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School’s out forever, as Rudolf Steiner School Kings Langley sees ‘takeover’ deal collapse
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Ben Raza
Published: 17:41 Friday 31 August 2018
Parents at a scandal-riven school were told it will not re-open after all - less than one month before the start of term.
Rudolf Steiner School Kings Langley (RSSKL) was forced to close in June, after a series of problems with safeguarding, leadership, and inability to get insurance.
Just weeks later trustees announced plans to re-open a ‘new’ school on the same site on September 24, with the same staff, curriculum and students.
But they have now had to admit defeat.
In an email to parents the trustees said: “It was a very difficult decision to terminate negotiations having put so much time and effort into them and having, we believed, come so close to reaching a deal, but a clear majority of the trustees voted to reject further negotiation.
“All decision making processes have been carried out in line with Charity Commission regulations.
“It is worth noting, even at this point, Alpha have been given an opportunity to return to RSSKL with an offer reflecting the agreements we had reached with them on July 31, but to date we have received no communication from them.”
The re-opened school would have been part of the Alpha Schools group, an organisation based in High Wycombe.
The Alpha Group’s chief executive Ali Khan was unimpressed by RSSKL’s version of events, saying there were a number of inaccuracies in the email sent to parents.
And he accused the £9,857-a-year school of either having “a complete lack of understanding” or “deliberately misleading” parents.
RSSKL made a series of claims to parents about the failed negotiations with Alpha Schools.
They claim that the deal would have meant the school continued as a ‘Waldorf’ school, providing the unusual curriculum that RSSKL offered.
RSSKL Trustees were also insisting on being able to oversee the ‘new’ school’s curriculum for the next 25 years.
And trustees said that they wanted to protect assets from being sold off by Alpha School under the deal.
However Alpha Schools described these claims as either untrue or misleading.
One insider told the Gazette that there had never been a plan to re-open RSSKL as a Waldorf school, but that the ‘new’ school would have expanded its curriculum to include aspects of the Steiner teachings.
And Alpha chief executive Ali Khan told the Gazette that Alpha had actually been trying to protect the school’s assets, even offering an interest-free loan to RSSKL.
He said: “Before writing to parents on July 12, we had agreed to the terms set out by the trustees themselves (c. 20-point list) to run a Waldolf curriculum on the site as part of the provision.
“The trustees then decided to add even more requirements, which included monitoring committees, annual reporting, and affiliation with the Steiner Fellowship. All of which, whilst we regarded as entirely unnecessary, we agreed to.
“We have no interest in forcing the sale of RSSKL’s assets or any part of the site. It was the trustees who insisted that they be able to sell Friars Wood and, as negotiations proceeded, the cricket pitches too.
“Our sole interest was to protect our school and so we agreed that if the trustees had to sell, then they had to give us first refusal. In fact, we went further and offered the trustees an additional interest-free loan if it were required to stop them selling further assets.”
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Death Row Inmate’s Last Meal Request So Ridiculous It Got The Traditi...
Death Row Inmate’s Last Meal Request So Ridiculous It Got The Tradition Banned
By : Charlie Cocksedge On : 27 Apr 2019 19:55
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
The idea of a final meal has, for decades, been a topic that always sparks a decent discussion.
Whether it’s dreaming up your own perfect meal, or being fascinated by what some of the most notorious killers ate just before they died, our fascination with food can always be relied on to be a talking point.
Take, for instance, serial killer John Wayne Gacy, the ‘killer clown’ who sexually assaulted and murdered at least 33 young men in Illinois in the 1970s. While he was alive (and not in prison), Gacy was a manager at a number of KFC restaurants.
He loved the fried chicken outlet so much, in fact, he requested his last meal to be a bucket of KFC chicken, a dozen deep-friend shrimp, fries and a pound of strawberries prior to his lethal injection on May 10, 1984.
On the other hand, Ted Bundy – who’s recently undergoing somewhat of a revival thanks to a documentary and film about his life and crimes – rejected the chance to order a final meal. He was offered the default option of steak, eggs, hash browns and coffee instead, but refused to eat any of it.
Now, however, the intrigue of a final meal looks set to be confined to history, as one inmate in Texas has made sure no one in the state can order a special last meal again.
Before his execution in September 2011, a white supremacist called Lawrence Russell Brewer ordered a mammoth final meal.
It consisted of: two fried chickens, steaks with gravy and sliced onions, a triple-patty bacon cheeseburger, a cheese omelette with ground beef, tomatoes, onions, bell peppers and jalapeños, a bowl of fried okra with ketchup, one pound of barbecued meat with half a loaf of white bread, three fajitas, a meat-feast pizza, one pint of Blue Bell ice cream, a slab of peanut butter fudge with crushed peanuts and, last but not least, three root beers to wash it all down.
However, if you’re thinking there’s no way he managed to eat all that, well – he didn’t.
Instead, as a final attempt to ‘make a mockery of the system’, Brewer turned to prison staff and said he wasn’t hungry.
The next day, infuriated by Brewer’s actions, lawmakers in Texas decreed that death row inmates would no longer get a final meal, but just be given whatever was being served to the other prisoners that day, according to The New York Times.
Talking about the decision to revoke final meals, senator John Whitmore said:
[Brewer] never gave his victim an opportunity for a last meal. Why in the world are you going to treat him like a celebrity two hours before you execute him? It’s wrong to treat a vicious murderer in this fashion. Let him eat the same meal on the chow line as the others.
Brewer was executed for his role in the racially-motivated murder of James Byrd Jr in 1998.
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Tag: tectonics
Posted on December 4, 2015 September 21, 2016
What are the Earth’s Layers?
There is more to the Earth than what we can see on the surface. In fact, if you were able to hold the Earth in your hand and slice it in half, you’d see that it has multiple layers. But of course, the interior of our world continues to hold some mysteries for us. Even as we intrepidly explore other worlds and deploy satellites into orbit, the inner recesses of our planet remains off limit from us.
However, advances in seismology have allowed us to learn a great deal about the Earth and the many layers that make it up. Each layer has its own properties, composition, and characteristics that affects many of the key processes of our planet. They are, in order from the exterior to the interior – the crust, the mantle, the outer core, and the inner core. Let’s take a look at them and see what they have going on.
Modern Theory:
Like all terrestrial planets, the Earth’s interior is differentiated. This means that its internal structure consists of layers, arranged like the skin of an onion. Peel back one, and you find another, distinguished from the last by its chemical and geological properties, as well as vast differences in temperature and pressure.
Our modern, scientific understanding of the Earth’s interior structure is based on inferences made with the help of seismic monitoring. In essence, this involves measuring sound waves generated by earthquakes, and examining how passing through the different layers of the Earth causes them to slow down. The changes in seismic velocity cause refraction which is calculated (in accordance with Snell’s Law) to determine differences in density.
Model of a flat Earth, with the continents modeled in a disk-shape and Antarctica as an ice wall. Credit: Wikipedia Commons
These are used, along with measurements of the gravitational and magnetic fields of the Earth and experiments with crystalline solids that simulate pressures and temperatures in the Earth’s deep interior, to determine what Earth’s layers looks like. In addition, it is understood that the differences in temperature and pressure are due to leftover heat from the planet’s initial formation, the decay of radioactive elements, and the freezing of the inner core due to intense pressure.
History of Study:
Since ancient times, human beings have sought to understand the formation and composition of the Earth. The earliest known cases were unscientific in nature – taking the form of creation myths or religious fables involving the gods. However, between classical antiquity and the medieval period, several theories emerged about the origin of the Earth and its proper makeup.
Most of the ancient theories about Earth tended towards the “Flat-Earth” view of our planet’s physical form. This was the view in Mesopotamian culture, where the world was portrayed as a flat disk afloat in an ocean. To the Mayans, the world was flat, and at it corners, four jaguars (known as bacabs) held up the sky. The ancient Persians speculated that the Earth was a seven-layered ziggurat (or cosmic mountain), while the Chinese viewed it as a four-side cube.
By the 6th century BCE, Greek philosophers began to speculate that the Earth was in fact round, and by the 3rd century BCE, the idea of a spherical Earth began to become articulated as a scientific matter. During the same period, the development of a geological view of the Earth also began to emerge, with philosophers understanding that it consisted of minerals, metals, and that it was subject to a very slow process of change.
Illustration of Edmond Halley’s model of a Hallow Earth, one that was made up of concentric spheres. Credit: Wikipedia Commons/Rick Manning
However, it was not until the 16th and 17th centuries that a scientific understanding of planet Earth and its structure truly began to advance. In 1692, Edmond Halley (discoverer of Halley’s Comet) proposed what is now known as the “Hollow-Earth” theory. In a paper submitted to Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society of London, he put forth the idea of Earth consisting of a hollow shell about 800 km thick (~500 miles).
Between this and an inner sphere, he reasoned there was an air gap of the same distance. To avoid collision, he claimed that the inner sphere was held in place by the force of gravity. The model included two inner concentric shells around an innermost core, corresponding to the diameters of the planets Mercury, Venus, and Mars respectively.
Halley’s construct was a method of accounting for the values of the relative density of Earth and the Moon that had been given by Sir Isaac Newton, in his Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687) – which were later shown to be inaccurate. However, his work was instrumental to the development of geography and theories about the interior of the Earth during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Another important factor was the debate during the 17th and 18th centuries about the authenticity of the Bible and the Deluge myth. This propelled scientists and theologians to debate the true age of the Earth, and compelled the search for evidence that the Great Flood had in fact happened. Combined with fossil evidence, which was found within the layers of the Earth, a systematic basis for identifying and dating the Earth’s strata began to emerge.
The growing importance of mining in the 17th and 18th centuries, particularly for precious metals, led to further developments in geology and Earth sciences. Credit: minerals.usgs.gov
The development of modern mining techniques and growing attention to the importance of minerals and their natural distribution also helped to spur the development of modern geology. In 1774, German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner published Von den äusserlichen Kennzeichen der Fossilien (On the External Characters of Minerals) which presented a detailed system for identifying specific minerals based on external characteristics.
In 1741, the National Museum of Natural History in France created the first teaching position designated specifically for geology. This was an important step in further promoting knowledge of geology as a science and in recognizing the value of widely disseminating such knowledge. And by 1751, with the publication of the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot, the term “geology” became an accepted term.
By the 1770s, chemistry was starting to play a pivotal role in the theoretical foundation of geology, and theories began to emerge about how the Earth’s layers were formed. One popular idea had it that liquid inundation, like the Biblical Deluge, was responsible for creating all the geological strata. Those who accepted this theory became known popularly as the Diluvianists or Neptunists.
Another thesis slowly gained currency from the 1780s forward, which stated that instead of water, strata had been formed through heat (or fire). Those who followed this theory during the early 19th century referred to this view as Plutonism, which held that the Earth formed gradually through the solidification of molten masses at a slow rate. These theories together led to the conclusion that the Earth was immeasurably older than suggested by the Bible.
HMS Beagle in the Galapagos Islands, painted by John Chancellor. Credit: hmsbeagleproject.otg
In the early 19th century, the mining industry and Industrial Revolution stimulated the rapid development of the concept of the stratigraphic column – that rock formations were arranged according to their order of formation in time. Concurrently, geologists and natural scientists began to understand that the age of fossils could be determined geologically (i.e. that the deeper the layer they were found in was from the surface, the older they were).
During the imperial period of the 19th century, European scientists also had the opportunity to conduct research in distant lands. One such individual was Charles Darwin, who had been recruited by Captain FitzRoy of the HMS Beagle to study the coastal land of South America and give geological advice.
Darwin’s discovery of giant fossils during the voyage helped to establish his reputation as a geologist, and his theorizing about the causes of their extinction led to his theory of evolution by natural selection, published in On the Origin of Species in 1859.
During the 19th century, the governments of several countries including Canada, Australia, Great Britain and the United States began funding geological surveys that would produce geological maps of vast areas of the countries. Thought largely motivated by territorial ambitions and resource exploitation, they did benefit the study of geology.
The Earth’s Tectonic Plates. Credit: msnucleus.org
By this time, the scientific consensus established the age of the Earth in terms of millions of years, and the increase in funding and the development of improved methods and technology helped geology to move farther away from dogmatic notions of the Earth’s age and structure.
By the early 20th century, the development of radiometric dating (which is used to determine the age of minerals and rocks), provided the necessary the data to begin getting a sense of the Earth’s true age. By the turn of the century, geologists now believed the Earth to be 2 billion years old, which opened doors for theories of continental movement during this vast amount of time.
In 1912, Alfred Wegener proposed the theory of Continental Drift, which suggested that the continents were joined together at a certain time in the past and formed a single landmass known as Pangaea. In accordance with this theory, the shapes of continents and matching coastline geology between some continents indicated they were once attached together.
The super-continent Pangea during the Permian period (300 – 250 million years ago). Credit: NAU Geology/Ron Blakey
Research into the ocean floor also led directly to the theory of Plate Tectonics, which provided the mechanism for Continental Drift. Geophysical evidence suggested lateral motion of continents and that oceanic crust is younger than continental crust. This geophysical evidence also spurred the hypothesis of paleomagnetism, the record of the orientation of the Earth’s magnetic field recorded in magnetic minerals.
Then there was the development of seismology, the study of earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth or through other planet-like bodies, in the early 20th century. By measuring the time of travel of refracted and reflected seismic waves, scientists were able to gradually infer how the Earth was layered and what lay deeper at its core.
For example, in 1910, Harry Fielding Ried put forward the “elastic rebound theory”, based on his studies of the 1906 San Fransisco earthquake. This theory, which stated that earthquakes occur when accumulated energy is released along a fault line, was the first scientific explanation for why earthquakes happen, and remains the foundation for modern tectonic studies.
Earth viewed from the Moon by the Apollo 11 spacecraft. Credit: NASA
Then in 1926, English scientist Harold Jeffreys claimed that below the crust, the core of the Earth is liquid, based on his study of earthquake waves. And then in 1937, Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann went a step further and determined that within the earth’s liquid outer core, there is a solid inner core.
By the latter half of the 20th century, scientists developed a comprehensive theory of the Earth’s structure and dynamics had formed. As the century played out, perspectives shifted to a more integrative approach, where geology and Earth sciences began to include the study of the Earth’s internal structure, atmosphere, biosphere and hydrosphere into one.
This was assisted by the development of space flight, which allowed for Earth’s atmosphere to be studied in detail, as well as photographs taken of Earth from space. In 1972, the Landsat Program, a series of satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, began supplying satellite images that provided geologically detailed maps, and have been used to predict natural disasters and plate shifts.
Earth’s Layers:
The Earth can be divided into one of two ways – mechanically or chemically. Mechanically – or rheologically, meaning the study of liquid states – it can be divided into the lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesospheric mantle, outer core, and the inner core. But chemically, which is the more popular of the two, it can be divided into the crust, the mantle (which can be subdivided into the upper and lower mantle), and the core – which can also be subdivided into the outer core, and inner core.
The inner core is solid, the outer core is liquid, and the mantle is solid/plastic. This is due to the relative melting points of the different layers (nickel–iron core, silicate crust and mantle) and the increase in temperature and pressure as depth increases. At the surface, the nickel-iron alloys and silicates are cool enough to be solid. In the upper mantle, the silicates are generally solid but localized regions of melt exist, leading to limited viscosity.
In contrast, the lower mantle is under tremendous pressure and therefore has a lower viscosity than the upper mantle. The metallic nickel–iron outer core is liquid because of the high temperature. However, the intense pressure, which increases towards the inner core, dramatically changes the melting point of the nickel–iron, making it solid.
The differentiation between these layers is due to processes that took place during the early stages of Earth’s formation (ca. 4.5 billion years ago). At this time, melting would have caused denser substances to sink toward the center while less-dense materials would have migrated to the crust. The core is thus believed to largely be composed of iron, along with nickel and some lighter elements, whereas less dense elements migrated to the surface along with silicate rock.
Earth’s Crust:
The crust is the outermost layer of the planet, the cooled and hardened part of the Earth that ranges in depth from approximately 5-70 km (~3-44 miles). This layer makes up only 1% of the entire volume of the Earth, though it makes up the entire surface (the continents and the ocean floor).
The Earth’s layers (strata) shown to scale. Credit: pubs.usgs.gov
The thinner parts are the oceanic crust, which underlies the ocean basins at a depth of 5-10 km (~3-6 miles), while the thicker crust is the continental crust. Whereas the oceanic crust is composed of dense material such as iron magnesium silicate igneous rocks (like basalt), the continental crust is less dense and composed of sodium potassium aluminum silicate rocks, like granite.
The uppermost section of the mantle (see below), together with the crust, constitutes the lithosphere – an irregular layer with a maximum thickness of perhaps 200 km (120 mi). Many rocks now making up Earth’s crust formed less than 100 million (1×108) years ago. However, the oldest known mineral grains are 4.4 billion (4.4×109) years old, indicating that Earth has had a solid crust for at least that long.
Upper Mantle:
The mantle, which makes up about 84% of Earth’s volume, is predominantly solid, but behaves as a very viscous fluid in geological time. The upper mantle, which starts at the “Mohorovicic Discontinuity” (aka. the “Moho” – the base of the crust) extends from a depth of 7 to 35 km (4.3 to 21.7 mi) downwards to a depth of 410 km (250 mi). The uppermost mantle and the overlying crust form the lithosphere, which is relatively rigid at the top but becomes noticeably more plastic beneath.
Compared to other strata, much is known about the upper mantle, thanks to seismic studies and direct investigations using mineralogical and geological surveys. Movement in the mantle (i.e. convection) is expressed at the surface through the motions of tectonic plates. Driven by heat from deeper in the interior, this process is responsible for Continental Drift, earthquakes, the formation of mountain chains, and a number of other geological processes.
Computer simulation of the Earth’s field in a period of normal polarity between reversals. Credit: science.nasa.gov
The mantle is also chemically distinct from the crust, in addition to being different in terms of rock types and seismic characteristics. This is due in large part to the fact that the crust is made up of solidified products derived from the mantle, where the mantle material is partially melted and viscous. This causes incompatible elements to separate from the mantle, with less dense material floating upward and solidifying at the surface.
The crystallized melt products near the surface, upon which we live, are typically known to have a lower magnesium to iron ratio and a higher proportion of silicon and aluminum. These changes in mineralogy may influence mantle convection, as they result in density changes and as they may absorb or release latent heat as well.
In the upper mantle, temperatures range between 500 to 900 °C (932 to 1,652 °F). Between the upper and lower mantle, there is also what is known as the transition zone, which ranges in depth from 410-660 km (250-410 miles).
Lower Mantle:
The lower mantle lies between 660-2,891 km (410-1,796 miles) in depth. Temperatures in this region of the planet can reach over 4,000 °C (7,230 °F) at the boundary with the core, vastly exceeding the melting points of mantle rocks. However, due to the enormous pressure exerted on the mantle, viscosity and melting are very limited compared to the upper mantle. Very little is known about the lower mantle apart from that it appears to be relatively seismically homogeneous.
The internal structure of Earth. Credit: Wikipedia Commons/Kelvinsong
Outer Core:
The outer core, which has been confirmed to be liquid (based on seismic investigations), is 2300 km thick, extending to a radius of ~3,400 km. In this region, the density is estimated to be much higher than the mantle or crust, ranging between 9,900 and 12,200 kg/m3. The outer core is believed to be composed of 80% iron, along with nickel and some other lighter elements.
Denser elements, like lead and uranium, are either too rare to be significant or tend to bind to lighter elements and thus remain in the crust. The outer core is not under enough pressure to be solid, so it is liquid even though it has a composition similar to that of the inner core. The temperature of the outer core ranges from 4,300 K (4,030 °C; 7,280 °F) in the outer regions to 6,000 K (5,730 °C; 10,340 °F) closest to the inner core.
Because of its high temperature, the outer core exists in a low viscosity fluid-state that undergoes turbulent convection and rotates faster than the rest of the planet. This causes eddy currents to form in the fluid core, which in turn creates a dynamo effect that is believed to influence Earth’s magnetic field. The average magnetic field strength in Earth’s outer core is estimated to be 25 Gauss (2.5 mT), which is 50 times the strength of the magnetic field measured on Earth’s surface.
Inner Core:
Like the outer core, the inner core is composed primarily of iron and nickel and has a radius of ~1,220 km. Density in the core ranges between 12,600-13,000 kg/m³, which suggests that there must also be a great deal of heavy elements there as well – such as gold, platinum, palladium, silver and tungsten.
Artist’s illustration of Earth’s core, inner core, and inner-inner core. Credit: Huff Post Science
The temperature of the inner core is estimated to be about 5,700 K (~5,400 °C; 9,800 °F). The only reason why iron and other heavy metals can be solid at such high temperatures is because their melting temperatures dramatically increase at the pressures present there, which ranges from about 330 to 360 gigapascals.
Because the inner core is not rigidly connected to the Earth’s solid mantle, the possibility that it rotates slightly faster or slower than the rest of Earth has long been considered. By observing changes in seismic waves as they passed through the core over the course of many decades, scientists estimate that the inner core rotates at a rate of one degree faster than the surface. More recent geophysical estimates place the rate of rotation between 0.3 to 0.5 degrees per year relative to the surface.
Recent discoveries also suggest that the solid inner core itself is composed of layers, separated by a transition zone about 250 to 400 km thick. This new view of the inner core, which contains an inner-inner core, posits that the innermost layer of the core measures 1,180 km (733 miles) in diameter, making it less than half the size of the inner core. It has been further speculated that while the core is composed of iron, it may be in a different crystalline structure that the rest of the inner core.
What’s more, recent studies have led geologists to conjecture that the dynamics of deep interior is driving the Earth’s inner core to expand at the rate of about 1 millimeter a year. This occurs mostly because the inner core cannot dissolve the same amount of light elements as the outer core.
The freezing of liquid iron into crystalline form at the inner core boundary produces residual liquid that contains more light elements than the overlying liquid. This in turn is believed to cause the liquid elements to become buoyant, helping to drive convection in the outer core. This growth is therefore likely to play an important role in the generation of Earth’s magnetic field by dynamo action in the liquid outer core. It also means that the Earth’s inner core, and the processes that drive it, are far more complex than previously thought!
Yes indeed, the Earth is a strange and mysteries place, titanic in scale as well as the amount of heat and energy that went into making it many billions of years ago. And like all bodies in our universe, the Earth is not a finished product, but a dynamic entity that is subject to constant change. And what we know about our world is still subject to theory and guesswork, given that we can’t examine its interior up close.
As the Earth’s tectonic plates continue to drift and collide, its interior continues to undergo convection, and its core continues to grow, who knows what it will look like eons from now? After all, the Earth was here long before we were, and will likely continue to be long after we are gone.
We have written many articles about Earth for Universe Today. Here’s are some Interesting Facts about Earth, and here’s one about the Earth’s inner inner core, and another about how minerals stop transferring heat at the core.
Want more resources on the Earth? Here’s a link to NASA’s Human Spaceflight page, and here’s NASA’s Visible Earth.
If you’d like more info on Earth, check out NASA’s Solar System Exploration Guide on Earth. And here’s a link to NASA’s Earth Observatory.
We’ve also recorded an episode of Astronomy Cast all about Earth. Listen here, Episode 51: Earth.
Posted on March 16, 2014 December 23, 2015
Mercury Shrinking: the First Rock from the Sun Contracted More than Once Thought
Whatever Mercury’s did to trim down its waistline has worked better than anyone thought — the innermost planet in our Solar System has reduced its radius* by about 7 kilometers (4.4 miles), over double the amount once estimated by scientists.
Of course you wouldn’t want to rush to begin the Mercury diet — its planetary contraction has taken place over the course of 3.8 billion years, since the end of the Late Heavy Bombardment. Still — lookin’ good, Mercury!
These findings come thanks to the MESSENGER spacecraft, in orbit around Mercury since 2011. Now that MESSENGER has successfully mapped literally all of Mercury’s surface, detailed measurements of more than 5,900 landforms created by cooling and contraction of the planet’s crust have allowed researchers to more precisely determine its geologic history and answer some decades-old questions raised by Mariner 10 images.
“This discrepancy between theory and observation, a major puzzle for four decades, has finally been resolved,” said MESSENGER Principal Investigator Sean Solomon. “It is wonderfully affirming to see that our theoretical understanding is at last matched by geological evidence.”
This image shows a fold-and-thrust belt stretching over 540 km on Mercury. The colors correspond to elevation— yellow/green is high and blue is low. (Courtesy NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington.)
Using high-definition images acquired with MESSENGER’s MDIS (Mercury Dual Imaging System) instrument, planetary geologist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and study lead author Paul Byrne and his colleagues identified 5,934 lobate scarps and wrinkle ridges on Mercury that are the result of contraction. From measurements of these features, the team determined that the planet’s radial contraction was much more than that estimated by models based on incomplete imaging from NASA’s Mariner 10 mission — the very first spacecraft to visit (but not orbit) Mercury.
Watch: Fly Across Mercury with MESSENGER!
“These new results resolved a decades-old paradox between thermal history models and estimates of Mercury’s contraction,” said Byrne. “Now the history of heat production and loss and global contraction are consistent.
“Interestingly, our findings are also reminiscent of now-obsolete models for how large-scale geological deformation occurred on Earth when the scientific community thought that the Earth only had one tectonic plate,” Byrne said. “Those models were developed to explain mountain building and tectonic activity in the nineteenth century, before plate tectonics theory.”
Unlike Earth, Mercury has only one global tectonic plate.
The findings were published in the Sunday, March 16 edition of the journal Nature Geoscience.
Source: MESSENGER press release. Read more about tectonic features on Mercury here.
*Mercury’s current radius is 2,440 kilometers (1,516 miles).
50 Amazing Facts About Earth
Do you know how much material falls onto Earth from space every day? How many different species there are in the ocean? How far the continents move every year? In honor of Earth Day here’s a very cool infographic that answers those questions about our planet — and 47 more!
Check out the full version below:
And for more interesting information about our planet, click here and here.
Infographic provided by Giraffe Childcare and Early Learning (Dublin, Ireland)
Posted on April 4, 2012 December 23, 2015
Is Earth Running Out Of Crust?
Earth just doesn’t make crust like it used to… at least, not according to new research by a team of scientists in the UK.
Researchers with the Universities of Bristol, St Andrews and Portsmouth have studied elements trapped within zircon samples gathered from all over the planet to peer billions of years back in time at how Earth’s crust was being produced.
Zircon, a mineral found in granite, can be dated with precision and is thus an accurate measure for geologic timescales.
What they found was that 65% of our planet’s current crust had already existed 3 billion years ago. Since rocks older than 2.5 billion years are rare on Earth today, this means that some process began to take place that either reworked — or destroyed — a large portion of the older crust, and changed how new crust was formed.
During the first 1.5 billion years of Earth’s history, the team reports, the rate of crust formation was high — approximately 3 cubic kilometers was added to the continents each year. After that the rate dropped substantially, falling to about 0.8 cubic kilometers per year for the next 3 billion years — right up to the present day.
The cause is yet unknown, but it may be the result of the onset of plate tectonics driven by subduction — the process by which sections of Earth’s crust (“plates”) slide beneath other sections, sinking into the underlying mantle to be liquefied into magma by pressure and heat. New crust is created when the magma rises again where the plates separate… Earth’s current “conveyor belt” of crust formation.
Whatever process was in place prior to 3 billion years ago, it was much more efficient at creating crust.
“Such a sharp decrease in the crustal growth rate about 3 billion years ago indicates a dramatic change in the way the continental crust was generated and preserved,” said Dr. Bruno Dhuime of the University of Bristol’s School of Earth Sciences. “This change may in turn be linked to the onset of subduction-driven plate tectonics and discrete subduction zones as observed at the present day. The next challenge is to determine which tectonic regime shaped the Earth’s crust in the planet’s first 1.5 billion years before this change.”
The team’s paper “A Change in the Geodynamics of Continental Growth 3 Billion Years Ago” (Bruno Dhuime, Chris J. Hawkesworth, Peter A. Cawood, Craig D. Storey) was published March 16 in Science.
Read more on the University of Bristol’s press release here.
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UK ambassador to US quits days after leaked cables on Trump
By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press |
Posted: Wed 7:08 AM, Jul 10, 2019 |
Updated: Wed 7:37 PM, Jul 10, 2019
LONDON (AP) — Britain's ambassador to the United States resigned Wednesday after being branded a fool and made a diplomatic nobody by President Donald Trump following the leak of the envoy's unflattering opinions about the U.S. administration.
Kim Darroch, the UK ambassador to the US, resigned Wednesday after diplomatic cables in which he made unflattering comments about Trump were leaked. (Source: CNN/file)
Storm clouds gathered over the trans-Atlantic relationship as veteran diplomat Kim Darroch said he could no longer do his job in Washington after Trump cut off all contact with the representative of one of America's closest allies.
The break in relations followed a British newspaper's publication Sunday of leaked documents that revealed the ambassador's dim view of Trump's administration, which Darroch described as dysfunctional, inept and chaotic.
"The current situation is making it impossible for me to carry out my role as I would like," Darroch said in his resignation letter. He had been due to leave his post at the end of the year.
In the leaked documents, he called the Trump administration's policy toward Iran "incoherent," said the president might be indebted to "dodgy Russians" and raised doubts about whether the White House "will ever look competent."
"We don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept," one missive said.
Prime Minister Theresa May and other British politicians praised Darroch, condemned the leak — and criticized Trump's intemperate comments, if only implicitly. Pointedly, however, Boris Johnson, considered the front-runner to replace May as prime minister, did not defend the ambassador after Trump's tirade.
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Johnson's rival for the post, said Wednesday it was "absolutely essential that when our diplomats do their job all over the world ... we defend them."
"We had a fine diplomat who was just doing what he should have been doing — giving a frank assessment, a personal assessment of the political situation in the country that he was posted (to) — and that's why I defended him," he told reporters. "And I think we all should."
Speaking at a conference on media freedom, Hunt also criticized Trump's verbal attacks on journalists.
"I wouldn't use the language President Trump used, and I wouldn't agree with it," he said. "We have to remember that what we say can have an impact in other countries where they can't take press freedom for granted."
Darroch announced his decision the morning after a televised Conservative leadership debate between Hunt and Johnson. During the debate, Hunt vowed to keep Darroch in the post, but Johnson — his predecessor as foreign secretary — notably did not support the British envoy.
"I think it's very important we should have a close partnership, a close friendship with the United States," said Johnson, whom Trump has praised in the past.
Emily Thornberry, the spokeswoman on foreign affairs for the main opposition Labour Party, said Darroch "has been bullied out of his job, because of Donald Trump's tantrums and Boris Johnson's pathetic lick-spittle response."
Darroch's forthright, unfiltered views on the U.S. administration — meant for a limited audience and discreet review — appeared in the leaked documents published by Britain's Mail on Sunday newspaper.
Darroch had served as Britain's envoy to Washington since 2016; the leaked cables covered a period from 2017 to recent weeks.
British officials are hunting for the culprit behind the leak, which was both an embarrassment to May's government and a major breach of diplomatic security.
"We will pursue the culprit with all the means at our disposal," Foreign Office chief Simon McDonald told a committee of lawmakers, adding that police were involved in the investigation.
McDonald said it was "vitally important" that ambassadors were able to speak candidly in private and that it was the first time in his 37-year career that a head of state had refused to work with a British ambassador.
But he said the trans-Atlantic relationship was "so deep and so wide that it will withstand any individual squall." He also said he feared there might be more leaks of sensitive government documents.
The U.S. State Department said in a statement that "the United States and the United Kingdom share a bond that is bigger than any individual, and we look forward to continuing that partnership. We remain committed to the U.S.-UK Special Relationship and our shared global agenda."
Like his predecessors, Darroch was a prominent figure in Washington, meeting frequently with high-level U.S. officials and hosting parties at the stately British Embassy.
Gatherings were frequently bipartisan, drawing guests from the Trump and Obama administrations, who mingled with journalists and members of prominent think tanks.
Darroch often addressed the attendees at such gatherings, making sure to single out high-level administration officials.
Trump's tweets created a furor among many British politicians and officials, who found themselves insulted by the president's decision to have the administration cut off contact with their ambassador.
It underscored that the close relationship between the two countries has become increasingly lopsided — a severe problem as the U.K. prepares to set a new path with its departure from the European Union.
"It is shameful that Kim Darroch has effectively been forced out for doing the job that diplomats are appointed to do," Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted. "Boris Johnson's failure last night to stand up for him — and stand up to the behavior of Donald Trump — spoke volumes."
Foreign Office minister Alan Duncan — who served under Johnson when he was foreign secretary — went further, accusing Johnson of having "thrown our top diplomat under a bus" for his own personal interests.
But Trump supporter and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage described the resignation as, "the right decision."
"Time (to) put in a non-Remainer who wants a trade deal with America," he tweeted.
It's unclear whether May will have time to name a replacement before she leaves office later this month.
Appointing ambassadors usually involves a formal civil service process with advertisements, applications and interviews, though Simon McDonald, head of Britain's diplomatic service, said the post of ambassador to the U.S. wasn't always chosen that way.
"History shows that there are often bespoke procedures for filling the embassy in Washington, DC," he said.
Associated Press writer Julie Pace contributed from Washington.
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Hayden Johnston
Senior Business Analyst, HSBC - London, UK
Bachelor of Business Analysis
Chasing his fortunes in London
Ngaruawahia's Hayden Johnston is living out his dream as a senior business analyst in London; with more than 75% of the world’s Fortune 500 companies within arm’s reach.
Since first moving to London in 2012, the Bachelor of Business Analysis (BBA) graduate has been operating as an independent contractor and built up valuable networks within the financial services industry.
He’s currently contracting as a business analyst - global risk transformation and financial crime compliance - for HSBC, the world’s fourth largest bank with total assets of US$2.67 trillion.
Hayden’s job involves working with senior executives to discuss the organisation’s strategic business objectives, and identifying methods by which these can be efficiently reached.
“I operate as an interface between business and technical teams in change environments, working with multiple stakeholders to identify issues and produce bespoke solutions,” he says.
“I also work with IT teams to design, develop, test and release application or system enhancements to the business.”
Hayden says his Bachelor of Business Analysis degree helped him immensely in entering into the corporate world. "Throughout my career so far I have found myself applying the skills I learned in BBA papers such as international corporate finance, portfolios and markets, and economics, law and policy.”
“I also regularly use the advanced Excel skills I learned in the Computer Modelling in Finance (FINA415) paper.”
After graduating from university, Hayden initially worked as an online marketing and systems manager for Keyport Medical Engineering and Equipment in Hamilton; then as a business account executive for BT Financial Group in Australia.
Finally he made the move to London, where his first role was as an IT implementation delivery manager for the National Health Service. Then he worked as a business analyst for a variety of organisations, including Tui Travel, Close Brothers Asset Finance, and Barclays Corporate bank.
“My advice to anyone considering a BBA degree would be to take the time to think about where you see yourself in the long-term and what it will take to get there. Don't put too much pressure on yourself to be top dog straight out of university, as you’re already giving yourself a great head-start to a vibrant and interesting career.”
Matthew Osborne
Luke Dingle
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Motorhead’s Lemmy, heavy metal pioneer, dead at 70: A voice like shrapnel and a bass tone to match
By Justin Wm. Moyer
Justin Wm. Moyer
Reporter covering breaking news
A voice like shrapnel and a bass tone to match. A steady diet of rock-and-roll and rebellion — fueled by, until not so long ago, a bottle of Jack Daniels per day and sexual escapades too numerous to count. Plus: muttonchops.
Lemmy Kilmister, singer and bass player of Motorhead, somehow lived to be 70 before he died of cancer Monday. He played hard, he partied hard, and he lived hard — and leaves a venerable oeuvre eclipsed only by his reputation as one of rock’s most grizzled survivors. For sheer durability in a field where many a legend is undone by substances or suicide by age 30, only Ozzy Osbourne and Keith Richards come close to Lemmy — and neither is as frequently referred to by only his first name.
“Lost one of my best friends, Lemmy, today,” Osbourne, who collaborated with Lemmy, tweeted. “He will be sadly missed. He was a warrior and a legend. I will see you on the other side.”
“There is no easy way to say this … our mighty, noble friend Lemmy passed away today after a short battle with an extremely aggressive cancer,” the band announced on Facebook. “He had learnt of the disease on December 26th, and was at home … We cannot begin to express our shock and sadness, there aren’t words. We will say more in the coming days, but for now, please … play Motörhead loud, play Hawkwind loud, play Lemmy’s music LOUD. Have a drink or few.”
Lemmy’s story is a familiar one for young men growing up in postwar England: born with nothing, saved by the Beatles. Christened Ian Frasier Kilmister on Christmas Eve of 1945 in industrial Stoke-on-Trent — noted for its coal slag and filthy air — Lemmy was the son of a librarian and an RAF pilot who quickly made tracks.
“My earliest memory is shouting: at what and for what reason, I don’t know,” he wrote in his 2010 memoir “White Line Fever.” “Probably a tantrum; or I may have been rehearsing.”
Music was an inspiration — particularly early rockers such as Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran. But man cannot live on music alone.
“I decided to pick up the guitar partly for the music, but girls were at least sixty per cent of the reason I wanted to play,” he wrote. “I discovered what an incredible … magnet guitars were … That’s the only thing that ever worked so immediately in life. And I never looked back.”
Playing in bands through the 1960s, Lemmy was soon at the periphery of a scene revolutionized by the Fab Four, whom he saw perform at the legendary Cavern Club in their native Liverpool as a teenager. Despite their squeaky-clean image, he admired them as “hard men” from “a hard, sea-farin’ town, all these dockers and sailors around all the time that’d beat the piss out of you if you so much as winked at them.” The Rolling Stones? “Mummy’s boys,” Lemmy wrote.
After roadying for Jimi Hendrix, Lemmy got his first taste of fame in the early 1970s with the psychedelic space-rock band Hawkwind. Though the band was nowhere near as famous as Motorhead would become, it created a legend of its own.
“The driving sound that Hawkwind had — the very pulse-y, percussive keyboard sounds — we would actually listen to that and try to emulate it,” Peter Hook, bassist of the iconic Manchester band New Order, said in the 2010 documentary “Lemmy.” “… We actually did try and rip off Hawkwind.”
But let’s be clear: Though born not long after the age of flower power, Hawkwind wasn’t for hippies.
“People thought we were some sort of f—ing flower people,” Lemmy said. “We were like a black nightmare. We used to lock the doors so people couldn’t get out.”
Alas, Lemmy was a self-described “speed freak” during his time in the band and was fired from Hawkwind after getting busted for possession on the Canadian border in 1975.
“I found Lemmy in certain ways quite hard to work with because we were in a band where everyone was taking different drugs,” Nik Turner, a member of Hawkwind who was fonder of marijuana than amphetamines, explained.
Fortunately for Lemmy, a band would soon exist where everyone’s drug-taking habits were attuned — or, at least, whose members could be replaced at Lemmy’s whim. This was Motorhead — slang for “speed freak” — formed in 1975.
“Lemmy was at the beginning of heavy metal,” no less an authority than Alice Cooper said. “Maybe even pre-Black Sabbath.”
Osbourne, Sabbath’s singer, agreed.
“Who was the original metal band?” Osbourne said. “It’s a toss between Lemmy and Black Sabbath — but I would say Lemmy and Motorhead.”
Lemmy, less interested in genre distinctions, would insist that Motorhead was just a rock-and-roll band, saying so from the stage at every show. But this simplistic musicology undersells Motorhead’s sound: a brutal, sleazy blend of rock and punk that offered a marked contrast to disco and the Osmonds as the 1980s approached. Lemmy, influenced by his time as a guitarist, played the bass more like a guitar, often favoring chords over single notes.
The result, according to Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo: “It was just brash, in your face. It was like getting socked by an overhand right. It was like Mike Tyson in his prime.”
Motorhead would go on to record more than 20 records and tour endlessly. Though best known for its hit “Ace of Spades” — “You know I’m born to lose and gambling’s for fools / But that’s the way I like it, baby” — the band’s catalog was far deeper. And the sound came with a lifestyle.
The drugs were ubiquitous enough to not merit mention. Asked in 2008 what songs were inspired by substance use, Lemmy said: “All of them.”
Then there were the ladies. Despite writing songs with titles such as “Jailbait” — “I don’t even dare to ask your age / It’s enough to know you’re here backstage” — many thought Lemmy quite the catch.
“There was a magazine in England who said I screwed 2,000 women and I didn’t, I said 1,000,” Lemmy said in 2012. “When you think about it, it isn’t that unreasonable. I’m not even married, and I’ve been doing this since I was 16. And I’m now 66, so that’s like 50 years. I could’ve done more if I’ve tried, I guess.”
Lemmy’s penchant for German and Nazi memorabilia also was often remarked upon. Iron crosses weren’t just part of looking like a rebel without a cause, he said.
“I like having all this stuff around because it’s a reminder of what happened,” he wrote. “… I don’t understand people who believe that if you ignore something, it’ll go away. That’s completely wrong — if it’s ignored it gathers strength.”
This was not a pose. Offstage, Lemmy was still Lemmy.
“It was not a facade, not an act,” Greg Olliver, co-director of “Lemmy,” told The Washington Post in a telephone interview. “He would walk around his house in tight jeans with a bullet belt, a rock show belt. There was no Lemmy in sweatpants.”
Although Motorhead never stopped, Lemmy eventually slowed down. He was diagnosed with diabetes in 2000. He eventually quit smoking and stuck to prescription drugs, but never gave up Jack and Coke.
“I must be the most drunken diabetic in the world,” he told an interviewer in 2005 — while pouring a drink.
Survived by one son he knew — and another one he never met, “so he don’t count” — Lemmy said there was no secret to his success. He just didn’t stop.
“Because we didn’t give up,” he said in 2005. “That’s the basic thing of, like, surviving. Not giving up, right?”
Justin Wm. Moyer Justin Wm. Moyer is a breaking news reporter for The Washington Post. After a long stint as a contributing writer at the Washington City Paper, he came to The Post in 2008, becoming an editor in Outlook and for the Morning Mix, The Post's overnight team. He became a reporter in 2015. Follow
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Political partisanship is vicious. That’s because political parties are too weak.
Trump would never have been the nominee if the Republican Party were stronger.
Despite being an outsider with limited commitment to Republican ideology, Donald Trump won the weakened party's 2016 presidential nomination. (Evan Vucci/AP)
By Frances McCall Rosenbluth and
Ian Shapiro
There’s a paradox at the heart of American politics: Political polarization has rarely been more extreme. More than half of registered Democrats and Republicans view members of the other party “very unfavorably,” and 49 percent of Republicans (and 33 percent of Democrats) would prefer their children not marry a member of the other party (up from about 5 percent in the 1960s). On a practical level, the 2018 midterms produced a deeply divided Congress unlikely to generate much legislation.
But none of this is because parties are “unusually strong,” as Bloomberg’s Jonathan Bernstein and other commentators put it. On the contrary, our political system is dysfunctional and polarization is intense because parties are too weak.
A “strong” party is a party that presents voters with a coherent policy agenda. To be able to construct and deliver on a party platform, party leaders select candidates; but backbenchers in the legislature in turn choose and replace party leaders depending on how successfully the leaders deliver electoral victory.
A strong Republican Party would never have allowed Donald Trump, an outsider with limited commitment to Republican ideology, to become its presidential nominee. It would not have allowed Roy Moore to have been its nominee for the U.S. Senate from Alabama in 2017. A strong party would not tolerate a rebellious faction like the tea party.
On the Democratic side, it’s unlikely a strong party would have selected the democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the nominee for New York’s 14th Congressional District. When parties are strong, they are more likely to pursue national policies that appeal to the median voter — and they will select local candidates with that in mind. To win in single-member districts, the party has to be strategically moderate.
U.S. parties used to be somewhat stronger, with party leaders playing a role in selecting candidates all the way up to the presidency. A key turning point was 1968, when Vice President Hubert Humphrey received the Democratic nomination for president despite not having run in any primaries, and despite his support for the Vietnam War. Grass-roots Democrats were outraged. A commission co-led by George McGovern, the future presidential candidate, recommended changes to create “popular control of the Democratic Party.” Primaries would be the central way of selecting a candidate, and women, black Democrats and young people would receive quota-like representation at the party convention.
But these small-d democratic reforms have produced less government responsiveness, not more. Primaries are a chief culprit: Relatively extreme voters turn out in higher numbers than the typical voter for their party. We have had primaries in Congress since the Progressive era, but they have become much more important because of red state/blue state sorting, partisan and bipartisan gerrymandering, and the advent of majority-minority districting, which have combined to vastly increase the number of safe seats. This often makes the primary the only meaningful election. These primary voters then choose representatives who resist moderate positions — representatives who will not, in turn, choose strong congressional leaders capable of enforcing moderation.
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The weakness of parties exacerbates all sorts of problems. Many critics point to the role of money in politics as the source of America’s political ills. But that gets the causal arrows of the problem the wrong way around. Politicians need staggering amounts of money to pay for highly individualized campaigns. If they could campaign on a coherent party platform of broadly popular policies, their election costs would be far lower — as they are in countries with strong political parties such as Britain and Germany. In those countries, people tend to vote for the party, not the individual. “I would vote for a pig if it was my party’s pig,” as the British saying goes.
Frustrated by ineffective government, voters in California and elsewhere have sought to take matters into their own hands through ballot initiatives, yet another democratic-sounding innovation that undermines democracy — and undermines parties, too. The trouble with this kind of DIY politics is that, by tackling one policy at a time, voters forgo a major value of political parties: the ability to campaign on and implement a full suite of policies that serve the interests of most people over the long term. Proposition 13 in California catered to people who cared intensely about tax cuts in 1978, but only by ignoring the downstream effects on California’s schools and local government. (Brexit, the result of a British referendum, was similarly shortsighted, and it similarly undermined the party system.)
Political parties in the United States are weak by design. The Founders built a political structure of multiple checks and balances to thwart tyranny — at the cost of governability. When Jefferson and Madison belatedly embraced parties in 1800, they had to run a formidable obstacle course of their own making: the ability of a president and of states to thwart partisan unity in Congress around policies and programs. Parties today face similar challenges but have hamstrung themselves with developments like primaries.
How can we get closer to a system of strong, competitive parties, given our constitutional structure?
A popular, supposedly democracy-promoting reform these days is abolishing the electoral college. This is barking up the wrong tree. Yes, a direct, nationwide presidential election would diminish the disproportionate influence of rural voters on the presidential race, but it would also enhance the power of the president, further undermining legislative parties.
There’s nothing about primaries in the Constitution. We should abolish them. Giving party leaders control over candidate selection conjures up “smoke-filled rooms,” but this is a red herring. Accountability is the foundation of strong parties, and party backbenchers themselves should empower leaders who can deliver winning platforms. It is inconceivable that a British leader who oversaw losses of the sort Nancy Pelosi did in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016 would keep her job. Controlling huge streams of campaign money (which we argue is a side effect of a weak party platform) is part of what gives Pelosi a grip on the party despite her ineffectiveness. The power of leaders should be conditional on their ability to choose candidates who can both win in their districts and support a coherent national platform.
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Yes, the Democrats’ Ocasio-Cortez won her district as well as her primary. But she was the exception, because of the composition of her district. Progressive insurgents from more heterogeneous districts won their primaries but bit the dust Nov. 6: Kara Eastman in Omaha; Randy Bryce in southern Wisconsin; and Dana Balter in Syracuse, N.Y. A candidate-selection process that gave a stronger weight to the party would probably have chosen different candidates.
Short of abolishing primaries, a step in the right direction would be to count only the results of primaries with a turnout of 75 percent or higher, relative to the most recent general election. If that threshold were not met, the results should be thrown out and party leaders would choose an appropriate candidate.
Reforming the primary system should go hand in hand with the elimination of gerrymandering. The more each district represents the median American voter — the less it is carved to favor one party or another — the more parties will be required to compete for that voter.
We realize that calling for stronger parties sounds strange. Parties are at each other’s throats; why would we want to strengthen these monsters? But as we’ve shown, party weakness is to blame for polarization.
Strong parties capable of delivering on competitive policy platforms are the foundation of democratic accountability. We should strengthen ours.
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A pioneer exits quietly, and with class
By - The Washington Times - Friday, January 31, 2003
He arrived in Washington in 1962 with trepidation as the first black player in Redskins history. He retires today after 41 years with the organization as a much-loved Hall of Famer. And when Bobby Mitchell walks out the front door of Redskin Park this evening, he'll take much more with him than the awards and framed photos from his office walls.
The 67-year-old Mitchell had been the only link to the days of George Preston Marshall and Vince Lombardi. Special assistant for football operations Bubba Tyer becomes the only Redskins employee whose tenure with the franchise predates Redskin Park's move to Ashburn in 1992.
"Bobby handled all his positions from scout to assistant GM with a touch of class," Tyer said. "He got lots of thankless jobs done and he did them well. I admire him for that."
Lombardi asked Mitchell to join the front office upon his retirement in 1969. He rose through the ranks from scout to director of pro scouting to assistant general manager. Later, he helped late Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke lobby officials in the District and Maryland about sites for a new stadium before Cooke finally settled on Landover in 1995.
Mitchell, who'll focus now on his annual golf tournament that has raised more than $2million for leukemia research, has been the Redskins' face in the community for decades. Among the groups with whom he has worked are the Boys and Girls Clubs, the Urban League, the NAACP, the Board of Trade, the United Negro College Fund and the White House Task Force on Drugs. Mitchell was honored in 1998 by the NFL Alumni Association with the Order of the Leather Helmet for service to football and a field in Anacostia was named for him in 2000.
But it was his wizardry as a receiver and a halfback that made him unforgettable.
"Bobby could take a pitch to the short side of the field and take that sucker 60, 70 yards," said Brig Owens, a Redskins safety from 1966 to 1977.
When he suddenly retired because of aching hamstrings in 1969, Mitchell was second only to Jim Brown in total yards, third in catches behind Raymond Berry and Lionel Taylor and fifth with 91 touchdowns. No wonder Mitchell was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1983.
Under pressure from the Kennedy Administration to end the NFL's last color bar, Marshall traded the first pick in the 1962 draft to Cleveland for Mitchell, who was second banana to Browns superstar Jim Brown. Mitchell set then-Redskins records with 72 catches, 1,384 yards and 12 touchdowns in his Washington debut and was voted to the first of three straight Pro Bowls despite hostility from whites and being a torch-carrier for blacks.
"If I focused only on my first two or three years here, I would have to be crazy to like anybody in town," Mitchell recalled. "I wasn't accepted by a lot of the white guys on the team. The fans would yell, 'Run nigger, run.' I was spat on in Duke Zeibert's [restaurant]. I wanted to punch someone. [But] I found out quickly that how I handled myself made a world of difference. A lot of bad things happened to me, but as long as the black kids saw me stay within myself and not lash out, they would stay within themselves and not lash out [at the indignities they faced]. I wished I could have played one day without any problems. I went to the stadium with a trunk on my back. It never ended. It just got easier. When you've got to play like that and still make All-Pro, I'm proud of that."
Mitchell was always proud, but he never complained publicly when Cooke bypassed him and gave fellow assistant GM Charley Casserly the top job when GM Bobby Beathard resigned in 1989. And although he was hurt when the Redskins gave his No.49 which hadn't been worn since his retirement to rookie free agent tight end Leonard Stephens last year, Mitchell never went public with his dismay. He understood that it was an act of ignorance, not malice. With the Redskins having employed a black interim head coach (Terry Robiskie) in 2000 and with most of the players also black, the new generation running the franchise doesn't have a full appreciation for its history and Mitchell's importance in that context.
"Bobby laid a lot of foundation," Owens said. "It took a special person to come here. Every time they put Bobby in a position to fail, he succeeded, not just in a small way, but in a major way."
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At least Liberty Utilities has the facts on its side (May 8, 2017)
Mayor Scott Nassif is big on claiming to be in possession of the facts. Back in 2015 after reading one of my dissections of the Town’s attempts to seize our water company (“Legal buffoonery,” Daily Press, July 5, 2015), Nassif allowed himself to be used as a cat’s-paw by the Town attorneys by signing his name to an op-ed piece they had written (“Separating fact from fiction in Apple Valley,” Daily Press, August 9, 2015). I responded with another letter demolishing his/their so-called facts (“AV residents have facts, too, and context,” Daily Press, August 16, 2015), and that was the last we heard from Mr. Nassif and the Town’s attorneys on the subject of their miserable record of running a water system. (See the list below for the origin of Mr. Nassif’s letter .)
Mr. Nassif recently signed his name to another bizarre admixture of irrelevant, context-free facts cheek-by-jowl with half truths and smears, cleverly arranged (that is, probably not by him) as a burlesque of a plausible explanation for the ridiculous position that the Town of Apple Valley can run our water system better than the professionals who have been doing it for longer than the town has been on the map (“Manipulating the facts is Liberty’s only hope,” Daily Press, May 7, 2017). At one point, he even states, “If this sounds confusing, it is …” To quote a reviewer of another similarly-tangled narrative, “The disorganization is there not because of the bad style of the author, but because of the bad logic applied by the author and desired of the reader.”
To paraphrase Ronald Reagan: How do you tell a supporter of the Town’s hostile takeover bid for the water system? Well, it’s someone who listens to the Town Council and staff. And how do you tell an opponent of the Town’s takeover? It’s someone who understands what the Town Council and staff are really saying.
Want some peace and quiet? Vote no on Measure F.
— Greg Raven is Co-Chair of Apple Valley Citizens for Government Accountability, and is concerned about quality of life issues.
Files related to Apple Valley’s water system history
20150629 Legal buffoonery
20150709 TOAV email: Raven letter to the editor
20150727 TOAV email: OP-ED response — Raven re history
20150809 Commentary: Separating fact from fiction (Nassif)
20150809 AV residents have facts, too, and context
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TOAV asks judge to rule on water rights before trial (August 6, 2010)
APPLE VALLEY • The town is hoping to bring a pricey, 21-month lawsuit over water rights tied to Apple Valley Country Club to a rapid close, asking a judge to weigh in two months before the case goes to trial in December.
Apple Valley’s attorneys filed a motion for summary adjudication with the court on July 26, submitting a stack of evidence they hope will sway the judge against High Desert Community Foundation’s deed to the water rights.
I see no reason why it shouldn’t be granted, Apple Valley Mayor Peter Allan, an attorney himself, said of the motion.
Jeff Caufield, attorney for HDCF, responded via e-mail: We have received the motion and have reviewed it and do not believe it will be granted.
In fact, Caufield said the foundation plans to file one or more motions of its own for summary adjudication in the next couple of weeks.
A day after the town’s Nov. 18, 2008, announcement that it intended to buy the struggling country club, Apple Valley filed suit against HDCF over the water rights. HDCF then filed a counter-suit, claiming its right to pump the 709 acre feet of water.
The two parties met in mediation a year ago, Allan said, with the town making a significant offer — more than $100,000, he would only say — and the foundation countering with a request for more than $1 million. The water rights are valued at $3.8 million.
So far, Victorville Superior Court Judge Gilbert Ochoa has denied HDCF’s request to transfer the case to the Riverside court, denied Apple Valley’s request to throw the whole case out and then denied the foundation’s request to stop the town from drilling a new well on the golf course.
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The Cheoah River
The Cheoah River, 20 miles long, is located in the extreme southwestern corner of North Carolina, near Robbinsville. Unique in it’s features, the Cheoah is one of the most physically demanding rivers in the world and the perfect challenge for the most adventurous paddlers.
For seventy years, the nine-mile section between the Santeetlah Dam and Lake Calderwood was dewatered. American Whitewater advocated for the releases which began in the fall of 2005. Each year, there are at least 18 releases for paddlers to enjoy for the next 40 years.
The Cheoah is unusual for rivers of its volume in the Southeast in that its gradient is relatively constant, meaning with the exception of 2 or 3 half-mile sections, it is unusually more continuous than anything else with a similar volume of water in the Southeast. Some call it “warm western-style paddling”.
On release days, sections of the Cheoah offer challenging Class IV and V rapids making the Cheoah a fantastic whitewater experience. The lower section has numerous “classic drops” according to whitewater enthusiasts, with the largest one at approximately eight feet. All who have paddled the Cheoah have agreed it will become one of the crown jewels of the whitewater world.
Rock Bass
Put-In Points
Cheoah River Commercial Putin
GPS: (lat) 35.382236, (lng) -83.877825
Water Type: River
Water Class: III – IV
Launch Type: Primitive
Restrooms: No
Picnic Area: No
Universal Access: No
Time to next point: 5 hours
Safety & Other Notes: Whitewater Experts Only
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The team working towards the Centenary celebrations are...
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Peter Waine
Peter is a former national chairman of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and of both the National Fruit Collection and of the Tree Council. He is co-founder of Hanson Green, for many years the principal source for non executive appointments and has been on boards of public and private companies often as chairman in addition to being a former visiting professor at both Warwick and Cass Business Schools. A former member of the International Cricket Council and a trustee of the Royal Opera House, Peter is author or co-author of two business books, a business novel, a collection of poetry and a history of the campaigns that saved the English countryside. He is chairman of the Housman Society, a director of the Gardens Trust, and a judge on both the Wainwright Literary Prize and of the Contrarian Prize. He is a former chairman of the Welwyn Garden CIty Society.
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Jennifer McCann
Jenny McCann has lived in Welwyn Garden City since 1971 during which time she has maintained an active involvement in several local organisations, particularly the Welwyn Garden City Society where she was an officer and member of the Executive Committee for ten years. She held secretarial and administrative roles over 20 years at a variety of SME’s, an international pharmaceutical company and the University of Hertfordshire prior to moving into the charitable sector.
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Julian Payne
Julian Payne has lived in Welwyn Garden City for 20 years and is Finance Director and shareholder of a technology company based in Hemel Hempstead. Julian graduated as an Electrical Engineer and subsequently qualified as a Management Accountant. He has held several Financial Management roles in both corporates and SME’s with responsibility for Finance, IT, HR, Facilities and legal matters.
Prior to joining the WGC Centenary Foundation, Julian was a Governor at Templewood School for 9 years, and is also involved with the organising committee of Dellcott Family Tennis Club. In his spare time Julian can be found either on the golf course or a tennis court, or in the garden.
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Graeme Bell is a retired Chartered Surveyor and Town Planner. In a career in local government he served as a senior officer in Hertfordshire County Planning department before posts as chief officer in Lancashire, Swindon and Devon. He is a Vice President of the Town and Country Planning Association (the charitable company established by Ebenezer Howard in 1899 to promote his ideas for garden cities) having previously served as Chief Executive of that Association.
He has lived with his family in Welwyn Garden City for over 30 years. He is a former Trustee and Company Secretary of the WGC Heritage Trust. He was appointed OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2012 for services to the Town and Country Planning Association.
David Kell
David Kell was born in WGC and in his early years lived close to and attended Parkway Primary School. His wife also comes from the town and they have brought up a family of four here, living in three houses in different parts of the town. David’s career as a consultant in Public Health Engineering was mainly concerned with major overseas projects in the Middle and Far East. This necessitated frequent overseas trips leaving little opportunity for involvement in local affairs.
This changed when he retired and he has since become a Governor of a local primary school, a Rotarian and an active member of the WGC Horticultural Society. David is delighted now to be a Trustee of the Welwyn Garden City Centenary Foundation.
Completing the Delivery Group are...
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Caroline Baynes
Caroline Baynes joined the Centenary Foundation team as she is passionate about promoting Welwyn Garden City as a place to live, work and play. As part of a team of four mums with young children, Caroline helped create Frankie’s Garden as a place to be enjoyed by the community, centrally located at St Francis of Assisi Church. The project was achieved with the support of the church, financial assistance from the Big Lottery, practical help from many groups and clubs and the hard graft of the local youth offending team! This experience demonstrated to Caroline that anything can be achieved with vision, determination and the support of like-minded people. Caroline’s ambition is to celebrate Ebenezer Howard’s legacy by creating a show garden at RHS Chelsea in May 2020 and bringing it back to WGC, for all to enjoy.
Caroline is a qualified project manager who has held a variety of roles within a professional membership organisation, a retail finance provider, a pre-school, a change management consultancy, and a family support charity.
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Mariana Bitonte
Born in Argentina, Mariana Bitonte came to the UK in 2005 as Trade and Economic Affairs Executive for the Argentine Embassy in London.
In 2011 she moved to Hertfordshire and in 2012 was appointed Welwyn Garden City Town Centre Manager. Mariana works with businesses and other partners to raise the profile of the town centre, increase footfall and promote the overall vitality of the town. Throughout 2016 she was leading the development of a Business Improvement District (BID) for WGC town centre. Town centre businesses voted on a a ballot during October which was successful and will see the BID bring over £1.5 million of investment into the town centre over five years.
On 1 April 2017 Mariana was appointed as the first Welwyn Garden City BID Project Manager.
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Malcolm Day
Malcolm Day is a retired Civil Servant. In Government he worked for the Department of Trade & Industry helping British companies win major infrastructure projects overseas – mainly in the Far East, where he travelled widely. Was seconded to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and was in Hong Kong for five years over the Handover period: principally involved with the infrastructure projects concerning the new airport at Chek Lap Kok.
Born 1941 in London. Studied Natural Science (Metallurgy) at University of Oxford, married and stayed on to do his Doctorate. This was followed by a period carrying out industrial research in the Midlands and developing post graduate engineering degrees in the North East. The family moved back to the Midlands where Malcolm ran a company recovering precious metals from industrial waste, before joining the Civil Service as a late entrant from industry and moving to Welwyn Garden City in 1989.
Since retirement he has been heavily involved with local issues, mainly through the Welwyn Garden City Society, where he has just retired as Deputy Chairman.
Robert Gill
Robert Gill is a retired project manager after a working life in the aerospace industry where he was responsible for a variety of programmes. An engineer by training, he has had a lifelong interest in aerospace. In retirement life he has maintained a long interest in amateur drama with the Barn Theatre, latterly being the Stage Director and Archivist. Other interests are local history which has resulted in Robert being a trustee of the Welwyn Garden City Heritage Trust and a volunteer on the Our Welwyn Garden City memories project.
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Dennis Lewis
Dennis Lewis enjoyed a long and successful career as a chemist with ICI, based in Welwyn Garden City and subsequently other national professional organisations. Concurrently he maintained a strong commitment to the local community as a Councillor for 39 years. During this time he also either founded, served on or supported in some measure over 20 local community organisations and is still actively involved in a large number, including the Heritage Trust, the WGC Society and now the WGC Centenary Foundation. In 2014 Dennis was appointed MBE for community work over 40 years.
CENTENARY WALK TRIAL – 7th JULY 2019
A Summer Guided Centenary Walk was led by Deb, Clare, David and Diana on Sunday …
Herts Volunteer Centres Conference
Herts Volunteer Centres Annual Volunteering Conference on 4th June provided an excellent forum to promote …
Opportunity to experience the Centenary Walk on 7th July 2019
Join the WGC100 Centenary Walk team on Sunday 7th July 2019 at 10am and experience the …
Celebrating 100 years since Sir Ebenezer bought the land
On 30thMay 1919, Sir Ebenezer Howard purchased at auction, the land that was to become Welwyn Garden City.
The 100 year Celebrations start on 30 May 2019
On the 30 May 1919, 100 years ago, Ebenezer Howard purchased the land that was to become Welwyn Garden City.
Nick Bailey shares RHS Chelsea insights
The WGC Horticultural Society arranged a talk by Nick Bailey, garden designer, author, columnist and …
Work continues to create the Centenary Walk
These pictures show new steps leading to and from the tunnel under the bridge where …
Footpath works at Roebuck Farm, Lemsford
On Tuesday 19 February, the wonderful team of Herts County Council Countryside Management Service volunteers tackled a range of works on footpath 61 in Lemsford.
Guided Walk Saturday 9th February, 2019
Following the successful Guided Walk on 8th September ’18, walkers and stakeholders were again invited to join the Centenary Walk Team to walk the 12.5 miles (20.20 kms) of the centenary circuit.
Winter 2018/2019 Newsletter
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What the National Apology meant to me.
Post by Cynthia O'Brien-Younie.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this post contains images of a person who is deceased.
I was glad when the then Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, made the very remarkable apology to the Stolen Generation. I remember watching the apology in the office – it is a day I will always remember. I had a lot of mixed emotions as I watched Prime Minister Rudd speak, as my mother and many of my aunts and uncles are part of the Stolen Generation. That apology spoke directly to them and the impact it had on my family.
My Mother never got to hear this apology as she passed in 2005, three years before the apology.
My Mother, Betty O'Brien, was one of eight siblings that were removed as part of the Stolen Generation. She was in her teens when she was taken and was sent to a farming property in Armidale NSW where she worked as a house domestic. She was paid wages but never received them as they were taken and placed with the Aboriginal Protection Board. Her wages were never returned and became part of the widespread history of Stolen Wages. My Mother passed before any claim could be made for her wages.
My mother's four sisters were sent to Cootamundra Girls Home where they suffered abuse of all kinds. Her three brothers were sent to the notorious Kinchela Boys Home near Kempsey where they also suffered abuse. At the home they were given numbers and not called by their names.
My mother didn’t talk much about her experience but I can say that when I was growing up my mother was very protective of all her children. She made sure that we were always clean and the house was spotless so that when the Welfare Board came checking on her there would be NO excuse for them to take us away. This is a fear that never left her. She would never complain about the way she was treated and would simply say she had a good life but she couldn't say the same for her brothers and sisters.
The Apology and recognition of the trauma caused by the removal policies on the Stolen Generation and their families was an important day.
I was glad to hear the Apology.
Cynthia and her mum Betty.
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Taliban Cling to Pockets of Afghan City After Assault
Smoke rises into the air after Taliban militants launched an attack on the Afghan provincial capital of Ghazni, Aug. 10, 2018.
KABUL - Afghan forces were still battling the Taliban in parts of Ghazni on Saturday, a day after the insurgents launched a multi-pronged assault on the eastern city.
Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish said at least 25 security forces have been killed or wounded since the assault began early Friday, and that a local reporter was killed. It was unclear how many other civilians had been killed or wounded during the attack. Danish said more than 150 insurgents have been killed or wounded.
He said that although the fighting was still underway, “the situation is under control and there isn't any serious threat.”
“Any threat which could cause the fall of the city has been eliminated,” he added.
The Taliban claim to have seized parts of the city and to have killed local officials. In a media statement, the group said it had seized dozens of armored vehicles as well as light and heavy weapons and ammunition. They said they “liberated” the central prison in Ghazni and freed all Taliban prisoners.
It was not possible to verify the claims because the Taliban destroyed a nearby communications tower, cutting off cellphone and landline access to the city. The insurgents also set fire to the local TV headquarters, making it difficult to broadcast images from Ghazni.
The city of about 140,000 people was in lockdown for the second day as residents stayed indoors and reported sporadic gunfire. The highway from Kabul to Afghanistan's southern provinces, which runs through Ghazni, is still closed.
Ghazni is a gateway city linking the heavily Taliban-influenced south and east of Afghanistan to Kabul and is one of the last vestiges of government control in the province of the same name. The Taliban holds sway in most of the province where ethnic Pashtuns live, while the government's influence is limited to Ghazni and small pockets dominated by ethnic Hazaras.
The Taliban have stepped up attacks across the country since NATO and the United States formally ended their combat mission in 2014. U.S. and NATO forces remain in Afghanistan mainly in a supporting and training role in the 17-year-old war.
Afghan Taliban Storm City Southwest of Kabul
Afghan Taliban stormed Ghazni city, almost 150 kilometers southwest of Kabul Thursday night. Heavy clashes continued until late Friday morning between the insurgent group and government security forces.At one point, the two sides were fighting in the center of the city near important government installations, including the offices of the governor and the National Directorate for Security, Afghanistan’s intelligence agency, according to residents and a member of provincial…
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Madonna On Motherhood And Fighting Ageism: “I’m Being Punished For Turning 60”
By Vogue
Friday 3 May 2019
Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott
When Decca Aitkenhead meets Madonna for the June cover interview of Vogue, she is not sure which iteration of the pop powerhouse will receive her – and the impeccable Georgian façade of her central London townhouse betrays no clue. The mother of reinvention, Madonna has variously been a singer, actor, dancer, filmmaker, activist, author and philanthropist. She has been a Kabbalah spiritualist, a punk club kid, an English country lady, a dominatrix; she has played Eva Perón and Breathless Mahoney, and channelled Marilyn Monroe. But, even now, aged 60, and with her 14th studio album, Madame X, due for release on June 14, her career still feels like a battle.
“People have always been trying to silence me for one reason or another, whether it’s that I’m not pretty enough, I don’t sing well enough, I’m not talented enough, I’m not married enough, and now it’s that I’m not young enough,” she tells Aitkenhead. “So they just keep trying to find a hook to hang their beef about me being alive on. Now I’m fighting ageism, now I’m being punished for turning 60.”
She’s motivated by the thought of paving the way for women to come, but Madonna’s duty of care to younger generations is often overlooked by the celebrity gossip narrative. “People got very excited about [the thought of Lady Gaga and myself as] enemies, when we never were enemies,” she sighs of society’s tendency to pit women against each other.
By Olivia Singer
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That said, Madonna has not felt particularly supported by women throughout her career. She is grateful for the artists who worked against all odds and defied convention before her, such as Frida Kahlo. “There are no living role models for me,” she concedes. “Because nobody does what I do. And that’s kind of scary. I can look back at women who I think were great and amazing – freedom fighters, like Simone de Beauvoir or Angela Davis – but they didn’t have kids. Being a single parent of six children, I continue to be creative and be an artist and be politically active, to have a voice, to do all the things that I do. So I mean, there isn’t anybody in my position.”
When most families expand, the parents tend to relax their rules, but Madonna says she feels the need to protect her children more than ever. She hasn’t allowed her 13-year-old son David to have a phone yet. “I’m going to stick that one out for as long as possible, because I made a mistake when I gave my older children phones when they were 13,” she shares. “It ended my relationship with them, really. Not completely, but it became a very, very big part of their lives. They became too inundated with imagery and started to compare themselves to other people, and that’s really bad for self-growth.”
She sees her own work ethic most reflected in David. “What he has more than anything is focus and determination,” Madonna continues. “I’m pretty sure he got it from me. He’s the one I have the most in common with. I feel like he gets me; he has more of my DNA than any of my children so far. Let’s see what happens – it’s still early days for everyone.”
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Her daughter Lola, she goes on, “is insanely talented. I’m green with envy because she’s incredible at everything she does – she’s an incredible dancer, she’s a great actress, she plays the piano beautifully, she’s way better than me in the talent department. But she doesn’t have the same drive, and again, I feel social media plagues her and makes her feel like, ‘People are going to give me things because I’m her daughter.’ I try to give her examples of other children of celebrities like Zoë Kravitz, for instance, who have to work through that ‘Oh yeah, you’re the daughter of…’ – and then eventually you are taken seriously for what you do. You just have to keep going. But does she have the same drive that I have? No. But she also has a mother, and I didn’t. She grew up with money, and I didn’t. So everything is going to be different. But what can I do? I can’t fixate on it. I just have to do my best.”
Read the full interview in the June issue of Vogue, which hits newsstands on May 10.
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Dr. Ingo Ederer, CEO
Dr. Ingo Ederer (born 1967) is not only the key inventor of our technology but also one of the business founders. From 1999 to 2013 he built up the company into a leading provider of 3D printers for industrial and commercial customers. He was appointed CEO of voxeljet in 2013.
After successfully completing his studies in mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich Dr. Ederer also obtained his doctorate at this university in 2000. He started intensively exploring the field of Additive Manufacturing during his studies. Since then he has become a recognized expert in this area of expertise and has enriched the professional world.
Rudolf Franz, COO / CFO
Rudolf Franz (born 1967) has been one of our shareholders through his venture fund Franz Industriebeteiligungen AG since 2003. Since 2003 he is focusing as Chief Operating Officer on marketing and sales, finance and controlling and administration. In addition, he has held the position of Chief Financial Officer since 2013.
Rudolf Franz studied economics at the University of Augsburg and earned a master’s degree in industrial engineering and management at the Munich University of Applied Science. In 1995 he started his career as an investment manager at Technologieholding VC GmbH where he managed the Munich investment team as a partner of the company two years later. After that Rudolf Franz was the Deputy Managing Director of 3i Group from 2000 to 2002. In this role he was in charge of technology investments in the German-speaking market.
Alfred Grießer, Director Research and Development
Dr. Alfred Grießer (born 1983) joined voxeljet AG in 2015 as a project manager for the Research & Development department. Prior to his career at voxeljet, he studied materials science and received his doctorate from the Department of Experimental Physics at the University of Augsburg. Since April 2018 he holds the position of Director for Research and coordinates all new process developments up to the prototype construction as well as the patent system.
Franz Hägle, Director Engineering
Franz Hägle (born 1961) is in position as Director Engineering responsible for the development, design and product maintenance of the printing systems at voxeljet.
He joined voxeljet in 2017 with comprehensive expertise for complex robot systems and automation solutions within the industry 4.0 environment. As a generalist and internationally experienced manager with focus on CAD, product data and knowledge management, the graduate engineer focuses on the continuous process optimization and tailoring of voxeljet's printing systems. He graduated from the Offenburg University of Applied Sciences with a degree in design and applied computer science. At previous stations such as Parker Hannifin and Brooks Automation he gained a wealth of experience in the field of automation which can also be applied to 3D printing.
Tobias Reinold, Director Systems
Tobias Reinold (born 1976) holds the position of Director Systems in which he is in charge of mechanical engineering and the worldwide service. The industrial engineering graduate joined our company in 2007 and assumed responsibility for ground-breaking mechanical engineering projects in the following year. To worldwide customers Tobias Reinold is a popular consultant in all technical issues related to voxeljet 3D printers.
Christian Uhlmann, Director Purchasing
Christian Uhlmann (born in 1978) is responsible for voxeljet's strategic purchasing department. The qualified business management expert joined the company in 2016 as Director Purchasing with the goal of further optimizing the purchasing processes and supplier management system.
Christian Uhlmann has already collected 10 years of experience in various areas of purchasing with industrial enterprises, including MAN Trucks & Bus AG in Munich.
Alexander Kudernatsch, VP Services
Alexander Kudernatsch (born 1969) is a recognized 3D printing expert. He has been with our company since its foundation in 1999 and has significantly contributed to the development of our business.
Until 2012 Alexander Kudernatsch, in his role as Director Services, had been responsible for establishing and managing the service center, which is now one of Europe’s service providers with the highest capacity. Since 2013 he has held the position of VP Services being responsible for the further development of service centers in the Americas, Asia and Europe. While studying mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich Alexander Kudernatsch already explored the field of rapid prototyping.
Christian Träger, Director Sales & Marketing
Christian Träger (born in 1985), industrial engineer, started to turn his focus on additive manufacturing as early as his post-secondary studies. He started his career at voxeljet as a graduating student in 2010 and worked as a project manager in the Customer Service division after completing his final thesis. Based on his extensive experience in international customer projects, he joined the printing systems sales team in 2012, concentrating on Asian markets. Since August 2016, he has been in charge of global system sales in his capacity as global Sales Director. Since April 2017 he is acts as the Director Sales & Marketing.
Richard Höfer, Director Finance, Controlling & Accounting
Richard Höfer (born 1984) joined voxeljet as Manager Controlling in 2013. By optimizing the operational planning process and introducing reporting structures he has played a significant role in the further development of our monitoring and controlling functions. At the end of 2014 he was promoted to the position as Director Finance, Controlling & Accounting.
After successfully completing his studies with a Master degree in business administration at the University of Augsburg Richard Höfer initially started his career at the auditing company KPMG.
Kathrin Ekert, General Counsel
Kathrin Ekert (born 1983) is General Counsel of voxeljet AG. Kathrin studied Law in Augsburg, Tel Aviv and Bonn and completed her studies with a second state legal examination in 2011. She started her career in a medium sized law firm in Augsburg focusing on various legal subjects. Thereafter Kathrin startet as a legal officer at the Munich Chamber of Commerce focusing on business law. In 2016 she joined voxeljet as an attorney-at-law taking over the responsibility of the legal department. Since 2019 Kathrin is in charge of the back office of the senior management board including Legal, Human Resources and Shard Service. In addition, she holds the position of Chief Compliance Officer of the voxeljet Group.
Johannes Pesch, Director Business Development
Johannes Pesch (born 1988) joined voxeljet as assistant to the Board of Directors in mid 2014. He became Manager Business Development in mid 2015 and supports strategic projects like the SAP roll-out and the start-up of our branches in the UK, India and China. In 2017 he was promoted to become a Director of Business Development and Investor Relations. After successfully completing his studies with a Master degree in industrial engineering at the Technical University of Munich, Johannes Pesch initially started his career at Bosch. There, he worked as the personal assistant to the Managing Director of Bosch Indonesia in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Michael Dougherty, Managing Director voxeljet America
Michael Dougherty (born 1971) joined voxeljet as Director Sales and Marketing for voxeljet America Inc. in mid-2018. He became Managing Director of voxeljet America Inc. in 2019. He is responsible for continuing the growth of our American subsidiary and expanding our strategy in the American market.
Throughout his career Michael Dougherty has held progressive management roles in the areas of Engineering, Quality, Production, and Aftermarket for Detroit Diesel Corporation and was most recently Director Government Sales and Programs in North America for MTU America Inc.. This broad experience has allowed Michael Dougherty to develop strong technical and commercial skills to drive the voxeljet America business.Michael Dougherty earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Purdue University in Computer Integrated Manufacturing Technology and a Master of Science degree in Industrial Operations from Lawrence Technological University.
Jin Tianshi, Managing Director voxeljet China
Tianshi Jin (born 1971) joined voxeljet China Pvt. Ltd. as Managing Director in 2015. He brings more than fifteen years of 3D printing and rapid casting experience and a thorough understanding of the Chinese market to the company. Prior to joining the company, Tianshi Jin was General Manager of Wenzhou Product Innovation Center Co. Ltd., a state-owned company. Moreover, he worked at WPIC and Metang Novatech Co., Ltd. which is one of the leading 3D printing service and system provider. In 2013, Tianshi Jin founded Meimai Fastcast Suzhou Co. Ltd., which specializes in sand printing and rapid casting services.
Tianshi Jin studied mechanical engineering at Xi’an Jiaotong University and holds a Master degree in management engineering. He started his career at Shanghai Pudong Development Bank where he worked for five years after his graduation.
Nidhi Shah, Managing Director voxeljet India
Nidhi Shah (born in 1981) joined voxeljet as Managing Director of voxeljet India Pvt. Ltd. in 2015. Prior to joining the management team, she has played a significant role in improving and expanding the visibility for voxeljet in India and driving its development and sales activities. Nidhi Shah has over a decade of experience in the 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing technology. She was at the helm of Imaginarium, one of India’s largest Additive Manufacturing service bureaus. During her tenure at Imaginarium, she extended her knowledge in various 3D Printing technologies like SLA, SLS, MJM, DLP and Vacuum Casting as well as their applications.
Nidhi Shah earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics degree from Pune University.
James Reeves, Managing Director voxeljet UK
James Reeves (born 1980) has been Managing Director of voxeljet UK Ltd since 2015. He is responsible for the service center in Milton Keynes as well as the entire national growth strategy. After qualifying as a chartered engineer and the training to become "Certified Director", he gained extensive experience in several companies in the development of new concepts and technologies from the initial idea through to commercial exploitation. He is also a specialist in the commercialization of innovative technologies in a growing market environment having advised some of the large international automotive companies and the British Government. James Reeves wants to use his experience to take advantage of the full potential of the UK market for voxeljet.
Thierry Herrero, Managing Director
Thierry Herrero, Managing Director voxeljet West Europe
Thierry Herrero (born 1966), joined voxeljet in 2008. He holds the position of Managing Director of West Europe. After his studies of microtechniques technologies he started working for large manufacturers of EDM machining and milling systems for CAD, CAM, and scanning applications, gaining first insights into innovative technologies. Throughout a career of 30 years, he acquired comprehensive experience in production and engineering technologies. The last 18 years, he specialized in additive manufacturing processes, especially for the foundry industry. With his extensive knowledge about 3D printing, he leads the voxeljet service and systems sales for Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal and has already worked with key accounts in the automotive, aerospace and luxury goods industry.
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Definition of Wings. Meaning of Wings. Synonyms of Wings
Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Wings. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Wings and, of course, Wings synonyms and on the right images related to the word Wings.
Definition of Wings
On the wing. (a) Supported by, or flying with, the wings another. On the wings of the wind, with the utmost velocity. Under the wing, or wings, of, under the care or protection of. Wing and wing (Naut.), with sails hauled out on either side; -- said of a schooner, or her sails, when going before the wind with the foresail on one side and the mainsail on the other; also said of a square-rigged vessel which has her studding sails set. Cf. Goosewinged. Wing case (Zo["o]l.), one of the anterior wings of beetles, and of some other insects, when thickened and used to protect the hind wings; an elytron; -- called also wing cover. Wing covert (Zo["o]l.), one of the small feathers covering the bases of the wing quills. See Covert, n., 2. Wing gudgeon (Mach.), an iron gudgeon for the end of a wooden axle, having thin, broad projections to prevent it from turning in the wood. See Illust. of Gudgeon. Wing shell (Zo["o]l.), wing case of an insect. Wing stroke, the stroke or sweep of a wing. Wing transom (Naut.), the uppermost transom of the stern; -- called also main transom. --J. Knowles.
Wing Wing, n. [OE. winge, wenge; probably of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. & Sw. vinge, Icel. v[ae]ngr.] 1. One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the case of a few species of birds, as the ostrich, auk, etc., the wings are used only as an assistance in running or swimming. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings. --Deut. xxxii. 11. Note: In the wing of a bird the long quill feathers are in series. The primaries are those attached to the ulnar side of the hand; the secondaries, or wing coverts, those of the forearm: the scapulars, those that lie over the humerus; and the bastard feathers, those of the short outer digit. See Illust. of Bird, and Plumage. 2. Any similar member or instrument used for the purpose of flying. Specifically: (Zo["o]l.) (a) One of the two pairs of upper thoracic appendages of most hexapod insects. They are broad, fanlike organs formed of a double membrane and strengthened by chitinous veins or nervures. (b) One of the large pectoral fins of the flying fishes. 3. Passage by flying; flight; as, to take wing. Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood. --Shak. 4. Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion. Fiery expedition be my wing. --Shak. 5. Anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc. 6. An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot. 7. Any appendage resembling the wing of a bird or insect in shape or appearance. Specifically: (a) (Zo["o]l.) One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming. (b) (Bot.) Any membranaceous expansion, as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara. (c) (Bot.) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower. 8. One of two corresponding appendages attached; a sidepiece. Hence: (a) (Arch.) A side building, less than the main edifice; as, one of the wings of a palace. (b) (Fort.) The longer side of crownworks, etc., connecting them with the main work. (c) (Hort.) A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another. [Obs.] (d) (Mil.) The right or left division of an army, regiment, etc. (e) (Naut.) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle. --Totten. (f) One of the sides of the stags in a theater.
Wing Wing, n. (A["e]ronautics) Any surface used primarily for supporting a flying machine in flight, whether by edge-on motion, or flapping, or rotation; specif., either of a pair of supporting planes of a flying machine.
Meaning of Wings from wikipedia
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Top 10 Most Handsome Actors in The world
The glamorous world of movies is filled with various actress, actor, producers, directors, etc. You can find many of the beautiful and hot actresses in the world. These actors are extremely good looking and handsome. Most of these actors have made a very successful career in acting and have become a big star in the world. They have created their own fan following and has been earning very nicely though their movies and by endorsing various big brands. Here is the complete list of top 10 most handsome actors in the world as of 2018.
10. Sam Heughan
Sam Heughan was born on 30th April 1980, in Scotland. He is a very good looking actor who has made his presence clear in the acting world. He started his career in acting in the year 2001 with a short film named Small Moments. Many people had appreciated his looks in that film.
In the year 2003, he was in the nomination list of Laurence Olivier Award for his act in Outlying Islands. In the year 2015, he had won the award of The Anglophile Channel Award Best Actor in a Television Series.
9. Tom Hiddleston
Tom Hiddleston was born on 9th February 1981, in United Kingdom. He is a very nice actor from United Kingdom. He is very handsome and is always very enthusiastic. He has worked in many hit movies like The Deep Blue Sea (2011), The Avengers (2012), etc.
He has been nominated in many of the awards like Crime Thriller Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2010, Scream Award for Breakout Performance in 2011, etc. He has won awards like MTV Movie Award in 2013, Evening Standard Theatre Best Actor in 2014.
8. Henry Cavill
Henry Cavil was born on 5th May 1983 in United Kingdom. He is an extremely handsome actor in 2018 who has very attractive look. His deep blue eyes make many women crazy. He has worked in many of the television shows also. He is well-known for his role in movies like I Capture the Castle in 2003, Immortals in 2011.
He was nominated for many awards like Choice Summer Movie Star: Male, Choice Liplock (shared with Amy Adams), etc. He has also won awards like Best Hero.
7. Noah Mills
Noah Mills was born on 26th April 1983 in Canada. He is an extremely awesome guy who has very good looks. His brown hair and hazel color eyes, attracts many of the woman. He is a model and a good actor. He started his career in acting in the year 2010.
Since then he worked in many movies like Sex and the City 2, Candyland, , Wracked, A Fisher of Men, etc. He has endorsed various fashion related brands.
6. David Boreanaz
David Boreanaz was born on 16th May 1969, in United States. He is a famous actor, director and producer. He is very handsome and ageing seems to make him good looking actor. He has a very good style and has perfect sense of dressing, making him more favorite for his woman fans.
He has worked in many famous movies like Valentine, These Girls, Mr. Fix It, Suffering Man’s Charity, etc. He has also received many of the awards.
5. Salman Khan
Salman Khan was born on 27th December 1965, in India. He is a very famous and richest Indian actor who has large fan following in Asia and around some parts of the world. He is an extremely good looking actor, he may be in age, and however he looks much younger than his age. He has very well-built body which makes him very handsome.
He has worked in many of the Indian movies which have done well on the box office. He has also been successful in winning many of the awards related to films.
4. Chris Evans
Chris Evans was born on 13th June 1981, in United States. He is an extremely handsome actor, with deep blue eyes and very stylish hairstyle. His personality is very pleasant and can easily attract any women. In the year 2000, he had started his career with television series Opposite Sex.
He has also been awarded with many of the awards like MTV Movie Award for Best Fight for the movie “The Avengers”. He has maintained good consistency in acting.
3. Godfrey Gao
Godfrey Gao was born on 22nd September 1984, in Taiwan. He is both a model as well as an actor. He has very good looks and is a very handsome guy, who is very famous in South East Asia. Many girls find him as a very cute and dashing guy. He has worked in some of the movies like Toy Story 3, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, etc.
Gidfrey Gao has also worked in many of the television dramas like The Kid from Heaven, Love Queen, Bull Fighting, Volleyball Lover, etc. He is a very good person.
2. Robert Pattinson
Robert Pattinson was born on 13th May 1986, in United Kingdom. Robert Pattinson is both a model and an actor. He is the most handsome and one of the top successful actors in the world. He has a very charming look, mesmerising eyes and a very good style. He has acted in various hit films like Ring of the Nibelungs, Twilight, Queen of the Desert,etc.
He is also a nice singer who has sung some songs. He is a very good person who is always down to earth person.
Hrithik Roshan was born on 10th January 1974, in India. He is a very successful actor from India who gave many of the blockbuster Indian movies. He is really very tall and handsome guy form India who have attracted many of the girls right from his entry. He attractive eyes and well-built body makes his personality very dashing. His debut film was a super hit and had gave him fame to a great extent.
He has been awarded on many occasions like Filmfare Award for Best Actor for movie Kaho Naa Pyar Hai, Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor for Koi Mil Gaya,etc. He is admired in India and all over the world.
These are some of the top 10 most handsome actors in the world in 2018. All these actors are very handsome, attractive and famous around the world. They are very successful actors and have given many of hit movies.
DK says:
Ofcourse HRITHIK Roshan.. he deserves… Thank you worldstopmost.com
HAppY HollIDEy says:
jared padaleki and jensen ackles for sure! I SUGGEST YOU GOOGLE! 😉
Pratap kc says:
U may put all the handsome budy in the world……. But dnt forget how Omar Burman AL gala put hi stump on being handsome human ever in the world
33Raphael says:
I must say it was hard to find your page in search results.
You write great content but you should rank your blog higher in search engines.
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to rank a website Marcel’s way
reyni.yerr says:
Dylan O’Brien and Thomas brodie-Sangster please!!Add them PLEASE!!
nihal kumar says:
neel sethi is the most handsom actor
Robert downey jr is the best
Mehak says:
Team Edward…….!!!!!!!!!!
Love you Rob
Movie Lover says:
Collin Farrell and Chris Hemsworth are missing from your list.
Plus you don’t list the most grossing (popular) movies by the actor so they are recognizable by their Body Of Work.
Titas says:
I am not at all a big fan of yours Robert Pattinson but a fan. Few days ago i saw a video in YouTube where u told that u r not doing twilight any more because u have got some letter where you saw that some of the fans didn’t like u as Edward Cullen so u don’t want to do twilight anymore. But think about us who all are waiting eagerly for the next twilight series. Hope u will read this. Your fan from India, Kolkata. Titas
alia bhatt says:
salman khan dese ves most handsome actorr
Robert pattinson is the best actor
WhySoSirius says:
First of all, who writes these things? You write like a fourth-grader – very plodding and simplistic. Please get a new writer. Second of all, who’s even heard of some of these actors?? And some are so completely yesterday (David Boreanas, really??). Some are just weird-looking (Hiddleston is one step up from Cumberbatch on the my-mom-is-a-grey-alien scale…). Get a better writer and a new set of eyes, please.
Hol says:
I’m not saying I like Leonardo dicaprio but where is he on this list , he may not be as handsome from when he was younger in titanic and Romeo + Juliet but people age and he still looks good for a 42 year old …. Just saying ….
Aava khatiwada says:
shahrukh khan deserve more than salman khan…nd hritik is okay….salman doesnot deserve it
Monamika says:
Yes Henry Cahill must be the first almost all handsome are British
asad says:
This all are look very bad I don’t know how tauba
Bineet says:
I think Hrithik Roshan
Best and beautiful in this world
no on compete him Like:- attractive eye, face look, tall, and specially six pack body
solomon marandi says:
salman khan is the best actor of bollywood movies..he is one of the good looking man in the world..
Most handsome Channing Tatum
vivek kumar says:
The list is pretty cool, but I’m confused where is Tom Cruise
Ravi Bhurke says:
Chris Evans…is d most sexiest n handsome guy.He maintain their physique very well…
Leticia M. Jance says:
I am a woman that mostly weaknesses is the eyes of a man. I’m attarct a man with a beautiful eyes as well as neat and clean. This is Letty Jance of South Cotabato.
NO MOHANLAL I LIKE MOHANLALAND VIKRAM
Shah Rukh Khan deserves the most handsome acter
Shah Rukh Khan deserves the most handsome acter in the world
varun sallan says:
Where is channing tatum?
Aleisha Burton says:
Jensen Ackles Please
jayde7177 says:
WHERE IS MATT DALLAS?????
Side by side with patterson…just look.
Robert Lisa says:
Chris Evans has impressed in the Marvel franchise as Captain America and in fantastic four. He has a well toned body and great physique. His eyes are very sexy and attractive. His nice, gentle smile is very impressive.
Geoffrey Clovis says:
The Twilight series star, Robert Pattinson, is very good looking. He’s been in modeling since very young age. He has attractive eyes and sexy lips. His look is very impressive too. His next most awaited movie is Assassin’s Creed, and I’m sure he’ll impress the audience.
Aaeee Mohammed says:
Salman Khan is the most eligible bachelor. He has maintained a great physique all along his career. He might be 50 years old, but doesn’t seem so. In his upcoming Sulthan, he just looks awesome. Can’t wait to watch that movie.
Jannet says:
Henry Cavill is very very good looking. His eyes and body are seducing. He has a great structure of face perfectly suited for Superman. He has been impressive in that character.
Karan says:
Hrithik Roshan is the very handsome and attractive.
His body and muscles are mesmerizing.
He dances well, acts really well.
He is a action hero of bollywood.
Maya Clavis says:
Robert Pattinson is so cute and sexy.
His eyes and that little smile is very impressive. I love his movies. He the most handsome of this time.
Krishna Prasad. says:
Henry Caville is the Real Superman. He has a great physique and body tone. His eyes are intense and mannerism is attractive too.
The latest batman Ben Affleck is also handsome. I loved the duo in batman vs superman.
Nayana says:
Hrithik Roshan is the sexiest and most handsome actor. He has maintained a good physique all along his career. He is a heart throbe of numerous girls world wide.
Although all actors are good looking, Chris Evans is the most handsome actors in recent times. He is perfectly suited for ‘Superman’. His body and physique is so good and he is a perfect gentleman.
Julliette W says:
Robert Pattinson is the most sexy of the decade
most handsome ‘Salman Khan’
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Basis Technology, Index Stock Announce Fresh Funding
Updated May 10, 2001 12:01 am ET
Basis Tech to Announce 2nd Investment Round
Basis Technology Corp. is planning to announce Thursday that it has raised $7.5 million from Kyocera Goldman Sachs Venture Capital, a joint venture of the U.S. investment bank and the Japanese components company. The Cambridge, Mass. company (www.basistech.com) makes software that allows companies to run their existing software programs internationally. For example, Basis Technology's software modifies other software for the complexities of operating in a different language or dealing with a different currency. The new investment is the company's second round of financing. Amazon.com Inc. invested an undisclosed amount in the company in December of 1999.
Index Stock Gets $20 Million in Mezzanine Round
Index Stock Imagery Inc., New York, picked up $20 million in its mezzanine round of funding. Meridian Venture Partners, J. W. Seligman, SCP Venture Partners, Polaris Fund and Harbour Capital all participated in the round. The company (www.indexstock.com) is a stock-image agency.
Netonomy Gathers $15 Million
Netonomy Inc., Boston, secured $15 million in its third round of financing. The financing was led by Groupe Arnault's Internet arm, Europatweb. Atlas Venture, Fidelity Ventures and Viventures also participated. Netonomy also announced that Jean-David Chamboredon, chief technology officer at Europatweb, has joined the company's board. Netonomy (www.netonomy.com) makes Web-based customer-relationship management programs.
Tidal Software Completes $12 Million Round
Tidal Software Inc., Mountain View, Calif., completed a $12 million round of financing. JPMorgan Partners led the investment, with participation from previous investors Novus Ventures and VantagePoint Venture Partners. Tidal Software (www.tidalsoft.com) provides process-automation services for businesses.
PharMetrics Finishes Second Round With $11 Million
PharMetrics Inc., Watertown, Mass., completed its second round of financing with $11 million. 3i Technology Partners led the investment, with participation from North Bridge Venture Partners and MediPhase Venture Partners. 3i will join North Bridge and MediPhase on the PharMetrics' board. The company (www.pharmetrics.com) provides patient-level health-care information for biopharmaceutical companies.
Oneworld Software Gains $4 Million
Oneworld Software Solutions Inc., Cambridge, Mass., closed a $4 million round of financing. Investments came from Advent International, Citicorp Venture Capital, Foursan Technology Partners and New Horizons Venture Capital. Oneworld (www.oneworldsoftware.com) provides outsourced software-development services.
Bolt Receives Venture Funding
Bolt Inc., New York, said it received funding from Bechtel Enterprises, Highland Capital Partners, Oak Investment Partners, Moore Capital and Sandler Capital Management. The amount invested was not disclosed. Bolt said the funding will be used to expand its wireless platform. The company (www.bolt.com) provides youth-focused communications services.
-- Katherine Lange
Write to Katherine Lange at katherine.lange@wsj.com
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Sri Lankan presidential election: false promises and the real record on education
By Panini Wijesiriwardena
If one knew nothing of the record of the United National Party (UNP) and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), one might be amazed at how aggressively their candidates in the November 17 presidential election are competing on public education.
The current election is taking place in a climate in which teachers, students and parents have been up in arms over the inroads into free education made by successive UNP and SLFP governments. It seems that the more widespread the popular disgust, the bigger and more incredible the election pledges.
UNP candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe started the ball rolling by announcing that, if elected, he would provide “a glass of milk for every school child” for the midday meal. Not to be outdone, SLFP candidate Mahinda Rajapakse declared that he would provide not only a glass of milk but a plate of rice as well. Around the capital of Colombo, there are huge cutouts of Rajapakse at major road junctions depicting him as “the uncle of every child” showing great generosity to the country’s children.
Attempting to score cheap points off Prime Minister Rajapakse, opposition leader Wickremesinghe decries the situation in public education, stating in his manifesto: “Today getting a decent education is a battle. Getting one’s child in to a ‘good’ school has become a struggle that most parents don’t win. Only the affluent city dwellers are able to get their children in to the few elite schools.”
These comments are just as much a damning indictment of Wickremesinghe as of Rajapakse. Successive UNP and SLFP governments have ruled Sri Lanka since independence in 1948. Wickremesinghe and the UNP formed the government from 2001 to 2004. The UNP lost the 2004 general elections, in large measure because of hostility to its economic restructuring. Both these parties are responsible for the deterioration of public education over the past three decades.
Public education was largely established in the 1940s and 1950s in response to the struggles of the working class led by the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP), then a Trotskyist organisation. Among its demands was the establishment of a free, universal system of public schools. Its campaigns resulted in the winning of a number of concessions, including the increased state spending of education, which rose as a percentage of GDP from 2.5 percent in 1950 to 4 percent in the 1960s.
From the late 1970s, however, public education has come under concerted attack as part of the turn to “open market” policies. Wickremesinghe was directly responsible as education minister in the UNP government that came to power in 1977. The overall figures illustrate the process. Government spending on education as a percentage of GDP has fallen from just 3 percent in 1984 to a meagre 2.09 percent in 2004. Sri Lanka, which used to be regarded as a model welfare state, is now well below the average of 3.2 percent for South Asia as a whole.
In 1981, the ruling UNP unveiled its plans to slash state-run education in its White Paper on Education, drawn up under pressure from the World Bank and the IMF. Its proposals included the “rationalisation” of schools, paving the way for the closure of “unviable” schools. In the name of conferring “managerial autonomy”, it planned to create “School Development Boards” to put the burden of running schools onto parents and teachers.
Due to widespread opposition from workers, students and teachers, the plan was shelved but only to be implemented subsequently piece by piece. In the late 1980s, under the slogan of “this is our school”, the government gradually made expenditure on the maintenance of buildings, furniture and playgrounds the “responsibility” of parents.
Only a few schools in affluent areas benefited, while conditions in the vast majority deteriorated. About 52 privileged schools became the “most popular” under a system of categorising schools that simply revealed and helped heighten the growing educational inequalities between the children of the rich and those of the poor.
The UNP government closed down residential teachers’ training colleges and opened “distanced training centres” as a cost cutting measure. It also paved the way for the establishment of the first-ever, fee-levying university—the Private Medical College of Ragama.
The Peoples Alliance government
After 17 years of UNP rule, voters had high hopes in President Chandrika Kumaratunga and her SLFP-led Peoples Alliance (PA), which came to power in 1994 promising to end the country’s civil war, reestablish democratic rights and improve living standards, including public education.
Those hopes were soon dashed. The PA government, in which Rajapakse was a cabinet minister, implemented the “market reform” agenda demanded by the IMF and World Bank and it became the entrenched program of both parties. The PA initiated the closure of government schools and encouraged the opening of private schools—policies that were continued by the UNP after 2001. In the name of rationalisation, 592 government schools have been shut between 1997 and 2004 while the number of private schools has increased by 125.
Over the past three decades, the burden of financing education has increasingly been placed on parents and students. According to the latest Central Bank survey released in September, the proportion of students attending private classes has risen from 35 percent in 1996/97 to 49.6 percent in 2003/04.
A World Bank Report found that households finance a high share, about 21 percent, on the country’s total education. It also revealed that the gap between rich and poor is immense. Of the total household spending, the spending of the richest 20 percent accounted for 52 percent, as compared to just 6 percent for the poorest quintile.
The current SLFP-led government is implementing School Based Management (SBM) on a pilot basis in 200 schools. In the name of devolving “managerial autonomy”, schools are responsible for the allocation of resources, choice of teaching materials, approval of budgets and purchase of advisory services.
Centralised staffing policy is to be abolished in favour of school-based hiring—a policy that will inevitably lead to discrimination and the undermining of teachers’ rights and working conditions. Rajapakse and his government support the proposal, which Wickremesinghe has also backed in his manifesto.
University education has also been hard hit. Every year some 90,000 eligible high school graduates are denied entry to universities because there are only 16,500 places for new students. Those who can afford to pay seek out places in private colleges affiliated to foreign universities. According to a university grant commission study, about 50 companies are engaged in this “lucrative business”.
In a country where 44 percent of the population earn less than 200 rupees or $US2 a day and 26 percent earn less than $US1 a day, private university education is beyond the reach of most young people. The private Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), for example, charges exorbitant fees of 450,000 rupees for a three year degree course in information technology. Students from rural areas would have to provide their board and other expenses as well.
Both UNP and SLFP-led governments have discriminated against the Tamil minority, in education as in other areas. This is graphically revealed by the lack of money for education in the North and East which have born the brunt of the island’s 20-year war. Only $5 million has been allocated for “Rehabilitating and Reconstructing Education” in these areas compared to the estimated minimum of $164 million that is needed. Among Tamil-speaking plantation workers in the central hills districts, about 20 percent of children have no schooling whatever and 44 percent have only primary school education.
What is in store for public education after the presidential election will not be determined by the empty promises being made by Rajapakse and Wickremesinghe. The World Bank’s Development Policy Review issued earlier in the year has already set out the guidelines. It is insisting that the government close down small schools, reduce the total number of teachers and axe other administration staff in the education offices, training and resource centres.
According to World Bank estimates, about 6,000 schools or 60 percent of the total have student-teacher ratios of 15:1 and are too expensive to operate. The bank’s report, Treasures of the Education System in Sri Lanka (TESSL) says the unit cost is 100 percent greater than for large schools with a student-teacher ratio of about 25:1. The obvious conclusion is that hundreds, if not thousands, of small public schools will have to be amalgamated or closed completely.
The TESSL report proposes that the present grant system for university students be replaced with “student vouchers and student loans”. At present, students at state-run universities receive a small grant of 2000 rupees a month. If the TESSL proposal is implemented, students will be burdened with large debts.
A further expansion of private universities is already being planned. President Kumaratunga told a convocation of the South Eastern University in May that “stringent changes” should be made to university education and attacked those preventing the government from “encouraging foreign universities to open up faculties here”.
Working people can expect nothing from Rajapakse or Wickremesinghe other than a deepening assault on the public education system on which the majority of children depend. To halt, let alone reverse, this protracted onslaught requires the mobilisation of teachers, students and parents as part of a broader movement to defend the social position of the working class. If the UNP and SLFP cannot provide free, high quality education for all then it must be replaced by a workers’ and farmers’ government based on socialist policies that will.
The Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate Wije Dias is standing to advance a socialist program and perspective for the working class. Free high quality education is a basic right of all children and youth, up to and including university education. To enable young people to develop their talents and abilities, they must have access to scientific laboratories, computer facilities and the latest audio-visual educational techniques, as well as sporting and arts facilities. The SEP calls on workers, teachers and particularly young people to actively support our campaign and to study our program, which is aimed at nothing less than the socialist transformation of society from top to bottom.
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Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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Meningococcal Immunisation
The following information is sourced from NCIRS, January 2019.
What is meningococcal disease?
Meningococcal disease is a rare but severe bacterial infection that can cause lifelong disability or death and can affect people at any age.
Meningococcal bacteria (Neisseria meningitidis) are carried in the nose and throat of some healthy people and are spread through close prolonged contact. The bacteria are more commonly found in teenagers and young adults.
Meningococcal disease is a rare but serious infection caused by the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis (N. meningitidis). There are 13 serogroups. Meningococcal disease is most commonly caused by serogroups A, B, C, W and Y.
Septicaemia and/or meningitis are the most common clinical manifestations of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD). The highest incidence of meningococcal disease is in children aged <2 years and adolescents aged 15–19 years. Carriage rates of the bacteria are highest in older adolescents and young adults.
The incidence of meningococcal disease fluctuates naturally over time. Meningococcal B disease had been dominant until a rise in the incidence of Meningococcal W disease from 2013 resulted in the W serogroup being most common in 2016. In 2017, serogroups B and W caused similar numbers of meningococcal disease cases in Australia (37.5% and 38.1%, respectively, of cases with an identified serogroup). Following the introduction of several state- and territory- funded MenACWY vaccination programs targeting the W and Y serogroups, serogroup B disease became dominant again in 2018.
Meningococcal B disease remains the most common cause of IMD in children, adolescents and young adults.
Meningococcal Vaccines
Three types of meningococcal vaccines are available in Australia:
Meningococcal C conjugate vaccines (MenCCV), available as a single vaccine, NeisVac-C®, or in a combination formulation with the Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine (Hib–MenCCV): Menitorix®
Multicomponent meningococcal B vaccines (MenBV): Bexsero® , Trumenba®
Quadrivalent (A, C, W, Y) meningococcal conjugate vaccines (4vMenCV): Menactra®, Menveo®, Nimenrix®.
Currently the National Immunisation Program Schedule includes routine Meningococcal ACWY vaccination for children aged 12 months.
The Tasmanian Government is currently (as of 26/7/18) funding a free meningococcal ACWY vaccine for all Tasmanians aged between 6 weeks up to 21 years (ie. born after 1 August 1997).
Your Health Hub stocks private Meningococcal B vaccine (Bexsero), and Meningococcal ACWY vaccines. The cost for the vaccine differs depending on the vaccine required (or available), and that information is available by speaking with one of our team members.
Who should be vaccinated?
People in age groups with increased incidence of IMD or high carriage rates of N. meningitidis:
Infants and young children aged <2 years: All infants and children aged <2 years are recommended to receive MenACWY vaccine. A routine single dose of MenACWY vaccine at 12 months of age is recommended and funded under the National Immunisation Program (NIP). MenACWY vaccine is available for infants <12 months of age through private prescription from 6 weeks of age, and requires more doses. MenB vaccine (Bexsero® only for this age group) is also recommended but not funded under the NIP for children aged <2 years.
Adolescents and some young adults: All adolescents aged 15–19 years are recommended to receive MenB and MenACWY vaccines. Some young adults aged 20–24 years who live in close quarters (such as new military recruits and students living in residential accommodation) or who are current smokers are also recommended to receive vaccination. In some Australian states, vaccines are funded for certain age groups in response to locally predominant meningococcal B or W disease.
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 2 months to 19 years are recommended to receive MenB and MenACWY vaccines.
People with medical conditions associated with an increased risk of IMD:
People with complement disorders, asplenia and other immunocompromising conditions are recommended to receive MenB and MenACWY vaccines.
Travellers:
People travelling to certain destinations where there is an increased risk of exposure to serogroups A, C, W or Y (including, but not limited to, the ‘meningitis belt’ of sub-Saharan Africa) are recommended to receive MenACWY vaccine. Vaccination is required for pilgrims attending the annual Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
People who have occupational risk:
Laboratory personnel who frequently handle Neisseria meningitidis should be vaccinated with MenB and MenACWY vaccines.
Anyone wishing to reduce their risk of IMD:
Vaccination with MenB and MenACWY vaccines may be offered to anyone aged >6 weeks
Meningococcal ACWY Vaccination
Dose schedule for Men ACWY vaccines, by age and vaccine brand, for healthy individuals.
For individuals with any specified medical conditions associated with increased risk of meningococcal disease, extra doses may be required – please ask your GP or Practice Nurse about your individual situation.
Booster doses are required in some situations.
Is the meningococcal ACWY vaccine safe?
The meningococcal ACWY vaccine is safe and effective. We know this because the vaccine has been used safely to prevent the spread of disease in the United Kingdom and United States of America for many years. Side effects are mostly mild and don’t last long. The most common side effects are fever or redness, pain or swelling at the injection site. Serious side effects are very rare.
Vaccines used in Australia must pass strict safety testing before being approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). In addition, the TGA monitors the safety of vaccines once they are in use.
Can people of other ages access meningococcal ACWY vaccine?
People of all ages who wish to protect themselves against Meningococcal ACWY disease can access the vaccine privately through their GP. The vaccine is available for purchase at Your Health Hub, or can be purchased at a pharmacy with a prescription from a GP.
The fee for private Meningococcal ACWY vaccine at Your Health Hub is usually $69 – $120 (depending on the brand required).
For existing patients, appointments solely for vaccination (excluding travel vaccination) are bulk-billed atYour Health Hub. New patients will require a normal appointment with a GP and will be privately billed.
Meningococcal B Vaccination
Recommended number of doses of Men B Vaccine for healthy individuals (sourced from NCIRS Fact Sheet: January 2019)
Extra doses are recommended for those with any specified medical conditions assossiated with increased risk of meningococcal disease (your General Practitioner can provide more information about these specified medical conditions).
The requirement for booster doses of Men B Vaccine has not yet been determined, and at present not recommended.
Risks of Meningococcal B vaccination
The most common side effect is high fever, especially for children under 12 months. About 1 in 4 children will have a temperature ≥38°C and 1 in 10 have a temperature of ≥39°C. This is highest within 6 hours of vaccination, and resolves within 3 days. Trials suggest the risk of fever is higher if the meningococcal B (Bexsero) vaccination is given with other infant vaccines. Other common adverse events associated with vaccination include tenderness, swelling and redness at the injection site, irritability, sleepiness or crying. For adolescents and adults the most common reported adverse events are pain at the injection site, malaise and headache.
Due to the risk of high fever following meningococcal B (Bexsero) vaccination it is recommended to give children under 2 years of age a dose of paracetamol about 30 minutes prior to the vaccination. A further 2 doses can be given 6 hours apart following vaccination, regardless of fever. This does not affect the effectiveness of the vaccination but does halve the risk of high grade fever. This is an exception to the general recommendation not to routinely give paracetamol with vaccinations unless it is for relief of fever or pain following immunisation.
The cost of Bexsero is currently $118 per dose. It may be available slightly cheaper from a pharmacy with a prescription.
Your Health Hub stocks Bexsero for purchase. If our vaccine stocks have run out your GP will provide a prescription for the vaccine.
Extra doses are recommended for those with any specified medical conditions associated with increased risk of meningococcal disease (your General Practitioner can provide more information about these specified medical conditions).
Precaution
Due to the risk of high fever following meningococcal B (Bexsero) vaccination it is recommended to give children under 2 years of age a dose of paracetamol about 30 minutes prior to the vaccination. A further 2 doses can be given 6 hours apart following vaccination, regardless of fever. This does not affect the effectiveness of the vaccination but does have the risk of high grade fever. This is an exception to the general recommendation not to routinely give paracetamol with vaccinations unless t is for relief of fever or pain following immunisation.
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LGBTQ Youth Allies
National LGBT-Supportive Organizations (U.S.)
The national organizations listed below provide information about and/or advocate for the rights, safety, and health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth, other sexual- and gender-minority youth, and their allies.
The first list below includes groups working primarily or exclusively on LGBT youth issues—or on issues affecting the parents and families of LGBT youth. The second list includes LGBT equality groups that are not primarily youth-focused. The third list shows groups that do not focus on LGBT issues but whose work is LGBT-youth-inclusive. (For the second and third lists, clicking on an organization may reveal links to its LGBT-youth-focused projects or web pages.)
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Organizations & Projects For LGBT Youth & Their Families:
All Children – All Families
www.hrc.org/resources/entry/all-children-all-families-about-the-initiative
“HRC’s All Children – All Families project promotes LGBTQ cultural competency among child welfare agencies through innovative resources, including an online agency self-assessment tool, comprehensive staff training, free technical assistance and more.”
www.campuspride.org
“Campus Pride represents the leading national nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization for student leaders and campus groups working to create a safer college environment for LGBTQ students. The organization is a volunteer-driven network ‘for’ and ‘by’ student leaders.” The organization aims “to develop necessary resources, programs and services to support LGBTQ and ally students on college campuses across the United States.”
The Equity Project
www.equityproject.org
The Equity Project works to “ensure that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth in juvenile delinquency courts are treated with dignity, respect, and fairness. The Equity Project examines issues of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression (SOGIE) that impact youth during the entire delinquency process, ranging from arrest through post-disposition.”
Everyone is Gay
everyoneisgay.com
“Everyone Is Gay works to improve the lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning/Queer, Intersex, and Asexual (LGBTQIA) youth using a three-pronged approach: providing honest advice to these youth while keeping them laughing; talking to students in an effort to create caring, compassionate school environments; and working with families & educators of LGBTQIA kids to help foster an ongoing dialogue and deeper understanding.”
See also the My Kid is Gay (below).
Family Acceptance Project
familyproject.sfsu.edu
“The Family Acceptance Project® is a research, intervention, education and policy initiative that works to prevent health and mental health risks for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) children and youth, including suicide, homelessness and HIV – in the context of their families, cultures and faith communities.” The Project uses “a research-based, culturally grounded approach to help ethnically, socially and religiously diverse families to support their LGBT children.”
www.glsen.org
GLSEN is the “leading national education organization focused on ensuring safe and affirming schools for LGBTQ students.” It engages in extensive original research and produces a wealth of resources, available through its website.
www.genderspectrum.org
To further its mission “to create a gender-inclusive world for all children and youth,” Gender Spectrum helps “families, organizations, and institutions increase understandings of gender and consider the implications that evolving views have for each of us.”
GSA Network
gsanetwork.org
“GSA Network is a next-generation LGBTQ racial and gender justice organization that empowers and trains queer, trans and allied youth leaders to advocate, organize, and mobilize an intersectional movement for safer schools and healthier communities.” The “GSA” in the organization’s name used to stand for Gay-Straight Alliance and now stands for Gender & Sexualities Alliance.
www.itgetsbetter.org
“The It Gets Better Project’s mission is to communicate to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth around the world that it gets better, and to create and inspire the changes needed to make it better for them.”
My Kid is Gay
mykidisgay.com
From the creators of Everyone is Gay (see above), My Kid Is Gay “is a first-of-its-kind digital presence, inclusive of videos, advice, and resources, dedicated exclusively toward helping parents understand their Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual children.”
National Youth Pride Services
www.facebook.com/YouthPrideServices
National Youth Pride Services is “an intellectual, creative urban movement that focuses on socially forward, leadership and development activities for black LGBT young adults.” Its mission is to “empower black LGBTQ young adults through leadership development, networking and collaborative events, in order to better improve their quality of life.”
Point Foundation
www.pointfoundation.org
The Point Foundation (Point) “empowers promising lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer students to achieve their full academic and leadership potential – despite the obstacles often put before them – to make a significant impact on society.” As the country’s largest scholarship-granting organization LGBTQ students, “Point promotes change through scholarship funding, mentorship, leadership development, and community service training.”
www.safeschoolscoalition.org
The Safe Schools Coalition, based in Washington State, is a public-private partnership supporting LGBTQ youth; it works “to help schools become safe places where every family can belong, where every educator can teach, and where every child can learn, regardless of gender, gender identity or sexual orientation.”
Scouts for Equality
www.scoutsforequality.org
Scouts for Equality works to ensure “that the Boy Scouts of America continues to be an organization that contributes positively to the lives of America’s young people.” Its vision is “is of an inclusive, vibrant, and strong Boy Scouts of America in which members, leaders, parents, volunteers, and supporters treat each other with mutual respect and acknowledge the inherent worth and dignity of all people.”
Trans Student Equality Resources
www.transstudent.org
“Trans Student Educational Resources is a youth-led organization dedicated to transforming the educational environment for trans and gender nonconforming students through advocacy and empowerment.” It aims to create “a more trans-friendly education system,” and “to educate the public and teach trans activists” on “how to be effective organizers.” The organization believes “that justice for trans and gender nonconforming youth is contingent on an intersectional framework of activism and that “[e]nding oppression is a long-term process that can only be achieved through collaborative action.”
TransYouth Family Allies
imatyfa.org
“TYFA empowers children and families by partnering with educators, service providers and communities to develop supportive environments in which gender may be expressed and respected.” The organization envisions “a society free of suicide and violence in which ALL children are respected and celebrated.”
www.thetrevorproject.org
“Founded in 1998 by the creators of the Academy Award®-winning short film TREVOR, The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young people ages 13-24.”
True Colors Fund
truecolorsfund.org
Co-founded by Cyndi Lauper, the True Colors Fund strives “to end homelessness among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth, creating a world in which all young people can be their true selves.”
Tyler Clementi Foundation
tylerclementi.org
“The Tyler Clementi Foundation’s mission is to end online and offline bullying in schools, workplaces and faith communities.” The Foundation “seeks to prevent bullying through inclusion, assertion of dignity and acceptance as a way to honor the memory of Tyler Clementi: a son, a brother and a friend.”
We Are The Youth
wearetheyouth.org
“We Are the Youth is an ongoing photographic journalism project chronicling the individual stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer youth in the United States. Through photographic portraits and ‘as told to’ interviews in the participants’ own voices, We Are the Youth captures the incredible diversity and uniqueness among the LGBTQ youth population.” The project “addresses the lack of visibility of LGBTQ young people by providing a space to share stories in an honest and respectful way.”
Welcoming Schools
www.welcomingschools.org
The HRC Foundation’s Welcoming Schools is “the nation’s premier professional development program dedicated to creating respectful and supportive elementary schools by embracing family diversity, creating LGBTQ- and gender-inclusive schools, preventing bias-based bullying, and supporting transgender and non-binary students.”
More LGBT Equality Organizations:
American Civil Liberties Union, LGBT Rights Project
www.aclu.org/lgbt-rights
The Project provides an online library of LGBT Youth & Schools Resources and Links.
Asian Pride Project
asianprideproject.org
“The Asian Pride Project aspires to foster greater visibility, pride, acceptance, unity, and harmony for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Asians & Pacific Islander (API) people in our families, cultural communities and beyond, no matter where we are! We believe in the power of sharing, connecting, and relating to give API families and communities the support they need when struggling with the challenges of our sexual and gender identities in the API cultural context.”
The Project is engaged in a “two-phase media campaign using two means of outreach”: an online component and advertising in local community papers.
Athlete Ally
www.athleteally.org
Athlete Ally “provides public awareness campaigns, educational programming and tools and resources to foster inclusive sports communities.” The organization “mobilize[s] Ambassadors in collegiate, professional and Olympic sports who work to foster ‘allyship’ in their athletic environments. The programs include Ambassadors from over 80 colleges and over 100 professional athletes.”
Bisexual Resource Center
www.biresource.net
“The Bisexual Resource Center envisions a world where love is celebrated, regardless of sexual orientation or gender expression. Because bisexuals today are still misunderstood, marginalized and discriminated against, the BRC is committed to providing support to the bisexual community and raising public awareness about bisexuality and bisexual people.”
BRC’s youth page is here.
Centerlink: The Community of LGBT Centers
www.lgbtcenters.org
“Centerlink: The Community of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Centers exists to support the development of strong, sustainable LGBT community centers and to build a unified center movement.”
COLAGE
www.colage.org
“COLAGE unites people with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer parents into a network of peers and supports them as they nurture and empower each other to be skilled, self-confident, and just leaders in our collective communities.” COLAGE envisions a world where youth with one or more LGBTQ parents “are connected to a broad community of peers and mentors, are recognized as the authorities of their shared experiences, belong to respected and valued family structures, and have the tools and support to create and maintain a just society.”
Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals
www.lgbtcampus.org
“The combined vision and mission of the Consortium is to achieve higher education environments in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students, faculty, staff, administrators, and alumni have equity in every respect. Our goals are to support colleagues and develop curriculum to professionally enhance this work; to seek climate improvement on campuses; and to advocate for policy change, program development, and establishment of LGBT Office/Centers.”
Equality Federation
equalityfederation.org
“As the strategic partner to a robust network of state-based organizations that are advancing equality in the communities we call home,” the “Equality Federation provides critical expertise and support to members who are adapting to a changing landscape that demands smart investment and political know-how to overcome shrinking but increasingly savvy opposition.”
EF includes “Safe and Just Schools” among the critical issues it addresses.
www.familyequality.org
“Family Equality Council connects, supports, and represents the one million parents who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender in this country and the two million children they are raising.”
Freedom to Work
www.freedomtowork.org
“Freedom to Work is a national organization committed to banning workplace harassment and career discrimination against lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender Americans through public education, policy analysis, and legal work.”
www.glaad.org
“As the LGBT movement’s communications epicenter, GLAAD is the principal organization that works directly with news media, entertainment media, cultural institutions and social media. Through the undeniable power of the media – whether it’s your favorite TV show, telenovela or local newspaper – or even on the sports field or through an online petition with hundreds of thousands of signatures, GLAAD is there advancing the stories that need to be told and that make real change.”
www.glnh.org
“The GLBT National Help Center … is dedicated to meeting the needs of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community and those questioning their sexual orientation and gender identity. …
We offer several different programs including two national hotlines that help members of our community talk about the important issues that they are facing in their lives. We help end the isolation that many people feel, by providing a safe environment on the phone or via the internet to discuss issues that people can’t talk about anywhere else. The GLBT National Help Center also helps other organizations build the infrastructure they need to provide strong support to our community at the local level.”
GLBT National Hotline toll-free phone: 1-888-THE-GLNH (1-888-843-4564)
GLBT National Youth Talkline toll-free phone: 1-800-246-PRIDE (1-800-246-7743)
Administrative phone: 415-355-0003
On-line chat information
Global Equality Fund
www.state.gov/globalequality
“The Global Equality Fund was launched in December 2011 to support programs that advance the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons around the world. The Fund is a collaborative effort led by the U.S. Department of State, bridging government, companies and NGOs with the objective of empowering LGBT persons to live freely and without discrimination.”
milkfoundation.org
“Harvey Milk’s dream for a better tomorrow filled with the hope for equality and a world without hate guides the Foundation. Harvey Milk’s ground breaking election in 1977 as one of the world’s first openly gay elected officials-and its most visible one- symbolized the freedom to live life with authenticity to millions of LGBT women and men around the world.
As a not- for-profit global organization, our program goals – to empower local, regional, national and global organizations so that they may fully realize the power of Harvey Milk’s story, style, and collaborative relationship building – are as large and bold as Harvey taught us! The Foundation, through Harvey’s dream for a just tomorrow, envisions governments that celebrate the rich and universally empowering diversity of humanity, where all individuals – gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, racial and ethnic minorities, the elderly, the young, the disabled – all who had been excluded can fully participate in all societal rights without exception.”
Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality (a/k/a GLMA)
www.glma.org
Founded in 1981, GLMA “is the world’s largest and oldest association of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) healthcare professionals.” Its mission “is to ensure equality in healthcare for [LGBT] individuals and healthcare providers.”
“In 2012, GLMA announced a new tag line and preference to be known as GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality, or simply ‘GLMA’. This shift recognizes that all health professionals and our supporters have a role in improving the health and well-being of LGBT people and that GLMA is an organization that welcomes and serves everyone who shares in that belief.”
www.hrc.org
“HRC seeks to improve the lives of LGBT Americans by advocating for equal rights and benefits in the workplace, ensuring families are treated equally under the law and increasing public support among all Americans through innovative advocacy, education and outreach programs. HRC works to secure equal rights for LGBT individuals and families at the federal and state levels by lobbying elected officials, mobilizing grassroots supporters, educating Americans, investing strategically to elect fair-minded officials and partnering with other LGBT organizations.”
HRC Youth Resources include:
The HRC Youth & Campus Page (with links to various resources)
HRC Issue Maps (maps of state laws & policies).
See also All Children – All Families (above) and Welcoming Schools (also above).
Immigration Equality
www.immigrationequality.org
“Immigration Equality is a national organization fighting for equality under U.S. immigration law for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and HIV-positive individuals. Founded in 1994 as the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force, Immigration Equality provides legal aid and advocacy for LGBT and HIV-positive immigrants and their families.”
Information from IE about the federal program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals is available here.
Lambda Legal
www.lambdalegal.org
“Lambda Legal is a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work.”
Lambda Legal’s main youth page is here.
www.matthewshepard.org
“The Matthew Shepard Foundation was founded by Dennis and Judy Shepard in memory of their 21-year old son, Matthew, who was murdered in an anti-gay hate crime in Wyoming in October 1998.
Created to honor Matthew in a manner that was appropriate to his dreams, beliefs, and aspirations, the Foundation seeks to ‘Replace Hate with Understanding, Compassion, & Acceptance’ through its varied educational, outreach and, advocacy programs and by continuing to tell Matthew’s story.”
The Foundation also runs the Matthew’s Place website for LGBT youth and their allies.
Movement Advancement Project
www.lgbtmap.org
“Founded in 2006, the Movement Advancement Project is an independent think tank that provides rigorous research, insight and analysis that help speed equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. MAP’s work is focused on three primary areas:
Policy & Issue Analysis
LGBT Movement Overviews
Effective Messaging”
National Black Justice Coalition
nbjc.org
The NBJC “is a civil rights organization dedicated to empowering Black lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.” Its mission “is to end racism and homophobia. As America’s leading national Black LGBT civil rights organization focused on federal public policy, NBJC has accepted the charge to lead Black families in strengthening the bonds and bridging the gaps between the movements for racial justice and LGBT equality.”
The NBJC’s Safe and Inclusive Schools page is here.
www.nclrights.org
“The National Center for Lesbian Rights is a national legal organization committed to advancing the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families through litigation, public policy advocacy, and public education.”
NCLR’s youth page is here.
transequality.org
“The National Center for Transgender Equality is a national social justice organization devoted to ending discrimination and violence against transgender people through education and advocacy on national issues of importance to transgender people.”
NCTE has an Safe & Supportive Schools page here.
www.avp.org
“Founded in 1995, the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) is the only national coalition dedicated to reducing violence and its impacts on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and HIV-affected (LGBTQH) communities in the United States. NCAVP currently brings together LGBTQH anti-violence programs in cities and regions across the United States and in Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, Ontario.”
www.thetaskforce.org
“The mission of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is to build the power of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community from the ground up. We do this by training activists, organizing broad-based campaigns to defeat anti-LGBT referenda and advance pro-LGBT legislation, and by building the organizational capacity of our movement.”
The Task Force’s “Policy Institute, the movement’s premier think tank, provides research and policy analysis to support the struggle for complete equality and to counter right-wing lies.”
The Task Force’s Youth page is here.
National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance
www.nqapia.org
“The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance is a federation of LGBTQ Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander organizations. NQAPIA seeks to build the capacity of local LGBT AAPI organizations, invigorate grassroots organizing, develop leadership, and challenge homophobia, racism, and anti-immigrant bias.”
NOH8 Campaign
www.noh8campaign.com
“The NOH8 Campaign is a charitable organization whose mission is to promote marriage, gender and human equality through education, advocacy, social media, and visual protest.” While the organization was originally formed in response to the anti-gay, anti-marriage-equality amendment to the California constitution known as Proposition 8, the NOH8 Campaign “has grown to stand against discrimination and bullying of all kinds.”
srlp.org
“The Sylvia Rivera Law Project works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination or violence.”
Trans Advocacy Network
transadvocacynetwork.org
“The Trans Advocacy Network (TAN) is an alliance of transgender organizations that work at the state and local level, coming together to build a stronger trans movement by facilitating the sharing of resources, best practices, and organizing strategies.
Our member organizations are statewide, local, and campus-based trans organizations that work on advocacy, training, and education to help change the climate for trans people in their communities. Member organizations are also LGBT groups who are actively advocating on issues that directly relate to transgender equality through a trans-specific project, committee, or dedicated staff.”
transgenderlawcenter.org
“Transgender Law Center works to change law, policy, and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression.”
The TLC’s youth page is here.
www.transgenderlegal.org
“Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund is committed to ending discrimination based upon gender identity and expression and to achieving equality for transgender people through public education, test-case litigation, direct legal services, and public policy efforts.”
Trans People of Color Coalition
www.transpoc.org
“TPOCC is an organization to inspire and nurture collaboration among communities of color dedicated to anti-racism and fighting transphobia and the empowerment of transgender persons of color. We work to strengthen and mobilize individuals, families, and communities by changing laws, educating the public, and building social and economic strength among all persons of color.”
Williams Institute
williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu
“The Williams Institute is dedicated to conducting rigorous, independent research on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy. A national think tank at UCLA Law, the Williams Institute produces high-quality research with real-world relevance and disseminates it to judges, legislators, policymakers, media and the public.”
youcanplayproject.org
You Can Play is dedicated to ensuring equality, respect and safety for all athletes, without regard to sexual orientation.
You Can Play works to guarantee that athletes are given a fair opportunity to compete, judged by other athletes and fans alike, only by what they contribute to the sport or their team’s success.
You Can Play seeks to challenge the culture of locker rooms and spectator areas by focusing only on an athlete’s skills, work ethic and competitive spirit.
More Groups Supporting LGBT Equality & LGBT Youth:
www.advocatesforyouth.org
“Advocates for Youth champions efforts to help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. Advocates believes it can best serve the field by boldly advocating for a more positive and realistic approach to adolescent sexual health.”
Advocates for Youth’s LGBT page is here. The organization offers an LGBT youth research guide here.
www.apa.org
“The American Psychological Association is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States. APA is the world’s largest association of psychologists, with nearly 130,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students as its members.” Its mission “is to advance the creation, communication and application of psychological knowledge to benefit society and improve people’s lives.”
Click here for the APA’s page on LGBT issues.
Anti-Defamation League
www.adl.org
“The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1913 ‘to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.’ Now the nation’s premier civil rights/human relations agency, ADL fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects civil rights for all.
A leader in the development of materials, programs and services, ADL builds bridges of communication, understanding and respect among diverse groups, carrying out its mission through a network of 30 Regional and Satellite Offices in the United States and abroad.”
ADL’s Education & Outreach resources include information on anti-bias education, bullying and cyberbullying, and ADL’s No Place for Hate initiative.
Asexual Visibility and Education Network
www.asexuality.org
“AVEN hosts the world’s largest online asexual community as well as a large archive of resources on asexuality. AVEN strives to create open, honest discussion about asexuality among sexual and asexual people alike.”
bornthiswayfoundation.org
“Led by Lady Gaga and her mother Cynthia Germanotta, the Born This Way Foundation was founded in 2011 to foster a more accepting society, where differences are embraced and individuality is celebrated. The Foundation is dedicated to creating a safe community that helps connect young people with the skills and opportunities they need to build a kinder, braver world.”
The “CDC works 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do the same.”
The CDC’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health page is here.
Its LGBT Youth Health page is here.
Groundspark
groundspark.org
Groundspark’s mission is “create visionary films and dynamic educational campaigns that move individuals and communities to take action for a more just world.” The organization’s films and campaigns include both independent and commissioned projects.” Groundspark “specialize[s] in crafting strategic documentary films and distribution campaigns with ambitious social, economic, and environmental justice goals.”
Groundsparked has created multiple LGBT-inclusive films and programs, including The Respect For All Project and the films It’s STILL Elementary and Straightlaced.
“People For the American Way is dedicated to making the promise of America real for every American: Equality. Freedom of speech. Freedom of religion. The right to seek justice in a court of law. The right to cast a vote that counts. The American Way.”
PFAW has tackled issues of importance to LGBT youth, including through its publication of Big Bullies: How the Religious Right is Trying to Make Schools Safe for Bullies and Dangerous for Gay Kids.
Sexuality Information & Education Council of the United States (SIECUS)
www.siecus.org
“Promotes comprehensive education about sexuality, and advocates the right of individuals to make responsible sexual choices.”
SIECUS has information about sexual orientation here.
Stopbullying.gov (a project of the federal government)
www.stopbullying.gov
“StopBullying.gov provides information from various government agencies on what bullying is, what cyberbullying is, who is at risk, and how you can prevent and respond to bullying.”
“The StopBullying.gov coordinates closely with the Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention Steering Committee, an interagency effort led by the Department of Education that works to coordinate policy, research, and communications on bullying topics. The Federal Partners include representatives from the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Education, Health and Human Services, the Interior, and Justice, as well as the Federal Trade Commission and the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.”
For more LGBT-inclusive projects of the federal government, see Federal Government and the Global Equality Project (above).
www.splcenter.org
“The Southern Poverty Law Center is a nonprofit civil rights organization dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry, and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of society.”
SPLC’s page for LGBT students (“Students: Know Your Rights“) has information on Bullying and Discrimination, Proms and Other School Events, Keeping Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity Private, Clothing and Dress Codes, Censorship, Gay Straight Alliance Clubs, and LGBT Conversion Therapy.
TWO CARE
www.twocare.org
TWOCARE, which began as a project of Truth Wins Out, is “designed to monitor, counter, and ultimately serve as a bulwark against” anti-LGBT fundamentalism. The organization aims to
⋅ Highlight the economic, moral, cultural, scientific, and educational harm done to civilization by political fundamentalist movements
⋅ Study the intersection of American religious extremist groups and their foreign counterparts
⋅ Create an early warning system to detect future problem spots, so resources can be shifted to counter the threat before it materializes and metastasizes
⋅ Connect the dots and uncover global patterns of religious extremism [and] ⋅ Find long-term solutions to help counter American and global religious fanaticism
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Differences in advertising between traditional and digital media
Last Updated on Mon, 10 Sep 2018 | Internet Marketing
Evaluation of the differences between traditional and new media for advertising is necessary in order to select the best media for promoting the online presence. Janal (1998) considered how Internet advertising differs from traditional advertising in a number of key areas. These are summarised in Table 8.1.
Table 8.1 Key concepts of advertising in the traditional and digital media
Space Time
Image creation
Expensive commodity
Expensive commodity for marketers
Image most important
Information is secondary
Push, one-way
Cheap, unlimited Expensive commodity for users Information most important Image is secondary Pull, interactive Information (incentives)
Communication Call to action
We can extend this analysis by considering the effectiveness of offline media in comparison with online media. We can make the following observations:
1 Reach of media. We saw in Chapters 2 and 3, that access to the Internet has exceeded 50% in many developed countries. While this indicates that the Internet is now a mass medium, there are a significant minority that don't have access and cannot be reached via this medium. As we saw in Chapter 2, reach varies markedly by age and social group, so the Internet is innappropriate for reaching some groups.
2 Media consumption. Most customers spend more of their time in the real world than the virtual world so it follows that digital media may not be the best method to reach them. However, a counter-argument to this is that the intensity and depth of online interactions are greater and they often involve specific customer journeys related to product research or purchase.
3 Involvement. Use of the Internet has been described as a 'lean-forward' experience, suggesting high involvement based on the interactivity and control exerted by web users. This means that the user is receptive to content on a site. However, there is evidence that certain forms of graphic advertising such as banner adverts are filtered out when informational content is sought. A study of online newspaper readers (Poynter, 2000) found that text and captions were read first, with readers then later returning to graphics.
4 Building awareness. It can be argued that because of the form of their creative, some forms of offline advertising such as TV are more effective at explaining concepts and creating retention (Branthwaite et al., 2000).
We conclude this section with a review of how consumers perceive the Internet in comparison to traditional media. Refer to Mini Case Study 8.1 for the summary of the results of a qualitative survey.
Branthwaite et al. (2000) conducted a global qualitative project covering 14 countries, across North and South America, East and West Europe, Asia and Australia to investigate consumer perceptions of the Internet and other media. In order to reflect changing media habits and anticipate future trends, a young, dynamic sample were selected in the 18-35 age range, with access to the Internet, and regular users of all four media. Consumers' perceptions of the Internet, when asked to explain how they felt about the Internet in relation to different animals, were as follows:
The dominant sense here was of something exciting, but also inherently malevolent, dangerous and frightening in the Internet.
The positive aspect was expressed mainly through images of a bird but also a cheetah or dolphin. These captured the spirit of freedom, opening horizons, versatility, agility, effortlessness and efficiency. Even though these impressions were relative to alternative ways of accomplishing goals, they were sometimes naive or idealistic. However, there was more scepticism about these features with substantial experience or great naivety.
Despite their idealism and enthusiasm for the Internet, these users found a prevalent and deep-rooted suspicion of the way it operated. The malevolent undertones of the Internet came through symbols of snakes or foxes predominantly, which were associated with cunning, slyness and unreliability. While these symbols embodied similar suspicions, the snake was menacing, intimidating, treacherous and evasive, while the fox was actively deceptive, predatory, surreptitious, plotting and persistent. For many
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2019 Ocean Gulls Front Office
Angelo Fiore, General Manager
Secondary Phone:
eMail: afiore@fioreservicegroup.com
Joe Mazza, Assistant GM
eMail: coachmaz7@gmail.com
Matt Nelson, Public Address Announcer, Statistician and Director of Social Media
eMail: nelsonmatt97@gmail.com
Matt Nelson was named the Public Address Announcer, Statistician and Director of Social Media for the Ocean Gulls in May 2018.
In his current role, Matt oversees the team's Twitter account with live in-game updates for Gulls home games. He also provides live stats coverage on Pointstreak.
He serves as an Announcer for the World Famous Harlem Globetrotters, a backup Public Address Announcer for the Lakewood BlueClaws, Single-A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies, the Somerset Patriots in the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball and the Ocean Osprey, also in the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League.
During the academic season, Matt is a Public Address Announcer for Rutgers University, and fills in as a Public Address Announcer for men's and women's basketball at Saint Peter’s University. He’s also a Play-by-Play voice for Fairleigh Dickinson University and Felician University.
Previously, Matt has been part of the broadcast teams at Bloomfield College, the University of Delaware, Fairleigh Dickinson University-Florham, Lafayette College, Lehigh University, Montclair State University, and Princeton University. Matt also worked as the Play-by-Play Voice for Muhlenberg football and men's and women's basketball and served as the "Voice of the Mules" during the 2016 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament. While at Muhlenberg, he served as the Assistant Director of Athletic Communications.
Matt also covered high school sports for the Times of Trenton and served as a reporter for the Windsor-Hights Herald.
Matt is no stranger to the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League. He served as the Play-by-Play Voice, Statistian and Director of Media Relations for the Trenton Generals for two years, including the team's first ACBL championship in 2014.
Born and raised in East Windsor, NJ, Matt graduated from Rowan University in 2012 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Radio/TV/Film with a minor in Journalism, and a concentration in Broadcast. He also graduated from Mercer County Community College in 2010 with an A.A. in Communications. He currently resides in North Brunswick, NJ.
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Most of the food produced nowadays in the industrialized world comes from large centralized farms that focus on a small number of crops or animals. These agricultural systems require a constant input of fertilizer, pesticide, water and other resources, and have a constant output of pesticide-contaminated runoff water and other waste. <br>
By contrast, permaculture creates an interconnected system of flora and fauna that recycles its own resources. It is an multi-species ecosystem rather than a factory-style production outfit.
[[Image:Permaculture_garden.jpg|right|180px]]On a permaculture farm, different organisms work in synergy.
On a permaculture farm, different organisms work in synergy.
The output of one part of the system becomes the input of another; animal waste becomes plant food.
There is (theoretically at least) no waste, allowing the system to be 'permanent', able to go on for millenia without adversely affecting the local ecosystem.
Most of the food produced nowadays in the industrialized world comes from large centralized farms that focus on a small number of crops or animals. These agricultural systems require a constant input of fertilizer, pesticide, water and other resources, and have a constant output of pesticide-contaminated runoff water and other waste.
On a permaculture farm, different organisms work in synergy. The output of one part of the system becomes the input of another; animal waste becomes plant food. There is (theoretically at least) no waste, allowing the system to be 'permanent', able to go on for millenia without adversely affecting the local ecosystem.
Industrial-style farming techniques deplete 6-24 kilos of soil for ever kilo of food grown [1]. This is a perfect example of a failure to think long-term; growing food in a way that diminishes the land's capacity to grow food is like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. Permaculture (as its name suggests), focuses on the long-term fertility of the soil. Permaculture can create 20 kilos of newly fertile soil for every kilo of food grown[2].
Permaculture is not only an ecologically sound means of food-production, it is very efficient. Permaculture expert David Blume makes a convincing case for the efficiency of permaculture, writing, "In a good but somewhat sloppy design, you need about 500 square feet (46.5m2) per person maximum. In a very good design, 200 square feet (18.5m2) will do the job." John Jeavons (father of another school of permaculture called biointensive agriculture), makes more conservative claims of around 316-372 square meters [3] [4].
It is worth noting that climbing plants, like grapes and beans, require essentially no ground space to grow.
A surprising trend that has emerged in recent years is urban gardening: city dwellers are starting to grow food on balconies, rooftops, roadsides, parks and any little patch of bare soil they can find. Urban gardens may be part of the food puzzle in the future (and, moreover, they serve a social and recreational function) but it will require controlled-environment agriculture for cities to produce all the food they need.
While not as automated nor as productive as the aeroponics techniques described to the left, permaculture is a highly practical and advanced methodology that can play a role in making Spaceship Earth work for everybody. In time, it may become possible to automate permaculture by using sensors to detect when plants are ready for harvest, and having robots that can pick vegetables, prune trees and so forth.
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Digital Sketchbook
A.V Gallery
Research Production Diary: Phase 2
The Poetry of Sound-Sonic Memories of Adelaide 2014
Honours-Sonic Impressionism
The Poetry of Sound Investigation.
At the start of 2014, I arrived back in Adelaide after a ten year absence. I was born and had lived most of my life in the sleepy hamlet of Adelaide. As a youth, it was the big country town moniker that made me search for greener pastures. The artistic and music scene of Adelaide at the advent of 2004 was limited, and was one of the main reasons I went Melbourne in the hope of more opportunities. After applying to a number of Melbourne based universities during 2013, and being rejected - Adelaide University accepted me. It was challenging to return to Adelaide after a long absence, but I was determined to make the most out of this opportunity.
When the new university year actually got under way at the end of Febuary 2014, I was feeling a little lost...so I decided to explore O'Week festivities on campus. I took my trusty I-Phone Rode Microphone, my field recorder for this project and proceeded to create the first sound map for this project. These two sound maps (see map below), Inside The Hub, and Outside The Hub were recorded on the 26th of February 2014.
After a dream, and after I had defined my sound mapping project - I decided to make a journey to where I had grown-up. I wanted to gather sound memories, so if I never returned to Christies Beach and Noarlunga at least I had these sound maps I had gathered as a way to connect me to my childhood.
The next field recordings gathered for this project was in Belair Conservation Park. Like the Christies Beach sound maps, these were an exercise in sonic memories. The first sound map was the Belair train platform, here the difference between Noarlunga platform and Belair couldn't be more stark. Noarlunga had the lost human soul and was surrounded by urban decay. Whilst the Belair ones were actually beautiful...even the noise pollution of the departing train was gorgeous. These sound maps were created over two trips, but due to my stupidity I actually threw the best one away. It had the most perfect fly buzzing around, and because I had recorded this project with a stereo microphone...it created a real sense of depth. These sound maps also represent the concept of Acoustic Ecology best, this is because sound mapping was designed to highlight noise pollution and how sound affects people and their enviroment. The Upper Stuart Store sound map, with its beautiful silence punctuated by whizzing cars demonstrates how noise pollution creeps into the most serene of places.
When I did the first Belair sound map on the way back I stopped at North Terrace Rail Station - the main intersection of Adelaide and created a sound map. Here the grand building resonates with waves of people. This is because it was the first day of the football year, and it was also the opening of the upgraded Adelaide Oval. See below for sound map.
After the North Terrace train station map, I decided to investigate the famed Central Market in Adelaide's CBD. Although I had been here a few times in my youth, it was not a place I had visited much whilst I lived in Adelaide. I thought that, the Central Market would be an ideal place to create a 3 dimensional picture in sound. This could be achieved by taking a sonic snap shot of each corner of the market, as well as one in the centre. These sonic snapshots are rich and dense - a cornucopia of sound.
The final set of sound maps were taken at Adelaide Airport as I left for a trip back to Melbourne. By this time, my sound mapping investigation had morphed beyond the limited concept of both Barry Truax's and R. Murray Schafer's Acoustic Ecology experiment and sound mapping practice - into a way to preserve memories and even tell stories. The Adelaide Airport sound maps were a story of a journey, however, I missed an opportunity to capture a plane taking off or landing, which would have really finished this particular story.
Below are all the sound maps for this project, just click on a red marker and the sound map will play.
One final note on my sound mapping project, although for the most part these sound maps were a success, because I was designing the project, learning the language and even the technology - there are a number of things I would have liked to have done better. Better photos for one, which would have really drawn the listener into the sounds for one, but you live and learn.
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BMW introduced the farewell M140i Finale Edition
February 11, 2019 0 By autotimesnews
This car is the last of the BMW 1-Series who received rear-wheel drive and a 6-cylinder engine. The new version of the German hatchback will appear at the end of this year.
The time is coming when the 1st generation of the Bavarian subcompact BMW 1-Series hatchback will cease to exist. The guys from BMW decided to abandon the rear-wheel drive and 6-cylinder engine. To adequately mark the end of the road to what is a unique offer in this segment, the Australian division of the company releases a powerful modification of the M140i in the Finale Edition. A special version of the “hot” hatchback will be supplied exclusively with an eight-speed automatic transmission.
In an interview with GoAuto, BMW Australia through its Chief Executive Officer, Vikram Pawah, confirmed that the limited edition version will be the most recent for the BMW 1-Series of this generation.
The exclusive edition of Finale Edition costs 62,990 dollars or 4,140,017 rubles and boasts a large number of external changes. Buyers get things like black chrome exhaust pipes, a darkened false radiator grille and one of the three available options for 18-inch alloy wheels. In standard equipment, the car’s equipment list includes wireless charging, LED headlights, sunroof, adaptive suspension M, keyless entry and start, and M Sport brakes with blue calipers. BMW also adds all this with leather upholstery, an 8.8-inch screen infotainment system, a Harman Kardon audio system, and front and rear parking sensors.
BMW M140i Finale Edition received a 3-liter turbocharged engine with a capacity of 335 horsepower. Acceleration from 0 to 100 km / h takes 4.6 seconds, and the maximum speed is electronically limited to 250 km / h.
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Bugatti will present a “one-time” hypercar for 18 million dollars
Ford talked about its new 7.3 liter V8 engine.
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You are here: Home / Books / Book Review: “The Farm” — Obsessed With The Land
Book Review: “The Farm” — Obsessed With The Land
There can be no future, Héctor Abad seems to be arguing, when everything you are is hidden away in a time you can never fully know.
The Farm by Héctor Abad. Translated from Spanish by Anne McLean. Archipelago Books, 468 pages, $16.
By Lucas Spiro
Whatever your opinions of the Netflix series Narcos, the first episode begins with an inter-title useful for a discussion about Colombian writer Héctor Abad’s latest novel The Farm. Narcos quotes Matthew Stretcher’s definition of magical realism, the literary genre commonly associated with Gabriel García Márquez and other giants of 20th century Latin American literature: “Magical realism is defined as what happens when a highly detailed, realistic setting is invaded by something too strange to believe.” After a beat, the writers of the show add an editorial remark: “There is a reason magical realism was born in Colombia.”
Magical realism may not have been invented in Colombia, but some critics have called The Farm Colombia’s twenty-first century rejoinder to One Hundred Years of Solitude. There are many similarities. Both novels are multi-generational stories that focus on Colombian families with strong roots in a particular location, draw on supernatural elements, and examine Colombian history. The Farm is a far more personal journey; the novel has been seen by some as Abad’s stylistic and narrative response his memoir Oblivion. The novel is also part of a quest genre in which the artist returns to familiar terrain, searching to find answers to troubling quandaries from different perspectives. In contrast to Marquez’s tome, the reality of the past in The Farm is no longer something “too strange to believe” — it must be confronted again.
The image and reality of Colombia is changing, and so its literature is changing with it. Colombia is shaking off its reputation as an incalculably violent narco-state that is surrounded by unparalleled natural beauty. All that violence doesn’t disappear, of course. Trauma stays with a country, as with a person. Most of our histories and laws are written in blood; we must account for that blood. Abad attempts to dramatize that history through the prism of a single family and their perfervid devotion to a piece of land.
The Farm is about the Ángel clan from Medellín, in the Antioquia region of Colombia, and their isolated family farm in the mountains, La Oculta, which means “the hidden place.” The narrative is told through the perspectives of three narrators, the trio of siblings who come together after their mother’s death. They must decide what to do with the farm. Antonio, the only son and youngest, is a violinist who lives in Harlem with his husband Jon. Eva is a rather liberal woman, three times divorced, and with a string of other boyfriends behind her. She is also brilliant, but her ambitions were permanently delayed because she stayed to work in her mother’s bakery, a decision that was made for her. Pilar, the oldest, is the most traditional. She is married to her high school sweetheart and lives much of her life on the farm.
What Abad captures so well in this novel is just how much is hidden from those with whom we share the most in common. Three narrators grapple with the same issues — the farm, family members, the destiny of genes and history — in a realistic narrative structure in which they each remember the same events differently. Their deepest connection is through the family’s piece of land — and even that is a site of conflict.
Author Hector Abad. Photo: Wiki Commons.
The farm is also a site of attack. For Eva, a gang of narcos attempted to murder her, forcing her to escape the farm and make a tense return back to the city. She has decided to sell the land after their mother’s death; she wants nothing to do with the place that nearly killed her. She never fully recovered from the trauma. Eva used to believe that at La Oculta “nothing could happen to” her. Outside of the farm and the family “everything was unprotected, dangerous, and risky, but on the farm [she] felt safe and sure, as if [she] were inside an impregnable fortress.” When that illusion of safety is shattered it nearly destroys her, until she ends up in what might be her first fulfilling relationship with a woman named Posadita. The name means “little inn,” and carries Catholic connotations of Mary and Joseph’s search for a place of lodging in Bethlehem.
Pilar is steadfast, ritualistic, and religious. She dresses the family’s dead; in fact, she has “an intimate and affectionate relationship with the dead,” approaching the unsettling but ritual task with a preternatual calm. In her brother Antonio’s estimation “Pilar doesn’t get intimidated by any difficulty… Nothing disgusts her, nothing embarrasses her, nothing frightens her.” She keeps her imperturbability, even after guerillas kidnap her son, Lucas, and hold him for ransom. It is a horrific event that she believes killed her father, Jacobo, whose “heart burst from so much suffering over Lucas.” Still, Pilar believes that, in some way, she will get her son back.
Antonio is perhaps the most conflicted about his homeland. He has adapted to and embraced his life in New York, living through the hedonistic ’80s and then settling down. It was difficult for him to grow up gay in Colombia, where even his liberal-minded father wanted him to be more machito. Still, Antonio loves La Oculta above all else — he thinks of it as his only true home. Antonio is obsessed with the history of the founding of his home, the nearby town Jericó, and his family’s expedition to settle in the mountains. He has researched back over 150 years and can trace almost every member of the family, who are descended from Spanish Jews who left Europe with New World dreams. The creation of the town is a modest but inspiring story, built on the egalitarian ideals in which a society of free people own their own land and where no one is better than anyone else:
Jericó didn’t begin with conquistadors or monks, but with simple people, and if not equals, at least very similar in their attire and way of talking. La Oculta was an insignificant portion of an immense extension of lands the Republic handed over in repayment of legitimate debts incurred with two merchants… neither of whom had a noble hair on their heads.
Of course, we know how things turned out. Antonio brushes over the suffering of the indigenous people in his version of history. He provides an superficial excuse for his ancestors, arguing that indigenous people were welcome in the new settlement. That doesn’t mean much to those who were killed or displaced in order for it to be established.
Abad’s memoir Oblivion was a nostalgic and painful meditation on the life of the family patriarch, who was murdered by paramilitaries. In The Farm he passes some of that nostalgia — that return to an agonizing place — off onto these siblings. All of them look at the same object, the hidden place, trying to give it a comforting shape and meaning. But a final reconciliation is impossible for this family, who seems to suffer from a “finca madness,” an obsession with land. They can’t accept the past and then create the future, haunted, as they are, by “the injustices of destiny.”
There can be no future, Abad seems to be arguing, when everything you are is hidden away in a time you can never fully know. Antonio’s understanding of history is partial, a tragically incomplete narrative. “I have a good memory,” Pilar insists. She is not like her brother, who “doesn’t remember anything, so he makes it all up.” Eva finds a revealing passage of her father’s writing: “Literature should go back to the style of the Bible or Homer: action, suspense images, and just a pinch of mind games.”
Abad attempts this ambitious form in The Farm. On the one hand, he is grappling with the accomplishments of his literary forebears, who gave partial (and often exculpatory) visions of Colombian history. On the other, he is looking for a fresh way to confront the horrors of his country’s past. He is trying to create an imaginative space in which something “too strange to believe,” history’s corrosive reality, can be confronted, somehow given a shape that makes sense.
Lucas Spiro is a writer living outside Boston. He studied Irish literature at Trinity College Dublin and his fiction has appeared in the Watermark. Generally, he despairs. Occassionally, he is joyous.
By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Archipelago-Books, Héctor Abad, Lucas Spiro, The Farm
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Park Avenue Monday Afternoon Fire Ruled Accidental
Officials: Fire originated in the first floor den of the residence
By Michelle Gladden
The Monday afternoon blaze that claimed the life of a former Assistant City Manager inside his Park Avenue home has been ruled accidental, according to a news statement from Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni.
James Famularo, 52, former Asbury Park Assistant City Manager, former Board of Education member, and Asbury Park Housing Authority member, was found deceased in an upstairs bedroom of the three-story townhouse, officials said. His wife Shonna escaped the blaze and was transported to Jersey Shore University Medical Center for non-life threatening injuries.
Asbury Park Police and Fire Departments responded close to 3:08 p.m. to a structure fire the 1509 Park Avenue home. After firefighters were able to get the fire under control, an on-scene investigation determined that the fire originated in the first floor den of the residence, officials said. The cause of the fire was determined to be accidental.
The investigation into the fire is being conducted by the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, Monmouth County Fire Marshal’s Office and Asbury Park Police Department.
Anyone who believes they have information to assist the investigative team is urged to contact Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office Detective Brian Weisbrot at 800-533-7443 or Asbury Park Police Detective Cynthia Yost at (732) 775-1996.
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Apartment Kitchen Fire Sends Neighbor & Feline To Hospital
Update: Gas Main Break On Memorial Drive Repaired
Asbury Park Fire Department Seeks New Members
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Awantipora suicide attack
IAF's C-17 aircraft arrives in Srinagar to bring mortal remains of Awantipora attack martyrs
IAF's C-17 transporter aircraft took off from the Hindon Air Force base for Srinagar.
NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force's (IAF) C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft arrived in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar to bring back the mortal remains of 40 CRPF personnel who were killed in one of the worst suicide attacks in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama on Thursday.
According to reports, IAF's C-17 transporter aircraft took off from the Hindon Air Force base for Srinagar a short while ago.
Indian Air Force C-17 to go to J&K's Srinagar from Hindon to get the mortal remains of CRPF personnel killed in #PulwamaAttack.
— ANI (@ANI) 15 February 2019
According to reports, the mortal remains of CRPF personnel who lost their lives in the Pulwama attack were brought to the CRPF camp in Budgam.
Jammu & Kashmir: Mortal remains of CRPF personnel who lost their lives in #PulwamaAttack yesterday, at CRPF camp in Budgam. pic.twitter.com/h4XoD5tC7o
The mortal remains of the martyrs will be brought to the national capital from where they will be flown to their respective native places for their last rites.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, several Union Ministers and top political leaders will pay tribute to the martyrs after their mortal remains arrive in the national capital later today.
PM Modi and all three services chiefs will also observe a 2-minute silence and place a wreath as a mark of respect to the fallen CRPF toopers.
While a majority of the 37 bodies have been identified, some of them have been mangled beyond recognition.
A Home Ministry official said arrangements have been made to hand over the bodies to the families.
The ruling BJP has, meanwhile, cancelled all political programmes of its top leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party President Amit Shah, scheduled for Friday following the terror attack on CRPF personnel in Kashmir.
At least 40 CRPF personnel were killed and five injured on Thursday in one of the deadliest terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir when a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) suicide bomber rammed a vehicle carrying over 100 kg of explosives into their bus in Pulwama district.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who spoke to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and top officials after the attack, termed it despicable and asserted that the sacrifices of security personnel will not go in vain.
The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) also met on Friday to discuss the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir against the backdrop of the attack.
Nation-wide protest ensued in different parts on the country against the merciless killing of as many as 44 CRPF personnel on Thursday in one of the worst suicide attacks on the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir`s Pulwama district.
A large number of youths protested in Jammu and Kashmir over the incident. "We are protesting against the killing of our 40 CRPF jawans. This is shameful. There should be stern actions now, there should be another surgical strike," some protesters said.
Another protest took place in Bhopal by the workers of BJP, who also expressed their grief over the loss of lives.
Similar protests were reported from states like Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh where protesters condemned the Pulwama suicide attack in the strongest terms and demanded justice for the martyred CRPF troopers and their families.
Awantipora suicide attackIAFC-17 transporter aircraftHindon Air Force BaseSrinagar
PM Narendra Modi to flag off Vande Bharat Express - India's fastest train - today
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+Accelerated transformation
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Leen Bakker is a home furnishings retailer offering contemporary home design styles at surprisingly affordable prices. Leen Bakker attributes its competitive edge to its high quality, competitive prices, fast delivery, contemporary designs and strong customer focus.
Leen Bakker’s stable sales revenues in 2014 are to be credited mainly to the all-new format, the introduction of the new branding in all stores, national radio and TV advertising campaigns and the distribution of a special promotional leaflet.
CLOSE TO THE CUSTOMER WITH CONTEMPORARY FORMATS
Leen Bakker turned its attention in the past few years to changing its brand image, which has resulted in a complete visual transformation of the retail format. During the year under review, the retailer converted existing stores into pilot stores: pleasant, well-organised and welcoming retail spaces that do a better job of meeting customers’ needs. The retailer’s signature colours blue, red and grey have been replaced with fuchsia. In response to customer surveys, which revealed that customers have a strong need for detailed product information, Leen Bakker set up a content team that is responsible for enhancing the webshop and physical stores with product information. In addition, the sales staff has attended specialised training courses to improve their product knowledge. Customer surveys have also revealed that the first new-style Leen Bakker pilot stores have improved Leen Bakker’s image. The core values of ‘competitively priced’, ‘contemporary’ and ‘original’ still shine through in the new stores while the retailer has, at the same time, managed to strengthen its competitive advantage in the home furnishings market. Five more stores are scheduled to be opened in 2015. Outdoor advertising will also be changed for all stores in the Netherlands in the current year.
WHITE-LABEL BRANDS
In order to boost sales in its Large Furniture section, Leen Bakker commissioned a team of creative young designers to create a new line called UMIX: these are sofas which customers can design based on their own specifications. The ‘Stock’ line of cabinets and Leen Bakker’s own range of garden furniture, ‘Le Sud’, are based on the same concept.
The sales reports issued periodically by the Finance and IT departments, which contain sales breakdowns per store, have shown that not all Leen Bakker stores contribute to the company’s profit. This indicates that further investments will need to be made in the quality of the sales team and in other strategies to attract larger numbers of customers to the stores. Any stores that continue to consistently operate at a loss despite these efforts can be permanently closed.
The sales growth in the webshops has resulted in an increase in the number of home deliveries. A large number of orders are delivered to customers’ homes by third-party providers. The logistics organisation needs all its resource capacity to handle the growing volume of deliveries. The technical installation of one of the bulk warehouses was fully renovated during the year under review. Since the flow of incoming goods varies significantly depending on the circumstances, staff at the stores work on a flexible basis.
Leen Bakker is committed to sustainability and is taking measures in this area with regard to the sale of FSC-certified wood and reducing carbon emissions. It also fully upgraded its fleet of trucks in 2014. All platforms of the trucks now bear the new logo. The new trucks comply with all applicable carbon emission standards and have received the ‘Lean and Green’ label for their energy-efficiency.
All employees at the head office, along with the store managers and team leaders of the distribution centre, participated in the Employee Engagement Survey in 2014. The results of the survey were shared across the organisation as a whole and as this year unfolds it will be clear how much progress these teams have made.
A total of 14 employees successfully completed specialised retail sales training in 2014. The Format Development department, which was established in spring 2015, will provide support in updating and developing the product range, in combination with aisle management services.
LEEN BAKKER BELGIUM AND LUXEMBOURG
Due to a variety of factors, including sustained lower sales in garden furniture, sales revenues at the Belgian stores remained marginally below the 2013 level. This group has a significant share in the sales revenues as a whole. By focusing more on staff’s sales knowledge, the retailer did manage to significantly increase its conversion rates in 2014.
Sales revenues of Leen Bakker’s webshop increased by 23% in 2014, although the total share in the revenue of the online business remains relatively low. Customers continue to collect their online orders from the stores. Leen Bakker is expected to enter into a partnership with a courier company in 2015. Supported by Nextail and a home delivery service, sales revenues from the webshop in Belgium should be able to further increase. A new store was opened in the Belgian town of Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse, designed in the new Leen Bakker style.
LEEN BAKKER CURAÇAO
The Building Depot megastore, a Leen Bakker franchisee, opened its doors in November 2014 – exactly eighteen months after the building was destroyed by fire. In 2014, Building Depot managed to attract more than 100,000 visitors to the store in less than six weeks.
The Leen Bakker shop-in-shop inside the Building Depot megastore is designed based on the new retail format. This same style was used for the store as a whole, which has 14,000 square metres of floor space and is Curaçao’s largest megastore. Building Depot has managed to successfully re-establish itself with a significantly upgraded modern store, while keeping the existing slogan: ‘Djis Pens’e…Nos Tin E (Need something? We’ve got it!).
ACTIVITIES AND OUTLOOK FOR 2015
Backed by an ambitious sales and marketing plan, Leen Bakker expects to increase overall sales revenues at both its Dutch and Belgian stores in 2015. In spring 2015, Leen Bakker and Blokker began selling a white-label range of garden furniture under the name ‘Le Sud’. A radio and TV advertising campaign supported the launch of the brand.
IN-STORE TABLETS
Leen Bakker is currently running a pilot project at five stores involving the use of tablets for sales staff. By the end of this year, sales assistants should be able to have easy access to all the information they need in the stores. Customers should also be able to use these tablets to order items. Leen Bakker will furthermore be installing online kiosks in the stores on which customers can view the product range and place orders.
The Leen Bakker webshop will be integrated into the Nextail web platform this year, creating major opportunities for growth in online sales. Supported by the webshop and Nextail, Leen Bakker is gradually evolving into an omnichannel home furnishings retailer.
The growing number of brands and a more coherent product range have resulted in a boost in sales. In-store training has helped improve the level of service provided to customers. Another customer satisfaction survey will be conducted this year to gauge customers’ opinions of Leen Bakker.
The remodelling of the stores is an investment priority for the coming years. Three stores were already successfully converted based on the new format in 2014, followed by five more stores in 2015. The outdoor advertising will be adapted at all stores across the Netherlands.
Leen Bakker’s exclusive UMIX range.
New interior of a Leen Bakker store.
New Leen Bakker logo. The house represents all home furnishing items for indoors and outdoors. By adding the word ‘also’, Leen Bakker draws the customer’s attention to its additional services.
New store in Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse, Belgium.
Building Depot megastore, Leen Bakker franchisee in Curaçao.
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Time Inc. Magazines Make It to the Kindle Fire, After All
November 15, 2011 at 5:43 pm PT
It took some haggling, but Time Inc. is going to get its magazines on Amazon’s new tablet, alongside titles from many other big publishers.
Time Warner’s publishing unit told its employees this afternoon that five magazines — Time, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, People and Real Simple — would be available on the Kindle Fire tomorrow.
The announcement comes after negotiations that dragged on for weeks and continued through Tuesday morning — a process that baffled most of Time Inc.’s peers, who signed on to the new device in time for its September unveiling.
Supposedly, the major stumbling block for Time Inc. was that Amazon has retained the ability to set the retail price for the magazines it sells, which means it could theoretically slash prices or give away the magazines for free. That scenario would be a major bummer for all the publishers who have been diligently trying to convince subscribers and newsstand buyers that they’ve been underpaying for their reading material.
But Amazon has told Time’s competitors, like Condé Nast, Hearst and Meredith, that it doesn’t intend to beat down prices, and that assurance was apparently enough for them. Jeff Bewkes’ company apparently needed more convincing.
This never seemed to be an issue, by the way, with Barnes & Noble and its new Nook tablet; Time Inc. was a part of that gadget’s launch announcement.
Like the titles that Time Inc. sells via the iPad and other Android tablets, access to the Kindle Fire editions will come via bundled deals, where consumers pay a single price and get both paper and digital copies of their magazines.
Here’s the memo that consumer marketing head Steve Sachs sent out at the end of the day:
To: Time Inc. Employees
From: Steve Sachs
Re: Time Inc. Titles Now Available on Amazon’s Kindle Fire
I’m pleased to share the news that Time Inc. has just reached a deal with Amazon that will allow subscribers to our magazines to enjoy their subscriptions on the new Kindle Fire. Starting tomorrow, subscribers of FORTUNE, PEOPLE, Real Simple, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and TIME will be able to access digital editions of these magazines on the Kindle Fire at no additional cost. Other Time Inc. titles will follow shortly.
To date, hundreds of thousands of Time Inc. print subscribers have authenticated to receive their digital editions, with thousands more being added each week. Our agreement with Amazon continues to expand our All Access strategy, adding the Kindle Fire to the growing list of platforms where consumers can enjoy our content, including Apple’s iPad, the Barnes & Noble NOOK Color and NOOK Tablet, the Android Marketplace and Next Issue’s store.
It’s important to note that Time Inc. is the only publisher designing all of its digital magazine apps specifically for tablets. Because we’re producing a rich consumer experience made for each device, our brands translate beautifully — and the Kindle Fire is no exception.
Adding the Amazon launch to our platforms has meant that IT and other dedicated teams have had to work quickly and nimbly. I want to offer a special thanks to all those who have been hard at work bringing our brands to life on tablets.
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I think the NSA has a job to do and we need the NSA. But as (physicist) Robert Oppenheimer said, “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and argue about what to do about it only after you’ve had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”
— Phil Zimmerman, PGP inventor and Silent Circle co-founder, in an interview with Om Malik
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One title on the Barnes & Noble Review's list of six top books on surveillance:
Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance
by Julia Angwin
"One of Verizon's first customers is the Phoenix Suns basketball team, which wants to know where its fans live. Scott Horowitz, a team vice president, said: 'This is the information that everyone has wanted that hasn't been available until now.' " That's Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Julia Angwin, as she expertly diagnoses one of surveillance's greatest ironies: the degree to which we so often volunteer private information in the name of our own convenience, and the intense marketability and profitability of the companies who buy and sell customer data with ease. If surveillance is a growing concern, argues Angwin, we might first begin to address increasing fears first by acknowledging our own degree of culpability as voracious consumers.
Read about another book on the list.
Also see Seth Rosenfeld's five top books on the surveillance state.
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Plaza Auto Mall’s expansion plan stirs tension with community
Thursday, April 25, 2019 8:17 PM EDT
Thursday, April 25, 2019 10:41 PM EDT
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There are growing tensions between one of Brooklyn's biggest auto groups and its surrounding community over a plan to add dozens of parking spots on the roof of one of its dealerships.
At a hearing last week, Community Board 18 unanimously voted to oppose the Plaza Auto Mall’s request for a permit to add 63 parking spots on its roof.
The issue was first reported in the Brooklyn Paper.
Neighbors fear the elevated structure would tower over their homes. Beyond that, they've had enough with the auto group's expansion which, they say, has congested the area.
The Community Board's opposition to the plan is non-binding. The city Board of Standard and Appeals can take the vote into consideration, but ultimately it will be up to them to greenlight the plan.
News 12 reached out to the lawyer who represents the auto group. He has not yet responded. His office says he's on vacation for the holiday.
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Flooding alerts from the Foreign Office for Thailand and Italy
October 27th, 2011 by elisa
Following the months of flooding in Thailand, the Foreign Office has now advised against travel to the capital city and 26 other provinces.
It said: “Our advice against all but essential travel to the city of Bangkok does not include transit through Suvarnabhumi international airport.
“Flights to destinations elsewhere in Thailand (eg the resorts of Chiang Mai, Pattaya, Phuket, and Koh Samui) continue to operate normally.”
A five-day holiday has been ordered by the Thai authorities so that residents can evacuate the capital. More than 360 people have died in Thailand’s worst flooding in decades.
Torrential rain in parts of Italy is also threatening lives. Rescue workers are searching for missing people in Liguria and Tuscany with the province of La Spezia and its UNESCO- protected tourist site of Monterosso particularly badly hit.
The Foreign Office current update is: “The A12 highway in Liguria has been blocked in both directions since yesterday afternoon because of a mudslide, and train services throughout the coastal region of Liguria have been halted. British nationals are advised to avoid these areas unless absolutely necessary.
Motorway flooding elsewhere is also a problem. IsoRadio has the best up to date information for travelllers, with a bulletin in English approximately every hour. There are also weather alerts for the Campania, Veneto and Friuli-Venezia-Giulia regions.”
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ISS Takes an Early Look at 2019 Shareholder Proposals
By Kosmas Papadopoulos March 5, 2019 by renholding
In the U.S., shareholder proposal filings have historically played an important role in advancing corporate governance and in highlighting key risks related to environmental and social issues. Some of the major shifts in governance practices during the past two decades – including the annual elections of directors, the adoption of majority vote standard for director elections, and the adoption of proxy access among large firms – were largely prompted by shareholder resolution campaigns. Shareholder proposals have also served as a driving force for greater corporate awareness of environmental and social risks, such as climate change risk management, diversity and inclusion in the workplace, and sustainability reporting.
In this article, with approximately half of this year’s expected proposal filings available, we take a sneak preview of some of the major upcoming trends in shareholder proposal campaigns in 2019. ISS Analytics has three main sources for shareholder proposal filing data:
Proposals as disclosed in company proxy statements;
Proposals that received no-action letters by the SEC, allowing companies to omit the proposals from their ballots, available on the SEC website; and
Proposals publicly disclosed or shared with ISS directly by proponents.
As most companies have not filed their proxy statements, most proposals currently available to ISS Analytics either received no-action letters by the SEC or were made available directly by proponents. As of February 28, 2019, ISS Analytics has identified 395 shareholder proposal filings at U.S. companies, down from 450 filings identified at the same time in 2018. While it is early for any conclusive remarks on trends, 2019 promises to be a busy year with respect to voting and engagement around shareholder proposals, with social and environmental issues taking the center stage along traditional governance topics.
Social and Environmental Issues Continue Their Strong Showing
In 2017, environmental and social resolution filings surpassed the number of governance proposal filings for the first time. The trend continued in 2018, and we have no reason to expect a reversal in 2019.
Climate change, environmental impact, political contributions, human rights, and human capital management are some of the key environmental and social themes featuring during this upcoming season. While our current data indicate that governance proposals make up only one-quarter of total filings, we expect their numbers to grow to about half of all filings by the end of the year, since many of these proposals typically become known closer to the time of the company’s proxy disclosure. Proposals requiring an independent chair, the reduction of supermajority vote standard, and requests to allow for the right to call a special meeting or to act by written consent will likely feature as they most prevalent governance voting items this year.
Taking a closer look at the top 10 proposal types by number of filings in 2019, we see many of the same proposals that were part of this list in the previous year, including requests to report on political contributions and lobbying, requests to disclose targets on carbon emissions, and proposals seeking reporting on sustainability and climate change risks. As more data become available in the coming weeks, we expect these numbers and even the order of the proposals to change, as some of the governance topics will likely climb towards the top of the list. However, it becomes clear that social and environmental campaigns tend to address a broader variety of topics, while governance proposals tend to concentrate on a select number of key issues.
New Campaigns: Drug Pricing and Pay, Plastics, and Immigration Detention
In 2019, we expect several relatively new topics to make their appearance, and their long-term success will depend on their support levels or acceptance rates by companies this year.
The increasing costs of medication in the U.S. have raised concerns amongst consumers, politicians, and some shareholder proponents over many years, and the issue has been the focus of public debate and political discourse. In previous years, shareholder proposals seeking reporting and oversight on drug price increases either received low support levels (with median support of approximately 5 percent of votes cast) or received no-action letters by the SEC and were omitted from ballots. Shareholder proponents took a new approach in 2018, whereby five proposals asked companies to report on how they integrate risks related to public concerns about drug pricing in their executive compensation programs. The five 2018 proposals received a healthy median support level of 23 percent of votes cast, and proponents have filed at least nine such proposals so far in 2019.
Greater awareness of ocean pollution by microplastics and the impact on marine wildlife has prompted a new campaign by shareholder advocacy group As You Sow. The group’s proposals, filed at four of the largest oil and chemicals companies, seek for greater disclosure on plastic pellet spills and cleanup actions during the resin production process. As You Sow has also filed several resolutions seeking reporting on recycling and recyclable packaging at food and beverage companies, a campaign that has been ongoing for many years.
In December 2018, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility announced a campaign targeting companies in the “private prison, technology, banking, and defense sectors deemed at risk for human rights violations as a result of government contracts” related to immigration policies and practices by the U.S. administration. This new type of proposal is the most recent example of current events and prominent social issues potentially becoming the subject of a shareholder vote at general meetings.
In 2018, two campaigns dealing with the high-profile social issues of gun violence and the opioid epidemic received above-majority support levels, and we expect engagement efforts on these two topics to continue.
Environmental Proposals Continue to Experience Higher Rates of Withdrawals
In 2018, we saw a dramatic increase in the percentage of environmental and social (E&S) proposals that were withdrawn by their proponents after successful engagements with companies, as 48 percent of E&S proposals were withdrawn, compared to 36 percent of proposals in the previous years. Early trends indicate a higher propensity for environmental proposals to be withdrawn, while governance proposals are more likely to be omitted. As the status of at least 75 percent of proposals is pending, the figures below are only indicative of general trends.
Shareholder Proposal Filings by Sector
A sector-based analysis can help identify the types of issues that are most relevant for each sector. For example, social issues appear to dominate the health care sector, while environmental concerns are the key theme for the energy sector. The consumer discretionary sector receives an almost equal amount of social and environmental proposals. The results are not surprising, as they correlate with each sectors types of activities and relevant social or environmental impact.
In terms of frequency of shareholder proposals by sector, the new expanded “communication services” sector has the highest percentage of companies in the S&P 500 that have received shareholder resolutions. The communication services sector includes telecommunications companies, such as Verizon Communications Inc. and Comcast Corp., some technology firms, such as Alphabet Inc. and Facebook Inc., as well media companies, such as The Walt Disney Co. and CBS Corp. The pervasiveness of shareholder proposals in this sector makes intuitive sense given the size of many of these firms as well as the increased focus on their governance practices and their social impact.
The review of shareholder proposal filings can offer significant insights into market reaction, investor views, and company awareness of various environmental, social, and governance risks. As we discuss in our recent two-part “Long View” publication series on governance and environmental and social proposals, over the long term, shareholder proposals tell the story of corporate governance developments and changing investor attitudes towards environmental and social risks.
As more proxy statement disclosures become available, ISS will continue to monitor and report on trends in U.S. shareholder proposal filings during the upcoming season.
This post comes to us from Institutional Shareholder Services. It is based on the firm’s memorandum, “An Early Look at 2019 US Shareholder Proposals,” dated March 1, 2019.
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The Honourable Mélanie Joly
The Honourable Mélanie Joly is Minister of Tourism, Official Languages and La Francophonie. Her mandate consists of growing, and increasing the visibility of, the Canadian tourism industry, which accounts for nearly two million jobs across the country; safeguarding our two official languages; and promoting the use of French in Canada and around the world, including in the digital sphere. She is taking on this challenge with enthusiasm. As minister of Canadian Heritage, a position she held from 2015 to 2018, she promoted Canadian culture, announcing an unprecedented reinvestment in culture as well as the largest federal investment in official languages to date in this country.
In addition to her ministerial duties, Mélanie Joly occupies a leadership role within Cabinet as a member of the Treasury Board and Chair of the Cabinet Committee on Environment and Clean Growth.
A lawyer by training, Minister Joly holds an Honours Bachelor of Law from Université de Montréal and a Magister Juris in European and Comparative Law from the University of Oxford. Prior to her entry into federal politics, Minister Joly founded Le vrai changement pour Montréal party, running for mayor of Montréal in 2013 under its banner.
She is the author of Changing the Rules of the Game, in which she shares her vision for public policy and civic engagement. She was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Minister Joly was elected to the House of Commons for the first time in 2015 and is proud to be the Member of Parliament for Ahuntsic–Cartierville.
Ottawa (Ontario) K1A 0H5
Hon.Melanie.Joly@canada.ca
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New ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ Poster Reveals the Red Spot
by Adam Chitwood March 26, 2019
A new poster for the upcoming Scary Stories to Tell I the Dark movie has been released, and those familiar with the book will find it incredibly unnerving. The film is based on the series of spooky short stories by Alvin Schwartz and takes place in 1968, revolving around a young girl with horrible secrets who lives in a mansion on the edge of town. A group of teenagers stumble upon the mansion, and are then led to discover the true horrors that await.
This new poster showcases the short story “The Red Spot”, which I wouldn’t dare spoil for those who haven’t read the book. I’ll just say it ends in a way that will make for some absolutely terrifying imagery onscreen.
André Øvredal (Trollhunter, The Autopsy of Jane Doe) directs from a screenplay by Dan Hageman & Kevin Hageman (Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu), with a “story by” credit to Guillermo del Toro and Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan (Saw IV, V, and VI). Del Toro also produced the film.
I’m incredibly curious to see how all the disparate short stories of the book coalesce into a feature film narrative, and while we saw some creepy teasers during the Super Bowl, I expect we’ll see a trailer sooner rather than later.
Check out the new Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark poster below. The film stars Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Austin Abrams, Dean Norris, Gil Bellows, Lorraine Toussaint, Austin Zajur, and Natalie Ganzhorn. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark opens in theaters on August 9th.
Here’s the official synopsis for Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark:
It’s 1968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind…but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley where for generations, the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time—stories that have a way of becoming all too real for a group of teenagers who discover Sarah’s terrifying home.
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Doolan, Joni Renee was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 15730 James Gate PL, MONUMENT, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601718205.
Doolan, Leah Beth was born in 1989 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10277 Fairgate WAY, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601724921.
Doolan, Lee Andrew was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3472 Foxridge TRL, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 600877919.
Doolan, Lori Renae was born in 1981 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7568 Bonterra LN, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601523354.
Doolan, Maria C was born in 1969 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8008 E 28Th PL, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2677396.
Doolan, Robert J was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8008 E 28Th PL, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2699064.
Doolan, Sheldon M was born in 1963 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 99 Aspen Village, ASPEN, Pitkin County, CO. His voter ID number is 6793806.
Doolan, Sue Deana was born in 1990 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1515 W Owen CIR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600830617.
Doolan, William Michael was born in 1941 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9189 William Cody DR, EVERGREEN, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 200054428.
Doolan-Fox, Ann L was born in 1962 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5806 Instone CIR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 274509.
Doole, Britny Leah was born in 1990 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3802 Roan DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600395149.
Doole, David Patrick was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6915 Sagewood CT, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 137666.
Doole, Janelle Lynn was born in 1971 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6915 Sagewood CT, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 144613.
Doole, Linda S was born in 1958 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3732 Adirondack DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 136651.
Doole, Lori Michelle was born in 1975 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7032 Vasalias HTS, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600146494.
Doole, Matthew Patrick was born in 2000 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6915 Sagewood CT, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601363266.
Doole, Melissa Kelley was born in 1996 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7469 Liberty Bell DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601502386.
Doole, Michelle Marie was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3802 Roan DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 268813.
Doole, Tommy Simanu was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3802 Roan DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 200169270.
Doolen, Andrew John was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4895 S Galapago ST, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 200031436.
Doolen, Betsy Ann was born in 1969 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 21555 Road 23, LEWIS, Montezuma County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4885213.
Doolen, Charles Norman was born in 1969 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 21555 Road 23, LEWIS, Montezuma County, CO. His voter ID number is 4888990.
Doolen, David Jesse was born in 1954 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3838 County Rd 243, NEW CASTLE, Garfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 5533658.
Doolen, Denise Darlene was born in 1956 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3838 County Rd 243, NEW CASTLE, Garfield County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5533657.
Doolen, Dustin Leroy was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 26202 Road L, CORTEZ, Montezuma County, CO. His voter ID number is 600402968.
Doolen, Janet R was born in 1939 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7732 S Ensenada CT, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 756622.
Doolen, Kaitlin Ann was born in 1994 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 26202 Road L, CORTEZ, Montezuma County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600570865.
Doolen, Kendy Christina was born in 1989 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3193 S Uravan WAY # 102, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601232774.
Doolen, Lee Oran was born in 1976 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 26202 Road L, CORTEZ, Montezuma County, CO. His voter ID number is 4890524.
Doolen, Logan Lorin was born in 1976 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3216 S Granby WAY, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 200064561.
Doolen, Shaun Rex was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7732 S Ensenada CT, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 6707347.
Doolen, Shawn Patrick was born in 1986 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2245 Gray ST, EDGEWATER, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601577270.
Doolen, Somerset Amberly was born in 1988 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 26202 Road L, CORTEZ, Montezuma County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4898507.
Doolen, Timothy Matthew was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1460 N King ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2356834.
Doolen, Todd Nicholson was born in 1974 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7732 S Ensenada CT, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 900638.
Doolen, William H was born in 1945 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 735 Sunrise CIR, WOODLAND PARK, Teller County, CO. His voter ID number is 3810359.
Dooley, Aaron Michael was born in 1991 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6499 W 38Th AVE # 201, WHEAT RIDGE, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601844623.
Dooley, Abraham Ralph was born in 1939 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2519 Water Front ST, EVANS, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 6335172.
Dooley, Adam Michail was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1865 Eaton ST # 202, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600678594.
Dooley, Alan was born in 1969 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2527 Atlanta AVE, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 3081767.
Dooley, Aleksandra Yevdokiya was born in 1995 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4076 Lorraine RD, LARKSPUR, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600807386.
Dooley, Alexander Lee was born in 1996 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11828 Dahlia DR, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 601116634.
Dooley, Alexis was born in 1999 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 16289 W 84Th DR, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601827604.
Dooley, Alice Marie was born in 1945 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 612 Crystola CT, WOODLAND PARK, Teller County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3805827.
Dooley, Alison Rose was born in 1993 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 908 Hawthorn AVE, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600444121.
Dooley, Alix Mckenzie was born in 1991 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6948 Peppertree DR, NIWOT, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600773626.
Dooley, Allison Dale was born in 1978 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 23201 Hwy 491, PLEASANT VIEW, Montezuma County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4794713.
Dooley, Alycia Leanne was born in 1982 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7318 Pine Hills WAY, LITTLETON, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601000872.
Dooley, Andrea Marie was born in 1989 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3318 34Th ST, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601304646.
Dooley, Andrew David was born in 1986 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 506 Olive LN, PLATTEVILLE, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 601297026.
Dooley, Andrew Richard was born in 1966 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 374 Casper DR, LAFAYETTE, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 601242921.
Dooley, Ann was born in 1982 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11820 Columbine ST, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6875334.
Dooley, Arianne Kristine was born in 1977 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4331 E Utah PL, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2694851.
Dooley, Austin Louis was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 47527 Highway 34, WIGGINS, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 600584770.
Dooley, Barbara P was born in 1948 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10125 W Berry DR, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4146773.
Dooley, Benjamin Daniel was born in 1997 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10770 Mt Antero WAY, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601170972.
Dooley, Beverly Ann was born in 1950 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7020 E Ravine DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 196067.
Dooley, Bonnie C was born in 1941 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8010 W Baker AVE, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3999533.
Dooley, Brandon Joseph was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9762 Mayfair ST # B, ENGLEWOOD, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 6334936.
Dooley, Brenda Kay was born in 1961 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 468 S Nathrop DR, PUEBLO WEST, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601407956.
Dooley, Brenna Kathleen was born in 1993 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2805 Tartan LN, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600402543.
Dooley, Brenna Kimberly was born in 1994 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 13837 Adams CIR, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601128087.
Dooley, Brett Jason was born in 1977 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6130 Hoyt ST, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600860818.
Dooley, Brian Arthur was born in 1980 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7318 Pine Hills WAY, LITTLETON, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 600991513.
Dooley, Brian D was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6372 W Maplewood DR, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4101867.
Dooley, Brian Donald was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 13837 Adams CIR, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 902248.
Dooley, Brian Joseph was born in 1964 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4076 Lorraine RD, LARKSPUR, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 600341619.
Dooley, Brian Michael was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3527 Spring Creek PL, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 601547922.
Dooley, Brianna Diane was born in 1992 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3550 S Kendall ST UNIT 5-308, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601753057.
Dooley, Brittany Nicole was born in 1987 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8336 W 87Th DR # C, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601681085.
Dooley, Camden Fitzgerald was born in 2001 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 125 Riverview RD, GYPSUM, Eagle County, CO. His voter ID number is 601698262.
Dooley, Camilla Bernice was born in 1999 and registered to vote, giving the address as 4076 Lorraine RD, LARKSPUR, Douglas County, CO. Dooley voter ID number is 601417962.
Dooley, Caroline Aileen was born in 1983 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1561 Sorenson DR, WINDSOR, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601578974.
Dooley, Carolyn E was born in 1932 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 653 Vista LN, BAYFIELD, La Plata County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4937885.
Dooley, Catherine was born in 1962 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6372 W Maplewood DR, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4262118.
Dooley, Charles E Iii was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 256 Lead Queen DR, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5931515.
Dooley, Charles Gregory was born in 1995 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2805 Tartan LN, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 600924764.
Dooley, Charles P was born in 1938 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5350 S Jay CIR APT 5G, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2641554.
Dooley, Cherie Mattocks was born in 1967 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11589 Maplewood LN, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5909695.
Dooley, Cheryl Ann was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5945 S Fairfax CT, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 787553.
Dooley, Cheryl Lee was born in 1952 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 350 7Th ST, STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Routt County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6583929.
Dooley, Chris E was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2138 Witter Gulch RD, EVERGREEN, Clear Creek County, CO. His voter ID number is 200084614.
Dooley, Christian Jacobi was born in 1998 and registered to vote, giving the address as 2510 S High ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Dooley voter ID number is 601412295.
Dooley, Christine Ann was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5885 Bourke DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1543701.
Dooley, Christopher James was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10200 E Dry Creek RD # 8-105, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 5655833.
Dooley, Christopher Thomas was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 229 N Pennsylvania ST APT 303, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 600416638.
Dooley, Cindy J was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1120 E Sabeta AVE, PONCHA SPRINGS, Chaffee County, CO. Her voter ID number is 634592.
Dooley, Cindy Jan was born in 1964 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5460 Alturas DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 488412.
Dooley, Claudia Jean was born in 1950 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6281 E 65Th AVE, COMMERCE CITY, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200132241.
Dooley, Clyde E was born in 1951 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 105 Loma ST, CREEDE, Mineral County, CO. His voter ID number is 4794641.
Dooley, Colleen Ann was born in 1971 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 22044 E Hinsdale AVE, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4311662.
Dooley, Colleen B was born in 1937 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 16245 E Swift Fox PL, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601888231.
Dooley, Colleen Kay was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 272 River Birch ST, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601386549.
Dooley, Connor M was born in 1997 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 256 Lead Queen DR, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601297022.
Dooley, Courtney Lynn was born in 1999 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 704 Lansing DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601768868.
Dooley, Curtis Lee was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 542 Potomac ST # C, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 600174909.
Dooley, Cynthia A was born in 1947 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4620 Saulsbury ST, WHEAT RIDGE, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4022968.
Dooley, Cynthia Darlene was born in 1953 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5150 Airport RD LOT C129, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601983211.
Dooley, Daemon Alan was born in 1993 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10260 Washington ST APT 1832, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 600360602.
Dooley, Dana Alice was born in 1987 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2115 Settlers DR, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601621032.
Dooley, Daniel John was born in 1963 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 350 7Th ST, STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Routt County, CO. His voter ID number is 6583748.
Dooley, Danielle was born in 1981 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11247 Kilberry WAY, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601928563.
Dooley, Danielle Diane was born in 1982 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6146 S Holland ST, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4107565.
Dooley, Danielle Michele was born in 1990 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 813 Castello AVE, FAIRPLAY, Park County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200332047.
Dooley, David Bryant was born in 1963 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4747 Table Mesa DR, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 601796518.
Dooley, David Charles was born in 1947 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4675 Betty PL, ERIE, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 6381002.
Dooley, David Daniel was born in 1980 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11247 Kilberry WAY, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601558938.
Dooley, David Dean was born in 2000 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6372 W Maplewood DR, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601675680.
Dooley, David Dennis was born in 1952 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 32450 Highlands RD, STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Routt County, CO. His voter ID number is 6572063.
Dooley, David E was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1777 Sunset Ridge RD, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5754904.
Dooley, David Frank was born in 1953 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 13166 Otoe ST, PINE, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4585323.
Dooley, David J Ii was born in 1954 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 15071 W 32Nd PL, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4020920.
Dooley, David Jon was born in 1962 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 468 S Nathrop DR, PUEBLO WEST, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 601223162.
Dooley, David William was born in 1954 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 25076 E 4Th PL, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 697521.
Dooley, Dawn M was born in 1965 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10346 Owens ST, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4185749.
Dooley, Deborah Elizabeth was born in 1962 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1459 Benton ST, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5762243.
Dooley, Deborah Lee was born in 1977 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4281 S Halifax WAY, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1163127.
Dooley, Deborah Mae was born in 1949 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2519 Water Front ST, EVANS, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6335173.
Dooley, Deborah Michele was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 456 N Logan ST APT 303, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2814174.
Dooley, Debra Jean was born in 1955 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 37531 W Hwy 149, CREEDE, Mineral County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4793859.
Dooley, Debra Lynn was born in 1965 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7343 Mt Sherman RD, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8006310.
Dooley, Delma D was born in 1928 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 209 Loma ST, CREEDE, Mineral County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4793860.
Dooley, Dennis Francis was born in 1950 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5480 Juniper DR LOT 1, BRIGHTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 601252570.
Dooley, Dennis Michael was born in 1948 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6440 Grape ST, COMMERCE CITY, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 600655512.
Dooley, Derek Raymond was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 255 Cedar DR, GYPSUM, Eagle County, CO. His voter ID number is 601371559.
Dooley, Diana L was born in 1959 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3001 Memorial DR, LAMAR, Prowers County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2991352.
Dooley, Diane Manelle was born in 1959 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1921 Warren DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1405100.
Dooley, Edward Richard was born in 1935 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1820 N 5Th ST APT 304, CANON CITY, Fremont County, CO. His voter ID number is 148323.
Dooley, Eileen Joy was born in 1942 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1900 E Girard PL # 702, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601655659.
Dooley, Elizabeth A was born in 1962 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10770 Mt Antero WAY, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5841926.
Dooley, Ellen G was born in 1969 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1655 Airport RD # 3R, BRECKENRIDGE, Summit County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4261876.
Dooley, Ellon Patricia was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1119 4Th AVE APT 5, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8006315.
Dooley, Emma Christine was born in 1998 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2272 Juniper AVE, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601048499.
Dooley, Eric Justin was born in 1976 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1494 Kilkenny ST, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8006316.
Dooley, Eric Steven was born in 1983 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2210 Patrician WAY, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601171137.
Dooley, Erika Rose was born in 1993 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4050 Ascendant DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600569295.
Dooley, Erin C was born in 1996 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 256 Lead Queen DR, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600949602.
Dooley, Erin Isabel was born in 1989 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2337 Teller ST, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8006317.
Dooley, Erin Malcolm was born in 1990 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1320 N York ST APT 5, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601311112.
Dooley, Ethan was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 124 Scotland RD APT D, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 601571450.
Dooley, Fabiola Oliveira was born in 1979 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9758 Laredo ST UNIT 20E, COMMERCE CITY, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601020087.
Dooley, Finn Patrick was born in 1996 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4695 E Louisiana AVE APT 213, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601554877.
Dooley, Francis Hainault was born in 1951 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1104 Lory ST, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1478054.
Dooley, Francis Oliver was born in 1931 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2527 Atlanta AVE, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 3075841.
Dooley, Garret Jay was born in 1981 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 13823 E Richthofen CIR # N108, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 765460.
Dooley, Garth Chenoweth was born in 1927 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1616 Shoshone DR, CANON CITY, Fremont County, CO. His voter ID number is 200263993.
Dooley, Gina Celeste was born in 1975 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4876 S Danube WAY, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 940987.
Dooley, Glenn Scott was born in 1969 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10685 Cottoneaster WAY, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5941763.
Dooley, Gregory Lee was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 13105 W 2Nd PL # A-543, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600548897.
Dooley, Gregory Patrick was born in 1977 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2401 Hampshire SQ, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1517331.
Dooley, Gwen was born in 1939 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 730 Spruce ST, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8006322.
Dooley, Gwendolyn Lea was born in 1974 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10958 Big Stone CIR, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5673813.
Dooley, Hang Dinh was born in 1978 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 14196 Corrine CT, BROOMFIELD, Broomfield County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600448105.
Dooley, Hannah Jane Libai was born in 1997 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3001 Memorial DR, LAMAR, Prowers County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601110833.
Dooley, Harold Gene was born in 1952 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1120 E Sabeta AVE, PONCHA SPRINGS, Chaffee County, CO. His voter ID number is 634593.
Dooley, Henry Black was born in 1995 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6733 Clovis CT, TIMNATH, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 601002889.
Dooley, Jabe was born in 1963 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1159 Kokanee RD, FAIRPLAY, Park County, CO. His voter ID number is 561631.
Dooley, Jack Kaito was born in 1998 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 730 Maxwell AVE, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 601136612.
Dooley, Jacob Aaron was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1008 Wynkoop DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601075017.
Dooley, James Jr was born in 1943 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4310 Candytuft TER, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 200593.
Dooley, James D was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11820 Columbine ST, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 5754864.
Dooley, James Edward was born in 1932 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1811 Pavilion DR UNIT 305, MONTROSE, Montrose County, CO. His voter ID number is 5966612.
Dooley, James G was born in 1963 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10346 Owens ST, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4186187.
Dooley, James W was born in 1950 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10125 W Berry DR, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4146975.
Dooley, Jamie Marie was born in 1983 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 930 W 133Rd CIR APT B, WESTMINSTER, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1664292.
Dooley, Janet D was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 285 Marshall ST, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3988066.
Dooley, Jared Nathaniel was born in 1973 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11820 Columbine ST, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 6874464.
Dooley, Jason Aaron was born in 1977 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6440 Grape ST, COMMERCE CITY, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 7066102.
Dooley, Jason Douglas was born in 1976 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1561 Sorenson DR, WINDSOR, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 601669857.
Dooley, Jason Patrick was born in 1977 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4331 E Utah PL, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2707481.
Dooley, Jayden Tyler was born in 2000 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4867 S Valdai WAY, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601786469.
Dooley, Jeanine Kay was born in 1944 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 21352 E 48Th DR, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2876799.
Dooley, Jeffrey Michael was born in 1980 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6115 Simms ST, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600485060.
Dooley, Jenah Lynne was born in 1989 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 13732 E Lehigh AVE # C, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601976510.
Dooley, Jenifer Amica was born in 1973 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4859 N Raleigh ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601620324.
Dooley, Jennie L was born in 1933 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3001 Memorial DR, LAMAR, Prowers County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2991354.
Dooley, Jennifer Amy Stancliffe was born in 1974 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4867 S Valdai WAY, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601599009.
Dooley, Jennifer Ashley was born in 1992 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3885 17Th ST, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200377722.
Dooley, Jerry D was born in 1938 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4150 S Calhan HWY, YODER, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 320963.
Dooley, Jerry Lee Ii was born in 1998 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1130 N Hancock AVE, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601414863.
Dooley, Jessica A was born in 1976 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9496 County Rd 82, ELBERT, Elbert County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6795428.
Dooley, Jessica Miller was born in 1983 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1173 N Wabash ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600421927.
Dooley, Jessica Ruth was born in 1975 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10260 Washington ST APT 1033, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600644685.
Dooley, Jessica Sarah was born in 1997 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9100 E Florida AVE # 8307, DENVER, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601907191.
Dooley, Jessyka Shana was born in 1994 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6250 W Promenade North DR # 336, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601962814.
Dooley, Joan Nathalie Black was born in 1959 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6733 Clovis CT, TIMNATH, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1450395.
Dooley, John Fitzgerald was born in 1964 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 125 Riverview RD, GYPSUM, Eagle County, CO. His voter ID number is 6693144.
Dooley, John G was born in 1950 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2805 Tartan LN, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 132843.
Dooley, John J was born in 1950 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 57497 Ida RD, MONTROSE, Montrose County, CO. His voter ID number is 5353051.
Dooley, John Louis was born in 1957 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7655 W 67Th AVE # 105, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4648667.
Dooley, John Maurice was born in 1941 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4007 W 20Th ST, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1389737.
Dooley, John P was born in 1954 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5887 Jaguar WAY, LITTLETON, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5667012.
Dooley, John R was born in 1939 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8010 W Baker AVE, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4000188.
Dooley, John Raymond Iii was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8246 S Poplar WAY # 102, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 4258285.
Dooley, John Shelton was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8603 E Dry Creek RD # 227, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601016250.
Dooley, Jonathan Bryce was born in 1995 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5945 S Fairfax CT, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 600825760.
Dooley, Jonathan T was born in 1969 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9435 Fountain RD, CASCADE, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 499275.
Dooley, Joseph Anthony was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 26900 E Colfax AVE # 146, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 600823273.
Dooley, Joseph Dean was born in 1929 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 653 Vista LN, BAYFIELD, La Plata County, CO. His voter ID number is 4937886.
Dooley, Joseph L was born in 1947 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4620 Saulsbury ST, WHEAT RIDGE, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4021367.
Dooley, Joshua Benjamin was born in 1998 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1833 Orchard PL, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 601161947.
Dooley, Joy A was born in 1946 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5350 S Jay CIR APT 5G, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2641564.
Dooley, Julia D was born in 1948 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6316 S Johnson ST, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4112863.
Dooley, Julie Hope was born in 1968 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 30786 Snowbird LN, EVERGREEN, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2556603.
Dooley, Karen Jo was born in 1950 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 75 Anglers DR # 12, STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Routt County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600281225.
Dooley, Kate Cameron was born in 1996 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6948 Peppertree DR, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601025009.
Dooley, Katherine M was born in 1939 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1001 Adams DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 499956.
Dooley, Kathleen Ann was born in 1958 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 14767 Road 29.75, DOLORES, Montezuma County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601562794.
Dooley, Kathleen Judith was born in 1956 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1370 Viewridge RD, BENNETT, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600084824.
Dooley, Kathryn Faye was born in 1991 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10770 Mt Antero WAY, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601190078.
Dooley, Katrina M was born in 1968 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11828 Dahlia DR, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6903816.
Dooley, Kayla Diane was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1531 Fountain ST, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600176726.
Dooley, Kelly was born in 1974 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 15071 W 32Nd PL, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600988879.
Dooley, Kelly Lynn was born in 1983 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6130 Hoyt ST, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600860817.
Dooley, Kelly Michelle was born in 1989 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6660 Warren DR, DENVER, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601212512.
Dooley, Kelly Patricia was born in 1983 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 12591 Bryant ST, BROOMFIELD, Broomfield County, CO. Her voter ID number is 7220376.
Dooley, Kenneth Michael Jr was born in 1986 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8336 W 87Th DR # C, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4224812.
Dooley, Keren N was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9435 Fountain RD, CASCADE, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 499274.
Dooley, Keven Douglas was born in 1993 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1123 N Weber ST # 1, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 600620638.
Dooley, Kevin Alan was born in 1986 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 728 S Youngfield CT, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 943017.
Dooley, Kevin Charles was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 422 Bluebird DR, BAILEY, Park County, CO. His voter ID number is 549910.
Dooley, Kevin George was born in 1961 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7565 E Peakview AVE # 621, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 886139.
Dooley, Kevin Joseph was born in 1952 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 801 Bowen ST APT 2, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8006442.
Dooley, Kevin Robert was born in 1993 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2132 Lager ST, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 601956996.
Dooley, Kevin Thomas was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5945 S Fairfax CT, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 787557.
Dooley, Kiefer Michael Garman was born in 1993 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6250 W Promenade North DR # 336, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601449493.
Dooley, Kimberley Kerry was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7442 Grady CIR, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5646481.
Dooley, Kimberly Ann was born in 1975 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 12517 Kearney CIR, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 734599.
Dooley, Kimberly Michelle was born in 1982 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 796 Havana ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601876851.
Dooley, Kori Hall was born in 1982 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 350 7Th ST, STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Routt County, CO. His voter ID number is 6587228.
Dooley, Kristen Lea was born in 1986 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2210 Patrician WAY, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601230337.
Dooley, Kristina Burrell was born in 1975 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 16289 W 84Th DR, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601243636.
Dooley, Krystle Rose was born in 1996 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9937 Grove WAY UNIT C, WESTMINSTER, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601233303.
Dooley, Kyle Patrick was born in 1995 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 311 Buttonwood CT, MONUMENT, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 600861613.
Dooley, Landon Mcguire was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 304 W 8Th, WALSENBURG, Huerfano County, CO. His voter ID number is 601439778.
Dooley, Laurence Wayne was born in 1944 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7020 E Ravine DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 196964.
Dooley, Leota E was born in 1922 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 530 W 16Th ST BLDG 1, SALIDA, Chaffee County, CO. Her voter ID number is 632868.
Dooley, Liam Daubert was born in 1999 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 256 Lead Queen DR, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601110566.
Dooley, Linda J was born in 1947 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4310 Candytuft TER, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200596.
Dooley, Lisa Carroll was born in 1956 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2421 Hondius WAY, ESTES PARK, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601932836.
Dooley, Lois Marie was born in 1962 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11 Columbine LN, PARACHUTE, Garfield County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2317986.
Dooley, Lori Gearlynn was born in 1959 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 104 N Aspen AVE, CREEDE, Mineral County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4769937.
Dooley, Lynda Thu Hang was born in 1985 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1058 Kittery ST, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200270511.
Dooley, Lynn Mary was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6385 Chippewa RD, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 248601.
Dooley, Makayla Marie was born in 1992 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 168 S Monaco PKWY APT 168-A, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600646266.
Dooley, Marcie E was born in 1987 and registered to vote, giving the address as 1010 S Chelton RD APT 1306, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Dooley voter ID number is 601669205.
Dooley, Marsha Emilia was born in 1953 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1104 Lory ST, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1477762.
Dooley, Martin Joseph was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6733 Clovis CT, TIMNATH, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1450081.
Dooley, Mary Ann was born in 1934 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5860 W 34Th AVE, WHEAT RIDGE, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4034798.
Dooley, Mary Corrigan was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3720 S Glencoe ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2894106.
Dooley, Mary E was born in 1950 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 57497 Ida RD, MONTROSE, Montrose County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5353052.
Dooley, Mary Ellen was born in 1952 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7876 N Foothills HWY, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 7932618.
Dooley, Mary Kathryn was born in 1924 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1921 Warren DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1421615.
Dooley, Mary Louise was born in 1969 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4050 Ascendant DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200275755.
Dooley, Mary Lynn was born in 1947 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1616 Shoshone DR, CANON CITY, Fremont County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200263968.
Dooley, Matthew Anton was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 457 E 3Rd AVE, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. His voter ID number is 600846792.
Dooley, Matthew John was born in 1981 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9325 World Mission DR, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 600724175.
Dooley, Matthew John was born in 1973 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 15896 Wildhaven LN, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601482008.
Dooley, Matthew Martin was born in 1997 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 134 Balsam LN, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 601071957.
Dooley, Maureen Agnes was born in 1954 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9865 Carmel CT, LONE TREE, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 804242.
Dooley, Maureen Lee was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 582 Ford ST, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 241001.
Dooley, Meaghan Margaret was born in 1993 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5945 S Fairfax CT, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600543118.
Dooley, Megan A was born in 1990 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 47527 Highway 34, WIGGINS, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6425712.
Dooley, Megan June was born in 1997 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 311 Buttonwood CT, MONUMENT, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601177931.
Dooley, Melinda Kathleen was born in 1986 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1095 Western DR LOT 338E, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601362870.
Dooley, Merrie K was born in 1976 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10685 Cottoneaster WAY, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5672689.
Dooley, Meta Allison was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3055 Castle Butte DR, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601194816.
Dooley, Michael A was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 23201 Hwy 491, PLEASANT VIEW, Montezuma County, CO. His voter ID number is 4794508.
Dooley, Michael Anthony was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2450 Airport RD APT N1137, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 600490649.
Dooley, Michael David was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 15071 W 32Nd PL, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 200184754.
Dooley, Michael G was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6948 Peppertree DR, NIWOT, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8006449.
Dooley, Michael George was born in 1943 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1340 Idalia CT # 103B, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 122384.
Dooley, Michael James was born in 1995 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4621 SW Summit TRL, EVERGREEN, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601939024.
Dooley, Michael O was born in 1949 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 12975 Sheridan BLVD # 246-2, BROOMFIELD, Broomfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 601167815.
Dooley, Michael Patrick was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 14196 Corrine CT, BROOMFIELD, Broomfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 6978028.
Dooley, Michael Patrick was born in 1973 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 14662 Sorrel DR, BROOMFIELD, Broomfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 734598.
Dooley, Michael Paul was born in 1972 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7020 E Ravine DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 91106.
Dooley, Michael Ryan was born in 1995 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1216 Pleasant ST UNIT 2, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 600771675.
Dooley, Michael Shane was born in 1978 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 158 Inverness DR W # D301, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601122701.
Dooley, Michael Shea was born in 1964 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11589 Maplewood LN, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 200135750.
Dooley, Michael Stephen was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5470 Water Twr Promenade # 308, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601435137.
Dooley, Michael T was born in 1943 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2047 S Acoma ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 600710330.
Dooley, Michael Timothy was born in 1974 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1058 Kittery ST, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 600270687.
Dooley, Miranda Mae was born in 1994 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 168 S Monaco PKWY UNIT 168A, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601533443.
Dooley, Morgan Mont-Marie was born in 1993 and registered to vote, giving the address as 3130 Colony DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Dooley voter ID number is 601864059.
Dooley, Myrna D was born in 1943 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 808 N Hudson AVE, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3086337.
Dooley, Nancy Ann was born in 1953 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5480 Juniper DR, BRIGHTON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601252554.
Dooley, Nancy Blakefield was born in 1942 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4631 Stone Manor HTS, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 433618.
Dooley, Natalya Aleksandrovna was born in 1973 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4076 Lorraine RD, LARKSPUR, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600341593.
Dooley, Nellie N was born in 1943 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4542 N Deephaven CT, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2533943.
Dooley, Nicalene L was born in 1962 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6835 Cory PL, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 265293.
Dooley, Nicholas was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6660 Warren DR, DENVER, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 600409941.
Dooley, Noah Patrick was born in 1997 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10958 Big Stone CIR, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 600929841.
Dooley, Norman Robert was born in 1945 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 612 Crystola CT, WOODLAND PARK, Teller County, CO. His voter ID number is 3805841.
Dooley, Patricia Anne was born in 1960 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6579 Lewis ST, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4086409.
Dooley, Patricia Johnson was born in 1945 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1317 Cresson Mine DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 521345.
Dooley, Paula Darlene was born in 1949 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4150 S Calhan HWY, YODER, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 320507.
Dooley, Paula H was born in 1961 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 256 Lead Queen DR, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5813938.
Dooley, Payton Elise was born in 2000 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4050 Ascendant DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601747746.
Dooley, Payton Mattocks was born in 1998 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11589 Maplewood LN, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 602003188.
Dooley, Peggy Anne was born in 1949 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 16289 W 84Th DR, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601524634.
Dooley, Peggy Belinda was born in 1958 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 47527 Highway 34, WIGGINS, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6321202.
Dooley, Penelope Jane was born in 1938 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7923 W Mansfield PKWY # 108, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2753323.
Dooley, Phillip Michael was born in 1983 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 205 Cedar ST, BUENA VISTA, Chaffee County, CO. His voter ID number is 641766.
Dooley, Phillip Nicholas was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 21352 E 48Th DR, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 940397.
Dooley, Philomena was born in 1934 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1803 Grape AVE, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8006451.
Dooley, Phoebe Jane was born in 1945 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1326 S Pratt PKWY, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8006452.
Dooley, Quinn Michael was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6948 Peppertree DR, NIWOT, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 600841162.
Dooley, Rachel was born in 1995 and registered to vote, giving the address as 10346 Owens ST, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. Dooley voter ID number is 601505031.
Dooley, Rachel Jo was born in 1990 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10322 S County Rd 4, ALAMOSA, Alamosa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600641623.
Dooley, Randall Eugene was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9496 County Rd 82, ELBERT, Elbert County, CO. His voter ID number is 6794762.
Dooley, Raymond Bryon was born in 1941 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1900 E Girard PL # 702, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601585223.
Dooley, Rebecca Lea was born in 1972 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 25076 E 4Th PL, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 697520.
Dooley, Reuben Joseph was born in 2000 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3055 Castle Butte DR, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601569234.
Dooley, Rhett Andrew was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11153 Dobbins Run, LAFAYETTE, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 6929595.
Dooley, Richard James was born in 1954 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2421 Hondius WAY, ESTES PARK, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 601932840.
Dooley, Richard John was born in 1944 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9846 Harris ST, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 6831599.
Dooley, Robbin La Paula was born in 1982 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 15669 El Dorado WAY, LARKSPUR, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600317694.
Dooley, Robert John was born in 1965 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9937 Grove WAY UNIT C, WESTMINSTER, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 601474846.
Dooley, Robert Michael was born in 1964 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2750 E Cedar AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 5923460.
Dooley, Robert Thomas was born in 1964 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 730 Maxwell AVE, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8006454.
Dooley, Roger Dale was born in 1945 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1870 Bel Lago VW, MONUMENT, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 778763.
Dooley, Ronald L was born in 1946 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6316 S Johnson ST, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4112534.
Dooley, Ryan James was born in 1972 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 16289 W 84Th DR, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601243635.
Dooley, Sarah Maureen was born in 2000 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 30786 Snowbird LN, EVERGREEN, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601480302.
Dooley, Scott A was born in 1965 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7343 Mt Sherman RD, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8006455.
Dooley, Scott Brandon was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 15669 El Dorado WAY, LARKSPUR, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5674963.
Dooley, Sean G was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2805 Tartan LN, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 132741.
Dooley, Sean Patrick was born in 1964 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4050 Ascendant DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 200268266.
Dooley, Shane Ryan was born in 1986 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 513 Purple Ash CIR, CLIFTON, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 600879301.
Dooley, Shari Leigh was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 422 Bluebird DR, BAILEY, Park County, CO. Her voter ID number is 549909.
Dooley, Sharon Ann was born in 1948 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4441 Driftwood PL, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8006458.
Dooley, Shauna Rashel was born in 1980 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 405 Fantango LN, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4953841.
Dooley, Shelby June was born in 1985 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7279 Arapahoe, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8006459.
Dooley, Sherri Lea was born in 1962 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 405 Fantango LN, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4922387.
Dooley, Sherry Marie was born in 1941 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4007 W 20Th ST, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1399120.
Dooley, Sherry Ruth was born in 1942 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6440 Grape ST, COMMERCE CITY, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 7071494.
Dooley, Stanley Louis was born in 1954 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 47527 Highway 34, WIGGINS, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 6321203.
Dooley, Stephen J was born in 1975 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 681 Tahoe CIR, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 600059725.
Dooley, Stephen Patrick was born in 1997 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 30786 Snowbird LN, EVERGREEN, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601103549.
Dooley, Sydney Alexandra Byrd was born in 1990 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4449 N Tennyson ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600893138.
Dooley, Sydney Noelle was born in 1998 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4050 Ascendant DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601611860.
Dooley, Tana R was born in 1995 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1340 Yarmouth AVE, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600990198.
Dooley, Tate Patrick was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 12591 Bryant ST, BROOMFIELD, Broomfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 7219794.
Dooley, Terence Joseph was born in 1956 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8320 W 17Th AVE, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4040810.
Dooley, Teresa L was born in 1960 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 653 Vista LN, BAYFIELD, La Plata County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600862578.
Dooley, Teresa M was born in 1943 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9846 Harris ST, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 7101395.
Dooley, Terry Edward Jr was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 30786 Snowbird LN, EVERGREEN, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 2763728.
Dooley, Theodore E was born in 1953 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 37531 W Hwy 149, CREEDE, Mineral County, CO. His voter ID number is 4793861.
Dooley, Thomas F was born in 1941 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4631 Stone Manor HTS, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 433619.
Dooley, Thomas James was born in 1973 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4281 S Halifax WAY, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 3965147.
Dooley, Thomas Martin was born in 1974 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 22044 E Hinsdale AVE, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 6388642.
Dooley, Timothy B was born in 1962 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10770 Mt Antero WAY, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5733277.
Dooley, Timothy George was born in 1956 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3055 Castle Butte DR, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601193061.
Dooley, Timothy Michael was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2272 Juniper AVE, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 895039.
Dooley, Timothy Owen was born in 1957 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7442 Grady CIR, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5890648.
Dooley, Timothy Patrick was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10770 Mt Antero WAY, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 200298946.
Dooley, Titania L was born in 1971 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 0 Reservation, TOWAOC, Montezuma County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4890291.
Dooley, Todd Anthony was born in 1973 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2885 E Midway BLVD # 738, BROOMFIELD, Broomfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 601529509.
Dooley, Travis C was born in 1978 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1015 N 14Th ST, GUNNISON, Gunnison County, CO. His voter ID number is 5959342.
Dooley, Valerie Amber was born in 1981 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11153 Dobbins Run, LAFAYETTE, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6871378.
Dooley, Valerie J was born in 1948 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 13915 Westchester DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 100291.
Dooley, Vera Dmitrievna was born in 1980 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 15896 Wildhaven LN, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601278723.
Dooley, Victoria Noel was born in 1992 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11801 York ST UNIT 811, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600774883.
Dooley, Virginia E was born in 1938 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 35 Sandra LN, MANITOU SPGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 421899.
Dooley, William C was born in 1952 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 104 N Aspen AVE, CREEDE, Mineral County, CO. His voter ID number is 4793862.
Dooley, William Keith was born in 1952 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3008 S Mobile WAY # A, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601422275.
Dooley, William Thomas Iii was born in 1949 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 33336 Diana RD, PINE, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4144804.
Dooley-Basham, John Thomas was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5885 Bourke DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 600786165.
Dooley-Basham, Mckenna Joanne was born in 1994 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5885 Bourke DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600566467.
Dooley-Feldman, Eric Adam was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 214 Falls Creek CIR, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. His voter ID number is 600549889.
Dooley Heran, Kathleen Ann was born in 1954 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4645 W Ponds DR, LITTLETON, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 820308.
Dooley Johnston, Carol A was born in 1959 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6311 W Maplewood PL, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4102890.
Dooley-Reddy, Taran Je was born in 1989 and registered to vote, giving the address as 9706 E Mexico AVE # 1515, DENVER, Arapahoe County, CO. Dooley-Reddy voter ID number is 601397480.
Dooley-Sneller, Jane Inez was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8552 County Rd Ee.5, LAMAR, Prowers County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2995087.
Doolin, Alicia Kay was born in 1987 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 549 E Washington AVE, HAYDEN, Routt County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600313202.
Doolin, Alison Germaine was born in 1982 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1499 Blake ST APT 5D, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601435175.
Doolin, Ann Marie was born in 1962 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 399 E Jefferson AVE, HAYDEN, Routt County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200109654.
Doolin, Beth Rachel was born in 1972 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 655 Lincoln ST, CRAIG, Moffat County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600851555.
Doolin, Billy Lamont was born in 1955 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 625 Wickes AVE APT C106, CRAIG, Moffat County, CO. His voter ID number is 600963007.
Doolin, Brandi Nicole was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 322 N Lake CT, FRUITA, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5583917.
Doolin, Casey Lee was born in 1981 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 432 W 8Th ST, CRAIG, Moffat County, CO. His voter ID number is 5584657.
Doolin, Clarice Yvonne was born in 1958 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7050 Pecos ST APT 206, DENVER, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601660949.
Doolin, Colton Lee was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 280 Woodbury DR, CRAIG, Moffat County, CO. His voter ID number is 600219374.
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Doolin, David Bruce was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1100 W Jefferson AVE, HAYDEN, Routt County, CO. His voter ID number is 6570266.
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Doolin, Deborah Kay was born in 1953 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 784 Vitala DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601810429.
Doolin, Douglas Dale was born in 1961 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 399 E Jefferson AVE, HAYDEN, Routt County, CO. His voter ID number is 200109712.
Doolin, Iris Irene was born in 1942 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2055 County Rd 211, CRAIG, Moffat County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601057133.
Doolin, Jacob Ross was born in 1986 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 549 E Washington AVE, HAYDEN, Routt County, CO. His voter ID number is 200285157.
Doolin, Jesse was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 600 Barclay ST, CRAIG, Moffat County, CO. His voter ID number is 600688528.
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Flash Gordon: Vol. 5: The Cities of Ice
Here's yet another entry in the category of "what a great time we live in for reprints of classic comics."
Titan Comics has a reprint series of the classic Flash Gordon series, and this, the fifth volume, brings us the beginnings of the long run on the daily strips by the great Dan Barry.
The (pre-Barry) daily strip first appeared in 1940, and was actually dropped in 1944 - but in 1951 King Features decided to revive it (perhaps realizing that this fellow Flash seemed to be a bit popular, given the numerous movie serials and the hit Sunday comic).
Barry took the job reluctantly, but he made an effort to make it a bit more mainstream science fiction, and a little less fantasy that was so rampant during the Sunday strips by Flash's creator, Alex Raymond.
Barry was soon joined by writer Harvey Kurtman, who injected some more fantastic elements into the strip. It was a strong (if sometimes tempestuous) partnership. You can also spot some work by ghost artists like Frank Frazetta on some strips.
Barry was a strong artist, with a clean, classic style - and that worked well, because the daily strip was a mighty cramped space in comparison to the Sunday version, with vast spaces to explore.
Still, they made the most of it, and produced terrific work that (mostly) holds up well.
This collection gathers two years worth of strips, and should earn a spot in any collector's library.
Labels: Flash Gordon
Divinity II #1
Superhero origin stories are generally uplifting stories about humans being raised up to mythological levels.
There are lots of god-like events and imagery on display in Divinity II, the sequel to the first mini-series that followed a Russian cosmonaut who gains the power of a god - and then returns to Earth to set up his own version of heaven.
But that cosmonaut was sent into the void as a member of a team of three explorers - so what happened to the other two?
That mystery is solved here, with the focus on the only female, the tough and no-nonsense Valentina Volkov.
She watched as Abram Adams was affected by the alien surroundings - he transformed into a godlike being and returned to Earth, leaving the other two behind with no hope of survival.
But as the story by Matt Kindt demonstrates, Valentina is not one to give up easily. She's spent her entire existence fighting for life - and this is just another challenge to be faced, despite impossible odds.
The art is by Trevor Hairsine and Ryan Winn, and it's very good, with lush alien landscapes contrasting the gritty ground-level life of the poor in the Soviet Union. Great character designs, impressive effects - powerful storytelling.
It's a strong start to the series, with interesting groundwork being laid for future events. Recommended!
Labels: Divinity
Daredevil #7
The key mystery since Daredevil's latest relaunch is how he managed to put the genie (in other words, his secret identity) back in the bottle.
We still don't know the answer (though we seem to be getting closer to it), but the incident seems to have unexpected effects - one that brings Elektra back into Matt's life.
But it's not a happy visit - she's in a murderous mood, and when that happens, even Daredevil's life is in jeopardy.
My first reaction to seeing Elektra back in this series is a happy one, since it flashes back to her first appearances (a real high point in DD's history) - though it does it in unexpected ways.
But the story itself is a bit dodgy - it doesn't exactly pay fair with the reader. It can still redeem itself, but we'll have to wait another issue or two to see.
But I do love that cover by Bill Sienkiewicz!
Doctor Strange #8
There's not a lot I can add to my reviews of previous issues (which you can read right here), as this series continues to rocket off in new and unexpected directions.
Doctor Strange and some of the most prominent practitioners of magic are searching the world for hidden pockets of magic, hoping to find something that can help them defeat the Empirikul, a super-science-based army that plans to destroy all magic in every dimension.
They're off to a pretty good start, having humbled (and nearly killed) the good Doc and most of his allies.
Making the search even more difficult is the fact that the heroes are being tracked by assorted high-tech creatures and devices.
Their search for the right weapon brings into focus a major threat hiding in Doc's basement - and it's one the Empirikul may have to face next.
Terrific art and a strong story make this series one you should be reading.
Labels: Dr. Strange
Of all the "New 52" comics, I think in many ways Justice League was the most successful - and it ends on a very strong note.
That's no small task, because this series had a lot of story elements in play - and somehow manages to wrap up almost every one of them, while setting up elements that will come into play in the new and improved DC Universe.
Give writer Geoff Johns credit for managing to make the Darkseid Wars event series powerful and unpredictable - and mostly self-contained, aside from a handful of one-shot issues that were easily ignored (at least I had no trouble ignoring them).
The "New 52" Justice League comic started out very strong, with the story of how the original team came together (a story that was also centered around Darkseid, and would make a good basis for the upcoming live action film).
The idea of bringing together DC's biggest names to fight together is a difficult one to manage, as the continuity in their individual comics often gets in the way - but when the team is together, it can be mighty entertaining.
Hopefully the next version of this title will have better success keeping the band together. But at least this issue brings the cast together for a final, cosmic-sized battle for the fate of the Earth. What fun!
Captain America: Steve Rogers #1
There are times when I hate Social Media.
For example, when I opened my Facebook account on Wednesday, the "Trending" list spelled out the event that happens on the last page of this, the first issue of Captain America: Steve Rogers.
Thanks for the spoiler warning, Zuckerberg.
Of course, fandom in general is outraged because of... that event. (Of which we shall not speak here, because we care).
My reaction is simply this: if you're outraged, you're wasting your energy. This is obviously a setup for a story, not a permanent change in Cap's status quo. (At least this is my hope.)
I'm happy to see Steve Rogers back to normal finally, after a couple of years as a 90-year-old man - though I must admit I don't understand why the Falcon is still going by the title Captain America - and why he still carries the original shield (you'd think it would be cumbersome to fly with that thing).
I'm most puzzled by the decision to age Sharon Carter - she seems middle-aged here, but until just recently she's been eternally in her 20s (like virtually all the other Marvel heroes). What's the point?
The story is... ok. It's dusting off Hydra and the Red Skull and Zemo as the big bad guys - and brings back some familiar faces as the supporting cast - but while the art by Jesus Saiz is very good (I'm still on the fence about Cap's new costume - why not use the movie version?), I'm still not sold on the story by Nick Spencer.
Hopefully upcoming issues will kick it into a higher gear - so far the story is just plodding along, following well-worn paths.
The star of this year's biggest movie deserves better.
DC Universe Rebirth #1
After five years of the "New 52," DC has finally admitted that the reboot was (mostly) a mistake.
They haven't admitted it in so many words, of course - but DC Universe Rebirth makes it obvious.
Written by Geoff Johns, the story hinges on the idea that the DC universe is broken - cut off from its origins, its legacy - its heart and soul. (I will not argue with that.)
The "New 52" included some good stories, but far too many moved away from the core of the characters, stripping away the Teen Titans, the Flash Family, Superman's supporting cast, the Legion of Super-heroes and on and on. In the attempt to be new and edgy, it jettisoned too much of the backstory on its characters - some of the things that made them so popular in the first place.
It's the same problem we've seen with the films Man of Steel and Batman v Superman - and Rebirth is an attempt to correct the course of the DC Universe.
(By the way, I can't urge you strongly enough to try to avoid spoilers here.)
The story starts and ends with a mystery narrator, and brings back a classic (and much-missed) character to jump-start the change that's rippling across the DC Universe - one that hearkens back to the event that started the New 52, Flashpoint.
The story is like a wonderful Easter Egg hunt, as we touch base with characters long-missing (some I thought were dead) - we get a quick update on others and we witness an emotional, heartfelt reunion.
The twist at the end is a genuine shock (a true rarity in comics) and suggests a new dynamic for the entire company - and boy, does it need it!
I have no idea if "Rebirth" is going to work (New 52 certainly didn't). I applaud the change in tone, I think they're on the right track - but I don't like the idea of twice-monthly comics (even at $2.99 per issue), and some of the ads in the back of the issue leave me cold. But others show great promise!
I'm hopeful that it will work. I didn't last long with the "New 52" - by the end, I was only buying Batman and Flash (more out of nostalgia than anything) and the Justice League. I'd like to buy more - and I hope to give many of the new issues a try - but the company has some ground to make up and good will to earn back.
This is just the first step - but it's a good start.
Labels: DC Universe Rebirth
- Captain America #1 - Thanks for spoiling the surprise ending, Facebook.
- DC Universe Rebirth #1 - So long, "New 52."
- Daredevil #7 - Elektra has a secret!
- Doctor Strange #8 - Looking for magic in all the wrong places.
- Flash #52 - Showdown with the Riddler and the Rogues!
- Patsy Walker aka Hellcat - #6 - Summer fun!
- Totally Awesome Hulk #6 - Hulk vs. Thor!
- Justice League #50 - The end of the Darkseid War!
- Star Wars #19 - Stopping a prison break.
- Mighty Thor #7 - Fighting the world's mightiest Viking!
Wynonna Earp #4
Zombies are all the rage, and it was just a matter of time before they reared their undead heads in the direction of Wynonna Earp.
Of course, as a monster-hunting Marshal with the Black Badge Division, she'd have it no other way - and where other titles (which shall go unnamed) would stretch a plague of zombies over dozens (or hundreds) of issues, Wynonna and her fellow enforcers show how to expedite the matter.
Beau Smith provides a fast and funny adventure set in the shopping mall of the damned, as a scientist (we won't say he's mad - but he is pretty wacky) turns shoppers into the army of the dead!
The art is by Lora Innes, and it's wonderful - she captures the likenesses of the actors, infuses lots of energy and animation (and a health dollop of gore) and a wonderful sense of humor into the proceedings.
The series captures the verbal interplay between the characters and ties in nicely to the cast of the TV show on SyFy (which is quite good - if you're not already, you should be watching this show. It's a great mix of horror, action and humor, with great writing and feisty characters.)
What more do you need?
Labels: Wynonna Earp
Clandestino #3
If you're looking for a great "B" movie in comic book form, you can't go wrong with Clandestino.
It's the straightforward story of a man who has sacrificed his body to save the woman he loves from a grisly prison.
Barely surviving some terrible injuries, he is nursed back to health by the beautiful Leena - but how long can he continue to fight against overwhelming odds?
It's a rough-and-tumble, fight-for-your-life, bare-knuckles-and-brutal-fight-for-life all rolled into a powerful issue by artist / writer Amancay Nahuelpan.
The question is, will Clandestino and Leena survive the attack that's coming?
This is he first comic in a long time that I read the ending and I thought, "How the heck are they going to survive this?"
Can't wait to see what happens next!
Labels: Clandestino
X-O Manowar Annual #1
At least once a year I feel compelled to break out my old man rant that "today's annuals aren't as good as they were when I was a kid."
This stems from the beloved Marvel Annuals in the '60s that told epic stories (Atlantis invades New York! Dr. Doom's origin! Spider-Man fights the Sinister Six!).
Modern annuals tend to be more like slightly larger (and more expensive) versions of regular issues.
To their credit, the creative teams involved in the X-O Manowar Annual take a different approach, as they craft five different stories that shine a light on different corners of Aric's life and legend.
Those stories include: a quick origin recap of the title hero; a look at Aric's brutal childhood; an ally discovers a long-hidden secret about her past; a deadly enemy joins forces with secret allies; and there's a teaser for a major story unfolding.
The writing is strong and the art is very good, so this is definitely a strong entry in the annals of modern annuals - but it's still not up to the classic version.
(But I am a geezer, so keep that in mind.)
Labels: X-O Manowar
Tank Girl: Two Girls One Tank #1
Back again for more hell-raising is the cult favorite Tank Girl, the legendary anarchist who just wants to have fun.
Originally created in 1988 by Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin, Tank Girl has appeared in a number of series, mini-series - and a feature film!
She's back in a new title by writer Alan Martin and artist Brett Patterson, and she hasn't lost a step.
But she has lost her tank (which doubles as her home and her weapon of choice), thanks to her mutant kangaroo husband Booga, who lost it in a card game.
Never daunted, the two and their best friend Barney (who's a female) set out on a daring crime, but they're destined to meet another kindred spirit - and lots of law enforcement officials.
This is a fun, high-energy series. It's not for kids - there's adult language and some nudity - it's morally dubious, but all in good fun.
Labels: Tank Girl
Civil War II #0
Since the movie is (deservedly) a huge hit, it's no surprise that Marvel has gone back to the well with Civil War II.
There's one thing missing this time around - Captain America.
This time around, it looks like the conflict is going to be between Iron Man and a different Captain - this one is named Marvel.
This issue #0 (I hate issues numbered zero on general principle, I should admit) doesn't give us much to chew on.
There's some nice artwork by the always-excellent Olivier Coipel, but the script by Brian Michael Bendis is disturbing - and not in the ways he intended.
We're just given a handful of scenes without much in the way of context. For example: She-Hulk argues in a case defending a retired super-villain threatened with prison for having a discussion of his past crimes; War Machine (James Rhodes) meets with the President (carefully covered so you can't identify him) who promises to make Rhodey the next president (can he do that?); Captain Marvel meets with Doc Sampson (I thought he was dead?), who does some not-so-subtle analyzing of her state of mind; and the Terrigen Mist sweeps across a campus in Ohio, leaving behind a few cocoons, and three new Inhumans.
How does all that tie together? I have no idea - and the closing pages depict a scene that makes no sense at all. Is it a scene of destruction, an illusion, a vision of the future, or something else? No clue.
Heroes fighting each other is a Marvel staple, and the movie Captain America: Civil War shows how to do it right. The original mini-series, Civil War, shows how to do it badly.
We'll see which category this series ultimately falls into.
Labels: Civil War
Of all the comics that came out this week, Future Quest was the one I was most looking forward to.
That's because it brings together a surprising array of my favorite Hanna-Barbera cartoon heroes that once populated Saturday morning television.
The trick, of course, is: how do you bring such a disparate group together?
Among the characters depicted on the cover are Jonny Quest, Space Ghost, the Herculoids, Birdman, the Mighty Mightor, Frankenstein, Jr., and the Impossibles.
The story uses Dr. Quest (Jonny's dad) and a mysterious discovery to provide cover for the ultimate team-up, and it gets off to a rollicking good start here.
The story by Jeff Parker is true to the original creations while updating them to modern sensibilities, all while keeping the focus on fun, adventure and friendship (how great to see Jonny and Hadji flying over the Everglades with their flight packs)!
The art is a perfect update of the original designs - clean and fresh, loaded with energy and high spirits - and who better to provide the art than Evan "Doc" Shaner and Steve Rude?
These characters came along at the perfect time in my childhood - I was about 10 years old when they hit, and as we all know, "The Golden Age is 10."
So I'm thrilled to see them back in action, and I can't wait to see where this series goes next.
Labels: Future Quest, Jonny Quest, Space Ghost
The Classics - The Champions (Marvel)
Not everything can be a winner - and the ironically-named series The Champions was one of Marvel's rare misfires.
In the mid-70s, Marvel must have thought it was invincible - it had a huge string of hits, with several "team" comics enjoying success, including the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Avengers, and the Defenders - so why not add one more?
The Champions line-up almost seemed like an afterthought - it included former Avengers Hercules and the Black Widow, former X-Men Iceman and the Angel, and the Ghost Rider.
But it takes some kind of chemistry between the team members to make a team book work - and there wasn't much of that going on here. It felt like a random gathering of mismatched heroes.
The book itself seemed to struggle - it was originally intended to be a Giant-Size book, but was reconfigured into a regular comic.
But the biggest problem was the inconsistency in the creative team. In the first dozen issues the book passed through the hands of writers Tony Isabella, Bill Mantlo and Chris Claremont, and artist Don Heck, George Tuska, Bob Hall and John Byrne. They're all talented, but it's difficult for a book to maintain any cohesive storytelling with so many changes.
The series finally ended with issue #17, and Marvel actually lost a lawsuit over the ownership of the name of the group (it belonged to a roleplaying game), so the team was dissolved and never made a comeback.
So Marvel's not without its stumbles - but even with that, there's a lot to enjoy in this series, though all the characters eventually went on to bigger and better things.
Labels: Champions, Classic Comics
- Astro City #35 - What I did on vacation...
- Civil War II #0 - Can't we all just get along?
- Future Quest #1 - Jonny Quest, Space Ghost - I'm there!
- Silver Surfer #4 - Recovery room.
- Spider-Man #4 - Making new friends.
- Usagi Yojimbo #154 - Paying a debt.
- Wynonna Earp #4 - Zombies at the mall!
It's good to see the Guardians of the Galaxy (the comic) acting like the Guardians of the Galaxy (the movie).
Now that we're past the silly "Star-Lord rules a world" story, we've moved into proper territory - a mission to rescue a planet of slaves.
The last couple of issues (each adorned by a terrific Art Adams cover) has featured a different segment of the team involved in a mysterious mission - and this issue (focusing on Venom and Groot) clears up some of the mystery, as their goal comes into focus.
So it's a fun, adventurous romp as the team tries to find a way to outsmart the enemy and pull off an impossible mission - and I have to admit that I enjoy the classic "Justice-League-let's-split-up-into-teams" approach.
So, a great story by Brian Michael Bendis, excellent art by Valerio Schiti, a fun story about an impossible task, all building to a big finish - what's not to like?
Penny Dreadful #1
I must admit that I haven't seen the Showtime TV series yet, but the comic book version of Penny Dreadful is a treat for horror fans.
It incorporates characters and elements from one of the greatest horror stories ever - Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Loaded with powerful, dark imagery by artist Louis De Martinis, the Victorian era story follows a woman named Vanessa who seeks to save a friend of hers - Mina - who has fallen under the influence of a mysterious figure known only as The Master.
Vanessa joins forces with Mina's father in a rescue attempt that pits them against monsters - natural and otherwise - and brings some well-known names into the story.
It's not a story for kids - lots of blood, demons and dismemberment here - but for adult fans of horror, it's a strong start for the series.
(Now I need to track down the TV version.)
Labels: Penny Dreadful
All-New X-Men #9
As you might expect, given the villain in the upcoming X-Men movie, the X-comics are all focusing on the powerful villain Apocalypse.
It's a short trip for the cast of All-New X-Men, because the teenage clone of that character is on the team: Kid Apocalypse! (I promise I am not making this up.)
That character celebrates his 16th birthday in this issue as his friends and fellow students throw a big party for him - but he struggles with the celebration as he reflects on his origin and his probable destiny.
That leads to an unexpected encounter with the Beast, who's trying to solve the time-travel mystery that has the original X-Men team trapped in the present - and the two heroes discover that science and sorcery don't mix.
I love the clean, dynamic art by Mark Bagley and Andrew Hannessey, and the story features quite a few twists and turns - and unexpected revelations.
It's a solid kick-off for this title's coverage of the Apocalypse Wars (whatever that is).
Remembering Darwyn Cooke
Comic fans everywhere were rocked today by the news of Darwyn Cooke's passing.
It's a terrible shock, given that Cooke was only 54 years old - and only the day before it was revealed that he had been fighting cancer.
Cooke was a rare artist who had a unique style all his own - one that evoked the joy and energy of the Silver Age of comics. His style seemed to contain some on the minimalism of Alex Toth, the raw energy of Jack Kirby, and a dynamic style of Steve Rude - all rolled into a distinctive and fresh package.
His work in comics is not vast, but it's certainly important - he redrafted Catwoman into her modern look, he revitalized the Wild West in Jonah Hex, he gave the entire industry a much-needed shot of optimism with his reimagining of the Silver Age in DC's New Frontier, and he gave his own steely edge to hardboiled fiction with his adaptation of the Parker stories.
He also crafted a number of covers - mostly for DC - that will hopefully one day be collected for fans to read and enjoy.
In a just world, he would have had decades more to tell his stories and share his vision - but we can take some comfort that he leaves behind so much great work that we can enjoy - and treasure.
Labels: Obituary
The Badger #4
Just as "Only Nixon could go to China," only the Badger could go to Russia - and fight Vladimir Putin.
As anyone who's been following world politics should know, Putin is the President of Russia. As Badger readers now know, Putin is also the Wizard of the East.
So when the Badger's boss, Ham (the Wizard of the West), sends the Badger to deliver a demon's tongue to Putin, you know it's just a matter of time before the two square off in a slobber-knocking, teeth-spitting fight to the finish.
Written by Mike Baron, the script is a maniacal blast, with a confrontation no other comic would tackle, and a free-flowing, stream-of-consciousness hoot of a story.
The art is by the legendary Val Mayerick, an artist who does amazing, realistic fight sequences (and really gets to cut loose here), and he's also great at capturing the image of Putin.
It's all in good fun (though Putin might not agree) - an over the top action extravaganza.
Labels: Badger
All New All Different Avengers #9
My typical reaction to the introduction of a "new" version of a hero is usually the same: Bleh.
That's mostly because I tend to be loyal to the original creation, and I feel the "reinvention" is energy that would better be put to work revitalizing the original character.
So I picked up this issue of All New All Different Avengers, which introduces the new Wasp, and my first thought was, "what was wrong with the original?"
I'm a big fan of the original Ant-Man (Giant-Man) and the Wasp - Henry Pym and Janet Van Dyne, two characters who have been treated very poorly by so many Marvel writers. Instead of being the happy-go-lucky, Nick-and-Nora, squabbling but deeply in love characters they were meant to be, they've been put through the character buzz saw, shredding what made them great as a sacrifice for some passing story.
The character is even more muddled with the advent of the Ant-Man movie, which recast Pym and as older man whose wife Janet has mysteriously disappeared. Perhaps this is just an attempt to bring the comics more in line with the movies - suddenly, Pym is gone (perhaps dead?), and Janet has been out of the picture for years.
What the story has in its favor is that it's written by Mark Waid, who finds an interesting (and believable) story thread to give the new Wasp a solid origin - and a bit of mystery.
It's a solid first step, and I'm willing to suspend my traditional "bleh" - until the character gives me a reason to feel otherwise.
The Classics - Civil War #1 - 7
When I was writing my review of the (quite excellent) Civil War movie, I looked into the archives, certain that I'd reviewed the original 2006 mini-series.
But I started this humble blog in 2008, so I never touched on this event.
Which was probably just as well, because I believe the story sets some kind of record for starting out as a great idea - and then plummeting to the depths of dopiness.
Written by Mark Millar, it starts with a terrible incident, as the New Warriors tackle some major villains - and a terrible explosion kills hundreds of children.
The public demands action, so the government decides to require every superhero and supervillain to register and be, essentially, civil service employees working for the government.
The idea splits the ranks right down the middle, with Captain America (surprisingly) opposing the government's plan, and Iron Man championing it. That sets up a terrific action sequence in the first issue, as Cap fights for his life against a army of SHIELD agents determined to bring him in - and artist Steve McNiven, who does great work in this series, shines here.
But from there, the series starts falling apart. Tony Stark (teaming with Reed Richards) employs more and more draconian measures - arresting heroes, throwing them in a prison in the Negative Zone, building a clone of one of his oldest friends, which promptly runs wild - and soon, heroes are being killed.
In other words, everyone on Iron Man's side must become a villain to keep the story going - and they even throw in Spider-Man unmasking publicly, easily the second-worst thing Marvel has ever done to Spidey (Mephisto being the worst).
The ending is the worst offense - because there isn't one. There's no real resolution to the issue, the series just... ends.
It's a real shame, because the series features great art and it started out with such promise. The movie shows what might have been - but this series just ended up being a huge disappointment, an opportunity wasted.
Labels: Civil War, Classic Comics
- Archie #8 - Why is Archie leaving the country?
- All New All Different Avengers #9 - Welcome the new Wasp!
- Badger #4 - Badger vs. Putin!
- Batman #52 - Back to the beginning.
- Guardians of the Galaxy #8 - He is Groot, after all.
- Powers #6 - The final solution.
- George Perez's Sirens #5 - Nice to see this series back in action.
- Starfire #12 - The end of the road.
- Swamp Thing #5 - A gathering of mystic forces.
- All New X-Men #9 - The Apocalypse Wars begin!
Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor #9
The one strike against the televised "modern" adventures of Doctor Who is that sometimes the plots get a bit too tangled to follow (I'm looking at you, Sandmen).
That's a charge that can fairly be leveled against this adventure of the 10th Doctor (David Tennant, natch).
It finds the Doctor and two companions - Gabby Gonzalez, an artist, and Cindy Wu, Gabby's best friend - in a sleepy village that's plagued by a strange, ghost-like witch that lives in a well.
The witch attacks people and steals their memories - all while making odd, fragmented comments that seem familiar.
It's up to the Doctor to sort out the mystery and find a solution.
But I have to admit, even after reading this issue, I'm not sure I entirely understand what happened.
That probably says more about me than about this comic - but if I'm struggling, I assume most readers will do likewise. It's ok for a writer to be clever - but it's possible to be too clever, too.
4001 AD #1
Valiant Comics has rolled out its latest mini-series - one that has an odd history.
Back in the day, Valiant had a significant part of its run set in the distant future, largely based around Magnus, Robot Fighter.
But the company apparently no longer has the rights to that character, so this new event book - 4001 AD - is centered around Rai, the part human / part robot creation that was designed to serve as the protector of New Japan, which is an island in space orbiting around the Earth.
As we learn in the backstory, Rai rebelled against Father, the machine intelligence that controlled New Japan, and for his pains was cast down - but not before a virus was planted, threatening to destroy Father.
But Father seems determined to survive, even if it has to destroy New Japan to do it - and it's up to Rai to find some ancient allies and find a way to fight back.
It's a bit much to take in one sitting, but writer Matt Kindt keeps it rolling along, and artists Clayton Crain and David Mack bring the future to life with some striking, powerful art.
The only thing that hurts the series - for me - is the absence of Magnus. But there are enough Valiant characters - and certainly high stakes - to make this compelling.
Labels: 4001 AD
Captain America: Civil War - Movie Review
I admit that I felt a moment of fear when Marvel announced the title of the movie Captain America: Civil War.
That's because I really didn't like the mini-series with the same title - it forced heroes like Iron Man to play the role of a villain in order for the story - such as it was - to work.
Thankfully, I needn't have worried - the film takes the basic premise (heroes oppose each other on principle) and makes it work.
It also manages to craft one of the best of the Marvel movies.
The three films starring Cap have enjoyed some of the best writing in the Marvel movies, and they actually manage to include that most beloved of comic book conceits - continuity.
Events from previous movies dovetail into this film - from the alien invasion of New York in The Avengers to the crashing helicarriers in Washington, DC in Winter Soldier and the devastation in Sokovia in Age of Ultron, the Avengers are faced with a population that lives in fear of superpowered characters - and the call goes out for change. A terrible event that involves heroes just increases the tension.
The United Nations wants to regulate the team and allow it to operate under its guidance - and many of the heroes agree with the idea. But not everyone.
And that's the beauty of the film, as we can easily agree with either hero - because there are good reasons on each side.
Events force an escalation of the tension, and soon the two sides are squaring off in the best superhero fight ever filmed.
It's a smart script that manages to surprise us while balancing terrific, imaginative action sequences, razor-sharp dialogue, lots of heart and a healthy dose of humor.
One of the true secrets of Marvel's success, though, is the perfect casting. Chris Evans is spot-on as Cap, the ultimate soldier with a big heart who cares about his fellow warriors - and puts his friends above his own safety. Robert Downey, Jr. gives his best performance yet as Tony Stark, a haunted man who tries to fix that which is broken, but who must face his own demons.
The film manages a staggering cast of characters - Falcon, Scarlet Witch, Winter Soldier, War Machine, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Winter Soldier, Vision - with "guest appearances" by Ant-Man, Black Panther and Spider-Man, all of whom get their own star turns and scene-stealing moments.
But despite the crowd, this is Cap's movie, as it all hinges on his actions - right or wrong - and (like his second movie), the film will have impacts that will continue to echo in future episodes.
The question everyone wonders is: which movie about fighting superheroes is best: Batman v Superman or Civil War?
It's not even close. (Sorry, DC.) This is a great film first and a great action film second. It has heart, humor and a story to tell - and the heroes act like heroes throughout.
Labels: Captain America, Movie Reviews
Free Comic Book Day!
It's everyone's favorite holiday - Free Comic Book Day!
I managed to score seven of them - feel free to send in your list, either in the comments below or via email to us as chuckscomicoftheday@gmail.com!
Here's my take:
- Captain America (Marvel)
Hey, it's the real Captain America (sorry, Falcon), Steve Rogers, back in action just in time for his new movie release!
Here he tackles a new and rising threat from Hydra, using a new shield - but thankfully, he's still the classic hero we love so well.
It also brings back some familiar faces - though I'm not sure why Sharon Carter is depicted as being a bit older than usual. It's great to see Rick Jones again, although his characterization here is a bit suspect.
This looks very promising.
The second half of the book previews an Amazing Spider-Man story that I'm happy to miss.
- Civil War (Marvel)
Hey, it's a comic based on Civil War, but not anything like the (excellent) movie.
This previews the upcoming mini-series, and it gets things off the a rousing start as a group of Avengers squares off against Thanos, who's looking for one of his favorite cosmic gizmos.
The art is terrific, but I'm not sure where the story is going from here. But I'm intrigued enough to pick up the series now, so mission accomplished.
The backup feature focuses on the new Wasp, who I was prepared to hate - but I may have to rethink that, after this turn (with great art by Alan Davis). We'll see.
(But is it true about Hank Pym? Me no like!)
- Suicide Squad (DC)
Just in time to promote the upcoming movie (do we sense a running theme here?), we have the dark and bloody story about the Suicide Squad, a team of criminals assembled to tackle the dirty jobs that no hero would tackle.
This is (mostly) an introduction to the team - a grim and grisly bunch that includes a version of Harley Quinn that's barely recognizable to the one appearing in her own title these days.
It doesn't do much for me, but as the legendary Don Thompson wrote, if you like this sort of thing, here it is.
- DC Superhero Girls (DC)
It's always nice to see a book aimed at young readers (they're few and far between), and this issue previews an upcoming graphic novel and toy line (and maybe an animated series).
DC Superhero Girls is set in an alternate reality where all the heroes and villains are attending high school, so you get lots of angst and teenage concerns, along with lasting friendships.
Think Archie comics if they were published by DC.
It's a fresh, fun take on the classic characters, and young readers will probably enjoy it, even if it ends on a cliffhanger.
- Serenity / Hellboy / Aliens (Dark Horse)
Probably the best of this year's crop of Free Comics, this one is loaded with fun, fan-favorite characters.
It starts with the cast of Serenity, as baby Emma gets a fun bedtime story all about her parents and their allies - and how they were rescued by a big damn hero.
The Hellboy short story teams up writer / creator Mike Mignola and artist Rich Corben for a grisly tale of a deadly mirror. Good and scary!
An Aliens short story rounds out the issue, as a grim battle for survival is waged in deep space between a warrior and some murderous creatures.
- Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Archie)
It was a bit of a shock when the usually fresh-faced Archie Comics line introduced a line of horror comics - and equally shocking when Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (of cartoon and live-action squeaky-clean TV show fame) popped up in her own grisly comic.
And this issue pulls no punches, with horrific visuals, death and destruction - and some of the characters involved are downright shocking.
As horror goes, it's very well done - but it makes it difficult to look at the Riverdale gang in the same light again.
- ROM (IDW)
Back after a long absence from comics is ROM, the Spaceknight.
The series featured an invasion of Earth by creatures known as the Dire Wraiths - shape-shifting, murderous aliens who plan death and destruction for our home.
This new series seems like a restart for the series, as it features ROM showing up on Earth to fight - against impossible odds - to rid the Earth of this terrible infestation.
It's nice to see ROM back in action, and touching to see a promotion in the comic in support of the character's original writer, Bill Mantlo.
- Bongo Free-For-All! (Bongo)
One of the most reliably entertaining Free Comics is always the entry from Bongo Comics.
This issue features a treasure of Simpsons antics by some of the company's top creators - it's always loads of laughs!
And Bart and company wraps up the day for me - that's all for my list of Free Comics.
Did I miss any treasures along the way?
Labels: Free Comic Book Day
Beasts of Burden: What the Cat Dragged In (One-shot)
It's a delight to see this series back, if just for a one-shot story. The focus here is on some cats and a deadly demon.
Beasts of Burden is a deceptive series that focuses on animals that can talk among themselves (though humans don't understand them - these are not cartoon animals).
But these animals are guardians, protecting the community of Burden from mystic dangers, often dark and unsettling ones.
The focus is usually on a "gang" of dogs, but this issue - What the Cat Dragged In - turns the spotlight over to the cats, as they face a problem on their own.
At the center of the threat is Dymphna, a black cat - and former familiar for a witch - who seeks to return home to gather some important things, but the entrances are blocked - and help is required, which includes two other cats and a raccoon (for a very funny reason).
It's a sinister tale with some terrific twists - and as always, a real tug at the heartstrings.
Why, oh why, doesn't this series appear on a regular basis? It's in a category of its own. (The best description I've been able to work up would be to mix Watership Down with Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft.)
Writers Evan Dorkin and Sarah Dyer turn in a powerful script here, and the art by Jill Thompson is stunning, evoking a real world and settings, mixed with a fantastic magical undertone.
It's stunning and important work, and it should be at the top of the sales chart. Highly recommended!
Labels: Beasts of Burden
The Punisher #1
For a character who's incredibly popular, The Punisher's comic sure does get cancelled a lot.
But it always returns, and this time his stories are being guided by writer Becky Cloonan and artist Steve Dillon.
Just like the character's recent appearance in the Daredevil TV show on Netflix, this is not a story for young readers.
Instead, we have another chapter in Frank Castle's never-ending battle against criminals, as he seeks revenge for the murder of his wife and children.
A group of drug-runners are under surveillance by a team of law enforcement officials. The drug involved turns ordinary men into fighting machines, incapable of feeling pain.
It's the perfect target for the Punisher, and he (rather recklessly) invades their hideout, determined to dish out death and destruction. But what happens when he runs into a drug-hazed super soldier?
So it's a strong start for the series, loaded with potential and lots of blood and guts. Not to mention brutal death and destruction. And terrific art.
(But I'm serious - not for kids.)
Labels: Punisher
The Classics - Amazing Spider-Man #42
While we typically don't like to spoil the ending of stories, we'll make a bit of an exception here - because the final panels of this classic issue are among the most iconic of all time.
The Amazing Spider-Man title had been rocked a few months before this issue (with a cover date of November 1966) with the departure of artist and co-creator Steve Ditko.
It's not easy to deal with the departure of a genius, especially one who laid the foundation for the character.
But writer and editor Stan Lee was smart enough to pick John Romita as Ditko's replacement - a good idea, since Romita was also a genius.
This issue is proof, as it offers up a run-of-the-mill opponent for Spider-Man - namely, J. Jonah Jameson's son, astronaut Col. John Jameson!
Affected by mysterious space spores, John suddenly develops incredible strength, dons a special costume and decides to use his powers to become a hero. His first opponent is Spider-Man, who's accused of robbing a bank.
It's all pretty standard stuff, but Romita provides a rip-snorting fight between the two, and Lee provides his usual light-hearted (and very entertaining) banter.
It makes for a fun adventure - but the real treat was on the final page. For months Peter Parker had been avoiding attempts by Aunt May to arrange a date with her friend's niece. The reader had never seen her face, either (though Betty Brant and Gwen Stacy met her at one point).
Peter is convinced that Mary Jane Watson is - well, let's say, unattractive - why else would she be available for a blind date?
It's a classic bit of misdirection, and the final panels allow us to enjoy the shock on Peter's face as he realizes his terrible mistake. It's a striking moment, loaded with comic and romantic potential - and it was the starting point for a long-running and mighty entertaining relationship between the two classic characters.
The image brings a smile to this day - 50 years later!
Here's what I picked up at the comics today:
- A-Force #5 - Who was that Thor I saw you with?
- Beasts of Burden: What the Cat Dragged In #1 - Dark sorcery - and cats!
- Black Widow #3 - Blast from the past!
- Flash #51 - Riddle me this.
- Gold Key Alliance #2 - Putting the band together for the first time.
- Invincible Iron Man #9 - Competition for Iron Man?
- Punisher #1 - A brutal beginning.
- Spirit #10 - Hunting a killer.
- Superman: Coming of the Supermen #4 - What is Luthor's plan?
4 Kids Walk Into A Bank #1 (of 5)
If you're looking for a comic that's different, you'd have to go some to beat 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank.
It's a street-level story about four eccentric young friends - Berger, Pat, Walter and Paige. They seem like regular kids: playing Dungeons and Dragons, defending each other and planning "secret missions" - but their lives take a surprising turn when four men turn up at Paige's home, demanding to see her father.
The four men are not nice guys - they each have a criminal record and won't hesitate to hurt the young friends.
So why are they looking for Paige's dad, and what is his connection to the criminals? That's just the beginning of this story, which promises lots of unexpected twists and turns along the way.
The story by Matthew Rosenberg crafts a narrative that is off-beat, yet believable and compelling.
The art and design are by Tyler Boss, and it's unique, with original character designs and a style that somehow manages to be a bit cartoonish but evocative of the real world. The layouts and patterns designs are very creative, too.
The credits also credit Courtney Menard with the wallpaper designs and Clare Dezutti with "Flatting" - whatever that is.
This isn't a book for everyone, but it's an interesting start.
Labels: 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank
This issue of Batman (apparently) marks the end of the run for writer Scott Snyder and artist Greg Capullo, the duo who have been guiding the Dark Knight's comic (more of less) since the "New 52" started.
Their run has been pretty solid, although I don't think they ever matched the high point of the opening "Court of the Owls" story.
Capullo's art has been excellent throughout, and this issue is another gold star on his report card - his layouts have been powerful, with great character designs throughout.
Snyder's stories haven't always worked, but he's kept the reader on his or her toes, and managed quite a few surprises and solid additions to the Bat-pantheon.
This issue is aimed at decompression, allowing the reader to sort the new status quo after the whole "Batman has amnesia" foolishness (the low point from the past four years of stories).
We see some new designs (including a long-overdue upgrade for the Batmobile) and check in on most of the supporting cast and villains.
So, it's been fun, but I'm anxious to see what's next for this comic - and I'll be watching to see where these creators go next.
Wherever it is, attention should be paid.
This is such a tricky series to manage.
I'm always nervous when a new creative team takes a run at Doctor Strange - sometimes they succeed wildly (Lee and Ditko, Thomas and Colan, Englehart and Brunner, Stern and Rogers) and other times, not so much.
Writer Jason Aaron and artist Chris Bachalo (with six inkers on this issue!) now have seven issues under their belt, and while some of their choices have been a bit... odd? Disgusting? Creepy? (Yes to all those.) ... it's also been very entertaining.
The story ramping up now promises to be a big one, as a new enemy appears in our reality, promising to destroy all magic (and the practitioners thereof).
The forces known as Empirikul have been sweeping across realities, leaving behind death and devastation - and now their leader, Lord Imperator, has arrived on Earth.
Doctor Strange took his most potent shot at stopping the invaders - and failed completely.
We learn the story behind the big bad in this issue, and you may note some similarities to a certain other visitor from a distant planet.
But minor quibbles aside, this is a tense, rip-snorting story that challenges the magic at the heart of the Marvel universe, and it promises big things.
So far, I'm impressed! But will Aaron and Bachalo earn a spot with the legendary creators listed above? We'll see!
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An unusual intervention is infrared/near-infrared light of particular wavelengths (LLLT), theorized to assist mitochondrial respiration and yielding a variety of therapeutic benefits. Some have suggested it may have cognitive benefits. LLLT sounds strange but it’s simple, easy, cheap, and just plausible enough it might work. I tried out LLLT treatment on a sporadic basis 2013-2014, and statistically, usage correlated strongly & statistically-significantly with increases in my daily self-ratings, and not with any sleep disturbances. Excited by that result, I did a randomized self-experiment 2014-2015 with the same procedure, only to find that the causal effect was weak or non-existent. I have stopped using LLLT as likely not worth the inconvenience.
2 break days later, I took the quarter-pill at 11:22 PM. I had discovered I had for years physically possessed a very long interview not available online, and transcribing that seemed like a good way to use up a few hours. I did some reading, some Mnemosyne, and started it around midnight, finishing around 2:30 AM. There seemed a mental dip around 30 minutes after the armodafinil, but then things really picked up and I made very good progress transcribing the final draft of 9000 words in that period. (In comparison, The Conscience of the Otaking parts 2 & 4 were much easier to read than the tiny font of the RahXephon booklet, took perhaps 3 hours, and totaled only 6500 words. The nicotine is probably also to thank.) By 3:40 AM, my writing seems to be clumsier and my mind fogged. Began DNB at 3:50: 61/53/44. Went to bed at 4:05, fell asleep in 16 minutes, slept for 3:56. Waking up was easier and I felt better, so the extra hour seemed to help.
The flanker task is designed to tax cognitive control by requiring subjects to respond based on the identity of a target stimulus (H or S) and not the more numerous and visually salient stimuli that flank the target (as in a display such as HHHSHHH). Servan-Schreiber, Carter, Bruno, and Cohen (1998) administered the flanker task to subjects on placebo and d-AMP. They found an overall speeding of responses but, more importantly, an increase in accuracy that was disproportionate for the incongruent conditions, that is, the conditions in which the target and flankers did not match and cognitive control was needed.
Nootropics are a specific group of smart drugs. But nootropics aren’t the only drugs out there that promise you some extra productivity. More students and office workers are using drugs to increase their productivity than ever before [79]. But unlike with nootropics, many have side-effects. And that is precisely what is different between nootropics and other enhancing drugs, nootropics have little to no negative side-effects.
When Giurgea coined the word nootropic (combining the Greek words for mind and bending) in the 1970s, he was focused on a drug he had synthesized called piracetam. Although it is approved in many countries, it isn’t categorized as a prescription drug in the United States. That means it can be purchased online, along with a number of newer formulations in the same drug family (including aniracetam, phenylpiracetam, and oxiracetam). Some studies have shown beneficial effects, including one in the 1990s that indicated possible improvement in the hippocampal membranes in Alzheimer’s patients. But long-term studies haven’t yet borne out the hype.
In sum, the evidence concerning stimulant effects of working memory is mixed, with some findings of enhancement and some null results, although no findings of overall performance impairment. A few studies showed greater enhancement for less able participants, including two studies reporting overall null results. When significant effects have been found, their sizes vary from small to large, as shown in Table 4. Taken together, these results suggest that stimulants probably do enhance working memory, at least for some individuals in some task contexts, although the effects are not so large or reliable as to be observable in all or even most working memory studies.
Took random pill at 2:02 PM. Went to lunch half an hour afterwards, talked until 4 - more outgoing than my usual self. I continued to be pretty energetic despite not taking my caffeine+piracetam pills, and though it’s now 12:30 AM and I listened to TAM YouTube videos all day while reading, I feel pretty energetic and am reviewing Mnemosyne cards. I am pretty confident the pill today was Adderall. Hard to believe placebo effect could do this much for this long or that normal variation would account for this. I’d say 90% confidence it was Adderall. I do some more Mnemosyne, typing practice, and reading in a Montaigne book, and finally get tired and go to bed around 1:30 AM or so. I check the baggie when I wake up the next morning, and sure enough, it had been an Adderall pill. That makes me 1 for 2.
CDP-Choline is also known as Citicoline or Cytidine Diphosphocholine. It has been enhanced to allow improved crossing of the blood-brain barrier. Your body converts it to Choline and Cytidine. The second then gets converted to Uridine (which crosses the blood-brain barrier). CDP-Choline is found in meats (liver), eggs (yolk), fish, and vegetables (broccoli, Brussels sprout).
Smart Pill appears to be a powerful dietary supplement that blends ingredients with proven positive effect on the brain, thus promoting mental health. Some problems like attention disorders, mood disorders, or stress can be addressed with this formula. The high price related to the amount provided for a month can be a minus, but the ingredients used a strong link to brain health. Other supplements that provide the same effect can be found online, so a quick search is advised to find the best-suited supplement for your particular needs. If any problems arise, consult a medical doctor immediately.
Minnesota-based Medtronic offers a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared smart pill called PillCam COLON, which provides clear visualization of the colon and is complementary to colonoscopy. It is an alternative for patients who refuse invasive colon exams, have bleeding or sedation risks or inflammatory bowel disease, or have had a previous incomplete colonoscopy. PillCam COLON allows more people to get screened for colorectal cancer with a minimally invasive, radiation-free option. The research focus for WCEs is on effective localization, steering and control of capsules. Device development relies on leveraging applied science and technologies for better system performance, rather than completely reengineering the pill.
Two additional studies assessed the effects of d-AMP on visual–motor sequence learning, a form of nondeclarative, procedural learning, and found no effect (Kumari et al., 1997; Makris, Rush, Frederich, Taylor, & Kelly, 2007). In a related experimental paradigm, Ward, Kelly, Foltin, and Fischman (1997) assessed the effect of d-AMP on the learning of motor sequences from immediate feedback and also failed to find an effect.
With something like creatine, you’d know if it helps you pump out another rep at the gym on a sustainable basis. With nootropics, you can easily trick yourself into believing they help your mindset. The ideal is to do a trial on yourself. Take identical looking nootropic pills and placebo pills for a couple weeks each, then see what the difference is. With only a third party knowing the difference, of course.
Some data suggest that cognitive enhancers do improve some types of learning and memory, but many other data say these substances have no effect. The strongest evidence for these substances is for the improvement of cognitive function in people with brain injury or disease (for example, Alzheimer's disease and traumatic brain injury). Although "popular" books and companies that sell smart drugs will try to convince you that these drugs work, the evidence for any significant effects of these substances in normal people is weak. There are also important side-effects that must be considered. Many of these substances affect neurotransmitter systems in the central nervous system. The effects of these chemicals on neurological function and behavior is unknown. Moreover, the long-term safety of these substances has not been adequately tested. Also, some substances will interact with other substances. A substance such as the herb ma-huang may be dangerous if a person stops taking it suddenly; it can also cause heart attacks, stroke, and sudden death. Finally, it is important to remember that products labeled as "natural" do not make them "safe."
Specifically, the film is completely unintelligible if you had not read the book. The best I can say for it is that it delivers the action and events one expects in the right order and with basic competence, but its artistic merits are few. It seems generally devoid of the imagination and visual flights of fancy that animated movies 1 and 3 especially (although Mike Darwin disagrees), copping out on standard imagery like a Star Wars-style force field over Hogwarts Castle, or luminescent white fog when Harry was dead and in his head; I was deeply disappointed to not see any sights that struck me as novel and new. (For example, the aforementioned dead scene could have been done in so many interesting ways, like why not show Harry & Dumbledore in a bustling King’s Cross shot in bright sharp detail, but with not a single person in sight and all the luggage and equipment animatedly moving purposefully on their own?) The ending in particular boggles me. I actually turned to the person next to me and asked them whether that really was the climax and Voldemort was dead, his death was so little dwelt upon or laden with significance (despite a musical score that beat you over the head about everything else). In the book, I remember it feeling like a climactic scene, with everyone watching and little speeches explaining why Voldemort was about to be defeated, and a suitable victory celebration; I read in the paper the next day a quote from the director or screenwriter who said one scene was cut because Voldemort would not talk but simply try to efficiently kill Harry. (This is presumably the explanation for the incredible anti-climax. Hopefully.) I was dumbfounded by the depths of dishonesty or delusion or disregard: Voldemort not only does that in Deathly Hallows multiple times, he does it every time he deals with Harry, exactly as the classic villains (he is numbered among) always do! How was it possible for this man to read the books many times, as he must have, and still say such a thing?↩
12:18 PM. (There are/were just 2 Adderall left now.) I manage to spend almost the entire afternoon single-mindedly concentrating on transcribing two parts of a 1996 Toshio Okada interview (it was very long, and the formatting more challenging than expected), which is strong evidence for Adderall, although I did feel fairly hungry while doing it. I don’t go to bed until midnight and & sleep very poorly - despite taking triple my usual melatonin! Inasmuch as I’m already fairly sure that Adderall damages my sleep, this makes me even more confident (>80%). When I grumpily crawl out of bed and check: it’s Adderall. (One Adderall left.)
It isn’t unlikely to hear someone from Silicon Valley say the following: “I’ve just cycled off a stack of Piracetam and CDP-Choline because I didn’t get the mental acuity I was expecting. I will try a blend of Noopept and Huperzine A for the next two weeks and see if I can increase my output by 10%. We don’t have immortality yet and I would really like to join the three comma club before it’s all over.”
We included studies of the effects of these drugs on cognitive processes including learning, memory, and a variety of executive functions, including working memory and cognitive control. These studies are listed in Table 2, along with each study’s sample size, gender, age and tasks administered. Given our focus on cognition enhancement, we excluded studies whose measures were confined to perceptual or motor abilities. Studies of attention are included when the term attention refers to an executive function but not when it refers to the kind of perceptual process taxed by, for example, visual search or dichotic listening or when it refers to a simple vigilance task. Vigilance may affect cognitive performance, especially under conditions of fatigue or boredom, but a more vigilant person is not generally thought of as a smarter person, and therefore, vigilance is outside of the focus of the present review. The search and selection process is summarized in Figure 2.
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a behavioral syndrome characterized by inattention and distractibility, restlessness, inability to sit still, and difficulty concentrating on one thing for any period of time. ADHD most commonly occurs in children, though an increasing number of adults are being diagnosed with the disorder. ADHD is three times more…
The absence of a suitable home for this needed research on the current research funding landscape exemplifies a more general problem emerging now, as applications of neuroscience begin to reach out of the clinical setting and into classrooms, offices, courtrooms, nurseries, marketplaces, and battlefields (Farah, 2011). Most of the longstanding sources of public support for neuroscience research are dedicated to basic research or medical applications. As neuroscience is increasingly applied to solving problems outside the medical realm, it loses access to public funding. The result is products and systems reaching the public with less than adequate information about effectiveness and/or safety. Examples include cognitive enhancement with prescription stimulants, event-related potential and fMRI-based lie detection, neuroscience-based educational software, and anti-brain-aging computer programs. Research and development in nonmedical neuroscience are now primarily the responsibility of private corporations, which have an interest in promoting their products. Greater public support of nonmedical neuroscience research, including methods of cognitive enhancement, will encourage greater knowledge and transparency concerning the efficacy and safety of these products and will encourage the development of products based on social value rather than profit value.
This calculation - reaping only \frac{7}{9} of the naive expectation - gives one pause. How serious is the sleep rebound? In another article, I point to a mice study that sleep deficits can take 28 days to repay. What if the gain from modafinil is entirely wiped out by repayment and all it did was defer sleep? Would that render modafinil a waste of money? Perhaps. Thinking on it, I believe deferring sleep is of some value, but I cannot decide whether it is a net profit.
But, thanks to the efforts of a number of remarkable scientists, researchers and plain-old neurohackers, we are beginning to put together a “whole systems” model of how all the different parts of the human brain work together and how they mesh with the complex regulatory structures of the body. It’s going to take a lot more data and collaboration to dial this model in, but already we are empowered to design stacks that can meaningfully deliver on the promise of nootropics “to enhance the quality of subjective experience and promote cognitive health, while having extremely low toxicity and possessing very few side effects.” It’s a type of brain hacking that is intended to produce noticeable cognitive benefits.
The methodology would be essentially the same as the vitamin D in the morning experiment: put a multiple of 7 placebos in one container, the same number of actives in another identical container, hide & randomly pick one of them, use container for 7 days then the other for 7 days, look inside them for the label to determine which period was active and which was placebo, refill them, and start again.
A television advertisement goes: "It's time to let Focus Factor be your memory-fog lifter." But is this supplement up to task? Focus Factor wastes no time, whether paid airtime or free online presence: it claims to be America's #1 selling brain health supplement with more than 4 million bottles sold and millions across the country actively caring for their brain health. It deems itself instrumental in helping anyone stay focused and on top of his game at home, work, or school. Learn More...
A number of so-called ‘smart drugs’ or cognitive enhancers have captured attention recently, from stimulants such as modafinil, to amphetamines (often prescribed under the name Adderall) and methylphenidate (also known by its brand name Ritalin). According to widespread news reports, students have begun using these drugs to enhance their performance in school and college, and are continuing to do so in their professional lives.
In 2011, as part of the Silk Road research, I ordered 10x100mg Modalert (5btc) from a seller. I also asked him about his sourcing, since if it was bad, it’d be valuable to me to know whether it was sourced from one of the vendors listed in my table. He replied, more or less, I get them from a large Far Eastern pharmaceuticals wholesaler. I think they’re probably the supplier for a number of the online pharmacies. 100mg seems likely to be too low, so I treated this shipment as 5 doses:
Soldiers should never be treated like children; because then they will act like them. However, There’s a reason why the 1SG is known as the Mother of the Company and the Platoon Sergeant is known as a Platoon Daddy. Because they run the day to day operations of the household, get the kids to school so to speak, and focus on the minutia of readiness and operational execution in all its glory. Officers forget they are the second link in the Chain of Command and a well operating duo of Team Leader and Squad Leader should be handling 85% of all Soldier issues, while the Platoon sergeant handles the other 15% with 1SG. Platoon Leaders and Commanders should always be present; training, leading by example, focusing on culture building, tracking and supporting NCO’s. They should be focused on big business sides of things, stepping in to administer punishment or award and reward performance. If an officer at any level is having to step into a Soldier's day to day lives an NCO at some level is failing. Officers should be junior Officers and junior Enlisted right along side their counterparts instead of eating their young and touting their “maturity” or status. If anything Officers should be asking their NCO’s where they should effect, assist, support or provide cover toward intitiatives and plans that create consistency and controlled chaos for growth of individuals two levels up and one level down of operational capabilities at every echelon of command.
One should note the serious caveats here: it is a small in vitro study of a single category of human cells with an effect size that is not clear on a protein which feeds into who-knows-what pathways. It is not a result in a whole organism on any clinically meaningful endpoint, even if we take it at face-value (many results never replicate). A look at followup work citing Rapuri et al 2007 is not encouraging: Google Scholar lists no human studies of any kind, much less high-quality studies like RCTs; just some rat followups on the calcium effect. This is not to say Rapuri et al 2007 is a bad study, just that it doesn’t bear the weight people are putting on it: if you enjoy caffeine, this is close to zero evidence that you should reduce or drop caffeine consumption; if you’re taking too much caffeine, you already have plenty of reasons to reduce; if you’re drinking lots of coffee, you already have plenty of reasons to switch to tea; etc.
This world is a competitive place. If you’re not seeking an advantage, you’ll get passed by those who do. Whether you’re studying for a final exam or trying to secure a big business deal, you need a definitive mental edge. Are smart drugs and brain-boosting pills the answer for cognitive enhancement in 2019? If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying, right? Bad advice for some scenarios, but there is a grain of truth to every saying—even this one.
By which I mean that simple potassium is probably the most positively mind altering supplement I’ve ever tried…About 15 minutes after consumption, it manifests as a kind of pressure in the head or temples or eyes, a clearing up of brain fog, increased focus, and the kind of energy that is not jittery but the kind that makes you feel like exercising would be the reasonable and prudent thing to do. I have done no tests, but feel smarter from this in a way that seems much stronger than piracetam or any of the conventional weak nootropics. It is not just me – I have been introducing this around my inner social circle and I’m at 7/10 people felt immediately noticeable effects. The 3 that didn’t notice much were vegetarians and less likely to have been deficient. Now that I’m not deficient, it is of course not noticeable as mind altering, but still serves to be energizing, particularly for sustained mental energy as the night goes on…Potassium chloride initially, but since bought some potassium gluconate pills… research indicates you don’t want to consume large amounts of chloride (just moderate amounts).
That doesn’t necessarily mean all smart drugs – now and in the future – will be harmless, however. The brain is complicated. In trying to upgrade it, you risk upsetting its intricate balance. “It’s not just about more, it’s about having to be exquisitely and exactly right. And that’s very hard to do,” says Arnstein. “What’s good for one system may be bad for another system,” adds Trevor Robbins, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. “It’s clear from the experimental literature that you can affect memory with pharmacological agents, but the problem is keeping them safe.”
One of the most popular legal stimulants in the world, nicotine is often conflated with the harmful effects of tobacco; considered on its own, it has performance & possibly health benefits. Nicotine is widely available at moderate prices as long-acting nicotine patches, gums, lozenges, and suspended in water for vaping. While intended for smoking cessation, there is no reason one cannot use a nicotine patch or nicotine gum for its stimulant effects.
A big part is that we are finally starting to apply complex systems science to psycho-neuro-pharmacology and a nootropic approach. The neural system is awesomely complex and old-fashioned reductionist science has a really hard time with complexity. Big companies spends hundreds of millions of dollars trying to separate the effects of just a single molecule from placebo – and nootropics invariably show up as “stacks” of many different ingredients (ours, Qualia , currently has 42 separate synergistic nootropics ingredients from alpha GPC to bacopa monnieri and L-theanine). That kind of complex, multi pathway input requires a different methodology to understand well that goes beyond simply what’s put in capsules.
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The Man In The Rain (Haiyan, A Year Hence)
By JPVNovember 8, 2014Uncategorized
A year ago today, Yolanda made landfall.
“Kamusta ka diyan? I just saw your report. If you can, please let us know you’re ok.”
Atom never replied to my message. I asked our common friend Chef Ed Bugia, and other close friends who have attempted to get in touch with Atom if they had received any news, but none of them had gotten a reply either.
Atom had gotten through with a live feed from Tacloban to ABS-CBN’s morning news program Umagang Kay Ganda. In his few short updates throughout the morning, he stood alone but with us in the rain, soaking and shivering, as we watched how the record breaking Typhoon quickly destroyed the city. We would see him, a dark silhouette amidst the white noise trying to cross the street avoiding the flying GI sheets. He would then bring us up into an empty building floor, with shattered glass everywhere, to observe the beginnings of the Storm Surge which quickly drowned the city. The next footage is of Atom, alongside other able-bodied men, neck deep in water, assisting an old and incapacitated woman out of her home onto a raft.
These would be the last images we and the rest of the world would see from Tacloban before the broadcast connections went out.
The little broadcast footage that Atom and his team got through would then be repeated endlessly by ABS CBN and other news teams around the world, not to mention Anderson Cooper on CNN. It was the biggest beat a local Newsman could get. In a matter of hours, as Haiyan’s surge flooded Tacloban, the Internet was flooded with support for the “Man In The Rain.” Memes, jokes, tweets, IG reposts, hashtags and Facebook shares trended the Net, all showing pride and concern for that team that braved the biggest storm in history if only to keep us all informed.
But we still haven’t heard from Atom.
But knowing Atom — a Milo kid, a boyscout, an activist, an athlete, a student-leader, a traveller and a friend — he didn’t give a rat’s ass about the break or the fame this exposure would give him. He wasn’t thinking about how the network would probably promote him after this, how maybe they’d raise his talent-fee and give him a new show, or maybe give him a more high-profile beat — this didn’t concern him. It didn’t interest him.
Knowing Atom, he was probably thinking about how to get food, at the very least crackers, for his crew to pass the storm by without starving.
He was probably looking for ways to charge his phone, give updates to all his superiors, get back on line and prepare for a more thorough broadcast.
But more than anything, he was probably looking for ways to save lives. Even if it meant for him and his crew to lay aside the microphone and camera, so their hands were free enough to lift debris and lift people.
As far as I remember, he was always about lifting the people up. Even back in UP, I remember him running for USC under Stand UP, but then lost to Alyansa. It was his final years on campus, and even then he wanted to participate in something progressive. On occasion, he’d ride with me after work from Breakfast @ 23 to go back to UP and we’d lightly talk about what we thought were societal problems and what possible solutions we could come up with. Sometimes we’d agree, other times we wouldn’t. I remember asking him what his plans were after graduation and he said he was considering going full-time in an NGO. He has such high regard for his Mom and Dad, both known activists and advocates, and it didn’t surprise me that this guy would take on such a selfless vocation.
The rain stopped. The surge settled. The water receded.
I turn on CNN and see an american field reporter walking us through the aftermath of Haiyan. There is death and destruction everywhere, not to mention chaos. We watch a montage of heightened shock, a very frustrated DILG Secretary, a castrated police force, a sobbing mayor and a broken city. The field reporter attempts to hitch a ride from one part of Tacloban to another with a local news van and he asks a man in the crowd for some directions… that man was a cleaned up Atom Araullo — another couple of seconds again on the world’s biggest News channel. But he couldn’t care less, he was onto another mission, another report.
I was just glad my friend was one of the very few who survived that ordeal. Since we didn’t hear from him at the height of the storm, it was comfort enough to see him dry and moving even just for a moment on cable TV.
We all know how the story continues. More and more personalities have hogged the limelight in the days that pass — Korina Vs. Cooper, Romualdez Vs. PNoy, Mar Vs. Netizens etc. Finger-pointing, donation-stealing, senate hearings, all the usual circus acts we see when our government knee-jerkingly reacts to a National tragedy. People’s attention shifted to arguably more important issues like the lack of Risk Management and Disaster Preparation; the National Government’s lack of participation and Duterte’s emotional and frustrated on-cam interview.
Atom eventually went back home to Manila, made his report and went on to his next assignment.
I don’t think he was ever after the attention, the limelight and the circus. He just wanted to do his job because he knew it would help more people — even if it meant standing alone in the rain.
We at Berto in Brogues wanted to honour, not just Atom Araullo, but what he reminded us to be — the ‘everyman’ that insists on staying relevant.
We are working with HOWL on an image that reminds us of what it was to be that Man In The Rain. We are so excited to launch these designs on the anniversary of Yolanda’s landfall, if only to remember not just the National tragedy, but more importantly, the possibilities of what we ALL can be.
#MANinTheRAIN #StayRelevant
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Let Him Play!
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Everything Looks Worse in Black and White?
Posted by George Hamlin
(Photo by George W. Hamlin)
To cut to the chase, I don’t think so. To the contrary, sometimes it can make memories look better than if they were depicted in color. While the subjects that we cross paths with almost always exist in color in the real world (encountering a truly monochrome scene would actually be quite unusual, although certain cloudy days seemingly come close – and a Penn Central passenger train with all stainless steel cars might fit this paradigm), many times the color seems to be “lifeless”, rather than “living”.
Similarly, sometimes the “unvarnished truth” isn’t quite up to the standards of our own memories. I’ve noticed, particularly in scanning old (1960s) black & white negatives, that rail facilities, particularly yards, seemed to attract an immense amount of trash and debris, which on occasion can be further confused with things like dust and scratches on the negatives.
Re truth versus reality, it’s often comforting to remember the good, and either forget, or ignore, what wasn’t so great. A popular venue for this for people of a certain age is passenger trains, especially those of the postwar streamliner “glory days”. (The same was probably true for the heyday of deluxe limiteds from the heavyweight passenger car era, but few fans are still with us that have personal memories of the 1930s).
By the mid-1960s, most of the “glory” had been sucked out of the intercity passenger business in the U.S. Sure, the Super Chief and Twentieth Century Limited still ran, but they lacked things that had been there ten to fifteen years prior. Yes, the Super still had the “Turquoise Room” as of 1966, but most of the year it didn’t have enough sleeping car patrons to run as a separate train, and was combined with the El Capitan, previously an all-coach train. The observation cars that had once carried the markers on ATSF trains 17 and 18 were gone, having been converted to “regular” sleeping cars without rounded ends.
On the New York Central, the Century did retain its observations, right up until the bitter end, but it also had begun to carry coaches (and sleepercoach economy sleeping accommodations). As was the case with the Santa Fe, sleeping car patronage had declined considerably; during the 1966 airline strike, which swelled NYC 25 and 26 to 18 car consists, the coach/sleepercoach passengers outnumbered the “first-class” sleeper customers by a factor probably greater than two to one.
With this in mind, indulge me in a little nostalgia via the picture above, of the New York Central’s James Whitcomb Riley stopping at Lafayette, Indiana, on August 16, 1966. The airline strike is over, but the Riley’s consist remains expanded due bookings made before the strike was settled.
For those of you not familiar with this, it was the premier day train in the Chicago-Cincinnati market. When the post-World War II streamlined cars were placed in service in the late 1940s, the train was equipped with stainless steel coaches, typically of Pullman-Standard manufacture, accompanied by a fluted-side aluminum combine from American Car and Foundry, plus a Budd-built grill diner and tavern observation, the latter identical to those on the railroad’s stylish all-coach Pacemaker on the New York-Chicago run.
You may notice something different about the photo. It’s been processed in a manner known as “Posterization”. Wikipedia.com provides a useful explanation:
“Posterization or posterisation of an image entails conversion of a continuous gradation of tone to several regions of fewer tones, with abrupt changes from one tone to another.” Furthermore, “A posterized image often has the same general appearance, but portions of the original image that presented gradual transitions are replaced by abrupt changes in shading and gradation from one area of tone to another.”
Another way of looking at this is that there are far fewer shades of gray than would be seen in a traditional black-and-white rendering of this photo (and in case anyone is wondering, fewer than fifty…).
Does this remove some of the grit and grime visible in the ‘standard’ photo that I took? Does the contrast inherent in this process have a better chance of garnering a viewer’s attention? Yes, of course. Is the result interesting; does it produce an emotional response? You tell me!
I’d argue that there is a place in photography for both straightforward depiction of events and evoking emotional response (and I’m happy to admit that both of these can be often can combined in ‘conventional’ photographic processing, although skill, and possibly, luck will be required).
Looking at this result did evoke some of the Riley’s former glory for me. Author Don Ball, Jr., in his book Railroads, An American Journey (p. 103) states that
In the peerage of the last steam-powered limiteds, one train carried on in the grand manner after diesels had taken over virtually everywhere. That train, of course, was New York Central’s James Whitcomb Riley.
In reality, the train I rode that evening across Indiana, as well as small portions of Illinois and Ohio, had a lot more in common with its 1955 self than I would have expected. There were five Pullman-Standard coaches in the 3000 series, with stainless steel fluting. They were full of people, and even at this late date, all seats were reserved in advance.
While the food in the diner probably could not have been described as Lucullan (such as preferred by a previous well-known rail author and photographer), it likely was quite similar to what would have been found on this train in the 1950s. After all, this was the Riley, not the Century.
Following dinner, I went back to the tavern lounge, which was the rear car. The observations had vanished from this run around 1960, but the configuration of the car I was in was essentially identical, sans rounded blind end and rear-facing windows.
All in all, I had a wonderful ride on a classic postwar daytime streamliner, in 1966 … and didn’t realize it. Yes, there were Geeps, instead of E units, or steam, and a modest amount of head-end cars up front, but the passenger consist, as well as the service and ambience, was essentially perfect. Looking back from now, however, it would have been nice to have booked a travel date when the observation wasn’t in the shop.
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Pakistan's water woes: Assessing the national water policy
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The capital of Thar, however, does receive some of the highest flooding in the district with water standing at 15-20 feet. “But it’s difficult to capture it through rainwater harvesting,” says Dr Amir. “The majority of Reverse Osmosis (RO) plants that were recently installed around Mithi are either out of order or abandoned.”A case for GwadarAround 950kms away from Mithi lies Gwadar, the first deep sea port of Pakistan. Though Gwadar is a key component of the $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, the fishermen community that makes up for a major population of the port city has a laundry list of water woes to speak on.Thirty-five-year-old Abdul Sattar is among these fishermen. He informs that due to a prolonged dry spell of 5-6 years in Gwadar, the Ankara and Sawad dams have completely dried up.“The government is supplying water to households through tankers [but this] is not enough, as each household receives only 30-40 gallons of water once a week,” says Sattar. “This water comes through tankers from Turbat’s Mirani dam, which is over 150kms away from Gwadar.”What is worse, Sattar says, is that these are the same tankers which are used to supply diesel. “Hence, they give way to water-borne diseases, including kidney stones, diarrhea and hepatitis.” This polluted water, which costs Rs20,000 per tanker to the provincial government, is being supplied to the entire Gwadar district for over a year.
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What Obama Said About Entrepreneurship in Cuba
March 22, 2016 March 25, 2016 by Cuba Journal
US President Barack Obama visited a Cuban “cerveceria” on Monday to talk about entrepreneurship and US-Cuba business engagement. This was his speech.
Let me begin by thanking our hosts. This is my very first visit to a Cuban cervecería. I hear they’ve got some great pollo — Moros y Cristianos. And, of course, cerveza. But today, we’re here to work.
So I want to thank all of you for being part of this unprecedented event — the Cuban government. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the new U.S.-Cuba Business Council. I’m also want to express my appreciation because we are joined on this trip by nearly 40 members of Congress, as well as some of America’s top business leaders and innovators who are eager to invest in Cuba and its people. And most importantly, I want to welcome all the extraordinary entrepreneurs — men and women who are here from across Cuba.
Now, I’m not here to give a big speech. I’m going to do that tomorrow. What I really want to do is hear from you and have a conversation about what we can achieve together. But I do want to begin by stepping back and talking about the forces and hopes that bring us together here today.
In many ways, the history of Cuba can be understood through the labor of the Cuban people. For centuries, under colonial rule, and then during decades of American involvement, the toil of the Cuban people was often used to enrich others as opposed to the people who were doing the work. And then, for much of the past half century, it was virtually impossible for Cubans to operate their own businesses. But in recent years, that’s begun to change. To its credit, the Cuban government has adopted some reforms. Cuba is welcoming more foreign investment. Cubans can now buy and sell property, and today many Cubans own their own homes and apartments. It’s easier for Cubans to travel, to buy a cellphone, for farmers to start cooperatives, and for a family to start their own business.
The United States has been proud to help. Shortly after I took office, we said that Cuban Americans could send unlimited remittances to their families here in Cuba. And we allowed Cuban Americans to visit more often. Across this island, Cubans have used those remittances often to start businesses. And when Cuban Americans come visit, they often bring supplies and materials. We also made it easier for Cuban entrepreneurs to import and to export. And since we’ve made it easier to travel to Cuba, a lot more Americans are visiting the island — you may have noticed.
So the Cuban economy is beginning to change, and just look at the results. Groups like Cuba Emprende are training a new generation of entrepreneurs. Today, about half a million Cubans — including some of you — are proud cuentapropistas — running your own restaurants, cafes, beauty salons, barber shops, or working as artists, seamstresses and taxi drivers. Your businesses now employ about one-third of the Cuban workforce. With help from services like Airbnb, more Americans are staying at your casas particulares and eating at your paladares — like my family did last night. That food was really good — even if my Spanish is not that great. (Laughter.)
Those of you who run your own business knows what this means. You can earn a little more money for your family. You can provide more for your children. And then there’s the pride that comes from creating something new and improving the lives of those around you. And that’s the power of entrepreneurship. It’s about self-determination — the opportunity to forge your own future. It’s the belief that even if you don’t have much — maybe just a kitchen, or a sewing machine, or a car — if you’re willing to work hard, you can make your own way and improve your situation in life for the next generation. It’s the spirit of youth — talented and driven, daring young people like so many of you ready to make your mark on the world.
It’s an investment in the future, because as we’ve seen in America, businesses that start small — even in a garage — can grow into some of the world’s most successful companies, and change the way we work and the way we live and connect with each other. That’s the spirit of entrepreneurship. And that’s what we’re encouraging here today. Because Cuba’s economic future — its ability to create more jobs and a growing middle class, and meet the aspirations of the Cuban people — depends on growth in the private sector, as well as government action.
And it’s not easy. In the United States, we work to help entrepreneurs and small businesses get the resources they need because it can be a struggle to get a new venture off the ground. Around the world, we help young people and entrepreneurs access training and skills to put their ideas into action. Here today, you’re talking about the challenges you face as entrepreneurs in Cuba.
Now, many of the changes that our two countries have already announced, including today, will help you to meet some of those challenges. More Americans coming to Cuba means more customers for your businesses. More Americans using the dollar will mean that they will spend more, as well. There will be more channels for you to import supplies and equipment. More Americans will be able to buy your arts, crafts, food, Cuban-origin software — as well as, of course, Cuban rum and cigars.
We also know that, around the world, entrepreneurs flourish when there’s an environment that encourages their success. When professionals like architects and engineers and lawyers are allowed to start their own businesses, as well. When entrepreneurs can get loans from banks — capital to start and expand their businesses. And then we need wholesale markets where you can buy supplies. When there’s a single currency and modern infrastructure so you can get your goods to market and import supplies. And when there’s a single currency and a modern infrastructure so you can get your goods to market and import supplies. And perhaps most importantly, when everybody has a chance to succeed, including women and Afro-Cubans. These are all areas where the United States hopes to be a partner as Cuba moves forward.
And I can tell you one of the reasons I’m so confident in the potential of the Cuban people is because you have some important advantages. Your commitment to education and very high literacy rates — that gives you an enormous advantage in the 21st century. That’s been an investment that has been made here in Cuba. Your ingenuity — who else could keep almendrons running all these years? You’ve got more than 300 million potential American customers — and one of the world’s most dynamic cities, Miami, right next door. And you have more than two million talented, successful Cuban Americans — some of whom joined me on this trip — ready to invest in you and help pursue your dreams, and have deep family commitments and deep roots in Cuban culture. So I’m absolutely convinced — if just given a chance, more Cubans can succeed right here at home, in the Cuba that you love.
So I’m here today to say that America wants to be your partner. Around this visit, American companies are moving ahead with new commercial deals. GE is going to sell more products here, from aviation to energy technology. CleBer will be the first U.S. company to build a factory here in more than 50 years — they’re going to build tractors for Cuban farmers. Starwood will become the first U.S. hotel that operates here in nearly 60 years, and Marriot plans to come, as well — and they’ll help train Cubans in the hospitality industry. The first Carnival cruise is expected to pull into Havana in May. And I will keep saying it every chance I get — one of the best ways to help the Cuban people succeed and improve their lives would be for the U.S. Congress to lift the embargo once and for all.
Here today, we’re doing even more to empower Cuban entrepreneurs. I know you’ve been networking with each other and potential American partners. Innovators in business — like Airbnb’s Brian Chesky — are sharing the lessons that they’ve learned. We’ve got a shark here named Daymond John — for those of you who don’t know, there’s a show in America called Shark Tank, which is an outstanding show where, on television, young entrepreneurs bring their ideas and present them, and they try to get some financing right there on the air. And it’s a fun show to watch. Julie Hanna supports entrepreneurs all over the world with micro-financing. So give them your best pitch. They just might bite and decide to invest.
We’re also announcing some new commitments today. As part of our Young Leaders in the Americas Initiative, we’re going to welcome up to 15 young Cuban entrepreneurs to the United States to help them get the training and skills to grow their own business. For the first time, we’ll welcome Cubans to our annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit, which I’ll host in Silicon Valley later this year. And later this year, our Small Business Administrator, Maria Contreras Sweet — who is here today. Where’s Maria? There she is. She’s going to lead a delegation of business leaders here to promote more entrepreneurship in Cuba.
And we also want to help connect more Cuban entrepreneurs to the Internet. Some are here today, including Yon Gutiérrez, who designed AlaMesa, an app to connect Cubans to restaurants; and InfoMed, connecting doctors and scientists. More Cubans are going online at Wi-Fi hotspots, but still, very few Cubans have Internet access. Although I just learned that my skit with Panfilo got two million hits here in Cuba, so that — I think with Internet access paid attention here.
But in terms of Internet access, even those who have it often are using old dial-up connections that can be expensive and slow. I don’t even remember the sound of the phone when it went (makes “dial-up” sound) — so new technology has come and we need to bring it to Cuba. “If we had Internet” one Cuban entrepreneur said, “we could really take off.”
So America wants to help you take off. And Verizon will help deliver direct landline phone connections between Cuba and the United States. Cisco has announced it will help Cuban students develop their IT skills. The American high-tech firm Stripe, is partnering with Merchise Startup Circle here in Havana to help Cubans start ventures and do business online.
The bottom line is this. We believe in the Cuban people. We believe in artists like Idania Del Rio who designs and illustrates her own goods — “99 percent Cuban design,” she calls it. We believe in merchants like Sandra Lidicie Aldama, who says, “One of the most important things in the Cuban nature is perseverance, optimism, and our capacity to find a solution to any obstacle in the way.” We believe in the entrepreneur who said, “I think with these changes in Cuba there’s no turning back.” And another who said, “This opens us up to the world.” And one who also said, “Just give us the chance.”
Just give us the chance. Well, as your friend and as your partner, the United States of America wants to help you get that chance. And we’re so grateful that we’re off to this outstanding start at this event here today. Muchas gracias.
Thank you very much. Thank you. Now, as I said, I didn’t want to just talk, I want to also hear from you. So I’ve asked to join me one of our outstanding journalists in the United States, an entrepreneur herself who works to empower girls through education. She is a proud Cuban-American who, on this visit, has brought her children to Cuba to meet their cousins for the first time. Please give her a big round of applause –Soledad O’Brien.
What Obama Said About Entrepreneurship in Cuba was last modified: March 25th, 2016 by Cuba Journal
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Challenging the Profit Motives of Globalism Versus Nationalism
This is not a popular topic. In most Western countries, this is not even a legal topic. Regardless of moral and political positioning, this is an inevitable topic.
The cabal responsible for the global industrial balance of production and consumption, powered by Saudi oil consumption, (which, in turn, is powered by recycling petrodollars through British and United States banking systems [which, in turn, is enforced upon OPEC oil producers by American military projection]) is fragmenting. The Russians have been involved in a campaign of carving up and laying claim to critical bottlenecks of oil consumption while expanding their own oil exports to China. The mythos of environmentalism, born in the 1960s, has evolved into an influential force, directing official policy in developed countries and the economic perception of their consumers to bypass the cabal altogether. Developing nations are asserting their own authority in regional matters via land grabs and nuclear proliferation. As I have told a friend at Credit Suisse eight years ago: “We are entering a Neo-Alexandrian world.”
Alexander of Macedonia wasn’t a great leader because history says so. Alexander managed to bind hundreds of tribes, each with their own language, ethos, culture, religion, and economic pressures, to his goal. He carved a path from the Mediterranean to India (and funneled nearly all of the gold from Mesopotamian antiquity into Europe) in the world’s first attempt at aggressive globalism. His grand ambitions were dashed by simple human needs: _His soldiers went on strike, citing a desire to reconnect with loved ones and their increasing skepticism of Alexander and his willingness to blur cultural identities._
There have been many more attempts at globalism since Alexander, all of which have subsequently reduced the emotional buy-in required to accept the destruction of one’s cultural identity. However, once the industrial age came to fruition, the ability to overcome previously insurmountable cultural squabbles became cheaper and easier, mostly due to mass media. With this technology, cultural perceptions could be homogenized across hundreds of millions of people, ensuring their economic actions were within a range of acceptable behavior. However, with every increase in globalism, there has been countercultural reactions obsessed with restoring a primal understanding of identity that doesn’t require years of education and propaganda to comprehend. The high cost of normalizing globalist culture (perpetual reinvention of new communication mediums to create a generation’s worth of authenticity) eventually hits diminishing returns because of this identity impulse. It appears that human DNA has several million years of defenses to invoke emotionally convincing skepticism of mass identity destruction, despite the best intentions of the learned and the powerful.
Assuming that these unverified assumptions of human neurosociology are completely incorrect, we still live in a world where the elite absolutely rely on the leverage provided by the labor arbitrage that only globalism (and floating exchange rates) can provide. Take the European Union, for example. Each member of the European Union can print bonds in their nation’s name, but they cannot print currency to pay the coupon of those bonds. Furthermore, these nations cannot raise their taxes to pay the coupon either, as they are high-tax socialist paradises, thus, any increase in taxes will cut directly into consumption, which directly affects their imports/export agreements. There is only one way in which European nations can pay off these coupon: labor arbitrage.
Importing massive amounts of cheaper immigrants, especially in export-heavy nations like Sweden and Germany, is a conceit that Europe must now follow the American/Ford model of labor arbitrage: Import labor to do that which is too complex to outsource, and then outsource the rest. In short, Europe is engaging in a variation of Gresham’s Law regarding labor: Hoard complexity, liquefy simplicity. That means human organizations have a propensity to hoard those who can resolve complexity and expend those who are tasked to resolve simplicity. The profits generated from cheap labor arbitrage will extend the politically popular (and expensive) socialist policies of human care that an export nation must provide to be competitive. As gains in labor arbitrage occur, tax revenue increase, and stable bond issuance can increase to allow socialist nations to engage in production expansion. (Taxation being collateral) The loyal socialists who labored for years are replaced by a configuration of cheaper labor. Their complaints and frustrations are dismissed as nothing more than racist reactions or tone deaf nationalism since the imported labor heralds from a variety of different races and/or nationalities.
The inevitable response to this automatic dismissal is populist nationalism. To counter this evolution, the Americans have developed a very effective model in destroying populist nationalism when they engaged in their transition to global labor arbitrage back in the 1960s. The American solution is that as long as those who benefit from the labor arbitrage (Fortune 500s, bond issuers, and Wall Street) are allowed to invest in and/or financially control media outlets, then nationalist impulses can be defused without unpopular and overt government heavy-handedness. How? In this setup, for-profit news and clickbait peddlers are driven by profit motive that undermines, waters down, harasses, lies about, and ultimately destroys countercultural nationalist upstarts. This profit motive is very powerful and has achieved countless victories over the past ten years.
I will now going to give you the way to counter that profit motive.
During World War 2, the Europeans decided it would be hilarious if they blew themselves up. As a result, they shipped most of their highly coveted gold to America, (the one place unscathed by the war) specifically, to the bedrock underneath Manhattan currently manned by robotic palate pushers owned by JP Morgan and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In fact, 98% of the gold owned by the Federal Reserve system is actually owned by Europe. (Over a thousand years of gold conquest led by Alexander, the Romans, the Conquistadors, and the Imperialists) America has since refused multiple times to return this gold upon request to their various owners… while simultaneously pushing the narrative that gold is barbarous relic. (If it was so barbarous, why hold on to it so desperately, America?) Because of this arrangement, there is a way to undermine the mass media anti-nationalism profit motive with the blessing of globalist overseers: Each European nationalist movement must strike multiple deals with the Federal Reserve. When those nationalists come to power, they will enact quotas and legal changes to alter national import/export mechanisms, (driven entirely by Federal Reserve policy objectives) those European nationalists will be allowed to easily repatriate their gold to bypass and undermine Brussels currency issuance limitations. In essence, European nationalism can be used to destroy the European Union with blessing from the Federal Reserve.
The Neo-Alexandrian world I had mentioned in 2008 to my friend is one in which nationalism becomes more profitable to the individual nation than continued participation in globalism. This model will achieve initial gains and advantages for first movers, leaving the remaining globalist bloc to operate without their full support. This will profoundly affect global trade and, in desperation, second-tier members of the globalist bloc will nationalize, triggering in a cascade of nationalization for the remaining members. The military and technological advantage of superstates and national unions will diminish as intelligence gathering will be made more expensive due to the subsequent regionalizations of the Internet, depriving the NSA and GCHQ of their current advantage. Hundreds of tribes will return and we will be living in a world in which only an Alexander can understand and make sense of.
The War on Spontaneous Global Organization
The Internet has allowed anyone to partake in the massive coordination of human effort that has been historically reserved for Pharaohs… and the Pharaohs are upset that their monopoly on human effort has competition. This impulse to engage in “spontaneous global organization“ is the most promising aspect of the Internet, however, various channels that frequently nurture such organization have been under attack. Here is a list of fronts within the Pharaoh’s war against spontaneous global organization:
The Code of Conduct battles in open source have injected unneeded political polarization/dialectical confrontation among key communities of internet infrastructure, primarily, Linux communities. Open source has been the first and most influential examples of spontaneous global organization in the modern world.
The Gawker infiltration of 4chan, a culture that had produced the Anonymous brand (Which was hijacked by state actors after Chanology) resulted in the purging of 25,000 comments from /r/gaming for violating the payola of pop untouchables. The Anonymous brand showed the world that people across multiple identity categories (racial, gender, national, religious, etc.) can come together without a leader or a plan to affect cultural affairs en masse.
The bogus rape charges against Julian Assange to suppress Wikileaks. Wikileaks showed that like-minded individuals can utilize the Internet to convince the politically disillusioned to leak information from their powerful positions.
The NSA’s silent usage of zero day exploits, especially heartbleed and Juniper backdoors. SSL has been a staple in secure communications that spontaneous global organization requires, prompting both American and British governments to demand its regulation.
The highly coordinated and prolonged culture war against the gaming community. Gamers from all over the world reflexively eliminate identity lines and spontaneously organize to solve challenges within a gaming world.
The Federal Reserve cannot regulate BitCoin, and so, the Group of 30 believes BitCoin to be evil. BitCoin has demonstrated that it might be possible to do away with the clearing houses and the trust problems associated with central banking through a clever usage of spontaneous global organization.
To the uninitiated, each of these fronts appear to be unrelated to the other. However, when you frame each involved technology and community within the context of suppressing spontaneous global organization, you can quickly see how they are related… and how they are being attacked by powerful banking, authority, and cultural entities. Unfortunately, each targeted actor has a very large surface area to exploit which is only made larger by the assumption that they alone they are under attack.
One might argue that social media allows for spontaneous global organization, which is true. Therefore, I should refine my definition to eliminate confusion. There are certain “spontaneous” organizational manifestations that are authorized, such as the entirely predictable schema of identity politics. (Black vs. White, Male vs. Female, Red vs. Blue, and other examples of false dichotomy) These breeds of schema utilize a considerable amount of effort to appear spontaneous and global, but this is nothing more than hacking morality via minimal effort photo opportunities. With the heavy individual curation of social media to promote filter bubbles and echo chambers, social media exacerbates the illusion that the content one experiences is part of a larger spontaneous global organization when, in reality, it is not.
The spontaneous global organization I am speaking of does not engage in identity warfare. In fact, the first thing such organizations sacrifice is identity. This provides a significant challenge for the post-war leadership as their entire model of rule requires the infinite exploitation of identity. Therefore, it will be important to develop sociological and governance theorems that explore how rule of law can be established in a world where labor and creativity can spontaneously appear and then vaporize. Otherwise, the powers that be will continue to waste energy and assets in suppressing the culmination of such a world.
After Sixty-Five Years, France Finally Admits the End of Continental National Socialism
Continental National Socialism is the organizational method that emerges from the confluence of Swiss banking influence, German export dominance, and the remnants of French and Dutch colonial power suckling off of British and American geopolitical activity. This, of course, is not the widely held definition and for those who are not American, it’s important to understand the American reactionary’s love affair with what they perceive to be Continental National Socialism.
For our American reactionary “friends” (I.E.: The people we have to endure because we are all forced onto one planet), Continental National Socialism is believed to be a perfect utopia where all ills go away and people are magically endowed with rights and protections to live as carefree high-brow artists and critical thinkers forever. This is not a recent belief. This perception is a core tenet of American reactionary culture despite their insistence to change masks every ten years.
The Post-Depression radicals in the 1930s worshiped it.
The Nationalists of the 1940s worshiped it.
The Anti-Stalinist Internationalists of the 1950s worshiped it.
The Baby Boomers of the 1960s worshiped it.
The anti-Corporatists of the 1970s worshiped it.
The anti-Reaganites of the 1980s who didn’t rapidly embrace the New Left but didn’t want to let go of Old Left mythology worshiped it.
The consuming A.S.S.holes of the 1990s worshiped it. (A.S.S. = Apple, Starbucks, and Sociology)
The Left’s pundit pantheon of the 2000s worship it.
The SJWs of today worship it.
The Euro Zone has slashed its corporate tax by 10% over the last ten years which has helped fuel government debt to keep the socialism train going. Throw in a 2008 world crisis and a few national bankruptcies a la Greece and what are you left with? You’re left with an insidious and convoluted bailout-for-immigrant swap.
The British raised concerns over such ambitions from Brussels about six months ago on May 10th, 2015. This warning was punctuated by the Rotterdam rape storm. The pro-feminism, pro-social justice media narrative has been working overtime to suppress the propagation of Rotterdam-like events. They have successfully refused to make any mention about the large volume of rapes by immigrants infecting Sweden since a wave of military-aged Middle Eastern males entered their countries en masse.
France has previously felt the sting of its future cheap labor supply in 2005 and this week, they’ve felt it again. They gave a silent nod to French Nationalist Marine Le Pen by shutting down their borders in response to recent terrorist attacks, but even this is just a dog-and-pony show.
France is a protectionist organization that promotes political affiliates and union votes. This arrangement will not be able to hold in the face of Brussels and their desire to implement the American labor model (cheap immigrants for what cannot be outsourced) across Europe. France has already seen the benefits of outsourcing government, defense, and manufacturing contracts and the time is coming to extrapolate this across their entire economy.
Bastions of Continental National Socialism such as France have relied on deep levels of union political integration since the end of World War 2. However, the profit model such unions have relied on required post-war construction growth. That cannot compete against the model of wage stagnation and international labor arbitrage. Muslim immigrants are essential for Europe’s transition into wage stagnation, so not only are they the vanguard of injecting Islamic culture into Europe, they are also the front line of injecting American capitalism as well.
Through mass cheap labor, Europe will get the wage stagnation they desperately need to mitigate the previous period of socialist extravagance attached to Euro valuations. This will transform the current European assisted class into a permanently semi-employed dependent class. The nature of this dependency will be ideally expressed as ritual election season teeth-grinding as one generation of worker blends into a cheaper generation of worker. However, that dependency presents opportunities to revitalize 1930s socialism via the nationalization of labor, especially in countries that have few opportunities with international labor arbitrage.
The fall of Continental National Socialism has been passionately resisted by American reactionaries for their entire ideological livelihood. It’s almost a rite of passage among these types to say “I wish we were more like Europe.“ As it turns out, they might get their wish after all.
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Westley Richards Super Magnum Paradox Side by Side Shotgun
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Westley Richards is one of the oldest firearms manufacturers in England. Founded in in Birmingham in 1812, the firm opened a shop in London two years later. Westley Richards is credited with being the first gunmaker to use a toplever fastening system for its breechloading sporting arms, having adopted this system as early as 1860.
In 1875, William Anson and John Deeley, the firm's foreman and its managing director, patented a boxlock action of their design. This action was strong, reliable, and simple, and it was also less expensive to produce than were sidelock actions. Since its development, the Anson & Deeley action has been used worldwide by producers of hammerless side-by-side guns, and a few firms including Westley Richards also use this action on over-and-under guns.
The Anson & Deeley action was improved in 1897 to permit easy removal of the locks. These "drop locks" have become a feature commonly associated with Westley Richards firearms, and were available on both shotguns and double rifles. Other innovations from this gunmaker include a selective single trigger that is well-known for its reliability. This mechanism is extremely complicated, but nonetheless has established a reputation for its flawless performance. The Westley Richards single trigger has even been featured on double rifles, something which other manufacturers have generally not done.
In 1884, John Deeley's son patented an improved ejector based on the Anson & Deeley action. This ejector is still fitted to the company's best guns. Westley Richards also developed proprietary big-game cartridges such as their .450 Nitro caliber, the .476 NE, the .318 Rimless Nitro Express, and the rimless .425 Westley Richards Magnum. The company's patented extractor made it possible to use these rimless cartridges in its double rifles as well as in bolt-action models. Westley Richards was one of many British firms that produced military arms during the Second World War, but the post-war years brought a collapse in the market for fine sporting arms.
In 1946, the firm was purchased by E. D. Barclay, who turned to toolmaking in his efforts to keep Westley Richards afloat. The company changed hands again in 1957, when current chairman Walter Clode bought the proud old firm. Clode has exhibited a hands-on management style, and his leadership brought not only new blood but new ideas to the old firm. Clode maintained the toolmaking business, but with an eye to the future. He invested in sophisticated new equipment, a business practice that continues to the present day, and the adoption of the latest technology has found a place in both tool- and gunmaking. In producing its current line of sporting arms, Westley Richards makes use of both old tried-and-true handwork performed by master craftsmen, coupled with the latest computerized machinery.
At present, the firm manufactures about thirty guns per year on a special order basis, with some taking up to one thousand man-hours to complete. Waiting periods for these guns may be as long as eighteen months. Customers have a choice of gauges and calibers, and, as with earlier models, various features such as custom engraving and custom fitting are also available. Fine guns deserve equally fine cases, and Westley Richards builds handmade oak and leather cases for its products.
The firm also produces leather accessories for use by sportsmen. In addition, ammunition for many formerly obsolete big game-caliber rifles is also marketed under the Westley Richards name. Clode also focused on the firm's history and its place in the modern marketplace. While examining old company records, he noticed that in better times, Westley Richards had made many sales to the princes of India. Turning his sights in that direction, Clode began making regular trips to buy some of the fine old rifles and shotguns that had found their way to the former British colony. Along with newer models, these are now offered for sale in the company's showrooms in England and the United States.
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Super Bowl XLIX: Legacies on the Line
January 29, 2015 at 5:03 am by Michael Jorgenson and Edward Moss
Amy Chase/Daily Nexus
Brady: Three Straight Losses or Ring No. 4? by Michael Jorgenson
Let’s forget about Deflategate for just one gosh darn second, please. Honestly, it’s the most boring controversy the NFL has had this season by a mile (not that Adrian Peterson or Ray Rice’s issues are fun topics). Let’s talk about something that matters.
Every quarterback, from the moment he shows that he might someday be something special, bears a weight that no other position on the field has to endure: the quarterback’s legacy.
No signal-caller coming into the NFL wants to be the next Rex Grossman or Ryan Leaf (the latter being the greatest draft bust in NFL history, for those who don’t know). Even for an exceedingly successful No. 1 pick like Andrew Luck, who through three years has already broken a number of records and brought the Indianapolis Colts back to the AFC title game twice as fast as his legendary predecessor did, his legacy will likely never completely outgrow the record-book sized shadow left by Peyton Manning.
Hell, even Peyton’s legacy isn’t the prettiest. No matter how many records he breaks, at this point he’ll most likely never be able to say he has as many Super Bowl rings as his little brother Eli.
So then, what does this Sunday mean for a guy like Tom Brady?
Well, let’s refresh our memories for a second, because while Brady may be the league’s all-time winningest playoff quarterback, “All I Do Is Win” is not actually his theme song … though I wouldn’t be surprised if it were his ringtone.
The wily 15-year vet has not won a Super Bowl since 2004, when he and his good pal Bill Belichick defeated the Philadelphia Eagles to win their ninth-consecutive playoff game and earn their third championship in four years.
It’s been quite a journey for Brady since his triumphant entrance to the league. A number of first-round byes, two league MVPs, a severe season-ending knee injury while at the peak of his powers, a bunch of ridiculous touchdowns to Randy Moss and Rob Gronkowski and oh yeah … a 0-2 record in Super Bowls, with both losses coming to the New York Giants.
If not for Peyton’s annoying little brother and David Tyree’s sticky helmet, Brady would probably be a much more obvious choice in the “greatest QB of all time” conversation. However, while just about everything has gone right for the NFL’s golden boy, from his Cinderella-like beginnings to his supermodel wife and maybe even one or two of his Ugg commercials, he still doesn’t have that fourth ring. Where’s Pau Gasol when you need him? … On second thought, those Ugg commercials are just bad.
Yes, another ring would be fantastic. It would put Tom at the top of perhaps the most important list there is, alongside Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw in the four-timers club. But rather than thinking about how nice it would be to have so much bling you can justify putting a ring on your pinky, let’s think about what it would mean if Sunday doesn’t go Tom’s way.
Another Super Bowl loss would make Brady a measly .500 all-time in the biggest game there is. It would give Russell Wilson his second ring in just his third year, making him the “new Tom Brady” of the league. It would mean no rings in 11 years, despite nine first-round byes and a ridiculous 20-7 postseason record.
While I personally used to despise the guy ever since the infamous “Tuck Rule” incident, which forever branded him as a cheater in my childish brain (thanks, Spygate, for making it a reality), it is hard not to respect him for being the great winner and leader that he is. For someone as fiercely competitive as Tom Brady, failure is never an option. Even at 37 years old, anyone can still see the fire in his eyes every time he walks on the field.
With a win, Brady will cement his place in history as one of the best of the best of the best. His career will have been brought full-circle, with championship banners spanning from one generation of football to the next. He will be forever remembered as one of the greatest competitors and winners the NFL has ever seen.
With another loss, whether he deserves it or not, Brady will forever be remembered not as the guy who won three straight Super Bowls, but also as someone who lost three straight. Even for me, a Patriots hater, that seems like a pretty unfair legacy to have.
No matter what happens though, can we just stop talking about Deflategate? Please?
Seahawks Making Their Mark on History by Edward Moss
It’s the Seahawks versus the Patriots. The reigning champion versus the most recent dynasty. Carroll versus Belichick. Brady versus Wilson. Who would be the more fitting victor, the team that won three Super Bowls in four years but has lost in two championship games since, or the squad looking to add a chapter to a possible dynasty with a second straight title? Looking at the Seattle Seahawks, a win on Sunday could put this team on the verge of a new dynasty while acknowledging one of the greatest defensive teams of all-time.
Russell Wilson, the starting quarterback of the reigning Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks has already had an amazingly successful career. One of the most successful third-round draft picks ever, last season he led his team to a 13-3 record in the regular season and a Super Bowl Championship over the Denver Broncos, 43-8. He is the shortest quarterback to ever win a Super Bowl at 5’11” and now after his team went 12-4 in the regular season and beat the Carolina Panthers and Green Bay Packers to get to the title game, he has a shot to win his second championship before his 27th birthday.
Pete Carroll enjoyed success at USC before becoming the Seahawks’ head coach in 2010. He won two national championships with the Trojans and after winning the Super Bowl last season, he is one of three coaches to win both a college national championship and a Super Bowl.
At 62, Carroll was the third oldest coach to win a Super Bowl and he is attempting to become the 14th head coach to win multiple Super Bowl Championships.
With a victory, Wilson and Carroll would be put into a similar conversation as Brady and Belichick as winning quarterback-head coach combos. A win would put them one Super Bowl victory behind the Patriots’ tandem, and this is a team that could be perennial contenders for years to come. We may be watching the second chapter in a future dynasty for the Seattle Seahawks and one of the more successful quarterback-head coach partnerships in NFL history.
But the Seahawks didn’t win last year’s championship or get back to the Super Bowl this year just through its offense. This team has what is widely regarded as the best defense in the league. This defense finished first in the league in points allowed for the third straight season and had the second largest point differential in the league for the second straight year. Led by perennial Pro Bowlers cornerback Richard Sherman, free safety Earl Thomas and strong safety Kam Chancellor, this defensive squad has the ability to shut down any offense in the league
A win for the Seahawks would put them on the road to a dynasty. However, they are going up against the last team to win back-to-back Super Bowl championships, and a quarterback-head coach tandem that has lost its last two championship games and is desperate to end that streak.
It won’t be easy for Seattle, but they have the opportunity to knock off the greatest franchise of the 21st century and put their name in the conversation to take over that accolade.
A version of this article appeared on page 12 of January 29, 2015’s print edition of the Daily Nexus.
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As the founder of disco and an electronic music trailblazer, Giorgio Moroder made his mark as an influential Italian producer, songwriter, performer and DJ. At 74 years old, Moroder still has his hands in the center of EDM culture, swinging back into the spotlight in 2013 as a guest collaborator on the GRAMMY Award-winning Daft Punk album Random Access Memories (“Album Of the Year”), new remixes for Donna Summer, Haim and his Scarface motion picture soundtrack, a newfound station as an acclaimed live DJ at major global festivals and clubs, and a forthcoming new album of collaborations. Over the course of his career, Mr. Moroder has worked with some of the most famous names in music including Barbra Streisand, Elton John, Cher, Janet Jackson and David Bowie. He is heavily noted for being the key player in the Queen of Disco Donna Summer‘s rise to fame throughout the 1970s, collaborating with her on her biggest hits including “Love To Love You Baby,” “Hot Stuff” and “I Feel Love.” In 1997, Moroder and Summer won the Grammy Award for “Best Dance Recording” for the song “Carry On.” He recently teamed with Verve records to honor Summer with Love To Love You Donna, a collection of her most notable hits remixed by Afrojack, Hot Chip, Laidback Luke, Masters at Work and others.
Giorgio Moroder’s music charted success everywhere the disco craze touched down but he is also responsible for some of the most classic film scores to date including Scarface and Midnight Express, as well as timeless soundtrack numbers like “Take My Breath Away” (Top Gun), Irene Cara’s “Flashdance,” Blondie’s “Call Me” (American Gigolo), as well as compositions on films such as The NeverEnding Story, Superman III, Rambo III and Beverly Hills Cop II. From these, Moroder has accumulated three Academy Awards, four Golden Globes, four Grammys and more than 100 gold and platinum records. Giorgio Moroder was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame in 2004.
Originally from Val Gardena-Dolomiti, Italy, Giorgio Moroder spent his early years in music touring Europe; playing bass and guitar in pop-oriented ensembles. He first gained popularity in Mucich, where in 1969, the release of his single “Looky Looky” was awarded a gold disc. He eventually teamed up with Pete Bellotte and Donna Summer’s “Love to Love You Baby”, the song that is now credited with starting the popular, worldwide disco craze.
Moroder has worked with several of the biggest names in music, including: Barbra Streisand, Elton John, Cher, Roger Daltrey, Janet Jackson, Freddy Mercury, David Bowie, Chaka Khan, Cheap Trick, and Pat Benatar. Among his biggest hit singles are Donna Summer’s “Hot Stuff” and “I Feel Love,” Kenny Loggins’ “Danger Zone,” David Bowie’s “Putting Out the Fire” and Blondie’s “Call Me.”
His many innovative film scores include three Academy Award winners. The first came for his score to the 1978 film Midnight Express. The second recognized was Irene Cara’s inspirational hit, “Flashdance,” from the film of the same title. Lastly, “Take My Breath Away” from the film, Top Gun, brought him his third Academy Award.
Compositions by Moroder have also contributed to numerous other hit films such as Superman III, Rambo III, Beverly Hills Cop II, and the score for the 1983 gangster epic, Scarface.
In 1998, he received his third Grammy for the song “Carry On,” performed by Donna Summer, among countless other awards and honors.
Moroder’s creativity has also entered the realms of sports and global affairs. He wrote the songs “Reach Out” for the 1984 Olympics, “Hand in Hand” for the 1988 Olympics, the worldwide hit song “Un Estate Italiana” for the 1990 Soccer World Cup in Italy, and “Forever Friends” for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
In 2013, he collaborated on the song “Giorgio by Moroder” with acclaimed electronic duo, Daft Punk, ushering a resurgence of Moroder’s work and earning his 3rd Grammy award.
As of 2014, Giorgio Moroder has performed around the world at shows including Vivid Fest, Moogfest, Wireless Festival, Les Ardentes, and Pacha Ibiza.
His upcoming album, scheduled for release in Spring 2015, will feature work with Kylie Minogue, Britney Spears, Charli XCX, Matthew Koma, Mikky Ekko, Sia and more.
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Macron’s European army
French President Emmanuel Macron’s desire to form a unified European army may not receive the support of his partners in NATO or the European Union
Hany Ghoraba , Friday 16 Nov 2018
Once the continent that contained the global superpowers, in the aftermath of World War II Europe moved from devastating wars and murderous conflicts towards a new stability that was reinforced by the fall of the former Soviet Union in 1991 and the consolidation of the European Union.
For perhaps the first time since the Roman Empire, which at its height controlled most of Europe and much of the old world, Europe is now enjoying a condition of general peace, its first Pax Europaea since the second century CE.
Only the wars in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s have supervened to disrupt the sense of overall peace in the old continent.
Yet, French President Emmanuel Macron said on 7 November that he wanted to see the formation of a unified and independent European army to protect the continent from threats from China, Russia, and, more surprisingly, the United States.
The call has sparked major controversies about its meaning and timing. It was announced just before last weekend when France, like many other European countries, was celebrating the centennial of the end of World War I in November 1918.
Before a celebration held in Paris attended by many world leaders, US President Donald Trump described Macron’s statement as “very insulting” and called upon France and other NATO members to pay their fair share in supporting the work of the Atlantic alliance.
France is a major proponent of European unity, and as a founding father along with Germany of what is now the European Union it has always been concerned to expand the unity between Europeans and not to keep it only on the economic level.
Macron’s call for a unified European army stems from his fears of challenges and potential threats against the old continent, especially in the wake of the American announcement that the US is considering withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) signed in 1987 with the former Soviet Union that has been seen as a cornerstone of European security for decades.
Other challenges include a possible showdown with Russia or China.
In a meeting with Trump that took place during the centennial celebrations in Paris at the weekend, Macron attempted to soften his earlier statements by saying that the proposed European army would function within the framework of NATO and would share the cost of funding the alliance with the United States.
He was attempting to defuse US criticisms that the European countries do not pay their fair share of the growing expenses of NATO, though this did not change the fact that Macron remains a believer in Europe’s capability to forge its own independent security measures.
An independent European army remains part of his agenda.
However, Macron may have spoken too early about his project, since he does not appear to have consulted other European leaders who may not be as enthusiastic as he is about such an arrangement.
He is likely to have an uphill battle ahead in convincing other European countries of the need to establish the proposed army.
These challenges can be summarised in several points, starting by the expenses which are likely to be borne by the Europeans alone and not shared with the United States, which currently pays most of the expenses of NATO.
Another challenge is the overall readiness of the European Union to raise a standing army of a size that can match those of Russia, China or the United States. This is questionable, though it is not impossible.
Most of the European countries likely to join such a defence force have abolished conscription and replaced it with the training of professional soldiers.
Any reversal of this decision would likely lead to a spike in military expenses across the continent. Even Germany, the potential main partner of France in such a unified army, abolished conscription in 2011 and has been reducing the overall size of its armed forces since then.
With the Chinese and Russians drafting hundreds of thousands of recruits every year, it will not be an easy task for the Europeans to match such enormous resources in terms of manpower.
Moreover, the decision by Britain to exit the European Union leaves France as the only European country with a nuclear capability in such a proposed common army.
Most initiatives involving European security have up to now been limited to coordination and peace-keeping missions based on the continent’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) protocol.
Over recent decades the Europeans have avoided any escalation of defence expenses in this way, and today only four countries in the European Union meet the minimum two per cent of GDP spending target on defence set by NATO.
Ironically, these countries do not include France. The fact remains that the reliance on NATO has rendered the formation of a separate European army an irrelevance for most Europeans.
What was considered at the time to be a possible seed for a common European army, the European Rapid Operational Force (EUROFOR) established in 1995 and comprising forces from Italy, France, Portugal and Spain, did not last after 2012 when it was dissolved amidst a wave of spending cuts.
Despite the growing challenges adverted to by the French president, the growing economic problems of the European Union and the European reliance on NATO over the past seven decades mean that most European countries are likely to want to keep the status quo as they will not want to spend a significant portion of their GDP paying for a separate European army.
The tide may change should the Europeans feel the need for further security measures in the case of a US withdrawal from INF or further Russian threats on their eastern borders, however.
For the moment, the Europeans are content to rely on the US as a friendly superpower should there be a conflict with the Russians or possibly the Chinese.
As a result, the French president’s call for a common European army is likely to remain wishful thinking despite the massive economic and overall military strength of the European Union.
* The writer is a political analyst and author of Egypt’s Arab Spring and the Winding Road to Democracy.
* A version of this article appears in print in the 15 November, 2018 edition of Al-Ahram Weekly under the headline: Macron’s European army
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On May 31, 2013, a Florida federal district court lifted a Carter-era injunction that prevented the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) from disclosing the physician payments section of the a database known as the Carrier Standard Analytic File—which includes details of Medicare payments made to individual physicians.
Federal investigators use the database to uncover fraudulent claims, but CMS drew the line at public dissemination. Until this court action, CMS kept information on specific providers private, confidential and hidden from the public.
With the lifting of that injunction, CMS is now considering if and how the agency will disclose specific payments made to physicians. Physicians appear divided on the issue.
Injunction of Privacy
In 1978, as it had done in 1977, CMS planned to release a list of all physicians and providers who received Medicare reimbursements including the amount paid to each physician. Before the second list could be released, the Florida Medical Association and six physicians, joined by the American Medical Association (AMA), filed a lawsuit to enjoin the Carter Administration from releasing this data.
In 1979, a federal court in Florida issued the injunction against public disclosure saying the information was protected by the Privacy Act and that physicians’ right to privacy trumped the public’s right to know about specific payments.
Dow Jones & Co. challenged the injunction in 2011.
Injunction Lifted
In her ruling lifting the injunction, U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard said that new case law had narrowed the scope of the Privacy Act over the ensuing three decades and no longer supported such a broad injunction.
CMS says since the 1979 injunction, a number of changes have occurred related to physicians’ privacy interests in maintaining the confidentiality of their Medicare payments and the public interest in disclosure of such amounts. For example:
Public interest in the information has increased given the substantial growth in size of Medicare since 1979, both in terms of total cost per year and as a portion of the federal budget
Changes in the Medicare reimbursement system that have resulted in greater standardization of payment amounts for physician services
The creation of the Qualified Entity program (known as Medicare data sharing for performance reporting), authorized by Section 10332 of the Affordable Care Act, which allows CMS to disclose Medicare claims data to qualified entities for the production of public performance reports
The greater consequences of Medicare fraud, waste, and abuse, which disclosure of payment information could help expose
In addition, the agency says during the past several years, CMS’ management role as a processor of Medicare claims for services has evolved toward becoming “a more effective steward and partner of transformation in the health care system with the goal of incentivizing high quality care and better health at lower costs.”
CMS Seeks Support for Disclosure
With this transformation, the agency says it now receives multiple requests from various stakeholders for physician payment and reimbursement data. These requestors argue that this data is an important part of the ongoing research, assessment, and evaluation of programs and services necessary to make improvements in the delivery, quality, and cost of care.
Before acting on its own, the agency wants to confirm that the release of such information would serve the public good and asked for public feedback.
Specifically, CMS wants to know:
How to properly weigh the balance between any potential privacy interest a provider has and the public interest in disclosure
What specific policies CMS should consider with respect to disclosure of individual physician payment data, especially in order to prevent the release of any health information on any Medicare beneficiary
What form any potential data release might take (e.g., line item claim details, aggregated data at the individual physician level)
Health Data Initiative
CMS has been in disclosure mood since 2010, when its parent agency, HHS (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services), launched the Health Data Initiative to promote transparent, innovative, and safe data use. CMS is also engaged with a wide range of public, non-profit, and private sector stakeholders to foster the availability and use of health care data to drive innovations that improve health and health care.
Since the initiative, CMS says it has released an unprecedented amount of aggregated data in machine-readable form. These data range from previously unpublished statistics on Medicare spending, utilization, and quality at the state, hospital referral region, and county level, to detailed information on the quality performance of hospitals, nursing homes, and other providers. In May 2013, CMS released information on the average charges for the 100 most common inpatient services at more than 3,000 hospitals nationwide, followed in June with the release of average charges for 30 selected outpatient procedures.
Physician Fears and Debate
As argued by the lawyers who brought the original AMA lawsuit, physicians are worried that specific information about their Medicare income might be disclosed. The data could, for example, make it possible to uncover specific patient case performance, which in turn could be used to determine whether specific physicians are performing the appropriate procedures. Also, if line items are disclosed, the data could be used to identify physicians with the highest number of procedures performed during a given period of time. That could be used to gauge a physician’s patient volume or experience per period compared to competitors.
However, physicians are not united in their opinion about whether such data should be made public.
ACPE Poll: Physician Leaders Divided
Source: acpe.org
According to a new poll conducted by the American College of Physician Executives (ACPE), 46% of responding ACPE members said the data should not be made public and 42% said the data should be made public—12% were unsure. ACPE bills itself as the nation’s largest health care organization for physicians in leadership positions.
ACPE emailed its 11,000 members and 588 responded. Participants were also asked to share their comments. According to the ACPE here is some of what their members had to say.
In Favor of Privacy
Those who favored keeping the information private said the data is too easily misinterpreted by the public and could be used to portray physicians in a negative and unfair light.
“What purpose does this action serve?” wrote Kenneth Maxwell, M.D., from Winston Salem, North Carolina. “Publishing the amount of Medicare reimbursement without some form of normative information provides no useful information for consumers.”
Several physicians said that reimbursement is complicated by a number of factors, including geographical location, the type of procedure performed and the cost of medication. They say the time and effort it would take to translate the data might be better spent on other resources.
“This is not a form of transparency that will benefit budgeting, planning or patient care,” said James C. Salwitz, M.D., from New Brunswick, New Jersey.
In Favor of Disclosure
Those who favor disclosure argued the public has a right to know how their taxpayer dollars are being spent. As consumers continue to demand increased access to health care data, the move to greater transparency will only grow stronger. It doesn’t make sense to fight it, they say.
“We live in an information age,” wrote Daniel McDevitt, M.D., FACS, from Atlanta, Georgia. “We should be able to look up online where our money is going at all times.”
Others said fighting to keep the information private will make physicians appear overly secretive. “It gives an appearance of having something to hide, and thus reduces public trust in our profession,” said Paul Buehrens, M.D., from Seattle, Washington. “I just can’t understand that attitude.”
Jon Burroughs, M.D., MBA, FACHE, FACPE, said, physicians and healthcare organizations that are not prepared for complete transparency of performance data are not going to excel in an era of accountability where internal and external customers will expect reliable quality, safety, service, and cost data to make informed healthcare decisions. “Third party payers and educated consumers will demand this data prior to making healthcare decisions and large employers/payers will preferentially divert beneficiaries and employees to high quality/low cost venues (as Wal-Mart and large insurers currently do now). This is our future and those who embrace it will excel and those who resist it will not.”
Accuracy and Fairness
Peter Angood, M.D.
Peter Angood, M.D., ACPE’s CEO, said the nearly even split in opinion suggests CMS was wise to ask the physician community for feedback, and should spend some time deliberating over the responses before making any decisions.
“No matter what your opinion on this subject may be, there’s no doubt the move toward greater transparency in medicine and increased public reporting is here to stay—and we believe it is necessary,” said Angood. “Part of our job as physician leaders is to help ensure that when health care data is presented to the public, it is accurate, fair, meaningful and useful.”
CMS has not provided a timeline for making a decision about releasing the data other than a September 6, 2013 deadline for receiving public comments. The AMA, which continues to oppose the release of the data, may decide to appeal the ruling. “Medicine has stood its ground during the last 34 years to defend an injunction that favored individual rights and protected innocent physicians from becoming targets of suspicion. The AMA is considering its options on how best to continue to defend the personal privacy interests of all physicians,” reportedly said AMA President-elect Ardis Dee Hoven, M.D.
Under current CMS rules, news organizations and third parties will have to file Freedom of Information Act requests to gain access to the data and the agency could still decide to deny requests on a case-by-case basis.
In a recent Wall Street Journal article, Laura Handman, an attorney who represented Dow Jones in the case said, “Given President Obama’s emphasis on data transparency, I feel his government will give this very thoughtful consideration.”
Judge Howard’s ruling may be appealable but the overall trend to more disclosure seems unstoppable. While physicians seem to be divided over this issue, the trend is unambiguous.
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By Rohan Joshi on April 24, 2014 in Pakistan
The attack on Hamid Mir and its aftermath.
Propagandists in Pakistan move in mysterious ways their wonders to perform. Those who once exercised creative license to ascribe any and all acts of terror in Pakistan to India’s external intelligence agency R&AW are now being labeled agents of that same agency. Hamid Mir, senior journalist with the GEO Group, was attacked this past Saturday by unidentified persons while on his way to a special broadcast on GEO TV in Karachi. Mr. Mir was shot six times in the abdomen and legs, but miraculously survived the attack.
In the ensuing outrage, Amir Mir, brother to Hamid and a journalist of repute himself, accused the ISI of orchestrating the attack on his brother. GEO TV, as part of its coverage of the attack, broadcast a photograph of DG ISI Lt. Gen. Zahir ul-Islam, while Ansar Abbasi, investigative editor of the Jang Group’s English-language newspaper The News, demanded his resignation.
Big mistake. One does not simply accuse the DG ISI on national television and get away with it. The ISI dismissed the allegations as “baseless” (as all allegations usually are in Pakistan). Pakistan’s Defense Ministry, in its complaint against GEO TV, accuses it of bringing the ISI into disrepute and demands that Pakistan’s Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) cancel GEO TV’s license to broadcast.
With the PEMRA verdict still pending, GEO TV took to Twitter yesterday, indicating that its channel had been blocked by a few cable operators. This may of course be true, but some of us may be forgiven if we suspect this to be a reenactment of the last time GEO TV claimed to have been taken off air. In that particular instance, a GEO official privately confirmed that they had “taken themselves off the air in order to blame [a] political party, and garner support for the station.”
GEO TV and Mr. Mir are now under attack from many quarters. Rival media houses are in an all-out war. Many of them are unable to appreciate the fact that the price one now pays for defying the Deep State is no longer censorship, it is death. And it wouldn’t matter if it were GEO, Express or Dawn. The rules of the game have changed.
Of course, propaganda theories of Indian involvement are never very far when hell breaks loose in Pakistan, which is always. The Awami Muslim League’s Sheikh Rasheed, who was “detained” in the U.S. in 2012 for his links with Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hafiz Saeed, opined that the attack on Hamid Mir benefited India, which was looking to malign the Pakistani Army and ISI. Hafiz Saeed also took to Twitter to level vague and uncreative accusations at India and the U.S.
Mr. Mir himself had been particularly distressed in the recent past at being labelled an “Indian agent.” But how things change. It wasn’t too long ago that Mr. Mir did the bidding of higher powers in Rawalpindi and Islamabad before he managed to find his liberal conscience (though possibly not his “liberal fascist” conscience).
Indeed, he was for the ISI before he was against it. After all, not every journalist in Pakistan gets to interview Osama bin Laden. And that too not once, but on three occasions. But the nature of that relationship changed in 2010 when a tape surfaced of Mr. Mir allegedly conversing with the TTP’s Usman Punjabi, in which he relayed false information that may have contributed to the death of ISI official Khalid Khawaja. The recorded conversation, still available online, also has Mr. Mir talking disparagingly about Pakistan’s persecuted Ahmedis. Quite the liberal indeed.
So where does this all end? It is hard to see how PEMRA could fly in the face of the ISI’s demands and recommend anything other than revoking GEO’s license. But in time, the brouhaha will be forgotten. Ansar Abbasi and the GEO crew will probably show up somewhere, somehow on some national TV show in which they will proceed to eulogize the Pakistani army, thereby underscoring their hubb ul-watan (patriotic) credentials. Couple this with private undertakings to comply with the red lines now drawn and order will be restored. Licenses will be reinstated, and talk show hosts and their guests will be yelling at each other, competing for the soundbite of the day on GEO TV soon enough.
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INS Sindhuranta and beyond
By Rohan Joshi on February 26, 2014 in Indian Navy
The casual attitude towards India’s defense preparedness at all levels is worrying.
An incident on board Indian Navy submarine INS Sindhuratna resulted in the unfortunate deaths of two officers and injuries to several other sailors. Navy chief Adm DK Joshi has resigned, “taking moral responsibility” for the incident. There have been as many as four major incidents pertaining to Indian Navy submarines in as many years. In August last year, a fire onboard INS Sindhurakshak resulted in explosions causing its sinking and the deaths of 18 sailors onboard.
There are similarities between the two ill-fated submarines. INS Sindhurakshak and Sindhuratna are diesel-powered, Sindhughosh-class submarines first introduced in 1986. INS Sindhuratna was commissioned in 1988, while Sindhurakshak was commissioned in 1997. Both submarines were retrofitted at the same ship yard in Russia. In 2010, a faulty battery value on board INS Sindhurakshak is alleged to have leaked hydrogen, resulting in fire and explosion that killed one sailor and injured two others. Reports, although preliminary, now indicate that a battery leak could have also caused yesterday’s explosion on board INS Sindhuratna.
The reasons for Wednesday’s incident could be many, including failure of the crew to follow standard operating procedures, poor maintenance, technical malfunctioning or failure due to obsolescence. Indeed, a 2008 CAG report highlighted delays in induction and refitting of submarines and projected, at the time, that 63 percent of India’s submarines would have completed their prescribed life by 2012. However as of 2014, continued delays in India’s Scorpene-class submarine project are further straining the Navy’s submarine force levels and the serviceability of its aging fleet.
To be clear, incidents are bound to occur in even the most sophisticated, well-maintained and well-equipped of navies. However, what should be concern for India is the casual approach to investigation and remedial action when incidents do occur. The Navy announced the constitution of a Board of Inquiry to investigate the August 14, 2013 incident involving INS Sindhurakshak. It was later determined that a full inquiry could not be conducted until the submarine was salvaged.
Going by news reports, it has taken 6 months for the Navy just to identify a company to salvage the vessel. It is expected that it will take another 4 months after a contract is signed and work commences, to retrieve the sunken submarine. An official inquiry will commence only then. It is unlikely, then, that we will understand what happened to INS Sindhurakshak any time before 2015. Where, other than in India, can these delays appear to be reasonable? And what is the Navy and the political leadership supposed to do with its other Sindhughosh-class submarines in the interim? Ground them pending inquiry, thereby reducing the number of operational Indian submarines to a grand total of 4, or continue to operate them and risk further accidents?
It is unfortunate that, with the exception of a few media houses, these questions are not being put to the people entrusted with India’s national security. Mainstream media coverage of Adm DK Joshi’s resignation and his apparently acrimonious relationship with Minister of Defense AK Antony has overwhelmed questions on the root causes of these incidents and the general apathy at both political and military levels with which they have been dealt.
Some former servicemen have, perhaps rightly, rallied around Adm DK Joshi on TV news channels. No doubt, there is a chasm, deep and wide in civil-military relations in India. These are issues that the mainstream media must follow-up on. However, to allow subplots pertaining to personality conflicts – the honorable and upright Navy officer vs. a much-pilloried Defense Minister — to dominate issues relating to the state of defense preparedness just because the former makes good viewing is to do disservice to the country.
General elections in 2014 could, by design, address the issue of the lack of political stewardship in defense. A mere change in political leadership, however, cannot guarantee that we will be any closer to identifying or resolving the issues plaguing our submarine fleet. What happens when these issues resurface, then? Lather, rinse, repeat?
Urdunama: Jaish-e-Mohammed
By Rohan Joshi on January 29, 2014 in Jaish-e-Mohammed, Terrorism, Urdunama
Pakistan’s Dawn reported on January 27 that Maulana Masood Azhar, founder of the terrorist group, Jaish-e-Mohammed, held a rally in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, where he criticized India of “killing Kashmiri Muslims” and warned India of “dreaded revenge” for its execution of Afzal Guru. This was Masood Azhar’s first public rally in years after Pakistan ostensibly banned Jaish-e-Mohammed, first after the 2001 attacks on the Indian Parliament and subsequently after the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai in 2008.
However, while this may have been his first major public rally since 2008, Masood Azhar appears to have been reactivated as far back as at least 2011, per a report in the Islam Times. Masood Azhar’s return to his headquarters in Bahawalpur and the resumption of terror training camps had the blessings of the Pakistani establishment.
Azhar’s resurfacing should give pause to those who believe that Pakistan, after the recent transitions in political and military leadership and very public debates on terrorist groups targeting the state, was any closer to reining in its terrorist assets targeting India. Exerpts of the September 2011 article in the Islam Times follow:
When India, in December 2008 declared Maulana Masood Azhar, Dawood Ibrahim and Hafiz Saeed as wanted men, Pakistan was forced to ban the Jaish-e-Mohammed. Under pressure from Islamabad, Masood Azhar moved out of his Model Town headquarters in Bahawalpur –where hundreds of fighters were being trained — and relocated to South Waziristan.
Islam Times’ military source now reports that Masood Azhar has returned his Bahawalpur headquarters and resumed the training of militants there. Masood Azhar also openly operates madrasas where hundreds of children are being instructed in new interpretations of Islam.
According to our source, Masood Azhar is constructing bunkers and tunnels similar to those that existed in the madrasas of Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafza before they are destroyed by Pakistani military action in 2007. Masood Azhar has been granted permission by the Pakistani establishment to resume his activities in Bahawalpur.
Masood Azhar’s associate Rashid Rauf escaped while under trail in Pakistan and ended up in Europe. After flying to London in August 2007, he was involved in a failed attempt to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight. It is alleged that Rashid Rauf was killed in a drone attack in North Waziristan in November 2008.
Pakistan’s senior security officers indicate that Jaish-e-Mohammed has ties with al-Qaeeda, the Taliban and the Haqqani Network and is working with these outfits to target kaafirs (presumably U.S. and NATO troops) along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. After being released by India (as part of a swap for hostages aboard a hijacked IC-814 flight) in 1999, Masood Azhar organized a rally in Karachi with over 10,000 participants and declared that Muslims will not rest until India and the U.S. were dismembered and destroyed.
When the trajectory of talks between India and Pakistan slowed in 2007, Jaish-e-Mohammed lauched many successful attacks in “Occupied Kashmir” under the leadership of Mufti Abdul Rauf, Masood Azhar’s younger brother. Mufti Abdul Rauf was subsequently also given facilities in Rawalpindi to train terrorist organizations from South Punjab.
Jaish-e-Mohammed has the support of many prominent Deoband organizations in Pakistan, including Jamia Binori’s Mufti Nizamuddin and Sipah-e-Sahaba’s Yusuf Ludhianvi. British intelligence agencies investigating the 2005 terrorist attack in London indicate that two of the suicide bombers were known associates of Jaish-e-Mohammed’s Faisalabad trainer Osama Nazir. [اسلام ٹائمز]
Quickpost: Thoughts on Republic Day
By Rohan Joshi on January 25, 2014 in India
What constitutes the most sacred duty of the government and citizens in a republic?
The meteoric rise of the Aam Admi Party in Delhi tells us that democracy is alive and well in India. AAP rode on the wave of an anti-corruption sentiment and vanquished a hitherto well-entrenched Congress party from the seat of power in Delhi. However, the party’s use of methods bordering on political vigilantism to address the legitimate concerns of the electorate tells us that while India the democracy is thriving, India the republic is hurting.
In the congress of developing nations, India distinguishes itself for its sustained commitment to pluralistic, democratic traditions. At the same time however, the use of unconstitutional methods for seeking social, economic and political justice continues to be accepted. The degree to which these methods are employed differentiates an unhealthy republic from a healthy one.
Many of us are familiar with B.R. Ambedkar’s concluding speech on the floor of the Constituent Assembly on achieving social and economic justice through methods provided by the Constitution of the land. For any healthy, functioning republic, adherence to these methods is not just important, but essential. The responsibility to ensure the adherence of constitutional methods, then, becomes the duty of both the government and citizens.
Indeed, as Alexander Hamilton, a founding father of the American Republic, explained in a letter in the Federalist Papers, it constitutes the “most sacred duty,” and is the greatest source of security to the republic:
If it were to be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws — the first growing out of the last. It is by this, in a great degree, that the rich and the powerful are to be restrained from enterprises against the common liberty — operated upon by the influence of a general sentiment by their interest in the principle, and by the obstacles which the habit it produces erects against innovation and encroachment. It is by this in a still greater degree, that caballers, intriguers and demagogues, are prevented from climbing on the shoulders of faction to the tempting seats of usurpation and tyranny.
Were it not that it might require too long a discussion, it would not be difficult to demonstrate that a large and well organized Republic can scarcely lose its liberty from any other cause than that of anarchy, to which a contempt of the laws is the high road.
But without entering into so wide a field it is sufficient to present to your view a more simple and a more obvious truth, which is this: that a sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle the sustaining energy of a free government.
[Alexander Hamilton, Letter No. III in the American Daily Advertiser, August 28, 1794]
Let us hope this serves as food for thought as India celebrates its 65th Republic Day today.
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Palazzo dei Conservatori (Rome, Italy) : Frontal view, along the inner wall
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564
Porta, Giacomo della, 1532/1533-1602 or 1604
Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome, Lazio, Italy
1563-1584 (alteration)
The Palazzo dei Conservatori ("Palace of the Conservators"), originally called the Palazzo Caffarelli, was built in the Middle Ages for the local magistrate on top of a 6th century BCE temple dedicated to Jupiter "Maximus Capitolinus". It was the first use of a giant order that spanned two storeys, here with a range of Corinthian pilasters and subsidiary Ionic columns flanking the ground-floor loggia openings and the second-floor windows. Another giant order would serve later for the exterior of St Peter's Basilica. Its facade was updated by Michelangelo in the 1530s and again later numerous times. The year before Michelangelo's death, the façade of the Palazzo dei Conservatori was started according to a new set of drawings produced under his supervision, and the building was completed (1568-1584) by Giacomo della Porta. The construction of a palazzo of the same design across the square, the Palazzo Nuovo, which established the symmetry of the composition, followed in 1603-1660.
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Peter Sutcliffe
Peter Sutcliffe (born June 2, 1946), infamous as the "Yorkshire Ripper", was convicted in 1981 of the murders of thirteen women and attacks on seven more from 1975 to 1980.
2 Criminal career
2.1 Victims
3 Arrest and trial
4 Prison
5 Related Controversy
6 Related works
Peter William Sutcliffe was born in Bingley, West Yorkshire, the son of a mill-worker. Reportedly a loner at school, he left formal education at the age of fifteen and took a series of menial jobs, including a stint as a grave-digger, before settling into a job on the nightshift at a local factory.
He met Sonia Szurma in 1966, and they married in 1974. Shortly after his marriage, he was made redundant and used the pay-off to gain a HGV license in June 1975 and began working as a driver in September. His wife suffered a number of miscarriages, and eventually the couple was informed that she would not be able to have children. Shortly after this, his wife returned to a teacher-training course. When she completed the course in 1977 and began teaching, the couple used the extra money to get their first house, in Bradford.
Criminal career
Sutcliffe was convicted for murdering the following 13 victims:
30 October 1975: Wilma McCann, 28, Leeds
20 January 1976: Emily Jackson, 42, Leeds
5 February 1977: Irene Richardson, 28, Leeds
23 April 1977: Patricia Atkinson, 32, Bradford
26 June 1977: Jayne MacDonald, 16, Leeds
1 October 1977: Jean Jordan, 20, Manchester
21 January 1978: Yvonne Pearson, 21, Bradford
31 January 1978: Helen Rytka, 18, Huddersfield
16 May 1978: Vera Millward, 40, Manchester
4 April 1979: Josephine Whitaker, 19, Halifax
2 September 1979: Barbara Leach, 20, Bradford
20 August 1980: Marguerite Walls, 47, Leeds
17 November 1980: Jacqueline Hill, 20, Leeds
The first known assault by Sutcliffe was in Keighley on the night of July 5, 1975. He attacked Anna Rogulskyj (aged 36) who was walking alone, striking her unconscious with a ball-peen hammer and slashing her stomach with a knife. Disturbed by a neighbour, he left before killing her. Anna Rogulskyj survived after extensive medical attention. Later she would meet Sutcliffe's father, encouraging him to probe his fingers into the two indents that still remain in the back of her head. He attacked Olive Smelt (aged 46) in Halifax in August with the same modus operandi and again was disturbed and left his victim badly injured. Later in August he attacked Tracy Browne (aged 16) in Silsden. She was struck from behind and hit on the head five times while walking in a country lane. Sutcliffe was not convicted of this attack, but later confessed to it.
His next victim, Wilma McCann of Leeds (aged 28) and a mother of four, was killed on October 30. He struck her twice with a hammer before stabbing her fifteen times. An extensive inquiry, involving 150 police officers and 11,000 interviews, did not uncover Sutcliffe.
He did not kill again until January 1976, stabbing Emily Jackson (aged 42) 51 times in Leeds.
Due to repeated tardiness, Sutcliffe lost his first driving job in March 1976 and did not find another until October. He attacked Marcella Claxton (aged 20), another prostitute, in Roundhay Park in Leeds on May 9. He struck her with a hammer and left her with 25 stab wounds.
The next murder took place in February 1977. He attacked Irene Richardson (aged 28), another Chapeltown prostitute, in Roundhay Park, this time killing her with a series of weighty hammer blows, followed by a post-mortem stabbing. Tyre-tracks left near the murder scene resulted in an enormous list of possible suspect vehicles.
Two months later he killed Patricia "Tina" Atkinson (aged 32), a Bradford prostitute, at her flat, where police found a bootprint on the bedclothes. It was another two months later that Sutcliffe moved up a gear with a vicious murder in Chapeltown. Jayne MacDonald (aged 16) was not a prostitute, and her death suddenly made every woman a potential victim. He seriously assaulted Maureen Long (aged 42) in Bradford in July; interrupted, he left her for dead. He was seen by a witness, but they misidentified the make of his car. The police had over 300 officers working the case and amassed 12,500 statements and checked thousands of cars, without result.
Sutcliffe killed a Manchester prostitute, Jean Jordan (aged 20) in October. Her body was not found for ten days, but had obviously been moved several days after death. The recovery of her handbag offered a valuable piece of evidence. Sutcliffe had given the woman �5. The note was new and was traced to banks in Shipley and Bingley and from there into the wages of 8,000 local employees. Over three months the police interviewed 5,000 men, including Sutcliffe, but did not connect him. Sutcliffe had known the note could expose him: he had returned to the body a week after the killing to locate it and, unable to find the handbag, had tried to remove Jordan's head with a broken pane of glass. Chillingly, he had undertaken this event after hosting a family party at his home.
Sutcliffe attacked another Leeds prostitute, Marilyn Moore (aged 25) in December. She survived and offered another reasonable description of her attacker, and tyre-tracks found matched those of an earlier attack.
Despite this, the police withdrew their intensive search for the person who received the �5 in January 1978. Sutcliffe was interviewed about the �5 note, but not investigated further; he would ultimately be contacted, and disregarded, by the Ripper Squad many more times. In that month Sutcliffe killed again, attacking a Bradford prostitute, Yvonne Pearson (aged 21), this time hiding the body under a discarded sofa so that it was not found until March. He killed a Huddersfield prostitute, Helen Rytka (aged 18), in late January; her body was uncovered three days later.
After a two month hiatus Sutcliffe killed again, attacking Vera Millward (aged 40) in the car park of the Manchester Royal Infirmary on May 16.
Almost a year passed before he struck again; during this time his mother died. On April 4, 1979, he killed Josephine Whitaker (aged 19), a bank clerk, in Halifax; he assaulted her in a park as she was walking home. Despite new forensic clues, the police efforts were diverted for several months into a fruitless search for a man with a Wearside accent, which was pinned down to a small area of Sunderland, following a hoax tape message taunting George Oldfield who was leading the search. The same hoaxer had sent two letters to the police boasting of his crimes in 1978 signed "Jack The Ripper" and claimed a murder in Preston in November 1975.
Sutcliffe killed Barbara Leach (aged 20), a Bradford student, in September, his sixteenth attack. Yet again the death of a woman other than a prostitute aroused the public and prompted an expensive publicity campaign, which unfortunately pushed the Geordie connection. Even with this false lead, Sutcliffe was re-interviewed on at least two occasions in 1979 but, despite matching several forensic clues and being on the list of just 300 names in connection with the �5 note, he was not strongly suspected. In total, Sutcliffe was interviewed by the police on nine occasions.
In April 1980 he was arrested for drunken driving. While awaiting trial on this charge he killed two more women, Marguerite Walls (aged 47) in August and Jacqueline Hill (aged 20) in November 1980. He also attacked two other women who survived—Upadhya Bandara (aged 24) in Leeds and Theresa Sykes (aged 16) in Huddersfield. Following the November murder, one of Sutcliffe's friends reported him to the police as a suspect, this information vanished into the enormous volumes already created.
In January 1981 he was stopped by the police in Sheffield while in his car with prostitute Olivia Reivers (aged 24); he was arrested. Having fitted his car with false plates, he was transferred to Dewsbury police station in connection with this offence. At Dewsbury he was questioned in relation to the Yorkshire Ripper case, as he matched so many of the physical characteristics known. The discovery of a knife, hammer and rope he had tried to dispose of during his arrest increased police interest, and they obtained a search warrant for his home and brought his wife in for questioning.
After two days of intensive questioning, he suddenly declared he was the Ripper and, over the next day, calmly described his many attacks, claiming to have been told by God to murder the women. He was charged on January 6 and went to trial in May.
The basis of his defence was his claim that he was the tool of God's will. However, there was a twist to the tale that, had it been made public, would have shattered this defence, and exposed Sutcliffe as the sexual killer many believed he was. When Sutcliffe stripped out of his clothing at the police station, he was discovered to be wearing a V-neck pullover under his trousers. The arms had been pulled over his legs, so that the V-neck exposed his groin; the elbows were padded to protect his knees as, obviously, he knelt over corpses. The sexual implications of this outfit were obvious. But this fact was not communicated to the public until disclosure in a recent book, Beyond Belief.
His trial lasting just two weeks, he was found guilty of thirteen counts of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommendation that he serve a minimum of thirty years. His appeal was denied. Since incarceration, he has been informed that he will die a prisoner.
He began his sentence at Parkhurst prison. Despite being found sane at his trial, he was soon diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia. Attempts to send him to a secure psychiatric unit were initially blocked. During his time at Parkhurst he was seriously assaulted. His wife Sonia obtained a separation from him in 1982 and a final divorce in 1994; she then went on to contest and win nine libel cases against various publications. In 1984 he was finally sent to Broadmoor hospital. In an attack by a fellow inmate in 1997, his eyesight was severely damaged, and his attacker was charged with attempted murder.
Despite being given a whole life tariff by successive Home Secretaries, Sutcliffe could still be released from custody if the parole board decides that he is no longer a danger to the public. He was originally sentenced to a minimum of 30 years, so he could be released from prison in 2011 (at the age of 65) because the system under which his tariff was increased has since been declared illegal by the European Court of Human Rights and also the High Court. THe main point of conflict is that Sutcliffe's (and other lifers) continued detention is presently controlled by a politician (The Home Secretary) rather than a member of the judiciary.
On 17 January, 2005, Sutcliffe was allowed to visit the site of his father's ashes, who had died from cancer the year before. The decision to allow the temporary release was initiated by David Blunkett and later ratified by Charles Clarke when he took over the role as Home Secretary. Sutcliffe was accompanied by four members of the prison staff. Despite the passage of twenty five years since the Ripper murders, Sutcliffe's visit was still the focus of front-page tabloid headlines [1].
The Sun, 21st January 2005
Related Controversy
There is an unresolved controversy relating to this case.
The body of Yvonne Pearson lay undiscovered for two months on wasteground, near Lumb Lane in Bradford. Although Sutcliffe was charged with her murder, he stated to the Police that he could not remember killing her.
Police handwriting analysis of the packaging from the hoax Geordie tapes suggests strongly that whoever sent the tape also wrote the two hoax notes. The controversy arises from the fact that in the first letter to the Police, dated March 8th 1978, the author wrote "...Up to number 8 now you say 7 but remember Preston '75...". At that point the number of bodies was officially only 6—Wilma McCann, Emily Jackson, Irene Richardson, Pat Atkinson, Jayne McDonald and Jean Jordan. (Correction: the official death toll from the Ripper attacks at this date was seven, including Helen Rytka (January 1978)).
The second letter, sent March 13th also says "...Up to murder 8 now you say seven but remember Preston '75...". The reference to "Preston 1975" probably refers to the murder of Preston prostitute Joan Harrison, on November 20, 1975. In 1992, according to Keith Hellawell, Chief Constable of Cleveland at the time, Peter Sutcliffe also confessed to being responsible for the attack on an Irish student, but did not give a date for this attack.
This, say some, implies the author of the letters knew of the dead body of Yvonne Pearson, and also of the murder of Joan Harrison, and therefore must have been involved in one or both killings. (See correction above: when the Ripper toll is correctly calculated, the implication of the letter's claim is clearly that the writer knew of the Harrison murder but NOT the Pearson killing). Bite marks on Joan's thigh did not match Sutcliffe, and there has never been any conclusive evidence linking Sutcliffe to her. As Sutcliffe worked alone, the conclusion is that the Geordie who made the tapes and wrote the letters also was involved in these two murders. (See correction)
No one has, as of yet, resolved this anomaly. (See correction) The accusation is that the Police have essentially ignored forensics in favour of relying on Sutcliffe's confessions of murder.
Another consequence of this investigation was the criticism that the Police were inadequately prepared for an investigation of this size. Sutcliffe was interviewed numerous times but all the information from all these interviews, and all the thousands of others, was stored in paper form, making cross reference almost impossible. The second criticism was that this position was made worse by the television appeal for information, which generated thousands of more documents to process. Thirdly, the Police became fixated on the Geordie tape and letters, allowing Sutcliffe to remain on the loose longer than necessary as he didn't fit the profile of the sender of the tape and letters. All this caused the investigation and ultimately the implementation of the forerunner of the Police National Computer system.
"Nineteen Seventy Four" by David Peace
"Nineteen Seventy Seven" by David Peace
"Nineteen Eighty" by David Peace
"Nineteen Eighty Three" by David Peace
This celebrated "Red-Riding Quartet" was published to critical acclaim between 1999 and 2002. Set against the backdrop of the Ripper murders across Yorkshire, it depicts the seedy underbelly of both the Police Force and journalism.
"Ripper visits father's ashes site" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/4190525.stm) by BBC news, retrieved on 20 January, 2005
The Yorkshire Ripper Website (http://www.execulink.com/~kbrannen/)
BBC Crime Case Closed – The Yorkshire Ripper (http://www.bbc.co.uk/crime/caseclosed/yorkshireripper1.shtml)de:Peter Sutcliffe
Retrieved from "http://footwww.academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Peter_Sutcliffe"
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War of the World turns 75
75 Years ago, an estimated one million of 6 million listening to Orson Welles' Broadcast of HG Wells' "War of the Worlds" believed that the Earth was being invaded by aliens, causing Mass panic
Ironic that, back then, because of primitive communications ability this kind of hysteria might occur (the radio was the primary entertainment in most homes), That now, with the pervasive nature of 21st century communications, cell/smart phones, computers internet etc, and the need to be first with news by most of our major news outlets... that mass Misinformation can still occur as incorrect info can travel as fast and in an instant as factual information
10-31-2013, 12:18 AM, (This post was last modified: 10-31-2013, 12:20 AM by Miguel.)
RE: War of the World turns 75
I watched an American Experience program about this tonight.
They pointed out many contributing factors.
- After the script was completed, less than 72 hours before the broadcast, they ran though it for the first time and felt it was too dull. Orson Wells had recently heard another broadcast, "Air Raid," that depicted a fictional event as it was happening. That served as the inspiration for the revamped War of the Worlds script.
- Suffering through the Great Depression, many were used to bad news and afraid of what the future might bring. They were also fearful of the Nazi threat abroad.
- Many people could not afford their house or car payment but they were still buying radios because it was a source of entertainment. They had become accustomed to breaking news interrupting broadcasts for first-person accounts of calamities occurring elsewhere.
- A foreign astronomer had recently described the surface of Mars. A word he used was translated as "canals." That brought to mind the Panama Canal and people assumed that must mean the "canals" on Mars were constructed by an intelligent being of some sort.
- Most people were listening to a Charlie Mccarthy broadcast on another radio station at the start of the hour. When that act was completed and a musical number began, many people began "dial turning" and stumbled on the War of the Worlds broadcast.
- Hearing of an attack by an alien invading army, many people assumed it was Germany.
- As the panic began to spread, a CBS executive ordered they interrupt the broadcast to issue a network ID and let people know they were listening to a play. Orson Wells continued the broadcast for 10 more minutes before doing so. By that time, many people were away from the radio because they were fleeing or preparing for the worst.
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Spin control?
The following was sent out from City Hall shortly after 12 noon today:
Honorable Mayor Tony F. Mack
Trenton, NJ 08608
For Immediate Release: Contact: Lauren J. Ira
October 29, 2010 Office: 609-989-3052
City of Trenton Requires Criminal History Checks for all Non-Uniform Employees
TRENTON—Mayor Tony Mack issued the following statement regarding the requirement of criminal history checks for all non-uniform employees. Mayor Mack stated the following:
“Compliance with City of Trenton criminal history checks is vital to protect our residents and the public. Our stringent requirements mandate all non-uniform City of Trenton employees adhere to a criminal history check regardless of their status or role within the administration.
Judge Renee Lamarre Sumners understands the importance of complying with all of the necessary procedures and mandates. Judge Sumners assured me that all recent matters were resolved expeditiously.
The administration remains confident in Judge Sumners’ ability to preside based on her expertise, discipline, and training as a public officer authorized in the court of law by the State of New Jersey,” concluded Mayor Mack.
Labels: bye-bye judge, deceit, Judge Sumners, lack of credibiliy, lies, Mayor Mack
This advertisement appeared in the Times (of Trenton), page A5, Saturday, October 16, 2010.
We here at the Front Stoop found it interesting. The ad is a public notice from New Jersey American Water (NJAW) that they exceeded a drinking water standard.
According to the ad, during routine cleaning of a settlement basin, sediment was stirred up and entered the water system and overburdened the filters of the system. This caused turbid water in excess of the 1 NTU standard to enter the distribution system of water that Aqua New Jersey purchases from NJAW or it's Lawrenceville customers. The incident occurred on Thursday, September 23, 2010.
The ad goes on as follows:
This is not an emergency. I it had been you would have been notified within 24 hours. Turbidity is not harmful in itself. High turbidity increases the chance that water might contain disease-causing organisms.
You do not need to boil your water or take other corrective actions.
So what we want to know is this:
If the incident above is being treated as a non-emergency and notification wasn't required within 24 hours and boiling water wasn't required, what really happened at the Trenton Water Works (TWW) between October 2 and October 8 that made the City of Trenton and the DEP issue "boil water advisories" repeatedly from the 4th through the 7th?
Doesn't it seem likely that the situation with the TWW was somewhat more serious than the NJAW event of September 24? But the city has repeatedly told us there was no risk and that there was no evidence of contamination. At the same time, we were continually advised to boil water and, if our water temperature was lower than 113 degrees Fahrenheit to drain, flush and refill our hot water tanks. And why haven't the results of the water tests conducted between October 3 and October 7 been made public?
We don't consider ourselves prone to conspiracy theories but there certainly seems to be more to the story than the Mack administration AND New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection have so far let on.
Our water is running clear now, how about our government officials come clean.
Labels: Aquar NJ, Mayor Mack, NJ DEP, NJAW, TWW, water boil advisory
Here's a look back at the water crisis of June 2006 as reported in the Times:
WATER WORKS FACED A SPIRAL OF TROUBLE
DARRYL R. ISHERWOOD STAFF WRITER
Joe McIntyre's stomach was churning.
He was on his cell phone, getting a progress report on the Trenton Water Works' reservoir, and the news was disturbing.
Water in the city's reservoir had begun to whirlpool around the main pipe that feeds the system, much as water emptying from a tub will swirl around a drain.
It was less than 48 hours after Water Works employees shut down the filtration plant to keep the roiling Delaware, engorged by rains and cresting its banks, from fouling the system. What the vortexing water meant to McIntyre, the Water Works chief, was that the reservoir that supplies water to some 210,000 people in five towns was dangerously close to empty.
The inspection on the morning of June 30 was the culmination of two days of frantic maneuvering by the city's water department to keep Trenton's taps from running dry.
While residents fled the Island and Glen Afton neighborhoods to avoid the rising river and floodwaters poured into river towns in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, causing nearly $8 million in damage in Mercer County alone, city employees were locked in the Water Works plant, hoping to squeeze every last drop from the beleaguered system.
And while the crisis that could have left the Water Works' customers without drinking water for weeks was averted, officials say there is little that can be done to fortify the system against future shutdowns.
An upgrade to the system, planned to begin later this year, will help, officials say, but ultimately, the river is the boss.
The crisis began at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, June 28.
McIntyre, the Water Works chief, reported to the filtration plant to find the Delaware agitated into a tempest by stormwater that began pouring into the river the day before.
Testing showed that the water, which is sucked from the river each day to supply the city and surrounding areas, was dangerously muddy. McIntyre had two choices.
He could shut down the system, ceasing all filtration until the river returned to normal and force the city to rely on the 2-day supply stored in the reservoir. Or he could wait and continue filtering the silt-filled water and risk fouling the system, forcing a prolonged shutdown and a hardship for tens of thousands of customers.
Neither option sounded good, but McIntyre chose the riskier route.
"We decided to shut the plant down," the water department chief said in an interview last week about the near catastrophe. "It was nerve-wracking, and it required us to live at the plant for a couple of days to monitor the water, but the alternative was to be more conservative and risk losing the system longer term." 'THE CLOCK BEGAN TO TICK'The system's demand for water runs about 30 million gallons per day. The reservoir is continually replenished by water, sucked from the Delaware and chemically filtered to create what's known in water-supply circles as a floc - a clump of particles that settles to the bottom and is removed from the liquid.
At full capacity, the plant can filter as much as 40 million gallons per day, easily keeping up with the demand.
But when McIntyre threw the switch to shut down the plant, "the clock began to tick."
"From that point we began monitoring how long we were off-line and how that correlated to the amount of water left in the reservoir," he said.
Alerts went out to residents to begin conserving water, and Trenton Mayor Douglas H. Palmer put in a call to Gov. Jon Corzine, beseeching the state's top executive to close down the dozens of state offices located in the city and send thousands of workers home. The governor's action saved more than 3 million gallons for each of the two days the offices were closed.
"Had the governor not closed the state, we would have been in trouble," Palmer said. "He understood the seriousness of the situation, but if he didn't, I think we might have run out of water." HOPEFUL SIGNSMcIntyre's gamble began to look like it might pay off, when at 10 p.m. on June 29 testing showed the water was calming and the amount of silt - or turbidity - began to decrease. The employees, many of whom had not left the plant since the shutdown the morning of June 28, began to feel optimistic that the crisis might be over.
But it was not to be.
"Right after that, we had a spike again," McIntyre said. "It was frustrating because we had begun to get in the mind-set that we would get it running again earlier in the day, but we couldn't."
After the Friday morning inspection of the reservoir, McIntyre knew time had run out. If the water could not be properly filtered and the reservoir ran dry, officials would have no choice but to pump dirty water into the system.
Once that decision is made, McIntyre said, there is no turning back.
"Once you pump in substandard water, the plant will need to be cleaned and that could take several days," he said. "It creates a real hardship for customers for a number of weeks while the system is cleaned."
Finally, with no time left, McIntyre made the decision to fire up the plant. The turbidity was decreasing - though not as fast as he would have liked - and the reservoir was nearly dry.
By 3:40 p.m. June 30, the system was up and running, and employees were running dozens of tests to see if the water could be purified enough for drinking without first boiling it to kill any residual bacteria.
By 10 p.m., the crisis was over as the system began to meet the demands of its customers. Only Ewing was adversely affected when pressure dropped in three areas. A boil-water advisory went out for parts of the township but has since been lifted. PLANNING FOR THE FUTURECity officials say they have learned from the near calamity and are using the knowledge to try to ensure there is no future disaster. The plant is in line for some $50 million in renovations later this year, which Palmer said will modernize the system and make it more efficient as well as increase the amount of water that can be filtered each day.
The city is also negotiating with other providers to increase the amount of water that can be supplied in the event of a crisis.
But to some extent, the city is at the mercy of the river's moods.
"We deal with whatever the river hands us," McIntyre said. "We don't have the power to change the characteristic of the river, so we have to adapt and deal with whatever it throws at us. Sometimes you can do that with effectiveness and sometimes you can't."
For McIntyre, it was too close for comfort. The water dropped to a level not seen since 1975, when a malfunction caused the filtration plant to flood and damaged the pumps.
"We stretched the line as far as we can go," he said. "It was very close. The reservoir level was down to spots where no one that I have dealt with here has ever seen."
What the future holds is anyone's guess, experts say. Upriver development has destroyed wetlands and forests and left nowhere for runoff to go, said Bob Molzahn, president of the Water Resources Association of the Delaware Basin. Several bad storms have highlighted the problems as well, he said.
"What's the solution?" he asked. "I don't know, but you wonder if it might not get worse."
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Back then, you couldn't get a bag of Famous Amos cookies in a deli. They were pretty expensive and you could only get them in upscale department stores and gourmet food stores.
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Canadian Bacon Cheeseburger at McDonalds
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi
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Nutrition Labels... For The Entire Package
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Nutrition Labels With Explanations
Monday, February 01, 2016 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi
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Because of FDA regulations, food companies are required to put detailed nutrition labels on every package of food they produce. While there's been quite a few changes to the style of the labels, what remains the same is how confusing it is for some people to understand them.
While it's great that they've made sure the labels are large enough to see, with clearly labeled numbers and text, the fact is, quite a few people have no idea what they're reading. It's like giving out only half the score for a baseball game. Knowing the Yankees scored 4 runs in the game doesn't tell you if that's a good score, or a bad one.
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McChicken With Cheese
Thursday, January 28, 2016 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi
Would you like these with your McChicken?
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I think it's time McDonalds realizes there are other ways to serve their classic chicken sandwich. The most obvious change would be to offer cheese. It's not rocket science. They can offer this simple upgrade and I'm guessing a large percentage of people would buy it if they were asked.
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Chicken Parmesan At Subway
Sunday, January 24, 2016 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi
Why isn't Chicken Parmesan on the menu at Subway? They already have the ingredients.
Subway is one of my favorite places to eat, mainly because of the variety. By giving people a choice of core ingredients and toppings, there are an almost infinite number of combinations to fit just about every mood. Oddly, although Subway has all the ingredients needed to make a decent Chicken Parm, you won't find it on the menu.
All it takes is a chicken, tomato sauce, and mozzarella cheese. You can easily spot the chicken and cheese, but the tomato sauce isn't as obvious at first glance. It's not listed as a topping because it's part of their meatball sandwich.
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Mac and Cheese at McDonalds
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LCD Ice Cream... Little Chocolate Donuts
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi
Two great tastes that taste great together.
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Fortune Coupons
A Fortune Cookie with a COUPON Inside!
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CheeseBurger McChicken
Thursday, December 24, 2015 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi
McChicken + Cheeseburger Together!
Fast food can be boring, so I like to mix things up whenever I get a chance. Some things go together, some things don't. This particular combination is pretty good.
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Eggs Benedict McMuffin
Sunday, December 20, 2015 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi
Here's a simple idea for McDonalds...
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Although a traditional Eggs Benedict is made with poached eggs, adding Hollandaise Sauce would be the perfect finishing touch to one of my favorite things at McDonalds.
In fact, why not offer a choice of sauces. Egg McMuffins don't have any sauce. Maybe some people would like Ketchup, or even... Big Mac Sauce!
Big MacMuffin
Two eggs are better than one!
When was the last time you had just one egg for breakfast? If you're like most people, chances are you always make two or more eggs at a time, so when you think about it, wouldn't it be great to have an Egg McMuffin with two eggs? Just call it the Big MacMuffin.
Now that McDonald's has an All Day Breakfast Menu, the idea of a Big MacMuffin makes even more sense, especially for a lunch or dinner sized appetite.
Just think about it... Two eggs, in a three layer muffin, with cheese and Canadian Bacon.
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McDonald's Onion Rings
You know you want them!
If you look at the menu of almost any restaurant that sells hamburgers, you'll find Onion Rings... but you won't find them at McDonalds. Isn't that odd?
Just about every roadside diner, steakhouse or specialty burger place has them, so you have to wonder why McDonalds still doesn't carry them. It's not like they're particularly hard to make. All they need is a deep fryer, and they have plenty of them.
I had a theory for a while that they were holding back because they didn't want the taste of the onions getting into the fries, but that never stopped them from frying chicken, fish and mozzarella sticks. Besides, Burger King's been selling them for decades and I've never tasted onion in their fries, chicken, or french toast sticks.
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No Artificial Food Colors
Friday, November 13, 2015 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi
Why do so many foods still have artificial colors?
A couple of weeks ago, I did a Google search for "stool color", which led to an article from the Mayo Clinic about what to do if your stool has an odd color.. For the past few day my stool looked turquoise, and frankly, I was a bit worried. I didn't find any answers, but a few days later, I realized that I've been eating Boo Berry cereal, which has a blue color.
If you read the ingredients on a bottle of Gatorade, you'll find that it has water, sugars, salts, flavoring... and "coloring". Coloring? No kidding? You mean it's not really blue?
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All Day BURGER Menu at McDonald's
Tuesday, November 03, 2015 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi
Now that you can get breakfast all day... why set limits on burgers?
So far, it looks like McDonald's All Day Breakfast Menu is a big hit, which is no surprise, because people have been asking for it for years. I can't count the number of times I've walked into a McDonald's hoping to get an Egg McMuffin, only to be told they are no longer serving breakfast. Let's face it, when your taste buds are expecting breakfast, it's not easy ordering a burger instead.
Eliminating the time restriction makes a lot of sense, especially for people who work late shifts. For them, breakfast starts about 6pm, but the main idea is that you should be able to order eggs any time of the day.
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McSliders. A "Mac Mini"
Saturday, October 24, 2015 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi
There's something special about a mini burger.
Like most people, the first time I had a "Slider" was at White Castle. My friend suggested I order 6 of them and I thought he was crazy, but then I realized how small they are. You can eat one in two or three bites. Before you know it, you've had a whole bunch and you're ready for more.
Over the past few years, I've started to see sliders everywhere. They're in big and small restaurants, and even some large chains like Ruby Tuesdays, but the biggest burger restaurants in the world like McDonald's, Wendy's and Burger King haven't jumped in on the bandwagon yet. A McSlider would be half the diameter of their regular burger, perfect for snacking or eating in bunches.
A McSlider / "Mac Mini" would be a great item for their val... [More]
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Cola Milkshakes
Two great tastes, that taste great together!
They say variety is the spice of life, but you don't see a lot of variety in milkshake flavors. Other than ice cream parlors, you have exactly two flavors, vanilla and chocolate. If you go to enough restaurants, you may get lucky and find one that has strawberry, but that's about it.
Most restaurants have only one machine that makes plain ice cream, then they mix in chocolate or vanilla syrup.
Since restaurants use a blender to mix in flavor, why not use cola syrup? They've got plenty of that!
The inspiration for this comes form one of my favorite TV shows from the 70s, Laverne and Shirley. One of Laverne's favorite drinks was Milk and Pepsi. When I was young, the idea of mixing Milk and Pepsi sounded pretty strange... [More]
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Jelly Twinkies
Tuesday, September 22, 2015 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi
Don't you just love Twinkies?.
There's something special about Twinkies. The recipe hasn't changed much over the years. They're basically a golden sponge cake with a vanilla creamy center. From time to time they've offered variations such as their original Banana Creme and chocolate, but I've never seen a Jelly Twinkie.
I think they're missing a big opportunity for Jelly lovers everywhere. Jelly Donut lovers would buy them up like hotcakes.
Just imagine how cool it would be if they alternated Vanilla Creme and Strawberry Jelly in the holes you see on the bottom, making the perfect Strawberry Shortcake!
By mixing the flavors in the holes, they can even make a Peanut Butter and Jelly Twinkie. Need I say more?
BOLD Expiration Dates
Friday, September 18, 2015 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi
Why are some expiration dates so hard to read?
In an age of high speed digital printing I see no reason why companies still print hard to read dot matrix expiration dates on their packages. Not only do they use hard to read print, but they often print the date on the bottom or someplace hard to find.
By giving expiration dates a more prominent place with larger fonts, they not only not only make it easy for consumers to avoid eating stale food, they are also reminding them to buy a fresh package. It's a win win for everyone.
While I'm on the subject. Companies also need to clearly differentiate between "Sell By", "Best Before", and "Expires". Generally speaking, most nonperishable products are sealed to keep them fresh, so they don't actually need an expiration date, but... [More]
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Snapple Tea Bags. Where are they?
Sunday, August 30, 2015 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi
A while back, you could find Snapple Tea Bags in supermarkets.
Snapple's slogan is "Made from the best stuff on Earth", which means the most important ingredient in their Iced tea... is tea.
Tea is the most popular drink in the word, so it makes sense that tea bags made from their tea would be a huge seller.
Some people may think that selling their tea might hurt sales of their bottled versions, but the truth is, it only further improves their brand. It's not unusual for a beverage company to sell their main ingredients to the public for making their own drinks at home.
For example, Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts sell the same coffee beans they use for their coffee in supermarkets, and tea companies like Lipton, Nestle / Nestea, and Arizona all sell tea bags that use th... [More]
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Turkey and Veggie Burgers in Fast Food Restaurants
Tuesday, August 18, 2015 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi
If you're going into the burger business, shouldn't you make more than one kind of burger?
Turkey burgers and veggie burgers are popular right now, so you can order one in just about any restaurant... except for fast food burger places. Isn't that odd? They're burger places, aren't they? So why only one kind of burger patty?
I"m not suggesting that they remove beef from the menu. I'm simply suggesting that by adding turkey and veggie burgers to the menu, they are guaranteed to get customers who don't eat beef. To me, that's an untapped market.
I give kudos to Burger King, for being the first to offer a Veggie Burger, but they should consider turkey too. Ruby Tuesdays and Red Robin may not be fast food... but they offer every possible type of burger you can imagine, in... [More]
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Scrambled Egg Salad. Same Ingredients. Faster to Make.
Tuesday, July 21, 2015 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi
Love egg salad... but hate the wait?
Although there are a number of ways to make egg salad, just about all of them involve boiling water and waiting for the eggs to turn hard. One day, I decided to save some time and try something different, so I just scrambled the eggs instead. You know what? It was pretty good.
While I can't say it had the exact same taste, it wasn't that different. The main difference in the taste comes from the butter I used to fry them. I happened to like the butter, but you could eliminate that difference by using PAM or a non-stick pan. The texture was a bit softer, but if you cook them a little longer, it's pretty close.
So what started out as simply a time saver turned into a pretty good meal regardless of the time. This made me think about... [More]
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Canned Meatballs
Chef Boyardee Spaghetti and Meatballs are a guilty pleasure for me. Mainly because of the meatballs.
Like most Italians, I tend to be a bit snobbish about pasta, but somehow I find myself reaching for a can of pasta from time to time. Clearly when given a choice between canned pasta or a traditional pasta, traditional will win every time. That's a given. However, when you're looking for a quick bite, you can't beat a good can of pasta.
In general, canned pasta comes in two basic varieties... WITH meat, or WITHOUT meat. The logic is simple, some people don't want the meat. But what about the people who want meatballs, but don't want the pasta?
So, why not have a can of just meatballs?
Some people will use the meatballs and sauce as a side-dish to something else, whi... [More]
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Kosher Bacon... Sort of.
Monday, June 29, 2015 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi
A lot of people who order Kosher meals aren't Jewish.
From time to time I post ideas that are completely stupid. This isn't one of those ideas. I'm serious.
A few years ago, I shared a plane ride with a friend who ordered a Kosher meal on a long flight to California. What struck me as odd was that my friend wasn't Jewish. When I asked him why, he simply said the Kosher meals tasted better. As it turns out, my friend wasn't the only one who felt that way. Apparently, there are a lot of gentiles who order Kosher meals on planes and at catered events, for the exact same reason.
Obviously Kosher meals don't contain pork, but they also don't contain all sorts of other ingredients that not only make them taste better, but more healthful. Kosher regulations go beyond that,... [More]
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Coffee Strength Labels
Tuesday, June 23, 2015 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi
People often complain that the coffee they just ordered was too strong... or too weak.
I'm not a coffee drinker, but one thing I've noticed is that people tend to get their coffee from the same place as often as they can, because they worry that the coffee will either be too weak, or too strong.
Meanwhile, in a lot of places, they have literally dozens of coffees for sale, with millions of combinations of additional flavors, creamers, and sweeteners. While deciding on additional sweeteners, creamers and flavorings such as mocha, hazelnut or vanilla may be pretty easy, what people struggle with is knowing how strong the coffee itself is. In many cases, coffee that's too weak or too strong simply takes away the satisfaction.
So, why don't they label a coffee with an objecti... [More]
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Heated Butter Sprayer
Admit it. If you had a heated butter sprayer, you'd put butter on everything.
Butter may be "Buttery Soft", but just think of how great it would be if you could just spray it on everything you eat.
I feel a bit like Forrest Gump's friend Bubba, because I could probably list thousands of ways I'd like to use butter that soft. I'd spray some on my steak just be fore eating it. I'd spray waffles, pancakes, toast, grilled cheese sandwiches, and just about every veggie, especially corn, to name a few.
Years ago, a bunch of margarine companies came out with squeezable and eventually sprayable versions, but they weren't just unhealthful, they didn't taste anywhere as good as the real thing.
I think this idea is quite doable. Ideally it would be great if somebody made a spr... [More]
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Whatever Happened to Fixings Bars?
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi
Have it your way?
We all remember Burger King's jingle... "Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders don't upset us. All we ask that you let us serve you your way... Have it your way."
It was a huge success for Burger King back in the 70s. It meant that whenever you ordered your burger, you could ask them to subtract anything you didn't like. What could be better than that?
Being able to SUBTRACT whatever you wanted was great... Then one day I ordered a burger at Fuddruckers and it didn't have ANYTHING on it. Nothing. That's when I discovered my first Fixings Bar, where they had more than a dozen things you can ADD to your burger. Suffice it to say, adding to a burger is way better than subtrac... [More]
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Room Temperature Butter Packets in Restaurants.
Sunday, May 24, 2015 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi
What good is bread and butter... if the butter is FROZEN?
This one is a no brainer. Why do some restaurants serve bread with rock solid butter? By the time it warms up enough to spread, your nice warm bread will start to get cold. It's not a "New" idea, but somehow restaurants continue to neglect the simple fact that cold butter is hard to spread.
I realize it's essential to refrigerate dairy products, but it's common sense to allow it to warm up a bit before you serve it. If nothing else, at least defrost butter that has been kept in the freezer.
Thankfully some restaurants put their butter on heated plates. That's a good start, but what really impresses me is when a restaurant has the courtesy to serve butter at room temperature. It's little things like that that s... [More]
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Meat Thermometers Without Numbers
Quick... What temperature should a medium steak be?
Long before pop-up indicators were invented, knowing the perfect time to take out your Thanksgiving turkey was a bit of a guessing game for most people. Within a few years, just about every major turkey producer was including one in every turkey they sold, because although more advanced cooks had meat thermometers that were far more accurate, many people didn't understand how to use one.
By including that simple little pop-up indicator, it essentially made it foolproof for anyone to know exactly when their turkey was done, because they didn't require any thinking. They were simply designed to pop up at the optimal temperature.
Steaks and burgers also have ideal temperatures, so why not make meat thermometers that are jus... [More]
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Chocolate Pudding Ice Cream Shakes
Thursday, April 30, 2015 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi
Two great tastes that actually taste great together.
While I don't remember how many years ago I started making shakes by mixing chocolate pudding and ice cream, I do remember where I was. It was at a Chinese Buffet in Staten Island.
On that day, I couldn't decide between chocolate pudding, or ice cream, so I put some of each in the same bowl. As I ate of the pudding, some of the vanilla ice cream would blend in and vice versa, so I eventually started mixing them together. After that, I was hooked.
From that point on, every time I want to the buffet, I'd get a big soup bowl and put 50% chocolate pudding with 50% ice cream, and mix them into a shake.
By using chocolate pudding, instead of milk, you get a wonderful creamy texture and a slightly different chocolate... [More]
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Plain Ice Cream Bars
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi
Why is it so hard to find plain ice cream bars?
Yesterday, I was in a deli looking for a snack. I spotted the ice cream section and there were basically two choices, ice cream cups and ice cream bars. It was a tough call. I knew I would be driving for a while, so the cups would've been out of the question. So my only other option was the chocolate coated ice cream bars. I had to skip the ice cream and settle for a bag of chips.
Like most people, I love a chocolate dipped ice cream bars, after all, what's not to like? I'm an especially a big fan of Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia, Haagen Dazs, and Dove Bars. Truly great stuff.
But what about those times when you aren't in the mood for the chocolate coating? Or in my case, the times when you can't risk the chocolate coat... [More]
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Sunday, April 12, 2015 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi
Here's something you never see... pre-mixed Ketchup and Mayonnaise.
It seems pretty odd to me. It's not an exotic recipe, and the ingredients blend together quite well. In fact, a lot of restaurants already serve hamburgers with both ketchup and mayo... so why not sell a mixture of the two already combined?
If so many people already mix the two ingredients together, why doesn't any major food company package them pre-mixed in bottles or take-out packets?
For many people, a mixture of ketchup and mayonnaise makes the perfect dipping sauce for fish sticks and things like fried shrimp. We didn't add anything else, and as far as I was concerned, that was the perfect Tarta... [More]
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Subway Should Offer Rye Bread
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi
Pastrami on Rye? Not at Subway.
If you walk into a delicatessen in New York City and order a Pastrami sandwich, you can almost guarantee it'll not only come with Rye bread, but there's a good chance you'll get a few extra slices on the side. Maybe it's just a New York thing, but I couldn't even imagine getting a Pastrami sandwich any other way.
So, when Subway added Pastrami to the menu, I was excited. At the first opportunity, I walked in and asked for their Pastrami Melt. They guy behind the counter asked... "What kind of bread do you want?" Hmm... nobody ever asked me that before, but I answered, "Rye". "Sorry, we don't have Rye."
I ended up with whole wheat. It was... okay, but it simply felt strange. Like peanut butter without jelly.
I realize this may be a... [More]
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Frozen Vegetables That Kids Would Eat.
Many of us remember eating spinach as a child, because we knew Popeye ate it too.
Peer pressure starts at an early age. We ate spinach, because Popeye ate spinach, and some kids even ate carrots because Bugs Bunny did. As strange as it is, there are a lot of things we did because we wanted to be like our heroes.
For kids of the 80s, Hulk Hogan would tell kids to stay fit, eat your vitamins and say your prayers, and many of them did just that.
Now there is a new generation of kids who adore Disney's Frozen so much, that even the kids that hate veggies just might enjoy a plate full of "Frozen Vegetables".
How could a true fan of Frozen turn down a bowl of Elsa Broccoli, with a side dish of Anna Corn on the Cob? Finish the meal off with some Olaf Carrots and you've... [More]
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Alka-Seltzer Should Also Sell Pre-Mixed Bottles and Cans.
I can't believe I ate the whole thing!
Anyone over 40 will remember that famous line. Then comes the jingle "Plop-Plop, Fizz-Fizz, Oh what a relief it is!"
Relief indeed. Except, sometimes you get heartburn just trying to find a cup of water. If you walk into a deli, you may find a packet of Alka-Seltzer, and some bottled water, but unless you've got a cup, you're going to make a mess.
That is, unless they sold Alka-Seltzer in convenient, ready mixed bottles and cans. Oh what a relief it is now.
Just think. You could walk into a deli and say "I'd like a nice spicy meatball... and a can of Alka-Seltzer."
Because some Alka-Seltzer formulas have aspirin, and some don't, they should stick to the antacid formula. That's what most people eating on the go would need... [More]
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Are You Ready For Test Tube Hamburgers? Beef Without Killing Cows.
Thursday, November 13, 2014 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi
Here's a thought. If a vegans choose not to eat beef because of animal rights, would they eat beef that was grown in a lab?
Sergey Brin funded over $300,000 in research to explore that very idea.
Here's the scoop. They take cow stem cells, then they grow them in a lab, producing what is basically... cloned meat? So, when you think about it, as long as there were no cows slaughtered, would a vegan eat it?
For people who avoid meat because of fat or cholesterol... these are 100% fat free.
In fact, to make engineered meat taste seem more familiar and tender, they may need to mix in some cloned some fat cells.
The bigger question is where does this lead to? Some scientists think this is the first step in engineering sustainable food alternatives for the next cen... [More]
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Pop-Tarts Should Be Individually Wrapped!
Don't you hate to eat dried out Pop-Tarts? So why don't they wrap them individually?
Some of the stuff I post here can get a bit technical, but this is one that needs no explanation. You buy a box of 8 Pop-Tarts, open it up and find only four pouches, with 2 in each package. What if I only want one?
You have three choices...
1) Share one.
2) Eat both.
3) Put one back without a proper seal and try to eat it before it dries out or becomes inedible. Then throw it out and feel terrible about wasting food knowing there are so many people in the world without Pop-Tarts. Eventually, you'll feel so bad about wasting them that you'll say you'll never buy another box again. Then in a few months, when they put a limited edition Gingerbread or Red Velvet flavor, you buy another... [More]
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90th Anniversary IIN
The Inter-American Children’s Institute (IIN), a specialized organization of the Organization of American States (OAS) in children and adolescents will celebrate 90 years of its foundation on June 9.
Since its foundation, the IIN has taken as its reference document the Child Rights Table, considered one of the most important antecedents of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. That document was declarative and did not imply commitment for of the States, but it contained a set of concepts that still maintain full force: the Americanist perspective, the integrality of rights, concern for child labor, access to education, The right to joy as something unique and inalienable of every child.
The IIN was integrated to the OAS in 1949, as a Specialized Organization for the Human Rights of Children and Adolescents, this being the beginning of its consolidation process as a technical reference at the regional level.
The Permanent Council of the OAS appointed, pursuant to resolution CP / RES. 1081 (2113/17) on June 9, the day on which the Founding Act of the Institute was signed, as the «Americas Children and Youth Day.»
The headquarters of the IIN will be the meeting place to bring together the diplomatic corps accredited in Uruguay, children’s authorities in the region, civil society organizations, personalities that over the years have demonstrated their commitment to the protection and promotion of the rights of children and adolescents, and children and adolescents who participate in different spaces in which they give voice to the protection and promotion of their rights.
90 years later, there have been significant changes in the ways of viewing childhood. The rights go from declaratory to enforceability and States are have to guarantee them.
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Rakesh Jhunjhunwala ups stake by 10 lakh shares in SEBI’s shell-shocked
TOPICS:Lupin LtdNational Stock ExchangePrakash IndustriesRakesh Jhunjhunwala
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The big bull Rakesh Jhunjhunwala made news on Thursday morning by picking up 10 lakh shares of Prakash Industries. According to ET Now, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala has made the transaction in the open market via block deals. The shares of Prakash Industries were trading at Rs 128.7 up 15% on Thursday morning.
On Monday, the ace investor’s wife picked up 0.9% stake in Fortis Healthcare for an estimated Rs 60 crores, through an open market transaction. The shares were purchased at an average price of Rs 134.65, valuing the transaction at Rs 60.59 crore, according to bulk deal data available with the National Stock Exchange (NSE).
Prakash Industries is among the 331 shell companies against whom SEBI had initiated action. Jhunjhunwala owned 1.01 per cent stake, or 15,00,000 shares in Prakash Industries as of June end. In the year so far, shares of Prakash Industries have surged over 147% per cent till date. In fact, after SEBI initiated action the shares have lost value, as evident by the steep fall from Rs 139 on August 7th to Rs 104 on August 14th. The shares have rebounded since then to Rs 127.35. Other notable public shareholders in the company as in June 2017 include BNP Paribas Arbitrage, which holds more than 3.3% in Prakash Industries.
The ace investor had actually been reducing his stake in the company. As per the data filed with SEBI, the ace investor held 2.21% equity stake in the company as at the end of December-2016.
Earlier, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala had increased his stake in Lupin Ltd to 1.76%, as on June end, according to the shareholding data filed by Lupin Ltd. The ace investor held 1.73% in the previous quarter Jan-Mar 17. In fact Lupin has posted results which were way below the street expectations. The pharmaceutical company reported a net profit of Rs 358 crore, a drop just shy of 60% as compared to the corresponding period in the previous fiscal.
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Hockey Critic
A fan's perspective on the National Hockey League
Chelios doesn't want to hang them up
When it comes to longevity in professional sports, Chris Chelios has to be one of the best examples of what one can accomplish with hard work and determination. The 47 year old former NHL defenseman is making a comeback, signing with the Chicago Wolves of the American Hockey League.
In my opinion Chelios has accomplished everything a pro-hockey player could want. He's played in a ton of games, won the Norris Trophy multiple times as the best defenseman and won multiple Stanley Cup championships. But he still has enough passion for hockey...to ride the buses in the AHL. Good for him.
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2009 NHL ticket price trends
The North American economy is not in shambles, but its also far from booming. Unemployment is high in both Canada and the United States, the stock markets are still trying to lick its wounds and people in general are living with some level of economic uncertainty.
With this backdrop, it was interesting to see the 2009 report Team Marketing report (.pdf) on ticket prices. On average, ticket prices have stayed the same. It probably shouldn't come as a surprise to Torontonians to see that the Maple Leafs lead the way when it comes to price hikes, with a 10% increase. The current Stanley Cup champs, Pittsburgh Penguins are second with an 8% increase. [Read More!]
Capital juggernaut
The Washington Capitals are off to a blazing start, scoring 10 goals in the opening two games. I realize that this is VERY early in the season, but the Capitals team has some impressive (young) offensive stars. In their game this past Saturday, the Caps simply outclassed the Toronto Maple Leafs scoring 6 goals. But this game also showed the potential achilles heal of the young team - inconsistent defensive play. The Leafs were able to make a game of it in the third period, but the offensive skill of the Capitals was clearly apparent. [Read More!]
Olympics, NHLPA in disarray, Mike Modano and more
NHL players may not be participating in future Olympics, at least those that are outside North America. In a recent interview, Gary Bettman shared his views on why it makes little sense to disturb the NHL regular season Olympics that wouldn't showcase the game and league in prime time. This will prove to be an interesting point during the next contract negotiations with the NHLPA.
Speaking of the NHL Players Association, this organization is once again looking to salvage its image as an association in total disarray.
Mike Modano starts his 20th NHL season with the Dallas Stars (counting when they were the Minnesota North Stars). In the age of free agency, you have to tip your hat to Modano and the Stars for showing this commitment. He's had a superb career and benefited from his time in the legaue, as have the Stars.
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NHL kicks off 2009-10 season
The 2009-10 NHL regular season kicked off tonight with four games being played. Among them is one in Denver, Colorado where NHL great Joe Sakic saw his number 19 raised to the rafters of the Pepsi Centre. The Maple Leafs also played tonight; taking on the Montreal Canadiens in Toronto. They blew a 3-2 lead late in the third period to lose to the Habs in overtime. The drama in Phoenix continues to be a distraction for everyone. This week has been no different as bankruptcy judge Redfield T. Baum rejected both Jim Balsille and the NHL's current bids to buy the dwindling franchise. [Read More!]
Back in action
The "Hockey Critic" blog has been limbo for just over the year, but its now time to resurrect the blog. There is a lot going on in the NHL and hockey in general, so the voice of a fan should once again be heard. [Read More!]
Are the Toronto Maple Leafs shopping for front office help?
The Toronto Maple Leafs barely ended their 5 game losing streak by defeating a flu depleted Carolina Hurricanes team 5-4. The team's poor showing on the ice has created some rumblings about the fate of its general manager, John Ferguson Jr and even the head coach, Paul Maurice. Earlier this week, several sources reported that the top brass at Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE) had started looking for an experienced hockey executive who could take over the general manager responsibilities on an interim basis. One name who the Leafs have apparently spoken (tampered) with is Hall of Famer Cliff Fletcher, currently enjoying his retirement from hockey. Fletcher's entry into the Leafs sweepstakes is somewhat ironic because he was pretty much driven out of town in 1997 after some very successful years at the helm of the Maple Leafs. [Read More!]
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Hockey pool draft
My keeper league draft is this evening and I am just not prepared. We are in year 8 of the 10 year league and the salary caps will absolutely kill me this year. The likes of Joe Thornton, Olli Jokinen, Dany Heatley, Alex Tanguay and Daniel Sedin are now in the 5% of the salary scale and so I am going to have to dig out a lot of deals. As of right now, almost all 10 of my picks have to be very close to the minimum salary level for me to be able to make it under the cap. [Read More!]
Stanley Cup Final is (finally) underway
After an excruciatingly long wait, the Stanley Cup Finals get underway in Anaheim, California this evening. This should be a very competitive series but the NHL may have managed to really screw it up. The bigwigs in New York have allowed themselves to be pushed around all playoffs by the US television networks and now, have seen a poorly planned Ducks schedule really come home to bite them. [Read More!]
The state of (NHL) hockey in the United States
About a week and a half ago, I had the opportunity to spend a couple of days in Silicon Valley for work. With the NHL playoffs in full swing and the San Jose Sharks in the mix, I thought I'd share some of my experiences. First off I couldn't watch any of the games live as my hotel didn't carry Versus - I had ESPN and ESPN 2, but no Versus. And ESPN and ESPN 2 didn't really give hockey a lot of coverage. Highlights began almost 30 minutes into Sportscenter though they did have Barry Melrose commenting on some of the games, during the late night broadcast. [Read More!]
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Jamie Storr Autograph Card
Let me tell you about a prodigy goalie... 6'2'', 200 pounds of manhood covering most of the net, and, despite a tendency to not cover his five-hole with his stick, was drafted first overall in the OHL draft in 1991. Things were looking great.
In 1992, he was named to the OHL All Rookie team; he also won a gold medal at the world U-17 championship. In 1993, he again won gold as well as Top Goaltender award at the U-18 Phoenix Cup.
He was drafted 7th overall by the Los Angeles Kings in 1994 who were proud to have chosen him when he decided to turn pro after the 1994-95 season, coming off not one but two World Junior Championships gold medals, going undefeated in two years' tournament play.
The kind of player you build a franchise around, perhaps? The Kings must have thought so when Storr was named to the NHL All Rookie team not once but twice, in 1997-98 and 1998-99 - he hadn't played 25 games the first go-around so he was still eligible the second time.
With credentials like that, you'd have to believe he would have been maybe even a step ahead of Carey Price in every statistical category for a goalie his age.
So just who is this wunderkind, this record-breaking goalie who must surely still be active today? None other than Jamie Storr, seen here on his Autograph card from In The Game's 2002-03 Be A Player Signature Series (card #033 - perfect for a goalie meant for big things). He retired last May after 3 seasons of German League play, exiled to Europe as he was unable to move ahead of Cam Ward on the Carolina Hurricanes' team's depth chart, behind Martin Gerber.
Interesting fact: Storr was half-Japanese and would have his name spelled in takatana at the base of his helmet (on his chin, where, for example, Price has his own name written...), the easiest and simplest to read of all Japanese scripts.
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Labels: 2002-03, Autograph, Be A Player, Card, Hockey, In The Game, Insert, Jamie Storr, Los Angeles Kings, NHL, Signature Series
Brad Richards Autograph Card
Clutch player. The term is used pretty loosely, and nowadays can even describe a forward with as few as three game-winning goals in a regular season of 82 games, or a superstar who has a knack for finding the twine in the final minutes of a game.
Brad Richards, however, is of the true kind: usually behind the shadow of another great player, he finds a way to be the one who ends up with the most important point, pass, goal, penalty - or any other moment - in the most important games.
He might be the best clutch performer of this era. Here's why: drafted in the third round by the Tampa Bay Lightning in 1998, the same year that his friend and perennial-teammate Vincent Lecavalier was taken first overall, Richards saw 62 other players get drafted before him. And, while Lecavalier made the NHL team's cut the very first year, Richards had to go through two more junior years in the QMJHL, eventually being named the CHL's Player Of The Year, scoring leader, plus/minus leader, First team All Star (all titles he also received from the Q) - but, more importantly, he received the Jean Béliveau trophy for being the Q's playoff MVP, as well as the Stafford Smythe Memorial trophy for being the Memorial Cup MVP. I'm sure it goes well with his World Juniors bronze medal.
His ascent to the NHL was fast and furious, though, as he was named to the All Rookie Team in 2000-01, was invited to pay the Young Stars game in 2001-02, and, in 2003-04, not only did he win the Stanley Cup, but he won the Conn Smythe trophy ahead of stellar teammates Lecavalier and Martin St-Louis, the reigning Art Ross winner. This led to an appearance at the 2004 World Cup, in which he helped Canada win the gold.
He holds the record for most game-winning goals in an NHL playoff season, with 7 (breaking Joe Sakic's mark of 6), but all of those achievements tend to vershadow the fact that he's still doing it: on February 26, 2008, he was traded by the Lightning to the Dallas Stars, and, in his first game as a Star, collected a team record 5 assists en route to a 7-4 win over the Chicago Blackhawks. Now playing behind Mike Ribeiro and Brenden Morrow, expect him to carry the load and lead his team far, should the make the playoffs.
This card is the 'silver' version of his Autograph card from In The Game's 2002-03 Be A Player Signature Series (card #016). Less than 100 were made, but the 'gold' version, depite being less pleasing to the eye, is actually rarer and more valuable. This one retails between $5 and $25 - many dealers still don't see In The Game as a premium brand, while others do; I only look for players I like and avoid their sets, myself, but I'm known to own a few of their all-goalie Behind The Mask sets...
Labels: 2002-03, Autograph, Be A Player, Brad Richards, Card, Hockey, In The Game, Insert, NHL, Signature Series, Tampa Bay Lightning
Jeff Hackett Autographed Card
Jeff Hackett, to me, was a weird case: he was the best player on the Montréal Canadiens during, arguably, the team's worst seasons ever. He was a bit of a step down from his successor, José Theodore, but much of a step up from his predecessor, Jocelyn Thibault - he was stuck between two JTs.
He was a stand-up goalie who played his angles well and would also use the butterfly technique often, but not as 'a style' - in that regards, I could totally relate: despite my favourite goalie of all time (and the reason why I donned the pads in the first place) being Patrick Roy, I played more like Hackett and another later Habs' goalie, Cristobal Huet. And, quite like them, I was often the most regarded player on terrible teams, and when the team got better, I was on my way out, replaced by someone I felt I could play as well as.
At the time when I met Hackett, though, Huet wasn't even close to being on the radar, so Hackett was, really, the one I identified with the most, which made our encounter that much weirder. It was early September, 2002; Theodore had just won his Hart and Vezina trophies and was the main attraction at the team's Jamboree, held right outside the Bell Centre. Hackett could walk amongst the crowd and barely be disturbed, like the rookies and fourth-liners of the team, while the other 'star' players, namely Theodore, Mike Ribeiro and Saku Koivu had thousands of fans lining up (or, more accurately, ganging up) to seek autographs.
So I approached Hackett with this card, a 2000-01 Stadium Club (by then, Topps had removed the name O-Pee-Chee from most of its products, so while the series had originally begun as O-Pee-Chee Stadium Club, this series was only Stadium Club, with the Topps logo displayed in the back and no mention whatsoever of O-Pee-Chee) card, #19 in the series, showing Hackett drinking water during a break, drops of water flying all around his helmet.
And instead of being happy that he was receiving some kind of attention, he looked angry and gave me a stare that seemed to mean ''now, that fat bastard probably just wants to sell this on Ebay, he doesn't even look like a fan'', which could explain why his autograph seems a bit botched. The only way I can describe the face he made is that he looked exactly the same as if he'd surrendered 7 goals on 15 shots after Theodore had stopped over 40 the night before, and telling a reporter, after the game ''how do you think I feel?'' - he had a temper, and it seemed ignited on that day. Needless to say, I didn't stay around him too long and moved on to someone else, probably Donald Audette.
Regardless, to me, he was the only good thing to come out of the late 90s/early 00s for the Habs. I associate him to the Canadiens just as much as with the Chicago Blackhawks and San Jose Sharks; yes, I'm aware he was also an Islander, a Bruin and a Flyer (not to mention a Phantom), but I don't associate him with those teams as much.
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Labels: 2000-01, Autograph, Card, Hockey, In Person, Jeff Hackett, Montréal Canadiens, NHL, Stadium Club, Topps
Saku Koivu And Chris Higgins Jersey Card
My, my how thing change rapidly in sports!
First, let's put this card in context: it's card #WC-KH from Upper Deck's 2008-09 SPX Hockey series; 2008-09 was the beginning of the 15-month span the NHL called ''The Canadiens' Centennial Year'', and to commemorate the 'event', Upper Deck also released a special 'Habs Centennial' set - so they're aware of the team's history, and have a few 'ins' in the team's present.
This card features, on the left, the team's longest-serving captain ever, Saku Koivu, and a red piece of his home jersey. It was widely known that the 2008-09 season was Koivu's final contract year; whether he'd come back or not was a mystery. On the right of the card, with a white patch from the team's away jersey, is Chris Higgins, sporting his alternate captain's A - he'd worn it before, but the summer before the 2008-09 campaign was when he was given the A permanently; from the day he was drafted, he was viewed by the team as the potential next captain. This card, basically, cemented that idea; it was a ''passing of the torch'' thing, full of symbolism.
A year later, Koivu went to the Anaheim Ducks over the summer, and Higgins was traded to the New York Rangers for, essentially, Scott Gomez. The other two drafted-to-be-captains, Mike Komisarek (free agent, to Toronto) and Kyle Chipchura (traded for a sixth-rounder) are also gone; local hero Guillaume Latendresse was traded to Minnesota a few weeks ago and last year's Player With Heart Maxim Lapierre, another local boy, is but a shadow of himself; the team actually has no captain this season.
History was made for the Centennial Season, just not the history that had been planned upon.
''Passing of the torch'', indeed.
Labels: 2008-09, Card, Chris Higgins, Hockey, Insert, Jersey Card, Montréal Canadiens, NHL, Saku Koivu, SPX, Swatch Card, Upper Deck, Winning Combos
Tomas Plekanec Autograph Card
Just like his teammate and fellow underdog Jaroslav Halak, Tomas Plekanec looks really good wearing the Montréal Canadiens' bleu-blanc-rouge... even if, in this case, it is with a Hamilton Bulldogs' crest on the chest.
Currently sitting 6th among NHL scoring leaders, Plekanec hasn't had it easy, but has improved his play and statistics every single season since reaching the Czech Elite League in 2000. In two full seasons with HC Kladno, he accumulated 18 and 23 points - just about half a point per game; during those two seasons, he also participated in 2 World Juniors tournaments, gathering two points (a goal and an assist) the first time, and 7 in 7 games the next.
He then went to the AHL, playing for the Bulldogs, where, playing alongside Chris Higgins, had seasons of 46, 66, and 64 points, but - more importantly - playoff performances of 5 points in 13 games (2002-03), 7 points in 10 games (2003-04), and 6 points in only 4 games in 2004-05 as the Bulldogs' unchallenged leader.
That performance is what got him to make the team for the Canadiens the following season, where he garnered 29 points in 67 games (as well as 4 assists in 6 playoff games). At this point, he had shown some promise, but the Habs' brass had begun favoring Higgins instead - Higgins was soon promoted to top-line status while Plekanec was seen as en eventual third-line center at best (and trade bait at worst), behind Saku Koivu and Mike Ribeiro.
In 2006-07, he reached the 20-goal plateau for the first time and had 47 points in total. Then came his breakout season: 29 goals and 40 assists, good for 69 points, centering the team's first line between Andrei Kostitsyn and Alex Kovalev, leading the Canadiens to a first-place finish in the conference. Always his own harshest critic (and a terrific team player deflecting the attention from Carey Price's less-than-stellar showing against the Philadelphia Flyers, where he was outplayed by their backup goalie Martin Biron), Plekanec took the blame for the Habs' early exit by claiming he'd played ''like a little girlie''.
The following year, Plekanec took a lot of flak from Montréal media and fans by 'merely' posting 39 points on the board; there was suggestion and misconception that his 'lack of production' might stem from his still ''playing like a girlie'' and not driving to the net as often as he should have, but no one ever mentioned the part about Andrei K's coming in partied-out and unable to perform and Kovalev's hitting the posts three times more often than he shot pucks in the net. Instead, they put the blame on Plekanec, who was relegated to second-line status after the All Star break (still carrying Andrei K around, but with Kovalev moved with Koivu and Alex Tanguay). Additionally, he was still being used as the team's top penalty-killer.
This season, rid of playing under Kovalev's shadow - he has since moved on to the Ottawa Senators - and despite having changed linemates every period for the first 25 games of the season, he has managed to be the most consistent point-getter on an offensively-challenged team. So much so that for the past dozen games or so, not only has he awakened Andrei K - who had been in a scoring coma for the first quarter of the season - but coach Jacques Martin has also assigned the team's most exciting player, sniper Mike Cammalleri, to man the left wing with them - to great success.
Faithful to their usual Habs bi-polarity, media and fans are just now requesting the team sign him to a long-term contract, rather than throw ''the girly man'' to the wolves. Gotta love this town!
Speaking of love, this card has everything a fan could want: the NHL team's colours, the AHL team's logo (adding a 'rareness' effect to the card), and a manufacturer-guaranteed autograph that seems to say 'Tout Pleky' (and really, this year, mostly, has been 'All Pleky' indeed). It's taken from In The Game's 2005-06 Heroes And Prospects series, and is card #A-TPC in the collection.
Here's to wishing he gets a medal at the Olympics - I wonder who they'll pair him with. Jagr?
Labels: 2005-06, AHL, Card, Hamilton Bulldogs, Heroes And Prospects, Hockey, In The Game, Insert, Montréal Canadiens, NHL, Tomas Plekanec
Serge Savard Framed Autographed Lithograph
You may recognize the image from the previous post: it is, indeed, an oversized lithograph of the Canada Post stamp depicting Montréal Canadiens legend and Hall Of Famer Serge Savard, the first ever defenseman to win the Conn Smythe trophy.
It is printed on canvas and hand-signed by Savard himself (certificate of authenticity as well as an original stamp are in an envelope at the back of the frame), limited to 1018, and fit into a 16X16 frame - and its suggested retail price is $129.95
More information about the man nicknamed 'The Senator'' (and minority owner of the QMJHL'S PEI Rockets) can be found in the previous post.
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Labels: Autographed Framed Lithographs, Canada Post, Hall Of Famer, Hockey, Montréal Canadiens, NHL, Serge Savard
Serge Savard Stamp Card
I have a pretty extensive collection of stuff to get through, most of which are hockey-related and many of which depicting - or from - greats of the game. However, it's the first time I've posted here about a collectible involving a Hall Of Famer - and I'm starting with Serge Savard, member of the Montréal Canadiens' Big Three defensive corps of the late 1970s.
Seeing as I was born in 1978, I didn't get to witness Savard play, nor was I ever really aware that he had been exiled to the Winnipeg Jets for his final two seasons in the NHL. To me, he was the last General Manager to build a Stanley Cup-winning team in Montréal, a feat he achieved twice (1986 and 1993) - both times with Patrick Roy winning the Conn Smythe trophy, both times with head coaches in their first year with the team. Another Roy-led team lost in the Finals in 1989, with first-year coach Pat Burns at the helm. Do you see a connection?
As a player, though, he was incomparable: 8 Stanley Cups (two more than fellow Big Three member Larry Robinson), a Conn Smythe trophy, 1040 regular season and 130 playoff games played, 4 All Star games, a Bill-Masterton trophy, and #81 in The Hockey News' list of the 100 best players of all time. His #18 is hung from the rafters of the Bell Centre and will never be used again; the last player to wear it will have been Denis Savard (no relation). Ironically, it was Serge Savard who popularized the ''Savardian spin-o-rama'' move that Denis was also known to use.
This specific card commemorates and integrates a Canada Post stamp in Savard's honour that was issued on January 18th, 2003; the stamp is glued to the front of the card, which was co-released by Canada Post and Pacific Trading Cards at the 2003 All Star game. It is #21 in its series.
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Labels: 2002-03, Canada Post, Card, Hall Of Famer, Hockey, Montréal Canadiens, NHL, NHL All Star Game Collection, Pacific, Serge Savard, Stamp Card
As I briefly touched upon when first dealing with a Mike Ribeiro card, this one was issued as he was entering his final year playing for his hometown Montréal Canadiens, as part of Upper Deck's 2005-06 Trilogy series (card is #HS-RI, part of the Honorary Swatches sub-set). What sets this card apart from others is the fact that it contains 2 different colours - red and blue - and, thus, was taken on the jersey's waistline.
Ribeiro entered the 2005-06 season as the team's reigning scoring leader, as well as having spent (part of) the lock-out season with the Espoo Blues of the SM-Liga, where he collected 17 points in 17 games.
There are knocks on 'Mickey Ribs', such as his frequent soccer-inspired dives and pretend injuries and his lack of speed, but his savant passing and deft playmaking abilities are enough to counter such negatives; he has become quite the shootout specialist, often deking goalies out of their underwear with nifty moves that spell poetry on ice.
Ironically, the Habs made him a 45th-overall draft pick - the same spot as another slow-footed former local-boy Canadiens, Guillaume Latendresse, now of the Minnesota Wild. Ribeiro now plays for the Dallas Stars, who used to be based... in Minnesota. Let's hope that's where the comparisons end, because if Latendresse ever becomes an All Star the way Ribeiro has, heads are going to roll, starting with General Manager Bob Gainey's, who traded away Ribeiro, essentially, for washed-up defenseman Janne Niinimaa, who only played 41 games with the Canadiens, registering 3 points (all assists) and clocking in at minus-13 before spending the last 3 seasons in Europe, while Ribeiro led his new team in scoring - twice.
Another thing to note on this card is the spectator watching Ribeiro play - her face has white spots instead of eyes. Scary!
Labels: 2005-06, Hockey, Honorary Swatches, Insert, Jersey Card, Mike Ribeiro, Montréal Canadiens, NHL, Swatch Card, Trilogy, Upper Deck
Michael Ryder Jersey Card
I have written about another Michael Ryder card here, and about other cards in this series here, but I never actually went further in talking about Ryder.
He is a player who, twice, has reached the 30-goal plateau, both times with the Montréal Canadiens. He has also scored 25 (with Montréal) and 27 with the Boston Bruins last year. He also has a terrible 14-goal season with the Habs.
So he can score. His wrist shot is actually what keeps him at the NHL level, because despite his size, he doesn't hit so much, isn't all that quick, and isn't the most reliable defensively. Additionally, he tends to score in streaks.
Knowing all this is why coach Guy Carbonneau didn't give him his usual playing time in 2007-08 (his 14-goal season), because he was, basically, on a season-long no-goal streak. He was a healthy scratch for 12 games, most of them at the tail end of the season, and he only played 4 of the team's 13 playoff games, registering no goals and no assits, instead keeping busy in the press box by eating popcorn and throwing paper airplanes at the crowd.
I'm sure you can tell he wasn't one of my favourite players (I prefer my snipers to be gritty), but you had to respect the fact that he was the only Newfie in the NHL for most of his career so far. All in all, I'm not sad that he's gone, but I'm not happy about it either. Over time, he has left me with a general impression of ''meh''. I just hate that he went to our historic rivals the Bruins just so he could haunt us six times per regular season, plus the playoffs.
So I still keep this one in my collection, but for the right price - think $5 - this 2006-07 SP Game-Used Edition card (#AF-RY) by Upper Deck could end up in your hands. It's from when Upper Deck could actually certify that the jersey in the card had actually been used in an official game by the player on the card - a territory they don't dare to venture in anymore.
Labels: 2005-06, Authentic Fabrics, Hockey, Insert, Michael Ryder, Montréal Canadiens, NHL, SP Game-Used Edition, Upper Deck
Alexander Perezhogin Jersey Card
There are players that your team will try to sell you as 'Future Stars' eventhough they couldn't find the back of the net if they were caught in it (we call them Chipchuras); there are others who get drafted really late and turn out - surprisingly - to be gems, cornerstones, 'Franchise Players' (such as Pavel Datsyuk and Andrei Markov); others have the potential to become stars, but management loses patience with them, or they're never really given a fair shot, and they turn into scoring machines elsewhere (like Mike Ribeiro and John LeClair).
Then there is Alexander Perezhogin.
The team sold the fans on him, they definitely thought he was top talent; he believed so, too. But no one thought he was a headcase, for some odd reason, but it was there all along.
We're talking about a guy who left his home country Kazakhstan with his coach to play with Avanguard Omsk in the late 90s and actually became Russian in the process - he left his roots behind and changed his citizenship.
Then he came to North America to play with the Hamilton Bulldogs, Montréal's farm team, where he didn't even get to finish the season - he was suspended for the remainder of the playoffs as well as the whole following season - the longest suspension in AHL history - for cross-checking an opponent in the face, rendering him unconscious and leaving him convulsing on the ice.
During his AHL suspension, as it would have not been too kosher to have him play in the NHL during that time span, he returned to Omsk.
Upon his return to North America in 2005, he spent the better part of the next two seasons with the Montréal Canadiens, playing over 60 games each year in a relatively limited role, playing mostly with Tomas Plekanec, the Habs wanting to let them develop progressively, at their own pace. While Plekanec became the team's best centerman in the past 3 seasons (despite the presence of Saku Koivu and Scott Gomez), Perezhogin left for the KHL, unsatisfied of 'only' being used between 12 and 15 minutes per game.
In his first year playing with Salavat Yulaev Ufa, so-named in honour of Salavat Yulaev, a national hero of Bashkiria who was from Ufa (thanks, Wikipedia! - kind of like if the Habs were named to ''Maurice Richards'', I guess), he gathered 21 goals and 41 points in 50 games. In his second year, he'd upped that total to 28 goals, 22 assists (good for 50 points) in 55 games, helping his team win the KHL championship, ensuring its place in the 2009-10 Champions League. Also on the team's roster are former NHLers Alexander Radulov, Alexei Medvedev, Dmitri Kalinin, Viktor Kozlov, Oleg Tverdovsky, Patrick Thorensen and Ilya Zubov.
He was also a part of the Russian team who won the gold medal at the last World Championships, playing alongside Ilya Kovalchuk and 5 Ufa teammates, defeating Canada for a second straight year; he is likely also to make the cut for the Russian team in the upcoming Olympics.
Meanwhile, the Canadiens have struggled to find a top-6 forward to complete their second line... (and have another headcase on board who hasn't even scored yet - hi, Sergei!)
This is card #FE-AP from Upper Deck's 2006-07 Be A Player Portraits series and sports a piece of jersey that Perezhogin has worn in a photo shoot.
Labels: 2006-07, Alexander Perezhogin, Be A Player, Be A Player Portraits, First Exposures, Hockey, Insert, Jersey Card, Montréal Canadiens, NHL, Swatch Card, Upper Deck
Autographed Scott Young Card
I wasn't a fan of my hometown Montréal Canadiens growing up - it was too easy: they were everywhere, they were always winning, everyone knew at least one of them in person, and too many people loved them, not just here, but all over the continent; to this day, in any given arena where they're the visiting team, you'll see a strong contingent of Habs fans supporting the winning-est team in the sport's history.
No, I was a fan of the Québec Nordiques. Blue to the Habs' red, Quebecers to the Habs' Canadians, the new kid in town rather than the establishment, the underdog instead of the favourite. After the Stastnys and Goulet came Sakic, Sundin, Nolan and Stéphane Fiset - a new generation ready for prime time, a high-scoring machine built through both five years of mediocrity and some of the best trades of the past 25 years.
Not quite part of the elite of that squad but a key piece nonetheless was Scott Young, the team's second-line right winger and point man on the power play. His shot was as accurate as it was hard, and his passing skills could also be used at that position, while also giving prime powerplay time to the other offensive weapons on the team (Joe Sakic, Owen Nolan, Mike Ricci, Mats Sundin, Wendel Clark) while giving either Leschyshyn or Duchesne a well-deserved break if they'd been on the ice as the other team's penalty was called.
He was the most important 'not-quite-star' player on that team, which is what I told him when I met him (he wasn't too impressed despite acknowledging that I meant well). In 5 years with the organization, three times he scored 20 goals or more, but only once reached 30, winning the Stanley Cup when the team moved to Denver in 1995-96; he had already won it as a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1990-91. He was traded entering his final year under contract, as all parties knew he'd be on his way out anyway, looking for greener pastures with a more prominent role elsewhere - and it sort of happened with the St. Louis Blues, although it did take him until his third year there to score 40 goals.
This was signed during those St. Louis years, but I couldn't resist having him sign a Nordiques card - and this one is my favourite of him in that uniform because of the back of the card: the most beautiful jersey in the game - and the Château Frontenac as the backdrop - a terrific sight. It's signed in black sharpie - one that seemed to be on the verge of dying.
This card was from the 1993-94 Leaf series (card # 108), made by the same company that used to produce Donruss cards, before they were acquired by Pinnacle Brands in the mid-90s (Score, Pinnacle) and Panini recently.
Labels: 1993-94, Autograph, Card, Donruss, Hockey, In Person, Leaf, NHL, Québec Nordiques, Scott Young
Luc Richard Mbah A Moute Autograph Card
I'll be the first to admit that I'm no basketball fan - it doesn't really appeal to me, and I was never quite sure why. Yes, it was invented in Canada, it is similar to hockey in that the same players on the surface play both offense and defense and there are offsides, and the goal is to score in the net... I don't know.
But I do understand the game, and I do like the highlights they show on TV - and the dunk contests at the All Star Game. And I know who the star players are - Bryant, Allen, Anthony, Shaq, King James...
But I have no clue who Luc Richard Mbah A Moute is - I just love his name. So when I was presented with a chance to purchase this card on Ebay, I jumped on it. A quick glance at Wikipedia will tell you that he's from Cameroun, has in twin playing College ball, and that he was chosen by the Milwaukee Bucks in the second round. You'll also learn he's a prince, as he is a son of the elected village chief, Camille Mouté à Bidias.
That's right - the coolest name in sports (Ochocinco being a really close second) - and a fucking prince. He is a prince, and his name is funky.
As for the details of the card itself, it's from Upper Deck's 2009-10 SP Signature Edition series (the card is #I-LM, from the Ink Credible sub-set), and sports a beautiful signature, in blue sharpie, on a sticker that was later put on the card. It is numbered 218/499.
Labels: 2009-10, Autograph, Basketball, Card, Ink Credible, Insert, Luc Richard Mbah A Moute, Milwaukee Bucks, NBA, SP Signature Edition, Upper Deck
Pierre Turgeon Autograph Card
And now... the captain... of YOUR... Montréal No-Names... Pierre Turgeon!
Yes, another one from the worst card series of all time... Upper Deck's 1995-96 Be A Player set.
This time, it's the now-centennial Montréal Canadiens who have the honour of not having their team name nor logo appear anywhere on the card - they even airbrushed it off of Turgeon's chest. I'm glad they kept the captain's ''C'', though, as well as his number and the brand name on his gloves.
Turgeon holds a particular place in the Habs' history. He was the last to have been near producing a 100-point season for the team since Mats Naslund in the 1980s (he got 96 in 1995-96), had actually achieved that goal before (106 in 1989-90 for the Buffalo Sabres and 132 in 1992-93 with the New York Islanders), and was only named captain because he was the most talented (read: skillful) player on the team that year, not because he was the most vocal or hardest-working player in the locker room. He was also a member of the team for a mere 106 games spread over three seasons (the end of one, a full one, then was traded at the beginning of the third year), so his reign as captain turned out to be uneventful.
It's fun to note that on his way here, he cost the team Kirk Muller (captain) and Mathieu Schneider but on his way out, he was only worth Shayne Corson; mind you, the guy who traded him away, Réjean Houle, is also the guy who gave away the best goalie of all time (Patrick Roy) and his team's captain (Mike Keane) for an overhyped skinny #2 goalie (Jocelyn Thibault) and two somewhat talented enigmatic lazy forwards (Andrei Kovalenko and Martin Rucinsky). Trades like that are the reason why the team went from perennial contender to bottom-feeder in two years (and for almost a decade) - and why they have remained near the ''last available playoff position'' spot for the better part of the last 6 years as well.
Needless to say, this local superstar's card, possibly the only one I own of him wearing the local team's colours (but not crest...) ranks and sits... in the middle of every pile I end up stacking it in. It's card #S152, for those keeping count.
Labels: 1995-96, Autograph, Be A Player, Card, Hockey, Insert, Montréal Canadiens, NHL, Pierre Turgeon, Upper Deck
Braydon Coburn Rookie Jersey Autograph Card
In the same vein as Chris Davis' all-dressed card, here's another triple-threat rookie-jersey-and-autograph card, this time depicting young defenseman Braydon Coburn when he was with the Atlanta Thrashers (who sent him to the Philadelphia Flyers at the 2006-07 trade deadline for over-the-hill defenseman Alexei Zhitnik in the hopes of going all-in to secure the team's first - and only - ever playoff spot, one of the most lop-sided trades in recent memory).
Coburn is a 24 year-old 6'5'', 225-pound defenseman from Calgary whose upside compared to other stellar Albertans as Dion Phaneuf and Jay Bouwmeester in that they all have grit and size but also spectacular speed and a knack for putting points up on the board. Coburn actually holds (in a six-way tie) the record in the WHL for the most goals in a game by a defenseman (with 4). He also brings leadership to the table: look at the picture closely, you'll see he is sporting the Captain's C. Keep in mind this is his rookie card... a rookie captain in a team loaded with veterans and with two star players (at the time, both Marian Hossa and Ilya Kovalchuk were still with the team)? Oh yes. I'd take him on my team any day.
This particular card, from the 2005-06 SPx series by Upper Deck (Rookie Jersey sub-set, card #181, numbered 156/1499) sports a jersey worn in a photo shoot and an autograph on a sticker that was apposed to the card later - therefore, it's ''all fake'' if you're looking for a game-worn jersey or a card that the player actually touched with his hands - but it's still a testament to Coburn's talent that they couldn't wait to have him play an actual game before releasing a card depicting him (as a captain, no less).
Labels: 2005-06, Atlanta Thrashers, Autograph, Braydon Coburn, Hockey, Insert, Jersey Card, NHL, Rookie Card, Rookie Jersey, SPX, Swatch Card, Upper Deck
Petr Nedved Autograph Card
This card may be from the first series to offer a regular set of autographed cards - Upper Deck's 1995-96 Be A Player set, arguably one of the worst sets of all time.
Because they were only licensed by the NHLPA (and not the NHL), Peter Nedved is seen here wearing the Pittsburgh Penguins' colours - but that's all he's sporting. Nowehere on the card is the word 'Penguins' nor the team's logo to be seen - it was even airbrushed out of the picture.
The back of the card doesn't have any statistics or text related to the actual player, only a fac-similed 'signed' word from Ted Saskin saying:
You have received a card personally autographed by the NHL player depicted on the front of this card.
This 1996 NHLPA Be A Player trading card's authenticity is guaranteed by the NHLPA:
One Dundas Street West
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z3
This certificate guarantees the authenticity of the player's signature.
The NHL player depicted did not autograph this card in the presence of a representative of the NHLPA.
Enjoy your autographed card.
Ted Saskin
Senior Directir Business Affairs And Licensing
NHL Players' Association
Yes, you read that right - twice they ''guarantee the authenticity'', yet they still make it abundantly clear that the card was NOT signed in the presence of NHLPA reps, so, really, there is no guarantee.
So they guarantee that the player on the front of the card, who they can't name, wearing an NHL jersey with no logo and affiliated to no NHL team (just the city of Pittsburgh) signed this card with no one to witness it.
Not that I don't trust a former second overall draft pick who played for 8 different NHL teams (and twice each for the New York Rangers and Edmonton Oilers, for a grand total of ten NHL transactions)... just that I think the NHLPA offers us a lack of respect and transparency with every single detail of this card.
Labels: 1995-96, Autograph, Be A Player, Card, Hockey, Insert, NHL, NHLPA, Petr Nedved, Pittsburgh Penguins, Upper Deck
Dwayne Roloson Jersey Card
Here's a card depicting Dwayne Roloson in what I believe to be his finest hour in the NHL - as a member of the Edmonton Oilers. Sure, when he played with the Minnesota Wild, he had two seasons where he stopped over 92% of shots against, but the system they were playing likely helped, and there were no playoffs in which to judge him.
However, when he was traded to the Oilers at the end of the 2005-06 season, his impact was immediate, as he led the team to the Stanley Cup Finals against the Carolina Hurricanes - and the Oilers probably would have won had Roloson not gotten injured in Game 1.
This card (#AF-DR) is from Upper Deck's 2006-07 SP Game Used edition, the Authentic Fabrics Jersey sub-set, and is special for sporting two colours, red and blue. Keep in mind that I have no clue whatsoever as to where there might be red on a recent Oilers jersey...
Posted by Sébastian Hell at 2:38 PM 1 comment:
Labels: 2006-07, Authentic Fabrics, Dwayne Roloson, Edmonton Oilers, Hockey, Insert, NHL, SP Game-Used Edition, Upper Deck
Pascal Leclaire And Ty Conklin - Jersey Card
Because many players care more about ice time and making money than the city where they play in or being on a championship team, we rarely see players spend their entire careers with the same team anymore. Both goalies here are no longer with the team in which they are pictured here (Conklin himself has been on 3 other teams since), but at least the card depicts a picture, jersey and team name that all fit at the time.
Upper Deck didn't have enough of the usual brands they were producing, they absolutely needed to flood the market with one more, and that's why they came up with this (beautiful) set: 2006-07 Artifacts, with these jersey cards being part of the Tundra sub-set. This Dual Jerseys card (TT-PT) depicts Pascal Leclaire wearing the Columbus Blue Jackets' blue uniform (though the patch seems to be from a white one), and Ty Conklin, backup extraordinaire who has been to the last 3 Stanley Cup Finals, in his Edmonton Oilers white jersey (the patch being bronze coloured, like the stripes on the arms or waist). The card is numbered 120/125.
Labels: 2006-07, Artifacts, Card, Columbus Blue Jackets, Dual Jerseys, Edmonton Oilers, Hockey, Insert, Jersey Card, NHL, Pascal Leclaire, Tundra Tandems, Ty Conklin, Upper Deck
Trevor Kidd Autographed Card
He was destined for greatness... Trevor Kidd was the Calgary Flames' first-round draft pick (selected 11th overall, ahead of goalies Martin Brodeur and Félix Potvin and skaters Keith Tkachuk, Chris Simon, Doug Weight, Slava Kozlov, Sergei Zubov and Craig Conroy, among others). Maybe the Flames saw something in him, but his goals-against average in juniors was above 4.00 - pretty high for a #1 goalie, unbelievably high for a first-rounder.
He won over 20 games twice with the Flames, and once more with the Carolina Hurricanes, and finished his NHL playing career with the Toronto Maple Leafs. He is believed to be playing in Europe (although I couldn't find any statistics beyond the 2005-06 season when he played in Germany) and owns a high-end coffee chain in Canada (Mountain Bean Coffee Co.).
This autograph was taken in person while he was a Leaf, but because I hate the Leafs and at least respect the Flames - and because he looked better in a Flames uniform than any other, in my humble opinion - I chose this card, a 1994-95 Flair card from Fleer (card #25).
Labels: 1994-95, Autograph, Calgary Flames, Card, Flair, Fleer, Hockey, In Person, NHL, Trevor Kidd
Chris Davis Card - ''With Everything On It''
What's more valuable: a rookie card, a jersey card, or an autographed card? The Topps Company didn't want to have to find out, so they made this card that is all three.
Indeed, as stated in the top-right corner of this 2007 Topps Performance card (card #122), it's Chris Davis' 'Rookie RC Card'; the autograph is either a very well-placed sticker or part of the card (and, unlike Upper Deck cards, is guaranteed to have been signed in the presence of company representative); and the 'relic' (the piece of jersey) was worn during the 2007 NFL Rookie Premiere.
A nice catch - just like the one that seems to be almost happening in the picture on it.
Labels: (American) Football, 2007, Autograph, Card, Chris Davis, Insert, Jersey Card, NFL, Rookie Card, Tennessee Titans, Topps, Topps Performance
Two Patrice Bergeron Jersey Cards
Sometimes you're lucky, most times you aren't. This time, I was.
Here are two different-coloured jersey cards from Upper Deck's 2006-07 Trilogy Honorary Swatches (card HS-PB) line of Patrice Bergeron, a Boston Bruins player I actually like. One of them is white, likely from the all-white jersey, and the other one's yellow, likely from a shoulder of wrist or bottom of either the home or away jersey. All I'd need to be really happy with these would be a black one, to complete all three official Bruins colours.
Bergeron was on his merry way to become a star player in the NHL: an All Star Game appearance, invitations to represent Canada in three straight World Championships (two gold medals), a long-term contract with the Bruins as their first-line center (before the arrival of Marc Savard) collecting nearly a point per game and being named Associate Captain to Zdeno Chara.
Unfortunately, a cheap hit by Randy Jones of the Philadelphia Flyers on October 27th, 2007 has cost him a full season and slowed his progress a bit, but he has shown flashes of recovery last year, totalling 39 points in 64 games.
It's good enough that he will not suffer permanent damage because of the cheap shot, now here's hoping he returns to form as one of the most promising players under the age of 30.
Labels: 2006-07, Boston Bruins, Hockey, Honorary Swatches, Insert, Jersey Card, NHL, Patrice Bergeron, Swatch Card, Trilogy, Upper Deck
Kari Lehtonen Autographed Jersey Card
So what do card companies do when they run out of new ideas? They double-down on the old ones and try to not learn from their mistakes.
In this particular case, Upper Deck decided, for their 2006-07 Trilogy line, one of their more high-end collections, to have a jersey card selection like every single other one of their hokcey brands (named 'Honorary Swatches', in this case), and a selection of autographed cards ('Trilogy Scripts'). Then they upped the ante by having a few cards with both - 'Honorary Scripted Swatches'.
The idea isn't so bad, but to manufacture them and release them relatively on time, they couldn't have the players sign the cards when they were good and done, so they had them sign stickers that they apposed ont he front of the cards; in this particular case, you can clearly see that Kari Lehtonen went over the sticker's size, as one particular letter (possibly the 'H', but it's hard to be sure) as well as maybe the '3' seem to continue beyond the sticker - but not onto the card itself.
Nonetheless, a decent 2-for-1 collectible of a great athlete whose career has been plagued by numerous injuries but remains an elite goaltender who is a sure-fire Olympian, one of the best Finnish goalies of all time. It's too bad about the injuries - and about playing for the terrible Atlanta Thrashers in a market that doesn't care about his sport.
Labels: 2006-07, Atlanta Thrashers, Autograph, Card, Hockey, Insert, Jersey Card, Kari Lehtonen, NHL, Trilogy, Upper Deck
The Capitol Years: Autographed Vinyl
As I mentioned in the previous post, opening for Daniel Johnston last Friday was The Capitol Years, who also served as his backing band for the second half of the show.
Oddly enough, I preferred them on their own rather than just letting Mr. Johnston dictate the plays. The bandmembers have a real tangible chemistry that floats between all of them, both despite and fueled by the fact that their guitarist is actually a replacement musician - as their old guitarist is now behind the drum kit sitting in for the former the drummer - who is on hiatus.
Their set was relatively short, but sweet enough to seem to have lasted longer and been more enjoyable than the set they shared with Mr. Johnston - maybe not in a 'pure show' sense, but at least in an 'interaction with the public' one.
They were warm and personable - traits that also came out when I hung out backstage with them.
Here's a limited-edition blue vinyl seven-inch, which all four members signed the cover to. I'm eyeing a spot on my wall where the cold colours of the sleeve will fit nicely.
Labels: arts, Celebrity, In Person, Live Show, music, record, The Capitol Years, vinyl
Daniel Johnston Autographed CD
I attended the Daniel Johnston concert at the Ukrainian Federation - basically a church - this weekend (Friday, October 16th, 2009, to be exact).
I did everything to see this show: I applied to be the opening act (and was declined because he didn't require a local opener, seeing as he's touring with his own openers who also work as his backing band for the second half of his set); then I purchased tickets - which I ended up giving away when, finally, I was hired to work security for the show.
They didn't know where to park me for this, though: they started by putting me out front to make sure the doors to the place were shut at all times, and to keep the conversation levels low for the people outside, so they don't disturb the neighbours of this residential area, who aren't used to having concerts be held at their local church.
But an acoustic/semi-rock show held in a church isn't the place where you require security in front of the stage to prevent moshing, body-surfing or injuries...
Eventually (and to my satisfaction), I was put in front of the backstage area, and my job was to make sure no one who shouldn't be allowed in to wander there. A really easy task that kept me in contact with everyone who was performing that night, from openers The Capitol Years (the likely subjects of my next post) to Mr. Johnston himself.
As a member of the staff, I was allowed free beer - and the show was co-organized my my 'arch-enemies' Pop Montreal, so - while I did remain in total control - I wasn't going to shy out on the free beverages. I likely ended up having a dozen Griffons - quality local microbrew.
Saving $80 on beer, though, I did spend cash on merchandise; I bought a vinyl from the opener, and the Daniel Johnston Discovered / Covered double-CD (one record a compilation of his songs, the second one the same songs, but by current indie musicians like the Flaming Lips, Beck and Eels), a DVD of The Devil And Daniel Johnston (a superb documentary), and was given a recyclable hand-made knit bag to stuff everything in it.
Which brings me to the subject of this post.
I really wanted Mr. Johnston's autograph, and two fellow fans wanted to have his picture taken with him after the show. But Johnston was just walking around everywhere, avoiding eye contact with anyone, turning around as soon as anyone would open their mouths in his direction. Like a shy child, you could say. Which, you know, fits with the character we've come to love from the documentary.
I ended up asking a member of his entourage, who said it'd be easier if we got a girl to pose with us, because he ''loves the ladies'' (can't blame him, really), so I did manage to find one, but it took so long to get the star close enough for a picture that she'd gone by then. But we got it made anyhow, it's right below, and you can see how thrilled he was...
As soon as the flash came on, he was ready to just up and leave - he made a 180-degree turn and was just going to walk into the wall right behind us when I asked him if he could sign my CD. He was gracious enough to say yes, grabbing a marker from the table right next to us, signing the inside jacket of the double-digipak I mentioned earlier, then proceeded to hand me the marker back as if it was mine.
- Uh, no, sir that's yours.
- Oh, it's mine?
- Huh.
Then he put it back on the table and left the scene quickly.
You probably can't tell from looking at the picture of seeing him in person, but that man is quick on his feet - I'm talking Olympian Speed Walker-type speed.
What a night. It was good, it was weird, it was short and definitely sweet. Everything I expected it to be, and I got souvenirs and saw it for free from a terrific angle.
Posted by Sébastian Hell at 7:55 PM 5 comments:
Labels: 2009, arts, CD, Celebrity, Daniel Johnston, In Person, Live Show, music, record
Three SP Game-Used Jersey Cards: Keith Primeau, Martin Biron & Jay Bouwmeester
I wouldn't recommend it for uncertified autographs, but for something as simple as an Upper Deck jersey card, Ebay can work wonders.
Here we have three jersey cards from the 2006-07 SP Game-Used Edition series: Keith Primeau (Philadelphia Flyers ), Martin Biron (Buffalo Sabres ) and Jay Bouwmeester (Florida Panthers ) - each sporting a uniform they no longer wear.
The advantage of purchasing more than one item from one seller is that you get to save on shipping - most times. Some don't reduce shipping fees from extra items bought or won, but most do, so it becomes more worth it to get the extra 2 cards at fifty cents per card (plus fifty cents shipping) than fifty cents a card plus three dollars or so. Add them up, and, on average, they become way more affordable.
Labels: 2005-06, Authentic Fabrics, Buffalo Sabres, Florida Panthers, Hockey, Insert, Jay Bouwmeester, Keith Primeau, Martin Biron, NHL, Philadelphia Flyers, SP Game-Used Edition, Upper Deck
Two Josh Gorges Autographed Cards
Unlike Maxim Lapierre, Josh Gorges signed each card by adding the correct jersey number on each, thus he wore #7 for the Kelowna Rockets, and #26 for the Montréal Canadiens.
The junior card, from his WHL days as captain of the Rockets is from In The Game's 2004-05 Heroes And Prospects series (card #82), after a WHL title, a Memorial Cup, a Western Conference First All-Star Team nod and a finalist for the league's top defenseman - as well as a participation at the World Juniors for Team Canada. He had been signed as a free agent (he had never been drafted) by the San Jose Sharks, whose uniforms were close in colours as the Rockets'.
The other card, where he is wearing the Canadiens' red jersey, is from Upper Deck's 2007-08 Series 2 collection (card #410), depicting him making a terrible butterfly pass to an unknown teammate, one of many bad plays resulting from being a part of a shocking mid-season trade to Montréal (alongside a draft pick that ended up being Max Pacioretty) for established whiner and coach-killer Craig Rivet. He has since found his game, and his niche on the team, and can be relied upon to step up and fill in at a higher level when one of the team's top three defensemen gets injured.
Both were signed at the Canadiens' jamboree prior to the 2007-08 season.
Labels: 2004-05, 2007-08, Autograph, Card, CHL, Heroes And Prospects, In Person, In The Game, Josh Gorges, Kelowna Rockets, Montréal Canadiens, NHL, Series 2, Upper Deck, WHL
Two Maxim Lapierre Autographed Cards
From one #40 to another... Maxim Lapierre, promising third-line center for the Montréal Canadiens, my choice for the team's next captain, with two cards from the 2007-08 season.
On the left, an In The Game 2007-08 Heroes And Prospects card (#CC-05), from the Calder Cup Champions sub-set describing how valuable he was in the Hamiltom Bulldogs' championship run, participating on both his team's goals in the decisive game after having been reassigned to the AHL for the playoffs.
On the right, a 2007-08 MVP (#60) card from Upper Deck showing Maxim's stats in his rookie season in the NHL, mentioning that he scored in his first three games.
Both were signed at the team's jamboree prior to the 2007-08 season, both are similar, and both sport ''40'' after Lapierre's name, despite the fact that he clearly wears #26 on his Bulldogs card (the beautiful red jersey), showing he did not want to have to go back there, which of course he did just weeks later. But he came back with a vengeance, never to go back down again, a few weeks after being demoted.
I also like that he looks noticeably older in the AHL card than the NHL one, probably because of the beard, but considering players usually go to the AHL before the NHL and both cards being from the same year, it adds a nice touch.
Both cards also have him in just about the same position, with an open mouth, although he seems in possession of the puck on the MVP card and demanding it on the Heroes And Prospects card. Another noteworthy difference is not between the cards themselves but on the Upper Deck card, as the MVP series sported facsimile autographs on the front... and apart from the exact same 'M', the rest of the signature is completely different from the live one to the printed one. And since both live ones are so strikingly similar, you can wonder if UD didn't feel his actual signature was legible enough and asked him to re-do it more clearly...
Labels: 2007-08, AHL, Autograph, Card, Hamilton Bulldogs, Heroes And Prospects, Hockey, In Person, In The Game, Maxim Lapierre, Montréal Canadiens, MVP, NHL, Upper Deck
Éric Chouinard Autographed Oversized Team Card
For years, from the late 1980s to the early-2000s, I always purchased the Montréal Canadiens' oversized player cards. While they all used to be taken in photo sessions with just about every player striking the same pose without a helmet on, the 1990s brought more and more action shots until all players were pictured during games.
Deadline issues have made it so that awkward situations would at times arrive, such as a player not wearing the same jersey number on the front as is indicated on the back, simply because the picture had been taken during the pre-season when the player's coveted number was not yet available but had become so as time passed.
Also of note on these cards were the facsimile autographs printed on them; in the 80s, the autograph was in front, while in the pictures above, it's on the back. It is fun to note that at times, during the late 80s and early 90s, the autographs differed vastly from players' signatures obtained elsewhere, which is not the case here. Indeed, Éric Chouinard's autograph, gathered by myself at a team-sponsored jamboree in 2002 - months before he was traded to the Philadelphia Flyers - looks just about the same, the only difference being he signed his first name above his last name while the facsimile shows it in a straight line.
Chouinard was a Habs first-round draft pick from 1998, smack-dab in the middle of the worst decade in team history - both on the ice and at the draft table. Many have been critical of Chouinard having been chosen ahead of such impact players as Dmitri Kalinin (18th, Sabres), Robyn Regehr (19th, Flames), Simon Gagné (22nd, Flyers), Scott Gomez (27th, Devils), Jonathan Cheechoo (29th, Sharks), Mike Fisher (44th, Senators), Mike Ribeiro (45th, Canadiens), Brad Richards (64th, Lightning), Erik Cole (71st, Hurricanes), François Beauchemin (75th, Canadiens), Brian Gionta (82nd, Devils), Shawn Horcoff (99th, Oilers), Jaroslav Spacek (117th, Panthers), Chris Neil (161st, Senators), Andrei Markov (162nd, Canadiens), Pavel Datsyuk (171st, Red Wings), Michael Ryder (216th, Canadiens), and Karlis Skrastins (230th, Predators).
It is fun to note that 4 other Canadiens draftees of that year became regulars in the NHL (Ribeiro, now the centrepiece of Dallas' offense, Beauchemin, Cup winner in Anaheim now patroling Toronto's blue line, Ryder, twice a 30-goal scorer now in Boston, and the Habs' leader on the blue line Markov), that another one played for a few years longer than Chouinard (Gordie Dwyer), that three picks from other teams now play for the Habs (Gomez, Gionta and Spacek) while another pick from earlier that year, Tanguay, chosen 12th overall by Colorado, was the team's best forward last season before departing as a free agent. Also from the '98 draft, Cole, one of the current NHLers who has had the most success playing against the Habs.
Another side note, Chouinard, who wore #40 for the Habs, was traded to the Flyers for their second-round pick of 2003, which turned out to be Maxim Lapierre, currently wearing #40.
It's too bad he never panned out in the NHL, playing only 90 games in 5 seasons, because he had decent offensive skills and hockey bloodlines: his father played for the Atlanta Flames, and his cousin, Marc, still plays in the NHL and won a Stanley Cup in Anaheim.
Labels: Autograph, Card, Éric Chouinard, In Person, Montréal Canadiens, NHL, Oversized Card, Postcard, Team Card
Enid-Raye Adams Autographs
Here's a duo I'm very proud of - and that makes me hate myself at the same time.
I'll start at the beginning: Enid-Raye Adams is from Manitoba (Canada), where your chances of attaining worldwide success are slim-to-none, unless your last name is Bachmann or Turner. She moved to Vancoucer, BC (still in Canada) to become an actress - and it didn't work for her right away. So she wrote some material and toured the country as a stand-up comic, which eventually led to an agent taking notice, and film (but mostly TV) roles ensued.
Her sense of humour is wonderful - and she's a master at self-deprecating in real life, too.
I wrote her an honest letter around 2002, saying I was happy her career seemed to be going upwards, what with a Babylon 5 TV movie, a part in Slap Shot 2, one in Undercover Brother, appearances in hit TV shows like The Dead Zone, Stargate SG-1 and Taken - not quite Oscar-worthy (yet), but a definite step up from being the 15th or 20th name appearing in Canadian TV movie Trapped (with Meat Loaf an Callum Keith Rennie).
She could have just been happy I wrote in and done nothing in return, or could have sent a typed note saying ''thanks'' - or a facsimile autographed picture. Instead, she dedicated and autographed a publicity still with a note saying to ''Keep On Rockin' In The Free World'', both a nod to the fact that we're both Canadian but also that I'm a musician first and foremost (before being a blogger, writer and film-maker, that is) - and she added a Babylon 5: The Legend Of The Rangers postcard with a personalized message on the back - and what appears to be a ripped-off price tag!
So every day I can see these two pieces of memorabilia, admire them - and every day I can remember I'm an asshole for never writing back.
Labels: Actress, Autograph, Babylon 5, By Mail, Comedian, Enid-Raye Adams, Picture, Postcard
Mike Ribeiro - Patrice Bergeron Jersey Card
The Montréal Canadiens - Boston Bruins rivalry has spawned great moments for hockey fans (as well, apparently, as other seasons' SPX sets), and the Montréal-Québec rivalry has spawned countless arguments in Quebecers' families. Here's a card that puts both rivalries to good use - perhaps without even knowing it.
Montréal native Mike Ribeiro, seen here in his former team's jersey, the white Habs uniform, coming off a season where he led the team in points, shares the bill with Québec-born Patrice Bergeron of the Bruins - also in his team's whites.
This card (# WC-MP from Upper Deck's 2005-06 SPX series) is numbered 007/350, and what makes it so special is that Bergeron's side is actually comprised of two colours - back and white - which likely means it was taken from the stripe at the bottom of the jersey, or the sleeve, both of which hold a slimmer chance of making in onto a jersey card as, say, a piece of the chest or back.
Also of note is that this was to be Ribeiro's final year playing for his hometown team, as he was traded to the Dallas Stars before the start of the 2006-07 season, days after having agreed to a raise. In october 2007, Bergeron's playing days were almost over after he suffered a broken nose and 'Grade 3' concussion after a questionable hit from behind by Randy Jones.
Labels: 2005-06, Boston Bruins, Card, Hockey, Insert, Jersey Card, Mike Ribeiro, Montréal Canadiens, NHL, Patrice Bergeron, SPX, Upper Deck, Winning Combos
Kristopher Letang Autographed Card
Here's another player Québec fans especially got to like and know of late - first from his junior days for the Val d'Or Foreurs, then through his terrific play in two consecutive Stanley Cup Finals for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Indeed, Kristopher Letang's future looks very promising.
This nice card is #146 in In The Game's 2005-06 Heroes And Prospects set, once again a very pretty one - and the first one to include both John Tavares and Evgeni Malkin. This set had AHLers on the verge of NHL success, junior players and international futures stars who had played in either the World Juniors or World Championships - a great way to see future stars in different (and, at times, simply bizarre) uniforms. I like the Foreurs' jersey in this one, reminiscent of the old Minnesota North Stars uniforms, a team that is missed.
This card was taken from a pack, sent to Letang, care of the Foreurs, by mail - and returned by mail as well. I also like that the card's design gives an obvious spot in which the player can sign - and I like that Letang used a fat-point blue sharpie, making his signature illegible-but-retaining-that-rookie-feel.
Labels: 2005-06, Autograph, By Mail, Card, CHL, Foreurs De Val d'Or, Heroes And Prospects, Hockey, In The Game, Kristopher Letang, LHJMQ, NHL, Pittsburgh Penguins
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University of New Mexico Press
Bad Clowns
Benjamin Radford | Corrales, New Mexico
Bad clowns—scary or malevolent ones, not incompetent ones—are all around us: on television, in movies, video games, books, and elsewhere. Bad clowns have—much to the irritation of good clowns—over the years become the most recognizable type of clown. Yet there is relatively little (even semi-serious) scholarship about these villainous vagabonds.
This book goes far beyond trotting out the familiar bad clown tropes of John Wayne Gacy and Pennywise. They are included here, of course, but you’ll also find bizarre, lesser-known stories of weird clown antics including S&M clowns; Ronald McDonald protests; Bozo obscenity; clowns in vans abducting children; evil clown scares in England and Staten Island; behind-the-scenes at Marvel Comics with Obnoxio the Clown; sex clowns, dip clowns, troll clowns and much more. Bad Clowns is the first book to examine bad clowns as pop culture (and counterculture) icons. Bad Clowns is the definitive book on bad clowns, drawn from a variety of perspectives including pop culture, folklore, psychology, and sociology. Rooted in historical clowns including court jesters, the Harlequin figure, and Mr. Punch. Bad Clowns describes bad clowns in films, in books, and on television—what makes clowns go bad, the rise of the bad clown, why clowns are scary, and what makes many people afraid of clowns.
The clown has played an important role in all societies and cultures, and the bad clown is an inherent part of that. You can no more separate a clown from a bad clown than a clown from his shadow. Like it or not the bad one is the clown we love to hate. From Foo Foo to Frenchy, Punch to Pennywise, Shakes to Sweet Tooth, a seemingly inexhaustible supply of bad clowns keeps coming, bursting out of a tiny car into the media, each more vile than the last. Bad clowns exist mostly in our imaginations as vigilante anti-heroes of the Id.
About Benjamin Radford (Corrales, New Mexico Author)
Benjamin Radford is an award-winning investigator and deputy editor of Skeptical Inquirer science magazine. He has written thousands of articles on a wide variety of topics, including urban legends, mysterious phenomena, critical thinking, and science literacy.
He is author, co-author, or contributor to more than twenty books, including Scientific Paranormal Investigation: How to Solve Unexplained Mysteries; Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore; Mysterious New Mexico: Miracles, Magic, and Monsters in the Land of Enchantment (winner of the Southwest Book Award); Bad Clowns (Independent Publisher Award bronze medalist); and most recently Investigating Ghosts: The Scientific Search for Spirits.
Radford is a regular columnist for several outlets including LiveScience.com and Discovery News. Radford co-founded two podcasts: Squaring the Strange (2016-present) and MonsterTalk (winner of the Parsec award). Radford has been quoted as an expert by hundreds of media outlets including CNN, ABC News, BBC, CBC, The New York Times, Gizmodo, Forbes, The New York Times Magazine, The (London) Times Literary Supplement, Fortean Times, the Huffington Post, Scientific American, Wall Street Journal, Wired, and Vanity Fair. He has also appeared on dozens of television shows including Good Morning America and on the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and the National Geographic Channel. Radford has a masters degree in education and a bachelors degree in psychology, and is a member of the American Folklore Society. More about Radford can be found at www.BenjaminRadford.com and on Wikipedia.
Tracking the Chupacabra
Investigating Ghosts
Mysterious New Mexico
Media Mythmakers
The Merchant of Dust
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Addressing Human and Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Weapons in New Ban Treaty
Posted by Alice Osman and Molly Doggett
Bonnie Docherty, associate director for armed conflict and civilian protection at the clinic, delivering statement to countries negotiating nuclear weapon ban treaty at the UN in New York. Photo courtesy of ICAN.
Member states of the UN General Assembly are currently engaged in historic negotiations of a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. At this point, nuclear weapons are the only weapons of mass destruction not subject to a categorical prohibition in international law. A team from the International Human Rights Clinic, which is participating in the negotiations in New York, has joined the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in urging countries to adopt a strong treaty that is focused on preventing and remediating the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapon use and testing.
Prohibitions on the use, production, transfer, and stockpiling of nuclear weapons are necessary but insufficient components of the new treaty. In order to address the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons effectively, states parties must also adopt positive obligations to provide assistance to victims in their territory and to remediate environmental contamination caused by nuclear weapon use and testing. In partnership with London-based NGO Article 36, our clinical team has released papers arguing for the inclusion of victim assistance and environmental remediation treaty provisions.
We have been encouraged to see that the draft text of the treaty contains provisions on victim assistance and environmental remediation. However, stronger and more comprehensive provisions are necessary to ensure that the needs of victims and the environment are effectively met. We are advocating for a clear obligation on affected states parties to remediate contaminated areas; currently environmental remediation measures are merely optional. In addition, the draft text does not require all affected states parties to assist victims in their territory, and thus is inconsistent with human rights law. We are calling for strong obligations on other states parties to help affected countries meet their positive obligations.
Many countries have agreed on the need for victim assistance and environmental remediation. The main point of debate has centered on the question of who should bear the responsibility for these obligations. Some delegations have suggested that states that use or test nuclear weapons (“user states”) should bear primary responsibility for providing assistance to victims and remediating the environment. By contrast, a number of other states, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and ICAN have argued for placing primary responsibility for these activities on affected states.
We believe that responsibility for positive obligations must lie with affected states for both legal and practical reasons. First, victim assistance and environmental remediation obligations aim to ensure that the rights of people living in affected areas are protected and realized. It is a basic premise of international human rights law that each state is responsible for protecting and fulfilling the rights of individuals within its own territory. This allocation of responsibility also respects the sovereignty of affected states parties, who can set priorities and develop plans for victim assistance and environmental remediation within their territories.
Second, because of their proximity and access to victims and contaminated areas, affected states are in the best position to deliver aid to victims and to undertake environmental remediation. Moreover, there is a serious risk that placing the primary responsibility on user states, which are unlikely to join the treaty in the immediate future, will leave the needs of victims and the environment unaddressed.
Alice Osman, LLM ’17, and Molly Doggett, JD ’17, working hard at the nuclear weapon ban negotiations. Photo by Bonnie Docherty.
Finally, affected state responsibility for victim assistance and environmental remediation follows the precedent of other humanitarian disarmament treaties, such as the Convention on Cluster Munitions and the Mine Ban Treaty.
Some countries have expressed concerns that heavily affected states with limited resources would be unable to meet their positive obligations. But affected states should not face the task of implementation alone. The strong international cooperation and assistance provision for which we are advocating would require other countries party to the treaty (including user states) to contribute to victim assistance and environmental remediation efforts. This arrangement would ensure that the treaty does not place an undue burden on affected states, while guaranteeing that the needs of the victims are in fact met.
Only seven days of negotiations remain. We will continue to engage with delegates to ensure that states fully understand the importance of positive obligations and that international assistance can decrease the burden on affected states. We are hopeful that the next version of the text will address these issues and better meet the humanitarian goals of the convention.
The Clinic’s nuclear weapons team includes: Carina Bentata Gryting, JD ’18, Molly Doggett, JD ’17, Lan Mei, JD ’17, and Alice Osman, LLM ’17. The team was supervised by Bonnie Docherty, Associate Director for Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection, and Clinical Instructor Anna Crowe.
For a full discussion of victim assistance and environmental remediation obligations, see:
Victim Assistance in the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty: A Comprehensive and Detailed Approach
(June 2017, Briefing paper)
Environmental Remediation in the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty: A Comprehensive and Detailed Approach (June 2017, Briefing paper)
For a summary of our arguments and recommendations:
Key Points: Victim Assistance in the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty (June 2017, Working paper)
Key Points: Environmental Remediation in the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty (June 2017, Working paper)
Neither Facially Legitimate Nor Bona Fide–Why the Very Text of the Travel Ban Shows It’s Unconstitutional
Posted by Gerald Neuman
This article was first published on Just Security.
As the litigation over the travel ban moves to the Supreme Court, the most important passage in the Fourth Circuit’s en banc opinion may be a tangential footnote finding “yet another marker” of illegitimate purpose in the text of the Executive Order. Both the first version of the Executive Order (of January 27) and the second version (of March 6) include language that any informed observer would recognize as evidence that the purpose of the travel ban is to gratify and further incite hostility against Muslims.
Advocates seeking to persuade doubting Justices should not be distracted by the voluminous debates about whether candidate Trump’s statements count against the constitutionality of President Trump’s actions. For Justices inclined to interpret narrowly the standard of review in immigration cases, the explicit statement of purpose in the first EO, and the residual markers in section 11 of the revised EO, should provide the starting point.
In the first EO, the final paragraph of section 1 explained the EO’s purpose as follows:
In order to protect Americans, the United States must ensure that those admitted to this country do not bear hostile attitudes toward it and its founding principles. The United States cannot, and should not, admit those who do not support the Constitution, or those who would place violent ideologies over American law. In addition, the United States should not admit those who engage in acts of bigotry or hatred (including “honor” killings, other forms of violence against women, or the persecution of those who practice religions different from their own) or those who would oppress Americans of any race, gender, or sexual orientation.
As the Fourth Circuit noted, “Numerous amici explain that invoking the specter of ‘honor killings’ is a well-known tactic for stigmatizing and demeaning Islam and painting this religion, and its men, as violent and barbaric.” The thinly coded incitement throughout this purpose paragraph is perhaps best explained in Aziz Huq’s amicus brief for Muslim Rights, Professional and Public Health Organizations.
Consistent with that goal, section 10(iii) of the first EO directed the Secretary of Homeland Security to collect and publish “information regarding the number and types of acts of gender-based violence against women, including honor killings, in the United States by foreign nationals…” The mandate to publish enlists the department in nothing short of an ongoing campaign of anti-Muslim agitation.
The March 6 EO, which President Trump has now dismissed in a tweet as a “politically correct” version of his real policy, deletes the explanation of purpose, but retains the collection and dissemination of data on “types of acts of gender-based violence against women, including so-called ‘honor killings,’” in section 11(iii). That directive has no conceivable relation to the alleged national security purpose of the travel ban, and it continues to reveal the true underlying purpose of both orders.
This facial evidence of illegitimate purpose has particular salience because the dispute involves immigration policy, and the Justices are likely to view it through the lens of specialized precedents that have operated in relation to substantive immigration restrictions. In the 1970s, when the Supreme Court abandoned an earlier doctrine that had made constitutional challenges to criteria for grant or denial of admission nonjusticiable, it articulated instead a diluted test of constitutionality. Kleindienst v Mandel (1972) and Fiallo v Bell (1977) required the government to show that the restriction was based on a “facially legitimate and bona fide reason.” The time may have come to move beyond this standard, but the Justices might not – and need not — make the case of Trump’s EO the occasion to do so.
The opinion of Justices Kennedy and Alito, concurring in the judgment in Kerry v Din (2015), sheds light on the meaning of the standard, explaining that the government’s reason must be legitimate on its face and the government must be acting in good faith. If the challenger makes an affirmative showing of bad faith, the court may look to additional factual details that determine the constitutionality of the government action.
While both elements are required to uphold a government restriction, it may be safer for advocates to point to indications of unlawful purpose on the face of the orders before turning to extrinsic evidence of bad faith. The January 27 version of the order is so obviously the context of the March 6 version that both should be examined together, yet even viewing the March 6 EO in isolation, the incongruous attention to honor killings cries out for further inquiry.
The Fourth Circuit rightly asserted that “we cannot shut our eyes” when evidence “stares us in the face.” The religious animus that underlies the Executive Orders is already visible in the text, and the less formal statements merely provide confirmation. That point deserves more emphasis.
The Clinic hires human rights advocates Yee Htun and Salma Waheedi as clinical instructors
We are thrilled to announce today that the Human Rights Program has hired Yee Htun and Salma Waheedi as clinical instructors in our International Human Rights Clinic.
For the past year, Yee and Salma have worked with us as clinical advocacy fellows, supervising projects on everything from land rights and telecommunications policies in Myanmar to torture in Iraq. They also share a strong focus on gender justice.
For Yee, that focus comes from a personal place. She’s spent most of her career as an attorney working on women’s rights, often with refugee and migrant communities. Yee herself was born in Myanmar and immigrated to Canada as a government-sponsored refugee.
“Women’s rights for me is not an abstract concept but a cause to which I have dedicated most of my life’s work to,” said Yee. “Whether it is coordinating and launching the first ever global campaign with Nobel Peace Laureates to stop sexual violence in conflict or offering legal counsel to women’s organizations seeking to enact a prevention of violence against women law, I have done it out of the belief that only when we give power to women and girls do we advance the human rights for all.”
Until recently, Yee was the Myanmar Program Director for Justice Trust, a Yangon-based international legal non-profit organization that provides support to communities. This year, she worked with clinical students to elevate the voices of women human rights advocates in the country; convene workshops on law reform in Myanmar with LGBTQI activists, human rights defenders, journalists, and lawyers; document land policy that discriminates against women; and examine the country’s new telecommunications law, which has had a chilling effect on free speech.
Salma came to the Clinic this year as a joint fellow with the Islamic Legal Studies Program: Law and Social Change, where she focused on women’s rights in Islamic legal systems and issues of legal reform and gender justice in Muslim family laws. This past year, she and her students worked with women’s rights lawyers and advocates across different Muslim countries, documenting legal obstacles to women’s equality, advocating for an end to discriminatory policies and practices, and engaging with the committee of the Convention on All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) to foster deeper and more productive dialogues with the states.
In the Clinic, Salma also plans to focus on business and human rights concerns in the Middle East, particularly with respect to issues of corporate accountability and economic justice. Before entering the legal profession, Salma worked in her native country of Bahrain as Economic Planning and Development Director at Bahrain’s Economic Development Board, and later served as a consultant on economic policy and international development around the world.
As a lawyer, she continued to advocate for social and economic justice through community development and legal assistance programs in the United States and abroad.
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Empire's Values
"Hypocrisy," wrote the great French writer Francois de La Rochefoucauld, "is the homage vice pays to virtue."
Today, vice is what passes for virtue, and hypocrisy seems to have become the principal value of the Atlantic Empire and its satellites.
It's bad enough that the Empire has internalized the belief that killing people is somehow "saving" them, due to the miraculous transubstantiation of anyone killed by Imperial ordnance into an "enemy combatant." But when a country that routinely invades others, overthrows governments by force or subterfuge, and sponsors terrorists (e.g. Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, KLA, Libyan and Syrian "freedom fighters) is setting up a committee for "atrocity prevention," what is one to conclude other than that it has left logic a few exits back?
The "Pussy Riot" tempest in a teacup is a perfect example of hypocrisy that simply rampages throughout every layer of society in the Empire. Sure, the desecration visited upon an Orthodox temple by the three orgy-loving "activists" pales in comparison to the oeuvre of those paragons of tolerance and freedom in Kosovistan (under NATO's loving gaze no less). But don't you see, that just shows how oppressive Russian autocracy truly is! In a truly free, democratic society, all the churches would be razed and evil Orthodoxy abolished - or so reason the Marxists.
Wait a second, isn't America supposed to have fought the "long, twilight struggle" against Marxism and Leninism for forty-odd years? And didn't the collapse of the Soviet Union and the abolition of Communism usher in the End of History? Well, sure - but that's beside the point, since we're all Marxists now.
Let me explain. Karl Marx argued that life had been better in "noble savage" times without private property. Sure, people lived in caves, had but rudimentary tools, starved more often than not and died of old age at thirty - but they were just! Because his vision of an egalitarian world ran up against the notion of objective truth or virtue - something valued not only by Christian and Jewish philosophers but the Greeks and Romans before them - Marx railed about religion being the "opiate of the masses" and posited the existence of "communist truth", i.e. whatever was useful to the communist cause. Half a century later, his disciple Vladimir Ilyich Ulanov (better known as "Lenin") distilled this to a simple dichotomy: "Who-Whom".
While Marxism-Leninism was officially retired about two decades ago, cultural Marxism remained alive and well. And at its foundation is the relativistic logic proposed by Marx and championed by Lenin: it doesn't matter what is done, but who does it to whom. When "we" do something, that is by definition good, and when those Other People do the same thing - or even something considered virtuous under the wretched old "normative" logic - it is by definition evil. Isn't it wonderful to have a moral compass that always points exactly where one wants it to?
Imagine the existence of an "activist group" funded by a foreign government, with a lewd name rendered only in a foreign language (e.g. Пизда Бунт), specializing in public acts of indecent exposure they call performance art, and therefore protected free speech. Imagine them barging into the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. Or wold it have to be a mosque? Or maybe an abortion clinic? One never knows what's actually considered sacred by the Imperial establishment these days. In any case, do you honestly think those very same media that cried crocodile tears over the fate of "Pussy Riot" wouldn't be leading the lynch mob, torches and rope in hand, in this instance?
Or do you think they'd sing them praises as brave pioneers of tolerance, diversity and freedom of expression - as they've done with "Pussy Riot"?
The answer to that question pretty much determines whether you're a cultural Marxist - i.e. believe in that relativistic pseudo-logic of who/whom - or not.
Now, standing up for the downtrodden workers exploited by the Industrial Revolution's robber barons is a good thing. But the bright shining future Marx envisioned for them involved caves. They were concrete instead of stone, but that's hardly the point. The equality he envisioned turned into a coerced equality of misery for most, and a life of plenty for a few. How exactly was that a good thing? I've lived in a Marxist society, and I've seen how quickly and easily it morphed into the worst version of pagan nihilism. When you make people believe they are no better than animals, don't be surprised when they bite.
To be fair, cultural Marxism is no more an American value than original Marxism was a Russian value. Both were imposed on their host nations, if by different means. And it isn't just a thing of the "left" (democrats, reformers, progressives, whatever), either. The "right" is hardly different, amounting to at best a caricature opposition. They say they are defending tradition, but are no longer capable of articulating what that tradition is, much less why it's worth fighting for. (See the just-finished RNC convention in Tampa for a host of examples). To a 1950s liberal, a typical "conservative" of today would seem to the left of Stalin.
Besides, targets of Imperial "do-gooderism" worldwide certainly don't care whether their murderers wear ties or tie-dyes. Dead is dead.
Whatever you want to call the ideology currently dominating the West (Transnational Progressivism, Globalism, One-Worldism, Secular Humanism, etc.), its basic philosophy is Marxist and neo-pagan. It loathes tradition, family and kinship, property and commerce. It extols coercion, violence, welfare and conflict. And it disguises itself with pleasant-sounding words whose meaning has either been reversed or eliminated entirely: equality, democracy, freedom, diversity.
Not content with dismantling their own countries in this manner, the followers of this ideology desire to remake the world as well. In that, they are aided by veritable cults of fanatical followers, drawn by promises of riches and power but find fulfillment only in the feeling of smug self-righteousness: the "human rights activists" and "NGOs" (funded by foreign governments, ironically), professional revolutionaries and their spear-carriers, useful idiots and true believers.
They target Christianity and Judaism, though for the time being they seem to have a love affair with Islam. It isn't a cozy relationship; both the riots in Europe and the bloodbaths in Iraq and Afghanistan offer object lessons in what happens when Islam and cultural Marxism mix. Not surprisingly, the cultural Marxists refuse to acknowledge the problem exists, since that would clash with their narrative.
Fight back, and the mainstream media - as well as the twitterati and blogger brigades serving the Cult of Death - declare you uncivilized, primitive, retrograde, repressive. Pure projection, all of it - for it is they who desire to abolish civilization, extol force as the arbiter of all, wish to reverse the history of humanity and repress anyone who dissents. Much as they loathe the naive evangelicals who believe their actions can bring about the Rapture, the secular cult is exactly like them, in that they seek to "immanentize the Eschaton", bringing about the End of History by obliterating all competing thought.
Their ultimate objective is not universal happiness. Nor is it diversity, equality, freedom, democracy or justice. Those are but flowery phrases that are mere means to an end. And that end is "all the kingdoms of this world, and the glory of them." This is why they hate Christianity, for its unequivocal rejection of that offer. And why they attack Orthodoxy in particular: because, unlike most other branches of Christianity, it still persists in upholding that rejection.
Labels: culture, Empire, politics, propaganda, religion, Russia
Suvorov said...
It is true that in the West this kind of trial would not take place simply because it would never come to that. They would have been jailed long ago- whether for kissing a female policeman in the lips, or climbing on top of a public vehicle to shout obscenities, or for holding an orgy in a museum. On the other hand, it's a shame that the Russian court's decision deprived us of the opportunity to examine the sincerity of Madonna's and Sir Paul's commitment to freedom of speech. Would they be strong enough advocates of civil liberties to allow their performances to be interrupted by the kind of "presentation" witnessed by Russian churchgoers?
The Hero of Crappy Town said...
"Or wold it have to be a mosque? Or maybe an abortion clinic? One never knows what's actually considered sacred by the Imperial establishment these days."
That's easy. It would have to be a Gay Pride event. Imagine hooligans crashing a Gay Pride manifestation, but one that was being held, not in the streets, but in a dome or hall they rented and paid for the use of and you have your equivalency.
The headlines in such a case would proclaim something like: 'Russian barbarians still have a way to go — right-wing extremists go on rampage, disrupt private LGBT event, courts sentence them to just 2 years!'
CrnaGora-Srpska Sparta said...
I've been waiting forever for someone to come out and state these obvious truths.
I'm not a fanatic of any kind, but what the ruling elites of this world are implementing and doing is pure paganism and evil.
Christianity has been dismantled in the West, and now they are trying to impose their system of values (cultural marxism and paganism) on ex-communist countries that have reaffirmed their nationhood and Christian roots.
Homosexuality is definitely the holiest of holy values in Western civilization. Anyone who questions its moral integrity is labeled a bigot and maniac. As a heterosexual, I find homosexuality repulsive, just as I find pedophilia disgusting. I also think that sex with donkeys is disgusting. To each their own, I guess!
I could personally care less about homosexuality, what gay people do in their bedrooms is their own business. What practitioners of bestiality do in their barns is also their private matter. I am however opposed to the wholesale promotion of homosexuality as being virtuous and something that the rest of us should envy.
Homosexuality is a psychological disorder (despite the revised definition given by the APA, which obviously has an agenda), but also immoral in Christianity. It's nice that the West has found a new belief system, but they should at least respect the faith of their parents and grandparents, to the extent that they don't have to ridicule Christians and Christianity as being the most repulsive belief system on planet earth.
The reason that the West promotes homosexuality and hates Christianity is that the West hates itself and wants self destruction. The further it descends into cultural Marxism and paganism the more it is discontent with itself. It is a negative feedback loop. The West is on its death march.
White Eagle Fencing Club Bristol said...
The author doesn't seem to understand paganism: It certainly wasn't and isn't laissez faire. The true moral degradation is the marketisation of value; a distortion of the true role of freedom of choice in society. Christianity, with its long and bloody obsession with definitions of the Divine and the correct ritual of appeasing Him, has no right to take unto itself, as its own, the goodness of which Socrates spoke and existed and continues to exist among people unblinded by regard for shibboleths and fetishes. The hypocrisy of today's venial elites should not lead us back into the shackles of priests and witch doctors. As for the linking of so-called Welfare with a failure of Christian values: one of the few redeeming features of the Christian mission was the stress on Charity. It's a pity to see the creed of forgiveness equated with a mean "from each according to his labour" calculus.
You are correct in that I don't "understand" paganism. Partly because true paganism has been extinct for centuries, and today's manifestations are mostly post- and anti-Christianity. But also because those manifestations make zero sense to me.
What values they claim to preach are mostly cherry-picked from Christianity they openly loathe. Socrates and his disciples worked hard to define piety, virtue, good and ill. Post-Christians believe in "niceness" to those who think like them, and are vicious to those that do not. Pure moral relativism, hypocrisy elevated to virtue.
robert49rml said...
I am a Buddhist. Jesus said to treat others as you would have others treat you. Buddha taught the Law of Cause and Effect. If you treat others badly then eventually the same will happen to you. This is certainly where Christianity and Buddhism meet. The West is destroying all that is good in the world and replacing it with Marxism on steroids. Thank you Mr Malic for this article.
Conquerors on Parade
That September Day
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Man carrying gun at Nairobi Mall saved a 100 lives
UPDATED: Apparently, it was an "Ex Royal Marine with a handgun saved 100 lives as terrorists ran amok." It also appears that he was able to carry a gun because he had a job with either a private security agency or the Kenyan government. Fortunately, he just happened to be near the mall having coffee with friends. Question: Would gun control advocates let former soldiers carry guns in the US?
ORIGINAL POST: Fortunately for 100 people this off-duty British Special Air Service had his handgun with him. From the UK Daily Mail:
An off-duty member of the SAS emerged as a hero of the Nairobi siege yesterday, after he was credited with saving up to 100 lives.
The soldier was having coffee at the Westgate mall when it was attacked by Islamists on Saturday.
With a gun tucked into his waistband, he was pictured helping two women from the complex.
He is said to have returned to the building on a dozen occasions, despite intense gunfire.A friend in Nairobi said: ‘What he did was so heroic. He was having coffee with friends when it happened.
‘He went back in 12 times and saved 100 people. Imagine going back in when you knew what was going on inside.’ . . .
Side note: What lessons will Americans take from this?
The suburban Minneapolis mall, owned by real estate development and finance company Triple Five Group of Edmonton, Alberta, is monitoring the news from Nairobi and working with law-enforcement agencies, the center’s management said today in an e-mailed statement. The Bloomington, Minnesota, property, which opened in 1992, has more than 520 stores, an indoor amusement park, an aquarium and a movie theater.
“Mall of America has implemented extra security precautions,” according to the statement. “Some may be noticeable to guests, and others won’t be. We will continue to follow the situation, along with law enforcement, and will remain vigilant as we always do in similar situations.” . . . .
Kenyabans both open and concealed carrying of firearms, but that didn’t stop the terrorists from using guns. Apparently, this Ex Royal Marine may have had a job with a private security agency or the Kenyan government. From the UK Independent:
The British military regularly train and operate in East Africa, often using Kenya as a base for tracking UK citizens suspected of being involved in terrorist activities in Somalia and Kenya.
A large number of former soldiers continue to live in the country after their service ends, working as security personnel for private agencies and the Kenyan government. . . .
posted by John Lott at 11:47 PM
Melissa Bishop said...
And he did it without body armour. I highly doubt a liberal hipster would do the same.
Jack Charles said...
Complete anecdotal bullshit. How was "100 people" calculated? It was pulled out of someone's ass!
John Lott said...
Dear Jack:
If you actually read the news article, you would see how they calculated it: he made 12 trips into the Mall and they added up the number of people he brought out with him on each trip.
Good Greg said...
John - I think there is no doubt he was heroic. That his actions saved 100 people (+/-). That he was the right guy in the right place at the right time.
In all that I have read, I can't tell if the handgun played a part in any of the rescues. As a former SAS soldier, he may well have taken the same action with or without having the handgun. The question is, did he have to use it or was it a factor in him deciding to return over and over.
I too doubt a liberal hipster or really many people would have risen to that level of heroism.
Dear Greg:
As I noted in the update from earlier this week, he was not an SAS soldier, he was an ex-Royal Marine. There is a substantial difference there. In any case, the gun surely made his job much easier.
Typical Daily Mail tabloid article, rife with vivacious innuendo. No evidence he -used- the firearm. Also from that picture it appears very unlikely it was his, or certainly that he had it with him when attack started.
Kenya does not allow open carry or CC. Further, no firearm holster. Tucked into pants ready to blow off his family jewels? No, that isn't a planned carry.
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162. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 142 of 26 September 2018 and 420 of 6 November 2018, if he will respond to issues raised in correspondence in relation to the INIS online appointment system for registrations (details supplied); the action he will take to address these problems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49712/18]
163. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if it is possible to compel a person to engage in DNA testing services if a person has reason to believe that they are a birth parent. [49667/18]
164. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of a case pursuant to section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended) in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49698/18]
165. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda number for Mountjoy, Cabra and Santry Garda stations; the number of Garda members at each grade and-or rank for each station; the number of Garda vehicles and bicycles assigned to each station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49721/18]
166. Deputy Noel Rock asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the data related to benzodiazepines seized by An Garda Síochána by number of tablets and capsules seized, the number of grams seized when not in tablet form, the number of cases involved and the value of the drugs seized in each of the years 2004 to 2017, in tabular form. [49734/18]
167. Deputy Noel Rock asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the data related to Z drugs seized by An Garda Síochána by number of tablets and capsules seized, the number of grams seized when not in tablet form, the number of cases involved and the value of the drugs seized in each of the years 2004 to 2017, in tabular form. [49735/18]
168. Deputy Noel Rock asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the data related to anti-depressants seized by An Garda Síochána by number of tablets and capsules seized, the number of grams seized when not in tablet form, the number of cases involved and the value of the drugs seized in each of the years 2007 to 2017, in tabular form. [49736/18]
169. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he is satisfied that Coolock Garda station has sufficient personnel and resources to deal with crime and anti-social behaviour in an area (details supplied) and the district generally in view of the increasing population in the locality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49745/18]
170. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has received a request from residents associations in the north fringe of Dublin city and south fringe for a new Garda station in this new urban and highly populated district; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49746/18]
171. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a protected disclosure that raised concerns regarding age bias in the internal promotion competition for promotion to assistant principal in 2015 in his Department; if this protected disclosure is under review by a company (details supplied); the timeline for the matter to reach conclusion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49749/18]
172. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 244, 245, 246 and 247 of 3 July 2018 and 742, 743 and 1200 of 24 July 2018, if he has received the information requested from An Garda Síochána regarding the drug related intimidation reporting programme in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49752/18]
173. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 293 of 2 October 2018, if the short-term measure of the Garda information technology section is completed; the status of that Garda report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49774/18]
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Jack in the Box Inc. Announces Upcoming Chairman & CEO Transition
Linda Lang to retire as Chairman & CEO; Leonard Comma named as successor
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 7, 2013-- Jack in the Box Inc. (NASDAQ: JACK) today announced that Linda A. Lang will retire as the company’s Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, effective Jan. 1, 2014. Leonard A. Comma, currently President and Chief Operating Officer, will become Chairman, CEO and President of Jack in the Box Inc. at that time.
“Linda has done a remarkable job of leading the organization and transforming the business model,” said David Goebel, Lead Director of the Jack in the Box Inc. Board of Directors. “The company, its shareholders and other stakeholders are better off as a result of her vision and leadership. We are extremely grateful for her many contributions to the organization, which is well positioned for continued success.
“Linda has driven a comprehensive and robust key-position and succession planning process with which the Board is actively involved. Through this process, a strong leadership team is in place to support Lenny as he moves into his new role. The Board is highly confident that Lenny has the background, experience and skills necessary to seamlessly step into his new role and provide exceptional ongoing leadership for both brands.”
Since joining the company in 1984, Lang has held various positions of increasing responsibility in marketing, operations and finance, including officer-level positions since 1996. In 2003 she was promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer, and she held those positions until she was elected Chairman and CEO in 2005. In addition to her duties at Jack in the Box Inc., Lang serves on the board of directors for the WD-40 Company (NASDAQ: WDFC), San Diego State University’s College of Business Administration and the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation. She is also a member of the Corporate Directors Forum.
Under Lang’s leadership as Chairman and CEO, Jack in the Box Inc. has transformed its business model to benefit from increased franchise ownership of the Jack in the Box brand and expansion of its Qdoba Mexican Grill concept. Highlights include:
Franchise ownership of the Jack in the Box brand has increased from approximately 25 percent in 2005 to nearly 77 percent today.
The company has returned over $1 billion of cash to shareholders through stock repurchases.
Jack in the Box common stock has appreciated 170 percent, as of yesterday’s market close.
The Qdoba system has expanded from 250 restaurants in 37 states to approximately 600 locations today in 45 states and Canada.
The Jack in the Box system has added more than 200 restaurants and expanded its presence from 17 states to 21.
“I’m proud of my accomplishments and grateful for the tremendous support and commitment of our employees, franchisees and business partners who have worked so hard to achieve the transformation of our business,” Lang said. “I’m excited to see Lenny succeed me as Chairman and CEO. His extraordinary leadership skills, along with a great executive team that includes new Qdoba President Tim Casey, will enable the company to execute its strategic plan and continue its strong performance.”
Comma is currently responsible for the operations of all company and franchised Jack in the Box locations, as well as Menu Innovation, Marketing Communications, Consumer Insights & Analytics and Internal Brand Communications. Comma joined Jack in the Box Inc. in 2001 as Director of Convenience Store & Fuel Operations for the company’s proprietary chain of Quick Stuff convenience stores, which was sold in 2009. In 2004 he was promoted to Division Vice President of Quick Stuff Operations, and in 2006 he was promoted to Regional Vice President of Quick Stuff and the company’s Southern California region, which then included more than 150 company Jack in the Box restaurants. In 2007 he was promoted to Vice President of Operations, Division II, and had oversight of nearly 1,200 company and franchised restaurants in the Western U.S. Comma was named Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the company in February 2010 and was promoted to his current position in May 2012. Prior to joining Jack in the Box Inc., Comma was a Regional Manager for ExxonMobil, where he was responsible for supporting more than 300 franchisees in California, Nevada and Arizona. He has an MBA from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and a bachelor’s degree in finance from Drexel University in Philadelphia.
Jack in the Box Inc. (NASDAQ: JACK), based in San Diego, is a restaurant company that operates and franchises Jack in the Box® restaurants, one of the nation’s largest hamburger chains, with more than 2,200 restaurants in 21 states. Additionally, through a wholly owned subsidiary, the company operates and franchises Qdoba Mexican Grill®, a leader in fast-casual dining, with approximately 600 restaurants in 45 states, the District of Columbia and Canada. For more information on Jack in the Box and Qdoba, including franchising opportunities, visit www.jackinthebox.com or www.qdoba.com.
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Open notebook humanities
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 2:19PM
So what options are available to book authors if (like Wark) they wish to have their work read beyond a certain ‘underground’ level (in Wark’s case that associated with net art and net theory), while at the same time being part of the academic gift economy?
1. Authors can publish with an open access press such as Australian National University’s ANU E Press, Athabasca University's AU Press, or Open Book Publishers. Graham Harman brought out Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics with re.press, for instance, with John Carlos Rowe’s The Cultural Politics of the New American Studies shortly due to appear from Open Humanities Press, while Lev Manovich is publishing his new book Info-Aesthetics with Bloomsbury Academic, all of which are open access presses. Still, with the best will in the world, few open access book publishers are already established and prestigious enough as yet to have the kind of ‘brand name’ equivalence to Harvard that Wark desires.
2. Authors can insist on signing only a non-exclusive contract with a press, one that would allow them to self-archive a peer-reviewed and perhaps even copy-edited version of their book. The difficulty, of course, is in finding a ‘brand name’ publisher willing to agree to this.
3. Authors can endeavour to negotiate with such a press -- as Wark did with Harvard -- to see if they would be willing to make the published version of their book available for free online, with only the printed version available for sale. Ted Striphas is an author who, with The Late Age of Print, has published a book with Columbia University Press in this fashion. However, such instances often seem to be regarded by publishers as little more than one-off experiments.
4. Authors can adopt a variation of the strategy advocated on the Self-Archiving FAQ written for the Budapest Open Access Initiative with regard to scholarly journal articles. This is simply ‘“don't-ask/don't-tell”’. Instead, publish with whichever publisher you like, self-archive the full text ‘and wait to see whether the publisher ever requests removal’.
5. Either that or, if all else fails, author’s can wait for someone to publish a ‘pirate’ copy of this their book on Aaaaarg.org.
Noticeably, however, all these strategies in effect fasten what are identified -- conceptually, materially and economically -- as finished, complete, unified and bound books in legal binds; they are just different ways of negotiating such binds.
What though if book authors were to pursue ways of openly publishing their research before it is tied up quite so tightly?
To test this, last year I began experimenting with what I am calling an Open Humanities Notebook, taking as one model for doing so the Open Notebook Science of the organic chemist Jean-Claude Bradley. As was emphasized in an interesting 2010 interview with Richard Poynder on the impact of open notebook science, Bradley is making the ‘details of every experiment done in his lab’ - i.e. the whole research process, not just the findings – freely available to the public on the web. This ‘includes all the data generated from these experiments too, even the failed experiments’. What is more, he is doing so in ‘real time’, ‘within hours of production, not after the months or years involved in peer review’.
Given that one of my books-in-progress deals with a series of projects which use digital media to actualise, or creatively perform, critical and cultural theory, I decided to make the research for this volume freely available online in such an Open Notebook. I am doing so more or less as this research emerges, not just in draft and pre-print form as journal articles, book chapters, catalogue essays and so on, but also as contributions to email discussions, conference papers, lectures. Long before any of these texts are collected together and given to a publisher to be bound as a book, economically, materially and conceptually, then.
As is the case with Bradley’s Notebook, this Open Humanities Notebook offers a space where the research for this volume, provisionally titled Media Gifts, can be disseminated quickly and easily in a manner that enables it to be openly shared and discussed. More than that, though, it provides an opportunity to experiment critically with loosening at least some of the ties used to bind books once a text has been contracted by a professional press.
For instance, it is common for most book contracts to allow authors to retain the right to republish in their own works material that has previously appeared elsewhere (as scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals, say), provided the necessary permissions have been granted. But what if draft or pre-print versions of the chapters that make up my book are gathered together in this Open Notebook? When it comes to publishing this research as a bound book, are ‘brand name’ presses likely to reject it on the grounds of reduced potential sales since a version of the material will already be available online? Will I be required to remove this material to ensure they have the exclusive right to sell or give away copies?
(This is one of a series of posts written as version 3.0 of a contribution to Mark Amerika's remixthebook project. For other posts in the series, see below and here)
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Great work - keep pushing the limits of openness on the humanities front! There are so many options now for experimentation.
September 5, 2011 | Jean-Claude Bradley
In fact we have a new series of 20 open books coming out at the end of this month that are doing just that. It includes one on open science - although the whole series is about the relation between the open science and the humanities really.
September 5, 2011 | Gary Hall
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About Gendis Inc.
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T The company began in 1931 as A. Cohen and Son (in 1934 it was renamed Confection Distributors and Agencies) when company co-founder Albert D. Cohen went into business with his father Alexander selling confectionery items on the roads of Western Canada. Albert’s five brothers eventually joined the business and spread out across Canada and each one contributed to the success of the company. From that point on the company later known as General Distributors Ltd. grew and its holdings went on to include a 51% stake in Sony of Canada, the Canadian rights to Papermate Pens and American Tourister luggage, retail chains, ownership positions in several oil, gas and pipeline companies as well as a national real estate portfolio. From 1995 to 2004 a number of sales of its retailing, electronics and oil and gas businesses occurred and in 2005 Gendis Inc. (as the company was renamed in 1983) streamlined to its current structure. Gendis’ significant assets include an investment in a publicly traded company, Veresen Inc., an investment in a private company, Osum Oilsands Corp. and ownership of a portfolio of six industrial and commercial real estate properties. Each of these assets represent approximately 1/3rd of Gendis’ asset base.
Veresen Inc., has three principal businesses. A Pipeline Business comprised of interests in two pipeline systems. The Alliance Pipeline, is a 3,000 km dense phase pipeline delivering natural gas and NGL from western Canada to the Midwest United States, and Alberta, and an Ethane Gathering System, a pipeline which is an integral part of Alberta’s world-class petrochemical industry. A Midstream Business which includes a significant interest in a world-class extraction facility near Chicago, Illinois, as well as gas processing and pipeline gathering facilities in Canada. A Power Business with renewable and gas-fired facilities and development projects in Canada and the United States, district energy systems in Ontario and Prince Edward Island, and waste heat power facilities.
Osum Oilsands Corp., a private pure play in-situ oil sands developer operating in Alberta. OSUM’s land holdings offer investors exposure to three distinct areas of Alberta’s oil sands-the Grosmont Carbonates Project, the Taiga Project and the Portage area.
Gendis’ real estate leasing assets consist of 6 properties highlighted by the company’s signature headquarters in suburban Winnipeg. The company also owns several commercial properties that were leased to former retail subsidiary SAAN Stores Ltd. and are now successfully operating as Bargain Shop and Red Apple store locations following the purchase of SAAN Stores Ltd. in August 2008 by the Bargain Shop’s former parent company Genuity Capital. In 2003 Gendis sold its entire city block of property in the heart of downtown Winnipeg to Manitoba Hydro to allow for construction of its new corporate headquarters which later opened in 2009. Dollarama also operates out of one retail property and Gendis completed a renovation of the storefront in the summer of 2013 to add to the revitalization of downtown Winnipeg and Portage Avenue. Gendis Inc. has also recently made a new investment in a private Calgary, Alberta based energy and facility design company called Oak Point Energy Ltd. Oak Point Energy has land leases as well as several proprietary designs and patents pending on modular facilities related to more environmentally sensitive and cost efficient means of extracting oil resources. In late 2012 Gendis enhanced its position within the Canadian agribusiness sector by investing in Input Capital Corp., a private Saskatchewan based agricultural commodity streaming company that provides upfront financing to qualified farmers in return for a share of their canola crop for between five and ten growing seasons. Input Capital is a non-operating farming company with a growing portfolio of canola streams. Input Capital subsequently went public in July 2013 and now trades on the TSX Venture Exchange. Gendis has also built a medium sized position in publicly traded MBAC Fertilizer Corp., a Canadian company based in Brazil looking to expand in the phosphate and potash sectors in the coming years. Gendis has since sold their position November 2016. In March 2014 Gendis invested funds into TSX listed and Calgary, Alberta based Alter NRG Corp., a leading edge company focused on the growing global waste to energy sector. Alter NRG is currently installing its technology into plants located in the UK, China, India, Japan and Barbados with its sights on numerous global markets in this rapidly expanding sector. Gendis views its investment as a long term hold as the company is pursuing an aggressive growth strategy. Gendis has since sold their position July 2015. In July 2014 Gendis invested funds into privately held Vive Crop Protection Inc. Headquartered in Toronto, Vive develops and commercializes innovative formulations that enhance the effectiveness of crop protection products and reduce their environmental impact. Gendis also has 250,000 shares in San Angelo Oil Limited, a public Canadian conventional oil exploration and development company that intends to operate in north central Texas.
As the world’s population now exceeds 7.6 billion according to the U.N , there will continue to be increased demand for a variety of energy and food sources. Gendis management feels confident its focus on pipelines, oil and gas holdings, agribusiness as well as real estate will place it in a good position to take advantage of attractive investments as opportunities arise. The company is always on the lookout for situations that best fit its go forward strategy.
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James E. Cohen: President and Chief Executive Officer
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David Markham: Corporate Tax Consultant
Ken Langlois: Property Manager
Jerry L. Gray: Chairman PH.D-Dean Emeritus, I.H. Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba
James E. Cohen: President and Chief Executive Officer, Gendis Inc.
Gordon Webster: FCA, Corporate Director
Anthony J. Cohen: President and CEO, Plato Gold Corp./ Gulf and Pacific Equities Corp.
Karen M. Swystun: Chief Executive Officer, Waterford Global Inc.
Brian Hayward: President, Aldare Resources
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G Flip Shares Empowering Single “I Am Not Afraid”
It feels as is Melbourne-based singer Gerogia Flipo (G Flip is her music moniker) can do nothing wrong. She’s a drummer, producer, singer, and all around multi-talented. What can be added to G Flip’s resume is that she is one of the shining examples of self-empowerment. Her latest single “I Am Not Afraid” is everything that is needed to be heard from those who struggle to find the strength within them.
Towering, unapologetic, and resilient, G Flip understands the importance of feeling that you are mentality untouchable. “Everyone has roadblocks in life, tough situations that are hard to get through and the only way to overcome them are to say “I Am Not Afraid”. Whether it’s getting out of a toxic relationship, coming out to your family or getting bullied. Life throws shit at you and you have to be brave. You have to stand tall and rise above it,” says G Flip.
By: Tommy Johnson
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Socials DOL: Vimy Ridge
The Battle of Vimy Ridge:
The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a conflict between the Canadian Corps and the German 6th Army from April 9th-12th, 1917. Vimy, located in France, was seized by the Germans early on in the First World War, and quickly fortified. Vimy was charged twice by French troops in 1915, but on both occasions the French failed, with a combined total of approximately 150000 casualties. After these attempts, British forces took control of the front line until October 1916, when Canadian troops arrived. Shortly after the arrival of the mostly untested Canadians, planning for a spring allied offensive began. The Canadian Corps were assigned to take Vimy and reconnaissance and preparation continued throughout the winter, leading up to the attack.
The Vimy Memorial in France.
The perspective most Canadians alive at the time of Vimy was that it was a great success. Newspapers such as the Canadian Press heaped praise among those who fought in the battle, bragging about how tanks had “little to do” and how troops had cleared the ridge in just seven hours, while also referring to the seizure of the ridge as “the supreme moment”. Although wildly celebrated and glorified at home, Vimy was looked upon less fondly by the participants. One soldier was quoted as saying that Vimy was like “the Somme’s most terrible day multiplied by five.” Despite this, both soldiers and citizens of Canada both looked upon Vimy with feelings of pride and sadness, as although it was a great victory for Canada, over 10000 casualties were recorded during the battle.
Vimy affected Canada very much socially. Having all of the Canadian divisions together for the first time, under a Canadian leader helped raise morale at home and abroad, as it symbolized the country fighting on a united front. It also showed the world that Canada was not just merely a meek British puppet, but a strong, independent nation that could carry its weight, and fight its own battles. Vimy demonstrated a shift in Canadian social identity, away from British dependence, as the Canadians prepared and fought with little to no assistance from the major powers, which had not happened before.
Canadian troops in the trenches at Vimy
Vimy contributed to Canadian social autonomy because it displayed a nation coming out of the shadow of their colonial ruler and taking their rightful place on the world stage. King George himself even made an announcement specifically to Canadians, stating that “I heartily congratulate you (Canadians) and all who have taken part in this splendid achievement.” No dominion had ever been recognized personally by the king until the Canadians took Vimy ridge, which marked a move towards Canada’s recognition as a state autonomous of Britain. After Vimy, Canadians showed a desire to be independent from Britain that was stronger than ever before, which resulted in Canada being granted full independence in the years after the war.
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Review of Joshua L. Chamberlain: The Life in Letters
The complete title is Joshua L. Chamberlain: The Life in Letters of a Great Leader of the American Civil War by Thomas Desjardin and I just finished reading it. It took a while. I read over half of it a week after it was published but then life got in the way and I had to let it sit for a little bit. Tonight I finished it just in time to watch the women’s gymnastics Olympics competition without distraction. I think Chamberlain would want it that way, said tongue-in-cheek.
I avoided reading reviews of this book for the most part because I don’t like to be influenced by other opinions when people want mine to be unfiltered. Given my history with the Chamberlain story, it’s better for me to avoid armchair historians anyway. We’ll keep my history out of this review though and approach it as an historian on the family in my own right. I believe I have earned the right to be called a Chamberlain historian given the fact that I have spent many hours climbing around different libraries, Chamberlain residences, places of employment, and historical societies in Maine to research the actual things he wrote, the things he owned, and so forth. We’re talking white gloves, protective sleeves, librarians giving me strange looks over their glasses and all. In other words, I know a little more than the average bear, so my review of this book is meant in the utmost respect as someone who has spent more than a decade doing similar research (although I didn’t have an all access pass like Desjardin did!).
Joshua L. Chamberlain: The Life in Letters of a Great Leader of the American Civil War is a collection of previously unpublished letters held by the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. There are over 200 unpublished letters in this book, although many are not in fact written by Chamberlain himself. The letters came to the NCWM by way of artist Don Troiani, who acquired them from Chamberlain relatives (mainly descendants of his sister), which means these were things that he probably kept over his lifetime. He would not have kept most of his own letters, obviously, so it’s a little inconceivable that this book would contain a large number of things written in his own hand. Most of the letters in his own hand were addressed to Fanny, who progressed from friend to fiancee to wife over the course of the book, and she would have kept them, allowing us to see them today.
This is not to downplay the things he wrote, however. The collection begins while Chamberlain is a college student. We are allowed to see a few of his papers, which show a somewhat awkward writing style that had not yet developed into the writer we know in history. As the book progresses, so too does his relationship with Fanny (alternately spelled Fanny and Fannie, which everyone did to her, not just him). The intimacy in their relationship relayed through letters was a necessity for them as they were often separated by great distances. Historians interested in Chamberlain the army leader or Chamberlain the politician are going to struggle with the first half of the book as it focuses on his love life, local happenings, and family matters. I disagree with the idea that these aspects of his existence are somehow less important or less than worthy of study because every part of his private life influenced what kind of man he was in the various incarnations of his professional life. A study of a man must encompass the entirety of his being, not just cherry picking the glory and the disaster.
One aspect of the book that I found quite important was the multitude of letters from Fanny, which is not something Chamberlain historians are used to seeing. That has made her a bit of an enigma at best and a minor footnote in mediocrity and a cold-hearted villain at worst. Letters from Fanny in this book reveal a woman very much in love with Chamberlain nearly from the beginning of their acquaintance but almost fearful of its depth and magnitude to the point of recoiling sometimes. I believe the publication of her new letters disproves the idea that she was a cold fish who never loved him. She was plagued by insecurity, family hostility, and living in a world where women were not equal to men no matter how progressive men were (like her Chamberlain). People interested in what was going on in Fanny’s mind would do well to read this book as a companion to Fanny and Joshua: The Enigmatic Lives of Frances Caroline Adams and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain by Diane Monroe Smith, which is the one other book that gives Fanny fair treatment.
There is some suggestion in the first half of the book that Chamberlain’s relationship with his cousin Annie was an actual affair while Fanny was in Georgia during their engagement. It was speculated in the Smith book but more letters concerning their relationship surfaced in this collection. It should be noted that none of “the affair” letters in this collection were penned by Chamberlain but instead we get a glimpse at 11 letters from Annie. I found her to be increasingly dramatic, obsessive and possessive as time passed. Once Fanny came into the picture again, he appears to have all but ditched Annie entirely, creating almost a scorned and isolated woman, exiled by her own father for having the affair. She would not take no for an answer, even asking him for a rendezvous just before his wedding. I believe there are pieces of his side of the story, so to speak, in the Smith book. Again, these things are important if we are to study the entire man and what made him tick. I have many more impressions about “the affair” but that’s a whole other blog.
The letters Chamberlain wrote during the Civil War are probably going to be the most interesting to the average fan buying this book. Comparatively, the war makes up a fairly small portion of the book but the letters are mostly written by him and full of interesting content. There are insights into his frustration with the army, the government and making sure things are secure at home. Of course, there are his usual eloquent descriptions of army life, loneliness and combat as well.
In the last portion of the collection, there is almost nothing from his four terms as Governor of Maine. Those things have already been largely collected and published, or, at the very least, accessible in state archives. The final portion of the book is largely made up of letters he collected praising his work during the Twelve Days state crisis in 1880. I did not find very much of value in these letters as most of them read like fan mail but it is important in the context of showing the instrumental role he played in restoring order without bloodshed. He certainly kept those letters of praise as anyone naturally would and I find no fault in it. They simply didn’t hold my interest as much as the first three-quarters of the book because of the lack of his own voice in the matter.
As to the overall importance of the collection, I do believe there is significance to this book but it’s hit and miss. That’s hardly the fault of the author, however, as some have insinuated. Chamberlain material has so largely been collected, published and examined that finding anything new is a revelation. The significance of this book is further developing the truth in this man as well as dispelling myths about some of the people who populated his life. Studying the man means studying everything about him – the good, the bad, the love, the hate, the hardships and even the seemingly trivial. The importance of this collection is adding to what we already have and know. I’m not entirely sure that it could stand on its own as a book about Chamberlain, meaning I wouldn’t give it to someone with a new interest in him. This book is easier to read if you have a working knowledge of his life. I suggest it as a companion to the Smith book primarily but some prefer other biographies. In other words, this is not a beginner’s book for aspiring Chamberlain scholars but it serves its purpose of fleshing out a rather complicated man surrounded by rather complicated people.
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The Great Art of Artillery. K-33
Title: The Great Art of Artillery.
Published: London : printed for J. Tonson Book ID: 9455, 1729.
Format: Divided into 5 books, folio, approximately 310 x 210 mm, 12½ x 8 inches, engraved frontispiece and 22 folding engraved plates, pages: frontispiece, title page (printed in red and black), xi, [8] including errata, 1-404, plus 7 pages loosley laid in at the appropriate place (page 202) in neat readable manuscript in old ink. These 7 pages contain text that Shelvocke did not translate for some reason.
Binding: bound in full calf professionally rebacked to style, original endpapers still present. Rubbing and scuffing to covers, corners and some small patches to covers professionally repaired, offsetting from text to plates, mostly the plates at the front part of the book.
First English edition, first published in 1650 in Latin. This edition translated from the French edition of 1651 by Shelvocke. The author intended to write a second part but he died after the first part was finished.
Kazimierz Siemienowicz (circa 1600 - circa 1651), was a Polish-Lithuanian general of artillery, gunsmith, military engineer, artillery specialist and pioneer of rocketry. Born in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, he served the armies of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, a federation of Poland and the Grand Duchy, and in the armies of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, a ruler of the Netherlands. No portrait or detailed biography of him has survived and much of his life is a subject of dispute (Wikipedia). The books is complete as published with all the illustrations and pages. 7 manuscript pages done a long time ago in old ink, are loosely laid in the book which were not translated from the original Latin edition and left out of this English edition. The spine is a modern reback done sometime before we purchased it.
References: Sotheby's The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield, part 10, page 319, No, 3771; Chris Philip, A Bibliography of Firework Books, page 135-136; Spaulding and Karpinski, Early Military Books in the University of Michigan Libraries, page 28 No, 247; Alan St H. Brock, A History of Fireworks (several references).
Casimir Siemienowicz’s The Great Art of Artillery was translated into English by George Shelvocke (1675–1742). Copies of the English version are rare in Lithuania.
Reference: "The Collection of Lawyer Jaunius Gumbis: the Past Preserved in Books". Museum and Collector - 7. Vilnius: National Museum of Lithuania, 2018, p. 297.
Published: "The Collection of Lawyer Jaunius Gumbis: the Past Preserved in Books". Museum and Collector - 7. Vilnius: National Museum of Lithuania, 2018, p. 296-299.
Exhibitions: "The Collection of Lawyer Jaunius Gumbis: the Past Preserved in Books", September 3, 2018 – October 21, 2018.
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Categories catalogue African, Afroasiatic, Asian, Australian, Austro... LINCOM Studies in Afroasiatic Linguistics (LSAAL) LSAAL 09: Use of aspect-tense verbal forms in Akkadian texts of the Hammurapi period ...
LSAAL 09: Use of aspect-tense verbal forms in Akkadian texts of the Hammurapi period ...
Use of aspect-tense verbal forms in Akkadian texts of the Hammurapi period (1792-1750 B.C.)
Golda H.Kaplan
Institute of Oriental studies,
Russian Academy of Sciences, St.-Petersburg
The conjugated forms traditionally named as the Present, Preterite and Perfect are the main components of the Akkadian aspect-tense verbal system. The existence of the Akkadian Perfect and the peculiarities of its usage had been the subject of lengthy discussion. When studying the Perfect in the Middle Assyrian dialect the author came to the conclusion that the use of the Perfect in that dialect should have been explained a way different from that suggested by W. von Soden (Grundriss der Akkadischen Grammatik. Roma 1952; 19953). Thus, the necessity arose to check anew the use of the Perfect at the earlier stages of the development of Akkadian. The Perfect being a component of the single aspect-tense verbal system, its usage was to be studied along with that of the Present and Preterite. The detailed analysis of all the verb contexts in the letters of Hammurapi and in the Code of Hammurapi has led to the following conclusions.
In the texts under discussion as in the Old Babylonian dialect in general the three conjugated forms could express the action of any time and aspect. The difference lies, in the first place, in the frequency of their use in this or that aspect-tense function. But this difference is so great in a number of cases that one can speak of certain aspect-tense functions as attached to a particular verb form.
Comparing Old Babylonian with later Akkadian dialects shows that the aspect-tense system was constantly changing. It is best seen on the relations of the Preterite and Perfect within the past. A clear tendency is observed of the Perfect becoming the form of the punctive in the past in affirmative sentences (or main clauses) and the Preterite into the form of the punctive in the past in subordinate clauses.
The changes within the aspect-tense system were penetrating into the texts of various genres not evenly but depending on the closeness of this or that written genre to the spoken language. This seems to explain the uneven distribution of the Perfect in different texts: being an innovation of Akkadian, the Perfect is more frequent in the texts which are closer to the spoken language.
It has long been debated on which time and tense should be applied to translate protases of the law clauses of the Code of Hammurapi. The author is of the opinion that most protases of the law clauses of the Code of Hammurapi should be translated by the past. Her arguments are as follows. The law part of the Code of Hammurapi as a whole can be considered as the main clause of a complex sentence whose subordinate clause of time placed in the Introduction of the Code of Hammurapi refers to the past. So the main clause seems to refer to the past as well. When used together in one šumma-clause of a protasis the Preterite as a rule denotes a prior action while the Perfect — a posterior one. An analogous phenomenon is observed in the Old Babylonian letters in sentences (or main clauses) describing past events. In the subordinate clauses of protases the punctive is expressed as a rule by the Preterite. In Akkadian the punctive of subordinate clauses expressed by the Preterite generally referred to the past.
ISBN 9783895866920. LINCOM Studies in Afroasiatic Linguistics 09. 2002.
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Karen Gillan Reveals How the Russo Brothers Kept Avengers 4 Set Spoiler-Free
BY Mason Segall
After the events of Avengers: Infinity War left a huge cliffhanger hanging over fans' heads, the security surrounding the as-yet untitled Avengers 4 was bound to be much more stringent. However, star Karen Gillan—who plays the antihero Nebula, from Guardians of the Galaxy—has revealed just how strict things were on the set.
Now that filming for the movie has wrapped, Gillan was able to reveal the set's secret security measures. While on the Shoot This Now podcast, she explained, "We didn’t even get a script, there was no script. [I just got] my scenes. I’d sometimes get them just in the morning, do them, hand them back over at the end of the day."
"The directors would fill us in on everything that we needed in terms of context, but still, I don’t know what this movie’s about," Gillan added.
Not giving the actors the full script is a potentially risky move on the part of the Russo Brothers, the film's directors, as not having the rest of the narrative in mind could alter or deter their performances. However, the Russos have proven themselves adept at coaxing the best work out of their actors.
Another method they apparently used to keep things quiet was the incorporation of false scenes. Star Paul Bettany previously confirmed that, "We read scripts that were fake scripts and then they had fake twists and scenes that never were shot and you'd talk to the director and they'd say ‘All of that stuff at the end? Not happening.'"
Bettany's revelation was backed up by Spider-Man actor Tom Holland, who stated "I got the directors on the phone and they walked me through what were the fake scenes. They'd had three leaks already, so they'd written a script with lots of fake scenes. There were three Hero iPads that had the only real scripts on them.”
Something tells us those iPads could be worth a pretty penny.
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20 Facts About Eyes Wide Shut On Its 20th Anniversary
BY Meredith Danko
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In the late 1990s, stories about what was happening on the set of Stanley Kubrick’s already-secretive film Eyes Wide Shut constantly made headlines. Everyone wanted to know what was going on behind the scenes with real-life celebrity couple Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, and the 15-month shoot only intrigued people more. Finally, the film was released on July 16, 1999—more than four months after Kubrick had passed away. While there is still a lot we don’t know about the movie, here are 20 things we do.
1. Eyes Wide Shut is based on a 1926 novella.
Eyes Wide Shut is loosely is based on Arthur Schnitzler’s novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story), which was published in 1926. Considering that the movie takes place in 1990s New York, it is obviously not a direct adaptation, but it overlaps in its plot and themes. “[The book] explores the sexual ambivalence of a happy marriage and tries to equate the importance of sexual dreams and might-have-beens with reality,” Kubrick said. “The book opposes the real adventures of a husband and the fantasy adventures of his wife, and asks the question: is there a serious difference between dreaming a sexual adventure, and actually having one?”
2. Production on Eyes Wide Shut began in 1996.
By then, Kubrick had been holding onto the rights to Traumnovelle—which screenwriter Jay Cocks purchased on his behalf, in order to keep the project under wraps—for nearly 30 years. Kubrick had planned to begin working on the film after making 2001: A Space Odyssey, but then got the opportunity to adapt A Clockwork Orange.
3. The studio pushed Stanley Kubrick to cast A-list names.
Terry Semel, then-head of Warner Bros., told Kubrick, “What I would really love you to consider is a movie star in the lead role; you haven't done that since Jack Nicholson [in The Shining].”
4. Stanley Kubrick wanted to cast Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger.
Kubrick liked the idea of casting a real-life married couple in the film, and originally considered Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger. (He also liked the idea of Steve Martin.) Eventually, he went with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, who were married from 1990 to 2001.
5. London stood in for New York City.
Though the film is set in New York, it was filmed in London. In order to construct the most accurate sets possible, Vanity Fair reported that Kubrick “sent a designer to New York to measure the exact width of the streets and the distance between newspaper vending machines.”
6. Some of the shots in Eyes Wide Shut required no set at all.
In order to give the movie a dream-like quality, the filmmakers used an old-school method of shooting—and a treadmill. “In some of the scenes, the backgrounds were rear-projection plates,” cinematographer Larry Smith explained. “Generally, when Tom’s facing the camera, the backgrounds are rear-projected; anything that shows him from a side view was done on the streets of London. We had the plates shot in New York by a second unit [that included cinematographers Patrick Turley, Malik Sayeed and Arthur Jafa]. Once the plates were sent to us, we had them force-developed and balanced to the necessary levels. We’d then go onto our street sets and shoot Tom walking on a treadmill. After setting the treadmill to a certain speed, we’d put some lighting effects on him to simulate the glow from the various storefronts that were passing by in the plates. We spent a few weeks on those shots.”
7. Eyes Wide Shut holds a Guinness World Record.
The film has a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest constant movie shoot, with a total of 400 days, which was a surprise to the cast and crew. Cruise and Kidman had only committed to six months of filming. The extended shoot was a lot to ask of Cruise in particular, who was at the height of his career. He even had to delay work on Mission: Impossible II to finish Eyes Wide Shut. He didn’t seem to mind though. “We knew from the beginning the level of commitment needed,” Cruise told TIME. “We were going to do what it took to do this picture.”
8. The script for Eyes Wide Shut kept changing.
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According to Todd Field, who portrayed piano player Nick Nightingale (and is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker in his own right), “We’d rehearse and rehearse a scene, and it would change from hour to hour. We’d keep giving the script supervisor notes all the time, so by the end of the day the scene might be completely different. It wasn’t really improvisation, it was more like writing.”
9. Tom Cruise developed ulcers while shooting Eyes Wide Shut.
“I didn't want to tell Stanley," Cruise told TIME. “He panicked. I wanted this to work, but you're playing with dynamite when you act. Emotions kick up. You try not to kick things up, but you go through things you can't help.”
10. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman slept in their characters' bedroom.
In order to reflect their real-life relationship, Cruise and Kidman were asked to choose the color for the curtains in their on-screen bedroom, where they also slept.
11. The apartment featured in the movie was a re-creation of Stanley Kubrick's.
According to Cruise, “The apartment in the movie was the New York apartment [Stanley] and his wife Christianne lived in. He recreated it. The furniture in the house was furniture from their own home. Of course the paintings were Christianne's paintings. It was as personal a story as he's ever done.”
12. Stanley Kubrick temporarily banned Tom Cruise from the set.
Given his penchant for accuracy, it’s quite possible that Kubrick wanted to stir up some real-life jealousy between his stars in order to help them embody their characters. In a fantasy sequence, Kidman’s character has sex with another man, which motivates the rest of the film’s plot. Kubrick banned Cruise from the set on the days that Kidman shot the scene with a male model. They spent six days filming the one-minute scene. Kubrick also forbid Kidman from telling Cruise any details about it.
13. It took 95 takes for Tom Cruise to walk through a doorway.
Six days for a one-minute scene is nothing compared to the time Kubrick had Cruise do 95 takes of one simple action: walking through a doorway. After watching the playback, he apparently told Cruise, “Hey, Tom, stick with me, I’ll make you a star.”
14. Security on the set was tight.
Aside from Kubrick, Kidman, Cruise, and their tiny crew, no one was allowed on the set, which was heavily guarded. In May 1997, one photographer managed to capture a picture of Cruise standing next to a man that the photographer thought was just an “old guy, scruffy with an anorak and a beard.” That man was Kubrick, who hadn’t been photographed in 17 years. After the incident, security on the set was tripled.
15. Paul Thomas Anderson spent some time on the set.
One person Cruise did manage to sneak onto the set was his future Magnolia director, Paul Thomas Anderson. While there, Anderson asked Kubrick, “Do you always work with so few people?” Kubrick responded, “Why? How many people do you need?” Anderson then recalled feeling “like such a Hollywood a**hole.”
16. Stanley Kubrick makes a cameo in the movie.
He’s not credited, but the film’s director can be seen sitting in a booth at the Sonata Café.
17. Stanley Kubrick died less than a week after showing the studio his final cut of Eyes Wide Shut.
Kubrick died less than a week after showing what would be his final cut of the film to Warner Bros. No one can say how much he would have kept editing the film. One thing that was changed after his death: bodies in the orgy scene were digitally altered so that the movie could be released with an R (rather than an NC-17) rating. Although many claim that Kubrick intended to do this, too. "I think Stanley would have been tinkering with it for the next 20 years," Kidman said. "He was still tinkering with movies he made decades ago. He was never finished. It was never perfect enough.”
18. By the time Eyes Wide Shut was released, a dozen years had passed since Stanley Kubrick's last directorial effort.
Eyes Wide Shut came out a full 12 years after Kubrick’s previous film, 1987's Full Metal Jacket.
19. Eyes Wide Shut topped the box office during its opening week.
The film earned $30,196,742 during its first week in release, which was enough to take the box office’s number one spot—making it Kubrick’s only film to do so.
20. Tom Cruise didn't like Dr. Harford.
One year after the film’s release, Cruise admitted that he “didn’t like playing Dr. Bill. I didn’t like him. It was unpleasant. But I would have absolutely kicked myself if I hadn’t done this.”
An earlier version of this article ran in 2015.
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Top 50 Best-Selling Artists of All Time
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Paul McCartney of The Beatles and Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones sit opposite each other on a train at London's Euston Station.
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Who are America’s all-time favorite musicians and bands? When it comes to the best-selling artists of all time, The Beatles still rule—yes, even a half-century after their breakup. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), these are the 50 best-selling artists of all time.
Albums sold: 183 million
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Why There Are Words: Suggestible
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Join Why There Are Words (WTAW) on May 11, 2017, at Studio 333 in Sausalito as seven acclaimed authors explore the theme Suggestible. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. Entry fee is $10 at the door, though donations to WTAW, a 501(c)3 nonprofit are always welcome.
Jason Bayani is the author of Amulet from Write Bloody Press. He’s an MFA graduate from Saint Mary’s College, and a Kundiman fellow, and he works as the artistic director for Kearny Street Workshop. He performs regularly around the country and recently debuted his solo show, “Locus of Control” in 2016.
Jon Boilard was born and raised in Western Massachusetts, and has been living in Northern California since 1986. His award-winning short stories have appeared in some of the finest literary journals in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. His debut short story collection, Settright Road (Dzanc Books, 2017), is preceded by two novels, The Castaway Lounge (Dzanc Books/2015) and A River Closely Watched (MacAdam Cage/2012), a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. He has participated in the Cork International Short Story Festival in Cork, Ireland, the Wroclaw Short Story Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, and LitQuake in San Francisco.
Alex Green is the author of the The Stone Roses (Bloomsbury Academic, 2006), Emergency Anthems (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2015), and the novel The Heart Goes Boom (Wrecking Ball, UK 2017). His music criticism has appeared in Magnet, CMJ New Music Monthly, HITS!, and Creem. Currently, he’s the Editor-In-Chief of the daily online music magazine Stereo Embers Magazine and he hosts the weekly radio show “The Heart Goes Boom” on Ireland’s Primal Radio. A known moderator in the Bay Area, he has conducted In Conversation interviews with Janice Cooke Newman, Maira Kalman, Joshua Mohr, Bruce Bauman, Kenneth Oppel, Laura Dave, Kazim Ali, and Lysley Tenorio. He teaches in both the graduate and undergraduate English programs at St. Mary’s College of California.
Henry Hoke is the author of Genevieves (winner of the Subito Press prose contest) and The Book of Endless Sleepovers (CCM). His stories appear in The Collagist, Electric Literature, Winter Tangerine, and Carve. He co-created and directs Enter>text: a living literary journal, and teaches at CalArts and the UVA Young Writers Workshop.
Sandra Hunter’s fiction has received the 2016 Gold Line Press Chapbook Prize, October 2014 Africa Book Club Award, 2014 H.E. Francis Fiction Award, and two Pushcart Prize nominations. She was a finalist for the 2016 Bridgeport Prize and is a 2017 MacDowell Fellow. Her debut novel, Losing Touch, was released in July 2014. Her fiction chapbook, Small Change, was published in August 2016. She’s just completed her second novel, The Geography of Kitchen Tables, and is now working on the sequel. Her favorite dessert: rose-flavored macaroons.
Paul T. Scheuring was born in Aurora, Illinois. He attended the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, and has written numerous projects for film and TV, including the Golden Globe-nominated series Prison Break, which has been declared the most anticipated series to return to television. Scheuring also wrote and directed The Experiment, and served as producer alongside Ridley Scott on Klondike, a series he created and co-wrote. The Far Shore (March 7, 2017) is his first novel. He resides in Northern California.
Zach Wyner is a writer and teacher who works with incarcerated youth in the San Francisco Bay Area through an organization called The Beat Within. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco and is a contributor to Curly Red Stories, The Good Man Project and Unbroken Journal. His debut novel, What We Never Had, published by Rare Bird Books, was released this past September. He lives in Oakland with his wife, stepdaughter, and infant son.
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WHITINSVILLE RETIREMENT SOCIETY, INC. VS. TOWN OF NORTHBRIDGE.
March 7, 1985 - May 8, 1985
Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.
Proposed uses of land by the owner of a nonprofit nursing home did not constitute an educational purpose which would entitle the owner to exemption under G. L. c. 40A, Section 3, from the prohibitions and limitations imposed by a town's zoning by-law. [759-761]
The Land Court lacked jurisdiction under either G. L. c. 240, Section 14A, or c. 185, Section 1 (j 1/2), to entertain a claim which sought a determination whether a landowner's proposed use of its property was exempt from the provisions of a town's zoning by-law by virtue of a certain special permit, since such determination involved the effect of the special permit rather than the validity of the by-law or the application of the by-law to its land. [761-763]
CIVIL ACTION commenced in the Land Court Department on December 30, 1982.
The case was heard by William I. Randall, J.
The Supreme Judicial Court on its own initiative transferred the case from the Appeals Court.
Jerry E. Benezra for the defendant.
James F. Bergin for the plaintiff.
ABRAMS, J. The defendant, the town of Northbridge, appeals from a judgment that determined that the proposed use of land owned by the plaintiff, the Whitinsville Retirement Society, Inc., constituted and educational purpose within the meaning of G. L. c. 40A, Section 3, and is not subject to any prohibition or limitation imposed by the Northbridge zoning by-law. The town asserts that a judge of the Land Court erred in finding that the plaintiff operated a nursing home facility for educational purposes and in ruling that he had subject matter jurisdiction
under G. L. c. 185, Section 1 (j 1/2), to determine whether the plaintiff's special permit exempted it from the Northbridge zoning by-law. We agree with the town on both grounds. We reverse.
We summarize the facts as found by the judge. The plaintiff, a nonprofit corporation, received a special permit in 1975 to use the existing premises, a 9.05-acre lot, for the housing, shelter, and care of retired persons and to allow for the eventual construction of additional buildings for such use. By 1977, a "Congregate Living" facility in the original building accommodated nine to ten ambulatory elderly persons with individual bedrooms and a shared dining room and living room.
In 1979, the plaintiff requested a building permit for an "Independent Living" facility to be located on a portion of the 9.05 acres that would contain twenty-four efficiency apartments for the elderly. The building inspector refused to issue a permit unless the plaintiff obtained a variance or special permit. The Northbridge board of appeals (board) refused the plaintiff a variance that year, but the next year the Department of Community Affairs granted a building permit for the "Independent Living" facility to the plaintiff. In July, 1981, the building inspector denied the plaintiff building permits to construct a nine-room addition to its "Congregate Living" facility and a forty-one bed nursing home on the ground that a special permit was needed.
The plaintiff brought an action in the Superior Court in December, 1981, which was dismissed, evidently because of failure to exhaust administrative remedies. The plaintiff filed an appeal from the building permit denials to the board in May, 1982, which was denied on the ground that the appeal period had expired ten months earlier. The plaintiff then filed a second complaint in the Superior Court, which also was dismissed. In December, 1982, the plaintiff filed an action in the Land Court under G. L. c. 240, Section 14A, and G. L. c. 185, Section 1 (j 1/2).
The plaintiff's plan, as found by the judge, envisages using those elderly persons within the complex who are in good physical and mental condition to help others living there who are not so well off. The plaintiff planned to have others within
and outside the complex aid the elderly residents psychologically and physically by teaching them crafts and providing entertainment and stimulus for them.
The plaintiff sought two determinations in the Land Court: first, that it was a nonprofit corporation using its land as a public or community facility for an educational purpose within the meaning of G. L. c. 40A, Section 3, and therefore not subject to any prohibition or limitation imposed by the Northbridge zoning by-law; and second, that its land was exempt from the provisions of the Northbridge zoning by-law by virtue of its 1975 special permit. In response to the two issues that are the subject of this appeal, the defendant argued that the plaintiff is not operating a facility for educational purposes and that the Land Court lacked subject matter jurisdiction. The judge entered a judgment for the plaintiff, ruling that the plaintiff's proposed use of its land constituted an educational purpose and is not subject to prohibition or limitation by the Northbridge zoning by-law.
1. Educational purpose. The plaintiff argues that the judge correctly defined the proposed project as having an "educational purpose" within the meaning of G. L. c. 40A, Section 3, [Note 1] and is therefore not subject to prohibition or limitation by the Northbridge zoning by-law. We agree with the judge that "[e]ducation is a broad and comprehensive term. It has been defined as `the process of developing and training the powers and capabilities of human beings.' To educate, according to one of Webster's definitions, is `to prepare and fit for any calling or business, or for activity and usefulness in life.' Education may be particularly directed to either the mental, moral, or physical powers and faculties, but in its broadest and best sense it relates to them all." Mount Hermon Boys' School v. Gill, 145 Mass. 139, 146 (1887).
Nevertheless the words "educational purpose" are "everyday words and should be interpreted `according to the common and approved usages of the language . . . without enlargement or restriction and without regard to . . . [the court's] own conceptions of expediency.'" Moulton v. Building Inspector of Milton, 312 Mass. 145, 148 (1942), quoting Commonwealth v. S.S. Kresge Co., 267 Mass. 145, 148 (1929). The issue is whether the plaintiff's project "is operated primarily for an educational purpose." Cummington School of the Arts, Inc. v. Assessors of Cummington, 373 Mass. 597, 603 (1977).
The judge found that the plaintiff's plan would entail care for approximately 100 elderly persons -- some in efficiency apartments, some in a "Congregate Living" facility, and forty one in the "Nursing Home." He found that when the nursing home was built it would "be staffed by professional nursing personnel and have medical attendants on call."
The judge further found that the plaintiff's plan "is to provide psychological help. . . . The plan envisages the use of the elderly persons within the complex in good physical and mental condition to help others living there [who are] not so well off. It is planned to have others in the complex itself and from the outside work with these depressed and elderly to aid them psychologically as well as physically." Persons from outside the complex would come in "to teach crafts, to provide entertainment and stimulus to the persons confined in the complex." The judge concluded that there was "an element of education" in these plans and that the assistance being given by those who are better off physically and mentally to others who are less fortunate is in part an educational project.
The judge's findings do not support the conclusion that the primary or dominant purpose of the proposed nursing home facility would be educational. Cummington School of the Arts, Inc. v. Assessors of Cummington, supra at 603. The judge found, "While the campus concept as a whole is scheme primarily to care for the physical needs of persons in their later years, there is an element of education therein." "Of course, in a broad sense, anything taught might be considered, to a
greater or less degree, educational." See Kurz v. Board of Appeals of N. Reading, 341 Mass. 110, 113 (1960). Merely an "element of education," however, provided not by a formal program or trained professionals, but only informally gleaned from the interplay among residents of the nursing home community, is not within the meaning of "educational purpose" pursuant to G. L. c. 40A, Section 3. [Note 2] Such an interpretation of the words "educational purpose" is not within the plain meaning of G. L. c. 40A, Section 3. See Bronstein v. Prudential Ins. Co., 390 Mass. 701, 704 (1984); Commonwealth v. Vickey, 381 Mass. 762, 767 (1980). We conclude that there was error in the judge's determination that the purpose of the nursing home was "educational." [Note 3]
2. Subject matter jurisdiction. In its complaint the plaintiff requested a declaration that if the purpose of the nursing home were not "educational," the plaintiff's land is still exempt from the provisions of the Northbridge zoning by-law by virtue of its 1975 special permit. The plaintiff rested its request for relief on G. L. c. 240, Section 14A, [Note 4] and G. L. c. 185, Section 1
(j 1/2). [Note 5] The town filed a motion to dismiss because it contended that the Land Court had no "jurisdiction over the subject matter" and because the "complaint fail[ed] to state a justiciable controversy."
The judge found "that the premises [of the plaintiff were] exempt from the provisions of the Zoning By-law by virtue of the 1975 Special Permit." There was no discussion in that section of the judge's rulings relating to a determination of the validity or extent of any municipal zoning ordinance, by-law, or regulation. Merely because the judge found that, based on the special permit, the Northbridge zoning by-law could not be enforced does not change the fact that the determination made was the effect of the 1975 special permit and not the validity of the Northbridge zoning by-law or the application of the by-law to the plaintiff's land. The plaintiff's claim therefore does not fall within the language of G. L. c. 240, Section 14A, and G. L. c. 185, Section 1 (j 1/2).
The primary purpose of G. L. c. 240, Section 14A, is to provide a procedure for a declaratory judgment that will resolve doubts
relating to by-law restrictions or the requirements of a zoning ordinance. Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. v. Reading, 354 Mass. 181, 184-185 (1968). That statute provides in pertinent part: "The court may make binding determinations of right interpreting such ordinances, by-laws or regulations whether any consequential judgment or relief is or could be claimed or not." G. L. c. 240, Section 14A. The evil to be remedied is a situation where someone may be forced to invest in land before being able to find out whether there are restrictions. See Harrison v. Braintree, 355 Mass. 651, 654 (1969). No such situation exists here. Rather, the plaintiff here is seeking to sidestep an appeal to the Northbridge board of appeal, and, if need be, then to the Superior Court. See G. L. c. 40A, Sections 8, 14, 17. General Laws c. 185, Section 1 (j 1/2), may not be used to avoid the normal appellate route required in zoning disputes. [Note 6]
Relying on Banquer Realty Co. v. Acting Bldg. Comm'r of Boston, 389 Mass. 565, 570 (1983), the judge concluded that he had jurisdiction to determine the force and effect of the plaintiff's special permit. In Banquer we held that the Land Court had jurisdiction under G. L. c. 240, Section 14A, if the case concerned the validity of or the extent to which a zoning code affected a proposed use of property. Here, the plaintiff has not sought a determination as to the validity of the Northbridge zoning by-law or the extent to which the zoning by-law affects its proposed use of the premises, but rather a determination of the extent of its 1975 special permit. Banquer Realty Co. v. Acting Bldg. Comm'r of Boston, supra, therefore does not support a claim of jurisdiction in the Land Court in the instant case. See Pitman v. Medford, 312 Mass. 618, 620 (1942). The judge should have granted the town's motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
In summary, we hold that the plaintiff's proposed project is not exempt from the operation of the Northbridge zoning by-law under G. L. c. 40A, Section 3, as a nonprofit organization
using its premises for "educational purposes," and that the Land Court lacked jurisdiction to determine the validity and effect of the plaintiff's special permit pursuant to G. L. c. 240, Section 14A, and G. L. c. 185, Section 1 (j 1/2).
[Note 1] General Laws c. 40A, Section 3, as amended through St. 1983, c. 91,
provides in pertinent part: "No zoning ordinance or by-law shall . . . prohibit, regulate or restrict the use of land or structures for religious purposes or for educational purposes on land owned or leased . . . by a nonprofit educational corporation; provided, however, that such land or structures may be subject to reasonable regulations . . ."
[Note 2] The evidence at the hearing indicates that the plaintiff obtained a
certificate of need from the Department of Public Health. Further, the plaintiff's own witness said that there were no facilities and no structured programs of instruction or training (other than perhaps a crafts program). There was no evidence that the plaintiff sought or requested educational programs or funds from the local school committee, adult education center or the board of education.
[Note 3] The judge relied on several cases in support of his broad definition of
educational purpose. These cases, however, are inapposite. They concern institutions which involved teachers and specialized training for children or adults with special problems and whose "dominant activity [would] be educational." See Fitchburg Hous. Auth. v. Board of Zoning Appeals of Fitchburg, 380 Mass. 869, 874-875 (1980), and Harbor Schools, Inc. v. Board of Appeals of Haverhill, 5 Mass. App. Ct. 600, 604-605 (1977). In Fitchburg, supra at 875, we based our ruling in part on the fact that "[t]he proposed facility would fulfil a significant educational goal in preparing its residents to live by themselves outside the institutional setting." In the instant case, however, the judge did not find a goal that reasonably could be described as educationally significant.
[Note 4] In full, G. L. c. 240, Section 14A, as amended by St. 1975, c. 808,
Section 5, provides: "The owner of a freehold estate in possession in land may bring a petition in the land court against a city or town wherein such land is situated, which shall not be open to objection on the ground that a mere judgment, order or decree is sought, for determination as to the validity of a municipal ordinance, by-law or regulation, passed or adopted under the provisions of chapter forty A or under any special law relating to zoning, so called, which purports to restrict or limit the present or future use, enjoyment, improvement or development of such land, or any part thereof, or of present or future structures thereon, including alterations or repairs, or for determination of the extent to which any such municipal ordinance, by-law or regulation affects a proposed use, enjoyment, improvement or development of such land by the erection, alteration or repair of structures thereon or otherwise as set forth in such petition. The right to file and prosecute such a petition shall not be affected by the fact that no permit or license to erect structures or to alter, improve or repair existing structures on such land has been applied for, nor by the fact that no architects' plans or drawings for such erection, alteration, improvement or repair have been prepared. The court may make binding determinations of right interpreting such ordinances, by-laws or regulations whether any consequential judgment or relief is or could be claimed or not."
[Note 5] General Laws c. 185, Section 1 (j 1/2), provides that the Land Court
shall have exclusive jurisdiction pursuant to G. L. c. 240, Section 14A, "to determine the validity and extent of municipal zoning ordinances, by-laws and regulations."
[Note 6] We express no view as to the correctness of the judge's determination
that the special permit exempts the plaintiff's land from the Northbridge zoning by-law.
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Cowboys owner Jerry Jones buys $250M mega yacht
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He reportedly purchased the $250 million Bravo Eugenia in December. For those of us not on the metric system, that means his yacht is almost 120 yards long, making it bigger than a football field.
The yacht was constructed by Dutch company Oceanco and engineered by Lateral Naval Architects. He has a personal net worth of $6.8 billion, according to Forbes.
Pascale Raymond, a partner at Reymond Langton Design, says in a November release from Oceanco that the firm "worked with artisans and craftsmen to create bespoke artworks, fabrics, and signature furniture pieces that all combine to create a warm, inviting environment on board for the [owner's] family and guests".
According to TMZ, the ship is called "Bravo Eugenia", a name that takes after his wife Gene Jones.
The interior is a sophisticated elegant contemporary design that features light maple wood and white pearl lacquer with contrasting accents of walnut and ebony. The lower deck encompasses a gym and a luxurious "beach club", a yachting term for the ship's waterside lounge.
Before he was the NFL's most recognizable owner, Jones built his fortune as an oil wildcatter and on investments in oil drilling, retail, and residential real estate projects in Dallas. Considering the Cowboys are now the most valuable sports franchise in the world with an evaluation of just under $5 billion, this boat has a lot to live up to.
That price tag, of course, is $100 million more than what he paid to buy the Cowboys in 1989.
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Emma Watson introduces the new HeForShe.org
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Have you heard about Emma Watson's HeForShe campaign? It's all about gender equality – which means women and men having the same rights. Watch the first part of the video (to 5 minutes and 15 seconds!), do the exercises and then have a look at the HeForShe website.
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Emma Watson introduces the new HeForShe.org - exercises
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Emma Watson introduces the new HeForShe.org - transcript
Ali: Hi, I’m Ali Plum. I’m here to talk to Emma about HeForShe and the launch of the new HeForShe website. For those who don’t know, what is HeForShe?
Emma: HeForShe is a solidarity movement for gender equality, like, in a nutshell.
Ali: Big question here … what is HeForShe trying to achieve?
Emma: We’re trying to achieve gender equality, but I think the really cool thing about HeForShe is that we aren’t just, you know, an education or an awareness campaign. It’s wonderful that so many people are talking about it and it’s great that so many people are talking about it but we’re more than just an awareness campaign, we are mission-focused. We’re really trying to erm… collect, register, be aware of people that are taking action for gender equality, and, and that’s really our main focus.
Ali: Where are we currently in the world with the state of gender equality?
Emma: Well, it’s really interesting because there’s this perceived notion that gender inequality was sort of a thing of the past, that we’ve sort of figured that one out and, you know, we’re kind of where we need to be but when you start to look even just a little bit deeper beneath the surface you start to realise that actually we’ve got quite a long way to go.
Ali: Why is it important to involve men, like myself, with this project?
Emma: I think there’s this perception that feminism or gender equality or women’s issues are to be talked about by women, that it’s for women, and you know, women are like this separate thing but of course, women are human beings and these are human rights that we’re talking about so we kind of need everyone to be part of the conversation and that was really what HeForShe is about and how HeForShe was born, was that we wanted to make sure that conversation was inclusive and also we were talking to people that didn’t agree with us and that was actually really important. We want to create change and so the conversation needs to be opened up to groups that perhaps traditionally hadn’t been associated with engaging with feminism or gender equality.
Ali: Could you give me some examples of stories from men who have become involved with HeForShe?
Emma: I was on the university, er, tour for HeForShe and there was a young man who we asked, you know, like, what would gender equality mean for you and he was like, well, it would mean that I could drink my fizzy cider without my mates taking the piss out of me, and I was like, well, it doesn’t sound like a very compelling reason to achieve gender equality in the world, but actually, he sort of started to elaborate more, and he was just saying that he found the pressure to fit this male mould and to conform to this kind of lad culture of like this very heavy binge drinking, actually really kind of soul-destroying and he was often ashamed of how he acted when he was on these huge, like, binge drinking, erm, things with his mates and and how he treated girls specifically when he was like that and … the dude just wanted to drink fizzy cider, you know what I’m saying?! And it was just … it was just really sweet, actually and I just found that, something so simple, but guys feel this incredible pressure to be ... that, in order to be a man, there are all these ideas that they really have to live up to and to conform to and it’s actually a bit suffocating.
Ali: We’re here to specifically discuss the HeForShe.org website. Why is that so important?
Emma: Well, it’s important because we want to be the first and largest, er, crowdsourcing tool for solutions to gender equality and the reason that is exciting is because we’ve had people sign up to the commitment and I’ve had lots of wonderful emails from men, saying all right, I’m on board, I get it, I’m into it, you know, great, but what do you want me to do? What do you actually want me to do about this now? I’m like … So this has been great, and we’ve received hundreds of emails like this and so we’ve set up this website. But what’s been interesting is that we haven’t wanted to prescribe to anyone how best within their specific country, town, school, community whatever the best way to enact this change is and actually when people have come up with their own solutions organically, there’s been some amazing things that have happened, so, erm, a man in Zimbabwe started a husband school for HeForShe, which was incredible, erm, we’ve had, one of our HeForShe champions, the president of Malawi, just annulled 300 child bride marriages, and sent the girls back to school, which was unbelievable, erm … we’ve had the University of Waterloo decided that they’re going to give scholarships for girls for engineering specifically, which has been amazing, so, we’ve kind of, we’ve realised that, like, you guys have the solutions and we just need to create the platform through which we can inspire you, erm, so, we’ve created this website and we think it’s pretty awesome.
What do you think about the HeForShe campaign? Do you think that gender equality is an important issue?
MattBell 17 March, 2017 - 21:22
yeeaah emma watson !!!!
0404 10 July, 2016 - 00:05
HeForShe is a great opportunity for young people, not only women but also men. I loved the way this projects helps to understand that we are not just talking about women rights it is more about human beings. I know gender equality is not as simple as it seems, but is good to see many people are involved in this project and it will definitely make a big impact in our lives.
PGC 13 June, 2016 - 03:25
I think that the proyect it's amazing, because we are equal, we are humans, and we just have to connect more and the campaign it's the perfect way to do it. I'm already registered!
ricardorivera12 26 May, 2016 - 00:56
If it is important, that is for the education of gender equality
asesinovictor 20 May, 2016 - 22:48
yes.This campaign is good because they work in important proyect's
estefany18 29 April, 2016 - 23:54
yes, because we are all equal and all the persons have the opportunity of choice
karen22 29 April, 2016 - 23:49
the HeForShe campaign helps people because we are all equal
and we can be together regardless of gender you are
It is a great campaign!!!!
Kassandra 29 April, 2016 - 23:48
emma is very inspiring
DianaRamos 29 April, 2016 - 23:48
I HAVE THE SAME OPINION <3
PAULDELOSRIOS28 29 April, 2016 - 23:46
This video Seems Very Important Because It talks about everything related to the topic of genres and Its Importance
KC98 29 April, 2016 - 23:46
Yes, sure i do, because everyone have the opportunity of election like someone who is a man and think that is a woman have the choice of select that is a woman and the opportunity of comment and be like others and feel good with that, because we are all equal.
alexcort11 29 April, 2016 - 23:45
It is very important because it is something very important in living the day to day in our life.
nohemy27 29 April, 2016 - 23:44
i think the gender equality is very important because we need to acept the other people as they are we have to respect the other people to respect us . so heforshe is a good idea for help others and emma is perfect
eldiego27 29 April, 2016 - 23:41
i think she is doing good things about gender quality
EdwinGtz 29 April, 2016 - 23:41
She has a big heart and she want to help the people to make a better world
Chinoguapo 29 April, 2016 - 22:58
The gender equality is very important to the peace of word
sofiacarrillo20 29 April, 2016 - 22:57
i love emma <3
Mickey23 29 April, 2016 - 22:54
is good heforshe campaing
No is problem gener equality. Is good gender equality
DiegoQwerty99 29 April, 2016 - 22:54
this website is a good proyect because it helps to the womens who have problems of gender equailty.
gender equality is a big problem because in the past the mens don´t respect the womens.
lon454 29 April, 2016 - 22:53
I think the issue of the gender equality is an issue valued as in most of the world and fall short
150724 29 April, 2016 - 22:52
This campaign is good because they work in important proyect's.
The gender equality it is also important because they talk about important theme.
DarkTrundle 29 April, 2016 - 22:49
yes , is important and we must end violence wing woman
UK4EVER 12 March, 2016 - 15:05
Emma Wtson is very good woman
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(2) Peter Kassig and Beyond: New Perspectives. (With December 21 Update. An Alternative to Torture)
The face of Jihadi John, according to U.S. government consultants. Source: dailymailco.uk
James Comey, FBI Director. Source: blogs.wsj.com/law.
Behind every great man, there´s an exit.
-- Comandante Lentes, "Pillars of The Sea" --
If I hadn´t seen it, I wouldn´t have believed it.
Even now, I´m not sure I believe it
The Daily Mirror´s headline of November 29:
"Jihadi John´s British terror ring smashed as cops uncover a network stretching across the U.K."
Before continuing, the Mirror -- self-described "brightest tabloid newspaper" -- is not the most reliable source of information. The Mirror has been caught on various occasions running incorrect stories; equally true, it published apologies. Such was its exit.
Aware there could be a credibility problem, I scoured the Internet without success for a denial, official or otherwise, of the items in the Mirror report you are about to see. Until a denial appears, they stand.
That report contains two narratives:
(a) "Last month [September 25] the FBI confirmed they knew Jihadi John’s true identity but details have deliberately not been made public while intelligence officers continue to monitor the movements and electronic communication of his alleged helpers."
You just saw the FBI´s explanation of why it has not revealed Jihadi John´s identity: it does not want to alert his accomplices whom it wants to monitor. We will return to this theme.
(b) "Crucial clues have been provided by US analysts who have used advanced facial recognition technology to literally unmask the killer [Jihadi John].
Using only the man’s eyes — the only part of his face left uncovered in the video – they have pieced together a photofit style picture of what they say lies underneath the mask.
The forensic officials created two versions of the likeness: one clean shaven and another with a mustache.
The US source said: ´High-tech imaging techniques have been used, but it is still only a very good guess at what the killer could look like´"
The Mirror says the US analysts and forensic officials who prepared the photofit image worked with the US Government. Similarly, ABC reported the facial recognition experts worked "in consultation with" the U.S. Government.
Did you spot it? If the two media are right, there is a potential conflict between narratives (a) and (b).
If (a) is true -- the FBI has identified Jihadi John -- then (b) is now beside the point. FBI, if you know who he is, there is no need for advanced facial recognition technology to unmask him. To see what Jihadi John looks like, pick up the phone and call his mother. You will get baby pictures, school photos, wish-you-were-here vacation images, selfies.
Only one conclusion makes sense.
If advanced facial recognition technology is still being used in any way by government authorities to identify Jihadi John, our prior post´s null hypothesis -- the FBI does not know who he is -- is confirmed.
It´s time to come down hard with both feet, and re-issue the null hypothesis. The FBI has no idea who Jihadi John is.
Corollary: in claiming he knows who Jihadi John is, FBI Director James Comey is lying.
Sidebar: the photofit image of Jihadi John gives us only a very good guess? I hate to tell you, FBI, but that image is worse than no image. No image will not send authorities on a wild goose chase.
Let´s look deeper. Let´s assume a timing issue is involved, i.e., the photofit image was produced for the U.S. government before it identified (by other means) Jihadi John. In that case, the FBI is still not off the hook.
How can I be so sure about identification via other means? Simple. FBI, your good guess is neither good nor a guess. Anybody who has taken an art class (I did) knows the idea of constructing an entire face based on eyes alone is ridiculous. I challenge the FBI to find one credible artist anywhere who disputes that conclusion. Crucial clues were furnished by the photofit image? You´re joking. To prove or disprove our point, when Jihadi John is eventually identified publicly, we will publish the photofit image and the real image side by side. You, dear reader, will be the judge. Until then...
FBI, you were had by a smooth-talking software vendor. I guess it´s time to pass along words of wisdom a computer systems engineer gave me: there are more cons per square inch in the computer business than in Sing Sing.
Something else in the Mirror report is right out of the Keystone Cops.
"Our source revealed all of [Jihadi John´s] friends and contacts in Britain had been identified and that a web had been uncovered ´stretching from Dewsbury to London´.
An intelligence expert commented: ´Those supporting this terrorist face a simple choice – either co-operate with inquiries or face the full force of the justice system. There is nowhere to hide.´...
Counter-terror police officers acting on US intelligence have found and tracked suspected members of his terror support network in the UK.
The Sunday Mirror understands up to a dozen suspects have already been targeted by the authorities..."
As noted, the FBI said it is not revealing Jihadi John´s identity so as not to alarm his accomplices whom it wants to monitor. However, the fact of the matter is... Jihadi John´s helpers were piercingly alerted on three separate occasions:
(i) Let´s go back to August 25 -- to the ABC report containing the photofit image of Jihadi John.
The report begins with London street scenes. "British authorities today were focusing on these neighborhoods in London were several hundred young muslim men had been recruited to become some of the most brutal jihadis in the ISIS organization..."
ABC´s word focusing needs focusing. Did the British authorities go door to door or did they stay in their offices pouring over names and street camera footage? Both? Whatever the case, and regardless if the ABC report is right or wrong, true or false, the report in and of itself alerted Jihadi John´s accomplices in England that the heat was on.
Nowhere to hide? Really? Try Syria. Put yourself in the place of a Jihadi John network member. You see or hear about the ABC report. You look out the corner of your eye. An oldies but goodies 1966 song is playing downstairs: all my bags are packed, I´m ready to go... the dawn is breakin´, it´s early morn; taxi´s waitin´, blowin´ his horn....
(ii) Fast forward two weeks. Jihadi John´s supporters were again warned about an impending police dragnet. This time, the guilty party that tipped them off was not ABC but the Mirror and anonymous "spy sources."
The Mirror reported on September 7:
"Counter-terror police are poised to arrest up to a dozen suspected British associates of Jihadi John, as the net closes in on the blood-thirsty hostage killer.
Spy sources insisted they now know the identity of the Islamic State executioner and that they would unmask him ´within days´...
Yesterday, sources revealed that an elite FBI team, which flew into the country last month, was closing in on 12 suspects in the UK. They believe the alleged Jihadi John helpers provided money and contacts as well as assisting him with travel to Syria.
Based at Scotland Yard, a number of the police officers attached to the FBI travelled to the West Midlands to monitor the movements and communications of the terror network.
The suspects are all British and include several people from the West Midlands who are already known to the UK security services.
Described as ´hardened extremists´, the men are believed to be connected to previous UK-based foiled terror plots.
A US source said: ´It has been a co-ordinated effort to track down the support network around the British Islamic State executioner. Our inquiries have given us leads across the country.´
´We are 99.9% certain now as to who "John" is but investigators have had to tread softly in charting and approaching his wider network in the UK.´"
Again, put yourself in the place of a Jihadi John network member. You read the above Mirror report. Again, it does not matter if the report is right or wrong, true or false. You will not sit at home waiting for the knock on the door; you will take your exit.
Only one word adequately expresses the FBI´s handling of this entire affair: incredible. Back on September 7 we learned the FBI was "poised" to arrest a dozen members of the Jihadi John web. If the Mirror is right -- more on a possible glitch in a moment -- the arrests took place two months later, in November. Talk about telegraphing a punch. All I can say is, FBI, CIA, SIS -- whoever you "spy sources" are -- never step into a boxing ring. A neighborhood poker game either.
(iii) We come to the third advance warning handed to Jihadi John´s accomplices. It is the most blatant of all. It came on September 25. There is no doubt whatsoever who tipped off the jihadists: the FBI.
The FBI´s announcement that it knew Jihadi John´s identity but would not reveal it was... the most guaranteed way possible to spook his fellow terrorists. FBI, if you truly didn´t want to warn them, what you would have said was simply this: "We still have no idea who Jihadi John is." To create credibility for your statement and to add a distraction, you would tack on an additional sentence such as: "In fact, we are beginning to suspect he may not even be from the U.K., that his accent was faked." Jihadi John´s terrorist accomplices would have heaved a huge sigh of relief and gone their usual way, all of it of course monitored by you.
Truly? Why did we say truly? The word evinces a profound problem, perhaps fatal. We will explore it in our next post.
We have said it before; we will say it again. U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agents are not strategic thinkers. As our prior post showed, when it comes to terrorism, they literally and figuratively have no idea what they are talking about. Corollary: when it comes to individual terrorists, U.S. government personnel don´t have the foggiest idea whom they are dealing with. Those upshots were inevitable because Washington has no analysis.*
Two things in the Mirror report reveal other slab-dab nonsense:
(i) The Jihadi John accomplices were arrested at the end of November. Or were they?
Read closely the Mirror´s words: have found, closing in on, leads, tracked down, uncovered, targeted. None of them justify the headline of Jihadi John´s "terror ring smashed." I have a simple yes-or-no question for you, British and American authorities and Mirror: were the jihadists arrested? Your lite n´ lively wording evinces that you are clowning around.
(ii) FBI/U.S. source, you say you are "99.9% certain" who Jihadi John is.
99.9% is not 100%. You are keeping open the exit identified in our prior post -- The Fudge Factor, a.k.a., Weasel Words, CYA, Wiggle Room.
Give up, FBI: you have no idea who Jihadi John is. Those words are no doubt provoking right now a lot of nodding and winking, laughing, over at CIA headquarters. None of it is justified. If anybody understands terrorists less than the FBI, it is the CIA (see our first footnote below).
FBI, you can quickly, easily and definitively prove the null hypothesis wrong. Now that you have "smashed" Jihadi John´s conspiracy ring, there is, by your own reasoning (see above, on not wanting to alert his helpers), no reason whatsoever to keep his identity a secret a single second longer.
We come to the proverbial bottom line. The FBI´s continuing refusal to publicly identify Jihadi John is a screen door on a submarine.
That refusal brings us back to our original hypothesis: the FBI told the truth. It knows who Jihadi John is but is withholding his identity.
As we shall see in our next post, if FBI Director James Comey is telling the truth, the implications are far more disturbing than if he were lying.
Intelligence agents and law enforcement officers: show you received loud and clear Peter Kassig´s final message.
Be worthy of it.
Be your own role model.
Stop playing the puerile game of fooling others in order to fool yourselves.
Stand and deliver. Release Jihadi John´s identity immediately, if you can.
Stop being adolescents. Until you do, FBI, CIA, British intelligence officers -- you, not the terrorists, are the ones with no escape.
UPDATE: December 21. An Alternative to Torture.
Constant lighting, all-white rooms, loud music...and worse.
A lot worse.
Readers ask: what was the alternative to the $81-million man´s torture program so hastily adopted by the CIA.
There are, in fact, various alternatives.
First, I must repeat our policy. This blog does not give advice; it offers opinions. The line between them is not always clear. However, please keep in mind the following considerations:
"An opinion may consist of advice which is (i) deliberately offered too late to be actionable; (ii) knowingly impossible to implement due to circumstances prevailing at the moment; and/or (iii) offered with the foreknowledge that the simple fact of its publication will render its practical value null and void."
To find alternatives to torture, we need to know what neither the CIA nor FBI, State Department or Pentagon, knows:
What is a terrorist?
For the sake of convenience I will repeat here our definition from The Source of Terrorism: Middle Class Rebellion:
"A terrorist is usually a middle class rebel (1) experiencing magnified marginal or transitional conditions, who (2) voluntarily (3) goes through certain rites of passage, among which are (4) clique membership and (5) a deliberate decision to commit a criminal act that is almost always (6) violent and usually (7) murder, in (8) the name of higher intentions or convictions without (9) retaining consciously the ambiguity of his criminal act and his higher intentions/convictions. He expresses powerful, unconscious, ambivalent emotions in two ways: (10) converting his intentions/convictions into idées fixes or absolute truths, the opposite extreme from ambiguity, and (11) wielding uncertainty as a weapon. That uncertainty is total, as shown by the fact that (12) everyone — allies, non-combatants, even himself — is a potential victim. A concluding note: it is the syndrome, the running together of components, which counts — not specific components taken in isolation.
By not admitting what he cannot admit, the terrorist guards his secret, even from himself.
By not admitting what he is, the terrorist shows the gravity that admission holds for him. To my knowledge, no terrorist or other middle class rebel has ever said what he is.
What he is, is the secret he keeps: he is a middle class rebel."
All reputable quantitative and qualitative studies point to the same conclusion. Inside the majority of terrorists is a middle class rebel.** Unless that reality is acknowledged and understood, further discussion is pointless; progress, impossible.
You just saw what is blocking America and Europe. It is unconscious and ideological in nature and, for the time being, insurmountable. Knowingly impossible to implement: that is what makes what follows opinion, not advice:
Our definition of terrorist can be interpreted as a series of doors to solutions. Here is one that Source discussed at length:
What is the way out for a middle class rebel-terrorist? Answer: the same way he got in. Here, we are looking at the optimal solution. If he exits the terrorist syndrome, he will volunteer more information than you ever imagined.
Look at items 5-7 of our definition, i.e., rites of passage required of any would-be terrorist.
For all the same reasons that death is the maximum threshold for entering the terrorist syndrome, death is also the maximum threshold for exiting it. Source presented case studies of how that threshold operates, starting with David Horowitz:
The son of high school teachers who were Communist Party members, Horowitz was a leading agit-prop figure of the 1960s. He was co-editor of Ramparts Magazine, the San Francisco standard-bearer for The New Left.
Today, Horowitz is a ham-fisted spokesman for conservative causes. He supported Ronald Reagan.
What created the colossal change?
Our discussion in Source starts with an International Herald Tribune article. After arriving in California,
"´Horowitz soon met Huey Newton, the leader of the Black Panthers, a man of exquisite dialectics and thuggish impulse. Horowitz was entranced. As he sees it today, he fell for a familiar left trope: the romance of the outlaw. "It’s the Rousseauian vision of the noble savage," he says. "The violence of the poor is always romanticized because their consciousness has not yet been raised."
Horowitz helped open a Panther school. When Newton was accused of killing a teenage prostitute and fled to Cuba in 1974, Elaine Brown took over the Panthers. She has written of watching Newton beat a middle-aged tailor to a brain-smeared pulp and realizing just how little she cared.
She asked Horowitz to recommend an accountant. He sent over Betty Van Patter, who worked on Ramparts’ books. Months passed, and she called Horowitz one night, upset at what she had found in the Panthers’ books. She took her concerns to Brown. A month later, the police found Van Patter’s body floating in San Francisco Bay, her head caved in. (Although journalistic investigations, including one Horowitz wrote, pointed to Panther involvement in her kidnapping and murder, no one was ever charged.)
The death upended Horowitz. He had seen the Panthers’ gangster style, sensed their menace, and yet failed to properly warn Van Patter. Twenty-five years later, his voice catches and his face flushes as he recalls the moment. "When Betty died, I was taken right off my high horse and blasted into the ether. It was like my personal report card was ruined. I could no longer justify myself."
His slow inquiry into her death became an inventory of his self-deceptions. His marriage broke up, he became alienated from his friends. By the late 1970s, he had come to question the entire Church of the Left: He had seen the far left dissolved into violence, and the moderate left fail to reckon with the toll taken by communist-led revolutions in Cambodia, Vietnam, Angola and Central America. The church analogy is apt, says Peter Collier, his longtime collaborator and another émigré from left to right. "After the first doubt you cannot keep from sliding to the bottom and questioning everything."
But Parker of the Shorenstein Center says: "David needs to grow up. He’s never come clean about how deeply involved he was with the Panthers, and that prevents him from taking a full and measured view of his soul and human complicity in evil. His experiences should produce caution."
Michael Powell, “The Radical Transformation of David Horowitz,” International Herald Tribune, April 3, 2001.
Collier’s comment, After the first doubt you cannot keep from sliding to the bottom and questioning everything, is worth highlighting. All or nothing, either or: the total absence of intermediate positions to which one could fall back to for support, is a hallmark of middle class rebellion.
The same lack of intermediate positions was evident in the case of Ed Husain, a member of the Islamist radical group Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain. Husain, like Horowitz, underwent a conversion after experiencing a killing. He had wanted to be one of the intellectual leaders of the movement:
´But when things got out of hand and one of his colleagues, Saeed, killed a Christian Nigerian, Husain called it quits with Hizb ut-Tahrir.
“I was spiritually down in the gutter, remote from the Koran and remote from my parents,” he said.´
Jane Perlez, “Ex-radical turns to Islam of tolerance,” International Herald Tribune, June 2/3, 2007.
There is no doubt that killing is a frequently-encountered threshold for entering as well as exiting terrorist groups. That threshold is comparable to the one required for the suspension of disbelief in theater plays and novels..., to wit, once you can get someone to kill, you can get him to do anything. I consider it to be important enough to be included in the definition of terrorist.
In On Killing, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman observed that killing is ´a rite of passage´ with all the accouterments, e.g., purification rites such as parades, memorials, and monuments, for re-entry into society. (Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Killing, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1996, pp. 270-4). Those who are concerned with the problem of how to convince terrorists to leave their groups would do well to study the killing-induced trauma that many returning American veterans suffer. The key to a large part of the problem is there." (Source, pp. 207-10)
The possessed of Dostoevsky have stronger ties to the
Babbitts of Sinclair Lewis than normally meets the eye. -- The Source of Terrorism: Middle Class Rebellion, p. 252 --
The starting place for Washington to learn -- among other things -- how to interrogate and treat terrorists is a phenomenon analyzed in depth by Carl Jung: enantiodromia.*** Any extreme tends to change into its opposite. The more extreme the extremist, the greater is the potential for enantiodromia to occur.
To the point: inside every middle class rebel-terrorist lurks a die-hard conformist, a humdrum reconciler. To activate his inner Babbitt, one needs only to understand the process involved and which buttons to push. Torture is not among them.
That in a nutshell is why, CIA, you flushed $81 million of our money down the toilet.
*Wherever there is no analysis there arises an irresistible recourse to gadgets, gimmicks, shortcuts; to two-month-old contacts; to he-said-that-she-said ruminations and daydreams; to walk-in-walk-out anonymous sources; to hot tips passed over the bar counter and backyard fence; to neat ideas and other bolts from the blue; to hurry-up phone calls: to instant experts. En toto -- desperation, the very thing the CIA projects onto ISIS (see our prior post).
An up-to-the-moment example:
In the wake of the release last week of the Senate Intelligence Committee´s five-year investigation of CIA torture, the New York Times published an eye-opening report on how certain things came to be.
In 2002, the CIA captured a major al-Qaeda operative, Abu Zubaydah. O.K., now what? Who ya´ gonna call?
"A C.I.A. lawyer at the April 1, 2002, meeting suggested the name of a psychologist, James Mitchell, who had been on contract for several months, analyzing Al Qaeda for the agency’s Office of Technical Service, the arm of the C.I.A. that creates disguises and builds James Bond-like spy gadgets.
The lawyer, Jonathan Fredman, had heard the name from someone in the office, and within hours of floating it, counterterrorism officials were on the phone with Mr. Mitchell. By that evening, according to the report released last week by the Senate Intelligence Committee, the agency had incorporated Mr. Mitchell’s views into a classified cable ordering preparations for the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah...
The cable called for constant lighting, loud music and an all-white room to keep Abu Zubaydah awake. The setup would cause ´psychological disorientation, and reduced psychological wherewithal,´ the cable read.
With little debate or vetting of Mr. Mitchell and his approach, the C.I.A. that day in 2002 started down a road to interrogation practices that Senator Dianne Feinstein, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, last week called ´a stain on our values and our history.´
In the months that followed, Mr. Mitchell, a former Air Force explosives expert and trainer, and later his partner, Bruce Jessen, another psychologist and former Air Force officer, designed, led and directed the interrogations and became the prime advocates for what is now widely considered to have been torture. In the process, they made tens of millions of dollars under contracts that their critics within the C.I.A. warned at the time gave them financial incentives to repeatedly use the most brutal techniques.
The C.I.A. has said it hired Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Jessen because their experience with ´nonstandard´ interrogation was ´unparalleled.´ But the government’s own experts favored the traditional approach to questioning prisoners. And the Senate report makes clear that the speed with which Mr. Mitchell was brought into the program — less than 24 hours elapsed between the time his name was floated and that first cable — meant there was no time to analyze whether his approach was best.
Former officials involved in the program attribute the speed to one thing: desperation. With the C.I.A. under pressure to obtain information from its prisoners, Mr. Mitchell seemed to have the answer to how to do it.
That eagerness for a new, aggressive approach is reflected elsewhere in the Senate report. One C.I.A. officer said the agency’s best intelligence justifying harsh interrogations came from a ´walk-in´ source — someone who appeared one day and told the C.I.A. that Allah permitted jihadists to cooperate only if they were threatened. There is no evidence in the report that the C.I.A. ever corroborated those assertions.
In a lengthy interview last week after the C.I.A. released him from an order forbidding his talking about his role in its program, Mr. Mitchell said the speed of his hiring was a surprise even to him. ´I never knew how that happened,´ he said. ´I just got a phone call.´”
The original cable foretold in two words the shoddy project the CIA -- indeed, the nation and world -- were in for:
Psychological wherewithal. You, dear reader, just saw a textbook case of Lazy Language. And the like; so on and so forth; whatchamacallit; if you know what I mean; whatever; the whole nine yards; thingamajig; etc.-etc.: no competent professional anywhere in any field resorts to such verbal crutches.
**This month´s case study: Indian police arrested Mehdi Masroor Biswas, a 24-year-old computer engineer who was running a major, pro-ISIS twitter account @ShamiWitness. His father is a retired electrical engineer.
***“{T]he emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, one-sided tendency dominates conscious life; in time an equally powerful counterposition is built up, which first inhibits the conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious control.” C. G. Jung, “Psychological Types,” in C. G. Jung, The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 6, H. G. Baynes, translator, 1990, p. 426. (Paragraph 709).
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Releasing a trapped antelope. c. 1948 Courtesy Robert Cooney Photo Collection)
This book tells the story of a catastrophe caused by exploitation and depletion, need and greed. Ultimately, a story of restoration and rebirth spawned by a people’s dedication to restore Montana’s wildlife. Passage of protective laws during the latter years of the 19th century and early 20th century, coupled with gradually increasing efforts to enforce those laws, accounts for a portion of Montana’s wildlife restoration. However, most of the restoration success came from hunters, ranchers, farmers, government agencies and universities all cooperating in a wide-ranging wildlife restoration effort to trap and transplant wildlife. This effort spread across the state with a single goal in mind – replenishing what had been lost during the 1800s and early 1900s.
Restoration of Montana’s wildlife resource was an epic effort extending through 6 generations, 5 wars, an economic collapse and the greatest North American climate disaster of the 20th century. By the end of this century, wildlife was more abundant in Montana than any time during the previous 130 years. Most of this story is largely untold and is the subject of this book.
Over a decade ago a small group of wildlife biologists formed an ad hoc committee which began serious discussions about the need to document and pay tribute to the many people who sacrificed and were passionate about restoring Montana’s wildlife. Harold D. Picton, a Montana Fish and Game wildlife biologist in the late 1950s-early 1960s and professor emeritus of Fish and Wildlife management at Montana State University in Bozeman, was contacted and agreed to help lead the way with this ambitious wildlife legacy project by writing a book. His research started in 1999 and involved videotaping discussions with dozens of people who had made a career of wildlife restoration and conservation in Montana. Most of the people interviewed were wildlife pioneers in the 1940s and 1950s and are responsible for many of the abundant wildlife species and populations we have today. This oral history of Montana’s wildlife legacy would probably have been lost if these discussions were not videotaped, transcribed and archived. Several people videotaped have since gone to the “Happy Hunting Ground”. Additionally, thousands of hours were spent reading, researching and discovering documents and historic photos filed away in obscure or hard to find places and private collections.
Beaver in cages ready for transplanting. c. 1942. (Courtesy Robert Cooney Photo Collection)
Putting a bighorn sheep in a crate on Wildhorse Island for transplanting. c. 1975.
Preparing trapped elk for transplanting. c. 1960. (Courtesy Jim McLucas Photo Collection)
Canada geese raised at the Warm Springs Game Bird Farm for transplanting. c. 1955 (Courtesy Robert Greene Photo Collection)
After reviewing videotaped interviews and materials collected, the ad hoc committee realized the value of what had been initiated and decided that a historical video documentary be produced before a book. I was contacted to help with this project because of my background as a Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks wildlife research biologist and experience with video productions. More videotaped interviews were conducted and included long-time citizen wildlife enthusiasts. Finally in December 2005, a two-part (one hour each) historical documentary entitled “Back from the Brink – Montana’s Wildlife Legacy” was completed. Since then, Montana PBS has aired it several times and numerous public showings occurred throughout the state. The DVD is sold in bookstores, gift shops and sporting goods stores and can be purchased online through the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Foundation at www.backfromthebrinkmt.org or Montana PBS at www.montanapbs.org/Shop/AllPrograms/. Educators in Montana’s Schools and Universities are also using it to teach students about Montana’s Wildlife Legacy.
While developing the script and conducting more videotaped interviews for the video documentary, a wealth of additional historical photos, old home movies, documents and personal field notes became available.
Liberating pheasants from one of Montana’s 4 Game Bird Farms. c. 1950. (Montana Fish and Game Photo)
Only a small portion of this “mother lode” of wildlife memorabilia could be used in the video. This gave motivation to complete the initial goal of the project and write a book. Dr. Picton and I were again recruited to help continue this phase of the project. Information gathered during production of the video laid the foundation for the book, but thousands of additional hours were spent researching background material along with acquiring or developing more illustrations, photos and maps. All the effort put forth and materials gathered have made the book detailed and information rich, including the only complete compilation of Montana’s wildlife trapping and transplanting records specific to capture and release sites and number of animals. These records in the form of tables and augmented with maps, illustrations and many historical photos would have been lost if not collected during this overall project.
Critical support from state wildlife administrators Jim Williams, Glenn Erickson and Don Childress; Spence Hegstad of the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Foundation; Tim Crawford – Pheasant Farms LLC and Media Works were instrumental in the completion of this project. Other contributors are credited in the acknowledgements of the book and in the video documentary. The book contains over 600 photos, illustrations, tables and maps. Many of the photos are historic and have seldom been seen. This book along with the video documentary will be valuable to educators, junior high, high school and university students, historians and anybody else interested in Montana’s wildlife and its history. We hope it will serve as “The Written Reference” for Montana’s Wildlife Legacy for years to come.
Trapping mule deer for transplanting. c. 1948. (Courtesy Jim McLucas Photo Collection)
Trapping and transplanting mountain goats. c. 1948. (Courtesy Jim McLucas Photo Collection)
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Library Centennial Renovation FAQs
What is the Library Centennial Renovation?
The Library Centennial Renovation is a celebration of our library’s 100-year anniversary as we renovate our building in 2019. It is a community effort to transform a mid-20th century modern building into a state-of-the-art library facility serving a wide variety of functions in our knowledge-based society, all part of the Future Library Project. Central to the effort will be a focus on youth in our community, energy efficient systems, quality of place, and community heritage.
Why does the building need to be renovated?
In 1963, the building at 5 Maine Ave was constructed to house the Millinocket Memorial Library. After 54 years of service, it is time to update the library to meet 21st century demands. Improvements will include energy efficient mechanical systems, enhanced electrical and plumbing infrastructure, more flexible furnishings and spaces, and dedicated areas for community programs, children’s areas, and a young adult section. While we’re at it, we also want to beautify and refresh the library for generations to come.
What are the goals of the project?
Create a safe, vibrant, and dynamic learning center for our youth.
Improved building performance to lower utility costs and minimize our environmental impact.
More flexibility: As a dynamic community center, the building must serve different roles in a limited space.
Better access for more people. An efficient building with enhanced self-service options serves more people more often.
Enhanced access to state-of-the-art technology.
Improved safety systems, including a sprinkler system, improved fire stair egress, and asbestos remediation.
What is “The Future Library Project”?
Even at the earliest stages of this project, we wanted to design a future-proof library that would meet the demands and needs of a fast-changing world. As with all building projects limited by physical and budgetary constraints, our goal was to create an adaptable facility that could be reconfigured as it met new, unanticipated demands. We’ve approached the next phase of the life of the library as an open-ended project, hence the name.
When will construction begin and when will it be completed?
A construction schedule has not been finalized and we are still in the design phase, but construction is expected to begin in May 2019 and be complete by the end of 2019. Our goal is to continuously provide access to our most vital services throughout construction.
How do I get a lawn sign?
Anybody that makes a financial contribution to the Library’s Centennial Renovation can pick up a lawn sign and proudly show their support of the project.
How much money will the project cost and how will you pay for it?
The total cost of the project is $1,250,000. We will raise funds using a combination of strategies, including grants, major individual donations, and local fundraisers. We have been very fortunate to be recipients of a major grant by the Next Generation Foundation, which has awarded us $500,000 to get started. Every dollar raised up to $250,000 will be matched as part of their grant award and we will continue to approach local and national philanthropic organizations to help us raise funds to complete the project.
If you’ve already received a grant for $500,000, why do you continue to fundraise locally?
Two reasons: First, total construction costs are over $1M and we must raise the remaining balance to complete the project. Second, capital improvement funds are separate from our operating budget. Every year, we must raise close to $100,000 to operate the library, and we need to continue to raise those funds each year. It is critical that we keep capital grants separate from operating grants.
What will the building look like when it is done?
The building’s design is of the modern era, of the “international style” clad only in brick. Its open floor plan, rectilinear walls, and expansive west wall of glass make it one of Millinocket’s most significant architectural buildings. Our goal is to retain the architectural integrity of the building and, in some cases, restore the building to its original design. Renovations will highlight outdoor elements (porch, gardens), open up spaces to make them more flexible, and bring more daylight into dark portions of the building.
The building has served the community for over 50 years. It’s time to rethink the library’s function and to invest in its future.
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NOTES & QUOTES FROM NBCSN’S MONSTER ENERGY NASCAR CUP SERIES COVERAGE FROM INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY
“Brad has delivered a championship for Roger Penske, and now he delivered the Brickyard 400.” – Steve Letarte
“The ‘Big Three’ did not dominate this race. In fact, it seems that the rest of the field has caught up at the right time.” – Dale Earnhardt Jr.
“They were basically unheard of in the regular season, and now two wins in a row coming into the Playoffs.” – Jeff Burton on Brad Keselowski
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – September 10, 2018 – NBC Sports Group presented the final race of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series regular season this afternoon from Indianapolis Motor Speedway, in Speedway, Ind. The special Monday edition of the Brickyard 400 aired on NBCSN, after severe weather in Indianapolis caused the race to be postponed Sunday. Brad Keselowski and Team Penske’s No. 2 Ford took the checkered flag for a second consecutive week. Keselowski’s victory marked Team Penske’s first Brickyard 400 win.
For the first time at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, NBC Sports Group called the Cup Series race “Radio Style,” from multiple vantage points throughout the track. NASCAR on NBC’s lead race announcer Rick Allen, and Daytona 500 winning crew chief Steve Letarte, called the race from NBC Sports’ traditional broadcast booth above the start-finish line. Allen and Letarte were joined by NASCAR on NBC analysts Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Jeff Burton, as well as veteran MRN and SiriusXM radio announcer Mike Bagley, from three individual locations around the track.
Bagley was stationed in turn two, Earnhardt caught the cars next in turn three, and Burton added perspective as the cars made their way through turn four to the start-finish line.
Krista Voda hosted pre- and post-race coverage from NBC Sports Group’s headquarters in Stamford, Conn., alongside NBCSports.com lead motorsports writer Nate Ryan. Analyst Kyle Petty contributed from NBC Sports’ NASCAR studio in Charlotte, N.C. Marty Snider, Kelli Stavast, Dave Burns and Parker Kligerman reported from pit road.
Position Driver Car#
1 Brad Keselowski 2
2 Erik Jones 20
3 Denny Hamlin 11
4 Kevin Harvick 4
5 Clint Bowyer 14
2018 MONSTER ENERGY NASCAR CUP SERIES PLAYOFF DRIVERS
Martin Truex Jr.
Brad Keselowski
Chase Elliott
Austin Dillon
Ryan Blaney
Aric Almirola
Alex Bowman
The following are highlights from this afternoon’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race coverage on NBCSN.
POST-RACE COVERAGE
Letarte on Roger Penske: “For men like Roger Penske and Rick Hendrick, major owners in this sport, they race because they love to race. They seem to have everything, but to deliver them something they do not have. This race track means the most to Roger Penske…Brad has delivered a championship for Roger Penske, and now he delivered the Brickyard 400.”
Earnhardt: “The ‘Big Three’ did not dominate this race. In fact, it seems that the rest of the field has caught up at the right time.”
Earnhardt in the final lap: “Roger Penske has never won the Brickyard 400. Two more corners and Brad Keselowski is going to bring that gift to the boss man.”
Burton added: “They were basically unheard of in the regular season, and now two wins in a row coming into the Playoffs.”
Bagley before the final restart: “It is hold your breath time at Indianapolis. We have seen this play out before. We have seen these late race restarts…The question is can anyone get around Denny Hamlin and win this race?”
Burton on Jamie McMurray with 16 laps to go: “You are talking about a guy that has nothing to lose and everything to gain, running in fourth right now. If I’m his crew chief, I’m going to do whatever I can to give him a shot to win this race. If he were to win this race, he is in the Playoffs, and that would knock Alex Bowman out.”
Letarte with 17 laps to go: “Look who is running third currently? It is Kyle Larson saying, ‘You haven’t seen me all day, but guess what I’m going to sneak up. You took my crown jewel, now I’m going to take the ring off your finger. I’m going to try and win the Brickyard.’”
Letarte as Clint Bowyer led the race with just under 50 laps to go: “It is going to be a little game of liars’ poker. Who is going to talk on the radio first, who is going to show their hand first. Personally, if I’m Clint Bowyer, I don’t blink first. I make someone behind me make a decision.”
Letarte at the end of the stage: “The whole field is looking at one more pit stop. It is really how fresh are your tires, and what track position you have, now that all that strategy has unfolded.”
Letarte with five laps to go, as Bowyer and Denny Hamlin battled for the lead: “I like to gamble, I think the No. 14 should go with it. I don’t have the fuel numbers, but talk about momentum. If they can win the stage and take the Playoff point, they are going to be looking good. They have done their work in the regular season.”
Letarte as Alex Bowman crashed in turn 2: “This is the last thing that Alex Bowman wanted to see based off of where he is in the points position. It is kind of a race between him and Jimmie Johnson for 15th and 16th position. A new winner is what they are afraid of.”
Bagley with ten laps to go: “What’s impressive to me is how Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch have been able to rally their way through the field. They have been picking them off one after another. Hamlin, the escort to Kyle, they are just weaving their way through.”
Earnhardt added: “Clint Bowyer is someone who has impressed me. I did not see him putting together a pass to take that second position away from Kyle Busch when he did. I just didn’t feel like he had a strong enough car…but he did somehow, someway. I’m going to keep my eye on Bowyer going forward.”
Burton added: “Kurt Busch is also showing a lot of speed here today, remember the Playoffs start next week. I wouldn’t sleep on Busch.”
PRE-RACE COVERAGE
Petty on Jimmie Johnson: “Making the Playoffs and being in the Playoffs are two totally different things. I think Jimmie makes the Playoffs, but for whatever reason the magic just has not been there for the No. 48. We have gone into races a million times thinking they can flip a switch, but they can’t even find the switch right now.”
Ryan in reaction to Kyle Larson’s pre-race interview: “I appreciate and love that he has this nonchalance and quiet confidence about him. Any other driver you might think is trying to be brash, or he is trying to come off tough or intimidating. For Kyle Larson, this is a guy who just races every waking moment that he can. He has a way of describing things that are very blunt. I appreciate his candor.”
–NBC SPORTS GROUP–
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Tom Holland reveals Avengers: Endgame spoiler and gets backlash
God bless Tom Holland. He’s one of the few actors today keeping the media circuits interesting. In his recent appearance on the Graham Norton Show, he gave away the Avengers: Endgame ending, specifically the fate of one specific character. Let’s just say his name rhymes with Brony Park.
Spoilers ahead if you’re one of the few who haven’t seen Avengers: Endgame.
“The film is a direct continuation of Avengers: Endgame, so we deal with the ramifications of the blip, of the death of Tony Stark,” Holland said. “Sorry if anyone hasn’t seen the film! If you haven’t, then you’re living under a rock, to be honest.”
What followed was some mild social media backlash. But Tom did nothing wrong in this case.
Avoided Avengers: Endgame spoilers so far, and Tom Holland on Graham Norton spoils it in seconds. Cheers pal, fs 👍
— Alex Washtell (@awashtell) June 21, 2019
Some people, no longer go to the movies. It's not too much to ask for actors to not go on TV and spoil things. Besides to make it this far after the release and not have known that Starks died was an awfully impressive feat.
— Earl Chaney (@dirtpart2) June 23, 2019
I am really tired of Tom Holland's interviews with him trying to struggle not to spoil shit act or acting like a goof pic.twitter.com/0YvBOz0WWE
— Nick is hyped for an another Terminator movie….. (@niklander2) June 23, 2019
In his defense:
1. Holland has a reputation for spoiling things. The Russos made him act blindfolded and fed him his lines just to keep him guessing. Also, if you haven’t seen the film in the first two weeks of release, it probably wouldn’t be wise to watch an interview of a person with such a reputation, especially on a show where they provide endless alcohol to loosen the lips of their guests.
2. Endgame came out two months ago. Spoilers have an expiration date, people. In my opinion, it’s roughly 10 days or less. You get a max 10 days, and then it’s on you. Do you know who else thinks that? The Russos, who officially lifted the spoiler embargo on May 6th, rule of 10.
3. The Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer already spoiled the spoiling that Holland spoiled, so you can’t really spoil something that’s already soaking in spoils, can you?
Let’s just all take a breath and cut Tom some slack and enjoy him in the Tony Stark-less Spider-Man: Far From Home, which hits theaters on July 2, 2019.
Synopsis: Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever.
The film is directed by Jon Watts and written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers. It stars Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Zendaya, Cobie Smulders, Jon Favreau, JB Smoove, Jacob Batalon, Martin Starr, Marisa Tomei, and Jake Gyllenhaal
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BBC Home > BBC News > England
Police officers stabbed on duty
3 January 08 21:23 GMT
Two police officers have been stabbed while trying to make an arrest after an alleged assault in Swindon.
Police said a 26-year-old man had been arrested after the incident at Briars Wood Court, in the Liden area.
A total of five officers were involved. One, who has not been named, underwent surgery on Thursday night after being stabbed in the body.
Another had a minor knife wound to his face but was not in hospital and the three others were suffering from shock.
Wiltshire Police said these three officers had not sustained physical injuries.
A statement from the force said the officers arrived at the scene to find a man armed with a knife.
'Horrendous circumstances'
A spokesman added: "A dog handler has been taken to Great Western Hospital where his injuries are not life-threatening.
"A 26-year-old man was arrested during the incident. Police are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident."
Acting Ch Supt Kevin Maidment described the incident as "a horrendous set of circumstances".
He added: "These officers acted quickly and effectively to ensure that the man was located and arrested, preventing further serious injuries to members of the public or officers."
The police dog handler, who is likely to be released from hospital on Friday, is the second officer this week to be injured on duty.
On New Year's Eve, Pc Katie Johnson, of Lancashire Police, was shot in the leg as she tried to foil a raid at a pub near Preston.
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Philosophy and Literature
When a Virgin Hears an Angel's Words
Mary Wiseman
Johns Hopkins University Press
10.1353/phl.1993.0024
Mary Wiseman WHEN A VIRGIN HEARS AN ANGEL'S WORDS In 1969 Roland Barthes concluded a short piece called "Is Painting a Language?" with the claim that "something is being born, something which will invalidate 'literature' as much as 'painting' (and their metalinguistic correlates, 'criticism' and 'aesthetics'), substituting for these old cultural divinities a generalized 'ergography', the text as work, the work as text."1 "Text" is here being construed as a methodological field traversed by the various theories of the twentieth century and their discourses—feminism, linguistics, materialism, psychoanalysis, structuralism —distributed as they are across traditional disciplinary boundaries and genres. When the discourses are conjoined, this distribution begins to disturb the fixity of traditional boundaries. Why, then, should they be conjoined? Suppose, first, that each theory casts some light on what it analyzes and none is clearly or demonstrably superior to any other; second, that language and conceptual schemes are inextricably linked and, therefore, that the constitutive power of language is at least as great as that of the faculties ofthe human mind theorized in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the developing forces of history theorized in the nineteenth ; and, third, that works bear the press of those who made them and that some of the works handed down by tradition have excluded classes of people whose lives are nonetheless marked by the tradition. It becomes clear that with these suppositions, there is reason to treat the paintings as fields of energy released by the activity of associations, contiguities, cross-references which coincides with a liberation of symbolic energy, as texts achieved by the serial movement of dislocations, overlappings, variations. Philosophy and Literature, © 1993, 17: 246-262 Mary Wiseman247 What is to be treated as a text can be a discipline (art history), a genre (still-life paintings), an individual work (Matisse's TL· Conversation) so long only as it is something that comprehends all and only what falls under it and whose language is transparent to the meanings it captures or produces. Such things are cultural artifacts, "works" to be distinguished from "texts," although "work" is usually reserved for individual productions within a discipline or a genre. The work is to be penetrated, the text is not. For the text is constituted by its activity; it is the working of language and is like language in lacking center and closure. If language is a network ofvariables whose values are those ofall the universes ofdiscourse there are or may be, then the text is the activity ofassigning values to the variables. To assign a series of values to a work is to textualize it.2 The values are related in much the same way as Hume found ideas to be associated in the mind, namely, by resemblance, contiguity in space or time, and causation; and as Freud found ideas to be related in the unconscious, by condensation and displacement, strategies themselves more or less obedient to Hume's laws ofassociation. Barthes is midwife to this something that when born will replace literature, painting, criticism, and aesthetics by ergography. This essay is intended to serve as one kind of test of whether what is birthed is stillborn or live. Two of Titian's Annunciation paintings are treated as ergographs, as labors of language that as such are never completed once and for all. The paintings are the traces of Titian's having performed activities characteristic of painting and ofacts of interpretation. Interpretations are called "reading" when done with such ease and spontaneity as to approach mere recognizing, and "writing" when done deliberately, laboriously, productively.3 The distinction between the way of reading that consumes works already made and the way that makes them into fields of energy is spelled out in Barthes's SIZ (1970), a sustained example of what he calls a writerly reading of Balzac's short story, Sarrazine. The distinction's application to painting is complicated by the fact that painting has no lexicon or general grammar, no rules of combination and substitution. Since paintings are not structured like a language, it is not easy to see how they can be textualized. Nor is it easy to see how a painting can be fragmented and some...
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CLINICAL GENOME SERVICES
New Research Award Supports Early Career Investigator of Childhood Digestive Diseases
Funded 3-year appointment at Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine
June 17, 2019—San Diego – A new research scholar position at Rady Children’s Institute of Genomics Medicine (RCIGM) has been awarded to a talented young investigator who is pursuing a career using genomics to enhance understanding of pediatric digestive diseases.
Amy Hemperly, DO, is the first recipient of the Research Scholar Award in Pediatric Genomics offered jointly by RCIGM and the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA). A graduate of UC San Diego, Hemperly will serve as principal investigator for the three-year project starting in July.
“My career goal is to become an independent physician scientist,” she said. “This award will give me protected time and resources to study the influence of genetic variations on response to drug treatment in patients with pediatric IBD.”
Over the course of her project, she will also work closely with the Institute’s senior investigators and be mentored in clinical and translational pediatric genomics.
“We are delighted that Dr. Hemperly will be joining RCIGM to pursue her career as a physician-scientist. She is a very talented and intelligent individual who will be a true asset to our team as we strive to improve the health of generations to come,” said Charlotte Hobbs, MD, Vice President of Research and Clinical Management.
AGA scholar awards have launched the careers of young investigators doing important work that translates to new patient care tools for clinicians and better outcomes for patients.
“The 2019 class of AGA Research Foundation awardees represents some of the most innovative and promising early-stage investigators working in the field of gastroenterology,” said Robert S. Sandler, MD, MPH, AGAF, chair, AGA Research Foundation. “We’re proud to support these individuals as they continue on their ultimate mission to improve the treatment and care of digestive disease patients through their discoveries.”
The awards program is made possible thanks to generous donors and funders contributing to the AGA Research Foundation. Learn more about the AGA Research Foundation at www.gastro.org/foundation.
About Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine
The Institute is leading the way in advancing precision healthcare for infants and children through genomic and systems medicine research. Discoveries at the Institute are enabling rapid diagnosis and targeted treatment of critically ill newborns and pediatric patients at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego and partner hospitals. The vision is to expand delivery of this life-saving technology to enable the practice of precision pediatric medicine at children’s hospitals across California, the nation and the world. RCIGM is a subsidiary of Rady Children’s Hospital and Health Center. Learn more at www.RadyGenomics.org. Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
About the AGA Institute
The American Gastroenterological Association is the trusted voice of the GI community. Founded in 1897, the AGA has grown to more than 16,000 members from around the globe who are involved in all aspects of the science, practice and advancement of gastroenterology. The AGA Institute administers the practice, research and educational programs of the organization. www.gastro.org.
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The AGA Research Foundation, formerly known as the Foundation for Digestive Health and Nutrition, is the cornerstone of AGA’s effort to expand digestive disease research funding. Since 1984, the AGA, through its foundations, has provided more than $51 million in research grants to more than 950 scientists. The AGA Research Foundation serves as a bridge to the future of research in gastroenterology and hepatology by providing critical funding to advance the careers of young researchers between the end of training and the establishment of credentials that earn National Institutes of Health grants. Learn more about the AGA Research Foundation or make a contribution at www.gastro.org/foundation.
Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine Uses Artificial Intelligence to Diagnose Genetic Diseases
April 24, 2019–Researchers at Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine (RCIGM) have utilized automated machine-learning and clinical natural language processing (CNLP) to diagnose rare genetic diseases in record time. This new method is speeding answers to physicians caring for infants in intensive care and opening the door to increased use of genome sequencing as a first-line diagnostic test for babies with cryptic conditions.
“Some people call this artificial intelligence, we call it augmented intelligence,” said Stephen Kingsmore, MD, DSc, President and CEO of RCIGM. “Patient care will always begin and end with the doctor. By harnessing the power of technology, we can quickly and accurately determine the root cause of genetic diseases. We rapidly provide this critical information to intensive care physicians so they can focus on personalizing care for babies who are struggling to survive.”
A new study documenting the process was published today in the journal Science Translational Medicine. The workflow and research were led by the RCIGM team in collaboration with leading technology and data-science developers —Alexion, Clinithink, Diploid, Fabric Genomics and Illumina.
Dr. Kingsmore’s team has pioneered a rapid Whole Genome Sequencing process to deliver genetic test results to neonatal and pediatric intensive care (NICU/PICU) physicians to guide medical intervention. RCIGM is the research arm of Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego.
By reducing the need for labor-intensive manual analysis of genomic data, the supervised automated pipeline provided significant time-savings. In February 2018, the same team achieved the Guinness World Record™ for fastest diagnosis through whole genome sequencing. Of the automated runs, the fastest times – averaging 19 hours – were achieved using augmented intelligence.
“This is truly pioneering work by the RCIGM team—saving the lives of very sick newborn babies by using AI to rapidly and accurately analyze their whole genome sequence “ says Eric Topol, MD, Professor of Molecular Medicine at Scripps Research and author of the new book Deep Medicine.
RCIGM has optimized and integrated several time-saving technologies into a rapid Whole Genome Sequencing (rWGS) process to screen a child’s entire genetic makeup for thousands of genetic anomalies from a blood sample.
Key components in the rWGS pipeline come from Illumina, the global leader in DNA sequencing, including Nextera DNA Flex library preparation, whole genome sequencing via the NovaSeq 6000 and the S1 flow cell format. Speed and accuracy are enhanced by Illumina’s DRAGEN (Dynamic Read Analysis for GENomics) Bio-IT Platform.
Other pipeline elements include Clinithink’s clinical natural language processing platform CliX ENRICH that quickly combs through a patient’s electronic medical record to automatically extract comprehensive patient phenotype information.
Another core element of the machine learning system is MOON by Diploid. The platform automates genome interpretation using AI to automatically filter and rank likely pathogenic variants. Deep phenotype integration, based on natural language processing of the medical literature, is one of the key features driving this automated interpretation. MOON takes five minutes to suggest the causal mutation out of the 4.5 million variants in a whole genome.
In addition, Alexion’s rare disease and data science expertise enabled the translation of clinical information into a computable format for guided variant interpretation.
As part of this study, the genetic sequencing data was fed into automated computational platforms under the supervision of researchers. For comparison and verification, clinical medical geneticists on the team used Fabric Genomics’ AI-based clinical decision support software, OPAL (now called Fabric Enterprise)—to confirm the output of the automated pipeline. Fabric software is part of RCIGM’s standard analysis and interpretation workflow.
The study titled “Diagnosis of genetic diseases in seriously ill children by rapid whole-genome sequencing and automated phenotyping and interpretation,” found that automated, retrospective diagnoses concurred with expert manual interpretation (97 percent recall, 99 percent precision in 95 children with 97 genetic diseases).
Researchers concluded that genome sequencing with automated phenotyping and interpretation—in a median 20:10 hours—may spur use in intensive care units, thereby enabling timely and precise medical care.
“Using machine-learning platforms doesn’t replace human experts. Instead it augments their capabilities,” said Michelle Clark, PhD, statistical scientist at RCIGM and the first author of the study. “By informing timely targeted treatments, rapid genome sequencing can improve the outcomes of seriously ill children with genetic diseases.”
An estimated four percent of newborns in North America are affected by genetic diseases, which are the leading cause of death in infants. Rare genetic diseases also account for approximately 15 percent of admissions to children’s hospitals.
The RCIGM workflow is engineered to speed and scale up genomic data interpretation to reduce the time and cost of whole genome sequencing. The team’s goal is to make rWGS accessible and available to any child who needs it.
Increased automation of the process removes a barrier to scaling up clinical use of WGS by reducing the need for time-consuming manual analysis and interpretation of the data by scarce certified clinical medical geneticists. There were fewer than 1,600 of these experts nationwide in 2017, according to the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics.
Rady Children’s Institute began performing genomic sequencing in July 2016. As of the end of March 2019, the team had completed testing and interpretation of the genomes of more than 750 children. One-third of those children have received a genetic diagnosis with 25 percent of those benefitting from an immediate change in clinical care based on their diagnosis.
Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine Appoints Six New Members to Board of Directors
The Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine (RCIGM) is pleased to announce the appointment of six new members to the Institute’s Board of Directors.
“Each of these dynamic innovators brings extensive experience in providing strategic leadership and oversight to highly successful organizations,” said Dr. Stephen Kingsmore, president and CEO of the Institute. “Their guidance will help us prepare for future success as the Institute continues to grow and develop.”
David F. Hale, chairman of the Institute’s Board of Directors, likewise applauded the addition of the new trustees. “It’s our good fortune to welcome these accomplished individuals to the Board of the Institute,” he said. “Their commitment to excellence will help propel us toward our goal of transforming pediatric medicine.”
RCIGM is the research arm of Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego. The Institute was founded with the mission of enabling the diagnosis, treatment and targeted clinical care for newborns and children with rare, life-threatening diseases. The Institute is focused on delivering molecular diagnoses through rapid Whole Genome Sequencing (rWGS) to facilitate fast, precise medical care of the most fragile young patients.
The Institute has continued to expand their impact on the world of advanced pediatric genomic medicine, and there is growing recognition for the groundbreaking work, from speed records, to legislative proclamations, to grant awards and scientific distinctions. The Institute is also dedicated to shaping the future of rapid precision medicine by providing educational expertise through ongoing training and mentoring opportunities, annual conferences and educational series.
The Board of Directors has been established to provide strategic oversight and guidance to the Institute. Each new member of the Board will serve a three-year term and bring the board roster to 18 members. The six newly appointed members are as follows:
1. Joe Beery
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
He is an instrumental leader who cultivates unified culture, and has focused on improving operational reliability and innovative strategies. He was named Senior Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer following his role as leader of global Information Technology infrastructure. He has spearheaded the merger of multiple organizations through the development and operation of I.T. systems and e-commerce platforms. He holds a B.A. in Business Administration and Business Computer Systems from the University of New Mexico.
2. Scott D. Kahn, PhD
Luna PBC
He is an expert in informatics and data science strategy. Prior to his current role, he was Illumina’s first Chief Information Officer, and was an executive leader in Illumina’s Enterprise Informatics Unit. He holds a PhD in Theoretical Organic Chemistry from UC Irvine and was a Fellow Commoner of Churchill College at the University of Cambridge in England.
3. Donald B. Kearns, MD, MMM
Rady Children’s Hospital and Health Center
He is a pediatric otolaryngologist who recently retired as CEO of Rady Children’s Hospital and Health Center. He had previously served Rady in various leadership positions including Chairman of the Department of Surgery, Surgeon-in-Chief and Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Kearns earned his medical degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine and was awarded a Master of Medical Management degree from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.
4. Frederic B. Luddy
Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors
He is an innovative entrepreneur with expertise in the growth and development of organizations. He founded ServiceNow in 2004, an enterprise software company that was ranked No. 1 on the 2018 Forbes Most Innovative Companies list. He stepped down as CEO in 2011 to focus on product development and now serves in an advisory capacity.
5. Trindl Reeves, CIC, AAI
Marsh & McLennan Insurance Agency
She has over 30 years of experience providing leadership and expertise in risk management and health and welfare consulting, and has held numerous leadership positions. She is responsible for leading the firm’s company wide sales effort and has played a key role in the company’s rapid growth. In 2011, she was named one of San Diego Business Journal’s Women Who Mean Business. She earned a B.A. in psychology from the University of California, Irvine, and holds the professional designations of Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC) and Accredited Advisor in Insurance (AAI).
6. Jon Soderstrom, PhD
Managing Director, Office of Cooperative Research
He is responsible for defining and executing commercialization strategies including negotiation of licenses and corporate-sponsored research agreements, initiating strategic corporate partnerships, and development and marketing of new spin-off companies to the venture investment community. Since joining the Office in 1996, he has helped form 30 new ventures. Dr. Soderstrom was honored as the 87th “Point of Light” by President George H. W. Bush in March, 1990 for volunteer work with low-income families in East Tennessee to build and rehabilitate housing and provide other essential services. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1980 and his B.A. from Hope College in 1976.
RCIGM Scientists Detect Cause of Rare Pediatric Brain Disorder
Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine Leads Mutation Discovery
Feb. 20, 2019—An international effort led by physician-scientists at Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine (RCIGM) has identified the cause of a devastating pediatric brain disorder paving the way for the first step in developing potential therapies for this rare neurodegenerative condition.
Investigators performed advanced genetic tests on blood samples from seven children with neuro-development disabilities who were evaluated by doctors in San Diego, Montreal and Cairo. This led to the discovery of mutations in the VARS gene, which had not previously been linked to human disease.
“These children showed epileptic seizures and abnormalities evident on brain MRI scans,” said Joseph Gleeson, MD, director of neurodevelopmental genetics at RCIGM and professor of neuroscience and pediatrics at UC San Diego School of Medicine. “Although no treatment currently exists for this condition, the results are important as the first step in guiding research directed at targeted therapies.”
The genetic mutations identified in the study led to a defect in the enzyme responsible for generating proteins containing the amino acid valine which is necessary for cellular health. Genetic variations that damage these types of enzymes are associated with a variety of human diseases including microcephaly and neuropathy.
In this study, the team found that, enzymatic activity was significantly reduced in cells from the young patients. The findings suggest that children with this disorder may benefit from treatments to support the synthesis of new valine containing proteins in the brain.
For many children with genetic disabilities, the cause of their disease is never identified. This limits the ability of doctors to develop precise treatment plans. Researchers at RCIGM have pioneered the use of Whole Genome Sequencing to rapidly diagnose and guide medical management of rare childhood diseases.
Both whole exome and whole genome testing were conducted as part of this study. These tests search an individual’s genetic code for imperfections that are the source of disease.
“Trying new approaches to understand what these children have is important because it helps families when they have an answer about what it is that’s making their child so sick,” adds study co-author Geneviève Bernard, MD, MSc, FRCPc, pediatric neurologist at the Montreal Children’s Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and a researcher with the Child Health and Human Development Program of the Research Institute of the MUHC.
Patient evaluation and testing for this study was conducted at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, Montreal Children’s Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre and the National Research Center in Cairo. Medical research institutions in Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Qatar and Egypt also played a supporting role in confirming the biologic impact of the mutation in the VARS gene.
“For ultra-rare conditions such as this one, collaboration among multiple research institutions is crucial to confirm that changes identified in the genetic code may be common to multiple children with similar clinical symptoms,” said study co-author Jennifer Friedman, MD, neurologist at Rady Children’s Hospital and professor at UC San Diego School of Medicine.
“Such cooperation and patient matching plays a critical role in the identification of new genes and provision of diagnoses to geographically dispersed individuals with the same rare disorder,” Dr. Friedman said.
In future experiments, the researchers hope to test whether dietary supplementation with valine or gene therapy may help to restore the altered protein in the brain of these children.
Results of the study were published in the journal Nature Communications under the title “Biallelic mutations in valyl-tRNA synthetase gene VARS, are associated with a progressive neurodevelopmental epileptic encephalopathy.” DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07067-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07067-3
Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine Appoints New VP of Research
Dr. Charlotte A. Hobbs joins the executive leadership team
February 11, 2019—The Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine (RCIGM) is pleased to announce that physician-scientist Charlotte A. Hobbs, MD, PhD, has assumed the role of Vice President of Research and Clinical Management.
Dr. Hobbs brings a wealth of experience as a distinguished clinician, researcher, medical educator and hospital administrator. She has directed national studies of birth defects and pediatric health funded by NIH and CDC, among others. She recently completed a $6.1 million NIH-funded Genome Wide Association study involving more than 8,000 individuals in eight states.
“We are very pleased to have recruited Dr. Hobbs to join the Institute’s executive leadership,” said Stephen Kingsmore, MD, DSc, President and CEO of the Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine. “She brings deep expertise in building biomedical research programs and a passion for improving patient outcomes. That combination makes her uniquely qualified to join us in our mission to transform pediatric care.”
In her new role, Dr. Hobbs will guide the growing research and clinical programs at RCIGM. She will oversee the clinical genomics team, including physicians, nurses, genetic counselors and project managers, providing them with the intellectual and administrative infrastructure to support the Institute’s initiatives and goals.
Prior to joining the Institute in January of this year, Dr. Hobbs was Executive Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and Arkansas Children’s Hospital. In that role, she supported faculty scientists in their mission to develop biomedical knowledge leading to improved healthcare.
At UAMS she held a number of key leadership positions. Until her departure in December 2018, she was also Chief Research Information Officer. During 2016-2017, as a professor in the Department of Pediatrics, she fulfilled the role of director and co-principal investigator of the NIH-funded Data Coordinating and Operations Center for the 17-site Pediatric Clinical Trial Network in 2016-2017. Throughout her career, she continued her clinical service in neonatology attending in Level I to III nurseries.
“I am delighted to be part of the Institute’s pioneering team bringing precision genomic medicine to the cribs and bedsides of critically ill infants and children,” said Dr. Hobbs. “I finished pediatric residency 23 years ago, before the first human genome was sequenced. At that time, it was beyond my wildest imagination that someday I would have the opportunity to bring together my experience and skills in clinical medicine, informatics and genomics to join an extraordinary team combining science and medicine to improve the health of babies and children for generations to come.”
Dr. Hobbs is married to Jim Robbins, PhD, a native of Little Rock, AR and a health service researcher. They have three adult children between the ages of 21 to 23, who are currently in college.
Rady Lands $2 Million Pilot that Could Bring High-End Genetic Diagnosis to Kids on Medi-Cal
Daily vitamin doses were all that 11-month-old Maverick Coltrin needed to end the deadly seizures that arrived shortly after his birth.
But that simple solution materialized only after quick-turnaround genetic sequencing helped doctors at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego find the correct diagnosis fast enough to make a difference for the rapidly-deteriorating infant.
Sequencing Has Greater Diagnostic, Clinical Utility Than Microarrays for Pediatric Genetic Disease
Whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing have greater diagnostic and clinical utility than chromosomal microarrays in children thought to have a genetic disease, according to a new analysis. This suggested to the Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine-led research team that sequencing should be considered a first-line genomic test.
Children’s Genomics Partnership to Boost Treatment
A superteam of seven pediatric hospitals with advanced genetic and genomic testing capabilities is reporting progress in their efforts to improve the diagnosis of rare childhood diseases and hasten treatment.
WGS Helps Diagnosis and Reduces Healthcare Costs for Neonates in Intensive Care
Children who are born severely ill or who develop serious illness in the first few weeks of life are often difficult to diagnose, with considerable implications for their short and longer-term care. Whole genome sequencing*carried out quickly has the potential to provide an early diagnosis, and thus improve the clinical care of these infants as well as reducing its cost.
Rady Children’s Launches “Project Baby Bear”
$2 million Medi-Cal pilot funded by the State of California to provide genomic testing to acutely ill newborns in select cities across California
Sept. 26, 2018—Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego is launching Project Baby Bear, the first California State funded program to offer rapid whole genome sequencing (WGS) for critically-ill newborns.
The $2-million Medi-Cal pilot program will provide genome testing for babies hospitalized in intensive care. Project Baby Bear will leverage rapid WGS as a first-line diagnostic test done by Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine for babies at four participating hospitals statewide.
“We are honored to be selected as the first California children’s hospital to use the Medi-Cal platform to deliver access to this life-changing test to children who need it, regardless of their family’s ability to pay,” said Donald Kearns, MD, MMM, President and CEO of Rady Children’s. “California is once again leading the way in improving the lives of children and families with Project Baby Bear.”
Whole genome sequencing has been used at Rady Children’s to diagnose babies and children hospitalized in intensive care with rare diseases since July 2016, but only as part of clinical trials. As of Sept. 20, the Institute has sequenced nearly 1,200 children. More than one-third (34 percent) received a genomic diagnosis enabling physicians to make life-changing adjustments in care for 70 percent of those diagnosed.
Until the initiation of Project Baby Bear, whole genome sequencing has not been covered by insurance or Medi-Cal and was available only through clinical trials paid for by research grants or philanthropic donations.
At the launch announcement held today (Sept. 26) at Rady Children’s, Stephen Kingsmore, MD, DSc, President and CEO of Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine, introduced a mother whose newborn received a life-saving diagnosing through genomic sequencing.
Kara Coltrin shared the story of how her son suffered unrelenting seizures that took him to the brink of death before WGS pinpointed the cause of his illness and led doctors to change his treatment. “Genomic testing saved his life,” she said. “We’re blessed to be able to share his story so that we can help other children have access and give their parents hope.”
The Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine team led by Kingsmore holds the world record for fastest diagnosis through genomic sequencing at 19.5 hours. “Here at Rady Children’s, we’ve seen that using whole genome sequencing to diagnose and guide the care of babies hospitalized with rare diseases is reducing suffering and infant mortality, decreasing hospital stays and healthcare costs,” Kingsmore said.
“We are enormously grateful to the leadership of our elected officials in California for their willingness to support this important demonstration project,” Kingsmore added. “It’s our belief that rapid whole genome sequencing should become a first-line diagnostic test and standard of care in neonatal intensive care units everywhere.”
The program was championed by the California Legislative Rare Disease Caucus co-chaired by Assemblyman Brian Maienschein. He was among the lawmakers on hand for the program launch at Rady Children’s Hospital. Also attending was State Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins, Assemblyman Todd Gloria and State Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency Michael Wilkening.
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Introduction to Rand Park High School
AWARDS | VISION AND MISSION | FACILITIES | LEADERSHIP
Rand Park High School’s academic, sporting, cultural and service offering provides a holistic education to each learner who joins the school. Qualified educators strive for academic excellence and the school has a reputation for its sporting successes, excellence in visual and performing arts and a disciplined, firm and fair environment that enables learning and the establishment of life-long friendships among learners.
Rand Park High has ranked among the “Top Feeder Schools” to the University of the Witwatersrand for 8 consecutive years.
Learners are encouraged to become involved in the school and have ample opportunity to participate in activities that suit their specific needs and interests. They are provided with an all-round education that will help to prepare them for further tertiary studies and the world of work.
We welcomed Mr Nelson Mandela to our school when he visited on 22 August 2000. He addressed the learners and educators at the School Assembly.
Top Feeder School Award to Wits for 8 years!
Rand Park High receives the “Top Feeder School Award” from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Zodwa Ndebele of Wits, presents this certificate to our Principal, Mr Alan Wilke, on 23 October 2017.
District School Award
Mr Wilke attended the District Awards, held in February 2018, where Rand Park was was placed 2nd overall in the District.
Top Mathematics Learner in District
Jordan Macfie achieved 100% for Mathematics and 98% for Advanced Programme Mathematics and was awarded the top learner in the district award in 2018.
Vision and Mission Statement
“To position Rand Park High School as one of the leading high schools in the country and in so doing, provide a quality education that will serve the needs of its learners and the community.”
To provide opportunities for learners of varied abilities and backgrounds to develop into well-balanced, responsible, innovative, independent learners.
To create a caring, disciplined, supportive, child-centred environment that helps to develop each learner’s potential.
To prepare learners positively for the challenges of a dynamic, multi-cultural, technological society.
To produce well-rounded individuals who excel in tertiary institutions and the work place.
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Our facilities are rated as some of the best in Gauteng.
The classrooms are all equipped with whiteboards, data projectors, laptops and iPads. We also boast a number of specialised venues and laboratories.
On-campus facilities include three beautifully maintained fields, eight Cricket nets, seven Tennis and Netball courts, a 12-lane Olympic-sized heated swimming pool with Water Polo depth, and a fully-equipped and functional gym.
Our security systems are state-of-the-art and proactive, ensuring a safe and secure school environment.
We strive to continually improve and upgrade our facilities.
Rand Park High School has a highly-qualified, dedicated and professional staff which ensures that the school’s vision and mission statement are achieved.
It is headed by Mr A Wilke, assisted by the Deputy Principals, Mrs G Schütte, Mr C O’Connell, Mr R Coertzen, Ms T Workman-Davies and members of the Executive.
The academic staff are well supported by efficient administrative and maintenance personnel.
Rand Park High offers a rich and varied academic programme with excellent academic facilities. Our standards are high and many of our former learners are now leaders in the fields of Business, Science, Academics, Sport, Music and the Arts.
Our learners are competitive and actively participate in a variety of sporting activities. We are proud of our school spirit, qualified coaches and excellent results. Sport at Rand Park High builds discipline, teamwork, sportsmanship, commitment and determination.
With an exciting range of cultural activities, clubs and societies, our cultural programme offers something for everyone. Learners participate in on-stage festivals, the annual Major Production, Chess, Photography, Hiking, Music, Emergency Care and more.
Our learners serve their school and the community in various ways. The Leadership programme, outreach activities and service initiatives all contribute to building a sense of pride, responsibility and commitment.
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Power Machines and Siemens develop cooperation
On June 21, 2008, in Saint Petersburg Peter Loescher, Head of Executive Board of Siemens AG, and Alexey Mordashev, Head of the Board of Directors of Power Machines, signed a license agreement. According to the terms of the agreement Siemens signed away the technology and the right to produce, sale and maintain gas turbine units SGT5-4000F of 285 MW to Power Machines.
The agreement stipulates that SGT5-4000F shall be supplied to power plants in Russia, Belarus, the CIS, the Baltics, India, Pakistan etc.
‘This license agreement is a new stage of strategic partnership of Siemens and Power Machines. It is the next step in the development of Russian power engineering. Production of this type of turbines in Russia will make Power Machines more competitive, taking into account home gas turbine power engineering prospective development’, said Igor Kostin, GEO of Power Machines.
License agreement for gas turbine of 165 MW signed by Siemens AG and Power Machines last year became the base of the present agreement.
Gas turbine unit SGT5-4000F is a new technology within the sphere of design of gas turbines of “the latest generation”.
Production of components for the first gas turbine SGT5-4000F will be started in 2009. In Russia this type of gas turbines will be assembled by Power Machines. For the present time Power Machines launched production of gas turbines GTU-165 and SGT5-2000E of 165 MW. Up to now more than 30 turbines have been assembled. About 60% of spare parts and components are produced in Russia. Most of Russian components are produced at Power Machines branches – Leningradsky Metallichesky Zavod and Turbine Blades Plant.
Strategy of Power Machines aimed at development of the production line of gas turbines has the goal to meet the prospective demands of Russian power generating companies and namely combined cycle power plants from 65MW to 278MW.
SGT5-4000F is a highly reliable, cost effective and salable gas turbine unit. Its capacity is 285MW and the efficiency is 39,8%. Siemens has so far produced 160 such turbines.
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IMG, IMS or CSA Who Has Completed/Will Complete Postgraduate Training in Canada
IMG, IMS or CSA From a Medical School in Australia, Ireland, UK or USA Who Has Completed/Will Complete Postgraduate Training in Canada
International medical graduates (IMGs) are generally described as individuals who have completed medical school outside of Canada and the USA. Canadians studying abroad – Canadian citizens who have completed medical school outside of Canada - are also considered IMGs.
IMGs have a unique journey to practice as a GP in BC. For those from Australia, Irleland, the UK, or US who have completed medical school in one of these four locations and have completed or will complete residency in Canada:
You may be eligible for Certification in the College of Family Physicians (CCFP) without examination if you have you have successfully completed your certification exams to become a specialist in family medicine in one of the recognized jurisdictions (e.g. Australia, Ireland, UK, US).
You will be required to complete a two year return of service in an underserved community in BC.
You may be eligible for an MCCEE (Medical Council of Canada Evaluation Exam) exemption.
If you are not already a permanent resident or citizen of Canada you will need to apply for a work permit through Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada.
You may also be eligible to apply for a temporary residence permit, which allows working in Canada, followed by applying for permanent residency after a period of time.
Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Examination Part I
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Home / Relationships / Midlife Sex Problems? New Research Says You’re Not Alone
New research suggests that midlife Canadians struggle with a variety of sexual problems, with low desire reported as most common for both men and women. Photo credit: (c) Can Stock Photo / poco_bw
Midlife Sex Problems? New Research Says You’re Not Alone
in Relationships September 19, 2018 0
By Christopher Quinn-Nilas
Around 30 percent of Canadians, between the ages of 40 and 59, report at least one problem in the bedroom.
The most common sexual problem is low desire, according to a research study, we recently published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. Around 40 percent of the women we asked, and 30 percent of men, reported experiencing problems with low desire, during the last six months.
Many women also reported difficulties reaching orgasm (15 percent), as well as problems with vaginal dryness (29 percent) and vaginal pain (17 percent). Nearly a quarter of the men had difficulty ejaculating and maintaining or acquiring an erection.
These rates suggest that a variety of sexual problems are quite common among midlife Canadians. Our findings are also largely consistent with published research from the United States and the United Kingdom.
I am a PhD candidate in family relations and human development at the University of Guelph and my research typically focuses on “keeping the spark alive” in long-term relationships. My main interest is the intersection of relational and sexual elements within romantic relationships.
This study was co-authored with Robin Milhausen from the University of Guelph, Alexander McKay of the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada and Stephen Holzapfel from Women’s College Hospital Toronto. It was aimed at addressing a lack of available data on the frequency and predictors of sexual problems among midlife Canadians.
Novel sex enhances desire
Individuals who are married are more likely to report low desire than those who are not married, according to our results. Married men are more likely to report ejaculation difficulties.
These are interesting findings, and not unexpected. Other research has shown that sexual satisfaction decreases over time in long-term relationships. Together, this suggests that over-familiarity with a partner in some cases may lead to the sexual “spark” burning less bright, which may also contribute to sexual problems.
Our research also suggests that participating in novel sexual activities may enhance desire by breaking up routine and therefore enhancing the spark.
We also examined the effect of menopause — finding that postmenopausal women were more likely to report low desire and vaginal pain. This is consistent with other literature showing declines in desire for postmenopausal women. It complements other research, which suggests that physiological changes like thinning of the vaginal walls and reduced lubrication that can occur after menopause may lead to vaginal pain.
When doctors don’t ask
We conducted this research with a large national sample of 2,400 Canadians, aged between 40 and 59. Our findings showed that sexual problems are very common in this age group. This is one of the largest Canadian demographics and will continue to grow. More national Canadian data is needed to understand the health-care needs for this group.
One important limitation of this study is that we based our research on participant self-reports and did not assess whether they met the diagnostic criteria for a clinical diagnosis of sexual dysfunction (e.g. erectile dysfunction).
Previously published research reveals that more midlife Canadians would like to be asked about sexual problems by their doctors, but more than 75 percent had not sought help for these problems.
Read together with the results of our study, this suggests an emerging health-care issue that requires attention and research.
Christopher Quinn-Nilas is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph.
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Patricia Goodson, pianist
American pianist Patricia Goodson is active as a solo recitalist, recording artist and chamber musician throughout Europe and North America. Her playing, has been praised by critics as 'powerful and seductive' and 'breathtakingly virtuosic' .
Her most recent CD, "Shadows Across the Water", of solo and chamber works by New Zealand composer Dame Gillian Whitehead, was released to great acclaim on Rattle Records in 2018. Other recent recordings include the piano concerto and solo variations of Scottish/Czech composer Geraldine Mucha on the ArcoDiva label. An additional CD featuring Mucha`s solo piano works is slated for release in 2018.
In 2013, Brilliant Classics released her recording of the complete solo piano works of Czech composer Josef Bohuslav Foerster. Only five of the 70 pieces had been commercially recorded, so the four CD set filled a significant gap, and the project, partially supported by a successful Kickstarter proposal, earned high praise.
Her recordings for Czech Radio and Czech Television include works by Vlastislav Matoušek, Joseph Adamík, Hanuš Barton and others.
Ms. Goodson has lived full-time in Prague since 1991. She works actively with contemporary composers, and has had many pieces written especially for her. Her broad repertoire encompasses music by Czech composers of all periods such as Fibich, Suk, Tomášek, Janácek, Foerster, Fišer, Kapr, Loudová, Matoušek and Dvorák as well as masterworks from the standard repertoire.
In addition to her performing career, Ms Goodson designed music and sound effects for very early Atari home and arcade video games. She wrote about classical music for the Prague Post and other publications, and wrote and co-hosted "Encore", a show about Czech classical music for Radio Prague for several years. She remains active as a voice-over artist. She also organized the Music Now Prague festival of Czech and American contemporary music in the 1990`s, and the Jiné Pohledy festival in 2012.
Ms. Goodson received her education at Duke University (BA, magna cum laude) and at the Peabody Conservatory (MM). She currently serves on the piano faculty of New York University in Prague. She was co-founder and until 2016 co-director of the Geraldine Mucha musical archive.
She lives in Prague with her husband, Ivan Karhan, owner of the Rocking Horse Toy Shop, and their dog Ollie.
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Shakir Pichler
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Shakir Pichler (born August, 1967 in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian Drummer, Singer, and feature film Action Vehicle Coordinator.
Shakir joined his first performing rock band, the WAMI award-winning The Kryptonics in Perth, Western Australia in 1984 at the age of 17. They quickly attracted a record deal with Cherry Top and released their first single, Plastic Imitation / Baby (1985) and due to popular demand, soon after pressed a second batch which included the bonus track "As Long As You're Mine".
Just after filming their first music video for "Baby," Shakir was poached by local hard rock band The Bamboos, with whom he recorded and released the single "Snuff", the flexi-disk "Dead Girl", the EP "Born Killer" and the album Rarer Than Rockinghorse Shit.
In 1991 he played drums with Nick Sheppard from The Clash in "The New Egyptian Kings".
After two national tours he finally left to form his own rockabilly band The Howlin MoonDoggies who have recorded three albums Doggie Style, Chasin Pussy & The Last Leg and have also been included on several international rockabilly compilations.
Having recorded two more music videos with The Howlin MoonDoggies in addition to managing the band, he decided to start his own record label in order to help other artists, SexBeat Records, which released a 28-band all Australian punk rock and ska compilation entitled Skunk & Disorderly (2000). Moving from Perth to Sydney, New South Wales to be with his partner at the time Rebekah Elmaloglou he then formed a hard rock band called "Fink".
During the next few years he also worked in the film industry on many features such as Mission: Impossible 2 and On Our Selection and appeared in the feature film Fat Pizza (the movie) as well as various international commercials including work for Kahlúa and Claretine (USA).
In 2002 he moved from Sydney to Melbourne to work on the feature film Ghost Rider and the Stephen King series Nightmares & Dreamscapes and also formed a new band, Brutal Pancho, who in only one year made quite an impression on the international rock scene.
Briefly in 2007 he toured Australia with the Melbourne punk band Amphetish and with the American band The Wish You Weres. He then lived in Barcelona for a year and helped promote local bands there while also working with Film company Icon International TV where he was flown around Europe as part of the Camera crew, filming Buena Vista Social Club live in Munich among many other productions.
In 2013 he played drums with 'The Terraces', based in Melbourne - a Punk/Rock band made up of well known musicians - Gary 'Gaz' Buckley from UK Punk band 'One Way System', Steve 'Kingy' King from 'Rose Tattoo', Dean Tslondres from 'Head Inc'. The Terraces released a music video of their version of the Clash's "Complete Control" as a tribute to Joe Strummer. This video also features special guest Nick Sheppard from The Clash!
Source http://www.uberrock.co.uk/news-updates/97-july-news-updates/8670-the-terraces-release-complete-control-video-clip-featuring-the-clashs-nick-sheppard.html
They tour UK and Spain in August 2013. A link to their video can be found here. The Terraces - Complete Control HD Video
Currently After living in Barcelona Spain for 5 years, he is now living in Western Australia again recording some new material with his Rockabilly band 'The Howlin MoonDoggies' in his home studio.
Since returning to Perth Western Australia, he has worked on 4 feature films as Action Vehicle Coordinator. Jasper Jones Hounds Of Love Breath 1%
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The Kryptonics
Plastic Imitation / Baby (1985)
Baby (Music Video)(1985)
Plastic Imitation / Baby / Bonus - As Long As You're Mine (1985)
Rejectionville (2007)
The Bamboos
Snuff / Virginia (1986)
Snuff (Music Video) (1986)
Rarer Than Rockinghorse Shit (1986)
Dead Girl - Flexidisk (1986)
Born Killer (1986)
The Howlin MoonDoggies
Doggie Style (1999)
Pistol Fast Cadillac (Music Video) (1999)
Chasin Pussy (2003)
Pieces (Music Video) (2003)
Stupid Boy (2001)
Stupid Boy (Music Video) (2001)
Brutal Pancho
Rock Hard n Ready! (2006)
Lock n Load (2007)
Complete Control (Music Video) Featuring special guest Nick Sheppard from The Clash, Steve 'Kingy' King from Rose Tattoo (Sydney), Gary Buckley from One Way System (UK), Dean Tslondres from Head Inc (Melbourne) (2013)
Official Shakir Pichler web site
Official Shakir Pichler MySpace page
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Richard Turner
Richie Turner biography
Richie is a freelance innovation and business development adviser, working in the private, public and voluntary sectors. He is also a freelance consultant, trainer and lecturer in creative entrepreneurship, innovation and arts management (including the MA Arts Management at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama). Currently he is working as Projects Director: Enterprise and Innovation at Artis Community (the community arts organisation for RCT). He is also a Member of the Arts Council of Wales (appointed by Welsh Government Ministers in 2010), where he has special responsibility for equalities and diversity for the Arts Council.
Recently he has worked with Monmouthshire County Council, on a wide range of innovation and service design initiatives, and with Torfaen County Borough Council on both culture change and arts led regeneration plans. He has undertaken innovation and business development for many cultural organisations including S4C, Butetown History and Arts Centre, TaikaBox and Jukebox Collective.
Richie is an Associate of The Satori Lab (public sector innovation) and Native HQ (social media development), he is an external assessor for BBC Children in Need and voluntary Chairman of SWICA Carnival.
Previously he was a partner and Director of Creative Enterprise Consulting Ltd, co-founder and Deputy Director of the Global Academy at the University of Wales (where he jointly established the Prince of Wales Innovation Scholarships - at the time the world’s highest paid PhD scholarship and Wales’ first formal partnership with MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology) , the first Wales Manager for NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), and has worked at the Arts Council of Wales as Head of its Arts for All Lottery programmes and Senior Strategic Development Officer.
He was also Director of Cardiff and District Multicultural Arts (CADMAD) and a co-founded Nofit State Circus in 1986. He still lives in Cardiff.
Risky in Pink
The Pantomime
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Central Park Building:
Sep 22, 2008
Close your eyes in this sunlit room and you can almost feel the courtroom tension, hear the judge’s gavel as it closes another case. You can imagine the grunts echoing in the stairwell as the local police officer heaved and hauled the evening’s inebriate from the streets of Smithers, up three flights of stairs to the jail cells. You can picture shirt-collared government workers with the departments of Lands and Labour huddled together in cramped office spaces upstairs.
Smithers’ Central Park Building has seen many incarnations, today acting as the community’s hub for arts and culture. In its halls, excited children rush to pick up performance costumes, artists ply their crafts and community members meet to learn, create and socialize. Narrowly avoiding the wrecking ball on at least one occasion, the building faces the ongoing challenges of any aging structure, but continues to be the town’s social centre.
“This room alone is a beehive,” says Janet Harris, who teaches dance classes in what once was a courtroom, now a sunny dance studio, surrounded by windows encased in heavy wooden moldings typical of their era. “I don’t think it’s quiet here for more than a couple hours at a time.”
Built in 1925 as the Provincial Building, the Central Park Building’s name pays tribute to the green space that once occupied the lot at Smithers’ main intersection at Main Street and Highway 16. For 50 years the 7,700-square-foot, three-storey building intermittently housed the police detachment, jail cells, the forest service, the courthouse, numerous government offices, and even the local RCMP sergeant’s family.
In the early 1970s, the provincial government pulled out of the aging building and donated it to the Town of Smithers. For the next six years, the town rented space to local not-for-profit organizations at $3.20 per square foot, but increasing maintenance costs were putting the building’s future in jeopardy.
In August, 1978 it was announced that the furnace was no longer safe and would not be replaced. Many believed that a winter without heat would spell the end of the aging building, not to mention the end of an era. Despite recommendations from two town councillors that the building be torn down, Mayor Gordon Williams vetoed the building’s destruction vote and that fall the Central Park Building Society was formed.
The society took over management of the building in 1979. That year, massive fundraising efforts resulted in a new roof and installation of the building’s current furnace. Despite these efforts, just three years later the building was closed on recommendation of the fire commissioner for not being up to code. That summer, engineers reported that the building had endured well and its preservation as a historical and community landmark would benefit the community. Estimated costs for required renovations came in at $370,000.
Again, volunteer efforts flew into full swing, and by the following year the building boasted upgraded electrical, roofing and structural support systems, as well as a 440-square-foot addition to incorporate two stairwells in back as fire exits. In the end, the heritage restoration project cost the society $111,153, which it largely paid for with funding from BC’s Heritage Fund, the Town of Smithers, and more fundraising. An additional $66,000 in labour and materials was donated by the community.
The renos resulted in its status as being “heritage on three sides,” with the north, south and west walls qualifying, but the revamped backside excluded. With similar architecture, the Central Park Building bookends the old CN Railway station, another of the town’s heritage buildings, at opposite ends of Main Street.
Today, the Central Park Building Society might feel a sense of déjà vu as the building’s 30-year-old furnace nears the end of its life. According to a 2007 assessment, the heating system operates at 60 to 65 percent efficiency. Add to that pipes as old as the building itself, next-to-no insulation in the roof, single-paned windows and skyrocketing heating costs, and it’s easy to understand why a move is underway to raise the funds required to once again upgrade the facility.
Now home to the Bulkley Valley Museum and the Smithers Art Gallery, the Central Park Building plays a pivotal role in the community’s arts and culture scene, as well as providing a much-needed meeting place for groups like the Genealogical Society, Spinners and Weavers, Tai Chi, yoga and Irish step-dancing. On the third floor, an otherwise claustrophobic hallway with peeling paint and cracked linoleum hosts an array of colourfully painted doorways, each leading into studios where local artists and musicians come to find inspiration.
The dancers, artists, musicians and community members that gather here do so in a building where the sounds of history still ring loudly. But far from hosting ghosts from the past, the Central Park Building continues to create new memories and play an important role in the area’s culture and society.
“A lot of people don’t realize this building is more than just the art gallery and the museum,” Harris says. “I would hazard to say there’s well over 100 people that come in and out of the building on a daily basis.”
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Sampsel Preston Photography
Photographing Alex Toth for "The Artist Within"
To be honest, I can't for the life of me remember who gave me Alex Toth's phone number, but I do remember that it came with the caveat that he almost never answered his phone, so I should try to call at various times of the day and night until he did. I also remember being told that it most likely would be a waste of time to even call him to ask if he would be a part of my photo project, because he was now a recluse. Pretty much avoiding everyone that he had known or been friends with. It seems like another person may have mentioned in passing that Toth hadn't actually left his house in several years. So of course I was intrigued.
At the time I think I had been working on my project, photographing artists in their studios, for maybe 4 years , still traveling back and forth from Las Vegas to L.A., and other places, to shoot when I could find the time. Now I had seen Alex's art over the years in various comic books, "Zorro", "Creepy" and "Eerie" etc., and had always enjoyed the stark quality of his work. I knew that he had designed Space Ghost for Hanna Barbera, which was cool, but that was about it. I hadn't been a huge fan, and I really didn't know much more than that. But as I did a little research, and began to discuss the possibility of photographing him with some of the people who knew him, it turned out that almost everyone I spoke with loved, loved, loved his work, and that he was considered by his peers and fans alike to be one of the most influential comic book artists and designers in the business. I also heard a few tales of his fabled hot temper. Which made me a little nervous. The story that sticks in my mind is about the time Alex Toth backed a famous editor up to a open window in a very tall building, with the only thing keeping the editor from dropping to his doom was the clutch Toth had on his coat. To be fair, I don't how true that was, as stories that become folk lore tend to grow greater with each telling, but I bet no editors from that point forward ever tried to stiff Toth on a job again!. But again, stories like this just seemed to hone in the reality that he was a genius and a legend in the industry. My job was to find out first whether he was still with us, as a couple of people I had talked to were sure that Alex had passed away because no one had seen him in out in public for a quite a long time.
So, I was a little nervous when I finally decided to make the call, but I remember thinking what's the worst that could happen, he could just say no, right? (I had certainly had that happen more than a few times.) I came up with this plan that I would just call every hour or so for a couple days, just to see if I could even get him to pick up his phone. It turned out that I didn't have to work too hard, as he picked up on the first try. It's funny, but I was so shocked at he actually answered that I almost hung up. I felt like a kid doing a prank call. But instead, I went into my schpeal that I had come up with when making cold calls like these: " Hi my name is Greg Preston and I am a photographer In Las Vegas, and I have been working on this project photographing Comic book artists and Cartoonists..." yada yada yada. My goal was to say this so fast that the person on the other end of the line really didn't have a chance to say no or hang up, kind of like a telemarketer, and by the end of the speech I would always throw in, "and I've got Jack Kirby". That last line would invariably get one of two responses. Either the artist would say "no thanks" and hang up, or as happened more often than not, they would say "Oh yeah, you got Kirby?, and I knew that I had 'em" .
Alex was very casual and at first he wasn't really interested, but as we talked for a few minutes, he finally agreed (to my surprise) to let me come up to the house and take his portrait. What I remember him saying was " bring the cheapest camera that you can find, no lights, don't make a big deal, and I'll just step out on the porch and you can take a shot". The porch? After hanging up, I remember thinking what the heck does that mean "The cheapest camera that you can find"? So I came up with the idea to photograph Alex with one of my then recently acquired "Diana" cameras.
I had been experimenting with taking photographs with toy cameras then, and I had recently been able to find a couple of original "Dianas" at our local camera repair shop. The "Diana" was a very cheaply produced novelty camera that had been made in the 1960's, originally pricing out at $1.99. It was like a plastic pinhole camera, and more recently it had emerged as a sort of an art camera. The images from a "Diana" have a very appealing soft, grainy, dreamlike quality due to the plastic lens, and you would sometimes get an amazing shot if you were lucky. At the same time it had a few problems, the worst being that it leaked light like a sieve and had to be taped all over with black gaffers tape so as not to expose and ruin the film. Also you couldn't exactly tell where the frame started by looking through the view finder so you might occasionally crop off your subjects head; little things like that. So my brilliant idea was to show up at his house, pull out my cheap little camera, have a few laughs about it, and then run back to the car and get the real camera and do the shoot. In hind-sight this was probably not one of my best ideas.
Alex lived in Hollywood in a rambling Craftsman style house, up behind the Hollywood Bowl.. We had arranged to meet at 9:00 am. on a Saturday morning. I remember he met me at the front door. He was dressed in a crumpled blue shirt and khaki pants, no shoes. He was a big bear of a guy, but not really menacing; he kind of reminded me of Ernest Hemingway in that he had a sort of cool sense about him. He stepped out on the porch and said, "Lets do this". Just like that, no discussion, no laughs, nothing. So, luckily I had loaded some really fast film in the Diana (3200 ISO rated at 12,800 ISO) and started shooting. It was kind of dark where we were standing, but it had a northern exposure so the light had a nice quality. I shot about 30 frames when Alex turned and said "Ya got it?" I had no idea, but said "yeah, I got it". I mean it was so quick. As I started to step off the porch, he asked, "Would you like some iced tea?". Then he did something I hadn't expected: he invited me in.
The inside of the house was cluttered with magazines, stacks of video tapes, art books, lots of stuff. He mentioned that he didn't go out of the house anymore since his wife had passed away several years before. He just didn't see a reason; that made me a little sad. I asked how he got his food and he told me that a friend sent him a package of food every couple of weeks by mail. After chatting for about 40 minutes, I finally built up the courage to ask if I could photograph him in his studio. He told me the studio was upstairs, but that he didn't go up there any more either. We talked a little about cameras, and he mentioned that he would like to get a hold of an old manual Nikon (a few years later I had the pleasure of sending him a FM2 that I had found at a yard sale.) He gave me a copy of the book written about him, "Alex Toth" by Manual Auad, and graciously signed it to me. After a few more minutes we said our goodbyes, as I had planned another shoot for that afternoon, and had to get going. He mentioned that he wanted to see the proofs, and to keep in touch. I left feeling pretty positive about the shoot, and we had gotten along well enough that I thought that I might have another chance if the whole idea of shooting with a toy camera turned out to be a dicey choice.
Two days later I was back at the studio, and eager to get the film processed. I have to be honest, I was disappointed when I first looked at the proofs. I didn't think that I had gotten the shot I was hoping for. However, My wife, Sharon took one look at the proofs and said, "I think this is the best shot you've done so far!" At the time I just figured she was being supportive. I sent Alex the proofs, but because I wasn't convinced I had a great shot, I did try to call Alex and set up another shoot. He promptly said, "No thanks, I don't want to talk to you again" and hung up. Really depressed about the opportunity I had most certainly missed, I put the negatives in a drawer, and forgot about it for 6 months. It was Sharon who found the envelope of negatives while searching my messy desk for some lost paperwork. She went into the darkroom and made a print of one of the negatives. It looked much better than I had remembered. Even though I didn't get to photograph Alex in his actual studio, this shot for me really does encompass the person I met and the experience that I'd had. I have come to love this shot.
In the years since I have had quite a few people say that this image is their favorite from the book as well.
The Book "The Artist Within" published by Dark Horse has 101 photographs of your favorite artists and is great for collecting sketches and autographs at conventions. It is available through Amazon, for cheap, and makes a great gift.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1593075618/
Here are a few out takes from the session.
Alex Toth Passed away in 2006.
Posted by Sampsel Preston Photography at 7:19 AM
Las Vegas, Photographer, Famous Chefs Alex Toth, Comic Book Artists, Dark Horse Publishing, Greg Preston, The Artist Within"
Legions Photography May 6, 2010 at 10:03 AM
"It never hurts to ask"
My parents always told me that when I was a child and truthfully it has always improved my life by following it.
I feel that nerves always get the best of us, wheather we show it or not. The greatest feeling is overcoming those nerves.
Thank you Greg for sharing that story. Hearing the experiences that a photographer goes through is a great way to show other photographers that the smallest jobs are always the biggest.
Evan "Doc" Shaner May 6, 2010 at 11:40 PM
Hey Greg! This is Evan Shaner, I "run" the Toth page on facebook, thanks for pointing this out to me. I love your book, and this behind the scenes story about your shoot with Alex is great. I love the photos as well.
Joakim Gunnarsson May 15, 2010 at 3:02 PM
Great story and great photo! Thanks for sharing the outtakes too.
MilkManX May 25, 2010 at 1:56 PM
That is awesome. I had tears in my eyes the day he passed.
Jeff Norwell January 14, 2011 at 9:57 PM
One of my biggest inspirations and all time hero.
Really great shots.....I agree. very Hemmingway-esk!
Fabulous... you had an opportunity of a lifetime to meet a Genius.
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Sharon Sampsel & Greg Preston graduated from the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and had the good luck to pick Las Vegas as the up and coming place in which to open their studio.Riding the wave in as Las Vegas came into it's own in the last 20 years has been a blast for these two partners. Although they concentrate mostly on Resort and Casino work, Being in a town like Las Vegas gives them the opportunity to shoot just about everything, which is fine with them. Their studio is a wonderfully located 4000 sq.ft. Space right across the freeway from Mandalay Bay Resort, with two shooting bays, a full kitchen, a make-up area, and a relaxation room. 2009 holds in store the opening of their new space, as they are hot on the trail of a property that is really innovative and "outside the box" of the ordinary studios in Las Vegas.
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Home / Culture / Arts / ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ meets expectations
‘Fiddler on the Roof’ meets expectations
By Aurora Sosveen on December 19, 2018
The Menier Chocolate Factory was kind enough to invite Roar to see their production of Fiddler on the Roof – a classic musical about a tradition where we meet Tevye, a poor milkman and father of five daughters. As according to tradition, his three eldest should all get married soon with a man of Tevye’s choice, but they all make their own way instead. During the musical, we see how the contrast between tradition and the modern world play out, with a more serious backdrop of anti-Semitism and revolution.
The night opened with a monologue from main character Tevye, comparing their lives to one of a fiddler balancing on a roof: “It isn’t easy… You may ask, why do we stay up there if it’s so dangerous? We stay because Anatevka is our home. And how do we keep our balance? That I can tell you in one word; tradition!” This led us into the first musical act of the evening where we were introduced to the town of Anatevka and its citizens.
The intimate staging helped the audience really feel as though we were, in fact, visiting Anatevka. Even as the audience was walking in, actors were already walking across the stage doing everyday tasks, accompanied by live music. The audience was seated at three different sides of the stage, which naturally resulted in the actors occasionally not facing us. This was luckily made up for by relatively good sound, and lavalieres providing us with clear audio. The small venue also faced a slight problem in terms of acoustics, where the live music sometimes became too big for the room leaving us with a slightly annoying treble, but this was a minor grievance.
A view from outside: the Menier Chocolate factory
I was thoroughly impressed with the acting. In such a small venue, it would be easy to spot any out-of-character move, but as far as I can tell that never occurred. They all made memorable impressions, but we have to address Tevye specifically. Andy Nyman managed to convey both Tevye’s love for his daughters and his beliefs in such a way that even when he acts irrationally, you sympathise with him. While he clearly sees that there is a new world out there, he struggles to adapt, yet always retains some wit and humour. The ever-famous “If I were a rich man” was well-performed, you could clearly see that Nyman made his own interpretation of the character, and a good one too.
Again, given the small size of the stage, I started to worry whether we should see any dancing, as you would expect in a musical. The dance acts came surprisingly late, and were perhaps a bit shorter or less frequent than in other productions of Fiddler, but they were nevertheless good and much welcomed. From that point on I couldn’t do anything but sit back and enjoy the show. Even the absurd dream sequence became enjoyable once you accepted the format. Throughout the play, we were shown important features from Judaism, which still felt universal enough to strike a chord in everyone in the audience.
It did not feel as though this production brought anything new to the table, but then again it’s hard to tell if that was its main motive. After all, this is a musical, and it certainly fulfilled my requirements for being good; great actors, singers, dancers, and an altogether enjoyable evening. What’s not to love?
If you want to catch this amazing production in action, it runs between 23rd November 2018 – 9th March 2019: find tickets here!
Note that the performance has now transferred to the West End’s Playhouse Theatre for the remainder of the season.
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by jayrocker | Nov 22, 2015 | Artists and Bands |
Trivium is a band originated from Orlando, Florida, USA which was formed in 2000. After the release of their second album Ascendancy in 2005, the band’s popularity grew rapidly. They have been described by the press as one of the battering rams of New Wave of American Heavy Metal and possible future innovators of heavy metal.
The band’s current members are Matt Heafy on the guitars and vocals, Corey Beaulieu on the guitars, Paolo Gregoletto on the bass and Mat Madiro on the drums. Past members include vocalist Brad Lewter (2000), guitarist/bassist Brent Young (2000–2004), drummer Travis Smith (2000–2009) and drummer Nick Augusto (2009–2014).
Their musical style has evolved over the years, ranging from metalcore to melodic death metal, heavy metal, thrash metal and progressive metal. They are mostly noted for their ability to write solid, memorable guitar riffs. They have stated numerous bands as their influences with Iron Maiden being the leading of them.
Their discography consists of seven studio albums. Trivium’s studio releases:
Ember to Inferno (2003)
Ascendancy (2005)
The Crusade (2006)
Shogun (2008)
In Waves (2011)
Vengeance Falls (2013)
Silence in the Snow (2015)
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The College’s Winter Cinema and Media Studies program in Paris provides undergraduate students with an opportunity to explore the study of film and related media at the University of Chicago’s Center in Paris. This program is open to students of all majors and includes two courses that can be used to satisfy the general education arts requirement (arts core). Any student with an interest in film, particularly French cinema, is encouraged to apply. The program courses will make use of the rich cultural resources of Paris and the French film-making tradition to enhance the educational experience of learning to analyze and interpret films as works of art. Program participants will also take a French language course, which runs at a normal pace through the quarter and is designed to help students connect with French (and Parisian) culture.
Apart from classroom work, the Cinema and Media Studies program offers a series of excursions to sites of artistic and historic interest within and in the vicinity of Paris. Indeed Paris itself, with its wealth of cinemas, museums, libraries and theaters, its lively art, film, and literary scene, its rich traditions of creation and critique, plays a central role in the program and students will be expected to make full use of its cultural resources.
WINTER 2020 FACULTY & COURSES
Jim Lastra (Cinema and Media Studies) – Film and the Moving Image
Dominique Bluher (Cinema and Media Studies) – Cinema in Theory and Practice
D. N. Rodowick (Cinema and Media Studies) – Contemporary Art in Paris
Center in Paris
Headquarters for the College’s study abroad programs in Paris is the University of Chicago Center in Paris, the University’s research and teaching arm in Europe. Situated in the thirteenth arrondissement, the Center in Paris is part of an ambitious intellectual project along the river Seine, including the Bibliothèque Nationale and a new home for Université Denis Diderot (University of Paris VII). The Center in Paris features classrooms, offices for faculty and graduate students, computer facilities, a small library and an apartment for the faculty director. For participants in Chicago’s programs, the Center in Paris provides a focus for academic activities, a central meeting place and a continuing Chicago “presence” within one of the major capitals of Europe.
Students in the Paris Cinema and Media Studies program are housed in a residence hall within the Cité Internationale Universitaire (Cité). The Cité, a park-like residential complex in the fourteenth arrondissement, is the international student campus in Paris, though French students also live there. Students reside in single rooms with a private bath and have access to Cité facilities, including a library, theater, laundry and athletic facilities. Students will have access to common kitchens in the residence halls and can purchase inexpensive meals at the Cité’s restaurant universitaire.
Credits and Registration
Participants in the Paris Cinema and Media Studies program remain registered as full-time students in the College. They receive one credit for each of the four courses offered through this program. The first two courses can be used toward the College’s general education requirement in the arts (arts core), while the third course may be used as either an elective or within the Cinema and Media Studies major. The first two courses may also be eligible for credit within the Cinema and Media Studies major if the arts core requirement has already been fulfilled and with approval from the department’s Director of Undergraduate Studies. The use of these courses in related or interdisciplinary majors may be possible, though students will have to submit a specific petition to the appropriate undergraduate program chair. The language course will normally count as an elective. Course titles, units of credit and grades are placed on the College transcript.
Study abroad students pay regular College tuition, a program fee and a non-refundable study abroad administrative fee. The tuition and program fee are paid in conformity with the home campus payment schedule, and the non-refundable study abroad administrative fee is submitted when accepting a place in a program. Precise figures for the Paris Cinema and Media Studies program during the 2019-20 year are listed below:
Winter tuition: as set by the Bursar’s Office
Study abroad administrative fee: $675
Paris Cinema and Media Studies program fee: $4,900
Program fee includes:
Out-of-pocket expenses include:
accommodation round-trip airfare to and from the program site
instruction transportation on site
student support meals
program excursions course materials
emergency travel insurance (ISOS) personal entertainment and travel
communications (including cell phone usage)
health insurance and upfront payments for care
other miscellaneous expenses
Previous program participants report spending in the range of $200 to $250 per week on meals and incidentals while on the program, though frugal students may spend less, and others could spend much more. Bear in mind that the cost of living in Paris is relatively high and that, while it is possible to live frugally, it is also possible to run short of money if you are unwary. It is therefore essential that you budget your funds prudently, apportioning your resources so that they last for the duration of the program. If you are planning to travel before or after the program or on weekends, you should budget accordingly.
Study abroad students retain their financial aid eligibility. For more information about financial aid resources, please see our general Tuition, Fees, and Funding section.
The Paris Cinema and Media Studies program is open to University of Chicago undergraduate students only. Applications from outside the University are not accepted.
The program is designed for undergraduates in good standing. While the program stipulates no minimum grade-point average, an applicant’s transcript should demonstrate that they are a serious student who will make the most of this opportunity. Because the Cinema and Media Studies courses are taught in English, there is no language prerequisite, although students are encouraged to take French on campus before the program begins.
Each application is examined on the basis of the student’s scholastic record, personal statement and academic recommendation. If you are interested in applying for this program please fill out the online application.
To discuss the Paris: Cinema and Media Studies program and the possibility of participating in it, please contact Kylie Poulin.
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