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• The Houston Chronicle reported that a Government Accountability Office report found that the Coast Guard lacks the resources to meet its own security standards to protect against terrorist assaults at American ports, even as the nation is to dramatically expand imports of liquefied natural gas. Among its recommendations, the GAO urged the Department of Homeland Security, which includes the Coast Guard, to develop a national plan to balance the need to meet its new LNG security burdens while also handling all of its existing security responsibilities. (See items 13)
• According to Computerworld, Microsoft Corp. urged Windows Vista users to download a new security tool that automatically disables suspicious or malicious “gadgets,” the small applets that mimic the “widgets” popular on Mac OS X. There are no known vulnerabilities in any existing gadgets, claimed a director in the Windows client product management group, stressing that Microsoft knows of no purposefully malicious gadgets, either. (See item 25)
24. January 10, IDG News Service – (National) Printers vulnerable to spamming attacks. A U.S.-based security manager in the financial industry has figured out how to send spam to a person’s printer from an infected Web page by using a little-known capability found in most Web browsers. Using this, he can make a Web page launch a print job on just about any printer on a victim’s network. The website could print annoying ads on the printer and theoretically issue more dangerous commands, like telling the printer to send a fax, format its hard drive, or download new firmware. The security expert described what he calls “cross site printing” in a research paper published Tuesday on the Ha.ckers.org website. He has launched the attack successfully with both Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. Because the attack only works on network printers, a printer plugged directly into a PC would not be vulnerable. The researcher said concerns that his research might unleash a new blight on the Internet caused him to hesitate before publishing his paper and hold off on publishing the complete exploit code.
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsid=11090&pagtype=all
25. January 9, Computerworld – (National) Microsoft preps Vista to thwart rogue gadgets. Microsoft Corp. today urged Windows Vista users to download a new security tool that automatically disables suspicious or malicious “gadgets,” the small applets that mimic the “widgets” popular on Mac OS X. Dubbed “Windows Sidebar Protection,” the 1MB download was added to Windows Update on Tuesday and classified as a “highpriority” update. Microsoft customers running Vista RTM -- the initial version that launched in late 2006 to businesses and early 2007 to consumers -- saw the update on the list starting Tuesday. The update is optional, but depending on what settings have been selected in Windows’ Automatic Updates, it may be downloaded and installed without any additional user interaction. Windows Sidebar is a Vista-only panel that holds the miniature applications known as gadgets -- small single-purpose tools that, for instance, display the time and date or RSS feeds. The Windows gadgets are composed of HTML and various scripts. In other words, gadgets could be dangerous, even malicious. The small applications are crafted not only by Microsoft but also by third-party developers and users; Microsoft distributes gadgets on its Web site, but it does not vet them. There are no known vulnerabilities in any existing gadgets, claimed a director in the Windows client product management group, stressing that Microsoft knows of no purposefully malicious gadgets, either. “The update gives us a mechanism to prevent a malicious gadget from being installed first of all, and if it’s installed, to block the gadget [from running],” he said. After a gadget has been identified as bad, its icon gets swapped out with one labeled “Bad Gadget.” The icon also can’t be dragged, and the tool tip shows it as a security risk.
26. January 9, Security Focus – (National) Malware hitches a ride on digital devices. In the past month, at least three consumers have reported that photo frames -- small flatpanel displays for displaying digital images -- received over the holidays attempted to install malicious code on their computer systems, according to the Internet Storm Center, a network-threat monitoring group. Each case involved the same product and the same chain of stores, suggesting that the electronic systems were infected at the factory or somewhere during shipping, said the director of the Internet Storm Center. The incidents underscore that the proliferation of electronic devices with onboard memory means that consumers have to increasingly be aware of the danger of unwanted code hitching a ride. While many consumers are already wary of certain devices, such as digital music players, USB memory sticks, and external hard drives, that include onboard memory, other types of electronics have largely escaped scrutiny. While a compromise at the manufacturer is the most likely scenario, the director of SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center also pointed to retailers as a possible point of infection. Returned products, which could have been infected by the consumer, are frequently put back on the shelf, if they are in sale-able condition, and attackers could take advantage of a store’s poor digital hygiene, he said. Consumers will have to be careful with any device that can be connected to a PC, including USB thumb drives, GPS devices, mobile phones, video players, set top boxes, portable hard drives, memory card readers, and eventually even microwave ovens and other appliances, he said.
Source: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11499
27. January 9, InformationWeek – (National) Phony iPhone upgrade hides malware. Apple iPhones could be infected with potentially malicious Trojan software because of a fake upgrade download, computer security officials with US-CERT warned Wednesday. “This Trojan claims to be a tool used to prepare the device for an upgrade to firmware version 1.1.3,” the US-CERT advisory said. “When a user installs the Trojan, other application components are altered. If the Trojan is uninstalled, the affected applications may also be removed.” The Trojan appears to be timed to exploit rumors that began in early December about new features in an upcoming iPhone firmware upgrade. Various online news sites and blogs cited a report published by CNET France that claimed an imminent iPhone update would feature a disk mode, for using the iPhone as a portable flash drive, and a voice recording mode. Malware authors now regularly craft attacks that play off current news and events. With the Consumer Electronics Show this week and the Macworld Conference & Expo next week, malware masquerading as an iPhone upgrade will likely dupe more people than it would otherwise. On Monday, Symantec identified the malicious software as “iPhone firmware 1.1.3 prep.” In a blog post, a Symantec security researcher observes that installing the software does not appear to have much of an effect on the iPhone, but warned that uninstalling it could overwrite other iPhone applications.
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This 4th bi-annual Digital Earth Summit was held in Wellington, New Zealand from 2 to 4 September, which is one of the series of summit organized by the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) in 2012. The summit with theme “Digital Earth and Technology” was co-hosted by Wellington City Council and Land Information New Zealand. The three work streams in terms of the Digital environment, Resilient cities and Growing up digital have been carried out. There are 15 keynote speeches and 75 presentations, attracting around 200 delegates from more than 20 countries.
A Maori welcome party started the opening ceremony. The executive committee member of the ISDE received a Maori traditional reception. ISDE president Prof. John Richards and Mayor of Wellington City Ms. Celia Wade-Brown gave their summit opening remarks. In the Mayor’s speech Digital Earth technologies are expected to facilitate Wellington to build a creative digital capital.
"Platial Technology such as place-base GIS rather than co-ordinate-GIS will be one of the key Digital Earth drivers.” keynote speech by Dr. Peter Woodgate, Executive Committee member of the ISDE and CEO of the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information, Australia. John Richards gave a presentation entitled “Knowledge propagation in the Digital Earth Framework”, which illustrated the Digital Earth framework of transforming and developing knowledge theoretically and technically. “Digital Earth can take advantages of its fast developing technologies to participant in the Future Earth, a 10-year international research initiative of the International Council for Science (ICSU) and other international organizations”. Said by Prof. GUO Huadong, Secretariat General of the ISDE in his keynote speech of “Digital Earth for Future Earth”. In the afternoon panel sessions of the 3 days, hot discussions were made on Digital environment, Resilient cities and Growing up digital, with youth engagement to present their views on digital earth technologies and their future development. At the closing ceremony, Prof. GUO Huadong made remarks for the success of Digital Earth summit in Wellington, and handed over the flag of Digital Earth Summit to next hosting country, Japan.
On 1 September, the 7th Executive Committee meeting of the ISDE, having 13 EC members participating, discussed the modification of changes of statutes and bylaws, Aims & Scope of the International Journal of Digital Earth, following steps to implement Digital Earth Vision 2020, the preparation report of the 8th International Symposium of Digital Earth and the application of hosting the 5th Digital Earth summit in Nagoya, Japan in 2014.
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Back to August 2006, the first Digital Earth Summit was convened in New Zealand with theme “Digital Earth Summit on Sustainability”. At that summit we saw how digital tools and information to inform sustainable development. Former Prime Minister Helen Clark, pointed out that the government, universities, industry, and citizen groups are acutely aware of the looming threats to their quality of life from global climate change, decreasing biodiversity, dependence upon a fossil-fuel economy, and the myriad impacts of these dynamics on social harmony and quality of life at that summit. Six years later, the deployment of technology and bold new digital earth vision in the face of problems of the earth has truly changed the way we look at the earth and yielded many benefits. The 2012 Digital Earth Summit continues to unfold an international Digital Earth platform to bear in advancing humanitarian efforts and social development, to scale up programmers and drive innovations and to establish international collaborations for creating the future of Digital Earth worldwide.
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Raspadskaya Miners Produce 6,500,000,000 kg of Coal
UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2019. Raspadskaya Mine's teams reached this year's target output ahead of schedule, extracting 6,500,000,000 kg of coal by early December. EVRAZ Holding's Raspadskaya Coal Company's management congratulated the miners on their success.
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Tame Impala kicked off their new album The Slow Rush with the song "One More Year," and now the beloved Aussie project is treating that opener to a seriously epic remix. In fact, it's 18 minutes long.
Kevin Parker has given his project's "One More Year" what's being called a "balearic house reimagining." It comes part of Remote Utopias fundraising effort for radio station NTS, and you can check out the remix below.
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Finding Love in the Year of the Pandemic
By Nolan P. Smith
(Victorville)– 2020 hasn’t been kind to the world. The pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus literally shut the world down. No public gatherings, no movie theaters, no indoor dining- no sense of normalcy as we all do what we can stay safe and keep those around us safe and healthy. So it may come as a shock that it is this year that I found love amidst the turmoil and panic.
I have been writing for High Desert Daily since 2011. I have written movie reviews to community spotlights. I have written articles on Alzheimer’s to education and comic conventions to business profiles, but this is the first article to talk about my life. In March 2020, the world stood still as the President declared a state of emergency for our nation. March was also when a certain, spunky, beautiful woman messaged me online. That’s when Rebecca walked into my life. Virtually and socially distant.
I guess if you look back at it, the start of the pandemic isn’t ideal for starting a relationship, but love happens when it wants to. We started talking online through a dating app and “met” via Zoom, which seems to be the way of the world. Our first Zoom call went for hours, which is so odd when you think about it- we were perfect strangers, yet everything felt so right. She was shy and nervous, and I would be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous. She has a daughter, which I thought would have frightened me, but I wasn’t. I was more nervous for the first date, as we met up in the mountains. Fully masked, distant- we picked up food and had our first date in the parking lot of a church.
From there, the love grew, and we had to think one step ahead of this pandemic. We went on trips, sometimes the two of us, sometimes the three of us, but we were always cautious. National parks and scenic routes became our go-to dates; drive-in movies were becoming a staple. We made a journey out of state to experience a movie theater once again, which was terrific.
As our communities were hit worse with the virus and with impending fires, we took the next step. At a mostly empty lookout point in the mountains, I proposed with a chill in the air and nerves in my heart- nerves that transformed to glee. October 8th, she said yes, and made this the best year yet.
Love finds a way, as it always does. Through lockdowns and facemask, Lysol, and shortages, this challenging time has affected so many people and family that we both know love brought us together. COVID-19 stopped most of the world in its tracks. For Rebecca and I, we found a new path that we happily look forward to walking down together in 2021 and for the rest of our lives.
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Cas de Stoppelaar on May 27, 2020
The COVID lockdown both in Nepal and the Netherlands has meant no travelling between the two countries which is why we were not in Nepal this spring. The board of the Himalayan Tiger Foundation (HTF) is, however, in almost daily contact with all our tiger conservation partners in Nepal, in particular the National Trust for Wildlife Conservation (NTNC), and in the Netherlands, through video conferences, skype meetings, phone calls and emails.
First, we are happy to inform you that all our Nepali and Dutch friends participating in our tiger conservation research programme are still in good health and able to continue their work.
Shyam Thapa (l) and Ashok Subedi, Wageningen, the Netherlands, May 19, 2020
Unfortunately Shyam Thapa and Ashok Subedi, both PhD students at Wageningen University (WUR), were unable to return home last April after their visit to Wageningen for study purposes. Their stay in the Netherlands will now last as long as the lockdown. Fortunately, Wageningen University is supporting them financially so that they can continue their work though we realise that their hearts and minds are with their families, friends and colleagues in Nepal.
Two Dutch MSc students from Wageningen University, who were working in Bardiya, had better luck. In early May they received permission from the Nepali authorities to travel during the lockdown period from Bardiya to Kathmandu where they could be safely repatriated to the Netherlands. It was a truly a narrow escape.
Grass Management in BNP
Two weeks ago we had an interesting video conference with Shyam Thapa and the supervising staff of Wageningen University about his PhD research on grass management in Bardiya National Park. He is making good progress and it is anticipated that he will be able to conclude his fieldwork at the end of the year. The preliminary data and results we have seen so far are very encouraging but some work remains to be done to complete the picture.
We will soon have the same session with Ashok Subedi about his research on Snow leopard and Blue sheep in the Phu and Nar Valley.
Electric Elephant Fence Project in Geruwa
A meeting with Shyam Thapa and the staff of Wageningen University is also being planned to discuss the best way forward with the Electric Elephant Fence Project in the buffer zone of Bardiya National Park (Geruwa). Since the elephant fence was installed the damage caused by the wild elephants has decreased but the situation can still be substantially improved in some places.
Camera Network in Bardiya National Park
Since early summer of 2019 a network of 50 camera traps has been installed in the western region of Bardiya National Park. As in comparable situations in natural areas across the world the cameras are placed in a regular grid 1.5 km apart. Through the camera network all large wildlife is monitored continuously. Until now more than 10,000 detections of species ranging from deer to elephant and from otter to tiger have been collected. The aim of the camera network is to better understand the distribution and abundance of deer, the main prey of the tiger. Specifically scientists can (i) study spatial trends, (ii) study temporal trends, and ultimately (iii) estimate prey density. Regarding (i) the camera traps will show whether deer are uniformly distributed or if deer are aggregated near, for example, rivers and grasslands. The latter can shed light on how strongly deer rely on the grasslands that are managed by PhD candidate Shyam Thapa. Regarding (ii), the camera traps reveal variation in deer activity over the day and season. If the network remains intact for years (which is the intention) then trends in deer abundance over time can finally be revealed: are deer numbers going down or not? The question is of course of great importance for the 2XT project. The last objective, estimating density, is the ultimate point of the study.
On top of the regular grid once the lockdown is over additional cameras will be placed on grasslands that are managed by Shyam Thapa. By comparing the camera trap detections in grasslands vs. forests, the importance of the grasslands as foraging grounds for the deer can be examined.
Unfortunately some of the cameras appear not to be fully waterproof – especially in the monsoon. The good news is that new and better cameras are now under way to NTNC and will arrive in Kathmandu shortly.
Future Conservation Support Research
The extended stay of Ashok Subedi and Shyam Thapa in the Netherlands has been used to discuss the best way forward with respect to the ongoing research projects in Bardiya National Park and the Annapurna Conservation Area. Last week both PhD students met Professor Herbert Prins of WUR, and Cas de Stoppelaar and Frits Spangenberg, both board members of HTF. Long-term cooperation between NTNC, WUR and HTF, covering the period 2020 – 2026, is being proposed and to formalise this a draft Memorandum of Understanding will soon be forwarded for review to NTNC.
Human Pressure
The outbreak of the coronavirus, also in Nepal, is an extra challenge for nature conservation. NTNC director Siddhartha Bajracharya reports that the “human pressure on the National Parks in the south is increasing”.
Tourism in Nepal has come to a complete standstill, also in and around the National Parks. Poorer people in particular are suffering tremendously from having no income at all at the moment. A debate is underway in Nepalese newspapers as to whether protecting people from the virus can outweigh the loss of lives through poverty and food shortages.
Ananath Baral, the warden of Bardiya National Park, communicated by phone that “poaching is still not so much a concern” but that there is an influx of people roaming through the park to collect firewood to cut their living costs.
Clearly there is still a lot of work to be done to save Southern Nepal’s nature from destruction especially at this time. This is why the board of the Himalayan Tiger Foundation greatly appreciates the continuation of all the research projects during these difficult times.
We are really looking forward to meeting all Nepali and Dutch participants in Nepal once the lockdown is over. We very much that hope that this will be possible as early as the autumn.
Cas de Stoppelaar
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Helias Udo de Haes May 27, 2020 at 07:25
Great to read about the ongoing work of the HTF. I wish you success in this difficult period!
Helias Udo de Haes
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10 Ways “The Great British Bake Off” Is Gay And Amazing
December 3, 2018 Hannah Brashers
The Great British Bake Off is gay and no one can tell me otherwise.
It’s a tough time to be a queer woman in America, isn’t it? As someone with an anxiety disorder that’s only been exacerbated by the news cycle, I’ve been frantically searching for coping methods. So what’s a woman to do when everything around her is problematic, when Brett Kavanaugh is on the Supreme Court, and she has a panic disorder? This is what she needs to do: binge-watch The Great British Bake Off.
Why, you ask? Because it is gay AF and scientifically proven to help cope with anxiety. Here are 10 reasons why The Great British Bake Off is not only inherently queer but also medicinal for the anxiety that we, as a population, are facing.
1. The food… obviously.
Since the premise of the show is literally a bake-off in this giant tent in the middle of the English countryside, there are obviously a lot of gorgeous confections. What I appreciate about this, though, is how quickly the show turns you into a snob. The first time I watched the show, I had no idea what a sponge is. By episode 2, I’m suddenly screaming at the television, “The buttercream! The buttercream! It’s too bloody runny, innit?”
2. Oven watching.
OK, OK, hear me out. I don’t know why, but there is something strangely therapeutic about the fact that 78 percent of the shots in this show are shots of the contestants worriedly watching their ovens. It’s nice to know that while I’m all curled up with hot tea underneath my anxiety blanket, somewhere in Britain there are people nervously crouched in front of their ovens.
3. Contestant extracurriculars.
The British do everything better, and this includes hobbies. On American shows, contestants have dumb hobbies like watching Netflix (@ myself) or shopping. On The Great British Bake Off, however, the contestants have the best hobbies. For example: “I collect Tasmanian postage stamps” or “I am a clothing designer for toddlers.” Or the best one so far, Kate, our queen from Season 5, an ACTUAL amateur blacksmith (which is also extremely gay).
4. Words that have absolutely no meaning to me whatsoever but sound really nice because: British accent.
Words like scrummy, cling film, plaiting, baps, sultanas, Jaffa cake, an Eton Mess, Sacher torte, Vol-au-vents, entremets, savarins, dampfnudel, and clootie dumplings (which are shockingly not a metaphor for your lady bits). I love how confused this show has me. It’s truly humbling. For the love of Sappho, what is the difference between marzipan and frangipane? And the greatest enigma of all? What does pudding mean to the British? Is it a dessert? Is it a savory meat dish? No one fucking knows.
5. No prize money, no book deal, no confetti, no promise of fame or fortune.
Just a cake stand and flowers. I find this fact particularly hot—a real sexy fuck you to American materialism and capitalism.
6. Farm animals.
Everyone knows the gays love farm animals. (There’s a reason the term “farm butch” is an actual thing.) Maybe with the queers in mind, the editors of the show include dozens of shots of the English countryside: of sheep, cows, ducks, and just a lot of shots of rain.
Let me tell you, the effect is comparable to Xanax.
7. Allow me to butter your biscuits.
The contestants and hosts of this show are incredibly clever at double entendres. So clever, in fact, that I sometimes wonder if the quips are scripted. You know who else is good at sexual innuendos? The gays. Which is exactly why the Twitter account I’m about to gift you with will blow your mind. I recently wrote this tweet.
My grownup Christmas list: free therapy, free CBD oil, job where I get paid to watch The Great British Bake Off
— Hannah (@hannahbrashers) November 27, 2018
And who should favorite my tweet but an account called @sexybakeoff. You heard me correctly. All of the tweets are quotes from the show. A few of my favorites?
this didn’t get the finger treatment at all
— Sexy Great British Bake Off (@sexybakeoff) November 24, 2018
it is very wet. is everyone else’s not?
With only 63 followers currently, this account is a hidden gem. You’re welcome.
8. Kindness???
I add three (3) question marks after the word “kindness” because in America (especially Tr*mp’s America), I don’t even know the word’s meaning anymore. Kindness? Who is she?
If there is one thing queer women are in desperate need of it’s kindness and this show has plenty of it. While American reality shows are full of competition and back-stabbing, these very British contestants truly care about each other. Whenever time is running short, the contestants like…help each other? And even in Season 2 when shady-ass Deborah “accidentally” used Howard’s cream, she then spent the remainder of her time on the show trying desperately to make it up to him. (Howard was having none of it. Petty and I love it.)
9. The time America’s queer sweetheart Ruby Tandoh went OFF on ugly-ass Paul Hollywood on Twitter.
Who can forget the gorgeous Ruby Tandoh? This runner-up from Season 4 spent the majority of the season making self-deprecating jokes and wearing adorable collared shirts. While not out while on the show, she came out in 2015, and in September of 2018 she married her partner in a gorgeous gay wedding.
The real tea ’twas spilleth in 2016, though, when Ruby went off on Paul Hollywood for being egotistical and materialistic. Some of the highlights (which have now been deleted since Tandoh is no longer on Twitter) include clever digs like “We locked in battle with a mythic beast, both bright white and mahogany, man and baby, ego and terrible, terrible fragility all at once.” and “This, from a man who turned up to work revving a rental Lamborghini. or was it a Ferrari. I don’t remember, the air was thick w testosterone.” The fight ended in Hollywood blocking Tandoh. Weak!
10. Gay.
The Great British Bake Off is inherently gay, and no one can tell me otherwise. Of all the shows on television (except maybe The L Word), this one has the most representation of queer contestants. In each season, there are a handful of queer contestants whose identities as queer people are never tokenized. Instead, these identities are normalized in the most beautiful ways. There’s always that one lesbian contestant that I’m jealous of. She always has the coolest name, she’s always from a village with some magnificent name, and she’s been with her wife Rosie since meeting her at an antique furniture club 15 years ago.
And how can we forget the delightfully ill-fitting clothes and wonderfully awful puns of The Great British Bake Off’s favorite lesbian host Sue Perkins? Since Perkins stepped down in 2016, a new lesbian has stepped up to fill her shoes, and it’s the charming Sandi Toksvig. What more could queer women ask for?
So, in conclusion, if you’ve been having an urge to text your ex-girlfriend, if you’re unhappy about the current state affairs, if you have anxiety or depression, or if you are experiencing a four-hour edible-induced panic attack (this definitely did not happen to me), then The Great British Bake Off might be just for you.
BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE. If you call now, your order of the complete Great British Bake Off Collection will come with a free therapy session, hot tea, and a cute partner to cuddle with because it’s cuffing season, ladies.
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Elon Men’s Tennis Rally Comes Up Short at #34 NC State
Posted by Press Release on February 8, 2013 at 10:04 pm under College | Read the First Comment
RALEIGH, N.C. – The Elon University men’s tennis team rallied from two points down to tie NC State late in the match, but dropped a 4-3 decision to the 34th-ranked Wolfpack on Friday, Feb. 8, at the J.W. Isenhour Tennis Center.
Elon (1-2) trailed NC State (4-2), 3-1, after winning the doubles point but dropping the first three singles matches. The Phoenix showed its resiliency to battle back, as Cameron Silverman and Stefan Fortmann both grinded out wins at No. 1 and 2 singles to tie the match at 3-all, with Robert Lindgren remaining at No. 3 singles.
Lindgren fought NC State’s Thomas Weigel tooth and nail, winning the first set, 6-4, to take an early edge. But Weigel battled back, grinding out a 7-6 (8-6) win in the second set and a 6-4 victory in the third to clinch the match for the Pack.
“I’m proud of the way we battled and competed today against a quality opponent,” said Elon head coach Michael Leonard. “We had several great performances today and our guys fought hard at every position.”
Elon took an early 1-0 match lead over the Pack by winning the doubles point. Silverman and Fortmann, ranked No. 22 in the nation in doubles, won quickly at the No. 1 position versus Robbie Mudge and Sean Weber, 8-2, to give the maroon and gold momentum. At No. 3, Lindgren and Juan Madrid clinched the doubles point by claiming an 8-4 decision against Dave Thomson and Thomas Weigel.
NC State came back to take the next three points at No. 5, 6 and 7 singles to claim a 3-1 lead over the Phoenix.
Elon stormed back to tie it at 3-all after Silverman, ranked No. 21 in the nation in singles, topped Mudge in three sets, 6-4, 1-6, 6-3, at No. 1 to make it a 3-2 match.
Fortmann, ranked No. 117 in the nation, topped Powell in straight sets, 7-6 (7-5), 7-5, to bring Elon back.
The Phoenix returns to action Sunday night at 6 p.m. when it takes on Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, N.C.
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These guys are putting out some incredible performances against some top quality (ACC) teams. Hats off to Coach Leonard and Assistant Coach Joe “Stallion” Lisi.
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New ‘Captain America’ Character Posters – Screen Rant (01jun11)
02 Jun 2011 /
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Sandy Schaefer
Three new characters posters have been released for Marvel’s ‘Captain America’ – including one with Hugo Weaving as the villainous Red Skull.
It’s not that everyone has just forgotten about Marvel’s Captain America: The First Avenger arriving later this summer. However, between discussion about the artifacts in Odin’s vault, the quality of this week’s X-Men: First Class, and the marketing blitz for Green Lantern, Chris Evan’s first solo outing as the heroic Steve Rogers has been pushed to the back of the superhero movie line for the time being.
For those of you whose favorite Avenger still remains The First Avenger – and everyone else – Marvel has unveiled a trio of character posters for the three big players in Captain America.
Even though Captain America will be the first Marvel production not set in the present (it takes place during WWII), the film will contain numerous plot points, characters, and story elements that help strengthen its connection to the Marvel movie universe. On top of that, Avengers writer/director Joss Whedon also worked as a creative consultanton Joe Johnston’s movie – to help ensure that it will fit better with his superhero ensemble epic.
Captain America still needs to work on its own terms – as an entertaining period action-adventure picture that just happens to feature a hero who dresses in red, white, and blue duds (as opposed to, say, Indiana Jones’ archaeologist gear). Hopefully, Johnston’s film will also not be hindered by its connection to the larger Marvel universe and will integrate the S.H.I.E.L.D. organization with even more fluidity than Thor managed.
While we wait for Captain America to actually be released – after the inevitable onslaught of TV spots and trailers – there are these new character posters of Evans in costume as the Captain, Hayley Atwell as the daring Peggy Carter, and Hugo Weaving as the villainous Red Skull to fawn over.
Check them out (via Cinemarcado) below:
There’s nothing all that new or revealing about these posters; nonetheless, each of the characters’ respective designs look like solid real-life versions of their comic book incarnations (though opinions will undoubtedly differ in that regard). Weaving’s Red Skull in particular looks as nasty and unnerving as the filmmakers behind Captain America have been promising from the beginning. Now we just have to wait to see some actual footage of him in action – more than the brief glimpse provided in the first Captain America trailer.
Captain America: The First Avenger hits theaters this summer on July 22nd.
Source: Cinemarcado
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Jobs announcement reaffirms Cork’s IT hub status – Buttimer
Home / News / Cork / Jobs announcement reaffirms Cork’s IT hub status – Buttimer
30th October 201322nd January 2016
By admin_exsiteIn Cork, Environment, Community and Local Government, Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
StorageCraft Technology Corporation establishing international headquarters reaffirms Cork’s status as an IT hub
The decision of StorageCraft Technology Corporation to establish its international headquarters further cements Cork’s reputation as a recognised hub for leading IT companies. This is a vote of confidence in Cork, its people and the high quality graduates produced by third level colleges in the city.
StorageCraft is a global provider of data protection solutions that enables small and medium sized businesses to deal with system disruptions, improving security and stability. It is establishing its international headquarters in Cork as part of the continued growth and expansion of the business. This will create 30 new jobs across a range of disciplines, from IT to marketing and human resources.
In addition to those who will directly benefit from these new jobs, the local economy will also get a boost from this announcement. Each time a new company sets up in Cork, there are significant spin-off benefits for other local businesses.
In its first 10 years StorageCraft has grown into a leading player in the IT industry. I hope that this decision to create its international headquarters in Cork will enable StorageCraft to continue to develop its business for many years to come, and create further jobs locally.
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Your Friend: Gumption
Kayci Lineberger· February 9, 2016
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Lawrence, Kansas resident Taryn Miller is the founder and spearhead of Your Friend, a young but thriving project that is seeing a new wave of success with their first full length, Gumption. Miller is no stranger to the local music community, and has been releasing music locally and globally for over three years. After the release of their first EP, Jekyll/Hyde, Domino picked up the group and rereleased the EP. Domino is also behind this January 29th release of Gumption.
Your Friend released the album to a large, loving crowd at Liberty Hall in Lawrence on January 28th. Playing alongside the three piece Rush and Styx lovechild from Lawrence, Major Games, they created an atmosphere of community and warmth. Tayrn was flanked by four additional band members, all of whom complimented her gentle, spacey guitar. They melded together tracks from Jekyll/Hyde alongside the entirety of Gumption, beginning the night with the first single of the full length, the gorgeous and stacked “Heathering,” and closing the night out with an encore of Miller playing solo followed by the full group on “Peaches,” a track from the EP and arguably one of their most known tracks.
Gumption is an album that sweeps you up, it is ambient indie folk-rock layered thick with synth, bass, percussion, and harmonies, all intermingled with looping and meditative guitar. It has a lovely balance of tangible sound and shrouding of uplifting and dark, contemplative melodies. Thematically, Miller dives into a lot of themes applicable to folks in their 20s, but these are also universally found truths. For example, the thought that we may not like the person we truly are, or become the person we expected to. But there is still beauty in this, and through the pain and the growth, Miller finds truly beautiful ways to translate her human experience with Gumption.
Recommended If You Like: Alex G, DeYarmond Edison, CS Luxem, Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Recommended Tracks: 1 (Heathering), 6 (Gumption), 9 (Who Will I Be in the Morning)
Do Not Play: None
Written by Kayci Lineberger on 02/09/16
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Kabardian Circassian Russian Dictionary contains about 27 thousand words. Many translated example sentences containing "Circassian" – German-English dictionary and search engine for German translations. I hope it will be of some use to colleagues elsewhere. Quiz Review. By Dr. L. Loewe. English Wikipedia has an article on: Circassian languages. (a.) Acknowledgements [from the book] This basic Proto-Circassian dictionary was written as a contribution to a continuing program in describing and analyzing the North-West Caucasian languages and in reconstructing the proto-language. 2. Information about Circassian: Edit family data; Canonical name: Circassian: Aliases: Cherkess; Family code: cau-cir: Common ancestor: Proto-Circassian: Parent … Their suggestions and criticisms are invited.I very warmly thank Mr. Rashid Dahabsu of River Edge, New Jersey, U.S.A, for his untiring assistance in providing Bzedux material, and also Mr. Nazim Met of Utrecht, The Netherlands for helping out with Sapsug forms.I hope this booklet marks an advance along the road mapped out by N.F. I welcome this opportunity to give it a wider distribution. Иностранные языки. (ed. (sər-kăsh′ən, -kăsh′ē-ən) n. 1. More recently some research was conducted on Proto-Abkhaz. By Thomas Wier, Locative-directional preverbs in the Hattian and Abkhazian-Adyghe languages: a comparative aspect by A.P. Kardanov (Qarden), B. M. DICTIONARY CIRCASSIAN LANGUAGE IN TWO PARTS: ENGLISH— CIRCASSIAN— TURKISH, AND CIRCASSIAN— ENGLISH— TURKISH. Linguists Catherine Paris and Niaz Batouka compiled an extensive Abzakh-French dictionary, published in 1987, and Paris compiled and recorded other materials as well. These dictionaries are the result of the work of many authors who worked very hard and finally offered their product free of charge on the internet thus making it easier to all of us to … Articles on this topic in other Wikimedia projects can be found at: Wikimedia Commons Category Circassian languages. © 2009 - 2020 Abkhaz World. Circassian - WordReference English dictionary, questions, discussion and forums. Louis L. Loewe (1809-1888) English orientalist and theologian. By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies, By purchasing this item, you are transacting with Google Payments and agreeing to the Google Payments, Free course Slovak for 7 lessons - simple, concise, understandable, effective, The meaning and application of English phrases, idioms, “winged” and slang expressions, Psychological tests and psychocorrection of thinking. 2. Of or relating to Circassia or its people, language, or culture. • CIRCASSIAN (noun) The noun CIRCASSIAN has 3 senses:. a native or inhabitant of Circassia. ), Kabardinsko-russki slovar’ [Kabardian-Russian Dictionary], Kabardino-Balkarian Science and Research Institute, Moscow: State Press of Foreign and National Dictionaries, 1957. a literary language based on the western dialects of the Circassian group. The app includes dictionaries, a phrasebook and Kabardian grammar essay. Circassian Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries. A Dictionary of Proto-Circassian RootsAuthor: Aert Hendrik KuipersYear: 1975Publisher: Peter de Ridder Press (Leiden)Place of Publication: LisseNumber of pages: 93 Language: EnglishAert Hendrik Kuipers (1919 - 2012) was a Dutch linguistics professor. Read more. Although the Circassian languages as a whole have received increasing academic attention, the Abzakh variety in particular is comparatively underresearched and underdocumented. • Designed … Language Varieties of or pertaining to Circassia, its inhabitants, often with respect to their legendary beauty, or their language. (loosely) The Adyghe, Kabardian, Ubykh and even Abkhazianlanguages. A Synopsis, by Bernard Geiger, Tibor Halasi-Kun, Aert Kuipers, Karl H. Menges, Studies in West Circassian phonology and morphology, by Rieks Smeets, A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary, by Sergei Starostin (Ed. To both these Institutions warm gratitude is due.The material presented here was originally intended for internal use. The spoken languages, however, merge, with geographically intermediate dialects intelligible to both standards. Circassians are a global, Diaspora community, so part of my challenge was to: a) learn the languages spoken by other Circassians, and; b) understand their structure well enough to help those Circassians learn our own ethnic language. This basic Proto-Circassian dictionary was written as a contribution to a continuing program in describing and analyzing the North-West Caucasian languages and in reconstructing the proto-language. Read our series of blogs to find out more. Wikipedia . Circassian languages: Circassian /sɜːrˈkæʃən/, also known as Cherkess /tʃɜːrˈkɛs/, is a subdivision of the Northwest Caucasian language family. See more. This dictionary is mainly based on Kardanov (Qarden), B. M. Containing all the most necessary words for the traveller, the soldier, and the sailor; with the exact pronunciation of each word in the English character. Attempts … Your Recent Searches . hEnglish - advanced version. Translation Memory. By Dr. L. Loewe. • A Dictionary of the Circassian Language, in Two Parts. New from Collins Quick word challenge. Dictionary entry overview: What does Circassian mean? The Abkhaz and Circassian (Sapsug) parts of this program have been and are being supported by the Netherlands Organization for the Advancement of Pure Research. London, G. Bell, 1854. More recently, Hayriye Güpse Güneş, born into a … Karabakh: a reasonable compromise, by Stephen D. Shenfield, Victims of Geopolitics: Young Generations in Abkhazia Struggle with Lack of Travel and Education Opportunities Abroad, Valeria Adleiba presents a new song at the "Apsny" Festival, Some lessons to be learnt from the Karabakh war, by Dieter Boden, The Abkhazian drama-theatre will perform at the international festival in Nalchik, Interview with Vicken Cheterian on Karabakh War and the Conflicts in the Caucasus, Peoples and Languages of the Caucasus. On Glosbe you can check not only translations into language English or Adyghe: we also provide examples of usage, by showing dozens of examples of translated sentences … adj. The Northwest Caucasian language of the Circassians. This is the main category of the Circassian languages. Английские фразы и идиомы с переводом каждый день, Cookies help us deliver our services. A North Caucasian language group spoken in Circassia in North West Caucasus Russia. Of or pertaining to Circassia, in Asia. Window on Eurasia: Can the Ubykh Language Return from the Dead? Though genetically related, the three languages are mutually ... all Circassian dialects, and even a dictionary was published. Tikhonova, Language Aspects of Ethnic Patterns and Processes in the North Caucasus, by Ronald Wixman, The Rise and Fall and Revival of the Ibero-Caucasian Hypothesis, by Kevin Tuite, Peoples and Languages of the Caucasus. I really liked Pimsleur and Michel Thomas, but I kept gravitating towards Assimil. Kabardian-English Dictionary: being a literary lexicon of East Circassian . Circassian, also known as Cherkess, is a dialect continuum of the Caucasus.There are two Circassian languages as defined by their literary standards, Adyghe (Adyge, West Circassian), with half a million speakers, and Kabardian (East Circassian) with a million. Title: A dictionary of the Circassian language Author: Louis Loewe Created Date: 10/5/2013 11:22:57 AM Glosbe dictionaries are unique. Area 51, Starship, and Harvest Moon: September’s Words in the … speakASAP.com - Елена Шипилова. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (n.) A native or inhabitant of Circassia. The full book in PDF can be downloaded by clicking here (36 MB). • It contains about 27 thousand words of modern Kabardian / Circassian language with meaning interpretations. Definition of Circassian from the Collins English Dictionary. All Free. But l'omme c'est rien, l'oeuvre c'est tout, and his work is alive and will continue to be. Circassian (woman sau girl); Circassian; the Circassian language: cercheza: Translations: 1 – 2 / 2. a native or inhabitant of Circassia A North Caucasian language spoken in Adygea (also called Adyghe or West Circassian) or Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia (also called Kabardian or East Circassian), Russia. The Circassians (Russian: Черке́сы, Čerkesy; Turkish: Çerkezler), also known by their endonym Adyghe (Circassian: Адыгэхэр, Adyghekher; Russian: Ады́ги, Adygi; Turkish: Adige), are a Northwest Caucasian ethnic group native to Circassia, many of whom were exiled in the course of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus in the 19th century, especially after the Russo-Circassian War in 1864. • Contains about 27 thousand words of modern Kabardian Circassian language. adj. This dictionary is mainly based on . Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. sian. The term Circassian may refer to: Pertaining to Circassia, a formerly independent mountainous country located in the Caucasus region of Eurasia Circassian coast, on the Black Sea Circassians or Adyghe people, various peoples of the north Caucasus Containing all the most necessary words for the traveller the soldier and the sailor; with the exact pronunciation of each word in the English character. We provide not only dictionary English-Adyghe, but dictionaries for every existing pairs of languages - online and free. Circassian definition is - a member of a group of peoples of the northwestern Caucasus. All rights reserved. Dictionary of Kabardian / Circassian language. Look up in Linguee; Suggest as a translation of "Circassian" ... open and operate stations which broadcast in other languages; calls on the Turkish Government to lift all remaining restrictions in the area of broadcasting and education in minority languages ... the head of "Circassian … Medieval Latin or Neo-Latin Circassi(a) + - an; 1545–55; Language Varieties a literary language based on the western dialects of the Circassian group. That said, I was kind of frustrated by the lack of product availability in the … (ed. Adyghe (/ ˈ æ d ᵻ ɡ eɪ / or / ˌ ɑː d ᵻ ˈ ɡ eɪ /; Adyghe: Адыгабзэ, adyghabze IPA: [aːdəɣabza]), also known as West Circassian (КӀахыбзэ), is one of the two official languages of the Republic of Adygea in the Russian Federation, the other being Russian.It is spoken by various tribes of the Adyghe people: Abzekh, Adamey, Bzhedug; Hatuqwai, Temirgoy, Mamkhegh; Natekuay, Shapsug; Zhaney, Yegerikuay, each with its own … Kabardian definition, a Circassian language of the Kabardino-Balkar Autonomous Republic. ), The Exploration Of The Caucasus, by Douglas William Freshfield - Volume I & II, The Art of Abkhazian Kingdom from the VIIIth to the XIth Centuries, The Ethnic History of the Abkhazians in the XIX-XX centuries. Circassians or Adyghe people, various peoples of the north Caucasus. 1. a member of the Sunni Muslim people living in northwestern Caucasia 2. a mostly Sunni Muslim community living in northwestern Caucasia 3. a northern Caucasian language spoken by the Circassian Familiarity information: CIRCASSIAN used as a noun is uncommon. Find out information about Circassian. ... We look at some of the ways in which the language is changing. EUdict (European dictionary) is a collection of online dictionaries for the languages spoken mostly in Europe. a group of North Caucasian languages, including Kabardian. Language: English Aert Hendrik Kuipers (1919 - 2012) was a Dutch linguistics professor. Russian Kabardian Dictionary contains about 24 thousand words. Online. Dictionary of Kabardian / Circassian language • 100 % free, fast, and easy to use offline dictionary. Go to our home page to choose from available languages. The Circassians … Show declension of Circassian More generally, any Northwest Caucasian language. Jakovlev in his 1927 Materialy dlja kabardinskogo slovarja. A dictionary of the Circassian language. In two parts: English-Circassian-Turkish, and Circassian-English-Turkish. A Synopsis (1959). Kabardian-English Dictionary . • The dictionary represents phraseology, the most commonly used scientific and technical terminology, materials from literature and folklore of Kabardians and Circassians. ), Kabardinsko-russki slovar’ [Kabardian-Russian Dictionary], Kabardino-Balkarian Science and Research Institute, Moscow: State Press of Foreign and National Dictionaries, 1957. Traveling to the east, he … English English Dictionaries. being a literary lexicon of East Circassian . a mostly Sunni Muslim community living in northwestern Caucasia In two parts: English-Circassian-Turkish and Circassian-English-Turkish. ... Download our English Dictionary apps - available for both iOS and Android. Abkhaz, by Viacheslav Chirikba, Abkhaz Personal Names, by Viacheslav Chirikba, Was Abkhazian spoken in Abkhazia in Medieval times? The University of Leiden has made it possible to attract Sapsug and Abazinian consultants. About. (1854) [Leather Bound] Circassian 1. The Peter de Ridder Press has kindly suggested to publish it in offset form. Today I do not know whether to dedicate this contribution to him or to his memory. a language or languages spoken in Circassia, belonging to the North-West Caucasian family Explanation of Circassian Circassian | Article about Circassian by The Free Dictionary CONTAINING ALL THE MOST NECESSARY WORDS FOR THE TRAVELLER, THE SOLDIER, AND THE SAILOR; THE EXACT PRONUNCIATION OF EACH WORD IN THE ENGLISH CHARACTER. Question: 1 - Score: 0 / 5. The Valid and Non-valid Application of Etymology/Philology to History, by George Hewitt, The Northwest Caucasian Languages, by Peter Arkadiev & Yury Lander, Ossetian Grammar [Ossetische Sprachlehre: Nebst Einer Abhandlung Über Das Mingrelische, Suanische Und Abchasische], by Georg Rosen, Studies of Abkhaz Loanword (Abchasische Lehnwortstudien). The Circassian Language Amjad Jaimoukha Circassian is one of the three divisions of the Northwest group of Caucasian languages, the other two being Abkhaz-Abaza and the now extinct Ubykh (Pakhy). I know this re markable linguist was mentally incapacitated and could not be visited in 1962 when I was in Moscow. Russian Kabardian Frequency Dictionary contains about 1 000 frequently words. A dictionary of the Circassian language. There are two Circassian languages ... Kabardian language By Dr. L. Loewe. Read more. (Ethno-political and Migrational Aspects), by Tejmuraz A. 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Holiday Weekend by Charley Descoteaux Blog Tour, Guest Post, Excerpt, Giveaway & Review!
Hi guys, we have Charley Descoteaux visiting today with her new release Holiday Weekend, we have a brilliant guest post, a great excerpt, a fantastic giveaway and Prime’s review. So peeps, check out the post and click the link to enter the giveaway! <3 ~Pixie~
Holiday Weekend
(Buchanan House 05)
Charley Descoteaux
Ryan Orchard moved from small-town Idaho to Portland almost two years ago and still feels like a hick. When Paulie Nesbitt dumped him, he wasn’t even surprised. Despite losing twenty-five pounds since then, Ryan’s confidence is nonexistent and his life has stalled. Not only is he convinced the career he wants is beyond his reach, he’s given up on relationships. A new job at a familiar restaurant—and his gorgeous coworker—could be just what Ryan needs to believe in himself again.
Glenn Hernandez might be the only nineteen-year-old in Portland who dreads his days off. Between his horrible housing situation and the ever-present temptation to crawl back into the bottle, Glenn prefers to keep busy. He volunteers at the Elliott Foundation House, a homeless shelter helping LGBTQ sex workers. As an alum of the shelter, Glenn finds it hard to leave his past behind. But when the new server at the trendy restaurant where he works catches Glenn’s eye and works his way into his heart, Glenn finally has a reason to start a new life.
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Three things you won’t learn about Ryan Orchard by reading Holiday Weekend
Thanks for having me! I’m thrilled to be visiting MM Good Book Reviews to talk about my Christmas story, Holiday Weekend, Buchanan House: Book Five.
Ryan Orchard is the main character in Holiday Weekend—the guy who prompted the whole story by being so sweet in Tiny House. He was such a nice guy even while I was putting him through the wringer, I just couldn’t leave him alone and lonely. Even though he earned a Happily Ever After with all he’d endured in Tiny House, I still made him work for it.
Ryan is in his midtwenties, so his story had to be different than those in Tiny House and Safe House, where all the leads are late-thirties and older. Most of my stories are about older men so it was a challenge to write an HEA for Ryan that didn’t see him getting involved with another older man. After what happened between Ryan and Paulie in Tiny House, though, I thought he might not have chosen someone twice his age anyway.
Since Holiday Weekend is Ryan’s story a lot about him is included on the page but not everything. Here are three things that didn’t make the cut, and an exclusive excerpt!
Ryan’s last name comes from a microbrewery in Portland, The Angry Orchard. My commute takes me past their sign ten times a week and when I needed a name that just seemed to fit. I got the name of Jasper Vaughn’s first restaurant in Tiny House from the same place: The Angry Puddle.
Ryan has always been mature for his age. His parents had him later in life and his brothers were in middle school by the time he came along. His earliest memories are of his brothers playing with him as though he were a crash test dummy. Even though he had friends and an active social life, he spent most of his childhood surrounded by adults.
This one you may notice, but it’s not spelled out on the page. Ryan’s brothers are kind of jerks—they grew up together and Ryan came later (as a surprise to his parents). Rick and Roger are quintessential country boys: big, strong, not dumb but they didn’t care all that much about school except for winning at sports. Ryan didn’t like sports growing up, he was happier in the kitchen with his mom, which earned him a lot of teasing from them.
This excerpt is from Glenn’s point of view. Especially in the beginning, Glenn sees Ryan much differently than he sees himself, so this will give you a good idea who Ryan Orchard really is.
I felt like a criminal—probably because technically I was—but I stood ramrod straight and knocked anyway. I shouldn’t be here, I knew that, but something was wrong. Especially after Halloween and the next three days that Ryan and I had worked together, shared our breaks, and eaten lunch and dinner together, having him call in sick without a heads-up didn’t track. It just didn’t seem like something Ryan would do. He’s way too considerate to leave me hanging like that.
At first I worried that Ryan had disappeared out of my life because I hadn’t taken the hint and hooked up with him on Halloween. Ryan had obviously tried not to grind against me, but the dance floor had been crowded and we had bumped together a few times.
And I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how big he was without getting caught staring.
But then we went home separately.
And then did it again three more times.
For once in my life, I wanted to know a guy before I had sex with him. For the first time ever, I cared more about the guy than about his dick or his ass. Or his money, but that was too terrifying even to think out loud, so I pushed the thought away. It scared the hell out of me—the potential for getting my heart wrecked, the chance that Ryan could get sick of waiting and find someone else to hook up with. Or a lot of someones.
Ryan could have anyone he wanted.
So when he didn’t show, I tried texting. And after a half-dozen flirty texts, I actually called him. One unanswered call was all it took for me to make the leap to petty larceny. I slipped into Paris’s office and copied Ryan’s address from the file she had on him. Paris looked relieved when I told her I didn’t feel well and had to take off. Mave was there, and counting Paris and her two assistants, the kitchen was more crowded than the dining room.
No answer at Ryan’s apartment, so I knocked again. Louder.
“Go away. You already said enough.”
Ryan sounded really sick. Something heavy hit the inside of the door.
“Ryan? Are you okay?” I waited but didn’t hear anything else. I pounded on the door again. Harder. “Ryan? It’s Glenn. Can I come in?”
It didn’t make sense—I’d heard Ryan’s voice, so he wasn’t in desperate need of medical attention or anything nearly so dire or melodramatic—but I kind of panicked. I couldn’t shake the feeling that I’d never see Ryan again if I didn’t get in there immediately. The door was unlocked. We’ll have to talk about that later. I shivered and eased the door open. Ryan stood frozen in the middle of the room. He looked like shit. Really, he looked like he’d slept outside or not at all, wearing sweatpants and his dirty shirt from PJ’s, with his hair sticking up and his face red and swollen and—
“Shit, Ryan.” I slipped inside and closed the door, locking it without moving my eyes from Ryan’s face. “Did you get in a fight?”
Ryan reached up and gingerly rubbed his cheek. His face reddened. “Did Paris send you?”
“No. I was worried about you.” I wanted to run across the room and grab Ryan, take care of him and make everything okay. But he looked scared. Hurt and scared, and it tore me up inside. It wasn’t a sure thing I was up to staying, since something was obviously very wrong, but at the same time, I knew I wasn’t going anywhere. “You didn’t text me back or answer when I called.”
About Charley
Charley Descoteaux misspent a large chunk of her youth on the back of a Harley, meeting people and having adventures that sometimes pop up in her fiction. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area during a drought, and found her true home in the soggy Pacific Northwest. Charley has survived earthquakes, tornadoes and floods, but couldn’t make it through one day without stories.
Where to find the author:
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Title: Holiday Weekend
Series: Buchanan House 05
Author: Charley Descoteaux
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Novella (125 pages)
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (16 Dec 2016)
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥ 4 Hearts
Blurb: Ryan Orchard moved from small-town Idaho to Portland almost two years ago and still feels like a hick. When Paulie Nesbitt dumped him, he wasn’t even surprised. Despite losing twenty-five pounds since then, Ryan’s confidence is nonexistent, and his life has stalled. Not only is he convinced the career he wants is beyond his reach, he’s given up on relationships. A new job at a familiar restaurant—and his gorgeous coworker—could be just what Ryan needs to believe in himself again.
Glenn Hernandez might be the only nineteen-year-old in Portland who dreads his days off. Between his horrible housing situation and the ever-present temptation to crawl back into the bottle, Glenn prefers to keep busy. He volunteers at the Elliott Foundation House, a homeless shelter helping LGBTQ former sex workers. As an alum of the shelter himself, Glenn finds it hard to leave his past behind. But when the new server at the trendy restaurant where he works catches Glenn’s eye and works his way into his heart, Glenn finally has a reason to start a new life.
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Reviewer: Prime
Review: Charley Descoteaux’s Buchanan House series is really a fantastic read. However, this particular book can be read as a standalone, those that have read the previous four books in the Buchanan House series may want to go back and work out where things fit in the story. Then again, you may not want to do that either. Whatever.
Charley writes in the author’s note how this particular book fits in the story. It’s not a part of the main timeline within the series, much like the other novella within the series “Pride Weekend”, “Holiday Weekend” is a part of the Buchanan House universe but not directly, also an important of the structure is that these also don’t open with a funeral, as the other three books in the series do. That was me quickly rehashing the author’s note .
The story itself revolves around the Elliot Foundation House – it’s a shelter for young gay men living on the street, most of them as sex workers to get by which has roots in the previous books of the series. Glenn is one of the success stories. He used to live on the streets and sell his body for money but the 19 year old is now a recovering alcoholic who is making life better for himself, even if he doesn’t really see it for himself quite yet. Then there is Ryan – we met him in the book “Tiny House” when his boyfriend Paulie found love with someone else. It wasn’t that Paulie is an asshole but Ryan is a very lonely and tragic figure. Both Ryan and Glenn have a lot of healing to do but the question is once they get together and sparks fly, can they be together and heal each other at the same time? When they head to Buchanan House for a weekend a bit of magic and love from familiar faces just makes everything perfect.
This is a heartwarming story which is full of hope and love. Glenn and Ryan are simply wonderful together, they have plenty of chemistry and a lot of heart. This is a wonderful addition to the series. I love that these guys have their chance at a happy ending within their own little world.
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Prairie Fire loves Nelson Ball!
P oet Heidi Greco has reviewed Nelson Ball’s poetry collection In This Thin Rain for the fine literary journal Prairie Fire. It’s a beautiful tribute to one of Canada’s literary legends.
In This Thin Rain
by Nelson Ball
Toronto: Mansfield Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1-894469-66-1, 82 pp., $16.95 paper.
Reviewed by Heidi Greco
Spare. That’s what these poems are. In fact, two of the poems in this collection contain fewer words than the book’s title.
Yet their size leaves them no less poetic than if they were longer. In fact, their compact quietness is completely appropriate, now more than at any time in Ball’s career. With 25 books to his credit, this one comes out of a time of grieving. During its writing (2009–2011), he lost both his wife and his mother.
His wife Barbara served as his first reader. In notes at the back, Ball informs us that she “read drafts of poems in this book written in 2009” (79). He offers the fact that they were together for 44 years and that Barbara was an artist – a painter. Ball credits her with giving him an appreciation of colour. This is evident in the poems, especially this one, “Colours,” a piece that is dedicated to his wife:
Yellows and browns –
a field of beans ripening in September
sunlight now
more yellow than white
coloured light, reflecting rich ochres
of the field of beans
in September (45)
Born in a period of mourning, these poems follow the natural order of the year, with the seasons progressing from spring to spring, delineated in part by the migration of birds.
Winged things of all sorts move the poems forward. There are sketches of turkey vulture, crow, or heron “With [its] remarkably laboured / flapping of wings”(36). There’s even an observation of the oxymoronic winged being in a piece called “Anomaly”: “Cement / angels” (40). And yes, that is the poem in its entirety.
Flies also serve as a touchstone for the seasons. Ball brings such careful scrutiny to them, they take on an air of surprising dignity, as in the poem “January fly” (one of the longest in the book, extending onto a second page). He portrays “a drowsy January fly” as it tries “to walk up the baseboard” (72) and then attempts to fly. To most of us, a housefly in winter represents a creature that would merely be a nuisance. But Ball presents him respectfully as one of winter’s tough survivors – one who, like himself, makes it through “difficult / days” (73).
Yet the tone of this book is far from sombre. A number of clever examples of wordplay are included. These playful discoveries with language are an element I associate with Ball’s writing over the years. My favourite of these is the rhumba-like, “Drumbeat for Drumbo,” a piece credited to the spell-check program on his computer.
But whether he’s playing word games with the computer or contemplating the loss of his soul mate, readers are fortunate that Barbara’s death wasn’t enough to keep Nelson Ball from finishing this fine little book.
(Heidi Greco lives in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, a region where she has learned to enjoy strolling in the thin rain.)
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There are numerous instances in which hiring a sex employee, such as an escort or a dominatrix, is one of the most accountable decision you can make. If you desire one-night stand, without strings attached, and have the pocketbook for it, a companion is a simpler as well as much more honest response to your wishes than prowling Tinder for songs who might be looking for a romantic connection. If you have a specific kink, such as a foot proclivity, that you intend to check out, and aren't in a partnership with a person who shares your kink, hiring a pro-domme is an uncomplicated option that will certainly give you simply what you require. Unfortunately, our sex-negative government says otherwise. While sex job occurs in each and every single state, companion work, or hooking, is only lawful in areas of Nevada. Dominatrixes and pole dancers have extra protection; however, with the current flow of FOSTA-SESTA, every sex employee is at threat.
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1. How Do I Get In Touch With A Sex Worker?
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Once you have actually found a companion that fits your demands, make certain to review their profile, social networks accounts, and personal web sites. The majority of sex employees have get in touch with types on their web site to make it ultra-easy for you to contact us. Alana describes that a lot of women favor on-line call over phone, as fraudsters might use a telephone call as an excuse to call them up and also try and also snag off for free.
So please adhere to directions on the individual's website as well as utilize the get in touch with kind as routed. "When individuals email me off the bat and present athens ladies themselves, they constantly get ahead in line. Add a two-sentence intro concerning on your own, what you do, where you're from, and also exactly how you found out about me. Definitely pay a compliment," Alana says.
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A regular problem from sex employees is that males will certainly call them asking inquiries to which the responses are already clearly stated on their web site. "Among the number one pet dog peeves of mine in managing brand-new, possible clients, is asking me concerns that I've currently provided," says Siren Aviva, a New york city City-based dominatrix. Review their prices, solutions provided, determine as well as information what you want, and if you 'd favor an in-call or out-call. "We attempt to make it easy as feasible for individuals," Aviva states.
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All expert sex employees have a screening process, and also yes, you need to pleasantly follow it. If you have worked with companions prior to, you will certainly be asked to supply referrals from current service providers you've seen, so the person recognizes that you're safe, reliable, as well as trustworthy. Furthermore, or if you can not give recommendations, you may be asked to give a duplicate of your ID as well as job e-mail. This is typical, so don't be hard about it.
" Do not be a cock regarding screening; we need to do it for our security. It's not flexible. Some men actually dig their heels in regarding personal privacy and also odds and ends, and it's like well, this is all built on shared count on. You'll have to rely on that I'm not going to break your privacy in order for us to progress with anything. It's one of the most vital part of it regarding booking goes," Alana claims.
If this is your very first time booking a session, it indeed may be harder for you. "I assume for newbies if you have actually never seen a woman before, you must absolutely ask her if she's open to seeing first-timers. A lot of ladies aren't, so it is very important to obtain that out of the way. Then resemble, if you are, what are your screening requirements?" Alana says. Listen to and regard the screening procedure.
3. What's Conversation Like Throughout A Session?
You schedule a session with somebody to meet a fantasy. Do not wreck that by asking intrusive or personal inquiries. Be a gentleman, engage in conversation, but understand that the person you're with must maintain her genuine identification on the reduced down, not simply to maintain the fantasy alive, but for her defense.
" Do not inquire about someone's family, their social life, their real name, where they live. That details is unneeded, as well as there is a reason sex employees keep details like that private. Having that details is not mosting likely to contribute to the session. As a matter of fact, if you ask questions like that, it will likely make the sex worker unpleasant, and detract from the session," Aviva says. Enjoy yourself, as well as have fun, as well as make discussion, but stay expert as well as do not press boundaries.
4. Just how Do I Navigate Authorization?
Ideally, prior to a session, you will certainly have reviewed what you want. As soon as all events have agreed on that, stay with it. "Personally, the means I deal with that is a great deal of discussion prior to a session is also reserved," Aviva says.
Considering that she functions within the world of BDSM, some clients intend to explore their limitations and also boundaries, which is why she utilizes secure words. If you remain in a session with a companion instead of a dominatrix, likewise stick to what was pre-arranged and also gone over. For instance, think that you'll be wearing a prophylactic. Do not push the escort not to make use of one as soon as you're together, to do so is a severe infraction of borders and also yes, makes you a violent individual.
5. What Regarding Prophylactics?
Allow's talk a little a lot more regarding prophylactics. If you remain in a session with a pro-domme, depending upon what you want, there's most likely no physical liquids or infiltration involved, yet if there is, expect obstacle to be applied. Relating to escorts, using prophylactics is conventional.
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If this is what you want, expect to trade health documents. Many sex workers take PrEP, or a medication that minimizes their threat of having HIV. Nonetheless, do not allow any of this info think momentarily that you needn't worry about you your sex-related wellness. Those that do supply PRE, or porn celebrity experience, bill a lot a lot more.
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6. What Concerning Payment?
With the legitimacies of sex job, payment can be complicated. Inform on your own in the proper language to use; all payments are "donations," not payment for sex. And post-FOSTA-SESTA, numerous carriers (companions) have their PayPal closed down.
A supplier's prices per service, be it per hr, for travel, for an overnight, and so on, will certainly be noted on their site. As part of the screening process, there is commonly a non-negotiable or refundable down payment included, which is generally done online. "Follow their protocol and send the deposit as they require you to send the deposit," Aviva claims.
Bring cash to the session as well as never ever speak about cash in person, because that's just how polices apprehend sex workers (as well as possibly you). "Do not even review it. Simply make it clear that you understand your donation. We don't such as talking about it because that can enter challenging territories. Bring money in an unsealed envelope as well as leave it somewhere noticeable in the room. If she's coming to your area, leave it on the coffee table where she can see it or on the washroom sink," Alana states.
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NEHAWU Limpopo condemns the brutal rape and murder of a TVET college student on Sunday
The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union [NEHAWU] in Limpopo condemns the rape and murder of a student at the Capricorn TVET College on Sunday. Precious Ramabulana was raped and stabbed 52 times in her dorm room a day before President Cyril Ramaphosa launched the 16 days of activism in Limpopo on Monday.
NEHAWU send its deepest condolences to her family, classmates and her lecturers. We call on law enforcement agencies to find the perpetrator as soon as possible so that they can be punished for this heinous crime. We are concerned about the safety of our members and students as this incident further buttresses our call for extra security in all campuses.
We believe that the issue of gender based violence, rape and femicide is a crisis that is tearing our society apart and affects every community in the country. In this regard, we call on all members of society to join hands in ending violence directed at women and children. Moreover, as NEHAWU in the province we will make a call upon COSATU, ANC and the SACP to mobilise society for a stay away in support of gender based initiatives and victims of GBV, rape and femicide.
We will intensify the campaign to extend the 16 days of activism against women and children from 16 days to 365 days. The campaign must also include violence directed at the LGTB community and speak to the issue of corrective rape as well.
Issued by NEHAWU Limpopo Secretariat Office For further information, please contact: Jacob Adams @ 082 558 5966 or email: khaya@nehawu.org.za
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E/M Levels 2, 3 and 4 Established Patient Visits
A Distinction with a Difference
Statistically, the overwhelming majority of patient office Unless symptoms persist, the patient is to return to the visits are billed at E/M Levels 2, 3 or 4. Determining office in two weeks for follow-up. The patient’s which billing level is correct for a particular patient neurologist, Dr. Banks, will be advised of the results of this encounter can often be a problem. This is particularly the case because many physicians mistakenly believe that the E/M Level 2, 3 or 4?
E/M level of service is determined by the amount of time What E/M level of service should be billed for this spent with the patient. In fact, it is not the time but the encounter? How does the physician documentation in the content of the physician chart documentation that patient record translate into the appropriate all based on the patient encounter outlined history, physical examination and medical decision making. For established patients, two documented in different ways, will result in of these three key components must be met or different E/M levels of service. As you will see, the presence or absence of explicit, service billed. The following case study illustrates how a particular patient visit could documentation has a direct impact on E/M code be billed at Level 2, 3 or 4 depending upon physician assignment. In order
to fully understand the
distinctions between the levels, each example should be
read carefully and thoroughly before proceeding to the
A sixty-eight year old established patient with a past next one.
medical history of hypertension presents to a physician’s The examples include case analyses explaining how the office with a chief complaint of nausea and vomiting for 3 key components of history, physical examination and four days. The patient was recently discharged from the medical decision making are evaluated in determining the hospital and started on Sinemet 25/100 2 tabs TID for a appropriate E/M level of service under both the 1995 and new onset of Parkinson’s disease. In addition to nausea 1997 HCFA guidelines. The patient’s history, at the very and vomiting, the patient also complains of dull abdominal minimum, must include a chief complaint along with a pain and decreased desire to eat or drink.
history of present illness (HPI). The elements of an HPI Taking note of these complaints, the physician asks if the include a description of the chief complaint’s location, patient has experienced any acute neurological changes, quality, severity, timing, duration, context, modifying such as dizziness, headaches, seizures, recent falls or factors and associated signs and symptoms. The physical blurry vision, or has had any fever since his recent examination must conform to either the 1995 examination discharge. Patient denies having any of these additional guidelines or the 1997 general multi-system/single symptoms, but does mention that he has some difficulty specialty examination formats. In addition, to support a given level of service, medical decision making must be The physician then performs a physical examination, sufficiently documented in terms of the complexity of noting that the patient is a sixty-eight year old male, in no establishing a diagnosis, the number and severity of the apparent distress. Vital signs are BP 130/80, P 80, T 98.
conditions evaluated and the associated risk to the patient.
The lungs are found to be clear to auscultation and (See “Documentation Requirements for Established percussion. Heart rate was regular with no arrhythmia or Patient Office Visits for E/M Levels 2, 3 & 4” and “1997 murmur. Abdomen was palpated and noted to be soft, without tenderness or distention, with positive bowel By comparing each sample patient record to the corresponding case analysis, you will understand that the After examining the patient, the physician’s assessment completeness of your documentation of at least 2 of the 3 is that the nausea and vomiting are due to an inability to key components determines the level of billable service.
tolerate the initial dosage of Sinemet. The patient is The differences in documentation from example to instructed to decrease his Sinemet from 2 tabs to 1 tab example are printed in bold, underlined type. Depending three times a day, drink plenty of fluids, and continue upon the physician documentation, this patient encounter taking his antihypertensive medication since his blood would be billed at either Level 2, Level 3 or Level 4.
pressure has been stable and well controlled.
PATIENT RECORD: EXAMPLE #1
HPI: Nausea and vomiting with abdominal pain for 4 days.
HPI: Nausea and vomiting with dull abdominal pain and
On Sinemet for new onset of Parkinson’s.
decreased P.O. intake for 4 days. On Sinemet for new
onset of Parkinson’s.
PE: WNWD 68 year old male NAD
VS: 130/80 80 98
Imp: Nausea and vomiting due to Sinemet, Parkinson’s, HTN Resp: CTA & P
Plan: Decrease Sinemet to 25/100 1 Tab TID Heart: RRR
Imp: Nausea and vomiting due to Sinemet, Parkinson’s, HTN Continue HTN meds.
Return to office in 2 weeks.
Plan: Decrease Sinemet to 25/100 1 Tab TID D/W Dr. Banks, pt’s neurologistEncourage P.O. Continue HTN meds.
CASE ANALYSIS: LEVEL 2 E/M CODE 99212
History: Problem Focused
In this case, the physician documented the chief complaint The HPI in this example has been extended to include the and 3 HPI elements (location: abdominal; duration: 4 days;
elements of quality (dull) and associated signs and symptoms
and context: nausea and vomiting due to Sinemet). However,
(decreased P.O. intake), in addition to the 3 elements the physician has failed to document the review of systems documented in Example 1 (location, duration and context).
(patient’s denial of a recent history of dizziness, headaches, However, failure to document a review of systems again results seizures, blurry vision or fever). Regardless of the amount of in the history remaining at the problem focused level. Had the documentation in other areas, without a “review of systems” physician documented the patient’s denial of dizziness, the level of history cannot rise above the problem focused level.
headaches, seizures, blurry vision or fever (a review of 3 Had the documentation been complete, the physician could systems), this record would have supported a detailed history.
claim credit for reviewing 3 systems (neurological, eyes and Physical Examination:
1995 Expanded Problem Focused: A limited examination
Physical Examination:
of the affected organ system (gastrointestinal) and 3 other 1995 Problem Focused: Only 1 organ system/body area
related organ systems (constitutional, respiratory, cardiovascu- (gastrointestinal) is documented. Exam was not extended to lar) was documented. This qualifies as an expanded problem include other related organ systems.
focused examination under the 1995 guidelines. 1997 Problem Focused: Only 1 element (palpation of
1997 Expanded Problem Focused: Six elements from the
abdomen) was documented from the general multi-system 1997 general multi-system exam were documented: examination. One to five documented elements from the 1997 constitutional (2), respiratory (2), cardiovascular (1), format is considered a problem focused examination.
gastrointestinal (1). Six to eleven elements are required for anExpanded Problem Focused exam.
Decision Making: Moderate Complexity
Number of diagnoses to consider: Multiple (nausea/vomiting,hypertension, Parkinson’s disease).
Number of diagnoses to consider: Multiple (nausea/vomiting, Risk to patient: Moderate (adverse effects of treatment and hypertension, Parkinson’s disease).
Risk to patient: Moderate (adverse effects of treatment and prescription drug management).
Data to review: None.
In this case, the documentation supports only a Level 2 Commentary:
service. Even though there is decision making of moderate Since only 2 of the 3 key components are needed to validate complexity, the lack of thorough documentation of the other the level of service, the low level history can be eliminated and 2 key components (history and physical examination) prevents the 2 highest components (i.e., expanded problem focused billing at a higher level of service.
examination and moderate medical decision making) can be Note: Had the physician performed and documented a
used to support billing a Level 3 service.
review of just one pertinent body system, the history component would have become Expanded Problem Focused.
With an Expanded Problem Focused history and decision making of moderate complexity, the documentation would havesupported a Level 3 service.
HPI: Nausea and vomiting with dull abdominal pain and decreased P.O.
intake for 4 days. On Sinemet for new onset of Parkinson’s.
ROS: Denies HA, dizziness, sz, blurry vision, fever.
VS: 130/80 80 98Resp: CTA & PHeart: RRRAbd: soft, NT/ND, + BS Imp: Nausea and vomiting due to Sinemet, Parkinson’s, HTN Plan: Decrease Sinemet to 25/100 1 Tab TID D/W Dr. Banks, pt’s neurologistEncourage P.O.
Continue HTN meds.
History: Detailed
This detailed history includes 4 or more HPI elements (location, quality, duration, context, and associated signs and
symptoms); a review of at least 2 systems: neurological (denial of
headache, seizures, blurry vision), constitutional (denial of fever), and
eyes (denial of blurry vision); and 1 pertinent area of past medical, social
or family history (PMFSHx).
The significance of documenting all components of the history (i.e., HPI, ROS and PMFSHx) is illustrated in this example. Thishistory without a ROS would only be problem focused (see Example 2).
1995 Expanded Problem Focused: A limited examination of the
affected organ system (gastrointestinal) and 3 other related organ
systems (constitutional, respiratory, cardiovascular) was documented.
This qualifies as an expanded problem focused examination under the
1995 guidelines.
1997 Expanded Problem Focused: Six elements from the 1997
general multi-system exam were documented: constitutional (2),
respiratory (2), cardiovascular (1), gastrointestinal (1). Six to eleven
elements are required for an Expanded Problem Focused exam.
Number of diagnoses to consider: Multiple (nausea/vomiting,
hypertension, Parkinson’s disease).
Risk to patient: Moderate (adverse effects of treatment and
prescription drug management).
This is an example of a well documented encounter that includes all of the necessary elements to support a detailed history. Since the 2 highest of the 3 key components can be used to support the level ofservice, the exam component can be eliminated. The detailed historyand moderate complexity decision making support billing at Level 4.
Source: http://www.nspo.com/userfiles/file/EMLevelsnarrative.pdf
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Coronavirus: Quarantine restrictions for travellers from Greece
Image caption Travellers re-entering the UK from Greece currently do not have to quarantine
Quarantine restrictions will be imposed on people travelling from Greece to Scotland, the Scottish government has announced.
They will be required to isolate for 14 days if they arrive in Scotland after 04:00 on Thursday.
Ministers said they have taken the move due a “significant rise” in cases of Covid-19 being brought into Scotland from people who have been to Greece.
It has been linked to people returning from the Greek islands.
As a result the country has been being removed from the exemption list on public health grounds.
It is believed prevalence of Covid-19 in Greece currently remains lower than 20 per 100,000 but a number of cases of the virus in Scotland have been traced back to travel to Greece.
They include a passenger who flew to Glasgow from Zante on 23 August.
‘Significant risk’
Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said: “We are in the midst of a global pandemic and the situation in many countries can change suddenly.
“Therefore, people should think very hard before committing to non-essential travel abroad.
“With Scotland’s relatively low infection rate, importation of new cases from Greece is a significant risk to public health.”
Scotland’s chief medical officer Dr Gregor Smith said: “There is a compelling public health risk around importation of the virus, especially given the number of imported cases linked to the Greek islands.
“The flow of travel between Scotland and Greece, and the behaviour we have seen from some of those travellers, means that on public health grounds there is a strong case – supported by public health directors – to remove Greece from the exemption list.”
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Man Utd deal sanctioned, Hart to Chelsea, £34.5m Arsenal plan, Liverpool move backed
Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho has reportedly sanctioned a new deal for Marcus Rashford.
The young forward is currently under contract until 2020 with United having the option of extending for a further year.
And according to The Sun, Mourinho wants the club to activate the extra year now after being convinced by his recent performances and improved focus in training.
Rashford earns £20,000 a week and his current deal sees him earn around £5,000 a week each year.
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Chelsea players are urging Antonio Conte to make a move for Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart if Thibaut Courtois leaves for Real Madrid, according to reports.
The Belgian has reportedly held talks with Real Madrid about a move in the summer.
And The Sun claim some senior players at the club believe Hart would be an ideal replacement if their current No1 turns his back on the Blues.
Hart is currently on loan at Torino after being shown the door by Pep Guardiola in the summer and it looks unlikely he will have a permanent future at the Etihad in the summer.
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Arsenal are reportedly considering a move for Porto's Danilo Pereira.
The talented midfielder is thought to be on Arsene Wenger's radar and the Gunners had scouts present at Porto's 4-2 win over River Ave on Saturday, Portuguese outlet A Bola report.
Should Arsenal make a move for him this month they will have to meet his release clause of £34.5m.
Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard has backed the Reds to sign Virgil van Dijk.
The Southampton defender has been linked with a move to Anfield, as well as Manchester United and Chelsea in recent months.
Saints are adamant he won't be sold but that won't stop Premier league outfits trying to sign him.
Gerrard told BT Sport: "Who I think we need, I would go and try and bid for van Dijk from Southampton.
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Bob Creamer Admits To Daily Calls With The Clinton Campaign And More…
By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
Disgraced Robert Creamer is having even more of his dirty laundry aired by James O’Keefe and Project Veritas. Wonder how his commie wife, Congresswoman and fellow Marxist, Jan Schakowsky, feels about that. It would seem that Creamer was beyond cozy with the Clinton campaign. He has been on daily morning calls with the campaign with his input. He’s also, not surprisingly, worked directly with Obama to organize “issue campaigns.”
Robert Creamer has been a political organizer and strategist for almost four decades. He and his firm, the Strategic Consulting Group, work with many of the country’s most significant issue campaigns. He was one of the major architects and organizers of the successful campaign to defeat the privatization of Social Security. He worked to end the war in Iraq, pass universal healthcare, change America’s budget priorities and enact comprehensive immigration reform. He’s been a very busy little Marxist.
His clients have included labor unions, public interest groups and advocacy organizations like MoveOn.org, Americans United for Change and USAction. He has also worked on hundreds of electoral campaigns at the local, state and national levels.
Now he is best known for getting caught up in a sting by Project Veritas. He also accepted a foreign donation for a Democratic Super PAC for $20,000. Then he returned it once he suspected he was being set up. A little too late, Bob. That donation was from Project Veritas themselves.
Disgraced Democratic operative Robert Creamer participated in daily calls with the Hillary Clinton campaign, and worked directly with President Barack Obama to organize “issue campaigns.”
Creamer makes the admissions in the latest undercover video release from James O’Keefe and Project Veritas, which captured Creamer describing his activities.
O’Keefe also reports that Creamer accepted a foreign donation for a Democratic super PAC.
In this fourth video in the series, “Rigging the Election,” Creamer tells a journalist with Project Veritas that he does indeed work for the Clinton campaign and is in fact in charge of “overseeing” activities at the Trump rallies: “I mean frankly I spend most of my time overseeing the Trump event rallies, I mean that’s what I do for the Clinton campaign.” He has actively choreographed “bird dogging” at Trump’s rallies to gin up violence. He’s also placed infiltrators in Donald Duck costumes at Trump events. So lame. This has been going on for more than a year.
Robby Mook, Clinton’s campaign manager, flat out lied last week and said he never worked with Creamer. But O’Keefe’s videos expose that whopper of a lie.
In this latest video, Creamer details some of his connections: “Every morning I am on a call at 10:30 that goes over the message being driven by the campaign headquarters … I am in this campaign mainly to deal with what earned media with television, radio, with earned media and social media, not with paid media, not with advertising.” Even more damning is a conference call mentioned where they discussed a woman potentially coming forward against Trump to accuse him of inappropriate behavior.
Creamer has known and worked with Obama since the 1980s, during his community organizing days. He goes on to add: “I do a lot of work with the White House on their issues, helping to run issue campaigns that they have been involved in. I mean, for immigration reform for the… the health care bill, for trying to make America more like Britain when it comes to gun violence issues.”
I assume there will be even more videos to come. Creamer has resigned from Americans United for Change over all this and his reputation is now trashed. This is what happens when you make your living scheming against others. Eventually you get caught up in it as well. Fresh out of sympathy for Creamer.
Posted in Authors, Politics, Terresa Monroe-Hamilton | Tagged Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, James O'Keefe, Marxists, Project Veritas, Rigging the Election, Robert Creamer | 2 Comments
Robyn Gabel: Meet Illinois’ Maoist State Representative
By: Trevor Loudon | New Zeal
The voters of Evanston, Illinois are poised to re-elect a veteran Maoist radical as their State Representative.
Robyn Gabel is a long-time resident of Evanston and has represented the people of the 18th District in the Illinois House of Representatives since 2010.
During her time in the legislature, she has been a legislative leader in protecting and fostering the growth of children and women in Illinois and environmental stewardship. Robyn serves as the Chair of the House Human Services Committee, the Vice-Chair of the House Human Services Appropriations Committee, and as a member of the committees on Insurance, Environment, Mass Transit, Business Growth and Incentives, and Museums, Arts and Cultural Enhancements.
In the 1980s, Robyn Gabel was a regular contributor to Unity, the newspaper of the League of Revolutionary Struggle, a militant, pro-China Maoist organization.
Unity, April 11, 1986
Unity December 15, 1986
When the League of Revolutionary Struggle split in 1990, Unity issued a statement: “A call to build an organization for the 1990s and beyond.”
Gabel, then executive director of the Illinois Maternal & Child Health Coalition in Chicago, supported the newly founded Unity Organizing Committee, which was specifically established to infiltrate Maoists into the Democratic Party.
Ivan Handler
Rep. Gabel’s husband Ivan Handler, President at Insightamation, Chicago, is also a “former” Maoist.
In his book, “The Passage: Memoir of a Boston Undercover Cop in the ’60s,” Phillip M. Vitti explained that Ivan Handler was one of the leaders of the radical Weathermen, which was a precursor to the terrorist Weather Underground Organization.
Also a League of Revolutionary Struggle supporter, comrade Handler was active in the 1990s in the Committees of Correspondence, an alliance of former Communist Party USA members, Maoists, Trotskyists and anarchists.
Robyn Gabel, Jan Schakowsky
Robyn Gabel is also close to her local Congresswoman and fellow Marxist, Jan Schakowsky, a long time covert member and supporter of Democratic Socialists of America.
Jan Schakowsky Democratic Socialists of America endorsement, 2011
Schakowsky’s husband, Robert Creamer, yet another old Marxist (New American Movement) has been recently implicated in Democratic Party voter fraud and violence instigation scandals.
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (IL-9) announced on Oct. 10, 2009 that she is endorsing Robyn Gabel in the Democratic primary for the Illinois’ 18th House District. Gabel was running to succeed Rep. Julie Hamos (D-Evanston), who left her seat to run for U.S. Congress in the 10th Congressional District.
“Robyn stands up for what she believes in,” said Rep. Schakowsky. “That is what her history has been about, that is what she has been dedicated to. We know how effective she is in actually getting things done, its not just talk. I know she will be able to hit that ground running, which is what we need in our district.”
Rep. Schakowsky, who was traveling to Afghanistan as part of a Congressional mission, made the remarks via video to a crowded room at Ms. Gabel’s new campaign office – 906 Sherman Ave. The event marked the official kick-off of Ms. Gabel’s campaign for State Representative.
“I am honored and humbled by Congresswoman Schakowksy’s endorsement and support,” said Ms. Gabel. “Our community has had a strong history of progressive leadership in Springfield with Jan Schakowsky and Julie Hamos. I hope to follow in their footsteps by continuing to fight for our children, families and community.”
Communists can always be relied on to stick together, to help each other climb the political ladder. They can also be relied on to keep each other’s secrets.
The good people of Evanston deserve better than to be represented by two covert Marxists.
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Posted in Authors, Politics, Trevor Loudon | Tagged Communists, Democratic Socialists of America, Illinois, Jan Schakowsky, Maoists, Marxists, Politics, Robert Creamer, Robyn Gabel, Trevor Loudon |
Project Veritas Drops ‘Part 3’ of Damning Hillary Investigation – Clinton PERSONALLY INVOLVED [VIDEO]
By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton | Crossposted from Right Wing News
As promised, James O’Keefe of Project Veritas has delivered his third video on leftist corruption: Rigging the Election – Video III: Creamer Confirms Hillary Clinton Involvement. Hillary Clinton has been illegally coordinating between her campaign, the DNC and Americans United for Change. Looks like they weren’t ‘careful’ enough. Hillary Clinton is giving the orders here and it is exposed in this video. Her followers don’t care about the legality or ethics of all this.
Clinton stooges started showing up at Trump events dressed as Donald Duck. Robert Creamer oversaw it. He wanted Donald Ducks in attendance for the debates. It’s a visual meant to communicate that Trump was ducking the issues, I guess. Stupid, I know… but typically leftist. Earlier this year, people wearing Donald Duck costumes started showing up at Donald Trump events all over the country. Brad Woodhouse is the president of Americans United for Change (AUFC) and he worked with Robert Creamer (now resigned), Scott Foval (now fired) and DNC Rapid Response Coordinator Aaron Black to launch their “Donald Ducks” campaign.
From Project Veritas:
Part III of the undercover Project Veritas Action investigation dives further into the back room dealings of Democratic politics. It exposes prohibited communications between Hillary Clinton’s campaign, the DNC and the non-profit organization Americans United for Change. And, it’s all disguised as a duck. In this video, several Project Veritas Action undercover journalists catch Democracy Partners founder directly implicating Hillary Clinton in FEC violations. “In the end, it was the candidate, Hillary Clinton, the future president of the United States, who wanted ducks on the ground,” says Creamer in one of several exchanges. “So, by God, we would get ducks on the ground.” It is made clear that high-level DNC operative Creamer realized that this direct coordination between Democracy Partners and the campaign would be damning when he said: “Don’t repeat that to anybody.” The first video explained the dark secrets and the hidden connections and organizations the Clinton campaign uses to incite violence at Trump rallies. The second video exposed a diabolical step-by-step voter fraud strategy discussed by top Democratic operatives and showed one key operative admitting that the Democrats have been rigging elections for fifty years. This latest video takes this investigation even further.
“Let me tell you something. I think she [Hillary Clinton] has the right instinct on this. This thing is resonating, but that story is not exactly what you want to hear about how presidential decision-making happened,” said Woodhouse. The originator of this lame thing was supposed to be kept secret. Fail.
Federal campaign law experts have said that “the ducks on the ground are likely public communications for purposes of the law. It’s political activity opposing Trump, paid for by Americans United for Change funds but controlled by Clinton and her campaign.” Representatives of Clinton’s campaign held daily conference calls which journalists witnessed with Creamer, AUFC managers and their operatives in attendance. They were talking about where to send the duck and the “duck’s message.” Not only was Hillary’s campaign in on it, but apparently Donna Brazille’s Democratic National Committee was in on it as well. Is there any doubt that Clinton and everyone around her is not only a moron, but corrupt to the core?
Posted in Politics | Tagged DNC, Donna Brazille, Foval, Hillary Clinton, James O'Keefe, Politics, Project Veritas, Robert Creamer | 4 Comments
Left Incites Violence at Trump Rallies – DNC and Clinton Campaign Complicit
Well, this certainly doesn’t surprise me. It would seem, according to James O’Keefe of Project Veritas, that Democrats are using provocateurs to gin up violence at Trump rallies. They want the chaos and anarchy that produces and to make Trump supporters look violent. They used similar tactics against the Tea Party. I’ve heard the term “bird-dogging” before and I would say they are definitely using it to attack the Trump campaign.
Robert Creamer, a blatant Chicago communist and activist, is behind a lot of this. It’s nothing new for him. He’s a convicted felon who came up with the political strategy for Obamacare. And now this. Creamer admits on one video that Clinton is aware of “all” of his work and that Democracy Partners has a daily telephone call with the Clinton campaign to coordinate efforts. That’s pretty damning all by itself.
Democrats have used trained provocateurs to instigate violence at Republican events nationwide throughout the 2016 election cycle, including at several Donald Trump rallies, using a tactic called “bird-dogging,” according to a new video investigation released Monday by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas.
The goal of “bird-dogging”: to create a sense of “anarchy” around Donald Trump that would undermine his political support. Often, the tactic uses the most vulnerable people — including the elderly and disabled — to maximize shock value.
O’Keefe’s extensive video investigation reveals that the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) are involved in “bird-dogging” and other provocative tactics through a web of consultants led by Robert Creamer, a veteran Chicago activist and convicted felon who is thought to have planned Democrats’ political strategy during the push for Obamacare in 2009 and 2010.
Creamer is also the co-founder of Democracy Partners, a consulting group that, according to Project Veritas videos, apparently contracts directly with the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC, and that works with an array of super PACs and consultants to organize, film and publicize their provocations.
The Project Veritas team also snagged hidden camera videos that show one of Creamer’s henchmen, Scott Foval, describing “bird-dogging,” among other tactics, and taking credit for having instigated violence at several Republican events during the 2016 election cycle. If this were you or me, that’s enough to get you arrested right there. But this is the Clinton Machine.
Foval describes Creamer as diabolical and heaps praise on him. Demons of a feather. These people are truly the scum of the earth. Evidently these guys used these tactics on Scott Walker in the primaries. They are infiltrating Trump rallies and planting people to cause fights and riots. So be aware that is happening. They don’t obey the rules because they feel they are above them and winning is the only thing that matters. And the media is in on all of it.
Posted in Authors, Politics, Terresa Monroe-Hamilton | Tagged Democrats, DNC, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, James O'Keefe, Politics, Project Veritas, Robert Creamer, Scott Foval, Violence | 5 Comments
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Nome skiers win four Skimeister titles at WISA events
Nick Treinen
The Nome Ski and Biathlon Team showed unprecedented strength at this year’s Western Interior Ski-Biathlon Association event, sweeping all four Skimeister titles. Mallory Conger, Ben Cross, Clara Hansen and Tobin Hobbs all stood atop Saturday’s final podium, with Hansen’s victory coming in a tie-breaker against Galena’s Shelby Williams.
What Nome held in strength, Galena made up for in depth. The Hawks captured three of the four relay victories, while team titles were split evenly between Galena and Nome.
Famous for its long and storied cross-country ski history, White Mountain was the 2017 host-site for the most important ski race in rural Alaska, the invitation-only WISA championship. The three days of racing began on Thursday with the ski race, followed by Friday’s biathlon and Saturday’s relay. “The races went off without a hitch,” said race host Irving Ashenfelter. “The weather was the very best I’ve ever seen for a meet like this. Great kids, great meet, great camaraderie.”
On Thursday, the high-schoolers skied the Sweetheart Loop, a punishing 5-mile trail with almost 600 feet of elevation gain, while the junior high skiers completed the shorter Outside Loop. White Mountain course marshall Paul Lincoln, a former WISA Skimeister and US National Biathlon Team member, called Sweetheart Loop “comparable to Spencer Loop, one of the most challenging trails in Alaska.”
Friday’s biathlon competition followed a ski-shoot-ski-shoot-ski format, with each athlete taking a total of ten shots using a .22 rifle at 4.5-inch diameter targets from 50 yards. For each missed shot, the racer skied an extra loop around an 80-yard course.
The weekend of racing culminated with Saturday’s two-person relays, which also helped determine overall Team and Skimeister titles.
The races also provided selection criteria for ski, ski-biathlon, and snowshoe-biathlon slots at next year’s Arctic Winter Games, an international multi-sport competition for Arctic athletes.
The 2018 host site is Hay River in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Nome’s Mallory Conger and Ben Cross received nods for the ski-biathlon spots, while Aaron Rose and Tobin Hobbs, also of Nome, were offered spots on the snowshoe-biathlon and skiing teams, respectively. A final Arctic Winter Games nomination went to Galena’s Carlee Merriner (skiing).
In WISA tradition, all 51 racers and nine coaches athletes introduced themselves to the group at the first day’s awards ceremony, naming their parents as well as where they are from. Martin Hadley and Eric Garner of Buckland garnered loud cheers as the very first racers from the Northwest Arctic to compete in the 30-year history of WISA. Keith Conger, WISA’s president, recognized the significance of Buckland’s participation. “This is the beginning of an avalanche,” Conger said. “We want to see racers from the Y-K, from Arctic Slope, more from the Northwest Arctic, we know there are some good skiers out there.”
Next year’s competition is tentatively scheduled for Fairbanks.
The Buckland Sissauŋi skiers found support through the NANANordic/Skiku Travel Scholarship Fund, a newly established award provided to skiers from rural Alaska for travel to events outside their village. Martin Hadley and Eric Garner learned to ski through NANANordic’s outreach programs, which have been operating in the Northwest Arctic region for six years. Outside of the Northwest Arctic region, including in Nome, the organization operates under the name Skiku.
The weekend was a homecoming as well for Hadley, whose grandmother was from White Mountain. On the final day, after the team relays, Martin took the time to visit her final resting place. Although he never met her, Martin said, “She would be proud.”
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Antebellum was originally supposed to come out in the spring and yet it only feels even more relevant today in the wake of months of protests over police brutality, the removal of Confederate monuments, and whether or not black Americans can attain justice in an imperfect system. Antebellum has also been flagged with overly negative reviews and accusations of being just another movie that exploits the horror of slavery for cheap thrills. After having seen the movie, I feel perplexed that so many of my critical brethren could not connect with the film and its finer points on the world we lived in and the world we live in today, inextricably linked.
Eden (Janelle Monae) is an enslaved woman surviving on an eighteenth-century Southern plantation run by Captain Jasper (Jack Huston) and the mistress of the land, Elizabeth (Jena Malone). Then there’s Veronica (Monae) who looks identical to Eden and lives in modern-day. She’s an author and academic speaker on social oppression and politics. How these two women are related, as well as past and present, will be revealed over the course of 100 minutes.
Antebellum is divided almost equally into 30-minute thirds, and it’s the structure that helps to aid in its mystery while also stifling its larger implications. The first third is watching a plantation and the horrors of slavery; however, there are clues that something strange is happening. Little touches, character responses, a tattoo that seems too eerily modern. From there, we jump forward to the next third with what appears to be the same Eden, this time as a featured academic author. From here, if your mind is similar to mine, you’re attempting to bridge this connection and uncover how the past and present have become entwined. Is Veronica experiencing a deeply felt dream? Is it time travel? That was my guess before starting the film based upon the advertisement. I thought it was going to be a story about horrible racists from America’s past kidnapping black Americans to enslave. It’s a sci-fi angle that can make the material feel fresh, as there are more things to say other than the obvious and profound statements that “Slavery was terrible,” and, “It should never be forgotten or mitigated of its horror.” I also think it would serve as a rebuttal to those who ignorantly argue, “It was so long ago, why does it still matter? Get over it.” The past, in that instance, is literally ensnaring the present and forcing citizens to relive generational trauma. It’s that final third where Antebellum reveals what it really has been all along, and it’s a surprise but it also makes sense in the world that its meant to represent, leaning into a contemptible degree of human avarice that reminded me of HBO’s Westworld. It’s a fitting revelation and, as one would expect, the final third charges into an emotional catharsis as we watch Eden/Veronica fight for her freedom at last.
However, and this is a word I can already tell I’m going back to repeatedly to qualify my reservations, once the Big Reveal is known I wish we could have spent far more time dwelling in the implications of what exactly it means. I won’t spoil what exactly that reveal is but it’s definitely something that has plenty of social and political commentary and a reflection of our modern times and the injustices that have only been further highlighted this year. It’s such an interesting angle that I almost wish the filmmakers had re-prioritized their movie. Rather than structuring to best serve a mystery with a Shyamalan-style twist, it could have had its Act Two break be its inciting incident, revealing its twist as the starting point for the real terror. As a viewer, while I enjoyed the mystery and portentous mood of the movie, it presents a potent storytelling avenue that is far more compelling than the first two-thirds, but by then it’s too late. It works as context for the behavior and setting we’ve seen, both past and present, but Antebellum strangely suffers from trying to be too clever when a more straightforward version could have better tapped into its full dramatic and political commentary potential.
I was intrigued early on and came away genuinely impressed with the technical skills of debut writer/directors Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz. The photography is often stunning and that goes for their visual compositions as well as their specific camera movements. The opening scene involves a tracking shot that starts from the front of the plantation facade, and that’s the best word, all prim and proper and beatific in appearance, before swooping behind and into the slave quarters to see the ugly reality behind that illusion. I didn’t feel like the filmmakers were simply using the backdrop of slavery as cheap genre exploitation. I felt their intentions were good. The horror of slavery isn’t downplayed but it’s also not overtly recreated just to add an easy splash of violence or terror. The movie relies more on implications, like Eden sleeping next to the plantation owner every night or an enslaved man finding his wife’s necklace in a charnel house among a scattering of ashes. The implication of the larger horror is there without having to be explicit. I’m reminded of the abrasively negative condemnations of Netflix’s Cuties insofar as people seemed to be missing obvious artistic intent. These are challenging and uncomfortable movies but movies with something to say, and Antebellum is not just a simple rehash of slavery tropes to turn black people’s historical suffering into slapdash slasher pulp.
Monae (Hidden Figures) is strong throughout and continues to build her case as a leading lady. She must register her fear in subtle ways without going into larger histrionics, but she maintains a quiet strength that keeps your eyes glued to the screen. Her time spent in the present, as the author calling out aging racist ideology, is bold and confidant and serves as a counterpoint to the woman we’ve experienced on the plantation. We know that woman is still inside Eden. Monae has a late scene set in slow-motion, with the music swelling, that simultaneously feels badass, uplifting, and like an American Valkyrie blazing against unchecked Confederate revisionism.
Antebellum is better than its reputation and offers more from an artistic standpoint than hitting the same points and rehashing the same traumas of the past. It’s a movie built around its mystery when I feel like it had much more it could have said with restructuring and more time spent after its final explanations. As a mysterious thriller, it’s tasteful, thematically involving, and technically impressive. It doesn’t even use the N-word once, which could be decried by some as unrealistic but also a sign of the filmmakers’ good faith to not merely use a shameful historical legacy for base titillation. It works as a thriller with more on its mind. However, and this is my last usage of that word, it’s that mind I was more intrigued by. Antebellum is a B-movie with A-level ambitions but a story structure that keeps it stuck as a well-polished B-movie.
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Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3697 is to be monitored in order to prevent the spread of public awareness. Any callers are to be detained, interviewed about how they became aware of SCP-3697, and administered amnestics. Any public or online displays of SCP-3697's number are to be erased or monitored.
Description: SCP-3697 is an anomalous toll-free telephone service accessed at the telephone number 1-690-69█-████. Approximately 78% of individuals who call this number connect to a recording of the song "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley, followed by a synthesized voice reading a web address leading to a html file [See Document 3697-1]. When this number is called by certain individuals who display sexually abusive or exploitative behavior1, SCP-3697's anomalous features manifest.
When called by an individual displaying the previously-mentioned profile, SCP-3697 will feature a deep voice with a Brooklyn accent, seemingly taking the role of a telephone operator (SCP-3697-A). SCP-3697-A's speech is highly repetitive and nonresponsive to the caller's speech, indicating that it is an audio recording or other non-sapient construct. SCP-3697-A will begin with a set line of dialogue, with minimal variation [See Test Logs], followed by a unique audio file (SCP-3697-B). The audio files played on SCP-3697 range from 2 seconds to two hours and 38 minutes long, and are typically recordings of nonsexual activities edited to trigger an autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) in the listener. The initial caller, even if they have not previously shown any response to similar audio, will express high levels of pleasure while listening to this audio file. Following the completion of the audio file, a three-second-long tone will play, followed by SCP-3697 hanging up.
After exposure to SCP-3697-B, individuals immediately undergo a number of behavioral changes. The individuals demonstrate a complete absence of libido, as well as any interest in, or enjoyment of, sexual intercourse of any kind. Additionally, they will display increased interest in the activity recorded in SCP-3697-B, and derive pleasure from performing the activity directly. The affected individuals do not show any desire to involve others in this activity, and typically will not be aware that their behavior is changed or unusual unless it is pointed out to them.
Selected Test Logs
Subject: D-4927
Subject Details: D-4927 was originally arrested and charged with attempted sexual assault.
Subject Instructions: N/A
Call Log:
SCP-3697-A: Hello there, how can I help you?
D-4927: Hello?
SCP-3697-A: I think I know what you're looking for. Let me redirect you right now.
D-4927: Excuse me?
[SCP-3697-A does not respond. SCP-3697-B begins.]
SCP-3697-B Instance: Audio of squishing and splashing noises.
Post-Exposure Effects: D-4927 demonstrated the characteristic loss of sexual behavior in psychological tests performed immediately after exposure to SCP-3697-B. Subject displayed a fixation on mud and sewage, and attempted to reach through the drain of the interviewing chamber before being reprimanded. When given a container full of dirt, D-4927 immediately grabbed handfuls and spread it on surrounding surfaces, expressing pleasure.
Notes: Electroencephalographic neural imaging performed on D-4927 has showed that interacting with mud was associated with high activation in regions, including the ventral tegmental area, associated with pleasurable sensations.
Subject Details: D-8726 was originally arrested and charged with possession of child pornography.
Subject Instructions: Attempt to communicate with SCP-3697-A
SCP-3697-A: Hi there, how can I help you?
D-8726: Hi, could you connect me to John Roth-
[D-8726 is cut off by SCP-3697-A.]
D-8726: Could you wait a second?
SCP-3697-B Instance: Audio of what appears to be a human eating an orange.
Post-Exposure Effects: D-8726 demonstrated the characteristic loss of sexual behavior in psychological tests performed immediately after exposure to SCP-3697-B. Subject showed a great interest in the consumption of oranges as well as media depicting the consumption of oranges, and requested access to recording equipment in order to produce their own audio recordings of this activity.
Notes: Five days after testing, D-8726 was taken to the infirmary with severe gastrointestinal distress. D-8726 is estimated to have eaten an average of 23 oranges each day prior to being placed on a controlled diet.
Subject: D-████
Subject Details: D-████ was originally arrested and charged with [REDACTED].
SCP-3697-A: Hi again, how can I help you?
D-████: What?
SCP-3697-A: Oh, sorry about that. I think I know what you're looking for. Let me redirect you right now.
[SCP-3697-B begins.]
SCP-3697-B Instance: A recording of the song "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley, followed by a synthesized voice reading a web address leading to Document 3697-1. When finished, SCP-3697-A's voice speaks the line "See you later. Congratulations on not being a pervert."
Post-Exposure Effects: D-████ demonstrated no changes in behavior.
Notes: Since testing, D-████ has successfully appealed their previous charges. In accordance with ethical regulations, their personal information and legal history has been sealed, and they have been transferred to a more appropriate project.
Document 3697-1
The html file found through SCP-3697 was removed by the Foundation after SCP-3697's discovery, and previously contained the following text:
Holy Heck! You just missed Mr. Sex Number by Gamers Against Weed! Should you bother calling back later? Who is Dr. Wondertainment?
Find them all and become Mr. Gamer!
01. Mr. Literal Serial Killer
02. Mr. Normie
03. Mr. Bernie Sanders
04. Mr. Get Anything For Free In Any Shop
20. Mr. Sex Number ✔
21. Mr. Heavenly Virtues
22. Mr. Deadly Sins
23. Mr. Original Character
24. Mr. D.A.R.E.
25. Mrs. Gentrification
26. Ms. Mad About Video Games
27. Mr. Meme
28. Mr. Ominous (discontinued)
29. Mr. Destiny
30. Mr. Monty Python And The Holy Grail
31. Ms. Zapatista
32. Mr. Hax
33. Mr. Just Has The Tattoo
34. Mr. Top Text and Mr. Bottom Text
35. Mr. Finale
1. This includes indviduals who have no public records or evidence of sexual misconduct.
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The Gold Price Closed Down $2 at $1,183
17-Nov-14 Price Change % Change
Gold Price, $/oz 1,183.00 -2.00 -0.17%
Dow 17,647.75 13.00 0.07%
Dow in SILVER oz 1,099.34 18.12 1.68%
5 Year Gold Price Chart
5 Year Silver Price Chart
By the time Comex closed the GOLD PRICE held on to all but $2.00 (0.17%) for a $1,183.00 close. The silver price had given back 25.7 cents (1.58%) to roost at $16.05.
Not a thing in the world's hurt. After that big leap Friday both were entitled and likely to rest and back up a little today. The gold price bumped up into and past its 20 DMA (1189.75) but didn't stay there. Gold is headed much higher -- much. Still, we have to see how it behaves at $1,255, the last high. All indicators also point to higher prices.
The SILVER PRICE behaved like gold, briefly piercing the 20 DMA at $16.33.
So far, so good. Silver must not drop below $15.70, and the GOLD PRICE must hold $1,180. Long as they stay above that, should be fine. Should also advance tomorrow.
So Japan went into recession today. Right, just like that. Last night everybody went to bed in Tokyo and things were just a blowin' and a goin', but this morning they woke up to recession.
I am just ill-mannered enough to bring up the past. I remember when Shinzo Abe took office in December 2012 with Abenomics, a new dog that was only the old dog with a haircut: Inflation will fix us. Daddurn! Abe must not have done enough inflatin', cause it ain't worked here two years down the road.
Y'all don't reckon anybody in the US Fed will notice that, do you?
On top of that, ECB head Criminal Mario Draghi revved up his lips again today to threaten to threaten to threaten to do something if the Euro economy doesn't straighten up and fly right. If he were a parent, he'd be raising a serial killer.
That scabrous old opportunist, the US dollar index, took its chance to rise 43 basis points or 0.49%. That nixed Friday's first half of a key reversal by posting a higher close today, but remained far enough from its Friday intraday high that it still looks as if it has turned down. Path of least resistance is d-o-w-n.
If Abe has accomplished nothing else, he has managed to gut the yen's value, taking it from about 120 cents/Y100 to 85.77 today, a 28.5% loss in 2 years. But that's what he aimed to do, depreciate the yen, since he is engaged in a currency war. But then, most of the world is, smiling and acting as if everything is okay while trying as hard as they can to depreciate their own currencies which they believe makes them more competitive. It's a replay of the 1930s.
Euro lost almost all the ground it made Thursday and Friday, which is probably why Draghi unlimbered his tongue. Lost 0.62% to $1.2450, Durn! He's almost as effective as one of them Komodo lizards!
Stocks are still bumping up along resistance, eking out a new high by Angstrom units. It was the S&P500's turn for a new high today, up -- get ready, its AHH-mazing -- 1.5 or 0.07% to 2,041.32. In a like tiny range, the down also added 0.07% (lucky 7, or 13.01 points) to end at 17,647.75.
Y'all think this is pure-dee old braggadocio, don't you? 'Tain't. It's experience. Y'all go look at that August 2011 gold chart; you'll see the same sort of action. But shucks! Don't y'all believe me. I ain't nothin' mor'n no nat'ral born durn fool from Tennessee, and don't none of us here in Tennessee know an eighth what them smart fellers in Warshington and New Yark know.
Both the Dow in Gold and Dow in silver have broken their uptrends like Humpty-Dumpty, beyond repair. Dow in Silver closed $1,421.02 silver dollars (1.099.07 troy ounces), up 1.62% at the day's end. Shall I inventory the downward pointing indicators? Sure -- all of 'em. All. That was quick.
I'll tell y'all, eating crow for months on end leaves an mean edge on ya -- not to mention pinfeathers betwixt your teeth.
Dow in gold rose 0.18 to G$307.39 gold dollars (14.87 troy ounces). Y'all can just ditto that indicator inventory for the Dow in silver.
Y'all just remember that old pendulum principle: when a market swings too far one way, it's bound to swing back th'other way too far.
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[Artigo] O impacto da redução da cobertura do Programa Bolsa Família e da Estratégia da Saúde da Família no aumento da morbimortalidade das crianças no Brasil
23 maio 2018 Comunicacao
Child morbidity and mortality associated with alternative policy responses to the economic crisis in Brazil: A nationwide microsimulation study
Davide Rasella ,
Sanjay Basu,
Thomas Hone,
Romulo Paes-Sousa,
Carlos Octávio Ocké-Reis,
Christopher Millett
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002570
Since 2015, a major economic crisis in Brazil has led to increasing poverty and the implementation of long-term fiscal austerity measures that will substantially reduce expenditure on social welfare programmes as a percentage of the country’s GDP over the next 20 years. The Bolsa Família Programme (BFP)—one of the largest conditional cash transfer programmes in the world—and the nationwide primary healthcare strategy (Estratégia Saúde da Família [ESF]) are affected by fiscal austerity, despite being among the policy interventions with the strongest estimated impact on child mortality in the country. We investigated how reduced coverage of the BFP and ESF—compared to an alternative scenario where the level of social protection under these programmes is maintained—may affect the under-five mortality rate (U5MR) and socioeconomic inequalities in child health in the country until 2030, the end date of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Methods and findings
We developed and validated a microsimulation model, creating a synthetic cohort of all 5,507 Brazilian municipalities for the period 2017–2030. This model was based on the longitudinal dataset and effect estimates from a previously published study that evaluated the effects of poverty, the BFP, and the ESF on child health. We forecast the economic crisis and the effect of reductions in BFP and ESF coverage due to current fiscal austerity on the U5MR, and compared this scenario with a scenario where these programmes maintain the levels of social protection by increasing or decreasing with the size of Brazil’s vulnerable populations (policy response scenarios). We used fixed effects multivariate regression models including BFP and ESF coverage and accounting for secular trends, demographic and socioeconomic changes, and programme duration effects. With the maintenance of the levels of social protection provided by the BFP and ESF, in the most likely economic crisis scenario the U5MR is expected to be 8.57% (95% CI: 6.88%–10.24%) lower in 2030 than under fiscal austerity—a cumulative 19,732 (95% CI: 10,207–29,285) averted under-five deaths between 2017 and 2030. U5MRs from diarrhoea, malnutrition, and lower respiratory tract infections are projected to be 39.3% (95% CI: 36.9%–41.8%), 35.8% (95% CI: 31.5%–39.9%), and 8.5% (95% CI: 4.1%–12.0%) lower, respectively, in 2030 under the maintenance of BFP and ESF coverage, with 123,549 fewer under-five hospitalisations from all causes over the study period. Reduced coverage of the BFP and ESF will also disproportionately affect U5MR in the most vulnerable areas, with the U5MR in the poorest quintile of municipalities expected to be 11.0% (95% CI: 8.0%–13.8%) lower in 2030 under the maintenance of BFP and ESF levels of social protection than under fiscal austerity, compared to no difference in the richest quintile. Declines in health inequalities over the last decade will also stop under a fiscal austerity scenario: the U5MR concentration index is expected to remain stable over the period 2017–2030, compared to a 13.3% (95% CI: 5.6%–21.8%) reduction under the maintenance of BFP and ESF levels of protection. Limitations of our analysis are the ecological nature of the study, uncertainty around future macroeconomic scenarios, and potential changes in other factors affecting child health. A wide range of sensitivity analyses were conducted to minimise these limitations.
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Debasing the CJ post
Written by Herman Tiu Laurel
From the noisy media circus atmospherics the past two weeks surrounding the scramble of Cabinet-member wannabes and outsiders for the Judiciary’s top post, to the buzz on whether or not these nominees’ Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) interviews should be televised, down to the paparazzi fervor with which these prospective candidates are being introduced to the public, all efforts in finding a replacement for ousted Chief Justice (CJ) Renato Corona ultimately bring up one question: Isn’t this a debasement, a trivialization, of what in the past was considered a rarefied post, along with the essential attributes of detachment and transcendence that the candidates — not just for the Supreme Court (SC) but for the Judiciary as a whole — are supposed to possess?
Thus, it was with a sense of disbelief that I witnessed the likes of the country’s chief tax collector showing off her wares in a cable news interview and of law deans and professors parading themselves to catch media attention, like in a burlesque show. It really is a sad spectacle; and sadder still when you think of how low it speaks of the ruling powers’ regard for the Judiciary.
One CJ qualification raised by Malacañang spokesman Edwin Lacierda, in obvious support of 51-year-old Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Chief Kim Henares, was on the matter of age. He told Palace reporters that since “age is not a factor,” a CJ candidate does not have to be old. What did he mean by that?
First of all, being 40 is not necessarily “young” to the younger set. Despite that, 50 can now be the “new 40” and 60 the “new 50.” Moreover, someone who is 60 can even conceivably be 40 in many respects since it is now widely believed that the mind determines the age. Therefore, someone at age 51 who is crabby, myopic, tyrannical and oppressive can really be an 81-year-old Mubarak in mental state. Got that, Lacierda?
Well, perhaps to buttress his argument, Lacierda also cited the case of US Federal Supreme Court CJ John Roberts, who, upon assuming his post at age 50, serves as an example of a young person appointed to the zenith of the Judiciary. What he failed to note, however, was whether or not this young appointee indeed had a sterling record of public service to begin with.
Objections were already raised about Roberts’ pro-right, anti-abortion leanings that allegedly triggered some violence by extremist groups prior to his appointment. Then, in his five years at the helm, a number of major, yet unsettling, changes came about under his leadership, which led retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor to lament, among other things, Roberts’ reversal of her major contribution to US jurisprudence of imposing spending limits on political campaigns.
So besides the 40-year-old age requirement for Philippine CJs, should there be any room for petty ageism? Moreover, given the importance of the CJ’s position, have we ever had any in-depth, ideological, or jurisprudential discussion on issues relating to the CJ’s appointment?
Sadly, it has always been the case of the Chief Executive and his spokesmen, the Legislature, and the media being at the forefront of providing leading, albeit shallow and mediocre, questions in whatever discussions, with politicians, media, relatives, friends of JBC members, or law fraternities holding sway on a personal or parochial basis.
Such a debased (or debasing) process of naming, vetting and appointing the next CJ clearly creates worse conditions for any nominee, as he will no longer be unaffected; will likely feel obliged to respond to private and public parties to which he may feel indebted; or will fear chastisement if he displeases one or the other source of support for his appointment.
We must therefore take a second look at the serendipitous findings of lawyers Alan Paguia and Homobono Adaza in reviewing Article VIII Section 9 on the Judiciary: That there is no constitutional basis for the nomination by the JBC and the President’s appointment of the CJ.
Given the fundamental principles upon which our nation’s democratic system is supposedly founded (namely, the separation-of-powers, checks-and-balances, the independence of the Judiciary) and taking heed of the caveat from an old adage that says “Absolute power corrupts absolutely,” we must end the practice of appointing a CJ from outside the SC once and for all in order to enhance the high court’s independence and detachment and for it to focus purely on the interpretation and execution of the Constitution and all its laws.
It is for this reason that Paguia, Adaza, Jojo Borja, myself, and several others will be filing a petition before the SC this Thursday on the issue.
Our thanks thus go to citizens Ric Palompon of Manila, Editha of Batangas, Bonifacio from the South, Romeo Lopez, Olive of Bulacan, Mrs. Villanueva of Mandaluyong, Mrs. Borja of Iligan, and Glen of QC for sending in donations for the filing fee and photocopying. To the few donors who have not sent in their names, we wish to thank them as well. Because of your generosity, I believe we will have enough by the date of filing. Mabuhay to all the conscientious and pro-active citizens who are continuing to support our cause!
(Tune in to 1098AM, dwAD, Sulo ng Pilipino/Radyo OpinYon, Monday-Wednesday-Friday, 5 to 6 p.m.; watch Destiny Cable GNN’s HTL edition of Talk News TV, Saturdays, 8:15 to 9 p.m., with replay at 11:15 p.m.; visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com for our articles plus TV and radio archives).
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‘US anti-terrorism policy violates human rights’ – Jimmy Carter
Former US president Jimmy Carter has criticized America’s actions against terrorism, saying that drones attacks and targeted assassination of suspicious people are undermining America’s “role as the global champion of human rights.”
In his critical article "A Cruel and Unusual Record" published in the New York Times, Jimmy Carter said that with all the revolutions sweeping around the world, America should “make the world safer.” Instead, however, “America’s violation of international human rights abets our enemies and alienates our friends,” he argues.
US’s government counterterrorism policies, Carter says, are now clearly violating at least 10 of the 30 articles written in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/carter-article-us-drones-677/
Turkey's downed jet: NATO action in disguise?
Turkey is pushing NATO to regard Syria's recent downing of a Turkish jet as an attack on the alliance. NATO is gathering to discuss the incident, while some see parallels with the events that preceded NATO’s campaign in Libya.
Turkey insists that its unarmed RF-4E reconnaissance jet was shot down in international airspace on Friday while testing a domestic radar system. The country’s Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc also said Monday that Syrian forces had opened ground fire on a search and rescue plane shortly after the first jet was downed.
Turkey has also requested that NATO hold a meeting under Article 4 of the alliance's treaty, which allows a NATO member to request a consultation if it feels a threat to its territorial integrity or security. The meeting is due to take place on Tuesday. The alliance will consider classifying the Friday incident as an armed attack under Article 5, which states that an attack against one NATO member shall be considered an attack against all NATO members..... MORE
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547,000 victims
Written by Jonathan de la Cruz
To learned obser-vers, it is not so much the news that the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has shifted $1 biliion of its $77 billion reserves from bonds or other financial instruments lodged with its accredited fund managers to an interest bearing account called the “firewall fund” administered by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that is the problem. That shift, not a lending, is not really as gross and threatening as some sectors would like the public to believe. It is in fact a prudent and, yes, a beneficial move as part of our commitment to the stability of global financial markets. Rather, it is the report that the BSP has presided over the collapse of 41 banks in the last 18 months alone putting the monies of 547,000 depositors in extreme jeopardy, which has raised alarm bells in these parts.
Coming as it did with the 49th anniversary of the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. (PDIC) and the celebration of “Depositor Protection Week,” this piece of bad news has really sent shudders down the spine of millions of depositors whose hard-earned monies may just be lost in a jiffy resulting from what some observers have described as a disturbing trend of laxity in the BSP’s examination and supervisory functions as well as the inchoate if not conflicting rules and issuances made by it and its twin banking regulatory agency, the PDIC.
The unprecedented bank closures of more than two banks per month has prompted LPGMA party-list Rep. Arnel Ty to push a congressional inquiry on the reasons behind these closures and their impact on the communities and sectors they serve and the economy as a whole..... MORE
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Small lady at LTO strikes again
Written by Jacinto ‘Jing’ Paras
Sunday, 24 June 2012 00:00
The BS Aquino administration seems so fond of small ladies, whether fictitious or real. One such small lady was mentioned during the impeachment trial where a congressman alleged that some documents were handed to him by a small lady.
Another is a mysterious small lady who left some documents at the gate of another congressman in his Loyola Heights home. Now another small lady that figured out in a very high profile controversy is the small lady of the Land Transportation Office (LTO), and mind you, this small lady is not fictitious, she is for real and she’s got big plans but most have gained notoriety in our current day to day life. She’s none other than the best friend and shooting buddy of his Excellency BS Aquino, Ms. Virginia Torres.
Charlie Manalo of the Tribune called her, the most controversial official. If we recall, Ms Torres got involved in illegall and forcible takeover the facilities of Stradcom, a company owned by Mr. Cesar Quiambao. Torres tried to help the Sumbilla group, a group claiming ownership of Stradcom to forcibly open the offices of Quiambao’s Stradcom and entered its premises aided by LTO security forces. For this notorious act, Department of Justice (DoJ) Secretary Leila de Lima recommended the filing of both administrative and criminal cases and dismissal of Torres from government service..... MORE
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One dead as Chinese ship sinks RP boat near shoal
Written by Mario J. Mallari
FISHING CRAFT’S CAPTAIN SAYS ATTACK INTENTIONAL
The first physical encounter between Chinese and Philippine vessels amid a tense naval standoff over conflicting territorial claims of both countries happened last June 18, or a day after President Aquino ordered the pullout of Philippine ships from the disputed Scarborough Shoal, in an incident where a Chinese vessel rammed a local fishing boat near the shoal, killing one and leaving four others missing.
Office of Civil Defense chief Benito Ramos described the ramming as accidental but Posio Balmores, captain of the motorized fishing boat AXL John, said their seacraft was intentionally bumped.
Ramos, nevertheless, admitted that the suspected Chinese vessel did not stop to help the Filipino fishermen as seafaring protocol calls, raising suspicion that the incident was not accidental.
“It (foreign vessel) did not (stop) that’s why we are doubtful if it was accidental then they should have helped them (Filipino fishermen). They were recovered two days after by fellow Filipino fishermen,” Ramos said..... MORE
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Carpio accuser produces witness to SC cover-up in Urban Bank case
Written by Benjamin B. Pulta
A lawyer, who was disbarred after accusing Supreme Court (SC) Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio of improprieties in handling a case involving the now defunct Urban Bank, has produced a key witness to back up his claim that there had been a cover-up.
The witness, former SC stenographer Fe Malou Castelo, who took notes of important proceedings in the high court for nine years lashed out at justices of the tribunal who, according to
her, erred in ordering the disbarment of the lawyer on “inadequate and insufficient” grounds.
In an affidavit dated May 25, 2012, Castelo, who was SC stenographer from 1997 to 2006, also backed claims by Magdaleno Peña that there was a “cover-up” in the complaints he filed against some justices and that the documents he submitted pertaining to an allegedly forged resolution issued in November 2002 by then First Division member Associate Justice Antonio Carpio were authentic.
“Throughout my tenure as a stenographer with the SC, I have never experienced an instance wherein any justice or division, or the en banc for that matter, changed the actions taken and agreed upon during the deliberations, without having the particular case called again,” Castelo said..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/headlines/item/695-carpio-accuser-produces-witness-to-sc-cover-up-in-urban-bank-case
POEA blacklists 2 US recruitment firms
Written by Mina Diaz
Two US-based employment agencies were blacklisted by the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) for deceiving 24 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who were promised jobs in hotels in Florida but were forced to work as farmers in Mississippi.
The POEA cancelled the recruitment license of US Opportunities and Royal Hospitality Services and the ZDrive Inc., both US-based employment services companies, for their failure to provide Filipino workers the jobs specified in their contracts.
POEA Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac also ordered the exclusion of two US-based companies from participating in the government’s overseas employment program for contractual violation under the POEA Rules and Regulations Governing the Recruitment and Employment of Land-based Overseas Workers..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/nation/item/691-poea-blacklists-2-us-recruitment-firms
RP ranked 6th by WB in gender equality
Written by Fernan J. Angeles
President Aquino appears bent on naming more women to key positions in the Executive Department or the Judiciary where a selection process for the position of Chief Justice is in progress.
At a radio press briefing, deputy presidential spokesman Abigail Valte said the Aquino administration remained committed to the promotion of equality between men and women even as the Palace aide welcomed results of a World Bank (WB) study showing the Philippines ranking sixth out of 129 countries in gender equality..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/nation/item/692-rp-ranked-6th-by-wb-in-gender-equality
Alcala urges Finance chief to discipline Customs boss
Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala is calling on Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima to ask Customs Commissioner Rufino Biazon to make good on measures needed to curb smuggling of imported meats that erode the local industries of pork, poultry and other agricultural crops.
In a letter to Purisima dated June 13, Alcala followed up on the series of letter-requests he had made since April 10, asking among other things that the Bureau of Customs (BoC) provide the Department of Agriculture quarantine personnel with the Inward Foreign Manifest (IFM) “unfiltered on a real time basis.”
Alcala also asked Purisima on the status of BoC’s implementation on reference prices that he wanted imposed on imports starting May 11, 2012..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/index.php/metro-section/item/677-alcala-urges-finance-chief-to-discipline-customs-boss
Pasig PNP plan to release reporter’s assailant foiled
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Plans of the Pasig City police to release “at cost” an arrested suspect believed to be one of the three assailants behind the slay try on The Daily Tribune reporter Fernan Angeles last March, was foiled when the journalist himself showed up at the Pasig PNP station to verify a text message saying the local drug ring’s designated hitman had just been picked up.
Angeles, who sustained permanent physical disabilities resulting from an ambush that saw him peppered with six bullets, assailed the anti-drug operatives of the Pasig PNP.
Angeles, who has resumed covering Malacañang Palace for The Tribune, recounted having seen how the Pasig PNP’s anti-drug operatives even accorded privilege to the suspect, one alias Junior Praning, who was allowed to use the mobile phone of an anti-drug police officer so he could contact anybody who could “bail him out instantly.”.... MORE
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The Abbey Residents Association
The Latest PACT meeting
The Abbey and Kingsmead PACT Meeting took place on Wednesday 4th November 2009 at The Guildhall, Bath. The following priorities were agreed at that meeting:
• Commercial food waste left out in plastic bags.
• Parking on the pavement.
• Coach parking in the City Centre.
The panel will work towards resolving these issues and will report back at the next PACT meeting scheduled for 6.30pm on Wednesday 27th January 2010 at The Guildhall, Bath.
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Bath Night Watch
On October 21st City Centre Manager Andrew Cooper and his Night Time Economy Officer Jodie Smith launched the Bath Night Watch scheme at O’Neill’s, a converted Methodist chapel in Saw Close. The scheme, which has been months in preparation, offers Bath licensees a package of measures aimed at improving information sharing and communications between licensees, the police and Council officials in an effort to reduce night time rowdyness and petty crime in the city centre. Subscribing licensees, who will pay an average of about £1000 a year and could include pubs, clubs, restaurants, hotels and even supermarkets, will benefit from an enhanced, integrated radio network which links licensed premises to each other, to the police, street marshals and CCTV controllers in the basement of the Guildhall so that information can be instantly exchanged on street incidents and the movements of known troublemakers. In addition, the number of street and taxi marshals patrolling the city centre will be increased and promotional material such as window stickers and beer mats will be made available to subscribers.
Late night alcohol-fuelled anti social behaviour has long been high on the list of concerns of city centre residents. Among measures which TARA has consistently pressed on Council and police officials over the past few years has been better co-ordination among those responsible for the management of the night time economy and the need to agree common standards for licensees wishing to do business in Bath. City centre residents will therefore welcome the arrival of an organisation which has the potential to replace the defunct Bath Bar Charter Group and the inactive Licensing Forum as a body capable of raising the standards of night life in Bath to the level we all expect.
There are certainly concerns, however. Though it was good to see that some 40 licensees attended the launch at O’Neill’s it was far from clear how much support there is in the city centre for Night Watch, particularly among the larger supermarkets and pub chains. Without broad support the pioneers among Bath’s licensees who have loyally and consistently supported such initiatives in the past will, yet again, feel that their larger and more powerful competitors who are immune to peer pressure are getting a free ride at their expense. It is equally unclear at this stage how Night Watch is to be managed and whether city centre residents will consulted or involved. Without resident participation there is a danger that, even it is successful, the Night Watch scheme will fail to address the issues that can make weekend nights in Bath city centre an ordeal for both residents and visitors: the noisy crowds outside night clubs in the early hours of the morning, the shouting, shrieking and brawling and the fast food litter, vomit, urine and broken windows that are all too often revealed at dawn.
Street Cleanliness in Bath
On October 5th Councillor Charles Gerrish (Customer Services) gave a meeting of the Bath City Liaison Forum details of proposed improvements in the city’s street cleansing and
litter removal programme. These included
• An additional one-off contribution to the budget of £54,000.
• New street cleansing vehicles which should help to release staff time for street cleaning. These include 3 Brava cleansing machines aimed at clearing cigarette butts, etc, 2 new street washer/sweeper vehicles, 2 new vehicles for litter bin collection, 2 ‘walk and work’ mobile platforms and a Dimax Odormaster to combat the effects of public urination and vomiting.
• The relocation of staff and equipment to local depots to increase efficiency. Avon Street in being considered and talks are in hand with the Southgate and Podium shopping centres.
• New uniforms under private sponsorship.
• Dedicated and identifiable area teams.
• Route optimization.
• Trial in the Southgate centre of Magicote, a product that helps in the cleansing of street surfaces.
• A public education campaign.
• Improved enforcement especially against restaurants.
• A joint study with Bristol and Bath to co-ordinate approaches to the gull menace.
Residents, including TARA members, who contributed hours of their time to the work of the Task and Finish Group, set up earlier in the year by the Forum to advise the Council
on ways of improving the cleanliness of our streets, can hardly complain that no notice is being taken of their ideas and proposals. Nevertheless, with no apparent increase
in the regular city budget for street cleansing, currently about average for cities across the nation, it is hard to see how these measures on their own will meet the Forum’s
avowed aspiration and number one priority, to make Bath the cleanest city in the nation. City centre residents should remain vigilant and report litter and cleanliness
problems immediately to Council Connect 01225 394041.
Founded in 2000 the Abbey Residents Association has about three hundred members and seeks to improve conditions for those living in the centre of the beautiful city of Bath. For more information visit our web site: www.tarabath.org
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The PEPRS project, jointly led by EDINA with the ISSN International Centre, was funded to develop a registry service to provide easily accessible information about inclusion of journals in preservation services. Funding for the project was provided by the JISC until July 2012 (extended until September 2012).
In Phase 1 of the Project (August 2008 – July 2010) a demonstrator registry was created. The demonstrator was shown to a number of potential users and feedback was obtained. From that user feedback, in Phase 2 (August 2010 – July 2012, extended to September 2012) a Beta service was developed and launched in April 2011.
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Activity to establish a registry has been ongoing for several years. In 2008, JISC published a report entitled: “Scoping study for a registry of electronic journals that indicates where they are archived” 1. The authors of the report interviewed a range of stakeholders including representatives from national and university libraries, publishers and archiving organizations, recommending that a registry be established.
Phase 1 of the PEPRS project ran from August 2008 until July 2010, during which detailed user requirements were gathered from librarians and preservation agencies, and a prototype system based on these was developed.
Phase 2 of PEPRS has now been funded from August 2010 to July 2012 (extended to September 2012) to develop the prototype into a service level implementation.
Our goal has been to provide librarians and policy makers with information on provision for continuing access all scholarly work published in e-journals. We aimed to provide an authoritative, low-cost and up-to-date online facility that lets a range of stakeholders check the archival provision for e-journals and to identify the gaps in such provision.
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There is general consensus that digital preservation is important and several schemes and organisations are now emerging. But there has been no systematic source of information about who is doing what for each e-journal: preservation arrangements, policies and access arrangements.
The beta service brought together information about journals and their preservation situation, providing easily accessible information about preservation arrangements and highlighting those e-journals for which no preservation arrangements exist. This service will be of benefit to policy makers, librarians and publishers, and by implication to researchers.
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SWORD: History of SHIELD’s Little Sibling, What They Do and Their Part in WandaVision
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Standing for Sentient World Observation and Response Department, SWORD is an autonomous subdivision of the more well known SHIELD. Their first appearance coming in Astonishing X-Men: Vol 3 #6, here are some things you need to know before they show up in the much anticipated Disney Plus series.
1. History & Purpose
Yes, both SWORD and SHIELD monitor threats on Earth. The only difference is SWORD deals with threats that are more Extraterrestrial, whereas SHIELD is strictly domestic. SWORD also formed after the departure of Nick Fury from SHIELD. After that, tensions began to form.
Also monitoring counter terrorism and intelligence measures, SWORD is a bit more secretive as well. Representing the Earth’s galactic diplomacy, they obviously deal with a lot of threats that want to take out the Earth. So morality is low on their list, and they tend to go in the pragmatic direction. SWORD and SHIELD are so vastly different that when compared, SWORD was said to have made SHIELD look like Boy Scouts.
With the possibility that SWORD made a potential appearance at the end of Spider-Man: Far From Home, it wasn’t that far behind that they would be making another appearance in the Marvel Universe.
2. Impact On WandaVision
The first and most obvious reason for SWORD being around is to monitor the aftermath of Avengers: Endgame. A big purple guy comes to Earth with the intent of ruling it and all of it’s inhabitant? Definitely seem like a big galactic terrorism problem looking back. All agents involved will want to make sure an invasion that size never happens again.
Having mentioned that, seeing that WandaVision will also tie in with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, SWORD may eventually end up paying a visit to Stephen Strange as well. His cosmic powers did help the Avengers beat Thanos, and his powers are at the point where they can warp reality. That would put the organization on high alert to make sure Strange didn’t go overboard changing too much after Endgame.
Though, their biggest threat is Wanda herself. Fans saw her power against Thanos in Endgame, even in Infinity War, Wanda is one of the strongest Avengers. For all fans know, SWORD may have even been monitoring her power during the events of Captain America: Civil War where she tried to stop an explosion, killing Crossbones in the process. What with dealing with the loss of Vision still, Wanda is definitely is not in a stable mindset. Creating an alternate reality for her to cope could definitely set off SWORD’s warning signal. And as is starts to fail, with Wanda realizing she’s losing her mind, SWORD could be her only hope in stopping her from creating a House of M scenario, killing people and heroes alike.
3. New Recruits
From L to R: Monica Rambeau, Jimmy Woo, Darcy Lewis, Professor Erik Selvig
Set photos have revealed that SWORD definitely is making an appearance on WandaVision. And with the cast being revealed at last year’s D23, we know who is already a part of SWORD, who has potentially been recruited by the organization, and who could be a SWORD liason.
Monica Rambeau, who we last saw in Captain Marvel, is all grown up now and probably one of SWORD’s top Agents. There is still not a lot know about what her character’s purpose is, but one guess could be that she was assigned as Wanda’s handler. Cased to check in on her every now and again. That being said, there’s potential that Monica could also get her own respective superpowers and help Wanda fight against SWORD.
Another familiar face from the MCU making an appearance in the show is Jimmy Woo, who was last seen in Ant-Man and the Wasp. A former SHIELD Agent, he ended up working for the FBI. However, his excellent credentials could potentially get recruited by the organization and have him end up being partners with Monica to help monitor Wanda.
A face we haven’t seen since the Thor movies is Darcy Lewis. Her part is still a mystery in the series, though a guess could be that seeing that her forte was Political Science, Darcy’s part with SWORD could be Public Relations: making the organization look good, or and Intelligence Analyst: monitoring the threats to the Earth and presenting them to Monica and Jimmy.
Doctor Erik Selvig is the wild card in this because at the end of Avengers: Endgame, he was one of the many brought back when the Avengers found all of the Infinity Stones to undo The Snap. His documentary NOVA: Rosen Bridges with Erik Selvig was an Easter Egg in Spider-Man: Far From Home. If anyone knows anything about Space and Extraterrestrial events, it would be him. His expertise could lead to him being recruited as SWORDS special consultant, but time will tell.
4. Other Character Appearances
In the comics, SWORD has a plethora of potential characters that could make an appearance on WandaVision that could either help or hinder the already known players on the show.
The most recognized and notable is Abigail Brand, Lt. Commander of Alpha Flight, and a mutant, just like Wanda. With the ability to harness blue flames and speak alien languages, SWORD could be completely blind to these facts; which could allow Abigail to bend the rules for Wanda, should she be taken into custody. This could lead these two to becoming friends, and Wanda gaining an ally should the worst happen.
One of SWORD’s scientists that could be brought onto the show is Dr. Kavita Rao. Her character might be the answer to stopping Wanda from causing the House of M event by creating a mutant “cure”. This cure would take away Wanda’s powers so she wouldn’t hurt herself as well as other people. Though, fans that know Wanda’s character development from the movies as well as that comics, taking a cure might not sit well with her.
A potential villain Wanda could go up against with SWORD is Ord of the Breakworld . SWORD at first offers him a diplomatic deal to eradicate the mutant gene while the organization would look for the mutant that was responsible for his home planet’s destruction. Unbeknownst to them, Ord would actually want to completely get rid off all mutant kind. It would be up to Wanda, Monica and the others to stop him.
Someone else Wanda and SWORD could team up against is its Co-Director, Henry Peter Gyrich. One would think being a Director of an organization that works with heroes, that said person would help those heroes. Nope Gyrich kidnaps several notable heroes that protect space to send them home where they belong. It would be up to Wanda to not only stop him, but with Monica’s help, prevent the other heroes from behind sent back to their homes.
5. The Future of SWORD
With the organization only making two official appearances, the future of SWORD is uncertain. One potential possibility could be that with the success of WandaVision, it could piggy back off its successor, and get it’s own Disney Plus series. With the right person at the helm and good writers, it would be a good addition to the Marvel collection.
In the comics, SWORD exists at the same time as SHIELD. However, in the MCU, after the Winter Soldier, it is possible, SWORD started to gain momentum behind the scenes. And with it being confirmed that the SHIELD universe is another timeline in the multiverse, and the final season premiering May 27th, having another prime time Marvel show on seems like a long shot. Though streaming services like Netflix or Hulu could swoop in and make SWORD an original, with help from Marvel.
In the post credit scene of Spider-Man: Far From Home, they were not shy teasing the appearance of SWORD, what with Fury and Maria Hill being seen helping the Skrulls. Having them appear as a main plot point in WandaVision is a stepping stone to having them appear in many more projects of Phase 4 in the MCU.
WandaVision is by far one of Marvel and Disney Plus’s highest guarded secrets. Few details are know about the plot, and only a few set photos crumbs have been giving to the fans to see. As far as fans’ concern, the hype being built up around the show should definitely pay off
WandaVision is set to premiere in December of 2020.
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One small correction. SWORD was in place while Nick Fury was still with SHIELD. Their first appearance was in Joss Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men and Nick Fury appeared in that same issue as well as the head of SHIELD. That story might have been one of Nick’s last as the head of SHIELD.
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Five Once Football chalkboards and tactical observations from Round Four
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The ONCE Football application is a superb tool for analysing data from the A-League, and here are five observations gleaned from chalkboardsy drawn from the app.
Kosmina’s diamond solution
Data is provided by ONCE football – green is forwards, blue is backwards
The decision to ban a media presence from his Thursday training session suggested John Kosmina was going to tinker with his side’s formation. In switching from a 4-2-3-1 to a 4-3-1-2 shape for the match against the Wellington Phoenix, Kosmina was essentially sacrificing the flanks in order to control the centre. Therefore, it wasn’t unusual that Adelaide had 58% of the possession, but it was surprising to see that they didn’t have the usual problems with width associated with the diamond. The nature of the system tends to narrowness but the deployment of Iain Ramsey in the left-sided carrielo role meant the natural winger drifted out to the touchline and stretched the active playing zone, as the chalkboards above indicate.
Ali-Abbas
Ian Crook’s use of Ali Abbas in a central midfield role was an unusual deployment of the player who made his name as a winger for the Newcastle Jets, but it made sense considering he’s a stronger passer than the much maligned Terry McFlynn and therefore more suited to Sydney’s new possession game. Paul Reid has also been promoted to a starting spot following strong showings against Western Sydney and Perth Glory, but Crook indicated that he wasn’t happy with the performance of the midfield on Sunday, suggesting Jason Culina or Terry Antonis may be handed a start in midfield. But Sydney will miss Abbas’ passing range – as the chalkboard below shows, he’s particularly good at switching the play, and fourteen of his passes against Glory were over a distance of thirty metres or more.
Rogic fails to impress
The performances of Tom Rogic has been the subject of fierce scrutiny on this blog so far this season, but it’s hard to ignore what was another disappointing performance from the youngster. In fairness, it must be remembered that it is only his seventeenth appearance as a professional player, but he does need to be more intelligent in his movement. Rogic was isolated as Matt Thompson and Richard Garcia defended deep and prevented the playmaker moving between the lines, but their job is made easier when Rogic rarely drifts wide or deep and is therefore easier to mark. He completed just five forward passes against the Heart, and Arnold will surely be working on improving his link-up play with the wide attackers of what seems to be his preferred 4-2-3-1 formation.
Subtle change for Perth
The above is a collation of the crosses attempted by the Glory in their first three games of the season, and while in isolation it’s difficult to draw conclusions from the data, but in considering the context of their matches it indicates a change in the attacking play of the full-backs. Iain Ferguson swooped on the discarded Scott Jamieson during the off-season and instantly made the left back a key member of the system by instructing him to motor forward regularly and provide support to Dean Heffernan down the flank. Perhaps unfairly, Ferguson is cast as a conservative manager, but this is a marked change from last year’s system, where the fullbacks were largely instructed to remain in defensive positions.
Sydney strikers too similar?
It seems everyone in the A-League benefitted from the arrival of Alessandro Del Piero, but one player has felt the marquee’s impact in a negative sense. Kruno Louvrek was signed on his ability, in Crook’s words, “he can finish but he can create as well so that fitted into the bracket that we wanted. We wanted someone who was capable of doing both.” Those characteristics are eerily similar to those of Del Piero, and the clash of styles has impacted upon Sydney’s ability to build attacks. In comparing the two chalkboards above from the Glory match, it’s clear to see how both like to operate in similar zones. That causes congestion in between the lines, and it’s telling that Sydney’s best attacking play so far this season has come when Mitch Mallia was deployed centrally in the Sydney derby, combining pace with Del Piero’s technique to make it much more difficult for the Wanderers to set their defensive line correctly.
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The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868.
Slave auction block at Green Hill #Plantation, Campbell County, Virginia. The Library of #Congress
It granted #citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the #United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. In addition, it forbids states from denying any person “#life, liberty or property, without #due process of law” or to “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
“By directly mentioning the role of the states, the #14th Amendment greatly expanded the protection of #civil rights to all Americans and is cited in more litigation than any other amendment.”
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The amendment had been rejected by most Southern states but was ratified by the required three-fourths of the states. Known as the “#Reconstruction Amendment.”
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Appropriate to this day we also remember Edmund S. Morgan, award winning historian and author, who has died at 97. Among his works…
“American #Slavery, American Freedom” is essential to #understanding how slavery developed here, and that it wasn’t necessarily inevitable. A wonderfully written scholarly masterpiece.
It explores the paradox of slavery and freedom in colonial Virginia. For which he won the Society of American Historians’ Francis Parkman Prize, the Southern Historical Association’s Charles S. Sydnor Prize and the American Historical Association’s Albert J. Beveridge Award.
“To Morgan the simultaneous rise of slavery and freedom is the most cruel paradox of American #history. Americans revolted in 1776 to escape what some perceived as the tyrannies of Englishmen, but even as the #revolutionaries boldly professed themselves votaries of liberty and #equality, they perpetuated a labor system more oppressive in its exploitation of men than any act of the British government.”
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Why persecute Basheer Azmin out of up to 500,000 Malaysians who took part in Bersih4 peaceful rally?
We refer to the tweets by the Chief Minister of Selangor, Azmin Ali, concerning his son Basheer Azmin who has been summoned by the police pursuant to Section 111 of the Criminal Procedure Code in relation to the recent Bersih rally.
DAP Selangor urges the Home Ministry to stop such selective harassment on Basheer Azmin, a 15 year old school boy who is starting his final examinations in school this week.
What were the Police thinking? It has been two months since the Bersih rally and suddenly, out of the blue, is it merely sheer coincidence that the police require Basheer’s attendance on the day of his final exams?
Worse, of all the people the Police could summon to assist with the investigations, whether as a suspect or a witness, why summon a 15 year old boy who just happened to be the son of the Selangor Menteri Besar, Azmin Ali? Is the Police going to summon up to 500,000 people who took part in the Bersih rally for investigations?
Such high-handed police intervention does not assist in shaking off the perception that the police force is politically motivated and that the Barisan Nasional led Federal Government is utilising its every machinery to oppress the Federal Opposition.
With confidence in the Barison Nasional leadership at an all-time low causing a slowdown in the economy, crime is likely to increase, as warned by the Deputy Minister Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed recently.
As such, DAP Selangor implores the Home Ministry to be more professional in discharging their duties, and to employ its resources into investigating real crime instances, and we reiterate that participating in a peaceful Bersih rally is definitely not one of them.
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10 questions I would pose to Arul Kanda during the “live discussion, talk show or debate”
1MDB President, Arul Kanda, during his press conference on Saturday, has informed Malaysians that “I will meet YB Tony Pua for live discussion, or talk show, or debate, without any condition.”
I would like to announce that the Members of Parliament for Kulai and Serdang, Teo Nie Ching and Dr Ong Kian Ming, will be representing me to conduct the necessary discussions with the team from 1MDB to finalise the format and details of the proposed “live discussion, or talk show, or debate” between the 1MDB President, Arul Kanda and myself.
While we wait for the much anticipated face-off, I would like to offer Arul Kanda the heads up, so that he can prepare the necessary answers whether during replies or debate speech. This way, Arul cannot feign ignorance or pretend that the documents were unavailable with him to provide the necessary answers. Therefore, let me disclose here the 10 questions which I will ask during the “live discussion, or talk show, or debate”:
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Looking forward to 1MDB "talk show" with Arul Kanda
Last Wednesday, after watching 1MDB President, Arul Kanda’s live interview with Bernama TV, I was left dissatisfied and frustrated with many questions which were either not asked or not answered.
I had issued a statement entitled “Can I do a talk show with Arul Kanda, where I ask the questions?” the next day. I had hoped that after Arul made the first offer to dialogue in January this year which was subsequently withdrawn, he would agree to this “talk show”.
At first, I was left disappointed that the 1MDB President “accepted” the challenge but attached an unacceptable condition that I resign from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), citing a “conflict of interest”.
As far as millions of Malaysians are concerned, there isn’t any alleged conflict of interest because I will ask questions for Arul to answer, whether in the PAC or outside of it. Furthermore, I’m not related to Arul Kanda or 1MDB in anyway and hence such conflict does not arise.
Instead, I had argued yesterday that the real person with a conflict of interest is the Prime Minister, Dato’ Seri Najib Razak who is directing and influencing the investigation process despite having personally signed off all major transactions which took place in 1MDB. Hence if anyone should resign, it should be the Prime Minister.
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Merchants Bancshares announces dividend declaration of 28 cents per share
Merchants Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: MBVT), the parent company of Merchants Bank, announced that its Board of Directors declared on January 20, 2011, a dividend of 28 cents per share, payable February 17, 2011, to shareholders of record as of February 3, 2011. Merchants plans to release earnings on or about January 26, 2011.Michael R. Tuttle, Merchants’ President and Chief Executive Officer, and Janet P. Spitler, Merchants’ Chief Financial Officer, will host a conference call to discuss these earnings results at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Friday, January 28, 2011. Interested parties may participate in the conference call by dialing (800) 553-0327; the title of the call is Merchants Bancshares, Inc. Earnings Call. Participants are asked to call a few minutes prior to register. A replay will be available until noon on Friday, February 4, 2011. The U.S. replay dial-in telephone number is (800) 475-6701. The international replay telephone number is (320) 365-3844. The replay access code for both replay telephone numbers is 188055.Merchants also announced the extension, through January 2012, of its stock buyback program, originally adopted in January 2007. Under the program Merchants may repurchase 200,000 shares of its common stock on the open market from time to time, and had purchased 143,475 shares during 2010. Although Merchants did not repurchase any of its shares during the fourth quarter of 2010, and does not expect to repurchase shares in the near future, Merchants wanted to preserve the flexibility of an active buyback program.Vermont Matters. Merchants Bank strives to fulfill its role as the state’s leading independent community bank through a wide range of initiatives. The bank supports organizations throughout Vermont in addressing essential needs, sustaining community programs, providing small business and job start capital, funding financial literacy education and delivering enrichment through local sports activities.Merchants Bank was established in 1849 in Burlington, Vermont. Its continuing mission is to provide Vermonters with a statewide community bank that combines a strong technology platform with a genuine appreciation for local markets. Merchants Bank delivers this commitment through a branch-based system that includes: 34 community bank offices and 43 ATMs throughout Vermont; local branch presidents and personal bankers dedicated to high-quality customer service; free online banking, phone banking, and electronic bill payment services; high-value depositing programs that feature Free Checking for Life®, Cash Rewards Checking, Rewards Checking for Business, business cash management, money market accounts, health savings accounts, certificates of deposit, Flexible CD, IRAs, and overdraft assurance; feature-rich loan programs including mortgages, home equity credit, vehicle loans, personal and small business loans and lines of credit; and merchant card processing. 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Men’s tennis loses in NCAA tournament round of 16
The NCAA tournament came to a close for the No. 10 men’s tennis team after falling short to No. 7 Georgia in the round of 16, 4-3.Despite holding a 3-1 lead, The Trojans weren’t able to close the match. The loss marked the end of the team’s season and left it with a 17-7 record this year.“I think with matches like that you have this overwhelming sense of being a part of something that is bigger than you. It’s such a great rivalry between Georgia and us,” head coach Peter Smith said. “To play that quality of a match for three and a half hours, you really feel like it’s a honor and privilege to be a part of it. It hurts to lose, but it was just a great match.”The Trojans began the match with a win on Court 1 in doubles, where the No. 46-ranked pair of junior Nick Crystal and freshman Laurens Verboven were able to beat Georgia’s Austin Smith and Ben Wagland 6-1. On Court 3, freshman Jack Jaede and sophomore Tanner Smith closed it out with a 6-4 win over sophomore Wayne Montgomery and freshman Emil Reinberg, giving USC the doubles point and the lead in the dual match.Jaede kept the momentum going at the fifth singles spot with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Georgia freshman Jan Zielinski, giving the Men of Troy a 2-0 lead. No. 32 Montgomery put the Bulldogs on the board with a 6-1, 6-4 over No. 41 Crystal at the second singles spot. No. 121 sophomore Thibault Forget was able to close his match in two sets over No. 123 freshman Walker Duncan with a score of 6-2, 7-6 (6) bringing the Trojans to one match and one point away from the upset and reaching the quarterfinals.However, at the sixth singles spot, junior Rob Bellamy wasn’t able to finish off the match after winning his first set and suffered a comeback against Georgia senior Nick Wood, who ended the match with the score of 6-4, 2-6, 1-6, tightening the gap at 3-2 in the dual. At third singles, No. 69 freshman Logan Smith fell to No. 64 sophomore Paul Oosterbaan 4-6, 6-7 (7), making it 3-3 and leaving the odds to Court 1, where No. 23 senior Max de Vroome was facing No. 17 Smith.After a slow start, de Vroome was able to bring the first set to a tie-break before eventually losing the tiebreaker 2-5. In the second set, de Vroome bounced back and was able to pull a 6-1 win and take the match to the final set.With the score tied at 3-3, de Vroome was able to break and hold serve, making it 5-3. Smith held serve and the Trojan had a chance to close the match and the dual on serve at 5-4, but was unable to convert it. At 5-5, Smith kept his momentum going and grabbed the lead at 6-5, securing the tie break. De Vroome, who was serving to stay in the match, didn’t hold serve and the Bulldogs finished their comeback and punched their ticket to the quarterfinals.The Trojans began the tournament by defeating UNLV 4-0 and No. 32 Georgia Tech 4-2 in the first and second rounds respectively in order to advance to the Round of 16.De Vroome and Crystal will keep playing in the singles draw starting on Wednesday.De Vroome will play against Dominik Koepfer of Tulane. Crystal will face off against Joao Monteiro of Virginia Tech. read more
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GFA delegation visits, mourns with Gyan family
A high-powered delegation of the Ghana Football Association visited the family home of Black Stars captain Asamoah Gyan on Wednesday to console the family following the death of his mother.The delegation led by the President of the GFA Kwesi Nyantakyi met elders and extended members of the family to mourn the death of Madam Cecilia Love Amoako.Gyan’s mother passed away at the Ridge Hospital on Tuesday following a motor accident in Accra.Several members of the Executive Committee including George Afriyie, Felix Ansong, Leanier Addy, Zida Salifu as well as Premier League Board chairman Welbeck Abra Appiah were part of the delegation.The General Secretary of the GFA Emmanuel Gyimah, Technical Director of the GFA Francis Oti Akenteng as well as Black Satellites management committee member Alhaji Hearts were also part of the delegation.Black Stars assistant coach Maxwell Konadu, team manager Sabahn Quaye and kit manager Ishmael Hamidu also visited the family home to mourn with them. Family elder Opanyin Kojo Ofosu thanked the GFA for their support since the death of Madam Amoako and the visit to officially mourn with the family.“We the family are grateful to the GFA and its President Mr Nyantakyi for helping us since the sad incident occurred,” Opanyin Kojo Ofosu told the delegation.“You were with us at the hospital and you were instrumental in getting doctors to attend to our late sister Madam Amoako. You also helped us to arrange for quick autopsy and many other things.“You did not stop there. You have come to our home to mourn with us and console the family which shows that you truly care about us. We can’t reward you enough for what you have done.”Nyantakyi paid tribute Madam Amoako, whose other son Baffour Gyan also played for the Black Stars. “She will always be remembered. She was a great person and a great teacher and I think everyone will agree she was an even better person and she will definitely be long in the memory of all of us,” Nyantakyi said. read more
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New London Eco-village
Saturday, Occupying Disused Land
Written by Tom Russell
This Saturday, information pills pill The Land Is Ours collective will occupy some disused land near Hammersmith. An eco-village will take root, viagra sale peacefully reclaiming land for a sustainable settlement, and getting in touch with the local community about its aims. In a year when nearly 13,000 Britons lost their homes to repossessions in the first three months, eco-villages point the way to a more down-to-earth lifestyle.
Back in May 1996, the same collective took over a spot on the banks of the Thames in Wandsworth, in a land rights action that grew up over five and a half months into the Pure Genius community, based on sustainable living and protesting the misuse of urban land. Here are some photos from that project.
The Land Is Ours channel the spirit of the Diggers , a group of 17-century radicals who picked out and dug over a patch of common land in St George’s Hill in Walton-upon-Thames back in the day. They were led by Gerard Winstanley, who thought any freedom must come from free access to the land.
Here’s a little more from ‘Gerard Winstanley’ about this weekend:
What’s the first thing you’ll do when you get there?
Have a meeting. One of the first priorities is to leaflet the local area in order to inform the local people of what we are doing. Another priority is the construction of compost toilets.
Do you have lots of plans for sheds, vegetable patches and compost toilets?
Yes. Due to the nature of the site (ex-industrial) we will likely be using raised beds to grow vegetables and buckets for potatoes. It being London, there should be a good supply of thrown away materials from building sites and in skips. Compost toilets are pretty essential.
?What kinds of people are you expecting to turn up?
All sorts. Hopefully a mixture of those keen to learn and those willing to teach. ??
?I read the Chapter 7 manifesto. Have you notified the council or planning authority of your plans, or are you keeping to the idea that once you’re there, with homes under construction, it’s difficult to evict?
We haven’t notified the council yet- but we have a liaison strategy in place for when we’re in.
On that note, how long do you hope to be there?
The longevity of the Eco-village depends on how committed its residences and just as crucially how the local urban populus respond to our presence. If we receive the support we need, the council will likely think twice before embarking on an unpopular eviction (at least that’s the theory!).
Could this realistically become a permanent residence, or is it more likely to be valuable simply as campaigning?
Hopefully it can be both. There is no reason why this site cannot sustain a core group of committed individuals and serve as a brilliant awareness raiser to the issue of disused urban land, lack of affordable housing and the a sustainable way of living that is friendly to people and planet and liberating.
?Can I come along?
Of course, we are meeting at Waterloo Station at 10AM this Saturday (underneath the clock).
What might I need to do?
Bring a tent, sleeping bag and some food and water. You may be interested to read an article written by a journalist from the Guardian concerning the eco-village.
So dig yourself out of bed this Saturday, and go discover the beginnings of London’s newest eco-village.
If the dark shades of under-duvet hideouts dominate the colour of your Sundays then you need to wake up and get greened. Arcola Theatre in East London hopes to be the first carbon neutral theatre in the world and has been appointed as the secretariat for the Mayor of London’s Green Theatre plan, this which aims to deliver 60 percent cuts in theatre carbon emissions by 2025.
Illustration by Faye Katirai
As part of this environmental drive, the first Sunday of every month is a Green Sunday at Arcola Theatre. June’s event is part of Love London, the biggest green festival in Europe and looks at ethical consumption, promising ‘entertainment and inspiration for the ecologically curious’. From 3pm there’s a swap shop market plus cakes and tea to take you through the evening of Senegalese percussion, cool short and feature-length films, starting from 4.30pm. As the afternoon turns to evening, there will be a discussion with Neil Boorman, author of Bonfire Of The Brands, an account of his journey from shopping and brand addiction to a life free from labels. As part of the project, Neil destroyed every branded product in his possession, incinerating over £20,000 worth of designer gear in protest of consumer culture. This will be chaired by Morgan Phillips.
Neil and Morgan will later be joined by Richard King from Oxfam to talk about their 4-a-week campaign- encouraging shoppers to do their bit for sustainability each week.
Then at 7pm – Feature length film presented by Transition Town Hackney-
A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
I spoke to the sustainability projects manager at Arcola Theatre, Anna Beech, to find out more about Arcola’s arts world-changing philosophies:
All at Arcola must be extremely proud that a theatre founded only 9 years ago – and on credit cards! – is well on the way to becoming the first carbon neutral theatre in the world. Can you tell us a bit about how and why you made the decision to lead the green theatre movement?
Since 2007, Arcola has launched many high-profile green initiatives (including the pioneering use of LEDs and the on-site installation of a fuel cell to power bar and stage lighting). There are a number of reasons for this – because it contributes to reducing Arcola’s carbon emissions and resource use, because it makes financial sense – reducing energy bills; because it supports funding applications; because it integrates Arcola into the local community; allows Arcola to reach a wider audience and stakeholder base; and provides an effective platform upon which to publicise the name ‘Arcola’ – as a hub of creativity and sustainability.
Sustainability is part of Arcola’s core unique business model, alongside professional theatre and our youth and community programme.
Have you found that arts and science professionals are eager to integrate and come up with exciting ideas and actions or has it been difficult to bring the two fields together?
Arcola’s ArcolaEnergy has had considerable interest from technology companies and brokers, including the Carbon Trust. As a reocgnised innovator in sustainability in the arts, Arcola has been able to broker extremely advantageous relationships with private sector companies – who have provided the theatre with free green products, including LED lights – as well as other theatres and arts organisations (National Theatre, Arts Council, Live Nation, The Theatres Trust), and Government bodies like the DCMS and Mayor of London’s Office. Arcola’s reputation as a sustainable charity has created these partnerships and allowed them to grow and develop into mutually advantageous relationships. So this demonstrates that the arts and sustainability worlds can come together to form mutually advanteous relationships. However, there is plenty of work to be done.
So far, what has been the most successful pioneering energy practice you’ve introduced?
The installation of Arcola’s fuel cell in February 2008 made the venue the first theatre in the world to power its main house shows and bar/café on hydrogen. The Living Unknown Soldier gained reverence as London’s most ecologically sustainable show, with the lighting at a peak power consumption of 4.5kW, a reduction of 60 per cent on comparable theatre lighting installations.
Previous Green Sunday events at the Arcola Theatre
Arcola’s ‘greening’ goes from the stage to the box office. Among other things, we produce ‘green’ newsletters for staff, we recycle, we provide free tap water to audiences (to lessen use of bottled water), we serve fairtrade, organic and local produce wherever possible (including organic vodka and whiskey!), we host Transition Town meetings, we installed a cycle enclosure for staff in 2009 and try to incentivise both staff and audiences to use public transport more and their cars less.
How do you think the technical creativity of sustainability has significantly shaped any of the plays Arcola has produced?
One example of the ‘greening’ of Arcola’s shows and working closely with production companies took place during the pre-production and staging of ‘Living Unknown Soldier‘ in 2008. The production explored the use of more energy efficient lanterns, including LED moving heads and batons (see Fig. 1) florescent tubes and some other filament lanterns such as low wattage source 4′s and par 16s. The crew tried to travel by public transport wherever possible, use laptops rather than PCs, limit phone use, source sustainable materials and managed to keep energy requirements low in order to use Arcola’s fuel cell to power the show.
‘‘The idea is that once you expose people to this stuff and they know you for doing it, they’ll gravitate towards you. Ultimately we should end up with some really good art about sustainability and some really good ideas about how to do art sustainably.” – Ben Todd, Executive Director and Founder of Arcola Energy.
Illustration by David Elsley
Why do you think its particularly important for the arts to become more involved in green issues?
Because the arts have the power to influence behaviour change. Whilst the theatre industry itself has a relatively small carbon footprint (2% of total carbon emissions in London), and thus its capacity to deliver direct carbon emission reductions is relatively small; the power of theatre and the wider arts/cultural sectors to rapidly and effectively influence public behaviour and policy makers to drive significant indirect carbon emission reductions is very large (entertainment related activity accounts for up to 40% of travel emissions).
However, theatres and other arts venues must first address the ‘greening’ of their venues and practices in order to communicate climate change and environmental messages to audiences effectively and with impact.
Green Sundays is a great idea, how do you hope to see it develop in the future months?
We have a variety of themes in mind for future events, including a focus on the climate talks in Copenhagen in December, a water theme, ethical business, natural history and a Green Sunday programme tailored to children and young people.
So get over your hangover, get on your bike and cycle down to Dalston on Sunday to help spread the word about arts and sustainability coming together to communicate environmental messages to your local community.
To find out more about Green Sundays and the Arcola Theatre go to:
www.arcolatheatre.com
Continuing our odyssey of festival previews, page I bring you the amazing Green Man!
I don’t keep it secret that I’ve had a crush on Jarvis Cocker since I was 10 and first heard Common People, I suppose announcing it on a blog was just the next logical step in my snowballing lust for the bespectacled one. Imagine my delight when I saw he was headlining as a solo outfit at this year’s Green Man Festival.
Green Man 2006
All the other festivals will be green with envy over Green Man’s line-up, one of the most exciting and diverse of the summer. Alongside Jarv, Animal Collective will also be headlining and having seen them a couple of times over the past few years they are really not to be missed live, their shows can only be described as being in an underwater topsy-turvy world where you can feel the rhythm wash over you in waves.
Green Man is in no short supply of indie darlings and big names, with Wilco, Bon Iver, Gang Gang Dance, the delicious Beach House and Grizzly Bear; who I’m gagging to see live after finally getting a copy of their amazing second album Veckatimest. Not to be transatlantically out down; Green Man boasts an impressive array of home-grown talent- including Four-Tet, national treasures British Sea Power, and to woo the romantic in you; Camera Obscura.
Ex- member of my favourites Gorky’s Zygotic Mynki Euros Childs, Andrew Bird, 6 Day Riot and James Yuill also stand out as bands (as well as the above mentioned) not to be missed.
Whilst Green Man has managed to pull in such an awesome line-up, it has a reputation for a boutique-y intimacy and a friendly atmosphere. Green Man is most definitely a festival for music lovers, and one that I won’t be missing!
Green Man Festival 2007
Green Man Festival takes place amidst the Breacon Beacons from 21st to 23rd August. Click here for ticket information.
Thumbnail by Roisin Conway
Some people have the knack for discovering those amazing pieces in charity shops – it’s generally the preserve of both the patient and the fashion-savvy who are content to rummage away until they emerge with some designer find that leaves you flapping your arms and wondering why it wasn’t you.
Now ten minutes in Topshop – that’s a quick fix. Why bother buying something old when you can buy something new? If last week’s Style Wars was only a half-formed idea, generic intent to float and suggest a concept, but not to follow through, TRAID (Textile Recycling for Aid and International Development) has articulated the remaking and reselling of used clothes as an ethical necessity. Citing the whopping £46 billion spent on clothes and accessories every year, TRAID highlights the colossal wastage resultant of constantly changing trends that are both cheap and easily available. The ease of shopping on the high street seems to problematise the feeling that the act of recycling is an almost paradoxical idea for an industry that is by name and nature grounded in an obsession with the new and the innovative.
Here lies the problem in normal charity shop shopping. The dowdy and stale image affixed to them is arguably (however unfortunately) justifiable, and TRAID has been taking the steps to rebrand the public perception of recycled clothing by actually joining the dots between the environment, recycling and fashion itself. Charity and fashion are practically mutually alienating concepts in most people’s minds. In short, charity shops aren’t trendy, so how do you turn that around? Chief Executive Maria TRAID recognises the problem and goes straight to the heart of it, saying “we have worked incredibly hard to change the face of charity retail by ensuring that our shops are stylish and affordable”, two words you might associate with the high street.
TRAID has 900 textile recycling banks across the UK, and the company take the donations and sort by quality and style to then sell in one of their charity shops – clothes that are stained or torn are deconstructed and redesigned into a bespoke garment by the company’s own fashion label TRAIDremade.
In a way it’s an absolute no-brainer: to take things people don’t want and make them something they do, especially as they follow high street trends, crafting sexy asymmetric dresses, bags cut from old leathers, signature hand printed tees and flirty dresses.
Two weeks ago TRAID opened their tenth shop in their tenth year in Camden, which as well as being an area that’s a promising resource in terms of fashionable finds, is a landmark for a really inspirational company. To date TRAID has donated £1.4 million to help fight global poverty, supporting charities by funding projects in Malawi and Kenya amongst others. TRAID has ten shops located across London and Brighton, and TRAIDremade is available on getethical.co.uk.
Imagine a world without fish. Released in cinemas across the country to coincide for World Ocean Day, medical an inconvenient truth about the devastating effect of overfishing.
Opens today, check your local cinema for screenings.
Lambeth Green Communities Open Evening
Organised in partnership with Transition Town Brixton, Hyde Farm CAN and ASSA CAN, this is a chance to celebrate Lambeth’s Green Communities and be inspired to reduce your community’s environmental impact.
18.30-21.00 drop-in to Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton
Contact – Susan Sheehan, Ssheehan (at) lambeth.gov.uk
The Great British Refurb
Housing for a low carbon energy future – a talk at the The Royal Society
A talk by Professor Tadj Oreszczyn, chaired by Professor Chris Rapley. Theoretical carbon reductions have often been slow to materialise, new buildings can use up to twice the energy predicted, and energy use can actually go up when efficiency increases. This lecture will look at the possibilities for new building, and whether technology can solve our energy use problems. Tadj Oreszczyn is Professor of Energy and Environment and Director of the Energy Institute at UCL.
This lecture is free – no ticket or booking required. Doors open at 5.45pm and seats are first-come first-served. Lecture starts at 6.30pm, The Royal Society
This lecture will be webcast live and available to view on demand within 48 hours of delivery at royalsociety.tv
Illustration by Kerry Lemon
GM Crops and the Global Food Crisis
Dominic Glover, Erik Millstone, Peter Newell talk about possible solutions to the encroaching global food crisis – how will GM crops fit in to the struggle to raise yields, and could they be part of a truly sustainable answer?
6pm, Committee Room 10, Palace of Westminster.
Contact – c.matthews (at) ids.ac.uk
Walking on the Edge of the City
Join a popular walking group on a stroll around this fascinating part of London. There’s no charge and no need to book. Do get there ten minutes before the start time, wear comfortable shoes and bring a small bottle of water.
11am – 12.15pm, meeting at St Luke’s Centre, 90 Central Street, London, EC1V
Clothes Swap at Inc Space
Daisy Green Magazine and ethical stylist Lupe Castro have teamed up to host what is hoped to be the UK’s biggest ever clothes swap. Nicola Alexander, founder of daisygreenmagazine.co.uk, said, “It’s like a fashion treasure hunt!”
The evening will kick off at 6.30 and, as well as the swish (apparently the ‘scene’ word for a clothes swap), it will feature an ethical styling demonstration by Lupe Castro, music from top green band, The Phoenix Rose, burlesque dancing and shopping opportunities from ethical fashion brands including Bochica, Makepiece, Bourgeois Boheme, and natural beauty company, Green People.
Tickets are £10 in advance and £15 on the door.
More information can be found on our facebook page
From 18:30 at INC Space in Grape Street, London WC2
Illustration by David Elsley.
Compost Clinic and Recycling Roadshow
Redbridge Recycling Group are running a friendly information stand all day. Want to bin the bags and green your shopping habits? Fancy making your own compost or confused about packaging labels? Pop along any time of day to have your questions answered and find out how to make the future waste free.
11am – 4pm, Ilford High Road, opposite the Town Hall/Harrison Gibson
Taking place all over the country, all over the world, the World Naked Bike Ride protests against oil dependency and car culture, celebrating the power of our bikes and bodies. Every June, more than a thousand cyclists gather in London to take part. The easy 10 km route passes through London’s busiest and best known streets. Bring your bike and body (decorate both of these ahead of time)
Assemble from 3pm in Hyde Park (South East section, near Hyde Park Tube) – east of the Broad Walk, south of the Fountain of Joy, and north of the Achilles Statue.
Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June
Sustainability Weekend
Celebrate the Love London, Love Your Planet Festival 2009 at the London Wetland Centre this weekend. Check out TFL’s new hybrid bus, see the Richmond shire horses and get a load of green tips and tricks. There will also be face painting for the kids, the Richmond cycling campaign and other environmentally friendly organisations.
11am-4pm, Saturday and Sunday
WWT London Wetland Centre, SW13 9WT
Maaaan, pilule those bloomers are HOT!
My morning started bright and early on Monday 1st June: called upon as I was to document a Climate Rush action at Chatham House just as the E.ON sponsored conference began: Coal: An Answer to Energy Security? (like, drug duh… NO!)
As I was sitting in the very pleasant St James Square to avoid undue police annoyance (there were vehicles parked right outside the entrance) I found my eyes drawn to the undergrowth in the thicket of vegetation at the edge of the park. I should have been looking for activity outside the venue, but instead I found myself engaged in a dance between two Robins. I always thought Robins were solitary birds, but a quick google ascertains my reasoning that this pair must have been mates, although I’m fairly sure Robins don’t scavenge at ground level. There was also a young Blackbird, happily scrabbling around in the undergrowth for some nice tasty worms (I’m guessing… but that sounds like the perfect breakfast for a Blackbird) As I sat there wondering what was to pass in the street beyond I felt my heart sing. Here, even in the centre of our grubby and concreted capital city – nature finds a way. This is what I’m fighting for, I thought! The sheer joy of the natural world.
a Blackbird in the undergrowth
And then, I noticed two coppers striding towards me. Would they find my Climate Rush badges? And pre-emptively arrest me for possible crimes against cotton with a badge pin? Asking why I was acting suspiciously by peering into the bushes I replied, “why, I’m taking photos of the birds” and showed the officers the photos on my camera playback. But they weren’t having it, and asked for my ID, which I refused. It’s not illegal to refuse to show your ID, but they took this as admission of guilt – a typical ploy of the police and one which I must check up on the legality of. They then searched me “because you must have something to hide if you don’t want to give us your name Angela Gregory” Ah!!! Clever officer! He’s been reading his little FIT watch spotter card and cribbing up on Climate Rush central. Only the trouble is, I’m not Angela Gregory – clever but not so clever officer. I’d love to see what they use as my mugshot – I hope it’s flattering.
When I questionned the validity of their reason to search me, one officer told me that “you are believed to be a member of a group called Climate Action, no that’s not it… Climate Rush, and they have committed criminal damage on buildings.” Wrong again Mr. Officer! Our parliament gluers have been bailed away to return to charges of possible criminal damage, for one drop of glue that fell on the statue in parliament. Glue that washes away with one dab of a damp cloth. Like that’s got a rat’s chance in hell of standing up in court.
Still – they got my name right after a cursory search of my camera bag, which revealed an old business card that had been lurking in a side pocket for at least three years. But they didn’t find the badges, even though they were rattling like bastards. I knew they wouldn’t, the MET not being the brightest cookies in the biscuit jar. Oh, I will be in trouble the next time we meet! Woops! If they had discovered the badge stash they would have found not only climate rush badges but also E.ON F.OFF ones from the Climate Camp campaign – that would have got them very excited no doubt, given the sponsor of said Coal Conference.
As usual I’ve gone off on a tangent… not long after the police accosted me there was a loud commotion the other side of the St James nature reserve, and the police and I were off like a flash to find out what was going on. Across the road a bunch of white clad people were trying to hold onto a bike sculpture, as the police tried to tussle it off them. Within moments the police had gained the upper hand, and instead the eleven protesters were trying to pull sashes from Deeds Not Words bags, and unfurl a lovely red banner reading No New Coal, before the police frogmarched them across the road and threw them into the “pen”.
I dashed off home in the hopes of getting some images into the London papers – alas my speed was not rewarded with any success, but our actions did reach the attendees of the conference – one academic at the conference apparently spoke with a protester, and agreed that direct action was pushing matters in the right direction (he was a specialist in CCS, but held out little hope for it’s implementation, given the probable massive costs) Score one massive point to us! I hope that E.ON and their cronies were suitably rattled, even if the press didn’t feel see fit to publicise the action. In the end five activists were arrested but most were released within hours. One brave Climate Rusher was refused bail after glueing herself onto the Chatham House railings (you go girl!) and the judge at her hearing the next morning allegedly told her that our protest had been pointless, since it had not garnered any press – before slapping a massive 40 hours community service on her for aggravated trespass. We think not…
the bike sculpture lies forlorn on the pavement
In recent weeks we’ve attracted a lot of interest from film makers, and by the time I arrived at Tamsin’s house to get ready for the Bike Rush that afternoon (and to hastily knock up one more pair of bloomers) there were cameras everywhere I turned. It’s not a sensation I particularly like, and have thus far managed to stay out of the current crop of films – leaving it to the more exhibitionist members of Climate Rush to hog the limelight. I worry that it is easy to manipulate our actions in the editing suite, and portray us in a way with which we will ultimately be unhappy and out of our control. But I guess it’s a situation that I need to grow used to – many of our sort – as well as being involved with an undoubtedly exciting group – are very attractive, garrulous and media savvy – an irresistable combination to a film maker. Me? I much prefer to stay behind the lens…
finishing off the flags
As soon as the drawstring was threaded into the last pair of bloomers it was time to hit the high roads of Kilburn – seven of us on various bikes, none of which, I noted disappointingly, were even vaguely Edwardian-esque. Instead we had Geeky Rushette on a fold-out Brompton with a helmet. And we had Virgin Rushette with wispy blonde locks and billowing white damel-in-distress dress over her bloomers, and Not-Very-Good-on-a-Bike-in-London Rushette on a crappy mountain bike with a rusty chain that nearly fell off before we even set off.
I was dressed in a simple black dress in the hope that my vintage hat from Hebden Bridge would be enough of a distraction and provide the right elegant touch – which was exciting as it tipped over both my eyes and my camera. We made a right merry site gunning down the bus lane towards Marble Arch, flags flapping behind as people turned to gawp at us. After taking a short cut through Green Park we traversed the Mall and came to a screeching halt at our destination, where we were seriously outnumbered by police. But blimey did we look good!
gathered in Green Park as we approach!
As we pulled sashes and t-shirts and badges and stickers from our panniers people began to arrive in their droves. The sun shone down as the cyclists spilled from the pen into the road and the police did little to resist.
Tim cranked up Pedals, the bike sound system, and I chatted to people – it was great to discover that people had come from afar on the strength of joining our facebook group – ah, I do love to feel vindicated on the subject of social networking. I was also very pleased to see lots of children along for the ride, suitably togged up with sashes and of course helmets.
maybe our youngest Rusher?
And a lot more customisation of sashes, which have suddenly found new lives as headbands on hats, ties around bike baskets, cumberbund style belts and a whole host more. Marina just opted to pile a whole load on, and looked a treat for it.
a basket full of skipped flowers gets the sash treatment
my fabulous vintage visor-meets-pie hat!
Then the Hare Krishnas arrived with a mighty noise that had the whole gathering swivelling their heads; a whole band seated in two trailers behind bicycles. I was astonished to see that a drum kit could indeed be transported this way (plus a rather large drummer).
Once several hundred people had gathered in place there were a few false starts before it was time to take off for a ceremonial circuit of the square, wooping all the way before we stopped off at our first destination, just yards from the starting point – BP’s head offices – they of the infamous byline “Beyond Petroleum“. And fact fans, you’ll no doubt be interested to hear that BP have in fact spent more on the whole Beyond Petroleum (as if!) advertising campaign than they have in fact spent on alternative energy. Brilliant! Why pour money into researching renewables when you can instead rape and pillage the earth for a fraction of the cost? And spend any extra cash on greenwashing instead. Fabulous plan; congratulations BP.
With that it was onwards on a winding route up to Piccadilly Circus, and from there up Charing Cross Road to Oxford Street, that grand bastion of consumerism -one of the biggest drivers of Climate Change. Tim gave a running commentary from the backseat of his tandem as we hollered our way down London’s flagship shopping street, before coming to a grand halt in the late evening sunshine smack bang in the middle of Oxford Circus. What a grand feeling! Many people seemed amused and even happy to see us, a grand diversion from the glittering goods in the windows.
stopped in the centre of Oxford Circus
As we sailed downhill along Regent Street I spotted a Lush store, still with our Trains Not Planes banner proudly displayed in the window. A bike-bound copper looked on worriedly as someone went closer to take a look. Duh! They’re our friends – just take a look at the Evening Standard-alike banner outside the shop. We love Lush. We’re not about to do anything naughty!
hmmm, the Queen’s residence ahead in the late evening sun…
On our second stop at Piccadilly Circus Tim cheekily waited until the lights went red “cos us cyclists always run red lights” before leading us across the main junction and down towards the Mall, where we sallied into the sunshine up to Buckingham Palace. I met the naked cyclists, who I’d been promised were attending. The girls had bikinis on and they all wore lots of paint, the better to cover up with, but they still looked rather fetching, if slightly less than wholely naked. And despite rumours to the contrary they were happy to sport a sash to protect their modesty as well.
It was then but a short hop down to Victoria, where we paused to consider the headquarters of BAA – boooooooo. And then on past BERR, where, funnily enough, Neil “the weasel” FIT photographer was waiting for us. We all waved “hi” to him as he lowered his massive equipment and smiled slightly sheepishly at us. You know who we are Neil, and we all know who you are too. Why don’t you just get a better job? One in which you are helping to protect a better world for all, not just the interests of the few? Still, I have to commend the actions of the police who came along for the ride – for once they really did seem to be protecting the rights of protesters – having cross words with impatient drivers revving their engines and generally preventing overly aggressive behaviour from motorists.
wave to Neil everyone!
Oh god, this has turned into a bit of an opus as usual, and I haven’t even mentioned all of our stopping off points! The fact is that unless you were right down the front near the sound system it was pretty impossible to hear the guided tour. And anyway, everyone was just so happy to be commandeering the streets of London – there’s nothing like reclaiming our public highways to feel empowered – that it didn’t matter if our tour was a little haphazard in the end (and we left our notes at home anyway, so it was a bit of an ad-lib).
solidarity with the Tamils
And then we were at Parliament Square – the police momentarily blocked our entrance onto the roundabout, but then decided better as we filtered around them anyway. Soon we were level with the Tamils, who seemed somewhat bemused by our peace signs in solidarity. But oh what an inspiration they have been! Such tenacity. And then onwards to Westminster Bridge, where we turned in a big loop near the junction on the north side and stopped. Perhaps this would be an opportune place for that picnic we promised? A statement of our intent right next to the very seat of power that is failing us? The suggestion was met with amusement as it dawned on our riders that this was what we had in mind.
that bike sign on the road has gotta mean “stop” right?
Some clearly were not expecting it, but almost everyone was soon dropping their bikes to the road and pulling out their picnic blankets and food. As the sunset on Big Ben above us we raised our bikes aloft in joy, unfurled banners aplenty, and stood our ground. The police didn’t know what to do – FIT finally made it down from BERR, and climbed on top of a barrier right above where I’d left my bike. Weirdly the bamboo pole holding up my lovely Climate Rush flag was latter found snapped in two shortly afterwards. I hate to make accusations but…
what a marvelous family!
bike aloft
As a bendy bus made an awkward 360 degree turn on the bridge passersby continued to stream past, snapping away and generally beaming at our audacity. A string of brightly coloured bunting cordoned off our blockade.
fun with a bendy bus!
The soundsystem was commandeered by a variety of eloquent speakers and Mark played us a tune or two. Sadly the promised celidh didn’t happen – our erstwhile fiddler had failed to materialise yet again and I was too busy running around like a headless chicken (taking photos) to figure out an alternative. I do apologise – multitasking got the better of me again.
astride Boudicca
gawping at their nerve
And then three Rushettes mounted the huge emblematic Boudicca statue in their stripey bloomers! One climbed right up to place a sash around Boudicca’s neck, before returning to sit astride one of the great beasts in a gesture of defiant victory. The first attempt to fly a flag from the horses’ hooves failed, but no matter, we’d been prolific in our banner making and another one was soon unfurled. Deeds Not Words. I think that powerful queen would have approved.
bike blockade
on a tandem
Shortly before 9pm the police approached us politely and charmingly (someone must have had words with them in recent weeks) to say that they would eventually have to move us on. We decided that it would be best to go out on a high and declared our intentions to the crowd, with an accompanying recommendation to come join us in a nice pub on The Cut by Waterloo. As we cycled off across the bridge I was amused to find tourists sitting in the middle of the road – thrilled with the lack of cars and the unexpected reclamation for bipedal human use.
enjoying the reclaimed bridge
At the pub we laid out our picnic blankets again and enjoyed the warm balmy night in the company of many new friends. I was particularly thrilled to speak with new Rushers and especially to those who had not expected our final destination to be quite so spikey, but who had welcomed the unexpected turn of events with open arms. Inspiring mass direct action – it’s what we do best… so join us on our next action against the dirty palm oil biofuel business; responsible for massive environmental degradation, huge contributions of CO2 to the atmosphere, and the loss of 90% of the orangutans since the Suffragettes first walked this land. Don’t let those in power decide the future of our planet!
This Saturday, ailment The Land Is Ours collective will occupy some disused land near Hammersmith. An eco-village will take root, peacefully reclaiming land for a sustainable settlement, and getting in touch with the local community about its aims. In a year when nearly 13,000 Britons lost their homes to repossessions in the first three months, eco-villages point the way to a more down-to-earth lifestyle.
Written by Tom Russell on Thursday June 4th, 2009 1:14 pm
Community, Diggers, Eco-village, Sustainable
Kew Bridge Eco-Village
Earthships
What’s happening at Kew Eco Village
An Eco Community With A Difference.
An interview with legendary fashion illustrator David Downton
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Born Pakistani, he died a Hazara
By Amir Mateen QUETTA: Major Shafaat died a sad broken man. Abandoned by his institution. Betrayed by childhood friends. Forsaken by his hometown. His only fault was to have been born different. A man with a flat nose and chinky eyes. An ethnic Hazara. He lived a rich childhood frolicking up and down the Quetta…
Jamaat, a party swinging both ways at the moment: Special Report Part-2
Tuesday, June 01, 2010 By Amir Mateen MANSURA, Lahore: Now Jamaat-i-Islami Ameer Munawar Hassan, years ago, sought a meeting with a group of Islamabad journalists to discuss why had the Jamaat not captured the popular imagination of Pakistanis. The discussion, of which I was a part, took place 15 years ago at journalist-turned-politician Azeem Chaudhary’s…
Special report on Jamaat-e-Islami – by Amir Mateen
Monday, May 31, 2010 By Amir Mateen MANSURA: The change of Jamaat-i-Islami’s leadership from Qazi Hussain Ahmad to its new Ameer Syed Munawwar Hassan is a singularly important event that has, so far, not gotten the attention it merits. Munawwar has taken over the reins of the party in crucial times. His appointment coincides with…
Malik Riaz ‘nabbed’ ? Dream Island crashes-X
Politically Incorrect The good news is that the NAB finally woke up to stop Port Qasim Authority (PQA) from giving further concessions to Malik Riaz of Bahria Town to build, if at all he plans to do that, the alleged Island City, 3.5 km off the Karachi coast. Of course, Malik will continue to sponsor…
Kramer versus Malik Riaz-not again-IX
Politically Incorrect Malik Riaz has pulled another rabbit out of his Bahria hat. As the Abu Dhabi Group backs out of the $45 billion deal that never existed in the first place — enter Thomas Kramer. Again, the same dazzling picture of the world class retreat, encompassing the world’s tallest building 3.5 km off the…
Malik Riaz-missing the elephant-VIII
Politically Incorrect Malik Riaz runs a virtual state within a state. And this has been so for quite a while–from General Musharaf’s time in government, actually. Here is a different perspective on the political happenings. Both Musharraf and Malik needed each other. Musharraf had to keep the military brass happy about his illegitimate rule. Malik…
Malik Riaz-the myth of benevolence -VII
Politically Incorrect Malik Riaz likes to create myths about his own self. One such myth is about his benevolence; that he is a great philanthropist. And the focus is largely on his feeding the poor and the needy. An aura of avatar, the modern-day Daata, is built around his personality. A touch of divinity is…
Nightmares of Malik Riaz-VI
Politically Incorrect Malik Riaz may have hundreds of cases against him but has never been jailed even once. Nor his son, Ali Riaz who is Bahria Town’s Chief executive. Both father and son have been nominated in numerous cases of murder, fraud and forgery but the so-called long arm of the law has been drastically…
Malik saga – thriller all the way-V
The saga of Malik Riaz’s success is not just about a poor man making it big in a rich man’s world. It is more about the manner in which he did that. This tells about the country where bribery and kickbacks and the use of brutal state apparatus against helpless people can make you a…
The real power behind Malik Riaz -IV
Politically Incorrect We might blame the politicians for buckling under the might of Malik Riaz but the real power behind the man is the military brass. No question about that. He learnt the ropes of the contracting trade early on when he worked as a clerk at Maintenance and Engineering Services (MES), a civilian branch…
Part III.Malik Riaz-the real power broker
Malik Riaz may just be a new phenomenon in Pakistan. No private individual may ever have exercised as much leverage over the state as he does. Is it because the state institutions have become so weak that they can be manipulated easily or is he a very smart man. Either way, this Realtor-in-Chief has got…
Will the real Malik Riaz please stand up?-II
Malik Riaz of Bahria Town may be the best prism through which one can understand today’s Pakistan. He personifies the potential that this ‘land of opportunities’ offers, provided you know how to go about it. Palm-greasing, he says, is an essential skill here and that he knows how to attach ‘wheels’ to his work files…
$45bn fiasco exposes Malik Riaz-I
Party Profiles
When the cat is away, PML-N returns to old ways
ISLAMABAD: It was back to old ways after Parliamentarians had approved changes in the Constitution besides making tall claims to wipe off religious terrorism from the country. Thursday was almost an anti-climax. The moment debate on the Peshawar carnage started, ministers were seen almost making a beeline to leave the premises. A few female members…
Parliament gives ‘Yes vote’ in bitter-sweet mood
ISLAMABAD: Once again, Pakistan embarked on the experiment of invoking military courts to try civilians as the Upper and Lower Houses of Parliament gave their consent to the changes in laws and the Constitution. Thankfully, there was no giggling this time around because of the tragic results of such courts in the past. The somber…
‘Giuliani moment’ for Nawaz or a pit of snakes?
Islamabad: It made sense for the PML-N government to postpone voting on the 21st constitutional amendment, even if it was necessitated by circumstance. We could see chink in the so-called national consensus. Obviously, the government could easily muster the required 228 votes for the constitutional amendment in the National Assembly as long as it was…
Special Report PML (Q, K, W, L, J, Z, F, M, P…)
Mohammad Ali Jinnah must be turning in his grave at the A to Z of Muslim League factions that are using his name and integrity for their political perpetuation — and what not. Successive dictatorships have raped the Quaid’s party so repeatedly that it is difficult to keep track of all the illegitimate offspring. Dictator…
Special Report on PPP – by Amir Mateen (Special Report PPP—(Part V) Confused workers have nowhere to go, lost without identity)
ISLAMABAD: The PPP workers have never felt as dispirited and lost as they do today. The reasons are emotional, political and material. But the foremost is the issue of identity. The party workers are confused as to what do they stand for; whether they should go along with the public support for the judiciary or…
Special Report PPP—(Part V)
By Amir Mateen ISLAMABAD: The PPP workers have never felt as dispirited and lost as they do today. The reasons are emotional, political and material. But the foremost is the issue of identity. The party workers are confused as to what do they stand for; whether they should go along with the public support for…
Special Report on PPP – by Amir Mateen (Special Report-PPP IV Who’s who in the invisible govt of Zardari)
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari looks taller by readily giving away his powers through the 18th Amendment. But this may have been one of the smartest moves that he ever made. Beneath this faÁade of a seemingly powerless Presidency lurks the most potent political and administrative machinery this country has ever seen. He has got…
Special Report-PPP 4 Who’s who in the invisible govt of Zardari
By Amir Mateen ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari looks taller by readily giving away his powers through the 18th Amendment. But this may have been one of the smartest moves that he ever made. Beneath this faÁade of a seemingly powerless Presidency lurks the most potent political and administrative machinery this country has ever seen.…
Special Report on PPP – by Amir Mateen (Special Report: PPP — Part-3 Baji Faryal now running PPP, emulating Benazir)
ISLAMABAD: The PPP, which survived the worst of three dictatorships, is ironically crumbling down in a democracy. Its leaders and workers withstood a lot over four decades: the hanging of its founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto; long imprisonments of its top leadership and workers; physical torture; the killing of Shahnawaz and Murtaza Bhutto under dubious circumstances…
Special Report: PPP — Part-3 Baji Faryal now running PPP, emulating Benazir
By Amir Mateen ISLAMABAD: The PPP, which survived the worst of three dictatorships, is ironically crumbling down in a democracy. Its leaders and workers withstood a lot over four decades: the hanging of its founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto; long imprisonments of its top leadership and workers; physical torture; the killing of Shahnawaz and Murtaza Bhutto…
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Free-for-all as PML-N fails to put its act together View from the Gallery
Amir Mateen ISLAMABAD: The PML-N government definitely needs to put its act together. It’s always embarrassing when a sitting government can’t maintain quorum, which means gathering a mere one-fourth members of the National Assembly. It was even more embarrassing for the PML-N government when the session got adjourned for the lack of quorum. The reason…
Free-for-all as PML-N fails to put its act together
ISLAMABAD: The PML-N government definitely needs to put its act together. It’s always embarrassing when a sitting government can’t maintain quorum, which means gathering a mere one-fourth members of the National Assembly. It was even more embarrassing for the PML-N government when the session got adjourned for the lack of quorum. The reason is that…
Parliament gives ‘Yes vote’ in bitter-sweet mood View from the Gallery
Amir Mateen ISLAMABAD: Once again, Pakistan embarked on the experiment of invoking military courts to try civilians as the Upper and Lower Houses of Parliament gave their consent to the changes in laws and the Constitution. Thankfully, there was no giggling this time around because of the tragic results of such courts in the past.…
‘Giuliani moment’ for Nawaz or a pit of snakes? View from the Gallery
Amir Mateen Islamabad: It made sense for the PML-N government to postpone voting on the 21st constitutional amendment, even if it was necessitated by circumstance. We could see chink in the so-called national consensus. Obviously, the government could easily muster the required 228 votes for the constitutional amendment in the National Assembly as long as…
Mountains crossed as everybody giggles View from the Gallery
Amir Mateen ISLAMABAD: It was as quick as it could be. They came, tabled the Bill, and adjourned the National Assembly till Monday. Political parties showed a rare unanimity in tabling the 21st Amendment Bill that, in normal circumstances, should have been most controversial. Yet there was not a hiss, a protest or a cry.…
Mountains crossed as everybody giggles
ISLAMABAD: It was as quick as it could be. They came, tabled the Bill, and adjourned the National Assembly till Monday. Political parties showed a rare unanimity in tabling the 21st Amendment Bill that, in normal circumstances, should have been most controversial. Yet there was not a hiss, a protest or a cry. Not even…
Nawaz in power seat as everything revolves around him; Oh really? View from the Gallery
Amir Mateen ISLAMABAD: With the fulcrum of political activity moving to the Prime Minister House, the parliamentary debate over the Peshawar aftermath seemed meaningless. Yet this did not deter backbenchers like Omer Ayub to contribute their two pence. As the grandson of the first dictator, whose family supported successive regimes also, Omer carried the…
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The thermosphere of Mars can be considered as a transition region between the lower atmosphere and the exosphere, the region where species can escape from the planet. Its physical state significantly affects the atmospheric escape, and hence its knowledge, including its variability, is required in order to understand the escape and its long-term evolution.
Despite its importance, the thermosphere is probably the most unknown region of the Martian atmosphere. Most of the information of this region comes from the aerobraking manoeuvres performed by the MGS, MO and MRO spacecrafts, and from the stellar occultations taken by SPICAM/Mars Express. The latter have allowed to derive temperature and density profiles, and to explore, for the first time, the seasonal and geographical variability of the thermosphere. The data prove that the Martian thermosphere is a complex and dynamically-active region, strongly affected by the coupling with the lower region. Thus, the effects of dust storms and the strong temperature variations in the lower atmosphere are clearly felt in the thermosphere. A global view of the atmosphere, from its interaction with the surface at the bottom to its exchange with space at the top, is required to understand this region.
Curiosity Approaching Mars, Artist's Concept. NASA
The thermospheric datasets described above have limited temporal and geographical coverage. Also, important aspects as the influence of the solar activity can be hardly explored with them. In particular, except part of the MGS aerobraking dataset, all of them are concentrated in the nightside. The dayside thermosphere, where solar radiation effects are stronger, i.e., directly by heating due to UV absorption and indirectly through the atmospheric expansion of the lower region caused by the dust absorption, remains almost unexplored.
This computer simulation, based on data from NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, spacecraft, shows the interaction of the streaming solar wind with Mars’ upper atmosphere. MAVEN is gathering information on the space environment at Mars—information that will be key to planning a human mission to Mars in the 2030s. Credits: X. Fang, University of Colorado, and the MAVEN science team
New perspectives
Several instruments on board Mars Express have observed daytime atmospheric emissions in the IR, and in the UV. Although temperature and density can be retrieved from them, these datasets are far from being fully exploited in the UV (e.g., the dayglow and H Lyman-alpha) or not at all in the IR. Some of them cover several Martian years, which open new perspectives as the inter-annual variability and the 11-year solar cycle effects, crudely addressed so far. Overall, they will provide a wider and deeper vision of the upper atmosphere, of its variability, and of its coupling with the lower atmosphere. We propose here to fully exploit those datasets.
Typical temperature profile of the Martian atmosphere
The study in the IR will focus on CO2 (4.3 and 2.7 µm) and on CO (4.7 µm) non-local thermal equilibrium (non-LTE) emissions, all observed by OMEGA and PFS. CO2 and CO, excited by solar radiation, give rise to strong daytime IR non-thermal emissions that provides information on the CO2 and CO densities. Although they have been studied before, they have not been used to retrieve density or temperature so far. Hence, they offer an excellent possibility to supply new data on temperature and density of the upper atmosphere. A novel retrieval technique will be developed and applied to the data described above. This will be the first time such non-LTE retrievals are performed on the Martian atmosphere. In the UV we will focus on the CO Cameron bands (170-270 nm) and the CO2+ emission (298-300 nm), both observed by SPICAM on Mars Express.
Thermospheric temperatures have been previously derived from these data but only marginally. Also, the most ambitious goal of deriving atmospheric densities has not been performed. We propose to derive the temperature profiles from the whole dataset and to retrieve, for the first time, the CO and CO2 density profiles. This dataset will complement the time and spatial coverage of those derived from the IR. A comprehensive model of these emissions (airglow) will be developed and implemented on a 1-D numerical model. The CO and CO2 densities in the dayside upper atmosphere will be derived from the model/observations comparison.
The densities measured at 110 km by SPICAM (vertical axis) suddenly increase when a regional dust develops (around Ls=130, after Withers and Pratt, 2013; Ls measures the orbital/seasonal period of Mars around the Sun). These changes can have dramatic effects on the aerobraking phase of orbiting spacecrafts. UPWARDS aims at detecting and understanding the magnitude and variability of these changes and other dynamical and chemical couplings with the lower atmosphere by exploiting a unique MEx dataset (in daytime conditions) unexploited so far.
The obtained temperatures and densities will be analysed by using a state-of-the-art Mars GCM, the LMD-MGCM, which couples all the physics, chemistry and dynamics relevant for the Martian atmosphere from the surface to the exosphere. In particular we plan to: a) look for correlations with previous night-time data; b) check the consistency of the CO retrievals; c) study the coupling with the lower atmosphere (strongly relate to the outcome of the water cycle and the dust and aerosols work packages); and d) produce, for the first time, global and dynamical (in time) maps of the UV dayglow. The latter will be achieved by developing a fast version of the airglow model to be used in the LMD-MGCM model.
Water vapour
Water vapour escapes to space in the form of atomic hydrogen, H. The hydrogen escape is therefore an important clue for the evolution of Mars water. This escape strongly depends on the temperature and density of the thermosphere, and on the amount of water vapour in the lower atmosphere. H will be derived in the upper atmosphere from its Lyman-alpha emission measured by SPICAM on Mars Express. Because of its large optical thickness, the inversion is not straightforward and challenging, requiring radiative transfer models with resonance multiple scattering. The H escape rate will then be further deduced from the H measurements. Some SPICAM data have already been analysed. Here we plan to perform the retrieval of the latest six years of SPICAM measurements (not done yet) and combine them with the available data.
The whole set of H data will then be analysed with the 3D LMD-MGCM model; expected to be improved in this project with a) the new water vapour that will be generated (WP1) and b) the water cycle (WP4). In particular, we will study the H seasonal and solar cycle variability, the episodic Lyman-alpha variations observed by SPICAM; and will look for potential correlations to dust load in the lower atmosphere.
Mars's escaping atmosphere—carbon, oxygen, hydrogen—made by MAVEN UV spectrograph).
Summary outcome: First-time densities in the dayside atmosphere from 60 to 160 km. First-time 3-D map of UV airglow emissions consistent with data. Coupling with lower atmospheric dust/thermal conditions and water cycle impacts on atmospheric escape.
Dedicated Work Package: WP7
Links to other UPWARDS activities: WP1, WP4, WP5, WP6, WP8, WP9
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Euro MPs axe illegal timber trade
MEPs have taken an axe to the illegal logging trade today by banning the sale of illegal timber in Europe and setting up strict penalties for those caught doing so.
Illegal logging is estimated to represent 20-40% of global industrial wood production, and contributes heavily to carbon emissions and the destruction of biodiversity.
South East England's Lib Dem Euro MP Catherine Bearder commented, "Illegal logging causes environmental, economic and human devastation right across the world. By saying "no" to these timber cowboys in Europe we can do our bit to support developing countries and protect forests ravaged by illegal logging."
"This action will support responsible timber producers who employ sustainable and legal methods, for whom the illegal timber trade depresses prices for by up to 16%."
"The EU has taken an important step in cutting the illegal timber trade down to size. We must now ensure that member states enforce this ban properly."
WWF estimates that around €3bn of illegal timber from places like the Congo Basin and Indonesia reaches the EU every year. The new rules impose strict fines for those caught first placing illegal timber on the European market and establishes traceability through the whole supply chain.
Illegal deforestation has devastating effects. On a global level, deforestation as a whole is estimated to contribute 20% of greenhouse gas emissions. Where it occurs, soil degradation, loss of biodiversity and landslides are all potential problems. The plunder of this natural resource also hits forest-dependent peoples and the economies of developing countries.
Council has already informally agreed with the terms of this draft legislation but will need to rubber stamp it before it can pass into law. The rules are expected to take effect in late 2012 to allow timber operators time to adapt.
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When Being Alone Turns Into Loneliness, There Are Ways to Fight Back
Occasional Loneliness Is a Near-Universal Feeling, Therapists Say, That Individuals Can Identify and Work to Change
ELIZABETH BERNSTEIN
Loneliness is as strong a predictor of early death as alcoholism and smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and it turns out you don’t actually have to be alone to feel lonely. Elizabeth Bernstein has the latest research and Leeanne Rebic Hay shares her experience. Photo: Getty Images.
I spend a fair amount of time by myself. One recent day, I worked, read, cleaned my desk, took a walk, made soup and chatted with my best friend on the phone. By evening, I felt productive and content.
Then, for the first time in hours, I checked my phone. There was not one new text, call or email—not even from Groupon. Wasn’t anyone thinking of me?
It got me thinking: How does being alone turn into being lonely?
Some people crave time alone, but experts say occasional feelings of loneliness are a near-universal experience.
Experts say lonely people often create that feeling by telling themselves a story with the theme “Nobody likes me.” Tanya Lam
Evolutionary psychologists say the lonely feeling developed to alert humans—social animals who rely on each other to survive—that they were too close to the perimeter of the group and at risk of becoming prey.
Spending time alone is more fun when it is by choice. When it is the result of loss, separation or isolation, people are likely to experience it as loneliness. Homesickness, bullying, empty-nesting, bereavement and unrequited love are all variations on the theme. Loneliness isn’t depression, which is a lasting feeling of deep sadness and hopelessness and should be treated by a professional.
Researchers at Brigham Young University studying the correlation between social relationships and mortality did a 2010 meta-analysis of 148 studies encompassing more than 300,000 participants. They found loneliness was as strong a predictor of early death as was alcoholism or smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and it was a stronger predictor than obesity or a sedentary lifestyle.
The rate of loneliness in the U.S. has doubled in the past 30 years, says John T. Cacioppo, a psychologist and director of the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, who studies loneliness including analysis of several large studies. These days, he estimates, some 40% of Americans report being lonely, up from 20% in the 1980s.
It can be tricky to recognize loneliness, even after a breakup, separation or loss. Some experts define it as social isolation or dissatisfaction with one’s relationships. It often has an emotional trigger. Tanya Lam
Why are we experiencing more loneliness? Many more American adults live alone than ever before, with the percentage of one-person households rising to 27% in 2012 from 17% in 1970, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. As baby boomers age, they are dealing with more solitude and seclusion. And, to be frank, many of us spend way too much time behind electronic screens and not nearly enough on our real, in-person connections.
You don’t have to be alone to be lonely, as anyone who has suffered through a bad relationship or an awkward holiday gathering can attest. “Loneliness is the feeling of social isolation or dissatisfaction with your relationships,” Dr. Cacioppo says. “It’s not just about whether there are others around you. It’s about whether the ones around you are those you can trust.” Some people are genetically more prone to loneliness than others, he says.
Men and women experience loneliness at roughly equal rates, Dr. Cacioppo says, but the kinds of social interaction they may be missing are different. Women generally long for face-to-face social interactions, whereas men are looking for a collective sense of connecting within a group. (So that explains the Super Bowl!)
Therapists say loneliness, in its most unhealthy form, is a distorted way of thinking that often has an emotional trigger—whether it is a big change like a breakup or a geographic move, or something as simple as attending a wedding alone or bickering with a sibling.
The result is the same. Our subconscious rewinds back to when we were young and worried someone else wasn’t going to be there to take care of us. It is the negative thought “I don’t matter.”
Some experts say loneliness is evoked by an “emotional memory” of being a child in need of help. Remind yourself that you aren’t that child anymore. You have people in your life and can bring in more.Tanya Lam
“Loneliness can be evoked by an emotional memory,” says Lauren Mackler, a Boston psychotherapist and relationship coach and author of “Solemate: Master the Art of Aloneness and Transform Your Life.”
Leeanne Rebic Hay, a 54-year-old freelance writer in Plano, Texas, considers herself lucky that she learned to enjoy time spent alone. She was an only child, attended private school and had a working mother and few friends in her neighborhood.
Her mother encouraged her to go alone to the library or to swim at the YMCA, and to learn to cook and sew. “I would tell my mother, ‘I don’t want to go there,’ and she would say, ‘Go, you don’t know who you will meet,’ ” recalls Ms. Hay. “She taught me you can choose not to be lonely.”
A lonely person may have a strong impulse to isolate himself further. Some activities, like reading, really are best enjoyed alone. But to conquer loneliness, it is necessary to make an effort to look outward. Tanya Lam
As an adult, Ms. Hay got through lonely times after a divorce by attending the opera solo, exploring new cities when traveling for work, doing volunteer work and taking a cake-decorating class. She says she taught her children to be similarly self-sufficient. Still, Ms. Hay says she was surprised by how lonely she felt following the death last month of her 13-year-old terrier, Marty.
After Ms. Hay remarried, Marty was her constant companion: He went with her every morning to pick up the mail, kept her company in her home office, took afternoon walks with her and made a giant fuss over her whenever she came back home after going out without him.
Now, she relies on skills she learned as a child, gardening, writing and cooking. “You can tell yourself, ‘I am alone, nobody likes me, everyone hates me,’ ” she says. “But you have to ask yourself: ‘What can I choose to do to not feel lonely?’ ”
To stop “alone” from sliding into “lonely,” start by recognizing that you are the one telling yourself that you feel lonely. “You are creating the experience of loneliness by how you are thinking and behaving,” Ms. Mackler says.
Imagine new places to go and things to do that will create new experiences other than loneliness. Join a club, or volunteer. Make it part of your routine to get out and be around people. Tanya Lam
Acknowledge that you feel bad. “The uncomfortable feelings are there. They are not going to go away on their own,” says Pandora MacLean-Hoover, a licensed independent clinical social worker in Cambridge, Mass. “It’s good to acknowledge them and then try to think differently.”
Change the mental story you tell yourself. Remember that there are people who care about you; they may just be busy at the moment.
Turn being alone into a positive. Do things you enjoy doing alone, like reading or walking. But make it part of your routine to be around people. Join a club, volunteer. If all else fails, have dinner at the bar in your favorite restaurant. Talk to the bartender.
How did I get over my recent bout of loneliness? I read a few chapters of a hilarious Carl Hiaasen book. Then I checked my phone. I had 24 new messages. It turns out my phone had been turned off before.
My next thought was, “What do all these people want? Why can’t they leave me alone?”
—Write to Elizabeth Bernstein at Bonds@wsj.com or follow her at www.Facebook.com/EBernsteinWSJ orwww.Twitter.com/EBernsteinWSJ.
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Interviewing one of the last surviving Buffalo Soldiers,
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And telling the story of a Manhattan Beach test pilot who was the first man to survive a supersonic bailout of an aircraft,
He also authored the authorized biography of the iconic child actor Ken Osmond, (Eddie Haskell from the TV series Leave it to Beaver.
A lover of crime fiction, he has published several short stories, and is the author of the One Eyed Jack series about a professional blackmailer that operates in and around the South Bay area of Los Angeles. The debut novel in the series was a 2013 Shamus Award finalist, and a 2014 Writers Digest honorable mention for genre fiction.
Christopher likes to give back to his community by teaching writing to at-risk youth, and serving as a mentor for the Men For Honor writing program at the maximum-security prison north of Los Angeles.
When he’s not writing, Christopher enjoys mountain climbing and distance cycling. He’s reached the summits of Mount Whitney, Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, as well as a trek to Mount Everest Base Camp. He once trained and led eleven blind hikers to the summit of 10,000-ft. Mount Baldy, the highest point in Los Angeles County, and the third highest point in Southern California. A documentary film is being made of the adventure. His latest adventure was a bicycling trip of Cuba that he completed in March of 2016.
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ARTICLE: Timber sale gets strong price growth for coffers
Philip Hopkins
The Age, May 15, 2006
Cutting to the chase. Some in the timber industry believe the prices achieved have been manipulated.
VICFORESTS' first auction of native forest timber has dramatically increased the money going to Treasury's coffers, but has been strongly criticised by the timber industry.
The weighted average price of timber sold was 43 per cent higher than the prices paid by timber mills under the current licence system. Some wood lots were 118 per cent higher, while others were 22 per cent lower.
VicForests' sales director, Matthew Crapp, said the percentage increases were on top of the 10-20 per cent price rises for licensed timber brought in last year.
The auction was the first in the new timber sales system that VicForests, the State Government's commercial forestry arm, will progressively introduce over the next decade.
The current system, where sawmills receive long-term licences and VicForests sets the prices for the various sawlog grades, will be phased out.
All native forest timber will be sold at auction by 2015.
A total of 174,100 cubic metres of sawlogs in 47 lots was sold, with forward sales spread over all years until 2014-15. Revenue was $3 million higher over the 10 years than it would have been under the administered system.
Mr Crapp said the catalogue was small, but gave bidders the opportunity to use the new system. "The system worked well and is broadly accepted," he said.
The average lot size was 1610 cubic metres, with the largest 5000 cubic metres and the smallest 500 cubic metres. The 931 bids involved 14,000 different price calculations.
A total of 42 bidders qualified for the first two auctions, and 34 eventually placed bids, with 18 successful. All were Victorian domestic processors.
Mr Crapp said competition was strongest for the higher-grade lots, which was reflected in the higher prices.
"The higher-grade logs tended to go to the value-adding sawmills," he said.
"Bidding dropped during rounds three and four, when most lots went above the administrative price levels."
Mr Crapp said the specialised, mixed species lots from East Gippsland, such as yellow stringybark and silvertop ash, received the best prices.
Longer-term lots outperformed the shorter-term, and larger lots were also more popular. The prices would be more moderate in the long term, he said.
The director of operations at the Victorian Association of Forest Industries, Nick Murray, said while industry accepted the auction model, it was not a true market-based system.
"It is conducted by a monopoly supplier that, with other parts of government, dictates the release of wood to the market in terms of volume and tenure," he said.
"It thus has the ability to manipulate both to extract the maximum price from buyers."
Mr Murray said despite the State Government's formal commitment to a sustainable yield of 560,000 cubic metres of sawlogs, industry remained uncertain about the total volume of wood available in the future. This uncertainty created an artificial market environment and helped explain why the auction prices were so high.
Mr Murray said the prices were much higher than administered prices for wood in other states. "These higher prices are not necessarily a reflection of the intrinsic commercial value of this wood," he said.
Mr Murray said bidders marginally costed the wood and offset this against wood supplied under the supply contracts.
The small catalogue lots also gave the market the chance to "cherry pick" prime lots, while other bidders used the auction to improve their wood quality so as to forfeit supply of lower-quality wood, he said.
Mr Murray said many big businesses did not win any wood, or only small volumes. This indicated the prices were unrealistic and uncommercial for business of scale, he said.
VicForests will hold a second auction this month for 680,000 cubic metres of sawlog. Mr Crapp said this would give an indication of what the future timber industry might look like.
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Continent: South and East Asia
Type: Metropolitan Archdiocese
Area: 13,961 km²
Population: 55,414 Catholics (0.7% of 8,111,840 total) (2018)
Statistics: 46 parishes, 8 missions, 173 priests (38 diocesan, 135 religious), 664 lay religious (151 brothers, 513 sisters), 27 seminarians (2018)
Suffragan Sees: Bongaigaon, Dibrugarh, Diphu, Itanagar, Miao, Tezpur
Neighbouring Dioceses: Nongstoin (↙), Tura (↙), Bongaigaon (←), Darjeeling (↑), Tezpur (↗), Jowai (↘), Shillong (↓)
Depends on: Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
Patron Saint: Christ the Bearer of the Good News
1992.03.30: Established as Diocese of Guwahati / Guvahatin(us) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Shillong–Gauhati, Diocese of Tezpur and Diocese of Tura)
1995.07.10: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Guwahati / Guvahatin(us) (Latin)
2000.05.10: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Bongaigaon
Special Churches
Cathedral: Christ the Bearer of the Good News Cathedral, Guwahati, Assam
Co-Cathedral: St. Joseph’s Co-Cathedral, Guwahati, Assam
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Metropolitan Archbishop (2012.01.18 – ...): Archbishop John Moolachira (69)
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(2012.01.18 – ...)
Metropolitan Archbishop of Guwahati (India)
Born: 1951.12.14 (India)
Ordained Priest: 1978.10.23
Consecrated Bishop: 2007.04.15
Bishop of Diphu (India) (2007.02.14 – 2011.04.09)
Coadjutor Archbishop of Guwahati (India) (2011.04.09 – 2012.01.18)
Metropolitan Archbishop of Guwahati (India) (2012.01.18 – ...)
Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil, S.D.B. (84)
(1995.07.10 – 2012.01.18)
Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Guwahati (India)
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Bishop of Dibrugarh (India) (1981.06.19 – 1992.03.30)
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Coadjutor Archbishop: Archbishop John Moolachira (69) (2011.04.09 – 2012.01.18)
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‘Ronaldo and I have no relationship, I doubt we will be friends’ – Messi
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Lionel Messi doubts whether he and Cristiano Ronaldo will ever be friends.
The Barcelona and Real Madrid superstars are the greatest players of their generation, if not of all time.
But playing for Spain’s two biggest clubs means they have not formed a personal relationship.
And Messi does not think there is time for it now.
“I do not know if we will be [friends]m” he told Marca . “Friendship is something that is built through spending time together and getting to know each other.
“We have no relationship, but mostly because we only see each other in the awards ceremonies and it is the only time we speak. At that moment everything is fine, but then we do not cross paths again.”
Messi was speaking following the presentation of his European Golden Shoe award where he refused to discuss his future.
The Argentine playmaker, who won the award for the fourth time after scoring 37 league goals last season, has not yet signed the new deal the club say he has agreed, meaning he will be free to join another team next season.
Barcelona insist that his father, Jorge Messi, has signed three contracts which tie him to the club until 2021, but the situation is unclear because the player has not put pen to paper on any of them himself. (SUnUK)
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MAN, LCCI react as CBN gov says road ahead still rough, very tough
by easyclick May 16, 2019
written by easyclick May 16, 2019
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, has said the road ahead of the country’s economy is still rough, urging Nigerians to pray for the Muhammadu Buhari administration.
Emefiele said this in Abuja on Wednesday when he was screened by the Senate following his nomination for a second term by the President.
Members of the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions grilled Emefiele on various issues affecting the economy.
Responding to some comments by members of the panel, the CBN boss said there were Nigerians bent on sabotaging the economy by creating loopholes in government policies.
He said, “I thank you for praying for me because we need it. I say this because the road ahead is still rough and very tough. But I want to appeal to all Nigerians that a time comes in the history of a country where you have to learn to respect the policies and laws of a country.
“Part of the problem that we have seen in Nigeria is a lack of respect for the policies of this country. Nigeria is very good at putting in place policies that are sound and workable. But implementation has always been almost zero. And it is arising because we see sabotage activities; we see people, when policies are made, what they think about is ‘how do we circumvent this policy?’
“The Central Bank of Nigeria, if given this mandate, will push very hard to ensure that those who seek to undermine the policies of Nigeria without respecting the laws of this country will be brought to book under any circumstances. And that is why I said, please pray for us because the road ahead is still rough.”
Emefiele also raised concerns over the country’s rising population without commensurate economic prosperity.
He said, “We just came back from the IMF/World Bank programme in April. And in the World Bank’s/IMF’s World Economic Outlook, Nigeria is positioned as a country whose population will grow and rise to over 425 million people by 2050. That will present Nigeria as a country with the third largest population in the world after China and India, and indeed surpassing the United States in population.
“I worry and I do think that we all should worry that a lot of work needs to be done to make sure that we are able to put in place policies that will make life good for 425 million people when we are the third largest population in the world. So, we from the CBN –from the monetary policy side – have come to the realisation that using the instrumentality of the Anchor Borrowers Programme where access to credit is being provided to the masses all over the country, that it will be a way to generate employment and boost economic activity amongst our rural population.”
According to the apex bank’s chief, as a result of the Anchor Borrowers Programme through which over N190bn has been disbursed to over 1.1 million farmers cultivating over 1.3 million hectares of land, there is a need to do more.
He said, “As we do this, we make finance available at low interest rate and we make access to credit easy for our people. And in doing this, we will be able to create jobs for them and improve the livelihood of our people. That is a sole mandate that we have and I am very optimistic that this can be achieved. So, from our side in the monetary policy, we will do everything possible to ensure that with the mandate that is bestowed on us, we will pull this country forward.”
Emefiele added that apart from the Anchor Borrowers Programme, the CBN was also looking at programmes targeted at wholesale growth of the agricultural sector.
He said, “Aside from rice and other small good crop markets, we have started looking at palm oil, because we believe that this country has a lot of potential in palm oil. If you think about what this country was in the 50s and 60s, Nigeria being a country at that time that controlled 40 per cent market share in palm oil industry, exporting its palm oil to different parts of the world. But because we found crude oil, we receded and abandoned it.”
Reacting, the President, Manufacturers’ Association of Nigeria, Mansur Ahmed, urged the FG to take tough decisions to ensure economic stability in the country.
Ahmed said, “A lot of things need to be done in this country. For instance, the petroleum subsidy is clearly an issue that needs to be addressed and will require some hard decisions. On the issue of power, some very difficult decisions have to be taken as well.
“Possibly also, the government is going to be firmer in terms of the security situation. So, in my understanding of the CBN governor’s statement, some hard decisions will have to be taken, which may in the short run create some pain.”
He said there was a need for people to understand and be prepared for what is coming.
He added, “We cannot continue the way we are. The current level of unemployment is unacceptable; the security situation is totally unacceptable, and clearly, these things cannot be resolved without some tough decisions being taken.”
The Lagos State Chamber of Commerce and Industry said the current economic situation should not get worse than this.
The LCCI’s Director-General, Muda Yusuf, urged the FG to do whatever needed to be done to ensure that things did not get worse in the country.
He said if there was any need for the CBN governor to review the monetary policy, he should do so.
Yusuf said many businesses had not been doing well because the purchasing power was weak, adding that the high rate of unemployment, insecurity had also affected the economy.
He said, “If there is a need for the CBN governor to review the monetary policy, he should do it, in this his second term in office.
“I say this because the purchasing power of Nigerians is weak, the welfare is nothing to write home about, there is unemployment, the security situation is scary and many businesses are not doing.”
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Vegetarian Victoria
Vegetarian Victoria works to promote the health, animal welfare, and environmental benefits of vegetarianism and veganism. We provide support and up-to-date information to vegetarians and vegans and the general community and have a periodical newsletter of relevance to vegetarians and vegans. We work in co-operation with other vegetarian and vegan associations and groups in Australia and organise heaps of events including World Vegan Day, an annual ball, trivia nights, cooking and DIY skin care workshops, social get togethers and education.
Anyone can help out whether vegetarian, vegan or simply interested. Volunteering is a great way to meet new people, learn all the latest veg information and help to make the world a more compassionate, friendlier and smarter place. We regularly have stalls at festivals and events that you can help out with, or get involved with organising our own events.
vegvic.org.au
Very Edible Gardens
VEG - Very Edible Gardens offer weekend and evening courses aimed mostly at food gardening beginners. We have developed teaching styles and strategies to help fast-track people on to the road of good health and sustainability through fun workshops which mix theory with hands-on practice delivered with good humour and genuine passion. VEG run permaculture introduction courses, edible weeds walks and workshops on composting, soil, raising chickens, organic gardening and lots more. Prices range from $15 to $2,000 for a Permaculture Design Certificate.
Check out all their short courses and weed walks and heaps more stuff.
veryediblegardens.com.au
Victorian Association of Environmental Education
The Victorian Association of Environmental Education is driven by a voluntary council of elected members, which is made up of teachers, educational professionals from industry, business and education who share an interest in environmental education. VAEE promotes and supports the development of environmental education in schools and the community through its own initiatives and by encouraging and supporting individuals and groups whose goals and approaches are consistent with its own. Through environmental education, VAEE aims to help individuals develop awareness of environmentally responsible attitudes and skills a commitment to take effective action to meet environmental needs.
Check the VAEE website for opportunities for students and teachers to participate in professional development workshops and revision lectures. There is also great information on tertiary education in the environmental field.
vaee.vic.edu.au
Victorian Child and Nature Connection
The Victorian Child and Nature Connection acts to empower, connect and grow a movement of individuals, families and organisations who are committed to reconnecting children with nature. We are a cross-sectoral network with involvement of community leaders from the health, education, environment and community fields. It aims to link up various initiatives within Victoria that promote nature play in order to enhance child health, promote creative play and facilitate connection to the natural world.
By giving children opportunities to play outside and experience nature as an integral part of their lives, we will put them on the path to a healthy and happy future. A future in which our society values and looks after the natural systems that support and sustain all life on earth.
Take a look at the resources on the VCNC website and find out about activities happening in Melbourne.
victorianchildandnatureconnection.org
Victorian National Parks Association
VNPA run Victoria's largest bushwalking and outdoor activities program and campaign for nature conservation and biodiversity. While there are many reasons to protect natural areas, the VNPA has always been driven by one overriding concern for the protection of Victoria's biodiversity. It aims to do this by establishing a truly representative system of national parks and reserves in the state. With Victoria's national parks under unprecedented attack it's time to stand up to protect the places we love. Campaigns include protecting parks and other special places, marine and coastal conservation and countering urban sprawl.
Volunteer with VNPA in areas such as: overseeing VNPA operations, on Council, or on specialist committees; leading bushwalking and outdoor activities programs; campaign support and promotion; or other day-to-day administrative tasks. Join a Friends Group in your local area and help conserve reserves, natural areas, and indigenous flora and fauna. Join ParkMates, VNPA's park survey support team and help monitor the state of our park system.
vnpa.org.au
Walkatjurra Cultural Learning and Education Centre
"Yamarr Kanyira" is the motto of Walkatjurra Cultural Centre it means to be the custodian of culture and traditions. We aim provide all Aboriginal people in the Northern Goldfields region with a valuable repository of cultural information, a base for culturally relevant activities such as land management, cultural maintenance, and arts-based enterprise. The Walkatjurra Cultural Centre operates three key activities, Ngalia Foundation's Goldfields Aboriginal Languages Project, the Walkatjurra Ranger Project and the Walkatjurra Art Project. The Ranger group provide opportunities for community members to undertake cultural maintenance activities, for youth to learn and for elders to promote their culture, and leads a month long walk annually across country effected by uranium mining (Walkajurra Walkabout).
We always welcome people with skills and expertise seeking an experience in outback WA and an opportunity to join us in our various projects. You can either do it officially through an organisation like Indigenous Community Volunteers or just contact us directly via email through our website.
walkatjurra.org
Walkatjurra Walkabout
Walkatjurra Walkabout – Walking for Country, an annual month long walk from Yeelirrie to Leonora in WA, is a celebration of Wangkatja country, a testament to the strength of the community who have fought to stop uranium mining at Yeelirrie for over forty years, and a chance to come together to continue share our commitment to a sustainable future without nuclear. It is a chance to reconnect with the land, and to revive the tradition of walking for country. The walk is lead by the Walkatjurra Rangers, in partnership with Footprints for Peace, Western Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (WANFA), the Anti Nuclear Alliance of Western Australia (ANAWA) and the Conservation Council of Western Australia (CCWA).
Join the walk for a once in a life time experience or support the walk by contributing camp supplies or donating.
walkingforcountry.com
Warburton Environment
Warburton Environment is a small community organisation that carries out education, takes guided forest walks, hosts guest speakers and art exhibitions to protect the spectacular native forests surrounding the area that are subject to intensive logging. Warburton Environment put out a beautiful annual calendar with environmental awareness and sustainability information to raise funds for the forest.
Contact the group through Facebook or at community events in Warburton to get involved.
Warburton Habitat Tree
Warburton Habitat staff are a dedicated group of environmental educators who share a passion for nature, conservation and the Central Highlands of Victoria. We offer a broad knowledge of the environment specialising in areas of water, conservation, endangered species and local history. We are building of community awareness around the health and conservation of Victoria’s native forests, native wildlife and aquatic ecosystems. Increased ecological understanding will encourage individuals, groups and whole communities to take responsibility for the impact their actions have on nature and the world around them resulting in a respectful society that supports the sustainability of all living things!
Schools, sign up for one of our programs, ask a teacher to come to your school or take part in an biodiversity tour in our discovery centre.
habitattree.com.au
Warriors of Aboriginal Resistance
WAR is a collective of young Aboriginal people committed to the cause of decolonization and the philosophy of Aboriginal nationalism - resistance and revival. In 2015 WAR organised rallys attended by thousands of people to protest the forced closure of remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia. There's heaps lined up for this year.
Visit the WAR facebook page to find out about upcoming events and actions and come along.
West Hobart Environment Network
WHEN is a cooperative action by residents of West Hobart, to strengthen our community and to create a more sustainable future for our children. We have several working groups focussing on areas like gardening and food and sustainable transport. We will facilitate community projects and disseminate information relating to sustainable living. WHEN is part of the international Transition Towns movement which is working to build more resilient and vibrant local communities.
Check out our blog and add your own posts, contact our coordinator to get involved in a particular group. And take a look at our Walking West Hobart map.
westhobartenvnet.blogspot.com.au
Western Australian Forest Alliance
The WA Forest Alliance was formed in 1990 to provide an umbrella body for the many community organisations in Perth and throughout the south-west concerned with forest conservation. We are dedicated to the protection of WA’s native forests and woodlands and an end to the logging, thinning and clearing of our public forests and woodlands. It is time for WA’s karri and jarrah forests to be protected and for the timber industry to complete the transition into sustainably managed plantations and farm forestry. A timber industry restructured in this way will be in the best environmental, social and economic interests of the State. The WA Forest Alliance has 20 member groups.
Please sign the online petition and share the link with your networks, volunteer or donate.
waforestalliance.org
Western Australian Nuclear Free Alliance
WANFA, formed out of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance meeting in September 2009 is made up of Aboriginal Traditional Land Owners and their allies who are concerned about uranium mining on their country in Western Australia, from the Pilbara, the Kimberley, the Goldfields, the Great Victorian Desert, the Central Desert, the Gascoyne, Perth and the South West. WANFA demands that the government and industry respect the basic human rights of Aboriginal peoples and adhere to the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, respecting our right to self-determination and engaging with Aboriginal peoples within the framework of the principle of free, prior and informed consent. Current campaigns include opposing a national nuclear waste dump and protecting WA's biggest national park (Kintyre) from uranium mining.
Get in touch with WANFA to join the campaign, stay up to date with protests and actions online, or get involved with the WANFA Roadshow that travels to remote communities to provide information about the uranium industry.
nuclearfree.wordpress.com
Wildlife of the Central Highlands (WOTCH)
Wildlife of the Central Highlands is a grassroots organisation working towards the protection of Victoria’s native forests and their flora, fauna and ecological values by means of citizen science, collaboration and community engagement.The Central Highlands of Victoria are located 90 minutes north-east of Melbourne. Here, you can find forests of towering Mountain Ash: the tallest flowering plants in the world. These forest are the most carbon-dense on the planet and host a suite of unique and rare wildlife.
The tragedy of the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires devastated a vast area of the Central Highlands. Despite this, clear-fell logging still continues within the Central Highlands, further imposing the threat of extinction on the native wildlife of the forest.
Come to the forest with us and learn how to spotlight for wildlife, write up reports and send them to the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning to try and protect them. Join in the campaign to end logging in our native forests.
Wildlife Protection Association of Australia
We actively engage government and industry to provide accountable and sustainable policies and practices to better manage our fragile environment. We are pledged to campaign against all actions which threaten the current or future existence of our wildlife. We promote positive community attitudes through education, communication and advocacy. The single most important issue facing our wildlife is lack of education. WPAA provides a range of educational products and services. WPAA runs campaigns against the commercial killing of kangaroos and trophy hunting, flying fox shooting, the Tasmanian mutton bird kill; raise awareness about the impacts of bush fires, land clearing and increasing population; and campaign for increased wildlife and marine protection, especially the protection of Fraser Island's dingos.
We invite members to raise issues of concern, then lobby government to have those issues addressed. This includes regular correspondence and meetings with relevant ministers and government departments to progress issues raised by members.
wildlifeprotectaust.org.au
Wildlife Rescue NSW
The primary function of Wildlife Rescue is to provide a call centre service throughout NSW for the rescue of native animals. This service is provided free of charge to voluntary organisations engaged in such rescues. A team of qualified WRI rescuers is being established for the Coffs Harbour region.
Become a member and participate in phone duty, rescues or other activities.
wildliferescue.net.au
Wildlife Victoria
Wildlife Victoria has been at the forefront of wildlife rescue and rehabilitation in Victoria since 1989. We are one of the largest wildlife rescue, care and rehabilitation organisations operating a comprehensive statewide, wildlife rescue network. WV deals with the end result of wildlife that has been injured or displaced through human activity, road trauma (the other road toll), feral animals, tree felling, land clearing and pollution.
WV provides a 24 hour phone line for wildlife rescue, placement and expert advice; runs environmental awareness and public education programs; runs forums and training for wildlife rehabilitators regarding caring for native wildlife; provide discounted animal food supplies and equipment to members; and assistance in other areas of emergency wildlife rescue and wildlife management such as bushfires, floods, oil spills, translocation and reintroduction of wildlife.
You can get involved with hands-on animal rescues or volunteer from your own home. This varying level of volunteering means we can find something for almost anyone who wants to help. Wildline, our 24-hour wildlife rescue network is always in need of volunteers to either provide advice and contacts for the nearest wildlife shelter, or organise a rescue. All Wildline volunteers receive training and an extensive manual.
wildlifevictoria.org.au
WIRE Women's Information
Women across Victoria contact WIRE Women’s Information for support, information and referrals on any issues, such as family relationships and legal issues; domestic/family violence; housing and homelessness; emotional well-being; mental health—anxiety, fear, stress and depression; and job search, study options and community volunteering. It’s free and confidential. WIRE runs many free programs for women including Job Coaching sessions, legal clinics, computer classes and our AMICA Women’s Lunch Club. Our daily work and research projects with women inform and support our advocacy work on women’s key issues, such as the prevention of violence against women, and women’s equal participation in the workforce.
If you are interested in volunteering and training at WIRE as a telephone support worker call 1300 134 130 to register your interest and to attend our next training orientation session. We run three training programs a year in February, May and October. Besides our telephone support workers, volunteers and student placements also assist us in the Information Centre and the office. Others offer their professional expertise in areas such as communication, photography or IT on a project or ongoing basis.
wire.org.au
Women’s Health In the North (WHIN)
The work of Women’s Health In the North (WHIN) aims to strengthen women’s health, safety and wellbeing, with a strategic focus on preventing violence against women, sexual and reproductive rights, economic participation and environmental justice. WHIN's Northern Integrated Family Violence Services (NIFVS) Coordination Team leads the implementation of the Victorian Government's family violence reforms in Melbourne's northern metropolitan region. We have particular expertise in meeting the needs of women who are most marginalised by the health system, and who might generally be referred to as ‘hard to reach’ or ‘at risk’.
To volunteer or become a free member of WHIN, or apply for a student placement position please call or email the office.
whin.org.au
Woor-dungin
Woor-Dungin’s vision is for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their rich culture to be acknowledged, valued and embraced by Australian society.
Woor-Dungin is a coalition of Indigenous organisations, philanthropic trusts and foundations, pro-bono service providers and community groups working in partnership to enable Indigenous organisations to achieve self determination and access the resources and support needed to address issues affecting their communities. The purpose of Woor-Dungin is to increase resources, build strong partnerships and share knowledge to fulfil the purpose of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations. We strengthen the capacity of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander organisations through training, mentoring/support and provision of comprehensive website resources.
Contact us to find out how to get involved.
rosshouse.org.au
World League for the Protection of Animals
Established in 1935, WLPA campaigns for the protection of kangaroos and the end of the commercial killing industry, gathers research and statistics in relation to 1080 and the devastating impacts it has on wildlife, and campaigns to achieve social change in neglectful and ambivalent attitudes towards cats, both owned and unowned, in urban areas.
Become a foster carer for a cat or dog, become a member or volunteer with us.
wlpa.org
Yarra Campaign for Action on Transport
YCAT is a community coalition of individuals and local groups concerned about the proposed East West Link impacts in Abbotsford, Collingwood, Fitzroy, Carlton, Carlton North and Clifton Hill. After a strong community campaign, in 2015 the project was officially cancelled. We are now campaigning for a train line to Doncaster and better public transport. Our focus is networking, skills and information sharing, although there are numerous individuals, local organisations and members of several political groups who are involved with this campaign, working towards improvements to Melbourne's public transport, and against the proposed East West Link. We warmly welcome anyone with these shared goals to become involved with our group.
You can also take action – please inform all your family, friends, neighbours, work colleagues, school & friends about what is planned in our suburbs.
ycat.org.au
YCAN - Yarra Climate Action Now
Yarra Climate Action Now is a grassroots community group in inner-city Melbourne made up of people who want to see much stronger action on climate change. We are pushing for the urgent worldwide action needed to avoid runaway climate change and the associated impacts. We are interested in the possibility of making a difference in the community through education, lobbying, workshops and other activities. We are part of the Climate Emergency Network and a national network of grassroots climate action groups. This site will be a place for us to talk about climate change issues, exchange ideas, link to information and hopefully open a world of possibilities.
Please feel free to ask questions or make suggestions - community input is always appreciated! You can email us if you would like to: know more about YCAN or join our announcements list; learn more about climate change issues and solutions; get involved in events (in a small or large way); gain or share some knowledge or skills; check out our general meetings (second Wednesday evening of the month in Fitzroy).
ycan.org.au
Youth Food Movement
Youth Movement aim to build the skills, knowledge and experience that young people have around food. We run food education projects for young people regarding the challenges facing farmers, the basics of how food grows and how it reaches our plate, and how to interpret labels and cook nutricious meals. Through this we build a generation of people that are healthier, more connected to our food and land, and better able to support farmers without it costing us the earth. Knowing where your food comes from matters.
If you’re ready to do something real, something that feels good not only because it’s fun, but also because you’re building the world you want to live in, we’d love to have you as part of the YFM community. Apply online to become an event volunteer or leadership team volunteer in Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane.
youthfoodmovement.org.au
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My son sits in the garden and collects snails.
This one is called Doug he says because he’s dug.
He holds a tangi for a dead one.
We are gathered here today to honour Jim.
He does heaps of balancing and climbing and that’s why he is called Jim. Because he does gym.
He had a moth called Climby because he climbs.
His spider is Hank The Wrestling Shark.
Snails, he tells me, are very kind. They help your garden and they’re very scared of people because people can step on them. If a snail’s shell is broken it dies.
It lives in the world with its most delicate part just out there, he tells me.
It would be, he says, like if we had our insides on our outsides.
It’s not just a house, he says, it’s not that strong. It’s like a heart.
How it must feel carrying your vulnerability, knowing its exposed to the world and there’s nothing you can do about it because this is what houses you.
The next day I see a snail and carefully place it on the ledge, out of harms way.
He loves worms.
Sometimes he says, people don’t like worms because maybe they got told worms are yuck.
People think they’re slimy but they shouldn’t know because you should never ever touch them.
He looks at me to make sure I’m listening.
This part is important.
He looks me in the eyes:
Our skin, to a worm, is very hot. They might look strong but they’re not.
If our skin touches a worm’s skin it will hurt the worm. They’re more fragile than they look.
But he doesn’t say fragile, he looks up at the sky and squints and searches his brain and says “Like a word for a bubble if a bubble was skin”.
He uses a piece of cardboard, dulled edges to transport a worm whose name might be wormy but I can’t remember now.
Later, while gardening I accidentally decapitate a worm. Is it decapitation if I don’t know where the head is? Poor worm, hurt simply by any interaction with us, while doing all of this important work for us. As important as bees but with less PR. They don’t even need us but are constantly coming into contact with us. An impossible intersection.
I refuse to watch when he lets spiders crawl onto his hand.
MAMA he says – Just let one on you then you won’t be scared.
He searches me for an explanation as to why I hate spiders.
They bite is not acceptable to him.
“They might bite but only if they’re scared and only because people are so mean to them that they don’t know if that person might just flush them down the drain”.
Can I forgive a bite from the bitten? Can I accept it if its motivation is fear?
He made a box with leaves and branches for a spider to make a web. Caught a spider and talked to it every day.
It’s just playing dead he said.
But it wasn’t. It was dead.
He doesn’t try to keep bugs anymore. Instead he just talks to the garden. Tries to build a bridge, through the impossible intersection. Tries not to harm.
You can learn a lot about how to live from a six year-old.
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Thelma Terry And Her Play Boys - Columbia 1532 (1928)
Searching the internet, found one source that stated this was Gene Krupa's first recording session but quickly discovered that less than four months earlier, in December of 1927, his debut was made with McKenzie and Condon's Chicagoans.
Still, just turning nineteen years old, here is one of Krupa's earliest recordings.
From wikipedia...
Thelma Terry, née Thelma Combes (September 30, 1901 – May 30, 1966) was an American bandleader and bassist during the 1920s and 1930s. She fronted Thelma Terry and Her Playboys and was the first American woman to lead a notable jazz orchestra as an instrumentalist.
Terry was born in Bangor, Michigan in 1901. Her parents divorced when she was very young and she moved with her mother to Chicago, where the latter was employed as a servant for the wealthy Runner family. When the young woman was given the opportunity to receive musical training with the instrument of her choice, she chose to study the string bass. Her early years were spent on the road performing in Chautauqua assemblies. After graduating from Austin Union High School, she earned first chair in the Chicago Women's Symphony Orchestra. As this did not provide her with a living, she eventually turned to jazz.
A stint at a local Chicago theater in the spring of 1927 and an article in Variety brought national attention to Thelma Combes. The newly formed Music Corporation of America took notice. They renamed her Thelma Terry and in April 1927 organized for her an all-male band (including a very young Gene Krupa) called Thelma Terry and Her Playboys. Some sources state that the band's home was The Golden Pumpkin nightclub located at 3800 West Madison in Chicago, and that the Playboys may have been the house band. MCA billed Terry as "The Beautiful Blonde Siren of Syncopation", "The Jazz Princess", and "The Female Paul Whiteman". At least one musician, Bud Freeman, was so enthused by the quality of the band that he paid another musician to fill his seat in the Spike Hamilton Band so he could join the Playboys. The band was soon sent by MCA on a national tour that took them down the Eastern Seaboard and as far west as Kansas City.
Terry found the day-to-day work of acting as a bandleader difficult. Bill Otto, a pianist who recorded with her in Chicago, recalled that she was a beautiful woman (in his words, "even voluptuous"), and that he got along with her because (unlike other band members) he did not make unwelcome advances to her. She also found that the male musicians were unwilling to follow her directions, and that the work itself, and especially the travel, was lonely and difficult to endure.
In 1929, MCA decided that Terry and her band would begin an international tour beginning in Berlin, Germany. However, by that time she had met Willie Haar, the owner of a Savannah, Georgia winter resort at which the band played during their 1929 tour. Terry disbanded the Playboys and quit MCA to marry Haar and settle down in Savannah.
Terry married Haar in 1929 and had a daughter, Patti, in 1931. She divorced Haar in 1936 and tried to make a comeback in Chicago. Disappointed with her lack of success, Terry sold her string bass, turned her back on the music profession, and took a job as a knitting instructor. In the 1950s she moved to Michigan, where she met with Gene Krupa, the drummer for the Playboys. Krupa told her that he was sorry she was not mentioned in his 1959 biographical movie The Gene Krupa Story. She spent her last years with Patti and her family in Michigan.
Terry died at the age of 64 on May 30, 1966 of throat cancer.
Thelma Terry sb, dir / Johnny Mendel, Carl Rinker t / Floyd O'Brien tb / Bud Jacobson cl / Mike Platt cl, as / Phil Shukin cl, ts / Bill Otto p / Roy Campbell bj / Gene Krupa d.
Recorded in Chicago on March 29, 1928.
Labels: Chicago, Columbia 1532, Floyd O'Brien, Gene Krupa, Starlight And Tulips, Thelma Terry And Her Play Boys
Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Victor 25621 (1937)
Benny Goodman cl, dir / Harry James t, a / Ziggy Elman, Gordon Griffin t / Red Ballard, Murray McEachern tb / Hymie Schertzer, George Koenig as / Arthur Rollini, Vido Musso ts / Jess Stacy p / Allan Reuss g / Harry Goodman sb / Gene Krupa d / Fletcher Henderson a.
Recorded in Hollywood on July 6, 1937.
Labels: Benny Goodman And His Orchestra, Can't We Be Friends, Fletcher Henderson, Gene Krupa, Harry James, Jess Stacy, Peckin', Victor 25621, Ziggy Elman
Memphis Stompers - Victor 21270 (1928)
Here we have one side each from the Memphis Stompers' first two sessions.
Snooks Friedman d, dir /James Migliore or Estes Monasco c / Ken Herlin tb / Elly Bellare cl, as / Rupe Biggadike p / Bob Cooke bj.
Recorded in Memphis on February 4 (HIS) & 11 (KCB), 1928.
Labels: Hold It Still, Jim Jackson, Kansas City Blues, Memphis Stompers, Snooks Friedman, Victor 21270
Earl Harlan & His Orchestra - Perfect 15789 (1932-33)
Two different bands...one name.
Don Redman as, a, dir / Shirley Clay, Langston Curl, Sidney De Paris t / Claude Jones, Fred Robinson, Benny Morton tb / Edward Inge, Rupert Cole cl, as / Robert Carroll ts / Don Kirkpatrick p / Talcott Reeves bj, g / Bob Ysaguire bb, sb / Manzie Johnson d, vib.
Recorded in New York on April 26, 1933.
(Mills' Blue Rhythm Band) Baron Lee dir / Wardell Jones, Shelton Hemphill, Ed Anderson t / George Washington, Henry Hicks tb / Crawford Washington as, bar / Gene Mikell cl, as / Joe Garland cl, ts, bar / Edgar Hayes p / Benny James bj, g / Hayes Alvis bb, sb / O'Neil Spencer d.
Recorded in New York on September 23, 1932.
Labels: Benny Morton, Don Redman, Earl Harlan And His Orchestra, Edgar Hayes, Joe Garland, Mills Blue Rhythm Band, Perfect 15789, Shirley Clay, Sidney De Paris, Smoke Rings, Sophisticated Lady, Wardell Jones
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Home news 6000 CHURCHES CLOSED>I learnt it from Nigeria pastors,Prophet Lukau performed a "resurrection" miracle in which he supposedly raised a dead man.
6000 CHURCHES CLOSED>I learnt it from Nigeria pastors,Prophet Lukau performed a "resurrection" miracle in which he supposedly raised a dead man.
In January, Paul Kagame, who is the president of Rwanda, closed over 6000 churches and mosques, claiming that churches were playing with the faith of the people and were just being turned into businesses.
With the rise of the prophetic age in Africa, one may ask a question - is this all genuine, or it's purely fake, with the sole intention of manipulating people? Religion, of late, has often blinded people from seeing sense, it is mainly the desperation that leads people to do absurd things as said by their respective religious leaders.
This week, headlines were created after a religious leader in South Africa who goes by the name Prophet Lukau performed a "resurrection" miracle in which he supposedly raised a dead man. The spectacle that occurred in Johannesburg was derided and condemned by many, who viewed it as blatantly fake.
"There are no such things as miracles," the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Rights Commission) told South Africa's national broadcaster. "They are made up to try to get money from the hopelessness of our people."
It was such a farce. It betrayed the devastating effects that come when religion is abused and it brings to the fore the issue of Paul Kagame closing down churches. Should this be the precedent to be followed in order to curb the rise of unscrupulous religious leaders, mostly in the form of "prophets"?
Three companies that offer funeral services stepped up claiming that they had been duped by Prophet Lukau into the "scheme" and it made the church backtrack on its proclamation of the miracle, saying that the man "was already alive" when his body got to the church where the miracle was performed. The church, Alleluia Ministries, said that Lukau had only "completed a miracle that God had already started".
So should some of these scammers masquerading as prophets be banned? Last year we saw Botswana banning Prophet Shepherd Bushiri's church from operating in the country. When banning churches in Kigali, Kagame said, "700 churches in Kigali? Are these boreholes (deep wells) that give people water? I don't think we have as many boreholes. Do we even have as many factories? This has been a mess!"
The argument in Rwanda was that the religious outfits had become too many, often operating from makeshift houses that posed a danger to people. Critics say the move was aimed at silencing the religious community in Rwanda, basing on Kagame's poor human rights record. Six Pentecostal pastors who protested the church closures were arrested and accused of "illegal meetings with bad intentions."
There is now more formalization for religion in Rwanda, with proposed legislation requiring pastors to have a theology degree before they start their own churches so that they teach correct doctrine, said those familiar with the discussions. The aim is to regulate the Pentecostal churches that often spring up under leaders who claim to have received a call to preach. Not everyone has the money for the degree as some observers noted.
Should this be the yardstick used especially for the "prophets"? It would be fashioned in a way that these prophets have to go through a rigorous set of guidelines just to run a church.
6000 CHURCHES CLOSED>I learnt it from Nigeria pastors,Prophet Lukau performed a "resurrection" miracle in which he supposedly raised a dead man. Reviewed by Hothints on March 03, 2019 Rating: 5
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Home world news “WAR WILL SOON BREAK OUT IN NIGERIA. MARK MY WORDS” – Olusegun Obasanjo.Fulani have no land in Nigeria because they are not indigenous to Nigeria. They are migrants into Nigeria.
“WAR WILL SOON BREAK OUT IN NIGERIA. MARK MY WORDS” – Olusegun Obasanjo.Fulani have no land in Nigeria because they are not indigenous to Nigeria. They are migrants into Nigeria.
Another civil war in Nigeria has become imminent and inevitable. The reason for its inevitability is simply because Muhammadu Buhari, the Northern Nigeria Fulani oligarchs and the wider network of Fulani in Sub-Saharan Africa have concluded plans to adopt Nigeria as the homeland for all Fulani in Africa.
They have realised that the wandering and rootless lifestyle of cattle herding Fulani is no longer tenable in the twenty-first century. Fulani need to have land to call home and rear cattle and that land should be Nigeria. The indigenous peoples of Nigeria have vehemently and stridently opposed this diabolic plan and both sides are mobilising for war. The Fulani won't relent and the indigenous people will not give up their land.
The same Fulani Project, having failed so shamelessly and woefully in the Central Africa Republic, will not be allowed to fail this time as the Nigerian Fulani project is better funded with the massive creaming of the sovereign wealth of Nigeria through nationwide kidnapping for ransom by lower class Fulani and seizure of the reigns of Government and wealth by the elite Fulani.
Kidnapping and the seizure of the institutions of Government are all for the purpose of implanting Fulani into the mainstream and control of politics and the economy of Nigeria for the objective of funding the Fulani Project in Nigeria.
The Central Africa Republic (CAR) has gone through exact same experience that Nigeria is going through right now in the hands of the Fulani. The country has been run down by the killings and destitution wrought by rival gangs in the fight to destroy the chokehold the Fulani had on the politics and economy of their country. Although the Fulani hegemony over the CAR has been defeated, the street gangs that defeated the armed forces have turned on one another and themselves, unable to rise above petty gang warfare to rebuild their nation.
The Fulani have become a blight on Africa and it’s biggest country Nigeria. Unable to break out of its centuries old cow herding and wandering culture, it continues to pull down every nation wherever it has any populations. Some countries in West Africa, Ghana and their ancestral home Guinea, have mastered the brutal tactics of dealing with Fulani and the Fulani have learnt the bitter lesson by staying away from these countries.
In the CAR, the Fulani following the pattern of their ethnocentric politics, had seized control of the commanding heights of the country’s military and financial institutions, the foreign exchange trade, the mining and export of gold and above all the governing structures of Government. Mitchel Djotodia, a hare brained military officer and his Fulani faction seized power in a brazen coup by a demographic minority. All the non-Fulani military officers were flushed out of the forces, all the mineral deposits in the country were seized by Fulani merchants, non-Fulani traders were barred from trading in foreign exchange and the entire top echelon of the Civil Service were occupied by Fulani by as much as 83%.
France, the former colonial masters of CAR watched them do all these over the years and did not raise a protest. As in Nigeria, the Fulani were just 3% of the population of CAR, tucked in the desert recesses of the nation’s Northwest. No world or regional power raised a whimper even though the ethnic groups of the rich southern forest regions roiled. The Fulani went even beyond the provocative as they are doing now in Nigeria.
They started seizing ethnic lands, raiding churches and killing worshippers, the most brazen being the attack on Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church in a town near Bangui the capital, where dozens of Catholic faithful were massacred during mass. The Fulani used their cattle bases allotted by Government to launch attacks and gun fights on the surrounding communities for robberies and ransom paying kidnaps as is happening now in Nigeria.
Again, as is happening in Nigeria today, the purpose of all the action of the Fulani was simple; to transfer all wealth available in the CAR by all and every means and place it in the hands and control of the Fulani. It is the same play book guiding the actions and policies of the Buhari Government in Nigeria. The Fulani elite are raiding the Central Bank, buying dollars and other currencies at heavily discounted rates, other Fulani are raiding the NNPC, ploughing through the vaults and trading Nigerian crude for personal gain.
The educated wing are mowing down governing structures, taking forceful charge and control of all commanding heights of Government and the armed forces. The uneducated Fulani herdsmen are engaged in kidnapping for ransom and now primed to take over ethnic lands, spreading themselves across the nation in settlements acquired with public funds to terrorise indigenous populations.
It will be of great use to retell the story of CAR so as to have the understanding of how the youth of the country removed the yoke of unremitting oppression by the Fulani. The youth formed street gangs and committed to take on the army with all their vaunted training and intimidating and deadly weaponry. The youth had locally fabricated flint guns and machetes, while the army was menacing with their machine guns, grenade throwers and rocket launchers.
When the fight started on that fateful day in 2013 in Bangui, everyone expected a complete annihilation of youth on the streets but the youth took the fight straight to the Guard Brigade near the Presidential Palace.
By evening of the same day, soldiers bodies were seen littering the streets while some were cut to pieces. By night fall, the streets of Bangui had become the play ground and the killing field of the youth of Bangui. In three days of street fighting, the entire Presidential Guards of the army of the CAR was decimated, in disarray running to their ethnic base in the far north and President Djotodia, the Fulani tyrant had abdicated and run away from the Presidential Palace and Capital, Bangui.
Tyrants survive for only as long as the people live in fear and choose to tolerate them. The Buhari Government is counting on deploying the Nigerian armed forces against the many ethnicities where the RUGA will be sited, beginning with the minority groups.
Buhari's plan is to deploy Nigerian troops to subdue Nigerian people for the benefit of Fulani. Central Africa Republic provides a veritable lesson on how to deal with the unrelenting Fulani menace. The Niger Delta and Boko Haram if anything, have shown that the Nigeria army is not invincible in a fight with local forces. If anything, the Nigeria Army will likely disintegrate if made to fight in many fronts at once.
It is a known truth that the Fulani will not relent in their quest for the conquest of Nigeria until they have seized all sources of income and made everyone else subservient to their rule and hegemony.
The Fulani in Nigeria, in nearly a century of political and economic ascendancy have acquired so much power and money that it will defeat the purpose of such acquisition if they don’t deploy it for the very purpose for the grasp for power, which is the conquest of Nigeria for the overlordship of the Fulani. The final stage of the grand plan to subdue Nigeria for Fulani overlordship are afoot and Buhari and his people cannot back out now. So a war has to be fought to resolve matters.
Our people say that you don’t strip a woman naked just to start looking. Nigeria has been stripped naked and with the RUGA monstrosity on the works, the next thing is to start the deployment of troops to protect RUGA in their various locations of development.
It was bound to happen that the Fulani who have been taking so much out of Nigeria and have succeeded in binding Nigeria hand and foot politically and economically, will take the wrong step into the abyss one day. The logical culmination of all the rapaciousness would be the last ditch attempt at the ultimate land grab, to seize the lands belonging to indigenous communities and hand it over to Fulani.
Internecine war in different RUGA locations and different fronts is therefore inevitable. Communities will rage to keep their land or lose it to their eternal shame and regret. Communities, particularly in Igboland will rather choose to be annihilated than lose their land to a hostile and predatory People.
Fulani have no land in Nigeria because they are not indigenous to Nigeria. They are migrants into Nigeria. The decision by the Fulani to seize land by force in Nigeria can only lead to war in the many places where this seizure will happen. The people must resist as of necessity. They have done so in the Central Africa Republic and reduced the country to rubble and they will do it again in Nigeria.
Buhari will be compelled to deploy police and soldiers to defend the settlements and war will be declared everywhere there is a RUGA settlement in Nigeria. Fulani have no land to hold dear and protect in Nigeria. In fact, Fulani have no stake or investment in the project called Nigeria and will not care if Nigeria burns, in fact Fulani will be very willing to let Nigeria burn if the people are not willing to submit to their overlordship.
So they are minded to adopt a scorched earth policy to obliterate Nigeria. They have nothing to lose. They did it in CAR and they will do same in Nigeria. It will be the responsibility of the indigenous people of Nigeria to find common grounds to protect the land of their ancestral inheritance and prevent the Fulani from putting a knife on their unity and their need to bind themselves together in one nation, but they cannot do this without first containing the Fulani. Fulani will try to divide them.
Buhari and the Fulani oligarchs are counting strongly on deploying the armed forces to quell insurrections that will arise from this massive land grab, but that will be the Achilles heel of their grand plan. Once soldiers are armed to put down these insurrections, they will turn against their commanders to defend their communities. Nigerians should therefore await the great unravelling of their armed forces.
Do the Fulani have the firepower, the men and the capacity to fight? In the entire history of the Nigerian armed forces, the Hausa/Fulani officers and enlisted men have always been promoted far beyond their qualifications and competencies. The capacity to fight and man the different departments of modern warfare will be put to overwhelming test in any ensuing encounter.
The Fulani never fight an enemy in a frontal war. They attack isolated and undefended villages. In any direct confrontation, they run away. It was evident even in the battle of Bangui. Well armed Fulani soldiers could not take on street gangs with flint guns and machetes. It has also shown in the war against Boko Haram. The poor performance of commanders of their ethnic stock is a bad joke among soldiers in the front.
Hausa/Fulani soldier had to be sorted out and protected from slaughter by Boko Haram forces. This is not to talk of unending betrayals of their Christian colleagues and commanders in the battlefront.
Buhari, a Fulani irredentist, will use to his advantage and for the benifits of his agenda to divide, the ethnic and religious cleavages among the people of Nigeria. But the people aught to know that the Fulani are friends to no one and that a Fulani friend today can become an adversary tomorrow. You are only friend to Fulani for as long as you continue to serve a purpose in their overall plan.
Let the talk cease and the battle begin.
Baron: The 1999 Constitution is the international document for disaster; it's about destroyed Nigeria. It's Regional Autonomous or bursting now; Nigeria, as constituted, is unsustainable!
#thinkAgain and organize yourselves. It's crunch time.
By Basil Okoh
“WAR WILL SOON BREAK OUT IN NIGERIA. MARK MY WORDS” – Olusegun Obasanjo.Fulani have no land in Nigeria because they are not indigenous to Nigeria. They are migrants into Nigeria. Reviewed by Hothints on July 02, 2019 Rating: 5
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We Deliver Rain,Hail or...
Yep, its a different world here. Read the bottom of the brochure...
Yuppie Yahoo!
This stately marble based stone marker for Yuppie International Condos is across the street from the Eastgate Apartments. Curiously, there is not a condo within coo-ee on that side of the street...
Apparently, its that simple...
We are all trying to better ourselves in our own sweet ways. But walking through the subway transfer tunnel it appears that the advertising gurus over here have solved it all with... toothpaste... yes... toothpaste.
Blue sky in BJ
Some pics for all the doomsayers about Beijing Air...
Passing of Time
My father John remained the epitome of the phrase life long learner, John delighted in learning new things... sometimes the hard way no doubt... but he valued education in its many forms and saw infinite value in being curious, in gaining new understanding, and in sharing knowledge with others.
A disrupted troubled childhood and an abruptly terminated schooling experience mid way through Form 2 led to a somewhat misspent youth that had him working on many low end jobs, Each experience added to what became a vast body of knowledge, skills and understanding.
He worked as a projectionist for Hoyts in Melbourne during the 40s, drove Pict Peas delivery trucks and spent time as a wedding photographer in the 50s and studied at night school in order to better his 7th grade education. At 32 years of age, he was the oldest student at Teachers College in his year.
John loved a wide variety of music and was always looking to fill in gaps in his knowledge. He loved to discuss structure, instrumentation and melodic elements in classical music with my wife Anne, and our childhood was peppered with classical music first on the stereogram and later on the Yamaha hifi system.
Perhaps the "Switched On Bach" phase that was Bach played on a moog synthesiser may not have been the finest moment in classical music history... but hey it was the 70s...
John and Rob were regular patrons at the Melbourne Recital Centre and Hamer Hall for all manner of performances, John had a preference for the ACO rather than the MSO but would attend anything of interest to him. Few can top my surprise 50th birthday where John, Rob and Anne conspired to have the band The Blue Grassy Knoll perform live to my favourite Buster Keaton film The General.
John's days working for Hoyts on Swanston St established a life long love of film and always an interest in what was happening in the bio box... back in the days when film was still reel to reel and not digital. As children we were taught to look for the "pineapple ring" that would signal to the projectionist the upcoming need to change reels.
His splicing skills developed during the days working at "the flicks" were transferrable when in, the pre-stereo recording days, John painstakingly spliced a mono track of Under Milkwood into a stereo format so the Play for Voices alternated out of the left and right speakers. This was at the time when John was also instrumental in developing nascent teleconferencing capacity when working for the Council of Adult Education in the 70s.
World films, action, sci- fi, Aussie productions (Sorry, John, I still think Red Dog was a shocker of a film) silent films... it didn't matter, so many genres were of interest to John.
I shared John's love of science fiction, a broad church of styles and themes we pretty much liked them all, but definitely had our favourites Very early Isaac Asimov, and Robert Heinlein are in our collections along with the more well known classics. Only a fortnight before his death, we were reminiscing on the qualities of Ann McCaffrey's The Ship that Sang and the influence it may have had on Kubrick's 2001 A Space Oydessy.
As a family we went to the theatre. It was considered essential for our learning and understanding. We attended local productions at the 1812 theatre in Upper FTG and Ringwood HS musical productions in which Faye aka "Ma Gerrard" to the students was involved.
Professional shows featured with some regularity. I remember being seriously narked at being declared too young to see Hair but a few years later went to Jesus Christ Superstar at the Palais. I can still feel the overload of senses and elation your first full blown professional production can give... Topol in his prime as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof...? Of course. Man of La Mancha for sure.
Live performance experiences continued across the years... Classic theatre, Burlesque at 45 Downstairs, Spanish Baroque music at the MRC, Lord of the Rings and Star Trek with the MSO... we shared these experiences with John and Rob ~ mostly at his expense. Shakespeare in the Bot Gardens was an event the wider family attended each December for quite a few years. Three generations enjoying the Bard's fine work. Porn star Annie Sprinkle did a show at the 1996 Comedy Festival. John thought it was so good, he rang us all and then bought tickets for the next available night. The same with the Demon Drummers of Japan... and indeed the Taiko drummers were exceptional. He felt we all needed to have the experience.
We grew up on a diet of The Goons. Yes, it seemed that every Sunday lunch we listened to Blue Hills "by Gwen Meredith" followed by an episode of The Goons. Throw in compulsory viewing of the Aunty Jack Show, the Goodies, Blazing Saddles and other Mel Brooks films etc... it all explains my own slightly warped sense of humour.
John rode motor bikes in his youth and even raced sidecars for a while. The Indian and the BSA that once hung around the family home should have been stored and then restored. But alas, some gems are not recognised at the time. Both Geoff and I ride and if John had been a little more nimble I am sure he would have swung his leg over the Harley ~ even if only as a pillion passenger.
A love of camping was deeply ingrained in John. Gail and Geoff shared some of this earlier. After a brief dalliance with semi serious bushwalking, John and Rob founded the Bush Bludgers ~ the Downhill Walkers... which was quickly shortened to The Bludgers as even downhill walking got in the way of backgammon or cards. The times shared at Fireman’s Bend in the Kulkyne Forest and other spots along the Murray remain strong in my memory.
I remain fortunate to have taken long service leave which meant I could drop by for a chat and to pass the time in companionable silence between wide ranging discussions nearly every day in the 3 months before his death. We would watch episodes of The Chaser (British and Australian versions) testing our general knowledge and handle on trivia... always learning something new. Of course the eps were recorded on the DVR - John always delighting in fast fwd through the ads.
He and I discussed impending death. He was matter of fact. "its obvious that my time is limited" he said to me. Now China... you are not to come back. Its a waste of money. "Hmm... I said, you don't get a vote. You won't be there."
It become known as "the lecture" as he tried the same line of argument on Anne.
In his last weeks John loved having his two sons visit together at St Vincent's, so whenever we could Geoff and I organised to be there together sending each other simple texts to confirm departure and predicted time of arrival. As they say when death is staring directly at you, family is what is important. John was so lucky to have Robyn in his life on so many levels but none moreso than the 24 hour care she provided in the last weeks of his life. As I said, come the end, family matters.
Well seems he got his wish as due to the complex requirements of the getting a Z class working visa, Anne and I can't be there. We are unable to leave Beijing until the single entry visa is converted into a multiple entry visa ~ a process that takes some 30 days. We left on July 21 knowing this might well be the case but hoped there would be a solution that could be worked out at the Beijing end, but no.
A few days before he went into hospital John and I sat at Brady St and spoke about process of looking back on one's life. The highlights in some detail and the low lights... Well, we agreed the not so glorious moments should stay where they were. Each a learning experience that whilst not to be ignored, need not be dragged out for close inspection. As Tom Waits says, "We all develop ways about ourselves that aren't quite right."
When Anne spent two hours with John on Monday night, he so enjoyed listening to the conversation between Anne and Rob, signalling when he wanted to join into the conversation about Sam D'Astiari, Pauline Hanson, Shorten and Turnbull... but struggled to get the words out between laboured breaths.
Many of you may have already seen the selfie below that was taken 12 hours before John slipped away. Though fighting for every breath, he insisted on been given his glasses and rallied enough energy to smile. It must have been so tiring. "Enjoy China" he said. "I won't see you tomorrow. I won't be here."
And he was right. Selfishly I want to believe he hung on until the day of our departure for a new life in Beijing to maximise the opportunities to spend some more minutes with Anne and myself. But in reality, the struggle became too much, the rapid three week decline from the 2016 Brady St Xmas in July that, for once, we actually held in July, to his death on July 21 was rapid. I don't blame him for having decided he had done enough.
I will miss him. and in ways I am yet to fathom. As the tears stream down my face as I write this, I know he made the world a better place.
For those who gave up your busy days to come to this wake, thank you for coming along and for the support you offer Robyn in doing so. Wakes are for the dead but also for the living. Drink, eat and if you wish, sing in celebration of a life well lived and a man who loved people and of course, learning until his dying day.
In Santo Espiritu (or Santo as its called by the locals) I had the good fortune to spend five days diving on the USS Coolidge, one of the great wrecks. Its bow (thats the pointy end) sits at 23 metres and the stern (the blunt end) lies on the sea bed at 54 metres. Named after Calvin Coolidge one time el presidente of the US, it is a few metres shorter than the Titanic. The Coolidge hit two WWII mines after a sensational piece of arrogance by the then captain of the vessel, who felt he not need to wait for the local pilot to guide the ship into the harbour... Unlike the Captain, President Coolidge was a thinker...
"I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done.
I deem that the very best time to make the effort."
Calvin Coolidge b. 1872
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Comic Review: Death Sentence Vol. 2 - London
On 23.4.16 by KieronMoore in comics, Death Sentence, Martin Simmonds, Monty Nero, Starburst No comments
Full review on Starburst.
In 2014, Monty Nero’s sex-and-superpowers graphic novel Death Sentence shocked and entertained in equal measure. Set in a world in which the sexually transmitted G+ virus gives superpowers to those it infects, but also limits their lifespan to six months, it followed struggling musician Weasel and frustrated artist Verity as they sought meaning to their lives in the face of a very imminent death sentence.
The sequel, London, begins where Death Sentence left off, in a city torn into chaos, and follows a variety of characters. Verity is on the run from various groups who are after her powers. Weasel is taking advantage of his newfound heroic standing, while coping with his son’s death via sex, drugs and rock & roll. Drug dealer Roots is using her plant-manipulating powers to monopolise the cannabis market. FBI agent Jeb is balancing a secret mission and a collapsing family life. And London mayor Tony Bronson (who’s clearly Boris, but too prominent a character for Nero to get away with saying so) is fed up of all this riff-raff.
Nero’s writing has a distinctly anarchic tone, with the story motivated by anger against the establishment. The government are pompous and selfish, while the chaos that breaks out in London is a clear mirror of the 2011 riots, sparked by an act of police brutality which feels all too familiar. Nero sympathises with these dissidents, even quoting directly from one of the real 2011 protestors at one point, while being careful to criticise those who turn political protests into mindless violence.
Artist Martin Simmonds, picking up from Mike Dowling’s work on the first volume, reflects this tone in his work, filling each panel with increasingly chaotic dynamism while nevertheless keeping it easy to follow and giving each character a distinctive look.
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Primary Data Collection
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In recent years, global resources for improving health have grown rapidly in most countries. Now more than ever, objective, comparable, and comprehensive information on national and international financial resources from all of the different funding channels is necessary to make the best decisions about where to invest and to understand the kind of impact investments are making. In addition to this, disease-specific funding can be used to inform policy, identify gaps, and assess effectiveness and tradeoffs. While previous research on global health resource flows yielded important estimates and findings, ongoing research focuses on disease-specific spending, focusing on trends in donor financing and domestic spending.
IHME’s Health Financing research tracks these different financial streams to estimate DAH from 1990 to the current year, along with disease-specific spending and future spending projections to assess the potential for gains in health service coverage and improved health outcomes. We also examine how public resources for domestic health spending relate to incoming development assistance from external sources, track out-of-pocket and prepaid private expenditures on health, and research the composition of resources that are relevant to policymaking. We examine whether the distribution of global health resources reflects current global health priorities by classifying resources according to their disease focus, the health system function that they attempt to strengthen, the type of input, and the target population. These results can be viewed using our Financing Global Health data visualization.
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This edition of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s annual Financing Global Health report, the 11th in the series, provides up-to-date estimates of domestic spending on health, development assistance for health, spending for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, as well as projections of future health spending.
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Mobile Prototyping Tools
— AppCooker — http://www.appcooker.com
Prototype editing: iPad
Prototype viewing: iPad
Prototype hosting: n/a
Widget library: yes
— App In Seconds — http://www.appinseconds.com/
Prototype editing: web app
Prototype viewing: mobile web app
Prototype hosting: Fully hosted
Widget library: no (based on full screen mockups)
Price: $9.95/month or $99/year, free trial available
— Axure — http://www.axure.com
Prototype editing: Mac and Windows apps
Prototype viewing: Via AxShare
Price: $589 each for 5 copies, $149/year for updates
— Blueprint — http://www.groosoft.com/blueprint/
Prototype viewing: iOS Blueprint viewer
Price: $19.99 (lite version is free and limits to 2 project and 8 screens)
— Codiqa — http://codiqa.com
Price: $10/month, $25/month, free for editing only
— Fieldtest — http://fieldtestapp.com
Price: not available (private beta)
— Fluid UI — http://fluidui.com/editor
Prototype hosting: fully hosted (Self-hosting options planned)
Price: Free account, $29/month, $49/month and $129/month
— iMockups — http://www.endloop.ca/imockups/
Prototype viewing: iMockups presentation mode
— InVision — http://www.invisionapp.com
Widget library: yes, free UI library items available for download
Price: FREE for 2 projects, $25/month, $75/month
— iPrototype/TAP — http://unitid.nl/2011/03/touch-a…
Prototype editing: Adobe Fireworks
Prototype hosting: self hosted (requires server setup)
Widget library: yes (as Fireworks documents)
— iRise — http://www.irise.com
Prototype editing: Desktop client (Windows and Mac)
Prototype viewing: Browser-based emulator and on-device (a free native iOS app — iRise Mobile — is available in the iTunes app store)
Prototype hosting: Collaboration server (Definition Center) in Enterprise edition
Price: Varies by version – Studio MX is free – http://www.irise.com/products/ir…
— jQueryMobile — http://jquerymobile.com
Prototype editing: hand coding
Prototype hosting: self hosted
Widget library: yes (there are some UIKit-like javascript libraries, in code form)
— justinmind.com — http://www.justinmind.com
Prototype editing: mac or pc app
Prototype hosting: not sure
Price: $499, $99/year for updates and support
— Keynotopia — http://keynotopia.com
Prototype editing: Apple Keynote
Prototype viewing: PDF viewer or native Keynotopia iOS app
Prototype hosting: downloaded PDF
Widget library: yes (as Keynote templates)
Price: Keynote templates start at $49, presumably you can use your own; iPhone viewer is $1.99, iPad viewer is $3.99
— Mockability — http://www.mockabilly.com/
Prototype editing: iPhone app
Prototype viewing: iPhone app
Prototype hosting: local on phone
Price: $6.99, free lite version limited to 2 mockups with 6 screens
— Proto.io — http://proto.io
Price: $0/month (free plan), $24/month, $49/month, free 15 day trial
— ProtoShare — http://www.protoshare.com/
Price: $300/year, $750/year, free 30 day trial
— Prototypes — http://prototypesapp.com
Prototype editing: Mac app
— Realizer — http://realizerapp.com
Prototype viewing: iOS app
— Refine.io — http://refine.io
— MockingBot — http://mockingbot.com
Prototype viewing: web app
Price: $0/month (free plan), $7/month, $15/month
Additionally the following tools don’t let you build prototypes per se, but let you preview the on-screen contents as you edit them.
— LiveView — http://www.zambetti.com/projects…
— Skala Preview — http://bjango.com/mac/skalapreview/
— xScope — http://xscopeapp.com/
http://www.endloop.ca/imockups/
http://interface2.lesscode.co.nz/
http://www.realizerapp.com/
http://www.appcooker.com/ ($19,99)
http://www.omnigroup.com/product…
http://www.groosoft.com/blueprint/
http://www.applicationcraft.com/
http://dapp.kerofrog.com.au/
http://www.mockflow.com/signup/ ($69 per year)
http://www.balsamiq.com/ (web based)
http://creately.com/ (web based)
Posted on July 16, 2012 Author John ShumCategories Mobile
2 thoughts on “Mobile Prototyping Tools”
Peter Severin says:
Also consider WireframeSketcher, a desktop wireframing tool: http://wireframesketcher.com
It comes with mobile stencils for iPad, iPhone, Android and Windows Phone. The tool comes with fast and native UI on Mac, Windows, and Linux. Use PDF and HTML export to view and test prototypes on your mobile device. You’ll need to self-host HTML files but I recommend using Dropbox so you can easily link them online.
I’ve been using the InVision app this week: Desktop-sized prototyping has been great, but the mobile viewports have been challenging.
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A Healthy Trading System Requires Progress and Engagement at All Levels
By Roberto Azevêdo
This is a challenging time for global trade. According to the current World Trade Organization (WTO) new trade forecasts, global goods trade is expected to grow by 2.8%, making 2016 the fifth consecutive year of sub 3% growth. The gross domestic product (GDP) is still the most critical variable in the trade expansion equation, and as long as GDP growth remains low, trade numbers are likely to follow a similar trend.
“Together, Civil Society Has Power”
By Constanza Vieira
When Tamara Adrián, a Venezuelan transgender opposition legislator, spoke at a panel on inclusion during the last session of the International Civil Society Week held in Bogotá, 12 Latin American women stood up and stormed out of the room.
Latin America to Redouble Its Climate Efforts in New York
By Diego Arguedas Ortiz
The countries of Latin America will flock to sign the Paris Agreement, in what will be a simple act of protocol with huge political implications: it is the spark that will ignite actions to curb global warming.
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By Kwesi Atta-Krah
Food security scientists from around the globe gathered in Johannesburg last week with one objective: to work towards the transformation of agriculture as engine for growth in developing regions of the world. The gathering was also an opportunity to examine what farmers need to prosper in the face of social and environmental challenges.
Turning to Agriculture
By Moyiga Nduru
Facing an unprecedented economic crisis, South Sudan -- the newest nation of the world -- has urged its 12 million inhabitants to turn to agriculture instead of depending on declining oil revenues.
Caribbean Biodiversity Overheated by Climate Change
By Ivet González
The nearly 7,000 islands and the warm waters of the Caribbean Sea are home to thousands of endemic species and are on the migration route of many kinds of birds. Preserving this abundant fauna requires multilateral actions in today’s era of global warming.
Not Yet Curtains for BRICs
By N Chandra Mohan
With Goldman Sachs folding up its haemorrhaging BRIC fund, is it curtains for the acronym that defined the investment bankers’ fancy for emerging markets? It certainly appears so after China’s stock market crash and a fast slowing economy triggered fears that the dragon will set off the next global recession.
Private Nature Reserves in Latin America Seek a Bigger Role
By Fabíola Ortiz
Private voluntary nature reserves in Latin America should be seen as allies in policies on the environment, climate change mitigation and the preservation of biological diversity in rainforests, say experts.
Latin American Legislators Find New Paths to Fight Hunger
By Aramis Castro and Milagros Salazar
With eight specific commitments aimed at pushing through laws and policies on food security and sovereignty, family farming and school feeding programmes, legislators from 17 countries closed the Sixth Forum of the Parliamentary Front Against Hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Latin America to Push for Food Security Laws as a Bloc
By Milagros Salazar and Aramis Castro
Lawmakers in the Parliamentary Front Against Hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean decided at a regional meeting to work as a bloc for the passage of laws on food security – an area in which countries in the region have show uneven progress.
Leading Powers to Double Renewable Energy Supply by 2030
Eight of the world’s leading economies will double their renewable energy supply by 2030 if they live up to their pledges to contribute to curbing global warming, which will be included in the new climate treaty.
Latin American Legislators, a Battering Ram in the Fight Against Hunger
By Marianela Jarroud
Lawmakers in Latin America are joining forces to strengthen institutional frameworks that sustain the fight against hunger in a region that, despite being dubbed “the next global breadbasket”, still has more than 34 million undernourished people.
Central America Seeks Recognition of Its Vulnerability to Climate Change
For decades, the countries of Central America have borne the heavy impact of extreme climate phenomena like hurricanes and severe drought. Now, six of them are demanding that the entire planet recognise their climate vulnerability.
Opinion: From European Union to Just a Common Market
By Roberto Savio
The success in the recent Swiss elections of the UDC-SVP, a xenophobic, anti European Union, right wing party, opens a number of reflections.
Minorities Speak Out in Latin American Population Conference
By Emilio Godoy
“The countries of Latin America have not fully committed themselves to the international conventions and have not given indigenous peoples access. Nor have their contents been widely disseminated,” to help people demand compliance and enforcement, said Guatemalan activist Ángela Suc.
Opinion: Developing Nations Set to Challenge Rich Ahead of SDG Summit
By Soren Ambrose
The final round of negotiations on the Sustainable Development Goals – the successor to the Millennium Development Goals, due to be inaugurated in September at the U.N. General Assembly – is now underway in New York.
Opinion: A BRICS Bank to Challenge the Bretton Woods System?
By Daya Thussu
The formal opening of the BRICS Bank in Shanghai on Jul. 21 following the seventh summit of the world’s five leading emerging economies held recently in the Russian city of Ufa, demonstrates the speed with which an alternative global financial architecture is emerging.
Opinion: ASEAN Must Unite Against Climate Change
By Jed Alegado
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) started as a cooperation bloc in 1968. Founded by five countries - Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines - ASEAN has since evolved into a regional force which is slowly changing the landscape in global politics.
The U.N. at 70: United Nations Disappoints on Its 70th Anniversary – Part One
By James A. Paul
It is hard to imagine today the public enthusiasm that greeted the founding of the U.N. in 1945. After massive suffering and social collapse resulting from the Second World War, the U.N. seemed almost miraculous – a means at last to build peace, democracy, and a just society on a global scale.
Opinion: The Oceans Need the Spotlight Now
By Dr. Palitha Kohona
The international community must focus its energies immediately on addressing the grave challenges confronting the oceans. With implications for global order and peace, the oceans are also becoming another arena for national rivalry.
Chinese Public Most Worried About Climate Change
By Kitty Stapp
A new survey finds that China leads the world in public support for government action on climate change.
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Maithri loots UPFA
Posted on August 22nd, 2015
Courtesy The Nation –
President Maithripala Sirisena consolidated his position as leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) by appointing known loyalists to the slots allocated to the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA). The list includes seven who had contested and lost at the recently concluded parliamentary elections.
This comes in the aftermath of Sirisena’s pre-election moves to trump the so-called Mahinda (Rajapaksa) Faction by removing the General Secretaries of both the SLFP and UPFA and replacing them with his backers. He is said to be behind the move to stop the SLFP’s Central Committee from meeting via a court injunction. He later sacked suspected Mahinda-loyalists from the SLFP’s Central Committee.
President Sirisena also appointed several of these loyalists to a committee tasked to work out an agreement with the United National Party (UNP) to form a ‘National Government’. Almost simultaneously Sirisena moved to evict other ‘Mahinda-loyalists’ from the Executive Committee of the UPFA.
These developments have effectively pruned the UPFA’s strength from a ‘results day’ 95 to just 9 (5 from the National Freedom Front, and 1 each from the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya, Mahajana Eksath Peramuna, Ceylon Workers Congress and the New Left Front).
The fate of the other 74 (i.e. leaving out the 12 from the National List) including former president Mahinda Rajapaksa is uncertain since they could be stripped of membership in the SLFP and possibly their parliamentary seat.
8 Responses to “Maithri loots UPFA”
nilwala Says:
August 22nd, 2015 at 2:02 pm
WHAT RIDICULOUSLY INFANTILE BEHAVIOR OF A PRESIDENT WHO DO NOT KNOW TO PLAY BY THE RULES OF DEMOCRACY.
MY3 IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE OF A SHAME FOR SRI LANKA…AND WORSE…HE DOES NOT SEEM TO CARE A JOT AS HE GOES ON DEMOLISHING THE SLFP INTO SMITHEREENS.
IS HE THE SLFP’S PARTY LEADER OR THE PARTY DESTROYER?
Susantha Wijesinghe Says:
OH WHEN THE SAINTS, OH WHEN THE SAINTS,
OH WHEN THE SAINTS, GO MARCHING IN !
WE THAKKADIYAS, MAGADIYAS LETS OUT-NUMBER,
THE SINHALA BOORUWAS WHEN THEY ARE MARCHING IN.
Fran Diaz Says:
Pres Sirisena’s task (who is directing the show for him in the present scenario ?), seems to be bent on shredding the SLFP to be smaller in political power than the UNP ? To please whom ?
When ‘peacekeepr’ Norway was in Lanka, there was a talk that they wanted to ‘equal’ the power between the LTTE & the Lanka Army.
Independent Says:
Well done My3.
(Lanka-e-News- 21.Aug.2015, 11.50AM) ‘Continue with the investigations into the frauds and corruption of the previous government members who have been elected at the recent elections , without interruption , and duly punish them , with a view to purging the SLFP of the undesirables and criminals ,’ Dr. Sarath Amunugama has requested to president Maithripala Sirisena. Amunugama made this request when the Central committee of the SLFP met yesterday morning, chaired by the president.
It is to be noted that nobody obstructed or objected to Amunugama’s request .
Menwhile , the FCID (police financial crimes investigation department ) and the CID resumed their investigations .
During the elections in compliance with a request made by the Elections commissioner , the investigations were put on hold. Ajith Nivard Cabraal the Central bank governor an accused who heaved a sigh of relief during the elections and thought he has found an escape route was summoned to the FCID for questioning again. Wimal Weerawansa’s wife charged with fraud and forgery too was summoned for further questioning by the CID . Udaya Gammanpila who parades as a Buddhist sentinel and savior of Buddhism had also to face the CID over a complaint made by an Australian national . All of them were summoned for questioning yesterday.
Wimal Weerawansa arrived at the Financial Crime Investigation Division (FCID) this morning(21) to give a statement regarding his assets
LANKAPUTHRA Says:
Fran Diaz, YES you are absolutely right. There is no Pramadas to fund this equal status. But Tamiks for OBAMA And MUSLIM OBAMA has! Muslim Ambassador already has it in the new RANIL PUNKS constitution.
Ratanapala Says:
August 22nd, 2015 at 11:36 pm
Majority of the UPFA candidates won their seats in the Parliament on the strength of Mahinda’s face. We have to see who will stay with him to the end. There is nothing wrong in Mahinda forming a new party and taking all those who would stay with him and form the Opposition. There is nothing good left in the old SLFP.
The formation of the SLFP in 1951 divided the Sinhalese between two parties that did not represent their interest but their own desire for power while Tamils and Muslims formed their own parties and worked incessantly to further their goals and aspirations.
Sinhalese need a voice and a party which will not be shy to say that they represent Sinhala interests while looking after minority interests in a responsible way.
August 23rd, 2015 at 5:39 am
I do totally agree with Ratanapala. But, will MR, at this point form another party ?
It is the Sinahala majority that is Voiceless in the World. MR & his Group were the lone voices for the Sinhale, now silenced by MY3, CBK & RW. CBK & RW have joined up with all sorts of foreign organisations and these two people represent those organisations more than the Sinhala Voice and SRI LANKA, with shocking lawbreaking support from MY3 to do so.
Long years ago, John Still, who was a part of Colonial British rule of Lanka, wrote in his book “Jungle Tide”, that the Sinhala Buddhists of (then) Ceylon were a very tolerant people. I shall add here that these Sinhala/Buddhists are so tolerant that they have fast become a minority voice in their own country !
The Sinhala people must UNITE to represent their interests or will lose their country and the VALUES that holds Lanka together.
L’Puthra,
It is vested interests directing Pres Sirisena, is it not ?
In my view, it is NOT Pres Obama. It is Ex-Colonists & Neo-Colonists who are in the driving seat along with Tamil Separatist leaders all over the world.
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Seneca College King Campus Expansion
King City, Ontario
Client : Seneca College
Area : 198,000 sf
Program : Varsity Gymnasium, Fitness Centre, Climbing Wall, Library, Classrooms, Lecture Theatre, Labs, Student Federation Suite, Café, Outdoor Program (Campus Quad, Athletic Commons, Multi-Purpose Pond including Rainwater Harvesting, Reading Garden)
Completion : April 2018
Associated Architects : Montgomery Sisam Architects
On the outskirts of King City, Ontario, Seneca College’s King Campus is a small but growing commuter campus that occupies a secluded property surrounded by the rich natural landscape of the Oak Ridges Moraine. Comprising both learning and recreational spaces, Magna Hall is King Campus’s dominant building, the prime contributor to the projected doubling of its enrolment over the next decade. In this, it defines a new urban landscape still under development, providing a framework for future growth, and positioning the campus as a leader in conservation and environmental stewardship.
Magna Hall takes every opportunity to connect to its surroundings both physically and visually, with exterior plazas, gardens, and walkways. The project takes aesthetic cues from the surrounding terrain; the landscape architecture, for instance, is expressed as a series of platforms, with meadowlands for recreational programming, grasses and planted beds at gathering areas, and shade trees in its plazas. An artificial pond serves as fire water storage, stormwater management, and irrigation supply.
Like the landscaping, the exterior material palette reflects the surroundings, with wood, masonry, and standing seam metal foremost. Muntz metal, an alloy that offers superior corrosion resistance to copper, will patinate over time into a shade that harmonizes with the surrounding plantings. The warm interior colour palette similarly echoes local flora, in grass yellow, maple red, dogwood crimson, and cornflower purple.
A broad 200,000-square-foot building up to six storeys in height, Magna Hall was erected using a system of locally manufactured web-corrugated steel, reducing the amount of material and the corresponding carbon footprint. This step toward its LEED Gold target is further boosted a host of sustainability features: high-efficiency HVAC, high-performance envelope, high-efficiency lighting with occupancy and daylight controls, and low-flow fixtures that conserve 40 percent more water than LEED baseline requires.
The program within comprises a wide range of spaces, from a library, learning commons, classrooms and laboratories to student offices, flexible event spaces, and a gymnasium and fitness area. The resulting wealth of programming allows students to learn in a state-of-the-art facility, and to relax or be active between classes. In promoting a well-rounded student experience, Magna Hall has enabled the campus to improve quality of campus life and vastly increase the number of full-time students within a single facility.
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Milton Keynes Labour Party Stronger, Greener Communities
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This year there are three local Labour councillors serving terms as Mayors in Milton Keynes. The three were recently pictured together at a fundraising musical night in Newport Pagnell and took the opportunity to explain about the role of Mayor.
These local Mayors are very different to the elected Mayors in places like London or Manchester. Those directly elected mayors, such as Sadiq Khan or Andy Burnham, are more like the Leader of a Council or authority.
So what are these local Mayors?
Every year every council must elect one of the members of that council (a Councillor) as their Chair for the coming year. For five council’s in Milton Keynes, including MK Council itself, the Chair is also the “Mayor”. Mayors are expected to impartially chair the council’s meetings and as civic leaders they represent their council and community at events within and outside their local area.
Pictured (L-R) The Mayors of Wolverton & Greenleys, Milton Keynes and Newport Pagnell.
The Mayor of Milton Keynes is by far the busiest of the local Mayors attending around 600 community and formal events during their year in office. This can include activities such as opening new facilities or businesses, attending Annual Meetings, opening fetes, attending performances of art, visiting schools, hosting high profile visits and wreath laying at remembrance events. They will often be invited to events by other Mayors to build connections between towns.
Councillor Martin Petchey, Mayor of Milton Keynes for 2018/19, explains: “Like most MK Mayors, I spent the previous year as Deputy Mayor, deputising for the Mayor on many occasions so I’m fortunate to have had that experience to prepare me for my own busy mayoral year.”
Mayors will also use their year of higher public profile to raise awareness and financial support for a charity of their choice. Councillor Paul Day, Mayor of Newport Pagnell says “I’m using my activity to raise money for the Winter Night Shelter this year. They do a fantastic job providing shelter for the night for those living on the street, often helping them find a home too.”
Councillor Ansar Hussain, Mayor of Wolverton explains why his council has introduced a Mayor just two years ago. “Many areas have had a Mayor for many years, but Wolverton & Greenleys as a relatively new council did not. With so manycommunity events in our town, the council decided that we should introduce the Mayor role and it has been well received by those groups who have invited me to join them at events and the wider public.”
Martin Petchey summed up the apolitical nature of local Mayors. “Although most parish and town Councils do not have political party groupings, MK Council does. However all Mayors are expected to step away from any party positions and concentrate on being Mayor for that year. It’s not what many people enter into politics to do, in fact I’m not sure if anyone does, but it’s an absolute honour to be the Mayor of your own area and represent all the public. I’m very proud to serve Milton Keynes in this way.”
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LINDA MANNING - ACTOR/WRITER
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The Dramatists Guild Blog - March 2020
Tell Your Story: Performing, Producing and Promoting my Solo Show
The Dramatists Guild Blog - January 2020
Why I'm Like This: Developing My Solo Show
by Linda Manning
2019 Presented by Dixon Place and the Poor Mouth Theatre Co.
2018 United Solo Festival NYC
"Nothing is off limits here as she explores love, lust, desire, betrayal, and brutality. She relishes in the telling of her tale. Her words are courageous and her performance is revelatory and joyous to watch. She seeks and we gladly follow through both the good and the bad until she eventually discovers that what she’s endured has forged her into the exceptional woman and artist she’s become."
Edward Medina, TheatreReview.NYC
"We live in a time when women STILL cannot speak many truths without being morally, personally, socially bludgeoned, but if you are seeking inspiration to not only “speak” the truth, but “live” the truth … You MUST see this show."
Maureen Payne-Hahner, Director
Bite The Apple
2012 NY International Fringe Festival
"The ensemble of actresses are remarkable, particularly the evocative and nuanced performance by Manning. Bite the Apple is a smart script with intricate dialogue and beautiful language...."
Joseph Samuel Wright, Theatre Is Easy, New York, NY
“Part adaptation, part re-telling, and part re-imagining, Linda Manning’s new play Bite the Apple persuades the audience members to reconnect with their stories, identify where their journeys have derailed, and reaffirm that each of them is ‘worth saving.’ And although this appeal is made through the lives of fictional women to ‘non-fictional’ women, its urgent entreaty is for all who have ears to hear and eyes to see.... Yes, Linda Manning can make this stuff up and indeed it does not get much better than this well-constructed play.... See Bite the Apple. Watch it, listen to it, see it, hear it, savor it, and continue to chew on its core until you know ‘which version of you is the right one.’”
David Roberts, Chief Critic, Theatre Reviews Limited, New York, NY
Bite the Apple, written by Linda Manning, is a thoughtful play, raising questions about love, identity, and being seen as you truly are, instead of who you are ‘supposed to be.’"
Josephine Cashman, NYTheatre.com
“FringeTastic: Bite The Apple
The characters continue to peel back layers of each other, slowly revealing the meaning behind each of their happily ever afters. I recommend Bite the Apple to anyone looking for a relief from the classic fairytale ending."
Alison Goldman, Play by Play, New York, NY
NY Daily News - 2012
"Bronx Playwright Takes Fictional Look at the Lives of Six Grimm's Fairytale Princesses"
Do Something With Yourself! The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Produced by The Invisible Theatre
Published by Smith & Kraus
This wonderfully quixotic piece by Linda Manning explores the struggles Charlotte faced, including her own stifling romantic ideals. With a striking level of skill and versatility, Manning and her costar Michael Pinney interpret the author's life in a manner that is always theatrical and ultimately moving."
TimeOut New York, New York, NY
"Writer-performer Linda Manning gives us a fiercely intelligent and sexual Charlotte Brontë.... The writing delicately renders the conflict between family responsibility and the artist's calling, between romantic yearning and the realities of married love."
The Village Voice, New York, NY
"DO SOMETHING WITH YOURSELF! . . . is a splendid example of what is special about live theater . . . and is a work of theatrical magic. If you appreciate innovative theater, don't miss it."
Town & Village, New York, NY
"Pulling Linda Manning's play far away from the usual schoolish biographies is its intelligence, the sensuality of its heroine, and its exceptional theatricality . . . . Please, please, please do not miss it."
This Month On Stage, New York, NY
The play gives us brilliant insights into the inextricably joined nature of life and art . . . . What we are left with is a beautiful testament to the many ironies of the human condition, torn as we are in the struggle between the mundane and the exquisite. Do yourself a favor. See this play."
The Nice Paper, Providence, RI
"Manning has written a dynamic framework, full of conflicts and tensions, within which to exercise her nimble acting talents."
The Providence Phoenix, Providence, RI
"This is an opportunity that shouldn't be missed."
Warwick Beacon, Warwick, RI
The Fall of the House of Usher
adapted by Linda Manning
"The Invisible Theatre Company’s adaptation of the classic tale is strikingly fresh, thanks to playwright Linda Manning’s bold vision.... Manning had a dynamic presence .... Deftly handling the madness that lies at the heart of Poe’s tale, Manning oscillated from a petulant little girl, to a proper young lady, to a disturbing sexual force.... The amount of humor that Manning has incorporated into the script, without compromising its horror, is one of its greatest accomplishments.”
The Off-Off-Broadway Review
"Poe would have been proud of Ms. Manning’s adaptation.”
Town & Village
"The Invisible Theatre of New York has collaborated with Providence's Groundwerx Dance Theatre in an attempt to physicalize Poe's tale. Their new version -- visually and musically exciting, sometimes incisive -- is a rhapsodic deconstruction. It is almost always intriguing.... Manning goes well beyond the usual adaptation ... her writing is strong and provocative…. At a dinner party scene, Manning herself (she plays Madeline with a variety of guises, all strong) does a wonderful takeoff on one of Tennessee Williams's best women, Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie.... The physical production is delicious, funny, pointed and well-performed. The four Groundwerx dancers range from wittily obsequious servants to sharp-faced furies, apparently representing the psychological and physical storms in this production. Their continued shadowy presence is a reminder that there are things we know and things we don't know going on inside and around us all the time. . . . that it is also a work of imagination, romance and thought brought to a physical culmination is undeniable.”
The Obscene Bird of Night
Trinity Repertory Company
"Linda Manning is charmingly vulnerable as the girl Humberto sleeps with, then abandons, and superb as the Doctor."
The Mansfield News
"Linda Manning acquits herself well in several roles, especially as a Strangelove-ian doctor."
"Equally exciting are the performances of two Trinity Rep Conservatory students: ... Linda Manning is both very sad and very charming."
The Nice Paper
Hurlyburly
Germinal Stage Denver
"At Germinal Stage Denver, the three women and four men in Hurlyburly take the stage like armed guerrillas. Director Ed Baierlein has melded his actors into an energy-charged mass that threatens to go critical in a barrage of obscenities....
Linda Manning is superb as Darlene, a tall, gorgeous prize manipulated by Eddie and Mickey for their own ends."
Rocky Mountain News
My Sister in this House
"Linda Manning, a statuesque actress with dark, deep-set eyes, radiates a spooky aura that's used to chilling effect for the role of Christine."
"Linda Manning -- poker straight and rail thin -- is wild-eyed and creepy as Christine, a tormented young woman whose limp mirrors a devastating psychological handicap. Steely determination counteracts her physical frailties."
Robin Cruise
"Linda Manning plays Elizabeth, the widow of King Edward IV. We watch entranced as Richard cajoles her out of her mourning for her little sons (whom he has dispatched) and strokes her velvet mourning clothes. Manning is the perfect "painted queen" of the text."
The Changing Scene
"Linda Manning lends her fascinating persona to Rita in Shoes, providing the mysterious, sexy reserve that is her trademark as a performer."
Jacob Clark
The Summer of the Dance
"Bruce is a witty historian, married to Marianne (Linda Manning) -- a scheming, steaming sexual vamp who makes Lucrezia Borgia look as wholesome as Sandy Duncan. Manning's portrayal is first-rate, as Marianne, she oozes with carnal venality."
Justin Mitchell
Rocky Mountain News
"Linda Manning is sultry as Marianne. Her subtle voice inflections indicate the girl behind the flirtatious woman. Manning's pouts and pauses provide much of the production's humor."
Bob Haas
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By Jay Winter, John M. Merriman
The tumultuous contemporary century of Europe's background is traced during this five-volume set, which choices up the tale began in its significant other set, Europe 1789-1914.
Profiling the age of warfare and reconstruction, Europe when you consider that 1914 information eu heritage from the Bolshevik Revolution to the eu Union, linking it to the background of the remainder of the realm. Many variations within the eu tale are coated during this simply obtainable selection of approximately 675 illustrations and 920 articles: Europe sundered by way of struggle and genocide, Europe reconfigured after international battle II and the chilly conflict, and Europe creating a new position for itself at the international degree. Written by way of approximately 500 top specialists from universities around the globe, the set successfully covers a wide scope, encompassing the period's clinical and monetary, social and cultural, political and armed forces advancements. clients will locate in it the main evidence concerning the interval, transparent causes of the most strains of scholarly interpretation and tips via scholarly controversies. Sidebars upload curiosity and explanation, a chronology and thematic define supply concise context that builds significant connections, and article particular bibliographies supply assistance for extra examining. each one quantity additionally contains an 8-page colour insert and a accomplished index that permits easy accessibility to focus on information.
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#LoveRecordStores Initiative Launches To Save Indie Record Stores
The music community will launch a global initiative this Thursday to help independent record stores during the current coronavirus crisis.
These stores are experiencing a catastrophic drop-off in traffic even if they have not already been told to close their doors and many will not survive if something is not done urgently to stimulate sales.
A growing list of music companies have already pledged their support for the #loverecordstores campaign. They are coordinating ideas, resources and mobilizing artists to record messages of support for record stores that can be used across all forms of social media.
Jason Rackham, Managing Director of [PIAS], who is leading the #loverecordstores initiative said, “Independent record stores have played a key role in supporting and developing artists and their music for decades, so now it is time for music companies and the artists they represent to step up and give something back. We must support these small businesses if they are to survive this crisis and at the same time we can still play a big part in helping them to continue to introduce their customers to new music. By speaking directly to their audiences about the importance of record stores and encouraging music fans to continue shopping with them online, artists can play a big part in helping secure the survival of this vital part of our industry.”
Musician Paul Weller added, “I’d be lost without my favorite record shops; Rough Trade, Soul Jazz, Honest Johns and all the other independents. Let’s all keep them all going in this very strange time. Music will lift our spirits and soothe our souls. Love to everyone.”
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Laura Kennedy co-owner of Piccadilly Records in Manchester (UK) said, “Piccadilly Records has been around since the late 1970s and over the years we have faced lots of challenges, but nothing on the scale of what we face at the moment. It’s with a heavy heart therefore that we have closed our doors this weekend and it’s going to be tough. Our website and mail order department are going to keep going as normal while the shop is closed and there are still plenty of records being released. We’ve all got difficult times ahead but if we all stick together I’m sure we’ll get through. Be kind to each other and stay healthy.”
Beggars Group Founder and Chairman Martin Mills said, “I started life in a record store. Record stores are incubators for great music, and for musicians. In these incredible times they can still serve up what you need so please “visit” them online, patronise them, support them and help them survive. We’ll need them on the other side.”
The #loverecordstores campaign will officially launch at 9am (UK) on Thursday 26th March
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The Northern Ireland Assembly Commission Corporate Strategy 2018 to 2023
Principal Officers and Officials
2. Statement of Policy
3. Management and Responsibilities
4. The Data Protection Principles
5. Registration with the Information Commissioner’s Office
6. Data Processors
7. Individuals’ Rights
8. Disclosure of Personal Data
9. Handling of Personal Data
10. Compliance
11. Staff Responsibilities
12. Third Party Users of Personal Data
13. Policy Awareness
1.1 The Northern Ireland Assembly Commission (“the Assembly Commission”) is fully committed to complying with Data Protection legislation[1] including the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) which has applied from 25 May 2018. We will follow procedures to ensure that all employees, contractors, agents, consultants and other parties who have access to any personal data held by, or on behalf of, the Assembly Commission are fully aware of, and abide by, their duties and responsibilities.
2.1We may need to collect and use information about people with whom we work in order to carry out our business and provide our services. These people may include Members of the Assembly, members of the public, current, past and prospective employees, clients, customers and suppliers. In addition, we may be required by law to collect and process information. All personal data must be handled and dealt with properly, however it is collected, recorded and used, and whether it is on paper, in computer records or recorded by any other means.
2.2 This policy should be read in conjunction with the following Assembly Commission policies and procedures:
i. Assembly Commission Information Assurance Policy;
ii. Policy for the use of IT Resources by Secretariat Staff;
iii. Flexible Working Policy;
iv. Records and Email Management Policy;
v. Social Media Policy;
vi. Retention Policy;
vii. Data Breach Management Plan;
viii. IS Password Policy;
ix. Fraud Prevention and Anti-Bribery Policy;
x. Alcohol, Drugs and Substance Abuse Policy;
xi. Parliament Buildings CCTV Policy;
xii. Standards of Conduct Policy;
xiii. Discipline Policy;
xiv. Standards of Conduct Policy;
xv. Fraud Prevention and Anti-bribery Policy; and
xvi. Policy for Managing and Processing of Images
3.1 The Assembly Commission has overall responsibility for compliance with the Data Protection legislation and GDPR within the organisation. Key to the implementation of, and compliance with, this policy are the Data Protection and Information Standards Officer (“DP&ISO”) and Information Asset Owners (“IAOs”). The Director of Legal, Governance and Research Services is designated as the Senior Information Risk Owner (“SIRO”) for the organisation for the purposes of the Data Breach Management Plan.
3.2 The DP&ISO is responsible for ensuring this policy is communicated to all staff. IAOs are responsible for ensuring this policy is further communicated and implemented within their area of responsibility. They are responsible for the quality, security and management of personal data in use within their business area. Advice or assistance regarding this policy or the GDPR is available from the DP&ISO.
3.3 Subject Access Requests for personal data are dealt with by the DP&ISO and business areas will be consulted accordingly.
3.4 Information sharing agreements, in line with the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) code of practice, will be signed on behalf of the Assembly Commission by the Head of Business, or as delegated by the Head of Business within each business area.
3.5 All Data Protection and related incidents must be reported and properly investigated according to the Assembly Commission Data Breach Management Plan.
3.6 All correspondence with the ICO on Data Protection matters will be dealt with by the DP&ISO.
3.7 This policy will be reviewed annually, and when appropriate, to take into account changes to legislation that may occur, and / or guidance from the Information Commissioner. Appendices outlining the Assembly Commission’s policy on specific Data Protection-related projects and issues will be added when required.
4. Principles relating to processing of personal data
4.1 The Assembly Commission fully supports and complies with the principles relating to processing of personal data set out at Article 5 of the GDPR which require that personal data is:
i. processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to individuals;
ii. collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes; further processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes shall not be considered to be incompatible with the initial purposes;
iii. adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed;
iv. accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that personal data that is inaccurate, having regard to the purposes for which it is processed, is erased or rectified without delay;
v. kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data is processed; personal data may be stored for longer periods insofar as the personal data will be processed solely for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes subject to implementation of the appropriate technical and organisational measures required by the GDPR in order to safeguard the rights and freedoms of individuals; and
vi. processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures.
5.1 Data Protection legislation requires every data controller which is processing personal data to register with the ICO, unless they are exempt. The Assembly Commission is registered with the ICO and renews this annually as required. The current registration can be found here.
5.2 The Assembly Commission has conducted an audit of the personal data processed throughout the organisation and produced a register of the processing carried out. IAOs will be required to review the Data Protection register on a quarterly basis to ensure it remains accurate and appropriate at all times. This review will include an update of any required changes or amendments, or altering or removing information as necessary, on a quarterly basis.
5.4 The Assembly Commission record of processing activities under its responsibility, as set out at Article 30 of the GDPR, will replace the previous notification with the ICO.
6.1 Where the Assembly Commission uses a contractor to process personal data on its behalf, the contractor must sign a data processing agreement, which ensures that they are taking adequate steps to comply with the Data Protection legislation and act only on the instruction of the Assembly Commission as agreed. The Assembly Commission and the data processor are responsible for their actions in processing personal data.
7.1 Under the Data Protection legislation, individuals have the following rights:
i. the right to be informed;
ii. the right of access;
iii. the right to rectification;
iv. the right to erasure;
v. the right to restrict processing;
vi. the right to data portability;
the right to object; and
vii. rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling.
7.2 All requests to facilitate the exercise of data subject rights, under Articles 15-22 of the GDPR, will be facilitated through the DP&ISO. Further guidance and instruction will be available on AssISt.
8.1 Strict conditions apply to the passing of personal data both internally and externally. The Assembly Commission will not disclose personal data to any third party unless we believe it is lawful to do so. In certain circumstances, information relating to staff acting in a business capacity may be shared provided that:
i. we have the statutory power to do so or are required by law to do so; or
ii. the information is clearly not intrusive in nature; or
iii. the member of staff has consented to the disclosure; or
iv. the information is in a form that does not identify individual employees.
8.2 Concerns about sharing information should be referred to the DP&ISO for advice (for example, if the information includes personal data about a third party). In all cases, the DP&ISO should be advised that a request for personal data has been received and details for the request recorded.
8.3 Disclosure of data must be recorded by each business area in the data protection audit register (noted at 5.2 of this policy).
8.4 All disclosures of personal data externally must be recorded in the disclosure template forms (available on AssIst) which are retained by each business area. The two main types of disclosure as follows:
i. Systematic, routine disclosure
This is where the same data sets are shared between the same external organisations for an established purpose For example, routine sharing with HMRC where there is a legal requirement to send national insurance and PAYE details to HMRC.
This takes place in a pre-planned and routine way. As such, it should be governed by established rules and procedures and may be documented in contracts or other forms of agreement such as service level agreements, memorandums of understanding or data sharing agreements.
Systematic sharing will generally involve routine disclosure of data sets between external organisations for an agreed purpose. This planned sharing of certain categories of information will require only one template to be completed noting the type of sharing that will take place on a regular basis.
Details of all routine disclosure procedures, including justifications and approval procedures are available in the data sharing tool kit. The tool kit also contains full guidance details including exemptions available.
ii. Exceptional, non-routine or one-off data-sharing
The exemptions in the DPA can provide a basis for ad hoc sharing to take place legally in certain circumstances. The template forms for exceptional, non-routine or one-off data sharing should be marked “Assembly Restricted” and restricted to the Head of Business.
An exceptional non-routine or one off data sharing disclosure may arise where we decide, or are asked, to share data in situations, which are not covered by any routine agreement.
Acting appropriately in situations like this depends primarily on the exercise of professional judgement. However, disclosures of personal data in situations like this are still subject to the DPA.
For example, personal information might be sought in the course of a criminal investigation. An exemption in the DPA (the prevention or detection of crime, the apprehension or prosecution of offenders or the assessment or collection of a tax or duty) could apply to such information. The effect of the exemption, if it applied, would be to disapply certain rights under the DPA and GDPR, and to modify the application of the data protection principles.
Non-routine requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis in light of the procedure set out below.
Non-routine sharing will require the “Assembly Restricted” template, restricted to the Head of Business, to be updated for individual cases. Each request for disclosure will be treated on a case-by-case basis. Procedures for approval of non-routine data sharing are set out as follows:
External Organisation requesting information
Approval to disclose
PSNI
Clerk/Chief Executive in consultation with relevant Director and Director of LGRS/Head of Legal Services.
Form 81, or the appropriate standard PSNI form,should be provided by PSNI noting disclosure requirements.
In an emergency where Form 81, or the appropriate standard PSNI form, is not immediately provided, details of the request for disclosure and information provided should be documented with the officer’s badge number and signature. Form 81 can be followed up later.
A data sharing agreement is not required
HMRC investigations (not usual information disclosed routinely).
Head of Finance in consultation with Director of Corporate Services
Other ad hoc, one-off decisions to disclose data
Head of Business in consultation with the relevant Director, Data Protection and Information Standards Officer/Head of Legal Services.
Assembly Commission initiating external information sharing
9.1 All Secretariat staff will, through appropriate training and responsible management:
i. fully observe conditions regarding the fair collection and use of personal data;
ii. meet our legal obligations to specify the purposes for which personal information is used;
iii collect and process appropriate personal data only to the extent that it is needed to fulfill operational needs or to comply with any legal requirements;
iv. ensure the quality of personal data used;
v. apply strict checks to determine the length of time personal data is held;
vi. ensure that the rights of people about whom information is held can be fully exercised under the Data Protection legislation;
vii. take appropriate technical and organisational security measures to safeguard personal data;
viii. ensure personal data is secured to prevent access by unauthorised individuals and that all information is kept in adequate storage in line with the information assurance policy;
ix. ensure personal data is not transferred outside the European Economic Area (‘EEA’) without adequate safeguards;
x. ensure Privacy by Design is considered and implemented as necessary in all new policies, procedures, systems, projects, etc.;
xi. ensure Data Protection Impact Assessments (‘DPIAs’) are carried out where data processing is likely to result in high risk to individuals, for example:
a. where a new technology is being deployed;
b. where a profiling operation is likely to significantly affect individuals; or
c. where there is processing on a large scale of the special categories of data; and
xii. inform the DP&ISO where a DPIA indicates that the data processing is high risk and the risk cannot be sufficiently addressed. The DP&ISO will therefore be required to consult the ICO to seek its opinion as to whether the processing operation complies with the GDPR.
10.1 The Assembly Commission will ensure that:
i. there is someone with specific responsibility for Data Protection in the Assembly Commission;
ii. all staff receive annual awareness of Data Protection legislation;
iii. everyone managing and handling personal data understands that they are directly and personally responsible for following good Data Protection practice;
iv. only staff who need access to personal data as part of their duties are authorised to do so;
v. everyone managing and handling personal data is appropriately trained to do so;
vi. everyone managing and handling personal data is appropriately supervised;
vii. anyone wanting to make enquiries about handling personal data knows what to do;
viii. queries about handling personal data are promptly and courteously dealt with;
ix. methods of processing personal data are clearly described. This is usually done through a privacy notice. The privacy notice will also detail the purpose of processing the personal data; the legal basis for processing; data retention periods; individuals’ rights, including the rights to complain to the ICO if they think there is a problem with the way their data is being handled;
x. an information audit of personal data held across the Assembly Commission is conducted on an annual basis. This documents what personal data is held, where it came from and who it is shared with. This will include an assessment and evaluation to ensure that all personal data held is accurate and up to date, and that adequate controls are in place to ensure information is managed and stored appropriately. This will help the Assembly Commission to comply with the Data Protection legislation and demonstrate accountability;
xi. ‘Data Protection by design’ is implemented as necessary in all new policies, procedures, systems, projects etc.;
xii. DPIAs are carried out as necessary; and
xiii. if a DPIA indicates that the data processing is high risk, and the risk cannot be sufficiently addressed, the ICO will be consulted to seek its opinion as to whether the processing operation complies with the GDPR.
10.2 To assist in achieving compliance, we have:
i. appointed a DP&ISO who has overall responsibility for Data Protection within the Assembly Commission;
ii. created guidance on the Assembly’s Commission’s Data Protection procedures in accordance with the Data Protection legislation;
iii. appointed dedicated IAOs to ensure staff compliance with the Data Protection principles and adherence to the business area procedures;
iv. created monitoring procedures to ensure business area compliance with the Information Assurance Policy (bi-annually);
v. created a register of the personal data processed throughout the Assembly Commission; and
vi. created policies and procedures to ensure personal data remains complete, accurate and up to date and managed in line with the Principles.
11.1 All staff have a responsibility to protect the personal data held by the Assembly Commission. Staff must follow policy and procedures to ensure that personal data is kept secure at all times against unauthorised or unlawful loss or disclosure and in particular will ensure that:
i. staff participate in training regarding the handling of personal data;
ii. paper files and other records or documents containing personal / sensitive data are kept in a secure environment in accordance with the Information Assurance Policy;
iii. personal data held on computers and computer systems is stored securely in the shared drive or relevant database, as required; and access control is managed in accordance with the Information Assurance Policy;
iv. individual passwords are not easily compromised and are in accordance with the IS Office Password Policy; and
v. all personal data which staff provide to the Assembly Commission is accurate and up to date and the Assembly Commission is informed of any errors, corrections or changes.
11.2 If and when, as part of their responsibilities, staff collect information about other people, they must comply with the policy and business area procedures. No one should process personal data outside this guidance or use personal data held on others for their own purposes.
12.1 Any third parties who are users of personal data supplied by the Assembly Commission will be required to confirm and demonstrate that they will abide by the requirements of the Data Protection legislation. Audits may be carried out, as necessary, by the Assembly Commission to ensure compliance.
13.1 A copy of this policy statement will be given to all new members of Assembly Commission staff and relevant third parties, such as agency staff and secondees. Existing Assembly Commission staff and any relevant third parties will be advised of the policy which will be posted on the Assembly Commission website and AssISt, as will any subsequent revisions. All staff and relevant third parties are to be familiar with and comply with this policy at all times.
13.2 Training
The Assembly Commission has a mandatory training programme, which includes maintaining awareness of managing information effectively, information assurance and Data Protection issues in accordance with Data Protection legislation. This is carried out by annual training sessions covering the following subjects:
i. personal responsibilities;
ii. handling of information in line with the Information Assurance Policy;
iii. compliance with the Data Protection Principles;
iv. upholding Individual rights;
v. adherence to the Records and Email Management Policy; and
vi. general good practice guidelines covering security and information assurance.
13.4 Induction
All new starts will receive information governance training as part of the Assembly Commission induction process. Extra training in these areas will be given to those who require it due to the nature of their job. A register will be maintained of all Assembly Commission staff attendance at training sessions.
13.5 Contracts of Employment
All contracts of employment include a Data Protection clause. Agency and contract staff are subject to the same rules.
[1] Data Protection legislation means the GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018 (“DPA”) and regulations relating thereto.
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Swedish Lucia, the Queen of Light
The Lucia celebration is something that Swedes themselves, and also the rest of the world consider as the most typical Swedish tradition.
The Sankta Lucia celebration, which is considered typically Swedish today, is really international when you look at the background and development of the tradition. Additionally, our customs around Lucia are among the most complicated of the year.
According to our celebratory tradition, the 13th of December should be the longest night of the year. And the fact is that in the time reckoning of the old calendars it was actually so. It was the time of the winter solstice. That night it was considered important for both man and beast to get a little extra something to eat. A "Lucia bite" was important. The animals could each get their unthreshed sheaf of oats or some tidbits from the kitchen. It did happen that one dropped a little schnapps on the sheaf and told the animals that now was "Lusseotta" (as Julotta is on Christmas morning).
Enjoy some of our films from Lucia celebrations in Swedish America: http://www.youtube.com/nordstjernan or at http://vimeo.com/33452336 (www.vimeo.com/nordstjernan). Or, enjoy this morning's televised Lucia celebration in Sweden: Luciamorgon från Jukkasjärvi
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Today's celebration
The festival of Sankta Lucia is celebrated all over Sweden on this day. The newspapers create a news sensation by touting the contest for Lucia, who on Dec. 13 visits the sick and the schools, officials and factories with her court of maidens and star boys. They make the rounds, wishing everyone well as this festival beckons the yuletide spirit and Christmas season even more than Advent does.
On this day, all Swedes have memories of tiptoeing toward the darkened bedroom of their parents early on the morning of December 13 to wake them with a brimming pot of coffee and freshly baked lussekatter (Lucia buns), as the light of the candles on the oldest daughter’s head mimic the first streaks of dawn. The hallowed song revives all the cherished memories of innocence and family love.
Many Swedish American families keep this tradition alive in their homes as well as in churches and festival settings throughout the days surrounding Dec. 13. With a crown of candles on her head, Lucia and her attendants sing songs in the candlelit darkness, serve pepparkakor and lussekatter, and perhaps join with everyone in dancing around the Christmas tree.
The Queen of Light
But where appears in the picture the saint from Syracuse or our beautiful queen of light, the attendants, star boys, glögg and saffron buns?
Saint Lucia's Day was assigned in the calendar of saints to the 13th of December ever since early Christian times. But our old folk customs ought not to have had anything to do with her. It is not even certain that the customs which began to show up in western Swedish manor houses around 1800 had anything to do with it from the beginning. But in 1764 she was there at an estate in Västergötland, dressed in white with a candle in her hand.
There is much to indicate that it was German contacts which brought with them the custom to higher middle class circles in western Sweden. It was certainly there that the folksy customs to celebrate this morning were found. For at least 100 years, however, the new way of celebrating Lucia became an experience, which only occurred in certain selected circles of friends.
Schools have meant a great deal in strengthening and spreading a new custom. In the same way the rectory and mansion had been most important in the promotion of culture, so it was in the schools during the mid-1800s that local folk movements were followed by people. Today there is no doubt that it is our mass media, television primarily, which steer the trends and new ideas into our consciousness.
In relation to schools, a Lucia celebration fit well with the "djäknegång” which before the folk schools were instituted in the 1840s had been involved with the end of the school term at this time of year. It was a usual thing to go round and beg for money on the way to school. And for organizations it was important, with nice, preferably new, additions to the pre-Christmas celebration which should gather together as many as possible. And as always, selling and recruiting members was very important for the finances.
Lucia contests
In the beginning of the 1900s it became all the more usual with Lucia processions. But the custom certainly would not have attained its present position and continued spreading if the newspaper Stockholms Dagblad had not decided in 1927 to crown a Lucia for the capital city. Since that day Lucia contests have developed more and more and today there is hardly a small village that doesn't crown its own queen of light. And at many work places and in many Swedish homes a Lucia procession is held, and the morning of December 13 is celebrated.
Text based on research by Professor Jan-Ojvind Swahn, Sweden
Unlikely climate for a Lucia - Sofia Dickens, photographed for Nordic Reach at Laguna Beach, 2006. Photography: Henrik Olund
Watch this year's televised Lucia celebration in Sweden: Luciamorgon från Jukkasjärvi (Screen grab from SVT Play)
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Sankta Lucia and her attendants perform for Swedish American lovers of the tradition in Milwaukee. Photo by George Katsekes
Sweden's Lucia at Skansen in Stockholm.
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Sofia Dickens as Lucia, photographed in Laguna Beach, Cal. for Nordic Reach Magazine. Photography: Henrik Olund
Our favorite Lucia image 2009: The Lodge Stenland Lucia, Becky Rasmussen enters the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Pearl River, N.Y. Submitted by Beatrice Rasmussen & Ingrid Allison.
It is usually children who take part in the Lucia procession and parents and siblings are invited to schools and kindergartens to watch. In addition to Lucia and her maids, a Lucia procession consists of little santas, gingerbread men and star boys. The children sing traditional songs and then everyone can have Lucia buns, gingerbread biscuits and glögg or coffee. Photo: Emelie Asplund/imagebank.sweden.se
Early morning Lucia procession in Gustav Vasa church in Stockholm. Photo: Ola Ericson/imagebank.sweden
Last year's televised Lucia celebration in Sweden in Göteborg's Domkyrka (Screen grab from SVT Play - at the cathedral in Göteborg)
Last year's televised Lucia celebration in Göteborg's Domkyrka (Screen grab from SVT Play - at the cathedral in Göteborg)
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Fact Sheets Water Repellency
Water Repellency
Water repellence results from waxy organic compounds coating soil particles.
Sandy soils (<5 % clay) are most susceptible to water repellency.
Claying sandy soils can help to alleviate water repellence, although significant amounts may be required.
Water repellent soils occupy more than 5 million hectares of western and southern Australia (Roper, 2004). Decomposition of hydrophobic (or water repelling) waxy materials originating from plant residues can coat soil particles preventing the infiltration of water into the soil profile (figure 1; Van Gool & Moore, 1999). Soils with a small surface area (e.g. sand) are more prone to water repellency as it takes less hydrophobic material to coat individual particles, compared to silt or clay.
Figure 1: Water droplet on surface of non-wetting soil.
The result of water repellence is generally uneven water distribution in the soil profile which leads to patchy and uneven plant emergence (figure 2). Moving from an alternately wet and dry soil can make it difficult to control the depth of sowing causing further problems with establishment (Blackwell, 1996). Water can remain ponded on the soil surface to be evaporated or lost as runoff. Lack of plant cover and heavy autumn or summer rains can result in significant runoff and erosion on sloping sites.
Causes of water repellence
Native vegetation creates waxy, water repellent residues, so newly cleared agricultural land and native landscapes will be more susceptible to non-wetting.# In arable farming systems, pasture and grain legumes such as clover, medic, lucerne, and lupins which contain higher amounts of plant waxes form water repellent compounds. Cereals do not form water repellent residues so it’s worth breaking a long pasture phase on susceptible soils to prevent build-up of hydrophobic material.
Fungi can also produce water repellent residues, particularly under perennial pastures such as lucerne.
As waxy substances in plants are not effectively broken down by their passage through the sheep (Blackwell 1996), sheep camps tend to be more water repellent because of the accumulation of organic matter.
The susceptibility of a soil being or becoming water repellent will be determined not only by the presence of hydrophobic material, but also soil texture (Hunt and Gilkes, 1992). Coarsely textured sandy soils that contain less than 5 % clay are very susceptible to becoming water repellent. In a study done by Harper and Gilkes (1994), it was found that water repellency only occurred in soils with <10 % clay and was most severe for soils with <5 % clay. Although not as common, water repellency can occur in certain soils with a finer texture if the soil has a strongly aggregated structure (Moore, 1998). The repellency occurs when the aggregates become coated in hydrophobic material (Harper and Gilkes, 1994). In Western Australia, soils in coastal sand-plain regions generally have the greatest risk of water repellence.
Even though the breakdown of organic matter creates water repellent residues, there is generally no direct relationship between total soil organic carbon and water repellency. It is the type of organic matter present that influences the soils’ susceptibility to water repellence.
Detecting water repellence
There are two main methods for measuring soil water repellency:
The time taken for a droplet of water to penetrate the soil.
The concentration of an ethanol solution needed to penetrate the soil in under 10 seconds. The higher concentration of ethanol needed, the more severe water repellence is.
Hunt and Gilkes (1992) also described visual indicators of water repellence in the field — patchy pasture growth or crop emergence, early growth in depressions where water can pond, shallow wetting of the soil surface and water erosion. Staggered weed germination can also be an indicator of a water repellent soil.
As water repellence is related to organic matter, it is often confined to the upper soil layers, especially in minimum till systems. Standard sampling of the top 10 cm for analysis may “dilute” the water repellent layer, thereby skewing the results. For most accurate determination of water repellence the top 3 – 5 cm should be analysed.
Managing water repellence
Although options exist to manage non-wetting in water repellent soils, the economic cost and logistics of management may out-weigh the potential benefits.
Adding clay to hydrophobic layers should increase the soil surface area therefore lessening water repellency (Moore and Blackwell, 1998). The aim is to increase the clay content in the surface of the soil profile to at least 5% — this can sometimes require a substantial addition of clay (at least 100 t/ha). Dispersive clay (preferably kaolinitic) that will incorporate quickly is preferred.
It is important to assess the profitability of claying on a case by case basis. For example, previous studies conducted in Esperance (David Hall; DAFWA) observed that some “gutless” sands had very little potential to increase their production, even when water repellency was alleviated. This is a result of this soil type having low water holding capacity, low organic matter and nutrient content and being prone to wind erosion — all of which are likely to constrain potential grain production. Therefore, in this case, the increase in yields after claying would not be enough to produce a positive economic return. On more responsive soil types with higher yield potential, claying is likely to be more economically viable.
Figure 2: Symptomatic expression of non-wetting resulting in patchy plant growth (right hand side). Differences in plant establishment demonstrated as a result of claying a south-coast water repellent soil (photo courtesy of David Hall, DAFWA).
Other methods for managing water repellence include:
Furrow sowing — creating furrows when seeding traps water, preventing loss from runoff and allowing it to enter the soil. Risks associated with this strategy include collapse/movement of soil from ridges into the furrow burying the seed deeper than intended, or large rainfall events causing water movement in the furrow resulting in rill erosion or seed exposure (Moore and Blackwell, 1998).
Grow species adapted to water repellent soils to increase preferential water flow into soil.
Soil wetting agents (generally not economical for broadacre farming).
Wax degrading bacteria capable of breaking chemical bonds (generally not economical for broad-acre farming).
Decreasing the proportion of legumes in rotation.
Further reading and references
Blackwell P (1996) Managing water repellent soils. Department of Agriculture, Western Australia. Farmnote No. 109/96.
Carter D and Hetherington R. (2006) Claying water repellent soils. Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia
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Harper RJ and Gilkes RJ (1994) Soil attributes related to water repellency and the utility of soil survey for predicting its occurrence. Australian Journal of Soil Research. 32: 1109-24.
Hunt N and Gilkes B (1992) Farm Monitoring Handbook. The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia.
Moore G (1998) Water repellence In Soilguide. A handbook for understanding and managing agricultural soils. Agriculture Western Australia Bulletin No. 4343: 53-63.
Roper MM (2004) The isolation and characterisation of bacteria with the potential to degrade waxes that cause waterrepellency in sandy soils. Australia Journal of Soil Research 42: 427-433.
Van Gool D, Tille P and Moore G (1999) Land evaluation standards for land resource mapping. Department of Agriculture, Western Australia Resource Management Technical Report #298 (3rd ed.)
Authors: Jessica Sheppard (Avon Catchment Council), Fran Hoyle (Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia), Dan Murphy (The University of Western Australia)
This soilquality.org.au fact-sheet has been funded by the Healthy Soils for Sustainable Farms programme, an initiative of the Australian Government’s Natural Heritage Trust in partnership with the GRDC, and the WA NRM regions of Avon Catchment Council and South Coast NRM, through National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality and National Landcare Programme investments of the WA and Australian Governments.
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author AP date 06/10/09 venue Guildhall, Southampton, UK
Rampaging through sold-out shows in some of the most esteemed venues the nation has to offer and spreading their word through the internet without so much as a record deal in their pockets, Enter Shikari always were a force to be reckoned with. Since then, the band has inked deals with several labels and expanded their sphere of influence to unprecedented levels, earning them a status as one of the great successes of the British underground music scene and all the perks that come with it. Having seen this band twice in two very different settings, their headlining tour passing through Southampton meant it was finally time to experience Enter Shikari on their home turf, surrounded by their earliest, most eager fans. Was it worth the hype? Read on to find out.
Despite my growing dispassion for many of these bands, metalcore or whatever you want to call them, I oddly found myself looking forward to The Devil Wears Prada's performance. Their music carries a distressing intensity, and when music sounds deranged, that's usually a cue for an equally frantic stage presence. That they had been purposefully ferried over from the USA as support for a band like Enter Shikari, with whom they have next to no similarities, further suggested that they must have impressed someone.
On stage, the band is scene as fuck. Choreographed headbanging and constant jumping ensure there's enough energy to power the mosh-hungry, and surprisingly young fans that have turned up. Vocalist Mike Hranica has the sort of scream that fuels the intrinsic rage within us all, and what this meant of course, was that fights threatened to break out all around us as the pits grew more violent - and for once, it was only natural that they should, given the furious nature of TDWP's music.
Unfortunately the poor acoustics of Guildhall hinder what could have been a fantastic performance in a more intimate venue. I always draw comparisons between this band and Bring Me The Horizon, what with the extreme vehemence that dictates both their shows and their music, but were we to send the two into the battle royale of scene music, it would be the latter which would emerge victorious without a question.
Because while TDWP's performance is entertaining, it isn't unpredictable enough to match the intensity of their music. I want them to become destructive during those monstrous breakdowns; I want some ferocity in there; but instead, those opportunities go unexploited, leaving me wondering why they are so tame. There isn't enough controversy in their stage antics; though I suspect a different outcome in the band's upcoming headlining shows, which are set in much smaller venues.
01. Sassafras
02. Dogs Can Grow Beards All Over
03. Gimme Half
04. HTML Rulez d00d
05. Big Wiggly Style
06. Hey John, What's Your Name Again?
07. Reptar, King of the Ozone
08. Danger: Wildman
What happened to the quirky do-it-yourself sensation we saw dangling from the ceiling of Loppen just two years ago? One look at the enormous tour bus and accompanying equipment trailer-truck outside Guildhall suddenly puts things into perspective. Enter Shikari have achieved more success in two years than most bands can hope to achieve in their entire careers, and watching their performance tonight it isn't difficult to fathom why.
The first thing to strike me is the sheer professionalism of their show now. The breathtaking light show. The way in which they seamlessly transform almost two thousand people into an all-out rave. And how little all this big band nonsense seems to affect their attitude. They are still the same eclectic jesters (albeit somewhat more politically conscious now), jumping off speaker stacks and dancing their way through almost their entire discography. On the crowd-side, moshpits become dancepits as breakdowns become dance beats, and amid the flickering strobe lights one cannot but marvel at the fantastic performance unfolding before our eyes. Although the band is evidently set on destroying everything - the speakers, the monitors and our ear drums - it is their destruction of the divide between band and fan that is most impressive. Seldom does one bear witness to a man so in touch with the crowd as frontman Rou Reynolds, though drummer Rob Rolfe's murderous thousand-mile stares from behind his kit do their best to counteract Rou's generous, joyous mood.
The show is a relentlessly fun bombardment of the senses and in the midst of it all, there isn't a hint of arrogance to be found. The St. Albans four-piece is relaxed and care-free, and yet ironically plays as though their lives depended on it, underlining their status as one of the finest live bands the UK has to offer. Mixing the uncompromising urgency of hardcore punk and the psychedelia of an old school rave, the result is the counter culture's ultimate night out, and whatever your disposition, it seems almost impossible not to find something appealing about Enter Shikari's mastery of such feats.
Predictably the response from the sold out venue is as crazed as it is enthusiastic. Glowsticks swirl through the air, topless girls crowdsurf their way towards the stage, and from the soundbooth onwards the venue is a sea of enraptured movement. No sign of the aggro-scenekids getting into each others' faces during the support slot; in their place is a unified mass screaming every verse and chanting every chorus back at Rou while dancing as if under some form of hypnose. Add to that a band giving it their absolute everything on stage, and you have an equation for an unforgettable gig.
01. Common Dreads
02. Solidarity
03. Step Up
04. The Feast
05. Zzzonked
06. Mothership
07. Havoc A
08. No Sleep Tonight
09. Gap in the Fence
10. Havoc B
12. No Swweat
13. The Jester
14. Halcyon
15. Hectic
16. Enter Shikari
17. Fanfare for the Conscious Man
--Encore--
18. Juggernauts
19. Sorry You're Not A Winner
20. OK! Time for Plan B
21. Closing
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Mega May Returns! GBA Mega Man Games Hit Wii U All Month Long
Yo, I totally called this. Capcom and Nintendo are teaming up once again for "Mega May", a month long block of Mega Man Virtual Console releases. Each week in May you'll be treated to a classic GBA and just like last year, you can vote which game you want to play first:
Mega Man & Bass
Mega Man Battle Network 3 White/Blue
Mega Man Battle Network 4 Red Sun/Blue Moon
Mega Man Zero 2
Which would you like to play on May 7th? Cast your votes here. The winning game will appear on the first Thursday in May, with the rest debuting chronologically each week.
The poll's open from April 15 through midnight April 29.
Source: Capcom Unity
InfiniteJexulus April 15, 2015 at 1:59 PM
Aw, Mega Man & Bass is the GBA version. I'll have to scour the internet when it comes out to see if the screen crunch is in full effect. If it is, we might have to bring it to Capcom Unity's attention that we want the SNES port.
turianx9 April 15, 2015 at 3:00 PM
I just really want a new game. So tired of virtual console games that I already own. Good for you guys that don't. I hope you have a fun time experiencig them for the first time. :)
Sckarton April 15, 2015 at 3:39 PM
great, we get the crappy version of megaman and bass. at least we'll get zero2 and both versions of battle network 3 and 4.
Sure would love if Nintendo would just buy the IP outright.
Bet you'll regret saying that once it happens.
I can pretty much guarantee I wouldn't.
Considering where things stand now, the very worst I would probably feel is completely neutral on the matter.
Model M April 15, 2015 at 11:12 PM
That'd be stupid.
Vhyper1985 April 16, 2015 at 1:04 PM
Because it's working so well for the likes of F-Zero, Metroid, Earthbound, Mysterious Murasame Castle, Golden Sun & Captain Rainbow... Nintendo has enough problems with their own IP, the best we can hope for is a partnership like they have with Monster Hunter, Ace Attorney etc & have a new Mega Man game exclusive to Nintendo platforms or even financed by Ninty like they did with Bayonetta.. Hopefully now with XOver finished in Japan, which Capcom did update from 2012 onwards hopefully they are looking to start making a new game in the franchise!
I just take these Virtual Console releases, comics & merchandise as a sign that at least Capcom haven't forgotten about our fanbase, I mean, when was the last time you saw any Strider, Captain Commando or Onimusha figures, comics etc on a regular basis for those franchises??
People always use that excuse when talking about Nintendo. For one thing, Earthbound is a standalone game. The Mother series is over because Itoi wants it to be and Nintendo is choosing to respect his wishes. As things stand right now anyway. Metroid is hardly finished, in fact the most recent console Metroid game is more recent than the last console Mega Man game.
Golden Sun is sort of an odd one. It's a franchise that kind of reached a conclusion, then tried to come back with a DS game that didn't perform well.
F-Zero I will grant you, though they have stated why they haven't tried to make another one I think they could be handling it a bit better. Other than that, if you're going to be listing off one offs and really obscure titles, we could make a lot of game companies seem like they have "problems with their IP." I would have listed StarTropics personally. They aren't really comparable to other Nintendo franchises.
That said, I'm not saying Nintendo is perfect with their IPs, but I feel they would do well with Mega Man. That and I would like to see what sort of games they could make with the franchise.
If I were Nintendo, I'd be skeptical of any partnerships with Capcom though, given their history. Ace Attorney and Monster Hunter aren't exactly exclusive to Nintendo devices, and it would be unfortunate if they re-established the franchise for Capcom, just for Capcom to then take it exclusively to the PS4 and the Xbox One for future titles.
All that being said, I don't mean for this to sound hostile towards Capcom, which I feel like a lot of people are interpreting it as. I'd like to see what Nintendo would/could do with the franchise and I think it doesn't exactly fit well with Capcom's business strategy anymore, which isn't inherently a good or bad thing. It's just a change.
At some point in time I would have looked at the virtual console releases and everything else optimistically as well. But at this point I just see a company recognizing there's a demand for something and using it to make a quick buck. If fans stopped supporting the virtual console, comics and merchandise, you can bet they would dry up and disappear. Mega Man is marketable, and they know it, but they also don't want to spend the time and resources on anything more significant than merch.
Also while Strider may not have figures and comics, it also had a game released on consoles more recently than Mega Man. Though I always wondered about that franchise and the odd situation with the rights of it.
You're wrong with your bs on Mother, it took heels over head struggle just to get the third entry completed, and Earthbound is not a standalone game, it is the literal English localization of Mother 2 (stop being blunt minded and apologetic), which ended with that entry because Nintendo had no incentive for the series to ever be localized again. If your explanation is Nintendo's actual excuse and you believe them? Back off Capcom when they state their PR nonsense, cause it's a two way street.
Golden Sun is a series that Nintendo damn well feels no need to pander to because it doesn't offer great income, same like Fire Emblem which its very continued existence was predicated on it's latest entry doing well. This is in contrary with Dark Dawn which unlike Awakening couldn't save its own ass.
What the heck does given their history mean? Ace Attorney so far has only ever appeared on a Nintendo home gaming platform with the exception of a few games on PC and iOS, and Monster Hunter has historically been developed for and well received on Sony platforms, the support Capcom gives Nintendo with the series is a form of amicability more than anything, as there was no "re-establishment" needed, seeing as how Sony now dominates the home console market. In which case even the ill fated Xbox One has now surpassed the Wii U. Is it a wonder Monster Hunter's latest release was on a current gen platform with the greatest install base?
Dude it has nothing to do with hostility, it's about looking at the situation objectively and realizing that all these companies work like a business, because quit frankly that is what they are. Capcom and Nintendo are the same in that regard. Now you could say you personally feel Nintendo is a more competent developer than Capcom in regards to the RM/MM franchise, (I'd respectfully disagree and move on) but to say one company follows the money (essentially) and the other doesn't, is a big pile of BULL**** and you know it.
As for Strider, it got its chance, but I can almost bet money it won't get that chance again for a very long time, based on the latest entry's reception.
"Metroid is hardly finished, in fact the most recent console Metroid game is more recent than the last console Mega Man game." - Actually wrong, Rockman XOver was released Nov 29th 2012 whereas the last new Metroid entry was in 2010 same year as Mega Man 10 & Golden Sun Dark Dawn, F-Zero hasn't had a game since 2003/04.. I should also point out that Mega Man or a Mega Man character has had at least one cameo role in a game every year since 2010! My point was that Nintendo, who I have no doubt could do an amazing Mega Man game btw shouldn't take on more IPs because there is still the chance it could end up just like the other franchises I mentioned & then we'd be in a similar predicament to where we are now. I think it just looks worse for us in that we saw a lot of titles publically get cancelled in 2011/2012 whereas most developers tend to keep things behind closed doors until the last minute..
As for seeing a new game, I'm still optimistic on something happening sooner rather than later. Rockman Xover as I said was released in 2012 & would have been released on IOS/Android in the West however after seeing how sloppy a game it was in terms of gameplay & presentation the fans said "no we don't want this game" so we didn't receive it, we got the fan game Street Fighter X Mega Man for free instead. Meanwhile in Japan XOver got many updates which shows Capcom was focusing on that game when it came to Mega Man at the time, the way I see it is that now XOver is ... um over! I'd like to think Capcom is now looking to start making a new entry hopefully for the home console market... That being said as I mentioned in my original post I think Capcom teaming up with Nintendo makes more sense in that the franchise has had a LOT of exposure on Nintendo systems over the past 1-2 years, he's shown up more than any other 3rd party character in the Smash Bros commercials & trailers, Nintendo putting out new Mega Man themed costumes & allowing an unlockable costume in Mario Kart, Mega Man has a Streetpass puzzle & so far on the WiiU & 3DS Virtual Console has a staggering amount of re-releases... Mega Man 7 was featured on Nintendo Treehouse, Nintendo's Youtube channel did a spotlight on MM2 & although it's a small thing Nintendo DID tweet & post on Facebook about Mega Man's 27th Anniversary last year which they haven't done for any other 3rd party character... Should Nintendo buy the IP? Maybe, but I still think it would be a risky move on Ninty's part & we could still end up in this situation again if they did so. Either way I could rant about this for hours, I'd love to see a new game but I'm willing to wait when one does come along i'll be there day 1, until then I'm enjoying being able to play the old handheld games on a TV even if they are re-releases & like I mentioned it shows that at the very least we as a fanbase haven't been forgotten about!
@Anonymous April 16, 2015 at 6:18 PM
What are you on about? I mentioned Earthbound as a standalone game because it's a single game in a series, where as the person above made it sound like the series was "Earthbound." It was just a little confusion on semantics, cool yourself. I fail to see how that has anything to do with being "blunt minded" or "apologetic." I'm aware about the situation with Mother 3 and I believe they should have localized it. As I said, I don't think Nintendo handles their IPs perfectly.
I don't judge PR on who says it. I judge PR on an individual basis. Nintendo's reason for not wanting to make more in the series because Itoi doesn't want to make anymore seems like a fair reason to me, so while I think they should consider a spiritual successor or something alone the lines for fans who do enjoy the series, I can accept it. What Capcom PR are you even trying to compare this to?
You are also mixing some of my points. My point about "re-establishing" the franchise was in regards to the potential of Mega Man and had nothing to do with Monster Hunter, so I don't know why you mentioned it there. Also Monster Hunter appears on the 3ds, which has a greater install base than any of the home consoles, though again, I'm not quite sure what point you're trying to make there.
You need to calm down. First off, I never said "one company follows the money (essentially) and the other doesn't." That's a straw man you made up by trying to put words in my mouth. Both companies follow the money, but the METHOD in which they do is different. That's what I was saying. Lately Capcom has been focusing a lot on big AAA releases. That's not something they have ever tried with Mega Man and likely not something they ever will. The other thing they have been doing is ios releases, which is where they are willing to slap the Mega Man IP on anything, regardless of quality.
Nintendo on the other hand is just now getting into ios development, we will have to see how they handle it before we can judge. But they also don't focus solely on big AAA games or ios development. We get a lot of smaller titles in between. Games like Kirby, Captain Toad, things like that. As a console developer, Nintendo has to go about developing games in a different way than Capcom. They can make games that won't necessarily sell a great deal if it helps them expand their audience. That's why they funded games like Bayonetta 2 and probably partially why we are getting a new Star Fox game. I wonder how much they really expected those titles to sell.
That difference is why I feel Mega Man would be alright with Nintendo. Again, not saying they are perfect, and it's true it could end up under-utilized even if it ended up under Nintendo's roof. But as I also mentioned, a big reason why I would like Nintendo to purchase the IP is because I would like to see what kind of games they could make with the franchise.
There's a lot of potential there, I'd like to see someone make use of it. At this point I don't even really care who, Nintendo just makes high quality games so they were the first ones that came to mind.
@Vhyper
I appreciate your optimism. Though when I said "Metroid is hardly finished, in fact the most recent console Metroid game is more recent than the last console Mega Man game." I was explicitly referring to home consoles, as in not ios devices, so I wasn't counting Xover. I'm sorry, I should have been more specific.
As for the cameo roles, I can appreciate that, but that's not where the issue lies in my opinion. Games like Project X Zone and Smash Brothers that were made by other companies do a better job of representing Mega Man (again in my opinion) than anything Capcom has directly worked on in the past five years or so. To me, that shows that Mega Man has potential that Capcom hasn't tapped on, for no real reason.
I understand your concerns, that if Nintendo had the IP they might neglect it, but this is where I like to be optimistic. If they could use the Mega Man IP on the same level as say a series like Kirby, I'd be thrilled. Assuming a Metroid game gets announced soon, I'd be alright with Mega Man being treated like that as well.
I feel this way because I think the short amount of time between releases of Mega Man games in the past has been detrimental to the franchise, at least to an extent.
As I said, I like your optimism, and I hope you're right.
But I can't say I will be happy if they wait too much longer, not because I want a game right now, but because it will be another wasted opportunity. If nothing else, if Capcom doesn't make a game (soon) to capitalize on all of the free promotion Mega Man was handed with Smash Brothers, it will fully cement in my mind that this series will never reach anywhere close to its full potential with Capcom. An ideal time to announce a new game would have been when Mega Man was announced for Smash to capitalize on the "hype", but I can understand that's not realistic. That said, waiting too long and letting it die out with no announcement of substance would be the last straw for me. Some people don't realize just how big Smash is. To let something like that go to waste would be too much.
If they partner with Nintendo to make one, I'd be happy, but if it turned out really well it could also further push me towards wanting Nintendo to purchase the IP, depending on their level of involvement.
I'm glad the fanbase continues to support the franchise enough for Capcom to continue to keep making things, I'm just concerned about how long it can last without something big from Capcom themselves.
Though I suppose you have the right attitude. Not much to do but wait and see how things play out.
Wow you really are blunt.
Earthbound is Mother 2. What can't you understand? What you're inferring is that the game had a fundamental change when localized. When Vhyper wrote Earthbound he WAS referencing the series, THE LITERAL LOCALIZED TRANSLATION OF IT thereby Mother = Earthbound Zero, Mother 2 = Earthbound, Mother 3 = Earthbound 2 all together Earthbound series. Even if it's not technically correct, as Mother 2 was/is the only officially localized game, it'd be logical to assume based on other localized franchises like lets say hmm... Rockman, that Nintendo would stick to that retitling, an implication that flies right over your head.
To answer your question on what Capcom PR I'd compare that to, off the top of my head, I'd say the L3 cancelled/never released due to lack of devroom participation excuse.
As for mixing your points, with the re-established thing I assumed you were talking generally, and if you were speaking specifically in regards to Mega Man, there is no way to know that form your wording/writing. In any case I took it as generally using MH as a single example, my point still stands in regards to not trusting Capcom.
Also I specifically mentioned MH appearing on the 3DS because of its largest install base to exactly illustrate Capcom applying smart business to successful brand.
"Is it a wonder Monster Hunter's latest release was on a current gen platform with the greatest install base?" You really must not understand inference very well.
Straw Man, really? He must be the greatest Robot Master of all time since people use him in every instance, heck, they even use him to create him, which is what happened here. Anyway how they follow the money IS THE ISSUE I'M ADDRESSING, holy heck man you have no sense of inference. It's obvious they both follow money, also you're getting into a much bigger scope of issues if you are saying the difference is in the budget put into a game. Just one example of this is the scale of the two companies and their ability to allocate their resources, which is much too complicated to handle in a paragraph. Also I'd argue that at Mega Man's prime it definitely had what I'd consider not necessarily AAA but high profile releases, Legends 1&2, X7, XCM etc. If that trend continued to the last and current gen those theoretical games would be on the upper portion of development costs I'd wager.
The thing about Nintendo, and most other companies actually, is for one they will give a series that generally under preforms financially but is acclaimed, a chance. This I would assume is to test if it could be more successful in that climate at the things that brand failed at prior. Star Fox is Nintendo's Strider or Konami's Zone of the Enders, I can almost guarantee you if the new Star Fox fails Nintendo will distance itself from that series for at least five years, and just the same if it's a major success you can bet your butt you will see a plethora of Star Fox media developed or licensed by Nintendo. As for the producing games like Kirby and Captain Toad and such, I'd say Capcom does the same, but just like how Nintendo isn't making Advanced Wars games or what have you, Capcom isn't making Mega Man right now.
All in all there is no real difference, I'm gonna put my thoughts on this issue as simply as possible. Mega Man is a risky investment, and Capcom is too small to handle it whilst Nintendo is too big to handle it.
@ 4:27 PM
Blunt? I'm not sure that's the word you're looking for. Though I do try to be straightforward.
Once again, tone down the hostility.
I understand your point now about the "Earthbound series" that you've explained what you meant, though you could have done so without coming off as a tool. When people mention Earthbound, they are often talking about the game named Earthbound. Without context, it's difficult to infer whether someone is speaking about the game called Earthbound or the series. I originally assumed Vhyper was speaking about the game, but I can see how he could also be talking about the series. Though I don't know why that's a point of contention for you when I already acknowledged, even in my original post, that it was part of a series and that Nintendo hasn't handled it perfectly.
As for PR, I'm willing to believe both what Capcom and Nintendo say, which you seemed to think wasn't the case when you said "If your explanation is Nintendo's actual excuse and you believe them?"
It's not that I don't believe Capcom PR, it's that I think an explanation of "the man behind the games doesn't want to make more" is inoffensive, where as I think "we are cancelling the game because of the fans" is not. Especially after they said fans didn't have to participate if they didn't want to and the paid demo would gauge whether or not the game would be made. Nintendo hasn't done something like that with Earthbound as far as I know. Also, didn't Capcom PR try to get people to stop referencing that tweet because they said it didn't reflect the views of the company?
If you paid attention to Vhyper's post, I think it should be pretty obvious I was talking about Mega Man, especially since the Ace Attorney and Monster Hunter series don't need any re-establishment. For someone who likes to say others don't understand inference, I'm surprised you missed that.
Your straw man wasn't talking about "following the money," it was implying that I was arguing that Nintendo doesn't follow the money, which I never did. Putting words into other people's mouths is not a good way to have a discussion. As I said, both companies follow the money, they just do so in different ways.
I'm not going to say you're necessarily right or wrong in regards to whether those games had a big budget as I don't have any information on that. Though I will say if they did sink big budgets into those games, it might have been wise to advertise them a bit stronger outside of Japan.
...Continuing from my post...
Nintendo is a bit strange though, even in regards to this. Star Fox is just a recent example. Kid Icarus Uprising is another, yet oddly, even though it was considered to be fairly successful, it seems Nintendo isn't building off of that. That may be due to the fact that Sakurai and team Sora made that game and they are now working on Smash. Fire Emblem is another strange one, they kept localizing them despite the games never really having big success in the west. Eventually they said one more and that's it. They made Awakening, they actually advertised it, and it took off pretty well. It makes sense for them to continue with Fire Emblem now, but I can't help but wonder why they kept making them before when they had multiple attempts that didn't work out.
I agree that Capcom does occasionally make smaller games, but we haven't seen much lately and it started to die down as Capcom started making ios games. It's understandable, they have to focus on making new games for the new consoles, which involves building new engines and working with new architecture. It takes time and resources and they are focusing pretty much all of that into AAA and ios.
If they want to change that, that's great. Right now it doesn't look like they have much interest in doing so.
Ultimately my thoughts are: Mega Man doesn't seem as risky as some franchises that are still going on today. I feel Nintendo could capitalize on it with their resources, where as Capcom is too busy with other investments to do so. It's possible Nintendo would fail to capitalize on the franchise as well, but I'd personally like to see it given a fair shot.
Sigh... There is no hostility, I don't know where you are getting this from. Good grief
The blunt minded thing is in opposition to being sharp minded. I'm saying you're blunt cause I personally believe you'd have to be super gullible to believe EITHER EXCUSES. I used Capcom's example to exaggerate the situation, it figures you'd believe both and get "offended" by one. I hadn't known about the damage control Capcom attempted after the tweet though.
No not at that moment, it was not obvious you were referring specifically to Mega Man.
"If I were Nintendo, I'd be skeptical of any partnerships with Capcom though, given their history (Of what? The GameCube 5?). Ace Attorney and Monster Hunter aren't exactly exclusive to Nintendo devices (my contention, they don't need to completely be, and they have been, especially in the case of AA), and it would be unfortunate if they re-established the franchise for Capcom (assuming you're taking about any general franchise from Capcom, no way to tell you're taking specifically Mega Man, but even then I conceded you could have been, and that it was moot anyway as it didn't effect my argument), just for Capcom to then take it exclusively to the PS4 and the Xbox One for future titles ( It would be, but this concern is based on what precedent? When has Nintendo exclusively aided in the establishment of RM/MM prior to Smash-3DS, only for Capcom to take the franchise to another console exclusively?)."
If you read my posts you'd know I was talking about how they follow the money as well. It is ludicrous (well maybe not in this case) for me to believe that you'd believe that either never follows the money, this is obvious. What I'm arguing is generally both follow the money the same way, which is in line with what you're suggesting. Me writing follow the money is just a general phrase indicative of a central point already established.
If that is not clear enough, let me put it like this. Capcom focused on AAA, Nintendo funding projects or making smaller titles or what have you, doesn't really matter to me. In either case I believe the two are not making decisions based on love or respect for the games or their developers (like with your case on Itoi) , but rather for market appeal and financial gain. If Capcom had the means they'd probably try to capitalize on things just like Nintendo, 'Captain Ken Masters, Ghosts 'n Goblins Epic Yarn (granted GnG had mass appeal) funding Streets of Rage 4 for CPS4' or what have you. I'm not agreeing to your assessments on the way either company runs mind you, I'm simply saying regardless granting that, it wouldn't matter.
Anyway I believe both can take risks on MM, but Capcom taking it could kill them (too small) and Nintendo taking it could alienate all the other viable options on their plate (too big). In essence I'm saying they are both too busy for their own reasons.
"I'm not going to say you're necessarily right or wrong in regards to whether those games had a big budget as I don't have any information on that. Though I will say if they did sink big budgets into those games, it might have been wise to advertise them a bit stronger outside of Japan."
^I'm gonna assume this is a response to my tidbit on L/L2, X7 etc. Well for one I never claimed to know that those games had big budgets relative to their time/circumstances, I was saying that they were high profile specifically because of their advertisement, legacy, and major home console appeal. Given that those were major factors, I'd assume if Capcom made Legends 3 for example on PS3 or announced X9 for the PS4 or what have you, being flagship entries to a long standing series of well established games it would probably be costly. Capcom didn't do that though, they shifted toward handhelds and small digital releases.
Your spot on with Kid Icarus in regards to its circumstances, mind you it wasn't wildly OMG revolutionary success that Nintendo just had to take advantage of either. As for FE, I have no idea about the localization thing, but yeah the underlining point I get from that is they eventually got fed up and said one more chance.
aRobinsonWriter April 15, 2015 at 5:52 PM
So voting for Mega Man and Bass. The final levels are so freaking hard; the ability to insta-save would be great.
kotipeltox April 15, 2015 at 8:48 PM
Yayyyyyy!!!!!!!!.......Zzzzzzzzz..........
Already voted for Mega Man Zero 2.
Hypercoyote April 16, 2015 at 9:12 AM
Maybe a compromise.....a translated Megaman & Bass for SNES/Super Famicom?
Mega Man & Bass.. Maybe a faithfully and accurate translated Megaman & Bass for SNES/Super Famicom for a first time ever ?
Kyapukomu! Rockman & Forte (WS) in English & Colorized please...
BassDS April 17, 2015 at 12:50 AM
Battle Network 4 please!
Yeah, I said it. So what? BN4 was what even GOT me into Mega Man in general.
jaws-is-ra April 18, 2015 at 9:26 PM
I wonder how tradeing between 3B and 3W is going to be done or 4RS and 4BM
BassDS April 18, 2015 at 9:47 PM
Any version-exclusive chips are already added in to the other version of the game. Scans from the JPN version of BN3 show the Mistman/Bowlman chips accessible in the version they aren't from, alongside Balance, Delta Ray and the event-only Punk and BassGS chips.
I'm assuming the same will happen with BN4, having all the Free Tournament/Version Exclusive Navi Chips, as well as the GrandPrixPower and Duo chips. It's already been confirmed the game will have a button code to fight BassXX as well.
Makes me hopeful for BassCross in BN5 VC.
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Our taste in meat has also changed over the same period. Beef used to be the meat of choice in the 1960s, accounting for 40% of meat consumption, but its share has fallen to around 25%. Today – pig and poultry is the beast of choice, driven by advances in battery farming and Western diet changes. In addition, the rise of populous middle-income countries such as China, India and Russia are driving the worldwide demand for meat in outright volume, influencing the trend away from beef.
The real Beefeaters
The traditional Western countries still eat the most per capita, and surprisingly Hong Kong tops the list, eating on average 56kg per year (that’s about a burger a day). The Argentines remain keen beef-eaters (44kg), as do the Americans (24kg). Naturally the cow-revering Indians are some of the lowest consuming beef eaters globally - eating only 1.2kg of beef. Ironically India is the world biggest exporter of beef; and now earns India more export dollars than basmati rice (though truth be told it’s driven by buffalo meat – which falls outside local cultural beliefs).
Here in South Africa we consume 10.7kg annually, ranking 21st globally.
Whiles it’s generally true that wealthier nations consume more meat on average; some meat lovers buck that trend. Brazil for example – consume more meat per capita than the USA, despite a GDP per capita one fifth that of the Americans.
So...what does Marty McFly say?
So the future of meat consumption will always be entwined with consumers, and our ever-changing environment will drive production and consumption. The current negative world population growth is almost irrelevant; as transportation and global access expands, the consumer base also increases.
While there are more people with increased income levels, we also see marked increases in obesity and other associated health concerns. And we’re seeing a more ethnically diverse population that demands how markets distribute and sell meat. Meat-eaters have also fallen foul of environmental experts, as around 20 percent of the Earth's greenhouse gas emissions are linked to worldwide livestock farming. In contrast, emissions from cars, trains, boats and planes combined accounted for around 13 percent.
Let’s just hope our eastern relatives don’t start developing a love of the beef!
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Fox is not fair, not balanced...
and not news!
By now the interview on Fox with Jon Stewart by Chris Wallace has become viral and been covered from many different angles. This post is a review of the interview offering video clips of the original interview in its entirety, the two segments that differed between the unedited version and the Fox version, Jon Stewart's follow up on The Daily Show regarding the debunking of his claim that Fox viewers are the "most consistently misinformed" and commentary about Fox in general and Chris Wallace specifically regarding his .
First, via Crooks and Liars, the unedited segment of the interview that became distorted in the edited version that Fox broadcast:
The edited version of this clip that Fox showed also comes from the same Crooks and Liars story. Notice the sudden jumps in expressions on Stewart's face.
Now, for those who have not seen the entire, unedited 24 minute interview, this is it via Mediaite.
Mediaite has since reported that PolitiFact found Stewart's claim that all polls find Fox viewers the most consistently misinformed "false." On The Daily Show Tuesday night, Stewart followed up on that finding:
The Daily Show - Fox News False Statements
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Some outlets have taken issue with PolitiFact's findings. People, who follow Glenn Beck, certainly have a screwy understanding of reality. Just one example, nearly all of them falsely believe that George Soros was a Nazi collaborator.
lies, misinforms, smears, distorts, quotes out of context, etc.
Almost as if to support Stewart's claim, Fox Nation posted statistics from their viewers that demonstrated Fox viewers' ignorance on several matters:
91 percent believe the stimulus legislation lost jobs
72 percent believe the health reform law will increase the deficit
72 percent believe the economy is getting worse
60 percent believe that climate change is not occurring
The debunking of these Fox replicated myths is available on a post with Alternet entitled "Jon Stewart was right about Fox "News" being the most misinformed citizens." Following concluding remarks and trailing tag lines are the results of research done by the liberal, media watchdogs, Media Matters for America (1) supporting Stewart's claim that Fox viewers are misinformed. If Fox Nation's data doesn't already convince you already, these findings will reinforce Stewart's point. However, for many on the right who are convinced that Fox and Beck tell the "truth," findings to the contrary are actually counter-productive. The Alternet piece ends with these discouraging words:
Political scientists Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler did a study in which two groups of volunteers were offered George Bush's claims that Iraq was bristling with WMD. One was also given information debunking those claims. The researchers found that “Thirty-four percent of conservatives told only about the Bush administration's claims thought Iraq had hidden or destroyed its weapons before the U.S. invasion, but 64 percent of conservatives who heard both claim and refutation thought that Iraq really did have the weapons. The refutation, in other words, made the misinformation worse.”
That's what the “balance” of Fox News is all about – advancing the misinformation that can never be fully corrected by contrary information in the eyes of its viewers.
However, if he was basically correct about Fox's viewers, Stewart's respect for Chris Wallace seems misplaced. When Beck was first hired by Fox, Wallace and Fox host Shepard Smith had an exchange of words about Glenn Beck. As reported by Think Progress in March of 2009, "Shep Smith repeatedly mocked Beck and the program, admitting that although he watches Beck’s show, he does not listen to it. Smith also pointed to a giant satellite truck parked outside and wondered if it was for Beck’s “ego.” Chris Wallace told Smith he must be jealous:"
SMITH: Do you even understand this Glenn Beck Friday? Because I really don’t.
WALLACE: Well, I do, and what pains me — and you know, Shep, how highly I respect you — is you seem upset by Glenn Beck Friday.
SMITH: Upset?!
WALLACE: I mean, Glenn is a meteor here at Fox News–
SMITH: He is the greatest star of all time!
WALLACE: And you should be happy for his success–
SMITH: I am here to worship him.
WALLACE: –and you seem to be begrudging — you’re begrudging him his success.
“We are here to celebrate, worship, and adore,” Smith told Wallace.
This exchange begs the question why is a decent reporter like Smith working for a channel like Fox? One can only wonder at this point what Wallace thinks of the megalomaniac, Beck, now.
In conclusion, Fox is not fair. If Fox were fair, they would not have taken out the part where Wallace admits that Fox offers the "other side" to MSNBC and Stewart's reference to Bill Sammon giving marching orders. Wallace's statement demonstrates that Fox is not balanced. Fox is the other side, the conservative/reactionary point of view. Most observers readily grasp this about Fox, but they still engage in the false advertising by claiming to be "fair and balanced."
If that were all Fox was about, Glenn Beck would not have lasted there for 30 months. Beck lies too often to be an acceptable commentator there if Fox were only offering a conservative perspective on news stories and a rightward spin of the truth. Many of the lies that Stewart listed in his follow-up segment on The Daily Show were lies spewed by Beck, and there are many, many more. Fox hosts and their guests routinely distort the facts, make false claims, engage in hyperbole, make baseless accusations, hype bogus theories, propagate evidence-free attacks, etc. on a fairly routine basis. Their journalists, good (S. Smith) and bad (Wallace), are fig leaves masking what Fox president, Roger Ailes, has actually put together, i.e., a channel of right-wing propaganda. Fox is not news, and they do not provide accurate information. Fox is a right-wing propaganda outlet that tells conservatives and reactionaries what they want to hear which is not the truth. That is not the only condition that explains how a liar, hate-monger, fear-monger, yellow propagandist, race-baiter and bizarre conspiracy theorist like Glenn Beck lasted there for 30 months; but it serves as the most likely explanation for why he survived this long there.
1) "Jon Stewart Gets It Right About Fox News"
Fox News has attacked Daily Show host Jon Stewart for claiming that Fox News viewers are "the most consistently misinformed viewers" of cable news. However, Stewart was correct -- Fox News consistently misinforms its viewers and its viewers, are found among the most likely to hold misinformed beliefs about current events.
Jon Stewart Criticizes Fox News For Having "Consistently Misinformed" Viewers
PolitiFact.com Dubiously Rates Stewart's Remarks "False"
Fox News Cites PolitiFact.com's Analysis Of Stewart To Attack "Stewart's Spin"
However, PolitiFact's Analysis Has Been Widely Criticized
And Polls Have Proven Stewart Correct: Fox News Viewers Are Consistently Misinformed
Indeed, Fox Repeatedly Misinforms Its Viewers
Orders To Misinform Come Straight From The Top
Stewart: "Who Is The Most Consistently Misinformed Media Viewers? ... Fox Viewers, Consistently, Every Poll."
In a June 19 interview with Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace, Daily Show host Jon Stewart asked: "Who is the most consistently misinformed media viewers? The most consistently misinformed? Fox. Fox viewers, consistently, every poll." [Fox News, Fox News Sunday, 6/19/11via Media Matters]
PolitiFact Dubiously Rates Stewart's Remarks "False"
PolitiFact Rates Stewart's Fox News Sunday Remarks "False." In a June 20 PolitiFact.com post, Jon Stewart's comments regarding Fox News viewers being "consistently misinformed" were given a rating of "false." From PolitiFact.com:
So we have three Pew studies that superficially rank Fox viewers low on the well-informed list, but in several of the surveys, Fox isn't the lowest, and other general-interest media outlets -- such as network news shows, network morning shows and even the other cable news networks -- often score similarly low. Meanwhile, particular Fox shows -- such as The O'Reilly Factor and Sean Hannity's show -- actually score consistently well, occasionally even outpacing Stewart's own audience.
Meanwhile, the other set of knowledge surveys, from worldpublicopinion.org, offer mixed support for Stewart. The 2003 survey strikes us as pretty solid, but the 2010 survey has been critiqued for its methodology.
The way Stewart phrased the comment, it's not enough to show a sliver of evidence that Fox News' audience is ill-informed. The evidence needs to support the view that the data shows they are "consistently" misinformed -- a term he used not once but three times. It's simply not true that "every poll" shows that result. So we rate his claim False. [PolitiFact.com, 6/20/11]
O'Reilly Claims "Stewart's Spin" Was False, Encourages Viewers To Visit PolitiFact.During the June 21 edition of his Fox News program, host Bill O'Reilly addressed an email his show received regarding the polls Jon Stewart mentioned in his Fox News Sunday interview with Chris Wallace. From The O'Reilly Factor:
BILL O'REILLY: Morley Hanford, Edmonton, Canada: Jon Stewart said that polls show Fox News viewers are ill informed. Do those polls exist? Well, according to PoliFacts.com [sic], Stewart's assertion is false, Morley. If you want the stats, they are available on that website. [Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, 6/21/11]
Fox & Friends Jumps To Defend Misinformed Fox Viewers. From the June 22 broadcast of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
STEVE DOOCY (co-host): Here's the problem. Politifact, which is the Pulitzer Prize-winning website - they've got the Truth-O-Meter - they said that what he said is absolutely false. And, Exhibit A, ladies and gentleman and the folks over at Comedy Central, take a look at this. This survey was conducted by Pew Media. It was their consumption survey, and it asked cable news network viewers a series of four questions to test how much they knew about what was going on in the world.
MARTHA MacCALLUM (guest host): And look at the numbers -- 20 percent of those, Fox viewers got them right, MSNBC down at 17 percent, CNN was in third place with 14 percent getting those questions right. You know I -
DOOCY: So the Fox News viewer is the most informed of the cable news according to Pew, Johnny.
MacCALLUM: He didn't reference any polls. I'd love to know what polls he's talking about.
BRIAN KILMEADE (co-host): He said all the polls.
MacCALLUM: All the polls.
KILMEADE: So he's already proven [in]correct.
DOOCY: I think he's talking about all the polls he's conducted at Comedy Central, at MSNBC, at the Daily Kos, at the Huffington Post. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 6/22/11]
Jane Hamsher: PolitiFact.com "Use[d] Three Polls That Don't Apply To What" Stewart "Said." In a June 21 Firedoglake post, Jane Hamsher wrote:
Politifact often does a good service checking the veracity (or lack thereof) of controversial claims made by public figures. But they seem to have encountered some difficulty fact-checking Jon Stewart's claim that Fox Viewers are "the most consistently misinformed media viewers."
Politifact maintains that Stewart is wrong about Fox viewers, based on the findings of five different polls. Three were conducted by the Pew Foundation: 2007 Political Knowledge Survey, 2008 Media Survey, and the 2010 Media Consumption Survey. Two were conducted by the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA): 2003 Misperceptions, the Media and the Iraq War, and 2010 Misinformation and the 2010 Election.
The three Pew polls measure how informed viewers are. They don't even belong in the discussion, because they don't go to Stewart's point. "Do you know who the Secretary of State is" or "what is the name of the Vice President" are questions that you can answer if you're paying attention. There is no shortage of people who go glassy-eyed and stupid while staring at cable news, and I'm proud to be one of them. I can feel the lull of Kathleen Parker's voice shaving points off my IQ. I might be able to tell you who the Secretary of Education is under ordinary circumstances, but freely admit that listening to Bill Bennett drone on about anything is enough to flip the switch on enough synapses that answering any question becomes a challenge. It's a guilty pleasure for people who don't smoke pot.
On the other hand, the two PIPA studies measure how misinformed viewers are. That's a very different yardstick. Listening to Dana Bash may freeze a few neurons in the "off" position, and I may not get the news value that I should out of the segment, but unless she says something that is manifestly untrue I can't claim to have been misinformed.
By Politifact's own measure, Jon Stewart was right when he claimed that "every study" has found Fox viewers to be consistently the most misinformed - because every study they cite which surveys "misinformation" draws that conclusion. Politifact is wrong to interject meaning that was outside of what Stewart claimed, and then use three polls that don't apply to what he said to measure the veracity of that claim. [Firedoglake, 6/21/11 emphasis in original]
World Public Opinion Director: "[F]or Fox Viewers, On Nine Points Of Information, Increased Exposure Correlated With Increased Misinformation." On June 21, PolitiFact.com published a follow-up article noting criticism of its analysis of Stewart's claim and included a response from Steven Kull, the director of WorldPublicOpinion.org:
Generally speaking, readers viewed the three Pew studies -- which we saw as some of the strongest evidence undercutting Stewart's position -- as irrelevant because they were testing factual knowledge, and if someone got one of those questions wrong, it wasn't because they had been "misinformed" but rather because they were simply "uninformed."
By contrast, many readers argued that the only legitimate way to test Stewart's thesis was to refer to the worldpublicopinion.org studies, since they tested the extent of beliefs that were the result of misinformation, whether it's Barack Obama being born in Kenya or the stimulus not creating or preserving a significant number of jobs.
Steven Kull, the director of WorldPublicOpinion.org, wrote us after the story appeared to say that testing for lack of knowledge is not enough. "We analyzed the effect of increased exposure to news outlets. We found that with all other outlets, increased exposure generally resulted in less misinformation. However, for Fox viewers, on nine points of information, increased exposure correlated with increased misinformation. This was true of only one point of information for public broadcasting and MSNBC viewers, and two points of information for network news. This effect was found in the 2003 study as well. Fox viewers were the only group for whom increased exposure resulted in greater misinformation."
Kull added that, "simply on face value, such issues as knowledge of who was vice president are unlikely to be related to exposure to news outlets. Information on issues that were very foreground in media reporting and analysis, which ours were, are more likely to be related to exposure" to media outlets. [PolitiFact,6/21/11]
Adam Serwer: "The Problem With Politfact's Work On This Is That They're Really Comparing Apples And Oranges." In a June 22 American Prospect post, Adam Serwer wrote:
The problem with Politfact's work on this is that they're really comparing apples and oranges. The Pew studies measured viewers' knowledge of certain basic matters that no one is actually suggesting Fox News misinforms its viewers on. No one is arguing that Fox News misleads its audience about which party controls Congress, what volcano erupted last week, or whether John Bolton's mustache is secretary of state. Jane Hamsher had a good response to this, pointing out that being "misinformed" and "ill-informed" are not the same thing. An avid watcher of Fox News would likely be able to identify the speaker of the House or the attorney general, but they're also far more likely to think the president was born in Kenya. Put another way, someone who erroneously believes that the Civil War was fought over "states' rights" and not slavery would still likely know which side of the war Robert E. Lee fought on.
Rather, the issues on which Fox misinforms its viewers are on matters of fact that conservatives would like not to be true. For instance, one recent study that Politfact shied away from because conservatives "criticized its methodology" is the only one that actually measures public knowledge on the issues in question. That survey found that Fox News viewers were far more likely to believe, falsely, that most scientists don't believe climate change is happening, that there were no tax cuts in the stimulus, that income taxes have gone up, and that Obama wasn't born in the United States. It's fair to question whether or not respondents should be asked questions about what "economists" thought of the stimulus, but that problem isn't present with many of the other survey questions, which measure easily verifiable facts not subject to interpretation.
In other words, Politfact's fact check evaluates a claim Stewart wasn't actually trying to make. [The American Prospect, 6/22/11]
DeSmogBlog's Chris Mooney: PolitiFact's Analysis "Deeply Misguided" As It "Relied Upon Irrelevant And Off-Point Studies." In a June 22 DeSmogBlog post, Chris Mooney wrote:
[I]n an environment in which conservatives are more inaccurate and more misinformed about science and basic policy facts, the "fact checkers" nevertheless feel unduly compelled to correct "liberal" errors too--which is fine, as long as they are really errors.
But sometimes they aren't. A case in point is Politifact's recent and deeply misguided attempt to correct Jon Stewart on the topic of...misinformation and Fox News. This is a subject on which we've developed some expertise here...my recent post on studies showing that Fox News viewers are more misinformed, on an array of issues, is the most comprehensive such collection that I'm aware of, at least when it comes to public opinion surveys detecting statistical correlations between being misinformed about contested facts and Fox News viewership.
What Stewart obviously meant--and what I mean--is that when it comes to politicized, contested issues where the facts have been made murky due to political biases, it is Fox viewers who are the most likely to believe incorrect things--to fall prey to misinformation. A quintessential example of such an issue is global warming, or whether Saddam Hussein's Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction or was collaborating with Al Qaeda. There are many, many others.
To rebut Stewart's claim, Politifact relied upon irrelevant and off-point studies. Thus, the site cited a number of Pew surveys that examine basic political literacy and relate it to what kind of media citizens consume. E.g., questions like whether people know "who the vice president is, who the president of Russia is, whether the Chief Justice is conservative, which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives and whether the U.S. has a trade deficit." [DeSmogBlog, 6/22/11 emphasis in original]
Stanford University Poll: "Frequent Viewers Of Fox News Are Less Likely To Accept Scientists' Views Of Global Warming." A December 2010 report conducted by Stanford University and supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation "explores whether the flow of doubt-arousing messaging might have persuaded Americans who watch Fox News to reject the views espoused by many mainstream natural scientists on the issue." The outcome of the study was that "exposure to skeptical views about global warming can be effective at changing the opinions of viewers." The report was titled, "Frequent Viewers of Fox News Are Less Likely to Accept Scientists' Views of Global Warming." [Stanford University Research Study,December 2010]
Fox Viewers Are More Likely To Be Misinformed On Health Care Reform. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll conducted in February regarding the public's understanding of the health care reform law found: "There were also differences by where people get their information with higher shares of those who report CNN (35 percent) or MSNBC (39 percent) as their primary news source getting 7 or more right, compared to those that report mainly watching FOX News (25 percent). Again, these differences may be related to whether or not people more generally favor or oppose the law." [Kaiser Family Foundation, "Assessing Americans' Familiarity With The Health Care Law," February 2011]
Ohio State University: "Fox News Contributes To Spread Of Rumors About Proposed NYC Mosque." An October 14, 2010, study conducted by Ohio State University titled, "Fox News Contributes to Spread of Rumors About Proposed NYC Mosque" concluded that "CNN and NPR promote more accurate beliefs," and that Fox viewers "believe more of the rumors" about the NYC mosque and "they believe them more strongly than those who do not." Among the key findings in the study:
People who use Fox News, either online or on television, are more aware of false rumors about the Islamic community center and mosque than those who do not.
For example, respondents who reported a low reliance on Fox News stated hearing 1.4 rumors (out of 4) on average. In comparison, if the same respondent reported a high reliance on Fox News, they would report hearing 1.9 rumors on average, an increase of 35%.
In contrast, reliance on other cable news networks, including CNN and MSNBC, does not influence rumor exposure.
We can only speculate about why this is. For example, perhaps Fox News spent a disproportionate amount of time covering the issue. Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism August 1622 News Coverage Index noted cable news "coverage [of the mosque controversy] was intense" with conservative commentators strongly attacking the proposed mosque project and devoting significant airtime to the issue (seehttp://www.journalism.org).
We also cannot say whether this finding was due to exposure to Fox's hard news programming, its editorial programming, or its website. The survey did not distinguish between these different aspects of the news network.
For example, a typical respondent who reported a low reliance on Fox News believed .9 rumors on average. If that same respondent reported a high reliance on Fox News, the average number of rumors believed increased by 66% to 1.5.
This is not just a product of increased exposure. Even among people with comparable rumor exposure, those who got their news from Fox believed more rumors. [Ohio State University Communications Department Study on Fox News, 10/14/10 emphasis in the original]
Fox News Cited As A Major Source Of Misinformation During The 2010 Election. A December 10, 2010, study titled "Misinformation and the 2010 Election" that was conducted by World Public Opinion, a project of the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland, showed that regular Fox News viewers "were significantly more likely" to hold misinformed views. From the study:
Those who watched Fox News almost daily were significantly more likely than those who never watched it to believe that:
most economists estimate the stimulus caused job losses (12 points more likely)
most economists have estimated the health care law will worsen the deficit (31 points)
the economy is getting worse (26 points)
most scientists do not agree that climate change is occurring (30 points)
the stimulus legislation did not include any tax cuts (14 points)
their own income taxes have gone up (14 points)
the auto bailout only occurred under Obama (13 points)
when TARP came up for a vote most Republicans opposed it (12 points)
and that it is not clear that Obama was born in the United States (31 points)
These effects increased incrementally with increasing levels of exposure and all were statistically significant. The effect was also not simply a function of partisan bias, as people who voted Democratic and watched Fox News were also more likely to have such misinformation than those who did not watch it--though by a lesser margin than those who voted Republican.
There were cases with some other news sources as well.
Daily consumers of MSNBC and public broadcasting (NPR and PBS) were higher (34 points and 25 points respectively) in believing that it was proven that the US Chamber of Commerce was spending money raised from foreign sources to support Republican candidates.
Daily watchers of network TV news broadcasts were 12 points higher in believing that TARP was signed into law by President Obama, and 11 points higher in believing that most Republicans oppose TARP.
All of these effects were statistically significant. [The University of Maryland, World Public Opinion Study on Misinformation During the 2010 Election,12/10/10]
NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll: Fox News Viewers Overwhelmingly Misinformed About Health Care Reform Proposals. An August 19, 2009, post to Think Progress summarized the results of an NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll. From the post:
Here's another way to look at the misinformation: In our poll, 72% of self-identified FOX News viewers believe the health-care plan will give coverage to illegal immigrants, 79% of them say it will lead to a government takeover, 69% think that it will use taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions, and 75% believe that it will allow the government to make decisions about when to stop providing care for the elderly. But it would be incorrect to suggest that this is ONLY coming from conservative viewers who tune in to FOX. In fact, 41% of CNN/MSNBC viewers believe the misinformation about illegal immigrants, 39% believe the government takeover stuff, 40% believe the abortion misperception, and 30% believe the stuff about pulling the plug on grandma. What's more, a good chunk of folks who get their news from broadcast TV (NBC, ABC, CBS) believe these things, too. This is about credible messengers using the media to get some of this misinformation out there, not as much about the filter itself. These numbers should worry Democratic operatives, as well as the news media that have been covering this story.
As ThinkProgress has pointed out, Fox News regularly distorts the truth about health care reform. Last week, Media Matters found that over a two day period opponents of health care reform outnumbered supporters by a 6-to-1 margin on Fox. [NBC News/Wall Street Journal via Think Progress, 8/19/09, emphasis in the original]
Fox Repeatedly Misinforms About Unions, Often Smearing Them As Solely Responsible For States' Budget Problems. As Media Matters has noted, Fox News regularly attacks and misinforms about issues related to labor unions.
For more information about Fox's false claims and misinformation about unions, SEE HERE.
Fox Routinely Misinforms About Taxes, Often While Cheerleading Tax Cuts For The Wealthy. As Media Matters has noted, Fox News regularly misinforms about, and makes false claims while reporting on, issues related to taxes.
For more information about Fox's false claims and misinformation about taxes, SEE HERE.
Fox Regularly Misinforms About Jobs, Often While Attacking President Obama's Stimulus Plan. As Media Matters has noted, Fox News regularly misinforms about and makes false claims about jobs and unemployment, often while attacking the stimulus plan and other Obama economic policies.
For more information about Fox's false claims and misinformation about jobs, SEE HERE.
Fox Regularly Misinforms About Budget Issues, Often While Promoting And Advocating GOP Fiscal Policies. As Media Matters has noted, Fox News regularly misinforms about budget issues and often hypes and advocates for Republican policies.
For more information about Fox's false claims and misinformation about budget issues, SEE HERE.
Fox Regularly Misinforms About Housing, Often While Attacking Affordable Housing Policies Or Blaming Them For The Housing Crisis. As Media Matters has noted, Fox News regularly misinforms its viewers about housing issues, in many cases by demonizing affordable housing policies.
For more information about Fox's false claims and misinformation about housing issues, SEE HERE.
Fox Routinely Misinforms About Social Security, Often Attacking It As A "Ponzi Scheme" Or Misleading About Its Solvency. As Media Matters has noted, Fox News routinely misinforms about Social Security, attacking it as a "Ponzi scheme," or misleading about its solvency.
For more information about Fox's false claims and misinformation about Social Security, SEE HERE.
Fox Regularly Misinforms About Health Care Reform, Often While Fearmongering About "Death Panels," Rationing, And The Law's Cost. As Media Matters has noted, Fox News regularly misinforms about the health care reform law.
For more information about Fox's false claims and misinformation about health care reform, SEE HERE.
Fox Routinely Misinforms About Medicare, Often While Parroting GOP Talking Points, Advocating For GOP Proposals. As Media Matters has noted, Fox News routinely misinforms about Medicare.
For more information about Fox's false claims and misinformation about Medicare, SEE HERE.
Fox Repeatedly Misinforms About Reproductive Choice Issues, Often While Attacking Planned Parenthood. As Media Matters has noted, Fox has a long history of misinforming about reproductive choice issues, often by attacking Planned Parenthood or making false claims about the organization.
For more information about Fox's false claims and misinformation about reproductive choice, SEE HERE.
Fox Regularly Misinforms About Immigration Reform, Often While Promoting Controversial Anti-Immigration Laws. As Media Matters has noted, Fox News regularly misinforms about immigration reform, often while promoting the controversial anti-immigration law in Arizona and attacking or making false claims about the DREAM Act.
For more information about Fox's false claims and misinformation about immigration reform, SEE HERE.
Fox Routinely Misinforms About Border Security, Often By Distorting Obama's Record On Border Security. As Media Matters has noted, Fox News routinely misinforms about border security, often by distorting or making false claims about Obama's record on border security.
For more information about Fox's false claims and misinformation about border security, SEE HERE.
NATIONAL SECURITY/FOREIGN POLICY
Fox Regularly Misinforms About Terrorism Issues, Often While Advocating For The Use Of EITs And Attacking Obama's Efforts To Combat Terrorism. As Media Matters has noted, Fox News regularly misinforms about terrorism-related issues, often while advocating for the use of enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs) and attacking Obama's policies to combat terrorism.
For more information about Fox's false claims and misinformation about terrorism, SEE HERE.
Fox Routinely Misinformed About START Treaty, Often While Claiming That The Treaty Would Harm National Security. As Media Matters has noted, Fox News routinely misinformed and made false claims about the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
For more information about Fox's false claims and misinformation about START, SEE HERE.
DIVERSITY AND DISCRIMINATION
Fox Regularly Misinforms About Race And Ethnicity. As Media Matters has noted, Fox News regularly misinforms about, and makes false claims while reporting on, issues related to race and ethnicity and has cheered Rep. Peter King's (R-NY) anti-Muslim hearings.
For more information about Fox's false claims and misinformation about race and ethnicity, SEE HERE.
Fox Regularly Misinforms About Gender While Promoting Sexism. As Media Matters has noted, Fox News regularly misinforms about, and makes false claims while reporting on, issues related to gender and often airs blatantly sexist segments, photographs, and remarks.
For more information about Fox's false claims and misinformation about gender, SEE HERE.
Fox Regularly Misinforms About LGBT Rights. As Media Matters and Equality Matters have noted, Fox News regularly misinforms about, and makes false claims while reporting on, issues related to LGBT rights, as well as being guilty of discrimination.
For more information about Fox's false claims and misinformation about LGBT rights, SEE HERE. Also visit our partner organization, Equality Matters.
Fox Regularly Misinforms About Religion, Often By Attacking Islam And Inventing A Supposed "War On Christmas." As Media Matters has noted, Fox News regularly misinforms about, and makes false claims while reporting on, issues related to religion. Among these false claims are those declaring that a "war" has been declared on Christianity and its holidays.
For more information about Fox's false claims and misinformation about religion, SEE HERE.
Fox Regularly Misinforms About Education. As Media Matters has noted, Fox News regularly misinforms about, and makes false claims while reporting on, issues related to public and private education, attacking educational outlets like Columbia University and Sesame Street.
For more information about Fox's false claims and misinformation about education, SEE HERE.
Fox Regularly Misinforms About Oil Drilling And Often Pushes Pro-Drilling Agenda.As Media Matters has noted, Fox News regularly misinforms about, and makes false claims while reporting on, issues related to domestic and international drilling, including the dangers of drilling domestically, as well as misinforming about the ability of domestic oil production to reduce the national price of gasoline.
For more information about Fox's false claims and misinformation about drilling, SEE HERE.
Fox Regularly Misinforms About Climate Change. As Media Matters has noted, Fox News regularly misinforms about, and makes false claims while reporting on, issues related to climate science.
For more information about Fox's false claims and misinformation about climate, SEE HERE.
Fox Regularly Misinforms About Energy And Conservation. As Media Matters has noted, Fox News regularly misinforms about, and makes false claims while reporting on, issues related to energy and conservation, regularly making false claims having to do with wind, solar and nuclear energy, as well as misinforming about energy efficient lightbulbs.
For more information about Fox's false claims and misinformation about energy and conservation,SEE HERE.
JUSTICE AND CIVIL LIBERTIES
Fox Regularly Misinforms About Crime, Often Accusing Progressives Of Being Sympathetic To Criminals. As Media Matters has noted, Fox News regularly misinforms about, and makes false claims while reporting on, issues related to crime.
For more information about Fox's false claims and misinformation about crime, SEE HERE.
Fox Regularly Misinforms About Detention And Prisons, Particularly About Gitmo Detainees. As Media Matters has noted, Fox News regularly misinforms about, and makes false claims while reporting on, issues related to detention of prisoners. In particular, Fox regularly misinforms about Gitmo detainees and the conditions at the controversial detention center.
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Fox Regularly Misinforms About Guns and Gun Control, Often While Using Violent Rhetoric. As Media Matters has noted, Fox News regularly misinforms about, and makes false claims while reporting on, issues related to guns and Second Amendment rights, often while engaging in violent rhetoric.
For more information about Fox's false claims and misinformation about guns and gun control, SEE HERE.
CRUISE SHIP CONFESSION: Top Fox News Executive Bill Sammon Admits Lying On-Air About Obama. As Media Matters has previously documented, speaking in 2009 onboard a Mediterranean cruise sponsored by a right-wing college, Fox Washington managing editor Bill Sammon described his attempts the previous year to link Obama to "socialism" as "mischievous speculation." Sammon, who is also a Fox News vice president, acknowledged that "privately" he had believed that the socialism allegation was "rather far-fetched." [Media Matters, 3/29/11]
Sammon Instructed Fox Employees To Misinform About Obama's Ties To Socialism.During the final days of the 2008 presidential race, Sammon used his position as a top Fox News editor to engage in a campaign to link then-Sen. Barack Obama to "Marxists" and "socialism," internal Fox documents and a review of his televised appearances show. [Media Matters, 2/1/11]
Sammon Ordered Fox Journalists To Cast Doubt On Climate Science. In an email leaked to Media Matters, Sammon instructed the network's journalists to "refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question." [Media Matters,12/15/10]
Sammon Demanded Reporters Use "Government Option" Instead Of "Public Option."In a memo leaked to Media Matters, Sammon wrote that Fox reporters should not use the phrase "public option." Instead, Sammon wrote, Fox's reporters should use "government option" and similar phrases -- wording that a top Republican pollster had recommended in order to turn public opinion against the Democrats' reform efforts. Sammon instructed staff to refer on air to "government-run health insurance," the "government option," "the public option, which is the government-run plan," or -- when "necessary" -- "the so-called public option" [Media Matters,12/9/10]
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This article was written By John Berra on 09 Nov 2011, and is filed under Uncategorized.
About John Berra
John Berra is lecturer in Film and Language Studies at Renmin University of China. He is the editor of the Directory of World Cinema: Japan (Intellect, 2010/12/15), co-editor of World Film Locations: Beijing (Intellect, 2012) and World Film Locations: Shanghai (Intellect, 2014). He has also contributed to Electric Shadows: A Century of Chinese Cinema (BFI, 2014), Ozu International: Essays on the Global Influences of a Japanese Auteur (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Killers, Clients and Kindred Spirits: The Taboo Cinema of Shohei Imamura (EUP, 2019).
Vital (Japan, 2004)
The strangely cathartic Vital represents a significant shift in the career of multi-tasking auteur Shinya Tsukamoto. Moving away from the preoccupation with dehumanization and industrialization that made Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) such grimly exhilarating science-fiction epics, Vital is a more restrained experience with modifications to aesthetic sensibility and thematic concern that are natural extensions rather than sudden revisions. Hiroshi (Tadanobu Asano) wakes up in a hospital bed following a car crash which has taken the life of his girlfriend, Ryoko (Nami Tsukamoto). Unable to remember anything about his past life, Hiroshi is uncomfortable in the company of his parents and struggles to adapt to routine in the family home. When he finds a box filled with his old medical textbooks, Hiroshi decides to undertake the degree that he had abandoned prior to the accident. He moves into a gloomy apartment near the medical school and becomes completely immersed in the course, easily establishing himself as the most promising student in the programme, attracting the attention of alluring but troubled classmate Ikumi (Kiki), with whom he embarks on a sexually-adventurous relationship. When the course reaches the dissection stage, cadavers are assigned to the group and Hiroshi realises that the corpse that he is using to learn about the workings of the human body is actually that of Ryoko. This prompts Hiroshi to reconstruct his relationship with Ryoko in his imagination while deconstructing her corpse on the dissection table, resulting in obsessive patterns of behaviour.
Vital is another example of Tsukamoto’s fascination with the body, but aside from the recurring image of four industrial chimneys and Hiroshi discussing his dreams about robots, the cyberpunk trappings are largely absent in favour of a pared-down examination of grief and repressed memory, which are intertwined. Hiroshi visits Ryoko’s parents, who are initially uncomfortable with his presence, but he is eventually able to forge a relationship with them and they are ultimately able to rediscover Ryoko together. This enables Hiroshi to not only recall the accident, but to return to his relationship with his deceased girlfriend through a series of surreal dreams. These sequences take Tsukamoto further away from the world of urban grime into more natural territory; the director’s trademark blue filters are temporarily replaced with a sun-drenched aesthetic in which brighter palettes are emphasized and his hyper-real tendencies are tempered by the sleep-induced rhythms of his protagonist’s mental state. Vital is anchored emotionally by an outstanding performance from Asano. Alternately dressed in an old black, baggy sweater or white medical scrubs, and largely silent for much of the running time, he delivers a haunting portrayal of a young man who seems to have little interest in his past, only to become obsessed with it when directly confronted with buried trauma. The lab used for dissection has the unwelcoming look of a dingy basement, and Tsukamoto’s attention to detail complements Asano’s dramatic commitment as Hiroshi pokes around in his sub-conscious, dredging up memories that merge with hallucinatory fantasy.
By placing an emphasis on actors over special effects, Tsukamoto is able to explore how such obsession with the past can serve to derail the promise of the present. Hiroshi’s burgeoning relationship with Ikumi becomes increasingly strained, so what begins as a physically-charged arrangement with some level of mutual understanding ends abruptly with a volatile confrontation in a police station. From the outset, Hiroshi and Ikumi push their relationship to its sexual limits, with the sadomasochistic elements of Vital recalling Tsukamoto’s erotic drama A Snake of June (2002), but Hiroshi remains distant as Ikumi becomes more involved. A superbly edited sequence finds the director repeating the same shots of the two students as they work for extended periods in the medical lab, remaining at the dissection table long after their fellow classmates have left for the day: Hiroshi fixates on Ryoko’s corpse, and Ikumi in turn fixates on Hiroshi, while both remain unfulfilled. It’s a bizarre yet painfully relatable love ‘triangle’, with Hiroshi too immersed in rediscovering his relationship with Ryoko to recognise Ikumi’s breakdown. There are echoes of JG Ballard’s novel Crash (1973), most explicitly in the flashback to the accident in which Ryoko contemplates what it would feel like to smash into another vehicle, and the overall tone is similarly detached until the delayed out-pouring of the conclusion. Vital is a largely minimalist experience – economic in execution, short on dialogue, shot with mostly hand-held cameras – but is arguably one of Tsukamoto’s deepest and most satisfying films to date.
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This topic has 13 voices, contains 126 replies, and was last updated by Dave 23 days ago.
April 12, 2016 at 12:33 pm Quote #53081
A buddy of mine & I have started a Van Halen podcast. We hope you like it – give it a listen. Details are below & thanks for your support.
Here you go Van Halen fans, it has finally arrived – a podcast exclusively about the mighty Van Halen. Dave & Dave Unchained focuses on everything in the world of VH plus the solo careers of its members. Hosted by two friends named Dave, this monthly show covers every era of the band through album discussions, exclusive interview segments and more.
“There’s never been a band that has such a unique and intriguing history as Van Halen,” says co-host David J. Criblez. “Our goal is to explore all the twists and turns they’ve taken over the past 40 plus years.”
“It’s so much fun!” adds co-host Dave Marcone. “Not only is there great music to talk about, but let’s face it, there’s no shortage of drama with this band.”
Download the debut episode focused on the 30th anniversary of 5150 on iTunes or spreaker.com. Connect with the Daves on Twitter: @ddunchained, Facebook: Dave-Dave Unchained, Instagram: ddunchainedpodcast or via email: ddunchainedpodcast@gmail.com.
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April 12, 2016 at 1:22 pm Quote #53082
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Thank you , I am flying out tomorrow so it will give me something to listen to .
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May 18, 2016 at 8:46 am Quote #53362
Episode #2 is up! Listen to the under appreciation of “A Different Kind of Truth,” an open discussion on the current state of Van Halen, and an exclusive mini-interview with Joe Satriani delivering an update on Chickenfoot.
You can find it at the link below or on iTunes. Thanks for your support!
http://www.spreaker.com/show/dave-dave-unchained-van-halen-podcast
May 18, 2016 at 9:24 pm Quote #53363
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will check it out, thanks !
Laughing at the Days Garbage Through Loud Volume, This is “Laughing At Reality”..
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May 21, 2016 at 12:27 pm Quote #53376
cool – gonna take a listen.
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June 14, 2016 at 7:34 am Quote #53539
Listening to the 5150 one now….Great stuff guys…
http://www.vhnd.com/2016/06/02/new-van-halen-podcast-dave-dave-unchained/
EDDIE’S fingers aren’t fingers they are muscle-powered pistons that hammer guitar strings to the fretboard with the force of a rivet gun”.
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June 18, 2016 at 10:38 pm Quote #53567
In episode #3 of Dave & Dave Unchained – a Van Halen podcast, the Dave’s welcome their first guest, vhtrading’s very own ffoner, better known as “Van Halen Rising” author Greg Renoff. They dissect Renoff’s unique approach to creating his book. Then they explore Renoff’s behind-the-scenes research, such as his journey finding VH engineer Don Landee, capturing the feel of the Pasadena scene, locating VH’s original keyboard player, and even what he left out of the book. But that’s merely an appetizer! Once they get deeper into the woods, the trio analyzes the tug-of-war relationship between David Lee Roth and Edward Van Halen, DLR’s current role in the band, Ed’s buck wild Billboard interview, whatever happen to the “secret project,” the state of VH’s legacy, a possible reach out to Michael Anthony, and more. They even open with an analysis of David Lee Roth’s recent comments on the future of the band. And listen for a shameless plug of vhtrading!
Download or play the new episode on:
iTunes – https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dave-dave-unchained-van-halen/id1102231619
Spreaker.com – http://www.spreaker.com/show/dave-dave-unchained-van-halen-podcast
Connect with the Dave’s!
Twitter: @ddunchained
Facebook: Dave-Dave Unchained
Instagram: ddunchainedpodcast
email:ddunchainedpodcast@gmail.com
Much thanks to Greg for the interview, Jeff at the Van Halen News Desk for promoting the podcast, and to all our listeners for your feedback & support.
I haven’t had a chance to listen to your first two shows, but I will certainly be listening to episode three.
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Dave: In episode #3 of Dave & Dave Unchained – a Van Halen podcast, the Dave’s welcome their first guest, vhtrading’s very own ffoner, better known as “Van Halen Rising” author Greg Renoff. They dissect Renoff’s unique approach to creating his book. Then they explore Renoff’s behind-the-scenes research, such as his journey finding VH engineer Don Landee, capturing the feel of the Pasadena scene, locating VH’s original keyboard player, and even what he left out of the book. But that’s merely an appetizer! Once they get deeper into the woods, the trio analyzes the tug-of-war relationship between David Lee Roth and Edward Van Halen, DLR’s current role in the band, Ed’s buck wild Billboard interview, whatever happen to the “secret project,” the state of VH’s legacy, a possible reach out to Michael Anthony, and more. They even open with an analysis of David Lee Roth’s recent comments on the future of the band. And listen for a shameless plug of vhtrading!
Download or play the new episode on: iTunes– https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dave-dave-unchained-van-halen/id1102231619 Spreaker.com– http://www.spreaker.com/show/dave-dave-unchained-van-halen-podcast
Connect with the Dave’s! Twitter: @ddunchained Facebook: Dave-Dave Unchained Instagram: ddunchainedpodcast email:ddunchainedpodcast@gmail.com
Really enjoyed the podcast, but the intro almost blew out my eardrums!
July 7, 2016 at 9:09 am Quote #53732
Had the opportunity to listened to all three (so far) podcasts on a recent trip.
The content is good, and I expect to be listening to future casts. However, I urge you guys to upgrade your audio equipment. #1 was almost unlistenable. #2 was better, and #3 better still, but still suffered from AGC problems.
Bottom line: good job guys!
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July 10, 2016 at 5:20 pm Quote #53778
HALEN HUNGRY? ROTH SERVES UP “EAT ’EM & SMILE”
Heard you missed us, well we’re back! “Dave & Dave Unchained” – the Van Halen podcast – returns with episode 4 celebrating the 30th anniversary of David Lee Roth’s 1986 solo album, “Eat ’Em & Smile.”
At a time when Van Halen didn’t sound very Van Halen, Roth opted to head in the big rock direction VH was known for mixed with a bit of his “Crazy from the Heat” style added in for good measure. Roth hired gunslingers Steve Vai on guitar and Billy Sheehan on bass with Gregg Bissonette behind the drum kit. The videos were wild and colorful and the live show was packed with Van Halen hits.
The Dave’s discuss the launch of Roth’s band, the “Eat ’Em & Smile” tour and breakdown the album song-by-song. There’s also an exclusive interview with Vai, who looks back on his “Eat ’Em & Smile” days, why the band changed direction with the next album “Skyscraper,” and even opened up about the “Eat ’Em & Smile” reunion that almost happened and might still happen. To cap things off, the ‘cast concludes with part 2 of the interview with “Van Halen Rising” author Greg Renoff who talks about his massive “Eat ’Em & Smile” article he wrote for Guitar World, Roth’s botched movie, and the awkward position DLR is currently in these days.
Sit down with a bottle of anything and a glazed donut while enjoying this firecracker of an episode!
email: ddunchainedpodcast@gmail.com
August 12, 2016 at 10:51 pm Quote #54004
THE VH THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
What would have happened if Van Halen went with another singer instead of Gary Cherone? Perhaps the VH space-time continuum would have veered into an alternate universe. For episode 5, “Dave & Dave Unchained – A Van Halen Podcast” jumps in the DeLorean and travels back in time to the summer of 1996 when a Nashville rock vocalist named Mitch Malloy had a brief stint as the third singer in the mighty Van Halen.
In an exclusive interview with the Dave’s, Malloy recounts how he got introduced into the lead singer hunt, his days at 5150, getting offered the job, what made him hit the eject button, the night he almost sang with the band, and how his friendship with Eddie continued even beyond Gary’s tenure.
“This is so weird,” says Malloy in the interview about first reaction to playing with the band. “I’m listening to myself singing with Van Halen. That’s not Sammy and that’s not Dave, it’s me!”
The podcast also touches upon Van Halen’s current options moving forward as well as upcoming new VH book, “Runnin’ with the Devil: A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Rise of Van Halen,” on the horizon by former manager Noel Monk.
So strap on your bib and sharpen your utensils because this is one dense and intense six-course meal that will leave you with a Halen Hangover.
Download or play episodes on:
As always, thanks for your support – hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we had making it,
September 4, 2016 at 11:58 am Quote #54158
VAN HALEN’S VMA D-Day
Twenty years ago Van Halen reunited with David Lee Roth at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards after being apart for 12 years. But the reunion was short-lived as the band’s temporary bonding moment imploded after 5 minutes on stage and some uncomfortable exchanges in the Press Room. In episode 6, “Dave & Dave Unchained – A Van Halen Podcast” dissects this catastrophic moment in VH history and the fallout that followed.
As Doc Brown would say to Marty McFly, this is the incident that “disrupted the space-time continuum” in the world of Van Halen. Sammy Hagar’s out, Roth’s back in, Roth’s out (but was never really back in) and here’s comes…Gary Cherone? Surely, it was a confusing time for Halen fans.
EXTRA! EXTRA! – This month the Dave’s are going DOUBLE – offering listeners two episodes. This two-parter will be focused on Van Halen tribute bands. Part 1 showcases guitarist Derek Fuller who plays the Eddie Van Halen role in Fan Halen. Fuller talks about how he approaches playing EVH, his deep passion for the band that dates back to the late ‘70s, & playing with original Van Halen bassist Mark Stone in this extended episode. Look out for Part 2 dropping in a few weeks where the Dave’s deliver a whole brand new episode packed with Van Halen goodness. So sit down Waldo, crack a cold one and enjoy the madness!
September 20, 2016 at 8:09 pm Quote #54260
A VH/KISS THEORY AND AN APOLOGY
It’s rare that an apology is delivered within the Van Halen universe. However, former VH frontman Sammy Hagar broke new ground when he recently appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Network’s “Where Are They Now?” segment saying “I’m sorry” to the band for things he has said in the past.
In episode 6, part 2 of “Dave & Dave Unchained – A Van Halen podcast,” the new Hagar interview gets fully analyzed and motives are questioned. The Dave’s also continue their Van Halen tribute band series this time spotlighting singer Buddy Blanchard, who fulfills the David Lee Roth role in Romeo Delight, which is based in the Philadelphia area. Blanchard talks about how he closely studies and recreates the band’s musical and visual presentation plus he shares his thoughts on the VH catalog.
On top of all this, the podcast kicks off with a colorful discussion about one of the Dave’s recent backstage encounter with KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons, which led to a conversation about Eddie and Alex Van Halen’s involvement in recording the 1977 KISS hit, “Christine Sixteen.”
Throughout the episode the Dave’s argue theories, rib each other, and debate issues that involve everything Van Halen.
Facebook: Dave & Dave Unchained – A Van Halen podcast
Thanks as always to all who listen!
October 15, 2016 at 10:06 pm Quote #54436
VH 1981 vs. 1991 THROWDOWN
It’s Rocktober folks and in celebration of David Lee Roth’s (Oct. 10) and Sammy Hagar’s (Oct. 13) birthdays, 1981’s “Fair Warning” is pitted against 1991’s “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge” in an album battle for episode 7 of “Dave & Dave Unchained – A Van Halen podcast.” Not only are the records compared and contrasted in a full detailed analysis, but surprising similarities are also drawn between these two historic releases.
When we last left Hagar, he was issuing an apology to Van Halen via the Oprah Winfrey Network. Now he’s back in the press tossing out jabs at Roth and the band while promoting his new gig as vocal coach on “The Voice.” Hmmm…suspicious. We thought the Red Rocker was waving the white flag. Silly Sammy, digs are for kids!
Additionally, the Dave’s hash out VH’s controversial position on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and an interview with singer Marq Torien of the Van Halen inspired-band, BulletBoys is thrown in for good measure.
As always, thanks for listening,
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Culture Trip launches Road Trip Near Me tool for holidaymakers staying close to home
Posted by Lee Hayhurst on Jul 23rd, 2020 at 12:05
Travel and media start-up Culture Trip has reacted to increased demand for more local domestic and socially distanced holidays by launching a Road Trip Near Me tool.
The new tool enables users to discover and map out both bookable and free experiences close to home and within driving distance.
The London-based firm says it makes it easy to find local things to do at a time when many consumers seek to make the most of the summer in their own country.
Culture Trip said The Road Trips Near Me launch comes after it has seen an increase in its UK audience’s interest in UK road trips of over 250%.
The tool offers inspiration about things to do and experiences within a radius of 50, 100 and 150 miles of their location.
Dr Kris Naudts, founder and chief executive of Culture Trip, said: “Throughout the past months, we have been fast to adjust to changing user behaviours, using our data insights to continually evolve our offering per our audience’s interests.
“With certain travel restrictions still in place it is no surprise that our data shows that people are keen to explore what is close to them and road trips are something that our audience – a majority being Millennials and Gen Z – are particularly interested in.
“That’s why we have launched ‘Road Trips Near Me’ to help them discover their own backyard and find the most exciting things to do including outdoor experiences that can be booked with us.”
Culture Trip, was founded in 2011 but has grown rapidly in recent years, has been focussing on virtual and outdoor experiences during the pandemic.
It said this includes online cooking classes featuring local culinary talent from around the world in response to traffic data showing that users have had a real appetite for foodie articles during lockdown.
The firm has also curated its online experiences based on world events, most recently adding a Black Representation in Art Virtual Tour.
“As travel restrictions have slowly been lifted, Culture Trip also introduced a range of curated, unique outdoor experiences that can be booked online to inspire and help people rediscover what is special in their own backyard and enjoy the outdoors once again,” the firm said.
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Establish a U.S. Army JROTC Program
Procedures to Establish a U.S. Army JROTC or NDCC Program
Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) Program Overview
U.S. Army JROTC has a long and proud tradition of service to the nation through the betterment of our youth. Public and private educational institutions apply for JROTC units and commit to share costs and meet program requirements. Title 10, United States Code, section 2031 prescribes that no unit may be established or maintained at an institution unless 10 percent of the number of students enrolled in the institution who are in grades 9-12 or 100 students, whichever is less, are enrolled in the JROTC Program as Cadets. A JROTC unit is required to be staffed with a minimum of two instructors. JROTC Instructors normally consist of one retired officer (the Senior Army Instructor, or SAI) and one noncommissioned officer (the Army Instructor, or AI). JROTC Instructors teach a rigorous curriculum and supervise Cadets in all their activities. Additional staffing may be authorized for schools with enrollments above 150 Cadets. The Army reimburses schools for a percentage of each instructors pay and provides Cadet uniforms, equipment, automation, and an accredited and rigorous curriculum. The study of ethics, citizenship, communications, leadership, life skills, character education, service learning, and other subjects designed to prepare young men and women to take their place in adult society, serve as the core of the program.
National Defense Cadet Corps (NDCC) Program Overview
An NDCC program is virtually identical to a JROTC program except it is fully funded by schools which choose to pursue a JROTC unit without financial assistance from the U.S. Army. The NDCC unit is an excellent alternative for schools that wish to expedite the opening of a program. The school incurs all costs, to include instructors salaries, uniforms, and daily operational expenses. The U.S. Army will supply curriculum material for the instructors, the students and Cadets. The U.S. Army will also supply forms and regulations which are required to successfully conduct the program. Schools hosting an NDCC unit must comply with statutory and regulatory guidance as regular JROTC units; specifically, units must employ a minimum of two instructors certified by HQ USACC. Schools hosting NDCC units may apply and be placed on the OML for a JROTC Program.
The following steps are required for a school who desires to establish a JROTC or NDCC program:
Determine the program (JROTC or NDCC) which best meets your schools requirements.
Complete the corresponding application(s).
Mail completed application(s) to the appropriate brigade address in your state (below).
Once a school's application for an NDCC or JROTC program is received by the brigade, the brigade will review the application to ensure it is correctly completed and signed by a district or school official and forward the application to USACC, JROTC. Applications for NDCC programs will generally be immediately approved, as NDCC programs are operated at no cost to the Army. The brigade and school will be notified in writing the date the school may establish the NDCC Program. Once an application for a JROTC Program is received at USACC, JROTC, we will complete an Order of Merit List (OML) point computation worksheet for the school and add the school to the command's OML. A letter will be generated and sent through the brigade to the school requesting the JROTC program notifying the school they have been placed on the OML for a JROTC Program. A schools position or numerical score on the OML is never disclosed; every schools position on the OML is subject to change each time a school is added or removed from the OML. The time schools remain on the OML is based on funding and available slots for new units. USACC, JROTC is limited to the current number of 1,709 JROTC programs based on congressionally mandated funding. We cannot have more than the current number of programs, and can only open a new JROTC program when we close an existing one. As JROTC programs become available, USACC, JROTC will generate an offer letter to the number one (1) school on the OML. The offer letter is emailed to the Brigade JROTC Chief for presentation to the school and direct coordination with the school POC for opening the program.
If you have additional questions, please feel free to call JROTC at (502) 624-1649 or e-mail the JROTC Schools Manager.
Additional Information and Application Forms
JROTC OML Information Paper (.doc)
White Paper - JROTC (.pdf)
Information Paper - National Defense Cadet Corps (NDCC) (.doc)
JROTC Application/Contract (DA Form 3126) (.pdf)
NDCC Application/Contract (DA Form 3126-1) (.pdf)
Evaluation Worksheet Potential Army Junior ROTC Program (DA Form 7410) (.pdf)
Startup Sustain Costs FY18-19 (.pdf)
Brigades by State
2nd Brigade
(CT, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT, Germany, Italy)
2nd BDE (JROTC)
U.S. Army Cadet Command
Bldg 5212 Maryland Avenue
Fort Dix, NJ 08640-5240
(IA, IL, KS, MN, MO, ND, NE, SD, WI)
Great Lakes Naval Base, Bldg 73
Great Lakes, IL 60088
Phone: (847) 688-3328, ext 126
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(DC, DE, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV)
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2175 Reilly Road, STOP A
Fort Bragg, NC 28310-5000
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1939 Buck Road, 2nd Floor
Ft. Sam Houston, TX 78234-5050
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246 Blanton Road, Bldg 1031, Suite 100
Hunter Army Airfield, GA 31409
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Fort Knox, KY 40121-5610
Phone: (502) 624-8299; (502) 624-3275
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Joint Base Lewis McChord, WA 98433-9500
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Police Pay and Benefits Higher Than More Dangerous Jobs
by admin · Published May 13, 2013 · Updated September 10, 2015
CHICAGO—Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics do not support the perception that police officers have very high-risk jobs, or that there is a “war on cops,” according to Jim Tobin, President of Taxpayers United of America.
“Police-organization bureaucrats repeatedly state that there is a ‘war on cops’ in order to justify police salaries and the ability in some municipalities for cops to retire at an unusually young age, often in their fifties,” said Tobin. “By retiring earlier than most workers, police officers can literally rake in millions of dollars in pension benefits over a normal lifetime.”
“In fact, the number of on-the-job police fatalities has dropped nearly 50 percent in the last 20 years, even as the total number of cops has doubled. And, by the way, the leading cause of death for cops is car accidents, not violence.”
“Figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics prove that police work is not one of the top five or even top ten most hazardous jobs. Police officer fatalities and reported injuries place them at number 12. Eleven jobs are more hazardous, number one being Fishermen, with 129 fatalities per 100,000 workers. The average annual salary of a fisherman is only $27,950 and does not include a pension. The second most hazardous job is that of logger, with 116 fatalities per 100,000 workers. The average annual salary of a logger is $30,360 with no pension benefits. Farmers and ranchers have 40 fatalities per 100,000 workers and earn about $49,140 per year. Sanitation workers have 37 fatalities per 100,000 workers and earn $32,790 per year. Number 12 on the list is police officers, with 16 fatalities per 100,000 workers. The national average annual wage for police is $51,410.”
“Not only are police officers paid well to work, but they are paid extremely well not to work! Retiring in their fifties with as much as 80% of their pay and COLA (cost of living adjustment), they make more after about 10 years of retirement than they did when they were actively working. Their annual pension actually doubles after 24 years of a 3% compounded COLA.”
“Another false justification of excessive pension benefits is that police officers die at a much younger age. The fact is that police officers live as long as non-police officers according to CALPERS (California Public Employee Retirement System) actuarial data.”
“Police protection is vital to a safe society, and we should be happy that is has become so much safer in the past 20 years. But at the same time, taxpayers should not be bombarded by false data from police-organization bureaucrats with emotion-based propaganda in order to justify higher-than-justified salaries or pension policies that include unusually early retirement.”
Reason, Apr. 26, 2011
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Michael Livingston, BappSc(Maths), FlnfTech, BA(Hons), Research Fellow, Turning Point and Centre for Health and Society, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Australia. Michael’s research interests center on the relationship between physical availability and alcohol-related problems through statistical analysis.
Michael Livingston joined the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research (CAPR) in 2006 and since then he has predominantly been involved in research examining the relationship between physical availability (particularly the density of alcohol outlets) and alcohol-related harms using a range of spatial and longitudinal statistical techniques. Livingston has undertaken a number of projects focusing on risky drinking among young people, including an analysis of recent trends and an examination of individual and environmental factors associated with regular high-risk drinking. Livingston’s honours thesis examined the offending trajectories of a birth cohort of young offenders and the relationship between child maltreatment and crime. He previously worked at JMAG in the School of Criminology at Griffith University, developing simulation models of the juvenile justice and adult corrections systems in Queensland. Michael was awarded a Sidney Myer Health Scholarship to undertake PhD, with funding from the Sidney Myer Fund and IOR Ltd. His PhD project, Liberalising Liquor Licensing – Implications for Alcohol-related Harm, will examine the impact of the deregulation of liquor licensing in Victoria and how it affects alcohol consumption, violence and alcohol-related hospitalisations.
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Pole-dancing skeletons must be removed, HOA tells homeowner
RICHMOND, Texas (KTRK) -- A woman is going head to head with her homeowner's association after complaints were filed over her "inappropriate" Halloween decorations that show skeletons dancing on poles.
Angela Nava lives in a community in Richmond.
She received a letter on Sunday saying she has 30 days to remove the decorations.
The letter said the decorations are "offensively positioned."
"It's modeled after an adult club," she said. "We just really had a good time changing the scene up every night. Every night, we change the positions of the skeletons, and it's really been just a great creative outlet for me."
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Nava said the idea came up during the early stages of the pandemic.
"We've all been cooped up and it's been just a terrible year," said Nava. "We've just decided if this brings a little bit of joy and a little bit of smiles to someone, then we're doing everything right."
Nava said she hasn't had neighbors approach her with complaints.
"So far, up until this letter that I received last night, everybody who's come by has been incredibly supportive. My neighbors love it," she said.
Eyewitness News reached out to the community's HOA on Monday but has not received a response.
Meanwhile, Nava said since Halloween is this weekend, and falls before the HOA's deadline, she's going to leave her decorations in her yard.
"When I got the letter, I was a little sad," said Nava. "I thought, 'Okay, I'm just going to take it down. I'm going to comply. I'm going to take it down and just not do this anymore.' But then I got so much support off of Facebook, and I said, 'Forget it. People are having so much fun with this, and they love it, I'm going to continue to do it.'"
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Fast Forward Friday with Julie Crosby
December 3, 2020 by Joanne Zippel Leave a Comment
For this week’s Fast Forward Friday, we interviewed producer-manager Julie Crosby. She has worked on more than 100 productions for stage and screen. She was honored with the Lilly Award for Outstanding Producer in 2013, and named to Forbes’ 40 Over 40 Women to Watch list in 2017. Julie is a member of Women Independent Producers and New York Women in Film & Television. For more information, visit www.showbizing.com.
Q: What are you currently working on? Tell us about it.
Aside from learning how to make biscuits, I’m focused on helping out people in the entertainment industry, which has been hit so hard by the pandemic.
For the past three years, producer Jane Applegate and I have had a career coaching and production consulting business called Showbizing. We were hired by universities to prepare graduating students in filmmaking, directing, writing, acting, and so forth for the job market. It was a sort of bootcamp about how to navigate the industry, and we really enjoyed being able to share what we’ve learned over many decades in this crazy business.
This past April, we took Showbizing online. We now host a monthly workshop called Focus Your Lens for entertainment professionals, and we have workshops for those who wish to break into showbiz. The response has been wonderful, and it’s very gratifying to be of service right now.
Q: In this current time of unprecedented change and uncertainty, what do you believe your role is in this moment?
To mentor, guide, champion, and listen to artists and creative professionals.
Q: Who are your artistic heroes – who have had an impact on you and your work?
My heroes are independent producers of film and theater. It is a miracle that anything gets produced outside of corporate and institutional settings. I greatly admire the careers of Elizabeth McCann, Nelle Nugent, and Margo Lion in the theater world. And in film, I am routinely dazzled by my colleagues in Women Independent Producers.
Q: What keeps you motivated and inspired?
Random, small, daily things keep me going — a romping squirrel, a gorgeous sunset, the smell of biscuits baking, laughing with a friend, a good slice of pizza — it doesn’t take much.
Q: What other projects would you like to tell us about?
When the world rights itself again, I’ll be producing work with my fabulous partners at Cromono International.
Q: What is one instance of knowing you are living in your vision?
Hearing audience feedback, preferably positive.
Q: If there were no barriers to entry, what is one thing you would be doing?
Traveling. COVID-19 has made it ill-advised, if not impossible, to see the world. I look forward to getting back on a plane.
Q: What has been big your biggest obstacle in achieving your vision?
Producing a show for the stage or screen takes years. I still have to remind myself to enjoy the process and embrace the uncertainty that comes with it; otherwise, it can be pure agony.
Q: What do you do to stay connected to your creative self?
Take a day off! Seriously, whenever I feel like my muse has ditched me, I know it’s time for a break.
Q: If you could let go of something that has held you back, what would it be?
I would love to worry less about people who hold political power. They are a major distraction.
Q: What is your favorite piece of art?
Dante’s Divine Comedy. The breadth and depth of the work are beyond comparison.
Q: What person do you most admire, living or dead?
I’m too fickle for this question. I’m a huge fan of Laurie Anderson. She’s a brilliant artist and a lovely human being. Joni Mitchell and Alanis Morissette are balm for my soul at times. On the other hand, there’s Mother Theresa, Greta Thunberg, Malala Yousafzai, Stacey Abrams, Elizabeth Warren, and a host of other badass women to choose from!
Q: If you could be known and celebrated for one thing, what would it be?
Producing great shows.
Q: If you could describe yourself in one word what would it be?
Good-humored.
Q: What is your guilty pleasure?
Playing Spelling Bee in the New York Times. I can’t start my day until I make it to “Amazing.”
Q: If you could sit down with yourself 15 years ago, what would you say?
Take a day off!
Q: Where would you most like to live?
Manhattan in the fall. Buenos Aires in the winter. Paris in the spring. The Hamptons in the summer.
Q: What is your idea of success?
Q: What is your idea of happiness?
Hanging out with my partner, Bruce. When possible, we take 10-15 mile walks to and through neighborhoods we don’t know in whatever city we’re in. Those days are priceless.
Q: Final thoughts?
Please wear a mask!
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The Latest News from the Zip Creative Community
August 19, 2015 by Joanne Zippel Leave a Comment
SHARI BERMAN is in post-production on Sugar! the feature film that she directed, starring Tony Award winner Alice Ripley and SAG Award winner Robert Clohessy. Concurrently, she is in development for her third feature film, Broken, a tale about a 12 year old Jewish girl who is being haunted by a child who died in the Holocaust. She is also moving forward on a sci fi project, Numbers, in which a young black woman, who lives in a society where people have numbers instead of names, defies the corporate machine to restore her own humanity and possibly save the human race. For more about Shari and her style of work, please visit: www.shariberman.com
ARI LAURA KREITH, Artistic Director of Theatre 167, will be directing Mourning Sun at the West End Theatre in Manhattan November 6-December 6. Set in Ethiopia and New York, Mourning Sun is a new play by Antu Yacob that explores how we transcend sometimes-brutal traditions and find our way to connection and hope. This remarkable love story spans continents and cultures, and celebrates the possibility of finding a true home. http://www.arilaurakreith.com/
Actor-Writer CHRIS DUNLOP is a London-native and has been living in New York for the past eight years. He is currently collaborating with fellow actor Chinaza Uche on a semi-devised piece that came about by Chris asking himself “What would Mike Leigh be making films about if he was starting out now?”. While he is actively auditioning for theatre, film, TV, and voice-over work, he is also writing a screenplay about loving someone with borderline personality disorder. https://vimeo.com/59416907
Filmmaker AMY GUGGENHEIM just returned from Tokyo where she was working on her feature film When Night Turns To Day set in New York City about an erotic, gritty love story between a Japanese man and American woman who must find out how their Kendo martial art practice can save their relationship. She is filming an accompanying short documentary focusing on her visits with Master Kendo players, Shinto priests and others to get at “the soul of Kendo.”
Writer-Actor-Producer NAOMI MCDOUGALL JONES is in a period of intensive writing. She is currently working on a new hour-long TV drama series and she recently went to Massachusetts to do research for a new screenplay she is writing about Hammond Castle and its eccentric, billionaire creator John Hays Hammond, Jr. She has also spent the last month writing for a new TV series that she cannot yet announce! For more information about Naomi, visit www.naomimcdougalljones.com
Producer TERRY GREENBERG is hard at work on her third annual Women in Comedy panel for NYWIFT – COMEDY MAKERS: TALES FROM THE DARK SIDE – once again taking place at Caroline’s On Broadway on Tuesday, November 10th. She is also in the process of launching “pop photo” – specially curated pop-up photography exhibits to be displayed at film festivals and related special events.
Writer ROBERT MOULTHROP’s second short story collection “Elvis’s Dog…Moonbeam and Other Stories” is now available from Amazon http://amzn.to/1LKmgHE. Robert has been named Senior Editor at Orchard Press Mystery http://orchardpressmystery.com/. This newly revived publishing house is now accepting submissions of stories for new collections (think Noir) and mystery novels in all genres (first 40 pages only). His short play “Eastport Maine: Transit of Venus” is a finalist for possible production and the prestigious Heideman Award at the Actors’ Theatre of Louisville. His translation/adaptation of the Danish children’s book about death visiting a family, “Cry Heart, but Never Break” by Glenn Ringtved, illustrated by Charlotte Pardi, is scheduled for release by Enchanted Lion Press in early 2016.
Filmmaker KERSTIN KARLHUBER’S first feature film Fair Haven has been acquired by the internationally renowned Little Film Company for world-wide distribution. The film stars Michael Grant (Secret Life of the American Teenager) and Tom Wopat (Django Unchained, Luke Duke in the classic Dukes of Hazzard series). Robbie Little, Co-President of The Little Film Company, commented, “Fair Haven is a brave, emotional film about love and understanding which explores the repercussions of conversion therapy, a controversial practice which has so far been banned in three states.” Fair Haven’s premiere will be announced soon. For more about Kerstin, visit www.silentgiantproductions.com
Writer-Director-Producer ARTHUR VINCIE is in pre-production on his supernatural thriller feature Bitter Child (shooting in January) and polishing the script for a dramatic webisodic/feature project, Songs From The Third City (shooting in October).
Composer LAUREN BUCHTER is currently composing the score for a feature length documentary titled, Cherry’s In Season. It is about the owners, workers and patrons of the bar, “Cherry’s” in Fire Island. She is working on two commissioned pieces this fall–a new work for Soprano Pamela Stein Lynde, to be performed with a Chamber Ensemble and accompanying film as part of a full evening length work featuring three female composer and and aerial dance work for husband and wife team Jacki and Nicolo for their upcoming season. Other upcoming projects include two short films, a feature length documentary and composing music for production music libraries. http://www.laurenbuchter.com/
Actor-Producer MARISSA KELTON’S short film Kissed by Inspiration will be screened as part of the NYWIFT’s Short Fiction Night member screening series on September 29, at 7:00pm at the Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue). The screening will be followed by a short Q&A and an informal reception at Cellar 58 a few blocks away. For more information and to register go to: http://www.nywift.org/article.aspx?id=5631
Documentary Filmmaker LISA D’APOLITO is finishing up directing LOVE Gilda-The Eternal Spirit of Gilda Radner. LOVE Gilda is a documentary film that tells the story of how one beloved comedienne used her honesty and humor and became an inspiration to people living with cancer. Gilda Radner’s story is told by those who knew and loved her and first hand by Gilda in never before seen footage that Gilda made of her experience. LOVE Gilda is looking for final finishing funds.
Screenwriter-Actress MORGAN ELIZABETH is currently preparing a prospectus and submitting her feature script Eggs for grants and screenplay competitions. Eggs is a low-budget film and she is looking for an experienced independent film producer to on this female-centric, diverse movie with a lot of sass and a lot of heart. She is also reworking her feature script Lips. She also continues to audition for film and television.
Producer BRONWYN BERRY has launched a new TV production company 2WomanShow, with sister NYWIFT member GERIT QUEALY, with the aim of developing inspiring content made for women (and some men). Projects in development include a docu-series on the First Ladies (based on a book written by Margaret Truman) and a Women’s Sports Channel. Bronwyn’s docu-series Durban Beach Rescue premiered in 113 countries in 26 languages on Travel Channel International in July. Broadcast rights are available in North and South American and distributor, Sky Vision are looking to secure the broadcast deal. Discussions for Season 2 are in earnest with pre-production scheduled for October in Durban, South Africa. The show is produced by Ruby Rocket Media.
Producer-Documentary Filmmaker DELORES EDWARDS recently Executive Produced a federally funded video project for one of the Unites States service academies. She is currently working on her project “Confident Women,” a documentary about women and unemployment. http://marblehillmedia.com/delores-edwards/
Hi-Def Makeup Artist JENNIFER SNOWDON worked on the film No Pay, Nudity, which was directed by Lee Wilkof and stars Gabriel Byrne, Nathan Lane, Frances Conroy and Donna Murphy. It was at the Cannes Market this winter. Before she begins work on two new films in September and October, she will be traveling to points north in Canada for the month of August, visiting both Toronto and Montreal areas for research, to take photos and to begin writing her first screenplay based on an actual experience. www.jennifersnowdon.com
Broadcast Journalist-Documentary Filmmaker MARIA SCAVALONE is currently in production on a film about the fascinating world of elderly jazz musicians and their life-long financial struggles. When not filmmaking, she dons a newswoman’s hat, and will be covering the visit of Pope Francis to NYC and the United Nations in September. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariascarvalone
Writer JILLIAN ABBOTT’s big news is her Instagram blog @Themindfulmouth, “A Year of Mindful Eating: Stories from the food I eat.” South African journalist and social media expert Gus Silber used it at one of his seminars as an example of Instagram as a storytelling platform. See his post about it at https://instagram.com/p/5y7InDqOC6/. Already a UK food publisher has expressed interest in it as a book, and she hopes to develop it into a Food Network or Travel channel TV series. In addition to teaching at York College and CUNY, she is developing a pilot smoking cessation program in Australia based around her interactive iBook Air Quality.
Robert Moulthrop Closes Publishing Deal
March 19, 2014 by Joanne Zippel Leave a Comment
Congratulations to Zip Creative client Robert Moulthrop who just closed a publishing deal with Enchanted Lion Books for adapting an award-winning Danish children’s book into English. Cry Heart, But Never Break (English title) by Glenn Ringtved, with illustrations by Charlotte Pardi, is a lyrical and moving story of young siblings dealing with the impending death of their beloved grandmother.
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Robin Hoffman’s Article Appears on Huffington Post
July 15, 2013 by Joanne Zippel Leave a Comment
Zip Creative client Robin Hoffman has published an article at Huffington Post! The piece called “Time to Pet Your Fellow Rats: Lessons From My First Staycation” appears in the GPS for the Soul section of the online publishing giant. Congratulations to Robin on her writing success!
Off-Broadway Run Opens for P.H. Lin’s ZELDA AT THE OASIS
Pat Lin’s play ZELDA AT THE OASIS, is currently enjoying an Off Broadway run at St. Lukes Theatre, 308 West 46th St. ZELDA AT THE OASIS is about Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, wife of legendary American novelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald who wants nothing more than to be recognized as an artist in her own right. Two things stand in her way: a growing mental instability and the overbearing shadow of her husband. On this magical night in the 1930’s, Zelda discovers The Club Oasis, a New York City bar where she has escaped to drink alone…until a unique and unexpected friendship is forged with an aspiring musician who plays piano and tends bar at the Oasis. Vivid and haunting memories are triggered as Zelda transforms the Bar Man into those from her past who have shaped her own self-image. Through this after-hours encounter, they share their dreams, missteps, and insights with one another, hoping to unlock the courage to move forward with their lives. The play features acclaimed performances by Gardner Reed as Zelda and Edwin Cahill as the Bar Man who who plays eight other characters including Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda’s Mother and Ernest Hemingway. The play is directed by Andy Sandberg. For more information and tickets go to: www.zeldaoasis.com,
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Take 3: Vampyr Review + 145 Follower Thank You
On October 14, 2019 October 14, 2019 By 18cinemalane
For this blog follower dedication review, I decided to take a different approach when choosing the next film. Instead of the usual system that I apply to these posts, I chose a film that felt like an appropriate choice for ‘31 Spooks of October’, the event I’ve been participating in. Since K, the creator of this event and K at the Movies, wrote about vampire related short stories recently, I thought that reviewing Vampyr would be very fitting. Last week, I was nominated for the Liebster Award by the Brannan sisters from Pure Entertainment Preservation Society! In their article, they offered an invitation to their Third Annual Great Breening Blogathon. Because the purpose of this event is to promote the preservation of the Breen Code, I felt that I had an understanding of the kind of entry that the Brannan sisters were looking for, especially since I participated in “Clean Movie Month” and “A Month Without the Code”. Vampyr was released in 1932, so through this review, I will try to determine how the Breen Code could be applied to this film!
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Things I liked about the film:
The cinematography: While watching Vampyr, I was very impressed by the cinematography! Because this movie was created in the early ‘30s, some of the visual tricks that the film’s creative team incorporated into their project felt like they were ahead of their time. Throughout the movie, there were shadows that were presented inside an abandoned warehouse and around the grounds of a hotel and a mansion. When the protagonist, Allan Gray, first sees these shadows, one of them is seen digging in reverse. This is something that audiences probably take for granted today, but was revolutionary back then.
The music: All of the music in this movie was orchestral, similar to silent films. It was used to effectively convey the mood of each scene. Whenever there was a part of the film that was suspenseful, eerie music could be heard. There was even sad music that was playing when a sad moment was presented on screen. This film’s music helped explain what was happening even when no dialogue was spoken. It became an integral part of this project.
Audio that could be heard: This film was styled and constructed like a silent film. But what’s different about Vampyr is that the orchestral music wasn’t the only audio that could be heard. Audible dialogue from the actors replaced title cards. Things like knocks on doors and ringing bells could be heard by the audience. At one part of the film, the sounds of a parrot were included with the visual presentation of the bird. In a film that was created in this specific way, hearing all these sounds was a pleasant surprise!
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What I didn’t like about the film:
A limited presence of vampires: When a movie’s creative team assigns a particular title to their project, they make a promise to their audience about what they can expect from the movie. With Vampyr, the subject of vampires wasn’t brought up until thirty-four minutes into the film. The very first vampire was revealed in the second half of the movie. In this project, vampires don’t play as big of a role as I expected. This shows that the creative team didn’t exactly fulfill the promise that they had made.
A simplistic story: For a movie like Vampyr, a sense of mystery in the story is to be expected. However, this plot felt too straight-forward. While there was a little bit of mystery, it wasn’t enough to maintain a consistent level of intrigue. It felt like the script put more emphasis on explaining through visuals what was going on instead of letting the visuals present things as they are. One perfect example is when a book about vampires is given to Allan Gray, in an effort to tell him what’s about to happen. It caused the narrative to be more simplified than it needed to be.
Some confusion: During this film, there were times when it felt like some of the mystery was kept at an arm’s length from the audience. Even though these mysteries were solved, it took awhile for the answers to be presented. Throughout the film, there was one character that kept reappearing. The audience didn’t learn who this person was until after thirty minutes. This extended explanation caused some confusion to happen in the narrative.
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My overall impression:
Before I share my overall impression of Vampyr, I want to thank all of my followers for helping 18 Cinema Lane reach this milestone! Every success that happens here is because you gave this blog a chance! Speaking of chances, I’m glad I gave this film a chance! While it had its errors, I ended up liking it more than I expected. The creative team behind this project adopted story-telling elements that were creative and interesting. Before watching this film, I learned that Vampyr was restored through the incorporation of two different versions of the movie. In the opening credits, there were a lot of names listed, indicating who was involved in the restoration process. This raises a good point of how many people it takes to restore a film. It makes me appreciate the work that’s involved in a cinematic procedure like this. Because this movie was released in 1932, it means that it wasn’t approved by the Breen Code. If it had been created two years later, these are the things that would need to change in order to meet Breen Code standards:
During the film’s introduction, it was said that the main character, Allan Gray, studies the subjects of “devil worship and vampires”. While the story does contain vampires, the first part of that statement would need to be rewritten.
When the subject of vampires is being explained, there were several references to “The Dark One”. Even though vampires are meant to be villainous in this film, any mentions of “The Dark One”, would need to be rewritten or omitted.
There were two times when God’s name was said in vain and one swear word was included in the script. New word choices would have to be made before production started.
In one scene, a pool of blood was shown on screen. This scene would have to be removed.
A few dead bodies can be seen on screen. These scenes should be rewritten, in order for the deaths to be implied.
Overall score: 7.6 out of 10
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Dear Sally,
Thank you so much for participating in our blogathon! This is a great article. I have never seen this film, but the points you made are all very valid breening suggestions. You did a great job. Thank you!
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You’re welcome and thanks for reading my review, Tiffany! Looking forward to hearing what your next blogathon will be about!
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Great review, very spooky!
Thanks, K! I’m glad you enjoyed reading it!
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Great review! I also loved the effects with the shadows, which took a lot of work to be accomplished in 1932. I see how straightforward the story was, and I wonder if there are still a few scenes lost that make it more interesting…
Thanks for reading my review, Le! You’re right about the effects, as it was ahead of its time for the ’30s. You also bring up a good point when it comes to potential missing scenes. Since one out of three versions is totally lost, I question how different it was from the German and French versions. I’m just thankful that someone or some group took the time to restore this film and save it from being lost altogether.
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Ahn Jae Hyun, Goo Hye Sun, and more attend first script reading session for “Blood”
On January 19th, KBS released several photos from the first script reading for their upcoming drama Blood.
The story for the upcoming series revolves around a vampire who works as a surgeon to treat terminally ill patients and fights for justice and honor of life. Starring Ahn Jae Hyun as the male lead, the drama is highly anticipated because it is also a collaboration between producer Ki Min Soo and writer Park Jae Bum, who had previously produced the hit drama Good Doctor.
During the script reading, the actors, which included Goo Hye Sun, Ji Jin Hee, Jung Hye Sung, and more, were complimented for their professionalism and passion, as well as their impressive abilities to pronounce complex and difficult medical terms.
Blood is set to air on KBS2 in February after the broadcast of Healer, and will air on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Make sure to catch the pilot episode on February 16th!
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BTS’s USA Comeback Goals Seemed Impossible But ARMYs Made It Happen
ARMYs waste no time!
BTS’s surprise comeback with “Dynamite” was exciting for fans but that didn’t stop them from making sure they reached their goals for this new song. Let’s take a look at each of the goals and if they made it or not!
Way to go #BTSARMY you guys utterly destroyed these @BTS_twt #Dynamite 24hr goals 🥳💜🥳💜🥳
You guys should be insanely proud of yourselves 💜💜 pic.twitter.com/kkEZBRxODi
— BTSx50STATES ⁷ (@BTSx50States) August 22, 2020
SHAZAM 250K (Global)
Shazam is an app that identifies music, movies, shows, based on a short sample played using the microphone on the device. Fans put this as part of the comeback goals because they felt that many people would probably try to search “Dynamite” after listening to it. Their goal of 250K was reached as they hit 257,839 Shazams in 24 hours.
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Apple Music Top 50
Previously, BTS hit number 38 with “Boy With Luv”. “Dynamite” came in at 34, breaking their previous record. What’s interesting about this is that almost all the other songs from number 1 to 33 have the ‘explicit’ tag next to the track. This makes “Dynamite” the second song on the list that is not ‘explicit’. (Understood considering the lyrics are about drinking milk and ice tea!)
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Spotify 1.5M Streams
BTS continues to break their own record with every new song they release. They hit 1,314,671 streams with “Boy With Luv,” only to break it with “ON” with 1,408,995 streams. For “Dynamite” they hit 1,824,254 streams, going way over their goal of 1.5M. Even the instrumental version of the song reached 290,614 streams.
iTunes #1
This goal was easily reached with “Dynamite” reaching number 1 and the instrumental version hitting number 2 on the chart.
YouTube 100M Views and 6.5M Likes (Global)
Although this goal seemed pretty impossible, they were super close to making it. 24 hours after the release, the music video hit 98,291,053 views with 8.8M likes. They hit the actual 100M view mark at 24 hours and 27 minutes which is still an amazing accomplishment considering the goal itself was really high already.
Radio 500 Spins
A radio spin is the number of times a track is played on the radio. Although “Boy With Luv” reached 900 spins, they put the goal for “Dynamite” at 500 because radio was not something that fans could control. However, they beat their own record and reached 1,700 spins on release day. This is almost double their previous record!
To put it short, they practically hit all the goals that they prepared, with the exclusion of the 100M views being a few minutes late! Looking at the stats for this comeback, BTS world domination is right!
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TWICE’s Momo Was Embarrassed By This Moment During A Live Stream
We’ve all been there.
The wholesome Momo moment was caught during a live broadcast TWICE shared on their official channel on August 31 (KST). The video shows TWICE relaxing in their green room backstage during the M2 X Genie Music Awards (MGMA), and while they spend most of it eating, chatting with one another or having one-on-one moments with the camera, there was an undeniably cute moment when Momo was visibly embarrassed at being caught off guard.
What was the moment that left Momo looking a little bashful?
She was caught off-guard taking selfies! 😳
It’s okay, Momo, there’s nothing to be embarrassed about—you are adorable and there’s nothing wrong with feeling yourself!
Have you ever been caught in an embarrassing moment like Momo? Next time, you can do what Momo did… She made the best of the situation and turned things around in her favor by having someone take her pictures for her!
What an iconic queen!
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Wednesday 22 June – for immediate release
Leading voluntary sector provider elected to chair trade body for welfare to work sector
The Employment Related Services Association (ERSA), the authoritative voice of the welfare to work sector, has today announced that Matthew Lester, Operations Director of Papworth Trust, has been elected as its new chair. This means that a subcontractor will be presiding over a majority prime contractor board.
Stuart Vere, chairman of Work Programme prime contractor Avanta, has been elected as ERSA’s vice chair.
Matthew Lester will be presiding over a freshly elected board, consisting of a mixture of prime and sub-contractors who deliver a range of employment programmes. ERSA’s board has been elected from its membership who represent 85% of the organisations that have been awarded prime contracts under the Work Programme and many of the subcontractors. ERSA also represent 90% of the prime providers of Work Choice, the specialist disability programme.
There are a total of twelve board members, with six coming from the private sector and six from the voluntary/public sector. Turnout for this year’s board election was exceptionally high with 75% of full ERSA members casting a vote. Joining the board for the first time will be chief executive of Maximus, Bob Leach, managing director of G4S Welfare to Work, Sean Williams, chief operating officer of Ingeus, Chris Blackwell, and deputy director and development manager of Salvation Army, Helen Robinson.
Matthew Lester of Papworth Trust said he was delighted to be elected as ERSA’s new chair:
“My vision is for ERSA to represent all provider types across the UK as credibility comes from diversity of membership. In 2011/12 we will continue to lobby to shape the future legislative landscape of the welfare to work industry, drive up standards to improve quality of delivery and establish our role as a trusted thought leader in the welfare to work space.”
Matthew Lester was ERSA’s vice chair from 2009 to 2011. He has been at Papworth Trust since 2003 having previously worked in the private sector. Papworth Trust is a leading disability charity and subcontractor for the Work Programme.
Commenting on his election as vice chair, Stuart Vere of Avanta said:
“It is an honour to be elected as vice chair of ERSA. The diversity of ERSA’s membership means that ERSA is in an excellent position to effectively represent the membership going forward on issues that are of strategic importance. As vice chair I would like to continue to shape and contribute to that progress.”
Stuart Vere has been chair of Avanta, which incorporates TNG and inbiz, for six years. Avanta is a Work Programme prime contractor operating in the North East, North West (Manchester / Cheshire) and the South East (Surrey, Sussex and Kent).
ERSA will soon be launching two new forums, one dedicated to supply chain issues, and the other dedicated to skills within the Work Programme. These join the existing plethora of forums, including the HR Forum, PRaP and MI Forum, Finance and Commercial Forum and Policy and Communications Forum, which cover major aspects of welfare to work.
The full ERSA board is as follows:
Matthew Lester, Operations Director, Papworth Trust (ERSA chair)
Stuart Vere, Chairman, Avanta (ERSA vice chair)
Chris Blackwell, Chief Operating Officer, Ingeus*
Sally Burton, Chief Executive, Shaw Trust
Bob Leach, Managing Director, MAXIMUS Employment and Training*
Rob Murdoch, Executive Director, A4E
Dan Murphy, Director of Communications, Remploy
Helen Robinson, Deputy Director and Development Manager, Salvation Army*
Ian Smith, National Delivery Director, Working Links
Kate Still, Director of Development, Wise Group
Steve Swan, Director of Welfare to Work, Tomorrow’s People
Sean Williams, Managing Director, G4S Welfare to Work*
*indicates they are new members of ERSA’s board for 2011/ 12
For press enquiries please contact Philip Curry: Philip.curry@ersa.org.uk / 020 7960 6317.
The key contacts of full ERSA members were asked to vote for members of the board from Monday 23rd May to Friday 3rd June. The chair and vice chair position were elected by ERSA’s new board between Monday 6th June and Friday 17th June.
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Book Review-Enchant The Night by Amanda Ashley
I received this book for free from Zebra in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
Enchant the Night by Amanda Ashley
Published by Zebra on August 25, 2020
Genres: Paranormal Romance, Vampires
Source: Zebra
In the arms of a centuries-old vampire, a woman awakens to newfound passion--and magical powers of her own. Hungarian vampires are born, not made--and can breed with mortal females. Being one of the oldest of his kind, Quill Falconer has honed his skills at hunting just the right kind of prey, which is why his latest victim confounds him. She shouldn't remember his drinking her blood. And he shouldn't still be craving more . . .
Callie Hathaway's life is as normal as it can be after the death of the beloved grandmother who raised her. Until one night, feeling foggy and fatigued, she realizes that a strangely sensual encounter with a dark, handsome man didn't occur only in her imagination.
As Callie and Quill's unique connection draws them together, an ancient order of knights seeks Quill's destruction. Being together puts Callie in mortal danger--until she uncovers a magical family legacy. Side by side they'll fight for survival, and for each other, as the brotherhood of vampire hunters gather for one final showdown.
Enchant The Night is a stand alone novel by Amanda Ashley. I will say that I have come to appreciate over the years the writing style of this author and most especially in how she writes her vampire romances, I love the spooky feel to them, the lurking dangers and mysteries that she involves in her stories. So I was expecting this book to blow me away like I am used to but sadly it didn’t. I actually struggled with staying with this book at times. I wasn’t fully invested in the story, it just didn’t draw me in like this author normally does but still a likable story.
Enchant The Night begins with our hero ….a vampire who is hundreds of years old. But then he feeds on a woman and for some reason she is still remembering who is he but when he is attacked and she saves him and shelters him in her home, a fragile trust is built and this trust turns into love. But their love will be threatened by an extremist group who hunt vampires. But as their journey goes from various areas in the country, and their search for the extremisists ….true growth individually and in the relationship will build in such an epic way
Enchant The Night is a story that was different from what I was expecting it to be. I still don’t know what to quite make of this story to be honest. So this review is really challenging so I am on the fence on some elements. I wanted to love this pairing and this story but there just was something off putting about it that just didn’t pull me in like I was expecting. I am not saying that I didn’t enjoy this one here because it definitely had much promise. I really loved the mix of a witch heroine and a vampire hero. Such a fun mix and I really adored seeing our heroine grow within herself and finding love along the way. There are so many strengths that we see in the relationship but I loved how they stick together and fight for each other in all the important ways.
Enchant The Night is a story that is packed with thrilling scenes of suspense, intrigue, magic and romantic delights!!
About Amanda Ashley
Amanda Ashley is one of those rare birds--a California native. She's lived in Southern California her whole life and, except for the earthquakes, loves it. She shares a home with her husband, as well as a fluffy Pomeranian named Lady, a wild house sparrow she raised from a baby named Tweety, and a tortoise who remains nameless. Amanda and her alter ego, Madeline Baker, have written over 70 books and short stories. Not bad for someone who started writing just for the fun of it. Her books have made the New York Times Bestseller List, the USA Today Bestseller List, and the Waldenbooks Bestseller and Mass Market lists.
Not much happening here. Same old, same old. Writing new story. Looking forward to the publication of Night's Surrender in September. I love this book and this cover.
Wishing you all a wonderful summer!!!! -excerpt from goodreads
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Solace Trailer
Somebody is committing increasingly gruesome and elaborate murders and the FBI don't know where to begin with tracking down the suspect. A team, led by special agent Joe Merriweather, decide that they have no choice but to enlist a veteran doctor named John Clancy, whose psychic abilites allow him to see things that no-one else can see no matter how much detective work they do. He has been living a life of solitude for the last two years after his own daughter died, but agrees to help for the sake of his old friend Joe. Unfortunately for him, this case is more than a match for his powers because their serial killer is constantly one step ahead of them. Clancy soon deduces that they are looking at somebody with psychic skills far superior to his own, and that the FBI agents are little more than flies running towards Charles Ambrose's sprawling web of death with each move.
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Jose Pablo Cantillo at the film Premiere of 'Man Down' held in Los Angeles, California, United States - Thursday 1st December 2016
Chappie Review
This is a terrific small film about artificial intelligence wrapped within a much bigger, less involving action blockbuster. When he's grappling with issues of existence and consciousness, filmmaker Neill Blomkamp has a lot of fascinating things to say. But he also seems unable to resist tipping everything into contrived chaos, adding an unconvincing villain and lots of violent gun battles. It's an awkward mix that might please action movie fans more than those who like to engage their brains.
It's set after 2016, when the Johannesburg police deployed a team of Scout robots to bring order to the gang-ruled streets. This has been a bonanza for the tech company Tetravaal, run by hard-nosed CEO Michelle (Sigourney Weaver), who chose the Scout model, designed by the nerdy Deon (Dev Patel), over a more military-style behemoth called Moose, designed by trigger-happy Vincent (Hugh Jackman). Meanwhile, a low-life trio of offbeat, high-energy thugs (Ninja, Yo-Landi Visser and Jose Pablo Cantillo) decide to crack into the Scout's control system, so they kidnap Deon, inadvertently getting their hands on his newest prototype, the first truly sentient robot. When he's switched on, Chappie (Copley) has a sensitive soul and learns rather too quickly from his captors.
With films like District 9 and Elysium, Blomkamp showed an ability to seamlessly integrate technology with a rough and real story, and the effects work here is remarkable mainly because we never see how they're done. The robots look utterly natural mixing with humans, and Copley's performance is so astonishing that Chappie quickly becomes a hugely sympathetic character, uncannily taking on the traits of the people around him. It also helps that the film's script continually puts Chappie into situations that force us to feel his emotions and, most importantly, his powerful sense of self-preservation. Yes, he wants to live!
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Chappie - Trailer
Mankind has the potential to build wondrous things, yet it also truly fears what it doesn't understand. After working for the best part of a year on creating a thinking, feeling artificial intelligence, Deon Wilson (Dev Patel) is close to realising that vision. Said vision is CHAPPiE (Sharlto Copley), and when he is finally activated, he serves as a true breakthrough for mankind. CHAPPiE is a capable of thinking and learning, yet he also has the potential for creating destruction. It is this potential that worries Vincent Moore (Hugh Jackman), who sets out with the intent to destroy CHAPPiE before he can cause any damage.
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Jose Pablo Cantillo - Premiere of TriStar Pictures' 'Elysium' at Regency Village Theatre in Westwood - Los Angeles, CA, United States - Wednesday 7th August 2013
Elysium Trailer
It's the year 2154 and Max Da Costa is living in the densely populated, crime and war ravaged wasteland that is the planet Earth. Meanwhile, the rich and the privileged live on an orbital settlement in space called Elysium which boasts perfect landscapes, no poverty and medical advancements that can eliminate illnesses such as cancer in half a second. Despite Earth being a disease-stricken planet with little resources to go around, Secretary Rhodes is vehemently strict with her immigration laws disallowing anyone of a lower class to be allowed into their utopia even in the case of the most serious of illnesses. An ailing Max is determined to survive, however, even if it means embarking on a highly dangerous mission to break into the highly guarded space habitat and retrieve medical resources that could save him and the rest of the suffering population.
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Jose Pablo Cantillo Movies
Somebody is committing increasingly gruesome and elaborate murders and the FBI don't know where to...
Chappie Movie Review
This is a terrific small film about artificial intelligence wrapped within a much bigger, less...
Chappie Trailer
Mankind has the potential to build wondrous things, yet it also truly fears what it...
It's the year 2154 and Max Da Costa is living in the densely populated, crime...
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