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Oppenheimer Editions Prints
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Iconographie du Genre Camellia—Published by Oppenheimer Editions
Produced from 1839—1843 by Lorenzo Berlèse (1784—1863), the greatest 19th-century scholar on the subject of camellias, Iconographie du Genre Camellia comprises 300 partly hand-colored plates. Engraved by Dumenil, Gabriel and Oudet and printed in Paris by N. Rémond, the subtlety and coloring of these plates is comparable in many ways to Redouté’s Les Roses. Beautiful in groupings of four, six, or eight images, the camellias vary in color from ruby red to pink, white, and variegated.
Camellias reached their peak in popularity in Europe between 1825 and 1870, during which time an enormous number of the seedlings obtained by crossing variants of Camellia japonica were raised and named, primarily by the Abbé Berlèse and two Belgian nurserymen. The most important and definitive work on camellias, Iconographie du Genre Camellia ou Description et Figures des Camellia Les Plus Beaux et Les Plus Rares depicts 300 varieties of camellias grown in the Berlèse's gardens and hothouses. Born in Campo Molino, for most of his career the wealthy Italian abbot worked in France where he studied, cultivated, and wrote about camellias. Drawings for these extremely rare, fine stipple engravings were made by the German artist Johann Jakob Jung (1819—1844).
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Tesla store employees reportedly blindsided by closure plan
Dana Hull
SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk caught many employees by surprise with his announcement last week that the electric car maker would close most stores and shift to online-only sales, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Many sales personnel found out about the decision when Tesla published a public blog post Thursday afternoon, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing sensitive matters. One of the key people involved in implementing the online sales strategy is Sanjay Shah, who has taken on additional responsibilities since his arrival from Amazon last summer, the people said. He joined Tesla as senior vice president of energy operations and continues to oversee that business.
Tesla declined to comment on the sales shift beyond the Thursday blog post and a Musk email to employees later that day.
The abrupt move also shocked some investors, including Alex Chalekian, founder and CEO of Lake Avenue Financial in Pasadena, Calif. The firm, which manages more than $150 million in client assets, sold all of the Tesla stock held for advisory clients Friday.
"This was a total 180-degree turn," Chalekian, who owns a black Tesla Model S, said in a phone interview Monday. "Tesla had been talking about expanding stores, and all of a sudden, they are closing them. To me, this signals a huge financial concern and a possible cash-flow issue for Tesla."
The stock has dropped about 11 percent since Thursday, shaving almost $6 billion from Tesla's market value. The shares finished Monday at $285.36, the lowest level since Oct. 22.
Until last week, Tesla's store strategy seemed to be one of expansion. The company opened 27 retail and service centers last quarter, resulting in 378 locations worldwide, according to its letter to shareholders. It was the most openings for a quarter since mid-2017.
Tesla also suggested a brick-and-mortar retail strategy was important in its annual report filed Feb. 19, just nine days before Musk announced the pivot to online sales.
"Our Tesla stores and galleries are highly visible, premium outlets in major metropolitan markets, some of which combine retail sales and service," Tesla said in its 10-K filing. "Opening a service center in a new geographic area can increase demand. As a result, we have complemented our store strategy with sales facilities and personnel in service centers to more rapidly expand our retail footprint."
Tesla already has closed several stores, including one at the International Market Place in Honolulu and another at the Gardens on El Paseo near Palm Springs, Calif. Calls to those stores now ring through to Tesla call centers in Las Vegas and Fremont, Calif.
Musk described the winding down of many stores as a cost-cutting move that enables Tesla to offer a long-promised $35,000 version of the Model 3 sedan, the automaker's first mass-manufactured car. The company said it's able to reduce prices of all its vehicles by an average of about 6 percent by shifting sales online and trimming other expenses.
In an email to employees sent roughly three hours after Tesla published its blog post, Musk said that 78 percent of Model 3 orders were placed online last year, rather than in stores. He wrote that some jobs will be transitioned to other areas of the business and that "a small number of stores in high-traffic locations will remain as galleries, showcases and Tesla information centers."
"We are not concerned," Cathie Wood, CEO of ARK Invest and a fund manager who remains bullish about Tesla, said Monday on Bloomberg Television. While the decision to close stores and go all-online was "abrupt," she wasn't as surprised as other investors. "We got the sense something was up because he is still competing against other auto manufacturers who have their costs screwed down, but at some point, his pricing is going to drop below theirs," she said.
Just days after saying the cheaper Model 3 was now available to order, Musk announced in a series of tweets to his roughly 25 million followers that Tesla will unveil the Model Y crossover March 14, followed by a truck this year.
Chalekian said those tweets Sunday reaffirmed his decision to sell Tesla stock.
"The Model Y is probably going to eat into Model 3 sales," he said. "With all of the stuff going on right now, I don't know if people are going to race to put down a deposit on the Y in the way they did with the 3. But Tesla is using this to raise capital through customer deposits. I feel like Tesla is just buying time at this point."
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Formula One champions Jackie Stewart, Alain Prost were not allowed in front of Ayrton Senna’s coffin
The configuration of the pallbearers at Ayrton Senna’s fabled funeral was changed at the last minute, the Formula One legend’s former personal assistant has revealed.
Betise Assumpcao, now married to Williams co-founder Patrick Head, told Brazil’s Agencia Estado that when she arrived for the 1994 funeral, she discovered that Jackie Stewart and Alain Prost were scheduled to be the lead pallbearers.
Triple world champion Stewart had fallen out badly with Senna when he accused him of deliberately running archrival Prost off the track for the 1990 title.
“I am never going to speak to you again,” Senna had told Stewart, according to the Scot in an article for the Daily Mail newspaper last week, marking the 20th anniversary of his death at Imola.
Stewart claims he made up with Senna a year later. The bitter acrimony between Senna and Prost had also eased by 1994, following the Frenchman’s retirement.
Nonetheless, Assumpcao revealed her horror when she arrived for the funeral to discover that Stewart and Prost would be at the very front of the casket.
She said her arrival was delayed after helping friends, family and international guests to make their way from the city to the Morumbi cemetery.
“Gerhard Berger, Ayrton’s best friend in F1, ran to me and cried ‘Betise, you must do something’,” Assumpcao recalled.
“Someone told me that Alain and Jackie will be at the front of the coffin -- apparently it’s in order of world titles!” she added, recalling Berger’s words.
“You have to change it,” Berger told Assumpcao. “They are the two people Ayrton hated the most in his life.’
“He [Berger] was horrified and frankly, so was I. My stomach started to hurt.
“I turned quickly and went to the cemetery gate. On the way, I bumped into Geraldo Rodrigues, Rubens’ [Barrichello’s] manager and a dear friend.
“I told him ‘You won’t believe it. They want to put Jackie Stewart and Alain Prost right at the front. Ayrton will be turning in his coffin!” she said.
“There was no doubt in my mind that Gerhard had to be right at the front,” added Assumpcao. “He had been with Ayrton in most of the good times with Ayrton, on and off the track.”
She put another Brazilian world champion, Emerson Fittipaldi, alongside him.
In the end, Prost pushed the coffin trolley in the position behind Fittipaldi, with Stewart a further two places behind.
“I went back to where the drivers were and pretended I didn’t know anything of the previous arrangements.
“I think Ayrton would have been happy to see me, helping his friends and making decisions without hesitation. He was like that,” Assumpcao added.
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Home News Exchange News With Margin Trading, Binance Considering Adding More Coin Custodians
With Margin Trading, Binance Considering Adding More Coin Custodians
Sam Lee
One of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Binance, is firm on its path; keen on thrusting the industry forward towards what Changpeng Zhao says is the “freedom of money”. This is even as Binance plans to launch user-to-user lending functions on its platform mid this month. In a recent meetup at London, the Binance leader, while answering a question said:
“We’re launching quite a number of other things. Binance Jersey will ramp up its service in Europe. We just launched margin trading. We are about to launch Binance Futures, but before that, around mid-August, we’re going to launch lending.”
Diversification of operations is proof of the progress the exchange business has made in the past few years. Cryptocurrency exchanges obviously have some storage capabilities. That said, many would assume that the primary role of these exchanges is to serve as an arbiter for crypto traders to transact.
Needless to say, the crypto economy has become more and more dynamic and these developments only affirm this growth. This proposal for users to lend to each other elevates the diversified functions of the Binance exchange even further.
Binance begins Margin Trading
Margin trading essentially means that you get to borrow crypto from a lender on the exchange. To achieve this, you leverage your own holdings to act as collateral for the loan. Accordingly, a user can take the borrowed funds and invest or trade. It goes without saying that you need a decent amount of knowledge on risk in lending. This is because the risk of loss or percentage of return is higher in margin lending.
Binance facilitates this kind of trading between users. With the upgrade to Binance 2.0 margin trading is now a fixture of the company landscape. This operation caters for two kinds of users. Either those who want to borrow crypto and increase their exposure in trading or investors who want to end and earn interest on their holdings.
The borrower obviously shoulders the most risk in case of loss in the market. Evidently, some would wonder how safe lending crypto is on a crypto exchange. Exchanges like Binance that offer margin trading make it so that you can’t withdraw the funds but can only trade of it. Binance intends to eventually scale up to 20X leverage in margin trading but will start with 3X.
This kind of trading is, therefore, a great addition to Binance and its operation. The fact that more users have funds for trading opens up new sections of the market. Margin lending makes the exchange have a banking dimension and adds a different dimension to operations. Going forward, the exchange stands to benefit from this operation as it will mean additional trading fees and greater liquidity.
Bringing In More Custodians
Custodians will add an extra dimension to Binance operations just like Fiat currency exchanges. A custodian is essentially an institution that holds customer’s securities to reduce risk of theft or loss. For a crypto exchange, this means a custodian of digital assets. With a larger operation, Binance is looking at bringing in more custodians to improve stability and security.
Tim Enneking, Managing Director, Digital Capital Management explained the relevance of custodians to crypto exchange as follows:
“Crypto is working towards the same desired end-state of where we are today with fiat exchanges. The market is forming the same separations of parties to create the triumvirate of broker-dealers, qualified custodians, and (crypto) exchanges working together.”
The scope of Binance functions goes beyond the lending operation. Binance has now cast its net wider to attract customers in many other ways. Beyond the exchange, Binance also has the Binance Labs platform. This branch is in charge of investments and conducting advanced blockchain infrastructure research. Accordingly, the network can work on related projects in the meantime.
Furthermore, Binance has plans to launch the Binance futures operation in a few weeks. The essence of futures is customers being able to speculate on price trends in the future. Futures are obviously a common feature of the stock market and have higher risk or reward depending on coin performance.
Incidentally, Binance also intends to build a charity arm. As a matter of fact, the charity has already reached over 30,000 beneficiaries. Going forward, the exchange intends to build on the progress and spread its blueprint in blockchain research. These will truly cement Binance’s position as a leader in this industry.
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Cloudy skies early, then partly cloudy after midnight. Low 34F. Winds light and variable.
What is in a Seed?
By Lydia Holley
What is in a seed? Always, it holds hope. Depending on the seed, it can hold other things, too. Sometimes, it is friendship. I was gifted some four o’clock seeds by fellow Master Gardener Claudia Durham. After they are growing in my garden, I will think of her whenever my four o’clocks bloom.
The seeds she gave me are fresh as she had just harvested them. Therefore, they should have a high germination rate. When you purchase seeds, many times they have a date stamped on the package which indicates the recommended planting year. This date is not an expiration date, although the older the seed, usually the lower the germination rate.
How long will a seed be viable? It depends upon the seed, but it may be longer than you might think. In 2012, Russian scientists grew a type of campion from seeds found encased in permafrost which were 32,000 years old. These seeds, however, are considered regenerated since they used tissue cultures and a special propagation technique to make the immature seeds viable.
The Guinness World Record holder for the oldest germinated seed is a date palm grown in 2005 from a seed discovered in the 1960s. Although it was found at that time during an excavation of Masada, the seed itself was 2,000 years old.
Perhaps it was the desert climate where Masada is located that helped preserve the seeds. Masada is a mountainous fortress 1,300 feet above the Dead Sea on the edge of the Judean desert. Originally built by Herod the Great, it is most famous for the siege which lasted several months and the mass suicide of those who refused to become Roman slaves. Scientists believe the seed may have been from around that time.
This particular date palm seed came from an extinct species, at least it was before the seed’s germination. What is in a seed? Many times it is nourishment. It is interesting to think that one day we might be able to purchase fruit grown from a plant previously considered extinct.
Before the date palm seed was successfully grown, the oldest known seed to germinate was a 1,300-year-old lotus found in a China lakebed. Lotus seeds are generally considered to have a 20 year viability, but scientists have also grown lotus from seeds up to 700 years old, finding a 80 percent germination rate on a group of seeds close to 500 years old.
Even the lotus plant itself can live up to 1,000 years and is considered by many to be a symbol of longevity. Microbiologists are now studying lotus genetics for possible anti-aging solutions. What is in a seed? Perhaps the fountain of youth.
For more information, call 903-675-6130, email hendersonCMGA@gmail.com, or visit txmg.org/hendersonmg.
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Cult of the Hexad
Afterlife Saga, Volume 6
By: Stephanie Hudson
Narrated by: Rebecca Rainsford
Series: Afterlife Saga, Book 6
Categories: Romance, Paranormal
The Pentagram Child: Part 2
As Keira and Draven reunite, it is but a bitter sweet moment as it is time they must put their loyalty on the line in the ultimate test of trust in order to seek the truth. But making it through the gates of Hell and back in one piece isn't something they can expect or take lightly. As for one of our destined lovers, a fight for the other's survival is something they will have to face alone. Will Draven release Hell on Earth for the sake of the woman he loves or let her go?
4* on performance-imagined a deeper voiced Dom
By MaD on 11-29-17
Sacrifice of the Septimus
'Together we stand and together we fall.' Because this time, what is asked of the Chosen One, she cannot do alone. Keira finds herself enlisting the help of her friends as she goes beyond the realms of sanity and steps into a world the likes of no other. One that is filled with personal demons she has no choice but try and tame. Join our heroine as she must face the Fates head on and discover what it truly means to be the Electus.
I enjoy these books but...
By TeeSkog on 11-07-17
The Pentagram Child
Afterlife Saga, Book 5 (Part 1)
After finding out the traumatic truth, Keira tries to move on from the doors of Afterlife and the love lost through a world of pain. But Afterlife's King isn't yet done with her, and Keira once again finds herself stood opposite the man who broke her heart. However, the truth that she thought she knew will soon unravel, and Keira finds herself following the ribbon of lies all the way to the very gates of hell. And as Keira knows more than most, the pursuit of truth can be a dangerous game to play when your opponents are supernatural killers.
By Barbara Huysmans on 08-14-16
Blood of the Infinity War
Afterlife Saga, Book 8
As Keira still finds Persian sands beneath her feet, she is yet to discover the true meaning of what it is to be The Chosen One to the King of Kings. For now that Arsaces has her, he simply plans on keeping her.... No matter what the cost. Even if that means fighting the prophecy and stealing her from the only world she has ever known. A world that is about to end.
It can't be over!
The Quarter Moon
The Afterlife Saga, Book 4
With Keira finding death at her door, she is suddenly plunged into a world of the unknown and has to face it alone...or does she? Soon this new life is filled with heartache, shadowed followers and cryptic messages that promise only to lead her deeper into world of the supernatural like never before.
Love these books!
By Jade on 09-03-20
Happy Ever Afterlife Part 1
The end of days might be over for our newlyweds, but the dark nights are closing in, and what lies waiting in the shadows is what even nightmares are afraid of. Because the King of Hell is back, and now he has a new bride to keep hidden from the world below...a world that shows no mercy, right along with one of their rulers. Could it really be that Draven is keeping secrets from Keira, and if so, how is she ever to reach him when he is hiding in plain sight? A Demon King has finally returned home, and this time...there isn’t an Angel in sight.
love the series but
By toreanna hall on 10-03-18
Afterlife Saga
The end of days might be over for our newlyweds, but the dark nights are closing in, and what lies waiting in the shadows is what even nightmares are afraid of. Because the King of Hell is back, and now he has a new bride to keep hidden from the world below...a world that shows no mercy, right along with one of their rulers. Could it really be that Draven is keeping secrets from Keira? And if so, how is she ever to reach him when he is hiding in plain sight? A Demon King has finally returned home, and this time.... There isn’t an Angel in sight.
a must read series
By denise davis on 06-25-20
The Triple Goddess
Keira soon finds herself becoming a pawn in a game she could never hope to win, and now the King on the board is a Vampire on a mission. With the only man to stop him miles away from the mountain prison in which she is kept, she must now choose which path to take in order to survive. With enemies at all sides closing in quickly, she must tread carefully, or she might find the only man to save her isn't the White Knight she loves but the Dark King she loathes.
Damn Frustrating!
By M. Knight on 09-07-16
The Two Kings
Length: 33 hrs
After facing her nightmares head on, Keira soon finds her troubles have only just begun, and if she thought mortals were dangerous, then being hunted by the world’s most powerful beings will spin her further into a web of supernatural destruction. Keira can’t help seeing the handsome man before her. She can’t help the dreams that consume her, and neither can she stop him from wanting her. But the controlling man who follows her every move isn’t the man she’s dating but the man who's hunting her.
18 hours too long and still 5 books to go.
By LC ADEA on 01-30-16
Vincent's Immortal Curse
Kings of Afterlife, Book 1
Narrated by: Zara Hampton-Brown
Being faced with an uncertain future is nothing new for Ari, not when you lived each day under the control of a demonic cult. But now Ari lives with a new enemy and one she can no longer run from...her past. But soon she will discover that even her past can cling to their future and hold it captive in the form of a curse. So, with a murderer lurking in the shadows of their past and an Angel on the hunt, a killer is not the only thing out there for Vincent to find.
I miss Rebecca Rainsford.
By camie on 05-12-19
Afterlife...just some gothic nightclub where gossip is fuelled by the presence of a rich and unearthly, handsome family or afterlife...the strange place where time seems to stand still and guests feel the presence of something more powerful held within the confines of the VIP. Keira is new to this small, cold town and is running from a past that seems to feast on her darkest memories. She finds living with her sister away from English soil to be just the ticket to the new life she is trying desperately to find.
By Inkleindtoo, Charlee Klein on 01-19-16
Venom of God
Transfusion, Book 2
Narrated by: Marya Freeman
Foresight is a great thing. It would have come in handy. Like when I decided to try and steal from an angry Vampire King. Nope, probably wasn’t one of my better ideas. And now he’s decided he’s done waiting, whatever that means. He tells me I have pushed the limits of his patience for the last seven years and now it is time to claim what is rightfully his.
Loving this series as much as the first series!
By CCW on 03-28-20
Blood of Kings
Transfusion Book 3
So, there were many things I could have done differently. I could have gone on a cruise and forgotten about stealing a killer box from a Vampire King. I could have shaved my head and become a Tibetan monk. I could have also lost my virginity to some nice Texas cowboy who wanted to introduce me to his mother. But instead, I went to Germany and ended up fighting Mercenaries. I also fell in love with a Vampire King who claimed me as his. And now I’m in the river and all because I decided not to just stay home and do my laundry. No, instead...I shot a pilot.
Really struggling to finish this... Grow a backbone Amelia!
It’s been seven years. Seven long years since that cold and cruel Vampire King, Lucius, broke her heart. Her naive little heart destroyed after one painful night when she sneaked in to his Gothic nightclub, Transfusion. Seven years since he humiliated her, casting her aside and telling her just what he thought about her little obsession with him. Then he saved her life. Well, now he is back, and this time he is out for blood, and all she can hope for is that it isn’t hers that’s on the menu.
By BuuBooKitti on 05-15-20
The Glass Dagger
Afterlife Chronicles, Book 1
Narrated by: Kris Dyer
When a bunch of misfit orphans all find themselves on a bus heading towards a new life, one called Afterlife, it wasn’t quite what they had in mind. But even fate can play games and five teens will soon find themselves asking even more questions than ever before. Questions about an uncertain future in this new world and the very first one on the top of that long list...what does the King of Heaven and Hell have in store for them?
Changed narrators now??😡
By Vernie Pauley on 04-18-19
Draven's Afterlife
King of Kings, Book 1
Narrated by: Russell Bentley
Afterlife, just a place for an unhappy king to call home or soon to become a beacon of hope when a new waitress falls at his feet? The Gothic nightclub is about to welcome a new guest, and this time it is one he can’t control. As for Dominic Draven, the king of all supernatural life, handling just one little mortal named Keira should be no problem for him…right? Wrong! As she is his chosen one, she is not meant to be ruled by a domineering, overbearing, arrogant boss who is determined to keep her at arm’s length.
I loved hearing Draven's POV
By Rharris01 on 07-15-20
The Forbidden Chapters
In this Forbidden Chapters book you will find lost gems from the first three books in the Afterlife Saga. As a request from all you wonderful Afterlife fans, I have compiled them all together for you, creating part 1 of the Forbidden Chapters, so that you might enjoy these added extras. So, if you can’t get enough of Draven, Vincent and Lucius, along with some of your other favourite characters from these three books, then look no further for your next Afterlife fix.
The Hells Ring
Once again, the teens were not only faced with a ton of unanswered questions after what had happened down in that cell of death, but on top of all that, they had classes to pass! But this wasn’t the only thing that faced this misfit bunch of teenagers, because they had new powers to control and inner demons to face, a blood oath to figure out, a mechanical bad ass named Gruen out for blood...and oh yeah, a Hell’s Ring to fight. Which meant that their first year at the Afterlife school was going to be interesting all right. In fact, it might just end up being...Hell on Earth!
Time. Truth. Life.
There is weakness in all when lies are told but the strength in each is what we must behold. Can our Chosen One find her way back from the deception and chaos that surrounds her or is this the life of a trapped girl, broken and lost forever?
A worldwide search might be on the cards but what if the girl they're looking for was never meant to be found? These are the questions both sides face in a race against time, truth and the life they are all trying to save. The battle against evil continues in the most unlikely of places and emotions run wild in this next instalment of the Afterlife saga. Will you take the plunge with our characters and delve deeper into the world of Afterlife, further than you've ever gone before?
©2015 Stephanie Hudson (P)2017 Audible, Ltd.
What listeners say about Cult of the Hexad
This one confused me
Ok...so truthfully ,,, this one confused the heck out of me. To the point, I started it, tried to understand the Katie/Keira thing...misunderstood what had happened with the mirror thing, put it down and didn't pick it back up until just recently. I enjoyed the series to this point so I decided to give it another try. It was still a stretch for me, but it was an okay addition to the series because..... Vincent has a love interest! Good for him! I always thought he needed someone. Sofia has had Zagan, Dom has waited for and now has his Electus, but no one even really said anything about the third sibling, Vincent. That being said ... do all the main supernaturals have Electus's? I thought Keira was the only one. Where is Stephanie going with this? Hmm. Guess we have to wait and see.
I really enjoyed listening to this book. Rebecca did fantastic job narrating once again. I really liked "K", she had me rooting for her in the end. "I know, what?!, but I did." Lucius, I love the banter between Draven and him. It was such a fun book to listen to. So wiith that, Stephanie, you did a freak en awesome with this book.
Vernie Pauley
What in the H--- is going on?😡
What is going on?? I have loved every story till this one. This one had me confused, bored and angry for a real story plot. Did you just grab something out of " left field " for this story? It would also be nice if the King and Queen could be together for more than two sentences before being torn apart?? The beginning of the next book didn't sound too promising either. I'm really disappointed at where this saga is heading.
dont get addicted to these books
please please put the next 2 books on here!!! the 7th book has 2 parts like book 5 did. I loved these books. please let me finish them!
Could be my “fave” of the series
I absolutely loved this book. It’s really confusing in the beginning but just keep listening to Katie’s story. You won’t regret it!
Stephanie-Hudson, I can’t wait to get to work everyday so I can listen to my Afterlife Sagas!! Thank you ❤️
denise davis
fantastic listening
Stephanie Hudson has hit it out of the park with this book. what do you do when your taken and have your memory taken? Well you get directed to your soulmate without even knowing it. Then you all kick a** to save the girls. This is a must read/listen to. you will fall in love with Stephanie and her books.
Confusing or what
This one really tried my patience, the previous books were fantastic and really drew you in but this one.... Keep listening as it does eventually all become clear.
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The Inner Secret: Faqir Chand on Visions
By: David Christopher Lane
Narrated by: Don Abad
Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism
There is no doubt in my mind that Faqir Chand is one of the most important shabd yoga masters in history and that his frank confessions of “unknowingness” are of vital importance for those interested in religion and spiritual masters. Faqir reveals what other gurus will not. Here in the MSAC Philosophy Group at Mt. San Antonio College, it is our wish to republish almost all of Faqir Chand's books and pamphlets in English and give them a wider audience. This book, The Secret of Inner Visions, contains judicious selections from Faqir's small book, The Essence of Truth. Since the latter book contains more or less verbatim transcriptions from several of Faqir Chand's satsangs, readers should be aware of its more vernacular and informal tone. Nevertheless, a close reading of Faqir Chand's radical thinking will undoubtedly have a liberating impact on the reader since he doesn't mince words.
One of the most refreshing aspects of Faqir's philosophy is that he readily admits that he doesn't ultimately know anything (similar to his Greek counterpart, Socrates, and the Chinese poet Lao Tzu) and that he is most open to being wrong. In all my many travels to India and my interviews with scores of shabd yoga teachers, I have never met a more honest and forthcoming spiritual teacher than Faqir Chand. He is perhaps the most straightforward guru in history.
In the early 1980s I coined the term the Chandian Effect, which describes in a nutshell what Faqir realized about inner visions and other miraculous incidents. Whenever a person has a spiritual vision of a holy man or woman, they invariably believe that such an apparition is real and manifests of its own accord. But according to Faqir Chand's realization, none of these visions are objectively real since they arise (even if unconsciously) from one's own mind and that the personage one beholds is ignorant about such a manifestation.
©2017 David Christopher Lane (P)2017 David Christopher Lane
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November 18, 2019 July 4, 2018 by Phil Barker
Homeopathy:
Unsound Science...?
Geoff Johnson Vet MB MA MRCVS VetFFHom PCH
Published 1 March, 2018
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Homeopathy – Unsound Science or Hundreds of Years Ahead of Its Time?
200 years ago Homeopathy predated the cutting-edge advances of modern medicine. These concepts are individualised medicine, the ability of emotional distress to cause serious chronic disease, like treats like, epigenetics and the Vital Force.
This demonstrates that the RCVS Council does not understand what science is...
On the 2nd November 2017 the RCVS Council issued a statement asserting that homeopathy is not based on 'sound scientific principles'. This demonstrates that the Council does not understand what science is, namely: observation of phenomena; hypothesis; predicting; testing, experimentation and data-gathering; refinement and alteration; expansion or rejection; theory (1).
This is exactly how the principles of homeopathy were realised, and why it expanded to become the second most widely used medicine in the world (WHO - 2).
It is not 'Science' to say that phenomena that do not fit the accepted paradigm should be rejected; that is anti-science and stifles progress..
We do not actually understand most of our universe. Consider basic questions such as why do we sleep, how do animals migrate, how do paracetamol and many anaesthetics work, and how did life begin? We have theories but are short on answers. We don't know what makes up 80% of the matter of the universe – the so called dark matter. After spending trillions we may be beginning to get a glimmer of how the most obvious thing in the world works, namely gravity.
It is ridiculous to say 'It is not sound science because we don't know how it works'. The fact that 'science' has yet to understand the mechanism of homeopathy is likely to be due to two things: homeopathy lacks the billion-dollar profits of the pharmaceutical industry for research, and it works by an advanced mechanism, as yet undetectable by 21st Century Homo Sapiens.
To quote Brian Cox:
“I'm comfortable with the unknown - that’s the point of science. There are places out there, billions of places out there, that we know nothing about. The fact that we know nothing about them excites me, and I want to go out and find out about them. That's what science is. So I think if you’re not comfortable with the unknown, then it’s difficult to be a scientist. I don’t need answers to everything. I want to have answers to find.”
Professor Brian Cox
The establishment has routinely turned on those who go against accepted dogma.
Copernicus and Darwin are obvious examples, among many. Another is Einstein who turned the Victorian materialist universe on its head. His concepts were so revolutionary that much of the scientific community initially rejected them as being too outlandish.
The comparison of Einstein to Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, is totally valid.
Hahnemann was probably the most extraordinary genius in the history of medicine, and his ideas were far ahead of his time, also in many areas outside of homeopathy, such as in the compassionate treatment of the insane. His homeopathic theory was original and revolutionary.
Homeopaths are criticised for returning to the work of a man from 200 years ago, but physicists delight in studying Einstein. Geniuses are in short supply. Fortunately there are a few working currently in homeopathy, which has enabled it to undergo great advances in the last 30 years.
The five homeopathic concepts were initially ridiculed, but subsequently all of them except one are now accepted by modern medicine, which has only caught up with two of them in the last few years.
Homeopathic principles in the 18th and 19th centuries
1. Individualised Medicine
This is a medical procedure that separates patients into specific genetic groups. Medical decisions, practices, interventions and products are then tailored to the individual patient, based on their predicted response to or risk of disease. To quote Professor Johnson, chief clinician, Cancer Research UK:
“Personalised medicine is the most exciting change in cancer treatment since chemotherapy.”
Unlike 'conventional' medicine from the 18th to the end of the 20th Century, Homeopathy was always about the individual. There is no such thing as a homeopathic remedy to treat chronic arthritis in a dog. Each individual dog may require a different remedy. The choice will be based on the exact objective symptoms, character, behaviour, phenotype and a detailed history. This is why homeopathy is not suited to unsophisticated double blind trials. Future conventional medicine won't be either.
2. Serious Chronic Disease is Caused
by Mental Stress
It has been accepted for a few years in human medicine that stress is an important factor in the development of chronic disease, and recently the veterinary world is beginning to come on board.
However in 2010 the Veterinary Times published a case of osteosarcoma successfully treated using homeopathy, leading to annoyed letters being sent by some vets wondering why the character of the dog and the stresses it had experienced were relevant. One author described the possibility of homesickness causing osteosarcoma as 'farcical'. At that time few people knew about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE). These demonstrate an association of stresses experienced as a child with health problems when an adult. This has been a notable landmark in epidemiological research, and has recently produced more than 50 scientific articles and 100 conference and workshop presentations. (3,4,5)
Crucial in the choice of remedy
Hahnemann had realised very early on in his homeopathic practice that understanding mental stress and emotional history was crucial in the choice of remedy. There are no drugs in conventional practice that take into account the physical pathology together with the mental and emotional state, which may be why this area has been poorly explored by modern medicine.
It is obvious to a vet taking a homeopathic consultation that animals are affected by specific emotional stresses, and subsequently develop disease in exactly the same way as humans. Their prescriptions reflect this. All remedies treat mental and emotional symptoms as well as physical. It is only recently that mainstream science has accepted that animals experience emotions (7). Animal emotions were never mentioned in my six years at Cambridge.
3. Like treats like
This had actually been a concept in medicine for centuries, referred to by Hippocrates and Paracelsus (8,9). However Hahnemann, through experiment and observation, was the first to develop a system that reliably employed the principle.
In 1790 he grasped the law of Like Treats Like, or the Law of Similars, when he observed that the symptoms produced by eating cinchona bark (containing quinine) were very similar to the symptoms of malaria. He postulated that this was likely to be why quinine could successfully treat malaria. He then conducted his 'provings' (experiments) on medicines. Groups of healthy volunteers took many different medicines and recorded the mental and physical symptoms they experienced with each.
These drugs were then given to patients displaying a similar symptom picture. These were the first systematic drug trials performed in the history of Western medicine. Nine years later, again through a process of observation, Jenner proposed vaccination.
While the principle is the same, homeopathy is only broadly similar to vaccination. Jenner used doses of a similar disease (cowpox) to prevent smallpox. Hahnemann used medicines which caused specific symptoms in healthy humans, to prevent and treat diseases with a similar symptom picture.
4. Epigenetics and Miasms
Epigenetics is the recent ground-breaking study of changes in organisms caused by modification of gene expression, rather than alteration of the genetic code itself, and has transformed the way we think about genomes.
Darwin wrote in 'On the origin of Species' (1859) that species arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce. Previously in 1801 Lamark had proposed his theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics, which was later rejected. Modern observation and accurate recording has revealed that in principle Lamark had a point.
The environment (e.g. exposure to toxins or chronic stress) can cause epigenetic changes, and these changes can be inherited, at least for a few generations. Stress and disease in the mother or father impacts the health of their offspring before they are even conceived.
In one study, female rats were exposed to a fungicide (vinclozolin) and it was found that epigenetic changes that occurred in the first generation male offspring were faithfully passed on through at least four generations (10). Scientists now think epigenetics can play a role in the development of cancer. Uncontrolled cellular growth can result from epigenetic change that silences a tumour suppressor gene.
Another example is an epigenetic change that ‘turns off’ genes that help repair damaged DNA, leading to an increase in DNA damage, which in turn, increases cancer risk. (11,12)
An individual's gene expression, health, and susceptibility to disease are changed by adverse conditions in the environment and these changes can be passed to subsequent generations in a non-Darwinian manner.
Epigenetics, or the equivalent in homeopathy, Miasm Theory, was fully understood by Hahnemann, and elucidated in his opus 'Chronic Disease', published in 1828.
Miasm theory was an attempt to find a cure (as opposed to simply suppressing symptoms using life-long medication).
Hahnemann came to his theory by spending years poring over his patients' case files. He observed many did well with acute problems but returned ill with chronic ailments. He discovered by detailed history taking and observation that the diseases to which his patients were susceptible, and the way each individual expressed disease, was determined by the illnesses that their parents and grandparents had suffered, especially if these illnesses were suppressed by medication. Using these observations, he developed a method of treating chronic disease. The story is a long one – Chronic Disease is 1600 pages long, but it was epigenetics 200 years ahead of its time.
Samuel Hahnemann – father of homeopathy
5. The Vital Force
Homeopathy uses solutions which have been serially diluted one in a hundred many times, vigorously shaken at each stage. This means that in most remedies there is none of the original material substance left. Homeopaths understand these medicines contain an energetic pattern of the original starting substance.
Homeopathy states that in all living organisms the ultimate control of the functioning of the body and mind, including the immune system, lies with a dynamic energetic force called the Vital Force. To interact best with this force, an energetic medicine is preferable. The material body and all its chemical functions are simply the hardware. The Vital Force is the software, and is not detectable by early 21st century science.
However in one form or another this force has been assumed to exist by every race of humans as far back in history as we can determine, and is variously called the qi, spirit, astral and other bodies, soul, prana, ka, hun, atman and others.
That is unsound science.
I predict that the greatest scientific discovery of the 21st century will be the vital force. I wonder if homeopathy and Hahnemann will be acknowledged as the first to realise the action of this force in disease and cure? Somehow I doubt it, as although all the other cutting edge theories of Hahnemann have been completely vindicated by, and are central to, the most modern developments in medicine, the attacks upon homeopathy by the so-called sceptics continue. That is unsound science.
scientus.org 'The Scientific method'
Tierney LM, 2003. Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment Revised Appleton & Lange. Page 1701
The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study.cdc.gov. Atlanta, Georgia: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Violence Prevention. May 2014.
Stevens, Jane Ellen (8 October 2012). The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study — the Largest Public Health Study You Never Heard Of. The Huffington Post
Felitti, Vincent J; Anda, Robert F; et al. (May 1998). "Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults: The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study". American Journal of Preventive Medicine.14(4): 245–258
Animal Emotions: Exploring Passionate Natures: Marc Bekoff BioScience, Volume 50, Issue 10 Pages 861–870,
Yes, Animals Have Feelings Jonathan Balcombe, Humane Society Institute for Science and Policy December 10, 2014
http://www.zephyrus.co.uk/paracelsus.html
Hippocrates' Oath and Asclepius' Snake: The Birth of a Medical Profession p15 T. A. Cavanaugh
Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance of Vinclozolin Induced Mouse Adult Onset Disease and Associated Sperm Epigenome Biomarkers Carlos Guerrero-Bosagna
Cancer Epigenetics: From Mechanism to Therapy. Mark Dawson Tony Kouzaride
Carcinogenesis. Epigenetics in cancer Shikhar Sharma
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November 18, 2019 May 13, 2018 by Phil Barker
PETicide
A systemic destruction of health and the environment?
Dr Mark Elliott BVSc VetMFHom MRCVS MLIHM PCH DSH RSHom
www.markelliott.co.uk
Our Pets are important to us, some for the job they do, others for their being part of our families. The bond between man and beast may never have been stronger. Yet strangely, at such a time, we are applying ever more toxic chemicals to them in the form of pesticides and wormers. And we are doing this ever more frequently with very little concern being raised about the short or long term side effects.
These side effects may be significant for man, beast and the environment – each individually is of concern, together they become a potential catastrophe. The widespread use of these agrochemicals in pets without diagnosis confirming need, and without full resolution of safety concerns, I would argue is certainly imprudent and potentially disastrous and must be reconsidered immediately.
...there has first to be recognition that there is a problem...
Of course to get the wider community to address concerns there has first to be recognition that there is a problem, and therein lies the rub. There is something of an ostrich mentality when it comes to debate on this issue.
However, the near total ban announced by the EU this month (April 2018) on the use of a class of pesticide called Neonicotinoids for all outdoor use on crops, should force a rethink of what happens with their use in Pets.
In the UK the use of these chemicals to prevent infestation with fleas and ticks is arguably now a major source of environmental contamination as highlighted by the charity BUGLIFE (1). Scientific studies have long linked Neonicotinoid use to the decline of Honeybees, wild bees and other pollinators, but they are also highly toxic to aquatic life, and persistent in the environment.
BUGLIFE claims that the evidence shows contamination of freshwaters in the UK with these products can be traced back to their use on Pets.
...huge profits to be made from marketing of pesticides for pets...
There are also huge profits to be made from marketing of pesticides for pets to a consumer society that is easily manipulated. April sees the annual increase in articles and adverts in the Veterinary Press to get Vets on side. Television campaigns as well as emotive articles in the media of death and dire consequences for our animals if we don't comply with the rhetoric promote public demand.
Veterinary practice management software is set up to market these products creating text, email and postal reminders to encourage client compliance.
Once hooked you become a valued client...
Pet “Healthcare” programmes bind clients into application of these chemicals with supply paid for on easy to manage direct debit. Once hooked you become a valued client, maybe even getting discounts on other services if you comply – all seemingly such a good deal.
There are also articles in the veterinary business journals that encourage “mining” clients data for gold (2) with software that can target the non-compliant – there is little escape for the unwary. This might be all very well if there was some logic and reason, as well as a sense of proportion, applied to the subject, but is there?
With the rise of large corporate practices, some might say financial targets arguably override other aspects of debate these days. My own experience of asking new clients who request these products is that they are unaware of the potential side-effects and the environmental concerns.
The actual need to worm, flea and repetitively chemicalise their pets has not been discussed. They have rarely read the information of the packaging, and are shocked and even angry that they have never been informed there might be a problem at all. There was no informed consent, no understanding of the potential for problems, no explanation of the risks to animal and human health in the process of sale, it was just what they were told to do.
Putting aside the financial debate
But putting aside the financial debate we need to ask more about why we have been treating dogs and cats regularly in the UK with chemicals to try and prevent fleas, worms and ticks?
Why are we advised to try and prevent infestations that may not happen? Is there really any logic and sound science behind it? And what are the problems?
Its first always worth looking at what happens elsewhere and why.
In the journal “Companion” published by the British Small Animal Veterinary Association in December 2017 it was notable in a report from Norway that there “We don't routinely worm dogs other than pups and nursing bitches (because there is no need, not because we don't bother..)” (3) Norwegian Vets are not allowed to sell prescription only medicines (POMs), so there is also no financial incentive to prescribe other than for actual need anyway.
Similarly in Denmark prescriptions of POMs are only allowed after a positive diagnosis of infection and there is more awareness of environmental concerns from use of these products. Yes, they do have lots of Lungworm in some areas, but from discussions I have had with Danish colleagues, it is not seen there as such a big deal by Vets or owners as it is marketed to be in the UK.
Lungworm can be a serious disease of course (though often subclinical or mild) but it is regional, seasonal and connected to a certain age group of dogs with a certain behaviour. Colleagues there report they split dogs into groups of different risk and recommend testing at different intervals on that basis – treating only if indicated. (4)
In the UK we are brought up to believe we must encourage regular worming of adult pets for roundworms and tapeworms due to the risks to pet and human health. One doesn't have to look far to see then that this is just not a sustainable or even an evidence based argument.
...to worm too frequently...led to a reduced immunity in the host species
Worming of a pet only treats the current infestation and after just a few days new infestations can begin to establish as the eggs and infective forms of these parasites are pretty much endemic in the environment.
When I was at University, long prior to the advent of many of the newer chemicals, we were categorically told that to worm too frequently also led to a reduced immunity in the host species and greater levels of worms and egg shedding. Within only a few weeks of worming infestations have often re-established and eggs are being shed into the environment – this certainly happens more quickly than in a month, the now commonly recommended interval now by the pharmaceutical companies for the application of topical pesticides and wormers.
Parasites rarely have life cycles that compromise or kill their hosts under normal evolutionary conditions. We do create a potential problem for many species by our manipulation of the environmental conditions under which we keep animals, but for pets its not really that intensive. And as adults we, and our pets, have evolved to live with a low level of infection, and there is even some argument that it is important to maintain health.
It is at times of reproduction that parasites seek to spread to new hosts and that is why worming of bitches/queens (but not in pregnancy as some of the drugs used can be teratogenic) and young is still important as these are the times of increased risk to life. Ask yourself – if most humans have worms anyway, including tapeworms, why are we not wormed regularly?
Risks to Human health?
So if worming fails to completely prevent, should we then really be concerned over human risk from worms in our pets?
Taking a couple of examples:
With the common roundworm – Toxocara – of particular concern is ocular toxacariasis where the larva migrates into the eye of small children It can cause blindness along with some other associated conditions such as epilepsy. So obviously very serious if the child is unlucky enough to be affected. However, a very large study in Ireland (5) failed to conclusively show that infection was linked to dog and/or cat ownership, not least because laboratory results showed a high seropositive rate (31%) of children to exposure to the parasite, but only arguably at worst 12 cases per 100,000 of eye problems relating to the worm.
What did seem linked was geophagia (earth eating) and there was a suggestion that climatic conditions that supported the survival of the infective larval stage may have an impact on the higher level of cases in Ireland than other areas.
Whatever, it is clear, for all the worming of Cats and Dogs done there is no demonstrable decrease in human risk of this disease, and it is reported there are 34 million Toxacara eggs released per square kilometre per day (6), and yet it is at times described in the veterinary literature as the most common zoonosis to pass from dogs and cats to humans.
Whilst exposure levels are clearly very high, also clear is the very low risk of consequent disease from Toxocara. Compare this to Toxoplasma (a protozoan) transmission from Cats which is some 10 times more commonly reported as actually causing eye problems, as well as risking the unborn child (7). And yet we don't preventatively treat for that at all – personal hygiene is the way forward there. Hygiene is arguably the way forward for Toxacara too as the eggs only become infective in the external environment and contaminated food/pica/infected water sources are in fact the main routes to human infection.
In the UK it is said that children can accidentally ingest a flea infected with the larval stage of the Tapeworm, Dipylidum caninum. Infection can lead to diarrhoea and pruritis but is rarely serious in actuality – the stress of seeing tapeworm segments in a child’s stool or nappy is probably the main concern rather than it being a significant issue for human health. So again not really an argument for repeatedly chemically exposing everyone in reality.
In Europe and other countries (fortunately not the UK at the moment) there is a serious disease caused by a Tapeworm called Echinococcus granulosus. It is not that long ago I sat in a committee meeting where the Human health risks of Echinococcus granulosus entry into the UK through imported pets was raised.
Human deaths occur in Europe, including in young people, from this tapeworm. With an asymptomatic incubation period of 5-15 years before clinical signs are triggered treatment is not always successful even if diagnosed. In dogs it causes no symptoms. Some have concerns (myself included) the Pets Passport scheme rules are not stringent enough to prevent this crossing onto our shores, and that scheme arguably has made the illegal import of dogs into the UK more prevalent.
Considering in the UK our pets live in our houses and sleep in our beds, it would be devastating if this parasite ever got over here. If it did then routine tapeworm treatments may well be justified. However, these are not really the main chemicals of concern and are a tablet format as well, so faeces can be more easily disposed of responsibly.
In dogs that travel there would certainly be a legitimate argument for more and targeted worming on return to the UK. Some would say why travel a dog and put it (and us) at risk at all? We certainly need more action on illegal imports and our loose borders before we have a mass panic when the first child dies, there is a press furore, and dogs are abandoned on the streets.
What about Ticks?
Clearly there is growing concern over zoonotic diseases transmitted by Ticks, with Lymes Disease being the most commonly recognised problem. But the dog itself is not going to give its owner the Lymes Disease – that will only happen if the owner is bitten by an infected Tick, and there are plenty of precautions that can sensibly put in place to manage ourselves.
Yes the dog is at risk itself, but there needs to be a logical approach to decrease risk by application of the least level of insecticide at an appropriate time that will kill the tick without it needing to bite the animal to get a lethal dose. Spot-on chemicals that rely on systemic (throughout the whole body) dissemination of the active ingredient with risk of attendant side effects, and which rely on the tick biting, are not logical to my mind. There are now very effective collars with less systemic and environmental risk (with good pet management) and which mostly kill without the need to bite, that can be used in affected regions. Although even these are not without some risk of exposure.
So clearly the Human Risk from parasites of pets is, whilst not nil, negligible and quite arguably resolved in the main by good personal hygiene. Education of pet owners I would argue would go a lot further towards reducing risk to human health than selling chemical products.
Lungworm: Angiostrongylus vasorum
On the surface this appears to be a special case, with reports of it spreading throughout the UK, or at least the reports have increased and are recorded cumulatively as the marketing has raised awareness. However, the very marketing that seeks to strike fear into our hearts that our beloved pets will die a terrible death also contains the information to calm those fears –or does it? (8)
It is stated that there is a product that effectively resolves infections after just two doses 32 days apart (8). Great news, nothing to fear then? Do I believe that? No, nothing is that perfect, the treatment group was small, and reports are coming in of failures in preventative programmes now (from discussions with a testing laboratory).
That said my experience is that it works mostly, and I would prescribe it more frequently to a confirmed infected case as it seems illogical to treat at greater intervals than the pre-patent period of the worm and expect 100% efficacy anyway. It doesn't happen that way in other species, so I don't see why it would in dogs.
At least the number of deaths is not huge. Around 6 every quarter if reports are to be believed (there may be other cases missed diagnostically, or just not reported). From that figure one has to suspect clinically asymptomatic infection is more likely and the Danish approach already discussed is more logical as a way forward. And compare that to the estimated number of Road Traffic Accidents involving dogs in the UK, at around 100,000. Investment in training and a collar might be a better focus for marketing campaigns targeting responsible dog ownership.
The main source of spread is arguably the urban fox. Data shows infection rates of foxes at around 18% (50% in the south east) (8). Keen Springwatch fans will recall the coughing fox that was chased out of it territory in Brighton and travelled miles and miles before disappearing off the radar, presumably spreading infection all along its path? Its perhaps not politically correct to blame the fox, but in my opinion the movement of pets around the country is not enough to explain the spread of a condition where even the Kennel Club’s website explains: “Not every snail or slug carries the disease and lungworm's geographical limitations means infection is currently relatively uncommon, but it does rear its head from time to time”.
Logic says do not encourage urban foxes into your garden, if there has been case locally consider how best you protect your pet, but in my opinion the best route to take is to monitor your pet for infection and keep the products that are effective, effective, so they are there when you need them the most. Like antibiotics, if used indiscriminately resistance to currently effective medications is inevitable.
What are the Side effects of these chemicals? What are their impacts on the environment?
There are now so many chemicals on the market that it would be difficult in one article to assess and present them all even if they were all known about and even published. Side effects that can affect the animal, associated animals (including humans) and worryingly also the environment are rarely researched as long term issues, published or even reported. And researching a negative result takes years and massive population cohorts to determine.
Add to that the UK reporting system of reporting adverse reactions is reliant on voluntary engagement, and various surveys in the human field with such systems suggest that as high as 95% of problems are never reported at all (9)
So we have to look at data sheets from manufacturers for acute reactions, and what long term human studies there are for more information. There is also a lot of information on governing agency websites of reports of adverse reactions, and a number of campaigning groups now becoming very active on the internet and on social media over concerns with some of the products being applied to pets.
Perhaps the most commonly used insecticide in spot-on preparations in pets is Imidacloprid – a Neonicotinoid.
Neonicotinoids are classified by the United States Environmental Protection Agency as both toxicity class II and class III agents and are labeled with the signal word “Warning” or “Caution.” Because the neonicotinoids block a specific neuron pathway that is more abundant in insects than warm-blooded animals, these insecticides are more selectively toxic to insects than mammals (10). Note the words – more abundant – not therefore not present….
The most available toxicity data of the neonicotinoids is with imidacloprid. These data indicate that it is less toxic when absorbed by the skin or when inhaled compared to ingestion. It causes minor eye reddening, but is non-irritating to the skin. Signs of toxicity in rats include lethargy, respiratory disturbances, decreased movement, staggering gait, occasional trembling, and spasms. There are no accounts of human poisoning, but signs and symptoms of poisoning would be expected to be those similar for rats (10).
Those are acute symptoms, but there are general population studies in humans reporting associations between chronic exposure and adverse developmental or neurological outcomes, including tetralogy of fallot (a developmental heart condition), anencephaply, autism spectral disorder, memory loss and tremors (11).
Accepted these studies presented limited and weak data, but enough to raise concerns and a call for more research. Other studies have raised concerns over high dose exposure leading to degenerative changes in the testes, thymus, bone marrow and pancreas. Cardiovascular and hematological effects have been observed. Long term low dose exposure has been associated with effects on the liver, thyroid and weight loss. In rabbits studies have raised concerns over reproductive toxicity, developmental retardation and neurobehavioural deficits. (12)
If we think of the problems we are seeing in general practice today, there has to be concern that some of the problems we see might be a consequence of acute and chronic exposure (including of Vets to animals that have had these applied). Remember always absence of evidence is not evidence of absence – it is better in my opinion to adopt a precautionary approach than to find out later one could have avoided the avoidable.
Bees. Perhaps much more importantly than the impact on our Pets, and us, is the fact that to members of the genus Apis, the honey bees, imidacloprid is one of the most toxic chemicals ever created as an insecticide. Several studies have found that sub-lethal levels of imidacloprid increase honey bee susceptibility to the pathogen Nosema. Research has found that bees consuming the pesticide suffered an 85% loss in the number of queens their hives produced, and a doubling of the number of bees who failed to return from food foraging trips.(13)
In May 2012, researchers at the University of San Diego released a study showing that honey bees treated with a small dose of imidacloprid, comparable to what they would receive in nectar and formerly considered a safe amount, became "picky eaters," refusing nectars of lower sweetness and preferring to feed only on sweeter nectar. It was also found that bees exposed to imidacloprid performed the "waggle dance," the movements that bees use to inform hive mates of the location of foraging plants, at a lower rate. (12)
Researchers from the Canadian Forest Service showed that imidacloprid used on trees at realistic field concentrations decreases leaf litter breakdown owing to adverse sublethal effects on non-target terrestrial invertebrates. (14)
Aphids have been found to lead to altered behaviour, such as wandering and eventual starvation. Very low concentrations also reduced nymph viability. (12)
And I have heard it said that faeces from pets cause demise of local invertebrate life for some distance if left to rot away (but I cannot find any research to date on that). Clearly though it makes sense to pick up dogs mess and dispose of it responsibly if there has been a recent application of pesticide to the dog as excretion of the chemical is causing toxic levels in the environment as the BUGLIFE report shows
In January 2013, the European Food Safety Authority stated that neonicotinoids pose an unacceptably high risk to bees, and that the industry-sponsored science upon which regulatory agencies' claims of safety have relied might be flawed, (12). Thank goodness the EU has seen sense to phase these chemicals out for crops – now we must do our bit with Pets and reduce, even stop altogether, their use without clear evidence based need.
Beyond insects, Imidacloprid has been shown to be highly toxic to four bird species: Japanese quail, house sparrow, canary, and pigeon (12) It is reported that at imidacloprid concentrations of more than 20 nanograms per litre, bird populations tended to decline by 3.5 per cent on average annually. And this is not related to any other land use factor (15). Other reports show birds exposed to these chemicals become disorientated, lose their sense of direction, become unable to migrate
Of the neonicotinoids, imidacloprid is not only the most toxic to birds but also to fish (10). Imidacloprid is further highly toxic on an acute basis to aquatic invertebrates so it is especially worrying that the 2016 report by BUGLIFE on Neonicotinoid Insecticides in British Freshwaters (1) specifically implicated veterinary topical applications and flea collars as the most likely source of pollution with Imidacloprid in some catchment areas. Neonicotinoids are persistent, stable and long lasting in the environment. They recommended a thorough review of the use of ectoparasite treatments and their use should immediately be suspended in the UK .
According to the European Food Safety Authority, imidacloprid poses a potential high acute risk for herbivorous and insectivorous birds and granivorous mammals. While chronic risk has not been well established (12) (scientific parlance for – we don't know but we don't want to say its safe).
It is notable that the data sheets that come with spot-on products containing imidacloprid do not routinely carry the warning that the chemical should not be allowed to enter water courses as it has harmful effects on aquatic organisms. Quite arguably (as noted) nor should the pet be allowed to urinate of defecate anywhere where environmental contamination might result (so pretty much everywhere) and waste disposed of responsibly. This is in my opinion a travesty as harm is being done now.
Imidacloprid is just one of the many treatments marketed for regular use in the UK on pets. Controversies over this and other products are growing, with websites and social media sites now picking up on concerns and gathering huge amounts of data on cases (see further reading). So why is more action not being taken to highlight and reduce the use of these products to a situation similar to that mentioned in Norway and Denmark?
And will the use of regular treatments when there is no need produce resistance to the chemical in the fleas, worms and ticks? Speaking to one laboratory recently they are now seeing cases of Lungworm not responding to Imidacloprid so problems may be starting already.
So how do we go forward logically and sensibly?
There needs to a common-sense proportionate risk based assessment of the need for control of parasites in pets.
Clearly other countries are leading the way and regard the environmental impacts as more important than occasional infection in pets. Treatment is not prevented, it just must be with correct diagnosis and investigation and the response be proportionate to the risks. This is no different than the current initiatives for antibiotic reduction that are widely recognised as responsible, even if there are individual casualties from time to time.
Consumers in general and the pet-owning public in particular need to be more mindful and questioning rather than trusting what they are told by manufacturers and those with a vested interest in selling products. Vets need to take the lead and educate the public to only use these products when absolutely necessary and only after diagnosis and only in the correct amounts to resolve a problem efficiently and effectively with appropriate disposal of any contaminated waste and fluids (stools, urine, waste from shampooing).
If applying any topical insecticide keep the pet away from children until it can be guaranteed that it is safe for them to be in contact.
Our recommendation (at this time) is:
Firstly before putting chemicals on your pet ask yourself - would you willingly apply pesticides and other chemicals to your children on a monthly basis? If not then why are you doing this to your pets? And anyway is the low-level exposure of humans as a result a potential route for harm? And what are the risks for the environment from using that product?
Then consider
In Tick areas where the ticks are known to carry disease risk, use effective collars that act both as insecticide and repellent. Take these off on walks if the dog is going into water
For ALL worms only to worm adults based on need. Send regular faeces samples to a laboratory for monitoring (2-4 times annually). Treat only for species identified as a concern, and at high levels indicating a problem.
In all cases where worms are found in quantity investigate for concurrent disease that might have an impact on the immune system.
Worm Cats and Dogs once they have given birth, and worm puppies and kittens through the at risk period.
For Fleas and other ectoparasites, treat on first sign of infestation with an effective product until the problem is resolved. If concerned over long term problems use an effective collar during the spring/summer months, but take these off on walks if the dog is going into water.
Neonicotinoid Insecticides in British Freshwaters: 2016 Water Framewrok Directive Watch List Monitoring Results and Recommendations. Shardlow M 14 Dec 2017 available online
Data alchemy: discover why your top 20 per cent of clients are pure gold. E Ward Veterinary Business Journal. May 2016
Norway and the UK: Compare and contrast. Companion Dec 2017 Pg 19
Personal Communication referencing Danish Code of Conduct for Vets
Ocular Toxocariasis in Schoolchildren. Good B. et al CID 2004:39 (15 July) 173-178
Data in marketing literature for Milbemax wormer from Elanco
Zoonotic parasitic infections contracted from dogs and cats: How frequent are they? Schantz P DVM360 01-03-07
Data in marketing literature for Advocate from Bayer
Drug Safety: Side effects and mistakes, or adverse reactions and deadly errors? Carleton BC and Smith MA BCMJ, 48, 7 Sept 2006 329-333
.Pesticide Toxicuty Profile: Neonicotinoid Pesticides. Fishel MM University of California
Effects of Neonicotinoid Pesticide Exposure on Human health: A Systemiatic Reiew. Cimino A et al. Environmental Health Perspectives July 2016
.Wikipedia: Imidacloprid – apologies, I don't usually reference Wikipedia, but there is some good summary data here.
Whitehorn, P. R.; O'Connor, S.; Wackers, F. L.; Goulson, D. (2012). "Neonicotinoid Pesticide Reduces Bumble Bee Colony Growth and Queen Production". Science. 336 (6079): 351–2. doi:10.1126/science.1215025. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 22461500
.Kreutzweiser, DP.; Thompson, DG.; Scarr, TA. (May 2009). "Imidacloprid in leaves from systemically treated trees may inhibit litter breakdown by non-target invertebrates". Ecotoxicol Environ Saf. 72 (4): 1053–7. doi:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2008.09.017. PMID 18973940.
Hallmann, C.A.Hallman; Foppen, Ruud P. B.; Van Turnhout, Chris A. M.; De Kroon, Hans; Jongejans, Eelke (2014). "Declines in insectivorous birds are associated with high neonicotinoid concentrations". Nature. 511 (7509): 341–3. doi:10.1038/nature13531. PMID 25030173.
Further Reading and information
For regular wormcounts to see if your pet has an infestation go to www.wormcount.com (note I have no financial association with this laboratory)
Veterinary Pharmacovigilance in the United Kingdom Annual Reviews (available online)
European Medicines Agency – Veterinary Pharmacovigilance bulletins (available online)
Conclusions of the Worldwide Integrated Assessment on the risks of neonicotinoids and fipronil to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Van der Sluijs JP Environ Sci Pollut Res DOI 10.1007/s11356-014-3229-5
www.beyondpesticides.org - a useful database of information
November 18, 2019 March 11, 2018 by Phil Barker
Recollections of a Veterinary Homeopath
Jack Hoare
BVSc, VetFFHom, CertIAVH, MRCVS
It was in 1965 when I went to Liverpool Veterinary School.
Our year was the last one to use the horse as the type animal for anatomy, and also the last year to have a practical pharmacology exam.
We were given prescriptions and then made the appropriate medication: pills using a pillboard, cutter and cup; a lotion; a cream and a medicine. Points were gained for using the correct bottle or other container, sticking the labels on two thirds of the way up the bottle, and also for incorporating the correct materials. The Sub-dean called it ‘applied alchemy’. It will come as no surprise to you that homeopathy was never mentioned officially. If the topic was ever raised it was as a source of humour.
Extremely effective
without any side effects
Although the use of antibiotics and steroids was firmly established in veterinary practice by the time I qualified, the use of Galenicals and herbals had not died out. I still remember using tabs digit leaf. They were small white tablets in which small pieces of leaf material could be seen quite clearly.
They were extremely effective and could be given to dogs of all sizes without any side effects being noticed.
However a pure glycoside was isolated in 1875 and declared to be “the active principle”. It’s full structure was not determined until 1962 when pharmaceutical chemists were able to manufacture it. That is when things started to go wrong for the medical professions.
Digitalis purpurea
Chemists claimed that digitalis leaves varied
The chemists claimed that digitalis leaves varied, one from another, and contained a multiplicity of ingredients so that each batch would be chemically different from each other.
In contrast, their compound (digitoxin) was pure and so each batch could be standardised. So in spite of there being no practical troubles or “side effects” with the use of the natural leaf, the artificial chemical ought to be a much better choice even though it had the effect of causing vomiting in 1% of users.
Not realising its full implications
The professions bought into this argument, namely that artificial but standard chemical medicines were better than natural but slightly variable ones, even though they caused more adverse reactions. These were swiftly renamed “side effects” which sounded less damaging to the patient.
The medical professions bought into this new scientific – sounding approach to medicine production, not realising its full implications, i.e. you couldn’t patent a naturally occurring substance but you could patent a manufactured equivalent of an active principle. It was this ability to patent their products that lead eventually to the development of the modern powerful pharmaceutical industry
The initial injection followed by a 5 day course of tablets began to emerge
In the 60’s most medical cases were given a 3-day course of Streptopen injections, i.e. a penicillin/streptomycin mixture, usually in conjunction with Betsolan.
The rationale was that the antibiotics would deal with any infection, whilst the steroid would stop any serious inflammation developing; or if inflammation was the prime concern the steroid would prevent infection developing whilst the immune system was suppressed.
In the late 1960s oxytetracycline began to replace Pen and Strep and the initial injection followed by a 5-day course of tablets began to emerge.
During the 70s and 80s not only did more, stronger antibiotics come on to the scene but so did more powerful and longer acting steroids appear.
“In spite of this my clinical results barely improved at all”
But the treatment costs were beginning to grow
This was when I began to get disillusioned with my career, particularly with respect to chronic inflammatory conditions.
It was all quite depressing
I could suppress symptoms by giving increasing doses of steroids, but the symptoms returned soon after the steroids were stopped.
I sort of fell into a cycle of periods during which I gave high doses which diminished the symptoms but caused a high thirst to develop followed by a low dose period in which the thirst disappeared but the symptoms only vanished for a relatively short period.
Then when the stronger, longer acting steroids appeared, we began to see adrenal gland malfunctions. It was all quite depressing.
It was at this stage of my career that I began to associate anal gland impaction with ear trouble. I discovered that almost invariably dogs with otitis external also had impacted anal glands and that the ears improved quicker if the glands were expressed. I also noted a progression of itchy skin going to recurrent A/G trouble and then onto ear problems. I couldn’t explain it then, but then I had not heard of Hering.
Then the food industry began to see the profit from pet foods
In the late 1960s, the American food company brought the Science Diets to the UK . “We will only sell it through vets, not supermarkets” they said. “It will help you to make more money”. Then when the profession had built up sales sufficiently, it began to be sold in shops but other varieties of Science Diet were offered to veterinary surgeons and a similar cycle established.
The profession acted as super-salesmen for Hill's
In the 1960s veterinary surgeons would say:
“If I wanted to sell dog food I would open a pet shop. I am a professional...”
“I do not buy paper from my accountant, nor pencils from my accountant”. But in the 1970s the profession’s waiting rooms began to look more like a pet shop, selling everything a pet owner could want.
The next stage in the debasement of the profession came in the 1990s.
Veterinary surgeons were becoming wary of investing in Practices. Non-vets were allowed to own practices, and companies were established to cream off any profit that a practice could make.
Hard business principles were applied
Sales targets set
Large chains were built up
Veterinary surgeons lost control of the profession
Its debasement complete
Read Nick Thompson's article on the 10 minute consultation
In 1998, at a meeting in Belgravia House, a big wheel from Banfield – a chain of over 500 practices in the USA – said that all the branches were to be connected to a central computer.
The veterinary surgeon would make an examination and take the history. He/ she would then feed the details into a computer, which would tell them what tests to make.
When the test results were fed back into the computer it would announce what the diagnosis was and what drugs should be prescribed.
This he maintained was “Best Practice”.
When asked what would happen if the veterinary surgeon disagreed with the computer, the answer was that the veterinary surgeon was free to diagnose and prescribe whatever he/she wanted to, but if their results were not as good as those achieved by those, who followed the computer’s advice, then they would be sacked. Unfortunately no one thought to ask what ‘good’ was in this instance: clinical effectiveness or financial profit.
Recently however, the profession has started to fight back.
The promotion of Raw Meaty Bones began to affect the pet food industry…
… while the “Don’t Over-vaccinate” movement has begun to have an impact on the pharmaceutical industry’s profits.
This has of course initiated a response by Big Business, which resents loosing its profits. Unfortunately because it is the holistically based practitioners, the attention is focused on them. Because the homeopaths have been most vocal (and in my opinion the most effective in their opposition to the current order of things), they have been singled out for the first onslaught by Big Business.
The veterinary homeopaths are being attacked on all fronts…
… both inside and outside the profession.
I do not usually subscribe to conspiracy theories, but the profusion of apparently coordinated attacks by units such as the Good Thinking Society and the Campaign for Rational Veterinary Medicine plus the Council RCVS leads me to think that it must be organised.
That means it needs financing. There is no prize for guessing where the money is coming from.
“I ask you, how can a part-time Veterinary Surgeon afford to organise and run a nationwide series of meetings at which homeopathy is mocked?”
Don't be too dismayed.
It is my opinion that if we hold firmly to our principles and are not afraid to shout them from the rooftops, then homeopathy will be recognised as the force for good that it is, and homeopathy and the BAHVS will come out on top.
Shout it from the rooftops
London demonstration + video
Crowd Funding + video
10 minute consult
November 18, 2019 February 7, 2018 by Phil Barker
On the 10 Minute
Veterinary Consultation
Nick Thompson,
BSc (Hons) Path Sci., BVM&S,
VetMFHom, MRCVS
The consultation is at the very epicentre of veterinary medicine. It is the cornerstone of communication, diagnostics, client education, practitioner fulfilment and practice revenue. Sadly, in general veterinary practice today, it is almost impossible to achieve.
Recipe for a perfect storm, (10 minute consult)
The average length of consultation in vet medicine is about 10 minutes, according to Robinson et al., writing in the Veterinary Record in 2014.
Bizarrely, within the 182 consultation study, the 9 minutes and 49 second median consultation time does not count time spent reading or writing clinical notes before or after the consultation, talking to the client in the waiting room, or preparing medications or samples once the client had left the room.
Maybe the authors live in an ideal world where irksome things like walking, greeting and doing a good job are now superfluous? Whichever may be true, it would suggest that a ten-minute vet consultation is typically not fit for purpose.
9 1/2 frantic minutes
By my calculation, the 'average' (i.e. perfect, swift, uncomplicated, sterile, business-like and totally unrealistic) consultation, there needs to be nine stages: Preparation and note reading (at least 60 seconds), greeting (30 seconds), understanding owner's concern (at least 30 seconds), examination (at least 120 seconds), summary of findings (30 seconds), treatment (90 seconds), explanation of vet's expectation (at least 60 seconds), conclusion (90 seconds) and note writing/sample preparation (at least 60 seconds). This adds up to an absolute minimum of nine and a half frantic minutes.
“I'm getting palpitations just thinking about it”
Imagine the stress of your favourite vet orchestrating this process 24 times a day
That's 2 hours consulting in the morning, then 2 hours in the evening for most of their career. Is there any wonder that vets are renowned for heading up the professional suicide rates and mental health is now a hot topic.
Of course, some consultations will be shorter, some longer, but I would suggest all have a degree of rush, stress and compromise. Add simple and everyday complications like vet inexperience, complex cases, vets new to a colleague's ongoing case, long written histories, chatty clients, nervous animals and unforeseen circumstances, and you have the recipe for the perfect storm.
The consequence of this stress bubble (the consultation) is poor communication through lack of time (increasing the chance of litigation), overuse of pharmaceuticals to 'get the client out the door' and migration of very able vets out of general practice into industry, child rearing or quitting vet medicine altogether.
Corporate practices now prominent across whole of UK
Corporate practices are now prominent across the whole of the UK. Here, turnover of vets is high, often using younger clinicians, some with English as a second language and consultation length is tightly controlled. All these factors increase vet stress in the consultation, reduce consultation quality, helping neither the vet, the business, the client or the pet.
“The pharmaceutical and pet food giants supplying veterinary practices are delighted with this stressy status quo”
pressured vets prescribe more drugs…
Pressured vets prescribe more drugs, treat less well, increasing the likelihood of repeat visits, so needing more drugs and further costly diagnostics. Who shoulders the brunt of the fallout created by short consultations?
The pet of course.
Your animal is the put-upon partner in this pressurised medical interaction. They suffer more vet visits, longer periods of ill health (as they are passed from vet to vet), increased likelihood of unnecessary intervention and living with an anxious, frustrated owner.
It has to stop!
We vets need to put more emphasis on time spent listening to and educating owners and less on numbers and production-line medicine.
The word 'Doctor' derives from the Latin, 'docere', to teach, after all. We must increase consultation length and charge appropriately; the better the communication, the less need for drugs and tests, the better the health of the patient, their guardian, the veterinary surgeon and the whole veterinary community.
For the sake of the animals in veterinary care, not to mention our sanity and professional satisfaction, we vets must consult more wisely.
Robinson, NJ., Dean, RS., Cobb, M., Brennan, ML. (2014) Consultation length in first opinion small animal practice Veterinary Record Published Online First: 26 September 2014. doi: 10.1136/vr.102713
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Putting social media to work
Early adopters are gaining real economic value from their investments in social media. Customers who engage with companies over social media are more loyal and they spend up to 40% more with those companies than other customers.
By Chris Barry, Rob Markey, Eric Almquist and Chris Brahm
Five years ago, few general managers outside of the tech industry had heard the term “social media.” As social networking services such as Facebook and Twitter broke loose on the mainstream business scene, the majority of companies stood on the sidelines trying to make sense of it all.
Despite the proliferation of corporate Facebook pages and Twitter accounts during the last couple of years, most businesses still effectively remain on the sidelines. The gap between the early adopters and those waiting to take the plunge has actually widened. While the average billion-dollar company spends $750,000 a year on social media, according to Bain & Company analysis, some early adopters such as Dell, Wal-Mart, Starbucks, JetBlue and American Express invest significantly more. In some instances, the investment is tens of millions of dollars. Who is right—the early adopters or the companies still waiting it out?
Our research shows that several early adopters have captured real economic value from their investments. But the social media scene is so turbulent and frothy that many others have poured good money after bad in their attempts to engage customers. The leaders typically employ the same tried-and-true business principles—refined through traditional marketing, service and operations—applied in new ways. While they often experiment and sometimes fail, they don’t allow themselves to fall into the trap of thinking that somehow “everything has changed” in this new world.
As part of a broader customer engagement strategy, social media can be an effective and cost-efficient marketing, sales, service, insight and retention tool. Our recent survey of more than 3,000 consumers helped to identify what makes social media effective. We found that customers who engage with companies over social media spend 20% to 40% more money with those companies than other customers. They also demonstrate a deeper emotional commitment to the companies, granting them an average 33 points higher Net Promoter® score (NPS®), a common measure of customer loyalty (see below, “NPS 101”).
Embracing empowered consumers
More than 60% of Internet-connected individuals in the US now engage on social media platforms every day. The speed and access to information that they’ve come to appreciate has made them more demanding customers. For example, many now expect real-time customer service recovery and quick responses to their online feedback. Hyper-connected individuals regularly broadcast their opinions. And they rely on their friends and social networks for news, reviews and recommendations for products and businesses.
Social media leaders understand and appreciate the magnitude of the shift in customer empowerment and the opportunities and risks that these tools create. As a result, they approach their social media efforts differently. While the average company may maintain Facebook and Twitter accounts and have other discrete programs run by their marketing or customer service teams, in our experience, these efforts tend to be uncoordinated, with different business units, brands or geographies conducting their own social media experiments.
By contrast, the leading firms invest significantly more. They pursue integrated social media strategies, with a more holistic assessment of the value that social media can create across the businesses, and with efforts directly tied to strategic business objectives. As the early adopters continue to invest, their peers take different approaches. Some feel that they have social media at least partially sorted out with their Facebook pages and Twitter accounts. But others are beginning to ask more questions:
• What is the business case for investing further in social media? Where and how much should we invest?
• Fundamentally, how much is consumer behavior changing? What are the biggest opportunities and threats? How aggressively are my competitors investing in these tools, and are they capturing differential advantage?
• What are the best practices in deploying social media strategies? What are the pitfalls to avoid?
• Should we build or buy our own “community” or partner with one of today’s leading platforms? Or both? Where should we place our bets?
• How should we organize and coordinate our efforts? Across brands? Across business units? Across geographies?
• How should we measure results? How do we know whether we are creating real business impact?
While no one can say for sure how social media will evolve, and no one can know which platforms will ultimately endure, the long-term winners are likely to take a systematic approach based on five key principles:
1. Link social media efforts to concrete business objectives
The roadmap for a successful business-to-consumer social media strategy starts first and foremost with understanding the full value that social media can create as one tool in a broader customer engagement strategy.
Social media shouldn’t be viewed as a mere channel for marketing or public relations or as simply an effective customer service tool. While many companies started out using social media to get the word out about products, the most successful have significantly expanded their efforts to engage their customers at every step of what we call the “customer corridor,” touch points that start when a potential customer first learns of a product and extend through the moment they opt to make repeat purchases.
Social media can create value at each step along the way to:
• Generate awareness at a fraction of the cost of traditional advertising media and enable hyper-targeted marketing
• Prompt trials with daily and increasingly real-time, location-based promotions
• Improve the product or user experience by embedding social capability; examples are social gaming, social television and social shopping
• Wow customers with real-time service response, recovery and technical support, with greater efficiency than traditional channels
• Capture torrents of consumer insights, and facilitate consumer-led innovation
• Build community and affinity through engagement, earning greater loyalty, spending and referrals
Several companies have registered real bottom-line results from their social media efforts. Most impressive, however, are the companies that have stepped back and deployed holistic social media strategies aimed at unlocking value at each stage of the customer corridor.
Consider Dell and its broad use of social media. Dell’s current social media efforts grew out of the company’s customer-centric and direct selling model, founder Michael Dell’s foresight of the power of online social engagement, and some infamous prodding on technology blogs. Brought to life as a way to respond to customer service issues, Dell’s social media efforts expanded in multiple directions, helping the company increase revenues and retain loyal customers. To boost sales, the company’s Dell Outlet site offers flash promotions through Twitter. The computer maker uses feedback generated on social media to improve its products and customer service: Direct2Dell facilitates active dialogue between customers and company leaders, while its IdeaStorm.com enables crowd-sourced ideas and gives customers the opportunity to collaborate and prioritize product and service improvements. Finally, the company relies on social media to activate promoters and acquire new customers: @Dell interacts with potential customers—and also facilitates promoter interaction with potential customers. End-to-end, social media is a key tool in Dell’s customer engagement strategy.
2. Focus and tailor your efforts to engage your key customers
Winning companies have learned that, while an effective social media strategy can reap big rewards, it also isn’t something that happens easily. It is obvious to many companies now that you can’t just put up a Facebook page and start broadcasting content. You can’t take for granted that fans will just stick around and allow their walls to be filled with marketing and promotions.
Bain & Company research shows that the average Facebook user will “like” no more than seven companies or brands. Facebook users must be selective or they will soon find their walls flush with corporate messaging and promotions, leaving little room for posts by friends and family. To increase the odds of capturing valuable real estate on a customer’s wall, it is critical to know your target audience and understand which social media platforms they frequent, as well as the type of content and engagement they find most compelling. Only then can you optimize your platform mix and tailor your content to reach those customers.
Our research has identified 10 segments of social consumers. Members of these segments frequent different social media platforms and prefer different types of content and engagement models. For example, companies such as Disney, Wal-Mart and Mattel, who target “moms,” will find they are disproportionately “Social Butterflies” and “Social Gamers.” A key demographic on Facebook, “moms” as a group spend significant amounts of time playing social games. Companies such as Nestlé have found ways to embed their brands into the games that moms play online. For example, the company allows users to grow ingredients of its Stouffer’s brand prepared meals within the FarmVille game. It engages with key customers in the right platform, and with the content those customers find compelling. Alternatively, companies looking to capture the online attention of the “Young and Mobile” will reach them through micro-blogs and location-based games, making the most of the platforms that are popular with this segment. As the social media ecosystem continues to evolve, it will likely further fragment, making consumer segmentation—and tailored social media approaches—even more important for success.
In addition to tailoring efforts to key customers, companies need engagement plans that explicitly target their promoters and detractors, as well as key influencers. Promoters are a company’s natural fans, though our research shows that a company’s Facebook fans and Twitter followers are actually a mix of promoters, passives and detractors.
Most companies dread the vocal and influential detractor. Social media offers these unhappy customers a platform from which to quickly broadcast their negative commentary. Companies such as JetBlue and Dell, who actively monitor social chatter, engage detractors on a real-time basis in an effort to diffuse heated commentary. In the best outcomes, they successfully convert those detractors to promoters. Dell estimates that its customer service teams can convert a detractor to a promoter more than 30% of the time. JetBlue’s real-time Twitter customer service recovery force received much attention for its adept handling of last December’s “Snowmageddon.” JetBlue effectively converted stranded passengers from detractors to promoters by quickly rebooking them on new flights. And these successful recovery efforts were witnessed by JetBlue’s 1.6 million Twitter followers. Stories of the exceptional recovery reverberated broadly across the Web and beyond, as traditional media outlets picked them up. JetBlue estimates that its customer service recovery over Twitter is more productive than when delivered over alternative channels and that it can handle five customer-related tweets for every one call handled through a call center. As the company’s successes have grown, it has continued to invest further in its Twitter-enabled customer service team.
Social media leaders also think just as carefully about how they can effectively nurture and mobilize “Influencers”—those hyper-connected individuals who have disproportionate online clout. Companies such as Microsoft, Dell, and Procter & Gamble host events for Influencers, provide special online recognition, allow them to try and test products, and host online chats. They invest in the Influencers to magnify the impact of their engagement efforts.
3. Build a social media organization to deliver results
Once a company has linked its approach to business strategy and targeted its key customers, it needs to put in place an organization to follow through—an organization that’s designed to enable coordination and share best practices. Winning companies mobilize cross-functional teams spanning marketing, sales, public relations, corporate strategy, customer service, product development, IT, HR and legal.
Many companies today have social efforts siloed across functions. Leaders align their organizations to more effectively coordinate and communicate. Why is this important? First, it allows the entire organization to learn from each customer touch point. Second, it better enables the company to deliver a consistent and seamless customer experience.
While the organization must ultimately be defined by a company’s unique social media strategy, we’ve seen three successful organizational models deployed to coordinate social media efforts:
• Empowered units. Dell is a great example of a company with an empowered unit structure. Within this type of organizational model, the social media strategy is managed by a cross-functional team that can be staffed virtually or centrally—or a combination of the two. The head of the social media organization holds responsibility for integrating the vision, coordinating strategic initiatives and defining metrics and dashboards. Each function deploys its own social initiatives but circles back to the group with insights and best practices.
• Command and control. Starbucks’ social media strategy is deployed by a single, central social media organization. Such a team may exist within a function or as an independent team under corporate. That approach allows for strong centralized control of consistent brand messages and customer experiences.
• Decentralized. Zappos and Best Buy both deploy social media in a decentralized fashion. In this model, a small central team coordinates the efforts of numerous employees who individually engage with customers via social media. Many companies deploying such a model report that empowering employees increases morale and retention. With this model, it is especially important to devise and communicate clear social policies and procedures in order to manage risk to the business and brands.
Leaders also look for ways to capture the greatest scale benefit from their investments in organization and tools. Social media organizations tend to grow as companies prove they are achieving benefits. While most companies build the social media organization initially to engage their customers, they often find that they can also use these same social teams and platforms to engage their own employees and their partners.
4. Monitor and measure the results—then close the loop
Creating the right dashboard to measure and track results is critical. There are a few challenges in measuring the return on investment (ROI) on social media efforts, and many companies will remain gun-shy about spending until they capture concrete evidence of ROI (See below, “Making the business case for social media”).
Leaders are quickly evolving their monitoring and measurement approaches. They are investing in the tools and methods to better integrate and connect social conversations, Web analytics, customer records and purchase data. The aim is to both improve the effectiveness of their social campaigns and to better capture the data needed on leads and conversion to calculate financial returns.
Generally, companies should think about measuring performance and tracking results in three key ways:
• Engagement metrics. Companies find it valuable to track the percentage of customers “engaged”—looking at such basic measures as site traffic, fans and followers. Additional engagement metrics include buzz and share of voice. While most companies rely on third-party analytics firms to capture these metrics, leaders such as Dell and Gatorade have invested in their own social media listening command centers. Within these centers, employees complement social media monitoring software with a dashboard of key metrics such as brand discussions, customer interactions and media campaign performance. These dashboards emphasize the role of listening as an organizational priority, and better enable companies to spot important trends quickly.
• Customer metrics. Social media leaders invest in the tools necessary to track shifts in loyalty and NPS. They also invest in the manual “cleaning” of listening and analytic tool output to capture shifts in sentiment.
Social analytics providers are still developing their machine-based algorithms to better capture sentiment trends, which are difficult to obtain with natural language translation (see below: “A caution on sentiment analytics”). We expect that these firms—along with the broader set of social engagement, social management and social intelligence support tool providers—will continue to invest to improve their tools. We also expect further consolidation in this space as the market continues to evolve and mature.
• Financial impact. Leaders aggressively capture personal identifiers to link social media profiles and associated behavior to customer records databases. Contests and promotions that require registration of email addresses and Twitter “handles” help bridge social identities. Once the connection is made, companies can more easily track leads, conversion and ROI on social campaigns.
In addition to measuring the success of social media efforts, those companies that truly extract value from social media “close the loop.” They take the torrents of consumer insights captured via social engagement and relay them back to the product and customer service teams. It is this closed loop that allows companies to strengthen the underlying business value proposition. Ultimately, that is how social media delivers long-term, sustainable value.
5. Be flexible and adaptive. It’s still early days
Social media is one area in which everybody is learning in real time. Just as companies need to continuously experiment to determine what works for them and their customers, they also need to negotiate an increasingly crowded playing field, with newcomers always joining the game. The companies that succeed will be those that are flexible and adaptable. They’ll be able to quickly try new approaches and just as quickly adjust— or abandon them. They’ll listen to social consumers and relay their findings back to product and service teams to strengthen the company’s underlying value proposition.
These still are the early days and we expect the gap between social media leaders and others to continue to grow. Consumer behavior will continue to evolve. New applications and social platforms will proliferate and enable even greater personalization and real-time, location-based engagement. Today’s social media winners won’t necessarily be tomorrow’s.
But amid the continuous disruption of a rapidly evolving game, companies that link social media to business objectives, target and tailor their engagement to key customers, build a coordinated organization, track results and close the loop, and stay flexible will significantly increase their odds of capturing real value from social media.
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Chris Barry is a partner in Bain & Company’s Los Angeles office. Rob Markey and Eric Almquist are partners in Boston. Chris Brahm is a partner based in San Francisco.
One effective way to measure the effect of a social media program on customer loyalty is with the use of a Net Promoter system.
To start out, one should measure a Net Promoter score (NPS) by asking customers the question: “How likely would you be to recommend [this company or product] to a friend or colleague?” Respondents who give marks of nine or 10 are promoters, the company’s most devoted customers. Those scoring their experience seven or eight are passives, and those scoring it from zero to six are detractors. NPS is the percentage of promoters minus the percentage of detractors.
After ranking customers, companies create a closed-loop system to learn why customers are promoters, passives or detractors, and to deliver the feedback directly to employees who can act on that feedback. When appropriate, they follow up directly with customers.
Companies make it a priority to increase the number of their promoters and shrink the number of their detractors, discovering and investing behind the actions that improve the company’s NPS in ways that are financially sound and that will result in profitable, sustainable, organic growth.
Making the business case for social media
Many companies struggle to calculate an ROI on their investment in social media. And without confidence in clear returns, have difficulty securing the funds needed to scale their efforts. Companies that most successfully make the business case for social media use a two-pronged approach.
First, they set clear business objectives for using social media at each step across the customer corridor. They run small, contained pilots, carefully tracking returns to demonstrate whether further investment is warranted. For example, if the objective is to generate leads, the same metrics and measures used to assess the effectiveness of other marketing vehicles can be deployed to gauge the success of a social media pilot campaign. If the objective is to boost customer service, the effectiveness can be measured by service resolutions, relative cost and productivity, call avoidance and the ratios of detractors converted to promoters.
Second, companies further build the case by considering the broader value of social media. They articulate the value of engaging their customers where they are increasingly spending time and consider the real business value that authentic engagement can create. Again, customers who engage with companies over social media are more loyal and they spend 20% to 40% more with those companies than other customers do. Social media platforms are becoming increasingly important for companies to engage with, delight and retain their best customers.
A caution on sentiment analytics
Companies considering hiring social media analytics firms should be advised that this science is in its infancy, with serious limitations. Machine-based analytics tools can measure the volume of posts, but they face significant challenges in accurately capturing sentiment. Raw online data may be full of misspellings and gibberish. Natural language is full of sarcasm and slang. As such, time-intensive manual manipulation is still required to accurately assess consumer sentiment and capture consumer pain points. Such limitations have prevented analytics companies from living up to their potential. One strong signal that they fall short: while most industries achieve an NPS of about 30%, the nascent social media analytics industry scores a - 60% NPS, according to Bain research.
While we expect this young industry to consolidate and improve with further investment in tools, few customers of these companies today are promoters.
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Partner, New York
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Advisory Partner, Boston
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The Best Centers In Madden 21 Franchise Mode
By fangbing, November 21, 2020 in General News
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Every offensive possession in football starts with the ball in your center's hands. The center position is the linchpin of the offensive line and is very important for your Madden 21 franchise.
This article will be looking over the best players in the center position for Madden 21's offline game modes only. That includes the Franchise Mode and Face of the Franchise. We won't consider age, contract, or injury status - simply the highest OVR players. With this in mind, let's start!
Jason Kelce - 94 OVR, Philadelphia Eagles
Jason Kelce has played all 9 seasons of his Philadelphia Eagles career since being a 6th round draft pickup. Kelce has been a huge star for the team, a three-time Pro Bowler, and of course, a Super Bowl Champion.
Kelce is a standout superstar at the center position. In Madden 21, Kelce's strengths are his position-leading 74 Agility, 98 Awareness, 98 Run Block, 98 Run Block Finesse, and 95 Run Block Power. These attributes are bringing a higher level of athleticism and speed to the spot to get ahead on run blocking.
Rodney Hudson - 93 OVR, Las Vegas Raiders
No one can deny just how good Rodney Hudson is at playing the center position in the NFL though some seem to try. The fact that he has never been named All-Pro is evidence of that. The folks at EA Sports seem to recognize how talented he is, based on the Madden 21 ratings.
Hudson has an overall rating of 93 which lands him at second at his position in the league, just behind Eagles center Jason Kelce. This skill is displayed in Madden 21 with Hudson's position-leading 94 Pass Block, 96 Pass Block Power, 92 Pass Block Finesse. He also brings a solid 90 Strength. So, yeah, Hudson is pretty good. Safe to say, if you have him at the center of your game, you should be in safe hands.
Alex Mack - 89 OVR, Atlanta Falcons
Alex Mack is one of the older players on this list at 34-years-old, but his work for the Falcons since 2016 has been fantastic, earning him 3 of his 6 career Pro Bowl appearances.
In Madden 21, Alex Mack is tied for the strongest Center in the game with 92 Strength, has a position-leading 94 Impact Block, and brings to the table 95 Awareness, 94 Run Block Finesse, and 92 Run Block Power. Although it’ll be interesting to see just how many quality seasons Mack has left in the tank, the veteran will be a big piece for Atlanta.
Brandon Linder - 87 OVR, Jacksonville Jaguars
At just 28-years-old, Linder is one of the youngest players on this list and has a bright future ahead of him in the center position. With Madden 21 ranking him as the 3rd best center.
On July 25, 2017, Linder signed a five-year, $51.7 million extension with the Jaguars, making him the highest-paid center in league history. While Linder has already seen a record contract, he still will have to grow his skills to match it. His skills in Madden 21 are simply good across the board rather than great in any one area. He brings to the table 88 Run Block, 87 Pass Block, 90 Pass Block Power, and 89 Run Block Power.
Maurkice Pouncey - 86 OVR, Pittsburgh Steelers
Maurkice Pouncey is a decorated powerhouse at the center spot with 8 Pro Bowl appearances in his 10 years with the Pittsburgh Steelers. In Madden 21, Pouncey has a whopping 92 Impact Block and 91 Strength alongside 86 Run Block Power and 85 Pass Block Power. Pouncey made his fourth straight Pro Bowl team last year with fellow his linemen and was a steadying presence in a Pittsburgh offense that sorely needed it.
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Wuhan Cognizance
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Common Crane - BirdForum Opus
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Extremadura, Spain, January 24, 2009
1 Identification
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5.2 Breeding
5.3 Vocalisation
7 Recommended Citation
95–120 cm (37-47 in)
White facial streak
Black wing plumes
Red crown patch
Juvenile: lacks the red crown patch
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Laguna De Gallocanta, Spain, 15 November 2010
Breeds northern Eurasia; winters to north Africa, south India and southeast Asia.
This is a monotypic species[1].
The proposed smaller subspecies G. g. lilfordi ranging into East Asia is now generally regarded as undiagnosable. They do not differ genetically and the supposed color differences are thought to be due to differences in feather-painting behavior. Although now considered to be monotypic, a new race, G. g. archibaldi was described from the Transcaucasian region by Ilyashenko (2008). It is characterized by the absence of bare red skin on its hind-crown. Its validity has been provisionally accepted by Archibald et. al (2019).
A variety of shallow wetlands, including borders of flood forests.
The diet includes leaves, roots, berries, insects, small birds and mammals.
Adults in flight
Photo © by J. H. Johns
Southern Spain, November 2008
The nest is a mound of vegetative material.
They perform a spectacular dance.
Vocalisation
Call: krro and karr
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Calls given in flight by a group of ten individuals before alighting in a nearby field.
Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Archibald, G.W., Meine, C.D., Garcia, E.F.J. & Kirwan, G.M. (2019). Common Crane (Grus grus). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from https://www.hbw.com/node/53560 on 26 April 2019).
Wikipedia contributors. (2019, April 25). Common crane. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 07:52, May 7, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Common_crane&oldid=894074169
Mullarney, K., L. Svensson, D. Zetterstrom, and P. Grant (1999). Collins Bird Guide. Collins. ISBN 0-00-219728-6.
Ilyashenko V.Y. 2008. The new form of crane from Trans-Caucasus. – Russian Ornithological Journal, 17, express issue 412: 559?562 .
BirdForum Opus contributors. (2021) Common Crane. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 17 January 2021 from https://www.birdforum.net/wiki/Common_Crane
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Cummins Power unveils fresh models
Fri, 11/16/2012 - 17:36 -- Ruth Williams
Cummins Power Generation has unveiled a new line-up of gensets, including four smaller gensets based on its proprietory QSB7 and QSL9 engines and a 2 MW mobile unit.
The four, smaller genset models’ capacities are 175 kW, 200 kW, 275 kW and 300 kW. Customer feedback was incorporated in the criteria for the new generators.
The result of this has been more efficient generators. The 175 kW and 200 kW generator sets feature the Cummins’ QSB7 engine, a 6.7-litre six-cylinder platform and have optional dual circuit breakers with identical ampacity trip settings.
The new 275 kW and 300 kW generators are based on the QSL9 engine and have improved cold-starting performance. These new units are added to the company’s existing data centre range of diesel and gas fuelled engines, Cummins said.
The new 2 MW mobile generator is aimed at the North American rental market. The 60 Hz C2000D6RG unit, based on Cummins’ QSK60 engine, is an integrated mobile power generation system for standby and prime power applications. The unit includes a cooling system designed for operation in extreme temperatures and a 1631-gallon dual-walled fuel tank.
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Magic Goes Wrong – Totally hilarious, mischievous stuff!
What happens when some of the funniest people on earth collaborate? Comedy magic, that's what! Welcome to a brand new show created by American stage magic legends Penn & Teller in collaboration with our very own Mischief Theatre company. The result is an evening of grand illusion. Or is it? When magic goes wrong, it's one of the funniest things... ever!
An utter and complete disaster of a magic show awaits you, co-produced by JJ Abrams of Star Wars fame. It might even prove funnier than Peter Pan Goes Wrong and The Comedy About A Bank Robbery, their biggest and best-loved plays. This is the latest 'Goes Wrong? comedy to hit the West End, at the Vaudeville theatre, and this time around the brilliant original Mischief company plays a hopeless group of magicians presenting a charity event with a fundraising target. The only thing is, every time they get a trick wrong the target increases. It'll have you creased up, in bits, helpless with giggles. This is a genuinely, ridiculously funny play in so many ways.
This is the eagerly awaited second instalment of the Mischief company's 12 month residency at the Vaudeville theatre, fresh from their creative powerhouse and due in the city late 2020. The massive West End and Broadway hit, The Play That Goes Wrong, remains on stage at the Duchess theatre, its home since 2014. It's still going strong.
The Mischief Theatre kicked off in 2008 thanks to a couple of former London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts graduates who started their glittering career performing in pubs and at fringe festivals before becoming West End wunderkind. They're widely critically acclaimed and the winners of Olivier Awards, What’s On Stage Awards, and Broadway World Awards. Comedy magicians Penn & Teller are currently the longest running headlining act in Las Vegas. It's a match made in comedy heaven.
The play showcases various types of magic styles, including a classic top-hatted old-school magician and a mind reader, a circus double act, a quick-change artist and an American jeopardy magician. Along with tricks that go horribly wrong, there are plenty that actually go right, and they're brilliant.
One of Hollywood’s biggest producers, JJ Abrams is best known for his work on the TV series Lost and the new Star War trilogy. He's a big fan of The Play That Goes Wrong and helped it transfer to Broadway. The third show in this year-long series at the Vaudeville will be announced at a later date.
As long as you're over 12 years old, you'll adore it. Prepare your laughing gear for some serious exercise!
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Bollywood Hungama » News » Box Office Special Features
Box Office: Toilet – Ek Prem Katha grows on Saturday, brings Rs. 17.10 crore on Day 2
, Aug 13, 2017 - 10:46 am IST
Akshay Kumar and Bhumi Pednekar starrer Toilet - Ek Prem Katha has showed growth on Saturday. The film brought in Rs. 17.10 crore on Saturday after collecting Rs. 13.10 crore on Friday. In fact the film's first Saturday is better than what Jab Harry Met Sejal had collected on its second day [Rs. 15 crore].
A jump was always on the cards since the film had shown good growth towards the evening and night shows on Friday itself. When something like that happens, a film is bound to collect well on its second day. With good word of mouth going in its favor, the film has now collected Rs. 30.20 crore already. What needs to be seen is how big does the film turn out to be on Sunday so that it comes close to the Rs. 50 crore mark.
Earlier this year, Akshay Kumar's Jolly LLB 2 had enjoyed a weekend of Rs. 50.46 crore and for Toilet - Ek Prem Katha this could well turn out to be a touch and go number. Nonetheless, where the film gains from is the fact that tomorrow is a partial holiday too (due to Janmashtami) due to which Sunday night shows are expected to better. Moreover, Monday hold would be much better too when compared to a regular Monday and that would help the film gain at least a couple of crore more too.
All in all, the Shree Narayan Singh directed film is now set well to be a success and it would be growth today and then on Tuesday holiday [Independence Day] which would decide how much further ahead would it go in its quest for the 100 Crore Club.
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Ranveer Singh’s childhood picture is the cutest picture you will come across today!
Ranveer Singh is known for his acting skills and his ability to get into the skin of all the characters that he plays. From his outrageously stylish clothes to his dancing to his energy, truly he knows how to win hearts. Ever since his debut, Ranveer Singh has managed to be in the news making a place in his fans’ hearts with his looks.
He also has a knack for sharing his adorable childhood pictures on social media and the one that he has recently shared is just as cute! Looking like a cute vampire, Ranveer’s recent picture has him posing like one and it is literally the best thing you will see today. Take a look at it.
A post shared by Ranveer Singh (@ranveersingh) on Sep 24, 2019 at 3:00pm PDT
Ranveer Singh will next be seen playing the role of Kapil Dev in ’83 and will also be seen in Takht.
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A not so tall story
Michael Crick | 15:18 UK time, Friday, 23 January 2009
There might be rather more to the Kawczynski story than I originally thought.
On Wednesday night (21 January 2009) I reported on Newsnight on the extraordinary intervention when the Conservative MP for Shrewsbury & Atcham, Daniel Kawczynski (who, incidentally, claims to be the tallest MP in history!) dramatically raised a point of order in the House.
He complained that a police officer had visited his Commons office, without a warrant, as part of a criminal investigation, and, much to his "shame" he had ended up handing over to the police an item of constituency correspondence. The police were looking into a series of threatening letters which had been sent to various MPs, including the Schools Secretary Ed Balls, with a Shrewsbury postmark.
Superficially there seemed to be some parallels with the Damian Green affair before Christmas. But, as I pointed out on Newsnight on Wednesday, Mr Kawczynski was not arrested and his office was not searched. What's more, the Metropolitan Police told Newsnight that the officer's visit had been by prior appointment, and by his own admission in the Commons chamber the MP handed the letter over voluntarily.
And the Conservative high command on Wednesday was pretty dismissive of the whole affair, making it clear they did not intend to pursue the matter, and that it was a non-story. They seemed to think he had over-reacted, and told him not to talk to the media.
On Thursday the Speaker Michael Martin rebuked Mr Kawczynski for "rushing" to make his point of order before he got his "facts together", and he warned MPs:
"I would only ask that honourable members, before they rush to point of orders and before they make statements that can reflect badly on professional people who are doing a decent job of work, that the best thing they can do is to sit and wait for a while and get the facts together."
The Speaker continued: "the honourable gentleman's approach would have been perhaps different if he'd have given himself a breather and thought about what was going on."
The reaction to the story has been pretty unanimous - that Mr Kawczynski is a rather eccentric though amiable figure, and grossly over-reacted. (Some have used stronger and more abusive language).
I now wonder, however, whether the media, the Speaker and The Conservative Party have been unfair to him, and whether there were indeed quite important principles at stake. Worse than that, did the police abuse their position?
Mr Kawczynski has sent me two statements (see below) made by members of his staff, a 22-year researcher and a young intern. These statements explain how, without Mr Kawczynski's knowledge, a plain clothes policewoman got the agreement of the MP's staff to come and visit his office. She wanted to compare handwriting and to see if the Shrewsbury MP had received any letters from the person who was threatening other politicians.
Mr Kawczynski's intern did indeed discover a letter with similar handwriting, but when the policewoman asked to take it away, the intern and the MP's researcher both expressed doubts about the propriety of doing so without the MP's say-so. The staff members both suggest that before the MP returned to his office, the policewoman tried to coerce his staff into handing the letter over by saying that legally the police would be able to seize it anyway.
According to the Mr Kawczynski's researcher Jack Colson:
"... the Police officer announced that she would have to seize the letter. I told her that it would have to wait until the morning as I was not able to contact Daniel. I explained that the letter is not mine and belongs to Daniel, and also contained potentially highly confidential and personal information. At this point the Police officer explained to me that "regardless of your cooperation" she had the right to seize the letter as evidence."
The intern Helen Roberts recalls:
"Jack said that he could not allow the paper out of the office without Daniel's permission to which the police officer informed us that she could legally seize the document right then but that she would not out of courtesy."
Eventually, when Mr Kawczynski turned up, he agreed to give the letter to the policewoman, though he soon expressed regrets about doing so in his point-of-order to the House.
The statements by the two staff members are worrying. If the two accounts are right, it seems astonishing following the Green affair that a policewoman should have used such methods to try and persuade two very young and inexperienced members of the MP's staff to hand over the letter, without a warrant and without first consulting the MP himself. The fact it was a police officer based at the Commons, rather than an ordinary member of the Met Police (as in the Green affair), makes it worse, as one would expect Westminster police officers to be aware of the Parliamentary privilege which applies to MPs' correspondence.
Fortunately, Michael Martin announced yesterday that in future any police officer who wants to approach an MP as part of an investigation will first have to go through the House authorities.
But Mr Kawczynski is still unhappy. On Thursday night he said:
"Telephoning an intern to ask if they could come around immediately to show my staff some handwriting samples does not constitute making an appointment with me; stating to junior staff in my absence that if correspondence was not provided voluntarily, they had the power to seize it, was also unacceptable."
Ok, it's not the biggest scandal in politics, but I do think Mr Kawczynski has good cause to feel aggrieved.
STATEMENT BY JACK COLSON, PARLIAMENTARY RESEARCHER TO DANIEL KAWCZYNSKI MP MADE AT 10PM, 21 JANUARY 2009
At about quarter to six on Wednesday evening I received a phone call from a woman who identified herself as a member of the Parliament based plain clothes Police team - I do not recall her name. She explained that there had been a number of potentially threatening handwritten letters sent to members of Parliament from an address with a postcode within the constituency. She told me that the letters had contained white powder, and had been handwritten in 'backwards handwriting' - as though they had written using a mirror. She said that she would like to come and show me the letters to see if I recognised the handwriting to this and I agreed.
Less than five minutes later she arrived. The police officer showed me the letters, and I told her that I did not recognise the handwriting, and then showed her part of a letter from the only constituent of Daniel's who consistently sends strange handwritten letters in. On seeing that this was not the writing, Helen Roberts one of Daniel's interns s aid that she thought she recognised the handwriting. She then pulled a letter from a file and showed it to the police officer - ensuring that she only showed the handwritten address so as not to reveal the sender's confidential content.
At this point the Police officer announced that she would have to seize the letter. I told her that it would have to wait until the morning as I was not able to contact Daniel. I explained that the letter is not mine and belongs to Daniel, and also contained potentially highly confidential and personal information. At this point the Police officer explained to me that "regardless of your cooperation" she had the right to seize the letter as evidence.
I explained that this was not acceptable, folded the letter up into my pocket and rushed off to try to find Daniel. I went upstairs to outside the Chamber, and asked one of the ushers if he was in the Chamber.
After going in the Usher came back and told me that he was. At this point I passed a note to Daniel via an usher explaining that I urgently needed to see him outside the chamber. I did not mention the fact that there was a police officer in the office. About 20 minutes later I was told by one of the ushers that Daniel had made his speech - on equitable life - and left the chamber. I then received a call from Daniel's intern, Helen, explaining that Daniel was downstairs and that I needed to get down there.
I went downstairs and saw Daniel in the office, talking with the police officer. She explained the situation, and also explained that she was able to seize the letter regardless of cooperation. At this point Daniel asked me to hand her the letter, although he was plainly very unhappy about having to do so. He then left and went to vote in a division that was being called.
STATEMENT BY HELEN ROBERTS MADE AT 10PM, 21 JANUARY 2009
On Wednesday 21st January at approximately 5.45pm Jack Colson, the Researcher for Daniel Kawczynski MP was called by a member of the police from Parliament. Jack told me that she asked if she could come down to the office and ask us if she could look at some documents for her and see if we could identify the writing.
When she (Doreen) arrived about 5-10 minutes later she brought down a copy of an envelope which was addressed Ed Balls MP. Along with this there were three additional pieces of paper which had Gordon Brown, Harriet Harman and Ed Balls name written backwards.
She informed Jack and myself that these had been screened by police security in Parliament and that white powder had been found in the envelopes. She informed me that the white powder was salt. The letters came from Shrewsbury (which is Daniel's constituency) and they wondered if we recognised the writing.
I did recognise the writing and found an original letter from a constituent who had very similar writing. The police officer said she wanted to send the letter to a handwriting specialist for comparison.
Jack said that he could not allow the paper out of the office without Daniel's permission to which the police officer informed us that she could legally seize the document right then but that she would not out of courtesy.
Jack went to find Daniel who was in the House to ask his permission. I continued to look for more documents from the specific constituent. I informed Doreen that we had several hundred 'Post Office Cards' sent by constituents over the past few months and that we might be able to recognise the writing from one of those. She asked me if she could take them and I said that she would have to ask Jack who would need to seek permission from Daniel.
Daniel was called down to the office from the House and met with the police officer. Copies were made of the letter from the constituent and also the police officer gave us copies of the envelope and the MP's names written backwards. The original letter from the constituent was taken by Doreen and I was asked, as the individual who found the letter, to come and make a statement to the police explaining what happened. I made this statement. Doreen asked me to send a copy of the handwriting to the constituency office and ask them to look through their records to see if there was any more correspondence from the constituent. I was once again asked by Doreen if it would be possible to go thorough the post office cards and I reiterated that she would have to ask Jack who would need to seek permission from Daniel. She asked if I could have a look myself. Also, we were asked to keep an eye out for similar handwriting and to keep the envelope if another letter comes, to keep the envelope and inform parliamentary police.
Daniel came down to the office and has the card with the contact details of Doreen, the copy of the constituents letter and the copies of the envelope which was addressed Ed Balls MP and the three additional pieces of paper which had Gordon Brown, Harriet Harman and Ed Balls name written backwards.
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Comment number 1.
At 22:11 24th Jan 2009, boabycat wrote:
I hope that the politicians in this country will take notice of President Obama's inauguration speech in which he refers to the liberty/safety struggle.
We must not allow our feedoms, hard won, to be taken for granted and ridden over rough shod by this or any future government for the sake of political posturing or gain.
This kind of pressure from the authorities who should have known better is utterly unacceptable in a democracy. These incidents cannot be allowed to pass without vigourous investigation to ensure that they do not happen again.
"When they came for me, no one was left to speak for me."
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At 21:31 25th Jan 2009, barriesingleton wrote:
It is interesting that Michael has recorded this incident in detail, prompting one belated comment. How ironic if this turns out to be the first tendril-tip of a monster!
Could the police be sending someone a message? Think I might have a small bet on the outsider.
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Almost all of those released on Saturday were elderly or unwell, said Reuters. An early estimate of their numbers was put at 350, but later reports said there were some 200 in the group.
The group, including several sick infants, were taken directly by Kurdish Peshmerga forces to a health centre for treatment.
image captionKurdish forces met the group at a crossing point near the city of Kirkuk
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Despite the above date, the Schedule to the Act, including the Map of Nisg̱a'a Lands and the Appendices, is current to May 11, 2000. See "Amending Agreements" for amendments to the Schedule.
Nisg̱a'a Final Agreement Act
[SBC 1999] CHAPTER 2
APPENDIX M
Appendix M-1 Collaborative Negotiations
Appendix M-2 Mediation
Appendix M-3 Technical Advisory Panel
Appendix M-4 Neutral Evaluation
Appendix M-5 Elders Advisory Council
Appendix M-6 Arbitration
Appendix M-1
COLLABORATIVE NEGOTIATIONS
1. In this Appendix:
a. "Chapter" means the Dispute Resolution Chapter;
b. "party" means a participating Party to collaborative negotiations under this Appendix; and
c. "section" means a section in this Appendix.
2. Collaborative negotiations commence:
a. on the date of delivery of a written notice requiring the commencement of collaborative negotiations; or
b. in the case of negotiations in the circumstances described in subparagraph 7 (c) of the Chapter, on the date of the first negotiation meeting.
3. A notice under paragraph 15 of the Chapter requiring the commencement of collaborative negotiations will include the following:
a. the names of the parties directly engaged in the disagreement;
b. a brief summary of the particulars of the disagreement;
c. a description of the efforts made to date to resolve the disagreement;
d. the names of the individuals involved in those efforts; and
e. any other information that will help the parties.
4. A party may attend collaborative negotiations with or without legal counsel.
5. At the commencement of the first negotiation meeting, each party will advise the other parties of any limitations on the authority of its representatives.
6. The parties will convene their first negotiation meeting in collaborative negotiations, other than those described in subparagraph 7 (c) of the Chapter, within 21 days after the commencement of the collaborative negotiations.
7. Before the first scheduled negotiation meeting, the parties will discuss and attempt to reach agreement on any procedural issues that will facilitate the collaborative negotiations, including the requirements of paragraph 26 of the Chapter.
8. For purposes of subparagraph 26 (a) of the Chapter, "timely disclosure" means disclosure made within 15 days after a request for disclosure by a party.
9. The parties will make a serious attempt to resolve the disagreement by
a. identifying underlying interests;
b. isolating points of agreement and disagreement;
c. exploring alternative solutions;
d. considering compromises or accommodations; and
e. taking any other measures that will assist in resolution of the disagreement.
10. No transcript or recording will be kept of collaborative negotiations, but this does not prevent a person from keeping notes of the negotiations.
11. In order to assist in the resolution of a disagreement, collaborative negotiations will not be open to the public.
12. The parties, and all persons, will keep confidential:
a. all oral and written information disclosed in the collaborative negotiations; and
b. the fact that this information has been disclosed.
13. The parties will not rely on or introduce as evidence in any proceeding, whether or not that proceeding relates to the subject matter of the collaborative negotiations, any oral or written information disclosed in or arising from the collaborative negotiations, including:
a. any documents of other parties produced in the course of the collaborative negotiations that are not otherwise produced or producible in that proceeding;
b. any views expressed, or suggestions made, by any party in respect of a possible settlement of the disagreement;
c. any admissions made by any party in the course of the collaborative negotiations, unless otherwise stipulated by the admitting party; and
d. the fact that any party has indicated a willingness to make or accept a proposal for settlement.
14. Sections 12 and 13 do not apply:
a. in any proceeding for the enforcement or setting aside of an agreement resolving the disagreement that was the subject of the collaborative negotiation;
b. if the adjudicator in any proceeding determines that the interests of the public or the administration of justice outweigh the need for confidentiality; or
c. if the oral or written information referred to in these sections is in the public forum.
Right to Withdraw
15. A party may withdraw from collaborative negotiations at any time.
Termination of Collaborative Negotiations
16. Collaborative negotiations are terminated when any of the following occurs:
a. the expiration of:
i. 30 days, or
ii. in the case of collaborative negotiations in the circumstances described in subparagraph 7 (c) of the Chapter, 120 days
after the first scheduled negotiation meeting, or any longer period agreed to by the parties in writing;
b. a party directly engaged in the disagreement withdraws from the collaborative negotiations under section 15;
c. the parties agree in writing to terminate the collaborative negotiations; or
d. the parties directly engaged in the disagreement sign a written agreement resolving the disagreement.
a. "Chapter" means the Dispute Resolution Chapter of the Agreement;
b. "party" means a participating Party to a mediation under this Appendix; and
2. A mediation commences on the date the Parties directly engaged in the disagreement have agreed in writing to use mediation, or are deemed to have agreed to use mediation, under paragraph 24 of the Chapter.
Appointment of Mediator
3. A mediation will be conducted by one mediator jointly appointed by the parties.
4. A mediator will be:
a. an experienced and skilled mediator, preferably with unique qualities or specialized knowledge that would be of assistance in the circumstances of the disagreement; and
b. independent and impartial.
5. If the parties fail to agree on a mediator within 15 days after commencement of a mediation, the appointment will be made by the neutral appointing authority on the written request of a party that is copied to the other parties.
6. Subject to any limitations agreed to by the parties, a mediator may employ reasonable and necessary administrative or other support services.
Requirement to Withdraw
7. At any time a party may give the mediator and the other parties a written notice, with or without reasons, requiring the mediator to withdraw from the mediation on the grounds that the party has justifiable doubts as to the mediator's independence or impartiality.
8. On receipt of a written notice under section 7, the mediator must immediately withdraw from the mediation.
9. A person who is a Nisg̱a'a citizen, or related to a Nisg̱a'a citizen, must not be required to withdraw under section 7 solely on the grounds of that citizenship or relationship.
End of Appointment
10. A mediator's appointment terminates if:
a. the mediator is required to withdraw under section 8;
b. the mediator withdraws from office for any reason; or
c. the parties agree to the termination.
11. If a mediator's appointment terminates, a replacement mediator will be appointed using the procedure in sections 3 to 5 and the required time period commences from the date of termination of the appointment.
12. A party may attend a mediation with or without legal counsel.
13. If a mediator is a lawyer, the mediator must not act as legal counsel for any party.
14. At the commencement of the first meeting of a mediation, each party will advise the mediator and the other parties of any limitations on the authority of its representatives.
Conduct of Mediation
15. The parties will:
a. make a serious attempt to resolve the disagreement by:
i. identifying underlying interests,
ii. isolating points of agreement and disagreement,
iii. exploring alternative solutions, and
iv. considering compromises or accommodations; and
b. cooperate fully with the mediator and give prompt attention to, and respond to, all communications from the mediator.
16. A mediator may conduct a mediation in any manner the mediator considers necessary and appropriate to assist the parties to resolve the disagreement in a fair, efficient, and cost-effective manner.
17. Within seven days of appointment of a mediator, each party will deliver a brief written summary to the mediator of the relevant facts, the issues in the disagreement, and its viewpoint in respect of them and the mediator will deliver copies of the summaries to each party at the end of the seven day period.
18. A mediator may conduct a mediation in joint meetings or private caucus convened at locations the mediator designates after consulting the parties.
19. Disclosures made by any party to a mediator in private caucus must not be disclosed by the mediator to any other party without the consent of the disclosing party.
20. No transcript or recording will be kept of a mediation meeting but this does not prevent a person from keeping notes of the negotiations.
21. In order to assist in the resolution of a disagreement, a mediation will not be open to the public.
a. all oral and written information disclosed in the mediation; and
23. The parties will not rely on or introduce as evidence in any proceeding, whether or not that proceeding relates to the subject matter of the mediation, any oral or written information disclosed in or arising from the mediation, including:
a. any documents of other parties produced in the course of the mediation that are not otherwise produced or producible in that proceeding;
b. any views expressed, or suggestions, or proposals made in respect of a possible settlement of the disagreement;
c. any admissions made by any party in the course of the mediation, unless otherwise stipulated by the admitting party;
d. any recommendations for settlement made by the mediator; and
e. the fact that any party has indicated a willingness to make or accept a proposal or recommendation for settlement.
a. in any proceeding for the enforcement or setting aside of an agreement resolving the disagreement that was the subject of a mediation;
b. if the adjudicator in any proceeding determines that the interests of public or the administration of justice outweigh the need for confidentiality; or
c. if the oral or written information referred to in those sections is in the public forum.
25. A mediator, or anyone retained or employed by the mediator, is not compellable in any proceeding to give evidence about any oral and written information acquired or opinion formed by that person as a result of the mediation, and all parties will oppose any effort to have that person or that information subpoenaed.
26. A mediator, or anyone retained or employed by the mediator, is disqualified as a consultant or expert in any proceeding relating to the disagreement, including any proceeding that involves persons not a party to the mediation.
Referral of Issues to Other Processes
27. During a mediation the parties may agree to refer particular issues in the disagreement to independent fact-finders, expert panels or other processes for opinions or findings that may assist them in the resolution of the disagreement, and in that event, the parties must specify:
a. the terms of reference for the process;
b. the time within which the process must be concluded; and
c. how the costs of the process are to be allocated to the parties.
28. The time specified for concluding a mediation will be extended for 15 days following receipt of the findings or opinions rendered in a process described under section 27.
29. A party may withdraw from a mediation at any time by giving written notice of its intent to the mediator.
30. Before a withdrawal is effective, the withdrawing party will:
a. speak with the mediator;
b. disclose its reasons for withdrawing; and
c. give the mediator the opportunity to discuss the consequences of withdrawal.
Termination of Mediation
31. A mediation is terminated when any of the following occurs:
a. subject to section 28, the expiration of 30 days after the appointment of the mediator, or any longer period agreed by the parties in writing;
b. the parties have agreed in writing to terminate the mediation or not to appoint a replacement mediator under section 11;
c. a party directly engaged in the disagreement withdraws from the mediation under section 29; or
Mediator Recommendation
32. If a mediation is terminated without the parties reaching agreement, the parties may agree to request the mediator to give a written non-binding recommendation for settlement, but the mediator may decline the request without reasons.
33. Within 15 days after delivery of a mediator's recommendation under section 32, the parties will meet with the mediator to attempt to resolve the disagreement.
34. A party withdrawing from a mediation under section 29 is not responsible for any costs of the mediation that are incurred after the date that party's withdrawal takes effect.
TECHNICAL ADVISORY PANEL
b. "member" means a member of the panel;
c. "panel" means a technical advisory panel appointed under this Appendix;
d. "party" means a participating Party to a reference under this Appendix;
e. "reference" means a reference of a disagreement to the panel; and
f. "section" means a section in this Appendix.
2. A question of law may not be referred to a panel.
3. A reference commences on the date the Parties directly engaged in the disagreement have agreed in writing to use a technical advisory panel under paragraph 24 of the Chapter.
Appointment of Panel Members
4. A panel will have three members unless the parties agree on a panel of five members.
5. A member will be skilled and knowledgeable in the technical or scientific subject matter or issues of the disagreement.
6. If there are two parties and the panel will have:
a. three members, each party will appoint one member and the two appointed members will jointly appoint the third member; or
b. five members, each party will appoint two members and the four appointed members will jointly appoint the fifth member.
7. If there are three parties and the panel will have:
a. three members, each party will appoint one member; or
b. five members, each party will appoint one member and the three appointed members will jointly appoint the fourth and fifth members.
8. In the appointment procedures under sections 6 and 7, if:
a. a party fails to appoint the required number of members within 30 days after commencement of the reference; or
b. the appointing members fail to appoint the required number of additional members within 15 days after the last appointing member was appointed
the required appointments will be made by the neutral appointing authority on the written request of a party that is copied to the other parties.
9. The appointment of a member who is jointly appointed by the parties, by the appointing members, or by the neutral appointing authority, terminates if:
a. the member withdraws from office for any reason; or
b. the parties agree to the termination.
10. The appointment of a member appointed by one party, or by the neutral appointing authority in place of the party, terminates if:
b. the appointing party terminates the appointment.
11. If the appointment of a member jointly appointed by the parties, by the appointing members, or by the neutral appointing authority in place of the parties or members, terminates, a replacement member will be appointed under section 6 or 7, as applicable, within the required time commencing from the termination of the former member's appointment.
12. Subject to section 13, if the appointment of a member appointed by one party or by the neutral appointing authority in place of the party terminates, a replacement member will be appointed under section 6 or 7, as applicable, within the required time commencing from the termination of the former member's appointment.
13. A party may elect not to replace a member it had appointed but the party may not withdraw from the reference except as permitted under sections 31 to 35.
14. Not more than 15 days after the appointment of the last member of a panel, the parties must provide the panel with written terms of reference that set out at least the following:
a. the parties to the disagreement;
b. the subject matter or issues of the disagreement;
c. the kind of assistance that the parties request from the panel, including giving advice, making determinations, finding facts, conducting, evaluating and reporting on studies and making recommendations;
d. the time period within which the parties request the assistance to be provided;
e. the time periods or stages of the reference at the conclusion of which the panel must provide the parties with written interim reports on the panel's progress on the referral and on expenditures under the budget described in section 16 as they relate to that progress;
f. the time within which the panel must provide the parties with the budget described in section 16; and
g. any limitations on the application of sections 36 to 42 to the reference.
15. The parties may discuss the proposed terms of reference with the panel before they are finally settled.
16. Within the time referred to in section 14 (f), the panel will provide the parties with a budget for the costs of conducting the reference, including:
a. fees to be paid to the members who have been jointly appointed by the parties, or by appointing members;
b. costs of required travel, food and accommodation of members who have been jointly appointed by the parties, or by appointing members;
c. costs of any required administrative assistance; and
d. costs of any studies.
17. The parties will consider the budget submitted by the panel and approve that budget with any amendments agreed by the parties before the panel undertakes any activities under the reference.
18. The parties are not responsible for any costs incurred by the panel that are in excess of those approved under section 17, and the panel is not authorized to incur any costs beyond that amount without obtaining prior written approval from all the parties.
19. The parties may amend the written terms of reference or the budget from time to time as they consider necessary, or on recommendation of the panel.
Conduct of Reference to Panel
a. cooperate fully with the panel;
b. comply with any requests made by the panel as permitted or required under this Appendix; and
c. give prompt attention to and respond to all communications from the panel.
21. Subject to any limitations or requirements in the terms of reference given and the limits of the budget approved under sections 17 to 19, the panel may conduct its reference using any procedure it considers necessary or appropriate, including holding a hearing.
22. If a hearing is held, the hearing must be conducted as efficiently as possible and in the manner the panel specifies, after consultation with the parties.
23. If a hearing is held, the panel must give the parties reasonable written notice of the hearing date, which notice must, in any event, be not less than seven days.
24. No transcript or recording will be kept of a hearing, but this does not prevent a person attending the hearing from keeping notes of the hearing.
25. The legal rules of evidence do not apply to a hearing before the panel.
26. The panel will give the parties the interim and final written reports specified in its terms of reference within the required times.
27. A report of the panel is not binding on the parties.
Panel Business
28. A panel will appoint one of its members to act as chair of the panel.
29. The chair of a panel is responsible for all communications between the panel, the parties and any other person to whom the panel wishes to communicate, but this does not preclude a member from communicating informally with a party.
30. A panel will make every reasonable effort to conduct its business, and fulfill its obligations under its terms of reference, by consensus, but:
a. if consensus is not possible, by actions approved by a majority of its members; or
b. if a majority is not possible, by actions approved by the chair of the panel.
31. If one of two parties to a reference, or two of three parties to a reference, are not satisfied with the progress of the reference:
a. after receipt of an interim report; or
b. as a result of the panel's failure to submit an interim report within the required time
the dissatisfied party or parties, as the case may be, may give written notice to the panel and the other party that the party or parties are withdrawing from the reference and that the reference is terminated.
32. If one of three parties to a reference is not satisfied with the progress of the reference:
the dissatisfied party may give written notice to the panel and the other parties that it is withdrawing from the reference.
33. Two parties who receive a notice under section 32 will advise the panel in writing that they have agreed:
a. to terminate the reference; or
b. to continue the reference.
34. If no party gives a notice under sections 31 or 32 within 10 days after:
a. receipt of an interim report; or
b. the time required to submit an interim report
all parties will be deemed to be satisfied with the progress of the reference until submission of the next required interim report.
35. No party may withdraw from a reference except as permitted under sections 31 to 34.
36. The parties may, by agreement recorded in the terms of reference of the panel in section 14, limit the application of all or any part of sections 37 to 42 in a reference.
37. In order to assist in the resolution of the disagreement, a reference will not be open to the public.
a. all oral and written information disclosed in the reference; and
39. The parties will not rely on or introduce as evidence in any proceeding, whether or not that proceeding relates to the subject matter of the reference, any oral or written information disclosed in or arising from the reference, including:
a. any documents of other parties produced in the course of the reference that are not otherwise produced or producible in that proceeding;
b. any views expressed, or suggestions made, in respect of a possible settlement of the disagreement;
c. any admissions made by any party in the course of the reference, unless otherwise stipulated by the admitting party;
d. the fact that any party has indicated a willingness to make or accept a proposal or recommendation for settlement; and
e. any reports of the panel.
a. in any proceeding for the enforcement or setting aside of an agreement resolving the disagreement that was the subject of the reference;
41. A member, or anyone retained or employed by the member, is not compellable in any proceeding to give evidence about any oral or written information acquired or opinion formed by that person as a result of the reference, and all parties will oppose any effort to have that person or that information subpoenaed.
42. A member, or anyone retained or employed by the member, is disqualified as a consultant or expert in any proceeding relating to the disagreement, including any proceeding that involves persons not a party to the reference.
Attempt to Resolve After Report
43. Within 21 days after receipt of the final written report of a panel, the parties will meet and make an effort to resolve the disagreement taking into account the report of the panel or any other considerations.
44. If the parties and the panel agree, the members of a panel may attend the meeting under section 43, and provide any necessary assistance to the parties.
Termination of Reference to Panel
45. A reference is terminated when any of the following occurs:
a. the reference has been terminated as permitted under section 31 or 33;
b. the expiration of 30 days after receipt of the final report of the panel, or any longer period agreed by the parties in writing; or
c. the parties directly engaged in the disagreement sign a written agreement resolving the disagreement.
46. A party is not responsible for sharing any costs of the reference that were incurred after the date that party notified the other parties, under section 32, of its withdrawal from the reference.
NEUTRAL EVALUATION
b. "party" means a participating Party to a neutral evaluation under this Appendix; and
2. A neutral evaluation commences on the date that the Parties directly engaged in the disagreement have agreed in writing to use neutral evaluation under paragraph 24 of the Chapter.
Appointment of Neutral Evaluator
3. A neutral evaluation will be conducted by one person jointly appointed by the parties.
4. A neutral evaluator will be:
a. experienced or skilled in the subject matter or issues of the disagreement; and
5. If the parties fail to agree on a neutral evaluator within 21 days after commencement of a neutral evaluation, the appointment will be made by the neutral appointing authority on the written request of a party that is copied to the other parties.
6. Subject to any limitations agreed to by the parties, a neutral evaluator may employ reasonable and necessary administrative or other support services.
7. At any time a party may give a neutral evaluator and the other parties a written notice, with or without reasons, requiring the neutral evaluator to withdraw from the neutral evaluation on the grounds that the party has justifiable doubts as to the neutral evaluator's independence or impartiality.
8. On receipt of a written notice under section 7, the neutral evaluator must immediately withdraw from the neutral evaluation.
10. A neutral evaluator's appointment terminates if:
a. the neutral evaluator is required to withdraw under section 8;
b. the neutral evaluator withdraws from office for any reason; or
11. Unless the parties agree otherwise, if a neutral evaluator's appointment terminates, a replacement will be appointed under section 5 within the required time commencing from the date of the termination of the appointment.
12. Except with respect to administrative details or a meeting under section 31, the parties will not communicate with the neutral evaluator:
a. orally except in the presence of all parties; or
b. in writing without immediately sending a copy of that communication to all parties.
13. Section 12 also applies to any communication by a neutral evaluator to the parties.
Conduct of Neutral Evaluation
a. cooperate fully with the neutral evaluator;
b. comply with any requests made by the neutral evaluator as permitted or required under this Appendix; and
c. give prompt attention to and respond to all communications from the neutral evaluator.
15. A neutral evaluation will be conducted only on the basis of documents submitted by the parties under section 20 unless the parties agree to, or the neutral evaluator requires, additional submissions or other forms of evidence.
16. If a hearing is held, the hearing must be conducted as efficiently as possible and in the manner the neutral evaluator specifies, after consultation with the parties.
19. The legal rules of evidence do not apply to a neutral evaluation.
20. Within 15 days after the appointment of a neutral evaluator, each party must deliver to the other parties and to the neutral evaluator a written submission respecting the disagreement, including facts upon which the parties agree or disagree, and copies of any documents, affidavits and exhibits on which the party relies.
21. Within 21 days after the appointment of a neutral evaluator, a party may submit a reply to the submission of any other party and, in that event, will provide copies of the reply to the party and the neutral evaluator.
22. In order to assist in the resolution of the disagreement, a neutral evaluation will not be open to the public.
a. all oral and written information disclosed in the neutral evaluation; and
24. The parties will not rely on or introduce as evidence in any proceeding, whether or not that proceeding relates to the subject matter of the neutral evaluation, any oral or written information disclosed in or arising from the neutral evaluation, including:
a. any documents of other parties produced in the course of the neutral evaluation which are not otherwise produced or producible in that proceeding;
c. any admissions made by any party in the course of the neutral evaluation, unless otherwise stipulated by the admitting party;
d. the fact that any party has indicated a willingness to make or accept a proposal for settlement; and
e. subject to section 28, the opinion of the neutral evaluator.
a. in any proceedings for the enforcement or setting aside of an agreement resolving the disagreement that was the subject of a neutral evaluation;
c. if the oral or written information is in the public forum.
26. A neutral evaluator, or anyone retained or employed by the neutral evaluator, is not compellable in any proceedings to give evidence about any oral and written information acquired or opinion formed by that person as a result of a neutral evaluation under this Appendix, and all parties will oppose any effort to have that person or that information subpoenaed.
27. A neutral evaluator and anyone retained or employed by the neutral evaluator is disqualified as a consultant or expert in any proceeding relating to the disagreement, including any proceeding that involves persons not a party to the neutral evaluation.
28. Despite sections 23 to 26, after an arbitral tribunal has delivered its final arbitral award, or a court has referred its decision, in respect of a disagreement, a party, for the purpose only of making a submission on the allocation of costs of that arbitral or judicial proceeding, may give to the arbitral tribunal or the court a copy of:
a. the neutral evaluator's opinion respecting that agreement; or
b. the neutral evaluator's notice of termination under section 7.
Non-Binding Opinion
29. Within 21 days after the later of:
a. delivery of the last submission required or permitted in a neutral evaluation under this Appendix; or
b. completion of a hearing,
the neutral evaluator will deliver to the parties a written opinion with reasons in respect of the probable disposition of the disagreement should it be submitted to arbitral or judicial proceedings, as the case may be, under the Chapter.
30. An opinion under section 29 is not binding on the parties.
Attempt to Resolve After Opinion
31. Within 21 days after delivery of an opinion under section 29, the parties will meet and make an effort to resolve the disagreement, taking into account the opinion of the neutral evaluator or any other considerations.
32. If the parties and the neutral evaluator agree, the neutral evaluator may attend a meeting under section 31, and provide any necessary assistance to the parties.
Failure to Comply
33. If a party fails to participate in the neutral evaluation as contemplated in sections 14 to 21, the neutral evaluator may:
a. provide an opinion based solely upon the information and submissions they have obtained; or
b. give a written notice of termination of the neutral evaluation
and, in either event, the neutral evaluator must record that party's failure.
Termination of Neutral Evaluation
34. A neutral evaluation is terminated when any of the following occurs:
a. the neutral evaluator gives a notice of termination under section 33 (b);
b. the expiration of 30 days after receipt of an opinion under section 29 or 33, as the case may be, or any longer period agreed by the parties;
c. all the parties directly engaged in the disagreement agree in writing to terminate evaluation; or
d. all the parties directly engaged in the disagreement sign a written agreement resolving the disagreement.
35. A party that has failed to participate in a neutral evaluation as contemplated in sections 14 to 21 is responsible for its share of the costs of the neutral evaluation, despite its failure to participate.
ELDERS ADVISORY COUNCIL
b. "council" means the elders advisory council appointed under this Appendix;
c. "elder" means a member of a council;
d. "party" means a participating Party to the reference under this Appendix;
e. "reference" means a reference of a disagreement to the council; and
2. A reference commences on the date the Parties directly engaged in the disagreement have agreed in writing to use an elders advisory council under paragraph 24 of the Chapter.
Appointment of Elders
3. Within 30 days after a reference has commenced, each party will appoint at least one, but not more than three, elders to the council.
4. Preferably, the elders will be individuals who:
a. are recognized in their respective communities as wise, tolerant, personable and articulate, and who:
i. are often sought out for counsel or advice, or
ii. have a record of distinguished public service; and
b. are available to devote the time and energy as required to provide the assistance described in this Appendix.
5. Unless an elder:
a. has requested to be relieved of their appointment due to a conflict of interest or otherwise; or
b. is not able to fulfill their duties, due to incapacity or otherwise
the elder's appointment to the council may not be terminated until termination of the reference in which the elder is involved.
6. If an elder's appointment is terminated in the circumstances described in section 5 (a) or (b) and that elder was the only elder of the council appointed by a party to the reference, that party must replace the elder within seven days.
7. If an elder's appointment is terminated in the circumstances described in section 5 (a) or (b) and that elder was not the only elder of the council appointed by a party to the reference, that party may replace the elder but the replacement must be made within seven days.
Conduct of Reference
8. In a reference, the parties will cooperate fully with the council, and give prompt attention to, and respond, to all communications from the council.
9. Notwithstanding section 8, a party is not required to disclose to the council or provide it with any information that the party would not be required to disclose in any arbitral or judicial proceedings in respect of the disagreement.
10. The council is expected to conduct itself informally in order that the parties may take full advantage of the council's good offices to resolve the disagreement.
11. The council may establish its own process to suit the particular circumstances of a reference including meeting with the parties together or separately, conducting informal interviews or inquiries and facilitating settlement negotiations.
12. The council will give the parties its final advice or recommendations on a disagreement referred to it within 120 days after the commencement of the reference.
13. The council may, at its option, provide its advice to the parties:
a. orally on the same occasion; or
b. in writing.
14. The council may, by unanimous decision, extend the time for giving advice or recommendations under section 12, on one occasion only, to a maximum of 60 additional days.
15. The advice or recommendations of the council are not binding on the parties.
16. Subject to any limitations agreed to by the parties, the council may employ reasonable and necessary administrative or other support services.
17. A party may not withdraw from a reference until its conclusion unless all the parties agree in writing.
d. any advice or recommendations made by an elder or the council; and
e. the fact that any party has indicated a willingness to make or accept any advice or recommendation for settlement.
a. in any proceedings for the enforcement or setting aside of an agreement resolving the disagreement that was the subject of the reference;
22. An elder, or anyone retained or employed by the council, is not compellable in any proceeding to give evidence about any oral and written information acquired or opinion formed by that person as a result of the reference and all parties will oppose any effort to have that person or that information subpoenaed.
23. An elder, or anyone retained or employed by the council, is disqualified as a consultant or expert in any proceeding relating to the disagreement, including any proceeding that involves persons not a party to the reference.
24. The council must make its best efforts to reach consensus among the elders before taking any action or giving any advice under the reference.
25. The council may not take any action under section 12 unless at least one elder appointed by each party expressly agrees with the action taken.
Termination of Reference
a. the council gives the parties its advice under section 12;
b. the expiration of the applicable time period in section 12 or 14; or
a. "applicant" means:
i. in an arbitration commenced under paragraph 28 of the Chapter, the party that delivered the notice of arbitration, and
ii. in an arbitration commenced under paragraph 29 of the Chapter, the party that the parties have agreed will be the applicant in the agreement to arbitrate;
b. "arbitral award" means any decision of the arbitral tribunal on the substance of the disagreement submitted to it, and includes:
i. an interim arbitral award, including an interim award made for the preservation of property, and
ii. an award of interest or costs;
c. "arbitral tribunal" means a single arbitrator or a panel of arbitrators appointed under this Appendix;
d. "arbitration agreement" includes
i. the requirement to refer to arbitration disagreements described in paragraph 28 of the Chapter; and
ii. an agreement to arbitrate a disagreement as described in paragraph 29 of the Chapter;
e. "Chapter" means the Dispute Resolution Chapter of the Agreement;
f. "party" means a participating Party to arbitration under this Appendix;
g. "respondent" means a party other than the applicant;
h. "section" means a section of this Appendix;
i. "Supreme Court" means the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
2. A reference in this Appendix, other than in section 87 or 116 (a), to a claim, applies to a counterclaim, and a reference in this Appendix to a defence, applies to a defence to a counterclaim.
3. Despite paragraph 4 of the Chapter, the parties may not vary section 53 or 97.
4. Except in respect of administrative details, the parties will not communicate with the arbitral tribunal:
a. orally, except in the presence of all other parties; or
b. in writing, without immediately sending a copy of that communication to all other parties.
5. Section 4 also applies to any communication by the arbitral tribunal to the parties.
Waiver of Right to Object
6. A party that knows that:
a. any provision of this Appendix; or
b. any requirement under the Agreement or arbitration agreement
has not been complied with, and yet proceeds with the arbitration without stating its objection to noncompliance without undue delay or, if a time limit is provided for stating that objection, within that period of time, will be deemed to have waived its right to object.
7. In section 6 (a) "any provision of this Appendix" means any provision of this Appendix in respect of which the parties may otherwise agree.
Extent of Judicial Intervention
8. In matters governed by this Appendix:
a. no court shall intervene except as provided in this Appendix; and
b. no arbitral proceedings of an arbitral tribunal, or an order, ruling or arbitral award made by an arbitral tribunal shall be questioned, reviewed or restrained by a proceeding under any legislation or other law that permits judicial review except to the extent provided in this Appendix.
Construction of Appendix
9. In construing a provision of this Appendix, a court or arbitral tribunal may refer to the documents of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law and its working group respecting the preparation of the UNCITRAL Model Arbitration Law and must give those documents the weight that is appropriate in the circumstances.
Stay of Legal Proceedings
10. If a Party commences legal proceedings in a court against another Party in respect of a matter required or agreed to be submitted to arbitration, a Party to the legal proceedings may, before or after entering an appearance, and before delivery of any pleadings or taking any other step in the proceedings, apply to that court to stay the proceedings.
11. In an application under section 10, the court must make an order staying the legal proceedings unless it determines that:
a. the arbitration agreement is null and void, inoperative or incapable of being performed; or
b. the legal proceedings are permitted under the Chapter.
12. An arbitration may be commenced or continued, and an arbitral award made, even if an application has been brought under section 10, and the issue is pending before the court.
Interim Measures by Court
13. It is not incompatible with an arbitration agreement for a Party to request from a court, before or during arbitral proceedings, an interim measure of protection as provided in paragraph 14 of the Chapter, and for a court to grant that measure.
Commencement of Arbitral Proceedings
14. The arbitral proceedings in respect of a disagreement:
a. required to be arbitrated as set out in paragraph 28 of the Chapter, commences on delivery of the notice of arbitration to the Parties; or
b. agreed to be arbitrated as set out in paragraph 29 of the Chapter, commences on the date of the arbitration agreement.
Notice of Arbitration
15. A notice of arbitration under paragraph 28 of the Chapter must be in writing and contain the following information:
a. a statement of the subject matter or issues of the disagreement;
b. a requirement that the disagreement be referred to arbitration;
c. the remedy sought;
d. the suggested number of arbitrators; and
e. any preferred qualifications of the arbitrators.
16. A notice of arbitration under section 15 may contain the names of any proposed arbitrators, including the information specified in section 17.
17. In an arbitration:
a. required to be arbitrated as set out in paragraph 28 of the Chapter, there will be three arbitrators; and
b. agreed to be arbitrated as set out in paragraph 29 of the Chapter, there will be one arbitrator.
18. A person eligible for appointment as:
a. a single arbitrator or as chair of an arbitral tribunal will be an experienced arbitrator or arbitration counsel or have had training in arbitral procedure; and
b. as a single arbitrator or member of an arbitral panel:
i. will be independent and impartial, and
ii. preferably, will have knowledge of, or experience in, the subject matter or issues of the disagreement.
19. A party proposing the name of an arbitrator to another party under section 20 will also submit a copy of that person's resume and the statement that person is required to make under section 26.
20. In an arbitration with a single arbitrator, if the parties fail to agree on the arbitrator within 30 days after the commencement of the arbitration, the appointment will be made by the neutral appointing authority, on the written request of a party that is copied to the other parties.
21. In an arbitration with three arbitrators and two parties, each party will appoint one arbitrator, and the two appointed arbitrators will appoint the third arbitrator.
22. In the appointment procedure under section 21, if:
a. a party fails to appoint an arbitrator within 30 days after receipt of a request to do so from the other party; or
b. the two appointed arbitrators fail to agree on the third arbitrator within 30 days after the last of them was appointed
the appointment will be made by the neutral appointing authority, on the written request of a party that is copied to the other parties.
23. In an arbitration with three arbitrators and three parties, the three parties will jointly appoint the three arbitrators.
24. In the arbitration procedure under section 23, if the three parties fail to agree on the three arbitrators within 60 days after the commencement of the arbitration, the appointments will be made by the neutral appointing authority, on the written request of a party copied to the other parties.
25. The neutral appointing authority, in appointing an arbitrator, must have due regard to:
a. any qualifications required of the arbitrator as set out in section 18 or as otherwise agreed in writing by the parties; and
b. other considerations as are likely to secure the appointment of an independent and impartial arbitrator.
Grounds for Challenge
26. When a person is approached in connection with possible appointment as an arbitrator, that person must provide a written statement:
a. disclosing any circumstances likely to give rise to justifiable doubts as to their independence or impartiality; or
b. advising that the person is not aware of any circumstances of that nature and committing to disclose them if they arise or become known at a later date.
27. An arbitrator, from the time of appointment and throughout the arbitral proceedings, must, without delay, disclose to the parties any circumstances referred to in section 26 unless the parties have already been informed of them.
28. An arbitrator may be challenged only if:
a. circumstances exist that give rise to justifiable doubts as to the arbitrator's independence or impartiality; or
b. the arbitrator does not possess the qualifications set out in this Appendix or as otherwise agreed in writing by the parties.
29. A party may only challenge an arbitrator appointed by that party, or in whose appointment that party has participated, for reasons of which that party becomes aware after the appointment has been made.
30. A person who is a Nisg̱a'a citizen, or related to a Nisg̱a'a citizen, may not be challenged under section 28 solely on the grounds of that citizenship or relationship.
Challenge Procedure
31. A party who intends to challenge an arbitrator will send to the arbitral tribunal a written statement of the reasons for the challenge within 15 days after becoming aware of the constitution of the arbitral tribunal, or after becoming aware of any circumstances referred to in section 28.
32. Unless the arbitrator challenged under section 31 withdraws from office, or the other parties agree to the challenge, the arbitral tribunal must decide on the challenge.
33. If a challenge under any procedure agreed upon by the parties or under the procedure under section 31 is not successful, the challenging party, within 30 days after having received notice of the decision rejecting the challenge, may request the neutral appointing authority to decide on the challenge.
34. The decision of the neutral appointing authority under section 33 is final and is not subject to appeal.
35. While a request under section 33 is pending, the arbitral tribunal, including the challenged arbitrator, may continue the arbitral proceedings and make an arbitral award unless:
a. the costs occasioned by proceeding before the decision of the neutral appointing authority is made would unduly prejudice the parties; or
b. the parties agree otherwise.
Failure or Impossibility to Act
36. The mandate of an arbitrator terminates if the arbitrator becomes unable at law, or as a practical matter, to perform the arbitrator's functions, or for other reasons fails to act without undue delay.
37. If a controversy remains concerning any of the grounds referred to in section 36, a party may request the neutral appointing authority to decide on the termination of the mandate.
Termination of Mandate and Substitution of Arbitrator
38. In addition to the circumstances referred to under sections 31 to 33, and 36, the mandate of an arbitrator terminates:
a. if the arbitrator withdraws from office for any reason; or
b. by, or pursuant to, agreement of the parties.
39. If the mandate of an arbitrator terminates, a replacement arbitrator must be appointed under sections 19 to 25, as applicable.
40. If a single or chairing arbitrator is replaced, any hearings previously held must be repeated.
41. If an arbitrator other than a single or chairing arbitrator is replaced, any hearings previously held may be repeated at the discretion of the arbitral tribunal.
42. An order or ruling of the arbitral tribunal made before the replacement of an arbitrator under section 39 is not invalid solely because there has been a change in the composition of the tribunal.
Competence of Arbitral Tribunal to Rule on its Jurisdiction
43. An arbitral tribunal may rule on its own jurisdiction.
44. A plea that an arbitral tribunal does not have jurisdiction must be raised not later than the submission of the statement of defence; but a party is not precluded from raising that plea by the fact that the party has appointed, or participated in the appointment of, an arbitrator.
45. A plea that an arbitral tribunal is exceeding the scope of its authority must be made as soon as the matter alleged to be beyond the scope of its authority is raised during the arbitral proceedings.
46. An arbitral tribunal may, in either of the cases referred to in section 44 or 45, admit a later plea if it considers the delay justified.
47. An arbitral tribunal may rule on a plea referred to in section 44 or 45 either as a preliminary question or in the arbitral award.
48. If an arbitral tribunal rules as a preliminary question that it has jurisdiction, any party, within 15 days after having received notice of that ruling, may request the Supreme Court to decide the matter.
49. A decision of the Supreme Court under section 48 is final and is not subject to appeal.
50. While a request under section 48 is pending, an arbitral tribunal may continue the arbitral proceedings and make an arbitral award unless:
a. the costs occasioned by proceeding before the decision of the Supreme Court is made would unduly prejudice the parties; or
Interim Measures Ordered by Arbitral Tribunal
51. Unless otherwise agreed by the parties, the arbitral tribunal may, at the request of a party, order a party to take any interim measure of protection as the arbitral tribunal may consider necessary in respect of the subject matter of the disagreement.
52. The arbitral tribunal may require a party to provide appropriate security in connection with a measure ordered under section 51.
Equal Treatment of Parties
53. The parties must be treated with equality and each party must be given a full opportunity to present its case.
Determination of Rules of Procedure
54. Subject to this Appendix, the parties may agree on the procedure to be followed by the arbitral tribunal in conducting the proceedings.
55. Failing any agreement under section 54, the arbitral tribunal, subject to this Appendix, may conduct the arbitration in the manner it considers appropriate.
56. The arbitral tribunal is not required to apply the legal rules of evidence, and may determine the admissibility, relevance, materiality and weight of any evidence.
57. The arbitral tribunal must make all reasonable efforts to conduct the arbitral proceedings in the most efficient, expeditious and cost effective manner as is appropriate in all the circumstances of the case.
58. The arbitral tribunal may extend or abridge a period of time:
a. set in this Appendix, except the period specified in section 106; or
b. established by the tribunal.
Pre-Hearing Meeting
59. Within 10 days after the arbitral tribunal is constituted, the tribunal must convene a pre-hearing meeting of the parties to reach agreement and to make any necessary orders on:
a. any procedural issues arising under this Appendix;
b. the procedure to be followed in the arbitration;
c. the time periods for taking steps in the arbitration;
d. the scheduling of hearings or meetings, if any;
e. any preliminary applications or objections; and
f. any other matter which will assist the arbitration to proceed in an efficient and expeditious manner.
60. The arbitral tribunal must prepare and distribute promptly to the parties a written record of all the business transacted, and decisions and orders made, at the pre-hearing meeting.
61. The pre-hearing meeting may be conducted by conference call.
Place of Arbitration
62. The arbitration will take place in the Province of British Columbia.
63. Despite section 62, an arbitral tribunal may meet at any place it considers appropriate for consultation among its members, for hearing witnesses, experts or the parties, or for inspection of documents, goods or other personal property, or for viewing physical locations.
64. If the arbitral tribunal determines that it was necessary or reasonable for a party to incur the costs of translation of documents and oral presentations in the circumstances of a particular disagreement, the arbitral tribunal, on application of a party, may order that any of the costs of that translation be deemed to be costs of the arbitration under paragraph 44 of the Chapter.
State of Claim and Defence
65. Within 21 days after the arbitral tribunal is constituted, the applicant will deliver a written statement to all the Parties stating the facts supporting its claim or position, the points at issue and the relief or remedy sought.
66. Within 15 days after receipt of the applicant's statement, each respondent will deliver a written statement to all the Parties stating its defence or position in respect of those particulars.
67. Each party must attach to its statement a list of documents:
a. upon which the party intends to rely; and
b. which describes each document by kind, date, author, addressee and subject matter.
68. The parties may amend or supplement their statements, including the list of documents, and deliver counter-claims and defences to counter-claims during the course of the arbitral proceedings, unless the arbitral tribunal considers it inappropriate to allow the amendment, supplement or additional pleadings having regard to:
a. the delay in making it; and
b. any prejudice suffered by the other parties.
69. The parties will deliver copies of all amended, supplemented or new documents delivered under section 68 to all the Parties.
70. The arbitral tribunal may order a party to produce, within a specified time, any documents that:
a. have not been listed under section 67;
b. the party has in its care, custody or control; and
c. the arbitral tribunal considers to be relevant.
71. Each party will allow the other party the necessary access at reasonable times to inspect and take copies of all documents that the former party has listed under section 67, or that the arbitral tribunal has ordered to be produced under section 70.
72. The parties will prepare and send to the arbitral tribunal an agreed statement of facts within the time specified by the arbitral tribunal.
73. Not later than 21 days before a hearing commences, each party will give the other party:
a. the name and address of any witness and a written summary of the witness's evidence; and
b. in the case of an expert witness, a written statement or report prepared by the expert witness.
74. Not later than 15 days before a hearing commences, each party will give to the other party and the arbitral tribunal an assembly of all documents to be introduced at the hearing.
Hearings and Written Proceedings
75. The arbitral tribunal must decide whether to hold hearings for the presentation of evidence or for oral argument, or whether the proceedings will be conducted on the basis of documents and other materials.
76. Unless the parties have agreed that no hearings will be held, the arbitral tribunal must hold hearings at an appropriate stage of the proceedings, if so requested by a party.
77. The arbitral tribunal must give the parties sufficient advance notice of any hearing and of any meeting of the arbitral tribunal for the purpose of inspection of documents, goods or other property or viewing any physical location.
78. All statements, documents or other information supplied to, or applications made to, the arbitral tribunal by one party will be communicated to the other party, and any expert report or evidentiary document on which the arbitral tribunal may rely in making its decision must be communicated to the parties.
79. Unless ordered by the arbitral tribunal, all hearings and meetings in arbitral proceedings, other than meetings of the arbitral tribunal, are open to the public.
80. The arbitral tribunal must schedule hearings to be held on consecutive days until completion.
81. All oral evidence must be taken in the presence of the arbitral tribunal and all the parties unless a party is absent by default or has waived the right to be present.
82. The arbitral tribunal may order any individual to be examined by the arbitral tribunal under oath or on affirmation in relation to the disagreement and to produce before the arbitral tribunal all relevant documents within the individual's care, custody or control.
83. The document assemblies delivered under section 74 will be deemed to have been entered into evidence at the hearing without further proof and without being read out at the hearing, but a party may challenge the admissibility of any document so introduced.
84. If the arbitral tribunal considers it just and reasonable to do so, the arbitral tribunal may permit a document that was not previously listed under section 67, or produced as required under section 70 or 74, to be introduced at the hearing, but the arbitral tribunal may take that failure into account when fixing the costs to be awarded in the arbitration.
85. If the arbitral tribunal permits the evidence of a witness to be presented as a written statement, the other party may require that witness to be made available for cross examination at the hearing.
86. The arbitral tribunal may order a witness to appear and give evidence, and, in that event, the parties may cross examine that witness and call evidence in rebuttal.
Default of a Party
87. If, without showing sufficient cause, the applicant fails to communicate its statement of claim in accordance with section 65, the arbitral tribunal may terminate the proceedings.
88. If, without showing sufficient cause, a respondent fails to communicate its statement of defence in accordance with section 66, the arbitral tribunal must continue the proceedings without treating that failure in itself as an admission of the applicant's allegations.
89. If, without showing sufficient cause, a party fails to appear at the hearing or to produce documentary evidence, the arbitral tribunal may continue the proceedings and make the arbitral award on the evidence before it.
90. Before terminating the proceedings under section 87, the arbitral tribunal must give all respondents written notice providing an opportunity to file a statement of claim in respect of the disagreement within a specified period of time.
Expert Appointed by Arbitral Tribunal
91. After consulting the parties, the arbitral tribunal may:
a. appoint one or more experts to report to it on specific issues to be determined by the arbitral tribunal; and
b. for that purpose, require a party to give the expert any relevant information or to produce, or to provide access to, any relevant documents, goods or other personal property or land for inspection or viewing.
92. The arbitral tribunal must give a copy of the expert's report to the parties who must have an opportunity to reply to it.
93. If a party so requests, or if the arbitral tribunal considers it necessary, the expert must, after delivery of a written or oral report, participate in a hearing where the parties must have the opportunity to cross examine the expert and to call any evidence in rebuttal.
94. The expert must, on the request of a party:
a. make available to that party for examination all documents, goods or other property in the expert's possession, and provided to the expert in order to prepare a report; and
b. provide that party with a list of all documents, goods or other personal property or land not in the expert's possession but which were provided to or given access to the expert, and a description of the location of those documents, goods or other personal property or lands.
Law Applicable to Substance of Dispute
95. An arbitral tribunal must decide the disagreement in accordance with the law.
96. If the parties have expressly authorized it to do so, an arbitral tribunal may decide the disagreement based upon equitable considerations.
97. In all cases, an arbitral tribunal must make its decisions in accordance with the spirit and intent of the Agreement.
98. Before a final arbitral award is made, an arbitral tribunal or a party, with the agreement of the other parties, may refer a question of law to the Supreme Court for a ruling.
99. A party may appeal a decision in the Supreme Court under section 98 to the British Columbia Court of Appeal with leave of the British Columbia Court of Appeal. If the British Columbia Court of Appeal:
a. refuses to grant leave to a party to appeal a ruling of the Supreme Court under section 98; or
b. hears an appeal from a ruling of the Supreme Court under section 98
the decision of the British Columbia Court of Appeal may not be appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada.
100. While a request under section 98 is pending, the arbitral tribunal may continue the arbitral proceedings and make an arbitral award unless:
a. the costs occasioned by proceeding before the ruling of the Supreme Court is made would unduly prejudice the parties; or
Decision Making by Panel of Arbitrators
101. In arbitral proceedings with more than one arbitrator, any decision of the arbitral tribunal must be made by a majority of all its members.
102. If there is no majority decision on a matter to be decided, the decision of the chair of the tribunal is the decision of the tribunal.
103. Notwithstanding section 101, if authorized by the parties or all the members of the arbitral tribunal, questions of procedure may be decided by the chair of the tribunal.
104. If, during arbitral proceedings, the parties settle the disagreement, the arbitral tribunal must terminate the proceedings and, if requested by the parties, must record the settlement in the form of an arbitral award on agreed terms.
105. An arbitral award on agreed terms:
a. must be made in accordance with sections 107 to 109;
b. must state that it is an arbitral award; and
c. has the same status and effect as any other arbitral award on the substance of the disagreement.
Form and Content of Arbitral Award
106. An arbitral tribunal must make its final award as soon as possible and, in any event, not later than 60 days after:
a. the hearings have been closed; or
b. the final submission has been made
whichever is the later date.
107. An arbitral award must be made in writing, and be signed by the members of the arbitral tribunal.
108. An arbitral award must state the reasons upon which it is based, unless:
a. the parties have agreed that no reasons are to be given; or
b. the award is an arbitral award on agreed terms under section 104 and 105.
109. A signed copy of an arbitral award must be delivered to all the Parties by the arbitral tribunal.
110. At any time during the arbitral proceedings, an arbitral tribunal may make an interim arbitral award on any matter with respect to which it may make a final arbitral award.
111. An arbitral tribunal may award interest.
112. The costs of an arbitration are in the discretion of the arbitral tribunal which, in making an order for costs, may:
a. include as costs:
i. the fees and expenses of the arbitrators and expert witnesses,
ii. legal fees and expenses of the parties,
iii. any administration fees of a neutral appointing authority, or
iv. any other expenses incurred in connection with the arbitral proceedings; and
b. specify:
i. the party entitled to costs,
ii. the party who will pay the costs,
iii. subject to section 113, the amount of costs or method of determining that amount, and
iv. the manner in which the costs will be paid.
113. For purposes of section 112, an arbitral tribunal may award up to 50% of the reasonable and necessary legal fees and expenses that were actually incurred by a party, and if the legal services were provided by an employee or employees of that party, the arbitral tribunal may fix an amount or determine an hourly rate to be used in the calculation of the cost of those employee legal fees.
Termination of Proceedings
114. An arbitral tribunal must close any hearings if:
a. the parties advise they have no further evidence to give or submissions to make; or
b. the tribunal considers further hearings to be unnecessary or inappropriate.
115. A final arbitral award, or an order of the arbitral tribunal under section 116, terminates arbitral proceedings.
116. An arbitral tribunal must issue an order for the termination of the arbitral proceedings if:
a. the applicant withdraws its claim, unless the respondent objects to the order and the arbitral tribunal recognizes a legitimate interest in obtaining a final settlement of the disagreement;
b. the parties agree on the termination of the proceedings; or
c. the arbitral tribunal finds that the continuation of the proceedings has for any other reason become unnecessary or impossible.
117. Subject to sections 118 to 123 and section 127, the mandate of an arbitral tribunal terminates with the termination of the arbitral proceedings.
Correction and Interpretation of Award; Additional Award
118. Within 30 days after receipt of an arbitral award:
a. a party may request the arbitral tribunal to correct in the tribunal award any computation errors, any clerical or typographical errors or any other errors of a similar nature; and
b. a party may, if agreed by all the parties, request the arbitral tribunal to give an interpretation of a specific point or part of the arbitral award.
119. If an arbitral tribunal considers a request made under section 118 to be justified, it must make the correction or give the interpretation within 30 days after receipt of the request and the interpretation will form part of the arbitral award.
120. An arbitral tribunal, on its own initiative, may correct any error of the type referred to in subsection 118 (a) within 30 days after the date of the arbitral award.
121. A party may request, within 30 days after receipt of an arbitral award, the arbitral tribunal to make an additional arbitral award respecting claims presented in the arbitral proceedings but omitted from the arbitral award.
122. If the arbitral tribunal considers a request made under section 121 to be justified, it must make an additional arbitral award within 60 days.
123. Sections 107 to 109, and sections 111 to 113 apply to a correction or interpretation of an arbitral award made under section 119 or 120, or to an additional arbitral award made under section 122.
Application for Setting Aside Arbitral Award
124. Subject to sections 129 and 131, an arbitral award may be set aside by the Supreme Court, and no other court, only if a party making the application establishes that:
a. the party making the application:
i. was not given proper notice of the appointment of an arbitrator or of the arbitral proceedings, or
ii. was otherwise unable to present its case or respond to the other party's case;
b. the arbitral award:
i. deals with a disagreement not contemplated by or not falling within the terms of the submission to arbitration, or
ii. contains decisions on matters beyond the scope of the submission to arbitration, provided that, if the decisions on matters submitted to arbitration can be separated from those not so submitted, only that part of the arbitral award that contains decisions on matters not submitted to arbitration may be set aside;
c. the composition of the arbitral tribunal or the arbitral procedure was not in accordance with the agreement of the parties, unless that agreement was in conflict with a provision of this Appendix from which the parties cannot derogate, or, failing any agreement, was not in accordance with this Appendix;
d. the arbitral tribunal or a member of it has committed a corrupt or fraudulent act; or
e. the award was obtained by fraud.
125. An application for setting aside may not be made more than three months:
a. after the date on which the party making that application received the arbitral award; or
b. if a request had been made under section 118 or 121, after the date on which that request was disposed of by the arbitral tribunal.
126. An application to set aside an award on the ground that the arbitral tribunal or a member of it has committed a corrupt or fraudulent act or that the award was obtained by fraud must be commenced:
a. within the period referred to in section 125; or
b. within 30 days after the applicant discovers or ought to have discovered the fraud or corrupt or fraudulent act
whichever is the longer period.
127. When asked to set aside an arbitral award, the Supreme Court may, where it is appropriate and it is requested by a party, adjourn the proceedings to set aside the arbitral award for a period of time determined by it in order to give the arbitral tribunal an opportunity:
a. to resume the arbitral proceedings; or
b. to take any other action that, in the arbitral tribunal's opinion, will eliminate the grounds for setting aside the arbitral award.
128. A Party that was not a participating Party in an arbitration must be given notice of an application under section 124, and is entitled to be a party to, and make representation on, the application.
Appeal on Question of Law
129. A party may appeal an arbitral award to the Supreme Court, with leave, on a question of law, which the Supreme Court must grant only if it is satisfied that:
a. the importance of the result of the arbitration to the parties justifies the intervention of the court, and the determination of the point of law may prevent a miscarriage of justice; or
b. the point of law is of general or public importance.
130. An application for leave may not be made more than three months:
a. after the date on which the party making the application received the arbitral award; or
131. The Supreme Court may confirm, vary or set aside the arbitral award or may remit the award to the arbitral tribunal with directions, including the court's opinion on the question of law.
132. When asked to set aside an arbitral award the Supreme Court may, where it is appropriate and it is requested by a party, adjourn the proceedings to set aside the arbitral award for a period of time determined by it in order to give the arbitral tribunal an opportunity:
133. A Party that was not a participating Party in an arbitration must be given notice of an application under section 129 and is entitled to be a party to, and make representation on the application.
134. A party may appeal a decision of the Supreme Court under section 131 to the British Columbia Court of Appeal with leave of the British Columbia Court of Appeal.
135. If the British Columbia Court of Appeal:
a. refuses to grant leave to a party to appeal a ruling of the Supreme Court under section 131; or
b. hears an appeal from a ruling of the Supreme Court under section 131,
136. No application may be made under section 129 in respect of:
a. an arbitral award based upon equitable considerations as permitted in section 96; or
b. an arbitral award made in an arbitration commenced under paragraph 28 of the Chapter.
137. No application for leave may be brought under section 129 in respect of a ruling made by the Supreme Court under section 98 if the time for appealing that ruling has already expired.
Recognition and Enforcement
138. An arbitral award must be recognized as binding and, upon application to the Supreme Court, must be enforced subject to paragraph 136 and 137 of the Nisg̱a'a Government Chapter.
139. Unless the Supreme Court orders otherwise, the party relying on an arbitral award or applying for its enforcement must supply the duly authenticated original arbitral award or a duly certified copy of it.
Ground for Refusing Enforcement
140. Subject to sections 128 and 133, a Party that was not a participating Party in an arbitration must not bring an application under section 124 or 129 to set the award aside but may resist enforcement of the award against it by bringing an application under section 141.
141. On the application of a Party that was not a participating Party in an arbitration, the Supreme Court may make an order refusing to enforce against that Party an arbitral award made under this Appendix if that Party establishes that:
a. it was not given copies of:
i. the notice of arbitration or agreement to arbitrate, or
ii. the pleadings or all amendments and supplements to the pleadings;
b. the arbitral tribunal refused to add the Party as a participating Party to the arbitration under paragraph 32 of the Chapter;
c. the arbitral award
ii. contains decisions on matters beyond the scope of the submission to arbitration
provided that, if the decisions on matters submitted to arbitration can be separated from those not so submitted, that part of the arbitral award which contains decisions on matters submitted to arbitration may be recognized and enforced;
d. the arbitral award has not yet become binding on the parties or has been set aside or suspended by a court;
e. the arbitral tribunal or a member of it has committed a corrupt or fraudulent act; or
f. the award was obtained by fraud.
Contents | Sections 1-70 | Schedule - Table of Contents | Preamble | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 10 | Chapter 11 | Chapter 12 | Chapter 13 | Chapter 14 | Chapter 15 | Chapter 16 | Chapter 17 | Chapter 18 | Chapter 19 | Chapter 20 | Chapter 21 | Chapter 22 | Schedule - Map of Nisga'a Lands | Appendix - Contents | Appendix - Introduction | Appendix A | Appendix B | Appendix C | Appendix D | Appendix E | Appendix F | Appendix G | Appendix H | Appendix I | Appendix J | Appendix K | Appendix L | Appendix M
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AmazingSKY
by Alan Dyer
NightScapes and TimeLapses
The Backyard Astronomer's Guide
Tutorials/Courses
Deep Sky with DSLR Course
Nightscapes and Time-Lapses Course
Workshops/Talks
Deep Sky with DSLR
Photoshop for Astronomy
Reviews/Tips
Nightscapes - Star Trails
A gallery of 4- and 5-Star nightscapes taken from many sites, but all in long exposures showing star trails. Presented in chronological order from newest to oldest images.
Moonrise Star Trails at Dinosaur Park
The eroding formations of Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, lit by the rising gibbous Moon, off camera at right, on April 21/22, 2019. This is looking north, with the stars of the northern sky pivoting around Polaris. This is a stack of 8 exposures, mean combined to smooth noise, for the ground, and 250 exposures for the sky, blended with Lighten mode to create the stails. However, I used the Advanced Stacker Plus actions in Photoshop to do the stacking, creating the tapering effect in the process. All exposures with the 15mm Laowa lens at f/2.8 and Sony a7III at ISO 3200, each for 30 seconds. Luminar Flex effects Soft Glow added to the sky and Autumn Colors added to the ground.
Star Trails over Lake Herbert
A blend of images to show the stars of the southern sky moving from east to west (left to right) over the peaks of the Continental Divide at Herbert Lake near Lake Louise, in Banff, Alberta. The main peak at left is Mount Temple. A single static image shows the Milky Way and stars at the end of the motion sequence. The star trails and Milky Way reflect in the calm waters of the small Lake Herbert this night on July 17, 2018. This is a stack of 100 images for the star trails, stacked with the Long Streak function of Advanced Stacker Plus actions, plus a single exposure taken a minute or so after the last star trail image. The star trail stack is dropped back a lot in brightness, plus they are blurred slightly, so as to not overwhelm the fixed sky image. The sky images are blended with a stack of 8 images for the ground, mean combined to smooth noise in the ground. All are 30 seconds at f/2.8 with the 24mm Sigma lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 3200. All were taken as part of a time-lapse sequence. Clouds moving in added the odd dark patches in the Milky Way that look like out of place dark nebulas. The reflected star trails are really there in the water and have not be copied, pasted and inverted from the sky image. They look irregular because of rippling in the water.
Star Trails over Bow Lake
A blend of images to show the stars of the southern sky moving from east to west (left to right) over the Rocky Mountains at Bow Lake, in Banff, Alberta. The main peak at centre is Bow Peak. Crowfoot Glacier is at far left; Bow Glacier is at right below the Milky Way. A single static image shows the Milky Way and stars at the end of the motion sequence. The star trails and Milky Way reflect in the calm waters of Bow Lake this night on July 16, 2018, though they appear large and out of focus. This is a stack of 300 images for the star trails, stacked with the Ultrastreak function of Advanced Stacker Plus actions, plus a single exposure taken a minute or so after the last star trail image. The star trail stack is dropped back a lot in brightness, plus they are blurred slightly, so as to not overwhelm the fixed sky image. The sky images are blended with a stack of 8 images for the ground, mean combined to smooth noise in the ground. All are 30 seconds at f/2 with the 15mm Laowa lens and Sony a7III at ISO 3200. All were taken as part of a time-lapse sequence. Bands of airglow add the green streaks to the sky.
Star Trails over Storm Mountain
The stars trailing as they move east to west (left to right), ending with the Milky Way and Galactic Centre (right) over Storm Mountain and the Vermilion Pass area of the Continental Divide in Banff National Park, Alberta. Mars is the bright trail at left. Saturn is amid the Milky Way at right. This was July 15, 2018. The lights at left are from the Castle Mountain interchange at Highways 1 and 93. This is a stack of 8 exposures, mean combined to smooth noise, for the ground, plus 200 exposures for the star trails, and one exposure, untracked, for the fixed sky taken about a minute after the last star trail image. All 30 seconds at f/2.8 with the 24mm Sigma lens, and Nikon D750 at ISO 6400. The frames were taken as part of a time-lapse sequence. Dynamic Contrast filter from ON1 applied to the ground, and Soft and Airy filter from Luminar applied to the sky for a soft Orton effect.
Liberty Schoolhouse with Star Trails
The 1910 Liberty Schoolhouse, a classic pioneer one-room school, on the Alberta prairie under the stars on a spring night, with circumpolar star trails circling Polaris, and an aurora dancing to the north. Moonlight from the 8-day-old waxing Moon provides the illumination. This is a stack of 155 exposures for the sky for the star trails, and a mean-combined stack of 8 exposures for the ground to smooth noise, with a vintage effect using Luminar applied to the ground for the rustic tone. Star trail stacking with Advanced Stacker Plus Actions in Photoshop with Ultrastreaks effect. With the Laowa 15mm lens and Sony a7III camera. All 20 seconds at f/2.8 and at ISO 800, and taken as part of a 360-frame time-lapse.
Star Trails over the Red Deer River
Circumpolar star trails and aurora over the Red Deer River, Alberta from the Orkney Viewpoint north of Drumheller on May 5, 2018. This is a stack of 650 images for the sky and river reflections using Advanced Stacker Plus actions in Ultrastreak mode. The ground comes from a stack of the final 8 images in the set, averaged to smooth noise. All exposures were 10 seconds at f/2 with the 14mm Sigma Art lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 3200. The frames were taken for a time-lapse movie of the aurora, which proved fairly quiet this night, so in stacking the sky, the aurora did not blur too much. Most of the curtain activity seen here was in the last dozen or so frames.
Orion Rising Star Trails at Dinosaur Park
Orion rising in star trails and in the moonlight, at Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, on November 27, 2017. Light is from the 8-day waxing Moon off camera to the right. This is a stack of 100 exposures for the star trails, followed by a gap of a miniute, then a final single exposure to add the point-like stars at the ends of the trails. Another gaussian blur layer adds the star glows. The 100 star trail frames were extracted from the end of a 1200-frame time-lapse sequence. All exposures were 10 seconds at f/2 with a 24mm Sigma Art lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 800. Stacking was with the Advanced Stacker Plus actions from Star Circle Academy, v14e.
Trail of the Low June Moon
A composite stack of 12 images taken June 11/12, 2017 of the waning gibbous Moon tracking low across the southern sky on a June nght, from moonrise at left at 11:30 pm to when it began to leave the frame at right at 4 a.m. and when the sky was brightening with dawn. Images are at 25-minute intervals. The sky is blue here from the moonlight. This demonstrates how the summer Moon at and around Full phase tracks low across the south just as the Sun does during winter. The frames here were taken from an 1172-frame time-lapse, from home in southern Alberta, with the Nikon D750 and 24mm lens. While the sky comes from a stack of 12 images, the ground is from a stack of just two, to minimize the loss of shadows from the moving Moon. Exposures were 10 to 13 seconds, vastly overexposing the Moon but the sequence was intended first and foremost for a time-lapse where each frame has to be well-exposed to show the sky and ground, and not just the disk of the Moon in a dark underexposed scene.
Orion Setting in Star Trails at Loch Ard Gorge
Orion (right) and Sirius (upper right) setting into the west over Loch Ard Gorge on the Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia, with illumination from the rising Moon a day past full behind the camera to the east. This is the location of the wreck of the Loch Ard immigrant ship, where only two survived by swimming ashore at this gorge and climbing the cliffs to find a ranch house nearby. This is a stack of 100 exposures for the sky and water, each 15 seconds, with the ground coming from one frame in the sequence to prevent the moving shadows from the rising Moon from blurring detail. All with the 14mm Rokinon lens at f/2.5 and Canon 6D at ISO 800. Stacked with Advanced Stacker Action Elastic Stars effect.
Star Trails over Moraine Lake
Star trails over Moraine Lake from Aug 31, 2016. This is a stack of about 300 exposures for the sky and 8 for the ground to smooth noise. Each exposure was 15 seconds at f/2 with the Sigma 20mm lens. Master dark frame applied in processing. Stacking with Advanced Stacker Plus actions in Photoshop.
Circumpolar Stars over Tibuc Cottage
Southern circumpolar stars over the Tibuc Gardens Cottage, with the foreground illuminated by moonlight. The Milky Way forms the brighter band running across the sky above the Pole. The sky is a stack of 388 exposures, each 30 seconds with the 15mm lens at f/2.8 and Canon 6D at ISO 3200. Stacked with Advanced Stacker Plus Actions using Ultrastreaks mode. The foreground comes from the first frame in the sequence when the waxing Moon was still up.
Orion Rising in the Moonlight
Orion, at right, rising in star trails behind the old plough, at home, on a bright moonlit night in November, with light from a waxing gibbous Moon. Procyon is just rising above the horizon at left. Clouds from incoming winter weather bringing snow are intruding at right. Exposures started about 7:30 pm with Orion just starting to rise, and ended at about 10 pm with Orion at upper right in the frame. This is a stack of 350 images for the stars, each 20 seconds at f/5.6 with the 35mm lens Canon L-series lens and Canon 6D at ISO 1600. A final single exposure added the more point-like stars at the ends of the trails. The ground comes from a stack of 8 frames in the sequence, mean combined, to reduce noise. All stacking with the Advanced Stacker Plus actions, with the Long Streaks effect, from StarCircleAcademy.com.
Big Dipper Star Trails over ForgetMeNot Pond
The Big Dipper trailing across the northern sky over ForgetMeNot Pond in Kananaskis Country, in southern Alberta, on a moonlit autumn night in September 2015. This is a stack of two exposures: 30 seconds at f/4 and ISO 1250 for the short point-like stars followed by an 8-minute exposure at f/5.6 at ISO 160, both with the 24mm lens and Nikon D750. LENR used on both images.
Star Trails over Rustic House
Circumpolar star trails circling above an old rustic and abandoned house near Bow Island, Alberta, with illumination from the nearly Full Moon. Cassiopeia is near centre. Polaris is at top left. This is a stack of 140 frames from a time-lapse sequence with additional frames added for the first and last stars, and the ground coming from a mean combine stack of 8 frames to reduce noise. Each frame is 10 seconds at f/4 with the 16-35mm lens and ISO 1600 with the Canon 6D. Stacked with Advanced Stacker Actions, using the Ultrastreaks effect, from within Photoshop.
Solstice Star Trails at Dinosaur Park
Summer solstice twilight and circumpolar star trails over the badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta. Some bright noctilucent clouds are visible low on the northern horizon. I shot this June 15, 2015 as part of a shoot for a “star trail” video tutorial, as an example image. This is a stack of the first 200 frames of 275 shot for a time-lapse, each 15 seconds at f/2.8 with the Rokinon 14mm lens and Canon 6D at ISO 1600. I stacked them in Advanced Stacker Actions with the ultrastreak mode. The foreground comes from a mean blend of the first 8 frames, to smooth noise, and to provide a brighter foreground from early in the sequence when the sky and ground were brighter.
Space Station in the Summer Dawn
A pass of the International Space Station in the brightening twilight of dawn, on the morning of June 1, 2015, with the gibbous Moon setting to the southwest at right. The view is looking south, with the ISS travelling from right (west) to left (southeast) over several minutes. This was the last pass of a 4-pass night, May 31/June 1, starting at 3:55 am MDT this morning. This is a composite stack of 144 exposures, each 2 seconds at f/2.8 with the 15mm full-frame fish-eye and ISO 3200 with the Canon 6D. The gaps are from the 1-second interval between exposures. The length of the trails and gaps reflects the changing apparent speed of the ISS as it approaches, passes closest, then flies away. I stacked the exposures with the Advanced Stacker Actions from StarCIrcleAcademy.com, using the Lighten mode. The ground comes from a Mean blend of just 8 of the exposures to prevent shadows from blurring but to smooth noise.
Space Station Overhead Pass #1
An overhead pass of the International Space Station in a bright moonlit sky on the night of May 31/ June 1, 2015, with the gibbous Moon in to the south, below. The view is looking south, with the ISS travelling from right (west) to left (east) over several minutes. This was the second pass of a 4-pass night, May 31/June 1, starting at 12:44 am MDT this morning. This is a composite stack of 91 exposures, each 4 seconds at f/3.5 with the 8mm fish-eye lens and ISO 6400 with the Canon 6D. The gaps are from the 1-second interval between exposures. The length of the trails and gaps reflects the changing apparent speed of the ISS as it approaches, passes closest, then flies away. The stars are trailing around Polaris at top. An aircraft supplies the other dashed trail across the top and intersecting with the ISS trail. I stacked the exposures with the Advanced Stacker Actions from StarCIrcleAcademy.com, using the Lighten mode. The ground comes from a Mean blend of just 8 of the exposures to prevent shadows from blurring but to smooth noise.
Star Trails over Pioneer Homestead at Dusk
Circumpolar star trails at dawn over the historic Butala homestead at the Old Man on His Back Prairie and Heritage Conservation Area in southwest Saskatchewan, taken May 2015. This is a stack of 70 frames from a larger time-lapse sequence, from the start of the sequence in the dusk twilight, with some aurora active and adding green and magenta to the sky. Cassiopeia is at left over the house. Each exposure is 40 seconds with the 14mm lens at f/2.8 and Canon 60Da at ISO 1600. Stacked with Advanced Stacker Actions, Comet effect. The foreground comes from a stack of 8 of the first exposures, mean combined, to smooth noise.
Star Trails over Pioneer Homestead at Dawn
Circumpolar star trails at dawn over the historic Butala homestead at the Old Man on His Back Prairie and Heritage Conservation Area in southwest Saskatchewan, taken May 2015. This is a stack of 70 frames from a larger time-lapse sequence, from the end of the sequence in the dawn twilight. Each exposure is 40 seconds with the 14mm lens at f/2.8 and Canon 60Da at ISO 1600. Stacked with Advanced Stacker Actions. The foreground comes from a stack of 8 of the final exposures, mean combined, to smooth noise.
Star Trails Behind Double Arch
Circumpolar star trails spinning behind Double Arch at Arches National Park, Utah, as the waning gibbous Moon lights the arches toward the end of the sequence. The Big Dipper is streakng into frame at top right from behind the butte at right, while Jupiter is the bright object at top left streaking down into the scene. During the shoot, other photographers were lighting the Arches but this did not affect my shoot, as my foreground came from near the end of the shoot after they had all left and I had natural illumination to light the Arches. This is a stack of 160 frames taken over 2.5 hours from 9:30 to midnight, starting in moonless darkness, then brightening as the Moon rose in the last hour of the shooting, lighting the sky and arches. The nearest arch casts its shadow onto the distant arch, with its shadow shape matching the other arch. The frames were stacked with Star Circle Academy’s “Advanced Stacker Actions” for Photoshop using the Long Streaks effect. The foreground comes from a stack of 8 frames for noise reduction, taken toward the end of the shooting with the moonlight illumination. An additional frame taken a couple of minutes after the last star trail frame adds the short unstreaked stars at the head of the trails. Each exposure was 45 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 3200 with the Canon 6D and 14mm Rokinon lens. Dark frames taken at the end of the night (8 stacked in Mean combine for a master dark) were also subtracted from each of the foreground and star trail stacks, which reduced noise speckling.
Double Arch in Moonlight
The famous and photogenic Double Arch at Arches National Park in Utah, shot in moonlight with illumination from a rising waning gibbous Moon on April 6, 2015. This is a stack of 4 x 40 second exposures at f/4 and ISO 1600 with the Canon 24mm lens and Canon 6D, to provide short star trails from stars in the northern sky.
The Dippers over South Window Arch
The Big and Little Dippers circling Polaris over South Window Arch in Arches National Park, Utah, with the rising waning Moon lighting the landscape and sky. This is a stack of 4 x 40-second exposures with the Rokinon 14mm lens at f/2.8 and Canon 6D at ISO 3200. taken April 6, 2015.
The Dippers Over North Window Arch
The Big Dipper and the Little Dipper turning around Polaris (at left) over the North Window Arch at Arches National Park, Utah, with a sky brightening with moonlight. A wash from an LED flashlight provided some foreground illumination. This is a stack of 4 x 45-second exposures with the Rokinon 14mm lens at f/2.8 and Canon 6D at ISO 3200.
Orion Star Trails Through Turret Arch
Orion and the stars of the winter sky trailing as they set behind and through Turret Arch, in Arches National Park, Utah. I shot this April 6, 2015 after twilight but before the waning Moon rose, so the sky was dark. Illumination is from stars and the sky – no artificial light provided, and the Moon was not up. This is a stack of 4 x 8-minute exposures at ISO 250 for the ground and long star trails, plus an initial short 30-second exposure at ISO 4000 for the star points at the start of the trail, all with the Rokinon 14mm lens at f/2.8 and Canon 6D.
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the Wheelharp and other quasi-bowed instruments
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Dream Walker
http://antiquitymusic.com/wheelharp/
A keyboard instrument that bows strings. Recently invented, although Leonardo DaVinci came up with a similar idea (the "viola organista") and never constructed it.
My first thought: I want one. My second thought: I want someone to build an electromagnetic version, sort of an EBow-per-string piano. (As it turns out, I was hardly the first person to have that idea...)
I started exploring online and found some other interesting projects.
A robotic hurdy-gurdy-like instrument: http://www.logosfoundation.org/instr...urdygurdy.html
It's quite a drone machine.
As it turned out, <Hurdy> proved to be an excellent test- and demonstration tool for classes in the acoustics of musical instruments. Particularly the theory of inharmonicity of strings can be perfectly well demonstrated and proved. The e-drive mechanism provides excitation at a mathematically exact 'harmonic', yet one can easily show that maximum resonance for that overtone only occurs if the string is retuned a bit for every 'harmonic'! It proves clearly that 'harmonic' overtones rather belong to the realms of religion than to those of physics. We used these scientific facts as the underlying compositional base for our composition 'Religionszwang', a solo piece for <Hurdy>. Another version of the same piece is called 'Scientia Vincere Tenebras', using calculations and empirical data for real inharmonic spectral components.
Hurdy-gurdy emulator for guitar: http://engin1000.pbworks.com/w/page/...20For%20Guitar
References the above article, and also has a sound clip of the second prototype of this device. I wouldn't say it comes out anything like an actual hurdy-gurdy any more than the robot does, but it does make some unique and fascinating sounds.
Magnetic Resonator Piano: http://music.ece.drexel.edu/research/mrp
It's a bit less ghostly and ethereal than I was expecting; maybe it needs to play with higher harmonics a bit more. It's more like the Moog Guitar of pianos than it is 88 EBows on strings. But it's still quite cool.
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I would love a hurdy gurdy! They're so damn expensive though.
I play violin a little and that's very interesting if you add lots of delay and reverb to it. Not quite the continuous bowing, but very interesting. I've never actually taken my ebow to it, so maybe that's my next project...
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EU green deal is a 1 trln euro diversion
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4 March 2020 By George Hay Follow @gfhay
The European Union’s big investment plan to cut emissions, due on Wednesday to be backed by legally binding targets, has been getting a kicking. Fair enough: it’s a typical Brussels fudge. Its main role is to keep the EU busy until political cover exists to properly price carbon.
The European Union will on March 4 launch its Climate Law, which will enshrine a commitment for its carbon emissions to reach net zero by 2050.
A proposal for EU member states to reduce carbon emissions by 50% or more by 2030 is intended to be added later in the year, a person familiar with the situation told Breakingviews.
EU leaders failed to reach a deal on Feb. 21 over their 2021-27 budget, following talks in Brussels. There will have to be a further summit – or summits – to get a deal over the line, though no date was immediately set.
In a piece published in the Guardian on Feb. 7, ex-Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis attacked the region’s 1 trillion euro European Green Deal, which aims to mobilise funds towards climate-related projects, describing it as a “colossal exercise in greenwashing”.
The green deal comprises several funds, channelling money from the EU budget, private sources and the European Investment Bank. It also includes a mechanism to help carbon-dependent regions transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources.
In response to the unveiling of the so-called “Just Transition Fund”, German Member of the European Parliament Niklas Nienass likened the overall 100 billion euro figure to a “sleight of hand”, and compared the European Commission to “street magicians”, Euractiv reported on Jan. 14.
Source: REUTERS/Yves Herman
European Union flags fly outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, February 19, 2020.
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Our First Team are supporting The Trust, will you?
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UPDATE 1-WHO says joint China mission to start coronavirus probe this weekend
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GENEVA/LONDON () – A World Health Organization-led mission to China will start its outbreak investigation this weekend and will focus on how the new coronavirus is spreading and the severity of the disease, the WHO’s director-general said on Friday. The joint team, composed of 12 international members and their 12 Chinese counterparts, will seek more details on how, where and when the more than 1,700 health workers infected so far contracted the new virus, WHO officials said. “We expect the full team to touch down over the weekend,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, told reporters in Geneva. “The goal of the joint mission is to rapidly inform the next steps in the COVID-19 response and preparedness activities in China and globally,” he said, referring to the medical name for the acute respiratory disease caused by the virus. “Particular attention will be paid to understanding transmission of the virus, the severity of disease and the impact of ongoing response measures.” Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO health emergencies programme, said that he believed the WHO-led team would include U.S. health officials, but gave no details. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), whose technical experts are highly-regarded, has voiced interest in taking part. Ryan, asked about the Tokyo Olympic Games scheduled for July, said that the WHO was in regular touch with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and other organisers regarding major events. Japan has been one of the most-affected countries outside China. “We have not offered advice to the IOC for the Olympics one way or the other, and neither would we. It is not the role of WHO to call off or not call off any event,” Ryan said. WHO’s role was to offer technical advice to help organisers conduct a thorough risk assessment around an event, he said. “And it is the decision of hosting countries and the organising agencies to make that decision,” he added. Chinese authorities reported 5,090 new cases in mainland China on Friday, including more than 120 deaths, taking the total number of infected to 63,851, and the number of deaths from COVID-19 to 1,380. China has also released data on infections among health workers, which stands at 1,716 reported cases and six deaths. A medical worker carries protective suits at Jinyintan hospital in Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak, in Hubei province, China February 13, 2020. China Daily via Ryan said infections among healthcare workers appear to have peaked in the 3rd or 4th week of January. There had been a “rapid fall-off” in such cases in the last two weeks, which might reflect better training or protection, he said. Dr. Sylvie Briand, WHO director of global infectious hazard preparedness, said such infections were not unusual in outbreaks but that it was seeking more details from Chinese authorities. “It is very important to understand if it happened in the emergency ward or if it has happened when they were treating patients or somewhere else within the hospital facility so that we can also target implementation of corrective measures,” she said. Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva and Kate Kelland in London; Editing by Hugh Lawson and Alex RichardsonOur Standards:The Thomson Trust Principles.
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The shocking, never-before-told story of the bizarre world inside the legendary Playboy Mansion—and, finally, the secret truth about the man who holds the key—from one of the few people who truly knows: Hef’s former #1 girlfriend and star of The Girls Next Door
A spontaneous decision at age twenty-one transformed small-town Oregon girl Holly Sue Cullen into Holly Madison, Hugh Hefner’s #1 girlfriend. But like Alice’s journey into Wonderland, after Holly plunged down the rabbit hole, what seemed like a fairytale life inside the Playboy Mansion—including A-list celebrity parties and her own #1-rated television show for four years—quickly devolved into an oppressive routine of strict rules, manipulation, and battles with ambitious, backstabbing bunnies. Life inside the notorious Mansion wasn’t a dream at all—and quickly became her nightmare. After losing her identity, her sense of self-worth, and her hope for the future, Holly found herself sitting alone in a bathtub contemplating suicide.
But instead of ending her life, Holly chose to take charge of it.
In this shockingly candid and surprisingly moving memoir, this thoughtful and introspective woman opens up about life inside the Mansion, the drugs, the sex, the abuse, the infamous parties, and her real behind-the-scenes life with Bridget, Kendra, and, of course, Mr. Playboy himself.
With great courage, Holly shares the details of her subsequent troubled relationship, landing her own successful television series, and the hard work of healing, including her turn on Dancing with the Stars. A cautionary tale and a celebration of personal empowerment, Down the Rabbit Hole reminds us of the importance of fighting for our dreams—and finding the life we deserve.
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CALEB launches new Immigration Bond Fund to aid families separated by ICE detention
We're proud to announce a new initiative through CALEB that looks to intervene directly in support of local families separated by ICE detention. The Immigration Bond Fund is a mechanism to raise money that will be used to post bond for local individuals that have been granted a bond amount by an immigration judge. All the reasons for doing away with the wealth-based detention of cash bail--unequal access to justice, inability to work or act as caregiver, threats to employment, housing, transportation, or necessary medication--are only amplified and extended when dealing with individuals moved to a federal pre-trial detention facility.
Solid community action often comes out of serious social failures and injustices. In Hamilton County, family members are being separated every week; often they're arrested for minor traffic charges like driving on a revoked license even when no probably cause is given for the stop. When undocumented individuals are booked in the jail, ICE is notified and has the ability to place a 48-hour hold that precludes an option to bail out. According to ICE's own website, "If ICE does not assume custody after 48 hours (excluding weekends and holidays), the local law enforcement agency (LEA) is required to release the individual. The LEA may not lawfully hold an individual beyond the 48-hour period." Yet in a number of cases that CALEB's Community Bail Fund has been involved with, Hamilton County Jail staff have refused to release individuals well after the hold has expired and bond has been paid.
Along with Tennessee United, we are working to make sure these examples of unjust detentions are changed at the Hamilton County Sheriff's Dept. For those individuals who do find themselves or their loved ones fighting for their freedom to stay in Chattanooga, we are looking to help. We will be coordinating the establishment of a bond fund committee to oversee applications and approvals, but in the meantime we need to gather the funds that can make action a reality. CALEB's goal is to raise $20,000 for the fund by year's end. You can help us reach this goal by donating HERE, as well as sharing this project among your friends and family. CALEB is a nonprofit organization, so all donations will be tax-deductible.
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Campus Reform | Berkeley English prof tells people to 'burn' 'transphobic' book
Berkeley English prof tells people to 'burn' 'transphobic' book
A University of California English professor called on her followers to burn a book that documents the transgender movement.
Though she backed down and insisted that her tweet was “ironic,” Twitter censored it in Germany.
Benjamin Zeisloft | Pennsylvania Senior Campus Correspondent
Monday, November 23, 2020 1:31 PM
A University of California-Berkeley English professor encouraged her followers to purchase a book criticizing the transgender movement, then “burn it on a pyre.”
Following criticism, Target removed Abigail Shrier’s book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, which discusses the effect of the transgender movement on young girls, from its site on Nov. 12. However, the department store chain reversed its decision the next day, returning the book to its shelves.
University of California-Berkeley English professor Grace Lavery criticized those who approve of the book’s message: “If you don’t think the phrase ‘transgender craze that’s seducing our daughters’ is transphobic, I presume it is because you don’t believe transphobia is real.”
Lavery then pointed out that Target does not carry many academic works about transgenderism.
[RELATED: Music prof pushes to purge 'dead white guys' in 'national overhaul' of curriculum]
She then called upon her followers to “steal Abigail Shrier’s book and burn it on a pyre.”
[RELATED: To fight racism, Cornell renames its English department]
Twitter censored Lavery’s message in Germany.
Lavery referred Campus Reform to another thread on her Twitter page, in which she backed down and insisted that her tweet was intended to be interpreted as "irony.”
"If you think I was sincerely encouraging people to burn books, I suggest you look around and see how many books were actually burned. Either my words weren’t taken seriously bc I was misunderstood, or they were meant not to be taken seriously. You can figure this out yourselves," Lavery said.
Follow the author of this article on Twitter: @BenZeisloft
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Benjamin Zeisloft is a Pennsylvania Senior Campus Correspondent, reporting on liberal bias and abuse for Campus Reform. He is studying Finance and Marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Benjamin also writes for The UPenn Statesman and the Wharton International Business Review.
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NFL Free Picks
NFL Divisional Round 2021 Picks
Eight teams remain in the NFL playoffs. Find our NFL Division Finals 2021 picks on which four teams will win and move one step closer to Super Bowl LV.
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Green Bay Packers vs. Los Angeles Rams
A quarterback recovering from a broken thumb and a defence potentially without the best player in football against the presumptive NFL MVP and top offence in the NFL – that is the Rams and Packers game in a nutshell. And when you put it that way, it is difficult to find a victory path for the Los Angeles Rams to upset the Green Bay Packers.
Aaron Donald is going to the locker room after an apparent injury.
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Aaron Rodgers looks unstoppable this season, setting a career-high in passing touchdowns and absolutely torching opposes defences in Lambeau. Rodgers and his receiver Davante Adams have reached a new level this season, and even Jalen Ramsay – the Rams top cornerback – will have a difficult time keeping Adams out of the endzone.
Even if the Rams defence plays well and limits Green Bay to under 30 points this season (something only four teams did this season), we do not believe in the Rams offence. Goff is recovering from thumb surgery, which limited him to 9/19 passing and 155 yards in the Rams win over Seattle.
At times, his passes fluttered across the field and with colder weather forecasted in Green Bay, gripping the ball is more difficult. Cam Akers can help the Rams move the ball, but no one should bet on a rookie running back to beat Aaron Rodgers and the top-seed Packers.
Green Bay Packers To Win the Game
Buffalo Bills vs. Baltimore Ravens
Josh Allen's abilities to make plays against the Ravens' historically dominant rushing attack headlines the Saturday night matchup of the Divisional Round. As outstanding as Josh Allen and the Bills have played the last two months, the Bills rushing defence is their Achilles heel in this matchup.
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The Bills defence allowed 164 rushing yards to the Colts – including 75 yards to Nyheim Hines on only six carries (an averaged of 12.5 yards per carry). The Bills have now allowed at least 140 rushing yards in three of their last four games. The Ravens have rushed for 1573 yards the last six games (including the postseason) – the most in a six-game stretch since 1950.
The Ravens' ability to run the ball so effectively will limit the Bills' number of possessions. The Raven's rank sixth in the NFL, averaging drives that last 3:00. The Ravens' defence is also getting healthy at the right time – meaning it will be more difficult for the Bills to move the ball on the limited drives they have.
Baltimore Ravens To Win the Game
Kansas City Chiefs vs. Cleveland Browns
Run the ball, run the ball, run the ball – that is how the Cleveland Browns can beat the Kansas City Chiefs in the NFL Playoffs. The Browns ran the ball down the Steelers throat despite missing a few key offensive linemen. They should have their full contingent of starters back for the Chiefs game.
Picking against the Chiefs sounds crazy, but their below-average rushing defence (ranking in the bottom rank for yards allowed and yards per carry against) and the luck factor helping the Chiefs (Mahomes led the NFL this season with 16 dropped interceptions) means it may be time.
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Baker Mayfield has played much better the second half this season and is overall one of the most effective quarterbacks this season when not under pressure. The Chiefs ranked 18th in sack percentage this season but did manage to get pressure on 24.2% of dropbacks – good enough for 10th in the league.
But even if the Chiefs cannot get pressure on Mayfield, do we like him to outduel Patrick Mahomes and the high-flying Chiefs offence? Mayfield was extra sharp against Pittsburgh last week – when they failed to pressure him - tossing 263 yards and three touchdowns in the victory.
Mayfield now has a 14-1 TD-INT ratio in his last ten games. We see enough reasons to take the Browns to win the game (or if you are feeling less risky, at least cover the 10/11-point spread).
Cleveland Browns To Win the Game
New Orleans Saints vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The 2021 Divisional Round concludes with a game headlined by the oldest quarterback matchup in NFL playoff history. Brady and his Bucs lost twice to Brees and his Saints during the regular season, improving Brees' record all-time against Tom Brady to 5-2. The big question now is whether Bree can improve to 6-2 and tie Peyton Manning for the most wins against Brady.
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— Tom Brady (@TomBrady) January 12, 2021
The one thing everyone will consistently bring up this week is how difficult it is to go 3-0 against one opponent in a single season. That sentence is completely overstated and, in fact, not true at all. Since the merger, teams with a 2-0 record against an opponent are 14-7 in the third meeting. Brees owns one of those 14 wins, sweeping the Carolina Panthers in 2017-18.
The Saints match up well against the Bucs. They have consistently shut down Mike Evans the last two seasons – including a game with only two yards and a complete shutout in another. They have sacked Brady six times this season and picked him off twice. They have also moved the ball effectively, scoring 72 points in their two wins.
It is up to Brady to carry this team to victory, but we do not think he can do it. Despite throwing for 381 yards last week, Brady did not look impressive. He floated some balls and underthrew some others.
He ended the day completing 55% of his passes – the third straight game against an NFC opponent (who made the playoffs) where he failed to complete 60% of his passes. Overall, we like Brees and the Saints to sweep the Bucs
New Orleans Saints To Win the Game
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AHCPR Issues Colorectal Cancer Screening Evidence Report
Oncology NEWS International, Oncology NEWS International Vol 6 No 3, Volume 6, Issue 3
ROCKVILLE, Md--In the first report issued under its new Evidence-based Practice Initiative, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) has reaffirmed that early detection and treatment provide the primary means of preventing death from colorectal cancer.
ROCKVILLE, Md--In the first report issued under its new Evidence-basedPractice Initiative, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR)has reaffirmed that early detection and treatment provide the primary meansof preventing death from colorectal cancer.
Among the conclusions of the report, based on a review of 3,500 citationsfrom the scientific literature (1966 to 1994):
Use of fecal occult blood testing followed by diagnostic evaluationand treatment for positive tests can cut colorectal cancer mortality by15% to 33%.
A 60-cm flexible sigmoidoscopy identifies nearly all cancers and polypsgreater than 1 cm in diameter and 75% to 80% of small polyps.
Sigmoidoscopy screening can reduce colorectal cancer mortality riskby 59% to 80%.
Indirect evidence supports the use of double-contrast barium enemain screening for colorectal cancer.
While screening colonoscopy offers the potential to both identify andremove cancers and premalignant lesions, no studies completed to date showan associated mortality reduction.
Detecting and removing polyps reduces the incidence of colorectal cancer,and removing early cancers lowers mortality. Although both double-contrastbarium enema and colonoscopy detect polyps and tumors, they have not beenstudied as screening tests.
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Launching Capella Space’s Commercial Operations
Written by Payam Banazadeh, CEO and founder of Capella Space on January 12, 2021 . Posted in Capella Space.
Since we founded Capella Space four years ago, our team has worked around the clock to design, build, and launch an innovative SAR satellite that will allow organizations to access SAR data on demand. Today we are announcing that we’re officially open for commercial operations — an exciting next step in our journey to making SAR data more accessible. In addition to extensive system readiness testing, we are proud to announce that we hold the first & only Commercial FCC license for a US designed and operated SAR provider. Our license covers Capella-2 as well as a set of future satellites in our planned constellation. Being open for commercial operations means that between our direct sales and reseller partner network, we’re ready to distribute our high-quality SAR imagery to customers in almost every country.
Delivering the highest-quality SAR data
We’ve been working hard to get to this point. Since launching Capella-2 in late August, we’ve been calibrating the satellite and running tests to make sure our SAR data is high resolution, high quality, and low noise. We’ve now run thousands of images through our quality assurance program and we’re satisfied that we are providing the best quality to our customers. We’ve also been downlinking imagery to measure the speed at which tasking requests can be completed, as well as the security of our platform and those of our partners. These measures are critically important, as speed to insight has significant value for our customers.
Providing an intuitive, user-friendly platform
We’ve been working with customers to ensure our systems are primed and proven for commercial deployment. This process involved testing our various imaging modes across different timelines and geographies. We included a wide variety of testers so we could ensure our platform offers an intuitive web experience that makes SAR accessible and easy even if our customers aren’t radar specialists. Thanks to feedback from these early adopters, we have already started working on a list of helpful features and product improvements that will benefit future generations of Capella customers.
Opening Capella’s new manufacturing facilities and mission control center
As our team prepared to open for commercial operations, we also expanded into two new satellite manufacturing facilities in San Francisco, California, and Louisville, Colorado. The facilities total approximately 40,000 square feet and meet the highest security standards.
The manufacturing facilities contain two cleanrooms for satellite assembly, multiple avionics assembly and test stations, three thermal test chambers, one thermal vacuum chamber large enough to test an entire satellite, and two machine shops for building test equipment and rework.
We’ll use these facilities for a variety of purposes, including:
Managing spacecraft inventory, including array, battery, radio, propulsion, GPS, communications, bus, and boom hardware.
Leveraging the facilities’ multiple test beds for flight, communications, radar, and more.
Performing procedures such as assembly, integration, and testing.
Above: The thermal vacuum (TVAC) chamber simulates the environmental conditions of outer space for satellite component testing.
We have also built out our 24/7 mission control center, which contains many unique capabilities that differentiate Capella from other SAR providers. Customers are able to place on-demand tasking orders in a self-service web application. This approach to satellite tasking is a first for the SAR industry and reduces the industry standard for tasking and collection from days to hours. This also offers a vast improvement in operational security as customers no longer need to worry about human-in-the-loop OpSec risk — they can relay their tasking requests in an anonymized and secure, rapid tasking system. The mission control center is the nerve center for communicating with our satellites, enabling us to monitor the health of individual satellites, track where our SAR sensors are at all times, and control commands to the satellite.
Above: Capella Space team members at the San Francisco mission control center
Announcing a new Government Advisory Board
The defense and intelligence community is one of the largest consumers of SAR imagery, and Capella has several partnerships with U.S. government agencies. To support this customer base even better, we’ve created a Government Advisory Board. This board gives us an important and unique perspective on how we can realize our Go-to-Market plan and launch our product offerings in the government space. Capella Space regularly works with program managers and analysts in the intelligence community to gain invaluable product feedback. Our government advisors give us a “Birdseye” view of where the intelligence community is heading, helping us navigate these large, interconnected agencies and combatant commands.
We’re excited to announce the members of our Government Advisory Board:
Douglas Loverro, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy and former Deputy Director of NASA for Human Space Flight.
Gil Klinger, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space, Strategic, and Intelligence Systems and former Vice President for Space Programs at Raytheon.
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Restructuring the Workplace: Collective Consultation FAQs
As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, many employers are contemplating large-scale redundancies by the time the furlough scheme ends on 31 October 2020. Airbus, the BBC, Harrods, Accenture… the headlines multiply as organisations from various sectors enter collective employee consultation. Here, Sarah Austin and Garyn Young explain how the process works.
When must employers collectively consult?
The obligation to collectively consult arises when an employer is proposing to dismiss as redundant 20 or more employees at one establishment within a period of 90 days or less.
What are the consequences of failing to consult collectively?
If employers fail to collectively consult where the duty applies, any resulting dismissals will almost certainly be considered unfair by the Employment Tribunal, meaning employees will be entitled to a basic award and a compensatory award.
An Employment Tribunal is also entitled to award a protective award, which can be up to 90 days’ gross pay in respect of each employee, if they consider there has been a breach of the duty to inform and consult by the employer.
How long does consultation have to last?
Depending on the number of employees that the employer is proposing to make redundant, there are different minimum time periods which apply from the date consultation starts to the date the first dismissal takes effect, which are:
45 days if proposing to make 100 or more employees redundant.
30 days if proposing to make 20-99 employees redundant.
When is the duty to collectively consult triggered?
When employers propose to dismiss as redundant 20 or more employees at one establishment within a period of 90 days or less. But what does ‘proposing to dismiss’ mean? There is no statutory definition, but some useful principles have been established through case law:
A proposal means more than a simple contemplation of the possibility of redundancies.
There can be a proposal to dismiss even if the employer is still considering alternatives to redundancy.
A proposal happens earlier than an actual decision to make redundancies.
Consultation must be started before any final decisions on redundancies have been made.
Consultation must also begin in ‘good time’, which in practice means ensuring that the period provided for consultation is adequate to reach an agreement on the various issues to be consulted on.
Who should employers consult?
Appropriate representatives of the affected employees. If the employer recognises a trade union in respect of any of the affected employees, then the trade union representatives will be appropriate representatives. But if the trade union is not recognised in respect of some or all of the affected employees, then the employer must consult other appropriate representatives in respect of those employees.
If no trade union is recognised in respect of the affected employees, the employer can choose to consult with either representatives who are directly elected by the affected employees or any pre-existing standing body of employee representatives, provided they have authority from the affected employees to be consulted regarding the proposed redundancies.
If an election is necessary, the employer should factor in a time frame (before consultation begins) to put the employee representatives in place. There is no specified process for the election, but there are specific minimum requirements which employers must adhere to.
If staff have been furloughed, it is possible to organise a remote ballot to elect employee representative. However, the employer must ensure that they comply with the general requirements for election processes, despite using remote ballot technology.
One of the key issues will be to decide whether to divide the affected employees into constituencies for the purposes of consultation or treat them as a whole. Either way, the employer needs to ensure that the interests of all of the affected employees are represented.
How does the information and consultation process start?
The consultation process begins with specific information on the proposed redundancies being given to representatives in what’s known as a ‘section 188 letter’.
What do employers need to consult on?
As a minimum, employers are obliged to consult on ways of:
avoiding the dismissals,
reducing the number of employees to be dismissed, and
mitigating the consequences of the dismissals.
However, to avoid claims of unfair dismissal, employers should also consult on the information which should be included in a section 188 letter, including but not limited to the proposed selection criteria.
Can employers collectively consult during furlough?
Provided employers are able to comply with all statutory requirements in relation to collective consultation, there is no specific bar to employers collectively consulting during furlough.
It is likely that consultation meetings will take place virtually and that communication outside of those meetings will be by email. Employers should make sure that representatives and all affected employees have access to the relevant technology.
If employees are furloughed, how do employers ensure that employees and representatives are able to communicate during collective consultation?
Most, if not all, employers will have to have some form of communication process in place already to keep employees informed during the COVID-19 crisis. If there is no existing method of communication, employers will need to set one up. If employees do not have company email addresses which they have access to during furlough, the employer will need to obtain their permission to give out their personal contact details to the representatives.
Putting in place Q&A documents which are accessible to employees and are updated throughout the consultation process can help to ease the pressure on representatives.
If English is not the predominant first language of the workforce, or if a variety of different languages are spoken by employees, employers may also want to consider translating communications.
Do employers who collectively consult also need to consult employees individually?
Yes. Collective consultation does not negate the need to consult individually. However, the individual consultation process is likely to be streamlined, as many of the issues which would otherwise be individually consulted on will already have been dealt with through collective consultation.
Do employers have to reach agreement with the representatives?
There is no requirement to reach agreement. However, they must have either reached agreement or exhausted all possibility of reaching an agreement. If consultation is closed and not all avenues of reaching agreement have been explored, this is likely to be breach of the duty to inform and consult.
Do employers have to wait for the minimum period of consultation to expire before you can serve notice?
Employers do not have to wait until the 30/45-day consultation period has expired before they can serve notice, provided they have fully consulted with appropriate representatives and employees individually before serving notice, and provided employment doesn’t end before the minimum consultation period.
Is the fact that employees are on furlough enough to constitute ‘special circumstances’ meaning that some limited exceptions to the duty to collectively consult apply?
Our view is that employees being on furlough leave is very unlikely to be considered ‘special circumstances’.
Do proposed redundancies have to be notified to the government?
Employers are obliged to notify the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills where they are proposing to dismiss as redundant 20 or more employees at one establishment within a 90-day period. This is done by using a HR1 form. The timing of the notification depends on the number of proposed dismissals:
For 20-99 redundancies in a 90-day period: the HR1 must be filed at least 30 days before the first dismissal.
For 100 or more redundancies in a 90-day period: the HR1 must be filed at least 45 days before the first dismissal.
Failure to inform the Secretary of State can lead to a fine of up to £5000.
Is it possible to make employees redundant whilst the furlough scheme is still in existence?
The Employees’ CJRS guidance confirms that an employee can be made redundant whilst they are on furlough and the existence of the furlough scheme will not in itself make a dismissal for redundancy unfair. But to avoid a dismissal being unfair, it is important that employers can show that furlough has been considered as an alternative to redundancy, and why for them it is not a workable alternative.
This will be particularly relevant from 1 August 2020, when employers must start paying employer NI and employer pension contributions on furlough pay, and subsequently when they are required to contribute to furlough pay, meaning furlough will not be a cost neutral option.
The fact that employers may need employees to carry out the same or similar roles at some point in the future does not preclude there being a genuine redundancy situation, or mean that they are obliged to continue furloughing employees until the furlough scheme closes.
Should employee representatives be taken off furlough leave to carry out their duties?
Under the guidance on furlough, employees are unable to ‘work’. The definition of ‘work’ in the government guidance is anything which is ‘providing services’ and/or ‘generating revenue’ for the employer.
Both the Employers and Employees CJRS guidance was updated on 30 April 2020 to state that employee representatives can take on duties for collective or individual redundancies during the furlough period.
Can the money received from the furlough scheme be used to make payments associated with redundancy?
Employers cannot use money received under the furlough scheme to make statutory or enhanced redundancy payments or to pay employees in lieu of notice once employment has ended.
What about using money received under the scheme to notice pay whilst employees remain employed?
Our view is that employers probably can do this, but the position is currently unclear. The most recent Treasury Direction refers to the integral purpose of the CJRS scheme being that employers only claim under the scheme if the employer intends to use them to continue employment. This could be interpreted to mean that employers should not claim under the scheme where they intend to terminate employment, including by reason of redundancy.
However, it is also arguable that whilst an employee is employed and on notice, their employment is continuing, and therefore employers can continue to claim under the CJRS scheme where an employee is serving notice. We understand that some employers who have contacted HMRC have been verbally assured that using CJRS funds to pay employees who remain employed and are furloughed and under notice of termination is within the rules of the scheme, but this has not been confirmed in writing and is not legally binding.
We will update this note once this issue has been clarified.
What rate should notice be paid at if employees are furloughed?
The rules on what rate of notice pay should be paid for people who have been furloughed depend on their contractual entitlement to notice. We suggest employers take advice on this.
Please note that these FAQs do not constitute legal advice. Collective consultations are a complex process, with challenges particular to each organisation. If you would like to discuss any of the above in further detail, or have any question about redundancies and workforce restructuring, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
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‘A start’ — Durkan 2021 budget proposal cuts police funding by 12%, adds record homelessness spending, and makes brutal decisions for the next year under COVID-19
Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2020 - 1:04 pm by Jake Goldstein-Street
The $6.5 billion 2021 budget proposal Mayor Jenny Durkan sent to the Seattle City Council Tuesday includes nearly $50 million in cuts to police funding in the form of reductions to sworn officers and moving various units out of the department.
The police department’s budget in 2020 totaled $409 million and the new budget proposal totals nearly $360 million. That would amount to about a 12% reduction. Black Lives Matter protests in Seattle have called for at least a 50% reduction in the police budget.
“This budget is a start,” Durkan told reporters Tuesday. “There’s some hard choices in it, but those hard choices mandate us in hard times to do what I think Seattle has always done and it is to put its values front and center. And for us, that means making true on the promises of so many people in the streets who have said ‘We want to and support the civil rights reckoning we’re going through here. We acknowledge and admit that our city and our country have been built on systemic racism and we need to break down those systems, rebuild those systems with just systems.’”
Nearly half of Durkan’s proposed cuts to SPD next year would come from reducing the police force — both sworn and civilian — and overtime expenses as well as a continuation of the department’s existing hiring freeze. Funding would be reduced to 1,400 sworn officers after being budgeted for 1,422 this year.
Overtime for events and emphasis patrols would be reduced by $2.7 million next year under the mayor’s proposal. Between late May and mid-July, overtime for demonstrations against systemic racism and police brutality cost the department $6.3 million.
The proposal would also bring forward the plan surfaced by Durkan and then-SPD Chief Carmen Best over the summer to remove the 140 employee-strong 911 call center from SPD and create a new Seattle Emergency Communications Center to save over $18 million; transfer the department’s parking enforcement squad, which has 120 employees, into the Seattle Department of Transportation, which would save over $14 million; and make the Office of Emergency Management with its 14 employees an independent office to save almost $2.5 million.
SPD was budgeted for 2,187.35 full-time employees in 2020. The proposal from the mayor budgets the department for 1,853.05, a decrease of over 334 employees.
While this summer’s back-and-forth has highlighted long standing tensions between City Hall and the mayor’s office, common ground appears to have been found with some police duties, like 911 operations and parking enforcement removed from the department.
Durkan also plans to sign an executive order this week to lay out the timeline and plan to task an Inter-Departmental Team to analyze 911 operations, look at reforms of the department’s overtime policies, and recommend broader changes to Seattle police. The team’s final report is slated for next spring.
“I am dedicated and committed to making sure that we actually look at policing and change how we do it in community,” Durkan said Tuesday.
The council’s mid-year budget passed last week also included $14 million for various public safety initiatives, which Durkan has committed to quickly disbursing.
King County Equity Now launched what it is calling the “Black Brilliance Project” on Monday, a team of over 100 community members setting out to lay the groundwork for participatory budgeting over the next couple months with public safety and racial equity research. The council approved $3 million in funding for a participatory budgeting process last week.
Those hoping for happier times ahead after months of restrictions won’t find much to be inspired by in Durkan’s proposals. Cutbacks include library closures and parks facilities shut down through at least next summer.
“The budget assumes that Library facilities will not fully reopen to the public for in-person services until July 2021,” the budget proposal cooly states.
Transportation spending and bike projects will mostly be put on hold.
Durkan’s 2021 budget proposal marks a crucial moment in the ongoing tug-of-war between the City Council and the mayor’s office over the future of police funding in the city including the council’s move to override the mayor’s vetoes on SPD cuts in the 2020 budget last week. In that vote, the council essentially turned its back on negotiations with the Durkan administration.
UPDATE: District 3 representative Kshama Sawant, the longest serving member of the City Council, called Durkan’s proposal another “austerity budget” in a statement on the plan.
“Democratic Mayor Jenny Durkan, who has given us torrents of tear gas, blast balls, and pepper spray, who has staunchly defended Amazon and billionaires from even minimal taxation, and who has presided over brutal austerity budgets, is now offering a 2021 budget that will only double down on hard times for Seattle’s working people and marginalized communities,” Sawant writes.
Sawant says her annual People’s Budget process will create a budget plan that “would fully fund, not slash, parks and roads” and “not freeze positions and lay off hard-working City workers.” In past years, few of Sawant’s People’s Budget priorities have been met in the process to shape the final budget for the city,
The council now will begin shaping the mayor’s 2021 proposal and building its own in the coming weeks before expecting to approve a complete budget for next year by late November, according to a schedule released last week. The Select Budget Committee will meet Wednesday morning to hear presentations from council staff and officials from the City Budget Office (CBO).
Durkan has repeatedly pointed to her pledge in recent months to invest $100 million that she says would be earmarked for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities. The mayor announced Friday a task force made up of community members to help decide where the money goes. Community recommendations for where this money is specifically allocated are expected to come next spring.
“We want to make sure that as we continue through this response to COVID-19, the economic crisis, and the civil rights reckoning, that when we come out of this COVID crisis, we come out stronger and more equitable and ready to move forward as a city,” Durkan said.
Mayor Durkan in a prepared introduction to her budget presentation Tuesday
It’s unclear where this hefty sum will come from with the city’s budget in tatters with the coronavirus pandemic. Publicola reports Durkan is planning to pay for the spending with revenue from the $200 million a year business tax passed by the City Council this summer to fund housing, business assistance, and community spending and help Seattle recover from the ongoing COVID-19 crisis as well as revenue from Seattle’s Uber and Lyft fees.
Those concerns that money could be redirected from the council’s Jump Start program are drawing ire from the mayor’s critics who would say it’s hypocritical for her to use this money she ardently opposed for her pledge.
The payroll tax is forecasted to bring in over $214 million in 2021, according to the CBO. CBO Director Ben Noble said the mayor’s budget proposal is “largely consistent” with the council’s planned uses for the revenue from the new tax, which included coronavirus relief and support for low-income families.
The city’s general fund, which includes the $100 million pledge, coronavirus relief, and funds many city government operations, would total $1.567 billion under the mayor’s proposal. Nearly $1.5 billion comes from various revenue streams, including the Jump Start payroll tax and other taxes, and is supplemented by over $52 million in money from the city’s emergency reserves.
This will leave just $5 million in the city’s reserves, which could spell trouble if there are further revenue shortfalls or more unexpected expenditures. The coronavirus pandemic dealt a major blow to revenue this year as major funding sources dried up with minimal activity in the city.
The budget does not account for possible federal or state support for coronavirus relief efforts.
Aside from policing, SDOT is facing an $85 million shortfall, which would result in $60 million in reductions and project delays with the rest of the gap filled by a loan. Capital spending will be taking the brunt of this budget hit, with paving and transit and bike infrastructure projects reduced and projects like the Northlake Retaining Wall delayed.
Amid the massive outlays detailed in the budget are also small expenditures like the $180,000 grant earmarked by the City Council to support the Generations Aging with Pride senior center serving the LGBTQ community planned for development on Broadway
Durkan also repeatedly pointed to the need for more progressive revenue in a state famous for its regressive tax policies. She said her office is looking at a potential income tax proposal, which could include direct redistributive payments to disadvantaged communities. An income tax could not be fully implemented in 2021, however.
Spending on homelessness will also continue to increase as it has in recent years. Durkan’s proposal includes over $151 million in city homelessness spending, up from the under $110 million passed for 2020 and less than $4 million above how much Seattle will actually spend this year in dealing with the crisis given one-time costs related to the coronavirus pandemic’s effects on homelessness.
A new $23 million federal Emergency Services Grant will be spent on temporary non-congregate shelter, on top of another $3 million grant to be spent in the final months of 2020. To support new shelter facilities opening late this year with 125-person capacity, the budget also includes $2.75 million. There’s also $6 million in General Fund support for hygiene facilities and mobile shower services as well as $8 million for rental assistance.
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The city does expect to lay off about 40 employees across a bunch of departments to save money, which could affect community services. Additional budget reductions include leaving non-essential positions vacant, a wage freeze for some employees, and eliminating spending on unnecessary travel and other expenses.
“This is a budget that makes tough choices,” Durkan said. “But coming out of this budget, I think in the middle to third quarter of next year, we are going to be very well positioned to be one of the strongest cities coming out of COVID-19.”
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Can the Council Make Hard Choices Too?
City of Seattle’s 2020 budget was also $6.5B so there weren’t really that many hard choices made, but we all know this is going to be a total sh*tshow when it gets in front a council that’s largely made of people who’s only professional experience is in government and who are all so young most of them have only had to do budgeting in a time of explosive growth in both local economic activity and government spending.
If they were smart they would take this well thought out, flat YoY budget, and run all the way the bank with it because a flat budget after Coivd is a minor miracle, but we know the council cant do that because the whole ponzi scheme of being on the Seattle city council is funneling tax payer money to special interest groups (cascade bike club, Scott Morrow, Transit Riders Union, etc.) who then AstroTurf city council meetings and rallies like what we saw last week during the budget veto vote. If those on the city council can’t continue to buy the votes they need from special interest groups and they actually had to go listen to constituents and try to earn votes from actual law abiding, working, tax paying residents of this city they would be voted out so fast their heads would spin.
Ryan Packer
Reply to Can the Council Make Hard Choices Too?
The flat budget is *thanks* to the council. The mayor didn’t bother to sign the payroll tax into law but had no problem plugging budget holes with it.
Seattle’s budget is 1.5-2 times more than same sized Boston. Why?
40 layoffs in the bloated city government is nothing. Ed Murray/Jenny Durkan have increased city employees and their salaries (many, (many making $100,000 +) more than any other mayors.
For every cop they reduce they should reduce 2 city bureaucrats.
Reply to louise
That’s an easy one! Boston’s budget doesn’t include publicly-owned utilities like Seattle’s does.
d reeves
That’s actually an easy one for a different reason: you’re not including the state-level funding and tax policy.
Boston and Massachusetts together spend about 10% more on behalf of each Boston resident than Washington and Seattle together spend for each Seattle resident.
The difference is in the state funding: Massachusetts has a state income tax, and spends 72% more on Boston residents than Washington spends on Seattle residents.
Seattle and King County have been spending increasing amounts of money for years on the homeless, with nothing to show for it. The number of tents occupying our public spaces (and degrading them) continues to increase, especially now that there is a moratorium on clearing any camps….and this will only get worse now that the Navigation Team is de-funded by our lefty City Council.
The definition of foolishness is to continue to do something which has been shown to be ineffective (throwing more money at this problem), and to expect a different outcome.
Reply to RWK
That’s kind of like saying “we’ve spent some money on levees to stem the flood, but the waters are still too high; therefore all levees are ineffective.” It’s bad logic.
The fact that there are still homeless people is not evidence that what they’ve done with the funding received to date has been ineffective.
It is evidence that the total actions to date, **including funding**, are inadequate.
Seattle has experienced a historic increase in the demand for housing. The city has grown by 20-25% in about ten years. To go back to the water analogy, that’s a huge, 500 year flood that in the short term is going to be hard to combat with any amount of money.
I do think it’s fair to demand evidence from the city that they’re using the money in smart ways, and crucially to define what “success” really means and what kind of effort + funding it will take to get there. Just aware that sometimes the best approach to a problem is not incremental; it requires more radical steps. I may have missed it; does that kind of presentation/estimate exist?
Finally – not to harp on the language, but those “tents” contain people who are struggling. Would be nice to include some sympathy for them in your comments. Cheers.
CD Neighbor
Reply to d reeves
I see the analogy quite differently….. We’ve spent some money on levees, but the waters are too high, but we persist on throwing money at these levees that we know don’t prevent flooding, rather than moving people out of the flood plain….
@cd neighbor, would you mind explaining what ‘move people out of the flood plain’ means in practice?
It’s an analogy….. yours I might add, so you can hold onto the righteous indignation you are working up…. The things we are/have been doing clearly do not work…. they only stick a temporary bandaid on things and get people through a day but don’t address the underlying conditions of the individuals homelessness.
It’s a lot like continuing to throw more and more money to build higher and higher levees on a flood plain, when the real solution is to stop building houses in flood prone areas…
It’s kind of like having your house fall over due to complete lack of maintenance.
“But we regularly vacuumed the floors and wiped down the kitchen counters!”
At present, all we’re doing is throwing money at vacuums and wash cloths because a small, very vocal group of people won’t allow us to even buy a hammer, since that does nothing to keep the floors or counters clean.
So the Nav team is worthless and has zero impact but also de-funding the Nav team is bad? Sorry bud, you can’t have it both ways…sounds kinda foolish actually.
“The definition of foolishness is to completely bungle a statement I never made” -Jeff Einstein.
Reply to Sara
You are putting words in my mouth, Sara. I did not say that the Nav Team is worthless. Actually, I think it’s a very important element of trying to help the homeless, as the team makes a sometimes-successful effort to get people into more stable housing, and in some cases into treatment for their addictions. And, yes, the team does clean up some of the camps, an action which is supported by many Seattleites.
Seattle and King County have been spending increasing amounts but also consistently less than what is necessary to address the problem. Their citizens keep electing officials who are primarily focused on keeping capitalism rolling, which exacerbates the ongoing issue of income inequality. Seattle doesn’t have a homelessness problem, it has a rich people problem. Stop voting for the status quo because that’s how we got here.
HTS3
Reply to Ethan
Interesting. You look at our City Council and Mayor and you see “Capitalists.” Wow. (I started to write a lot more here, but then deleted it.)
Reply to HTS3
Let me pare it down further for you HTS3. Hahaha…..
Seattle has had one mayor who was not a capitalist in my lifetime, that was Mike McGinn. Unfortunately, he was hamstringed by Burgess and his council. In terms of the council, Sawant is the only one I could describe as not being beholden to capitalism (although some are less capitalistic). Neoliberals have ruled the city for decades. How much longer do we need this to continue before we change course?
I have no confidence that any amount of money can fix the problem at this point because I don’t believe it would be spent on things that are effective. The onus should be on the city and service providers to prove efficacy to taxpayers.
Test several programs/approaches on small scale with clear measures for success, then juice the effective ones with more money to expand scale. This isn’t rocket science.
Part of the problem is instead of funding programs that have been effective in other societies, Seattle / King County fund studies that look for new programs. Part of the problem is that politicians fear voters will balk if they hear what those programs cost. People hear the word tax and freak out but for some reason they have no issues with the amount of corporate welfare their taxes go to.
“Nearly half of Durkan’s proposed cuts to SPD next year would come from reducing … overtime expenses ”
The majority of overtime paid to police occurs for one of two reasons: (a) court summons, (b) required CE training.
So, I guess people accused of a crime will no longer have the opportunity to cross-examine investigating police under Durkan? An affidavit will be submitted to the court and that’s that.
Or, Seattle Police will no longer receive ongoing training after they leave the police academy? As case law evolves defining different limits on search and arrest, Seattle Police will just keep doing it like they’ve always done, incurring millions more in liability payouts from the city as a result?
I wish Durkan would let us know which of these two are going to be the future of life in Seattle instead of just vaguely saying “no more overtime! Problem solved!” (Of course, if the precious Fourth Estate don’t bother to ask her that question, I guess she can get away with saying that.)
Reply to Lawton
Actually, I take all this back.
After the 2021 budget takes effect I’m going to park wherever I like moving forward and drive however fast I fancy. Frankly, Lake City Way’s 35 mph limit has always been 15 too slow for that stretch anyway. I’ll just demand an officer appearance anytime I get a ticket and then move for dismissal when they’re a no show since overtime was abolished.
All you NIMBYs can take your “20 is Plenty” signs and … um, put them somewhere. This is SEATTLE MMXXI!!! Only the strong survive!
…like there’s any meaningful traffic enforcement now? In 2018 the SPD issued about 10 speeding tickets per day. Total, in the entire city.
When compared with average daily traffic in the same year at about 1.1 million trips per day: your odds are far better to win the Washington state lottery than you are to get a speeding ticket in Seattle.
LOL @d reeves
“The police aren’t issuing tickets, therefore, people are speeding.”
Okay, Homer!
@lawton it’s far more plausible than you’d think. When the city has conducted traffic speed studies, many find that 50-80% of traffic on many arterials are going above the speed limit.
The current state of extremely dangerous drivers can be easily confirmed by driving around the City’s arterials and setting your cruise control at exactly the speed limit and/or attempting to cross a road as a pedestrian. Good luck.
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CGAJ Unveils New Logo
21st May 2020 By Admin
The Commonwealth Games Association of Jersey (CGAJ) has unveiled its fresh new logo, with a little over two years to go until Birmingham 2022.
The rebrand sees the old design, which featured a blue map of the island, replaced with a modern new look, combining the Jersey flag and crest.
The update brings CGAJ into line with the overarching Commonwealth Games Federation, which itself launched a new logo towards the end of last year.
“We’ve incorporated the Federation’s colours, part of their logo and their font to make sure we tie in with their branding but at the same time making sure we’re distinctive and clearly Jersey,” said CGAJ Vice President Morag Obarska.
“We look forward to seeing the athletes proudly wearing the new design on their kits at future events, and officers are now working on updating letterheads, the website, social media and the other areas where we currently use the old design.”
The CGAJ would like to thank AI Studio for their help creating the new logo.
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New study: Vaccine Manufacturers & FDA Regulators Caught Hiding Risks of HPV Vaccines
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A new study published in Clinical Rheumatology exposes how vaccine manufacturers used phony placebos in clinical trials to conceal a wide range of devastating risks associated with HPV vaccines. Instead of using genuine inert placebos and comparing health impacts over a number of years, as is required for most new drug approvals, Merck and GlaxoSmithKline spiked their placebos with a neurotoxic aluminum adjuvant and cut observation periods to a matter of months.
Researchers from Mexico’s National Institute of Cardiology pored over 28 studies published through January 2017—16 randomized trials and 12 post-marketing case series—pertaining to the three human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines currently on the market globally. In their July 2017 peer-reviewed report, the authors, Manuel Martínez-Lavin and Luis Amezcua-Guerra, uncovered evidence of numerous adverse events, including life-threatening injuries, permanent disabilities, hospitalizations and deaths, reported after vaccination with GlaxoSmithKline’s bivalent Cervarix vaccine and Merck’s quadrivalent or nine-valent HPV vaccines (Gardasil and Gardasil 9). Pharmaceutical company scientists routinely dismissed, minimized or concealed those injuries using statistical gimmicks and invalid comparisonsdesigned to diminish their relative significance.
Of the 16 HPV vaccine randomized trials, only two used an inert saline placebo. Ten of the sixteen compared the HPV vaccine against a neurotoxicaluminum adjuvant, and four trials used an already-approved aluminum-containing vaccine as the comparison.
Scientific researchers view double-blind placebo trials as the gold standard for testing new drugs. To minimize bias, investigators randomly assign patients to either a “treatment” group or a “control” (placebo) group and then compare health outcomes. The standard practice is to compare a new drug against a “pharmacologically inert” placebo. To minimize opportunities for bias, neither patients nor researchers know which individuals received the drug and which the placebo. However, in clinical trials of the various HPV vaccines, pharmaceutical researchers avoided this kind of rigor and instead employed sleight-of-hand flimflams to mask the seriousness of vaccine injuries.
Of the 16 HPV vaccine randomized trials, only two used an inert saline placebo. Ten of the sixteen compared the HPV vaccine against a neurotoxic aluminum adjuvant, and four trials used an already-approved aluminum-containing vaccine as the comparison. One does not have to be a scientist to understand that using aluminum-containing placebos is likely to muddy the comparison between the treatment and control groups. Critics of the HPV vaccine have pointed to the aluminum adjuvant as the most likely cause of adverse reactions, and some researchers have questioned the safety of using aluminum adjuvants in vaccines at all, due to their probable role as a contributor to chronic illness. The aluminum-containing placebos appeared to provoke numerous adverse reactions among the presumably unwitting patients who received them, allowing the pharma researchers to mask the cascade of similar adverse reactions among the groups that received the vaccines. Although both placebo and study groups suffered numerous adverse events in these studies, there were minimal differences between the two groups. The similar adverse outcomes in both groups allowed industry researchers and government regulators to claim that the vaccines were perfectly safe, despite manifold disturbing reactions. The Mexican researchers’ meta-review confirms the difficulty of ascertaining vaccine-attributable differences from this mess; the researchers identified only a few indications of “significantly increased systemic adverse events in the HPV vaccine group vs. the control group” across the 16 pre-licensure trials.
The HPV promoters found it more difficult to employ deceptive devices in the 12 post-marketing safety reviews, and the Mexican authors summarize some of the more noteworthy findings. In Spain, they found a ten-fold higher incidence of vaccine-related adverse events following HPV vaccination compared to “other types of vaccines.” In Canada, they found an astonishing one in ten rate of hospital emergency department visits among HPV-vaccinated individuals “within 42 days after immunization.” Still, the industry researchers did what they could to minimize these injuries. The Mexican reviewers criticize the authors of the various post-marketing studies for failing to ask essential questions, to evaluate the many serious adverse events, or to elaborate on their often-troubling findings.
Abbreviated Trial Times
Typically, FDA requires drug companies seeking approval for a new drug to observe health outcomes in both the placebo and study groups for 4-5 years. Vaccine manufacturers take advantage of FDA regulatory loopholes that allow fast-tracking of vaccines and cut that period down to a few weeks or even a few days. This means that injuries that manifest, or are diagnosed, later in life—most neurodevelopmental disorders, for example—will escape attention entirely.
Further Smokescreens
Martínez-Lavin and Amezcua-Guerra point to clinical trial data posted on the FDA webpagefor the quadrivalent Gardasil vaccine approved in 2006. Those clinical trials deployed a panoply of the kind of cunning deceptions used by industry and government researchers. Unlike many of the other HPV vaccine clinical trials, these clinical studies employed a true saline placebo.
Across the Gardasil clinical studies, a group of 15,706 females ages 9-45 and males ages 9-26 received the quadrivalent Gardasil vaccine. A control group of 594 individuals received an inert saline placebo. The industry researchers never explain the tiny relative size of the saline placebo group; it’s noteworthy that small size would have the effect of keeping unwanted signals weak. But a second control group of 13,023 received a so-called “spiked” placebo loaded with an aluminum adjuvant (amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate or AAHS). The large size of this “spiked placebo” group suggests that the decision to keep the saline placebo group small was strategic.
Putting aside the thorny ethical question of whether study participants were told that they were being injected with a neurotoxin with probable associations with Alzheimer’s, dementia and other forms of brain disease, the inclusion of both saline and aluminum placebos provided these researchers a chance to do some genuine science. But the FDA webpage shows the troubling gimmick that was then employed by the FDA and Merck, which seems deliberately designed to blur datasets in order to mask adverse effects during the clinical trials. The table showing relatively minor injection-site adverse reactions—one to five days post-vaccination—displays three distinct columns for the three groups: Gardasil recipients, the aluminum “placebo” recipients, and saline placebo recipients (see table below). In the table, “Intergroup differences are obvious,” in the words of the Mexican researchers. For example, roughly three and a half times more girls/women experienced injection site swelling in the Gardasil group compared to the saline group (25.4% vs. 7.3%). In fact, by all five measures, both the Gardasil recipients and the aluminum placebo recipients fared two to three times worse than the saline recipients.
When it came time for Merck to report on the occurrence of more serious reactions, “Systemic Adverse Reactions” and “Systemic Autoimmune Disorders,” for example, the company scientists switched to a very different format. In these tables, the third column that reported results for the saline placebo recipients disappears. Instead, Merck combined the groups receiving the spiked aluminum placebo into a single column with the group receiving the genuine saline placebo (see example below). The merger of the two control groups makes it impossible to compare results for Gardasil versus the saline placebo or the aluminum placebo versus the saline placebo. In this way, Merck’s researchers obliterated any hope of creating a meaningful safety comparison.
Risks and Benefits
Given aluminum’s known neurotoxicity and its association with debilitating autoimmune conditions, it is unsurprising that there are no observable differences between the Gardasil and AAHS/saline groups. But, despite the researchers’ efforts to paper over adverse effects, they were not able to conceal the devastating health injuries to their human guinea pigs. The bottom line of these trials reveals a shocking truth: An alarming 2.3% of both their study and control groups had indicators of autoimmune diseases! These data are even more alarming when one considers that the observation period was curtailed after only six months. With this level of risk, it would seem that no loving parents would allow their daughter to receive this vaccine—particularly given the comparatively low risk posed by HPV in countries with appropriate cervical cancer screening tests. Even in countries such as India, where cervical cancer mortality is high due to late detection, leading Indian physicians argue that comprehensive screening should be the country’s top priority rather than the “panacea” of HPV vaccination.
Consider the math: According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an estimated 2.4 women per 100,000 die of cervical cancer in the US each year. On the other hand, the FDA’s Table 2 (above) shows that 2.3 per 100 girls and women developed an “incident condition potentially indicative of a systemic autoimmune disorder” after enrolling in the Gardasil clinical trial. It is difficult to understand how any rational regulator could allow more than two in 100 girls to run the risk of acquiring a lifelong autoimmune disorder, particularly when Pap smears are already doing an effective job of identifying cervical abnormalities. The NIH notes that the incidence and death rates for cervical cancer in the US declined by more than 60% after introducing Pap smear screening.
Based on the numerical outcomes of that study, the Mexican researchers calculated the likelihood of being actually “helped or harmed by the 9-valent HPV vaccine.” Their “worrisome” finding is that the “number needed to harm” is just 140, whereas 1757 women would need to receive the vaccine for a single one of them to enjoy its projected benefits.
Martínez-Lavin and Amezcua-Guerra make their own effort to illustrate the zany risk-benefit ratios associated with these vaccines when discussing the results of one of the 16 clinical trials. That study compared approximately 14,000 women who received either Gardasil 9 or the original quadrivalent Gardasil. Based on the numerical outcomes of that study, the Mexican researchers calculated the likelihood of being actually “helped or harmed by the 9-valent HPV vaccine.” Their “worrisome” finding is that the “number needed to harm” is just 140, whereas 1757 women would need to receive the vaccine for a single one of them to enjoy its projected benefits.
Implications for Aluminum Adjuvants
Merck found that astronomical casualty counts were equal among both Gardasil and aluminum “placebo” recipients. The inescapable implication is that aluminum adjuvants may be a principal culprit in the flood of injuries reported for the various HPV vaccines. This conclusion, if true, requires reevaluation of the use of aluminum adjuvants in several other vaccines, including some given to infants. Aluminum adjuvant levels have mushroomed since the 2003 removal of thimerosal from three pediatric vaccines. The following chart, prepared by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, illustrates the stunning amount of aluminum in vaccines.
Multiple peer-reviewed studies have connected aluminum exposures to a range of autoimmune and neurological disorders, including dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, that have become epidemic coterminous with these aluminum exposures. A review in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition warns of dangerous accumulation of aluminum in the brain when, as in the case of vaccination, “protective gastrointestinal mechanisms are bypassed.” It’s time to go back to the drawing board on HPV vaccines and aluminum adjuvants. More importantly, FDA needs to start requiring the same rigorous pre-licensing safety testing for vaccines that it has long required for other drugs. All existing vaccines, particularly those containing aluminum, should be safety-reviewed according to these more stringent standards.
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China’s Military Confident, Prepared to Safeguard Sovereignty: Paper
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China’s military is “confident, capable and fully prepared” to protect the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, the state-run China Daily on Tuesday (01/08) quoted Defense Minister Chang Wanquan as saying in reference to Taiwan.
Despite decades of growing trade across the Taiwan Strait, China has never renounced the use of force, if needed, to gain control of Taiwan, which it considers a breakaway province.
Democratic, self-governed Taiwan has shown no interest in being run by Communist-ruled China.
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The People’s Liberation Army is “confident, capable and fully prepared to resolutely safeguard state sovereignty and territorial integrity,” the newspaper quoted Chang as saying on Monday at a reception to mark the 90th anniversary of the military’s founding.
Adherence to the “1992 consensus” between Beijing and Taipei and opposition to Taiwan independence are the “political foundation of peace and development of cross-Straits relations,” Chang said, according to the newspaper.
The “1992 consensus” acknowledges Taiwan and China are part of a single China but allows both to interpret who is the ruler.
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has angered Beijing by refusing to recognize the “1992 consensus,” as the previous China-friendly Nationalist government did.
The Nationalists fled to Taiwan after their defeat by the Communists in a civil war in 1949.
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Apple, Google to harness phones for virus infection tracking
FILE - This March 19, 2018 file photo shows a Google app in Baltimore. Apple and Google launched a major joint effort, Friday, April 10, 2020, to leverage smartphone technology contain the COVID-19 pandemic. New software the companies plan to add to phones would make it easier to use Bluetooth wireless technology to track down people who may have been infected by coronavirus carriers.(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Apple and Google fueled hopes for digital technology’s promise against a fast-moving, invisible killer, announcing a joint effort to help public health agencies worldwide leverage smartphones to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.
New software the companies plan to add to phones would make it easier to use Bluetooth wireless technology to track down people who may have been infected by coronavirus carriers. The idea is to help national, state and local governments roll out apps for so-called “contact tracing” that will run on iPhones and Android phones alike.
The technology works by harnessing short-range Bluetooth signals. Using the Apple-Google technology, contact-tracing apps would gather a record of other phones with which they came into close proximity.
Such data can be used to alert others who might have been infected by known carriers of the novel coronavirus, typically when the phones' owners have installed the apps and agreed to share data with public-health authorities.
Developers have already created such apps in countries including Singapore and China to try to contain the pandemic. In Europe, the Czech Republic says it will release an app after Easter. Britain, Germany and Italy are also developing their own tracing tools.
No such apps have yet been announced in the United States, but Gov. Gavin Newsom of California said Friday that state officials have been in touch with the companies as they look ahead at how to reopen and lift stay-at-home orders.
"We were on the phone just this morning, for example, with Apple," he said at a news conference.
Privacy and civil liberties activists have warned that the apps need to be designed so governments cannot abuse them to track their citizens. Apple and Google said in a rare joint announcement that user privacy and security are baked into the design of their plan.
The technology might serve as a stopgap until there is widespread testing for the novel coronavirus, which in the U.S. remains limited after production problems and limited federal coordination of the tests' production and distribution.
“It’s not a replacement for just having widespread testing, which would be more accurate,” said Tiffany Li, a visiting law professor at Boston University who studies privacy and technology. “But clearly we have a huge shortage of tests.”
Bluetooth signal tracking, as Google and Apple plan to use it, can protect privacy far better than other options such as GPS or cell-tower based location data, which allow centralized authorities access to the information.
But Li noted it could still lead to numerous mistaken alerts — for instance, if someone were in full protective gear or in an adjacent apartment while physically close to an infected person.
Pam Dixon, executive director of the World Privacy Forum, said a conversation with Apple's senior director for global privacy, Jane Horvath, assured her that the initiative will protect people’s privacy.
Sensitive information will stay on individual phones in encrypted form — no personally identifiable data would be collected — and alerts would be handled by public health agencies, not the tech companies, according to briefing paper seen by The Associated Press. It says location data for users won't be used and the identity of people who may have been infected will be protected by encryption and anonymous identifier beacons that change frequently.
“I think they’ve taken care of some of the really big problems,” Dixon said, noting the companies say they can turn off the system when it's no longer needed. "The government is not going to have identity information of those testing positive.”
Asked about the Google-Apple effort at his daily news briefing, President Donald Trump called it “very interesting,” but expressed concern that “a lot of people worry about it in terms of a person’s freedom. We’re going to take a look at that.”
Security experts note that technology alone cannot effectively track down and identify people who may have been infected by COVID-19 carriers. Such efforts will require other tools and teams of public health care workers to locate people in the physical world, they say. In South Korea and China, such efforts have included the use of credit-card and public-transit records.
In general, epidemiologists say contact tracing won't be effective without widely available testing. In the Czech Republic, the plan is to have soldiers perform testing; medical students have been trained to staff call centers for notifying people at high risk of infection.
The Czech app will use both Bluetooth technology and geolocation data from wireless carriers and banks to create “memory maps” that trace the movement of infected people. That will help them identify others they came into close proximity with in the five to 10 days before they tested positive.
The hope is to quickly isolate people who may be affected so the virus can be contained and restrictions on movement relaxed. The app builds on a popular cellular-location mapping app used by one in 10 Czechs, who number 10 million.
The Google-Apple solution will also be voluntary — or opt-in — but with far greater privacy protections, something the European Commission specified as a central requirement of any such apps in a policy recommendation this week for the 27-nation bloc.
Given the great need for effective contact-tracing — a tool epidemiologists have long employed to contain infectious disease outbreaks — Google and Apple will roll out their changes in two phases. In May, they will release software that will support public-health apps for both Android and iOS phones. In coming months, they will also build the functionality directly into the underlying phone operating systems.
On Friday, the companies released preliminary technical specifications for the effort, which they called “Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing.”
AP reporters Karel Janicek in Prague; Darlene Superville in Washington and Kathleen Ronayne in Sacramento, California contributed to this report.
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Brazil slows interest rate hikes to shield weak economy
Published Wed, Feb 26 201410:24 PM EST Updated Wed, Feb 26 201410:41 PM EST
One real coins are produced at the Casa da Moeda, Brazil's national mint, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Brazil slowed the pace of monetary tightening on Wednesday, signaling it may be near the end of a rate-hiking cycle that threatened to tip Latin America's largest economy into a recession.
The central bank's monetary policy committee voted unanimously to hike its Selic rate by 25 basis points, breaking a streak of six straight 50-basis-point hikes that took the benchmark rate to its highest level in over two years.
(Read more: Brazil needs investors to reclaim BRIC growth)
The bank kept its post-decision statement almost unchanged from the previous one, only removing a phrase added at its last meeting that said the decision had been taken "at this moment."
While the bank did not close the door to raising rates again at its next meeting in April, many economists saw the decision as a signal that it may soon end one of the world's most aggressive monetary tightening cycles.
"The central bank is signaling that it is ready to end the cycle," said Andre Perfeito, chief economist at Gradual Investimentos in Sao Paulo. "The bank is being more cautious due to a sense that economic activity can slow down a lot in 2014."
Smaller rate hikes from now on would come as a relief for President Dilma Rousseff, who has watched Brazil's economy slow to a crawl since taking office in January 2011. Rousseff plans to seek a second term in October and is eager to see an economic revival before the elections.
Brazil nearly slipped into a recession in the second half of 2013, according to economists polled by Reuters last week. Official data set for release on Thursday is expected to show the economy expanded by a meager 0.3 percent in the fourth quarter from the previous quarter, according to the poll.
(Read more: Fed volatility is emerging markets 'poison': Analyst)
The central bank, which slashed rates to record lows in 2012, has been forced to add 350 basis points to the Selic since April to battle a spike in inflation, which started to curb consumption in Latin America's largest economy.
Interest rates are now back to where they were three years ago when Rousseff took office, promising to lower the cost of borrowing.
Further rate hikes ahead for Brazil: Pro
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While central banks from other emerging nations have just started to hike rates to stem a renewed exodus of foreign capital, the Brazilian central bank has signaled its tightening cycle may be coming to an end.
The bank's president, Alexandre Tombini, said last week that past rate hikes have helped slow inflation, a hint that the bank has already done much of its job.
Annual inflation eased to 5.59 percent in January, its lowest level in more than a year, but still remains at the upper end of the official target range of 2.5 percent to 6.5 percent. A possible increase in energy rates due to a severe drought and naggingly high services prices will keep inflation under pressure this year, analysts say.
(Read more: Emerging markets ETFs: Which to buy, which to avoid)
The stability of the , despite the recent sell-off in emerging market assets, is another reason the bank may opt to bring the tightening cycle to an end soon.
The central bank has said a weaker real dilutes some of the effects monetary policy has over inflation. A weaker real increases the value of imported goods, which Brazilians continue to snap up at a rapid pace.
Most private economists expect the bank to raise interest rates to 11.25 percent by the end of 2014, according to a weekly central bank poll.
Another factor that could ease pressure on the central bank to keep raising rates is a new effort by the government to limit spending this year.
Last week, the Rousseff administration pledged to freeze 44 billion reais ($18.8 billion) in spending to meet a more "realistic" fiscal savings goal this year. The government has promised more fiscal austerity in a bid to regain investors' trust after missing the target in the last two years.
(Read more: Will Argentina's woes hit Brazil?)
If the government follows through on its promises to limit spending it could help the central bank control inflation by slowing the rate of consumption.
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The Good The Heartbeats by Lady Gaga Headphones feature a unique, eye-catching style that won't go unnoticed; they seem very durable; and Monster includes a cute carrying case.
The Bad The low-end response from the Heartbeats headphones is generally muddy and overpowering, and the earpieces are not ergonomic and tend to slip out of the ear.
The Bottom Line The Heartbeats by Lady Gaga Headphones are undeniably unique and there's little doubt that they'll attract fashionistas far and wide, but prospective buyers should be wary of potential fit issues and the overpowering low-end response.
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No one would ever accuse shock pop sensation Lady Gaga of being subtle. It stands to reason then that any item bearing her name is going to be flashy and perhaps just a wee bit ostentatious. Enter the Heartbeats by Lady Gaga Headphones, the first artist line from Monster and Beats by Dr. Dre. This super unique pair of earbuds retails for $120, but can be found for closer to $100 online. No doubt, these earphones are unlike any we've seen before, and their sturdy, eye-catching design is sure to turn some heads. However, comfort issues and a sometimes overpowering low end might prove problematic for some prospective buyers.
The Heartbeats are pretty much exactly what you would expect from Lady Gaga: completely over-the-top and stylish to the point of absurdity. Perhaps expectedly, these earphones are also not terribly concerned with comfort. The issue is that the large, triangular earpieces are not terribly ergonomic, which wouldn't be as much of a problem if the aperture arm was a bit longer. As it stands, the angular edges of the 'buds tend to press against the ear, causing some discomfort and also tending to push the earphones out constantly. In other words, where the Dr. Dre Tour earphones were for exceptionally deep ear canals, these appear to be for very shallow ones. Monster includes three sizes of silicone eartips in the package, though none worked for us. However, you also have the option of purchasing a variety of other tips, including a foam set and a triple-flanged set. The foam tips provided the most comfort, but tended to slip out of the ears.
But back to those large, triangular earpieces, as this is arguably where most of the Heartbeats' personality resides. Naturally, they are available in a variety of colors, including Rose Red, Black Chrome, and Bright Chrome. The latter two are shiny, and the former is matte but no less eye-catching, with its deep red hue. The outside of each earpiece is etched with a multitude of smaller triangles, which add a nice visual depth. This same effect is repeated in the included hard-sided case. Don't get your hopes too up, though: you'll find only plastic construction here.
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HP cures MacBook 'Envy'
-This week on the CNET Tech review, forget the book store, head to the app store instead before you head back to school plus Spotify tricks for some slick playlist. HPs Envy 14 may make you rethink your MacBook purchase and a solar powered keyboard that make fluorescent lighting a little more tolerable. It's all coming up right now. Hi, everyone, I'm Molly Wood and welcome to the CNET Tech review where we collect our hottest videos of the week and tell what's good and what's bad in the world of the tech plus offer our own unique tech wisdom in the from of the bottom line. Let's start with the good. First up to all you kids out there enjoying your summer break, I've got 3 words for you, back to school. I know were barely into August, but some of you are only weeks away from heeding back to campus, and we wanna make sure that you are fully prepared when you get there. That's why Brian Cooley is there with this top 5 download recommendations for your smartphones, tablets and PCs. -Whether you're going back to school with cool new tech or the same crap you had last year, you can tune it up nice by downloading this year's hottest programs and apps. I'm Brian Cooley with the 5 you really need to get on your gear sorted by the 5 major categories of gear you're likely gonna be packing. Number 5, iPad downloads. Skype is in our list. Sure, Skype works on just about everything, but on the iPad you sort of sit there with your mouth open because it really rocks video calls on that full touch screen and of course make sure you're running it on an iPad 2 with the cameras or you're gonna be sitting there making a voice call on a big screen device and that's kinda lame. Also look at Netflix. Netflix, I'm convinced it has kept scores of iPad buyers from taking the damn thing back with buyers' remorse because it reminds you why you just spent 500-800 bucks on a mobile device that doesn't make phone calls. It's what portable TV always wanted to be. Number 4 is our Mac software category. Starting off witih TweetDeck. Now, we always like Tweetdeck, which is now owned by Twitter by the way. We especially like the Mac version, which isn't like you always hear. It looks sharp and it's a great way to merge & manage Twitter and Facebook posts from you, your friends, your followers, and that weird stalker guy. We also are big on Spotify. When you're cranking away on your Mac doing homework you know you're gonna be playing music. Nobody studies in silence any more. Nothing is hotter in online music right now than Spotify. It just launched in the U.S. right in time for the school year. Their track library is huge and you pick exactly what you wanna hear, not a 'sounds like' thing they way do you on Pandora. Number 3, our Android apps, starting off with the Kindle app. The free Kindle app for Android is a simple, clean way to get a Kindle without buying a Kindle. That's more money for beer that way, and you know all about Kindle books and periodicals, web feeds, PDF support, but the new thing just announced is Kindle Textbook store. You can save huge money by renting digital versions of your textbooks and you still get to save your notes and highlights from them after the book rental ends because those are just fun to look at years from now. Also, there's Evernote. What is school if not one big organizational pain? Evernote for Android really fills a need for one app that swallows up text notes, voice clips, pictures, files, links, and even GPS locations. You'll kind of be like Einstein when he said he never memorized his phone number because he always knew where to look it up unless you lose your phone in the toilet, Einstein. Number 2, we get to our red hot iPhone category. Starting up with the WhatsApp Messenger. Now put this on your iPhone and you can save tons on texting because you will be able to skirt that texting plan that you pay your carrier for. The catch is your friends & family who you want to text also have to install WhatsApp Messenger, then they and you are texting and even sharing your locations for free. Yeah, that's gonna be a tough sell. Also, we're bing on Yelp. Think about it now, if you're heading off to college specially a new college, you're not leaving without two things. One, a lot of weirdness from your parents and two, the Yelp App on your iPhone. Now, everyone thinks restaurants when you think Yelp, but it's a great pocket guide to finding anything, like a guitar shop, then a piercing place, then a skateboard store, then a career counseling center. Now, our number 1 category for back to school downloads. It's PC and Windows stuff, Chrome browser at the top of the list. Chrome is cool. Partly because it's really fast and makes all the Google stuff work very well. It's also nicely standards compliant and it seems to run its best on it a PC or Windows version plus you can turn on syncing so your bookmarks, prefs, and settings will follow you to any other machine that is running Chrome just by using your Google login, great for all that itinerant computer use you do in school. Finally, there is Paint. NET. Now, come on, you're not gonna pay for PhotoShop and you probably don't need that horsepower anyway. Paint. NET is our go-to pick. It's open source, so no cash is required. It does all the essential stuff and a few advanced tricks as well and it seems to get an update like every 2 days. No for more on all our back to school picks software and gear, go to BackToSchool.cnet.com and for more Top 5's likes this. It's top3.cnet.com. I'm Brian Cooley, thanks for watching. -That's a good list especially since it had 10 items on it instead of 5. Consider it a bonus. I would like to add one more add on to your download queue though especially if you're a windows user Bitdefender Total Security 2012. Here is Seth Rosenblatt to tell you why. -Hi, I'm Seth Rosenblatt for CNET, and this first look, we'll peering the walls of Bitdefender Total Security 2012, which you can get from CNET.download.com. For the second year in a row, Bitdefender has got a new look. The suite now has a dark theme and unlike Norton. It also retains the modularity of last year's basic interface, but the rest is entirely new. The beginner-intermediate-advance interface options are gone, replaced with a single approach. The status ring there shows you your security status, green for secure, yellow for problems that require attention, and red for immediate issues. This ought to be narrowed to green and red. The yellow was potentially confusing. Either you've got problems or you don't. The new UI does retain some of Bitdefender's modularity though. This is the default look, but you can swap the security modules around. Each one has an icon at the top for easy recognition and toggles at the bottom to manage the feature. The settings window was well designed with tabs that precisely reflect the options presented in the main window. This year's interface is definitely easier to use than last year's. Enough about looks, let's talk features. There's not a huge amount that's new in Bitdefender 2012, but there are some important improvements. There's a new autopilot that's own by default. It's a smart system that sets most notifications to silent, automatically deals with most threats encountered and basically ensures that your security is running, but not bothering you. The browser add on previously limited to Firefox and internet explorer has been replaced by a browser agnostic tool. This means that you will be protected no matter which browser you use. Rescue mode has been beeped up and Bitdefender's free Facebook scanning tool safe go has been baked in. It ought to support Twitter soon if it doesn't by the time you watch this. The online storage component safe box now gets file syncing across multiple computers. Bitdefender's efficacy scores have been strong in the past 6 months on infection prevention, generally in the top 5 across multiple independent testers. It scans are fast, but not the fastest, and be warned, you're definitely going to notice its impact on start up and shut down times. Also, it's got a very aggressive install and it won't play well even with security programs that are designed to be complementary to the major suites such as Malwarebytes. Oh, in the corporate philosophy thing, the software maker says it's the computer security equivalent and the mythical Romanian half wolf, half dragon, which let's be honest, it's kind of awesome. I think more computer security company should take on animal avatars Kung fu style and that's your first look at the Bitdefender 2012. I'm Seth Rosenblatt. -I don't care how boring internet security seems, I want that. Did you hear that hackers? I've a wolf-dragon watch in my back. But if you're looking for something a little more social, Spotify also made Brian's list. Now, I know many of you are still waiting for your invites, but if you happen to be among the chosen few already using the service, Sharon has a few tips to make the most out of your playlist. -Hey, everyone, I'm Sharon Vaknin for CNET.com and today I'm gonna make you a Spotify playlist master. First, let's talk about the best ways to discover new music for your playlist starting with Spotify's built in tools because the search bar is a lot smarter than you think. Instead of just entering the name of an artist or song title, use search operators. For example, you can search year; 1970 to 1980 and get a list of popular songs from that decade, or if you wanna flash back from the new millennium, search year; 2000 or you can search for something like genre; rap year (1994), and find rap music from that year. This is the fullest of search operator, so you can mix and match to find new or old songs for your playlist. Another built-in feature is related artist. Anytime, you see a song, click the artist's name, you will get an overview of their top songs, albums, bio, and related artists, which is also a good feature for discovering new music. It's not as cool as Pandora, but it will do. Now that you are a music discovery pro, you can drag and drop music in the new playlist, just remember that all playlists are automatically public, so make sure to make the private. If you don't want people discovering your love Justin Bieber, just right click a playlist and uncheck publish. In this menu, you will also see the collaborative playlist option. This makes it so that anyone you share the playlist with can add songs to it and add it to their side bar too. The only catch is that it makes the playlist private to you and those people. Now, if you don't wanna do all the works searching for songs and creating playlist, there are few services that will do it for you and one of them is Spotify. Go to spotify.com and hit more options under the search bar, under the name of an artist or multiple artists by clicking add another. Select the number of tracts and hit generate playlist. You will get an automated playlist of songs similar to the artist or song you entered, which you can then drag and drop right into Spotify. Another way to find playlist is to use a sharing site like sharemyplaylists.com, which let's people upload their playlist for everyone to download. You can browse through the collection, search by keyword, or look at the chart to see which playlist are most popular. Once you find one, just click play and it will in Spotify and don't forget to subscribe at the top to add it to your side bar. Now, here's the tool I love. What if you already made playlist on YouTube, Soundcloud Group and other music services, we'll playlistify.org will take the playlist and help you transfer them to Spotify. Just go to playlistify.org and click your own playlist. Then select which service you wanna grab your playlist from and follow the instructions. You'll end up with a link than you can then open in Spotify without going through all the trouble of rebuilding it by hand. So, now, you have a huge list of awesome playlist, but maybe you have too many in your side bar and it's getting a little crowded. Now, this is where playlist folders comes in. To create one, just go to file new playlist folder, give it a name and drag and drop playlist into the folder to keep your side bar tidy. Once you've got your playlist built, organized, and protected, it's time to share them. Go back sharemyplaylists.com and upload your playlist so that anyone can get them or just write click a playlist and select copy http link and paste it into twitter and e-mail instant message or Facebook. When someone clicks it, it will launch Spotify. Okay, now it's time to go make your epic playlist and be sure to send me a link on my Facebook page and visit howto.cnet.com for more tips, tricks, and guides for your gadgets. For CNET, I'm Sharon Vaknin and I'll see you on the interwebs. -Just remember as more start joining Spotify, you will have more and more friends to share music and build playlist with and maybe paying the monthly pay for offline listening might seem a little more reasonable. Me personally, I like that. Now, if you like to keep a tidy desktop, a wireless keyboard can be the key to sparkling work space to do into that sort of thing, but if you're not into dumping a bunch of batteries into your local landfill, check out this new solar keyboard from Logitech. -If you're tired of replacing batteries on your computer keyboard, Logitech has a new solar-powered solution that earns our Editors' Choice Award. I'm Justin Yu, peripherals editor for cnet.com. This is your first look at the Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K750. The K750's killer app is the dual solar panels that power the integrated lithium rechargeable battery inside. They also draw perpetual power from artificial light sources which means you don't have to be sitting by a window or even outside for the recharge. The lights in your apartment or above your desk at work are fine and the keyboard automatically senses and stores those charges in ambient light to keep the unit charged. Best of all, Logitech tells us a single two-hour charge will retain power for the keyboard for up to 3 months or more if you use the on/off switch in the corner. The K750 may take a little getting used to though in terms of typing if you're normally used to the generic keyboard that came with your computer. That's because the keys use scissor style switches underneath that you have a much shorter vertical clicking distance which means two things. First, the low profile switch is made for a typing experience that's a lot more like a laptop and a desktop keyboard. That means low noise and light touch for actuation. Second, the key switches also make the keyboard superthin. It's just one-third of an inch thick. Other notable features include Logitech's PerfectStroke uniform key structure and Unifying Receiver technology. So, Unifying Receiver is this USB port here that links your computer to the keyboard and it sticks out to just about half an inch of your computer and you can power up to six other Logitech devices at a time saving your precious USB ports for other peripherals. Finally, we're really impressed with Logitech's thorough eco-conscious design principles from the PVC-free chassis to the 100 percent recyclable packaging, and even a download link instead of a physical driver disk in the box. It shows the company is pushed to reduce the user's footprint. For its affordability, eco-consciousness, and thoughtful feature set, we're proud to award Logitech the Editors' Choice Award and you can read all the details in our full review on cnet.com. But, that's gonna do it for me. I'm Justin Yu. You just took a first look at the Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K750. Thanks for watching. As Justin mentioned, the solar keyboard can hold the charge for up to 3 months. So, for those of you who preferred to do your computing and a darken cave, you can just switch on light once a quarter and charge that baby and take the opportunity to throw out some of those pizza boxes too. Alright, the time has come to take a break, but stick around. We will have a lot more tech review right after this. Welcome back to the CNET Tech Review, our weekly video digest of all things good and bad, we've seen here at CNET TV. Continuing on in the good. If you're one of those early adaptor types and you want something to tinker around with while you're riding in someone's passenger seat, the Pioneer App Radio might be right up your alley, though it aims for seamless iPhone integration with your car, you might end up being a little disappointed. - These days, smartphones pretty much do everything, so why do you need a fancy car stereo? That's the question that Pioneer aimed to answer with its new AppRadio, the first car stereo to be almost completely powered by your iPhone. I'm Antuan Goodwin. Let's take a first look at this one of a kind device. The Pioneer's AppRadio is aimed squarely at those of you who are absolutely addicted to your iPhones. Now, by itself, it's a little more than an AM/FM radio tuner, a Bluetooth hands-free system and a kind of fancy, kind of sexy 7-inch capacitive touch screen. Now if you don't actually have an iPhone, that's about all you can expect from this AppRadio; pretty disappointing, huh? However, connect an iPhone to the included 30-pin dock connector and the rest of AppRadio's functionality spring to life thanks to a set of apps that are installed on this connected iDevice. Users are able to browse Google Maps, search for points of interest and give directions. However, like the Maps app on the iPhone itself, these directions aren't live-updating; so you wanna get a passenger to advance those instructions and probably read the directions aloud for you. Users who want the real deal for turn-by-turn instructions will wanna install the MotionX-GPS Drive app on your iPhone which does exactly that. It gives you those turn-by-turn directions. MotionX is a free app for the first 30 days; after downloading, though, it's gonna cost you about $3 per month thereafter. Users can also add traffic data at an additional cost or you can just install the INRIX traffic app on your iPhone to gain access to free traffic reports, incidents and flow data. While you're on the road, you can access your locally-stored iPod media or stream audio from the internet with the Pandora internet radio or Rdio apps on the iPhone. All of which are very cool ways to keep your head nodding on your next long drive. There's also calendar integration and a contact manager which lets you initiate hands-free calls or even email at your current GPS location to anyone on your contacts list. Even better, Pioneer's actively working with even more app developers to add more choices to the list of supported apps. However, AppRadio is about as first generation as hard work comes, so there are some odd interface quirks that you'll need to be aware of before you pull the trigger on this guy. 1st you'll notice that every app looks a little bit different which is fine on a handset, but it can be difficult when you're just trying to skip tracks while you're driving. Next, none of the apps are connected to one another, and they run at separate processes on your phone so that INRIX traffic data I talked about isn't actually gonna factor into your Google Maps or MotionX-GPS Drive directions. More importantly, none of these apps have a back button built into them; so if you actually wanna switch between the apps, for example you're tired of Rdio and you wanna listen to Pandora, you'll have to physically touch your phone to switch between the apps using the touch screen, which means you can't really just hide the phone away in a glove compartment and control it with the AppRadio, which sort of defeats the purpose of actually using the AppRadio. Again, Pioneer promises that it is making strides towards continuously updating the AppRadio and the apps that it supports, but for now it feels like it should probably be called AppRadio beta. For you, iPhone addicts and early adopters, that may not be such a bad thing, but I think I'd wait for AppRadio to bake for a bit longer before taking the plunge. Well, there you have it. For more of my thoughts on this one of a kind car radio receiver, and I've got plenty of them, look for the full review on CNET.com, which is also where you can find more cool first look videos. I'm Antuan Goodwin giving you a first look at the Pioneer AppRadio. -The AppRadio really could have gone in the bad section of the show this week, but I like the idea the direction Pioneer is heading, so I'm giving it a pass, although I'm afraid I can't say the same for the next item, which is truly deserving of the title. Hi, I'm Rich Brown, senior editor, for CNET.com. Today, we're gonna take a look at the Acer Aspire X1920-UR20P. So, this is actually a pretty terrible budget desktop sad to say. The case is pretty decent. It's a nice simple design, relatively clean here with a DVD burner by the front door there, few ports mini card reader down here, but the problem is that the system really sort of underfeatured even for its low price. You can find it for about $400 to $500 depending on where you look, comes with the recently fast Intel Pentium dual-core chip. They're still Pentiums. It has 4 gigs of RAM, a terabyte hard drive, and that's about it. The system is really pretty spare and you can get better equipped PCs for the same price, so we really can't recommend you buy this system. Now, the back of the case we think we mean when we say how underfeatured is this. You've got 5.1 audio support, only 2 USB ports, a single Ethernet jack, old school PS2, mass and keyboard inputs as well as a VGA video out. There's no digital audio, no digital video, no Firewire or eSATA, LAN, USB3 and you can find those features at least in some combination on other desktops in this price range particularly Gateway, which is actually ironic since Acer owns Gateway. So inside of the case, the layout is pretty straightforward for a Slim Tower. There's the Intel CPU here. You can see here's the DVD drive. Underneath that is the hard drive. There is room for only 1 hard drive inside. Down here, you kind of can't see if there's 2 memory sticks, not 4 memory sticks slots like you get on some other PCs. For card expansion, the system has no cards, but there is a 1x PCI Express slot. There was a 16x PCI Express slot so you could put say half height graphics card in this PC, but we wouldn't even recommend this as an upgrade platform just because it's really pretty underpowered and underfeatured as we've mentioned. Now, we don't always expect Slim Towers to deliver let's say the fastest performance or the most features for the dollar, but the fact that they're such tiny cases, really makes them well suited both the desktop environments in the living room. You can imagine putting system like this next to your TV is a pretty decent home media server, but with no Wi-Fi adaptor or no digital video out that really makes the system tough to recommend for the living room environment. You can also get better bank for your buck in terms of performance in this price range, so for both those reasons we can't recommend you to buy the system. I'm Rich Brown, this is the Acer Aspire X1920-UR20P. -Let's take a look at some of Rich's take aways from this review; underfeatured, can't recommend, underpowered, and how could we forget pretty terrible. I don't think I have anything to add. So, let's finish things up here with this week's bottom line. The summer, Apple has introduced updates to both the MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air Laptop lines, which is great news to Apple fans with money to burn. Luckily for the other 90% of world, HPs updated Envy 14 continues to be a worthy alternative. -I'm Dan Ackerman, and we are here taking a look at the latest version of HPs Envy 14. Now if you look at this Envy 14, you may say it looks a heck of a lot like the last Envy 14 or pretty much all the Envy laptops that we reviewed, and from the outside, it actually is pretty much exactly the same that's said that's not necessarily a bad thing on the Windows side. This is about as close you're gonna get the kind of that hefty metallic MacBook Pro looking feel, and it's really one of our favorite high end PCs right now. On the inside, the differences are, this latest version of the Envy 14 has one of Intel's second generation Core i series processor. This one has a Core i5 in this case. It also has USB3 and it adds its new touchpad gestures. They're taking this large image pad style touch pad a the very front here, and even though looks the same, they tried to upgrade the 2, 3, and 4 finger gestures to look a little bit more like dear I say a MacBook. There're differently awesome improvements here, however, it's not quite the same as you do get with the MacBook. The 2-finger scrolling is not quite as smooth. There's a new handy 4-finger gesture for bringing up and hiding all your different windows that you're working with. That's kind of versatile to what a 4-finger pre line you used to do in MacBook and still not quite as smooth and seamless as that. Still you get most of the things that you're looking for in a higher end and midsized laptop. You've got both HDMI and display port output, of course that USB 3.0 and some basic AMD graphics. You could do some, you know, little of gaming on here. Even better, the Envy 14 started 999, which the same as the 13-inch MacBook used to start at. Now, you'd have to either get a 999 MacBook Air, the 11-inch model or trade up to that 1200 bucks for a 13-inch MacBook Pro or even more for a 13-inch MacBook Air. So, if you're looking for something that's build like tank solid metal and really emulates kind of that MacBook Pro looking feel on Windows side, you're not gonna do better than the HP Envy line in Envy 14, definitely hits the suite spot coming in at 999. I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the HP Envy 14. -The bottom line this week, what's Apple's return policy again? and also, is it just mirrored the phrase 4-finger gestures sound a little bit dirty. Don't think about it too hard. Okay folks, that's our show, come back next week for an all new CNET Tech Review. Until then, there are tons of great videos available everyday at CNETTV.com. I'll see you next time, and thank you for watching.
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BitMEX Exchange Exposes User Base in Email Mishap
Arthur Hayes, former CEO of BitMEX
(ConiDesk archives)
William Foxley
Nov 1, 2019 at 12:29 p.m. UTC Updated Nov 1, 2019 at 10:43 p.m. UTC
If you have an account with crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX, there’s never been a better time to update your security preferences.
On Friday at 08:00 UTC, BitMEX alerted its clientele via blog and Twitter that it had accidentally revealed many of its user’s email addresses in the CC: field.
The unfortunate email also opens users up to targeted phishing attacks, as anyone obtaining the email has a portion of what’s needed to access the account login.
BitMEX has now asked customers to add BitMEX’s support email to their contact lists to decrease phishing emails along with adding 2-factor authentication (2FA). The exchange appeared to suggest a bug caused the incident, saying on the company blog: “The error which has caused this has been identified and fixed.”
“We are aware that some of our users have received a general user update email earlier today, which contained the email addresses of other users,” they said on the blog. “Our team have acted immediately to contain the issue and we are taking steps to understand the extent of the impact.”
In a statement to CoinDesk, BitMEX Deputy COO Vivien Khoo said:
Earlier today, the majority of our users received an email containing the email addresses of other users in the ‘to’ field. This was a general email update about upcoming changes to the weighting of our indices.
We are deeply sorry for the concern this has caused to our users. The issue was caused by an error in the software used to send emails. As soon as we were made aware of the issue, we immediately prevented further emails from being sent and have since addressed the issue to ensure this does not happen again.
BitMEX takes the privacy and security of our users very seriously. We are working around the clock to establish communication with all our users to provide any assistance and to ensure the continued safety of their account.
Beyond email addresses, at no point during this issue has any personal data or account information been disclosed.
According to data tweeted by data analytics firm Skew, BitMEX has around 22,000 users daily.
The mishap adds to the woes of the exchange, which is also reportedly being probed by the U.S. Commodity Futures Exchange Commission (CFTC) over whether it has allowed U.S. traders to use its platform. BitMEX geo-blocks multiple countries from participating on its exchange, including the United States, although some users may have jumped the fence by using virtual private networks (VPNs).
One of the largest crypto derivatives markets, known for its leverage rates of up to 100x, BitMEX operates out of Seychelles. Its largest product, the XBT/USD trade pair, had a 24-hour trade volume of $2.8 billion as of press time according to CoinGecko.
BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes image via CoinDesk archives
UPDATE (1, November 18:00 UTC): This story was updated to include a statement to CoinDesk from BitMEX Deputy COO Vivien Khoo.
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Bitcoin is ‘non-sensical’ asset that still makes sense, says UK investment manager
Written By coins on 13/01/2021
His firm added exposure to Bitcoin before the winter surge.
The chairman of a British investment firm says Bitcoin (BTC) is a seemingly “non-sensical” asset — but one that still makes sense after the coin’s winter price movement proved profitable. His firm, Ruffer Investment company, converted a portion of its gold holdings into Bitcoin in November.
Ruffer Investment Company Limited reallocated 2.5% of its Multi-Strategies Fund from gold to Bitcoin in November as a hedge against the “continued devaluation” of fiat. Since then, the value of gold appreciated by 4%, while the value of Bitcoin grew by 92% — a figure which briefly rose to 123% during BTC’s short stay above $40,000 on Jan. 10.
Writing in an investment review for the final quarter of 2020, Ruffer chairman Jonathan Ruffer said that after much internal deliberation, his firm had added exposure to Bitcoin because it thought BTC could challenge gold’s status as the one “supra-currency”. He wrote:
“Our underlying reasoning is that bitcoin is becoming a challenger to gold’s standing as the one supra-currency, the thing to own when fiat currencies are kerplunked.”
Ruffer said Bitcoin was a “unique beast” which was subject to a “longish” assessment before being introduced to the multi-strat fund:
“We have done much work on assessing the danger that bitcoin is a wrong’un. We have been watching it for a longish time, and our judgement is that it is a unique beast as an emerging store of value, blending some of the benefits of technology and gold.”
The Ruffer firm had 20.3 billion pounds ($27.5 billion) in assets under management as of Nov. 30. The company was founded in 1994 and employs 330 people, serving around 6,600 clients comprised of pension funds, families, charities and individuals worldwide.
Jonathan Ruffer told readers on the company website that even though Bitcoin seemed like a “non-sensical” asset, it was one that aligned with the firm’s perspective on the world:
“Yes, it is a seemingly non-sensical asset — but one that makes absolute sense for how we see the world.”
Despite Bitcoin’s ascendance to new all-time highs over the winter period, Ruffer said he felt only “nervously satisfied” with the outcome, and that keeping clients safe was more important than short-term price pumps.
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Nanaimo RCMP are investigating a robbery at the Terminal Park branch of the Bank of Montreal. (Nanaimo RCMP)
Man in Santa hat suspected of robbing Nanaimo bank
RCMP investigating robbery at BMO in Terminal Park on Monday
Chris Bush
A man wearing a Santa hat is the suspect in a bank robbery in Nanaimo today.
Nanaimo RCMP released a description of a suspect as they continue to search the Brechin Hill area following a robbery at the Terminal Park branch of the Bank of Montreal.
The incident happened at about 2:10 p.m. Monday, Dec. 23, according to Const. Gary O’Brien, Nanaimo RCMP spokesman.
Large RCMP response at Terminal Park Plaza where there appears to have been a robbery at the Bank of Montreal branch.
More to come as info available. #Nanaimo #robbery @NanaimoBulletin pic.twitter.com/cEGwSfQ17a
— Chris Bush (@ChrisBushphotog) December 23, 2019
Police had set up containment in the area north of Terminal Park Plaza, the direction the suspect allegedly fled following the robbery.
O’Brien said after the suspect fled he discarded the clothing he wore while allegedly committing the robbery.
“He took an undisclosed amount of cash and did not produce a weapon,” O’Brien said. “He discarded a lot of the clothing he wore during the robbery and we have located that.”
The suspect is described as white, 5-foot-8, with a medium build and a brown-grey goatee-type beard and is estimated to be 40 to 50 years old. He was wearing a grey Crooks and Castles brand hoodie.
The branch has been closed temporarily as police conduct their investigation at the scene and patrons are asked to instead visit the Dickinson Crossing location.
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Cricket India Schedule September 8, 2019
After a firecracker one sided series against West Indies last month, India is set to clash with SA this week.
SA will be visiting India for 3 T20 series and 3 Test Match Series.
Scroll down to grab all the details like full schedule, squad, fixtures and timings of match.
Ind vs SA, India vs South Africa T20, Test Series 2019 Schedule, Time Table, Fixtures, Date: India have announced a 15-man squad for the upcoming T20I series against South Africa.
India v South Africa Schedule
T20I Series schedule:
1st T20I: At Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala on 15 September (Sun) at 7PM (IST).
2nd T20I: At Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh on 18 September (Wed) at 7 PM (IST).
3rd T20I: At M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru on 22 September (Sun) at 7 PM (IST)
Test Series Schedule:
1st Test: (2-6 October) at ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam, 9:30 AM (IST)
2nd Test: (10-14 October) at Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune, 9:30 AM (IST)
3rd Test: (19-23 October) at JSCA International Stadium Complex, Ranchi, 9:30 AM (IST)
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India v South Africa Squads
India T20I Squad: Virat Kohli (captain), Rohit (vice-captain), KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Krunal Pandya, Washington Sundar, Rahul Chahar, Khaleel Ahmed, Deepak Chahar, Navdeep Saini
South Africa T20I Squad: Quinton de Kock (captain), Rassie van der Dussen (vice-captain), Temba Bavuma, Junior Dala, Bjorn Fortuin, Beuran Hendricks, Reeza Hendricks, David Miller, Anrich Nortje, Andile Phehlukwayo, Dwaine Pretorius, Kagiso Rabada, Tabraiz Shamsi, George Linde.
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Hardik Pandya has returned to the limited-overs squad after having been rested for the ongoing tour of the West Indies. He has been named in place of Bhuvneshwar Kumar in the only one change that the team management have made from the T20I squad they picked for the Caribbean tour.
MS Dhoni and Jasprit Bumrah are the other big names who are not part of the T20I squad. Dhoni, who has taken a two-month sabbatical after the World Cup, is currently vacationing in the United States, having served in the Territorial Army for 15 days.
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Canceled by Coronavirus: Vegas’ elaborate draft plans change
Posted: Apr 1, 2020 / 07:13 AM EDT / Updated: Apr 1, 2020 / 01:14 PM EDT
LAS VEGAS (NEXSTAR) –– In 2019, NFL Draft officials presented elaborate plans to leaders in the Las Vegas-area of what they hoped to showcase at April’s NFL kickoff event. From fan events to massive stages, the plans would’ve had major economic impacts on the area.
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, all that’s now off the table.
Fan Experience at Caesars property
NFL Draft representatives presented a list of community partners including local law enforcement and resort partners.
Renderings of proposed main stage
The presentation included renderings of 3 different stages at several locations on the Strip including a main stage at the Bellagio Fountains to be constructed on the water as well as a Fan Experience at the Caesars lot area and also the main theater stage is a covered structure near Caesars Forum designed as an ode to Fremont Street Experience as a nod to old Las Vegas.
With public events called off, it remains to be seen exactly how the NFL Draft will be presented — or if the NFL will return in the future to bring their initial blueprints to life.
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"Lab Crisis Planning"
Last Week’s Power Outage Affects Labs in Many Regions
With municipal power out, labs continue to perform critical tests and report results
| From the Volume X No. 11 - August 18, 2003 Issue
Gauging The Impact Of Lab Patient Safety
First ISO-Designed Clinical Lab Improves Outcomes, Costs
EVERY AFFECTED LABORATORY knows the precise time. Somewhere between 4:00 and 4:15 P.M. EST last Thursday is when the local power company stopped feeding electricity in cities ranging from New York City west to Toledo, Detroit and parts of Canada.
As of press time, many labs in affected cities lacked even phone service. THE DARK REPORT was able to reach several hospital labs, however, for an early assessment of how the power blackout affected their operations.
Waiting For Full Power
At Detroit Medical Center (DMC), William Neeley, M.D., Medical Director of Laboratories was blunt. “Right now I’m sitting in the dark with no air conditioning. It’s a catastrophe that’s challenged both our hospital and our lab,” he declared.
“Our UPS and battery back-ups allowed us to safely shut down the instrument systems when the power failed,” said McNeeley. “Using emergency power from the hospital generators, we’ve kept some instruments operational. All critical testing has been maintained. We are hand-entering orders and hand-delivering lab test reports.
“Our computers are operating, but without air conditioning, they can’t be used,” he continued. “In the computer room, the temperature is 90 degrees and chillers were brought in to help lower the temperature.”
Another unexpected problem from the city-wide power outage is the lack of running water in the lab. “As a result, we don’t have de-ionized water for certain instruments,” stated McNeeley. “Another impact on the laboratory is that, because only certain bathrooms in the hospital are functional, our people have to travel quite a ways. As of Friday noon, we’ve had no word as to when full power may be restored.”
Across the border in the Canadian Providence of Ontario, pathologist Murray Treloar, M.D., Director of Laboratory Services at Lake Ridge Health in Oshawa, was in the process of catching up. “Power was returned to our laboratory around 4:00 a.m. this morning. So we are back-entering orders and results.
“We had the usual hiccups when the power failed and we shifted to our back-up systems,” he said. “One instrument didn’t survive the change-over, but that was the exception. With only one elevator working in the hospital, our lab staff had plenty of exercise throughout the night, drawing specimens, getting them to the lab, and delivering results by hand.”
In New York City, the impact of the power outage was more significant on laboratories. Because phone systems were down on Friday, specific details of unique lab management issues will not be known for several more days.
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EditorialPublished June 24, 2014
HILLARY Clinton must be listened to. Not because she could be in the White House but — let there be no mistake about it — she is one of the few American politicians who understand Pakistan. She was secretary of state during some of the most crucial years in Pakistan’s relationship with America (Abbottabad, Raymond Davis, Salala), and showed remarkable understanding while enjoying it when someone likened her attitude towards Pakistan to that of a fastidious mother-in-law. What she said in an interview with an Indian television channel wasn’t wide off the mark: that Islamabad’s “strategic depth” notion had been proved wrong and didn’t serve Pakistan’s interests. Her remarks centred round the security establishment’s duplicitous policy toward religious militancy. Ms Clinton thought successive Pakistani governments had patronised militant groups in the mistaken belief that these could serve Islamabad’s interests and provide “strategic depth” to Pakistan vis-à-vis Afghanistan and India, and she was extremely critical of Pakistan’s use of proxies. Her comments serve to epitomise the world’s view of the militants who, it so turned out, have hurt no country more than they have Pakistan and its people. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 turned out to be a trauma as much for that country as for Pakistan. Helping the resistance to the Soviet occupation was one thing; turning Pakistan into a centre for the recruitment and training of the US-backed mujahideen was an act of supreme folly that has shaken this country’s state structure and social fabric to the roots. Encouraged by Washington, Pakistan’s army-led governments not only gave a religious tinge to anti-Soviet resistance fighters, the army’s rank and file, too, came to acquire a jihadist mindset that regarded the CIA-funded mujahideen as comrades. No wonder, then, that when the security establishment tried to disown them, the once-mujahideen turned terrorists.
Today, Pakistan’s political and military leaderships have to make a statement of intent that must repudiate the follies of the past and focus on eliminating the curse of terrorism. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s statement in parliament pledging a war to the finish against the militants and army chief Gen Raheel Sharif’s remarks that the nation had rejected the terrorist ideology should not merely mean a reiteration of the philosophy behind the ongoing Operation Zarb-i-Azb; the two statements, we hope, reflect a resolve to not nurture religious militancy and the jihadist mindset again for a counterproductive concept such as strategic depth.
Published in Dawn, June 24th, 2014
krishnan
Unfortunately many Pakistanis fed on Ghaiart propaganda will not appreciate your comments.I hope many more do.
Jalaluddin S. Hussain
Congratulations on your well thought-out excellent editorial! The concept of "strategic depths" was a grand mistake. Starting from General Zia and ending with General Musharraf Pakistanis passed through dark days and the whole nation suffered because of it. Pakistanis are paying heavily for this "Jihadi" mentality. The Western powers and the dictatorial Arab States are also equally responsible for this self-serving concept. The sooner Pakistan starts standing on its own two feet the better.
Only one word describes HRC, OPPORTUNIST. She's this even more so after spouting anti-Pakistan comments so she could cater to her Indian American voters when she runs for President of a nation which she betrayed. Hillybilly, from day one in the White House destroyed Pakistan's economy and military. The advisors around Bill Clinton did their level best to wrought socio-economic devastation to Pakistan and instead reward India at the expense of Pakistan. History will soon show what devious games the Clintons played and are still playing with Pakistan, and it will be a sad day when Hillary is elected President.
@FIZA Ms. Clinton is talking sense which it seems, we are not trying to understanding , or on purpose do not want to grasp due to obvious reasons. How simpletons and naive can we be, resting our believes on the doctrine that : "Hillybilly, from day one in the White House destroyed Pakistan's economy and military". Its high time we woke up.
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The real JT Leroy, Savannah Knoop, on identity in the age of deepfakes
Life & CultureThe spring 2020 issue
The writer and artist pulled off a literary scam for the ages – here, Knoop draws psychic parallels between the Hollywood cult around JT Leroy and the sinister technology impersonating celebrities
TextSavannah Knoop
It's the twentysomethings and current affairs so often feel like sophisticated, horrible, science fiction. Exploring the boundaries of the real and the imaginary, Confused News is a literary series which takes real-world news into sci-fi territory. Taken from the spring 2020 issue of Dazed.
My baby and I love to watch spy flicks. Last summer, my interest in Tom Cruise doing his own stunts in the Mission: Impossibles somehow brought me to a viral video of Bill Hader impersonating Cruise on a talk show. There was something odd about it, a general likeness turned into something uncanny. Hader’s eyes shimmered unmistakably with that psychotic Top Gun charm – then volleyed from himself to Cruise reacting to an impersonation of Seth Rogen, and back to himself. What a clusterfuck of different people all housed in one body, I thought. It was the sort of impersonation I often find exciting: the kind where you get to watch someone transform themselves through body language.
Part of the pleasure of looking at art is imagining retroactively how a person made the piece. These kinds of acts of embodiment come not only through talent but through training. Sir Alec Guinness apparently hung out at the zoo to copy the movements of animals for his characters. Buster Keaton spent a lifetime falling over in order to be able to walk like a cowboy, and although drag queens at the ball made realness seem seamless, of course, it took real werk.
“Each lie looks, smells and tastes the same as veracity – how are we to know the difference? What is meaning made from inside of this post-truth era?”
I later learned that the Bill Hader video was in fact a deepfake – an updated version of his ‘original’ impersonations from 2008. Deep fake. Having played a fictional character for a writer for six years, I was, in some sense, attuned to these experiments – an analogue deepfaker, if you will. A few years ago, I let the whole meta-analogue deepfake story roll out in the film JT LeRoy, which I wrote with director Justin Kelly. One day on set, I found myself staring at a continuity scene of Kristen Stewart playing myself, playing JT, in which JT was watching a scene of their fictional character’s fictional life being made into a film. There are some key differences between analogue and digital deepfaking. In the 4D world, analogue deepfaking is a cumbersome and complicated process that has to do with absorbing people’s movement, speech patterns, habits and emotions, filtering them through your own body and particular consciousness, and then, most importantly, having to exist within the ramifications and consequences of your own actions. Retelling the story over and over to yourself and the public proves equally cumbersome and strange – that said, I’m glad to have been able to tell it.
Alternatively, in the dark waters of digital deepfaking... well, all I can say is that we are most certainly on the brink of a new era – the age of enlightenment is officially over and we can thank many a neoconservative using the worst parts of postmodernism and Facebook data breaches to have pushed it over the cliff. In the post-truth era, deepfake videos of a slurring Nancy Pelosi nestle comfortably into fake news feeds, while whatever remains of the notion of the collective seems to have been subsumed into a set of consumer data points to be observed and farmed.
One would hope – though it certainly hasn’t been the case – that the process of creating mash-ups of multiple people over one body would nudge us towards an appreciation of the composite, a long-needed embrace of the multiple, an understanding that all this worshipping of the original and the authentic was perhaps just a myth created for those who were afraid to live in the free-floating existential dread of uncertainty.
Courtney Love with Knoop as JT Leroy and Laura Albertvia Google
The act of using an image to lie with is not a new phenomenon, but each cultural moment shades its nuances. In the media over the last few years, we’ve seen certain kinds of stories in which the disenfranchised use deception to reconstitute power flow – take Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, for example, or George Nolfi’s upcoming film The Banker. These stories end up taking on a sort of Robin Hood archetypal structure, in which their protagonists gain access to the power flow in order to reveal its divisive tactics, its engineered operations masquerading as natural effects. (I think it’s important to clarify that I would not put the JT LeRoy mythology into this category.) The protagonist deceives with the intention of breaking into these power structures and opening them up to the systematically disempowered, changing the motives for the deception. Malcolm X’s ‘by any means necessary’ call to action has lost none of its urgency today, when the number of hate groups operating in the US has reached a record high, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
For the first time in recent history, mass pop culture is taking on white patriarchal hegemony and the privilege that comes with it, with the result that white men are suddenly feeling picked on in a way they might not have experienced before, and we see many gathering their strength under their own banner of underdog identity. That claim to victimhood, and the therefore ‘righteous’ use of deception that follows, shows up in the world of deepfake videos, where it manifests as a new version of the same old story of ill-placed motives and non-consensual acts of violence towards particular bodies in the effort of power maintenance. The bodies of starlets or ex-girlfriends are casually lifted and superimposed on to porn stars for power demotion and revenge porn. As consumers we exist in a world which insists the digital realm is moving too fast to have any regulation around it, yet we make great concessions for this wild west we live in, and it is our supreme responsibility to be vigilant about what moving images we consume, a fact that has always been true, but now – well, it’s become more challenging. A news story suddenly pops up on my feed showing a cow near Moscow wearing a VR headset. Oh, sun-kissed green pasture. Oh, happy milk.
The Matrix is here. Please, Trinity, come save us.
“Behind the creation of deepfakes as cultural phenomenon, these videos appear to lack intention, almost like a tuneless whistle meant to distract you from whatever they’re hiding behind their backs”
The deepfake of the internet can be created anonymously through footage or speeches collected and manipulated with artificial intelligence software. It can now be done relatively casually on a person’s home computer. Intention is always a key component to most active moments in life. While there are many deepfake videos which out themselves as satire (thanks to Jordan Peele for the public service announcement), in the Hader video, we have something else again. It seems vacuous enough, but underlying this narrative is a sinister insistence on the ‘authentic’. In the deepfake version, Hader’s multiple acts of impersonation are slathered by the superimposed, ‘real’ Top Gun Tom Cruise, almost like a demon taking revenge. Digitally overlaid, Hader’s own creative acts are rendered practically redundant when covered with so much ‘realness’ – he might as well have just been sitting there doing nothing instead of acting his ass off for David Letterman and the audience, trying his best to tell a good yarn.
And what was the story in the making of this deepfake video? An anonymous person named Ctrl Shift Face doing just what the name implies – that is, pressing buttons to show off a computer’s virtuosity, a process of... snooze. About as interesting as attending a power tool demonstration at the local Home Depot – it’s not the tool, it’s what you do with it! As I cruised Ctrl Shift Face’s YouTube channels, I saw a sort of inane gag repeated over and over again – replacing Jack Nicholson with Jim Carrey, Arnold Schwarzenegger with who knows, who cares... Perhaps Ctrl Shift Face’s underlying secret desire was to be a casting agent?
While these mind-numbing repetitions are disturbing, other deepfake videos made by various anonymous handles are obviously meant to shock. The maker of the drunk Nancy Pelosi video signals their intentions out the gate – bipartisanship via radical misinformation. Deepfake porn’s intentions are clear from the outset – misogyny. But behind the creation of deepfakes as cultural phenomenon, the ambience or (as Walter Benjamin might have called it) aura of deepfakes is stranger, bringing up an acute sense of frivolous confusion because these videos appear to lack intention, almost like a tuneless whistle meant to distract you from whatever they’re hiding behind their backs.
Is the delight of watching these videos simply that it seems like it’s real but then turns out to be not real? Here, too, is this insistence that the authentic is more worthy, and should be arranged at the front. (Players of drama theorist Augusto Boal’s ‘Great Game of Power’ will recognise this is a classic case of one chair being placed with more power than the others.) I was suddenly reminded of the ‘reveal’ scene in The Crying Game, where the straight Fergus discovers that Dil is a trans woman and reacts by puking. I remember watching this film as a child, then seeing that scene replicated over and over in other mainstream media like a snappy song you just couldn’t help humming. (These scenes have recently been collated into the upcoming documentary Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen.) I notice the amount of hits and views on the Hader video and can’t help but feel a sense of nihilism set in. But block out the whistling for a minute and try to see a wider context. When does the gag of pulling someone’s pants down turn into something else? The first time? The tenth? After 11.2k views? Does it matter who’s doing the pulling, who is watching and who is wearing those pants?
‘Seeing is believing’, the saying goes. It’s a strange statement, when you think about the ways in which imagemaking has historically been wedded to a kind of inherent deception of the ‘real’. Perhaps this notion that seeing is believing comes from long ago, when we needed to know the difference between a wild tiger and a shadow playing on our senses – for how could you tell if it was real or not, if you couldn’t know it with your body? Perhaps the saying also points to popular entertainment or art always being connected to knowing – that part of the pleasure of being at a play, an opera, a film, is being in on the construction of reality, collectively suspending disbelief to experience something with more clarity than in the confusion of our everyday lives.
We usually read this through formal cues: the fourth wall, the gallery, the chairs which always face the same way. Those boundaries until very recently have always felt clear, and anything outside of them was usually automatically judged a scam or a hoax. Here, the written word also collaborates with the woolliness of our present moment. ‘Fake news’ has existed before now, but never in the forms it has taken on today. Each lie looks, smells and tastes the same as veracity – how are we to know the difference? What is meaning made from inside of this post-truth era? Must we exist only in a closed circuit of our own beliefs, or of the beliefs of those who finance, design and distribute the information networks? As Henry Oberlander, leader of the Hungarian Circle gang that defrauded banks of hundreds of millions of dollars in the 70s, was quoted saying, “Everyone is willing to give something for whatever it is they desire the most.” What do you desire most, and what are you willing to give up for it?
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All Clichés Are Bigger in Texas Award Nominee: Starting a Business Edition
Forbes resorts to stereotypical imagery to represent Dallas' business environment.
By Jason Heid Published in FrontBurner March 21, 2014 1:15 pm
Nothing says “cutting-edge business environment” like the inside of a western wear store. (Photo: Bachir/Flickr)
photography by Matthew Shelley
So Forbes recently ranked Dallas as one of the best markets in the country for starting a business. The seventh-best, to be exact. Said they of our fair city:
The northern Texas city gets consistently good marks across all categories. Its small businesses, while not as well-liked as others on our list, are likely to fall in high-growth industries and adopt social media. With nearly half of its businesses employing less than 50 people, Dallas also boasts a relatively large small business community.
That’s all good and fine. But we’re here to discuss their choice of photo in representing Dallas as a vibrant home to entrepreneurship: A row of western boots.
Let’s see how this compares to the art used for the remainder of the top 12:
San Diego: an image of the city’s fun and funky downtown.
Denver: a parkour enthusiast leaping among the city’s skyscrapers.
Austin: a speaker holding forth at SXSW Interactive.
Seattle: a view of Puget Sound from the city’s famed Public Market.
Portland: a pretty, waifish girl bike shopping.
San Francisco: the city’s gorgeous skyline and view of the bay.
Dallas: Boots
Boston: Rows of tightly-packed housing
New York: A hipster-run taco joint.
Chicago: a cool-cat advertising agency
Las Vegas: A vomitous mass of American iconography consumed and regurgitated back onto the Strip.
San Jose: A young nonprofit founder mentoring other young attractive entrepreneurs.
Judging purely on the photos, then, where do you want to start a business? I think we only top Boston, maybe.
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Court cases that rocked the NRL
Jarryd Hayne was among numerous NRL players who fronted court in 2020. The jury was discharged in Hayne’s sexual assault trial after being unable to reach a verdict. Picture: Heath Parkes-Hupton
by Steve Zemek
Rugby league has never been a stranger to controversy and 2020 proved no different with a number of present and former stars appearing in court.
The trials of Jack de Belin and Jarryd Hayne dominated headlines for weeks on end before they both ended in hung juries.
Many more faced legal troubles. Here's a look at the NRL figures who appeared in court last year.
Jack de Belin will face a retrial in Sydney in 2021. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Simon Bullard.
JACK DE BELIN
The St George Illawarra and NSW back-rower will face a second sexual assault trial in April as he fights to clear his name and resume his stalled NRL career.
Mr De Belin and co-accused Callan Sinclair each pleaded not guilty to five counts of aggravated sexual assault before the jury in the Wollongong District Court failed to reach a verdict.
At trial, Mr de Belin and Mr Sinclair both argued that their encounter with a 19-year-old woman in a North Wollongong unit, which belonged to Mr de Belin's cousin, was consensual.
Mr de Belin's contract with the Dragons expired on November 1 last year after he sat out the last two seasons.
He has signed a deal under which he will be paid a reduced rate to train with the club while he awaits trial.
He was the first player stood down under the NRL's "no-fault" stand down rule and was paid $595,000 a season while sidelined in 2019 and 2020.
De Belin's retrial will be held in Sydney after the first was held in Wollongong.
Jarryd Hayne leaves Newcastle Court after the jury was discharged from his sexual assault trial after it was unable to reach a verdict. Picture: Heath Parkes-Hupton
JARRYD HAYNE
Like Mr de Belin, the ex-Parramatta star's sexual assault trial ended in a deadlocked jury and his second trial will be moved to Sydney.
Mr Hayne declared "I told the truth" after the jury failed to reach a verdict on the two counts of aggravated sexual intercourse without consent recklessly inflicting actual bodily harm he had pleaded not guilty to.
The two-time Dally M medallist has been accused of performing sexual acts on the woman without her consent and causing two lacerations to her vagina that bled extensively.
During the trial the court heard Mr Hayne departed a former teammate's buck's party and stopped at the woman's home in outer Newcastle on the way back to Sydney in September 2019.
Mr Hayne's retrial is scheduled to begin in the District Court in Sydney on March 8 having been moved from the Newcastle District Court.
Former NRL star Sam Burgess and his mum Julie Burgess leaving Moss Vale Local Court after a hearing over the dispute with his father-in-law Mitchell Hooke. Picture: Jonathan Ng
SAM BURGESS
The ex-South Sydney skipper and English rugby union international will return to court in January to fight allegations that he intimidated and threatened his former father-in-law during a heated argument.
Mr Burgess has pleaded not guilty to one count of intimidation related to an alleged argument at Mitchell Hooke's Southern Highlands property in October, 2019.
He has also had an apprehended violence order taken out against him.
Mr Burgess, who retired at the end of the 2019 NRL season due to a chronic shoulder injury, has made counter claims against Mr Hooke and his ex-wife Phoebe Burgess, his lawyers telling Moss Vale Local Court the allegations are part of a concerted attempt to ruin his career and reputation.
Mr Burgess could give evidence when the case returns to Moss Vale Local Court in late January.
Curtis Scott was cleared after he fought allegations that he assaulted police in court. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Joel Carrett
CURTIS SCOTT
At one point the Canberra Raiders outside back was threatened with being stood down under the NRL's disciplinary rules, before his name was cleared during a bombshell court appearance.
Mr Scott had five charges, including two counts of assaulting police, dropped after distressing bodycam footage of his arrest was played to the court.
He was found passed out underneath a tree following drunken Australia Day celebrations last year.
The footage showed officers unlawfully placing the Raiders centre under arrest while he was passed out, and tasering and pepper-spraying him while he was handcuffed.
Police body cam footage which cleared Curtis Scott. Picture: Supplied.
Magistrate Jennifer Giles said Mr Scott would have been safer had he "wandered onto the roadway and been hit by a car".
Mr Scott was awarded $100,000 in legal costs and is seeking a six-figure civil settlement with NSW Police.
Dylan Walker as he leaves Manly local court. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Damian Shaw
DYLAN WALKER
Walker faces two charges of common assault following an alleged confrontation with two men outside a northern beaches pizza restaurant.
The Manly five-eighth has pleaded not guilty to charges related to the alleged altercation outside the Little Italy Pizzeria at Narraweena on November 1.
NSW Police have alleged that after the 26-year-old left the restaurant, he attempted to enter a vehicle parked outside that belonged to a woman.
He is alleged to have become aggressive when confronted and assaulted two men before fleeing.
He has not been stood down because the charges do not automatically trigger the NRL's "no fault" rule, but NRL CEO Andrew Abdo could yet use his discretion to prevent him from playing during the legal proceedings.
Mr Walker will return to court next week.
Tristan Sailor leaves Sutherland court with his parents including his father Wendell. Picture: Eliza Barr.
TRISTAN SAILOR
The 22-year-old's career is at a crossroads after he was charged with serious sexual assault allegations in October.
Mr Sailor, the son of cross-code star and NRL legend Wendell Sailor, was off-contract with St George Illawarra when he was charged with aggravated sexual assault inflicting actual bodily harm.
Police have alleged in the Wollongong Local Court that traces of the sedative Doxylamine were in the alleged victim's bloodstream after she was found unresponsive in her southern Sydney home.
The prosecution has described Mr Sailor's alleged actions as "predatory and planned" and accused him of administering the drug to the woman.
Mr Sailor has denied the allegations and has stated that any sexual intercourse was consensual.
He will return to court in late January.
Latrell Mitchell arrives at Taree Local Court. Picture: AAP Image/Nathan Edwards.
LATRELL MITCHELL AND JOSH ADDO-CARR
Souths fullback Mitchell avoided a conviction when he was sentenced for a minor gun offence related to a camping trip in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic in April.
He pleaded guilty to giving a firearm to an unauthorised person and was given a conditional release order.
Mitchell and NSW teammate Josh Addo-Carr were both fined $1000 by NSW Police for social distancing breaches over the trip with a group of men to Mitchell's property on the NSW Mid North Coast.
NSW's Josh Addo-Carr celebrates with Blues teammates during last year’s State of Origin series. Picture. Phil Hillyard
Melbourne winger Addo-Carr has pleaded guilty to the unauthorised use of a firearm and will appear in court in March.
The pair were also fined $50,000 each by the NRL, with 60 per cent of the penalties suspended.
Former Newcastle Knights player Jarrod Mullen was sentenced to 300 hours community service for drug supply. Picture: AAP Image/Dean Lewins.
JARROD MULLEN
The former Newcastle Knights halfback was sentenced to 300 hours of community service after he was arrested when police smashed a drug supply ring in Newcastle.
He pleaded guilty to supplying cocaine after he was caught with 39 grams of the drug.
Tyrone May narrowly escaped being sent to jail. Picture: AAP Image/Peter Rae.
TYRONE MAY
In January last year May narrowly avoided jail over his part in a sex tape scandal before going on to play in Penrith's grand final loss to Melbourne.
He pleaded guilty to four counts of intentionally recording an intimate image without consent after he filmed two different women without their knowledge.
He had sex with the first woman at a Coffs Harbour hotel. The second incident occurred at an apartment in Kingswood in Sydney's west several months later.
He was sentenced to 300 hours of community services and a three-year community corrections order.
Magistrate Robyn Denes described the offences as "reprehensible" and said May was "on the cusp of a custodial sentence".
Josh Reynolds had domestic violence charges dropped after details of his former partner’s past were revealed. Picture: AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi.
JOSH REYNOLDS
The ex-Wests Tigers utility had his name dragged through the mud for months before a domestic violence charge against him were ultimately dropped in February 2020.
Reynolds, who has departed the NRL to continue his career in the English Super League, was accused grabbing his former partner Arabella del Busso on the arm during an argument
NSW Police dropped the charge after the media revealed that Ms del Busso's real name was Donna Preusker and she was accused by Mr Reynolds' lawyers of faking multiple pregnancies.
The NRL has attempted in recent years to improve its off-field image, implementing the "no fault" stand down rule.
The policy, which allows the game to stand down players charged with a serious criminal offence to be suspended from playing, survived a Federal Court challenge from Mr de Belin.
They also refused to bend the rule when it became apparent Mr de Belin would be sidelined for part of the 2021 season while he awaits a retrial.
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Inconvenient Truths about Landowner (Un)Willingness to Grow Dedicated Bioenergy Crops
Bradford L. Barham, Daniel F. Mooney, and Scott M. Swinton
JEL Classification: Q11, Q24, Q42
Keywords: Biomass, Contingent Valuation, Corn Stover, Switchgrass, Stated Preferences
Citation: Barham, B.L., D.F. Mooney, and S.M. Swinton. 2016. "Inconvenient Truths about Landowner (Un)Willingness to Grow Dedicated Bioenergy Crops." Choices. Quarter 4. Available online: http://www.choicesmagazine.org/choices-magazine/submitted-articles/inconvenient-truths-about-landowner-unwillingness-to-grow-dedicated-bioenergy-crops
Nearly a decade after enactment of the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP), the emergence of new biomass supplies for bioenergy and bioproduct end-uses remains scant, with little progress evident especially for dedicated grass and short-rotation tree crops. First signed into law through the 2008 U.S. Farm Bill, BCAP seeks to complement the Renewable Fuel Standard established by the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005 and expanded in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.
The goal of BCAP is to catalyze the cultivation of cellulosic, or non-food, biomass on private landholdings. The focus on cellulosic biomass is important because it cannot readily be used for food or feed and because perennial dedicated bioenergy crops—like switchgrass—offer environmental benefits. Specific incentives of BCAP include subsidies for the establishment and maintenance of new dedicated biomass cropping systems—namely grass and tree crops—and matching payments for the collection and harvest of existing biomass resources—such as crop or forest residues—that currently lack an established end-market.
As of 2016, BCAP had assisted nearly 900 landowners to establish dedicated biomass plantings on 49,000 acres across eleven geographically-diverse project areas (USDA-FSA, 2016). Overall, this represents a negligible share of the repeated and recent projections by the Department of Energy’s Billion Ton Report envisioning tens of millions of acres in biomass production by 2022 (DOE, 2016). But the shortcoming ran deeper: Half of the BCAP project areas fell short of their targeted acreage enrollment goals by 30% or more. In two cases, they fell short by over 80% (USDA-FSA, 2013). By comparison, BCAP’s matching payment programs to subsidize the collection of existing biomass had greater success.
While not a formal criterion for BCAP, the program was implemented during a period of policy interest in expanding dedicated biomass production on ‘marginal lands.’ In the bioenergy policy arena, this term refers to (1) non-crop land that is currently unused for feed and forage production, and (2) crop and pasture land which could be made more sustainable through incorporation of a perennial biomass production system. Ideally, biomass production on marginal land would sidestep social, ecological, economic and ethical concerns associated with biomass for energy production (Searchinger et al., 2008; Shortall, 2013). However, the USDA-FSA reports that only two of nine BCAP project areas contracted for any biomass production on marginal lands. Within those areas marginal land represented only 4–7% of all contracted acres, with the remainder being cropland.
Why did BCAP subsidies attract so little land into dedicated bioenergy crops? And why was such a tiny fraction of it in marginal land? The BCAP experience seems to fly in the face of projections of vast land areas available for bioenergy crops in general (DOE, 2016) and specifically on marginal lands (Cai, Zhang, and Wang, 2010; Gelfand et al., 2013). Was the BCAP shortfall in spending on dedicated energy crops due solely to “[in]sufficient producer outreach and education” (USDA-FSA 2013)?
The answer is no. Four inconvenient truths detract from landowner willingness to grow dedicated bioenergy crops. While the physical availability of cropland or marginal land is a necessary condition for growing bioenergy crops, the condition requires that private landowners must be willing to use those lands to produce energy crops.
The four inconvenient truths emerge from a set of empirical studies in the U.S. Great Lakes states. The studies used direct surveys to elicit farmer willingness to devote land to growing bioenergy crops (For more information about the studies see the Appendix). The inconvenient truths are these:
The overall supply of land for dedicated bioenergy crops is modest even at relatively high biomass prices, so cellulosic biomass supply is likely to be scarce and highly inelastic to price.
Crop residues, especially corn stover, are the dominant source of biomass supply, not dedicated cellulosic energy crops.
Marginal lands are less likely to be called into use for biomass production than croplands, which means that despite their apparent physical abundance marginal lands are economically scarce.
Farm enterprises, especially dairy, provide attractive earnings that limit the appeal of switching land into dedicated bioenergy crops.
The Basics of Land Supply for a New Crop
The supply of land for a bioenergy crops is driven by the marginal cost of producing those crops. Four cost factors lie at the heart of the matter. They are illustrated by the stylized supply curves in Figure 1. Each curve adds a new cost factor that needs to be compensated by the biomass price in order for landowners to shift land into bioenergy crops. Curve S1 captures the direct costs of producing a dedicated bioenergy crop. At a minimum, a grower would need to be paid the simple breakeven price that covers the cost per ton of growing, harvesting, and storing the bioenergy crop (Mooney et al., 2009).
Figure 1: Land Supply Curves and
Opportunity Cost Components
Source: Authors’ conceptualization
But covering direct costs is only the start. In order to attract land away from an existing enterprise that generates a profit above direct costs, the biomass price needs to also cover the opportunity cost of the expected profits that could be earned from the best alternative income-generating enterprise—such as dairy or cash grain farming. Curve S2 adds on that opportunity cost and reflects the comparative breakeven price needed to compensate for switching away from an income-generating land use (James, Swinton, and Thelen, 2010; Kells and Swinton, 2014). But comparative breakeven prices omit risk concerns.
Curve S3 adds on compensation for added risk and uncertainty. All crops pose production and price risks. But unfamiliar bioenergy crops pose additional learning risks until farmers understand their production well; they also pose unusual price risk as the relevant markets and contracts evolve. Perennial bioenergy crops such as switchgrass involve up-front investments that take time to mature and may be costly to undo. When decision-makers face investment decisions that involve uncertainty or irreversibility they need a higher relative return to forego the option of waiting to see whether the risks decline and make the investment a more certain bet (Dixit and Pyndick, 1994). The option value required to plant a new perennial bioenergy crop can be large. Song, Zhao, and Swinton (2011) find the annualized return to switchgrass would need to exceed that for corn by a factor close to 2.5 before a landowner might consider switching cropping systems when accounting for costly reversibility and uncertainty. Skevas et al. (2016b) report that the high-yielding perennial bioenergy crop, Miscanthus giganteus, can have a 45% chance of failing to overwinter in its first year in south-central Wisconsin. The hidden costs described thus far are based on agricultural income generation. However, income is not the only source of value that people derive from land.
Curve S4 adds the implicit cost of losing amenities from current land uses relative to a new use. For example, concerns about the potential loss of biodiversity, threats to water quality, and “the land changing in a way that I can no longer use it as I want” associated with intensified cultivation were variables that deterred landowners in northern Wisconsin and Michigan from being willing to rent non-crop marginal land for bioenergy crops (Swinton et al., 2016; Skevas, Swinton, and Hayden, 2014). These changes can lower the amenity value of that land, and hence require a higher price to compensate for the loss of nonmarket benefits. However, the amenity effect need not add to implicit cost; it can also add implicit benefit. Landowners who care about environmental goals such as habitat improvement or carbon sequestration may find that perennial bioenergy crops advance these objectives, particularly in converting the use of cropland (Mooney, Barham, and Lian, 2015; Skevas et al., 2016a).
Which Lands Are Available?
Assuming that they are willing to provide land for bioenergy crops, what type of land would landowners supply? Would it be cropland, non-crop marginal land, pasture, or woodland? The answer is key to identifying whether bioenergy is complementary to, or in competition with, food, feed, and fiber uses. The appeal of non-crop marginal lands—if landowners find this option attractive—is to permit increased supply of dedicated bioenergy crops without triggering reductions in food supply and higher food prices associated with displacement of crop production (Searchinger et al., 2008)
But producing cellulosic energy biomass does not necessarily require new land. Crop byproducts like corn stover can be harvested by intensifying production practices on current cropland. Corn is pervasive in the U.S. agricultural landscape, so stover is the most immediately available source of biomass from agricultural lands. It also becomes available at the lowest marginal cost, which is simply the cost to harvest, store, and transport it (Khanna et al., 2011; Egbendewe-Mondzozo et al., 2015). So a market for cellulosic energy biomass can induce more land to shift into corn.
First Inconvenient Truth: Bioenergy Crop Supply Is Modest Even at High Prices
Figure 2: Land Supply Curves for the
Southern Michigan and Southern
Wisconsin Study Regions
Source: Adapted from Mooney, Barham, and Lian, 2015,
and Skevas et al., 2016a
Supply curves estimated from the landowner survey data in Figure 2 illustrate how land use in the southern Michigan and southern Wisconsin study regions would shift in response to increases in the land rental rate paid by bioenergy crop growers. Switchgrass curves show the share of farmable land—cropland plus marginal non-crop land—that landowners would make available for the establishment of a new dedicated bioenergy cropping system. The curves for corn represent the amount of farmable land that would become economically available for corn grain production systems where stover residues are designated to a bioenergy end use.
Two takeaways stand out: First, overall land supply prospects are modest even at high rental rates. In all cases, less than one-third of farmable area in either region would be designated to a given bioenergy purpose. Second, the estimated curves are highly price inelastic. At $100/acre—close to the prevailing 2010 rental rate for rain-fed cropland in Michigan—landowners in the southern Michigan study report a willingness to shift 17% of their total farmable land area to corn and 11% to switchgrass. Comparable numbers for farm operators in Southern Wisconsin are less than 2% for either crop. At double that rental rate, or $200/acre, southern Michigan landowners are willing to supply 25% of their land for growing corn and 17% for switchgrass, whereas farmers in southern Wisconsin are willing to supply just 9% and 2% of their land to corn for stover and switchgrass, respectively. In short, even at high land rental rates, potential shifts in land area toward bioenergy crops would only be a small fraction of the total.
Second Inconvenient Truth: Most Biomass Would Come from Crop Byproducts, Like Corn Stover
Figure 2 also shows that rising land rental rates for bioenergy crops attract more interest for growing annual corn than perennial switchgrass. Growing corn for both grain and stover comes at very low opportunity cost, because there is no need to abandon the corn grain sales. Corn is also a crop whose production and markets are familiar, so they prefer to avoid the added risks of an unfamiliar perennial crop (Skevas et al., 2016b; Song, Zhao, and Swinton, 2011).
The relative appeal of expanding corn production holds two significant implications. The first is that on existing croplands where corn is not grown, if farmers switch to a bioenergy crop, they are likely to switch into corn. The second is that non-crop marginal lands are quite likely to switch into corn, as opposed to dedicated perennial energy crops. The recent major expansion of corn and soy production onto non-crop lands that were previously held in the Conservation Reserve Program is a case in point.
Third Inconvenient Truth: Supply of Marginal Lands for Bioenergy Crops Is Economically Scarce Despite Physical Abundance
Southern Michigan Study Region
Disaggregated by Land Type
Source: Adapted from Skevas et al., 2016a
The current uses of land made available for growing corn and switchgrass in southern Michigan are illustrated in Figure 3. As rental rates for bioenergy crops increase, landowners would supply more cropland than they would marginal non-crop lands for both corn and switchgrass. The supply of cropland for corn production (denoted by closed circles) exceeds the supply of marginal non-crop land (open circles) at all rental rate levels considered. The same is true of the supply of cropland for switchgrass (closed squares) at high rental rates.
The scarcity of non-crop marginal land is reflected by the highly price inelastic supply curves relative to those for cropland in both panels of Figure 3. The gap between the areas of the two land uses widens as land rental rates rise, suggesting that active cropland will be the main land mobilized as energy biomass prices rise. Although not illustrated here, this lesson is echoed in southern Wisconsin (Mooney, Barham, and Lian, 2015) and the northern tier of both states (Swinton et al., 2016) studies. Even in this latter ecoregion, where forest covers 56% of total land area, landowners prefer to supply land for bioenergy crops from the 28% that is cropland, rather than the 11% that is non-crop marginal lands.
The scarcity of marginal land arises because for many landowners, such lands are not ‘in play’ for production. Amenity value is one reason, but transaction cost and inertia play roles as well. Hence marginal lands for bioenergy crops can be economically scarce despite being physically abundant.
Moreover, because cropland is the most likely land type that private owners are willing to avail for energy biomass production, markets offer no firewall to ensure that bioenergy crops will come from marginal land rather than competing cropland—and hence affect food and feed prices.
Fourth Inconvenient Truth: Existing Farm Enterprises Pose High Opportunity Costs
Southern Wisconsin Study Region
Disaggregated by Farm Enterprise Type
Source: Adapted from Mooney, Barham, and Lian, 2015
The fact that cropland is the main land type being made available for bioenergy crops means that those crops must clear the bar of opportunity costs from existing enterprises. Figure 4 illustrates how the supply of land for bioenergy crops plays out among Wisconsin farmers. At rental rates above $150/acre, crop farms (closed circles) supply the most land for corn stover in aggregate, followed by dairy farms (open circles) and then non-dairy livestock farms (shaded circles). In contrast, dairy farms supply more land in aggregate at lower rental rates. The largest aggregate supply of land for switchgrass comes from non-dairy livestock farms (shaded squares) followed by crop farms (closed squares), with the least coming from dairy farms (open squares). Comparing panels, land supply across all enterprise types in southern Wisconsin is highly price inelastic for switchgrass but much more price elastic for corn (including stover).
The most striking contrast is shown in the top panel of Figure 4, where cash grain farmers are twice as responsive in the amount of land they dedicate to corn stover as compared to dairy and other livestock farmers over the range of land rental prices considered. Unfortunately for potential buyers of stover, cash grain farm enterprises also own the smallest share of land among the three enterprise types in the southern Wisconsin study region. By contrast, dairy farms, which control most farmland, exhibit a highly price inelastic supply of land for both corn stover and switchgrass. These outcomes reflect the higher opportunity costs that dairy farmers face at the prospect of giving up production of forage and feed for their herds for the sake of shifting that land into bioenergy crops. Hence, even lands with similar biophysical attributes can vary hugely in economic supply based on characteristics of the landowners—especially the opportunity cost of shifting land to bioenergy crops.
Implications for Estimating Land Use Choices and Policy Design
Circling back to the low take-up of BCAP subsidies to grow dedicated bioenergy crops, we have identified four inconvenient truths that explain why the economic supply of land for these crops has fallen far short of their biophysical availability. Even when land is physically available for a new use like bioenergy crops, its economic supply depends upon the opportunity costs associated with existing income-generating activities, the riskiness and costly reversibility of investments into the crops, and possible disamenities from the changed land use.
Empirical analysis to measure these cost factors will generally require a ‘bottom-up’ approach that accounts for current land uses and the tastes of a representative sample of landowners. Stated preference survey methods like those referenced here can guide researchers and policymakers toward empirically-grounded estimates of supply that may vary substantially across locations, enterprise activities, amenity types, and landowners.
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Appendix: Landowner Surveys in the U.S. Great Lakes Region
Our four lessons are based on empirical findings largely from stated-preference mail surveys undertaken 2011-2015 in southern Michigan (Skevas et al., 2016a), southern Wisconsin (Mooney, Barham, and Lian, 2015), and northern Michigan and Wisconsin (Swinton et al., 2016). These studies implemented standard survey methods including multiple contacts with respondents and achieved response rates ranging from 35% to 58%. Questionnaires captured variations in the type and size of landholdings, income-generating enterprises, and other land and landowner characteristics. Questions elicited landowners’ willingness to supply land for corn—with stover as a by-product—and switchgrass at different biomass prices or land rental rates. Different versions of each questionnaire varied the prices and rental rates in the accept/reject scenarios offered. Certain surveys asked about other bioenergy crops, including poplar trees and native prairie.
The studies were similar in that they all focused on marginal lands, but differed in sampling procedure. The southern Michigan survey targeted rural landowners with 10 acres or more of non-crop marginal land and included both farm and non-farm landowners. Offer prices were framed in terms of land rental rates and the study considered the willingness to rent three distinct types of land: cropland, hay and pasture land, and other marginal lands. The target population in the southern Wisconsin study consisted of active farm operators with 10 or more acres of agricultural land in a four-county area in which non-crop marginal lands were prevalent. Offer prices were posed as biomass price per ton. This study asked about willingness to shift land into these crops.
All three studies used econometric hurdle models, with a participation model to estimate the share of landowners willing to supply land at a given price or rental rate and an intensity model to estimate how much land would be supplied by those willing to participate. Aggregate supply estimates were obtained by combining results from these participation and intensity models and applying population weights to arrive at predictions of land area that would be dedicated to each bioenergy crop. Explanatory variables differed slightly across studies but were selected from comparable sets of broad control factors hypothesized to influence the land supply decision, including current land uses, extant enterprises and management practices, and land and landowner characteristics.
Bradford L. Barham (bradford.barham@wisc.edu) is Professor, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. Daniel F. Mooney (dfmooney@wisc.edu) is PhD Candidate, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. Scott M. Swinton (swintons@msu.edu) is Professor, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. This work was funded in part by the DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (DOE BER Office of Science DE---FC02---07ER64494) and DOE OBP Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (DE---AC05---76RL01830), as well as by MSU AgBioResearch and the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
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What You Thought It Was… What It Really Was
May 4, 2018 by Chump Lady
In the early days after D-Day, caught up in the Pick Me Dance, chumps have a tendency to romanticize cheaters’ affairs and the affair partners. Part of that is on the cheater, goading the chump to greater feats of humiliation to prove their worth. Have I mentioned Pamela’s firm bottom? It’s so much better than yours. And part of it is the chump, in it to win it. I WILL MAKE YOU LOVE ME!
Of course you can’t compete with a fantasy. Cheaters never have to adult with each other. It’s just salmon dinners and clandestine fucking. You’re the obstacle to the happiness of stolen hours spent fucking and dining. You there, paying bills, rocking babies, and cleaning out lint filters. How could you hope to be as fabulous?
You fail to understand their sophistication, you with your monogamy hang-ups. The heart wants what the heart wants. Life’s not so “black and white.” Run along and be a good chump and go pack a lunch or something.
Chumps often internalize this mindfuck. Feel frumpy and less than. We imagine all the Fabulous Fucking and perfectly poached salmon.
But think about it. What happens when you remove yourself from the triangle (hexagon, dodecahedron…) and the two Schmoopies are left with one another? Adulting is required. WHO WILL DO IT?
What you imagine: Perfect Christmases at Chez Schmoopie. The children in handknit sweaters, crooning Christmas carols, receiving perfect gifts selected for them.
What it really is: Chicken nuggets shaken out of a bag for dinner, unkempt children plopped in front of cartoons, while Aunt Hazel regals everyone with her views on welfare cheats and the Gold Standard.
Cheaters win turds. Their lives are never as enviable as you might imagine. Sure, they have escaped with half your pension, and go on more cruises than you do (no adulting at sea! plus buffets!) — but I guarantee they’re still the same crappy people making crappy life choices.
Your Friday challenge today is to tell me What You Imagined versus What It Is (or suspect it will be, based on your knowledge of this person). Bring it!
And TGIF!
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Pret says
What you imagine: The lovebirds living a full life of enjoying movies, visiting with friends, laughing…sexing.
What it really is: Cheater has developed a penchant for watching stand-up comedy on Netflix ( he needs a laugh?), trying to follow my niece on Instagram and coming to visit daughter on Father’s Day to remind himself he’s a father..
WhoamInow says
What she thought she was getting – an adult who would provide her and her children with a home and money to do fun things.
What she got – a broke-a$$ MF who can’t keep a job, couldn’t afford a home if his life depended on it, and no money for fun things (cause lawyers, fines, etc…lol).
And CL totally triggered me on the salmon thing. Years ago I would make a smoked salmon dish that was amazing And one day, also years ago thankfully, when I was trolling her FB I saw where she had attempted to make the same dish (ok..it had salmon but that’s about all it had in common with mine) and he was raving about it in the comments. I remember feeling so hurt at the time but now I just think about what freaks they must have been to try and re-create our lives and make it theirs.
To all of Chump Nation – never forget NO CONTACT is the path to a cheater-free life.
Sydneychump says
Oh that totally triggered me @WhoamInow. I used to make this goddamn amazing fish and olive tagine dish that we all absolutely loved (even my preschooler kids) with couscous and everything. I remember STBXW trying to make it once – the results made me chuckle. Definitely freaks if they think they can just move on as if nothing had happened. NC is awesome!
Confised123 says
Mine. Made me teach him my faboulous Thai Basil chicken dish before he dumped me. Who does that? Who thinks I’m going to get her Basil Chicken receipe and then dump her??
I can guarantee you what he makes is not one tenth as good as mine.
Fact is I never gave him a few ingredients. In my heart of heart I never really trusted him. Even with a receipe.
Confised123, I get a laugh trying to imagine them making your fabulous chicken and scratching their heads wondering why it didn’t turn out.
Mine stole a page out of a cookbook. For ribs. It was a three ring binder and he must have not wanted to make a copy so the whole page is gone. Kids and I laugh about it. A liar, a cheater, and a thief. Lol
LeeLeeG says
Oh…that KILLED me when, in a rage, I asked if she had cooked for him and he said yes. I’m Italian – food is love. I love to cook and I shower my family with delicious food that tastes like love. Hers had to have tasted like guilt and despair. But he probably ate her shitty chicken parm (have not made it or eaten it since D day). I hope it gave him the shits.
Langele says
Glad he didn’t get the ingredients
twiceachump says
Yep cheater ex asked the kids to get my buffalo chicken dip recipe. He also now makes a fire pit outside and roasts weinies and marshmallows with his schmoopie and my teenagers. I bet their no more engaged in this now than they were before he blew up the family for his young whore. They are teenagers and want to do stuff with their friends! DD16 said she’s not allowed to do anything on Friday nights at all and she doesn’t invite friends over to his house. DS18 probably tries to play video games the entire time.
They sneak to my house after school until they have to go to his house. They part with the words ‘we were never here’ as they know he will rage!
FedUpChump says
My cheater,whom loved my cooking and would rave about it to anyone who’d care to listen, all of a sudden, became disgusted with my food.
So much so that he charged after me one day, (in front of a friend) because I put mayo on his grilled cheese sandwich. Something I had done for years PER HIS REQUEST. That was before I knew about the cheating but it was certainly an initial indicator that something was terribly amiss. Imagine a very petite woman, about six months pregnant, balled up in a corner, hands up, preparing for being hit because of mayonnaise on a freaking sandwich. This coming from someone who had never paid a hand on me prior.
Chumpiest says
This is unthinkable FedUp. Trying to hit a woman, let alone a pregnant woman? Pregnant with HIS OWN child? When you think you’ve heard it all, they still can surprise us. Hugs to you.
Jeanny says
It’s disgusting… brings memories…finding craigslist adds on his computer while breastfeeding our first child… waking the lying cheating fucker up to hear that someone “ broke into his computer”, hearing insults and basically being accused of being a crazy person, while he was “ killing himself” for his family… next two days went on stonewalling me… going to work… getting drunk out of despair of being accused of “such a horrible stuff” …. finalized with me taking care of the newborn baby, house, and everything in between in my own….
15 years later I know what this devoted husband and father was doing the whole time.. oh my oh my
OMG! That disgusting piece of Satan’s shit!
This reminds me of when I was first dating skankboy. His Red Sox lost, started an argument with me because he can’t deal with his own feelings and picked a fight with me. He got into my personal space! *I* said to him, my grandfather and father were drill sergeants, I have 6 brothers and a 6 feet tall son…..if you hit, I hit back, then my family will dismember you without batting an eyelash! Your serve!
It must have stuck with him because on Dday when I got into HIS personal space, he cringed and covered his face. Fucking wimp! (Whispering, I’m a catch and release kinda gal with insects and truly would never had struck him!)
I love it ! A band of big brothers to beat his ass !
Fuckwit did passive aggressive shit.
Like the time he slammed on the brakes on the car and I bashed my forehead on the dashboard.
But there was this time I got the feeling that he was going to try it and I just said to him flat out:
“If you ever hit me just remember this I’m going to be waiting for you some night behind the kitchen door with my cast-iron frying pan. ”
Never felt scared after that.
Omg!!! That’s crazy batshit crazy
Agreed mine thought he could have his cake and eat it too, the minute I set a boundary he went ballistic! I was so not playing the pick me dance
Mommamarsh says
@WhoamInow, “I remember feeling so hurt at the time but now I just think about what freaks they must have been to try and re-create our lives and make it theirs.” <<<<<THIS!! My ex and his wife (married howorker on marriage #3) used the same decorator we used during our marriage….and their home is practically an exact replica of our former home. I don't know about y'all, but if I were the lyin', cheatin' homewrecker, I'd hire my own NEW decorator. What's that about?? Pathetic.
livedtotell says
He hated to travel,at least with his family, but had no problem running all over who knows where with the ow and putting it on social media. He’s in prison now so I doubt there’s much traveling..lol. I on the other hand have been to alot of new places and experiencing life with my children in the fabulous land of meh!
LOL, I love it he’s in prison now so I doubt much travelling!😂😂😂😂😂
livedtotell…he is still travelling….from one inmate to another….Have a great butt f****** time! Won’t see you in hell, Loser!
My 18 year old self so in love. I expected to be loved, protected, to be taken care of. I expected from my stbx to be there for me when I needed him the most. Oh if I could just tell my 18 year old self not to get married so young. That I would be verbally abused, called names. Responsible to pay all the bills while he kept more than half his paycheck. Refused to put me on his health insurance when I lost my job. Then when I was going through a bad time in my life because early menopause kicked my ass. He cheats on me with my cousin. His excuse was he wasn’t getting enough attention. I did not go out enough with him. Instead of helping me through my bad times he abandoned me for a short fat troll.
I’m so sorry cuzchump! Family fuckers are among the worst!🤬🤬🤬😫😫😫
Cuzchump i so get it, I was married at 26 and him at 30 and still it made no difference! He wanted cake and he was determined at the Demise of our family, dog and home
Carol- you are absolutely right, it makes no difference!!!
Mine was hooking up for romantic dinners, hookers etc. while making wedding plans with me… later on- blaming our non existing sex life on my “ post baby” body ( when I look at my pics right now I just cry for that attractive sweet girl who was played so cruelly) on getting weight while pregnant ( my poor mind couldn’t connect dots with all the mind games, body protective mode kicked in 10 lb gain / two weeks, with almost not eating a thing… stress)
On not cleaning enough… name it- it was there.
struggling says
My take on this is the point of view of the AP (now wife): What she thought she was getting: Jet-setter high power executive who drives a BMW. Tragically trapped in a loveless marriage, and his love for her is powerful, deep, and real.
What she actually got: Unemployed middle-aged shmuck who is struggling to make his business work from home in his pajamas. Hasn’t showered in three days. The BMW towed away and sold for parts. Endless promises that the business will take off and it will be raining money once again. Lied to her as much as he needed go to keep cake going.
MFChump says
Thanks, you helped remind me of what I’m (not) missing out on. I was having trouble coming up with how their life isn’t perfect, but you brought me right back to reality.
What she thought she was getting: A high paid professional who took on paying all the bills in his horrible marriage, where his (second) wife was abusive and mentally ill. A man whose first wife cheated on him, making him the victim in all of this. A generous, giving man who would give you the shirt off his back and love you like no one else existed.
What she (doesn’t yet know) she actually got: A high paid professional who spends faster than he can make money, paying for everything all the time for everyone (oh all those gifts and money he was sending you? You didn’t know that all went on his ever expanding credit? hahaha) Someone who has been bailed out multiple times. Someone who professes his undying love….to everyone. Those boundaries that don’t seem to exist? THEY’RE A RED FLAG.
Ahh, but since she was also cheating on her husband, I’m gonna go ahead and say they deserve each other. And just so she knows she’s special….they married the day before what would have been our third wedding anniversary.
MidlifeBlast says
Wow, fast mover on the new wedding!!
Keep the anniversary the same, and you don’t have to learn a new one!
Amazon Chump says
My goodness! If I didn’t know I hadn’t written this, I would have thought I had. My ex-hole didn’t marry his skank the day before our anniversary, but he did marry her. And they truly deserve each other. Can you imagine being married to someone that you KNOW is a liar and a cheater? They will ALWAYS wonder if they’re being told the truth by their spouse because they KNOW that the other one lied multiple times before. Now that’s playing the marriage police from the beginning. I wonder just how “romantic” their life is now that they’re adulting. And I’m actually quite thrilled knowing that the man I was married to for 30 years, and that she coveted for about 15 of those years, is now all hers. The dick hasn’t changed. Now she’s doing the pick-me dance because he’s telling her that he doesn’t feel appreciated, that he doesn’t feel loved enough, and all the other hogwash he put me through. Yes!
Definitely I cannot imagine the new woman they know the man is a cheating dirtbag. The one my ex husband is shacked up with is so desperate it’s pathetic! I told her about a year ago he’s not divorced but she didn’t care!
Yesssssssssss! There is a God.
I’m hoping he took the debt with him!!
Lol, car towed away for parts! And him in his dirty pajamas all day. Wonderful 🙂 Oops, no money for fabulous meals out and vac-ays!
That’s because the best thing they ever had ( us), makes them look great. When we’re gone? All that’s left is them. On their own. No foundation. Nothing!
Shmoopies end up with nothing!
OhHellNo says
This, Egans. I was what made him look great, because I took care of everything, including managing the image of normalcy for my disordered fuckwit. He still took credit for it all but I knew the truth.
Now that he doesn’t have me, his life is falling apart piece by piece. In my anger, this used to make me laugh. Now, from the Wonderful Land of Meh, I just see it for what it is: tragic and pathetic.
I’ve become Mighty and Moved On. Compared to fuckwit, who is still wallowing in the same filthy life circumstances with Craigslist whores and God knows what else.
Shmoopies end up frustrated because they have to try to live up to your memory and that’s impossible when your a just a whore!
Struggling, I could copy the first paragraph of your post, except for the make of the car, but also expensive and above our financial capacities; the idiot actually had the nerve to tell the judge he was in debt because he “needed” three cars. I was driving an old car with 140K km on the odometer.
What schmoopie (same age as oldest son) really got was a failure who is president of a tax payer-supported, going-down-the-drain think-tank (i.e., bull shit factory, I cringe in shame at what comes out of there). Half of the staff has just been fired.
I guess schmoopie saw the writing on the wall because she has dumped her four children by three different men on her parents and is working thousands of miles away in Africa for an IT company. Judging from her facebook posts she is having lots of fun here. Really. Her profile on facebook: “mother, Christian, IT analyst, lawyer, business woman, daughter, woman, not necessarily in this same order.” barf! But, hey, schmoopie was the reality, anti-spackle treatment I needed.
Baron Sparkledick von Glitterballs is supposed to be a specialist in foresight studies. Imagine if he weren’t!
And His Lordship is not in to smelly pijamas, but when I was collecting evidence of origin of fuckwits debts I found a a medical leave to treat “hypopragmatism” (bullshiteese for: I am in deep financial shit and need to rest?). Lots of $ spent on schmoopie.
Kez says
Baron Sparkledick von Glitterballs .
😂😂😂❤️
divianas says
I second that!! Couldn’t sleep tonight and this has me doubled over!!
Omg good one I love it!😂😂😂😂😂
Tracy, please make a cartoon of fuckwit working in smelly pijamas aside schmoopee on dream business while his BMW is being towed away to sell for for parts. It will sell like hotcakes among CN citizens.
duped says
what she was going to get, what she was waiting for, what she was f**cking for :
high powered executive that could take care of her, jet setting all over the world, salmon dinners, , romantic getaways, lots of money rolling in, good looking guy etc etc
what she really got: Dead man. NO more gravy train, NO more money, NO more jet set trips, the life of her dreams, the best man she ever had, will ever set her eyes on, will ever be interested in HER…
Me: LOL that she never got to grow old with him ! That she has to pine for him the rest of her miserable whore life…..LOL ….did I really get the last laugh…NO she did because she got away with it…but I can still laugh LMAO at her because she had the dream life all planned and the ‘house fell in on her !”
Public service announcement to the whore: what comes around goes around, Karma is definitely a F bitch, YOU HO get what you deserve ! Good luck with the next married exec. you slore ! And maybe just maybe you learned a lesson to keep your nasty body off of other peoples husbands BECAUSE it ends VERY VERY VERY badly….
OH and one more thing…she killed him with all her pressure, the deeply pathetic lonely slut that she is
“Slore”….that’s awesome and hilarious!!
Hi, he liked the ow because she didn’t want her own kids, ow child neglect. She let him do what he wanted – she doesn’t want to loose him. She actually wanted to be my kids aunty, but doesn’t want her own kids. He asked me to share him, she gets the money, I pay for all the kids and home. He asked me to feel sorry for him, but I’m not worthy of sympathy (wouldn’t ask him anyway). Fake suicide attempts, etc
YUP, they want your sympathy and money, but when YOU need some help or attention they bail. They are creeps. Major creepers.
No kidding unreal and mine is a half bald 53 year old to boot!😩
Never again! says
In the beginning my chump curiosity forced me to occasionally prowl social media looking for the things I imagined they’d be doing in their new found glory: sunset dinners on the top deck of OW’s enormous house, blissful fun family outings with her son, and vacations to Europe.
Instead, it became clear they were staying in my ex’s rather small suburban house, the OW’s enormous house eventually became a crash pad for my ex’s crazy broke mother, and they got married choosing a fantasy theme complete with their idiot friends dressed in poorly made renaissance type outfits.
Meanwhile, I made trips to Hawaii, Vancouver, and landed my dream job across the country from them.
I’m so happy for you that’s awesome!🌸
UXworld says
(Again with the salmon, Tracy?…)
There’s very little under the “What I Imagine” column, because “What I Know To Be True” is so obvious: everything —EVERYTHING — is all about her.
She still obsesses over her appearance and is convinced both men and women look at her with great longing, yet behind closed doors focuses so intently on imperfections that she has panic attacks.
She still thinks she is owed “common courtesy” (read: “special treatment”) when she experiences anxiety or frustration, but thinks that anyone else who does the same in her presence must “just get over yourself, for god sake!”
She still cannot function in social situations unless she can find a way to steer the conversation and attention towards herself, and must rely on tired jokes and puns if all else fails
And … she still wears the mask, because the cost of letting it slip is just too high and could be catastrophic
Yes with the salmon! It’s a continuation from yesterday’s column… salmon being the unifying theme. IS IT THE BEST SALMON?
kbchump says
Haha! For me it was Kahlua Pork…since my ex wife left me for a Hawaiian and before I knew she was even seeing him she was making Kahlua pork at home and stupid me was the guinea pig..I was the taste tester encouraging her attempts, not realizing she was perfecting her recipe for him! So I was shelling out the money for all this damn Kahlua pork so she could get it “just right”..I can laugh now but God the depths these fuckers sink to.
Wormfree2017 says
Consider yourself lucky. I had to shave the Worm’s back constantly.
It makes me ill to think about it.
On to the fantasy……he told me,
“She thinks I’m fascinating.”
I’m told they fight all the time and never show each other affection in public.
Now that the OW gets all of the blame for everything ( it used to be my full time job ) he’s probably not the fascinating guy he used to be.
One day I’ll pick up the newspaper and see an article about how they beat the snot out of each other……We signed the settlement papers! I am almost completely Wormfree!!!!!
Your blessed I know all about the worms! I also got blamed for everything I was supposed to make certain that the house was always perfect, perfect meals every night and that all his sexual fantasies were taken care of weekly. While I took care of all the kids needs, the dog and my son has a learning disability so I was a bit tired by the end of each day!😩
My take on the salmon fetish:
“Look how healthy I am! I read about Omega 3s in a five-year-old GQ magazine at the mechanic’s office.”
“Look how high brow I am! I don’t eat CHICKEN like you pathetic little Chumps — I eat SALMON!”
Bow down at my greatness, MotherFuckers!
Meanwhile the mercury is affecting her brain.
2nd Gen Chump says
More like, “chicken is $15 a plate, and salmon is $26. Salmon must be better.”
GracieD says
What he said it was: she only eats pure organic food – reality was her family fed on pizza by the slice from a kiosk called ‘eat me i’m famous’.
His fantasy – she gets up early every morning to go for 12k runs – reality is coke and pot hangovers that left her barely functional before midday.
His fantasy – she was forced to sleep over at a friend because her husband was so unreasonable (didnt like her going out with other guys, getting high/drunk, not coming home) She only took all her clothes off because she likes to keep them nice, and there was only a single bed, which she was safe to share because the other guy was so drunk. Reality: cheater was chumped and evolved fantasys to explain it away.
“I don’t drink beer anymore, I drink wine” “it’s classier”
nodancing says
My salmon story: when OW was my “friend” and supposedly going through a hard time because she was divorcing her supposed cheater husband we had her to dinner where I thoughtfully prepared expensive wild caught smoked salmon with all the trimmings. OW got to the table and told me how I could buy smoked salmon at Costco for much less than what I had paid. At the time I just ignored it but really who does that??? In retrospect I should have told her to leave and get herself some but don’t ever bother coming back to my home. This was not the only time she was nosy and critical, and I heard the same from others who knew her. It’s not just our X’s that suck, OW and OM suck too.
lemonbirch says
We had been married about 12 years the day that he came home and I was making salmon for dinner. He walked in and said “What are you making?” I said “Salmon” and he said “Salmon? I hate salmon!”
I said: What do you mean? I’ve been making you salmon since before we got married?
He said: I just pretended to like it to get you to marry me.
Leavealyingloser says
Lemonbirch that pretty much sums up these freaks. They can hold so. Much. In. Or actually pretend. About really stupid stuff.
But when they find someone else they really let the mask slip. They want you to know they played you. They dont care. They feel they have nothing to lose.
They enjoy your pain and confusion.
And they feel its totally justified. After all you made them eat salmon. You should have known better.
They really are as horrible as we think.
I still find myself thinking maybe he really wasnt so bad. But he was. He really was.
Exactly, mine would brag daily about how amazing he was at work over every other mechanic. I didn’t ask for the big bucks they offered it to me because I’m so wonderful or so they thought until he got served divorce papers at work!😀
Waffles says
^^^^Fish poseur! Whatta maroon!
iCloudIdiot says
My ex currently with the other women cooking ‘tuna steak’ at her house. (he left his Ipad and I can see his texts to her)
OMG how are they all so similar?
What’s up with the fish dinners? How eerie how this is all so cookie cutter across the globe
katiedidnt says
With my STBX, it’s sushi. I have never cared for it. He enjoys taking Shmoopie and his other ‘flying monkeys’ out and treating them to it. To the tune of 80 to $100 a pop (for lunch, even?)
Fishy is as fishy does, maybe? LOL.
My ex liked to cook and NEVER cooked anything that didn’t have at least 2 lbs of butter in it. It would swim in the stuff. I hope Schmoops likes taking out the seams of those tight dresses!
LOL!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Your right what is up with fish dinners it must be the Omegas, lol
what should I do with all the fresh pasta in the refrigerator that was all set to be brought to Italian schmoopie’s house to impress schmoopie? Wondered why the fascination with fresh pasta all of a sudden In the fridge ! I guess it’s classier than the other dried pasta that does not come in fancy packaging, just a box. It’s so much better for schmoopie, it will impress schmoopie the alley cat….He must have been thinking “only the best for schmoopie, I better give her the fancy gourmet pasta to bring to her house “
Carmel says
I couldn’t agree more. When I first came upon this blog I was horrified, and later comforted, by the similarities between everyone’s stories.
maybe the fish they think is an aphrodisiac
AllOutofKibble says
“Can not function in social situations unless she can find a way to steer the conversation and attention towards herself and must rely on tired jokes and puns if all else fails”
You would think I stopped spotting new ways they are alike but no, here is another. Narkles the Clown tells the same jokes today as he did 20 years ago. Maybe that’s the real reason they keep finding new AP’s, they’r looking for someone who hasn’t heard their tired jokes before.
TKO says
Yes, so many similarities. UXWorld, that whole description is just perfect.
“Convinced both men and women look at her with great longing”…this line should be added to the DSM’s diagnostic criteria.
Trying for Mighty says
Yes, and it also applies to my stbx, who when cross dressing thinks he’s the most seductive person on the planet!
My ex also tells the same stories over and over. Esp. when drunk which is all the time since he’s an alcoholic.
When I wrote a letter to warn his new supply (after the ow was out of the picture) I wrote all these stories down in the letter to her and his ex wife read it and howled with laughter at the truth of it all. She has been divorced from him for 4 years and knew all the stories. And they are all “poor me, I’m the victim here…”
I give up warning all the new supplies to come. There are too many.
Not just the same stories told, but the same sharing of “spiritual” new-agey crap to hook the shmoopie that he used on me (and as I found out later, his first wife as well). He drags around “The Glass is Already Broken” and “Season For a Reason” like his well-worn playbook. Can’t even find new ones.
geekmom says
And the timing while telling the stories was the same too; I had the cadence down pat, along with the word-for-word repetitions. Boooooorrrriiiiiinnngggg!
Or the same stories of their amazingness that they have told for 35 years. I used to recite them in my head as he was telling. 🙄
Omg my ex too !!!!! He would repeat the same stories over and over….sports analogies. I can see him winning her over with his free personal training sessions and little home workouts (he is a personal trainer…no offence to the good ones, never date a trainer …..constant inflow of hot women becomes hard to resist as your ego blows up ….I guess after 6 years and a fiancé)
Ps anyone can help me? He left his ipad here since leaving me after I forgive his cheating last year. I can see everything. I can’t stop looking at his texts to her but it throws back my healing….. 🙁 I kept it until his shit got moved out yesterday, and wanted to maybe let go…but now I can’t seem to. I want to see him get dumped by his new gf he just met a few weeks after leaving me. So far she is into him :(. Why did the universe give him a replacement so fast (she is literally me…banker, smart, shy….and he is using all his same tricks) ugh
Twitching says
Reprogram it. Sell it. Get rid of it. Donate it. It isn’t helping you.
Mine is also a personal trainer, he’s been giving his new girlfriend now wife personal training lessons and she’s entering body building competitions.
I don’t know her but from what I understand she’s all about her and I know Cheater is all about himself. Makes me wonder how their relationship will play out in the future. My wish is that cheater someday gets what he deserves.
Until I met Cheater he only wore the color grey, he didn’t celebrate birthday’s, holidays were just another day. I love holidays, and enjoy making birthdays and holidays special, I’m sure she’s benefiting from what cheater learned from me and that she’s getting the polished version of all my years of influence and hard work.
Me too!! I can recite his repetitive stories word for word, all about him and his greatness, how he won the war in Desert Storm, he was the best drummer in high school band, sadly, I even know his high school music teacher’s name. Yes, the painfully dumb jokes that he thinks are hysterical, in reality people only laugh at to be polite. His stupid comments to people that he thinks are charming and funny which are dumb and make people feel uncomfortable would make me cringe, even now.
Omg this is my ex husband a total Narc psycho!
I thought the life he chose would result in his being happy. I lived for too many years with someone who always complained about how hard his life was and how much he hated his job.
One divorce and 8 years of living with the OW and he is still miserable, looks like crap and tells everyone how miserable he is and how he hates his job (after 9 law firms, stop complaining or find something else).
Oh well, it was all his choice.
LOL, these types are never happy they go from one to the next and still misery!
narc sociopaths love to find out what you like and then they buy that exact same thing for whore alley cat/pussy cat or puddy tat or whatever I feel like calling that narly slut….but I digress….
Kellia says
Typical Narcissist. Will NEVER be happy and you will never be able to please a person like this, ever!
Iowachump says
What I imagined: (Before finding CN, and STBXH saying they had the same personality & amazing chemistry.) Unicorns and rainbows for them.
What it has been: (we’re almost divorced, he’s been living w her during our separation.) She got fired (they were coworkers), he’s gained significant weight, she’s gained weight (according to his Amazon purchases), she’s been found in contempt of court regarding her losing custody if her daughter, judge ruled he had to pay a healthy amt of temp child support to me, his credit cards are sky high due to spending money on her & her non-custodial daughter. He’s a narcissist…and I’ll bet she is too, due to his remark about having the same personality…bet that’s fun.
Ironbutterfly says
I hear you on that Cuzchump! While I was working 50 hours a week and taking care of a large home at age 54 fuckwit was enjoying his hobbies and having an affair with his hoeworker. On dday his reason for leaving was so he could “ do what he wants”. I found out later doing what he wanted was hiding money and buying a business with his schmoopie before the divorce was final. POS 😡
He is a c.r.e.e.p.
I love it his HOEWORKER, lol
Yes, they hide money with their puddy tat/alley cat whore worker. They even move their stuff over to the whore’s house, live a double life, go on work trips and take the whore along, and they hide money. They always hide money with the whore because they are so sure that the whore is so trustworthy. Yep, I cannot prove it 100 percent but I do know Howorker had a non profit business in our town that I am sure my husband set her up with, she was also his Howorker and I would not be surprised if he owned something with him…With enough investigating I found out that there was a beachhouse being rented in my town when we were newlyweds and guess who lived in it, yes ALLEY CAT pussy cat Howorker ! Wonder why she conveniently moved to my town? Oh, no reason, just to F my husband that’s all
I meant to say SHE owned something with him…it was a typo….but come to think of it…maybe She was a man….no only kidding…but she sure wasn’t pretty !
Mandie101 says
What I thought it was :
What it was: a sham.
Cheater left in January 2015. We are yet to finalize divorce as we cannot agree on maintenance. I late he has increased his texts requesting ‘reconciliation’ and inquiring about a path ‘back home’. I never reply. I’m happy and oblivious to him. I’d block him but I use the text message to communicate and document.
I need not dig. One does not request reconciliation via text. This is not him seeing the light. I’ve seen the woman driving her son in his car. He refuses to pay his part of our daughter’s lessons. He won’t agree to enough money so that his children can live comfortably. He’s still spreading his lies. He’s still filled with his own self-importance.
Why is he messaging? If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say he wants to be able to say that he sought reconciliation but ‘mean ole Mandie101’ refused to hear it. He’ll usually send these messages after the children have had a crying episode saying how much they miss him. Even if I wanted to consider it, the thought that he could do what he did to us a second time and put my children through it is a big decider. One does not walk out on family and if one does, all exits are final. That’s me.
Meh! Whatever! Call me whatever you want, just stay gone!
To you new to this inhale the good moments and exhale the bad. Set yourself new goals bi or small ( ice-cream on Saturday, ten push ups, meet up with loved-ones, a good movie.) Make new good memories. You will get there.
I agree wholeheartedly anyone who fucks over the family the exit is final! These types of people are GARBAGE!
He probably wants a reduction in support payments, or at least to delay them by making you take him back for a bit.
As if he could make me take him back! One of his issues was the fact that he had no ‘ control’ over me.
Hellhathnofurylikemine says
What I imagined: her to be thin, blonde and beautiful, to be better than me in every day, for him to finally find happiness that he couldn’t find with me, for him to quit his job, be content with her and her to nicely replace me in the life that I created, for him to learn from his mistakes and become the person I knew he could be but with her because she was better
What actually happened: she is shorter,fatter, albeit blonder and older than me. They tried to replace me in the life that i created but my kids arent taking to it, mishtress has assaulted him 3 times, she has a daughter so there is never any kind free time, he isnt allowed to drink and she is affecting his career and he is resenting her hardcore. he has come crying back to me over 6 times now, he isnt happy and he will never learn.
I am focusing on the kids and moved on with a mutual friend (oh he hates that burn) going to new places and learning myself again. I’m not at meh but getting there
Blee says
“he has come crying back to me over 6 times now”
ha ha – You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone, because you never thought you would lose it in the first place.
Blee, yeppers!
Charmain says
Absolutely agree, except that he left me, but he thought I would stick around and give him more kibbles. I exited stage left and just sat back getting the parenting orders and property settlement into place.
His most recent one, “I’m not going to ask for your forgiveness as I know I have done irreparable things”
Like no shit Sherlock, don’t waste my oxygen and move on please
Zell says
I actually don’t imagine a happily ever after for them. I don’t even know if cheater wife is even in communication with massage boy. He has a girlfriend his own age.
Reality is cheater wife trolling bars, clubs, concerts, other women’s husbands…. living a life of being nothing more than an orifice of temporary happiness followed by the sadness of reality. And then repeating.
Yep, it sounds like that’s all she is …the grand canyon of orifices…she probably trolls online dating sites which an article that I read said ‘stay away from online dating sites, they are rife with narcissists” Pretty scary.. I think one narcissist is enough for a lifetime…don’t want to ever meet another one. Sure, they are charming, and could be good looking and nice but underneath the mask lies somebody that would be willing to destroy you at all costs, whether financially emotionally, or professionally. Well, that’s what I learned.
What I imagined for them: She’s desperate and dumb with low-self esteem or desperate and sly with a plan to get as much as she can out of him. He’s stupid.
What it really is: The two women are users, don’t think very much of themselves and dumb.
I never imagined that a woman who knowingly becomes involved with a married man is any kind of awesomeness. She is always a woman with deep-seated issues. A man who cheats? Same thing.
mygutfeelingisasuperpower says
Yes, a woman who knowingly becomes involved with a married man is ALWAYS a woman with deep seated issues…..
What I imagined they had: myriad of kid-free romantic lunches and dinners, weekends and holidays away.
What it really was:
Weekends away to all the same places he took me…doing all the same things we did, going to the same restaurants etc…
But no lovely dinners out in our home city…. because even though I had kicked him out, and she had left her husband, Mr Manipulator was worried about impression management….she had started working for a rival company and he didn’t want people to see them out together….she was not happy! They had been having an affair for 3 years, they had both left their partners and he still wouldn’t go public!!!
What else she got…..
An alcoholic…
She couldn’t trust him….
She stalked and followed his wife (me) and kids, even followed us out to our Mother’s Day lunch!!!
She hired a private investigator to watch my house, to see whether MY husband was cheating on her with his own Wife.
She set up his phone….so that copies of all his email, texts and call logs also went to her phone.
She used his phone to locate him at all times…
Whenever he dropped kids off at my house, she would ring and text incessantly, because you know, he’s with his family! She needed to remind that she should be his priority, not his kids..
She rang my workplace incessantly too (apparently the first thing to do when you can’t find your cheater boyfriend is check to see whether his wife is at work….)
What else she got….,
Boyfriend who was addicted to porn, masturbating and unprotected sex with strangers.
Boyfriend who was also active on multiple online dating sites…
Boyfriend who cheated on her…..with people he met on Tinder, and another married woman from work…..the human resources manager, (who should know better than to get involved with a senior employee…and what about company policy on workplace relationships??!!)
Best thing she got????
Superceeded!!!!!
by another stupid, already partnered woman who is in awe of Mr Manipulator cheater…
Me? I got the kids, the house and the dog and I’m well on my way to gaining a life!
Woohoo! Karma! How nice to hear. Maybe someday I’ll have a karma story to relate too.
Yup, I never imagined it would be better. What he got was an idiot woman who has never worked a day in her life, 4 kids from two different fathers. All she wanted from him was to get away from her husband who was supporting her, but cheating on her, and have my idiot move right in and take up that job-and he did. 9 days after leaving me. They now have a kid so she can keep making excuses to never ever contribute anything to society but spreading her legs and popping them out. So now, 5 kids three different baby daddys at like 36.
He now has two repossessions and a bankruptcy. Can never go anywhere or do anything because…money and supporting 7 kids (child support) on a cops salary instead of having a lovely, faithful, fun lawyer wife, two incomes and only 2 kids (who are all his own!) Yea, never any fantasy about his reality. Now I am meh..so just laugh at his stupidity and spineless behavior.
OMG did your ex ever blow his life up! What an idjit.
What I imagined: Jackass discarding me in order to be with the married hero-worshipping sister of his friend. And, based on her Pinterest pins, a wedding on the beach. Happy ever after, once he broke up her marriage.
What it was: An actual discard, first of me, then of the MOW, who ended up divorcing and is now in a relationship with someone else after 3 tough years. The next victim is all teed up for a discard. It may take a few years, and it may be more in daily interaction than an actual break up. But to be sure, she will hear the scorn, experience the disdain, see the smirk. And he will be off somewhere texting someone who is either married or who represents a conquest of some sort.
ChumpSaidBuhBye says
When I dumped the cheater, he pulled the “I can do better anyway” card, and announced that he was going to find a sugar mama to spoil him.
What I imagined he would get: A sexy sophisticated older woman of means who treated him like a pampered boy toy and lavished him with exotic trips, boutique hotels, fine dining, designer clothes, and a generous allowance to live the leisured life.
What I heard he really got: A middle aged, middle class, average looking woman with a modest divorce settlement who blew it with him on national chain hotel weekends at a tourist beach, dinners at Red Lobster and Olive Garden, shopping for clothes and shoes at J.C. Penney and Macy’s, and who let him sit around her townhouse smoking weed and eating Domino’s delivery pizza during the day while she worked her office job, until the settlement money ran out and she sent him packing to go live with his elderly mother.
Maybe she was a “Splenda mama”? Sweet, but you know from the first taste that it’s not the real thing. lol
If I wasn’t no-contact, I’d heckle him mercilessly over his failed attempt at being a 40 year old boy toy.
JamLady says
“Splenda mama”? Sweet, but you know from the first taste that it’s not the real thing.
‘Splenda mama’ … I love it!!!!! Thanks for the morning chuckle!!
GrayDivorce says
He thinks he’s getting a tru luv because she is easy to talk to and validates his complaints about his fat, lazy,stupid, wife. She thinks she’s getting her knight in shining armour . Well quess what ? I’m the common denominator that binds them together. He complains….she follows with I’d NEVER do that to you. They dress up and sneak around and isn’t life great. Wait until she realizes that comes with a price…she can have no opinion ther than his, he makes all the decisions, he will control her life, only his friends and hobbies come first. That he is a prick when he doesn’t get his way. That he controls the money.That making you feel like dirt 24/7 is no reason not to want sex with him. And he will see that she is no prize, 50 lbs heavier than I am , uneducated, low paying job, drinking is her hobby .And when I’m out of the picture they will only have each other for a bond based on infidelity, lies,loss of family.I will be still rocking my “A” game, great job, HIS family on my side, back in school, owning my own house , college age kids living with me.
GrayDivorce – they sound like they’re #winning!
Your story sounds just like mine and we could have told them all this before they made the decision to fuck up their lives. No, grass is not greener – we learned that in kindergarten.
X is one of the most controlling people most people have ever met, always gets what he goes after, and is a successful business man as a result. (you know, no empathy or feelings underneath all that glitter) I understand Schmoops is a controlling person herself. So, how’s that going for you, Schmoops?
Since I’ve been no contact, I don’t have a clue what he’s up to but I do know they live together and she has about 4 grandchildren and counting. We never had kids. So, right there…how’s that going for ya now, asshole?
Me? I have the freedom of a bird and I am flying. It may have taken 5 years to get here, but life is definitely worth having another shot at.
husband got even more polished for schmoopie, put her in favorites in 2014, had snoring fixed for schmoopie, was allegedly living with her on the sly at her house, was probably planning the exit strategy of me (wife) and taking care of image management in the process…Him and Mangey dog Howorker were living the dream….Her and her high pitched fake voice was telling him everything he wanted to hear to boost his ego; so that she could get more diamonds; so that she could get into his wallet a little deeper. He was eating it up and waxing his image at work pretending they were just working closely together. It was all working out cuz he had it all under control. They were fooling everyone because she was slipping in and out of the office with her fake consulting business and that made it less noticeable in their eyes. Oh boy ! They had a good thing going ! They were just the best lying cheaters that ever lived. They had their game all polished up. And there was no shame in either of their games !
Me: I’m glad I don’t have to put up with the friggen deceit and lies anymore. and am glad Karma got the bitch.
Chumperchipcookie says
My cheater ex left me and our autistic son for a multi millionaire. He got a huge house, a Porsche, his own business. What she didn’t know was that he was a serial cheating drunk. I definitely didn’t play the pick me dance – he was all hers. And the karma bus has already rounded the corner.
VulcanChump says
I realized that I don’t care what it really was because someone who could be such a dick can fuck off to Europe all he wants, I’m not sure I’d want to go with him anyway.
We had the same issue TwiceaChump. Midway through his junior year, my son was struggling socially and I realized it was because he was gone every other weekend. So I asked my teens if they wanted me to go back to court and request they be let out of the Friday night obligation. Too many missed football and basketball games, hanging out at Starbucks, and other things that teens do. They didn’t want it official so then I told them they could stay home on Friday nights if they wanted but they’d have to tell their dad why. Notice I didn’t say ask, I said tell. I’ve been in the courtroom enough times to know the judge would never force my teenage kids to skip school and social events to go sit around dad’s house 30 miles away. And I’m not required to kick them out of my house either. So it’d be an issue between the kids and their dad and a judge and I knew he’d never win if he ever chose to pursue it. This approached opened up the whole weekend to events that they’d been skipping because they didn’t want to bother him or make him angry though it was making them sad and distanced from their friends (many tears shed over instagram and Snapchat photos of friends having fun without them). With this approach, they’ve had a lot more opportunities to live a normal teenage life.
What I imagine: we’ll she’s quite a bit younger than me and I don’t think she has my problems with cancer, and with a chump to do the heavy lifting at home, despite us having started out in an almost identical place career-wise, he was able to focus on his career during our decades-long marriage, with the result that his salary is several times what mine is, so things look pretty good for them. Flaws can be overlooked given enough money, I imagine. Maybe she can overlook how he smacks his lips and chews with his mouth open when he eats, or how he tends to douse himself with an eye-watering amount of cologne.
What it is: it is too soon after D-Day for anything to have gone sour and I haven’t heard about anything tarnishing their bright future together, but someday maybe. They both are serial cheaters so perhaps the karma bus is warming up its engine.
Burnedtoomanytimes says
What they have already lost is human decency, the moment they cheated. The apparent sweetness was sour from the beginning and they didn’t even notice! Hang in there, awesome woman. Their bus is coming.
intothelight
Don’t worry the Karma bus will round the corner, and hit them when they least expect it !’
I know what you mean about the money because the Howorker was obviously so good at manipulating my manipulative husband that I knew that she hit the jackpot with my husband because he was so handsome, very successful and she was after the good life and the money. He was easy on the eyes and she went for it. And yes, the money would make their life together super fabulous because they worked together and she knew exactly how much he earned and she was being made successful with his brains helping her behind the scenes. But all in the name of stomping over me and deceiving me. But guess what , he ended up dying and the whore never saw that dream of having my husband..so the Karma bus got her ! Yep ! I think it drove over her and then backed up and ran over her again…OR maybe the part about her being run over twice was just my fantasy !! LOL No but seriously, her little scheme backfired on her when he died. So wait for it…wait for it….the karma bus will get there eventually.
IslandGirl says
I wish mine would die.
I cant believe how similar the cheaters are, Ironbutterfly. This could have been my ex-ass.
I imagine they have a perfect union of dinner, truly meaningful conversations and supported by her grown kids looking on admiring their love and wisdom in getting rid of their exes.
In reality all his promises still unmet, dinners and holidays paid for by her salary, conversations ruled by his loudmouth entitled opinions and my kids on the outside waiting for some attention from their father.
Some things just dont change. Trust that they suck!
no-way says
“loudmouth entitled opinions”
Love it! Too true!
What I imagined would happen: fastest divorce ever, cheater and schmoops married and on an over the top honeymoon before the ink on the decree was even dry, they throw sparkly champagne parties in their showy mansion with their private chef forevermore, I am homeless and hungry and die on a park bench under an autumn maple tree somewhere, grateful to the end for the beauty of an October tree in its full flaming glory. My children party in chez cheater, clinking crystal flutes even as leaves drift down, landing softly on my poor unnoticed corp
What has happened so far: no divorce yet, two more years of the schmoops who yearns for a wedding waiting for cheater to come through as her youth slips away and spinsterhood threatens, life as the unwilling hypotenuse to the triangle they apparently require continues, miraculously got myself back into the professional world, the kids find the whole cheater deal deeply repulsive, and that transcendent happiness the cheaters were supposedly sneaking around and snatching in every available shadowy moment seems not to have made an easy transition into the light of day.
Still lots to worry about–settlement, finality, whether I will be solvent and have my home–but what is up with those two is no longer of interest. Figuring out how entirely the cheater is spun of lies and assorted narcissistic to sociopathic characteristics and strategies was key in helping me get past the stage of thinking that I must be inherently unlovable. Turns out that, nope, the real deal is that cheater is inherently incapable of love.
So, even if the park bench thing is my fate (probably not, but even if), and even if the cheaters have that seemingly perfect wedding/honeymoon/house (pretty likely, eventually), I now understand that I got the far better end of this deal.
Park bench under a tree, lol. You write so wonderfully!
I’m sure there are plenty of people in CN who would let you couch surf in their home for a few days Cashmere
Absolutely perfection of writing this! And you wanting your kids to be happy and you grateful for the magnificent beauty of a maple tree on a fall day. Chumps find beauty and happiness in the every day things. Cheaters need more and more of sparkly to fill the empty void that is their life. Who dies happy in this scenario? Surprisingly for us who have been gutted, it’s not the cheater. They are full of misery and blame for why their not getting theirs.
champchump says
that transcendent happiness the cheaters were supposedly sneaking around and snatching in every available shadowy moment seems not to have made an easy transition into the light of day
Is this a universal truth, or what?
Even when the cheaters marry and hang in with each other, it sure seems as if the losses of both the hypotenuse and the need for secrecy immediately degrade the twu wuv so it doesn’t seem quite as twu.
I thought I was losing a difficult, yet upstanding, unique, and committed partner. What I really lost was a flaming narcissist with the emotional maturity of a four-year-old.
I thought the OW was a sexual siren who knew the secret to making my ex-husband feel loved, when I realized I hadn’t a clue. What she really was was an frumpy, middle-aged, insecure serial cheater with an unfortunate resemblance to John Goodman who was desperate to find a new husband before she got too old.
She thought she’d found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. (“We can finish each other’s sentences!” “You’re my Prince Charming!”) What she really found was a flaming narcissist with the emotional maturity of a four-year-old.
champchump
LOL John Goodman ! NOT even Roseanne ! LOL Love it !
Well Hoser Howorker was so botoxed up and filler’ed up in the face that she had what I call plate face …she was really living it . I imagine my marital assets paid for her to be ‘well fed’ heifer, along with her beauty treatments (Juvaderm or whatever to maintain that big buffalo face) that were all being supplied with marital assets. And don’t forget that big broad ass that she managed to sling over the back of his motorcycle’s one of his many toys. OH YES, she just must have loved and showed an interest in every single hobby and thing he liked to do. YOU KNOW that made her look soooo special because she pretended to be so agreeable and likeable because she Fake liked all the same interests as my husband. The big heifer that she was. Now I know why my husband’s biceps got stronger, it was because he had to Life and Throw that big heifer on the bed and into the air ! It must have been like Cirque du soleil ! Him and the Big job Howorker ! That f’ed up bullshit ‘relationship’ what a crock !
sadsongbird says
John Goodman! That’s very funny! Why do they all seem to downgrade? My stbxh’s married f-buddy looks like donkey from Shrek, if you gave donkey from Shrek beady eyes. She’s incredibly homely.
Oh cashmere
You had me laughing. So eloquently and brilliantly said. Not the part about your corpse on the bench but all the other stuff you said. Loved the part about the old ho waiting in the wings or words to that effect. Yes, the old HO will wait with baited breath for married prince cheating, probably bragging to her mom about he man of her dreams about to dump his wife for her ! I imagine that they got engaged on valentines night last year and she was sporting the ring in a youtube video a week after he died, the video dropped on youtube. Interesting how she had ‘no boyfriend to be engaged to’ yet she had on a band of diamonds AND she dropped that video after he died. Hmmm. So who was she engaged to ? AND the ring was exactly the same ring I got for my birthday. So what just happened here? Well, he got me a ring then he bought her the exact ring for valentines day (while I worked on valentines day) and the he became her fiancé ! Well I would not have believed it if I had not seen the ring in the video (she makes videos for her job, the old fake skank) the videos are just a front, I am convinced that she services married execs at corporations…
She was hitting the jackpot…the narcisstic pot of gold
Who the fuck would marry a known cheater???? I don’t get it. Women out there seem to be so desperate and will try to steal someone’s husband and then expect to marry them?? Life as a chump has been extremely difficult but I would never stoop so low as the OW did. Not to let the STBX off the hook but as a woman to another woman in our mid sixties, who the fuck would do that???
then why do so many of them marry the OW and it’s usually a howorker, why do they marry them right away after their exit plan gets executed? Also, I will never get over it, nor will I ever wrap my head around why a howorker will pursue the married guy, that wears his ring everyday and has his wifes pic on his desk (me) and knowingly interfere with a marriage just because she is a lonely pathetic slut that a) wants my life b) wants to F my husband and made it her business to do so because 1) she wants money 2) he looks good 3) she knows how much he makes because she ‘works’ there 4) he has a stable job and could provide for her narly ass 5) if she sucks it good enough, she figured she could win him over (or as she put it in a work email “I’m going to dive deep” ) sorry but that’s just pretending that they are talking about spreadsheets….yeah F NO to the HO, I have spent time going thru the ‘work’ emails that they tried to use their crafty little work speak, and as a woman I figured it out. She was trying to own his ass. I think it got to the point where I (wife) was becoming the OW and that big company whore was his ‘wife”…because she sure as hell knew she had him wrapped around her fingers….all because I am sure she envisioned a nice life complete with all that his earnings could offer….and what I imagined was her freakish off the chain skills excised his brain….because dicky was obviously his brain ….anyway…I’m with you. What kind of a skank HO would want to marry a guy that is lying and deceiving his wife to screw her ugly ass… seriously…and she then wants to marry him? That old HO’s been doing that routine of screwing married men Waaaaay too long. That was not her first rodeo obviously. I wish she would die next In fact it probably would have been better if she died instead….then I would get to see if he shed a droplet of a crocodile tear !
Maybe Karma will get her yet?
Oh, I could have a field day with this but I can’t really unpick my good work of processing what a lying shit he was… I’m on my way to meh!
Suffice to say everything he painted was false, inaccurate or unbelievable! My anger has turned to pity. She is welcome to him. No money, no home,no business, in debt, not seeing his kids, was living in a caravan in her parents back garden in the back of beyond…. That’s what happens when you use people then get found out. It backfires and it’s one step away from homelessness. Without her gullibility he’d be on the streets or living with his mother!
I got the house, the kids and my own money repaying back to me. Other woman got a (now successful) business (that I paid for) and third little fool got a turd that she now has to babysit.
Inkdnp says
What she thought she was getting: a handsome, rugged, romantic whose just never found the right one. A kind soul who has been down on his luck in love and life, but fights to keep moving forward and meet the her, the woman he’s been waiting for. He’s her knight in shining armor.
What she’s getting: a still married to his first wife (something he lied about to me – we were never married, just an 8 yr LTR), narcissistic sociopath who is still sleeping with half the Eastern Seaboard and not a penny to his name despite saying he does. His lies have cost him numerous jobs, friendships, and relationships with family members. The absolute worst part is he never sees his 4 boys. Those wonderful kids don’t deserve his pathetic lying ass as a father.
Regularly attempted to keep the lines of communication open with me until I made it abundantly clear I hoped he got hit by a train. Choo choo mf’er.
Hahhahaha! Choo choo mf’er!
Nikki Lynn says
“Sleeping with half the Eastern Seaboard” Lol!!!! Yup.
RoseAmongThorns says
What I imagined: My (Ex) husband whisking away a leggy babe to a sun-soaked paradise. Blissfully happy without me…the ol’ ball and chain.
What it is: A woman who wears face makeup like a clown (think Mimi off the Drew Carey Show) with two small children and a crazy ex husband of her own. Lots of working (since she’s a night shift nurse) and he only gets to see her a few weeks out of the year since my Ex works overseas for months at a time.
Hardly the fantasy that my mind built it up to be. If you just in the thick of this from DDay fall out, trust me it will get easier down the road.
IDeserveBetter says
What I imagined him to have. Lots of amazing sex with younger sexier women.
What he actually has lots of meaningless sex with tinder hookups and prostitutes.
Really though he just has a life (Thanks to my restraint) that he’s quite happy with. Good luck to him. I’m living my life my way and am quite happy with it too. …..is that Meh?
What I thought ….. she must be beautiful, in terrific shape, so much better than me in all ways. He did say she kept herself in good shape, went on long bike rides etc, he does not exercise. I envisioned an athletic beauty.
What she is……….. frumpy, way older looking than me though she is several years younger, resembles a leathery chicken with big orange glasses. Wore ugly unsuitable clothes to MIL’s funeral where I finally had to see her from as far away as possible. Looks like a life long smoker and is skinny with hacked off hair. I used to joke about her being trailer trash but that is what she really looks like.
All I could think was OMG what is he thinking !! Not that I am gorgeous or anything and I am a little chunky. He did tell me she has had a hard life so he must feel like a knight in shining armour rescuing her from her sad life. I hope they are happy in their adulterous life style since they are both still married to their spouses which apparently is alright in their minds.
A leathery chicken with big orange glasses? HAHAHAHA!
What ARE they thinking?? Seems as if none of these adulterous relationships are destined to end well…
What I thought it was: that what he said was true, that I was negative and critical and broken and unattractive and not worth his energy. Also my desire for monogamy was stifling.
What it actually was: I set reasonable boundaries and was intolerant when they weren’t respected, especially when he pretended to honor them on the surface, then snuck around secretly doing something different (the negative part.)
I expressed my intolerance by naming specific behaviors and evidence, refusing to be gaslighted and saying it wasn’t acceptable for him to lie and sneak (the critical part.)
I have a traumatic history and I am emotionally fragile when I discover I am being betrayed or abused, which means I cry, a lot (the broken part.)
I’m not as pretty as a model, skinny as a model, 15 years old or younger, or a person he has not met before (the unattractive part).
I do think it is reasonable to want my partner to want to spend some time with me and enjoy sex with me, and that’s a completely reasonable expectation of a healthy relationship (the not worth his energy part.)
And, finally, monogamy is a totally reasonable desire and some heterosexual cisgender men actually do want to live like that. Wanting monogamy is not an unsophisticated failure. It’s practical and reasonable. It also opens up certain specific emotional doors that can’t completely open in any other relationship structure, doors that I find important in sustaining a healthy relationship long term. I don’t have to apologize for wanting it or justify wanting it. I only have to let it be a deal breaker as I use my new picker to assess relationships going forward.
@Amiisfree- Word for word, this describes what I have been through and am still going through with my STBX. I nearly fell off my sofa reading it. Thank you for putting this so beautifully, and for giving me hope for the future. Big hugs to you <3
💚💚💚💚💚 Rightbackatchya, Friend! It took many years of therapy to get here. Anything I can pay forward is a joy to me. 🌞
chumpchick says
What I thought it was—– a remorseful husband after his affair was discovered. Marriage counseling, trips, loving behavior. A man becoming a better husband and person.
What it was — a man that was lying and continuing his affair. A man that daily lied and betrayed me while telling me he would never hurt me again.
28yrchump says
same here chumpchick…after 9 months of this circle I finally took steps this week to end it… best wishes to you
Same here, ChumpChick. He left the kids and I 25 years ago for his married other woman. She cheated on HIM (go figure, she was married when they started their over 2 year long affair), so he came crawling back. I thought that he came to his senses and would never cheat again. He stopped for 5 MONTHS before he started right back into his cheating ways. Many unexplained sexual health issues for me over the years: STDs (which he tried to blame me for !WTF!), yeast and bladder infections. Devaluing, anger and alcoholism. May I please have some more spackle? Now I am waiting for the results of my latest STD screening. Fuckwit never felt like he needed to use a condom. Apparently his golden penis is immune to disease. Thank you for playing Russian Roulette with my life with your Craiglist M4M hookups, you selfish, entitled bastard.
AussieChump says
What I imagined: STBX would become the most amazing, loving, kind person for the married howorker and she would reap all the rewards that I was holding out for.
What it actually is: STBX hasn’t changed one bit. He is still an entitled, selfish loser pretending to be the poor little victim. She has to live with the sad sausage now. Ahahaha.
Been there, done that. Never, EVER again 💜
Keepin Calm says
Yep. This is exactly my ex and his whore. He’s already lying to her, hiding things from her. Glad he’s not my problem anymore. He hasn’t changed one bit.
Yup, Aussie! For me, CL’s most valuable words of wisdom—adopted as my own personal mantra—are “Trust that they suck”!
The proverbial sparkly turd is still a turd.
What I imagined:
He would find happiness when the Flying Whore found out I divorced him, she would leave her husband and move here to be with her twu wuv. After all that horrible thing, AllOutofKibble, wasn’t standing in the way anymore, making everyone miserable. They would fly all over the world working together in exotic locations, making big money.
What is:
The Flying Whore still hasn’t left her rich husband and huge house. He can’t make ends meet with his old line of work since he must be present to parent now that the wife appliance isn’t there to watch the kid all the time. He still travels to meet the Flying Whore but not as much as before. After being on public assistance for a year he found work in the service industry where the pay is good but there are no benefits. I met his boss and I can tell she is the new woman in his life. I also met her boyfriend.
She thought she was getting a man who had a military retirement, his own successful business and tons of money for romancing and doing expensive things…..what she actually got was half his military retirement, he lost his business because their affair was ILLEGAL, she also lost her job because of it… chump here gets about half his monthly income and they have very little….including the job that brought them together…OH and they argue constantly and their romance is on again off again ALL the time… plus narc cheater is not allowed to be around her 4 yr old so their stolen time together is very limited…. they both live in the basement of their original homes and have to find places to meet….
I just smile….while I sit here with his money, the kids and a grandchild on the way…happy family here
forgot… I thought they would live happily ever after with all the money we had worked 28 yrs to achieve while I was poor and lonely
28yrchump, it’s not HIS money, it’s YOUR money. You earned every penny you’re getting, and don’t you forget that, honey!
Whatringofhellisthis says
What he thought: That he would marry me. Own me. And then scare me into keeping my mouth shut while he collected women and lived single with my income.
What it looked like: Nonstop party alcohol and women. Vacations. Everyone smiling and happy.
Reality: He used our marital money for his partying and vacations and single while married life. He cannot afford our lifestyle without me and he hates me for it. He’s struggling to keep all our things that he used to attract the shallow stupid whores. The life he was offering to other women was dependant on me sticking around. Without the wife, the thrill of staying out all night and being bad is gone. Now he’s just a regular 40 year old Peter Pan waking up on some losers couch the next day and no one gives a shit. Those amazing funny sexy perfect whores that he traded me for…
👀👀hello? 👁👁whores?📡🔎where’d you go? I thought you had a special bond. He needs your money for the dock slip before the end of the month. 🏳
B-e-a-utiful!
Does the song “Sail Away,” as the wharf personal cut the line to a late paying loser’s slip? Enquiring minds want to know???
nomoreskankboy😂
🎶🎶✂🚣🙋🏻
LOL ‘whores were did you go” lol lol buh bye !! Well, I know where one whore is…she’s less one boyfriend/fiancé cheater husband (my cheater husband) because he’s gone now …she can’t get at him anymore….
What I imagine – happily ever after for my stbxh and his married donkey face ho, because they have “so much in common”, and he is so gloriously happily in love with her.
What will probably happen – he will lose this new job, when it gets too hard, and he stops doing the work he is paid to do (a 30 year pattern). She will never leave her Chumpy husband, which will prolong the excitement of sneaking around for her, but not for him. She will look more and more like a donkey as gravity gets ahold of that nose. His belly will get bigger, he will continue to drink himself to sleep every night, and the viagra will stop working. When his viagra stops working, he will blame her for it. I hope I’m at meh by then.
I so wish the viagra will stop working…
@islandgirl – he actually blames me for his need for viagra! Shouted it at me. I was shocked by the rage of it, but it made me finally believe in my soul that I couldn’t believe anything that came out of his mouth. He is truly ridiculous!
ironhardempress says
What the AP thought she was getting: a savvy business man with piles of money and a life of traveling and partying.
What she really got: a un-educated broke-ass middle-aged loser with a heart condition (from using drugs)who burned all his business bridges
and can’t afford to go anywhere. (stuck in a third-world country, he’s currently trying to sell the last piece of property he has to get a heart
transplant in Nicaragua). I wouldn’t know all this except I still have friends there.
What I got: a life free of fuckery, a business that I completely turned around (he neglected) and made very profitable, and a Very Nice Man (finally!).
Cleopatra says
Imagined: fabulous passionate soul mate relationship between late 40s high earning boss and 16 year younger MOW he promoted to become his junior partner while I melt away into a soggy lump of bitterness and ugly middle age.
Reality: high earner pays huge alimony for 24 year ruined marriage, child support and education expenses and has borrowed money from now divorced OW. OW eats her stress, drinks and drugs with the partying crowd often going out at night when Dad has the kids, nonstop complaining from both about the unfairness of me. OW deals with teenagers who loath her and worries that she won’t be able to have children because he says they can’t afford them yet while ex has secretly had his nuts cut and has not told her because “she would dump him if she knew” effectively squandering her fertile years without her knowledge.
As for my reality? Decided to work really hard to become a certified Yoga teacher to help others dealing with traumas to find inner strength and peace. Gained fit body, mind and spirit, happy children, a beautiful flower garden, well trained protective dog and fell in love with a fellow chump who has matching baggage and integrity and who makes spending time with family, expressing gratitude and demonstrating respect to all his top priorities. Life is good on the other side!!!
He never told her he that he got snipped and she thinks they are going to try for babies and her bio clock is alarming? woa…imagine how betrayed she will feel someday when she learns the truth. Sucks to be her.
Lucky says
He better keep paying that alimony. It would be a shame if you had to spill the beans about his snipped nuts. I think he should increase the payments. Cost of living has gone up, you know.
You need to tell her
Lania says
Fuck no. Let the OWhore run out the clock. It’s karma for being a cheating whore.
Suddenly single & thriving says
Hearing OW was 20 years younger than him (18 younger than me), I thought she must be drop dead gorgeous. Reality is she’s not. She looks like a child, and she’s nothing to write home about.
ChumpYOU,MoFo says
What SHE thought she was getting: My life
What HE thought he was getting: His existing life, just with a girlfriend plugged in, and they were going to play happy family with my kids
What is really happening: My eldest knows too much and never wants to meet her. Says he would like to “poison” her if he does, or punch her in the face. Happy families! Ex lives in a crappy little apartment, realizing he doesn’t make enough money to support the lifestyle he wants. Yells at me and tells me I’m a nasty capitalist, then threatens to take half of everything. Takes the kids out for an afternoon and his girlfriend is posting photos of the same place at the same time, so she’s creeping around following them while he’s on dad duty. Nothing weird at all going on there.
Me? I’m hanging in, doing the adult dull shit, but I know my kids, I love my kids, and I’m here for them. Some days are worse than others, but I know things will be okay on my end eventually. I’m doing the work to get better and be better.
kimmy says
What I thought he was getting: A woman who loved him more than me. A life full of family, friends and happiness that far exceeded what we had.
What he really got: An ordinary looking woman who sags in all the wrong places, who wanted financial stability (not love), no friends from OUR shared life, their families don’t live close, their children will never respect them and just an otherwise ordinary life. Nothing special. They gained NOTHING and lost everything.
What I imagined life would be like after divorce: Being a very family oriented person, I wondered if holidays would forever be marred by the empty chair around the Christmas tree/ “family” vacations that no longer contained a family/days of solitude/ the pitying looks from other parents as I show up alone to school functions.
What I actually got: a life where I mentally shout “Alleluia” every morning upon waking to a day free of emotional abuse or the need to cater to a curmudgeonly, critical control freak/the highest quality friends imaginable/the return of my exuberance so that I take delight in conversations and small things (like the momentary joy shared with the barista that “Flashdance” on the radio was brightening both our mornings).
Mightymightymighty!
It’s so amazing how our lives are filled with joy when the downbeat person finally goes away! My Ex insisted on sulking in the bedroom with the TV on all the time, and never turned a hand to enjoy his family.
Life is sooo much better when there is light and laughter in it.
YES!!! I was envisioning completely having to re-do traditions with my daughter and enduring pitiful glances from neighbors…turns out nothing much changed (except now I have to mow the lawn) because, as I discovered, he wasn’t involved in ANY of our traditions…it was always just me and her without him decorating for Christmas and going to the pumpkin patch and getting a tree, etc. As for the pitiful glances, people have been rad. My neighbor has helped me with little things around the house and most folks are super enthusiastic about my new life.
What I thought cheater was: A poor tortured soul, who kept getting hit with bad luck. Where life never gave him any breaks, how he was a decent person like me, with integrity and someone who wanted to grow with a partner, but just couldn’t get ahead in life.
What the cheater really was: A certified loser with bad judgment, who was unappreciative of all the blessings in his life. Someone who would drag anyone down if you associated with him in any way. Someone who was a moron, with no common sense, and a total failure, who would deliberately remain a failure for the rest of his life. You can’t fix ignorant.
YES. Drama follows my ex around because he invites it into his life with his bad choices. I am SO GLAD to be free of that existance! Have fun, whore!
Mine too, I was always having to sort out his latest crisis/fiasco/meltdown because of his bad choices. Hope she’s enjoying that now. They’re back in the States now and I have a sneaky feeling the Americans won’t be so forgiving of his constant drink driving/drunk accidents or getting physically thrown out of a bar for pouring a pint of beer over a woman’s head. I am SO GLAD that’s not my worry any more. I was terrified I would lose my home because someone would take us to court for x, y, z.
NoMoreEvil says
Kelli, you just perfectly described my XH!!! I don’t even need to write my own post now because you just said it all!
HM says
It’s the same…it’s exactly the same!
I had visions of him doing for her all of the things that he wouldn’t do for me. Didn’t happen. That relationship ended, I can only speculate why. But every now and then I check in to see what he’s doing, the same way I found him out…and he’s exactly the same person living the same boring pathetic life where all he really cares/talks about are cars, cellphones and video games.
My ex tried to Hoover me back 2 x since his breakup. Why did they breakup? She dumped his ass for the EXACT SAME REASONS that I did. I did warn her.
He’s an alcoholic man-baby who uses you for your money, time and adoration and wants you to raise his two horribly behaved children, clean his house and have sex on demand. And plus, he’s a narcissistic psychopath.
I love that she dumped him for the same reasons that I did. Plus she was depressed because she was just started her separation and custody court stuff with her husband. Say what? He was sleeping with a married woman? No way. He didn’t get along with her kids? He lived in her big mansion and didn’t contribute a dime? She babysat has boys while they broke everything in her house and told her to fuck off daily.
Depressed? Who would have thunk it.
And now within 1 week of their final dday he’s with someone new who looks like a mix between me and his ex wife? (She looked completely different from us.) Sounds like karma is hitting them all over. Like a double dose.
chutesandladders says
What I fantasized she was getting: the man he pretended to be when I fell for him – strong, considerate, ethical (HAHA), pragmatic, responsible, attentive, and completely and totally in love and eager to make a life with me. A guy who would be a partner in parenting, a man who would help
What she got: the “man” he really is underneath all his secrets; a sexually repressed, selfish man with latent, unexamined homosexual urges who – after two years – now sleeps in the spare room they turned into a bar (sons confirmed) and gives her a two-month, silent treatment when she has the gall to ask why he is on homosexual porn sites during the days he’s supposed to be looking for a full-time job.
I owe that skank a thank you note for getting him out of my life! 🙂
Thank you Jesus. Be Grateful. Xx
At D day, I was told that she was amazing because she ate vegetables for breakfast and was good at her job (that she got fired from because she was a vendor and he was a government purchaser). His narrative of his tragic life surely included getting married too young (I FORCED him, you see) and me being so involved with mothering that I didnt care for his needs anymore.
They played house in SF for much of an 18 month period when he claimed he was working far away but we were wreckonciled.
I imagine her dragging him to nail appts and telling him to sit and wait until she was done…the $39,000 ring from her actual fiance sparkling while she reminded him he would have to replace it with something bigger. She might have possibly been on the recieving end of one of his emotionally violent rages which his actually family knew to shield themselves from.
In the end, he returned home to his family and lived a life of passive resentment until he died. She married her fiance, had 2 kids, divorced and now lives the life she tried so hard to push me into.
Im happily married to a man the first husband would have hated. Im cultivating a worldwide reputation in my area of expertise and really enjoying life – and I will never, ever eat vegetables for breakfast.
Patsy says
KARMA Unicornnomore
Sketchyokgirl says
For years I imagined that cheater ex took the kids to the same Christmas tree farm that we went to every year and had a great time playing hide and go seek between the trees like we always did. I found out this past year that they never went there again. So sad the destruction these people create.
My ex took new supply on our promised vacation to great wolf lodge. I imagined them flirting voraciously by the poolside with drinks and him admiring her thin blonde body. Them sneaking up to their room for some hot sex while the kids played at the arcade. I cried the whole weekend they were gone, picturing this in my head feeling so betrayed.
Reality: She goes yearly for her birthday to great wolf lodge, they fought the whole time because his boys are horrible to take anywhere and she begged to leave early but because they took one vehicle he refused. She was trapped crying to come home. He wrecked her birthday (as he did mine and all other holidays and all the kids got a front row seat)
Bonus content: I ended up taking my kids and my mom two months later and we had a blast. All my mom and I could say is: isn’t this a much better vacation without that asshole and his kids to ruin it? I would have been run ragged chasing all the kids while he sat like a king drinking his beer completely oblivious….
Lady B says
Yep I’m treading water atm. I figure as long as I’m not going backwards emotionally, spiritually or financially I’m doing ok.
Ok. I may need y’all’s help on this one.
Ex was actually pretty good at adulating for many years. He did a lot around the house. I tried to help out as much as I could because I didn’t want him to have to do everything and I also wanted him to have time to relax, preferably with me. When I took on more chores, however, he just found other things that needed doing. Eventually I found myself running ragged. I simply couldn’t keep up and I decided that I needed to take a break now and again or we would both burn out. Then there was also the fact that I didn’t do everything as perfectly as he did so he was never satisfied with my performance when I did help out. I used to tell people that his only fault was that he was nearly perfect and so couldn’t understand why the rest of the world wasn’t perfect (which I now recognize as lack of empathy).
Despite my efforts to help out, he eventually came to resent having to do more than his fair share. It didn’t matter that he was never asked to do so much, he did it so that things could be the way he wanted them to be. At some point (I now believe it was around the time that he started up with Schmoopie 1.0) he went on strike and stopped doing much of anything around the house. I did my best to pick up the slack without complaint, but of course I didn’t do it all as well as he used to do it.
Meanwhile, Schmoopie was always a stay at home mom so she knows how to run a household as she never had to do anything else. That’s her talent (that and fucking other people’s husbands). I can’t help but imagine that she knows how to do everything as perfectly as he did and that’s why he is so attracted to her. Maybe she really is a better lay too because she makes more noise and is willing to have butt sex and possibly other weird positions I found painful. Her fashion sense also seems to be more in line with his, so she dresses more to his satisfaction (in spite of my many efforts over the years to get that right). She is everything I wasn’t. I have my good points too. I am actually quite an accomplished woman really and not unattractive, but my good points were simply never a priority for ex and her good points are.
I can’t help thinking that perhaps we really were just a mismatch and he really will be happier with her. If that is true, however then why did he ever marry me in the first place? Why did he seem happy to be my husband for so many years. Yes he complained about my faults sometimes which is why I tried so hard to improve, but he also gave me cards with sweet messages telling me how great I was, how lucky he was to be my husband and saying things like “please be mine forever”. He made his choice when he married me. He must have thought I had my good qualities at the time and he had an obligation to be happy with his choice unless I abused him in some way (which I never did). Other than being older and wiser, I am pretty much the same person I was when he married me. If anything I improved over the years by trying to learn to please him. I keep trying to tell myself that maybe she will eventually not measure up in some way either, but right now it just doesn’t seem like it. Maybe you all can tell me what is really going on in their relationship.
Oh yes, and her ex was also a confirmed cheater and possibly and abusive alcoholic as well so she may well think my ex is an upgrade compared to that.
Overcomer says
Chump in recovery, sorry this is so long but my ex narc sounds very similar to yours. I wanted to share in case it might help you. I was with him 30 years. During that time I tried very hard not to disappoint him and to be the person that made him proud. He told me he imagined us growing old together. He could see himself pulling up to the driveway, seeing me in the garden with smudges of dirt on my face and a cut on my knee. He told me that is why he loved me.
I tried to insert some of my wishes into our life, he found a “replacement appliance”. He said we grew apart, married too young … same NPD excuses. He married his coworker immediately after our divorce. The similarity of underlying calculated control is eerie in the Julia Roberts movie “Sleeping With The Enemy”. It made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
I hear the same insecurity in your questions that I used to have. Please know most NPD’s transfer their own insecurities etc onto you, the “appliance”, by subtle criticisms, control, manipulations etc. They are great studies of your insecurities, i.e. what will keep you controlled.
My ex found someone with similar traits that he could control. In his mind he has recreated the life he had with me but like someone else here said its “Splenda” one taste and you know its not real. She means nothing to him, she is a means to an end.
I thought he found what he wished I could have been and I that I had let us down. I thought they will have the beautiful retirement traveling, living in a beautiful house, having a family with my children and my grandchildren that I worked so hard for and will never have now.
But what they have is a false life, it looks great on the outside but on the inside it is cold, lonely and claustrophobic. She is a pawn being used. If she figures out she isn’t “special” she will be faced with the choice to continue being ME (lol) or leave. He will never face that HE is the one who doesn’t live up to expectations. He will keep looking for “Splenda mamas” to replace the meaning and feeling that I created.
What I have is freedom. I now understand I might not have meant anything to the narc but the meaning and emotion I created in our life was real to him. He cannot replace the authenticity, although he tries. My life now can be a bit daunting sometimes but the happiness and love is authentic and real.
“Dum spiro spero” – “While I breathe, I hope”
What she thought she got – the perfect man, who keeps an immaculate house, whose “incompetent” ex-wife just couldn’t get things right.
What she got – a narcissist that is never satisfied. A man whose life is defined by control – control of himself, control of his spouse, control of the relationship, control of his environment. He keeps moving the targets and doing “more more more” so that he can keep being the martyr in the relationship. She is never able to relax, never able to just slob around in sweatpants and recharge with a novel, because it’s not worth the stress of listening to his unending criticism. She isn’t a person, she is an accessory in his dollhouse.
What you got – freedom to breathe, freedom to decide what you think is important, freedom to focus your energy on more important things than ironing the finger towels correctly.
My ex narc psychopath hated when I read a book. He took it as a personal insult that I would rather read a book than watch him watch tv.
If I even attempted to sit in the couch and read he would literally lay down and put his head in my lap so I would have to move my book.
Then he would do everything to distract me.
It got to the point where I would have to pat his hair with his head on my lap, if I want to read.
Relishing the days of reading now cheater free….
I like reading too and ex also added that to his list of resentments in the end because I was doing that instead of giving him my attention. Really though, what else was I supposed to do while I was waiting and waiting and waiting for him to come to bed when he was up late doing god knows what I now wonder.
What’s up with the book reading and Narcissists being opposed to it. My mom is a Malignant Narcissist and would detest it when I’d read books. She’d be completely opposed to it and would make fun of me. “What, you’re reading again! How dare you waste your time on those stupid books you’re reading.” I was reading 7 habits by Steve Covey, or Deepak Chopra. These Narcs are seriously wacked in the head. Never met a bunch of crazy freaks.
I think this is a thing. Narc husband always criticized me for being “book smart”. Because he isnt… and somehow that means I’m not street smart which is what’s actually important according to him. Which means I heard 5 million times that I’m smart but so fucking stupid in life. He convinced me that there’s no way i could get my doctorate. We went to marriage counseling and the first session hes convincing the therapist that i can’t get my doctorate because I have too many things I need to do so i will wind up failing at all of them. Therapist says maybe you do have too many goals. Umm that was my only goal. He already told me we can’t have a baby. What else is there to do without a family.
Same as you all… Sitting to read meant I was lazy and he would hold it against me. Disgusted looks. Nasty texts the next day if I didn’t mow the lawn or wash my car or break a sweat. “What did you do yesterday? Oh that’s right. NOTHING!” In 10 years I’ve never had a day where I did nothing. Even with the flu I ordered him dinner.
Although things are shit right now, I feel like I was released from slavery. I got done working today and I put on my comfy clothes (not allowed), ruined my manicure (not allowed), and planted rows and rows of carrots. I think I’ll go to the book store later. Thanks for reminding me you guys 💜💜💜💜🥕📚
I am a bookworm too but since I have a really long commute, part of it on the bus, I do get a lot of reading done. I’m not sure the Twat could even read, but he hated me reading too I think because it made him feel inferior. Well everything made him feel inferior so he had to take it out on me (Borderline Personality Disorder anyone). He liked to watch documentaries on TV so he could fall asleep in front of them – apparently that made him an “intellectual”. Or he would buy expensive wine and then drink two bottles in one sitting – so apparently he was a wine connoisseur too. Gosh, if only I had realized what a gem Schmoopy was getting!
My high school world history teacher thought I had a passion for European history. No, I found my mom’s historical romances hidden in the back of her closet. Even “bad” books have some redeeming qualities.
My ex used to go to my book club meetings with me. I’d read the books and give him the executive summary, and he’d offer his masculine insight to the group as if he’d read them. I think he got off on being the only man in the group.
CantWrapMyBrainAroundIt says
OMG about the reading! Thought it was only my cheater asshole who hated when I read a book! I even remember replying at one point “you’re right, what kind of bad behavior am I showing my children? I’ll stop reading immediately”! What an ass! So happy to be free of that!
Reading diverts blood flow from your uterus to your brain, potentially rendering you unwomanly. 🤣
I think its because they fear smart people, because smart people figure things out and their existence is all about scamming people- they get pleasure knowing they are getting away with something behind your back. It’s a high for them.
DrFormerChump says
Or they feel inferior. My cheater ex-FIL once told me that I needed to tone down my intelligence around my husband, because “the dumber partner doesn’t like it when you are smarter than they are.” WTF
wonderwoman says
Mine mentioned my love of reading too when we got into fights about why he cheated And me liking to take walks! Jerks!
I got a shouted accusation, “You just like to sit there and read!”
I know my face was stunned. I remember being confused and saying, “Well, yes. I do.”
Bizarre.
I have a kitty that does that, but she’s cute. And she doesn’t mind being a “book rest”, as long as she gets head pats. 😀
Thanks for the reminder. That definitely helps. The first part is likely true, the last part is definitely true. Meanwhile she keeps him on a short leash in return. She is smarter than I was that way. Right now he takes it as “she cares”, but someday that collar is bound to chafe a bit.
Spoonriver says
If they have to be put on a short leash then they are too much trouble and infants.
Calmafterstorm says
Oh my god, my ex was the same. He hated it when I would read a book. He would keep track of how much time I spent reading during the day. It didn’t matter that the chores were done and he was just watching – and I shit you not, The Weather Channel for hours- he acted insulted that I would read a book.
He also hated it when we would read something at the same time and I would always finish much, much faster then he did. My one super power and he had to piss all over it.
Dr. Cheaterpants was a neat freak too. He wasn’t lazy. He even hung up his dirty dry cleaning and I would haul them into the cleaners and watch them snicker about it. A perfectionist. Poor lil you, just couldn’t live up to it now could you? I’m not exactly a slob but I do have a stack of kids/school stuff on my kitchen counter, a junk drawer, an unused bedroom where random shit goes to perch until I can deal with it. Don’t even get me started on my Christmas mess. He would all but be in tears over the clutter.
Never mind that I worked full time, more hours than him. I did the majority of kids stuff. And I really didn’t want to spend all my free time scrubbing the underneath of a cabinet so that our home was spotless.
He was high maintenance, needy, and OCD. A narc of a different flavor than some others have here. But a narc none the less. He was a martyr narc (okay I made up that term), but really that’s what he was. He never did things I wanted to do. Never found things I liked as important.
I think it’s a control freak thing. And you couldn’t measure up. Can you imagine the two of them together trying to out do each other?
I’m happy with my life now. If I want to leave a glass in the sink and watch TV, I do. My life is so peaceful!!
Our exes must have been clones. That all sounds so familiar. When he first suggested counseling (before I knew about any of his schmoopie’s), I tried to tactfully suggest that his perfectionism be on the discussion list. That sure didn’t go over well. “why should I have to lower my standards to please you?” Ouch!
I also had the junk drawer. He hated it.
Canyoufeelthemehtonight says
Holy cow Twice, my Dr Cheaterpants was also a complete neat freak. He would carefully inspect the cutlery that I had hand washed and if they didn’t pass muster he would contemptuously throw them back into the sink, to be done again. I wasn’t allowed a dishwasher in the dream house we were building as he didn’t feel they “did the job properly”. I managed to get one installed by insisting that it was required for resale value. This is the house I paid for half of, just by the by and I actually work longer hours than X. He walked out the day after the mortgage was paid off.
What I thought was going to happen: I’d be forced out of the dream house, with no $$$, no friends to live a grey, lonely existence where nothing ever happened. He and gorgeous schmoopie would party it up large and be the toast of the town, since he can be a charming bastard to the outside world. I thought I’d be a pariah, the idiot who managed to lose a high-earning dashing man.
What is actually happening: He hasn’t paid any $$$, so I’m still in the dream house. He’s paying for a rental across town. He wants “his” house back but can’t manage to adult with the bank despite his income. I’m free of a manipulative user. I’m deeply involved in the community via work, music and charities and have met loads of people who seem to like me for me (I never had time for this before since I was busy re-washing cutlery). The house is a slightly organised pigsty and I run the dishwasher EVERY DAY. People generally think he’s a sad bastard for what he’s done. His 25 year old Schmoopie is spending thousands re-training to be a personal trainer (she was broke, so I’m hazarding a guess that he’s paying for this) and enjoys making sugar free treats for the two of them. Despite her profession, friends and colleagues report back to me that she looks “interesting” and not at all like she works out. My STBXH has managed to lose a high-earning, dashing woman.
There will be something else he doesn’t like about her. Also, she’ll never be able to keep house *exactly* how he likes it, and he’ll resent her for that, because why the hell did he blow up his marriage, if not for the perfect housekeeper? Meanwhile, she prides herself on her housekeeping, so she’ll take his judgment and dissatisfaction far more personally, because how dare he say she’s imperfect at this – this is her specialty.
Expect 5,983 arguments about how the other is Doing It Wrong when it comes to how to load a dishwasher or mop a floor.
My analysis: he is confused and immature, and he set you up to fail him, whether he realizes it or not. He sucks at adult communication. You can’t be “good enough” for a person who pre-decided to perceive you as a failure.
That complicated shit sandwich is not worth your energy.
THIS. Like playing a game of cards, where only he knows the rules and can see your cards, but you can’t see his.
@Chumpinrecovery – What’s really going on in their relationship is the exact idealize, devalue, and discard pattern of covert narcissistic abuse that you experienced at the hands of your ex husband, who sounds like a masterful manipulator indeed. He moved the goalposts on you, with criticisms of your work and odd one-upmanship of you in the home, “running you ragged,” then suddenly not doing the work anymore BUT not ever engaging in any good faith discussions about this with you, before discarding you and making you think his happiness was your responsibility. Meanwhile, ZERO of your emotional needs were being met. Mine was the same. Very subtle manipulations, sulking, silent treatment, acting happy, acting like a “Good Husband” in front of the rest of the world, but privately a hellion. Yours found a vulnerable, low emotional IQ abused woman who he could exploit and make her think it’s all her fault. You and I are mighty for being abandoned by shady characters like this— they knew we could not be exploited anymore and had to move on to easier targets.
hollowbunny says
What I imagined: they turn into business partners, she has lifetime job security because she’s fucking the owner, they never have to deal with combined 7 kids, and I’m on the street with nothing, She would have my life, my money, my everything. Btw she’s older than I am and looks like a dirty pillowcase.
What happened: she got dumped and fired and he put everything in my name. (Once his secret was out, the bloom was off the fuck-my-direct-report rose). Really. Tax reasons and not wanting her to possibly sue the company. She didn’t. Then 2 businesses sold and I got 2 unexpected windfalls. She now has 3 jobs, still married to her bs/original I’m and i live far away from where that shit happened and I’m all kinds of good.
*original OM.
MARCUS LAZARUS says
PRE-DDAY
What I imagined: She was thinking about me and decided to buy me something to show me I was special to her.
What was real: Gifting me to assuage her guilt from fucking someone else.
POST DDAY
What I imagined: They were living the high life in APs camper, enjoying the trailer park community, beautiful scenery, great sex and YES Salmon Tracy.
What was real: She was spiraling in debt, while sexting/cheating on the dimwit downgrade she’s with. His problem now.
2nd Gen says
I have heard about Steak Diane, but not Salmon Tracy. I’m imaging the sauce has capers. Served with tiny zucchini and a side “honeymoon salad” (lettuce alone).
You know what? Salmon Tracy sounds great! Definitely with a capers sauce and baby tricolor carrots and zucchini blossoms! It could be the signature dish for Dumping the Cheater!
What I imagined: meeting the man of her dreams (thanks Facebook).Her running off every week for a romantic weekend to a guy who adored her and made her feel special. They went places, did exciting things, and were so in love.
What is was: A dramatic high school level relationship full of drama. Constant fights over his unwillingness to leave his wife and his constant jealousy of….me!? (go figure). They never went anywhere or did anything. That was an argument too.
My STBXW is no longer with him but don’t worry she is on every dating app in existence looking for her next willing victim.
WaitingInTheShadows says
So true as always!
In the Pick Me Dance I thought he was a superman and my W said he was taller and stronger and…………well months later now when I see his FB photos (in other words the best he can show) he’s really getting fat and not muscular at all (and he’s 10 years younger than me) and I met him so I know he isn’t taller.
He’s also an idiot. e.g. he confessed to my W that he drove his car into a wall ‘cos he was busy checking texts on his mobile. Then tried to con her into sending him money as the car was a right-off. My W trusts him so much she sent one of her enablers around to check and no nothing wrong with him and just superficial damage to the car. But she still sent him money (huh?)
So yeah what a great relationship! No trust already between them. My W has to beg and beg to get any affection from him in their long-distance A (yes I’m spying and no I don’t care). He loves her so much she had to buy him a flight to drag him over for the summer as life’s so “difficult” for him there.
I actually feel pity for her as she’s more the chump in this than me. I’m getting myself back together. Lost weight. Fitter. Cool new beard (what others have told me) and looking forward to meeting someone new one day, but first need to look after my kids as their mum is of course still AWOL in la-la-land
What she thought she was getting: a family man who was handsome and charming, his boys were his world, looking for a partner in crime.
What she got: a letter from me telling her he is a cheating asshole and I am getting tested for stds. He is a horrible father and stepfather and really a horrible person all around.
Epilogue: after she dumped him 6 months later, he hoovered me and I asked him how he explained the std testing. He said she asked if it was “going to be a problem”? His response: “you trust me, don’t you.” Because. You know. She TRUSTS him.
Me: “barf. Plus she is dumber than I thought….”
From your Canada reference I have to add that I reckon that my oldest daughter (now 9) is finally figuring out that things aren’t Disney perfect at home.
I’m one of those many “fake Canadians”, who survived a few winters to get the citizenship then for some reason went back to Europe (actually I do know, it was my cheating wife who has “bored” yet again and wanted another change of scenery). My oldest D asked me today on the way to school “why we left Canada?”, which is where she was born (and she identifies herself as a Canadian) and I really had no answer whatsoever.
You know that movie her with Scarlett Johansson? That is what all these relationships are. Weird computer programs that spend all day texting and sexting and getting people hooked. The reality is that they are doing it with a ton of people because that is what they do. There is nothing special or real about any of it.
Free Vix says
What I imagined: Cheater and OW spending a lovely Christmas with their toddler and my son at ex in-law’s home. Everyone would fawn over the kids, OW would put on her best mask, ex and OW would leave the kids with ex in-laws and go on romantic dates to the city, and no one would care that I had ever existed.
What it was: Neither ex not OW were willing to spend Christmas with each other’s families, so they traveled to different states, split up the kids (my son went with ex, toddler went with OW), sulked though the holiday, and ex in-laws raised their eyebrows about this odd arrangement with a woman they never approved of anyway.
So my daughter says every time she is with her dad it is in her words “The Dad Show”. I asked her what she meant and she said she took her boyfriend to meet him at happy hour and all her dad did was talk about himself and never asked one question of my daughter and boyfriend. I asked if dads whore talked about herself also. She said no she just talked about dad. She is hurt because they use to be close. He never asks about her or her life. So he’s become no one anyone recognizes. I wonder when fuckwit and his whore will run out of material?
Got-a-brain says
In my case I image what SHE thinks she got. Keep in mind this smoopsie came in the picture after I filed for divorce. I actually feel kind of bad for her, because I know she’s getting the same false mask I did, and she’s falling for it too.
She imagines/ what she got.
There must be something wrong with ex wife if She would divorce such a genuinely nice, giving, and polite guy. / Bullies rely on social norms and politeness to shield themselves from the consequences of their actions. The most successful bullies carefully tread the line to ensure they do not go too far as to have their victim break politeness and speak up. They use intermittent reinforcement, as their abuse is usually mixed in with periodic affection and acts of kindness at unpredictable moments.
It must have been ex wife’s lack of white picket fences in childhood that caused good guy to cheat (I’ve heard that narrative a million times, so I know she has too). / Abusers use tactics to exert power and control over their victims, painting them as crazy or lacking in some capacity. Vulnerabilities are used as emotional blackmail; contexts are twisted to put the responsibility for their own bad behavior onto the other person, i.e. they drove me to do the bad things I did. They use their own bad behavior as a defensive strategy that can be explained away by painting themselves as the victim.
The poor cheater was in a sexless marriage (lie) and that’s why he had to retain the services of sex workers … awe, poor guy/ I doubt he’s been honest about his hooker habit, but who knows? He has a way of making himself the perpetual victim. His penis didn’t get enough attention in the 5 hours a day he spent surfing porn and hook-up sites. She got someone who sees women as objects for his pleasure, and she’s just the face of normal for his double life.
His sudden involvement in our kids lives after 16 years, boy he is a great dad! (Barf). Oh look, he is visible at any event that would make him look like dad of the year! / Too bad he doesn’t participate in the non accolade parts of their lives: doctors appointments, homework, heartbreak; you know, the real work of parenting. If it’s not worthy of Disneyland dad Facebook posts, eh, he can’t be bothered. But boy, he does look like dad of the year on social media… must be true right! She got someone that is really good at impressions, but really bad a real! If it looks good on the surface, who cares what’s really going on underneath.
She left a cheater for another cheater. She obviously never found CL
If she was cheated on and then knowingly got together with another cheater, she really has no one but herself to blame.
pecan says
I don’t agree. I think she probably doesn’t believe she deserves anything better. We’ve all made bad choices based on spackle. This person left a cheater without realising her own chumpiness clearly enough to make different choices, which is so so easy to do.
LilyInTheForest says
What I imagined: he will respect her so much more than me. She’s more beautiful, more confident. They will live a happy ever after and spent their weekends hiking together.
What it will be: he respects her so much he has decided never to learn her mother tongue (Dutch). He told me she lacks empathy and humor. He also told me she has more wrinkles. He’s still the king of disparagement. She will probably never live with him, because well, no job, his paperwork not done, etc.
What Ex told me: Her kids understand their relationship and are ok with it.
What my daughter told me: Her oldest still at home did not take his parents divorce well and started doing drugs.
What I imagined (for my ex-husband and my ex-boyfriend): Living in a big, beautiful, clean house near/overlooking the beach maintained by a housekeeper in a safe, desirable, very expensive neighborhood, riding off into the sunset in an expensive, clean car to fine dining, massages, four-star hotels in exotic locales with lots of time for rest and relaxation with friends and no child-rearing responsibilities. Plus off the chart ‘look deep into your partner’s adoring eyes’ sex round the clock with young, slim, fit, unencumbered, highly educated, wealthy women. The partners get crappy character underneath a sparkly veneer.
The reality for them and their partners: What I imagined (minus the off the chart sex of a certain type I don’t feel comfortable describing here which ex-boyfriend can never deliver as certain body parts cannot be changed.
The reality for me: I lost an adulterous, abusive husband who cheated on, lied to, insulted and abused me and others repeatedly in various sick ways. I lost a passive-aggressive, conflict avoidant boyfriend who lied to, gaslit, insulted, tried to control me over little things (which drinks I carry on rides, whether I wear lipstick or not on rides) I could never understand. Neither loved me; neither respected me; neither appreciated me. As some people here say, perhaps the trash took itself out this year!
You are FREE! Go create your life. Don’t look back, there’s nothing there.
Never again love someone more than you love yourself. Xxx
Thanks, LetItSnow. I guess officially I am free. Oddly, I stayed for the mistreatment by my last partner (post-separarion boyfriend) and would still be with him if given a choice, most likely even if he continued to emotionally hurt me). Not mighty.
What I imagine: His family welcomes her with open arms because they think she is awesome.
Reality: They put up with her presence because it is the only way they can keep a relationship with their son/brother/nephew and they still need him to help out with things now and again.
This is me, too. I agonized over my inlaws accepting new supply. They welcomed me and my kids with open arms. My MIL and i used to hot tub and renovate together. My fil and I cut deer and did Xmas shopping together. I loved them dearly. I cried and cried at the thought of them doing the same with new supply.
Reality: they know what ex (their son) is. They know his show that he puts on for new women and as a result pretends to be a better dad to his kids. As in, no drinking and driving with the boys and forcibly shaving their heads.
They breathe a big sigh of relief when a new supply waltzes in and “helps” him function in life, otherwise they have to do it. And it’s tiring.
I am pissed at them because they knew what he was and didn’t protect me. They kind of tried. But they knew he was cheating. They raised the dysfunction. They can have him and new supplies. Tear are now dried. Assholes.
Mine thought he would move away with the lurve of his life to the place that he had always wanted to live, lots of stinking cold mountains and wind AND that he and I would be friends so he could participate in the family things that I planned. Well, I shut that shit down the day before he loaded up his Uhaul and told him that NO I DO NOT WANT TO BE FRIENDS WITH YOU FOR THE ‘SAKE’ OF THE KIDS. Knowing that our only communication will be in emails. But he forgot, all that energy and bustle that made our family lively came from me. He sat there and read or watched TV and read. So I think of his life like Prince Edward and Wallace Simpson, they have been shunned. Kids don’t call. Youngest goes to see him only because he comes to collect and store her stuff from college over the summer. She sticks around for a week. Once she graduates, that will be that. And now he will be left with dumb as a post schmoopie, a house behind a used car lot and a little rat dog, in this shitty ass town in the middle of nowhere.
And me, NO CONTACT baby. The best thing I have ever done. In fact, I found that I had a lot of these people in my life. They are gone too… and I don’t miss any of them one little bit.
violet says
It was also important to me that I cut out all the users, gossips and hanger-ons from my life, and there were many of them. X loved to have all kinds of groupies/”hero worshippers” hanging around him; they made him feel important. How I do not miss them. At all. He needed them to regale them with his wonderful accomplishments and spectacular deeds. Barf. I am loving the peace and quiet!
Nicelutherangirl says
What I’ve imagined for Snakeface and Spiritual Slut: more of what they had during the last years he was married to me, which were long walks at the local arboretum (which started when he sneaked MY PASS for our FAMILY membership out of my wallet and gave it to her, I’m 99% sure of it); more time out with their darling, supportive, protective,beloved mutual friends; and more time on the rez in South Dakota for sweats and other ceremonies because their spiritual lives are soooooo important to them.
They probably have all that, but I hope Spiritual Slut’s new life also includes the same excessive number of hours Snakeface spends in the bathroom with his laptop each week, soaking in the tub while jerking off to porn.
Hesatthecurb says
I never thought about POP having it better when he was no longer with me.
I know it probably isn’t possible. There aren’t many single women out there with what I have and had shared with him. After throwing him out by way of eviction (we weren’t married), he went from a beautiful custom built home on a large acreage, pool, stable and horses, 3 luxury vehicles at his disposal and much more —- to the homeless shelter with only his clothes on his back.
All of his much loved pricey possessions were lost in a pennies on the dollar non payment for storage unit sale.
When it came to my attention that he was on Match (where we had met), I contacted their administration and filled them in about his history or alcohol abuse and physical abuse of me and his former wife; and his predatory history of living off of and using women. They believed me and banned him from all their associated dating sites immediately. His bazarre for finding his harem went out of business.
I have no idea where he is now or what he is doing. I just hope he’s not causing another woman the kind of pain and misery he brought me and all the others before me.
(POP= Predatory Opportunistic Parasite)
Hesatthecurb…..hahahaha! This is now my favorite bedtime story! And he did NOT live happily ever after!
Hey NMSB—I don’t come around here often anymore….good to hear from you!
Yes, I think his entire life of being a shit hook has finally caught up with him. His brother told me he cheated on his very first girl friend at age 14 and it continued throughout his entire life. He’ll be 61 next month. He’s a very handsome man but if that’s all he got, it’s not going to get him anywhere these days.
TorontoChump says
Have you listened to the Dirty John podcast? POP sounds a lot like Dirty John.
Gee and I thought it was “piece of poop”.
Is it bad of me to laugh at this? I’m sorry for the pain he caused you but you had me at “the homeless shelter with only the clothes on his back.” I’m sorry but that is divine.
Hesatthecurb,
That is f*cking brilliant ! I had no idea you could tip off a dating web site and have somebody banned for being such an asshole !
Kudos !
Char21 says
What I imagine:
Our Life 2.0. That he will just slide into his new life, like nothing ever happened. Everything we had together, but better. Nicer home with a garage for all of his hobbies, more money, less responsibility, and a partner that will always make him the center of attention, and be ready and willing to go anywhere and do anything.
Likely Reality:
Chaos. He’s moving from a child-free home to one with 3 school-aged kids. He’s not going to be the center of anyone’s attention. He gets frustrated and lashes out at the slightest of stressors, or if he feels that he’s being ignored, kids aren’t exactly stress-free. A larger home will feel smaller when it need to accommodate everyone’s hobbies and stuff, not just his. He’s gong to be expected to at least attend some of the children’s events, I wonder how that will work out when it conflicts with his precious events? More Money? Not likely. we split finances right down the middle, even when I was earning much less than him. Our accounts were separate, so he had a lot of freedom to spend as he wished (even while I was struggling). There was no “household income” just his money, and mine. Although he always claimed the he paid the lions-share, (as I discovered in financial discovery) it wasn’t true at all. I can’t imagine his new schmoopie would be thrilled with that arrangement. I wish I was a fly on the wall.
Imagine: Oh yeah, and he’s finally happy, because apparently I was the only thing that was dragging him down.
Reality: he’s still not happy because he never really dealt with with what was really dragging him down.
My imagination: He was getting a new, happy life with his stripper, a beautiful girl with dead eyes, who happens to be 35 (yep) years younger than me. All heads turn wherever they go. Presumably the hottest fuck ever with no pesky expectations that he might actually practice adulting instead of just talking about it.
His reality: She doesn’t take care of her cat and their tiny condo is smelly and gravelly with cat litter. She goes home from her strip bar with other men and he is not surprised or upset even. When she is home she mostly sleeps. Nobody cooks. He spends his free time doing whatever labor, maintenance, moving tasks, etc. are needed by her enormous extended family. Oh, and the sex was better with me. In fact, everything was better with me. How do I know? His email got through — gmail blocking instructions did not work.
ninon says
This is not happening for me. She is his elitist dream girl; their story reads like erotica from The New Yorker. Yes, they are shitty people, but the narrative is pretty darn threatening.
I will say this though. I suspect she thinks he is all that and “the next big thing.” But let me tell you: He is about to turn 40 with no real job. His “career” and lifestyle are financed by his mother. He is balding. No amount of jogging is going to solve that double-chin.
And her? She’s a serial cheater who went after a married man with a child. I guess that makes her trash regardless of accent or pedigree.
Their story will fizzle and snuff out. Give it time.
Thank you (((hugs)))
Yup, they both got a cheater, no matter how good their lifestyle looks from the outside. When the sparkledust wears off, neither one of them should trust the other; they each know what the other is capable of. Imagine having to live with that all day everyday. Be glad that’s not your reality.
She got a fad, balding, middle aged man-baby. Don’t sound so great from here. You’re better off.
StigOfTheChump says
Sounds like the sandpaper of reality is working on the balsa wood of their love as we speak.
Or so it looks like on the outside. In short, its bullshit.
That shit-facade doesn’t last long – and it will be all the more glorious when it smashes into a million pieces.
Marsy says
Looked like: The two of them ended up with full time jobs at my place of work (I left when he wanted to apply, since my managerial but-x status meant all experience with him losing jobs elsewhere was biased): they got a house together to raise her kids. they moved south and had a baby. Happy couple looked like, while I was living in my Dad’s basement, working full time and doing a 100 mile commute to graduate school.
Was like: He got fired from the place I’d left. She quit in a huff. She’d found that job for him and kept trying to do that while he went from place to low-paid place. She was cooler than me, since Ok with his smoking pot and just not Ok with the cocaine. They moved to south because her family could support them. Their baby turned out to be autistic. He killed himself in a car crash with his whole family in the passengers and back seats. So she got to tell everybody they were rear ended (with her arm in a cast); when the newspaper said he made a left hand turn into on-coming traffic. She still stands by his memory. Now I am the one with a graduate degree from Ivy League college, full time job, windows, respect and my own house with my rules and my friends. I pray for her, when I’m in the right mood but that is it.
Hope49 says
Marsy…WOW! That is just sad. Me, well I would not pray for her. I could ONLY pray for the autistic child. The fact that she can not tell the truth for her deceased son? Maybe be enraged at your ex’s cowardice. Oh my god…
Finallly Free Heart says
The first few years of separation, I imagined that he found the “trophy” partner he always wanted. She would be very pretty and just so much fun. She would always do all the things he needed to be happy and he would be making her very happy. They would be having the life I wanted and never feel lonely or out of sorts.
What was the reality? Well, for the most part I have been no contact, so can only piece together what it is likely like from comments of my kids and my sister-in-law. He has lived with several different women. They have on the most part been women who had no resources and he could play their saviour, until his demands to have things his way became too much for them. He also cheated on them and this usually eventually came out. One son said his dad had found some of the most unattractive women, both on the outside and the inside, that it amazed him because appearances were always what counted most to his dad.
I no longer have an interest in what happens with my XH. I think I have let that feeling show because no-one talks about him anymore with me. It is like he was never in my life and I am happy with it that way.
I now only look back on this history as a learning experience. I was an expert spackler for 33 years and now see people and situations with clarity. I have clear boundaries and have become skillful at maintaining them without hurting other people. My life is totally different than it was as a married woman. I am stronger and much happier.
validated says
What I imagined it was for x and ow: enthusiastic sex and affection, her replacing me while pretending his mask was real, laughing at his jokes and put downs, working together on their sobriety.
What I imagined it would be for me: quiet and grief and loneliness.
What I saw after I moved out: he moved her in after I left but didn’t let her move in, just enough clothes to get by. The house they both said they loved was sold as part of the divorce, although x could have easily refinanced and made the payments. They broke up at some point a year after divorce.
What I found for me: Blessed quiet. Deeper friendships than I realized who helped me leave, divorce, and recover. Found my voice singing. Found my art by doing. Found that I can see through many manipulations now. Found a wonderful cat afraid of dogs and then found a wonderful dog that gets along with the cat. Found a wonderful place to live a few blocks from the center of my small town and surrounded by green and blooming trees.
What I thought (in winter/spring 2015): That he chose her (16 years younger, tall, brunette, lived at home with her daddy, loved to smoke pot and drink, hates kids — we have 4) because I was (all the things he accused me of that “made” him leave me and kids for her:
I was “too competent” “too conservative” “sober” “family focused” “old” “too critical of him” “didn’t make his life comfortable enough” “too materialistic because I wanted our life with the house in the suburbs with a good public school for our 4 kids” “not a good communicator” “was not satisfied” “made him feel inadequate”. . . and, “didn’t buy him the right kind of chair to sit in in the living room!”
After GTFO day three years ago this week when he permanently abandoned all parental responsibilities (for instance, he saw our kids 5 hours total in the month of April at restaurant meals and shopping trips to mall), I imagined them living a 30 year old no kid lifestyle (he’s 50!) in a luxurious downtown apartment with sweeping views of the city and no maintenance or yard duties (they were renting); jet setting around the world (they visited 3 continents in two years); having delicious meals and relaxing drinks at romantic little restaurants near their apartment; laughing and partying high and drunk with other free-spirited and rich young urban professionals while X pretended to fit in and ignore his reality (such a cliche).
What I now know:
He sucks.
He is a serial life-long liar and cheater, narcissist, BPD, sociopathic user.
He screams at her. She screams at him — a lot!
He is miserable and stressed out 24/7.
He brought himself into that relationship and has already cheated on her and is always trying to find new sources of narcissistic supply (kibbles).
He is much fatter now, his eyes are yellow, his teeth are even yellower and grayer than ever.
He smokes now and his breathe and car and clothes smell TERRIBLE.
He has lost all fitness — cannot run or hike and is too sick from drugs and drink and smoking to workout (we used to lift 3x a week, do HIIT, run half-marathons.)
The kids literally despise him and tell him every chance they get.
Viagra doesn’t even reliably work for him — the little herpified- diseased thing stays limp even with 2 blue pills.
She sucks.
She’s just using X until she finishes professional school and has sucked him dry of his money and connections.
She told my kids she is “dating” her law school classmates even though she lives with X.
She is the most selfish, inept person I’ve ever known of (hates kids? doesn’t believe in marriage? hates animals? cannot even boil water without causing a fire? WTF??????)
My life is wonderful! Meh is wonderful!
Ah ha ha, it was so much fun reading what kind of loser her really is! These cheaters think they are all that, but it’s funny how they can’t adult whatsoever when they are on their own. It’s one bad decision after another. Have fun buddy! I’m so glad you are at meh and are living a wonderful future! Hugs to you.
What I thought it would be..
They were doing all the things he wanted to do with me……I imiganed they were cycling, buying a beautiful home, my kids would abandon me, he spend his money buying her gifts…
What it really is….he’s spending his money on cars, sitting at a casino getting drunk, while she’s on his lap with his hand between her legs. Going to free local cramped beaches full of rocks with a warning not to go in the water because of the high bacteria. Getting evicted as the house was condemned. Renting a crappy house for twice the cost of s morgage. Losing business and picking up crap on the side of the road to sell on Craig’s list to pay the bills. Having to cater to a lap dog and toddler when he had total independence. Sitting in the house with the shades closed. The dream girl is borderline, rages at the drop of a hat. Her cooking spicy food he can’t eat.
The adult children planning their escape on holidays before they visit. Best of all the fantasy, the bubble burst. Two cheaters who suck and belong together.
OMFG… picking up roadside junk and trying to sell it on Craigslist? I’ve heard it all now! 😂😂😂
Picking up roadside junk……yeppers, he had plenty of experience after picking up the roadside slut! Good to see he is the CEO of his own company now!
I’d love to see his business cards….”Have Junk Will Travel.”
“Kicking the can down the street”
What I thought it was- nothing. I was told it wasn’t happening even though it was and had been for a long time. When I did find out, I thought it was because I was a horrible person who drove him into the arms of someone who understood him and met his needs. I thought that the ow must be pretty amazing to have a married father leave his child and pregnant wife for her.
A man child who clung onto the first person who fed his narc needs while pregnant wife was too distracted with toddler son and first trimester ickies.
It was two desperate assholes who cared nothing of the ramifications their actions had caused, putting my and my unborn child’s health at risk, as well as culturing an uncomfortable work environment for their colleagues. When the secret became unbearable, both of their jobs were threatened so the ow filed a sexual harassment claim to save her job and reputation (as the company bike). So once again the children and I are suffering the consequences of their actions. Having said that- it liberates me from the false belief that we had to depend on him for financial reasons. Now I’m more employable than him with job opportunities lined up. Here’s to new beginnings without the bricks weighing us down, keeping us from our full potential. So what it really was? It was the unveiling of the true nature of narcissists and an open door to a new found Independence and a chance to discover my true self.
Loved your post FedUpChump. With so many hurdles to overcome I salute you!
Leli says
According to my son, OW seems to think that spaghetti with tomato ketchup poured over it is a meal – I think it’s her take on spaghetti alla marinara!
OMG! All of the Italian mothers are rolling over in their graves screaming “quelle puttane!”
Kicked OCD out says
What she thought she got was a very successful, funny all around great guy. Outgoing fun to be with and doing family stuff.
What she got was unemployed because work found out about the affair, grumpy, moody, OCD about cleaning and always pissed at something guy who yells a lot even at her young kids. But hey everyone says he is a great guy
Ain’t this the truth. On the surface my ex looks like he’s got all the stuff, but in reality he’s a boring, arrogant, selfish, controlling, sports-watching addict who can hardly get it up. Whoever snags him next is in for a special treat.
Chumpzilla says
What I thought it was: He, with his newly-minted degree (that he got while I supported him) and his fancy new programmer job, was off with some new, better girl to spend money on her and finally be the Man in Charge in the relationship — something he could never be with me due to his low self esteem (which I caused, apparently, with my awesomeness) and his allergies to working and paying for things. He’d finally found a girl who let him be The Man by *not* showering him with expensive gifts and vacations or supporting him while he played in numerous failed bands and got a degree.
What it is: He’s shacked up with a woman 25 years older than he, in a dumpy house about a block from where I live. They used to work together (such a cliche). She’s obnoxious and not particularly well educated from what I can tell, but she is just like me in some other ways: liberal, animal lover, empath. And he’s cheating on her, two years into their relationship. I know because one of his extracurricular targets saw some red flags and sleuthed me out on FB. I told her everything.
While it was sad to see that his current GF is going to get run over by the dump truck (discard truck?) just like I did (and she has no place of her own, no money, no good job etc.), it’s satisfying to know that she wasn’t the holy grail. She, too, has some imagined failings that give Asshat the excuse/entitlement he needs to tell his sad-sausage story to any girl who will listen and possibly give him a sympathy lay. Pathetic.
Dechumping says
Karma! Glad you’re in a better place chumpzilla!
Chompingchump says
I can tell the story of my ex’s father. He ran off with his secretary half his age, had a baby, abandoning his wife of 30 years and young adult children. Soon after the secretary developed an ‘online shopping addiction’ (poor dear, she needs help!), literally filled his house from floor to ceiling with boxes full of $80,000 of random household goods ordered online, then ran off with some guy from the video store. So two divorces, alimonies, child supports, and an online shopping addiction later, ex-FIL goes bankrupt, loses his medical practice and now at age 78 can’t afford to retire. Wife 3 accuse him of stealing money. He now goes from family member to family member, buys them lavish gifts and then with a hangdog look and then begs for money. Of course all this happened after I married my own ex. My own ex is now doing his best to follow in his father’s footsteps and apparently can’t connect the dots.
I never really idealized the OW because honestly none of them are great or special. It’s all about kibbles and that is clear. Not to brag but I’m a very accomplished, attractive, intelligent woman and my STBX’s standards for kibbles dispensers is/are shockingly low. Of course that messed with my head in other ways, because he risked, got caught, and blew up my life for some really non-impressive women, and that’s even putting aside their obvious lack of morals.
When we’d get in fights, usually when he was drunk, he would say he could do better, get a 25 yr old supermodel, fill our house and hot tub with Playboy bunnies, blah blah. It hurt at the time. He can, not because he’s God’s gift to women like he thinks, but because he’s wealthy and flaunts it and we live in probably the most shallow big city in America.
But the reality? He’s miserable and lonely. Still texts me nearly every day, despite lack of response. Says no one can compare to me, he screwed up, he’s miserable, blah blah. None of the OW have been upgraded to girlfriend status. He partied hard for the first month or so until that got old. He’s just a sad, demented, lonely, insecure, aging man. And I am free and no longer cry all the time. I’m sure in time he’ll move on but so far, his fantasys have not come true. And when he does date he’ll have to worry if he’s ever loved for him, since I met him before his wild success. I don’t want him to be miserable, but his actions created this for him.
What I thought: Loved my husband. Made him my life. Encouraged golf trips. As long as he was happy I was happy.
What happened: They were trips with OW. OW had her girlfriend call me and tell me about the affair of 2+ years. That imploded everything. We are now getting divorced. He has a new girlfriend. Looks totally hard rode and hung up wet. Can’t imagine why he would want something liked that instead of me. I still love him dearly but don’t know who he is anymore.
Nomorecamping says
I met mine before his wild success. I got a lawyer after he moved in with coworker 25 years younger.
He told me that I got with him all those years ago to take him for everything now! Yeah. We started with next to nothing but I knew I’d take him later! Lol. I’m such the planner, you know.
It was more like: I helped him get all his toys and camper and motorcycles and drones and race boat and camera – then he dumped me when gold digger scoped him out at work. Stupid me had no hobbies – focused on our daughter, mainly.
Do I sound bitter? says
I’m glad to hear I’ll stop being so upset about this one of these days. Thanks for that.
LazarusOfThe23Years says
What I thought: she must be amazing and vastly superior to me in every was because why else would you blow up a 23 year marriage and abandon your kid and terrific life?
What actually happened: Have no common friends so he knows nothing about my life. Our daughter changed her last name to my maiden name and 5 years later she still refuses to have anything to do with his now slut wife. X complains to my now college age daughter once a week about alimony payments and child support, and still believes I am the source of all his problems. He complains that he can’t keep living “double life” because daughter refuses to have any interaction with slut. Funny since he had no trouble living double life for years while he was cheating.
Me: So happy! I have an amazing relationship with my daughter, I have a wonderful job that I absolutely love, and I have a set of fantastic friends. I have time for myself and my fur children. It has been a complete blessing he is gone. I thank the Lord and CN for getting me through the last 5 years and helping me get to meh :). For those of you in the early stages – hang in there. Everything really does get much better in time.
Yes! I love how things ended up for you. I’m seeing more and more of this for myself. Life looks bright and great.
So happy for you. 🙂 Funny how they want tbe double life on their terms. Not the terms that are consequences for their stupidity.
springfield528 says
What they thought it would be: A continuation of their 4 year long affair at work where OW reported to Cheater CEO and so he took her on fabulous trips (“business conventions”), paid for lavish dinners and entertainment (“expense account”) stayed in Ritz Hotels (again, expense account) and frankly probably got off on knowing that I (Cheater’s wife of 37 years) and his daughter also worked for this company so OW and Cheater got to really enjoy the MindFunking wonderfulness of their affair right under our noses.
What it was: They both got caught, company hired big attorneys to investigate them both, they got fired, publicly humiliated, and CHeater lost his career and reputation and very lucrative big salary. SO now they are going to pretend for a while that they are still so very special (4 ski trips to Vail and Salt Lake City since January) but by my calculations, the money will run out in a year or so. Now Cheater is convinced that OW is not a Gold DIgger and loved him for his wonderfulness but she is a twice divorced, serial adulterer with tight dressed and much silicon who entered the company bragging that she intended to “marry up.” LOL. Joke is on her if she think a ruined former CEO with no career prospects is “marrying up.’
So yes, it hurts. It hurts big time. But is there anyone out there besides Cheater who thinks this is true love? First thing this woman ever said to me is “OMG do you know how much Cheater’s Porsche is worth? I am going to get him to let me drive it.” Dream bigger honey. World peace maybe or an end to cancer. If your dream is to drive a Porsche, you have I guess achieved that. But you are a shallow Gold Digger who just scored an even shallower Cheater and the money he has will soon run out. Enjoy!
springfield528:
I am writing to you because your situation is almost identical to mine. I worked at same co as him. and the first time I suspected something was awry when skaggiest ugliest woman that was working there at the time was spinning the amex card between her fingers bragging that my husband gave her his card to buy whatever she wanted. SHe pretended she meant work stuff. Then she was suing the company years later because he claimed that her contract was breached …probably years later in hindsight it was actually a personal lawsuit towards him because she could not get him…she was too ugly probably and very rough around the edges/not his type. Then, while I was still working there, he orchestrated a way to get me out of there, I did not know why, did not realize that he was moving a different Howorker than the prev mentioned scag, into the picture….eg the current one was in the pipeline. All this time I did not know or realize he was a narcissist and this was textbook. Anyway, I relate to what you said about he success and lifestyle that he used company funds to take that next Howorker on trips, flew her all over the world on private jets, company expenses, lavish gifts, valentines night taking her and a male coworker out to pretend they were celebrating work successes, etc etc. This Ho and him ruined my life. But they kept it a big secret because his image was EVERYTHING. He did not want anyone to know about the two of them because it could kill his image, career, etc. She was such a professional Ho that she kept the secret with him because she wanted him so bad because she was being love bombed excessively and she knew how to play the game. She was acting like a trusted HO to him that he could count on for his sex on the road on a whim because her goal was to land him and get me dumped out of the picture. I was just her obstacle. She knew how to play the game …she did not want it to end, and why would she, a lonely Ho that had two kids and wanted the best looking most successful guy at the company who was lavishing her with gifts etc. She could do no better. But anyway, in the end he dies and karma blows up in her face. Unfortunately for me I am struggling because I always worked hard and he controlled his own secret money and probably hid it with her. It’s the emotional and mental anguish that I feel, all of it has destroyed me
What he thought he was getting: a fated, destined romance with a girl half my age, roaming the wilds of Mongolia on ponies, sleeping under the stars and seeking enlightenment from the Lords of the Mountains, sitting on top of hills surveying the world with a magical being at his side and becoming his authentic self, making music with her to earn their living as a pair of troubador minstrels walking the earth together
What he got: message from the girl that she didn’t feel the same way and didn’t want to hear from him again after he told her a dream he had about him and her seeking their fortune together, a few months in a cottage he eventually couldn’t afford, when he started living in a van, same old stressful job with very poor pay, his teenaged children refusing school with difficult mental health, Chump looking for a home with herself and the kids free from daily sad, and with divorce on the horizon when I can afford it
Oh!! Didn’t read the assignment properly!
What I thought it was : He was a ludicrously self-blind romantic who couldn’t see what was happening to him and was having a major mid-life crisis plus emotional affair because he couldn’t talk to me about problems in our marriage – but maybe he was right after all and it was all true and I was a horrible ogre like she said and I have never loved anyone ever not even my children
What it actually was: I was right after all, he knew all along and hoped to have his cake and kibbles, but see above
Amazes me now how we Chumps so often accept blame, CN showed me the mindfuck for what it was
“When he started living in a van” …!!! THANK YOU for my chuckle for the evening. THAT is beautiful and the ending I wish for my own fuckwit who now ‘wants to come home’. Errrr NO. That is NOT going to happen.
junglechump says
i smelled bullshit right from the start, i saw right through it all and the shitty developments within their relationship seem entirely as i predicted it.
What I thought it was: Blissful times with a sexy younger woman spent at an upscale hotel when he traveled to her city for business, romantic meals at nice restaurants, going out to see live music, sex all night.
What it really was: Haggard trailer park chain-smoking MOW had to sneak around to keep her husband from finding out. Midnight booty calls at his hotel because she had to wait for her young daughter to fall asleep before she could sneak out and then get back home before she woke up (yep, mom of the year). Quick trips to fast food places so he could stay within his per diem and not raise suspicion with me. They were livin’ large…
What I pretty much knew from the beginning: he got to hang out at the local filthy slut hole bar with someone (and the rest of the bar crowd) who was happy to let him pay for their drinks from his (and my) salary. Turns out first Schmoopy had a face like a camel’s arse so “enjoy”. Next Schmoopy is prettier and did nothing to me but what on earth was he/they thinking. We both had good jobs and lived (I still do) in the French Alps and it is stunning. So latest Schmoopy hooks up with him and he at first seems loads of fun when he is sober – which isn’t very often. But the shark eyes take over when he is drinking and the fists usually follow. So after 3 months together they “think” they can apply for a resident’s visa for her. Hey, they are not married, she has no income, no health insurance and doesn’t speak the language. Also as a US citizen she has no automatic right to live here so they are both “stunned” when the French consulate tells them no sorry. (I hear “we should build a wall” somewhere in there don’t you). So they are back in the US where he is on a damn good pension but has always been able to spend 200 per cent (and more) of any money coming in. So after less than a year together Schmoopy is “bored” and decided to get back to work – although cynical old me thinks they probably weren’t making it financially. My sons haven’t spoken to him since last November when he came over here for an event so how’s that working out for you, the world’s greatest dad. And he wrote to me 2 weeks ago by email asking for “help”. Also my youngest described her as weird and a nag who keeps him on a short leash so enjoy that too. As far as I’m concerned any man who has to be kept on a short leash can just sod off out of my life.
Me on the other hand, I got total peace and calm in my home. I can sleep at night. My kids have peace in their lives and I have 100 times the amount of money in the bank as I did when we had joint incomes. Now I have male friends who I adore but am not looking for more, and as my colleague recently told me “you got your smile back”.
attie
that sounds wonderful…and beautiful scenery to boot
These assholes usually blow up their own lives to boot also…they think they are pursuing some great catch. It’s usually clouded over by the exciting secret sex…oh how romantic…then when they start to see that the woman is not all that great then bingo they realize the great woman they lost…too late ! Although maybe they don’t realize it because some they are a narcissist after all. They realize nothing. It’s all about them and their D’s. That’s it. That’s whats important in life.
QueenMother says
James Bond would come to his senses, realize his love for me and how precious our marriage is to him. His parents, his family, our faith community would help him end his porn, prostitution, online, dating, voyeurism, affairs, etc and he would become a loving and committed husband to me, growing old with me as we enjoyed family and shared a business, service, dancing, sex, cooking, gardening, brave.
What happened:
James Bond floating through life never being needed professionally, only contacted by the needy and desperate or prostitutes. He’s living in his mom’s guest room, his sister (also his social secretary) sleeps on a mattress in the foyer of mom’s apartment. All of this is financed by the only successful sibling, who they both hate.
Always 15 minutes late (porn does that) to his only contact with real people, his faith communities outreach program, which he stays in cuz he moved around the world AND through his wife (now ex-wfie) under the buss.
His skin becomes more and more pasty and festers. His thin hair completely gray, he relies on photos 30 years old to catch his online prey. About which: he does not want to meet in person (yuck), just video sex, please.
Tapped out all of his retirement money on hookers and covering up his mess, he “earns” a living by caring for his aged father.
Jessie Desolay says
Re: the recipes. You all really have to read Mapp & Lucia, if you haven’t. Thanks again for fortifying me (without calories) for the weekend, CN!
Me and XH never had any children. One of the things that drew him to schmoopie was her 9 yr old daughter. She idolized him and he had Santa Clause step dad fantasies about camping, biking, bowling, playing games in the yard etc. Now XH and schmoopie live together with her 2 children. The youngest, 9ish when the affair started is now close to 14. I doubt she wants to do all the same things she wanted to do at age 9! I doubt he is still idolized by her! Schmoopie has 2 kids by 2 different husbands. My XH was always kind of a jealous type. I can’t imagine how he deals with the youngest’s girls dad since he is still in the picture and very much a part of girls life. I bet it eats at him having to deal with this man on a regular basis knowing that this man not only has some control over daughters raising but this man also had his hand in schmoopies pants at one time! Im sure he can hardly control his hatred of this man. Makes me giggle 🤭
What I thought he would do: date a rash of young women and live large like a bachelor
What he’s done: harass me to be his friend and show way too much curiosity about a guy I’m dating
What I’ve done: had sweet sweet freedom
Bwwwaaahhh!
Alone says
What I thought he would do: Crash and burn after our 30 year marriage ended due to his affair and him marrying the OW immediately after our divorce.
What he’s done: Unfortunately, made a great life for them both. Just built her their 2nd 300K home, Both have new cars, new furniture, take lavish vacations.
What I’ve done: Unfortunately, raised our children in struggle while I sit and watch no Karma ever coming their way.
Give it time. In the mean time, work on you. You want to be fab when the universe does its thing. You are only seeing the exterior. Image is easy to present.
How long has it been? It’s okay to keep up for a while, but sooner later, they’ll slip up.
Correction… fortunately raising our children. Unfortunately, with struggle while I sit and watch no Karma ever coming their way.
…wait for it. Actually, don’t wait for it, just go about your life and hopefully never think of them again. But know that it cometh no matter
NotANiceChump, Thank you for your comment. I’m trying to live my life and not think about it. Somehow, something always gets shoved in front of me to force me to be aware. Hoping someday that stops. Not to be doom and gloom but seems as though some people just catch all the breaks and never are forced to deal with the fallout that should occur when one sets out to destroy a family.
It can seem like that sometimes, agreed. But I’ve found that often there’s little authenticity to that appearance. Like, at the end of the day we all have to go home and face ourselves in the mirror.
NotANiceChump. Thanks for your comments. They as all the comments are extremely helpful.
I’m not ashamed to say I hope
there isn’t any truth to the appearance being displayed. I don’t wish ill will but am definitely not wishing for success on that end. Easier to forgive harmful actions by others but impossible to forget .
Can you not revisit child support, etc? It seems a shame that he and the OW are prospering at the expense of his children.
Soldering On. I managed no contact for the better part of a decade and was unaware of his financial improvement (so to speak) I let my guard down and allowed contact for a while that I’m now in the process of shutting down. Unfortunately, we’re too close to support ceasing to bother. In the end the no contact was worth it. Thank you for your comments
Back child support is a Thing. If he’s prospered so well, at the expense of his children, it should be OK to check with an attorney. I’ve seen it done, even when the children had “aged out” of the support agreement.
If he can afford all that he needs to be payin more support.
You were married for 30 years. You don’t know if their relationship will last. Yours lasted 30 years! And something else, we never know what life is like in someone else’s house. You don’t know if their happy or have a great life. And it doesn’t matter. He’s a liar and a cheater. OW can have him. He’s a jerk no matter what! He destroyed a family. Not a good guy
one says
Wonderwoman, deep down I know you’re right that we don’t know what life is like in someone else’s house or if their happy and have a great life. If judging by the posed videos and pictures, I’d say they are at least giving the appearance that it was all worth it and having a time of it. And yes, you’re correct. Not just my family destroyed, they destroyed her family as well. Hard to detach after so many years. Thank you for the comment.
“judging by the posed videos and pictures”
They’re just showing off their highlights reel – AKA Image Management.
Alone, I lived what looked like an enviable life for 25 years….it was a big lie as X was fucking women behind my back the whole time, he was abusive emotionally and physically. You already know that your X is an abusive cheater that can abandon someone he’s married to.
Sounds like money is a struggle for you … it was for me after the discard. I’ve focused all my efforts on revenue generation and attaining new credentials while being a single mom with full custody…. not easy but it will pay off. Sending hugs and support, you are not alone!
MotherChumper99
Thanks for the hugs and support. The word, discard…so true a word. It is tough when you pretty much spent a lifetime with someone who stabbed you in the back. Same boat here, single and full time custody. Have to remind myself every day that who I thought he was is a lie.
Chumplanta says
Thanks for sharing this as this is how I feel too sometimes. I think it makes it easier when XH’s life blows up and he ‘lives in a van.’ It’s so hard when they look so happy and secure. I try to remember I can never see what goes on behind closed doors. Maybe inside the house with STBX and AP, it’s a pressure cooker full of nasty, sticky resentment about to explode or a leaky toilet and shit’s gonna be everywhere one day. Today I’m gonna blow faithless Karma a kiss goodbye and cheat the bitch by going for a run and enjoying my day. So just in case he and she live happily ever after. So. Be. It. I will be running free.
chumplanta. I’m trying to get the attitude you’re developing. I sure know I’ve wasted a great deal of my life waiting for their implosion.
I hear you, Alone. Nothing would make me happier than a real implosion. I just don’t think I’m going to get it. I just don’t feel that lucky. Inspired by CN to work on Mighty. I can do a little something about mighty every day.
Psalm 37…fret not thyself about evil doers…
Alone says
Mandie 101. Thanks. I went back and refreshed myself on that Psalm. Saved it to my phone for easy re-reading.
Chumpzila says
I had the same struggle as you ladies. Everything seemed fabulous and wonderful for Asshat and the new GF he discarded me for. Clearly, I had been the problem, or so he would have me believe.
I had to remind myself over and over of who he really is, even though they seemed to be leading a blissful existence together.
Then something amazing happened. A girl (not his GF) reached out to me on FB. Asshat was wooing her but she had an instinct something wasn’t right, did her homework online, and contacted me.
Turns out that he told this girl that he’s been single since he and I broke up. He’s been with his GF for probably close to 3 years now and patently denies her existence.
Point is: even if you can’t see it, you know it’s happening because these freaks don’t change. Who we thought they were is a lie. I was given the gift of seeing how he operates from the outside looking in, thanks to this girl. But even if you don’t get that validation, trust that they suck no matter how great it looks on the surface.
What I imagined his life would be like:
They are soulmates. She looks at him with her flirty big eyes and he melts. How did I get so lucky, he asks himself? She makes him feel so strong and successful, he never flies into a rage! They cuddle on the couch at night and then go outside to enjoy a cigarette together. They scan the internet for the next amazing concert to experience together. He holds her hand when they walk into their megachurch where they smear themselves in the balm of the forgiveness of their faith.
He’s a new person! He’s no longer petulant, insecure, put upon, unhappy. He now longer has angry outbursts. Between his therapy (that he refused for 28 years) and the sweetness of their union, he is now a kind, caring, empathic man.
They laugh together over oysters at how inadequate his STBX wife and her Xhusband were as they clink their vodka martini glasses together. She thinks it’s cool when he rolls the windows down of his sporty little Mercedes and blasts U2; she gives him the flirty eye as she again agrees with him that U2 is indeed the greatest band of all time. In bed, he admires her big, swingy boobs and her confidence in her Rubenesque hoochy mama body. Why couldn’t Chumplanta have had Schmooplanta’s sexy-wexy body confidence?!
When she’s alone, Schmooplanta can’t help but hug herself! Eeeeeeek! I won! She thinks about the money! 10x what she had before! Her two boys are going to have a great life! She just has to keep faking those O’s and ignoring his grey teeth, his bad posture and you know, a few little things like that.
What his life is really like:
His two kids don’t respect him and spend no more than a dinner a month with him. He lives in a rental house with Schmoop and her two kids 4th and 9th grade even though he is still married.
One time as we were on the phone, in conflict over the settlement, he got angry and in a beautifully exasperated, irritated and aggravated tone, instead of saying “Chumplanta!” (as in “Chumplanta you are the most exasperating person alive, and this is why I left you!”), he said, “Schmooplanta!” I bust out in the most joyous laughter that lasted about two solid minutes. That little slip said alot.
She has gained about 40 pounds and has apparently developed high cholesterol, so they have gone VEGAN!! Evidently, he admitted to our son that he stopped and got a burger on the drive home one night. Once a cheater, always a cheater.
Other than that, I really have no idea.
THIS. Is. A riot. Thank you.
He upgraded. OW is younger by about 12ish years, she is pretty and thin and a fucking MD. Oh, and rich. I thought they would live this fabulous DINK life. No kids. Double income as high earners, no less. Take my kids here and there and wow them with the high life and fun times that the younger and prettier OW could provide.
OW doesn’t work. Never has and no doubt never will. She is a stay at home mom to a dog (she possibly abuses). She had a lot of money, but my ex had to sign a pre nup. They live in a shady part of town in a house the like she probably had never lived in…not even in her student years she spent in the Ivy League. My ex has no money. He lost the respect of his kids. And OW who just ‘got him’ like no one else ever had or ever will…the woman he told our daughter that he finally found love! with…has him pussy whipped. She doesn’t trust him. He looks at his watch everytime he is with our kids. It hits a certain point and he is gone. Oh…and he can’t have our kids because OW lost custody of her own due to OW being an alcoholic, personality disordered child abuser.
So..I was right. They do have a child free life. But my ex paid a high, high price for it.
And as for OW?
Calmafterstorm, Yikes! Glad you found out about her being a child abuser and how she lost custody of her kids. I imagine although she had an MD she lost her ability to practice medicine in some state because of her alcoholism and abuse of her own children? Do you know?
Oh….she got her MD but she never finished her residency. She has never worked as a dr (thus her name is Cunt Face MD and not Dr Cunt Face).
The only 2 jobs she has held is a Mommy Blogger and briefly as an events coordinator for a hospital.
She does talk about going into child psychiatry though. After 2 years and she hasn’t done it I think that is just talk.
Lola Granola says
What I thought: “Oh well – he will surely marry her, instead of me. Perhaps it’s for the best.”
What actually happened: Five years later, still no marriage, and she has turned into an exhausted and insecure frump. I on the other hand got full restoration of mojo, and have led busy and fascinating life, cheater free and very happy.
RealMonkeyLove says
Getting free of an abusive fuckwit is the best thing ever👍👍
What I imagined: Great sex, much happier without me, taking my children away from me, my children preferring and defending the AP, myself as a total failure, the ‘older and wiser’ AP making great decisions and taking control of someone I was unable to ‘control’.
What it is: Erectile dysfunction, sociopathy, my children can’t stand the AP and want nothing to do with, I realize I’m not a total failure, the AP has aged badly and has congestive heart failure and COPD due to chain smoking, they just filed bankruptcy due to debt plus foreclosure. Apparently the fuckwit wants to ‘come home’. Salut!!
Scythifuge says
I don’t know what my STBX is up to, other than most likely hitting up the AP after our false reconciliation ended. Or, perhaps some other ex.
When I get done with her, she is going to be broke. What I imagine she will do, since I have affairs, is whine to the AP and her “friends” that she made a mistake, but after she twist the narrative, they will somehow be my fault and that I am evil, or some shit.
She will then love bomb AP or some other schmuck in order to get access to their finances, and she will use and abuse that bastard as well. She is also constantly complaining about her weight as she eats ice cream, and that begins to get old (her weight did not bother me, just the nagging and how it was a weapon used against me in her abuse cycles.) She is also not aging very well.
The thing is, she can’t move away due to our son, so I predict that she will slowly destroy herself and her reputation beyond the current level of shit. I don’t really have this vision that she will live some happy, luxurious life.
Edit: That line should read “since I have evidence of her affairs” not “I have affairs.”
Editing snafu!
CL, I think others have also wished for a like button so I can like all the stories above, some of which have me in stitches
People ask for this all the time, but to do that, I’d have to move to a new comment plug-in. Which is a database issue, because… how do I move all the OLD comments? (And can you go “like” those now?) There are hundreds of thousands of comments on this site. If an IT person has a solution, I’m all ears. I’m sort of stuck with the current comment functionality. This site gets a lot of engagement. It’s a bigger issue than you might think
To clarify, the ludicrousness of cheaters is just something else. Delusional fantasists like my ex with the mind of a spoilt toddler in the body of a fully grown woman
RealMonkeyLove – Delusional with the mind of spoilt toddler in a body of a grown man. Exactly.
People point out our daughter in high school is more mature than stbx. He cannot reason, negotiate or communicate. It’s his way or the highway. His way or face punishment. And now he’s doing it to our daughter. It’s so disgusting. I picture him with his big fat stomach, bald head, hairy body and nothing on but a diaper, crying and screaming. And he’s toothless because his dentures are in the cup.
I wonder if his 24 y.o. girlfriend calls in his prescriptions like I used to…
I imagined them spending the days when shmoopie was child free (because she only has her toddler 50%) going to cafe’s and running along the local running tracks which I know from experience when he refused to go running with me are gorgeous, then he would go to work in the pub she bought him and eventually be able to buy more pubs and eventually be able to simply spend their time as they wished. The reality was he couldn’t handle the responsibility and so 7 months after she bought him that first pub…he burnt it down. So the reality is he is doing time in their local medium security prison for the next 6 years while she has got an additional $250k worth of debt to work off with nothing to show for it…. pretty sure I got the better side of this break up
Alice. Your karma story is just TOO good. The schmoopie WON a flaming, scheming narcissist with criminal tendencies. They feel they are never going to get caught whether it is cheating or insurance fraud, right Now he is in prison! She has $250,000 of debt. LOL
So. Much. Karma.
That should be some kind of modern fairytale…fabulous.
I kinda feel like I am right in the middle of some sort of made for daytime tv melodrama. Hoping to find the happy ending in just a few years time when the frumpy single mum meets the (obviously already single!!) man who makes her feel like a swan and they build a life together…. but we shall see.
What I imagined (and so did they): the Real True Love that Never Was (she ran off with someone much older than her and broke his heart. He had to Make Do with me who he never really loved because, Her). Now, at last, they were together forever and could live the rest of their lives living what Always Should Have Been. Her beauty and immaculate make up compared with the frumpy sad sack he shackled himself to! What a pity she wasn’t the mother of his children! The beauties they would have created together!!
What really happened: the children were horrified at the secrets and the lies and interviewed them, single and together, about their appalling behaviour. They saw through their own eyes what he had done to their mother, because he did it to them. He drove her as crazy as he drove me. She started him smoking again. It ended when she drank a bottle of vodka and lay on the floor screaming.
FicoChump says
What she thinks she is getting (howorker that lives in another time zone). A business cheater whore man, Tinder & FB whores connoiseur. Who just “loves” her and take her to Vegas as an AP, wine, steak etc etc . Thanks to his corporate card & Ccards under my name while we were married since his credit was always mess up.
What she is really getting a almost 50 yrs old child/man. Who is a couch potato, heavy weekend drinker & business drinker (alcoholic anyone!) who uses partners to life his fake life. I was lucky enough to get a good lawyer and paid off all debts under my name with his retirement. Now he gets half his paycheck because alimony & child support, he is renting a room since mean ex gets 1/2 his salary & he keeps playing a “love distance” romance with howorker.
What she doesn’t know that he will get more from her financially & emotionally. He keeps lying & maxing out credit cards like there is no tomorrow to be a faker. As long as he pays parts or her bills & keep doing the fake weekends get aways she will be “in love” with him “forever”. #fakelife #di$tance💜
I thought I was finally getting my fairy tale ending. A handsome, self-made man written up in all the Washington DC papers for his philanthropy.
What I got was Grimm’s fairy tale. A complete sociopath.
What I imagined about the weekends (2x per month) the kids spent with RonBurgundy and the Internwhore: big family breakfasts, game nights and family movies, lots of laughter and fun because she was actually closer to the age of the kids than to his age.
What it really was: (And I learned this over time in bits and pieces from the kids) rushing around to do his public appearances, fights if they forgot clean underwear or brought jeans with a hole in the knee because “his image”, having to pick up toys etc. several times per day b/c he just couldn’t stand any clutter ever, and a sitter almost every night they spent with him because who knows why…
No, I really do know why, because parenting four whole days a month is haaaaaaaarrrdddd.
ShockedChump says
What I thought it was: A responsible family man who was a partner and honored our vows. Someone who pulled his weight and shared the responsibility of child rearing.
What it actually is: A lazy narcissistic ass, who barely lifts a finger and when he does he wants a bitch cookie. Someone who leaves all the heavy lifting to me and takes zero initiative in helping with everyday life.
After careful thought (sarcasm): I decided to take the house, car, kids, cat, alimony, and child support. She can have the man child with receding hairline and erectile dysfunction. Seems like a fair trade to me 🤷🏻♀️😂😂😂😂😂 #onwardandupward
Hahahahaha! I agree, fair deal!
Chump at meh... says
What I imagined would happen – fastest divorce on record then Susieslutpants and Cheaternarc riding off into the sunset to go and play ‘Happy Familes’ somewhere.
SusieS thinks she’s getting a mature man who will be able to keep her in style and no one will be able to love him as much as she can etc etc. and his cheating was because she was so wonderful he realised a good deal etc etc – barf !
What happened – Cheaternarc filibustering all through the divorce and dragging it out as long as he could. Then going to live with SusieS. Then coming back saying he wasn’t happy and could he stay with me and would I rent him a room? WTF?
Then buying a house with SusieS (she put up the deposit) but telling her he didn’t want her living there because he ‘wasn’t ready yet’. After about 5 years of her coming round cooking, washing, ironing etc for him she got pregnant so they got married. Baby comes 3 months later but sadly dies.
The next pregnancy end in miscarriage.
Finally about 7 years later she has a live birth, then has post natal depression and ends up in psychiatric for 3 months. Mother has to move in to take care of baby. Cheaternarc not happy that he has to pull his weigh about the house now.
5 years later they have another child and she has another spell in psychiatric.
They then decide to move to a big fancy house and and found out that the Endowment Mortage they took out will have a shortfall, so they have to move again to release some cash. ( Cheaternarc always had “Champagne taste and beer money” as we say in UK and was very good at spending my money )
By this time the property market had slumped and they lost £10,000s on the deal.
After this I left the area so haven’t a clue how they are getting on.
I would say that the Karma bus not only paid them a visit, but ran over them several times. I almost feel sorry for SusieS, (I’m sorry the babies died, obviously)
I’ve given this topic a great deal of thought. I never thought they would end up happy, grand vacations, love flowing like a champagne fountain. When I found about Ms Tuna Taco Lips, her 2 kids, an ex and her job as a barmaid, I thought, WTF is wrong with him?
What it really is? Summer’s Eve, has asked to come back here and live on the other side of the house….ummmm NO. He has been sniffing around, sending messages, pictures of his grandchildren, talking to friends telling them “I feel like such an asshole for doing her wrong.” Yes, yes, you are an asshole.
Talking to people saying he will be snowbirding it soon and “doesn’t care” what Ms. TTL thinks. Yep, yeppers, yesereeee, that is true love right there. Idiot!
Summer’s Eve will never not be funny. Thank you.
Live on the other side of the house! They suck, and are always on the look out for the next ‘thrill.’
Right before Dday when I knew nothing about the affair, he was acting like a pompous ass. On Dday, he was a frightened child, crying…..boohoo. I tossed his shit in garbage bags and told him to GTFO! 3 years later, I must say, it was one of my most glorious moments!
Staying with the theme of the day: What it really was? Trash day and I didn’t want to miss the garbage truck!
Born Free says
No recycling that bit of trash! One way trip to the curb.
Born Free….LOL!
She doesn’t even know she’s the next in a long line. I didn’t know either. What she thinks she’s getting: honorable ex-officer, captain of industry type, loving father, athlete, smart guy, etc. etc. What she’s really getting: functional alcoholic, compulsive liar with a shitty apartment and an old car who abuses his expense account. Stingy, emotionally unavailable, who sold his kids because he didn’t want to pay the legal bills to fight. But hey, he does crossfit, and has six (six!!!!) online dating accounts. I feel sorry for her. In 6 months, she’ll be the next chump lady.
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More active COVID-19 cases than recovered in Manitoba
Written by Shannon Dueck Friday, Oct 16 2020, 12:49 PM
The province says there are 1,553 COVID-19 recoveries.
After a few days of new COVID-19 case counts in the triple digits, public health officials are reporting 75 new cases on Friday. Of those 75, there are two new cases within Southern Health, including one in the Niverville/ Ritchot district. As of 9:30 am on Friday, the total number of cases in Manitoba is 3,173. The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 5.2 per cent.
seven cases in the Interlake-Eastern health region;
two cases in the Northern health region;
one case in the Prairie Mountain Health region;
two cases in the Southern Health region; and
63 cases in the Winnipeg health region.
there are 25 people in hospital and five people in intensive care; and
Public health officials advise that with the increase in cases, the number of possible exposures continues to rise. As of 9:30 a.m., there have been nine school exposures in the Winnipeg, Southern Health and Prairie Mountain Health regions, as well as exposures related to one child care centre, two travel/transit and one night club since yesterday. Possible exposure locations will be shared on social media and are listed online by region at the province’s #RestartMB Pandemic Response System webpage https://manitoba.ca/covid19/restartmb/prs/index.html with flight information listed at https://manitoba.ca/covid19/updates/flights.html
For up-to-date information on possible public exposures to COVID-19 within regions, visit:
Interlake-Eastern: www.manitoba.ca/covid19/restartmb/prs/interlake_eastern/index.html#exposure
Northern: www.manitoba.ca/covid19/restartmb/prs/northern/index.html#exposure
Prairie Mountain Health:
www.manitoba.ca/covid19/restartmb/prs/prairie_mountain/index.html#exposure
Southern Health: www.manitoba.ca/covid19/restartmb/prs/southern/index.html#exposure
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority: www.manitoba.ca/covid19/restartmb/prs/winnipeg/index.html#exposure
The online assessment tool can be found at https://sharedhealthmb.ca/covid19/screening-tool/ and COVID-19 symptoms can be found at www.gov.mb.ca/covid19/updates/about.html#collapse4.
For up-to-date information on COVID-19 in Manitoba, visit www.manitoba.ca/COVID19. For up-to-date information on the #RestartMB Pandemic Response System, visit:
https://manitoba.ca/covid19/restartmb/prs/index.html.
Winnipeg police searching for armed and dangerous Edmonton man
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Indie Music Album Reviews
hollowbeak - Esthetique Plaisir
Hollowbeak
Esthetique Plaisir
self-released; 2014
By Ted Rogen
Sampling has been undeniably progressed and evolved. Artists like Four Tet and Herbert have successfully redefined what you can do with a sample. With that a new generation artists continue to step up to the plate and see what they can bring to the art. One of those artist is solo producer/musician HollowBeak who recently released a five song album entitled Esthetique Plaisir.
Hollowbeak made the the album by recording found sounds and then recording organic instruments such as vocals and bass in his studio. Stylistically, he combines hip-hop, electronic, and even indie rock.
He opens with arguably the highlight of the album entitled "Breathe Ft. Georgia Daniels". He lays down a thick hip-hop beat that is covered in the soulful vocals of Georgia Daniels. I really think that her vocal performance was exceptional and would have loved to hear her voice on a number of other tracks. HollowBeak plays it smart on the track and doesn't stuff to many elements and (no pun intended) lets the vocals breath. That being said I did enjoy the end of the tracks where he experiments with a couple variations of white noise.
The second track “I’m Cream” is another solid tune but truth be told the vocal performance isn't on the same level as the first track. HollowBeak creates a fluid, deep hip-hop style beat that get covered in soft distortion like waves. “Szerelem Ft. Zsofia Szucs” was a decent track but didn’t fit too well into the album. The production sounded lo-fi and veered towards indie rock. The drums and guitars sounded live and raw and contrasted with the thick, sounding hip-hop style beats you hear earlier on the album.
HollowBeak is a gifted artist but can make some improvements. The album has some solid material but the production is not consistent and neither are the styles he implements which makes for a enjoyable but sometimes jarring experience. Overall, a little of tweaking needs to be done but he is on the right track and looking forward to hear his future work.
Esthetique Plaisir by HollowBeak
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We dug in - Phil Brown
Phil Brown could not hide his delight after Barry Corr's strike earned Southend United a 1-0 win over Accrington Stanley and all-but secured their a Play-Off place.
The Irishman's close-range finish means the sixth placed Shrimpers are now six points clear of Oxford, who are eighth, with just two games to go.
And only a swing of 10 goals can now deny Southend a top seven finish.
"It was all about having to grind out a result and I'm delighted we got it because we're virtually sure of the play-offs now," said Brown.
"We were anxious at times but we dug in, showed good resilience and could maybe have scored a couple more in the end.
"After missing out on the top three, we readjusted our sights to the play-offs and now we will re-adjust them again to try and win them.
"But we still have two league games to go and we won't be taking them lightly because we want to keep our momentum going and make sure we're in the best shape possible.
"I'm also delighted for Barry because he's responded well to the suspension he had and he's on a good run of goal-scoring form now.
Sixth placed Southend have now won five of their last six games but they were made to work hard for their latest victory.
The Shrimpers found it hard to create chances but almost went in front just before the break when Ryan Leonard headed John White's cross just wide of the left post.
However, Southend made the breakthrough in the 64th minute when Corr fired a low, 12 yard shot in to the bottom left-hand corner of the net after being teed up by Will Atkinson.
Corr then scuffed an eight yard shot wide of the left post before Accrington almost levelled with substitute Shay McCartan having a powerful volley tipped wide of the right post by Shrimpers goalkeeper Daniel Bentley, who kept his 19th clean sheet of the season.
And that frustrated Accrington boss James Beattie.
"It's disappointing because our goalkeeper only had one save to make and the only other time he touched it was to pick the ball out the net," said Beattie.
"But the lads were tremendous; we frustrated Southend in the first half and quietened the crowd.
"I'm also not sure about the drop ball decision which led to Southend's goal.
"We agreed to play the ball back but the referee thought otherwise but that's gone now, the game is over and we need to focus on our remaining games."
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Proper Cost Pools
The second segment of Determining Overhead Rates in Government Contracts breaks down Proper Cost Pools. In order to calculate overhead rates, proper cost pools must be established within a government contractor’s accounting system. This means segregating costs into direct, indirect, and unallowable cost pools.
Anthony Faugno: The basis for calculating the indirect rates is establishing proper cost pools within your accounting system. The objective of proper cost pools is to maximize cost recovery. The cost pools, segregate costs using the company's chart of accounts into the direct, indirect – which indirect is broken down into many different subcategories and we’re going to talk about a few examples of those – and also unallowable costs need to be identified and in a separate cost pool. One issue that I had one time with a government auditor and it was on a pretty decent sized, large company. They were using the term “materials” in their chart of accounts but not “direct materials”. And believe it or not, the government auditors took issue with that so when you're naming accounts within your accounting system, you have to be as specific as possible.
And for instance, indirect, if you have a bunch of accounts under indirect, you can either call them indirect, say fringe or indirect rent or indirect. But generally what we usually do is we would separate the indirect in the chart of accounts into say, a fringe pool and then accounts within there would all be identified as fringe benefits or a G&A pool so that they're all identified under G&A. So we want to have a logical and organized chart of accounts to track your costs. So generally investing some time and a little money up front to get this right pays dividends down the road to avoid major issues.
Direct costs. Direct costs are a cost that can be identified with a final cost objective. Remember we talked about in the beginning what a final cost objective is so a direct cost would be, for instance on a particular contract, you might have direct labor. That's an obvious one, but you might have things like supplies that are identified or materials identified with a specific contract would be a direct cost. It's not limited to items incorporated into end product, like materials and labor. It could be things like consultants or travel expense, subcontractors or other things directly related to that particular contract. Direct costs, they must be segregated further on a contract by contract basis. James talked about that in the requirements of an accounting system and that's the job costing element and it has to be broken down even further on a particular contract where you might have several task orders or CLINs as they call them, contract line items.
You have to basically track your costs by funding level. One way you could look at a direct cost is if you didn't have the contract, would you still incur the cost? Let’s get through a couple of questions here. Let me just go through them. Do the costs need to be charged at the CLIN or the task order level? They do, they need to go down to the specific, wherever there's a funding limit, that's where you have to charge, you have to track the costs at that level. So if you have a task order with CLINs underneath it, then you have to separate, those are separate jobs basically in your job costing. What about depreciation? Is it allowable?
Depreciation is an allowable cost and that must be on a GAAP basis. You cannot use tax methods, accelerated or bonus depreciation methods. It has to be in accordance with GAAP financial reporting and it's allowable. Generally it's an overhead cost, however, it can be a direct cost if it's a specific, say, piece of machinery for specific contracts. And I've actually seen where the government will come in and walk through and say, all right, you have idle capacity in this plant or there's equipment that you're taking depreciation on but it's not being used. Then there's times that the government will look at your depreciation and say, we're going to disallow it because it's not benefiting the government and it's not meeting some of the requirements of the allowable cost. So they may actually try to disallow some of your depreciation. So that's something to be aware of.
Indirect costs. Indirect costs are costs that cannot be identified with a final cost objective or say a specific contract or grant. Indirect costs must be allocated using a logical, consistent method. I talked about having your chart of accounts organized logically and that helps a lot in tracking indirect costs. Methodology must be applied consistently. Properly assign indirect costs to the correct cost pools. So you have to make sure your general ledger postings, they should be reviewed monthly to make sure everything's posted into the right accounts because you don't want to mix up your indirect pools, especially you're unallowables. You don't want those to get into an allowable cost because there's penalties for that. And it allows for cost recovery of operation costs not associated with specific jobs.
So for all of your indirect costs, the reason for calculating the rates is you want accurate rates so that when you're bidding jobs, you can recover as much of your costs as possible for profitability of the company. One other important point of about indirect cost is no two companies are the same.
James Seary:Just on that point about the logical and consistent method…if you're new to setting this up and you're thinking about getting into government contracting, a lot of times you have to think of where you are today and where you're going to be in the future. Because once you set these up, it's not that you can't ever change and add a pool or change your methodology, but it's not an easy thing to do and it also creates some issues with contracting.
If you bid something one way and then you end up changing your methodology and it's going to cost the government more based on that changed methodology, often times that becomes disallowed. So as you set this up, you don't have to be oversimplified but you don't have to be complex for the sake of being complex. And I think when we walk through some of the examples at the back later in the presentation you'll see what I'm talking about. That the recovery is always the same, it's just the complexity to get there and is there really a good business purpose for making those additional amounts of pools and adding the complexity and that’s something a business should think about.
Anthony Faugno:These are just examples of some indirect cost pools. Segregation of indirect cost pools. Fringe benefits is a common one. You've got manufacturing or engineering overhead, site or field operations overhead – if you’re doing work on a government site, generally that rate's going to be lower than your company general overhead rate because you're not using your rent or your phones or other things if you've got people on a government site. So generally a company can do a lot of government site work where government would require it and it makes sense to probably have a government site or a client's site rate. A general administrative rate is also a common cost pool we see. So that would cover things like the corporate finance, executive offices, some legal and also part of the G&A is your bid and proposal costs and your IR&D, which is your internal research and development costs – the non-funded research and development costs, non-funded by a grant or contract.
Unallowable costs – an important cost pool. It's important because the government wants to make sure that you're able to track your unallowable costs in your general ledger so that these costs do not get commingled with the allowable costs. They get real excited about unallowable costs if they find they’re being charged to the government and there are significant penalties if they are being charged. So the FAR part 31.205 lists a whole bunch of unallowable costs. Some examples are bad debts, contributions, some relocation, relocation costs of an employee if they leave in less than one year, alcoholic beverages are unallowable. So it's very important to segregate these costs and show the government, demonstrate that you are tracking these and not charging those in your overhead rates.
This chart is just an example, a kind of summary of how your chart of accounts might be and the expenses. You would have your direct, as you can see on the chart. And then you might, just as an example, it has three contracts. So all your direct costs are tracked by those three contracts. And you have your indirect costs and under that we've got fringe, overhead, G&A and unallowable. And a G&A could have some sub pools also like subcontractor and material handling. Cost of money is a pool that basically is interest charges and could get very complicated. It's usually more in businesses that are more capital intensive type businesses. So that's an example of how a chart of accounts might flow.
This chart, this is just a piece of a chart that we'll be glad to email anybody if they request it, but basically this is a summary of FAR 31.205 with all the costs in it and it tells you if they're allowable or allowable with restrictions or unallowable and it also give you the code number, the FAR reference number that you can Google that if you needed more detail. So we would be glad to send this out. If anybody would like it, they can just email us. We'll get it out to you as soon as possible.
About Anthony Faugno
Anthony Faugno is Partner-in-Charge of the firm’s Federal Government Contracting Group assisting clients in complying with the government accounting regulations related to their federal contracts/grants for closely held and family owned businesses.
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Indirect Rate Calculations
As a federal government contractor, your overhead rate is essential to maximizing cost recovery. This video series provides an overview of the elements that come into play when structuring overhead rates, and presents examples of how to calculate overhead rates.
FAR Part 31 – Cost Principles & Procedures
This video from our series Determining Overhead Rates in Government Contracts explores some basics of FAR Part 31, the specific section of the government regulations that details cost principles and procedures.
Basic Requirements of a Government Accounting System
This video from our series Determining Overhead Rates in Government Contracts begins with a primer on government contracting terminology and government contract types before discussing the basic requirements of a government accounting system.
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Details New Spankox Remix Album
These are the cover-art and tracklisting of the new DJ Spankox "Re Mixes" album which is being released in cooperation with EPE. This is follow-up to the original "Re: Versions" CD and contains 14 remixes and 1 video. The first edition comes as a limited edition Vinyl/CD in a deluxe digipack with a 24 pages booklet.
Vinyl Side
One Sided Love Affair (Spankox Re:Mix- Highpass Radio Edit)
CD Side:
(Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I (Spankox Re:Mix - Highpass Radio Edit)
Hound Dog (Spankox Re:Mix - Highpass Album Mix)
Let Me (Spankox Re:Mix - Eyes Cream Radio Edit)
Lover Doll (Spankox Re:Mix - Highpass Radio Edit)
A Big Hunk O' Love (Spankox Re:Mix - Highpass Radio Edit)
Paralyzed (Spankox Re:Mix - Highpass Album Cut)
King Creole (Spankox Re:Mix - Highpass Edit)
Poor Boy (Spankox Re:Mix - Highpass Album Cut)
How Do You Think I Feel (Spankox Re:Mix - Highpass Album Cut)
When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again (Spankox Re:Mix - Highpass Album Cut)
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over You) (Spankox Re:Mix - Highpass Album Cut)
We're Gonna Move (Spankox Re:Mix - Ago Album Edit)
Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Spankox Re:Mix - Highpass Extended Mix)
Bonus Video
Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Spankox Re:Mix)
The Press-release:
The long awaited new EPE officially approved Elvis Presley’s remix album has finally arrived. 14 fantastic tracks rearranged and remixed with love and care, respecting Elvis’s unique voice and the original feel of the originals. The album also includes the bonus videoclip of the excellent remix of “Blue Moon Of Kentucky”, the first official Elvis’ videoclip filmed in the UK. Produced by Agostino Carollo aka Spankox in cooperation with Elvis Presley Enterprises and bearing the “Elvis Presley Signature Product” logo. Available from Sept. 14th, 2009 as limited pre-release on the innovative and unique VinylDISC format: one side CD and one side Vinyl, playable also on a turntable. The albums comes in a world’s first exclusive cardboard packaging with two pockets facing outwards that recalls the old deluxe LPs: one pocket holds the VinylDISC in a beautiful paper sleeve with cutted corners that lets the disc label be seen; the other pocket holds a 24 page booklet with rare photos of Elvis. A “must have” for every true Elvis fan and for all music lovers that not only like good music but also like to “touch” and “feel” the music they own.
Source: Elvis Corner / Updated: Sep 9, 2009
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Paul Sweeney (profile/ contact) wrote on May 9, 2010report abuse
This CD is garbage - I unfortunately bought a copy at Walmart the other day (not very expensive, thankfully). I wasted my money...live and learn. I should have read this page first before I wasted my money.
pasa-ryu (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 23, 2009report abuse
to ger and all the idot's who tried to say that I said "ELVIS" was crap!-i never said that elvis was crap(i wouldn't be an "Elvis fan" if i did.)I did say that the previous SPANOX ALBUM was CRAP and baddly mixed and sounded awful and had absolutely NO IMPACT IN THE UK or USA charts!!(proving how awful the album really was)..and in regards to spanox saying that I or anybody else cannot say the new "spankox" album is CRAP unless we've heard it-well,i DO NOT WANT TO HEAR it thanks,..if it's the same DJ as the previous "spanox" album,thats a good anough reqason to totaly avoid it.(but,just to be scientific,i promise to actualy purchase this new album and listen to it,so i cann see for myself if it's the same crap cd as previously released-then i will have a right to still call it "crap"..which i know full-well it will be.)..I think elvis must have turned in his grave when the spanox cd was released previously/-it ruined what was classic elvis songs..it made me feel sick how low these so called DJ'S and record companies would go to make a quick buck!-as the old colonel once said not long after elvis' death in 1977 "NOTHING CHANGES".(i rest my case)
Polk Salad Robert (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 23, 2009report abuse
I cannot wait to get this album and was looking for it in every shop al over Munich. (Germany)
But nobody doesnt even know about it (let alone sells it). Help me ...
Dixieland Rock (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 22, 2009report abuse
Spankox, I do look forward to hearing your latest remix album. I am a fan many of the remixes. Of course, nothing can replace the original recordings. As I stated before, I liked the way you did the remix of "Jailhouse Rock" & "Baby Let's Play House". I'm glad to see "King Creole", "Big Hunk of Love" "Paralyed" is on this new collection. It would be cool if you could do a remix of a song like "A Long Legged Girl" or another lesser known song from the late 60s & it be an official Sony/BMG release. If it could be MARKETED on a wide scale like "A Little Less Conversation" was in 2002, we might see Elvis back in the charts. There are many Elvis tracks from the 60s & 70s that if remixed properly could give Elvis new hits. I believe your remix of "Baby Let's Play House" could have been & still could be a big hit if the powers that be would push & market this to the public more & promote it. Anyway, best wishes on your new remix.
GibbersGanfa (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 22, 2009report abuse
A lot of you probably never realized this, but Paul Oakenfold actually DID do another remix, but it was never released commercially. It still can actually be found though. Just go rent "Elvis has left the building" starring Kim Basinger, if you can manage to find it. The song plays just after her character's friend's husband has gotten injured, toward the end of the movie. Interestingly enough, Oakenfold got to play around with a 50's song before Spankox did, and this was in 2004, BEFORE the copyrights fell through. The remix is of "I Got Stung," and it play over the scene where Wayne Newton does a cameo appearance. It's really cool.
Spankox (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 22, 2009report abuse
Hi Emiel, thankyou very much for your very nice review of the new album. I'm happy you like it. The day long "whistling effect" of "When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again" happens to me too! And I have to admit... the whistle on it is actually my own... :-)
Emiel Maier (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 21, 2009report abuse
Steve V. in a 2006 interview the Dutch DJ Junkie XL said he refused the offer of doing a full CD with Elvis remixes. He could have won a fortune had he agreed. "But it's not about the money, it's about music", was his comment. (He also declined a proposal by the Beatles (Paul, Ringo) who had asked for a remix of "Strawberry Fields Forever"). Personalley I guess that Paul Oakenfold was not asked for a follow up, as Rubberneckin' did not do too well in the charts...
Steve V (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 20, 2009report abuse
Does anyone know why the guys that did ALLC & Rubberneckin have not attempted another remix? Enough with the 50's songs already!
I have bought the CD this morning and it is the second I listen to it...: and it ROCKS!!! Again very tasty remixes. If you liked the previous CD, you will like this one too. Unfortunately Spankox concentrated on the Fifties songs. Was this done because of the copy-rights? I do think so. Keeping this in mind he did a pretty good job on the substandard Love Me Tender songs: Poor Boy, Let Me and We're Gonna Move. (Thankyouverymuch Ken Darby...). I have to admit that there is not a song with ALLC allure that will create a stir. But having said that: I hope SONY will reward Spankox with the remix of a song that has more potential for a bigger audience. (Read: a song with copy-rights on it...:-). Give this man songs like Let Yourself Go, C'mon Everybody or Spinout, and I have no doubt it will turn out fantastic. Highlights on Re:Versions II for me are: When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again (...this will keep you whistling all day! A very strong A Big Hunk O'Love. But the best one is undoubtedly One Sided Love Affair with a very, very strong riff.
Spankox, you are almost there...
I did like Spankox remix of "Baby Let's Play House" & "Jailhouse Rock". Those were good. But his remix of "Blue Moon Of Kentucky" was awful. The "Blue Moon Of Kentucky" video was a train wreck. I hope this latest remix album is good. (I really do because I do like remixes.) But please, spare us the "Blue Moon of Kentucky" style videos.
I do like the first Spankox Mix since its the only way to hear "new" Elvis Songs and so I am looking forward to this one very much. But where can I order it ? There are no advertisements for this in Germany at all ...
djm (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 13, 2009report abuse
i have had the mis-fortune to listen to several remix tracks on youtube and they are awful. why dont you create your own music instead of ripping off another artists work? the classic recordings made by elvis are part of american music history. they sound perfect the way elvis made them and approved them.
Jerome-the-third (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 13, 2009report abuse
Hallelujah!..
JimmyCool (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 13, 2009report abuse
I thought I would NEVER say this, but I totally agree with Jerome-the-third!
remember Elvis shot televisions when he disapproved the mixing of the Today Sessions? I wonder how he would reacted to this kind of remixes. As a true lover of music and compositions I must say that I can hardly believe any Elvis/MMuisc lover will find this any good..
marco 'officially approved by EPE' means they have no idea how to market Elvis' music anymore in this age of digital downloads nor do they care. A product is a product. CDs just aint what they used to be so EPE is more interested in other things like mugs & pillowcases.
marco31768 (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 12, 2009report abuse
"...officially approved by EPE..." that's incredible !!!
japio (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 12, 2009report abuse
as i must say .I gettin'respect for Spankox.He's follow the reactions from the Elvisfans.But that don't mean i would buy this ?&^^%. But it very nice to write a reaction And i have heard a track and the music i way to fast on the voice.But if people buy this it's not up to me ,but it's mine opinion.
Lex (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 12, 2009report abuse
Emiel, this has nothing to do with ignorance... but with experience. You liked the first album, fine, but I didn't... like I stated before I don't like altering Elvis' music, never did, never will. Not even when it's tastefully done, let alone when it's done in a CRAPPY way like this joker's first album...
Great News! More than 20 reactions on this topic, and I have counted already 10 times the word 'crap'! How ignorant can these people be. Never heard of the phrase "Don't judge a book by its cover"? I will get my copy next week and I hope to be pleasantly surprised by Spankox, the way he did with the first edition of Re:Versions. Next time I hope that Sony/BMG will participate in the distribution of the discs. As long as these CDs are only available at specialized stores, I don't think it will reach the younger generation we desperately need to keep the flame burning...
joemin (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 12, 2009report abuse
I enjoyed the first one, will definitely get this one.
On A Little Less Conversation, it is worth recalling that most fans disliked the remix first, many were annoyed at "tampering" with the originals, but now it is one of the most popular Elvis songs.
Anyway Agostino Carollo, sincerely good luck with the album!!..
Hi everybody! Thankyou to all for your comments.... expecially the negative ones because they are very intelligent and written by very open minded people... ;-) I was just wondering: how could someone express their negative opinion on the new remix album that I have produced before having heard any song from it?? Anyway "Re:Mixes" truly is a great album and packaged in a fantastic way. I hope you'll enjoy to listen to it when it will arrive in the stores in the next days! Greetings from Copenhagen! Agostino Carollo aka Spankox
terrible, all sounds the same. Recommed the following titles:
- Wrong Sounded Love Affair (My a** Radio Edit)
- Now and Then There's A fool Who Buys This Record
- Hound Frog
- Let Me Out (gas Album Edit)
- Lover Troll
- A Big Chunk of Crap
- Jeopardized
- King Notcool
- Poor Song
- How do You think I feel after hearing this Song
- When will my Record Turn to Gold Again
- I'm gonna sit right down and cry (over this song)
- We're gonna Move out of this Country..
roytcbintheuk (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 11, 2009report abuse
ALLC was good and refreshing to hear a obscure record turned into a stomper and it was something different for us Elvis fans and also appealed to the wider audience which was fantastic and it didn't do Nike any harm neither but all these other remixes are an overload in fact we are bombarded with Elvis releases and it is a shame because the real music Elvis produced is overlooked because of it, I think the word I am looking for is over exposure.
we have had great releases this year. ftd blue hawaii dixieland delight, standing room only, the memphis anthology, the vegas 69 book, and soon the jailhose rock sessions, sunset rehearsals and good times to look forward too. so plenty of great genuine elvis releases to spend your money on instead of worthless crap like this. the fact that EPE indorses this only adds insult to injury.
italianfan (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 10, 2009report abuse
As an 'italian joker' myself, i can tell another a mile off. I don't mind remixes, if they are done well. i.e ALLC. I mean ALLC did get alot of air play and publicity for E. But these type of remixes sound like they come out of someones bedroom studio. Which is fine for personal enjoyment and the satisfaction of producing a remix, but for actual release? Please!
Yeah, but it is the strongest word that is allowed that expresses my feeling about this stuff. I never liked any remix or other tampering with Elvis' music, but with ALLC and Rubberneckin' I could hear it was done by a pro. I still didn't like them, but they were professional. Something that absulutely can't be said about this italian joker.
ElvisDayByDay (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 10, 2009report abuse
He Lex, I thought "C-R-A-P" was the signature reaction of somebody else :-)
dgirl (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 10, 2009report abuse
Remixing Elvis songs is not such a bad thing. After all, music recorded 40-50 years ago is bound to sound dated to many and some of the 60's 70's music Elvis recorded is mixed terribly and could use a facelift. I still get a kick out of ALLC and to a lesser degree Rubberneckin. But I have NOT heard a 50's remix worth a damn. The songs to me just dont work and to tamper with classics is just plain stupid. Also Poor Boy/Let Me? Oh my.
NONE000000 (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 10, 2009report abuse
I really am a fan of remixing Elvis, but it is more in theory because most of the actual remixes I have heard are not very good. And I have to agree that Spankox is simply pretty bad at this and does seem VERY amateurish compared to JXL and Paul Oakenfold. I ran across a weird CD about a year ago called "Rock-A-Hula Baby" by Orange featuring Andreas Hellkvist. It's just 5 Elvis movie songs, done as instrumentals and they totally rock. "Spinout" and "Let Yourself Go" are both on it. Using my computer I actually created a really cool version of "Let Yourself Go" by stripping away as much of the music from the 68 version and keeping just Elvis' voice, then "mixing it" into the cool instrumental from that cd. All in all, I like it better than 99% of Spankox's other album of remixes. But I am still looking forward to hearing these. A bad sign, however, is that there is a YouTube video for "Blue Moon Of Kentucky" already, and it is horrible. The video itself is VERY VERY bad and stupid, and the remix, once again, sounds amateur in the extreme.
Brian Quinn (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 10, 2009report abuse
I bought the first album by Spankox and thought it was very well done. I particularly liked 'Baby Let's Play House'. I look forward to hearing the tracks on the new album.
Pasa, there are always some fools (among Elvis fans you can find enough of them) who buy this
C-R-A-P.
ger (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 10, 2009report abuse
You calling Elvis rubbish now. The 50,s tracks never sounded better on first one.Les hope for many more to come.
cant wait to buy it
rubbish!-i purchased the last album and i will NEVER put it in my cd player again!!;the so called "remixes" sounded like a child had mixed the songs at home(so unproffessional sounding)and the album had no impact in the UK or US charts what so ever..Why then decide to release the same rubbish album knowing the flop the previous album was??(it doesn't make any sense)I had to grit my teeth when iplayed the previous remixes a i couldn't believe waht i was hearing-they sounded awful and like somebody had attempted to rehash/remix elvis songs at home!!(and not remixed a proper DJ,as the album was supposed to be!)-Keep well away from this ripp off money making SCAM.(graceland should be ashamed for re-releasing such a bad album and even more ashamed for actualy "endorsing" such an awful project as "spankox" remixes.
Pedro Nuno (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 10, 2009report abuse
Guys, we only have here 50's remixes because, in Europe, all 50's songs are public domain since the copyrights have expired (50 years protection). So this CD is released only with a real purpose: To make some extra Dollars / Euros for RCA/BMG/EPE. Honestly I liked ALLC, and even Rubbernecking or baby let's play house (although ALLC is much, much better than all the rest), but I didn't liked the 1st. Spankox album. Let’s wait for this one...
it's all done with respect for Elvis.ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.Thats why he comes with a second release.this is CRAP agian.Like the guy himself.If you have respect for Elvis you do this one time
and use songs where you have to pay for the rights.And not only the free from rights songs.
I don't have respect for this guy.
dannyboy1 (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 10, 2009report abuse
The last CD from this guy was impressive but way overdone - like he had used every trick in the book and every effect he could on every song. The best remixes are usually fairly subtle, so I think I'll pass on this one.
elvis197475 (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 10, 2009report abuse
this is all crap. elvis must be doing backflips in his grave.as elvis fans all know he did not like it when rca tried to mess with his songs.to do this twice to great songs is a shame.all i can say is why!!!
I agree... late '60s soundtracks are a good choice to remix them ("Let Yourself Go", "Spinout", "Stop, Look And Listen," etc.), but to remix '50s classics... it's not a good idea, because of the fact that they were (mostly) recorded in mono. Spankox did a god job en "Baby, Let's Play House" but, to me, the rest of that album consisted of cheap home-made remixes (or an expanded single). Hope to find at least a good surprise on this new one... I like the cover.
I got a few picks - I agree with you on Let Yourself Go, also I'll Be Back, Power Of MY Love, and maybe even Spinout because it has a great vibe to it. I would only want unknown later 60's or 70's songs. They could open up a few eyes and a new radio world for Elvis. ALLC is now considered one of his more popular songs all because of that remix. Stay away from the 50's classics (and other classics). This could do a lot more for him than the endless compilation reissues
ttwiise (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 9, 2009report abuse
King Creole, this will suck just like the last one sucked. This guy needs locking up and told he really isn't very good at this
NONE000000 (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 9, 2009report abuse
Steve V -- I agree. I had assumed it had something to do with copyright law, but it shouldn't since this is official. I'd been hoping for a "Let Yourself Go" remix for a while now. (Well, not actively hoping, but it's my personal pick for a good next possibility)
Steve V (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 9, 2009report abuse
Why only 50's songs? And why classics like Hound Dog? That is just nuts. We need another ALLC.
One question: A lot of these say "Radio Edit". A radio edit, in all my experience, is a shorter version of something--shortened for radio-friendliness, as opposed to an 8 or 9 minute mix that a dance club might play. So does that mean all these "radio edit"s are indeed not the full remixed versions? If so, where does one find those?
I really hope this does not suck. I like the track listing, and I could especially imagine "A Big Hunk O'Love" being a song that could have an impressive remix. And maybe "Paralyzed" and "King Creole", but it's hard for me to even imagine the others. Oh well, here's hoping it is good (all the while expecting it not to be....)
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Spain certainly has no shortage of attractions. Whether you’re interested in exploring exotic medieval palaces or treating your taste buds with the country’s exceptional food and wine, expect a fantastic vacation with an abundance of things to see and experience.
But before you head to the land of sun, sea and sangria, we recommend you spend a few minutes reading our Spain travel guide so you know what to expect when you arrive. From practical information about the language and currency to tips on local dining habits, prepare yourself for an unforgettable trip to Spain.
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By: Carlos Suarez
Enrique Machado is a rare talent who adroitly combines his chosen media and subject matter to create arresting works that exist in the realm between painting and sculpture.
Born and raised in Miami where he attended the Design & Architecture High School and the New World School of the Arts before attending Kansas City Art Institute where he studied sculpture, Machado’s recent paintings are the result of a distinct, gesturally-manipulated accretion of materials at once experimental and impractical to pigeon hole.
The 28 year-old artist’s recent “Wave Series,” which includes large format mixed media paintings such as Crash, Tumbling Wave and a soaring outdoor mural on the exterior of a two-story building, push beyond figuration or abstraction while managing to harness the movement and ferocity of the natural environment.
The attention-commanding works bring to mind the classical ink brush painting known as The Great Wave, created by the Japanese master, Hokusai, during the late Edo period in the 1830’s. It depicts an enormous wave menacing a fishing village on the coast of Kanagawa with a view of the iconic Mount Fuji fixed in the distant background.
And, while the rising young talent also credits Van Gogh and his exaggerated style and use of patterns in ordinary landscapes as an inspiration, Machado’s work adopts a fresher, non-traditional approach employing ordinary tools and media from the corner hardware store to create his contemporary slant on the forces shaping nature and human consciousness.
Perhaps the most notable element of Machado’s practice is that he substitutes traditional paint brushes, oils, and acrylics with a caulking gun and colored tubes of silicone.
He creates his works by directly applying the silicone onto his chosen surfaces. In this labor-intensive process, he is earning raves from both the art world and collectors.
“In 2007 I came across this material that attracted all my senses as an artist,” explains Machado. “I picked up silicone and used it like any other material in my background. I saw that silicone came in black, grey, white, and clear, and thought of it like colors in an acrylic tube---only a much bigger one. So naturally I used it on a 2-D surface as if I were drawing. I noticed that as I squeezed out the silicone onto the canvas, it was a tool that made lines so I started using the silicone like marks of a pencil.”
Instinctively, Machado also began experimenting with movement, thickness and texture while applying his nozzle to canvas.
“It was at that point that I realized that I needed to incorporate all that I had learned about composition, contrast, lights and shadows, concept, and color,” mentions the artist while adding that he soon began experimenting with more colors.
“I had a moment of clarity and imagined what such a painting would look like,” recalls Machado. “I pictured all the texture and how it would be a cool 3-D painting. I filled the shopping cart with silicone caulking tubes, a caulking gun, and went home to make the first Silicone Art work. I instantly fell in love with the process because I was excited to paint all over again,” he says.
As Machado began mastering his new medium he also began maturing his studio practice while exploring the introduction of sculpture onto a flat and restricted surface.
“I love how the texture creates its own shadows and reflects its own light along with its concrete solid blocks of color gleaming from all angles as if it was always wet and never dry,” enthuses the artist. “I noticed how the works were always alive, always moving, dripping, showing depth, and bringing in the viewer for an intimate, esthetic experience. Accomplishing this is all I've wanted to do in making art, whether it was drawing with charcoals or acrylics. Painting was always fundamentally the same for me,” reflects Machado. “It’s the experience and gravitational rawness of the work that keeps me pulling back and forth from sculptural textures to a restricted 2-dimensional painting.”
In fact in a series called “Crash,” rendered with bright monochrome fields of rainbow splashes contrasted by beached-bone accumulations of silicone ribbons, the paintings exude a shiny efflorescence imbuing the works with a notion of the ecology in conflict and a more profound need for humanity to better steward our planet.
“My work revolves around a power bigger than ourselves and a sense of an overwhelming shower of inevitability crashing down and creating chaos in its process,” observes Machado. “But, not unlike the ocean, that power can be violent one moment and calm the next,” he adds.
Machado also says that his stylized depictions of the waves and ocean surrounding his hometown of Miami are an expression of life and its struggles.
“The foam-like textures speak like loud noise and confusion while the resin colors are solidly assertive and clear in its existence. The whirls and movements might hint to the journey of one’s afflictions only to disperse in all different directions before the final clash,” he muses.
Machado also acknowledges that for him, rooting his paintings in a vision of a deeper spirituality is important.
“I seem to have a presence of a "center" in my paintings which reflect themes of balance and discourse, contradiction vs. truth, themes of obsessions, chaos, serenity, surrender, and acceptance. The ocean, waves, and water are a metaphor for these themes in my works,” concludes the thoughtful, soft-spoken artist.
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Millions Of Windows 7 Users Remain Despite Support Ending
One year ago, Microsoft officially ended support for the venerable Windows 7 operating system.
No new security patches have been issued, which means that anyone running a Windows 7 machine at this point is taking a tremendous security risk. That is especially true if that machine is connected to a corporate network.
It would be all too easy for even a moderately talented hacker to take control of that system and then snoop around significant portion of the corporate network it was attached to.
That thought is scary by itself, but when you stop to consider that today, even a year after Microsoft ended support for the OS, there are still more than a hundred million Windows 7 machines in use. Considering that, it moves to something well beyond terrifying.
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Perindopril and Amlodipine
Medically reviewed by Drugs.com. Last updated on Oct 17, 2020.
(per IN doe pril & am LOE di peen)
Amlodipine and Perindopril
Perindopril Arg/Amlodipine Bes
Perindopril Arginine and Amlodipine
Prestalia
Excipient information presented when available (limited, particularly for generics); consult specific product labeling.
Tablet, Oral:
Prestalia: Perindopril arginine 3.5 mg and amlodipine 2.5 mg, Perindopril arginine 7 mg and amlodipine 5 mg, Perindopril arginine 14 mg and amlodipine 10 mg
Brand Names: U.S.
Pharmacologic Category
Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme (ACE) Inhibitor
Antianginal Agent
Calcium Channel Blocker, Dihydropyridine
Amlodipine: Inhibits calcium ion from entering the “slow channels” or select voltage-sensitive areas of vascular smooth muscle and myocardium during depolarization, a relaxation of coronary vascular smooth muscle and coronary vasodilation; amlodipine directly acts on vascular smooth muscle to produce peripheral arterial vasodilation reducing peripheral vascular resistance and blood pressure.
Perindopril: Prevents conversion of angiotensin I to angiotensin II, increases plasma renin activity, and reduces aldosterone secretion.
Use: Labeled Indications
Hypertension: Management of hypertension.
Hypersensitivity to perindopril, other ACE inhibitors, amlodipine, or any component of the formulation; hereditary or idiopathic angioedema, with or without previous ACE inhibitor treatment; concomitant use with aliskiren in patients with diabetes; concomitant use or within 36 hours of switching to or from a neprilysin inhibitor (eg, sacubitril).
Canadian labeling: Additional contraindications (not in US labeling): Hypersensitivity to other dihydropyridine derivatives; renal impairment (CrCl <60 mL/minute); pregnant women, women planning to become pregnant, or women of childbearing potential not using adequate contraceptive; breastfeeding; mitral valve stenosis and left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (eg, aortic stenosis, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy); heart failure; bilateral renal artery stenosis or renal artery stenosis in a single functioning kidney; concomitant use with aliskiren-containing drugs in patients with moderate to severe renal impairment (GFR <60 mL/minute/1.73 m2); extracorporeal treatment leading to contact of blood with negatively charged surfaces; hereditary problems of galactose intolerance, glucose-galactose malabsorption, or congenital lactase deficiency.
Dosing: Adult
Hypertension: Oral: Initial: Perindopril 3.5 mg/amlodipine 2.5 mg once daily; adjust dose to response in 7- to 14-day intervals; maximum dose: perindopril 14 mg/amlodipine 10 mg per day.
Dosage adjustment for concomitant therapy: Significant drug interactions exist, requiring dose/frequency adjustment or avoidance. Consult drug interactions database for more information.
Dosing: Geriatric
Refer to adult dosing.
Administer with or without food.
Store at 25°C (77°F); excursions are permitted between 15°C and 30°C (59°F and 86°F). Protect from moisture and light.
Abametapir: May increase the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inhibitors). Avoid combination
Alfuzosin: May enhance the hypotensive effect of Blood Pressure Lowering Agents. Monitor therapy
Aliskiren: May enhance the hyperkalemic effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Aliskiren may enhance the hypotensive effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Aliskiren may enhance the nephrotoxic effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Management: Aliskiren use with ACEIs or ARBs in patients with diabetes is contraindicated. Combined use in other patients should be avoided, particularly when CrCl is less than 60 mL/min. If combined, monitor potassium, creatinine, and blood pressure closely. Consider therapy modification
Allopurinol: Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors may enhance the potential for allergic or hypersensitivity reactions to Allopurinol. Monitor therapy
Alpha1-Blockers: May enhance the hypotensive effect of Calcium Channel Blockers. Monitor therapy
Alteplase: Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors may enhance the adverse/toxic effect of Alteplase. Specifically, the risk for angioedema may be increased. Monitor therapy
Amifostine: Blood Pressure Lowering Agents may enhance the hypotensive effect of Amifostine. Management: When used at chemotherapy doses, hold blood pressure lowering medications for 24 hours before amifostine administration. If blood pressure lowering therapy cannot be held, do not administer amifostine. Use caution with radiotherapy doses of amifostine. Consider therapy modification
Amphetamines: May diminish the antihypertensive effect of Antihypertensive Agents. Monitor therapy
Angiotensin II: Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors may enhance the therapeutic effect of Angiotensin II. Monitor therapy
Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers: May enhance the adverse/toxic effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers may increase the serum concentration of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Management: Use of telmisartan and ramipril is not recommended. It is not clear if any other combination of an ACE inhibitor and an ARB would be any safer. Consider alternatives when possible. Monitor blood pressure, renal function, and potassium if combined. Consider therapy modification
Antifungal Agents (Azole Derivatives, Systemic): May enhance the adverse/toxic effect of Calcium Channel Blockers. Specifically, itraconazole may enhance the negative inotropic effects of verapamil or diltiazem. Antifungal Agents (Azole Derivatives, Systemic) may decrease the metabolism of Calcium Channel Blockers. Fluconazole and isavuconazonium likely exert weaker effects than other azoles and are addressed in separate monographs. Management: Concurrent use of felodipine or nisoldipine with itraconazole is specifically contraindicated. Frequent monitoring is warranted with any such combination; calcium channel blocker dose reductions may be required. Consider therapy modification
Antihepaciviral Combination Products: May increase the serum concentration of AmLODIPine. Management: Reduce amlodipine dose by at least 50% and monitor for increased amlodipine effects (eg, hypotension) if an antihepaciviral combination product is initiated. Consider therapy modification
Antipsychotic Agents (Second Generation [Atypical]): Blood Pressure Lowering Agents may enhance the hypotensive effect of Antipsychotic Agents (Second Generation [Atypical]). Monitor therapy
Aprepitant: May increase the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inhibitors). Monitor therapy
Aprotinin: May diminish the antihypertensive effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Monitor therapy
Atosiban: Calcium Channel Blockers may enhance the adverse/toxic effect of Atosiban. Specifically, there may be an increased risk for pulmonary edema and/or dyspnea. Monitor therapy
AzaTHIOprine: Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors may enhance the myelosuppressive effect of AzaTHIOprine. Monitor therapy
Barbiturates: May increase the metabolism of Calcium Channel Blockers. Management: Monitor for decreased therapeutic effects of calcium channel blockers with concomitant barbiturate therapy. Calcium channel blocker dose adjustments may be necessary. Nimodipine Canadian labeling contraindicates concomitant use with phenobarbital. Monitor therapy
Barbiturates: May enhance the hypotensive effect of Blood Pressure Lowering Agents. Monitor therapy
Benperidol: May enhance the hypotensive effect of Blood Pressure Lowering Agents. Monitor therapy
Brigatinib: May diminish the antihypertensive effect of Antihypertensive Agents. Brigatinib may enhance the bradycardic effect of Antihypertensive Agents. Monitor therapy
Brimonidine (Topical): May enhance the hypotensive effect of Blood Pressure Lowering Agents. Monitor therapy
Bromperidol: Blood Pressure Lowering Agents may enhance the hypotensive effect of Bromperidol. Bromperidol may diminish the hypotensive effect of Blood Pressure Lowering Agents. Avoid combination
Calcium Channel Blockers (Nondihydropyridine): Calcium Channel Blockers (Dihydropyridine) may enhance the hypotensive effect of Calcium Channel Blockers (Nondihydropyridine). Calcium Channel Blockers (Nondihydropyridine) may increase the serum concentration of Calcium Channel Blockers (Dihydropyridine). Monitor therapy
Calcium Salts: May diminish the therapeutic effect of Calcium Channel Blockers. Monitor therapy
CarBAMazepine: May increase the metabolism of Calcium Channel Blockers (Dihydropyridine). Management: Consider calcium channel blocker (CCB) dose adjustments or alternative therapy in patients receiving concomitant carbamazepine. Nimodipine Canadian labeling contraindicates concurrent use with carbamazepine. Consider therapy modification
Clofazimine: May increase the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inhibitors). Monitor therapy
Clopidogrel: Calcium Channel Blockers may diminish the therapeutic effect of Clopidogrel. Monitor therapy
Conivaptan: May increase the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inhibitors). Avoid combination
CycloSPORINE (Systemic): Calcium Channel Blockers (Dihydropyridine) may increase the serum concentration of CycloSPORINE (Systemic). CycloSPORINE (Systemic) may increase the serum concentration of Calcium Channel Blockers (Dihydropyridine). Monitor therapy
CYP3A4 Inducers (Moderate): May decrease the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inducers). Monitor therapy
CYP3A4 Inducers (Strong): May increase the metabolism of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inducers). Management: Consider an alternative for one of the interacting drugs. Some combinations may be specifically contraindicated. Consult appropriate manufacturer labeling. Consider therapy modification
CYP3A4 Inhibitors (Moderate): May increase the serum concentration of AmLODIPine. Monitor therapy
CYP3A4 Inhibitors (Strong): May increase the serum concentration of AmLODIPine. Monitor therapy
Dabrafenib: May decrease the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inducers). Management: Seek alternatives to concomitant therapy when possible. If concomitant therapy cannot be avoided, monitor for reduced clinical effects of the CYP3A4 substrate. Consider therapy modification
Dapoxetine: May enhance the orthostatic hypotensive effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Monitor therapy
Dapoxetine: May enhance the orthostatic hypotensive effect of Calcium Channel Blockers. Monitor therapy
Deferasirox: May decrease the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inducers). Monitor therapy
Dexmethylphenidate: May diminish the therapeutic effect of Antihypertensive Agents. Monitor therapy
Diazoxide: May enhance the hypotensive effect of Blood Pressure Lowering Agents. Monitor therapy
Dipeptidyl Peptidase-IV Inhibitors: May enhance the adverse/toxic effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Specifically, the risk of angioedema may be increased. Monitor therapy
Dofetilide: CYP3A4 Inhibitors (Weak) may increase the serum concentration of Dofetilide. Monitor therapy
Drospirenone: Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors may enhance the hyperkalemic effect of Drospirenone. Monitor therapy
DULoxetine: Blood Pressure Lowering Agents may enhance the hypotensive effect of DULoxetine. Monitor therapy
Duvelisib: May increase the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inhibitors). Monitor therapy
Efavirenz: May decrease the serum concentration of Calcium Channel Blockers. Monitor therapy
Enzalutamide: May decrease the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inducers). Management: Concurrent use of enzalutamide with CYP3A4 substrates that have a narrow therapeutic index should be avoided. Use of enzalutamide and any other CYP3A4 substrate should be performed with caution and close monitoring. Consider therapy modification
Eplerenone: May enhance the hyperkalemic effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Monitor therapy
Erdafitinib: May decrease the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inducers). Monitor therapy
Erdafitinib: May increase the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inhibitors). Monitor therapy
Everolimus: May enhance the adverse/toxic effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Specifically, the risk of angioedema may be increased. Monitor therapy
Ferric Gluconate: Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors may enhance the adverse/toxic effect of Ferric Gluconate. Monitor therapy
Ferric Hydroxide Polymaltose Complex: Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors may enhance the adverse/toxic effect of Ferric Hydroxide Polymaltose Complex. Specifically, the risk for angioedema or allergic reactions may be increased. Monitor therapy
Flibanserin: CYP3A4 Inhibitors (Weak) may increase the serum concentration of Flibanserin. Monitor therapy
Fluconazole: May increase the serum concentration of Calcium Channel Blockers. Monitor therapy
Fosaprepitant: May increase the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inhibitors). Monitor therapy
Fosnetupitant: May increase the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inhibitors). Monitor therapy
Fosphenytoin: Calcium Channel Blockers may increase the serum concentration of Fosphenytoin. Calcium Channel Blockers may decrease the serum concentration of Fosphenytoin. Management: Monitor for phenytoin toxicity with concomitant use of a calcium channel blocker (CCB) or decreased phenytoin effects with CCB discontinuation. Monitor for decreased CCB therapeutic effects. Nimodipine Canadian labeling contraindicates use with phenytoin. Consider therapy modification
Fusidic Acid (Systemic): May increase the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inhibitors). Avoid combination
Gelatin (Succinylated): Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors may enhance the adverse/toxic effect of Gelatin (Succinylated). Specifically, the risk of a paradoxical hypotensive reaction may be increased. Monitor therapy
Gold Sodium Thiomalate: Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors may enhance the adverse/toxic effect of Gold Sodium Thiomalate. An increased risk of nitritoid reactions has been appreciated. Monitor therapy
Grass Pollen Allergen Extract (5 Grass Extract): Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors may enhance the adverse/toxic effect of Grass Pollen Allergen Extract (5 Grass Extract). Specifically, ACE inhibitors may increase the risk of severe allergic reaction to Grass Pollen Allergen Extract (5 Grass Extract). Avoid combination
Heparin: May enhance the hyperkalemic effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Monitor therapy
Heparins (Low Molecular Weight): May enhance the hyperkalemic effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Monitor therapy
Herbs (Hypertensive Properties): May diminish the antihypertensive effect of Antihypertensive Agents. Monitor therapy
Herbs (Hypotensive Properties): May enhance the hypotensive effect of Blood Pressure Lowering Agents. Monitor therapy
Hypotension-Associated Agents: Blood Pressure Lowering Agents may enhance the hypotensive effect of Hypotension-Associated Agents. Monitor therapy
Icatibant: May diminish the antihypertensive effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Monitor therapy
Idelalisib: May increase the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inhibitors). Avoid combination
Iron Dextran Complex: Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors may enhance the adverse/toxic effect of Iron Dextran Complex. Specifically, patients receiving an ACE inhibitor may be at an increased risk for anaphylactic-type reactions. Management: Follow iron dextran recommendations closely regarding both having resuscitation equipment and trained personnel on-hand prior to iron dextran administration and the use of a test dose prior to the first therapeutic dose. Consider therapy modification
Ivosidenib: May decrease the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inducers). Monitor therapy
Lanthanum: May decrease the serum concentration of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Management: Administer angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors at least two hours before or after lanthanum. Consider therapy modification
Larotrectinib: May increase the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inhibitors). Monitor therapy
Lemborexant: CYP3A4 Inhibitors (Weak) may increase the serum concentration of Lemborexant. Management: The maximum recommended dosage of lemborexant is 5 mg, no more than once per night, when coadministered with weak CYP3A4 inhibitors. Consider therapy modification
Levodopa-Containing Products: Blood Pressure Lowering Agents may enhance the hypotensive effect of Levodopa-Containing Products. Monitor therapy
Lithium: Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors may increase the serum concentration of Lithium. Management: Lithium dosage reductions will likely be needed following the addition of an ACE inhibitor. Monitor for increased concentrations/toxic effects of lithium if an ACE inhibitor is initiated/dose increased, or if switching between ACE inhibitors. Consider therapy modification
Lomitapide: CYP3A4 Inhibitors (Weak) may increase the serum concentration of Lomitapide. Management: Patients on lomitapide 5 mg/day may continue that dose. Patients taking lomitapide 10 mg/day or more should decrease the lomitapide dose by half. The lomitapide dose may then be titrated up to a max adult dose of 30 mg/day. Consider therapy modification
Loop Diuretics: May enhance the hypotensive effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Loop Diuretics may enhance the nephrotoxic effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Monitor therapy
Lormetazepam: May enhance the hypotensive effect of Blood Pressure Lowering Agents. Monitor therapy
Lovastatin: AmLODIPine may increase the serum concentration of Lovastatin. Monitor therapy
Macrolide Antibiotics: May decrease the metabolism of Calcium Channel Blockers. Management: Consider using a noninteracting macrolide. Felodipine Canadian labeling specifically recommends avoiding its use in combination with clarithromycin. Consider therapy modification
Magnesium Salts: Calcium Channel Blockers may enhance the adverse/toxic effect of Magnesium Salts. Magnesium Salts may enhance the hypotensive effect of Calcium Channel Blockers. Monitor therapy
Melatonin: May diminish the antihypertensive effect of Calcium Channel Blockers (Dihydropyridine). Monitor therapy
Methylphenidate: May diminish the antihypertensive effect of Antihypertensive Agents. Monitor therapy
MiFEPRIStone: May increase the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inhibitors). Management: Minimize doses of CYP3A4 substrates, and monitor for increased concentrations/toxicity, during and 2 weeks following treatment with mifepristone. Avoid cyclosporine, dihydroergotamine, ergotamine, fentanyl, pimozide, quinidine, sirolimus, and tacrolimus. Consider therapy modification
Mitotane: May decrease the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inducers). Management: Doses of CYP3A4 substrates may need to be adjusted substantially when used in patients being treated with mitotane. Consider therapy modification
Molsidomine: May enhance the hypotensive effect of Blood Pressure Lowering Agents. Monitor therapy
Naftopidil: May enhance the hypotensive effect of Blood Pressure Lowering Agents. Monitor therapy
Netupitant: May increase the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inhibitors). Monitor therapy
Neuromuscular-Blocking Agents (Nondepolarizing): Calcium Channel Blockers may enhance the neuromuscular-blocking effect of Neuromuscular-Blocking Agents (Nondepolarizing). Monitor therapy
Nicergoline: May enhance the hypotensive effect of Blood Pressure Lowering Agents. Monitor therapy
Nicorandil: May enhance the hyperkalemic effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Monitor therapy
Nicorandil: May enhance the hypotensive effect of Blood Pressure Lowering Agents. Monitor therapy
NiMODipine: CYP3A4 Inhibitors (Weak) may increase the serum concentration of NiMODipine. Monitor therapy
Nitroprusside: Blood Pressure Lowering Agents may enhance the hypotensive effect of Nitroprusside. Monitor therapy
Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Agents: Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors may enhance the adverse/toxic effect of Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Agents. Specifically, the combination may result in a significant decrease in renal function. Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Agents may diminish the antihypertensive effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Monitor therapy
Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Agents (Topical): May diminish the therapeutic effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Monitor therapy
Obinutuzumab: May enhance the hypotensive effect of Blood Pressure Lowering Agents. Management: Consider temporarily withholding blood pressure lowering medications beginning 12 hours prior to obinutuzumab infusion and continuing until 1 hour after the end of the infusion. Consider therapy modification
Palbociclib: May increase the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inhibitors). Monitor therapy
Pentoxifylline: May enhance the hypotensive effect of Blood Pressure Lowering Agents. Monitor therapy
Phenytoin: Calcium Channel Blockers may increase the serum concentration of Phenytoin. Phenytoin may decrease the serum concentration of Calcium Channel Blockers. Management: Avoid use of nimodipine or nifedipine with phenytoin. Monitor for phenytoin toxicity and/or decreased calcium channel blocker effects with any concurrent use. Consider therapy modification
Pholcodine: Blood Pressure Lowering Agents may enhance the hypotensive effect of Pholcodine. Monitor therapy
Phosphodiesterase 5 Inhibitors: May enhance the hypotensive effect of Blood Pressure Lowering Agents. Monitor therapy
Pimozide: CYP3A4 Inhibitors (Weak) may increase the serum concentration of Pimozide. Avoid combination
Potassium Salts: May enhance the hyperkalemic effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Monitor therapy
Potassium-Sparing Diuretics: May enhance the hyperkalemic effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Monitor therapy
Pregabalin: Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors may enhance the adverse/toxic effect of Pregabalin. Specifically, the risk of angioedema may be increased. Monitor therapy
Prostacyclin Analogues: May enhance the hypotensive effect of Blood Pressure Lowering Agents. Monitor therapy
Quinagolide: May enhance the hypotensive effect of Blood Pressure Lowering Agents. Monitor therapy
QuiNIDine: Calcium Channel Blockers (Dihydropyridine) may decrease the serum concentration of QuiNIDine. Calcium Channel Blockers (Dihydropyridine) may increase the serum concentration of QuiNIDine. QuiNIDine may increase the serum concentration of Calcium Channel Blockers (Dihydropyridine). Monitor therapy
Racecadotril: May enhance the adverse/toxic effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Specifically, the risk for angioedema may be increased with this combination. Monitor therapy
Ranolazine: May enhance the adverse/toxic effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Monitor therapy
Rifamycin Derivatives: May decrease the serum concentration of Calcium Channel Blockers. This primarily affects oral forms of calcium channel blockers. Management: The labeling for some US and Canadian calcium channel blockers (CCBs) contraindicate use with rifampin, however recommendations vary. Consult appropriate labeling. If coadministered, monitor for decreased CCB efficiacy. Consider therapy modification
Sacubitril: Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors may enhance the adverse/toxic effect of Sacubitril. Specifically, the risk of angioedema may be increased with this combination. Avoid combination
Salicylates: May enhance the nephrotoxic effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Salicylates may diminish the therapeutic effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Monitor therapy
Sarilumab: May decrease the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inducers). Monitor therapy
Siltuximab: May decrease the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inducers). Monitor therapy
Simeprevir: May increase the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inhibitors). Monitor therapy
Simvastatin: AmLODIPine may increase the serum concentration of Simvastatin. Management: Dose of simvastatin should not exceed 20 mg daily if coadministering with levamlodipine or amlodipine. If coadministering with simvastatin and amlodipine, close laboratory and clincal monitoring for signs and symptoms of rhabdomyolysis is warranted. Consider therapy modification
Sincalide: Drugs that Affect Gallbladder Function may diminish the therapeutic effect of Sincalide. Management: Consider discontinuing drugs that may affect gallbladder motility prior to the use of sincalide to stimulate gallbladder contraction. Consider therapy modification
Sirolimus: May enhance the adverse/toxic effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Monitor therapy
Sodium Phosphates: Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors may enhance the nephrotoxic effect of Sodium Phosphates. Specifically, the risk of acute phosphate nephropathy may be enhanced. Management: Consider avoiding this combination by temporarily suspending treatment with ACEIs, or seeking alternatives to oral sodium phosphate bowel preparation. If the combination cannot be avoided, maintain adequate hydration and monitor renal function closely. Consider therapy modification
Stiripentol: May increase the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inhibitors). Management: Use of stiripentol with CYP3A4 substrates that are considered to have a narrow therapeutic index should be avoided due to the increased risk for adverse effects and toxicity. Any CYP3A4 substrate used with stiripentol requires closer monitoring. Consider therapy modification
Tacrolimus (Systemic): Calcium Channel Blockers (Dihydropyridine) may increase the serum concentration of Tacrolimus (Systemic). Monitor therapy
Tacrolimus (Systemic): Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors may enhance the hyperkalemic effect of Tacrolimus (Systemic). Monitor therapy
Tacrolimus (Systemic): CYP3A4 Inhibitors (Weak) may increase the serum concentration of Tacrolimus (Systemic). Monitor therapy
Temsirolimus: May enhance the adverse/toxic effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Monitor therapy
Thiazide and Thiazide-Like Diuretics: May enhance the hypotensive effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Thiazide and Thiazide-Like Diuretics may enhance the nephrotoxic effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Monitor therapy
TiZANidine: May enhance the hypotensive effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Monitor therapy
Tocilizumab: May decrease the serum concentration of CYP3A4 Substrates (High risk with Inducers). Monitor therapy
Tolvaptan: May enhance the hyperkalemic effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Monitor therapy
Triazolam: CYP3A4 Inhibitors (Weak) may increase the serum concentration of Triazolam. Management: Consider triazolam dose reduction in patients receiving concomitant weak CYP3A4 inhibitors. Consider therapy modification
Trimethoprim: May enhance the hyperkalemic effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Monitor therapy
Ubrogepant: CYP3A4 Inhibitors (Weak) may increase the serum concentration of Ubrogepant. Management: In patients taking weak CYP3A4 inhibitors, the initial and second dose (given at least 2 hours later if needed) of ubrogepant should be limited to 50 mg. Consider therapy modification
Urapidil: May interact via an unknown mechanism with Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Management: Avoid concomitant use of urapidil and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors. Consider therapy modification
Urokinase: May enhance the adverse/toxic effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors. Specifically, the risk of angioedema may be increased. Monitor therapy
Yohimbine: May diminish the antihypertensive effect of Antihypertensive Agents. Monitor therapy
Test Interactions
See Individual agents.
The following adverse drug reactions and incidences are derived from product labeling unless otherwise specified.
Frequency not always defined.
1% to 10%:
Cardiovascular: Peripheral edema (2% to 7%), exacerbation of angina pectoris, hypotension, myocardial infarction (more likely in patients with severe obstructive coronary artery disease)
Central nervous system: Dizziness (3%), headache (3%)
Dermatologic: Skin rash
Endocrine & metabolic: Hyperkalemia (2%)
Gastrointestinal: Diarrhea, nausea
Renal: Renal insufficiency
Respiratory: Cough (3%)
ALERT: U.S. Boxed Warning
Fetal toxicity:
When pregnancy is detected, discontinue perindopril/amlodipine as soon as possible. Drugs that act directly on the renin-angiotensin system can cause injury and death to the developing fetus.
Concerns related to adverse effects:
• Angina/MI: Increased angina and/or MI has occurred with initiation or dosage titration of dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers, especially in patients with severe obstructive coronary artery disease in the absence of concurrent beta-blockade.
• Angioedema: At any time during treatment (especially following first dose) angioedema may occur rarely with ACE inhibitors; it may involve the head and neck (potentially compromising airway) or the intestine (presenting with abdominal pain). Black patients and patients with idiopathic or hereditary angioedema or previous angioedema associated with ACE inhibitor therapy may be at an increased risk. Risk may also be increased with concomitant use of mTOR inhibitor (eg, everolimus) or neprilysin inhibitor (eg, sacubitril) therapy. Prolonged frequent monitoring may be required especially if tongue, glottis, or larynx are involved as they are associated with airway obstruction. Patients with a history of airway surgery may have a higher risk of airway obstruction. Aggressive early and appropriate management is critical. Use is contraindicated in patients with a history of angioedema with or without previous ACE inhibitor treatment.
• Cholestatic jaundice: A rare toxicity associated with ACE inhibitors includes cholestatic jaundice, which may progress to fulminant hepatic necrosis; discontinue if marked elevation of hepatic transaminases or jaundice occurs.
• Cough: An ACE inhibitor cough is a dry, hacking, nonproductive one that usually occurs within the first few months of treatment and should generally resolve within 1 to 4 weeks after discontinuation of the ACE inhibitor. Other causes of cough should be considered (eg, pulmonary congestion in patients with heart failure) and excluded prior to discontinuation.
• Hematologic effects: Another ACE inhibitor, captopril, has been associated with neutropenia with myeloid hypoplasia and agranulocytosis; anemia and thrombocytopenia have also occurred. Patients with renal impairment are at high risk of developing neutropenia. Patients with both renal impairment and collagen vascular disease (eg, systemic lupus erythematosus) are at an even higher risk of developing neutropenia. Periodically monitor CBC with differential in these patients.
• Hyperkalemia: May occur with ACE inhibitors; risk factors include renal dysfunction, diabetes mellitus, concomitant use of potassium-sparing diuretics, potassium supplements and/or potassium-containing salts. Use cautiously, if at all, with these agents and monitor potassium closely.
• Hypersensitivity reactions: Anaphylactic/anaphylactoid reactions can occur with ACE inhibitors. Severe anaphylactoid reactions may be seen during hemodialysis (eg, CVVHD) with high-flux dialysis membranes (eg, AN69), and rarely, during low density lipoprotein apheresis with dextran sulfate cellulose. Rare cases of anaphylactoid reactions have been reported in patients undergoing sensitization treatment with hymenoptera (bee, wasp) venom while receiving ACE inhibitors.
• Hypotension/syncope: Symptomatic hypotension with or without syncope can occur with ACE inhibitors (usually with the first several doses); effects are most often observed in volume-depleted patients; correct volume depletion prior to initiation; close monitoring of patient is required especially with initial dosing and dosing increases; blood pressure must be lowered at a rate appropriate for the patient's clinical condition. Although dose reduction may be necessary, hypotension is not a reason for discontinuation of future ACE inhibitor use especially in patients with heart failure where a reduction in systolic blood pressure is a desirable observation.
• Renal function deterioration: Perindopril may be associated with deterioration of renal function and/or increases in BUN and serum creatinine, particularly in patients with low renal blood flow (eg, renal artery stenosis, heart failure) whose GFR is dependent on efferent arteriolar vasoconstriction by angiotensin II; deterioration may result in oliguria, acute renal failure, and progressive azotemia. Small increases in serum creatinine may occur following initiation; consider discontinuation only in patients with progressive and/or significant deterioration in renal function (Bakris 2000).
Disease-related concerns:
• Aortic stenosis: Use with extreme caution in patients with severe aortic stenosis; may reduce coronary perfusion resulting in ischemia.
• Cardiovascular disease: Initiation of therapy in patients with ischemic heart disease or cerebrovascular disease warrants close observation due to the potential consequences posed by falling blood pressure (eg, MI, stroke). Fluid replacement, if needed, may restore blood pressure; therapy may then be resumed. Discontinue therapy in patients whose hypotension recurs.
• Collagen vascular disease: Use perindopril with caution in patients with collagen vascular disease especially with concomitant renal impairment; may be at increased risk for hematologic toxicity.
• Hepatic impairment: Use with caution in patients with hepatic impairment.
• Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) with outflow tract obstruction: Use with caution in patients with HCM and outflow tract obstruction since reduction in afterload may worsen symptoms associated with this condition (ACCF/AHA [Gersh 2011]).
• Renal artery stenosis: Use perindopril with caution in patients with unstented unilateral or bilateral renal artery stenosis. When unstented bilateral renal artery stenosis is present, use is generally avoided due to the elevated risk of deterioration in renal function unless possible benefits outweigh risks.
• Renal impairment: Use with caution in patients with mild to moderate renal impairment (CrCl ≥30 mL/minute); not recommended in patients with severe renal impairment (CrCl <30 mL/minute).
Special populations:
• Black patients: ACE inhibitors effectiveness is less in black patients than in non-black patients. In addition, ACE inhibitors cause a higher rate of angioedema in black than in non-black patients.
• Pregnancy: [US Boxed Warning]: Drugs that act directly on the renin-angiotensin system can cause injury and death to the developing fetus. Discontinue as soon as possible once pregnancy is detected.
Other warnings/precautions:
• Surgery: In patients on chronic ACE inhibitor therapy, intraoperative hypotension may occur with induction and maintenance of general anesthesia; use with caution before, during, or immediately after major surgery. Cardiopulmonary bypass, intraoperative blood loss, or vasodilating anesthesia increases endogenous renin release. Use of ACE inhibitors perioperatively will blunt angiotensin II formation and may result in hypotension. However, discontinuation of therapy prior to surgery is controversial. If continued preoperatively, avoidance of hypotensive agents during surgery is prudent (Hillis 2011).
Blood pressure; renal function and electrolytes; if patient has collagen vascular disease and/or renal impairment, periodically monitor CBC with differential. If doses > perindopril 7 mg/amlodipine 5 mg once daily are required in patients >65 years of age, monitor blood pressure up to 2 weeks following up titration.
Pregnancy Risk Factor
Pregnancy Considerations
[US Boxed Warning]: Drugs that act directly on the renin-angiotensin system can cause injury and death to the developing fetus. Discontinue as soon as possible once pregnancy is detected. See individual agents.
What is this drug used for?
• It is used to treat high blood pressure.
• Headache
• Back pain
• Kidney problems like unable to pass urine, change in how much urine is passed, blood in the urine, or a big weight gain
• Liver problems like dark urine, feeling tired, not hungry, upset stomach or stomach pain, light-colored stools, throwing up, or yellow skin or eyes
• High potassium like heartbeat that does not feel normal; change in thinking clearly and with logic; feeling weak, lightheaded, or dizzy; feel like passing out; numbness or tingling; or shortness of breath
• Infection like fever, chills, or sore throat
• Very bad dizziness or passing out
• Cough that does not go away
• Chest pain that is new or worse
• Shortness of breath, a big weight gain, or swelling in the arms or legs
• Severe stomach pain, upset stomach, or throwing up
• Signs of an allergic reaction, like rash; hives; itching; red, swollen, blistered, or peeling skin with or without fever; wheezing; tightness in the chest or throat; trouble breathing, swallowing, or talking; unusual hoarseness; or swelling of the mouth, face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Note: This is not a comprehensive list of all side effects. Talk to your doctor if you have questions.
Consumer Information Use and Disclaimer: This information should not be used to decide whether or not to take this medicine or any other medicine. Only the healthcare provider has the knowledge and training to decide which medicines are right for a specific patient. This information does not endorse any medicine as safe, effective, or approved for treating any patient or health condition. This is only a limited summary of general information about the medicine's uses from the patient education leaflet and is not intended to be comprehensive. This limited summary does NOT include all information available about the possible uses, directions, warnings, precautions, interactions, adverse effects, or risks that may apply to this medicine. This information is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment and does not replace information you receive from the healthcare provider. For a more detailed summary of information about the risks and benefits of using this medicine, please speak with your healthcare provider and review the entire patient education leaflet.
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Jazz LP Zoot Sims, Phil Woods, and Others
Zoot Sims, Phil Woods, and Others
Jazz Mission To Moscow
LP (Item 23125) Colpix, 1962 — Condition: Very Good+
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Jazz from the heart of the cold war – not actually recorded in Moscow, but featuring a bunch of hip players on their return from a tour of the Soviet Union – a historic moment in which west met east, with some groovy jazz in the offing! Apart from the tenor of Zoot Sims and alto of Phil Woods, the record also features flute and alto from Jerry Dodgion, trombone from Willie Dennis, trumpets from Markie Markowitz and Jimmy Maxwell, and piano from Eddie Costa – and the set features arrangements from Al Cohn on tracks that hit the 5 minute range – tight at the top, with breakaway solos, as you might hear during some of the Cohn/Sims sides for RCA during the 50s! Titles include "Let's Dance", "Mission To Moscow", "The Sochi Boatman", and the obligatory "Russian Lullaby". © 1996-2021, Dusty Groove, Inc.
(Mono gold label pressing with deep groove.)
Very Good + (plus)
Vinyl should be very clean, but can have less luster than near mint.
Should still shine under a light, but one or two marks may show up when tilted.
Can have a few small marks that may show up easily, but which do not affect play at all. Most marks of this quality will disappear when the record is tilted, and will not be felt with the back of a fingernail.
This is the kind of record that will play "near mint", but which will have some signs of use (although not major ones).
May have slight surface noise when played.
England's New Big Band Sound
Colpix, 1964. Near Mint-
A rare American outing from British bandleader Laurie Johnson – an artist who's probably best known for his famous soundtrack work of the 60s, but who steps out here in a surprisingly nice instrumental mode! The style here is a bit like that of John Dankworth on some of his American records ... LP, Vinyl record album
Introducing Duke Pearson's Big Band
Blue Note, 1967. Very Good Gatefold
A much better record than you'd expect from the somewhat cheesy cover – one of Duke Pearson's funkiest sessions ever, and a hard swinging big band set with a great late 60s feel! The group is all-class all the way – with players that include Pearson, Bob Cranshaw, Mickey Roker, Marvin ... LP, Vinyl record album
Sonny Stitt
Stomp Off Let's Go
Flying Dutchman, 1976. Very Good
An unusual late record from the legendary Sonny Stitt – a set that's got some electricity in the group, but at a level that's not entirely funky jazz! Instead, the tracks are long, and feature some well-crafted solos from the leader – and the vibe here is loose at times, a bit like the ... LP, Vinyl record album
A&M, 1974. Very Good
In the early 70s, Quincy Jones surrounded himself with some of the best young soul and jazz talent he could find, plus a few older pros – and the result was a great series of albums that spanned genres and created a whole new approach to modern R&B. This gem of a record was put together ... LP, Vinyl record album
Oh Good Grief!
Warner, Late 60s. Near Mint-
One of the coolest, grooviest albums that pianist Vince Guaraldi ever recorded – a set that's got the same Peanuts theme as his earlier dates for Fantasy Records, but which also features some sweet electric touches that only make things even better than before! In addition to his warmly ... LP, Vinyl record album
Best Of The Crusaders
Blue Thumb/ABC, Early 70s. Very Good 2LP Gatefold
Fantastic funky jazz from the Crusaders! The set includes some of their best cuts from their years at Blue Thumb – when they were slicking things up a bit, but still staying pretty true to their soul jazz roots. There's a lot of nice electric funky numbers, and more than a few hip hop ... LP, Vinyl record album
God, we love this record – and we're not ashamed to admit it! Sure, it sold a gazillion copies – and sure, for some folks it showed the true demise of the Crusaders ensemble. But for us, it's a masterpiece of smooth fusion, and a landmark album of easy jazz that spawned countless ... LP, Vinyl record album
Goin Out Of My Head
Verve, 1965. Very Good Gatefold
One of Wes Montgomery's grooviest albums on Verve – a set that features his smooth chromatic work on guitar set to lively arrangements from Oliver Nelson! Nelson gives the set more of a "punch" than some of Montgomery's other Verve records – and the style uses a tight brace ... LP, Vinyl record album
Did You Call?
Nessa, 1972. Near Mint-
Excellent late 70s issue of a date from a few years earlier, of Ben playing with a pickup European rhythm section. The intimate setting and responsive younger players cast Webster's warm tenor in a great light, and his playing at this point was continuing to develop, with a nice burnished ... LP, Vinyl record album
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
Philadelphia International, 1973. Very Good Gatefold
Classic Philly soul from Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes – a killer batch of studio tracks, despite the live image of the group on the cover! The album's got a slightly more expansive feel than some of the other Teddy Pendergrass-era albums by The Blue Notes – almost a mini-symphony ... LP, Vinyl record album
Mongo Santamaria
Watermelon Man!
Battle, 1962. Very Good+
A seminal moment in the career of Mongo Santamaria – and probably the first record to show that he was destined for greatness! As you might guess from the title, the set features Mongo's key recording of Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man" – served up here in a sharp-edged ... LP, Vinyl record album
Women's Love Rights
Hot Wax, Early 70s. Very Good
An excellent batch of hard soul grooves from the great Laura Lee! This one was her first for the Hot Wax label – and it's got the raw quality of her earlier singles for labels like Chess, with a hard vocal style that's very much in the Aretha Franklin/Fontella Bass camp – plus some ... LP, Vinyl record album
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Cheap theater tickets in London
London's West End is on par with New York's Broadway theater district when it comes to top quality big budget theater productions. But with the US Dollar at 2 per pound Sterling, the tickets are outrageously expensive for Americans. Tickets to a standard seat at a London musical performance costs around £50-60, so you'll end up getting hit for $100 or more per person!
How to score cheap theater tickets
Just like in NYC, most London theater productions will offer up discounted tickets, if you know where to look. The ones that don't are usually book every day for weeks on end and if you really want to see the theater play or musical, you'll have to pony up the money. For discounted theater tickets (while in London, these are often referred to as half price theatre tickets) there are a few websites that dig out the best deals for your buying pleasure. Use these sites to find the right discount code and then book the tickets yourself.
Theatermonkey.com lists many half price promotions and theater and dinner packages.
Broadwaybox.com mostly covers New York theaters, but also publishes discount codes for West End theaters.
Some more ways to save on theater tickets
If you're booking a few weeks ahead of time, you can try lastminute.com, which often has shows for half price
Another option is LOVEtheater.com, check out their "Special Offers" section
Matinee performances (i.e. during the day) are usually cheaper than the evening shows
Ask the box office for any standing room tickets. Not every venue has these theater tickets, but the National, Donmar, Shakespeare's Globe, and Old Vic all do. There are others. These tickets tend to go for less than 10 pounds and generally only available if the show's seats are sold out
Seats in the back are cheaper, but you may need your opera glasses to see anything
If you're willing to crane your neck around, older theaters have 'restricted view' seats on sale. This means some part of the stage is hidden from your normal seated position, so you might miss moments of action. The seats are much cheaper and you can check out Theatermonkey.com for reviews on these seats. Some are cheap but so horrible they're not worth the bother!
A student ID may bring you discounts of up to 20-40% of the ticket price
Try the 'Fringe' for more options
If you're not completely set on the West End theaters, you can find smaller theaters in the 'Fringe', which is what Londoners call theaters outside of the Theater District. At the Fringe theaters, tickets go from a bargain £5 up to around £30. The Fringe does see a lot of top English stage talent as it's a very valid career path and it's also used to test out new productions before their big West End debuts.
Should you need a ticket at the last minute, there's also the TKTS booth in Leicester Square where tickets are literally half price and stagings on offer include dance performances as well as theater. There's a Manhattan ticket office like it, which is actually older, but the London one accepts both credit cards and cash, so it's a bit more convenient.
So, there you have it, a comprehensive guide to cheap theater tickets in London.
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REPORT | Ireland 1-3 Germany
The dream of qualifying for the 2022 UEFA Women's European Championship ended for the Republic of Ireland in Tallaght Stadium as they lost 3-1 to Germany.
Early goals from Lina Magull and Tabea Wabmuth set the Group I winners on their way to completing a perfect campaign of eight wins, but Katie McCabe ensured that there would be at least one goal conceded.
Wabuth got a second late on as Vera Pauw's team pushed to level matters and ultimately their fightback fell short. Although this was the first game in the campaign that Germany were truly tested.
Following a bright opening, Ireland were dealt a cruel blow when referee Sara Persson pointed to the penalty spot after Svenja Huth went down inside the area when coming up against McCabe.
Magull fired in to give Germany the lead and they extended it just eight minutes later when Wabuth took aim from distance and the ball flew into the back of the net.
Typical of this Ireland team, they did not drop their heads and give up. Instead they fought back and a quick breakaway saw Heather Payne get in behind the German defence and square to Denise O’Sullivan who was fouled.
A second penalty kick of the game was awarded, this time in favour of Ireland. McCabe, who missed from the spot kick in their most recent game away to Ukraine, made no mistake as she blasted in.
As they returned for the second half, Germany introduced Dzsenifer Marozsan in an effort to seize control in midfield. But it was never going to be easy to break through the Irish lines such was their battling display.
Going forward Ireland tried to create chances and McCabe had the best of them when she shot wide following some slick link-up play. O'Sullivan also rattled the crossbar as Ireland switched formation to go for it.
Germany held on to claim the win, but Pauw's team can be extremely proud of their performance in this game and in the campaign as a whole. The future looks bright for this squad of players.
Republic of Ireland: Moloney; O’Gorman, Quinn, Caldwell, Fahey, McCabe; Littlejohn, Finn (Molloy 80), O’Sullivan; Payne, Jarrett (Barrett 55).
Germany: Berger; Hendrich (Wolter 61), Hegering, Oberdorf, Lohmann; Magull (Lattwein 75), Dallmann (Marozsan 46), Leupolz; Wabmuth, Huth, Buhl (Schuller 74).
Referee: Sara Persson (Sweden).
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Virginia Lee Wallace
Virginia Lee Wallace, age 81, passed away on Tuesday, September 1, 2020, at Center on Aging and Health. A native of Erwin, TN. Virginia is a daughter of the late John, Jr. and Pearl (Mathes) Wallace. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church. She loved dogs and taking care of family and friends. In addition to her parents, Virginia is preceded in death by two brothers: Harold Wallace and Arnold Wallace.
Virginia Lee Wallace leaves behind to cherish her memory:
Sisters: Phyllis Breen and husband, Sam of Erwin, TN,
Mary Wallace Jennings and husband, Melvin of Greenbrier, AR,
Geri Miller and husband Armon of Crystal, MN;
Several loving nieces and nephews:
Debbie Conley, Michael Wallace, Cathy Waldron, Janice Acosta, Mark Jennings, Melanie Vanover, Sean Miller, John Wallace, Paul Wallace, Tim Wallace, Chris Tomczak, and Tonya Justice.
The family respectfully requests the honor of your presence as we offer tribute and remember the life of Virginia Lee Wallace in a committal service to be held at 2:00 pm on Friday, September 4, 2020 in Evergreen Cemetery. Reverend David Crutchfield will officiate. Those attending will meet under the portico at the Evergreen Cemetery Mausoleum by 1:50 pm for the service.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the family asks that all who attend wear a mask or face covering and adhere to social distancing guidelines.
Condolences and memories may be shared with the family and viewed at www.valleyfuneralhome.net <http://www.valleyfuneralhome.net> or on our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ValleyFuneralHomeErwin. These arrangements are made especially for the family and friends of Virginia Lee Wallace through Valley Funeral Home, 1085 N. Main Ave., Erwin, 423-743-9187.
September 4, 2020 by Keeli Parkey in Obituaries
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Middle School students use green screens, technology to connect to learning
By Nathan Hansen, La Crosse Tribune
Wisc. students are creating comic books, videos, and more
Longfellow Middle School students are using green screen technology to transport themselves and their classmates to new worlds of learning.
Seventh-grade students in Jeanne Halderson’s social studies and English language arts class and Liz Ramsay’s science and mathematics class are the first to field-test the green screens in the schoolwork. Halderson received a $1,000 grant from the La Crosse Public Education Foundation to provide 34 green screens to students in the La Crosse School District’s three middle schools as well as train staff on their use.
So far this semester, students have used the green screens to create comic books, tell stories and pitch their classmates on different types of bugs to fill their zoo in science class as well other ideas on how to use the technology to make their coursework more interesting. While the foundation provided the screens, district information technology staff stepped up to provide students in the district with different apps such as Green Screen by Do Ink to facilitate making digital creations.
“I like to learn new ways to do things,” Longfellow student Marissa Pickar said. “The technology makes our work go a little bit faster.”
Student Alex Weinberger was using the green screens and an iPad to create an eight-page comic book. Pictures taken with the green screen allows him to create any background he would want and other software lets him edit and add text such as captions and thought bubbles.
They also used the green screens for social studies lessons, taking an epic selfie with the whole class. The screens allowed the students to place themselves wherever they wanted, such as locations in France or Italy or other countries and tied in with what they were learning about other countries and cities.
Halderson said the green screens help make class projects more dynamic, creative and interesting to students. Having the technology also helps the teachers teach the students digital literacy, as the kids encounter more and more technology and tools they can use for their work and need to learn about concepts such as fair use and copyright.
“It gives kids more freedom and more choices,” she said. “It becomes more meaningful and the kids own it more.”
In Ramsay’s science class, students are putting together an insect zoo, but have a $100 budget. In order to determine what animals to populate the zoo with, her students have formed into groups researching and presenting on the bugs they think would be most interesting to study.
Student Lauren Finn’s group studied darkling beetles, which she thought were really cool, especially the way the larva changes into an adult beetle. The green screen let her put herself in the frame with the beetles during the group’s presentation, which they made into a movie.
“The green screen was really useful for that,” she said. “It is fun how we can pretend to stand in front of what we are talking about. It gives the viewer a better understanding of what we are learning.”
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Insights into subnational immigrant integration policies worldwide
Thu, 28 January 2021
Webinar on the drivers and effects of subnational immigrant integration policy worldwide, with insights from Africa, Asia and Latin America
Following the recent publication of a special issue in Regional Studies (2020, Vol 54, No 11) studying immigrant integration policies at the subnational level, this webinar will discuss the drivers and effects of subnational immigrant integration beyond the cases studied in the SI. While the SI has offered inspiring results regarding subnational integration policies in Europe and North America, the aim of this webinar is to adopt a more global outlook by discussing immigrant integration policies ‘worldwide’, i.e. with insights from other geographical areas (Africa, Asia, Latin America).
To discuss the drivers and effects of immigrant integration in less studied countries or regional areas, the webinar will feature experts from different geographical areas:
[Europe and North America] Verena WISTHALER (EURAC research), Anita MANATSCHAL (University of Neuchâtel) & Christina ZUBER (Konstanz University), as editors of the special issue, will introduce the webinar and present the main results of the cases studied in Europe (Spain, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland) and North America (Canada, the United States).
[Asia] Giacomo SOLANO (Migration Policy Group) & Varun AGGARWAL (India Migation Now) will share insights on India and their initiative to create indicators to understand the role of state-level policies for the integration of interstate migrants in a developing country.
[Africa] Mulugeta DINBABO (University of Western Cape) will present some of the challenges of subnational immigrant integration in Africa, in relationship with social welfare policies in African states.
[Latin America] Luicy PEDROZA (The College of Mexico | Colmex) will discuss provincial and local models of integation in some Latin American countries, among others Mexico and Costa Rica.
[Beyond the usual suspects?]: Isabelle CÔTÉ (Memorial University of Newfoundland) will offer round up remarks after other speakers' presentations to conclude and to propose avenues of research to better study subnational migration policies beyond Europe and North America.
The webinar will be chaired and moderated by Catherine XHARDEZ (BIRMM & Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel).
The webinar is a joint cooperation of: Eurac Research (IT); BIRMM & IES Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE); nccr-on the move University of Neuchâtel (CH); Cluster of Excellence 'The Politics of Inequality', University of Konstanz (GER); CEPI/CSPI Concordia University (CA).
Registration is mandatory. The link for the webinar (Zoom) will be sent a couple of days before the event.
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Sight, Sound & Story Live - Ep 6 "Making the Grade: Color in TV & Film"
by Manhattan Edit Workshop
All attendees who register for this event will received a link and password an hour prior to the event. This will gain free access for attendees. There will be live raffles throughout the event, but attendees must be present. Following the panel there will be a chance to ask questions in a live Q & A networking event.
Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 5:00 PM EST
Join us for this special conversation with Colorists Stephan Nakamura and Élodie Ichter with moderator Jason Druss.
The monthly online event series Sight, Sound & Story: Live, continues in December with as special conversation with Colorists Stephan Nakamura, Élodie Ichter, and moderator Jason Druss.
Join us at 5:00 PM EST/2:00 PM PST with the following link and password
https://vimeo.com/event/561686
Password: ssslive
Sight, Sound & Story: Live "Making the Grade: Color in TV & Film"
Moderator: Jason Druss (Senior Colorist at WarnerMedia Studios)
Panelists: Élodie Ichter ("The Irishman," "Once Upon a Time In Hollywood," "The Maze Runner") & Stephen Nakamura ("X-Men: Days of Future Past," "The Martian," "Prometheus")
Inside Episode VI: The contribution of the colorist in film goes beyond just making the scenes and images look good. A great colorist will draw the audience's eye to what is important in the story and enhance the emotional tone of the film in ways that can be subtle yet effective.
Join us for this special conversation with colorists Stephen Nakamura ("X-Men: Days of Future Past," "The Martian," "Prometheus") and Élodie Ichter ("The Irishman," "Once Upon a Time In Hollywood," "The Maze Runner") as they discuss the creative process of color grading in their work. Jason Druss who is a senior colorist at WarnerMedia Studios, will guide the conversation as well as show examples of how Stephen and Élodie use color correction to make their films click for audiences. There will be a section for you to ask questions during this event!
When: December 17th, 2020
Time: 5PM EST / 2PM PST
General Admission: FREE!!
All registered attendees will receive a link and password for access on the day of the event approximately a half hour before 5:00 pm EST.
Jason Druss is a Senior Colorist at WarnerMedia Studios. Based in Atlanta, Jason frequently works on short and long form content for TNT, HBO Max, TCM, Cartoon Network, Bleacher Report and NBA TV. Previously, Jason was a colorist at NFL Films as well as a Davinci Resolve Product Specialist at Blackmagic Design. Say hello on Instagram @jason.druss
Élodie Ichter began her career in 2000, working as a color assist in her native Paris. Throughout the years, Elodie has honed and polished her craft, but insists on maintaining a student’s eye. She often finds inspiration beyond the moving image, looking to fine art and photography, to fully realize her clients’ creative vision. Elodie collaborates early on with filmmakers as she believes in starting the collaborative process from its inception in order to make the process more efficient, more specific, and technical implementation smoother.
Elodie’s roster of credits recent years includes, “The Irishman”, “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood”, and “Okja”. Most recently, Ichter graded Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland” by with cinematography by Joshua James Richards - which took the two top prizes, the Golden Frog and the Fipresci Jury Honors, at Camerimage 2020.
Among the most accomplished feature film colorists in Hollywood, Stephen Nakamura has worked alongside directors such as David Fincher, Ridley Scott, Kathryn Bigelow, Spike Lee, David O. Russell, and Steven Spielberg, as well as cinematographers Dariusz Wolski, ASC, Claudio Miranda, ASC, Robert Richardson, ASC, and Janusz Kaminski.
His feature film credits include "Da Five Bloods," "News of the World," "It: Chapter Two," "Crazy Rich Asians," and "Extraction, Alien: Covenant" and many more blockbuster epics and award winners.
Prior to joining Company 3, Nakamura was with Technicolor Digital Services, where he got his start in feature film finishing. Previously he was a colorist with the Post Group, working on commercial, music video, television and feature film projects. He began his career at California Video Center.
In 2018 Nakamura was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
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MarchFirst To Host Fire Sale?
By: eWeek Editors | February 05, 2001
Web-services firm's hosting business is on the block.
Plagued by a series of financial missteps, MarchFirst is in talks with Exodus Communications about the possible sale of its hosting operations, sources say.
The Web services firm seeks to sell off either chunks or the whole hosting operation to Exodus or another buyer, says a source close to the company.
Talks of the possible sale come on the heels of MarchFirsts recent restructuring, which includes layoffs of 1,500 employees and the closing and consolidating of some of its 70 offices in 14 countries.
Also, the company says it will sell pieces of its business that are not core to its operations. That likely could mean a large chunk of the business units that USWeb/CKS brought to the merger.
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MarchFirst currently runs its U.S. data centers in Sunnyvale, Calif., and Herndon, Va. The company also operates an application monitoring and management center, called Host-One, in McLean, Va.
The hosting and management business was a move to attract longer-term contracts and build a stream of recurring revenue.
Last spring, before its problems erupted, MarchFirst CEO Robert Bernard predicted that the companys effort in managing hosted applications would become a $100 million business in 2001.
MarchFirst executives declined to comment.
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Find 2020 detailed transmission parts import data of Austria by month and year. Our Austria trade statistics of transmission parts imports including value, price, quantity, unit, import partner name and more shipment details
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Nasty WhatsApp scam is back that will block your account and let strangers read your chats
WHATSAPP users have been placed on high alert after a nasty scam that locks users out of their own account and leaves their most intimate chats exposed has regained its popularity. Here's what you need to know, and how to avoid falling prey to the attack.
By David Snelling
PUBLISHED: 10:51, Thu, Nov 26, 2020 | UPDATED: 10:51, Thu, Nov 26, 2020
WhatsApp scam warning - don't fool for this nasty trick (Image: WHATSAPP)
Cybercriminals are once again targeting WhatsApp – the most popular messaging service on the planet, with more than two billion users. The nasty scam, which will be familiar to longtime WhatsApp users, leaves people locked out of their accounts. Worse still, this sinister attack also hands full access to your most private messages, contacts list, pictures and videos over to the hackers who can then use these to target more unsuspecting users. This new scam uses an old technique that's been seen in the wild before.
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Those tricked will usually receive a message on their phone that appears to have come from a friend or contact already saved on your phone (but be warned – these texts are sent from people who have already been taken in by the scam as the hackers use their contact list to try to tempt more people into falling prey to the scam). Once the hackers know you are willing to respond, they'll target your phone and attempt to gain access to your chat account via WhatsApp's security pin number.
It's a pretty simple scam as whenever you upgrade your smartphone, WhatsApp will ask to verify your identity using your phone number before allowing you to access any chats backed-up to the cloud. It's this six-digit code that hackers need to get their hands on to gain access to your account.
To verify the identity of the person trying to log into your WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned firm will send a randomly generated six-digit code in a text message to the phone number that's registered with the account. Of course, this won't go to the hackers, but will end up on your phone.
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Next, the hackers will send a text to you – making an excuse for the six-digit code being sent to you – and asking you to forward it on to them. As soon as you send the code, WhatsApp believes that it's a genuine attempt to login to your account and will enable the chat on the hackers' smartphone.
As far as your contacts are concerned, the hackers are now you and can continue to send texts in your WhatsApp conversations, or group chats.
This scam was circulating earlier this year and now it's been spotted again. Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine even appears to have fallen for the scam. He tweeted a warning to his listeners to try to stop them falling foul of the same technique – which left him locked out of his WhatsApp and allowed cybercriminals to use his contact list to target more people.
Having no need for a WhatsApp code, I ignored it. But then my neighbour WhatsApped me. Let's call her Penny. An emoji came first: pic.twitter.com/SKoifHDf1C
— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) November 13, 2020
Currently, it appears that WhatsApp users in India are the main target but it's a good reminder to be on alert if you get a message asking you to forward on a pin number.
Speaking about the latest scam Ray Walsh, Digital Privacy Expert at ProPrivacy, said: "WhatsApp users need to be on the lookout for a worrying new scam that is allowing cybercriminals to hack into people’s WhatsApp accounts. Anybody who receives a message out of the blue with a one-time PIN code should be extremely wary because this is how the attack starts. Following the receipt of the unexpected OTP code, the hacker will send the victim a direct message claiming to be their friend or contact. They will then ask to be forwarded the code by claiming to have mistakenly sent it to them.
"That code is actually the two-factor authentication code for accessing the victim's WhatsApp account, and once the victim forwards it to the hacker they will use it to hack into their account. Always be on the lookout for any text messages that contain an OTP code and never, ever forward or screenshot or otherwise pass those codes on to anybody, no matter how genuine they sound."
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This online course is designed to help postgraduate research students understand the core principles of research ethics and integrity. It's aimed at all research students and explains these basic principles to help you to understand any subject or project-specific advice or policies.
Research ethics and integrity underpins excellent research, and is at the heart of what constitutes good research practice. Here you can find training developed to support researchers from all disciplines and at various stages of their career paths to enhance their research practice, as well as further support for research integrity.
Introduction to Research Ethics and Integrity
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Online training that will introduce key concepts of research ethics and integrity and provide an overview of the issues you need to consider.
This online training course has been developed to support researchers from all disciplines and at various stages of their career paths to enhance their research practice. This training will introduce the concepts of research ethics and integrity, a core part of good research practice.
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Develop a greater understanding of the core principles and practices of responsible and ethical research conduct, and;
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This training will link to further guidance and training available within the University of Edinburgh, and collate key sources of information for further support.
University of Edinburgh staff and students can self enrol on the Learn course at any time.
Log onto the Learn VLE using your EASE username and password (link to Learn below)
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vayyar 4D imaging radar sensor set to revolutionise automotive safety by cutting complexity and costs
Overcrowded with sensors – average cars forecast to have over 200 by 2030
Vayyar platform addresses multiple challenging safety requirements, providing unprecedented life-saving functionality for all car models (view the technology here).
Single multifunctional radar-on-chip (ROC) able to replace numerous traditional one-function sensors, reducing complexity for both in-cabin and ADAS applications.
Leading-edge technology minimizes risk and integration costs, and is set to save car manufacturers and suppliers hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
Vayyar’s in-cabin 4D imaging radar sensor provides exceptional resolution and an ultra-wide field of view for precise classification of complete vehicle environment.
Production-ready, affordable and scalable solution, proven to automotive grade, supports addition of future safety features via over-the-air (OTA) software upgrades.
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TEL AVIV, Israel – [December 15, 2020] – Vayyar, the global leader in 4D imaging radar technology, is transforming automotive safety with its production-ready Radar-on-Chip (RoC) platform, which enables OEMs to achieve leading-edge vehicle safety while achieving unprecedented cost efficiencies.
Vayyar’s automotive-grade, AEC-Q100 qualified RoC is a game-changing solution. The chip features up to 48 transceivers, an internal digital signal processor (DSP) and microcontroller unit (MCU) for real-time signal processing. Capable of seeing through objects and able to operate effectively in all weather conditions, Vayyar’s single-chip solution can replace over a dozen other sensors and negates the need for expensive LIDAR and cameras.
Within the cabin, one multifunctional Vayyar chip can support a multitude of systems, including intruder alerts, Child Presence Detection, enhanced Seat Belt Reminders and eCall to alert emergency services in the event of a crash. It delivers a revolutionary level of safety, utterly unobtainable with traditional single-function sensors.
This breakthrough solution fulfils the functions of multiple chips by sensing, computing, processing, mapping and imaging targets with just a single radio-frequency integrated circuit (RFIC). The platform supports Vayyar’s mission to ensure that safety is available and affordable for all car manufacturers and their key suppliers, at a time when modern cars are becoming increasingly crowded with sensors.
Today, there are more than 100 sensors in a typical car, with analysts predicting that this will double by 2030. However, Vayyar’s new production-ready RoC offers unprecedented potential and a unique opportunity to cut cost and complexity while improving safety.
“By replacing multiple sensors with our multifunctional, scalable platform, the possibilities for simplicity and savings are substantial. In addition, regulations and standards are rising and to achieve five-star ratings, automakers are moving away from traditional solutions,” explains Ian Podkamien, Head of Automotive at Vayyar. “Our multi-award winning technology, recognised by organisations such as CLEPA, equips vehicles with the instincts to save lives, providing uncompromising and affordable safety. What’s more, its price point is similar to a single-function 3x4 2D/3D radar solution, but with substantial added value.”
The platform provides exceptionally high resolution and an extremely wide field of view to deliver unsurpassed precision and detail. The robust sensor is also engineered for scalability, seamlessly facilitating the deployment of emerging features via over-the-air (OTA) software updates. This effectively future-proofs vehicles as new safety requirements and standards emerge.
Central to the platform’s potential is its ability to reduce complexity, in order to cut direct and indirect costs. Vayyar has the in-house expertise to deliver a full end-to-end solution, including hardware, software, development and testing resources, streamlining the integration process for Tier 1 suppliers and OEMs to minimise effort, costs and risk.
By providing a high-performance, cost-effective and multifunctional sensor, Vayyar’s technology closes the gap between rising safety demands and feasible tech adoption, ensuring that affordable, uncompromising safety is available to all.
Further information on Vayyar’s cutting-edge 4D imaging ROC technology is available at www.vayyar.com/auto.
About Vayyar Imaging (Automotive)
Vayyar’s intelligent sensors create holistic safety opportunities for in-cabin and ADAS, using automotive-grade 4D imaging radar technology. At the core of these sensors is a high-performance Radar-on-Chip that supports up to 48 transceivers for exceptional resolution. With an ultra-wide field of view, Vayyar’s 60GHz and 79GHz single-chip radar modules cover large areas to reduce the number of sensors in vehicles. They provide comprehensive detection in and around the vehicle, while simultaneously tracking multiple targets and objects. Vayyar technology is multi-functional, affordable and available for mass production. The radar-based platform is robust in all road conditions, while protecting user privacy. Vayyar plans to continue developing the next generation of sensor technology that is miniature, affordable and versatile enough to enable a safer world.
Unlike traditional radar solutions that are based around 2 to 3 transmitting antennas and 3 to 4 receiving antennas, 4D imaging radar leverages a Multiple Input Multiple Output 48-antenna array for high-resolution mapping of its surroundings. The rich point cloud data output combined with an ultra-wide azimuth-elevation field of view, delivers detection and tracking with pinpoint accuracy, making it the ultimate safety sensor for the road ahead.
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An overview of safety which takes a fundamentally different approach to people’s roles and talents has found some high-level corporate support.
Qantas has a deserved reputation for safety, having not had a fatal accident since 1951, but as the carrier’s director of airline services, Brett Daley, told the recent Australian Airports Association conference, this is no reason for complacency.
The airline’s reorganisation over the past five years had extended to safety, Daley said, with the realisation that it had to be part of the same cycle of continuous improvement as the rest of the business.
‘What got us here is not going to get us there,’ he told the conference in Canberra. ‘That’s also true in safety. We had to think differently about safety.
‘Qantas, given its strong reputation for safety, had to be an innovator, a leader.’
‘We needed a different perspective. We knew we had to set up for continuous improvement. We knew that while our performance was great, we had to continue to improve.’
At the same time, Qantas was under business pressure. ‘We had a significant downsizing in resources; we had consolidation of our costs and our ability to roll out processes that were bespoke for different parts of the Qantas Group,’ Daley says.
The airline’s experts examined the theories of Sidney Dekker and Eric Hollnagel, and engaged with Sydney industrial safety consultancy, Art of Work.
Daley told the conference Qantas changed its safety administration in three ways to make it:
with people as part of the solution.
‘We knew we had a highly complex safety ecosystem,’ Daley said.
The Qantas Group is not only geographically dispersed, but encompasses seven distinct airline operations. ‘We wanted to remove duplication, a real drain on the business, but we needed to be able to enable diversity,’ he said. ‘What we wanted to do was leverage the strengths of the diversity of the group and build a learning mindset we could draw on.
‘The idea was to take this complex ecosystem and support it in a new way. We needed to integrate. So we created a central entity that not only brought everything together, but started to challenge the ways we work.’ The result was the Qantas Group Safety Service.
The six streams in the Qantas Group Safety Service bring together previously separated safety-related functions.
Aviation medicine and health
Investigation—of any event in a Qantas Group aircraft
Safety service delivery
Operational safety advisory—Qantas’s group of subject-matter experts (an internal consultancy)
‘We now move towards a common process and a common set of standards,’ Daley said.
Integration produced two advantages: commonality and scale. ‘The main driver was a common language. If I’m talking in the Qantas Group and I’m talking to Jetstar Vietnam, QantasLink or Network Aviation, a common vocabulary is really important to coordinate focus and priorities,’ Daley said.
‘Often scale is seen as a disadvantage … we took scale and made it a strength for the organisation—we bring in all the transactional processes, reporting data. That’s all shared and we share the insights we glean across the Qantas Group. Now we’re hearing about long landings in Weipa and drawing insights that we can apply to Los Angeles.’
Centralising safety analysis was … ‘a huge enabler in terms of efficiency. You could have the same data analysts working on Jetstar in the morning and Cobham in the afternoon.’
‘The main part that makes this work is people,’ Daley told the conference. ‘And when we first embarked on this transformation we probably didn’t quite understand that. How do you make people the solution, and how do you change your view of safety to make it an outcome as opposed to a discipline?’
The key to greater insight and results was to move beyond the traditional way of thinking about safety, he said. ‘The traditional view is that safety is the absence of negative outcomes. If I stop the bad things from happening I am safe. The view we are taking into this new model is that safety is the ability to create positive outcomes.’
‘In the traditional safety view, we look at a small proportion of events where things go wrong. We’re trying to shift to the far more frequent positive outcomes and say, “What can we learn from when things went right?”.’
A major insight was in understanding that systems are not inherently or automatically safe, the conference heard. ‘We make the naive assumption that we have perfect systems and it’s people that break them, and people that have to change.’
The traditional view was that people are the problem, and had to be restricted by engineering and procedural controls. ‘What if people are the solution?’ Daley said. ‘People are able to fill the gap between standard procedure and work-as-done. They’re the ones that are flexible, that can adapt. When people are the solution we start looking for performances, both good and bad. Human variability is inevitable.’
The safety management imperative also changed to, ‘How do we remove barriers that stop people from doing things well?
‘Traditional safety is the beginning. What really changes the safety paradigm is when we look at safety differently. This is where we see the most benefit coming from.’
Daley says the lessons of a people-centred approach to safety are applicable across all the airline’s business units. The major insight was the need to reach out to suppliers, partners and airports.
‘Safety is shared. You can’t say the airline is safe if the airport’s not, or the supply chain is not. It’s got to be viewed as an entire journey. That theme of collaboration has to come through.
‘As we’ve looked into safety to understand how we’re going to drive the next change, the next step in terms of safety performance, it’s about “How can we enable our people to adapt successfully?”. ’
Ashish Kapoor Feb 6, 2017 at 5:38 pm
Excellent insight into safety and HR management.
Tony Cartwright Feb 11, 2017 at 1:32 pm
Well done Qants for showing the courage to explore & adopt such a significant change. I am extremely interested in how you progress.
Srihari Santhanam Feb 11, 2017 at 5:03 pm
Excellent approach by Quantas. Good to know that such a matured organization is considering Safety at par with other business requirements and giving it a new version on a continual basis.
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Russia's New Spaceship Could Be Crewed by Robots
Initially, at least.
Rich Smith
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Apr 30, 2017 at 8:13AM
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Russia is forging a new era in space.
Ever since the United States retired its space shuttle fleet in 2011, NASA astronauts have had to hitch rides to the International Space Station (ISS) in Russian Soyuz spaceships -- paying Russian space agency Roscosmos for the privilege. The plan is for NASA to switch over sometime soon to using its own rockets -- built by SpaceX and Boeing (NYSE:BA) and Lockheed Martin's (NYSE:LMT) United Launch Alliance joint venture -- but it remains an open question as to when these companies will have their spacecraft ready for use.
In the meantime, American astronauts must continue to fork over $82 million per seat in payment for rides aboard Soyuz. And what is Russia doing with all of that money, you ask?
It's using it to develop a new spaceship of its own -- a very interesting spaceship.
Russia's next spacecraft could be crewed by robots. Image source: Getty Images.
Going where no cosmonaut has gone before -- on Russia's Federatsiya
Roscosmos is currently developing a new and improved spacecraft -- one capable not just of ferrying supplies and astronauts to ISS, but also of fulfilling Russia's dream of one day landing a cosmonaut on the moon, or even Mars.
In a move evocative of both Star Trek and Russia's own official name -- "the Russian Federation" -- it's calling the new spacecraft Federatsiya, or "Federation." (Side note: The current Soyuz spacecraft design was named for the Soviet Union, or Sovyetsky Soyuz). Now here's what we know about the spaceship that will replace the Soyuz.
Energia, a publicly traded Russian "rocket and space public corporation," has been working on developing the Federatsiya for more than a decade. According to new reports, completing the effort will require another five years and cost a further $734 million. In a break from tradition, the Soyuz rocket-Soyuz capsule combination of current spaceships will be replaced by the Federatsiya capsule being carried atop a new heavy-lift rocket called Angara. Another change -- instead of launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Angara and Federatsiya will launch out of Roscosmos's new seven-launchpad spaceport in Russia's Amur Oblast, dubbed the "Vostochny Cosmodrome" (the "Eastern Spaceport").
The new Federatsiya capsule will stand 20 feet tall and weigh 14.4 metric tons. Larger than its predecessor Soyuz, Federatsiya will accommodate between four and six cosmonauts.
Plans are for Federatsiya to make its first trip to space in 2021, unmanned. Crewed missions are expected to begin as early as 2023, and Russia plans to conduct a manned moon mission with Federatsiya as early as 2025.
No crew, but...
Now here's where this story gets weird. Federatsiya's first trip to space in 2021 may be unmanned, but Russia's new spaceship won't be going into space entirely uncrewed. To the contrary, the spacecraft will carry a pilot -- a robot pilot.
According to Russian news agency TASS, Russia plans to crew Federatsiya's first mission with a humanoid robot named FEDOR (short for "Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research") at the helm. FEDOR will be the sole passenger aboard Federatsiya's maiden flight. TASS reports that FEDOR is capable of screwing in a light bulb, unlocking and opening a door, and driving a car -- and apparently, a spacecraft, too.
Developed by Russia's Android Technics Research and Production Association under contract to the country's Emergencies Ministry, FEDOR was designed to perform work "in extreme conditions." To accomplish its missions, FEDOR has been equipped with both "fine motor skills and decision-making algorithms." Russia plans to test that thesis by giving FEDOR control over Federatsiya.
That's already pretty amazing. Not only is Russia developing a new spaceship, but it's developing an entirely new way to crew spaceships, too.
What could be even more interesting is what Russia plans to do next. For example, FEDOR doesn't need to breathe, and he won't require a spacesuit -- so might Russia also decide to send FEDOR out through the hatch on an extra-vehicular activity mission? A few years from now, could we see FEDOR, or multiple FEDORs, land on and explore the moon itself, no cosmonauts required?
The upshot of all this, of course, is that Russia appears set on blazing new trails in space -- even as NASA under the Trump administration endures small but significant budget cuts. Adding insult to injury, Russia is doing all this on our dime -- and will continue to do so until SpaceX, Boeing, and Lockheed get their act together and begin launching their space shuttle replacements.
Only then will NASA be able to stop paying Roscosmos for astronaut rides and begin spending that money on developing our own space program again.
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Why Shares of Citigroup and Other Big Banks Are Down Today
An inverted yield curve is trouble for banks whether or not a recession follows.
Lou Whiteman
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Aug 14, 2019 at 4:57PM
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Shares of Citigroup (NYSE:C), as well as other megabanks including Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) and JP Morgan Chase (NYSE:JPM), traded down about 5% each on Wednesday, trailing the S&P 500 on what has been a miserable day for stocks. Investors are fleeing the market because a key recession indicator was triggered, and that particular indicator could mean significant pain for the financial sector.
The big banks traded down after the 10-year Treasury yield fell below the two-year Treasury yield. In normal times, investors require a bigger payday to accept a longer maturity length. When short-term rates are higher than longer-term rates, a so-called inverted yield curve occurs and it's usually a sign of economic uncertainty and a sign that recession is imminent.
It's worth noting that an inverted yield curve is far from a perfect predictor of recessions and in fact has occurred a few times in the last year before the market then rebounded. But a flattening or inverted yield curve does tend to be bad news for banks, whether or not a downturn follows.
Banks make their money by borrowing at short-term rates and lending based on long-term rates, which is why deposits pay less than the cost of loans. As the normal market distorts and yields come together, the spread a bank can make between borrowing and lending rates decreases, making it harder for financial institutions to generate huge profits.
Considering just six months ago, investors were anticipating that the Federal Reserve would raise rates multiple times this year and therefore boost bank profitability in the second half of 2019, this latest inversion is particularly demoralizing to investor expectations.
Citi, Bank of America, and JP Morgan are all moving in tandem on the day, and all figure to be impacted by the current rate environment. But for investors considering bargain hunting, there are differences between the institutions that would likely make them appeal to different types of buyers.
Citi is the least expensive of the three, trading at just 8.5 times earnings compared to 9.4 times for Bank of America and 10.7 times for JP Morgan, in part because of Citi's outsized international exposure that makes it more vulnerable to potential trade wars between the U.S. and China. Citi figures to either underperform or outperform its peers based on how the international economy is performing relative to the U.S.
Bank of America, meanwhile, has spent most of the last decade in the shadow of JP Morgan but has, in recent quarters, made steady progress improving results and closing the gap.
There's a lot of uncertainty in the market and growing pressure on the U.S. consumer, but with unemployment remaining low and credit quality, as measured by financial institution charge-offs, still manageable, I'm skeptical that the inverted yield curve is really sending a signal about what the future holds. It's also worth noting that all three of these banks have the wherewithal to survive an eventual recession once it inevitably comes and should be able to maintain dividend yields, which are all now north of 2%, through a moderate downturn.
It could be a turbulent few quarters for these bank stocks given the current interest-rate environment. But for investors who have a long-term horizon, panic selling like what's happening on Wednesday marks an attractive opportunity to buy in.
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VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA - So-Called Texture
SO-CALLED TEXTURE by Vibracathedral Orchestra Instant compositions by Julian Bradley, Neil Campbell, Adam Davenport, Michael Flower and John Godbert. Recorded live in Manchester on 16 October 2016, live to two-track with no edits. "Most of your required elements are present and correct from the off, with a clanging cymbal choral and electro-siren whoop announcing the single-note mantra of Part 1. Its blurred-round-the-edges proclamation comes on like some droog commune procession across Ilkley Moor, mixing devotion and hedonism in a slurred mousse of noise. Parts 2 and 4 up the rock music ante, with a nice spiralling guitar line reaching through the carpentry workshop clonk in the former and a full-on VU Banana stomp in the latter. My favourite, however, is the beatific glom of Part 3, its rising organ riff and constipated Brotzmann yowl insufficient to derail the blanket of its luminous drone cocoon." - We Need No Swords.
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After nearly a decade of false starts, multiple game plans veering off the rails, and a handful of shattered hopes and/or dreams, the odyssey is finally complete—the new Fusetron site is here.
This is the first phase of a multipart rollout that will span the next few months: the currently browsable stock includes miscellaneous new releases from the past 8+ months (we have a lot of catching up to do), plus approximately a third of our backstock. Note that we’ve reduced/slashed prices on many titles and will continue to do so in order to make room for new stock. We’ll also be expanding / tweaking / improving / debugging the site itself (for example, we still have work to do on the automated international postage system, not to mention the inevitable inventory discrepancies that come with transferring an ancient and massive database to a new system).
Over the next few months, as we take inventory, clean house, and delve into our storage, we will be uploading thousands of additional items, gradually, on a near-daily basis. This will include the majority of the LPs, as well as many titles, in all formats, once thought long-gone. Many currently “sold out” items are likely to resurface.
Finally, once our general backstock is up (probably in the next two or three months) we’ll begin making our extensive stockpile of rarities available online for the first time: tons of random out-of-print titles, "deadstock," warehouse finds, secondhand collectibles, etc., accumulated over the past few decades.
Frequent/returning customers will be getting early access to these items. Details to follow on how this will work (a priority mailing list? a 'frequent flyer'-like program?), but it will not be based on dollars spent. We want to reward those who consistently support us, especially in the discogs marketplace era (to those who show up trying to poach five copies of a one-off rarity, and nothing else, ever… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ).
So—we suggest you take some time to dig through the site—even we’ve been surprised by what’s been turning up, and there’s much more to come.
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Holland: new project based on Blockchain
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By Nick Adley On Jul 13, 2020
He Rotterdam harbor, in the Netherlands, has presented a new pilot project based on Blockchain. Mainly to make container handling more secure and efficient by eliminating the need to use a PIN code.
In the July 9 release, the Port of Rotterdam reported that it will launch an application called Secure Container Release. In order to make it significantly less susceptible to fraud, such as the current verification method based on PIN or basic passwords.
Blockchain-based pilot project
The project will include some of the main stakeholders in the maritime industry. For example, CMA-CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, MSC, ONE-Line, Hutchison Ports ECT Rotterdam, Rotterdam Fruit Wharf, Milestone Fresh, VTO and Portmade, which will be associated with the application developer T-Mining.
In addition to this, T-Mining is a participant in the accelerator program PortXL. Currently, he is working together with companies in Rotterdam and the Port of Rotterdam Authority, in the practical execution of this Blockchain-based pilot project.
To get back to the point, collecting these containers at the port is a complicated process. Above all, shipping companies, freight forwarders, transport companies and terminals must work closely together to ensure the quick and safe release of this cargo.
For this reason, Emile hoogsteden, Director of Commerce of the Port of Rotterdam Authority said:
“By leveraging new technologies, we can make our port operations smarter, faster, more efficient and safer“
He also added: “The current pilot project is a good example. During this project, the different participants will use a Blockchain application, which allows them to safely and efficiently organize the launch procedure“
Therefore, the Blockchain-based pilot project seeks to transform security for the importation of containers, going from a PIN code to a digital token.
Without a doubt, Blockchain technology prevents this authorization from being stolen or copied on the way. This makes the Port of Rotterdam safer for everyone involved in the process.
PIN not required
Drivers who plan to pick up a container at the terminal must have a valid collection right. This authorization is issued by a shipping company. Subsequently, the cargo agent orders a transport company to retrieve the container at the terminal.
Under the current system, the right of collection is confirmed at the terminal using a PIN code. At the same time, this procedure requires a variety of manual actions from different parties.
Any inconvenience or error in the process can lead to a loss of time, complaints and aggravations between clients and partners, as well as possible opportunities for fraud.
So the implementation of this Blockchain-based pilot project could completely replace PIN-based authorization.
Uses of Blockchain technology in the Port of Rotterdam
In 2017, the Rotterdam City Council and the Port of Rotterdam Authority announced the joint creation of a laboratory for the study and development of tools and applications in Blockchain technology.
In addition, it has the financial support of the Municipality of Rotterdam, the regional development company InnovationQuarter and the support of the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. This initiative is called BlockLab.
The objective is to ensure that Blockchain technology is at the service of the activity of the homonymous port. Especially in regard to the management and consumption of energy and logistics processes.
It can be highlighted that, in 2019, the first container transport operation took place, from the East to Europe. Most notably, it was managed exclusively through a digital platform, based on Blockchain technology.
This test, had the participation of ABN AMOR, the Port of Rotterdam and Samsung SDS. It should be noted that documentation management and financial operations can be carried out safely and without paper.
Hinting about it, Robert van der Wall, Vice President of Samsung SDS EU / CIS, emphasized:
“The first shipments the platform used gave us a good idea of the possibilities for large-scale deployment.”
Adding: “As a cargo recipient, we benefit from real-time information and the anticipated availability of digitized cargo documentation.“
By way of closing, the objective is to carry out Blockchain-based pilot projects, with multiple carriers from various industries, operating on different trade routes. With the intention of reaching an open, independent and global freight shipping platform.
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Freemail comparison: Alternatives to Google Mail: Here you get a free email address message
By Celia Rodriguez On Jul 8, 2020
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Professional mail providers are chargeable, but often offer advantages such as the free choice of name for the email address, freedom from advertising and spam or increased data and virus protection. However, very few private individuals make use of all these options and prefer to switch to a freemail provider instead.
The US company Google offers Gmail, a popular free email option in Germany. But there are alternatives: The best free Gmail alternatives are compared here.
The freemail provider GMX offers you a free account with up to 1.5 gigabytes (GB) of storage space and the option of sending emails with a data size of up to 20 megabytes (MB) – including the attachment.
The program offers spam and virus protection, an Android and iOS-App and 10 free SMS per month. Gmail also offers such apps. GMX is also a co-founder of “E-Mail made in Germany” – which means that all e-mails sent via GMX are SSL / TLS encrypted and all data is stored exclusively in Germany.
The provider WEB.DE provides you with a free account one gigabyte of storage space and two more gigabytes of storage space in the cloud. You get a free “Online Office” function to manage and edit your documents and the maximum data size of the emails is 20 MB.
You can access your e-mails from WEB.DE via the browser, a mail program such as Outlook and an iOS / Android app, whereby WEB.DE is also a member of “E-Mail made in Germany” and therefore has the same security standards apply as with GMX.
Outlook has so far won over several hundred million customers. The Microsoft service offers numerous options for integrating Microsoft applications, such as Office, into the freemail program.
Like Gmail, Outlook also gives you the option of free storage space of 15 GB, and emails up to 25 MB in size can be sent.
T-Online gives you a gigabyte of storage space and emails with a data size of up to 32 MB free of charge. You can send a maximum of 100 emails per day.
The provider also offers you spam and virus protection and is also a member of “E-Mail made in Germany”, access is possible via the browser and the two e-mail protocols IMAP and POP 3.
Contrary to what might be expected, you do not have to have an Internet or telephone contract with Deutsche Telekom to receive a freemail account with T-Online.
Freenet.de offers a gigabyte of storage space, spam and virus protection and the security of “E-Mail made in Germany” in the free offer. You can send emails with a maximum size of 20 MB, but you can receive emails with a size of up to 100 GB.
There are mail apps from Freenet.de for Android and the iOS operating system from Apple – however, as with most providers, advertising freedom must be purchased.
Mail.de
The provider Mail.de advertises with awards from tested.de, network winners and an environmental ranking. Two gigabytes of storage space, spam and virus protection for all received and sent e-mails, SSL / TLS encryption and other security with an authenticator are available free of charge. In addition there is the sending of SMS for 10 cents and the possibility to access your messages in the browser or via IMAP / POP3 and the availability of 10 alias mail addresses.
Mail.de stands out with the feature of sending emails with a size of up to 60 MB (including attachment).
Yahoo comes from the USA, which is why providers such as Gmail and Outlook have to be evaluated from two sides: The freemail offer includes a terabyte of storage space, integrated virus protection, SSL encryption, mobile apps for Android and iOS and the option of e- Send mails up to 25 MB in size.
The problematic aspect of the provider Yahoo Mail is the data protection that corresponds to the American standard.
In order to be able to choose a provider, you should be aware of the purpose of the new email address. It can also be worthwhile to choose several providers for different addresses: a provider that meets the requirements of a mailbox for orders and e-mail newsletters, a provider with possibly higher data protection standards for private correspondence and possibly even other providers for other addresses and requirements.
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UN virus therapy trial pauses hydroxychloroquine testing
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A lot has been said about hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, the malaria drugs pushed by President Trump as treatments for COVID-19.
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Dr. Michael Ryan, WHO's emergencies chief, said there was no indication of any safety problems with hydroxychloroquine in the WHO trial to date, but that statisticians would now analyze the information.
“We're just acting on an abundance of caution based on the recent results of all the studies to to ensure that we can continue safely with that arm of the trial,” he said. WHO said it expected to have more details within the next two weeks.
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"Among the funniest [letters] ever dispatched in the vain hope of steering a black sheep onto something like the straight and narrow." —The Wall Street Journal Nostalgic, witty, and original, Dear Lupin by Roger Mortimer and Charlie Mortimer tracks the entire correspondence between a father and his only son. When the book begins, Charlie, the son, is studying at Eton, although the studying itself is not a priority, much to his father's chagrin. After Charlie graduates and moves from South America to Africa and eventually back to London, Roger continues to write regularly, offering advice (which is rarely heeded) as well as humorous updates from home ("Your mother has had the flu. Her little plan to give up spirits for Lent lasted three and a half days"). Roger's letters range from reproachful ("You may think it mildly amusing to be caught poaching in the park; I would consider it more hilarious if you were not living on the knife edge") to resigned ("I am very fond of you, but you do drive me round the bend"), but his correspondence is always filled with warmth, humor, and wisdom that offers unique insight into the relationship between father and son.
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Moving into a new development on the Florida waterfront, Lisa Canfield is stunned to discover that her first husband and his new family are moving in next door, and soon past mistakes, old rivalries, and vicious accusations run rampant, forcing them all to find a way to get along. Reprint.
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Bleak, funny and excruciatingly accurate, Sex with a Stranger examines what it is to be in your twenties, lonely, hollow and uncertain. Adam meets Grace in a club. They go back to hers. Earlier that day, his girlfriend watches as he prepares for his big night out. Stefan Golaszewski's play Sex with a Stranger was first performed at Trafalgar Studios, London, in February 2012.
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A powerful, painful, funny play that sifts the evidence from every side and puts Justice herself in the dock.
I Think We Are Alone
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From those electric moments of discovery and connection to the dark hours of isolation, we all seek community and resolution. But sometimes the things that connect us are the very things we need to escape. I Think We Are Alone was commissioned by Frantic Assembly as part of their twenty-fifth anniversary and premiered on a UK tour in 2020 as a co-production with Theatre Royal Plymouth and Curve, Leicester. The original production was co-directed by Kathy Burke and Frantic Assembly's Artistic Director Scott Graham.
How to Date a Feminist
How to Date a Feminist by Samantha Ellis Book Summary:
A hilarious new spin on the Hollywood romcom featuring two proposals, two weddings, an elopement and a cast of unforgettable characters. Kate likes her men tall, dark and smouldering. She has a fatal attraction to bad men. Then she meets Steve... Steve is a feminist. Can Kate overcome her love of lipstick, cupcakes and Heathcliff? Can Steve forgo the ethical confetti and learn to be a little bit more ravishing in bed? Can the two of them reinvent romance for the twenty-first century? Samantha Ellis's play How to Date a Feminist premiered at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2016, ahead of a UK tour.
Resident Alien by Quentin Crisp Book Summary:
This delightful gem is based on Crisp's diary in "The New York Native". His affecting words cover topics from politics to prejudice, from the human spirit to the individual obstacles he faces every day in his solitary life.
Boys Will Be Boys by Melissa Bubnic Book Summary:
An all-female cast takes on the roles of the big boys of the city, in a wickedly funny satire.
The Children by Lucy Kirkwood Book Summary:
Two retired nuclear scientists reside in an isolated cottage by the sea as the world around them crumbles. Together they are going to live forever on yogurt and yoga, until an old friend arrives with a frightening request.
Jonah and Otto
Jonah and Otto by Robert Holman Book Summary:
Robert Holman's Jonah and Otto is a humane, funny and ultimately haunting play that explores masculinity, identity and what it means to be English. Over the course of a single day, two men share their solitude and unfold their secrets. They disagree with each other about women, about lust and about guilt. They question the power of magic, of redemption and the price of freedom, each seeing himself more clearly through the eyes of the other. Jonah and Otto premiered in 2008 at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. This edition was published alongside its London premiere at the Park Theatre in 2014.
Jeeves and Wooster in 'Perfect Nonsense'
Jeeves and Wooster in 'Perfect Nonsense' by The Goodale Brothers,P. G. Wodehouse Book Summary:
An inventive, fast-paced comedy featuring P.G. Wodehouse’s iconic double act. Winner of the 2014 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. When a country house weekend takes a turn for the worse, Bertie Wooster is unwittingly called on to play matchmaker – reconciling the affections of his host’s drippy daughter Madeline Bassett with his newt-fancying acquaintance Gussie Fink-Nottle. If Bertie, ably assisted by the ever-dependable Jeeves, can’t pull off the wedding of the season he’ll be forced to abandon his cherished bachelor status and marry the ghastly girl himself! Based on P.G. Wodehouse’s delightfully bonkers stories, especially The Code of the Woosters, the Goodale Brothers’ dramatisation premiered at the Duke of York's Theatre, West End, in November 2013, prior to a UK tour. Written for a cast of three, who play multiple roles, this adaptation will suit any theatre company or drama group looking for a comic play to perform.
State of India’s Livelihoods Report 2017
State of India’s Livelihoods Report 2017 by Narasimhan Srinivasan,Girija Srinivasan Book Summary:
State of India’s Livelihoods Report (SOIL Report) is an annual publication that addresses contemporary issues in the livelihoods sector. It is the only document that aggregates the experiences and challenges of this sector, analyses case studies and reports progress of both government-run and the privately run programmes. This report is released each year during the Livelihoods Asia Summit, which is a pan-Asia platform that presents opportunities for cross-learning and sharing of unique experiences within the countries in this region. While some core chapters are continued from the previous years’ reports in order to provide stability to the structure of the report, the authors have covered some interesting new themes. An overview of the economic situation in the past years and a concluding chapter on dealing with equity and inclusion in growth are part of this year’s report. In addition to this, two chapters on agricultural livelihoods and tribal livelihoods are new areas of in-depth focus. The report also covers policies, legal and fiscal framework for livelihoods, and key government programmes and schemes. Further, the authors have re-evaluated the employment and skills landscape, CSR and FPOs after a year’s gap.
The Rules of Acting
The Rules of Acting by Michael Simkins Book Summary:
Luvvies. Tyrannical directors. Useless agents. Less job security than an England football manager. Whoâe(tm)d be an actor? Michael Simkins isnâe(tm)t sure, even though heâe(tm)s been one himself for over thirty years. Join him backstage as he examines that business called showbusiness, from am dram to Hollywood, and from Shakespeare to ads for flatulence pills. In a career that started as a plump teenager in ballet tights at RADA, Michael has appeared in countless West End plays and musicals, presented safety training workshops for sewage workers, and when resting, worked as a crate smasher at a car factory. Heâe(tm)s done movies, soaps, ads, and voice-overs, and worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Kelly Osbourne. As the ultimate jobbing actor heâe(tm)s flirted with triumph and oblivion without ever quite managing either. InThe Rules of Acting he shares his hard-won wisdom. Covering everything from learning your lines to tilting for Oscar success in Hollywood, surviving a flop, to why itâe(tm)s advisable to read the whole script if you wish to avoid improper relations with a pig, itâe(tm)s the ultimate survival guide for anyone contemplating a life in showbiz. 'Throw out An Actor Prepares! Michael Simkins' book tells actors all they need to know about the realities of the acting profession; the passion, the struggle, the noble idealism and the heartache.' HELEN MIRREN 'It is thrilling that Micahel Simkins is having such success as a writer - anything to keep him off the stage' IAN MCKELLEN
The Empire Collection
The Empire Collection by Anthony Riches Book Summary:
The EMPIRE sequence continues with books IV-VI in Anthony Riches' bestselling series, available in a page-turning collection, including The Leopard Sword, The Wolf's Gold and The Eagle's Vengeance. The Leopard Sword The Roman agents who nearly captured Marcus Aquila have been defeated by his friends. But to protect those friends from the wrath of the emperor, he must leave the province which has given him shelter. As centurion of the second Tungrians, he leads his men from Hadrian's Wall to the Tungrians' original home. There he finds a different world from the turbulent British frontier - but one with its own dangers. A bandit chieftain is robbing with impunity. And now he threatens to destabilize the whole northern frontier of the empire. The Wolf's Gold Marcus Aquila and the Tungrians have been sent to Dacia with the mission to safeguard a major source of imperial power. The mines contain enough gold to pave the road to Rome. They would make a mighty prize for the Sarmatae tribesmen who threaten the province, and the outnumbered auxiliaries are entrusted with their safety in the face of an invasion. The Tungrians will have to fight to the death to save the honour of the empire - and themselves. The Eagle's Vengeance The Tungrians return to Hadrian's Wall to find chaos, with the legions overstretched, struggling to man the northern frontier. The Tungrians are sent into the northern wastes, where a lost symbol of imperial power of the Sixth Legion awaits them. Protected by an impassable swamp, the eagle of the Sixth legion must be recovered if the legion is to survive. Marcus and his men must penetrate the heart of the enemy's strength, if they are to rescue the legion's venerated standard. If successful their escape will be twice as perilous...
What's My Motivation?
What's My Motivation? by Michael Simkins Book Summary:
As a boy, Michael Simkins always wanted to be someone. While his friends were out getting laid and stoned, he was tucked up at home dreaming of his name in lights, of holding an audience rapt, of perhaps becoming a TV heart-throb, or having someone, anyone, ask for his autograph in the supermarket. This is the true story of an obsessive pursuit of acting fame. It is a life marked by occasional hard-fought successes and routine helpings of ritual humiliation: scout hut Gilbert and Sullivan, dodgy rock operas, sewage farm theatre workshop, Christmas panto hell, straight-to-video film flops, leading roles in Crimewatch reconstructions and dressing up as a chicken to advertise TV dinners. It is a hilarious tale of turgid theatre, tights, trusses and tonsil tennis with Timothy Spall.
Finland–India Business Opportunities
Finland–India Business Opportunities by Ajeet N. Mathur Book Summary:
This book is about promising collaborative avenues for connecting Finland and India with value propositions for enterprises, consumers and investors worldwide. The book covers institutional and cultural differences and explains the logic of business systems, entry modes, and managerial styles in both countries. It draws on experience of successes and also failures to know what should be done differently. It would also interest policymakers that India’s challenges of planting economic orchards in patches of social desert and Finland’s struggle to preserve a social paradise against pulls and pressures of economic graveyards in Europe are both solvable with attention to complementarities and synergies. “From his long and rich experience of working with Finnish and Indian companies and passionate research at IIM Ahmedabad in India, and Aalto University and University of Tampere in Finland, Professor Mathur has a very deep knowledge of how to do business in both countries. Every company leader who considers starting Finnish-Indian business should read this new book. This valuable book will help companies entering new markets to flourish by building robust sustainable business relations.” - Päivi Leiwo, Chairperson Oilon Oy, Lahti, Finland “This book is a treasure trove of knowledge explaining the business opportunities, policies, cultures, institutions, country trajectories and nuances pertaining to Finland and India. The author has worked in business, government and academia in India and abroad. He has also had a long association with Finland and is able to bring you an insider’s perspective of both countries” - Ambassador Ashok Sharma “The author’s deep insider experience in the two countries enables him make very sharp observations on both sides. This book will definitely help in understanding the cultural differences and making interactions and communications smoother. ” - Iiro Rossi, Managing Director, Holiday Club Resorts, Helsinki “This book is a delightful and important guide for those who want to do business between Finland and India. It brings you the numerous business opportunities which wait to be availed, and highlights the deep understanding of the author of the culture and institutional environment of both countries. Read this book, learn and be surprised!” - Niina Nummela, Vice Dean, Professor of International Business, Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland “This book is a reflection of Ajeet’s penchant for deep research and ability to structure and articulate content. This book will be extremely helpful to those who want to develop Indo-Finnish business relations specifically and international business in general. Sonata is currently engaged with business in Finland” - Srikar Reddy, Managing Director, Sonata Software Limited, Bangalore
Modern Monologues for Women
Modern Monologues for Women by Jane Maud Book Summary:
Fifty fantastic speeches for women, from top plays by some of the UK's most exciting contemporary dramatists.
Drama Menu
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Drama Menu is a brand new concept for planning and delivering dynamic, progressive drama lessons and workshops. Packed with over 150 tried-and-tested theatre games, exercises and improvisation ideas, it’s an essential resource for any drama teacher or workshop leader – guaranteed to deliver delicious drama sessions every time. Simply make a selection from each of the three courses, and your whole drama session will come to life with new-found energy and focus: Appetisers are fast-paced warm-up exercises to energise and enthuse the group; Starters are the intermediary course to challenge the players and encourage creativity; Main Courses provide the central part of the session, culminating in a final performance piece; And a few Desserts are also provided, if you have some space at the end of your session for something sweet. Drama Menu is the recipe book that will relieve the stress of planning lessons and workshops. Now you can get on with what you do best: delivering creative drama sessions that will have your groups hungry for more. Join the online Drama Menu community, browse and share other recommended menus, and download a comprehensive Resource Pack and selection of sound effects, providing everything you need to start playing straight away. www.DramaMenu.com
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Moving, truthful and darkly comic, Box Clever is a new play about one woman's experience of a women's refuge.
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A riveting political thriller based on the arrest and imprisonment of one of China's leading dissident artists.
Boudica by Tristan Bernays Book Summary:
A new ancient history play that tells the story of one of Britain's most infamous women: a queen, a warrior and a rebel.
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First play by the greatly admired novelist.
The Last of the Pelican Daughters (NHB Modern Plays)
The Last of the Pelican Daughters (NHB Modern Plays) by The Wardrobe Ensemble Book Summary:
In folklore, pelican mothers feed their young on their own blood. In 2019, four sisters are trying to divide their mother's house between them. Joy wants a baby, Storm wants to be seen, Sage wants to be paid, Maya doesn't want anyone to find out her secret and Granny's in a wheelchair on day release. Mum's presence still seeps through the ceiling and the floors. The Pelican Daughters are home for the last time. The Wardrobe Ensemble's play The Last of the Pelican Daughters is a comedy about four sisters trying to come to terms with their mother's death. It combines the company's trademark irreverent humour and lovable characters to tackle the idea of what it means for young people to grapple with inheritance, loss and justice. The Last of the Pelican Daughters was first staged at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2019.
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Francis Excited About Globalist Slogan
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Cecilia Lopez
Are Marxism and globalism heresies?
Since you asked, no. Heresy (from wiki) in the Catholic Church denotes the formal denial or doubt of a core doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church.
...such as denying the resurrection of the body, perhaps. A heretic might still believe all other core doctrines of the Church. Doesn't change the fact they're still heretics. Apostasy, is the rejection of ALL Catholic doctrine. Marxism is based on …More
...such as denying the resurrection of the body, perhaps. A heretic might still believe all other core doctrines of the Church. Doesn't change the fact they're still heretics. Apostasy, is the rejection of ALL Catholic doctrine. Marxism is based on atheism which denies the validity of all religions, including ours. Therefore Marxists are apostates.
Globalism isn't a heresy. It's a political ideology. Even then, it could be a good thing. A world under the dominion of the Catholic Church is something we should all pray and work towards. How Marxists choose to apply the concept of globalism, however, is despicable.
@Ultraviolet Thank you for clearing that up for me. It really would be a wonderful thing if the Catholic Church kind of globalism were to come about, I guess I never thought about that possibility.
So if Marxists are apostates, there is no way for me to be able to be both a Marxist and a Catholic? What if I still believe in Jesus and the Church and the Sacraments but reject the atheism part of …More
So if Marxists are apostates, there is no way for me to be able to be both a Marxist and a Catholic? What if I still believe in Jesus and the Church and the Sacraments but reject the atheism part of Marxism? Would I be a heretic then, instead of an apostate, since I wouldn't be rejecting ALL Catholic doctrine? Is there any way that such a Catholic as I just described could be considered a Marxist without ever having formally denied or doubted a core doctrine of the RCC?
You're very welcome, Cecilia.
"So if Marxists are apostates, there is no way for me to be able to be both a Marxist and a Catholic?"
Technically, no.
"What if I still believe in Jesus and the Church and the Sacraments but reject the atheism part of Marxism?"
Then you would be Pope Francis. :D A silly joke, perhaps, but still accurate. What you're suggesting is precisely what liberation theo…More
Then you would be Pope Francis. :D A silly joke, perhaps, but still accurate. What you're suggesting is precisely what liberation theology
seeks to accomplish.
"Would I be a heretic then, instead of an apostate, since I wouldn't be rejecting ALL Catholic doctrine?"
You wouldn't be a heretic or an apostate. Catholics have widely varying opinions on the best form of secular government and many favor Marxist ideologies.
"Is there any way that such a Catholic as I just described could be considered a Marxist without ever having formally denied or doubted a core doctrine of the RCC?"
Yes, as I said, through the teachings of of liberation theology.
The question I have is, why in God's Holy Name, would you want to?
Marxism has brought nothing but misery and suffering everywhere it's ever been implemented. If you want a picture of a "successful" Marxist government, look at Venezuela.
They're sitting on some of the largest oil reserves in all the Americas, essentially unlimited wealth ready to be pumped out of the ground any time they want. Ah, but they're Marxists and enlightened and believe -this time- Marxism will "work".
In the meantime, there are widespread shortages and Venezuelans are literally fleeing the country into the neighboring ones, starving immigrant refugees from what should be the most prosperous country in Latin America.
That's Marxism at its finest.
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Why is there a PLUS sign hanging on the wall? Is it the lecture hall for a mathematics society? ;-)
A Marxist globalist Pope endorses a Marxist globalist slogan. Who would have guessed?
But can't a Catholic be a Marxist or a globalist? Has the Church ever specifically condemned those as heretical? I know that communism has been condemned as erroneous and dangerous in Divini Redemptoris, and I assume that a Marxist is one who believes and promotes a particular brand of communism referred to as Marxism. So I am guessing that the pope is allowed to be a Marxist so long as its not …More
But can't a Catholic be a Marxist or a globalist? Has the Church ever specifically condemned those as heretical? I know that communism has been condemned as erroneous and dangerous in Divini Redemptoris, and I assume that a Marxist is one who believes and promotes a particular brand of communism referred to as Marxism. So I am guessing that the pope is allowed to be a Marxist so long as its not heresy? I'm probably missing something here. I'm sure it may exist, but I don't know of any Magisterial statement saying Marxism is heretical or an apostasy from the faith.
"But can't a Catholic be a Marxist or a globalist?"
In an absolute sense, no, a Catholic can not be a Marxist because Marxists are atheists. However, so-called liberation theology supposedly reconciles Marxism's social ideology while side-stepping its atheism. It's an over-simplification on my part to call Pope Francis a marxist, but still essentially correct given his aims and the policies he …More
In an absolute sense, no, a Catholic can not be a Marxist because Marxists are atheists. However, so-called liberation theology supposedly reconciles Marxism's social ideology while side-stepping its atheism. It's an over-simplification on my part to call Pope Francis a marxist, but still essentially correct given his aims and the policies he promotes to achieve them, globalism included.
"Has the Church ever specifically condemned those as heretical?"
Paging @Dr Bobus, paging @Dr Bobus. Come to the post, stat! :D
Thank you @Ultraviolet. I'm still having difficulty understanding here. So if, because of its atheism "a Catholic can not be a Marxist;" and liberation theology only "supposedly reconciles" Marxism by "side-stepping its atheism;" and if its an "over-simplification" to call Francis a marxist while at the same time "essentially correct" to do so...then I don't know what that even means. It seems …More
Thank you @Ultraviolet. I'm still having difficulty understanding here. So if, because of its atheism "a Catholic can not be a Marxist;" and liberation theology only "supposedly reconciles" Marxism by "side-stepping its atheism;" and if its an "over-simplification" to call Francis a marxist while at the same time "essentially correct" to do so...then I don't know what that even means. It seems to grant a person an ability to label the pope a Marxist without having to commit to the consequences of what that would mean. By using terms like "supposedly" and "side-stepping" are you expressing doubt or disbelief that LT actually succeeds in authentically reconciling Marxism with Catholicism?
Is it even possible to be "essentially" be a marxist without ever falling into apostasy or heresy, without ever defecting from any doctrine of the faith? That's the real question for me.
It means the following. My comments presuppose the reader has a basic level of political-literacy. I call Pope Francis a Marxist instead of a Liberation Theologist because Marxist quicker and easier to write and I assume the reader already understands the technical distinction between the two.
This is why labelling Pope Francis as a Marxist is an over-simplification.
Liberation Theology is esss…More
Liberation Theology is esssentially Catholicized Marxism, a synthesis between our Catholic faith and Marxism's political ideals and methods of achieving them.
True Marxists are atheists. Karl Marx was an atheist. Liberation Theology seeks to "fix" that religious discrepancy for Catholics while still retaining practically everything else from Marxism.
This is why calling Pope Francis a Marxist is still essentially correct.
Alex A
Unfortunately, if any one of them had another brain, it would lonely.
Here is Francis' Tweed about it
His tweed? :D Can't wait to see his gabardine and cashmere. ;-)
HerzMariae
All of these men lied bigly while in office. All of them untrustworthy.
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With the release of next-gen consoles drawing closer, one of the aspects fans are most curious about is the storage space of the two consoles. While the PlayStation 5 has an 825GB SSD as opposed to the Xbox Series X’s 1TB SSD, it’s the usable storage space which is the point of debate for quite a while now.
While the usable storage space for Xbox Series X was revealed to be around 802GB for storing games after taking into account the 128GB for OS, there is little known about the PlayStation 5’s storage space. However, a leak suggests that it could be significantly lower than expected.
ResetEra user Kenzodielocke posted a few images of the PlayStation 5’s OS which show around 660GB of usable space. This is after taking into account the OS and Astro’s Playroom, the game which will come preloaded with the PlayStation 5. If we take out Astro’s Playroom from the equation, we are left with 664GB of storage space.
This is significantly lower than what was expected since many prominent sources had suggested that the PS5’s OS is pretty light and would consume only around 20GB of system space. In the above leak, however, the OS is consuming almost 104GB of storage space. While that is still lower than Xbox Series X, it does make the overall usable space significantly lower considering the PlayStation 5 has smaller storage space to begin with.
Keep in mind that all this is just not yet confirmed, so take it with a grain of salt. We will update this guide when Sony provides an update on this.
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Far Cry 5: How to Save the Game
Jason Faulkner Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Far Cry 5 lets you save in two different ways, but neither one of them is very apparent. This makes it confusing as to when you’re actually hitting a checkpoint or safe to quit the game. Fortunately, it’s not hard to tell when you’re saving the game in Far Cry 5 once you know what to look for. Below we’ll tell you everything you need to know to save the game in Far Cry 5.
How to Save in Far Cry 5
This game, of course, features an autosave. The autosave tends to trigger when you fast travel, hit a checkpoint in a mission, complete a mission, and sometimes seemingly at random. It’s likely on a timer, though that isn’t explicitly mentioned in-game.
However, if you want to save the game in Far Cry 5 manually, things are a little less clear-cut. To get to the option to save manually, you’ll need to open the options menu (not the map/equipment menu). You should see “Save Game” near the bottom of the list of options here, but sometimes you just won’t. There are times when you can’t save in Far Cry 5 manually, but instead of graying the option out, it just removes it.
When you click on the save game button in Far Cry 5 you won’t get a box that appears asking you to pick a save slot or even just saying “Game Saved.” Instead, nothing happens at all. The only indicator you get as to when the game is saving is a few dots that appear in the top corner of the screen. Once these dots disappear, you’ll know the game has been saved successfully.
When in doubt if Far Cry 5 has saved or not, just jam on the save game button multiple times. It never hurts to be absolutely sure your save game is safe.
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Imprisonment for Breaching Work Health & Safety Duties
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A Queensland company director, Mr Gary Lavin, was convicted and sentenced to one year imprisonment (suspended after four months) for breaching safety obligations through his reckless conduct in the 2014 death of a 62-year old roofer. Mr Lavin’s company, Multi-Run Roofing Pty Ltd (Multi-Run), was also convicted and fined $1 million, to be paid in 6 months, for its involvement in the employee’s death.
This is the first conviction for a category 1 offence in Queensland and is the second non-suspended custodial sentence in Australia for a safety prosecution in as many months. This is adding to a recent trend of increased penalties imposed on individuals and businesses who fail to comply with the WHS duties. Specifically, there is becoming a greater focus on individual liability, particularly of directors and workers, following serious workplace incidents.
Wimmers Soft Drinks and Lavin Constructions contracted Multi-Run to perform roofing works at the Wimmers Soft Drink factory in Queensland in 2014. While working, Multi-Run’s employee Mr Whareheepa Te Amo, fell from the roof of an industrial shed and died.
There was no fall protection or railings on or near the edge of the shed that the employee was working on.
The Charge
WHS Queensland issued charges against Multi-Run and Mr Lavin, but also Lavin Constructions Pty Ltd and its director Mr Peter Lavin, claiming that each duty holder contravened s 19(2) and/or s 20 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld). It was alleged that each of the duty holders committed a category 1 offence, meaning they engaged in reckless conduct which exposed a person to the risk of death or serious injury.
The matter proceeded as a trial by jury in the Queensland District Court. Evidence was given that it was reasonably practicable and expected that Multi-Run and Mr Lavin installed safety rails around the roof’s edge. The cost of installing the safety rails was estimated to be $5,000, and it was found that this cost was included in the $284,000 contract price for the work.
Witnesses gave testimony at the trial that Mr Lavin believed installing the rails would have been too expensive. Instead Mr Lavin and his workers had agreed on using safety harnesses and two scissor lifts. They were not used by the workers on the day of the incident.
The jury delivered a majority verdict finding that both Mr Lavin and Multi-Run were guilty of engaging in reckless conduct. Judge
Cash told the court that Mr Lavin had shown a “flagrant disregard for proper safety methods”, and was motivated by the desire to improve his and the company’s financial position. His conduct was “so serious” that he “must serve a period of time in custody”.
The jury delivered a hung verdict on the charges against Lavin Constructions Pty Ltd and director Mr Peter Lavin, who will reappear in February on the remaining charges.
This Alert is intended as an alert only. It does not purport to be comprehensive advice. Readers should seek professional advice before acting in relation to these matters.
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Connected Fleets
Autonomous Technology
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Gatik Raises $25 Million in Series A Funding
November 23, 2020 • by Staff
Launched in 2017, the company has raised a total of $29.5 million and is well positioned to scale and support the rapid automation of retailers’ middle-mile operations.
Photo courtesy of Gatik.
Gatik, a Palo Alto and Toronto based autonomous technology company deploying autonomous vehicles for B2B short-haul middle-mile logistics, has raised $25 million in Series A funding, the company announced.
The round was co-led by Wittington Ventures and Innovation Endeavors with participation from FM Capital and Intact Ventures. Existing investors like Dynamo Ventures, Fontinalis Partners, AngelPad, and others participated as well. Gatik’s investors bring a wealth of deep experience in automotive, artificial intelligence and supply chain, making them a strong strategic fit for the company’s rapid growth. Gatik will use the funding to further expand its operations across North America, its team size in Silicon Valley and growing presence in Canada.
“We went into the year with strong momentum from early customer partnerships and validation of our technology," Gautam Narang, CEO and co-founder of Gatik, said in a statement. "We’re very proud of how we’ve supported our customers throughout this unpredictable year, and strengthened their supply chains with our product. We will leverage this new funding to continue expanding our retail partnerships and fleet deployments, grow our team and enhance our technology platform to lead the market in autonomous middle mile delivery. Throughout the year we saw an increase of 30-35% in orders from our customer base, and we expect this trend to continue. We will continue to bring autonomous delivery into the mainstream, driving substantial efficiencies in supply chain logistics for retailers across North America and beyond.”
Launched in 2017, the company has raised a total of $29.5 million and is well positioned to scale and support the rapid automation of retailers’ middle-mile operations. Gatik’s product delivers long-term business impact, enabling major retailers to save significantly on their middle-mile delivery costs, enhance supply chain efficiency and meet an unprecedented expectation for contactless delivery.
In June 2019, Walmart announced operations with Gatik to automate their hub and spoke network. Gatik’s relationships with its customers showcase the company’s expertise in developing, operating and servicing autonomous delivery fleets for the largest retailers in the U.S. and Canada. To date, Gatik has completed over 30,000 revenue-generating autonomous orders for multiple Fortune 500 customers in the U.S. and Canada.
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Alfa Romeo 166 2.0 Twin Spark
THE Alfa Romeo name is a powerful thing. In fleet, managers' mere mention of it used to spark a series of spontaneous reactions: one hand reaching for the aspirin, the other for CAP Monitor. But since the Italian manufacturer began its marque-rebuilding campaign five years ago, there's been less need for instant pain relief. Guidance on predicted residual values and running costs over the typical fleet cycle, however, remains essential.
The 166 saloon range is Alfa's prestige flagship, the successor to the 164 (after a gap of two years) and competing in the same sector as Audi A6, BMW 5-series, Volvo S80, Jaguar S-type, Rover 75 and Mercedes-Benz E-class. Against rivals of that calibre, Alfa's top number had to be exceptionally well put together, well-equipped and sensibly priced, as there still hangs over the marque the pall of previous years of questionable build quality and unquestionably miserable resale values. Sporting heritage, styling flair and great engines saved the Italian car maker from a fate worse than Lancia: there's still strong demand for an Alfa Romeo.
Later than originally planned because the company decided its new standard bearer wasn't quite ready to go head to head with prestige Germans, Swedes and Midlanders, the 166 went on sale in the UK at the beginning of 1999. And Alfa kept things simple: three engines, reasonable standard equipment, narrow trim choice, and on-the-road prices from ú23,376 to ú30,475. The catalogue reads 2.0 Twin Spark, 2.5 V6, 2.5 V6 Sportronic, 3.0 V6, 3.0 V6 Super, 3.0 V6 Sportronic. No estate, no diesel, no high performance models...yet.
All come with a one-year, unlimited mileage manufacturer's warranty covering parts, material and labour, followed by two years' dealer back-up for most mechanical and electrical components up to 60,000 miles. Body panel paintwork is guaranteed for 36 months from the date of registration and the body panels themselves are guaranteed against internal corrosion perforation for eight years.
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Cabaret for a Cause helps kids in need
Traci Rosenbaum
trosenbaum@greatfallstribune.com
CABARET FOR A CAUSE
5 p.m. Saturday, March 11
Meadow Lark Country Club
The Great Falls Children’s Receiving Home and Junior League of Great Falls team up for their 6th annual Cabaret for a Cause—Caring for Community Children Saturday, March 11, at the Meadow Lark Country Club.
Receiving Home board member Amber Rausch teaches first grade at Sunnyside Elementary School, so she gets to see firsthand how these organizations benefit kids.
“What I love best about this particular fundraiser is it reaches kids from all walks of life,” she said. “If you’re passionate about kids like I am, this is the fundraiser to support.”
Rausch has been on the Receiving Home board for 6 years, but has volunteered for the organization for about a decade. This is her fifth time helping with the fundraiser.
Cabaret for a Cause features dinner, silent and dessert auctions and live music by The Sound Exchange,” a five-member a cappella group known for mesmerizing harmonies, great stage presence and witty audience interaction.
“I think the entertainment is going to be fantastic,” Rausch said. “They do songs that are going to reach every generation of music lover.”
Attendees also get a shot at a private plane ride for three round-trip to Augusta for dinner. Just purchase a teddy bear for $25 during the evening and hope you picked the winning bear.
Other auction items include kayak lessons and a week long vacation in Glacier National Park.
The Great Falls Receiving Home provides for the needs of children who have been removed from their homes as a result of child abuse and neglect. As the only emergency shelter care service in Cascade County, they provide safe and emergency foster care services to over 200 children annually.
“I feel really passionately that the Receiving Home needs to have funds in order to best take care of and meet the needs of the kids that are living in the home,” said Rausch. “We just need to make sure that we can treat kids and give them the experiences that all kids have.”
The Junior League is a charitable non-profit organization that promotes volunteerism and developing the potential of women and children in our community. This event helps programs such as funding activities and bringing awareness to STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) for all levels of children in the community.
Doors will open at 5 p.m. for the silent and dessert auctions and no host cocktails. Dinner is served at 6 p.m.
Tickets are $60. Tables of 8 and 10 are also available. For more information, ticket purchase or to donate silent auction items, contact Megan Lee at 868-6237 or email gfcabaretforacause@gmail.com.
Reach Tribune Staff Writer Traci Rosenbaum at 791-1490. Follow her on Twitter @GFTrib_TRosenba.
What: Cabaret for a Cause
When: 5 p.m. Saturday, March 11
Where: Meadow Lark Country Club
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Why the Coronavirus Lockdowns Won’t Save the Planet
The global shutdowns did disrupt pollution for a bit, but how likely is it that the world will collectively decide to forgo consumption to fight climate change for the future greater good?
Ruth Schuster
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Blue skies over shut-down JakartaCredit: AFP
It’s tempting to feel that the coronavirus is the planet’s revenge against us. Arguably if we had remained small nomadic groups of locavorian hunter-gatherers, our environmental impacts would have been localized and minor, but our modern “advances” – including a penchant for procreation combined with health care extending our lifespan, consumerism, and industrialization – have poisoned our planetary petri dish.
But no, the planet isn’t a sentient being. It isn’t taking revenge; it’s our own behavior that’s come back to bite us in the behind. Nor is the sigh of environmental relief caused by the coronavirus forcing vast populations of people to stay home likely to be sustained. All it will likely do is give us a breather in which we can realize the gargantuan dimensions of our impact on the en.
There is no indication that humanity at large has exploited the involuntary bout of navel-gazing at home to decide to forgo all non-essential consumption. And if they haven’t, the second the lockdown is lifted, we can expect business and damage to resume as usual.
The lesson from the coronavirus supply chain crunch doesn’t seem to be “let’s learn to get by with less.” It’s “we’d better stock up now before the Joneses buy up all the toilet paper and beer.”
Blue today, gone tomorrow
So the blue skies reappearing over the industrial hubs of the modern world as most heavy industries reluctantly shut down made headlines, but they are likely to return to their normal color of particle-studded gray when the lockdowns end and emissions resume. The same applies to the wildlife shyly appearing on the fringes of urban centers: once cars regain the roads, they will vanish, or get run over.
Satellite images show significant decline in smog over the modern world in February and March compared with the same period of 2019. That is nice, but what difference does it actually make to the bigger picture if the levels of industrial emissions, including pernicious nitrous oxide, diminish because of coronavirus shutdowns, if they resume the day after? It’s interesting but not significant. In the bigger picture, it will be a blip. Some economists suggest that if anything, businesses will likely ramp up emissions as they strive to recoup their lost income and return to the black.
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Attesting to the collective unrepentant stage of mind: Flights have not in fact ceased. Commercial passenger flights are down but goods continue to be transported. The tracking website Flightradar24 also says that in the last two weeks of March 2020, commercial air traffic shrank by only 41 percent below 2019 levels, to 36,491 flights.
Before the coronavirus, aviation wasn’t slowing; it was expanding. Flightradar says that in 2019, it tracked nearly 69 million flights, an increase of 10 percent over 2018 (much of that was cargo). Airline bankruptcies aside, why think that air traffic will grind to a halt after the coronavirus?
The cruise ship industry is another parameter indicative of mass oblivion: Liners stand charged with causing significant ecological damage and are sources of greenhouse gas emissions, but until the advent of coronavirus at least, they were just becoming ever more popular. Moreover, anybody who gave it a thought would have realized (before the coronavirus turned some ships into pariahs desperate for harbor) that any liner has the potential to become a hotbed of communicable disease. It’s happened before, for instance but not confined to Legionnaire’s disease.
By now we know perfectly well that greenhouse gas emission have to stop, and we must decarbonize immediately – not by the year anything. Yet the last round of international climate change talks collapsed and the people in charge of the world’s biggest economies show no sign of acknowledging the science, let alone starting to prepare the people to change their very mindsets about success.
And right now the conversation is about masks (good), vaccines (attention anti-vaxxers, this is what happens when there isn’t a vaccine) and the merits versus the costs of a lockdown, which is at this stage a theoretical discussion since none of us know what the trajectory of the coronavirus will look like.
The aspiration of climate change scientists is to persuade voters, and dictators where appropriate, that business cannot continue as usual. Consumption habits and norms must change. A sudden collapse of economic activity – to borrow market argot, the black swan coming in to roost – doesn’t lead people to a noble eureka moment that we have to stop buying grapes jetted in from another continent, replace our SUVs with sneakers and substitute a cruise to the Galapagos with a nice long walk. It terrifies them.
They didn’t choose to abstain, they’re being forced to and in the democratic West, that doesn’t fly any better than a fat black swan. A few weeks of blue skies and asthma relief are unlikely to persuade everybody to collectively transit toward a sustainable decarbonized economy. You can decide for yourself if, after weeks of forced introspection, you will eschew all travel by cruise liner or plane, forgo a car for public transport, stop eating meat, forgo nonessential imports, and in effect relinquish all nonessential consumption for the sake of future generations.
This article was originally published on April 7, 2020.
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