed over different assets of an existing discretionary trust. Each trustee is typically controlled by a different party.
The intention of trust splitting is to produce a structure where each trustee is able to deal with the assets it holds independently of the other trustees. In particular, the trustee is able to deal with the assets largely for the benefit of the controlling party.
If you hold assets through trusts, this ATO guidance may be relevant to you.
Government cracks down on illegal phoenixing
The Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, the Hon Kelly O’Dwyer MP, announced on 12 September 2017 that the Government is taking action to crack down on illegal phoenixing activity to ensure those involved face tougher penalties.
The Government’s package of reforms will include the introduction of a Director Identification Number (DIN) and a range of other measures to both deter and penalise phoenix activity.
The DIN will identify directors with a unique number. The DIN will interface with other government agencies and databases to allow regulators to map the relationships between individuals and entities and individuals and other people.
In addition to the DIN, the Government will consult on implementing a range of other measures to deter and disrupt the core behaviours of phoenix operators, including non-directors such as facilitators and advisers.
The Government will consult on how best to identify high risk individuals who will be subject to new preventative and early intervention tools, including:
A next-cab-off-the-rank system for appointing liquidators;
Allowing the ATO to retain tax refunds; and
Allowing the ATO to commence immediate recovery action following the issuance of a Director Penalty Notice.
The Government put out a discussion paper in October containing numerous ideas for how to combat phoenixing behaviours.
Streamlined reporting with Single Touch Payroll
Previous editions of TaxWise Business have contained information about Single Touch Payroll, which is a reporting change for employers. It means employers will report payments such as salaries and wages, PAYG withholding and super information to the ATO directly from their payroll solution at the same time they pay their employees.
For employers with 20 or more employees, Single Touch Payroll reporting starts from 1 July 2018. The first year will be a transition and penalties will not apply.
The Government has also announced that it will expand Single Touch Payroll to include employers with 19 or less employees from 1 July 2019. This will be subject to legislation being passed in Parliament.
Therefore, if your business has 20 or more employees, Single Touch Payroll starts for you on 1 July 2018. If you have less than 20 employees, Single Touch Payroll will start for you on 1 July 2019 if the relevant legislation gets passed.
Lump sum payments for healthcare practitioners
If you are a healthcare practitioner, you may receive a lump sum payment when starting or amending an agreement with a healthcare centre operator. The ATO is concerned that some healthcare practitioners may be incorrectly treating these payments as proceeds from the disposal of a capital asset. This may result in underpayment of tax and expose you to later tax adjustments and penalties.
To do!If you have received one of these payments, talk to your tax agent to make sure you treat it correctly for tax purposes.
Superannuation guarantee – new measures announced
The Government has announced a further package of reforms to give the ATO near real-time visibility over superannuation guarantee (SG) compliance by employers.
The Government will provide the ATO with additional funding for a Superannuation Guarantee Taskforce to crackdown on employer non-compliance. The package builds on legislation already announced to close a legal loophole used by unscrupulous employers to short-change employees who make salary-sacrifice contributions to their superannuation.
The package includes measures to:
Require superannuation funds to report contributions received more frequently, at least monthly, to the ATO. This will enable the ATO to identify non-compliance and take prompt action;
Update payroll reporting through the rollout of Single Touch Payroll (STP). This will reduce the regulatory burden on business and transform compliance by aligning payroll functions with regular reporting of taxation and superannuation obligations;
Improve the effectiveness of the ATO’s recovery powers, including strengthening director penalty notices and use of security bonds for high-risk employers, to ensure that unpaid superannuation is better collected by the ATO and paid to employees’ super accounts; and
Give the ATO the ability to seek court-ordered penalties in the most egregious cases of non-payment, including employers who are repeatedly caught but fail to pay superannuation guarantee liabilities.
Understanding the sharing economy and tax
The ATO has updated their sharing economy and tax web page to help you understand your clients’ income tax and GST obligations, and how to avoid tax debts. Information includes:
Working in the sharing economy
Income tax and GST in the sharing economy
Ride-sourcing
Renting out all or part of your home
Renting out a car parking space
How to avoid a tax debt
Tip!If you participate in the sharing economy, you need to understand your tax obligations. Talk to your tax agent or adviser if you are unsure about what your tax obligations are or whether you are meeting them.
Industry assistance payments to taxi licence holders
The ATO is providing assistance to taxpayers who hold a taxi licence (including a car hire licence).
If you hold a taxi licence (including a hire car licence) and you receive an industry assistance payment from your State Government in relation to the licence (excluding a licence surrender payment), it is probably not a capital receipt. It’s more likely to be ordinary income. There are no GST consequences. More guidance can be found on the ATO website.
FBT: Uber case: definition of ‘taxi’ – ATO Technical Discussion Paper
In light of a recent Federal Court decision in the matter of Uber B.V. v. Commissioner of Taxation [2017] FCA 110 (Uber), and certain proposed changes to licensing regulations in a number of states and territories, the ATO has released Technical Discussion Paper TDP 2017/2 ‘Fringe Benefits Tax – Definition of Taxi’.
TDP 2017/2 considers the definition of ‘taxi’ contained in the Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986 (Cth) (FBT Act) and the exemption from fringe benefits tax (FBT) for taxi travel undertaken to or from work or due to illness.
The purpose of this paper is to facilitate consultation between the ATO and the community as part of the process of developing advice on the application of the FBT law. The ATO advises that all views in this paper are preliminary in nature and should not be taken as representing either an ATO view or that the ATO will take a particular view.
GST determination – Simplified accounting methods (SAM)
The Goods and Services Tax: Simplified Accounting Methods Determination 2017 for Retailers who sell Food – Business Norms, Stock Purchases and Snapshot Methods (F2017L01274) commenced on 28 September 2017. This determination repealed and replaced Simplified GST Accounting Methods Legislative Instrument (No 1) 2007.
The determination provides eligible food retailers with a choice of using a simplified accounting method (SAM) to help them to work out their net amount. It does so by allowing them to estimate their GST-free trading sales and GST-free trading stock acquisitions for a tax period. The three SAMs are:
Business norms method;
Stock purchases method; and
Snapshot method.
The determination is substantially the same as the previous determination that it replaced. If you were eligible to use a particular SAM specified in the previous determination, you will continue to be eligible to use that SAM under this determination.
Reduction of wine equalisation tax (WET) rebate cap
In the 2016-17 Budget, the Government announced that it will address integrity concerns with the wine equalisation tax (WET) rebate by reducing the WET rebate cap and tightening eligibility criteria.
The scheduled changes include:
Strengthening the associated producer provisions, so that from 1 October 2017 the associated producer test applies at any time during the financial year;
Reducing the WET rebate cap from $500,000 to $350,000 on 1 July 2018;
Introducing tightened eligibility criteria for the producer rebate from 1 July 2018 with some transitional arrangements from 1 January 2018; and
Creating a stronger link between rebate claims and the payment of WET by limiting entitlements to WET credits and changes to the quoting rules from 1 July 2018.
The changes were passed into legislation in August 2017.
Other legislation that may impact on you or your business
i) Corporations Amendment (Crowd-sourced Funding for Proprietary Companies) Bill 2017
The Bill extends the crowd-sourced funding (CSF) regime to proprietary companies, making a new funding source available for small businesses, while maintaining adequate investor protections through additional obligations on companies. The measure extends upon the Corporations Amendment (Crowd-sourced Funding) Act 2017 to enable proprietary companies to access CSF without transitioning to public company status.
ii) Treasury Laws Amendment (Improving Accountability and Member Outcomes in Superannuation Measures No. 2) Bill 2017
Choice of fund for workplace determinations and enterprise agreements
The Bill amends the Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992 (Cth) (SGAA) to ensure employees under workplace determinations or enterprise agreements have an opportunity to choose the superannuation fund for their compulsory employer contributions.
Salary sacrifice integrity
The Bill also amends the SGAA to improve the integrity of the superannuation system by ensuring that an individual’s salary sacrifice contributions cannot be used to reduce an employer’s minimum superannuation guarantee (SG) contributions.
iii) Treasury Laws Amendment (Enterprise Tax Plan No. 2) Bill 2017
Further to the Treasury Laws Amendment (Enterprise Tax Plan) Act 2017, this Bill amends the Rates Act to:
Progressively extend the lower 27.5% corporate tax rate to all corporate tax entities by the 2023-24 financial year; and
Further reduce the corporate tax rate in stages so that by the 2026-27 financial year, the corporate tax rate for all entities will be 25%.
To do!Talk to your tax agent or adviser to see if any of these Bills will impact on you or your business.
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Featherweight magnets made from aerogels embedded with nanoparticles
Aerogel magnets could find use in small motors, lightweight electronics, and medical devices
by Prachi Patel, special to C&EN
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A piece of magnetic aerogel responds to the repulsive force from bringing a cube magnet near.
Aerogels—solid foams consisting mostly of air—are some of the lightest known materials. By infusing them with magnetic nanoparticles, researchers have now made ultralight magnets that can do aerial acrobatics: levitating, rotating, and moving up and down when controlled from a distance with another magnet (ACS Nano 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b04818).
The aerogel magnets could be used to produce lightweight, low-friction motors for robots and drones, says the material’s developer Ivan I. Smalyukh, a physicist at the University of Colorado Boulder. The magnets could also be used in aircraft and spacecraft components, miniature electronics, and drug-delivery devices.
Typical aerogels are made of silica or cellulose and are used as spacecraft heat shields and building insulation materials. To make them, researchers start with a suspension of silica precursor compounds or cellulose nanofibers, add a catalyst to trigger the formation of a gel, and then remove the liquid in the gel by freeze-drying, which leaves behind a web-like, porous material made of pure silica or cellulose.
To make magnetic aerogels, Smalyukh, along with physicist Yong Xie of Beihang University and their colleagues, suspended cobalt nanorods in a silica aerogel precursor and barium hexaferrite nanoflakes in a cellulose aerogel precursor. These nanomaterials are ferromagnetic, which means they become permanent magnets when exposed to a magnetic field.
The researchers placed the suspensions inside a magnetic field during the gelling process, which caused the embedded nanorods and nanoflakes to line up along that applied field. The nanomaterials maintained their positions as the aerogels solidified, resulting in rectangular, 1 cm sized pieces of aerogels with thousands of tiny rod- or flake-shaped permanent magnets trapped inside.
The researchers performed simple tricks with the aerogel magnets to showcase their potential. When they put one on top of a small ring magnet with like poles facing each other, the repulsive force made the aerogel magnet float.
They also made aerogels in which the two halves of the material have opposing magnetic poles. They used this material to make an electrical switch by inserting a copper wire through one edge and then, using another magnet’s repulsive or attractive force, made the aerogel pivot up and down so that the wire completed or broke an electrical circuit.
Xie says the group is now working on making magnets out of even lighter aerogels made of carbon. They are also exploring applying the same approach to flexible hydrogels that can be controlled to change shape, instead of to aerogels. These hydrogels could potentially be loaded with drugs and guided to specific sites in the human body using an external magnet, Xie says.
“This is an important advance because the technology makes it possible to move aerogels in a controlled manner,” says Lei Zhai, a chemist at the University of Central Florida. The high cost of making large quantities of aerogels might limit widespread commercial use for now. Nonetheless, adds Dirk J. Broer, a chemical engineer at Eindhoven University of Technology, these aerogel magnets “certainly open a pathway to new lightweight devices, miniaturized electromotors, and composites with other functional materials.”
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Title: Featherweight magnets made from aerogels embedded with nanoparticles
Author: Prachi Patel, special to C&EN
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Govt expands the scope of 2 per cent CSR spending
The 2 per cent of CSR can be spent on incubators funded by the Centre and state government, and to public-funded education.
Shivani Phaugat
ETCFO
September 20, 2019, 13:45 IST
Copy: The Government on Friday announced an expansion in the scope of corporate social responsibility (CSR) spending on incubators by Central and state government, and public-funded universities.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in a press conference noted: Now CSR 2% fund can be spent on incubators funded by Central or State Government or any agency or Public Sector Undertaking of Central or State Government, and making contributions to public funded Universities, IITs, National Laboratories and Autonomous Bodies (established under the auspices of ICAR, ICMR, CSIR, DAE, DRDO, DST, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) engaged in conducting research in science, technology, engineering and medicine aimed at promoting SDGs.
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Consumer Tech In Sports Marketing
Once again, sports is ahead of the curve
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Sean Foreman
The sports industry has recognized that fans are hungry for new perspectives on their favorite teams. The desire is a result of just how closed off and shrouded the world of sports is to many people; fans of top football, baseball, or soccer clubs will very seldom make it into the stadium, and even fewer will actually have the chance to meet their heroes. So the broadcasting and digital marketing situation in sports is unique, such is the demand for quality, abundant, and in-depth digital content.
The normal engagement rules don’t apply to the sports industry. There’s an age-old cliché in soccer that says ‘you’re only as good as your last game,’ a reference to the transience of sporting success. What the phrase also references is the fact that sport can never sit still. Replays have very little value, a team’s jersey depreciates in value the minute the next season’s is announced, and a team can only trade off former glories for so long. It’ll be interesting to see, for example, if Manchester United’s incredible commercial success is stifled at all by the club’s recent disappointing form (though, in reality, it’s unparalleled wealth will likely pull it out of its slump).
What this means for marketers and broadcasters is that fresh content is at a premium. There’s a reason BT and Sky alone paid out an incredible $6.65 billion in TV rights deals for the three Premier League seasons between 2016 and 2019. Sport has always been an industry of live content. Despite the immense popularity of highlights shows and the modern obsession with post-match analysis that dominates TV listings across the globe, the excitement of sport is that it is live, that anything can happen. As put by Jean Pierre Diernaz, vice president of marketing at Nissan Europe: ’When it comes to sport, Netflix has zero value.’
The next challenge, then, is how best to bring fresh new content to sport’s global audience. It’s here that sports is actually way ahead of the curve up against other industries. Sports teams are - with a great deal of variation, of course - remarkably good at producing and sharing video content on social channels. As consumer tech develops, teams are only becoming more and more proficient. Previously, many rugby and soccer teams published video footage taken from GoPro cameras strapped to players’ chests in training. The vantage point is interesting but isn’t wholly realistic which held the content back. This is where Snapchat’s Spectacles have been a game changer. Being able to share an athlete’s actual perspective is a novelty sports marketers are finding difficult to turn down.
‘I immediately said, ‘Yes, yes, yes, let’s do it,’’ Terry Rodgers, manager of business communications and social media at Pittsburgh Pirates, told SportTechie. ’When a guy throws these glasses on, you get that first person perspective. It’s a really unique piece of content that we could use across all platforms. Getting the feeling of the ball coming right in, top of the glove, hitting the leather — it’s unlike anything we’ve seen before. Spectacles still allow the players to go through their routine on the field but help us out with content for social.’
Ultimately, Spectacles offer just another perspective on a sport, albeit a novel and previously unavailable one. What their popularity signals, though, is a move toward more immersive sports viewing. Where fans were once satisfied with a level of distance between their perspective and the action on the pitch, field, or court, broadcasting has become far more intimate, offering close up shots of every tiny piece of action that takes place over the course of a game. Naturally, players won’t be wearing Spectacles during the game at any point soon, but it’s not inconceivable that some form of point-of-view camera angle could become available to sports broadcasters in the future.
Taking this idea even further, virtual reality (VR) is poised to have a significant impact on the way fans consume sports content, particularly as the technology becomes cheaper and more accessible for the masses. The Rugby World Cup as early as 2015 offered VR content, giving fans the opportunity to experience live clips from games in a medium more immersive than has previously been possible. Paid for by tournament sponsor AIG, the VR content brought fans up close and personal with New Zealand’s haka, giving the user an otherwise impossible vantage on one of sport’s most famous rituals. There are already VR companies offering court-side seats at high-profile basketball games, for example, and it’ll be exciting to see just how close to the action viewers will be able to get as technology develops.
For marketers, any fundamental change to the way in which audiences consume content is something they should be acutely aware of. Sponsorship deals in sport are heavily based around television viewing and, should other perspectives become widely available, new opportunities will present themselves to get a brand out there. For now, Spectacles is little more than a fun gimmick for marketers to share inventive video on social. As broadcasters race to find new ways of bringing sports content to their audiences, though, a first-person perspective on the action might just become commonplace.
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Use video to grow your company from the inside out
CEO and co-founder of Wipster Rollo Wenlock outlines why video works to engage and enlighten consumers – and why companies should turn that same effectiveness inward
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Rollo Wenlock
With today's capabilities in video, a team of 10,000 spread across the globe can operate like a team of 15 in a small office. Bite-size shared video clips of works in progress – whether selfie videos of a status update or compelling additions to a pitch – help teams act, decide and share information quickly and easily.
Video works so well because, aside from meeting in person, it's the most human way of communication over other media. The rise of Slack, constant emails and shared documents communicate only so much. Without faces and emotions, written communications are just information in its blandest form — typing can't convey tone of voice, expressions, or body language. By using video to capture these things, teams can transform a humdrum update into a high-resolution personal experience.
According to the latest figures, 86% of businesses use video on their websites and 77% use video on social media. Marketers know that video works on consumers, so why don't companies turn that same effectiveness inward? Employees are just consumers who happen to work for the business, and they respond to the same engagement tactics and emotional triggers as everyone else.
Maximizing video for every audience
Think about all the different kinds of communication that happen within a business. Leaders communicate with investors and shareholders to secure more funding. Managers communicate with employees to keep projects on track and under budget. Employees communicate with one another to complete tasks and with their managers to address issues in their work. Executives communicate with everyone about the direction of the business and the strategies that will guide it.
In his book, "Everyone Communicates, Few Connect," author and leadership expert John C. Maxwell explores what makes communication the most effective. "Tone, inflection, timing, volume, pacing – everything you do with your voice communicates something and has the potential to help you connect to or disconnect from others when you speak," he writes.
Video can capture those essential elements of communication, infusing life into any one of the messages involved in businesses in a way no other medium can. Because videos add an element of time to communication, requiring audiences to experience the message at the pace set by the video, they provide a four-dimensional experience no other format can match. A lackluster PowerPoint and a video presentation can be the difference between an unopened email and enthusiastic engagement. Where other types of messaging create communication, video creates connection.
Making videos with internal appeal
Companies that use video to communicate with their teams enjoy a host of benefits, but realizing those benefits requires more than just a camera and microphone.
When we opened an office in Portland, Oregon, we created an internal video to show our new space to our team back in New Zealand. Though we originally designed the video to communicate with our own teams, the content worked on external audiences, too. We posted a version of it on LinkedIn that received more than 10,000 organic views and gave us a boost in recruiting – an unplanned but positive outcome.
Videos like this one humanize messages. From the way the presenters carry themselves to the tone of voice they use, each element of a video communicates so much more than words on a page. As teams become larger and more dispersed, maintaining emotional connections becomes more critical.
Consider the following ways video can benefit internal communications.
Strengthen employee pride.
Our brains are hardwired to respond more strongly to messages that come from other humans, so nothing humanizes a brand like human faces. For instance, when brands share videos on their social pages that highlight the company culture with employees themselves, the company displays how much it values its workers and employees gain pride in where they work.
Now that 71% of social marketers use or want to use their employees as brand advocates, internal buy-in is more important than ever, and employee pride is essential. Audiences love to connect with real people who embody the brands they love, which means employees are the new influencers.
Apple understands this concept better than anyone. At the start of each day, Apple employees get their updates with an app called Hello. The app briefs employees on the most important news, ensuring everyone starts the morning fully updated on the company and on the same page. This gets rid of any communication barriers and ensures that employees feel heard and connected, making them better able to advocate for the brand.
Inspire current and future engagement.
When brands use video to share a bit about themselves on social platforms, they inspire consumers to deepen their interaction with the brand. Sometimes, that means communicating directly with the company. Other times, it means sharing the content or leaving testimonials.
These tactics can boost sales, but they also have a major effect on an internal priority: hiring and retention. Using video to communicate a meaningful message internally brings employees together and unifies the company's vision. Consumers get a glimpse of that unity when videos are posted to social platforms, doubling the effectiveness of every video.
Deloitte UK, for instance, created a masterful video to showcase its values and employee personalities. The video shows off the value of its teams to customers and reminds employees what working at Deloitte UK is all about.
Highlight the company as a knowledgeable source.
Brands today can no longer afford to just sell products and call it a day. Instead, they must contribute their thought leadership to their communities, sharing their knowledge while demonstrating their industry clout.
Most marketers believe in the power of shared knowledge. According to a study from last year, 61% of marketers engage in posts that teach something. Whether internally or externally, educational content positions the brand as an authority.
Wholesome Culture, for instance, is a plant-based fashion brand that caters to a health-conscious and earth-friendly audience. The brand doesn't just use videos to tout its clothing line, though. By sharing things such as vegan recipe videos, Wholesome Culture shows both consumers and employees that it's a source of valuable knowledge for the things they care about and that it understands the greater context in which it operates.
For these purposes, video is the next best thing to face-to-face, in-person conversations when it comes to effective, engaging communication. No other medium can match video's ability to delight audiences, communicate information, and create a common bond among viewers. Don't just turn the power of video on consumers – create internal videos to empower and connect teams, too.
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Oman desert safari
Country perfect for anyone with a sense of adventure.
In the Middle East in the south-eastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula is the Sultanate of Oman. Natalie Gruzlewski went there to see just what its tourism boom is all about and found a country perfect for anyone with a sense of adventure.
Oman has blended modern with the traditional and in a country made up of 80% desert, of course some of what tourists are invited to do involves sand. It also has rugged mountains, plush oases, beautiful beaches and loads of natural beauty.
Some of Oman’s arid lands, particularly the dunes of Wahiba Sands, are so stunning they could be man-made. Lying in Oman’s east, Wahiba Sands stretches 180 kilometres north to south and 80 kilometres east to west.
Desert Thunder
Desert Thunder Tours will hook you up with a guide who takes you on a true Omani-style adventure in the desert. There are two ways to go – in a comfortable vehicle with leather interior or on the back of a ship of the desert – a camel. Natalie chose the latter and found her adventure surprisingly comfortable.
Along the way they visited a makeshift Bedouin camp in the middle of nowhere. There are around 3000 Bedu of varying tribal origins making a living from camels, goats, sheep and cattle. Hard to believe that until around 40 years ago, all of the Omani people lived in Bedouin camps, living a nomadic existence and setting up home wherever they fancied.
Natalie was introduced to henna tattooing. The women who apply them are extremely creative and you get to admire their artwork for around a week before it fades away.
Around 180 species of plants, including one recently discovered and previously unknown to science and 200 species of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians roam the sands. There is evidence of human occupation as far back as 8000.
Sand bashing
This popular pastime is the Omani equivalent of skiing, surfing or white water rafting. Dune bashers drive 4x4s, bikes or buggies into the open desert and have serious adrenalin pumping fun climbing up and down the mountain-sized dunes. Dunes are made up of quartz, carbonate and ophiolitic grains and move inland around 10 metres every year.
Sama Al Wasil Tourist Camp
Nestled in a flat valley and surrounded by dunes of varying heights, this camp will give you the full feeling of life in the desert.
While Bedu tents are mostly made of goat hair and palm fronds, Sama Al Wasil accommodation is permanent and comfortable. There are 20 one and two bedroom chalets, complete with hot showers and patio. On some evenings you can experience a traditional Bedouin celebration and dance the night away. You will also see arts and crafts demonstrations.
Using the village as a base, you can explore the desert, surrounding wadis and hills all the way to the ocean.
The Sultanate of Oman, an Arab country in south-west Asia.
Sun Island Tours has 2 day Desert Thunder packages from Muscat costing $970 per person twin share. Accommodation at Sama al Wasil camp, most meals, private 4WD guide, sand bashing and ½ day camel trek are included.
Emirates has flights to Muscat. For the most up-to-date fares, call them on 1300 303 707 or log on to www.emirates.com/getaway
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Hottest topics in dermatology revealed
There is no question about the hottest topics in dermatology this year. Attendees submitted their top choices for hot topics when they registered for the Annual Meeting, and AAD featured the top seven during a standing-room only “Hot Topics” (S048) symposium on Monday.
New cosmeceuticals
Consumers see a steady parade of new cosmeceuticals, but dermatologists see very few new compounds. Micellar water, for example, is among the hottest and most useful new products, according to Zoe Diana Draelos, MD, consulting professor of dermatology at Duke University School of Medicine.
Micellar water contains micelles, tiny balls of hydrophobic molecules surrounded by a hydrophilic layer. The combination of hydrophobic and hydrophilic ingredients is a good cleanser for both waterproof and water-removable cosmetics, and is useful for patients with eyelid dermatitis, eczema, atopic dermatitis, and mature skin. The secret ingredient: mild detergent.
“It is a very useful cleanser, but remember that you are paying $5 to $10 for a small bottle of diluted baby shampoo,” Dr. Draelos cautioned.
A new class of moisturizers promises greater effects from peptides in the formulation. Three classes of peptides have been introduced: carrier peptides, signal peptides, and neurotransmitter peptides. The moisturizers do contain the peptides as claimed, Dr. Draelos said, but little, if any, of the active ingredient penetrates the stratum corneum. Whatever activity is seen is generally due to the moisturizer.
The resurgence of interest in false eyelashes and extensions has created new problems for dermatologists. The cyanoacrylate glues can cause dermatitis, and sleeping in false eyelashes can break or pull out the natural lashes.
Challenges of acne and rosacea treatment
“Acne and rosacea are medical issues, not cosmetic issues,” said Hilary E. Baldwin, MD, medical director at Acne Treatment & Research Center in Morristown, New Jersey. “The earlier we can get people into the appropriate treatment, the better.”
Just getting patients into treatment is the first step. The more difficult part is getting them into the appropriate treatment. For acne, that means dealing with dryness and discomfort that can cause patients to drop out of treatment.
There is growing evidence that the pathology of acne may include a barrier defect. Skin with acne tends to have lower levels of epidermal ceramides, which can vary by season. Acne medications also tend to dry the skin.
Patients typically turn to familiar drugstore products such as coconut oil, petrolatum, baby oil, and mineral oil, she continued. None are effective, and some can exacerbate acne. Moisturizers containing ceramides or hyaluronic acid are more appropriate. Patients should look for products that are non-acnegenic.
“The sooner and better you do the job of educating your patient on moisturizing and cleansing, the happier your patient will be,” Dr. Baldwin said. “Patients are happier with doctors who manage their dryness.”
New options for alopecia
“We have tremendous new options for alopecia and more are on the way,” said Wilma Bergfeld, MD, professor of dermatology and pathology at Cleveland Clinic. “The hair follicle has become a hot topic of pharmaceutical study.”
The follicle is easily accessible for study, has the fastest turn-over cells in the body, and contains stem cells for skin, hair, follicle, and fat that are easily available for analysis. Patients worldwide want help.
Clinical trials for male pattern baldness in both men and women have shown inhibiting prostaglandin D2 by blocking the prostaglandin receptor on human hair follicles, CRTH2, can reverse alopecia.
Low-light laser treatment of the scalp can activate the Wnt pathway, another pathway that improves hair growth. The FDA has approved laser devices using 655 nm and 635 nm.
Injection of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) has shown promise in clinical trials, as well as in everyday clinical use, and a topical anti-androgen is in preclinical trials, Dr. Bergfeld said.
JAK inhibitors, both topical and parenteral, show promise, including tofacitinib. At least eight clinical trials for alopecia are underway, Dr. Bergfeld said, with others in the preclinical phase.
Treatment advances for atopic dermatitis (AD)
From 2001 to 2016, there were no new drugs for AD.
“Now there is an explosion of new therapeutics and some exciting new work,” said Lawrence F. Eichenfeld, MD, professor of dermatology and pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego, and chief of pediatric and adolescent dermatology at Rady Children’s Hospital.
Crisaborole is the first PDE-4 inhibitor for AD, he continued. Nearly half of patients in the two pivotal phase 3 trials were clear or nearly clear out to one year. Patients had dramatic improvement in quality of life and, unlike steroids, there is no apparent limit on the duration of use.
Clinicians are still waiting for comparative effectiveness data, but there have been no new safety signals in either adult or pediatric patients. The drug is currently being studied in children under the age of 2, and other PDE-4 inhibitors are in trials around the world.
JAK inhibitors are also on the way. A topical agent — JTE-052 — shows about 70% response, similar to tacrolimus, but with a much improved safety profile.
Multiple studies suggest that prophylactic emoluments can reduce the incidence of AD in high-risk infants by about 50%.
The most recent entrant to the systemic medications is dupilumab, which blocks IL-4 and IL-13. About half of patients achieve EASI 90. Pediatric studies are in progress.
Searching for ideal biologics for psoriasis
Biologics have transformed the treatment of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.
“PASI 75 is easy to reach,” said Mark Lebwohl, MD, Waldman professor and chair of dermatology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. “PASI 90, a huge proportion of patients get there. Clear to almost clear is a realistic goal.”
The ideal biologic would be fast, durable, safe (including pregnancy), effective in obese patients, work for PsA, come in oral form, and be cheap.
Oral formulation and cheap pricing are still dreams. About 80% of psoriasis patients who could benefit from biologics never get them because cost limits access. The other 20% can see their lives transformed.
IL-17 inhibitors have the fastest onset of action, with brodalumab showing good activity in two weeks. Secukinumab, ixekizumab, and brodalumab have the strongest five-year data. Other agents may have a similarly durable response but data are not yet available.
Many biologics carry black box warnings, but none carry as many warnings as methotrexate.
“People who use TNF blockers live longer,” Dr. Lebwohl said. “There is a dramatic reduction in heart attacks with TNF inhibition.”
Certolizumab pegol is the only biologic known to be safe in pregnancy.
Multiple agents are useful in obese patients, including secukinumab, ixekizumab, brodalumab, guselkumab, tildrakizumab, risankizumab, and mirikizumab.
Biologics that are useful for both psoriasis and PsA include etanercept, adalimumab, infliximab, certolizumab pegol, and golimumab.
New staging system in melanoma
The biggest news in melanoma is a new staging system from the American Joint Committee on Cancer. The new manual was published in 2017, and the new standards took effect in January 2018.
“You need a cheat sheet to make your way through the changes in melanoma staging,” said Allan C. Halpern, MD, chief of dermatology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. “The good news is that The Melanoma Letter is publishing a very handy guide in the next issue.”
The hottest topic in melanoma diagnostics is dermoscopy. U.S. adoption has been slower than in the rest of the world, where it is becoming standard-of-care. The latest development is the digital dermascope, which allows clinicians to not only diagnose, but to take and store high-resolution images to monitor the progression of suspicious lesions.
The International Dermoscopy Society maintains dermoscopedia, the most complete and authoritative dermoscopy resource.
The next step, already in use at Memorial Sloan Kettering, is 3D full-body imaging. Dr. Halpern described the system, which uses 96 cameras to capture high-resolution images that are combined for a full 3D view of the patient’s skin. Simply touching the screen increases resolution for a close-up view of any lesion — anywhere on the body.
Cosmetic surgery expands its armamentarium
The hottest news in cosmetic surgery is the use of topical silicone rather than petrolatum ointments to speed healing for superficial incisions. Patients, and most dermatologists, almost automatically reach for a petrolatum-based antibiotic ointment.
“That’s a habit without any evidence that carries a real risk,” said Anthony V. Benedetto, DO, clinical associate professor of dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. “That kind of indiscriminate use of antibiotic ointments contributes to antibiotic resistance, and, in my experience, antibiotic ointment is not as good as silicone. Silicone gel is inert, bacteriostatic, and bactericidal; it promotes wound hydration, and may reduce scar formation.”
An investigator-initiated comparison was done using silicone gel versus antibiotic ointment following Mohs surgery showed no contact dermatitis for silicone against 22% dermatitis for the antibiotic cream, with no difference in infection rates. The silicone gel also showed faster healing time and better quality of healing.
“Consider using any silicone, antibiotic-free dressing over any petrolatum-based product,” he advised. “In the future, we may all go to silicone.”
The other hot topic is vaginal rejuvenation using C02 laser. The procedure works quickly and painlessly to temporarily reverse vaginal atrophy due to menopause, age, and other causes. Clinical experience suggests that many patients will need follow-up treatments once or twice yearly following an initial treatment.
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4K Video Camera
4K is all the rage these days when it comes to the latest and greatest in TVs.
And there’s no secret why – the image quality is out of this world.
Not only does 4K affect television and cinema, it also has a huge impact on cameras, smartphones, tablets, PC games, and computer monitors.
Basically, anything that displays an image or records video is affected by 4K.
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What exactly is 4K?
In a nutshell, 4K means more pixels. 8 million to be exact. That’s about 4 times what current 1080p can display today.
Why is it called ‘4K’?
The referral comes from the fact that the images are approximately 4,000 pixels wide. And while 4K is named after its width, 1080 resolution was named after its height (images are actually 1080 rows high).
With more pixels comes more information, which in turn means sharper, crisper images.
What’s the difference between 4K and Ultra HD?
Ultra HD - or Ultra High Definition - is basically derived from the standard 4K digital camera, and features a resolution of 3840 x 2160.
Certain brands won’t even use the 4K label, and will opt to use ‘Ultra HD’ instead.
Is there a major difference in picture?
While the pictures are certainly sharper with 4K, you might not see as much of a difference between 1080p and 4K, as compared to upgrading from old CRTs to flatscreen.
When consumers traded in their 480 for a 1080 TV set, most likely the increase in size of TV went up a great deal as well. This time, consumers are typically sticking with the same size TV, just with a much sharper image. The majority of TV models range between 40 to 70 inches.
A difference in resolution will only be noticed on a 4K set if you’re either sitting close up, or are watching 4K content.
Sitting up close won’t break down the image.
One of the most impressive aspects of 4K TV sets is that it doesn’t matter how close you are to the set - the image will not deteriorate, nor will the eye be able to make out the individual pixels.
Should you care about 4K Ultra HD?
Of course! There are plenty of scenarios where 4K Ultra HD makes sense. Photographers, for instance, will be able to see so much more detail with a 4K Ultra HD compared to a standard HD TV at 2160p. You’d be amazed at the difference in details and subtleties with a 4K display.
With a higher pixel density of a 4K panel comes the ability to get closer to the screen without seeing any grid-like structure of the image. That means you can watch a much bigger screen from the same position as you would with a Full HD panel. All 4K Ultra HD TVs these days are over 50 inches.
Ultra HD can also come in resolutions higher than 4K. This includes the 8K, which is basically double the pixel width and height of 4K to produce about 32 million pixels.
Should you go with 8K instead of 4K?
No, and here’s why. The standard of 8K is essentially for the commercial market (such as movie theaters). You’d basically need a massive screen in order to make good use of all these pixels, and would need to sit right in front of it. They don’t even come off the shelf, anyway - you’d have to have it to custom built, which would cost an absolute fortune. Not only that, but the movies can’t be bought off the shelf, either - you’d have to get them directly from distributors.
What about 4K OLED?
OLED stands for ‘Organic Light Emitting Diodes’, and it’s been around for a while. However, it costs a ton of money to use this technology to produce big screens. This is why OLED TV hasn’t become mainstream.
Despite this fact, OLED technology produces bright colors, bright whites, and deep blacks. Actually, certain companies haven’t given up on OLED just yet - firms like LG are trying to bring it to 4K TVs. But while LG does have these on the market, they’re rather expensive for the average consumer. You never know - this might change in the near future.
How about HDR?
Short for ‘High Dynamic Range’, HDR is a technology that’s derived from digital imaging that combines three images, including those with normal lighting, underexposure, and overexposure. This combination provides more contrast to a video or image.
Netflix is working on being the first provider of HDR video.
Quota dot displays (QD).
QD basically refers to LED panels with a film of nanocrystals between the display and the backlight. This is said to help increase the depth of color by about 30% without having to add extra pixels.
Why can’t you can’t get much 4K selection right now?
That’s because every 4K frame features 4 times the information compared to HD, and is 4 times more bulky compared to regular HD. For this reason, it’ll be tough to get it to consumers’ homes. Even broadcast TV hasn't made the official switch to 4K just yet.
As far as streaming is concerned, bandwidth is an issue to contend with. With the internet's bandwidth already being taken over by traffic from Netflix, ISPs need to go after them for more money. Upgrading everything to 4K isn’t exactly a good option right now. Even if 4K content could be streamed to everyone without making a dent in the internet, streaming 4K content requires at least 25Mbps downstream internet connection. Not everyone has this.
Here’s what you can watch right now with 4K.
There are actually a lot of movies and television shows that are filming in 4K. Unfortunately, all of this content will need to wait until there are established channels to get it to consumers. The best options for UHD today are from Netflix and Sony.
Netflix has been testing the 4K streaming of a bunch of shows and movies for those with a Samsung, Sony or LG 4K TV and a 25Mbps internet connection. New subscribers will need to be on the highest tier 4-stream Family Plan to access 4K content.
Sony has a Video Unlimited 4K service that offers over 70 movies and TV shows for purchase or rent, which require Sony's 4K Ultra HD Media Player, and an FMP-X1 (only compatible with Sony 4K TVs). Once a film or show is rented or purchased, it then needs to be downloaded to your player. This can take upwards of 15 hours, depending on your internet connection.
What kind of cable types are needed for 4K?
You’ll need 2 standard types of cables for 4K - a standard HDMI, or DisplayPort. The first of the two come in 1.4 and 2.0 - the 1.4 cables are the cheaper type, and can output a 3820 x 2160-resolution at 30 frames per second; the 2.0 cables are the latest type and can output video at Ultra HD resolution at 60 frames per second.
The DisplayPort cables carry 4K image and audio signals from high-end graphics cards to monitors that don’t have any noticeable delays.
The million dollar question - should you buy 4K now or wait?
This all depends on your specific situation. If you can afford the hefty price tag and are absolutely dying for a much sharper image, buy a 4K TV today. But just keep in mind
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PR is Complex and Multidimensional
Looking at the growing monetary value, the importance of PR is being recognised, but there is a lack of deeper understanding
In a world and an age when there are so many platforms to reach out to consumers, so many different strategies to execute, and an audience base that is ever growing and easily dissatisfied, Public Relations is often misunderstood, written off and trivialised. Supplemented with advertising and marketing that are like the shiny toys in the box, PR is often perceived as the rag doll to be discarded. All of this while PR as a business is actually more dynamic than ever, growing and evolving at a rapid pace. In fact, an industry report by the Public Relations Consultants Association of India foresees the PR sector to be valued at INR 2100 crore by 2020.
Read More at http://reputationtoday.in/open-canvas/when-the-pr-problem-is-not-about-pr/
TechManch 2019
The theme on the second day of event was ‘Generating Brand Energy Through Digital Experiences’
The second day of TechManch 2019 will see several enlightening sessions and talks by industry experts and heads on the theme ‘Generating Brand Energy Through Digital Experiences’. The keynote address on Day 2 will be delivered by Thomas Barta, Author, Former Partner, McKinsey. He will speak on 'Traits of Marketing Leadership' and will elaborate on how the art and science of bringing a change evolves in a digital first, tech-led age. A Special Address will be delivered by Ramakrishnan Ramamurthi, CEO, Polycab, on Breaking The Mould and creating a powerful impact in a cut-throat, highly cluttered marketplace.
Read More at https://www.exchange4media.com/marketing-news/techmanch-2019-industry-experts-to-share-insights-on-digital-experiences-97680.html
Vandana Verma Gets Promoted as COO
Publicis Communications India has elevated Vandana Verma to COO, Arc Worldwide, India
Verma joined Publicis Groupe in 2012 as Vice President to set up the Groupe’s experiential offering. In 2017, she was handed the reins to Arc Worldwide India. On the elevation, media reports quoted Saurabh Varma, CEO, Publicis Communications, South Asia, as saying that Arc Worldwide under Verma’s leadership, has played a critical role in enabling and taking the platform to greater heights. The next few years is going to be big for experiential marketing in India and that he couldn’t have asked for a better leader than Verma to take this head on, he added.
Read More at https://www.exchange4media.com/announcements-news/publicis-communications-elevates-vandana-verma-to-coo-arc-worldwide-97698.html
SCOPE Corp Comm Award to HPCL
HPCL has been adjudged as winner in 6 categories of the SCOPE Corporate Communication Excellence Awards 2019 Awards
1st Prize: Best Annual Report, 1st Prize: Innovative Stakeholder Interface- HP Radar, 2nd Prize: Best House Journal [Hindi] Category – HP Samachar, 3rd Prize: Best House Journal [English] Category – HP News, 3rd Prize: Best Corporate Communication Campaign & Program – Internal Communication, Public Relation & Corporate Communication Person of the Year – Sh. Rajeev Goel, CGM-PRCC. SCOPE Corporate Communication Excellence Awards strive to recognize excellence and praise worthy efforts in the field of Public Relations & Corporate Communications in PSEs, with a special emphasis being placed on creativity and out-of-the-box ideas while judging the entries.
Read more at https://www.khabarindia.in/hpcl-sweeps-scope-corporate-communication-excellence-awards-2019/
Building PR From Scratch
Careers are not built in a day or even a few years, shares Ameer Ismail, President, GolinOpinion in an interview with Reputation Today
When asked ‘What makes you tick?’ Ameer Ismail, President, GolinOpinion was firm in his answer – “I think it’s resilience and commitment.” For people in the business, at an earlier stage it was passion and learning; as you go along, it is invaluable learning that keeps you going, he noted. With a career spanning over two decades, Ameer joined Lintas in 1996 and was responsible for building the PR business almost from scratch. After clocking significant contribution, he took on the role of President, GolinOpinion in 2016. An alumni of Jai Hind College, Mumbai and Hamline University, Ameer currently serves on the advisory board of several management forums.
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Aparajita Biswas Starts a New Journey
The Hindu Group has announced the appointment of Aparajita Biswas as the Head of Brand Marketing
The Hindu Group, India’s most trusted media house, has announced the appointment of Aparajita Biswas as Head of Brand Marketing. She will be spearheading all marketing and consumer connect initiatives for the Group. Biswas is a marketing specialist with more than 12 years of experience in Brand Strategy, Corporate Communication and Business Development across telecom, FMCG and media, and has worked with brands like Vodafone, Times of India, Moserbaer, Carlsberg and Coffee Day. Her last stint was with Vodafone Idea Limited where she was Head of Brand Communication for the Tamil Nadu circle.
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Cumulus PR Wins Gold Lion
Cumulus PR bags the only gold for India at the Cannes Lions International Festival 2019
Gurgaon based Cumulus PR has won a Gold Lion at the just concluded Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Cannes Lions is the global benchmark for effective creative marketing communications.
Cumulus’ work for The Open Door Project by The Millennium School (a brand Cumulus has been associated with since 2012) in collaboration with FCB Ulka earlier in the month had already received two awards at theKyoorius Creative Awards 2019.
The campaign received recognition at the biggest level with a Bronze Lion (Brand Activation category) and Cannes Gold Lion (Sustainable Development Goal/Quality Education category) at Cannes Lion International Festival 2019, which is the only Gold win for India this year!
The Open Door Project is a path breaking initiative of The Millennium School to open its portals to disadvantaged children from surrounding and neighbouring areas after school hours, The Open Door Project wants to ensure that children from slums and the areas around are offered similar facilities and education as children from well off families who make up the roster in the schools - same teaching standards, same facilities, same quality of education.
An effective PR campaign and social outreach to influencers, including NGOs working in the education sector, was designed to garner support for this newly launched initiative that has the potential to help mitigate the crisis of over 8 million out-of-school kids in India.
Speaking on the win, Sumita Kumar Kaul, Partner, Cumulus PR said, “Everyone at Cumulus PR is excited, honoured and grateful for this wonderful accolade. The Cannes Lions Gold is as good as it gets and it is a recognition of the role of PR in projecting and promoting powerful ideas like the Open Door Project. This award is also a recognition of how powerful advertising and PR can be when these disciplines work in tandem. It was an a highly rewarding experience to work along with FCB Ulka on this powerful initiative from The Millennium Schools.”
About Cumulus PR:
Gurgaon based Cumulus PR was founded in 2012 by Sumita Kumar Kaul, a PR professional with over 15 years of active practice behind her.
Cumulus is an independent multi- disciplinary communications firm offering 360-degree communications solutions to a prestigious clientele comprising top Indian conglomerates and MNCs. With proficiency in strategic public relations and corporate reputation management, Cumulus works with clients across sectors - ranging from Education to Food & Hospitality, from NGOs to Trade organisations.
Among recent recognitions, Cumulus was named among the 20 most promising PR agencies in Silicon India’s prestigious annual ranking 2018.
Cumulus’s work for The Open Door Project in collaboration with FCB Ulka received 2 awards at KyooriusCreative Awards 2019. Cumulus has now won a Bronze as well as the only Gold for India at the Cannes Lion International Festival 2019 for its work on the path breaking Millennium School’s TheOpen Door Project.
Avian We Grabs Danone’s PR
As part of the new partnership, Avian WE will drive Danone’s Health and nutrition agenda across India
Leading global food brand, Danone, has appointed Avian WE as its new PR consultancy on record following a competitive pitch. As part of the new partnership, Avian WE will drive Danone’s Health and nutrition agenda across India. Avian WE’s remit covers both corporate and brand communications. The firm is tasked with building and executing a national and regional communications strategy to support Danone’s expansion plans across diverse markets of the country. “At Danone, we are committed to building a healthier world with purposeful brands,” said Shefali Sapra, Director, Public Affairs & Corporate Communications, Danone India.
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Samsung to Open One of New Experiential Stores in Glendale
By Nicholas Rizzi February 19, 2019 6:09 pm
Samsung Experience Store in Glendale, Calif. Photo: Samsung
Electronics giant Samsung plans to open its first three retail stores around the country tomorrow, including an outpost in a Glendale, Calif., mall, the company announced.
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Samsung will launch its Samsung Experience Stores in Glendale’s The Americana at Brand at 889 Americana Way, Roosevelt Field mall in Long Island, N.Y., and The Galleria in Houston, Texas, according to the company.
The shops will sell the company’s wares like cell phones, tables and TVs. They will also have virtual reality demos, a gaming lounge and walk-in repair service for phones, Samsung said.
“We want to build a ‘playground’ for Samsung fans—a place to learn about and try out all of the amazing new products we have to offer,” YH Eom, the president and CEO of Samsung America, said in a statement.
Spokespeople for Samsung and The Americana at Brand owner, Caruso Affiliated, did not respond to requests for comment about the size of the Samsung shops and the terms of the lease.
The stores are the latest push for the electronics company into the brick-and-mortar retail space, which started in 2013 when Samsung partnered with Best Buy to open “mini-shops” inside the retailer’s locations around the country, TechRadar reported. In 2016, Samsung launched a 55,000-square-foot “digital playground,” which doesn’t actually sell anything, at 837 Washington Street in the Meatpacking District, as Commercial Observer previously reported.
Samsung will join its biggest cell phone rival company Apple in operating physical retail space. Apple also launched one of its first Apple Stores in Glendale in 2001 and the company currently has more than 500 around the world, according to 9to5Mac.
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Taken from her very first appearance. She looks quite different, doesn't she?
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Agreed on both counts, I'd rather point to ASM #243 and 251, where Peter quits his studies and JJJ steps down, as editor-in-chief of the Daily Bugle.
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Item MM 96426 Photograph - Lieutenant A. Faithfull, Abbotsford, Victoria, World War II, 1939-1945
Photographic portrait of Lieutenant A. Faithfull on a visit to the Kodak factory at Abbotsford.
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Eddie Vedder gives emotional solo performance in tribute to Chris Cornell: Setlist + Video
Reeling from the death of his longtime friend and collaborator, Pearl Jam frontman kicks off solo tour in Amsterdam
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Eddie Vedder kicked off a European solo tour in Amsterdam on Saturday night. Reeling from the death of his longtime friend and collaborator Chris Cornell, the performance was said to be an emotional one, with Vedder playing several songs in tribute to the Soundgarden singer.
In his opening performance of Pearl Jam’s “Long Road”, Vedder changed the lyrics to “Without you/ something is missing.” A cover of Cat Stevens’ “Trouble” followed. Vedder than played Pearl Jam’s “Sometimes” during which he cried out, “Where were you, dear God?” Other notable performances included his own composition “Without You”, a cover of Neil Young’s “The Needle and the Damage Done” (a song about heroin addiction), and Pearl Jam’s “Immortality”. He opened the first encore with a cover of Fugazi’s “I’m So Tired”, which features lyrics like, “Out here/ Barely see my breath/ Surrounded by jealousy and death/ I can’t be reached/ Only had one call/ Dragged underneath Separate from you all/ You all.”
At one point during the concert, a fan yelled out, “I love you!”, to which Vedder responded, “Thank you. I need it – we all need it. I’m thinking of a lot of people tonight. And some in particular and their families. And I just know that healing takes time, if it ever happens. It takes time, and that means you have to start somewhere. So let it be music. Let it be love and togetherness. And let it be Amsterdam.”
A PearlJam.com member named Electro_UK who attended the show, posted the following account to the band’s message board,
“The show was pretty much entirely about Chris without directly mentioning him. It was clear Eddie couldn’t bring himself to talk about it head on. He spoke a little how the healing process can start with music and made numerous references to how sad he was and how much he and his friends were struggling.
Frankly it is the bravest performance I have ever seen. At times it seemed like he was a word or two away from breaking into tears. He mumbled more than usual, he violently stamped into the floor on Immortality and others and after ‘The End’ I thought he was ready to just walk off and not play anymore. There were funny moments and he picked up in the second half. You could hear the crowd emotionally gasp when Light Years started. On the outro to ‘Sometimes’ he cried out ‘Where were you, dear God?’ It was heart breaking.”
Watch fan-shot footage from the concert below. The complete setlist follows.
Long Road (Pearl Jam song)
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G4 bootloops are caused by hardware issue, LG vows to repair affected units
Many owners of the LG G4 have complained about a bootloop issue, but so far without receiving any assistance whatsoever from the Korean smartphone maker. Well, that's finally changed. LG has now acknowledged the bootloop issue, and after a thorough investigation has concluded that a hardware problem is to blame. Specifically, the bootloops are caused by a "loose contact between components". The company has vowed to fix the problem for affected devices, with no additional cost for its customers of course. It turns out that the G4 units experiencing this are not from one particular retail partner - they can be among those sold by carriers, or third-parties. LG advises people who own handsets affected by the issue to contact the carrier they purchased it from (if that's the case) or a nearby LG service center to make the necessary arrangements for repair. It's also apologized for having previously wrongly diagnosed this issue for certain...
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Climate for press freedom worsens in Missouri, surrounding states
January 18, 2018 12:56 PM ET
Journalists tell international delegation of hostility, restricted access
St. Louis, Missouri, January 18, 2018--An already adverse environment for journalists in the Midwestern United States has worsened in the year since President Trump's inauguration, an international group of media watchdogs concluded after traveling to the state of Missouri. The group also met with journalists from Illinois and Wisconsin.
The fact-finding mission this week concluded in St. Louis, where journalists were indiscriminately arrested in 2014 and 2017 during protests in response to police shootings in the city and its suburb, Ferguson. The group also met with journalists from the city of Columbia and the capital, Jefferson City, as well as representatives of the Missouri Press Association and national media groups headquartered at the Missouri School of Journalism.
The group, which included leaders of the Committee to Protect Journalists, IFEX, ARTICLE 19, and the International Press Institute, found that local public officials have embraced Trump's rhetoric toward the media and bypassed the press in favor of social media. A Wisconsin sheriff used expletives to deny an interview. Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has called the media "fake news," refused interviews, and directed his staff to use software that immediately erases mobile chats.
"The hostility to the press at the national level gives a free pass for state officials to use harmful rhetoric and has contributed to a polarization in public attitudes toward the press," said Marty Steffens, North American chair and member of the executive board of the International Press Institute, a global network of journalists and editors. Steffens, also a professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, served as local host for the mission.
Journalists stressed that the threats are not new, but an acceleration of existing trends of public mistrust and political obstruction of the press. They were split on how the national discourse has affected their daily reporting, with some saying they see it as simply one more factor in an already difficult environment.
A longstanding unwillingness of authorities in Missouri to comply with freedom of information laws has worsened since Trump's election, with extended delays, prohibitive costs, and the use of technological tools to prevent release of public records, journalists said. They cited a lack of effective independent oversight and inadequate training of public officials regarding what is known as the Sunshine Law.
"The reality of shrinking newsrooms and financial resources for news media makes the adherence of authorities to both the letter and spirit of the Sunshine Law ever more important. The disregard being shown poses the question whether the current legal structure is fit for purpose," said Thomas Hughes, executive director of ARTICLE 19.
Hostility to the media comes as the Midwestern press corps has been hit hard by changing economic conditions. News staffs in Missouri as well as Chicago and Milwaukee, Wisc., told the group that declining revenues have reduced reporting ranks by two-thirds. One Wisconsin editor said some public meetings go uncovered, leaving the public uninformed about the use of tax dollars.
Proposed legislation in some Midwestern states would shift mandated paid public notices to government websites, making the information harder to find and exacerbating the media's economic woes, especially at small community newspapers. This also raises the specter that authorities could use public notice revenues as a means to influence editorial content.
"While many reporters are more galvanized than ever in the current news climate, local media and city newspapers said they did not receive the bump in funding and subscriptions that bolstered national papers after the election," said Courtney Radsch, advocacy director at the Committee to Protect Journalists. "Journalists said lack of financial resources make it harder to fight back when politicians deny access."
One photographer from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch told the delegation that at public demonstrations, journalists are increasingly caught between aggressive police and sometimes hostile protesters. In St. Louis and Ferguson, police have adopted increasingly militarized tactics such as "kettling"-- a surround-and-arrest tactic that sweeps up working journalists and bystanders. In the fall of 2017, at least 10 journalists were arrested in St. Louis during protests over a police shooting. Two new protest laws up for consideration in the state could raise the stakes for journalists who are swept up in arrests.
"Nothing fake about the dedicated and resilient journalists working in Missouri encountered during this tour. They continue to play a key role in keeping the public informed and the democracy healthy in spite of myriad challenges," said Annie Game, IFEX executive director.
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Dragon Ball FighterZ Hands-on Preview
Dev: Arc System Works
Pub: Bandai Namco
Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p Not yet assigned a final ESRB rating.
I’m not exaggerating when I say this – as I wandered the E3 2017 show floor, attended meetings, and chatted with attendees – one thing was clear: the people were getting hyped for Dragon Ball FighterZ. This wasn’t just a low key buzz from all the anime nerds. This was genuine, organic, and even surprised excitement. Everyone who saw the trailer at the Microsoft press briefing and especially everyone who got their hands on the game couldn’t believe it. Even people who weren’t into Dragon Ball going into E3 2017 had a lot of interest in Dragon Ball FighterZ. Sure, the Nintendos, Ubisofts and Activisions may have had more total foot traffic, but something special was happening at the same time over at the Bandai Namco booth. This is something new, something intriguing, and something beautiful.
When I got my hands on Dragon Ball FighterZ behind closed doors, I expected Guilty Gear Xrd with a bunch of Dragon Ball characters slapped on top. And sure, the look of the game, powered by Unreal Engine 4 and a distinct, brightly-colored 2.5D style, screamed as much. But it’s a different beast entirely. Arc System Works took that Guilty Gear DNA, but injected within it a load of Dragon Ball game genes as well. It feels like a mix between Guilty Gear, past Dragon Ball games and a little dash of something like a Skullgirls or Marvel vs Capcom 2.
First things first: Dragon Ball FighterZ is a 3v3, 2.5D fighting game. The roster for the playable demo was small, but the creators insist more characters, famous and obscure, are on the way. It looks and kinda feels like Guilty Gear with its distinct visual style and speed, but it surprisingly controls in a unique way. It’s almost a blended smoothie ofBlazBlue, Guilty Gear and an old Budokai game. There’s a light and medium attack, as well as a strong attack that serves as more of a combo ender/knockdown button that you can play with and cancel into special moves. There are buttons dedicated to different kinds of swift movement, which feels right at home in a Dragon Ball fighter. There’s also an energy-based button that give you access to the typical Dragon Ball energy attacks.
Dragon Ball FighterZ is all about finding what goes with what, what can cancel into what moves, how that goes together, and what opportunities you can create to build meter and land super attacks. Typical fighting game stuff, but with a speed and finesse that it takes from its license and pedigree. You can, in Dragon Ball fashion, teleport both offensively and defensively, allowing you to make speedy cross-up attempts at the cost of meter. You can do all this with a team of three characters at your disposal, and just like Marvel vs Capcom, you can swap characters in mid-combo to unleash multi-tiered attacks and combos incorporating multiple supers.
Despite having so many familiar mechanics, they manifest themselves in ways that feel different – be it through the unique controller layout or Dragon Ball-themed techniques. Of course, it also helps that the sights and sounds are the most authentic a game adaptation of Dragon Ball has ever had. Ever. It’s a gorgeous game with ludicrously detailed and animated backgrounds that react to the in-game action, even going as far as to show total destruction of a planet if a character lands their strongest super move. The Japanese language track is intact (although Bandai Namco also confirmed English VO will also be available) and the music is as lit as you’d expect from an Arc System Works joint. The production values are, in one word, insane.
I’m not gonna lie, I geeked out a lot when I got my hands on Dragon Ball FighterZ. It was so refreshing, as a longtime series fan, to see organic excitement built up for a new game, instead of the usual “meh” reaction from the expected, almost yearly 3D fighter Bandai Namco has been pumping out. Dragon Ball FighterZ is a game with wide, mass-market appeal outside the realm of lower-end anime fighters. The stage at Bandai Namco’s E3 2017 booth, made up like the planet Namek (complete with a goofy tree), was always full of people who could not wait to get in more rounds. I’m stoked for Dragon Ball FighterZ and can’t wait to get my hands on the game when the beta drops this summer.
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SmartCover Flow Monitoring Helps Rohnert Park Catch Illegal Dumper
By Sponsor · September 18, 2019 · Views: 212
Smart Cover Systems case study, republished here with permission…
Profile: The City of Rohnert Park’s sewer system has two primary functions which are to first collect the City’s wastewater and then to transport it to the Subregional Water Reclamation System of Santa Rosa for treatment.
The City’s sanitary sewer system includes 83 miles of gravity sewers, 7.5 miles of force mains, 16 inverted siphons, and three pump stations. From the pump stations the wastewater is directed to the Santa Rosa Subregional treatment facility on Llano road. During a typical 24-hour period the amount of wastewater entering the system fluctuates from 1 to 7 million gallons per day. The average dry weather wastewater flows are 3.5 MGD (million gallons per day), and up to 15 MGD during winter months.
Problem: Over the past few years, Rohnert Park public works staff had been dealing with a series of mysterious intermittent blockages of sewer lines in a specific neighborhood. The sewer backup incidents were first seen in December 2015. A thorough cleaning of the associated sewer main seemed to resolve the problem. However, analysis during the process also indicated an unusual presence of the type of grit commonly found in septic tanks.
After problems began recurring in 2016, the city launched a targeted search for the culprit in January 2017 by placing SmartCover sensors in underground sewer lines to monitor flow levels and detect suspicious changes in the flow. The Santa Rosa Police Department also got involved because of the impacts on the Santa Rosa Treatment plant.
Details: The SmartCover monitoring units helped identify a specific home whose owner ran a septic tank servicing business as the most likely source of the discharges. A search warrant was obtained, and video monitoring cameras were placed on city light poles to watch traffic to and from the home. According to the warrant, each time the homeowner returned from a job over the next two months and parked his tanker in the back, “the sewer flow would increase substantially indicating a large discharge to the sewer system.”
Further investigation under the search warrant determined that the suspect was using a secret pipe installed in his backyard to drain his 2,800-gallon commercial septic tanker into the city sewer pipes an average of six days per week.
Results: SmartCover monitoring data from January through December 2017 indicated that the culprit made an estimated 326 illegal dumps of sewage into the Rohnert Park sewer system. A criminal complaint was filed alleging that he deprived local government of money by failing to use a waste treatment site to dump sewage. Estimates thus far indicate that he should have paid over $350,000 (and possibly as much as $500,000) to properly dispose of the waste at Santa Rosa’s plant.
The perpetrator was arrested by Santa Rosa Police and charged with over 300 counts of illegally dumping septic waste.
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CET’s tech week takes an unexpected turn
Chava Makman Levinson and Scarlett London|November 13, 2019
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"This is kind of our panic-mode situation," Morgan Fitzgerald said. "We don’t really know if we will be ready, but I always think we can do it."
There was a buzz of excitement in the air outside Craft Theater at 8 a.m. on Nov. 13. Despite the early hour, the members of Community Ensemble Theater (CET) were already hard at work. Cast members scrambled around the second floor, carrying ladders and pieces of the set. Due to the snow day on Tuesday, two days prior to opening night of School of Rock, all after-school activities had been cancelled, including the first dress rehearsal of the show. Tech week had not gone as planned, and a make-up time had been scheduled. All CHS students in the show were allowed to skip their first and third blocks in order to rehearse.
“Our first two dress rehearsals were cancelled, and we couldn’t do anything about it,” Loey Jones-Perpich said. “We had a snow day on Tuesday and Quinn and Marci were fighting the district the whole time to let us do a rehearsal.”
Jones-Perpich, along with the rest of CET, rehearsed at the Neutral Zone on Nov. 12th from 4–8 p.m.. The space was given to them for free. The group’s plan is to run the second act this morning from “cue to cue”, which means practicing with all lighting and sound cues. Tonight, they will have their first dress rehearsal from 3–10 p.m.; their second will be tomorrow in the hours leading up to the rise of the curtains.
“I’m stressed out, but I think we’ll be able to pull this off,” Noah Greenberg said. “This is the most insane tech week we’ve ever had.”
This unconventional schedule is forcing CET to come together and work a little extra hard to ensure the show will meet their standards.
“You can’t stop the School of Rock,” Morgan Fitzgerald exclaimed.
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REP. RIGGLEMAN: Killing Soleimani Made Us All Safer — Take It From This Veteran
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Rep. Denver Riggleman Virginia
Since President Trump took decisive action to eliminate Gen. Qasem Soleimani, Democrats in Congress have reacted predictably by deriding President Trump. They attack our president for defending national security simply because they are a one-note band eager to detract from their impeachment charade.
First, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the killing of Soleimani “provocative and disproportionate.” Not surprisingly, her echo chamber of supporters followed suit. The chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal, said, “President Trump recklessly assassinated Qasem Soleimani. He had no evidence of an imminent threat or attack.” Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren was concerned that we had simply killed a “government official” and conducted an “assassination.”
They are wrong.
I am a former United States Air Force Intelligence Officer who had the privilege of mission planning initial bombing runs into Afghanistan in direct response to 9/11. Later in my career, I led an intelligence team in tracking IED technology transfer, tactics, individual units, personnel training and trainer movement for multiple IED types, including explosively formed penetrators (EFPs).
In short, we targeted bad guys from Iran and other countries who liked to blow up Americans.
The hypocrisy of the Democratic position is easy to see when President Trump’s actions are compared with former President Barack Obama. Obama targeted bad Americans who threatened American lives when he authorized the killing of Anwar Al Awlaki. Not surprisingly, many of my Democratic Party colleagues had a different view when it was Obama in the Oval Office using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) against an American terrorist overseas, or the hundreds of other UAVs sent to kill thousands of people in Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and Iraq. Anyone willing to search the internet can plainly see the hypocrisy of Pelosi and her colleagues. Pelosi obviously thought that the targeted killing program conducted by the Obama administration was neither provocative nor disproportionate.
The sophistication of the IED training, the advanced tactics, techniques and procedures, as well as the organized approach to securing and storing re-purposed battlefield munitions in Iraq were mostly attributable to Iran’s Quds Forces led by Soleimani. Those who used deadly IEDs were trained by his Iranian Quds Forces.
Soleimani killed Americans and was the leader of proxy forces that killed Americans and allies until Jan. 3 of this year.
He was a terrorist.
He was a target.
Our response was not provocative and disproportionate. It was “necessary and proportionate.”
Soleimani was a major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and, starting in 1998, commander of the Quds Force. Quds is designated as a terrorist organization by the United States, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain and directs unconventional warfare and terror operations for non-state actors, including supporting proxy terror organizations in Lebanon (Hezbollah), Yemen and the West Bank. Quds also oversees Shia militia operations in multiple countries, including Iraq. We had compelling evidence that Soleimani was planning an imminent, coordinated attack.
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, killed along with Soleimani, had three primary jobs. He was Soleimani’s primary advisor, deputy chief of the Popular Mobilization Committee (PMC) and leader of Kata’ib Hezbollah, a Shia Militia Group (SMG). Why would Soleimani meet with al-Muhandis? The multiple hats worn by al-Muhandis could make him the center of the command and control infrastructure for Iranian backed SMGs inside Iraq. Al-Muhandis planned and participated in the embassy attack, controlled and coordinated proxy forces and had a sordid history of firing missiles at US personnel. Soleimani was meeting with a known threat and proxy mission planner.
Soleimani wasn’t simply a government official. He was a terror leader with authority over a vast network of terror groups that posed a critical asymmetric threat to the United States and our allies. A terrorist wearing an official uniform is still a terrorist. Warren used the word “assassination” in an inflammatory way, suggesting an illegal and immoral action. This was neither illegal nor immoral but necessary and justifiable. If like me, Warren has friends and family currently serving, then I hope she wants their safety prioritized over all else, including killing one of the chief architects of IED technology transfer and training that maimed my compatriots serving in Iraq.
The United States must be prepared to fight terrorism with necessary, justifiable, and lawful means. Soleimani was a terrorist on our target list — plain and simple. And while he may have been a government official, terrorism doesn’t wear a distinguishable uniform or play by the same set of rules.
Denver Riggleman (@Denver4VA) has represented Virginia as a Republican in the U.S. House since 2019.
The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of The Daily Caller.
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New council formed to oversee the regeneration of Granville Island
Kenneth Chan
Aug 21 2019, 1:13 pm
Conceptual artistic rendering of a new elevator and staircase from Granville Island to the Granville Street Bridge. (CMHC)
A new governance body has been formed to manage and oversee the future of Granville Island as it undergoes its renewal and transformation.
Granville Island redevelopment plan includes bridge elevator, public spaces, and market expansion
Public consultation launched for Granville Bridge’s new bike and walking path
Arts Umbrella gets federal funding for new $27-million Granville Island home
Pay parking during peak hours in effect at Granville Island starting June 1
Federal crown corporation Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), which manages the island, announced today its appointees to the newly-formed Granville Island Council, which replaces the existing advisory Granville Island Trust.
The new council will have more decision-making powers and influence over the strategic direction of Granville Island, including budgeting, planning, and long-term strategy. It puts decision-making into the hands of local residents who may have a better understanding of the district’s importance and needs.
Conceptual artistic rendering of a new elevator and staircase from Granville Island to the Granville Street Bridge, with an observation deck, and new plaza spaces. (CMHC)
Conceptual artistic rendering of a new east island pedestrian bridge between Granville Island and the False Creek seawall. (CMHC)
Here is the list of councillors, which will operate in a way similar to a non-profit board of directors:
Andeen Yvonne Pitt: Vice-President and Partner of Wasserman + Partners, with prior experience including Toronto’s Ontario Place and Gatineau’s Canadian Museum of History
Dale McClanaghan: Housing Development and Consulting/Venture Capital CEO, and former chair of Granville Island Trust for 10 years
Domenic Caminiti: National Key Account Manager, CMHC
Gracen Chungath: Director of Strategic Operations, Planning & Program Management, Arts, Culture, and Community Services for the City of Vancouver
Heather Deal: former Vancouver city councillor
Johanna Lauyanto: Manager, Communications & Sustainability for Strathcona Business Improvement Association
Paul Larocque: President and CEO of Arts Umbrella
Councillors appointed by the federal government will serve a term of four years, with appointees from CMHC and the City of Vancouver serving a term of three years to ensure an overlap and continuity for future members.
The first meeting will be held on September 24, with the council taking on the task of electing a chair, and assessing applications and recommendations for the next general manager of the island.
Lois McGrath, interim general manager since 2017 of CMHC-Granville Island, says the new governance body was a key recommendation of the Granville Island 2040 report to “strengthen local authority, autonomy, and decision-making on Granville Island.”
“The creation of the Granville Island Council is an important milestone because it gives local residents who understand Granville Island the decision-making authority to help shape its future,” said McGrath in a statement.
Artistic rendering of ground-level parking spots on Granville Island turned into public spaces. (CMHC)
Conceptual artistic rendering of the future of Granville Island, with new plaza spaces. (CMHC)
The 2040 report, released in 2017, envisioned major improvements to the island — the first since the former industrial site was converted into a 35-acre hub for culture and arts in the 1970s by CMHC.
But over the past decade, the Island has faced immense competition from the growth of retail centres, farmers’ markets, and night markets across the region to the extent that revenues have been static.
In the report, CMHC says the Island requires new revenue from growth and development to maintain its position as an iconic attraction and attract more visitors. As well, solving accessibility and transportation issues are “critical” to the Island’s continued vitality.
The long-term master plan for revitalizing the island includes the construction of an elevator and staircase to the Granville Street Bridge, with an observation deck hovering high over the bridge. There would also be an expansion of the public market, new spaces for events and arts, a renewed streetcar connection, and the conversion of large parking lots into new public spaces.
Recent changes to free parking on the island were one of the recommendations of the report.
Conceptual artistic rendering of the future of Granville Island, with a new performance and events venue. (CMHC)
Conceptual artistic rendering of the future of Granville Island. (CMHC)
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Daniel Warshaw
put yourself out to pasture
December 1, 2011 | ploafmaster
Last night was the first open-to-the-public night of service at Pasture, the new restaurant from Comfort’s Jason Alley. They’ve been serving friends and family since last week in a limited capacity, but last night anybody could take a crack at the menu (including actor David Straithairn, who was dining alone in the booth behind my wife). I’ve been looking forward to this new joint for a number of reasons. I’m already a huge fan of Alley’s work in Comfort. The concept makes me think of Comfort’s food with Secco’s format (i.e. small plates intended for sharing/sampling, but with refined Southern food in this case). And the location is in a part of town that could seriously use some evening destinations.
So Valerie and I arrived last night around 5:15 and were seated immediately. I have a feeling the weekend could be quite busy, but opening on a Wednesday on East Grace Street meant it wasn’t crowded before 7. But before I talk food, I have to say – the interior of this place is freaking cool. Spare, contemporary, and open, Pasture will be loud when it’s busy. But you’ll want to be there. Simple furniture and bright shades of green stand out against dark, heavy wood walls on either side of the restaurant. Dangling exposed bulbs on bundled cords shed additional light along the perimeter, and the bar is lined with tall stools you’d more likely see in a wood shop. And the bar! I think there are 16 taps (only draft beer at this place), and you immediately notice two things: there are no flashy tap handles, and there is no visible liquor or wine above the bar. They serve both, of course, but the real visual emphasis is on this gloriously utilitarian row of taps on a stainless steel drip pan, set into one of the aforementioned heavy wood walls. Superb.
But I don’t go to restaurants to gawk at the walls and banquettes. There’s food to be eaten. And the food here is off to an exciting start! Valerie and I ordered up some of the bread, butter, and jams while we decided on additional fare, and even that was quite nice: some rustic bread accompanied by sage-honey butter (Mmmmmm…) and three jams. These jams were cranberry, fig, and a spicy green tomato-jalapeño – a nice variety. We each had a few beers from a pretty nice selection, and explored the menu a little further.
Now Valerie LOVES deviled eggs, and I hate them. Full stop. But I tell you, her little plate of deviled eggs with bits of black truffle and salmon roe on top was quite pretty. They looked like the highest order of the form, and Valerie thought they were delicious. I, on the other hand, tried out the pork rillettes. This arrived in a cute half-pint mason jar with some really good toast,and two garnishes: pickled red onion with some herb (parsley?) and “quince mustard” which was chunks of quince cooked down with mustard seed. Valerie piled some of the rillettes, onion/herb mix, and quince on some toast, and I said “it’s a redneck bruschetta!” The rillettes, by the way, were super tasty without being too salty. Could have used a bit more toast, though.
Moving on from the cold to the hot, Valerie went for the fried chicken. This arrived in easy-to handle smaller chunks with a 1-cup disher of potato salad on the side. I tried some of the chicken, and while the crust was light and crispy, there wasn’t a whole lot of flavor going on. Granted, I’m not naturally a fan of fried chicken, but I think this one could stand some tweaking. Valerie enjoyed the potato salad, and felt more or less the same as me about the chicken, but she still ate most of it. I ordered up the braised beef brisket with grits and turnips, and Valerie and I both agreed this was fantastic. Some of the braising liquid was on the plate and added to the flavor of everything else. The brisket was tender and moist, the grits creamy with just the right amount of texture, and the turnips richly flavorful.
Then of course we had to try dessert. And wow, these were something to behold (and taste!). Valerie had the deep fried apple pie with salted caramel and whipped crème fraîche. It looked like a classic pocket pie (or Hostess fruit pie, if you will), with a paint stroke of the caramel across the plate and two cannelles of the crème fraîche permeated with flecks of vanilla bean. Sweet mercy, it all tasted incredible. But I think I liked my dessert a bit more…the “candy bar” made with a rich chocolate ganache and filled with caramel and bits of hazelnut. There was chocolate painted on the plate and flakes of some sort of candy – maybe a hazelnut candy? – scattered across the top. A single, candied hazelnut adorned one corner of the bar. This was an absolutely stellar dessert that could hold its own against any other in the city of Richmond (and far beyond).
What a meal – and great service, too. Michelle Jones, co-owner and general manager, was making the rounds thanking and chatting-up guests, and Valerie and I had a very pleasant conversation with her at the end of our meal. She also told us that we can expect the menu to change around every month, which will certainly keep palates entertained.
Either way, I’m intrigued. And I’ll be back – repeatedly!
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Study 329 Trick, Treat or Treximet
October, 31, 2016 | 39 Comments
The plan this morning was to continue coverage of the Opioid Epidemic but perhaps because it is Halloween a link to a Wall Street Journal story on how Drug Makers Turn Cheap Generics into Expensive Pills arrived by email. It was difficult to resist. Here’s why.
The article features Treximet, a combination of sumatriptan and naproxen, used for migraine. These two drugs are ancient. They come from the last millenium and should cost almost nothing. But Treximet is retailing at $750 for 9 pills. The two drugs as separate ingredients can be bought separately for next to nothing.
This hike in price is heading toward the 5000% hike in price Martin Shkrelli hit the headlines for when he jacked up the price of Daraprim a year ago. This was noted at the start of a series of posts on Pharmaceutical Rape by Laurie Oakley.
Pernication
Behind Treximet lies trials comparing the combination to sumatriptan alone and to naproxyn alone and to placebo showing some benefit it seems – if these trials can be believed. The trials were run by GlaxoSmithKline, for whom sumatriptan had been a flagship drug for decades, and Pozen Inc. Once concluded, in 2014 GSK transferred the rights to Pernix.
This smelt fishy to RxISK’s super-sleuth Johanna Ryan. What’s going on here? In related posts she also fingered the weight loss med Qsymia as egregious and both as indicators of something new this way coming and Qsymia features in the WSJ article also along with Duexis for pain, as price gougers extraordinaire. The new development seems to find new painkillers and new weight loss meds fertile ground. Regulators seem all too happy to license ever more dangerous variations or combinations of older drugs in these groups already on the market and causing serious problems.
This willingness has offered an opening for financial speculators to make a killing speculating on the likely profits these drugs could yield and getting out of the game before much happens. Pernix may be primarily an umbrella for some smart speculation of this sort. It certainly doesn’t look like a pharmaceutical company or anything to do with the actual delivery of healthcare.
Martin Shkrelli has since made it clear he’s been taking Efexor, and it made him feel so good, “invincible”, that he figured people will be more than willing to pay pretty well any price for these wonders of modern science.
Begs the question as to what the regulators in FDA are taking.
It’s more complex with Andrew Witty. You’d have to think GSK didn’t run the trials of Treximet just to hand it over to Pernix, no strings attached. What is the business model here. Is it Rape or is it Pernication? What drug do I have to be taking to make it work?
Mi Grain and Your Grain
When trying to get Study 329 published, we ran up against Liz Loder in the BMJ. She seemed completely resistant, stating on many occasions that we were biased – had conflicting interests. The article only got published after a conflict of interest duel. We wrote to the editor, Fiona Godlee, laying out Dr Loder’s possible conflicts. BMJ have never offered a satisfactory response to this letter.
The main conflict lay in Dr Loder’s husband working for a law firm, Ropes and Gray, who have worked on most of GSK’s recent difficulties including in relation to Study 329.
But in addition we pointed out that:
Dr Loder has made public statements favourable to GSK products, including: ‘For all of these reasons my mantra is that “You haven’t failed sumatriptan until you have failed to respond to a full dose of injectable sumatriptan given early in an attack!” There is also evidence that combining a triptan with an anti-inflammatory drug might improve the likelihood it will be effective’.
(http://live.washingtonpost.com/how-serious-are-migraines.html)
This article was published just before GSK’s Treximet (combination triptan and anti‐inflammatory) came on to the market – years after Dr Loder was supposed to have renounced all links to companies and their marketing.
Trick or Treat or Treximet?
Once a drug ends up causing grief — either for its adverse effects, or simply for its inflated U.S. price — it can be hard to figure out to blame these days. The kind of shell-game played by Pernix and GSK with Treximet is becoming ever more popular. In some cases, like this one, an established drug company like GSK develops the drug (including trials) then sells it off to an outfit like Pernix that’s mainly just a marketing company.
GSK sold Pernix the rights to Treximet for “an upfront payment of $250 million and other considerations” in 2014 — including a “long-term supply agreement” under which GSK will continue to manufacture the stuff:
https://www.firstwordpharma.com/node/1210290?tsid=17
In other cases, a “startup” is formed to develop the drug and conduct the trials — after which the startup is bought by a larger firm and essentially disappears. That’s what happened with Addyi, the dubious new pill for “female sexual dysfunction” that made headlines last year. Sprout Pharmaceuticals bought up the drug, which had failed to make the grade as an antidepressant, and ran the trials. They carried out a huge PR campaign hailing it as some sort of feminist advance and accusing its critics, at FDA and elsewhere, of sexism.
Once it was approved, Sprout promptly sold itself to Valeant Pharmaceuticals and disappeared. Valeant, already much-hated for its obscene price hikes on old generics, was left holding the bag when actual prescriptions for Addyi slumped to embarrassing lows. If you are harmed by this drug — say, by passing out at the wheel of a car — you will have to chase Valeant. The former owners of Sprout already got paid and got out.
Here We Go..
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‘this looks spooky’
kannemarie1@hotmail.co.uk says:
Actually that’s quite a good website, saves waiting for two weeks and then having to go out for an appointment. It would be even better if they got the pharmacist to drop the drugs round as well.
The Right Night for the Right Knight..
http://www.billiamjames.com/
Jon Jureidini says:
Isn’t this a bit fishy as well?:
A spokesman for Pernix Therapeutics Holdings Inc., which sells Treximet, said… Mrs. Jack could get a pack of Treximet for $20 by contacting the company directly.
Let’s hope that the majority of people, either cannot afford, or, choose not to pay, the silly prices being put on this combination! I bet GSK have some trick or other up their sleeve – let’s hope we are wide awake and waiting for their next step, whatever and whenever that may be.
About that “Vimovo” pill, available for just $2,061.00 a month:
It’s made by AstraZeneca. It’s naproxen, an ordinary NSAID you can get for about $7 a month over-the-counter … combined with Nexium, their blockbuster Proton Pump Inhibitor to fight stomach upset. A drug 99% of us are MUCH better off without.
AstraZeneca just publicly threatened to leave the UK if the NHS didn’t start paying for more of its life-saving miracle drugs.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/10/31/big-pharma-will-pull-out-of-britain-unless-we-start-paying-for-n/
It pitched this fit with reference to cancer drugs of course — but here again we are getting loads of new drugs that cost up to $300,000.00 without any proof that they actually extend life expectancy. I guess GSK is not the only British drug company that would rather you not know what they’re up to in the good ol’ USA ….
“old wine in new flasks”
http://www.communitycatalyst.org/blog/glaxosmithkline-sets-out-to-dupe-migraine-sufferers-with-treximet-smoke-and-mirrors-pal#.WBhQSIXXJn0
Conclusion: Migraine sufferers, don’t be suckered by Glaxo’s poorly-concealed bait and switch.
7:01 AM 28 Dec 1919
http://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/rns/080416gsk4303s
Here in the UK, Jeremy Hunt ( Health Minister) is apparently ‘about to pass a new law which stops companies overcharging the NHS for everyday medicines’ according to Change.org. In June 138,000 signed a petition demanding that JH shut down the loophole that let companies overcharge the NHS by millions. We also contacted our MPs who were fully behind the petition. We’ll keep you informed of ‘people power’ results – or the lack of it!
I think you mean this one; great, Mary.
12,500%
https://speakout.38degrees.org.uk/campaigns/close-NHS-drugs-loophole
A small number of greedy drugs companies are exploiting a legal loophole that lets them hike up the price of everyday medicines and rip-off our NHS.
At a time when the NHS is in a funding crisis, it’s unacceptable that a small number of dodgy businesses are deliberately draining the NHS of millions of pounds. That money could be used to provide the care that our friends and family need.
Please use your power as Health Secretary to close this loophole and stop drugs companies ripping off the NHS.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/victory-against-rip-off-drug-firms-after-times-investigation-qm6hlmqts
The Health Secretary has called on the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to look into evidence that suggests some companies profited by raising the cost of more than 50 drugs by up to 12,500%.
https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/health-and-care/pharmaceuticals/news/75750/drug-companies-face-investigation-over-nhs-prices
Yes, Annie, that’s the one. The message from Change.org yesterday was very positive – just hope we’re not disappointed with the result of the ‘investigation’!
… in California
Backers of the Yes on Proposition 61 measure rally in downtown Los Angeles. Drug companies have a major stake in the measure and are spending heavily to defeat it.
https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2016/10/31/drug-prices-california-ballot/
Bernie S. Senator
http://www.yeson61.com/
All Souls’ Day..
International Business | China Rules
Drug Giant Faced a Reckoning
as China Took Aim at Bribery
China sought to make an example of
GlaxoSmithKline in a case that involved
bribery of doctors and investigators and
ended with guilty pleas and record penalties.
By DAVID BARBOZA NOV. 1, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/02/business/international/china-rules-glaxo-bribes-sex-tape-whistleblower-cautionary-tale.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
@GSK
GSK @GSK 2h2 hours ago
Why is clinical trial #transparency important and what are we doing to make our data more accessible? http://gsk.to/1QvWcBX #IBE30
Watch our CEO
2 NOV ALL SOULS DAY – CALL TO ACTION FOR A CANDLE VIGIL FOR LIVES LOST TO PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS – If you have lost someone to psychiatric drugs, please light a candle tomorrow next to a photo and post on social media. This idea came to me from Heather and David Roberts who lost their son, Olly, after years of being prescribed a combination of acne medication and psychiatric drugs. Attached is their tribute and I hope people around the world will join them with their own tributes #rxharmed
David Carmichael Candle vigil for my son Ian on All Souls Day #rxharmed
https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/rxharmed?source=feed_text&story_id=293301727736192
Smile..You’re on Candid Camera..
https://www.madinamerica.com/science-of-psychiatric-drugs/
Handy Andy..
http://fortune.com/2016/11/02/glaxosmithkline-witty-brainstorm-health/?xid=soc_socialflow_twitter_FORTUNE
Anne-Marie says:
Pharma can help the poor and still make money!
Sure they can, they have already been doing that for god knows how long. Antidepressants, anti psychotics, benzo’s and anything else they want to throw into the mix.
Mass Murder is what they have been really doing on a very large scale with the poor and making billions from it.
Kind of embarrassing..
http://www.alltrials.net/news/trialstracker
uab9876 @uab9876
@CoyneoftheRealm @PLOSONE But I think Goldacre is only interested in bashing industry hence #alltrials doesn’t talk of academics not sharing
https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2016/11/03/clinical-trials-sanofi-shire-glaxo/
Last year, however, researchers sifted through newly released GlaxoSmithKline data for its Paxil antidepressant and found evidence7 contradicting the company’s published findings that the pill was safe and effective for youngsters.
http://www.gsk.com/en-gb/media/press-releases/2016/gsk-statement-in-response-to-new-york-times-article-on-china/
GSK statement in response to New York Times article on China
Issued: London
These matters relating to our operations in China were deeply disappointing to GSK. They have previously been the subject of investigation by authorities in China and the United States. GSK cooperated fully with those investigations, which have since concluded and been resolved. GSK is committed to operating its commercial activities in an ethical and professional manner consistent with the Company’s values. Over the last few years, GSK has made significant changes to its commercial practices globally, which include changes to the way the Company’s sales representatives are compensated and stopping payments to Healthcare Practitioners to speak to other providers about its products.
More information on our business model changes is available here:
http://www.gsk.com/en-gb/behind-the-science/how-we-do-business/changing-the-way-we-work-with-healthcare-professionals/
Today Bernie’s vendetta with the pharma industry was in the spotlight again, when moments ago Sanders tweeted that “the business model of the drug industry is fraud. Glaxo put patients at risk to increase their profits”
✔ @SenSanders
The business model of the drug industry is fraud. Glaxo put patients at risk to increase their profits.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/02/business/international/china-rules-glaxo-bribes-sex-tape-whistleblower-cautionary-tale.html?
2:31 PM – 2 Nov 2016
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-02/glaxo-slides-after-bernie-sanders-tweets-company-put-patients-risk-increase-profits
In kneejerk reaction, the ADRs of Glaxo stock immediately slid to session lows as yet another shot across the bow of the pharma industry was launched by the prominent democrat
There is so much ‘wrong’ with this, it’s hard to know where to start..
https://www.change.org/p/secretary-of-state-for-health-jeremy-hunt-make-pharmaceutical-firms-help-users-who-want-to-stop-taking-anxiety-depression-drugs/u/18373616
http://www.jfmoore.co.uk/styled-5/
A GP should be nowhere near psychotropic drugs
Within 6 weeks the patient could have ‘disappeared’
GPs’ don’t need support, the patient does
PIL leaflets are legally conscripted documents
RCTs’ are available
Tapering kits are not in the Pharma mindset
Other suggestions for help and support:
An online portal where users can get accurate information on stopping or reducing prescription medications with online chat access to health professionals (g.p/psychiatrist/pharmacologist).
A forum for users seeking support, perhaps moderated by healthcare professionals.
A dedicated user group that can use real experiences as a basis for future action/investigation.
Make visible information on the long term risks of psychoactive drugs including publishing all available long term studies (e.g. opentrials.net)
Keep a central database of drug withdrawal effects for reference and future study, allow reporting of withdrawal effects via the yellow card scheme.
Dedicated helplines should be provided and funded by pharmaceutical companies for users of their products.
https://davidhealy.org/
http://rxisk.org/
Seem to be Missing…
Deadicated Helplines never helped anyone..
Like you Annie, I too am disappointed with James’ points and suggestions. His idea of ‘tapering kits’ was a really good one as it’s quite impossible to reduce in small enough steps just relying on the tablet strengths provided at present. The same meds. in liquid form are extremely expensive and so, diminishing strengths in tablet form are necessary. Also, the liquids have a ‘use by’ date which is restrictive (and possibly wasteful) at times. Maybe James should have continued to push for the tapering kits for the time being – and take time to fully think through the way forward with anything further, once he’s managed to complete his first ‘mission’.
I think his looking for a 24 hour helpline or online helpline with professionals. It wouldn’t be a bad idea really, anything and everything will help. There needs to be somewhere where people in distress can turn too when their normal services are not up to the mark. Maybe he may feel its best to hit them with everything now before they close the door on him.
My main problem with his points is the fact that I feel he’s far too cosy with the pharma groups. Yes, we need the pharma companies to support the tapering kits and yes, we SHOULD be able to trust their role in other aspects ( not sure that we can though!) and yes, a 24-hour helpline would be fantastic BUT – how can we be sure that the service will be impartial; would a ‘professional’ fully understand akathisia etc.? We all know how difficult it is to get many ‘professionals’ to accept the realities of such conditions.
In my book, anyone put on a SSRI needs weekly follow-up appointments to ensure patient safety – an appointment after 6 weeks on a certain dose is way too late!
As for the idea of having dedicated helplines funded by pharmaceutical companies for users of their products – that is absolutely ridiculous! I can just imagine the ‘help’ – “increase your dose that’s the way forward” – haven’t we all heard it over and over again?
Totally agree Mary. If they don’t fully understand and jump to attention when the first signs of akathisia show, there is no point having a helpline, in fact, can actually be counterproductive – never let us forget the mind blowing Dr Sarah Jarvis! If they can’t see the patient and the patient doesn’t know they’ve got akathisia, or even what it is, not a lot of hope for an accurate diagnosis, surely?
An interesting thought struck me, along those lines; as a parent who in her role as patient ever since aged 19 having had akathisia reactions to hay fever injections, injected dye for X-rays, the contraceptive pill (just anxiety from that and spaced out weird feeling), steroids (terrible akathisia) etc – if the mother as patient has reported these meds causing her to manifest akathisia each time (since kingdom come) and never been believed by GP etc but thought to be over sensitive neurotic nitwit, does the reputation of the mother when trying to raise awareness of SON having same reactions, get sidelined. Answer – in my personal opinion, yes, without doubt.
Can just imagine, if calling helpline, (I would have to be almost dead to do so, and maybe not even then), what my medical notes would read like to doc like Sarah Jarvis on end of phone …no doubt I’d merit another tick in the nutty box, and thus I’d take, reputation-wise, a further slide down the slippery slope. I realise the enzyme test CYP450 is not a total answer to all things, but it might help some of us a little. It’s a simple saliva test, why don’t we offer it free to everyone? I’m also wondering whether, if one does not have this enzyme to detox through kidneys and liver anything toxic, food waste or excess fats etc, could this account for genetic severe acne?
I do like the idea of a dedicated user group – that would presumably encourage thousands to get together and press for change, compensation for damage etc. and even better, the forum for users seeking support, not sure why they need the ‘moderation by healthcare professionals’…unless I guess to offer follow up support in individual cases. If so, then we would need to provide information on who to consult. So, a directory of enlightened and effective doctors, psychiatrists and other healthcare agencies would be good. One could rate them with a 5 star system, like plumbers and electricians.
Two points of yours, Heather, I really do think should be pursued:
CYP450 as a free test (or, at least, one that’s easily available at a reasonable cost IN THE UK)
A Rating System – a directory of the professional ‘service providers’ rated by ‘service users’ just like you do with uber taxis and airb&b.
A ‘spot on’ idea and very twenty first century! We would absolutely need the ‘five out of five’ top raters to give proper, correct advice and (I hope) educate the rest of the ‘professionals’. A new web based business maybe ? …. ‘Uber Psychs’. And this is needed well in advance of any national helpline otherwise, as has been pointed out, the existing problem of AKATHISIA NON RECOGNITION, MIS-DIAGNOSIS and MIS-MEDICATION will continue and there’d be a serious risk of it worsening as a result of a ‘helpline’.
Stench of corruption that just won’t go away..
David Healy gave a lecture entitled ‘The Famous Grouse’ whereby he carefully, systematically and assuredly, with all ‘evidence’ of the Study329.
Anyone who is anyone should watch this.
Those answering your telephone call to the Dedicated Helpline are unlikely to know the real deal and are unlikely to know what to do with a manic, suicidal, blubbering, overheated, person on the end of the phone.
What are the options:
You must talk to an Expert.
See your Doctor.
Get yourself to A&E.
Keep close family and friends around you.
Stick to your medication regime until someone tells you otherwise
The whole house of cards will come crumbling down, at this point..
I was one of the 65,000 who called the Helpline after watching Panorama and after the series of hospital ’emergency’ admittances in 2002, primarily to find out where people were being directed
It was never suggested to me that my medics were criminals, which they were, and, it was never suggested to me that CEO’s like Sir Andrew Witty could have put a stop to it pre 2000 and I swallowed it off and on from 1999 until 2003..
So, may be a Helpline will cause a hue and cry, but, I would hesitate to say it might save a life…
Seroxatted is like being Garrotted and we are at liberty to say so..
Between your common gp and your common ssri then is a Gulf so huge that I wonder how we are going to bridge it…and this is why David’s blog and RxISK are so crucial, because without it we would not know the half of it..
There are also some truly brilliant researchers/bloggists out there… the real deal
Terrifying Times, as you will realise from The Famous Grouse..
Who ever works on the help line would and should be trained in SSRI problems, Rxisk could teach them. I also think yes they could save a life and many of them if they were available. They could give the number on the pil leaflet that comes with the medication. If the help line have any query’s they could consult with Rxisk as their first line of advice. If the helpline advised someone to go to the hospital then the helpline could contact that local hospital and fill them in with details of whats going on and what to do about it. It would even be helpful to the police as they deal with so many people on psychiatric medications. Its not that hard a thing to do really.
A forum for people with SSRI problems would be also helpful so that people have somewhere to turn to when they are struggling. The forum moderators would also be trained to deal with SSRI problems. There are enough professionals and patients out there now who know the answers to many of the problems. There’s no reason why there shouldn’t be more help and support for people now.
Laurie Oakley says:
Here’s a bit more food for thought on taking matters into our own hands and forming our own networks for support:
This is an impressive fellowship, Food Addicts Anonymous (FAA), responding to individuals’ biochemical differences to certain substances in foods, mainly sugar, flour, and wheat.
http://www.foodaddictsanonymous.org/meetings
It’s relative small (but growing) and a good model for us, I think. (For becoming unified and embodying our own solution, not for support for staying off of substances). In addition to weekly face to face meetings, they have several phone meetings each day, and dedicated members (with the help of a Higher Power) make this run. People also exchange phone numbers and sponsor one another or simply form supportive alliances.
http://www.foodaddictsanonymous.org/phone-meetings
FAA is modeled after AA, and if you look at the bigger picture, we have a lot in common with these groups. Sugar is a substance that is marketed heavily, is lurking in almost all processed foods, and there are many people who react to it in the same way alcoholics do alcohol – a reasonable amount triggers an overwhelming craving for more.
What people are up against with things like sugar, alcohol, and pharmaceuticals are entire cultures that view these things as good and defend their use. I would argue that culture is the primary problem, even if this was created by marketing, and reinforced by medical culture in the case of Rx.
AA and FAA are havens of rest for people who suffer from these biochemical differences. People report feeling “at home” in these fellowships. The groups could spend a lot of time fighting the system or arguing that a large portion of society’s alcohol and sugar consumers are really addicts, but instead they put their energy toward manifesting their own solutions and offer support to any who want it. The fact that these groups exist in communities all over the world attest to the reality of the problem for those who are ready to see.
I guess the main reason I wanted to share this is FAA’s impressive phone meeting schedule. I do believe that face to face is ideal, but there is meaningful support happening in these phone meetings too.
Any thoughts on doing something akin to this?
Actually Laurie that really is a good website and idea, that’s exactly what we need for SSRIS and we could do the food thing too. Trouble is who’s going to run it? or start it? it would be good if the drug companies paid for it or the government.
Hi Anne-Marie,
Thank you for your feedback. If we have enough interest from people involved here, with RxISK, MIA, and the like, essentially all of us who have been hoping someone else would DO something about this can start it and run it collectively.
The FAA forum is just one example of what regular people have done to address their own problems and then reach out to others. I believe it is less an issue of money than of how many of us are willing to commit our time and just a few resources.
Anyone interested in facilitating this might have a closer look at how 12 step groups originated and how they run. The 12 steps and 12 traditions of AA set a protective tone for group unity. They wouldn’t necessarily be our primary focus, nor abstaining for anything. But they could guide our groups as we set about carrying the RxISK message: to making medicine safer for all of us.
Here is a link to a talk by one of AA’s founders on the wisdom behind the traditions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ6soSvYM-g
To get started we need those who are interested to get on the same page. Right now I guess I’m trying to gauge interest. It would take commitment from many of us, but it is entirely possible to do this.
Laurie, I would be willing to do whatever I can to support and further your ideas. I do feel though, that any of us who support you must have firm ground rules put in place, so that we are fully aware of our role (what we can say or do, alongside matters that we certainly must not touch upon etc.) so that we all share the same message.
At the moment, there is a new Welsh language mental health website being created. It is hoped that it will be fully operational by the end of this week. I have just sent them a short part of our son’s story – not to frighten anyone but rather to educate. I finished that part of his story at the point where he was told that Seroxat was the cause of all his suffering (back in 2002). I then urged anyone who felt that their medication may not be helping them to go back to their GP, to withdraw only with medical supervision and, failing that, to turn to Rxisk.org for their support.
It will be interesting to see whether or not that story will make it on to the website – or will it be deemed too controversial. They may not want to rock the boat on day one!
It may be good after the crisis is over but I was thinking more on the lines of a help line for people in immediate distress from SSRIS. Maybe when they have resolved their SSRI issue they could consider the sugar group.
I find Laurie Oakley’s ‘food for thought’ comment very relevant and interesting. If we link it in with the discovery that we can test for a genetic enzyme deficiency – the CYP450 – which it seems is the one on the front line in the kidneys, liver and blood brain barrier, for getting rid of toxins.
Our son Olly suffered from severe acne on his back, neck and chest. So did I. It persisted for both us us into our 30’s. By chance I realised that eating butter, drinking a lot of milk, and eating chocolate, triggered skin breakouts for me. Along with hormone ups and downs. As a baby. Olly had terrible colic when introduced aged 5 months, to cows’ milk. He had asthma from age 5, which dwindled away to some extent by age 14, when his acne started.
He had a 3 month wait when about 15 for an appointment with a local NHS Consultant Dermatologist. Olly was always keen on research, and problem solving. He and we used the time to research the duet connexion, having seen what seemed to affect my skin so badly. He tried the Stone Age diet, suggested by a private GP we knew called Dr Sarah Myhill, in Wales. It was hard work, in that we cut out sugar, milk, wheat, but, boy, did it work! By the time he got seen by the Consultant Dermatologist, even his NHS skeptical GP had to admit in her referral letter, that the improvement had been very marked, despite her expectations. (She couldn’t resist mentioning that The Mother carries around a file containing her research findings, which doctors could find intimidating…. This little aside didn’t enhance our credibility, needless to say).
The Consultant wasn’t interested in the research, or the skin’s improvement. She just told him, in front of us, that that was all very well, but ‘he’d never get rid of the scarring.’ This devastated him, took away his hope. He stopped the diet, he went back to drinking lots of milk, chocolate, wheat, etc. His acne got worse again. And worse. Pressure was put on him by his doctor to take RoAccutane/isotretinoin. We advised him strongly not to. He was in a dilemma. You may think us cruel, but we made him wait till he was 21. Meantime we offered everything else we could find. Nothing worked like the diet had. But the doctors had killed his faith in that, and us. And what a doctor says, is of course, always believed…..
At least his mind remained in good working order for those years from 14 to 21. Then it all began to fall apart, with the acne drug at Uni, topped off with Seroxat SSRI for the low mood it caused (amongst a wealth of other horrendous listed side effects). A mini psychosis followed. Then years of struggle, a lost degree, a very successful business which was also lost when his damaged mind finally gave up, aged 32 gave up, and his suicidal compulsion was unbelieved by doctors.
But had the DIET been accepted as a solution, all those years before, maybe things could have turned out differently. And, by the way, in 2011 he had the newly invented Blue Light and laser therapy (he could afford the £1,000 to pay for it, so successful was his business) and all the scarring faded away! RoAccutane, despite many courses of it, did very little to improve his skin, over all those years. But it, and the psychotropic medications he had to resort to, to keep going, killed him. If he’d had the CYP450 test, I’d put good money on it that he’d have been shown he wasn’t detoxing food waste as most folk do causing his acne and his akathisia. His liver results, read out at his inquest, were off the scale when on RoAacutane, but his GP back in 2003 onwards dismissed concerns when we, the ‘over fussy patents’ raised serious concerns about these levels.
So, Lawrie, yes, let’s get these food and drug patient forums going. Years ago an army doctor, ?Captain Macarrison was showing patients that sugar was a major problem for good health, and also, later, the Hay Diet (not eating hay (!) but not mixing certain foods at each meal) produced good results too.
One final thing – after I broke my neck in a car crash, the neurosurgeon opened me at the front of my throat, to fix my shattered vertebrae (with titanium nuts and bolts and plate and bone graft inside) as he said it was safer than going in from the back nearer the spinal cord. Some years later, that throat scar looked unsightly and keloid and an aesthetic surgeon kindly removed it for me. In peeling back my neck skin, he told me later there was an enormous amount of acne scarring, like deposited fats, just under the skin. He tried to remove some of it but it was pretty solid. So surely that meant that I had not been able to get rid of those fats through digestion, as most people do. So, if those without the CYP450 enzyme also suffer bad acne, does that introduce another connexion? We can’t detox certain meds, and we can’t detox certain foods perhaps? What about IBS? All good food for thought Lawrie!
Heather, I like your idea for keeping a directory of doctors who were found to be truly helpful and was thinking an exhaustive directory of alternatives people have found useful might be part of what we could offer. I had shared about FAA only as an example of what is possible but not thinking we would focus on anything but drug treatments (like RxISK). Basically we could be taking RxISK to the streets.
I can’t believe how similar your experiences and mine are Heather – as far as allergies, food intolerances, asthma etc. are concerned ( there it almost ends – thankfully, I haven’t been involved in a crash of any sort!). I, too, suffered from acne in my teenage years and always found that my sinus problems were always worse if I had a lot of dairy products. Living on a farm meant milk was plentiful but, to this day I do not tolerate it at all well. Interestingly – following separate bouts of flu many years ago, I suddenly couldn’t drink tea or coffee. I just can’t to this day! I find that I very easily put weight on if using medications such as steroids too – don’t know if that’s true for you?
Now to my son – the one who had the massive reactions to Seroxat. As I’ve said before, he is a son fostered by us – therefore no shared blood ties, therefore my intolerances could not possibly have passed on to him. He doesn’t suffer from intolerance to foodstuffs as such -but, he has to be very careful which brand of milk he uses, dislikes butter and cannot tolerate cream. His main intolerance ( if that would be the correct term) however is to medications of many types. He had an anaphylactic shock to a measles jab at age 14 and another similar reaction to a local anaesthetic for dental work aged 22. He also puts weight on very easily when put on different medications. Amazing, isn’t it, how some of us can and others cannot tolerate our own lifestyles.
Mary, yes, I completely forgot the local anaesthetic for dental work, I think it was Novocaine, same thing happened to me as happened to your son. I daren’t have a flu injection just in case I react. There seems, for some of us. to be a tendency to have a spreading sensitivity to these things, also to smells like bleach or acetone or petrol or certain noxious glues, the ones you have to mix in two parts.
When we lived in a farmhouse we had at first a very old solid fuel Aga. The fumes or maybe dust in the air from that used to make Olly wheeze and brought on asthma. We got a new oil-fired one and he was fine with that. As you say, it is strange how some of us have adapted physically over the centuries to tolerate these things, but others can’t. Is this about Darwin’s ‘survival of the fittest’, except that now, these hazards don’t eliminate us all quickly, like they might have done thousands of years ago. Isn’t it instead an argument for striving for a Greener world where we all achieve good health and less materialism.
Of course the diet worked for Olly. Over the last decade, the link with our micro biome especially gut bacteria, has been shown to be the controlling factor in so many conditions, particularly autoimmune diseases.
The two-way street that is the brain- gut axis is now much better understood, with a lot of bacteria/ neurotransmitter links identified.
We evolved with this bacteria and with our mitochondria and our modern way of life is killing them and us.
Antibiotics may be a life saver but the overuse of these and the use early in life has a devastating effect on brain development. The immune system depends on a good balance of gut bacteria.
NONE of this is psychiatric, but in the UK there is only one neuro gastroenterologist that I know of.
Technology has shown what psychiatry has not and we now need a revolution in thinking.
Recommend ” Grow your Brain” by David Permutter.
“Bowels Bugs and Bacteria” for those with ASD edited by Teri Arranga
Christine, thanks so much for these excellent book recommendations. Am well into ‘Bowels, Bugs and Bacteria’ now. Amazing. Everyone should read it. Will pass the reference on to the ASD group we are involved with.
One or two GPs we know have told us about the links of gut symbiosis with the brain. One is Dr Sarah Myhill who has an interesting website and told us some while ago about the latest gut linked research, showing even heart disease can be affected by these bacteria etc.
There is no financial incentive for Big Pharma really in focussing on the need for good diet.
Natural Live yoghurt can help soothe stomachs if you can tolerate dairy products. You can make your own yoghurt very cheaply. I have been very impressed with the uplifting effect of ginger and turmeric tea. Some say it is nature’s anti-depressant. Tastes interesting, not at all bad. Ginger very good for nausea…
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Discussion in 'China & Far East' started by DaiViet, Sep 21, 2015.
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A Japanese scholar has said economic factors have been the major driving force behind the Vietnam-Japan ties but recently their relations have been driven more by security, so Tokyo now has a keen interest in building maritime security capacity for Hanoi.
Dr. Ken Jimbo, an associate professor at Keio University in Tokyo and a senior research fellow at the Tokyo-based Canon Institute for Global Studies, offered these comments in an exclusive interview with Tuoi Tre News on Tuesday, when General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong embarked on a five-day visit to Japan.
General Secretary Trong's ongoing visit, aimed at enhancing the strategic partnership between the two nations, is his first to the East Asian country since becoming chief of the party in 2011.
During his visit, he is scheduled to have bilateral talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
What are your comments on the current position of Vietnam regionally and internationally as well as the meaning of the visit by General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong to Japan?
Dr. Ken Jimbo: Vietnam has been one of the most promising emerging economies in ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations]. Vietnam also has a huge geopolitical importance as a neighbor of China and coastal states in the [East Vietnam Sea]. General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong's visit to Japan will certainly enhance strategic ties between Japan and Vietnam.
Although the two countries do not share the same economic model and political system, they have been getting closer to each other over time. What similarities can we see to help bring the two countries together?
The major driving force has been economic factors but recently their relations have been driven more by security. The Japanese investment strategy of China-Plus-One has proved most successful in Vietnam. We also share the goal of region-wide free trade through Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Maritime security is obviously drawing the two nations much closer. Japan's strategic interests in securing sea-lanes of communications in the East China Sea and the [East Vietnam Sea] would match Vietnam's aspiration to secure the stability of the [latter sea] and [its] Paracel Islands.
A senior Vietnamese official once said political parties in Japan have different views on most issues but all of them support the growing ties between Vietnam and Japan. Moreover, after taking office in late 2012, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe chose Vietnam for his first visit overseas. How do you assess the future prospects of the Vietnam-Japan ties?
Japan has bipartisan and comprehensive support for relations with Vietnam. There is no longer the ideological divide behind its support.
One highlight of General Secretary Trong’s visit is to boost bilateral trade and economic ties. As you might know, Japan is the first country of G7 to recognize the market economy in Vietnam. During the general secretary’s visit, it is supposed that the two countries’ leaders would agree to spur the combination of the two economies. Is it possible “to combine” the two economies because there is a big gap in GDP – US$4,616 billion of Japan (2014) compared to $188 billion of Vietnam?
Japan's FDI inflow to Vietnam's manufacturing industries would be the key drivers of mutual economic relations. Vietnam also needs constant updates and reforms of its economic structure for stimulating its innovations and cultivating consumer markets and service industries.
Japan would provide Vietnam with more patrol ships. Will there be any breakthrough in the two countries’ security and defense ties, especially in maritime cooperation?
Japan has a strong interest in building a capacity for Vietnam’s maritime security. As the Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) has been the key feature to manage [East Vietnam Sea] conundrums, the provision of Coast Guard patrol vessels would directly serve this purpose. Japan may also be interested in enhancing training and sharing practices of maritime management.
When Japan suffered devastating consequences in the wake of the tsunami in 2011, a large number of Vietnamese people of all ages and from every walk of life donated money to support the Japanese victims and their families. At the same time, the Japanese government still committed a high amount of ODA for Vietnam. How is their relationship reflected through this story?
Japan and Vietnam have shared mutual trust and friendship over decades. Japanese people highly appreciate Vietnamese’s support during the difficult times in 2011. We also appreciate young prospective Vietnamese students aspiring to study and obtain degrees in Japanese universities. Japanese people greatly admire Vietnam regarding its history, culture, cuisine, tourism and its people's kindness and innovative spirit will continue to grow.
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DaiViet said: ↑
A very wise and well said point, Dr. Ken Jimbo. How wise you are, Senpai.
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we both have same problem with China,
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I think that it is not pertinent to mention the specific name of a particular country. It does not cultivate an environment of objectivity, my friend.
That said, I believe that Vietnam and Japan have various opportunities to capture here and they include, and I list them in prioritized order:
Bilateral security communication mechanisms between the JSDF and the VPAF
Bilateral intergovernmentalism between Hanoi and Tokyo
Environmental cooperation on extra-terrestria as well as intra-terrestria variables
Energy exploration in the East Sea as well as the Sea of Japan between Japan and Vietnam
Fishing and maritime agricultural technology exchanges
Oceanographic studies and partnerships
There's just so much!
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Nihonjin1051 said: ↑
You are right. There is not only the term related to Island dispute with China.
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Let us not mention that particular country's name, my dear friend. Invoking that particular country's name in any discourse related to Vietnamese-Japanese security paradigm will only attract 'unwanted' members to our conversation and the latter will only retaliate in offensive invectives. We don't want that now do we?
Let us talk about Japanese-Vietnamese energy cooperation. I think that is a reasonable request, right?
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http://www.gulf-times.com/story/402661/Japan-gives-Vietnam-ships-to-boost-maritime-patrol
http://www.rappler.com/world/regions/asia-pacific/65043-japan-gives-vietnam-ships
Most likely the decommissioned Shiretoko class, of which Phillippins is also getting 2.
http://defense-studies.blogspot.nl/2012/05/japan-provides-patrol-ships-to.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiretoko-class_patrol_vessel
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Former NBA star Charles Barkley is putting his wallet to action in his home state by donating $1 million dollars to African-American women business owners.
During a Thursday segment on TNT’s “Inside The NBA,” Barkley announced his pledge as a tribute to Black women who came out in significant numbers to secure the win for Democrat Doug Jones in Alabama’s special senatorial election on Tuesday.
“I’m proud of my people in Alabama, they really stood up this weekend. Alabama, that’s my home. I am pledging $1 million dollars to Black women in Alabama to start I.T. startups,” he said. “Black women really came out and supported Doug Jones.”
Barkley also couldn’t help but slide in a backhanded joke as he continued. “That does not mean hair salons and restaurants. We’re going to do’ I.T.’ and that don’t mean ‘it,’” Barkley said.
In the past the former NBA all-star has had trouble vocalizing his stance in the Black community sometimes playing into respectability politics, especially when it comes to the national conversation regarding law enforcement and communities of color.
But during a CNN interview on Tuesday, Barkley changed his tone by calling out the democratic party and its reliance on Black voters.
“I’m so proud of my state. I love my state. We got some amazing people here. Yeah, we got a bunch of rednecks and a bunch of ignorant people, but we got some amazing people here and they rose up today,” he said. “It’s time for them to get off their ass and start making life better for black folks and people who are poor,” he continued.
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Zolotoordynskoe Obozrenie. 2016;4(3):602-615
Journal Title: Zolotoordynskoe Obozrenie
ISSN: 2308-152X (Print); 2313-6197 (Online)
Publisher: State Institution «Sh.Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences»
Society/Institution: Shigabutdin Marjani Institute of History of Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan
LCC Subject Category: Auxiliary sciences of history: History of Civilization
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O.D. Rustemov (Ardahan University Ardahan 75000, Turkey)
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The first mention of the Crimean court registries – sijils – belong to the 1800s. At that time, translations of some texts were made, the content of these monuments was relatively minutely described and their historical and philological significance was evaluated. However, separate volumes of presented documents still have not been published. Neither comprehensive linguistic study nor description of terminology and style of these texts have not been made. Research objectives: study of the Crimean court registries of the 17th–18th centuries. One of the problems lying on the surface of this field of study of the Crimean Tatar language history and the right is the question about the compilers of these judicial materials. Whom we can consider the author or scribe of a court registry? How competent is an assertion that these books are kadiaskers books? Research materials: the court registries, kadylyk, kadiasker defters. The paper also raised the question of authenticity of the Crimean law and the two sources of the entire justice system of this Eastern European Turkic state: Sharia and actual Turkic law – Töre implemented subsequently in various legislative compilations, such as the Yasa of Chinggis Khan. Another issue of research of these monuments is the question of their content. Fedor Lashkov identified the Crimean records of Sharia courts as a sort of land records’ acts. Research results and novelty: As a result of a detailed study, the author found that its own jurisdiction and its own laws, which did not always coincide with the laws of the Ottoman Empire, functioned in the Crimean Khanate. Despite their historical and philological value as well as more than a century of study, Crimean court registries still contain many blank spots. This again points to the need for their early reading, translation into modern Turkish language and publication, which should be carried out in the Crimean Tatar and Russian languages.
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Volume 27 Number 02
The Working Programmer - Talk to Me: Voice and SMS in the Cloud
By Ted Neward | February 2012
This past October found me doing some charity work with GiveCamp in Seattle. (Don’t know what GiveCamp is? Take a second and have a look: givecamp.org.) While there, I ran across a group that was interested in doing some SMS messaging as part of an application the members wanted to build. We got to talking, and the subject of interactive-voice applications came up. They were interested in doing something like that (specifically, setting up some automated thank-you calls to donors), but figured you had to run your own call center and install your own PBX software and hardware to make it work.
Au contraire, mes amis.
As luck would have it, at the Philadelphia Emerging Technology Event (also known as Philly ETE) early last year, I met some guys from Voxeo, an enterprise-class PBX system, and they introduced me to Tropo, their cloud-hosted voice-and-SMS (among other things) solution. And for anything telephony-related, folks, it’s worth a look.
Tropo: A Testamonial
Fundamentally, Tropo isn’t all that different from some of the other voice/SMS services available, but it has one distinct advantage over the others I’ve looked at: during your development cycle, no money changes hands. Building an app that uses this service during development is trivial—just wander on over to the Tropo Web site (tropo.com) and sign up, and the full suite of services is available and at your fingertips for as long as you want.
Naturally, there are other voice/SMS services, and it’s always worth examining the alternatives. But for this article (and its successor), I’m going to use Tropo’s services. Caveat emptor.
As with any other of the cloud-based services, getting started with Tropo requires creating an account on its servers and responding to the e-mail verification. Once that’s done, logging back in to Tropo will show the account dashboard, and it’s here that the fun begins.
Just to show you how much fun doing this can be, try it now. Pick up the phone and dial 530-206-0504.
As most readers of this magazine well know, tradition and the Gods of Computer Science both demand that the first application in any new language or platform be the “Hello, world!” application. Far be it from me to buck tradition (at least, when it serves my purpose to stay with it, anyway), so the first step here is to create a new Tropo application and create a simple voice greeting with it. But before we get too far with that, let’s make sure we’re clear on the architecture here.
Like most cloud-hosted services, Tropo owns and maintains the servers on which the telephony hardware runs, and as with most cloud-hosted applications, that means the application developers don’t have any hardware—both a blessing and a curse in most scenarios. In this case, however, most of the “curse” end of the cloud falls away, because we’re not going to ask Tropo to host any data for us. In fact, Tropo doesn’t even have to host the scripts that drive the application. It can and quite happily will, but if that’s of concern, then the script can be pulled from any arbitrary URL and executed on Tropo’s servers. For this piece, we’re going to use Tropo-hosted files, just because that seems easier to start.
Once the e-mail has arrived and verification is taken care of, logging back in to Tropo should reveal a dashboard.
Click “Create an application,” which will take you to Figure 1.
Figure 1 Creating an Application in Tropo
Choose “Tropo Scripting” and give it a name; I used “HelloMSDN” for this example. Finally, click on the “Hosted File” link and choose “Create a new hosted file for this application”; a simple text editor will pop up at that point. As you might guess, you’re building a small script file (in your choice of scripting languages—JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Groovy or Python) that will be fired when Tropo is told to “execute” this script, which in this case will be when somebody dials a phone number that Tropo will give you. (More on this later.)
Call the file “HelloMSDNScript.js” (the .js extension being important, to tell Tropo that this is a JavaScript script), and in the body of the file, put the following:
say("Greetings, MSDN fans!")
When that’s done, it should look like Figure 2.
Figure 2 Creating a Script in Tropo
If all is well, click “Create File,” and then “Create Application.” Once that’s done, Tropo will take you back to the application dashboard, which will look a little different now, as you can see in Figure 3.
Figure 3 The Tropo Application Dashboard
This dashboard is particularly important, because this is where you’re going to have some control over the channels to which Tropo is listening. In many respects, the one that generates the most visceral reaction from non-technical people is the phone demo, so let’s get Tropo to assign a phone number to the application. This is done by clicking “Add a phone number” and selecting an area code from which the number will be generated. Naturally, U.S. toll-free (1-800) numbers are supported as well, but because of the costs involved, that requires setting up a billing plan. Once you’ve selected an area code, Tropo needs a few minutes to provision the number, and then you can dial the number and be greeted in fine synthesized voice fashion. (Yes, do it now.)
Hi, Honey! Do You Still Love Me?
But that’s not nearly enough. Being as how the Valentine’s season is approaching, and the holiday season is just past, and you probably played too much Xbox 360 over Christmas, and that got your significant other all annoyed with you for not paying attention to him/her (yes, my wife still brings this up over dinner), you might want to make sure your loved one (girlfriend/boyfriend/spouse/whatever) is still in love with you. So let’s flip the code around for a bit and make sure. Editing the running application is pretty easy: going back to the application dashboard (which should still be up, assuming you’ve closed the text editor window; if you haven’t, don’t worry, just stay there), simply click on the “Hosted File” link again and choose the “Edit this hosted file” option to bring the text editor back up. This time, replace the say code with the following (with, of course, your loved one’s name in place of my wife’s):
say("I love you, Charlotte!");
var results = ask("Do you love me too? Yes or no?", {
choices: "yes, no"
log("results.value: " + results.value)
if (results.value == "yes") {
say("Yay! That makes me happy.");
say("Oh. Now I'm a sad panda.");
The ask routine is a blocking call, playing the prompt, and then waiting (up to a configurable timeout number of seconds) for a voice response. This being a JavaScript API, we can pass in a number of optional parameters in the JSON struct at the end of the ask call, which in this case contains the “choices” string, which is a comma-delimited list of acceptable voice responses. Tropo contains some speech-to-text translators and will attempt to parse the spoken response from the caller—as best it can, anyway. (When Tropo does its parsing, it does so with a “confidence” factor, indicating how strongly it thinks it parsed correctly, and the level of confidence you demand in your spoken responses can be configured. By default it’s .3, which is pretty loosey-goosey, but usually sufficient for spoken responses when the acceptable results are prompted, as in the previous “Yes or no” prompt.)
But wait! The default voice is a female voice, and that could sound a little weird when sending it to my wife. So let’s change the voice over to something more like my own. This is done by passing in the optional “voice” field in the JSON arguments for both say and ask:
say("I love you, Charlotte!", { voice:"victor"});
voice: "victor",
say("Yay! That makes me happy.", { voice:"victor"});
say("Oh. Now I'm a sad panda.", { voice:"victor"});
Once done editing, save the file; Tropo will update the file in place, and the next phone call made will play with the new voice. Note that “victor” is just one of a number of possible voices, including a variety of different accents. Make sure you don’t pick one that sounds sexier than your own natural voice, though, or your chosen loved one may prefer the phone over you, and that would probably be bad.
Of course, it would be best if it were your own voice, and with a little preparation, you can make it so. Both say and ask support playing an MP3 or WAV file instead of doing the text-to-speech option currently being used, so grab your trusty computer microphone, record the prompts and the responses, and upload them to your favorite Web server. Then, instead of offering up the text to parse and synthesize, provide the URLs for the pre-recorded files (which you’ll have to record and store on an HTTP-accessible server) to play; the code will read as such (where the URL is your recorded file):
say('http://www.tedneward.com/howdy.wav');
Next: Artificial Intelligence
I’ve only scratched the surface of what you can do with Tropo—in fact, I have much more to explore with Tropo before I’m done with the subject—but to fully understand where I want to go with this particular example, we’ll have to take a side trip into the wonderful world of artificial intelligence, then revisit Tropo again.
Ted Neward is an architectural consultant with Neudesic LLC. He’s written more than 100 articles, is a C# MVP and INETA speaker and has authored and coauthored a dozen books, including the recently released “Professional F# 2.0” (Wrox). He consults and mentors regularly. Reach him at ted@tedneward.com if you’re interested in having him come work with your team, or read his blog at blogs.tedneward.com.
Thanks to the following technical expert for reviewing this article: Adam Kalsey
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Breaking News: Mr Georges Kern resigns from his position at Richemont group
How a Watch is Made at Movas: Part 3
Review: Arnold & Son Tourbillon Chronometer No. 36
A tribute to the genius of John Arnold, undertaken with some creative license.
by Dan-Andrei Kluska on July 14, 2017
• excellent finishes
• beautiful, balanced layout
• the 46mm diameter case can be a problem to a small wrist size
• the open dial with a multitude of elements distract the viewer from a fast time reading
Arnold & Son is a brand which can trace its origins way back to the heydays of English watchmaking. But the brand was revived in Switzerland, and other than the name and the inspiration from the namesake, it is by most counts a Swiss maison. They were currently owned by the Citizen, but continue to produce visually and technically interesting watches. Today we review the Arnold & Son Tourbillon Chronometer No. 36 – a tribute to the first chronometer built by John Arnold, though it takes the homage with quite a bit of liberty.
The Arnold & Son Chronometer 36. Perhaps a fitting tribute and rather liberal interpretation of the one of most important timepieces created by John Arnold.
The British origins
John Arnold is perhaps one of the greatest British watchmakers. Born in 1736 in the Cornwall, the young John showed a great interest in precision engineering. His father was a watchmaker and his uncle was a gunsmith, and he turned out to be a talented craftsman. He chose the Netherlands as the place to complete his apprenticeship. There he learned not only the art of watchmaking but also the German language. In 1762, John Arnold opened his first workshop in London. He first received recognition when he managed to repair a repetition watch owned by a famous watch connoisseur.
In 1764, John Arnold presented to King George III a half-quarter repeater miniaturised in a ring. It was the smallest repeating watch ever made and still considered a technical tour de force to this day. This opened his atelier doors to the court’s wealthy clientele.
John Arnold was interested in the problems of determining the longitude, crucial for the maritime travelling. He was considered a rival to John Harrison, who had presented his H4 for the Longitude Prize in 1761. John presented his marine chronometer to the Board of Longitude in 1770. And received his first grant of £200 for continuing to improve the timekeeping.
In the next years, John Arnold’s chronometers were used by Admiral Harland in his way to Madagascar, by Captain Cook for the Pacific voyage. Captain Phipps used an Arnold chronometer to travel to the North Pole and George Robertson chose Arnold’s timekeeper to chart the China Sea. The chronometers supplied by Arnold’s workshop accompanied these famous explorers on their voyages of discovery. Even Napoleon Bonaparte himself was impressed with the works, and presented an Arnold clock to the Observatory of Milan in 1802.
In 1773, he invented the detent escapement and he produced the chronometer No. 8, his first pocket chronometer. 1775 was marked by Arnold’s patent for the helical spring and bimetallic balance.
Arnold Chronometer No 36
But perhaps the most important year of the Arnold & Son history was 1778 when the Arnold No. 36 was presented and reviewed at Greenwich. The timepiece was well received and acclaimed for its precision. Arnold used for the first time the word “chronometer” to describe a high accuracy watch. The Chronometer No.36 is the base inspiration for the watch released by the brand at Baselworld 2017 and which we review today.
The 1776 Arnold Chronometer No36.
Arnold 36 and was, in fact, the first watch that Arnold called a chronometer, a term that subsequently came into general use and still means any highly accurate watch. The Royal Observatory, Greenwich tested Arnold 36 for thirteen months, from 1 February 1779 to 6 July 1780. The testers placed it in several positions during the trial, and even wore it and carried it around. The watch exceeded all expectations, as it demonstrated great accuracy. The timekeeping error was 2 minutes 32.2 seconds, but the error in the last nine months amounted to just one minute. The greatest error in any 24 hours was only four seconds, or one nautical mile of longitude at the equator.
Collection of the National Maritime Museum, UK.
In 1792 the Duke of Orleans introduced Arnold to the famous Abraham-Louis Breguet. Impressed by Breguet’s timepiece, Arnold travelled to Paris to meet him. They developed a close friendship that led to a strong collaboration between the two.
An example of this close collaboration is the invention of the tourbillon. Arnold had first developed the concepts of the Tourbillon, but Breguet was the one who finished the project after Arnold died in 1799. As a tribute to his friend, Breguet presented in 1808 his first Tourbillon to Arnold’s son. This was incorporated in an Arnold pocket chronometer, the Arnold No.11 watch. And was presented to Arnold post humously. The watch bears the inscription:
“The first Tourbillon timekeeper by Breguet incorporated into one of the first works of Arnold.
Breguet’s homage to the revered memory of Arnold, given to his son AD 1808.”
This watch is now part of the British Museum’s collection of clocks and watches.
John Roger Arnold, born in 1769, studied watchmaking with Breguet and his father. In 1796, father and son founded Arnold & Son company. They became the suppliers of the Royal Navy for the maritime chronographs. In 1820 John Roger patented the keyless winding system and a year later the “U”-type balance. John Roger Arnold died in 1843 and ‘Arnold & Son’ was purchased by Charles Frodsham, who is also another fabled English watchmaker. After Frodsham’s death, the company slipped into oblivion.
Until Eric Loth and his partners relaunched Arnold & Son, and other British brands under the banner The British Masters in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland in 1995. In May 2010, the brand was bought by La Joux-Perret. Arnold & Son became a fully integrated manufacturer, developing and producing all of its movements in-house. In March 2012, the watch manufacturer was acquired by Citizen.
The Chronometer No. 36 is a commemorative piece of the original “Arnold 36” released 240 years ago. The timekeeper was a significant accomplishment: the first pocket watch to use Arnold’s “T”-balance and the first to wear the “chronometer” appellation. The No.36 presents some resemblance to Arnold & Son Constant Force Tourbillon, reviewed last year.
The gold case might be considered logical for a gold plated movement. Even if the steel case has its advantages and warm contrast, the gold case tends to fit and look better.
The case, dial and hands
Arnold & Son Tourbillon Chronometer No. 36 comes in a relatively large 46mm 18-karat red gold or stainless steel casing. We salute the brand’s decision to release a version in steel. At the same time, it might be just the general trend of steel watches.
The multi-layered dial has a balanced architecture. The main components of the Calibre A&S8600 are visible on the front as dial’s constituent parts.
The case is graceful for its generous dimensions. At a first look, the layout looks complicated, but the basic design is simple and emphasises the dial and the movement. The case is overall highly polished, nicely matching the frost finish of the movement in a game of contrasts. The convex thin bezel has corresponding design elements on the lugs’ exterior. The body is convex also with a soft trapeze profile. These details raise enough the case’s complexity to deal with the dial’s complexity without spoiling the first impression. The almost flat onion-shaped crown is refined. The brand’s logo is laser engraved on a matte chapter ring at the peripheral.
The steel case makes a nice contrast with the gold plated movement
The Tourbillon Chronometer No. 36 is a symmetry study. The dial, per se, is almost non-existent. The hour markers and minutes’ indication is realised using an inner bezel scale, NAC-treated and with applied rhodium indexes. The broadsword hands are faceted and polished. This decoration increases the legibility. The small seconds’ sub-dial is placed between 7 and 8 o’clock, symmetric to the tourbillon. The round scale forces a visual balance for the entire dial.
The one-minute tourbillon features a typically Arnold & Son three-spoke design being held by a skeletonized and mirror-polished top bridge. The tourbillon comprise of 58 components. The cage is dressed up with hand-chamfered and polished edges and circular satin-finished surfaces.
The British traditional chronometers use one bridge for each main element. The bridges’ skeletonization is exquisite. A nice detail is the mirror polished jewels’ sinks and the screws with bevelled and mirror-polished heads. The seconds’ scale and hands are gorgeous. In this view are visible the 3-D shaped rhodium indexes.
Since the hours and minutes’ scale is busy with the brand’s name and “Swiss Made” inscriptions, the “Arnold & Son Tourbillon” and “Certified Chronometer” are laser-engraved on the top double barrels.
The movement: A&S8600
Calibre A&S8600 is hand wound COSC certified, designed and developed in-house movement. The open work system is expressed on the front with the most important components. The decoration of choice for most of the surfaces is a satin finish obtained by sandblasting. This frosted matt finish is typical of English watches.
The bridge of the tourbillon is manufactured in steel. In this way, the bridge and the tourbillon’s cage are visually matched. Note the hand chamfering present not only on the tourbillon components but also on the surrounding bridges. The circular brushed teeth wheels emphasise the balance wheel.
The frosted look is delicately interrupted by the chamfered and polished edges available on the bridges. The movement’s design follows the traditional English chronometers’ style with one bridge for each main element: barrels, wheels and for the tourbillon. There are 13 triangular bridges in total, placed in a multi-level layered composition. Somehow, these elements fill the watch face in a delightful complexity without being heavy or tedious. The double barrel system powers the 4hz tourbillon for up to 90 hours.
The A&S8600 is realised in nickel-silver and steel but it has the main plated and the bridges treated with 5N red gold. This decoration increases the movement’s attractiveness. The gold chatons fits perfectly the scene. Viewed from the back, the calibre presents the same sand-blasted surface on the main plate. The steel wheels of the gear train are excellent decorated. The back view “suffers” from the same perfectly balanced design as the front.
There are more small details that increase the movement’s charm and the watch deserves not only wrist time but also a close attention.
The back of the watch is not as complicated as the face but it features the same excellent decorations.
Some of our regular readers may wonder why we did not comment on one of our Chief Editor’s pet peeve list on movement design. The lack of sharp inward and outward points on the movement. This is perhaps partially vindicated that this is not an English tradition, and the traditional movements made by John Arnold feature rounded edges.
The Arnold & Son Tourbillon Chronometer No. 36 is mid-priced on the market. The red gold, Ref. 1ETAR.G01A.C112A has the recommended retail price of CHF 52,800 (VAT excl.) and the stainless steel, Ref.1ETAS.G01A.C112S – CHF 34,900 (VAT excl.) At these prices, it can be considered affordable, complying fully to our theory of #ComplicationsForLess.
The selection of tourbillon watches is generous on the market. We have made a selection of six different Tourbillon Watches from modern to classical for our Throwback Sundays’ article. But for today, we consider three.
For a direct comparison, we selected a modern and affordable piece – the TAG Heuer Carrera Heuer-02T. It too features a vestigial dial which allow the entire movement to be visible. And it currently holds the title as the most affordable Swiss-made Tourbillon Chronograph available and it has a COSC certification. Priced at € 14,300, this sporty chronograph might be not cheap for a chronometer, but for a tourbillon, it is a game changer. Add the chronograph, and it becomes the value leader by a wide margin. The watch is packed in a 45mm diameter titanium case cover with sapphire crystal and a decent 100m water resistance. The dial is black, skeletonized with an interesting flying 1-minute tourbillon cage. TAG Heuer Calibre Heuer 02 Tourbillon lacks the usual magnificent finishes available for this type of watch in its effort to keep costs down. But as a sports watch, the look is appropriate.
The TAG Heuer Carrera Heuer-02T is one of the most modest priced Swiss-made tourbillon watches on the market.
Coming from the haute horologie corner this time, we field another value tourbillon: the Ulysse Nardin Marine Tourbillon Grand Feu with a magnificent enamel dial. Priced at CHF 28,000, it is a wonderful challenger. The movement is full in-house UN creation, automatic, and features a flying tourbillon. The dial is a true masterpiece, made by Donzé, one of the top grand feu enamel dial makers in the business.
Compared to the Arnold No36, the UN is more classical, with a full dial, with the traditional cutout for the tourbillon. Movement finishing style is different, but at a similarly high level to qualify as haute horogerie. In our full review, link here, we also compared it to the TAG, and concluded that though it is almost double the price of the TAG, it offers perhaps more value as the UN is done in the traditional haute horlogerie levels. The TAG remains the value leader for a Swiss made Tourbillon watch with chronograph, but will appeal to a different buyer.
The UN Marine Tourbillon sports a dial in grand feu enamel. A large opening is cut for the tourbillon. Note the chamfered and polished edge of this aperture.
At the other end of the value spectrum, so to speak, we selected a watch from our Chief Editor in his Best of the Indies 2017 Edition – lthe Jämes-César Pellaton Chronomètre Royal de Marine. You can read here a full review of this magnificent piece. Priced at CHF 298,000 before taxes for the white gold and red gold editions, the Chronomètre Royal de Marine is the costliest of all. However, along with this high rice, it comes with top class finishes and a distinguished movement. The unusual styling reminds of the pocket watches movements, in fact it is a rather faithful homage to the original Pellatons. The dial is a sapphire crystal with markings which are transfer printed in enamel. This lets the movement to be exposed to a critic’s eye. And the result is beyond reproach.
The sapphire dial is not new on the market. This “opening” offers a necessary view for this beautiful movement.
The Arnold & Son Tourbillon Chronometer No. 36 is a beautiful watch. Though the open worked dial may look complicated, the design is clean and open. The finishes are quite lavish, and we find its visual appeal to be very attractive. This is a watch which will always be a conversation starter and a reason of envy. At its price, the Arnold 36 is well situated on the market. The brand follows the trend of the day in offering a steel version. We cannot decide which one looks best since both have their own visual advantages, but if forced to choose, the steel version gets our nod, for its excellent value for money.
Arnold 36 tribute is a generous sized watch but with a pleasant wrist presence
Arnold & Son Tourbillon Chronometer No. 36 Specification and Price
Recommended Retail Prices: Red gold case, CHF 52’800 (VAT excl.), Stainless steel case, CHF 34’900 (VAT excl.)
Calibre: A&S8600
Type: mechanical manual winding movement
Dimensions: diameter 37.8 mm, thickness 5.9 mm
Power reserve: 90 hours, double barrel
Frequency: 4 Hz / 28’800, COSC certified
Functions: Hours, minutes, small seconds, 1-minute tourbillon
Material: 18-karat red gold or stainless steel
Dimensions of the case
Diameter: Ø 46 mm
Crystal: cambered sapphire with anti-reflective coating on both sides
Crown: 18-karat red gold or stainless steel
Caseback: see-through sapphire case back
Material: Hand-stitched brown or black alligator leather
Buckle: pin buckle matching case’s material
28 timepieces in each version
Red gold: 1ETAR.G01A.C112A
Stainless steel: 1ETAS.G01A.C112S
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Review: Arnold & Son Instrument DSTB
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All About Salesforce Extensions for VS Code
There has been a ton of exciting news around developer tooling for Salesforce developers over the last few releases. Last year, we released the beta and GA of Salesforce DX tools which include the CLI, Salesforce Extensions for Visual Studio (VS) Code, scratch orgs, and more. This year, we’ve been heads-down on developer tooling with weekly releases of the Visual Studio Code extensions and the CLI, with even more to come.
With this blog post, we’re sharing the direction of Salesforce developer tooling and want to give you whatever information we can to help you plan effectively for your future app development. (Remember to make your purchasing decisions based on what is generally available though #forwardlookingstatement!)
At a high level, our goal is to make developers happy and productive. We view this as having two distinct components.
The first is to build the best possible tooling using modern patterns and industry best practices. This is where our CLI and VS Code extensions fit in. The future of Salesforce development on the desktop is the Salesforce extensions for Visual Studio Code.
The second is to foster a rich community of partners who build even more tools to make developers happy. With this in mind, we are embracing open source and standard protocols. We aim for third-party developers to be able to build any developer experience they like without limitation. This means that they will have access to source code, that they can use the same APIs we use, and that they can work closely with the developer tools team at Salesforce to solve problems. The developer community is best served by a diverse and rich set of tooling beyond what we will ship ourselves.
The future of Salesforce developer tools
If you haven’t tried Salesforce Extensions for VS Code, I highly recommend you do so. Visual Studio Code is a powerful editor with some very enjoyable features. It is highly customizable and is cross-platform. The Salesforce extensions provide features such as code completion, syntax highlighting, Apex live debugging, and more for the Lightning Platform.
As I mentioned, the Salesforce Extensions for VS Code are the future of Salesforce development. We are dedicating our resources to make this the best and most enjoyable desktop editor for Salesforce developers. With this focus on Visual Studio Code, we are moving away from our support of Eclipse. While the Force.com IDE will be supported and will receive some updates in the near future, the updates will focus mainly on compatibility (and of course, security if needed). We will not be adding any new major features to the Force.com IDE and we will eventually deprecate it entirely.
Don’t worry: we know that not all the functionality from Force.com IDE is available in Salesforce Extensions for VS Code or the Salesforce CLI. We’re working on that. Rest assured that we don’t have immediate plans to deprecate Force.com IDE, and that we’ll give you plenty of advance notice when we officially move toward deprecation. In the meantime, feel free to start trying out VS Code (Though you might not want to put too much work into any Eclipse enhancements that you have on your list).
Openness and community
While we focus on transitioning to Visual Studio Code, we also recognize that not everyone will want to use this tool. With this in mind, we are working to support the rich community of existing third-party tools and encouraging even more tools to be built in the future. One of the ways we are doing this is by open sourcing much of the tooling we have built and are currently building. For example, the Salesforce Extensions for VS Code are and will remain open source. The second approach we are taking here is to invest in industry protocols for IDEs, the first of which is called the Language Server Protocol.
The Language Server Protocol was created by Microsoft for Visual Studio Code. It has subsequently been adopted by other tools (Eclipse, Sublime Text, and Atom) and language developers (Red Hat, Puppetlabs, and Facebook). The Language Server Protocol (LSP) creates a standard interface for developer tools to communicate with the mechanisms that provide the language “smarts” such as code completion, syntax highlighting, go to definition, and even documentation. This means that all of these features can be implemented once and used in many different tools, IDEs, or services. So far we have shipped implementations of the LSP for Apex, Lightning Components, and Visualforce. These LSPs are available for partners to use in order to create new and unique tools.
In addition to the LSP, there are additional areas where we are working to be generic and reusable. Our Apex Debugger is one such example. While the debugger protocol isn’t a standard, it’s open source and can be easily adapted to other uses. Additionally, we will be publishing the node modules that power the CLI to NPM so developers can implement similar features in their tools without writing duplicate code. Not all of this is open source at this time, but we are working to get as much out there as possible.
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Anderson Elshoff, 10, of Holland, lights candles before the Christmas Eve candlelight service at Maple Grove Church just outside Huntingburg on Tuesday. Anderson's aunt, Elizabeth Elshoff, has been attending the candlelight service her whole life and is now a member of the board. "I remember coming out here as a little one," she said. "This was so important to me."
By LEANN BURKE
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It was Christmas Eve and Elizabeth Elshoff, 64, of Huntingburg, was leaving her family Christmas party early. But she wasn’t headed home to go to bed and wait for Santa Claus. She was headed to Maple Grove, a historic church just southwest of Huntingburg’s city limits off County Road 585 West.
Once at the church, Elizabeth set about turning on the furnace that would heat the almost-200-year-old structure for the Christmas Eve candlelight service, a tradition at the old church that stretches almost unbroken for more than 50 years.
“I remember coming out here as a little one,” she said. “It was just so important to come out here.”
Missing out on family time to care for Maple Grove is nothing new for Elizabeth. In fact, it’s in her blood. Her father, Alvin, cared for the church grounds until his death in June, as did his father, Daniel. Elizabeth’s great-grandfather, Henry Elshoff, and his father, John, were among the German-speaking men who built the church in 1844, and both are buried in the cemetery on the grounds. It’s that family connection that keeps Elizabeth connected to the grounds, and it’s part of what led her to be a founding member of the Historic Maple Grove Foundation.
The foundation formed earlier this year after Maple Grove’s parent church, Huntingburg United Methodist, announced its plans to sell the property. Many members of the foundation — there are nine voting board members and several advisory members — attend Huntingburg United Methodist, which grew from Maple Grove, and have strong ancestral ties to the site. The group plans to acquire the property, fix it up and turn it back into the community gathering space it once was.
Friends and family gather for the Christmas Eve candlelight service at Maple Grove Church just outside Huntingburg on Tuesday.
“I just didn’t want to see it fall apart,” said Arlene Wagner of St. Anthony, a member of the Historic Maple Grove Foundation who has ancestors buried in the cemetery.
The group has almost reached its goal. Of the $90,000 needed to purchase the property — which includes the church, the cemetery and several cabins that made up a church camp for several decades — the group has raised $70,000. Elizabeth said they plan to take out a loan to help purchase the site because they will need money on hand to begin improvements soon after purchase. The plan is to close the sale in mid-January.
Once the foundation owns the property, community events like the traditional Christmas Eve candlelight service will become the norm. The group also has plans to continue the tradition of holding an Easter candle-lit sunrise service in the old church, and to hold an adult Easter egg hunt at the property this year. The group is also brainstorming other events that can be held at the site.
News of the area getting new life is exciting for residents along County Road 585 West, many of whom live within walking distance of the area. Jan Miller, a local pastor who led the Christmas Eve service and lives near the site, has many fond memories of family gatherings at the site, including his wedding reception.
“This place has been a great blessing to the community for many years,” he said.
As the attendees, many of whom were not members of the Historic Maple Grove Foundation, filed out of the church just before midnight on Christmas Eve, Elizabeth handed out information about the land’s history and the work the foundation plans to do. Hopefully, she said, those people will return to Maple Grove time and again, as she and her family have returned to the site for generations.
Brenda Kahle of Holland, left, and her husband, Lynn, close their eyes in prayer during the Christmas Eve candlelight service at Maple Grove Church just outside Huntingburg on Tuesday. The candlelight service has been held at the church for more than 50 years.
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Patten Embryological Collection
Severn CB. A morphological study of the development of the human liver. I. Development of the hepatic diverticulum. (1971) Amer. J Anat. 131: 133-158. PMID 5575887
This historic 1971 paper by Severn describes human liver development at Carnegie stages 9, 10, 11, and 12. The study uses a large number of Template:Carnegie embryos and embryos from the historic Patten collection, that was later in 2004 incorporated into the Carnegie Collection. Note the online editor has replaced the traditional Roman numeral used in the text for Carnegie staging with a number link to that stage online information.
After 1957 the collection, under Professor Alphonse Burdi, grew with a focus on the embryology of craniofacial regions and related birth defect syndromes.
In 2004 the Burdi-Patten Michigan Embryology Collection was deeded by the University of Michigan to the Human Developmental Anatomy Center (HDAC) at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, DC.
See also by this author: Severn CB. A morphological study of the development of the human liver. II. Establishment of liver parenchyma, extrahepatic ducts and associated venous channels. (1972) Amer. J Anat. 133: 85-107. PMID 5008885
See also: Thompson P. A note on the development of the septum transversum and the liver. (1908) J Anat Physiol. 42(2): 170-5. PMID 17232762 Ingalls NW. A contribution to the embryology of the liver and vascular system in man. (1908 ) Anat. Rec. 2:338–344. Bradley OC. A contribution to the morphology and development of the mammalian liver. (1908) J. Anat. and Phys. 43: 1-42. PMID 17232788
PubMed: Severn CB. (1971). A morphological study of the development of the human liver. I. Development of the hepatic diverticulum. Am. J. Anat. , 131, 133-58. PMID: 5575887 DOI.
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1 A Morphological Study of the Development of the Human Liver
1.1 I. Development Of The Hepatic Diverticulum
1.3 Materials and Methods
1.4 Observations
1.4.1 Horizon IX
1.4.2 Horizon X
1.4.3 Horizon XI
1.5 Discussion
1.6 Literature Cited
1.7 Plates
A Morphological Study of the Development of the Human Liver
I. Development Of The Hepatic Diverticulum
Charles B. Severn
Department of Anatomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Present address: University of Nebraska College of Medicine, Department of Anatomy, Omaha, Neraska.
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health, Training grant GM312.
The development of the hepatic diverticulum was examined in 38 human embryos representing somite stages 1, 5, 8 and 10 through 29, inclusive. Interpretations were based on light microscopic study of serial sections of these embryos.
The liver primordium was first identified in a five-somite embryo as a flat plate of endodermal cells continuous with, but lying ventral to, the endoderm of the foregut at the anterior intestinal portal. It is positioned caudal and ventral to the developing heart. This plate of endoderm subsequently undergoes a progressive folding due to differential growth of adjacent structures. During the folding process there is a close spatial relationship between the cells of the endodermal plate and the caudal and ventral endothelial lining of the atrium and the sinus venosus. The result of this folding is the establishment of a “T-shaped” diverticulum which projects ventrally and cephalically from the gut tract. The hepatic diverticulum is established by the 20 somite-stage embryo. This mode of development of the hepatic diverticulum is compared to the classical interpretation and to the development of other visceral organs,
The lack of an extensive sequential series of human embryonic material has prevented past investigators from obtaining anything more than general and rather vague concepts as to how the human liver develops. Due to this scarcity of material, most of the descriptions were based on observations of few embryos and represented a limited series of developmental stages. Extrapolations and interpolations of the entire development of the liver were made from the stages available.
The classical description of the development of the liver was written by Lewis (12), who reviewed the observations made by previous authors. From this review it appears that Thompson (08), in his description of a 2.5-mm embryo, coined the term “outgrowth” for hepatic diverticulum.
From 1912 to the present several studies have been made concerning the development of the human liver. They include those by Hammar (’26), Bloom (’26), Horstmann (739), and Elias (49, ’52, ’53, °55, °57, 64, 67). These authors have been primarily concerned with the development of the intrahepatic duct system, correlation of the liver’s developmental pattern with its definitive architectural pattern, and comparison of the origin and development of the liver in various species of vertebrates. Whereas earlier works on liver development were somewhat imprecise, these later investigations were quite specific in nature and the resulting interpretations yielded conflicting points of view. With the exception of Hammar, who used 88 human embryos ranging from 3.0 mm to 73.5 mm in crown-rump length (CRL) the material used covered a broad spectrum of developmental stages but the number of specimens were few. Bloom described six embryos ranging from 10 mm to 40 mm CRL in size. Horstmann used nine embryos ranging from 16 mm to 330 mm CRL. Elias’s study (’55) consisted of seven human embryos.
To my knowledge, no attempt has been made to trace the liver back to its primordial stage, nor has anyone traced the morphological development of the human liver from the primordial stage to its adult configuration.
According to current accounts the liver develops as a ventral “outgrowth” of the gut endoderm in the region of the anterior intestinal portal (Arey, 65; Davies, 63; Hamilton et al., 62; Patten, 68; Du Bois, °63). The details of this process have not been described. The availability of an extensive series of human embryos made possible this study of the morphological events involved in formation of the hepatic diverticulum.
This investigation was based on light microscopic examination of serial sections of 38 human embryos in the Patten Embryology Collection of the Department of Anatomy, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and from the collection in the Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, Maryland. In table 1 are listed for all embryos the source, collection number, horizon stage, crown-rump length and number of somites, plane of section, section thickness and stain used. Streeter’s (42) criteria based on both external form and internal structure for categorizing embryos into developmental age groups or “horizons” were used when possible to determine the developmental stages of the embryos. Embryos which fell within Horizons IX through XII were classified more specifically according to somite stages. When more than one embryo was available at a developmental stage, the embryos were cross-checked for morphological similarities and/or differences within that stage and also compared to the preceding and following stages. This allowed for a more accurate placement of embryos in a developmental sequence.
Table 1 Human Embryos Studied
Embryo no.
CRL (mm)/No. of somites
Sections: plane/thickness (micron}
C-5080 9 1.5/1 T/10 AlC
C-2795 10 2.0/5 T/6 AIC-OG
C- 391 10 2.0/8 T/10 AIC
C-5074 10 3.3/10 T/10 (Stain - Haematoxylin Eosin)
C-3710 10 3.6/11 T/10
C-8970 10 /12 T/5 (Stain - Haematoxylin Eosin)
C-6344 11 2.5/13 T/6 Alc
C-4529 11 2.4/14 T/10 AI1C-OG
C-8962 11 1.5/15 T/
C-7611 11 2.4/16 T/8 (Stain - Haematoxylin Eosin)
C-6784 11 5.0/17 T/6 H and OG
C-8116 11 /17 S/8 A
C-164 11 3.5/18 T/20 AIC
C-6050 11 3.0/19 F/10 AIC
C-2053 11 3.0/20 T/10 AIC
C-486 12 /21 T/10 AIC
C-8943 12 .9/22 T/8 (Stain - Haematoxylin Eosin)
C-8505b 12 3.7/23 S/8 A
C-8505a 12 3.6/24 T/8 (Stain - Haematoxylin Eosin)
C-8942 12 3.4/26 F/5 (Stain - Haematoxylin Eosin)
C-8941 12 4.9/28 T-F/6 (Stain - Haematoxylin Eosin)
C-7724 12 3.5/29 S/8 (Stain - Haematoxylin Eosin)
P- 24 10 2.1/12 T/10 (Stain - Haematoxylin Eosin)
P- 71 10 2.5/6 T/10 (Stain - Haematoxylin Eosin)
P- 8 11 3.0/ T/5 CB
P- 195 11 3.5/ T/10 (Stain - Haematoxylin Eosin)
P- 44 12 3.5/ T/10 (Stain - Haematoxylin Eosin)
P- 520 12 4.0/ T/15 M
P- 555 12 3.0 T/10 (Stain - Haematoxylin Eosin)
Embryo - C, Carnegie collection; P, Patten collection.
Plane - T, transverse; F, frontal; S, sagittal.
Stain - AlC, Alum cochineal; OG, orange G; HE, hematoxylin and eosin; A, azan; Co, carmine and blue; M, masson.
The morphological relations of the developing gut tract, heart, regional blood vessels, septum transversum and _ liver complex were observed. Photomicrographs were taken for clarification and substantiation of some of the observations. Plaster models of the foregut and hepatic diverticulum of embryos of 17 and 23 somites were made by an inverse wax-plate method.
Although the observations to be reported begin with the youngest embryo in the series, the actual studies started with embryos of Horizon XIII, in which the liver and its associated extrahepatic duct system were identifiable. Morphological development was then traced backward, chronologically, to the stage where the liver primordium could not be identified as a specific morphological structure. Then the morphological changes were studied in detail starting with this youngest embryo (one-somite, 1.5 mm, Horizon IX) and progressed throughout the series of specimens.
Although the hepatic primordium could not be specifically identified in the 1.5 mm embryo, the observations to be presented begin with a description of this embryo as a reference for further description of the hepatic diverticulum in succeeding embryos. It was also necessary to include in the observations of the different staged embryos, descriptions of the configuration of the foregut, heart, and septum transversum as important interrelationships appeared between the development of these structures and of the hepatic diverticulum.
Horizon IX
One-somite embryos (1.5 mm CRL). This embryo consisted of a flattened, elongated disc in which all three germ layers were present (figs. 1-4). The germ layers were distinguishable only by their position and relationship to one another, since the cells of these layers were not significantly different from one another.
The ectoderm of this embryo had the form of a thick middorsal plate of cells that was grooved longitudinally on its dorsal surface. This dorsal plate was identified as the neural plate. The presence of the dorsal groove was characteristic of this horizon. Ventral and contiguous to the neural plate was a layer of endoderm, two to three cells thick, which extended laterally as the single-cell layered yolk sac. Lateral to the midline zone of contiguity between endoderm and ectoderm, these two germ layers were separated from each other by a layer of mesodermal cells. The layer of intervening mesoderm was two to five cells in thickness. In a caudal segment of the embryo (region of the somite) the mesoderm was present in its typical form and consisted of a medial mass, a narrow intermediate portion and a lateral mass which was divided into splanchnic and somatic layers (fig. 4). The space between splanchnic and somatic layers was presumptive coelom. In this region of the embryo the coelomic spaces were at the lateral borders of the embryonic disc; the mesoderm was continuous with the extra embryonic mesoderm of the amnion and yolk sac.
The mesoderm which at the level of the somite was lateral to the midline juncture of endoderm and ectoderm, continued across the midline and separated the endoderm from the ectoderm at the cephalic end of the embryo (fig. 3). At this level the endodermal layer was about eight cells thick. The cephalic end of the zone of contact of endoderm and ectoderm (immediately caudal to their separation by intervening mesoderm) probably marked the site of the future stomodeum. For descriptive purposes this site of the future stomodeum was referred to as point a. Rostral to this level the dorsal ectoderm consisted of a single layer of cells which was identified as amnion. The endoderm formed a midline plate of two to three cells in thickness (fig. 2). The lateral extent of this endodermal plate paralled the medial borders of the coelomic spaces. The coelomic spaces appeared to approach each other in the midline at a still more rostral level. Just caudal to the level at which these coelomic spaces approximated each other and became a single cavity (pericardial coelom), the endoderm was a single cell layer and was identified as yolk sac. Again, for purposes of description, this anterior point at which the thick two- to three-cell endodermal plate was continuous with the single cell layered yolk sac was designated as point b. The thickened plate of endoderm between points a and b was rostral to the body of the embryo, and represented the entire foregut primordium. The primordial heart was also rostral to the body of the embryo and dorsal to the endoderm between points a and b (fig. 1). In still more rostral sections the coelomic spaces were absent. All that remained was a single cell layer of ectoderm (amnion) and a single cell layer of endoderm (yolksac); between the two layers was interposed a two- to three-cell thick layer of mesoderm.
Horizon X
Carnegie Stage 10
Five-somite embryo (2 mm CRL). In the one-somite embryo the plate of endoderm between points a and b was entirely cephalic to point a; whereas, in the fivesomite embryo it lay entirely caudal to point a (fig. 5). In the region of the stomodeum of this older embryo (fig. 6), points a and b appeared at the same transverse level and the intervening endoderm was dorsal, caudal and ventral to the developing heart, pericardium and septum transversum. The endoderm dorsal to the developing heart formed the tubular foregut, which extended from a point a, caudally, to the caudal level of the developing heart. The caudal extent of the endodermal tube was identified as the anterior intestinal portal. The endoderm ventral and cranial to the anterior intestinal portal was in the form of a flat plate. The lateral extent of the plate corresponded to the lateral extent of the pericardial cavity.
The developing pericardium and heart, which were rostral to the stomodeum in the one-somite embryo, were present at the level of, and caudal to, the stomodeum in the five-somite embryo. The lateral body wall had grown laterally and ventrally and enclosed a major portion of the pericardium and heart. The lateral edges of the pericardial mesoderm approximated each other in the midline ventrally and a space (pericardial coelom) was present. Parietal pericardial and epimyocardial layers had formed. An endothelial tube one cell in thickness surrounded by a sheath of cardiac jelly was inside the epimyocardium. Where the parietal pericardia were in contact in the midline there was a thickening of mesodermal cells that separated the endodermal plate from the epimyocardium and its endothelial lining. This mesoderm was continuous with the mesoderm of the parietal pericardium and the mesoderm covering the amnion and yolk sac. Because of its position and its relation to adjacent cellular layers, this mesodermal thickening was interpreted as the developing septum transversum. Caudal to this level, neither the epimyocardia nor the parietal pericardia had fused; they were lateral to the sagittal plane. At this level the endothelium of the cardiac primordia was present as two tubes whose medial walls were in juxtaposition.
At a level caudal to that just described, the two endothelial tubes were not in contact with each other, but projected laterally. In this region the endothelial tubes appeared to straddle the cephalic surface of the endodermal plate. The cells of the endodermal plate appeared to be in direct contact with the cells of the medial walls of the endothelial tubes. Laterally, the endothelial tubes were small in diameter and appeared to be continuous with the developing capillary bed of the yolk sac. The endodermal plate was wider in this area of contact. The area at which the endodermal plate was in direct contact with the endothelial lining of the developing heart (fig. 7) was designated as point c. Just dorsal to point c foregut and endodermal plate were continuous (anterior intestinal portal) (fig. 8).
In the five-somite embryo cells of the tubular foregut and those of the endodermal plate were cytologically similar. The plate was from two- to three-cells thick. These cells possessed little cytoplasm and their tightly packed nuclei were large and spherical to ovoid in shape. The nucleoplasm was granular and contained darkly staining chromatin bodies.
Eight-somite embryo (2mm CRL). The foregut was more prominent than in the five-somite embryo and was flattened dorsoventrally. Its ventral and lateral walls were thicker than its dorsal wall and were threeto four-cells thick, the nuclei of these cells being compactly arranged and oval in shape. The dorsal wall was a single layer of cells possessing large, spherical nuclei.
The endodermal plate, which was continuous with the foregut, projected ventrally and cephalically from the anterior intestinal portal. It was morphologically and cytologically similar to the ventral and lateral walls of the foregut. The most anterior extent of the endodermal plate (point b) appeared at the level at which the epimyocardium, parietal pericardium and septum transversum were continuous with one another (fig. 11). In the eightsomite embryo point b was no longer at the stomodeal level (fig. 9) as it was in the five-somite embryo, but was at a more caudal level where the ventricular portion of the heart was continuous with the developing atrium.
Just caudal to the level of the stomodeum (fig. 10), the developing heart was a distinct tubular structure situated within a well-defined pericardial cavity. It consisted of two layers, an inner endothelial lining surrounded by an epimyocardial layer. The latter was continuous with the parietal pericardium by a middorsal attachment (dorsal mesocardium). At this level there were also indications of the septum transversum. This septum consisted of loosely arranged mesodermal cells (3- to 4-cells thick) which were located between the parietal pericardium and the yolk sac endoderm. These cells of the septum transversum were continuous laterally and ventrally with the somatic and splanchnic mesoderm covering the amnion and yolk sac.
At a more caudal level (level of the anterior intestinal portal) the parietal pericardia and epimyocardia of opposite sides were no longer in contact with each other in the midline (fig. 12). The thick epimyocardial layer only vaguely outlined a division of the single tube into a bifid structure. The internal endothelial tube branched to the right and to the left and disappeared laterally into the capillary bed of the yolk sac. The fused medial endothelial wall, representing the fusion of paired atrial primordia at this level in the fivesomite embryo, was not present in the eight-somite embryo at any level. There was no septum transversum in the midline and the thick endodermal plate was in direct contact with the ventral and caudal surfaces of the branching endothelial tube. At this point of contact (point c), the endodermal plate was slightly wider than at its cephalic end. Although the thickness of the endodermal plate was the same as that of the ventral and lateral walls of the foregut, the cell boundaries were more distinct in the plate than in the foregut. The nuclei were oval but the chromatin was not as compact and the cells contained more cytoplasm than those of the ventral wall of the foregut.
Ten-somite embryo (3.3 mm CRL). In the ten-somite embryo the neural folds had fused in the somite region and formed a neural tube. The neural tube was covered by dorsal ectoderm of the body wall. The cephalic and caudal ends of the neural tube were open (anterior and posterior neuropores). The foregut had elongated and its cephalic end was still compressed dorsoventrally. The dorsal wall of the compressed foregut was one-cell thick. These cells were clearly definable. Their nuclei were large and separated from each other by distinct cytoplasm. The lateral and ventral walls of the foregut were still two- to three-cells thick, but the cells were no longer cuboidal but columnar instead. They contained more cytoplasm and the nuclei were more spherical than those of corresponding celis in the eight-somite embryo.
At the cephalic end of the embryo the endothelial tube of the developing truncus region of the heart divided on either side 138
of the developing foregut (first aortic arch). There was a ventral projection of the ventral wall of the foregut between the divisions of the endothelial tube which was identified as primordial thyroid. The endodermal cells of this projection appeared to be in contact with the endothelial cells of the truncus,
In this embryo, the heart was still a straight double-walled tube. The outer wall consisted of the epimyocardium and the inner wall the endothelial lining. In the region of the anterior intestinal portal the outer epimyocardia and the parietal pericardia were not fused in the ventral midline and the inner endothelial tube projected to the right and left. At the point of this projection the cells of the endodermal plate were still in contact with the ventral and caudal surfaces of the endothelium.
The endodermal plate (between points b and c), which projected ventrally and more cephalically in the five-somite and eight-somite embryos, was positioned more ventrally and was almost perpendicular to the foregut at the anterior intestinal portal in the ten-somite embryo. The endodermal plate was the same thickness as the ventral and lateral walls of the foregut. The greatest thickness and the widest extent of this endodermal plate occurred along the veniral and caudal surfaces of the endothelium at the point of the caudal fusion of the paired primordia of the heart.
The two endothelium-lined vessels caudal to the point of fusion were positioned laterally at more caudal levels. These were the paired primordia of the sinus venosus. In both the five- and eight-somite embryos these two channels were smali and appeared to break up close to the point of fusion and became continuous with the capillary beds of the yolk sac. In the tensomite embryo, however, these vessels, although they were still continuous with the capillary bed of the yolk sac, were large channels which extended caudally the length of the embryo at the edges of the lateral body wall. There also were connections between these large vessels and small blood vessels which appeared in situ in the septum transversum.
Eleven-somite embryo. Increased growth along the longitudinal axis of the embryo resulted in the formation of a head and tail fold. In the 11-somite embryo these folds resulted in a C-shaped configuration of the embryo, with its midventral portion being constricted.
In the 11-somite embryo the septum transversum had increased in volume. This produced a greater separation between the parietal pericardium and the endodermal plate. The increase in mass of the septum transversum was ventral and cephalic to the point at which the endoderm was in direct contact with the endothelium of the developing heart (point c). Due to the increased mass of the septum transversum ventral to point c and to the development of the head and tail folds, the developing atrium appeared to be more dorsally positioned. Despite this, the developing heart still remained a straight tubular structure in this embryo.
The endodermal plate was widest in the region of caudal fusion of the heart. The cells of this portion of the endodermal plate were adjacent to the lining cells of the caudal portion of the atrium and the paired primordia of the sinus venosus.
Summary of observations for Horizon X. By the end of Horizon X, the following morphological structures were established : the foregut; the hepatic primordium (a thick endodermal plate which extended ventrally and cephalically from the anterior intestinal portal, and caudal and ventral to the developing heart); a straight tubular heart consisting of truncus, ventricle and atrium; the first aortic arch and the paired primordia of the sinus venosus; septum transversum; thyroid primordium; and a neural tube, open at cephalic and caudal ends.
Horizon XI
Thirteen-somite embryo (2.5 mm CRL). In the 13-somite embryo, in addition to the greater length of the foregut, its cephalic end had flattened out considerably, being four to five times greater in width than in height (developing pharynx). There was little change in the cytology of its cells, the only noticeable one being an increase in the quantity of cytoplasm in the ventral and lateral walls. This cytoplasm was displaced to the luminal surface of the foregut lining. The middorsal wall of the foregut was flat, as was the ventral surface of the neural tube. These two surfaces were separated by a rod-like structure of columnar cells (notochord) which appeared to be continuous with the endodermal cells of the dorsal wall of the foregut. As in the 10- and 11-somite embryos, the midventral wall of the foregut (thyroid primordium) projected ventrally into the region in which the truncus appeared to divide around the developing pharynx. The endodermal cells appeared to be in contact with the endothelial cells of this bifurcation.
The tubular heart had increased in length and volume and filled the pericardial cavity. The cardiac loop was apparent in this embryo. The ventricle bulged ventrally and caudally filling the right ventral portion of the pericardial sac, then curved to the left and filled the left ventral portion of the pericardial sac. It then turned dorsally and cephalically and was continuous with the atrium which was positioned middorsally in the pericardial sac. The atrium was at the same level as the lowest point of the bulging ventricle. At the level at which the ventricle was continuous with the atrium the septum transversum was thicker. The mass of the septum transversum had increased both ventrally and laterally to point c. The increase appeared to be in a dorsal direction, extending just ventral to the developing atrium, which in this embryo, was more dorsally positioned. This dorsal extent coincided with the point at which the pericardial mesoderm divided to the right and to the left. In the area in which the pericardial mesoderm had not fused in the ventral midline the endothelial lining of the atrium divided into vessels which branched laterally, right and left, representing the area of caudal fusion of the heart. On the caudal and ventral surfaces of this division the endodermal plate was in direct contact with the endothelial lining and there was no intervening mesoderm of the septum transversum. The Jateral endodermal cells of the medial walls of the vessels which branched right and jeft. Dorsal to this zone of contact the endodermal plate was continuous with the ventral and lateral walls of the foregut. In this embryo the endodermal plate was al most perpendicular to the anterior intestinal portal.
Sixteen-somite embryo (2.4 mm CRL). There was an increase in the overall size of the heart, septum transversum, lateral body wall and foregut in the 16-somite embryo. With the increased size of the heart the cardiac loop was more pronounced. The ventricle bulged ventrally and caudally to the atrium. The size of the atrium itself was increased. There was now a definite single sinus venosus which was continuous caudally with paired omphaloumbilical trunks. These trunks represented the confluence of the primordia of the omphalomesenteric and umbilical vessels. While in the 13-somite embryo the cells of the thick endodermal plate were in direct contact with the endothelial cells of the ventral and caudal walls of the atrium, in the 16-somite embryo the cells of the endodermal plate were in direct contact with the endothelial cells of the ventral and caudal walls of the sinus venosus. No midline septum was present in the sinus venosus.
As previously stated, the size of the lateral body walls increased, thus enclosing more of the lateral and ventral portions of the embryo. The increased mass of the septum transversum was lateral rather than in the midline. The endodermal plate ventral to point c was no longer flat, but rather dome-shaped (fig. 15). At point b it still remained a flat plate (fig. 14). The overall configuration of the thickened endodermal plate was that of a gradual slope (fig. 13). Its ventral and cephalic tip (point b) was cephalic to point c, which was cephalic to the anterior intestinal portal. The caudal position of the anterior intestinal portal relative to point c was suggestive of an increased growth in the caudal end of the foregut and a correlative fixed position of the endoderm at point c.
Seventeen-somite embryo (5 mm CRL). The 17-somite embryo exhibited the first signs of the endodermal plate developing into the hepatic diverticulum. Whereas the endodermal plate between points b and c was dome-shaped in the 16-somite embryo, there were definite bilateral folds of the lateral edges of this endodermal plate in the 17-somite embryo( fig. 17). These folds occurred in the region where the omphaloumbilical trunks were confluent with the capillary bed of the yolk sac and at which there was an increased amount of mesoderm at the lateral edges of the septum transversum. The ventral and caudal bulge of the ventricle had increased and there had also been an increase in the cellular mass of the septum transversum laterally and in the ventral midline. The midline increase in mass further separated the ventral endodermal plate from the layer of pericardial mesoderm. The endodermal cells were still in contact with the endothelial cells of the sinus venosus and of the omphalo-umbilical trunks. The anterior intestinal portal was caudal to the level of this zone of contact.
Sagittal sections of another 17-somite embryo verified the observations given above of a 17-somite embryo which was sectioned transversely. Furthermore, they brought out other facts for consideration. In the midline, the anterior intestinal portal was caudal to the level of contact between endoderm and endothelium (point c). This caudal shift in the anterior intestinal portal created a fold in the endoderm. The dorsal portion of this fold formed the ventral wall of the caudal portion of the foregut. The ventral portion, between the anterior intestinal portal and point c, formed the dorsal wall of the hepatic diverticulum. The growth of the endoderm appeared to have been between points a and c. Point c appeared to be relatively fixed as the site at which the endoderm was in contact with the caudal endothelial lining of the sinus venosus (fig. 18). In this 17-somite embryo there was also a connection between the endodermal plate and the mesodermal cells of the caudal portion of the pericardium just ventral and dorsal to the sinus venosus. The endoderm appeared continuous with the pericardial mesoderm in these two areas. The rest of the endodermal plate, which projected ventrally from the zone of contact, was separated from the layer of parietal pericardium by cells of the septum transversum. There was a transverse groove in the endodermal plate located at its point of contact with the endothelium of the sinus venosus and the omphalo-umbilical vessels. Laterally the omphalo-umbilical vessels were reduced in size and continuous with the small blood channels of the yolk sac and of the septum transversum. The lateral extremes of the endodermal plate were folded caudally.
In a three-dimensional view (figs. 25— 32), the flat endodermal plate seen in younger stages of embryos had begun to take the shape of a hollow “T-shaped” structure. The walls of the right and left extensions of the “T” were somewhat thicker than the remaining walls. There appeared to be more nuclei in these areas; they were eccentrically displaced and grouped peripherally with a relatively large amount of cytoplasm near the lumen.
Nineteen-somite embryo (3.0 mm CRL). The hollow “T-shaped” diverticulum was positively identified in the 19-somite embryo (fig. 19). The thickness of the walls of this diverticulum was similar to that of the walls of the caudal end of the foregut, with which it was continuous. The lateral walls of the cephalic end of the diverticulum were somewhat thicker and appeared to project laterally into the septum transversum.
The only other morphological change to be noted was the development of the omphalomesenteric veins. The medially positioned omphalomesenteric veins and the laterally positioned umbilical veins were confluent with the right and left branches of the sinus venosus. These veins were identified in previous embryos as the omphalo-umbilical trunks. There was still a close relationship between the cephalic end of the diverticulum and the sinus venosus.
Twenty-somite embryo (3.0 mm CRL). A cross sectional view of the ventral diverticulum showed an increased thickness of the septum transversum. The cells of the septum transversum were adjacent to the lateral and ventral walls of the diverticulum. The right and left growth of the cephalic end of the diverticulum and the approximation of these sites of growth to the developing veins were apparent. One could see the continuity between the foregut and the diverticulum (fig. 20).
Summary of observations for Horizon XI. In Horizon XI (embryos having from 13-20 somites) there was further overall growth and development of the embryos as compared to those of the previous horizon. The heart had begun to rotate and had increased in size: the ventricle bulged ventrally and caudally, the atrium was positioned more dorsally and cephalically to the ventricle and the single sinus venosus was established. The omphalomesenteric veins and the umbilical veins were identified as separate vessels. There was an increased development of the septum transversum and of the lateral body wall. The foregut had elongated and was separable into pharyngeal and esophageal regions. In the floor of the pharynx were signs of the developing thyroid. At the caudal end of the foregut the hepatic diverticulum was established.
In the present study it would appear that the hepatic diverticulum was formed concurrently with the establishment of the gut tract and that it was established in part by differential growth of the endoderm, in part by differential growth of surrounding structures and in part because of a relatively fixed contact point between a segment of the endoderm and the endothelial lining of the heart.
It was noted in the observations that the endodermal primordium of the foregut and hepatic diverticulum was differentiated from the yolk sac by the thickness of its cell layers. It was distinctly thicker than the single-cell layer of the yolk sac. In tracing this thicker endodermal layer throughout the separate somite-staged embryos it was noted that there were no areas of “isolated” cell proliferation and that this endoderm, although it increased in length, remained rather uniform in thickness until after the establishment of the hepatic diverticulum. In following the morphological configuration of this thicker endodermal segment it was noted that in the onesomite embryo this endodermal segment consisted of a flat plate of cells which projected rostral to the rostral end of the developing embryo. In the five-somite embryo it had a “U-shaped” configuration with the dorsal limb of the “U” forming the ventral and lateral walls of the foregut (fig. 25). For purposes of description points a, b, and c were utilized as reference marks for the hypothetical segmentation of the endoderm. Point a represented the endoderm at the stomodeal plate; b, the point at which the thick endoderm abruptly became the single-cell layer of the amnion; and c the point at which there was contiguity between the endoderm and the endothelium of the developing caudal region of the heart. In older embryos (8-somites) the configuration of the endoderm showed a change in its morphological configuration. Instead of a “U-shaped” configuration the endoderm had a “J-shaped” configuration (fig. 26) which suggested an increase in the length of the thick segment of endoderm. This increase appeared to occur between points a and c, with a developmental lag in the growth of the endoderm between points b and c. The perpendicular position of segment b-c to segment a-c appeared to be due to an increased size and length of the cephalic end of the embryo which resulted in a ventral flexure of the head and an increase in the size and length of the developing heart. In the 16-somite embryo the endodermal plate was no longer flat but rather was related to an increased lateral mass of the septum transversum and to increased foldings of the lateral body wall (fig. 28). There was a continued folding of the endoderm primarily ventral and lateral to point c in the 17-somite embryo, but the most striking change in the configuration of the endoderm was the caudal shift of the anterior intestinal portal relative to point c. Whereas, the anterior intestinal portal was at the same level as point c in the younger embryo; it was caudal to this point in the 17-somite and older embryos. Again this suggested an increase in length of the endoderm between points a and c. This time, however, due to the caudal position of the anterior intestinal portal relative to point c, definite point of fixation was indicated in the area of contiguity between the endoderm and endothelium of the sinus venosus. The consequence of this fixation and the increased length of the endoderm between points a and c resulted in formation of the dorsal wall of the hepatic diverticulum. As indicated in the 19-, 20-, and 23-somite embryos, the endodermal segment between points c and b had folded caudally, ventrally, and laterally to form the ventral and lateral walls of the hepatic diverticulum (figs. 29-32). The folding of this segment of endoderm appeared to be directly related to an increase in mass of the cells in the septum transversum and to an apparent area of fixation point c. The diverticulum was “T-shaped” and suggested a bilobed structure. The bilobed configuration of the hepatic diverticulum was attributed also to the area of contiguity of endoderm to endothelium and not only to the sinus venosus, but also in part to the paired omphalo-umbilical trunks.
The endothelial lining in contact with the endoderm at point c was the caudal and ventral lining of the atrium in embryos up to 13-somite stage. In the 16somite embryo the endothelial lining in contact with the endoderm was that of the caudal and ventral surfaces of the sinus venosus. No further fusion of the endothelial lining of the developing heart was observed in any of the embryos older than five somites. This perhaps implies that the basic tubular structure of the heart, formed from a midventral fusion of paired primordia, occurs prior to the eight-somite stage and that further growth of the tubular heart and the development of the sinus venosus from a bifid to a single structure occurs cephalad to the zone of contact between endothelium and endoderm.
The area of endothelial-endodermal contiguity (point c) might have the following significance. If this is a point of true fixation one might expect to find some type of malformation that would indicate this. In subsequent studies two such abnormalities were noted. The first of these was an endodermal cyst located on the wall of the sinus venosus of a 15 mm pig embryo (fig. 22). One can assume that an area of contiguity must have existed between the endoderm and the endothelial lining of the developing heart at some stage of development and that, instead of the endoderm detaching as it normally does after establishment of the hepatic diverticulum, this area of contact persisted and a segment of the hepatic diverticulum was broken off and carried along with the dorsally and cephalically migrating sinus venosus.
If one speculates as to what might happen if the paired cardiac primordia failed to fuse in the ventral midline thus allowing no point of contiguity between the endoderm and endothelium either at its cephalic or caudal end, one would expect that neither a thyroid nor a liver would develop. One would also suspect that the foregut would probably not develop. In two cases of acardia amorphus recently examined this was found to be the case. In neither instance was there a fused tubular heart nor any evidence of a liver, diaphragm, thyroid, lung, or esophagus (figs. 23, 24).
A further observation concerning the relationship of the development of the hepatic diverticulum and the development of the septum transversum and the pericardium merits attention. In the five-somite embryo the ventral segment of the thick endoderm (point b) was found at the same level as the point of fusion of the pericardium in the ventral midline. In embryos of 8, 10, 13, and 16 somites there was a shift in the point of caudal closure of the pericardial sac relative to point b. It appeared to move dorsally in relation to the ventral end of the endodermal plate, toward the zone of contact between endoderm and the endothelial lining of the atrium (point c). If one considers the relationships between the endodermal plate, the fusion of the pericardium and the extent of the septum transversum at point b in the five-somite embryo and these same relationships in the 16-somite embryo, it would appear that, at least in part, the development of the septum transversum was dependent on the development of the pericardium. In the same manner, growth of the endodermal plate between points b and c may be dependent to some extent on closure of the pericardium and/or the development of the septum transversum.
The observations and discussion presented in this study are contrary to the theory (which originated from Thompson’s interpretation in 1908) that the hepatic diverticulum is formed by an “outgrowth” of the gut tract. It has already been noted that there were no notable localizations of marked (cellular) proliferations until after the establishment of the hepatic diverticulum. In the 25-somite embryo a localized proliferation of cells occurred at the most caudal end of the ventral wall of the diverticulum (point b), This localized proliferation created a bulge in the ventral wall of the diverticulum and was found MORPHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE HUMAN LIVER
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EXPLANATION OF FIGURES
Schematic diagram and photomicrographs of a one-somite human em bryo. Embryo 5080, Horizon IX. Photomicrographs are by courtesy of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
1 Diagram of a sagittal section showing the respective levels at which
figures 2, 3 and 4 were taken. The endoderm is represented by the solid black area, neural ectoderm by the stippled area and mesoderm by the white area. Point a represents the area of the presumptive stomodeum. Point b represents the point at which the thickened endoderm is continuous with the single-cell layered yolk sac. (H) indicates presumptive heart.
Photomicrograph of a transverse section immediately caudal to the level at which the thickened endoderm (E) is continuous with the yolk sac. X 75.
Photomicrograph of a transverse section through the presumptive stomodeum. Note the mesoderm (M) extending across the midline and separating endoderm from ectoderm. x 75.
Photomicrograph of a transverse section through the somite region. Note the contiguity of cells of the ventral neural plate with the dorsal archenteron (arrow), and also the position of the somite mesoderm. x 75.
Schematic drawing and photomicrographs of a five somite human em bryo. Embryo 2795, Horizon X. Photomicrographs are by courtesy of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Diagram of a sagittal section showing the configuration of thickened endoderm (dark area) in relationship to the neural plate (stippled area) and developing heart (H). Observe the “U-shaped” configuration of the endoderm. Point a represents the presumptive stomodeum. Point b represents the site at which the thick endoderm is continuous with the single-cell layered yolk sac. Point c represents the area of contiguity of endoderm and the endothelial lining of the heart. AIP (anterior intestinal portal) is the point at which the flat plate of endoderm is continuous with the ventral and lateral walls of the foregut. Transverse dashed lines represent levels of figures 6, 7, and 8.
Photomicrograph of a transverse section through the stomodeum. Observe the endothelial lining of the truncus arteriosus adjacent to the foregut (F), the fusion of the parietal pericardia in the ventral midline (arrow), and the mesodermal cells continuous with the somatic and splanchnic layers of mesoderm separating the thickened endoderm (E) from the parietal pericardium. x 75.
Photomicrograph of a transverse section through the caudal level of the developing heart. Observe the fusion of the medial walls of the endothelial lining of the paired atria (A) and the lateral displacement of the epimyocardia and parietal pericardia (P). Also observe the contiguity of the thickened flat plate of endoderm with the caudal and ventral endothelial lining of the fused atria (arrow). x 75.
Photomicrograph of a transverse section through the anterior intestinal portal, Observe the continuity of the thickened endodermal plate with the ventral and lateral walls of the foregut (arrow). Also observe the paired endothelial primordia of the sinus venosus (SV) immediately lateral and ventral to the anterior intestinal portal. The paired endothelial primordia of the sinus venosus are continuous with the blood island of the yolk sac. x 75.
Schematic diagram and photomicrographs of an eight-somite human em byro. Embryo 391, Horizon X. Photomicrographs are by courtesy of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Diagram of a sagittal section showing the “J-shaped” configuration of the thickened endoderm (dark area) and its relationship to the adjacent neural plate (stippled area) and the developing heart. Point a represents the presumptive stomodeum. Point b represents the site at which the thick endoderm is continuous with the single-cell layered yolk sac. Point c represents the area of contiguity of the endoderm and endothelial lining of the heart. AIP (anterior intestinal portal) is the point at which the flat plate of endoderm is continuous with the ventral and lateral walls of the foregut. Transverse dashed lines represent levels of figures 10, 11 and 12.
Photomicrograph of a transverse section through the level of the ventricle (V). Observe the well-defined pericardial sac (parietal pericardium, epimyocardium and dorsal mesocardium). Also observe the mesodermal cells of the septum transversum (ST) which separate parietal pericardium from the yolk sac. There is no thickened endoderm ventral to the pericardium at this level.
Photomicrograph of a transverse section through the level at which the ventricle and atrium are continuous. Observe the continuity between epimyocardium, parietal pericardium and the mesodermal cells of the septum transversum (arrow). Observe the thickened endodermal plate at this level. « 75.
Photomicrograph of a transverse section through the caudal level of the undivided atrium (A). The epimyocardia and parietal pericardia are positioned laterally. Observe the contiguity between the endothelial lining of the atrium and the thickened endodermal plate (arrow). x 75.
Schematic diagram and photomicrographs of a 16-somite human em byro. Embryo 7611, Horizon XI. Photomicrographs are by courtesy of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Diagram of a sagittal section showing the reversed “L-shaped” configuration of the thickened endoderm (dark area) in relationship to the adjacent neural plate (stippled area) and developing heart. Point b represents the site at which the thick endoderm is continuous with the single-cell layered yolk sac. Point c represents the area of contiguity of endoderm and endothelial lining of the heart. AIP (anterior intestinal portal) is the point at which the flat plate of endoderm is continuous with the ventral and lateral walls of the foregut. Transverse dashed lines represent levels of figures 14, 15, and 16.
Photomicrograph of a transverse section through the level of the ventricle (V) and atrium (A). At this level the pericardium is well established and is separated from the thickened plate of endoderm (E) by mesodermal cells of the septum transversum (ST). The thickness of the endodermal plate ventral to the heart is approximately the same as that of the ventral and lateral walls of the pharynx. « 75.
Photomicrograph of a transverse section through the caudal level of the sinus venosus. Observe the contiguity between the endothelial lining of the sinus venosus and the endodermal plate (arrow). Also observe the mesoderm (M) between the lateral pericardia and the endodermal plate and the dome-shape of the thickened endoderm. x 75.
Photomicrograph of a transverse section through the level of the anterior intestinal portal. Observe the approximation of the paired omphalo-umbilical (OU) trunks to the endoderm of the anterior intestinal portal. x 75.
Photomicrographs are by courtesy of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
17 Photomicrograph of a transverse section of a 17-somite human embryo through the level of the sinus venosus (SV). Observe the mesoderm lateral and dorsal to the thickened endoderm and the ventral folding (arrow) of the lateral edges of this endoderm. Embryo 6784, Horizon XI. x 75.
18 Photomicrograph of a sagittal section of a 17-somite human embryo. Observe the general configuration of the thickened endoderm. That segment of thickened endoderm (between the arrows) ventral to the anterior intestinal portal is the presumptive hepatic diverticulum. Observe the area of contact between the endoderm and the endothelial lining of the sinus venosus (c, as appears in text). Observe the amount of mesoderm separating the thickened endoderm from the parietal pericardium ventral to c. Embryo 8116, Horizon XI. x 73.
19 Photomicrograph of a frontal section of a 19-somite human embryo through the level of the heart and hepatic diverticulum. The diverticulum is a “T-shaped,” hollow structure. There is an epithelial projection from its lateral walls. Separate omphalomesenteric and umbilical veins can be identified. The diverticulum is in direct contact with the caudalmost extension of the endothelial lining of the sinus venosus (arrow). Embryo 6050, Horizon XI. x 75.
20 Photomicrograph of a transverse section of a 20-somite human embryo immediately caudal to the Jevel of the anterior intestinal portal. The lumina of the hepatic diverticulum (D) and the foregut (F) are continuous. The diverticulum at this level exhibits a dilation to the right and to the left. Observe the contiguity between the lateral walls of the diverticulum and the medial endothelial linings of the omphaloumbilical vessels (OU). Also observe the amount of mesoderm of the septum transversum (ST) between the ventral wall of the diverticulum and yolk sac endoderm. Embryo 2053, Horizon XI. ~ 75. 153
Photomicrograph of a sagittal section of a 23-somite human embryo. The hepatic diverticulum (endoderm between arrows) is established. Observe the mass of the septum transversum (ST) between the ventral wall of the hepatic diverticulum and the parietal pericardium. Embryo 8505B, Horizon XII. Photomicrograph courtesy of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. » 75.
Photomicrograph of a sagittal section of a 15 mm pig embryo. The heart (H), Liver (L), and foregut (F) are shown. Observe the endodermal cyst (C) in juxtaposition to the sinus venosus (SV). The insert is a higher magnification of the endodermal cyst.
Photomicrograph of the head, thorax and abdomen of a five-month acardia amorphus. Observe the paired vessels in the thorax (V) and also absence of heart, esophagus, lungs, diaphragm and liver. TE represents a rudimentary tracheoesophageal bud.
Photomicrograph of the head, thorax and abdomen of a full-term acardia amorphus. Observe the paired vessels in the thorax (V) and absence of heart, esophagus, lungs, diaphragm and liver. TE represents a rudimentary tracheoesophageal bud.
Figures 25 through 28 are three-dimensional drawings of a ventrolateral view of different stages of the developing foregut and hepatic diverticulum made from reconstructions and models. Letter (a) indicates the stomodeal area of the tubular foregut. Letter (b) identifies the leading edge of thickened endoderm where it is continuous with the one-cell layered yolk sac. Letter (c) indicates the zone of contact between the endoderm and the caudal endothelial lining of the developing heart.
25 Drawing shows the general configuration of the endoderm as it exists in a five-somite human embryo.
26 Drawing shows the general configuration of the endoderm as it exists in an eight-somite humian embryo.
27 Drawing shows the general configuration of the endoderm as it exists in a 13-somite human embryo.
Drawing shows the general configuration of the endoderm as it exists in a 19-somite human embryo. Letter (b) represents the leading edge of thickened endoderm where it is continuous with the one-cell layered yolk sac. Letter (c) represents the zone of contact between the endoderm and the caudal) endothelial lining of the developing heart.
Drawing shows the general configuration of the endoderm as it exists in a 23-somite human embryo. Letters (b) and (c) have the same representation as in figure 29. Arrows show the directions of the views for figures 31 and 32.
Drawing shows a section of figure 30 as viewed from the ventral side. Stippled lines and arrows show the direction of folding of the endoderm. Letter (c) represents the zone of contact between the endoderm and the caudal endothelial lining of the developing heart.
Drawing shows a section of figure 30 as viewed from the lateral side. Stippled lines and arrows represent the direction of folding of the endoderm. Letter (c) indicates the zone of contact between the endoderm and the caudal endothelial lining of the developing heart.
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The resolution of a land dispute
Prior to the adoption of the Land code the owners were given plots on which there has been no surveying or cadastral records and parcel boundaries were defined by fences. And currently, not all land not held of the procedure of land surveying, or data procedures were carried out, but the cadastral engineers has submitted information in the state cadastre of real estate with errors.
One such error is the neighbors land plots in New Moscow went to court, since the beginning, finding the right establishing documents and cadastral passports and cadastral error in the description of the boundaries of land, the peace agreement was signed about establishment of borders of land plots, but one of the owners of the land, knowing that the value of land in the New Moscow in recent times it has risen, has decided to abandon a peaceful solution, to resolve the error committed by the cadastral engineer in establishing the boundaries of land and gave it to the Shcherbinsky district court of Moscow the claim on your neighbor putting that illegally seized from him 3 sq. m. of land area.
Citizen "X" first, without a good lawyer, or the lawyer for land disputes are also filed a lawsuit in the court of the agreement for establishment of disputed boundaries, however, this case is lost as on land disputes should be handled by experts – a good lawyer on land disputes or land lawyer. Everyone needs to do their job.
After the citizen "X" has lost one of land disputes with its neighbor, he decided to go to a specialist on land issues.
I, as a lawyer specializing in land disputes, civil cases in Shcherbinsky district court of Moscow the statement of claim my client's neighbor, citizen "X" has filed a counter-claim to invalidate the data describing the location of land boundaries of citizen X and his neighbor, who according to their requirements wanted to recognize his right of ownership on a land area of 3 sq. m., where stood the garage with my client.
In the framework of the dispute before the court was conducted surveying examination, it is proved that the description in 2013, the cadastral engineers was a mistake and our counter claim was satisfied, and the neighbour in his illegal demands were refused.
The decision in civil case No. 2-2294/01.12.2015 15 years, satisfying our claim requirements, the court also established the boundaries in the description of the disputed land.
Readers of this article ask if the existing land disputes immediately contact to a good lawyer or the lawyer for land disputes, because only experts can help you to resolve a land dispute.
Sincerely, the lawyer for land disputes Lyzhin Vladislav Mikhailovich.
The lawyer for land disputes addresses cadastral error
Attorney land and inheritance disputes defended from unfounded claims to land
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Women think Iraq anew
The project “Women think Iraq anew” strives to empower female members of the National Council of Representatives as well as women from civil society, politics, academia and the legal profession to develop a joint vision for the future of their country. The project promotes new approaches ensuring the participation of women in democratic, societal and peace processes, as well as in state-building on a local, regional, and national scale. During the first year, in 2017, the participating women jointly developed a political memorandum putting forth a vision for a new Iraq. Read here how the participants want to improve the situation of women in the country.
2018 was an important year for the country: The unclear outcome of the parliamentary elections held in May 2018, the postponed counting of votes and the ensuing protests in the south dominated political debates. In this challenging environment, elbarlament – cultures of democracy established a network of female members of the newly elected Council or Representatives.
In 2019, elbarlament – cultures of democracy is focussing its work on the legal situation, organising workshops to support the elaboration of draft bills and necessary legal amendments linked to domestic violence, the personal status law and the electoral and party laws.
Learn more – watch our video about the project.
Our local network
Since 2013, elbarlament – cultures of democracy has established a broad network of trusted local partners in Iraq and developed valuable country-specific expertise. This allows us to work on the ground, in a still very challenging context. We are proud and grateful for gaining the trust of Iraqi women, whether members of the protest movements, civil society or the national parliament.
The project is supported by the ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) programme “zivik”, with funds from the German Federal Foreign Office.
Our project manager Alisha Molter will be happy to answer any questions you may have about the project.
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New York Times' Ethan Bronner speaks out about "advocacy journalism"
Controversial New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner has spoken out at last on a topic he is expert in – advocacy journalism. In response to an email from a Facebook user called Scott Mohn complaining that The New York Times had not covered the 15 July march in Jerusalem held by thousands of Israeli left-wing Zionists and a number of Palestinians from eastern occupied Jerusalem, Bronner wrote: Read more about New York Times' Ethan Bronner speaks out about "advocacy journalism"
New York Times stands by Ethan Bronner's Facebook fabrications
The New York Times has told The Electronic Intifada it stands fully behind an article by its Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner despite compelling evidence that the article contains fabrications, misleading statements, and gross exaggerations. Read more about New York Times stands by Ethan Bronner's Facebook fabrications
Was New York Times' Ethan Bronner duped by an Israeli Facebook fraud?
In today’s New York Times, Ethan Bronner profiles a Facebook page which he calls a “virtual bridge” between Israeli, Palestinian and Arab youth. But much of Bronner’s article is misleading and possibly false. Read more about Was New York Times' Ethan Bronner duped by an Israeli Facebook fraud?
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Entuity Updates Network Management Tool for Virtualized Data Centers
Optimizing infrastructure for private clouds part of newest version of Eye of the Storm Enterprise.
Entuity has updated its network management solution, Eye of the Storm (EYE) Enterprise 2011 that provides insight into the mixed virtual/physical infrastructures of data centers through top-down maps and displays. With EYE 2011m IT administrators can better manage the technology mix of their data centers while enabling the move toward private and public clouds.
EYE 2011 improves visibility and management of virtualized environments by adding support for popular virtualization platforms including VMware ESXi and Oracle VM and extends the list of certified VM platforms for EYE's operation. EYE's automated and continual discovery locates configured VM platforms, associated hypervisors, virtual machines, and their associated virtual components such as CD ROMS, disks, controllers, and NICs.
The latest version introduces browser-based mapping functionality to help users visualize even the largest, most complex, ever-changing enterprise networks. Accessible from anywhere on the network with only an Internet browser, EYE's new mapping functionality lets users view, save, open, modify, abstract, and share hierarchical network maps that automatically update to show current device status.
Introduced in a previous service pack, the Integrated Flow Analyzer (IFA) technology is rolled into EYE 2011 for general availability with new enhancements to streamline application-to-port mappings. EYE 2011 adds a new Web UI for users to view, add, and edit the application-to-port mappings used by IFA, simplifying the overall process while making maintenance easier, expedient, and error-free. EYE 2011 offers new versatility for collecting, prioritizing, reporting, and understanding flow data to keep performance and availability of contemporary enterprise networks optimized.
The new Live Status functionality introduced in EYE 2011 provides focused monitoring attention through a user-customizable, Web-based dialog that tracks and reports current status of monitored devices, ports, or applications. Live Status displays up to ten user-selected items showing the current status, the number of open events with their associated severity, and descriptive details with hyperlinks for drill-down. EYE's root-cause analysis, event filtering, and Live Status enable IT administrators to quickly identify, prioritize, and resolve service impacting anomalies. Live Status is "non-modal," allowing it to remain visible as users navigate throughout other areas of the EYE web UI.
The optional EYE IP SLA Module is updated in EYE 2011 with new functionality to discover and monitor existing probes, leveraging established management best practices and eliminating disruption of production network devices. IP SLA discovery also extends support for operation types beyond those that can be created in EYE, allowing users to monitor availability and completion time of any IP SLA operation. Automated creation of key IP SLA operation types including VoIP and UDP Jitter, Echo, HTTP, DNS, DHCP, TCP, and HTTP operations are directly supported in EYE, hiding the complexity of IOS IP SLA commands and eliminating the need to access devices by the command line.
Reporting capabilities in EYE 2011 enable network managers to quickly synthesize a broad range of network operational and performance data into actionable and graphically descriptive reports in formats directly compatible with business correspondence processes. Report output formats in EYE 2011 now include Office (2007) Open XML File Formats (DOCX and XLSX) as well as the OpenDocument Format (ODF and ODS), enabling the exchange of data between applications and enterprise systems. Also available in HTML or XML format, documents output from EYE are universally accessible in Web applications, corporate intranets, or as customer facing web dashboards.
EYE Enterprise 2011 runs on Microsoft Windows Server, Sun Solaris, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Xen hypervisor, and VMware ESX/ESXi Server platforms. More information is available at www.entuity.com.
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Dr Maria Orchard
Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Areas of expertise: human rights law; disability law and policy; access to justice
Email: M.Orchard@leeds.ac.uk
Location: G.23/24 Liberty Building
Website: Twitter
I joined the School of Law as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in January 2019. I work on the ERC-funded project 'Inclusive Public Space: Law, Universality and Difference in the Accessibility of Streets' alongside Professor Anna Lawson (Principal Investigator), Dr Liz Andrews (Research Support Officer), Dr Ieva Eskye and Dr Leonardo Sandoval-Guzman (Postdoctoral Research Fellows).
Prior to this, I completed my PhD at the University of Bristol (2018). My doctoral research was an interdisciplinary project jointly supervised by the University of Bristol Law School and the Norah Fry Centre for Disability Studies; I employed methods of narrative inquiry and thematic analysis to explore the experiences of seven disabled women with their respective legal system (that of England and Wales or California, USA) in the context of domestic violence or abuse, identifying the barriers and facilitators each participant encountered in her quest for ‘justice’.
Disability law and policy; feminist disability studies; issues surrounding accessibility, inclusion and access to justice; socio-legal methodology; group activism and advocacy; international human rights law.
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New Buddhist Shrine to Erect in Tuva
There is no end of miracles in Chaa-Khol district, just as throughout the entire republic. However, yet another place worth seeing will emerge around this area very soon. It is already being there. If you go from Chaa-Khol village towards the Shagonar water basin, you can see through the split of one of the rocks a large grayish niche. Its’ contours resemble Buddhist niche closely. It is not the old and well-known Buddhist shrine with ancient Buddha rock engraving, which is, on the contrary, located deep down and constantly gets flooded by waters of the artificial sea. This is entirely new creation – a new rock-cut Buddhist shrine, where the works have launched.
The projects of saving the ancient bas-relief have been discussed for a long time, and eventually only three of them remained: to cut it out of the rock and to place it, for instance, in museum or temple; to imbed it in clear plastic; to make a copy and sanctify it. As a result, the third option has been chosen.
The Minister of Education and Science of Tuva, Doctor of Letters, Buddhist Kaadyr-ool Bicheldey has started implementing the project. The idea, as he says, belongs to His Holiness Dalai Lama XIV.
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Irina Kachan, the Plus Inform. Translated by Emina Kyzyl-ool
Tyva Republic focuses on ethno tourism
Traditional culture is what helps a nation to stay unique. The newly built Aldyn-Bulak ethnic cultural centre in Russia’s Tyva Republic in southern Siberia aims to study and promote folklore, traditions and customs. The name ‘Aldyn-Bulak’ means ‘golden spring’. Located 45 km from the capital Kyzyl, the centre is expected to boost ethno tourism in the area. The centre welcomed its first visitors earlier this month.
The construction of the Aldyn-Bulak started last June. While working on the project architects relied on two major principles: environmental awareness and ethnic flavor. The complex is made up of a yurt-style restaurant, four presidential VIP yurts, seven economy-class yurts, fivechums (tents) with a fireplace, a sports ground, pergolas, saunas, souvenir shops, administration building and parking lots. Apart from this, there is a school where one can learn the art of Khoomei,a Tuvan variant of throat singing. Khoomei is when a singer produces two or even three distinct pitches simultaneously.
The centre has recently launched a symbol of throat singing – Ovaa Khoomei, depicted in the form of a golden arrow targeted upwards.
Tuva Gathers Tuvan Throat Singing Fans From Around the World
The grand opening of the International Festival of Throat Singing Performers Dembildey – 2012, with participation of guests from Japan, Mongolia, Canada, America, Norway, Spain, Australia, and Finland took place in Kyzyl, at the Tuvan National Theatre on July 6.
Joan Feynman, sibling of Richard Feynman, the founder of Friends of Tuva, physicist and Nobel Laureate, became the dearest guest of the Festival. Joan Feyman came to Tuva with her husband and friends. The Head of Tuva, Sholban Kara-ool, speaking at the event, warmly expressed Joan and Richard Feynman the gratitude for their love, attention and deep feel for Tuvan culture, as well as for their contribution to popularity of Tuva.
The Premier emphasized the special role of the prodigiously talented sons of Tuva - Kaigal-ool Khovalyg and Kongar-ool Ondar. Both of the performers are the Honoured Artists of Russian Federation, the National Khoomeizhys and favourites of Tuvan fellow citizens.
Press-service of the Government of RT. Translated by Emina Kyzyl-ool
Shaman Lazo Mongush: People obtain their ailments themselves
Lazo Dovuyevich was a participant in the Second International theatric - educational festival "Nauruz", which took place last week in Kazan. On one of festival nights, he performed an old shamanic ritual kamlanie on the shore of Lake Kaban. The purpose of the ritual is to bring health to the people of our city, and that they would all live in harmony. And that children would be born intelligent, healthy and talented. Several days ago he visited the editorial office of newspaper "Kazanskie vedomosti". - Lazo Dovuyevich, was the invitation to the theatrical festival "Nauruz" unexpected for you? - Yes, I was a little bit surprised, even though I have some relationship to art. Earlier I used to play with an amateur group, with an agitation team, and in the well-known state ensemble "Sayany". I worked in the capacity of both a leader and a soloist. Generally, I had to learn many professions. My older brother taught me to work with wood, my mother - to sew and cut. When I got married and had children, I sewed their shirts and diapers myself, using an old foot-pedal sewing machine. At home, I also made everything myself - the bed, furniture. A shaman has to be able to do everything.
Tuvaonline. Translated by Heda Jindrak
Famous astrophysicist Joan Feynman arrived in Tuva
Legendary physicist and Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman’s sister Joan Feynman arrived in Tuva. It was his love to Tuva which encouraged most Americans to visit this amazing place of the world. 84-year-old Joan Feynman will visit the festival of throat singing “Dembildey”, which will be held in the capital from 6 to 8 July. The festival is devoted to 50th anniversary of Tuvan throat singer Kongar-ool Ondar who has a close relations with the Feynmans. In 2010, Richard Feynman’s daughter Michelle visited Tuva.
Joan Feyman is a famous astrophysicist, who specializes in interaction of solar wind and Earth’s magnetosphere. Her son is an editor at the "Popular Science Magazine". He published memoirs - "My mother is a scientist" - about his famous mother, where he described her thorny path to success in science.
Richard and Joan’s mother was smart and understanding, she had marched for women’s right to vote when she was young.
Tuvaonline. Translated by Chimis Salchak
Huun-Huur-Tu Promoter Alexander Cheparukhin Honored with the WOMEX Music Award
Producer Alexander Cheparukhin is the first man among Russian music industry representatives honored with the WOMEX Award, the International World Music Support and Development Exhibition (World Music Expo).
The WOMEX Award was established in 1999 and has been presented to its winners only 13 times, Mr. Cheparukhin told the RIA Novosti. The producer receives theProfessional Excellence Award, and there is the Artist Award as well.
Mr. Cheparukhin admitted he had been amazed by the news, especially since he had become the first man not only from Russia, but also from all over Eastern Europe to receive the Award.
“As I was informed in the letter from the Award administrators, I’ve received the prize for contribution in Russian music propaganda and for the promotion of the best world music standards in Russia,” said Mr. Cheparukhin.
The producer added, he was very pleased to get the music community recognition and he “will try to keep it up”.
RIA-Novosty. Translated by Emina Kyzyl-ool
There is an astonishing unity of nature, people and music in Tuva
On the course of the past 10 years, Tuvan folkloristics, in the context of ethnography, has changed in a significant way. More exactly, it has changed under the influence of interest of Western culture in our unique folk culture. I have not thought before that the Japanese, Americans and Germans would show any interest in it or in our language.
Now, representatives of these nations study Tuvan language at the TGU base with great interest. This is evidence that they, first of all, are searching for the secrets of a method of learning khoomei. Khoomei and stone carving attract great interest of many people in various corners of the planet.
In the Valley of Tsars, unique cultural artifacts of ancient peole made of pure gold were found in one kurgan during a single summer. All right, let's admit, gold was well protected by the earth. But it is surprising how an intangible particle of culture, khoomei, survived throughout centuries and wars. It is the spirit of our ancestors. It is like the echo of caves and gurgling of innumerable tiny streams pouring from the crags of Silver Mountains (Mongun-Taiga - name of a mountain in Western Tuva).
Kuular Cherlig-ool, Tuvinskaya pravda. Translated by Heda Jindrak
A book about spiritual principles of Eurasianism published
The book “Spiritual principles of Eurasianism. Cultural and civilizational aspects” was published in the German publishing house Lambert Academic Publishing . The author of the book – Lena Fyodorova is the director of Tengri Research International Foundation, the deputy director of Sakha Republic (Yakutia) Olonkho Theater, organizer of international cultural expeditions to North India, Nepal, Tibet, Xinjiang, Central Asia, Siberia and Mongolia.
Referring to the works of famous religious scholars, particularly of the Kazakh Scientist N. G. Ayupov, the author of the book considers tengrism as a holistic worldview which reflects the unity of the world and man, the unity of their essential power, which includes religious and mythological convictions as well as the results scientific and practical works. The book also includes the cognitive images of psychic and intellectual activity of man as well as the metaphysics of exchange. This allows to show all the aspects of tengrism in their unity and variety, universality and uniqueness.
Tengri Foundation. Translated by Chimis Salchak
The summer campaign “Night Museum” is to start by the National Museum of the Republic of Tuva
Commencing from July, 1 to August, 30 the National Museum of the Republic of Tuva starts the summer campaign “Night Museum”, which implies its working hours’ extension until 9.00 pm every Thursday during the period. All of the museum rooms are to be available for visitors, including the hall “Treasures of the Valley of Kings”.
The campaign is run upon recommendation of the Ministry of Culture of Russia and designed to attract visitors during evening hours.
We hope the “Night Museum” will find its followers and will take its place among all the campaigns held by the National Museum. We invite everyone to attend the first “Night Museum” evening which is to be on July, 5. Doors open from 10.00 am till 9.00 pm. In case of positive response the campaign could become an annual event.
Translated by Emina Kyzyl-ool
Young Mongoliists gather in Mongolia
The summer training for young scholars majoring in Mongolian studies launched on Thursday for the tenth time. Co-organized by the National Association on Mongolian Studies and the Mongolian State University of Education, this year's training is attended by 24 scholars from the USA, Russia, Poland, China, Japan, the Republic of Korea and Turkey. They will be lectured by outstanding teachers and scholars of the Academy of Sciences, the Mongolian State University, the Mongolian State University of Education and the University of Agriculture on Mongolian on subjects of history, culture, religion, literature, archeology and nomadic economy. Furthermore, the trainees will get acquainted with the Mongolian traditional lifestyle. It gives to them a chance to cooperate with many scholars of scientific organizations of Mongolia. The training will last until July 14.
Montsame
Photo album “The Mongun-Taiga massif. Alpine landscape” published
The scientists of the Ubsunur center published the photo album “The Mongun-Taiga massif. Alpine landscape” (Abakan. Journalist, 2012) specially for the 10th International Ubsunur symposium “Ecosystems of Central Asia: research, conservation and rational exploitation” (July 3-8, 2012, Kyzyl), devoted to the 20th anniversary of the Tyva Republic and SB RAS biospheric research International Ubsunur Center. The album contains the results of the alpine ecosystems monitoring such as the elements of the Upper Shara-Kharagai River landscape and flora. The scientists described the landscapes of the four tops the Mongun-Taiga massif and almost all the kinds of plants they met on the research area. The kinds of the plants were given Russin and Latin names. The work was done with the help of the Ubsunur Hollow Reserve staff. The album has 374 pages, number of copies is 500.
The price for one copy is 300 rubles.
Translated by Chimis Salchak
International Festival of Throat Singing Performers Dembildey - 2012 to Be Held in Kyzyl
The grand opening of the International Festival of Throat Singing Performers Dembildey – 2012 to take place onstage at the National Theatre named after Victor Kok-ool on the 6th of July in Kyzyl.
The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tuva, Kyzyl City Hall and the Center of Development of Tuvan Traditional Culture and Crafts are the founders of the event.
The main goals of the Festival - supporting new names and teams among throat singing artists, development and improvement of interregional and international cultural relations, providing opportunities for sharing experiences, raising the professional level of the throat singers as well as creativity support for ornamental artists.
Dembildey - 2012 is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Honored Artist of Russian Federation, National Khoomeyzhi of the Republic of Tuva, Honored Worker of Education of the Republic of Tuva, Laureate of State Prize of the Republic of Tuva, the director of the Center of Development of Tuvan Traditional Culture and Crafts Kongar-ool Ondar.
Announcement - Release of New Issue of "New research of Tuva"
Dear friends and colleagues!
We are happy to inform you about the release of the newest issue of the “New Research of Tuva” electronic magazine — #2 for 2012.
The key category in this issue is “Times of change”, in which we published articles by a politician, musician, postgraduate and students. We also added interesting messages about new Tuvinology publications, web-sites that could be of interest for the researchers of Tuvan language and literature. PDF version of the issue is 117 pages.
We continue to accept materials for the following issue of the journal — #3 for 2012. We are also prepared to accept preliminary announcements of publications, according to agreement with the authors.
XIV International Festival the Living Music and Faith "Ustuu-Khuree." will take place from 23 to 26 July 2012
I. XIV International Festival the Living Music and Faith "Ustuu-Khuree." will take place from 23 to 26 July 2012
II. Prayer services, rituals, ceremonies dedicated to the discovery of Temple Ustuu Khuree will held from 23 to 26 July.
III. The strongest fighters of the country will meet in battle in honor of the revived Ustuu-Khuree from 23 to 26 July.
IV. Hundreds of horses will gallop on the steppe Bora – Khol, kicking up dust, reminding us of former greatness and beauty of the Temple festivals from 23 to 26 July 2012.
V. Musicians’ performances, prayers, ancient methods of fighting, racing horses are repentance and offering of people to the long-suffering Temple, chanting and bowing memory to Hung Noyon Buyan Badyrgy will be from 23 to July 26, 2012.
Ustuu-Huree
Do not forget about the Ustuu-Huree!
It is hard to underestimate the Ustuu-Huree temple reconstruction idea. The temple is of a great importance for people of Daa Kozhuun, also of Sut-Holskiy, Dzun-Hemchikskiy, Ovyurskiy, Bay-Taiginskiy, Mongun-Taiginskiy, Barun-Hemichskiy, Chaa-Holskiy, Ulug-Hemskiy kozhuuns. In older generation’s memory, the Ustuu-Huree temple and everything associated with it stays as a reminiscence of the great holy site. Not many witnesses and beholders of the temple’s prosperity have left. All these, is the result of totalitarian regime. Those boys, who came to the Ustuu-Huree in its prosperous times as monks have already left this world, therefore almost nobody’s left.
My wife Sophia’s father, while being a child was received there as a huuraki, but held out only for a few months: he was send back home hence being naughty. The temple was a privileged place and not everybody had an opportunity to study there: only diligent and talented children were accepted.
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Lucina Hagman
Lucinda Hagman
Lucina Hagman (5 June 1853, Kälviä[1]– 6 September 1946) was an early Finnish feminist and among the first female MPs in the world due to the 1907 Finnish parliamentary election.
Life and career[edit]
Hagman was the daughter of police master Nils Johan Erik Hagman and Margareta Sofia Nordman, a police chief in rural Kälviä. She was the sister of the educator Sofia Hagman and writer Tycho Hagman. She became a teacher and Jean Sibelius might be the most famous individuals to study at her school.[2] She became active in women's causes serving in Parliament from 1907 to 1917. Of the 200 MPs elected in 1907 just 19 were women. The successful women included Hagman, Miina Sillanpää, Anni Huotari, Hilja Pärssinen, Hedvig Gebhard, Ida Aalle, Mimmi Kanervo, Eveliina Ala-Kulju, Hilda Käkikoski, Liisi Kivioja, Sandra Lehtinen, Dagmar Neovius, Maria Raunio, Alexandra Gripenberg, Iida Vemmelpuu, Maria Laine, Jenny Nuotio and Hilma Räsänen.[3]
Lucina Hagman also founded the Martha organisation, served as the first chair of Unioni, The League of Finnish Feminists,[4] and was active in the peace movement.[5] She also wrote a biography of Fredrika Bremer.[6]
^ Selected Articles on Woman Suffrage. H.W. Wilson. 1910. p. 113.
^ Andrew Barnett (2007). Sibelius. Yale University Press. p. 5. ISBN 0-300-11159-2.
^ / "Suomalainen Naisliitto - Historia". www.naisliittohelsinki.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2020-01-18.
^ Jyväskylä University Museum
^ Peter Brock; Thomas Paul Socknat (1999). Challenge to Mars: Essays on Pacifism from 1918 to 1945. University of Toronto Press. pp. 46–. ISBN 978-0-8020-4371-9.
^ Päivi Lappalainen; Lea Rojola (2007). Women's voices: female authors and feminist criticism in the Finnish literary tradition. Finnish Literature Society. p. 8. ISBN 978-951-746-760-5.
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Isaev, Andrei Alekseevich
Born Oct. 19, 1851; died 1924. Russian Populist economist, statistician, and sociologist.
From 1879 to 1893, Isaev was a lecturer at St. Petersburg University and the Demidov Lyceum in Yaroslavl; in 1884 he became a professor at the lyceum. He began his work as a scholar in 1875 at the Moscow province zemstvo (local self-government) executive board. Lenin repeatedly used Isaev’s statistical data and conclusions (for instance, in The Development of Capitalism in Russia, chs. 5 and 6). Isaev’s lectures at the university and the lyceum formed the basis for his books on political economy. He was a proponent of the labor theory of value and was sympathetic to Marxism but gave a reformist interpretation of Marxism. He advocated cooperative socialism. Isaev wrote more than 20 books on political economy, finance, the world economy, and sociology, as well as pamphlets and many articles for journals.
Promysly Moskovskoi gubernii. vols. 1–2. Moscow, 1876–77.
Arteli v Rossii. Yaroslavl, 1881.
“Nashi finansy i podokhodnyi nalog.” Trudy Imp. Vol’nogo ekonomicheskogo obshchestva, 1887, no. 4.
Ocherk teorii i politiki nalogov. Yaroslavl, 1887.
Gosudarstvennyi kredit. Yaroslavl, 1886.
O sotsializme nashikh dnei. Stuttgart, 1902.
Voprosy sotsiologii. St. Petersburg, 1906.
Nachala politicheskoi ekonomii, 7th ed. St. Petersburg, 1908.
Mirovoe khoziaistvo. St. Petersburg, 1910.
Krizisy v narodnom khoziaistve. St. Petersburg, 1913.
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Khalid Abusalem, chairman of UAV and Robotics, operates a drone pilot simulator in the Immersive Zones Hub at the 4IR Center, while Osama Bahwal instructs. The zone showcases Saudi Aramco’s readiness and capabilities related to immersive technologies and digital transformation. | © Saudi Aramco
At Aramco’s premises in Dhahran, a remodeled and vastly expanded office wing has been converted into a 4IR Center, where technological and digital innovation is, in turn, transforming the way in which the company runs its operations.
In a global economy that is increasingly leveraging the opportunities afforded by what is known as the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ (4IR), it is essential for industry to tap into the many opportunities and possibilities contained within it. Lagging behind is simply not an option, and Saudi Aramco is effectively blazing a trail in the energy industry with its targeted strategic focus on cutting-edge digital technology.
The 4IR Center will play a pivotal role in uplifting the technical skills of the company’s workforce and bringing advanced technology capabilities to realize Aramco’s digital transformation vision. The center will help the company’s operational performance to enable greater efficiencies and significant cost savings, and help further strengthen its global leadership in the oil and gas industry.
“We are excited about the potential of the center. It will play a key role in accelerating the digital transformation across Saudi Aramco, be pivotal in enabling a paradigm shift for our operations through more digital technologies, while unlocking new business and operating models,” says Ahmad A. Al-Sa’adi, Senior Vice President of Technical Services.
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With its advanced capabilities, extensive access to information, and people-centric environment, the center is a digital transformation ecosystem for digital solutions throughout the hydrocarbon value chain. It is designed to support the end-to-end use case development throughout its ideation, prototyping, piloting, and full-scale deployment.
Some 2,500 square meters of office space was remodeled in the construction process. The facility features 279 square meters of video walls, with a total of more than 109 million pixels pitch that split into multiple clusters and zones.
Visitors are welcomed by a “V-receptionist” hologram that provides safety instructions and gives an overview of the center. At the heart of the center is the futuristic circular bright space of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Hub, which is ringed by a massive concave video screen on which over 20 operational solutions are displayed. It is one of the biggest screens of its kind in the world.
The AI Hub is focused on developing advanced analytics and machine learning solutions in hydrocarbon related applications. The big data and advanced analytics make use of the innovative solutions in this domain to visualize and predict the performance of critical Saudi Aramco assets. This hub combines in-house development and external tools to enable its subject matter experts to make timely decisions to improve asset availability, utilization, and efficiency. The value and cost savings realized from these solutions underlines the significant impact on Aramco’s operations and business.
Next to the AI Hub is the ‘VR Zone,’ which is used to develop, prototype, and train for augmented and virtual reality, among other capabilities. This hub can be used to visualize plant assets and to get a live sense of the plant experience from a simulation booth.
The center also has the capability demonstrating operational use cases of air, ground, and underwater robots through the ‘UAV Space.’ This section combines cutting-edge technologies that supports a variety of different applications — including methane detection, emergency response, inspection services, project monitoring, inventory management and many others — to reduce cost, enhance efficiency, and improve health, safety, and environment.
Source: Saudi Aramco press release
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Emergency and disaster management briefing for August 16, 2019: Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and his family survive the crash of their private jet in eastern Tennessee; an autopsy shows the gunman who opened fire outside a bar in Dayton, Ohio, had drugs and alcohol in his system; NOAA reports that July was allegedly the hottest month since 1880 on Earth; China Lake naval base damages are estimated at over $5 billion following the July 5 earthquake in Ridgecrest; the source of the Legionnaire's outbreak at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel has been found; a Ural Airlines flight makes an emergency landing in a cornfield after a bird strike on takeoff; suspicious items left at the Fulton Street subway station in Manhattan were deemed safe by the bomb squad; and Ebola has spread to another province in the DRC.
1) A private jet carrying Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and his family crashed at the Elizabethton Municipal Airport in Tennessee at about 3:38 p.m. Thursday. The Cessna Citation Latitude, N8JR, caught fire after landing when it ran off the end of the runway and through a fence. All five people on board the plane -- including the two pilots, Earnhardt, Jr., his wife Amy, and daughter Isla -- were able to escape the fiery crash without serious injury.
JUST IN: Video footage from the scene of a plane crash in Tennessee. Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his wife Amy were on board, according to ABC affiliate WJHL https://t.co/dJy7nGqLUf pic.twitter.com/CUjZpykxrh
— WLOS (@WLOS_13) August 15, 2019
2) The Montgomery County coroner in Dayton, Ohio, stated that the gunman, Connor Betts, 24, had cocaine, Xanax, and alcohol in his system when he shot and killed nine people earlier this month. Police also made a statement that they were thankful no deaths resulted when rounds fired by responding officers struck and wounded two people. Nine people died on August 4 when Betts opened fire at about 1:00 a.m. outside a bar in the Oregon District of Dayton. Police later arrived on the scene and were able to shoot and kill the gunman.
The Montgomery County coroner says the Dayton gunman had cocaine and other drugs in his system at the time of the mass shooting that killed nine people before police fatally shot him https://t.co/rXrUOcPGXB #10TV
— 10TV.com (@10TV) August 15, 2019
3) According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth in the last 140 years. The average temperature in July was allegedly 1.71 degrees Fahrenheit (F) above the 20th-century average of 60.4 degrees Fahrenheit and broke the previous record set in 2016. One weather station, Markusvinsa, north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden, allegedly recorded a temperature of 94.6 degrees Fahrenheit on July 26.
McKenna refers to agencies like NOAA to warn Cdns July 2019 was hottest on record. It couldn't be the data was manipulated. Here's Winnipeg mean monthly temp last 10 yrs:
2010 20.0C
2019 20.2C https://t.co/PW9MNmLcuy
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4) The powerful 7.1 earthquake that struck Ridgecrest, California on July 5 caused an estimated $100 million in property damage in the sparsely populated communities of Ridgecrest and Trona. Significant damage also occurred at the massive Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake -- where America's most advanced weapons are tested -- just three miles from Ridgecrest. At least 20 percent of the 3,600 buildings are deemed unsafe or use-restricted. Damages were estimated at $5.2 billion for the repair or replacement of buildings, including the air traffic control tower, water pipes, electrical lines, a laboratory, tools and specialized equipment.
China Lake naval base was so badly damaged by the earthquakes that officials are suggesting several buildings be demolished and replaced.
The cost of returning the facilities to normal could top $5 billion. https://t.co/f6OmBjB5VZ
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) August 15, 2019
5) The Georgia Department of Public Health has confirmed that the source of the Legionnaire's outbreak that led to the death of one person and sickened a confirmed three others has been identified at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel. Testing revealed that the Legionella bacteria was in the hotel's cooling tower and a decorative fountain located inside the atrium. According to the public health department, the entire hotel water distribution system underwent remediation and the hotel has now reopened.
Sheraton Atlanta Confirmed As Source Of Legionnaire's Outbreak https://t.co/X2MwB128Y8
— Atlanta Patch (@AtlantaPatch) August 16, 2019
6) A Ural Airlines flight departing Moscow's Zhukovsky Airport, carrying 226 passengers, was forced to make an emergency landing in a cornfield after striking a flock of birds. The airplane struck the birds just after takeoff from the airport on Thursday, causing the aircraft to lose both engines during climbout. The entire flight lasted just two minutes, and the pilot, who is being dubbed a hero, successfully landed the airplane in the cornfield without engines and with the landing gear up. Only minor injuries were sustained by passengers during the landing.
Passenger video captures moment a Ural Airlines A321 makes emergency landing in a corn field following a bird strike on both engines during takeoff from Zhukovsky airport (Video:bazabazon). https://t.co/DcW24EYmXl pic.twitter.com/fEpufQbTuu
— Breaking Aviation News (@breakingavnews) August 15, 2019
7) A subway passenger reported finding two suspicious items left on the floor of the Fulton Street subway station to two NYPD counterterrorism officers at around 7:00 a.m. Friday morning, prompting the evacuation of one train and disrupting subway service at the station for about an hour. The bomb squad investigated the items, which turned out to be rice cookers, and gave the all clear at the subway station around 8:20 a.m. Another pressure cooker was found next to garbage at 16th Street and 7th Avenue in Chelsea, which authorities say may or may not be related to the incident at the Fulton Street station.
BREAKING: NYPD seeks tall, thin white man seen pushing shopping cart near Fulton Street subway station as person of interest in rice cookers scare https://t.co/kpJbBWLtov
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8) Ebola has spread to another province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where one of two people confirmed with the disease has died. The year-long outbreak of the deadly disease began in the North Kivu province and has since spread to the neighboring Ituri province and now South Kivu. It has also crossed into Uganda. It is the deadliest outbreak on record and was declared a global health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization (WHO) in July.
Congo's yearlong #Ebola outbreak has spread to a third province, with two cases, including one death, confirmed in South Kivu, according to the government health ministry. https://t.co/5idpCdYGCs
— STAT (@statnews) August 16, 2019
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Arizona 10-year NAEP Trend Remains Strong
The National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) has released fourth and eighth grade math and reading results from the 2017 administration of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which is designed to inform the public about academic achievement of American elementary and secondary students. As Arizona continues to tackle numerous important educational challenges, the Arizona 10-year (2007-17) trend NAEP scores remain strong, while the two-year (2015-17) comparative results are mixed.
The Arizona average scale scores for 2017 NAEP are +8 in Grade 8 Reading, +6 in Grade 8 Math, +5 in Grade 4 Reading, and +2 in Grade 4 Math when compared to Arizona average scale scores for 2007.
2017 Arizona Grade 8 Reading
Arizona students maintained the same average scale score in 2017 that they received in 2015 (263).
Arizona students with a disability (SD) had an average scale score of 233; this was +7 scale-point improvement from that of Arizona SD students in 2015 (226).
Arizona African-American students had an average scale score of 254; this was a +5 scale-point improvement from that of Arizona African-American students in 2015 (249).
Arizona American Indian/Alaskan Native students had an average scale score of 254; this was a +10 scale-point improvement from that of Arizona American Indian/Alaskan Native students in 2015 (244).
2017 Arizona Grade 8 Math
Arizona students had an average scale score that equaled the national average scale score (282).
Arizona Asian students had an average scale score of 316; this was a +11 scale-point improvement from that of Arizona Asian students in 2015 (305).
Arizona American Indian/Alaskan Native students had an average scale score of 263; this was a +3 scale-point improvement from that of Arizona American Indian/Alaskan Native students in 2015 (260).
Arizona SD students had an average scale score of 183; this was +6 scale-point improvement from that of Arizona SD students in 2015 (177).
Arizona English Learner (EL) students had an average scale score of 171; this was a +6 scale-point improvement from that of Arizona EL students in 2015 (165).
Arizona white students had an average scale score of 232; this was a +3 scale-point improvement from that of Arizona white students in 2015 (229).
Arizona students had an average scale of 234; this was a -4 scale-point decrease from that of Arizona students in 2015 (238).
What is NAEP?
The National Assessment of Educational Progress is the largest national assessment to evaluate the nation’s students understanding in core subjects. NAEP was founded and mandated by Congress in 1969.
Why Is NAEP Important?
NAEP was created to provide a common national yardstick for accurately evaluating the performance of American students.
What grade levels or students take the NAEP test?
A sample of students from every state in grades 4, 8, and 12 (or ages 9, 13, and 17) take the test. These ages/grades are recommended because they represent critical articulation in academics progress.
When does NAEP testing take place?
NAEP will take place between January and March. The test results will be available in winter.
What material does NAEP cover?
Core subjects including math, reading, and writing. Some tests depending on age/grade also include science, social studies, engineering literacy, and civics.
What medium is used to take the NAEP test?
A vast majority of tests taken after 2015 were on tablets/computers with a keyboard. A select few had the option to take the test with paper and pen. Starting in 2018 all tests except for geography/ social studies will be taken digitally.
NAEP IS:
A national assessment that allows educational achievement to be compared across states;
An assessment that identifies the percentages of students in the nation who meet standards for Advance, Proficient, or Basic performance in a variety of subjects;
A yardstick that state educators, legislators, and governors can use to gauge the effectiveness of state educational policies;
A measurement tool that members of Congress and the President can use to review student progress during the past 35 years; and
A source of information that allows parents to assess the academic performance of students in their state and the nation as a whole.
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Today, the EU will light up its headquarters in Brussels to show its support for eradicating an alarming problem that is still too common. One in three women in Europe has experienced physical and/or sexual violence.
EU Climate Week in Ghana- Tree planting and Beach clean up
The European Union Delegation to Ghana organised an EU Climate Week, from 25th September to 3rd October 2019 in the cities of Accra and Kumasi (2nd city and cultural capital of Ghana). This year, the theme was on reforestation, with the slogan #RegreeningGhana.
Full House for the Erasmus+ Information Session at the Ghana Institute of Journalism
On the 24th of October, the Ghana Institute of Journalism in Accra opened its doors to all students who are interested in the EU Erasmus+ programme. Deputy EU Head of Mission, Mr. Pieter Smidt van Gelder – himself an Erasmus alumnus – welcomed the students and gave an introduction to the Erasmus+
Enforcement is needed to end 'saiko' fishing troubles
Last week, the EU Ambassador to Ghana, Diana Acconcia, spent two days in Cape Coast and Elmina, meeting community leaders, fishers and fish processors, discussing the future of Ghana’s fisheries and coastal communities
European Union in Ghana launches activities for 2019 Climate Diplomacy Week in Accra
The European Union Delegation to Ghana on Wednesday, 25th September, launched activities for the 2019 Climate Diplomacy Week at the Ministry of Health Basic School in Accra, on the theme "Greening Ghana". The “EU Climate Diplomacy Week” is being observed in Ghana from 25 September to 3
European Experiences and Ghanaian Transition: Lively Debates during Seminar on Local Governance and Decentralisation
The Delegation of the European Union to Ghana, in collaboration with the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), organised a successful seminar on Local Governance on 24-25 June 2019. Danish and Italian experts shared European experiences on Local Governance and decentralisation, after which
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Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment-Tropics
DOE-SC-Biological and Environmental Research
NGEE-Tropics will link model development with field research. Berkeley Lab’s Jeff Chambers conducting plant physiology and carbon cycle research at a site operated by Brazil’s National Institute of Amazonian Research and located north of Manaus, Brazil. Photo credit: Kolby Jardine
Tropical forests cycle more CO2 and water than any other biome, and play critical roles in determining Earth’s energy balance. Intact tropical forests are also estimated to be Earth’s largest carbon sink, yet the stability of this sink is susceptible to a warming climate and disturbance processes. Understanding of carbon and related water and energy exchanges between tropical forests and the atmosphere lags that of other biomes, and poor model representation of these processes is the most significant source of terrestrial uncertainty in projections of Earth’s future climate.
The 10-year vision for NGEE Tropics is to achieve dramatically reduced uncertainty in ESM projections, and increased scientific understanding of how tropical forest ecosystems will respond to climate and atmospheric change. An overall critical question is whether these forests will continue to offset a large fraction of anthropogenic carbon emissions in the 21st century or become carbon sources from vegetation die-back under a warming climate. Thus, the overarching goal of NGEE-Tropics is to develop a predictive understanding of how tropical forest carbon balance and climate system feedbacks will respond to changing environmental drivers over the 21st Century.
The grand deliverable of NGEE Tropics is the development of a representative, process-rich tropical forest ecosystem model, extending from bedrock to the top of the vegetative canopy, in which the evolution and feedbacks of tropical ecosystems in a changing climate can be modeled at the scale/resolution of a next-generation Earth System Model grid cell (i.e., expected to be at least 10 x 10 km grid size). To achieve this goal, we will develop a new hierarchical, modular modeling platform that integrates crucial processes needed to represent tropical forest ecosystem responses to global changes, including belowground biogeochemistry, plant demography and ecophysiology, plant functional traits, and aquifer-to-canopy hydrology.
Model advances will be directly enabled by pantropical syntheses of existing data, and investments in high priority observations and experiments that enhance process representation, support model parameterization, and provide critical model benchmarks. These model functionalities have never been brought together into a single platform or rigorously evaluated against observations at a pantropical scale. Thus, NGEE Tropics will enable cutting-edge research advances toward addressing tropical forest response to a changing atmosphere and warming climate.
NGEE Tropics anticipates numerous productive collaborations and partnerships with tropical Earth system scientists to realize these goals.
NGEE Tropics is a Department of Energy (DOE) funded project lead by Berkeley Lab’s Earth & Environmental Sciences area.
Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions Program Domain
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Jeffrey Chambers
Faculty Scientist
Sandy Chin
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Vegetation monitoring--Western Cape (South Africa), Plants--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
District: Caledon, Location: Kogelberg Nature Reserve., Ecology: Unknown.
People protest Prime Minister Daniel Francois Malan's plans, Cape Town
Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, National Party (South Africa), Demonstration
People protest Prime Minister Daniel Francois Malan's plans, Cape Town.
Busy main road of Elsies River, Cape Town
Western Cape (South Africa), Elsies River (South Africa), Apartheid, Infrastructure, Street vendors
This is the busy main road of Elsies River, where hawkers and vendors sell alongside flourishing modern shops of every variety. People flock to the area for the bargains and the colourful market atmosphere.
Rev. Karl August inside his church in District Six, Cape Town
District Six (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Forced removals (South Africa), Religion, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
The Rev. Karl August inside his church. The Moravian Chapel in Ashley Street was built in 1884. Its pastor, the Rev. Karl August hopes to build another chapel in Hanover Park. 'We can never replace the history of this chapel,' he says.
1961 Apartheid elections, Cape Town
Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Elections, Newspapers, Technology, Broadcasting
The Argus scoreboard to-day showed the state of the parties before the first vote is counted in the 1961 general election (the first general election after South Africa became a republic). The Nationalists have 50 unopposed seats and the United Party 20.
Minister of Bantu Administration, Westbrook, Cape Town
Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Politics, Cabinet ministers, National Party (South Africa), Governments
The swearing-in of the new Deputy Minister of Bantu Administration by the State President (Mr. J. J. Fouche), Development (Mr A. J . Raubenheimer) took place today. Shown in the garden of Westbrook, the State President's official residence in Rondebosch after the ceremony are, from left, Dr. P. Koornhof, Deputy Minister of Bantu Administration, the Prime Minister (M.r. B. J. Vorster), Mr. Fouche, Mr. M. C. Botha, Minister of Bantu Administration and Mr. Raubenheimer.
Conophytum uviforme (Haw.) N.E.Br. subsp. uviforme
South Africa--Northern Cape, Province of, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Northern Cape--Pictorial works, Botany--South Africa--Northern Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Botanical illustration - coloured - Conophytum uviforme (Haw.) N.E.Br. subsp. uviforme. Plate 44, Mesemb. Notes, Part 3, H.M.L. Bolus 1936-58, or VII, in later edition. D. Drawn from a collection made by Marloth (sub-National Botanical Garden 1286/26). [Refer to: Bolus Herbarium 131112]. [No locality details are given. Plant species endemic to South Africa; Northern Cape Provincial distribution].
Jakkalsrivier experimental area
Vegetation monitoring--Western Cape (South Africa), Plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Mountain plants--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
District: Caledon, Location: Lebanon State Forest, Jakkalsrivier experimental area., Ecology: Unknown.
Algeria Nature Reserve
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District: Clanwilliam, Location: Cederberg Wilderness Area, Algeria Nature Reserve., Ecology: Unknown.
Fishing industry, Cape Town
Western Cape (South Africa), Table Bay (South Africa), Fishing industry, Recreation, Ocean, Seafood, Weather, Winds
A fairly large number of Saldanha-based trawlers were forced to take shelter in Table Bay this week because of the high winds at sea. According to port officials the vessels were all wooden pelagic catchers and their skippers had indicated that the off-shore area between Saldanha and Cape Town had been hammered by south-easterly winds of up to 70 knots. Table Bay itself was lashed by a gale with gusts of up to 55 knots.
Tramway, Camps Bay , Cape Town
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Mountain Tramway, Camps Bay.
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Siete canciones populares (4. Jota)
Falla, Manuel de, 1876-1946. Canciones populares españolas. Jota, Folk songs, Spanish, Songs (Medium voice) with piano, Concerts--South Africa--Cape Town
Kamal Khan presents "Aunque tu madre no quiera" (Songs your mother never taught you), Baxter Concert Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
Body of an unidentified man, Cape Town
Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Civil unrest, Violence, Death
Victim - The body of an unidentified man was found with a bullet wound in the head next to a burnt-out vehicle in NY5 in Gugulethu on Saturday.
Grootvadersbosch Nature Reserve
Ericaceae--Western Cape (South Africa), Plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Mountain plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Vegetation monitoring--Western Cape (South Africa), Botanists--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
District: Heidelberg, Location: Grootvadersbosch Nature Reserve., Ecology: Erica spp.
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CAP annual report March 1991 to April 1993
Community Arts Project (Cape Town, South Africa)
Annual report of the Community Arts Project (CAP) for the period March 1991 to April 1993. It was prepared for funders and includes details of the projects, staffing and funding. This was the first major annual report produced after the 1990 financial 'crisis'.
Map to accompany report on authorized extension of railway system
Railroads--South Africa--Cape of Good Hope--Maps, ,
A map of northern and eastern parts of the Cape Colony showing an authorised and alternative railway extension from Cradock to Colesberg, joining the authorised and alternative extension from Beaufort West to Hope Town, with towns and other place names, district boundaries, mountains and rivers. Relief shown by hachures. Some colour. No scale given.
Report on an alluvial plain site, yielding artefacts and human remains.
Report on an Alluvial plain site, yielding crushers, Mosselbay points and human remains, Western Cape, South Africa.
Report on a midden site yielding 3 upper grindstones and a burnt stone circle.
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Report on a midden site yielding 3 upper grindstones and a burnt stone circle at the Gouritz River mouth in the Western Cape, South Africa.
Report on a surface site, yielding artefacts.
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Report on a surface site, yielding Early Stone Age artefacts, Western Cape, South Africa.
Athlone Advice Office. Annual report for year October 1st 1972 to September 30th 1973
Annual report of the Black Sash Advice Office. Includes reports on the Boards Act, the Aid Centre, resettlement, education, "migrants' , unemployment, and legal cases
C.G.R. Malmesbury-Greys Pass survey, to accompany G. S. Owen's report dated 3rd May 1898
Railroads--South Africa--Malmesbury--Maps, Railroads--South Africa--Piketberg--Maps, ,
A map showing the proposed extension of the Malmesbury railway line from the Kalabas Kraal Station, passing close to Hopefield, crossing the Great Berg River, through Piquetberg and ending close to Grey's Pass, with farms, rivers, roads and commonage. The map shows Malmesbury and the villages of Darling, Hopefield, Piquetberg and Porterville, and covers the field cornetcies of Groene Kloof West, Groene Kloof East, Middel Zwartland, Voor Riebeeks Kasteel, Zwartland and Zout Rivier. The proposed railway stations are: Michiel Heyns Kraal, Klipfontein, Darling, Cochara, Uilenkraal, Hopefield, Rondekuil, Visschers Kraal, Middel Kraal, Wittewater, Piquetberg, Meintjes Kraal, Elands Vlei, Dwars in de Weg, Eendekuil and The Rest. Some colour. Scale 1/2 inch to 1 mile. Scale 1 2/8 inch to 1000 Cape roods.
Report on gravel pits, containing artefacts
Report on gravel pits yielding Early Stone Age and Mid Stone Age tools, cleavers, shell openers, hand axes, flakes and cores a Kranshoek. Western Cape. South Africa.
Report on a exposed midden site, yielding many animal bones, including seal and antelope.
Report on a exposed midden site, yielding a large number of animal bones, including seal and antelope at the Goukamma Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa. The report was recorded by Catherine Hales, aged 10 years at the time.
Report on an excavation site yielding artefacts.
Report on an excavation site at Roodefontein, Western Cape, South Africa. The site yielded artefacts such as well refined hand axes, scrapers and flakes.
Report on a shell midden in open ground.
Report on a shell midden in open ground on the Robberg Peninsula, Plettenberg Bay, Western Cape, South Africa.
Report on a stream bed site with artefacts
Report on a stream bed site with Late Stone Age artefacts, Western Cape, South Africa.
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Home » Living in Singapore » Schools » Expat packages and expatriate salaries in Singapore: A thing of the past?
Expat packages and expatriate salaries in Singapore: A thing of the past?
11th October 2018 by Rebecca Bisset 5 Min Read
The perception that an expat living in Singapore is on a big expat package, a massive house and garden, education, housing, car and travel budget has hopefully faded.
The situation has been changing over the past two decades, with I would say most expats now on local contracts i.e. having to pay for rent and school fees out of a fixed salary.
Are expat packages available to cover the cost of living in Singapore?
Dr Yvonne McNulty from Expat Research takes an honest look at real life for Singapore’s new expats who don’t receive the big packages, and debunks the myth that all expats here are living it large in Asia. Twenty years ago, being an expat was seen as a quick way to get rich fast, with most employees receiving full compensation and benefits packages that covered everything from housing, schools, and cars, to tax equalisation, home leave, and even cold-weather clothing allowances. While some expats are still fortunate to be living on full packages, most of us don’t.
Industry research shows that “localising” expatriates has been the dominant compensation approach in Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai since 2004, in contrast to the predominantly full-package approach of 20 years ago. Localisation describes the company practice of replacing an expat compensation package with something comparable to that offered to locals. It includes reducing (or eliminating altogether) base salary, incentives, allowances, social security and retirement plans. Localised expats are viewed and treated like local employees and offered few or no special benefits in recognition of their “special” status as foreigners.
This change means that more expat families are relocating to Singapore, or remaining here, on local terms and conditions, and forgoing many of the benefits and allowances they once might have received.
Why do expats agree to localise?
For many, it’s a deliberate decision taken in the best interests of the family, especially when faced with a company policy that requires the localisation of an expat who wishes to stay on in Singapore at the end of an assignment contract. KPMG’s 2013 Global Assignment Policies and Practices Report estimates that approximately 30 percent of companies have such policies.
Localisation often makes sense for families who appreciate Singapore as a safe environment to raise children, and a convenient base for expats in a regional role requiring constant business travel. Others have no choice. As the international labour market hots up, and the need for international work experience becomes essential for “lifetime employability” and “external marketability”, many expats and their families are here on local terms because one or both spouses need Singapore or Asia on their CV.
The norm rather than the exception
Not surprisingly, more than three-quarters of companies globally (including those with Singapore subsidiary offices) have some form of localisation policy.
But this doesn’t mean that all expats go willingly into localisation, or that companies necessarily reap the benefits. Localisation has many unforeseen opportunity costs for companies, the biggest being the loss of talent to competitors. Localised expats are free to job-hop and look for better employment deals, because of reduced financial ties binding them to their employers.
To counter the avalanche of lost talent and employee resistance to localisation, come companies offer “local-plus” packages over a transfer period of up to two years. This softens the blow of localisation, giving expats time to manage their finances and adjust their spending habits.
Companies are also savvy in knowing whom they can localise. Typically, younger employees climbing the corporate ladder need less enticement than senior employees in their late 40s and early 50s who are more likely to be drawn to a large package with benefits.
International HR Journal defines a local-plus package as one that compensates an employee according to the salary levels, structure and administrative guidelines of the host location, as well as providing them with limited “expatriate-type” benefits such as transportation, housing and dependants’ education, in recognition of the employee’s “foreign” status.
1 Localisation is viewed as a permanent one-way transfer, where the company has no obligation to provide or to assist with repatriation to a home country or to re-assign an expat to another international location. It is entirely the employee’s responsibility to organise and fund any such move.
2 Localisation means that expats are not supported or valued by a company in the same way as full-package expats, typically receiving no training and fewer perks, and having a lower status overall. This can leave an expat feeling in limbo, neither a true local nor a real expat. A hierarchical pecking order tends to exist too, and many localised expats feel like lower-order employees, especially in cases where their expat colleagues are more handsomely rewarded for doing exactly the same job.
3 Localisation occurs in two ways. An increasing number of expats relocate to Singapore as localised employees from the start, with just a base salary and no perks or benefits. Others arrive on a full package and later switch to localised employment. Some companies do this by winding back benefits incrementally over a one- or two-year period as outlined in the employment contract, but the majority of companies tend to localise almost immediately, giving their expat employees little time to plan and budget ahead.
It’s clear that localisation is here to stay. It helps companies maximise talent management while containing costs – a strategy that is likely to dominate the expat employment scene for years to come. What remains important for expats is to leverage the opportunities that localised employment brings, and to keep in mind that short-term financial pain can often bring long-term international career gain.
So what does Expat Living think about living in or moving to Singapore?
It’s an expensive city for rents, food and cars for a start. Many expats would have free education and medical in their home countries – not available here – so there has to be other benefits.
If it’s an international position and a good step up the career ladder for either of you.
You’ve done your homework and know that you’ll clear a substantial amount more than at home after costs. And you can still manage to save.
Tax in Singapore is considerably less than in most countries, so factor that in.
If you’re pre kids or post kids, it’s a more affordable option.
If the kids are off to university and it’s just paying for those fees and living expenses in whichever country they’ve chosen.
Both of you can bring in some form of income.
If you’ve got a property you can still cover the mortgage or you can rent it out to help cover some of the costs.
You love living in a clean, safe environment that is summer all year long.
You want to be in the centre of the universe!
Ready to move? Here’s some great information on where to live, and things to do!
Categories: Kids Living in Singapore Schools Schools Tags: Moving To Singapore Repatriation Singapore Cost Of Living Singapore Relocation
About Rebecca Bisset
Before becoming editor-in-chief of Expat Living, Rebecca worked in photography and video research – so she tends to see images before words! She has lived in many countries and loves helping people settle in to their new home, wherever that may be.
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The Daily Times Newspaper
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Why is Mozarella the Best Cheese for Pizza?
By Arthur Perry On Jul 13, 2018
A comparative study by the University of Auckland in New Zealand has shown that mozzarella is the best type of cheese for finishing the pizza. That writes an Italian news agency.
Pizza is an Italian delicacy and, of course, an Italian cheese is part of that.
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An investigation from New Zealand has confirmed this again by conducting a comparative study. During the tests, among other cheeses such as provolone, also the Dutch edammer, the English cheddar and the Swiss gruyere and emmental are used.
But mozzarella, traditionally made from buffalo milk, turns out to be the absolute primus. Not only because of the taste, but also because of the perfect way of melting and fusing with other ingredients.
The other cheeses made for a less tasty effect on the pizza. For example, edammer causes a lack of elasticity, emmentaler prevents the moisture on the pizza from evaporating, and cheddar does not blow.
Mozzarella in combination with other cheeses on the pizza is delicious. For example, gorgonzola and mozzarella go well together.
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Harry Dendy stands in the capitol building holding a frame that showcases his many 4-H pins and awards.
4-H Foundation merges with MSU Foundation
Story by Leah Barbour • Photos by Kevin Hudson
Harry Dendy of Clinton first joined the Mississippi State University Extension Service 4-H Youth Development program in Chickasaw County 62 years ago, when he was 10 years old. Forestry was his main project area.
“I was really good at coming in second place, but I stayed active in 4-H,” Dendy remembers, laughing. “4-H taught me how to be a gracious winner and, most importantly, how to lose and not be discouraged.
“It taught me leadership, gave me a chance to interact with kids my own age, a spirit of competitiveness, and a certain degree of self-confidence,” he continues. “4-H made me who I am.”
During his subsequent 33-year career with Farm Credit System, contributing to 4-H was a regular part of Dendy’s job. By 2003, when he opened his own consulting company, Capitol Ag Services Inc., Dendy had volunteered with 4-H for decades.
Dendy was selected to the 4-H Foundation Board of Trustees early in his professional career. He was elected as vice chair of the board in 2001. When he was elected chair in 2015, he committed to a 3-year term that expired in April 2018. He continues to serve 4-H as immediate past chair and board member.
“I am firmly convinced that our most precious natural resource is our youth,” he explains. “It is up to us adults to offer guidance, leadership, and mentorship to be sure that they are positioned to be responsible adults and make a positive difference in our society.”
Harry Dendy
In 2012, MSU policy changed, and Extension personnel could no longer fund-raise directly for nonprofit organizations outside the university, including for the 4-H Foundation. Extension Director Dr. Gary B. Jackson saw contributions slow significantly, and he began researching how other land-grant institutions were handling this type of change. He asked fellow administrators, including Fiscal Administrator Richard Swann, Associate Extension Director Dr. Paula Threadgill, and Extension Professor Larry Alexander, to examine how the 4-H Foundation might change if it merged with the MSU Foundation. In 2013, Jackson presented the benefits a merger would have for Mississippi 4-H.
When Dendy became the 4-H Foundation board chair, he appointed Charles Taylor to continue Extension administrators’ research into the benefits and drawbacks of a merger.
“Mr. Taylor’s vast corporate background uniquely qualified him to analyze and best determine how to return our fund-raising to a more acceptable level,” Dendy explains. “The initial work focused on corporate fund-raising, with the identification of programs and potential donors for program support. Additionally, we explored how other state 4-H Foundations operated, relative to their universities’ Extension Services.”
Jackson visited North Carolina State University to learn how its 4-H Foundation changed its relationship with the university foundation. He shared his findings in a presentation to Dendy and the other members of the 4-H Foundation. Because many states’ 4-H foundations were created before university foundations, many of those foundations were choosing to merge, and donors were responding.
“When it became apparent that most potential corporate donors for 4-H were also donors or potential donors to MSU, it was clear that a new relationship was needed,” Dendy continues. “The result was a plan to merge the fund-raising operations of the two foundations, which will support 4-H programs.”
Some members of the 4-H Foundation were hesitant at first, but Dendy and Taylor formed committees and encouraged discussions, and the wheels of change began turning.
On April 17, the 4-H Foundation membership unanimously approved a motion granting authority to the 4-H Foundation board of trustees to finalize and execute a merger/gift agreement with the MSU Foundation. The agreement was formally signed June 25.
“The original mission of the 4-H Club Foundation of Mississippi Inc. has not changed,” Dendy emphasizes. “The money-raising function has changed in that the MSU Foundation will now be responsible for all activities related to the fund-raising aspect.
“The MSU Foundation, working with the 4-H Foundation and Extension, has the manpower, the expertise, and the contacts to best serve fund-raising for 4-H.”
Many more options for supporting 4-H are available by working with the MSU Foundation, Dendy emphasizes, including earmarking money for 4-H travel, scholarships, or awards.
Will Staggers, assistant director of development for Extension, can assist potential 4-H donors.
“This is clearly a good business decision for both entities,” he agrees. “We want to have a system in place that funds endless opportunities for our 4-H youth here in Mississippi, and we’re excited to work together.”
To find out more about supporting Mississippi 4-H through the MSU Found-ation, contact Staggers at (662) 325-2837 or wstaggers@foundation.msstate.edu.
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Short Reflections
Rev Kevin Smith, Baptist
Rev Dr Gilles Mongeau, SJ, Catholic
Dr Robert Steffer, Disciples of Christ
Fr Pishoy Wasfy, Coptic Orthodox
Rev Dr Arnold Neufeldt-Fast, Mennonite
Dr Paul Ladouceur & Prof Richard Schneider, Orthodox Church in America
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Why be a Christian?
Because it is the God-willed, God-announced and God-enabled human response to God’s address to humanity. God is calling every human to be – through Christ Jesus – reconciled to Him.
Because God has, in an ultimate grace-filled act of self-disclosure, in Jesus Christ, revealed the divine nature to be one of self-giving, suffering, non-violent, transformative love.
Because Christ confronted the powers that fracture our world and has overcome them with suffering love. He is ushering in a new heaven and new earth, and invites us to follow him and to work with “the grain of the universe.”
To enjoy fellowship with God. 1 John 1 declares that fellowship with God is a distinct possibility for the Christian if we are prepared to be obedient to God. It flows out of atoning death of Christ for our sins which leads to purification
Because Christ is in the world; there is no other way to be. One sees the world through Christian eyes, because Christ – Christ crucified, Christ risen – is All-in-all.
One is not a Christian in order to be saved. One is saved by God, receives the gift of knowing this in Christ by the Spirit, and so one becomes a servant of Christ’s mission to redeem all of creation for the Father.
Reformed Churches and Pluralism
Hope for a World of Religions
Reformed churches see their spirituality as an inheritance concentrated in the 15th century Reformer John Calvin’s interpretation of the Christian tradition, which he in many ways received from the early church fathers, especially St. Augustine. Augustine, of course, was reflecting on the New Testament witness to the life and death of Christ, a historically and universally seminal event that speaks to us about the renewal of all creation.
It is our deep foundations in a theology of creation that inspired a more recent theologian to think very urgently about pluralism. Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) in fact became the President of The Netherlands at the turn of the 20th century and noted that pluralism is a fact of life, a diversity built right into creation and its unfolding in culture. Inherent in this plurality is a “common grace” from God – that while all cultures are corrupted, none is so tainted as to be without some divine truth, beauty and goodness. So Kuyper developed the idea of “principled pluralism” which challenges both a church monopoly on public life and a secular hegemony, insisting that religious groups should be treated with equal rights, and cooperate where they can to pursue the common good.
Within this pluralistic polity, each faith is free to unapologetically proclaim its particular creed. In our collective “contemporary testimony” (2008: paragraph 42), the CRCNA has included a short section on religious pluralism, stating:
In a world estranged from God,
where happiness and peace are offered in many names
and millions face confusing choices,
we witness—
with respect for followers of other ways—
to the only one in whose name salvation is found:
In Jesus, God reconciles the world to himself.
God loves all creation;
his compassion knows no bounds.
Calvin said all human beings are hard-wired for God, but their hearts are a factory of idols, distracting them from their true source. All religions, including the Christian religion, fall short. Jesus came to fulfill the promises given in religion, and so through his once-for-all sacrifice on the cross, all people, and all religions may be reformed, corrected, and redeemed—along with all creation itself—to rise with Christ to a renewed, eternal life where love, joy, and peace shall reign.
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We are all George Zimmerman now
Most people know my name, George Zimmerman, largely due to negative stereotypes propagated by the media as a result of the 2012 incident in Sanford, Florida, in which Trayvon Martin died.
(Article by George Zimmerman republished from AmericanThinker.com)
Unfortunately, most people don’t recall the fact that I was exonerated of any wrongdoing after a thorough investigation by the Sanford Police Department in March 2012. They had interviewed dozens of witnesses, analyzed 911 calls, and examined the physical evidence of my broken nose, the lacerations on the back of my head, as well as the bruised knuckles of my assailant.
This was all backed up by eyewitness Johnathan Good who told police that he saw me screaming for help while blows were coming down on me “MMA style.”
At the conclusion of the police investigation, Sanford Chief of Police Bill Lee announced that my actions were taken in self-defense and there were no grounds for my arrest. It was not even a “stand your ground” case. What followed immediately was a campaign of race-based defamation and incitement against me, led by Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump.
George Zimmerman in 2012, following the incident
Photo via the State of Florida
I am the last person who ever expected to be accused of being a bigot. I am Hispanic. My mother is from Peru. I speak fluent Spanish. I was an Obama supporter and a social activist. Just a year earlier, I had led a community-wide effort to get justice for Sherman Ware, a homeless black man who had been attacked by the son of a white police officer. I was also active in a mentoring program where I spent my spare time (and money) with black teens whose parents were in prison.
The Martin family attorney, Benjamin Crump, quickly recruited for his incitement efforts Al Sharpton, a man who was infamous for the 1989 Tawana Brawley race hoax and other incidents of mayhem based on racial incitement over the years. Then, Obama’s Department of Justice sent representatives to Sanford to “investigate,” but they instead helped organize protests demanding my arrest. As the protests heated up and Crump’s false narrative was repeated by the media ad nauseam, even fair-minded people began to demand my arrest without cause. Then, out of the blue, Crump produced a recorded interview of a “phone witness,” whom, he said, was Trayvon Martin’s 16-year-old girlfriend, “Diamond Eugene.”
In the recorded interview with Diamond Eugene, Crump openly led the witness. She mostly just echoed everything Crump said. Two weeks later, prosecutors went to Miami to interview 16-year-old Diamond Eugene under oath. That’s when, as I recently learned, 18-year-old Rachel Jeantel appeared, claiming she was Diamond Eugene. Despite the discrepancy in name and age, prosecutors interviewed Rachel Jeantel anyway and used her obviously false statements to issue an affidavit of probable cause for my arrest. The rest is history.
Hollywood filmmaker Joel Gilbert just released a film and book of the same name, The Trayvon Hoax: Unmasking the Witness Fraud that Divided America. He investigated the public records and made a discovery – Rachel Jeantel was an imposter. She was not “Diamond Eugene.” She was not Trayvon’s girlfriend. She was not on the phone with him before our altercation. She lied in court about everything she claimed to have heard over the phone in order to send me to prison for life.
In The Trayvon Hoax, Gilbert not only proves that Rachel was a fraud, he actually finds Trayvon’s real girlfriend, Diamond Eugene, studying Criminal Justice at Florida State University, of all things! Gilbert also identifies those who knew about the witness fraud, such as Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton, now a 2020 Miami Dade Commissioner candidate. Gilbert also identifies the attorneys who likely knew and/or should have known about the witness switch.
The damage the trial did to me and my family has been devastating. I suffered from PTSD and, as a result, acted out for a few years before finally returning to the person I was. I was kicked out of college due to threats against the staff by the New Black Panthers. I lost my career path to become an attorney, and to this day I cannot work or even circulate in public. In 2015, someone tried to kill me. The bullet missed my head by inches, and the shooter got 20 years in prison. Today I remain in hiding, as does my family due to constant threats, which appear almost daily in rap songs and social media rants.
Ironically, Trayvon Martin and I ended up having much in common. We were both used to divide America for a political agenda. Since the trial, I have watched in horror as those who incited against me have divided America along racial lines. Black Lives Matter started as a result of my acquittal. BLM took its vigilante act to Ferguson, and the resulting “Ferguson Effect” led to a sharp rise in homicides in black neighborhoods. Even today, Benjamin Crump continues his false race narrative (and defames me) in his new book entitled, Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People.
I have now taken up the cause of bringing America back together again, and I intend to do it by revealing how the country was deceived. I feel that if I can expose and hold accountable those at the origin of this evil witness fraud, the healing can begin.
I have hired attorney Larry Klayman in his private capacity, founder of Judicial Watch and now Freedom Watch. I am suing Rachel Jeantel, Brittany “Diamond” Eugene, Sybrina Fulton, Tracy Martin, Benjamin Crump, prosecutors Angela Corey, Bernie de la Rionda, John Guy, the state of Florida, the FDLE, and HarperCollins Publishing for in excess $100 million. I don’t care about the money as much as I care about the truth coming out in discovery and at trial.
Racheal Jeantel lied under oath to deprive me of my constitutional rights and send me to prison for life. The others either suborned perjury or lied under oath to hide their knowledge of the switch of the legitimate phone witness, Diamond Eugene, for Rachel Jeantel, whom they knew was an imposter. My lawsuit is online and can be viewed or downloaded here: Zimmerman v Sybrina Fulton, Crump et al.
I am bringing this action not only to get justice for myself, but for all those Americans who are falsely accused of racial animus as well as those victimized by fake witnesses and unscrupulous prosecutors.
This lawsuit is also for the Bell family, whose sons were falsely accused of involvement in a tragic gym accident that caused the death of Kendrick Johnson. This lawsuit is for Officer Darren Wilson of Ferguson, whom even Eric Holder had to admit was falsely accused of shooting a man who allegedly put his hands up. This lawsuit is for the police officers in Baltimore, both black and white, who were falsely accused of harming Freddy Gray in order to justify mob violence. This lawsuit is for Brett Kavanaugh and any future Supreme Court nominees falsely accused of crimes they did not commit to prevent their nominations.
More than anything else, this lawsuit is for the America I grew up in and still believe in, an America of equal justice for all, where race hoaxes and fake witnesses have no place, an America where the content of one’s character, not race, is the basis for one’s judgement of another.
With my lawsuit, I hope to make a strong statement that false witnesses will not be tolerated, not in Seminole County Court or any court, and not in the United States Senate chambers. False witnesses must face consequences, or they will continue to ruin lives of innocent people. There is nothing more un-American and irreligious under the Ten Commandments than to bear false witness.
I look forward to succeeding in my court actions and hope to have enough funds to found a center for falsely accused persons of all races, those railroaded by charlatans, prosecutors, and an all too willing establishment media.
Read more at: AmericanThinker.com
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Leftists set fire to amazon rainforests so they can raise money to fight the fires
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Summer on the slopes: natural brilliance at Alpaga, Megève
Wild strawberries, emerald slopes and warm mountain air – ‘There’s more to the Alps than skiing,’ says Ellie Smith
There are few things that rival the awe-inspiring power of the mountains, but in the golden afternoon light, engrossed in the careful watering of his hand-planted carrots, chef Anthony Bisquerra is unstirred by his alpine office. Peeking behind the rolling hills of Megève, the powdery tip of Mont Blanc gazes on as he nourishes the produce that helped earn his restaurant its first Michelin star. It’s a true picture of quality. As you wander through the chic-yet-subtle chalets of Alpaga – one of Les Hotels d’en Haut’s five-star locations – you can capture this image at every turn.
We stayed in a deluxe room, a sunlit haven nestled in the heart of the lazy, green hamlet. The smell of fresh pine drifts through the air and sweetens everything from the king-sized bed to the eco-friendly toiletries, specifically designed to be refillable instead of disposable. On the table, propped against a bottle of complementary blueberry juice, was our first taste of just how family-friendly Alpaga is – a voucher inviting children to redeem a sweet treat, or a ‘goûter’ as it’s better known in France. Kids can visit the bar themselves to claim their surprise. Skipping with an excited independence, vouchers clutched in hand, they begin to revel in the joyous freedom of holiday life.
Sweet treats aside, little stomachs are well looked after at the restaurants, too. As we indulged in our al fresco lunch, the family next to us savoured their own, with their cheerful two-year-old sitting proudly at the table in true French fashion. The kids’ menu is enough to delight even the fussiest of taste buds. Featuring the meat or fish of the day and a sophisticated selection of pastas, each dish is crafted with the same calibre of local ingredients as their adult counterparts.
It’s at the table that this hotel really shines. With Chef Bisquerra hand-selecting some of the finest locally-grown seasonal produce, restaurants l’Onyx and La Table construct what can only be described as culinary masterpieces. Vibrant salads are dotted expertly with herbs from the hotel garden, while a rich rice pudding is sprinkled with tangy alpine strawberries. The philosophy is that simple, unhurried food generates excellence. The proof is in the pudding. And the mains, and the starters, and the appetizers, and the wine…
Whilst it is tempting to spend all day at the restaurants, there’s more to Alpaga than eating and drinking. For cooler days, the SMALLable Kids Club offers an indoor cinema and cooking workshops to keep the children busy. But during the summer, this skiing hotspot emerges from its snowy cocoon as a lush playground, carrying with it an array of activities to get the adrenaline pumping – or just to feel the mountain breeze and enjoy the great outdoors.
Tobogganing, bungee-jumping, climbing, and hot air balloon rides bring Megève to life as the sun gently warms the landscape. We, however, opted for a hike.
Led by our guide Guillaume – a ski instructor in winter, trekking explorer come summer – we meandered through the grassy heights, flanked by age-old trees on one side and breathtaking panoramas on the other. With his cheeky but wise demeanour, it’s easy to see how Guillaume is a hit with the kids. On skiing adventures, attentive to the needs of the whole family, he casually stays behind with the little ones while the grown-ups steal moments of speedy, uninhibited fun.
He’s an advocate for making the most of nature’s beauty, whatever your age. While the kids march through the fields, nibbling happily on freshly foraged edible flowers, the idea of young eyes glued to their phones seems a million miles away.
When you eventually return to the hotel, the connection with the environment endures. Made from organic materials, and inspired by the traditional architecture of Megève, the quaint cluster of chalets meld seamlessly with their surroundings; a harmonious fusion of pale timber and mellow pastures, it’s as though the place has sprouted from beneath the blooming terrain itself. Inside, from the stone-wrapped bathrooms to the wooden kids’ bunk beds, the best of the alpine wilderness is harnessed – even the breakfast buffet is posed elegantly in hollowed-out tree trunks. The natural charm of the Alps is reproduced, and a living, breathing energy hangs in the air.
As we leave, winding round the picture-postcard lanes, it’s impossible not to feel utterly refreshed. A trip overflowing with outstanding food, spectacular scenery and unpretentious luxury, Alpaga excels as a sanctuary of pure elegance. The hardworking staff may have learned to ignore the sensation of wonder inspired by their magnificent environment, but for me, as the mighty peaks glide past the taxi window, it’s hard to feel anything else.
The lowdown: Alpaga
For a family of four, two-bedroom suites start from €756.
Alternatively, two adjacent rooms can be booked – rooms are available from €276.
The closest airport is Geneva; British Airways offers flights from London City, Gatwick and Heathrow, starting from £26 one-way. EasyJet also offers flights from Manchester, Bristol and Liverpool.
Alpaga is around a 1h 15m car journey from Geneva airport.
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Denmark for Families: Discover Legoland, Vikings and Beyond
Looking for the ultimate multigenerational getaway? You’ll find it in Denmark.
How do whales breathe? Through a blowhole. How did Bluetooth get its name? From a rune stone. What does the word “lego” mean? Play well. These are just some of the unusual facts that my grandsons Herc, 8, and Alexi, 6, learned on a five-day action-packed vacation to central Denmark.
Denmark has a reputation as a bike-friendly country, but since there are so many attractions in the Legoland area alone, from the Viking encounters to whale-watching, we decided it would be more practical to rent a car and hire bikes for day trips. Our trip was geared to kid stuff — Legoland and the Vikings — but with some 70 years between our group’s youngest and oldest member (me!), we planned a little shopping, sightseeing and eating, too.
The first stop on the journey was Legoland in Billund, which is a 50-minute flight from Copenhagen (and well worth the journey). We based ourselves at Hotel Legoland. As well as thrilling my grandsons with a life-size Lego Darth Vader in the foyer and Lego boxes in the rooms, it was blissfully convenient.
We walked over a small bridge and were in the theme park itself, which centers on Miniland — a Lego model village — and plenty of rides and adds-ons, including Ninjago World with its laser maze and the Wild West gold mine. There was also a Star Wars tableaux complete with puffs of smoke.
Before we left, the boys would have insisted that little could top Legoland. But that was before we went to Lalandia, Scandinavia’s largest indoor water park. It has an array of waterslides, including the terrifying Tornado, which whooshes you down a vertical drop on a giant rubber ring.
Next stop was Ribe Viking Center, a 50-minute drive away, where the boys signed up for a warrior-training session, with real helmets, bows and arrows, shields and swords, and met falconers and blacksmiths in thatched huts. I was more interested in exploring the medieval town of Ribe, so I pedaled there to see how the real place matched up to the one we’d seen in Legoland. Certainly it is just as picturesque.
Another highlight of the trip was a town called Middelfart (no joke), which is known for its whale-watching. It’s home to one of the world’s highest concentrations of porpoises, which are small whales.
After boarding Adventura, a 70-year-old wooden ketch, Herc was thrilled to be invited by the rugged captain to help steer us out from the quay. Alexi was handed binoculars and told to look out for the black backs of the porpoises in the sea. “There!" he shouted excitedly only minutes later.
During the two-hour voyage, the crew regaled us with fascinating stories about life on the ocean. Afterward, the boys spent ages in Middelfart’s tiny whaling museum, glued to a touch screen, trying to corral their own shoals of porpoises.
Denmark is not the cheapest place to visit, but it is certainly one of the easiest, with uncrowded roads and an impressive variety of attractions within close distance. Throw in a range of child-friendly restaurants, and you have the perfect multigenerational getaway.
Getting Here: Legoland is in Billund, which is a 50-minute flight from Copenhagen.
Where to Stay: Hotel Legoland
What to Do: Ribe Viking Center and whale-watching.
By Gillian Thomas
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Hello and thanks for stopping by the fasab blog.
Yes, today is the first Monday in August (how fast is this year going?) and time for another quiz.
As usual the answers are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below – but NO cheating!
Have a go and, hopefully, enjoy.
Q. 1: Which Sergeant Detective Lieutenant worked with Scientist Ted Olson under the watchful eye of Captain Ed Hocken?
Q. 2: The slogan for which famous website is ‘We Open Governments’?
Q. 3: What are the genetically engineered robots called in the movie ‘Blade Runner’?
Q. 4: With 4,400 km, what is the longest river in the world beginning with the letter ‘L’? (Bonus point if you know what country it is in.)
Q. 5: Which band has had a record 36 top ten albums in the US charts?
Q. 6: The OSS was the predecessor of which organization?
Q. 7: The two amiable lawbreakers Robert LeRoy Parker and Harry Longabaugh were better known as what?
Q. 8: A ‘Black Perigord’ is an expensive example of what?
Q. 9: The world heritage site of Petra is located in what country?
Q. 10: What is the well known word for ‘sailor of the universe’?
Q. 11: The name of which criminal syndicate translated means ‘our thing’?
Q. 12: H.G. Wells ‘The Time Machine’ has been made into a movie twice. Which actor played the ‘Time Traveler’ in a) the original 1960 movie and b) the 2002 version? (A point for each.)
Q. 13: What is the well known translation for ‘River of January’?
Q. 14: John Spilsbury is credited with putting together which baffling invention in the 1760s?
Q. 15: Which politician is the co-author of the book ‘Judo: History, Theory, Practice’?
Q. 16: Which Hollywood sex symbol did RAF pilots get into during World War II?
Q. 17: Which world famous Hollywood actress does one associate with the words “I want to be alone..”?
Q. 18: Which uplifting 1956 invention carried Sir Christopher Cockerell to fame?
Q. 19: Before reunification what was the capital of West Germany?
Q. 20: And finally, a question to chew on. What is the name of the famous department store in Moscow?
A. 1: ‘Sergeant Frank Drebin, Detective Lieutenant Police Squad’ in the Police Squad TV series and Naked Gun movies, played by the late Leslie Nielsen.
A. 2: WikiLeaks.
A. 3: They are called ‘Replicants’.
Q. 4: With 4,400 km, what is the longest river in the world beginning with the letter ‘L’?
A. 4: The River Lena in Russia. It is also the 11th longest river in the world and has the 9th largest watershed.
A. 5: The Rolling Stones.
A. 6: The OSS (Office of Strategic Services) was the predecessor of the CIA.
A. 7: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
A. 8: A Truffle.
A. 9: Jordan.
A. 10: Cosmonaut (Astronaut is ‘sailor of the stars’).
A. 11: Cosa Nostra.
Q. 12: H.G. Wells ‘The Time Machine’ has been made into a movie twice. Which actor played the ‘Time Traveler’ in a) the original 1960 movie and b) the 2002 version?
A. 12: Two answers a) Rod Taylor and b) Guy Pearce.
A. 13: Rio de Janeiro.
A. 14: The Jigsaw Puzzle.
A. 15: Vladimir Putin.
A. 16: Mae West. The automatically inflatable lifejacket worn by RAF pilots was given the nickname Mae West.
A. 17: Greta Garbo.
A. 18: The Hovercraft.
A. 19: Bonn.
A. 20: GUM Glavnyi Universalnyi Magazin.
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Toms launches animal initiative.
Toms has always been about giving back, providing shoes to a child in need for every pair sold, but now the Venice, CA-based brand is taking things a step further. Sparked by Heather Mycoskie’s passion and love for animals (wife of Toms Founder Blake Mycoskie), the Toms Animal Initiative is a series of partnerships planned to conserve and protect animals by raising funds each year.
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First up, the brand has teamed with Virunga National Park on a collection of Classics in aid of mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo, who are threatened by poachers and habitat destruction. Available in natural or khaki green, each shoe features Virunga’s logo, an embroidered version of one of the mountain gorillas the initiative is fighting to save. The collection is available now on toms.com, at the brand’s brick-and-mortar stores in Venice and Austin, and at the LA Zoo retailing for $42 to $48 for kids and $64 for adults.
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Tracy West -:Shop Talk
By now, you should all be covered up. And by that I mean your cigarettes and baccy, all cosy and snug behind doors or shutters because on April 6, that's the law!
And it's quite a complicated law with sub-sections on when you can open doors/shutters, who can look, and how much you are allowed to show and they are allowed to see. But it's important you get it right or there will be fines.
It's definitely a momentous change to the way you sell tobacco. Luckily for you, the bigger stores have been doing this for some time now so hopefully a lot of your customers will have some sort of inkling as to what it's all about. I remember when the big boys went dark. There had been no government communication to smokers at all about the hows, whys and wherefores, and as a result, some supermarkets resorted to plastering their kiosks with signs saying 'We do still sell tobacco'.
It's definitely a strange state of affairs. Yes, of course, smoking is harmful to one's health (and arguably those around the smokers too) but cigarettes and tobacco are not illegal and I don't know of anyone who has ever taken up smoking because they've seen packets of cigarettes in shops. And that, of course, leads me on to the next inevitable stand against tobacco so-called plain packaging.
Although it's not actually that plain as packs will carry a grisly picture of a smoker's insides, a stark health warning, oh and a tiny little brand name.
Now I write this not as a smoker, but as someone who doesn't like to be told what to do. If smoking is so bad, make the manufacturer and purchase of cigarettes and tobacco illegal. But silly me, where would the powers-that-be recoup the cigarette tax from?
Rant aside, I hope you have all taken on board the advice from the manufacturers about the importance of staff being familiar with brands and ensuring availability of best sellers at all times. No-one likes a queue but it seems they may be a consequence, at least at first, of covering up.
Despite the government's best efforts, a lot of people still choose to smoke. They may have down-traded to cheaper brands or be rolling their own, but they are still smoking and as such are valuable customers.
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About 3 years ago, Debbie and John were coming by about once a week to get a shower. That’s how it started. Debbie lived in her car and John’s living arrangements were unknown. Debbie has since moved into a shared apartment with her son and John works at a car dealer about 30 miles north of Florence. We don’t see them anymore, but what they started has grown significantly.
The staff of Florence Christian recognized the shower in the office wing bathroom was literally a life-line for these first two shower guests. More and more people have been welcomed in for a fresh cup of coffee, a shower and a place to rest. Social service agencies throughout the county have learned of the welcome and are referring people daily to experience this oasis. The addition of a dedicated Shower Ministry Coordinator has grown the program to full capacity at about 30 showers per week in the 12 hours that the shower is open to the public.
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Archaeological Discovery
10.4236/ad.2017.51003
Amalgamation and Small-Scale Gold Mining at Ancient Sardis, Turkey
William E. Brooks1, Hüseyin Öztürk2, Zeynep Cansu2
1Geologist, Reston, VA, USA
2Department of Geological Engineering, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
Received: January 3, 2017; Accepted: January 22, 2017; Published: January 25, 2017
In the ancient world gold was mined mainly from alluvial occurrences using gravity methods combined with the use of mercury (amalgamation), a method that is still used today in small-scale alluvial gold mines worldwide. Cyanide, which was first used in the 1880s, is used in large-scale hardrock mines to recover gold, silver, copper, and other metals from porphyry and disseminated ore deposits. Therefore, amalgamation must be considered, or specifically in the case of Sardis, reconsidered as the technology for ancient alluvial gold mining. Evidence that includes: the availability of cinnabar, the ore of mercury; an ancient mercury retort; ancient use of cinnabar as a pigment and mercury for gilding and amalgamation; the very fine-grained alluvial gold at Sardis; and the composition of the end-product gold, a Byzantine coin. These all indicate that amalgamation must be considered as the mining technology that supplied gold to Sardis’ ancient refineries and craftsmen.
Gold, Mercury, Amalgamation, Sardis, Turkey
Amalgamation is widely used today in small-scale alluvial gold mines around the world and this method is key to understanding alluvial gold mining in the past that would have similarly utilized gravity separation of gold combined with mercury amalgamation. It is a rudimentary process that begins with washing the gold-bearing sediment to obtain a gold-bearing pan concentrate; then adding mercury to amalgamate the gold; then removing the gold-mercury amalgam; and finally, burning the amalgam to volatilize the mercury leaving the gold. As used herein, gold refers to the platinum-silver- copper bearing alluvial gold, or electrum found at, for example, the Pactolus River gold occurrence at Sardis (SartÇayi, Manisa), Turkey (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Approximate locations of mercury districts in Turkey (Bircan & Aydoğanlı, 1969; Barnes & Bailey, 1972) .
Gold mining in western Turkey goes back to ~3000 BC and alluvial gold was mined from Astrya approximately 25 km from ancient Troy (Bayburtoğlu & Yildirim, 2010) . At Sardis, alluvial gold mining dates to ~700 BC and gold is still produced today. However, owing to the small size of the gold at Sardis, it was necessary to use mercury to amalgamate the gold-bearing sluice concentrates as part of a modern economic evaluation of this ancient gold occurrence (Topkaya, 1984) .
Amalgamation, which dates at least to Roman times (Agricola, 1556/1912) , was proposed as the mining technology used at ancient Sardis (Craddock, 2000a) ―that is, if mercury had been used, then low levels of mercury would be detected in the chemical analyses of the end-product gold. Therefore, gold coins from the British Museum’s Sardis collection were analyzed (SEM-EDX), and since no mercury was detected in the coins, Craddock (2000a) concluded that amalgamation had not been used.
However, there are basically only two methods to mine gold: 1) the centuries-old use of gravity combined with the addition of mercury (amalgamation); and 2) the comparatively recent use of cyanide. The cyanide method dates to the 1880s (Craig et al., 2011) and therefore, chronologically, amalgamation must be reevaluated as the technology for small-scale alluvial gold mining at ancient Sardis.
2. Alluvial Gold Mining and Mercury
Placer, or alluvial gold was ancient man’s primary source of gold and provided two- thirds of the gold that was ever produced (Boyle, 1979; Bayburtoğlu & Yildirim, 2010) . Nuggets and coarse gold would have been easily picked from the streams and gold pans; however, recovering the fine-grained gold would have required: 1) washing the gold-bearing sediment to eliminate light minerals thereby leaving a gold-bearing heavy mineral concentrate known as “black sand” which would have included zircon, cinnabar, magnetite, platinum, and other heavy minerals, 2) selective removal of the gold from the black sand by the addition of mercury (amalgamation), 3) and then, as now in Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Perú, and Venezuela, burning the amalgam (Spanish, refogado) to volatilize the mercury and recover the gold (Brooks et al., 2007; Brooks et al., 2013; Brooks, 2014) .
Sardis was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia and was the western stronghold of the Persian Empire following its capture by Cyrus in 546 BC. A major trading route with ancient Persia, the Royal Road, terminated at Sardis (Akurgal, 1969) and the region has been called the cradle of metallurgy. Sardis’ mineral wealth, especially gold, and the use of other mineral resources, is exquisitely demonstrated by a 5th century BC gold earring, with platinum (iridium, osmium), that also incorporated cinnabar in the design (Young, 1972; Bayburtoğlu & Yildirim, 2010) . Gold from Sardis was used for jewelry, pendants, and chains (Curtis, 1925) , or more importantly, was parted to recover silver and gold for coins as early as the 7th century BC (Craddock, 1995; Ramage & Craddock, 2000) . Gold appliqués were associated with some ancient funeral rites and were also attached to clothing (Roosevelt, 2009; Ephesus Museum, 2016) . In the Byzantine world that included parts of Spain, Italy, North Africa, and Asia Minor (Turkey), cinnabar, the ore of mercury, was used as a pigment (vermilion), as a funeral preservative, and retorted to produce mercury that was used for gilding or amalgamation.
The earliest written description of the use of mercury specifically for alluvial gold mining was given by al-Biruni, an 11th century Persian scientist. Small pits in the Sind River bed were filled with mercury; the mercury amalgamated the alluvial gold and then the gold-mercury amalgam was recovered, squeezed in a cloth to remove some of the mercury, and then the gold was burned to volatilize the remaining mercury (al-Hassan & Hill, 1986) .
Any discussion of ancient gold mining in the region must reference the Golden Fleece, which is the legendary mining method used to recover alluvial gold at ancient Sardis (Healy, 1978; Higgins & Higgins, 1996; Rapp, 2002) . This method is analogous to the use of animal skins and carpets that are used in present-day small-scale gold mining in Perú and Venezuela in the initial stages of gold concentration; however, the final recovery of the fine-grained gold is done using mercury (Cánepa, 2005; Brooks et al., 2007) . Several non-mercury methods for gold recovery are known in South America that include wind-winnowing in Perú (Spanish, aventadero) (Petersen, 1970/2010) ; the use of plant juices in Chocó, western Colombia (McDonald & Hunt, 1982; Brooks et al., 2015) ; and a modern flotation system using biodegradable chemicals in Perú (Aquino, 2010) . Several other ancient methods are discussed in Craddock (1995) , however, none of these methods are as widely used or as productive as mercury amalgamation.
3. Regional Setting
Turkey is in the Tethyan Eurasian Metallogenic Belt that extends for roughly 10,000 km along the ancient Tethys seaway that separated the supercontinents of Gondwana and Laurasia during the Mesozoic Era. This ancient seaway tracked from Spain to northern India and was closed during the Miocene as a result of the collision of the African and Indian plate with the Eurasian plate. Therefore, Turkey’s regional geologic setting is complex and includes colliding, sliding, and subducting tectonic plates that have produced earthquakes, geothermal energy, and polymetallic ore deposits that contain gold, silver, mercury, lead, copper, and platinum. Most importantly, the cinnabar and gold occurrences of western and central Anatolia are Miocene and formed in a back-arc extensional regime similar to the Basin and Range province in the western US (Öztürk, 2015) .
These metallic mineral deposits have been mined since ancient time and provided silver, copper, iron, lead, tin, and other metals used by the Romans and Greeks (Young, 1972; de Jesus, 1978, 1981; Yildiz & Bailey, 1978; Yigit, 2006; Öztürk & Hanilçi, 2009; Roosevelt, 2009; Hanilçi et al., 2010) . Minerals such as sulfur were used to soften wool and pigments were obtained from limonite (yellow ochre), realgar (reddish-orange), and cinnabar (red) (Roosevelt, 2009) . Coal is abundant in northern and western Turkey and is typically low-rank (lignite to subbituminous) (Palmer et al., 2004) ; however; thus far, there is only speculative evidence for the use of coal as a fuel in ancient time. Ancient Roman mining records have been found near Ovacik-Bergama, Kucukdere- Havran, and Sogut-Bilecik (Bayburtoğlu & Yildirim, 2010) .
Modern mercury mining in Turkey predates 1900 and the Turkish mining register for mercury began in 1923 (Murdock, 1958) . Mercury production ended ~1986 when the country produced 275 tons (t) (~8000 flasks) of mercury mainly from the mines at Karaburun and Konya (Roskill’s, 1990) . The mercury reserves of Turkey, mainly in the Aegean Region, are approximately 3820 metric tons (Turkish Ministry of Environment, 2010) .
In 2011, Turkey produced 25 t of gold from open-pit mines and, in 2016, Sardis was still operational and produced aggregate, quartz, perlite, and heavy minerals such as zircon and corundum for industrial use and gold only as a byproduct ( Pomza Export, 2016; Turkish Gold Miners Association, 2016 ; Yigit, 2016). Other gold occurrences are known in western Turkey and there are numerous copper, tin, and lead occurrences throughout the country (de Jesus, 1978; 1981; Öztürk & Hanilçi, 2009) . Turkey has a gold endowment of approximately 31 million ounces; however, alluvial/placer deposits are limited and none are currently active with the exception of Sardis ( Pomza Export, 2016 ; Yigit, 2016).
4. Geologic Setting of Sardis
Sardis is approximately 90 km east of Izmir (Figure 1) and, regionally, is underlain by metamorphic rocks (schist, phyllite, and marble) and younger sedimentary units composed of sandstone, conglomerate, and recent alluvium. Sardis’ gold was initially deposited in veins in the metamorphic rocks and then, these rocks weathered and released the gold that was then transported and concentrated in a nearby basin (Higgins & Higgins, 1996) . These gold-bearing, poorly-sorted, basin-fill conglomerates (Figure 2(a)) were then cemented, uplifted (Figure 2(b)) and weathered again with the gold being reworked and redeposited in the alluvium of the Pactolus River. Therefore, gold at Sardis may be mined from: 1) uplifted, cemented quartz-pebble conglomerates, or 2) from the recent alluvium in the Pactolus River.
5. Re-Consideration of Amalgamation at Sardis
Amalgamation was considered as the mining technology used at Sardis and Craddock
Figure 2.(a) Poorly sorted gold-bearing quartz pebble conglomerate at Sardis, Turkey; (b) faulted and uplifted basin-fill conglomerates at Sardis, Turkey. Sardis’ ancient refinery is in the foreground.
(2000a) proposed that if mercury had been used to amalgamate the gold, then low levels of residual mercury would be detected in the analyses of the end-product gold. Therefore, coins from the British Museum’s Sardis collection were analyzed (SEM-EDX), and since no mercury was detected, it was concluded that mercury had not been used.
Therefore, given Craddock’s conclusion that amalgamation was not used at Sardis and to re-consider amalgamation as a mining technique at ancient Sardis, it is important to establish and integrate regional geoarchaeological evidence that includes: 1) geology and the availability of cinnabar and mercury, 2) archaeology and evidence for ancient mining and mercury processing such as an ancient mercury retort near Konya, 3) historical evidence such as regional Roman use of cinnabar as a pigment and as a source of mercury for gilding and amalgamation, 4) mining engineering implications for the recovery of the very fine-grained alluvial gold at Sardis from conglomerates and black sand, and 5) interpretation of the ICP analysis of end-product gold, a Byzantine coin (Table 1).
5.1. Availability of Cinnabar and Mercury
In Turkey, cinnabar (HgS), the most common ore of mercury is known in at least eight districts, all in western Turkey (Murdock, 1958; Ryan, 1960; Bircan & Aydoğanlı, 1969; Barnes & Bailey, 1972) (Figure 1). Archaeological evidence indicates that cinnabar was first mined in Turkey more than 8000 years ago―cinnabar was used as a pigment and was also retorted to obtain mercury as indicated by an ancient retort (Figure 3) found in the Sizma district, northwest of Konya. The Sizma mercury district is the most important mercury occurrence in Turkey and, based on gouges in the Büyük Maden mine
Table 1. ICP analyses from reconnaissance of mercury mines in Turkey.
Multi-element ICP analyses (parts per million; detection limit given to right of element, in parentheses; na―not analyzed; *fragment of ancient Byzantine gold coin, ore grade analysis for Au (%), Hg and Pt (ppm), with Hg detection limit of 1 ppm); American Assay, Sparks, NV, (SP0116032). Sample Descriptions: TK161 [0715294/4543335 UTM] near Koçaeli (Mudarli-Gebze); grab sample from calcite veins, reddish blebs, quartz, rusty pyrite along NS structure; several large meter-sized pits, not a major producing area; no hot springs evidence, no acid drainage; TK162 [454392/4275474] at Karaburun mine and plant, burned material from wall inside ~4 m well-constructed brick and basalt block chimney that served to vent gases from mercury plant that is downhill; TK163a [454392/4275474] at Karaburun; rock fragments from huge wastepile, some burned, reddened, scoriaceous fragments; TK163b [454392/4275474] at Karaburun; large [20 m × 100 m × 100 m = ~200,000 m3 est.] wastepile, not as burned, not scoriaceous, but clearly crushed, perhaps volcanic material; TK164 [455395/4275406] at Karaburun; unaltered wastepile, gray silicified limestone, pyrite, rust stained; TK165 [455516/4274877] at Karaburun, area sample of hematite altered rock from mine area; TK166 [602834/4216521] at Haliköy Şubesi mine, sample of scoria on fire brick from chimney, all adits closed, cannot sample inside mine, no surface outcrops, mine now produces antimony; TK167 [602867/4216218] at Haliköy Şubesi, grab sample from dark, reddened, calcined tailings at ramp/loading area; TK168 gold coin (0.7 g sample).
Figure 3. Sketch showing existing Konya retort site (left) and how it was probably used (right). Cinnabar was smelted, with charcoal, inside of an inverted ceramic bowl that served as a condenser. The ceramic flue eliminated sulfurous gases uphill and mercury collection trough is in lower right (Barnes & Bailey, 1972) .
where cinnabar veinlets had been worked, geologists indicate that Sizma was mined for its mercury by the Greeks and Romans as early as 6300BC and may be the world’s oldest underground mine (Barnes & Bailey, 1972; Yildiz & Bailey, 1978) .
Site visits―Aspart of this study, site visits were made to cinnabar/mercury occurrences at Mudarli-Gebze, Karaburun, and Haliköy (Figure 1) to determine mercury content of the ores, mine waste, and look for any evidence for ancient mining. Modern mining, however, has overprinted any archaeological evidence for ancient mining and the veins and interior of the mines are collapsed or are otherwise inaccessible. Therefore, geochemical sampling was limited to stockpiles, mine waste, and scoria from smelter stacks. At the Karaburun plant (Figure 4(a)) one sample from a stockpile contained 770 ppm mercury (Figure 4(b)); a sample from a small, mined-out, hematite-altered open pit contained 97 ppm mercury; and samples from all locations contained 4.3 to 770 ppm Hg (Table 1). Burned material from inside the Karaburun chimney (Figure 4(c)) contained 405 ppm Hg. Karaburun collectively refers to the Kalacik, Karareis, and Küçukbahçe mines that closed in the late 1980s; however, these mines have since contributed to mercury and heavy metal contamination in nearby marine sediments (Buyukisik et al., 2013) .
Etibank, a Turkish company, was the largest producer of mercury in the 1970s and its Haliköy Şubesiplant produced mercury from the mines near Aydin (Figure 1) (Roskill’s, 1990) . Mine production has now shifted to antimony; however, calcined waste material from a loading area (Figure 5(a)) at Haliköy Şubesi contained 84 ppm Hg (Figure 5(b)) (Table 1, TK167). A sample of scoria from inside the dismantled Haliköy Şubesi smelter stack contained 1.29 ppm Au, 7 ppm Ag, and 1272 ppm Sb (Figure 5(c); Table 1, TK166).
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Figure 4. (a) Karaburun mercury plant in the foreground and the smelter chimney uphill in the distance. The rough rock wall in the foreground may indicate an older site; (b) Karaburun stockpile with a sample that contained 770 ppm Hg (Table 1; sample TK164); (c) Karaburun chimney from which an interior sample that contained 405 ppm Hg was taken (Table 1; sample TK162).
5.2. An Ancient Mercury Retort
The Sizma mercury district, ~6 km from Konya, has 15 mercury occurrences and is the most well-known mercury producing area in Turkey (Sharpless, 1908; Murdock, 1958) . However, sometime around 1905, an English archaeologist discovered a tablet at an archaeological site near Konya (Figure 1) that was dedicated to Zizima, the ancient Phrygian goddess of mining, from which the name for the Sizma mercury district is derived (Barnes et al., 1969) . Then, in 1905, an ancient cinnabar mine that had been used as a goat shelter was discovered in a cave near Konya. Deep grooves had been cut into the rock to follow the cinnabar veins and firesetting had been used to shatter the ore for removal. And, in 1969, 2 km south of Ladik, where most work had been at the Çirakmanand Muratdağ mines, also near Konya (Figure 1), a mercury retort (Figure 3) was found that demonstrates ancient cinnabar processing in the district. Greek and Latin inscriptions found on quarried marble blocks nearby document the age of the site (Murdock, 1958; Barnes & Bailey, 1972) . Even though the mines at Konya are now closed, mercury mining has contributed to heavy metal contamination in the region (Karahalil et al., 2012; Göktürk & Özdemir, 2016) .
The retort found near Ladik had been carved into marble, was ~3 m on a side, and on the upper surface of the marble block was a 50 cm diameter circular depression with a 1 cm deep groove around the outside of the depression (Figure 3). The mercury ore, cinnabar, was mixed with fuel such as charcoal (coal?) in the depression, ignited, and then covered with an earthenware pot. The mercury would be collected as the volatilized mercury cooled and condensed on the walls of the pot and droplets of mercury would be recovered in the groove while sulfur would have been vented through a ceramic flue uphill and some distance away (Barnes et al., 1969; Barnes & Bailey, 1972: p. 51) . For comparison, the mercury plant at Karaburun has a similar geometric configuration; however, at a larger scale, to the ancient Konya site. The retorts were located downhill and a chimney to vent the sulfurous gases is uphill (Figure 4(a)). The composition of these volatilized retort gases is indicated by a scrape from the interior burned walls of the Karaburun chimney that contained 405 ppm mercury and 181 ppm antimony (Figure 4(c); Table 1, TK162).
In the region, ancient mercury processing, on a smaller scale, is also indicated by the Tepe Gawra pot (3500 BC) that has been interpreted as a Mesopotamian mercury retort (Levey, 1955) .
Pigment―In the ancient world, cinnabar could be mined, ground, mixed with a binder, and used as a pigment (vermilion) without much additional processing (Lorenzi, 2004; Petersen, 1970/2010) . Cinnabar was used as a funeral preservative in Spain ~5000 years ago (Martín-Gil et al., 1995) and its use in ancient Turkey as part of an ancient funeral ritual is indicated by cinnabar-painted skulls found at an archaeological site 65 km southeast of Sizma that dates to 6280 BC (Barnes & Bailey, 1972) . And, as another example of cinnabar used as a pigment, a gold artifact from central Anatolia, The Seated Goddess with Child (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), shows that cinnabar was used for decoration on a gold figurine as early as the 13th century BC. In Italy, the walls of ancient Pompeii were painted red with cinnabar more than 2000 years
Figure 5. (a) Haliköy Şubesi mercury mine loading dock with calcined tailings; (b) Haliköy Şubesi loading dock tailings from which a sample with 84 ppm Hg was taken (Table 1, sample TK167); (c) Haliköy Şubesi smelter stack scoria with 1.29 ppm Au, 7 ppm Ag, 4 ppm Hg, and 1272 ppm Sb (Table 1; sample TK166).
ago (Lorenzi, 2004) and medieval stuccoes at the Alhambra, Spain were decorated with cinnabar (Burgio, 2005) . And, even though cinnabar is toxic, it is still used for art applications today (Sax, 1984; Iconofile, 2010) .
Gilding and Amalgamation―Given, that cinnabar was the only mineral mined in the region, then it follows that the Konya retort (Figure 3) was used for processing cinnabar into mercury for ancient industrial uses such as gilding and gold amalgamation (Barnes & Bailey, 1972) .
Because of its malleability, gold may be hammered into a foil which can then be mechanically attached to paper, wood, stone, gypsum, or other metal surfaces. Fire-gilding implies mixture of gold flakes with mercury (Turkish, tombak, Archaeology Museum, Manisa) then application of the amalgam paste, followed by heating with a blowpipe to volatilize the mercury leaving a gilded surface.
Therefore, it is implicit to establish that the precursor to the gold foil must have been a gold “nugget” or ingot of some sort that could be hammered or otherwise crafted into a foil. Given the absence of gold nuggets at Sardis (Topkaya, 1984) , then the source of this precursor “nugget” would have been an anthropogenic gold nugget (with some copper and silver) formed as the last stage of amalgamation when the mercury-gold amalgam is burned leaving a sponge-like texture in the button of gold (Spanish charpita, esponja, pepita, perla, piña) (Figure 6).
Examples of the use of gold foil can be found at the Archaeology Museum, Istanbul and also at the Hagia Sofia where the Byzantine Christ Pantocrator has a background formed from gold foil that was laminated between two sheets of glass which were broken and then used as the mosaic tesserae (written comm., Prof. L.E. Butler, Art History, George Mason University, 27 Sept. 2016).
5.3. Regional Use
In the Byzantine world, Almadén, Spain was described as a source of cinnabar and mercury as early as 332 BC (Bennett, 1948) . Cinnabar was used to paint the walls of Roman villas at ancient Pompeii more than 2000 years ago (Lorenzi, 2004) and cinnabar was also used as makeup or as rouge. Sometimes referred to as “ruddle” in ancient literature, cinnabar was exported through the Black Sea port of Sinop (Figure 1) from
Figure 6. Anthropogenic gold nugget from Puerto Maldonado, Perú showing sponge-like texture resulting from burning (Spanish, refogado) the mercury-gold amalgam to volatilize the mercury.
which the mineral name cinnabar may have been derived (Barnes & Bailey, 1972) . However, for this study it is important to acknowledge that by 77 AD, Rome imported 4 - 5 t of mercury annually from the Spanish mines specifically for amalgamation (D’Itri & D’Itri, 1977) .
5.4. Conglomerates, Black Sand, and Fine-Grained Gold at Sardis
The sedimentary setting of the gold at Sardis has important regional implications that permit comparison with Byzantine gold mining at Las Médulas, Spain. Gold is a heavy mineral (specific gravity of ~19) and ubiquitous heavy minerals, such as magnetite and zircon contained in the black sand, must be removed. If available, nuggets can easily be recovered from an alluvial gold occurrence; however, recovering sufficient fine-grained gold such as at Sardis, for jewelry or coins would have been challenging.
Conglomerates―The gold at Sardis is hosted in reworked sedimentary rocks comprised of poorly sorted conglomerate and sandstone (Figure 2(a)). Additionally, the conglomerates have been faulted, uplifted, and are geomorphologically similar to the Las Médulas, Spain gold occurrence which was the most important gold occurrence mined by the Romans. At Las Médulas, the Romans developed and used hydraulic mining―this required a system of aqueducts that provided water under sufficient head to pressure-wash and degrade the outcrop which released the gold and then the muddy gold-bearing sediment was washed over riffles that trapped the gold particles (Domergue, 1990) . The Roman miners, therefore, had experience with hydraulic mining which could have been used at Sardis.
However, is there any evidence for aqueducts or hydraulic mining at Sardis? There are at least 130 m of tunnels that were supposedly excavated to augment the water supply of ancient Sardis (Higgins & Higgins, 1996) ; however, herein we offer an alternative interpretation that the tunnels were used to provide water to pressure-wash the gold-bearing Sardis conglomerates and are analogous to the aqueducts at Las Médulas.
Black Sand―Gold has a very high specific gravity (~19) and when panned, minerals of high specific gravity (ex. rutile, 4.3; magnetite, ~5; zircon, ~4.5; cassiterite, 6.8 - 7.1; platinum, ~14 - 19;) may also be found in the gold pan concentrate. Therefore, a method that will selectively remove only the gold from the black sand, such as amalgamation, must be used. Even the Golden Fleece would not yield a pure gold concentrate and the persistent and abundant heavy minerals must be removed. At Sardis, the heavy mineral assemblage includes cassiterite, zircon, magnetite, garnet, rutile, ilmenite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, cinnabar, and hematite (Topkaya, 1984; Öztürk & Hanilçi, 2009; Pomza Export, 2016) . Gold separation is done today at the Pomza mine using several techniques, one of which is a sophisticated shaker, or Wilfley table, that uses a system of riffles and flowing water to sort the minerals according to specific gravity. Owing to the specific gravity and shape of the gold, the Wilfley provides a gold concentrate (Figure 7; Pomza Export; http://www.eilepomex.com). The heavy minerals are removed and sold as industrial minerals, and gold is recovered only as a byproduct.
Gold separation from alluvial material is difficult and, in another example, gold has also been recovered as a byproduct in California, western U.S., from black sand at sand and gravel operations by using: 1) magnetic, 2) high-tension, or 3) flotation methods. And, much like Sardis, the mineralogy of these California deposits includes black sand comprised of zircon, ilmenite, magnetite, and platinum-group metals (Gomes & others, 1979) . Therefore, at ancient Sardis, amalgamation would have been the only technology available to selectively remove the fine-grained alluvial gold.
Fine-Grained Gold―If available, nuggets would have been easily removed from the concentrates at ancient or modern Sardis mining operations. However, there are no museum samples, nor literature evidence to indicate that gold nuggets were ever found at Sardis (Topkaya, 1984) , instead, the gold (Turkish, altin) is fine-grained and flattened (Figure 7). In a study of the economic potential of placer gold at Sardis, Topkaya (1984) described the gold flakes as very small with an average diameter of ~30 microns (0.03 mm) and the largest grain was ~3 mm. He concluded that, as a principal product, gold of this size would be difficult to recover, and therefore, not economic. His mining engineering evaluation of the Sardis deposit showed that free gold ranged from 9 - 130 mg/m3 and, in order to make this determination, it was first necessary to recover the gold from sluice concentrates by amalgamation and then nitric acid was used to dissolve the mercury.
5.5. Analysis of a Byzantine Gold Coin
The final argument is geochemical, that is, determination of the amount of mercury, if any, contained in an end-product Byzantine gold coin (Figure 8). This follows Craddock’s (2000a, p. 233) original proposal that if mercury had been used at Sardis, then low levels of mercury would be detected in the gold analyses. However, in those previous studies of gold from Sardis, mercury might not have been detected by non-destructive SEM-EDX because of: 1) the potentially low levels of mercury (<20 ppm) as indicated by the South America gold studies (Brooks et al., 2013) , and 2) the proximity of mercury and gold on the Periodic Chart and therefore, the lesser mercury peak, if present, would have been overshadowed by the stronger gold peak.
Turkish law will not allow catalogued artifacts such as gold coins or gold foils to leave
Figure 7. Byproduct gold concentrate at Pomza Export office showing flattened grains.
Figure 8. Gold coin (Table 1; sample TK168, with 99.4% Au and 1020 ppm Pt); Byzantine Empire, Maurice Tiberius, struck 583 AD, Constantinople Mint. Helmeted and curassed facing bust holding globus cruciber, DM MAVRC TIB PP AVI/Angel standing facing holding long Chi-Rho-headed cross and globus cruciger, Victoria AVGGG officina letter I, CONOB below, ancient graffiti below bust, 22 mm, 4.37 g. (Gabriel Vandevoort, URL http://www.ancientresources.com, accessed 1 March 2016).
the museums for analysis, much less be subjected to destructive analysis such as ICP. Therefore, an authenticated Byzantine gold coin was purchased in the U.S. and a 0.7 g portion was submitted for ICP analysis (Figure 8; Table 1, TK168). The data show that the coin is >99.4% gold and 1020 ppm platinum―gold is normally soft, malleable, and has a Moh’s hardness of ~2.5 - 3, the naturally occurring platinum (iridium and osmium), with a Moh’s hardness of 6 - 7, would have given hardness and durability to Sardis’ ancient coins. The gold content of this coin is comparable to the gold content (>99%) of Sardis’ coins analyzed by XRF (x-ray fluorescence) (Cowell & Hyne, 2000). Most importantly, there is no mercury in the coin analyzed for this study, a fact that given the geologic and archaeologic evidence for amalgamation, must be discussed:
Mercury―Gold from alluvial sources in Colombia and Perú may contain ~5000 ppm, or more, background mercury sourced from cinnabar/mercury outcrops, contamination from underground coal fires, alluvial gold mining in the region, or volcanic eruptions. Modern amalgam in the gold pan contains >300,000 ppm Hg―this amalgam must be burned, as would have been done in the past, to volatilize the mercury, leaving end-product gold with only trace amounts of mercury (Brooks et al., 2007) . Pre-Columbian gold artifacts from museums in Bogotá and Lima typically contain <20 ppm mercury―consistent with a reduction of >99% of the background (~5000 ppm) or amalgam (~300,000 ppm) mercury content after two burns (Spanish, refogado) to volatilize the mercury (Brooks et al., 2013) .
Microprobe analysis of Sardis alluvial gold indicates silver, copper, mercury, bismuth, lead, nickel, platinum (iridium, osmium), and several other elements in the gold; however, no ppm or percent was given (Topkaya, 1984) . Therefore, we conclude that the mercury that was originally in the alluvial gold at Sardis, or mercury that was used for amalgamation, has been volatilized by at least three heating/burning episodes:
1) heat from a blowpipe (Spanish, refogado), as shown by (Craddock, 2000b; Roosevelt, 2009) that would have been analogous to the blowpipe (Spanish, soplete) used in pre-Columbian metallurgy or two burns using a gas torch used during modern amalgam burning (Petersen, 1970/2010; Brooks et al., 2007; Brooks & others, 2013) and subsequently, during the two-stage silver parting process at Sardis that included:
2) heating during salt cementation at temperatures of ~650˚C followed by
3) heating and parting of the silver at temperatures of ~800˚C (Craddock, 2000c) , processes that ultimately provided pure gold and silver for coins (Meeks, 2000) .
Gold foils with 4.7% - 17.3% silver (Ramage & Craddock, 2000) and gold-silver- copper foils (Spanish, tumbaga or Turkish, tombak) in the collection at the Archaeological Museum, Manisa (Ramage & Craddock, 2000) would more closely represent the pre-parting composition of Sardis alluvial gold (Topkaya, 1984) ; however, neither mercury nor platinum content was reported for these samples. We interpret these gold-silver-copper foils as having been crafted from an anthropogenic gold-silver-cop- per bearing nugget resulting from amalgamation (Figure 6).
Platinum―Until ~1900, platinum was only known from gold-bearing alluvial sources (McDonald & Hunt, 1982) and since platinum melts at >1700˚C, it would have been little affected by amalgam burning and silver parting temperatures. Alluvial platinum is known at Sardis and microprobe analyses of a 5th century BC gold earring from the region indicated platinum (Young, 1972; Topkaya, 1984; Cowell & Hyne, 2000) . We interpret the platinum in the earring and gold coin (1020 ppm) to indicate an alluvial source for the metals and not intentional alloying of the metals.
The amount of gold in the Byzantine coin, >99%, approaches the amount of gold in modern, very pure, highly refined mint or bullion gold expressed as 4 9s (9999) and demonstrates the efficiency of ancient Sardis’ metallurgy. The platinum would have added hardness and durability to the malleable gold.
The geoarchaeological evidence presented herein such as availability of mercury, ancient retorts, and size of the alluvial gold grains is consistent with amalgamation as the mining technology used to recover the fine-grained alluvial gold at ancient Sardis. Amalgamation is a rudimentary process that requires mercury, which was retorted from cinnabar occurrences in the region, and recovering the gold from the amalgam requires heat to volatilize the mercury leaving the gold for continued processing into jewelry and coins. This process is widely used today in many small-scale alluvial gold mines around the world and provides a sound replication model for understanding alluvial gold mining in the ancient world.
I would like to express my respect and posthumous gratitude to Prof. Georg Petersen, Lima, Perú for introducing me to the application of geology and geochemistry to mining and metallurgical studies of archaeological materials in South America and simultaneously for his introduction to the Old World through his discussion of the alluvial gold occurrences at the Pactolus River. Sincere appreciation is expressed to my co-au- thors for collaboration in the field, providing access to maps and publications, introductions at mines and museums during our site visits, and confidence in this project.
Brooks, W. E., Öztürk, H., & Cansu, Z. (2017). Amalgamation and Small-Scale Gold Mining at Ancient Sardis, Turkey. Archaeological Discovery, 5, 42-59. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ad.2017.51003
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Addiction to destruction: Heroin on the rise in Tompkins County
by Gillian Nigro, Editorial Assistant
By Gillian Nigro and John Brunett
Ithaca – Apr. 14, 2014 – A mobile methamphetamine lab was found near the E. Green Street parking garage in Downtown Ithaca on Apr. 6, but in Tompkins County, heroin as the drug of choice is rapidly increasing in prevalence, according to law enforcement officials.
That day, City of Ithaca Police responded to the scene, with assistance from the Tompkins County Sheriff and the Ithaca Fire Department Haz Mat Team, and discovered a half-dozen clear bottles of an unknown substance that appeared to be reacting and off-gassing. Preliminary department tests have shown them to be the remnants of a mobile meth lab.
No arrests have yet been made in the case, but Jamie Williamson, public information officer for the Ithaca Police, said the department has not seen that large of an influx in meth use and possession over the last several years, but has data showing that heroin is becoming a serious problem.
“Heroin is much more devastating than other drugs simply because when you go from recreational use to addiction to destruction, that cycle rears its ugly head much faster and with much more intensity than other drugs,” Williamson said.
The office of the Alcohol & Drug Council of Tompkins County is directly across the street from where the containers were found in the alley where E. Green Street and the overpass meet. Education and Prevention Director Stacy Cangelosi said she was not surprised meth was found there.
“It’s very isolated,” Cangelosi said. “It doesn’t seem like it because it’s right there on Green Street, but it’s very shady. I walk through there as fast as I can.”
In contrast to Tompkins County, Southern Tier communities are experiencing a huge increase in the production, possession and use of meth, according to Williamson.
“Our community and how well we’re doing here in Ithaca is almost an anomaly compared to all the other communities in upstate New York,” Williamson said. “We’re a more affluent community and we’re fortunate in that regard.”
Bill Rusen, Chief Executive Officer of Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services, said CARS does not see many patients with meth as their prime substance of addiction, but it has been a larger problem in neighboring counties.
“Many surrounding counties are more typical upstate counties in that they were agrarian-based economies,” Rusen said. “When that economy got hollowed out by big agribusiness buying up farms, methamphetamine became the way that people made a living, albeit in an illicit manner.”
Meth is not only an issue in less affluent counties in upstate New York, it has also become the primary industry throughout a big swath of middle America, Rusen said.
“When you look at the great plains and the small rural farm towns scattered all the way from the foothills of the Rockies to the Appalachians, a lot of that used to be small farm towns,” he said. “The idyllic picture that we have of American life at the beginning and middle of the 20th century may not have been as idyllic as we like to think.”
An interview with Stacy Cangelosi of the Alcohol & Drug Council of Tompkins County: https://soundcloud.com/gilliannigro/stacy-cangelosi-of-the-alcohol-drug-council-of-tompkins-county
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10 Years to ‘Ramallah lynch’ October 2000 – Animalism!
THE TRUE FACE OF ARAB-ISLAMIC “Palestine” ANIMALISM!
The day the world witnessed animalism on display, shameless inhumane revelations, by “average” Arab-Palestinians & their official police.
* Two Israelis are nabbed –as they lost their way– by the “Palestinian” Police who beat them brutally.
* They then handed over the men to a mob to lynch, while they watch the scene.
* One “proud” Arab-Muslim “hero” had his hands covered in the blood of the Israelis and waved in a bragging manner through the window to the larger crowd anxiously waiting in the public square.
(* They were put on military clothes afterwards.)
* An Israeli is thrown out the window into the bloodthirsty [literally] mob waiting.
* They were beaten, stabbed to death, their faces disfigured…
* Their bodies were mutilated the ‘mainstream’ Arab-Muslim “Palestinians” screamed in ecstasy, moaning in beasty manners while waving the body parts in “joy”… all that savagery in broad day light in public square.
* The shameless pride doesn’t end there, their kids are –later on– taught to “cherish” such ‘blood-cult’ via glorifying the act in portraying a starring girl dipping in blood, all “for the cause.”
* It also marked the worsening conditions for any journalist in their areas, intimidation into telling, reporting ‘their version’ of “truth.”
* Just like the Arab-Palestinian dancing, celebrating the 9/11 Islamic massacre of 3,000 innocent people, the PA [Pallywood] tried to suppress the lynch from the world, first they denied it, but as the photos shot by an Italian crew already [exposed their true character] shocked the world, they quickly switched gears and attempted to lie that the Israelis were nabbed on “suspicion of spying… or something.
The lynching of: Vadim Norzhich and Yosef Avrahami.
On October 12, 2000, two non-combatant Israeli.. were lynched and brutally murdered by a Palestinian mob in Ramallah. Both were drivers, one aged 38 and the father of three, the other a 33 year-old newly-wed.
Since this lynching, the official Palestinian broadcasting stations have made every effort to hide the horrible pictures which were shown around the world.
According to reporters’ evidence on the scene, not only did the Palestinian police not protect the two men slaughtered while in their custody in the Ramallah police station, but they also tried to prevent foreign journalists in the area around the building from filming the incident.
Despite the attempts to distance reports, an Italian television crew managed to film several scenes.
The following is an ad published in the Al Hayat Al Jadidah newspaper, considered the main newspaper of the Palestinian Authority. The ad, probably paid for, is evidence of the double standard which has come to characterize much of the reporting of the recent violence in the territories.
Note that the brutal lynching is described merely as “the events”.
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2000/10/Coverage%20of%20Oct%2012%20Lynch%20in%20Ramallah%20by%20Italian%20TV
Eyewitness to Ramallah Lynching
A British photographer working on a pictorial study of Palestinian refugees stumbled on the event after the initial attack in the Ramallah police station. He did not witness that aspect. He subsequently described what he did see in The Sunday Telegraph, a respected British daily newspaper. The following is an extract:
“I had arrived in Ramallah at about 10.30 in the morning and was getting into a taxi on the main road to go to Nablus, where there was to be a funeral that I wanted to film, when all of a sudden there came a big crowd of Palestinians shouting and running down the hill from the police station.
I got out of the car to see what was happening and saw that they were dragging something behind them. Within moments they were in front of me and, to my horror, I saw that it was a body, a man they were dragging by the feet. The lower part of his body was on fire and the upper part had been shot at, and the head beaten so badly that it was a pulp, like a red jelly.
I thought he was a soldier because I could see the remains of the khaki trousers and boots. My God, I thought, they’ve killed this guy. He was dead, he must have been dead, but they were still beating him, madly, kicking his head. They were like animals.
They were just a few feet in front of me and I could see everything. Instinctively, I reached for my camera. I was composing the picture when I was punched in the face by a Palestinian. Another Palestinian pointed right at me shouting ‘no picture, no picture!’, while another guy hit me in the face and said ‘give me your film!’
I tried to get the film out but they were all grabbing me and the one guy just pulled the camera off me and smashed it to the floor. I knew I had lost the chance to take the photograph that would have made me famous and I had lost my favourite lens that I’d used all over the world, but I didn’t care. I was scared for my life.
At the same time, the guy that looked like a soldier was being beaten and the crowd was getting angrier and angrier, shouting ‘Allah akbar’ – God is great. They were dragging the dead man around the street like a cat toying with a mouse. It was the most horrible thing that I have ever seen and I have reported from Congo, Kosovo, many bad places. In Kosovo, I saw Serbs beating an Albanian but it wasn’t like this. There was such hatred, such unbelievable hatred and anger distorting their faces.
The worst thing was that I realised the anger that they were directing at me was the same as that which they’d had toward the soldier before dragging him from the police station and killing him. Somehow I escaped and ran and ran not knowing where I was going. I never saw the other guy they killed, the one they threw out of the window.
I thought that I’d got to know the Palestinians well. I’ve made six trips this year and had been going to Ramallah every day for the past 16 days. I thought they were kind, hospitable people. I know they are not all like this and I’m a very forgiving person but I’ll never forget this. It was murder of the most barbaric kind. When I think about it, I see that man’s head, all smashed. I know that I’ll have nightmares for the rest of my life.”
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/lynchwit.html
BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Lynch mob’s brutal attack Oct 13, 2000 … “Another horrific escalation on the streets of Ramallah … Lynch mob’s brutal attack. Crowd abused body of Israeli …Photographs show some of the doomed men were dressed in civilian clothes…
Palestinian Issue: Lynch in Ramallah & Yasir Arafat
http://stop-abuse.net/Peace_3.htm
Arabs Lynch Jews at Ramallah. What Else Is New!Arabs are cruel and heartless butchers of Jews. For example, the Lynching at Ramallah.
http://www.masada2000.org/ramallah.html
Ramallah-Lynch Terrorist Nabbed – Defense/Middle East – Israel … Sep 26, 2007 … TV images of the lynching show a body of one of the two Israelis being … his blood-soaked hands out the window of the PA police station. …
How Palestinians intimidate the press into suppressing unfavorable coverage…Journalists describe constant Palestinian intimidation The lynching of two Israeli reservists in Ramallah last October proved to be a watershed in coverage of the new intifada. Up until that point, most Western …
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/intimidation.html
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Man jailed over Ramallah lynching Nov 22, 2004 … A Palestinian man who waved bloody hands at a cheering mob is jailed for the murder of an Israeli soldier.
Ramallah lynch suspect arrested
Ramallah-Lynch Terrorist Nabbed Defense/Middle East – Israel …Sep 26, 2007 … IDF soldiers have arrested the last of the terrorists responsible for the brutal lynching of two IDF reservists in Ramallah 7 years ago.http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123789
Last member of Ramallah lynch caught Sep 26, 2007 … Paratroopers arrest 36-year-old Tanzim terrorist who participated in murder of two reservists in 2000.
http://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=76502
Institute for Global Jewish Affairs – Global Antisemitism, Anti … … al-Dura,” “The Ramallah Lynch Omissions,” “The Never-Filmed Palestinian … the day two off-duty Israeli reserve… were lynched in Ramallah.
http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=624&PID=0&IID=2861&TTL=The_Cut-and-Omit_TV_News
The Middle East, abstracts and index
Library Information and Research Service [ Part 2] – 2006 [page 1]
…the lynching the Arabs … carried out in Ramallah was not done by guns, Arabs stabbed to death two Israeli soldiers that were being detained at an Arab police station. They had tossed their bodies out through a window to a mob below. Whereupon that mob inhuamnely further stabbed and stamped upon the dead soldiers and disgracefuly dragged their bodies through the streets of Ramallah. Their acts showed the deapth of the Arab hatred of the Jews and the bitter fruit of Arab education… It appeared indeed to be a calculated act of violence, while the permissive PA police stood by and watched. Unfortunately, such inhumane acts are not atypical of Arab violence…
http://books.google.com/books?&id=vK1tAAAAMAAJ&dq=atypical
Scenes From Israel…
Vadim was lynched in Ramalla One of the … Blood on his hands, a Palestinian savage waves to the crowd after lynching …
http://www.chayas.com/media.htm
A Wrong Turn In Ramallah, Reflections On A Savage People
http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/31585
In Ramallah in 2000, two Israeli soldiers were kidnapped, beaten, stabbed countless times, had their eyes gouged out, and were literally disemboweled and dismembered by an Arab lynch mob.
The people – and I use the term loosely – who carried out the initial beatings threw one of the victims down to the waiting mob, where his face was further crushed with stones, feet, fists and even a heavy metal window frame. One Jew was set on fire and dragged along the street as Arab onlookers danced and cheered. Some of the butchers celebrated their crimes with the victims’ internal organs. One of the killers, famously captured on film, proudly displayed his blood-soaked hands to the cheering Ramallah crowd.
And it gets worse. In 2003, nearly two years later, Arab parents in Gaza cheered again when their little children dressed up as members of the Ramallah lynch mob, complete with hands painted blood red, for a kindergarten graduation ceremony…
This is the enemy. Don’t look away.
Perhaps when another rally is held in support of Iraqi “resistance” or “Palestinian liberation” somewhere in the world, counter-protesters can remind the ever-so-sensitive and progressive demonstrators of Nick Berg’s scream of pain, or of two-year-old Meirav Hatuel cowering in her car seat, or of the Ramallah or Fallujah savages dancing with human entrails.
During the lynch of the two IDF soldiers who had taken a wrong turn into Ramallah in 2000, one of the Arab murderers paused in his savage beating to answer a cell phone belonging to one of the dying soldiers.
He told the worried voice on the other end of the line, “We are killing your husband.”
When two Israelis were tortured and lynched to death by a Palestinian Arab mob (including Palestinian Authority policemen) in Ramallah in October 2000, Ashrawi justified the murder by falsely claiming that the Israelis were “undercover Israeli agents” who “were clearly infiltrated and planted into the midst of a protest march in the heart of the city.” (In fact, the Israelis were driving near the city, took a wrong turn, and were stopped by PA policemen, who arrested them, brought them into the city, and handed them over to the lynch mob.) (Jordan Times, October 29, 2000)
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/69
Gaza kindergarten graduation celebrates lynching of Jews – Likud … Jul 1, 2002… of the scene at the lynching of two Jewish reservists in Ramallah, … its youngsters dressed up as members of a Ramallah lynch mob, …
http://www.likud.nl/extr209.html
FactsOfIsrael.com: Palestinian kid is taught how to dip her hands …
Jun 24, 2002 … A mob of Palestinian savages stormed in the PA police station and … in the manner of one of the perpetrators of the Ramallah lynching, …
http://www.factsofisrael.com/blog/archives/000123.html
This girl raises her ‘bloody’ hands in homage to the grotesque picture of the Ramallah lynch mob that tore three Israeli reserve soldiers to pieces in …
http://www.kerenmalki.org/Doing_Something_Positive.htm
palestines lynch israelis- the ramallah lynch – Filestube Video Search On October 12, 2000, two non-combatant Israeli reservists (serving as drivers), Vadim Nurzhitz and Yossi Avrahami, mistakenly passed an Israeli checkpoint …
http://video.filestube.com/watch,1a9dadb29ae7d2c403e9/palestines-lynch-israelis-the-ramallah-lynch.html
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Alan Dershowitz: Rosenstein Should End Mueller Probe
Dersh. believes Rosenstein most concerned about own reputation
Written by Marty Gottesfeld
On Wednesday evening, distinguished Harvard Law School emeritus professor Mr. Alan Dershowitz released a blistering statement calling for Harvard Law alum and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosentein to end the Mueller probe. Mr. Dershowitz's consistent, principled stand against what the DOJ has been doing since the firing of former FBI Director James Comey last summer has further enshrined him as one of the few Harvard people whom I like. Dershowtiz already had my respect though because he was one of the only Harvard folks to back the Pelletier family in 2014 when this happened:
In a separate interview with FOX, Mr. Dershowitz commented in good humor, but also in all apparent seriousness, that his stance against Mueller's investigation has caused his liberal friends not to invite him over for dinner anymore. I can relate to that as well. To the left, torture, corruption, greed and dishonesty all appear to be A-O.k. so long as they are committed under a Harvard crimson banner and whenever we post my articles about Sessions, Comey, Rosenstein, Wray, McCabe, Mueller, Warren, Obama, the Associate Press, etc. we can watch the numbers plummet over at the FreeMartyG Facebook page and the @FreeMartyG Twitter account.
One might think that a human rights activist imprisoned for standing up for thousands of abused kids would enjoy broad political support. Just like one might think that one of the foremost legal scholars of our time would enjoy broad support for standing up for the blind administration of justice under the law. But one would be wrong on both counts, apparently. Especially when it's Harvard pulling the strings backstage.
I could go on and on about what's been happening with both the DOJ mini hill track that is the Mueller probe as well as the DOJ's tragic farce which has seen Justina's tormentors go completely, totally and inexplicably uninvestigated, let alone punished, while I've been held without bail pending trial for 26 months for defending her life. But I don't want to take too much longer to get to Mr. Dershowitz's full statement below, with which I am in near total agreement.
So, let me quickly highlight something that otherwise might be lost in the national stage. From our time in Boston, both Mr. Dershowitz and I have had front row seats as our local federal prosecutors have tried over and over again to criminalize the politics of their opponents. Just read this recent story from the Boston Herald, or simply it's headline, "U.S. Attorney’s Office swings and misses – again."
Finally, let me also say that while I certainly do agree with Mr. Dershowitz that a special prosecutor never should have been appointed in the first place, now that we've come this far down this road and the public, as Mr. Dershowitz rightly points out, has lost so much of its faith in the justice system, I think that the best and possibly only way to restore as much of that faith as we can would be to hire one or more special counsels to investigate the Clintons. It was stunningly hypocritical for Rosenstein to personally approve Mueller's request to target Trump's one-time campaign manager Paul Manafort for things which he allegedly did before the 2016 election while letting Hillary off the hook and balance must be publicly restored to the scales of justice. The Clintons are widely viewed as above the law and demonstrating the opposite would go perhaps the furthest of all towards reassuring the public that we are a nation of laws with liberty and justice for all.
Mr. Dershowiz's full statement can be found in part below or at this link. Marty Gottesfeld is an Obama-era political prisoner and Republican Senate candidate against incumbent Elizabeth Warren. You can donate to his legal defense fund at FreeMartyG.com or to his political campaign at VoteMartyG.com.
Dershowitz had some strong words for Rosenstein. “I think Rod Rosenstein is concerned more about his reputation than anything else. I don’t understand why he’s not recused,” said Dershowitz. “He is the key witness in the firing of Comey.”
Dershowitz said if he were President Trump’s lawyer, Rosenstein would be the first witness he would call asking him, “Rod Rosenstein, you wrote the memo… you justified the firing… explain how you justified the firing. Did the President tell you to do it? Did you tell the President to do the firing?”
Dershowitz said the American public is quickly losing faith in the justice system and he called that a terrible, terrible tragedy. “We need neutral objective people administering justice. You can’t have an FBI agent like Strzok who is writing messages saying ‘oh we have to stop Trump from becoming President.'”
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