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UCI’s Radical Approach to Teaching Art
Liz Goldner January 8, 2021 ArtsEducation
Ronald Davis, Round Buck (UCI) Alexis Smith, Flatlands, 1972 (UCI) Alexis Smith, Flatlands (detail), 1972 (UCI) Gary Beydler, 30 Minutes in July 1976 (UCI) Craig Kauffman, 1968 (UCI) Barbara T. Smith, The Celebration of the Holy Squash, 1971 (UCI) Barbara T. Smith, The Celebration of the Holy Squash, The Baptism, 1971 (UCI) Barbara T. Smith, Ritual Meal, 1969 (UCI) Jerry Byrd, Graphite #21, 1970 (UCI) Chris Burden, If You Drive, 1973 (UCI) Chris Burden, If You Fly, 1973 (UCI) John Mason (UCI) Joe Goode, 1970 (UCI) Joe Goode, 1971 (UCI) Laddie John Dill, Light Sentence, 1971 (UCI) Laddie John Dill, Light Sentence, 1971 (UCI) Laddie John Dill, Light Sentence, 1971 (UCI) Laddie John Dill with Light Sentence, 1971, in 2011 (UCI) Gary Beydler, 20 Minutes in April 1976 (UCI) Ned Evans, Whitewater 16 (UCI) Richard Newton, Cantina (UCI) Richard Newton, Parfum (UCI) Ronald Davis, Six Ninths (UCI) John McCracken (UCI) Tony DeLap, Dedi of Desnefru (UCI) Tony DeLap, Dedi of Desnefru (UCI) Vija Celmins (UCI) John Mason, installation view at the Whitney Museum, 1973 (UCI) Craig Kauffman, Fenetre, 1976 (UCI) John McCracken, 1984 (UCI) Larry Bell, Bette and the Giant Jewfish (UCI) Larry Bell (UCI) Jay McCafferty, 1979 (UCI) Ned Evans, 1974 (UCI) Nancy Buchanan, Some Hair, 1971-72 (UCI) Nancy Buchanan, Twin Corners, 1975 (UCI) Tony DeLap, Fawkes, 1968 (UCI) Tony DeLap, Four Dots, 1962 (UCI)
Memories and recollections of live exhibitions can provide solace to art lovers, as we wait for the pandemic to abate and for life to return to a semblance of normalcy.
Among the most outstanding exhibitions I have seen over the years — actually a collaboration of art shows, titled “Pacific Standard Time (PST): Art in LA 1945-1980” — ran from October 2011 to March 2012. For this Getty Foundation sponsored initiative, over 60 Southern California art institutions looked back at, defined and documented in displays, catalogs and dialogues this area’s post war cultural scene.
As these shows demonstrated, influences on the emergence of SoCal as a major art capital included the counterculture movement, the opening of major art schools (including the UC Irvine art department), and the growth of the aerospace industry. The latter provided artists with new techniques and materials, such as malleable plastics and acrylic resin/polymer emulsion paint, employed by California Light and Space artists in their art pieces.
Three Pacific Standard Time exhibitions — presented at UC Irvine, the Orange County Museum of Art and the Laguna Art Museum (LAM) — featured the work of UCI artist teachers and students who inhabited their free-spirited art department from the mid 1960s into the early 1970s.
Laguna Art Museum’s “Best Kept Secret,” the most varied of these exhibitions, was on display from November 2011 to the following January. The show’s title was based on UCI art school dean Jill Beck’s (1995-2003) use of “Best Kept Secret” to describe the newly created art school as a formidable force in the advancement of contemporary art.
As the LAM exhibition revealed, UCI in its early days was a haven of forward-thinking creativity where instructors transcended the limits of formal art styles, while employing tolerance, dialogue, diversity and experimentation in their teaching methods. And students were encouraged to explore new approaches to performance art, body art, video and film, among other genres. Or as art writer/poet Peter Frank explained in the catalog accompanying the show: “Instructors stressed attitude rather than practice, intellectual inquiry instead of manual dexterity, discourse in lieu of production.”
UCI art instructors, including SoCal pioneers Larry Bell, Tony DeLap, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman, John Mason and Ed Moses, mentored students and even collaborated on art pieces with them. Additional inspiration to teachers and students was provided by the modernist free-form UCI campus buildings, designed by William Pereira. (The 1968 movie, “Planet of the Apes,” about a crew of astronauts that crash-lands on a far-away planet, was filmed on the futuristic-looking UCI campus.)
Perhaps the most famous student to emerge from the UCI art department was Chris Burden (creator of the “Urban Light” [2008] sculpture at the L.A. County Museum of Art) who did several conceptual performance pieces there. In his “Through the Night Softly” (1973), he crawled nearly naked over glass; in “Five Day Locker Piece” (1971), he locked himself inside a locker for five days.
Barbara T. Smith, a former suburban housewife and UCI art student, grew into a performance artist there with her “Ritual Meal” (1969), a nightmarish video of dinner guests wearing hospital scrubs while eating with surgical instruments. Nancy Buchanan created “Hairpiece” (1971-72), a large rug woven from human and poodle hair. And feminist student Marsha Red Adams’ submitted her “Woman Bound/Woman Withdrawn” (1971) to the show. This installation of eight photographs of a naked woman in various constraining poses features hand-painted and stitched string binding each individual pose.
John Mason’s tall “Unfinished Arch” (1973) made of traditional clay bricks was held together through physics and carefully placed components, not with mortar. At a walk-through of the show, he explained how he painstakingly constructed the sculpture, while the museum staff looked on with anticipation.
Light and Space works in the exhibition by now renowned artists demonstrated the use of industrial materials, including plastics, resins and polymers. Larry Bell’s “Bette and the Giant Jewfish” (1963) and “Untitled” (1969), large square boxes of vacuum-coated glass and chrome-plated metal, attracted refracted light. Tony DeLap’s “Fawkes” (1968), a shaped painting — he referred to it as a “hyperbolic paraboloid” — appeared to change shape as the viewer moved around it. And Ron Davis, who evolved from painting minimalist canvases to creating fiberglass and polyester resins, to building his 12-sided “dodecagon” wall sculptures, contributed his “Round” (1969) to the show; it is a dramatic abstract work of varied pigments.
Other Light and Space artists represented in the exhibition included Laddie John Dill, Robert Irwin, Craig Kaufman and James Turrell. The works of installation artists Jay McCafferty and Richard Newton were displayed there as well.
In the decade since “Best Kept Secret” was exhibited, UCI’s early efforts advancing innovative art have received increasing notice. Perhaps curator Grace Kook-Anderson plays a part in that recognition; as during the show’s display, she spent long hours promoting it and dialoguing with the exhibitors, often in public forums.
At UC Irvine today, mentoring continues as a prominent teaching style by faculty-artists including Kevin Appel, Juli Carson, Liz Glynn, Antoinette LaFarge, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Jennifer Pastor, Amanda Ross-Ho, among many others. This ongoing practice enables the art department to carry on its five decade legacy of empowering students to express their creativity unfettered by conventional standards.
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Unintentional dark humor with Kumi
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Post subject: Unintentional dark humor with Kumi
PostPosted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 6:48 am
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Hey guys, I recently pieced together what turns out to be a really funny translation error. Check this out!
Alright, so, throughout the Alien Nine mangas, there are a couple references to a punk rock band called Dead Kennedys. I guess Hitoshi Tomizawa enjoys their music, and just wanted to throw in a few references for fun. The first reference is here, on the lovely Mrs. Kawamura's shirt sleeves; it's just one of those drawings in between chapters: (after you click the thumbnail the page will load with a scaled version of the picture; click that picture again to see it in full)
The next picture reference is also on a little "in-between-chapters-page". This one is on Yuri's jacket.
Alright, so at this point we can tell two things: 1. Hitoshi Tomizawa has not only gotten the band name wrong twice, but both times he got it wrong in a different way. 2. Dead Kennedys played a concert in Dallas in 1963.
About 1: the first time, Mr. Tmizawa wrote "Dead Kennedy", leaving out the plural "s". The second time he put the "s", but wrote "Kenneys" instead of "Kennedys". Obviously, his isn't very good with English. But suppose this: He searches "Dead Kennedy" looking for info about them. He misinterprets a report though, and thinks that Dead Kennedy played a concert in 1963 in Dallas. But wait- Dead Kennedys were formed in 1978. The misunderstanding lies in the fact that the article he heard that from wasn't mentioning a concert where the band played a Dallas gig in 1963: It was Robert F. Kennedy's assassination.
It was an easy mistake to make though, if he was looking up info about them on sites that were in English. Or perhaps he was looking at a Japanese site that made the mistake first. Either way, it's pretty darn funny in my oppinion
Oh, and any sixth grader who listens to Dead Kennedys probably never had a childhood
KumiXyuri
Post subject: Man~
PostPosted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:07 pm
Borg Wearer
You give that guy no slack! But I was wandering about they kumi's shirt said that. Thank you.
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Post subject: Re: Man~
PostPosted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 2:06 pm
KumiXyuri wrote:
Haha, you're welcome, it was my pleasure
gsilver
PostPosted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 3:40 pm
I missed the first one, but when reading the second, I thought it was trying to simultaneously reference both the Dead Kennedys and South Park.
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I treat you now to two of the most famous ass shots in modern movies:
This, as you probably recall, is what it looks like when the huge, hulking behind of the Titanic is suddenly looming large in the night sky, towering over the poor sots who had the good luck to make it alive off the ship and into the open water, but who are now a) freezing, and b) about to have the biggest ship in the world plunk down on their heads.
For one, I am already freezing. It's 21°F in Ithaca right now (that's -6° for my Celsius peeps), and my apartment is drafty. And beyond that, why do I feel like I have a huge-assed ship waiting to crack in half and rain down on me? The beginning of the "Spring" Semester, as we at Cornell perversely mis-name it, always feels like this. You start the Fall a little jealous that your summer is over, but kind of eager to get moving. But you start the "Spring" in a breathless rush to recover from the holidays, to finish what didn't get done in the Fall, to fret about what didn't even get started in the Fall... And I've got a dissertation to complete, a job talk to finalize (but no complaints there, 'cuz I'm a lucky duck with that one), an essay to re-jig for possible publication, and a new class on International Cinema & Global Politics to prepare. We'll be watching and critiquing movies every day in this course—but then, as I just found out today, I've been assigned to a classroom with no A/V.
I said, brrr. It's cold in here! I said this must be Cornell up in the atmosphere. At least I love my job enough to complain about it affectionately.
Helping to lighten the mood, as always, will be the on-campus moviehouse Cornell Cinema, whose delicious January/February programming commenced tonight, with a little bit of Marlon B. and the old butter trick. In the coming weeks, I'm especially psyched about Blissfully Yours, from Thailand; Last Life in the Universe, a coproduction of Thailand, Japan, and Hong Kong; and Wong Kar-wai's Days of Being Wild. That one was playing at the Film Forum in New York City in November and December, and the trailer I saw there looked amazing. So it's Asian Film-a-Go Go till early February. My hopes are high, even as I'm treading that icy water.
(Photo from Titanic, © 1997 Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Lightstorm Entertainment)
Labels: Academia, International, Titanic
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ladyshazizzle said...
there are no words for how much i love your mood indicator. why does grad school/dissertation writing have to feel this way?
in a segment i like to call, "why I wanna hurt me," to borrow your genius line, I'm planning to stay up really late tonight to take care of some diss buisnaz that i neglected in the more sensible hours of the day cause i was getting my hair did, shopping, and napping.
and your above picture for the bush inauguration makes me think of "the ring." i've been ignoring the inauguration insanity but i did hear that hilary duff was one of the musical acts--another reason she's on my celebrity F list. blah!
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The City of Birjand is 31704 km in the area. It is to the east of Iran, 500 km from Khorasan Razavi Capital and Sistan and Balouchestan, Kerman and Yazd. This City from the north is next to Ghayenat, to the south next to the Nehbandan and the County of Kerman, to the west is next to Sarayan and Khousf, and to the east is next to Darmian and the town of Sarbisheh. The City of Birjand has a centre part. From 1302 it was the first city in Iran which had an organized and piped water agency, recognized as the first water distribution system in Iran. The Shokatiyeh School was the third school after Dar-ol-Fonoon and Roshdiyeh in Tabriz which had new methods in teaching because of the strategic situation of this city. Birjand Airport was the third to be built in the country in 1312 after the Ghale-Morghi and Boushehr Airport. The United Kingdom and Russia Vice-Consuls worked there before the Second World War.
History of Birjand
Some of the people think Birjand was created by Bijan, Giv’s Son, but they haven’t got any documents. Some documents show Southern Khorasan was Achamanian, Ashkani and then Sassani dominion. Furthermore, Gabr-Abad area and Gabr-Abad Cemetery in Birjand and villages show that after the coming of Islam was created, some Zoroaster people were living there. For the first time in the 6th century of Hejrat, Yaghoot-Hemavi spoke about it. After the Yaghoot, Hafez-Abro in the 9th century of Hejrat was called Birjand, the Ghohestan city had agriculture (Zaffron, Cereal, Grape and Fruit) and trading works. The geographic situation of Birjand and inclement are geographic for agriculture life. On the other hand (Ghohestan) Khorasan is located between two disciplines of commercial and business obtaining the economics in the area. This was the reason for growing economics until the Safavi government and gradually given the commercial and business role to become a city. After a short time given the economics and relations, the output in Southern Khorasan rapidly replaced the Ghayen city. When the Safavi government came, Birjand was given the governing seat of Ghohestan, and Birjand government was in the Amiriyeh family (Khozaymeh) hands. The first development of the city of Birjand started at the end of the Safavi government and it started from Ghayenat. Increasing the population in the city was started by this government and from increasing the population the city grew with buildings and new towns from the north, northern-west and east.
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The Grayling Fire Department – a collaboration between the City of Grayling and Grayling Charter Township – is looking to add more volunteer firefighters to its roster.
City and township officials have said during recent meetings that the department’s volunteer firefighter ranks are down for a variety of reasons, including increased training time commitments and possible difficulties for businesses if employees have to leave work to fight fires.
Mark Brown, the new Grayling Fire Department Fire Chief, said the firefighter shortages are widespread across the state of Michigan.
Brown, who served as the Grayling Fire Department’s assistant fire chief before recently taking over as chief, said the department used to have a waiting list for people trying to serve as volunteer firefighters.
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== 15 Carboniferous of the Wear Valley and Derwent Gorge, County Durham ==
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== Purpose ==
1 15 Carboniferous of the Wear Valley and Derwent Gorge, County Durham
15 Carboniferous of the Wear Valley and Derwent Gorge, County Durham
Prior permission for access to Harehope Quarry (Locality 2) should be obtained from Mr R. J. Huddleston, Tilcon Ltd, P.O. Box 5, Fell Bank, Birtley, Chester-le-Street, Durham, DH3 2ST, and for access to the Derwent Gorge (Locality 3A) from English Nature (Tel: o1661 845500).
Geological background
Excursion details
Locality 1, Middlehope Burn, Westgate, Upper Weardale
Locality 2, Harehope Quarry and Bollihope Burn, near Frosterley, Weardale
Locality 3, the Derwent Gorge, Muggleswick to Shotley Bridge
Locality 3A, The Derwent Gorge and associated Muggleswick Woods
The Derwent Gorge and associated Muggleswick Woods, containing areas of ancient oak-birch-ash woodland, form an extensive National Nature Reserve run by English Nature. Prior permission for access is required (see Logistics). The River Derwent forms incised meanders east of Muggleswick with steep or precipitous sides deeply cut into the upper Namurian bedrock. Much of the gorge is heavily forested, but there is access by a footpath that crosses the river at Lead Mill Bridge [NZ 054 488]. On the south side of the gorge the footpath starts beside the road at NZ 05444877 where there is limited parking beside large wooden gates. The site manager may be able to offer parking at Crooked Oak [NZ 05504 976] which is at the north end of the footpath. Follow the footpath into the gorge and note sporadic exposures of upper Namurian sandstone and shale. The slopes above the river are much affected by landslips, but several bedrock sections are visible either at or above the Upper Felltop Limestone. A short way down stream a high cliff beside the river at NZ 058492 shows a fine succession of interbedded sandstone and shale with calcareous beds including limestone, assigned to the Upper Felltop, to m below the top of the section. The sequence shows rapid lateral variation. A section of strata here is appended to the Geological Survey six-inch sheet NZ 04 NE. This cliff section is one of the best continuous exposures of upper Namurian strata in this region. A short distance down stream ruins of buildings and an old shaft mark the site of Silvertongue Mines where lead ore was extracted from north-trending veins in the 1840s (Durham, 1990).
Locality 3B, Allensford, a County Geological Site
Allensford, a County Geological Site; access by footpath only. Return to the A68 and proceed to Allensford. Take the Consett road just south of Allensford bridge and after a short distance turn left into the picnic area car park [NZ 078 502]. Walk back and cross the A68 to the marked footpath that starts between houses and runs up stream beside the River Derwent. Cross the Warnley Burn by the footbridge where a fine view of the thick Durham First Grit (upper Namurian) can be seen with waterfalls and a steep sided incised channel. Further up stream the grit forms the striking vertical cliffs of Ravens Crag, more that 1 o m high, where massive coarse-grained and pebbly, cross-bedded sandstones are well exposed.
Locality 3C, Shotley Bridge, County Geological Site
Shotley Bridge, County Geological Site; access by footpaths. From Allensford car park, turn left along the minor road to Consett. Turn left at the junction with the A691, continue to the bottom of the hill and turn sharply left into Shotley Grove Road [NZ 090 524]; limited parking is available beside the road. The River Derwent has cut a sharply incised channel into the Durham Second Grit (upper Namurian) from Shotley Grove down stream to the B6287 road bridge over the river in the centre of Shotley Bridge. The shallow, almost vertical-sided gorge can be seen at many places on both sides of the river, but is best viewed from the foot bridge [NZ 089 523]. The brown, coarse-grained, cross-bedded standstone is best examined at the south end of the section near to Shotley Grove.
Locality 4, the River Wear Gorge at Durham City
River Wear Gorge at Durham City; Coal Measures, Westphalian B (Johnson & Richardson, 1990). Access is by path through woodland owned mainly by the Dean and Chapter of Durham and Durham University. There are car parks near Durham city centre, but during the university vacations it is convenient to park in Quarry Heads Lane on the south side of the river [NZ 27304 154] (Figure 15.2). Cross the road and walk east towards the New Inn. Before the traffic lights a footpath on the edge of playing fields leads to the wooded banks of the River Wear. Descend towards the river and take the first footpath on the right over the stream by a small bridge. Above the path (A) is the Maudlin Sandstone overlying the thin Maudlin Coal (Figure 15.1), (Figure 15.2). Continue on this path to St Oswald's Church where it joins the lower path on the river bank. A short distance back along the lower path, a narrow way leads down the river bank to St Oswald's Well (B) where the Maudlin Sandstone is exposed in a low cliff The well is at the base of the sandstone and the thin Maudlin Coal can be seen at water level with clay seatearth below. Interbedded sandstone and shale are exposed under the wellhead. Continue down the river by the lower path to the white bridge (C) where the Maudlin and underlying Low Main Post sandstones can be seen. Behind the bridge a conduit drains the abandoned pumping shaft of Elvet Landsale Colliery, marked by a ring of masonry 50 m south of the bridge. Near the bridge two small faults take the Maudlin Sandstone to the top of the river bank on the west (Figure 15.2). A short distance further down river the Low Main Post Sandstone can be seen beside the path in an old quarried section. Past the next tributary stream, take the path up the river bank and the first path on the right to the flat wooded top of the bank. Another circle of masonry here marks the site of the shaft of Henry Pit, an early t 9th century colliery working the Hutton Coal on the south side of the river. Follow the path to the steep descent down the river bank (D) where the brown Maudlin Sandstone and succession below are well exposed and the Low Main Post can be seen low down on the other side of the gulley. These ancient sandstone quarries date from mediaeval times; one that worked both the Maudlin and the Low Main Post sandstones can be seen a little further along the path.
At Prebends' Bridge, the brown Maudlin Sandstone with conspicuous cross-bedding is seen in the track side leading to the bridge with the Maudlin Coal below the overhang at the base of the sandstone. A blocked adit entrance above the sandstone exposure is a drainage level from another early x gth century colliery. Slightly north, the Prebends' Bridge Fault, downthrowing 15 m south, crosses the gorge (Figure 15.2) and steeply dipping sandstone adjacent to the fault can be seen above the path to the right of the drainage level (E). On the north side of the fault all the Low Main Post Sandstone has been quarried at the top of the river bank leaving a hollow below South Street (F). Traces of the Low Main Coal, 0.45 m thick, are found below the quarry. Extensive exposures of shale and sandstone beside the mill (G) on the left bank of the river are near the Brass Thill coals, and the Brass Thill Shell Bed can be found in the shale.
On the right bank of the river, ancient quarrying for sandstone has been extensive from Framwellgate Bridge almost continuously to Elvet Bridge and these old workings are now deeply buried in spoil and rubbish (Figure 15.2). The Low Main Post Sandstone is seen directly below the City Wall and the Galilee Chapel, beside the high path under the Cathedral. This sandstone, 10 m thick, has been the sure foundation of the Cathedral for goo years.
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Purpose[edit]
Logistics[edit]
Prior permission for access to Harehope Quarry (Locality 2) should be obtained from Tilcon Ltd, Chester-le-Street, and for access to the Derwent Gorge (Locality 3A) from English Nature.
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Geological background[edit]
Excursion details[edit]
Locality 1, Middlehope Burn, Westgate, Upper Weardale[edit]
Locality 2, Harehope Quarry and Bollihope Burn, near Frosterley, Weardale[edit]
Locality 3, the Derwent Gorge, Muggleswick to Shotley Bridge[edit]
Locality 3A, The Derwent Gorge and associated Muggleswick Woods[edit]
The Derwent Gorge and associated Muggleswick Woods, containing areas of ancient oak-birch-ash woodland, form an extensive National Nature Reserve run by English Nature. Prior permission for access is required (see Logistics). The River Derwent forms incised meanders east of Muggleswick with steep or precipitous sides deeply cut into the upper Namurian bedrock. Much of the gorge is heavily forested, but there is access by a footpath that crosses the river at Lead Mill Bridge [NZ 054 488]. On the south side of the gorge the footpath starts beside the road at NZ 0544 4877 where there is limited parking beside large wooden gates. The site manager may be able to offer parking at Crooked Oak [NZ 0550 4976] which is at the north end of the footpath. Follow the footpath into the gorge and note sporadic exposures of upper Namurian sandstone and shale. The slopes above the river are much affected by landslips, but several bedrock sections are visible either at or above the Upper Felltop Limestone. A short way down stream a high cliff beside the river at NZ 058 492 shows a fine succession of interbedded sandstone and shale with calcareous beds including limestone, assigned to the Upper Felltop, 10 m below the top of the section. The sequence shows rapid lateral variation. A section of strata here is appended to the Geological Survey six-inch sheet NZ 04 NE. This cliff section is one of the best continuous exposures of upper Namurian strata in this region. A short distance down stream ruins of buildings and an old shaft mark the site of Silvertongue Mines where lead ore was extracted from north-trending veins in the 1840s (Durham, 1990).
Locality 3B, Allensford, a County Geological Site[edit]
Allensford, a County Geological Site; access by footpath only. Return to the A68 and proceed to Allensford. Take the Consett road just south of Allensford bridge and after a short distance turn left into the picnic area car park [NZ 078 502]. Walk back and cross the A68 to the marked footpath that starts between houses and runs up stream beside the River Derwent. Cross the Warnley Burn by the footbridge where a fine view of the thick Durham First Grit (upper Namurian) can be seen with waterfalls and a steep sided incised channel. Further up stream the grit forms the striking vertical cliffs of Ravens Crag, more that 10 m high, where massive coarse-grained and pebbly, cross-bedded sandstones are well exposed.
Locality 3C, Shotley Bridge, County Geological Site[edit]
Shotley Bridge, County Geological Site; access by footpaths. From Allensford car park, turn left along the minor road to Consett. Turn left at the junction with the A691, continue to the bottom of the hill and turn sharply left into Shotley Grove Road [NZ 090 524]; limited parking is available beside the road. The River Derwent has cut a sharply incised channel into the Durham Second Grit (upper Namurian) from Shotley Grove down stream to the B6287 road bridge over the river in the centre of Shotley Bridge. The shallow, almost vertical-sided gorge can be seen at many places on both sides of the river, but is best viewed from the foot bridge [NZ 089 523]. The brown, coarse-grained, cross-bedded sandstone is best examined at the south end of the section near to Shotley Grove.
Locality 4, the River Wear Gorge at Durham City[edit]
River Wear Gorge at Durham City; Coal Measures, Westphalian B (Johnson & Richardson, 1990). Access is by path through woodland owned mainly by the Dean and Chapter of Durham and Durham University. There are car parks near Durham city centre, but during the university vacations it is convenient to park in Quarry Heads Lane on the south side of the river [NZ 2730 4154] (Figure 15.2). Cross the road and walk east towards the New Inn. Before the traffic lights a footpath on the edge of playing fields leads to the wooded banks of the River Wear. Descend towards the river and take the first footpath on the right over the stream by a small bridge. Above the path (A) is the Maudlin Sandstone overlying the thin Maudlin Coal (Figure 15.1), (Figure 15.2). Continue on this path to St Oswald's Church where it joins the lower path on the river bank. A short distance back along the lower path, a narrow way leads down the river bank to St Oswald's Well (B) where the Maudlin Sandstone is exposed in a low cliff. The well is at the base of the sandstone and the thin Maudlin Coal can be seen at water level with clay seatearth below. Interbedded sandstone and shale are exposed under the wellhead. Continue down the river by the lower path to the white bridge (C) where the Maudlin and underlying Low Main Post sandstones can be seen. Behind the bridge a conduit drains the abandoned pumping shaft of Elvet Landsale Colliery, marked by a ring of masonry 50 m south of the bridge. Near the bridge two small faults take the Maudlin Sandstone to the top of the river bank on the west (Figure 15.2). A short distance further down river the Low Main Post Sandstone can be seen beside the path in an old quarried section. Past the next tributary stream, take the path up the river bank and the first path on the right to the flat wooded top of the bank. Another circle of masonry here marks the site of the shaft of Henry Pit, an early 19th century colliery working the Hutton Coal on the south side of the river. Follow the path to the steep descent down the river bank (D) where the brown Maudlin Sandstone and succession below are well exposed and the Low Main Post can be seen low down on the other side of the gulley. These ancient sandstone quarries date from medieval times; one that worked both the Maudlin and the Low Main Post sandstones can be seen a little further along the path.
At Prebends' Bridge, the brown Maudlin Sandstone with conspicuous cross-bedding is seen in the track side leading to the bridge with the Maudlin Coal below the overhang at the base of the sandstone. A blocked adit entrance above the sandstone exposure is a drainage level from another early 19th century colliery. Slightly north, the Prebends' Bridge Fault, downthrowing 15 m south, crosses the gorge (Figure 15.2) and steeply dipping sandstone adjacent to the fault can be seen above the path to the right of the drainage level (E). On the north side of the fault all the Low Main Post Sandstone has been quarried at the top of the river bank leaving a hollow below South Street (F). Traces of the Low Main Coal, 0.45 m thick, are found below the quarry. Extensive exposures of shale and sandstone beside the mill (G) on the left bank of the river are near the Brass Thill coals, and the Brass Thill Shell Bed can be found in the shale.
On the right bank of the river, ancient quarrying for sandstone has been extensive from Framwellgate Bridge almost continuously to Elvet Bridge and these old workings are now deeply buried in spoil and rubbish (Figure 15.2). The Low Main Post Sandstone is seen directly below the City Wall and the Galilee Chapel, beside the high path under the Cathedral. This sandstone, 10 m thick, has been the sure foundation of the Cathedral for 900 years.
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[[File:Pxxxxxx.jpg|thumb|600px]] == Geologists' Association Circular No. 189. Session 1915-1916 p.2 == <gallery> File:GA_Image_0364.jpg </gallery> == Hayes (Kent), Heston, and the Upper Valley of the Ravensbourne. Saturday, July 8th, 1916 (Transcription from: GA Circular No. 189. Session 1915-1916 p.2)== '''DIRECTOR''': A. L. LEACH, F.G.S. '''EXCURSION SECRETARY''': R. H. CHANDLER, Kearsbrook, Bedwell Road, Belvedere, Kent. Outward train Cannon Streets 1,28 p.m.; London Bridge, 1.31; due at Hayes 2,16 p.m. Return fare, 1s. 10d. Return train Hayes, 7.45 p.m. ; due at London Bridge, 8.33 p.m. Tea at Keston. Walking distance, 5 to 6 miles. The excursion will include the beautiful commons of Hayes and Keston on the Blackheath Beds, the escarpment of the Eocene Beds in the neighbourhood of West Wickham and Hayes, and the upper portion (normally dry) of the Ravensbourne Valley, with its tributary valleys incised upon the dip-slope of the Chalk. The bourne, which, after an interval of 33 years, has burst out about 1¼ miles above the ordinary source in the main valley, will also be visited. Attention will be directed to the two water-tables which exist in this district. The abnormal height of the water-level in the valley-floor has saturated the valley-gravel, given rise to the bourne, and inundated the large gravel-pit near Hayes. The upper water-table in the Tertiary Beds, 200 ft. higher, supplies a series of ponds at Reston. These drain northward into the Ravensbourne at Bromley. From Hayes Station walk up the valley to see the pond, 8 to 10 acres in extent, in the water-logged gravel-pit ¼-mile south-west of the station, and a smaller pit directly in the course of the bourne. Proceed to the cross-roads north of West. Wickham Church. The uprise of the bourne occurs ¼-mile south-west of this point, at about 220 O.D. In a meadow water oozes out over a considerable area and becomes concentrated into a stream, which early in June had a volume of 1½ million gallons per day. Walk up to West Wickham Church on an outlier of Thanet Sand, on which, at nearly 300 O.D., there is a mall permanent pond. From the outlier the tributary branches of the Ravensbourne Valley can be seen convergring towards the funicular gap in the Tertiary escarpment, Walk thence by a field path to Coney Hall and ascend the steep scarp of the Tertiary beds through a grove of ancient oak trees to Hayes Common, a characteristic illustration of the natural scenery of the Blackheath Beds. After tea the ponds on Keston Common will be visited, These are fed by a spring, " Cæsar's Well," thrown out by Woolwich Beds at about 410 O.D. In the adjacent Holwood estate are remains of an important British earthwork commonly called " Csar's Camp." Return over Hayes Common to Hayes Station. '''REFERENCES'''. Geological Survey Map. London (Drift Edition). Sheet 4. 1906. GRIFFIN, W. H,—"Geology of the Upper Ravensbourne Valley, with Notes on the Flora." ''The South-Eastern Naturalist, ''p, 50. == Images == ===Excursion to Hayes, Keston, and Upper Valley of the Ravensbourne, July 8th 1916=== <gallery> File:P804820.jpg|This bourne in the upper portion of the Ravensbourne Valley which is normally dry has burst out after an interval of 33 years. File:P804821.jpg|This bourne in the upper portion of the Ravensbourne Valley which is normally dry has burst out after an interval of 33 years. File:P804822.jpg|Near cross roads north of West Wickham Church. File:P804823.jpg|Near cross roads north of West Wickham Church. File:P804824.jpg|Section of Blackheath Pebble Beds, Hayes Common. File:P804825.jpg|Section of Blackheath Pebble Beds, Hayes Common. </gallery> == List of photographs == === Excursion to Hayes, Keston, and Upper Valley of the Ravensbourne, July 8th 1916=== {| class="wikitable" |- | [http://pubs.bgs.ac.uk/publications.html?pubID=GA004#v=d&z=2&n=5&i=P802863.jp2&y=305&x=791 Page 101]|| [http://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=393136 P804820] || This bourne in the upper portion of the Ravensbourne Valley which is normally dry has burst out after an interval of 33 years. [Excursion to] Hayes, Keston, and Upper Valley of the Ravensbourne, July 8th 1916. Owing to the abnormal height of the water level in the valley floor it has saturated the valley gravel and given rise to the bourne. Added note: This pond 8 to 10 acres in extent near Hayes Station now fills the gravel pit and is an offshoot from the bourne. |- | [http://pubs.bgs.ac.uk/publications.html?pubID=GA004#v=d&z=2&n=5&i=P802863.jp2&y=305&x=791 Page 101]|| [http://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=393137 P804821] || This bourne in the upper portion of the Ravensbourne Valley which is normally dry has burst out after an interval of 33 years. [Excursion to] Hayes, Keston, and Upper Valley of the Ravensbourne, July 8th 1916. Owing to the abnormal height of the water level in the valley floor it has saturated the valley gravel and given rise to the bourne. Added note: This pit which is in the direct course of the bourne is now filled with water. |- | [http://pubs.bgs.ac.uk/publications.html?pubID=GA004#v=d&z=2&n=5&i=P802863.jp2&y=305&x=791 Page 101]|| [http://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=393138 P804822] || Near cross roads north of West Wickham Church. The uprise of the bourne occurs 1/4 of a mile south west of this point at about 220 feet OD. [Excursion to] Hayes, Keston, and Upper Valley of the Ravensbourne, July 8th 1916. |- | [http://pubs.bgs.ac.uk/publications.html?pubID=GA004#v=d&z=2&n=5&i=P802863.jp2&y=305&x=791 Page 101]|| [http://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=393139 P804823] || Near cross roads north of West Wickham Church. The uprise of the bourne occurs 1/4 of a mile south west of this point at about 220 feet OD. [Excursion to] Hayes, Keston, and Upper Valley of the Ravensbourne, July 8th 1916. |- | [http://pubs.bgs.ac.uk/publications.html?pubID=GA004#v=d&z=2&n=5&i=P802865.jp2&y=305&x=793 Page 103]|| [http://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=393140 P804824] || Section of Blackheath Pebble Beds, Hayes Common. [Excursion to] Hayes, Keston, and Upper Valley of the Ravensbourne, July 8th 1916. |- | [http://pubs.bgs.ac.uk/publications.html?pubID=GA004#v=d&z=2&n=5&i=P802865.jp2&y=305&x=793 Page 103]|| [http://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=393141 P804825] || Section of Blackheath Pebble Beds, Hayes Common. [Excursion to] Hayes, Keston, and Upper Valley of the Ravensbourne, July 8th 1916. |} [[Category:Geologists' Association excursions]]
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SOPHOMORE ALBUM IS OUT NOW ON EASY STAR RECORDS, FEATURING GUEST APPEARANCES BY SLIGHTLY STOOPID, THE MOVEMENT, RANKING JOE, ELLIOT MARTIN, KARIM ISRAEL, & MORE! After dropping his Easy Star Records debut album Sharp & Ready to critical acclaim, Double Tiger (Jay Spaker) is back with The Journey, which is his most diverse and personal collection to date. The album features an all-star lineup of artists including Slightly Stoopid, The Movement, Ranking Joe, Elliot Martin (John Brown’s Body), Suckarie (New Kingston), and [...]
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THE 4-SONG EP IS A POWERFUL MIX OF CONSCIOUS REGGAE & HIP HOP FILLED WITH PROTEST MUSIC, SOCIAL COMMENTARY, AND UPLIFTING MESSAGES Conscious reggae/hip-hop hybrid band The Late Ones just released their new EP, Lately, via Easy Star Records. Listen and download it at http://moremusic.at/LatelyEP. The new release showcases a band in full form, with an original style and striking messages to boot. The Late Ones consists of brothers Tui Avei and Tau Avei, along with their cousin Josh Brunson, originally from [...]
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JAMAICA’S FIRST GRIMEHALL ARTIST FOLLOWS UP EASY STAR RECORDS DEBUT ALBUM WITH A NEW SINGLE Fyah Roiall (pronounced “fire royal”) teams up with Miami-based, Jamaica-born dancehall artist Lincoln 3dot and super producer/rapper SOS Dynamikz to drop some serious lyrical shade on bragging about “choppin’” in your music. This recent trend in Jamaican music begs the question, would one really admit to committing a crime and brag about it in their music? Everyone in Jamaica knows… “real badness a nuh supn fi show [...]
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“UNIVERSAL LOVE” FEAT. KARIM ISRAEL (OF ARISE ROOTS) & “RUB A DUB PARTY” FEAT. SUCKARIE (OF NEW KINGSTON) SHOWCASE THE DIVERSITY OF HIS UPCOMING SOPHOMORE ALBUM Double Tiger (the recording nom de plume for U.S. reggae stalwart Jay Spaker) continues to bring the heat as he unleashes more singles leading up to the release of his sophomore album The Journey, due out December 11 on Easy Star Records. After debuting “Drop Sound,” featuring Slightly Stoopid, Double Tiger returns with two more singles, [...]
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An ode to eyewear design
Written by Dylan Jones
In hindsight I suppose it was unsurprising and perhaps somewhat inevitable that it was Elton John who really taught me about eyeglasses.
About fifteen years ago I found myself at the house in Windsor that Elton shares with his long term partner David Furnish. I was there to supervise a cover session for British GQ, and having got Elton to agree to the shoot, along with an interview, I wanted to make sure everything ran smoothly.
Plus, of course, I was desperate to see their house. Now, to say that the house was exquisite would be an understatement, although what I really loved was being shown Elton's wardrobe.
And along with the corridors of suits, the lines of shirts, the acres of shoes, and -- frankly -- the stationary pantechnicons of stage jewelry, what fascinated me most were the drawers and drawers of spectacles.
Inside Elton John's spectacular private photography collection
An 'extraordinary' collection of eyewear
Call them glasses, call them eyewear, call them what you will, but even then -- having already divested himself of hundreds of pairs in various sales -- Elton had a lot of them.
Spectacles he used for stagewear, for streetwear, and for wearing in makeshift photographic studies when being shot by illustrious Conde Nast men's magazines...
Elton John in 1974 Credit: D. Morrison/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
In fact, having spent a good half an hour sifting through Elton's extraordinary collection, a collection made up of everything from vintage pieces to Art Deco gems, via punk and glam right up to the modern day -- I realized that the history of eyeglasses could be told through Elton's career.
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To analyze his visual appeal is to look at a cavalcade of glasses which have been as important to his success as conical bras, say, were to Madonna's.
If you think of David Bowie, you think of Ziggy Stardust's red mullet; if you think of Elvis you think of his white rhinestone jumpsuit.
And if you think of Elton you no doubt think of one of the many pairs of outrageous glasses he has worn since he became famous.
Evolution of spectacles
You can see glasses that Elton John might have worn in the current exhibition at the Design Museum Holon in Israel.
Eyewear made of bone. Small slits help prevent snow blindness Credit: eli bohbot
The exhibition follows the development of eyeglasses from several different points of view: from the unique Claude Samuel Collection dating right back to the 17th century, to contemporary conceptual interpretations of eyeglasses by fifty Israeli designers highlighting the creative energy of the Israeli design scene. There is also a bit of virtual reality to bring things up to date.
Flannelette by Adi Zaffran Weisler Credit: Ariel Benmoshe (Jacob Peres Office)
Unique pieces ranging from Elton John and John Lennon style eyeglasses to authentic Eskimo bone eyewear are shown alongside sketches of eyewear designs made by Claude's father from the Pierre Cardin Fashion House. This show gives you a glimpse of what lies behind behind lens, so to speak.
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Speaking as someone who has needed to wear glasses since the age of ten, I know how important eyewear is.
Trans.form by Ohad Benit Credit: Ariel Benmoshe (Jacob Peres Office)
Not only does it act as a disguise, but it also has the innate ability to make you look smarter than you are, dumber than you are, or, if need be, to completely alter your personality.
Spectacles can make you look richer, they can make you look poorer, and in the case of Elton John, a man who has more experience in this area than anyone who has ever set foot in the eyewear section of a department store, can make you look like an international superstar.
One of a kind by Yasmin Vinograd Credit: Design Museum Holon
Overview, an exhibition that traces the design evolution of eyewear, is currently on show at Design Museum Holon until April 29, 2017.
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Abandoned palaces in Poland make for haunting images
Barry Neild, CNN • Updated 28th July 2014
(CNN) — Patrycja Makowska likes to give enigmatic names to the extraordinarily beautiful photographs she shoots of crumbling palaces.
But that's not where the enigma of her work ends.
Despite creating alluring images of abandoned buildings, she's determined to keep their locations a mystery.
"Places reflect our soul, tell the forgotten story of love, disaster, war, as well as ordinary life," Makowska, a former history teacher from Poland, tells CNN as she tries to explain her shroud of secrecy.
"Everything passes, even the power of past times is often forgotten. And that's why I don't give any addresses, because often these places are destroyed and devastated, it's better for them to have been forgotten."
Not, however, forgotten by Makowska's cameras.
She uses old analog Russian photo equipment and lenses, plus some more modern Canon and Nikon equipment to create images that pay homage to the original grandeur of these baroque structures.
With otherworldly titles such as "Ethereal Dreams" and "Lost Under the Surface," her photographs have an unrealistic quality more closely associated with paintings -- but the incredible detail on display would take more than a lifetime's worth of brushstrokes to recreate.
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The images show vast ornate ballrooms, swirling spiral staircases and elegant chapels strewn with rubble.
Sunlight shafts bore in through broken windows or holes in roofs. Sometimes an abandoned toy or chair adds a poignant human touch to the dereliction.
Makowska, who lives in Warsaw, took up photography about 12 years ago. Her first subject was a ruined medieval castle in the southern Polish town of Muszyna. During stays in the UK and Iceland she says she realized there was "magic" in forgotten places and began seeking them out in her home country.
Finding her subjects takes effort, she says.
"The location of these places is hard work, the research involves maps, historical books and old guides, and talking to people who live in the areas of the buildings."
Her refusal to identify where these buildings will at least prevent them from becoming "ruin porn" destinations -- a status deplored by some places trying shake off economic decline.
Makowska, who now works in IT, says she has been inspired by people's reactions to her work into pursuing further projects.
On her list is nature photography -- "mountains, meadows and sea" -- and documenting "URBEX," the sometimes risky global trend of urban exploration that occasionally involves trespassing on dangerous structures.
She also wants to tackle human subjects.
"This would be a breakthrough for me because so far my work hasn't involved any people or portraits."
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Vistara Inked Codeshare Agreement With Which Of The Following Company
Codeshare flights offer comfortable connections to and from a daily flight that JAL already offers directly from Tokyo Narita to Delhi. Japan Airlines and Vistara flights operate from the same terminal in Delhi (T3). “We are pleased to strengthen our partnership with Japan Airlines with this codeshare agreement. This partnership helps us provide more comfort and choice to customers with a full network,” said Sanjiv Kapoor, Chief Strategy and Commercial Officer at Vistara. George Ettiyil, Lufthansa Group Airlines` senior sales manager in South Asia, added: “It is Lufthansa`s obligation to offer its Indian customers world-class international travel experiences and allow them to use their preferred mileage program on codeshare routes. By working with Vistara, we will strengthen and strengthen our position as the first and most popular European airline in India – a country that will become the third largest air transport market in a few years”, “Ideal for those with at least a one-year investment horizon These two airlines have entered into a codeshare agreement in 2019. A codeshare agreement allows an airline to sell flight seats from other airlines on its distribution network. In a statement on Monday, Vistara said the two airlines plan to rapidly expand the scope of the agreement so that frequent flyers from both airlines can earn miles/points when traveling on other airlines` networks and enjoy other benefits. “The sale under the codeshare agreement will now be phased in across all channels and major GDS systems for flights from December 16, 2019,” the press release said. Due to Vistara`s codeshare agreement with Japan Airlines (JAL), flights between Tokyo and India will be more frequent.
“Under the new agreement, customers benefit from 126 weekly flights connecting ten major Indian cities to Lufthansa via Delhi/Lufthansa and Vistara in the final phase to allow customers to collect miles with both airlines,” the German airline said in a statement. Lufthansa said it had entered into a “comprehensive codeshare agreement” between Vistara. “The number of passengers travelling between Japan and India has increased over time,” said Hideki Oshima, Executive Director of Japan Airlines. “By strengthening the partnership with Vistara, we will be able to provide our common customers with better access to the network. And we want to continue to work with Vistara to provide additional opportunities for both airlines. In addition, there is a network of approximately 27 interline partnerships with different airlines. Under the agreement, Flyers will be able to book tickets on all channels and major GDS systems from February 28, 2019, effective February 26, 2019. As part of the agreement, Japan Airlines will complete the “JL” design code on approximately 32 Vistara flights to Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Pune. JAL and Vistara have already entered into an Interline/Through Check-in partnership and the two airlines signed a Memorandum of Understanding in September 2017 to pursue business opportunities together, the statement said. Vistara has entered into a codeshare agreement with German airline Lufthansa, the sixth such contract with an international airline, as the full-service national airline tries to expand its overseas network. The two airlines already have an interline partnership.
Vistara is the second airline after Air India to have a codeshare agreement with Lufthansa. “It is planned to add additional Vistara network destinations under the codeshare agreement in 2020 and beyond,” the press release said. Vistara codeshare agreement with which of the following companies? Vistara and British Airways announced a codeshare agreement on Thursday that will allow passengers to access the networks of both airlines.
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A life behind the lens with Paul Hutchins
Robert Hamilton 2 Comments Maryland, Photo essays 1968 Riots, Andy Etchebarren, Blaze Starr, Brooks Robinson, Chris Evert, Dave McNally, Fannie Belle Fleming, Johnny Unitas, Jr., Martin Luther King, Mike Curtis, Pam Shriver, Patterson Park, Paul Hutchins, Roy Rogers, William Donald Schaefer
The Baltimore Sun newspaper has a rich history of photojournalism. The Sun has employed a long line of award winning photographers. To pay tribute to these photographers, The Darkroom will periodically take a look back at the body of work by some of these photographers whose love of their craft helped document the lives of people from the backstreets of Baltimore to the four corners of the globe.
In June 1967 Baltimore Sun staff photographer Paul Hutchins is shown with a Nikon F SLR camera he won for being named the Baltimore Press Photographer Association photographer of the year. Photo by Weyman Swagger
A snowy pattern forms in this aerial image of Patterson Park and the surrounding neighborhoods take on January 20, 1974. (Paul Hutchins/Baltimore Sun)
In May of 1986 then Mayor William D. Schaefer gets emotional at a press conference concerning the sinking of the Pride of Baltimore off the coast of Puerto Rico. In the background is Schaefer’s spokesman Christopher “Chris” Brown. (Paul Hutchins/Baltimore Sun)
In March of 1981, ecdysiast Fannie Belle Fleming was better known as Blaze Starr at her Two O’Clock Club on The Block, where she also told jokes and sang songs, including one she wrote about her ample bosom. (Paul Hutchins/Baltimore Sun)
This combination of grimace and glee from a wrestling match at the Baltimore Civic Center on July 12, 1970 won photographer Paul Hutchins a first place for picture story in the Baltimore Press Photographers Association annual contest. (Paul Hutchins/Baltimore Sun)
On October 10, 1966 third baseman Brooks Robinson and catcher Andy Etchebarren converge on pitcher Dave McNally after the Orioles swept the Los Angeles Dodgers to win their first World Series. (Paul M. Hutchins/Baltimore Sun)
In March of 1972 Sam W. Pattison Rea, the smoke from his cigar curling over the brim of his hat, relaxes before the bidding starts at an auction. He has been in the auction business for 40 years. (Paul Hutchins/Baltimore Sun)
A snow-covered cornfield shot in May of 1968 in Western Maryland, judged in the weather category, was one of the pictures in the award winning portfolio of Paul Hutchins. (Paul Hutchins/Baltimore Sun)
A Minnesota Viking player dives over Baltimore Colts Mike Curtis during game at Memorial Stadium on September 19, 1971. (Paul Hutchins/Baltimore Sun)
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader and Nobel Prize winner, greets thousands of admirers on a motorcade tour up North Gay Street on October 31, 1964. (Paul Hutchins/Baltimore Sun)
Hiroko Tasaka Harris, who survived the Hiroshima bombing. (Paul Hutchins/Baltimore Sun)
In 1961 workers stack bags of rock salt being unloaded at Druid Hill snow station. (Paul Hutchins/Baltimore Sun)
In June of 1993 Frank Dittenhafer stood at a window on the 5th floor faculty office at the Peabody Inn at the Corner of Charles and Centre Streets. The office had not yet been furnished at the time. (Paul Hutchins/Baltimore Sun)
Johnny Unitas of the Baltimore Colts plays against the Detroit Lions in 1965. (Paul Hutchins/Baltimore Sun)
Shadows double a stairway that winds around an oil tank located at the Ashland Deepwater Terminal in Canton in September of 1973. (Paul Hutchins/Baltimore Sun)
Roy Rogers practices throwing out the first ball before an Oriole game in May of 1983. (Paul Hutchins/Baltimore Sun)
Chris Evert Lloyd extends her hand to Marylander Pam Shriver after defeating her at the Capital Center in Landover, MD on March 1, 1981. (Paul Hutchins/Baltimore Sun)
On August 22, 1965 Brooks Robinson’s expression is matched by his son as they play catch at Memorial Stadium before the Orioles contest. (Paul Hutchins/Baltimore Sun)
In August of 1981 the Central Savings Bank building is reflected onto the hood of a car at Lexington Avenue and Charles Street. (Paul Hutchins/Baltimore Sun)
Soldiers hold two looters caught on Biddle Street near Madison during the 1968 riots that followed the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April. (Paul Hutchins/Baltimore Sun)
One of those award-winning photojournalists was Paul Hutchins. He came to The Sun in 1951 and worked in the advertised department for 10 years before joining the photography staff. During his tenure on the staff Hutchins was the Baltimore Press Photographer Association’s photographer-of-the-year four consecutive years in a row.
He covered the Orioles extensively and one his best known images is of Brooks Robinson flying in the air towards pitcher Dave McNally when the Orioles clinched the 1966 World Series. In addition Hutchins covered the Baltimore Colts for ten years. An assignment he truly enjoyed. One his favorite pictures was of an airborne Vikings’ player soaring over Colts’ player Mike Curtis as he dove at his legs.
Hutchins also worked for a number of years on The Sun Magazine applying his keen eye and artistic talents to its pages. Paul shot a number of photo essays for the magazine. One such essay titled “Patterns in Black and White” was aerial images of scenes around the Baltimore region after a snowfall. The cover image was a striking picture of Patterson Park and the surrounding neighborhood, which ran on the January 20, 1974 cover.
At the age of 67 Paul retired from The Baltimore Sun. He currently lives with his wife Dot in Baltimore County.
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These 20 photographs just scratch the surface of an archive that spans nearly 4 decades of photojournalism. When I visit Baltimore, I find myself going through the stack of Kodak boxes that store thousands of images captured through the lens of my Dads Nikon. Some tell a story, some bring back fond memories, and some are just plain funny. I seem to run into his work wherever I go when visiting Baltimore. Restaurants, Bars, office buildings, and the Camden Club, to name a few. Dad included me in his assignments whenever he could. At the age of 13, I went to my first Colts game and watched from the sidelines. I was with him when he had to take pictures of a stunt plane performing over Baltimore. We were in a single engine plane and he was hanging out of the door to get the perfect shot. All at 3000 feet and ignoring his fear of heights! Paul Hutchins spent his career photographing larger than life characters, but in my eyes, there was none larger than him.
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A fine man and a fine photographer. It was a pleasure and an honor working with Paul. My best wishes to him.
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Washington Capitals 2013-14 Preseason Season Roundtable, Part I
September 27, 2013 by Dave Nichols
Opening night of the 2013-14 season for the Washington Capitals is less than a week away. With that in mind, the District Sports Page Caps staff and contributors will take a look at several key areas that will affect the Caps season as they get ready to start play in the newly-formed Metropolitan Division.
The second half of our roundtable will post Monday.
Our panelists: Dave Nichols, Editor-in-Chief of District Sports Page; Katie Brown, Caps Staff Writer for DSP; Abram Fox, former Caps Page Editor at DSP, Erika Schnure, RinkRebel.com and DSP contributor; Ted Starkey, Caps author and contributor to DSP; Sky Kerstein, 106.7 The Fan and DSP contributor; and Harry Hawkings, RocktheRed.com.
1) Grade the off-season and why?
Dave: C. GM George McPhee was stealthy in his acquisition of center Mikhail Grabovski, waiting until well into the free agency period to nab the veteran pivot for a bargain one-year, $3 million deal. Grabovski should be sufficiently motivated to post big numbers and keep his nose clean, neither of which he did last season at Toronto coach Randy Carlyle misused the prime puck possessor as a third line grinder. But Grabo was the only acquisition of note.
I really would have liked to have seen a veteran defenseman with size brought in. Losses of Matt Hendricks and Jeff Schultz are inconsequential on the ice, though Hendricks was a real good guy in the room.
Katie: Hard to put a number on this. They kept the core together and only lost Mike Ribeiro and Matt Hendricks, and snatched Mikhail Grabovski after the initial free agent frenzy (which we know George McPhee doesn’t fall for). I’ll give the offseason a 6 out of 10.
Abram: C. Our current era of grade inflation notwithstanding, this team had an average offseason, and that’s a C. I’m not convinced that this team will be better than in the 2013 season (I refuse to refer to a season that only ran in 2013 as 2012-13). However, they won’t be measurably worse. Mikhail Grabovski won’t be as good as last season’s Mike Ribeiro, but he’ll probably be equal to this season’s Ribeiro.
Only two things of note happened. First, Ribeiro left as a UFA, and Grabovski was signed a few months later to replace him. Second, the Caps signed steady defenseman Karl Alzner to a four-year contract extension. They didn’t make any real splashes in free agency or through trades, and the other “big” names to leave the team – Matt Hendricks, Jeff Schultz – were both eminently polarizing and eminently replaceable. Essentially, this is the same team as last season.
Erika: The offseason is tough to grade for me. I love the acquisition of Mikhail Grabovski but I do think it was a bit of a mistake to let Mike Ribeiro walk. On the other hand, the Capitals unloaded Jeff Schultz (which is a move I’ve personally been advocating for some time). Based on the transactions made, I’d give the Caps a B-.
Ted: Capitals get a B for their offseason work, primarily upgrading from a grade of D, when they signed Mikhail Grabovski, who was bought out by Toronto after last season. Washington’s biggest shortcoming was center with Mike Ribeiro’s departure to Phoenix, and the indications early in free agency is that they would use Brooks Laich as their second-line center.But instead of a step backwards, the Capitals at least kept pace with last year’s club by plugging in Grabovski, who should rebound nicely in Washington after being marginalized in the last stint of his tenure in Toronto.
Sky: I give them a C because they lost a huge member of their locker room in Matt Hendricks and a solid second line center in Mike Ribeiro. Ribeiro was the first half MVP, helped Troy Brouwer have a career year and was a key contributor to the best PP in the NHL and don’t forget, half of Ovi’s goals came on the PP. Grabovski is a bit of a wild card. I believe he will help them more 5-on-5, but the PP could be an issue and he has always been known to really struggle when adversity hits and adversity hits every team during the season. I also think not being able to get another top-4 defenseman really hurts.
Harry: I give the offseason an A-. Once again, George McPhee avoided the crazy deals of the opening period of free agency, instead waiting out the market to sign his players. Letting Matt Hendricks and Mike Ribeiro sign for big money elsewhere was absolutely the right move, and in their stead McPhee signed a player who is younger and better than them both. The only think that keeps McPhee from earning an A is that he didn’t bring in a top-four defenseman – but more on that later.
2) What is your single biggest area of concern?
Dave: The Defense. This defense is top-heavy, with Mike Green, Karl Alzner and John Carlson as strong as any three deep in the league. But John Erskine is miscast in the second pairing, though he’s still the only regular on defense that brings any snarl. Promising youngsters Dmitry Orlov, Tomas Kundratek and Connor Carrick will bide their time in Hershey as the undersized Jack Hillen and journeyman Steve Oleksy continue to see time as the third pair. Unless the youngsters play their way into the lineup, the third pairing is going to continue to be a problem spot.
Katie: At this point it has to be the 4D position. The team is pretty set as far as forwards go, but that isn’t a terrible problem to have. I’m concerned about John Erskine being regularly torched by other teams. He’s a big guy and willing to throw down when necessary, but he’s not that fast and not getting any lighter on his feet.
Abram: Defense. It was an area that needed improvement. Washington has three NHL caliber defensemen – Mike Green, John Carlson, and Alzner – and everyone else is replacement-level. John Erskine, Jack Hillen, Tomas Kundratek, and Steven Oleksy are decent enough to take a shift in the big league, but the thought of any of them earning second-pairing minutes should induce feelings of dread in Washington fans. The Caps have a few prospects in the minors that could be serviceable pros one day, but unless Dmitry Orlov can make the jump to the big squad, the puck is going to be spending a lot of time in Washington’s end.
Erika: My biggest concern is that the coaching staff are still playing around with players’ positions. Moving Ovechkin back to left wing and constantly flipping him around does him no favors. Moving Brooks Laich to the ever-vacant second-line center made me a little nervous. Considering that Marcus Johansson actually is a center, why not put him in that position? Laich has played center in the past but I still don’t believe him a “natural” center. The constant position switching causes some concern.
Ted: After having traded for Martin Erat at the trade deadline last season, wingers are still a bit of a concern for Washington. Once a cornerstone of the team’s strength, the depth was tested with the departure of Alex Semin last season and there was a glaring need to replace his scoring threat. The Capitals picked up veteran Erat from Nashville for their 2012 first-round pick, Filip Forsberg, and Erat’s brief tenure so far in Washington was marked with injuries – the last being self-inflicted when he was barreled into by Alex Ovechkin at Madison Square Garden in Game 4 of the playoffs.
It will be interesting to see how Erat fills in his role on the second line – and how 2010 first-round Evgeny Kuznetsov will figure into the team’s plans once his KHL season ends and is eligible to come over and sign with the Capitals.
Sky: Complacency. This team thinks they can win just by the skill on their team and they’ve been able to walk into the playoffs each season being in the Southeast Division. They went 13-3 in the Southeast last season, which enabled them to make the playoffs, but in 55 games, including the playoffs, they only had four regulation wins against playoff teams. Two of those wins were against a Montreal team that was eliminated swiftly in the first round, another was against Toronto which came back and put up a fight before eliminated in the first round and the fourth was against the Rangers in game one.
The Caps won seven games against their new division teams last season and four of those were against Carolina. They can’t get off to a bad start and need to beat playoff teams this season, something they didn’t have to do in previous years to make the playoffs.
Harry: My single biggest area of concern is the defensive corps. Washington has very good defensemen in Karl Alzner, Mike Green, and John Carlson, but there is a cavernous drop off following those three. Jack Hillen lacks the size and great defensive ability that you look for in a lower-pair defenseman, while Steve Oleksy is bound to fall back to earth. What’s more, John Erskine is currently a top-four option on this team, which is not going to cut it. There is young potential in Tomas Kundratek, Cam Schilling, and Dmitry Orlov, but none of them have proved anything yet.
3) What do you expect out of Ovechkin this season?
Dave: This is a big year for the Captain. He’ll be in Greece over the weekend as the first Russian athlete to carry the Olympic flame as it journeys to Sochi for the games in February. He’s not only expected to be the best player on his NHL team and a face for the franchise, but the best player for his country as they host the Winter Games after such a disappointing showing in Vancouver.
Hopefully Ovi is as motivated for the Caps season as he is to represent his country. Barring injury, I think he’ll be in the 40-goal range, and count me as not as concerned about losing Mike Ribeiro on the power play. The power play unit might not be quite as prolific as last season — it would have a hard time repeating if Ribeiro was here or not — but it will still be a major strength for the Caps this season.
Katie: More of the same from last season, though he won’t win the Hart or Richard. He flourished under Oates even in the shortened season, so I expect that to continue. Ovi hasn’t really ever had a rapport with a coach the way he does with Oates, and that’s fun to watch.
Abram: I expect a below-average season. Certainly it will be tough to replicate his MVP year. On top of an expected regression, 2014 is an Olympic year. Unquestionably the biggest Russian winter sports athlete in the English-speaking world, not to mention in his home nation, Ovechkin is the face of the Sochi Games. His focus from now until February is the gold medal. Once that’s done he may be able to re-focus onto the NHL, but until then, his performance will be lacking.
Erika: Ovechkin did take a while to warm up last season, but I chalk that up to having not one, not two, but three brand new coaches. Ovechkin seems to have a great rapport with Oates, and I think that with the right line combination, Ovechkin can easily silence the naysayers and get back to his usual impressive form.
Ted: Ovechkin should have a good campaign, as unlike his tenure under the late Bruce Boudreau and Dale Hunter eras, he is allowed to take more chances offensively, and as a result, should put up some good numbers.
Like the past season where he led the league with 32 goals in 48 games, you should see Ovechkin score goals in bunches – as well as dry spells where his production drops significantly – and he should be able to record his
first 40-goal campaign since 2010-11, and perhaps even hit the 50-goal mark this year.
Sky: Everyone says he did so well playing on right wing but Ovechkin only had half his goals there. The other half was on the power play. I think he’ll have around 30 goals due to the fact this power play won’t be as good as a year ago. One thing — defenses adjust. Another, not having Ribeiro will really hurt them. Grabovski isn’t as good as Ribeiro is with the extra man.
Harry: I expect a solid season from Alex Ovechkin. He won’t approach the absurd power play numbers that he did last year simply because the unit as a whole will regress, but his switch to right wing has invigorated him for now. He’ll need to adapt again as teams key on him in his new position, but given full health, I would expect between 35-38 goals and about 80 points.
4) Are you satisfied with the goaltending situation?
Dave: For the most part. Braden Holtby has a lot on his plate this season, as he’s being considered for the biggest job in Canada: Olympic goalie. If he plays well in the first half of the season, he could very well find his way to Sochi. Holtby is an athletic marvel and a terrific puck-handler, but his aggressiveness still hinders him at times.
Neuvirth is steady as a backup, but on the occasions he’s had to steal the No. 1 job for one reason or another it just hasn’t worked for him. He could end up a trade chip if Holtby continues his stranglehold on the top spot. Philipp Grubauer, who will start the season in Hershey, might end up being the best of all of them. Caps goalie coach Olie Kolzig loves the kid.
Katie: Who wouldn’t be? The Caps have two young, talented goalies on their roster for less than a $5M cap hit. Can’t beat that. I think eventually Neuvirth will want to be the number one guy somewhere else, and move on, but for now, the Capitals are in a good situation.
Abram: Yes. Between Braden Holtby and Michal Neuvirth, there’s at least one quality NHL goalie there. I definitely feel good about Holtby, and Neuvirth’s not too shabby either. Neither man is Henrik Lundqvist or Jonathan Quick, but very few goalies are. I also like Grubauer in the minors. There’s some pretty good depth at the position.
Erika: The goaltending situation seems to be a bit awkward at the moment. Holtby appears to be the clear number one, especially now with Kolzig becoming head goaltending coach, since Holtby essentially is a young Kolzig. Last year, I was definitely feeling some vibes that Neuvirth was extremely dissatisfied and annoyed playing second fiddle to Holtby. It should be interesting to see how the goaltending situation shakes out, particularly in terms of the trade market. As far as the minor leagues go, I’m very excited for Grubauer to eventually make his way up (I’d expect some call-ups this year) and make a big impact.
Ted: While young, the Capitals are very deep in goal, and it will be interesting to see how the depth plays out over the next 12 months.
Braden Holtby is certainly the starter under Adam Oates, as the 24-year-old got the bulk of the work last year under the new coach. Holtby has shown flashes of brilliance at times, and while not quite at the elite level of goaltending yet, he is a very capable and solid workhorse that should provide the Caps good goaltending this season.
The big question, if not now, is the backup. Michal Neuvirth, age 25, is certainly a more-than-capable backup with good skill, but the emergence of 21-year-old Philipp Grubauer in Hershey will certainly bring a tough decision sooner or later for George McPhee, as it will become impractical to have three young NHL-ready goaltenders on the roster as soon as Grubauer gets more seasoning. With the organization very high on the young German goaltender, it seems that sooner or later, Neuvirth could be the odd man out barring injury to one of the other two netminders.
Sky: Yes, they have three goalies capable of start in the NHL, that’s all you can ask for. I think Holtby will have a great season.
Harry: I am satisfied with the goaltending. Braden Holtby has shown to be a very capable goaltender at this level and Michal Neuvirth is a fully capable backup with starter potential should Holtby falter. I still expect Neuvirth to be traded at some point, but goaltending is my area of least concern right now.
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FinNALA News December 2011
The FinNALA Newsletter,
Merry Christmas, everyone,
from all of us at FinNALA and Kippis!
FinNALA is now going to publish Kippis! only in an online version with occasional special issues in limited edition paper copy. G. K. Wuori is coordinating the submission and editing process for the journal. In preparation for the upcoming issue, we are currently accepting submissions. Please email submissions to gkwuori at hotmail dot com or send them to his postal address:
G. K. Wuori, Assoc. Editor
Kippis!
440 S. California Street
FinNALA has a new mailing address. The postal address is as follows:
New Blaine, AR 72851
Our web address is still http://www.finnala.com/ and we will locate upcoming issues of Kippis! on the FinNALA website.
Looking forward to FinnFest 2013, FinNALA will be coordinating readings and writing workshops by Finnish-American authors and poets. We are also planning to reserve a room at a venue to have a FinNALA membership meeting and dinner. FinNALA will also reserve a booth in the tori, and will look for volunteers to maintain the booth. Authors and poets can bring their work to the booth to sign and sell during their allotted time, They may not, however, expect other attendants to sell their work. Look for details in the coming year.
A special commemorative issue of Kippis! is planned to be for sale at FinnFest 2013 in Hancock, Michigan. To ensure that your work is considered for the issue, it must be included in an issue of Kippis!prior to Summer 2013.
The Fourth Annual Kippis! Creative Writing Contest is being planned. Submissions will be accepted from January first through March first. Categories include fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Fiction and nonfiction submissions may not exceed 3,000 words. Poetry submissions may include multiple poems but each sumission may not exceed eight pages. The entry fee for each submission is $20.00 and multiple entries are accepted as long as each is accompanied by an entry fee. First prize is $100, second prize is $50, and 3rd prize is $25. Judging will be done by the Kippis! editorial staff.
To enter by mail, send submissions with entry fee in the form of a check or money order made out to "FinNALA" to Beth Virtanen, Pres., Kippis! Contest!, P O Box 11, New Blaine, AR 72581.
To enter online, go to the FinNALA homepage and follow the directions there to pay by PayPal and submit your work electronically.
Suzanne Matson received a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. The novel she was writing (and read from at a previous FinNALA event at FinnFest in Minneapolis) concerning Finns has morphed and shape-changed so that it's a wider picture now, but it still has some of the Montana/Finnish immigrant "DNA" in it. An excerpt from that manuscript was what she applied with to the NEA. Here’s a link to the release: http://arts.gov/news/news11/ArtworksI-GrantAnnounce.html
Sheila Packa just edited an anthology of 75 writers in the Lake Superior area, Migrations: Poetry & Prose for Life's Transitions. For more info, www.wildwoodriver.com
She has also been working on some video poems with Kathy McTavish. Links to those are on Sheila's blog, www.sheilapacka.com.
A Poem by Sheila Packa (It is also in the anthology noted above):
Memory / The Mine
I return but it’s all excavation — me
an employee of the organization.
I remember a long road past a gate,
a dead landscape.
Dust. Noise. First the crusher and then
where I worked, the agglomerator
with conveyors to the trains.
First stop, the dry.
A sink like a Roman fountain.
Clothes blackened by taconite, yellow and white
hard hats, coveralls, steel toed boots,
safety glasses, the whistle
starting and stopping each shift.
For this, I’d propped myself on a ledge
for the paycheck.
Steel beams, high voltage. Dripping grease.
One of the crew leaning on high pressure
water hoses, blowing dust out of the nose
into a handkerchief, pushing spillage
down the sloping concrete floors
below rolling furnaces,
swallowing salt tablets from dispensers.
On a swing shift, counting
days till the long weekend
taking smoke breaks, and calculating
what falling asleep on graveyards might cost.
All night and day the trains came to load
and carry to the ore docks.
In the lunch room I took from my lunch pail
a paperback. Kept myself awake
with coffee from my thermos
avoided pellets and their third degree burns
stared into the middle distance
not the ends but the means —
the first place I’d worked
below the surface.
Diane Dettmann has a new work in print. Twenty-Eight Snow Angels: A Widows Story of Love, Loss, and Renewal is available from Outskirts Press. Find it here at http://outskirtspress.com/snowangels and find Diane's blog at http://quillandthought.blogspot.com/
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Garrison Keillor read a poem on NPR by Jane Piirto, Trustees' Distinguished Professor at Ashland University; you can check it out at http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2011/09/25. Also find her website with a listing of her works at http://web.me.com/janepiirto/Jane_Piirto_site/Books_by_Jane_Piirto.html
Dr. Kathryn Laity, associate professor of English at The College of Saint Rose, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and perform research at the Moore Institute at the National University of Ireland Galway during the 2011-2012 academic year.
Dr. Kathryn Laity
Laity will teach a seminar on the romanticism and realities of the writer's life in the digital age. According to the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, Laity is one of approximately 1,100 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program in 2011-2012.
A member of the Saint Rose faculty since 2006, Laity (www.kalaity.com, www.facebook.com/k.a.laity) specializes in medieval literature and culture, including the Vikings and
interpretations of medieval culture and literature in popular culture, film, creative writing, new media, comics and social media. She writes a weekly column on women and technology for a major women’s website and authors genre fiction under pen names. Laity holds a doctorate from the University of Connecticut.
Lisbeth Holt had several stories appear in Travel World News; in the August 2011 issue, "Yucatan's Mundo Maya Tourism Fair Promotes 2012 - Year of Maya Culture," and in the October 2011 issue, "Copan: Stunning Treasure of Honduras." The latter has also appeared in the Archaeology News Network and TreasureWorks.
Gary Anderson is working on a new book for the Naselle Finnish American Festival next summer. It is titled Bunchgrass and Buttercups: The Deep River Suite.
Ernest Hekkanen published two books in the spring of this year, Wintering Over: Poems Strewn on Snow (ISBN 978-1-894842-14-3) and All Night Gas Bar, and Ten Story Autopsies (ISBN 978-1-894842-20-4), a collection of stories and memoirs. He gave two readings at FinnWest at the Scandinavian Center in Burnaby, B.C. and, along with Margrith Schraner, held down a book table in the Tori.
Lennard Sillanpää is working to establish an annual Midsummer Concert in Ottawa as the President of the Nordic Society. The organization is looking for sponsors for the event which promises to draw enthusiastic crowds.
Lauri Anderson will be a guest writer at Iowa Wesleyan College in March of 2012. He will lecture in classes, speak at an assembly, read from his published works in various settings, and sign his books at the bookstore.
A Poem by M. L. King
I served reform where lords conform
and shook the party’s tables, mobbed
with ranks of famished youth I begged
to leave before their dreams were squashed
by tanks that marshaled for the state.
Despite my vote against that force,
gunshots and sirens laced with screams
resounded through the capital.
Confined at home by upset chairs,
I gauged the wails.
Guarded now, I
putt on the porch. Inside I play
chess with my wife, talk to cassettes
our grandkid’s toys conceal, until
my death, when cops beat friends who mourn
outside; shrewd comrades run the tapes
to foreign press who bind my words.
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Anyway, this month's brainfest can be found at
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A Poem by Lisbeth Holt
It is early winter now with waning hours of mortality
Yet what I’ve not seen or where I’ve not been
Fate offers to me as enticing possibility
And I cannot turn away, for it is the soul’s choice.
As long as my feet can carry me,
As long as my mind remains curious and free,
As long as I feel my heart will expand
I say “yes” to the invitations,
Begin anew the explorations.
It is early winter, I cannot deny it.
I glance in the mirror at the faint roadmap of lines;
From out of the twilight, they suddenly appear
(And in flickering candlelight, they disappear).
What is there to fear in these tiny furrows anyway?
Why foolishly rail against our common fate?
It is unpretentious beauty that endures after all:
Adventures of the soul, love richly blessed,
Life a beautiful pattern of connectedness.
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G. K. Wuori
Sirpa Kaukinen
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Random Pop Culture Question of the Week
Hero-Villain Cross Overs
Random Pop Culture Question of the Week is a bi-weekly journey into the headspace of the Review to Be Named gang, in which a pop-culture question is posed, answers are sought, and discussions are generated about issues and hypotheticals from throughout the realm of pop culture.
Who doesn't love a great villain? And right now I'm not talking about nuanced, shades of grey, you can maybe kind of see where they're coming from characters. I'm talking about the true bastards. The ones you love to hate. The characters that make you seethe with so much anger that it bubbles over and extends to the actors that portray them. What fictional antagonist that fits that aforementioned bill would you most like to see get their comeuppance at the hands of any other character from a different fictional property? Let the sweet, sweet revenge crossovers begin...
I freely admit this is an obvious answer, but it popped immediately into my head when I read this question and the longer it lingered there, the more it excited me. Bryan Cranston has been rumored to be in consideration for the role of Lex Luthor in the Man of Steel sequel, and while I think that would be a good bit of casting, I’m also not remotely excited for the film. If I’m going to see Cranston match wits with the Dark Knight, I want him to do it as Walter White. I know this continues my ongoing trend of just screaming “BATMAN!!!” every week regardless of the question, there’s actually a world where Walter White is a great Batman foe. Every Batman villain is a dark mirror for the hero, and Walt’s pride and obsessive need to control look a lot like Bruce Wayne’s. Additionally, they are both brilliant minds who hide their greatest (or worse) selves behind mild-mannered alter-egos. And after all the terrible things we’ve seen Walter White do, it would be pretty rewarding to see him get punched by Batman.
The other head-to-head that came immediately to mind also has a weird resonance in the casting world: I’d love to see Sherlock Holmes take down Hannibal Lecter. Thomas Harris’ novels are obviously indebted to Arthur Conan Doyle’s work, but where the latter only once found a villain who could truly match his hero, the former’s lasting legacy is creating an all-time great villain. Steven Moffat has announced the third series of his Sherlock will guest star Lars Mikkelsen, brother of Mads, who is currently playing Lecter on NBC’s criminally underseen masterpiece. So while neither of my tete-a-tete’s is likely to ever actually occur, I might get somewhat close in both instances within the next few years. Which is good, because I really don’t think James Bond is going to fight Darth Vader anytime soon. Unless...
For some reason the first villain I thought of didn’t come from Batman. The second villain I thought of came for Batman. Weird, I know. One villain I wish got her comeuppance is Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. She stands out because she isn’t a super villain, she’s just a horrible person who can exist in the real world, which makes her all the more terrifying/dislikable. The way she treats her patients without the film is both angering and frustrating -- what a better life it would be for Murphy and his pals if they were treated like human beings!
So how would I punish her? I’d send her to an all-women hospital for the criminally insane that got a troublesome new inmate -- Harley Quinn. While The Joker may be the most obvious answer to go with someone who would provide a miserable existence, Quinn works better since she herself was a psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum. Quinn taking down a symbol of an oppressive authority would be satisfying and would likely be fairly entertaining. Quinn’s unhinged nature, part of what has made her so popular, would play well in a hospital setting (obviously) and having the rigidly strict Ratched clashing with her strict style would be a fun, almost Looney Tunes-esque, battle of wits.
Michael:
There are really two types of villains for me - the obvious, and the hidden. The first is the antagonist of the comic book, the genre picture, the role-playing game. He is evil, his henchmen are orcs or goblins or dudes with heavily scarred faces, and they twist their mustaches and toss around their wizard staffs made of scarred and blackened oak. These guys are irrepressibly evil, and everybody knows it. They're fun.
The villains I truly hate though, the ones that make me grit my teeth and toss aside books in a rage, are so much worse. These are the villains who only the protagonists know are truly evil, and inevitably, they use their power or pathos to convince everyone that the hero is actually the villain, and any sense of goodness and hope in the world goes out the window.
For me, the perfect representative of this depravity is Dolores Umbridge, bane of middle-schoolers and destroyer of worlds. Never has a character shaken my nerves more since reading those books, her perfectly benign (even friendly!) exterior never giving away her secrets, except to our know-it-all protagonists. So how to counter someone whose best talent is hiding their true intentions? Someone who can see past the surface and fuck with the insides. The Mule, of Foundation fame, is maybe fiction’s most subtle operator, a man who alters the trajectory of the universe by implanting small changes in the minds of his conquered enemies. What better way to upend a good manipulator than by replacing them with a great one, and a more ambitious one at that. And it’s still probably a nicer fate than getting carried away by centaurs.
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Secret chamber found inside King Tut's famous tomb may solve hunt for Nefertiti - NZ Herald
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British archaeologist Nicholas Reeves believes the new chamber could be the last resting place of Queen Nefertiti, King Tut's mother-in-law. Photo / Getty Images
By: Jamie Seidel
Egyptologists are on the verge of solving one of history's biggest mysteries — the location of Queen Nefertiti's elusive tomb.
Tantalising radar shadows have revived hopes that one of history's most beautiful, and controversial, women — Queen Nefertiti — may indeed be buried in secret chambers within King Tut's famous tomb.
British and Egyptian Egyptologists earlier this week conducted a three-day radar scan of the world-famous tomb discovered by Howard Carter in 1922.
Upon opening its still-sealed door, he declared he saw "wonderful things". Everywhere was the glint of gold and priceless examples of some of history's most exquisite art.
But, since then, the tomb has presented something of a mystery.
It was immediately odd that so many of the statues attributed as Pharoah Tutankhamun had hips and breasts. And more recent, closer, examination reveals a significant proportion of the artwork to have been rebadged, and repurposed, from previous rulers.
And that includes his iconic burial mask.
In 2015, a ground-penetrating scan of the 3300-year-old tomb was conducted by controversial radar technician Hirokatsu Watanabe. He declared he had detected, with "90 per cent certainty", several hollow spaces along with "metallic" and "organic" objects.
The world erupted in excitement.
Could another extraordinary discovery be tantalisingly within reach?
Would one of Egypt's greatest mysteries finally be solved?
Egyptologists were immediately doubtful. His radar scan images seemed uninterpretable — just a mass of blue lines with the occasional red dot. Nobody other than Watanabe seemed able to determine what the scans revealed.
The locations of speculative chambers have been supported by infra-red and radar scans of Tut's tomb. Photo / Getty Images
So, the Egyptian Antiquities department organised a second scan — this time with the assistance of National Geographic — in 2016. It found … nothing.
"If we had a void, we should have a strong reflection," geophysicist Dean Goodman of GPR-Slice software told National Geographic News. "But it just doesn't exist."
THIRD TIME LUCKY?
The Egypt Independent reports the latest scan of Tut's tomb concluded on Wednesday.
Egyptian technicians from the Centre for Sound Vibration and Smart Structures at the Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, joined a team from the English Terravision Centre to scour the rock for any trace of hidden chambers.
It's part of an assessment that is due to be completed by the end of the year.
Egyptian archaeologist Francis Amin told the Egypt Independent the most recent radar survey, conducted by the University of Turin, had revealed spaces behind the walls.
But the resolution of the images did not confirm if these were man-made or natural cavities in the rock.
"The results of previous radar surveys have found evidence of the existence of spaces and organic material behind the walls of the cemetery," Amin said. He added that specialist chemists will need to help analyse the radar survey results.
BOY KING OR PR STUNT?
Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb doesn't follow the well-established pattern applied to other Egyptian god-kings. It's unusually small. And it is shaped more like a burial chamber intended for a queen. And why do so many of the statues and images attributed as King Tutankhamun have feminine hips and breasts?
British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves put these clues together, including the discovery of partially erased royal names, to suggest the tomb — and much of its contents — was initially intended for Tut's stepmother, Nefertiti.
Dr Reeves' 2015 academic paper The Burial of Nefertiti quickly grabbed international attention.
About the same time, a high-resolution 3D laser scan made to help preserve the tomb indicated there may be "hollows" hidden behind the tomb's plasterwork and paintings. Were these sealed doors?
"The implications are extraordinary: for, if digital appearance translates into physical reality, it seems we are now faced not merely with the prospect of a new, Tutankhamun-era storeroom to the west; to the north appears to be signalled a continuation of tomb … and within these uncharted depths an earlier royal interment — that of Nefertiti herself, celebrated consort, coregent, and eventual successor of pharaoh Akhenaten," Dr Reeves wrote.
While the evidence was circumstantial, it was enough to pique the interest of the Egyptian Antiquities department to invite Dr Reeves — and others — to examine the tomb more closely.
"Each piece of evidence on its own is not conclusive but put it all together, and it's hard to avoid my conclusion," Dr Reeves said. "If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, but if I'm right, this is potentially the biggest archaeological discovery ever made."
Dr Reeves has been chasing Nefertiti's ghost for almost two decades.
In 2000, Dr Reeves led a radar examination of the ground around Tutankhamun's tomb in a search for Nefertiti's burial. He reported finding a "void". But digs failed to locate anything.
His continued enthusiasm, however, has proven contagious.
In 2016, Egypt's tourism minister enthused: "We do not know if the burial chamber is Nefertiti or another woman, but it is full of treasures … It will be a 'Big Bang' — the discovery of the 21st century."
So far, the Big Bang hasn't happened.
Some have theorised Tutankhamun suffered from his royal inbreeding and had deformities such as breasts and female hips. Photo / Supplied
And Egyptian Antiquities Minister Khaled El-Enany has insisted no invasive exploration would be allowed to damage the priceless tomb. "It is essential to perform more scans using other devices and more technical and scientific methods," Mr El-Enany said.
The challenge has since been one of developing the technology capable of achieving that task.
Former Egyptian antiquities minister and high-profile archaeological personality Zahi Hawass has long been a sceptic of the hidden chamber theory.
"If there is any masonry or partition wall, the radar signal should show an image," he reportedly told National Geographic News.
"We don't have this, which means there is nothing there."
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July 13, 2011, 11:08 P.M. A wrong way driver traveling eastbound in the westbound lane of Interstate 74 near mile marker 35 was reported to are Law Enforcement agencies.
Knox County Sheriff's Deputy Keith King responded to the area in an attempt to locate the wrong way driver. Deputy King was near mile marker 41.5 when a vehicle traveling ahead of him quickly changed lanes to avoid the wrong way driver. The wrong way driver immediately struck Deputy King's patrol vehicle head on. The wrong way driver, Benjamin A. Davila, was driving a 2009 Mini Cooper hatchback.
Both Deputy King and Davila were transported to St. Mary's Medical Center in Galesburg and then transfered to St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria. Deputy King's injuries are non-life threatening. Information on Davila's injuries and condition are not known at this time.
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AP traces child labor from Southeast Asia’s palm oil fields to major brands, Girl Scout cookies
For the third installment of their groundbreaking investigation into labor abuse in Asia’s palm oil industry, reporters Robin McDowell and Margie Mason linked child labor to the supply chains of the makers of popular cereals, candies and ice creams, including KitKats, Oreos and Cap’n Crunch. They also traced the oil to that most American treat: Girl Scout cookies.
Joined by photographers Binsar Bakkara and Mark Humphrey, and video journalist Allen Breed, their reporting found that some tens of thousands of children toil in the palm fields, some kept from school and forced to work for free or for little pay. Some are trafficked.
The framing of the story — through the eyes of a young girl in the fields in Indonesia and a Tennessee Girl Scout campaigning to have palm oil removed from the cookies — resonated with readers; reaction on social media led the Girl Scouts to address the issue with their suppliers.
For shedding unprecedented light on the children toiling in Southeast Asia’s palm oil fields, and connecting the abusive practice to major consumer brands, McDowell, Mason, Bakkara, Breed and Humphrey share AP’s Best of the Week honors for the week of Dec. 28.
AP reveals sexual misconduct charges against FBI leadership
used interviews, public records requests and court papers to exclusively confirm at least six sexual misconduct allegations against senior FBI officials over the past five years, and that each avoided discipline. Several were quietly transferred or retired with full benefits, even when probes substantiated the claims.Starting with a single tip from a longtime FBI source, Mustian chipped away for months to reveal the previously undisclosed names of most of those senior officials as well as the details of the allegations against them. He used a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain inspector general reports, one of which confirmed the identity of an assistant FBI director who had been credibly accused of of drunkenly groping a female subordinate in a stairwell. The assistant director left the bureau without discipline.Mustian also found a civil rights lawyer in Washington who was preparing two lawsuits by women accusing senior officials. Mustian negotiated both for an exclusive interview with one of the plaintiffs, and to be the first reporter to write about those cases, including one woman’s claim of being blackmailed into sexual encounters for years.Mustian’s story received heavy play and elicited a strong reaction from readers, particularly those inside the FBI. Several women emailed Mustian to say his count was just the beginning; that they too were victims of senior agents while at the FBI. A California congresswoman says she is considering hearings into the FBI’s handling of sexual misconduct. https://bit.ly/3h15d7R
AP wins first Rome interview after acquittal of Cardinal Pell
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AP connects palm oil industry, top brands to abuse of women
followed up on their initial reporting that exposed widespread labor abuse in the palm oil industry, conducting a comprehensive investigation into the brutal treatment of women in the production of the omnipresent ingredient, including rapes by plantation supervisors, serious health issues from toxic chemicals and injuries from back-breaking loads. The pair then traced the oil produced by these women to the supply chains of top Western beauty brands — including conglomerates that make billions of dollars as they market the empowerment of women.Mason and McDowell persuaded dozens of female workers to tell their searing stories, spending months getting the women to trust them and then arranging clandestine meetings in an effort to protect the workers from retaliation by plantation owners. They bypassed the stonewalling of major Western brands that refused to say whether their products contain palm oil by using company data and U.S. Customs records to link the workers’ abuse to the brands’ palm oil supply chains.The package featured striking digital display, video and evocative photos by Indonesia-based stringer Binsar Bakkara, as well as a powerful series of closeups of workers’ hands cradling familiar products containing the fruits of their labor.The story is nearing 250,000 page views on AP News. The Clorox Company, which owns Burt’s Bees Inc., said it would raise the allegations of abuses with its suppliers, calling AP’s findings “incredibly disturbing.” https://bit.ly/3liKAV3https://bit.ly/2VeVUXRhttps://bit.ly/3mlXgfd
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— A state-level report showing that overdose deaths are on pace to reach an all-time high this year, and that overdoses increased after the virus began spreading in the U.S.— An accountability story on President Donald Trump’s handling of the opioid crisis, and how the issue has been overlooked in the presidential race.— A major scoop on a settlement between the federal government and Purdue Pharma, complete with details of criminal charges and the $8 billion settlement.
But the depth of coverage didn’t end with the major news beats. All three stories put victims at the center of the reporting.
For revealing stories that broke news and provided a powerful reminder of an ongoing epidemic that has contributed to the deaths of more than 470,000 Americans, Mike Stobbe, Adrian Sainz, Farnoush Amiri, Geoff Mulvihill, Meghan Hoyer and Michael Balsamo win this week’s Best of the States award.
AP reveals that Barrett was trustee for schools with anti-gay policies
Supreme Court nominees are scrutinized for signs of how they may vote on important issues, but Amy Coney Barrett’s jurisprudence told little about her views on gay rights.
Reporters Michelle R. Smith and Michael Biesecker knew that Barrett’s ties to People of Praise, a religious group with anti-gay views, could be an important part of her confirmation process. Through dogged reporting and source work they were able to show that Barrett was a trustee at People of Praise-run schools that had anti-gay teachings.
Their story had an immediate impact in the run-up to her Oct. 26 Senate confirmation. For thorough and groundbreaking reporting on the tightly held views of a justice likely to sit in judgment of high-profile gay rights cases, Smith and Biesecker win AP’s Best of the Week award.
AP exposes palm oil labor abuses linked to the world’s top brands, major banks
While covering the Rohingya crisis, investigative reporters Robin McDowell and Margie Mason knew tens of thousands of refugees fleeing Myanmar were vulnerable to exploitation. They suspected desperate men were being tricked or sold into the massive palm oil industry that supplies some of America’s most iconic food and cosmetic brands.
Working with photographers Gemunu Amarasinghe and Binsar Bakkara, they vividly documented the horrors some workers in Malyasia and Indonesia face. Workers spoke of brutal conditions including child labor, outright slavery and allegations of rape.
Reaction was swift, with the U.S. government saying it would block shipments from a major Malaysian producer mentioned in the story.
For exposing abuses affecting tens of thousands of workers in a global industry that manufactures a vast array of products we buy and use daily, McDowell, Mason, Amarasinghe and Bakkara win AP’s Best of the Week award.
A year after AP report, charges against former Mississippi priest
followed up with the latest developments from his 2019 reporting that uncovered sexual assault by clergy, settled on the cheap in rural Missisippi. That reporting has now prompted sexual assault charges against a former Catholic priest.A year ago, Rezendes and AP colleagues unraveled the case of a former Franciscan friar accused of sexually assaulting three impoverished Black boys. Spurred by this reporting, Mississippi authorities convened a grand jury that handed up sexual battery charges and had the man extradited from Wisconsin. Without the original work of Rezendes, there would have been no criminal case. Said La Jarvis Love, one of the men who told his story to AP: “I’m happy that me saying something got something done.”https://bit.ly/3m7ZShhhttps://bit.ly/2FnUUMm
A year in the making: Exclusive AP interview with Placido Domingo
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Players open up to AP, describe coach’s abusive practices at Oregon State
National sports writer Eddie Pells was first approached in February by the mom of a player who said she had some concerns about abuses going on in the volleyball program at Oregon State.
Over the next five months, Pells conducted dozens of interviews both in and out of the program, and checked with experts to learn if volleyball coach Mark Barnard was over the line. Several athletes spoke to Pells, including a former OSU player who described how the coach’s abusive practices contributed to a suicide attempt.
Pells’ exclusive led to immediate calls for the coach’s firing and questions about the university officials who didn’t take action after hearing complaints.
For months of persistent and sensitive reporting despite uncertain prospects, resulting in an impressive story with impact, Pells wins this week’s Best of the States award.
AP exclusive leads to release of migrant kids held in US hotels for deportation
Earmarked for deportation, the immigrant children, some mere toddlers, were parked in nondescript hotels – out of sight and, the Trump administration thought, out of mind. But not out of reach of an Associated Press exclusive.
With an investigation based on source work, court records and witness accounts, immigration reporter Nomaan Merchant exposed how the Trump administration held children in hotels despite federal anti-trafficking laws and court rulings that mandate child-appropriate facilities.
Merchant’s exclusive sparked outrage and accusations of child abuse. Five days later, the Trump administration said it would not expel 17 people, including children, detained at one Texas hotel, and the hotels pledged to stop allowing the practice.
For his investigative story that punctured layers of secrecy and changed the fortunes of all-but-invisible immigrant children, Merchant wins AP’s Best of the Week award.
AP Exclusive: US Catholic Church lobbies, gets windfall in federal PPP funds
Based on a tip following AP’s previous reporting on the Paycheck Protection Program, AP anticipated that the Roman Catholic Church might be one of the program’s biggest winners.
Investigative reporters Reese Dunklin and Michael Rezendes started digging, first showing how the church had successfully lobbied for special treatment under the program, then, when the federal data dropped, the full extent of the church’s windfall. An analysis on deadline revealed $1.4 billion to $3.5 billion in forgivable loans, with many millions going to dioceses that paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy because of sexual abuse claims.
The story had an immediate impact with strong play and engagement in digital, print and broadcast outlets.
For being both first and authoritative on this highly competitive story, and for holding a remarkably powerful institution accountable, Dunklin and Rezendes share this week’s Best of the States award.
All-formats team out front on death of Seoul mayor
scored repeated beats in all formats when news broke that the Seoul mayor had gone missing amid a sexual harassment complaint. AP’s late-night news alerts on the discovery of the mayor’s body were well ahead of the competition; the print story led front pages on websites worldwide and BBC cited AP in its own copy.https://bit.ly/3h3FTNnhttps://bit.ly/391u3AIhttps://bit.ly/393YG8n
AP’s tour de force coverage of Weinstein verdict sweeps all formats
Coverage by an Associated Press team dominated the closely watched Harvey Weinstein verdict, delivering wins in all formats with speed, depth and exclusivity. Superior planning and preparation, and outstanding coordination on the day of the verdict, gave AP the edge.
Highlights included the breaking news story moving on the wire within a minute of the verdict, exclusive video of Weinstein leaving the courthouse by ambulance, and an enterprising behind-the-scenes photo essay on the women journalists covering the trial that earned remarkable play.
For quick, comprehensive and distinctive coverage that kept the AP ahead on one of the biggest trials of the year so far, Mary Altaffer, Michael R. Sisak, Tom Hays, David Martin, Ted Shaffrey, Robert Bumsted, John Minchillo, Craig Ruttle and Sophie Rosenbaum win AP’s Best of the Week award.
AP Exclusive: US opera union finds Placido Domingo abused power
obtained exclusively the results of the opera union’s investigation of sexual harassment accusations against superstar Placido Domingo, revealing that 27 people told investigators that they either had been harassed or had witnessed inappropriate behavior by Domingo. AP was also the first to report Domingo’s apology. Gecker’s story moved about nine hours before the union released an extremely brief description of its findings, offering few details. As a result of her reporting, a new accuser came forward to speak to the AP on the record, and a cascade of performance cancellations began among music companies in Domingo’s native Spain, where he previously had been staunchly defended. https://bit.ly/2Io9lOEhttps://bit.ly/2Io9amIhttps://bit.ly/2Q4TER1https://apnews.com/PlacidoDomingo
Be Prepared: Source work, planning deliver top coverage of Scouts’ bankruptcy
David Crary heard from his legal sources that something big was coming for the Boy Scouts of America, which has been besieged by sexual abuse lawsuits: a bankruptcy filing.
Weeks before the paperwork was filed, Crary, who has been covering the organization for 20 years, set into motion plans to ensure the AP was well-covered. When the Scouts’ filing finally came out late on a holiday, his sharply written prep had the story on the wire within minutes, explaining the gravity of the filing and the reasons behind it.
AP journalists around the country pitched in, including Brady McCombs who gathered reaction from Scouts and local councils, spinning it into an engaging follow-up, and correspondent Randall Chase who attended the Scouts’ first bankruptcy hearing in a Delaware court. Their efforts were rewarded with outstanding play.
For their careful planning and flawless execution of coverage of the Scouts’ bankruptcy filing, Crary, McCombs and Chase win this week’s Best of the States award.
Wrestler goes public with abuse charges; AP gets the interview
Kantele Franko, reporter, Columbus, Ohio; Larry Lage, sports writer, Detroit; and Thomas Peipert, reporter, Denver, for nimble coordination across three regions to secure an all-formats interview with the first athlete – Olympic wrestler Andy Hrovat – to make public accusations of sexual abuse against now-deceased Dr. Robert Anderson of the University of Michigan.https://bit.ly/2HZ8m7Ghttps://bit.ly/2PwPH7j
AP: Vatican envoy knew of offer to bribe abuse victim
for teaming up in a new investigation into the disgraced Legion of Christ religious order, revealing that the pope’s own envoy knew about a sex abuse settlement offer that is the subject of an obstruction of justice and extortion trial in Italy. AP scored the first-ever interview with the victim’s mother and obtained her wiretapped conversation with the Vatican cardinal running the Legion who was utterly unfazed that the order wanted to pay her son to lie to prosecutors and deny he had been abused.https://bit.ly/2TftYlihttps://bit.ly/2VpMJVI
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Weekend Vampire: Sometimes espionage bites
The honeymooners. Max and 99 cross the threshold into Dr. Drago's house of horrors.
Weekend Vampire (original air date: 12-18-65)
Cast: Dr. Drago – Martin Kosleck, Professor Sontag – Ford Rainey, Arrick – Roger Price, Hugo – William Baskin, Agent 52 – Don Ross, Control agent – Robert Karvelas
Writers: Gerald Gardner and Dee Caruso
Synopsis: Three Control agents have been murdered – all with suspicious puncture wounds on their neck. Could it be… a vampire?
Max and 99 are fine tuning their eavesdropping skills.
The episode opens with Max and Agent 52 involved in a game of chess while stationed in Professor Sontag’s laboratory. In the midst of the game, a shadow descends across the room and a strange tune fills the air. Agent 52 slumps over dead — his only visible sign of injury being two puncture wounds to the neck.
Two previous agents, 23 and 49, also succumbed to what they used to refer to as “neck rupture” on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In the meantime, the newspapers are having a field day reporting on a “Weekend Vampire” because the incidents only occur on the weekend. Is a weekend vampire anything like a weekend smoker?
Scratching for some sort of clue, Max and the Chief set out to decipher the tune heard before 52 is murdered. They are assisted in this with Dr. Arrick and the Detecto-Tune. This is probably the best bit in the whole episode – and it was included among the tracks on the Get Smart LP from 1965 (and later re-released on CD in 1996). Max and Arrick’s attempt to sound out the mystery tune devolves in to a rendition of Heart of My Heart – which gives us a nice sample of Ed Platt’s vocal talents. It also earns the Chief the lead in the annual Spy Frolics.
After trying to get the autopsy results from the lab, Max and 99 find Sontag having a phone conversation with Dr. Drago, Sontag’s predecessor. Drago, it’s revealed, was released from his employment at Control after being caught performing unauthorized experiments.
Max and 99 eventually follow Sontag to Drago’s house. For added creep factor, this all transpires during a storm and the car Max is driving conveniently dies right outside of Drago’s house. This leaves 86 and 99 to come up with the idea of approaching Drago as stranded travelers.
When Max advises that they use one of the cover kits stored in the car’s trunk, 99 is quite eager to use the newlywed cover. Regardless, Max also grabs the Commando Kit. They could have also selected the Diplomat Kit, the Publisher Kit, the Dr. and Nurse Kit or the Lion Tamer Kit. For what it’s worth, the Commando Kit comes with a throwing knife, knockout drops, a revolver and brass knuckles. The Newlywed Kit includes all that plus a bouquet of flowers, Expando-Rice, a “Just Married” sign, Ignito-Paste and two sets of bulletproof pajamas.
Upon arrival at Drago’s house, they are greeted by Drago himself, the grunting Hugo and a coffin set out in the front room. Drago tries to scare Max and 99 off, but later decides to keep them for the night – locked tight in a bedroom.
After some detective work, and going to the effort of breaking out of their room, Max and 99 find that Drago’s coffin leads to his basement laboratory.
Drago reveals that he murdered the Control agents who testified against him with a twin-chambered flute that fires two poison ice pellets. Then Drago decides to demonstrate the flute on 99.
In a perfect chain of events, Max tackles 99 and knocks her out of Hugo’s grasp. Sontag, who has just arrived for his own confrontation with Drago, shoots his mentor. Drago then hits the note on his flute, leaving the poison pellets to land in Hugo’s neck.
Gotcha! In this quick scene you can see the back of the sound stage.
There are a couple of other issues to note:
• In terms of character consistency, in the previous episode, “Aboard the Orient Express,” Max didn’t know the difference between checkers and chess. In this episode he knows what he’s doing and beats Agent 52.
• One thing I find odd is Drago’s coffin/secret staircase. He clearly climbs into it and lies down, which just doesn’t fit with it being a staircase.
• When Max exits the car during the storm, you can see the top of the backdrop as well as the stage. For whatever reason, they’re also not using the Sunbeam Tiger in this episode.
This is one of a number of episodes in the series that plays on the absurd. I don’t know what it is, but I find the rhythm of this one predictable. Sure, what’s a TV series without a vampire episode – you get one every now and then. However, I’m left with this feeling that everyone was just kind of going through the motions in this episode. Compared to some of the other episodes in the first season, like “Mr Big” and “Aboard the Orient Express” to name a couple, this episode comes off as weak.
Maybe I’m just not buying the superstitious nonsense.
Max: (as he moves to walk under a ladder) It’s a good thing we’re all sensible civilized men who don’t believe in a lot of superstitious nonsense.
Chief: Max! Don’t walk under that!
Watch for: The Dectecto-Tune bit.
Max and 99 decide it's time to break out of their bedroom.
• Martin Kosleck primarily played Nazis and appeared in a number of horror flicks. On the tube he appeared in several episodes of The Man from Uncle as well as a Mission Impossible two-parter.
• Ford Rainey has a storied career in television, appearing repeatedly in the likes of The Virginian, Bonanza, Alias Smith and Jones, Search, The F.B.I., Mannix, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Ned and Stacey and The King of Queens.
• Humorist Roger Price was best known for “Droodles,” a syndicated cartoon feature that was a combination of a doodle and a riddle. Price, along with Leonard Stern, also invented Mad Libs. They later partnered with Larry Sloan to create the Price-Stern-Sloan publishing company. Price appeared on a number of TV shows, with his final role as Hottentot in Get Smart, Again!
• William Baskin had a few roles here and there – including in Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine.
• Don Ross appeared in two other episodes of Get Smart: The third season episode, “Maxwell Smart, Private Eye” and the fourth season episode, “Hurray for Hollywood.” He appeared regularly on Sea Hunt, The Fugitive, The F.B.I., Dragnet 1967 and Adam-12.
Glick meter: Max closes out the episode by nearly beaming the Chief with a poison ice pellet from Drago’s flute. Sorry about that.
Oh Max meter: 99 gives Max more of a scolding in this episode – though it’s unwarranted. Initially 99 appears more than happy to be carried over the threshold of Drago’s house by Max. However, she’s not exactly up to pulling out all the stops in the role of “Mrs. Smart.”
Max: We’ve got to do everything honeymooners do. These pajamas are our best bet. Get in them 99.
99: (scandalized) Max!
Max: (annoyed) They’re bulletproof 99!
Control Agents: Professor Sontag, Arrick, Agent 52 and Larabee – although he isn’t actually named as such. Mentioned were Agent 23 and Agent 49 – both murdered by Drago.
Kaos Agents: None really. Drago was just a disgruntled former Control scientist that got the boot for unauthorized experiments.
Gadgets: DetectoTune, Expando-Rice, Ignito-Paste, bulletproof pajamas and, if you count the villain’s toys, the Flute Gun.
Episode Locations: Control headquarters, Drago’s creepy 200 year old house
Heart of My Heart: The Chief brings it home.
Posted in Episodes, Season One | Tagged Bruce Bilson, Dee Caruso, Don Ross, Ford Rainey, Gerald Gardner, Jay Sandrich, Martin Kosleck, Robert Karvelas, Roger Price, William Baskin | Leave a reply
Too Many Chiefs: The Old Doppelganger Trick
Victor French finds out how Maxwell Smart feels about insurance.
Too Many Chiefs (original air date: 11-27-65)
Cast: Tanya Lupescu – Susanne Cramer, Hodgkins – Bryan O’Byrne, Kaos Leader – Harry Basch, Insurance Man – Victor French, Cashier – Robert Karvelas, Aunt Rose – Rose Michtom, Fang – Red
Synopsis: Control is charged with protecting witness Tayna Lupescu who is set to testify against Kaos – unfortunately that matter has been blasted in the newspapers. The Chief decides to put Ms. Lupescu under a more direct form of surveillance: in Max’s apartment. In the meantime, Kaos sends in master of disguise Alexi Sebastian to impersonate the Chief.
The real Chief chokes while the impostor makes a dash.
Classic television is probably the only universe where any one person can find themselves in a face-off with their exact double. This episode is the first of several in the series that uses this device. Others include: “The Spy Who Met Himself,” “And Only Two 99,” “The King Lives?” and the two-parter “To Sire, With Love.”
This episode’s villain, Alexi Sebastian, has never failed an assignment. He’s got away with impersonating a senator, a tennis champion, Johnny Carson, Max’s Aunt Rose and we still don’t know which of the Huntley & Brinkley news duo is really Sebastian. He does have one notable characteristic: Weak eyes. When exposed to bright light, he blinks excessively.
Sebastian eventually makes his way to Max’s apartment and manages to dupe 99 and the Chief – though not without an unwanted glass of buttermilk. The pantomime comes to a head when our duplicates have their face-off.
Max ends it all with his ah-ha moment. Remembering Sebastian has weak eyes, Max flashes a reading lamp in the air and shoots the man blinking at him.
Much of this episode centers around the silliness between Max and blonde bombshell Tayna Lupescu. Initially Ms. Lupescu rides the hard German stereotype, claiming Americans are soft due to their love of… well…. love.
In reality, Tayna’s a tease. After Tayna “shows” Max how little love and affection mean to her, he’s pretty much useless for the rest of the episode. In fact, he gets so distracted when she borrows his pajamas that he nearly shoots her.
As to be expected, 99 and her jealousy get thrown into the mix.
Max (who has Tayna’s lipstick smeared on his face): It’s really nothing 99. I was just showing Tayna a little Judo.
99 (sarcastically): It must have been pretty rough. I think she broke your lip.
We learn a few tidbits in this episode:
• Max has an Aunt Rose and an Uncle Harry.
• Also, of note, the painting of 99 that appeared in “The Day Smart Turned Chicken” is not in Max’s bedroom. It will reappear in “All in the Mind.”
• The Chief has an ulcer and only buttermilk can ease the misery.
• The Chief is married and his wife authored the rules on interrogating female agents.
• Tanya had been taken prisoner by Kaos for a week. At one point she was left alone in one of their offices where she managed to memorize a Kaos code book. She reveals proper names and countries equal the word marmalade. Control, however, had been working on jelly for the last two years.
Watch for: Our favorite Where’s Waldo Characters: Robert Karvelas and Aunt Rose.
Tayna shows Max how little love and affection mean to her.
• This episode marks the first appearance of Victor French, who would eventually play Agent 44 – the first reoccurring Control agent hidden in tight spots. TV viewers of the 1980s will best remember French as grizzled Mr. Edwards on Little House on the Prairie and Mark Gordon on Highway to Heaven. French appeared in a number of westerns as bad guys, including Rio Lobo with John Wayne.
• German actress Susanne Cramer appeared in a handful of American TV shows including The Man From U.N.C.L.E, Hogans Heroes and Bonanza.
• Harry Basch had reoccurring roles on Falcon Crest and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. He also appeared in two other Get Smart episodes, “The Only Way to Die” and “Age Before Duty.” Oh yeah, he was in two episodes of Mission Impossible and an episode of Star Trek.
Glick meter: Meet Max the womanizer. Don’t worry, we’ll see this act again throughout the series.
Oh Max meter: 99 makes a point of telling Max that he forgets she’s a woman.
Control Agents: Hodgkins, Fang, Cashier, Agent 48 (disguised as an elevator operator) and Agent 41 (the chamber maid that Max doesn’t trust).
Kaos Agents: Alexi Sebastian, Kaos Leader with four minions, the hotel desk clerk and the bell boy.
Gadgets: Telephone Gun, Fire Extinguisher Projector and the Cone of Silence returns. The chamber maid is also in possession of a broom gun.
Episode Locations: Unnamed hotel and Max’s apartment – which we learn is two minutes from the courthouse.
The Cone of Silence also offered a nice performance in this episode.
Posted in Episodes, Season One | Tagged Bruce Bilson, Bryan O’Byrne, Dee Caruso, Gerald Gardner, Harry Basch, Jay Sandrich, Red, Robert Karvelas, Rose Michtom, Susanne Cramer, Victor French | Leave a reply
The Old Jealous Spy Trick
The generals and the admiral react to Red Cloud's threat of war.
Washington 4, Indians 3 (original air date: 10-23-65)
Cast: Red Cloud – Anthony Caruso, White Cloud – Adele Palacios, Air Force General (Fred) -Willis Bouchey, Admiral (Harry) – William Zuckert, Army General Custer – Donald Curtis, Agent 43 – Monroe Arnold, Bridegroom – Armand Alzamora, Green Meadows – Barry Russo, Blue Skies – Roberto Contreras, Indian Chief – Robert Karvelas
Director: Richard Donner
Synopsis: Chief Red Cloud issues an ultimatum to the United States: return all the land to his tribe or a state of war will exist. Max is assigned to infiltrate the tribe and winds up being mistaken for Red Cloud’s future son-in-law.
Max reluctantly follows 99's instructions. White Cloud was not impressed.
My Thoughts: There are a couple themes in this episode to note. The obvious one is this business involving Red Cloud and the “second biggest arrow” Max has ever seen. The idea of this episode seems ridiculous, but in the end it tries to make a point.
Max is wiling away the night shift at Control, his nose in a book on torture, when Agent 43 phones in with Red Cloud’s threat of war.
Ignoring that it’s the wee hours of the morning, Max takes command and calls a Maximum Mobilization Alert. In the process, he manages to wake up the Joint Chiefs of Staff -except for the Marine Corps general who has three weeks of leave.
The military leaders had a few ideas on the matter – namely saturation bombing of Arizona. They also mulled giving the country back to the tribe – or at least offering them New Jersey.
What I do find interesting about that scene is that while the generals are still buttoning their coats, the admiral is decked out in the uniform for a formal evening event. Perhaps the night was still young for him. Hmm…
Depending on which syndicated version you watched, parts of this episode ended up being cut — most notably the bit about the giant arrow landing in the west wing of the White House.
GS had a habit of subtly touching on social issues, hence the conversation Max had when he tried to talk Red Cloud out of launching the massive arrow:
Max: Let’s think of the past -when you ruled the great plains with your buffalo… and then came our settlers… and then our soldiers.
Red Cloud: (gives an offended look)
Max: Maybe we’d better forget about the past. The present, that’s what counts. Look what we’ve given you in the present – these nice tiny little reservations.
Red Cloud: (shoots Max another offended look)
Max: Let’s talk about the future, Red Cloud. If we take the promises of the past and join them with the polices of the present, then there’s only one thing left to say…Let ‘er rip, Red Cloud.
In other matters, this episode is considered to be the point where we see that 99 has a crush on Max. Although, every previous episode had the pair experience a failed kiss attempt. Also, there were already moments where 99 has slid up to Max and engaged in a bit of eye-batting and such.
Nevertheless, 99’s displeasure at Max being mistaken for White Cloud’s fiance is funny. Certainly 99 is not amused at the situation and when Max asks how to woo White Cloud, she instructs him to kiss the girl on the elbow.
As usual, 99 intervenes at the critical moment – well 15 minutes away from critical – and barges into Red Cloud’s tent with guns blazing. 99 orders everyone to back off. Then she glares at White Cloud.
99: You! Get furthest away!
Watch for: Check out Red Cloud’s tepees – one has all kinds of electronic do-dads and the other looks like a 1960s living room – complete with TV. This episode also gives us a New Jersey joke.
A jealous 99 barks a command at Max.
• Richard Donner went on to direct the likes of Superman, The Oman and Lethal Weapon. He also directed another Get Smart episode, “Our Man in Leotards.”
• Uncredited, Robert Karvelas appears as a chief on the war council
• A fellow Hoosier, Anthony Caruso typically played villains, Italians, Indians, Arabs, Persians, Mexicans, Latinos and Native Americans. He played Bele in the Star Trek episode “A Piece of the Action” and Leonard Morgan in the Mission Impossible episode “Shape-Up.”
• Willis Bouchey appeared in numerous films and TV series. He was a favorite of director John Ford, appearing a number of his films, including The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
• Character actor William Zuckert got his start in radio. He went on to have parts in such movies as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Hang ‘Em High. He also appeared as the Star Trek episode “Spectre of the Gun.”
• Donald Curtis’ acting credits include The Ten Commandments. He was also known as a writer and lecturer on Indian religions.
• Monroe Arnold appeared in the movie Fitzwilly which starred Barbara Feldon.
• Barry Russo had parts in scores of TV shows in the 60s and 70s. Yes, he was on Star Trek twice – in “The Ultimate Computer” and “The Devil in the Dark.” He was also in a handful of Mission Impossible episodes.
• Roberto Contreras, known for playing Pedro in the High Chaparral, also appeared in such films as Scarface and Topaz. And… he too was in a handful of Mission Impossible episodes.
Glick meter: Max spends a bit of time dwelling on the fact that everyone had three weeks of vacation but him.
Oh Max meter: 99 declares that 86 is worth two 43s.
Control Agents: Agent 43 and mentioned: Forsythe, Harrison and Saunders
Kaos Agents: None
Gadgets: Micro Camera, Electric Snake, Tiny Radio Receivers, Saddle Transmitter and a book on Indian Lore.
Episode Locations: Red Cloud’s remote reservation in Arizona
Yes, that's Robert Karvelas doing an uncredited photobomb behind Red Cloud.
Posted in Episodes, Season One | Tagged Adele Palacios, Anthony Caruso, Armand Alzamora, Barry Russo, Dee Caruso, Donald Curtis, Gerald Gardner, Jay Sandrich, Monroe Arnold, Richard Donner, Robert Karvelas, Roberto Contreras, William Zuckert, Willis Bouchey | Leave a reply
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Apollo Program, FLOWN Hasselblad Camera and 500mm. Telephoto Lens. The lot includes the Hasselblad Electric camera body (P/N SEB 33100102-? / S/N 1054), Film Magazine (P/N SEF 33101018-301, S/N 1020), a Carl Zeiss "Synchro Compur" 1:8 / 500mm. Telephoto Lens (No. 3494681 / hand engraved MSC51792) with Carl Zeiss lens filter (S86 / 1x / HZ / 0), Sun Shade and various Hasselblad Lens Caps. A custom black focusing ring on the lense has large "ridges" to accomodate use by an astronaut's gloved hands. There are three preset focusing dots (yellow, red, green) on the ring to simplify focusing for the astronauts.
There is a piece of white velcro attached to the magazine slide (to anchor the slide to the wall in the Command Module so it wouldn't float off in the weightless environment of space). There are also several "sticky" patches on the camera body, probably where other velcro patches/labels have come off over time. A "rub" on the body of the lens is just a sign that this is an original part that has seen some use at one time.
This 500mm. lens is one of only four to be specially modified by NASA (two of which were personally modified by the consignor) to enable the astronauts to photograph lunar craters from the Command and Service Modules while in lunar orbit. The consignor can find no record of other similar lenses surviving the years.
NASA Hasselblad cameras have shown up from time to time over the years (mainly from this consignor) but this is the first time a lens of this rarity has become available. The consignor advises us that he has saved the best for last and that this is his last Hasselblad camera body and the only 500mm. specially modified lens that he had. Others MAY surface in years to come, but probably not for awhile. The odds are against your waiting around for lightening to strike again.
Don't overlook this opportunity to purchase a piece of history. It will be the focal point of your collection.
Estimated Value $25,000 - 35,000.
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Apollo Program, 1963, Sterling Silver Astronaut Candidate Lapel Pin. Presented to the consignor when he graduated as a Group 3 Astronaut in 1963, it is designed to be worn on civilian clothing. The pin is described as three rays, passing through a halo to a star at its apex.
The pin is issued in two grades, silver and gold, with the silver pin awarded to candidates who have successfully completed astronaut training and the gold pin to astronauts who have actually flown in space. Astronaut candidates are given silver pins but are required to purchase the gold pin. These pins are almost never available to collectors. We have handled a couple of these pins over the years, but they are considered by many to be the highlight addition to any space collection. This pin is complete with its original screw back.
Estimated Value $5,000 - 7,500.
Ex. The astronaut Richard "Dick" Gordon collection.
Space Model, c1965, "Apollo Spacecraft" Model. 19.5x6") This pristine white plastic 3-part, North American contractor's model (by Hyatt) has only been out of its original box (no label) a couple of times over the years and the plastic is as pristine and milk white as when originally issued to the original owner. We note the occassional, odd paint chip on metal parts, but these pale to the pristine quality of this model itself. This is probably the cleaniest example of this model we have seen in almost three decades.
Space Model, c1965, "Apollo Spacecraft" Model. 19.5x6") This pristine white plastic 3-part, North American contractor's model (by Hyatt) is similar to the previous lot but has the normal, aged, Service Module component. Some faults, but attractive. The original box, with red/white blue/ North American Aviation label, is included.
Estimated Value $500 - 750.
Apollo Program, c1960s, Prototype "Microscope" Base (5x4x4") A fascinating tooled metal prototype microscope base that can be raised and lowered to focus using a screw mechanism and has a mechanical light scource controlled by a wheeled shutter mechanism built into the top of the base. White velcro is attached to one end of the top alongside of a locking mechanism. There is an ID label sewn onto the power cable that reads: "P/N PCC-F20022-1 / Class 1". The base is engraved "PCG-F" and "S/N 000". This would appear to be a prototype and is probably unique.
Ex. The Leopold A. Hein Family collection.
Apollo Program, c1960s, Dr. Matthew Radnofsky "Beta Cloth Development" Archive. A two carton lot of correspondence with the German company "Papierfabrik Scheufelen" as well as others and flamability testing samples. Dr. Radnofsky was a NASA employee who was deeply involved in the development of Beta Cloth; the flame proof material developed to protect the astronauts as a result of the Apollo 1 fire. In addition to development for use in spacesuits, Beta cloth was developed for use to protect fire fighters. The archive includes extensive NASA internal documents tied to individual samples. A great lot for the NASA historian.
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Apollo Program, c1967, Rare "Apollo CSM Test Team" Lapel Pin. The pin is gold in color with "Apollo CSM" at the top and "Test Team" at the bottom of a globe with "Apollo" across the middle. These were undoubtedly scarce originally as they were probably only given to the Test Team members. They have undoubtedly been lost to collectors down through the years as this is the first we have seen in over 25 years of describing space memorabilia. A great find and a great addition to any collection.
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The International Arabic Journal of Antimicrobial Agents
Bugs on Cuffs and Pockets: A Cross-sectional Study of the Contamination of Healthcare Personnel Attire at Salmanyia Medical Complex
Jameela M. AlSalman
Yusuf N AlAlwan
Mohamed Redha Rajab Salmaniya Medical Complex
Nermin K Saeed
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3823/828
Background: Hospital acquired infections increase the morbidity and mortality of the inpatient population. Pathogens like Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococci are transmitted by direct contact or transmitted by fomites such as healthcare personnel’s attires. This is a cross-sectional study aimed to explore the prevalence ofcontamination of the attires of healthcare personnel working atSalmanyia Medical Complex.
Method: We randomly selected 100 doctors and nurses working in different departmentsand swabbed their attire's sleeves and pockets. We then stored both swabs in their accompanying syringe that contains a bacterial transportation media, and sent them to the lab for culturing. SPSS 23 was used for data entry and analysis. After that, percentages and frequencies were computed for different categorical variables, and a cross-tabulation was computed between each two categorical variables. Chi-Squared test was used to determine whether there were significant relationships between each two categorical variables.
Results:Of the total samples, 44 pocket and 45 cuff samples were contaminated with staphylococcus epidermidis (skin flora). Thirty eight participants were found to have contamination of both the cuff and pocket. Nurseshad slightly higher prevalence of cuff contamination than doctors (P=0.032). Amongst doctors, surgeons had the highest prevalence (P=0.006).
Discussion:Compared to the data available in the literature, our data did not reveal contamination with significant pathogens such as staphylococcus aureus or MRSA.Nevertheless, contamination with staphylococcus epidermidis could be whether from autoinoculation or contamination from the hospital environment and could correlate to level of hygiene. Frequent washing of attire doesn’t reduce the level of contamination.
ALSALMAN, Jameela M. et al. Bugs on Cuffs and Pockets: A Cross-sectional Study of the Contamination of Healthcare Personnel Attire at Salmanyia Medical Complex. The International Arabic Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, [S.l.], v. 9, n. 1, feb. 2019. ISSN 2174-9094. Available at: <http://imed.pub/ojs/index.php/IAJAA/article/view/2339>. Date accessed: 16 jan. 2021. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3823/828.
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The Resource CBS television network series theme music, 1969-1970
CBS television network series theme music, 1969-1970
The item CBS television network series theme music, 1969-1970 represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-Kansas City Libraries.
CBS Television Network
New York City?, Publisher not identified, 1969
Title from label
Television programs' theme music
Lassie (0:39)
To Rome with love (0:39)
Ed Sullivan Show (0:19)
Mission: Impossible (0:50)
Gunsmoke (0:50)
Here's Lucy (0:33)
Mayberry RFD (0:24)
Doris Day Show (1:05)
Carol Burnett Show (0:15)
Lancer (0:50)
Red Skelton Show (1:07)
Governor & J.J. (0:45)
Glen Campbell (0:36)
Beverly Hillbillies (0:52)
Medical Center (0:56)
Hawaii Five-O (0:56)
Family Affair (0:41)
Jim Nabors Show (1:27)
Thursday/Friday Movies (1:00)
Get Smart (0:52)
Good Guys (0:48)
Hogan's Heroes (1:06)
Jackie Gleason (1:17)
My Three Sons (0:32)
Green Acres (1:03)
Petticoat Junction (0:54)
Mannix (1:06)
CBS television network series theme music
Popular instrumental music -- United States -- 1961-1970
Television programs -- United States
Get Smart (Television program : 1965-1970)
Glen Campbell (Television program)
Good guys (Television program)
Governor and J.J. (Television program)
Green acres (Television program)
Gunsmoke (Television program)
Hawaii Five-O (Television program : 1968-1980)
Here's Lucy (Television program)
Hogan's heroes (Television program)
Jackie Gleason show (Television program)
Jim Nabors show (Television program)
Lancer (Television program)
Lassie (Television program)
Mannix (Television program)
Mayberry R.F.D
Medical center (Television program)
Mission impossible (Television program)
Mission: impossible (Television program : 1966-1973)
My three sons (Television program)
Petticoat Junction (Television program)
Red Skelton show (Television program)
Thursday/Friday movies (Television program)
To Rome with love (Television program)
Beverly hillbillies (Television program)
Carol Burnett show
Doris Day show
Ed Sullivan show (Television program)
Family affair (Television program)
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Lassie (0:39) -- To Rome with love (0:39) -- Ed Sullivan Show (0:19) -- Mission: Impossible (0:50) -- Gunsmoke (0:50) -- Here's Lucy (0:33) -- Mayberry RFD (0:24) -- Doris Day Show (1:05) -- Carol Burnett Show (0:15) -- Lancer (0:50) -- Red Skelton Show (1:07) -- Governor & J.J. (0:45) -- Glen Campbell (0:36) -- Beverly Hillbillies (0:52) -- Medical Center (0:56) -- Hawaii Five-O (0:56) -- Family Affair (0:41) -- Jim Nabors Show (1:27) -- Thursday/Friday Movies (1:00) -- Get Smart (0:52) -- Good Guys (0:48) -- Hogan's Heroes (1:06) -- Jackie Gleason (1:17) -- My Three Sons (0:32) -- Green Acres (1:03) -- Petticoat Junction (0:54) -- Mannix (1:06)
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Classic Rock song with these lyrics possible 70s or 80s, you left me here to make it alone
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60s-90s
Who had a hit with this record?
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GET IT ON-T REX, who suggested using the line "And meanwhile, I'm still thinking" in the song?
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Identity of early version of Cocaine Blues possibly 1940s/1950s (even pre World War II?)
early -version "cocaine blues" 1940s 1950s (even pre world war ii)
Who were the members of The Above Average Black Band?
Why was he called Thunderclap?
Which 1960's band was he in?
what was this band originally called?
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who sang this?
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Which part of London did the Jazz band come from that provided the inspiration for this song?
Song: ba ba daa baa ba ba da ba, ba ba daa baa da , 60s/70s/80s acoustic rock
Can't identify this song (Link to part of the song included)
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Reinventing Care: Bridging the gap between medical and mental health care
In: General, In The News
When the planning for St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton’s new West 5th campus began more than a decade ago, words like ‘stigma’ and ‘integration’ were on the minds of many, but not yet widely used or understood – especially when speaking publicly about mental illness and addiction.Read More →
Landmarks to Light up Purple for World Mental Health Day
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More than 40 landmarks across Canada will be lit up with purple lights across on Oct. 10, World Mental Health Day, including a few in the Tri-Cities. And Carol Todd would like to see many more. The Port Coquitlam teacher, whose daughter committed suicide in 2012, is hoping everyone wears purple or puts up purple lights as part of the Light Up Purple 2014 campaign to spark a conversation on mental health and the need for awareness, support and resources.Read More →
Talk therapy may treat social phobia better than drugs
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Antidepressants are commonly used to treat social phobia, but a new report argues that “talk therapy” is the better first option. In a review of 101 clinical trials, researchers found that “cognitive behavioral therapy” often helped people with social phobia — a type of anxiety disorder where people have a deep fear of being judged by others or embarrassed in public. The more common approach to tackling social anxiety — antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) — also helped, the review found.Read More →
New head of Ontario Bar Association speaks out about depression
In: Depression, In The News, Personal Stories
Four days before Orlando da Silva became president of the Ontario Bar Association this month he heard the news that comedic genius Robin Williams had taken his own life. “I imagined Robin Williams alone in his room, what went through his mind,” da Silva told TorStar News Service this week. “I can understand the thinking, I can understand the emotions.” The new OBA president has also lived with the torment of depression, the sense of bone-deep worthlessness and lacerating self-disgust. He came close, in fact, to taking his own life.Read More →
Don’t suffer in silence
In: Depression, In The News, Living with Mental Illness, Personal Stories, Supporting a Loved One
BELLEVILLE – Michael Teasdale never thought about killing himself. But he did feel like curling up in a corner and letting life roll over him until it flattened him out of existence. The Stirling man and Loyalist College student was just one of the walkers in Wednesday’s Defeat Depression at the school, aimed at raising awareness of mental illness.Read More →
Olympic figure skater, Stanley Cup winner, cyclist share struggles with mental illness
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When Elizabeth Manley opened the door and saw her mother for the first time in weeks, her mother collapsed on her knees and began to cry. Since moving to the United States to pursue her dreams of figure skating and Olympic gold, Manley had become a pale ghost of the robust athlete she had once been — she’d lost all her hair, gained 40 pounds and had almost completely stopped talking. “I wanted to wear the pretty dresses and the pretty makeup, but unfortunately sports don’t always come with the pretty stuff,” she told a packed crowd at the University of Ottawa on Monday, 30Read More →
Yoga and depression
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Meagan Arnold’s story could have been tragic. The 29-year old had spiralled into a deep depression in her teens. Her way out might have been devastating. Instead it’s become her way of life.Read More →
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Kendra Fisher, mental health advocate and former member of Team Canada’s Hockey program, speaks about the frustration in getting help.Read More →
Police Chief Bill Blair ordered to investigate Toronto police suicides
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Aug 28 2014 http://www.thestar.com/ Blair has been asked to report to police board chair Alok Mukherjee about recent officer suicides, but the information gleaned may never be made public. The chair of the Toronto Police Services Board is demanding answers from Police Chief Bill Blair, after the suicides of two Toronto cops in less than four months. Early last week, board chair Alok Mukherjee wrote to the chief asking for a full report into the hanging deaths of Const. Clinton Cibulis, 34, and Sgt. Richard “Buck” Rogers, 45, by Friday.Read More →
Young Sault Ste. Marie woman dogged by depression for years see some sunlight
SAULT STE. MARIE – Melissa Cutler looks forward to rising these days — that’s perhaps because her future shines a bit more brightly. She does take medication for the mental disorder that’s dogged her since her early teens, and she still receives — albeit, less lately — medical assistance. But things appear to be coming together for the Sault Ste. Marie woman, 21, for whom mental illness has been a constant companion for far too long. “I haven’t been in the hospital for about four months,” Cutler told The Sault Star this week. “I’ve been doing very well.Read More →
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Los Angeles native Jana Coke responds from the heart to the controversy of the blue vs. red debate and the Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice battle of abortion.
The final presidential debate brought up the yesterday and today fight of Roe Vs. Wade, the 1973 landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion which gave women the right of choice to make their own decisions concerning the matter.
While Hilary took the approach of speaking from women’s experiences she’s met on the campaign trail by stating, “I have met with women who toward the end of their pregnancy get the worst news one could get, that their health is in jeopardy if they continue to carry to term or that something terrible has happened or just been discovered about the pregnancy. I do not think the United States government should be stepping in and making those most personal of decisions. So you can regulate if you are doing so with the life and the health of the mother taken into account.”
Donald Trump spoke from “a place of scare rhetoric”, as Clinton put it as he stated, “I think it’s terrible. If you go with what Hillary is saying, in the ninth month, you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of the baby.” He made mention of ripping the baby out of the womb several times.
This part of the debate struck the heart of Los Angeles native Jana Coke, as she stated, an abortion is nothing but a term for a medical procedure. I went through a full delivery and got to hold my baby…that was my Choice. Anti-choice people use fear and control.”
While the two candidate’s rhetoric on the subject was less informative and more entertaining Jana was reminded of the power of the CHOICE that Roe Vs. Wade provided for her and her doctor as she faced a life threatening situation and the darkest and hardest time of her life. Coke took to Facebook and posted after the debate:
“At 19 weeks pregnant, I received the most devastating news. The child in my womb had a condition that is not compatible with life. Additionally, continuing to carry him in my womb puts my life at danger. I was advised to terminate my pregnancy immediately. Because I had a CHOICE in my medical care, I decided to continue with my pregnancy. Since my OB had a CHOICE he discontinued treating me because I did not accept his advisement. As death was knocking at my door, I had a “late term” abortion at 25 weeks. My labor was induced and I went through a full vaginal delivery. This was my CHOICE. If the medical procedure known as abortion were not legal, I would not be alive today. This is why I am adamantly Pro-Choice.”
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The organization Planned Parenthood (which celebrates 100 years of service this month) was a subject of contention during the debate, the reason, Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider. Planned Parenthood has been around since 1916, when Margaret Sanger, her sister Ethel Byrne, and Fania Mindell opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. It was at the forefront when the food and drug administration approved the sale of the original birth control pill, and it played a dominate role in creating a movement for the reform of abortion laws in the United States before Roe Vs. Wade.
Ever progressive in its movement, Faye Wattleton became the first African American president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1978. Under her leadership, Planned Parenthood grew to become the seventh largest charity in the country, providing services to four million clients each year through its 170 affiliates, whose activities were spread across 50 states.
While Planned Parenthood provides variety of care options for women and now some services for men, abortion is what keeps republicans wanting to stop its funding and pro-lifer’s protesting at their doors.
In This Corner Pro-Life
The pro-life movement includes a variety of organizations, with no single centralized decision-making body. The groups have no agreement with and when life begins. Some pro-life advocates also oppose certain forms of birth control. A vast number of these Pro-Life organizations are conservative Christian groups and the catholic church.
Violent incidents directed against abortion providers have included arson and bombings of abortion clinics, and murders or attempted murders of physicians and clinic staff, especially the doctors that provide abortions. Advocates generally argue that human life begins at conception and that the human or embryo or fetus is a person and therefore has a right to life.
Republicans take a more moral fiscal approach by, “opposing the use of public funds to perform or promote abortion or to fund organizations, like Planned Parenthood, so long as they provide or refer for elective abortions”. The government is the largest source of Planned Parenthood revenue; it receives roughly $500 million a year in government funding.
While the rumble between Pro-Life ,Pro-Choice, democrats and republicans continues throughout the country, Jana Coke is thankful for her CHOICE for her and her physician’s as she shares, “I want to put an end to the lies told of late term abortion. I’ve learned, that experiences are testimonies meant to be shared. It’s a joy to share my story.”
This story was written by Niele Anderson and originally appeared in the Los Angeles Sentinel.
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This Article is a more detialed version of the article produced for the December 2015 issue of Fine Magazine
At the start of the new year we need to take a look back to the dog days of the last to see some changes in Consumer Protection Legislation that underpin a less well publicised new requirement introduced from 9 January 2016.
The 1 October 2015 brought in, under the new Consumer Rights Act a number of extensions and clarifications to the rights of consumers when dealing with goods and service providers- SME’s need to know the extent of these changes- and understand some new concepts, in order to comply with the other new law introduced on 9 January 2016.
The 2 Important changes on 1 October 2015:
1. The New Consumer Rights Act updated and extended existing rights and provided 2 important “new” rights:
An explicit right to repair or replacement of faulty digital content (such as an online film or music download). Legislation wasn’t clear previously but those rights are now explicitly stated. For the first time rights on digital content have been set out in legislation.
Clear rules for a deficient service. Where a service isn’t provided with reasonable care and skill the service provider now needs to take steps to bring the service up to the expected standard or return the payment.
2. A Requirement for all businesses which are unable to resolve a dispute with a consumer to point that consumer to a provider of alternative dispute resolution services.
The Rights Extensions & Clarifications are significant-
1. The rights to a full refund within “a reasonable period of time” for Faulty c=goods is now guaranteed in the first 30 days.
2. Goods that are found faulty between 30 days and six months have to be repaired or replaced by the Store- not the manufacturer- so retailers will need to check there contracts with wholesalers and suppliers to ensure they are updated.
3. After 6 months consumers will need to show that a product was faulty from the start but products must last a reasonable period of time.
4. Customers only need to accept one repair or replacement and accepting one doesn’t invalidate the right to a refund.
5. Different rules apply for goods and services.
A Failure to comply with the new rights can result in prosecution so it is important to make sure staff are adequately trained. The Citizen’s Advice Bureaux who provide information aimed at consumers have some useful printable charts with summaries of the new legislation that might be useful for staff.
What is all this about Alternative Dispute Resolution?
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is any means of resolving a dispute between parties without having to go to court- it can include Mediation- where a neutral person helps the parties to reach a settlement through negotiation, Arbitration- where a person employed by the parties makes a decision much like a judge would and expert determination- where an expert makes a decision- like under a party wall act dispute . There are also combination processes allowing for mediation and arbitration to be fused to avoid the problems with being unable to guarantee settlement in mediation.
under Regulation 19(1) a trader who is required by law or its trade association rules or the terms of a contract to use ADR services, must make the name and address of the relevant ADR entity available on its website and in its general terms and conditions of sales or service contracts between the trader and consumer.
So I can avoid it?
Well- sort of- Regulation 19(2) provides that any trader who has received a complaint form a consumer relating to a sale or service contract and who has been unable to resolve the complaint with them by using its own internal complaints handling procedure, must inform the consumer, on a durable medium, that it cannot settle the complaint, provide the name and website address of a competent ADR provider which would be able to deal with the complaint should the consumer wish to use alternative dispute resolution and also state whether the trader is obliged or prepared to submit to an alternative dispute resolution procedure operated by that ADR entity.
But would you want to?
ADR is often a really good alternative to court- it can be much quicker and cheaper and it is easier for businesses to keep the agreement confidential which is very important for trade reputations. A trader who chooses court rather than ADR also risk the court making a damaging costs finding against them if the court feels they have been unreasonable.
So what’s happened from 9 January 2016
As if small businesses didn’t have enough to worry about the new year brings another new requirement for SME’s offering their goods, services and digital content in “cross Border” trade throughout Europe. From January 2016 all businesses engaged in such trade will need to comply with the Online Dispute Resolution Directive.
ODR is simply ADR online and the European innovation is really little more than a clearing house that allows consumers to make a complaint on one website and have the complaint filtered through to whatever national agency deals with ADR in the businesses home country. The website is effectively a portal in all major European languages allowing a single point of contact for the consumer.
All businesses who sell goods or services online or provide a way for businesses to trade online, will have to provide a link to the ODR site on their website and say whether they are obliged to use ADR by trade association law or terms of business.
Will people use it?
Certainly some people will- normally no case can be brought about a faulty good or service after 6 years from the date sold or provided- for complaints failing within the ODR remit that time is extended to 6years and 8 weeks- meaning that some consumers will only be able to use the ODR procedure.
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Worldwide cyber threat could hit more people
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A global ransomware attack has affected more than 200,000 victims in 150 countries, Europol chief Rob Wainwright says.
He said the act was "unprecedented in its scale" and warned more people could find themselves affected on Monday morning.
The 'WannaCry' virus took control of users' files, demanding payments from people in return for restoring them.
Russia and the UK were among the worst-hit countries.
Experts said another attack could be imminent and warned people to ensure their security is up to date.
Mr Wainwright said the ransomware was being combined with a worm application allowing the "infection of one computer to quickly spread across the networks".
"That's why we're seeing these numbers increasing all the time," he said.
'Patch before Monday'
Although a temporary fix earlier slowed the infection rate, the attackers had now released a new version of the ransomware, Mr Wainwright said.
Companies needed to make sure they have updated their systems and "patched where they should" before staff arrived for work on Monday morning, the EU law enforcement agency head said.
In England, 48 National Health Service (NHS) trusts reported problems at hospitals, GP surgeries or pharmacies, and 13 NHS organisations in Scotland were also affected.
What occurred was an "indiscriminate attack across the world on multiple industries and services", Mr Wainwright said, including Germany's rail network Deutsche Bahn, Spanish telecommunications operator Telefonica, US logistics giant FedEx and Russia's interior ministry.
However, he said that so far "remarkably" few payments had been made by victims of the attack.
BBC analysis of three accounts linked with the global attack suggested the hackers had been paid the equivalent of £22,080.
The Europol chief said his agency was working with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation to find those responsible, and that more than one person was likely to be involved.
The virus exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows software first identified by the US National Security Agency, experts have said.
After taking computers over, it displayed messages demanding a payment of $300 in virtual currency Bitcoin to unlock files and return them to the user.
Microsoft released security updates last month to address the vulnerability, with another patch released on Friday.
The UK security researcher known as "MalwareTech", who helped to limit the ransomware attack, predicted "another one coming... quite likely on Monday".
MalwareTech, who wanted to remain anonymous, was hailed as an "accidental hero" after registering a domain name to track the spread of the virus, which actually ended up halting it.
The 22-year-old told the BBC it was very important for people to patch their systems as soon as possible.
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Honda Odyssey Under Investigation For Airbags That Spontaneously Deploy
NHTSA examining whether 320,000 cars need to be recalled
NHTSA said more than 40 complaints have been filed regarding airbags on the 2003 and ’04 Odyssey models (Honda).
A grandmother sat in a parked Honda Odyssey waiting for her granddaughter to come out of a tutoring class in Hattiesburg, Miss., when an airbag in the vehicle spontaneously deployed.No accident. No impact. But the random deployment on May 8, 2012 sent her to the hospital, where doctors stitched her upper lip and dentists repaired several chipped teeth.Four months later, another Honda Odyssey driver endured a similar incident. She had just placed the gearshift in ‘drive’ and the driver’s-side and passenger-side frontal airbags spontaneously deployed. There had been no accident, nor impact.An off-duty police officer witnessed the spontaneous deployment and helped the victim, who had suffered minor powder burns. He noted the airbag-firing mechanisms were still in motion.”I’ve seen a lot of wrecks, but I’ve never seen the airbags continue to fire,” he said of the Sept. 8, 2012 incident, according to a complaint filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. “The horn continued to beep.”
Those are two of at least six known spontaneously-deploying airbag incidents that have led NHTSA to open a preliminary investigation into whether 320,000 Honda Odysseys should be recalled. NHTSA announced the investigation Monday.
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Three people were injured in those deployments. The agency said at least 41 other complaints have been filed regarding airbags on the 2003 and ’04 Odyssey models. One of the spontaneous deployments NHTSA cited occurred on an ’01 Odyssey. All six of the cars affected were at least seven years old at the time of their incident.
A Honda spokesperson said the company has been aware of the airbag problem since Chrysler recalled nearly 1 million cars in two separate recalls within the past nine months. The two companies use the same supplier, TRW Automotive.
“Honda has been monitoring this issue since responding to a NHTSA information request involving their investigation of another manufacturer last year,” spokesperson Chris Martin said in a written statement. “Honda will continue to cooperate with NHTSA through the investigation process, and will continue our own internal review.”
Chrysler recalled 744,822 vehicles that contained TRW Automotive parts last November after receiving 215 reports of inadvertent deployments, and followed with a recall of 3,660 cars in February. A spokesperson for the supplier deferred comment to the affected automakers Monday.
Should NHTSA press for a recall on the affected Odysseys, it would be the latest in a long line of airbag-related recalls. Automakers have issued 17 so far this year, and are on pace to eclipse the record 23 airbag-related recalls issued in 2012.
NHTSA announced last week it was investigating whether 400,000 General Motors vehicles needed to be recalled because of a separate airbag problem.
Airbags can be expensive to fix. The woman from Hattiesburg, Miss., said mechanics estimated her car would cost $2,331.22 to repair after its spontaneous deployments. A man who said his airbags spontaneously deployed while he was stopped at a light, said his local Honda dealership quoted him a price of $4,100 for repairs.
The owner, whose name was redacted in the NHTSA complaint, expressed frustration in his dealings with Honda. He said Honda had twice-inspected the car following the incident, but could not pinpoint a cause.
“We left the vehicle at the dealership, asking for more specific documentation on potential causes,” he wrote. “My wife and I believe the airbag deployment was the result of a safety defect, and Honda of America has refused to remedy the situation.”
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Knowing When To Replace Your Brake Pads
Just as your gas mileage will vary depending on where and how you drive, so it goes with the life of brake pads (or linings), the friction material that gets pressed against a metal disc or drum to stop your vehicle.
If you drive only 8,000 miles a year but it’s mainly in a crowded urban area such as Chicago, Boston or Washington, D.C., you will need to replace brake pads more often than someone who drives 28,000 miles a year across the flatlands of Nebraska. You use your brakes a lot more in urban driving than on a rural highway.
Unfortunately, there is no clear-cut schedule that tells you when it’s time to replace the brakes, so you need to rely on your ears and the advice of an experienced automotive technician. Most vehicles should have their tires rotated at least every six months, and that is a good time to have the brakes inspected, as well. A mechanic can check the thickness of the pads and the condition of the brake hardware to spot wear.
Many cars have built-in wear sensors that scrape against a brake disc when the linings needed replacing. The driver will hear an annoying screeching sound when they apply the brakes (or when the brakes are released on some vehicles).
Those sensors aren’t on every vehicle, so drivers should listen for squeaks, squeals, grinding (often a sign that brake pads are entirely gone) and other noises that indicate wear. Some minor noises can be eliminated by cleaning the brakes, but persistent, prominent noises usually mean parts are worn. Other signs are pulsations through the brake pedal, longer stopping distances, or when you apply the brakes your foot goes down further, closer to the floor. Because brake linings wear gradually, you may not notice the demise in performance, so that’s where the experienced eye of a mechanic can help.
All cars have a brake warning light that comes on for a few seconds every time you start your car. If it comes on while driving, that probably means your brake system is low on fluid because of a leak or a problem with the brake master cylinder. Note that this is not the same warning light that comes on when you apply the hand- or foot-operated parking brake.
All cars and light trucks also have front disc brakes. Most have rear discs, as well, though some lower-priced cars still come with rear drum brakes. With discs, it has been common practice to just replace the brake pads and resurface the rotors on a lathe if needed so the surface is even and smooth.
In recent years, however, more automakers have switched to rotors that are lighter and thinner to reduce weight and save money. Discs used to last through two or three resurfacings, but don’t be surprised if when it’s time to replace the pads you’re told you also need new rotors. The current ones may not have enough material to be shaved off in resurfacing and may not be as durable as those from, say, 10 or more years ago.
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By John Hoffner • May 2, 2013 • 4:31 pm • Leave a comment
Child Seat Anchors Overlooked by Parents
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According to a recent study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, an important safety feature for child seats is being overlooked by parents and caregivers. All vehicles and car seats made from 2002 onward come with an anchor and strap to keep a car seat from tipping forward, and according to the report, the safety feature is being used just a little more than half the time. In the survey, IIHS examined 479 vehicles that have a forward-facing child restraint installed. The institute found that the top tether and anchor was only used in 56 percent of the vehicles. According to the parents that didn’t use the top tether or anchor, 22 percent weren’t even aware that it was there, 15 percent didn’t know how to use it while 13 percent didn’t have enough time to connect it. Ten percent believed that it wasn’t important or necessary and 9 percent were unsure of where to attach it. Lastly, 8 percent of those surveyed didn’t know they even had an anchor. The top tether is part of the Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children (LATCH) system. The lower anchors are typically used more often while the top anchor is often ignored as evident in the study. Perhaps what’s even worse, in 31 percent of the instances that the top anchor was used, the child seat was improperly installed.
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What Does the Smoke From my Exhaust Mean?
If you see different colored exhaust fumes it’s time to pay attention to your car. Even if your vehicle isn’t flashing any warning lights, the smoke coming from your exhaust is a signal that something might not be working properly.
*What does BLUE smoke from my exhaust mean?
If your car is blowing blue smoke, it’s a clear sign that the engine is burning oil. What happens is that the valve guide seals or piston rings are worn out, and oil is leaking past from where it should be lubricating the moving parts, to the combustion chamber where it’s being burned up with the fuel.
If you’re seeing this kind of smoke, check your oil regularly and watch for consumption issues. While an issue that normally should require immediate attention and expensive repairs, including some internal replacement parts, if you’re vehicle is old and the leak is minimal, it can be carefully managed by topping up the oil on a regular basis.
Along with environmental damage, burning oil can cause rough starts, as the process can ruin the car’s spark plugs.
There is another reason for blue smoke, and that’s if the car is turbocharged; the smoke being a sign that the blower is in need of rebuilding or replacement.
*What does GRAY smoke from my exhaust mean?
Gray smoke is hard to diagnose directly. Like blue smoke, it can mean that the car is burning oil or suffering from a bad turbocharger. Take the same precautions as with blue smoke, and check for excessive oil consumption.
Gray smoke can also be an issue with your automatic transmission fluid getting burned up in the engine. A faulty transmission vacuum modulator would be the culprit in this situation, leading to transmission fluid getting sucked into the engine and getting burned up.
Furthermore, gray smoke could mean a stuck PCV valve. The PCV system (Positive Crankcase Ventilation) cuts down on harmful emissions by recycling them back into the combustion chamber. However, when the PCV valve gets stuck, pressure can build and lead to oil leaks. Fortunately, PCV valves aren’t expensive, and can be a quick job for a mechanic or a do-it-yourselfer.
*What does WHITE smoke from my exhaust mean?
White smoke can be nothing to be concerned about if it’s thin, like vapor. This is probably the result of normal condensation buildup inside the exhaust system. This kind of smoke disappears quickly.
However, thicker smoke is a big problem, and can be caused the engine burning coolant. This can be the result of a serious issue like a blown head gasket, a damaged cylinder head, or a cracked engine block – all of which are costly repairs.
Don’t ignore it, however, as the problem could become far worse. Even a small leak in the coolant can lead to overheating and serious risk of damage to the engine. A coolant leak can also mix with oil and cause serious headaches for you and your car.
*What does BLACK smoke from my exhaust mean?
Black exhaust smoke means the engine is burning too much fuel. The first think you should check is your air-filter and other intake components like sensors, fuel injectors and the fuel-pressure regulator. Other reasons could be a clogged fuel return line. Black smoke is usually the easiest issue to diagnose and fix, but burning unnecessary fuel will definitely affect your fuel economy, so don’t think of avoiding this one to save money, it won’t work.
Any smoke coming from your car’s exhaust pipe is a sign that your car is in distress. Pay attention to what it needs to ensure more miles for your vehicle.
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The language of collaborators … after the fallout
An entire branch of government wants credit for secretly working against the Constitution in favor of personal gain and party politics, including four generals.
The New York Times published an anonymous op-ed from a “senior official in the Trump administration” on Wednesday. In it, an alleged staffer writes about the “heroes” who, rather than invoke the 25th Amendment to remove a president who’s unfit for office, have quietly worked around him to do … well, whatever they want.
As the author puts it, they’ve stuck it out due to the “bright spots that the near-ceaseless negative coverage of the administration fails to capture: effective deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust military and more.”
In return, he or she claims “unsung heroes in and around the White House” have resisted … something. By doing or not doing something. Because the president is amoral and didn’t do enough to sanction Russia or keep trade open.
I wrote a year ago about what collaborators sound like. When rational minds call out bad behavior from one side of a divide, collaborators deflect by claiming both sides are bad. They, including the President, did so after Charlottesville, giving literal Nazis cover for invading a town and running over protesters.
And now that the President’s approval rating is unrecoverable and a new book from Bob Woodward looms on the horizon, we see the other side of collaborators: how they try to distance themselves from a loser.
Accounts from the aftermath of World War II allege that, in 1945, in a country filled with Germans, it was very hard to find a Nazi. Even next door neighbors to concentration camps claimed either not to know what was happening or trumped up minuscule acts of self-interested insubordination as resistance bonafides.
The anonymous writer snidely reclaims the title of “resistance” from the Left. “We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.”
They want credit for acknowledging what everyone already figured out without their help: that the President is amoral, lacks the discipline to do his job, and can’t even manage his staff.
And, worse, they want us to thank them for running a secondary, unaccountable government behind-the-scenes. They won’t use the existing powers in the Constitution to openly expose an unfit, yet duly elected leader’s shortcomings to the nation that depends on him. Instead, they’re shaping and enacting policy without anyone’s knowledge.
The “resistors” inside the Republican Party are trying to have it both ways. They get the policies they want out of the President, and they also get the things that he’s incapable of understanding or caring about by working around him and the confines of the U.S. Constitution.
In short, the author takes credit for all of us living in a banana republic now. What a hero.
But, we should always expect collaborators with amorality and evil to hedge their bets. This particular collaborator, like all collaborators, wants to believe they can live on both sides of history and still be right.
Instead, they make a very strong case for why democracy and responsible republican representation can only survive when each and every participating member of the administration is indicted.
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Roger Waters is joined for this tour by Lucius singers Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, drummer Joey Waronker, multi-instrumentalist Jon Carin, guitarists Dave “Killer” Kilminster, Jonathan Wilson and Gus Seyffert, plus keyboard player Drew Erickson an saxophonist Ian Ritchie.
The performance is separated into 2 sets and includes a combination of songs from brand a new album Is This The Life We Really Want? – released June 2 – and classic Pink Floyd songs (full set list beneath).
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Tagaytay Highlands holds up as a premier destination for leisure living
Tagaytay Highlands, the country’s premier destination for leisure living, recently announced its modest growth during the prior year. It generated improved earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of 21%, ₱364 million in 2019 from ₱301 million in 2018. This performance reflected its higher margin products comprising of new developments, improvements in facilities and amenities, as well as expansions of its existing portfolio.
Sycamore Heights is a contemporary, Asian-themed community that provides breathtaking nature views and panoramic vistas.
Developed by Belle Corporation’s (“Belle”), Tagaytay Highlands, a world-class recreational and residential complex nestled in the relaxing atmosphere of the Tagaytay Ridge. The leisure destination of choice in the south features residential communities, golf courses, a selection of restaurants and a variety leisure activities.
The Grove at Plantation Hills became the latest addition to Belle’s upscale farming community. The22-hectare development promotes a healthy and holistic lifestyle suited to the discriminating tastes of its prospective homeowners. With lot selling and land development commencing in the second half of 2019, this leisure residential and eco-farming concept-in-one will feature orchard and garden lots ideal for growing fruit trees, herbs, and vegetables in one’s backyard.
The Grove at Plantation Hills touts 22 hectares of a lush green environment that promotes a healthy and holistic lifestyle among its residents.
Sycamore Heights, nestled at the heart of Tagaytay Midlands, has been providing breathtaking nature views and panoramic vistas in a contemporary Asian-themed community. Turnover of lots to owners and availability of prime lots continued to build property sales. Amenities such as Central Park Pavilion, Infinity Pool, Lounge Garden, Bird Watch Park and Rock Garden have been completed for the exclusive use of homeowners.
Yume, Tagaytay Highlands’ Japanese-themed community, maintained its investment viability as expansion lot purchases continued to soar. Exuding the vibe of simplicity and natural essence found in minimalist architecture, its zen living offers a stunning view of the fairways.
The One Tree at a Time planting initiative affirms Tagaytay Highlands’ commitment to environmental sustainability
Meanwhile, Nob Hill’s residential lots have likewise contributed to overall property revenue throughout the year. This community masterpiece boasts of picturesque vistas of mountains enjoyed from one’s home where the conveniences of modern living blend seamlessly with the beauty of nature.
Tagaytay Highlands’ strides in 2019 were made more significant with its 25th anniversary celebration. What started as an exclusive members-only club facility has evolved into a township that caters to the country’s affluent who appreciate the exclusivity and leisurely lifestyle it offers. As the estate celebrated its two and a half decades of unparalleled development of themed residential projects, residents and members continue to enjoy an exclusive portfolio of luxury homes set against nature’s best backdrop.
2019 also marked the resurgence for Tagaytay Highlands. In line with its modernization program, its drive for customer innovation resulted in the re-opening of newly reconditioned Swiss-engineered cable cars and funicular train transport system, which remain unique only to Tagaytay Highlands to this day. It was also marked by renovations at its recreational facilities and food and beverage outlets, namely Genghis Khan and Trellis, Highlands Peak, Tagaytay Highlands Golf Club, The Country Club and The Sports Center. Enriching the Tagaytay Highlands experience were new gastronomic choices that have added to the extensive culinary list of its well-loved restaurants and dining places – Concha’s Garden Café, Amare La Cucina, Lime and Basil, Gourmet Farms, Kaya Korean Restaurant, Brera Delicatessen, and Aozora Japanese Café + Bistro. Its wide selection of casual and specialty restaurants including the Highlander Steakhouse, Highlands China Palace, and
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An Interview with Daniel Avery.
Tue 10th April by Little Jo
We took some time to get to know fast rising fabric resident Daniel Avery, whose got a pretty exciting year ahead, including his hero Andrew Weatherall remixing his work, a stop off at Hideout festival, and the launch of a new clubnight…
Thanks for taking the time to speak to us, firstly- can you give us a quick introduction for those who may not know you?
My name is Daniel Avery, I’m a DJ and producer from London. I’m a resident DJ at Fabric and have recently released records on labels like Throne Of Blood, Relish, Tigersushi and Gomma.
You work under both under your own name and the stopmakingme moniker- what’s with the use of different alias?
It’s important for me to remember that I never had any dreams of being an electronic music DJ as a teenager. I used to play at an ‘alternative’ night (with no DJ name) and I was more interested in playing bass in a band like ESG or Interpol than I was in making something from playing records. It was all accidental, really. Through watching DJs like Erol Alkan and Optimo, I started to love house and techno and then went on a mission to delve as deeply as possible into those worlds. I see Stopmakingme as my first project; my initial foray into electronic music. I’ve now reached a stage where I have a far greater idea of who I am and where I want to be so I’m retiring the name this year and will start using Daniel Avery, if only to add a punctuation point in things for myself.
What are your musical influences? I’ve read that you’re about much more then electronic beats- what does it for you outside of dance music?
Everyone says they have eclectic taste so I don’t want to follow suit but I rarely listen to dance music at home. For me, my favourite electronic producers are the ones where you can hear that their influences come from way outside of the club. Acts like The Chemical Brothers or Death In Vegas are obvious examples but even with guys like Levon Vincent, Joakim or Photonz – they make psychedelic records for the dancefloor and I find that idea very exciting.
You had a pretty fast rise in 2011, what were the highlights for you?
I’ve been DJing since I was 18 so, in many ways, it doesn’t feel like much has changed because I’m still just playing records week in week out but being able to play my own productions to big crowds has been great. Also, seeing some of my DJ heroes play my stuff is a big deal to me.
You landed a much coveted Fabric residency- the kind of slot most DJ’s would kill for, how does it feel to be part of such a legendary venue’s team?
It’s beyond anything I ever dreamt of. I can’t quite describe how much I love that place. It’s an institution that firmly believes in and pushes underground music and has done so for over ten years now. Everything about that place from the artwork to the sound system to the line-ups to the lights to the website… it’s all amazing and I feel extremely lucky to be a part of that family.
You’ve just had Andrew Weatherall remix one of your tracks from your forthcoming light into dark EP, how did that come about- I hear your a big fan of his.
It’s an absolute honour, he is a total hero of mine. His body of work and set of achievements is staggering and the fact that is he is still as relevant today as he ever was (probably even more so) says a lot about his integrity and desire to never stop being creative. I’m friends with Richard Fearless and he shared a studio space with Andrew whilst making his new record. Long story short, I’ve been using the same space for about a year now and have had the privilege of being able to hand Weatherall all my new stuff personally which, incredibly, he has been playing. He has said some really nice things about me in the press and so I tried my luck and asked for a remix. It worked!
You’ve also worked with the likes of Justin Robertson, and remixed some pretty big names yourself last year- are your productions indicative of your DJ sets? Which came first for you?
DJing definitely came first for me, I still feel like a newcomer in terms of production but, saying that, I feel as if I do know what works for me in a set and how floors react to certain sounds, simply by being in that DJ booth for so many hours. Most of the stuff I make is intended for clubs or, at least, it has the pulse of club music but that’s definitely not all I want to be known for. I would get very bored if I only ever tried to make peak time records. I love My Bloody Valentine and Spacemen 3 as much as labels like Kompakt or Live At Robert Johnson so it’s important for me to explore all of those areas too.
You also run your own promotion, Movement Club with Matt Walsh (of bugged out notoriety)- what’s the ethos behind the night?
We are just about to launch Movement Club in Dalston, it’s a series of three nights. The idea is somewhere for us to be able to spread our wings musically and to have a crowd who trust us. Small venue, big soundsystem, friendly faces. We want people to come early and listen to a night of music rather than just turning up for headliner. There will always be a guest but we won’t reveal their identity until they step behind the decks. We’ve got some big acts who have jumped at the chance to play what they want to an intimate crowd. It’s really exciting.
You’re heading over to Hideout Festival this summer, what are you looking forward too?
There is so much I want to see but I think the Phantasy boat party will be special.
What else had 2012 got in store for you?
Lots more in the way of releases, remixes, DJing and trying to sleep now and again.
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Between Graham Perkins and Guji Lorenzana, 45 years of joint experience in the entertainment industry are shared. Aside from UK-born Graham’s time at Apple where the iTunes was just birthed, which saw him managing the creative markets in Asia, he is known to the Singapore music community as the founding president of SG MUSO. As for Guji, he found his fame whilst performing in the Voice of Philippines, following that, he continued his journey with a major label, Warner Music Philippines.
In a time where the Coronavirus has disrupted normal means of consumption of entertainment and levelled the playing field for many artists, Graham and Guiji remain positive and see this is an opportunity to bridge artists to different markets. Under their care are artists such as ili (UK), who has recently dropped track, “Breath”, alongside Keiko Necesario (Philippines), Travis Atero (USA), St Wolf (Philippines), Eyre Llew (UK), Rafique (Singapore), Kyle Patrick (USA) and jaye (Singapore).
Through the formation of Gray Door Entertainment, which sees artists from the East and West managed through Open Door Artists and live music events via Originals Only (PH), the dynamic duo is confident in developing pathways for the artists into South-East Asia. The diverse line-up is carefully handpicked by keeping their ears on trends and the ability of the team to then push the artists further to maximize their creative potential. On their advisory board is none other than the acclaimed Steve Lillywhite CBE who has 6 Grammy Awards under his belt, who provides a sounding board for Graham’s business ideas.
Popspoken: Tell us more about your journey in the entertainment industry. What have been the highlights so far?
Graham: I started out as a musician, songwriter from the age of 16 and this was during the 70s and 80s where technology created major disruptions to the creation process, sonics and storytelling. It was an exciting time too as the music business in the UK was thriving with great opportunities across many newly created labels, festivals, venues and genres. This to me was a major highlight on the artistry side of who I am but also has an impact on my vision for Southeast Asia moving forward. On the business side, my experience at Apple was also a profound moment in time for me. I was in Singapore and this was during the birth of iTunes and the iPod. Additionally, being at the forefront of the new frontier of Asia also had a major impact on me. In the last 20 years we have seen particular Asian markets grow and become top 10 music markets with Asian artists developing their capability, artistry and opportunities.
Guji: My journey in the music industry started from the late 90s, early 2000s in singing groups and bands in the Bay Area, California. At the time, singing groups were a big thing in the Asian community and I was lucky enough to see my peers like Kai make a name for themselves at that time. In 2003, I joined a show called American Idol. I didn’t make it far, but the praise from Simon Cowell about my singing gave me the confidence to pursue music. I soon signed an independent deal with a local management company called Luna Co, and released a single with them.
A few years later, I decided to give the Philippines a shot and moved to Manila in 2006. In Manila, I released a few independent albums, and found may way into the top talent pool of ABS-CBN, managed by their talent leg, Star Magic. At Star Magic I was launched initially as a singer, but then ventured into acting, landing my first leading role in a soap in 2008. I continued to do more TV and movies, theatre, music variety shows and singing groups, but quickly missed the indie music scene. Fast forward to 2013, I joined the Voice of the Philippines, made it to team Apl De Ap, and started getting back into the indie music scene. I moved my acting career to Viva Artists Agency, an agency that manages the top artists of the Philippines, and then started to release my own original music with Warner Music Philippines in 2017. In the process of trying to promote and market my own music, I discovered that music scene had a vibrant culture that was not fully being utilised and showcased, so I put up a small live music production called Originals Only (PH). It was through this production that I discovered an up and coming college band, St Wolf. After seeing their potential, I put my own original music career on hold, and decided I’d get into managing artists. Open Door Artists was born.
Popspoken: Graham, what led you to start SG MUSO when you first moved to Asia, and how will those takeaways apply for your new venture? How has MTV changed from the time you were there in 2004, to now, with the digital boom and emergence of a lot of “new media” platforms?
Graham: Being in Asia for nearly 22 years, I was able to be aware of the growth and development of music markets across the region. In many instances during this time, Asia was “late to the game” with elements such as digital purchasing of music (iTunes came 10 years too late), streaming, a lack of both local and regional infrastructure for live music and a general lack of acceptance to “music made here” as opposed to music from the mature markets.
What was clearly missing were associations in some of the countries, who were there to lobby governments, big corporations and inspire artists and musicians, all for the greater good – the music. This led me to create SGMUSO in 2012 and with a little help from my friends in local industry and the presence of Music Matters in Singapore, I was able to instrumentally inspire the idea of developing a music industry as a collective. When people came together, more excitement was put in the hands of others and this had a major impact on the overarching aim to build a Singapore music industry.
Since these early days, Asia is often now in the forefront of change not only in the music industry but in other tech areas too. Fans locally are more receptive to “local” music and have greater access through digital platforms and there is also an eagerness to discover music, no matter where it is from. This has provided a greater hunger for artists across Southeast Asia especially where economic status doesn’t apply and the democratisation of access is key in creative development. We therefore see our expertise and position right now as very important as we develop our business moving forward by building the necessary bridges in Southeast Asia.
Popspoken: What is Steve Lillywhite CBE’s involvement so far in this venture?
Graham: I have known Steve for sometime and we started to work together after he first visited Asia 10 years ago for Music Matters. It’s been an honour being the point person for many of his activities in Asia where he has recorded the likes of The Sam Willows, Noah, Iwan Fals, Slot Machine and Luna Sea. Steve has firmly anchored himself in Jakarta and he has been a constant listening ear to my ideas, business plans and the music from the artists I’ve been working with. His wealth of experience and his inputs have been truly valuable and he continues to be a good friend and an important advisor to us as Guji and I develop our business.
Popspoken: Out of all the South East Asian countries, why did you choose Philippines? Is it because of it growth potential, receptiveness to new music, the fact that it’s a music “trigger” city?
Graham: Even though I moved away from Singapore 2 years ago, Asia has remained a part of who I am and I have been looking at potential partnerships ever since. I’ve had numerous conversations and after securing a label deal for my Philippine artist Keiko Necesario with Warner Music Philippines, the Philippines began to open up to further opportunities and I then met Guji and the rest is history. Indeed the love for music there is amazing and it plays a big part in why the Philippines is a strong gateway into Southeast Asia for emerging artists.
Popspoken: What is your A&R strategy when spotting emerging talent?
Graham: Guji and I are very selective in who we work with and so many artistic and personality elements are considered when determining who we can help. It’s all about the music and that comes first and foremost as we are in the business of nurturing and inspiring talent and helping them deliver on their vision, aura and sustainable bodies of work. Many times we get artists reach out to us but we also take the time to listen to new music that is either recommended via our network or found through other ways by simply being observant of what’s around us and connecting the dots when something piques our interest.
Guji: I personally keep an eye out on what the kids are listening to. And for the local scene, it was through my live music production that I discovered my initial talents and artists. If I see the kids excited, I get excited. And when I see the kids being innovative and creative on top of having undeniable talent, I become very interested.
Popspoken: Guji, how was it like managing St Wolf?
Guji: St Wolf were the first group of kids whom I really felt had something special. It made me realise that scene had changed significantly since my younger days. The scene wasn’t about partying and rock and roll anymore, the artists today were young, but their work ethics and dedication to the craft of music had changed. These kids were church going, studious, and getting better was their top priority. Upon taking them on, they were already rehearsing together everyday, continuously trying to evolve their sound, and writing every free moment they had. Music was literally their lives.
This work ethic is what excited me, and I wanted to help them achieve their goals. Warner immediately took interest after I had invited them to perform for them. Warner was blown away by their live show and musicality. It wasn’t hard to convince them to sign them as their first artist. Warner hadn’t signed an artist for almost a decade before St Wolf. So that was definitely a good milestone. Other opportunities soon followed, such as Coke Studio. I’m excited for you to see what they have next.
Popspoken: Based on some reports, it seems that all live events will be coming to a halt till Autumn 2021. How will this transform the entertainment landscape, and are you guys planning for any events in 2021 as we speak?
Graham: The impact of the Coronavirus has most definitely had a major impact on live music and I truly feel for those who are losing revenues at this time. Once we all come out of our respective quarantines, there will still be the need for social distancing measures that will continue to have an impact on small, medium and large gatherings. The lockdowns have created a level playing field for artists as they all scramble to remain in touch with their fans and has provided much more digital content than ever before. But quality live content will be crucial as we come out of quarantine and we are looking into this heavily with our artists and our live initiatives such as Originals Only for the balance of live music potential in 2020 and into 2021.
Guji: I’d like to think of this as a great opportunity for live music. I think we’re going to see some amazing creativity happen during this time that we will eventually be able to fully incorporate to the live music scene once the lockdown is lifted. And even though things are at a stop at the moment, it only means that once they start up again, the venues will be full of eager music enthusiasts. I’m confident that this time will only make the scene even better.
Popspoken: What are some inside-out and outside-in strategies you have? Will you be following the routes of regional festivals such as Wanderland in Philippines and Good Vibes Festival in Malaysia etc?
Graham: Our main live music strategy will be to support the emerging artist and to ensure that Southeast Asia is a stepping stone to succeed in developing mature market potential. There is a lack of opportunities for emerging artists to currently consider Southeast Asia as a touring circuit and we hope to change that in the near future. Indeed the demand is here but there are fundamental pieces missing to the supply component and we are working on fixing that to enable greater access. The existing festivals across Southeast Asia are absolutely important and we hope that they come back with vengeance in 2021. We will constantly be looking to engage with them to develop opportunities for emerging artists and our live music initiatives moving forward so as to grow a greater accessibility to new music from anywhere.
Guji: I am with Graham on this one. I’d like to add that I think one thing we have to our advantage is that we have amazing artists already here in South East Asia, as well as top international acts that we will be working closely with that believe in our efforts. The support system within our immediate family is amazing and part of the strategies in lifting our artists is having some interesting collaborations. At the same time it is a bit unfortunate that some of these festivals had to be put on hold. Our artist Sundown was suppose to perform at Wanderland after winning Wanderbattle, but we’re excited for them to come back with a stronger performance once the festival gets back on track.
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House colours
The new name, Regional Railways, says precisely what the business is. The logotype is a combination of the name – in a bold, serifed, upper case development of the Joanna typeface – and the British Rail symbol. The close association between the two, the size and position of the one vis-a-vis the other, makes a clear statement about the relationship between them. Regional Railways is in the driving seat but is proud to associate itself with all the best qualities of its parent organisation.
ScotRail is the only one of the five Regional Railways profit centres that has a separate logotype. The reason is primarily one of geography. It operates in an area that is virtually self-contained, with relatively little traffic between it and neighbouring regions. ScotRail has built up a good reputation over many years and its name has acquired excellent connotations in the eyes of its customers. It would not have been sensible to abandon this asset. So, putting it simply, Regional Railways trades as “Regional Railways” in England and Wales, and “ScotRail” in Scotland.
The house colours remain, as before, dark blue and grey but the colours will be richer and have more depth. The designers have ensured that a particular colour will appear the same on large surface areas, such as rolling stock, as on small items, such as printed documents. Colours appear paler on large areas so adjustments have to be made according to the scale of the painted or printed object.
The fleximark (the band of horizontal lines) is an innovation that will, little by little, stamp itself indelibly on the mind of the customer. It is a flexible ‘linking device’ (not a symbol) that will appear everywhere: on the rolling stock, the stationery, the signs and the promotional material. So it is ‘flexible’ in terms of context, and in terms of size and position.
It is, however, deceptive. Like the Regional Railways logotype, it has to be reproduced with absolute accuracy, according to the detailed instructions contained in the Identity Management binder, if it is not to become distorted and thereby lose its character and power.
Categories Regional RailwaysTags design, house colours, identity management, logo, logotype, Regional Railways, ScotRail, sector
design elements – logotype
The logotype has
been specifically
drawn and spaced
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space does not
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Special designed
devices will be created
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Regional Railways
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grey, silver grey
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Categories Regional RailwaysTags design, house colours, identity management, logo, logotype, Regional Railways, sector
Design elements – a brief summary
Regional Railways logotype
The Regional Railways logotype appears in two formats; the ‘stacked’ version or the ‘one-line’ version. The stacked version should be used wherever possible, with the alternative one-line version used only in situations where space is at a premium or where otherwise specified, as on rolling stock.
To counter the differences caused by optical illusion, separate artwork has been produced for positive and negative applications and also for use at very small sizes on items such as pens. It is important to use the correct artwork for each particular case.
The BR symbol is an integral part of our logotype and the size and positioning is critical. It should always be reproduced in the same colour as the lettering.
ScotRail logotype
This is used instead of the Regional Railways logotype in Scotland. As with the Regional Railways logotype, ScotRail has different artworks for positive and negative applications and for small sizes.
ScotRail Express
The only named product of Regional Railways, ScotRail Express refers to the Class 158 services in Scotland. It has its own logotype which follows the same principles as the Regional Railways version.
In formal usage the Regional Railways linking device appears as horizontal dark blue lines on a white background but, as the name suggests, it is essentially a flexible mark which can appear in different colours, sizes and lengths depending on the application and the creative use of the fleximark on special promotions is positively encouraged.
There are, however, strict guidelines for how to reproduce the fleximark in all cases, including a negative version to compensate for the optical illusion of visual inequality when reversed out of dark colours.
The one inviolate rule is that the fleximark should always abut to the edge of something – as illustrated in this brochure.
The colours chosen for Regional Railways are dark blue, light blue, white, silver grey and dark grey. The dark blue is the main and most widely used colour, often complemented by silver grey particularly on stationery items like folders. Light blue is generally used as a highlight colour, as on the train livery.
Standard typefaces help to increase awareness of a ‘family likeness’. For promotional print such as posters and leaflets the Joanna typeface has been selected. The need for variety is satisfied by the number of styles available within the typeface.
Informational print encompasses timetables, departure posters and ‘useful information’ posters. To help the customer differentiate between promotion and information the Helvetica family of typefaces has been retained by Regional Railways for informational uses, as it is very easy to read.
Rail Alphabet is the corporate typeface specifically designed for signing and Regional Railways will maintain its usage for that purpose.
Certain lines have the potential to be promoted as a product in their own right as well as a means for moving passengers from A to B. Line images are the graphic devices used to promote such lines, of which the Settle-Carlisle Line is a perfect example. The image will be based on the most widely-known feature associated with the route and will be produced in a square, ‘woodcut’ style that it suitable for both print and heritage signing applications. An appropriate dark background colour will be selected and, once chosen, this colour will remain an integral part of the line image.
The line image can be used on promotional print, gifts, pocket timetables and heritage signing following the rules laid down in the Identity Management Binder.
Any proposed line image must first be approved by the Director, Planning & Marketing before the design solution is progressed through the Identity Working Group on Print. All subsequent usage must then be approved by the appropriate profit centre Marketing Manager. The image will be copyright Regional Railways.
A list of contacts for queries on design elements, and for sources of prints of the artworks for approved purposes, can be found in the Contacts Section at the end of this brochure. General comments and queries about the Identity Strategy should be directed through the nominated profit centre contact or the Identity Manager.
Categories Regional RailwaysTags design, house colours, identity management, line images, logo, logotype, Regional Railways, ScotRail, ScotRail Express, typefaces
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Alumna Featured in September Issue of Vogue Magazine
Beth Jones Models Vibrant Faith in Fashion Industry
Sep. 22, 2011 By Elizabeth Mak
Less than a decade after sitting on Metzger Lawn waiting for her name to be called, fashion blogger and stylist Beth Jones (’06) — “Beth Turner” at the time — has come a long way from the black cap-and-gown-look. Originally from South Carolina, Jones came to Biola University with her own creative take on West Coast fashion and in September 2011 was featured on the pages of Vogue magazine as a model for CoverGirl.
“Vogue reached out to me to be part of the CoverGirl campaign for their September Issue. Honestly, I was in ecstatic shock when I found out,” said Jones. “I didn't even really believe it until I was headed out on a plane to New York for the shoot.”
Vogue chose Jones to be a part of their Vogue Influencer Network, made up of online fashion bloggers and social media stylists asked to review and spread the word about their advertisers’ products. She worked specifically with their CoverGirl campaign, for which she was invited to New York for a photo shoot.
“The day of the shoot was an experience I will never forget … every girl's dream come true. I felt truly honored to be part of it,” said Jones.
Back in 2007, she plunged into the fashion world by starting up her own fashion website, The Vintage Society, which gave readers a taste of her own personal style — a fusion of vintage and modern. Within a year, her creative posts and outfits attracted thousands of visitors a day.
Soon, she caught the attention of Quiksilver, who sponsored her as a “Visionary in Residence” during the launch of their new women’s line. She later became online fashion editor for Quicksilver Women, allowing her to contribute to creative projects and online marketing campaigns including the “LA It Girls” photo shoot and an online video series called “Getting Dressed with Quiksilver Women.”
Jones currently works as Quicksilver Women’s “style ambassador” and travels abroad to promote the brand. She also founded and continues to write for her own personal online fashion blog, B. Jones Style, where readers get an up-close look at Jones’ daily life — from her outfits, favorite shops, hair tutorials, fashion inspirations, to anything else that she can possibly relate to living in style.
In 2009, Biola interviewed Jones about her success and transition from Biola to her current career and how her faith is integrated with who she is in her position. Watch the video below to hear more of Jones' story.
Written by Elizabeth Mak, Media Relations Intern. For more information, please contact Jenna Bartlo, Media Relations Coordinator, at jenna.l.bartlo@biola.eduor via phone at 562.777.4061.
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I follow her blog, and love love love that she is a biola alum!
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now.biola.edu is a one of the more impressive blogs I've seen. Thanks so much for keeping the internet classy for a change. Youve got style, class, bravado. I mean it. Please keep it up because without the internet is definitely lacking in intelligence.. wish you luck!
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Of late I've spent a fair bit of time talking to humanist and secularist groups about religion and public life. Since Ekklesia's agenda is based on commitment to a post-Christendom vision of the Christian faith which is about empowerment and example, rather than manipulation and domination, we often find common ground in a critique of oppressive religion and on particular proposals for breaking down the barriers this can create.
Indeed, sometimes it is easier to talk about 'post-Christendom possibilities' to people who reject 'religion' (as they see it) than it is to those who embrace it enthusiastically - especially in the Christian fold, where many have been brought up on the unhealthy combination of a depoliticised Gospel (whose radical edges have been blunted by a false 'spiritualisation' or a naive approach to the Bible) together with an ideologised understanding of the church (one which has done a deal with governing authority, and thus has to neutralise the subversiveness of its founding dynamic.)
That said, when humanists and atheists meet a Christian with whom they realise they have much in common, this can lead to confusion. On both sides. When I spoke at an otherwise very congenial Humanist meeting in London recently, I found myself challenged for being "not sufficiently Christian." Though it wasn't immediately clear what that meant to them, at least one person clarified it by saying, "You seem humane and rational, so I don't understand how you can still believe in Christianity, to be honest."
A few others seemed to think something similar about Barack Obama. Having a natural affinity with much of what the new US President claims to stand for, they presumed he must somehow simply be using Christianity as a veneer, given the dominance of religiosity in the American political arena. Really, they told me, he must be a non-believer). The idea that he could be a person of faith and reason at the same time seemed incredible to them. Though not, I'm sure, to Obama - who seems to be as clear about his progressive Christian convictions as he is about what he has learned from atheist and Muslim family members. (I make that observation without presupposing the adequacy of either Obama's politics or what passes for this 'theology', since both seem to me to exhibit the same profoundly damaging characteristics as Tony Blair's. But that is another topic).
Now this was a thoughtful, intelligent and open-minded audience. But the intimations about what they thought I must think or believe in order to be a Christian felt very far removed from my own experience and understanding. And that's not because my stance is way out or non-traditional. Sure, I identify with the distinctly dissenting traditions of Christianity, but I do so as one who shares its core convictions and whose theological orientation is probably best described as 'subversive orthodoxy.'
Indeed I find it a little frustrating when I am well-meaningly labelled a 'liberal' Christian: not because I don't value liberality, but because the assumption seems to be that generosity and open thought are somehow inimical to being a 'proper' Christian - when in fact they ought to be central. And for quite a few I know (including some who would call themselves evangelical) they most certainly are. Likewise, to think that fundamentalism is the essence of 'real Christianity' - the Dawkins presumption - is to completely fail to comprehend what a peculiarly modern distortion it actually is.
Minding the gap creatively
In short, as the saturation of 'civic religion' that characterised Christedom recedes, and as people lose touch with the means of grappling with the texts and ideas that shape Christian perspectives, the gap in intellectual and imaginative perception between cultured believers and cultured unbelievers (we'll leave aside the 'despisers' on both sides for the moment!) is often very wide indeed. It's more like mutual incomprehension, in fact. The religion-science (non)debate illustrates that very clearly.
In one of the New Testament epistles of Peter, Christians are enjoined (in David E. Jenkins' astute paraphrase), to "always be ready to give an account of the shape and grounds of the hope within you." As Dietrich Bonhoeffer realised, thinking and writing as a very faithful theologian fully immersed in post-Enlightenment thought and facing the religious-secular abyss of Nazism, this is a massively tough call in our age.
Bonhoeffer's thought, sketched from his prison cell but brutally terminated by the hangman at Flossenberg concentration camp, was that it might be necessary to do three things. From the perspective of faith, to focus on prayer and action for justice as the core tasks for followers of Christ in a decomposing society; from the perspective of intellectual life to reconceive Christianity in a "religionless" form (that is, shorn of the trappings of Christendom); and in communicative terms, to seek to express biblical ideas in non-biblical language.
In the 1960s, liberal Christians and sympathetic atheists assumed that Bonhoeffer was somehow 'one of them', that he was wanting to water down the essence of Christian faith and reduce it to anthropology. A similar assumption was voiced on BBC Radio 4 by Matthew Parris recently. But it is a complete misrepresentation of Bonhoeffer's theology, which was unashamedly Christ-centred, prayerful and rooted in text and tradition - even as it sought to engage positively with the best of contemporary secular thought, and to cut a swathe through the deep distortions and betrayals of what we would now more readily call Christendom and institutional religiosity.
This sums up where I stand, too - though I am not for one moment trying to claim that Bonhoeffer would agree with everything I come up with. But he remains an inspiration because of his capacity to re-imagine Christianity in a way that is more Christian and more human at one and the same time.
Like Bonhoeffer, I believe in the reality of God, not 'god' as a figment of our imagination. But God's reality wholly surpasses our own, even as it invites us to participate in life re-made through divine love.
What follows is my best recent attempt to spell out what Christian belief is and what it means for me, in conversation both with fellow believers who may see things differently and with humanists and secularists who struggle to understand why, for some of us, abandoning Christianity would be abandoning something which increases (rather than reduces) the possibilities of love, hope, beauty and reason.
I am sure this is still very far from Bonhoeffer's aspiration - the reformulation of traditional Christian language into something which does better justice to the tradition as it is encountered in the contemporary. But the point of a contribution to a conversation is to open up fresh paths to understanding, not to 'defend' or 'justify' oneself or ones convictions.
Being a Christian today
So why am I a Christian? Because my experience of God encountered in the 'Word made flesh' is that of a surprising, continual and contested process of reformation and rediscovery. In the events, narratives and experiences concerning Jesus, which remain central to my life, everything I thought I knew about the world, myself, God and humanity turns out to be nothing like what I expected, and indeed finds itself in need of ongoing transformation.
The social and political challenge of the Gospel flows, it seems to me, from its radical core. But ‘radical’ has become something of a dirty word, implying (for many) extremism, intolerance or violence; and (for others) an abandonment of historic commitments. These are distortions of its originating meaning.
By radical (radix, from the Latin) I mean something like ‘rooted-to-be-routed’ – a personal, communal and intellectual re-exploration and re-expression of a deep tradition of reading, reasoning and responding to the world which propels us to its most risky frontiers. That is what is at the heart of Christianity.
Whereas the conservative tends to be oriented to the past, and the liberal tends to regard tradition as baggage or inhibition, the radical seeks to live out of a wisdom which is malleable and resilient enough to go on changing without breaking, and which has a capacity to bring both surprise and coherence in a way that ‘starting from scratch’ cannot.
This is the journey I am on, and it is shaped and sustained not just by a company of the like-minded but by companions from other walks of life (people of faith, or just ‘good faith’), who remind me that isolation and guarantees of ‘correctness’ are not on.
Resources for change
Call the approach I am taking a type of theological ressourcement, if you will. It works for me something like this: [1]
In the community of Christ I encounter visible humanity and the mystery of God (on which more later) as being in harmony not in competition. This is vital. It is popularly supposed (by both religious and non-religious people) that the divine and the creaturely are exclusive of one another, so that the more you have of one the less you have of the other.
The alternative vision, narrated in the life-givingness of Jesus, is one which breaks the hold of this lie, and which proves capacious and inviting enough to habituate our unending growth in understanding, in relationship, in prayer, and in practical action for change.
By ‘God’, then, I mean a gift, giving and giver, transcending our description or manipulation, but nevertheless signalled and expressed in the self-dispossessing attention to ‘the other’ that we call love. This, I realise, needs some unpacking.
To believe in God is to live with (better, following Augustine, to ‘live into’) a passion for ‘the impossible’ (John Caputo), towards a degree of personal and communal transformation untamed by ‘what presently is’. This is an orientation which affirms rather than subjugates our deepest human longings for relationship, joy, beauty and truth.
Life in the presence of God, whose intrinsic completeness renders domination redundant, amounts, one might say, to ‘living beyond our means’.
‘Faith’, therefore, is not about submission to proposition, the refusal of reason, the deifying of texts, or clinging blindly to dogma. Rightly understood, it is the opposite of these things – it is a letting-go which goes on trusting beyond the definite ‘full-stop’ of certain kinds of rationalism, because it does not (and cannot) claim the power to impose limits on the love it encounters.
I respect atheists, but for me it would simply be impossible to claim that I can know enough to rule out God (which would, ironically, make me god-like, and eliminate those intimations of unquenchable love which I cannot simply rationalise away, so powerful are they).
For me, faith is continual ‘reasoning with a mystery’, without allowing yourself to be deceived into thinking that you can have an adequate handle on either reason or mystery, or that you can abandon one for the other – the temptation of both the ideologically religious and the ideologically non-religious.
Nor can God be established, discounted or circumscribed by metaphysics (the game of analytical theism or anti-theism played, in opposing but essentially commonly constructed ways, by people like Richard Dawkins, Richard Swinburne and Don Cupitt [2]).
All speech about God is metaphorical (including forensic terms which claim not to be), since all speech is humanly derived, and since God is not a feature of the world. But this does not mean that it is false, merely provisional about its capacity to make analytic truth-claims – because it is properly cognizant of the ineluctable ‘otherness’ of which it speaks.
Much the same could be said about our attempts to ‘know’ other persons. And indeed the Christian faith has as its core the conviction that God comes through to us not as a text, a formula or a theory – but in a person who remains on what I would call ‘the disturbing margins’ of our attempts at world-construction through empire, religion and rational control.
This is so because God is not a hypothesis in or about the world, but, for those of us who find ourselves believing in(to) God, is discovered in the sheer giftedness of life. It is consciously phenomenological, narrative and linguistic forms of philosophy (the continental tradition) which are perhaps best equipped to speak of God in this way nowadays. That may change. God-talk is always running to catch up.
The difference God makes
Since God is not an entity that forms part of a class of things called ‘gods’ (but is more like ‘treasure’, an experience of value which may appear to us in many forms), disbelieving in ‘gods’ is essential to facing the truth. In this sense atheists and Christians are in agreement. What stands in opposition to Christian belief is idolatry, giving ultimate worth to things which are not God.
Similarly, to say that Jesus is Lord (a central Christian confession) is to say that earthly lords do not rule. Rather, love that endures suffering and still goes on loving ‘rules’ (thus redefining divine ‘rule’ as a persuasion of the heart and a promise of healing rather than a project of political domination.)
To envisage God, as Rowan Williams has well put it, is to open ourselves to the wholly non-competitive Other, who offers to us an ‘interested non-possessiveness’ which we call love - precisely by having no need whatsoever to compete within our world of objects and relations.
God, rather, donates beyond the limits of reciprocity (this is grace) and offers possibilities outwith our capacity to get things right (this is forgiveness). In this sense God is continual creativity and makes all the difference in the world. But not as we might expect. God does not 'act', 'intervene' or ‘create’ in the same way as we mortals are bound to do, through manufacture or manipulation, but through the self-generativity of the whole world process – understood in relation to the purposeful, persuasive, transformative intention and work of love.
The traditional Christian grammar for this has taught us to say that God is simultaneously and interdependently to be found in creativity beyond knowing, in humanity beyond restriction, and in relatedness beyond consolation (originating silence, embodied reason, and holiness). This is the Trinitarian account of God in historical Christian experience. [3]
A central Christian conviction is that the word of life (divine wisdom) has communicated in-the-flesh. This means that the ‘answers’ we seek are not to be found in infallible texts or unassailable propositions of any kind, but in and through the vulnerable humanity to which God is committed. [4]
So the only response that is adequate both to the scale of our human dilemma and to the nature of what is unveiled in the Gospel is (quite against our instincts for tidiness and convenience) the difficult truth of personalness.
In the counter-story and lived reality of Jesus – a narrative about being truly human, but also about a living God who is quite unlike our ideas of 'godness' – we see the surprising, redemptive potential of diversity in the face of division.
Put simply, Christ's is the less-travelled Way marked by open tables, acceptance of 'outsiders', refusal of violence, challenge to the rich, forgiveness and repentance, resistance to the powers-that-be, conflict through the cross, the foretaste of renewed life, and the shock of the Spirit – the one who surprises us with freshly liberated meaning.
What we long for in Jesus’ company, therefore, is not mere ‘tolerance’ or illusory power for ourselves. It is the impossible possibility of God’s domination-free kingdom (or ‘kin-dom’, as a South African theologian once beautifully put it). The Gospel is about precisely this unimaginable love. It is a love that subjugates power so as to absorb rather than inflict violence, to embrace rather than deny suffering, and to endure in (rather than escape from) death.
Here exists an alternative understanding of ‘freedom’ not as random license but as disciplined commitment. Those who grasp at life lose it, says Jesus. Only those who are prepared to lose can gain, because what they are gaining is far greater than mere self-propagation.
Of course what makes this promise possible (and for many, impossible) is that, by definition, it can only arise from the unconstrained life of God, not from our own capabilities, fantasies and projections.
For this reason the God who lies beyond metaphysics and manipulation is met in a crucifixion brought about by religious and political power, not in the comforts of consumer ‘spirituality’ or in the self-regard of those who claim God as their own.
This, in turn, is the message embodied in the resurrection narrative - which is not some zombie ideology, not a piece of arbitrary trickery or childish fantasy, but a way of saying that the God who is found unconditionally in the material (and, as Nicholas Lash adds, unpacking the surprising conclusion of orthodox Christianity, nowhere else) is in no way constrained by that, as we are, but goes on giving life in, through and after the flesh. It is life-beyond-life (not just death) to which God raised Jesus.
Between conviction and community
As the playwright Dennis Potter said, on the threshold of his own death from cancer, “I have come to see that religion is the wound not the bandage.” This is not the Gospel we thought we knew, but one given to us by God in confrontation with our projections.
To be authentically 'church' is to be the community made possible (albeit incredibly fallibly, often badly) by this realisation. It is to open up an encounter with those who are different to us. It is to be possessed by the crazy idea that chaos, conflict and contract are not the only possible renderings of diversity. There is covenant towards communion too.
Rescue (‘salvation’) is the unspeakable necessity that meets us in the Gospel as we consider what this hope really requires of us, however. We cannot do it on our own. We need to be radically changed, personally and politically, in order to receive from others rather than to be threatened by them.
The baptism we are offered, through death to life, is the means for this. It is not a reduction into a narrow, self-affirming, life-denying sect, as many preach and believe today. Rather it is slow, continuous transformation within a community of welcome and rejection, gathering and dispersal.
We welcome people, but we reject what degrades and divides. We gather in as the Body broken and renewed, but we receive that brokenness and renewal in the world, not in our favoured religious hiding places.
At the heart of this ekklesia, the assembled and sent-out public assembly, is prayer. Prayer is not about manipulating a tribal deity to be on our side, it is the language of donation through which we come to understand that the life we share is given to us, not possessed by us.
Similarly, worship is the means to identify whose we are and what is really worth-it. It is this that forms us in the face of masses of things that claim dominion over our humanity: money, possessions, status, allure, xenophobia, violence, greed and self-absorption.
The fruit of the Gospel community, then, is not exclusion but embrace, not detachment but engagement, not credulity but critical thought. This is extremely difficult for Christians in a world where they have been offered, and have taken, power along the lines of the ‘religious right’ in the US and Christendom in Europe.
To be people of God is to lose the dangerous desire to ‘be in control’ and to recognise the significance of not being finally determined by who we are and what we do. This is what is meant by ‘being made in the image of God’ – to be delivered from enslaving ideas, pictures, narratives and ideologies of ‘the human’ which fall short of the endless possibility that is to be found in God alone.
So the challenge to the conventionally religious of Jesus’ day was to abandon a fearful misreading of their rituals, texts and institutions – the one that enabled them to condemn those who God loves: strangers, the poor, the excluded, the odd, the ‘unclean’ and the marginalised.
This is also the challenge in our day. Those who turn God into a sentimental sop for their own egos or into a tyrannical buttress for their own interests are not walking Jesus’ path. His is a road where you will find strangers and enemies, outcasts and friends – all those invited into the Feast of Life (to use the biblical image).
What of membership of the community of Christ? This does not depend upon being good, worthy, able, rich, pious, or of the "right" family line, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or theological persuasion. No, we are "in" solely because the God of Jesus loves without discrimination, and we are a sign of that love. This makes the church anti-exclusionary by nature, rightly understood.
Tradition, text and transformation
It's not as simple as that, of course. Going right back to its founding events and documents, the Christian tradition has always been an argument between those who have seen the love of God as demandingly wide, and those who wish to restrict it for a particular interest and benefit (which always turns out to be their own).
In this sense, the re-expressions of central Christian undertaken by radical faith are selective. All communally developed and argued traditions (Christian, humanist, and so on) require such interpretative practices and principles - which are precisely about determining good, reasoned, humane and practical justifications for choosing some readings over and against others.
The key difference in all such traditions of practical reasoning, it seems to me, is between those who see their readings as 'unmediated truth' (given directly by God, Church, Bible, Reason or whatever) and those who wrestle with the messy but necessary business of ongoing interpretation and re-interpretation. The Word made flesh, in other words.
I have spent the 33 years of my adult life (I'm now 51) locating myself politically, spiritually and intellectually within this tension that I have described between those who desire divine openness and those who long for religious certainty. That doesn't mean I'm right, necessarily, but it does give me the confidence to feel that the choices I'm articulating aren't arbitrary, but well worked through.
As part of that, I think the textual inheritances of Christianity are considerably more interesting, subtle, ambiguous, ironic, open and fertile than ‘fundamentalists’ (absolutists, mostly religious, but sometimes not) seem to think. ‘
Indeed I find the biblical texts, and the joys and struggles they unapologetically embody, essential. They are foundational to my Christian conviction. But I understand that the corruptions of religious absolutism have made them sadly inaccessible as sources of wisdom for many people – for reasons I often find myself in sympathy with.
One of the major tasks of radical Christianity, therefore, is to break open the text again for those for whom it has become buried in ideology. [5]
In conclusion, it is important to remind ourselves that there are discernable and valuable subversive traditions within Christianity (Quakerism, Anabaptism, liberation theology, radical evangelicalism, progressive Catholicism, and so on), which revolve around from what I'd call ‘the Jesus trajectory’ - and which undermine both top-down churchianity, the Christendom settlement (the dangerous alliance of the church with power) and knock-down metaphysics.
You can't read such radical traditions as generating simple spiritual, moral, theological and political prescriptions, of course. And I wouldn't want to. It's more about cultivating a new and ethos for living, alongside and with others. Far more challenging.
At the moment Christianity seems obsessed with sex and self-preservation. Institutionally, it has lost touch with the radical nature of the Gospel and has become, for many, an irrelevant cultural artifact. The result is massive decline.
The ideology of 'the Christian nation' is also collapsing – but this notion, which some church leaders still try to cling on to, has nothing to do with the person and movement of Jesus, whose irruption in the world remains a huge challenge to both religious and political establishments.
What people are rightly rejecting is religion as a coercive, arbitrary and esoteric force over and against full human flourishing and understanding. Understood through its radical traditions, the Gospel rejects this too.
Instead, Christians should be seeking to renew their intellectual, spiritual and social justice traditions through openness and hospitality towards others, rather than by being defensive or expecting special favour.
The idea that we are all going to agree if religion goes away is as naïve as the view that you cannot have morality without religion. Difference is here to stay. The task is how to establish ground rules for fairness and equal treatment in social life and public debate. All people, whether religious or non-religious, as conventionally defined, have a role to play in that.
This article substantially comes from a talk prepared in February 2007 for a dialogue between humanists and Christians. I have prefaced and modified it in February 2009 following a meeting with the Central London Humanist Group, a conversation with the very gracious Josh Kutchinsky (a Jewish atheist friend) and exchanges with Christian colleagues.
[1] By ressourcement I mean processes which stress the interplay and interdependence of retrieval, recovery, renewal, re-imagination and re-expression. I am not particularly identifying with ‘new theology’ in the Catholic tradition, and I feel distance as well as affinity with aspects of ‘radical orthodoxy’. In a variety of different ways, ‘where I am coming from’ has been shaped by recent thinkers like Nicholas Lash, Sarah Coakley, Richard Kearney, James Alison, Dorothy Day, Rowan Williams, Sharon Ringe, John Howard Yoder, Simone Weil, William Stringfellow, John Caputo, Dorothee Soelle, Walter Brueggemann, Jurgen Moltmann, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, David Jenkins, Mary Grey, Thomas Merton, Merlod Westphal, Brian McLaren, Ruth Page, Chris Rowland, Richard Rohr, Bert Hoedemaker, Ken Leech, Phyllis Trible, Ian Fraser, Peter Selby, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Nicholas Adams and John Douglas Hall. Of course they bear no responsibility for my own interpretations.
[2] See for example: Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (Bantam Press, 2006); Richard Swinburne, The Existence of God (Clarendon Press, 2004), Don Cupitt, Taking Leave of God (SCM Press, 1980).
[3] To many modern minds the Christian doctrine (grammar) of the Trinity is utterly baffling, if not nonsensical. But Nicholas Lash continues to believe that it is of fundamental importance. For a thoughtfully direct unpacking of the underlying ‘grammar’ of Trinitarian understanding, see his excellent Believing Three Ways in One God (SCM Press, 1997). Richard Dawkins – writing dismissively in The Times, 12/02/07, that God “is actually three in one. Not four, not two, but three” – is not least among those who have confused metaphor for description. Since God is not an entity, divine unity and the modes of God are not part of a numerical sequence. That is not the point of this ancient creedal language.
[4] This section is excerpted from an earlier essay, 'Does Christianity kill or cure?', reproduced in (ed. Simon Barrow), Fear or Freedom? Why a warring church must change, Shoving Leopard / Ekklesia, 2008.
[5] By 'ideology' I mean the fixing of ideas into regulative certainties. See part three of Nicholas Lash’s collection, Theology on the Way to Emmaus (SCM Press, 1986).
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* Coming under liberating judgement
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China playing ketchup
Estelle Cooch
To better understand the dynamics underlying the current economic crisis you wouldn't always think to start with tomatoes.
Yet in a landmark case last month the EU it was ruled that tomato puree grown and packaged in China could be labelled as "produced in Italy" on the proviso that Italian water or salt was added somewhere in Europe. The case became hugely controversial, partly as a debating point in the Italian elections, but mainly because of the meteoric rise of China's tomato industry.
In late 2012, when China finally overtook the US as the largest global trader of goods, another less talked about record was also being broken. China finally overtook California as the largest global producer of tomatoes.
The impact of this, coming from a country where tomatoes don't feature heavily in dietary habits, has been to terrify Italian and Spanish producers, who ten years ago led world markets.
While US trade has been squeezed in recent years, the tomato puree economy has paralleled the growth of the Chinese economy. In 2000 the US imported and exported two trillion dollars worth of products.
But following the burst of the dotcom bubble, the 11 September attacks and China's entry into the World Trade Organisation in 2001, the gap began to narrow. By 2003 the gap between all US and Chinese trade had narrowed to half. Simultaneously the gap between Chinese and American tomato production had also halved. On the eve of the financial crisis in 2008 this difference was about a quarter.
Come 2009, at the nadir of the crisis, the US economy plummeted further, while China recovered faster. Between 2000 and 2010 US tomato production grew by only 12 percent, while Chinese production grew by 53 percent.
In an article that would make keen tomato enthusiasts blush, Jim Beecher, the well-known president of the World Processing Tomato Council, claimed that "Over 100 tomato processors from around the world gathered Xinjiang Uygur region in China to tour tomato farms. In the past three years the consumption of tomato ketchup in China has increased by 15 percent. It is inspiring!"
While consumption of tomato ketchup may not be inspiring to everyone, least of all Italian and Spanish producers. It seems at every point, when tomato production has dipped, so has the respective economy.
Nonetheless, while China is now the leader in global trade, it is not likely to overtake the US in provision of services until 2015. Until that point, the US will need to watch its back, in case China manages to ketchup.
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2012 Tipping League Round 15 (Magic Weekend) Results
by Lloyd Barkha » Tue, 29 May 2012 04:08:24
Another hot summers day at the Etihad saw Catalans continue their excellent
season with a comfortable win over the Broncos. Salford won a thriller
against Huddersfield with the lead changing hands many times in the last 10
minutes. Leeds weather a good 1st half performance by the Bulls to run out
winners and reclaim their place in the top 8. Wigan closed the weekend,
despite having 2 sent off and Saints 1, with an emphatic win and their 3rd
this season over Saints.
In the tipping comp our **Tipster of the Week** is John Charnock with an
excellent 15 points. In 2nd place is Alf King with 13 points and in joint
3rd with 12 points are Peter Foster and Wigan/Leeds Andy.
In the table Ken Wood slightly increases his lead at the top over Ian L with
Alf King storming back into 3rd only 3 points behind Ken.
Full table to follow.
Castleford 26 - 32 Wakefield (Wakey by 6)
Tips received.....23
Tipped Cas...............15 by an average of +9 spread from +4 to +20
Tipped Wakey..........8 by an average of +10 spread from +6 to +14
Average tip.....Cas by 3 Bookies tip Cas by 6
Tipped Cas to within 6 points......7
Tipped Cas to within 7-12 pts.....1
2 correct tips from Arthur Pye and MadTom
Warrington 68 - 4 Widnes (Wire by 64)
Tips received.......24
Tipped Wire.............24 by an average of +35 spread from +18 to +54
Tipped Chemics........ no-one!!
Average tip.....Wire by 35 Bookies tip Wire by 38
Tipped Wire to within 6 points......0
Tipped Wire to within 7-12 pts.....2
No correct tips, nearest was Arthur Pye on +54
Hull FC 30 - 32 Hull KR (KR by 2)
Tipped FC....................17 by an average of +10 spread from +4 to +16
Tipped KR.....................7 by an average of +9 spread from +4 to +12
Average tip.....FC by 5 Bookies tip FC by 4
Tipped KR to within 6 points......3
Tipped KR to within 7-12 pts.....4
No correct tips, nearest was John Charnock on +4
Catalans 42 - 18 London (French by 24)
Tipped French...........24 by an average of +20 spread from +12 to +29
Tipped Broncos.............. no-one!!!
Average tip....French by 20 Bookies tip French by 18
Tipped French to within 6 points......19
Tipped French to within 7-12 pts.....5
3 correct tips from Arthur Pye, Gordon Murray and Wigan/Leeds Andy
Huddersfield 34 - 38 Salford (Reds by 4)
Tipped Giants..........23 by an average of +18 spread from +4 to +26
Tipped Reds...............1 by +1
Average tip....Giants by 17 Bookies tip Giants by 16
Tipped Reds to within 6 points......1
Tipped Reds to within 7-12 pts.....0
No correct tips, nearest was the only Salford tipster, John Charnock on +1
Bradford 22 - 37 Leeds (Rhinos by 15)
Tips received........24
Tipped Bulls..............4 by an average of +8 spread from +4 to +12
Tipped Rhinos.......20 by an average of +13 spread from +4 to +20
Average tip.....Rhinos by 10 Bookies tip Rhinos by 10
Tipped Rhinos to within 6 points......17
Tipped Rhinos to within 7-12 pts.....3
No correct tips, nearest were from Alf King, John Charnock, Ken Smith and
Wigan/Leeds Andy on +14 and Colin Tilley, David C and Stefos on +16
St Helens 16 - 42 Wigan (Pies by 26)
Tips received...........24
Tipped Saints.............8 by an average of +9 spread from +4 to +24
Tipped Pies.................16 by an average of +13 spread from +4 to +26
Average tip.....Pies by 5 Bookies tip Pies by 8
Tipped Pies to within 6 points......1
Tipped Pies to within 7-12 pts.....5
1 correct tip from Peter Foster
1. 2012 Tipping League Round 15 Fixtures (Magic Weekend)
2. 2012 Tipping League Round 15 (Magic Weekend) Summary
3. 2010 Tipping League Round 13 'Magic Weekend' RESULTS
4. 2012 Tipping League Round 15 Table
5. 2010 Tipping League Round 13 'Magic Weekend' SUMMARY
6. 2010 Tipping League Round 15 RESULTS
8. Who is Magic Weekend Magic for?
9. 2012 Tipping League Round 3 Results
10. 2012 Tipping League Round 4 Results
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Report on Monitoring the Formation of Precinct Election Commissions
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Representatives of NGOs and political parties loyal to the regime dominate in the precinct election commission members. These entities have increased their representation in the precinct commissions from 41.5% in 2010 to 45.2% in 2012.
The proportion of opposition parties’ representatives is about 0.1% (61 out of 68, 945) in the total number of PEC member; they are represented in less than 1% of the commissions. This excludes the opponents of the government from organizing the voting and vote counting, and thus makes it impossible to influence the work of precinct election commissions.
The quota introduced in the Election Code in 2010 (Article 34) of having no less than a third of political party and NGO representatives in PEC is filled by higher representation of the pro-governmental associations and political parties. That does not add to greater pluralism in precinct election commissions and leaves the executive power in full control over the vote count.
In overwhelming majority of cases the precinct election commissions were formed in a non-transparent way, by approval of a proposed list of individuals prepared in advance. In a number of cases the observers did not have an opportunity to observe the decision-making procedure. Absence of selection criteria allows for manipulation by the bodies of the executive power.
1. Legal Regulation of Forming Precinct Election Commissions
According to Articles 28 and 34 of the Election Code election to the House of Representatives are prepared and conducted by precinct election commissions. They are formed by the rayon and city executive committees; and in cities with rayon division – by local administrations.
Political parties and public associations should be represented by at least one-third of PEC members. The commissions may not include judges, prosecutors, and heads of local executive and administrative bodies. The number of public servants should not exceed one-third of the commission.
Representatives of political parties, public associations, work collectives, and citizens, who nominated their representatives, are entitled to be present during meetings of the bodies that form PEC. Meanwhile, the provisions of Article 13 of the Election Code do not provide guidance on the powers of observers at this stage of the election campaign, which is used to restrict observation of the decision-making process of PEC formation.
The decision of the bodies that formed the precinct commissions may be appealed in court within three days by the entities which had nominated their representatives to the commissions.
Precinct election commissions consist of representatives of political parties, public associations, labor collectives, as well as representatives of citizens who are nominated by signature collection.
The Election Code limits the ability of political parties and public associations to nominate representatives to the precinct commissions in comparison with nomination to the district election commissions (DEC). Nomination to precinct commissions can be done only by organizational structures of political parties and associations that have state registration, or are put on record with the local authorities. Thus, national associations which do not have organizational structures are generally unable to participate in the electoral process as part of precinct commissions. In the run up to the election, some organizations (Minsk city and regional organizations of the Movement for Freedom, Hrodna organization of the BPF Party) tried to register the local organizational structures but were refused. As a result, they fell under the restriction of the Election Code and did not have the right to nominate their members to the precinct commissions.
2. Nomination to Precinct Election Commissions
There have been no information on the authorities refusing to accept documents for nomination of candidates to precinct commissions from any entities. However, there is a significant discrepancy between the figures of nominees to PECs, voiced by the opposition parties and the figures announced by the Central Election Commission. For example, the United Civil Party (UCP) declared nomination to the precinct commissions of 296 of its members, while the CEC official documents show a figure of 240[1] UCP nominees. Similar discrepancies exist in the official and party nomination statistics of the Belarusian Left Party "Fair World" and the BPF Party.
Altogether, according to the Central Election Commission, 84,781 people were nominated to precinct commissions, out of them: representatives nominated by citizens by signature collection -- 32,908 (38.8%), by labor collectives - 15,375 (18.1%), and by political parties and other public associations - 36,498 (43%).
Pro-governmental associations led in nomination to PEC: the Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus – 10,400 nominees (over 12%), Belaya Rus – 4,799 (6%), the Belarusian Republican Youth Union – 4,345 (5%), the Belarusian Union of Women – 4,037 (5%), and the Belarusian Public Association of Veterans – 3,138 (3.7%). For instance, in Vitebsk region, those entities nominated 85% of applicants from public associations, or 32% of the total number of the people nominated to PEC. The nomination activity of these organizations has not shown any serious change in comparison with the presidential election in 2010, but has grown a lot in comparison with the parliamentary elections in 2008.
In general, in this election campaign, the proportion of representatives of political parties and public organizations nominated to precinct commissions has increased to 42%. During the presidential election of 2010 it amounted to 39.1%[2]. Respectively, in 2012 the number of representatives nominated to PECs by citizens and labor collectives declined.
Just as during the 2010 election, 10 of the 15 registered political parties nominated their representatives to PEC in this campaign. At the same time, the political parties and associations loyal to the authorities have increased their activity. For example, the Republican Party of Labor and Justice nominated 832 people, which is twice the number nominated in 2010.
In comparison with 2010, the opposition parties have decreased their activity: during the 2010 presidential elections the 1,073 nominees of the oppositional political parties made up 1.3% of the total number of nominees. Today, 664 representatives nominated by the five oppositional parties are only about 0.8% of the total number of nominees. According to the Central Election Committee, the Belarusian Left Party "Fair World" nominated 216 people, the Belarusian Social Democratic Party ("Hramada") - 30, UCP - 240, BPF - 158, and the Belarusian Party "The Greens" - 20. The share of opposition activists among all those nominated by political parties and public associations was 3.2% in 2010, and only 1.8% in 2012.
Unregistered political entities -- the Party of Belarusian Christian Democracy (BCD) and the "Tell the Truth" campaign used signature collection procedure in order to nominate their representatives to precinct commissions. BCD says it has nominated 171 representatives.
3. Meetings of Local Authority Bodies for Forming Precinct Election Commissions
Some observers had problems with access to meetings of bodies forming the PEC. There have been facts of concealing information about the time of meetings. Some executive committees rejected the right of the observers to attend the meetings, in violation of Part 2 of Article 39 of the Law "On Local Government and Self-government". Such cases were recorded in Hlubokaye, Vileyka, Lahoisk, Maladechna, Orsha, and Vitebsk rayon executive committees, etc.
Meetings of executive committees and local administrations were held in conditions of relative openness to the observers. However, they were rather formal, as one could see from their nature and duration. In the vast majority of regions the voting procedure boiled down to a quick and uncontested approval of commission lists, prepared before a meeting in a non-transparent manner. According to observers, Biaroza executive committee needed only 6 (six) minutes to approve 486 out of 515 nominees, Pruzhany executive committee -- 12 minutes to approve 558 out of 701, etc. At the meeting of executive committee, head of department for HR and organizational work reported only the number of the applications filed and the number of members of each precinct committee. As a result of a vote, precinct election commissions in Smaliavichy rayon consist of 80% of the people engaged in PEC during the 2010 presidential election. The meeting of Salihorsk executive committee lasted for 15 minutes, at which it approved 691 out of 741 applications, failing to report on how candidates to PEC had been nominated, which political parties and organizations nominated them, as well as the reasons why some candidates were included, while the others were denied.
Zero competition to become PEC members was observed at the meetings of Lahoisk, Ivatsevichy, Verkhniadzvinsk and some other executive committees.
In some rayon, city executive committees, and local administrations, observers had the opportunity to review the PEC nomination materials. However, in a lot of places the bodies that create precinct commissions did not let observers and interested persons read through those materials. Thus, the observers were unable to check the legitimacy of nomination to precinct commissions, while the principle of openness and transparency of the election procedures was not ensured.
The regional press and the websites of city and rayon executive committees published information on the membership of precinct election commissions, which consists primarily just of the name, surname, patronymic and the way of nomination. Information about the place of work is not made public, because just as during the previous elections, election commissions are formed and operate on the place of work basis. Various nomination procedures are used by the authorities in order to disguise the state control over the electoral process.
No meeting was held on the formation of the precinct commission at a polling station, established in Stockholm. As a result of the Belarusian-Swedish diplomatic conflict the staff of the Belarusian Embassy in Sweden has been called off, and the above-mentioned polling station has been liquidated.
4. Analysis of the PEC Composition
According to official data[3], 6,301 precinct commissions (excluding the PEC outside the country) of 68,945 members were formed in the Republic of Belarus.
Representatives of public associations, including political parties, made up 45.3% in the precinct commissions, representatives of labor collectives - 16.2%, representatives of citizens nominated by signature collection -- 38.5%. In comparison with the 2010 presidential election the role of labor collectives as actors in the electoral process has decreased by almost 4%, while the role of NGOs has increased by 3.5%.
On the average, 1.2 people competed for a place in a precinct commission. This figure is quite different in Minsk -- 1.6.
In the total number of PEC members proportion of representatives of four opposition parties today is about 0.1% (61 out of 68, 945). In the presidential election of 2010 the share of the five opposition parties was 0.26% (183 out of 70,815).
Comparison of the “passing” percentage of the pro-governmental and opposition political parties and NGOs gives ground to speak about the discriminatory approach in PEC formation.
Political party/NGO
Nominated to PEC
Included in PEC
Pro-governmental parties and NGOs
Belarusian Agrarian Party
The Communist Party of Belarus
The Republican Party
Republican Party of Labor and Justice
Belarusian Social Sports Party
Belaya Rus
BRSM
Belarusian Union of Women
The Belarusian Public Association of Veterans
Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus
Opposition parties
Belarusian Party "The Greens"
Belarusian Left Party "Fair World"
Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada)
BPF Party
In Minsk, the city with the highest political activity, the opposition parties nominated 186 representatives. None of them were included in the precinct election commissions (the “passing” percentage is 0). Despite high nomination activity in the districts where leaders of opposition groups are running (the leader of the Movement for Freedom Aliaksandr Milinkevich, leader of the BPF Party Aliaksei Yanukevich, leader of the organizing committee of the Party of Freedom and Progress Uladzimir Navasiad, and others), none of the opposition activists were included in the precinct commissions.
Appealing against Non-inclusion in Precinct Election Commissions
The process of appealing the decisions not to include nominees in PECs has begun. Belarusian Left Party "Fair World" appealed in court non-inclusion of their representatives in PEC in the city of Orsha. BPF Party filed complaints to the courts of Autazavodski, Pershamaiski and Leninski rayons of Minsk, as wells as to the court of Maladechna. Activists of Mahiliou regional branch of the BPF "Revival" NGO and Mahiliou regional branch of the Belarusian Left Party "Fair World" appealed to the Court of Leninski rayon of Mahiliou. Vitebsk regional committee of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) and the regional branch of the BPF party filed complaints against non-inclusion of their representatives in the precinct commissions in Vitebsk region.
In the city of Vitebsk, a group of voters who nominated Paul Levinau, appealed against the decision of Pershamaiski rayon administration about forming PEC #57 of the Vitebsk-Chkalauskaya district #18. The reason for appeal was the revealed numerous violations of nomination procedures. Voters revolted from the fact that Markouski, who discredited himself as a PEC chairman in the presidential election of 2010, and as a result was dismissed from his post and the work in the commission. The court dismissed the complaint. Results of other appeals will be reviewed in the following reports.
[1] Information on nomination of representatives to the precinct election commission on elections of deputies of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus of the fifth convocation. Access mode: http://www.rec.gov.by/Elections-PPNS5-Electoral.
[2] Corpus of electoral statistics, "Election of President of the Republic of Belarus in 2010." Access mode: http://www.rec.gov.by/Elections-PRB.
[3] Information about composition of the precinct election commissions on elections of deputies of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus of the fifth convocation. Access mode: http://www.rec.gov.by/Elections-PPNS5-Electoral.
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Randi Craigen - Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Values: List your 3 most important values for your startup business or ministry. Please rank the values from most important to least important and elaborate on why you placed them in the selected order.
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L. Brian Jenkins, MA - Friday, January 26, 2018
IDEAS: How is the idea for your business or ministry startup rooted in people?
Contexture Media Network
Randi Craigen - Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Lesley Martinez Etherly is a Chicago native with a passion for grassroots community development through the support of Strategic Marketing and Technology Resources. Lesley is the Founder and Executive Director of Contexture Media Network, a nonprofit media, web and tech organization working to support, grow and sustain economically challenged communities through digital education, production resources, and capacity support services. Contexture is Lesley’s direct answer to the ever-widening digital divide in low income and under-represented communities. Contexture’s team develops, trains and supports community development through the creation and strategic use of media, web and technology resources. Contexture is partnership focused and operates as an impact booster for organizations who are already committed to eliminating digital and economic gaps worldwide. Lesley believes in the ability to work together to sustain a 21st Century workforce development model and create a global media platform that is sustainable, inclusive and empowering.
LEADERSHIP EQUILIBRIUM
Renita Alexander believes we each have a God given assignment--a purpose for being here on this earth--that we've already been given the raw capacity to fulfill according to Ephesians 2:10, and that we can build a life around that purpose that's uniquely fit for each one of us. Renita's enthusiasm for helping people discover that purpose according to their own unique passions, concerns, experiences, personalities and values makes her an excellent leadership coach and inspirational guide.
Renita is passionate about leadership. With a desire to help leaders at every level unlock their power and passion in order to become truly transformational, Renita founded Leadership Unlocked—a leadership coaching, development and training service committed to unleashing effective, influential, powerful leaders who consistently exude energy, positively impact their workplace, are surgical in making decisions, and inspire energy, loyalty and commitment in their employees.
A retired U.S. Air Force Colonel, Renita is an expert in the extensive leadership training and experiential leadership development unique to the military, as well as in the practical management skills characteristic of her leadership coaching practice. Renita has a coaching certification from the Institute of Professional Excellence in Coaching (or iPEC)—a rigorous program accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF)—and more than 26 years of inspirational and transformational leadership experience.
Renita recently brought that wealth of experience and expertise to SUN and Entrenuity clients via the mox.E Speaker Series with a December workshop on Leadership Equilibrium: Leading in a Way That Allows You to Achieve Balance in Your Life. With a focus on the need to "lead yourself first before being able to lead others effectively," the highly reflective and interactive workshop included several exercises designed to help participants identify their unique passion and purpose in life and how to create a life flow that allows them to be who they were truly meant to be—their most efficient, most effective, most productive selves.
With an insightful look at the BRAKES—the Beliefs, Reality, Assumptions, Killers, Expectations and Systems—that serve as internal obstacles to keep people from living out their purpose, Renita engaged participants in an exercise to help them identify some of their own internal obstacles. Renita's entire workshop was packed with wisdom, practical insights and valuable tools for reflection, including soul searching questions, Biblical truth, and Renita's own positive, encouraging energy.
Stay tuned for more mox.E Speaker Series Events at www.entrenuity.com/events
A STRONG START
L. Brian Jenkins, MA - Monday, January 09, 2017
Business ownership is both a privilege and an opportunity.
As we enter 2017, a year that will undoubtedly be filled with both challenges and opportunities, are you prepared for the growth, setbacks and disruptions business owners face daily?
Will your business crumble at the slightest challenge, negative review or comment on social media?
Will a dispute with a business partner lead to a shutdown? Will an unexpected set back cause you to call it quits?
As I am privileged to work with new entrepreneurs, I often stress to them that it's not just knowledge of their business that leads to marketplace success, but also strength of character.
This past weekend my family and I went to the movie theatre to see “Hidden Figures.” The movie focused on the lives of three extraordinary African-American women who worked at NASA—Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson. Each of these women played a pivotal role in one of America’s greatest moments—the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. This was a HUGE and PIVOTAL event in 1962 that revamped America’s confidence in the Space Race with our rival, the former Soviet Union. Their brilliance was astonishing, as was their resolve to persevere against the intentional sexism, racism and Jim Crow legislation used to oppress so many bright, creative African-Americans. They had the support of their families and churches and solidarity with others in similar circumstances. They were highly skilled in their field. They also had the strength of character that serves as a model for business owners and entrepreneurs in the coming year—they didn't quit in the face of obstacles, doubt or discouragement, but persevered. Their legacy and contribution provides a model and foundation to build on, despite being ignored by history for more than fifty years.
How can you improve your knowledge of your own business in 2017? How can you learn more about your target market? What can you do to improve your skills or the skills of your team to better serve your customers? These are all important questions to ask in the coming year. Starting strong requires an honest assessment of where your business is at and how your business can be improved.
But starting strong, staying strong and finishing strong requires more. It requires strength of character. What are you doing to pursue excellence at all levels? Are you modeling excellence for your team? If there are those on your team that do not share or value your commitments, it may be best to help them depart. Sideways energy is often wasted energy; it doesn’t move you towards improving.
The brilliant skill and strength of character of three remarkable African-American women working at NASA may have been hidden from public recognition for much of fifty years, but their impact was profound. Just as a business leader's strength of character will have a profound impact on the business, whether publicly recognized or not.
Industry Profile: Green Technology
- Tuesday, November 27, 2012
What is Green Technology, and how can it improve your business strategy?
Green technology has become a buzzword over the last few years, referring to a variety of innovative products and techniques designed to promote sustainable living. As both our need and awareness increases for alternative methods of protecting the Earth's resources, green business strategies have become valuable tools for increasing efficiency as well as attracting a growing market of eco-minded consumers. Many business owners still believe that green technology can benefit only those businesses involved in energy or food production, however, with the advances being made in areas such as heating systems and recycling methods, every business can find ways to employ earth-friendly alternatives to their existing processes.
Developing and providing green technology has been the platform for many new businesses to find their niche in a competitive world, businesses such as Wolbrink Architects Chartered, a Chicago architectural firm that designs and constructs eco-sensitive, energy efficient buildings. Their ongoing project, Green Dream, is creating ENERGY STAR-rated condos in Chicago. Impressively, each unit is between 46.5-57.5 % more energy efficient than ENERGY STAR's baseline standards. In response to this incredible innovation, Wolbrink Architects received the 2006, Mayor Daley's Greenworks Award for market transformation. http://www.wolbrinkarchitects.com/
Directly capitalizing on green technology, is the dry cleaning service, Greener Cleaner. Using a liquid silicone solution, the non-toxic alternative to the commonly used perchloroethylene, Greener Cleaner is able to say that their product is safer to use and non-hazardous to the environment to make or dispose; it also cleans more effectively and is gentler on fabrics, giving clothing longer life cycles and reducing waste. http://www.greenercleaner.net/
Even fashion can be green, as proved by Mountains of the Moon, an eco-friendly clothing line that focuses on sustainability and responsibility. They are committed to using only low-impact dyes and long lasting fabrics such as cotton and hemp, grown without the use of pesticides and manufactured in US, sweatshop-free facilities. Designer, Melissa Baldwell intentionally creates “designs that are stylish but that can also be worn for multiple seasons and that surpass short-lived fads and trends . . . less likely to end up in landfills.” http://www.mountainsofthemoon.com/
Innovative businesses like these are receiving encouraging responses for their contributions to the green movement. Not only do a growing number of consumers prefer green products, but some states and influential corporations have begun to offer incentives to green businesses. Several grant funds are available in Illinois, including assistance for installing efficiency technologies to incentives for green building projects.
http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/index.cfm?State=IL
In the corporate world, the investment firm, Goldman Sachs, announced this year a “$40 billion target for financing and investing in clean technology companies over the next decade.” http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thinking/focus-on/clean-technology-and-renewables/index.html
Other opportunities available to green-minded entrepreneurs include franchising schemes which allow you to operate your own business from an established platform. One such opportunity is being offered by EASI Energy Automation Systems Inc. which creates products designed to improve efficiency in existing electrical systems. EASI provides the needed training, tools and support to entering affiliates, and start up costs are minimal as inventory is kept by the corporation, and affiliates may work from home and at their own pace.
http://www.energysavingbusiness.com//energy-automation-systems-opportunity.php
Another valuable resource for Chicago entrepreneurs is the recent establishment of the Green Exchange building housing a wide range of tenants each operating a sustainable business within the localized community. Renovated from a factory built in 1913, the five story building now features state-of-the-art green technology including a green roof with 8,000 SF organic sky garden, high efficiency heating and cooling system, a 41,329 gallon rain cistern, and an escalator with occupancy sensors. Tenants benefit from increased exposure, synergy opportunities with like-minded businesses, and reduced overhead as a result of building efficiency and by sharing common spaces and amenities. http://www.greenexchange.com/
Opportunities like these make eco-awareness a valuable and even necessary consideration for forward thinking entrepreneurs. To learn more about how you can green your business or start a green business, visit these additional resources.
Green Certification and Industry Partnerships: http://www.sba.gov/content/starting-green-business
Find Green Business Grants: http://www.brightgreentalent.com/green-business/green-business-grants/
Green Franchise Opportunities:
http://www.franchisedirect.com/greenfranchises/?gclid=COnypqjA4LMCFexAMgod1VUAGw
5 Green Businesses You Can Start From Home: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/199952
Teaching Entrepreneurship - Fostering Opportunity
- Monday, October 15, 2012
Cornerstone Academy students selling mosaic picture frames at Chicago Business Opportunity Fair, April 2012
At StartingUp Now, we teach that entrepreneurship is more than a tool for profit. It is a lifestyle which embraces hard work and ingenuity as a means of growing strong economic markets, self-sustained communities, and flourishing individuals. These and other principles of entrepreneurship are vital, not only to the health of our own struggling economy, but even more so to that of our future generations. Educators who recognize this need within the lives our youth, are exploring ways in which we can introduce the concept and skills of self-employment at the student level.
One such fore-thinker is Mr. William Seitz, co-founder of Cornerstone Academy in Chicago, IL and Director of the school's core curriculum of economic principles. Cornerstone Academy is an alternative high school for students who have dropped out of public schools, and Mr. Seitz believes that preparing these students for a bright future, involves giving them the tools to see their potential and imagine the possibilities.
At Cornerstone Academy, traditional disciplines such as math and science are supported by school-wide lessons in the fundamentals of economics such as: “all choices have consequences.” Every month a new principle is introduced and highlighted by teachers within the context of each class. Students also participate in a school economy based on a credit system which records their attendance and adherence to codes of conduct. Credits are translated into positive and negative dollar amounts, giving students the opportunity to earn a small income to be used for school events such as attending a Shakespeare play or going ice skating in Millennium Park. In monthly meetings with their “banker” (Seitz), students review their credits and are given the option to retrieve their funds, or save them in the bank. However, in keeping with the principle “all choices have consequences,” those students who use their money right away often face the difficulty of paying for events which other students have set aside money for. Seitz says these experiences teach students that their choices are their own. He cannot make wise choices for them, but he shows them the consequences of the choices they make.
Another choice Cornerstone students are offered is to participate in the student business, Artistic Expressions. Students design, make, and sell mosaic picture frames and mirrors, at craft fairs and expos, earning money and valuable experience interacting with consumers. The program started in 2006, when Entrenuity (not for profit founded by SU's founder, Brian Jenkins) lead an entrepreneurship course at Cornerstone in which students created the business model for Artistic Expressions. Their goal was to design a business that would function according to the economic principles they had learned in class. As a result, their design became the foundation which has for 6 years continued to support students in their business experience.
Like any well organized business, Artistic Expressions is formed of separate teams: the designers, the manufacturers, and the sellers. Profits are divided evenly between the teams and then amongst team members, according to the amount they contribute. Because participation is voluntary, each student is responsible for his or her own choices and level of commitment, and they each get to see the direct results of those choices as they earn their income.
I had the pleasure of speaking with Jerry, a Cornerstone student who was part of last school year's selling team. He told me about his experience selling the mosaics at the 45th Annual Chicago Business Opportunity Fair at Navy Pier in April, 2012, and what he learned from being in the role of a businessman.
“The environment was totally new; it was a new experience because I couldn't look around at everything myself, because I had to sell. Speaking to so many strangers was hard at first, but once I sold one, I wanted to sell another," says Jerry.
Overcoming his natural shyness, Jerry worked hard to discover effective sales techniques of approaching the difficult crowd.
“If I talked to them about our school and how we made the frames ourselves, I might sell a few. But if I mentioned that Mother's Day was coming up, and I asked them if their mom might like one of these picture frames, then I would sell a lot."
Other lessons Jerry said he learned that day included patience and recognizing that hard work only paid off after more hard work. He is also excited about this next year's opportunities. “I want to make and sell this year,” he told me excitedly. “If you sell what other people make, you only make part of the profit, so it is better to sell your own product if you can.”
The opportunity of a hands-on business experience is one that has broadened the possibilities for many of Cornerstone's students. Jerry reports that he would never have thought that starting his own business could be an option before; he always expected to work for someone else. Now he thinks it might be something he could do one day. “Not arts and crafts.” he told me emphatically. Computers and software design are what interest Jerry. He plans on attending college to study computer science and social work to discover ways in which he can serve people using his skills in technology.
Other Cornerstone students have been inspired by their experience with Artistic Expressions to start their own business, such as Mark, who, during his senior year, began a fitness training service and earned money for his college tuition.
Beyond making a small profit now, students of Cornerstone Academy are adopting a vital mindset for their future. Whether they follow the path of entrepreneurship, or choose to work for existing businesses, they have the faith in themselves to make ambitious decisions and apply their skills towards attaining their goals.
Following Your Drive
L. Brian Jenkins, MA - Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Skating isn’t usually included in the list of entrepreneurial ideas. It might even be called a foreign entity in the business world. At StartingUp Now, I had the opportunity to speak to a skater who turned his passion for skating and ministry into an achievable and actionable business plan. Noah Arnold, 29, demonstrates entrepreneurial initiative as he transitions into a new stage in his life, while showing how broad entrepreneurship opportunities can reach. In an unyielding manner, Arnold represents a prime example of entrepreneurship in a new capacity, and he uses StartingUp Now to turn his skating interests into a profitable business.
Arnold plans on opening a board shop that would sell skateboards, wakeboards, and snowboards products as well as accompanying retail clothing. He has always had a heart for skating, but he became a leader as he grew into a minister role to the skating community. Growing up in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, he moved to Illinois to study at Trinity International University. After college, Arnold moved to Libertyville, IL, where he co-founded Foundation Skate Ministry, a nonprofit skate ministry. Foundation Skate Ministry has two purposes: the “effective proclamation of the gospel of Christ to the lost skate culture in Lake County” and, “making disciples and the development of those disciples’ character into the character of Christ himself ‘teaching them to do all things whatsoever I have commanded you’ (Matthew 28:20).” Through weekly bible studies, the ministry reaches out to the skating community and transforms it through the word of God. “It started with a couple of kids a week, like 3 or 4, and then it grew to around 35-45 at my apartment,” said Arnold. He used his individual role as a skater to reach out to an entirely new and often overlooked community.
He further immersed himself in skating culture when he moved to California for a year to teach physical education at a private school. “So-Cal and skate boarding is like PB & J,” said Arnold. However, he returned to Sturgeon Bay when he heard about the creation of a ten thousand square foot skate park in Door County. “If I can open up a skate shop and do ministry, I would be following my heart and passion,” he said.
While formulating his initial concept for the business, he was directed to StartingUp Now by a parent of a child in Arnold’s youth group. Since then, he has begun using the plan to layout his business plan and confirm his goals for the board shop for the next five years. “It’s been really helpful to put it all in words…I want to make sure I’m aiming for what I really want,” said Arnold. His use of the StartingUp Now Skillcenter not only allows him to lay out his business plan in a central online location, but the resources he can access help him visualize unclear concepts by providing relevant examples on starting his own business.
What he has gained most from the StartingUp Now plan is his marketing strategy. Arnold still dedicates himself to fostering the skating culture. “Skate culture is fairly new, it’s growing, and it would be...molding the culture…being the voice for skaters and supporting them…I want to motivate skaters and get their support,” he said. Developed from the StartingUp Now plan, Arnold’s efforts target at expanding the skating culture as well as promoting Door County as a prime destination.
Arnold’s situation presents a great example of the influence entrepreneurship can make on a community. Spurred by his passions for ministering to the youth and skating, he is able to transform a lifelong “hobby” into a way to support his family and occupy an influential role in Door County, WI.
To learn more about Foundation Skate Ministry, visit their website. To contact Noah Arnold directly, email him at noah.arnold711@gmail.com.
Entrepreneur Spotlight: Randi Craigen
- Thursday, August 30, 2012
Sometimes the greatest challenge to success is knowing where to start. Randi Craigen found her focus through StartingUp Now.
Randi Craigen is the Chicago director of East Wind Nannies as well as an emerging jewelry designer who had once never thought she would run a business. A mother of four and proclaimed introvert, Randi took the inspiration of friends and the tools and support she gained from StartingUp Now, and is now working on making two dreams a reality. Randi has lived in Chicago for over twenty years, and faces both the challenges and excitements of marketing to the city’s unique needs and culture.
How did you get started with your nanny business?
I was working as a part time teacher’s aid at a preschool, and a friend of mine asked me how my job was going. I told her I was thinking about taking a nanny position instead, so that I could really focus on just a couple of kids and really relate to them and invest in them, rather than crowd control with twenty-some kids. She said to me, why don’t you open a branch at my nanny agency. She was looking to expand, and I said sure let’s talk. As we talked more about it, I realized it was something I could do and would enjoy doing. I didn’t have to start from zero; I could take her plan and her structure, and I could work from there. I still felt by doing that I could invest in kids by helping find quality nannies to care for them while their parents were at work.
How did you learn about StartingUp Now?
I’ve known Brian for about twenty years. I didn’t know exactly what StartingUp was about, but I knew that Brian was kind of a small business guru. I started with this agency in Chicago, which is pretty much just me. I quickly found myself in over my head, and I thought what am I supposed to do? Even though some things were already laid out for me, reaching the Chicago market, you know, that was all on me. So I went to his office to talk to him about small business, and Brian did everything to get me involved, from dropping the book in my lap to walking past me and checking up on me to making sure I was working on things.
What has been your experience with StartingUp Now?
I’m still honestly working through some things on it, but I think the greatest benefit I’ve had thus far is clarity. When I first talked to Brian, I wasn’t sure how helpful it was going to be, because figuring out the business plan and start up costs had essentially been done, or so I thought. However, it really helped me to understand just what it was I was marketing, what my product actually was. I thought my product was nannies, and that’s not my product; my product is really the very personalized customer service that I provide for families by doing the nanny search for them. That makes a difference in how I market it.
Brian also showed me the Skillcenter, and I was fiddling around with it and realized how easy it was. There was a question on startup costs that I didn’t exactly know what it was, and there was a link that I could click on immediately that went to an article that explained it; it’s so user friendly.
So after going through StartingUp Now, how has your outlook on entrepreneurship changed?
I just think differently; I see the opportunities in things. It’s funny to me how even talking to my daughter this summer, when she had requests to do face painting at a birthday party, I was just flowing with ideas about how to turn that into a business for her and how she could market that and how she needed to lay out a plan and all these different things on how to market herself as a face painter for birthday parties and earn a little bit of money. I’m planning these little businesses every time I turn around.
About a year and a half ago I started making jewelry just for friends and as gifts. A couple friends would ask, “Can you make something for my mom, and I’ll pay you for it.” People were liking what I was doing, so I started looking for little opportunities, Christmas shows where I could set up a little table and trunk shows for friends, but I never planned on making it a business. It’s just sort of been happening on the side. Now I love making it so much that I have all this product sitting around that nobody knows about really; nobody knows my little secret. Brian has been talking to me about how crazy that the product is already there, the investment is already made, so he’s really pushing me through the business side of it.
Where do you hope to see your businesses going?
I’m a little timid about that, which is another thing that Brian has been beating me over the head about. He’ll say things to me like what if I said you could earn this much money next year with your jewelry business, and I just look at him like he’s crazy. He’s dead serious, like no really, let’s talk about this. Of anybody I have talked to, Brian has really made me feel like okay, I can do this. He’s not just “rah, rah, go!” but instead gives me tools that have really helped me and made me start to believe, yeah I really can do this.
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BHGE Changes Its Name to Baker Hughes Company
Baker Hughes, a GE company (NYSE: BHGE) announced today its successful name change to Baker Hughes Company. The Company will be known as Baker Hughes, and on Oct. 18, 2019, its Class A common stock...
Baker Hughes, a GE company Announces September 2019 Rig Counts
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Arcline Investment Management ("Arcline"), a growth oriented private equity firm with $1.5 billion of capital under management, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the...
Baker Hughes, a GE company Announces Date for Second Quarter 2019 Earnings Release and Webcast
Baker Hughes, a GE company (NYSE: BHGE) will hold a webcast on Wednesday, July 31, 2019 to discuss the results for the second quarter ending June 30, 2019. The webcast is scheduled to begin at 9:30...
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Baker Hughes, a GE company (NYSE:BHGE) announced today that the Baker Hughes international rig count for June 2019 was 1,138, up 12 from the 1,126 counted in May 2019, and up 179 from the 959 counted...
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Baker Hughes, a GE company (NYSE:BHGE) and C3.ai today announced a joint venture agreement that brings together BHGE’s fullstream oil and gas expertise with C3.ai’s unique AI software suite to deliver...
Baker Hughes, a GE company Announces May 2019 Rig Counts
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Baker Hughes, a GE company (NYSE:BHGE) announced today that the BHGE Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $.18 per share of Class A common stock payable on May 31, 2019 to holders of record...
Baker Hughes, a GE company Announces April 2019 Rig Counts
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Baker Hughes, a GE company Announces First Quarter 2019 Results
Baker Hughes, a GE company (NYSE: BHGE) ("BHGE" or the "Company") announced results today for the first quarter of 2019.
KBR Adds BHGE to Development of Mid-Scale LNG Reference Design, Announces Broader Collaboration for LNG Solutions
KBR, Inc. (NYSE: KBR) announced today that it has selected Baker Hughes, a GE company (NYSE: BHGE), as part of the ongoing development of KBR's standardized mid-scale Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)...
Baker Hughes, a GE company Announces Date for First Quarter 2019 Earnings Release and Webcast
Baker Hughes, a GE company (NYSE: BHGE) will hold a webcast on Tuesday, April 30, 2019 to discuss the results for the first quarter ending March 31, 2019. The webcast is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m....
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GE Inspection Technologies Commended by Frost & Sullivan for Leading the Industrial Computed Tomography Market with 22% Share
Based on its recent analysis of the global industrial computed tomography (CT) solutions market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes GE Inspection Technologies, part of Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE IT),...
BP Awards Contracts to McDermott and BHGE for Greater Tortue Ahmeyim Natural Gas Project
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Annie Whittle
1. Brendan George Gaulton
Marriage (1): Brendan George Gaulton in 1958
Died: 3 Jun 2020, Burin Peninsula Health Care Center - Burin, Newfoundland at age 83
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It is with broken hearts that the family of the late ANNIE GAULTON of Parker's Cove announces her passing. Annie passed away at the Burin Peninsula Health Care Center in Burin on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020 at the age of 83. Leaving to mourn with a lifetime of wonderful memories are her sons, Edward Whittle (Margie) of Parker's Cove, Brendan Gaulton of Marystown, Dermot Gaulton (Madonna) of Fort McMurray, Wade Gaulton of Parker's Cove, Perry Gaulton of Parker's Cove; daughters, Geraldine Denty (Lester) of Fort McMurray, Eunice Moores (Gregory) of Parker's Cove, Edna Barnes (Harvey) of Mount Pearl, Lisa Barry (Ernest) of Parker's Cove, Sylvia Croft (Jason) of St. John's, Juliana Brown (Scott) of St. John's, and Natasha Hayse of Parker's Cove; 32 grandchildren, and 21 great-grandchildren; brother, Pius Whittle of Parker's Cove; sister-in-law, Vivian Whittle of Marystown; plus a large circle of extended family and friends. Annie was predeceased by her husband, Brendan; parents, Edward and Julia Whittle; brothers, Ambrose Whittle, George Whittle, Martin Parrott; sister, Kathleen Harris; nephew, Dale Whittle; and best friend, Hilda Gaulton
Due to the current Public Health Advisory of COVID-19 a funeral mass to take place at a later date
In Annie's memory, donations may be made to The Diabetes Association.
Annie married Brendan George Gaulton, son of Jonas J. Gaulton and Annie Synard, in 1958. (Brendan George Gaulton was born in 1939, died on 8 Jun 2009 in Burin Peninsula Health Care Centre - Burin, Newfoundland and was buried in Our Lady of Lourde's R.C. Cemetery - Parker's Cove, Newfoundland.)
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The 2015 Rugby Canada Clubs, Coaches and Management To Watch
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Vancouver, BC – It is time for the final installment of our Rugby Canada watchlist. The RWU Staff and myself, have reviewed our RWU Class of 2014, and now we can naming our Rugby Canada Class of 2015. Take this trip with me as a real Canadian presents the 2015 Rugby Canada Clubs, Coaches and Management To Watch:
Fredericton Loyalists: The Fredericton Loyalists of New Brunswick are our Club of the Year. It is the home club of Canadian international Jebb Sinclair. It is one of only three clubs east of Montreal with full clubhouse and field facilities. It won the $25k TSN (The Sports Network, Canada’s ESPN) challenge last year to bring lots of attention to the sport nationally and locally. Their field facilities was expanded to include a Cricket side this year and also home to a local beach volleyball team. The club have a full mini’s program, junior sides, and men’s (2) and women’s senior sides.. They are now regularly producing national junior candidates and are the home base for the provincial side. A major expansion on the clubhouse has been made and now they have two full-size newly-leveled and seeded pitches and expanded main field seating. They enjoy a major community presence, a good relationship with the city, they also are the hosts of the annual Al Charron Cup tournament. In addition, the Loyalists are perennial contenders for the Caledonia Cup (maritime championship). The most amazing aspect of this is that all these achievements have been achieve in a city with population of around 60k. Simply put, the Fredericton Loyalists are a huge success and a model that any North American club could follow.
Graeme Moffat: Graeme Is our Coach of the Year. Graeme is the head coach of the Prairie Wolf Pack. In that capacity, he almost led them to their 1st ever MacTier Cup, aka The (CRC) Canadian Rugby Championship, falling short on points differential. His influence can be seen in the squad’s dramatically improved play. He also seems to be a big help negotiating internally and soothing the politics that plague most unions. On the pitch, Moffat has a great rapport with the players. The Scottish-born Moffat has only been living in Canada full-time for a few years. Moffat has also assisted with the national U-20s and after having a great CRC, he was invited to assist with the Americas Rugby Championship (ARC) side. He is young and very highly rated coach, who can go really far.
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British Columbia Rugby: BC is our Union of the Year. BC has been overtaken at nearly every level by Ontario in performance on the pitch. The Canadian Direct Insurance Premier League is not what it used to be and has been usurped by the CRC as primary selection vehicle for the senior men’s team. Last year, the BC Bears had a terrible year and were only able to beat a woeful Atlantic Rock side, finishing 3rd in the CRC.. It seems that there are too many old timers with the “us-vs-them” mentality still prevalent. With Jim Dixon having stepped down as provincial coach and concentrating on CEO position. A new coach has not been named yet. The province still produce top level junior talent but as a collective and participants in Rugby Canada they are falling behind. How they rebound this year is the question?
Mike Chu: Mike is once again our Administrator of the Year. The big cheese in the BC office, GM and head of rugby operations for Rugby Canada. He has had his ups and downs in the last year as head of the program. The Canadian women were excellent on all fronts. They had a great Women’s Rugby World Cup and an impressive finish in the Women’s 7s World Series. The men’s 7s were good but the men’s 15s were not so good. He has a big year ahead to deal with on men’s front as he will have to find a way to balance players between 7s Olympic qualifiers and the 15s world cup. He will likely also have to find a new senior men’s head coach, as there is a strong likelihood that Kieran Crowley will move on regardless of results after 8 years in charge.
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I have played rugby since 1993, and began coaching and refereeing as well in 2005. I started writing in 1998, first published on the old Rugby Canada website followed by the National Rugby Post, Goff On Rugby, and Scrum.com. I featured as a columnist for the new-defunct Canadian Rugby News before taking a long writing sabbatical while I pursued other interests. I have kept up my knowledge of the game, however, and have returned to comment and inform, only this time on all rugby matters, not just those Canadian. Thanks for reading!
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Posted on 06.02.2020 06.02.2020 by Arakora
But what exactly happened in Paradise? And is there any hope for something else after? Fans are wondering if the couple secretly still had feelings after the show. Tia let him know she had feelings for him, but he wanted to keep his options open which pissed off literally everyone else. A post shared by Colton S. Underwood coltonunderwood on Aug 13, at pm PDT.
Then, after hometown dates, Tia told Becca that she struggled with the idea of Colton continuing in the competition.
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It's crazy to think about, but we didn't even see Tia and Colton talk to each other until they met again on Paradise. Since then, even supporters of the pair seem to have grown tired of their conversations about where their relationship stands. Paradise kicked off with Tia and Colton going on a date, but Colton was initially reluctant to commit to her.
But as we all know, happiness is difficult to maintain in Paradiseand it didn't take long for Colton and Tia to hit a rocky path in their relationship.
The trouble first brewed when Colton confided in Kevin that he wasn't "feeling it" with Tia and that he couldn't keep her tied to a relationship.
In a confessional, he teared up about always wanting to please people in his life and ultimately just hurting himself in the end. The emotions tie back to his difficult and premature departure from playing professional football, and such a massive life change seemed to affect Colton's reasoning for not wanting to continue his time with Tia. Not long after that, Becca decided to send Colton home and she ended up with someone else in the end.
She even had a bit of a thing with Chris Randone. In the end, she still had feelings for Colton.
Aug 07, � What isn't obvious is who Tia is dating after Bachelor in Paradise. After all, the season's trailer revealed that Colton wasn't the only contender, which means that Author: Kayla Blanton. Bachelor in Paradise spoilers are out and the fans want to know if Tia Booth and Colton Underwood are still together. This couple dated before he ever went on The Bachelorette with Becca Kufrin. Then Tia came on that show and shared that she still had feelings for Colton. Not long after that, Becca decided to send Colton home and she ended up with someone else in . Tia and Colton meet in Paradise. Reality Steve talked about Colton and Tia's relationship on the Bachelor Party podcast. Although they went on at least one date in Paradise, they did not leave the show together. They are not engaged and, from what we know, are not dating. Did Colton hook up with another girl while in Paradise?
It just looks like neither of them was meant to be with someone else on the show. Bachelor in Paradise spoilers show the couple decided that it was time to try it out and see if they could make it work.
They did share a kiss and he gave her his rose so she could stick around on the show. Of all the drama, relationships, and rivalries that stand out in Bachelor Nation's history, the increasingly complicated dynamic between Tia Booth and Colton Underwood definitely clears the top three. After establishing that their fling was nothing more on an early episode of Becca Kufrin's The Bachelorette, Colton went on to pursue Becca with all his heart.
Sep 04, � Despite the fact that we've spent much of this season of Bachelor in Paradise (and a little bit of The Bachelorette) watching and hearing about their . Jul 09, � Reality Steve confirmed Tia and Colton are on Bachelor in Paradise Season 5 this summer, which would imply that both were single after Becca's season. (Whether it means they never got together, or Author: Carly Sitzer. Sep 04, � After a very rocky fourth episode of Bachelor in Paradise on Aug. 21, Colton and Tia finally decided to commit to one another, and things seemed to Author: Emy Lacroix.
Then Tia returned to announce that hers had changed. Now, the two will be reunited in paradise, and it's obvious that their turmoil and confusion continues there. What isn't obvious is who Tia is dating after Bachelor in Paradise.
Sep 04, � In the past week of Bachelor in Paradise, Tia Booth and Colton Underwood being reduced to background players talking about cheese and underpants has been pretty tiendakiteboarding.com the first half of Author: Kristen Perrone. Jul 10, � Giphy. This potential bombshell of a reveal comes after rumors swirled last month reporting Colton and Tia were getting cozy on Bachelor in tiendakiteboarding.com and Tia admitted to striking up a short. During the Bachelor in Paradise reunion taping last week, Tia opened up about rumors that Colton might be our next Bachelor - and didn't seem too excited by the idea. "I don't know that he's.
After all, the season's trailer revealed that Colton wasn't the only contender, which means that it could be anyone.
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CLT: Question 7
When the population distribution is binomial with p = .5, how do the various sample sizes (i.e., N = 5, 25, or 100) affect the distribution of possible sample means?
As the Central Limit Theorem states, the sampling distributions for the different sample sizes each have a mean of .5, the population mean. Therefore, with a binomial population distribution and p = .5, sample size does not affect the accuracy of sample means.
Sorry, this answer is incorrect!
You answered that because the sampling distribution of the mean is centered around the population mean of .5 regardless of sample size, sample size does not affect the accuracy of sample means. Although the sampling distribution has a mean equal to the population mean, the Central Limit Theorem also states how the sample size affects the shape and spread of the sampling distribution. How so?
When N is 25 or smaller, the sampling distribution of the mean is noticeably skewed even with a binomial population distribution and p = .5.
You answered that when N is 25 or smaller with p = .5, the sampling distribution of the mean is noticeably skewed. Actually when p=.5, the population is a symmetrical distribution. In this case, the sampling distributions of means for the various sample sizes are all exactly symmetrical around the mean of p = .5.
What is affected by sample size in this case is the continuity of the sampling distribution, with smaller samples producing a more limited and discrete set of possible means. If the population distribution was skewed (e.g., p = .1 as we will see next), even larger samples would be needed to produce a sampling distribution of the mean that approached being continuous and normal.
The sampling distribution based on N = 100 has sample means more tightly clustered around the mean of .5 and thus, yields more accurate estimates of the population mean than the smaller sample sizes.
Yes, good answer!
The sampling distribution based on N = 100 produces more accurate sample means than when N = 5 or N =25 for both normal populations and binomial populations with p = .5. In other words, sample means become less variable with larger sample sizes. This may be seen mathematically in the formula for the standard error of the mean:
Regardless of sample size, the sampling distribution of the mean tends to be binomial, just like the parent population.
You answered that regardless of sample size, the sampling distribution of the mean will tend to resemble the parent distribution which is binomial. Whereas the only possible outcomes in the parent population are 0 and 1, the sample means for the various sample sizes include values between 0 and 1.
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Low-Cost Brightness Enhancement of Laser Sources Using Photonic Lanterns
Robert Stegeman, Ph.D.
External Link (technologies.tt.research.ucf.edu)
Guifang Li, Ph.D.
External Link (www.creol.ucf.edu)
Provisional Patent Application Filed
New system enables manufacturers to reduce the cost and space needed to combine and boost the output brightness of semiconductor laser sources
UCF researchers have invented a system that requires less physical space and is less expensive than other laser brightness enhancement systems. By uniquely integrating few-mode fiber and photonic lantern technologies, the new system enables the ability to collect, combine, and enhance the output brightness of multiple lasers that emit different spatial modes.
Traditional multi-mode optical fiber combiner systems are designed to conserve brightness. As a result, they never exceed the sum of the input brightness of their laser sources. The UCF system overcomes this limitation by using unique photonic lanterns with the fundamental properties of waveguides (fibers) designed into them. The design maximizes the energy density of laser sources to the smallest possible product of area and divergence of a waveguide. Thus, it increases the brightness of combined laser output without resorting to energy exchange processes (such as those used in nonlinear optics).
The following figure depicts an application of the system for a semiconductor laser.
In the example, light from multiple laser sources (1, 2, 3) is collected by fast axis collimating (FAC) and slow axis collimating (SAC) lenses. A focusing lens (5) then directs the light into few-mode fibers (6) that are connected to a photonic lantern (7). The PL separates the output of the FMFs into single modes and then recombines them into another PL (8), which connects to another FMF (9). The second FMF contains a super mode (10) that maximizes the brightness of all of the individual laser sources. Each PL is designed to operate over a large optical bandwidth, which is essential to match the optical bandwidth emitted from visible semiconductor lasers.
The research team is looking for partners to further develop the technology for commercialization.
Maximizes the output brightness of multiple combined laser sources while minimizing space
High power lasers for industrial and military applications
Long-range free-space communications
Spectroscopy and sensors, such as light detection and ranging (LIDAR)
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The Donovan Room opens at Lisa Norris Gallery
On permanent display in one of the gallery’s exhibition rooms, are a collection of the last remaining works on paper by Terence Donovan. It is very fitting that this private body of works on paper, has found a permanent home on the site of the gallery, 72 New Kings Road, where Donovan once co-owned a kitchen and homeware shop called the Merchant Chandler.
Although always busy with his photographic assignments and film direction, Donovan found time to explore other forms of artistic expression. While photography was both Donovan’s job and passion, he was also a committed Buddhist and a black belt in judo. During the course of the 1980s, another passion - painting - began to take hold. Donovan had an art studio in Chiswick which he would visit at the weekends, often meeting up with his friend Peter Blake to ‘talk shop’. He described the moment he started to paint: “There was a moment when I started to be intrigued by the random yet controlled shapes of water on stone. I began to rearrange a pool of water on the stone floor of our kitchen after an accident with fluid. The process of rearranging became fascinating and mysterious and oddly satisfying. It was a point of outstanding excitement when I first tried the process with dense black ink and paper.”
These works embody his fascination with Japanese culture, and are beautifully calligraphic in monochromatic ink. He went on to hold a successful exhibition in London between October and November 1990 at the Albemarle Gallery. He was quoted in the Art Monthly at the time as saying ‘I used to get really annoyed with Hockney when he said that photography was a one-eyed medium, but since I’ve been doing these paintings, I think I know what he means.’
The Donovan Room is now open: Wednesday - Saturday 10-5pm.
For further information, please contact: Lisa Norris Gallery 72 New Kings Road London SW6 4LT www.lisanorrisgallery.com T: 020 7731 8835 E: info@lisanorrisgallery.com
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A police officer in Indiana tried to pull over a car, but the woman driver refused to stop immediately. Instead, she led the officer down the road on a slow-speed chase and finally came to a stop in a parking lot. The officer was furious, and the woman was arrested, but she defended her actions and the prosecutor dropped the charges.
DelRea Good, a nurse in Potage, wasn't thrilled to see the familiar blue and red flashing lights in her rear-view mirror, and she chose not to stop right away. The 52-year-old woman was alone in her car and had been driving down a deserted stretch of road late at night. She'd heard about instances of other women being tricked into stopping for someone impersonating a police officer, and she decided not to take the risk.
Good tried to acknowledge that she was aware the officer was trying to pull her over. She put on her hazard lights and slowed down, but she didn't stop until she found a populated area with better lighting. By the time Patrolman William Marshall approached her, he was furious.
"What in the hell are you doing? I could arrest you for this," Marshall said, according to Good.
She says she then responded, "Do not yell and curse at me. That's inappropriate."
After exchanging a few more words, Marshall arrested Good. She was charged with a felony count of resisting arrest because she wouldn't stop for the officer immediately.
Good was able to bail herself out, even though she still hadn't been told what she was being pulled over for in the first place. She continued to defend her decision to delay stopping her car. "I was scared for my safety," she told the Chicago Tribune. "It was a very dark road and I wanted to get to a safe, well-lit place."
The prosecutor decided to drop the charges.
"At the time of the arrest, the officer had probable cause to support the filing of criminal charges," Porter County Prosecutor Brian Gensel. "Upon review of the circumstances of the incident as well as information learned after the incident, it was determined that a dismissal of the charges was in the best interests of justice."
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SnC 100 – Wed 16 Jan 2008
17 January, 2008 – 12:36 am – No Comment
Recovering from a day of eight solid hours of intensive music and new media networking in London yesterday with some of the stuff that floats on the top of the cream of music podcasting. You’ve heard of Podcamp and PodcastCon well now we have Podcrawl 08 which in an unprecedented gesture of defiance was held in direct competition with Steve Job’s MacWorld keynote presentation.OK, so it was (L-R) Rowley Cutler from Dark Compass, Colin Gazeley from Ourobouros Podcast, Pete Cogle from PC Podcast and I along with Paul Snelling the barb-tongued blogger of Blighty (behind the camera flash).The picture was taken after only the first of three protracted visits to public houses in central London. You really don’t want to see any of the later pictures but inevitably, you may. Indeed just as I’d finished recording this show up pop’s Paul’s much anticipated blog – a brilliant read and it captures the essence of the day perfectly. Have a chuckle at: http://grumbling-dragon.blogspot.com/2008/01/wail-of-time.htmlThis morning was spent counting the cost in terms of lost brain cells and the sensation (as Blackadder described a hang-over) "akin to the sensation of having a Frenchman inside your head."Despite all this it was a great get-together, even without the silly hats.All the talk of independent music taking over the world was briefly interrupted when we saw, on a TV screen, the news that at a staff conference no more than 3 miles away, EMI was announcing that a third of it’s workforce are to lose their jobs. This is not to gloat, clearly it is a personal disaster when anyone loses their job but it is perhaps indicative of an industry structure which seems to be in terminal decline.Intro: Happy – Jimmie Bratcher (Missouri, USA)www.jimmiebratcher.comAudio and murder – The Frantic (Illinois, USA)Title track from The Frantic’s new album.Kyle Dee: Lead Vocals/GuitarsChris Farnesi: Bass/VocalsIan Farnesi: GuitarsBrett Hartwell: Drums/Vocals"As the entire music industry scrambles to redefine what it means to be a band in the 21st century when its not as much about record labels throwing money around and radio spinning a tune to a mass audience who will in turn run out and buy the albums, as it is about finding an audience the old DIY way of playing."Quite a few shows coming up including on on Saturday at The Klinic Bar in Madison, Wisconsin and a whole load in the second half of February, right up to the 28th. Why not 29th, it’s a leap year!Album available from Best Buy, Virgin and f.y.e and online from Interpunk, Smartpunk, amazon, iTunes and SisterMuse. Links to all those from the band’s MySpacehttp://www.myspace.com/thefranticSugarite – Abra Moore (Austin, Texas, USA)Although born in California, Abra Moore’s family soon moved to Hawaii where she remembers growing up immersed in creativity and surrounded by music. Her older brother was an accomplished jazz musician and her father was a painter. The house was always filled with music.www.abramoore.comwww.myspace.com/abramooreSex in the morning – Soul of the River (Riverside, California)Making listeners slap themselves black and blue out of pure eargasmic joy since your momma was born. 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If anyone else has any information or opinions to add, particularly about the music, it would be great to see them posted here. Links would be good too so that we can perhaps hear music which I’m not allowed to play on the show e.g. on other artists’ sites.Pier – Reggae Far East (Japan)The pier was deserted. The souvenir shops were opening. But, there was no guest. I went outside. And, I walked in a long passage. The sea was seen. Workers were working at the quay. Forklifts were moving about. The sea was a blackish color. I walked toward the edge. The wind was strong.My name is H. Kobayashi. I was born in 1958. I am a worker. In my house, Yokohama, Japan. I like reggae. I make it. My music is Orient-like and danceable. It is very individual. 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Private tensions between Justice Department leaders and Robert Mueller's team broke into public view in extraordinary fashion Wednesday as Attorney General William Barr pushed back at the special counsel's "snitty" complaints over his handling of the Trump-Russia investigation report.
Testifying for the first time since releasing Mueller's report, Barr said he was surprised Mueller did not reach a conclusion on whether President Donald Trump had tried to obstruct justice, and that he had felt compelled to step in with his own judgment that the president had committed no crime.
Barr was also perturbed by a private letter Mueller sent him last month complaining that the attorney general had not properly portrayed the special counsel's finding.
Barr called the note "a bit snitty."
"I said 'Bob, what's with the letter? Just pick up the phone and call me if there is an issue,'" Barr said.
The airing of disagreements over the handling of the report followed Mueller's two-year investigation into Russian interference to help Trump in the 2016 campaign and the possibility that Trump's team conspired with the Russians.
During most of the investigation, the Justice Department and Mueller's team seemed to be unified in approach.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers have been anything but unified.
And their partisan divide was on full display during Wednesday's contentious Judiciary Committee hearing, which included three Democratic presidential candidates.
Some Republicans, in addition to defending Trump, focused on the president's 2016 Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton's email and campaign practices and what they argued has been a lack of investigation of them.
Democrats, for their part, moved to exploit the daylight between Barr and Mueller to attack the attorney general's credibility and accuse him of unduly spinning the special counsel's report in the president's favor.
Barr sought to minimize the rift by suggesting the special counsel's concerns were largely about process, not substance.
Barr's appearance gave him his most extensive opportunity to explain the department's actions, including his news conference held before the Mueller report's release.
Barr has also been invited to appear Thursday before the Democratic-led House Judiciary panel, but the Justice Department has said he would not testify if the committee insisted on having its lawyers question him.
Neither side broke much new ground Wednesday on the specifics of Mueller's investigation, though Barr did articulate a robust defense of Trump as he made clear his firm conviction that there was no prosecutable case against the president for obstruction of justice.
Washington DC - 1 May 2019
1. Wide, Senate Judiciary Committee
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sen. Cory Booker, Democrat - New Jersey:
"We right now have a new normal in our country. We have a document that shows over 200 hundred attempts, connections between a presidential campaign and a foreign adversary sharing information that would be illegal if you did it with a super PAC. We know that. (Barr: What information was shared?) The polling data was shared sir. It's in the report I can cite you the page. (Barr: With who?) And I guess my point here is is that your willingness to seem to brush over this and use words like the American people should be grateful. What's in this report? Nobody should be grateful."
3. Back view of hearing
4. SOUNDBITE (English) William Barr, Attorney General:
"Sen. Kamala Harris: Attorney General Barr has the president or anyone at the White House ever asked or suggested that you open an investigation of anyone?
Umm, I wouldn't I wouldn't.
Harris: Yes or no.
Could you repeat that question?"
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Kamala Harris, Democrat - California:
"I will repeat it. Has the president or anyone at the White House ever asked or suggested that you open an investigation of anyone? Yes or no please sir?"
"The president or anybody else.
Harris: Seems you'd remember something like that and be able to tell us.
Yeah but I'm trying to grapple with the words suggest. I mean there have been discussions of of matters out there that they have not asked me to open investigation but ...
Harris: Perhaps they've suggested?
I don't know, I wouldn't say suggest.
Harris: Hinted? Inferred?"
"Is in reaching your conclusion did you personally review all of the underlying evidence?"
"No. We took and ...
Harris: Did Mr. Rosenstein?
No we accepted the statements in the report as the factual record. We did not go underneath it to see whether or not they were accurate. We accepted it as accurate."
"As the Attorney General of the United States. You run the United States Department of Justice. If in any U.S. attorney's office around the country, the head of that office when being asked to make a critical decision about in this case the person who holds the highest office in the land and whether or not that person committed a crime, would you accept them recommending a charging decision to you if they had not reviewed the evidence?
Barr: Well that's a question for Bob Mueller. He's the U.S. attorney. He's the one who presents the report.
But it was you who made the charging decision, sir? You made the decision not to charge the president."
10. SOUNDBITE (English) William Barr, Attorney General:
"In a pross (process) memo and then a declination memo.
Harris: You said it was your baby, what did you mean by that?
It was my baby to to let to decide whether or not to disclose it to the public
Harris: And whose decision was it? Who had the power to make the decision about whether or not the evidence was sufficient to make a determination of whether there had been an obstruction of justice?
Prosecution memos go up to the supervisor, in this case it was the the attorney general and the deputy attorney general who who decide on the final decision."
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Democrat - Minnesota:
"Mr. Attorney General, on April 27th President Trump stated 'Mueller, I assume for 35 million dollars he checked my taxes and he checked my financials.' Is that accurate? Did the special counsel review the president's taxes and the Trump Organization's financial statements?"
"I don't know.
Klobuchar: Can you find out if I ask later in a written question?
I, yes or you could ask Bob Mueller when he comes here.
Klobuchar: OK I'll do that too."
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Democrat - Connecticut:
"In fact in response to your question 'why not just pick up the phone,' this letter was an extraordinary act. A career prosecutor rebuking the attorney general of the United States, memorializing in writing. Right? I know of no other instance of that happening. Do you?"
"I don't consider Bob at this stage a career prosecutor. He's had a career as a prosecutor.
Blumenthal: Well, he's a very eminent prosecutor.
He was the head of the FBI for 12 years.
Blumenthal: He's a career a law enforcement professional, right? Yeah I know of no other instance of ...
But he was also political appointee and he was a political appointee with me at the Department of Justice. I don't know the letters a bit snitty and I think it was probably written by one of his staff people."
"Did you make a memorandum of your conversation? Did you make a memorandum"
Barr: I didn't.
Did anyone, either you or anyone on your staff memorialize your conversation with Robert Mueller?"
"Yes.
Blumenthal: Who did that?
Barr: There were notes taken of the call.
Blumenthal: May we have those notes?
Barr: No
Blumethal: Why not?"
Barr: Why should you have them."
16. Pan, Barr leaving hearing
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USA - Trump fires FBI director James Comey / WH: Comey 'not fit to do the job' / Comey Arrives on Capitol Hill For Senate Hearing / Comey: 'Lordy, I hope there are tapes' / Comey: 'Fired Because of Russia Investigation'
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On May 3rd 2017 US President Donald Trump abruptly fired FBI Director James Comey, ousting the nation's top law enforcement official in the midst of an investigation into whether Trump's campaign had ties to Russia's election meddling.
In a letter to Comey, Trump said the firing was necessary to restore "public trust and confidence" in the FBI.
Comey has come under intense scrutiny in recent months for his role in an investigation into Democrat Hillary Clinton's email practices, including a pair of letters he sent to Congress on the matter in the closing days of last year's election.
Trump made no mention of Comey's role in the Clinton investigation.
But the president did assert that Comey informed him "on three separate occasions that I am not under investigation."
President Donald Trump abruptly fired James Comey as director of the FBI in the midst of the law enforcement agency's investigation into whether Trump's presidential campaign was connected to Russian meddling in the election.
In a letter to Comey, Trump said the dismissal was necessary to restore the public's trust and confidence.
Often lauded for his independence, Comey had come under intense scrutiny in recent months for his role in the agency's investigation into the email practices of Trump's opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton, including a pair of letters he sent to Congress on the matter in the final days of last November's election.
A look at key moments in Comey's tenure and the lead-up to Trump's decision to fire him.
July 5, 2016: Holds news conference to announce that "no reasonable prosecutor" would bring criminal charges against Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate, over her email practices as secretary of state, but criticizes Clinton and her staff for being "extremely careless" in their handling of classified material.
July 5, 2016: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump calls the FBI's decision not to bring criminal charges against Clinton the greatest example yet that the system is "rigged."
July 7, 2016: Comey vigorously defends the decision not to prosecute Clinton over her use of a private email server as secretary of state. Under an onslaught of Republican criticism, Comey says that to charge Clinton would have been unwarranted and mere "celebrity hunting."
Oct. 28, 2016: Days before the election, Comey informs Congress by letter that he was reopening the investigation into Clinton's email practices based on new evidence, citing the discovery of emails on a laptop used by a top Clinton aide. Justice Department officials warned Comey against sending the letter, saying that doing so would be inconsistent with department policy meant to avoid the appearance of prosecutorial interference or meddling in elections.
Oct. 28, 2016: Trump reacts to FBI's decision to investigate new messages related to Clinton's emails, telling a campaign rally that he has "great respect for the FBI for righting this wrong."
Nov. 6, 2016: Comey tells Congress in a follow-up letter that a review of newly discovered Clinton emails has "not changed our conclusions" that she should not face criminal charges.
Nov. 6: Trump criticizes Comey's second letter to Congress, saying Clinton was being protected by a "rigged system" and pronouncing her "guilty," despite the FBI's conclusion that criminal charges were unwarranted.
Nov. 8, 2016: Trump is elected president.
Nov. 12, 2016: During a telephone call with top campaign donors, Clinton blames Comey for her defeat by Trump. Clinton said her campaign was on track to win the election until Comey sent the letter to Congress on Oct. 28.
Nov. 13, 2016: In a CBS "60 Minutes" broadcast after the election, Trump said he hadn't decided whether to keep Comey.
Jan. 6, 2017: Comey is among a group of four top US intelligence officials who briefed then-President-elect Donald Trump on their conclusions that Russia meddled in the presidential election on his behalf. Trump told The Associated Press by telephone after the meeting that he "learned a lot" but declined to say whether he accepted their conclusion about Russia.
Jan. 22, 2017: Two days after taking office, Trump appears to single out Comey at a White House reception to thank law enforcement officers and others that helped during the inauguration. Trump called Comey over to where he was standing in the Blue Room to offer a handshake and a partial hug, then commented that Comey has "become more famous than me."
March 8, 2017: During a cyber security conference at Boston College, Comey said he planned to serve his entire 10-year term, quipping, "You're stuck with me for another 6½ years."
March 20, 2017: Comey testifies to Congress that the FBI has been investigating possible links between Trump associates and Russian officials since July, the same month he held an unusual news conference to discuss the investigation into Clinton. Comey had previously refused to acknowledge the parallel Trump investigation, and his disclosure enrages Democrats who already blamed Comey for costing Clinton the presidency.
March 20, 2017: Comey testifies at the same hearing that the FBI and Justice Department have no information to substantiate Trump's unsubstantiated claim on Twitter that former President Barack Obama wiretapped him before the election.
May 2, 2017: Clinton again lays part of the blame for losing the election on Comey's Oct. 28 letter. "If the election were on Oct. 27, I would have been your president," she tells a women's luncheon in New York.
May 3, 2017: Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Comey insists that he was consistent in his handling of the separate investigations into Clinton and Trump. Comey also said it made him feel "mildly nauseous" to think his actions in October might have influenced the election outcome. But he told senators: "I can't consider for a second whose political futures will be affected and in what way. We have to ask ourselves what is the right thing to do and then do it."
May 9, 2017: Comey sends Congress a letter correcting his prior sworn testimony regarding emails handled by longtime Clinton associate Huma Abedin. Comey had told Congress that Abedin had sent "hundreds and thousands" of emails to her husband's laptop, including some with classified information. The two-page, follow-up letter said that, in fact, only "a small number" of the thousands of emails found on the laptop had been forwarded there while most had simply been backed up from electronic devices.
May 9, 2017: Trump abruptly fires Comey. "It is essential that we find new leadership for the FBI that restores public trust and confidence in its vital law enforcement mission," Trump states in a letter addressed to Comey.
White House officials say Trump's confidence in FBI Director James Comey had been eroding for months and that he was ultimately fired because he was 'not fit to do the job'.
"Frankly, he'd been considering letting Director Comey go since the day he was elected," White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, a sharply different explanation from the day before, when officials put the emphasis on new Justice complaints about Comey.
Days before he was fired, Comey requested more resources to pursue his investigation, U.S. officials have said, fueling concerns that Trump was trying to undermine a probe that could threaten his presidency.
The White House appeared caught off guard by the intense response to Comey's firing, given that the FBI director had become a pariah among Democrats for his role in the Clinton investigation.
Former FBI Director James Comey arrived on Capitol Hill June 8th for his much anticipated testimony at a the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.
Fired FBI Director James Comey says, "Lordy, I hope there are tapes," of his conversations with President Donald Trump.
Three days after Trump fired Comey, the president tweeted that Comey should hope there are "no tapes" of their conversations.
Comey documented his conversations with Trump in memos after the encounters.
During his first public appearance since he was fired, senators asked Comey about his responses to Trump.
Comey says he chose his words carefully when responding to Trump because he was "so stunned" by the conversation.
Comey was recalling a February conversation in which, Comey says, Trump said he hoped Comey could let go the FBI's investigation into Trump's first national security adviser Michael Flynn's calls with the Russians.
Former FBI Director James Comey said at the end of his testimony to a Senate committee that he believes he was fired by President Donald Trump in an effort to affect the Russia investigation.
Comey said on June 8th that it's a "very big deal and not just because it involves me."
He said political considerations shouldn't influence the FBI's work.
Comey also said that if any American helped Russia in trying to influence the 2016 election, "that is a very big deal."
The former FBI chief said he's confident an investigation led by former FBI Director Robert Mueller will be conducted thoroughly.
Trump fires FBI director James Comey
Washington,D.C. - 3 May 2017
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Senator Chuck Grassley, (R) Iowa, Chairman Senate Judiciary Committee:
"A cloud of doubt hangs over the FBI's objectivity. Once you buy into the claim of collusion, then suddenly ever interaction with a Russian can be twisted to seem like confirmation of a conspiracy theory."
2. Various of Comey being sworn in
Key moments leading up to Comey's firing
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3. Various of US President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence applauding officers, first responders in Blue Room at a White House reception UPSOUND (English) President Donald Trump:
"So let's, oh and there's James (Comey), he's become more famous than me. (James Comey, director of the FBI embraces the President).
Washington, D.C. - 9 May 2017
4. Letter by President Donald Trump regarding the firing of FBI Director James Comey
WH: Comey 'not fit to do the job'
Washington DC - 11 May 2017
5. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders walks in for press briefing
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House Spokeswoman:
"He fired him because he was not fit to do the job. It's that simple.
Comey Arrives on Capitol Hill For Senate Hearing
Washington, D.C. - 8 June 2017
7. Former FBI Director James Comey arriving in room for Senate Intelligence Hearing,
Comey: 'Lordy, I hope there are tapes'
Washington DC - 8 June 2017
8. SOUNDBITE (English) James Comey, Former FBI Director:
" Look, I've seen the tweet about tapes, Lordy I hope there are tapes. I remember saying I agree he is a good guy, as a way of saying, I'm not agreeing with what you just asked me to do,
Comey: 'Fired Because of Russia Investigation'
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. John Cornyn, (R) Texas:
"And let me ask you as a general proposition, if you are trying to make an investigation go away, is firing an FBI director a good way to make that happen?"
10. SOUNDBITE (English) James Comey, Former FBI Director:
"It doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but I'm actually hopelessly biased, given that I was the one fired.
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Republicans accused U.S. law enforcement leaders Thursday of withholding important documents from them and demanded details about surveillance tactics during the Russia investigation in a contentious congressional hearing that capped days of mounting partisan complaints.
The hearing Thursday was Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's first appearance before Congress since an internal Justice Department report that criticized the FBI's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation and revealed disparaging text messages among FBI officials about President Donald Trump during the 2016 election.
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee suggested the department has conspired against Trump by refusing to turn over documents they believe would show improper conduct by the FBI.
They seized on the inspector general report to allege bias against the president by the FBI and to discredit an investigation into potential ties between Russia and the Trump campaign that is now led by special counsel Robert Mueller.
"This country is being hurt by it. We are being divided," Rep. Trey Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican, said of the investigation. He later added: "Whatever you got, finish it the hell up because this country is being torn apart."
Thursday's hearing came as the House prepared to vote on a resolution that demands the department turn over thousands of documents by July 6 on FBI investigations into Clinton's private email use and Trump campaign ties to Russia.
Those documents have already been subpoenaed by the House Judiciary and intelligence committees, which want to use the records as part of multiple investigations the FBI's decision to clear Clinton in the email investigation and to open an investigation into potential coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Justice and FBI have already turned over more than 800,000 documents to congressional committees, but the subpoenas are asking for additional materials, including records about any surveillance of Trump campaign associates. Lawmakers have threatened to hold top Justice officials in contempt or impeach them if the documents aren't turned over.
Wray and Rosenstein said law enforcement officials have been working diligently to turn over the requested records, though Republicans made clear their dissatisfaction at the pace.
"We have caught you hiding information, Mr. Rosenstein," said Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio. Rosenstein strongly denied the accusation.
Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis of Florida demanded to know why Rosenstein had not recused from oversight of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into whether the president had committed obstruction of justice given Rosenstein's role in laying the groundwork for the firing of FBI Director James Comey.
Rosenstein wrote a memo last year criticizing Comey's handling of the Clinton email investigation, a document the White House initially held up as the rationale for his firing.
"I can assure you that if it were appropriate for me to recuse, I'd be more than happy to do so," Rosenstein said.
Washington - 28 June 2018
1. Various, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray walking into House Judiciary Committee hearing
2. Mid, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte opening hearing
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Trey Gowdy, R - South Carolina:
"Russia attacked this country, they should be the target but Russia isn't being hurt by this investigation right now. We are. This country is being hurt by we are being divided. We've seen the bias. We've seen the bias. We need to see the evidence. If you have evidence of wrongdoing by any member of the Trump campaign, present it to the damn grand jury. If you have evidence that this president acted inappropriately, present it to the American people. There there's an old saying that justice delayed is justice denied. I think right now, all of us are being denied. Whatever you got, finish it the hell up because this country is being torn apart."
4. Wide, side view
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Jim Jordan, R - Ohio:
"Mr. Rosenstein, why are you keeping information from Congress? (Rosenstein: I'm not keeping any information from Congress that it's appropriate ...) In a few minutes, Mr. Rosenstein, I think the House of Representatives is going to say something different."
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General:
"I don't agree with you Congressman. I don't believe that's what they're going to say and if they do they'll be mistaken."
"I think in a few minutes the House of Representatives is going to go on record saying you haven't complied with requests from a separate and equal branch of government, that you haven't complied with subpoenas and you've got seven days to get your act together."
"Sir, I certainly hope that your colleagues are not under that impression. That is not accurate sir."
9. Side view of hearing
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General:
"If you're interested in the truth Mr. Jordan, the truth is we have a team of folks. They're Trump appointees and career folks and they're doing their best to produce these documents. Director Wray explained to you the process. He's got hundreds of people working around the clock trying to satisfy these requests. So, whether you vote or not is not going to affect it. You're going to get everything that's relevant that we can find to produce to you. I support this report sir. I'm not trying to hide anything from you."
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ron DeSantis, R - Florida:
"You know, you talk about the Mueller investigation. It's really the Rosenstein investigation. You appointed Mueller, you're supervising Mueller, and supposedly about collusion between Trump's campaign and Russia and obstruction of justice. But you wrote the memo saying that Comey should be fired and you signed the FISA extension for Carter Page. So my question is to you seems like you should be recused from this more so than Jeff Sessions, just because you were involved in making decisions affecting both prongs of this investigation. Why haven't you done that?"
"Congressman, I can assure you that were appropriate for me to recuse. I'd be more than happy to do so and let somebody else handle this. But it is my responsibility to do it."
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Shelia Jackson Lee, D - California:
"I'm almost believing that I've just attended or I'm in the midst of a monster ball and we're looking for monsters wherever we can find them."
"I've heard suggestions that we should just close the investigation. I think the best thing we can do is finish it appropriately and reach a conclusion. And I certainly agree with you sir that people should not jump to conclusions without seeing the evidence. I've been the victim of fake news attacks myself so I'm sympathetic. I agree with you sir that there's been no allegation made by the Department of Justice or the special counsel other than what's reflected in those documents that are filed publicly. The charged folks. Nobody should draw any conclusions beyond those charges."
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Steven Cohen, D - Tennessee:
"Now President Trump talks about 13 Democrats running this investigation. Do you know who he's speaking about? And if there's any way that the Justice Department or President Trump knows if these people are Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Bolsheviks?"
"I think you need to ask him sir. I do not know. (Cohen: you don't know if they're Democrats?) I do not. I do not know their political registration, no sir."
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Wray, FBI Director:
"(Cohen: Director Wray do you know any of these people's political registrations?) I'm not familiar with their political registration, no."
18. Side view of hearing
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Rosenstein, Wray Grilled in House Hearing
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US FBI Russia Probe
US federal agent tells lawmakers his work on Russia probe not tainted by bias
Bob Goodlatte , Trey Gowdy , Hillary Clinton , Robert Mueller , Donald Trump
An FBI agent whose anti-Trump text messages fueled suspicions of partisan bias told lawmakers Thursday that his work has never been tainted by politics and that the intense scrutiny he is facing represents "just another victory notch in Putin's belt."
Peter Strzok, who helped lead FBI investigations into Hillary Clinton's email use and potential coordination between Russia and Donald Trump's campaign, was testifying publicly for the first time since being removed from special counsel Robert Mueller's team following the discovery of the derogatory text messages last year.
In his opening statement, Strzok said he has never allowed personal opinions to infect his work, that he knew information during the campaign that had the potential to damage Trump but never contemplated leaking it and that the focus on him by Congress is misguided and plays into "our enemies' campaign to tear America apart."
Republican members of the House judiciary and oversight committees were expected to grill Strzok for hours as they argue that the text messages with FBI lawyer Lisa Page color the outcome of the Clinton email investigation and undercut the FBI's ongoing investigation into Russian election interference.
Washington DC - 12 July 2018
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Bob Goodlatte, (R) Virginia, House Judiciary Committee Chairman:
"We don't want to read text message after text message dripping with bias against one of the two presidential candidates. We don't enjoy finding compelling evidence that the FBI director had predetermined the outcome of the case months in advance. But that is thus far what we have found."
2. Wide of hearing
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Trey Gowdy, (R) South Carolina, House Oversight Committee Chairman:
"We learned that Agent Strzok has a most unusual and largely self-serving definition of bias. Agent Strzok, despite the plain language of his text and emails, despite the inspector general's report and despite common sense, doesn't think he was biased. He thinks calling someone 'destabilizing for the country' isn't bias. He thinks promising to protect the country from someone he hasn't even begun to investigate isn't bias."
"Strzok even talked about impeachment the day special counsel was appointed. That is prejudging guilt, it is prejudging punishment and it is textbook bias."
7. Mid of Peter Strzok swearing in
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Strzok, FBI Agent:
"I testify today with significant regret, recognizing that my texts have created confusion and caused pain for people I love. Certain private messages of mine have provided ammunition for misguided attacks against the FBI, an institution that I love deeply and have served proudly for over 20 years."
9. Cutaway of hearing
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Strzok, FBI Agent:
"Not once in my 26 years of defending our nation, did my personal opinions impact any official action I took. This is true for the Clinton email investigation, for the investigation into Russian interference and for every other investigation I've worked on. It is not who I am and it is not something I would ever do, period."
11. Cutaway of hearing
"In the summer of 2016, I was one of a handful of people who knew the details of Russian election interference and its possible connections with members of the Trump campaign. This information had the potential to derail and quite possibly defeat Mr. Trump, but the thought of expressing that or exposing that information never crossed my mind."
"In the summer of 2016, we had an urgent need to protect the integrity of an American presidential election from a hostile foreign power determined to weaken and divide the United States of America. This investigation is not politically motivated. It is not a witch hunt. It is not a hoax."
"I have the utmost respect for Congress's oversight role but I strongly believe today's hearing is just another victory notch in Putin's belt and another milestone in our enemies' campaign to tear America apart."
17. Wide of hearing
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US House FBI Probe (Lon NR)
FBI Agent Denies His Work was Tainted by Bias
Trey Gowdy , Robert Mueller , Bob Goodlatte , Donald Trump , Hillary Clinton
Washington - 12 July 2018
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The Rise and Fall of the Turd (R)Eich – Mozilla’s Anti-Gay CEO Brendan Eich Resigns
Will Kohler April 3, 2014
Just ten days after Brendan Eich was named Mozilla’s CEO and his donation to support Prop 8 in California which would have banned gay marriage in that state had been revealed. Eich has resigned.
After calls for his resignation and boycotts by the LGBT Community and its straight allies along with gay Mozilla staffers, and gay developers Mozilla chairwoman Mitchell Baker announced Eichs removal.
Mozilla prides itself on being held to a different standard and, this past week, we didn’t live up to it. We know why people are hurt and angry, and they are right: it’s because we haven’t stayed true to ourselves. We didn’t act like you’d expect Mozilla to act. We didn’t move fast enough to engage with people once the controversy started. We’re sorry. We must do better. Brendan Eich has chosen to step down from his role as CEO. He’s made this decision for Mozilla and our community. Mozilla believes both in equality and freedom of speech. Equality is necessary for meaningful speech. And you need free speech to fight for equality. Figuring out how to stand for both at the same time can be hard.
What’s next for Mozilla’s leadership is still being discussed. We want to be open about where we are in deciding the future of the organization and will have more information next week. However, our mission will always be to make the Web more open so that humanity is stronger, more inclusive and more just: that’s what it means to protect the open Web. We will emerge from this with a renewed understanding and humility — our large, global, and diverse community is what makes Mozilla special, and what will help us fulfill our mission. We are stronger with you involved. Thank you for sticking with us.
Through all this Eich has never apologized or stated that he has changed his position on gay marriage.
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jad says:
Don’t really care if he apologizes or not cause he is to big an ass to ever admit that he did not belong at Mozilla. His nonsensical comments have already guaranteed that. It would be a phoney apologizey anyway.
I would like to find out whos ass’ he kissed and lied to to get as far as he did and fire them too. Unfortunately, he will probably leave with a big phoney smile on his face and a whole lot of cash (enough to live the rest of his life with)in his pockets and will be laughing at us all the way to his mega-mansion.
Gays are the new Muslims – say a word against ’em and they’ll come after you. According to you guys people can’t have an opinion that is anti gay. Same sex marriage is a nonsense, it enables biologically incompatible beings to get married. What’s next? Farmers wanting to marry their favourite cow? You are always shouting about wanting to be accepted by society but all you do using tactics like singling opponents out is drive a wedge between the people you want to engage with and the gay community. The sooner this gay fashion dies out the better then we can all get on with the important things in life…
Northern Sentinel says:
I don’t think they are the new Muslims, just the same old Nazis.
I often wondered about their high level of participation in the Hitler regime,
I think I’m beginning to understand it now.
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Kingsbury, Straumann, and Lupher on Sutton on Kingsbury, Straumann, Lupher, Alberico Gentili. The Wars of the Romans. Response to BMCR 2011.07.48
Response by Benedict Kingsbury, New York University School of Law (Kingsbury@exchange.law.nyu.edu), Benjamin Straumann, New York University School of Law (benjamin.straumann@nyu.edu), and David Lupher, University of Puget Sound (dlupher@pugetsound.edu)
We'd like to thank Dana Sutton for his friendly review. His last paragraph exonerates us from what he takes to be an error, which he instead attributes to anonymous blurb writers. But we regard the blurb as entirely correct in the claim that Gentili developed arguments that became pivotal in debates on imperialism. Sutton denies the relevance of Alberico Gentili's work for, as he puts it, "European settlement of the New World and subsequent colonization of other less culturally developed peoples" and its "cogency for debates about the legality or morality of modern colonialism." But these topics are central themes in several contributions to the companion volume, mentioned by Sutton, The Roman Foundations of the Law of Nations: Alberico Gentili and the Justice of Empire (Oxford University Press, 2010). There, relations of Gentili's work to the sixteenth century context are addressed by David Lupher and Diego Panizza as well as in Chris Warren's essay on Gentili's poetics, and relations of Gentili's thought to wider debates on imperialism are discussed in the chapters by Anthony Pagden, Noel Malcolm and others. The following passage on p. xvi of the Introduction to our critical edition reviewed by Sutton deals with precisely the kind of civilizational claim in favor of imperialism made in The Wars of the Romans that Sutton says does not figure there:
The [...] civilizational claim made by Laelius in [Cicero's] Republic, namely that Rome's conquest and rule had made the conquered better off by taking away the right to do injury "from wicked people," has equally important reverberations in Gentili's late sixteenth-century framing of the debate on The Wars of the Romans. In the following passage, Picenus makes the case that, compared to the Roman empire, the Ottoman empire of his own day hardly qualifies as barbarian, then cites from Tacitus' Agricola the Caledonian chieftain Calgacus' famous anti-Roman speech [The Wars of the Romans 1.13, p. 117]:
"Go off and tell me about Turkish barbarity! You hear of provinces conquered with the blood of provinces. Where they have made a solitude, there they used to allege that they had established peace, as the Briton [Calgacus] complained [Tac. Agr. 30.6]. Robbers of the whole world, whom neither the East nor the West will have satisfied, and who, although they have shut up the whole world in that city of theirs, nonetheless coveted the little huts of the Britons—as the Briton [Calgacus] cries out in the same place [cf. Tac. Agr.30.4-5]. 'Like a stomach that can't be filled is Rome, consuming everything and always hungry still, since into its lap are gathered the riches scraped away from all the overthrown cities and the denuded lands'—and so on. (The pious and religious witness Orosius writes these things [Orosius, Historiae adversus paganos 5.18.].) 'The one and only state born for the destruction of the human race,' says Arnobius [Disputationes adversus gentes], a holy man." To answer this hyperbole, the defender in Book 2 [The Wars of the Romans 2.1, p. 129] asserts the civilizing effect of Roman rule. Far from making a solitude and calling it peace, the Romans had pacified the territories of the subjugated peoples by eliminating "kings and chieftains, who were the sources of internal wars there," and, what is more, Rome thus established "public tranquility and, so to speak, the health of a single well-joined body." The peoples of Italy, the defender maintains, "before the time of the Roman Empire ... were considered barbarians not only by the Greeks but even by the barbarians themselves, but soon emerged as the most cultivated people and rulers of everything." To the Germans Roman rule had bestowed "all the arts of civilization," turning them "from rude and rustic men into the most polished."
The Carneadean debate, filtered through Cicero and Augustine, and the model of Roman imperialism were as important for Gentili as they were for the Valladolid debaters,1 and the arguments do have of course relevance—if not cogency—for debates about the legality or morality of modern imperialism.
1. On the importance of the "Roman model" for the Spanish debate, see David Lupher, Romans in a New World. Classical Models in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2003).
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“I realized there was a lack of resources for students like myself. As an undergraduate student, I had some advisement but I needed more guidance. ”
Arian Johnson, Fourth-year student
To increase enrollment of underrepresented students, the School of Dental Medicine has launched Destination Dental School, an initiative that aims to remove barriers to careers in dentistry for students of color.
Destination Dental School is open nationwide to all underrepresented undergraduate students interested in a career in dentistry, and will provide participants with hands-on simulation activities and research projects, access to mentorship from UB dental students and faculty, dental school application assistance, and networking opportunities with local dentistry leaders.
The free program, which will run on Saturdays from June 4 through July 31, will also sponsor eligible participating students for their Dental Admission Test — a standardized exam required for entry into dental school.
Destination Dental School is accepting applications. Students are encouraged to apply online by Feb. 28.
The program was conceived by UB dental student and Buffalo native Arian Johnson, who encountered difficulties applying to dental school.
“I realized there was a lack of resources for students like myself. As an undergraduate student, I had some advisement but I needed more guidance. I didn’t know the right classes to take, my timeline was off, I didn’t take the right test prep, and my professors wouldn’t give me a recommendation,” says Johnson, now a fourth-year dental student.
Latino, African American and Native American people make up around 5%, 4% and 1% of dentists, respectively, despite representing a larger percentage of the U.S. population, according to the American Dental Association’s Health Policy Institute.
Pipeline programs have proven to be an effective solution, increasing enrollment of underrepresented students in dental schools by 54%, according to a report by the Journal of the American Dental Association.
“Disparities in oral health and health care are realities that were only highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic. By increasing diversity in our student body and, eventually, in dental practitioners, we can better serve our diverse community,” says Dana M. Keblawi, associate dean for diversity and inclusion in the School of Dental Medicine. “Increasing the number of underrepresented students in dentistry will improve access to oral health care in underserved communities.”
To make Destination Dental School a reality, Johnson gathered support from Shanna Crump-Owens, director of the Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP), and joined the School of Dental Medicine’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee — a group of faculty, staff and students collaborating to foster an environment of inclusive excellence and achieve the school’s diversity and inclusion strategic goals.
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Singing the Land
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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion.
Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
I first wrote for publication in 1995, let it drop for a few years, then resumed in 2014. It's my pleasant escape and the thing I especially strive to accomplish well. We all need that -- something we work at more than anything else, something we call our own. This is mine.
My literary peer review process is to send work to journals, most of which have not yet published me, and most of which have a 3% or less acceptance rate. This has served me well in gaining authorial confidence.
My first novella:
The Query from Port Yonder Press (July 2020), #1 in the Maddie Hill Mysteries series of novellas.
A small press publisher. Pan Am Flight 103. A strange manuscript query. How does it all fit together? Maddie Hill is passionate about her book press, but when last day submissions happen, she's also relieved. That is, until she receives several confusing emails, phony names, and veiled threats. Not to mention, she misses Sasha, though she’d never admit it. And is her mentor really who he says he is? Everything eventually comes to light after several cat and mouse hours of who-did-what-and-why.
First couple of pages follow.
Maddie couldn’t recall a time she didn’t love words. From listening to her parents speak immersive German and fragmented Gaelic at the dinner table to the thousands of delicious words she poured over in her quest to explore the entire set of Encyclopedia Britannica as a child, letters put together in pleasing combinations gave her reason to dance, both mentally and physically. And now in her mid-30’s, she could cut the proverbial rug.
The batteried-clock ticked on. Into a mind that rarely rested came thoughts such as misuses of language, slang, the proliferation of profanity over the well-chosen power-packed and rare sizzler, clichés and lines that boondoggled on and on, the beginnings – who first put it all together, a tower of babbling, precision vs primadonnaishness. So many of them.
In her waking, good friends came to mind too, the few, the long-lasting, what she called “the understanders.” Made sense that they all seemed to value language and wordery as much as she did. Another neologism. She was proud of herself.
Her inbox would be full. She needed to rise, wash, and slap on her kind but firm attitude for the substantial task ahead. And she would laugh because she finally could again.
8:07 a.m. First queries of the last day
She opened the first email in her inbox and added it to her now-burgeoning Worst-of files. The game was afoot.
Dear Editor: The spirit of Elvis Presley possesses an Indian priest … with astonishing results. After a trip to tour America with his thrown-together band, The Brahmin-Beats, Pandit Banerjee discovers gaming, self- exorcises Elvis, develops a smash hit video game, and becomes a millionaire. When he returns to India, however, he is stripped of his priestly robes and imprisoned for offending the gods. What happens next is pure anticipation. Possible titles: Indian Elvis; Elvis & The Gamer; Elvis Lives Again
Maddie exorcised her spirit of sleepiness and opened the next one.
Ms Hill, Can animals really communicate with each other? Yes, they surely can! Through this book, Said the Cobra to the Cow, I document the process from sight or smell, to movement and “speech,” to acceptance, rejection, or budding friendship. I visit a zoo, a no-kill shelter, and a nature preserve. This docu- drama is sure to inspire and renew faith in the animal kingdom. Please seriously consider my submission.
When elephants fly, said the cobra to the cow. Next.
Maddie sat at the computer, stretched and rubbed her eyes. She was weary, yes, and invigorated, and bored, and excited. Everything and nothing all at once. She loved reading these queries, though if she were honest with herself, few pinged her genuine interest. Maybe she had read too many over the past seven years and it skewed her thinking in the matter of those not quite up to snuff.
Dear Editor, I have written a book. In this science fiction thriller I’m calling The Taking of Billy Bud, a young man leaves home to work on a pecan farm in Louisiana but is soon after abducted by aliens. Follow along with Billy “Bud” Williams as he travels to Mars, Venus, Uranus, and regions beyond.
“Your anus,” Maddie said aloud. “Worst of the Worst and regions beyond.” She couldn’t help herself. It was too early on.
Singing the Land: A Rural Chronology from Shanti Arts Publishing, Maine (May 2020), a collection of previously published essays reformatted into a month-by-month look at rural living. Autographed copy link below. If you happen to go this way, thank you. Know how much I appreciate it.
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I more compiled than wrote this, though I did write each essay contained in the collection. What it is is a compilation of about two dozen previously published essays (and a few prose poems, I think) reformatted to fit the chronological theme, month to month, season to season. The only thing that doesn't fit that daily format (though no month contains all the days) is the introduction. See it below.
An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second. Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography
A Brief Discussion of Time
The shadow under the wall clock is in the shape of a mountain connected to an overhanging cliff. A thin crevice runs north and south and joins the two— the mountain to the cliff. About halfway down the crevice another rock juts out, leaving only a marginal line of light, wide enough for a small fly or maybe two or three legs of a spider. Eventually the shadow blurs and disappears. The mountain turns to plain and the clock ticks on. Another day, and I’ve already considered dying, heaven, the likelihood of absolute truth, and this weekend’s company. There are no guidelines in this land of time, no rule book to interpret such a scene, so we live them on a hunch and the proverbial prayer, but always at the precipice of discovery. This is day. This is the next item on the agenda. I prepare a grocery list.
A day is made up of this thing called time, measured in microscopic increments by which we mark our happenings. It’s a quantifiable medium, and there’s a method to it all, called chronometry: the science of time. Want to impress someone? Tell them one of the shortest measures of time is called a yoctosecond (10–24s) and the longest, a yottasecond (1 septillion seconds, or about 31.7 quadrillion years). That should do it.
Decades ago, Native Americans would estimate time by how long it took a small boat with a hole in it to sink. Today we have clocks and keep our boats for fishing. Further, there is no word in the Sioux language for “late.” Imagine never having to use that excuse with your boss.
A tribe in South America dismisses the notion of past and future, living only for the present. It’s a freeing life, observers note, albeit shallow as shown in their limited activities of hunting, gathering, having sex, babies, and then dying. They have no numbering system and use only a few vowels and a handful of consonants. They whistle conversation, or hum it, or sing it. Why would they need a concept of time when they live in the lyricism of the present? Missionary Daniel Everett spent years with the Pirahas and left no closer to convincing them of their need for a clock.
Time discipline is how we view our passing seconds and years. This desire to measure our moments is believed to have sprung from a religious emphasis on daily rituals and a religious view of the hereafter. Canonical hours, prayer schedules, and the now-ubiquitous phrases such as “don’t waste your life” drove the need for devices to calculate time. From the sundial to the hourglass to the candle or 35 Singing the Land pendulum clock to the clepsydra all the way up to the ultra-precise NIST-F2 atomic clock (which is accurate to within one second in 300 million years, on a bad day), we, as a people, have sought to number our days.
Dale talks about time in an early episode of the television series The Walking Dead. This may not seem poignant at first, but when you consider the setting is the end of the world, it is. It’s the end of the world, no one is likely to survive very long, yet Dale continues to wind his watch at the same time each day. This is both memorable and good writing; this is the stuff that makes us stop and consider.
Most believe time is unidirectional, that is, it flows forward, from present to future, but never backward. Such a belief would seem to make sense. We cannot return and change the world, though our imagination easily dreams up such scenarios in our stories. In Hindu mythology, Talmudic accounts, and Japanese tales, time travel has been a common motif dating back many centuries. In books like Terry Pratchett’s Thief of Time and Isaac Asimov’s The End of Eternity, history has its guardians and time must be protected. These stories give us control, “ . . . [and] time travel suggests that Everyman and Everybody is important to shaping history, to making a real and quantifiable difference to the way the world turns out.”
Is this why Dale continued to wind his watch when time was considered irrelevant, and why Blaise Pascal tied a pocket watch to his wrist with a piece of string before wrist watches were a thing? And is this why most of us find wall space in each room of our house for a clock of some pleasing shape and size— we want to “make a real and quantifiable difference in the way the world turns out.” Or, less nobly, we simply don’t want to miss our favorite TV show.
In these moments, stories rise from the simplicity of our lives, for days are not all big ideas and bold self-revelation. Slides in the slow cool gasp, the sneaking-up wonder, an ant hulking crumbs across a hot concrete driveway against the backdrop of a crisp starry universe. We make notes and recollections. Our past becomes our book of knowledge, our present the well from which we draw.
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Tides of Blood and Steel: The Northern Crusade: Book 2
by Christian Warren Freed
War has come to the North. The kingdoms of Rogscroft and Delranan are engaged in a bitter struggle that can only result in the total annihilation of an entire kingdom. Yet while the opposing armies battle away a new threat approaches. An army of Goblins marches from the Deadlands, summoned by the nefarious Amar Kit’han and the Dae’shan. This new army will tip the balance of power and give King Badron total control.Locked away in the dungeons under Chadra Keep, Bahr and his small band of would be heroes suffer Harnin One Eye’s torture. Evidence of the Dae’shan is quickly discovered, leading the last surviving wizard, Anienam Keiss, to believe Bahr and the others are all that stands in the way of the dark gods long anticipated return to Malweir. Lord Argis, the traitor lord, helps Ba...
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by H. Peter Alesso
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Lethbridge-Stewart - The Flaming Soldier: A Doctor Who spin-off novella.
by Christopher Bryant
Brigadier, from BBC TV's Doctor Who, is investigating a series of cases of spontaneous combustion. How can an inferno start inside a brick wall? Who or what are the ghost-like creatures spotted in the area around Imber base? Does it have anything to do with Eileen Younghusband, hotel proprietor, whose ordinary day is about to be interrupted by secrets from her past?Traumatic events from the Second World War impact upon the present day and a mysterious aircraft could hold the key to the identity of the flaming soldier....
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New World Order Rising Book 4: United Nations Arriving (Islam Joins the Fight)
by James W. Nelson
Earth, our planet, is spinning normally on her axis, but conditions on her surface are spinning rapidly out-of-control. The Illuminati, masters of the new world order, globalism, open borders, uncontrolled people migration, and a one-world government, have linked with the Islamic-run UN and the plan of Agenda 21.
Officially Agenda 21 means saving the environment and everybody living happily ever after.
Unofficially Agenda 21 means elimination of 85% of the world's population, leaving just enough human slaves to care for the elite in their gated communities.
The continent of Africa—with the exception of Angola—is on fire. Western Europe is gone. Eastern Europe and Russia are near disintegrating. China, India, Japan, and Australia are holding on, for now. Latin America ...
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Operation Timepiece: A desperate race against time behind enemy lines to save London and possibly all of Europe during World War II
by Steven Jacobs
The OSS was the precursor to today's CIA and took on many of the most dangerous missions of World War II. For Captain Scott Abel and his team, this mission is going to be just about as tough as they come. Tasked with parachuting directly into Germany, Captain Abel code name "Paul" and his group of OSS agents will find trouble at every turn as they penetrate deep into Nazi-Occupied territory on their mission to seek out and destroy the deadliest gas that man has ever created to date....
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by Tim Gingras
Poignant coming-of-age tale set against the backdrop of the Vietnam WarWhen 18-year-old Charlie Kinane, from Chicago, is drafted at the height of the Vietnam (RVN) War shortly after high school graduation, he decides to enter the U.S. Navy as a hospital corpsman and pursue Navy pharmacy tech training. Charlie believes this will give him the best chance of avoiding war-zone deployment. His goal is to serve, but also to survive. Charlie receives his orders to join the 3rd Marine Division, at Charlie Med Base, Khe Sahn, Vietnam—a base regularly under heavy attack. His primary function on Charlie Med is to keep track of all medical supplies, including all controlled medications used for wounded Marines, but when Charlie is sent as a corpsman replacement for Marines on an overnight search-and...
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CODE WARRIORS: A Year in Vietnam
by William Wood
With the Vietnam war raging and protests mounting at home, Josh Hudson, a veteran communications analyst is ordered to Viet Nam to head up the analysis team at a small unit flying out of Pleiku. Before leaving the States he meets Jenny Appleton, active in the anti-war movement. As Hudson assumes his duties he slowly finds his dedication and principles challenged by the terrible losses and the seemingly endless nature of the war. Although convinced their analysis is correct, the callous disregard for the truth frustrates the men of his unit. When, after long months their analysis is proved correct - others take credit to cover their own failures. Through his correspondence with Jenny and a witness to the callous disregard for truth, reality and the lives of the men engaging the enemy ...
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Windrush (Jack Windrush Book 1)
by Malcolm Archibald
Riveting historical war fiction from Malcolm Archibald, author of Shadow Of The Wolf.Burmese War, 1852. Unable to join the famous Royal Malverns, Jack Windrush is commissioned into the despised 113th Foot.Determined to rise in the ranks by making a name for himself, he is sent with a small detachment of the 113th to join the British expedition. After they get involved in the attack of Rangoon, Jack realizes that war on the fringes of the Empire is not as honorable and glorious as he expected.After a chance meeting with a renegade British soldier, Jack witnesses the true terrors of war, and begins to question the whole framework in which he has grown up....
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by H. G. Wells
Modern warfare takes to the skies in this novel by a master of science fiction and fantasy. In 1907, young Bert Smallways, a brilliant mechanist and accidental aeronaut, finds himself a reluctant stowaway upon the very same airship that will begin the Great War. Soon, Smallways is swept away aboard the Vaterland, the flagship piloted by a belligerent German prince, whose mastery of technology heralds a new age of war that takes to the sky. Filled with petrol-powered war machines, ironclads, bombardments, and espionage, The War in the Air prophesied methods of warfare that would only develop later in the twentieth century. A cornerstone of early science fiction, this exciting tale is H. G. Wells at his best. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readabi...
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The Portal: Science Fiction Meets Fantasy Head On in This Action Adventure Novel (The Birdmen of Beta Earth Series Book 1)
by Malachi Mata
Swords, shields, and spears stand outside the gates of the mystical city of Wieese, the first battle of the Daylon's Reclamation War. But the Daylons are ambushed by the mysterious Dominion and Deelo Con, a disgraced war hero is swallowed up by a portal and taken to another world. Ten years later, he emerges a new man, free as a bird, with no memories of where he's been. And he has Dominion powers - the ability to hurl stones from relics, shoot lava from staffs, and see beyond one's own eyes.With everyone in the empire scrambling for an edge in the shifting sands of power, Deelo Con is the only one who knows the location of the power-granting Portal, and everyone is after him. In a medieval world of swords and shields, battle lines and battle formations, shifting alliances, and constant wa...
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A spy novel in the Ari Cohen Series - Book1- Part 1 - The Arrows of Islam: An Espionage Thriller (The Ari Cohen Book 1)
by Spencer Hawke
Action packed pages starring Ari Cohen, an ex-Mossad operative and a skilled assassin. Can he rescue the first Females POTUS...
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CALL ME GHOST
by MJ HAGUE
A military thriller. Trust:Brother in Arms. Betrayal:Brother versus Brother. Justice: Results within the rule of law. Retribution: Eye for an eye. A fight among brothers leads to death in the family. Two brothers given the task to rectify the wrong, each with their own idea how best to get the job done. How far will they go? Their decision will change their lives, Forever....
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China: Showdown: 中国对决
by Aldéric Au
Deadlock delays the start of the 22nd Communist Party Congress in Beijing, offering an opportunity for the PLA to usurp the power of their political masters and seize the initiative. Determined to end the perennial issues of the South China Sea, the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, and Taiwan, the PLA prepares to take matters into its own hands.
The USS James K Polk CVN81, a Ford Class carrier, the centerpiece of a naval task force, is sent to defend Taiwan. The outcome of the clash between the People's Liberation Army Navy and the US Navy will be pivotal in deciding subsequent events, as Beijing and Washington seek to force the other to back down.
The First Battle of the Philippine Sea proved a decisive naval battle of World War II, which eliminated the Imperial Japanese Navy and deci...
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Vengeance, not Victory
by Wayne Stewart
Afghanistan is known as the graveyard of empires, and the birthplace of insurgency. This story begins with a Soviet gunship pilot, and his experiences during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. It is a tale of all players involved in this conflict, and travels across decades, and generations, to the modern-day U.S. led invasion of the state. It is a story of courage, sacrifice, honour, and betrayal. Characters from all countries are followed, to war, and home. The terror acts committed, and horrific acts committed under the guise of warfare, are detailed, and unmasked, in all their glory, and shame. The tale includes all the human failures, and emotions, that drive our world. It explores passion, hatred, terror, and love. Most of all it tells a story of heartbreak, tragedy, sorrow, and hop...
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Weight of War
by C. F. Montaigne
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by Stan Poel
It is 1940 in the Netherlands, and nineteen-year-old Jenny DeHaan is determined to live her life outside the confines of the family farm. When accepted to a prominent university, she sets out on the road to independence. While in school, she develops a bond with Marten Demeester, a Jewish student who shares her goal of becoming a pediatrician. When Hitler breaks his promise and invades their country, everything changes. The peaceful land becomes a battlefield, and the Netherlands quickly falls to the overwhelming German forces. The Nazis, aided by local collaborators, begin a process of arrest, deportation, and extermination of Dutch Jews, with Marten's family targeted by a powerful Gestapo colonel. The race to save their Jewish neighbors puts Jenny and Marten, now members of the Dutch Res...
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The Gates of Golorath (Chaos of Souls Book 1)
by R.M. Garino
30 days until the Feast of Night. 30 days until the bloodthirsty shrulks devour the land. 30 days until he sees her again … What would you do if part of your soul were torn away?There are consequences for all actions. A faction of angels spurned the will of Heaven, and they were destroyed. Their souls were split into millions of insignificant fragments the moment they crossed over into creation. Their spirits mixed with physical matter and they were reborn. No longer were they Aesari. They are now the Lethen’al, the fallen.The Lo'ademn are a faction of angels that seek out their brethren, the Lethen’al. By the grace of the Creator, they still retain their angelic abilities and have not been shattered. Now trapped for millennia, they are determined to destroy the Lethen'al and bri...
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The Deep Enders
by Dave Reardon
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Saving Jason
by Kate Anslinger
Jason Barnes is a free spirit. Underneath that fun-loving surface lurks a severe case of PTSD, his personal souvenir from the war on terror. After his young marriage breaks up, he bounces from girlfriend to girlfriend, never allowing himself to get too close, all while maintaining a friendship with his ex-wife, Samantha Colton. Everything changes when he meets Abby Jacobsen, a smart and sassy artist - but with love comes jealousy, and Abby doesn’t stand for Jason’s cozy friendship with Samantha. Two hours after a heated argument causes Jason to storm out of their apartment, Abby receives a phone call from the intensive care unit of a New Hampshire hospital. The hospital walls close in on Abby and Samantha as they are forced to make tough decisions while trying hard not to kill each oth...
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Sergei and Hans
by Dennis Santaniello
1914 on the Eastern Front: Sergei, a Russian prisoner, writes a journal about his hellish experience of war and loss. Hans, the German guard, discovers the journal, reads it, and knows that he has met this man somewhere before. The two eventually meet again on Christmas Eve in the prison where they share a meal, recount the events which got them there, and render a deal of what will happen the next morning....
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No Trench To Rest (The French Bastard Book 1)
by Avan Judd Stallard
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Officer Material Vol 1 (Men of the Octofoil)
by Sally Hull
Officer Material Vol 1 introduces the platoon during basic training, the year before America enters into World War Two. In this five book series, a platoon of misfit American soldiers from all walks of life forms a team to be feared during the European Theatre of Operations during World War Two. A simple country farmer shares his faith with these, his fellow GIs, and changes their lives forever. The son of a billionaire seeks to earn his father’s love and respect by becoming an officer. A street-wise, homeless teenager makes the army his home and family. These three bond together and form a family in the midst of bombs and grenades exploding all around them, day and night. Back home, their families learn to grapple with the realities of war as well—ration stamps, fear of receiving tele...
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Love Lost in the War: A WW2 Historical Holocaust Survivors Love Story (Biographical Fiction Based On A True Story)
by Orit Raz
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Siege of Lightning
by R.J. Pineiro
AMERICA'S SPACE PROGRAM HAS BEEN SABOTAGED.The Martian and Apollo 13 meet Tom Clancy in this gripping scientific thriller. "A first-rate thriller delivered by a seasoned pro. Last year had Andy Weir's The Martian; this year's clear torch-bearer is Pineiro." --Open Letters Monthly on The Fall "A brilliant tale of industrial espionage and sabotage."--Nelson DeMille Years before NASA planned to travel to Mars,and before the International Space Station ever reached orbit,the future of America's space program hung in the balance . . . In this exciting alternate-history novel, the technicians at NASA hoped to create a fail-safe shuttle in the wake of the CHALLENGER disaster. With the brand-new space shuttle LIGHTNING, all systems were go . . . Then lightning st...
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Johnny Don't March: a novel
by Timothy Hurley
War is purgatory. Coming home is hell. Army Specialist Nelson O'Brien returns to Brooklyn from Afghanistan branded a hero, but feeling like a casualty. His aunt told him there had been enough dying. Maybe she is wrong; maybe Nelson has to pay with his own life. Adult language....
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Scorpion: Target Viper (scorpion series Book 2)
by Ross Sidor
The product of Colombia’s dirty war, the Viper is South America’s deadliest terrorist.
Cut off by former sponsors and armed with one of the world’s most advanced weapon systems, the Viper embarks on an obsessive mission of revenge, intent on reaping a path of destruction across the United States that will kill thousands and cause untold economic devastation.
Working alongside DEA agents, NSA cyber-trackers, and Colombian soldiers, CIA security contractor Avery, codenamed Carnivore, is tasked with locating and terminating the Viper.
He will pursue his quarry from terrorist camps hidden deep in the tropical rainforest, to Colombia’s most brutal prison and through the slums of South America’s most dangerous, gang infested cit, and to the drug ...
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Steele's Death March.: By Blood Spilt (By Blood Split Book 3)
by Ricky Balona
Sergeant Steele and the 5 Regiment Etrangere d'Infanterie are caught up in the treacherous Japanese coup d’état in French Indochina. Steele and the Legionnaires must fight their way to safety over more than one thousand miles of mountainous terrain and thick jungle relentlessly pursued by the Japanese and the brotherhood led by Steele’s sworn enemy, Jean....
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A Corpsman & A Marine: Surviving the Nuclear Apocalypse
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As the world is thrown into a third world war, HMC Mark Henderson is devastated to learn that his unit has been selected to deploy to the middle-east. After receiving a near fatal wound, he and a Marine buddy of his, Sam Meyers, are sent back to the United States where they will soon find that the war has found its way onto their home soil. A high altitude nuclear detonation sends their plane falling from the sky over east Oregon, and after miraculously surviving the crash, they will also learn that mother nature can prove to be just as deadly as any war they have ever seen. They push their bodies to the limits to survive the cold wilderness and after they find their ways back to civilization a new deadly threat is coming for them....
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INCANTATION Shares “Fury’s Manifesto” Video Via Decibel Magazine; Sect Of Vile Divinities Full-Length To See Release Next Month Through Relapse Records
Death metal pioneers INCANTATION unleash their “Fury’s Manifesto” music video. Now playing at Decibel Magazine, the track comes off the band’s highly anticipated new full-length, Sect of Vile Divinities, set for release August 21st via Relapse Records.
Comments bassist Chuck Sherwood, “We present another offering unleashed from Sect of Vile Divinities aptly named ‘Fury’s Manifesto,’ a more crushing choice from the album to express blasphemy towards religious ethics and its failure to the very evil that the faiths themselves created.”
View the Daily Grind Productions-directed “Fury’s Manifesto” video, courtesy of Decibel Magazine, HERE.
Find the band’s previously-released lyric video for “Propitiation” below.
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For over thirty years, INCANTATION has consistently remained one of the underground’s most influential and respected artists in the genre. True to form, Sect Of Vile Divinities sees the legendary band adhering to the ways of the old school, unleashing twisted, mangled, and utterly disgusting death metal once again.
A pitch-black mix of unrelenting death metal and imposing funeral doom, each track on Sect Of Vile Divinities is a dirge dedicated to different ancient evils across various cultures. At a point where the world’s most vile converge, tracks such as “Propitiation” see the band’s driving riffs and pummeling drums crush the very foundations of religious zealotry, while standouts such as “Entrails Of The Hag Queen” and “Fury’s Manifesto” champion no-frills death metal in its purest form.
Three decades of death metal still the funeral procession carries on. With Sect Of Vile Divinities, INCANTATION hails a return to form for the genre, and release one of 2020’s most blasphemous and unforgiving titles.
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December 28, 2018 December 26, 2018 by EarthSpirit
As we move into the winter and the end of 2018, we are glad to reach out to our community members and friends to look back on what has been another remarkable year for EarthSpirit, and to acknowledge all of you who have helped to make it so. Many of you have volunteered dozens of hours teaching, organizing, staffing or planning for EarthSpirit events. Others of you have made one or more financial contributions already this year. So many people have contributed in so many ways. Thank you! We feel blessed to share membership in this committed and dedicated community.
For four decades, EarthSpirit has sustained and nourished a community that supports families and individuals in truly living their spirituality, maintaining and passing along pagan cultures and traditions in a world that does not always share our values. In the US this year, we again hosted more than a dozen seasonal rituals in both eastern and western Massachusetts. We reached out to the public at Boston Pride, at academic institutes, Pagan Pride events, environmental and political actions and at festivals and interfaith services. We performed handfastings, baby blessings and funerals, counseled members in need, and supported those facing medical and emotional crises. We made improvements to the ritual spaces at Glenwood, our center and sanctuary in western Massachusetts, which we open to the community as part of the Sacred Land program on a monthly basis. We continued working to develop a long-range strategic plan for the organization, and made strides toward improving our infrastructure.
Rites of Spring 40 Village Builders
EarthSpirit has one of the longest-standing pagan events in the USA and reached a true milestone this year as we celebrated our 40th Rites of Spring and recognized and honored our first community Elders.
The other big event this year was our participation at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Toronto. Thirty-eight members of EarthSpirit attended the Parliament. Our delegation worked as an extraordinarily strong team to staff and support an information and networking booth, and EarthSpirit members offered 16 separate and important programs. Andras Corban Arthen, EarthSpirit’s Spiritual Director, continued his very active and ongoing work on the Indigenous Task Force and on the Executive Committee of the Board, participating in planning and creating the whole of the Parliament and especially several of the plenary sessions. I was a member of the Women’s Task Force, working in advance and on site to coordinate programming involving the arts, ritual and the divine feminine, and on creating the Women’s Assembly.
Women’s Plenary – Sue and Vivian
There is a lot to share about that week in Toronto – what we did there and why it matters. So many EarthSpirit members did so much. Kate Greenough Richardson brought our Art Salon format into the light with the “Spirit Soaring Gallery Space and Art Salon”; Arianna Knapp designed and coordinated a very professional EarthSpirit booth, where we could share who we are with thousands of people; Donovan Arthen and Will Rowan presented a workshop called “Transforming Masculinity,” featuring the work of the Brotherhood of the Stag and Wolf; 9-year-old Vivian Seier was the overall youngest speaker on the Parliament’s Plenary Stage when she came forward to represent the dignity of women in paganism. It is too much to include everything in this letter, so a complete report of EarthSpirit’s participation at the Parliament is posted on EarthSpirit Voices and on our website. The links are below.
MorwenTwo Feathers at Rites of Spring 2018
There have been some hard times this year, of course. We lost Morwen Two Feathers, an EarthSpirit Community Elder and teacher, and a great friend to many of us – and we celebrated her life together. Others in the community have also passed or suffered illness or personal losses, and we have seen the community come together to hold each other.
We are still facing major challenges in the US as well. The political climate remains tense, hate crimes are still on the upswing, and we continue to see intolerance and prejudice step boldly into the light as our government moves farther away from environmental responsibility, upholding human rights and the diversity which has so enriched this country. Many EarthSpirit members feel personally vulnerable and afraid. The need for clear information and communication, mutual support, and outreach to the diverse world around us has never been more pressing. EarthSpirit is doing what it can to provide leadership and an anchor in this time of upheaval – offering encouragement to its members and taking action when we can in places where it is needed.
The interfaith work that EarthSpirit has been committed to for so many years offers us many valuable and reassuring connections. Andras was re-elected to the role of Vice-Chair of the Board for the Parliament of the World’s Religions, an international organization that is supportive of EarthSpirit and of pagans in general. Andras also continues to serve as President of the European Congress of Ethnic Religions, and his leadership there connects us directly with people still practicing the old indigenous ways in Europe. Our Earthways Initiative reaches out specifically to Indigenous leaders in the US as well as in other parts of the world. We will continue to join forces with all of these peoples and groups, to further our work to protect the Earth and support other communities who share our values.
Closing of the Plenary on the Environment – Anras Corban Arthen, Isobel Arthen, Moira Ashleigh
The end of the year is the time for us to wrap up our Annual Fund, so I will conclude with that. Our community has always been generous. We have consistently received contributions large and small which allow us to carry on. We appreciate every single one, as well as all of the volunteer time and expertise that our members contribute throughout the year. Members, like you, enable us to offer the rituals, classes and gatherings that create meeting places where we can build and deepen meaningful face-to-face connections. Your contributions help us maintain the sacred land of EarthSpirit’s home at Glenwood, make it possible for us to network with spiritual people around the world and also provide some financial support to community members who are ill or struggling. We are grateful.
If you have not had the opportunity to participate in this year’s fundraising yet, or you have found further inspiration in this letter to participate once again, now is a great time. We count on all of you to be a part of the web that holds us together on so many levels.
We wish you all a prosperous and healthy year ahead.
We hope to see you at A Feast of Lights this February 8-10 in Sturbridge MA!
Thank you all for being part of and supporting the EarthSpirit Community.
You can find out more about EarthSpirit’s work through articles in “EarthSpirit Voices” , by liking “The EarthSpirit Community” on Facebook, or by visiting our website: www.earthspirit.com.
Categories Andras Corban Arthen, Deirdre Pulgram Arthen, Interfaith, Support Tags Community, EarthSpirit, Parliament of the World's Religions Toronto, Support
On music and roots
July 24, 2017 July 24, 2017 by EarthSpirit
Published July 7, 2013 by EarthSpirit Community on EarthSpirit Voices
Written by Deirdre Pulgram Arthen
This past weekend I attended the Old Songs Festival just outside of Albany, NY, as I have done for all but two of the last dozen years. It is a place that feeds my soul. I get to dance and sing, listen to and play music — and relax, with no performance expectations from anyone. The musicians who come there are, for the most part, people who feel the roots of their music: they study their traditions in great depth and absorb them into their bodies, then exude them in their playing and singing. Their motivation is love — not fame or fortune, but love of music, love of the old ways themselves, love of the people who brought the traditions into being and of those people who carried them on, love of harmony, love of community, love of our species, love of the earth. Many of the people who perform, organize, and attend have deep and long-held commitments to social justice and to the environment. Many have been political activists for decades. Very few preach. Instead we bask the joy of making music together as we walk through the fairgrounds and feel the satisfaction found in sharing the work of making the world a better place.
Gordon Bok and Archie Fisher performing at Old Songs 2013 (photo by Andras Corban Arthen)
While there were many things that I loved that weekend, there was a song that Gordon Bok performed that especially touched me. It was something that he had written years ago as a result of listening to the marine radio channel in Maine, which he said he does for entertainment sometimes. It was essentially a conversation between two lobster fishermen. One was stuck and, over the course of the song, the other one came to help. That was it, really. But something in the way that Gordon captured all of us in the fairly common conversation of two men on the water was just magic to me. There they were, fishermen on the ocean – that vast and moving body of water that cares nothing for people, but still feeds us and gives us life. And here we all are, humans in a universe that is not centered on our needs and desires, but which we must live in and depend on while we are incarnate beings. We can forget sometimes that we are also floating – maybe near the rocks, maybe out of our depth – and that the simple act of accepting an offer of help allows both us and our neighbors to experience ourselves more fully as the interconnected beings that we are. The song held the magic of knowing, and Gordon shared that knowing with us all.
I find my own path reflected in that community of music makers. I, too, value the roots of my traditions and those who have brought them forward, and I find in the shared songs and dances true expressions of the joy of being human, fully intertwined with all that is creation.
Categories Deirdre Pulgram Arthen Tags music
This Winter’s Night Lyric Sheet
July 19, 2017 May 9, 2017 by EarthSpirit
MotherTongue released the CDs “Weaving the Web of Life” and “This Winter’s Night” Older works are on tape “Fire Dance” and “All Beings of the Earth”.
For more information about EarthSpirit and MotherTongue, please contact:
earthspirit@earthspirit.com or: The EarthSpirit Community P.O. Box 723 Williamsburg, MA 01096 U.S.A. (413) 238-4240
CD This Winter’s Night Lyric Sheet © 1994 EarthSpirit
CD Available at CD Baby
Categories Andras Corban Arthen, Deirdre Pulgram Arthen, MotherTongue
A Parliament of the World’s Religions – Australia 2009
June 6, 2017 May 8, 2017 by EarthSpirit
These A Parliament of the World’s Religions Australia 2009 blog posts are located on EarthSpirit Voices our EarthSpirit Community Blog
A Pagan Response to the Parliament by Andras Corban Arthen
The Gods in Quarantine by Andras Corban Arthen
The Tibetan Art of Impermanence — a Photo Essay by Andras Corban Arthen
Parliament Baby by Andras Corban Arthen
Parliament Days Six and Seven: Blessings by Moira Ashleigh
Parliament: Australian Pagans Speak by Chris LaFond
Parliament Day Five: Towards religious freedom by Moira Ashleigh
Parliament Day Four: The Halls by Moira Ashleigh
Parliament: Sacred Envy by Chris LaFond
Parliament Day Three: Towards Summer Solstice by Moira Ashleigh
Parliament Day Two: People Call Us Pagans, and more by Moira Ashleigh
First official day at the Parliament of the World’s Religions – Melbourne by Moira Ashleigh
Pagans at the Parliament by Andras Corban Arthen
Preparing for the Parliament by Andras Corban Arthen
EarthSpirit and The Parliament of the World’s Religions, part 1 by Deirdre Pulgram Arthen
Categories Andras Corban Arthen, Deirdre Pulgram Arthen, Interfaith, Moira Ashleigh
Educating Ourselves and Our Children
The EarthSpirit Newsletter Autumn 96
by Deirdre Pulgram Arthen
[Since the article “Home to Me” was published in the last autumn issue of EarthSpirit, I have received numerous requests for more information about our family’s relationship with our children’s schools, so I collected some thoughts to share here. We would love to hear from other families about their experiences as well, please feel free to write to us in response. ]
Categories Deirdre Pulgram Arthen, Newsletter
FireHeart Interview with STARHAWK
Healing Our Wounds ©1993
Since the ground-breaking publication of The Spiral Dance, Starhawk has been the single most visible and influential force in the Neo-Pagan revival. Thousands of people have first learned about Witchcraft from her books and workshops. In fact, the image of Witchcraft as feminist and socially engaged is largely a product of her work. A therapist, educator and activist, Starhawk is also a restless and unconventional spirit. Not allowing herself to be limited by her previous accomplishments, she is constantly growing and looking for new fields to conquer, as she has done in her recently released novel The Fifth Sacred Thing.
Categories Deirdre Pulgram Arthen, FireHeart
1999 Parliament of the Worlds’ Religions
Parliament of the Worlds Religions
December 1 – 8, 1999
Capetown South Africa
*A New Day Dawning*
In 1993 the second Parliament was held, again in Chicago. This time it was the Earth-centered spirituality which was introduced and welcomed with acknowledgment and respect for what these traditions had to offer. The week long event included workshops, services, prayer and meditation with almost every faith tradition presently in existence, concerts, cultural events, presentations from some of the world’s most respected religious leaders, notably the Dalai Lama and an assembly of religious and spiritual leaders whose members signed “Towards a Global Ethic” a document outlining principles and directives for peace, social justice and sustainability of life. EarthSpirit, along with several other organizations and tribal groups represented the Earth Religions at the Parliament and in the Assembly and signed that document.
Categories Deirdre Pulgram Arthen, Interfaith
Home to Me The development and growth of a magical family
EarthSpirit Newsletter Fall 95
Home to Me
The development and growth of a magical family
“You could send me away and I would go,
I would go but I would not go too far.
You could send me home but you would know,
Home to me is anywhere you are.“
July 25, 2017 April 24, 2017 by EarthSpirit
Remembering the Earth as Sacred
WickerMan Rites of Spring 2016
As we move into the winter and toward the end of the tax year, we again invite all of our members to contribute to EarthSpirit’s annual fund to support the work it does all year.
Categories Deirdre Pulgram Arthen, Support
Ways To Prepare for a Magickal Birth
by Deirdre Pulgram Arthen ©1989
The following are a few suggested ways to prepare for a magickal birth experience. Preparation is important on three levels: physical, emotional and spiritual. Without serious consideration of the first two levels, it will be nearly impossible to concentrate on the third.
A. It is essential that you enter into the birth process as relaxed as possible. One of the best ways to do that is to know as much as you can about what to expect on a physical plane, and to develop a support system that you trust:
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Since its inception in the 1970’s, EarthSpirit has worked to preserve and develop pagan culture – to bring forward pagan concepts and attitudes for living in the present age enriched with the music, art, theater and ritual that enliven us as human beings. When the community comes together it is clear that our connections are strong and that we share traditions and underlying values, but EarthSpirit also carries that culture out into the world through writings, recordings and traveling teachers for any who wish to learn more.
We engage with people of different traditions and ideologies, provide opportunities for shared spiritual experience, and invite those who feel a connection and would like to be a part of EarthSpirit to join us.
EarthSpirit Voices
This blog-style online journal features articles, art and poetry from over thirty EarthSpirit members and friends. With features about sustainability, spiritual practice, drumming, gatherings, rituals, the Parliament of the World’s Religions, seasonal celebrations and more, this is a wonderful resource for those who would like to know more about and feel more connected with the EarthSpirit Community. If you have an article to submit to the editorial team or would like to become a contributor, please send your inquiry to earthspirit@earthspirit.com and include “Voices” in the subject line.
Fireheart Magazine
Published by EarthSpirit between 1988 and 1993. While the magazine has ceased publication, many of the articles remain of current and historic relevance and interest. Articles cover topics such as from Handfasting, Eightfold Path, Birthing, Death, and Pagan Clergy as well as interviews with some of our elders. We recently added two previous interviews with Margot Adler and Starhawk.
MotherTongue is EarthSpirit’s ritual performance group which brings together vocal and instrumental music, dance, poetry and story to create moving and potent ritual performances for a variety of audiences. The ensemble has been featured at numerous Pagan and interfaith events around the United States and has performed twice at A Parliament of the World’s Religions, both in Chicago and in Barcelona. MotherTongue has been known for its ability to communicate the essence of earth-centered spirituality in a manner that makes it accessible to people from all backgrounds and traditions.
Recordings are available at CD Baby
This is a collection of chant lyrics that are used at EarthSpirit events and elsewhere which we are posting to help share the abundant creativity within our Community. You will notice that we may not have all of the credit information for all of the chants. We would appreciate any assistance that you can give us in obtaining that information.
As Above so Below Almanac
The astrological almanac by Miriam Klamkin, which first started in the EarthSpirit Newsletter, has continued yearly online at our website.
At some of the annual EarthSpirit events (Rites of Spring and A Feast of Lights) we host a space where our visual artists come together to share their work and speak about how it is connected to their spiritual practice. Some of the works are currently available to see on EarthSpirit Voices. Some others by EarthSpirit members are available on the artists’ personal websites:
Martin Bridge: http://thebridgebrothers.com/martinclarkbridge/
Kate Greenough: https://ayespider.com
Moira Ashleigh: http://www.moiraashleigh.com/
Carl Bridge: http://thebridgebrothers.com/carl-johan-bridge/
Shara Meltzer: bodyartbyshara.com
Some of our close connections:
Earth Drum Council: http://www.earthdrum.com/
As part of its founding in 1990, EarthSpirit members Morwen and Jimi Two Feathers conceived of Earth Drum Council as a place for the drummers of the EarthSpirit Community to drum and dance together, hone their craft, and return in service to the community. They continue to hold monthly Drum and Dance events in Concord MA.
Brotherhood of the Stag and Wolf: http://www.facebook.com/BrotherhoodOfTheStagWolf/
The Brotherhood is a men’s group that has been gathering within the context of Earthspirit events over the course of the last 13 years and is now spreading its tines to become a full-time entity to support each other & the larger male community. The Brotherhood of the Stag and Wolf promotes a mindset of responsibility for our actions, and ownership of our identities, as men in a world that often sends conflicting messages about what should define a male persona.
Red Tent: http://redtenttemplemovement.com/
The Red Tent Temple Movement, founded by ALisa Starkweather, an EarthSpirit member, “raises up a Red Tent in our local villages, cities and towns for us to honor our blood cycles and womanhood journeys and offers women a state of beingness rather than our continual doing mode. Inside the Red Tent Temples we give ourselves time to remember who we are at our very core, honoring that to do that remembering we must turn from our identities and roles towards the innermost temple of our own hearts.”
SpiritFire Festival: www.spiritfirefestival.org
SpiritFire Festival was created by Josselyne Price and Steve Trombulak, longtime EarthSpirit members. It grew out of the Sacred Fire Circles at EarthSpirit’s Rites of Spring. Now in it’s 15th year, SpiritFire is a five day ritual retreat-style gathering held each summer in New Lebanon, NY where participants celebrate life and spirit through the pathways of music, movement, voice, Seva (or service), and the Mysteries, focused in the medium of the sacred all-night fire circle.
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A movie review of ARRIVAL.
Seen at the Toronto International Film Festival 2016. (For more information, click here.)
“I used to think this was the beginning of your story. Memory is a strange thing,” Dr Louise Banks (Amy Adams)
We are continually bombarded with bombastic science-fiction cinema. When something more thoughtful comes along, e.g. ANOTHER EARTH, TIME CRIMES, they automatically stand out. Sci-fi is arguably the most transporting of genres – at its peak it presents new ideas, commenting on our current predicaments, in an exhilarating fashion – when blockbusters manage the feat, the sublime can be attained, e.g. CLOSE ENOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, CONTACT, DISTRICT 9, LOOPER, etc. Like INTERSTELLAR, ARRIVAL commenced with such promise: An atmospheric, thoughtful attention to detail, but then derails into hokey nonsense. What a shame!
There was no need for ARRIVAL to compete with big budget B-movie idiocy like INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE. We do not need another ludicrous, overblown climax. Less is more, especially when the film starts out with less. Minimalism – dialogue, reveals – hook the audience. When extraterrestrials appear at a dozen locations around the globe, we are as entranced as the lead, Dr Louise Banks (Amy Adams – no doubt surely now, about her ability to anchor a movie no matter the scale), as well as tense as to their purpose and hopeful as to their benign intentions. Will this be WAR OF THE WORLDS or STAR TREK? Aggression on an almost unfathomable front, or growing the realms of possibility infinitesimally?
First contact is the aim, and the ace premise is quickly established: How do you converse when the other species talks in horn sounds and writes in shapes. Director Denis Villeneuve is a filmmaker who births achingly stylish cinema allied to more meditative stories then the mainstream is currently used to. One thus hoped, as the first half progressed, that he made something low-key yet powerful, like his previous movie, SICARIO. Unfortunately, having an academic as a lead is jettisoned for conventional noisy dumbed-down histrionics.
We are for the majority of the runtime with team USA dealing with the American parked spaceship. Only linguist Louise Banks and a scientist, theoretical physicist Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner – too wooden as usual), are able to begin to crack the communication conundrum. Of all the plethora of brilliant minds, just these two are doing their job. Later, it emerges, so annoyingly, that the rest of the world is pretty foolish bar the protagonists. Is this actually a misanthropic commentary of populations who are currently voicing disturbing right wing sentiments, or just lazy plotting? By the conclusion, one is not ready to give the benefit of the doubt to the arguable social commentary observation.
Yes, there is excellent imagery, and imaginative leaps, but throwing that away makes it all the crueller for the audience member seeking intelligent cinematic life.
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Agra is the city of Taj Mahal, an epitome of love and romance. A once capital of the Mughal Empire, Agra proudly owns three of the world heritage sights declared by UNESCO. With its strategic location on the banks of the River Yamuna, Agra is a melting pot of the ancient and the modern. Though modern amenities greet a tourist to Agra it is very easy to slip away here, through the centuries, into the grandeur and majesty of the Royal Mughals.
Agra is one of the most premium itineraries of any tourist in India. Replete with architectural and cultural wonders, it bears the testimony of the decades of frenzied building activity that different generations of rulers have endowed upon it. Though this city had always been the hub of religious and commercial activities, the Mighty Mughals, of whom Agra was the capital city, transformed it into a crux of power, valor, ambition, love, intrigue and glamour.
Situated in the rich alluvial plains of the Ganga and Yamuna Rivers in western Uttar Pradesh, Agra lies about 200km southeast of Delhi. It is one of the rarest cities of the world that offers an overwhelming experience based on man-made marvels alone. Agra is the proud owner of three of the world heritage sites declared by UNESCO, namely, the Agra Fort, Fatehpur Sikri and above all, one among the Seven Wonders of the World, Tal Mahal.
Agra might appear to a first timer as a plethora of monuments, buildings and gardens; yet a closer look reveals an unparallel depth of the city and its culture. With the old world elegance, still on a stronghold, Agra with the Majestic Taj as its star attraction still holds the potential of enthralling a million hearts with a single glance
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Wednesday 21, Oct 2009
Colorado businessman pleads guilty to steroid and money laundering charges
James A. Abernathy, a Colorado businessman recently pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute steroids and money laundering last week.
Abernathy’s case was a part of yearlong running investigations on a dozen defendants with similar charges. Abernathy was the first to plead guilty in the group.
He faced trial in Mobile, Alabama with eleven other as a result of the investigations on Applied Pharmacy Services.
The pharmacy was based in Mobile, Alabama and was alleged to have sold and distributed numerous types of anabolic steroids to customers all over United States. Thousands of doses have been reportedly sold since its operations started.
Aside from pleading guilty, the businessman also agreed to surrender the money used to facilitate the conspiracy, along with $5,000 drug proceeds.
In exchange, Abernathy’s lawyers negotiated a plea bargain that state prosecutors would agree to a shorter prison term for their client based on the advisory sentencing guidelines.
Additionally, if state prosecutors come to the decision that he has provided “substantial assistanceâ€, then his punishments could be further lowered.
“Substantial assistance†usually includes an offer to testify against other co-defendants.
Tags: anabolic steroids, Applied Pharmacy Services, James Abernathy
Tuesday 03, Feb 2009
GREELY DOCTOR PLEADS GUILTY AS CHARGED
The name Applied Pharmacy Services is not new to local news. The Mobile-based online pharmacy was found to be illegally marketing anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing drugs over the internet. They had sold over a thousand doses of steroids to several individuals throughout the United States. Some of the steroids prescribed and dispensed are for veterinary use only, and some of the clients that the pharmacy sold to were less than 21 years old.
Among the 12 arrested, six pleaded not guilty to illegal distribution of steroids and improper prescription. The six were Samuel Kelley, the president and CEO of APS, Jason Kelly, a part-owner of the pharmacy, and 4 steroid dealers who recruited registered physicians. Three doctors have also been identified to have participated in the conspiracy. Only one among the arrested has pleaded guilty.
Corliss has agreed to return $12,000 he had received during his work. He will be paying a fine of more than a quarter of a million dollars, and will be serving some jail time of three years.
Tags: Applied Pharmacy Services, illegal steroid distribution, Mobile, Performance enhancing drugs, Scott Corliss, steroids
Posted in steroid nation, Steroids and Anabolic Steroids
Tuesday 27, Jan 2009
APPLIED PHARMACY SERVICES IDENTIFIED TO BE ILLEGAL STEROID DEALERS
The federal grand jury of the U.S. District Court in Mobile, Alabama has charged members of Applied Pharmacy Services Inc. (APS) with illegal prescription and distribution of anabolic steroids. There were twelve individuals involved including the owners, Samuel Kelley, Jason Kelley and Jodi Silvio, four pharmacists and 5 other individuals who helped with the operation. According to the court documents, APS operated in at least 10 states.
The pharmacists involved were apparently prescribing and selling steroids that are used by veterinaries to human buyers. The public got hold of the APS through their internet campaign, advertisements, and local gyms and through snow-balling through their contacts. They sold cocktail anabolic steroids, human growth hormone and human chorionic gonadotropin. When asked if there were any sports figure that served as a client, the assistant US attorney handling the case didn’t comment. She mentioned, however, that some of the clients were teenagers. This would pose a heavier sentence for the group since selling steroids and illegal drugs to individuals less than 21 mean 10 years imprisonment. Usually, a sentence of 5 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 are given to cases like this.
Tags: Alabama, Applied Pharmacy Services, human chorionic gonadotropin, human growth hormone, Mobile, stacking steroids, steroids
Wednesday 03, Sep 2008
Doctor pleads guilty in steroid case
David Wilbirt, a Scottsdale physician, could face up to 25 years in prison due to steroid-related charges.
According to ABC15 report, Wilbirt and his fiancée, Candace Toler, pleaded guilty Friday to charges of money laundering and conspiracy to illegally dispense and distribute anabolic steroids.
The doctor, however, could get reduced prison time as he agreed to cooperate with authorities in their investigation relating to Applied Pharmacy Services in Mobile, Alabama.
According to published reports, during the period of November 2004 to April 2005, Wilbirt dispensed 3,879 prescriptions for controlled substances — more than any other physician in the state, according to a Drug Enforcement Administration’s search warrant affidavit.
When the DEA agents raided Wilbirt’s home and his office they seized incriminating evidence. There were patient files, a computer, more than $40,000 in cash, $29,000 in gold and silver bullion, several pills, vials and syringes of testosterone, human growth hormones and other prescription drugs, plus three bags of marijuana, according to the affidavit. Agents also recovered other documents including prescriptions, correspondence from customers and requests for prescriptions from the Internet.
So far six people have entered guilty pleas, including Wilbirt and his fiancée, Candace Toler.
According to documents obtained by ABC15, the DEA raided Wilbirt’s Scottsdale offices back in June of 2005.
The documents, which were sealed until ABC15 went to court, reveal agents with the DEA “seized copies of the medical records for patients that Dr. Wilbirt illegally distributed dangerous drugs and human growth hormone to.â€
When asked three months ago about the ongoing federal investigation, Wilbirt told ABC15‘s Josh Bernstein, “I don’t want to comment on that.â€
But this is not the first time Wilbirt’s been in trouble.
The Arizona Medical Board issued letters of reprimand to Wilbirt on two separate occasions.
The first letter, back in 1996, was for unprofessional conduct related to failure to maintain adequate patient records and making false or fraudulent statements.
The second letter, in 1998, was also for unprofessional conduct, this time related to prescribing, dispensing or administering controlled substances for other than accepted therapeutic purposes and failure to maintain adequate records.
The Arizona Medical Board revoked Wilbirt’s license in March of 2008 for inappropriate prescribing and violating a board order for continuing to prescribe controlled substances after signing an agreement prohibiting him from engaging in the practice of medicine.
So far no charges have been filed against any employees or owners of Applied Pharmacy Services.
Applied Pharmacy Services is one of the pharmacies that had figured in the grand jury investigation in the rampant sale of illegal performance-enhancing drugs over the Internet. The PEDs included anabolic steroids and human growth hormone.
The pharmacy was also mentioned in the Mitchell Report, the fruition U.S. Sen. George Mitchell’s 20-month long investigation of PED use in the Major League. Applied Pharmacy Services was reportedly the source of performance boosters of several pro baseball players, including former Braves closer, John Rocker and former Philies third baseman, David Bell.
In May this year, two doctors linked with Applied Pharmacy Services had also pleaded guilty to federal charges of illegal distribution of anabolic steroids.
Dr. Kelly W. Tucker of Greeley, Colo., pleaded guilty to dispensing anabolic steroids outside the course of professional practice. Dr. Pamela Pyle, a Myrtle Beach, S.C., osteopath, pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony for withholding information about illegal steroid prescriptions. Their sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 4.
In January, two doctors who had been practicing in the Greeley area also had entered guilty pleas. Dr. Scott A. Corliss pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony and has sentencing set for Oct. 29; and Dr. Kenneth M. Olds entered his guilty plea on June 6 to the same charge as Tucker.
Tags: Applied Pharmacy Services, baseball players using PEDs, David Wilbirt, illegal distribution of steroids and PEDs, Major League Baseball, Mitchell Report, steroids
Posted in Steroid Cycles, steroid nation, Steroids and Anabolic Steroids, Steroids in Baseball, Steroids in Olympics, Steroids in Sports
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Champions League Final – Istanbul 2021
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The Champions League Final is the most important club Football Final in Europe. On 29. May 2021 the Champions League Final will be played in the Atatürk Olympic Stadium, Istanbul-Turkey.
Clubs from all over Europe will again battle for one of the most prestigious trophies in football. New club teams will emerge as champions and new players will become superstars.
Even though the outcome of this years tournament will be impossible to predict. The only fact is that there will be drama and excitement as the best football teams from all over Europe compete for this prestigious title.
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Bruce Willis actioner Hard Kill gets release date
ILY Films are thrilled to announce the upcoming digital download release of action royalty Bruce Willis’ (Die Hard) latest high octane thriller ‘Hard Kill’ on September 14th across all major platforms.
The film follows a team of fearless mercenaries, who led by security expert Derek Miller (Jesse Metcalfe), are considered the best fighters on Earth that money can buy. They are strategically hired by billionaire tech CEO Donovan Chalmers (Bruce Willis) to protect a piece of technology that, if exposed, could destroy the world.
Their mission becomes even higher risk when Chalmers’ daughter is kidnapped by the extremely dangerous terrorist group The Pardoners, who will stop at nothing to obtain the tech. Miller and his team must now work together with Chalmers in order to save his family and protect the fate of the human race before it’s too late.
Adapted from a story by Clayton Haugen and Nikolai From &co-written by writing duo Joe Russo and Chris LaMont (The Au Pair Nightmare), Hard Kill also stars WWE star Natalie Eva Marie,Sergio Rizzuto (Trauma Centre, Escape Plan 3) & Lala Kent (Vault, One Shot).
Hard Kill will be available for Digital Download from 14th September
Here’s a trailer…
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Leaked Minutes Describe Chief Exec’s Role In Governors’ Meeting
Added by Andy Hargreaves on September 10, 2012.
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The Five Islands School
The leaked minutes from a Five Islands School governors meeting show that the Council chief executive personally presented allegations over Bryce Wilby’s alleged misuse of a laptop.
But the meeting minutes also reveal concerns were voiced over the involvement of the Council of the Isles of Scilly in the meeting.
The record states that a governor was ‘summoned’ to the Town Hall on the afternoon of June 29th to be told that the Council chief executive and director of finance wanted to attend that evening’s meeting and share the interim report by Cornwall council auditors.
Some governors felt this short notice echoed the May 18th meeting when they had a few hours to call an emergency meeting requested by Council officers and during which they outlined their recommendation to suspend the head.
In this June 29th meeting, some governors argued that they hadn’t been able to check whether correct procedure was being followed in allowing a report on the head teacher to be aired in front of Bryce Wilby’s staff colleagues.
A call for legal advice was made but the majority of governors agreed that all members could stay.
One governor did question whether it was appropriate that acting head teacher, Liz Duffy Griffiths, stayed for the meeting. The minutes record that Mrs Griffiths, when questioned, stated that her employer, Mr Hygate, had asked her to be there. She said she had taken advice from her employer and he authorised her presence.
Council Chief Executive, Philip Hygate
In the minutes, Mr Hygate is quoted as saying he was taking the place of Penny Penn Howard, the Council’s education director, who was away. He said that Peter Lawrence was there by right, but Mr Lawrence corrected that, claiming he was invited to attend.
According to the report, the chief executive then went on to introduce the allegations of inappropriate laptop images in the most dramatic terms.
He warned that anyone who wanted to leave the room could do so. Nobody left.
It is reported that he told the governors this was, “most grave – so grave an issue, he has not been privy to anything so grave in all his 30 years of experience” and would have “grave consequences for the future of the school.”
“It was 1000 times worse than you could imagine,” he is reported as saying.
Peter Lawrence alleged that deleted images had been found on a laptop used by Bryce.
He alleged that they were all adults featured and confirmed, when asked by a governor, that no pictures were of children.
A Governor is recorded as asking if it could be determined when images were put on the computer and Mr Lawrence said that might be possible with further forensic examination.
He is recorded as saying the police service had to examine the computer, a point which was last week contested by Councillor David Pearson.
The Council press office has since told us they were not aware at that time that the auditors had made different arrangements to investigate the contents of the laptop, which meant they didn’t have to use the police service.
Bryce Wilby denies the allegation and his union spokesman says the laptop wasn’t always in his possession.
The minutes state that Mr Hygate went on to tell governors that the head teacher must not come into the school or make contact with parents, teachers and children.
Mr Lawrence concluded that there had been division between the governing body and the local authority and he hoped that this would be a time to work together for the good of the children and the good of the school.
But acting head teacher Mrs Griffiths is said to have wanted it minuted that the reported hostilities do not exist
She suggested that the role of the governors’ chairperson should be undertaken by a professional based on the mainland in order to maintain transparency.
Members have since elected St Martins resident Ben Julian into the position.
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North West music outfit The Nearlys release haunting new version of Shakespeare’s ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’ in time for the Bard’s birthday this week
Here’s a musical treat to celebrate the week of Shakespeare’s birthday. Based in the North West of England, musical outfit The Nearlys, comprising vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Helen Walker and her drummer husband Mike, have recorded a mellow and haunting folk and jazz-tinged new version of the song ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’ from Shakespeare’s As You Like It.
Can you tell us why you chose this Shakespeare lyric and how you constructed the musical track?
Helen Walker: “It was initially written for a choir competition, the rules of which required that I wrote to a lyric that is in the public domain. I usually write my own lyrics, although I have also set ‘The Skylark’ by James Hogg to music. After a lot of research I chose ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’ because it inspired me. I compose at the piano and then arrange as it’s recorded in the studio. I sang and played all the instruments on the song except for the drums, which were played by my husband Mike Walker.”
Would you consider doing a whole album of Shakespeare songs? I’d like to hear your take on ‘The Rain it Raineth Every Day’, for instance…
“I’ve never thought of it – but it’s a great idea and I’ll never work with a better lyricist! I’m just in the process of completing The Nearlys’ LP, due out later this year. But I’ll have a try at composing for ‘The Rain it Raineth Every Day’ and let you know how I get on. It would be nice to release something further to mark Shakespeare’s 400th [anniversary of death] next year.”
Go here to listen to ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’ by The Nearlys (released by Everyday Records)
Coincidentally, London-based actor Josh Neesby has just won a Royal Shakespeare Company competition with an electronic version of the same song, recorded as ‘Come Hither.
Go here to listen to ‘Come Hither’ by Josh Neesby.
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BROOKS HONORED AS GUARDIAN OF SMALL BUSINESS BY NFIB
Rep. Brooks accepts Guardian of Small Business Award
from the NFIB.
WASHINGTON, D.C., – The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), the nation’s leading small business association, today awarded Congressman Mo Brooks (AL-05) with its Guardian of Small Business Award for his outstanding voting record in support of America’s small business owners in the 114th Congress.
In presenting the group’s prestigious Guardian of Small Business Award, NFIB President and CEO Juanita Duggan said, “Many elected officials claim that they are champions of small business, but our Guardian Award shows our members and other small business owners who is really fighting for them.”
Duggan continued, “Based on his voting record, Rep. Brooks is one of the most reliable advocates for small business in Washington.”
NFIB’s “How Congress Voted,” which serves as a report card for members of Congress, was recently unveiled. The report presents key small business votes and voting percentages for each lawmaker. Those voting favorably on key small business issues at least 70 percent of the time during the 114th Congress are eligible for the Guardian Award. Congressman Brooks received a perfect 100 percent score.
NFIB is the nation’s leading small-business advocacy association, with offices in Washington, D.C. and all 50 state capitals. Founded in 1943 to give small business owners a voice in public policy making, NFIB’s policy positions are set by its 325,000 business owner members, who send their views directly to state and federal lawmakers through NFIB’s unique member only ballot. NFIB’s mission is to promote and protect the right of our members to own, operate, and grow their businesses.
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Guo Yonghe, the new First Voice
In an extra-ordinary parliamentary session, Guo Yonghe has been elected by majority vote among the Houses as Xing Cheng's 13th First Voice since the formation of the Republic.jointly nominated by the Council of Military and Council of Shi, only 2 other candidates nominations were accepted and Guo Yonghe won with 73% of the votes. The official swearing-in ceremony will be conducted tomorrow and FV Guo will be announcing his new cabinet immediately after. It is expected most of the existing Ministers will receive appointments in the new cabinet although there are hints of minor changes. The public response is overwhelmingly positive, FV Guo status as a war hero and his handling of the protestors at Wansheng Street. Cries of "Yonghe" has been taken up as a chant on the streets and what were scenes of protests just days ago are turning into ones of celebration. At a press conference late in the evening, Guo gave thanks to many parties including Yang Xiong. "I am both dee
Where the Grand Mentor and Grand Tutor have tea
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Editorial on the First Voice Crisis
Editorial Even before Yang Xiong's explanations for his step down at the press conference after the parliament session, the mood on the ground has visibly swung in the opposite direction. Where once the protestors were quick to lay the blame for all their troubles at Yang Xiong's feet, many fingers are now pointed at the fractious Houses with some Houses in particular getting the lion's share. Yang Xiong's emotional speech to the press has struck a chord with many a citizen, the outpouring of support from the polls and grassroots have been overwhelming. Already, apart from a few isolated incidents, the rioting and violence has stopped and more than half the protestors have dispersed with the remaining confined to Wansheng street. Much has been written about the reasons and causes that lead to the current situation and I don't have anything else to say that has not been said a dozen times by numerous people. I want to talk about the miasma of uncertainty that seems t
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First Voice Resigns during Parliament November 25th, 2271 Gregorian New Xingjing Daily - On the 4th day since mass street protests began and 12 hours since violence among the protesters broke out,First Voice Yang Xiong resigned during a session of Parliament. In the grueling 3-hour session, Yang Xiong attempted to answer question after question from the Voices of the Houses on the current unrest, the economy, unemployment, the highly controversial LGT project and collaboration with the Caliphate of Medina. 3 times the Houses were called to order as verbal abuses were hurled at Yang Xiong and his cabinet. A recess for half an hour was called and when Parliament was resumed, Yang Xiong again took the podium and delivered a speech acknowledging his failings in many areas and apologised to the Houses and the people of XC. "It is clear to me I no longer have the mandate of the Houses to carry on in my capacity as First Voice. I hereby tender my resignation and ask that the Houses elect
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Tomb Raider: Anniversary
PC / Reviews / by Jason Dobson /
Coming off of 2006’s Tomb Raider: Legend, it appeared as if, for the first time in what must have seemed like an eternity, the series that simultaneously gave birth to both modern 3D adventure and iconic video game heroine Lara Croft had returned to form. The franchise’s breakthrough 1996 debut notwithstanding, the series found itself in a near decade-long slump, punctuated by the near-unplayable mess that was 2003’s Angel of Darkness. However, it was Legend, penned by Crystal Dynamics rather than the recently dismembered Core Design, which proved Eidos’ continued faith in their media darling with an adventure that stood out as one the year’s best.
And just as Legend re-energized the Tomb Raider franchise with an overhaul and a return to Gameplay 101, Tomb Raider: Anniversary builds upon this foundation, using Core Design’s brilliant freshman effort as a jumping off point for what is unquestionably Lara Croft’s most rewarding adventure to date. The original stood out for its emphasis on epic platforming and death-defying heroics, and this remake manages to recapture this magic, while simultaneously refining it so that the experience feels unmistakably modern.
Anniversary is nostalgic when appropriate, and players who experienced the original will no doubt geek out over several of the little touches offered by this homage to Tomb Raider‘s roots. But this game is more than just a remake: the real accomplishment of Anniversary is that Crystal Dynamics has not used the original as a crutch, but rather as a kind of map, and like Croft herself, the developers were not shy about exploring beyond the edges of what was known, resulting in an experience that brilliantly marries both old and new.
Also brilliant are the numerous touch-ups found in this return to Lara’s first adventure, from Croft herself, now looking every bit the part of a modern gaming icon, to the title’s many sprawling environments, a handful of which represent some of best designed levels to come about in years. Anniversary‘s completely redesigned puzzles also impress, with head-scratchers that are rarely too difficult, many times offering just enough of a hurdle to make the accomplishment feel earned and worthwhile.
While the original’s gameplay was based on a calculating, grid-based system of jumps, Anniversary is much more fluid, more forgiving, with a wonderful checkpoint system that records your progress automatically after nearly every significant accomplishment. Make no mistake, the game is still challenging in parts, but the developers have done a great job at keeping frustration to a minimum. Much of this comes thanks to the groundwork laid with Legend, including a new repertoire of gameplay mechanics such as grapples and pole vaults, so it’s surprising that Anniversary‘s camera feels much less intuitive than Legend‘s, sometimes obscuring the action rather than showing what needs to be seen.
Altogether, Tomb Raider: Anniversary is now the benchmark against which all future remakes will be measured. Like the original, action takes a backseat to exploration, as Anniversary leaves players alone for long stretches of gameplay as they wrestle with the game’s many platforms and crevices, making those encounters awaiting Lara Croft feel all the more intense. Anniversary rethinks one of the most important games of the last decade, and is a fantastic testimonial to its roots, standing out as one the year’s most worthwhile gaming experiences so far.
Score: 5/5
Questions? Check out our review guide.
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Home > Tech > Yahoo buys image-recognition startup – The Hindu
Yahoo buys image-recognition startup – The Hindu
Yahoo’s latest acquisition will bring image-recognition technology to its Flickr service for sharing photos.
The Internet company is getting the new tools and expertise through its purchase of a startup called LookFlow. Financial terms of the deal announced on Wednesday weren’t disclosed.
It’s a small acquisition, as have been most of the more than 20 deals that Yahoo has completed since hiring Marissa Mayer as its CEO 15 months ago. The one exception was the Internet blogging service Tumblr, which cost Yahoo Inc. $1.1 billion earlier this year.
Yahoo is picking up five LookFlow engineers in its latest deal.
Ms. Mayer, a former Google Inc. executive, has been particularly interesting in snapping up startups with expertise in making applications for smartphones and tablets.
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Samsung kicks off ‘Get More’ campaign
Customers can now get more with Samsung home appliances, as the renowned electronic brand brings their new promotional campaign titled ‘Get More.’ Under this campaign, customers can avail exchange offers up to BDT 22,000 and cashbacks up to BDT 30,000 depending on their desired models till end of December, says a press release.
Samsung Bangladesh has opened up the door for its loyal consumers to decorate own houses conveniently with top-notch electronic appliances.
Samsung television, refrigerator, air conditioner, washing machine and microwave oven are available for purchase in this campaign.
Upon buying a Samsung TV, customers can enjoy up to BDT 30,000 cashback, plus win a Luxury Staycation at The Westin Dhaka with every 55” or above model UHD TV. For refrigerators, the cashback offer is provided up to BDT 25,000. Lucrative cashback will also be available on air conditioners, washing machines and microwave ovens, ranging from BDT 2,000 to BDT 5,000. Customers can even exchange their products in order to get benefit from the Samsung exchange offers, starting from BDT 4,000 and going up to BDT 22,000, depending on the original price and model of products.
The promotional campaign also comes with a chance for the customers to scratch cards and win exciting prizes. The scratch and get more features, available for the buyers of Samsung TV and refrigerator, enable customers to try their luck with a scratch card and win prizes like TV, washing machine, and microwave oven. Samsung has also introduced a Bundle Offer with this campaign. Customers can enjoy up to 5per cent discount on top of the existing discounts if they purchase a minimum of 3 products at a time.
Shahriar Bin Lutfor, Head of Business, Consumer Electronics, Samsung Bangladesh said, “Our constant efforts to uplift the consumer experience in Bangladesh have been meeting very positive results for many years. We have introduced this new campaign to honour the loyalty and love that we receive from our customers. Nothing is more pleasing for us than having a consumer-based who wish to decorate their lifestyles with Samsung products for every need”.
Moreover, Samsung promises 60per cent money-back if any UHD & QLED TV is returned within 6 months. All the TV comes with a 100-day replacement warranty and 5 years’ free service warranty with in-home service. 2 years’ panel warranty can also be availed by the customers.
Moreover, upon purchasing the product, customers will be able to enjoy 12 months of EMI and free home delivery. The products are available at Samsung SmartPlaza, Fair Electronics, Transcom Digital, Electra, Rangs Industries.
Samsung kicks off Get More campaign
Customers can now get more with Samsung home appliances, as the renowned electronic brand brings their new promotional campaign titled Get More. Under this campaign, customers can avail exchange offers up to BDT 22,000 and cashbacks up to BDT 30,000 depending on their desired models till end of December, says a press release. Samsung Bangladesh has opened up the door for its loyal consumers to decorate own houses conveniently with top-notch electronic appliances. Samsung television, refrigerator, air conditioner, washing machine and microwave oven are available for purchase in this campaign. Upon buying a Samsung TV, customers can enjoy up to BDT 30,000 cashback, plus win a Luxury Staycation at The Westin Dhaka with every 55 or above model UHD TV. For refrigerators, the cashback offer is provided up to BDT 25,000. Lucrative cashback will also be available on air conditioners, washing machines and microwave ovens, ranging from BDT 2,000 to BDT 5,000. Customers can even exchange their products in order to get benefit from the Samsung exchange offers, starting from BDT 4,000 and going up to BDT 22,000, depending on the original price and model of products. The promotional campaign also comes with a chance for the customers to scratch cards and win exciting prizes. The scratch and get more features, available for the buyers of Samsung TV and refrigerator, enable customers to try their luck with a scratch card and win prizes like TV, washing machine, and microwave oven. Samsung has also introduced a Bundle Offer with this campaign. Customers can enjoy up to 5per cent discount on top of the existing discounts if they purchase a minimum of 3 products at a time. Shahriar Bin Lutfor, Head of Business, Consumer Electronics, Samsung Bangladesh said, Our constant efforts to uplift the consumer experience in Bangladesh have been meeting very positive results for many years. We have introduced this new campaign to honour the loyalty and love that we receive from our customers. Nothing is more pleasing for us than having a consumer-based who wish to decorate their lifestyles with Samsung products for every need. Moreover, Samsung promises 60per cent money-back if any UHD QLED TV is returned within 6 months. All the TV comes with a 100-day replacement warranty and 5 years free service warranty with in-home service. 2 years panel warranty can also be availed by the customers. Moreover, upon purchasing the product, customers will be able to enjoy 12 months of EMI and free home delivery. The products are available at Samsung SmartPlaza, Fair Electronics, Transcom Digital, Electra, Rangs Industries. HM
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Davis Cup Final, Day One
Ferrer d. Stepanek, 6/3 6/4 6/4
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The first day of the 2012 Davis Cup final has been completed, with the Czech Republic and the constitutional monarchy of Spain locked at one rubber all. If one was feeling overly wilful or mischievous this could be spun as a political tussle between the old world and the new, between tradition and progress. It’s something for Tomas Berdych to consider, lest he grows short on Spaniard-baiting material, which admittedly seems unlikely to happen. There’s also a chance he is too tired and wary, having narrowly avoided gagging on the heroic portion of humble pie he’d prepared earlier. Perhaps he’s learned a lesson. Part of me hopes not. Still, even if he hasn’t, the rest of us certainly have.
For example, we now know that the Prague crowd expresses its disapproval by whistling, and that what they lack in virtuosity they make up for in raw stamina. Expressing ire through whistling, you may be sure, is a distance event. This was eagerly illustrated when Carlos Ramos failed to correctly award a point to Berdych after the Czech player had successfully challenged a winner called out. Ramos was certainly wrong; the point should have gone to Berdych. For a good twenty minutes the locals pursed their lips and made their feelings known with undiminished gusto, which would swell ominously like the Sirens of Jericho whenever Nicolas Almagro commenced his service motion.
Despite sounding like the stadium was rapidly deflating, it ironically pumped Berdych up. Having appeared flat throughout the second set, he fair bounded through the third. Whistling clearly has its advantages, especially as it proved sufficiently loud to drown out the vuvuzela section. (I don’t know who invented the vuvuzela, but I do kind of wish it was me. I could make a fortune charging people $10 each to punch me in the face.) Before too long it subsided, leaving Berdych so diminished that he first surrendered his lead in the fourth, and then the set itself in a tiebreaker.
It went without saying that an Almagro victory would have put Spain in an overwhelming position, given that they’d already won the opening rubber. Or so I thought. Greg Rusedski did not agree: ‘If Almagro wins, then Spain is in the driver’s seat.’ In the end Berdych did eke out the fifth set, thus technically proving Almagro to be the weaker link, since it’s doubtful whether Berdych on this form would have troubled Ferrer for long. But even so, I’m sure it was a closer run thing than Berdych had envisaged, and it’s hard to think that this hadn’t contributed to the nerves that for a time threatened to paralyse him. Almagro acquitted himself well, in every sense, from his superior serving and aggressive ground game, up to and including his gracious handshake afterwards. It was a lesson in classy behaviour, or at least an example of how politeness can be weaponised. We learned that Reebok has nothing in its current range that comes closer to bandera roja than pink.
We also learned that there’s really not much to say about David Ferrer beating Radek Stepanek in straight sets, but that in the hands of a master analyst like Rusedski this little can be made to go a long way, or at least for a long time. The actual Eurosport commentary during the match had been provided by Frew McMillan and Chris Bradnam, and was thus quite good, although they only referred to Ferrer as ‘underrated’ a handful of times. This was well short of the crushing quota achieved over on the Tennis Channel, whose experts rate him so highly that they struggle to come up with much else to say. Almost everything about him, by their estimation, is not accorded the respect it merits from the broader public.
Keen to verify this for myself, I took to the streets. There weren’t many people around at that hour in Melbourne, but those seedy revellers I did corner eventually confessed that they didn’t rate Ferrer very highly at all, even when I showed them a photo and explained who he was. Some appeared shocked to learn that he has such competent volleys, and that he defends his second serve so well. (None of them hung around long after that, except for one charming transient who insisted he could smell my heartbeat.)
Notwithstanding the scientific validity of my vox pop survey, I still think Ferrer’s underratedness is mostly overrated. He was the clear favourite today, and played like it, despite a minor hitch in the second set when Stepanek came back hard at him. He won in quick time, serving, passing and running remarkably like you’d imagine a world No.5 would, regardless of rating.
Although the result itself clearly thrilled the Spanish team – even yielding them temporary control of that cherished driver’s seat – its brevity won’t have troubled the Czech team too much. Stepanek probably wasn’t going to win anyway, so it’s best he was spared unnecessary toil before the pivotal doubles tomorrow. Whether he’ll partner the weary Berdych could be a dicey question, though, and the Czech team has some thinking to do. I suspect he’ll play, if only to see his devious plan bear fruit. All this Almagro ‘weak link’ talk has been a red herring. It’s really Marcel Granollers they’re after.
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Ex-French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing Who Decriminalized Adultery, Abortion, Dies Of Covid-19 Complications
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— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) December 3, 2020
President Emmanuel Macron’s: ” Valéry Giscard d’Estaing Transformed France “
Valéry Giscard d’Estaing a transformé la France. pic.twitter.com/jWZMidALcm
Macron pays tribute to a well regarded president who has passed on:
Hommage au Président Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.https://t.co/sXYBW3cYoG
Widely known as a ‘reformist’ president, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing has died at 94. In his days, he made a broadcast to his people that France needed to change, or perish. And he set everything in motion to reform the republic.
Valéry Giscard d’Estaing made divorce very easy, such that no one needed to tell lies against the other, just to score cheap points and hasten divorce.
By mutual consent, marriage partners can divorce.
Emmanuel Macron has given a televised address to the nation, paying tribute to late former president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing from the Élysée Palace, Paris on December 3, 2020.
French President Emmanuel Macron said in a TV address on Thursday evening that France would pay tribute to the late president
There would be a national day of mourning next Wednesday, December 9 for the centrist former head of state, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.
Giscard d’Estaing governed for a single seven-year term from 1974 to 1981, when France made great strides in nuclear power, high-speed train travel and legalised abortion. The youthful statesman placed Paris at the heart of Europe in a post-war partnership with Germany and paved the way for the creation of the G7 group of world powers.
“His legacy of modernity will remain,” Macron said. “You can be certain that I will do everything, together with you, to keep that flame of progress and optimism alive.”
Addressing the nation on television, Macron explained that the former leader and his family had, “out of modesty”, expressed the wish that he not receive a national homage upon his passing.
“Next February 2, the day of his birth, a solemn homage will be organised at the European Parliament in Strasbourg,” Macron added.
Giscard d’Estaing will be laid to rest in “strict intimacy” on Saturday in the village of Authon where he last lived, some 200 kilometres southwest of Paris, his family said.
Additional reporting: (FRANCE 24 with AFP)
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Bologna and beyond
It has been a busy fair for the Yusof Gajah Lingard Literary Agency this year at the Bologna Book Fair with a few deals signed and more being negotiated.
Yusof Gajah sold German rights to his book, "Where is my red ball?" and Arabic digital rights for the same book, with more books from his "Creative Learning Series", already sold to Korea, to be added.
Sonja Matheson from Baobab Books
German rights for Jainal Amambing's "Magic Buffalo" were also sold to Baobab Books, based in Switzerland. Baobab is a specialist publisher that promotes cultural diversity in children's and youth literature.
CEO Badr Ward of Dubai-based digital publisher, Lamsa Kids World, was thrilled with the creative and bright colours of Yusof Gajah's illustrations.
"We provide interactive digital books for children and you can really do so many fun and creative things with Yusof Gajah's books," he said.
He was pleased to add two books by Emila Yusof, "My Mother's Garden" and "My Mother's Kitchen" to the Lamsa platform which currently reaches more than 200,000 children in the Arab world.
"While the little girl character, Dina, is not Arabic, we also want to expose our children to other cultures. And with our technology, we can make the books interactive to give a fun learning experience for children," he added referring to the learning environment that the Dina series provides.
The two Dina books, in a bigger format with richer content and in the Malay language were displayed at the Bologna Book Fair by Karangkraf, a leading publisher in Malaysia.
On Wednesday, Yusof Gajah was busy at the China Children's Press and Publication Group (CCPPG) stand in Hall 26 where he was one of the illustrators feted at their launch, 'Let's Tell Stories Together' - a Fruitful Collaboration on Children's Literature between China and the Rest of the World.
Chinese launch of a co-operative programme with international writers and illustrators.
Yusof Gajah with writers and illustrators at the China Children's Press & Publication Stand
IBBY President Ahmad Redza with Brazilian Roger Mello, this year's winner of the Hans Christian Andersen award.
Yusof illustrated the book, "How to Teach an Elephant to Jump" written by award-winning Chinese author, Xiao Mao.
"I hope our publishers will establish long term cooperative ties with partners overseas so that more Chinese children's literature as well as picture books can reach international readers on a regular basis," says Li Xueqian, President of the group in a news release.
China's Xinhua.net quoted Ahmad Redza Khairuddin, president of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), that China is at the forefront of the children's book market for its "proactive way of approaching literature."
A Malaysian, IBBY President Ahmad Redza is noted for his commitment to diversity in children's literature both at home and abroad.
L to R: Chris Cheng, Jean Liu, Angela Cerrito, Sayed Munawar, Fred Minn and Hafiz of KotaBuku
The Perbadanan Kota Buku (PKB) or the Malaysian Book City Corporation held a forum on Wednesday with the topic: 'Celebrating Diversity in Children's Literature' with speakers Sayed Munawar, CEO of PKB; Fred Minn, Director of Nami Concours, Korea; Jean Liu, CEO ofMoker, Taiwan and China; Angela Cerrito, International Asst Advisor, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI); and Chris Cheng, Board Member of the Asian Festival of Children's Content (AFCC),Singapore.
Fred Minn gave a comprehensive overview of Nami Island, the story book island which was impressive both in scope and vision. Nami Island is known for their international co-operations with regular country-focused festivals on the island itself.
Angela Cerrito said that SCBWI now covers more than 70 regions worldwide with more than 22,000 members, making it the largest children's book writers and illustrators organisation in the world today. A physical therapist herself, Angela commented on the importance of having diversity and inclusiveness in children's literature to encourage understanding and acceptance.
Chris Cheng gave a concise outline of what happens at the annual Asian Festival of Children's Content in Singapore and highlighted the new Rights Exchange programme at this year's festival which will be held from 29 May to 4 June. Chris is also on the International Advisory Board of SCBWI, a strong supporter of AFCC.
In her presentation, Jean Liu demonstrated the animated books Moker had done for several books represented by the YGL Agency including "My Mother's Garden" by Emila Yusof, "Puteri Toman" by Rossiti Aishah Rashidi with illustrations by Farrah Ashiela Samsuri; and "The Proud Butterfly" by Jainal Amambing.
"It was amazing to see the books come to life," said Linda Tan Lingard, director of the Agency who has signed several books deal with Moker since 2012 and added a few more at Bologna.
Among the new additions was a ten-book series of Sang Kancil, the eponymous mouse deer in Malaysian folktales illustrated by Jaafar Taib, a prominent Malaysian artist of wild birds and who had made his name as founder and creator of several long running comic magazines. The Sang Kancil books will be published by Institut Terjemahan & Buku Malaysia or the Malaysian Institute of Translation & Books.
Mock ups of Sang Kancil books by Jaafar Taib
"It's just wonderful to meet people from different parts of the world who are passionate about children's literature; we can learn so much from each other," said Linda.
At the Bologna book fair, Linda followed up on some discussions that were started at the New Delhi World Book Fair in February this year and new announcements will be made soon.
Malaysian and German publishers meet at the German collective stand
The Frankfurt Book Fair organised a Malaysian-German publisher get together at the German collective stand on Monday. Within one hour, each party was introduced to more than six publishers from the other side.
"It was good to meet and talk with some German publishers and I thought the DIY mechanical kits for children by a publisher was particularly interesting. I like to meet many different people and get to know what is outstanding about their books or products and keep a sort of storehouse of information that can be accessed later," said Linda.
At the Malaysian country stand led by the Book City Corporation, Norhayati Razali, Manager in charge of Book Industry Development and Ishak Hamzah, vice-president of the Malaysian Book Publishers Association were seen inviting people to the coming Kuala Lumpur Trade & Copyright fair which will be held from 22-24 April while a Publishing & Rights Conference will be held on 21 April. The Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair will be held from 24 April - 4th May and is an exciting fair that attracts more than 1.5million visitors every year.
The YGL agency will be taking a stand at the KL Fair. "We have a number of new books and the KL Trade & Copyright fair is ideal for us to introduce those books. Typically, the fair is good to meet publishers from around the region," said Linda.
"In addition, we're keen to introduce some foreign titles that we have identified at the Bologna book fair," she said. This included the Borre series of readers from Netherlands which now total more than 200 titles and foreign rights have been sold to Korea and China.
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White Stripes With a “Icky Thump”
by Tibi Puiu in Garage Rock, Indie, Videos
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Everybody is all exited about [tag]White Stripes[/tag] new upcoming album, entitled “Icky Thump” scheduled for release on June 19th. A music video called as the album, “Icky Thump”, has been released a few days ago and since then caused a lot of fuss around it. I found the video awesome, some classic White Stripes hard rocking is present here, with Jack putting his guitar to good use with amazing riffs and Meg with some serious drumming.
The video is nicely made with a one eyed Mexican prostitute Meg and a no good gringo Jack, all happening in a Mexican whorehouse, pretty sweet!
Also for their 10th band anniversary the happy Whites, Jack and Meg will tour through al lot of places they’ve never been at in the USA and Canada.
“We were leery for a long time … we’d never had the trust in us to do it,” he says. “It would have been a bad idea to do that on ‘White Blood Cells.’ We had them all offering it then. But I think it would have been over very quickly for us. We would have been a new flavor of the week and probably would have been a one-hit wonder with ‘Fell in Love With a Girl.”
June 24: Burnaby, B.C. (Deer Lake Park)
June 25: Whitehorse, Y.T. (Yukon Arts Centre)
June 26: Yellowknife, N.W. (Yellowknife Multiplex)
June 27: Iqaluit, N.U.N. (Arctic Winter Games Arena
June 29: Calgary, A.B. (Pengrowth Saddledome)
June 30: Edmonton, A.B. (Shaw Conference Centre)
July 1: Saskatoon, S.K. (TCU Place)
July 2: Winnipeg, M.B. (MTS Centre)
July 3: Thunder Bay, Ont. (Community Auditorium)
July 5: Toronto (Molson Amphitheatre)
July 6: Montreal (Bell Centre)
July 7: London, Ont. (Labatt Centre)
July 8: Ottawa, Ont. (Cisco Systems Bluesfest)
July 10: Moncton, N.B. (Moncton Coliseum)
July 11: Charlottetown, P.E. (Civic Centre)
July 13: Halifax, N.S. (Cunard Event Centre)
July 14: Glace Bay, N.S. (Savoy Theatre)
July 16: Saint John’s, N.F. (Mile One Centre)
July 22: Portland, Maine (Civic Center)
July 23: Boston (Agganis Arena)
July 24: New York (Madison Square Garden)
July 25: Wallingford, Conn. (Chevrolet Theatre)
July 27: Wilmington, Del. (Grand Opera House)
July 28: Fairfax, Va. (Patriot Center)
July 29: Myrtle Beach, S.C. (House of Blues)
July 30: Birmingham, Ala. (Sloss Furnace)
July 31: Southaven, Miss. (Snowden Grove Park)
Sept. 4-5: Chicago (Aragon Ballroom)
Sept. 6: Lincoln, Neb. (Pershing Auditorium)
Sept. 7: Fargo, N.D. (Civic Auditorium)
Sept. 8: Rapid City, S.D. (Rushmore Plaza)
Sept. 10: Jackson Hole, Wyo. (Snowking Center)
Sept. 11: Boise, Idaho (Idaho Center Theatre)
Sept. 12: Sat Lake City (E Center)
Sept. 13: Albuquerque, N.M. (Kiva Auditorium)
Sept. 15-16: Austin, Texas (Austin City Limits)
Sept. 19: Inglewood, Calif. (the Forum)
Sept. 21: Berkeley, Calif. (Greek Theatre)
Sept. 24: Anchorage, Ala. (William A. Egan Civic Center)
Sept. 26-27: Seattle (Paramount Ballroom)
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Tibi is the co-founder and current editor in chief of ZME Music. He's had a passion for music since when he can remember, but since he lacks the necessary skills to make music, he decided to simply mix in another passion of his: writing.
Thanks to the marvels of the Internet, anyone can voice out and, in time, Tibi has helped a lot of artists and made a lot of friends by following his double passion for writing and music.
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Quail Run students get a chance to experience difficulty in cleaning oil from water, animals
George Diepenbrock
Quail Run first-grader Olivia Ryan, center, pulls a soiled paper towel from a mixture of water, vegetable oil and cocoa mix as her classmates Olivia Ferguson, left, and Patricia Thomas watch Thursday in Mary Pendry’s class.
As work continues on cleanup from the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, some Quail Run School first-graders learned just how difficult a task that officials from BP and federal and state governments have in front of them.
“The oil, when it gets to the surface, it gets bigger,” said Tyler Zeller, a student in Mary Pendry’s class.
Pendry showed her class a presentation Thursday morning about what was happening in the gulf. And they got some hands-on experience trying to clean up oil from a bowl of water and off bird feathers.
The oil was cocoa powder mixed with vegetable oil, all donated by parents.
Thursday’s lesson went hand-in-hand with the ocean unit for the class.
Students watched as Rene Morris, a paraeducator, dropped the brown oil into a bowl of water. It collected in beads on the surface, and students tried to soak it out with paper towels.
“It’s kind of oily and watery at the same time, and it’s really hard to get all of the oil cleaned up in there,” Zach Bloch said.
Students also dipped single bird feathers into the oil and worked to clean them with dish soap.
“We talked about trying to clean a whole bird that’s covered in oil, and the bird is fighting you and scared and how challenging that is,” Pendry said.
She got the idea for the activities from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and she taught Centennial School third-graders a similar lesson when she was a student-teacher in 1989, after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
“The accident in the gulf just inspires that we do a little bit more focus on our ocean unit, what the oil is doing and what its impact is,” Pendry said. “I think it’s something the kids are going to be learning about their whole lives.”
Even though Lawrence is not near the gulf or an ocean, class members mentioned trying to take care of rivers and lakes in the area.
“I felt closer to it because we were doing experiments about it,” Katherine Fischer said. “It was more important to me.”
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Is a stance against the political, economic and cultural ‘elites’ a sufficient condition for populism?
After the electoral successes of Syriza and Podemos in Greece and Spain respectively, and the disturbing ascendancy of right-wing populist parties across Europe (and of course the US), social-democratic and left parties are in search of the recipe that will put them back on the political map of an increasingly conservative and xenophobic environment.
Let’s take France as an example. Emmanuel Macron’s anti-establishment call, even if unconvincing for some, has seen him poll as the most likely candidate to face Marine Le Pen in the presidential runoff. Macron isn’t the only French populist however; Benoit Hamon, the new leader of the Socialist Party, is also seen as having a ‘populist touch’.
The battle for the soul of populism does not stop there. Back in 2012 Jean-Luc Mélenchon was, according to Seamus Milne (the current Executive Director of Strategy and Communications and closest ally to Jeremy Corbyn), giving voice to the real concerns of the people against the establishment and as such another populist leader.
It came as no surprise then when, in December 2016, Labour strategist John Trickett announced the re-launching of Jeremy Corbyn as a left-wing populist. That was promised to entail more media appearances and more flagship policies that will pit the people against the establishment. And yet, a month later, the ‘people’ (both Brexiters and Remainers) seem very much divided over Labour’s support for the Brexit Bill.
So, is anyone with an anti-establishment rhetoric, no matter how convincing, a populist? Is a stance against the political, economic and cultural ‘elites’ a sufficient condition for populism? How has left-wing populism been interpreted by the Labour team in the UK?
First, a definition: a populist discourse brings together different demands in an equivalential chain. From that moment on these demands can be represented by one common demand or symbol. This symbol will be the answer to all the demands and grievances participating in the ‘chain.’
In this process, a populist discourse divides the political terrain into two antagonistic camps: ‘us’ versus ‘them’, ‘the people’ versus ‘the establishment’. It follows that populism is a political logic that can work both for the left and for the right, but the particular contents will be very different in each case. What differentiates a left-populist discourse is its egalitarian, inclusive and progressive direction.
Every time the Labour party felt pressurized to trail the right-wing discourse (on immigration for instance) in order to appease its Leave voters in the Midlands and the North, it was moving away from this direction. Not only that, but it is losing the votes of ‘liberal, metropolitan elites’ (used as a derogatory term) who have been witnessing xenophobia, misogyny and a reactionary discourse emerging both domestically and across the Atlantic.
Although this attitude can be justified if one takes into account the voting patterns of Leave/Labour supporters, it is also an indication of the inability of the Labour party to realign the political forces in a new, progressive narrative and to draw a new antagonistic frontier. In my view, one of the key abilities of a populist intervention is to shift the heterogeneous demands towards a new direction, a new left hegemony.
Or put differently: if Labour finds itself squeezed by the Leave/Remain divide, it needs to articulate a new divide that cuts across the Leave/Reman divide and in its favour. That’s what populism is about. The rupture created by Brexit against the EU institutions and the principle of free movement dividing Remain and Leave camps, disregards the neoliberal domestic elites who are leading the Eurosceptic sentiment.
The hostility towards the EU is not shaped by a critique of neoliberalism, to which British governments have paid reverence over the past 30 years. Instead, the way many Brexiters imagine their social existence is along the lines of Empire: ‘we have a special place in the world, and what if this world is now full of global challenges? We are GREAT BRITAIN, we can make it, and Brexit means Brexit’.
In the past two years, Corbyn’s leadership campaigns were perceived as an insurrection against the political establishment within the Labour party, an unprecedented victory against the dominant ‘Blairite’ frontbench. In this respect, Labour under Corbyn is in the privileged position of challenging the previous neoliberal direction of both the Conservatives and Labour. But with Brexit on the menu, new divisions have to be taken into account.
The country is divided between Remainers and Brexiters, divided not only by different economic profiles as the common wisdom requires, but also by education, age, ethnicity and national identity. This could be the terrain of a cultural war. But in order to work in Labour’s favour, it must connect all these different grievances and create a ‘people’ who will stand against the ‘establishment’. This, though, will take loads of political craftsmanship.
Labour has to sort out its stance on Brexit first and then to clearly identify the enemy if it hopes to have a sharp anti-establishment message. As Labour’s stance stands now, it is confusing even for the politically initiated. No surprise, then, that in the last few days Corbyn’s supporters have been breaking ranks: some over whether Labour MPs should have voted for the Bill starting the Brexit process in the first place, some over supporting the Bill when all amendments tabled by Labour and other parties fell.
So far, for many, the Labour strategy is left trailing that of the Tories. With a foot on each side, Labour is unable to appease the Leave Labour voters in the Midlands and the North of England and to comfort the Labour Remainers. Are the latter going to accept a catastrophic Tory Brexit? Just throwing around the crude soundbite ‘Labour should not represent the 48% not the 52% but the 99%’ will not do the trick.
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Mapping the ACX Crystal's collision with the USS Fitzgerald using publicly available info
USS Fitzgerald (MMSI:338839000 Callsign:NFTZ)
(2017.06.17 edit)
Per the USNavy's 7th Fleet public affairs office;
USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) was involved in a collision with a merchant vessel at approximately 2:30 a.m. local time, June 17, while operating about 56 nautical miles southwest of Yokosuka, Japan.
The merchant vessel was the Filipino-flagged ACX Crystal container-ship (IMO:9360611) and she did have her AIS transponder on at the time of the incident.
From the news footage below you'll notice an area of severe damage which looks to me to be from an impact at a perpendicular angle, and not a grazing strike, since there is no scraping or dragging down the length of the USS Fitzgerald. I'm not suggesting the impact was deliberate, only that the vessels would have deflected if they had hit with a glancing strike, where to me it looks like the bow of the Crystal embedded itself for a short period in the USS Fitzgerald. I originally thought the USS Fitzgerald was stationary before the impact, but I've since changed my mind, since I've been told that there would be no operational reason to be stationary near an area of high traffic, on a moonless night. Valid point. Then if she wasn't stationary, why was she crossing the path of the shipping lane and how didn't they notice the 30,000 Ton ship on a collision course with them?
Here is the MarineTraffic.com animation of the entire collision:
I have provided a Google Fusion map below, and linked to the original source data that might be useful to you if you want to do a deeper investigation into the original story yourself.
The data looks a little confusing, so watch the video to get an idea of how the strike happened. The colour coding is to show the speeds of the ACX Crystal when moving. Red is almost stopped, Green is full speed ahead.
From a discussion with JJ I think the UTC/JST conversion may have been messed up, or the reported time by the US Navy and Japanese Coast Guard was not representative of the time of the collision, only when the collision was reported. I doubt anyone in the US military would mix up time zones, since they're very accurate regarding time. The US Navy press release reports the incident happened at 2:30am "LOCAL TIME", which is Japan Standard Time or JST, and which is UTC+9. The AIS data I scraped from MarineTraffic.com shows accurate to-the-second (or less) data, so that is what I can rely on for accuracy. Could the ACX Crystal have hit the USS Fitzgerald at full speed just before 16:30Z, rather than ~17:30Z as the US Navy said in their press release? I think so. With that in mind, watch the video again. Did the ACX Crystal strike the USS Fitzgerald while on a 70 degree course before 16:30Z, then while on autopilot, correct itself after the USS Fitzgerald was knocked free? If so, it took another hour for the crew to figure out what happened, turn the ACX Crystal around, and return to the USS Fitzgerald - it's unclear if they even knew what they struck. JJ suggested maybe the time the accident was called in was ~2:30am JST, but the strike had happened earlier. This makes significant sense to me, and explains the "U turn" they performed, especially if you realize the impact was one 30 minutes before the u-turn.
AIS Data
Timestamp (UTC) Source Speed (kn) Latitude Longitude Course
2017-06-16 16:19 (UTC) Terr-AIS 18.1 34.5037 139.008 69
2017-06-16 16:21 (UTC) Terr-AIS 18.4 34.50739 139.0208 70
2017-06-16 16:27 (UTC) Terr-AIS 18.5 34.51718 139.054 70
2017-06-16 16:33 (UTC) Terr-AIS 11.2 34.51329 139.0761 135
2017-06-16 16:38 (UTC) Terr-AIS 13.1 34.5119 139.0944 41
Those who know my blog will not be disapointed; of course I want to show you the minute-by-minute account of the ACX Crystal's journey and try and tease out what we can from it. Above you have the AIS data from what I believe covers the entire horrific event, and the ACX Crystal leaving the scene of the collision. Yes. LEAVING the scene, only to return an hour later. I'll get back to that. I believe this shows that 1) nobody was on the bridge of the Crystal and 2) "Iron Mike" was in controls for a full 15min *after* the collision; see item 1. There have been no reports that any distress call went out until after the ACX Crystal came back at 17:30Z, an hour after the collision.
Some people hate analogies, but here's one anyway. If you were in the driver seat of a self-driving car, hit another car, and your self-driving car kept driving along the road... how long would it take you to hit the off button? Well, it took the crew of the Crystal, who I'm positive were not on the bridge, 15 minutes to find the autopilot off button. Either they were very disoriented by the impact, or they weren't on the bridge to begin with, and had to get up to the bridge in order to shut down the autopilot.
16:27Z
All is well, the ship is on a 70° course, sailing at a fast 18.5kn.
Course has changed +18°, speed dropped slightly, 1.2kn. The collision has likely already happened
Course is now +65° off original, and speed is down to 11.2kn. Something is clearly wrong, the collision has likely happened, and the 30,000ton container ship has been spun 65° off course by the impact or thrust of the USS Fitzgerald's engines.
It gets weirder. Speed is back up to 14.6kn, and the ship is coming back on course, now "only" +48° off her original course. Did the ACX Crystal spear the USS Fitzgerald, and just shake it off? That's right, after smashing into another ship, the 30,000 ton container ship is swinging around and increasing speed. If anyone was at the helm, this would not be happening.
ACX Crystal has now swung around in 2 minutes to a course of 41°, -22° off the original course, and is seemingly trying to correct its course toward her original destination. Almost like nobody is at the helm, and the ship is being controlled by Iron Mike (the autopilot)
Course corrected, back on a heading of 70°, speed is up to 15.3kn, and the ship is steaming away from the accident. It's been ten minutes since the collision, and nobody has disengaged the autopilot yet. How do I know? Because they haven't reduced speed or turned around.
16:43Z, 16:46Z
Course corrections, but still no slowing down, now up to 15.4kn. How far are the crew quarters from the bridge on that ship?
2017-06-16 16:49 (UTC) Terr-AIS 14 34.53545 139.143 73
2017-06-16 17:06 (UTC) Terr-AIS 7.6 34.56187 139.199 305
2017-06-16 17:09 (UTC) Terr-AIS 9.4 34.56249 139.1927 263
2017-06-16 17:11 (UTC) Terr-AIS 10 34.56231 139.1911 261
2017-06-16 17:14 (UTC) Terr-AIS 12.4 34.5595 139.172 260
2017-06-16 17:24 (UTC) Terr-AIS 14.1 34.5519 139.1302 255
2017-06-16 17:26 (UTC) Terr-AIS 14.4 34.54954 139.12 254
While the ship has slowed to just under 13kn, it still hasn't turned around.
The Crystal is turning hard and has slowed somewhat.
The Crystal has turned completely around and is doing ~13kn toward the location where they hit "something". I don't think anyone aboard the ACX Crystal knows by this point what they hit. There are no reports that any distress calls by this time. There has been no suggestion they called the Japanese Coast Guard by this time for any information either. What did they think they hit?
Over an hour after the initial collision. The US Navy reported the accident happened around this time. I believe what they meant was the distress call was received by the Japanese Coast Guard around this time, because it would be unthinkable that you, a 30,000 ton container ship, would collide with another ship, and not mention it to the Coast Guard, for an hour?
2017-06-16 17:52 (UTC) Terr-AIS 2.9 34.52554 139.0555 90
2017-06-16 18:02 (UTC) Terr-AIS 4 34.53196 139.0605 352
2017-06-16 18:06 (UTC) Terr-AIS 4 34.53695 139.0602 12
2017-06-16 18:15 (UTC) Terr-AIS 3.9 34.5432 139.068 39
2017-06-16 18:36 (UTC) Terr-AIS 1 34.56038 139.057 5
2017-06-16 18:47 (UTC) Terr-AIS 0.9 34.561 139.0554 270
2017-06-16 18:57 (UTC) Terr-AIS 2.4 34.5608 139.0556 92
2017-06-16 19:03 (UTC) Terr-AIS 4 34.5612 139.0618 82
17:52Z onward
There is a 14 minute gap that I can't explain, did they turn off AIS?
From this time forward, regular updates keep coming in at 2-3min intervals. Speed and course changes seem to suggest they were looking for survivors or trying to otherwise assist.
In conclusion I have absolutely no idea what happened out there; I'm trying to think through the story with the available evidence and string it together. By my understanding of the events I believe there was nobody on the bridge of he ACX Crystal at the time of the collision, and for ~15 minutes afterwards showed no signs of being manned with anyone on the bridge as the course auto-corrected, and increased speed, moving way from the impact site, trying to come back up to the original speed. The damage on the bow, below the water line, slowed the ship down from it's original 18kn due to drag. Knowing when the Japanese Coast Guard was called is a detail that has not been revealed yet, and we all know there's a recording of it out there somewhere.
I'll update as I find out more, or more evidence is revealed.
For updates on the situation follow the 7th Fleet on Twitter, or check their webpage for updates: http://www.c7f.navy.mil/Media/News/
Posted by Steffan Watkins at June 17, 2017
Labels: ACX Crystal, collision, tragedy, US Navy, USNavy, USS Fitzgerald
Matt Bracken 17 June 2017 at 20:04:00 GMT-4
One theory: sea jihad. Third Mate Muhamid Pongo on duty. Realizes from AIS they just passed a USN "kafir infidel" warship. Makes a U-turn on his own. Looks at the CPA plot, uses it in reverse to create a collision. Last few minutes, lies on the ship to ship radio. (Taqiyya/Kitman, "Holy Lying.) "Don't worry captain, I'm turning to port, you turn to starboard." (As he turns to starboard." Next on the USN recording, which, following Orlando Pulse night club protocals will be kept secret from the world: "Allahu Akbar!"
Just a theory. You come up with a better theory for the container ship's U-turn and collision course.
Anonymous 17 June 2017 at 20:15:00 GMT-4
Nope, sounds correct to me
meetuniversity 17 June 2017 at 21:27:00 GMT-4
Then they would have fired on it.
That theory doesn't hold water. ACX Crystal could not have hit Fitzgerald with her port bow while making a starboard turn.
I think Steffan has a pretty good working theory. Crystal and Fitzgerald were probably on very similiar east north east courses with Crystal overtaking on Fitzgeralds starboard side. The angle of impact appears shallow. Most of the damage is below the waterline, so invisible, but the damage to Fitzgeralds superstructure suggests that the impact angle was shallow and that Crystal heeled over into Fitz's superstructure. Crystal's rolled over port hurricane bow supports that scenario as well.
Considering the Fitzgerald was struck on the starboard side wouldn't the Crystal have been the stando on vessel?
No. Rule 13 states that the overtaking vessel (ACX Crystal) shall always stay clear, no exceptions to this rule.
Feldspar 18 June 2017 at 18:14:00 GMT-4
What if the Fitzgerald was heading East-Northeast, and the Crystal turned around and headed West to deliberately hit them? Picture it. The Fitzgerald turns to port, and then the Crystal turns to starboard. Impact occurs soon after the Crystal's port side begins to face the Fitzgerald's starboard side. Crystal heels over into Fitz, then glances off to starboard while Fitz goes port. I suppose if that had happened, you would've seen more paint traded along the side of the hull, though.
Rule 15 -- Crossing Situation
When two power-driven vessels are crossing so as to involve risk of collision, the vessel which has the other on her own starboard side shall keep out of the way and shall, if the circumstances admit, avoid crossing ahead of the other vessel.
For reasons of security, US Navy vessels disable the Tx beacon side of their AIS. We have them set to receive only so we can see what all other civilian vessels see, but we don't broadcast our position for public knowledge. If we did, they'd have our course info on the same website as the ACX Crystal, or at least be capable of doing so, and from a tactical and OPSEC standpoint that would be a major concern.
So the Crystal never would have seen Fitzgerald on AIS. Sorry bud, that part doesn't hold water.
Matt you Theory is more realistic than the author of the article. In restricted water the ship may have been on Iron Mike, But there is no way there was no one on the bridge, that claim would be laughable if it was not so stupid. If the Crystal hit the destroyer perpendicular at 14+ knots the destroyer would have almost been cut in half. The bow above the water line would have been a knife and the damage would be cutting not ripping. If you are on a ship and it hits another ship at a perpendicular angle you know it even if you are asleep. To use the authors anoligy you are asleep in the passenger seat of a self drive car. The car going 50 MPH T bones a smaller car and you sleep through it. And the damage to the Crystal would have been much different. The Crystal's bow would have crunched back on both sides not scraped and torn on the one side. Plus the bublous bow would have been chrushed back a large distance. Plus a perpendicular collision would not have pulled on the anchor of the Crystal. The article is poor fiction writing. The damage to the Destroyer and Crystal could have happened if one ship was trying to overtake the second ship and the his with a course difference of maybe as little as 10 degrees to as much as 30 degrees, mor that that and the damage would have been much more.
Steffan Watkins 20 June 2017 at 06:35:00 GMT-4
The cowardly anonymous shit poster sure sounds familiar to me. Is that you TR? Perpendicular in this case is relative. A shallow hit would have deflected. A true perpendicular hit at 90 degrees in the middle of the center of gravity might split the ship in two, and would wrap it to either side of the bow of the Crystal; however, a (say) 70 deg angle, the the front 1/3 (as we see from the damage) would not wrap the ship around both sides of the bow, and while not technically perpendicular/90 degrees, is what I thought I'd conveyed.
Unknown 20 June 2017 at 10:45:00 GMT-4
I hold an unlimited Masters ticket, was OOD in the navy and a ship pilot in two ports and find MOST of the posts here to be highly intelligent and well thought out morons notwithstanding. I think we can all agree that absent Fitz's track it's all still speculative. My Navy side tells me no CO will allow a Jr officer to attempt an overtaking situation making himself the burdened vessel in the first place, no less be in his cabin at the time especially since we all know MOST civilians will be on the ironmike with at best just two people on the bridge. SO, my guess is the Chrystal was overtaking Fitz.These are high ships, the running lights are way up high some say they were not lit, but the lookouts if scanning the horizon and not looking up may have never even seen them..it happens. Possibly the close proximity of a large mass of metal threw the autopilot off and she sheared to port and glanced off the Fitz, if so they would have never seen her coming down on them. The damage to the PORT bow alone says it was glancing and not a crossing type situation. Just my 2 cents, I want to see BOTH tracks.
FFG-54 20 June 2017 at 16:52:00 GMT-4
I was a Operations Specialist CIC Watch Supervisor on a FFG from 92-96 and have a couple of comments/questions.
We tracked all the surface contacts with consoles and if a contact had a closest point of approach of less than 2000 yards we would adjust course or speed to keep that range to greater than 2000 yards. We would not only track the contact with the consoles but start running MO Boards to get a more accurate track of the other ship. The OOD would also start running a MO Board and we would constantly compare the two as well as talking to the lookouts pointing out the direction to look and what lights etc they saw. I dont know how a much more advanced ship like the Fitz would track a surface contact but, I would assume that it would be much more accurate and almost instantaneous. Would a ship like the Fitz have a contact alarm in the tracking system that would alert the CIC watch that there is a problem? If the Fitz was struck at an angle, wouldnt there be a secondary collision along the hulls as the ships momentum pushed the aft ends together (Fitz starboard hull and the Crystals port side). If there was a collision I dont know that we would have called the Coast Guard right away, if the radio room was damaged then comms (sat and HF) could have gone out. First thing we would have done is radio our command/other US ships. With the Fitz starting to flood as the OOD I would have been totally focused on immediate damage control/rescue operations instead of calling for help from the Coast Guard.
There is an island nearby and may have hidden the running lights of the container ship. I have sailed offshore and you can lose a large ship in the lights of the land on a moonless night. Not sure if it would have any influence the radars. Likely not.
In recent reports one of the flooded spaces on the Fitzgerald was the radio room. Thus Fitzgerald may not have been capable of sending out message. Perhaps Crystal was going to ignore the whole thing until someone else reported accident. After all, if there is no report made, then "Nothing happened."
Probably the Captain of the Crystal knew he'd be fired if they knew the bridge wasn't manned, so they waited to confirm they *had* to report it... or that's my cynical take.
They have Bridge to Bridge transceivers that would not have been affected by radio being flooded.
Franco 19 June 2017 at 03:04:00 GMT-4
when sailing in a sea-line, u have at least a mate and a rorsman (deckhand, OS or AB) on the bridge at all time. under some circumstances u even have a lookout at the forepeak. anyhow..... used to be like that when I was in the merchant navy 40 years ago.
Ken 19 June 2017 at 22:16:00 GMT-4
Power was probably out on Fitzgerald for at least a period of time. They do have battery operated VHF, SATCOM, Cell phone etc. that are there, but they had a lot going on, and it was dark, things were probably thrown around.
@Ken So you think that the Fitz had a power outtake and motionless in the middle of a busy shipping lane for quite some time while the captain was still sleeping in his bunk? NOOO WAY.
Absolutely not. Power outage after the collision, not before.
karrieann 18 June 2017 at 00:00:00 GMT-4
How would the Fitz not see the Crystal on their radar? Would the Navy fire on a container ship?
RIP to the lost sailors.
And thank you, Steffan, for your reporting. Great information on this tragic incident.
That's the big question; how did it happen? I can only see it very remotely as dots on a map, but there's a lot that isn't known and will need to come out of a long inquiry. RIP Sailors.
As a former Radarman aboard a destroyer in the early 60's we in CIC would be intent on our radars tracking unknown contacts and be aware of collision courses and report this to the bridge to take evasive action with course and speed changes. Why did this never happened????
I don't have any answers as to why the Fitz didn't avoid the collision, but it wouldn't take much inattention to cause this collision.
I notice that the ACX Crystal seems to have slightly increased speed (from about 17.5kn to about 18.5kn) before its turn from 90 deg to 70 deg. Imagine the Fitz heading 90deg at about 17.5kn (which would likely be her most efficient speed with two engines, two screws). ACX Crystal is seen on a constant bearing, which means one of two things: the ships are on a collision course, or the ships are on an exactly parallel course with same speed. After careful observation, the crew on the Fitz establishes that the ships are both heading 90deg at 17.5kn and there is about a mile and half separation between the ships.
Now, what would it take for the ship's parallel course to change into a collision course? If one ship changed course and simultaneously increased its speed by the exact right amount, the bearing between the ships would stay unchanged while the distance between the ships closed. If one ship turned 20deg toward the other, it would have to increase its speed by about 6% to keep its bearing constant (as observed from the other ship). 18.5kn is about 6% faster than 17.5kn.
The crew of the Fitz, if they were just checking the bearing and not carefully observing the slowly closing range of the ACX for about 15 or so minutes, would have missed the impending collision.
Good answer, I believe CIC AND the bridge weren't paying as close attention to the range as they should have been. Tracking includes range and bearing readings. As far as I'm concerned this collision should have been avoided. On the old surface search radars (SPS-10) of my time we kept the curser on the contact and the range was read on a dial and the range and bearing was called out to the watch supervisor every few seconds which is passed on to the OOD.
I'm an ex SPS-10 tech and as such, know that the SPS-10 cant track vessels that close.. Too much sea scatter, thus the lookouts. I'm thinking that for some unknown reason, the lookouts miscalculated the Crystal course and speed, or, possibly never had her within sight.
Thank you all for your knowledgeable thoughts.
I wondered if the ACX Crystal was too close to be picked up by radar. Seems that FITZ would have known ACX locale at one point (close) but w/o radar on a moonless night, maybe ACX had no lights (?), and even with lookouts it seems possible that a ship 4x your size might be missed in the dark. But, that sounds bad for the Navy to admit.
A lot really depends on Fitzgerald's course in comparison to Crystal. Remember there was a course change about 10-15 before the presumed collison. It would take 2-3 fixes after that course change to determine a course change happened. Even every few minutes, there was a lot of traffic they had to cycle through.
If you're the lookout and there is a large container ship that you have seen, everyone is aware of and isn't a danger, at least initially, at night with lights only, how long before you realize it's actually getting closer and has changed direction. Not easy to identify immediately in the dark.
It could easily take several minutes or more to identify the course change, and plot it in relation to your own to realize there is a problem. Depends on other traffic they were tracking, and how close attention they were paying to a target they had initially identified as not an issue.
LA 19 June 2017 at 22:53:00 GMT-4
If it was that hard to pay attention, I would think the busy channels would have more accidents. Also, a Destroyer class navy ship not identifying a container ship crossing path until impact makes it hard to conceive how it fulfills its missions. Hard to know how redundant safeguards failed (watch, radar, AIB, more).
Remember it was dark and moonless by accounts. Seeing a ship during the day and picking up profile and bearing changes is a lot different than night time. Night time, pitch dark with nothing but lights to go by it's hard to judge distances, speeds and bearing changes in those conditions. If the contact was already identified, and deemed safe, it would take something to change their mind and that could have easily been 5-10 minutes into the port turn course change. Lookout or radar, something would have to change to get them to pay more attention. Radar would pick it up possibly before a lookout at night, but it would still need 2-3 fixes to determine that it was an actual course change and not just an adjustment.
It's been a long time since I worked on any of them, but the best I remember, the SPS-10 was not that great for really close in work. That's why we had the LN-66.
CG-23 Sailor 18 June 2017 at 00:12:00 GMT-4
A lot of these third world shipping vessels have ragtag crews from all over the world, most not even speaking the same language. The only ones with any real education being the handful of officers and even there, disciple would be severely lacking.
There may very well have been no one on the bridge, or perhaps one person, barely trained in their duties and not paying any attention.
Given the assumption that no one was on the bridge, why the long delay before turning back? While no one aboard the merchant was injured, that's not to say that there was not confusion and panic aboard, perhaps the lighting circuit breakers were blown and the ship plunged into darkness even though the auto-helm and engines were still operating.
Looks to me like the collision took place, the ship attempted to continue on programmed course while confusion was aboard the merchant. Then they returned to the scene of the incident and stood by for a while until released to continue on into port.
There does not appear to be any evidence of deliberate ramming or a turn back to a collision course as some have suggested in ignorance.
Just a blind hit while plodding along on course with no one paying attention, then confusion of an undisciplined crew as they tried to figure out what happened, and finally a return to the scene, remaining on station, and finally released to continue.
Yup. I think that the actions of the Crystal show something was very wrong in the bridge; either nobody, or whoever was there were not trained, or they were unable to cut autopilot for some technical reason... I'm betting on nobody there at the moment; we'll see!
if the merchant ship's crew is undisciplined and untrained, then the destoyer's highly trained crew with their state-of-the-art warship are sleeping on the job.
Having been in the vicinity of one of these events and investigated a couple others, I believe the the ACX was on autopilot with crew on the bridge and the collision happened at the first slow down and hard turn to starboard. After that the ACX autopilot tried to bring it back on coarse and speed. The crew meanwhile was first accessing the condition of the ship and crew. They knew they were involved in a collision, all the while attempting to contact the other party involved. turned off the autopilot turned around (when safe to do so) and returned to the scene of the collision, as required by International law. The tracks explain all of this. Turning a ship that size around safely while moving ballast around and getting back in 25 min seems reasonable. Without the USS Fitz track we will not know weather this was a crossing situation or an overtaking one. I do know that last minute maneuvers can change the angles of impact from the original situation. My speculation: A crossing situation and trying to cross the "T" realized they weren't going to make it and turned to port at the last minute (less then 400yds) changed the angle of impact to glancing rather then T bone. If it was overtaking at what point do you take action to avoid collision, based on the damage and loss of life, you don't what to get hit, so you can be right in a court of maritime law. Either way by Navy standards this is the USS Fitz's fault and should have been avoided. Heads will roll.
With regard to the Crystal's continuing at 17 knots for 10 minutes... on a merchant ship the engine is often run at an economical speed with heavy fuel. The engineers customarily ask for 10 minutes notice to reduce rpm. Something to do with block temperatures. They can, of course, slow down more quickly in an emergency, which this was; but we don't know if they were asked to initially. Also, if they were using heavy fuel, the engineroom would need to convert over to diesel for maneuvering speeds. Stopping the engine while on heavy fuel can gunk up the engine. I have to say I don't know if either of these happened on the Crystal, but they are questions that should be asked. It doesn't seem unusual to me for the ship to have taken that long to return to the scene. They probably weren't able to contact the Fitz to confirm what had happened. At the pilot station, when we have to ask a large ship to make a round turn and come back to the pilot station it often takes them close to an hour - in daylight, no confusion.
Great analysis on the USS Fitzgerald collision, particularly in that the detailed data you present suggest the possible mis-reporting of the "2:30 am local time"
Regarding that, CNN initially reported 1:30 local time / 1630 UTC, citing Japanese Coast Guard.
“The two ships collided around 1:30 a.m. local time Saturday in the Pacific Ocean, about 56 nautical miles southwest from the port of Yokosuka and 12 miles off the Izu Peninsula, the Japanese coast guard said.”
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/16/politics/us-navy-destroyer-collides-with-merchant-ship-japan/
Reuters has remarked on the confusion:
“The U.S. Navy said the collision happened at about 2:30 a.m. local time (1730 GMT), while the Japanese Coast Guard said it took place at 1:30 a.m. local time.”
... sorry, the Reuters link got truncated, here it is:
http://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKKBN1972T1
Thank you! I think that time difference makes a huge change in the story and narrative of what happened. Not the "why", but what sort of catastrophe it was. It seems like the ship was severely damaged, taking on a lot of water, without comms to shore, and unable to call for help. Hard for the US Navy to say that without having a lot of uncomfortable questions. The kinetic force of a 30,000Ton blunt spear hitting the hull below the water line shouldn't be downplayed; that ship took a torpedo+ sized impact in kinetic, rather than explosive, force.
GreenEyedJinn 18 June 2017 at 09:21:00 GMT-4
Could this be Chrystal's track to render assistance after the collision? It's going to be very difficult to understand the full situation until the Fitzgerald's track can be over-layed.
Having a track for the USS Fitzgerald would be optimal, but I'm sure they won't provide one. The impact almost surely happened at ~16:30Z; after that the Crystal's actions speak for themselves. Still on autopilot for 15 min past the accident, almost a full hour from impact to return, and possibly not calling the JP CG for that time either. The USNavy should correct their latest PR that states the impact happened at 1720Z, which is clearly incorrect, per the AIS data, which can't realistically be wrong/faked.
Why did the Crystal break from the standard shipping lanes after the incident?
Can you be specific regarding at what time (I provided a whole lot of times and with all the wiggling I'm not sure which path you're referring to)
macro charts suggest the tokyo lane travels in a n'easterly direction around 45 inside the island of oshima
before the incident she appeared to be on the main lane to tokyo which should have put her on the lane west of oshima,
the time lapse appears to show she was turning north on to that lane just prior to the incident
but after the incident and after her decision to return, she left the scene and acted as if she was headed for sendai or tomakomai on the outside route south of oshima, before correcting to 360 back to tokyo
loved your analysis by the way
would love to see the speed and headings from 14:00 to 16:00z for the crystal. if crystal had done her best to save fuel in a thin margin industry, she should have turned n'easterly much earlier and avoided a collision course
Zoom out on the dynamic Google Fusion Tables Map, and click any of the points for course, location and speed :)
ltrail 18 June 2017 at 19:11:00 GMT-4
I'm not sure that my post went through. Is it possible that the freighter's auto-pilot was hacked?
Wow, that was great, but more confounding. acx crystal could/should have turned NE about an hour earlier
she stayed on the international lane to tomakomai for at least 18k AFTER the normal turn on tokyo lane
she slowed crossing suruga canyon (understandable) before the turn but sped up on 90 E when she should have made 54 NE
she waited until she was about to cross a local lane from shimoda to kozushima before turning n'east
google maps shows at least 0.2 degrees longitude at 34.51 north or 18 k (using http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gccalc.shtml)
google earth shows about the same between geographical features and lat/lon (with measuring tool)
if she was programmed, there was no logical reason to travel an extra 25/30k distance using tomakomai without incident
after incident she returned to Easterly then turning 360N east of oshima island and staying off lanes until well into the sagami-nada sea, but, what the hell
why be logical?
Malware conceivably could be programmed into autopilots at the factory or through infected software updates. I would expect it to be "zero-day", where all infected autopilots are pre-set to malfunction at the same time. That time could vary according to user-selected set-up options (factory default time zone, GMT, home port time zone, etc.), but I think a lot of vessels with such an infection would have autopilot problems at the same time, if it ever were to happen. Always be ready to switch to hand steering. Hacking to enable remote-takeover of autopilot control seems much less feasible and usually impossible with today's ships and yesterday's technology. But this could be a big danger with unmanned, autonomous ships in the foreseeable future.
Great point about malware, the future is ours to save
Conceivably is a scientific way to explore an inconceivable incident. Just how the hell did this happen. Until we know the truth (if ever) every comment is a concept. It is a bit frustrating that data is so closely held, like someone thinks the common man cannot handle the truth.
The autopilot concept doesn't make much sense to me, unless and only if the Crystal was asleep at the wheel (iron mike) for the extra hour on the outside lane to tomakomai, burning precious fuel, had some auto warning she was crossing a local lane, woke up and turned north late, straight into a arleigh burke class destroyer.
Again, if she had programmed the autopilot installed 2008, it should have taken a heading of 54 an hour before she crossed the local lane from shimoda to kozushima, so although a hack is conceivable to me, it doesn't subscribe to occams razor and as you say, malware would have infected more than one vessel
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Hacking the autopilot would not be necessary since the GPS signal could be more easily hacked. The GPS signal is a lot weaker than the old LORAN system and as such, it wouldn't take much of a transmitter to give erroneous data.
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OK ... that is conceivable ... I still don't get why the Fitz felt she could be a good bow thrust for the crystal ... and opted out of avoidance ... but there i go again, relying on logic in a logic free zone
US Surface Navy vet here. I don't see any analysis of the actions of the USN vessel here. With the limited amount of info here combined with what my experience as the OOD of a USN cruiser, this is what I see.
On the USN ship you have multiple people tracking the paths of all contacts.
There are standing orders from every CO as to when to contact him should a ship be on track to pass within a couple thousand yards. If it is REALLY close, the CO usually will come up to the bridge.
Junior Officers have been (ahem) known to prefer to NOT wake the old man if at all possible and will adjust course to stay out of the "notify the Captain" parameters.
Also, late watches can sometimes slacken and contacts do sometimes sneak up on you - especially if folks are tired after a demanding exercise etc.
Anyway, the rules of the road state that if a contact is on track to pass in front of you from right to left, they have the "right of way." We would often try to radio the merchant, but often there was no response or a language barrier. We never expected a merchant to change course - unless we had the right of way. For them, time and distance are money, they have a very specific route and don't like to change it.
My guess, from the location of impact, is that the USN vessel tried to cut IN FRONT of the merchant instead of what would normally happen - pass behind it.
Major screw-up.
And if the CO was in his cabin (as appears to be the case) and not on the bridge, he was either notified of the contact and didn't come up (unlikely), or his OOD thought he could handle it with a "hold my beer" judgement call.
My 2 cents.
FlyingSailor 18 June 2017 at 16:18:00 GMT-4
Same thoughts here. 11 years at sea, 3 as a CO. The fact that the vessels this size got that close without the CO on the bridge says something.
Agreed. Retired QMC here, 20 years deployed on ships out of homeports in Far East. Practically impossible for the destroyer to suffer that damage and not have been the give-way vessel. Standing out of Tokyo Wan, they may have been just changing watches from Sea and Anchor/nav detail to normal at-sea watch and this contact somehow got lost in turnover confusion, but several people were not watching what was going on...or several people's watches no longer EXIST. The Navy has been relying more on computers for nav and target solution, combining jobs on the bridge and reducing watch team members. not the FIRST time this has bitten them in the ass. MK 1 MOD 0 eyeballs and common sense have given way to trusting digital readouts. Either this is a simple case of that, or there is a LOT MORE negligence to this story.
Vicara 18 June 2017 at 21:32:00 GMT-4
I am a civilian, and not in the shipping industry. My interest in this case stems from the issue of accountability, and because I am a Filipino. (The Crystal was registered as a Philippine vessel, with Filipino.) This updated NYTimes story reports that the CO of the Fitzgerald was in his stateroom at the time of the collision, and that he will likely be relieved of his command for what may have been a failure in communication aboard his ship. I hope that the actions taken by the civilian ship will be fully investigated as well. Human accountability is important.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/18/world/asia/navy-uss-fitzgerald-japan.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
I concur with QMC Boyles. ACX was likely on autopilot, likely with the bridge unmanned and no 'looking' lookouts. She was also likely an "overtaking vessel" and was seen as that by the Fitz bridge watch standers. Speed difference was small; ~zero bearing drift, sort of an ad hoc convoy. ACX got close, rolled Fitz at about 2 knots faster, got pushed right, disengaged hulls, and the lonely autopilot took several minutes to resume course and turns. After the ACX 'watch stander' awoke, brushed his teeth, and made it to the bridge, he had someone check the bow, turned the ship around, gapped the AIS for 14 minutes in a bid for career retention, and then returned to the near-foundering Fitz. Thucydides was right. (former USN QM1)
I see it that way as well, only damage to the boxboat is on the port bow..overtaking situation, dark night. never saw her coming down on them. Sure wish we had Fitz's track though.
Tom Oliver 21 June 2017 at 11:46:00 GMT-4
Long ago an OOD(UW) in an ESSEX Class CVA, in my eyes some/most indications point to an "overhauling" situation by CRYSTAL which places on the shoulders of the CO/Watch Officer (or someone)the obligation to maneuver to avoid. On the other hand, FIRZGERALD's Bridge watch, OOD, JOOD, JOOW, and lookouts, plus the watch (CICWO++) in the OPS Center (CIC to us old guys) had absolute indisputable duty to recognize a potentially dangerous situation and develop alternative for avoiding it. To have failed to call or further insure that the CO was on the Bridge seems a failure likely to curtail the careers of a couple of JOs. As for the CO, to have failed to instill among his watch standers the appropriate reactions, seems pretty damning, one of those "snip off his gold buttons and break his sword" career-ending "What we have here is a failure to communicate!" moments. It doesn't matter whether the collision was entirely due to ACX CRYSTAL's mishandling. The CO and the OOD of FIRZGERALD remain accountable for the damage to the ship and the loss of members of her crew.
oobilly 22 June 2017 at 22:14:00 GMT-4
great analysis... glad I kept reading til someone parsed the USN actions/inactions.
Tons of speculation, ounces of information. Just because the auto pilot of the Crystal was on does not mean no one was on the bridge. Merchant ships use the auto pilot to steer about 99% of the time in open water. Modern container ships usually have pretty good crews. The rag-tag crews described by some of the USN commenters are found, if at all, on small trampers. That said, questions to ask involve the bridge layout of the Crystal. Often the conning station is behind a series of connected consoles with lighted displays. The mate might not have had any real night vision. If there were only two persons on watch the lookout would have been on the starboard side (but looking all around, hopefully) and the mate more or less keeping track to port. Radar settings on both ships should be looked at. If everyone was looking at 6 or 12 mile displays, stuff inside a mile would not be so easily seen - and I suspect the warship had some features designed to make them less visible to radar(?). Small target, background lights, night blind mate, no AIS on Fitz... she could have been missed. I can't even speculate what happened on the warship. Is a large bridge team like those found on military vessels a liability in some situations?
Simple Mind 18 June 2017 at 13:53:00 GMT-4
Resembles the Andrea Dorea/Stockholm collision.
er Doria
czarnajama 28 June 2017 at 08:11:00 GMT-4
Not really. In the 1956 case, the ships were on courses differing by almost 180 degrees, i.e. head-on. Stockholm turned to starboard, as required by colregs, but AD turned to port ... AD got T-boned. Here the course difference was probably about 30 degrees, and the Crystal was probably passing.
5WarVeteran 18 June 2017 at 14:06:00 GMT-4
Hmmmm, how do I say this nicely. In 1994 I was on the USS Puget Sound AD-38 when she ran OVER a large catamaran around 2 am. We blew her whistle (and that damned thing is massive). No response from the catamaran and we went over. We did not turn around. Soooo.... The Puget Sound could not turn on a dime.
Based on the AIS data and plot, I disagree that the timing is off. I think the collision did take place around 1730 UTC, when the reported SOG began dropping after the 1729 AIS hit.
I can see a container ship hitting some small sailboat and not stopping (as they didn't feel anything). However, not a 6,900 long ton ship.
Why the 180 degree turn around 1703? Don't know. Perhaps they received a change in destination from corporate? It's definitely not a rare occurrence.
So I understand, you're saying the Japanese Coast Guard's statement the collision was at 01:30, and my analysis of the AIS data, is incorrect? That's your perogative, of course, I just think you should look at the data again.
With only Iron Mike at the helm, there is no reason for the ship to shop for anything.
...and they DID stop, it just took them a while to turn off Iron Mike, consider their options, and turn around.
Sir, the report of the collision was reported by the Crystal "before 2:30" to the JP CG "3rd district". Therefore the Crystal only radioed it in at 2:30, when it got back and found a severely damaged vessel. This supports that the accident happened at 1:30 and Fitz couldn't radio for help itself.
Do you have sourcing for the JCG stating the collision was at 0130? I've only been able to find one article which states
"The JCG strongly believes that the two ships collided around the time the container ship made an abrupt change of course at around 1:30 a.m." but even that wasn't sourced.
It's not that I'm not open to all logically possibilities. However, I do place some credibility in the USN statement. I don't think 7th Fleet would go forward with a press conference with prepared remarks without ensuring what they were presenting was accurate.
The first ~40 degree course change at 1630 could have easily been the Crystal maneuvering for another vessel (any data on other AIS tracks in the area at that time?), then returning back to base course.
My google translate says:
"A message from the Philippine flagged container ship "Collision with a US Navy ship" was reported to the 3rd Regional Coast Guard Headquarters off the coast of Ibaraki, Minamiizu-machi, Shizuoka prefecture, 2:30 am before 2:45 am."
I would still caution on drawing conclusions based solely on the AIS data. However, given the data thus far, it matches that the collision occurred around 02:30 local time, NOT 01:30. The collision happening an hour earlier (at 01:30) is based solely on the Crystal's course change then. Without the FITZGERALD's track, or knowing if there were any other ships in the area, it's a huge leap to accusing the Crystal of hitting a 8,900 ton ship and just continuing on for a half hour.
I wholeheartedly but politely disagree with your assessment.
I believe you mean it would be *unbelievable* that a captain of a MV would strike *something* knocking the ship off course ~65 degrees, and NOT immediately call it into the CG. I agree. It's wholly and totally negligent, criminally so. I stand by my original assessment in the blog post.
Impact at 1:30, Iron Mike engaged until 1:45, turn around and get back to Fiz at 2:30, and call it in to the CG.
"it's a huge leap to accusing the Crystal of hitting a 8,900 ton ship and just continuing on for a half hour"
No, I think it's grossly negligent and evidence they are going to spend a long time in prison. It's totally outside any reasonable person's actions, but in line with someone who knows they didn't have anyone on the bridge and truly has no clue what they hit, but can't call that into the JP CG.
We'll see where the investigation leads.
However, by your assessment, USN 7th Fleet is mistaken when they've publicly stated that the collision occurred around 02:30 am?
Yes sir. It would probably not be popular to openly state the Fitz was totally disabled, right down to emergency comms, and could not call for help itself. It was the Crystal that called in the distress call to the JP CG; no indication the Fitz was able or did send any radio distress call.
Conspiracy theories aside, I'm fairly confident the ship was in contact with their Tactical/Operational commander via secure means.
I wish I could ask you for more details in that regard, but of course you can't tell me :)
Let me put this way then. Imagine how bad the damage would it have to be for them to lose all comms.
It was news to the JP CG at 2:30. If the US Navy knew their ship was dead in the water for an hour, I would have thought they would have engaged the JP CG by then. Does that logic hold water at all?
Not as logical as the collision taking place around 1730GMT, as stated by the Navy, and both vessels establishing communications immediately following.
Okay, so that throws out my running AIS blip to blip rundown; how do you explain the path the Crystal took from 1:30-2:30 then?
I know, we'll go in circles until there's an investigation and published info. I hope some info comes out that convinces you the impact was at 1:30. Hopefully the 7th Fleet commander will correct the record publicly soon.
Crystal alters course to starboard for another vessel around 0130, then returns to her base course.
Sometime between then and 0200, they receive orders from their company to turn around and head to a different destination.
Collision occurs around 0230.
The above is just as plausible than them getting into a collision at 0130 and keep steaming while the US Navy covers up the real time of the collision.
The Japanese media seems to report the correct time of the incident tho, because they're listening to their Japanese sources I presume?
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201706180025.html
OK, so given our conversation, I went back to the data and looked at it much more closely. A third option exists...
The last AIS hit at 1627UTC had the Crystal traveling at 18.5kts over ground. The linear distance from that point until AIS has her coming about is little over 8NM. Without knowing the tactical data of the Crystal, it is WELL within the realm of possibility that's how long it took to stop a 39k ton ship going that speed. That much mass traveling at that speed takes a lot of time and energy to slow down.
So, the third option is that the collision did happen around 1630UTC, and the Crystal began slowing down to come about, and return to the site of the collision (which means the FITZGERALD drifted about 2NM to the north during that time).
I still contend that the CRYSTAL didn't just ignore a collision, then come back. It wasn't until I actually looked at the distances involved (which the graphics scale can be confusing) that this started to make sense as another explanation.
Alex 19 June 2017 at 09:23:00 GMT-4
Thank you Alex, I hadn't seen this:
https://www.voanews.com/a/navy-identifies-sailors-killed-in-collision/3906043.html
Maybe the pilot of the crystal was asleep (or drunk) on the bridge and knocked around by the impact as to not be coherent enough to realize what had happened. By the time the Captain or other officers got to the bridge, (maybe the door was locked?) grabbed the drunk/wounded pilot it took 15 minutes to control the ship and bring it to a stop to find out what they had hit.
I like the colour you added :)
Yes, something like that, clearly, since they were on autopilot for 15 min after the collision.
Considering the size difference, I'm sure there was a "jolt" on Crystal. If it wasn't severe enough on there to cause fire/flooding, no alarms, then they may not have realized what happened. Check the logs, check autopilot, send someone forward to check the bow, and find damage. Listen for distress calls, and don't hear anything. Should we turn back and check or shouldn't we? Ultimately decide to turn around and check finding Fitzgerald.
If that is the case, what would have happened if they had decided to continue since no one called? How long before Fitzgerald would have been able to ask for help themselves? Crystal would have had a lot of explaining to do on arrival in port with damage to the Bow, especially if a US Navy ship turned up missing.
This could have been much, much worse.
Looking at the courses/changes, about 10-15 min before the abrupt starboard course change (collison?) there was a course change to port (86 to 69) possibly turning into Fitzgerald, and crossing her track earlier than she expected. If that course change was programed into the auto pilot, and if Fitzgerald had marked the track with the old course, they may have thought they would pass astern on their current course (Crystal passing across their bow). They may not have realized that Crystal had turned to port, putting them on a collision course until it was too late.
If nobody was on the bridge of Crystal (or not trained well/paying attention) they wouldn't have heard or responded to bridge to bridge) With 10-15 min, depending on when Fitzgerald recognized they were turning and the original plotted course had changed. They may not have had much time to react, or until it was too late. Will be interesting to see the investigation and time/track laydown.
Agreed. I'm very much looking forward to more information from the investigation. Hopefully it will be public.
Ken From looking at the Crystals track and the damage to both ships my SWAG is that the Fitzgerald was overtaking the Crystal. The OOD and CIC should have been plotting the Crystal course. They thought they were safely passing Crystal. If they were plotting a course of 86 degrees and as they drew abreast of the Crystal she changed course to 69 degrees. The course change could have them on a collision course. And the ships would have hit at an angle around 20 degrees. The right side of the Fitzgerald would have been torn up much like it was until the ships parted. And the Crystals left side would received the kind it did including pulling on the anchor out of the hauser. And the bulbous bow may have not received any damage. If the ships hit perpendicular the Fitzgerald would have been much worse and she may have been cut in half or at least been cut into for many feet. And the Crystal's bow would have damage on both sides on just one, and the bulbous bow would have sustained damage. And to claim that the crew slept through a major accident would like the passenger of the self driving car sleeping through a major accident. Every crew member knew when the two ships hit each other. They heard it and they felt. I would also assume none of the Navy sailors slept through the accident for the same reason. To even think that in crowed restricted waters no one was on the bridge would be like claiming pilots on a 747 were talking with the stewards in the passenger compartment while landing the plane. It is almost laughable.
Really seems like TR's writing style. Laughable isn't the word I've used; criminally negligent and "they're going to go away for a long time" is more likely. I'm sure you won't explain how they didn't call it in and accelerated away from the accident for 15 minutes with computer precision; your version has them standing on the bridge the whole time sipping tea watching it all happen for a good 15 minutes?
topolmss27 10 August 2017 at 08:54:00 GMT-4
TR here - not me. I'm never anonymous on here. I'm happy to prove you wrong using my own log in here, or on my own blog.
A couple of thoughts. Between 1615 and 1619 the ACX Crystal made a small course change, from ~086 to ~ 070. This was slightly more than 10 minutes before the (assumed) time of collision. If the CPA (closest point of approach) was determined before the course change (most likely), the Fitzgerald would have thought themselves to be well clear of the Crystal's path. If this course change had not occurred, there would have not been a collision. I also noticed mention of a perpendicular impact between the Crystal's bow and Fitzgerald's starboard side. I believe if that had occurred, we'd be talking about a truly catastrophic event in which the Fitzgerald was cut in half, much like what occurred in the Melbourne and Evans disaster. The Melbourne was 20k tons and a few knots faster the Crystal while the Fitzgerald was longer and heavier than the Evans. The force of 30k tons moving at 18 kts striking a DDG broadside would most likely resulted in the sinking of Fitzgerald similar to the Evans. Interesting is the amount of change in course of the Crystal after the (assumed) collision - I wonder if the Fitzgerald was somehow hung on the bow of the Crystal, acting like a large rudder, driving the Crystal's bow in a starboard turn, until it finally broke free, allowing the Crystal's autopilot to then attempt to return to heading. If this were the case, it would suggest that the Fitzgerald was turning away (turning to port) and gaining headway (accelerating) attempting to avoid the Crystal but ran out of time and space.
re: Perpendicular; yes, I agree, it's probably not the right term. My point is, while it likely wasn't a 90 degree impact,it was more than a shallow impact or they would have deflected off each other or had long scars along the Fitz. 70 degrees? 60 degrees? I'm not sure, but it seems fairly perpendicular from the scar, I think. I agree completely in your assessment that Fitzgerald was hung on the bow of the Crystal from the "spearing" for a short time after impact.
re Fitzgerald "hung on Crystal's bow" acting as a "rudder" or "bow thruster":
I’ve wondered if the Fitzgerald rode up or was lifted up during the collision. Look how high the damage is on ACX Crystal, the top gunnel is wrapped over. The Fitz damaged area doesn’t sit up that high above waterline, does it?
Crystal has one of those cattle-prod bow-bulbs just below water maybe that helped lift the Fitz in the apparently oblique collision. Certainly the Fitz would have been heeled over into the Crystal by the physics, but that bow bulb may have helped lift the Fitz and indeed "hang it" as you guys are speculating.
Helluva big bang in any case.
http://www.shipspotting.com/photos/middle/9/2/6/2682629.jpg
Photo by Akira Uekawa at this page
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2682429
... and another good photo, credited to AP
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/06/19/14/418AF63B00000578-4617742-image-a-1_1497878301473.jpg
Thoughts about radar, relative position of the ships, Crystal's course change and detection of the course change.
One thing that hasn't been addressed (at least I haven't seen it) is the physical proximity of the two ships. Times and speeds have been identified but not the physical distances between the two ships. Obviously, no information about the actual lat/long for the Fitzgerald, however, we can make some assumptions about relative positions.
As reported, the speed of the Crystal was at 18+ kts. For discussion, assume the Fitzgerald was making ~12 kts. Crystal made a small (~15 degrees) course change 10-15 minutes before the collision. The Crystal was near, and closing on, the Fitzgerald.
To illustrate (using the speeds identified above), if the two ships were on parallel courses before Crystal changed course, the relative speed differential was about 6 kts.
If the collision occurred 10 minutes after Crystal changed course, distance between the two ships would have been roughly 1 nautical mile; if the Crystal's course change occurred 15 minutes before the collision,
distance between the two ships would have been about 1.5 nautical miles.
If the Fitz's radar operator had the range on his PPI set to 25 miles, it is unlikely he would notice the course change on his scope, the change in location/displacement of the 'blip' located toward the center of the scope would be very small.
It would appear the Crystal was very, very close to the Fitzgerald when the course change was made. I'd suggest this also contributes to the theory that there were no look outs on the Crystal and the bridge basically unmanned.
At 1 to 1.5 miles distance from another ship, it would not be prudent to change to a collision course.
Usual arrangement on the bridge of a merchant vessel is two radars, one on distant range (e.g. 24 miles) and another on shorter range (e.g. 4 nm). I assume a destroyer has same or more. The change should have been pretty obvious on shorter range scale, assuming anyone was watching. Third mate on Crystal may have been doing chart corrections, cargo discharge & loading plan for next port or other clerical work and only checking his radar occasionally, apparently not often enough. Destroyers can go a lot faster than container ships, and frequently do. Anyone's guess at this point which ship was going faster, and what the bridge watchstanders were doing.
This was a busy time of day, in a busy channel. If auto-pilot corrections were unnoticeable than I wonder why we don't hear more often about collisions. Given the ACX had a crew of 20 I think I heard, and the USS Fitz close to 300, plus a ship of war, and fast engines, it seems to me it should not be caught by a Container ship. Even if early hours, I have read that there is a lot of traffic to make port by morning, and I would not think you would put your greenest sailors on duty? Easy for me to say I know.
An Arleigh Burke DDG has an array of radars and a number of watch standers. Surface search radar, air search radar and beyond - multiple radar repeaters both in CIC and on the bridge, each usually can select the radar of choice (not dedicated).
I'm certain the Fitzgerald's CIC watch crew had tracked the Crystal and had, at least at one point in time, determined the Crystal was going to safely pass beyond the allowable closest point of approach.
As far as speed of the Fitzgerald, considering that the morning of the 17th was a Saturday,
I suspect the Fitzgerald was loitering outside of port, waiting for daybreak before approaching and entering the harbor, getting the lines over, ship squared away, and then the off duty personnel hitting the town on liberty.
So, the question is, was it making 12 kts, 15 kts 18 kts or was it barely making headway? It certainly wasn't going 30 knots! And, unless it were disabled, I'm certain it was not DIW: being stationary in the ocean is not a good ride for a sleeping crew. Being stationary is also dangerous since you cannot maneuver without headway.
One contributor mentioned the optional speed would have been 15 kts. If that were the case, using the previous scenario changing the closure speed to 3 kts (18 vice 15), Crystal changing course 10 minutes prior to impact, Crystal was a scant 1/2 mile (1000 yards) from Fitzgerald when it turned to the collision course. If the course change were 15 minutes prior, the Crystal would have been 3/4 of a mile (1500 yards) from the Fitzgerald.
The Arleigh Burke DDGs have 4 gas turbines, 100,000 hp total. A pair drive the port side shaft, the other pair drive the starboard side shaft. A variable pitch screw is used on each shaft. (All this information is available on line.)
What I don't know is if the Burke class can run just a single gas turbine/single shaft/screw when loitering (to save fuel). A DE I served aboard had 4 Fairbanks Morse Diesels which we could run in any combination of 1-4 engines, to save fuel. Of course, running on less than all 4 limited our speed and ability to accelerate. If the Fitzgerald were running on less than all GTs, it would have impeded her ability to accelerate/maneuver away from the collision.
Several mentions of the Crystal running without lights. The (Tokyo) moon rise was at 2330 (16th) and was slightly more than a half moon (56% illumination) and at 0130 was approximately 22 degrees above the horizon (using Tokyo as a location) Weather (again in Tokyo)) was for the most part partly cloudy, high relative humidity of 73%, visibility of just over 6 miles, temp in upper 60s, wind of around 13 mph.
Considering both vessels were headed generally east (toward the rising moon), with the Crystal closing on the Fitzgerald, the topside look outs on the Fitzgerald would have been very lucky to even see the Crystal (again without lights) until it was very close in. And, even if Crystal was running with navigation lights, it would have been very difficult to pick up a subtle course change toward the Fitzgerald.
Thanks for the detailed, informative reply. Will re-read it. The only issue I have with that is what the Navyman in a post near the top added (name: "Unknown") -- they kept all ships 2K feet away -- and this is not even on a ship of this class. In a very busy channel, I am not sure why the destroyer would loiter. At this point I am beginning to believe a catastrophic failure of system or engine occurred on the destroyer.
There would be standard Captain's orders on when to notify. In addition, they post night orders that will cover specific circumstances or locations. 2000 yards CPA is common but it's up to the CO. It would also depend on location. Open ocean where there is little traffic may be further, shipping lanes may or may not be closer depending on type/amount of traffic, experience of the bridge crew, and confidence of the CO. That will be key in the investigation.
Most OOD's will follow those night orders, but it is not unheard of for a ship to change course to avoid falling within that CPA (although often course changes off base are reportable in night orders as well) Also if the course/speed/CPA was calculated by the watch team and reported to the CO, he could acknowledge and/or check. Since another Crystal course change occurred 10-15 min before the possible collision, did they have time to recognize it and re-calculate a CPA in that time to notify the CO of the change? Again, they would need a couple of fixes, and there was probably a lot going on. Crystal wouldn't have been the only ship out there they were watching.
Navy ships very infrequently sit stationary. Normally we would run racetrack or other courses to maintain station (how fast, how big, and whether we cut holes in the ocean or just went any direction within a box depended on what we were there for) I doubt they would be doing that in a busy shipping lane area. Most likely they were moving area A to B in an slow easy sail, planning to arrive at a station for exercises or return to homeport the next morning.
Not sure I understand Stan Rooker's math: The closure speed depends on the angle between the two ships. If the ships were traveling "head on" and one is traveling at 15kn, and the other at 18kn, the closure speed will be 33kn; only if they were traveling in the same heading (one behind and overtaking the other) would their closure speed be 3kn. At 33kn over 15,000 yards would be closed in 10 minutes. Based on the pictures a head-on collision seems unlikely, but since we don't have the destroyer's track, we can only speculate as to what the closing speed actually was.
All my assumptions are based on the two ships being on generally easterly headings. Crystal's headings and track are fairly well defined. As you say, we don't know what the Fitzgerald's actual track was.
So, a few more thoughts and observations. A head on collision at 33 kts would have resulted in a sinking. Assuming any amount of headway by Fitzgerald, just about any head on collison with a 30k ton ship running 18 kts is going to be catastrophic. Additionally a head-on or near head-on collision would result in port side-port side or starboard-starboard damage, not the port side bow and starboard side damage present on the two vessels involved.
I believe it fairly safe to say the Crystal was closing on the Fitzgerald from somewhere aft of the Fitz's starboard beam. Had it been a perpendicular hit with the Crystal making 18 kts, we'd be talking about the sinking of the Fitzgerald. The exact angle of closing, based on ships courses, will determine whether this was a crossing or closing incident. At the point of the collision, the Fitzgerald was most likely trapped in the "V" formed by Crystal's bow and submerged "bulb protrusion", Fitz's headway in conjunction with the collision angle caused the Crystal to turn to starboard after the collision. More than likely, the Fitz was attempting to get out of the way but ran out of time and space. I'd hazard a guess that the reason there is not more scaring on the Crystal's bow is that when the Fitz finally broke away, it did so very violently to port.
Another point to consider is that, based on an interview with a mother of a sailor on the Fitz, sailors were thrown off their bunks by the impact, which would mean a collision alarm was not sounded in anticipation of a collision. Does this mean the Fitz was not aware of the impending collision until it happened? I think safe to say the Crystal did not know about the Fitz, though I don't know turning off the AIS system by the Fitz puts them at the peril of auto-pilot systems.
I didn't hear the interview, but it is very interesting that there was no collision alarm. Or, did it sound simultaneously with the collision? Or did it sound at all? Needless to say, it would have been prudent to sound the alarm if there was any possibility of collision. However, the OD may have thought the danger of collision had been averted by maneuvering or altering the Fitz's course. And, of course, there is the possibility they didn't see the Crystal. Any number of shipboard systems could have been down.
Again, until we actually know the Fitzgerald's track and system's status, we won't know.
It is difficult to believe that the Crystal could actually collide with the Fitzgerald with absolutely no warning completely undetected until impact. This gives some credence to the possibility of Crystal's last course change going undetected by Fitzgerald. What it also does is raise the question of what the Fitz's topside lookouts did or didn't see, and whether or not the Crystal was running with or with out navigation lights.
As far as an AIS on a Navy ship, it would not be used to disclose the position of a warship. It would be a monitoring device only.
If the Crystal had radar and had it on, and if someone looked at the scope, they saw the Fitzgerald. A 505' ship is a heckuva radar target. Whether or not they paid any attention to their scope, is another question.
More than likely, they didn't determine course or speed of the Fitzgerald, and simply turned to their new heading, which resulted in the collision.
That is of course, assuming the Fitzgerald was maintaining course and speed. IMO the two vessels were relatively close to each other when Crystal changed course.
As far as the sailors being thrown out of their racks at impact, I'd imagine the near instantaneous acceleration imposed by a collision from a 30k ton ship with a relative speed differential of just a few knots could very easily cause that.
As stated by another, it was a helluva bang.
To illustrate the actual magnitude of that small 16 degree course change. Without having the Fitzgerald's time stamped course, speed and lat/long data , we can't plot it's track relative to the Crystal's track.
However, we can obviously assume Fitz's position at the point of impact, and the relative position of the Crystal 10 or 15 minutes prior to impact, based on it's course and speed.
If the Crystal changed course 16 degrees (from the AIS information), making 18 kts, at 10 minutes prior to the collision, the difference in Crystal's position at that point in time (impact) would be about .82 miles from the position it would have been in had the course change not occurred. If the Crystal's course change had occurred 15 minutes prior to the collision, the position difference is even greater, being about 1.25 miles.
In other words, had the course change not occurred (both ship's speed/course had remained constant), there wouldn't have been a collision.
When all is said and done, IMO, there will be a number of events that contributed to the collision, anyone of which had not occurred, there wouldn't have been a collision.
However, the last small course change made by the Crystal will be one, if not the, key factor contributing to the collision.
Thank you. This blog and comments have been an education.
could somebody discount the fact that the crystal had a heavy ass (due to cargo), thus, was unable to turn away in a timely manner?
She did alright making the "U Turn" a half hour after the hit, in 5 min, and she has bow thrusters too, but I'm not sure if they're used while at speed or only when they're in port. There is no indication the Crystal "saw it coming" at all.
TE 21 June 2017 at 19:06:00 GMT-4
Bow thrusters generally are ineffective above 5kn though some cruise ships claim they are effective up to 9kn.
Do we know what the visibility was? If poor consider that the impact could have been mistaken for something else, no radar contact, no AIS target, what else could a ship hit.... an uncharted mount / rock? If they thought they had hit a submerged object then the contingency plan for that would have been followed. Part would be for anchors to be cleared, crew go fwd to clear anchors and discover damage, report back, ship turns to head back to where impact was felt. As the warship is damaged it may show on radar thus crew can find it and steer towards it.
BTW some AIS units drop transmit power to 1W once speed drops below 3kn, this could explain the loss of signal from the ship being picked up by shore side.
The ~30min until turning back could be explained by the thought they had hit a submerged object. Master called 5min gone, general alarm activated, crew mustered (no internal lift many crew have to climb up or down to station) 5min more, plan dug out, crew ordered fwd, 5min, crew on focsle 5~10min, Mate ordered fwd to confirm discovery of damage another 5min and so on...
Above post sounds plausible in the absence of real info. Modern warships are generally designed to reflect as little radar signal as possible back towards ship that is scanning, and more of it in other directions, than ships less concerned about hostile actions, countermeasures for missile attacks, etc. Radar image may have looked like a small vessel, and in earlier observations it probably appeared to be staying out of the way. Shipping containers are dandy radar reflectors, so Crystal probably had anti-clutter turned up to suppress return from own containers, and once Fitzgerald was close, she probably did not show up at all on the radar screen. View from the bridge of anything close is mostly blocked by stacks of containers, and once Fitzgerald was within a half mile, hull, sidelights, sternlight and superstructure, except for the mast-tops, probably could not be seen from the bridge. At time of collision (and during the long minutes of closing if Fitzgerald was being overtaken), Fitzgerald's white lights, facing forward, would not have been seen from the bridge of the Crystal. Bridge not necessarily unmanned, but probably just checking the radar ever several minutes, while doing paperwork that robs night vision. Crystal's bridge watch likely had no idea what they hit, and looking out the window, might not have seen the Fitzgerald even while pinned to the bow. Collisions at sea are infrequent occurrences, not always recognized as such in the dark, and submerged object strike not an unreasonable thought, especially with hard and prolonged turn to starboard suggesting a submerged object jamming the rudder, and a period of uncertainty thus likely. After calling master, next call is to wake up an engineer, have him/her go below, check for damage in the engine room, then start an auxiliary generator, switch main engine from heavy oil to light fuel oil for maneuvering, and stand by for orders such as slow or stop. Fifteen minutes from collision to turn-around readily explained.
It wan't 15 minutes to turn around. Have a look at the timeline again; it was 15 minutes of acceleration before cutting autopilot. Another 10 before they turned around. There would be no need to wake the master or engineer; the ship was flung 65 degrees with the collision. Can't imagine anyone would sleep through that.
Auto-pilot no doubt had rudder at limit trying to return to set course, and ship was still turning away from set course. Audible alarms and error message displaying on auto-pilot for "rudder limit" and "off heading". Full rudder on a ship at sea speed creates a lot of cavitation, vibration and noise. Here's the psychology: The auto-pilot alarm messages and the noise and vibration from the stern were a form of misdirection. Denial is a big part of thinking, and no one wants to entertain the possibility that they steamed into a collision cluelessly. Attention was probably focused on the wrong end of the ship. If I stepped onto the bridge (or started paying attention) a few seconds after the collision, my first thought probably would have been that something was in the rudder and jamming it. I would have sent someone to check the after steering compartment and the engine room for holes, leaks or other visible damage before thinking to send someone to the bow to check for damage or another vessel pinned against it. Meanwhile, Fitzgerald's radios were knocked out, so no calls or answers from them. 15 minutes or 25, it still is not surprising it took a while to recognize and accept possibility that they had been in a collision, and to follow duty to return to scene and offer assistance.
John M 23 June 2017 at 09:31:00 GMT-4
Anonymous I appreciate your insight into the Crystal side of the equation. Can you expand on a couple of points?
"Shipping containers are dandy radar reflectors, so Crystal probably had anti-clutter turned up to suppress return from own containers, and once Fitzgerald was close, she probably did not show up at all on the radar screen." Does the anti-clutter effectively result in a close-in range limitation so they can only detect targets beyond a certain distance.
Is it safe to assume the 65 degree turn caused the Fitzgerald to rapidly disappear into a large blindspot caused by the containers behind the bridge? Given a crew of maybe 20 I have heard about what other watch positions were likely manned? should have been manned?
"while doing paperwork that robs night vision." Would they not have red lighting on the bridge to preserve night vision?
The three minutes between data points leaves a lot to the imagination. 65deg course alteration, in the course of piloting I can get a rate of turn of over 40deg a minute with that size box boat. A rapid turn will scrub speed off, it then takes a while to build.
Manning at night. Bridge one to three on watch, engine control room most likely ums (unmanned machinery space) with duty engineer resting and system set to alert / wake him. Might have an oiler doing rounds...
Some radar signal is reflected by nearby waves and wavelets and own ship's structure and cargo, etc. on deck. Anti-clutter or sea clutter adjustment tunes radar so that reflected signal typical of waves is suppressed on screen, and hopefully somewhat stronger signals from targets of interest, e.g. from sportfishing boat or sailboat, still come through and aren't lost in the clutter. The tuning is usually automatic, and something of a compromise. Sometimes the signals of interest get suppressed, too.
My guess, and it's only a guess without the Fitzgerald's data, is that Fitgerald got off the Crystal's bow by bringing engines up to full power and turning away to port. The stern of the Fitzgerald probably didn't smack the aft port side of the Crystal because the bow of the Crystal started swinging to port, and her stern to starboard, with the auto-pilot trying to get back to the set course. If someone happened to be out on the port bridge wing, they probably would have seen the Fitzgerald peeling off.
The ship going nearly sideways while the Fitsgerald pushed the bow around certainly would scrub off a lot of speed in a hurry. Red light is commonly used while making rough log entries, plotting on paper chart (increasingly rare), and tasks usually done as part of watchstanding duties. I suspect that some watch officers try to catch up on other paperwork perhaps not readily done under a red light. Also, a lot of paperwork these days is done on compute.
I wonder with the CO asleep, if those on duty did not want to enact evasive enough maneuvers to waken, or summon the Commanding Officer. I have a hard time believing that the container ship, with AIS on, would not assume smaller ships would stay out of the way. With additional radar on the destroyer hard to imagine how it got hit. I wonder if other traffic played a role.
Regarding the "sea jihad" scenario: I'm captain of an articuated tug-barge unit operating on the US East and Gulf Coasts. I deal with a lot of foreign watchstanders and USN in crossing, meeting and overtaking situations. If the Fitzgerald's AIS was transmitting, this blog would have shown us both vessels' tracks, and a lot of questions would be answered. Warships frequently run without AIS transmitting, and watchkeeping with visual observation and radar plotting have always sufficed to keep me from colliding with them. So I don't think the stereotyped third mate was aware that he was near a US warship. Secondly, the Fitzgerald could probably go twice as fast or faster than the Crystal, like the 20 knot or faster cargo and naval vessels that I encounter on my 10-knot tug. There is no way I could turn around, stern-chase and catch one of them, and neither could the Crystal, unless the Fitzgerald was running at slow speed and the bridge watch oblivious. It sounds like the undermanned, overworked, sleep-deprived, underpaid and poorly motivated bridge watch of the Crystal had stepped out for a sandwich or other non-navigational activity and left the bridge unattended, perhaps assuming that the vessel showing them a green light would stay out of their way. A small change in course and speed during that time could be due to currents, not deliberate calculation. Damage to the starboard (green running light) side of the Fitzgerald suggests they attempted to cross the bow of the Crystal from left to right, but does not rule out other possibilities. The Fitzgerald probably acted more like a bow thruster than a rudder while pinned on the bow of the Crystal. Regarding lack of comms post collision: surely someone on a naval vessel has a satellite phone, which has its own batteries and antenna, and would not be disabled by the collision. Maybe someday we'll get the whole story.
Thank you for your input; the JP CG indicates they were contacted at 2:25 by the Crystal, which was when they first became aware of the collision. I would hope that the Fitz had someone with a sat phone, but it doesn't seem like it was on hand, or it wouldn't have been news to the JP CG... I'm looking forward to the investigation and what it draws out...
Jon Tessler 19 June 2017 at 03:25:00 GMT-4
you assume that someone on the Fitz would "immediately" radio and report the collision. They would not, the ships first priority would have been sounding general quarters to set condition Zebra(all watertight hatches secured) and begin damage control operations to keep the ship afloat. Once the ship was stabilized, flooding contained, etc only then would the Fitz have attempted to radio in to report the collision. Whether the collision took place at 1:30am or 2:30am local really does not make much difference on the Fitz, because the majority of the crew(including the majority of the senior officers and enlisted) would be in their racks asleep, with only watch standers up.
Considering that it appears that the Fitz was holed below the waterline, the crew did a rather amazing job to keep the ship afloat, with the loss of only 7 sailors. I spent 10 years in the USN,and was a qualified helmsman and Lee Helmsman.
Well, "immediately" might be a little too immediate, but in less than 55 minutes from the collision, yes. The Crystal called in the collision 55 minutes after the impact, after returning to the scene. So yes, I do believe if the Fitzgerald had been able to make a distress call they would have done so in 55 minutes from the initial catastrophic event, that could easily have sunk her.
Regarding the Crystal continuing at previous speed after collision for 15 minutes, it should be kept in mind that merchant vessels of this type do not have direct engine controls on the bridge and frequently do not have anyone on watch in the engine room at night. The engineering department generally needs or wants 15-30 minutes notice if they will have to stand by for orders from the bridge for speed changes or maneuvering. Just wait until the fully autonomous ships are here.
I'm not buying what you're selling. The autopilot was steering the ship and there was no off button on the bridge, just a bunch of people running in circles who couldn't find he radio either? Nope. There was nobody on the bridge of the Crystal, or if there was, they were not qualified to be.
s 19 June 2017 at 09:03:00 GMT-4
Probably had women on the deck looking in their hand mirror primping their eyelashes and putting on lipstick just like they do behind the wheel of a car! Next thing you know... BAM!!!!!!
This comment would not be funny even if no one had died.
Oh please ��
Eris man 19 June 2017 at 09:10:00 GMT-4
There is a line between being the overtaking vessel, thus the burden vessel which must give right of way and the vessel having the burden vessel on her port quarter. It is not an easy line to determine and in this case it appears the Navy vessel believed themselves the privileged vessel from the over-taking container ship while the container ship considered themselves the privileged vessel due to the Navy vessel on their port bow. Any change in course or speed by either vessel should be sufficiently large to be apparent/evident to the other vessel. Bottom line a tragic accident that personal on neither vessel wished for. Bridge to bridge VHF radio communication should have been established and intentions by both vessels established and agreed to. In busy shipping lanes there is all too much chatter un-necessary chatter and for this reason sometimes VHF is turned down.
Another problem with VHF comms in high traffic areas, especially at night or in limited visibility, is confusion as to who is calling or answering on the VHF. For example, "Calling the vessel four miles on my port bow, this is the ship on your starboard bow" might be applicable to more than one combination of vessels in radio range. Having the AIS transponder turned on helps avoid confusion.
Wxman 19 June 2017 at 11:22:00 GMT-4
If the AIS track is correct and usually so close to the coast, in a well trafficked area, it's usually pretty accurate.
therefore, for a container ship moving at 17+ knots, it's hard to understand how it's track can change at such a right angle, without a collision at that time, 16:30Z. The momentum of the Fitz would have spun the bow of the Crystal as depicted in the track.
Sorry to say, because the USN will not look good in any of this, but probably when the dust settles, the comments by Anonymous ( 18 June 2017 at 12:52:00) above will be pretty close to what happened.
Don 19 June 2017 at 11:40:00 GMT-4
"An hour passed before Japan authorities were notified of Fitzgerald collision"
"The collision happened at around 1:30 a.m. but it was not until 2:25 a.m. that the container ship informed the Japanese coastguard of the accident, said coastguard spokesman Takeshi Aikawa told Reuters."
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-navy-asia-idUSKBN19913U
Patti Brown 19 June 2017 at 12:10:00 GMT-4
This all has been wonderful to read. I'm not military nor a sailor (been on a few cruise ships), but I'm fascinated by this incident. Thank you.
Thank you Patti! Glad my blog post found its way to you :)
Great analysis. My guess is that you could start it about 10 minutes earlier when the Crystal was sailing at 18 knots on a course of 90 degrees (approx.). At this time it would have appeared to the Fitz that she would clear Crystal by a significant margin. Crystal then turns about 20 degrees north to clear Tishima Island, probably an automatic turn based on a proximity to a waypoint if the rest of your analysis is correct. This brought her onto a collision course with the Fitzgerald. Shortly afterwards Fitz turned to port to avoid the collision, delaying the inevitable for a few minutes. Earlier recognition of the turn by the Fitz might have avoided the accident. However no automatic system would have predicted the accident until after the turn by Crystal was completed.
Normally the vessel on the right has the right of way. (Colregs rule 15). That does not give them the right to turn into the path of the Fitz at the last minute unless there is an obstruction or other special situation. To avoid collisions, both vessels may maneuver.
"Shortly afterwards Fitz turned to port to avoid the collision, delaying the inevitable for a few minutes."
We can only speculate on the maneuvering of the Fitzgerald, but if the Fitz. turning to port led to the collision, then likely any other maneuver would have avoided it. 18 knots over just a few minutes should create enough distance for near miss at the least. If they had turned to starboard, they could have passed behind the Crystal.
They may have simply accelerated, hoping to pass just in front (maybe that's what they did, pushing the Crystal even more starboard after the impact). But if the reports are accurate that no warning sounded, the captain was asleep, and no alerts were sent to the Navy or Coast Guard, then the simplest explanation is that they weren't aware of the Crystal and so didn't react at all until the collision happened.
Carlos 19 June 2017 at 15:54:00 GMT-4
From the NYT: "Japanese CG said on Monday that a deadly collision ... had occurred nearly an hour earlier than previously believed ... investigating whether there had been a delay in reporting". Seems to nicely match Steffan's hypothetical timeline.
Sorry, hit publish too soon. It seems like the JCG originally reported the collision happened around 2:20, which was what the USN press release stated. After further investigation the shipping company said the collision happened around 1:30, and JCG amended its information. From the looks of it, the USN public statements were simply relying on JCG statements, and not necessarily on reports from the Fitz. This is not completely out of the question. The PR chain of command in the USN may not have been given all the relevant information from the operations side of the house.
To be fair, it is also possible that the shipping company "updated" its remarks after reading a post such as this, and *their* PR people don't have all the right information.
You'd think communications would be better, but in large organizations that is often not the case. I could see any of the organizations involved making half-baked statements without access to all the available data.
No naval knowledge or "when I was" stories from me but I started following VesselFinder and MarineTraffic right after the incident. Your narratives dumb it down for me. I've shared your blog on news sites, even sent it to my Naval Academy friend. First and foremost are 7 sailors lost. My heart breaks for their families.
The US is fighting ISIS rebels in the South Philippines for the moment. Is it totaly insane to think that "some" Philipino personnal on the cargo ship might want to revenge and deliberately hit the Fitzgerald. And ,afterwards, make it appear like an accident...
Regardless of what anyone on the Crystal might have wanted to do, Fitzgerald had AIS off, so could not have been identified as a US warship on dark night either visually or electronically. Not insane, just ruled out in this case by the available facts.
Yup. What they said. Not having AIS on didn't help the matter, since AIS is (or can be) overlaid on the radar view and might have triggered different actions by the autopilot / alarms. As it was, Fitz was just a blob on the radar with no correlating AIS signature.
TomKatBooks 20 June 2017 at 08:11:00 GMT-4
What is the name of the captain of the ACX Crystal? Can't find it anywhere.
First, thoughts and prayers go out to the crew and their families. As a former surface warfare officer and OOD with over 1500 hours of bridge time, this incident raises a lot of questions. There have been many well thought out theories posted but it is impossible to reconstruct the collision without the track information for the Fitzgerald. Let's leave the forensics to the pros.
I understand the concern about speculative theories. However, if the forensics are left solely to the pros, the public will likely be left in the dark. And the public does have an interest here, beyond even the loss of life and beyond questions about the competence of the way the US Navy implements safe navigation with its vastly expensive ships. For example, it appears that the oceans are at every moment populated by large zombie-like container ships, thinly staffed, and patently unable to follow the mandated rules of navigation (e.g. the overtaking vessel must steer clear of the vessel being overtaken). There is a big possibility here that Crystal, overtaking the Fitzgerald, on autopilot, made a port turn to close the Fitzgerald only ten minutes before the collision, in direct violation of maritime rules of the road. The dangers posed by these ships extend far beyond the particulars of this very tragic accident (an accident I believe might well have been avoided if the container ship had not adjusted course toward the Fitzgerald, regardless of the state of awareness aboard the US Navy combatant).
Greg 21 June 2017 at 21:52:00 GMT-4
Former Navy LCDR here, Contact Coordinator on Leahy class cruiser and SSBN. Clear to me that the ACX was at least 50% at fault (on autopilot, with "last clear chance" duty to avoid the collision), but the merchant does not appear to know it was steaming right into the Fitz (that particular course change was not prudent in the first place and ACX made no last minute course corrections nor reduce speed). Fitz is 50% to blame as well. Focus will be on OOD, Starboard lookout (and rest of watch for that matter) and whatever radar, sonar, was being used. We cannot talk about the navigational stuff, except to say that some equipment may be to blame (again, cannot discuss). Starting point in the collision analysis is the starboard lookout. I estimate that Fitz and ACX were on a parallel 090 course, and Fitz was not too concerned because she was being overtaken by ACX who was abaft her right beam with two or three miles of separation (assuming Fitz was steaming at 10 knots). The OOD was probably feeling good. It appears he had recently navigated around two large merchants, and the horizon was relatively free of contacts. The lack of forward contacts could have lulled the watch team into a false sense of security. Plus, they were returning home, they were tired from the previous day's exercises, and some were going on liberty soon.
I have little doubt that the Starboard lookout was tracking the ACX (first picked up on radar), but depending on whether ACX had her running lights on, the lookout may not have had a good view of ACX (plus, lack of moonlight hampers visibility). The key is that the CO was not called (presumably), so that tells us the OOD did not think ACX was a threat. At this point, the OOD is thinking the Fitz has the right of way. He was being overtaken. There was another similar merchant on the left beam too that was fairly close and was also overtaking the Fitz (the merchants were steaming faster because they had to travel further than Fitz). All of a sudden, the ACX turns 15 degrees to port. Did the lookout notice that course change? Apparently not. It was very small. In this scenario, the OOD does not realize that the Fitz is no longer the stand on vessel. The other watch-standers probably did not notice the course change either because it takes time to develop a new contact solution (course and speed), and here, only 12 minutes elapsed between the time of course change and impact. Thus, there was little time to develop a new solution. So the OOD is not aware of the constant bearing decreasing range scenario with the ACX. Plus, the watch is focused on contacts in front of them, not behind them. Meanwhile, the ACX is bearing down on Fitz. The OOD must have assumed that no merchant in their right mind would turn towards him and essentially ram him. But the ACX was on autopilot and may not have had anyone on the bridge. If there had been a lookout on ACX, we are probably not talking about it now.
What about the non-use of AIS by the Fitz? Why would they assume the Crystal has seen them unless they are in radio contact?
Having several years worth of experience looking at contacts at night, I am sure, absent some very unusual circumstances, that a vessel in ACX's position would have seen the Fitz's starboard running light as well as masthead light (assuming they were on). If anyone was watching on ACX, they would have easily seen Fitz off their port bow, well before her course change to port. Essentially, Fitz was rammed.
Plus, ACX likely had Fitz on radar.
Why wouldn't the auto-pilot navigation system detect it? Thanks in advance.
Thank you very much Greg, that's extremely insightful.
Auto-pilot keeps the ship on a constant heading, or on a trackline between two waypoints. Detection of vessels and other targets and calculating closest point of approach and danger of collision is done by other systems (radar and AIS, or the sailor's eye) and usually involves some human input. Automatic alarms can be set, but in heavily trafficked areas are usually not turned on because they would constantly be set off by the close vessels that we already know about. AIS-based anti-collision systems would not have helped Crystal, since Fitzgerald was not transmitting AIS data. There seems to have been a failure on the part of both vessels to make full use of radar anti-collision features.
Greg, A couple of questions -
"It appears he had recently navigated around two large merchants, and the horizon was relatively free of contacts. The lack of forward contacts could have lulled the watch team into a false sense of security." and "There was another similar merchant on the left beam too that was fairly close and was also overtaking the Fitz (the merchants were steaming faster because they had to travel further than Fitz)."
I haven't seen any info on other vessels in the area. Are those sentences hypotheticals or have I just missed that?
"All of a sudden, the ACX turns 15 degrees to port. Did the lookout notice that course change? Apparently not. It was very small. In this scenario, the OOD does not realize that the Fitz is no longer the stand on vessel."
It's been 30 years since I left the navy but doesn't the Fitzgerald remain the stand on vessel since she was originally being overtaken?
"I haven't seen any info on other vessels in the area. Are those sentences hypotheticals or have I just missed that?"
My statements are based on my "solution" for the Fitz's course and speed in the 30 minutes prior to the collision. It is based on AIS data, the location of the TSS, rules of the road, and my belief that the OOD and the watch were taken by surprise. I have Fitz on a course of approx. 090 and 10 to 12 knots.
"It's been 30 years since I left the navy but doesn't the Fitzgerald remain the stand on vessel since she was originally being overtaken?"
They were in the classic overtaking situation (by two vessels, one to port and one to starboard). However, at some point, the overtaking is deemed complete (according to rule 13d, it's when the overtaking vessel is "past and clear."). Here, the ACX Crystal will argue that it was "past and clear" when it made its course change to port. The ACX Crystal will use the old, "green means go" rule and argue that since the overtaking was complete (it may have been slightly past the Fitz) and it saw the Fitz's green running light, it was within its right to turn to port so that it could stay in the sea lane (and avoid running into Toshima island). In court, this case could turn on this issue.
This collision is very similar to the USS Radford (DD 968) and Saudi Riyadh collision in 1999. In that incident, the Radford was doing doughnut holes around a buoy and the merchant bore down on them. The watch standers were very inexperienced and did not recognize the danger until it was too late.
This is a great point that I didn't know; while I believed this wasn't unprecedented, I didn't have a concrete incident to refer to. Thank you!
Or the USS Porter in 2012 - the damage even looks similar -
http://gcaptain.com/intense-bridge-conversation-porter/
Philip 22 June 2017 at 08:50:00 GMT-4
Great work Steffan!
USN strikes again.
Soon after this occurred I have seen some discussion about whether the USS Fitzgerald was at fault. Most early comments noted that the Fitzgerald was struck on the starboard side so she must have made a mistake. The discussion on here has been more accurate in my view. Using the tracks Steffan posted here I tried to figure out where the Fitzgerald might have been headed and whether it was a crossing situation (Fitzgerald's fault) or an overtaking situation (Crystal's fault).
I created a picture to show a couple of options for the Fitzgerald's course. https://ibb.co/esgUdQ
Because of the islands in the area it seems that the Fitzgerald was going to pass north of Toshima or near Kozushima. The first results in an overtaking situation. It would be consistent with the Fitzgerald returning to her home port in Yokosuka. The second results in a crossing situation. It would be more consistent with the Fitzgerald leaving Yokosuka and heading south from the heavy traffic lanes out of the area. Any critique is welcome.
I was in these exact waters on Reeves many moons ago. Like you said, there is a Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS) where the collision occurred. By looking at AIS data of the ACX Crystal's track, I was able to determine that she was headed eastbound but was in the westbound lane. She should have been approximately five miles south (i.e., further from land) than she was, so she was in the wrong lane. I am sure this course was chosen for expediency. With this context, if Fitz was heading south, she would have been cutting directly across the sea lanes. While the rule for course changes while in a sea lane is to make large course changes so that other ships can see your broad side, I don't think your typical U.S. warship is a fan of that rule, especially when it means you are the burdened vessel and are exposing your beam to oncoming eastbound traffic. It also creates close CPAs. Plus, the Wan Hai 266 was on a course parallel to ACX but two miles to the north. If Fitz was on a course perpendicular to these two merchants, she is cutting some close CPAs. My opinion is that she was on a parallel course for at least the 30 minutes prior to collision.
I know that the reports say that it was a clear night, but could fog have been an issue? From a Japanese safety report on fog. "It is remarkable that 71% (108 cases) of casualties in fog occurred in the three months between May and July...the occurrence of fog-related accidents is concentrated in the hours between 01:00 and 10:00. This is because the fog came on in the chilled air around midnight and dispersed in the morning." There were 111 collisions due to fog between 2001 and 2005. Most involved cargo vessels. June is the worst month. The area where the collision occurred is a known problem area for fog.
Captbobdad 24 June 2017 at 05:18:00 GMT-4
I have a few questions of my own. I recently retired from the Canadian Navy. I have been on the bridge for transits of crowded waterways (suez, entry to Singapore, entry to Istanbul, entry to Toyko, etc) at night. We have watchmen on both bridge wings, radar, cameras which have a bird’s eye view of the scene, communicated directly to another bridge watchman and to the Control Room. There is an experienced OOD plus a junior, helmsman, communicator (and someone near on the brow ready to drop anchor quickly). It would be about the same in the USN. Lots of people, lots of tech, lots of eyes of all kinds. They might be tired, but at 0130 or 0230, not that tired, as the duty watch would have switched not long before. This is what these guys (and girls do). I cannot buy that they were distracted and tired. Not that I have any solutions, but rather that this element does not fit. Secondly, since this is a busy channel, why did not another nearby ship radio in the collision? Third, in the redundancy of the comms, there was a sat radio. Every warship has this. Stuff was flung about, for sure. The OOD was 100% engaged in damage control. But someone on the bridge had the delegated duty to radio in such incidences. That they never did is rather hard to believe. Even if they lost electricity, the bridge and the control would have emergency power.
I was on a navy ship that collided with another ship, and on another navy ship that had a massive engine room fire. I understand the confusion of emergency at sea. But these sailors would have trained extensively for these scenarios. Everyone had a role to play, and knew their role. This is not to say that in the real world, that all goes according to plan, but NO ONE would have forgotten to radio this to the Naval authorities or the JCG, or even to call out to nearby ships, esp. if they though men were in the water. The lack of comms from the Fitz is a big mystery….
I wonder if there was a failure of systems on Fitz, and further, if it will be exposed. But I would think it would get out one day.
Any idea of what was going on with the Crystal hours later, around 21:30 UTC, when just northeast of Oshima Island, they spent half an hour decelerating from 13 knots to almost standstill, then turned southwest and inched along for several kilometers before again correcting course on toward Tokyo Bay? Was this just an awkward way to resume their original course (I assume they had planned to pass west of Oshima Island)?
Were they avoiding another collision, or possible being asked to change their destination? Did they think they hit something again?
All analysis are one sided so far. Why ? Crystal's route has been highlighted. What about for uss Fitzgerald?
The only publicly available data for the course/speed/etc is from the AIS transponder aboard the ACX Crystal, so that's been my focus. The direction/speed/etc of the USS Fitzgerald are being extrapolated from additional crumbs of info, but most of the irrefutable data is about the ACX Crystal.
Sailorman, so you know who is talking. My background retired, living 1/2 year in a sailboat, cruising with Wife, we did 5,000 miles last year. Double handed sailing is solo sailing with sleep.
Our boat has AIS, VHF, RADAR, HF, IRIDIUM, plotters.
Last year. Through inattention, I wacked a big steel buoy and did some damage. I did my own after incident report and came up with a list of things I should have done but didn't. So I get what it feels like to be on the hot seat.
I accept the original proposed chain of events on the Crystal, not sure but good enough for now, makes sense. Nothing about the Fitz makes sense.
AIS: Forget RADAR, watch standers, etc for the moment. That is largely irrelevant when in a commercial traffic way. RECEIVE ONLY AIS will tell you COA, TCPA, speed, heading, RATE OF TURN, and tons of other data about the vessel. It also has a proximity alarm. Presumably the Fitz had AIS, therefore they had the means to avoid this incident.
Traffic Control: Is there a shoreside traffic control zone that extends this far out? I'm thinking of something like Halifax or S Johns, NL. They should have civilian track information.
VHF: Wonderful stuff. My VHF is tied to the AIS and the GPS. So I can make a direct call bridge to bridge knowing the vessels name. It has a distress feature that when activated sends a distress call in luring my lat/long. My BATTERY OPERATED handheld VHFs do the same thing. So, were I in trouble, and lost all power, these units would still work. In fact we take them, one for each, with us in the dingy, just in case we swamp.
I see no reason why the $1.2 billion destroyer should not have even better, more resilient, redundant capabilities. And with a 300 man crew surely someone would have thought to call for help.
While I don't want to speculate or lay blame there has been much negative consideration of the Crystal and her 20 man crew in the hour following the impact. Were similar critical analysis used on the Fitz one could equally wonder what they were up to and why they remained silent.
Sibyl 26 June 2017 at 09:54:00 GMT-4
The Captain of the Crystal speaks: http://news (dot) trust (dot) org/item/20170626101937-6xsul
Greatly appreciate your thorough analysis and resources, and all the comments by experienced naval navigators.
I'm thrilled with the high quality comments too.
The captain's statement isn't worth anything; it's easily dismissed by the AIS data that beacons every ~3min. No 10min gap to fit his story in. He's going away for a long long time.
I thought the mandated transmit interval would be much less than 3 minutes, in traffic and traveling at Crystal's speed. Three minutes' delay could make a big difference. Do you think Crystal was actually reporting on a shorter interval?
When you're right, you're right; the data I used is from MarineTrffic.com, and is not actually "raw"; I mean, that's my source data and "raw" in that sense, but technically there is raw AIS data collected by nearby AIS-T receivers that could be more frequent than every 3 minutes. In the US those receivers are run by the USCG, so in Japan I'd *guess* the receivers are run by the JP CG. I've requested that raw data from the USCG before under FOIA before, but it took months to get. Maybe the JP CG would release the raw data too, I'm not sure.
Good catch!
TE 4 July 2017 at 14:24:00 GMT-4
https://help.marinetraffic.com/hc/en-us/articles/205426887-What-kind-of-information-is-AIS-transmitted-
Dynamic Information (such information isautomatically transmitted every 2 to 10 seconds depending on the vessel's speed and course while underway and every 6 minutes while anchored from vessels equipped with Class A transponders)
I work for a company that sends it's AIS data stream to marine traffic … they get updates more often than at 3min intervals per vessel
Steffan Watkins 4 July 2017 at 14:46:00 GMT-4
Short of doing a FOIA (Do they have something FOIA-like?) to get the data from the Japanese Coast Guard's receivers, I don't know how to get any higher resolution; you're completely correct tho, it isn't just every ~3 min, but that's all I see from this end of the stick.
It's not clear the USN has fully embraced AIS as a safety of navigation system. Naval combatants are disinclined to rely on information provided by potentially unfriendly parties, information that might easily be spoofed. The AIS on an older ship like Fitzgerald could be a stand alone laptop installed on the bridge, available to the OOD but not integrated into the ship's navigation system. By policy it would operate in receive-only mode. Radar and visual lookouts are more likely to be the primary safety of navigation sensors. But even an excellent radar (SPS-67/73 ?) would take some time (not sure how long) to assimilate a moderate course change by Crystal if it were on a nearly parallel course to that of Fitzgerald. In this scenario a recognition delay of even a few minutes might put the Fitzgerald OOD far enough behind the problem that a misjudgment in recognizing the threat, or an incorrect course change in response, would be non-recoverable. I'm sure that this event will provoke an intense internal discussion by the USN about the utility of AIS. However, much of this discussion might not be visible to the public even though stand-alone AIS is not itself a classified system.
Please explain: "Shipping data in Thomson Reuters Eikon shows that the ACX Crystal, chartered by Japan's Nippon Yusen KK, made a complete U-turn between 12:58 a.m. and 2:46 a.m." Why such a large time spread?
You'll need to ask them. With great respect to Tim's work, I think it's really weird; I provide you with the 3-minute resolution data above that clearly disproves the statement.
Oh hey, here's another blog post now ;)
http://www.vesselofinterest.com/2017/06/the-leaked-statement-from-acx-crystals.html
Yes, thank you. Glad I found your site.
Article from US Naval Institute (USNI) quoting sailor onboard that Fitzgerald fought damage to the ship for almost an hour before the Japanese Coast Guard was notified. The Crystal notified when they returned to the scene, at about the same time the ship was able to get their Iridium Sat Phone up. Also discuss damage to the CO's cabin and how he was rescued as well as some pictures of the cabin.
Details and pictures lend more credance to the feeling this was a "glancing blow" (maybe 45 degrees or so?) and that the Crystal was not paying attention at the time. Also more likely that Fitzgerald had initially identified the Crystals course as "safe" and the 10-15 min from the Crystal's turn to port, they didn't recognize the course change by lookout or radar until it was too late. The question is how much advance notice did they have before the collision.
I find it hard to believe they had no notice, but based on speed, night time and time from turn to collision, maybe 5 min? Will be interesting to read when the report comes out. It will come out as the Navy is good about that and posts all such investigations for the public to view.
https://news.usni.org/2017/06/21/investigators-believe-uss-fitzgerald-crew-fought-flooding-for-an-hour-before-distress-call-reached-help
Unknown 18 July 2017 at 20:28:00 GMT-4
I think this is about right. The port turn, which was not a big course change, would take time to recognize if Fitzgerald were relying solely on radar or lookouts and might take longer to recognize than the time it took the ships to close on each other. One question I have posed above is how much the USN is willing to rely on AIS as a safety of navigation "sensor" as well as an intelligence gathering system. The course change would be immediately transmitted if Crystal were transmitting AIS at the required rate commensurate with the local traffic density (and this should have been much more rapidly than every three minutes). But the USN has good reasons not to rely unconditionally on AIS (creates a dependency on unreliable sources of information since AIS can be spoofed), so we'll have to see if a discussion about this emerges from the USN deliberations about the crash. It's quite possible the USN may regard its AIS policies as being sensitive, so the public may never know.
Sailorman speaking.
Do you have a copy of the Porter investigation you could share?
To add to your above comment "hard to believe" is an understatement. With AIS it's impossible to believe. With AIS all necessary data is there on the screen, the COA alarm is sounding. You have to actively ignore it, as they apparently did in the Porter incident (from the leaked voice recording.)
COA (Closest Point of Approach) NOT COA.
Duhhhh!
TMOliver 28 June 2017 at 11:28:00 GMT-4
Fault? Fault is not the issue from the standpoint of FITZGERALD's CO, OOD, JOOD, and CICWO. "Accountability" and "Responsibility" inevitably fall upon their shoulders, jointly and severally, no matter the actions of the container ship. The old maxim, "It happened on your watch!" inevitably applies.
Anonymous 17 August 2017 at 21:36:00 GMT-4
A report on the damage control efforts was released today.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/17/world/asia/document-navy-report-on-uss-fitzgerald.html
It doesn't address actions before the collision but a timeline on page 22 of the PDF does report the Fitzgerald was on course 230 true at midnight.
Ken 18 August 2017 at 00:47:00 GMT-4
With the course of 230, and speed of 20 knots, assuming they were constant (or close) for 15-30 min prior to the collision, and using assumed point of collision as a marker, it should be relatively easy to get a better picture of the relationship of the two shops in the time leading up to the collision including the earlier course change by Crystal.
Jerry Callen 18 August 2017 at 16:31:00 GMT-4
A "preliminary inquiry" was published yesterday by the Navy.
http://www.secnav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom/HotTopics/USS%20Fitzgerald/Supplemental%20Inquiry%20USS%20Fitzgerald.pdf
Jerry Callen 3 November 2017 at 13:20:00 GMT-4
The U.S. Navy has issued a combined report on the Fitzgerald and John. S McCain collisions.
http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=103130
Something I find puzzling about the report is the geometry of the Fitzgerald collision. The Fitzgerald and Crystal were on roughly complementary courses, set to pass port to port (or perhaps collide nearly head-on), but just before the collision the Fitzgerald turned sharply to port, right into the path of the Crystal. The diagram showing the relative positions of the ships at the time of collision suggests that the Fitzgerald had turned almost 180 degrees. This seems unlikely.
Also puzzling is the turn to port; the OOD first ordered a turn to starboard, but rescinded that and instead ordered the turn to port, seemingly right into the path of the Crystal. He presumably hoped to get across in front of the Crystal.
Was there another ship to starboard that would have interfered with a course change in that direction? The report leaves a lot of questions.
The report on the John S. McCain, OTOH, seems very clear (though certainly damning...).
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Why are there no live-action anime adaptations?
Anime, cartoons and 3D. Animated shorts and features. And don't forget the animation genius in Bulgaria.
Live action anime: Good idea or bad idea?
Bad Idea!
by djcribage on Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:30 pm
I was having a discussion with a co-worker today about why there aren't any live action American adaptations of anime films/shows. She thinks that it must be because companies feel that there isn't an audience and that it is an easily untapped resource. I however feel that there must be a practical reason for this (perhaps the rights are too expensive?) since anime is a big enough niche that it is surprising that they haven't made any. I mean J-Horror couldn't have been THAT popular in the US for there to be all these remakes. Why not anime?
I'd also like to state that I don't think that it is necessarily a good idea to remake anime into American live action but rather that I am very surprised that they haven't and feel there must be a practical reason rather than just ineptitude on the studio's part.
I thought I'd post this discussion on here to hear other people's thoughts on the matter. What do YOU think?
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by Seppuku on Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:32 pm
A: Because it would probably cost about 40 million dollars alone to buy that much hair-gel for the actors.
by Chairman Kaga on Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:33 pm
Technically Transformers is live action from an original Japanese show that happened to be dubbed and exported to US.
Chairman Kaga
Chairman Kaga wrote: Technically Transformers is live action from an original Japanese show that happened to be dubbed and exported to US.
Yeah but that's different, Transformers was very very popular in an americanized form. It was engraved into American popular culture. I mena, the toys were everywhere. Akira, Ghost in The Shell, etc are popular for sure but not in the same way as transformers. They are a bit more cultish, so to speak. But good point, technically Transformers was an anime adaption.
oh yeah and before someone gets to it, speed racer doesn't count either! Same thing as Transformers!
by buster00 on Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:48 pm
It's really hard to find actors who have eyes the size of toilet seats.
buster00
by LaDracul on Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:56 pm
Well, there's "Speed Racer" being released next year, with possibly "Death Note" and "Monster" to be made. Other ones (Like "Sailor Moon" and "Real Bout High School") never made it past development...but considering they were going to set "Sailor Moon" in Los Angeles, that would've been a good thing.
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LaDracul wrote: Well, there's "Speed Racer" being released next year, with possibly "Death Note" and "Monster" to be made. Other ones (Like "Sailor Moon" and "Real Bout High School") never made it past development...but considering they were going to set "Sailor Moon" in Los Angeles, that would've been a good thing.
Yeah but what about the big ones like Akira, Ghost in The Shell, Cowboy Beebop? I feel like i read that the Cowboy Beebop guy is very protective, perhaps it is the same with the others. I mean Hollywood has made disney rides into movies, it just seems surprising they haven't pushed more on anime as they have with comics or even amusement park rides.
by Adam Balm on Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:00 pm
Plus Neon Genesis Evangelion has been stuck in development hell forever. For the same reason Akira was: The budget requirements of a faithful adaptation scares off a lot of folks.
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by DennisMM on Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:28 pm
There were two American live-action movies based on Bio-Booster Armor Guyver, the first of which starred Mark Hamill. Admittedly, the anime was an adaptation of a manga, but it was a popular anime television series and anime movie. The US productions were lower-budget affairs, but there have been plenty of good lower-budget action films of various sorts and some lower-key anime probably would do well as small live-action productions. The space war and other super-tech stories are, as teh Balm and others point out, expensive. Economics say that unless you're getting Tom Cruise for Evangelion or Shia for Akira (j/k) the project will not fly.
by Fievel on Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:57 pm
Don't forget Cameron's upcoming Battle Angel Alita!
I'd guess that if it's a success that studios will be raping and pillaging the anime catalogue like the greedy whores they are.
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Why are there no live action american anime adaptations?
by bastard_robo on Tue Jul 24, 2007 9:00 pm
There have been a few, Guyver was named, There was also a Fist of the North Star one made, A crying Freeman by Chris Gans.
The problem is that as huge as a lot of the animes are, I dont think studios really graps the concepts on half of them or even figure that they're really that big.
This is way im so bumbed that Cameron has decided to make Battle Angle Alita after Avatar and not before, I would of boosted Anime movies like Transformers is doing for 80's toons.
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by Fawst on Tue Jul 24, 2007 9:22 pm
This is what happens when you make live action anime. Everyone wants a Dragonball movie? Enjoy.
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by stereosforgeeks on Tue Jul 24, 2007 9:30 pm
Aeon Flux? Not Japanese but similar. Remember how that one turned out!
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and on a side note, I belive that Transformers is an AMERICAN cartoon, from a Japanese toy line.
Yes, but I think the animation was produced in Japan, like "Thundercats".
Fawst wrote: This is what happens when you make live action anime. Everyone wants a Dragonball movie? Enjoy.
What is Drangonball-ish in that clip?
by instant_karma on Tue Jul 24, 2007 9:54 pm
This may just be pointless pedantry , but some of the series mentioned so far like Speed Racer, Akira and Crying Freeman were done as manga before being adapted to anime.
Wasn't there talk of a US remake of Battle Royale a couple of years back?
Find out what straight to DVD crap I watch in 2008
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by bastard_robo on Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:01 pm
LaDracul wrote: Yes, but I think the animation was produced in Japan, like "Thundercats".
Then by that statement, Simpsons is a Korean Show as its Animated in Korea.
Re: Why are there no live action american anime adaptations?
by Chairman Kaga on Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:05 pm
bastard_robo wrote:
But unlike the Simpsons it was developed in conjunction with Takara in Japan under Sunbow.
by LaDracul on Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:24 pm
Anyway, I'm the type of person who'd totally watch an "Excel Saga" movie. And I'd base it on the episode with the giant robot panda terrorizing the City of F with Excel and Hyatt at the controls.
Richard Roxburgh as Il Palozzo...that would rock out loud. And they'd better have the bit where he's trying to learn how to play the guitar.
by Wolfpack on Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:45 pm
Because no human being has eyes that large.
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by Adam Balm on Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:57 pm
Wolfpack wrote: Because no human being has eyes that large.
Down low.
Too slow.
Adam Balm wrote:
Dammit! Oh well, won't be the first time my failing to read every post in the thread has lead to a cyber-faux pas. Let's just say I concur heartily with buster00.
I make the same mistake at least twice a day, so don't sweat it. I was only funnin...
by DennisMM on Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:24 pm
There are other posts above yours, Balm?
by Fawst on Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:28 pm
Chairman Kaga wrote:
The fact that the movie is called Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins. The kid in the red gi is "Monkey Boy" or "The Boy Monkey King." It's a live action Dragon Ball movie. *shrug*
by Chairman Kaga on Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:24 am
Fawst wrote:
Wow......just Wow.....
Though I remember a US tv miniseries recently starring the guy from Dharma and Greg that was a loose adaptation of the Monkey King myths that Dragonball is based on....
by DinoDeLaurentiis on Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:19 am
buster00 wrote: It's really hard to find actors who have eyes the size of toilet seats.
But not impossible, eh?
by bastard_robo on Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:27 am
DinoDeLaurentiis wrote:
GAH! Satan reappears!
bastard_robo wrote: GAH! Satan reappears!
Calm down, eh paisan? It's a not like she's a the mexican or a something...
by DennisMM on Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:00 am
I have no idea who we're lookin' at there. Alba?
by stereosforgeeks on Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:08 am
DennisMM wrote: I have no idea who we're lookin' at there. Alba?
Alba didnt screw Eminem in 8 mile
Never saw 8 Mile, but IMDB says ... oh, is that what Brittany Murphy looks like?
by LaDracul on Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:37 am
At this time, I want to point out Paulie Litt, who was cast as Spritle in "Speed Racer"-
Now that is one eerie resemblance...
Can he talk like a middle-aged man screeching at breathless speed? That's the real test of Speed Racer. Does anyone know why the US performers talked so quickly? Is Japanese a much more compact language, if you know what I mean?
I'm thinking that because they didn't have the Word-Fit technology then, they had to probably take the entire translation.
by kid on an escalator on Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:14 pm
Why do you want a live action anime? Isn't the anime itself good enough for you?
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by Al Shut on Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:20 pm
I might have missed something but I didn't hear much voices clamoring for live action animes in here.
That said I do want americanized live action versions of Bubblegum crisis and Doomed Megalopolis.
by stereosforgeeks on Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:23 pm
I think they are making a live action version of Monster, which was fantastic and if you havent seen it do so!
by minstrel on Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:23 pm
Live action would just make anime even worse.
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by godzillasushi on Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:26 pm
kid on an escalator wrote: Why do you want a live action anime? Isn't the anime itself good enough for you?
You're just too content with everything. Why don't you want something revolutionary and fresh? Why not something we have never seen live action before? Anime has some of the best storylines out there. Stuff we can only imagine. Why not transfer that to the big screen with special effects that are on par with Transformers. Eh?
Sweden is just to content with itself in the first place.
I'd like to Americanize Sweden personally....force you guys to drive SUV's and eat unhealthy.
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by Fawst on Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:33 pm
There are some animes that would be a really amazing experience were they to be done in a live action format. Akira lends itself well to the idea. People have shot me down for saying it in the past, but come on. Akira as the holy grail of anime does not a good argument make. Let's remember, Akira the anime was RADICALLY different from Akira the manga. Live action Akira is absolutely possible. It just needs to have a LOTR sized budget, be cast entirely with Japanese actors, and be subtitled. Other than that, it's not that tough.
And it would be fucking amazing.
godzillasushi wrote:
Just dont americanize their music. They have been making some of the best pop music lately.
I always wanted to see Gundam Wing like that. But with the Gundam Wing storyline, not the other ones (Gundam, and the others).
Just picturing these huge machines doing battle with a smooth flowing style is awesome. I can picture those air battles and space attacks. And the main characters are more then just Japanese. They come from all over the world. Very cool stuff!
And the storyline was based around the colonies and all that stuff. I dunno, just would be incredible as a live action movie. Of course, the largest budget in history would be required and the CG would have to be 20 years from now good haha.
/My two cents, representing the amount of geek cred I still have left.
stereosforgeeks wrote:
Yea some nights I can hear him playing that stuff in the background. I assume that is what I hear. Swedish pop, taking Andy Moogle's house by storm.
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by The Cockblocker on Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:39 pm
They should make a live action Urotsukidoji!!!
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godzillasushi wrote: I always wanted to see Gundam Wing like that. But with the Gundam Wing storyline, not the other ones (Gundam, and the others).
Ugh, I can't disagree more. If you're going to make Gundam a live action movie (and they already have, poorly), you need to do 0080, 0083 or 08th MS Team. I personally would prefer 0083, as it's my favorite in the whole franchise, but 08th is incredible as well.
Gundam actually wouldn't be so bad to do either, I don't think. Transformers was tip of the iceberg compared to what Gundam could be. With Weta constantly (and I mean CONSTANTLY) updating their technology, it won't be very long at all before full-on CGI enhanced action/sci-fi films will be not only possible, but commonplace.
Oh, and I hate Gundam Wing, thought I'd clarify that.
One of the only animes I can think of that just flat out would NOT work as live action is Cowboy Bebop. Don't need it, don't want it.
by DinoDeLaurentiis on Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:30 pm
The Dino, he always a thought that a The Matrix, she WAS a the live-action anime, no?
Maybe not a the adaptation of a the original work, but more like a the amalgamation of a the general themes, eh?
DinoDeLaurentiis wrote: The Dino, he always a thought that a The Matrix, she WAS a the live-action anime, no?
The Matrix was the proof-of-concept work to show that anime could work as live action
Well WTF then dude haha.
Gundam Wing is THE BEST incarnation of that entire brand. I would love to hear why Gundam Wing, which had just about everything perfect, wouldn't be a great choice. The politics were there, characters were great, storylines intertwined stunningly well. You sir, just made a die hard Gundam Wing fan upset.
And then you run with Gundam over Gundam Wing? You're crazy! At it's time it was fresh but the newer series are leagues above the original. I liked it for its entertainment value, but it has never been something I would go so far as to "care" about.
And you're right, with what they pulled of in Transformers, could you just imagine the chaos for a Gundam? Those are like Transformers on crack. One machine can wipe out 100 enemies.
Weren't they making an Evangelion movie at some point too?
I stopped watching anime a few years ago (besides Gundam Wing, AKA best anime series ever) but I always thought Escaflowne would be great as a live action movie.
Cowboy Bebop would be a dumb idea, definately.
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Stages of the Hero’s Journey
The World Navel: A Story’s Foundation
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This popular motif [World Navel] gives emphasis to the lesson that the passage of the threshold is a form of self-annihilation . . .[I]nstead of passing outward, beyond the confines of the visible world, the hero goes inward, to be born again. The disappearance corresponds to the passing of a worshiper into a temple – where he is to be quickened by the recollection of who and what he is, namely dust and ashes unless immortal. The temple interior, the belly of the whale, and the heavenly land beyond, above, and below the confines of the world, are one and the same. That is why the approaches and entrances to temples are flanked and defended by colossal gargoyles: dragons, lions, devil-slayers with drawn swords, resentful dwarfs, winged bulls. These are the threshold guardians to ward away all incapable of encountering the higher silences within. . .The devotee at the moment of entry into a temple undergoes a metamorphosis. His secular character remains without; he sheds it, as a snake its slough. Once inside he may be said to have died to time and returned to the World Womb, the World Navel, the Earthly Paradise. . .Allegorically, then, the passage into a temple and the hero-dive through the jaws of the whale are identical adventures, both demoting in picture language, the life-centering, life renewing act.” (Campbell, p. 91-92)
Explanation: The World Navel is the center of the universe and the point from which life-force enters the world. The Greeks called this the Omphalos. This can be symbolized in a scene set in a church/temple, forest, near a spring or river, or household hearth. Other symbols of the World Navel include the center of a spiral or the center of a group of concentric circles. Campbell mentions that the Christian Cross is also one of these symbols. The Celtic cauldron also is a type of World Navel, such as the Cauldron of Poesy. The Newgrange Neolithic spiral carving in Ireland to be a representation of this. Another term for the World Navel is the “World Egg,” (laid by the world snake, one of the earliest creation myths) which relates to the potential of the world. The Omphalos looks like an egg. In Good Faeries-Bad Faeries Brian Froud, the artist for the movie The Dark Crystal, quotes both Jung and Campbell when referring to the Anima Mundi — the World’s Soul, which is another term for the World Navel (Egg, Omphalos). The Anima Mundi “mediates between the ultimate divinity and the mundane sensory world just as the human soul mediates between the body and spirit.”
Discussion: One of the most important elements of the mythic structure, the World Navel (WN) of your story forms the foundation of the journey. The World Navel is your characters’ belief systems; your characters’ personal philosophies on life; the central theme of your characters’ spiritual lives. In their deepest of hearts, what do your characters believe? What deep parts of themselves will they have to rely on to complete their journey? What do they have faith in?
(a) Oskar Seyffert in his The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Religion, Literature, and Art defines “Omphalos” as the Delphic Oracle. He also points to a Roman/Greek annual festival called “Septeria,” at which there was a re-enactment of Apollo’s hero quest when he took possession of an oracle belonging to Gaia (the Earth). A boy took the part of Apollo during the festival:
“. . .at which the whole story was represented: the slaying of the serpent, and the flight, atonement and return of the god. Apollo was represented by a boy, both of whose parents were living. The dragon was symbolically slain, and his house decked out in costly fashion, was burnt. Then the boy’s followers hastily dispersed, and the boy was taken in procession to Tempe, along the road formerly followed by the god. Here he was purified and brought back by the same road, accompanied by a chorus of maidens singing songs of joy. The oracle proper was a cleft in the ground in the innermost sanctuary, from which arose cold vapours, which had the power of inducing ecstasy.”
(b) In The Apple Branch by Alexei Kondratiev, the World Navel is also called the World Tree. Kondratiev provides two examples from Celtic myth:
“This center is identified with the invisible presence of the World Tree– the Bilios — at the heart of reality, which spans all the planes of existence with its height, allowing access from this world to the Otherworld. It is at the foot of this Tree, resplendent in gold leaves, that Conn of the Hundred Battles met the Land-Goddess and received the sovereignty of Ireland from her in a wedding-cup. It is also the same Tree that Peredur saw, burning on one side, healthy and green on the other, on the edge of the river that is the boundary between the worlds.”
“Bilios” refers to “Bile” who was one of the Milesians mentioned in the pseudo-historical Leabhar Gaba/la (Book of Invasions of Ireland). “Bile,” or “billi,” can mean “large tree, tree trunk” in Irish and is thought to be the name of a special tree that was the home of deities or elemental spirits. Conn of the Hundred-Battles was a king of Irish pre-history and the first to hear from the Stone of Prophecy, which told him how many of his line would also be king. The Tree or the Stone of Prophecy in these stories fulfill the role of the WN, the stone being reminiscent of the Omphalos. Another version of the WN is the concept of the Land-Goddess’ cup of sovereignty (later adapted into the Arthurian legend of the Grail.) Peredur, from an early Welsh myth, is the precursor to Perceval in the Arthurian story.
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Peter Grandahl says:
This is fascinating. It seems all ancient cultures used symbolism to cover up the true meanings of things that were interned only for the initiates.
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Lauren London, a late American rapper’s girlfriend, Nipsey Hussle, has been granted custody of their three-year-old son, Kross, who is set to inherit $1 million from his late father.
According to TMZ, London was granted guardianship over the estate of Kross Ermias Asghedom, her only child with the rapper after she filed for custody back in July.
The 34-year-old actress reportedly told the court that she would be responsible for raising the child and wanted to ensure that his seven-figure inheritance was properly managed.
The new role of guardianship for London, which was not married to Nipsey, will see her take part in legal matters involving Nipsey’s estate, which is administered by Nipsey.
Kross is expected to inherit half of Nipsey’s estate, while Nipsey’s eldest child and only daughter, Emani, with his ex- Tanisha Foster, is expected to receive the other half. There’s a reported $2M that the two children of the late rapper will receive when they are older.
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May 5, 2020 May 5, 2020 Carl Robert Keyes Daily Advert Update George West, Informal Economy, Providence Gazette, Stolen Goods
Providence Gazette (May 5, 1770).
“One blue Broadcloth Coat, trimmed with blue, and has a blue Velvet Cape.”
George West listed an impressive array of garments in his advertisement in the May 5, 1770, edition of the Providence Gazette. He began with a “blue Broadcloth Coat, trimmed with blue, and has a blue Velvet Cape” before describing “a black Velvet Waistcoast, trimmed with black” and “one Pair of Black Velvet Breeches, trimmed with black, and lined with Leather.” In addition, he mentioned a “Pair of Mouse-coloured Velvet Breeches, trimmed with the same, having Silk Knee-straps, lined with Leather” as well as a “new Beaver Hat,” a “new homespun Check S[h]irt,” and “two striped Cotton and Linen Shirts.” Yet West was not a merchant nor a shopkeeper nor a tailor attempting to sell these garments to consumers. Instead, he was the captain of the Sarah, “lying at Cushing’s Wharff, in Providence,” and the victim of a theft. Someone had stolen the garments that he listed in his advertisement.
West’s notice testifies to one of the many ways that colonists participated in the consumer revolution of the eighteenth century. Many purchased new goods from retailers and artisans or acquired secondhand goods at auctions and estate sales. Others, however, participated in what Serena Zabin has termed an “informal economy,” either stealing goods for their own use or purchasing (sometimes, but now always, unwittingly) goods that had been stolen and fenced. Theft gave some colonists greater access to goods that otherwise would have been beyond their reach. West’s “blue Broadcloth Coat, trimmed with blue” and its “blue Velvet Cape,” for instance, represented quite an investment, yet someone benefited from West’s sartorial sensibilities without spending a shilling … provided that he managed to remain undetected.
Advertisements placed by shopkeepers and tailors were not the only newspaper notices that commented on fashion and taste in eighteenth-century America. Advertisements concerning stolen goods often went into as much detail or more when it came to describing garments and other goods that colonists sought to acquire, sometimes through nefarious means.
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On Jan. 17, 1957, in her regular newspaper column in the Olympia News, “Words About Birds and Flora,” Margaret wrote:
“Since very early days Olympia has been a city of trees, of tree lovers too. Many of our early settlers came here from the far East and brought with them memories of village squares and streets shaded by the stately vase-shaped American elm. My father who came here in 1867 said, even then, that Olympia looked like a New England town. Main Street, as Capital Way was called at that time, was lined with big-leaf maples and set between them were huge bushes of sweet briar roses, the latter brought here by the first Scotch pioneers.”
Her remarks were part of a campaign just beginning then to plant trees on the main streets of Olympia and restore some of the grace and serenity of the pre-automobile city. The historic street trees of Olympia had gradually been lost to street widening and other developments and were sorely missed by citizens like Margaret who had known the “old Olympia” of slower-paced days. No one spoke then of “eco-services” that trees performed, or of climate change, or any other of today’s concerns, but there was a strong feeling of something important having been lost and of the need to restore something of the beauty and connection to the natural world that trees so nobly represented.
Olympia City Mayor, Amanda Smith, duly convened a committee of which Margaret was a leading member to design and implement a tree planting program. The committee enthusiastically enlisted school children as active partners. Many classrooms featured “money trees” where children could affix their pennies and dimes in a glittering display to help fund the acquisition of trees. The Chamber of Commerce, many local service clubs, the Olympia Audubon Society, and others all pitched in to support this civic betterment effort. By March of 1957, the plan to plant seventy trees on Capitol Way had blossomed, from the edge of the Capitol Campus on 14 Street to the new bridge over the freeway on 25th. A ceremonial planting began the work, with dignitaries and committee members present, Margaret among them. Soon fifty red maples and twenty red hawthorns transformed that section of the city’s main thoroughfare.
Those particular trees have succumbed over the years since then, but the tradition of planting a canopy of trees along Capitol Way and other main streets has endured. Thank you, Margaret, and all who have carried on the program all these years. Olympia is still a city of trees. And tree lovers.
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Kathleen Snyder says:
Great story. Trees are so important in so many ways.
Andy Meyer says:
Great reminder of how many of our trees came to be in our city! Thank you Anne…
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“Humanity will rise again,” that was South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s message in his Easter address as he called for concerted efforts in his country’s fight against COVID-19.
The president acknowledged the challenges that have been brought by the disease, but is confident measures put in place by his administration will help tackle it.
President Ramphosa called upon South Africans to make donations to a solidarity fund which he announced earlier this week, in order to help less fortunate citizens cope with the tough times.
“We have to expend our every effort and energy to ensure that this period of hardship does not leave our economy in ruins. We have to give support to those who need our help in any way we can. I call upon each of you to make a donation, no matter how small, to the Solidarity Fund that was established to combat the coronavirus pandemic,” the president said.
South Africa is one of 52 African countries that have reported cases of COVID-19. The country is the worst affected in the continent, with close to 2,000 confirmed cases and 18 deaths. 95 patients successfully recovered.
“This is a time of great trial for our country. We will at times find ourselves and our very faith sorely tested. Yet we know that the harshest of tests pushes us to persevere and to prevail. Working together, side by side, we will weather this storm and we shall overcome,” President Ramaphosa said.
In total, Africa has reported close to 11,000 COVID-19 cases, with over 500 deaths. Over 1,000 people have recovered.
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Ethiopia has revoked a total of 412.6 hectares of land held by investors, including Ethiopian-born Saudi billionaire Mohammed Hussein al-Amoudi for failure to create jobs and develop the city, as promised when the lands were awarded to them, head of Addis Ababa Land Bank Tesfaye Tilahun told the Voice of America.
The investors had promised to create jobs for the youth and develop Addis Ababa by building industries, hotels, a media center and other complexes in the busy city which has over 4 million residents.
“All they did was make a fence around thousands square feet of land and left it for years. That is all they did. Instead of building the city, they gave the city a bad image, making it a place of waste collections,” said Tilahun, while explaining why 95 individuals and businesses lost their licenses.
Of the 412.6 hectares of land, 55 were associated with Mohammed International Development Research and Organization Companies (MIDROC), a private company that belongs to Ethiopian-born Saudi billionaire Mohammed Hussein al-Amoudi. In 2005, MIDROC leased about 33,000 square feet of land in the heart of the capital, agreeing to build a city center there but only evicted locals and built a huge fence round the land.
Prior to the lease revocation, MIDROC has had a coarse relationship with Addis Ababa residents who have accused the company of polluting the environment and refusing job opportunities to locals, leading to a protest in the Oromia region of the capital because of the fear of losing their farmlands to MIDROC.
This week alone, 19 Ethiopian government agencies and 18 companies related to African diplomats or governments also had their licenses revoked.
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