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Im-Politic: Immigration Common Sense is One Casualty of the Trump Surge
Americans are getting a great object lesson these days about the problems caused by bombastic and flamboyant figures championing reasonable positions. Their inevitable rhetorical excesses and personal quirks completely overshadow substance. In the process, they slam minds shut across the political spectrum while worsening polarization even on already emotion-laden issues.
In other words, the firestorm ignited by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s remarks about crime and Mexican immigrants has moved the nation farther away from recognizing that U.S. immigration policy is needlessly jeopardizing public safety – and from even thinking clearly about the subject.
Supporters of bigger legal immigration inflows (just FYI, the nation already officially admits about one million newcomers each year) have fought back with data purporting to show that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans, and they readily point to polls reporting that large majorities of the public view even illegal immigrants as simply “honest people trying to get ahead.”
But if you think these findings settle the matter, you don’t even need to be reminded of horrific individual events like the alleged murder of San Franciscan Kathryn Steinle last month by a convicted and repeatedly deported illegal alien felon just released from custody by that municipality’s Sanctuary City policy despite federal requests to keep him locked up. Instead, you should read the following analyses by Norman Matloff and by Steven A. Camarota, immigration policy critics whose reasoned arguments deserved much more national attention.
Matloff, a University of California, Davis computer science professor, has long specialized in the study of (legal) “high tech” immigrants and their effects on the jobs and wages of their native-born counterparts. But his July 7 post makes a seminal political and policy point on immigrants and crime. As Matloff explains, whatever the data on immigrant crime rates versus native-born crime rates (and, I think he would agree, the more relevant data on illegal immigrant crime rates versus native-born), there’s another figure that should matter at least as much to policymakers – and surely does to the public. It’s the figure of 175,000 that describes the number of foreign nationals in American prisons.
In his view, it’s a figure that points to a major failure of U.S. immigration policy – somehow, it has resulted in the admission of at least 175,000 people (remember, the number leaves out the immigrant criminals still roaming free) who had endangered the rest of the population. Are immigration enthusiasts really arguing that that’s a record or performance that can’t or mustn’t be improved upon?
Camarota, Research Director for the Center for Immigration Studies, focuses on a different but equally important issue – the weaknesses of the crime studies themselves. They suffer, he explains in a July 23 blog, from a big apples and oranges problem. That is, the studies compare populations that can’t legitimately be compared.
To begin with, Camarota suggests (but I wish had discussed in more detail), “immigrants” form a group that includes huge numbers of individuals who simply don’t commit many crimes in the first place – those admitted, like the high tech immigrants, on “merit-based” grounds. Similarly, the native-born population includes groups, like African-American men, whose crime rates are unusually high.
Controlling for these and other pertinent factors, Camarota writes, does indeed reveal a relatively high crime rate for male Mexican-born immigrants aged 18-40 and native-born men of Mexican ancestry combined. The author adds that the Census Bureau, which generates the raw numbers, has historically experienced trouble distinguishing native-born from immigrant inmates in the nation’s prisons – the sample it uses for assessing crime rates.
At the same time, Camarota elaborates on an important policy point made in brief by Matloff. Major immigration policy failures are revealed even by statistically invalid comparisons showing roughly similar crime rates for immigrants and the native-born. Immigration, he writes, “is supposed to benefit our country. Therefore the goal of policy is to select immigrants that have much lower crime rates than natives, not rates that are somewhat higher or even somewhat lower than natives’.”
There’s no doubt that the Trump phenomenon is obscuring these insights – even as it has greatly elevated immigration’s public profile. But the nation’s Mainstream Media and politicians also deserve lots of blame. Rather than bother to learn something useful that might eliminate unmistakable and frankly dangerous shortcomings in the nation’s immigration policy, they’d clearly rather bash The Donald.
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From an academic standpoint, our literacy program offers a balanced literacy approach with excellent differentiation. Our math curriculum allows a balance of investigating math for conceptual understanding, while also providing rigor for future preparations in math and science. Our curriculum is infused with a variety of “specials” that allows our students to explore and grow through the realms of art, library, physical education, music, and STEM. Finally, our staff is able to support a range of learners through special education, math and reading support, speech therapy, health, guidance, and IMPACT instruction.
Allen School strives to teach children the importance of social-emotional learning in our daily interactions with each other. Efforts throughout Allen are constantly occurring to impress upon students the need for respect… respecting others, respecting ourselves, and respecting our school. We are guided by a dedicated staff aimed at student growth; who want students to experience the value of working hard to achieve goals. It is humbling and exciting to know that families of Allen School support efforts to raise not just diligent students, but also excellent citizens.
It isn’t easy to raise and educate young learners today, but there is no greater reward in life than knowing a student is growing and learning. I felt it as a youngster, I enjoy guiding staff to build those efforts in our students each day, and my wife and I look forward to instilling that effort in our children.
As questions, concerns, and thoughts arise throughout the year, please feel free to contact me at cclarke@medford.k12.nj.usor 609-654-4203. We look forward to sharing with you the learning experience that comes with being a part of Allen School!
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With so many options, choosing a roofing or sliding material for your home can seem like a daunting task. Appearance, cost, case of installation, life span, value, and maintenance all play a role. Do you want to pay extra for a cedar shake roof, or you will be content with a less-expensive asphalt shingle that imitates shakes? Do you mind having to repaint wood siding?
The roofing and siding materials that you will choose has a direct impact on the following:
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We help you prioritize what factors are important to you, and make your decisions accordingly. Your Alpha Guru will work with you to analyze and create an estimate for “total cost to own” with the materials you select–so the price that you elect to pay upfront reflects your long term savings including painting, re-roofing risk, as well as your long term utility savings on heating & cooling. Prices of roof products are as varied as much as the array of options, especially within different areas of the U.S.
Traditionally, homeowners have preferred using asphalt shingles for roofing. However, there has recently been a surge in demand for residential roofs made of metal & tile. While metal may not sound appealing to most ears as a roofing material, technological advancements have improved aesthetics of roofing materials. However, the use of both of these materials has been in use for hundreds of years.
Cool “energy efficient” roofs, can reduce roof temperature by as much as 100°F during the summer, and thereby reduce the building’s energy requirements. The basic concept of a cool roof is to make the roof out of a material that reflects energy and emits heat. When selecting a roof, aim for high solar reflectance, endurance of high reflectance over time, and high emittance. Vice versa when the whether gets cold, these roofs do an outstanding job at making sure your home does not lose any heat to the outdoors.
The durability of roofing materials varies dramatically. The expected useful life can range from 10 years to the life of the building. This has direct economic consequences for the building owner and broader resource implications for society. In the U.S. alone, between 9 and 10 million tons of asphalt roofing waste is sent to landfills annually. A longer-lasting roof reduces the amount of waste sent to the landfill and makes better use of its embodied energy.
The amount of maintenance each product requires is another important factor when choosing roofing or siding materials. Some products are virtually maintenance free, while others require regular upkeep. Roofing maintenance Is often due to the damage of roofing components such as torn or cracked shingles, or a break in the metal flashing. Some enjoy the opportunity to repaint their house every 10 years, while others dread it.
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Architectural features on the house, and even after materials already installed on the house, may aid in your decision making. Stucco siding and metal roofing are usually a good fit, as are vinyl siding and asphalt shingles. Alpha only uses modern stucco products now utilize epoxy, which eliminate the chipping and cracking that used to be prevalent in cheap stucco. Did you know that you can skip painting by having the stucco tinted to the color you want? Strucco, vinyl, brick and stone siding all require little maintenance. However, wood and fiber cement siding products may need a coat of paint, stain, or sealer every ten years.
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Consider the life span of the products that you want to install on your roof or exterior walls. Some materials are extremely durable and guaranteed to last 50 years or more, while others need to be replaced in as few as 12 years.
The longevity of some products is influenced by your geographic location. Salt air along the coasts has been notoriously damaging to wood siding products, and areas subjected to high winds are prone to roofing and siding materials blowing off. The way you care for your exterior also impacts its longevity. If you regularly paint your wood siding, immediately repair any roofing or siding damage, and follow the manufacturer’s guidelines for each product, the materials will last longer.
Roofing: Slate, concrete, and clay tile are the most durable roofing products. They’re heavier than other materials, and usually have a lifetime warranty. Some slate and clay roofs have been known to last hundred of years. Metal roofs, despite their light weight, are remarkably durable. Warranties vary by product and manufacturer, but warranties of 50 years or more are becoming standard. Since wood shakes are available in different grades, their durability also differs. Top-quality shakes carry 50-year warranties, while the lower-end-shakes last about 30 years. The life span of asphalt singles also widely varies. They should last a minimum of 20 years, with the thicker, more durable architectural shingles guaranteed for up to 50 years. Roll roofing has the shortest life span, lasting between 6 and 12 years.
Siding: Brick is generally considered the most durable product, and it can carry a warranty of more than 100 years. Stone and stucco sidings are also noted for their durability, and they generally carry 50-year warranties. Standard warranties for fiber cement siding are 50 years, too. Although the life span of wood siding varies, depending on the species of wood, climate conditions, and amount of homeowner maintenance it receives, you should expect wood siding to last a minimum of 20 years. Some wood siding can last well over 50 years. Vinyl siding is available in different thicknesses, from 0.035” to 0.055”, with the thicker siding being the more durable and carrying lifetime warranties. The lighter-weight vinyl sidings are usually guaranteed to last between 30 and 50 years.
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At the NewYork-Presbyterian David H. Koch Center, patients receive integrated care and undergo complex procedures on an outpatient basis. With a focus on the human experience, the program provides a comprehensive suite of services for patients in a contemporary and soothing environment. The design of the leading-edge facility is the result of a collaboration among HOK as architect, Ballinger as medical architect and Pei Cobb Freed & Partners as consulting architect for building envelope and lobby.
Patients enter through a soaring, light-filled space with unobstructed paths to a central reception desk and self-registration kiosks, from which they proceed to elevators that carry them to clinical floors. Clinical support spaces are patient-focused and efficient, with the flexibility to accommodate future technologies and changes in patient care. The facility’s primary services include outpatient surgery, endoscopy, interventional radiology, diagnostic imaging, radiation oncology, infusion, and digestive disease treatments.
Within the 40-foot-high lobby, a sweeping mezzanine offers a multipurpose gathering space with food service and a direct connection to the adjoining Wellness Center. An open stair invites access to the more intimate upper mezzanine, providing a comfortable “living room” for patients and their families.
An all-glass facade was suggested by the fact that the exterior edge of the building is primarily circulation space. The insertion of a wood screen into the triple-glazed assembly and application of a frit pattern on the inner surface of the outer pane give the curtain wall its distinctive character, achieving richness and variety in a highly sustainable form.
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Movie Review: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
March 29, 2017 February 3, 2019 AndrewHalterOmniblogAmazon Prime, Andrew Halter, Hector Elizondo, heist, hostage situation, movie reviews, New York, Robert Shaw, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Tom Pedi, Walter MathauLeave a comment
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Director: Joseph Sargent
Writer: John Godey (novel) Peter Stone (screenplay)
Actors: Robert Shaw, Walter Mathau, Hector Elizondo
Streaming on Amazon Prime
In the history of heist movies, bank robbery movies, and hostage situation movies, personality is what really matters. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, which is one of the greatest examples of all three of these types of crime story, has more personality on display than an off-broadway production of Our Town. This personality, which is 1970’s New York City blue-collar through and through, puts much-needed life into what could have seemed a fairly grim little story. In this story, Bernard Ryder (Robert Shaw) and three associates take a subway car full of passengers hostage, after which things take a predictable turn for the worse. As the somewhat dark story sputters its way to a sobering conclusion, its audience is kept rapturous, enlivened by interesting characters and entertained by delightful performances.
Walter Mathau, as Police Lt. Zachary Garber, for example, is a hilarious and emotionally relatable protagonist. One sequence early in the movie in which Garber (Mathau) repeatedly insults a Japanese tour group is particularly hysterical, as it contributes greatly to the crafting of a compelling story line. “This way, dummies, just step this way, dummies,” the lieutenant sputters, annoyed at being relegated to giving tours of the train station. But on this day, his luck changes, when Richard Ryder (Robert Shaw) hijacks the train car he’s on, touching off a deadly sequence of events. Robert Shaw, as in The Sting, conveys a perfectly single-minded commitment, and steps in as the perfect foil for Mathau’s cheeky expertise. Watching these two actors play off each other through a two-way radio is marvelous, as the actors ratchet the tension up to extreme levels.
The showdown between Garber (Mathau) and Ryder (Shaw) takes up most of the movie, but underneath this main plot, the city of New York can be seen as a character. The way characters talk to each other, as if they’re late for another appointment, and the way that traffic is a permanent inconvenience for everyone at all times, combine to make Pelham One Two Three a movie that will forever be chained to New York. One character, Caz Dolowicz (Tom Pedi) is New Yorker through and through, with the heaviest accent of them all, which he uses to say lines like “I’m gonna nail his pecker to the wall for this,” and “If I gotta watch my language just ‘cause they let a few broads in I’m gonna quit.’” When Caz makes flippantly sexist assertions like this, it is more entertaining than anything else, as if his loudly sexist opinions are more a relic than a warning, reminding us how much fun America can be when allowed to be itself.
Fun is the word that chiefly leaps to mind when discussing The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, as its breezily preposterous story (it did not surprise me to learn that the novel this movie is based on is fiction) and its understated comic relief collaborate to make the movie’s 104 minute runtime zip by. Directed by Joseph Sergeant, a journeyman director who’s biggest credit next to this movie is Jaws: The Revenge, seems to have a deft hand at pacing, though he’s all thumbs when it comes to emotional impact. If looking for any kind of depth or expression of true emotion, one should probably look elsewhere, but for an exemplary by-the-books heist narrative, there’s hardly one better The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.
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Haunted Hogs
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Template:Infobox episodeFor the similar episode featured in Season 1, see Trick or Treat.
For the similar episode featured in Season 2, see Ham'o'ween.
Haunted Hogs is the fourteenth episode of Angry Birds Seasons, the third episode celebrating Halloween, and the first episode of the Season 3 package. It was released in October 23rd, 2012 for iOS and PC. It marks the second birthday/anniversary of the Angry Birds Seasons app. It was first revealed on the Game Center leaderboards and was reported by Angry Birds Nest on October 18, 2012.
This is the third Halloween based episode in Seasons in three consecutive years, and is also first in the series overall to have entirely new Pig variants, Scarecrow Pigs and Frankenstein Pigs.
With this update, Seasons has more levels than in Angry Birds Classic. (If one doesn't count the King Pig levels)
This episode introduces a ghostly block.
The beginning music resembles The Addams Family Theme song.
Unlike other episodes, objects don't fly by in the background for the title screen. Also, a beaten-up Scarecrow Pig appears when you fail a level in Haunted Hogs, unlike most episodes which have a normal pig when failing a level. This happens again in Winter Wonderham, which it shows a normal pig eating a candy cane when failing a level.
The Jack-O-Lanterns (3000 Pts. Each) from Trick or Treat and the Exploding Black Jack-O-Lanterns from Ham'o'ween return in this episode.
Haunted Hogs could be using a reference to the term "Haunted House", since the level takes place in a haunted house.
This is the third AB episode to have the background inside, the first and second being Smuggler's Den & Smuggler's Plane from AB Rio.
On the loading screen, the number 13 is printed on the door, which is the "unlucky" number.
Also, on the loading screen, parts of the Background and its environment like the trees with no leaves, from the First Angry Birds Seasons episode that started it all, Trick or Treat (formerly known as Angry Birds Halloween), can be seen.
Haunted Hogs is the 14th update of Angry Birds Seasons.
This is the first Halloween episode not to feature the Ghost Pig. However, when the V 3.2.0 update was released, the ghost pig can be seen standing still like the other pigs instead of flying (Like in Ham 'O' Ween or Trick or Treat) in Haunted Hogs's new Mighty Eagle Bonus Level, which is one of the 4 new Bonus levels for Haunted Hogs (also in Winter Wonderham) that can be unlocked by collecting 10 Feathers.
Both Haunted Hogs and the Angry Birds Friends Halloween Tournament (Closed) have the same theme song.
The backgrounds of some of the levels have Ecce Homo (the ruined Jesus fresco) on the walls. Sometimes, this picture can also been seen on the Haunted Hogs Title Screen.
It is also one of the two episodes to include four new levels upon the release of Power-ups in Angry Birds Seasons, the other being Winter Wonderham. There are 3 levels that can be unlocked by collecting a certain number of stars, plus 1 level for collecting 10 feathers by using the Mighty Eagle. Interestingly, this feature can also be used in Angry Birds Rio, which was the first Angry Birds Game that this feature came to be.
New things in the episode.
App icon.
End photo.
Scarecrow Pig sprites
Ghost Blocks and pigs
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Client Background Research
Delivered March 5th, 2020. Contributors: Nyaingo J.
Early FindingsClient Background Research
Extensive searches across social media, company websites, and professional platforms like LinkedIn show there is limited information on Pete Weaver, Probyn Forbes, and Tom Schneberger, regarding their hobbies, authorship, speaking engagements, and social media profiles. These individuals prefer professional platforms as opposed to social media platforms.
I. Pete Weaver
Publications Authored or Co-authored
Extensive searches on Pete Weaver, the Group Fluids Operations Director at Domino Printing, did not return substantial data regarding whether he has authored or co-authored a book.
However, Weaver posted on his LinkedIn a book — Christmas Elfabet authored by Katie Weaver, whom we suspect is closely related to Pete Weaver.
Speaking Engagements or Presentations
A thorough scan of the websites, social media platforms, and reports published by the previous companies Weaver worked for, including his present company, did not uncover any information about his involvement in speaking engagements or presentations in the past 2-3 years.
However, in November 2017, Weaver participated in investments into Majestic Polymers Limited and DSA Chemicals Limited that were completed in November 2017.
Again, Panoramic Growth Equity facilitated the funding, and it is highly likely that Weaver got involved in speaking engagements regarding the investments since he was the then Operations Director at both companies.
Despite using location filters, searches on social media platforms, specifically Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, did not feature any accounts associated with Pete Weaver, who currently works at Domino Printing.
The only account associated with Pete Weaver at Domino Printing is on LinkedIn. No other account, including biography databases, featured a profile of Peter Weaver, beyond his LinkedIn account.
Personal Interests and Hobbies
Based on the interests Weaver has listed on his LinkedIn page, it is evident that he is actively involved in the chemicals sector. Weaver follows many chemical companies such as Chemical Engineering World, Tata Chemicals Europe, CF Fertilizers UK, the Chemical Industries Association, etc.
Weaver also associates with numerous groups such as Chemical Jobs, Specialty Chemical Network, Chemicals Northwest, etc.
Weaver could be a football fan having liked a football post on LinkedIn about Tranmere Rovers FC beating Watford.
II. Probyn Forbes
Extensive searches across the web do not indicate whether Probyn Forbes has authored or co-authored any publication.
The only information available in public regards his appointment. Other information relates to his former company's structure, where he is mentioned twice about who reports to him.
A thorough search through the news and press releases section of Dominion Color and the website of U.S. Cable and Wire Corporation did not include any information about speaking engagements or presentations involving Forbes.
Research findings show that Probyn Forbes does not have any social media accounts besides LinkedIn.
According to search results by LeadFerrets directory of peoples' information, Forbes does not have a Facebook, Google Plus, or Twitter account; likewise, searches on Instagram also returned negative results.
Forbes appears to have interests in blockchain technologies because he follows blockchain influencer — Don Tapscott.
He is also a member of several groups like Plant Managers and Director of Operations, Global Chemicals Executive, Global Manufacturing Forum, etc., which suggests that he has interests in industrial manufacturing and chemicals.
III. Tom Schneberger
During Tom Schneberger's tenure at FMC, he played a critical role in helping craft the company's sustainability report. All questions regarding sustainability, as per the report, were directed to Schneberger.
Schneberger also participated actively in the preparation of earnings reports while working at Livent Corporation. His involvement is seen throughout Livent's earnings results conference call.
In the past 2-3 years, Tom Schneberger has taken part in presenting quarterly earnings at conference calls, while working at Livent Corporation.
Schneberger was among the key speakers during the 'Tenth Lithium Supply and Market Conference' that was held at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas from 26 to 28 June 2018.
Based on publicly available data, Schneberger has a social media account with Twitter, and none with Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. Unfortunately, he is not active on Twitter, has one follower, and follows 16 individuals.
The only other profiles of Schneberger can be found on LinkedIn and Bloomberg, while his social media footprint excludes Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
A post on Twitter by Schneberger suggests that he is an outdoor adventure enthusiast. He seems to take part in climbing activities based on the idea that he is carrying a rope in the post.
An analysis of Schneberger's LinkedIn's interest section shows that he likes topics regarding lithium mining, artificial intelligence, manufacturing, chemicals, etc.
Schneberger has interests in brands like Graham partners, Golden Gate Partners, One Equity Partner, etc.
Your research team performed extensive searches on the three individuals, Pete Weaver, Probyn Forbes, and Tom Schneberger, regarding their hobbies, presentations, publications, and social media analysis. We began by examining the websites of the company the three individuals worked for or still work for. We also searched through press releases and news announcements on each company. It turned out that there is limited information on the three individuals, especially regarding social media. Searches on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter returned negative results for these individuals' names.
Continued searches across different resources, including articles and blogs published by the companies the three guys have worked for, helped uncover additional findings on each individual. Attempts to use search services such as LeadFerrets Directories also proved futile. We checked for information on the interests, groups, and companies the individuals like on LinkedIn to uncover examples of hobbies and interests of the three individuals. The research relied more on publicly available information to present the findings detailed above. Our research findings showed that the specific information requested on these individuals is minimal and poorly documented online. For example, only one out of the three individuals has a social media account with Twitter, which was last active in 2019.
The lack of social media activity could stem from the professional nature of these individuals, who prefer to keep most of their interactions on LinkedIn, which is a professional platform. Overall, only Tom Schneberger appeared to be more involved in the companies he has served, especially in crafting and presenting company reports, while also tackling answers. For the other individuals, there was no press release, interview, or report showing their involvement in the capacities of making presentations or speaking engagements.
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Ravindra Pisharody resigns from Tata Motors
Tata Motors also has appointed Satish Borwankar as the COO of Tata Motors with immediate effect and his tenure of Executive Directorship would be extended for a period of two years from July 2017
Ketan Thakkar
Mumbai: Tata Motors, India’s largest truck maker announced on Monday the departure of Ravindra Pisharody, the executive director-in-charge of the flagging commercial vehicle business, even as it promoted Satish Borwankar, a veteran in the company as its chief operating officer.
Pisharody cited “personal reasons,” for his resignation. The company informed and further clarified that Borwankar’s elevation and Pisharody’s resignation were separate developments and not linked to each other.
Pisharody’s exit comes at a critical juncture, as Tata Motors is undertaking a massive transformation process, with almost 1400 people losing jobs and roles and responsibilities for various key executives revised starting 1st of April under a program called Organisational Effectiveness or OE.
Having served for almost a decade at Tata Motors, Pisharody was elevated as executive director in 2012 and was the member of executive committee, contributing to important decisions on the future of the company. Of late, however, Pisharody had a tough task of dealing with rising competition, deep discounting in the truck space, a volatile market environment and Supreme Court ruling.
Tata Motors ended FY-17 with a record low market share of 43% with medium and heavy truck market share dropping to almost 50%, Pisharody had to face the challenging task of liquidating BS III inventory by 31st March, post the Supreme Court ruling. Tata Motors was saddled with inventories worth Rs 1500-Rs 2000 crore, which the company said it would divert it to exports market or convert it to BS IV. Tata Motors had to book a loss of Rs 148 crore in Q4 on account of discounts offered under distress sale.
Losing the number one position to Mahindra & Mahindra in small commercial vehicle space and inability of the company to contain the slide in small commercial vehicle sales a few years back post withdrawal of financiers from the market after rising delinquencies along with the sustained slide in medium and heavy truck segment were seen as some of the disappointments under his watch.
Along with the new MD Guenter Butschek, Pisharody contributed in a new mid-term goal which envisaged Tata Motors to break into top three commercial vehicle makers by 2019.
To be sure, during Pisharody’s stint, Tata Motors completely revamped the entire commercial vehicle fleet and introduced a new generation of modern truck range.
Understanding the price sensitivity of Indian commercial vehicle market, Pisharody decided to continue with the legacy range of trucks along with modern truck fleet and in fact created a mid-price range of trucks under Signa brand, thereby enabling Tata Motors to have the widest range of product portfolio, which a customer could choose from.
Even as it was faced tough competition from Daimler India and Ashok Leyland in the heavy truck space, under his leadership, Tata Motors managed to regain the leadership in the buses segment and the company also transitioned from a supplier of combat support vehicle to combat vehicles in Defence over the last few years.
The decision to bring in brand ambassador Akshay Kumar for commercial vehicle business and starting Prima Truck Racing were some of the initiatives Pisharody started in order to regain lost ground in the truck business.
Pisharody who joined Tata Motors as Vice President Commercial Vehicles (Sales & Marketing), in 2007 is also on the board of various Tata Motors Group Companies.
Before joining Tata Motors, he worked with Castrol Ltd., a subsidiary of BP, and with Philips India, a subsidiary of the Dutch company in various roles. Pisharody is an alumnus of IIT, Kharagpur and IIM, Kolkata.
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Satish Borwankar, the executive director for quality was appointed as COO of the Company with immediate effect and his tenure of Executive Directorship would be extended for a period of 2 years from July 2017, subject to shareholders' approval.
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Toll collection likely to grow 15% in FY22: ICRA
"In FY2022, the traffic is expected to increase by 5 per cent and toll rates (WPI linked) by 3-4 per cent resulting in an overall increase in toll collections by 14-15 per cent on a low base in FY2021 (given the impact of toll suspension in first 20 days of April 2020)," Icra said in a statement.
Decision to put off 100% toll collection via FASTag hailed
FASTag is a sticker that has an integrated radio-frequency Identification (RIFD) barcode linked to the registration details of respective vehicles. Those who bat for the system have urged National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to create sensitisation to convince those who are yet to avail of the facility to secure it.
Panel to frame rules for private companies building logistics parks
The committee will be headed by secretary, ministry of road transport and highways Giridhar Aramane.
Need coordinated action by SCO countries to ensure sustainable transport ops during emergency situations: Official
"He spoke about India's priority of connectivity with SCO countries for cooperation and trust between our societies and shared India's experience in intelligent transport systems," Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said in a statement.
3,951 km highways constructed in April-September: Ministry
The ministry achieved a road building rate of 21.60 km per day despite the prevailing situation, it said.
Cabinet note ready for vehicle scrapping policy: MoS VK Singh informs Rajya Sabha
The policy was sent for a fresh round of consultation with stakeholders on the direction of the PMO.
Align type-approval norms for retro-fitment of LPG/CNG kits with European laws: Industry
"The prevalent norms are a major impediment to India's clean air goals as they hamper the growth of the retro-fitment market and prevent vehicle conversions to clean fuels," the body said.
Government constructs 3,181 km national highways in April-August, surpasses target
"Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has surpassed its target for construction of National Highways in the country till the past weekend. During April to August this year, 3,181 kilometre NH length was constructed against the target of 2,771 km for this period," MoRTH said in a statement.
Govt proposes stricter safety norms for construction machinery
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has come out with a draft notification for construction equipment vehicles that addresses issues of safety requirements, safety of the operator besides ensuring safety while such machines are running on public roads along with other vehicles.
Govt notifies regulations for tyres, safety glass under Central Motor Vehicles Rules
The specification for the tyre pressure monitoring system ( TPMS) for vehicles up to maximum mass of 3.5 tonnes has also been provided, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said in a statement.
Highways Ministry asks NIC to capture FASTag details before vehicle registration
In a letter addressed to NIC, with copies to all the states and UTs, the ministry has informed that full integration of National Electronic Toll Collection (NETC) with VAHAN portal has been achieved, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said in a statement.
Highways Ministry invites comments for safety evaluation of hydrogen propelled vehicles
The statement said that the ministry has notified a draft notification GSR 436(E) dated July 10, 2020 proposing amendment to the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989 for inclusion of the standards for the safety evaluation of the vehicles being propelled through hydrogen fuel cells.
CCI dismisses complaint against NHAI alleging unfair biz practices
The matter pertains to prescription of specific eligibility criteria in tender documents for engagement of consultants by NHAI.
State transport undertakings must adopt innovative operative models to improve financial health: MoRTH official
MoRTH has advised STUs to monetise their assets to increase their financial independence through bus stations and other assets.
Govt extends validity of vehicle documents till July 31
The ministry has earlier issued an advisory on March 30, 2020 to all regarding extension of validity of the documents related to Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 and Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989.
Vehicles with non-functional FASTag to be charged double toll fee: Government
"User of the vehicle not fitted with FASTag or vehicle without valid, functional 'FASTag' entering into 'FASTag lane' of the Fee plazas shall pay a fee equivalent to two times of the fee applicable to that category of vehicles," as per a notification issued by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.
MHA control room to be used for resolving complaints of drivers, transporters on passage of cargo
The Union government has decided to utilise the control room, where officers of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) are also being deputed for this purpose.
Consortium buys 81% stake in Portugal motorway operator Brisa
Brisa's largest business area is highway management, in which it has the largest stake in Portugal.
Aramane Giridhar appointed as Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
In another reshuffling move, Pawan Kumar Agarwal has been appointed as the new logistics special secretary, Commerce Ministry.
Lockdown: Transport ministry website to show all-India list of dhabas and truck repair shops
These dhabas and repair shops, drivers, cleaners or any other person in the chain of movement of goods, are required to follow all the necessary precautions and healthcare protocols.
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Consensus statement on the use of rituximab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
J S Smolen1,
E C Keystone2,
P Emery3,
F C Breedveld4,
N Betteridge5,
G R Burmester6,
M Dougados7,
G Ferraccioli8,
U Jaeger9,
L Klareskog10,
T K Kvien11,
E Martin-Mola12,
K Pavelka13,
The Working Group on the Rituximab Consensus Statement
1Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna; Second Department of Medicine, Hietzing Hospital Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2Rebecca MacDonald Centre for Arthritis and Autoimmunity, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
3Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, Chapel Allerton Hospital, Leeds, UK
4Arthritis Care, London, UK
5Leiden University Medical School, Leiden, The Netherlands
6Department of Rheumatology, Charité Hospital, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
7Department of Rheumatology, Hopital Cochin, René Descartes University, Paris, France
8Division of Rheumatology, Institute of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
9Division of Haematology, First Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
10Department of Rheumatology, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
11Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
12Rheumatology Department, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
13Institute and Clinic of Rheumatology, Charles University Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Correspondence to:
Professor J S Smolen
Department of Rheumatology, Third Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria; josef.smolen{at}wienkav.at
A large number of experts experienced in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis were involved in formulating a consensus statement on the use of B cell-targeted treatment with rituximab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The statement was supported by data from randomised controlled clinical trials and the substantial literature on oncology. The statement underwent three rounds of discussions until its ultimate formulation. It should guide clinicians in the use of this newly approved biological agent in treating patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
ACR, American College of Rheumatology
SCDAI, Simplified composite Disease Activity Index
DAS28, 28-joint Disease Activity Score
DMARD, disease-modifying antirheumatic drug
HACA, human antichimeric antibody
MTX, methotrexate
SDAI, simplified Disease Activity Index
TNF, tumour necrosis factor
Ample evidence is available to suggest that persistent active rheumatoid arthritis leads to major joint destruction and disability.1 Therefore, to minimise inflammation, it is important to interfere with the disease process using disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), including biological agents. This is best achieved by early institution of such treatment and adherence to tight control of disease activity using appropriate measures to decide on timely changes in therapeutic strategies.2 Despite the changes in treatment paradigms, which over the recent years included earlier use and higher doses of methotrexate (MTX), combination DMARDs and the use of biological agents,3 there remains a large proportion of patients who either do not respond sufficiently to these new therapeutic strategies, experience toxicity or have contraindications, resulting in a large unmet need currently being challenged by the development of new treatment methods.
SCOPE AND PURPOSE
A group of rheumatology experts (the main authors) from several regions in Europe and Canada, experienced in clinical research, the use of biological agents and the development of consensus statements,4–6 gathered in Vienna to formulate a consensus statement and guidance document on the use of rituximab in arthritis clinics for routine care of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. They were supported by a patient representative and a haematologist who was experienced in the use of rituximab in benign and malignant haematological diseases. Subsequently, the draft of the resulting consensus statement was presented in another meeting for further discussion, amendment and finalisation to 30 experts including the patient representative (the Working Group).
Given that current treatments fail to achieve low disease activity or remission, as defined by composite disease activity indices,2 in many patients, additional treatments are needed, particularly those with novel modes of action and different potential toxicities. One such therapy, recently licensed in the US and in Europe, is rituximab, a chimeric monoclonal anti-CD20 antibody that selectively depletes CD20-expressing B cells.
We have had the opportunity of discussing the accrued knowledge in the use of rituximab and of formulating our jointly shared views on the following:
Indications, considerations and screening for initiating rituximab
Treatment dose and comedication
Evaluation of response and considerations for repeat treatment
Contraindications and adverse events
To this end, we reviewed the published literature on the efficacy of rituximab in treating patients with rheumatoid arthrits using both full publications and abstracts; abstracts were included given the paucity of fully published information.
Although extensive literature is available on the toxicity of rituximab in patients with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma,7–9 which can also be obtained from the package insert or summary of product characteristics, relatively limited information is available with respect to safety issues in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Extrapolating side effects observed in patients with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma to those with rheumatoid arthritis may not be appropriate, as both comedications and comorbidites usually differ between these diseases. The statement presented below has been developed in line with recent literature on the generation of such recommendations.10 Categories of evidence will be indicated next to each reference in line with published guidelines11; however, it was agreed to modify this guidance document by assigning category Ia to the availability of ⩾2 randomised controlled trials with similar results (table 1).
Evidence hierarchy (modified from Shekelle et al11)
Rituximab is licensed for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and has been given to >700 000 patients.12 Rituximab has been recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the US and by the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products in Europe for the treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis who have had an inadequate response to tumour necrosis factor (TNF) blockers. In these patients, rituximab is given intravenously as two 1-g infusions (with intravenous glucocorticoid premedication; table 2), separated by 2 weeks.12,13
Doses of rituximab and glucocortiocids in three randomised controlled clinical trials
In early studies, rituximab has shown efficacy when used alone (category Ib) and in combination with other agents, including MTX14 (category Ia). The efficacy and durability of monotherapy seems to be less than that of combination treatment with MTX (category Ib). Subsequent studies on rituximab in combination with MTX have proved to be successful in markedly reducing inflammatory activity and increasing functional ability and the quality of life12 (category Ia). In responding patients, the duration of the response to a single course of rituximab usually lasts >6 months15 (category III). The data on radiographic progression at 1 year in patients with previous inadequate response to anti-TNF drugs showed considerable retardation of joint destruction16 (category Ib).
At present, in line with the current licensed indications, rituximab may be used in patients with rheumatoid arthritis who qualify for treatment with biological agents and have had an inadequate response or intolerance to ⩾1 TNF-blocking agents 17; patients with a contraindication to TNF inhibitors have not yet been adequately studied. Before concluding that a patient has not responded to a TNF blocker, attempts should be made to improve the current regimen by optimising the DMARD or anti-TNF treatment18 considering national guidelines.
Current evidence on the efficacy of rituximab relates to rheumatoid factor-positive patients13,14 (category Ia). In the phase III study on TNF non-responders, a marked response was seen in rheumatoid factor-negative patients,12 whereas in another study on rheumatoid factor-negative patients who were not part of the primary end point analysis, the response was not different from placebo-treated patients, although the response to placebo was unusually high13 (table 3). As both studies comprised small numbers of rheumatoid factor-negative patients, the role of rheumatoid factor and other potential predictors of treatment outcome on rituximab will be clarified by ongoing studies.
Results in rheumatoid factor-negative and rheumatoid factor-positive patients
Considerations for initiating treatment
Before treatment, an individual therapeutic goal should be established with each patient by the treating physician. The doctor should be experienced in the diagnosis and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, including the use of biological agents. The primary objective for the patient should be relief from symptoms, especially pain, stiffness and fatigue; prevention of disability; improved mobility; and better quality of life. This will be best realised by achieving a low disease activity state or even remission by composite disease activity indices.2,19–25
So far, there has been no evidence of a markedly increased risk of infections or other serious adverse events in patients who initiated rituximab after TNF blockers compared with patients who initiated rituximab after conventional treatment with DMARDs; however, in the phase II and phase III studies, patients had discontinued etanercept for 4 weeks or infliximab and adalimumab for 8 weeks before treatment with rituximab. Exclusion criteria comprised evidence of major systemic involvement due to rheumatoid arthritis, other major illnesses or laboratory abnormalities, and a history of recurrent relevant infections.12,13
Most of the patients studied in the phase II or phase III clinical trials on rituximab had high disease activity. Thus, patients considered for treatment generally should have active disease defined as at least moderate disease activity by composite scores, such as by the 28-joint Disease Activity Score, DAS28 (⩾3.2), the simplified Disease Activity Index, SDAI (>11) or similar indices.2
Screening before initiating rituximab
Initiation of rituximab should be preceded by recording a detailed history (regarding chronic or recent comorbidity, such as cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, recurrent infections and allergies) and a complete physical examination to consider possible contraindications. Chest radiography was carried out in the clinical trials, but may not be mandatory.
In the clinical trials on rituximab, patients were pre-screened for hepatitis B and C. The oncology literature has reports of patients with hepatitis B and C undergoing rituximab treatment: patients with hepatitis C were successfully treated without further prophylaxis26 (category IV); those with hepatitis B were also successfully treated with rituximab, usually with antiviral (lamivudine) prophylaxis27 (category IV).28 However, cases of reactivated, fulminant hepatitis B have been reported with rituximab29 (category IV). Currently, there is no experience on patients with rheumatoid arthritis positive for hepatitis B or C. Rituximab does not seem to increase the risk of infections in patients with HIV with lymphoma8,30 (category IIb). In the oncology literature, rituximab does not markedly add to the risk of infections induced by chemotherapy; this includes opportunist infections8 and also herpes zoster infections, although there was one case of disseminated and fatal herpes zoster infection.8,31 As always, the individual benefit–risk ratio should be considered and discussed with the patient. Although routine testing for hepatitis C is discretionary, expert advice is that hepatitis B status should be obtained, as practised in haemato-oncology,27 in view of the reported risk of reactivation of hepatitis B (see also adverse events section), although more data will also be needed regarding hepatitis C.
Some data from the oncology literature indicate that in patients receiving rituximab, response to vaccination may be ineffective8 and, therefore, vaccinations with inactivated vaccines, such as hepatitis B, pneumococcal and influenza vaccines, should be considered before treatment with rituximab (category IV). More data are needed on the potential risk of vaccination with live vaccines, which, therefore, are not recommended for rituximab-treated patients.
In general, patients who did not respond to TNF-blocking treatment will also have been pre-screened for the presence of active or latent tuberculosis. In the rheumatoid arthritis clinical trials on rituximab before TNF inhibitors, patients with active tuberculosis were excluded, but patients were not screened for latent tuberculosis by PPD testing. In this context, it should be remembered that rituximab is used in rheumatoid arthritis in combination with two pulses of glucocorticoid and continuous treatment with MTX, which by itself may reactivate tuberculosis. However, there is no evidence of an increased frequency of tuberculosis in patients with lymphoma treated with rituximab8 and, therefore, at this time there is no evidence indicating the necessity to systematically screen patients for tuberculosis before using rituximab in those with rheumatoid arthritis.
Apart from routine laboratory tests usually performed in patients with rheumatoid arthritis before initiating new treatments, it may be useful to determine baseline immunoglobulin levels, as decreased levels of immunoglobulin (Ig)M have been observed with rituximab over time32 (category III). In clinical trials, B cell levels have been measured, but the utility of these measurements in routine practice is not proved. On the other hand, no data are available regarding the safety of rituximab in patients with hypogammaglobulinaemia and, therefore, rituximab should not be used for treating rheumatoid arthritis in such rare instances.
In patients who have received prior TNF blocker treatment, rituximab has been used and licensed at a dose of 1000 mg per infusion on days 1 and 15.12 However, a lower dose of 500 mg per infusion has also been studied in a population consisting predominantly of patients with prior inadequate response to traditional DMARDs, with notable efficacy compared with that to placebo13 (category Ib); the American College of Rheumatology (ACR)20, 50 and 70 response rates in patients treated with 2×500 mg rituximab were 55%, 33% and 13% compared with 54%, 34% and 20%, respectively, in patients receiving 2×1000 mg rituximab.
In the phase II trial, the ACR responses of patients treated with rituximab in combination with MTX (ACR20, ACR50 and ACR70: 73%, 43% and 23%, respectively) were numerically superior to those receiving rituximab monotherapy (65%, 33% and 15%, respectively). As the difference between responses to rituximab monotherapy and the placebo control arm (ACR20, ACR50 and ACR70: 38%, 13% and 5%, respectively) did not reach statistical significance for ACR50 and ACR70 responses14 (category Ib), rituximab is licensed only in combination with MTX (http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/index.cfm,http://www.emea.eu.int/humandocs/Humans/EPAR/mabthera/mabthera.htm). In clinical practice this will usually be a dose of 10–25 mg MTX per week, unless adverse events preclude such doses. Nevertheless, rituximab monotherapy was also shown to be more effective (ACR20 response) than placebo14 (category Ib). Data are available from the phase II trials on cyclophosphamide as comedication, but this expert group thought that cyclophosphamide is usually not an appropriate comedication, taking into account the potential serious side effects with this drug.10 No data are currently available on the concomitant use of other DMARDs, including TNF inhibitors.
To reduce the frequency and severity of infusion reactions, patients should receive 100 mg methylprednisolone intravenously before rituximab infusions, and antihistamine (category Ib); this is particularly indicated before the first infusion and should also be given before the second infusion of each cycle, although the indication may not be as strong in the second infusion.13,33 Paracetamol and antihistamines may be required, but there is no evidence from the trials on patients with rheumatoid arthritis that antihistamines should be used systematically, although they have been used for premedication in all clinical trials on rheumatoid arthritis.
Evaluation of response
Routine rheumatological assessments should be performed at baseline and periodically according to the national standards of care for therapies with biological agents and MTX. Response to rituximab should be assessed by validated response criteria, including numerical evaluation of the number of tender and swollen joints (eg, using the DAS28, SDAI or CDAI) and an acute-phase response (eg, erythrocyte sedimentation rate or C reactive protein level, or both). Other appropriate measurements include, for example, patient’s or physician’s global assessments (visual analogue scale or five-point scale), pain assessment (100 mm visual analogue scale) and functional assessment (Health Assessment Questionnaire). As a guideline to treatment, we suggest a response in the DAS28 score of ⩾1.2 or equivalent measure should be regarded as a minimum improvement. A low disease activity range (DAS28 ⩽3.2, SDAI <11 or Clinical Disease Activity Index (CDAI) <10) and a maximisation of functional ability and quality of life should be the target for the rheumatologist to aim for with regard to a desirable disease state2 (category C). In most patients, a response is usually seen by 16 weeks after the first infusion12–14 (category Ia). It should be noted, however, that the intravenous glucocorticoid premedication will produce an early, albeit usually a transient, response before 8 weeks. It is important that this is communicated to the patients.
Rituximab usually leads to rapid B cell depletion (category Ia); however, presently, the value of routine monitoring of B cell counts, or immunoglobulin levels, is not proved.
Considerations for repeated treatment
At present, the only evidence of efficacy of repeated treatment comes from studies on patients who had a prior response to rituximab with subsequent loss of effect. A patient should be regarded as a responder if the response criteria are met after an observation period of at least 16 weeks from the initiation of treatment according to the recommended dosing schedule. There is an association between loss of response and return of B cells, although B cell levels usually remain below levels at baseline at the time of loss of response12 (category III).13
Repeated treatment should be considered, after at least 24 weeks (category IV), in responders who have considerable residual disease activity or who deteriorate clinically after having initially responded. Moderate disease activity (DAS28 >3.2, CDAI >10 or SDAI >11)2 is considered by the authors to be significant residual disease activity. Clinical deterioration has not been formally defined. However, a deterioration in the clinical status, such as an increase in DAS28 of ⩾0.6 or an equivalent change in disease activity, is considered as a clinically relevant deterioration. In patients who had experienced a loss of their response, repeated treatment was given with an interval of ⩾24 weeks from the initial course of rituximab15,34 (category III). The optimal repeated treatment schedule is being investigated. In the repeated treatment studies, responding patients, especially those who reach low disease activity, were not treated again until clinical deterioration, which is usually experienced at 6–12 months after the initial infusion15 (category III). Although data have limitations, repeated treatment has usually resulted in responses similar to that of initial treatment. No data are currently available on repeated treatment in patients who failed to respond to the initial course.
Treatment with TNF blockers in rituximab non-responders
TNF blockers have been used in a limited number of patients who did not respond to rituximab and who continued to have B cell counts below normal35 (category IV). A numerical increase in serious infections was observed. In this study, TNF blockers were initiated usually at least 4 months after rituximab (when insufficient treatment response would be judged). Therefore, careful consideration of the individual risk–benefit ratio is mandatory in the context of a potential carry-over effect of the previous rituximab treatment. Further data are needed. Likewise, the safety of using abatacept or anakinra before or after rituximab needs to be established.
Contraindications to rituximab include hypersensitivity to rituximab or other murine proteins, active severe infections and severe heart failure (New York Heart Association class IV; http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/index.cfm,http://www.emea.eu.int/humandocs/Humans/EPAR/mabthera/mabthera.htm).17 In non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, contraindications have been restricted to hypersensitivity to components of this product or murine proteins. Patients with active infections (acute or chronic) should not be treated with rituximab. Safety in children has not been established.
The tolerability and safety of rituximab has been well described in the clinical trials on patients with rheumatoid arthritis and review articles on non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma12 (category III).8,13,14 The most frequent adverse events are infusion reactions (30–35% with the first infusion with concomitant glucocorticoids). Fewer reactions are observed with the second infusion12 (category Ib).13,14 They are usually mild to moderate, but may require therapeutic intervention (additional paracetamol, antihistamines, bronchodilators, eventually glucocorticoids). Severe infusion reactions are uncommon. Their frequency is reduced by the use of concomitant intravenous steroids as recommended for rheumatoid arthritis, and only rarely lead to withdrawal from treatment (category III; http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/index.cfm,http://www.emea.eu.int/humandocs/Humans/EPAR/mabthera/mabthera.htm).12–14,17
In the clinical trials carried out on patients with rheumatoid arthritis to date, a small increase was seen in serious infections (but not opportunist infections, including tuberculosis) in patients receiving rituximab at 2×1000 mg compared with those receiving placebo: 4.7/100 v 3.2 patient-years in the DANCER study and 5.2/100 v 3.7 patient-years in the REFLEX study12,13 (category III). Currently, no available data suggest an increased risk of opportunist infections (including tuberculosis) in either populations, with rheumatoid arthritis or lymphoma7 (category III),8 with the exception of individuals with T cell deficiency in HIV infection36 (category III). Table 4 lists the more frequent (⩾1%) adverse events.
Adverse events observed in ⩾1% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis
In the oncology literature, late-onset neutrocytopenia has been reported in 8% of patients treated with rituximab monotherapy and combination treatment and may occur up to 1 year after treatment37 (category III); this required treatment with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor in some patients.
To date, there have been no safety signals regarding malignancies; however, with respect to rheumatoid arthritis, larger databases on safety data are required before any firm conclusions can be drawn.
As rituximab is a chimeric antibody, human antichimeric antibodies (HACAs) may occur and have been reported in as many as 9.2% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (see http://www.emea.eu.int/humandocs/Humans/EPAR/mabthera/mabthera.htm).14,17 However, although adverse events related to HACA are rare, a case of a severe allergic reaction was reported in which HACAs apparently prevented B cell depletion17 (category IV).
The currently available data are derived from short-term studies and, therefore, long-term safety of repeated courses of rituximab needs to be established.
ADDITIONAL ASPECTS TO BE CONSIDERED AND RESEARCH AGENDA
Rituximab might be considered before TNF blockers when there are contraindications to TNF-blocking treatments5 (category IV), especially a history of B cell lymphoma where rituximab, on the basis of its prior licensed indication, could be viewed a treatment of choice. Although more data are needed on the safety of rituximab in patients with milder forms of congestive heart failure (New York Heart Association classes I–III), demyelinating disorders or opportunist infections, the efficacy of rituximab in individual patients with multiple sclerosis suggests a potential for its applicability under such conditions8,38 (category IV).
In addition to rheumatoid arthritis, rituximab might have a therapeutic role in patients with vasculitis, connective tissue diseases and other autoimmune conditions39,40 (category IV). Similar considerations apply to patients with rheumatoid arthritis with concomitant vasculitis and overlap syndrome.
No available data suggest that intercurrent events, such as new-onset malignancies, infections or surgery should be handled differently than under other circumstances of immunosuppression. Also, no data are available suggesting that previous malignancies are reactivated, have a poorer prognosis or are induced by rituximab. Further studies are required for the same.
Although a few patients have become pregnant in the context of rituximab therapy, and have had apparently normal pregnancies41 (category IV), much more data are required before safety recommendations for pregnancy can be produced, and until that time contraception is recommended. Rituximab should also be avoided in lactating women until safety data are available (http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/index.cfm,http://www.emea.eu.int/humandocs/Humans/EPAR/mabthera/mabthera.htm).17
In the context of glucocorticoid use with rituximab, adverse events due to glucocorticoids need to be considered.
Further data are warranted on the optimal dose, the interval between treatment courses and safety issues associated with multiple repeat treatments. Studies to answer the question of the relative merits of rituximab over another TNF inhibitor or an alternative biological agent in patients who have not responded to one TNF blocker are justified. More data on the combinations of rituximab with DMARDs other than MTX are needed, as many patients do not tolerate MTX.
No data are available on treatment with rituximab in early rheumatoid arthritis; this is currently being studied. In addition, exploration of rituximab as an induction regimen and as a drug before the use of TNF inhibitors should be undertaken.
Points to consider for treatment with rituximab
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with inadequate response to (or intolerance of) tumour necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors
– Active RA (at least moderate disease activity)
Possibly: RA with contraindication to TNF inhibitors (especially lymphoma) and inadequate response to disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs such as methotrexate (MTX)
Pretreatment screening
History and physical examination
– Consider possible contraindications
– Consider radiograph of the chest
Routine laboratory testing
Immunoglobulin levels
Testing for hepatitis B
Two 1000 mg intravenous infusions separated by 2 weeks
– 100 mg intravenous methylprednisolone or equivalent before infusions
Weekly MTX to increase efficacy
Evaluation and definition of response
Validated composite indices to assess response
Minimum improvement of 28-joint Disease Activity Score (DAS28) of ⩾1.2 or equivalent measure
– Aim for low disease activity state (DAS28 <3.2, simplified disease activity index (SDAI) ⩽11, Clinical disease activity index (CDAI) ⩽10) or remission (DAS28 ⩽2.6, SDAI ⩽3.3 or CDAI ⩽2.8)
– Aim for improvement in function and quality of life; minimum response is usually achieved in 16 weeks
Repeated treatment
Should be considered in responders after week 24
– Residual active disease (at least moderate disease activity, ie, DAS28 ⩾3.2, SDAI >11, CDAI >10)
– Reactivation of disease from low disease activity (increase in DAS28 of ⩾0.6 or equivalent)
Adverse events in RA
Infusion reactions (30–35% after the first infusion; less with the second infusion)
– Severe infusion reactions may occur but are rare
Slight increase in infections
– Opportunist infections (including tuberculosis) not reported to date in RA
Additional adverse events have been reported in the oncology literature but not in RA to date
Allergy to rituximab
Clinically relevant comorbidities, including active infections and severe heart failure (New York Heart Association class IV)
Treatment with rituximab should be included in long-term registries of biological agents. In addition to other benefits, such registries generate information on the long-term effectiveness of single courses (durability of response), and the safety and effectiveness of multiple courses of rituximab. Identification of predictors of response to treatment should be investigated. Pharmacoeconomic analyses are warranted.
Further analyses are needed to identify biomarkers of response, and indicators for re-treatment, such as B cells or B cell subsets (in peripheral blood or tissues), and levels of C reactive protein, B cell-activating factor and rheumatoid factor.
In the context of this research agenda and when information on rituximab in the treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis has accrued, an update of this consensus statement will be considered.
Rituximab, currently in combination with MTX, is a new therapeutic option for treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, particularly patients who have previously not responded to TNF blockers. It constitutes a major advance in the therapeutic armamentarium for patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Like other biological agents, rituximab does not cure the rheumatoid arthritis and the disease relapses after varying periods of time after response to treatment, requiring re-treatment. How the dose and dosing interval may be adapted during long-term treatment with rituximab has not yet been established. This and other questions clearly have to be included in a future research agenda. Box 1 provides a brief summary (points to consider) of this consensus statement. The group was aware that healthcare systems differ widely between countries. This consensus and opinion of experts should therefore be regarded only as a general framework for the initiation and continuation of rituximab for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, from which specific conclusions that fit the situations in individual countries better can be derived for the benefit of the patients.
Drossaers-Bakker KW, de Buck M, van Zeben D, Zwinderman AH, Breedveld FC, Hazes JM. Long-term course and outcome of functional capacity in rheumatoid arthritis: the effect of disease activity and radiologic damage over time. Arthritis Rheum1999;42:1854–60.
Aletaha D, Smolen JS. The definition and measurement of disease modification in inflammatory rheumatic diseases. Rheum Dis Clin North Am2006;32:9–44.
Emery P. Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. BMJ2006;332:152–5.
Combe B, Landewe R, Lukas C, Bolosiu HD, Breedveld FC, Dougados M, et al. EULAR recommendations for the management of early arthritis: report of a task force of the European Standing Committee for International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutics (ESCISIT). Ann Rheum Dis. 2006. Published Online First: 5 January 2006, doi: 10.1136/ard.2005.044354.
Furst DE, Breedveld FC, Kalden JR, Smolen JS, Burmester GR, Bijlsma JW, et al. Updated consensus statement on biological agents, specifically tumour necrosis factor (alpha) (TNF(alpha)) blocking agents and interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra), for the treatment of rheumatic diseases, 2005. Ann Rheum Dis2005;64:iv2–14.
Smolen JS, Breedveld FC, Burmester GR, Combe B, Emery P, Kalden JR, et al. Consensus statement on the initiation and continuation of tumour necrosis factor blocking therapies in rheumatoid arthritis. Ann Rheum Dis2000;59:504–5.
Hainsworth JD. Safety of rituximab in the treatment of B cell malignancies: implications for rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Res Ther2003;5:S12–16.
Kimby E. Tolerability and safety of rituximab (MabThera). Cancer Treat Rev2005;31:456–73.
Kunkel L, Wong A, Maneatis T, NIckas J, Brown T, Grillo-Lopez A, et al. Optimizing the use of rituximab for treatment of B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma: a benefit-risk update. Semin Oncol2000;27:53–61.
The AGREE Collaboration. Development and validation of an international appraisal instrument for assessing the quality of clinical practice guidelines: the AGREE project. Qual Saf Health Care2003;12:18–23.
Shekelle PG, Woolf SH, Eccles M, Grimshaw J. Clinical guidelines: developing guidelines. BMJ1999;318:593–6.
Cohen S, Emery P, Greenwald M, Dougados M, Furie R, Genovese M, et al. Rituximab for rheumatoid arthritis refractory to anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy. Arthritis Rheum2006;54:2739–806.
Emery P, Fleischmann R, Filipowicz-Sosnowska A, Schechtman J, Szczepanski L, Kavanaugh A, et al. The efficacy and safety of rituximab in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis despite methotrexate treatment: results of a phase IIb double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-ranging trial (DANCER). Arthritis Rheum2006;54:1390–400.
Edwards JC, Szczepanski L, Szechinski J, Filipowicz-Sosnowska A, Emery P, Close DR, et al. Efficacy of B-cell-targeted therapy with rituximab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. N Engl J Med2004;350:2572–81.
van Vollenhoven RF, Cohen S, Pavelka K, Kavanaugh A, Tak PP, Greenwald M, et al. Response to rituximab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis is maintained by repeat therapy: results of an open-label trial [abstract]. Ann Rheum Dis2006;65:SAT0197.
Keystone E, Emery P, Peterfy CD, Tak PP, Cohen S, Genovese M, et al. Prevention of joint structural damage at 1 year with rituximab in rheumatoid arthritis patients with an inadequate response to one or more TNF inhibitors (REFLEX Study) [abstract]. Ann Rheum Dis2006;65:58.
Rituximab. Full prescribing information. 2006. http://www.gene.com/gene/products/information/oncology/rituxan/insert.jsp (accessed 4 Nov 2006).
Yocum D, Rahman MU, Han C, Bala M, Han J, Westhovens R. Infliximab induces disease remission in patients with rheumatoid artrhritis: results from START clinical trial [abstract]. Arthritis Rheum2005;52:S140.
Aletaha D, Ward MM, Machold KP, Nell VPK, Stamm T, Smolen JS. Remission and active disease in rheumatoid arthritis: defining criteria for disease activity states. Arthritis Rheum2005;52:2625–36.
van der Heijde D, Klareskog L, Boers M, Landewe R, Codreanu C, Bolosiu HD, et al. Comparison of different definitions to classify remission and sustained remission: 1 year TEMPO results. Ann Rheum Dis2005;64:1582–7.
van Riel PL, van Gestel AM. Clinical outcome measures in rheumatoid arthritis. Ann Rheum Dis2000;59:i28–31.
Carr A, Hewlett S, Hughes R, Mitchell H, Ryan S, Carr M, et al. Rheumatology outcomes: the patient’s perspective. J Rheumatol2003;30:880–3.
Goekoop-Ruiterman YP, De Vries-Bouwstra JK, Allaart CF, Van Zeben D, Kerstens PJ, Hazes JM, et al. Clinical and radiographic outcomes of four different treatment strategies in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (the BeSt Study): a randomized, controlled trial. Arthritis Rheum2005;52:3381–90.
Grigor C, Capell H, Stirling A, McMahon AD, Lock P, Vallance R, et al. Effect of a treatment strategy of tight control for rheumatoid arthritis (the TICORA Study): a single-blind randomised controlled trial. Lancet2004;364:263–9.
Lempp H, Scott DL, Kingsley GH. Patients’ views on the quality of health care for rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2006. Published Online First 21 April 2006. doi: 10, 1093/rheumatology/kel132.
Ramose-Casals M, Lopez-Guillermo A, Brito-Zeron P, Cervera R, Font J, SS-HCV Study Group. Treatment of B-cell lymphoma with rituximab in two patients with Sjogren’s syndrome associated with hepatitis C virus infection. Lupus2004;13:969–71.
Yeo W, Johnson PJ. Diagnosis, prevention and management of hepatitis B virus reactivation during anticancer therapy. Hepatology2006;43:209–20.
Skrabs C, Muller C, Agis H, Mannhalter C, Jager U. Treatment of HBV-carrying lymphoma patients with rituximab and CHOP: a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Leukemia2002;16:1884–6.
Hamaki T, Kami M, Kusumi E, Ueyama J, Miyakoshi S, Morinaga S, et al. Prophylaxis of hepatitis B reactivation using lamivudine in a patient receiving rituximab. Am J Hematol2001;68:292–4.
Boue F, Gabarre J, Gisselbrecht C, Reynes J, Cheret A, Bonnet F, et al. Phase II trial of CHOP plus rituximab in patients with HIV-associated non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. J Clin Oncol2006;24:4123–8.
Bermudez A, Marco F, Conde E, Mazo E, Recio M, Zubizarreta A. Fatal visceral varicella-zoster infection following rituximab and chemotherapy treatment in a patient with follicular lymphoma. Haematologica2000;85:894–5.
Emery P, Furst DE, Ferracioli G, Udell J, van Vollenhoven RF, Rowe K, et al. Long-term efficacy and safety of a repeat treatment course of rituximab in RA patients with an inadequate response to disease modifying antirheumatic drugs [abstract]. Ann Rheum Dis2006;65 (Suppl 1) :OP0017.
van der Kolk LE, Grillo-Lopez AJ, Baars JW, van Oers MH. Treatment of relapsed B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma with a combination of chimeric anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies (rituximab) and G-CSF: final report on safety and efficacy. Leukemia2003;17:1658–64.
Keystone E, Fleischmann R, Emery P, Chubick A, Dougados M, Baldassare AR, et al. Long-term efficacy and safety of a repeat treatment course of rituximab in rheumatoid arthritis in patients with an inadequate response to one or more TNF inhibitors [abstract]. Ann Rheum Dis2006;65 (Suppl 1) :FRI0125.
Breedveld FC, Kim D, Agarwal S, Cooper S, Burke L, Matteson EL, et al. Safety of TNF inhibitors in rheumatoid arthritis patients previously treated with rituximab [abstract]. Ann Rheum Dis2006;65 (Suppl 1) :THU0206.
Spina M, Jaeger U, Sparano JA, Talamini R, Simonelli C, Michieli M, et al. Rituximab plus infusional cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and etoposide in HIV-associated non-Hodgkin lymphoma: pooled results from 3 phase 2 trials. Blood2005;105:1891–7.
Dunleavy K, Hakim F, Kim HK, Janik JE, Grant N, Nakayama T, et al. B-cell recovery following rituximab-based therapy is associated with perturbations in stromal derived factor-1 and granulocyte homeostasis. Blood2005;106:795–802.
Stuve O, Cepok S, Elias B, Saleh A, Hartung HP, Hemmer B, et al. Clinical stabilization and effective B-lymphocyte depletion in the cerebrospinal fluid and peripheral blood of a patient with fulminant relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Arch Neurol2005;62:1620–3.
Looney RJ. B cells as a therapeutic target in autoimmune diseases other than rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatology2005;44:ii13–17.
Looney RJ. Treating human autoimmune disease by depleting B-cells. Ann Rheum Dis2002;61:863–6.
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Published Online First 20 December 2006
Competing interests: The views expressed in this guidance document including the final recommendations were not influenced by the sponsor and no representative of the sponsor was present in any of the discussion sessions. However, the guidance document was developed with the help of an unrestricted educational grant and all participants except the patient representative have been active on advisory boards or participated in clinical trials by the sponsor.
Members of the Working Group on the Rituximab Consensus Statement: Jordi Carbonell, Bernard Combe, Maurizio Cutolo, Thomas Dörner, Angela Gause, Juan Gomez-Reino, Carlos Gonzales Fernandes, John D Isaacs, José Luis Marenco, Xavier Mariette, Marco Matucci-Cerinic, Carlo-Maurizio Montecucco, Hubert Nüßlein, Mikkel Østergaard, Eliseo Pascual, Piet van Riel, Andrea Rubbert, Raimon Sanmarti, Zoltan Sekanecz, Paul-Peter Tak, Hans-Peter Tony, Gabriele Valentini, Guido Valesini.
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About Tony Calzetta
About Gabrielle de Montmollin
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For the latest installment of our ongoing series of Artists You Need to Know About, we’re showcasing a painter whose work is nearby, in the Art Gallery of Hamilton collection. Attila Richard Lukacs has helped redefine painting, not just in Canada but internationally. His work is often as rousing (or perhaps arousing) as it is well painted, with subject matter that is both contemporary but also richly imbued with references and allusions to the history of Western painting.
Glamour Crew, 1993
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Attila Richard Lukacs, 1991
1-800-MIKE, dyptych, 1989
Where the Finest Young Men.... (detail), 1987
Arthur, 1998
Young Spartans Challenge the Boys To Fight, 1988
Perhaps best known for his E – Werk series, ‘Lukacs is critically acclaimed for his artistic melding of high and low culture. His paintings demonstrate technical precision and borrow from diverse art historical styles, often returning to neo-classicism or renaissance realism. Lukacs has spent time living and working in Vancouver, Berlin, New York and Hawaii.’ (from McCauley & Co Fine Art). More information about his provocatively beautiful practice can be found at the National Gallery of Canada, several excellent articles at the Canadian Art web site and some newer works that show Lukacs still has an eye for employing motifs and ‘characters’ from the everyday to unsettle and simultaneously engage the viewer.
Coo coo ka-choo, Mr. Robinson, 1999
Seven Devils Dead, 2008
The lazy kunstler, and the well travelled monkey, 1995
Volker Seding
Rose Wylie
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York Castle Museum
The York Castle Museum was founded by Dr John Kirk, a doctor from Pickering, North Yorkshire, and houses his extraordinary collection of social history, reflecting everyday life in the county.
One of its renowned displays is the reconstructed street, Kirkgate, that has been hugely influential in museum displays worldwide. The York Castle Museum is housed in a former debtors’ prison and an adjoining former women’s prison, both of which are Grade I listed. The museum’s name comes from the fact it stands on the site of the former York Castle.
Online Exhibit
A History of Shaping the Body
Object in focus: Georgian Wedding Dress
Iron Stays
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Volvo Keeps Increasing Plug-In Car Sales Share: Now At 16.4% YTD
12/04/2020 mediabest Car Reviews
The Swedish brand already sold more than 95,000 plug-in cars so far this year, mostly in Europe.
Volvo Cars announced that the share of Recharge models (plug-ins) more than doubled in the first eleven months of 2020, compared with the same period last year, to 16.4% of global sales.
As the overall sales during the period stand at 582,977 (down 8% year-over-year), the plug-in car sales must be at over 95,600. That’s almost 50,000 more than in all of2019 and we still have one month to go.
The interesting thing is that the Swedish brand sells most of its plug-ins in Europe, where the share of Recharge models is 27.8% or close to 70,700. It’s nearly 74% of the total plug-in car sales. The remaining 24,900 falls mostly on North America and China.
There are no details about the deliveries of the all-new, all-electric Volvo XC40 Recharge, which is the only BEV model in the lineup. We guess soon it will add some volume as the production started about two months ago.
The positive news is that aside from Europe, Volvo sales improved in November.
Volvo Cars detailed results:
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STRIM, On Demand Video Streaming Platform Announces Crowdsale
Bitcoin Press Release: The peer-to-peer on-demand video streaming and sensor mining platform has announced the dates for its upcoming crowdsale.
September 18, 2017, Bucharest, Romania – STRIM Network, an innovative decentralized platform that allows peer-to-peer video streaming and sensor data gathering through IoT devices is offering its tokens for sale starting October 5, 2017, at 22:00 GMT. The crowdsale will allow participants to purchase STR tokens against ETH payments.
Built over Ethereum blockchain, STRIM aims to be the first decentralized live peer-to-peer video streaming network that will incorporate the location of the users as part of the contract. The network allows users of internet-connected devices to provide live video services to anyone who requests a stream from a particular location. The location can be anywhere in the world as long as the user has internet connectivity (cell phone service, landline, wireless, etc.) and can offer video streaming or sensor data from their devices. For their services, the streamer will be paid in STRIM tokens the price that has been negotiated with the requester.
By enabling decentralized live P2P video, STRIM will provide several advantages over the classic live video services currently available in the market. Compared to the existing services, the blockchain platform will be able to offer all the services at a lower cost for the end-user as the price is not fixed but negotiated by the two parties involved (bid-ask system). Not only does STRIM provide live access to one-time occurrences and feeds, but it also enables data mining from non-conventional devices such as IP cameras, air-quality sensors, noise levels, seismometers, and other IoTs. The platform allows secure collection of anonymous biometric data from different environments, provide remote troubleshooting and assistance services from anywhere in the world.
STRIM has also announced a partnership with decentralized cloud storage giant, Storj, allowing STRIM users to store their videos and data exclusively on Storj platform in the future. As a part of the crowdsale, the platform will be creating 279,544,500 STR tokens. Out of the total number of tokens, 186,544,500 STR will be available to the public at launch.
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The Evolution of Iron Man
May 6, 2019 May 6, 2019 / Brian K Cloar
*Warning – This post contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame – starting in the first paragraph.* (You really should have seen it by now).
With the latest installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the story of these heroes we have followed for the past 11 years comes full circle. But none so much as that of Iron Man. While not technically the first movie in this massive franchise (That would be The Incredible Hulk), Iron Man is the film that set it all in motion. Being the excellent storytellers they are, the writers at Marvel brought the series to an emotional close in this chapter – from the birth of Iron Man to, sadly, his death.
I grew up a Marvel kid. However, Iron Man was not really on the top of my hero list growing up. Tony Stark has always been more of a “grown-up” character. His struggles with daddy issues, women, and alcohol, thankfully, did not appeal to me as a child (well, maybe the daddy issues – but that’s a different post). My go-to, “good-over-evil” hero was Spider-Man. A superhero kid himself in brilliant colors and fun bad guys had me hooked.
Conversely, when I needed real action and some comic-friendly violence, Wolverine was my man. I subscribed to many of the different threads of each one of those guys and filled my room with their action figures, bookshelves, sheets, and everything else I could get my hands on. Iron Man was cool, he was still a key character in the greater Marvel Universe, and I’d pick up comics with him as a player often enough, but he was never my main guy.
Then 2008 came along and not only did Marvel change but so did my life. I lost everything after a very long fight to save that which I loved most in the world. It was a terrible conflict that cost me just about everything a person can lose. To say I nearly died fighting this battle is not overselling it. The trial that was this time of my life still haunts me to this day. (More on this in another post). I learned through this experience that loss can birth new life – if you are willing to learn from experiences. This transformation is precisely what created such a huge Iron Man fan in me. It was the evolution of Tony Stark, the change in his life that loss brought on, that revealed some needed truth in my life and changed the way I see myself.
2008’s Iron Man introduces us to Tony Stark, an arrogant, self-absorbed, careless, conceited, billionaire weapons developer and arms dealer on tour in Afghanistan to showcase his latest creations for the U.S. military stationed in the country. On his way, he finds himself escorted by a threesome of young, starstruck members of the military. However, their convoy is attacked, and Stark watches all three of these all-but teenagers die, and himself nearly with them, at the hands of his own technology by terrorists who were specifically targeting him.
One might think a scenario such as this alone would be enough to change a man. However, Tony is not finished watching people die at the hands of his weaponry. Stark is escorted to a cave where he meets fellow prisoner and scientist, Yinsen, who also loses his life as an indirect result of Tony’s life and choices. These deaths, up close and personal, set Tony Stark on a transformative journey unlike any other in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Yes, all the characters throughout the 22 movies grow and change, but none like Tony Stark.
The opening scenes of Iron Man give way to Tony giving up the profits-over-everything mentality and changing everything about himself and Stark Industries. The company becomes a producer of clean energy and Tony begins to use his tech to fight the bad guys he once armed. At the same time, he must deal with his own mortality as the technology keeping him alive is also killing him. His attempts to ignore these issues reveal to him his need for others and force him to confront his father’s legacy that has been killing him spiritually as much as the palladium has physically.
From here he is denied “membership” to the Avengers by Nick Fury. Once things get bad enough that he’s allowed to help, he gets an ego check through accepting he is not the leader of the Avengers. This acceptance does not come easy as he repeated knocks heads with Captian America along with the rest of the team. Tony had been a supplier of war all his life, but it took him actually being in one to make him realize he did not deserve to be the leader. Here he began to understand that others had things to offer he did not.
But these revelations are of no consolation when Tony finds himself alone, dealing with PTSD, and the only help he can find is a young boy with daddy issues of his own. Growing through this scenario sees Tony finally give up control, destroy his suits, and throw his arc reactor into the sea. However, Tony Stark is an addict, and giving up one addiction often leads to finding a new one. Now that he has given up protecting the world, he lets fear fully manifest itself, and he bullies Bruce Banner into creating Ultron to defend the earth.
The results are, disastrous and Tony’s guilt gets the best of him. For maybe the first time, Tony learns that actions have consequences. So, to clear his conscience, the man who once told the government they’d never have his tech becomes their poster boy. Turning his back on his friends to calm his own demons, Tony tries to mitigate this newly created guilt by mentoring young Peter Parker. Still struggling to admit his wrongs, he, like many of us, just moves on. Tony makes amends with Pepper Potts and, with Captian America out of the way, becomes the face of the Avengers once again. However, I would go out on a limb and say that Tony saw Peter as a possible way to rebuild the burned bridges between him and the friends he turned into fugitives one day.
By the time we get to Infinity War, Tony’s sentiments reveal that time has allowed him to get past the civil war between Steve Rogers and himself. He seems to be genuinely sad that he and Steve, “fell out hard.” While his relationship with Peter has grown, Peter’s rejection of Tony’s offer to join the Avengers may have been another wake-up call for Tony. Learning that his friends don’t need him as much as Tony needs them is part of his final transformation. Tony, once the ultimate loner who lived on the outskirts of life, now only desires to be surrounded by his friends.
Tony Stark began his journey believing everything began and ended with him, and if something happened to not fit that mold, he ignored it. Gaining a family, then losing it, helped Tony to realize how wrong he was about things – it tends to do that. Following the life of Tony Stark, his, “arc” if you will, we watch a self-centered man evolve from believing his life was the only one that mattered to sacrificing that life to literally save the world. While all the characters in the MCU change and grow over this Three-Phase adventure, none experience the transformation that Tony Stark encounters. Many of the Avengers began their journey as heroes. Tony had to suffer and experience loss, many times at his own hands, to understand that sometimes not wanting to be a hero is what makes a hero.
The evolution of Iron Man teaches us that it’s a long, and challenging, journey from child-like attitudes to being a hero. That Tony Stark’s walk through life mirrored Robert Downey Jr.’s so closely only made the character more relatable. It took Tony Stark 10 years to come out on the other side and RDJ even longer. There were ups and downs, and for every two steps he took forward, he sometimes took ten back. I think that gives us hope that maybe being a hero is about more than just saving the day and fighting bad guys. Sometimes is about just getting through the day and fighting your own demons. But if an alcoholic, self-entitled, jerk with daddy issues like Tony Stark can become the hero we got and the end of Endgame, perhaps there is hope for us too.
Maybe, I am Iron Man.
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Rylee Free on The Allure of Belonging to the Black Lives Matter Organization and How the Church Can Respond
“We intentionally build and nurture a beloved community that is bonded together through a beautiful struggle that is restorative.” Who is making this lovely promise? None other than Black Lives Matter (BLM), an organization that promises a place “where each person feels seen, heard, and supported.”
Why have so many people bought into the language of community from a self-professed Marxist organization? Sociologist Robert Nisbet asked the same question in his 1953 book The Quest for Community, at the height of the communist regime in the Soviet Union: Why were so many people attracted to Marxism? Nisbet’s theory was that it was precisely because so many Westerners had embraced individualism — which, ironically, set them up to be drawn in by a collectivist vision of society.
How did individualism come to have such a counter-intuitive effect? Ever since the rise of the modern age, leading Western thinkers have accepted what is known as social contract theory. First proposed by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, social contract theory fundamentally changed the way people in the West thought about relationships. These early social thinkers aspired to be “scientific,” so they based their social theories on Newtonian physics, which views the material universe as a collection of atoms bumping around in the void under the forces of attraction and repulsion. Applied to the social world, social contract theory pictured humans as individual “atoms” that entered and exited relationships at will.
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According to social contract theory, we are highly autonomous individuals whose highest aim is self-preservation. Social contract theorists proposed that prior to the rise of civilization, humans existed in a “pre-social” condition. Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau regarded all relationships — familial, civil, and religious — as contracts we enter into, not something intrinsic to human nature: Relationships are something that we create and define. As a result, all relationships start to look more like a contractual exchange of goods and services, rather than innate connections.
The goal of redefining all relationships in terms of contracts was always phrased in the context of liberation. Relationships, rather than being primary, become secondary and derivative, something we create by choice. While social contract theory promised freedom for the individual from any biological or social bonds to other people, it ultimately led to lonely people, lacking any sense of belonging. Robert Nisbet put it this way: “Release man from the contexts of community and you get not freedom and rights but intolerable aloneness.”
As social contract theory percolated down through American society, families, church communities, neighborhoods, and other smaller communal groups weakened and began to break down. With this disintegration came the loss of spheres of influence that give people a sense of identity and belonging, apart from the state. Nisbet notes, “Individualism has resulted in masses of normless, unattached, insecure individuals.” Individuals, increasingly alienated from the community, are drawn to the state in hopes of finding community and a causes larger than themselves. People seek from the state a source of community that transcends them, with which they can identify and belong.
For disillusioned, isolated people, Marxism offers the salvation of community. Nisbet observes, “To a large number of human beings Marxism offers status, belonging, membership, and a coherent moral perspective.” Because Marxism offers a comprehensive worldview, it is attractive to the isolated individual despite its demonstrated totalitarian nature. Historically, Marxism has always led to a despotic authority — whether it be in the Soviet Union, Cuba, or Venezuela. As Hannah Arendt points out in her book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, it is isolated individuals who are most vulnerable to totalitarianism, because they lack identity within a social group.
No wonder Marx called for the abolition of the family. He knew that deconstructing the family was the main way to draw people to the totalitarian state. Totalitarianism was not just imposed on people. People themselves gravitated to it because of the natural longing for community.
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Saudi princes are split over peace deal recognising Israel as Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman ‘favours closer ties’ with historic enemy
Saudi Arabia’s ruling princes split over whether sign a peace deal with Israel
Israel is now recognised by countries including the UAE, Bahrain and Morroco
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is said to be in favour of signing a deal
His cousin criticised Israel as the Middle East’s ‘last western colonising power
Saudi princes are split over a peace deal that would recognise Israel as Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is said to favour closer ties with the country’s historic enemy.
Nearby countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco have all recognised Israel as a county.
So far Saudi Arabia has not followed suit, but talks are between the two countries are thought to have happened as recently as November.
Israeli state media said prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to the Gulf kingdom to meet with Mohammed bin Salman last month, but Saudi Arabia denied the claim.
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is said to be open to recognising Israel, prompting criticism from his cousin
The Crown Prince is said to be open to a deal, but it has invoked open criticism from his cousin, Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former head of intelligence.
Speaking earlier this month, Prince Turki described the country as the ‘last western colonising power in the Middle East,’ adding: ‘It is Israel that has occupied neighbouring Arab lands, not the reverse.’
He accused Israel of depicting itself as a ‘small, existentially threatened country, surrounded by bloodthirsty killers who want to eradicate her from existence’.
‘And yet they profess that they want to be friends with Saudi Arabia,’ he said.
He also outlined a history of forcible eviction of Palestinians and destroyed villages.
Prince Turki al-Faisal has been vocal in his opposition to recognising Israel, describing it as the ‘last western colonising power in the Middle East’
Palestinians were held ‘in concentration camps under the flimsiest of security accusations – young and old, women and men, who are rotting there without recourse to justice,’ he said.
Prince Turki made the comments alongside Israeli and Bahraini foreign ministers.
The Arab Peace initiative, negotiated in 2002, states that the Arab League will recognise Israel if a Palestinian state is established.
Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is thought to have flown to Saudi Arabia last months amid growing talks between the countries
Deals dubbed the Abraham Accords, helped over the line by the Trump administration, helped normalise relations between between Israel and the UAE and Bahrain.
The deal was welcomed in the US, as it looked to unite its allies in the Middle East while tensions grow with Iran.
Tensions are said to be growing between Saudi Arabia and Palestine, as another senior royal cousin, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, said: ‘We are at our limits with those people.
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Home Around Town Making Plans for the Reading Blues Festival
Making Plans for the Reading Blues Festival
by Sue Wilson
As a blues singer, songwriter and record producer, B.B. King once said, “Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.”
Blues fans new and old can enjoy some of said “tonic” during the Reading Blues Festival Nov. 22 to 24.
Now in its third year, the Reading Blues Fest is a project of the Berks Arts Council. And while the event hasn’t been around for long, it has made a big impact on our county, providing the local community and surrounding areas with a variety of shows to enjoy before the holiday season begins. Both national and local artists are featured over the three-day event.
During the festival, events typically kick off as early as 10am; the final concert is at 3:30pm on Nov. 24.
Attendees will receive a special treat, as this year’s festival features a diverse group of artists, including The Nick Moss Band, with Dennis Gruenling and The Berks Horns; Albert Castiglia; Christone “Kingfish” Ingram; Vanessa Collier; Mindi Abair & The Boneshakers; Victor Wainwright & The Train; The Deanna Bogart Band; Toronzo Cannon; Rick Estrin & The Nightcats; John Primer; and Rob Paparozzi & The Ed Palermo Big Band with special guest Robben Ford.
Local artists include The Bluesmasters, featuring Bennie Sims, Cliff Starkey and Erich Cawalia; Dave Hinkel & The Crew; John King Dance Band; Airshow; James Supra & Sarah Ayers Quartet; Dave Mell Blues Band; and Drew & The Blue.
While most of this event takes place throughout the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Reading, numerous local event partners will be hosting blues artists in their establishments on Friday and Saturday, including Jimmie Kramer’s Peanut Bar Restaurant, Judy’s on Cherry, Speckled Hen Cottage Pub & Alehouse, Gracie’s 21st Century Café, Cheers Lounge at the DoubleTree; Mimmo’s Restaurant and Pizzeria, Goodnites at the Crowne Plaza Reading, and more.
Proceeds from the Fest support a more vibrant arts community and help the Berks Arts Council promote their mission “to cultivate, promote, and support the arts in the community through collaboration, education and presentation.”
There are two options for tickets. Attendees can purchase a VIP All-Event ticket for $180 (limited quantity available) — which includes preferred theater-style seating for all the major concerts at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Reading Grand Ballroom, a VIP lanyard, a 50 percent discount coupon for festival merchandise, a subscription to Blues Music Magazine, and a Reading Blues Fest goodie bag — or a single all-day ticket, which costs $59 for Friday, $89 for Saturday, or $69 for Sunday. Individual concert tickets are not for sale. ν
Two Blues Film Screenings will be featured in the DoubleTree Amphitheater during the weekend:
Saturday at 10am
Horn from the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story.
The film will be followed by a concert celebrating the music of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band at 2pm in the DoubleTree Grand Ballroom, played by Rob Paparozzi & The Ed Palermo Big Band, featuring special guest Robben Ford.
Sunday at 10am
Satan and Adam
Hosted by Michael Cloreon.
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Insolvency proceedings may be opened for a sole trader (auto-entrepreneur).
Safeguard proceedings can only be opened for a person pursuing an economic activity. In the case of judicial reorganisation or judicial liquidation, the person may already have ceased activity at the time the proceedings are opened.
Private law entities for which insolvency proceedings can be opened include commercial companies, non-commercial companies, economic interest groups, associations, trade unions, professional or trade associations and works councils.
Insolvency proceedings cannot be opened for private law groupings without legal personality such as joint ventures or companies in the course of incorporation.
All legal persons governed by public law are also excluded.
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A debtor may have recourse to accelerated safeguard proceedings (procédure de sauvegarde accélérée) or to accelerated financial safeguard proceedings (procédure de sauvegarde financière accélérée) if his accounts have been certified by an auditor or were drawn up by an accountant and if he has a workforce of more than 20 employees or turnover excluding taxes of more than EUR 3 million or a total balance sheet of more than EUR 1.5 million. Accelerated safeguard and accelerated financial safeguard proceedings are also open to debtors who have drawn up consolidated accounts.
Safeguard proceedings are opened if the debtor is experiencing insurmountable difficulties but has not yet reached the stage of cessation of payments.
Judicial reorganisation proceedings are opened if the debtor is unable to meet his current liabilities with his available funds and has reached the stage of cessation of payments.
Judicial reorganisation aims to maintain business activity and jobs and to clear liabilities. The business manager must request this procedure within 45 days of cessation of payments.
Judicial liquidation proceedings are opened when the business has reached the stage of cessation of payments and when judicial reorganisation is clearly impossible.
Only the debtor can request the opening of safeguard proceedings.
In contrast, the opening of judicial reorganisation or judicial liquidation proceedings can be requested not only by the debtor, but also by a creditor or by the public prosecutor, on condition that conciliation proceedings (procédure de conciliation – pre-insolvency proceedings) are not in progress.
The judgment opening insolvency proceedings takes effect from the judgment date, i.e. at zero hours on its date of issue.
The debtor is notified of the opening judgment within eight days of its date and is communicated to the insolvency practitioners and to the public prosecutor’s office, including in the other Member States where the debtor has an establishment.
The judgment takes effect immediately in relation to all.
Within fifteen days of its date of issue, the opening judgment is entered in the commercial and company register, the trade register or in a special register kept at the registry of the regional court.
An extract from the judgment is inserted in the Bodacc (official bulletin of civil and commercial announcements) and in a register of legal notices of the place of the debtor’s registered office or business address.
Accelerated safeguard and accelerated financial safeguard proceedings also exist.
Accelerated safeguard proceedings can be opened at the request of a debtor who has entered into conciliation proceedings and who provides evidence of having drawn up a draft plan to ensure the continued existence of the business.
The fact that the debtor has ceased payments does not constitute an obstacle to opening accelerated safeguard proceedings, provided that this situation does not predate the request to open conciliation proceedings by more than 45 days.
Accelerated financial safeguard proceedings can be opened under the same conditions as those of accelerated safeguard proceedings and where the debtor’s accounts show that his debt allows the adoption of a plan solely by the creditors who are members of the credit institutions committee.
The insolvency proceedings cover all the debtor’s assets.
In the case of a legal person, only that person’s assets are involved.
If the debtor is an individual entrepreneur, his personal assets are also involved.
However, the principal residence of an individual entrepreneur exercising a commercial, industrial, craft or agricultural activity or liberal profession is exempt from attachment by professional creditors by law.
Other land and buildings not used for business purposes may be the subject of a declaration of exemption from attachment. This declaration, which must be notarised and published, has effect only in relation to professional creditors whose claims arise after publication.
Exemption from attachment of the debtor’s principal residence by professional creditors serves to protect the debtor and his family.
Disinvestment of the debtor
Safeguard and judicial reorganisation
Where safeguard or judicial reorganisation proceedings are opened, the debtor is not disinvested and continues to manage his business.
Under safeguard proceedings, the court may appoint an administrator to supervise or assist the debtor in his business management, according to the mandate defined by the court in the judgment. In certain cases (businesses with at least 20 employees and turnover excluding taxes of at least EUR 3 million) that appointment is compulsory.
Under judicial reorganisation proceedings, the court may also appoint an administrator (administrateur judiciaire) who will assist the debtor in his management or manage the business himself, in whole or in part, in place of the debtor. That appointment is compulsory in the same cases as in safeguard proceedings.
Judicial liquidation
In the case of judicial liquidation proceedings, the debtor is divested of the administration and disposal of his assets. The liquidator (liquidateur) exercises his rights and performs actions in relation to his business assets. The liquidator therefore undertakes the administration of his assets.
Insolvency practitioners are court-appointed representatives placed under the supervision of the public prosecutor’s office and are members of regulated professions.
These specialised professionals must be entered on national lists and meet strict conditions as to suitability and good character.
Persons not entered on these lists, but with particular experience or qualifications in the light of the case, may also be designated.
Insolvency practitioners are appointed by the court when proceedings are opened.
Insolvency practitioners could incur civil and criminal liability under ordinary law.
The practitioners’ fees are determined by scales fixed by decree; their remuneration under these scales is charged by the court to the debtor.
The powers of the insolvency practitioners and the debtor
Court-appointed administrator
In principle, the court opening safeguard or judicial reorganisation proceedings appoints an administrator, who may be proposed by the debtor under the safeguard proceedings or by the public prosecutor’s office.
It is not compulsory to appoint an administrator if the debtor has a workforce of fewer than 20 employees and if his turnover excluding taxes is less than EUR 3 million.
In the case of accelerated safeguard and accelerated financial safeguard proceedings, the appointment of an administrator is always compulsory.
Under safeguard proceedings, the debtor is not disinvested and continues to dispose of and manage his assets, unless the court decides otherwise.
The court-appointed administrator, if one is appointed, supervises or assists the debtor in his business management, according to the mandate defined by the court.
Under judicial reorganisation proceedings, the court-appointed administrator assists the debtor in his management or manages the business himself, in whole or in part, in place of the debtor.
The court-appointed administrator must take, or have the debtor take, the necessary measures to preserve the rights of the business against its debtors and the necessary measures to maintain its production capacity.
The court-appointed administrator is vested with specific powers, such as operating under his signature the bank accounts of a debtor who has been prohibited from issuing cheques, requiring the continuation of current contracts and implementing the necessary redundancies.
Court-appointed receiver
It is compulsory for the court to appoint a receiver (mandataire judiciaire) in any collective proceedings.
His task is to represent the creditors and their collective interests.
He draws up the list of declared claims, including wage claims, with his proposals for admission, rejection or referral to the competent court, and forwards the list to the bankruptcy judge.
The court appoints a liquidator in the judicial liquidation order.
The liquidator must verify the claims and realise the debtor’s assets in order to pay off creditors.
He implements redundancies and may opt for the continuation of current contracts.
He represents the disinvested debtor and thus exercises most of his rights and performs most of the actions relating to these assets during judicial liquidation proceedings. On the other hand, he may not exercise the debtor’s non-pecuniary rights.
Set-off is a way of extinguishing mutual obligations to the limit of the lower amount.
It can be applied only between two persons with symmetrical mutual claims and debts.
It thus results in a shorter two-way payment between mutual claims.
In principle, it is prohibited for the debtor to pay any claim arising prior to the judgment opening the safeguard or judicial reorganisation proceedings.
However, the prohibition on payment of previous claims is lifted for the payment of related claims by set-off. Reciprocal claims of the same nature arising or deriving from the performance or non-performance of the same contract or group of contracts are considered to be related.
If a claim related to the earlier claim arises after the judgment opening the proceedings, it is possible for it to be paid by set-off against the previous claim, provided that the latter has been declared.
Procedure to continue current contracts
The opening of insolvency proceedings does not call into question the existence of the contracts between the debtor and his contracting partners (suppliers, customers) on the day on which proceedings are opened.
A current contract is a contract which exists and is ongoing when the proceedings are opened, a contract of successive performance which has not expired on that date or a contract of instantaneous performance which has not yet been performed but has already been concluded.
The specific provisions relating to current contracts do not apply to employment contracts.
In principle, contracts are continued automatically..
Hence the contracting partner must fulfil his obligations despite the failure of the debtor to perform commitments prior to the opening judgment.
He will be paid on the due date for services provided after the opening judgment.
Only the court-appointed administrator has an option based on public policy which enables him to require continuation of the contract subject to payment for the services to be supplied to him.
In the absence of a court-appointed administrator, the debtor may require performance of the current contracts, with the consent of the court-appointed receiver.
The court-appointed administrator also has the option of terminating the contract to be performed or payment by instalments where he establishes that he does not have sufficient funds to fulfil the debtor’s obligations.
The contracting partner may give the court-appointed administrator (or the debtor, in the absence of an administrator) formal notice to decide on the future of the contract.
A current contract is terminated automatically if the court-appointed administrator (or debtor) has not replied to the formal notice after one month.
The same applies in the event of non-payment and in the absence of agreement by the contracting partner to continue contractual relations.
The court-appointed administrator (or the debtor, in the absence of an administrator) may also apply to the bankruptcy judge to pronounce the current contract terminated if termination is necessary to safeguard or rehabilitate the debtor, and on condition that it does not excessively harm the interests of the contracting partner.
As in safeguard and judicial reorganisation proceedings, all current contracts are in principle maintained. Hence the contracting partner must fulfil his obligations despite the failure by the debtor to perform commitments prior to the judgment opening the proceedings.
Services provided after the opening judgment will be paid on the due date.
Only the liquidator can require performance of the current contracts by supplying the service promised to the debtor.
The contracting partner may give the liquidator formal notice to decide on the future of the contract.
The contract is terminated automatically if the liquidator has not replied to the formal notice after one month.
The same applies where performance by the debtor relates to the payment of a sum of money, on the day when the contracting partner is informed of the decision by the liquidator not to continue the contract, as well as in the event of payment default when the contracting partner does not agree to continue contractual relations.
Where anything other than the payment of a sum of money is involved, the liquidator may also ask the bankruptcy judge to pronounce the contract terminated if it is necessary for the liquidation operations and does not excessively harm the interests of the contracting partner.
Assignment of current contracts
In the case of safeguard, judicial reorganisation or judicial liquidation proceedings, if full or partial assignment of the undertaking is ordered, the court may determine the contracts for leasing, rental or provision of goods and services necessary for continuation of the business that are to be assigned.
A contracting partner whose contract was not thus assigned may apply to the bankruptcy judge to declare the contract terminated if its further performance is not required by the administrator, the debtor in the absence of an administrator or the liquidator.
In the case of insolvency proceedings, creditors are obliged to enforce their rights against the debtor exclusively under the insolvency proceedings and cannot take individual action for payment against the debtor.
The judgment closing the judicial liquidation proceedings by reason of insufficiency of the assets does not lead to creditors recovering the right to bring individual proceedings against the debtor.
There are exceptions to this rule:
- for actions relating to goods acquired by way of an inheritance arising during the judicial liquidation proceedings;
- where the claim originates in an offence for which the debtor’s guilt has been established or where it relates to personal rights of the creditor;
- where the claim originates in fraudulent practices committed to the detriment of social protection agencies. The fraudulent origin of the claim is established either by court decision or by a penalty declared by a social security authority.
The creditors also recover their right to bring individual proceedings in cases where:
- the debtor has been declared personally bankrupt;
- the debtor has been found guilty of fraudulent bankruptcy;
- the debtor, in respect of any one of his assets, or a legal person which he directed, was subject to previous judicial liquidation proceedings closed by reason of insufficiency of the assets less than five years before the opening of the proceedings to which he is subject; the debtor has had debts written off in the five years preceding that date;
- the proceedings were opened as territorial proceedings within the meaning of Article 3(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1346/2000 of 29 May 2000 on insolvency proceedings.
In addition, in the event of fraud in relation to one or more creditors, the court authorises the resumption of individual proceedings by any creditor against the debtor. The court rules when the proceedings are closed after having heard or duly summoned the debtor, the liquidator and the supervisors. It may hand down a ruling subsequently at the request of any interested party, under the same conditions.
The judgment opening insolvency proceedings interrupts or prohibits action brought against the debtor seeking to obtain payment of a sum of money or to cancel a contract on grounds of default of payment of sums of money.
Enforcement proceedings and preservation measures are also stayed.
Action brought by creditors prior to the opening of collective proceedings is interrupted or stayed.
All previous creditors are therefore concerned, whether or not they are secured.
The interruption and prohibition of proceedings apply to all insolvency proceedings.
Proceedings pending are interrupted until the prosecuting creditor has declared his claim.
They are then resumed automatically, but only to confirm the claim and fix its amount, to the exclusion of the judgment against the debtor.
Lawsuits and enforcement proceedings other than the aforementioned are continued while the debtor is under observation, after joinder of the court-appointed receiver and the court-appointed administrator where his duties are to assist or represent the debtor, or after resumption of proceedings on the initiative of the court-appointed receiver or the court-appointed administrator.
Safeguard and judicial reorganisation proceedings
With a view to adoption of the safeguard plan, the creditors are consulted on the payment periods or remission of debts.
Proposals are forwarded by the court-appointed administrator (or by the debtor in the absence of an administrator) to the court-appointed receiver representing the creditors.
The court-appointed receiver receives the agreement, individually or collectively, of each creditor having declared his claim.
The court-appointed receiver is not bound to consult creditors for whom the draft plan makes no change to the terms of payment or provides for payment in full in cash as soon as the plan has been adopted or the claims admitted.
Creditors’ committees
Where the debtor has a workforce of more than 150 employees and turnover exceeding EUR 20 million, a creditors’ committee is set up which will give its opinion on the draft plans to clear the liabilities. The court may also decide to apply these provisions below those thresholds.
The creditors’ committees convene different categories of creditors at separate meetings in order to submit to them proposals which they will be able to discuss and on which they will decide collectively, i.e. minority creditors will have to abide by the decision of majority creditors.
There is a credit institutions committee composed of finance companies and credit or similar institutions, and a committee composed of the principal suppliers of goods or services. Where there are bondholders, a general meeting of all creditors holding bonds issued in France or abroad is convened in order to discuss the draft plan adopted by the creditors’ committees.
Creditors’ committees must be consulted by the court-appointed administrator on the draft plan and vote in favour of a plan before the court can take its decision.
Where creditors’ committees exist, any creditor who is a member of a committee can propose alternatives to the draft plan presented by the debtor.
The draft plan might therefore originate with the debtor (possibly with the assistance of the court-appointed administrator), or, in the case of judicial reorganisation, with the administrator with the debtor’s assistance, but might also be an initiative by creditors who are committee members. The plan adopted by the committees and, if it is separate, the plan supported by the debtor or the administrator, can then be submitted to the court concurrently.
Accelerated safeguard proceedings
Where accelerated safeguard proceedings are opened, it is compulsory to establish creditors’ committees – a credit institutions committee and committee of suppliers of goods and services – and, where appropriate, the general meeting of bondholders.
Creditors who are not committee members are also consulted individually.
Accelerated financial safeguard proceedings
Where accelerated financial safeguard proceedings are opened, only the credit institutions committee, and, where applicable, the general meeting of bondholders need be established.
The debtor’s assets may be realised by total or partial assignment of the business or in individual assignments. These transactions are subject to different rules.
Assignment of a business is ordered by the court; it is not carried out by the insolvency practitioner.
Assignment of a business may only be partial in the case of safeguard proceedings. It is partial or total in the case of judicial reorganisation or judicial liquidation proceedings.
In such cases, the court hands down a decision setting the period within which takeover offers are to be sent to the court-appointed receiver, the liquidator or the administrator if any. Offers must be in writing and contain certain mandatory items of information.
Individual assignments of assets are subject to different rules.
During the safeguard and judicial reorganisation period, when the debtor is not disinvested, he may continue to dispose of his assets alone subject to the responsibilities of the administrator.
If disposal entailing realisation of the assets does not fall within the day-to-day management of the business, he must obtain prior authorisation from the bankruptcy judge.
During the safeguard or judicial reorganisation plan, the debtor regains full control of his assets.
In judicial liquidation proceedings, the liquidator must obtain the authorisation of the bankruptcy judge to assign assets.
Real estate is sold by court order. The bankruptcy judge sets the reserve price and the basic terms of the sale. He may also authorise a sale by auction at a reserve price that he decides. Finally, he may authorise a private sale at a price and on terms that he determines.
The liquidator then allocates the proceeds of the sales according to the creditor ranking.
All claims arising before the judgment opening the proceedings must be declared, whatever their nature or character: commercial, civil, administrative (Treasury, social welfare and social security institutions) or penal (fine). It is immaterial whether the claim is unsecured or preferential, due or at term, certain or conditional. These provisions do not apply to employees.
Claims duly arising after the judgment opening the proceedings for the purposes of conducting the proceedings or in exchange for goods or services supplied to the debtor for his business activity are paid on their due date.
All creditors whose claim arises prior to the judgment opening the proceedings are required to declare their claims to the court-appointed receiver in the case of safeguard or judicial reorganisation proceedings or the liquidator in the case of liquidation.
The time limit for declaration is two months from the legal publication of the judgment opening the proceedings.
The debtor may also himself declare the claim of one of his creditors under the same conditions.
The declaration also concerns certain claims arising after the judgment opening the proceedings, those for which there is no preferential right to payment for claims benefiting the business or those related to the requirements of the proceedings.
The declared claim must indicate the amount of the sums due and falling due in future, the due dates, the nature of the preferential right or existing security and the rules for calculating interest.
No specific form is required for the declaration of a claim. The declaration must in itself unequivocally express the intention of the creditor to demand payment of his claim, to appear on the statement of claims and to participate in the proceedings.
After having received the debtor’s observations, the court-appointed receiver draws up the list of declared claims, with his proposals for admission, rejection or referral to the competent court.
This list is forwarded to the bankruptcy judge and communicated to the court-appointed administrator.
Before admitting or rejecting a claim, the bankruptcy judge verifies its existence, amount and nature, according to the evidence provided by the author of the declaration and, where appropriate, evidence provided by those who are heard and by the court-appointed receiver.
Creditors who have not declared their claims within the time limits are foreclosed and therefore cannot participate in the distribution or claim dividends in the event of adoption of a plan or realisation of the debtor’s assets unless the bankruptcy judge lifts foreclosure.
If foreclosure is lifted, they may participate in the distributions subsequent to their application.
The debtor draws up the list of claims of each creditor having participated in the conciliation proceedings which must be declared. The list is certified by the debtor’s auditor and lodged with the court registry.
The court-appointed receiver forwards to each creditor the extract from the list concerning his claim.
A preferential creditor enjoys a guarantee ensuring priority of payment over the other ordinary, unsecured creditors of his debtor in the event that collective proceedings are opened against the debtor.
A creditor may thus have preferential status:
- because he is in possession of a guarantee granted by his debtor or obtained from a court decision, or
- because a preferential right is conferred on him by law due to his status.
Preferential creditors are not all equal. Where several preferential creditors compete, they are paid in an order fixed by law, but still before the unsecured creditors.
The unsecured creditors are paid from the debtor’s remaining assets, after payment of the preferential creditors. The distribution is carried out on a pro rata basis.
The ranking of preferences
Realisation of the proceeds from the sale of real estate between creditors is undertaken in the following order:
‘Super preference’ of wage claims: payment of remuneration for the last 60 days of work prior to the judgment opening the proceedings.
Court costs duly arising after the judgment opening the proceedings to meet the requirements of conducting the proceedings: costs relating to preservation, realisation of assets and distribution of proceeds among the creditors (inventory and advertising costs, remuneration of court-appointed representatives, etc.).
Claims guaranteed by the conciliation preference: benefits creditors who provide a fresh injection of cash or supply new goods or services with a view to ensuring the continuation and survival of the business.
Preference of claims arising after the judgment opening the proceedings: claims arising to meet the requirements of conducting the proceedings or of provisional maintenance of the business, or claims arising in exchange for goods or services supplied to the debtor during the maintenance of the business or to perform a current contract maintained by the liquidator, or claims arising for the everyday needs of the debtor who is a natural person.
Claims guaranteed by the general preference of employees: payment of the remuneration for six months of work prior to the judgment opening the proceedings.
Claims guaranteed by a special preference or by a mortgage.
Unsecured claims.
Realisation of the proceeds from the sale of movable property between creditors is undertaken in the following order:
Claims guaranteed by a special charge secured on movable property with lien.
Claims guaranteed by the conciliation preference: benefits creditors who provide a fresh injection of cash or supply new goods or services, with a view to ensuring the continuation and survival of the business.
Preference of the Treasury.
Claims guaranteed by a special charge secured on movable property without lien.
Claims guaranteed by other general charges secured on movable property.
Court costs duly arising after the judgment opening the proceedings to meet the requirements of conducting the proceedings: inventory and advertising costs, remuneration of court-appointed representatives.
Claims guaranteed by the conciliation preference: benefits creditors who provide a fresh injection of cash or supply new goods or services, with a view to ensuring the continuation of the business and its survival.
Claims guaranteed by special charges secured on real estate.
Claims guaranteed by the conciliation preference.
Claims guaranteed by a mortgage of goods or claims guaranteed by a pledge on machinery or equipment.
Other general preferences on movable property (Article 2331 of the Civil Code (Code civil)) and general preference of wages.
Safeguard and judicial reorganisation proceedings were opened for the purpose of rescuing the business, maintaining business activity and jobs and clearing liabilities by means of a plan. A safeguard or judicial reorganisation plan can be adopted only if these conditions are satisfied.
The debtor, in the case of safeguard proceedings, or the administrator, in the case of judicial reorganisation proceedings, or a creditor if creditors' committees have been set up, draws up the draft plan if there is a realistic possibility for the business to be rescued. It consists of three parts:
- an economic and financial part which determines the prospects for turning the business around on the basis of the operational possibilities and methods, market conditions and financial resources available;
- a definition of the terms and conditions for settlement of liabilities and any guarantees that the business manager must provide to ensure its implementation;
- a social part, setting out and justifying the level of, and prospects for, employment and the social conditions envisaged for continuation of the business. Where the draft provides for redundancies for economic reasons, it will review the steps which have already been taken and define the actions to be carried out to facilitate the re-employment and compensation of employees whose jobs are under threat.
The plan mentions all the commitments which have been entered into by the persons responsible for its implementation and which are necessary for the business turnaround.
The court then rules on the draft plan presented to it by the debtor or a creditor.
The adoption of a safeguard or judicial reorganisation plan or sale plan by the court is a judicial decision. The plan also has a contractual aspect if creditors’ committees have been established.
The duration of the plan may not exceed 10 years, or 15 years for farmers.
The court appoints the administrator or receiver to supervise implementation of the plan throughout its duration.
Adoption of the plan ends the observation period. The debtor regains control of his assets and can once again manage his business, subject to the measures which the court has imposed on him in the plan.
The debtor must comply with all aspects of the provisions contained in the plan.
If he fails to do so, in the event of non-fulfilment of his commitments or of cessation of payments occurring during the implementation of the safeguard or judicial reorganisation plan, the debtor runs the risk of cancellation of the plan and resumption of proceedings.
Conversion into judicial liquidation
Judicial liquidation can be pronounced during or at the end of the observation period initiated by a safeguard or judicial reorganisation judgment.
The court must pronounce judicial liquidation as soon as the continuation of the business proves to be impossible or when no sale plan could be adopted under the judicial reorganisation proceedings.
End of the obligations of the natural-person debtor in judicial liquidation
The debtor is disinvested from the day on which judicial liquidation is pronounced until the closure of the liquidation. At that point the rights of the debtor are restored and he can again carry out measures.
Completion of implementation of the safeguard or judicial reorganisation plan does not allow creditors who had not declared their claim to take action against the debtor.
The exceptional resumption of individual proceedings is only expressly provided for when the judicial liquidation is closed by reason of insufficiency of the assets.
Time when the insolvency proceedings are considered to be closed
The observation period is the period from the date of the judgment opening the proceedings to the date of the judgment adopting the safeguard or judicial reorganisation plan, or pronouncing judicial liquidation.
Under the safeguard and judicial reorganisation proceedings, business activity continues during the observation period and the debtor continues in principle to manage his business, with certain restrictions.
Where there is a realistic possibility of turnaround of the business, the observation period will end with a safeguard or judicial reorganisation plan.
The adoption of a safeguard or judicial reorganisation plan enables the debtor to recover control of his business, although it does not end proceedings.
Proceedings are closed when the end-of-mission report of the administrator and the court-appointed receiver has been approved by the bankruptcy judge. The president of the court then issues an order terminating proceedings. This is a judicial administration measure which is not open to appeal.
In judicial terms, the proceedings are therefore closed when the order terminating them is issued.
However, the effects of the proceedings do not end with the order terminating proceedings, since the safeguard or judicial reorganisation plan is still in progress.
Costs and expenses incurred in the proceedings are payable by the business which is the subject of the insolvency proceedings.
Where the court opens judicial reorganisation or judicial liquidation proceedings, the date of cessation of payments by the debtor is in principle considered to occur on the date of the judgment opening the proceedings.
However, the court may decide that cessation of payments has occurred on a date up to 18 months before the date of opening the insolvency proceedings.
The period from the date of cessation of payments to the date of opening judicial reorganisation or judicial liquidation proceedings is in that case referred to as the ‘suspect period’.
Certain acts carried out by the debtor during the suspect period which appear to be fraudulent are annulled.
An action for annulment of the acts carried out during the suspect period comes under the exclusive jurisdiction of the court competent for the proceedings.
The action may be brought only by the court-appointed administrator, the court-appointed receiver, the liquidator and the public prosecutor’s office.
Creditors may bring an action for annulment of legal acts by the debtor individually, or collectively via the court-appointed receiver.
The act is void in relation to all and cancelled retroactively.
There are twelve cases of compulsory nullity concerning irregular acts:
all acts transferring ownership of movable property or real estate free of charge;
any commutative contract in which the debtor’s obligations far exceed those of the other party;
any payment, by whatever method, for debts which are not due on the date of payment;
any payment of debts due, other than in cash, bills of exchange, bank transfers, transfer deeds or any other form of payment commonly accepted in business dealings;
any deposit or any consignment of sums made following the pledge of property, in the absence of a final court judgment;
any contractual mortgage, any legal mortgage, as well as a legal mortgage of spouses, and any right of lien or pledge created on the debtor’s assets for debts previously contracted;
any preservation measure, unless the registration or writ of attachment predates the cessation of payment;
any authorisation and exercising of options by the employees of the business;
any transfer of goods or rights to a fiduciary estate, unless this transfer occurred as a guarantee for a debt contracted simultaneously;
any amendment to a trust agreement affecting rights or assets already transferred to a fiduciary estate to guarantee debts contracted prior to this amendment;
where the debtor is an individual entrepreneur with limited liability, any assignment or change to the assignment of an asset, subject to the payment of income not assigned to the business activity, resulting in depletion of the assets covered by the proceedings in favour of another asset of this entrepreneur;
the notarial declaration of exemption from attachment made by the debtor.
These acts must be annulled by the court, whether the parties were acting in good or bad faith.
The court may also annul the acts transferring ownership of movable property or real estate free of charge and the declaration of exemption from attachment undertaken in the six months preceding the date of cessation of payment. These cases are subject to optional annulment.
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Joshua Wortman
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Over the last decade, energy drinks have become a huge market in both the sports world and the general public. Athletes use them to improve performance on the field, whereas the average Joe may pick one up to help him focus and get through the day. It is known the main ingredient in energy drinks that delivers results is caffeine. But what about all the other ingredients, like taurine and B-vitamins? Labels on various energy drinks often boast about other ingredients that are supposed to help with performance. A recent study investigated the secondary ingredients in Red Bull and the relationship to aerobic metabolism during and following heavy exercise.
The study included 8 recreationally trained individuals who completed a graded exercise test to determine their gas exchange threshold (GET). On two separate occasions, each subject ingested a serving (245 ml) of Red Bull or a control drink that had the same caffeine content prior to 10-minute constant-load cycling sessions. The intensity of the bouts was equivalent to their GET, and they rested 3 minutes between sessions.1
The accumulated liters of oxygen were higher for the first bout for both drink groups, but did not differ between drinks. Excess post-exercise oxygen consumption was higher following the initial versus the second bout, but also did not differ between drinks. Furthermore, there were no differences in heart rate or rating of perceived exertion between either drink group.2
The results of this study indicate that the secondary ingredients in Red Bull, including taurine and B-vitamins, do not enhance aerobic metabolism during or subsequent to heavy exercise. There have been numerous studies proving the efficacy of caffeine, which is the main ingredient in many energy drinks. Little research, however, had been done to determine if the secondary ingredients in these drinks had a beneficial effect on aerobic metabolism during and following heavy exercise. In terms of cost, caffeine as a standalone supplement costs much less than the average energy drink, and may actually provide the most bang for your buck when it comes to performance. Based on the results of this study, it may make more since if Red Bull's slogan was changed to "Caffeine, it gives you wings!"
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Clean Air Initiative clocks action by 138 cities, regions and countries:
Governments from 138 cities, regions and countries have joined the Clean Air Initiative. Find out what they've committed to and the actions they're taking for clean air and climate in a new database.
A year ago, in the lead up to the 2019 Climate Action Summit in New York, the UN and several of its agencies called on all governments — municipal, regional and national — to join a new Clean Air Initiative, essentially committing to achieving safe, healthy air quality and to aligning their climate change and air pollution policies by 2030.
Governments of 138 cities, regions and countries, including 20 BreatheLife members, have since joined the initiative, led by the UN, the World Health Organization (which sets out air quality guidelines values for major air pollutants) and Climate and Clean Air Coalition.
Their commitments and actions have now been categorised and documented in new database under the Global Climate Action platform of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change,
City and region pages include an overview of action, numbers of actions by theme and type, and details of cooperative actions and individual actions, while country reports are more detailed.
Examples of compilations and breakdowns of action in each city or region in the new database.
By joining the Clean Air Initiative, the cities, regions and countries were asked to meet their commitment to safe air quality through pledging to specific actions, for example, as appropriate:
Implementing air quality and climate change policies that will achieve the WHO Ambient Air Quality Guideline values.
Implementing e-mobility and sustainable mobility policies and actions with the aim of making a decisive impact on road transport emissions.
Assessing the number of lives that are saved, the health gains in children and other vulnerable groups, and the avoided financial costs to health systems, that result from implementing their policies.
Tracking progress, sharing experience and best practice through an international network supported by the UN system.
The call came as part of a wider movement to harness social and political drivers to improve people’s health, reduce inequities, promote social justice and maximize opportunities of decent work for all, while protecting the climate for future generations.
For background, please refer to:
United Nations announces 2019 Climate Action Summit ‘Clean Air Initiative’, calls on governments at all levels to join
UN urges governments to act on climate and air pollution for health’s sake
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Home » Reviews » Fiction » Return to Sender
Author: Julia Alvarez
Publisher: Knopf/Random House
Reviewed by Sunny Solomon
Fiction, Reviews, Young Adult
Julia Alvarez, Knopf, Random House
In Return to Sender, Julia Alvarez, popular American novelist whose cultural roots are in the Dominican Republic, has once again turned her depth of insight and imagination to the young adult genre. Return to Sender takes the hot-button topic of undocumented Mexican workers and brings it into focus through the story of two families, one American, and one Mexican. The Paquette family lives on a Vermont dairy farm that has been in their family for generations, and the Cruz family is from Mexico.
We meet them through Tyler, an earnest and likable sixth-grader who has discovered that his parents hired a Mexican family to work on the farm. Because of his grandfather’s recent death and a farm accident that left his father disabled, Tyler knows that the survival of his family’s farm is in jeopardy. He asks his parents if they went to Mexico to hire the Cruz family while he was visiting his aunt and uncle. “No, son,” his father answered. “We didn’t have to go to Mexico. They were already here.” Alvarez immediately draws in the reader, young and old alike, through her sympathetic and honest take on Tyler’s family. Tyler, who loves life on the farm, has a brother who is off to college with no farming ambitions and a teenage sister who is, not surprisingly, mostly interested in boys.
The Cruz family left the poverty and failing farms of southern Mexico to find work in the States. Mari, born in Mexico, is Tyler’s counterpart and it is through her that we come to know the Cruz family. She has two sisters (both born in Carolina del Norte where the family had previously been working), two uncles, a father, and a beloved mother who recently returned to Mexico to care for a dying parent. Alvarez uses translated text to allow the reader, in an easy and surprisingly inclusive way, to become as familiar with the Spanish of the Cruz family as the English of the Paquette family.
Mari’s story is told through letters she writes to her mother (Queridisima Mama) and then to Our Lady of Guadalupe (Adorada Virgen de Guadalupe). We experience the interaction of these families for a period of one year, beginning in Chapter One, Uno, Summer 2005, and ending in Chapter Nine, Nueve, Summer 2006. Alvarez moves the families through the seasons of life on a farm. Mari and Tyler have more than schoolwork in common. While Tyler worries about his father’s fate for hiring undocumented workers, Mari lives in constant fear that her father and uncles’ status will be discovered and that all of them will be jailed and returned to Mexico.
Their lives begin to mirror one another as they struggle with issues both within and beyond their grasp. How Tyler deals with the death of his beloved grandfather and Mari with the fear that her mother may never find her way to Vermont is at the heart of the story. It is Tyler’s grandmother who moves past the loss of her husband to lead the way for both families to understand and support one another.
Alvarez does not turn away from tough and realistic situations in Return to Sender. The return of Mari’s mother comes at a terrible price, but there is also hope. The barn swallows (Golondrinas) who leave the Paquette farm every fall and return from their migration to Mexico every spring become a mysterious and fitting symbol of that hope.
As an addendum to this review written more than four years ago, I’d like to doubly recommend Return to Sender at this time when legislation regarding immigration is still front-page grist for the news-mill. Return to Sender, for those of us on the West Coast or in the South, is a poignant reminder that families like Mari’s and Tyler’s are no longer found in any one particular part of the United States. Return to Sender continues to be a great read. – Sunny Solomon
Also available by Alvarez: In the Time of the Butterflies; How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents; Before We Were Free; How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay; Finding Miracles; A Wedding in Haiti; In the Name of Salome; Something to Declare; Yo!; A Cafecito Story.
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HempNewsBreaks – OrgHarvest Inc. (ORGH) Appoints J. Larry Cantrell as President and Chief Executive Officer
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OrgHarvest (OTC: ORGH), a newly launched and complete seed-to-consumer hemp company, today announced that J. Larry Cantrell has succeeded Frank Celecia as its president and chief executive officer, based on the January 28, 2020, Stock Purchase Agreement, which caused a change of control of the company. Cantrell brings over 30 years of experience in the development, branding, manufacturing and distribution of nutritional strategies, having led and directed the development and launch of more than 100 products into the global marketplace. A long-time advocate of all-natural nutritional products, Cantrell, earlier in his career, was recognized by an industry publication as “one of the most knowledgeable and effective CEOs in nutrition.” “It’s been a challenge for companies in this industry to be able to tell end users and consumers where their hemp and its derivatives originate, including how it was processed and packaged,” Cantrell said in the news release. “With OrgHarvest, we have the ability, and it all begins with our farmer partners who are experienced and sophisticated growers that understand the genetics of superior hemp. In addition, our blockchain technology ensures that our hemp is traceable, with a complete history of every step that our hemp takes to arrive in the product purchased, either on the retail shelf or through our e-commerce channels.”
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Capco Inc
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Capco Capabilities:
Rapid Design, Prototyping and Testing
Capco’s unique mix of engineering strength and manufacturing excellence creates an ideal environment for design and prototyping. Customer requirements are quickly turned into design specifications by an engineering staff with decades of experience and a thorough understanding of the end user’s needs. Brainstorming sessions lead to innovative solutions, influenced by design for manufacturability. Design concepts are modeled using 3-D CAD software, where fit, form, and function can be digitally verified. An extensive range of in-house fabrication and manufacturing capabilities including 3-D printing, flatbed laser cutting, welding, grinding, heat treating, CNC machining, and more, allow concepts to move from the digital space to the physical prototype with surprising speed.
Starting with nothing more than an idea, Capco engineering begins to shape what may soon become a ground-breaking advancement for the war fighter. Ideas are formed into preliminary sketches and rapidly moved through the solid modeling phase. Once vetted, the ideas are further refined during prototyping and testing. Capco possesses extensive prototyping capabilities including Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), laser cutting, CNC mill and lathe, welding, grinding, heat treating, and electroplating.
Decades of experience in manufacturing and a thorough understanding of GD&T provide Capco with the expertise to take ideas from conception to prototyping, through technical data generation, and finally manufacturing. The manufacturing background of Capco engineers provides the knowledge necessary to develop the most cost effective, manufacturable, and pure designs. Whether it is a new product idea, fixture development, or manufacturing line, Capco Engineering specializes in all aspects of product development. From concept through production, the engineers at Capco ensure the quality, punctuality, and customer service necessary for any project.
Prototyping Capabilities
Fully equipped fabrication shop including CNC milling, CNC lathe, manual mills, lathes, hydraulic presses, metal sheers, heat treating ovens, vertical and horizontal band saws
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Engineering staff capable of fabrication supported by staff of engineering techs and machinists have access to dedicated fabrication shop as well as production equipment as necessary
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M320A1 Grenade Launcher
Capco won a U.S. Army contract to become the first U.S. manufacturer of the standard issue 40mm grenade launcher.
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Capco produces .223 / 5.56mm barrel assemblies for the commercial version of the military M16/M4 weapons.
M192 Light Weight Ground Mount
The M192 consists of an alloy steel, tubular structure and features an innovative Traverse & Elevating (T&E) mechanism. The T&E mechanism allows the soldier to accomplish rapid bold or fine adjustments of the weapon in traverse and elevation axes. The Capco-designed M192 became the U.S. Army’s light weight ground mount for medium caliber machine guns and preceded the Capco-designed M205 Tripod Mount.
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The Receiver Assembly is used on the M2/M2A1 .50 caliber machine gun.
Capco produces the full assembly in-house, and conducts live-fire testing at a nearby off-site range.
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The M205 is a Capco designed and developed light weight tripod for the M2, M2A1, and MK19 machine guns. The M205 reduces the Warfighter’s load burden by replacing the legacy tripod, which weighed 54 lbs., with a system weighing less than 30 lbs. Capco is also the sole producer of this U.S. Army standard issue tripod, which consists of an innovative traverse and elevation assembly (T&E) and light weight pintle with quick release pin.
Capco receives consistently high performance assessments from the Army Contracting Command Contracting Officer. Below are some comments regarding Capco’s delivery of the M205:
“The contractor has consistently delivered M205 tripods which meet ALL the technical performance requirements as specified in the contract. All deliveries to date have been in accordance with the contract schedule and most have been ahead of schedule. The contractor has a very robust Configuration Management system. Every change/deviation/update encountered during production has been captured with an Engineering Change Notice.”
“Each Lot was delivered on time or ahead of schedule to the contractual requirements. Because of this, CAPCO has been able to supply the Government with the tripods needed to meet the accelerated fielding schedule.”
“The contractor is always responsive and willing to work as a “team member” to resolve problems as they arise. The contractor willingly over packed Visual User Guides along with each tripod with no additional cost. These user guides will supply the soldiers with the extra instructions on use and maintenance.”
In the late ‘90s, the US Army sought to replace their aging machine gun tripod mount with a lighter, more advanced ground mount system. The legacy system used a traverse and elevation (T&E) mechanism that dated back to the 1930s!
Competing against larger and renowned defense contractors, Capco submitted an innovative proposal and was selected by the U.S. Army to become the developer of the next generation ground mount for medium caliber machine guns.
During development, Capco presented various prototypes to a Fort Benning SFC Subject Matter Expert. This burly, combat veteran scrutinized each prototype carefully. With each prototype he found new features that were improvements over the old system, but something was missing. Finally, one day the Sergeant sat down with Capco Engineers and said, “I’m not an engineer, so I don’t know what you should design.” Gesturing with his hands, he continued, “I just know I want to operate my weapon with my right hand, and with my left hand, operate the mount so that I can rapidly move the weapon in traverse and elevation, and as soon as I release my left hand, the weapon stays locked on target.”
The Sergeant’s layman explanation articulated more in a couple of sentences than paragraphs of contract technical jargon could accomplish. Capco engineers now understood the problem statement and set out on a solution that revolutionized small arms weapon mounting systems.
By 2004, the M192 with its revolutionary T&E was Type-Classified as the new U.S. Army ground mount for medium caliber machine guns. The following year, the M192 was selected by PEO Soldier as one of the U.S. Army’s Top Ten Inventions for 2005.
Over the next several years, Capco produced thousands of mounts for the U.S. Military and, spring boarding off the M192 concept, went on to design and produce thousands of the M205 mount for large caliber machine guns. Thus continuing to lighten the Warfighter’s load while increasing operational capability.
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Know Your Lore: Ogres as an Allied Race
by Anne Stickney on January 22, 2018 at 2:00pm @Shadesogrey
People have been suggesting Ogres as a playable race ever since Burning Crusade -- but how likely are they as an option?
OpenRaid Raid A Thon giving away BlizzCon 2015 Virtual Tickets
by Anne Stickney on October 28, 2015 at 7:00pm @Shadesogrey
Are you in the mood to do some raiding this weekend?
Hearthstone October Card Back revealed: Highmaulin’ and Brawlin’
by Matt Low on October 1, 2015 at 3:00pm @Matticus
The nineteenth official season of Hearthstone ranked play has arrived, providing an opportunity to pick up another new card back for players to add to their collection: the October card back, Highmaul.
Lightsworn: Warlords of Draenor’s best Holy Paladin fights
by Mike Eng on September 21, 2015 at 5:00pm @_Rades
Three raids, thirty bosses.
Questing, endgame, and the unfolding of Legion’s story
by Matthew Rossi on August 21, 2015 at 7:00pm @MatthewWRossi
I'm one of those people who reads quest text.
Patch 6.2.1 PTR: New rares in un-instanced Highmaul, three new pets
by Mitch on July 15, 2015 at 10:14pm @MitchFizzl
The long-awaited Patch 6.2.1 has just landed on the PTR and with it, a few surprises, including some new pets!
The lore leading into patch 6.2
by Anne Stickney on June 22, 2015 at 3:00pm @Shadesogrey
With patch 6.2 just a day away, we're headed to Tanaan Jungle to face the rest of the Iron Horde -- or are we? Let's take a look at the story so far, and what you need to know in terms of what you'll be seeing in patch 6.2 lore, Tanaan, and Hellfire Citadel.
New Warlords short story: The Code of Rule
by Anne Stickney on March 19, 2015 at 6:00pm @Shadesogrey
A new short story has been released on the official website. The Code of Rule, by Ryan Quinn, gives us one of those chunks of lore we were missing from the development of Warlords of Draenor's story -- how exactly the ogres of Highmaul allied with the Iron Horde in the first place.
Officers’ Quarters: Horridon level is hard
by Scott F. Andrews on March 4, 2015 at 6:00pm @QuestVendor
Horridon still gives me nightmares. But before we get to that, we have questions about recruiting and about a trio of raiders who refuse to raid unless they can all participate -- and with their preferred specs. We also have an in-depth question about the proper progression path in Warlords and how it has affected raid morale.
Officers’ Quarters: Little more than peasants
by Scott F. Andrews on February 18, 2015 at 5:00pm @QuestVendor
Welcome to the new Officers' Quarters!
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Tag Archives: Topcats
Scene Report: Topcats founders still cranking out cat-scratch-feverish rock ‘n’ roll, Kenner-style
June 14, 2011 Lakeview Kid 10 Comments
“There is a New Orleans city accent … associated with downtown New Orleans, particularly with the German and Irish Third Ward, that is hard to distinguish from the accent of Hoboken, Jersey City, and Astoria, Long Island, where the Al Smith inflection, extinct in Manhattan, has taken refuge. The reason, as you might expect, is that the same stocks that brought the accent to Manhattan imposed it on New Orleans.” – A.J. Liebling, “The Earl of Louisiana,” the famous quote introducing John Kennedy Toole’s “A Confederacy of Dunces”
Rumors of the New Orleans Yat’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Despite the best efforts of invasive hipster gentrification and federal levee failures to eradicate this indigenous species from its native habitats like the 9th Ward, the humble Yat survives — but has been driven underground. Some Yats even manage to thrive in this brave new world of HBO caricaturization and Hollywood co-optation – and not just in Bunny Matthews cartoons. In fact, recent sightings even confirm the existence of the now-almost-mythical Yatasaurus Rex.
Should you, fearless explorer, venture out on any moonlit Saturday night to a strip mall near the airport, at Kenner’s Third Rock Tavern at Williams and Veterans boulevards, you might spy not one, but two, of these Yatasaurus Rexes: none other than guitarist Charlie Cuccia and drummer Jeff Hicks — both original members of the locally noted T.Q. and the Topcats, who now hew off beefy slabs of blood-and-guts rock ‘n’ roll as “Da Meat Department” band.
Original Topcats member Charlie "Jake the Snake" Cuccia - still rocking after all these years
Through plumes of thick smoke, in between high-octane libations and corny double-entendre jokes, these Bourbon Street and Jefferson Parish lounge veterans crank out classic-rock covers with a grit and soul you won’t find in some wimpy, miserable politically correct Frenchmen Street outfit. Eschewing most of the traditional New Orleans canon for the likes of Stones, Chuck Berry, and Dylan — sung in sandpaper rasps evoking Howlin’ Wolf and Captain Beefheart — they somehow come off as more authentically New Orleans than any vanilla retro “roots-rock” band.
With snifter of Grand Marnier in hand and rooster-like ducktail in full glory, Cuccia exhorts his Yat minions to “raise your glasses, children of the Williams Boulevard!” before launching into a towering “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” while Hicks recalls his days of selling cars for New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson in rhapsodizing about a stripper he used to love at the nearby Downs Lounge in Metry – all to the tune of Bob Seger’s “Main Street.”
Revisit the 1970s and recall, if you dare, the moribund radio soundtrack of the time: the ponderously toxic art-rock sludge of bands like Yes; Genesis; Emerson, Lake and Palmer; and King Crimson. Even Led Zeppelin stooped low enough to invoke “the winds of Thor.” It was to this music — as well as more earthbound acts such as Heart, Skynyrd, Journey, and New Orleans’ own Zebra — that young Yats cruised along Wisner Boulevard in their souped-up Trans-Ams, roaring along Lakeshore Drive past Bart’s restaurant, all the way to the Point at West End for a quick toke before copping a feel off their feather-haired Stevie Nicks-wannabe girlfriends.
Enter Charlie Cuccia and Jeff Hicks, circa 1972. Cuccia and Hicks are proud co-founders of T.Q. and the Topcats, a band that still performs today as the Topcats, though with no original members. Gloriously retro before retro was cool, T.Q. and the Topcats defiantly rocked out old-school-style in the face of the 20-minute, mythology-and-melodrama-infused rock-opera opuses of the day.
T.Q. and the Topcats at Lake Pontchartrain in the 1970s
T.Q. and the Topcats were a Crescent City version of Sha Na Na — on gumbo-laden steroids. According to the Topcats’ Web site : “Originally formed at East Jefferson High School in Metairie, La., with their first practice in a garage on September 28th, 1972, T.Q. & The Topcats were a ’50s and early ’60s show band. The group performed all of the classic songs of the pre-Beatles era of rock and roll. Every song the band did was performed with outrageous choreography or some type of skit with costumes, smoke and special lighting. They also did tributes to Elvis Presley, Little Richard and Buddy Holly. Everyone in the band sang and did choreography and everyone had a nickname to put across the feeling of a hoodlum gang of the 1950’s.” Cuccia leered under the reptilian alias “Jake the Snake,” while Hicks sported the hirsute handle of “Belch A. Rooney.”
Vintage video of the band in its greaser heyday — including the unbelievable sight of an ax-wielding Cuccia executing dangerously ball-busting splits mid-solo — can be seen herein, on Chuck Berry’s “Maybelline” and “Roll Over, Beethoven,” as well as on the Gary U.S. Bonds cover “New Orleans,” in which Hicks belts out the lead vocal on a tribute to his native stomping grounds.
T.Q. and the Topcats played the New Orleans area and expanded their reach throughout the Southeast, eventually making their way to Las Vegas and Los Angeles. They shared the stage with stars such as Dick Dale, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Billy Joel, while a notable photo from September 1976 records for posterity the band’s meeting with “Bedtime for Bonzo” star Ronald Reagan.
T.Q. and the Topcats with Ronald Reagan
A fascinating piece of black-and-white footage shows T.Q and company interacting with Johnny Carson on the “Stump the Band” segment of “The Tonight Show.” Viewing the video, the linguistic link between New Orleans and New York City has never been clearer. As the slick Dionysus-like Cuccia raps with Carson, I’m not sure if I’m seeing and hearing Vinny Barbarino, John Gotti Jr., or the frontman for T.Q and the Topcats. At any rate, the T.Q. gang — looking like they had just kicked the asses of the Jets from “West Side Story” in a parking-lot rumble — endures Carson’s playful putdowns before launching into an incredibly soulful, handclapping, a capella rendition of “Iko Iko” that would make the harmonizing Valence Street-era lineup of the Neville Brothers proud.
In 1980, capping a flurry of personnel changes and stylistic shifts, Cuccia and Hicks exited the group, which is now known simply as the Topcats. But the duo continued to ply their musical chops in nightclubs from Bourbon Street to Williams Boulevard. Cuccia also has cut a CD on Gary Edwards’ Sound of New Orleans label, featuring top local sidemen such as saxophonist Jerry Jumonville, guitarist Cranston Clements, keyboardist Joe Krown, and drummer Barry Flippen. To purchase or to hear samples, click here.
The rooster-maned Charlie "Jake the Snake" Cuccia - still crazy after all these years (seen here in a natural habitat: the Old Opera House on Bourbon Street, where he often plays with the Old No. 7 Band)
Besides playing Saturday nights at the Third Rock with the “Meat Department” band, Cuccia also leads the Swinging Jewels (sans Hicks) on Thursday nights at Waloo’s on North Causeway Boulevard in Metry. The Jewels comprise drummer Joey Catalanotto from the Wiseguys; grittily soulful singer-songwriter Gary Hirstius (also a former Topcat); and bassist Thomas McDonald, who has probably picked up a riff or two from his legendary neighbor: jazz and R&B bassist Peter “Chuck” Badie of Harold Battiste’s trailblazing AFO Records. A monsterly funky bassist, McDonald also can sing his ass off — as well as slap out a scatlike syncopated melody on his shaved head. His version of Irma Thomas’ “It’s Raining,” otherwise known as the national anthem of the state of Louisiana, is as soul-drenched as the original, and his vocal modulations will make your baby’s heart flutter and squeeze you a little bit tighter as you’re slow-dragging together on the dancefloor.
Yes, hearts are fluttering at a Swinging Jewels/Meat Department show, but so is the laughter. These wisecracking clowns are simply hilarious. When you’ve played for decades on Bourbon Street for practically nothing but the sheer love of rock ‘n’ roll, you’ve got to develop a sense of humor. The outrageous jokes and Three Stooges humor run constantly like diarrhea of the mouth as the musicians take verbal shots at the audience and each other.
Coasting on seemingly nine lives, the modern-day incarnation of the Topcats is busier than ever, still playing club dates, school fairs, and festivals. But the heart and the soul of the band once known as T.Q. and the Topcats resides elsewhere, and can usually be found on Williams Boulevard in the unforgettable — and only in New Orleans — form of Charlie Cuccia and Jeff Hicks, brothers for life in their own uniquely hardcore brand of hey-brah groove.
The primal drumming and gut-bucket vocal stylings of original Topcats member Jeff Hicks (aka Belch A. Rooney) are totally out of this world - and totally rock 'n' roll, brah
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Home » Uncategorized » New Australia Mobile Casinos unperturbed by Coming Law
New Australia Mobile Casinos unperturbed by Coming Law
On January 20, 2017 posted by hiddenusername in Uncategorized No Comments
As of right now, online casino gambling is not really illegal in Australia. Although offshore operators are technically banned from accepting Aussies, there’s no enforceable penalties to stop them. While that could change in the very near future, new Australia mobile casinos are still being launched.
Earlier this month, it was announced that Royal Wins, a Sydney-based operator of social casino games, is preparing to launch a totally revamped gaming platform. The press release proclaimed that the new games will be skill-based in nature, and will give players the chance to win real money.
The integration of skill-based casino games could be an attempt to circumvent the impending changes to Australia’s interactive gambling laws. The announcement also stated that traditional casino games would still be available via the operator’s ‘Kash Karnival‘ social gaming platform, but not for real money.
New Australia Mobile Casino, Jan ’17
Royal Wins is said to be putting the ‘final touches’ on its New Australia mobile casino, titled ‘Krystal Kashout‘, and expects to launch the product for Android before the month is out. Because it’s a real money gambling app, the company is unable to provide an iOS version for iPhones and iPads, “due to strict App Store legislations”.
The social gaming firm says its product will target millennials, in particular. After conducting years of research into today’s younger generation of adults, they believe their hesitance to play traditional games of chance revolves around their upbringing, having grown up playing skill-based PC and console video games.
The company is banking on the presence of skill being the number one draw for millennials. By adding the ability to win real money, they believe their innovative skill-based casino games will revolutionize the internet gambling industry as we know it.
“We’ve always been excited at the idea to offer players real money rewards,” said Myles Blasonato, Creative Director for Royal Wins, excited to be offering a new Australia mobile casino that interjects skill into the gambling amusements.
“With Krystals Kashout we take our product to the next level so players can win real money on their mobile devices. It’s a double bonus. They don’t need to head all the way to the casino, it’s in their hands, and their skill plays a part in their results and not just dumb luck,” he explained.
Tighter Pays + Stricter Security
For their fans who are already familiar with the free Kash Karnival app, the company did warn that the new Australia mobile casino – the real money version – will have tighter payout ratios than the social platform. It will also incorporate much stricter security measures.
“We want to create a safe and fair environment, so we’ve had to make sure to put the right systems in place,” explained Michael Moretti, Digital Marketer at Royal Wins. “There will be 100-point ID checks prior to the first cash out, which we use to confirm the age and identity of the players. Once confirmed, winnings will be deposited straight into their nominated bank account.”
Legal Climate for Real Money Casinos
But the question remains – when Australia inevitably votes to pass the Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill, will the company’s efforts be for naught?
If passed, that legislation will require all real money iGaming operators to obtain a licence in Australia to accept Aussies. Online casino games are illegal, thus obtaining a licence would prevent licenced operators from operating mobile casinos.
Royal Wins would have to somehow prove that it’s skill-based games are above the law. The only other alternative would be to accept players from other countries where it’s legal, but not Australians.
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Roots of Unity
Law & Order: MVT
Using mathematics to catch the bad guys—in the most contrived way possible
By Evelyn Lamb on October 8, 2019
In the criminal justice system, velocity-based offenses are considered especially unimportant. In New York, the dedicated detectives who investigate these minor misdemeanors are members of an elite squad known as the Moving Violation Team. These are their stories.
[Open with aerial shot of the New York State Thruway. It is a beautiful fall day. Traffic is on the heavy side but moving freely. Zero in on a car passing below a set of cameras on the road.]
*DUN DUN*
[One week later, in Syracuse, NY. MICHELLE ROLLINS is bringing the mail inside. Their wife CARLA GOFF is sitting on the couch.]
MICHELLE ROLLINS: What’s this? [opens envelope] Really? A ticket? But I didn’t see any cops when I was driving last week.
CARLA GOFF: They have those cameras mounted above the roads now.
MICHELLE ROLLINS: I saw those. They were right near the toll plazas. I was never speeding when I was near one of the cameras. This is garbage! They can’t prove I was speeding.
[A few days later, in the Moving Violation Team office. Detective DOROTHY BERNSTEIN is going through papers, filing some and tossing others. Her colleague EDDIE WILLIAMS looks on.]
DOROTHY BERNSTEIN: We’ve got another driver contesting the ticket.
EDDIE WILLIAMS: They just don’t stop, do they? They have no idea what they’re in for.
[Inside the courtroom. Judge CHARLOTTE SCOTT presiding. Another *DUN DUN* for good measure.]
BAILIFF: Please rise.
CHARLOTTE SCOTT: You may be seated. What do we have today? Ah, a contested speeding ticket. Plaintiff, opening statement, please.
MICHELLE ROLLINS: Your honor, I received a speeding ticket, but I was never pulled over.
DOROTHY BERNSTEIN: Are you familiar with the cameras we have to record license plates for tolls?
MICHELLE ROLLINS: Sure.
DOROTHY BERNSTEIN: They also record your location and time.
MICHELLE ROLLINS: Of course, but I don’t see how that’s relevant.
DOROTHY BERNSTEIN: There are multiple cameras. We recorded you driving here, at mile marker 192, [holds up blurry photo of a car passing under a camera on the road] at 12:47 pm on October 12. Then we took this photograph of you at mile marker 148. Can you read the timestamp on that photograph for me?
MICHELLE ROLLINS: Are these theatrics really necessary?
CHARLOTTE SCOTT: Just answer the question.
MICHELLE ROLLINS: It says [squints] 1:21 pm.
DOROTHY BERNSTEIN: In 34 minutes, you traveled 44 miles. Is that correct?
MICHELLE ROLLINS: Yes.
DOROTHY BERNSTEIN: The speed limit for this entire portion of the highway is 65 miles per hour. Would you agree that your average speed was above 65 miles per hour?
MICHELLE ROLLINS: [muttering] 68 minutes, 88 miles, 60 minutes, 65 miles, plus 8 is 73, the extra is less than a mile…[regular voice] Yes, it was.
DOROTHY BERNSTEIN: As a matter of fact, it was 77.65 miles per hour.
MICHELLE ROLLINS: But that doesn’t prove anything. The speed limit is not an average speed limit. You have to show I was traveling above 65 miles per hour at some point.
DOROTHY BERNSTEIN: Mx. Rollins, are you familiar with the Mean Value Theorem?
[But no scene change]
MICHELLE ROLLINS: Yeah, I took calculus. That’s the theorem that says that if your average rate of change between two endpoints is M, then your instantaneous rate of change at some point between two endpoints must have been M, if—
CHARLOTTE SCOTT: [bangs gavel] Case closed!
MICHELLE ROLLINS: Wait a minute, I didn’t finish! That’s if the function is a continuous function on the whole closed interval and differentiable on the open interval!
CHARLOTTE SCOTT: Are you saying the function describing your position was somewhere discontinuous or non-differentiable?
MICHELLE ROLLINS: I didn’t say that, but, with all due respect, it’s not my responsibility to prove they weren’t but Detective Bernstein’s to prove they were. Detective Bernstein, can you show that time and position are continuous, rather than discrete, quantities?
DOROTHY BERNSTEIN: Oh, please! Your honor, all widely-used modern and classical physical theories that are used to make predictions about real-world behavior use the assumption of continuous time. If time is not continuous, it is close enough on a practical level to assume such.
MICHELLE ROLLINS: By the same token, though, all numbers can be practically represented — to any degree of accuracy we desire — by rational numbers, can they not?
DOROTHY BERNSTEIN: Objection, your honor, irrelevant.
CHARLOTTE SCOTT: Mx. Rollins, where are you going with this?
MICHELLE ROLLINS: I promise it is highly relevant. At all points of my journey, we can assume the time and my position were rational numbers, using Detective Bernstein’s “close enough on a practical level” criterion. Therefore my position was a function of time defined on the rational numbers. The mean value theorem does not hold for functions defined over the rationals! Take, for example, the function that is 0 for all rational numbers q such that q2 is less than 2 and 1 for all rational numbers whose squares are larger than 2. The average value of this continuous function on the [0,2] interval is strictly between 0 and 1, but the function only takes the values 0 and 1.
[A gasp ripples through the courtroom, which somehow is full of an audience of people despite the fact that this is a very boring traffic case.]
CHARLOTTE SCOTT: [bangs gavel] Order! Order! Detective Bernstein?
DOROTHY BERNSTEIN: [Stammering] Wait- I- what- You can’t be serious!
CHARLOTTE SCOTT: If the detective cannot counter Mx. Rollins’ argument, I have no choice but to dismiss the ticket.
[DOROTHY BERNSTEIN sinks into her chair. EDDIE WILLIAMS brings her a cup of coffee. MICHELLE ROLLINS leaves the courtroom to a flock of reporters outside.]
DOROTHY BERNSTEIN: Thanks, Eddie. I can’t believe they’re getting away with it.
EDDIE WILLIAMS: We can only hope the next one hasn’t thought so deeply about the mean value property.
Inspired by conversations on Twitter, Patrick Honner’s traffic ticket, James Propp’s episode of My Favorite Theorem and his article “Real Analysis in Reverse,” the one (1) episode of Law & Order: SVU I watched on a recent flight, and this 1966 educational video about the Mean Value Theorem.
Evelyn Lamb
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The exiles : a novel / Christina Baker Kline.
Kline, Christina Baker, 1964- (author.).
5 of 6 copies available at Potter-Tioga Library System. (Show)
Blossburg Memorial Library F KLI (Text) 30063000266686 Adult Fiction Available -
ISBN: 9780062356345 (hardcover)
ISBN: 0062356348 (hardcover)
Physical Description: 371 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2020.
Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long voyage to this distant land. During the journey on a repurposed slave ship, the Medea, Evangeline strikes up a friendship with Hazel, a girl a little older than her former pupils who was sentenced to seven years transport for stealing a silver spoon. Canny where Evangeline is guileless, Hazel--a skilled midwife and herbalist--is soon offering home remedies to both prisoners and sailors in return for a variety of favors. Though Australia has been home to Aboriginal people for more than 50,000 years, the British government in the 1840s considers its fledgling colony uninhabited and unsettled, and views the natives as an unpleasant nuisance. By the time the Medea arrives, many of them have been forcibly relocated, their land seized by white colonists. One of these relocated people is Mathinna, the orphaned daughter of the Chief of the Lowreenne tribe, who has been adopted by the new governor of Van Diemen's Land. In this gorgeous novel, Christina Baker Kline brilliantly recreates the beginnings of a new society in a beautiful and challenging land, telling the story of Australia from a fresh perspective, through the experiences of Evangeline, Hazel, and Mathinna. While life in Australia is punishing and often brutally unfair, it is also, for some, an opportunity: for redemption, for a new way of life, for unimagined freedom.
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Female friendship > Fiction.
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Life changing events > Fiction.
Midwives > Fiction.
Tasmania > History > 1803-1900 > Fiction.
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Australia > History > 1788-1900 > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
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March may be warmest month ever compared with average
MPR's Paul Huttner crunches the numbers and says this month could be the warmest ever -- when compared with average temperatures at MSP airport -- in 121 years. So far temperatures overall have been 16.7 degrees higher than the average in the Twin Cities area.
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Twin Cities had warmest spring ever
It's official: This spring was the warmest on record in the Twin Cities, and it was the second-wettest, too. Temperatures during the meteorological spring -- defined as March through May -- averaged 54 degrees at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the highest since modern record-keeping began in 1873.
Twin Cities saw fourth warmest winter; St. Cloud tied record
The average temperature in the metro was 26.3 degrees, according to data from the National Weather Service. The St. Cloud airport recorded 23.4 degrees.
Red River valley shatters records for warmest December 18th
More winter-like temperatures are arriving, after a weekend that felt downright spring-like. Fargo and Grand Forks both surpassed 50 to break long-standing record highs.
Summer in Twin Cities 3rd warmest on record
The National Weather Service said Friday that the meteorological summer months of June, July and August in Minneapolis and St. Paul were the third warmest on record. During the period, the average temperature in the Twin Cities was 74.8 degrees, 3.5 degrees above average. Only the summers of 1988 and 1933 were warmer in the metro.
October was warmest in about 48 years
The month will go down as the 8th warmest on record in the Twin Cities. The average temp was 55.3 degrees. That's 6.4 degrees above normal.
2012 may break Twin Cities record for warmest year
2012 makes the top ten list of Twin Cities' warmest Januarys
Step aside, 1933. You've been bumped down to ninth place on the list of warm Januarys. And at least the first week of February is looking pretty toasty, as well.
Twin Cities hits record 50 degrees, but that's about to change as cold front blows in
Enjoy it while you can: The National Weather Service says a cold front will sweep through soon. Climatologists are saying this will likely be the warmest start to January we've ever seen, and the operator of a maple syrup business tells Kare 11 he's astounded to see the sap flowing.
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iPhone 12 ; A PHONE WITH BIG POTENTIAL
Hamza HameedOctober 29, 2020
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iPhone 12; A PHONE WITH BIG POTENTIAL
THE NEW iPhone 12 is a viral subject nowadays. The iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini are Apple’sApple’s middle-of-the-road flagship iPhones for 2020. The phones come in the 6.1-inch display, and 5.4-inch sizes display impossible to tell apart features, including support for quicker 5G cellular networks, OLED display, enhanced cameras, and Apple’sApple’s most up-to-date A14 chip, all in an entirely re-energized intend.
They have a wide range of colors iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini share five black, white, red, mint, green, and blue. On the other hand, the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max both come in silver, graphite, gold, and Pacific blue.
The phone was available for pre-order on 16 OCTOBER, 2020 in apple’s online store and was officially launched on 23 OCTOBER 2020.
NEW FEATURE:
Apple is finally going to sustain the local navigation system with the iPhone 12. This system covers over 200 countries and has 100 million users accessing cell phone devices in the Asia Pacific region.
On the other hand, the lack of support has been the most crucial handicap for apple, and its resolution will offer considerable benefits to a large portion of its user base.
To the extent that the camera is concerned, the new iPhone offers a dual rear camera setup. The camera sensors include a 12MP primary camera, a 12MP telephoto lens. And for selfies, the phone offers a 12MP camera at the front, according to Tech News.
The battery is an upgraded battery having longer battery life as compared to the iPhone 11 lineup. The device may come in two different rigid storage variants 64 Giga-byte and 128 Giga-byte.
A DISADVANTAGE:
iPhone fans are familiar with buying a phone with a charger, cable, headphones, and a handset. But, in the iPhone 12 box, you will not receive a charger and headphones.
WHY THIS COMPANY chooses TO DO THIS? THERE ARE SOME REASONS.
HIGH PROFIT:
The new iPhone 12 is $50 more expensive than the previous iPhone 11 due to the enhanced chipset. The absence of a charger and headphones will make it a little cheaper. The retail sale of the charger will help Apple to increase its profit.
LESS SHIPPING CHARGES:
iPhone is assembled in China and shipped all around the world. Removing the charger and headphones can help make the box slimmer and more compressed in that way, it will help reduce shipping and shipping costs.
NO NEED FOR NEW CHARGER:
Generally, the boxed iPhone always comes with a charger and headphones. On the other hand, in this device’s case, the iPhone 12, the previous charger, and headphones can still be useful to use. Otherwise, having many accessories will be extravagant. Apple is strong-willed to cut off the charger and headphones when advertising and selling the new iPhone 12 so that the users can think about taking advantage of old accessories. By this, electronic waste will also be reduced.
According to various sources, Apple is aiming to remove the connection port from the future iPhone handsets. They want apple users to understand that there is no need for the charger or cables. When the iPhone has no ports connected, it will help users get used to it and own companionable wireless accessories.
Design is discriminatory, and if you favored the curves of the iPhone 6 through 11, I would not argue with you about it. But, I felt that the curvy design supply to the iPhone is feeling slipperier, like I was continuously holding a bar of soap, from being the sort of a person who never uses an iPhone case to be a chronic case user.
POWERFULL PRICE:
Apple introduced an OLED display to the iPhone, which is the cause of the price. So, it’s not astonishing that bringing OLED to the lower end of the iPhone line has resulted in a price boost, but it is unsatisfactory.
SIMILAR ALTERNATIVES:
The iPhone 12 and 12 Pro are Apple’sApple’s conventional iPhones. Since they share a shape and size, the potential buyer should decide which one is right. I have a strong preference for the aesthetics of the new iPhone 12, and the additional camera functions arena isn’t enough to influence me, but levelheaded people can differ.
WELL, APPLE’SAPPLE’S IPHONE FANS CAN BE FOUND ALL AROUND THE WORLD. AND NO, DOUBT THERE CAN BE NO COMPARISON FOR IT AS THERE IS NO COMPATIBLE AGENCY, WHICH IS MAKING PHONES AS GOOD AS iPhones.
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Singular and Serial
July 9 – September 19, 2020
Cove Street Arts
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New Monoprints by Catherine Kernan
Opening First Friday
Reception and Demonstration
Saturday November 9, 2019
3 - 5 pm
Soprafina Gallery
55 Thayer Street
Time and Again takes a narrative stance using a visual vocabulary of fragmentation, interruption, and reflection. Underlying the work is the premise that human relationships with the earth are dynamic, reciprocal, and move in ever-evolving cycles of repetition and variation.
www.soprafina.com
Selections from Singular and Serial: Contemporary Monotype and Monoprint
Soprafina Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of singular prints selected from the recently published book Singular and Serial: Contemporary Monotype and Monoprint
Reception: Friday, September 6 at 5:30 pm
Book signing and sale at the opening and again on September 14, 3 - 5 pm
May 5, 5:30-7:30pm
Artist's Reception
Saturday, May 13, 2-4pm
Catherine Kernan’s imagery is rooted in nature. Combining printmaking and painting through the means of abstraction, she develops a visual code that balances rhythm and texture, a sense of order and chaos, or as Kernan puts it, embodies “the control and serendipity of life itself.”
AfterImages: New Woodcut Monoprints
March 1 – March 30, 2013
A series of woodcut monoprints about memory reconstruction and visual perception, these works are large in scale and rich with complex overlays. Working at the interface between printmaking and painting, Kernan uses woodblocks in unorthodox ways to build images layer by layer in a painterly process of controlled accident.
Process and Purpose
The Ink Shop Printmaking Center
Alan Singer, Curator
February 3 – March 31, 2012
"Process and Purpose" is an exhibition that represents the evolution of an art form. The primary goal is to highlight terrific prints made by a group of significant artists that extend the range of what printmaking is and will be.
Each participating artist contributes fresh energy – changing the scope of printmaking by confronting certain subjects or procedures. Artists invent new techniques and methods to express something that couldn't have been done otherwise.
reThink INK: 25 Years at Mixit Print Studio
Karen Shafts, Curator
April 11 – July 31, 2012
www.bpl.org
For twenty-five years Mixit Print Studio has served as one of Boston's premier intellectual and artistic printmaking communities. Although we each explore our unique ideas, we interact and collaborate in countless ways. Because we share space, presses, and equipment, we encounter ways of generating, and executing ideas that would not happen in our own studios. Cross-fertilization is the hallmark of a collaborative print studio such as ours. Artists come to find aesthetic nourishment, technical exchange, critical feedback and the resources to realize their art projects. They leave with the indelible experience of having worked in a cooperative studio.
Mixit Print Studio was established in 1987 as a direct outgrowth of Artist's Proof Studio, a four-partner printmaking cooperative in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1980-84). The original partners, Jane Goldman and Catherine Kernan, were joined in 2010 by third partner Randy Garber.
reThink INK is an unprecedented showing of large scale and dimensional printmaking, as well as work from Boston area artist printmakers using a wide range of techniques and concepts.
Cynthia Reeves – New England
57 South Main
Hanover, NH 03755
March 30 – May 1, 2012
The Boston-Joburg Connection: Transformation and Exchange at Artist Proof Studio Johannesburg, 1995-2010
Tufts University Art Gallery
Pam Allara, Curator
May 31 – July 29, 2012
artgallery.tufts.edu
This exhibition charts the transformation of South African society over the past 25 years from Apartheid to democracy through the collaborative printmaking of the Artists' Proof Studio, Johannesburg, and its Boston colleagues from Tufts/ the Museum School and Mixit Studio.
The influence of the artists of Artist Proof Studio on the Boston-based workshop leaders is less immediate but nonetheless significant: the expansion of their own knowledge and understanding of life experiences very different from their own. When they returned to teaching in the US, they absorbed and practiced the concept of ubuntu.
The artists from APS who came to teach workshops at the Boston Arts Academy have returned the gift of sharing knowledge to Boston.
Coming of Age Exhibition: 21 years of APS @JAG
Johannesburg Art Gallery
Johannesburg SA
Kim Berman, Curator
April – June 2012
http://www.artistproofstudio.co.za
Artist Proof Studio was founded as a community-based printmaking studio in 1991 by Kim Berman and the late Nhlanhla Xaba. Over the past twenty years, Artist Proof Studio has trained two generations of artists who would have had otherwise little access to professional education in printmaking, many of whom have been recognized as among South Africa's most important young talents.
American Impressions: Contemporary Printmaking
Shanghai International Convention Center
Shanghari China
Rosemary Cooley, Curator
“American Impressions: Contemporary Printmaking” is an exhibition arranged and curated by Rosemary Cooley to bring some examples of contemporary American printmaking to Mainland China.
32 Clifton Street, Somerville, MA 02144 Tel: (617) 909-7107
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Consarc Corporation – Specialists in vacuum technologies
Consarc Corporation
Specialists in vacuum technologies
Business View Magazine interviews Michael Lister, Director of Business Development for Consarc Corp. as part of our focus on the melting and casting sector.
Consarc Corporation may have been around since 1962, but its dedication to engineering innovations has made it today’s leader in advanced vacuum technologies. “Our founder, Henry Rowan, a graduate of MIT, electrical engineer, industrialist, philanthropist, and entrepreneur wove his dedication to technological advancements throughout generations of Consarc employees – and we’re still constantly looking to develop groundbreaking technologies that will help our customers operate faster, safer, and more efficiently,” says Michael Lister, Consarc’s Director of Business Development. “As Henry Rowan said, ‘I hadn’t gone into business to do things the way everyone else did them. I wanted to do them better. Every job, every concept and detail represented the challenge to do something that had never been done before.’”
In fact, Consarc isn’t the only company operating under Henry Rowan’s corporate principles, as it is a member of the Inductotherm Group, a worldwide collection of manufacturers of advanced technologies, products, and systems for the induction heating and transformation of metals, specialty alloys, and engineered materials.
Consarc manufactures vacuum and controlled atmosphere melting and casting equipment for industries such as aerospace, power generation, automotive, and biomedical. These industries use Consarc furnaces to refine alloys and cast parts – superalloys for aeroengine and industrial gas turbine blades, vanes and discs; specialty steels for aircraft structures and landing gear; and titanium for aircraft structures, aeroengines, sporting goods, and medical implants. “These industries have incredibly precise specifications when it comes to their requirements – they use expensive and volatile elements such as nickel, chromium, niobium, and titanium which molecularly form the strongest metals, but also require controlled atmospheres when molten,” explains Lister. “The controlled atmosphere keeps the elements where they should be, in the metal, and not forming oxides and other non-desirable states of metal. Once the metal is chemically pure, Consarc furnaces refine the macro and microstructure to ensure that the metal ingots being produced are as homogenous as possible. These processes of chemical and structural uniformity are what allows airplane and aeroengine manufacturers to safely use their parts in highly demanding applications.”
The first Consarc specialty furnace was developed over 40 years ago, and, today, over half the vacuum, or controlled atmosphere melting furnaces around the globe bear the Consarc name. “Our name comes from our original product – a vacuum arc remelting furnace, or a consumable arc furnace, hence cons-arc,” says Lister. “Our core product offerings are VIM, which is Vacuum Induction Melting; VAR, which is Vacuum Arc Remelting; ESR, which is ElectroSlag Remelting; and VPIC, which is Vacuum Precision Investment Casting.
“Our typical customer is a specialty steel provider,” Lister continues. “It’s not the big name companies like U.S. Steel, Nucor, or ArcelorMittal. We work with a group of companies that most people haven’t heard of outside the industry. That includes companies like Carpenter Technologies, the Precision Castparts Group, Arconic, and Allegheny Technologies – you may not have heard of them, but they are all companies that are incredibly vital to the aerospace industry, keeping us safe when we fly.”
Consarc’s capabilities do not end with the design and manufacture of its products; the company also offers its customers the industry’s highest level of technical support and service based on its extensive experience in installation, repairs, and field service engineering. Additionally, in some industries, melting and refining involves more than just the equipment to perform the act – it requires the process knowledge developed over decades of experience. Consarc personnel around the world work directly with customers to refine their process, increasing production time, output, and repeatability.
Globally, Consarc has about 150 employees in many locations; it is headquartered in New Jersey with 4,200 square meters of manufacturing; operates an 1,800-square-meter manufacturing facility in Scotland, and partners with manufacturing teams at Inductotherm Group sister companies in China, India, Korea, and other countries.
This, Lister believes, is Consarc’s biggest advantage to its customers. “We have access to 40 different locations, globally,” he says. “We are on all six continents, so we’re able to provide local support in local time zones to our global client base. We can leverage the knowledge of 2,900-plus employees who have cumulatively been manufacturing for thousands of years and apply that knowledge directly to our local customers.”
This is particularly helpful in the steel industry, where gone are the days of a large team of plant engineers running a whole facility. “Today,” Lister explains, “we’re seeing jobs that were traditionally handled by the steel plants and their team of engineers being pushed on to the OEMs. Many of our clients are increasingly reliant on us for things like installation or process knowledge, and we’ve evolved accordingly. We have dedicated teams of installation specialists, as well as an extensive R&D department, with staff engineering and technical teams poised to handle our customer’s most intriguing challenges.”
Lister mentions some of the company’s signature projects and awards: “We did a project with Latrobe Specialty Steel, before their acquisition by Carpenter Technologies back in 2007-08. We delivered the largest vacuum induction melting furnace operating today while they were constructing their new plant. It was a collaborative design/build. While they were building, we were shipping components in and we are proud of what we did in a short span of time. That won an AIST (Association for Iron & Steel Technology) project award. We also manufactured a 150-ton static electrode ESR furnace which, when it was installed in 2011, was the largest of its kind.
Going forward, Consarc’s focus remains on leveraging today’s newest technologies for the benefit of its customers. Lister sees the future of Consarc intimately tied to the nascent industry of additive manufacturing, which refers to a process by which digital 3D design data are used to build up a component in layers by depositing material. “Additive Manufacturing (AM) is going to drastically change the way that engineers and end users are designing parts,” he states. “We’re seeing a tremendous upswing in research and development of high performance alloys for 3D printing. That means there is currently a tremendous demand for powders. There is no doubt this technology is in its infancy; we’re not going to be driving 3D printed cars anytime soon. But, we are seeing a lot of research and development and where there’s smoke, there’s eventually going to be fire.”
Meanwhile, Lister says that Consarc will continue to provide its full spectrum of services “to help companies with their equipment for its entire lifecycle – from pre-sales, to installation, to ongoing metallurgical support,” he concludes. “We’re making strategic investments into additive manufacturing, and supporting our customers in mature industries, like automotive and aerospace. We’re doing all that and keeping an eye on modernizing our product offerings for the future. We are an engineering company, striving to develop game-changing technologies, at heart; we just happen to also manufacture vacuum furnaces.”
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Strohecker Incorporated – Strohecker Incorporated specializes in the fabrication and repair of wrought copper crucibles, molds, liners, hearths, and related equipment for use in VAR, ESR, EBM, PAM and other related specialty melting processes.
Founded in 1947, Strohecker started as a custom fabricator of industrial equipment in high-temperature and corrosive environments. Soon after, Strohecker began developing techniques in the welding of heavy copper to itself and other dissimilar materials. It manufactured some of the earliest copper crucibles for the titanium industry and continued to develop its welding processes, so that by 1980, Strohecker’s crucible work had become the most important part of its business.
Situated midway between Pittsburgh, PA and Cleveland, OH, Strohecker draws from a wide range of experienced specialty forming, machining, heat treating and testing services – all within close proximity. For over 70 years Strohecker has provided quality fabrication and repair services to most of the specialty melting shops across North America, as well as to producers in Latin America, Europe, and Asia. – www.strohecker.com
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Hedge funds 'raking in billions' during coronavirus crisis
Managers are pocketing large sums while care workers can barely scrape by, says TUC
Hedge funds have been accused of raking in billions from market bets during the coronavirus crisis while care workers in high-risk environments can barely scrape by.
Frances O’Grady, general secretary of the TUC trade union body, launched a stinging attack on hedge fund managers on Thursday after it was revealed one London hedge fund had made £2.4bn betting on market moves as investors panicked over a global economic shutdown.
News of the multibillion-pound windfall came as Crispin Odey, the Brexit supporter who made millions betting against the pound in the run up to the EU referendum, said his fund had made its biggest monthly gain since the financial crisis.
O’Grady said: “It’s a sign of our broken economy that hedge fund managers are raking in billions, while care workers who are putting their lives on the line can barely scrape by. When the immediate crisis has passed, we need to rebuild a more equal economy. The super-rich must be made to pay their fair share and ordinary workers should get the respect and pay they deserve.”
Ruffer Investment, which was founded by multimillionaire financier Jonathan Ruffer, told clients it had made $2.6bn (£2.4bn) during the coronavirus pandemic-induced global stock market collapse after a series of cheap “protective investment” bets on market volatility delivered huge returns. The story was first reported by the Financial Times.
It also came to light that a US hedge fund made a 4,144% return betting on a stock market collapse in the year to the end of March. The Miami-based Universa Investments fund, which is advised by The Black Swan author Nassim Taleb, made a return of 3,612% in March alone. “I think we’ve shown Universa’s method of risk mitigation to be the most effective,” Mark Spitznagel, the fund’s president and chief investment officer, said in an investor letter seen by Bloomberg.
Odey Asset Management declined to comment on the TUC’s call for hedge fund owners to pay a “fair share” towards the fight against coronavirus. The fund made a return of 21% in March.
Odey, who has an estimated £800m fortune, privately told clients that the world was facing a crisis as bad as the Great Depression in the 1930s.
In a letter to investors on Thursday and reported by Bloomberg, Odey said: “This is not like 2008-9, nor 2001-2, nor even 1989-92. The fall in global gross national product for this year will echo 1931-2. That was a terrible time when countries and institutions disappeared and characters like Adolf Hitler seized their chance to take over Germany.”
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LILLEY: Trudeau puts murderers before grandmas for COVID vaccine
Ontario Premier Doug Ford asked the Trudeau government to fix this “mistake.”
Brian Lilley
Serial killer Bruce McArthur. (Facebook photo)
Who should get vaccines first?
It’s been a big question since the beginning of the pandemic and now we have an answer from the Trudeau Liberals.
LILLEY: Trudeau puts murderers before grandmas for COVID vaccine Back to video
They believe inmates come before nursing home residents. So mass murderers such as 71-year-old Robert Pickton or Bruce McArthur, soon to be 70, are likely to get a vaccine before many nursing home residents.
That was made clear with a story that broke Tuesday night from CTV saying inmates would begin getting vaccinations this week. It would start with a group of 600 and grow from there.
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole responded to the story on Twitter with a rather sensible proposal.
“Not one criminal should be vaccinated ahead of any vulnerable Canadian or front-line health worker,” O’Toole said.
It’s not a harsh statement. It’s not something that says no inmate should be vaccinated ever. Still, O’Toole’s comments sparked outrage among Liberals and their supporters online with many calling the top Conservative inhumane, or worse.
Let the public health officials make these decisions, was the demand.
Well, funny thing, they already made their recommendation, which is what public health officials do. It’s the politicians who actually make these decisions.
The recommendations from the national advisory committee on immunization were clear on which groups should be vaccinated first, starting with residents and staff of nursing homes, adults over 70, health-care workers and adults in Indigenous communities “where infection can have disproportionate consequences.”
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Those are the groups that are recommended for Stage 1 of vaccination by the federal body charged with advising the Trudeau government. Inmates are in Stage 2 along with migrant workers, people living in homeless shelters and essential workers.
So when the Trudeau government makes sure that inmates, even a selection of them, are getting a COVID-19 vaccination before nursing homes across the country are completed, they aren’t following the science. They aren’t following the advice of public health officials — not in the published documents. They are making a political decision.
“How do you put them ahead of long-term-care patients? How do you put them in front of all the most vulnerable?” Ontario Premier Doug Ford asked Wednesday.
“I imagine whoever the minister is in charge of that has dropped the ball, major, major league.”
Ford asked the Trudeau government to fix this “mistake.” That is unlikely to happen.
Shortly after Ford made his comments, Trudeau’s Minister for Public Safety Bill Blair spoke out to defend the decision.
“The language of resentment and fear has no place in this discussion. It really needs to be based on the advice of our public health authorities,” Blair said.
Well minister, this isn’t about resentment, it’s about looking after the most vulnerable first. It also isn’t about the advice of public health authorities. Read the guidance document yourself.
Despite concerns that jails would be a major problem for the spread of COVID-19, it hasn’t materialized — not compared to what has happened in long-term care across the country.
In Ontario, nursing homes account for 57% of all deaths and those over 80 account for 69% of deaths in the province. Across the country, some estimates say nursing homes account for 80% of all COVID-19 deaths.
These are the people most in need of a vaccine. This isn’t a debate about whether to vaccinate prisoners ever. It is about priorities.
“Government data from this past year shows that prison outbreaks have been isolated. The reality is that the federal government’s failure to secure sufficient vaccine supply for all Canadians means that difficult choices must be made,” Conservative MP Shannon Stubbs said.
One of those decisions is who gets a vaccine and who doesn’t.
With this decision, Trudeau and his Liberals have decided that hardened criminals come before your aunt or grandmother in a nursing home.
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Turn Your Rent Renegotiation into an Honest Give-and-Take, Not a Tug of War
Advice from both sides of the fence and the agents who sit in the middle, including separate tip sheets for tenants and landlords.
Many businesses are struggling to pay rent as they scale back operations or close their doors entirely amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
“As a landlord, this is the worst thing that can happen to you, especially since we don’t know how long this crisis will continue,” says Steve Sombrero, president of Cushman & Wakefield ChaneyBrooks.
In early April, the commercial real estate company received letters from tenants seeking rent relief. Sombrero and his colleagues emphasize that the situation is challenging on both ends: Just as tenants are struggling to pay rent, they say, landlords also need to pay their bills and lenders.
Sombrero and others interviewed for this story agree that landlords and tenants must work together during these challenging times.
“Hopefully, the landlords work with their tenants as much as possible because there’s going to be a real lack of tenants to fill empty spaces, especially if this goes on for a long time,” says Andrew Starn, senior VP at Cushman & Wakefield ChaneyBrooks.
“For everyone that was struggling prior to this or people that weren’t paying rent to their landlords prior to this, unfortunately, all those businesses, tenants, aren’t likely to make it through this major business hurdle and this health pandemic. There’s going to be a lot of difficult times out of this.”
Seeking Relief
For many restaurants and retailers, rent makes up the largest portion of monthly costs. Tom Jones, chairman of the Hawai‘i Restaurant Association, and Tina Yamaki, president of the Retail Merchants of Hawaii, say their members are concerned about meeting those rent obligations while their brick-and-mortars are closed or have limited operations.
At the end of April, KITV4 reported that 55 Ward Village tenants had formed a hui to ask their landlord for a rent waiver or reduction. Many other businesses are also seeking various types of rent relief.
Honolulu-based Ziva Law LLLC helps commercial tenants with their leases. Chenise Iwamasa, principal attorney and founder, writes in an email that most tenants she’s been assisting have been asking for rent abatement, which means that rent for a certain period is forgiven and does not need to be paid back. Landlords, she writes, usually prefer rent deferment, which delays the payment deadline.
Jones, who is also co-owner of Gyotaku Japanese Restaurants in Honolulu, Niu Valley and Pearl City, says it’s common in the restaurant and retail industries to pay last month’s bills with this month’s income.
“I think from most restaurant owners’ perspective, or even in retail,” he says, the thinking is, “ ‘We don’t have any sales, we don’t have any money. It’s not that we don’t want to pay you, it’s that we can’t pay you. We don’t have money to pay, and we’re not going to have money to pay,’ ” he says.
While rent deferral can be helpful in the short term, he says, it could also mean that a restaurant will be less profitable or potentially broke when that money comes due. Instead, he prefers that landlords give tenants a discount on rent.
“I don’t think that the landlord who typically has very deep pockets gets to be made whole at the expense of small retailers and restaurateurs,” he says. “That doesn’t seem to be really fair or appropriate.”
He adds that some businesses are starting to receive assistance from the Paycheck Protection Program, part of the federal government’s coronavirus relief package. Money from the program can be used to pay for rent; the challenge now is for businesses to meet certain conditions so they won’t have to pay back those funds. Seventy-five percent of the money received through the program needs to be spent on employee payroll in order for the loan to be forgiven, among other conditions.
The relief package also places an eviction moratorium on certain residential leases, but Iwamasa cautions that it does not apply to commercial leases. However, Hawai‘i’s courts are closed for eviction proceedings through May 29 or whenever the governor’s emergency proclamation terminates.
“Therefore, practically speaking, landlords could not initiate an eviction proceeding against a commercial tenant until the courts reopen,” she writes in an email.
Landlord Responses
Leaders of the Hawai‘i Restaurant Association and Retail Merchants of Hawaii say they’ve heard of local landlords offering various types of rent relief, as well as landlords who are still trying to collect full rent payments.
“It’s a little all over the gamut,” Yamaki says. “There’s no best practice or industry standard to what’s going on.”
During a Chamber of Commerce Hawaii webinar, Sombrero said widely negotiated rent concessions include: partial or full rent abatement for a limited time; rent deferrals for 30 to 90 days with rent to be amortized at a future date; rent abatement in return for longer lease terms or elimination of certain lease clauses, such as terminations and renewal options; and using security deposits or letters of credit to pay rent.
Abatements usually only happen when it would be extremely difficult for landlords to replace tenants, Sombrero says. For example, it’s been easy to find replacement tenants in Waikīkī, but not so much for areas farther away from O‘ahu’s core business and tourism districts.
“From a landlord perspective, you have to understand that not only do you have to collect rent as quickly as possible, but you also need to work with the tenants to keep them alive,” he says.
Walter Thoemmes, managing director of commercial real estate at Kamehameha Schools, writes in an email that the educational trust developed an initial tenant relief program to proactively and temporarily ease the financial burden of rent payments for tenants impacted by the coronavirus and related government mandates.
Tenants who agreed to participate in the program can defer their April, May and June monthly rent without penalties or defaults. The intent is to give them time to mitigate impacts, explore other forms of assistance, gather supporting documents for relief requests and develop plans to survive and recover.
“KS is committed to the survival and success of our tenants because, as our tenants succeed, we succeed, and our communities recover and begin to flourish,” Thoemmes writes.
Ward Village is offering its tenants online promotions, virtual community engagement, flexible hours of operation and 24-hour security to guard stores that are temporarily closed. The master planned community has about 1 million square feet of commercial space.
“We’re committed to serving as trusted partners to our tenants and meeting with them one-on-one to review their unique needs,” writes Francis Cofran, VP of management and operations at The Howard Hughes Corp., in an emailed statement. “To help our tenants plan to make the best business decisions, we provide ongoing information about both local and national resources available – from SBA loans to relief programs. We are navigating this crisis together and we will continue to work as a holistic community to get through this challenging time.”
Lynn Kenton, director of corporate communications at Alexander & Baldwin, writes in an emailed statement that the company frequently talks with its tenants and passes on information that would be helpful to their welfare, such as the importance of increased hygienic and safety measures, and an analysis of complex federal paycheck protection and economic injury loan programs. The landlord has also helped tenants connect with their banks to access financial relief.
“Our goal is to just keep working together with our tenants and employees, to help all to weather this pandemic, through its end. It will take a team effort to get us all through this period,” she writes.
Some experts interviewed for this story say the coronavirus pandemic will likely change how commercial leasing is done in the future.
One provision that is getting a lot of attention is force majeure, which can provide extended deadlines for performance in unforeseen events not caused by the nonperforming party. However, whether and to what extent a force majeure can excuse performance depends upon the specific language used in the clause and the factual circumstances of each case, Iwamasa writes.
Anthony Provenzano, senior VP at Cushman & Wakefield ChaneyBrooks, writes in an email that this provision was rarely negotiated before the pandemic, but that will likely change.
“In the post-COVID-19 world, however, I imagine the parties will negotiate the force majeure clause more strenuously to (1) determine whether the list of force majeure events is unrestricted or finite, and (2) clarify the landlord obligations and tenant obligations to which force majeure should apply,” he writes.
Iwamasa says that force majeure clauses in commercial leases going forward will probably include words like “epidemic,” “pandemic” and “infectious disease.”
“That usually happens after any significant event,” she writes. “For example, after 9/11, we saw more force majeure clauses include a reference to ‘terrorist attacks’ in the definition of a force majeure event. Although it is already fairly common to see reference to ‘government order’ or similar events in force majeure clauses, we might see those references expanded to specifically include the ‘stay-at-home’ or ‘shelter-in-place’ orders that arose out of COVID-19.”
(To read our past coverage on force majeure clauses, click here.)
Provenzano writes that landlords will also likely modify their leases to allow for an increase in operating expenses that results from more cleaning and higher security costs. And Iwamasa anticipates a significant amount of litigation arising from this crisis.
“It will be interesting to see how courts will interpret clauses in leases and other business contracts in light of this unprecedented situation,” she writes. “What the ‘new normal’ for commercial lease drafting will look like in the future as a result of what we have collectively experienced with the COVID-19 pandemic will also be guided by the outcome of these court cases.”
The Retail Merchants of Hawaii’s Yamaki says it’s a scary time for retailers who don’t know if they’ll survive the pandemic.
“We’ve heard of companies, whether it’s mom and pop all the way up to national stores, where we don’t know if they’re going to reopen again here in Hawai‘i and that’s really scary and very sad,” she says.
The Hawai‘i Restaurant Association’s Jones emphasizes that landlords need to help their tenants during this difficult time.
“I think you hear this expression, ‘We’re all in this together,’ and I think it would be wise for landlords to be taking that approach and trying to work with their tenants to help them be successful in the long run.
“Rent is going to be one of the biggest challenges for restaurants to make and it’s probably going to be one of the biggest reasons why restaurants who failed to reopen failed to reopen. That means there’s a big responsibility on the part of the landlords with the general economy moving forward, I think. It puts a big responsibility on them.”
Advice for Tenants as They Navigate COVID-19 Lease Challenges
1. Review your lease and start discussions early.
Chenise Iwamasa, principal attorney and founder of Ziva Law LLLC, writes in an email that tenants should make sure they understand their rights and obligations and what provisions might apply to the pandemic.
In addition, tenants should initiate rent relief conversations as early as possible before rent is due to provide enough time to negotiate with their landlords.
“Landlords and tenants should try to be creative in structuring the terms of lease modification agreements and balancing the needs of both parties,” she writes. “Some options for rent relief include full or partial rent abatement, full or partial rent deferment, a rent repayment plan, an extension of the term of the lease in proportion to the rent relief period, and a waiver of late payment fees and other penalties.”
Anthony Provenzano, senior VP at Cushman & Wakefield ChaneyBrooks, says tenants should not be afraid to ask for help if they need it: “In Hawai‘i, our culture and our nature is to not ask for help,” but tenants who really need assistance should seek it, he says, “even though they’re trying to be humble and not ask for help.”
2. Be diligent in your negotiation efforts.
Tenants can strengthen their rent relief requests by explaining how COVID-19 has hurt their businesses and what they have done to mitigate losses, Iwamasa writes. For example, tell your landlord if you are pursuing insurance claims, applying for relief under government programs, reducing staff or cutting unnecessary overhead expenses.
“Landlords seem more inclined to offer some assistance to tenants genuinely doing the best they can under the circumstances,” she writes.
3. Get lease modifications in writing.
Make sure you keep good records of your communications with your landlord and get any mutually agreed upon lease modifications in writing, Iwamasa writes.
“To ensure that the workout agreement you negotiated is enforceable, memorialize it in a written agreement that complies with the modification requirements outlined in your lease,” she writes.
4. You might have to make concessions.
Concessions could include that you continue to pay operating expenses and agree to an extended lease term in exchange for a deferral on your base rent, says Joseph Haas, managing director and principal broker at Cushman & Wakefield ChaneyBrooks.
5. Be careful that you don’t violate any confidentiality provisions.
Iwamasa says many leases contain a provision that prohibits tenants from talking with one another about their individual leases. Landlords, she says, generally don’t want tenants comparing notes or sharing what rent they’re getting.
“I think in this kind of situation people are talking, so (you want to make) sure you don’t violate any prohibitions on disclosing the terms of your lease with other people,” she says.
6. Understand that not all landlords will be able to provide rent relief.
Some landlords may have more flexibility than others to offer rent relief to tenants, Iwamasa writes. Landlords who have mortgages on their property have their own bills to pay and are bound by lender requirements.
Advice for Landlords as They Navigate COVID-19 Lease Challenges
1. You need to communicate with your tenants.
The most important things landlords can do right now, says Steve Sombrero, president of Cushman & Wakefield ChaneyBrooks, is to communicate with their tenants about their plans or programs and to direct them to bankers and other advisors if they need assistance.
“You need to start communicating as quickly as possible. Don’t leave it to chance,” he says, adding that the “worst thing a landlord can do at this time is to be quiet.”
Cushman & Wakefield ChaneyBrooks is trying to accommodate tenants’ requests for rent relief. Many of those requests are coming from tenants in Waikīkī, says Joseph Haas, the organization’s managing director and principal broker.
The company is requiring its tenants to apply for financial assistance under the federal Paycheck Protection Program. Money from this program is provided by the federal government to assist impacted businesses, which can use it to pay for employee salaries and rent.
“We want to make sure they’re taking advantage of this historical program that we have never seen in the history of the U.S. or maybe even the world,” Sombrero says.
2. Look at the provisions in your lease.
Some key terms to review include force majeure, interruption of services, business interruption insurance, operating expenses, abandonment/continuous use, security deposit, holdover, default and termination. During a Chamber of Commerce Hawaii webinar, Sombrero recommended that landlords consult their attorneys and risk advisors to see how these provisions might impact their ability to enforce their commercial leases.
3. Ask your tenants about their finances and what they are doing to mitigate COVID-19 impacts.
Landlords should request information on all government assistance the tenant is seeking or has already been granted, evidence of business continuity insurance and the defined coverage amounts, a description of the tenant’s ownership structure, and the last three years of audited financial statements and tax returns, Sombrero said during the webinar. In addition, landlords should also request the tenant’s current financial statement and balance sheet.
4. Keep detailed records of any issues related to COVID-19.
Landlords and property managers should keep records on how long and why tenants are unable to use their commercial spaces, any instances of actual or potential exposure to the virus within the building, notices provided to tenants and all remedial actions taken, Sombrero said during the webinar.
He also recommended that landlords and property managers prepare for discussions about rent concessions by creating a master file with information about each tenant’s lease terms, current rent price, any past due amounts, security deposit amount, letters of credit, any personal or corporate guarantees, and whether the tenant has any lease renewal or termination rights.
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Alert but not alarmed: what to make of new H1N1 swine flu with ‘pandemic potential’ found in China
Ian M. Mackay, The University of Queensland
Researchers have found a new strain of flu virus with “pandemic potential” in China that can jump from pigs to humans, triggering a suite of worrying headlines.
It’s excellent this virus has been found early, and raising the alarm quickly allows virologists to swing into action developing new specific tests for this particular flu virus.
But it’s important to understand that, as yet, there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission of this particular virus. And while antibody tests found swine workers in China have had it in the past, there’s no evidence yet that it’s particularly deadly.
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China has a wonderful influenza surveillance system across all its provinces. They keep track of bird, human and swine flus because, as the researchers note in their paper, “systematic surveillance of influenza viruses in pigs is essential for early warning and preparedness for the next potential pandemic.”
In their influenza virus surveillance of pigs from 2011 to 2018, the researchers found what they called “a recently emerged genotype 4 (G4) reassortant Eurasian avian-like (EA) H1N1 virus.” In their paper, they call the virus G4 EA H1N1. It has been ticking over since 2013 and became the majority swine H1N1 virus in China in 2018.
In plain English, they discovered a new flu that’s a mix of our human H1N1 flu and an avian-based flu.
What’s interesting is antibody tests picked up that workers handling swine in these areas have been infected. Among those workers they tested, about 10% (35 people out of 338 tested) showed signs of having had the new G4 EA H1N1 virus in the past. People aged between 18 to 35 years old seemed more likely to have had it.
Of note, though, was that a small percentage of general household blood samples from people who were expected to have had little pig contact were also antibody positive (meaning they had the virus in the past).
Importantly, the researchers found no evidence yet of human-to-human transmission. They did find “efficient infectivity and aerosol transmission in ferrets” - meaning there’s evidence the new virus can spread by aerosol droplets from ferret to ferret (which we often use as surrogates for humans in flu studies). G4-infected ferrets became sick, lost weight and acquired lung damage, just like those infected with one of our seasonal human H1N1 flu strains.
They also found the virus can infect human airway cells. Most humans don’t already have antibodies to the G4 viruses meaning most people’s immune systems don’t have the necessary tools to prevent disease if they get infected by a G4 virus.
In summary, this virus has been around a few years, we know it can jump from pigs to humans and it ticks all the boxes to be what infectious disease scholars call a PPP — a potential pandemic pathogen.
If a human does get this new G4 EA H1N1 virus, how severe is it?
We don’t have much evidence to work with yet but it’s likely people who got these infections in the past didn’t find it too memorable. There’s not a huge amount of detail in the new paper but of the people the researchers sampled, none died from this virus.
There’s no sign this new virus has taken off or spread in the regions of China where it was found. China has excellent virus surveillance systems and right now we don’t need to panic.
The World Health Organisation has said it is keeping a close eye on these developments and “it also highlights that we cannot let down our guard on influenza”.
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People in my field — infectious disease research — are alert but not alarmed. New strains of flu do pop up from time to time and we need to be ready to respond when they do, watching carefully for signs of human-to-human transmission.
As far as I can tell, the specific tests we use for influenza in humans won’t identify this new G4 EA H1N1 virus, so we should design new tests and have them ready. Our general flu A screening test should work though.
In other words, we can tell if someone has what’s called “Influenza A” (one kind of flu virus we usually see in flu season) but that’s a catch-all term, and there are many strains of flu within that category. We don’t yet have a customised test to detect this new particular strain of flu identified in China. But we can make one quickly.
Being prepared at the laboratory level if we see strange upticks in influenza is essential and underscores the importance of pandemic planning, ongoing virus surveillance and comprehensive public health policies.
And as with all flus, our best defences are meticulous hand washing and keeping physical distance from others if you, or they, are at all unwell.
Ian M. Mackay, Adjunct assistant professor, The University of Queensland
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Walking Dead Wine Labels
Watch the Dead Rise on These Walking Dead Wine Labels
Living Wine Labels App Brings Entertainment To The Wine Aisle.
An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions is sweeping the globe, as fans of Robert Kirkman’s best-selling comic series and one of cable TV’s most popular shows we all know, causing the dead to rise, society to crumble, food to become scarce and all manner of hardships to be visited upon the populace. Luckily, there is still wine.
The Last Wine Company is introducing The Walking Dead Blood Red Blend and a Cabernet Sauvignon, each featuring a label that responds to the Living Wine Labels app, an augmented reality innovation that brings labels to life in compelling ways.
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The Blood Red Blend sports an image of Sheriff Rick Grimes staring down the undead. When the app is launched and pointed at the label, Sheriff Rick fights off the “walkers” in the wine aisle. The Walking Dead Cabernet Sauvignon label features a horde of walkers, and when the Living Wine Labels app is launched and pointed at the bottle, they break out of the label onto the phone screen. Pointing the app at both labels, when the bottles are side by side, triggers the characters to fight each other. Corks are collectible, featuring a variety of images such as barbed wire, a walker hand and an undead head.
2016 The Walking Dead Cabernet Sauvignon
The Living Wine Labels app builds on the popularity of the 19 Crimes Wine app, which first brought augmented reality to wine labels. The criminal rogues on the label of each 19 Crimes Wine come to life to tell their own story when the app, which has been downloaded more than 500,000 times, is pointed at the label. The Living Wine Labels app will continue to work with the 19 Crimes Wine labels, as well as labels from Chateau St. Jean, Beringer Brothers and Gentleman’s Collection, in addition to The Walking Dead Wines. All the labels will bring entertainment and engaging experiences to the wine aisle beginning in February, 2018.
Fans of The Walking Dead comic series are loyal and highly involved, with more than 50 million comics in print and digitally, worldwide. The series has millions of followers on social media, and The Walking Dead television show, which will return from a winter hiatus in February, is the #1 show for ages 18-49, with more than 36 million Facebook followers.
“We know how enthusiastic fans of The Walking Dead can be and we expect they will embrace the Living Wine Labels app and The Walking Dead Wines with real excitement. Finding new and meaningful ways to connect with consumers is something we care very much about and we think The Walking Dead wine and Living Wine Labels app are a perfect pairing.”
– Seth Hynes, who is leading the introduction of the wines for The Last Wine Company, a partnership between Skybound Entertainment and Treasury Wine Estates
“Watch The Dead Rise” by downloading the Living Wine Labels app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. The California wines, available nationally, retail for $18.99.
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Bold Moves Festival
April 22-May 2, 2021 | Aronoff Center
Our inaugural Bold Moves Festival will feature seven rotating mainstage productions accompanied by a variety of activities that will wow both ballet connoisseurs and those who love dance of all genres! In addition to these amazing performances, audiences have a menu of guest artists, talks, film screenings, dance classes, after-parties and more to choose from during this exhilarating and immersive experience.
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Program 1
In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated; Our Story; Wild Sweet Love
In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated
Wild Sweet Love
Choreography: William Forsythe
Music: Thom Willems (1987)
Few choreographers have changed ballet as deeply as American choreographer William Forsythe. His radical work in the 1980s redefined the artform with choreographic innovations. Forsythe’s 1987 ballet, In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated, electrified the ballet world. The contemporary masterpiece is an athletic union of classical ballet and modern dance, set to a thunderous electronic score. It opens with two ballerinas on stage, sizing each other up. What follows is a ballet battle for center stage as dancers redefine the classical dance vocabulary. As for the title, look upwards for two golden cherries – the ‘somewhat elevated’ objects of the title.
Choreography: David Morse
Music: Arvo Pärt
Be moved by Our Story, a reflection on the Holocaust from the perspective of survivors. Choreographed by Cincinnati Ballet soloist David Morse, the evocative work expands on a piece he initially created for the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center’s Gala Opening in 2019. With Our Story, Morse is taking a deeper look at how the Holocaust affected those who survived to tell the story.
Choreography: Trey McIntyre
Music: Queen, Lou Reed, Roberta Flack, Jose Alfredo Jimenez, The Partridge Family, Felix Mendelssohn, The Zombies
Trey McIntyre’s Wild Sweet Love returns to Cincinnati Ballet with a fantastic journey through the ups and downs of love. The athletic program is truly unexpected, featuring dance vignettes set to a quirky mix of music from artists like Queen to the Partridge Family to classical composer Felix Mendelssohn. Wild Sweet Love was inspired by the “Wedding March” from Mendelssohn’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and is a loose narrative ballet about a lonely woman and her search for love.
Nine Sinatra Songs; Petal; Sechs Tänze; World Premiere
Nine Sinatra Songs
Sechs Tänze
Choreography: Twyla Tharp
Songs Sung by Frank Sinatra
Nine Sinatra Songs presents a glamorous collection of seven couples that explores the arc of romantic relationships. The dancers swing, swirl, tango, and cha-cha through a glittering ballroom. Choreographer Twyla Tharp chose Frank Sinatra songs from the 1950s and 60s – Strangers in the Night, All the Way, That’s Life, One For My Baby (and One More For The Road), Softly As I Leave You, Something Stupid, and Forget Domani. Each of the songs interprets a phase in a couple’s relationship with its own distinct character and flavor. The ballet, created in 1982, is one of Tharp’s most frequently performed works and has become a mainstay in the repertories of professional dance companies worldwide.
Choreography: Helen Pickett
Music: Philip Glass & Thomas Montgomery Newman
Choreographer Helen Pickett created Petal in 2008 for the Aspen/Santa Fe Ballet. Since then, the lively Petal has become one of her best-known works. Pickett says it was inspired by the vibrant color and softness of a Gerber daisy. With high-octane yet sensual choreography, it is a visual riot of colorful wildflowers sure to enliven the audience.
Choreography: Jiří Kylián
Music: “Sechs Deutsche Tänze” KV 571, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Back by popular demand! Audiences were in awe of choreographer Jiří Kylián’s Sechs Tänze when it made its regional premiere during our 2018-2019 Season. Filled with sophisticated precision, this fanciful romp is both poetic and playful. The work represents the Rococo, the costumes and mannerisms of Mozart’s era, and expresses Kylián’s belief that life is a masquerade.
Choreography: Heather Britt
Music: TBD
Be amazed by a spectacular world premiere from Heather Britt, Cincinnati native and choreographer-extraordinaire! Britt has delighted Cincinnati Ballet audiences for more than 10 years with her athletic and emotional creations.
In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated, Our Story, Wild Sweet Love
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Initial soil P concentration (i.e., − P treatment) was 8 μg “available” P g− 1 soil using the Bray and Kurtz (1945) method (mean ± s.e., n = 10). Erect and requires ample growing space. Flooding has less effect on absorption of Ca and Mg than on N, P, and K (Kozlowski and Pallardy, 1984). FIGURE 12.14. Transpiration data for seedlings of two deciduous hardwoods and loblolly pine in Table 12.4 show that although the hardwoods transpired about twice as rapidly as pine per unit of leaf surface, the transpiration per seedling of similar size was greater for the pine because of its greater leaf surface. By taking advantage of the high resolution of genomic markers, it is now possible to assess genetic structure associated with specific phenotypes, both within and among populations [82]. However, there are important differences among species and genotypes in rates of mineral uptake and these often are maintained when plants are grown in soils of widely different mineral content. (10 spp. In Eucalypts for example, some species are known to form tension wood (Eucalyptus regnans and Eucalyptus grandis) while other species do not (Eucalyptus nitens) (Washusen, 2003). However, as the soil dries the supply of water to the roots becomes a limiting factor and the rate of transpiration decreases (Chapter 12). However, it was unclear whether plants with adequate P continued growing under drier conditions more so than P-deficient plants. Mineral uptake is affected much less by flooding of flood tolerant species than of flood intolerant species (Dickson et al., 1972). Suriyagoda, ... Hans Lambers, in, Officer et al., 2009a,b; Rodriguez et al., 1996, Dunham and Nye, 1976; Jupp and Newman, 1987; Mackay and Barber, 1985, Physiology of Woody Plants (Third Edition), Miller, D. R., Vavrina, C. A., and Christensen, T. W. 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Nutrient return in litterfall can vary seasonally from year to year depending on forest composition and the leaf abscission process. Ian W. McCahill, Samuel P. Hazen, in Trends in Plant Science, 2019. In combination with population genomic analyses, estimates of local and spatial demographic rates can resolve cryptic interactions between gene flow and selection (Figure 2). The movement of ions in the soil and plant is correlated with water movement. For example, when there is a first-cousin mating, f=0.0625 and q=0.01, the ratio above is 7.2. 4.3). Suriyagoda, ... Hans Lambers, in Advances in Agronomy, 2014. Because inbreeding increases the frequency of homozygotes, the frequency of rare, recessive diseases is increased in inbred individuals. Many earlier results were summarized by Kramer and Kozlowski (1979). The mistletoe has some ripe fruits throughout the year, with the peak of fruiting occurring in summer. Winsor H. Lowe, ... Fred W. Allendorf, in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2017. Proteomics research in forest trees is still limited and restricted to a few genera (Abril et al., 2011). Hence, selection of genotypes for high rates of ion uptake from nutrient solutions may not be useful for selecting plants for planting in mineral deficient soils. Eucalyptus grandis is one of the most widely planted species in industrial plantations because of its fast growth and high‐quality wood. Hence, even though the mycorrhizae increased both the P concentration of seedlings and seedling dry weights when grown in P-unamended soil, the amount of available P in the soil was too low for the seedlings to achieve their full growth potential (MacFall et al., 1992). Epigenetic regulation can have dramatic transcriptional consequences, gating the effects of other regulatory modes by controlling the accessibility of DNA binding sites [55]. The greater rooting intensity associated with mycorrhizal infection increases absorption of immobile nutrients such as P much more than that of highly mobile nutrients (Bowen, 1984). Eucalyptus | Symphyomyrtus | Latoangulatae | Transversae. Pathogenicity trials were conducted in the greenhouse to determine the possible role that these Ceratocystis spp. Critically, the molecular mechanism of combinatorial transcriptional regulation by the EgH1.3-EgMYB1 complex has not been elucidated. 1. tree habit 2. fruiting twig 3. fruits with inflated calyx 4. flower 5. fruit with opened calyx: PROSEA Foundation Detailed line artwork: Flowering twig with panicles, flowers and fruits. The fruits are capsular, obconical to … The unusually low rate of sap movement in conifers in 1977 (Fig. Transcriptome profiling is particularly challenging in tree species due to their large genome sizes and lack of reference sequences. N.G., Indon., Philipp. That is, the equivalent of two to three genes were segregating in the winter-run chinook salmon population that if IBD would result in mortality from whirling disease. 12.14). This expression can be solved to give the number of lethal equivalents as. In Sabah, a total of 7,000 ha were planted with Eucalyptus deglupta by Sabah Softwood Sdn. Even in some parts of the tropics, seasonal cycles in transpiration occur because of variations in rainfall, humidity, and soil moisture. (1991) reported that the ectomycorrhizal fungi Gautieria monticola and Hysterangium setchellii formed dense hyphal mats in Douglas-fir stands. Roots absorbed K when they were exposed to an aerobic environment, and absorption stopped when N2 replaced air in enclosures surrounding the lower stem and basal roots (Fig. Fruits of Loranthus celastroides have a circular line of dehiscence on the upper end. Nutrient Withdrawal and Leaching from Foliage before Abscission in Conifers and Broad-leaved Species, Expressed as Percent Change of Dry Weighta, P.W. These authors suggest that P. schiedeanus “is using the nutrient investment strategy to attract dispersers during a time of fruit scarcity.”. The Eucalyptusgenus includes the tallest flowering plant species in the world, E regnans which grows up to 99.6m tall.4 E. grandis may be confused with the related E. saligna, a wet forest species occurring from Batemans Bay in New South Wales as far north as Blackdown Tableland in Queensland. When soil moisture was not limiting, seasonal patterns of sap movement in Douglas-fir and ponderosa pine stems were regulated by air temperature, solar radiation, and vapor pressure deficit. Honeyeaters feed on mistletoe fruits all year, but in addition they eat mistletoe nectar during the winter flowering season. Malayalam Name(s): Grandis : Tamil name(s): English name(s): Flooded Gum, Rose Gum : Description: Trees to 50 m high; bark white, smooth. Additionally, transcriptomic data, together with linkage mapping, are being used for the identification of candidate genes (Kirst et al., 2004; Sederoff et al., 2009). In contrast to reduced uptake of N, P, and K by flood-intolerant plants, absorption of Fe and Mn is increased as ferric and manganic forms are converted to the more reduced soluble ferrous and manganous forms (Ponnamperuma, 1972). E. grandis & Eucalyptus tereticornis are the main commercial species. In Chile, the bird Mimus thenca is more likely to deposit seeds of the endophytic mistletoe Tristerix aphyllus on a host cactus (Eulychnia acida or Echinopsis skottsbergii) that already has been parasitized than on one that has not been parasitized by the mistletoe (del Rio et al., 1996). Under anaerobic conditions the permeability of root cell membranes also is affected, leading to increased loss of ions by leaching. However, in the third year, net positive transfer was observed in Douglas-fir, with the greatest amount occurring in heavily shaded seedlings indicating this species behavior as a sink for the birch source plant.
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Commissioned Interlude 4 – Merit, Kansas (Summus Proelium)
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Bird-Chair-One. That was the designation of the termite who bustled his way along the sidewalk. He was named, as all members of the Sphere Colony, via the convention of ‘animal-object-number.’ Most termites weren’t given names, of course. Most wouldn’t have been capable of comprehending anything resembling the basic concept of a name. Or any idea of individuality, for that matter. They were simply cogs within a machine.
But Bird-Chair-One was no ordinary termite. Oh, on the outside he would look like a fairly typical representative of a soldier member of the Coptotermes formosanus species. That was the scientific term for the commonly known subterranean termite, a species often referred to as the super-termite thanks to a reputation for building enormous, expansive colonies and the speed at which they could consume wood. They were considered an invasive species of insects, capable of doing untold damage to homes and structures, particularly if not caught and contained in time before the colony spread too much.
And that was before you gave them human-level intelligence and superpowers.
There was one slight difference, physically, between these termites and most members of their species. Unlike typical Formosan termites, these possessed two tiny black nubs, barely visible, at the end of their heads. Nubs which provided them with one of many advantages they had over others of their kind: the ability to see. Those tiny, almost imperceptible bumps on each termite’s head, were eyes.
On his way down the cracked and broken pavement, the termite passed a small swarm of his fellow hive-members, who lined up together. A stream of thick fog emerged from the gathered insects, drifting out in front of them before forming itself into a series of sharp, angled spears. Though spears made of thick fog were hardly going to intimidate anyone, in a moment, they changed. The fog vanished, replaced by metal in the same shape. Several six foot long iron spears appeared, before clattering loudly into a low, wooden wheeled cart that lay nearby. A harness made of wood and rope attached the cart to four dogs who lay dozing in the sun. Atop the cart, at the front, was a glass orb the size of a hamster wheel, where a single termite perched.
Seeing (and feeling) the load of metal spears fall into place, the driver termite walked forward to stand on a small button, sensitive enough that even that miniscule amount of weight activated it. Doing so made a bell at the head of the cart ring, waking the quartet of dogs. Trained as they were, the dogs hopped to their feet and began to walk forward, pulling the loaded cart. The driver could move slightly left on the button to make a higher pitched dinging sound, which would make the dogs turn that direction, or move right to make a lower pitched donging sound, making them turn that way instead. Or the driver could move backward, creating a rapid beeping sound that would cause the dogs to stop entirely.
The dogs weren’t intelligent, but they had been well-trained and would expect treats for the work they provided. Treats the colony would provide.
Watching the wagon pull away briefly, Bird-Chair-One waved his antennae toward a couple termites in particular who were among those creating more spears. They were his friends, Giraffe-Rock-Thirty-Two and Elk-Cup-Fifteen, and he sent what amounted to a telepathic greeting. Members of the colony were capable of communicating with one another by sending and receiving the equivalent of ‘thoughts’ through their antennae. It allowed very complex conversations to be had in a much briefer time than human dialogue.
Yet, despite how quick and easy communication was, Bird-Chair-One knew he couldn’t stay to spend time with his friends or marvel at how well training their new transport-dogs was going. His mission, at that moment, was entirely too important to indulge in even another moment of conversation. And he knew just how easily Giraffe-Rock-Thirty-Two could distract him with jokes and tall tales if given a chance. No, he had to keep going, hurrying along the broken sidewalk, attached to a broken street, in the middle of an empty field that had, at one time, been a town, if a quite small one. Now there was little to illustrate that humans had ever lived there, aside from bits and pieces.
One year earlier, the humans had called this place Merit, Kansas. But that town no longer existed in any meaningful way. It was still listed on maps, of course. But every building within the city had been destroyed in a war. A war between humans and the Colony of the Sphere.
Soon, Bird-Chair-One reached the nearest tunnel entrance, hidden as it was under the remains of a mailbox. Pausing at the misleadingly small hole (which gave absolutely no indication of the sheer size and scale of the structure it was leading into), he lifted those tiny eyes to look around once more. No houses or other buildings still existed in what had been Merit. Every human structure had been stripped down to nothing, including the very foundations. That was what had to be done, both to send a message to their human enemies, and to provide much-needed resources to defend themselves through the ongoing conflict. Resources for the war.
It hadn’t begun with war. No, it had truly begun a little over a year ago, with the sudden appearance of a foreign object, a glowing orb which had appeared in the middle of an ordinary colony of termites. The glowing sphere had simply popped into existence in the middle of a tunnel, disrupting the work there. In its appearance, part of the tunnel had collapsed. But a moment later, for no readily apparent reason, the tunnel had repaired itself, stretching wide to accommodate its new intrusion. Meanwhile, several termites that had been crushed by the orb’s appearance were restored to their original, intact selves and were safely relocated.
All soldiers or workers among the common termite lacked truly formed eyes or vision. They navigated using their antennae to detect odors, and could differentiate light from dark. And it was both the strange scent of the orb as well as the light it was giving off (to say nothing of the damage it had done to the colony tunnel) that attracted soldier investigation. One in particular drew itself close enough to reach out and brush the orb. And that was when quite literally everything changed. Not only for that single termite soldier, but for the entire colony.
The first, most immediate change, was the fact that every single member of the colony immediately developed the ability to see. Those small, black, pebble-like bumps grew on the heads of the termites, awakening the ability of sight within all of them. Even those among the colony, such as the king, queen, and colony-expanding, winged alates they produced, who did technically have a rudimentary ability to see, had that ability expand greatly. Every single one of them, from that instant onward, had the gift of sight as clear as a human’s. Even better, technically, considering how well the vision worked within the pitch-black tunnels.
But the sense of sight, while being the most immediate and obvious change, was far from the most important. What followed, mere seconds later, was the ability to comprehend what that vision meant. The termites, one and all, every member of the colony, could suddenly understand what being able to see meant. They understood the concept of dying, of existing, of building. They knew what they were, what humans were, what other animals were. They were, one and all, as intelligent and aware as any average human. More importantly, the members of the colony were not only given a basic awareness and intelligence, they were gifted with the understanding of language. English, in this case. They knew what the words ‘tunnel’, ‘orb’, ‘dirt’, ‘wood’, and even their own designation of ‘termite’, meant. They knew the meaning of thousands of words, and even possessed at least a basic understanding of the history of humanity. The average termite in the colony, from that moment onward, possessed an equivalent knowledge and understanding of history, language, math, science, and more as, at a bare minimum, the average human high school student.
As with humans, some were more intelligent and knowledgeable than others. A few of the lowly workers and soldiers developed a level of intelligence on par not only with the average human, but with human scientists or academics. The queen and king, meanwhile, were given the intelligence and knowledge needed to control the colony, including the understanding that the most gifted of their subjects had to be protected and nurtured for the good of the colony.
It was an awakening, the uplifting of an entire colony of termites to a level of intelligence and understanding on par with any human. They were aware, intelligent, capable of individual personality. From that moment forward, every member of the colony, including those later grown from larvae, were just as individualized and capable of thought, creativity, and even emotions such as anger, compassion, and love as humanity itself.
And yet, for as remarkable as the colony’s sudden intelligence was, the gift of the orb (which had become a sort of god to them) did not end there. It also bestowed the ability for each of the termites to generate a bit of white fog. This fog was capable of disintegrating any currently non-living material (including dead wood) it touched so long as at least one member of the colony was currently standing on or touching identical material. For example, if one member of the colony was perched against a tire, any fog produced by any of the termites could disintegrate any other tires.
Materials dissolved this way could then be repurposed. The termites would simply produce more fog, manipulate it into the shape they wanted, and the fog would be replaced by the solid form made of their absorbed material. And while they were limited in how much material they could produce this way, it was not a one-one ratio with what they had dissolved. For every single pound of material the fog disintegrated, the colony as a whole could create ten pounds of the same material. Unfortunately, only original material could be multiplied this way. The termites could not, for example, disintegrate ten pounds of steel, create a hundred pound block, then disintegrate that and have access to a thousand pounds.
That was the new colony, an intelligent collection of termites capable of working together to disintegrate any non-living material and use that material to build elaborate, incredible structures. Each could only produce a small amount of fog by themselves, but together, much large amounts could be used, and thus much larger structures created.
With their new intelligence and individuality, the Colony of the Sphere (as they called themselves) attempted to reach out to the humans of the nearby small town of Merit, Kansas, by using their material-construction fog to create words made of stone, metal, and wood.
Unfortunately, that attempt… did not go well. The humans they tried to communicate with, their first attempt at contact, reacted horrifically. They rejected the very concept that the termites could be intelligent. No, worse, they reacted as though the colony were monsters, and tried to kill them. Almost the entire greeting party had been annihilated. A thousand of their people, a thousand intelligent creatures, who had been looking forward to meeting real humans, were wiped out.
And the humans had not stopped there. They had set about attempting to wipe the colony out entirely. Not all of them, naturally. But enough. And too few tried to stop them. After all, what they were killing were only insects. Poison, fire, huge drilling machines, they had gone to extreme lengths in their efforts to destroy the termite ‘invaders.’
The colony, of course, had retaliated once they understood that there was no negotiating, that there could be no compromise. Using their powers, they destroyed the drilling and digging machines, disintegrated the human weapons, even the clothes they wore. They moved further, destroying the very homes the humans lived in, the vehicles they drove, everything they could. They drove the humans to flee. And when more humans came with their weapons, their armored vehicles, their bombs, the colony destroyed those too.
Eventually, the humans had stopped coming, for the most part. A few still approached, and those who could be trusted were traded with. One in particular, a human named Jerry Mose, had driven a scouting expedition of the colony across a large part of the state, to every junkyard, scrapyard, abandoned car lot, factory, everywhere that would allow the termites to disintegrate more incredibly useful metal and add it to their collective resources. The human authorities had subsequently cracked down much harder on anyone approaching or leaving the territory of the colony, performing very intensive searches to ensure none of the termites snuck beyond their borders. But by then most of the damage had been done.
It was that, the addition of so much iron and steel (particularly given the colony’s ability to multiply any material they absorbed by ten), which allowed them to create the structure Bird-Chair-One was descending toward as he entered the tunnel. The tunnel, unlike those built by ordinary colonies, was made of concrete. The entrance area was quite wide, with a sharply angled ramp leading downward. Along the top of that ramp were twenty tiny, insect-sized boards with wheels under them. Each board had a spool attached to the back, with string leading from that spool to another one attached to the wall. Next to each spool was a small button.
Essentially, any member of the colony could perch themselves on a cart and push off. The cart would carry them, much faster than they could walk, down the steeply angled concrete tunnel, staying within narrow grooves which prevented the carts from banging into one another. On the way, the string attaching the cart to the wall spool would unwind. Once the cart was at the bottom, either the button attached to the wall spool, or an identical one down there, could be used to open a small stream of water into a bucket that was linked to the spool on the far side of the wall. The weight of the water-filled bucket would pull the cart back to the surface, and once the cart was locked in place, the bucket would empty and return to its normal position.
It was a complex system, and the colony was always trying to improve ways that they could get around. Particularly given the fact that their small size was the biggest disadvantage they had in their war for survival against the humans who kept trying to exterminate them. For now, it worked well enough, and Bird-Chair-One rode one of the carts down, down down. The concrete tunnel went through twenty feet of dirt, followed by a further forty feet of solid cement that matched the tunnel itself. And even then, after passing sixty feet deep into the ground through that mixture of dirt and concrete, the ride was only halfway over. A further sixty feet of solid steel, the exterior wall of the buried protective bunker that had become the primary colony home, had to be passed through. Twenty feet of dirt, forty feet of concrete, sixty feet of steel, all protecting the colony from the humans who had tried so hard to eradicate them.
For the moment, those humans had given up trying to destroy them, thanks to a mixture of the damage their very expensive equipment suffered any time it got close (the colony had scouting groups hidden in the wild watching all approaches toward their territory), and the arguments presented by those few humans that the colony counted as allies. They were intelligent and capable of rational thought, which prompted enough humans to speak up for their rights to exist that it was easier for the government to back off, put up signs and barricades blocking people from approaching the former town, and try to ignore the problem than it was to deal with it.
But the colony had not forgotten. They knew that it was only a matter of time before more humans came to try to kill them. And they would not be helpless victims again. They prepared their defenses, their weapons, for when that time inevitably came. The next time humans decided to play exterminator with the Colony of the Sphere, they would find a much bigger fight on their hands.
Bird-Chair-One and the rest of his people would not be wiped out. They had tried to extend a mandible of friendship to humans, and had been thoroughly burned. It was not a mistake they would make twice. While they could be allies with a few notable humans, those who had proven themselves, the colony would not expose itself to the risk of extinction again. Humans, as a general rule, were not to be trusted.
Reaching the bottom of the ramp, Bird-Chair-One left the cart and raced through the maze of tunnels, passing many, many more of his people. Though not as many as there could have been, considering how much better the colony was at defending itself than most insects. Like other Touched-animals, they also seemed to live longer than most of their kind. Though given the fact that most termites lived only one to two years, and it had been merely a single year since they had been Uplifted, that was harder to gauge.
The point was, they lived longer and thus the colony that had begun at a size of several hundred thousand should have been much larger. Yet something prevented that. Whether it was intentional on the part of the Sphere or not, their larvae only produced viable young at a pace that roughly matched their dead. Whenever they lost members of their species, for whatever reason, more larvae could hatch and grow. It kept the colony at roughly the same size, despite their greater intelligence and survival capability.
Finally, the tiny termite soldier reached the entrance to the queen’s chambers. It was guarded by dozens of those like him, who would quickly be backed up by hundreds more at a moment’s notice. To say nothing of the various traps that could be triggered to block off the tunnel and fill it with things such as deadly spikes and a flood of water if need be.
It took a few moments of telepathic communication of ideas and concepts before Bird-Chair-One was allowed to enter the queen’s chambers. Finally, however, the thick stone slab was moved aside, and he hurried in, before stopping to behold the queen herself. Truly massive in size compared to the lowly soldier he was, the queen perched in the corner of the room. Her gaze was centered on what, to humans, would be a tiny, cell-phone sized personal television that had been dragged in there. To the colony, it was a massive monitor, connected through a cable leading to a hidden metal satellite dish that allowed it to pick up these signals.
She was watching the human news, the anchor reporting from a town over seventy miles away. Nothing of any great import, but Lion-Sapphire-Zero insisted on keeping herself up to date on everything the humans were talking about. Just in case.
At the approach of her subordinate soldier, her attention moved from the commandeered television, and she sent the simple telepathic request of, Success or failure?
Success, Bird-Chair-One was happy to report. The boat floated properly on the water, and many of our people were capable of mounting it safely.
This is excellent news, came the cheerful response from Queen Lion-Sapphire-Zero. Soon, we will be able to move our expedition along the river to the place the humans call Leavenworth. Let them watch our above-ground defenses with their satellites and drones. Let them continue to search our human allies to ensure none of us are smuggled beyond these borders. We will move our people through the underground tunnels to our boats, and sail them under cover of darkness far beyond where the humans expect to find our people.
After a brief pause, Bird-Chair-One felt safe enough in the queen’s good mood to ask, Will we attack them then, to repay the lost massacre?
No, the queen informed him. We will not initiate hostilities. But we will place our people in position to retaliate if need be.
And if the humans do make any move to exterminate us again, they will find the cost to be far higher than they could have imagined.
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Cerulean says:
Thanks to the donator who chose to commission this look at a place I’ve mentioned in the Discord before. Next time we’ll get a look at a different group of insect-Touched, whose interactions with humans ended up going much better than this one!
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PandaGrill says:
Welp, at least they are not Tech-Touched like SCP-831 but their ability for human-like thought and emotion is almost just as terrifying, especially since they have been pissed off. I wonder how many of Touched animals are villains?
Prince Pondincherry says:
Me! I did! I was like, “Fomorian termites?! In Summus Proelium? aaaaah!”
fionag11 says:
I had to doublecheck which series this was happening in
fantasylover2 says:
Yes the Formosan had me freaking too. I really want other touched animals to reach out to the termites and help find a peace for them. Plus the humans involved need to cough up war reparations! Thousands of innocent sentient beings killed!
We have a bee-focused commissioned interlude coming up next that should help with the Termite situation. 🙂
ArtNJ says:
I thought this was silly to be honest. It would be trivial to dump a couple of tons of poison on a square mile or two, which being heavier than air, would penetrate any tunnels nicely. And the anys were making spears to mount on dogs or what were they for? Seriously? I honestly thought the chapter was a joke for a while.
Just to note, these are sapient, thinking creatures we’re talking about here. The large majority of humans in charge don’t actually want to murder all of them. Plus, they could dump poison on the ground and then the surviving termites just hole up in the bunker and block out the entrances. Remember, we’re talking about a bunker that is covered by 20 feet of dirt, 40 feet of concrete, then 60 feet of steel. Poison isn’t going to get into it once they block the entrances, which they can do instantly.
That and they weren’t mounting spears to the dogs, they were carrying the newly prepared spears elsewhere (it wasn’t revealed here, but they were going to launchers they’ve created that can shoot the metal spears).
Basically your argument seems to be that ‘they could easily genocide this entire intelligent species’, but A: it’s not QUITE that easy, B: more moral people don’t actually want to do that and are fighting against the very idea, and C: the possibility of the humans going too far is exactly why the queen is putting some of her people in positions to retaliate.
Well, the chapter said the humans initially tried to wipe them out. If it was just local farmers or even national guard type forces, sure I could see them failing, at least at first. Even with the bunker up, a government-level attack wouldn’t have any problems even without touched tech — a few bunker busters would do the job. (The USAF has a 30,000 pound bunker buster now. Judging from the penetration specs, it might take 2 or 3.) So yeah, depending on the timing and who was trying to kill the colony when, sure, they could potentially surive.
However, the spears are still very silly. If they can break the blockade, they would be able to get in position to disolve bridges, or perhaps the brakes of trains or key parts of airplanes. And they would have less lethal options as well, that might not invite a wipeout in retaliation — for instance, destroying the nearest cities sewer/water infrastructure. Throwing spears would be massively more complicated for a much smaller effect. They would be lucky to kill a couple of soldiers, which would likely just get them wiped out in any event.
Sorry, man, I think you’re missing the point on how horrifying wiping out an entire intelligent species would be. Let alone the United States dropping MULTIPLE bunker buster missiles on their own soil to do so. You seem to be pushing that it would be quite easy for the humans to literally genocide a species.
And yes, it… was farmers/local people who reacted badly to first meeting them. The military moved in once the whole situation was fucked and have just stopped people from going in/kept the situation contained while the leadership argues about how to -calm things down-, not how to wipe out an entire intelligent group of creatures.
And come on, the termites are trying to prepare for the survival of what amounts to their entire species. Of course they’re trying everything possible. They’re readying weapons to defend themselves from humans coming in. They have a lot of possible countermeasures. Not to mention that the spears can be used as transport methods to launch their own people onto any vehicles that approach in order to deploy their fog to dissolve said vehicle or weapon.
My point is, this is a very young species doing *the best they can* to defend themselves against a vastly superior force, in a situation that was created by a FEW humans who reacted horribly, while humans in charge try to figure out how to actually calm everything down.
To define my point more, it feels like you’re saying that the humans NOT genociding an entire species is silly. Which is what I’m pushing back against.
Also, even if you want to defend the spears, I wasn’t actually trying to get into a discussion of technical specifications or options. The chapter *felt* very silly. Ants guiding dogs carrying spears. I thought it was like an April Fools thing.
Termites, not ants, dude. And they’re using what they’ve got. Dogs are easy to train by providing treats to them, and they’re using them like horses/pack animals to carry heavy things that are harder for the termites themselves to move around. We have Touched animals fully established, this is just Touched bugs. No reason they can’t exist, and the perspective was of how they might react to a very failed first contact situation.
ereshkigala says:
The termites could just go near the shoreline and start fog-absorbing seawater. Depending on how fast the absorption and later recreation of materials is – and it probably is pretty fast if they can create sixty foot thick walls – they could potentially flood large areas. They don’t even have to flood cities; just flooding farmland with seawater will permanently damage it due to the salinity increase. That’s practically a WMD if used for long enough.
True, they could do a lot of damage that way.
Yo this is so cool
I love the Animal-Touched perspective chapters. Id read an entire book from Bird-Chair-One. XD
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Based on the award-winning Betrayal at House on the Hill board game, Betrayal at Baldur’s Gate you’ll return to Baldur’s Gate again and again only to discover it’s never the same game twice. Please try your search again later. There was a problem completing your request. I am thinking the bonus cards might be brick and mortar stores only. Seller Did anyone else receive the bonus cards with their copy? While the changes are not radical, the rules for haunts and such tend to be cleaner and more clear, unlike the original game. The shadow of Bhaal has come over Baldur's Gate, summoning monsters and other horrors from the darkness! I only changed the code so it works Betrayal at Baldur's Gate. I will say I loved the original Betrayal at House on the Hill so this review is largely biased. We are sorry. Dice Wars boasts fierce 1v1 duels, epic 3-4 player free-for-alls, and legendary 2v2 co-op conquests! Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. Select a location to see product availability. ; Battle for Baldur's gate is the first ever expansion for dungeon mayhem—the D&D themed, family-friend card Game. The shadow of Bhaal has come over Baldurâs Gate, summoning monsters and other horrors from the darkness! Sorry, we were unable to perform your search at this time. Thousands will agree that these are the top toys that you should be shopping for this season! Never split the party!! There is something about this version that is less appealing. They welcomed the addition of Widows Walk. As you build and explore the iconic cityâs dark alleys and deadly catacombs, you must work with your fellow adventurers to survive the terrors ahead. There is something about this version that is less appealing. A kids game bundle that challenges and entertains! In true Leeroy fashion I opted for a different solution, which was to murder my wife by relentlessly pursuing her over the next 3 turns. There was a problem adding this item to Cart. Based on the award-winning Betrayal at House on the Hill board game, Betrayal at Baldur’s Gate you’ll return to Baldur’s Gate again and again only to discover it’s never the same game twice. This is a great spin on Betrayal at House on the Hill. Based on the award-winning Betrayal at House on the Hill board game, in Betrayal at Baldur's Gate you'll return to Baldur's Gate again and again thanks to the fifty included scenarios only to discover … Can you and your party survive the madness or will you succumb to the mayhem and split (or slaughter!) It is not meant to be an expansion with the original game, Betrayal at House on the Hill. One of the player's party is outed as being a traitor who is out to do something evil, and it's up to the rest of the party to stop them. Played it for the first time during a weekend away with some friends. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The same kit is compatible with both Betrayal at House on the Hill and Betrayal at Baldur’s Gate. Every time kids will think of a different connection and reasoning to it. Based on the award-winning Betrayal at House on the Hill, Betrayal Legacy is a unique experience offering you the chance to create the iconic house's story through decisions and actions taken in the … Magic | D&D | wpn | Duel masters | Avalon hill, Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Code of Conduct | Cookies | Customer Service | DO NOT SELL MY PERSONAL INFORMATION. If anythin…. Your local game store is a great place to buy Avalon Hill games and find a few extra players, if you need some. I have only played a couple of scenarios in the new Betrayal at Baldur's Gate, so you might take this review with a few grains of salt. Baldur's Gate will not work in any way for it. I will say I loved the original Betrayal at House on the Hill so this review is largely biased. 3 years ago, Q: Components are printed on 1/8" card stock and pre-punched for you convenience. As you build and explore the iconic city’s dark alleys and deadly catacombs, you must work with your fellow adventurers to survive the terrors ahead. For the 2020 holiday season, returnable items shipped between October 1 and December 31 can be returned until January 31, 2021. The game is hand crafted using wood and non-toxic inks. Yes, the character trait markers hold on to the character tiles pretty tightly. Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2017, Suffers the same play-test issues of the other Betrayal games. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 9, 2018. First, I'll start with what I really like. When laying out tiles during exploration, the game is divided into two levels. If you like DnD this should definitely be a purchase. Are the character tiles better constructed than the second edition Betrayal ones? There are 12 official classes within the Dungeons and Dragons (5E) base books, and there are 12 characters in Betrayal at Baldur’s Gate… The setting we obtained (as there are multiple scenarios) was one of our party members had turned into the vessel for a goddess of water; the goal being stop her from flooding the mansion and subsequently the town. This game is ok. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. Is this compatible with the base game and expansion, or just its own standalone, A: The shadow of Bhaal has come over Baldur's Gate, summoning monsters and other horrors from the darkness! Widow’s Walk is the first expansion released in 2016 that adds 50 new haunts and allows you to explore the roof in addition to the other three floors of the house. Players will be adventurers exploring the streets of Baldur's Gate, as tiles are laid to build up the area. 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Treasures of the Tokyo National Museum with Rafael A. Balboa
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Established in 1872, the Tokyo National Museum is the oldest museum of Japan, comprising over 140,000 artifacts in its collection. From the enigmatic clay figurines named Dogu found in the late Jomon Period around 3,000 years ago, to Ukiyo-e woodblock prints from the end of the Edo Period; the Tokyo National Museum is without dispute the most comprehensive introduction to Japanese art.
The seminar will explore some of the most relevant artifacts rotating at the Honkan, the main Japanese Gallery heavily damaged in 1923 and rebuilt and opened again in 1938. Organized chronologically the narratives around these artifacts will allow us to elaborate on other relevant historical aspects that transformed the Japanese society, such as the introduction of Buddhism in the 6th century imported from Korea, the Zen thinking and tea ceremony that was refined by tea master Sen no Rikyu in the 16th century. This virtual visit will also immerse the audience in several aspects of the lifestyle of people in Japan through diverse periods of its history, elaborating further in concepts such as the bushido (the spirit of the samurai warrior) by introducing his sophisticated armor and warfare instruments.
Designed to inform curiosity as well as future travels, this seminar will offer a comprehensive exploration of the Japanese arts, enabling the audience to understand some essential aspects that have constructed the essence of Japanese culture. Led by architect, journalist and longtime Tokyo resident Rafael A. Balboa.
Architect, PhD. Rafael is currently correspondent for Italian architecture magazine Domus based in Japan and has lived in Tokyo for over 13 years. He received his Master degree and PhD from the University of Tokyo under the guidance of Prof. Kengo Kuma. He is currently a Senior Guest Researcher at The University of Tokyo (Kuma Kengo Laboratory) and guest researcher at Keio University, besides visiting lecturer in other architecture institutions in Japan and abroad. Member of the JIA (Japan Institute of Architects), he co-founded and runs his architecture and urban design practice STUDIO WASABI since 2013. From 2017 he became Director of Casa Nano, an art residency in Tokyo part of Casa Wabi Foundation in Mexico. An avid toy collector, he has a keen interest in the ludic-cultural aspects between people and their cities.
Very informative and enjoyable
I learned a lot. I even took notes!
Please offer a "pass" at a fixed cost that can be used to join multiple seminars. Consider reduced rate for certain groups - e.g., students, government employees (which I am), or other lower income groups.
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Integral consciousness
About Collective Alchemy
Appendix II: Collective Alchemy Process Formats
Triad Protocol
Participants split into groups of 3 armed with a question to explore. Each person takes a turn to play each of 3 roles:
• as storyteller, you respond to the question. The invitation is to seek the deepest possible place of inner truth as you respond.
• as listener you listen deeply to the storyteller. If needed, ask questions to draw forth the storyteller’s truth. You also take notes (the harvest is typically shared with the plenary) and keep time (triad processes tend to be strictly timed to ensure equal participation).
• as witness, you lend your full attention to the interaction between the storyteller and listener. You are energetically tracking both the field and the impulses coming through you as you observe. At the end of the storytelling round, the witness will share their impressions with the small group
Typically, after a time in triads, the groups are invited to speak the essence of their insights into the full circle, which will then collectively make sense of them. One harvesting pattern is ‘triangulation’, where each group is asked to name the 3 key insights from their triad work in relation to the question that was the point of entry.
Being intentional about harvesting is a key navigational attitude in a Collective Alchemy journey. The intent to gather and cultivate the fruits of our shared inquiry is held at all times. Rigour is required to adhere to this practice and keep refining it over time.
One aspect is tracking the line of understanding as the inquiry unfolds. This is done both as part of the process (when working with triads) and through whatever means the members of the circle bring to bear. In the case of the first Collective Alchemy journey, individual members offered different modalities:
Poetic harvesting (capturing essences in poetic format). Here is a sample:
“It’s also in the being born. Humanity is in the birth canal. Birth is a phase change. Perhaps we are NOT a parasite… Birth is always a near-death experience, We might not make it. But when it’s over – everything will be different. A new story begins. There is no forcing this process. The Winter Solstice intensified the contractions, but no cosmic surgeon hovers to perform an emergency caesarean air-lift rescue. We have to make it on our own. And this is a natural process. How much do we trust nature?”108 Poetic harvest offered by Helen Titchen Beeth.– Helen Titchen Beeth
Visual harvesting (capturing the energetics in colour and shape, and illuminating with essential quotes).109Viola Tschendel Clark offered her unique visual harvesting gifts.
The harvest from each session can be shared during the session where helpful (in support of further collective sense- making). It will also inform the intent and trajectory for the next encounter, and can serve to create a bridge between one meeting and the next, or between one phase and the next. It would then be introduced at the beginning of the encounter or phase.
Collective sense-making is iterative in both the core team and the plenary group. Any time a crucial ‘field coordinate’ emerges into the collective consciousness, it must be named and connected to others that have already emerged.
Which modalities are used to harvest the journey will of course depend on the purpose of the journey. In terms of visual/tangible collective harvest, online calls can be recorded and notes taken real-time in a google doc.
Next SectionAppendix III: Core Team of the first Collective Alchemy journey
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Sacrificial Love Evolved from Colored Beards
Scientific jargon is like a foreign language to most lay people, but anyone stumbling across a paper on “altruism through beard chromodynamics” in Nature1 this week must surely wonder what on earth Vincent Jansen and Minus van Baalen were talking about. Let’s see if their introduction can explain, or if Nature has printed a grown-up version of Dr. Seuss:
The evolution of altruism, a behaviour that benefits others at one’s own fitness expense, poses a darwinian paradox. The paradox is resolved if many interactions are with related individuals so that the benefits of altruism are reaped by copies of the altruistic gene in other individuals, a mechanism called kin selection. However, recognition of altruists could provide an alternative route towards the evolution of altruism. Arguably the simplest recognition system is a conspicuous, heritable tag, such as a green beard. Despite the fact that such genes have been reported, the ‘green beard effect’ has often been dismissed because it is unlikely that a single gene can code for altruism and a recognizable tag. Here we model the green beard effect and find that if recognition and altruism are always inherited together, the dynamics are highly unstable, leading to the loss of altruism. In contrast, if the effect is caused by loosely coupled separate genes, altruism is facilitated through beard chromodynamics in which many beard colours co-occur. This allows altruism to persist even in weakly structured populations and implies that the green beard effect, in the form of a fluid association of altruistic traits with a recognition tag, can be much more prevalent than hitherto assumed. (Emphasis added.)
Evolutionists sometimes employ fairy-tale metaphors for effect, such as the “red queen” hypothesis to explain the origin of sex, “prisoner’s dilemma” to explain group dynamics, and the “tinkerer” who cobbles together whatever parts are around to describe evolutionary innovation. (Perhaps astronomers contribute to the fun with their talk of “red giants” and “white dwarfs.”)
Ladies might contribute to the scientific research of this particular hypothesis and decide which beard colors belong to the most unselfish men. The guys could further test the idea by going to the paint store and experimenting with beard chromodynamics (samples).
1Jansen and van Baalen, “Altruism through beard chromodynamics,” Nature Nature 440, 663-666 (30 March 2006) | doi:10.1038/nature04387.
Need we say anything more? Do you get the picture that evolutionary theorists have gone totally wacko? Thanks, Jansen and van Baalen; keep up the good work. Anti-evolutionists appreciate the free ammunition.
The most egregious dumb idea in this story is not the fairy tale of the “green beard effect.” It is their belief that altruism might actually evolve by a mutation in a gene. The second most egregious aspect of this story is that Nature would print such balderdash with a straight fuzzy face. It’s not even April Fool’s Day yet. “Beard chromodynamics.” Sad. Funny, but sad.
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I’m honestly falling even more in love with this series during my reread! I’m currently attempting to convince my husband that a reread is well worth his time. When we first started dating I was in the middle of my make or break second year of graduate school, which lead to many, many late nights studying in the Chemistry Building. After work, Luke would bring me dinner and read the Game of Thrones series while I studied, since I wouldn’t stop talking about the books. When I finally got through the final hurdle of my second year and life went back to normal, Luke was 3/4ths of the way through A Dance with Dragons, whereupon he promptly put down the book and I’ve seen him pick up maybe one or two others since. We still laugh about the fact that he picked a rather difficult, and dense series to read to attempt to woo me, and didn’t even finish the series, despite being so close! At least he gets to hear about the series daily now from me! In my reread of ACoK, the personalities of the big players begin to be developed and flushed out. We are treated to a few shocking deaths, a major battle, as well as true magic returning to the realm. As when I reviewed The World of Ice and Fire, which was broken up into four components, Ancient History,Seven Kingdoms, Free Cities, and the world beyond the Free Cities and my in-depth analysis of AGoT, I will be formatting the posts in bullets containing the topics that catch my interest during the reread. Of note, I’ve highlighted in RED several of my theories, as well as interesting insights garnered from the novel. Please let me know what you think! I’m really looking forward to hearing your theories, however you’d better be able to back them up with references to the text.
The prologue offers our first glimpse of Dragonstone, Stannis, and Melisandre. While these are all important characters and location, I found myself most drawn to Patchface. The jester of Dragonstone was the lone survivor of the shipwreck that claimed the lives of Robert, Stannis, and Renly’s parents on their return from the Free Cities where they were looking for a bride for Rhaegar. He washed ashore on the third day, coughed up water as he was being dragged away as a corpse, with the knight that had picked up him swearing that the boy was clammy dead. His wits and memory were wiped clean and is now a prized companion of Stannis’s daughter. I couldn’t help drawing a connection to the Drowned God, with respect to Patchface’s rebirth by water. Many of his comments that we are privy to are connected to the water, e.g., ‘here we eat fish, under the sea, the fish eat us.’ Everyone seems to discredit his ramblings, but perhaps he has been given the gift of foresight by the Drowned God, especially when he won’t stop singing about the shadows, e.g., “The shadows came to dance, my lord, dance my lord, dance my lord,” he sang, hopping from one foot to the other and back again. “The shadows came to stay, my lord, stay my lord, stay my lord” he jerked his head with each word, the bells in his antlers ringing up a clangor.” Could these shadows be referring to Melesandre’s murderous shadows that will soon make an appearance in Clash of Kings?
The other comment that stood out to me was Shireen’s complaint regarding her bad dreams about the dragons coming to eat her. With Martin, I never discredit bad dreams. Does this refer to Daenerys coming to Westeros, or perhaps an allusion to the rumored stone dragons on Dragonstone coming to life? Or if the show is to be believed, are the dragons eating her referring to the flames that she might be sacrificed to for the sake of Stannis’ war?
The second section has us returning back to Arya who is on the road with Yoren. We don’t realize it yet but one of the three men in the cage will significantly change Arya’s path through these books. I can’t help to question, how did a Jaquen H’ghar, a member of the Faceless Men become captured and placed in the King’s Landing dungeons if it was not of his own volition? Why did he not escape? It all had to be a plan of some bigger purpose. What was that plan? Recruiting Arya?
In Sansa’s first chapter Joffery’s name day is being celebrated with a tournament, in which Ser Dontos Hollard makes a fool of himself, leading to Joffery sentencing him to death. Sansa jumps to his rescue, leading to an interesting connection in the future. Most importantly we glimpse Ser Arys Oakheart, who we learn is kind (compared with the other Kingsguard), loves to gossip, and good looking. By the time he has his untimely end in Dorne, I felt as though I had lost my grasp on any impact he previously held in the story.
Bran made another comment regarding the Starks having ‘wolf blood.’ The comment made reference to some Starks having more than others, which lies surprisingly close to what Ned told Arya. However, perhaps Ned also heard this tale from Nan.
A major theme in every section is the comet that graces the skies of Westeros and Essos, with each person believes the comet is an omen for their own devices. Stannis believes it is a sign of the R’hllor, Daenerys sees a sign of her coming, and others see the red of the Lannisters. I personally believe if it does have a sign associated with its appearance it indicates that magic is returning to the world. The comet showed up the day after the dragons hatched, our first true evidence of magic in this realm other than Melisandre’s escape from poison.
In a Tyrion chapter, Varys alludes to him being capable of casting a very large shadow for such a short man. I know this might be a stretch but I can’t help but draw comparisons to the several other times that Tyrion has been called a giant. Perhaps a foreshadowing of the major player that Tyrion will become as the series progresses.
In one of the first Davos chapters we witness the burning of the ancient statues of The Seven in Dragonstone, by Melisandre in honor of her God of Light. The fact these statues date back to the Aegon the Conqueror should not be overlooked. During this scene, I couldn’t help reflect upon The Seven, and please keep in mind I have the power of foresight in my favor. We have seen the evidence of the power of the Gods of Old, Faceless God, Dorthraki God, God of Light, among rumors of others stirring, however, where is the power of The Seven? We see the rise in power of the Sparrows, and the High Sparrow specifically, but I cannot recall any true show of magical, mystical occurrence in this sect. In this scene we see Stannis pull Lightbringer from the heart of the Mother and thereby be crowned Azor Ahai reborn. However, in the process Stannis partially catches on fire and the sword is a ruined, burned, warped mess. In a following scene we get the horrible, historical tale of the forging of Lightbringer by Salladhor Saan, which includes the ultimate sacrifice of what he holds most dear, his wife in order to complete the legendary sword. Stannis performed no such sacrifice, and the sword he pulled forth was a ruin. Between Stannis burning, the ruined sword and a lack of sacrifice in this supposedly significant scene, practically yells that he is not the promised warrior. Other SoIaF text foretells that the coming again of the ancient hero will be of Targaryan decent. Personally, I feel as though the hero will either be Jon or Daenerys, with some wavering on the part of the latter due to some reference of the reference being in that of a man. Salladhor Saan had a most foreboding reference to Lightbringer and the subsequent man to wield the legendary weapon, “Too much light hurts the eyes and fire burns.”
We are first introduced to Theon’s chapters on his journey back to the Iron Islands for the first time in 10 years. Prior to landing we glimpse his expectations for his reception at home, his arrogant demeanor, and his forgotten love for the sea. In a most foreshadowing moment, Theon almost absentmindedly reflects that he should remember to never venture far from the sea again. It is his home and he had forgotten how at ease it puts him. Yet he will eventually push toward Winterfell, thereby abandoning the sea for a second time with most dire results for our cocky, dislikable youth.
What is the abandoned city that Daenerys seeks refuge in and why/how long has it been abandoned? Or for that matter, what is the history of the city her blood riders found with the jewels?
What Hand of the King built the tunnel to the brothel that Tyrion used? Also in this chapter Varys makes reference to ‘birds in the chimney,’ in context a string of ways that he might have found out about Jamie and Cersie. He has talked about his birds before in context to spying. What if he actually told Tyrion, without Tyrion realizing, the truth about how he finds out his gossip? There are many people that believe that Varys’ birds are actually children. Oh Varys, when will we know more of your secrets and perhaps get a chapter from your own perspective?
Throughout this book Littlefinger remains a mystery, however the reader starts to glimpse through the veil and have been given subtle clues regarding his history and intrigues. We hear from Catelyn Stark about his unreciprocated love for her when they were young and his failed challenge toward her betrothed, Brandon Stark for a duel. However, later on we hear from Littlefinger that he had taken both Tully girls’ maidenheads. Who to believe? Then we hear from Catelyn’s father, Hoster Tully, on his deathbed, apologizing to whom he believes is Lysa for making her wed Jon Arryn, thereby separating her from her ‘stripling…wretched boy.’ We can safely assume, with hindsight as our friend, that he is referencing Littlefinger, especially once we learn more about his and Lysa’s relationship in later books.
Tyrion toying with the small council was entertaining from the readers’ viewpoint, especially as we learned more about these key characters. The scene where Shagga shaves Pycelle was most satisfying, especially as we learn more about about the Maester’s role in past events, such as the sacking of King’s Landing.
While on the road with Yoren, Arya is warned not to go into the woods because there are wolves about. Predictably, she disobeys and finds herself surrounded by wolves, but much to her surprise they soon back away and leave her. This can only be a result of Nymeria’s influence, who was must rule the packs in this area. Arya had previously heard rumors of a massive pack of dogs and wolves, lead by a massive beast, which fits Nymeria’s description. Still we wait, with baited breath for that reunion.
When Catelyn is sent by Rob to treat with Renly, we are given our first glimpse of Sam’s father, Randle Tarley. He tellingly accuses Rob of being weak for staying at Riverrun, followed by a quick quip from Catelyn. While we hear tell of him a few other odd times, the next significant impact is his lack of support for Stannis after Renly’s death. He and the Highgarden are two houses that hold off support for their slain King’s brother.
I remember being shocked when watching the show to find Renly and Loras in bed together, but upon rereading the book their relationship was plain as day. I can’t believe I didn’t see it from the beginning. Stannis even hints to Renly’s leanings when Catelyn brings them together to potentially talk peace. I enjoyed Renly’s character very much and would have loved to see what he might have brought to the story, had Melisandre and Stannis not dealt him a deathblow. His death left the characters in the book reeling, much as it did the reader. Of note, it was mentioned in the books that his body went missing. Might he make an emergence, much as Beric Dondarrion and Lady Stoneheart? I’m skeptical but it was a strange detail to add into the storyline. Renly and Courtney’s deaths were both at the hands of Melisandre with sorcery at the heart of the acts, as Ser Davos witnessed firsthand. I found the exchange between Davos and Melisandre fascinating during their row into Storm’s End. Melisandre quickly rebuffs Davos when he mentioned being in the hands of the Dark God, along with a discussion whether men can be both good and evil men. Another interesting tidbit we learn is that Renly was killed by Melisandre because he was ‘unprotected,’ however, Davos had to row her into Storm’s End due to the old spells woven into the bricks of the ancient hold, which bar her shadows from entering. The old spells lend credence to the story of how the old castle was built, perhaps even by the child who would grow up to be Bran the Builder.
Thanks to Jojen, Bran has finally realized his wolf dreams are directly linked to Summer! I still think he will, at some point, command a dragon. As previously discussed in my ASoIaF blogs, I will rarely discount a dream detailed in text. Especially the green dreams! Jojen demonstrated the power of these dreams when he predicted the sea coming to Winterfell.
Ser Alister Thorne was just as painful at court, as he was up at the wall. If only Mormont had sent someone more amenable, perhaps Tyrion would have paid his story more heed. I’m not sure what Tyrion could have done to convince the realm of a greater threat on the horizon, but he is clever enough to have perhaps set the wheels in motion of a bigger scheme.
Roose Bolton’s bastard, Ramsey makes quite the entrance by kidnapping and ultimately forcing Lady Hornwood to marry him, thereby stealing her castle and lands. His sadistic side emerged as he then proceeded to starve her post wedding. Roose Bolton’s cold and unfeeling letter that I didn’t quite understand dirung my first read through, upon learning of Ramsey’s death is quite telling of their dynamic. But alas, we know Ramsey is still alive and thriving, much to Theon’s eventual horror.
Jaqen H’ghar is such a fascinating character! In their first encounter after Arya saves him, I was shocked to hear him reference the ‘Red God.’ I’d always associated him with the Many Faced God, which got me thinking of Catelyn reminiscing about her Septa growing up who had told her the Seven were just different facets of one God. Perhaps all of these Gods are different facets of the same God, e.g., the Red God is just one part of the Many Face God. After more thought, Jaqen would have been burned to death if not for Arya, therefore he would have been given to the Lord of Light, as such, the LoL was then robbed of three deaths. As Jaqen leaves Arya and gives her the coin, he rebuffs her requests to stay with her and take her to Winterfell by saying he has promises to keep. What are these promises? Where is he going and what is his mission? Again, how did he land in the dungeons? How did he know who Arya was? Perhaps he was at one time also posing as Syrio? Far fetched, but worth pondering for a moment or two.
A reoccurring theme throughout this book is that magic is growing stronger in the realm (See back to my comet theory). We see it in the firemage in Qarth who builds a ladder of fire, who according to Quaithe, could hardly wield fire previously. The alchemists in King’s Landing are finding their spells to be more effective to make wildfire. The head alchemist asks Tyrion if dragons have been heard of because his elder once told him the magic started leaving the realm with the death of the last dragon. He speaks the truth more then he can even fathom. Other examples of magic about are the role of the Red Priests, Thoros of Myr and Melisandre.
During Dany’s conversation with Quaithe, the shadowbinder tells her to go to Asshai to get the truth. Please, please, please George, can we go see this mysterious city? Also what is the story about Quaithe? Whose side is she on?
A key event, that proved more impactful than I originally gave it credit for was Daenerys trip to the House of the Undying, in which the warlocks reside. It was during this encounter that I first solidified who I’d guessed were Jon Snow’s parents, ‘blue flower grew from a chink in the wall of ice.’ Referencing the blue rose that Lyanna was given by Rhaegar, but there is so much more to this scene. I will try to go through the visions in an orderly fashion.
The first door Dany sees open is one of a beautiful woman being ravaged by four dwarfs. I will admit to being baffled by this vision so upon reading many wonderful, and thoughtful blogs and their ideas, I have to admit I like the concept of the woman being Westeros and the dwarfs being the remaining kings fighting over her.
The second open door contained a king with the head of a wolf surrounded by corpses apparently killed during a feast. This was such an accurate vision of the terrible Red Wedding!
The third vision was the house with the red door that Dany longs for.
The fourth one depicted her father ordering his pyromancer to burn King’s Landing with wildfire, leaving Robert to be the King of Ashes.
The following scene is of Rhaegar and Elia with their newborn son Aegon. Rhaegar references a promised prince, who’s ‘the song of ice and fire,’ He also said ‘There must be one more. The dragon has three heads.’ Who are the other two heads. We know now that an Aegon appears in future books, however it is of some suspect if he is the true Aegon. Also, perhaps this ‘promised prince’ ties into the tale Ser Barristan Selmy weaves to Dany in A Storm of Swords about Rhaegar reading books until he came across something in his scrolls, which required him to become a warrior.
After this episode, the visions and statements come forth fast and furious in sets of three. The first set are her titles, mother of dragon, child of three, child of storm, which are all fairly straight forward. These are followed by a discussion of the fires she must light, one of love, death, and life. Drogo’s funeral pyre was one, perhaps when she sets fire to the Masters to get her army is another? What is the third? If the show can be believed, it is when she unites the Dothraki. Another statement was regarding the three mounts she must ride, ‘one to bed, and one to dread, and one to love.’ Obviously one must be Drogo, but the other players are still a mystery. Lastly, three treasons are named, ‘once for blood and once for gold and once for love.’ It is widely believed the blood treason refers to Mirri Maz Duur, and I tend to think the gold refers to her maid betraying her dragons for gold, in future books but I feel as though it might be a bit weak. Who will betray her for love? I always add Jorah into this set but I’m not sure where to put him in the context of the three treasons.
‘Daughter of Death’ is used to describe Dany, preceded by images of Viserys, Rhaego, and Rhaegar. ‘Slayer of lies’ is another description followed by interesting images of a blue-eyed king with no shadow and a red, glowing sword, a cloth dragon, and a stone tower in which a dragon took flight. So she will prove all of these false? There goes my theory that Dragonstone will produce a dragon! The last description was ‘Bride of Death,’ followed by a scene referencing where she married Drogo that merged into a corpse on a ship (perhaps a Greyjoy?), and the third was the mention of the blue rose on the wall. Does this mean Dany will marry Jon Snow? The following montage of scene were all fairly obvious so I’m not going to elaborate. This exchange was fascinating, to say the least.
When the Night’s Watch makes camp at the Fist of the First Men, Ghost leads Jon to a bunch of dragon glass and an old horn wrapped in a black cloak of the Night’s Watch, buried in the side of the encampment. The dragon glass we find out will kill the Others, however what is the use of this horn that appears broken? Jon gives the horn to Sam, but I can’t help thinking that this horn might have another purpose. Why else would it be hidden with the dragon glass? Perhaps it is the legendary horn that we learn about in future books that the Wildlings are looking for? Who buried these curious items?
One of my favorite characters has finally made her appearance! Of this initial interaction, I found the tale told by Ygritte after she yields to Jon fascinating for several reasons. The tale is one regarding the Starks that Jon has never heard, which has the legendary Wildling, Bael the Bard stealing into Winterfell under the guise of a singer after hearing of an insult issued by the residing Lord, Brandon Stark. After dually impressing the Lord of Winterfell, Bael is offered a boon of his choosing, which he demands the most beautiful flower in Winterfell’s gardens, the blue winter rose. Of course, Bael is really talking about Brandon’s Daughter, the last of the Stark line and promptly steals her away. To Brandon’s horror, his daughter and Bael could not be found, until she miraculously shows up months later with a babe in arm. She and Bael had been hiding in the crypts. This bastard son, who is the heir to Winterfell, eventually kills his father who has become King Beyond the Wall, ultimately causing his mother to commit suicide. This Lord of Winterfell is later flayed by the Boltons. The reasons I find this story interesting is that we learned from a different character how one of the former Lords of Winterfell was flayed by the Boltons, perhaps lending credence to this tale that Jon so easily dismisses. Second, if this story holds true, the Starks actually have Wildling blood in them. Third, the mention of the blue rose again! Perhaps Daneryes visions of a blue rose in the Wall actually have something to do with this tale and not Lyanna? Fourth, they hid in the crypts! It seems like too much of a coincidence that Bran, Rickon, Hodor, Osha, Jojen, and Meera hide in the crypts too. Perhaps Osha knew the tale as well. Also, this is yet another tale where a kinslayer is cursed and doomed to a terrible ending.
We find out that Jon is a Warg! This is the third Stark now that we know has a special connection, through dreams, with their wolves. Bran seems most naturally gifted, having truly opened his third eye while hiding in the crypts. He even mentions visiting Ghost and Jon. What was significant about Jon’s scene was Qhorin Halfhand’s reactions, as he didn’t dismiss Jon’s strange dreams or ostracize him once he realized he was a Warg. Jon’s time with the Wildlings is one of my favorite parts of the series!
When Roose Bolton takes over Harrenhal, Arya unknowingly meets her betrothed, Elmar Frey. He keeps telling her about how he is going to marry a Princess, which must be her since they were of similar age. However, the night Arya is escaping she comes across the Frey crying saying that his father just wrote to tell him he would no longer be marrying a Princess. Initially, I was confused by this exchange thinking that the Red Wedding was in the works already, but after starting the following book in the series, I realize Rob must have just married Jeyne, leading to the fury of the Freys.
Poor Theon. Poor, Poor Theon. How far our arrogant Prince has fallen. Maester Luwin was so close to convincing him to take the black and join the Night’s Watch. But alas, we are introduced instead to the cunning of Roose Bolton’s bastard, Ramsey. Ramsey survived his initial supposed death by convincing his servant, Reek to switch places with him, therefore the person we had thought was Reek, was in fact this high born bastard. Reek, i.e., Ramsey ends up tricking and ultimately defeating the Northern host outside of Winterfell and eventually sacking the castle. We still do not know the fate of Theon. When Bran and his group emerge from the crypts they only find Ludwin in the Godswood. The book has several telling quotes that stood out to me during this sequence. When the door to the crypts is blocked, Bran says that Hodor can move anything. Perhaps this is a foreshadowing to his namesake as given away by the show? Also, when entering the Godswood Jojen says, “There is a power in living wood, a power strong as fire.” A very interesting quote if you think about the Old Gods representing the Godswood and Fire representing R’hallor. Are the Old Gods ‘Ice’ because R’hallor is obviously ‘Fire.’ Does that mean the Others are aligned with the Old Gods? I’ve struggled with these questions from the beginning, however I rather like the show’s spoiler on this subject. I’m curious to see if George is going to follow the same route.
A Clash of Kings
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DJ (@MyLifeMyBooksMyEscape) says:
Can’t wait to read your review for A Storm of Swords! That one is my favorite in the series 🙂
sarahylockwood says:
I’m working on A Storm of Swords now! I can’t believe how much I missed the first time around!
Taleeb Anwar says:
Thank you for the summary of “A Clash of Kings”. It feels good to go through the theories as we wait for a winds of winter. But at the end the thirst for winds of winter is more than ever (why, oh why is it not out already 😦 ).
I believe Azar Ahai and the Prince that was promised to be different entities. Jon Snow, I think, is the Prince that was promised. I mean literally (promise me Ned)!
Also interesting is the similarity between seven old gods and the seven members of the Stark family.
Also interesting is… In fact the whole book is interesting!!
One again, thank you for refreshing the memory!
Thank you Taleeb! I’m not being impatient for the next book at all! I would rather have him do an amazing job than have him feel rushed and have it translate to the writing quality.
I’m working my way through the third book now and Melisandre specifically calls Stannis the Prince that was Promised. I agree. Perhaps they are different individuals but I thought it was interesting she groups them.
And absolutely agreed! This whole series is interesting!
Ryan Geraghty says:
On my first read I barely noticed Patchface but on my reread a couple of months ago I found him absolutely fascinating. He actually predicts the red wedding at one point!! I found myseld rereading all of his dialogue trying to decode it!!
I totally disregarded Patchface the first time too! I found the correlation to Davos being spit out by the sea very similar in the next book too! I feel like this Drowned God will play a bigger role by the end of the series.
I really liked your point about the seven, they really do seem like the only inactive gods at this point. Can’t remember the exact quote but something Patchface said had me wondering if the seven had actually been killed or tamed somehow by the great other. In fact a lot of what he said hinted at animosity between the gods. Spent about an hour on the house of the undying second time round, just rereading every single line and trying to interpret it hahah. Actually planning on rereading A Storm of Swords next, very excited 😀
I really think that we will find that the Gods will play a bigger role in general of good vs. evil. When rereading the part of the House of Undying I can’t believe how much I missed the first time around. In retrospect I bet the whole series will be ‘spoiled’ between dreams and these prophetic scenes.
I always thought the Gods were more of a background detail until I read Clash of kings but I do now think they’ll play a huge role. Actually read somewhere that the wedding feast Daenerys sees in house of the undying might not be the red wedding. Apparently there are a few suspiciously differing details such as Robb’s crown not being made of iron and not being sat at the head of the table since it wasn’t actually his wedding. Chances are it is the red wedding but knowing Martin I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s another gruesome wedding to come haha. A full thread about it here http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?/topic/63754-hotu-showed-the-red-wedding-or-did-it/ 🙂
berryvillelibrary says:
I recently read the series for the first time after being a long-time fan of the show and really enjoyed Clash of Kings. In fact, I’d probably list it as my favorite of all the books, even though I enjoyed all of them. I really enjoyed reading your thoughts on this one!
Thanks! I honestly can’t decide which one is my favorite book! I’ve said that with this reread I want to pinpoint one that stands above the others, however I’m working my way through the third book and haven’t been able to distinguish between the them thus far!
Wow! You certainly gave a detailed review, and I’m impressed with what your then “husband-to-be” would do for love. I know this is probably sacrilege but…I had an opportunity to start watching Game of Thrones this summer when in the states for a few months, and I really didn’t like it. I think I watched 2 discs and gave up. I wonder if the books are better than the movie? That is usually the case, but not always.
Thanks Linda! The books have so much more detail compared to the show. I like the show, because it brings to life the books I enjoy so much, however often get frustrated with the details they leave out. Personally, I recommend the books, but they are quite the commitment.
Patrick WH Lee says:
I’ll probably be doing a reread too at one point, but so far as I’m concerned, A Song of Ice and Fire ended after boo three, Storm of Swords. I don’t think any book series has any right to go beyond three or four books; anything more is just milking the cash cow (usually on the publisher’s initiative [?]). Great review! It could serve as a cheat sheet for those who only watch the show.
I would be so unsatisfied if the series ended after three! So many question would be unanswered or the detail I love would have to be left out in order to bring the series to a close. If the author is still producing quality work at book 5 or 6 more power to them! 😀 I’ve read plenty of trilogies where the last book was lackluster.
theherdlesswitch says:
I was really, really under the impression that the whole thing with the dwarfs and the woman in the house of the undying, was symbolic of Tyrion coming back to destroy his sister…
It’s amazing that you caught the piece with the blue flower and connected it, the very idea surprises me. My husband and I have been heatedly debating Jon Snow’s origins ever since the end of last season, he has plenty of theories, not even having finished what there is of the series just yet (he’s close). I was a little puzzled myself, because there are so many origin stories for Jon Snow floating around in the book, this gossip and that gossip. Martin is wonderful like that, harnessing gossip to keep you guessing…
Meno<3
Thanks Meno! I just love the detail writing style of Martin! It is truly a talent to cause this much debate among his fans regarding his storyline and characters!
James Revels Composer says:
Upon reading “The first door Dany sees open is one of a beautiful woman being ravaged by four dwarfs.” I realized I have FOMO on the GOT books now. lol Great analysis. I liked your story at the beginning. “We still laugh about the fact that he picked a rather difficult, and dense series to read to attempt to woo me” made me smile.
Thank you James! I can’t take all the credit. I was baffled and thought it was something regarding Cersi or Tyrion but upon googling it I realized there where so many other insightful ideas that were more appropriate to the scene. 😀
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What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – August 14, 2017
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Job Openings, New Jobless Claims Rise
Job openings rose in June to 6.20 million as compared to May’s reading of 5.70 million job openings. Analysts said that increasing job vacancies show that employers are unable to find qualified workers. Business services, construction, health care and professional job sectors had the most job openings. Slow wage growth could be contributing to widespread job openings. Average wage growth has been running at approximately 2.50 percent, which is lower than the average of 3.50 to 4.00 percent typically seen during economic expansion.
First-time jobless claims rose to 244,000 as compared to expectations of 242,000 new claims and the prior week’s reading of 242,000 new jobless claims.
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Freddie Mac reported lower mortgage rates last week. The average rate for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage was three basis points lower at 3.90 percent. The average rate for a 15-year fixed rate mortgage was unchanged at 3.18 percent. The average rate for a 5/1 adjustable rate mortgage was one basis point lower at 3.14 percent.
Inflation rose in July by 0.10 percent against an expected increase of 0.20 percent; June’s reading was unchanged. Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy sectors, rose by 0.10 percent against expectations of 0.20 percent and 0.10 percent growth in June.
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This week’s scheduled economic reports include the NAHB Housing Market Index, Commerce Department readings on housing starts and building permits issued and the University of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment Index, Weekly reports on mortgage rates and new jobless claims will also be released.
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BitGo settles with US Treasury over sanctions violations in Iran, Syria and Cuba
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The settlement repeats the Treasury’s message that crypto companies will need to know their customers.
The U.S. Treasury has settled with BitGo over charges that it facilitated users in sanctioned areas to transact using its crypto wallet services.
BitGo, an institutional crypto custodian service and wallet operator, did not do due diligence in blocking wallet users based in Crimea, Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria, said the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Controls in a Dec. 30 announcement. OFAC said of BitGo:
“BitGo failed to exercise due caution or care for its sanctions compliance obligations when it failed to prevent persons apparently located in sanctioned jurisdictions to open accounts and send digital currencies via its platform as a result of a failure to implement appropriate, risk-based sanctions compliance controls.”
The Treasury wrote that there were 183 “apparent violations” of its various sanctions programs, adding up to just over $9,000 in transactions. The settlement will cost BitGo $98,830. Given the hawkishness of OFAC’s programs, the settlement is relatively lenient, even though the actual value transacted was less than 10% of the fine. The civil penalty, had the case gone to court, would have been between $183,000 and $53 million.
But today’s action is certainly significant for other crypto companies. The announcement makes clear that OFAC will be looking more closely at crypto servicers:
“This action highlights that companies involved in providing digital currency services — like all financial service providers — should understand the sanctions risks associated with providing digital currency services and should take steps necessary to mitigate those risks.”
U.S. regulators are upping their expectations for companies handling virtual currencies to know the customers on the other end. Just before Christmas, the U.S. Treasury proposed rules requiring registered financial institutions to know the identity of users of self-hosted wallets with which they are transacting.
A number of countries under U.S. sanctions have shown interest in using crypto to circumvent them. Venezuela’s Maduro regime is famously interested in Bitcoin, though its own Petro token has failed to catch on. Iran has similarly been a target for OFAC’s crypto sanctions.
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Mass Shooting On Greyhound Bus. National Media Silent
Have you ever noticed how the talking heads in mass media pick and choose which stories to be outraged over, even though the story lines are basically the same? Well, just like these, this is another one of them.
This past Monday 1 person was killed and 5 others were shot in a mass shooting on a Greyhound Bus in California. Witnesses said that Anthony Devonte Williams was cursing and muttering incoherently when another passenger asked him to be quiet. He then allegedly pulled out a gun and began firing indiscriminately shooting 6 people before the other passengers subdued him. A 51 year old woman from Columbia was killed. The bus which was in route during the shooting pulled over and Williams was taken off the bus by the passengers and he was later arrested. Aside from the gun, several magazines were also found leading to speculation as to his motive. But once again, mass media has decided to report this story in passing and have dropped it. Why is this one different from others that they use to exploit for gun control? As a related side note, the Greyhound website says that they do not allow people to carry explosives, dangerous chemicals and firearms on their buses proving again that such laws only disarm law abiding citizens leaving them defenseless against criminals.
Filed under: California, greyhound bus, mass shooting, National Media Silent
Blog, Politics January 10, 2019 April 1, 2020
Judicial Watch: California Has 1.5 Million Ineligible Voters In Los Angeles Alone
A lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch has led to California being forced to clean up it`s voter rolls after discovering 1.5 million ineligible voters in Los Angeles alone. While this is progress in cleaning up the rolls of the countries most populous state, it was resisted by the state until after the midterms. An American Thinker article states “The state of California, run completely by Democrats, of course, resisted this (at least until the midterm was over). They decided that cleaning up inactive voters from the rolls wasn’t in their interest and federal laws were for other states, little states. And as a result, nearly a quarter of California’s counties had more voters registered than actual eligible voters. And surprise, surprise, the state has suddenly turned solid blue.” While mainly focused on Florida and Georgia election results, California was mostly ignored even though it was going through the same democrat enacted post election chaos. Unlike Florida and Georgia however, California`s end results saw democrats winning in most all elections, even those in traditionally red areas. Another excerpt from the article states “… conservative areas such as Orange County were suddenly flipped blue and popular candidates such as Young Kim, who had been winning by large margins on election night – suddenly saw their results flipped. Democrats learned that by extending the election count for weeks, turning in harvested ballot after harvested ballot, they could win any election.”
A Daily Caller article on ballot harvesting states that “As the polls closed on election day last month, six California Republican House candidates, including Representatives Dana Rohrabacher, Steve Knight, and Mimi Walters, were ahead in their respective races. However, as the absentee and provisional ballots rolled in over the intervening weeks, all six lost to their Democratic opponents. The case of Korean-American GOP candidate Young Kim was one of the most prominent examples. On election night, Kim held an 8,000 vote lead over her Democratic opponent Gil Cisneros, and even attended freshman orientation in Washington, D.C. before watching her lead, and her victory, slowly evaporate over the subsequent weeks.” You can read that article here. We have several other articles on past instances of voter fraud here.
As stated, California is the most populous state in the country and the effect it has on national elections cannot be taken lightly. California alone gets 53 seats in Congress. The only state even close to that is Texas which gets 36. As a side note, this is why we have the electoral college. “Los Angeles County has over 10 million residents, more than the populations of 41 of the 50 United States. California is America’s largest state, with almost 40 million residents.” If there were no electoral college California alone could basically decide every presidential election.
Filed under: California, election, electoral college, voter fraud, voting fraud
Blog, Politics August 4, 2018 April 1, 2020
California: Ban Plastic Straws, Give Out Free Plastic Needles. SF Issues Warning To Train Passengers About Needles Left In Seats
California has banned plastic straws because of a 9 year olds quick mafs (memes here :D), yet proposed a bill to give heroin addicts free plastic needles. They cited the plastic straw ban because of pollution to the environment, yet in San Francisco train conductors are reportedly warning passengers about needles being left in the seats by transients shooting up on it. So again- California bans plastic straws because of litter to the environment, meanwhile free plastic needles are given to the public and the used needles litter the streets and trains.
Filed under: California, needles, San Francisco, Straw Ban
Blog, Politics July 28, 2018 April 1, 2020
The Meme War On California`s Straw War
California has declared a war on straws. They are so serious about it that in Santa Barbara, if you work in a restaurant you can not only get a $1,000 fine but you can also be sentenced to 6 months in jail for giving out plastic straws to customers. What`s the deal you ask? Seven years ago, a nine year old in Vermont called a bunch of straw makers and based on how many they made, he put out the claim that 500 million plastic straws were being used daily in America. Environmentalists then took this 9 year old`s claim and applied it to a large floating mass of junk in the pacific ocean. Even though the majority of the junk being found in this mass came from the Asian fishing industry, plastic straws became the scapegoat and the rush to ban them was on. Seattle became the first city to ban them. Starbucks announced they`d go straw less in all their stores. The environmentalists praised them despite the fact that their new straw less lids uses the same if not more plastic. The entire state of California jumped on the bandwagon as well. Of course with California being the backwards state of legislation that it is, where plastic straws are illegal but knowingly exposing others to HIV is not, the meme war has started.
San Francisco has been getting a lot of negative attention for the squalor in the streets. Tent cities, people shooting up and defecating in the streets. It`s so bad that a major medical that a $40 million medical convention cancelled it`s event there. Nevertheless, this is all fine. Plastic straws however…
The Possible Modifications meme`s started after a USA Today video showed possible modifications that could be made to AR-15`s. Hilariously, one of the modifications it showed was a chainsaw bayonet. Hence the Straw Bayonet Modification below 😀
The straw ban has also led to the Molon Labe- Come And Take It meme and the subsequent black market on straws that will inevitably come about
Finally, this is what happens when you ask for a straw in a California restaurant
Filed under: California, Straw Ban, Straw ban Meme
Blog, Politics February 11, 2017 April 2, 2020
Bi Polar California: Wants To Secede, Asks Government For $100 Billion For Infrastructure
Bi polar California:
> Hires Eric Holder to fight legal battles against U.S. government
> California Governor said if Trump won they`d need to build a wall around California
> Wants to secede from the U.S. in protest of U.S. government
> Says they are 6th largest economy in the world and can make it on their own
> Asks U.S. government for $100 billion for infrastructure
Go secede California, you`re drunk
California submits a $100-billion wish list of infrastructure projects to Trump for federal funding
With President Trump pledging $1 trillion for infrastructure, California officials on Wednesday took a break from their feud with the new administration to propose a list of $100 billion in projects for possible federal funding to help rebuild the Golden State’s system of crumbling roads and bridges and improve transit and water storage.
Any federal money for the 51 projects would be in addition to money California is hoping to raise for its aging infrastructure, wrote Nancy McFadden, the governor’s executive secretary, in a letter to the National Governors Assn.
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MOSTYN | Chiara Camoni: About this and that. The self and the other. Like everything [Curating, Art Management, Institutional Leadership]
9 Nov 2019 - 1 Mar 2020
Featuring new and recent works, this new solo exhibition by Chiara Camoni includes a collaborative site-specific work created for MOSTYN. Working primarily across drawing, sculpture and installation, Camoni creates spaces imbued with poetic sensibility. Her work is the result of a process which she calls "deviations" where materials are sourced through chance encounters and individuals or "various authors" close to her. Through this process, Camoni claims that "meaning is shared", it's a small miracle. It's her and their way of resisting - "the fear, the passage of time, the news of the day".
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Chiara Camoni (born in Piacenza, Italy, in 1974. Lives and works in Fabbiano, Italy) graduated in sculpture from Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan and later worked at the Institute of Natural Sciences in Naples. Together with other artists, she founded the MAGra Contemporary Art Museum of Granara and the Vladivostok group. Camoni has exhibited widely in Italy with recent solo exhibitions at Arcade, London (2018) and MIMA, Middlesborough (2017).
Chiara Camoni's exhibition is supported by Arcade, London & Brussels; SpazioA, Pistoia, Italy and Q International.
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The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart on the NFL & Michael Sam’s Coming Out
Nick Delmacy, 7 years ago 11 1 min read 628
The SEC Defensive Player of the Year Michael Sam came out publicly as Gay on Sunday night sparking conversations on him possibly being the first gay player in the NFL once he’s drafted. Of course, talk of his draft stock falling immediately followed the announcement due to the “controversy” in having an openly gay player.
The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, known for pointing out hypocrisies around the world, quickly jumped on the “controversy” of a possible future gay NFL player with a hilarious segment called, “Friday Night Rights”.
My favorite sarcastic line from Stewart was: “Its as though sexual orientation has nothing to do with physical strength.”
I love when black gay men break down the stereotypes of what it means to be black and gay.
Stewart goes on to hilariously roast and pick apart the detractors and doubters of Michael Sam’s chance of being drafted now that he is openly gay to the public.
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Someone really needs to plaster a list of all the convicted criminals, wife beaters, drug users that are routinely allowed to play in the NFL with no issue from fans, players or management. Jon Stewart laying out that partial list at the end is classic. Michael Sam’s problem, to a lot of straight men, is that he seems to be well adjusted, smart and most importantly, no ashamed of his sexuality. Trust me. If he was weak and apologetic about his sexuality, people wouldn’t be as “uncomfortable.” His mistake is in not asking their permission to be gay. SMH
In other words…the college players are/were more intellectually mature than some of the NFL players.
While I totally understand Jon Stewart point, and I agree that who the fuck cares if he is gay but I read an article earlier about from pro player, Terrell Thomas, on ESPN that gave a interesting a mature response to attention brought to having the NFL’s first openly gay player.
http://espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/story/_/id/10442283/terrell-thomas-new-york-giants-says-nfl-not-ready-gay-player
Here is the problem with this argument, which is a poor one IMO. I like many gay men across America, see other naked men in the locker room everyday…AND NOTHING HAPPENS. No ogling, staring, or erections. Also gay men are currently in NFL lockers rooms and nothing happens. This mindset equates to “all gay men want me because I’m straight and irresistible” is lame.
Exhibit REY
EXACTLY! Every athlete (gay and/or straight) whether NFL, NBA, NHL, etc. has seen another athlete naked in the locker room so the use of that excuse as a rebuttal to an openly gay athlete is just null and void!
I am not saying that its right but many straight guys are only friends with gay guys because they knew them before they knew about their sexuality and also the ignorant str8 man thinks very gay guy wants him, that mostly likely would happen in an NFL locker room.
Kasule
Ok this made me pause. Yeah, probably most of my friends (they’re all straight) were friends with me before I came out. Only a few of them met me as “gay.”
Being friends with a dude first, before finding out he is gay, can maybe make things easier.
Also, perhaps the environment in which a straight guy meets a gay dude can make a big difference. Socially, if I meet a new straight dude while hanging out with a group of straight dudes, it’s easy. If a bunch of straight guys clearly already accept me, then I’m “safe.”
If it’s just me and a straight dude talking – then I come out to him – it can be (hilariously) awkward for him. And ok sometimes for me.
Generally, I would say: fuck coddling the insecurities of straight dudes! Thats some bullshit. Who needs that??
But given how I find it harder to make gay friends…well…it’s not that simple all of a sudden…
J's Destiny
I only slightly understand people being uncomfortable with the thought of KNOWING versus not KNOWING someone is gay in their locker room. My thought is what if you don’t know and the person that you joke around with the most is in fact not joking, but is serious and just able to cover it up that well. When you actually find out will it change anything about the PAST or will it open your eyes up to a more accepting future?
LEE B
One thing I have noticed is that men period, gay or straight, will admire the physique of another man. Also as someone who played football, I can tell you that a lot of playful grabbing of other people’s body parts happened on a frequent basis. It also wasn’t uncommon to hear someone blurt out, “Damn you got a big dick!” when they saw one of their teammates naked. This is why I find it funny that these players act like they are so uncomfortable with gay men being in the locker room when they are used to seeing and participating in homoerotic behavior.
Yep…all of what you said.
But they are comfortable joking with it knowing that the guy they playing with is going home to fuck his girl, not saying its right, but its the mindset of a str8 man they not think abut dude really might like my dick
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Tokyo Games to be delayed by a year
The Tokyo Olympic Games has become the latest major sporting event to be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Japanese capital was scheduled to host the 2020 games starting in July but the International Olympic Committee has agreed to delay the sporting spectacular for 12 months.
The Olympics and Paralympics will now be rescheduled for next summer.
The IOC and Tokyo 2020 organising committee released a joint statement, saying: “In the present circumstances and based on the information provided by the WHO today, the IOC President and the Prime Minister of Japan have concluded that the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo must be rescheduled to a date beyond 2020 but not later than summer 2021, to safeguard the health of the athletes, everybody involved in the Olympic Games and the international community.
“The leaders agreed that the Olympic Games in Tokyo could stand as a beacon of hope to the world during these troubled times and that the Olympic flame could become the light at the end of the tunnel in which the world finds itself at present.
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FOREX/Binary Options, Start Up Nation, Times of Israel March 2, 2017
Cops in same country that found Eichmann say they’re “like this close” to locating a Binary Options office in Ramat Gan
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Ramat Gan: The police force in the same country that somehow tracked down and captured notorious Nazi Adolph Eichmann in Argentina says that it’s “like this close” to finding and investigating its first Binary Options office in Ramat Gan, a location so remote that it takes over an hour to walk there from Tel Aviv City Hall. Binary Options, which is sort of like the Stock Market except the Brokers steal all of your money every damn time more complicated, is an industry that is so low-key and hidden from view that one company posted a recruitment advertisement on Facebook with a woman dressed as a vampire, the company’s Logo, and the slogan “Predators work at night.” The Daily Freier sat down with Police spokesperson Mickey G. to learn more about some of the unique hurdles facing the police force on this case.
(The Daily Freier is over on Times of Israel today. Check it out!)
Filed under: Eichmann, FOREX, FOREX/Binary, Ramat Gan, Start Up Nation
Dating and Relationships, FOREX/Binary Options, Secret Tel Aviv July 26, 2016 March 2, 2017
Woman on Secret Tel Aviv seeking live-in Boy Toy is just FOREX Human Resources
By Mia Deych, Mark Levy, and Aaron Pomerantz
Last Updated 7/26/2016 at 1:10 PM
(DISCLAIMER: TODAY THE FREIER IS TOTALLY NOT SAFE FOR WORK!)
Tel Aviv, Rothschild: Recently, a woman posted on Secret Tel Aviv seeking a roommate under…… “special conditions”. The Daily Freier was going to try to explain the post, but whatever we say won’t do it justice:
Anyhoo, Secret Tel Aviv being Secret Tel Aviv, the readers reacted with a mixture of shock and anger that….. JUST KIDDING….. the men of Tel Aviv went on Full RED ALERT and sprang into action, replying with such important questions as:
Does the apartment have a dishwasher?
As a flatmate, I can also bring a kitten.
Pick Me I’m Jewish!
Can I bring my Barbie Dolls?
Keep Kosher?
Despite the story seeming to be just an innocent request for a live-in sex object, the truth is far more sinister: the entire set-up was simply a ruse by a woman who works in the Human Resources section of a prominent FOREX company in Ramat Gan, and the men who responded found themselves not in a Get-Your-Freak-On scenario, but a Binary Options Job Interview. The Daily Freier waited outside the Apartment and conducted Exit Interviews with the traumatized men of Tel Aviv as they learned the bitter truth.
As he left her apartment, local guy Shai (from the coffee kiosk) said “I’m into experiments, but this pushed my boundaries WAY too far. I might be a submissive, but I’m not into Cold-Calling torture!”
We then spoke with recent French Oleh David as he skulked away in shame. “I walked into the interview thinking I was, how do you say, ‘Overqualified?’ Because I am… French? But I’m into bondage, not Binary Bondage.”
Yet there was somebody who DID seem OK with the arrangement, but wished to remain anonymous. The Daily Freier asked the Mystery Man if he had any comments. “Yeah, can you adjust my leather collar? It’s itchy.”
We actually volunteered to check out all of the details of the arrangement. Just as advertised, They DO provide lunch and breakfast. There ARE good showers on site. If you work night-shift, there ARE beds. The only thing we couldn’t figure out was…..uhhhhh….. this:
Filed under: Aaron Pomerantz, FOREX, FOREX/Binary, HaTzarfatim, Mark Levy, Mia Deych, Secret Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv problems, Tel Aviv realtors, Welcome to Israel
FOREX/Binary Options, Times of Israel June 18, 2016 March 2, 2017
FOREX holds EXPO in Cyprus after Hell cancels their reservation
Last Updated 6/18/2016 at 10:30 AM
Gehenna: The recent FOREX/Binary Options Expo in Cyprus was by all accounts a fun event for all attendees, but word has leaked that Cyprus was not the Industry’s first choice. Industry gossip pointed to a previously booked venue. FOREX, a niche of the Investment World where the House always seems to win, has gotten a little bad press lately. And responding to published reports, Hell acknowledged today that they cancelled a reservation previously booked by FOREX. The Daily Freier went to Hell (as has been suggested through previous reader feedback) to get the whole story.
THIS ARTICLE IS FEATURED TODAY ON THE TIMES OF ISRAEL! READ THE REST OF THE STORY AT:
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Filed under: FOREX, FOREX/Binary, Israel, Rolling Stones, Times of Israel, Welcome to Israel
Dating and Relationships, FOREX/Binary Options, Start Up Nation April 6, 2016 April 26, 2018
Tel Aviv Man Turns Down Hookup “Because She Works in FOREX”
UPDATE: People Of Tel Aviv! This is satire! We made it all up! Please stop hassling the guy in the photo. He did not say or do the things in this article!
But FOREX still sucks.
By Mark Levy and Aaron Pomerantz
Last Updated 4/6/2016 at 7:50 AM
Tel Aviv, Kerem HaTeimanim: Local guy Tzion likes women. A lot. We mean, like a lot a lot. In fact, on a trip to Rome, a man in the piazza once admonished Tzion to be more subtle and nuanced in his pickup attempts….. But there are things that even he won’t do when it comes to the pursuit of women. Like hook up with a girl who works in FOREX or Binary Options. Tzion sat down with the Daily Freier to explain the moral stand he is taking.
“So everything started fine. We were listening to Johnny Cash songs, and I was explaining to her how each song was really about sex. You might call this crazy, but I call this ‘Tuesdays’ …… And then it gets even better……. She says she wants to meet up later that night but she that she didn’t want a relationship because she was headed to South America tomorrow for 3 months. And her housemates are out-of-town. Oh yeah and she’s a twin.”
“So anyway, after a half hour she told me to meet at her apartment on Balfour but that she had to get up early for work. I asked her where she worked and she said “FOREX” …….. So I told her that I had to take care of a sick friend and then wash my hair. Then I walked home.”
The Daily Freier challenged Tzion on how he could turn down such an opportunity, but he was adamant. “There have to be standards of conduct in society. I mean, if I went home with her, I couldn’t live with myself. FOREX is like selling your soul. And you’re talking to a guy who has changed his IP address 3 times to get around the Administrators of J-Date and their stupid rules about fake profiles.”
Tzion continued to explain his code of conduct. “Look, everyone has issues. I mean, I’ve been banned from Secret Tel Aviv six times. And last year I got busted by the Misrad HaPnim for impersonating an Oleh from Argentina so that I could hook up with French girls in Ulpan. But FOREX and Binary options? That just goes beyond the limits of good taste.”
Filed under: Aaron Pomerantz, FOREX, FOREX/Binary, Israel, Johnny Cash, Mark Levy, Misrad HaPnim, Secret Tel Aviv, Start Up Nation, Tel Aviv, Tzion, Ulpan
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Dems Like AOC and Their Communist Buddies Embrace a COVID-19 World
05.02.2020 | Commentary | Daily Surge |
Surge Summary: In its responses to the coronavirus crisis, the Left continues to demonstrate it has long been an enemy of the normal – and they could end up paying a price for it at the ballot box.
By Robert Knight – –
Two theories are circulating about the origin of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
The media are still selling the idea that it probably arose from an infected bat at an outdoor live-animal food market in Wuhan. That’s also the Chinese Communist Party’s line.
The media don’t want people thinking that communist researchers at the Wuhan Virology Institute’s BSL-4 lab might have been directly responsible.
However, the most plausible scenario is that the virus was, indeed, cooked up in the lab. Former CIA officer Clare Lopez makes that case in her April 20 article “Made in China” for the Citizens Commission on National Security.
Beyond debate is that the communists covered up the outbreak for weeks — assisted by the World Health Organization (WHO) — as it morphed into a worldwide pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands and crushed the world’s economy.
Not everyone is unhappy about the latter.
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) says she’s thrilled by the crash of the oil industry, which has cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and could put many U.S. producers out of business.
“You absolutely love to see it,” she tweeted. “This along with record low interest rates means it’s the right time for a worker-led, mass investment in green infrastructure to save our planet.”
Well, this should go over big in the oil and gas patch, including states that have prospered via fracking, such as Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, West Virginia and North Dakota.
AOC’s lurch into green insanity was promptly deleted. But it was only the latest such blast from the young face of the Marxist wing of the Democratic Party, which has taken over its host.
Last Wednesday, on the new Vice TV talk show “Seat at the Table” featuring author Anand Giridharadas, AOC urged people to stay unemployed even after the lockdowns end.
“When we talk about this idea of reopening society you know, only in America does the president — when the president tweets about ‘liberation’ — does he mean ‘go back to work,’” she said. “When we have this discussion about going back or reopening, I think a lot of people should just say no — we’re not going back to that.”
Well, OK. Working people of the world unite — you have nothing to lose but your unemployment benefits, which are in many cases more money than previously employed people could earn by working.
A Portland, Oregon restaurateur opined in The Wall Street Journal that the $600 federal bonus in the CARES Act on top of regular unemployment benefits means that he will have great difficulty attracting his employees back. Line cooks are making $1,016 for not working, as opposed to a starting salary of around $640 per week. Since the bonus program doesn’t end until July 31, this provision looks almost as if it were designed to keep unemployment high.
Why would anyone want to do that? Oh. Right. November.
But on the Republicans’ bright side there’s always AOC and her Squad. I have a theory about mad scientists concocting viruses in labs. Could it be that the Republicans have their own version somewhere, maybe in an abandoned Nike base outside of Washington, D.C.? There, white-coated Victor Frankensteins are concocting AOC clones to be a sort of virus within the Democratic Party.
Their first major victory was AOC’s ridiculous Green New Deal, ripe for flatulating cow jokes.
Next, they egged Nancy Pelosi into the impeachment fiasco, which was so flimsy that surveys show it raised President Trump’s stock among voters.
The next benefit to the GOP was AOC’s aggressive backing of Bernie Sanders, the Vermont socialist who has pushed the party even to the left of, well, Nancy Pelosi.
Although the Sanders campaign was a casualty of the coronavirus pandemic, with voters demonstrably leery of turning the nation over to a wild-haired communist, Joe Biden has kowtowed to AOC and the Squad to keep their left-wing legions happy. This won’t help the Dems attract independent voters.
In a virtual press conference on Facebook on April 20, AOC clone Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Massachusetts Democrat, called the Trump administration’s policies “akin to war crimes. Criminal negligence, science denial, a sluggish response … We just have to reject any calls for a return to normal because that normal was what was slowly killing people.” Well, the left has been at war with “normal” for some time now.
As protests grow across the country over some of the more absurd lockdown edicts by mostly Democratic officials (fining churchgoers for sitting in their cars), the left is growing increasingly dependent on censorship.
YouTube and Facebook, which acted admirably last August by removing communist propaganda aimed against Hong Kong protesters, appear to be taking a dangerous line against liberty in the United States.
In early March, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media giant would take down “false claims and conspiracy theories” about the coronavirus while giving WHO free advertising.
Facebook said it would also take down protest notices for “events that defy government’s guidance on social distancing.”
YouTube announced that it, too, would remove videos promoting anti-government lockdown protests around the country.
Does this sound like America or some other place halfway around the world?
The views here are those of the author and not necessarily Daily Surge.
Originally posted here.
Image: Alexandria Ocasio Cortez; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/; adapted from: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nrkbeta/47300368512
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Robert Knight is a contributor to The Washington Times. His website is roberthknight.com.
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What’s the Purpose of a Radio Station?
Radio is a business.
Peter Drucker said the purpose of a business is to create a customer.
For radio, that means creating two types of customers: 1) a listener and 2) an advertiser and when done correctly, a radio station makes a profit.
For most of my radio career, radio enjoyed a revenue expansion that rivaled the infamous “internet bubble.” Owning a radio station was considered a license to print money. Bottom lines often delivered a profit of 25 to 50% or more, so, while those profits were noticed by Wall Street investors the ownership limits on radio stations kept them away. Investors were frustrated that there was no way to scale up the size of a radio broadcast company.
Telcom Act of 1996
Then President Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996. It relaxed radio’s ownership rules making it possible for one company to own multiple radio stations in a single market.
Wall Street loved the change! The money poured in from eager investors, and companies like Clear Channel, Citadel, and Cumulus quickly bought as many stations as they could using other people’s money. Mom & Pop radio operations had multiple companies vying for their properties and radio station values soared.
Ownership Limits
In 1953, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted its so-called 7-7-7 rule to encourage diversity of broadcast ownership. In essence, no single owner could own more than 7 AM radio stations, 7 FM radio stations, and 7 television stations in the entire United States of America.
By July of 1984, the FCC said they sought to encourage media competition and increased the number of radio and television stations a single owner could control to 12-12-12. The FCC Chairman was Mark S. Fowler. The President of the United States was Ronald Reagan. The five member FCC was 3 Republican appointees and 2 Democratic appointees. The vote to expand the ownership limits was 4 to 1 in favor.
“Bigness is not necessarily badness,” Chairman Fowler is reported saying. “Sometimes it is goodness.”
The New York Times reported reaction on Capitol Hill to the expansion of ownership limits this way:
On Capitol Hill, there was mixed reaction to the plan to abandon all limits on broadcasting ownership in 1990, although sentiment has grown in recent years for raising the ownership maximum somewhat.
Representative Timothy E. Wirth, the Colorado Democrat who is chairman of the House telecommunications subcommittee, said, ”The 12-12- 12 rule is just as arbitrary as the 7-7-7 rule.”
Mr. Wirth said a broad bipartisan consensus in Congress favors adoption of ”objective, long-term rules that assure diversity and competition.” He said such rules would provide for increased broadcast ownership but would not completely deregulate it.”
He went to say “If they deregulate in 1990, we could end up with a handful of companies owning every broadcasting outlet in the country.”
President Ronald Reagan
Reagan loved two things, cutting taxes and eliminating regulation. Remember Reagan famously said that “Government isn’t the solution to our problems, government is the problem.” Reagan’s pick for FCC Chairman, Mark Fowler, fully embraced this vision and actively applied it to the FCC.
However, the prediction of Congressman Timothy Wirth wouldn’t come into existence until President Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996. It would be the first significant overhaul of the 1934 Act in more than sixty years.
Radio station ownership in the first five years under this new act went from 5,100 owners to 3,800.
Instead of opening up ownership to new and more diverse ownership, it created an opportunity for media monopoly. The Wall Street funded radio companies could now buy out the Mom & Pops and the temptation to sell at never-before-seen-multiples was too good to pass up.
Operating in the Public Interest, Convenience and Necessity
When no one really knew what radio broadcasting would become, they did know they wanted radio to be a communications business that would serve its community of license for convenience in good times and of necessity in times of trouble. The airwaves were considered to be owned by the public, so operating in their best interests was a requirement to being an FCC broadcast licensee.
Changing Competitive Landscape
Historically, radio stations competed against one another. Most markets had such battles as, WLS vs. WCFL, WMEX vs. WRKO, WPTR vs. WTRY, KHJ vs. KRLA etc. When FM radio began to take over from AM, a station such as WABC no longer had just WMCA to beat, but now WTKU-FM too, which offered better fidelity and stereo. This new radio competition replicated in every radio market in America.
Then came Satellite Radio, followed by Pandora along with other pureplay streamers, and podcasts so that today, the radio competition landscape lines are blurred beyond recognition.
Mission vs. Platform
Today’s communications company needs to clearly define its mission and needs to earn the trust of all of its stakeholders. That means building trust between its employees, advertisers and listeners.
We need to stop thinking of “radio” as AM or FM.
We need to think of radio as being the audio leader for creating an environment for convening and supporting groups. We need to be preparing for a future that is still coming into focus.
Tagged as 12-12-12 Rule, 7-7-7 Rule, Citadel, Clear Channel, Congressman Timothy Wirth, Cumulus, FCC, FCC Chairman Mark Fowler, FCC License, Federal Communications Commission, KHJ, KRLA, Operating in the Public Interest, Peter Drucker, President Bill Clinton, President Ronald Reagan, Telecommunications Act of 1996, WABC, WCFL, WLS, WMCA, WMEX, WPTR, WRKO, WTKU, WTRY
People Attract People
One of my favorite activities each Memorial Day Weekend is to listen to WABC Rewound streamed over Rewound Radio. What makes this weekend so special is that people from all over the world are listening to the stream at the same time. It’s a coming together of people of all ages to celebrate one of the greatest radio stations America ever produced.
Why WABC Rewound is So Popular
This year, I streamed WABC Rewound driving back to Virginia after spending a couple of weeks in my home state of Massachusetts. Over 7-hours and four states, the stream via my iPhone7 pumped through my Honda Accord’s premium 7-speaker, 270-watt audio system was rich, full and continuous without buffering or interference of any kind. That all by itself is something to note. Streaming audio today is becoming seamless.
But it wasn’t the music that attracted me, though the records are the “music of my life” from my days in high school, college and as a disc jockey. No what attracts me – and everyone else that faithfully tunes in each year – are the personalities.
Herb Oscar Anderson, Bob Dayton, Dan Ingram, Ron Lundy, Bruce Morrow, Charlie Greer, Bob Lewis, Chuck Leonard, Johnny Donovan, Harry Harrison and George Michael, plus the newscasters that delivered news every hour.
We are attracted to the people. People we grew up with.
The New Yorker magazine wrote back in 1965 that listeners to WABC were part of the WABC family. We were “cousins” of Cousin Brucie. We were part of the Ingram tribe as he called us “Kemosabe.”
Mornings went “all the way with HOA” as New York’s morning Mayor Herb Oscar Anderson started our day before Harry Harrison moved from WMCA to WABC.
Contests, Features & Promotions About People
WABC invited listeners to vote for their “Principal of the Year” (16-million votes cast in 1964), mail in for a “Kissin’ Cousin Card” or a “Kemosabe Card” (drawing in 150,000 requests in a single week).
Herb Oscar singing “Hello Again” live on the radio and reading lost dog announcements, celebrating birthdays.
Each personality became a member of the family. Your family. And like a member of the family, you took them everywhere you went. To the lake, on a picnic, in your car, to wake up with or go to sleep with. They were companions and we were part of their community.
Father Peter Gregory
“Without people, there wouldn’t be a priesthood,” was the often-heard proclamation of Father Peter Gregory of St. Charles Church in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Father Peter has been the pastor of St. Charles for nearly three decades. “The church is people,” he told a reporter who interviewed him on the eve of his retirement.
I bring up Father Peter because at a time when many churches in Pittsfield have closed their doors due to a lack of followers, St. Charles is doing quite well.
It’s not the most glamorous of structures – other churches in the city I might rate more inspirational – and it’s not in the best neighborhood, no what it has had is a spiritual leader that believed in people and whom people believed in right back.
A Mount Rushmore Sized Opportunity for Radio
I love reading the weekly Mid-Week Motivator articles from a good friend and former consultant of some of the radio stations I managed, Tim Moore.
Recently Tim asked “Why is Talent Development in Neutral?”
He wrote that his life’s education seems to have been about understanding the challenges and concepts of what it takes to be a winner. It meant he would constantly be looking for character and excellence in people who hadn’t found it yet.
The irony about today’s radio, Tim says, is “glaring opportunity, constricted by the inability or lack of will on the part of many companies and their leaders to insist on the culture of better.”
Air talent goes un-coached while radio has a huge opportunity to build relationships with its listeners. Building the same kind of bond, I had with the personalities of WABC, WKBW, WTRY, WPTR, WBZ, WRKO, WDRC, WBEC, WBRK, WLS, WCFL and so many more.
Over the years, I’ve been to many diary reviews and a few focus groups. What you see are the attraction of radio listeners to radio personalities.
While a particular format may be what initially attracts a listener to a radio station, it’s the radio personality that is the glue that will cement the listener’s loyalty.
Tim says” It’s the personality of a station that locks-in listeners’ interest and daily habit.” “The implications are simple, obvious, yet largely ignored: without better talent (defined as more relatable, interesting, and reciprocal people on the radio) we are treading water,” says Tim.
Who Influenced Dan Ingram, The Real Don Steele, Dale Dorman or…?
Most radio people my age grew up with the most talented and engaging radio personalities to grace the airwaves of American radio. They were our teachers. They were available for us to listen to and mentor under 24/7, 365-days a year.
In addition to them, we had program directors – many of them off-air – who coached us and inspired us to be better.
I’ve often wondered about the iconic radio personalities that did it first. Who did they learn from? How did they become the engaging, relatable, interesting personalities that attracted our ears like metal to a magnet?
And can a talent voice-tracked over multiple radio stations ever be as compelling to not just listeners but to the next generation to want to pursue radio as a career?
Again, Father Peter understood his church’s most valuable asset, it’s youth. “It’s the kids and youth who are the future of our church,” he said. “I’m now dealing with kids whose parents I had as kids.”
The Community Band
Once upon a time, every community in America had at least one town band. Most of them are long gone.
When I was managing a radio cluster in Lancaster, Pennsylvania I came to know and love the New Holland Band of New Holland, Pennsylvania.
The band was not only strong and vibrant, but performed at a level that would have made John Phillip Sousa proud. Its concerts are very well attended and it’s produced some of this country’s finest musicians, some of whom now perform as part of the President’s band.
Why did the New Holland Band not just survive but continues to thrive? It understood it’s all about people. The band’s members are made up of a diverse group of professional, semi-professional and student musicians. The oldest member of the band has been a member since 1959 and the newest member since 2016. It’s this blending of youth with experience and wisdom that keeps the New Holland Band fresh, contemporary and relevant.
It was the initiative of one of my hometown radio stations (WBEC) that convinced the Junior Achievement to create a JA Radio Company.
Junior Achievement was founded in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1919 by Theodore Vail of AT&T, Horace Moses of Strathmore Paper Company and Massachusetts Senator Winthrop Murray Crane (who’s family paper company, Crane and Company make the paper all U.S. currency is printed on).
The JA website states: “Junior Achievement is the nation’s largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their future, and make smart academic and economic choices. Junior Achievement’s programs—in the core content areas of work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy—ignite the spark in young people to experience and realize the opportunities and realities of work and life in the 21st century. Our Purpose: Junior Achievement inspires and prepares young people to succeed in a global economy.”
WBEC’s management realized that getting high school students actively involved with the radio station would engage their parents, siblings, families and friends too. Many of them who owned local businesses. It was both mentoring a new generation of radio broadcasters as well as leveraging the people attract people principle.
As Tim Moore says “Human development is the essence of life. Weak excuses such as ‘we don’t have the time to develop talent’ are just chin boogie.”
All my radio life, I’ve invested my energies in the development of people. Many of them today are owners and managers of their own broadcast operations.
I’m also proud to have spent the past seven years of my life as a broadcast professor paying-it-forward to a new generation of broadcasters.
Radio is a people business.
It will never attract people to its product like it once did without a serious commitment to talent development.
Tagged as Bob Dayton, Bob Lewis, Bruce Morrow, Charlie Greer, Chuck Leonard, Cousin Brucie, Dale Dorman, Dan Ingram, Father Peter Gregory, George Michael, Harry Harrison, Herb Oscar Anderson, Horace Moses, Johnny Donovan, Junior Achievement, Kemosabe, Massachusetts, Midweek Motivator, New Holland Band, Pittsfield, Rewound Radio, Ron Lundy, Senator Winthrop Murray Crane, Springfield, St. Charles Church, The New Yorker, The Real Don Steele, Theodore Vail, Tim Moore, WABC, WABC Rewound, WBRK, WBZ, WCFL, WDRC, WKBW, WLS, WMCA, WPTR, WRKO, WTRY
Are We Losing the Next Generations?
Growing up in western New England, the transistor radio would impact my life and career. Radio has been in my blood as long as I can remember, but it would be my Zenith transistor radio that would first allow me to explore new stations, new music, new personalities and new ways of delivering content without the supervision of my parents. My transistor radio and ear piece would make me the master of my own radio dial.
Growing up, it seemed like most radio markets had two radio stations battling for the teenage ear. WPTR and WTRY out of Albany, New York’s capital district would be mine. Each of those radio stations would bring their mobile studios to our county shopping center and broadcast LIVE. It was such a thrill.
Hartford had WDRC and WPOP. Boston had WMEX and WRKO. Philadelphia had WIBG and WFIL. Chicago had WLS and WCFL.
New York City would finally be a battle between WMCA and WABC for the Top40 crown in the Big Apple.
What made traveling around in my folk’s car so exciting was that each of these radio markets and radio stations were special and different. The personalities, the promotions, the station jingles and yes, even some of the music was unique to each station and market. Local and regional bands could be heard hoping to be discovered and go national with their music.
Radio stations all did music research back then and printed weekly surveys charting how the hits were doing from week to week with local listeners.
That was then, this is now. Larry Rosin at Edison Research says that today “virtually no radio stations perform formal research for music among teens nor target teens directly in their marketing strategy.”
I’ve sold “old people radio formats” where the presentation was quick to point out that what advertisers should be focused on is not the age of the audience but the amount of money they control and have as discretionary to spend as they wish.
I’ve also sold “young people radio formats” where we pointed out that kids are the masters of convincing their parents and grandparents to get them anything they wanted, so please don’t focus on how young they are. I mean once my boys were out of the house, I no longer went to Mickey D’s and ordered “Happy Meals.” (That made me very happy!)
Radio has always focused on the “family reunion demo” aka 25-54 adults; though that demo is shifting upwards with the aging baby boomers to 35-64 adults.
When Radio Disney was born and focused on little tykes, it appeared there was now a radio operator ready to pick up the torch for young people listening to radio. But then radio was shocked the day Disney announced it was selling all but one of its owned and operated Radio Disney stations. Radio Disney basically operated on AM radio. AM radio is no longer used for music listening by the public and so was Disney just abandoning AM radio for FM radio? No. Radio Disney had established a strong beach front on two audio delivery mediums; SiriusXM and online listening. (It also benefits from the Disney TV Channel on cable, satellite and streaming via the Net.)
It should also be noted that around the time Radio Disney was coming into existence that the radio ratings company known at that time as Arbitron began to measure listening audiences down to age 6+ with their new PPM device where as the diary previously only measured “adults 12+.” When Nielsen bought Arbitron and rebranded the radio ratings service Nielsen Audio it kept the 6+ listening metric. Nielsen also now is trying to establish a listening service that will measure all audio listening consumption across all platforms. Can you see where this is going?
Radio listening is a habit. My father never acquired it. I was raised on it. My sons were raised on it. But I see my grandchildren are holding iPad-like devices and easily navigate their parents’ iPhones.
You would have thought that with more radio stations on-the-air in America than at any time in history there would be more variety than at any time in our history, but that’s not the case. There’s actually less variety.
After launching two Smooth Jazz formatted radio stations and falling in love with the artists and their music I now can only hear this music streamed online. So like my grandchildren, I’m forming a listening habit that doesn’t require a radio; just my iPad or iPhone.
I believe the future is going to be all about being the best at something, not necessarily garnering the most people. Radio was always about getting the most ears. Everything was based on CPP (cost per point), but in a world of infinite choice, the best will dominate.
Radio can play in this world if programming is turned back over to people who program their passions to others just like themselves.
Steve Jobs made Apple into the world’s most valuable company by focusing on design (in radio, that’s programming) and making products that he and his team wanted to have for themselves (building a radio station that you not only own, but love to listen to yourself).
Radio is either going seize the day or have a seizure.
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Luther College announces endowed professorships and endowed chairs
10/09/2020 Luther College News
Jane Hawley, Andrew Last, Maren Johnson
DECORAH, Iowa – Each fall, Luther College awards endowed professorships and endowed chairs to honor Luther faculty members whose teaching careers and accomplishments have exemplified the philosophy and values of the liberal arts, enriched the intellectual life of students, enhanced the academic character of the institution and demonstrated leadership in the teaching profession.
“Created by the generous gifts of those who love Luther College, these positions and the outstanding teaching scholars in them are provided funds for special projects. Every endowed chair, professorship or center has been established to further the mission of the college, and each reminds us of the college’s commitment to a life of discovery, reflection and service,” said Kevin Kraus, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college. “Today we pause to celebrate the dedication and accomplishments of three Luther faculty members. As they assume these new leadership roles, we look forward to the great things they will achieve for the good of this community.”
Jane Hawley ’87, professor of dance, will serve as the next Nena Amundson Distinguished Professor.
The Nena Amundson Distinguished Professorship honors the late Nena Amundson, a 1956 graduate of Luther College who taught physical education and coached women’s athletics for more than 40 years, primarily at California Lutheran University. A pioneer in collegiate women’s sports programs, Amundson provided an estate gift to fund the endowment for the Luther wellness program. The Amundson Professorship Award provides a faculty stipend, a student stipend and funding for a research project. The award is competitive, based on the selection committee’s evaluation of project proposals, particularly those focusing on health and wellness issues for women.
Hawley’s Amundson project, Sensing Identity, will apply practices from her Movement Fundamentals research as a focal point for listening to the body while identifying personal practices for self-care, selfhood and well-being.
“Receiving the Nena Amundson Distinguished Professorship offers an exciting opportunity to highlight body/mind integrated learning and becoming,” says Hawley. “I am grateful to work alongside the students to further understand how dance integrates with our overall health and wellbeing.”
Hawley’s Amundson project launched in September and involved more than 20 students. This embodied research will continue both on and off campus over the next two years.
Andrew Last ’97, director of choral activities and associate professor of music, will serve as the next Weston Noble Endowed Chair in Music. For more than 50 years, Weston Noble ’43, professor emeritus of music, taught, directed and conducted at Luther, influencing thousands of students, including Last.
“Few teachers have had more of an impact on my teaching career than Weston Noble,” said Last. “Each and every day that I stand before Nordic Choir, I feel his spirit in the choir room. It is my hope that through this endowment, Weston’s passion for community, excellence and inclusion will be shared through educational and creative opportunities.”
Established by Ervin and Phyllis Johnson, this endowed chair recognizes the value of Christian higher education and the quality of the academic and music programs provided by Luther College. The Noble Chair will enrich the education of students at Luther College and bring national attention to the college and its programs.
Maren Johnson, associate professor of Nordic Studies and director of the Torgerson Center for Nordic Studies, will serve as the first Tomson Family Endowed Chair in Norwegian Language and Modern Nordic Culture. This position serves as the academic foundation of the Richard L. and Judith Torgerson Center for Nordic Studies, providing oversight for academic and co-curricular programs, preserving existing partnerships and creating new collaborative initiatives with educational institutions and scholars in Norway.
This endowed chair was established thanks to the generosity of O. Jay and Patricia A. Tomson, longtime friends of the college, and Marti (Tomson) Rodamaker, regent emerita, and in recognition of Luther’s sesquicentennial and more than 150 years of treasured ties to Norway.
“The Tomson family’s gift of this endowed chair cements the role of the study of Norwegian language and Nordic culture at Luther College,” said Johnson. “I am excited for the call of this position to continue to strengthen the ties between Luther and the Nordic region today to find points of collaboration for study and research for our students, faculty and staff.”
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In our weekly roundup, we report on a big decision for a little fish in the Atlantic Ocean, why geoengineering could cause more hurricanes and what climate change means for the marine life of Pacific island nations.
Published on Nov. 17, 2017 Read time Approx. 3 minutes
A Setback for Key Atlantic Forage Fish
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission voted this week to hold off on a new management paradigm for the menhaden, a small fish that has attracted outsized attention for its crucial role in the marine food chain.
The failed measure was based on an emerging concept in fisheries management. Catch limits would be set to ensure enough menhaden in the sea to feed all of the predators that depend on it – such as humpback whales – rather than the more common method of treating the fish as a single species in isolation.
The vote delayed this “ecosystem-based approach” for at least a couple more years. It also raised the catch quota for menhaden by 8 percent.
Conservationists and recreational anglers, who had campaigned heavily leading up to the meeting, were disappointed. “Wildlife on the East Coast will suffer for these choices, as will people who enjoy fishing for striped bass or watching whales,” said Peter Banker, a United States ocean conservation director for Pew Charitable Trusts.
Fishing companies, particularly Omega Protein – the fish oil and feed company that catches the vast majority of menhaden – didn’t get everything they wanted either. Because menhaden aren’t “overfished” by the existing standard, the Menhaden Fisheries Coalition wanted more than an 8 percent quota increase. It said in a statement the commission “did not follow the best available science.”
Engineering the Planet’s Climate Could Roil the Ocean
With global greenhouse gas emissions projected to rise rather than decline in 2017, scientists and even the U.S. Congress are looking more closely at controversial “geoengineering” proposals that could offer a Plan B to avert dangerous climate change.
But radical solutions – like seeding the atmosphere with aerosols that filter the sun’s rays and cool the planet – could have unintended consequences, and a new study in Nature Communications details some important ones for the ocean.
The study, from researchers at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, modeled what would happen if a nation decided to inject sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, simulating a volcanic eruption’s cooling effect on the globe. They found that a Southern Hemisphere injection could increase tropical Atlantic storms and hurricanes, while a Northern Hemisphere injection would likely mean fewer hurricanes and more droughts in Africa.
The varying regional effects were a key finding. “This work re-emphasizes the perils of unilateral geoengineering, which might prove attractive to individual actors due to a greater controllability of local climate responses, but with inherent additional risk elsewhere,” it concluded.
Island Nations Could Lose Most Marine Species
As sea levels rise, small island nations are already bearing the brunt of climate change on land. Now a recent study shows just how badly warming global temperatures could damage their ocean resources as well.
The study, published in Marine Policy from researchers with the Nippon Foundation-Nereus Program, found that an unchecked warming scenario could cause Pacific island nations to lose 50 percent to 80 percent of their local marine species by the end of the century. The tropical Pacific region is already the warmest area of the global ocean – making its ocean life particularly vulnerable to threats associated with climate change.
The plight of Pacific island nations has been spotlighted this month by Fiji as it leads global climate talks in Bonn, Germany. Because Pacific island societies depend heavily on ocean ecosystems for tourism, food and livelihoods, Fiji has led a push to bring a focus on oceans into the climate change discussion, presiding over the launch of an “ocean pathway” within the negotiation process on Thursday.
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DAVANTE ADAMS TROTTED back to the Green Bay huddle, then barked out an order to Aaron Rodgers.
Throw it again, he remembers yelling.
Running back Aaron Jones recalls a more solicitous Adams on this evening in October 2017. In Jones' version of events, both Adams and Rodgers tapped their jerseys, each extending to the other a silent apology. My bad, they meant to say. But Rodgers? He hews closer to Adams' account. He offers a wisp of a smile, remembering his wide receiver's pointed directive. Throw. It. Again.
"Not only did he want the ball," Rodgers says now, several years, and a few hundred passes to Adams, later. "But he wanted me to throw it a little bit better."
So forgive Adams his lapse in decorum, because Rodgers clearly does, and because the Packers trailed 31-28 in JerryWorld, and time was very much running out. Then zoom in. This mostly forgettable play from this mostly forgettable night shows how this season's best quarterback-wide receiver tandem was forged.
On first-and-10 from the Dallas 12-yard line, Rodgers had lofted a fade down the left side in Adams' direction. But it was low and inside, and the best Adams could do, ensnared as he was in a tangle of limbs, was try to bat the ball away from his defender, lest it be intercepted. But he wanted that ball again, only higher and outside this time. Which is precisely where Rodgers lofted it on Take 2. The Packers ran it back with 16 seconds remaining, a fade down the left side once more, and this time Adams leapt, snagged the football, pirouetted midair, then landed both feet in the blue end zone paint for a touchdown. In celebration, he chucked the ball with so much mustard that it might've hit Jerry Jones' Texas-sized video board had he had the foresight to aim it that way.
Davante Adams will look to add to his season total of 18 touchdown receptions Saturday when the Packers open their playoffs against the Rams. Raj Mehta-USA TODAY Sports
Here's the moral of this story: Adams gets Rodgers in ways so eerie they border on witchcraft, and this was the moment their sorcery was laid bare. Survey just about anyone on the field that night. Jordy Nelson says so. Jones does too. Rodgers makes three.
Just don't ask Davante Adams.
IT'S NOT THAT Adams doesn't appreciate why so many point to his touchdown against Dallas that day as Exhibit A in their case for what makes his connection with Rodgers special and different, and, yes, somewhat eerie. He told Aaron Rodgers, former Super Bowl MVP, what to do! And Aaron Rodgers, future gold jacket wearer, listened!
It's just that there's a different play -- on the same drive, in fact -- that he considers more emblematic of this bizarre, synchronized magic he has dabbled in with Rodgers over the years. Rewind the tape. Before the game-winning touchdown on the high and outside fade, before the missed connection on the low and inside fade, the Packers took the field way back at their own 25 with a minute and change to go. The offense had stood idle on the sideline for 8:43 of game clock time -- a damn near eternity in regular old time -- watching the Cowboys drive 79 yards over 17 plays to take the lead.
Back on the field for the first time in ages, Rodgers looked at Adams on the opening play of the drive, then looked at the defensive back guarding him. Adams, mind reader -- or just extraordinarily adept interpreter of looks directed at defensive backs -- got the point. "He looked at the DB a certain way," Adams explains. He sort of explains. He at least tries to explain. "Almost to say, like, this is a situation where I need to throw that back-shoulder ball, like I did earlier in the game."
Adams, now crystal clear (somehow) on exactly what Rodgers meant (but didn't say), released much wider than he normally would have otherwise. And because he did not try to get on top, as instructed (apparently), Rodgers threw a perfect back-shoulder ball that dropped into Adams' arms before the wide receiver did a half-twist, burst forward a few more feet, and then skipped out of bounds for a first down of 14 yards.
He and Rodgers didn't need prosaic things like, say, words to talk to each other. No, their thoughts traveled via osmosis, or at least the hyper-understanding and knowledge that many years together affords. And that's why Adams still puts this play on a pedestal, unheralded as it might be by anyone but him.
"I think this one was a little bit more impressive as far as the nonverbals," he says. "Just a look and knowing what he wanted."
Several Packers point to this game-winning TD against the Cowboys in 2017 as the epitome of the Davante Adams-Aaron Rodgers magic, but Adams reroutes to a play earlier in the same drive. Paul Moseley/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Tribune News Service via Getty Images
There's a hazy, quasi-mystical aura that settles over any discourse around the mind meld Adams has managed to nurse into existence with Rodgers since he arrived in Green Bay in 2014. It's "hard to explain" and "you can't really understand it," and "it just sort of happens," and, oh yes, it's "hard to explain." Their wordless connection, perhaps appropriately, seems to defy words. Or at least words that elucidate much of anything.
But that, too, is the point. If just anyone could understand these dark arts, anyone could be a magician. When Adams and Rodgers break from the huddle, their inner thoughts remain fused, locked, one, and the only people who could plausibly know those inner thoughts are Adams and Rodgers. Jones, for example, will be on the field, hear one run-pass option called in the huddle, then watch as an entirely different RPO unfolds seconds later.
"They'll just give each other a nod, and something big happens," Jones says. "They're in each other's heads."
But Jones is there on that same field. He's in that same huddle. He has seen that same nod. Doesn't he have a semblance of a clue about what has transpired?!
"Not the exact play," he admits. "I just know something special is about to happen."
Adams has an uncanny ability to recall plays from just about any point in his career, but he also has spent a lot of time studying Aaron Rodgers and observing his body language. Dylan Buell/Getty Images
It makes sense, then, that no one besides Adams -- save, perhaps, Rodgers -- would catalog in their memory Rolodex a 3-year-old, visually unspectacular, otherwise run-of-the-mill pass-and-catch against Dallas in Week 5. Adams and Rodgers' mind-reading escapades have resulted in touchdowns (many; 18 scored by Adams in 2020, tying a franchise record), and catches (also many; 115 this year, breaking a franchise record), and memes (Rodgers' bewildered face after Adams caught a pass with one hand while a defender ripped the glove off his other hand). It hides in plain sight, this language spoken and understood by two, and indecipherable to the rest of us simpletons. To teammates like Aaron Jones. To former teammates like Jordy Nelson, who once spoke his own language with Rodgers, too.
Adams spent the formative years of his NFL career -- his first four seasons -- binge-watching the "Jordy and Aaron show," as he dubs it, digesting the ways Nelson, one of Green Bay's original mind readers, could communicate with Rodgers without speaking, how he became an extension of Rodgers, as if Rodgers had sprouted an alien, but useful, third arm. (And what a show it was. Nelson and Rodgers wound up Green Bay's second-most prolific duo ever with 469 completions -- until Adams came along and eclipsed them, and the Brett Favre-Donald Driver hookup (486), with a franchise-best 498 catches -- and counting -- from Rodgers.
They eventually became so enmeshed, the line where Rodgers ended and Nelson began grew so blurred, that when young receivers had a question for Rodgers -- What was he thinking? What kind of route did he want run? -- Rodgers would defer them to Nelson, wanting to hear Nelson's take, then offer swift validation: Yep, what he said. Adams saw that, saw that Nelson could make a mistake once -- he'd keep running through a zone, say, and Rodgers would throw the ball, thinking Nelson had stopped -- then never make that mistake again, without a word from Rodgers himself.
Mostly, he saw how Rodgers responded to Nelson in those moments. Rodgers perked up. His body language changed. So Adams filed that away for later use, then went back to the business of finding his place in this league as a young receiver. Particularly because he was a young receiver who -- spoiler alert -- wasn't doing all that well.
Adams didn't set out to be Rodgers' best friend forever or anything. There were no trust falls. No late-night, soul-baring confessions, a campfire crackling in front of them. ("Honestly, I don't think that they spend much time together outside of the facility," says fellow Green Bay wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling.)
There didn't need to be, Adams had learned. Nelson and Rodgers operated like identical twins with a cosmic connection, but their bromance was always a touch overdramatized. "This will be mind-blowing to some people, but I've never had a glass of scotch with him," Nelson says. "I've played golf with him. We'd do dinners. But it wasn't like every Thursday night we went out."
Adams and Rodgers didn't need to be attached at the hip, then. They just needed to think like they were. So Adams did the mundane, tedious work of watching Rodgers, and listening to Rodgers, and remembering what Rodgers did and said. How do you remember how to walk? It's muscle memory. So it was with the art of reading Rodgers.
"We can jump back to a game from 2015 and he'll say, 'Run it like that one time where it was third-and-10 and you had the stutter going,'" Adams says. "And I'll know exactly what he's talking about."
As one does.
They are, in other words, in the world's most picture-perfect marriage. A blissful, finish-each-other's sentences, can't-get-enough-of-each other union. And the road to Super Bowl LV runs through Lambeau this year -- first up, the Rams -- right as Adams and Rodgers are playing their best, most in-sync football as a duo to date.
FULL TRANSPARENCY ALERT: Adams and Rodgers didn't have a meet-cute at Lambeau Field, nor did they form an insta-connection. Adams didn't parachute into Green Bay from the Bay Area and unlock the mysteries of Aaron Rodgers' beautiful mind. No, for a spell, their partnership was fruitless enough that Adams descended into the netherworld of NFL bustdom.
His mother, Pamela Brown, eschewing the advice of anyone who has ever existed on social media, does read the comments section. In Adams' second year in the league, she came across a Green Bay fan's tweet calling her son the worst receiver in the NFL. Brown responded ("I just went in and said a whole bunch of stuff that I probably shouldn't"), and a few hours later, she received a text message from Adams: "Mom." That was the last time she engaged the haters.
But if the bust discussion was premature, it was also, at the very least, grounded in merited concern. Adams was not very good. In fact, he was quite bad.
"It was just a s--- show all around," he says.
Adams spent basically all of 2015 playing on a bum ankle, which is not ideal for any receiver, and especially not for one like him who relies on misdirection and getting his feet outside of his framework. But his hands went bust too, uninjured though they were. He dropped six out of the 92 passes thrown to him that season, tied for seventh most in the league, and Pro Football Focus ranked him 118 out of 119 receivers who played in at least 25% of their team's snaps. (Fed-Up Green Bay Twitter User wasn't all that off base, in retrospect.) All told, Adams and Rodgers connected on 57.2% of attempts sent his way in the wide receiver's first two seasons.
Rodgers, Adams says, was one of the people who circled the wagons tightest around him back then and who helped him regain his equilibrium when the ground beneath was quaking. That Rodgers transitioned from steady hand to the world's most vociferous Davante Adams champion makes a certain amount of sense, then. This season, Rodgers has, in no particular order: said he has scaled Jordy Nelson-like heights in his connection with Adams, proclaimed Adams to be Charles Woodson-level dominant and pretty much enthused that Adams completes him. "I'm better because of him," Rodgers said last month. "As a person and as a quarterback."
Adams prides himself on making defensive backs work on every single play, and the result is often a whole lot of separation. AP Photo/Jim Mone
If Rodgers is feeling starry-eyed these days, it has something to do with this: Adams finished the year with four games in which he recorded 10 receptions, 100 yards and two touchdowns, a single-season NFL record. Meanwhile, Adams and Rodgers are connecting. And connecting and connecting. According to ESPN Stats & Information research, Adams had 63 more receptions than any other Packer, the biggest gap between any team's top two pass-catchers in 2020; he was targeted on 34% of his routes, the highest rate among wide receivers since 2012; Rodgers and Adams connected on 76.7% of attempts this season, the second-highest rate in the past 20 years among quarterback-wide receiver duos with at least 150 attempts. They're not the first duo to reach mind-bending synergy (Peyton Manning and Marvin Harrison, most glaringly), but they're scaling similar heights.
Ask those around Adams -- his coaches, his teammates, his former teammates -- beyond his ESP with Rodgers, what separates Adams from other receivers in this league, and they'll tell you it's ... literally separation. His ability to create space from the defender, his knack for being open: All. The. Time.
"Here lies the man who never gave a DB a break," Adams envisions his future career tombstone saying. "Every single route that I take, I take a million percent serious. I'm gonna try to abuse you on every single route."
To touch on the obvious, these are athletes who are exceptional at what they do. They would be just fine, mind meld or no mind meld. Adams would still get separation off the line like few other receivers in the league. And the famously cerebral Rodgers? Does he need someone to get on his level?
"He doesn't need it," Nelson says. He's Aaron Rodgers, is what he doesn't say. Of course he doesn't need it. "But it makes life a lot easier," he adds.
The point, in Adams' mind, is that it's these two with this connection. Without it, would they be great? Of course. Without it, would they leave a reservoir untapped? Of course.
"He's the best quarterback in the NFL, and I'm the best wide receiver in the NFL," Adams says. "And the way that we jell, I don't think that anybody else is doing it quite like us."
Adams wasn't always as sure-handed as he is now, and he says Rodgers stood by him during a bumpy 2015 season. AP Photo/Leon Halip
LONG BEFORE ADAMS could read Rodgers with a look, or dust off a years-old play his quarterback referenced in a flash, his preschool teachers offered a plausible -- in retrospect -- explanation as to why he'd go on to perform mental gymnastics with aplomb.
He had a photographic memory, the educators at Stanford's Bing Nursery School told Brown about her 5-year-old son. Pretty much anything he read, he'd remember.
"Maybe it goes back to that photographic memory," Brown says, trying to divine how Adams has achieved one-brain status with Rodgers. "When he studies someone, he remembers everything. I guess he studies him."
In truth, he's been playing some form of mind games for almost as long as he's been at this. He persuaded his mom to let him play football when he was around 10 years old, thanks to a peer pressure offensive. Adams called Brown one day from his after-school program and asked to tag along to his friend's Pop Warner practice; that friend's father drove him home armed with an application to join the league. Despite a slew of reservations (Davante, you're too frail, you'll get destroyed out there; Davante, I can't even afford cleats), she relented. For one, her reservations were met with rebuttals: Adams promised that if he ever cried, she had his blessing to remove him from football altogether; his friend's father offered to chip in for accoutrements like cleats. For another, Brown figured the surest way to shield her son from the pitfalls of East Palo Alto was to keep him exhaustively occupied with sports. Theirs was a small city, but a hard one to rise above. In 1992, the same year Adams was born, East Palo Alto recorded more per capita murders than any other city in the United States.
"A lot of talent comes out of East Palo Alto," says Josh Harper, Adams' old teammate from Fresno State, who grew up in nearby Union City, California. "But there's a lot of talent that doesn't make it out of there too."
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So Brown abided Adams' newfound zeal for football, frailty and all. ("He's always been like his dad's family," Brown says. "My family, we have meat on our bones. His dad's family, they're tall and slim.") And she nursed him through broken bones in his left arm, thrice fractured in the exact same spot -- twice while playing football, once in a pickup basketball game -- then made him run track and field while his arm healed to keep him active.
Because of that pesky, ever-fragile limb, he left football for a spell, but football never really left him. Jake Halas, the coach of Palo Alto High's freshman football team when Adams was a ninth-grader, remembers Adams lingering around practice, tossing a football to himself with his one good arm. He'd sometimes lurk in the huddle as Halas broke the team down for the day, and the coach would think to himself, who is this guy, but let him skulk anyway, while the rest of the freshmen took a knee and listened to Halas pontificate on that day's football exploits.
Adams did eventually return to the game, officially, as a junior in high school -- not just late in the Wild West of college football recruiting but practically a no-show. That delayed reentry toppled one domino, which hit another, which hit another, leaving Adams late to the party at each new juncture.
He was a mostly unknown wide receiver at Palo Alto High School and received a grand total of two college football scholarships, the second of which he earned from Fresno State only because the school had ventured north to do some reconnaissance on Adams' speedier counterpart at wide receiver. "I was a one-star recruit," Adams once joked.
So he made his way to Fresno State, only to redshirt his freshman year in 2011. Then, in short order, he earned Mountain West Freshman of the Year in 2012, and in 2013, his redshirt sophomore season, he amassed 1,718 receiving yards, setting a Fresno State record, and 24 touchdowns, the most in the country that year. But Fresno State is not Ohio State, nor Alabama, nor Clemson. At his mother's home that spring, he watched the first round of the 2014 draft come and go without his name ever called, then made his family dress in all black the next day. His point: "This'll be everybody's funeral and they'll pay for it eventually."
And they did, even if the 31 other teams only realized it was their funeral five or six, or maybe even seven years, after their passing. When the Packers finally drafted Adams in the second round, they united him with a quarterback who also knew the sting of a draft-day snub, and landed a wide receiver who had an established history of doing exactly what he'd wind up achieving in Lambeau in a few years' time.
At Paly, he came on late but came on fast. He turbocharged his connection with his high school quarterback, and Christoph Bono remembers to this day staying after practice with Adams to discuss what Bono was seeing as the passer and what Adams was seeing as the receiver, the two hell-bent on fusing those visions into one. Adams replicated those efforts at Fresno State, where he became Derek Carr's preferred roommate for away games and his brain sharer in rapid succession.
"Derek would look at Tae, give him this little eye contact, and he'd know exactly what to do," Harper says.
It's the catchy hook of the earworm song that's the soundtrack to Adams' career: He knew exactly what to do. With a look. With a nod. With nothing at all.
One time with Bono? Kind of neat. Twice, with Carr? A coincidence. Three times, with Rodgers? Now that's a full-blown pattern.
Adams fittingly was on the receiving end when Rodgers became the seventh quarterback in NFL history to throw 400 touchdown passes. AP Photo/Morry Gash
IN EARLY DECEMBER, Rodgers stood behind the line of scrimmage, a shade under 10 yards from Philadelphia's end zone. The playcall was a jet sweep, and Adams didn't expect to get the ball at all, but wide receiver Allen Lazard motioned to the right, bringing the Eagles' defense with him, and leaving just one man -- Darius Slay, who retreated a few yards back -- covering Adams on the left.
Adams saw all this -- the motion, the retreating -- and thought, "This could be beneficial for us," and, what do you know: His quarterback had the same take.
Rodgers jettisoned said jet sweep, instead firing to Adams. One more (wordless) exchange, one more touchdown -- the 400th of Rodgers' career.
Fittingly, perhaps, this milestone was achieved more by Adams' brute force than by Rodgers' lightning-quick thinking. Once Rodgers let it fly, Adams was left to muscle his way 9 yards down the sideline with a defender draped over him like a cloak. But that's what can happen when you play with a Hall of Famer, especially a Hall of Fame quarterback, especially especially a Hall of Fame quarterback in Green Bay. He blots out the sun.
"It's always, 'What a great throw by Rodgers!" Valdes-Scantling says. "You don't get the 'What a great catch by Davante!' It's a gift and a curse."
His admission comes with a slew of footnotes, pearls of clarification that he VERY MUCH APPRECIATES PLAYING WITH AARON RODGERS. He couldn't ask for a better quarterback. It's a high-class problem to have. But it's a reality that is baked into playing in Lambeau right now.
"It's definitely a thing," Adams says. "It's not really hard on me. That's just one of the risks that you run with having a Hall of Fame guy like that throwing you the ball."
When the prevailing wisdom, as Nelson points out, is that Rodgers can make any wide receiver look like a Pro Bowler, said receiver might be late in getting his due. It might take having a year like 2020 to finally and irrevocably puncture the public consciousness. Even if he has averaged over 1,000 yards per season since 2016. Even if that receiver is a Pro Bowler in equal measure because of how he works with Rodgers, not just that he works with Rodgers.
After Adams fought his way into the end zone, he reunited with his quarterback, then kneeled while handing him the game ball, to pay his respects. Rodgers laughed off the gesture and told his wide receiver to stand up.
He wanted Adams to be on his level.
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On Wednesday 22 March at 12pm (AEDT), Splash will host a live event with Marcus Garrett, an educator and former Choose Maths outreach officer. Marcus will talk about how to get reluctant kids interested in maths, and how to support them with their maths homework, and he will answer the questions you post during the event!
It will be the third in a four-week series of video chats with experts, who will help parents better understand and support what their kids are doing at school.
You can take part in each of the 20-minute events via Splash’s Facebook Page, where you can ask the experts questions.
Parents play a big part in children’s attitudes to maths
“Being numerate is just like being literate,” says Marcus. “Without functional maths skills it’s much harder for children – and adults – to make their way in the world. This is because so much in our lives is mathematical – from managing our finances to reading a timetable, even cooking a meal. If we can’t deal with the maths in these practical parts of our lives, we’re at a distinct disadvantage.”
Marcus says children will largely inherit their attitudes towards and confidence in mathematics from their parents.
He suggests parent encourage their children's enthusiasm for mathematics by being involved and interested in maths at home, by playing simple maths games and puzzles, or by making the maths explicit in daily tasks, such as preparing a recipe or doing the grocery shopping.
Maths can help kids explore the world
Marcus wasn’t “bitten by the maths bug” at school. “I failed to see the relationship that mathematics had with everything else I studied,” he says.
“It wasn’t until I headed off to university to study Economics that I realised that you could actually use maths. For me, it was only when I realised that mathematics was an incredibly useful tool for helping us make decisions and for making the world a better place that the light really came on.”
Today, Marcus is an educator at Sandridge School with 23 years’ experience in primary and secondary teaching education; curriculum consulting; teacher training; and education policy roles.
Marcus previously worked with the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute as an Outreach Officer for Choose Maths, a national project that works with Australian schools, teachers and the community to strengthen mathematics teaching and empower students through engaging delivery and career awareness.
You can ask Marcus all your questions about your children’s maths learning, and how to support them at school, during our live chat.
Join the live chat on 22 March at 12pm (AEDT) via Splash’s Facebook page.
School Hacks for Parents is a 4-week live series with expert advice to help parents better understand and support what their kids are doing at school. Take part in the event via Splash’s Facebook Page, where you can ask the questions that will drive the 20-minute chat.
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Helpful Tips for OSHA 300 Log Recording
by A. Gregg Moore, CCC-A | Aug 26, 2014 | 0 comments
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What is OSHA’s Criteria for Hearing Loss Recording?
To record a hearing loss on the OSHA 300 Log, the following three criteria must be met:
1. Standard Threshold Shift (STS) which is an average change ≥ 10 dB at 2000, 3000 and 4000Hz compared to the baseline.
2. Average Hearing Loss ≥ 25 dB at 2000, 3000 and 4000Hz on the current test.
3. The STS is work-related, either in whole or in part.
The Possibly-Recordable STS report lists those persons meeting criteria #1 and #2. In most cases, OSHA assumes an STS to be work-related unless determined otherwise by a licensed healthcare professional. However, the final recording decision lies with the employer.
Time Period for Recording
OSHA allows a 30-day retest period beginning on the date of the STS. OSHA also allows a 7-day recording period. Thus, OSHA allows a 37-day recording window.
OSHA does not require a retest, but if a retest is done it must be completed within 30 days of the test showing the STS. Retesting is strongly recommended as many STSs do not persist on retest.
If a retest is conducted at a local clinic, it is critical that the test be manually entered into AudioAssessor® to determine if the STS did or did not persist. This manual data entry process is quite easy. Every mobile audio client has an AudioAssessor® account for this purpose.
If retesting cannot be completed within the 30-day window, recording is generally recommended. The recordable may be lined out later pending the outcome of a retest conducted after the 30-day window or a determination of non-work relatedness.
Work-Relatedness Determination
OSHA permits an STS to either not be recorded or, if recorded, to be lined off the Log if the STS is determined to be non-work related by an Audiologist or Physician. EI’s Audiologists can provide Work-Relatedness Determinations (WRD) upon request for a nominal fee.
If you would like to have EI provide this service, please login to your AudioAssessor® account to complete and submit the online Work-Relatedness Determination Questionnaire (WRDQ). Simply open up the employee’s audiometric history page and click on the WRDQ icon to the right of the current test data. Fill in the form and click to submit.
Generally, it is preferable to obtain a retest prior to requesting a WRD.
AudioAssessor® Can Help!
Deciding whether or not to record an STS can be a complex decision. Was it previously recorded? Was it lined out and why? Should it be recorded now?
One of the great advantages of your company having an AudioAssessor® account is that it can be used to help safety & health professionals make the decision whether or not to record the STS.
If the STS was recorded in an earlier year compared to the same baseline, there is no requirement to record the current STS. Log into AudioAssessor® to access the employee’s prior hearing tests. This will tell you which years the employee had a potentially recordable STS and if EI did a Work-Relatedness Determination. Then look on OSHA 300 Logs for those years to determine if the STS was previously recorded.
When looking at past hearing tests and OSHA 300 Logs, determine which ear (left, right or both) was recorded. If for instance the left ear was previously recorded and the current test shows a right ear STS, then this is a new STS that must be considered for recording.
If the STS was determined to be non-work related in an earlier year, then there is no requirement to record the current STS unless it is a new STS. If EI did the work-relatedness determination, that information will be available with the employee’s hearing tests in AudioAssessor®.
What is meant by a “new” STS? One example is the left ear vs. right ear difference mentioned above. Another common example involves a revised baseline. Remember that OSHA permits baselines to be revised. So let’s say that a left-ear recordable STS took place in 2010 compared to a 1993 baseline, and that the baseline was later revised to 2010. Now let’s say that another left-ear STS took place in 2014 compared to the revised 2010 baseline. The 2014 STS is considered a “new” STS even though it is in the same ear.
If the current test shows an STS that was not recorded in an earlier year or not determined to be non-work related in an earlier year, then it is suggested that the current STS be recorded or request EI to conduct a work relatedness determination.
Ultimately, the employer makes the final decision to record, not the Audiologist or Physician reviewing hearing test data. The role of the licensed healthcare professional is to determine work-relatedness based on the best information available, and advise the employer accordingly.
Remember that from an OSHA standpoint you will not go wrong by recording an STS. A recording can always be lined out later. OSHA considers incorrectly not recording an STS to be the greater error.
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“New technologies and entrepreneurship: exploring entrepreneurial behavior in the digital transformation era” Special Issue in International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research - DL 31 December 2020
Guest Editors:
Ciro Troise, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (Leading G.E.)
Cyrine Ben-Hafaïedh, IÉSEG School of Management
Sergey A. Yablonsky, Graduate School of Management Saint-Petersburg State University
Mario Tani, University of Neaples “Federico II”
Digital transformation offers both intriguing challenges and new opportunities for these days entrepreneurs (Cohen et al, 2017; Li et al., 2018). New technologies are spreading all over the world, and new industries are rapidly changing and developing (Aydalot & Keeble, 2018). These new technologies include a wide range of new players that entered into the global arena. Among these enabling technologies there are the artificial intelligence and machine learning, the IoT and the big data, the digital platforms, the mobile applications (i.e. apps), cloud computing, blockchain, and more (as the Fintech ones, such as ICOs and crowdfunding). Their adoption and use are expected to be more and more pervasive in the next years.
The digital transformation has had consequences on several contexts, and it cannot be ignored by individuals (Andriole, 2017). New technological developments favor the creation and the diffusion of several new types of entrepreneurship (Oukil, 2011). For example, the recent advances in digital technologies have played a key role in growing a new, digital-based, entrepreneurship and for the development of related business models (Kraus et al., 2019; Nambisan, 2017). New technologies are having a disruptive impact on entrepreneurship, they change the traditional patterns, and they help to disclose new frontiers for entrepreneurs to explore in order to understand how they want to become self-employed (Broomé & Ohlsson, 2018).
A growing number of entrepreneurs leverage online social networking in order to create relations and to exchange knowledge (Scarmozzino et al., 2017). Some other studies investigated the impact of social media technologies on company performance (Ahmad et al., 2019) or the importance of the entrepreneurial teams (Ben-Hafaïedh et al., 2018; Santos et al., 2019).
Digital Platforms are among the new technologies entrepreneurs can exploit (Srinivasan & Venkatraman, 2018; Troise, 2019; Yablonsky, 2018). These new technologies have helped developing new business idea as new entrepreneurs, in fact, have focused their business models on exploiting these platforms’ characteristics.
Despite various new studies on the new technologies in several fields, as consumer behavior and innovation (Dominici, et al., 2016), there is still only a few studies specifically exploring the detail of how they are used by entrepreneurs in developing new business. In entrepreneurship studies, there are still various significant gaps on how these technologies will impact the future of entrepreneurship. There is an ongoing call for more research contributing to shed some light on various issues such as understanding the entrepreneurs “new behaviors”, with a particular focus on their motivations, the cognitive and emotional aspects, the new decision-making processes, and so on.
In this special issue we aim to explore the new entrepreneurial behaviors developed in the digital transformation era. These technologies influence entrepreneurial behaviors and have a significant impact on entrepreneurial decision-making processes. The special issue focused on the identification and analysis of the main behaviors of entrepreneurs in different fields.
Possible Topics
The Guest Editors encourage submissions of theoretical and empirical contributions investigating the impact of new technologies on entrepreneurial behaviors.
We will welcome contributions rooted in different fields, as long as the focus is on entrepreneurial behaviors and new technologies. We expect authors to provide new evidence and reveal new insights in the digital transformation era, thus contributing to the current entrepreneurship literature.
We welcome both theoretical and empirical studies, using a wide variety of methods, that advances the extant knowledge. We will welcome contributions from several disciplines as well as papers based on either quantitative or qualitative approaches.
The submission system will open 1 October 2020, Submission deadline 31 December 2020
Read more about the topics and submission guidelines HERE.
“Small Enterprises and the Silver Economy” Special Issue in Small Enterprise Research - DL 31 December 2020
Dr Helen McGuirk helen.mcguirk@cit.ie
Dr Aisling ConwayLenihan aisling.conway@cit.ie
Active ageing, where older people continue to contribute to the economy as active citizens, requires a holistic approach including social and physical factors, social and health services as well as economic factors (Zsarnoczky 2016). Supporting such factors involves input from enterprises through the provision of relevant products and services. This special issue Small Enterprises and the Silver Economy welcomes contributions on related topics and the needs of those over the age of 50. The cohort is classified into three groupings: active, dependent and fragile, all with different needs for goods and services. This raises potential opportunities for enterprises in offering innovative goods and services that are meeting the needs of an ageing population.
Products and services associated with older people, social innovations the impact of ageing on future consumption and the impact on the demand for labour are all considered central to the Silver Economy (Klimczuk, 2016; Pauhofova and Kovalova 2015). While most of the literature provides theoretical evidence of this impact, few studies provide robust analysis employing primary qualitative or quantitative data. This special issue welcomes contributions in this area, which provides insights into the challenges, benefits or opportunities for small enterprises in the silver economy.
Suggested topics of interest for this Special Issue:
The drivers of success in the silver economy for small enterprises.
Different sectors of the silver economy of benefit to small enterprises.
Small enterprises’ innovation activities related to an ageing population.
Small enterprise policy supports and the silver economy.
The value of small enterprises engaging with older people as stakeholders (e.g., employees, customers, suppliers).
This special issue will enable more dissemination of knowledge specifically related to what is commonly referred to as the Silver Economy (the ageing population and its contribution to the economy) from a research, practitioner and policy perspective.
More information available at https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/small-enterprises/?utm_source=TFO&utm_medium=cms&utm
"The futures of Business Schools: Identity, strategies, and imagined futures in a pandemic / post-pandemic world" Special issue in Futures - DL 1 May 2021
Guest Editor
Kathleen Randerson, Audencia Business School
The purpose of this special issue is to trigger and attract research that envisions the futures of business schools on several levels. Cross or multi-disciplinary work, epistemological variety, critical approaches, and Futures methodologies would be particularly appreciated. Relevant questions include, but are not restricted to:
Through which mechanisms can business schools fulfil their role of agency-orientation to shape the futures of society?
Future business models of HEIMs and how can schools pivot to get there?
Business Schools and the ‘Greta Generation’
Envision and formulate future value propositions to the wide variety of stakeholders of business schools
Teaching and learning for business and society in the 21st century: complexity, technology, the future of work
Performance re-invented: vocabulary and metrics to consider economic, ecological and societal outcomes of organizations
How can the business school(s) of the future prepare students for the future(s) of work?
Business education for the private sector, the public sector, and the third sector: continuum, typology, or other?
Education for entrepreneurship, education for management, education for sustainability: tools and methods for business and society in a pandemic and post-pandemic world
The history and futures of the influence of HEIMs on society/ societies
Redefining “research with impact”, and associated metrics, for business and society
And what about teachers? Program designers?
Stakeholder engagement and co-creation of value
Agenda Special Issue “The futures of Business Schools: Identity, strategies, and imagined futures in a pandemic / post-pandemic world”
Submissions open from January 1st 2021
Online paper development workshop spring 2021 (date TBA, see contact below)
Deadline for submission: May 1st, 2021
Feedback on submission: August 1st, 2021
Revised papers due for October 31st
Final decision to authors: April 15th, 2022
Expected date of Virtual Special Issue: April 2022
For any informal inquiries, please email: kathleenranderson@yahoo.fr
Read the full call for papers here
Call for chapter: Research on Entrepreneurship Education-Evolution and Future - DL 31 August 2021
RESEARCH ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION
Evolution and Future
Volume 23 of Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth
Manuscripts Due: August 31, 2021
Editors: Andrew C. Corbett, Babson College, Lou Marino, The University of Alabama, and Gry A. Alsos, Nord University
Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth provides an annual examination of the current research, theoretical, and methodological efforts in the field of entrepreneurship, and its related disciplines. Volume 23 of AEFEG will focus on expanding our knowledge about entrepreneurship education research. Both theoretical and empirical manuscripts that consider important aspects of entrepreneurship education will be considered. We also encourage practice-based research and manuscripts that tie concepts to cutting-edge pedagogical approaches.
Some broad questions of interest are noted in the preceding paragraph (see the call). Additionally, a representative, but by no means exhaustive, listing of relevant questions include:
What are we teaching?
What should we be teaching?
How should we be teaching?
What practice and design constitute effective entrepreneurship education?
With more experiential approaches, should we move away from theories of pedagogy and toward andragogy and heutagogy?
What implications for learning arise if educators move from a primary role of lecturer to one of coach and facilitator?
How can we measure our entrepreneurship education methods to show their effectiveness?
What knowledge and skills do we need as educators to move toward more advanced teaching approaches?
What approaches might be used to enable students to understand what the life of an entrepreneur is truly like?
Can we truly simulate the “entrepreneurial experience” in our classrooms? And if not, does that matter?
Can the entrepreneurial mindset be defined?
What elements are encompassed in the entrepreneurial mindset?
Can the entrepreneurial mindset be taught? If so, how?
What intentions and behaviors can be linked to actual outcomes?
Why do some individuals with high intentions start businesses but others with the same intentions do not?
What skills and practice lead to effective educational outcomes?
What is the role of the (university) ecosystem for student entrepreneurship in entrepreneurship education?
What is the role of extra-curricular entrepreneurship activities for entrepreneurship education
The papers in Advances reflect many state-of-the-art topics and approaches, and are written by leading researchers in the field, making each volume an important source of information for virtually all entrepreneurship researchers. One of the distinctive competencies of research volumes such as Advances is that the chapters can be published without page restrictions allowing for greater detail in the background, development, and implementation of ideas than is possible in journal articles. This provides authors with the opportunity to fully express their key ideas, provide much more complete support, and include relevant multi-page appendices. In effect, the Advances series provides authors the opportunity to publish an “article of record” of their major theoretical or empirical ideas, and see it disseminated to a wide audience. We hope you will identify a contribution to submit for consideration.
Today, the series is in the libraries of virtually all of the schools with active Ph.D. programs in entrepreneurship, as well as the majority of AACSB accredited schools with MBA concentrations in entrepreneurship and related fields.
We welcome the opportunity to discuss paper ideas with interested researchers. Please contact the editors: Andrew Corbett, acorbett@babson.edu, Lou Marino, lmarino@cba.ua.edu, or Gry Alsos, gry.a.alsos@nord.no
Papers should be submitted to Lou Marino and Andrew Corbett (lmarino@cba.ua.edu; acorbett@babson.edu) no later than August 31, 2021.
Read the full call here
“Experimental Designs to Address Current Challenges in Entrepreneurship Education Research” Special Issue in Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy - DL 31 March 2022
Sílvia Costa, University of Groningen (member of the ECSB Board)
Susana C. Santos, Rowan University (member of the USASBE Board)
Mark T. Schenkel, Belmont University (Past President of USASBE)
Silke Tegtmeier, University of Southern Denmark (Past President of ECSB)
Ulla Hytti, Turku School of Economics at University of Turku (President Elect of ECSB)
This call is a joint initiative from the two organizations USASBE and ECSB.
For this special issue we welcome studies focusing on, but not limited to, the following topics:
Studies using experimental designs to test the effects of a course, training program or other specific types of interventions on learning outcomes;
Studies using quasi-experimental designs to test the effects of a course, training program or other specific types of interventions on specific learning outcomes;
Studies using a comparison of different stimuli in educational activities and their effects on specific learning outcomes;
Studies using experiments or quasi experiments to assess the effects of interventions on tangible learning outcomes;
Studies using experiments or quasi experiments to assess the effects of interventions on subjective learning outcomes;
Manuscripts focusing on best practices, ethical challenges or practical issues in conducting experiments in entrepreneurship education;
Manuscripts reviewing the state of the art in experiments as a methodology to test entrepreneurship education interventions;
There will be a series of events tied to this Special Issue with the aim of supporting prospective authors working on their manuscripts towards submission. Participation in the events is optional for authors. During the events, the editorial team will provide feedback and guidance for prospective authors.
Early feedback at the “Conducting Experiments in Entrepreneurship Research – Second Paper Development Workshop for Early-Career Scholars”, organized by
the University of Groningen, NL: March 2021 (optional)
Meet the 3E community of entrepreneurship education researchers and get their feedback at the 3E Conference, May 2021, Trondheim, Norway (optional)
Online Paper Development Workshop “Meet the Guest-editors”: September 2021 (optional)
Feedback from the guest-editors: RENT Conference Nov. 2021, Turku, Finland (optional)
Feedback from the guest-editors: USASBE Conference, Jan. 2022, U.S. (optional)
Submission site will open: February 1, 2022
Manuscripts due by: March 31, 2022
Notification to authors (1st round): May 31, 2022
First revised manuscript due by: August 31, 2022
Notification to authors (2nd round): October 31, 2022
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The Spanish suits closely resemble Italian-suited cards as both were derived from the Arab cards. Both are descended from the extinct Madrid pattern. It uses the old golden chalice of the Spanish National pattern and the knight of cups has the archaic inscription "AHI VA" printed on it. Lot 46210086 Indelasa - baraja española de 40 cartas. This video is unavailable. It is categorized as a Latin-suited deck and has strong similarities with the Italian-suited deck and less to the French deck. The popularity of the stripped deck is due to game of Ombre, which became a craze throughout Europe during the 17th century. Faltan las sotas y reyes si son hombrss mujeres jovenes o mayores rubios o morenos ? [43] Although extinct in its original form, it has given rise to the following patterns, all of which lack la pinta and numeric indices. Estos son el palo de oros, bastos, espadas y copas. [30] They come in decks of 40 cards but 50 card decks were once produced.[31]. These decks have no numbers in the figure values, not even letters as in the French deck. In the 16th century, Spain became the first country to tax playing cards. There was some deliberate copying; the king of coins from the Seville and Franco-Spanish patterns is near identical to the king of hearts in the French-suited Rouen pattern, which was exported to England and through centuries of bad reproduction became known as the "suicide king".[8]. Court figures are clean-shaven but in the Comas type all kings have mustaches. [55] It became popular in Sardinia where it has been adopted as the local standard. Carrito 0. Instead of using la pinta, these decks used abbreviations as indices at the top and sometimes also the bottom of the card. [35] It was derived from the Spanish National pattern. While this pattern died out in the 18th century, it left descendants in Southern Italy where Spain had a lasting influence over the former Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily. The earliest known examples of the Madrid pattern are of French origin and it may be that it originated as an export to Spain that was adopted and manufactured in Madrid. [28] Fournier made some noticeable innovations to Spanish cards such as giving the kings beards, adding faces to the coins, dagger-like swords, and red cups. The Spanish National pattern, also known as the Old Catalan pattern, emerged in the 17th century from Barcelona and was chosen as the national and export pattern by the Real Fabrica monopoly during the late 18th century. Watch Queue Queue It was designed and published by Heraclio Fournier in 1889 and by the early 20th century had displaced the older patterns in Spain. Qty : Buy It Now. Buscar. The knave of coins features a dog tied to a pole. Figures wear fantastic pseudo-medieval costumes. Dos años más tarde, crean el actual naipe español con las figuras emblemáticas de la firma y conocido en todo el mundo como la baraja española. [27] These are regional patterns that are still in use today. This page was last edited on 21 November 2020, at 15:07. The Parisian Spanish or "Estilo Paris" pattern survives only in Uruguay. ¿El Caballero de copas se fue de vacaciones? Manual basico-de-aprendizaje-de-lectura-de-la-baraja-espanola 1. It is currently found in North Africa, especially in Morocco and Algeria, and Ecuador. The Mexican pattern was derived from the Castilian in 1923 by Clemente Jacques. [9] Popular games like Arrenegada (Portuguese name for Ombre), Bisca (Portuguese name for briscola) and Sueca, which were played with Latin-suited cards, had to be adapted to the new French-suited cards. The Cádiz pattern is now found in the Philippines and parts of Hispanic America. They are found in decks of 40 or 48 cards. Watch Queue Queue. Muy bueno estaría bueno más combinaciones. Even after these states began sharing the same monarchy, they maintained their own separate parliaments, laws, and taxes for several centuries. Las Cartas de la Baraja Española Significado de las Cartas Las 40 o 48 cartas que componen la baraja española se encuentra dividida en cuatro palos. [17][18][19] When domestic production shut down around 1870, manufacture shifted abroad, mostly to Belgium and Germany where makers introduced further changes.[20][21]. Spanish-suited cards are used in Spain, southern Italy, parts of France, Hispanic America, North Africa, and the Philippines. Decks with 50 cards have two jokers. [40] It was formerly found in other parts of South America such as Ecuador and Colombia. Color gri o rojo. Envase: cartón Nº de cartas: 40 cartas Since the mid-20th century, they have usually been sold with two jokers, for a total of 50 cards. The Spanish may have separated the pips in the 15th century to make them more easily distinguishable (some export cards kept the intersecting pips, see "Extinct Portuguese pattern" below). See details - Baraja Espanola - 40-Cartas, Super Plastificada Spanish Playing Cards Briscas 2D. (Redirected from Baraja (playing cards)) Castilian pattern introduced by Heraclio Fournier. Kings wear long robes that expose their feet while lower courts have puffy shoulders and quilted trousers. The Franco-Spanish pattern was the pattern that existed and was used throughout France possibly before the invention of French suits. The Ace of Coins has a single-headed eagle. In 1769, the Real Fábrica de Cartas de Jogar was set up in Lisbon to manufacture cards. It is sold in decks of 48 cards. Lot 45018756 [4] Each card has an outline frame to distinguish the suit without showing all of your cards: The cups have one interruption, the swords two, the clubs three, and the gold none. These cards are also found in other parts of southern Italy where some players prefer them over the Neapolitan pattern. Swords and clubs also do not intersect (except in the 3 of clubs card). [41] It contains many influences of Aluette. Más. Una de las características de la baraja española de 40 o 48 cartas es que ellas siempre tocan todos los aspectos de la vida del consultante, inclusive, si la consulta es por un aspecto en específico, como, por ejemplo, el amor, van a salir otros asuntos (trabajo, salud, familia, entre otros) que puedan estar vinculados a la situación en general. The Jack was thought to be the Knight (Cavalier). They are found in decks of 40 or 50 cards. Its aces of cups and swords resemble Piacentine ones.[47]. Known regional patterns include the Seville, Madrid, Toledo, Navarre, Valencia, and Catalonia patterns. Sometimes the knight of cups has the archaic inscription "AHI VA" printed on it. Aluette is a game played in Brittany and the Vendée that comes with its own Spanish-suited deck. There were also export patterns, possibly including the little known Toulouse/Girona pattern[7] or the "Dragon cards" (see below). Carrito 0. It comes in decks of 48 cards. Like the Italian-suited tarot, the deck is used for both game playing and cartomancy. Iniciar Sesión o Crear una cuenta. In December 1382, card games were banned from being played in Barcelona's corn exchange. Kings' robes are parted to expose their calves. Como identifico a las personas en la Baraja II, Como identifico a las personas en la Baraja I, Baraja Espanola 40 cartas significados breves, Caballero: Pensamiento aperlado (moreno claro), Cuatro: Cama de amor o de enfermedad (dependiendo de otras cartas), Siete: PalabrasCaballero: Pensamiento moreno, 1 de bastos, 4 de copas y 3 de bastos Embarazo seguro, 1 de espadas y dos de bastos Muerte Se confirma con el 4 de espadas. [29] The knights wear wide brim hats but its most notable feature is the conversion of all the knaves to females. [3] The earliest record of naip comes from a Catalan rhyming dictionary by Jaume March II in 1371, but without any context or definition. It is the most widespread pattern in Italy. [38][39] It kept the original shape of the golden cups but added beards to the kings. The 2s and 3s of the long suits intersect each other instead of just the 3 of Clubs. **APLICA PARA BONO** CARACTERÍSTICAS Barajas plásticas ESPECIFICACIONES Ancho 61 mm Largo 93 mm Tipo de empaque Tarjeta. Buy Children Cards. Sicilian (left) and Neapolitan (right) knaves of coins, Portuguese Type Playing Cards made in Belgium, c.1878, Portuguese Type Playing Cards made in Belgium, Portuguese Type 'Dragon' Playing Cards c.1860, Sicilian playing cards by Antonio Monasta, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spanish-suited_playing_cards&oldid=989877123, Pages using multiple image with auto scaled images, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, the old suit names were attributed to the new suits - this is the reason why Portuguese names for suits do not match the suit drawings. This is the only Spanish-suited pack in Italy to have numeric indices. It is also possible to find 52-card French decks with Spanish pictures. Cuatro: Cama de amor o de enfermedad (dependiendo de otras cartas) Cinco: Palabras de amistades; Seis: Palabras; Siete: PalabrasCaballero: Pensamiento moreno; Sota: Mujer morena; Rey: Hombre moreno ; Algunas combinaciones . [6] Two surviving early decks did have intersecting clubs and swords like in Italian or Arab cards. GTIN. Una de las características de la baraja española de 40 o 48 cartas es que ellas siempre tocan todos los aspectos de la vida del consultante, inclusive, si la consulta es por un aspecto en específico, como, por ejemplo, el amor, van a salir otros asuntos (trabajo, salud, familia, entre otros) que puedan estar vinculados a la situación en general. In the Guarro type, the kings of cups and swords have beards, their knights and the knave of swords have mustaches. [37] The most distinguishing feature is the shape of the cups which now resemble yellow and green egg cups. Thus, in traditional Portuguese games, the cards usually rank King-Jack-Queen. They are the sota, which is similar to the jack/knave and generally depicts a page or squire, the caballo (knight, literally "horse"), and the rey (king) respectively. It is categorized as a Latin-suited deck and has strong similarities with the Italian-suited deck and less to the French deck. Located at the northern edge of the Papal States and San Marino, the Romagnole pattern is another derivative of the Aluette deck but has remained irreversible. Usually, the knave of coins features a goat (originally a dog) tethered to a pole in the background like in the Parisian Spanish pattern. It originated as a Spanish export to France which was in turn copied by Parisian card-makers and exported to South America. The 3 of Clubs does not have intersecting pips. Valencia's town council issued a blanket ban on un novell joch apellat dels naips (a new game called cards) in 1384.[4]. Standard patterns are card designs in the public domain that have been printed by multiple publishers in the past or present. This system was believed to have originated in Spain as an export pattern. The Aces featured dragons, the kings were seated, and the knaves were all distinctly female. They are sold in decks of 40 or 50 cards. La pinta first appeared around the mid-17th century. "Moorish-styled" cards were once produced in Catalonia during the late 14th or early 15th century. There are instances of historical decks having both caballo and reina (queen), the caballo being of lower value than queen. [16] They made several graphical changes such as getting rid of indices and making the kings stand like their Spanish counterparts. In. Decks come in packs of 40 or 50 cards. Unlike the suits found in northern Italy, Spanish swords are straight and the clubs resemble knobbly cudgels instead of ceremonial batons. Los Naipes de la Baraja española son un metodo de adivinación del futuro. The extinct Minchiate deck also shared some features. the new face cards (King, Queen, Jack) had also to match the old ones (King, Knight, Knave). [11] The extinct Portuguese deck featured straight swords and knobbly clubs like the Spanish suits but intersected them like the northern Italian suits. It is also the only pattern that is regularly sold with reversible face cards. Spanish Cards for sale. Spanish-suited playing cards or Spanish-suited cards have four suits and a deck is usually made up of 40 or 48 cards. Originally known as the Roxas pattern, the Sardinian pattern was designed by José Martinez de Castro in Madrid for Clemente Roxas in 1810.
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I was recently contacted by Jon Ward of Yahoo News, who wanted to do a profile of me and specifically to focus on why I felt the need to support Trump in the general election. My emails with him were amicable, and I think Jon genuinely meant well in all he wrote, but in the end I was disappointed in the piece, as were many friends who read it. You may read it for yourself here.
In any event, I thought it would be best to post my actual Q&A with Jon for clarity, and it is below for you to read. I think there are some parts you will find especially interesting and it’s obvious from my responses that I found the substance and tone of some of his questions off-putting. Before I answered the questions, I wrote the following preamble, in response to his email to me. You can read our email back and forth here. And then I went in and answered the questions one by one, as you can see. After a few days Jon had some follow ups, which I have also posted at the bottom. Enjoy!
My opening remarks:
I think one of the saddest things about the period in history through which are living is that we’ve come to a place where graciousness and empathy and trying to see the other side’s point of view has fallen by the wayside, and in many cases has been forcibly hurled away, most grievously by self-described Christians. It seems that some people have come to the view that Trump is simply so irredeemably bad that all the previous rules must be flung from the window, that anyone who would support him — whether in a more full-throated way like Robert Jeffress or Jerry Falwell, Jr., both of whom I respect greatly, or in a more measured and let us say “tepid” way, in which group I would put myself — must be demonized in no uncertain terms, must be scorned as someone who has no principles and who can only be doing what he is doing because he has made a naked calculation for his own self-interest. This is not only not true in most cases of those I know who support Trump, but is also simply a dramatically uncharitable interpretation. It represents an unprecedented scorched-earth policy toward anyone who hasn’t expressed utter contempt for the current president, as though contempt can be the only reasonable and acceptable response in civilized circles.
Where have we seen such no-holds-barred behavior in the past, on the part of Christians for whom the idea of grace had previously been central? Ironically it has been when Christians have felt that the End of All Things was nigh, that we were in a bare-knuckled brawl with the scaly soldiers of hell, so that our opponents can be given no more charity than we would give a vampire about to rise from his coffin. Strike hard with your hammer at the stake pointed at his heart now or become like him yourself. So yes, at such times we have been willing to throw all caution and charity to the wind because we have persuaded ourselves that we were truly dealing with the forces of anti-Christ, and to do less than to wage all out war without regard for any niceties would be like appeasing Hitler, or indeed, the devil himself.
Martin Luther, the subject of my last biography, fell into this trap most infamously, genuinely believing the world’s end to be imminent because the Catholic Church had become anti-Christ and the Muslim Turks were marching toward the heart of Christian Europe and Armageddon was imminent. And so the very worst things he ever said — such as his horrific condemnation of the Jews at the end of his life — came out of this mindset, that the time for patience and love were over. This is a very human temptation, but it is among the ugliest of all temptations. Can Jesus’ injunction to love our enemies ever become passe? To those who seem to think so, anyone unwilling to join their side and street fight with them against whatever bogeyman they’ve imagined must have been bought and paid for by that bogeyman, and is therefore fair game.
Q. Do you still think of your support for Trump as something that is “painful” because he is “odious” as you wrote in your now famous WSJ op-ed?
A. It is now only painful because I know that the gleeful demonization of anyone not sufficiently Trump-hating has become the de riguer cliche of our time, the bullying billy club with which the self-elected elect cudgel their foes. It is like shooting someone to advance pacifism, only less effective.
Q. Do think of yourself as a culture warrior?
A. I don’t know what that terms means, and never have. I am a servant of Jesus Christ, a sinner saved by grace, doing my best to humbly serve Him and His purposes with the time and energy and resources I am given, and with the humbling knowledge that I am a sinner who may err and sin in my efforts. I am also resigned to being misunderstood in my efforts, but take comfort in knowing that such misunderstanding is a sizable part of the terms of my service. Labeling someone with whom we disagree as a “culture-warrior” is too much like silencing someone’s arguments by demonizing him as a racist or sexist bigot. When someone’s behavior disturbs us, rather than try to get at his reasons for that behavior, we assume there can be none and demonize him with a label.
Q. What do you think of this passage from an essay by Makoto Fujimara? Do you agree with his statement that “culture is not a territory to be won”?
https://www.makotofujimura.com/writings/tears-for-fragile-emanations-lenten-reflection-2014/ — In John 12, it is written that “Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table.” A post-resurrection reality is one of relaxed confidence. The religious authorities wanted to arrest Lazarus; Lazarus could care less about that threat – remember he was dead, and now is alive. We, too, can be just as confident; spiritually, we have today everything that Lazarus had after his temporary resurrection – the knowledge of the power of our Savior and friend. We have even a deeper knowledge, of the true and lasting resurrection of Christ to push beyond our fears. We need to let the active, analytical Martha lead the way for the contemplative Mary, toward a deeper unfolding of the Gospel for all of us, toward the confidence of Lazarus. In order to do that, we need to lay down our weapons based on fear. Weapons of culture war will only lead to a Darwinian victory, if that. Instead, let us become nurturers of lasting beauty, tending to our culture with care, and with tears. Culture is not a territory to be won; it is instead a resource we are called to steward. Culture that produced da Vinci’s The Last Supper, or Bach’s Goldberg variations, all float about in the aroma of Mary’s nard, in that closed room in Bethany. That aroma woos us to turn back to care for fragile emanations in the world.
A. I agree with every jot and tittle of what my wonderful friend Mako has written, save for the startling grammatical boner of writing “could care less” when “couldn’t care less” was obviously meant! And my wholehearted agreement with what Mako writes therefore constitutes the suppurating irony of it all, that laying down one’s weapons often only means laying down one’s weapons unless you are on the “right” side of the issue. Your using the quotation surely means that you think I have in any “support” for this administration been unable to lay down my weapons of cultural warfare, while it seems clear enough to me that those on your side of these issues who have endeavored to flay me — and anyone of my beyond-the-pale political ilk — are in fact wielding the weapons of cultural warfare, who cannot fathom that acting charitably toward one’s opponents, or giving them the benefit of the doubt, and thereby doing to them as you would have them do unto you, would be the wise and godly choice. It is as though such opponents as myself must now be beneath such charity, and deserve only to be mocked and attacked until they relent and see their unforgivable folly in supporting Der Fuhrer 2.0.
Q. In your 2012 prayer breakfast speech, you said: “Martin Luther King told the people on the buses that you must not fight back, you must be willing to turn the other cheek, or get off the bus. Branch Rickey told Jackie Robinson if you want to win the battle you need to do as Jesus did and be strong enough to not fight back so your enemies will know that there is someone, capital S, standing behind you, that it’s not just you.”
A. I wish Trump’s detractors who claim to be Christians would fight him in precisely this way. The excrescences of rage we are seeing on the left — and the evangelical left’s countenancing of that bitter rage and often their own participation in it — is not calculated to speak with the love of Jesus to those with whom they disagree, but to demonize them and to rage against them until they shut up and go away or can be driven away and out of “polite society”. The foul language they regularly employ and their superlatively puerile genital-hatted fashion statements say something about the real source of their activism. Dr. King would be disgusted by the vileness and impotent fury of those daring to claim his mantle. Any student of history knows that he and Jackie Robinson and Rosa Parks were people of tremendous and unimpeachable Christian dignity. They were so extraordinarily self-possessed that this alone regularly gave their opponents pause. They did not then and would not now identify with the obscene and often extremely childish rantings of the mobs who flatter themselves by daring to imagine they follow in that hallowed tradition. Those who rage today in the name of what they call “justice” are wittingly or unwittingly the enemies of that tradition.
Q. You have said that a vote for Trump was a vote on behalf of “the least of these.” When you say that, I believe you are thinking of abortion, and that’s an intellectually coherent argument. But gay rights vs religious liberty loomed as large for you and many other evangelicals, and on that issue, it’s pretty clearly a vote for Trump is a vote for self-interest, which ignored all the innumerable ways he has demeaned, threatened and bullied so many vulnerable people and groups, from women, to the disabled, to African-Americans, to Hispanics, to undocumented immigrants, to Muslims, to gays, to journalists, to refugees, and the list could go on.
▪ Demeaning black lives matter, and continuing as president by calling black NFL players protesting police brutality “sons of bitches”.
▪ The rise of Trump has emboldened white supremacy, and even rank and file Republicans are as hostile as they’ve been in many years to the concerns of the African-american community’s concerns about systemic injustice.
▪ His long record of ugly comments about Latinos, from rapists to the Curiel comments, to his playing on nativism and xenophobia by making a wall a centerpiece of his candidacy
▪ His assaults on the free press are as significant a threat to the least of these as anything, since the only thing standing between an abusive government and the most vulnerable, and the freedom of all people really, is a free press.
A. To say the concern for religious liberty expressed in voting for Trump was “pretty clearly…. a vote for self-interest” is breathtaking. Can you really be unwilling to countenance even the possibility of your own self-interest or the self-interest of those on your political side? For any introspective Christian the temptation toward self-interest ought to be something that can always be seen as possible and to be guarded against. Are many how vocally denounce Trump not reaping the benefits of appearing progressive to people they wish to impress or whose favor they wish to curry? Does their political stance make them feel morally superior to those they are denouncing? Of course that has more in common with Pharisaism than actual faith in Jesus.
Furthermore you are actually mistaken in denouncing my concern and the concern of so many others on this score as self-interest. The religious liberty that was so important to the founders and to every American who understands it is something that benefits every single American, including atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, Universalists, and Episcopalians. How can it be about Christians and self-interest? This is not about returning to a predominant ty white white-picket fence America of previous decades but about returning to the very principles that enable us to embrace diversity! Religious Liberty is a principle of our Founding and at the heart of our freedoms, so to scorn it as the battle-cry of some backward political group is a monstrous misreading of history, one that is helping to unravel the very core of all our freedoms.
On the subject of how Trump has demeaned his own enemies I must say three things. First, I disagree with the idea you and so many others hold that Trump has in all these cases you mention demeaned these groups. In some cases he simply has not done that. So you are not only mistaken in this observation but seem unwilling to see how you might be mistaken, as though this is a crucial and central narrative that cannot be questioned or even reconsidered. Yes, some of the things he has said indeed have been wrong, plain and simple, but others have been taken out of context and misquoted and misunderstood so often that no one anymore bothers to question whether these incidents or statements have become anything more than a club with which to beat his supporters. In those rare cases where he has apologized, his apologies have not been accepted, which is another subject, and says more about his detractors than about him.
Second, any time Trump has actually demeaned anyone or hit back in unseemly ways, I certainly do denounce it, usually privately and sometimes publicly, but always. This is a view I and any follower of Jesus can hardy help but take, and the idea that any American could vote for someone without finding some of that candidate’s actions wrong is simplistic to the point of incredible. Identifying all Trump supporters as supporting every one of his views or mistakes or sins is simply another way to demonize these people, hoping they will grow so disheartened with this unfair characterization that they will cease to support him. But it has only had the opposite effect of angering them and increasing their support of him, despite his failings. The injustice of this and other political tactics like it has only further driven them into his arms.
Third, you seem not to imagine how someone could disagree with Trump’s behavior on any score unless one volubly and often voices that disagreement. The insistence that Christ-followers harrumph their every disapproval of Trump on twitter — and even within a certain time-frame — strikes me as not very different from Germans being expected to say “Heil Hitler!” sufficiently loudly and often, so as to keep at bay the baleful idea that they might not be on board with the National Socialist project after all. A free society does not demand such constant expressions of fealty and when anti-Trump Christians demand them from other Christians it is no less ugly than when Joseph McCarthy’s apologists demanded them. To say it again, free societies do not demand such things of a free people, and to the extent that anyone demands them or even expects them, they are contributing to the movement away from freedom and toward ideological slavery.
I believe that most of the above “evidence” or “examples” are fatally strained and tainted with subjectivity and bias. I could take issue with every single example, but both of us would grow fatigued, and others have tried to clarify these things before, to no avail. Nor do I think those who hold your views on this subject are terribly open to being persuaded that Trump is anything other than a monster who is so monstrous that he frees you from worrying about niceties and nuance. I think this is at the heart of the misunderstandings about him, that he fits too well into the narrative and role set out for him, so getting into the proverbial weeds of things is never worth the trouble.
But let me at least touch on one of these issues you raise. The idea that it is this president who is the enemy of a free American press strikes as very odd — if not risible — all those who have observed the press lurch ever farther away from objective journalism. They have lately embraced what looks like a damn-the-torpedoes effort to rescue the American people from “All the news that’s fit to print” because they feel that many Americans are too uneducated or too gullible to properly understand all that confusing news in its raw form. This is patronizing and fundamentally un-American, so no one should wonder that this president and those who have supported him are amazed at the irony of the claim that he is the problem with regard to a free press and not the journalists who have abrogated their journalistic duties to report the facts as objectively as possible. The wild advocacy adopted by such previously mostly objective sources of news as CNN and NBC is among the most dramatic of our departures from a healthy cultural norm and the fact that most of these former news sources are benefiting financially in subscriptions and clicks is the strongest proof that the price they are paying for these brave and principled stands is in fact non-existent. It is they who have sold their souls for self-interest, for the approval of their peers and for increased profits both. That some of them think they are doing good and noble things is besides the point. Even totalitarian dictators and career criminals rarely think they are doing actual harm.
▪ His constant insults against Muslims, and demonization of them. By contrast, John Inazu told me that “the only way for ‘white evangelicals’ to pursue meaningful, long-term cultural and legal support for religious liberty is by partnering effectively and authentically with non-white Christians and non-Christians (including Muslims). In ordinary times, that would be a tremendous challenge. Trump’s rhetoric makes it almost impossible, especially when celebrity evangelicals like Metaxas back him so enthusiastically and ignore the real harm and damage of the President’s words.”
A. First of all the notion that I have backed Trump “so enthusiastically” is really absurd. I have been extremely measured in my support of him, but in the cacophony of our current cultural maelstrom, no one has time for anything other than “love him” or “hate him.” This is a big part of our problem in America today. He is the president of the United States. We used to respect that office sufficiently that even serial adulterers who continued their sins inside the Oval Office were accorded some respect. I remember when President Clinton walked into the National Prayer Breakfast just days after the superlative foulness of his sexually using an intern had exploded all over the news. The conservative evangelicals in that room, myself included, applauded the office of the presidency when he entered because it was the right and the American thing to do, not because we thought the man occupying that office was anything but vile. Fathers of 22-year-old young women even somehow managed to refrain from hurling glassware at the swollen target that was his head. Such measures of restraint and general decorum can go a long way toward keeping things moving in the right direction in a divided culture; but today if you don’t boo and hiss and throw things, you are accused of being an unthinking zealot who heartily approves of the worst behavior of the man you are not physically attacking. I reject this utterly and wish people like John Inazu would do the same and match his descriptions to the facts.
But to the issue of Islam. Most Americans in what the Beltway and Manhattan elites think of as fly-over country are in fact reasonably educated and informed, despite the unAmerican caricatures of them by those elites. So they see what has happened throughout Europe, that craven political leaders have sold out their proper constituencies for the approval of other cultural elites, most of whom do not care a fig for the working class men and women they were elected to represent, and who usually have disdain for them, especially if those men and women are of the white European “Christian” varieties whom they see as being part of the problem. This, of course, is the new and accepted tribalism and xenophobia, masquerading as the enemy of tribalism and xenophobia. Christians know that Satan always come as an angel of light, and need never be caught unawares, but neither must we be caught sitting our hands and allowing such “angels”to have their way. Standing against the Islamization of Europe or America is an example of Christians caring for “the least of these,” as caring for those enslaved in the false ideologues of Islam, and most notably the women in that culture, who are doubly enslaved. That the cultural elites and progressives scorn these vital efforts as “demonizing Muslims” is painful, but not as painful as standing by and allowing real people to suffer. One does what one must.
▪ On foreign policy, one of the biggest trends of the Trump presidency has been a reduction of American influence abroad — both intentionally by withdrawing in certain ways and unintentionally because world leaders now feel they can’t rely on U.S. leadership — which certainly leaves far more people vulnerable than before.
A. This is a partisan and short-viewed take on the situation. I believe you are inserting your own views and fears into the equation more than you are accurately perceiving how other world leaders feel about this president. Time will tell how trustworthy this administration is with regard to what it says and how it leads on the world stage. Have we forgotten how presidents Carter and Bush Sr. and Clinton unconscionably betrayed those who looked to us as allies? A short memory cannot serve the causes of history. Bush Sr’s allowing Saddam Hussein to crush the Kurds and Clinton’s failure of leadership in the Rwandan genocide are two of the blackest marks in American presidential history. Your focus only on the sins of this administration seems like a bias that cannot be overcome by my arguments.
▪ As Franklin Graham said: “He offended gays. He offended women. He offended the military. He offended black people. He offended the Hispanic people. He offended everybody!”
A. To offend someone is not the same as doing an injustice to them. It is possible that someone could be trying to help and in so doing could speak in a way that we find wrong or at least uncharitable or out of step with how one is supposed to speak. What Rev. Graham is saying is not that Trump is wrong in what he said but that he has been perceived as wrong by certain groups, by many groups. We need to take that perception seriously, but just how seriously is the larger question. Are we not living in a time when everyone is far too easily offended, so much so that we are taking our eyes off what actually matters, off actually solving the real problems of people rather than giving politically correct lip service to those problems?
Q. Justin Giboney is the head of the AND campaign. His background is in Democratic politics and the African-American church, but he is conservative on abortion and gay marriage. He told me the following: “It’s hard for me to believe that God wants us to get this christian centered agenda through that space by any means necessary. It’s hard for me to believe is that it’s all about just getting it done and not to worry about the details and how we got there. It’s better to think about — in who I promote and what I endorse — am I reflecting what god would want? Of course there’s strategy involve and you want to get wins. But I don’t think wins are the priority. It’s witness. Where Metaxas and them went wrong is that wins and power became the priority. If the objective is achieved and everything is just details that’s completely the wrong way. If the spirit in which you do something is not right then it’s not right.” Do you disagree?
A. Yes, I think Mr. Giboney misses the larger and main point. The witness of the American church has effectively been non-existent for decades. The idea that we had a golden reputation that is suddenly somehow being tarnished by support for the beyond-the-pale president strikes me as naive, or at least very idealistic, and certainly historically myopic. Serious Christians have been demonized by the secular culture throughout the five decades of my lifetime. Nearly everything serious Christians have said or done has been the object of scorn. Not to see this is to be culturally and historically deeply out of touch. Have we forgotten how the extremely kind and upstanding and generous Tim Tebow was treated the by press and the cultural elites? We shouldn’t. It says volumes on this subject.
So yes, perhaps our cultural cache is not what we would like, and perhaps some people ought to worry more about their witness. But we can also worry about it far too much. We must not forget that Jesus said his critics were like the children in the marketplace who said: “We played the pipe and you did not dance. You played a dirge and you did not mourn.” In other words, we are likely damned if we do and damned if we don’t. In our efforts to attract cultural bona fides, we can sometimes be casting pearls before swine. So in the end we need to be about doing our Father’s business and worrying mostly our audience of One. He is the judge of what we do and what we say and how we do it and how we say it. If we worried more about that, we would be glorifying our Father who is in heaven in a way we cannot glorify him by worrying about how certain progressive elites judge us, which will nearly always be poorly.
In the piece I wrote for the WSJ just before the 2016 election I was simply trying to say the same thing, that we cannot opt out of voting and pretend that we were not sullied when one of the candidates was elected because we refused to vote. We will be complicit in the election of whoever is elected unless we vote for the only person who can defeat them. And whatever that person’s good and bad points, we ought more than anything to be concerned with the real effects that person’s presidency will have on all Americans. For example, African American families will be effected by certain policies, and if you care about those families you need to vote for the person who you think will do the best by those constituencies. Some people may denounce you for your vote, but it is a vote between you and God. Only He can judge you, but of course He will judge you, and let that be your only consideration when you do vote. What Trump said twelve years ago in a private conversation that was caught on a hot mic may and should be taken into consideration, but if bridling at that sort of thing is principally how one makes such extremely important decisions as voting for the presidency, one is hardly taking the long view or seriously considering the needs of those who are suffering among us, whose suffering demands a more aggressive untangling of the many issues that go into such decisions, not least from those who think of themselves as Christians.
Further, the idea that we might allow someone who is perhaps the most strident advocate in our generation of abortion on demand — not to say among the most cynical and corrupt politicians in recent history — occupy the Oval Office because we did not like the cut of the other candidate’s cultural jib is itself a scandal. Wilberforce overlooked the tremendously dissolute behavior of such as Charles Fox only because he knew that the hundreds of thousands of Africans who were suffering in the British Slave Trade mattered more than the well-known immorality of Mr. Fox.
Q. You wrote in your book “If You Can Keep It” about the need for virtuous citizens, and you defined virtue as the willingness to sacrifice personal interests for the common good. This seems central to how different people interpret Trump, and to why many white evangelical Trump voters feel the need to defend him as president, because criticizing him feels like acknowledging that voting for him was actually an act of self-preservation that hurt the rest of the country. What do you think of that? Have you engaged much with John Fea’s critique of your book? He makes a persuasive argument that you have airbrushed the American founding into an airbrushed version that exaggerates the role of Christianity as the sole source of virtue (not one of several), that exaggerates the extent to which there was religious liberty at the founding (Seamus Hasson’s “Right to Be Wrong” is best I’ve read on this topic), and treats the American experiment as more of a miracle detached from anything before it than it was. Fea writes that America built on the democratic principles at play in British life, which is something of a subtle point, but an interesting one which tempers exuberance over American exceptionalism as some kind of divinely ordered miracle. He also believes you give the Great Awakening too much credit for how it influenced American politics. The greater point is that Fea thinks you make a common mistake of many evangelicals, that of confusing America with the kingdom of God. This is a complex and nuanced point. A firm rootedness in one’s citizenship in heaven should not produce passivity or fatalism about one’s community or nation here on earth. But the critique of culture warriors often is that they cling too tightly to worldly outcomes because the two categories (kingdom of God and America) have become almost unintelligibly mixed or combined. Do you think you have done this in any way?
A. Mr. Fea’s critiques have not only not persuaded me, they have helped me see more clearly why what I said in my book If You Can Keep It is necessary to communicate to as many Americans as possible at this time in history. If I could give a copy of that book to every American — or at least to every young American — I would do so. Mr. Fea’s misunderstanding on this central issue — one that particularly seems to plague academics — is at the heart of our problems as a culture and as a church.
To mix these very separate categories is a great sin indeed, but such sins must be in the eyes of the beholder. I am afraid Mr. Fea has committed the opposite sin in being so enamored of a certain anti-populist and anti-American narrative — which view is so trendy in the Academy that he should be concerned about having accepted it himself — that he falls into the category of those who find any healthy celebration of patriotism as like unto worshipping the Beast of Revelation.
Q. Charles Marsh has also argued that your work on Bonhoeffer mischaracterized him. What’s your opinion of his critique?
A. The handful of early negative reviews of my book on Bonhoeffer have not struck me as substantive, or as anything more than ideological griping, so I have labored to ignore them. The typos and nits to which some of them affixed themselves like lampreys were happily corrected in subsequent editions, so their authors should long ago have swum away content with what blood they have managed to suck. I am unaware of Mr. Marsh’s critique of my book and was under the impression he had not read it. In his own work on the great Bonhoeffer, he veers from some wonderfully scholarly work and good writing to quite shockingly — and unintentionally hilariously — portraying Bonhoeffer as a lavender swell mincing and vogue-ing his way through the corridors of the Third Reich; and even at one point swanning down the Champs Ellysses in shimmering golden underwear (sic). By painting Bonhoeffer as gayer-by-a-yard-of-tulle than Charles Nelson Reilly and Charles Busch combined is intellectually hideous, yet cannot help but tickle most careful readers toward an ear-shattering horselaugh. The impressive length and breadth of this lode of queering fatally mars what might otherwise have been a book I could have recommended. This lamentable distortion of Bonhoeffer is such an injustice to the memory of one of the bravest — and genuinely manliest — Christians of the last century that charity compels me to screech to a halt here, rather early on this ugly road. Quel dommage. That Dr. Marsh might take issue with some aspects of my own book cannot be surprising.
Q. In April 2016, you said the following: “The church is meant to be the conscience of the state, not to be in bed with the state, cozy with the state, but to be the conscience of the state.” Do you think evangelicals like Robert Jeffress and Jerry Falwell Jr. have lived up to this? Have you?
A. Obviously one must define “the state” before one can answer this. You seem for some reason to want to define the state more as “the Trump administration” than as “the Obama administration” or as “that-administration-which-cannot-be-named from which the Trump victory saved America.” This makes any conversation on this subject inescapably preposterous. If we cannot agree on a definition of the state, how can we agree on what the church should do in response to that ill-defined state.
But let me say what I think the state is today — to which the American church must not bow. I think it is principally the same state that has for the last five decades supported an activist judiciary bent on forcing all Christians to bow before the idol of the murder of the unborn — as the price we must pay for such unbridled sexual license as used to make the pagans blush. The Founders in warning against — and in forcefully and clearly prohibiting — the establishment of a religion could not foresee the day when a secular religion took hold in America to the extent that it was being established by the American government in a way that is as forceful and puritanical and unforgiving as anything ever established by the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, whose cruel branding of apostates only differed from our own in also being literal.
To use American’s taxes to pay for the murder of those yet unborn, or the teaching of unbiblical views of gender and sex to innocent children in our public schools is effectively to have allowed a secular religion (religion being defined by a certain set of views toward the ultimate questions, such as the definitions of what constitutes a human being and what constitutes marriage) become established. This is itself a kind of tyranny or fascism imposed by cultural elites. It is unconstitutional and unAmerican and our forebears took up arms and risked their lives to fight against such things. Can the American church not at least identify these sins and speak out against them, even if all they are risking is their social standing among the unforgiving secular elites of our time? If we think doing that might harm our “witness”, we are of course correct, but what are we to do? What witness have we got if we don’t speak out for the unborn and for those trying to practice their faith in a culture that demonizes them and with a government that increasingly harasses them and persecutes them and destroys their livelihoods?
What must the average non-evangelical American make of a church unwilling to risk any cultural capital in standing up for good people trying to live out their simple faith? Can we imagine that these non-evangelicals view such holier-than-thou inaction with admiration? If we define fighting at all as mere “culture warring” or as something only worldly bullies do, then only bullies will win. There is a time to fight for justice. We cannot forget how important a part of our witness that has been throughout history. Wilberforce and Bonhoeffer and Dr. King were all angrily accused of importing their faith into the dirty business of this world, of being too “political” and of being unseemly and vulgar in crawling down into the filthy fray of fighting for those for whom many of their religious confreres refused to fight. Jesus, too, might have stayed where he was, unsullied and unridiculed and uncrucified. But how happy we are that he didn’t.
Self-proclaimed Christians who turn the other cheek to some State-sponsored slaps but who stand by or even applaud when Roman soldiers crucify those guilty of other slaps are the bane of our great democracy. This cherry-picking of which laws or principles to enforce is the end of freedom and the beginning of a genuine fascism. If we cannot all agree on the same rules for all, but have come to the point where some of us are “more equal” than others — with the excuse that “true justice” demands we put our thumbs on the scales to impose an important “historical” corrective — then we have already fallen far indeed.
The signal accomplishment of many who have bitterly and sourly opposed Trump is to illustrate that puritanism is not dead in America, but has only shed its 17th century weeds for more contemporary ones. Those who disagree with the new political orthodoxy are so viciously denounced that the denunciatory epithets of racism and bigotry have been bled white of all meaning. Anyone who has seen real racism must howl at the idea that a vote for this president constitutes some kind of racism, and yet the smearing with that and other epithets — whether xenophobic or jingoistic or “deplorable” — of all who voted for this president should not go unanswered. When I think of all the good and great people I know who have voted for this president and who therefore have been unconscionably spat upon as racists I am deeply grieved.
I think first of all of those men and women of color who have been insulted as unworthy of their race in supporting this president, as though they must all vote alike because of their skin color. This is of course a supremely and genuinely racist idea. One of the greatest brain-surgeons of our time, Dr. Ben Carson, who pulled himself up out of direst poverty, has supported this president, and even helped him get elected and then joined his administration. African-American sports legends such as Jim Brown and George Foreman have supported him too. The list is nearly endless. Are we to denounce even these as unwitting racists? Or shall we simply patronize them as ignorant?
I think of all the other men and women I admire who have expressed their support for this president, and who have all been insulted daily by those cultural mandarins who treat them as beneath contempt, as though their votes are dirtied with “self-interest” and tribalist nationalistic impulses. If the opinions of these good people who have supported this president cannot be afforded a decent modicum of respect by other Americans, how can I or anyone else take their critics seriously? I think more than anything of my extraordinary ninety-year-old father who suffered tremendously in his life and who saw the demonic face of communism up close. He legally immigrated to this country and dealt with genuine xenophobia as he struggled mightily to support a family, with an accent he could never shed, but he nonetheless loved this country and still loves it, and taught his children to love her, too; and he voted for this president and supports him more strongly than ever. Such as would dare even slightly to imply that this man I so admire and cherish has an iota of racism in him necessarily place themselves in the ugliest ranks of those to be pitied. But their implicit or explicit thoughts along these lines I denounce as not less than despicable.
As a Christian I have no choice but to forgive those guilty of these things, to know that they are themselves coming from places of pain and misunderstanding. But what I cannot do is give the slimmest quarter to their grotesque and harmful views. And by God’s grace I never shall. In this way — by speaking the truth as I see it and living out that truth to the best of my ability — I hope to love my own ideological enemies.
After a few days, Jon sent these follow up questions, which I post along with my answers to him.
Q. When you describe the benefits of religious liberty, you mention that it helps “atheists, agnostics, Buddhist, Universalists, and Episcopalians.” Given the way you wrote about Islam, it made me wonder if you left Islam out of that list on purpose or by accident. Do you believe Muslims should also be beneficiaries of religious liberty in America, or are they an exception to the rule?
A. Without question I do. Absolutely. Nor did I mean to sweep away Rastafarians or Rosicrucians, but the list of religions practiced in America is so vast that one cannot be complete. I meant by that list to include all religions by implication. What have I ever written to lead you to believe that I might be a secret Islamophobe, or do all those who voted against Mrs. Clinton need to make that explicit? Can you see how your implication might strike me as ungenerous?
Q. You describe your own support of Trump as “tepid.” I think with good reason many people viewed your WSJ oped and your comment that Christians “must” vote for Trump as anything but tepid support. But why do you yourself view it as tepid?
A. I felt that once the nomination went to him — and the Democratic nomination to Hillary Clinton — there was a very clear choice, and a dramatic one. And yes, I felt that if people understood the tremendous danger Hillary Clinton posed, the choice for Trump was clear, despite the many important concerns people had about him.
Q. There were a few things which struck me in your email as dissonant and contradictory. It was surprising to me that you castigated others for having an “End of All Things” mentality and for viewing their opponents as akin to Hitler. You wrote during the election that Christians “must vote for Trump” because he was “the last best hope of keeping America from sliding into oblivion, the tank, the abyss, the dustbin of history.” That seems like the mentality of someone who is “believing the world’s end to be imminent.”
A. These things are not only not close to parallels, they are virtually unrelated. It is one thing to advocate dramatically wrong-headed scorched earth measures because one believes history is folding up its tents and another to advocate that people legally and appropriately cast a vote for a candidate in a free election because one believes that candidate’s opponent is the practical enemy of American self-government.
Q. And your e-mail you criticize those who compare their opponents as Nazis. Of course, you referred to Hillary Clinton as “Hitlery” during the election. If you apologized for that remark, I am not aware of it. In addition, later in the same email you compare your own critics to Nazis when you say that those who expect you to “harrumph their every disapproval of Trump on twitter” are like when Germans were “expected to say ‘Heil Hitler!’ sufficiently loudly and often.” You even compare those you disagree with to demons when you sketch a world in which “elites” have “xenophobia” against “white European ‘Christian’ varieties,” and you then state that “Satan always come [sic] as an angel of light.”
A. I wince to think that anyone could be in such straits as actually to believe my tweet about “Hitlery” anything but a wild goofball joke.The agonizing and deeply fatiguing seriousness of many progressives in America as evidenced by this misunderstanding may indeed be a sign that the End is Nigh after all. Perhaps I should make clear that I am joking about that, too, eh? But seriously, since I wrote a long book on the Third Reich, I would have liked to think people might have given me more credit.
Q. And I also think you avoided engaging with many of the questions I asked by dismissing all of your critics as extreme and unreasonable, or liberal, or both. But in fact many people who disagree with you or have criticized your public comments are conservative Christians, people like John Mark Reynolds, Andy Crouch, John Wilson, David French, Beth Moore, Ann Voskamp, Justin Giboney, etc. As far as I know all these people hold similar if not identical views as you on abortion and sexuality and marriage. So much of your email was taken up with dismissing your critics, and decrying them as “vile” and “obscene” and “childish” and “impotent” when many of your critics and those who disagree with you are devout brothers and sisters of yours in the faith.
A. I am afraid you have dramatically mischaracterized my responses to my critics and in saying these things you are stooping to the level of attempting to egg me into a response that is more emotional than substantive. Jimmy Carter is my devout brother in Christ, but that doesn’t make his ill-run term in the White House any less horrific from an historical perspective. Nor can the advocacy of my brothers and sisters in Christ for anti-Christian policies anything less than depressing. People can be wonderful and full of faith and still be terribly mistaken politically. People can vote or not vote for many good and pious reasons, but in the end, real people are affected, and I simply believe we need to think hard about those real people, both here and abroad.
Q. The heart of the critique many have leveled against you is I guess two-pronged. The first prong is that many think it it makes little sense for you to write a book about the need to bring virtue back in America, and then endorse a leader who enthusiastically scorns many of the things that Christians consider virtuous. The second prong relates to the “politics of self-interest” and to religious liberty.
A bit of clarification. Self-interest is obviously an integral part of politics. But the politics of self-interest becomes a negative term when it means, as you put it yourself, that one is not “concerned with the real effects” of a presidency “on all Americans.” You spent a few words dismissing the concerns of those Trump has denigrated or who feel threatened by this president, but for the most you also avoided engaging on that topic.
A. I suppose I avoid engaging in that topic because I find it unhelpful and dramatically besides the real point. If I thought Trump corrupt or self-serving in a way that was dangerous to the country then yes, that would be important and dispositive, but from my perspective the high crime of buffoonish tweeting neither rises to the level of an impeachable offense nor a Constitutional crisis. Also, if his sexual misbehavior had extended into the recent past of his campaign and into the present of his presidency, as JFK’s and Lyndon Johnson’s and Bill Clinton’s very certainly did, I would see things very differently. That his critics never bring up this troika of swinish sexual abusers tells me that their criticisms of the current president’s behavior are merely political sour grapes. Not to say shameful in its hypocrisy.
Q. On the point of foreign policy in particular, I agree time will tell and it is too soon to know for sure what the outcome will be of the Trump presidency. But of what we know so far, it’s not my own views that I was relying on. It was authoritative reporting on the concerns and views of foreign leaders from people like Susan Glass and Evan Osnos, and it was remarks like the one Angela Merkel made last summer about a less dependable America.
I also think your definitions of “the state” and “witness” are not in line with how most people understand those terms. I don’t think most Christians think of “witness” as attracting “cultural bona fides.” I think they view it as showing an allegiance to and faith in Christ that gives you the ability to be a strong advocate for what you believe, but to stop short of pursuing victory by any means, and to say no to a win for self-interest if it means violating certain principles. Or something like that anyway.
At the end of the day, I think the heart of the critique from other Christians who hold similar views to you is that they agree with you in general about the hostility of the modern left to conservative views on sexuality, gay marriage, and religious liberty. They might not call it “fascism” but they would certainly have deep concerns. And yet they would believe that the Christian’s calling is to work and advocate for rights of conscience in the public square, to find accommodation and compromise where possible, and to try to live at peace with all men. But for them, supporting Trump — even though he promised protection for conservative Christians from their opponents on these issues — was a violation of their faith and its precepts, and to throw in with Trump would have been to panic, to abandon faith in the promise that God holds their life in his hands, and to put their hope in retaining cultural and political power rather than in allowing God’s power and goodness to show itself through them as they endured hardship and challenge.
A. I certainly understand this view and of course many dear friends of mine hold to this interpretation of things, but I am afraid I simply consider this interpretation to be mistaken, and not only mistaken, but deeply destructive all around, to Christians and non-Christians alike. Christians who think the Church in America might have survived a Hillary Clinton presidency are something like the devout Christian Germans who seriously and prayerfully thought it unChristian to be involved in opposing Hitler because to do so would have dirtied their hands with politics. I really do understand how they thought that, but I also think they were very horribly mistaken and cannot now pretend my friends making this mistake are not doing great harm, just as many of them think that I am doing great harm. This is one case where I sincerely wish I were on the wrong side of the issue. Nor do I mean to compare Hillary to Hitler, but the principle at issue is the same nonetheless.
Q. It seems you might say in response that Bonhoeffer did not simply stand by as an evil regime moved forward. He resisted violently, and unto death. But that is where your comparison of what you describe as the secular “state” — to something similar to Nazi Germany — breaks down. The Nazi’s murdered millions. And there is nothing even remotely similar happening today.
A. This is another confusing non-parallel. The Nazis were not murdering millions until the Forties, but they might have been stopped in the early Thirties if the church in Germany had properly understood its role with regard to the state. Bonhoeffer dramatically tried to wake the church up to its role many years before the Nazis were murdering millions, precisely because he saw where their ideology was leading. And of course he failed. Shall we too stand by because things aren’t “bad enough” yet?
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It has been a bad month for the RFU. The furore sparked by the recent decision to cut funding for the Championship has revealed a fault line running throughout rugby union in England. It might best be termed as the tension between recreation and ambition, community and elitism, the amateur ethos and the professional.
The question has never quite been resolved since professionalism. What is the purpose of the clubs beneath the elite? What is the purpose of the sprawling, seamless pyramid of leagues in which they play? There are those at the heart of it now proclaiming the future death of grassroots rugby, a slow strangling of the community game.
The RFU is midway through its latest review to try to settle on a system that might better cater for the needs of more than 1,500 rugby clubs among its membership. The adult male future competitions survey on the RFU website will continue to accept submissions until it closes next Friday. Clubs are urged to have their say.
Unanimity of opinion is not expected. “The great thing about our game,” says Steve Grainger, the RFU’s rugby development director, “is there’s so much diversity of thinking. The biggest challenge in our game is there’s so much diversity of thinking.”
This chimes with the results from a survey of more than 350 clubs from across all the regions and levels of rugby in England for my recently published book on rugby in the 21st century, Unholy Union: When Rugby Collided with the Modern World. In the hundreds of supplementary comments, the refrain that a ring-fencing of the elite game would be the death of their club was common, but not as common as the lament that the league system itself was killing the community game.
Steve Grainger, the RFU Rugby Development Director. Photograph: David Rogers/Getty Images
Only 22% of the clubs in the Unholy Union survey felt part of a self-sustaining system that culminates in the elite game. Of the 78% who felt “on their own”, nearly half (37%) contended that the elite game might as well be its own organisation. Might as well be sealed off, in other words.
The insidious effect of the seamless structure is to institutionalise the idea of ambition, the notion that anyone can make it to the top. The effect of the professional era has been to normalise the idea of paying players to pimp up your first team. In the Unholy Union survey there were reports of payments to players as low as level nine. One club in level 12, the lowest rung of the current system, said it pays expenses for its first XV. Four clubs across levels seven, eight and nine said they harbour ambitions to reach the Premiership.
All of which introduces an element of toxicity into the structure. It takes only one or two teams in a region or league to start paying players to make others feel the pressure to respond, just so they can hang on to their own or maintain their position. Across any few years of the professional era, one can chart the rise, and usually fall, of ‘ambitious’ clubs through the league structure. These shooting stars are invariably fuelled not by a golden generation of local talent but by the money of wealthy individuals, which in turn prioritises investment in the first XV, the standard by which so many clubs seem to judge themselves.
“If I walk into a club and ask how things are going,” says Grainger, “the answer is always about the first XV. What you want to hear is how a club fielded four teams for the first time or developed a second women’s team, age group and minis. It’s that holistic view.”
Barnet Elizabethans Rugby Club mini rugby training night at the Barnet Copthall Stadium in January 2016. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian
Taken with developments in the wider world, the prioritising of the first XV has had a withering effect on the community game since the leagues were introduced in 1987, quite alarmingly so if the measure is fixtures played. The last time the RFU conducted a review of the league structures, in 2014, they pulled out the examples of two clubs, Morpeth and Harrow. In the 1982-3 season, each played more than 180 fixtures across six XVs; 40 years later Morpeth played 86 across four and Harrow 56 across two.
Suffering injuries and the fear of injury are two of the three most cited reasons for players dropping out of rugby. The other is travel. In a culture of changing work patterns, more enlightened approaches to parenting and an increased accent on individualism, the traditional model of the rugby club has been transformed, as has each player’s commitment to it.
Level four club “If the Premiership is ringfenced expect an exodus of financial backers from the lower league clubs and the eventual demise of grassroots rugby”
Level four club “Soon we will only have the larger clubs, less rugby being played below first-team level and too much there. It is the young players who are burning out, playing too many games in a hostile environment”
Level six club “We could not have survived financially but for diversification, which brings in far more income than rugby alone”
Level seven club “Clubs within our county who have a short-term ‘let’s buy success to feed our ego’ attitude cause great harm to our game”
Level eight club “The real issue is the lack of recreational rugby being played. By promoting elitism you dampen the joy”
Level eight club “The grassroots game is collapsing in terms of number of teams playing. The RFU seems to be concentrating on the England teams only and their fear of a split from professional rugby. That might not be a bad thing”
Level 10 club “Bigger clubs in our area get bigger, while smaller clubs are struggling”
Rugby, at all levels, is an increasingly punishing game. The only other team sport in the world that might be further along the collision spectrum is American football. It is telling that no one has even tried to establish an adult community game there. The model works. The NFL is the biggest spectator sport in the world by average attendance and needs only a supply line of youth to keep it viable, players dropping out of the system as they grow older, until only the elite continue into adulthood. There is a fear that this is the future towards which rugby is heading.
The current review of the league structure is not the first. From 2012 to 2014, the RFU canvassed the views of players around the country and devised a new structure designed to reduce the number of league games and the amount of travel. The uproar among, tellingly, the administrators of various clubs was loud and decisive, citing the loss of home fixtures and an expected dilution in playing standards. It is not only at elite level that the imperatives of player welfare and revenue generation war with each other.
The Northern Action Group was formed, through which a collection of clubs in the north threatened to break away if the restructure went ahead. With a World Cup to host on the horizon, the RFU agreed to shelve it rather than risk mutiny. Ironically, within two years, another group of clubs from Lancashire broke away from the league system to form two divisions of a mini-league of their own, citing the burden of excessive travel.
Clubs who field more than four teams, down from 27% in the 1990s
Clubs with clubhouses open past 10pm, down from 54% in the 1990s
Clubs who admit time away is a problem, 32% call it ‘significant’
Clubs who think injuries are higher than ever, 28% say it’s a big problem
Clubs who feel as if they are on their own within the RFU structure
Reports of their new arrangement are encouraging, but even that has come at a cost. Those left languishing in the farther reaches of Cumbria seethe at the consequent reduction in their fixtures and the dilution of playing standards. These are issues facing any league system, but this time the hope is for a more open mind among the RFU’s membership to the concept of a restructure.
If ring-fencing the elite game, whether at Premiership level or Championship level or both, ever comes to pass, it is likely to be independent of the current review. Which is not to say the RFU would be against it. Many clubs struggling at adult level are now sustained by the vibrancy of their minis sections, which have boomed since the 1990s, but rugby’s current great growth area is the women’s game. The Tyrrell’s Premier 15s is an example of just such a set-up, with membership of the elite established by application, not by results on the field.
An Olney RFC player runs through the Old Leamingtonians RFC defence during a match at The Crofts in Leamington Spa during 2008. Photograph: Colin Underhill/Alamy
“We’re just at the beginning with the women’s game,” says Grainger, “but that gives us a good opportunity not to go down the same path as the men’s. I won’t say make the same mistakes! We want a community that is flourishing through rugby, where rugby is flourishing through the community. What does that look like? Don’t know yet. We’re at a watershed.”
In an undoubtedly challenging environment, beset by social pressures way beyond its control, community rugby needs to decide what it wants to be. That means individual clubs deciding. The wise ones will focus on the joy of playing and their status as community centres. The wise clubs will leave ambition to the elite.
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YPARDian bags home the 2017 SFIAR Master Thesis award!
Since 2008, The Swiss Forum for International Agricultural Research (SFIAR) has been honoring graduates and scientists working in agricultural research for development with two awards categories; the team award and the Master Thesis award. The awards aim at supporting relevant agricultural research for development (ARD) as well as promoting knowledge on and visibility of Swiss ARD.
In 2017, YPARD member, Sebastian Mengel, was the recipient of the Master Thesis award for his collaborative research with YPARD, HAFL and CGIAR CRP drylands program on agricultural livelihoods of rural youth in the drylands of Midelt, Morocco.
YPARD Communications Manager, Emmie Wachira, had a chat with Sebastian post the SFIAR award ceremony and here are the interview outcomes. Enjoy reading!
Emmie: Thank you, Sebastian, for agreeing to this interview. To start with, could you tell us a bit more about yourself and your background?
Sebastian: Thank you for having me. To begin with, I grew up on a family-owned and -run wine farm near Mainz, Germany and studied viticulture, enology and business management in my Bachelor’s degree – I still have quite strong ties to viticulture. After that I did my Master’s degree in “Applied Agricultural and Forestry Sciences” at the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) – School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (HAFL) in Switzerland and became involved in international agricultural research and development cooperation.
Emmie: Congratulations on winning the 2017 SFIAR Master Thesis award. How does it feel? Tell us more about your thesis and how it links to the young people in agriculture.
Sebastian: Thank you so much! Knowing that quite a few young fellows submitted outstanding research work conducted by them, the message of being honored with the 2017 SFIAR Master Thesis Award really reached me as a huge surprise. As part of a study conducted by YPARD and the BFH-HAFL on behalf of the CGIAR Research Program (CRP) on Dryland Systems, my work investigates the realities, viewpoints, challenges, opportunities and aspirations of rural, farming youth in the research site, in order to determine possible entry points for support and intervention aiming at improving their livelihoods.
Emmie: For your research project, Morocco was chosen as the country of study. How did this come about? Any particular significance of this?
Sebastian: That was initially quite a complex and challenging decision. One of the criteria was that the study works with all three agricultural livelihood systems (ALSs) as defined by the CRP on Dryland Systems – pastoralism/agro-pastoralism, irrigated and rainfed agriculture. It was also important to work in a country which plays an important role in the thematic and organizational context of the CRP on Dryland Systems. And most importantly, a country with a “young” population had to be chosen – where rural youth do play an important role in the agricultural sector.
Emmie: In the course of your research project, you held a couple of interviews to help inform the realities and aspirations of rural youth. What were some of your major findings?
Sebastian: Youth’s perception of rural life and agriculture is not per se negative. There is considerable interest in continuing to develop their agriculture, in particular among young men who aspire to have their own profitable farms. Female youth aspire to access basic education and vocational training. Also, rural outmigration is not a first choice for many but rather driven by precarious living conditions. Based on the conducted assessment, recommendations were developed to support the youth. Further research should seek to improve local ALSs, foster organizational development and evaluate the cost/benefit of possible support and interventions. Moreover, youth require better access to infrastructure (above all basic education), training and capacity building (e.g. through a mentoring program). Direct support should aim to structure the local agricultural sector and develop post-harvest infrastructure/activities for inclusive growth.
Emmie: In most cases, farmers are meant to be beneficiaries of research but presence and engagement in research planning and implementation is often left out. What are some of the major recommendations from the research?
Sebastian: It is important that similar, participatory research approaches – taking account of the diversity of youth – be replicated, scaled up and out to make further scientific experiences and progress in this relatively unexplored field of research, to enable cross-comparisons between different contexts, and to inform decision and policy-making actors about possible entry points for support and intervention in different geographical settings. Strategies and policies for engaging youth in the rural/agricultural sector should be developed. Fostering decent rural/agricultural livelihoods for present and future generations must be recognized as a means to slow down rural outmigration and urbanization and create inclusive economic growth – not only in a Moroccan context but generally where the rural/agricultural sector is of critical importance. Finally, it remains to be said that livelihoods research should categorically be paired with practical support and interventions.
See more photos of the 2017 SFIAR award ceremony as well as the project showcase on the SFIAR website.
Photo credit: SFIAR
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Synchronized Aggregate Signatures from the RSA Assumption
Susan Hohenberger and Brent Waters
Abstract: In this work we construct efficient aggregate signatures from the RSA assumption in the synchronized setting. In this setting, the signing algorithm takes as input a (time) period $t$ as well the secret key and message. A signer should sign at most once for each $t$. A set of signatures can be aggregated so long as they were all created for the same period $t$. Synchronized aggregate signatures are useful in systems where there is a natural reporting period such as log and sensor data, or for signatures embedded in a blockchain protocol where the creation of an additional block is a natural synchronization event.
We design a synchronized aggregate signature scheme that works for a bounded number of periods $T$ that is given as a parameter to a global system setup. The big technical question is whether we can create solutions that will perform well with the large $T$ values that we might use in practice. For instance, if one wanted signing keys to last up to ten years and be able to issue signatures every second, then we would need to support a period bound of upwards of $2^{28}$.
We build our solution in stages where we start with an initial solution that establishes feasibility, but has an impractically large signing time where the number of exponentiations and prime searches grows linearly with $T$. We prove this scheme secure in the standard model under the RSA assumption with respect to honestly-generated keys. We then provide a tradeoff method where one can tradeoff the time to create signatures with the space required to store private keys. One point in the tradeoff is where each scales with $\sqrt{T}$.
Finally, we reach our main innovation which is a scheme where both the signing time and storage scale with $\lg{T}$ which allows for us to keep both computation and storage costs modest even for large values of $T$. Conveniently, our final scheme uses the same verification algorithm, and has the same distribution of public keys and signatures as the first scheme. Thus we are able to recycle the existing security proof for the new scheme.
We also show how to extend our results to the identity-based setting in the random oracle model, which can further reduce the overall cryptographic overhead. We conclude with a detailed evaluation of the signing time and storage requirements for various practical settings of the system parameters.
Category / Keywords: public-key cryptography / signatures, aggregate, RSA, synchronized, identity-based
Original Publication (with minor differences): IACR-EUROCRYPT-2018
Date: received 18 Jan 2018, last revised 24 Jan 2018
Contact author: susan at cs jhu edu, bwaters@cs utexas edu
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THE FOLLOWING FFWCT 5v5 YOUTH FLAG FOOTBALL RULES FOR TOURNAMENT PLAY.
Every style of flag football that we offer first utilizes our common-to-all rules as a baseline for each format. These rules are meant to standardize the game in areas where each style should be synchronized to be easier for players and officials alike to understand the basics of the game from one format to another.
Read these rules first, as they apply to every style we offer, then also make sure and check out the style-specific rules below that are unique to this format.
AGE CUTOFF: January 1st of the Current Year. The World Championships in January is the only exception where January 1st of the previous year will be used as the final event of the previous calendar year. All players would have to be of the appropriate age for that division as of the age cutoff date in order to participate. All players are expected to produce their birth certificate or military ID at check-in for verifying the roster.
Game Time is FORFEIT TIME
Minimum 2 players to start a game.
A coin toss determines 1st possession. The team can elect to have offense, defense, defer or direction. Choice in the 2nd half will be awarded to the team that did not have the choice 1st half.
The offensive team takes possession of the ball at their 5-yard line and has four plays to cross mid-field. You may choose to “punt” on 4th down where you would forfeit the down and the opponent would start with the ball at their own 5 yard line. If you go for it on 4th down and do not get a first down or touchdown, the opponent would take over at the spot. Once a team crosses mid-field and achieves a first down they have three plays to score. If the offense does not score, the ball changes possession. All drives start from the 5-yard line with the exception of an interception.
No blocking is allowed. No contact is allowed.
The Field: The dimensions of the field are 60-64 yards long x 25 yards wide. Each half will be 23-25 yards long with end zones being 7 yards.
Official Football:
8U and below: Pee-wee or mini football, junior, and youth size ball allowed
9U-13U: Junior and youth size ball allowed
14U: Youth size ball (with option of using regulation high school sized ball)
Coaches are volunteers whose role it is to help young people learn to play and enjoy football. Parents are encouraged to support their youth and their coach at all times.
Coaches (1 Coach per Team) in the 8U and under divisions (only) are permitted on the field no close to assist players with their position alignment and mentoring on offense only (no coaches allowed on the field while on defense). At the snap, on-field coaches must be 5 yards behind the quarterback.
Coaches of all other age divisions may not come on to the field of play during a game unless a player is injured. Coaches who come on the field of play anytime during a game will be penalized. One sideline warning per game will be issued after which the following penalties will result:
A) coach on the field during live action = unsportsmanlike conduct
B) coach on the field during a dead ball = delay of game
Only three coaches per team are allowed on the sidelines. ONLY THE HEAD COACH CAN ADDRESS THE GAME OFFICIALS.
Players may NOT have pockets. Players may NOT have taped pockets. Players may NOT turn their shorts inside out. Players may have shorts with pockets if they have been professionally sewn or if they have zippers and the zippers remained zipped up.
Teams also must have the same color shirts and have an alternative color (one dark color/one light color). They do not have to be official uniforms. If both teams are wearing the same color, there will be a coin toss, and the losing team will need to change into a different color.
Teams must wear NFL Youth, Youth Shruumz, or Sonic Flag-a-Tag flags (if custom flags are worn they must be of equal dimensions as Sonic flags). Flags will not be allowed that have been altered (cut, taped, etc.). Mushroom Flags are not allowed for youth. The flags cannot be the same color as a player’s shorts. Mouth guards are optional, but strongly encouraged.
Game Clock Format
Tournament clock is 25 minutes long. Two 12 minute halves and 1-minute halftime.
Each team has two 30 second timeouts PER GAME. If a time out is called after a TD the clock will not run until the change of possession and the offense snaps their ball.
First Half Clock
The clock will run continuously during the 12 minutes of the first half unless a team timeout is used or play is stopped by an official (e.g. deal with an injury, challenge, referee conference, game management purposes, etc.)
The head official will give a verbal two-minute warning (for rule specific changes inside 2 minutes)
The clock will run during point-after-touchdown attempts (PATs) in the first half unless the defense opts to use a team timeout.
Second Half Clock
In the second half the clock will run continuously for the first 11 minutes unless a team timeout or an official’s time out is used.
The one-minute warning will stop the clock in the second half.
The head official will give a verbal two-minute (for rule specific changes) and one-minute warning as close as possible to the actual marks but will not interrupt a live play.
At the one minute warning officials will use a ‘PRO/CLOCK’ mechanic for the remainder of the contest.
The time remaining on the clock will be announced after every play inside the final two minutes of the contest.
The quarterback may not run unless the ball has been thrown back, handed or pitched to him or her in the backfield in all divisions.
Teams may handoff unlimited times in the backfield. Divisions 13U and younger may not lateral or pitch at any time on the field. Divisions 14U and older may also execute unlimited laterals in the backfield and downfield. The player who receives the pitch or handoff may throw the ball as long as he or she is not fully beyond the line of scrimmage.
Handoffs are allowed in front or behind.
A forward pass DOES NOT have to cross the LOS to be a legal play.
If the ball is placed on the “Back” of ANY player, the player MUST run the ball (no give and go to the QB on the back)
No run zones are located 5 yards before mid-field and 5-yards before the end zone for all divisions 8U and older. You may not run the ball in the no run zone (5-yards before the first down and end zone), only forward passes are allowed.
Ball is spotted where the ball is at the time of the flag pull. The ball must break the plane of the midfield or goal line to be considered a first down or touchdown.
Players may NOT block down field in any form.
The quarterback has 7 seconds to pass the ball if there is no rush. If the ball is not thrown, then the play is dead. After the ball is ruled dead it is returned to the line of scrimmage.
Once the ball is handed off or pitched backwards the 7 second count stops. If the defensive team rushes, then there is no 7 second count.
There is no arm in motion, if the ball is in hand when the quarterback’s flag is pulled then it will be ruled a sack.
Interceptions may be returned.
The rusher may not have any contact with the QB (no hitting the QB arm or knocking the ball out of the QB hand).
If ANY part of the players body is behind the LOS it is a legal pass
All players are eligible to receive a pass, including the quarterback, if the ball has been pitched or handed off in the backfield.
Players must have at least one foot in bounds when making catch.
Players that run out of bounds during a play cannot be the first player to touch a ball when attempting to make a catch (this is a penalty Illegal touching). If the player is pushed out of bounds by a defender, then comes back into the play, he or she is still eligible to touch the ball first.
Play is Ruled Dead When
The offensive player’s flag is pulled.
Ball carrier steps out of bounds.
A touchdown is scored.
Any part of the body that is not hands or feet touches the ground. –
Incomplete pass.
Ball hits the ground.
*****If a player loses a flag unintentionally or starts a play with 1 flag on and receives the ball, the defense only has to touch the ball carrier, not pull the flag.
Rushing the Quarterback
Players that rush the quarterback must be a minimum of 7 yards from the line of scrimmage when the ball is snapped.
Rushing is ONLY allowed for 8U divisions and up and is NOT allowed for youth ages 7U and below.
The 7 yards will be measured off by a referee.
Players that are not 7 yards from the line of scrimmage when the ball is snapped may not enter into the backfield until there is a change of possession.
The rusher is allowed a direct lane to the quarterback as long as he or she rushes from either side of the center or outside the bunch formation. The offense must avoid interfering with the rusher if he or she has established a lane.
Pass Coverage:
Contacting receivers is not allowed
Pass interference normally occurs above the waist; entangled feet are not considered pass interference.
Incidental contact is not considered pass interference.
A player may use their arms or hands to intentionally obstruct the receiver’s view (face guarding) of the ball without turning their own head to play the ball as long as noteworthy contact is not made with the receiver.
If defensive pass interference occurs in the end zone the ball will be placed on the one-yard line, automatic first down.
Interceptions in the end zone that are not returned to the field of play will result in a touchback and the ball will be spotted on the 5-yard line.
Contact away from the direction of the pass is not considered pass interference but may be considered illegal contact.
Whether a pass is catchable or uncatchable has no bearing on pass interference. The benefit of the doubt is given to the receiver.
Examples of pass interference include:
Shoving or pushing off to create separation.
Playing through the back.
Hook and turn: grabbing the torso and turning an opponent before the pass arrives.
Arm bars, hooking, restricting, grabbing wrists, or turning a receiver. Blocking downfield before the ball has been touched, commonly seen through “pick plays”.
Touchdown · 6 points
Point After Touchdown (PAT) · 1 point from the 5-yard line (no-run zone in effect)
· 2 points from the 12-yard line, run, pass (outside of no-run zone)
· Interceptions returned on PAT’s are worth 2 points
Safety · 2 points
Point After Touchdown (PAT):
Following a touchdown, once the scoring team has informed an official of which point conversion choice they want to attempt the decision cannot be changed unless the scoring team uses a team timeout.
If a penalty occurs during an extra point attempt, the penalty will be assessed but the extra point value remains the same.
Decisions cannot be changed after a penalty. For example, if the offense attempts a 1-point PAT and is penalized five yards for a false start, they cannot change their mind and go for a 2-point PAT. They will still be attempting a 1-point try even if they call a timeout.
Defensive unsportsmanlike conduct, personal fouls, or roughing penalties during a successful touchdown attempt will be assessed at half the distance to the goal during the PAT attempt (e.g., 2-point PAT attempts will be spotted at the 6-yard line, 1-point PAT attempts will be spotted at the 2.5-yard line). All other defensive penalties may be declined by the offense and the score will stand.
Dead ball fouls committed by the offense that do not carry a loss-of-down penalty (false start) may result in penalty yardage assessed and the down replayed.
Fouls by the offense during a successful PAT attempt that carry a loss-of-down penalty (flag guarding, illegal advancement, illegal forward pass, etc.) will result in the PAT being no good.
Fouls committed by the offense in unsuccessful PAT attempts will be declined by the defense and the PAT will be “no good” and will not be replayed.
Fouls by the defense during an unsuccessful PAT attempt will result in a retry after the options are administered.
If the PAT-attempting team throws an interception and then commits a flagrant foul after the interception during the attempted return (physically contains the ball carrier; bear hugs, aggressively holds, tackles, etc. without making a clear, legal attempt to pull the ball carrier’s flag, the ball carrier will be awarded two points.
Overtime Extra Point Shoot-Out
A coin flip determines first possession, 1 timeout per OT period
Teams will go in reverse order if more then 1 OT is required
Teams can elect to go for 1 or 2 points
Winner will be determined once the value of the extra point exceeds the other teams attempt.
PENALTY CHANGES for inside 2 minutes of BOTH halves.
Defensive pass interference is a spot foul and will result in an automatic 1st down.
Intentional delay of game by the offense or defense, any team member, or fan will result in a 15 yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty
automatic 1st down (if committed by the defense)
LOD (if committed by the offense) and the clock will stop.
Penalty Charts:
Yardage Where is the Penalty Assessed? Result
Flag Guarding 5 Spot of foul Loss of Down
Illegal Advancement 5 Spot of foul Loss of down
Illegal Forward Pass 5 Previous spot Loss of down
Offensive Pass Interference 5 Previous spot Loss of Down
Defensive Pass Interference 15 Previous spot
**Spot foul under 2 min of 1st/2nd half Automatic 1st Down
Personal Foul/Unnecessary Roughness 15 End of the play or previous spot whichever penalizes the offender more By the Offense: Loss of Down
By the Defense: Automatic 1st Down
Unsportsmanlike Conduct 15 End of the play or previous spot whichever penalizes the offender more By the Offense: Loss of Down
Roughing the Passer
515 Previous spot By the Defense: Automatic 1st Down
Delay of Game 5 Previous spot Replay down
** LOD, if 2 min or less
False Start 5 Previous spot Replay down
**LOD, if 2 min or less
Offside / Encroachment 5 Previous spot Automatic 1st down
Cool Down Period 0 No foul Player must sit out 5 plays
Illegal Substitution or Illegal Participation 5 Previous spot Replay down – dead ball
Illegal Shift or Illegal Motion 5 Previous spot Loss of down
Stripping or Attempted Stripping 5 Spot of the foul Automatic 1st down
Illegal Contact 5 Previous spot or spot of the foul By the Offense: Loss of Down
Early Flag Pull 5 Previous spot Automatic 1st Down
Illegal Touching 5 Previous spot Loss of down
Illegal Blocking 5 Spot foul or from previous spot if behind LOS Loss of down
Holding 5 Spot of the foul Automatic 1st down
Impeding the rusher 5 Previous spot Loss of down
Charging 5 Spot of the foul Loss of down
Last Man Rule 15 or
TD Spot of the foul Automatic 1st down
TD if inside the 5 yard line
BEACH Rule Modifications
For beach flag football, the size of the field is shrunk down to a 30 yard playing field, with 7 yard endzones and 25 yards wide. All teams will start with the ball on the 5 yard line with 25 yards and 4 downs to score as opposed to the 3 downs traditional to grass-style 5v5. All other rules remain the same.
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Pedraza-Molina clash Sept 19
Former two-weight world champion Jose “Sniper” Pedraza continues his quest for another world title against 2008 U.S. Olympian Javier “El Intocable” Molina in a 10-round junior welterweight main event Saturday, Sept. 19 from the MGM Grand Conference Center.
Pedraza-Molina will headline a night of fights live on ESPN+.
“Pedraza and Molina asked us for a meaningful fight, and we believe the winner is in excellent position for a world title opportunity,” said Top Rank chairman Bob Arum.
Pedraza (27-3, 13 KOs), a former junior lightweight and lightweight world champion, returns to the MGM Grand “Bubble” a little more than two months after he dominated former world title challenger Mikkel LesPierre over 10 rounds. Pedraza had an inauspicious junior welterweight debut when he lost a decision to Jose Zepeda last September, but the LesPierre performance established his place among the division’s top contenders. Molina (22-2, 9 KOs) is 4-0 since signing with Top Rank in early 2019, reviving a career that stalled following a pair of decision defeats. Last November, he knocked out the normally durable Hiroki Okada in 65 seconds. He followed up the Okada KO with an upset victory over Amir Imam in February on the Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury II undercard.
Pedraza and Molina were scheduled to fight on the Jose Ramirez-Viktor Postol undercard on May 9, but the event was scrapped due to COVID-19. The Ramirez-Postol bout finally happened August 29, and now Pedraza and Molina will headline a show of their own.
Pedraza said, “I’ve been looking for a fight against Javier Molina for a long time. I also had him on my radar because we were supposed to fight earlier this year, but the whole situation with the pandemic changed those plans and the fight was postponed. I kept training hard to keep improving and I ended up fighting against another opponent and had a great performance.
“This fight will bring me even closer to a world title opportunity. My goal is to become a three-division world champion, and Javier Molina will not stop me from achieving my dream.”
Molina said, “Going into this year, I had big expectations for myself. I know what I’m capable of, and I’m here to make a statement against Pedraza. I haven’t received the respect or recognition I feel I deserve but getting a win over Pedraza will put my name out there. It’s a huge opportunity, and I plan on taking advantage of it.”
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Bob Buckhorn's welcome letter to Jane Castor: The city will 'amaze you everyday'
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Bob Buckhorn’s welcome letter to Jane Castor: The city will ‘amaze you everyday’
“Now get to work, Madam Mayor.”
Janelle Irwin Taylor
Former Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn left a note for his successor, Jane Castor, as he departed his office at City Hall for the last time Wednesday. In typical Buckhorn fashion, the letter gushed on Tampa and oozed gratitude for the opportunity to serve it.
“Congratulations on a great win and a well run campaign,” the hand-written letter on official City of Tampa stationery read. “You are embarking on a journey that will be one of the most fulfilling chapters of your life in a job that you will love and a city that will amaze you every day.”
Castor received the letter upon entering her new office after taking the oath of office Wednesday morning at the nearby Armature Works. Castor posted the letter on her official Facebook page along with a photo showing her reading it alongside her partner, Ana Cruz.
“I found this note laying on the desk when I walked into my new office today,” Castor wrote and then thanked Buckhorn for his “unwavering support.”
Buckhorn’s letter didn’t offer any policy advice or tips on things like how to deal with angry emails. Instead, it encouraged Castor to revel in her new position.
“Treasure every moment and get up every day to make [Tampa] a better place,” he wrote.
Buckhorn echoed his farewell video and comments he made while supporting Castor on the campaign trail about writing Tampa’s next chapter. He told Castor he believed she was “the right person at the right time” to do just that.
“You have been given a gift and that is the opportunity to lead the city that has been your home,” the letter read. “Go make us proud as you always have and know that I will be pulling for your every step of the way.”
Buckhorn ended the letter with a bit of a jab.
In this article:Ana Cruz, Bob Buckhorn, Jane Castor, Tampa, Tampa City Hall
Written By Janelle Irwin Taylor
Janelle Irwin Taylor has been a professional journalist covering local news and politics in Tampa Bay since 2003. Most recently, Janelle reported for the Tampa Bay Business Journal. She formerly served as senior reporter for WMNF News. Janelle has a lust for politics and policy. When she’s not bringing you the day’s news, you might find Janelle enjoying nature with her husband, children and two dogs. You can reach Janelle at Janelle@floridapolitics.com.
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2015 Winter Fancy Food Show – Dairy Good Practices
Every year for the last 40 years, about 1,400 food/beverage companies exhibit their latest and existing packaged food and beverages at San Francisco’s Winter Fancy Food Show. Navigating through and around this 3 day Trade Show with the nearly 20,000 attendees and over 200,000 square feet of space is both exhilarating and exhausting.
California is a trailblazer and was represented at the show by having the most exhibitors with 440 food companies. One of the busiest sections is the Dairy area. There are lots of predictions on where food will trend or go for 2015, but the California Dairy industry as a whole has pioneered good practices from the beginning through sustainability, reducing the carbon footprint, humane treatment of their producers (animals), and giving back for the greater good.
California Milk Advisory Board: Mooving Milk for Generations
Jennifer Giambroni, the Director of Communication for the California Milk Advisory Board, represents 1,500 family dairy farms in California. These producers make milk, butter, ice cream, yogurt, cottage cheese, and cheese for 21% of Americans nationwide. The California Milk Advisory Board’s main goal is to preserve and sustain these small Dairies for future generations. Many of these Dairies are already 3 to 4 generations old.
Because California has the most stringent environmental standards in the United States, it was hardly a surprise when two of their producers received national sustainability awards. An example of good sustainable practices is how these California Dairies will recycle water up to 4 times; it is especially important with an ongoing drought.
The farmer’s mantra is to feed the world. They have been working with Food Banks to bring in the most requested and most difficult item …Milk! Refrigerating Milk has been an overwhelming challenge for the Food Banks, so through http://milklife.com/give, California Dairy Farmers will contribute in 2015 over $100,000 by giving the families in need accessibility and availability to product.
Redwood Hill Farm: Digestible and Sustainable
Back in the 1960s Goat Dairy products were fringe and were not so popular. The Bice family left the bustling and sprawling city of Los Angeles, for cleaner air and greener pastures. In the late 70s Jennifer Bice, the oldest of 10 siblings put goats on the map and in the mainstream markets. They sell organic Goat Dairy products like: Goat Milk, Kefir, a variety of Cheeses (Smoked Cheddar, Raw Milk Feta, French Style Rind Ripened Cheeses), and Yogurt.
Jennifer is a world renowned goat breeder, and she was responsible for making Redwood Hill Farm the first Goat Dairy to be certified Humane. Every Goat has a name and is treated like a pet. As they have grown and demand has increased, they have had to source from outside of their Farm; these high standards and certifications for Humane Treatment are naturally expected from their local suppliers.
With 2 acres of solar panels, Redwood Hill Farm has been reducing its carbon footprint for decades. 85% of their production is solar powered. Also, Jennifer drives an electric car charged by their solar power. No longer fringe, Goat Dairy products are sought out because its easily digestible, lactose friendly, and delicious. As this business began to grow, customers pushed Redwood Hill Farm to make completely lactose-free Dairy Products giving birth to a whole new company.
Green Valley Organics: Adding Lactose-Free Company to the family
Green Valley Organic follows the path of its sister company, (Redwood Hill Farm) by sourcing from Certified Organic and Humane Certified Cows from neighboring Dairies. They produce Yogurt, Kefir, Sour Cream and just launched the first lactose-free Cream Cheese. Like Redwood Hill Farm, products are available nationwide.
Marin French Cheese: Rooted in the Community
In the rural and fertile part of Sonoma County, it is home to the oldest running Cheese Company in the United States. Marin French Cheese makes French Style, soft-ripened Cow Milk Cheeses. This 150 year old Cheese Company has land that has remained in the same family for 125 years and after that, it was run by 2 other families in the last 25 years. The Thompson family used to have their own cows grazing on 700 acres of land, but in the 1930’s, farms hit hard times and they sold their herd. The Thompsons concentrated on cheese making by sourcing their milk from neighboring Dairies that were no further than 15 miles away. To this very day, all their milk sourced locally.
These traditions of sustainability, animal care, and being good stewards of the land are good practices that remain apart of the Marin French Cheese culture. In January 2015, Marin French Cheese was honored by the Good Foods Awards for their fresh unripened Brie, a Breakfast Cheese that has been a stable of their brand for over 100 years. Through working with local Dairies that produce “happy cows,” they are able to buy the highest quality milk for cheese making. These dairies are committed to their cow’s nutrition and animal welfare by factoring in the footage for each cow during its life; animals roam on the beautiful Marin County hills, which come through naturally in the flavors of the cheeses that Marin French Cheese produces.
Over the last five years, Marin French Cheese has started to reintroduce diversity to their 700 acre ranch with partners, like: pig farmers, organic row crops, beekeepers (the honey can be found at the retail store), and allowing neighboring ranches to use the land for grazing.
As an establishment in the community, Marin French Cheese continues to give back by supporting the next generation. They encourage healthy eating through donations to the North Bay Children’s Center for preschooler’s nutrition, and are supporters of MALT easements (Marin Agricultural Land Trust), even though they are not a recipient of funds.
Marin French Cheese at 150 years old remains grounded in tradition, yet looks forward to their continuing passion as a strong player in the bustling American artisan cheese industry.
Califia Farms: Alternative Dairy Good Practices
Packaging up this dairy focused blog, Califia Farms is a plant-based and a dairy alternative, which produces almond milks, citrus juices, aguas frescas, and iced coffees. Califia was founded in partnership with Sun Pacific, the maker of Cuties, in order to use leftover products to start a line of tangerine juice. Founder of Odwalla, Greg Steltenpohl, created Califia to serve non-GMO, California plant-based drinks. They have recently launched a line of creamers – original, Pecan-Caramel, Vanilla, and Hazelnut as a tastier and healthier alternative to artificial pre-existing options.
Beyond the product, Califia is also on the sustainability bandwagon. Their manufacturing facility in Bakersfield reuses water, repurposes 90% of their byproducts, and 100% of their packaging is recycled and recyclable. Their CEO, Greg Steltenpohl, is an advocate for Almond farmers cooperatives and sits on the Almond Board. Califia is a big supporter of the Xerces Society, a non-profit for nurturing bee diversity and conservation.
In the near future, Califia will be launching a line of cold brewed coffee, and relaunching protein almond milk with sprouted brown rice and pea protein mix. They also hope to bring organic products to the marketplace soon.
Dairy and Alternative for Good
Turns out Dairy good practices have been part of the fabric of farm and ranch life for generations. Although the show has ended, more new specialty food items will be lining store shelves soon and the consumer gets to decide what will be the trendy new foods for 2015. Next blog will focus and highlight more food businesses providing greater good(s) and practices.
See our Pinterest Board of the 2015 Winter Fancy Food Show.
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GMO Research collaborates with EK2A & InsightXplorer to launch new service brand “Engagement Lab”
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TOKYO, JAPAN –Exactrelease– 21 December 2020 – Leading online research solution platform GMO Research, in partnership with research consultancy Easy Key 2 Asia (EK2A) and InsightXplorer Limited, has rolled out a new initiative to engage consumers in Asia. With a scientific approach, Engagement Lab provides engagement as a service (EaaS) that aims to decode the consumer journey and generate actionable insights, empowering brands to drive success in markets across Asia.
With growing demand and pressure for consumer data privacy, there is increased legislation in this aspect, making it harder for businesses to access consumer data. Frustrated with spam and excessive advertising, consumers are fighting to regain control over their digital life and retain privacy. All these have resulted in the fragmentation of consumer data, making it harder to access and decode the digital life of consumers.
Engagement Lab seeks to address these challenges through a permission-based consumer panel where consumers willingly opt in and get compensated for their engagement. This scientific approach towards engagement involves leveraging data to decode the consumer journey and derive actionable insights that can help drive success in each stage of product or service development. This is a highly scalable solution that is complementary to any existing marketing efforts and can be replicated across multiple markets in Asia.
Engagement Lab offers 4 strategic tools to help brands engage with their target audience:
1. Engagement Insights — insights, data and reports on decoding the consumer journey
2. Engagement Advisory — consulting services on strategy and crisis response
3. Engagement Testing — real time testing of concepts, messages and market movements
4. Engagement Outreach — consumer co-created ideas and content for wider sharing
With the help of GMO’s Asia Cloud Panel, which consists of over 36 million online consumer panellists across 15 APAC markets, Engagement Lab is able to leverage this scientific approach to help clients drive success, position for COVID-19 recovery and scale across Asia in a very short space of time.
URL: https://engagement.z.com/
Takashi Ito, CGO (Chief Global Officer) of GMO Research, Inc., comments: “APAC is certainly a diversified market that is impossible to comprehend at a glance, and it has become even more so with the impact of COVID-19. We hope that Engagement Lab can capture people ‘in the moment’ and help clients engage their targeted audience in APAC through our lenses of insight.”
“We are excited to launch Engagement Lab where we proactively study key industry issues, understand consumer changes and the perspectives of micro-influencers for various markets. We hope that the service will provide decision makers with timely insights and ideas on how they can better engage customers in this ever-changing environment,” says Tatt Chen, CEO of EK2A.
We would love the opportunity to discuss your needs. Get in touch and let us brainstorm how we can help you succeed and grow.
About GMO Research
GMO Research offers an online research solution platform that allows access to a multi-panel and multi-country online network, Asia Cloud Panel. While constantly expanding its reach in Asia and globally, Asia Cloud Panel currently consists of over 36 million online consumer panellists, ranging from consumers to CEOs, across 15 APAC markets. GMO Research is part of and backed by GMO Internet Group, one of the largest internet conglomerates in Japan, specialising in a number of internet-related technologies. GMO Internet Group is an Internet service industry leader, developing and operating Japan’s most widely used domain, hosting & cloud, ecommerce, security, and payment solutions. The Group also includes the online FX trading platform, as well as online advertising, Internet media, and cryptocurrency related services.
To find out more about GMO Research, visit: https://gmo-research.com
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December 31st, 2020 / December 31st, 2020
People queue up outside the main post office on Mohamed Bouazizi Square, its facade showing a picture of Bouazizi, in the center of the town of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia on October 27, 2020. Photo: Fethi Belaid / AFP
By: Mat Nashed
History books often recount the deeds of evil or heroic men to explain the most defining moments of the past. These narratives tend to oversimplify complex events and foster an elementary understanding of world affairs, yet remembering the Jasmine Revolution is a notable exception.
On December 17, 2010, Tunisian police confiscated the scales of Mohamad Bouazizi for working as a street vendor without a permit. Bouazizi, 26, was already struggling to support his mother and six siblings and was often forced to sacrifice his daily profit to pay bribes to the police. But on this day, he tried to salvage his earnings by requesting to see the governor in the town of Sidi Bouzid. When the governor refused to see him, Bouazizi set himself on fire.
Bouazizi’s self-immolation triggered a popular uproar in Tunisia and an awakening throughout the Arab world. After weeks of protests, Tunisia’s dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia on January 14, 2011. The news sparked a domino effect that saw popular protests erupt in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, and Syria. The Arab world would never be the same again.
For decades, discontent was simmering due to rampant corruption, state repression, foreign meddling, and extremism. In retrospect, these collective grievances formed a ticking time bomb. Bouazizi simply lit the match.
Ten years later, only Tunisia has managed to transition to democracy. The other nations from the ‘Arab Spring’ either failed to dislodge authoritarian regimes or spiralled into civil war. Casual observers now refer to Tunisia as the lone success story in an otherwise tumultuous region.
That framing is partly true. Unlike Egypt, the country benefits from a small apolitical military that doesn’t harbor intentions to sabotage the democratic process. Tunisia also doesn’t possess an abundance of natural resources compared to Libya – a factor that keeps Tunis from becoming a battleground for competing global powers.
Despite these advantages, Tunisia also deserves credit. Its political class, powerful unions and civil society actors engaged in constructive dialogue to save the democratic process. Social tensions and mass protests particularly risked derailing the transition after two liberal politicians were assassinated by jihadists in 2013. Thankfully, cooler heads prevailed.
Tunisia is now a democracy, yet a decade of political paralysis has failed to address the economic grievances that compelled Bouazizi to light himself on fire. The vast disparity in wealth between the coast and interior remains a pressing concern. The latter is traditionally reliant on contraband trade from Algeria and Libya to support swathes of the population due to the lack of jobs in the formal sector.
During the rule of Ben Ali, the government allowed select cartels to control much of the contraband market. But his ouster allowed numerous players to profit from cross border trade, including dubious groups involved in weapon and drug smuggling.
Libya’s porous borders thus pose an acute security threat to Tunis. That was clear following the series of terrorist attacks against tourists and locals in 2015. The scariest attack transpired the following year on March 7, 2016 in the southern Tunisian town of Ben Geurdane. That day, Tunisian militants aligned with the Islamic State group tried to seize the town by attacking military and police posts. They were eventually fended off by Tunisia’s fragile security forces. Authorities were unaware if the militants had returned from fighting in Libya, or from other regional conflicts such as Iraq and Syria.
Either way, the home-grown jihadist threat coupled with the proliferation of militias in Libya prompted Tunis to crackdown on smuggling routes. The Tunisian government even tried to boost its security by digging a massive ditch along half of the country’s 500-kilometer border with Libya. This security measure closed off several smuggling routes and exasperated the economic woes in the interior. The consequences of the counter-terrorism measures have devastated the economy, prompting more Tunisians to join extremist groups, migrate abroad, or simply romanticize the days of Ben Ali’s regime.
The irony is distressing. In 2011, only 8% of Tunisians thought that Ben Ali’s downfall was a loss for the country, while 12% expressed a preference for an autocratic leader. But after years of political paralysis, a growing number of Tunisians believe that democracy is ineffective in bringing the interior out of poverty.
These counter-revolutionary sentiments have made reactionary personalities more appealing for Tunisians. The rhetoric of Abir Moussi — a former ruling party official in the Ben Ali dictatorship – is particularly worrying. Moussi is now an opposition leader for the Free Destourian Party (PDL), which lead public opinion polls last November even though it only holds 17 out of 217 parliamentary seats.
Moussi is renown for making controversial statements and for demonizing the moderate Islamist Party Ennahda, which she blames them for the country’s economic woes. She also engages in revisionism by claiming that Ben Ali’s regime was the victim of a ‘plot’ to destabilize Tunisia.
To counter the creeping nostalgia for Ben Ali’s regime, Tunisia’s political class has to find a way to improve the economy. Doing so may require Tunis to closely cooperate with Libya’s internationally recognized government in the capital of Tripoli, according to Hamza Meddeb, a non-resident scholar at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center.
Tunisia has tried to remain neutral by avoiding close cooperation with either government entity in Libya. But Meddeb argues that the Tripoli based government and Tunis should establish a free trade zone that straddles their shared border. That would enable authorities to better monitor the goods passing into Tunisia, while giving merchants security and confidence to engage in contraband trade.
“Neutrality need not mean passivity, and it has become clear that even if the GNA fails to bring all of Libya under its control, no group will dislodge it from its position as the internationally recognized, main power broker in the western half of the country,” writes Meddeb.
Equally important, he notes, is for the government to encourage Tunisian civil society to build strong relations with Libyan counterparts that have traditionally cooperated in the contraband economy.
However, Tunisia’s economic forecast doesn’t look bright even if these recommendations are swiftly adopted. The country is facing historic economic woes, spawned by the coronavirus pandemic.
The global crisis prompted Tunisia to accept a $745 million loan from the International Monetary Fund to balance its budget and fight the coronavirus. The loan is vital for Tunisia’s long-term prosperity, but critics fear that the money is conditioned on uncompromising austerity measures that will punish the poor once the pandemic subsides. Time will tell if cuts to provisions and subsidies pushes the population over the edge.
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That’s the reason Joe Burrow gave after announcing his intention to leave the Ohio State. The former Ohio Mr. Football is from The Buckeye State, but he wasn’t given the chance to play under head coach Urban Meyer. Burrow only needed one chance, and all he did was become the most prolific quarterback college football has ever seen.
LSU quarterback Joe Burrow broke damn near every record the book has to offer in a dominant senior season. No matter what defense opposed him, Baton Rouge’s favorite adopted son cooked them like a German rabbit stew. Game after game, just when you thought Burrow might slow down, he just kept on going. Memories of a landslide victory to win the Heisman Trophy, an undefeated season, College Football Playoff National Championship Game victory, and likely becoming the first overall NFL Draft pick will live on through the records he broke this season.
Joe Burrow isn’t just the only quarterback in SEC history to throw for more than 4,000 passing yards and 40 touchdowns in one season. With 60 passing touchdowns in a season and 65 total touchdowns responsible for in a season — his 76.3 completion percentage is the also second-highest ever — he set conference and FBS marks that may go untouched for years.
Oh, and he was the only player to eclipse 6,000 yards of total offense in one season.
Here’s how LSU’s Joe Burrow became the most-prolific player in history:
Joe Burrow’s Single-Season Records
Georgia Southern: 5 TDs
Burrow’s first game, a 55-3 romp over the Eagles, saw him throw more touchdown passes (5) than incompletions (4). It was also the last time he’d throw for less than 300 yards…
Texas: 4 TDs
College GameDay was on location in Austin, but LSU flexed its muscles and left the Longhorns in the dust. Burrow threw for a career-high 471 yards as Justin Jefferson, Ja’Marr Chase and Terrance Marshall Jr. all racked up over 100 receiving yards.
Northwestern State: 3 TDs
Yes, Burrow did score his first touchdown on the ground in a 65-14 blowout. No, LSU was not challenged at all.
Vanderbilt: 6 TDs
The Commodores had no answers on their home turf, as Burrow showed out for an LSU-record six touchdown passes, four of which went to Chase. Don’t worry, that school record wouldn’t last either…
Utah State: 6 TDs
The Aggies fell victim to a 600-yard day by LSU’s offense. Burrow threw for five touchdowns, scored his second rushing touchdown of the season, and moved the Tigers to 5-0 on the year.
Florida: 3 TDs
The Gators offered the first, major SEC challenge for the Tigers. This game was tied at 28 mid-way through the third quarter before 14 unanswered points by LSU put it away. Burrow also matched his season-high 87.5 completion percentage, finishing the day 21-of-24.
Mississippi State: 4 TDs
LSU’s first SEC West division opponent actually held LSU to 413 total yards, but still couldn’t stop the avalanche (or Joe’s ass from falling out). Burrow’s 327 passing yards and four touchdown tosses put this one away by the third quarter.
Auburn: 2 TDs
Statistically, this was Burrow’s worst performance of the year. His 143.5 passing efficiency rating was his worst of the season, which says something considering he completed 32 of 42 passes and had 352 yards of total offense. LSU hung on for a 23-20 win and moved to 8-0.
Alabama: 3 TDs
When the moment was brightest, Burrow delivered. The Crimson Tide couldn’t slow him at all as he’d run for a season-high 64 yards and toss three more TDs. Clyde Edwards-Helaire had a monster day with 180 scrimmage yards and four total touchdowns.
Ole Miss: 5 TDs
The Rebels’ offense hung around, dropping 614 yards on the Tigers, but LSU was absolutely sick. They amassed 716 total yards, with 489 coming on Burrow’s arm. He did toss two interceptions, but November 16 was the last time he’d turn the ball over all season…
Arkansas: 3 TDs
You have to feel bad for the Razorbacks. They were losing 56-6 in the fourth quarter before mustering two late scores of their own. Burrow was already yucking it up on the bench at that point.
Texas A&M: 3 TDs
Another week, another overwhelmed SEC West opponent. Jimbo Fisher’s squad wasn’t ready for this Senior Night onslaught, surrendering 50 points as LSU avenged a historic seven overtime loss and finished the regular season in style.
Georgia: 4 TDs
In the SEC Championship Game, the Bulldogs defense couldn’t contain a 349-yard passing day for Burrow. He cemented his Heisman Trophy campaign with a conference title, and even caught his own pass for a 16-yard gain. Things were getting out of control at this point.
Oklahoma: 8 TDs
Holy. Shit. No one really gave the Sooners a chance in the Peach Bowl semifinal game, especially considering Jalen Hurts’ electric final season. But for Joe Burrow go out, throw for a season-high 493 passing yards and seven first-half touchdowns? If you thought LSU was scary before, this game proved how dangerous they really were with the Heisman Trophy winner gaining even more confidence in Louisiana.
Clemson: 6 TDs
Record breaking time. The Tigers had answers for Burrow and company early in the CFP title game, but once they started rolling, there was no way the LSU train was slowing down on Monday night. Dabo Swinney’s defense had allowed at least 20 points only twice all season. LSU doubled that, winning 42-25.
Burrow’s 59th TD pass — a 4-yard strike to Thaddeus Moss — was also his 64th total touchdown responsible for this season, breaking two records previously held by Hawaii’s Colt Brennan.
For good measure, Burrow connected with Terrance Marshall Jr. in the fourth quarter to secure the FBS passing touchdown record (60) and total touchdown record (65).
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Even in today’s pass-happy football, 60 touchdown passes is absolutely absurd. The only quarterback in major college football to even get close this season was Washington State’s Anthony Gordon. In an air-raid offense, Gordon threw 48 in two fewer games.
Burrow’s season isn’t just historic; it’s transcendent. The LSU superstar did something no one has ever done before, and he did it leading the best team in college football. It might be years before any player comes close to these marks, so get used to seeing “Joe Burrow” at the top of college football’s record book for a long, long time.
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DeAngelo Williams Set To Return As Stewart, Tolbert Go Down
September 22, 2014 by Stefan St. Romain
Carolina Panthers RB DeAngelo Williams is set to return to action next week, having missed his team's previous two games with a thigh injury.
The news comes just at the right time, as both Jonathan Stewart and Mike Tolbert are the latest Panthers' backs to go down with injuries. Stewart suffered a sprained knee in last night's 37-19 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, while Tolbert sustained a hairline fracture to his right leg. The pair had combined for 55 yards gained on 11 carries, with Stewart handling the brunt of the work in Williams' absence.
Today, coach Ron Rivera expressed confidence that Williams would be available for the team's week 4 matchup against the Baltimore Ravens, and the veteran will be needed as the Panthers' backfield is suddenly short of bodies. Reserve Fozzy Whittaker was another inactive for last night's game having battled a thigh injury of his own throughout the week. Williams likely could have played in an emergency scenario, but the Panthers wisely chose to err on the side of caution, taking a similar stance to their approach with QB Cam Newton, who missed week 1 with a rib injury he suffered in the preseason. DeAngelo Williams is set for a timely return, as both Jonathan Stewart and Mike Tolbert are set to miss at least 1 game.
Even if Williams is able to play next weekend, it is likely that Carolina will entertain the thought of bringing in a veteran free agent back to add to the mix. Both Stewart and Tolbert will likely be sidelined at least a game, if not more, leaving only Williams, Whittaker and former practice squad player Darrin Reaves as available options.
The team traded Kenjon Barner to Philadelphia last month, but the former Oregon man ultimately landed on the Eagles' reserve/injured list before being waived with an injury settlement. Barner knows the Panthers' system, but fits the profile of a return man and a scat back, rather than a potential every-down mail carrier in the mold of a Williams or Stewart.
Some other notable veteran free agent tailbacks currently on the street include the likes of BenJarvus Green-Ellis, Tashard Choice, Michael Bush, Brian Leonard, La'Rod Stephens-Howling and Mikel Leshoure.
Look for Carolina to bring in at least a couple of players for a workout as soon as today.
Meanwhile, in regards to DeAngelo Williams' expected return, the veteran could be a decent fantasy option for week 4, though he will be facing a stout Ravens defense that is surrendering just under 90 yards per game on the ground. Nevertheless, it is looking likely that Carolina will have to ride Williams hard against the Ravens next week, even if they do elect to sign another back. With Carolina's receiving corps also knicked up, Williams could stand to see added work in the passing game.
If you are in need of a RB3 or FLEX option heading into week 4, DeAngelo Williams could be worth a look. Keep an eye on the transaction wire to see if the Panthers do, indeed, opt to bring in a free agent off the street. Even if they do, Williams should still have the opportunity to absorb quite the workload heading into week 4.
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Cloth in West African History (2006)
By: Colleen E. Kriger
In this holistic approach to the study of textiles and their makers, Colleen Kriger charts the role cotton has played in commercial, community, and labor settings in West Africa. By paying close attention to the details of how people made, exchanged, and wore cotton cloth from before industrialization in Europe to the twentieth century, she is able to demonstrate some of the cultural effects of Africa’s long involvement in trading contacts with Muslim societies and with Europe. Cloth in West African History thus offers a fresh perspective on the history of the region and on the local, regional, and global processes that shaped it. A variety of readers will find its account and insights into the African past and culture valuable, and will appreciate the connections made between the local concerns of small-scale weavers in African villages, the emergence of an indigenous textile industry, and its integration into international networks.
Categories: 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, Africa, Global Fashion, Survey Textbooks
Lanham : AltaMira Press, ©2006
Format xviii, 214 pages, 4 pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
ISBN : 0759104212 0759104220
OCLC : 61499893 ocm61499893
Chapter 1: Introduction: Cloth in History
Chapter 2: From Kings and Priests to Brides
Chapter 3: Muslim Garments and the Morality of Dress
Chapter 4: The Worlds of Indigo Blue
Chapter 5: Conclusions: Textiles, Culture, and Historical Change
Colleen E. Kriger is professor of history at University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
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Ogbomo, Onaiwu W. “Colleen E. Kriger, Cloth in West African History. Foreword by Graham Connah. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press, 2006. ISBN: 978-0-7591-0421-1 (Hbk.); 978-0-7591-0422-8 (Pbk.). $80.00 (Hbk.); $32.95 (Pbk.).” Itinerario 31, no. 2 (2007): 155–57. doi:10.1017/S0165115300000760.
Rovine, Victoria L. Review of Cloth in West African History. African Studies Review 50, no. 3 (2007): 169-171. doi:10.1353/arw.2008.0007.
Thomson, Madia (2007) “Cloth in West African History,” African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter: Vol. 10 : Iss. 1 , Article 27. Available at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/adan/vol10/iss1/27
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Legal forms of gambling in the U.S. state of North Carolina include the North Carolina Education Lottery, two Indian casinos, charitable bingo and raffles, and.
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North Carolina's gambling laws are relatively strict and prohibit most forms of gambling with the exception of casinos on Indian reservations.
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Second, charitable gambling includes bingo, though with strict limitations on both the frequency and the prizes which can be offered. Interestingly the North Carolina laws do not distinguish between organizers of games and players. Compare with other States, the penalty seems mild some states make these offenses a Felony. Note that both player and operator are covered in this definition. Bingo takes several forms, including a high-stakes bingo parlor on Cherokee Indian land. This is currently the only legal gambling venue in the entire State. While there is nothing specifically mentioning internet gambling, I would think that any legal challenge based on this would quickly result in some anti-internet laws, so the status quo is probably the best option. Currently, both would be put on misdemeanor charges for their first offenses. There have been some flirtations with horse and greyhound racing, however, it is a mix of bingo and a single tribal casino which keeps gambling alive in this State. Things get more detailed after that, with the key passage on gambling from the North Carolina Statutes, plus a legal timeline of changes to the gambling laws. Live Poker: Yes, though only in the native casino. Eventually, all forms of gambling were simply made illegal. The way I look at the North Carolina gambling laws is that it is best to keep quiet, otherwise whatever you mention might be the format banned next! Online Poker: No, it is not thought that this State are in any hurry to join the list of States offering legal poker games given their general anti-gambling stance. There have been other games in this State including Video Poker, which was only recently phased out after years of legal wrangling. First, high-stakes bingo, which is run by the Cherokee Tribe. This was decreased to 40 shillings a day, and by was down to 5 shillings. There was a patchwork of laws on this subject over the next 30 years, until in a single state-wide law brought bingo games under the jurisdiction of the Department of Revenue. There had been gradual moves to phase out these machines for several years leading up to this. First below, I have covered the rich history of gambling crack-downs in this State, in quick-fire fashion. This got a big boost in , when a second compact was negotiated allowing table games to be added. Sports Betting: No, not even on-track Pari-Mutuel betting is allowed, racing fans do travel to neighboring States to enjoy this. Between their older statutes, newer prohibitions, court presidents and apparent motivation to crack-down on anything new — you would have to conclude that the NC Statutes are far from gambling-friendly. All that remains outside of the reservation is a little charity gaming, a lottery and some very low-stakes bingo games. Online Casinos: No, there is nothing in the laws which explicitly outlaw internet games, however, as in other States , existing gambling laws are assumed to cover this area. Bingo Games: Yes, there are 3 kinds of Bingo games. What little gambling there is takes place in one big casino on Tribal land. When this did not work out they went the taxation route instead, targeting playing cards and gaming tables. There are some cross border opportunities for residents, and there are no known prosecutions for playing online gambling games — though playing a game from inside North Carolina would be considered illegal whatever the method.{/INSERTKEYS}{/PARAGRAPH} Anyone hoping for improvements will probably be disappointed — the track record of this State is one of progressive crack-downs on all forms of gambling, rather than progressive liberalization of their gambling laws. This now includes inter-State games including the PowerBall. These are the subject of ongoing legal battles — though if the history of this State is anything to go by, they will also be outlawed soon. {PARAGRAPH}{INSERTKEYS}North Carolina is one of the least gambling-friendly States in terms of legislation. Internet Sweepstakes have also proven to be a thorny issue. However they do escalate with repeat offences.
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Wall St higher, Fed soothes economy fears
Wall Street has closed higher following an announcement by the US Federal Reserve regarding its corporate bond purchasing program that boosted investor confidence, which had been wavering amid a spike in new COVID-19 cases.
All three major US stock indexes reversed losses in afternoon trading, following the Fed's decision to apply an indexing approach to its secondary market corporate credit facility to create a more diversified portfolio.
Robert Pavlik, chief investment strategist, senior portfolio manager at SlateStone Wealth LLC in New York, said investors had responded to the Fed's move.
"No doubt the market liked it: Who doesn't like more cake and ice cream?" he said.
"It fuels traders to buy individual stocks and take on higher risk because the Fed has backstopped the bond market and kept a tighter lid on interest rates."
A flood of liquidity in the form of fiscal and economic stimulus, along with uneven but steady re-openings of state and local economies, sparked a remarkable rally in the stock market since its late-March trough.
Gains were led by cyclical stocks, with S&P 500 financials enjoying the day's biggest percentage gains.
The S&P 500 Banking index rose 1.6 per cent on Monday.
"The banks probably have a bunch of corporate debt on their balance sheets and now there's a buyer for it," Pavlik added.
"Someone's going to be buying those bonds because the Fed is telling them it's OK."
But surging new cases of COVID-19 in China, where the pandemic originated, prompted the reintroduction of containment measures, and record hospitalisations in several US states dampened investor risk appetite.
On the flipside, an uptick in China's factory output and a much better-than-expected Empire State manufacturing report gave evidence the pandemic-hobbled global economy was on the road to recovery.
Earlier, the US Federal Reserve announced it had opened registration for its Main Street Lending program to help businesses weather the storm of mandated lockdowns.
Last week, the central bank provided its first pandemic era outlook, and market participants will be closely following Fed Chair Jerome Powell's testimony this week before Congress for details on the central bank's sombre economic projections.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 157.62 points, or 0.62 per cent, to 25,763.16, the S&P 500 gained 25.28 points, or 0.83 per cent, to 3,066.59 and the Nasdaq Composite added 137.22 points, or 1.43 per cent, to 9,726.02.
All 11 major sectors of the S&P 500 closed in the black, led by financials and consumer staples.
Drugmaker Moderna gained 7.4 per cent following a report that Israel is in advanced talks to buy its coronavirus vaccine.
Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 1.97-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 2.69-to-1 ratio favoured advancers.
The S&P 500 posted no new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 46 new highs and 10 new lows.
Volume on US exchanges was 12.31 billion shares, compared with the 12.94 billion average over the last 20 trading days.
Stocks, oil pressured amid 2nd wave fears
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Researching and developing our project brings a lot of interesting features, blog posts, videos and other material our way. And of course we want to share as much of this as possible, alongside the original material that Finding Blake is producing. Explore the growing resource below — our most recent additions are at the top of the page — and do let us know of any articles we’ve missed and you’d like to share: use the Contact page.
Inevitably, this is only a sample of what’s going on. Many of the organisations and people featured in our More Resources pages have their own archive, so do check out their content and sign up to their newsletters.
In other parts of A Blakean Archive, you can keep up with:
Finding Blake’s blog posts – contributions from project members and other creative minds.
Finding Blake’s films – interviews with poets, artists, scholars and many others about their relationship with Blake, the making and siting of Blake’s new gravestone, and more.
recent events on aspects of Blake’s life, work and relevance.
The four-fold imagination
Aeon magazine published an excellent essay by psychotherapist and writer Mark Vernon, discussing Blake’s unique four-fold vision and how we need to foster his state of mind. “At the time,” Vernon writes. “there were few with the eyes to see and ears to hear him. The industrial age was booming, manifesting the insights of the scientific revolution. It was a tangibly, visibly changing society, fostering an almost irresistible focus on the physical aspects of reality.” And of course this restricted view of the world dominates even more in our own times, to the great cost of people and planet. “Eternity likewise casts a different light on contemporary concerns about ecological devastation. It shows that the material world alone is too small for us. Our capacity for transcendence means that we are creatures of infinity. We can notice ‘Heaven in a Wild Flower’ and ‘Eternity in an hour’, though the perception should also be a warning; as Blake stressed: ‘More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul, less than All cannot satisfy Man.’ His vision for ecology is, therefore, not one of managed exploitation (Ulro), managed consumption (Generation), or even managed cooperation (Beulah), but instead one aimed at radically extending awareness of the ecologies of which we’re a part. It means embracing not just the environments and organisms studied by the natural sciences but the divine intelligences appreciated by the visionaries, plus a panoply of gods, spirits and daemons that our ancestors took as read.”
In the Footsteps of William Blake
The Idler featured a short piece on one the London walks that poet and psychogeographer Niall McDevitt leads. “A warm, balmy afternoon, the threat of a thunderstorm looming. We meet the golden-shoed McDevitt at the Holly Bush pub in Hampstead, ready for our lesson in Blakeian alchemy. Our main destination on this two-hour walk: the farmhouse home of Blake’s great friend and patron, the painter John Linnell. We walk at a pace, on from Holly Hill to Holly Mount, winding our way around Hampstead’s pretty lanes. First stop is painter George Romney’s House – Blake and Romney connected, we are told, through the art world and their support of the French Revolution. Then onto the childhood home of visionary poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in leafy Oak Hill.”
Patti Smith & The Doors – their celebration of William Blake’s enduring significance
Australian teacher Michael Griffiths posts a wealth of interesting articles on his site Literature and Life, including a series devoted to William Blake. In this piece, he introduces his recent class on the influence of Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell on rock icons Patti Smith, The Doors and others — and then sets a series of creative and critical challenges for his students.
A Tombstone for a Long Neglected Grave
Comedian Will Franken speaks at the unveiling Credit: Victoria Jones/PA
Sheldon Goodman — “a qualified City of Westminster Guide whose passion is the past, our changing landscape and what went on before us” — edits the Cemetery Club website and he was among the crowd celebrating the unveiling of the new gravestone for William Blake on 12th August. In this very interesting blog post, he says “it’s a complete testament to the artistry of William Blake, that his name has endured down the years to the point that one hundred and ninety-one years after his death, he can still boast a funeral with a decent turn out like the one I bore witness to. The peculiarity is, that as I took my place amongst the many, I wondered how many people were aware of the exact same thing happening seventy one years ago, when the exact location of Blake’s grave was rediscovered – not by Carol and Luis Garrido as it was recently, but by Reverend George McNeal, of Wesley’s Chapel over the road, in 1927. Even he wasn’t the first to find it – Herbert Jenkins, a nineteenth-century publisher, is also one to have found Blake from the unmarked grave. Every century we seem to lose where Blake is, for one reason or another. That will, happily, no longer happen.”
William Blake is getting a new gravestone after enthusiasts work out exactly where he is buried
Writing in i News in July 2018, Florence Snead reports on the Blake Society’s efforts to locate and now mark the actual burial place of William Blake. “It is now more than ten years since two members took it upon themselves to pinpoint exactly where Blake was buried by pouring through archives and heading into the cemetery with tape measures … Finding the grave was “truly wonderful”, says (Blake Society Trustee) Gareth Sturdy, “because Blake means an awful lot of things to an awful lot of people. “There are seven people in there because when he died, he died in poverty and lay in an unmarked spot. Subsequently other people were just put in on top of him. “It was very moving to find where his remains are and begin the long process of being able to acknowledge one of Britain’s most important poets.” Donations large and small have helped the group raise the necessary funds, with eminent stone-cutter Lida Cardozo drafted in to craft the memorial.
Urban shaman and psychogeographer
Illustration to Robert Blair’s The Grave William Blake, 1805
Poet and psychogeographer Niall McDevitt offers a concise and powerful 10-point guide to the uniqueness and importance of William Blake for us in the twenty-first century with this 2009 posting for BBC London.
McDevitt describes Blake as “the first urban shaman of the first industrial city. He is London’s ‘technician of the sacred’, a magican and healer as well as poet.”
Blake is an Anglo-Celtic poet who is always returning Britain to its ancient roots in Albion, its Celtic heritage. For him, the 'bard' is the native equivalent of the Jewish prophet and is anti-authoritarian.
Blake's level of compassion for all human beings and for all living creatures is unparalleled in English poetry. His tenderness of soul is huge, as is his anger when he witnesses any type of social injustice
Drawing on ancient magic, philosophy and symbolism, he is trying to teach us how to align the four aspects of our being: intellect, emotion, intuition and sensation. Until we do this, we will not be whole.
William Blake and Beyond
In this fascinating two part audio interview from New Dimensions Radio, America poet Robert Bly shares his personal explorations of Blake, including the relevance of Blake’s ideas of Fourfold Vision and the Four Zoas of creative consciousness. Bly also performs some of his own poems.
‘No accident, no coincidence. Pure synchronicity …’
Paradise Engineering Artwork by Mark Kastner (Galaxian) Image: Return To Disorder © 2018
In this recent Quietus interview by Christian Eede, Scottish producer Galaxian discusses his recent EP release; Paradise Engineering “sees the producer balance serene, otherwordly melodies with the speedy, head-spinning drums he’s showcased so well in countless past releases.” Galaxian also produced the cover art, where the “central erupting volcano represents the internal make-up, annihilation, destruction, consumed in the firmament and chaos giving way to a purifying and cleansing power, unfolding of fertile new ground, paths and inner-awakening.”
Interestingly I wasn't really attuned to these motifs when I chose the volcanic imagery. It was a few weeks after finishing the artwork that I randomly found myself getting into a deep discussion with a quantum physicist about the ground of reality and existence. During that conversation William Blake was mentioned and later the next day I was reading a book about alchemy and it there it spoke of William Blake, inner-volcanoes, the purging and restorative effect of flames and his poem entitled The Gates of Paradise, similar to the title of this EP. I was very struck by this and how I was being led along this route. No accident, no coincidence. Pure synchronicity.
Perspectives: Jah Wobble, musician, on William Blake
In 2009, musician Jah Wobble confessed in this short New Statesman piece that “For years, people were telling me that I’d love William Blake, but I had never felt like poetry related to me.”
When I thought of Blake I thought of 'Jerusalem' and Last Night of the Proms and all that flag-waving, which put me off. Then finally a friend of mine gave me the old tatty Penguin Classics edition of Blake. At the time I was on a pretty heavy spiritual kick and some of the stuff he said really felt like it applied to me, particularly 'The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom' (from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell).
I don’t think anybody really understands Blake. Songs of Innocence and of Experience seems pretty straightforward, but even there if you scratch the surface it gets really heavy. He’s been hijacked by retired colonels in Surrey who think he represents their Albion, and he absolutely doesn’t.
In 1996, Jah Wobble had released his own album of Blake-inspired creations, appropriately called The Inspiration of William Blake. See our Other Blakean Artefacts page for this and other Blake-related music, films and more.
Streets of the imagination
In 2011, in the wake of the summer riots in London and other parts of England, Mike Marqusee wrote this short article for Red Pepper, “the magazine and website of left politics and culture … a socialist publication drawing on feminist, green and libertarian politics.” In it, he takes afresh look at Blake’s poem London — written in the 1790s, in the aftermath of the French Revolution — where the poet “wanders ‘through the charter’d streets/near where the charter’d Thames does flow’,” and “encounters signs of widespread distress. He hears the sound of ‘the mind-forg’d manacles’, the fears and prejudices that keep people in thrall to an unjust social system. Above all, he sees the exploitation of youth: chimney sweeps, soldiers, prostitutes – victims of state, church and commerce, Blake’s tyrannical trinity.”
"Blake called London’s streets ‘charter’d’ because so much of the city’s economic life was subject to ‘charters’ granting exclusive privileges to private corporations. In 1791, they had been denounced by Thomas Paine as ‘aristocratical monopolies’ because of which ‘an Englishman is not free of his own country; every one of those places presents a barrier in his way, and tells him he is not a freeman – that he has no rights.’
In ‘London’ Blake confronts what we would call today a privatised London (even the river), whose ultimate ghastly manifestation is prostitution. ‘But most through midnite streets I hear/The youthful harlot’s curse’ – the contractual commodification of desire, which serves, ironically, to spread sexually transmitted disease. Marriage and prostitution are daringly linked as the twin sides of a pervasive social hypocrisy. The poem ends with the chilling, terrifically compressed image of ‘the marriage hearse’, society’s primary institution damned as deadly.
All this from a walk around London, at that time the world’s largest and fastest-growing city. Nowhere else was there such a convergence of wealth and poverty; nowhere else was the market so ruthlessly dominant."
The Ghost of a Flea by William Blake
In this short essay and series of three short films, artists and curators explore the ideas and images in one of Blake’s most enigmatic images.
Egyptian artist, musician and writer Hassan Khan discusses his relationship with William Blake’s poems and art.
"The Ghost of a Flea was maybe not my absolute favourite (the various infernal torments, the etchings accompanying some of his poems, were perhaps more impressive), but it was one of the more puzzling. Every time I came across it as I flipped a page, I would linger. On one level, I think I took it literally: he had met the ghost of a flea and that was what it looked like to him. With this literalism, for a short period of time, the world made sense. I could read its code in a bus number, a street sign, the way a woman carrying her shopping walked down the street. This was a benevolent paranoia, though, as the world here was not the sum total of the secret intentions of self-serving hungry souls, but rather an affirmation of everyone and everything. From that perspective a flea, of course, has a ghost, and if he does, then William Blake can possibly one afternoon meet that ghost and render it using his magnificent command of form. It was the very form of the painting (as mediated through reproductions in various books at different sizes, resolutions and colour gradings), however, that made this literalism possible. And that is something I could never forget."
To view the films in a larger screen, right click on the image and select ‘open video in new tab’.
In the films, first Tate curator Philippa Simpson and then writer and graphic novel artist Alan Moore reflect on Blake’s career and psychological state whilst painting The Ghost of a Flea. And then curator Martin Myrone explores this and other work of William Blake in Tate Britain’s permanent display.
"Blake is not a very easy artist to interpret. His work deals with strange, personal and often very archaic themes. What I hope is that the Blake room will help reinsert Blake’s role not only in the history of poetry, or the imagination, or Britain’s cultural life, but also as a visual artist."
William Blake: Influence and References in Popular Culture, Literature, Songs, Films, Etc
This essay at The Hypertexts – ‘an on-line poetry journal with a simple goal: to showcase the best poetry, literary prose and art available to us’ – is by American poet Michael Burch and covers a lot of ground. In short sections, Burch gives his view of topics such as: Writers, songwriters [1], artists and movements he has influenced; References to Blake in poetry, literature, art and music; Blake’s continuing influence; Blake and social progress; Blake’s tenderness, passion and intellectual energy; Blake the first Modernist poet/artist, prophet of freedom and tolerance, child advocate, Abolitionist, first poet of equality, mystic, genius anarchist, satanist [2]…
[1] "According to John Lennon's FBI files, when the 'fantastically nervous' Beatles met Bob Dylan for the first time, there was an uncomfortable initial silence, broken by Lennon snarling an insult at Allen Ginsburg. But the unperturbed Beat poet plopped himself down in Lennon's lap, looked up and asked him, 'Have you ever read William Blake, young man?' Lennon, in his best 'Liverpudlian deadpan' replied, 'Never heard of the man.' But his wife Cynthia chided him, 'Oh, John, stop lying!' and that 'broke the ice.'"
[2] "While Blake has been accused of being a 'Satanist,' I don't think that's strictly true. Blake was so strongly opposed to the errors of orthodox Christianity that he believed rebellion was necessary. And he seemed to believe, as many mystics do, in the 'inner light' or the 'Christ within.' He may have seen man as both Christ and Satan, with Christ representing purity and innocence, and Satan representing experience."
A letter from the young William Blake in defence of imagination & Imagination as the pillar of the spirit
The website of Faena Aleph – ‘a digital magazine that acts as an agent of that precise, perhaps omnipresent, moment that triggers inspiration’ – includes two short essays on William Blake and imagination. In A letter from the young William Blake in defence of imagination (12/5/17), Maria de Gonzales de Leon says:
"For William Blake, imagination represented the pillar of the spirit, an essential part of being human and an inexhaustible source of beauty. The imagination’s capacity to transcend and diminish the finitude of our nature could only, for Blake, result from a contact with nobility and truth. In a letter* ... Blake reveals with his characteristically pristine clarity the precepts that would define his later work and thought."
* Maria mistakenly attributes this letter to Blake when aged just 20 (explaining the title of her essay); in fact though — as a Finding Blake reader pointed out to us (and we should have known all along)! — Blake wrote this letter in 1799, when he was 41. You can see the letter and read more about it in the British Library article.
And the unnamed author of Imagination as the pillar of the spirit (22/8/14) says:
"Perhaps Blake’s most indelible characteristic, aside from the perfect elegance with which he, as a messenger, introduced us to mystical and visionary latitudes, is the bridge he conjured by intertwining two worlds that convention has always made sure are kept apart: innocence and experience, heaven and hell. Although Songs of Innocence and Experience (1789) were written at different moments in his life, they share a common source. One can see signs from both states converging in his poems."
Dandelion Visions & the Nonbifurcated Man
The Blake Fest 2017 site includes this short piece by Mikey Georgeson, introducing his exhibition as part of the festival:
"The central idea of this Blake inspired exhibition is an attempt to marry his fourfold vision with A N Whitehead’s idea of non-bifurcated thinking or 'process reality' ... The bifurcated thinking positions art as an adjunct to scientific reality. Blake, however, recognised that imagination is central to the creation of reality. This is something science is catching up with ... The occidental mind is conditioned to separate the wheat from the chaff. The chaff, in scientific terms is useless stuff. The soul is superfluous to data and therefore useless. It is the dark matter of metaphysical problem solving. The equations don’t add up without it but the rational mind is expert at making the result fit the equation. Blakean imagination is an act of the soul and therefore has been sieved out of our day-to-day model. Instead we are saturated in fantasy and to the rational mind the visions of Blake only make sense as delusions. You don’t need to be a bohemian to feel the hum of the meaning beyond the surface of things but we dismiss the feeling because the machine model analogy has become the default setting and algorithmic analysis the means by which we seek truth."
A Few Notes on Nature Spirits
In the second part (6/12/17) of a two part essay on his Ecosophia site, John Michael Greer quotes William Blake – ‘May God us keep / From single vision and Newton’s sleep!’ – and summarises the ‘four-fold’ vision that Blake subscribed to.
"Single vision - the shrill and dogmatic insistence that real knowledge can only come through the material senses, and must never be understood as anything but the random acts of dead matter and mindless energy in a dead and mindless cosmos - pervades contemporary industrial civilization. It’s because we’re so used to thinking in these terms that we’ve gotten so good at manipulating matter and energy, but it’s also because we’re so used to thinking in these terms that we’ve done such a dismal job of maintaining the balance of the living planet on which our own lives depend ...
You and I, dear reader, are members of the animal kingdom. That means, among many other things, that our material bodies are more completely differentiated from their environment than the bodies of living things that belong to other kingdoms. That doesn’t mean that we’re entirely separate from our environments, not by a long shot; we constantly absorb things from our environments and release other things into our environments, and about ten per cent of our body weight is made up of microbes of various kinds, without which we can’t survive - but unless you use a microscope, it’s fairly easy to figure out where our bodies stop and the environment starts. That’s less true of other living things."
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1 August 2017, 10:14 pm CET
Liam Gillick Esther Schipper / Berlin
Liam Gillick, "Bar “Volvo” II" (detail) (2010). Courtesy the Artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin. Photography by Andrea Rossetti.
Liam Gillick is an expert at suggestion. In “Were People This Dumb Before TV? A Curated Selection from the Graphic Archive 1990–2017” he powers through a series of fonts and graphics, all arranged upon a knotty plywood structure. His wry humor electrifies modern-day political discourse, like a hairdryer in a bathtub; one never quite knows if the result is intended to be fatal or slapstick.
Viewers are left to muse over linguistics and codes that they perpetually reenact and unwittingly circulate in day-to-day life. Gossipy scriptures and slogans (“The juice is a brighter red than in real life”) adorn the freestanding panels amid flitting narratives (“The state becomes a super commune”) and cold euphemisms (“Blown up by a bomb, hidden inside a body, blown up by a bomb”).
The sculptural wooden support for all these slogans is both mildly disorienting and seemingly logical as a structure for compartmentalizing information. The panels display an endless overview of the artist’s graphic materials, including prints, posters, books, magazines covers and inserts. One must navigate the maze-like structure to view the archive in full. Included are works that Gillick has found difficult to place, complete or even locate over the years.
One poster, made for the elections in Britain in 2010, is a single white A3 sheet with “Solidarity! Labour” set in the middle of the page. The domain that organized and distributed this project is no longer viewable online, suggesting an ironically fated failure to enact a better country. Walking through this defeated archive, one can’t help wondering, given that streets are burning only a few hours away in Hamburg, whether the white cube is a place where politics can even exist today. Still, slogans like “Welcome to Hell” — the rallying cry of protesters at the G20 summit — are not so far from Gillick’s own rhetoric.
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Tags: ESG, Family Wealth, investing, wealth management
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For a few years, the wealth advisory and asset management worlds have been captivated by three letters . . . ESG: Environmental, Social, and Governance. ESG has been an exploding trend as investors want to align their personal values with their investments. The principle is that one’s investments can do well by “doing good.” Against that backdrop, asset managers are looking for new criteria to evaluate investment opportunities in the context of ever increasing difficulties in beating indexes over time. To some, ESG is a marketing gambit. To others, it is a framework to unlock greater returns and create positive social impact while doing it. To many, it is somewhere in between.
To help make sense of this phenomenon, I spoke with John Rosenberg who has direct experience in asset management and the ESG world.
John worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and has had a long career in banking and now works as an investment manager at a single family office and manages the LOUGHLIN WATER PARTNERS LP – an investment fund focused on technologies and assets that provide clean water and alternative energy. (Early on, John worked as a ski bum which he declares to be the most honest job on the resume!)
Could you give me some background on ESG Investing? We hear a lot of different terms bandied about such as Sustainable, Impact, ESG, or even SRI. Where did the term come from and how has it evolved?
Are ESG stocks different from other stocks? Is there some particular differentiation? Are the letters all equal?
A few weeks ago marked the 50th Anniversary of the Milton Friedman’s essay on Shareholder Theory where he states that the corporation’s social responsibility should be focused on profits. (The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits). Do you agree with that?
Milton Friedman thought corporations should be focused on profits, not other social responsibility initiatives.
What is the driving theory behind ESG investing? Do you believe it actually promotes virtuous behavior? How do you parse the difference between a company that does many things well, but has a problem underpinning it’s ESG score (i.e. tobacco bonds that fund good causes, but have dubious sources of revenue or a top notch company with an executive with a checkered record?)
Are there data services to evaluate whether or not companies are engaging in responsible behavior? How does one deal with one data service vs another? How much of the analysis is qualitative? How do you get past the “check the box” or “greenwashing” phenomenon?
You have been doing this, in one form, for a while now. What do you think of new entrants to the space?
Jeff Uben, formerly of Value Act, made some comments critical of ESG investors awhile back. What do you think about that? https://www.barrons.com/articles/activist-investor-jeff-ubben-departs-valueact-to-focus-on-esg-51592936937
Do you think we are entering our could enter an ESG Bubble much like every other style of investing that catches on? Are the ESG criteria factorable and therefore quickly assimilated into indexes?
ESG- Fad, Trend, or Is It Here to Stay?
Fun Question.
Additional reading on the pros and cons of ESG in investment performance and the role of corporations and the assimilation of ESG principles.
Morningstar indicates that ESG Funds Outperform Their Indexes
How Strong are the Links between ESG factors and Outperformance?
Wharton: Why ESG Investors are Happy to Settle for Lower Returns
January 2014 Book Review: Lynn Stout’s “The Shareholder Value Myth”
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Workers Will Ask the Supreme Court to Recoup Dues Money
Home health aides were forced to pay $30 million to SEIU
Bill McMorris - December 10, 2018 5:00 AM
Workers seeking to take back millions in forced dues plan on taking their case to the Supreme Court after federal appellate judges rejected their class action suit.
Home health aides were forced to pay more than $30 million to the labor giant Service Employees International Union (SEIU) under an agreement hatched by former governor Rod Blagojevich, who is finishing up a prison sentence for corruption. The Supreme Court declared that arrangement unconstitutional in 2014 because home health aides, many of whom are caring for disabled relatives, did not meet the standard of government employment.
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Several of those aides sought to recoup the money deducted by SEIU Healthcare Illinois & Indiana for several years. Those bids were rejected, but new hope emerged after the Supreme Court ruled in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, & Municipal Employees—a case filed by an Illinois state employee—that forced union dues from government agencies infringed on the First Amendment rights of workers. The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, however, agreed that workers previously bound by forced dues contracts were entitled to take their money back, but said class action suits were not the appropriate venue for doing so.
"We agreed with the putative class that no one could be compelled to pay fair share fees," the court said in a ruling. "Janus does not require a different result on the narrow question presented in our appeal, namely, whether the class-action device is the proper one for the Assistants to use in seeking refunds of fair-share fees."
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which successfully argued the Janus case before the Supreme Court and represents the Illinois healthcare workers, said it will ask the justices to review the 7th Circuit decision. The Supreme Court asked the appellate judges to review its previous dismissal of the class action suit following its June decision. Foundation spokesman Patrick Semmens said the court needs to rectify the multi-million dollar fraud.
"As part of a backroom deal with disgraced former Illinois governor Blagojevich SEIU bosses seized over $32 millions dollars out of the pockets of tens of thousands of home care providers, and this ruling denies the victims of this scheme long overdue justice," Semmens said.
The 7th Circuit did not dispute the Supreme Court's Janus ruling. The three judge panel affirmed a lower court ruling that the workers in the class lacked the similar interests or harm to constitute a class.
"The answer to the central question that remains—how much money each individual class member is entitled to recoup—is particularly ill-suited for class treatment, because it depends on a myriad of factors particular to each individual worker," the 7th Circuit ruled.
The foundation has pursued the class action suit on behalf of home healthcare workers since the Harris decision. The Supreme Court has twice remanded the case to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. Semmens said the appellate justices have erred in their interpretation of federal labor law, and the Supreme Court is needed to clarify the rights of workers who have seen their pay docked under coercive dues schemes. The case could have major implications for union coffers, as government workers in several states have filed class action suits to recover their docked wages.
"Unfortunately another Supreme Court ruling will now likely be needed to force the SEIU to return those funds to the individuals whose rights were violated," Semmens said.
SEIU did not return requests seeking comment about the case.
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Bill McMorris is senior editor for the Washington Free Beacon. He joins the Beacon from the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, where he was managing editor of Old Dominion Watchdog. He was a 2010 Robert Novak Fellow with the Phillips Foundation, where he studied state pension shortfalls. His work has been featured on CNN, Fox News, The Economist, Colbert Report, and numerous print publications and radio stations. He lives in Alexandria, Va, with his wife and three daughters. His Twitter handle is @FBillMcMorris. His email address is mcmorris@freebeacon.com.
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Trump campaign files Wisconsin lawsuit, claiming ‘abuse’ of absentee voting affected 220K ballots
by Brooke Singman | Fox News | Published on December 1, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit to the Wisconsin Supreme Court Tuesday — alleging abuse around the process of absentee voting in the state, which they say affected approximately 220,000 ballots.
The lawsuit was filed Tuesday morning and comes after Wisconsin completed its partial recount — which maintained that Joe Biden won the presidential race in the state — and after Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers formally certified Biden’s victory Monday night.
The Trump campaign’s Wisconsin legal team, led by former Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge Jim Troupis, told Fox News that while the recount in the state did not flip in President Trump’s favor, it gave the campaign the “unique ability” to examine ballots.
“Exposing exactly how the election processes were abused in Wisconsin holds enormous value for this election beyond a victory for President Trump, but the fact is, our state’s electoral votes likely won’t change the overall outcome,” Troupis told Fox News. “Regardless, we’re demonstrating that the results of this election unequivocally ought to be questioned.”
The legal team also said the suit highlights “a lack of transparency and credibility on part of local election officials and their willful disregard of the law on multiple occasions” and added that the state’s laws and processes gave it the “unique ability” to “illustrate this abuse with precision.”
The campaign claims officials on the Wisconsin Election Commission and the City Clerks of Milwaukee and Madison “willfully disregarded the current statute and made conscious efforts to circumvent Wisconsin election law,” resulting in tens of thousands of votes cast “well outside of the bounds of Wisconsin law.”
It also asserts the law was violated “on several occasions” through what it described as altered-certification absentee ballot envelopes, a lack of required absentee ballot applications, unlawful claims of indefinite confinement and voting events called “Democracy in the Park.”
Wisconsin law requires that written absentee ballot request forms must be submitted ahead of the voter casting their absentee ballot, but the Trump campaign claimed that election officials, instead, “accepted ballots without the required absentee applications on file.”
“The Wisconsin State Legislature has explicitly required an application,” a Trump campaign official told Fox News, saying it is “mandatory and any ballots without an application or with an incomplete application are not to be counted.”
The campaign said ballots cast without the initial absentee ballot applications on file “must be called into question.”
Next, the campaign pointed to Wisconsin law, which requires any ballots that are incorrectly filled out, missing information or damaged to be returned to the voter to correct and resubmit.
But the lawsuit alleges municipal clerks were “illegally altering ballot envelopes themselves.”
“In many instances, witness addresses were left off of the envelopes and clerks, using their own knowledge or searching in unknown databases, filled in the information themselves,” a campaign official told Fox News. “According to the statute, this is illegal.”
“If the certificate or envelope is missing a witness address, the ballot cannot be counted until the voter corrects the error — plain and simple,” the official added. “Instead, election officials decided to take the law into their own hands.”
The official added: “These ballots were fraudulently completed and counted, and the illegal ballots should not count toward the certified vote totals.”
The lawsuit also alleges voters were “fraudulently allowed by election officials” to circumvent voter ID laws by claiming absentee voting status that, under state law, was only to be used for voters who are “indefinitely confined.”
The status of “indefinite confinement” in Wisconsin is intended for voters who are “physically ill, infirm, elderly or disabled” and for those who are “unable to vote in person under those terms.”
The campaign claimed that due to the “confusion and misinformation from Democratic election officials” amid the coronavirus pandemic, many voters requested that status “even though they definitely were not confined.”
“This allowed voters abusing the status to vote without providing identification, as required by law,” the official explained.
The campaign said that in March, Democrat election officials “falsely told voters they could claim this status because of the pandemic” but said that was “later struck down by the Wisconsin Supreme Court.” The Trump campaign said that from 2016 to 2020, the number of indefinitely confined voters increased “dramatically” — nearly 600% in Dane County and about 500% in Milwaukee County.
The lawsuit also will claim that clerks “did not do their due diligence to remove voters fraudulently claiming” that status and “made no good faith effort to check publicly available information and remove indefinite confinement permissions from illegitimate voters.”
The lawsuit alleges that anyone who cast a ballot under the terms of indefinite confinement without meeting that criteria “did so fraudulently,” and therefore, their “illegal ballots must not be counted.”
Meanwhile, the campaign also alleged that the city of Madison created “unlawful polling locations at over 200 locations throughout the city’s Democracy in the Park voting events” and said the ballots accepted at the events “were illegally cast.”
The campaign claimed the polling locations were held outside of the county’s “approved polling locations and did not follow the state’s strict absentee voting requirements.”
“What’s truly alarming about these events is that not only did they not follow the law, but Joe Biden’s campaign encouraged this unlawful voting,” a campaign official told Fox News, claiming the Biden campaign “advertised these events as opportunities to vote, telling voters to bring their completed ballot to turn in or their incomplete ballot to have a so-called ‘poll worker’ serve as a witness before you fill it out and turn it in.”
“This highlights inappropriate coordination between the Biden campaign and the city’s election officials,” the official said, noting that voters “are not allowed to turn in their absentee ballots anywhere other than designated polling locations.”
A Trump campaign official told Fox News its lawsuit is to ensure that “legal voters are not being disenfranchised by ensuring only legal votes are counted,” adding that Democrat election officials’ “motive is clear.”
“They want Joe Biden to win at all costs, regardless of whether the votes for him are legal or illegal,” the official said, adding that the “court must do the right thing and remove the illegal ballots from the certified vote total.”
The Wisconsin Election Commission told Fox News that they do not comment on lawsuits. Neither Evers nor the Biden campaign immediately responded to Fox News’ request for comment.
The Trump campaign’s Wisconsin legal team told Fox News it had more than 4,000 volunteers working throughout the recount in the state.
The lawsuit comes after Evers certified Wisconsin’s results for Biden.
“With Governor Evers’ premature certification, he is saying the President of the United States has no right to go to court in order to have illegal ballots examined,” Troupis told Fox News. “He’s not saying we have a frivolous lawsuit — he is saying we have no right to judicial review — that’s another level of bad.”
Troupis added: “The idea that great law firms and great lawyers would not get involved in cases like this because they’re afraid is the reason I took this case in the first instance.”
“I’ve been doing this for 40 years, representing plenty of Democrats and Republicans, and I will not back down when it comes to upholding the law or protecting the integrity of our elections,” Troupis told Fox News. “We, as good lawyers, don’t back down, and if we do, our republic is done.”
Trump has refused to concede to Biden, now more than three weeks after Fox News, the Associated Press and other news networks projected that Biden would win enough electoral votes to defeat him and become president-elect.
The president’s legal team, in other areas across the nation, filed a spate of lawsuits in many key battlegrounds in hopes of delaying the certification of the election, but the tactics have been unsuccessful to date.
The recount in Wisconsin, as well as the one requested by Trump in Georgia, also failed so far to alter Biden’s victories.
In his first interview since this month’s election, Trump once again claimed the “election was a fraud; it was a rigged election.”
“We had glitches where they moved thousands of votes from my account to Biden’s account,” the president charged without backing up his claim in a conversation with FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.”
But Trump also appeared to acknowledge that his legal bid to overturn the election results “probably” wouldn’t reach the U.S. Supreme Court, which has been the goal of his legal team.
Read the full article: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-campaign-wisconsin-lawsuit-absentee-voting
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JSF,"turkey or talisman"?
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Re: JSF,"turkey or talisman"?
Postby member_26535 » 05 Feb 2014 06:25
High AoA testing video - F35C
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6XofdlfJ0k
Postby Philip » 05 Feb 2014 17:12
While orders have been made,the number being confirmed by interested allies is far below their original intent.The Netherlands,37 instead of 85 for example.In fact,all US allies have cut their JSF numbers because of the uncertainties in the programme,both technical and costs,and are looking at alternatives to keep their inventory healthy.These are bound to impact upon eventual costs of acquisition and life-cycle support.The US have no alternative but to bite the bullet,in manner similar to India (requiring hundreds of MIG-21 replacements) and the LCA,which is a far healthier programme being less technially ambitious,despite the huge delay.
Viv S
Postby Viv S » 05 Feb 2014 18:13
Philip wrote: While orders have been made,the number being confirmed by interested allies is far below their original intent.The Netherlands,37 instead of 85 for example.In fact,all US allies have cut their JSF numbers because of the uncertainties in the programme,both technical and costs,and are looking at alternatives to keep their inventory healthy. These are bound to impact upon eventual costs of acquisition and life-cycle support.
The aircraft has garnered several new customers, who were not original JSF participants - Japan, South Korea, Singapore & Israel. That's about 300 orders between them. More than enough to offset the reduction in orders from Europe. They'll also be joined by Spain (needs STOVL Harrier replacement). As long as US orders stay steady at 2,443 units, a total build order in excess of 3000 units is all but assured.
The US have no alternative but to bite the bullet,in manner similar to India (requiring hundreds of MIG-21 replacements) and the LCA,which is a far healthier programme being less technially ambitious,despite the huge delay.
Developing a 4th generation fighter, for an industry with negligible design experience and no ecosystem of subcontractors to rely upon, was as ambitious as the JSF program, if not more. Costs for both are relatively fair ($26M, $80-90M).
The problem, if anything, was that both programs advertised hugely overoptimistic development time-frames. 15 years for the Tejas and 10 years for the F-35. The actual time taken is quite reasonable (20y &15y respectively), but has left both with significant PR issues.
Postby Austin » 05 Feb 2014 18:44
Gen. Michael Hostage, head of Air Combat Command
http://www.airforcetimes.com/article/20 ... r-aircraft
Q. So you remain committed to the 1,763 figure that has come out?
A. Absolutely. Not one plane less.
Q. What about upgrades to the F-22?
A. The F-22, when it was produced, was flying with computers that were already so out of date you would not find them in a kid’s game console in somebody’s home gaming system. But I was forced to use that because that was the spec that was written by the acquisition process when I was going to buy the F-22.
Then, I have to go through the [service life extension plan] and [cost and assessment program evaluation] efforts with airplanes to try to get modern technology into my legacy fleet. That is why the current upgrade programs to the F-22 I put easily as critical as my F-35 fleet. If I do not keep that F-22 fleet viable, the F-35 fleet frankly will be irrelevant. The F-35 is not built as an air superiority platform. It needs the F-22. Because I got such a pitifully tiny fleet, I’ve got to ensure I will have every single one of those F-22s as capable as it possibly can be.
What's the Latest Word on F-35 Unit Cost?
The F-35-specific data in the Omnibus' Joint Explanatory Statement (JES) calculate to a unit cost for a generic F-35 (only counting procurement costs, not research and development) at $185 million, each. The Air Force's F-35As are $159 million, each; the Marines' F-35Bs are $214 million, each, and the Navy's F-35Cs are $264 million, each. But none of that is the whole story; these calculations may well be undercounts of what F-35s will cost in fiscal year 2014.
Mihir wrote: Viv, I'm obviously talking past you. You're either not comprehending what I'm saying or deliberately choosing to misrepresent what I said. And I'm getting tired of reiterating the same thing again and again. I think it's time for me to bow out of this debate.
Mihir, for once please forget about what Bill Sweetman, Winslow Wheeler, Carlo Kopp, David Axe et al, have to say. Do your own, original research.
Find out the flyaway cost for yourself. Don't let Wheeler tell you its $180M (and therefore higher than the $75M promised).
Find out the flyaway cost over the last 3-4 years. Find out the procurement costs over the last 3-4 years. Compute the trend. Then decide how much truth there is to Axe's prediction of rising costs in the coming years.
Same for retrofit costs. Take a look at the DoD/USAF budget documents and see for yourself how much they're spending on modifications every year. Plus keep in mind that this applies only to the SDD aircraft, not to the units ordered post-2016.
As far as the performance goes, instead of accepting the claim that it has '700+ problems' remaining or that the DOT&E report was hugely critical, again, do your own research. The DOT&E report is very thorough and lists out the dozen or so issues facing the F-35A. The Block 2B for the USMC may be delayed, but aside from that only two vulnerabilities were identified; one relating to the fueldraulic shut-off system and the other relating to the high voltage electrical system.
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Austin wrote: What's the Latest Word on F-35 Unit Cost?
^^ That's the procurement cost they're referring to. Includes support and initial spares. Flyaway cost still stands at $110M or so.
Austin wrote: Gen. Michael Hostage, head of Air Combat Command
That is why the current upgrade programs to the F-22 I put easily as critical as my F-35 fleet. If I do not keep that F-22 fleet viable, the F-35 fleet frankly will be irrelevant. The F-35 is not built as an air superiority platform. It needs the F-22.
Its to be expected really. The USAF isn't going to let the F-35 be an excuse for the Congress to delay/cancel upgrades to the F-22.
Viv S wrote: ^^ That's the procurement cost they're referring to. Includes support and initial spares. Flyaway cost still stands at $110M or so.
http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articl ... -rise.html
we have a new unit production cost of a generic F-35 at $185 million: F-35As are $159 million each; F-35Bs are $214 million each, and F-35Cs are $264 million each. This new calculation compares to the absurd $75 million per unit cost that a senior Lockheed Martin manager recently asserted. Real world costs for a useable airplane are literally multiples of that.
In sum, the information coming out of the Pentagon on the F-35 program would seem to indicate that it's not efficiencies that are occurring in the program but alterations that can only have the impact of further delays and cost increases. The reductions Congress exacted from the program in 2014 will surely have an effect, but in the absence of more details and actual events it is unwise to assume that the trend is toward less cost, or a fulfilled schedule.
The unit costs that one can currently calculate from Congress' 2014 "Omnibus" (namely, $185 million each across all three models; $159 million for an F-35A; $214 million for an F-35B, and $264 million for an F-35C) are clearly unrealistic-unrealistically low.
Viv S wrote: Its to be expected really. The USAF isn't going to let the F-35 be an excuse for the Congress to delay/cancel upgrades to the F-22.
sattili
Postby sattili » 05 Feb 2014 19:52
Viv S wrote: Mihir, for once please forget about what Bill Sweetman, Winslow Wheeler, Carlo Kopp, David Axe have to say. Do your own.. original research.
Winslow Wheeler's articles in Time magazine did not pull the numbers from the thin air. Data is quoted from the comptroller of defense accounts and graphs showing the trends are there for everyone to see.
http://nation.time.com/2013/06/07/on-final-approach-to-fighter-fiscal-sanity/
Unit costs are also likely to be impacted—upwards—by improvements and other modifications not yet a part of the F-35’s development. While some economies of scale may be achieved in larger production lots in the future, it is also reasonable to expect those economies to be offset, at a minimum, by additional disruptions and their resulting costs.
It is not unreasonable to expect the cost of future F-35s to be about where they are today, averaging more than $200 million per aircraft. It is also reasonable to doubt that F-35 unit costs—for a complete, operable F-35 force—will decline significantly, especially to a point anywhere close to the amounts currently projected for 2018 and beyond, pegged by Bogdan at $85 million.
The history of combat-aircraft acquisition warns us that F-35 unit costs will be much higher than are currently projected by the Pentagon and Lockheed-Martin, and will remain well above what can be characterized as affordable.
Another article http://www.pogo.org/blog/2014/01/the-latest-word-on-f-35-unit-cost.html
There have been some wild assertions about F-35 unit cost recently. See the Lockheed claims as reported in Breaking Defense, Defense News and others that we should expect F-35A costs to be $85 million in 2019. None of these articles acknowledged that there are ways to measure F-35 unit cost other than by mouthing Lockheed and/or Joint Program Office prognostications for the future. If you are interested in what they didn't report, see a five part analysis of F-35 costs in Time magazine from last June, summarized here.
The only way Lockheed Martin can show dramatically low cost for F-35 is by hiring the accountants from erstwhile Enron
If you believe all these reports quoting the published data from various government reports doesn't amount to original research, why don't you post some of that research to prove these claims wrong?
Not just the cost overrun, even obtaining IOC by the dates promised seems to be in trouble.
The Navy's COMNAVAIRFOR recently sent a message to the Chief of Naval Operations in the context of the Navy's 2016 budget preparations. Among various program issues, the F-35C was described to be "severely underfunded" for "simulator operations, depot overhauls, engineering, maintenance, ALIS support, etc." If "the current shortfall" is not funded to minimum levels, testing and other activities will fall behind and "the planned IOC will become unexecutable." That shortfall was estimated at $96 million in 2016 and at $1.2 billion over the next five years in the Future Year Defense Program (FYDP). Given that the data in the message preceded the reductions extracted from Navy R&D in the Omnibus (a reduction of $190 million to a request of $1.0 billion, or 18 percent less), the delays and cost increases in future years for the F-35C can only be exacerbated.
We can argue about A,B,C versions are different etc etc. This entire F-35 program is in highly obfuscated and promoting any the case for it in India colors is really absurd. LM paid trolls like Ajay Shukla will keep on pushing F-35 because that's what LM and US govt wants, to hedge their costs onto another large buyer. This is like the multilevel marketing/Ponzi scheme, bring few other members and you will get a cut from their dealings. Suggesting that India should cancel MMRCA and FGFA and wait till 2016 or even a later date to make the decision on next plane is not feasible for our country. There is no need to buy bigger headache by spending $100billion (lifecycle cost)
Way forward for India should be to speed up AMCA and get FGFA for the 5th gen needs. For the current operations requirements get the more reliable 4 or 4.5 gen MMRCA.
Mihir
BR Mainsite Crew
Postby Mihir » 05 Feb 2014 20:09
If I do not keep that F-22 fleet viable, the F-35 fleet frankly will be irrelevant. The F-35 is not built as an air superiority platform. It needs the F-22. Because I got such a pitifully tiny fleet, I’ve got to ensure I will have every single one of those F-22s as capable as it possibly can be.
Gen. Hostage is imagining things. Here is what my 'original research' shows.
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/f35.html
Establishing air superiority in today’s complex global security climate requires the unprecedented capabilities and versatility that only the F-35 Lightning II can offer.
Conceived in the mid 1990s, the tri-variant F-35 represents the pinnacle of more than 50 years of fighter development technology. Designed to dominate the skies, the F-35 combines the 5th Generation characteristics of radar evading stealth, supersonic speed and extreme agility with the most powerful and comprehensive integrated sensor package of any fighter aircraft in history.
sattili wrote: Winslow Wheeler's articles in Time magazine did not pull the numbers from the thin air. Data is quoted from the comptroller of defense accounts and graphs showing the trends are there for everyone to see.
The figures for the F-35A procurement (from the official budgets) for the 2013 and 2014 are already lower than the ones quoted in the article.
If Wheeler thinks that an increase in production rate from 30yr to 120/yr 'may' lead to 'some' economies, his 'reasonable' attitude is certainly in question.
It is not unreasonable to expect the cost of future F-35s to be about where they are today, averaging more than $200 million [/b]per aircraft. It is also reasonable to doubt that F-35 unit costs—for a complete, operable F-35 force—will decline significantly, especially to a point anywhere close to the amounts currently projected for 2018 and beyond, pegged by Bogdan at $85 million.
And here we have outright dishonesty, comparing procurement cost with projected flyaway cost. Unfortunately those not familiar with the distinction, will end up buying this tale.
The procurement cost of the F-35A -
2010: $205M for 10 units (link)
2011: $188M for 22 units (link
Target-
2018: $135M for 50-60 units
Target procurement cost was $126.6M in 2010 dollars (acc to JPO), or $135M in 2014 dollars.
They're saying 6 months, but lets assume for the sake of argument that the IOC is delayed by a full year. So what?
Right. We should know about it before we get into it.
How about you list out everything you know about the PAK FA/FGFA's cost and production schedule.
Mihir wrote: Gen. Hostage is imagining things. Here is what my 'original research' shows.
F-16 -> F-35
That should be easy enough for even you to understand.
Is the F-16 designed primarily for air superiority?
Can it be employed for air superiority missions?
Austin wrote: http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articles-view/release/3/151088/f_35-unit-cost-continues-to-rise.html
You'll notice that's an article by Winslow Wheeler.
He's making a fundamentally dishonest comparison here; flyaway cost to procurement cost.
Viv S wrote:
So the F-35, which was "designed to dominate the skies" and offers the "unprecedented capabilities and versatility" to establish "air superiority in today’s complex global security climate" was "not built as an air superiority platform" and "needs the F-22", without which, it "will be irrelevant". But it can still be employed for air superiority missions because "F-16 -> F-35".
Got it. Clear as mud.
Mihir wrote: So the F-35, which was "designed to dominate the skies" and offers the "unprecedented capabilities and versatility" to establish "air superiority in today’s complex global security climate" was "not built as an air superiority platform" and "needs the F-22", without which, it "will be irrelevant". But it can still be employed for air superiority missions because "F-16 -> F-35".
When the USAF general says that F-22 upgrades are essential or the F-35 is irrelevant, do you think he's addressing you or the folks who're going to the sign the cheque for the F-22 upgrade?
At this point, he's only addressing the Air Force Times and its readers. Why, does the answer change depending on whom he is addressing? Does the Lockheed website behave similarly too?
Mihir wrote: At this point, he's only addressing the Air Force Times and its readers. Why, does the answer change depending on whom he is addressing? Does the Lockheed website behave similarly too?
It isn't a private conversation between the general and the publication's select readers. It is a public statement that is expected to filter on through the media to the public and the political class.
In the 80s, the USAF refused to let the Aim-7 be carried on its F-16, to prevent it from threatening the production of the F-15. You think it will shy away during a mere interview, if the objective is to protect the F-22's upgrade program?
Let's make this real simple, Viv. Are you saying that the General is lying? That's he has an agenda that he is not disclosing publicly? May we have a clear answer without bringing in irrelevancies like the F-16's design or the USAF's purported refusal to allow the F-16 fleet to carry Sparrow missiles.
Mihir wrote: Let's make this real simple, Viv. Are you saying that the General is lying? That's he has an agenda that he is not disclosing publicly? May we have a clear answer without bringing in irrelevancies like the F-16's design or the USAF's purported refusal to allow the F-16 fleet to carry Sparrow missiles.
The polite term would be being 'flexible with the facts'. The USN & USMC don't have an F-22 equivalent. Nor does the RAF/RN, IsAF, ItAF/ItN and so on. Either none of them are capable of conducting an air superiority exercise or the general is making a political statement (albeit to protect the interests of the his service).
NRao
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Postby NRao » 06 Feb 2014 00:00
That is a political statement, meant for a very, very specific audience and not a technical one for the general public.
Thank you. A senior USAF general, the head of the Air Combat Command, lying about what the F-35 was built to do. What has the service come to?
But then again, he has to do this to protect the interests of his service. I don't blame him; the F-22 upgrade program is already at risk, and Congress has been historically hostile to the program. /s
krish.pf
Postby krish.pf » 06 Feb 2014 00:19
^ Exactly.
The level to which some posters stoop to peddle this flying box so that the country of their residence and the country of their origin come closer, is nauseating to say the least.
PratikDas
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Postby PratikDas » 06 Feb 2014 00:35
Mihir, thanks for your tenacity with this. If getting through the chakravyuh of stealth surrounding the F-35's viability is taking a toll on you then please know that you've done admirably in giving it a cavity search
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Mihir wrote: Thank you. A senior USAF general, the head of the Air Combat Command, lying about what the F-35 was built to do. What has the service come to?
The F-35 is a multirole fighter and that's what it was designed to do. The F-22 like the F-15C before it is an dedicated air superiority aircraft, though its been upgraded for limited ground attack.
The general is being less than straightforward when he says that the F-35 'needs the F-22'. That may be optimum combination similar to the F-15 + F-16 strike packages flown by the USAF as well as the Israelis. But that doesn't change the fact that the F-35, (like the F-16), was designed at inception to carry out the whole gamut of air operations.
As for 'what has the service come to' - a critical part of the general's job is to fight political battles on behalf of the service, same as that of his predecessors.
krish.pf wrote: ^ Exactly.
I live in India. Mihir lives in the US. Keep talking.
PratikDas wrote: Mihir, thanks for your tenacity with this. If getting through the chakravyuh of stealth surrounding the F-35's viability is taking a toll on you then please know that you've done admirably in giving it a cavity search
Allow me to ask you the same thing I asked Sattili. In light of the 'stealth' surrounding the F-35 (aside from the reams of info available), tell us a little about the PAK FA/FGFA's cost please.
The word I used was "viability". Do read carefully.
PratikDas wrote: The word I used was "viability". Do read carefully.
Most of what anyone would want to know about the F-35 is available online. You can form a broad picture of its 'viability', fairly easily. Easier still for an air force or a govt. Much more so than the PAK FA anyway.
And yet when people find information online, the moment it paints the F-35 in a negative light you discredit the author every single time. When some of the same authors glorify the F-22 then they're back in the blue team. How very convenient for you and disingenuous of you.
Viv S, if this thread is a Channel for information you have been constantly engaged in Channel Stuffing.
I have been following this thread regularly for long time. I did say 'some' if you haven't noticed. But not surprised like the out of context replies I see from you countering the other side.
The real reason why certain individuals would like to peddle this lemon, is clear for all to see, even without going though the posts in the strategic forum.
krish.pf wrote: I have been following this thread regularly for long time. I did say 'some' if you haven't noticed. But not surprised like the out of context replies I see from you countering the other side. The real reason why certain individuals would like to peddle t his lemon, is clear for all to see, even without going though the posts in the strategic forum.
So you've been tracking the location of 'some' of the people on the thread?
And for the record, I'd choose the F-35 over any Eurocanard because it is far away better value-for-money, which will be evident to anyone not being spoon-fed information by Wheeler Axe & Co.
As for the PAK FA, it'll be a foolish thing to pay for it now (and foot the R&D bill no less) and find out what we're getting five years later.
PratikDas, thanks
Indranil
Postby Indranil » 06 Feb 2014 01:56
People, stop indulging each other. Discuss the JSF. If you have exhausted all the points, start all over again. But don't start attacking other people, their "supposed" nationality, "place of residence" etc.
PratikDas wrote: And yet when people find information online, the moment it paints the F-35 in a negative light you discredit the author every single time. When some of the same authors glorify the F-22 then they're back in the blue team. How very convenient for you and disingenuous of you.
When did you hear me quote Bill Sweetman on the F-22? Also while I think, he's too deep into the F-35 debate to provide an unbiased opinion, unlike David Axe or Winslow Wheeler, he is a proper journalist and I do read his articles, even when I don't agree with them.
And rather than adopting opinions from columnists, wouldn't it be better to study the data itself. I'll admit was an F-35 skeptic, albeit not as strident as Philip or Mihir, until the its capabilities became clearer and more importantly the actual cost figures began to emerge (while those for the Eurocanards kept bloating).
This thread is over two years old. I'd didn't start posting until just three months ago. I did so because all recent news suggests that the program is over the hump. This is something that veteran critics choose to ignore..
Karan M
Postby Karan M » 06 Feb 2014 02:41
But you are defending the F-35 for all its inadequacies as they exist stating that they are teething problems, while preventing the same benefit for the PAK-FA. Besides which, even if the PAK-FA/FGFA is delayed and does not meet full TOT, it still comes with TOT that is an order of magnitude higher than what we'd ever get with the F-35, not to mention the political aspect of a more reliable supplier.
mahadevbhu wrote: I love the way you call the JSF a Turkey . Like the Manhattan project, it will be spent on, till it succeeds, and will make its opponents Turkeys.
Difference in technologies. Management of scientific programs has improved in general.
So spending on a project till it succeeds = management of scientific programs has improved in general?!
Mihir wrote:
Victor wrote: If anyone knows the Brahmos, it is the Russians and if an air version were viable, they would have made one by now. It is an interesting concept but highly speculative. However it does make for another very expensive time pass project for our PSUs.
How did you get to that conclusion? They are expecting a flight test in the latter part of the year! It has long gone past the "highly speculative" stage.
Simple. Anything made by Indians for India, as long as it comes from the PSUs is worthless in the eyes of the aforesaid gent. Meanwhile, anything made by the US will be a winnah and must be procured over anything and everything Indian or from the eebil Russians or fickle French.
Because, because, http://www.tickld.com/cdn_image_content/35021.jpg
Slow times.......
A senior USAF general, the head of the Air Combat Command, lying about what the F-35 was built to do.
Normal ops.
In peace times that is what Generals do: politicking, clearing the path, protecting the turf (especially USMC).
However, what the normal person views as "lying" (and that is normal), the gamers know it as part of the game - jockeying or positioning (which is also normal). The question, in this case, is, did the person/s whom that message was for get it and how did they react.
Karan M wrote: But you are defending the F-35 for all its inadequacies as they exist stating that they are teething problems, while preventing the same benefit for the PAK-FA. Besides which, even if the PAK-FA/FGFA is delayed and does not meet full TOT, it still comes with TOT that is an order of magnitude higher than what we'd ever get with the F-35, not to mention the political aspect of a more reliable supplier.
I talked about 'teething issues' in the P-8I's context. In any event, the F-35A's hardware problems have almost completely been rectified while software issues remain which should not impact the aircraft's cost.
The PAK FA on the other hand still has a ways to go. At least I hope the final version will be far more evolved (something as basic as a sheath for that engine is still missing). While it'll no doubt feature tremendous brute performance, there are still doubts about its RCS, IR signature, sensor fusion, build quality, maintenance, acquisition cost, operational cost and so on.
I'm willing to grant that this may not be the final word on the PAK-FA. But what is incorrigible is that some still consider a 'joint-development' of the FGFA viable and are supportive of investing $6 billion for a mere 15% work-share. Or for that matter, negotiating a deal even before we know what production variant looks like.
If indeed, UAC offers a better package of cost, performance and ToT, then they should no doubt get the IAF/MoD's contract. But shouldn't we wait until we know that for a fact, rather than count on Russian assurances and sign up right away?
The PAK-FA is not perfect, but there is a lot of activity going on in Russia(and India) to improve upon the things that you stated eg: RCS, IR signature etc and this is where we have an opportunity to learn. If we are able to understand from the problems the Russians are facing and also from the solutions they are coming up with, i feel its well worth the 6billion or whatever. The F-35 OTOH will be black box like everything else from that country and worse still it cant even enthuse our mango crowds in the air shows
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Ohio St isn't the only rival. Wisconsin and Mich State are massive games. Not to mention being 1-4 in bowl games(1-1 at Stanford). Michigan only looks good against really bad teams.
There's more at fault then haurbaugh. Plus I feel his style would work best with a good gm in the nfl. His eye for talent in my opinion seems bad.
DenverBlood
Obviously you forget the Brady Hoke era
Not at all. He wasn’t losing games his final season the way Harbaugh has been so far.
He also had an 11-2 first season which is as good as any Harbaugh has had.
Originally posted by DenverBlood View Post
5 and 7. Also losing to a lower tier competition is very bad
He has full say in everything on the offense, he has full control at Michigan. He has talent on the team, good recruits. Michigan lose games via bad play calling, not bad talent. The defense is ran by Don Brown, Harbaugh butts out of everything on defense and let's Don run it, and usually that's the only bright spot for Michigan....usually, they've always had a good defense during the Harbaugh era because of Brown and at it's peak with Mattison as the DL coach, whom had a lot of power with play calling on defense. Mattison is now at Ohio St.
You say his style works best with a good GM, you really think Jim is gonna go from having full control over teams from Michigan, Stanford, and San Fran to just being a coach? Again you can give him talent, it's his playcalling and inability to adjust that's the problem.
Then he probably won't be a coach after Michigan. Also he didn't have full control over San Fran. Last time I checked Gattis was the oc and main play caller. Taking they took a pro style offense and recently moved to spread offense.
He'll be an NFL head coach, there will be a team that gives him a chance. Probably New York Jets or the Falcons. It's even being reported though that NFL teams aren't interested, according to Pro Football Network’s Tony Pauline, Harbaugh is not highly sought-after by NFL teams.
Unless those 2 teams i mentioned call, Jim will probably still be coaching Michigan next year. The school doesn't do mid season fires, and since it's an academic school before a sports school, they are happy with how Jim has coached the players behind closed doors, as the players are doing good in school and in the community.
And what exactly do you call getting handled by Michigan st this year who has been smoked by everyone else including Rutgers?
The team has a young QB and seems to be a bad team this year. they can still grow. also i wouldn't call losing by 3 points getting handled.
Also i wouldn't say Haurbaugh would be my top choice for a coach. i want Eric Bienemy if we move on from Fangio
I feel like we aren’t lucky enough to get Bienemy.
Doesn't change the fact he would be my top target if i was in chare of the finding the broncos next coach, even if i had to offer him lots of money. i really like him. i would also look at Lincon Riley and Brian Daboll over Haurbaugh. i am not 100% sure he would be in my top 5.
I'd be down for Eric Bienemy as well. If we do make a change at QB, then changing the staff wouldn't be as big of a deal if he started over with Lock still at the helm.
mozzerpete
Elway understands football and is a successful businessman.
He's tried to solidify our QB situation from FA Manning to R2 Lock.
He's built a defense that would have turned his three early SB losses into wins.
Our OL remains a quagmire, but Elway did bring in Munchak.
Elway will draft OL, and we'll trend north with a healthy team.
baphamet
Recovering Smackaholic
there's gonna be a lot of competition for EB. I'm hoping he's on the chargers shortlist of candidates this offseason.
The entire franchise has taken on a culture of losing. It's become completely acceptable to be mediocre, as long as it can be argued they're trying. The team is young, the team has injuries, those are excuses and excuses are for losers. Even long time fans of the team have gotten used to the losing. It's expected now. The Broncos are the new Browns.
Originally posted by mozzerpete View Post
That's something Elway does have in his favor, he has been trying. It's not like Elway has been Joe Dumars of the NFL.
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January 25: Utah Jazz
Wed Jan 25, 2012, 09:17 PM
ESPN preview:
Be careful Andrea. The haters are watching and waiting!
The Toronto Raptors snapped what had previously been their longest current losing streak against one opponent. One night later, they face the same challenge against a different team.
Coming off their first victory in just over two weeks, the visiting Raptors look to avoid a 13th consecutive loss to the Utah Jazz on Wednesday night.
Not only did Toronto (5-13) snap its eight-game overall losing streak with a 99-96 win at Phoenix on Tuesday, but it ended a 14-game skid against the Suns.
"Everybody played good together," said Toronto forward Andrea Bargnani, who scored 36 points in his first game after missing the previous six with a strained left calf. "We want to keep playing like this and having fun."
With both of those dubious droughts in the past, the Raptors can now focus on trying to end a 12-game losing streak to Utah (10-5) -- currently the club's longest against one opponent. That's also the Jazz's longest active winning streak against any team.
Toronto, which last beat the Jazz 98-86 at home Dec. 22, 2004, has dropped six in a row at Utah since a 104-95 win there Nov, 10, 2004.
Though the Raptors rode a stellar performance from Bargnani while posting their second-highest point total of the season Tuesday, they could be in for a major challenge as they try to post back-to-back wins for only the second time in 2011-12.
The Jazz have averaged 104.4 points and shot 50.4 percent while going 12-3 all-time at home against the Raptors. Utah also has won nine of 11 overall since a 1/3 start.
Paul Millsap had 26 points with nine rebounds while Al Jefferson added 18 with 12 boards as the Jazz improved to 8-2 at home with a 108-98 victory over Minnesota on Saturday.
"We're just trying to get better and trying to win games," Millsap said.
Millsap remains a big reason for Utah's success, averaging 22.0 points and 9.1 rebounds in the last seven games.
"Paul just continues to work to get better," coach Tyrone Corbin said. "As a result, we're better because he's so effective on the floor. He's been doing it all year."
Millsap had 21 points, six rebounds and five assists during a 125-108 home win over Toronto on Nov. 3, 2010.
Averaging 18.3 points and 9.4 rebounds, Jefferson has scored 27.7 points per game in his last three contests against the Raptors. He had 34 in a 96-94 victory at Toronto on March 9.
Bargnani missed that game for the Raptors, but posted 26 points and nine rebounds at Utah last season.
Averaging a career-high 23.4 points this season, the 7-foot Bargnani scored 18 and went 4 of 5 from 3-point range during the third quarter Tuesday.
"Andrea coming back makes everything easier for everybody else," Raptors coach Dwane Casey said. "He opens up the lane for (Leandro Barbosa) for layups, James (Johnson) to get in the lane and get offensive boards. He is kind of the hub for everybody to play off of."
Bargnani has averaged 26.3 points during his last six road games.
It's going to be a long night!
flord
Anybody got a link to the game?
Miekenstien
bayless nice start. 4 assists now
flord wrote: View Post
http://www.lshunter.tv/streams/1/lshnba1.html
Anyone hear Bargnani scream at the end of the 2nd half? Never seen him do anything like that.
Cool thanks!
Thu Jan 26, 2012, 01:18 AM
That was an amazing game....playoff like in intensity. Too bad AB got injured again. But the guys played tough. Casey has done a great job getting all buying in.
Balls of Steel
Kleiza = clutch. Am I alone here in liking his game? Everyone seems to call for his amnesty from this team.
Last edited by Balls of Steel; Thu Jan 26, 2012, 01:40 AM.
octothorp
So many positives in this game. Kleiza was huge off the bench. Calderon had some clutch shots late. Bayless was passing the ball well, even if the shot still wasn't there. DeRozan with a bounce-back game. J Johnson with 6 blocks. A Johnson played well late, after looking like he would get owned by Kanter. Davis showed a bit of a spark in his few minutes. Butler inbounded the ball successfully. It's going to be a rough haul with Bargs out, but they need some positives like this every now and then.
TSN3
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Probably the most impressive effort of the season. It was also great to see the supporting cast step up big after Bargs got hurt. That might have been a pretty significant team building moment. Now I doubt that the Raps are going to go on a crazy run and make the playoffs now, but those kinds of wins are a necessary part of making these guys believe that their hard work is paying off. Good to see them pull through!
incredible game!!! Was awed at our clutchness tonight (kleiza and calderon!!!) Bargnani worked hard and got hurt as a result, give props to the guy he really wanted to be out there late! Incredible team effort, Derozan looked gassed but still managed a good offensive game, Barbosa helped overcome our deficit, calderon sent it to over time, and then kleiza took over!
The Baltic Beast is unstoppable!
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The guy's got a solid game. He can shoot it out to the 3, can play some 4 and is tough. His skill set is unique on this team and with Butler and Davis stinking it up right now, they're really going to need his production. I also think that unless he's traded and as long as he stays healthy and continues to play within himself, he can definitely be a useful piece of this team moving forward.
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I have always help out hop that he would find his groove in Toronto and be a solid contributor, he can play bigger than he is due to his strength and has a decent overall skill set. With Andrea looking like he will be out for an extended period, Klieza will see plenty of minutes and will br able to show us all what he can and can't do.
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For thumbs up and turned heads, you can't beat it
Jordan Golson
NEW YORK CITY — I was suddenly concerned when I walked out of JFK airport that I might not be able to fit my massive Briggs & Riley suitcase in the back of the Toyota GR Supra that I was to drive home in.
I have the B&R large expandable two-wheel unit, a massive bag that can fit oodles of clothes with ease. It's one of those suitcases that very frequent travelers use. I've since added a matching carry-on variant when it was on sale on Amazon for $180 off. They're really good, but I digress.
The Supra is a two-seat sports car and two-seat sports cars are not known for their capacious cargo compartments. This makes them bad for airport runs, but as I eyed the passenger seat and imagined my massive suitcase sitting next to me for the journey, I popped the sportback-esque trunk anyway. Just in case.
Astonishingly, my giant suitcase slipped in as if it was meant to be there. With just a few inches to spare on each side, I closed the lid and started heading north for the drive back to New England.
Priced at $56,615, my Toyota GR Supra 3.0 Premium (that's a mouthful) test car was fully equipped complete with a 3-liter turbocharged inline-six cylinder engine making a Toyota-reported 335 horsepower and 365 lb-ft of torque, though dyno-testing by reputable car magazines has shown that Toyota is sandbagging a little bit on its numbers and different Supras will produce quite a bit more power than the numbers state, which is nice.
The power goes to the rear wheels through an eight-speed automatic with paddle shifters, and there's an active rear differential, active exhaust, adaptive sport suspension, Brembo four-piston brakes up front, sport pedals, and a bunch of other sport things to remind you that you're driving a sports car, as if the low seating position and cramped cockpit didn't give it away.
It's important to note that this isn't exactly a Toyota. The Supra is a BMW Z4 that has been tweaked quite a bit by Toyota, however, which is not a bad thing. The inside is all BMW — which is great because the BMW infotainment system is rather excellent, while those put in most Toyotas is merely adequate.
The engine is from BMW, the same unit that you'll find in the Z4 M40i and the BMW M340i, and the transmission and chassis come from Germany too — however, all those bits have been tuned by Toyota's engineers specifically for the Supra.
Though German-Japanese tie-ups haven't always gone well in the past, they more than delivered here, if for nothing else than the Supra isn't really about the performance. A colleague of mine argued that the performance of the Supra isn't really up to snuff compared to other mid-$50k sports cars, and that the steering is a little numb and that it doesn't live up to the hype.
I disagree on the hype part. Yes, it's not a car that's ready to dominate the track like the outrageously excellent BMW M2 Competition, but that's not the point. I've driven hundreds of cars in my automotive journalism career and the Supra has attracted more attention than any of them — even the fancy McLarens and Ferraris
This humble $56,000 car got constant attention and thumbs up from motorcyclists and other sports cars and kids in the back of SUVs and dads in the front of SUVs and college kids out for a drive and homeless dudes panhandling at stoplights.
I don't know if it's because of the history of the Supra or the bright orange one that everyone remembers from Fast and the Furious or because it just looks awesome (the design is a bit polarizing, but I think it looks phenomenal from the back and front). My tester came in Downshift Blue, which was a deep azure color and it dripped with sex appeal, all curves and tightness.
That's what this car is all about — what any sports car is all about, if we're honest. Very few Supras will ever set one wheel on a race track, in the same way that most Range Rovers will never see the Serengeti.
But getting photos taken by ten year olds on the highway? That's the Supra way. Oh, and if you put it in Sport mode? It'll make a hell of an exhaust note if you're looking to show off, too.
Some of my other sports car reviews:
2020 Toyota 86 Hakone Edition
2020 Lexus LC 500
Other reviews of the 2020 Toyota GR Supra:
Top Gear (Print)
Top Gear (Video)
TheStraightPipes
SavageGeese
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A Statewide Focus on Graduate Research
By: Graduate Studies on April 28, 2015
Promoting cognitive abilities of the elderly through game play, feasting then fasting makes our cells more resilient to stress, and identifying new agents that may provide treatment options for schizophrenia and related psychotic illnesses are just a small sampling of graduate research shared at the Second Statewide Graduate Student Research Symposium on Friday. The impressive array of research projects at the symposium were evidence of graduate education’s important role in driving new knowledge and economic development for the state and beyond.
The second Symposium, hosted by the UCF College of Graduate Studies on behalf of the Florida Council of Graduate Deans, allowed students the chance to earn top honors in the state for their research and creative works, as well as gave them opportunities to network and discuss possible research collaborations with other students and faculty in the state of Florida.
Graduate students representing nine universities from across Florida displayed their research through poster presentations. These students had already earned top marks in their category from their own respective university graduate research competitions. First and second place winners were awarded in each of the eight categories: Arts and Humanities, Biological Sciences, Education, Engineering, Health Sciences, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences.
UCF had 15 students compete in the Symposium, all winners from this past year’s Graduate Research Forum.
“It was such an honor to host such a prestigious research event and we are very proud of our graduate students at UCF who went on to place in four of the eight categories,” said College of Graduate Studies Dean and Vice Provost C. Ross Hinkle, PhD. “These awards are a reflection of the outstanding research and faculty mentoring at UCF.”
A formal ceremony followed the judging session with remarks from UCF President Dr. John C. Hitt and from College of Graduate Studies Dean and Vice Provost Dr. Ross Hinkle. The winners were announced by College of Graduate Studies Associate Dean Dr. Jana Jasinski.
Congratulations to all of our students who represented UCF at the Statewide Graduate Student Research Symposium and congratulations to all the winners.
First Place – Leslie Todd, University of Florida, Realism in Moche Ceramics: Why?
Second Place – Jose Flores, University of Central Florida, Immigrants in Florida: Exploring Meta-Data in the Florida Historical Quarterly
First Place – Nzinga Mack, Florida A&M University, Stable Knockdown of Lactate Dehyrogenase A in MDA-MB231 Cells Does Not Decrease Lactic Acid Production
Second Place – Varshini Sridhar, Florida A&M University, Identification and Characterization of Proteins Involved in Grape Disease Tolerance
First Place – Shainna Ali, University of Central Florida, Coming-out in Counseling: Are Counselors Prepared to Assist Clients Through the Coming-Out Process?
Second Place – Umit Tokac, Florida State University, Effects of Game-Based Learning on Students’ Mathematics Achievement: A Meta-Analysis
First Place – Jasmin Aira, University of South Florida, Image-Based 3D Morphometric Analysis of the Clavicle Intramedullary Canal in Male Population
Second Place – Annadanesh Shellikeri, Florida A&M University, A Walk with Ions: Visualizing Ionic Movement in Energy Storage Devices using In-Situ NMR Spectroscopy
First Place – Stephanie Randall-Watts, University of South Florida, Presence of Huffing during Voluntary Cough is Associated with Penetration-Aspiration in Individuals with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
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Second Place – Ryuichi Tsuchikawa, University of Central Florida, Measurement of Resistance Induced by a Single Atom on Carbon Nanotubes
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Second Place – Zorina Manoni, University of Central Florida, Osteoarthritis in the Andes: Prevalence and Patterning of Disease among Pre-Columbian Agro-Pastoralists from Kuelap
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Home » Travel » Mt. Everest Finally Has an Official Height After Years-long Dispute Between China and Nepal
Mt. Everest Finally Has an Official Height After Years-long Dispute Between China and Nepal
After years of conflicting opinions, China and Nepal have finally agreed on the height of Mt. Everest — and it's even bigger than originally thought.
In a joint virtual press conference Tuesday, the two countries announced that Mt. Everest is officially 29,032 feet tall, three feet taller than previously considered.
Everest sits on the border of Tibet and Nepal and climbers take the summit from both sides. But over the years, the two governments — and many others — have disagreed about its height.
China has considered Mt Everest to be 29,032 feet tall since its survey in 2005. But, until recently, Nepal had never conducted its own survey. It had used data from an Indian mission in 1954 and considered Mt Everest to be 29,028 feet tall.
Facing pressure from Chinese officials for years, Nepalese officials told The BBC that they wanted to put a team together to "set the record straight once and for all.”
"Before this, we had never done the measurement ourselves," Damodar Dhakal, spokesman at Nepal's department of survey said. "Now that we have a young, technical team [who could also go to the Everest summit], we could do it on our own.”
The team of four surveyors trained for two years before scaling the mountain. They gathered the data using a leveling instrument, gravity meter, and GPS. As they scaled the mountain, they placed a signal receiver at every station.
The team measured the time it took for the signals to travel up the mountain and then, using trigonometry, converted that measurement into the official height of 29,031.69 feet.
"The project was a matter of national pride for Nepal and a prestigious undertaking for the Nepali government. I feel very proud that we were able to complete it successfully," Susheel Dangol, Deputy Director General at Nepal's Department of Survey, told CNN.
The mountain is considered the tallest point on Earth and continues to rise at a rate of about 1.5 feet per century.
Cailey Rizzo is a contributing writer for Travel + Leisure, currently based in Brooklyn. You can find her on Twitter, Instagram, or at caileyrizzo.com.
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The STALKER 2 team dropped a new teaser trailer on the last day of 2020
Details about STALKER 2 have been few and far between since the game was formally revived in early 2018. But, in the waning hours of 2020, developers GSC Game World released a new trailer highlighting the game’s first-person experience.
GSC said in a news release on Dec. 31 that the trailer represents “how the game actually feels: fast-paced change of scenery, ominous landscapes and the ever-present feeling of an inevitable danger accompanied by a barely-distinguishable guitar soundtrack.” According to the description on YouTube, the trailer is shot entirely in-engine and through the eyes of the player character, a stalker named Skif.
A previous trailer, showing multiple interior and exterior environments, was released in July during the Xbox Games Showcase. The final game is slated for Windows PC and Xbox Series X, where it will be a console launch exclusive. It will also be part of the Xbox Game Pass program.
The first game in the STALKER series, STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, was released in 2007, and remains one of the most well-regarded FPS games of all time. The critically acclaimed series, which includes STALKER: Clear Sky and STALKER: Call of Pripyat, is also the precursor of the modern open-world sandbox genre.
STALKER 2 was previously in production in 2011 when GSC Game World was dissolved suddenly and unexpectedly. That event lead to an exodus of creative talent that Polygon documented when we traveled to Ukraine in 2013. Among the studios that spun out of GSC are 4A Games, makers of the Metro series. That studio is now headquartered in Malta following a long period of unrest in Ukraine.
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