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Police looking for person who struck covered bridge in Jackson Saturday night
Bridge remains closed Sunday
Updated: 2:25 PM EDT Jul 1, 2018
Cassidy Swanson
Assignment Editor/Digital Producer
Police are looking for the person who struck and damaged the Honeymoon Covered Bridge on Route 16A in Jackson Saturday night.At about 9:30 p.m., the Bartlett Police Department was requested by the Carroll County Sheriff's Office to respond to a reported rollover motor vehicle accident on the covered bridge in Jackson. The New Hampshire Department of Transportation said the damage was caused by a minivan and that the bridge remains closed Sunday as officials assess the damage. The accident is currently under investigation and any witnesses are asked to contact Cpl. Ian MacMillan at 603-356-5868 or i.macmillan@townofbartlettnh.org, or call Jackson police at 603-323-9292.
JACKSON, N.H. —
Police are looking for the person who struck and damaged the Honeymoon Covered Bridge on Route 16A in Jackson Saturday night.
At about 9:30 p.m., the Bartlett Police Department was requested by the Carroll County Sheriff's Office to respond to a reported rollover motor vehicle accident on the covered bridge in Jackson.
The New Hampshire Department of Transportation said the damage was caused by a minivan and that the bridge remains closed Sunday as officials assess the damage.
The accident is currently under investigation and any witnesses are asked to contact Cpl. Ian MacMillan at 603-356-5868 or i.macmillan@townofbartlettnh.org, or call Jackson police at 603-323-9292.
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Watch Groom Lake
"The Truth Lies Beneath..."
Groom Lake is a science fiction movie that tells the tale of Kate, a young woman who is stuck in a tragic situation in which she is soon going to die. With the strong desire to find an alternate place in the universe where life exists, Kate enlists the help of her friend Andy and the two of them decide to make their way to a top secret military base which is said the house secrets pertaining to life from other planets, as its surrounding location had been the predominant hotspot for paranormal activity, yielding events such as alien aircraft crashes and body recoveries.
Groom Lake is an Science Fiction, Horror movie that was released in 2002 and has a run time of 1 hr 32 min. It has received poor reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 2.4.
Where do I stream Groom Lake online? Groom Lake is available to watch and stream, buy on demand at Vudu, Google Play, YouTube VOD online. Some platforms allow you to rent Groom Lake for a limited time or purchase the movie and download it to your device.
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PaleyFest LA will once again return this spring, and the first pieces of programming announced for the television festival are a “Six Feet Under” reunion and panel discussions for ABC&#…
Due to ongoing health and safety precautions amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 PaleyFest event will once again be held virtually, with all programs available to view at once, on March 23 for Paley members and Citi cardmembers, and on March 29 at 8 p.m. ET for the general public.
“We’re thrilled to announce the first selections to this year’s PaleyFest LA, which will include a look at one of television’s hottest new shows, a conversation with one of the most beloved names in late night, and a reunion twenty years in the making,” said Maureen J. Reidy, the Paley Center for Media’s president and CEO. “Television fans know PaleyFest is the ultimate destination for all the great behind-the-scenes stories of television’s top shows. We’re thankful to our friends at Citi and Verizon for their continued support of the festival, and their commitment to highlighting diverse and original voices on television.”
The “Six Feet Under” reunion will feature creator Alan Ball and cast members still to be announced, reminiscing and reflecting on the two decades years since the show premiered on HBO, and the impact it has had on audiences ever since. The five-season family drama followed the Fishers, owners of Fisher & Sons Funeral Home.
“I look forward to reuniting with the cast of ‘Six Feet Under’ for the PaleyFest event marking its 20th anniversary. I have such tremendous respect for everyone, it will be a real treat to reconnect and talk about the show,” said Ball.
The “Big Sky” panel will dive into the first season’s twists and turns with executive producer David E. Kelley and others, still to be announced.
The show centers on private detective Cassie Dewell (Kylie Bunbury) and former police officer Jenny Hoyt (Katheryn Winnick) as they investigate the disappearance of two sisters who were coming to visit Jenny’s son but quickly come to realize something bigger is going on.
“We are honored and thrilled to be part of this prestigious festival. A very cool dance to get invited to. Thanks to all at PaleyFest!” said Kelley.
“The Late Late Show” panel details have not been shared yet, but it will, of course, celebrate the late-night talk show that has spawned viral videos and series spinoffs including “Carpool Karaoke.”
“We are honored that PaleyFest LA has invited us to participate, and are grateful for the opportunity to speak to, and thank, the fans who have been so supportive of the show since we started, and particularly during this challenging year,” said “The Late Late Show With James Corden” executive producers Rob Crabbe and Ben Winston.
Citi and Verizon will return as sponsors for this year’s festival.
“The Paley Center has a long history of exceptional programming that celebrates the art of entertainment, and Verizon couldn’t be more proud to support,” said Tami Erwin, CEO, Verizon Business, and board member, Paley Center. “Storytelling has the power to lift spirits, provide escape and create a sense of community that’s needed now more than ever. Verizon Business is excited to be working with entertainment companies on how our technology can help transform the production and viewer experience.”
These panels, and others that are still to be announced on Feb. 9, will be viewable on the Paley Center’s Yahoo Entertainment channel.
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6 Simple Chemistry Science Projects for Kids | Woo! Jr. Kids Activities
6 Simple Chemistry Science Projects for Kids
Chemistry is considered a central science, because it overlaps with physics, geology and biology – how cool is that? It studies the properties of matter, and how it is composed and can change under different circumstances. Here are six fascinating, fun and easy chemistry science projects for kids to explore safely at home or at school, with common household items that are easily obtained! We’ll be exploring acid based reactions, oxidation, making bubbles hover, dissolving eggshells, extracting DNA and even making some fun chemistry based art!
Related: Check out our 6 simple physics experiments for kids, too!
Blow Up a Balloon Using Science
When acids and bases come together the reaction can range from mild to explosive. The strength of the reaction depends on several factors, including the concentration of the acid and base, and their chemical makeup. In order to take a closer look at what happens during an acid-base reaction, and how powerful these types of reactions can be, we will be mixing vinegar (an acid) with baking soda (a base).
Blow Up a Balloon Using Science Printable Instructions
Empty water bottle (20 oz. worked best for our experiments)
Small funnel
Add ¼ cup of vinegar to the empty water bottle.
Using the funnel, add ½ tablespoon of baking soda to the balloon.
Place the end of the balloon over the lip of the water bottle, being careful not to spill any of the baking soda into the bottle. One the balloon is in place, tip the balloon up so the baking soda falls into the vinegar. Stand back and watch.
Acids and bases neutralize each other. The result of an acid-base reaction is always water and a salt. A salt in this case refers to the chemical definition of salt – a neutral compound formed as a result of acid-base neutralization. Sodium chloride, or common table salt, is, by this definition, one example of a salt.
Vinegar is essentially diluted acetic acid, while baking soda consists of bicarbonate (a base). When the two compounds are mixed, the end product is water and sodium acetate (a salt). Carbon dioxide (a gas) is also formed, and this is what can be observed filling up the balloon.
We can see the force with which the reaction happens by observing how fast the mixture bubbles up, and how quickly our balloon fills with air. This is an example of what happens when we mix a weak acid with a weak base. Mixing stronger acids and bases can be very dangerous, and even lead to explosions. This is one of several reasons scientists undergo extensive safety training, and have to be very careful when handling chemicals in the lab.
How to extract DNA
DNA is the genetic material in our cells. Everything from the color of our hair to the pattern of our fingerprints is coded for in our DNA. There’s so much DNA in a cell, it needs to be coiled up and tightly packed in order to make room for the rest of the structures the cell needs to maintain its daily functions. In this experiment, we’re going to unpack DNA, then bring it out of solution so we can look at it without the help of a microscope.
How to Extract DNA Printable Instructions
3 – 4 strawberries (stems removed)
Rubbing alcohol (70% or higher)
Resealable plastic bag
Container such as a jar or small glass (or conical tubes)
Toothpick or wooden skewer
At least 2 hours before the experiment, place the rubbing alcohol in the freezer.
Place strawberries inside a resealable plastic bag and mash them to a pulp.
In a bowl or jar, stir together ½ cup water, 1 tablespoon dish soap, and ½ teaspoon salt. Be careful not to mix too vigorously, as you don’t want the dish soap to foam up.
Add approximately half of the soap mixture to the mashed strawberries. Seal the plastic bag and mix, using fingertips to disperse the mashed strawberries into the liquid. Let the mixture sit for ~10 minutes.
Pour the strawberry/soap mixture through the coffee filter into a clear glass container. Discard the pulp left behind in the filter.
Add the chilled rubbing alcohol to the mixture. Pour the rubbing alcohol slowly along the side of the glass so it forms a layer on top of the strawberry mixture. The stringy stuff that collects at the interface between the two layers is DNA!
Mix gently, but thoroughly. Let the mixture sit on the countertop until the layers gradually separate out again. You should have a lot more DNA now.
This experiment is a slightly simplified version of a technique scientists use in the lab to extract DNA from cells. Dish soap is a detergent capable of causing fat and grease molecules to disperse. Because the cell wall is mostly made up of fats, the detergent is able to break it down. Once our cell has broken open, the DNA is free in solution. To get the DNA out of solution, we use alcohol. Alcohol allows DNA to precipitate, or fall out of solution, so we can see it. You can use a toothpick or skewer to fish the strings of DNA out and get a closer look.
How to Make an Eggshell Disappear
Most people think the outer shell is what keeps an egg intact. There’s more to the anatomy of an egg, however, and simply removing the shell won’t cause an egg to fall apart. In this experiment, we’ll make an eggshell disappear. We’ll see that even without the shell, an egg remains intact, albeit a lot more fragile than it started out.
How to Make an Eggshell Disappear Printable Instructions
1 raw egg
A container such as a jar
Place enough vinegar in the container so an egg can be completely submerged. Gently place the egg in the vinegar.
Leave the egg in the vinegar for 24 hours. You can put a lid on the jar, but make sure the seal isn’t airtight, as carbon dioxide will be formed when the eggshell dissolves.
After 24 hours, carefully remove the egg from the vinegar. This can be done by pouring the vinegar out and catching the egg in your hand, or by fishing the egg out with a slotted spoon. The egg will be soft and fragile, so use caution.
Eggshells are made of calcium carbonate. Acetic acid, which is one of the main components in vinegar, reacts with calcium carbonate, causing it to dissolve. In the process carbon dioxide is formed, which is why the egg becomes covered in tiny bubbles when it’s soaking in the solution.
The eggshell is important in protecting the egg from harm. But when the eggshell is dissolved away, the egg doesn’t fall apart. This is because there are two membranes under the shell that keep the inner contents of the egg together. These are called the inner and outer shell membrane, and you can often see them when you’re peeling a hardboiled egg. Though they’re soft and pliable, these membranes help maintain the integrity of an egg and, together with the shell, work to protect the inner contents of the egg from bacteria and other sources of harm.
The longer you let the egg soak in vinegar, the more eggshell will be dissolved away. What does the egg look like after 48 hours? What does the fact that the membranes remain intact tell you about their calcium carbonate content?
How to make hovering bubbles
If you’ve ever blown soap bubbles then you know they don’t last very long. They hang in the air a moment, and then inevitably drift down to the ground and pop. In the following experiment, we’ll look at what makes bubbles float, and why they don’t linger indefinitely in the air. We’ll use a chemical reaction to generate gas that will keep our bubbles afloat, allowing us to observe the principles behind soap bubbles and the way they behave.
How to Make Hovering Bubbles Printable Instructions
A wide pan or baking dish
Bubble solution and bubble wand
Add 2 cups of vinegar to the baking dish, or enough to cover the entire bottom. Add an equal amount of baking soda to the vinegar. The solution will start to bubble and fizz right away.
Immediately after adding the baking soda, blow soap bubbles directly above the dish. (The reaction doesn’t last very long, so you have to be quick.) Observe what happens to the bubbles as they drift down toward your fizzing reaction.
Bubbles are composed of air surrounded by a very thin film of soap. Between the soap and the trapped air, the bubble is heavier than the air around it. Because of this, the bubble falls or drifts down toward the ground. One way to keep this from happening is to make the surrounding air heavier than the bubble.
When we added vinegar to baking soda, we created a chemical reaction. The baking soda combines with the acetic acid in the vinegar to yield water and carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is a heavy gas, heavier than the mixture of air inside our bubble. Because the bubbles were lighter than the gas being released, they were able to float right on top of the layer of carbon dioxide.
Another way to do this experiment is to put some dry ice in a container and blow bubbles over it. Dry ice is composed of frozen carbon dioxide. It goes from frozen form directly into gas form, skipping over the liquid phase, which is how it gets name. When a substance goes from a solid to a gas phase, it’s called “sublimation.”
Based on the results from this experiment, can you deduce what makes a helium-filled balloon float?
Send an Invisible Message Using Oxidation
Have you ever sliced an apple for lunch, only to discover a few hours later that it’s turned brown? Have you ever had to clean rust off a bumper or a mailbox? Have you ever watched a bonfire burn? All of these processes occur thanks to a chemical reaction called oxidation.
Oxidation is a natural process that happens when certain substances come into contact with oxygen molecules found in the air. In the following experiment, we will take advantage of oxidation to write a message using invisible ink.
Send an Invisible Message Using Oxidation Printable Instructions
A lemon
A cotton swab or small paintbrush
A source of heat such as a stovetop or 60W light bulb
Cut the lemon in half and squeeze all the juice into a small bowl. Add 1 tablespoon of water and mix well. This is your invisible ink.
Using a cotton swab or a paintbrush, write a message on your piece of paper. Wait a few minutes for your “ink” to dry.
Note: this step requires adult supervision! Once the ink is dry, heat the piece of paper over a stovetop, a warmed up light bulb, or some other mild source of heat. Your message has been revealed!
Oxidation is a chemical reaction that takes place when some substances are exposed to oxygen molecules. In the case of our invisible ink, we oxidized carbon molecules present in the lemon juice. By heating up the juice, we freed the carbon molecules from its bonds, leaving it open to interact with oxygen. This chemical process caused a physical change, visible to us as a change in color. The juice went from clear to brown, so it was no longer invisible.
Oxidation is a natural process, but there are steps we can take to prevent it. Adding a little lemon juice to apple slices, for instance, keeps them from oxidizing, or browning. This is because the lemon juice acts as a barrier between the apple and the oxygen in the air. The oxygen will react with the lemon juice first, oxidizing the carbon molecules, before it begins to react with the apple slices. This allows the apple slices to remain “fresh” for longer.
Making Art with Chemistry
Chemical reactions happen all around us, many occurring naturally over time. The rusting of iron for instance, or the browning of an apple, are both examples of natural chemical reactions.
In this experiment, we’ll create our own chemical reaction, combining baking soda and vinegar to make a type of reaction called an acid-base reaction. Our reaction will allow us to see what happens when acids and bases combine. As a bonus, we’ll harness these changes to create our own unique work of art.
Making Art with Chemistry Printable Instructions
A baking dish or similar wide, shallow container
Ramekins or small bowls
Dropper or spoon
Add enough baking soda to the baking dish to cover the entire bottom of the dish.
Add ¼ cup vinegar to two or more ramekins. Add 1-2 drops of your favorite color food coloring and mix well.
Using the dropper or a small spoon, add small amounts of colored vinegar to the baking soda in the dish. Get creative! Mix colors up. Add more vinegar to a spot that’s already undergone a bubbling reaction. Try to see how long you can keep a reaction going. Use different colors to make patterns. The end result will be whatever you make it!
The acetic acid in vinegar is an acid and the bicarbonate in baking soda is a base. When the two combine, they undergo a type of chemical reaction called an acid-base reaction. Acids and bases neutralize each other, sometimes coming together in a powerful reaction that can be dangerous. The reaction we created in our baking dish is an example of a mild reaction.
When acids and bases come together, the acid transfers its hydrogen atom to the base. The result always includes water and a salt. In addition to water and salt, when we mix vinegar and baking soda, the reaction yields carbon dioxide. This is why you see bubbling. The bubbles are composed of carbon dioxide.
The reaction also yields heat, which you can feel if you add enough vinegar and then touch the glass where the bubbling occurs. Reactions that produce heat are called “exothermic” reactions. Not all reactions are exothermic. Some reactions require heat in order to take place. These reactions are called “endothermic.”
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Darlene Jones March 6, 2017 at 4:21 am
My 5th grader loves theses and they are easy enough he can do by himself. Thanks
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Home > News > Oil storage crisis fading on global production cuts and recovering demand
Oil storage crisis fading on global production cuts and recovering demand
By Grant Smith and Sheela Tobben on 5/12/2020
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LONDON (Bloomberg) --While the global oil market remains in a dire situation, it’s starting to look like the nightmare scenario envisioned for the past month might just be averted.
The industry feared a flood of unwanted crude would overwhelm the world’s storage tanks as fuel demand was shattered by the coronavirus. Once that “storage wall” was hit, producers would be forced into a chaotic wave of potentially damaging shut-ins at oil wells.
In recent days, however, the alarm is starting to subside.
After the brutal price crash, producers have cut output on a historic scale, including unprecedented reductions by the OPEC+ alliance. Now demand is starting to creep higher as governments ease lockdowns, letting drivers back on the roads.
Though a substantial surplus remains -- prompting Saudi Arabia to announce additional output cuts on Monday -- the threat of a storage blow-out has receded.
“It looks like price signals” have ”worked their magic and the market has managed to re-balance and avert the worst,” said Antoine Halff, chief analyst at energy data provider Kayrros SAS.
In some critical locations, such as India and South Korea, storage has already been strained to its limits. Space at the U.S. crude hub in Cushing, Oklahoma, became so scare that crude prices briefly dropped below zero last month for the first time on record.
Elsewhere, oil tankers are being used as makeshift, floating warehouses to absorb the overflow on a scale never seen before. When the glut was at its zenith last month, everything from pipelines to rail cars were being pressed into service as a receptacle.
The rampant accumulation of oil inventories around the world is slowing down, and may be about to drop for the first time since January, Kayrros estimates. Stockpiles increased by 4 million barrels a day in the week to May 3, compared with a peak surge of 10 million a day in April. China, which drove the massive build-up, has already swung to a “steep draw.”
International oil prices have rebounded by about 50% in the past two weeks, and now trade near $30 a barrel in London, as demand and supply tighten up. Perhaps more importantly, the difference in prices of oil for delivery in the months ahead is reducing, suggesting the frantic scramble for storage has slackened off.
The discount on front-month Brent versus the contract six months out has narrowed by about 40% in the past two weeks to around $4.50 a barrel, according to data from the ICE Futures Europe exchange. As the spread -- or “contango” -- needs to cover the cost of storage, its contraction implies those costs are diminishing.
“The fears about an overflowing oil market and exhausted storage are beginning to calm,” said Norbert Ruecker, head of economics at Julius Baer Group Ltd. in Zurich.
It’s a view shared by many in what’s called the physical market, where actual cargoes of crude are bought and sold that are then refined into fuels like gasoline and diesel.
The focus has shifted from the fear of hitting tank tops to gradual increases in demand as some businesses restart and motorists are permitted a little more freedom, according to several traders, who asked not to be identified as commercial discussions are private.
Goldman Sachs Group, which warned in late April that global storage capacity would be maxed out within weeks, now says the worst of this cycle is effectively over. Moves by companies such as Chevron Corp. and ConocoPhillips to pare output shows the point of saturation has already arrived.
“They just couldn’t find somebody to take that oil, so you’ve essentially hit it,” said Jeff Currie, the bank’s head of commodities research. “Definitely we hit it on a local basis in different parts of the world.”
Much of the glut has been tackled by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, who agreed to curb production by just under 10 million barrels a day, or about 10% of global supply from May 1.
The kingdom’s decision Monday to deepen cuts, while reflecting the scale of the oversupply that still needs to be dealt with, is another reason to believe that it can nonetheless be contained.
“We are not anymore in an environment where any bucket will be used to store crude oil,” said Olivier Jakob, managing director at consultants Petromatrix GmbH.
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McKinsey projects a 2029 oil demand peak, accelerated by Covid-19 (1/14)
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Plastic from ocean garbage patch plagues island sanctuary
(AP Photo/Caleb Jones)
MIDWAY ATOLL, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (AP) — Flying into the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Midway Atoll appears out of the vast blue Pacific as a tiny oasis of coral-fringed land with pristine white sand beaches that are teeming with life.
But on the ground, there’s a different scene: plastic, pollution and death.
With virtually no predators, Midway is a haven for many species of seabirds and is home to the largest colony of albatross in the world.Full Coverage: Science
But Midway is also at the center of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a vast area of floating plastic collected by circulating oceanic currents. The Hawaiian Islands act like a comb that gathers debris as it floats across the Pacific. A recent analysis found that the patch is accumulating debris at a faster rate than scientists previously thought.
Midway is littered with bird skeletons that have brightly colored plastic protruding from their decomposing bellies. Bottle caps, toothbrushes and cigarette lighters sit in the centers of their feathery carcasses.
“There isn’t a bird that doesn’t have some (plastic),” said Athline Clark, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s superintendent for Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, which Midway is part of. They “fill their bellies up with plastics instead of food and eventually either choke or just don’t have enough room for actual nourishment and perish.”
Sharp plastic pieces can also perforate their intestines and esophagus.
Papahanaumokuakea, which quadrupled in size under President Barack Obama in 2016, is the world’s largest marine conservation area and was inscribed in 2010 as a UNESCO mixed World Heritage site.
“Papahanaumokuakea is both a biologically rich and culturally sacred place,” Clark said. “The Hawaiians call it a place of abundance, or aina momona.”
But circulating currents now bring an abundance of plastic and other trash from all around the Pacific Rim to Hawaii’s beaches. The debris ranges from tiny microplastics that nearly every animal in this marine ecosystem ingests to huge fishing nets that gather plants, animals and other debris while bulldozing across fragile coral reefs.
“The estimates are that there’s about 57,000 pounds of marine debris that washes ashore within this part of the archipelago annually,” Clark said.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Kelly Goodale lives and works on Midway, the site of a decisive World War II battle , and said the plastic that washes ashore there each year is just part of the problem.
“Not only are our beaches getting it, but also our albatross will bring it and feed it to their chicks,” Goodale said.
Albatross spend much of their lives at sea feeding and flying thousands of miles across the oceans before returning to Midway each year to lay eggs and raise their young.
“So we estimate about 5 tons (4.5 metric tons) of plastic being brought to Midway every year just by adult albatross feeding it to their chicks,” Goodale said.
The albatross tend to seek out squid eggs that attach themselves to floating pieces of plastic, which is why so many birds are eating the material, Clark said.
And it’s not just the seabirds that are harmed by ocean plastic. Endangered Hawaiian monk seals and green sea turtles can die while entangled in plastic nets. Sharks and other apex predators eat smaller fish that feed on microplastic. Whales drag fishing line and buoys behind them during their long migrations across the world’s oceans.
It’s important to understand the relationship between the oceans, marine life and humans, Clark said.
She shared a Native Hawaiian proverb: “Ma o ke kai pili ai kakou.” It means, “The ocean connects us all.”
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Kid takes gun to Wilkes County grade school by accident, deputies told
School systems are concerned about extra costs from PPE and technology this year.(Ashley Boles)
By Steve Byerly
Published: Dec. 2, 2020 at 12:44 PM EST
WASHINGTON, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - A child brought a gun to Washington-Wilkes Primary School this week, but no one was injured, according to authorities.
It happened Monday morning, according to Wilkes County Sheriff’s Office Chief Investigator Thomas Bailey.
Deputies were told that the child had been on a hunting trip with family members. After taking a book bag to school, the student discovered a handgun from the trip had been left in the bag by accident, deputies were told.
Hunters don’t typically use handguns, but Bailey said it might have been taken on the trip for protection.
After discovering the gun, the student immediately notified a teacher without touching the weapon, Bailey reported.
He said the matter is now in the hands of the school district, which has taken disciplinary action.
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Webwatch
Live and indirect
If you’re stuck in the office, can’t afford that away trip or are living on the wrong side of the world, then you still have to keep up with the match and plenty of people want you to do so online. Not all the web options are that compelling, though, unless you love throw-ins. Ian Plenderleith reports
Gary Lineker once famously remarked that it was more fun watching Wimbledon on Ceefax than it was to watch them live. That was before the internet, but with the advent of online commentaries, live blogs and constantly updated match trackers, there is more than enough opportunity to follow a game by sitting in front of a screen that is not actually showing the action.
Gagged to order
Apart from pubs and the stands themselves, internet message boards are the best place to debate your club’s fortunes and praise or criticise in the company of fellow fans. But, as Ian Plenderleith reports, this freedom of expression is increasingly under threat as clubs use lawyers to clamp down on dissent
Many people compare the football message board to their local pub. You can meet your mates there to relax, say anything you like, and the next day no one will remember a word. There’s the odd idiot who gets out of hand and maybe a fight breaks out, but after a while everyone calms down. Sometimes it’s quiet because there’s no one around, so you leave again. And strangers are treated with suspicion until they show they didn’t just come in to cause trouble, but rather gain acceptance by expressing the sort of opinion that’s greeted with knowing nods (the online equivalent of getting your round in unprompted).
Thaksin Shinawatra’s arrival at Eastlands has tested some supporters’ loyalties. But, as Ian Plenderleith finds out, a tour of Manchester City, Dundee and Chelsea sites suggests many fans are quick to move on
The fan of changing loyalties remains an object of scorn, but in these cash-grabbing times when a club’s dubious new owner can alienate lifelong supporters, it somehow seems appropriate that the official Premier League site hosts a column by someone purporting to be The Fickle Fan. It’s meant to be funny, and the idea’s not a bad one – the columnist follows a team until it loses, and then transfers allegiance to the victor.
Something to shout about
Online reaction to David Beckham’s move to LA Galaxy wasn’t about informing readers but enraging them, believes Ian Plenderleith , part of a trend that values level of response above everything else
The internet was supposed to mean the end of newspapers. Why pay for an unwieldy item that gets ink on your hands when you can see it all on the computer for free? Yet print has survived, and not just because you can’t take your PC with you on the Tube. It’s also because the internet has developed into a medium with a different kind of writing.
We’ve all bemoaned, doubted or disbelieved an offside decision. Thankfully, Ian Plenderleith has found an online world where you can debate the issues, view the possible solution or test yourself on the rules
Like the offside rule itself, the website Offside Today still has some room for improvement. However, it differs from that perpetually discussed law in that it’s not a necessary evil, but a necessary platform to help keep the issue at the forefront of football debate.
The only way is up
Fancy buying a club for the price of a match ticket? As Ian Plenderleith reports, a website is halfway to giving its subscribers the chance to vote on team tactics. Plus, the Homeless World Cup is coming up
It is painting itself as “Football’s greatest ever adventure” – a democratic, egalitarian, online football club run by 50,000 people, all with a single vote each. My Football Club is a website now taking pledges from individuals who will put up the necessary cash to buy a single team. You will then sit back and at the touch of a few buttons help to run the club from the safety of your desk or your favourite coffee house. Who said you needed to be a megalomaniac
millionaire to own a football club?
All in the mind
Do you dream of talking rubbish into three mobile phones at once while evading income tax and wearing a cheap-looking but expensive suit? Then Ian Plenderleith has the fantasy site for you
Every football fan once dreamed of being a player. Then, as we got too old for that, we dreamed of being a manager instead, and that’s when someone invented Fantasy Football. But how many of us have dreamed of making money at the top of the game simply by sending faxes and making the odd phone call?
There are still some excellent webzines about, but the intervention of the real world – aka family life – is taking its toll. Ian Plenderleith talks to the duo who have retired with Watford at (well, nearly) the top
When the internet first became a part of our daily lives around the mid-1990s, everyone who thought they had an opinion worth hearing rushed to sign up and let the world know their views. Football fans were among the surge of previously disenfranchised citizens ready to exploit the new age of ultra-democracy and a million club webzines were born.
The official line
Clubs’ own sites are often seen as being dull, uniform, run by the game’s Thought Police – but as we all know that, does it matter too much? Ian Plenderleith had a look inside a few to find out
In the interests of balance and fairness, it’s time this column moved away from its usual celebration of plucky, left-field, independent sites devoted to lesser leagues, earnest groundhoppers, obscure photographers and mouldy mascots, and ventured into an area it has been ignoring for far too long. This month we delve into a world rarely explored by the conscientious WSC reader: the official club websites of the world famous English Premier League.
Low countryside
Without leaving his desk, Ian Plenderleith enjoys the finest and funniest views of football in Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg and beyond, in his latest look at sites that highlight photographs of the game
It must be at least a matter of months since this column lauded football photographers on the internet but, in the absence of many inspiring new sites in prose, we’re compelled once again to recommend images over words. Just for a change, though, we’ll make it a condition that the sites must have a Benelux connection.
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Senate approves former Goldman Sachs exec for state post
Connecticut lawmakers have confirmed Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont’s nominee for economic development chief, despite initial concerns about the former Goldman Sachs executive’s possible role in the national mortgage meltdown.
The Senate voted 28-8 Wednesday in favor of David Lehman, who met privately with lawmakers, assuring them he did nothing untoward during his 15 years at the investment bank.
Lehman’s confirmation does not need House action.
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Democratic Sen. Gary Winfield of New Haven says it’s important for members of the public who contacted him with concerns about Lehman to know lawmakers “thought deeply” about whether to support his nomination. He says ultimately Lamont should have the ability to appoint members of his own cabinet.
Lehman will serve as Lamont’s senior economic advisor and commissioners of the Department of Economic and Community Development.
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The Chart That Convinced Albert Edwards A Recession Is "Imminent"
Thursday, Jan 10, 2019 - 9:49
Over the weekend, we pointed out a concerning statistic: it's not the rate hikes that stifle economic growth and send stocks sliding that traditionally telegraph the start of a recession - it's the first rate cut following a tightening cycle that is usually the trigger. Case in point: the last three recessions were all preceded with the Fed cutting, i.e., the Fed loosened policy within three months before the previous three recessions, cutting by 0.25% in 1991, 1.5% in 2001 and 0.5% in 2007.
The Fed loosened policy in three months before the previous three recessions, cutting by 0.25% in 1991, 1.5% in 2001 and 0.5% in 2007 - JPM
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 5, 2019
This is also the key point made by SocGen's Albert Edwards in his latest report which, perhaps not surprisingly, warns that the Fed is now too late to save the economy, to wit: "the Fed eases immediately prior to a recession", which is also why the steepening yield curve we are experiencing now is a far more ominous reversal to the recent flattening trend than if the curve had merely continued to flatten.
Elaborating on this point, Edwards says that last Friday's "abject capitulation from Fed Chair Powell" was surprising, and while the SocGen strategist agrees that there was a level of equity market weakness that was always going to generate a re-introduction of the fabled Fed put, Edwards says that he "thought it would take a lot more than a 20% decline in equity markets for Powell to re-embrace the Fed put like a long-lost friend", especially after Powell's post FOMC reiteration that QT was on
autopilot. As a result, the subsequent collapse of expectations of Fed tightening has resulted in a far steeper the yield curve.
And the punchline for why the SocGen permabear is convinced an "imminent recession" is coming: "this curve steepening, after a period of pronounced flattening, is a good indication of imminent recession despite continued strength in the labour marke."
Edwards goes on to note that according to historical precedents, "the market has decided the Fed tightening cycle is over, and historically the market has been pretty accurate in its predictions." Hence Edwards' "relaxed attitude" about further yield increases was "vindicated when the US 10y bond yield recently broke above the upper bound of the downward channel."
And while yields may have bounced modestly following Friday's blockbuster jobs report, Edwards notes that SocGen's head of Technical Analysis, Stephanie Aymes believes that the current rebound in the S&P and the 10y bond yield is "merely a dead cat bounce and investors should prepare themselves for the next leg down."
Continuing his bearish tirade Edwards then asks rhetorically: "If we are indeed nearing the point where the Fed stops tightening (both QT and Fed Funds), should this offer investors confidence that an equity bear market can be avoided?" and explains that this is not the case because "payrolls often accelerate just ahead of a recession":
The surprisingly robust 312,000 rise in US non-farm payrolls in December soothed market jitters about an imminent recession. But a quick look at history reveals accelerating payroll data is not untypical just ahead of recessions. Just ahead of the last recession that started in December 2007, payrolls popped sharply higher in October, and exactly the same thing occurred before the previous recession began in March 2001. Payrolls, a lagging indicator, offer no help in predicting recessions.
Edwards concludes with some technical analysis, noting that while a bounce from deeply oversold levels was expected "until the neckline of the recent head and shoulders formation" which in turn would take the S&P up to around 2600, it is this level "which could prove insurmountable resistance." He then claims that after that, there are two other massive hurdles to clear: first is the 50% retracement level of the fall from the 2935 peak, which will take us back to 2650, and second, the 200 day moving average of 2740 could also prove heavy resistance.
Wait, Edwards - the fundamental analyst - resorting to technical analysis? Why yes, and he explains why:
Many investors have a big downer on technical analysis. As a fundamental analyst, many of my readers become apoplectic with rage (or just plain disappointed) when they see I have put a technical chart in my weeklies. My old colleague David Owen (now at Jefferies) always reminds me of the story of when in 1991, our then Chief Economist Blu Putnam discovered me on the Datastream machine looking at technical analysis, and I fell drastically in his estimation albeit probably not from a very high level.
But let me repeat: I believe that if an equity bear market is unfolding, it will be the technical analysts and not the macro-analysts that will inform us, and a collapse in the markets will precede a recession, just as it did in 2007.
Whether what stocks have done in the past is an indication of what they will do in the future is a matter for another day (and endless debates in the financial community), but at least according to Edwards, who will hold his annual "Bearfest" Conference in London on Jan 15, there is little doubt what will happen next, and it is - in the words of Lance Roberts - the following: "There remains an ongoing bullish bias which continues to cling to the belief this is “just a correction” in an ongoing bull market. However, there are ample indications, as stated, that the decade long bull market has come to its inevitable conclusion."
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John Boyega Apologizes Over Diversity Comments
March 20, 2016 | By Sara Wilkins
Actor John Boyega has apologized to anyone he may have offended with his diversity comments at an awards ceremony on Saturday.
The Star Wars: The Force Awakens star gave an emotional speech as he was honored with Best Male Performance in Film at the Screen Nation Awards in London, and told his fellow actors that actions speak louder than words when it comes to diversity in Hollywood.
“To complain about what is going on is not going to benefit us. It is not. Be the change you want to be,” the 24-year-old said. “Be the change. And continue and focus. Thank you so much.”
However, after one Twitter user asked why he had “generalized” the concerns of the black community, Boyega tried to clarify his comments.
“Regarding my comments at the Screen Nation Awards (just to clarify) I am not saying that complaints are invalid or should not be heard… I am saying that words without action can’t help right now,” he explained on Sunday. “I agree that we need to be heard but some do the talking and no work.”
“But I do agree,” the London-born actor continued. “I didn’t clarify. I was full of emotion receiving the award and just wanted to say that there was work to be done. I’m not in this position without the people that champion me. I was in Peckham struggling not too long ago. I’m not above anyone… Really feel bad for not clarifying and quite fearful that I’ve mislead many. Not about respectability tactics. I’m really sorry X.”
His many Twitter followers echoed his sentiments, and sent supportive messages to the actor after his heartfelt apology.
“I personally thought it was a great speech, and a good message for anyone. Class act,” wrote one fan.
The Screen Nation Awards recognizes emerging and established talent of African heritage in the entertainment industry.
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The Gert and Hermien Story
The ‘Gert & Hermien Story’ shows the rise and fall of one of the most popular singing duo’s from Dutch history: Gert and Hermien Timmerman. Their career has seen many big ups and downs. Their personal lives, marked by scandals, were widely reported by several gossip magazines. Daughter Sandra is, next to several other intimates, our guide in the unlikely story of her narcistisch, manipulative father and her driven mother.
Hans Heijnen
Hans Heijnen was born in 1957 in Sittard. He studied political science and in 1981 he went to study at the Dutch Film Academy; he graduated in 1985. He wrote various filmscripts for the EAFA and First Floor Features. Since 1988 Hans Heijnen is working as a freelance-documentary filmmaker voor NOS/NPS and VPRO. After two nominations he received a Golden Calf for is Documentary works at the Dutch Film Festival. (1996). In 1999 he won the Silver Spire Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival for his documentary: “Lisdoonvarna, Lourdes of Love”. In september 2000 the Dutch Film Festival held a retrospective of his films which show the life of people in rural areas, which is a theme in his work.
Director & Scenario Hans Heijnen
Camera Adrie Schrover NSC
Sound Bert van den Dungen
Montage Ozan Olçay NCE
Mixage Wim Post
Research Gerard Nijssen
Executive producer Laura Peetoom
Producers NTR Astrid Prickaerts en Daniëlle Beek
Postproduction Ruud de Bruyn
End editor NTR Oscar van der Kroon
Producer Frank van den Engel
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PROVEN: THERE REALLY WAS A COUP ATTEMPT AGAINST TRUMP
Rosenstein proposed secretly recording conversations with Trump, invoking 25th Amendment: NYT
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein proposed secretly recording conversations in the Oval Office with President Trump last year and discussed the possibility of Cabinet officials invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the president, according to The New York Times.
The newspaper, citing people familiar with the matter, reported on Friday that Rosenstein made comments to other Justice Department officials in meetings in spring 2017 about secretly recording Trump after the president fired FBI Director James Comey.
Rosenstein reportedly made the comments to then-acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who detailed Rosenstein's comments in memos, according to the sources cited by the Times.
In the discussions, Rosenstein reportedly floated recruiting Cabinet secretaries, such as Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and White House chief of staff John Kelly behind an effort to invoke the 25th Amendment, which allows members of a president's Cabinet to remove him by majority vote if he is deemed unfit for office.
A Justice Department spokeswoman provided a comment to the Times from a person who was present for the discussions, saying Rosenstein's remarks were meant to be taken as sarcasm.
Rosenstein issued a statement to the Times.
“The New York Times’s story is inaccurate and factually incorrect,” he said. “I will not further comment on a story based on anonymous sources who are obviously biased against the department and are advancing their own personal agenda."
"But let me be clear about this: Based on my personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment,” he added.
A spokesman for McCabe, who was fired this year, declined to comment.
News of Rosenstein's alleged discussions about invoking the 25th Amendment follows the publication of an anonymous op-ed in the Times earlier this month detailing a "resistance" within the administration dedicated to "thwarting" the president's "worst inclinations."
The op-ed, which included claims that Cabinet officials had discussed the possibility of utilizing the method of removing the president, caused swift denials from dozens of Trump officials in the administration.
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Alshiaka
Alshiaka specializes in designing and crafting quality thobes. The brand has cemented a presence in the Saudi market over three decades of operation and in 2015 received an equity investment from SEDCO.
Basel Masri
"SIX NEW STORES OPENED ACROSS THE KINGDOM — TAKING THE TOTAL TO ALMOST 60 — ALONG WITH A NEW BRAND IDENTITY AND STORE CONCEPT."
In 2019 Alshiaka increased retail revenues by 3%, business-to-business by 11%, and total business by 5%. Quantities sold rose by 8%, with a matching increase in productivity per square metre.
The company responded to economic, regulatory and market changes by expanding its network and launching a new e-commerce platform.
Six new stores opened across the Kingdom — taking the total to almost 60 — along with a new brand identity and store concept. Partnerships with Mobily, STC, Careem, Saudi Airlines and KAEC were also endorsed.
New products ranged from winter collection to specially designed Alshiaka cufflinks, while consignment agreements were signed with Albait for Ihram and with Florina for footwear.
Employee skills benefited from the launch of the Alshiaka Retail Academy and the implementation of new procedures for appraisal and recruitment, retention, engagement and performance culture issues.
Technology upgrades are part of a continuing assessment and optimization of legacy IT systems. Advances in 2019 included the launch of the new Oracle ERP system that includes supply chain, finance and retail components. Going live with store.alshiaka. com is expected to propel the brand to further growth in 2020.
Oracle Fusion and Oracle Xstore will also go live next year, improving business information processes, forecast systems, and warehouse management.
Plans for 2020 include the launch of new headgear and underwear brands, and establishing innovation centers to identify new categories, products and market trends.
More about Alshiaka alshiaka.com
Arabian Farms
SEDCO Holding owns 50% of Arabian Farms, which was established in 1978. The company operates three main units: one at Al Kharj in Saudi Arabia, and two in the United Arab Emirates (Dubai and Al Ain).
Dr. Suheel Ahmed
“LUTEIN ENRICHED EGGS WERE INTRODUCED TO THE PORTFOLIO IN 2018 AS A POINT OF DIFFERENTIATION IN THE FACE OF PRICE COMPETITION."
The company’s Saudi operation produces 80 million eggs a year, supplied mostly to the local market. The Dubai operation (established in 1999) produces 120 million eggs a year including special products such as Omega 3, pasteurized-shell eggs, luteinenriched and eco eggs.
Established in 2017, the Al Ain plant produces 500 tons of fresh and chilled chicken broiler meat per year. Major expansion is under way that will boost annual production to 6,000 tons, a 12-fold increase. The Al Ain operations are currently closed while the expansion project is completed.
The Al Kharj unit started working at full capacity in 2019. A new feed mill was established to facilitate production of premium-quality eggs, and a move from wholesale to retail marketing brought opportunities to improve revenues.
The Dubai operation boosted its production of premium eggs (pasteurized, eco and lutein enriched) to 23% of total production during 2019. It remains the GCC region’s sole producer of pasteurized-shell eggs and this product has been recommended by Dubai Municipality for food safety in recipes that use raw or semi-cooked eggs.
Lutein enriched eggs were introduced to the portfolio in 2018 as a point of differentiation in the face of price competition.
Looking ahead, expansion of annual broiler meat production to 6,000 tons is expected to come online by mid-2020, capturing up to 2% of the UAE chicken meat market. Work on the state-of-the-art facility began during 2019.
More about Arabian Farms arabianfarms.com
Ejada
Ejada is one of Saudi Arabia’s largest providers of information technology expertise. SEDCO has a 33.5% stake in the Riyadhheadquartered company which was formed in 2005 through a merger between three leading IT specialists.
Mahmoud El Leissy
"A STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED WITH PATH SOLUTIONS, THE SPECIALIST IN ISLAMIC BANKING SOLUTIONS, WINNING THE FIRST DEAL TOGETHER AT BANK ALJAZIRA."
The company continues to focus on executing end-to-end IT solutions and services for large enterprises in the public and private sectors, primarily in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. In the Kingdom, the public sector is driving growth, especially projects related to Vision 2030 and the National Transformation Program.
In 2019, EJADA successfully completed several national projects and won new public sector contracts. Projects for corporate clients were also secured, with banking a growing market sector.
Ejada achieved double-digit compound annual revenue growth over 2017-19, with accelerated backlog growth over the same period.
Major advancement in offshore capabilities is providing cost advantage and better scalability, contributing to growth in revenues and profitability. The company continues to invest in strengthening its internal capabilities, largely in response to high client demand for digital transformation initiatives. In parallel, Ejada is addressing market needs through new technologies and cloud-based offerings.
Strategic alignment with Microsoft has been an important factor in assignments such as customer relationship management at Al Rajhi Bank and the Ministry of Commerce — the first CRM deal by the government sector — and cloud and mobility projects at Saudi Airlines.
A strategic relationship has also been established with Path Solutions, the specialist in Islamic banking solutions, winning the first deal together at Bank Aljazira. Further growth has come from developing innovative new products using Big Data solutions.
The company remains committed to supporting local content — in products as well as people — prioritizing the development and sales of local software and attracting fresh graduates from leading Saudi universities. HR and project management processes and controls have been enhanced and automated.
Ejada won several industry awards and recognitions in 2019. Among these were Liferay’s Rising Star Partner of the Year, Oracle ISV Partner of the Year, Tableau’s Outstanding Contribution of the Year, The Alexandria University 50th Anniversary Trophy, and the Saudi Ministry of Human Resource and Social Development Trophy for Female Talent Development.
More about Ejadaejada.com
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Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga Episode III
Manual?:
KLOV
The third game in the Rastan series, unlike the first two entries
Warrior Blade is a side-scrolling beat 'em up similar to Golden
Axe using dual screens. The game uses cutscenes to deliver its
story and also features branching paths by offering the player a
selection of different levels at certain points in the game. These
were uncommon features for arcade games of the time.
Pete Hahn
Performed at Galloping Ghost Arcade
Locations Where You Can Play Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga Episode III
Name City State
# Name Type Location Public? Links
1. Galloping Ghost Arcade Arcade Brookfield, IL Yes
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Tag: women empowerment
Meet Rabbi Apa, the only woman car mechanic in Dhaka
Posted on 2019-08-28 2019-09-01 by Sumaiya Tasnim
Within the past few years, women have participated in job sectors more than ever. However, ‘Mechanic Rabbi Apa’ is an exception to it all. Breaking fences in the field of mechanic and automobile workshops, Rabeya Sultana is the only female mechanic working for CARE Bangladesh.
Started from the bottom but she’s here
Rabeya Sultana Rabbi could never attend her S.S.C examination. Growing up with extreme poverty, Rabeya Sultana learnt to take care of herself from a very young age. Her father could barely afford for his eight-member family.
The young drop out student is now earning approximately 550 dollars per month and she can comfortably afford for her husband, her young son and her parents as well. Her husband was very supportive throughout her journey and helped her pursue her career by co-parenting.
Rabbi Apa’s journey
Rabbi Apa initially started training as a driver with other female members, but she was not confident enough to drive around highways. She then took the decision to take up her career as a motor mechanic.
In an interview with Arab News, she mentions how girls in Bangladesh hardly come to a profession which is heavily dominated by men in general. However, she has always been as a kind, friendly and hardworking employee. Selim Sheikh, manager for transport at CARE Bangladesh mentions how proud he is of her. She took in the knowledge of a motor mechanic in a short period of time. He also mentions how she is always enthusiastic to learn new techniques.
Rabeya dreams of opening her own garage in her hometown and give chances to others to pursue their career with motor mechanics. She wants to help her son achieve her dreams, and help him succeed in life.
May we have more Rabbi Apas help the society construct itself into a positive space for all women.
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Why we need to start taking sexual harassment accusations more seriously
Posted on 2019-04-22 2019-07-11 by M S Rayed
Have you ever wondered what goes inside the mind of a serial sex offender?
People don’t wake up one fine morning and think, “you know what, let’s try to molest someone today.” No, they build up an appetite for such behaviors through years of internalized, devious narratives. Like Ted Bundy, they work on gaining the trust of the people around them, making sure that no one else notices when they indulge themselves.
Perhaps, these offenders feel that they are entitled to behaving like this because they are good looking, charming and/or belong to certain strata of society. Most of all, they do this because they feel like they have the power in such situations.
No two sex offenders are alike. However, most sex offenders are experts in rationalizing their behavior. They often commit crimes in situations where sexual violence is more likely to go unpunished. Trying to fit an accused sex offender into a typical profile is also foolhardy, because, in all honesty, no such profile exists. Ted Bundy, for instance, was not only an A student but also someone who volunteered for his university’s suicide prevention centre. Does that sound like a typical serial rapist and killer?
Why we need to stop accepting excuses
In the recent spate of allegations, several victims have mentioned how the perpetrators used their position and organizational power to both coerce women for sexual favors and also to evade scrutiny when official complaints were raised. They have engaged in actions that border on the verge of paedophilia. Only a small percentage of survivors ever come forward. If the accusations are this grave, then you have to wonder what else has been done that will never see the light of day.
Also read: The case of Nusrat and our “rape culture”
Some of the perpetrators have used their (allegedly) frail mental states as an excuse for their behavior. As someone who suffers from anxiety and depression, let me be categorically clear: anxiety or any other kind of mental illness does not give you license to be a sorry excuse for a human being. Nothing does.
Sexual harassment survivors rarely come forward, but when they do, they find a litany of obstacles blocking their way to justice.
There is victim blaming, yes, but there’s also fence sitting, stonewalling and gaslighting.
These are the reasons why Me Too still hasn’t picked up pace in places like Bangladesh. Instead of diligently investigating accusations, matters are swept under the rug. We shame the victim, accusing her of not keeping quiet about her shame. Sometimes, close relatives also blame the victim for speaking out in the first place.
Also read: Let’s dare to debate about harassment
On the other hand, a bevvy of options is made available for the accused. We create excuses for the individual. “He didn’t mean it. He was young. He was misguided. He can get better.” We refuse to indict the accused, while mounting piles of evidence continue to grow. But then again, does evidence really matter when the “she was asking for it” mantra still reigns supreme?
Why sex offenders go free
Only 2% of rapists are convicted. It’s not difficult to see why that’s the case. Of course, rape and molestation aren’t the same things. But they stem from the same mindset: the kind of mindset that objectifies women to the highest degree. And they aren’t alone: in closely knit communities, they are often aided and abetted by various kind of facilitators.
One recent survivor recounted in her Facebook post how others helped the accused in getting her alone in a room, and how afterwards, many tried to persuade her from taking the matter to the authorities, because ‘it would make life difficult for her’. This kind of gaslighting is shocking but not entirely surprising.
Legal recourse is rarely pursued, and even when it is, the onus is on the victim because the benefit of the doubt goes to the defendant (which, in this case, is the accused). And that kind of doubt can be easily created. Gina Tron of Vice wrote about her own assault story, discussing how the defence attorney used photos and drawings from the Internet to construe that Tron liked ‘rough sex’. Her case was eventually thrown out, because “they apparently thought I hadn’t fought back enough and I wasn’t bruised enough and I didn’t go to the police soon enough.”
With such a bleak outlook, it’s no surprise that so many survivors choose to remain silent. They have to put their reputation on the line, with so little to gain. It’s fortunate, then, that brave souls still come forward in the hope that other’s do not face the same fate.
On the other side of the coin
Of course, not all accused are equal. Some are, in fact, wrongfully accused, but historically, that number has proven to be very small (2-8% of all accusations). There is a danger that Me Too accusations can destroy a person’s life before he/she can dispute the claims made against him/her; however, in most cases, the accuser has much more to lose by coming forward.
Making sure such events do not happen again is no mean feat, and makes for a conversation that’s best left for another day. But it’s a conversation that we need to have frequently and more often. Otherwise, these stories will continue to slip through the cracks.
Posted in Lifestyle, WomenTagged Fair skin obession, fair skin obsession, harassment, harassment of girls, harassment of girls in Bangladesh, Pink tax, Teenage pregnancy bangladesh, women empowerment, Women in Bangladesh, women stuff, women's issues
Let’s dare to debate about harassment
With the recent events uprising, from a mere t-shirt logo to Nusrat’s death, the idea of the existant rape culture in our society has finally settled in and exposed more topics of discussion.
Read more: The case of Nusrat and our “rape culture”
While some are still educating themselves on the idea of sexual consent and how it can be minimized to a level where there is control over these issues, the recent uprise of survivors of harassment is taking a toll on certain communities of the society.
It is important to realize that sexual preferences followed by harassment, has become a case which is often not given enough priority to, which leads to misinformation and rise to similar problematic behaviours.
Why the #metoo and #talkaboutit failed to beam minimization on sexual harassment
Given light to many cases of sexual assaults and non-consensual incidents from the entertainment industry to communities as important as debate events, have shed light to the people that even the safest places may bring about cases like these. The idea of understanding how sexual harassment does not only limit to non-consensual penetrative sex is necessary to be known. The idea of hiding behind curtains about cases like these forms more problems in further investigation, however, it’s important to realize that the rate of socially educated members of our society is very less in number.
Read more: Why we need to start taking Sexual Harassment accusations more seriously
Coming out and the victim-blaming culture
Facebook itself is an open platform which single-handedly gave space to both the survivors and common people to view cases and bring forth their statements about cases like these. However, as said before due to the lack of understanding of the degrees of sexual harassments, often survivors are forced to delete their confessions and stories because of fear of being misunderstood furthermore.
Often many forget the true message of what these movements hold. The idea is to shed light on the existing rape culture and everything surrounding that idea. The motive is to degrade the predators and bring justice to the cases in order to avoid scenarios like these and bring more caution to people. The cultural and social construction of women coming out in one word brings lojja in the family as the stigma in our country keeps pushing these cases in the box.
Lack of understanding
“#metoo in Bangladesh shouldn’t be just about calling people out, it should include forming and updating institutions that are equipped to dealing with these complaints. It’s equally important to understand the cases and analyze them from a logical view point given the facts are all being said to light”
Says Antara Islam, an International Relations student from Dhaka University.
The lack of responsibility from the respective institutions, groups and head of events raises a question of partial judgement. It is evident that often cases like these when addressed takes time to be judged however, only empathizing with the situation should not be the only way to address cases such as this. A diplomatic stance on serious harassment or any sort of non-consensual cases is an unprofessional approach and often problematic for the victim.
The art of consent and why it is important now than ever
Let us first understand that there is no single definition to identify and understand the concept of consent. There should be three ways to approach this which are affirmative consent, freely given consent and capacity consent. It is crucial for us to analyze and ask ourselves if the person expressed affirmative responses to the action. Further questions follow if the consent was offered from the point of free will, without being induced with fraud, violence or compulsion.
Not only that, it is important to keep age, the idea of intoxication, physical and mental disability and most importantly the relationship between the victim and the perpetrator is also highly necessary to keep in regards. Consent itself is a step by step process let that fact be known because a simple ‘yes’ does not open doors to every action. As the recent allegations from many debaters who have faced harassments and became victims of non-consensual acts, it is evident that cases like these will happen despite the knowledge and full understanding of what sexual harassment is, because the idea of consent, often times becomes a blurred concept many still lack to grasp.
The rise of confessions of cases like these on the internet shows us how important it has become for survivors to speak their truth.
Bangladesh has already been stamped a label which is hard to remove but not impossible. This is our time to address the toxic movements of non-consensual acts masked by casual approaches by the perpetrator.
For the proper safety of women, it is important to not only address the situation rather take actions for proper justice. Cases like these needs observation, legal approach and most importantly acknowledgement. It is time for us to rise to the movement, yet again.
Posted in Lifestyle, WomenTagged Bangladeshi women, fair and lovely art, Fair and Lovely Bangladesh, fair skin obsession, Girls, girls in bangladesh, girls of bangladesh, harassment, harassment of girls, harassment of girls in Bangladesh, tax on women, Teenage pregnancy, Teenage pregnancy bangladesh, women, women empowerment, Women in Bangladesh, women problems, women stuff, women's issues
The case of Nusrat and our “rape culture”
Posted on 2019-04-12 2019-07-11 by Nabila Jalil
At first, when I was told to write about Nusrat, I was very keen on doing it. I was very eager to voice a wave of scream towards all the men and women who are defending the rapist. I was excited to talk about the girl who, with a body 80% covered in burns, wanted justice. She used what little breath she had left to demand justice.
Justice for all the time she’s been molested. Justice for all the time that pervert Siraj-Ud-Doula got away with it, not just with her, but with plenty other people before her as well. Justice against all those puny perverts who grew to power under his careful guidance. Justice for all the blatant abuse of power for personal gain and coverage.
How many of us can say the same for ourselves? How many of us stayed strong in the face of adversary, threats and in the end, literally death?
The culture of denial
Remember how I said, just a few moments ago, that I “was” keen on writing about Nusrat? I am not anymore.
Because even now, there are marches going on demanding the release of a man who’s been accused of sexual harassment multiple times (by multiple I mean countless times) throughout many years. Because there are still people everywhere, who are defending a system that’s producing generations after generations of repressed youth. Because even after this gruesome death, there are people who think she deserved it. Because she had to be burnt alive to have her allegations be taken seriously.
What exactly is wrong with us?
We are straight-up denying the rape culture that’s been nurtured within our society for as long as I can remember, or for as long as my mother can remember, or even for as long as my grandmother can remember. We think marriage is a ceremony where the father hands over his autonomy upon his daughter to another man. We believe women owe men their body whenever, however, wherever they ask for it.
So we end up getting triggered over something as basic as a t-shirt that says “don’t stand too close”– because who’s a woman to tell a man where he can or can’t stand? Isn’t a molester’s freedom to let their body parts roam far greater than the discomfort and molestation of a woman?
Then comes the part where we are blaming “no-orna” for rape, then we are blaming not wearing hijab for rape, afterwards, we are blaming not wearing burqa, and then lastly, we are blaming Bollywood for rape.
Seems like we are blaming everyone and everything but the rapist for the rape.
This is rape culture.
When we are victimizing the criminal and criminalizing the victim, that’s rape culture.
When we are presenting reasons behind a rapist’s intention, we are stating the rapist’s action as reasonable- and that’s rape culture.
When we try to demean a man for stepping up to his peers against their sexism by calling him gay, impotent, trans. pussy, not a man– that’s rape culture.
Well, think about owning an alpha male cat. He will litter on your bed, or on your study place (wherever you spend the most time in) to prove he’s the number one of the house, not the other way around. Not because he couldn’t find any other place to litter, not because he had sudden diarrhoea- because he needed to assert dominance.
It’s the same with rape, or as we educated people like to call it “non-consensual sex”.
A toxic society
When someone has to force themselves onto someone else (usually vulnerable individuals of the society- females, or young boys), it means they’ve been denied their dominance over their prey at first. And in a patriarchal society, where dominance equals to power and strength, being denied means being weak, being defected (ladies, that’s why all the men you said no to think there must be something wrong with you or them to be rejected, not because you have free will).
Sometimes when I’m talking about this (who am I kidding, most times) I feel so tired as if I’ve been battling the Hydra for centuries, like two heads are sprouting from where I slayed one a moment ago. That’s not even completely metaphorical- you’ll know what I’m talking about if you just give the comment sections of these news a go. Or if you talk to any stranger on the road. The number of people saying “not all men” is far greater than the number of those actual men.
But then again, we think non-consensual sex and rape is different. Maybe we deserve this toxic, dying out society after all.
Posted in Lifestyle, WomenTagged bangladesh murder, bangladesh rape, Bangladeshi women, murder in bangladesh, Nusrat, nusrat murder, Nusrat rafi, Nusrat rafi bangladesh, nusrat rafi murder, Nusrat rape case, rape in bangladesh, women, women empowerment, Women in Bangladesh, women in Dhaka, women problems, women stuff, Women's Day, women's day special, women's issues
The cost of being a female consumer: ‘Pink Tax’
Posted on 2019-04-10 2019-07-11 by Nomrota Anushka
The term pink tax may sound harmless to many. But it is the root of all the discrimination existing in the system that is alone a barrier to the progress we think our society has made towards establishing equality. But what exactly is a pink tax? A generic definition would say:
“The pink tax is a phenomenon often attributed as a form of gender-based price discrimination, with the name stemming from the observation that many of the affected products are pink” – Wikipedia
For people who have little or no idea about this weird tax that weirdly connects to gender discrimination, it can be a little too much to take in.
Pink tax is basically an unfair price hike for products that are used by women.
We all know how the wage gap is still a thing worldwide and how women are perceived as the ‘less efficient’ gender. And then capitalism says hi as it always does in crisis and suggests an illogical pricing strategy for corporations to wipe off their bank accounts with products that have the same utility as men’s.
The actual scenario
There has been a lot of research on the pink tax that found that overall, women were paying more than men 42% of the time. How much more? About $1,351 more a year in extra costs. This may sound a bit weird but we have all been paying this pink tax to sanitary napkins as well. Even some years ago, sanitary napkins were considered as ‘luxury items’ and a handsome amount of tax was imposed on it. Later, word went out and the tax was said to be removed from it but companies still sell it with higher prices with no logic behind it.
Why are we paying more?
It is found from multiple research that products for women are priced higher even though it serves a very neutral purpose. From makeup to hygiene to clothes and even toys, anything pink or feminine is pricey. Companies are known to have a phrase for justifying their price on a product that goes like ‘Shrink it and pink it’ – which implies the product can have a higher price if it is pink and small. Research and development, following trends, meeting trends, advertising products on television and in magazines are not cheap. Companies are willing to spend more money advertising to women than they are toward men, contributing to the price discrepancies.
The average expenditure of a girl will always be higher than that of a man not because girls are always high maintenance, but they are charged more than they should have and there’s not much they can do about it.
Old Navy got busted for charging more for women’s plus-sized clothing but not for men’s. The plus-sized women’s jeans were $12-15 more than the standard sized ones. But there was no such difference between the prices of men’s plus and regular sized jeans.
Pink tax in Bangladesh
Till date sanitary napkin is considered a luxury cosmetic item in many parts of Bangladesh. Majority of the sanitary napkin prices range from BDT 70-145/pack. It is difficult for a girl to spend this amount of money for sanitary napkins each month especially where the average income of the family is below BDT 10,000/month. Apart from sanitary napkins, from shampoos to cosmetics to clothes, men’s shopping isn’t as expensive as women’s shopping. Even female oriented services e.g beauty parlors, salons are taxed differently than male oriented services. Recently, there have been some active discussions about this tax issue and people have demanded to demolish the ‘luxury item’ tag on sanitary napkins for start. When will it be implemented, or will it ever be? We don’t ‘pink’ so.
The real cost of Pink Tax
In general, even though women pay 13% more than men, but paying more for sanitary napkins and daily hygiene products doesn’t seem fair to many, because obviously it isn’t. For a country like Bangladesh, girls will have to resort to sanitary napkins for better hygiene and convenience but if the price remains as it is with the purpose being taxed, they may or may not consider their right to get basic hygiene as ‘luxury’. So, even if our country will be progressing nevertheless, a major portion of the contributors to our national GDP won’t be able to enjoy empowerment at a basic level.
So what could be done?
We can raise awareness among shoppers. The advice we could give women is to think outside of the aisle. In so many instances, there are equivalent products being sold for significantly less in the boys’ or men’s section. The onus should be on manufacturers to price goods fairly—but consumers should know that they have a choice: The red scooter is just as good as the pink. And if consumers find a case of gender pricing disparity, it is always possible to start a dialogue with the retailer.
Posted in Lifestyle, WomenTagged bangladesh girls, bangladeshi girls, Bangladeshi women, consumer, Dhaka, dhaka girls, Dhaka women, female, female tax, feminine, feminism, feminist, girl problems, Girls, girls in bangladesh, girls in dhaka, girls of bangladesh, pink, Pink tax, sanitarty pads, tax on women, woman, women, women empowerment, Women in Bangladesh, women in Dhaka, women problems, women stuff, women's issues
Rubana Huq: breaking glass ceilings
Posted on 2019-04-08 2019-07-11 by Nafisa Chowdhury
Rubana Huq, the managing director of Mohammadi group, is the new president of Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA). She is the first female in the history of Bangladesh to attain this position. Her panel secured a sliding victory at the biennial election.
Landslide victory
Among the 35 available posts for directors, Rubana Huq’s panel, Sammilata Forum, filled all the spots.
1492 out of 1956 voters had cast their votes in this election. Voters were from both Dhaka and Chittagong. The position is a two-year long tenure, resulting in relatively high turnout.
Her agenda
Huq addressed some of the major issues that the garments industry of Bangladesh faces in her victory speech. She stated “all the time people continue saying that Bangladesh is the country of cheap labor. Cheap is not good, but competition is good. We need to change this narrative of Bangladesh.”
Moreover, she understands that several small factories face the threat of being shut down. She emphasized on the need to stand beside them during such times. She plans on tackling such problems in her tenure. The voters resonated with her powerful vision for Bangladesh.
Bangladesh’s garments sector is often under scrutiny by the Western media, especially around issues about low wage and abuse. However, Huq adds perspective and highlights inaccuracies in these negative campaigns. She aims to fix these issues and improve the image where the reality is better than it is being portrayed. She hopes to encourage better practices in pricing, introduce more innovation and policies for sustainability.
Huq, an exemplary person
Apart from being a celebrated entrepreneur, she is also a prolific writer, a poet and a philanthropist. In 2013 and 2014, she was in BBC’s list of 100 outstanding women. Her accolades include wining the SAARC literary award in 2006. She has also launched a literary magazine called Monsoon letters along other Bangladeshi writers.
Rubana Huq has actively worked towards empowering women– advocating for women’s economic independence, voicing challenges regarding female garment workers rights. She hopes to bring her perspective and provide solutions to improve women’s conditions. Over 5000 women work in factories managed by Rubana Huq; and believes that these women are slowly changing their own narrative through their work. Always humble, she acknowledges that there is still a long way to go. Most of these women are still not truly emancipated in their own lives, but the work continues.
Striding forward in a male-dominated industry
More often than not, women have lived in the shadows of men. We can see glimmers of hope in moments like these. Bangladesh’s cultural norm and practices continue to limit the capabilities of our women-especially when it comes to advancing to positions of authority. Rubana Huq has often spoken at length about the challenges in being a woman and paving her way in this industry. Often, she has felt alone and powerless in her journey, but we are very fortunate that she managed to cross the hurdles that she encountered.
Women like her are gradually changing the narrative for working women in Bangladesh.
each and every woman in Bangladesh is fighting in some way or the other to move forward. As more women are in positions of power, attitudes both at home and the workplace will shift.
She is truly an inspiration for all of us. Here’s to more women being in positions of power and striving to improve women’s lives collectively. We look forward to a day where a woman attaining a leadership position in Bangladesh won’t be the reason behind headlines everywhere, but rather it would be the norm.
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1993-05-22 National Bowl (The), Milton Keynes, England
The starred songs (along with the majority of the May 28 Stockholm concert) were allegedly primed for a TV special that never happened. 32-song set features Patti Scialfa on guitar and vocals for "Brilliant Disguise". Second and final tour performance of "Viva Las Vegas". "Roll Of The Dice" includes "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love". "The Star-Spangled Banner" is played as a lead-in to "Born In The U.S.A.". First ever performances in England of "Satan's Jeweled Crown", "Viva Las Vegas", and "It's All Right". The unknown track in the soundcheck is country-style.
The 1992–93 World Tour Band
Zack Alford
Gia Ciambotti
Carol Dennis
Shane Fontayne
Cleopatra Kennedy
Bobby King
Angel Rogers
Tommy Sims
Crystal Taliefero
Patti Scialfa (Guest)
GREAT BALLS OF FIRE
BRILLIANT DISGUISE
ADAM RAISED A CAIN
LUCKY TOWN
57 CHANNELS (AND NOTHIN' ON)*
SATAN'S JEWELED CROWN*
MY HOMETOWN
MAN'S JOB
ROLL OF THE DICE
DOWNBOUND TRAIN*
BRILLIANT DISGUISE*
HUMAN TOUCH*
SOULS OF THE DEPARTED*
BORN IN THE U.S.A.
HUNGRY HEART*
VIVA LAS VEGAS*
GLORY DAYS*
MY BEAUTIFUL REWARD
WORKING ON THE HIGHWAY
BOBBY JEAN
IT'S ALL RIGHT
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Audience tape (Soledriver) and both audience and partial pro-shot video. Released on CD 'A Hole In The Ground' (Doberman). Two audience shot videos, one stage shot, the other screen shot circulate on DVD. Excellent pro-shot footage with one camera of the first three songs after the acoustic "mini-set", plus another ten songs (marked with "*" above) exist that are professionally shot with multiple cameras. These songs are on DVD as 'The Lost TV Special' (RCR).
22.05.93 Milton Keynes, England, intro to ´Adam Raised A Cain´
"Thanks, good to see everybody…..it's a pretty nice spot out here….this is a song I wrote I guess….about fathers and sons, I got my own son now, he scares me….he only three….he still scares me…."
22.05.93 Milton Keynes, England, intro to ´This Hard Land´
´´Thank you, thank you…..this is a , this is a song I wrote in the mid-80´s, I guess it´s uh ….partly I wrote it about an old friend of mine, I suppose…..in, uh, one of my last bursts of idealism (chuckles)….yeah….(some woman yells) my wife should be out here in a while (chuckles)….this is a song called ´This Hard Land´….”
22.05.93 Milton Keynes, England, intro to ´Lucky Town´
´´Now we got a busted guitar, I better tell one of my jokes….alright, there was an Italian guy and an Irish guy, they were in this bar, it was around Eastertime (gets his guitar back) good, saved you, alright (chuckles)….”
22.05.93 Milton Keynes, England, intro to ´Atlantic City´
´´Thanks, this is a…..song about running out of choices…..”
22.05.93 Milton Keynes, England, intro to ´Satan´s Jewel Crown´
´´(crowd continues the chant from ´Badlands´) Don´t get me started (chuckles)….this is a….this is a country gospel song….called ´Satan´s Jewel Crown´…..”
22.05.93 Milton Keynes, England, intro to ´Who´ll Stop the Rain ?´
´´This is for, uh….my good friend Bobby Muller and David, a couple of the good guys….”
22.05.93 Milton Keynes, England, middle of ´Light of Day´
´´….Like I said we drove thousands of miles just to be here tonight….and we´re here tonight with a purpose….we´ve got a purposeful reason…..we´re here tonight because I know you´re downhearted….I know you´re disappointed…..I know you´re disillusioned…. I know you´re disinfected….I know you´re disjointed….I know there´s 57 fucking channels and nothing on…..I know….I know….that´s why I´ve come here to testify….I´ve come here to bring witness….I´ve come here to testify….I´ve something to raise your faith ….to raise your hope….to give a little love….increase your sexual drive….all I wanna say is I…..”
22.05.93 Milton Keynes, England, intro to ´Viva Las Vegas´
´´I think….give me that guitar, man….let´s not, here´s one we ought to do….what key was that in ? A ?….alright…..here´s something that only came out here in London, England, we haven´t played it that much but I´m feeling kind of lucky (chuckles) and so….. ”
22.05.93 Milton Keynes, England, intro to ´Thunder Road´
´´Thank you….thank you…..I want to just stop for a second and thank everybody for coming out to the show today, thank you…..oh, guess I´ve been coming here since ´75 and uh….I guess, uh…..it´s nice to kind of come this far down the road and, uh, see all your faces out there tonight so….I wanna tell you that I appreciate my….British fans´ support for music over the years and uh….oh…..anyway, I´m gonna do this for you….”
22.05.93 Milton Keynes, England, intro to ´Working on the Highway´
´´Thank you….I don´t know….it´s getting kind of late, the wind´s picking up….could make some dangerous conditions or something, you know…I don´t wanna endanger everybody´s life out here….no, I´m only fucking with you, come out everybody (?) (chuckles)….”
22.05.93 Milton Keynes, England, intro to ´Rockin´All Over the World´
´´I think I´m just getting warmed up about now….”
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Recollection 01 ch12 Recollecting
From C64 Diskmag Wiki
Recollecting
by The Punisher
My first real group was Xentrix, which I was in for a number of months (I was in another group before that but it was very basic group called The Culprits) anyway the Xentrix crew members were Dawsy, Rimtrix, Hawk. Hawk did coding and was good at it, Dawsy was graphics and swapper, Rimtrix did a few things, coding, graphics and cracking and I was just a cracker.
Then one day I got a phone call from Antichrist and Goblin in a conference call asking me to join Genesis*Project, at that time I was well aware of who they were and the status they held in the C64 scene. After a quick chat with my head spinning in disbelief I agreed to leave Xentrix and join Genesis*Project. Soon after that I got all their cool tools, intro makers, modem etc I have never seen so much group stuff before and also the chance to chat to other members of G*P when they had a conference call. They normally phoned me up maybe 30 minutes before it took place to see if I was free and did I want to join in, 30 mins later etc I got a call from them and they added me to the room to chat with the other guys. To be honest I felt a bit out of place, they mostly talked in foreign language and I only spoke English. So I didn't understand really what was going on or I could give much input. But, it was cool to be able to do that, all hook up etc. Due to the language barrier I never really got to get to friendly with all the G*P members except for Goblin and Antichrist, I'm still very friendly with Goblin and chat to him a few times a week on MSN or email... hes one nice guy. I'm also still in contact with some of the old Xentrix members (Dawsy and Rimtrix).
Anyway, in the old days we didn't have the internet to voice chat or swap games, we had bulletin boards. So we had to use other methods to call these boards for free, which were AT&T, MCI calling cards and PBX's. So, the modems were slow and Goblin sent me a 1200 baud modem one day so we could swap stuff and upload to the boards. For those who don't know what a MCI or At&t card is - its a calling card that lets you call anywhere at the card holder's expense. PBX's were also supplied, which as far as I remember stand for Public Business Exchange. These were a toll-free number with a pin-code, after entering all of this you could call out to anywhere in the world and you wouldn't get billed, the company who owns the PBX number gets the bill. From time to time when the AT&T card ran out I phoned Goblin who supplied me with a new card number, I'm not sure were he got them from, I only knew the people as 'card hackers'. What we had to do was phone an AT&T operator and give the number we wished to phone and then the card number, a few times I was almost caught as the card number was invalid or something, I was shitting myself when that happened.
There was this one number we had, it was weird, when you rang it, it didn't ring, it was just like empty space. No noise, then the other person did the same thing, when they connected they just said hello anyone there and they kept saying that until the other person or persons arrived and they got to chat, but mostly we hooked up the modems to download... (ED: this is a loop line, used by telephone companies for fault diagnosis, a great place to meet people at certain times without disclosing personal numbers in order to communicate!) I used mainly my 1581... I would put my cracks on the 1581 disk and hook up with Goblin mostly and he downloaded throughout the night... amazing how things change.... It only takes a second to do now what had taken hours to do in those days... I remember there was cool zipping tools that copied the whole disk contents as an image and then split it up into smaller parts. It was used for copying disk only games etc that might have hidden information on the disk that file copying wouldn't copy. Then we used the modem to swap them and of course when you got the disk at the other end you used the same program to put it all back to together again.
How was Genetix formed: Well I knew DMC for a number of years before Genetix was formed. I had been in Xentrix as a cracker and I had just left Genesis*Project, so I was just working on my own as a cracker. DMC knew I was able to get my hands on every C64 tape or disk game and was able to crack and train them and I knew he was able to code as well. So one day when DMC called up to my house I decided that he should code some intros and as he didn't work he also had the time to swap our cracks by mail only. So I decided to set up our own group calling it 'Genetix' pronounced 'Genetics' (people still pronounce it wrong to this day). Each night I came home from work with the latest games for free and DMC would call up to my house about 6pm. I had two C64s hooked up side by side, one for DMC and the other for myself. Each night I started to crack and train the games I had got that day, I play tested each game with each trainer on, one at a time, to make sure they all worked. Once I had done that I passed the disk over to DMC with the info written down on a page for him, example: start address of game, what location to change for what trainer and the code to add to the game for level skip or high score routine. He then added the trainer and the intro and packed it etc and left the crunching bit for when he got home. So while he was doing the trainer/intro/packing etc I was free to start on the next game.
It was a great set-up. We got a good few games done each night, as we worked as a team, only to stop for DMC to have a smoke and for both of us to have a cup of tea (I have a video tape somewhere of DMC and I in my house cracking some stuff). The night wrapped up about 10pm when DMC had to leave, but I carried on with what I was working on at the time so it was ready for DMC to take home with him the next night to post of to his contacts. I know for a fact that we did some really good releases together and I'm sure that over 90% of our cracks were first releases as I got them the day they were released, but unfortunately without any modem etc we made no real progress or impact at that time. Only Derbyshire Ram saw that Genetix was up there with the big groups in the early 90's (when I was in Genesis*Project any game I did was uploaded to the boards with the modem that G*P supplied to me and it was then 100% proven first release, but after I left G*P I sent the modem to another G*P member so I no longer had anyway of uploading to the boards to show our releases etc).
This set-up continued for about another year at least before DMC decided he wanted to crack a few things as he had been watching me for a long time and was interested in it. So at this stage DMC wanted to help so I got him to level pack any multilevel games etc and as before I just handed the game cracked and trainer over to him, he just added the trainer menu and levelpacker routine. So after a short time DMC started to crack a few tape games and I trained them for him, showing him in more depth what I was doing and what I was looking for in the game to get infinite lives, invincibility and levelskip etc. A few months passed and he was doing it all himself. Great I thought, means we can both work in my house each night and nearly double what we were doing before... Genetix continued releasing stuff and more and more people began to know us and we were spreading a lot more as DMC was cracking too, but after a while DMC wanted us to move in a different direction and to co-op etc (not that co-ops are bad, far from it, it makes you stronger, bigger etc, but I was happy with my wee group here in Belfast, I didn't want to be in a big group again - 'this would lead me to leave Genetix on the C64 to pursue other projects' which was shortly after DMC decided he wanted Genetix to co-op.
As I was a cracker I liked to study peoples protections, each game or company usually had their standard layout, some had a nice protection but weak in other areas, so I looked at them all and decided to try and cover all the loop holes that the companies seemed to miss out on. It was nice, half the loader was encrypted, cartridge protection for freezers and a cool disk layout that you couldn't file copy or disk copy, of course it could be cracked, but it was messy to do. I sent it to a number of software companies and got good responses... I spoke to Ocean software a number of times, Paul Hughes in fact who tested it for me and he liked it so he sent it down to be master copied, after a few days he got back to me saying that the master copier couldn't copy it to be mass produced. haha... I didn't pursue it as I was happy working in my computer shop, but I did put it on Thalamus' Noddy the Aardvark (look at the main title screen in the credits section, it thanks Genetix :) ) but thalamus thought there was no point in using the protection as by that time the C64 was dying :o( so it was never used in the end.
As some of you know I worked in the games section for many, many years and had access to games, I got friendly with a girl who worked in Centresoft who supplied most shops with their games, she was the one who sent me a copy of Armalyte (a Gold Version) only 4 copies ever existed and as far as I've been informed I own the only copy, as the others were returned to Thalamus to claim their prize. I've been in contact with Dan Philips (the programmer Armalyte) the last few weeks and he hadn't even seen the Gold version, so I emailed him some photos and hopefully he said he might be doing a tribute version for the PC in 4 years time as the game will be 20 years old by then. WOW. How time flies...
Programmers: Dave Clarke, Jonathan Smyth, Ashley Hogg and myself were mates for years back in the mid 80's and still are (expect Ashley as I never hear from him now), in fact even though Jon has moved house and so have I, we still only live about three streets away from each other now. So in the 80's, Dave and Jon lived a five minute walk from my house, Dave lived across the street from me and Jon lived the row behind my house. I remember Dave and Jon calling over to my house from day to day showing me what code he had done or with Jon what graphics he was working on... Jon and I did an few demos together as I was mad form C64 music and loved to rip it, so Jon would draw up some graphics for me and I through a basic scroller and music rip into it.... I remember calling over to Dave's house at the weekends and Dave had spent all day working on a piece of code to do some scroll routine etc for his game and his brother would come in and turn the electricity off at the main power box which meant Dave lost his code and in some cases all of it as he didn't save it that much until he got it right. But this wasn't a one off thing, his brother did it a few times a week, so you can guess they didn't get on to well. Dave didn't use his C64 to program on, he did at the start but changed to the Atari ST using it to code on and then ported the code to the C64 through cables...
A bit about Northern Ireland's software company 'Choice Software'... 'Choice software' was a small company, but believe it or not, they did nearly all the Ocean conversions on the Spectrum, Amstrad and they also did stuff on the Atari ST and Amiga... example - Amstrad's 'Rambo', Spectrum's 'New Zealand Story' and 'Platoon', Amiga's 'New Zealand Story' etc... So anyway, my mate Dave Clarke had just started working for Choice Software which was about 5 miles from were we both lived and his first project was the C64 version of 'New Zealand Story' but as Dave was new to the gaming/programming scene and the game was an important title for Ocean he was taken off it and it was handed back to Ocean's in-house team. So anyway, I was invited down a few times to meet the team and to see what goes on in the software house, but this one time I brought down a demo I had done, scrolling text, sprites moving about, loads of music, but the demo was nothing special. By pressing different keys on the it played different tunes, like Commando, Monty on the run etc, but Colin Gordon, the lead-programmer and owner of the company (he wrote New Zealand Story on the Amiga) walked into Dave's room when my demo was running, he looked at the demo and listened as I skipped through some of the tunes... but while 'Monty on the run' written by the famous Rob Hubbard was playing he said to me 'is that your demo, I guess you can program then?', I replied 'yep I did it, I program a wee bit'... then he said 'I like your music and his company didn't have a musician and would I be interested as he liked what he heard'... HAHA... I think everyone alive and who owns a C64 wished they wrote 'Monty on the run'-main tune anyway. I replied 'no, I didn't compose any of the tunes, I just wrote the demo and ripped the music out of games and put them into my demo....' so just for a second, a split second, I was Rob Hubbard (I WISH)... Anyway it was cool being inside a software house, seeing how it all worked and what projects they were working on, I remember playing a game on the Atari ST in there offices called MIDI Maze (I think it was called that). We all had a computer each in each room and it was like a 3D Pac-man and you hunted down the other players in the maze, it was the first multi-player game I'd ever seen, very cool in those days.
Have you ever notice how amazingly close to the arcade the Amiga graphics of New Zealand Story were? Well that's simple, Colin Gordon (lead-programmer and owner of Choice Software) just took the board etc from the arcade machine and ported the graphics over to the Amiga, no need to draw anything and it looked the same… sweet idea... When Choice Software closed down Colin Gordon moved to England to work for Ocean software, I think he closed it down, as the owner of Ocean at the time (can't remember his name) offered him a good deal to work for them instead.
So, Dave turned to freelance programming for Codemasters and in the end moved to England and worked in-house for Codemasters... I remember Dave Clarke coming over to my house a few Christmas' ago when he still worked for Codemasters and he had a video of a TV program about the Darling-brothers and Codemasters. Dave Clarke appeared in the video and it was shown on some English TV show, not sure what one. Dave worked for Codemasters for a number of years doing Megadrive and Snes stuff before leaving to work for either RAGE or RARE... I can never remember which one it is... Ashley Hogg who worked at Codemasters with Dave didn't want to appear in the Codemasters TV program, the last I heard Ashley still works for Codemasters.
Back In Time 2003: This next bit is my post that I did last year after attending the Back In Time 2003 event... I'd like to thank Chris Abbott, Rob Hubbard, Ben Daglish, Dave Whittaker, Fred Gray and Martin Galway, Richard Joseph for completing my C64 music era at last.... And not forgetting the bonus of meeting Simon Nicol and Gary Liddon - Remember me Gary, I was the guy in the blue shirt taking a photo of you at the same time you took a photo of me at the evening event... I've been on the C64 scene for many, many years and have always loved the SID music listening to it almost everyday when possible. So going to the show and meeting my idols was a dream come true at last... 'MayheM' were you the guy I met early on Friday night, I was the guy in the white shirt with my girlfriend (from Belfast), I came down to your table and asked if you were going to the Back in Time show? Anyway about 20 minutes later Fred Gray and his Daughter came in to the bar and sat down beside me, I turned to my girl and said 'Shit, I think that's Fred Gray!'... So I got chatting to Fred and his daughter and he's so, so nice, really down to earth and easy to talk to, I have him in loads of photos, then the next evening I was getting a photo taken of me and Ben Daglish and he asked if he could join in the photo with me and Ben. WOW! How cool was that! His daughter ALEX told me she was a bit freaked out that people knew her father. LOL! She was 6 years old when her father was composing on the c64 and didn't know then and even now what he was doing LOL! .... As for Martin Galway - who's from Belfast just like me, he is another great guy, what a laugh we had with him.... Dawsy, Stevie and me talked to Martin for well over an hour at the evening event and the story he told us about hearing 'Thing on a Spring' for the first time and the faces he pulled while explaining it had me in fits of laughter.
All in all, the whole weekend was amazing for me, and all the bands played together so well. Can't wait till the DVD is released.... (Chris Abbot... why not get some of the photos taken by the guys that attended the show and add them to a photo part of the DVD... just an idea!).
Well that's it from me I guess...
Just like to say again, thanks Chris for putting together a great show and bring all those C64 musicians together in one place! I think God himself would have struggled to achieve this.... Who else could have made it possible for me to meet Martin, Rob, Fred, Ben, Dave, Richard, Simon, Gary and PPOT... to chat with them and get my photo taken with them.
Only you Chris... Thanks.
writing for Recollection in early 2004
Only 4 of these existed and Punisher is the proud owner of one. Delta II: Armalyte Gold Edition:
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Steph Curry Divulges On Rivalry With LeBron James
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Steph Curry and LeBron James have formed one of the best NBA rivalries of the past decade.
Over the course of the last decade, no two NBA players have been as dominant as Steph Curry and LeBron James. Between them, they have seven NBA championships and a combined 14 appearances in the NBA Finals. For four years straight, these two faced off in the NBA Finals, and while Curry won three of those matchups, there is no denying these two always come through with some entertaining head-to-head performances.
Recently, Curry was asked about his rivalry with LeBron during an interview with Complex. While the Warriors superstar did admit to the rivalry existing, he also noted that he doesn't like getting caught up in rivalries as he feels like it makes him worse when it comes to playing against other teams. Simply put, Curry respects everyone equally.
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"But I think at the end of the day, if you get caught up in that, you’re already at a disadvantage just because there’s so many other teams and other players at the top. And what Bron did in the Finals, or in the bubble season this year, and what he continues to do every year—it’s truly remarkable and unbelievable. I love that competition," Curry explained.
Coming into this season, it's clear the Lakers will be the stronger team, although we're sure Curry and the Warriors will be looking to put up a strong fight. Hopefully, the entire season can go on as planned.
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1. The next 20 years will not be like the last 20 years, so projecting current mainstream trends will very likely lead to wrong answers. Trends change, cycles turn, and so predicting the future by extrapolating current trends leads to faulty conclusions about the future.
2. Centralization of the State and economy was the dominant trend for the past two centuries: that model has failed and will be replaced by decentralization. The expansive Central State (a.k.a. the Savior State) now dominates the economy and society; everything not within its direct control is considered a threat. The State enforces a self-serving financial feudalism based on financializing the economy to benefit the few and indenture everyone else into debt-serfs.
We are like the Ming Dynasty in 1340: the State and empire seem permanent and enduring, yet four years later the entire system collapses under its own weight as all the internal rot that was masked by propaganda and political expediency finally gives way.
3. The Internet cannot be put back in the genie's bottle, nor can it be limited to serve the State and Elites like the police forces, financial system, etc. The Web has a simple ontological imperative: creatively destroy monopolies and every effort to limit information, dissent and feedback. To the degree the Central State is a monopoly that limits information, dissent and feedback to protect itself, it too will be dismantled by the Web.
4. The Central State and financialization are the buggy whips of the coming era.Those depending on making buggy whips in 1901 decried the rise of automobiles, but their resistance to the tides of change did not stop or even hinder those tides.
For the past 60 years, financial security flowed from the Central State and the various monopolies it enforced or controlled. For the past 30 years, wealth flowed from the relentless financialization of the U.S. and global economies. Those cycles are ending, and whatever financial security is possible going forward will flow from self-reliance, self-organizing social capital, and decentralized social and technological innovation.
It boils down to a simple choice: either ride the tide of creative destruction of failed/ depleted models or be washed away by the tide.
5. The non-market economy has been eroded by the State and financialization.The market economy (consumerism, financialization, the State) has turned our society into a high-cost-basis economy that generates an abundance of poverty and social defeat. The alternative is a low-cost-basis society where social capital counts for more than consumerist identifiers and debt-based "prosperity."
1. Let go of old models of financial security. Do not assume a government job means 30 years of security and a fat pension thereafter. That's the past, not the future.
2. Assume monopolies and cartels imposed by the State will be disrupted and implode. The key example here is the sickcare system imposed by the State. For decades people have seen sickcare expand year after year, and so it seems sensible to assume that joining healthcare a.k.a. sickcare was a path to security.
Sickcare now absorbs 17% of the U.S. economy, roughly double that of other industrialized democracies. Thus we can assume this percentage will revert to the mean, i.e. shrink by 50%. "Healthcare" as currently practiced is another buggy whip industry doomed to be creatively disrupted and remade.
3. The best career strategy going forward is to assemble multiple skillsets. What we know is that current models will be disrupted, but we cannot know the future. Thus we cannot know which skillsets will be demand. That may change constantly; "security" will flow not from clinging to failing institutions for 30 years but by being flexible and adaptive.
What sort of skillsets will likely be in demand?
1. Essential practical skills. These include cleaning teeth, repairing aging vehicles, maintaining natural gas distribution pipes, configuring web servers, growing and preparing food, organizing community events, overseeing projects to completion, and so on. There are many such skillsets. The key is to learn skills that don't depend on an institution or a State-imposed monopoly for their existence.
For example, if you learn how to teach effectively and are open to dissent, feedback, innovation and adaptation, then you can teach just as well in an informal "charter school" environment as in a formalized, centralized institution (of the sort that's being creatively disrupted and replaced by lower cost, decentralized, self-organizing networks).
2. Internet skills. This doesn't mean knowing how to add songs to an iPod or smartphone, it means learning some technical aspect of the web well enough that you can do something useful for others with that skill. Examples include configuring a server, managing security of a network, implementing content-management software (Drupal, etc.) or knowing a coding language that is in demand (this will change over time, of course).
3. Accounting. Keeping track of money, assets and projects will remain key skills. Knowing how to do so is a practical skill, even if it is knowing Quicken or an equivalent electronic checkbook. Understanding how to organize and track progress in a complex project is a practical skill.
4. Written communication. Being able to write effectively is a key practical skill. Whatever the setting or project, some things will need to be stated in writing.
5. The ability to work with others. This includes learning to be patient, empathetic and positive, and gaining the ability to get something done despite the constant pettiness and contrariness of human beings.
This also includes recognizing that there must be a "membership" that grants privileges and responsibilities to members and excludes non-members, a membership which can eject destructive members into the outside world. We can't be everything to everyone.
6. Understand that dissent, feedback, innovation and adaptation are the only sustainable sources of stability, prosperity and well-being.
If a young person has mastered an essential practical skill, a web-based skill, a working knowledge of accounting/data management, project organization and basic writing, they will be in demand by some group, organization, enterprise or community.
I think these aphorisms, drawn from my lengthy collection listed below, capture the essence of security, adaptability and mastery in the decades ahead:
"There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity." (Douglas MacArthur)
"We are what we repeatedly do." (Aristotle)
"The way of the Tao is reversal." (Lao Tzu)
"Chance favours the prepared mind." (Louis Pasteur)
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We are like passengers on the Titanic ten minutes after its fatal encounter with the iceberg: though our financial system seems unsinkable, its reliance on debt and financialization has already doomed it.We cannot know when the Central State and financial system will destabilize, we only know they will destabilize. We cannot know which of the State’s fast-rising debts and obligations will be renounced; we only know they will be renounced in one fashion or another.
The process of the unsustainable collapsing and a new, more sustainable model emerging is called revolution, and it combines cultural, technological, financial and political elements in a dynamic flux.History is not fixed; it is in our hands. We cannot await a remote future transition to transform our lives. Revolution begins with our internal understanding and reaches fruition in our coherently directed daily actions in the lived-in world.
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Wu Guichun, a migrant worker in Dongguan, Guangdong province, shows his library card that he reapplied for after having decided to stay in the city. [Photo by Zheng Zhibo/For China Daily]
When Wu Guichun, a migrant worker from Hubei province, moved to a new dormitory on Saturday in Dongguan, Guangdong province, he brought some necessities, as well as a Chinese dictionary and a book about food and dieting.
"I like reading. If I were leaving Dongguan, I would throw away the necessities such as a mini electric fan and a plastic bucket but keep the books," Wu said.
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Two days ago earlier, Wu had decided to leave Dongguan, where he had been working in a shoemaking factory for more than a decade.
"I have been working in the city for 17 years and have come to read in the library for years," Wu wrote in the letter.
Wu, from Xiaogan, Hubei province, the hardest-hit during the COVID-19 epidemic in China, said in the letter that he had to leave Dongguan as many local factories had been shut down due to the outbreak.
"I would choose to return home as the epidemic this year has forced shutdowns of many industries, and many migrant workers have nothing to do," he said.
Wu composed the letter on Thursday when he returned his reader's card to the library, the place he visited the most during his stay in the city, apart from his workplace in a shoemaking factory and rental house.
"I will never forget the library, and I wish it to further benefit Dongguan and migrant workers in this city with knowledge," wrote Wu, expressing his deep unwillingness to leave the city.
The letter touched millions of Chinese netizens after it was posted online by a library employee.
"I was so inspired by his perseverance to read and his desire for knowledge, despite his job as a migrant worker and the difficult time during the pandemic," said Wang Yanjun, a staff member with the Dongguan library.
"He wrote very seriously and slowly. I could feel his deep love of the library," Wang recalled.
The local human resource authority noticed Wu's letter online and got in touch with him on the same day he gave the library staff the letter.
"We need to keep such a migrant worker with such a deep love of the city," said Zhao Liping, director of the job service center of the Dongguan human resource and social security bureau.
After landing his new gardening job, one of several recommended by the bureau, Wu decided to stay in Dongguan.
"I will still go to the library-I have four days off work each month," Wu said.
Wu said he will also write online after his son helped him create a WeChat account.
"Apart from reading, I will learn to write better, to record my experiences and thoughts," Wu said.
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Minds of All Sizes Think Alike
October 15, 2010 dispar Leave a comment
Or «les esprits de toutes tailles se rencontrent».
This post is a response to the following post about Social Network Analysis (SNA), social change, and communication.
…My heart’s in Accra » Shortcuts in the social graph.
I have too many disparate things to say about that post to make it into a neat and tidy “quickie,” yet I feel like I should probably be working on other things. So we’ll see how this goes.
First, a bit of context..
[This “bit of context” may be a bit long so, please bear with me. Or you could get straight to the point, if you don’t think you can bear the context bit.]
I’ve never met Ethan Zuckerman (@EthanZ), who wrote the post to which I’m responding. And I don’t think we’ve had any extended conversation in the past. Further, I doubt that I’m on his radar. He’s probably seen my name, since I’ve commented on some of his posts and some of his contacts may have had references to me through social media. But I very much doubt that he’s ever mentioned me to anyone. I’m not noticeable to him.
I, on the other hand, have mentioned Zuckerman on several occasions. Latest time I remember was in class, a few weeks ago. It’s a course on Africa and I was giving students a list of online sources with relevance to our work. Zuckerman’s connection to Africa may not be his main thing, despite his blog’s name, but it’s part of the reason I got interested in his work, a few years ago.
In fact, there’s something embarrassing, here.. I so associate Zuckerman to Africa that my mind can’t help but link him to Erik Hersman, aka White African. I did meet Herman. [To be exact, I met Erik at BarCampAustin, which is quite possibly the conference-like event which has had the most influence on me, in the past few years (I go to a lot of these events).] When I did meet Hersman, I made a faux-pas in associating him with Zuckerman. Good-natured as he seemed to be, Hersman smiled as he corrected me.
EthanZ and I have other contacts in common. Jeremy Clarke, for instance, who co-organizes WordCamp Montreal and has been quite active in Montreal’s geek scene. Jeremy’s also a developer for Global Voices, a blogging community that Zuckerman co-founded. I’m assuming Clarke and Zuckerman know each other.
Another mutual contact is Christopher Lydon, host of Radio Open Source. Chris and I have exchanged a few emails, and Zuckerman has been on ROS on a few occasions.
According to Facebook, Zuckerman and I have four contacts in common. Apart from Clarke and Hersman, there’s P. Kerim Friedman and Gerd Leonhard. Kerim is a fellow linguistic anthropologist and we’ve collaborated on the official Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) site. I got in touch with Leonhard through “Music 2.0” issues, as he was interviewed by Charles McEnerney on Well-Rounded Radio.
On LinkedIn, Zuckerman is part of my third degree, with McEnerney as one of my first-degree contacts who could connect me to Zuckerman, through Zuckerman’s contacts.
(Yes, I’m fully aware of the fact that I haven’t name a single woman in this list. Nor someone who doesn’t write in English with some frequency, for that matter.)
By this time, my guess is that you may be either annoyed or confused. “Surely, he can’t be that obsessed with Zuckerman as to stalk him in every network.”
No, I’m not at all obsessed with Ethan Zuckerman in any way, shape, or form. Though I mention him on occasion and I might have a good conversation with him if the occasion arises, I wouldn’t go hang out in Cambridge just in case I might meet him. Though I certainly respect his work, I wouldn’t treat him as my “idol” or anything like that. In other words, he isn’t a focus in my life.
And that’s a key point, to me.
In certain contexts, when social networks are discussed, too much is made of the importance of individuals. Yet, there’s something to be said about relative importance.
In his “shortcuts” post, Zuckerman talks about a special kind of individuals. Those who are able to bypass something of a clustering effect happening in many human networks. Malcolm Gladwell (probably “inspired” by somebody else) has used “connectors” to label a fairly similar category of people and, given Gladwell’s notoriety in some circles, the name has resonance in some contexts (mostly “business-focused people,” I would say, with a clear idea in my mind of the groupthink worldview implied).
In one of my earliest blogposts, I talked about an effect happening through a similar mechanism, calling it the “Social Butterfly Effect” (SBE). I still like it, as a concept. Now, I admit that it focuses on a certain type of individuals. But it’s more about their position in “the grand scheme of things” than about who they are, though I do associate myself with this “type.”
The basic idea is quite simple. People who participate in different (sub)networks, who make such (sub)networks sparser, are having unpredictable and unmeasurable effects on what is transmitted through the network(s).
On one hand, it’s linked to my fragmentary/naïve understanding of the Butterfly Effect in the study of climate and as a component of Chaos Theory.
On the other hand, it’s related to Granovetter‘s well-known notion of “weak ties.” And it seems like Granovetter is making something of a comeback, as we discuss different mechanisms behind social change.
Interestingly, much of what is being said about weak ties, these past few weeks, relates to Gladwell’s flamebait apparent lack of insight in describing current social processes. Sounds like Gladwell may be too caught up in the importance of individuals to truly grok the power of networks.
Case in point.. One of the most useful pieces I’ve read about weak ties, recently, was Jonah Lehrer‘s direct response to Gladwell:
Weak Ties, Twitter and Revolution | Wired Science | Wired.com.
Reading Lehrer’s piece, one gets the clear impression that Gladwell hadn’t “done his homework” on Granovetter before launching his trolling “controversial” piece on activism.
But I digress. Slightly.
Like the Gladwell-specific coverage, Zuckerman’s blogpost is also about social change and he’s already responded to Gladwell. One way to put it is that, as a figure, Gladwell has shaped the discussion in a way similar to a magnetic field orienting iron filings around it. Since it’s a localized effect having to do with polarization, the analogy is fairly useful, as analogies go.
Which brings me to groupthink, the apparent target of Zuckerman’s piece.
Still haven’t read Irving Janis but I’ve been quite interested in groupthink for a while. Awareness of the concept is something I immediately recognize, praise, and associate with critical thinking.
In fact, it’s one of several things I was pleasantly surprised to find in an introductory sociology WikiBook I ended up using in my “Intro. to Society” course, last year. Critical thinking was the main theme of that course, and this short section was quite fitting in the overall discussion.
So, what of groupthink and networks? Zuckerman sounds worried:
This is interesting to me because I’m intrigued – and worried – by information flows through social networks. If we’re getting more (not lots yet, but more) information through social networks and less through curated media like newspapers, do we run the risk of encountering only information that our friends have access to? Are we likely to be overinformed about some conversations and underinformed about others? And could this isolation lead to ideological polarization, as Cass Sunstein and others suggest? And if those fears are true, is there anything we can do to rewire social networks so that we’re getting richer, more diverse information?
Similar questions have animated many discussions in media-focused circles, especially in those contexts where the relative value (and meaning) of “old vs. new media” may be debated. At about the same time as I started blogging, I remember discussing things with a statistician friend about the polarization effect of media, strong confirmation bias in reading news stories, and political lateralization.
In the United States, especially, there’s a narrative (heard loud and clear) that people who disagree on some basic ideas are unable to hear one another. “Shockingly,” some say, “conservatives and liberals read different things.” Or “those on (the) two sides of (the) debate understand things in completely different ways.” It even reminds me of the connotations of Tannen’s booktitle, You Just Don’t Understand. Irreconciliable differences. (And the first time I mention a woman in this decidedly imbalanced post.)
While, as a French-Canadian ethnographer, my perspective is quite different from Zuckerman, I can’t help but sympathize with the feeling. Not that I associate groupthink with a risk in social media (au contraire!). But, like Zuckerman, I wish to find ways to move beyond these boundaries we impose on ourselves.
Zuckerman specifically discusses the attempt by Onnik Krikorian (@OneWMPhoto) to connect Armenians (at least those in Hayastan) and Azeris, with Facebook “affording” Krikorian some measure of success. This case is now well-known in media-centric circles and it has almost become shorthand for the power of social media. Given a personal interest in Armenians (at least in the Diaspora), my reaction to Krikorian’s success are less related to the media aspect than to the personal one.
At a personal level, boundaries may seem difficult to surmount but they can also be fairly porous and even blurry. Identity may be negotiated. Individuals crossing boundaries may be perceived in diverse ways, some of which have little to do with other people crossing the same boundaries. Things are lived directly, from friendships to wars, from breakups to reconciliations. Significant events happen regardless of the way they’re being perceived across boundaries.
Not that boundaries don’t matter but they don’t necessarily circumscribe what happens in “personal lives.” To use an seemingly-arbitrary example, code-switching doesn’t “feel” strange at an individual level. It’s only when people insist on separating languages using fairly artificial criteria that alternance between them sounds awkward.
In other words, people cross boundaries all the time and “there’s nothing to it.”
Boundaries have quite a different aspect, at the macrolevel implied by the journalistic worldview (with nation-based checkbox democracy at its core and business-savvy professionalization as its mission). To “macros” like journos and politicos, boundaries look like borders, appearing clearly on maps (including mind ones) and implying important disconnects. The border between Armenia and Azerbaijan is a boundary separating two groups and the conflicts between these two groups reify that boundary. Reaching out across the border is a diplomatic process and necessitates finding the right individuals for the task. Most of the important statuses are ascribed, which may sound horrible to some holding neoliberal ideas about freewill and “individual freedoms.”
Though it’s quite common for networked activities to be somewhat constrained by boundaries, a key feature of networks is that they’re typically boundless. Sure, there are networks which are artificially isolated from the rest. The main example I can find is that of a computer virology laboratory.
Because, technically, you only need one link between two networks to transform them into a single network. So, it’s quite possible to perceive Verizon’s wireless network as a distinct entity, limited by the national boundaries of the U.S. of A. But the simple fact that someone can use Verizon’s network to contact someone in Ségou shows that the network isn’t isolated. Simple, but important to point out.
Especially since we’re talking about a number of things happening on a single network: The Internet. (Yes, there is such a thing as Internet2 and there are some technical distinctions at stake. But we’re still talking about an interconnected world.)
As is well-known, there are significant clusters in this One Network. McLuhan’s once-popular “Global Village” fallacy used to hide this, but we now fully realize that language barriers, national borders, and political lateralization go with “low-bandwidth communication,” in some spots of The Network. “Gs don’t talk to Cs so even though they’re part of the same network, there’s a weak spot, there.” In a Shannon/Weaver view, it sounds quite important to identify these weak spots. “Africa is only connected to North America via a few lines so access is limited, making things difficult for Africans.” Makes sense.
But going back to weak ties, connectors, Zuckerman’s shortcuts, and my own social butterflies, the picture may be a little bit more fleshed out.
Actually, the image I have in mind has, on one side, a wire mesh serving as the floor of an anechoic chamber and on the other some laser beams going in pseudorandom directions as in Entrapment or Mission Impossible. In the wire mesh, weaker spots might cause a person to fall through and land on those artificial stalagmites. With the laser beams, the pseudorandom structure makes it more difficult to “find a path through the maze.” Though some (engineers) may see the mesh as the ideal structure for any network, there’s something humanly fascinating about the pseudorandom structure of social networks.
Obviously, I have many other ideas in mind. For instance, I wanted to mention “Isabel Wilkerson’s Leaderless March that Remade America.” Or go back to that intro soci Wikibook to talk about some very simple and well-understood ideas about social movements, which often seem to be lacking in discussions of social change. I even wanted to recount some anecdotes of neat network effects in my own life, such as the serendipity coming from discuss disparate subjects to unlike people or the misleading impression that measuring individualized influence is a way to understand social media. Not to mention a whole part I had in my mind about Actor Network Theory, non-human actors, and material culture (the other course I currently teach).
But I feel like going back to more time-sensitive things.
Still, I should probably say a few words about this post’s title.
My mother and I were discussing parallel inventions and polygenesis with the specific theme of moving away from the focus on individualized credit. My favourite example, and one I wish Gladwell (!) had used in Outliers (I actually asked him about it) is that of Gregor Mendel and the “rediscovery” of his laws by de Vries, Correns, and Tschermak. A semi-Marxian version of the synchronous polygenesis part might hold that “ideas are in the air” or that the timing of such dicoveries and inventions has to do with zeitgeist. A neoliberal version could be the “great minds think alike” expression or its French equivalent «Les grands esprits se rencontrent» (“The great spirits meet each other”). Due to my reluctance in sizing up minds, I’d have a hard time using that as a title. In the past, I used a similar title to refer to another form of serendipity:
Silly Minds Think Alike « Disparate.
To me, most normally constituted minds are “great,” so I still could have used the expression as a title. But an advantage of tweaking an expression is that it brings attention to what it implies.
In this case, the “thinking alike” may be a form of groupthink.
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Home » Books » Opportunity Road
Opportunity Road
Yonge Street 1860-1939
F.R. (Hamish) Berchem
This important original work with stylish illustrations by the author/artist F.R. (Hamish) Berchem, promises to be a worthy sequel to his earlier book on Yonge Street, The Yonge Street Story 1793-1860 (now out of print).
The fascinating story of Yonge Street has involved an endless array of memorable personalities including the young reporter Charles Dickens; publisher J. Ross Robertson; successful Scots merchants John MacDonald, John Catto, Robert Simpson and Irishman Timothy Eaton; coal and wood merchant Elias Rogers; Hessian officer Frederic, Baron de Hoen; theatre magnate Ambrose Small; and soldier, financier, philanthropist Major General Sir Henry Pellatt.
This is also the story of some of the communities that dot the northward route of Yonge Street from Toronto - Richmond Hill, Thornhill, Aurora, Newmarket, Holland Landing, Bradford and Penetanguishene, the latter for many years the northern terminus of Yonge Street. Today, as Highway 11, the world’s longest street winds its way through Ontario’s "Near North" to Rainy River, a remarkable tribute to the vision of Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe.
6.75 x 8.75 in
Scottish-born F.R. "Hamish" Berchem sailed in submarines with the Royal Navy before transferring to the Royal Canadian Navy. He was Commanding Officer, HMCS York, Toronto, from 1970 to 1973. He has honours and masters degrees in history and English from the University of Toronto and has taught high school at Don Mills and Bathurst Heights Collegiates in North York.
Read more about F.R. (Hamish) Berchem
Other titles by this author
Toronto Neighbourhoods 7-Book Bundle
Frederick H. Armstrong, F.R. (Hamish) Berchem, Scott Kennedy and 2 others
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Difference between revisions of "Long term groundwater datasets"
==The Chronicles Consortium==
The [http://www.un-igrac.org/publications/544 Chronicles] is an international consortium of scientists from across Africa and beyond, who are collating and analysing multi-decadal records of groundwater levels. These datasets represent long-term aquifer dynamics, and are vital in order to assess the impacts of groundwater use, climate variability and change, and land use change on groundwater storage across Africa.
The [http://www.un-igrac.org/publications/544 Chronicles] is an international consortium of scientists from across Africa and beyond, who are collating and analysing multidecadal records of groundwater levels. These datasets represent long-term aquifer dynamics, and are vital in order to assess the impacts of groundwater use, climate variability and change, and land use change on groundwater storage across Africa.
This project, '''Collation and Analysis of Multi-decadal Groundwater-levels Observations in Africa''', is a joint initiative of the African Groundwater Network (AGW-Net), IAH Commission on Groundwater and Climate Change, and the UNESCO-IHP GRAPHIC programme, andis supported by the UPGro (Unlocking the Potential of Groundwater for the Poor) programme of the UK government (DFID, NERC, ESRC) and the LMI-PICASSEAU programme of the French government (IRD).
This project, '''Collation and analysis of multidecadal groundwater levels – observations in Africa''', is a joint initiative of the African Groundwater Network (AGW-Net), IAH Commission on Groundwater and Climate Change, and the UNESCO-IHP GRAPHIC programme, and is supported by the UPGro (Unlocking the Potential of Groundwater for the Poor) programme of the UK government (DFID, NERC, ESRC) and the LMI-PICASSEAU programme of the French government (IRD).
The consortium was established at the 41st Congress of the IAH (International Association of Hydrogeologists) in Marrakech, Morocco on 14 September 2014 and is led by Tamiru Abiye (Wits University, South Africa), Guillaume Favreau (IRD, France), and Richard Taylor (University College London, UK).
A central ambition of the consortium is to work with national experts in uncovering and assembling multi-decadal records of groundwater levels from around Africa. If you are aware of such data, please contact the consortium on chronicles@un-igrac.org
A central ambition of the consortium is to work with national experts in uncovering and assembling multidecadal records of groundwater levels from around Africa. If you are aware of such data, please contact the consortium on chronicles@un-igrac.org
Africa Groundwater Atlas >> Additional resources >> Long Term Groundwater Datasets
The Chronicles Consortium
The Chronicles is an international consortium of scientists from across Africa and beyond, who are collating and analysing multidecadal records of groundwater levels. These datasets represent long-term aquifer dynamics, and are vital in order to assess the impacts of groundwater use, climate variability and change, and land use change on groundwater storage across Africa.
This project, Collation and analysis of multidecadal groundwater levels – observations in Africa, is a joint initiative of the African Groundwater Network (AGW-Net), IAH Commission on Groundwater and Climate Change, and the UNESCO-IHP GRAPHIC programme, and is supported by the UPGro (Unlocking the Potential of Groundwater for the Poor) programme of the UK government (DFID, NERC, ESRC) and the LMI-PICASSEAU programme of the French government (IRD).
More information can be found at the Chronicles Consortium site.
Retrieved from ‘http://earthwise.bgs.ac.uk/index.php?title=Long_term_groundwater_datasets&oldid=23917’
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Montana Department of Labor & Industry Newsroom DLI to host Employer Town Hall on COVID-19 workplace safety
DLI to host Employer Town Hall on COVID-19 workplace safety
On Wednesday, July 29, at noon, the Montana Department of Labor & Industry (DLI) will host a virtual Employer Town Hall on public health and workplace safety considerations for public-facing Montana businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The town hall is free and open to the public. Montana State Medical Officer Dr. Greg Holzman, with the Montana Department of Health and Human Services (DPHHS), will be the special guest. Medical Director Dr. Maggie Cook-Shimanek, Occupational Health Safety Specialist Tiffany Ott, and Occupational Health Safety Specialist Jake Sandau, all from DLI”s Employment Relations Division, will also be speaking.
The event is part of an ongoing series of town halls, aimed at offering resources and information to Montanans during COVID-19. More information on upcoming town hall events can be found at dli.mt.gov/town-halls.
About the Montana Department of Labor & Industry
DLI exists to promote and protect the well-being of Montana’s workers, employers, and citizens; and to uphold their rights and responsibilities. DLI provides a variety of services to support this mission, including Unemployment Insurance, Workforce Development, Labor Market Information, Employment Relations, Safety and Health, Professional Licensing, Building and Commercial Measurement, and Weights and Measures. To learn more about Department services, visit dli.mt.gov. Montanans can also follow DLI on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn for timely updates.
WHO: Montana State Medical Officer Dr. Greg Holzman, DPHHS
Medical Director Dr. Maggie Cook-Shimanek, Employment Relations Division, DLI
Occupational Health Safety Specialist Tiffany Ott, Safety Consultation Unit, DLI
Occupational Health Safety Specialist Jake Sandau, Safety Officer, DLI
WHAT: Employer Town Hall
WHEN: Wednesday, July 29 at Noon
WHERE: Join Zoom Meeting:
https://mt-gov.zoom.us/j/93660950328
Dial by Telephone: +1 646 558 8656
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Voices from the Past: A Disabled Fly Tier
I ran across this article from The Ironwood Daily Globe dated 16 April 1948 and found it both inspirational and interesting. Of course, women have been involved in fly tying since the days of Dame Juliana, but this one had a neat twist--disabled since 14, Faith Fitzpatrick went on to become an established tackle maker out of her wheelchair. Here it the short text that accompanied the article:
ONE GIRL FACTORY
Faith Fitzpatrick's "one girl trout fly tying factory" in Millersburg, Mich., is busy these April days turning out Royal Coachman, Gray Fox, RB Blue Fox, Squirrel Tails and other trout flies—both wet and dry. Faith, 33, operates her fly tying factory from a wheelchair. She had suffered a crushed spine beneath a switch engine in a gravel pit accident when she was 14 and her legs have been paralyzed ever since.
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Labels: Fly Tying, voices from the past
News of the Week: 29 September 2008
Would you buy an amphibious fishing car from a guy whose previous efforts have been labeled "floating coffins?"...small fish swims up kids _____....the PA Fly Fishing Museum gets some good press...kids and king Salmon go hand-in-hand...the lure of the surf lure maker...fish don't learn when the jig is up...a bit of Gadabout Gaddis history...murder victim's last wish is to buried in his tackle box...10 foot tall statue of popular governor in fishing pose unveiled...more on "Garzilla"...it must be THE NEWS OF THE WEEK!
The Big Lead: From the No Freakin' Way Files: Small fish his swims up inside boy's pen...wil...well you get the picture. A collective "ewwww" has now gone out.
The Pennsylvania Fly Fishing Museum is celebrating its 10th anniversary preserving the history of fly fishing in the state.
More on the work of this fine organization here.
How to turn your new $699 iphone into a fishing lure (link courtesy Joe Yates).
U.S. Reel of St. Louis has a new press agency.
The Frederick News Post lets us know that kids and King Salmon go hand-in-hand.
More commentary on the ASA's Top 10 Tackle Innovations.
From the Jersey Shore comes the lure of the surf...
New York's fall hotspots for smallies.
Fish never learn when the jig is up.
New Zealanders find gang violence...in front of a tackle shop? (As an aside, check out the 4th most popular New Zealand folk duo in HBO's hilarious show Flight of the Conchords).
A little bit of history on Roscoe Vernon "Gadabout" Gaddis.
Richard Ziegler, retired California angler, is tragically murdered; wants his body cremated and buried in his tackle box.
The In-Fisherman Professional Walleye Trail (PWT) will hold its final tournament ever after an 18-year run in Hudson, Wisconsin.
Premier League star loves to fish; Aston Villa midfielder Nigel Reo-Coker would rather catch fish than WAGs. Probably not, actually.
The Park Rapids Enterprise kicks off the musky season with a bang.
An angler bids a fond farewell to his 1992 Evinrude motor.
10-foot tall statue of former Oregon governor Tom McCall is unveiled...and its a pose of him fly fishing.
Jimmy Houston is still doing what he does best: entertaining the masses by catching fish.
More on the Georgia state record gar, now called "Garzilla" as it was caught right by where the infamous "Hogzilla" was shot.
Finishing with a Flourish: The latest from the people whose work was condemned in court as a "Floating Coffin": The new (hopefully improved) amphibious car! Comes complete with fishing rod.
Labels: news of the week
The UNID Files #6: The Case of the Bizarre Abu Reel
The UNID files are back after a short hiatus for the Hurricane with UNID Files #6: The Case of the Bizarre Abu Reel!
Ron Kotch recently found an Ambassadeur reel that is unlike any I've seen before. As ABU is one of the most collected companies in history, it is very rare to find an ABU mystery, but this one is certainly that. Here is Ron's email to me:
the reel is a free spool reel with 040801 on foot, not sure what the plastic side plate is for, it also has a red button on that side which has a small screw in the center ,any help would be great, thanks for your input. Ron
It is certainly a strange reel! I've never seen anything like it...Anyone with any information on this can email Ron at ronkotch AT yahoo DOT com.
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Labels: Ambassadeur, UNID Files
Friday Funhouse
The terror of the Snakehead in the Potomac River. As an aside, its amazing for once they actually caught a fish they were talking about!
Things I Would Buy If I Could Afford Them
This rare Bing's minnow is a great Wisconsin made bait.
An awesome ABU 5500 Hi Speed is a tremendous reel to fish or collect.
A nice Bill Stanley Favorite fly rod from Heddon does honor to ol' William Stanley's name.
This classic George Lawrence creel is a great piece of eye candy.
The Penn 10/0 is one big saltwater boy.
This 9/0 Ed. vom Hofe is only slightly smaller than the Penn above.
Here's a lure you never, ever see--the Wiggly Wriggler.
This Heddon Vamp in blue head/white is sooooooo rare.
McVickar Bushkill fly reels were the first to used roller bearings...
This Jones Minnow Bucket from the Deshler Mailbox Company of Deshler, Ohio is super rare.
It would go awesome with this Lucas Floating Minnow Bucket.
Wow! This Follett fly reel from the 1880s is a fantastic classic piece of fishing tackle.
This Meek Reel Oil bottle from Horton is a nifty go-with for any Meek collection.
This Winchester BB Split Shot tin is going to drive the Winchester collectors crazy.
This is a cool Shurbite frog in the box.
As always, have a safe weekend, and be good to each--and yourself.
The Chamberlaine Lure: UPDATE
Thought I'd pen a quick update on the Joseph E.M. Chamberlain lure I wrote about on Tuesday. The article referenced a patent, but I could not find a patent under that name. Well, along comes Joe Yates to inform me that not only did he have two patents in his name, but the newspaper actually got his name WRONG. His name was Joseph E.M. Chamberlaine (with an E at the end).
The patent information tells us a bit about the lures but not much about the man. He applied for the patents in March of 1931 and received them in consecutive numbers on 19 April 1932 as Patent #1855066 and #1855067. They cover both a single and double hook trolling spoon of interesting design. Certainly someone out there has seen this lure or owns one?
Thanks to Joe setting the record straight, and hopefully we can find more information about this fascinating character.
Labels: Joseph Chamberlaine, Update
Holy Lures: The Incredible Story of Mother Angelica and St. Peter’s Fishing Lures
Holy Lures:
The Incredible Story of Mother Angelica and St. Peter’s Fishing Lures
By Dr. Todd E.A. Larson
One of the most amazing fishing tackle stories of all-time centers on a group of Franciscan nuns in Ohio who decided to go into the tackle business. Calling their lures “St. Peter’s Fishing Lures,” they manufactured and sold a line of 16 different lures, ranging from worms and jigs to bucktails and plugs. Their amazing story, and the life of one of the most influential women of the 20th century, is told here.
One of the first mentions of this fascinating enterprise came from a Carl Barnhart newswire item, reprinted here from the 29 May 1961 Southern Illinoisian that read as follows:
A group of Franciscan Nuns in Ohio has gone into the fishing lure manufacturing business. All profits will go to their church. These lures will be called the St. Peter’s Fishing Lures—after the Big Fisherman. They have 16 worms, jigs, bucktails, and plugs. I’m told that each lure is sold with a built-in prayer for the user to have good fishing. I’m sure there are days when each of us can use all the help we can get.
Who were these enterprising nuns? How and why did they decide to get into the tackle business? Was this venture a success, or like most tackle businesses, a failure? The story is one of the neatest forgotten tales in the history of tackle manufacturing.
The genesis (pun intended) behind these piscatorial St. Peters was a remarkable nun by the name of Mother Mary Angelica who was a member of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, a Franciscan Order in Canton, Ohio. Born Rita Rizzo in Canton, she joined the order in 1953 and while living at the Santa Clara Monastery there, dreamt of opening a monastery in the deep South. She was told that not only would she have to raise the money for the monastery, but it would have to be self-supporting afterward—an almost impossible task for the time.
Undaunted, in 1958 Mother Angelica hit on an idea. “It was while I was praying,” she noted in an interview in The Family Weekly in 1962, “that I got an idea for making money for the new monastery.” The original idea? Sell fishing bait. She approached the Mother Superior with the idea of raising red worms for bait, but was immediately shot down. Undaunted, Mother Angelica prayed again—and the idea of manufacturing and selling fishing tackle was born.
The Franciscans gave their approval, but no one expected much. After all, how much money could be made selling fishing lures for .75 each? But Mother Angelica understood marketing. Before joining the cloister, she had worked in the advertising business, and used that experience to come up with an idea so audacious many thought her crazy.
She would fund the construction and maintenance of the new monastery through the sale of fishing lures.
Quietly she assembled a team of five nuns to construct the lures; a local tackle maker donated the parts. They tested the lures in a bathtub and were pleased with the results. They were also able to manufacture as many as seven baits each per hour, or almost 300 baits per day. “At first our fingers showed the results of handling sharp hooks,” she noted, “but we soon got the knack of it.” Keep in mind that she suffered a debilitating accident that kept her in a hospital for two years back in the 1950s, and which caused her to walk with a cane and braces for the remainder of her life.
The Fishing Lure Nun
She also knew she needed something to differentiate the St. Peter Lures from the competition. Thus she hit on the idea that every lure made would be sent out with the following blessing:
"We pray that fishermen will have big catches, will learn to fish with the Great Fisherman, and will be protected from accidents."
Having found her hook (pun intended again), Mother Angelica used her advertising connections and got a friend in the business to print 5000 circulars. Then she hit up every outdoor columnist she could find, who penned a number of articles on her venture.
To the great shock of everyone, she was flooded with orders from every corner of the country, and from celebrities including baseball and angling legend Ted Williams. As the article declared:
Thousands of lures have since been mailed from the monastery. They come in a dozen varieties, for spinning or casting in either fresh or salt water. "Little Jonas" is the name given one number; others are called "St. Michael Wet-Fly" and "St. Raphael Dry-Fly"
In 1961 the esteemed Sports Illustrated, which at the time published many articles on angling, even honored her with an award for “special contributions to the sport.”
The most amazing thing about her venture? Within two years she had raised enough money to help construct a new monastery in Alabama, specifically designed to cater to African-Americans in this most critical period in Civil Rights history. In 1962, when the monastery was completed, she transferred the entire St. Peter’s Fishing Lure company to Alabama, in accordance with the charge to make it “self-sustaining.” The Our Lady of the Angels Monastery was officially established in Irondale, Alabama on May 20, 1962.
From the picture, it appears that some of the fishing lures sold by St. Peter's Fishing Lures were knock-offs of famous baits such as Helin's Flat Fish as well as a selection of spinners and worms that were popular at the time. The author has not seen any lures from St. Peter's but would love it if anyone who has one would send in a photo so we could see what one of these lures looked like.
As for Mother Angelica, she rose to dizzying heights. Soon after moving to Alabama, Mother Angelica got out of the fishing lure business to concentrate on working with the poor, and eventually, a budding second career. Many of you might recognize her in a later photograph, for Mother Angelica went on to found the Eternal World Television Network (ETWN), which ran a television show she starred in for decades afterward, making it the most watched religious network in the world. Time Magazine in a feature article in 1995 called her “arguably the most important Catholic woman in America.” She authored over 50 books during this time.
Mother Angelica retired from broadcasting in 2003, but still lives in the Birmingham monastery she constructed with the funds from St. Peter’s Fishing Lures, perhaps the least likely tackle manufacturing firm in the history of America. While her later years were embroiled in controversy, in our particular case we can remember her for being not only an influential Catholic voice but also as a tackle maker with an unforgettable history. After all, how can anyone forget the story of the “Fishing Lure Nun?”
You can read a great deal about the non-fishing tackle career of Mother Angelica in the following articles:
The Odyssey of Mother Angelica by William A. Donohue (note some of the information on her tackle connection is erroneous).
Mother Knows Best in Time Magazine (1995).
A short Encyclopedia of Alabama article on Mother Angelica.
Labels: features, Mother Angelica, Ohio Lures
Voices from the Past: A Fishing Lure Tragedy & Mystery
The following blurb from The Cumberland Evening Times dated 11 February 1955 is both a sad story and a bit of a mystery. It details the grisly demise of a fishing lure maker, but the mystery is what exactly is the Chamberlain Spoon? Has anyone seen one before? I sure would like to know what one looks like...
Friends Collect Funds To Bury Fish Lure Expert
ST. MICHAELS, Md. Friends have begun collecting a fund to pay for the funeral of Joseph Ennels Muse Chamberlain, a fishing lure expert who killed himself yesterday. County Medical Examiner Louis A. Welty said Chamberlain shot himself in the head with a .22 caliber rifle.
The 69-year-old Chamberlain gained fame in the fishing world in 1939 after fashioning the Chamberlain spoon, a lure which proved tremendously effective with bluefish. He also invented and patented the first spoon used for trolling.
At one time, he operated a shop here to manufacture spoons, but he gave up the business after a scrape with the government over taxes. Friends believed he made, and lost, a small fortune.
Chamberlain continued to earn a living by making spoons and buck-tail lures, but never again in large quantities. He left no immediate survivors.
Labels: voices from the past
The model for Quint in Jaws is dead at 82...striper lure maker Gary Hull has passed...Cormorants are angering more anglers...the trophy fish of Lake Erie...Chetek's Calhoun Museum is in danger of closing...a fluke slot limit...walleyes rule northern Minnesota...Georgia has a new state record gar...a fish that glows neon red...it must be THE NEWS OF THE WEEK!
The Big Lead: Legendary and controversial Montauk shark angler Frank Mundus--long rumored to have been the model for Quint in the movie Jaws--has passed away at the age of 82.
Striper fishing legend and lure maker Gary Hull has passed away at the age of 62.
Long time NFLCC member Dave Hartranft has passed away.
Kathy Scott--author of Moose in the Water, Bamboo on the Bench--has a new book out on bamboo rod making entitled Changing Planes.
The story of a ghillie, a woman, and a fly rod.
Cormorants are angering more fishermen...
One Kiwi writers pens an article on a (nude) fisherman the author would like to catch.
Discovering trophy fish...in Lake Erie?
The 10th IGFA Fishing Hall-of-Fame induction is next month.
The Chetek Hazel Calhoun Museum--home to some great Heddon fishing tackle--is in danger of closing.
The loss of a fishing rod is a tragedy...unless it can be fixed.
One author opines on fishing machines.
97 year old better angler than you; boats 150 pound black seabass.
Aussie fishing is hooking the internet.
The Savannah Morning News opines on the allure of lures.
ASMFC is considering a fluke slot limit
South Mississippi has set a number of state records of late.
Walleye definitely rule in northern Minnesota.
From the Obvious Files: The largemouth bass is the number one game fish in America.
Why our quest for trophies can ruin a fishing trip.
Georgia has a new state record gar.
Catching snapper is a snap.
Belleville's Mr. Bass can fish circles around anglers half his age.
Trophy stripers and wahoo are making a huge splash.
A South African village is tired of poachers and is trying to so something about it.
1912 Revisited: A visit to Prichard's Lake almost a century ago.
We're just wild about catfish...
Finishing with a Flourish: One fish, two, red fish...glow fish?
Malaysia...where the fish spit at you. The Archer Fish in action!
Wow! This Shakespeare Musky Minnow has the collector world in a frenzy!
Ho hum. Saw someone post recently about how all Heddon rods weren't very valuable...just like this Deluxe about to hit 4 figures.
One of my rules here at Fishing for History is I try to never post an auction that has a reserve or one that doesn't have a bid on it yet...but screw it. I like this Delaware Bait Assortment from Grube.
You don't see many Danielsson fly reels for sale (don't really look for them but that's moot), and this one is a nice one.
This 1852 patent J.T. Buel is a honey of a bait.
What's that? You say you want 100,000 South Bend reel parts? Well, this auction is just perfect for you!
Pfeffer Brownback...a classic Florida bait.
This Storm Big Mac display board shows a lure doesn't have to be 100 years old to be collectable.
This Penn 706Z is a classic spinning reel.
Everyone loves a Gee Wiz frog...especially when they are red head/white!
You know, I was thinking the other day, we don't get nearly enough on the blog about...collectable thermos bottles???
How about a mystery spinning reel, known only as "DUKAC." Where is Poirot when you need him?
A Jamison Coaxer in the box. My pick as about the most successful lure of its era.
A nice Rochester Quick-a-Part reel is a nifty find.
This 1929 Ed. vom Hofe catalog is a classic.
As always, have a great weekend, and be kind to others--and yourself.
Holy Lures: The Incredible Story of Mother Angelic...
Voices from the Past: A Fishing Lure Tragedy & Mys...
Review of the Fall 2008 NFLCC Gazette
Dr. James A. Henshall, Fish Culturist, by Clyde Drury
Voices from the Past: Indian Feather Merchant
The Shmoo, Part 2
The Shmoo Part I
Voices from the Past: Charles Kent
UPDATE to News of the Week
The UNID Files #5: The Case of the Counterspinning...
Review of ORCA Reel News, Vol. 18, No. 5 (Sep. 2008)
Remembering Ted Williams...Fishing Lure Collector?
Labor and the Fishing Tackle Industry
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Home Workout Interview: Herschel Walker Takes Fitness Mission To Washington
Interview: Herschel Walker Takes Fitness Mission To Washington
Fitness News March 28, 2020 Leave a Comment
When Herschel Walker played for the New Jersey Generals from 1983 to 1985 in the now-defunct USFL, his boss was billionaire mogul Donald Trump. He became close with the team owner and his family. While training in Orlando, Walker took Trump and his children to Disney World.
Well, it’s certainly a small world after all because after Donald Trump became president, he appointed Walker to the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition. The purpose of the council is to increase sports participation among youth of all backgrounds and abilities and to promote healthy and active lifestyles for all Americans.
One of the greatest all-around athletes of all-time (football and track star, Olympian, MMA fighter – he didn’t get into the latter until his 40s) Walker, 58, practices what he preaches, continuing to impress with a workout regimen that he’s been doing every day since he was 12 years old. “I’m always exercising. I never missed a day.”
Here’s Walker’s take on training, diet, and the state of fitness in the U.S.
What’s your goal as co-chairman of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition?We’re an obese country. Our young people are playing more video games than working out. Team sports are getting so competitive that parents have to pay and they don’t have the money.
When I became a member of the council, I got my high school class together and we got the city of my hometown in Georgia to give us six acres to build a fitness park. We’re going to put up a pullup bar, dip bars, jungle gyms. I’m not putting up a basketball court or fields. There will be a track for people to walk and run around. You also get community by doing this. I have to practice what I preach.
Kids years and years ago would jump rope and have fun, but that was exercise. Today on the school playground, you don’t see a jungle gym anymore. Kids were doing monkey bars and pullups. They didn’t even know they were exercising and now they don’t have that. Now they have a computer or have an avatar to workout for them. A kid might break an arm using a jungle gym, but that will heal. His obesity will kill him.
What’s been your experience like working with the federal government?I want to get something done in Washington, but didn’t realize how slow Washington moves.
It’s been a challenge. I’ve been trying to get the Fit Bill passed for 18 years. It’s a bill to incentivize to workout. It lets people take a write-off before taxes if you pay for your kids to play or your gym membership. The bill got into the Ways and Means Committee in 2019, but ran out of steam in the Senate, but I’m still trying to push it through.
What’s your current workout routine?It hasn’t changed much since I started as a kid. I’m still doing pushups — I cut those down from 3,000 to 1,500 when I got into boxing and martial arts — 3,500 sit-ups, ride my exercise bike for 30 miles, then go out and jog, do 500 dips and at least 150 pullups. I do jump rope. I still do martial arts drills.
How did this workout come about?I was obese, I was not athletic at all. I got beat up at 12 years old. I remember crying and went home and I said enough is enough. I started working out and overcame so much. Then I became obsessed with it. I wasn’t thinking of playing football — that wasn’t a big thing. I was just trying to get through tomorrow.
Didn’t you also do ballet?I studied it for about 10 years. When I got into martial arts — I thought I could be the next Bruce Lee — I thought ballet can help with flexibility. Before I got into MMA, it was the hardest thing I had ever done, over football and track and field. I was using muscles I’d never used. Ballet is very tough because of the discipline you have with your muscles.
What was your MMA experience like?I loved it! It is one of the best sports I’ve ever done in my life. I trained myself then met Scott Coker and Bob Cook. I moved out to San Jose, California for about a year and trained for six days a week at American Kickboxing Academy.
I was a fifth-degree black belt in taekwondo. Most people don’t know I competed in taekwondo tournaments in college on Sundays, a day after playing football. This did not help me in the Octagon. It’s a tough sport!
How’s your diet these days?My diet isn’t the best in the world — I eat one meal a day, consists of salads and soups. I don’t eat a lot of red meat, I don’t like fish. I still have sweets, but with my meal. I eat what I want but I work out so much I burn it off. My diet is so unusual and I’m as healthy as a horse.
Why one meal a day?I was doing this in high school, in college, in pro football. I don’t live to eat, I eat to live. We overeat anyway in this country.
When we played on Sundays, I never ate the pregame meals. I ate Saturday night, then again maybe Monday or late Sunday after the game. When you eat a pregame meal that’s not where you get your energy from. It’s from Saturday night. If you eat a pregame meal, you’d get sluggish. This is my stupid philosophy.
Who was the one guy in the NFL you wanted to run over?Lawrence Taylor. You always wanted to get the best of him, but you couldn’t. The guy was an amazing athlete.
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Guardian: Report doubts future of wind power
Wind farms are an expensive and inefficient way of generating sustainable energy, according to a study from Germany, the world's leading producer of wind energy.
The report, which may have ramifications for the UK's rapidly growing wind farm industry, concludes that instead of spending billions on building new wind turbines, the emphasis should be on making houses more energy efficient. Drawn up by the German government's energy agency, it says that wind farms prove a costly form of reducing greenhouse gases.
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RSPB: RSPB lodges official objection to world's largest onshore wind farm
The RSPB is formally objecting to a massive wind farm development proposed for the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides.
The proposal by Amec and British Energy (Lewis Wind Power Ltd) would involve the construction of 234 wind turbines on an extremely fragile and special wildlife site on the north Lewis moor. The wind farm would have a 25-year lifespan.
The RSPB is objecting in the strongest terms to the proposal because the turbines would be spread across the Lewis Peatlands Special Protection Area (SPA) - an area protected under European law for a variety of important birds, including golden eagles, merlins, black-throated divers, red-throated divers, dunlins and greenshanks.
'We believe this wind farm proposal is not just bad for birds but bad for the development of renewables as well,' said Anne McCall, RSPB Planning and Development Manager.
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There’s barely a page without a surprising fact…whether it’s about a vacuum flask, a hawk or a bilberry. […] Begin the book as you would a moorland walk, happy to put the route map away and just follow where the sheep trods take you—then you’ll likely find the surprising turns and unexpected views a suitable reward.
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COLA SHOW
LA Artists Take Us from the Colonial Past to the Interstellar Future
Winners of the City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship highlight contested histories and utopian pasts in their group show.
LOS ANGELES — In 1926, oil heiress Aline Barnsdall donated several acres of her Olive Hill estate to the city of Los Angeles. The hilltop estate of olive and citrus trees overlooking Hollywood Boulevard would have been eagerly received by the municipal government had Barnsdall been a typical member of the city’s elite. A traitor to her class, she sympathized with organized labor, befriended the anarchist activist Emma Goldman, and advocated for radical causes that gave the city’s political leaders pause. Today, the former estate is a distant echo of Barnsdall’s original intent to build a utopian artist colony. Barnsdall Art Park contains the city’s Municipal Art Gallery and the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed Hollyhock House, but gone are the billboard signs once used to advertise the progressive political causes championed by its namesake.
Several works in the City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowships Exhibition at the Municipal Art Gallery highlight contested histories and utopian pasts. Since 1997, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs has yearly awarded grants to promising “mid-career” artists in Los Angeles. This year, the grants were worth $10,000 each and gave recipients in the visual, performance, and literary arts a chance to create new work to be exhibited to the public.
The oral histories of contemporary migrants who cross North American borders are the focus of Guillermo Bert’s “Tumble Dreams,” where the mythology of the West is complicated by forced and voluntary migrations from the south. The faces of migrants from Latin America are projected onto tumbleweeds, a symbol of the American West, as they recall harrowing accounts of eluding border patrols, overcoming hunger, and being separated from family members. In “The Archive’s Fold,” by Michelle Dizon, transnational migrations and legacies of colonization are narrated by fictional correspondences across time. Photographs of the Philippines from colonial archives and the artist’s family albums attempt to piece together a personal narrative in the context of larger histories. Letters between the artist’s great-great-grandmother and the artist’s imagined descendant from a dystopian 2123 project a story of diaspora that stretches from the colonial past to an interstellar future.
While COLA 2018 does not have an explicit theme, labor and immigration histories come to the fore as a lens through which to view the present and future. These artworks may refer to economic or political aspirations never fully realized, but they lay claims to ancestries and narratives that may present a way forward.
COLA 2018 continues at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (4800 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, 90027) through June 24.
Tumble Dreams: The Journey
Chilean born and L.A.-bred Guillermo Bert is an artist for our time. His is a visual voice that bridges worlds through his installations, blending raw textural forms with digitized media and film. Bert’s current series, Tumble Dreams, follows from a decades-long trajectory starting with his series Encoded Textiles – begun as a joining of Mapuche weavings and smart phone technologies to tell the stories of indigenous cultural survival – and flowing from his more recent Exodus Series. The Exodus Series expanded his use of embedded technologies that, when scanned with a smart phone, open the viewer to stories steeped in places: indigenous, remote, yet present. Expanding into new forms and interviews here, Bert and his collaborators trace the migratory routes of Zapotec and Mayan diaspora coming to Los Angeles to realize the American Dream. For these dreamers (as with the DACA Dreamers caught in the bureaucratic whirlwind of policy retractions), the realization of their dream is often met with the dark side of living in its shadows. It is in those less visible places where Bert casts his light as an artist.
Stories lie at the center of Bert’s work. Less tech-centered than previous works, the pared back Tumble Dreams combines the elegance of natural objects (tumbleweeds) with oral histories “embedded” in the casing of the tumbleweed itself. His idea of how to tell those stories is at once shocking as it is compassionate. Through projected interviews, we learn about endurance and hope, about torn families subjected to the dangers of the journey. This is not an allegoric hero’s journey. This is the grist of lives split apart and confronted by the hard choices that find migrant workers in the rough and tumble worlds of bandits, border patrols, hunger and separations. These very survivals defy the threat of the border itself. The journeying migrants may appear to be like tumbleweeds, but they are not without purpose. As Bert describes,
I would like to represent this journey by the image of a tumbleweed, always changing direction, forming a new kind of nomadic population on the move. The tumbleweed is particularly tied to the southwest landscape where the dry conditions and the desert are also the backdrop of the crossing for the Latin American migrant.
The stories of up rootedness and tenacity that these works capture tell tales of transmigratory routes we rarely hear or see. The interviews and images placed inside the matted net of the tumbleweed give sculptural shape to the social complexities that connect each migrant’s personal journey to another. Each tumbleweed is both a nomad and a node in a larger distribution system. As with much of Bert’s work, a multi-layered narrative begins to emerge, creating a through-line of interwoven lives. The tumbleweeds, like the lives of many immigrants that lack secure status, hang suspended in space in mid-air. The spherical cocoon of thatches and thorns is an apt metaphor for the perils of displaced travelers and the communities they form.
In keeping with Bert’s commitment to engage with the cultural politics of immigration and displacement, his artistic goal is to create contemporary hybrid artifacts that highlight the commodification of labor in transmigrant contexts. The thorniness of cruel immigration policies that tear families apart and fuel informal economies serve as sticking points, while the tumbleweed itself rises from the landscape where it is carried straight to the heart of Los Angeles.
The tumbleweeds in the LAMAG exhibition bring with them an internal rhythm of place. The dreamscapes of the American West create a silent presence in our social geography that propels these forms and keeps them moving. The semi-concealed testimonies invite us to witness the hidden stories as told through the actual voices of migrants themselves. Their personal and cultural messaging creates a bond between an otherwise distant viewer drawn in by the intimacy and revelation of the traveler’s story. Bert’s aesthetic choices illuminate the faith in the dream that lives inside the minds and hearts of “tumbleweed” dreamers. Tumble Dreams gives purpose to their seemingly aimless tossings, but also fills its hollow core with the storied promise of a new future and the longing for home.
– Tressa Berman, Ph.D.
Guillermo Bert, Installation of Tumble Dreams at Barnsdall Art Gallery
Segment of installation Tumble Dreams, with mapping projections
Lorena telling story about the border crossing while she was pregnant
Lorenzo said that he had a very rough time crossing the border to the US, almost 15 years ago
Odilia came to the US when she was a young girl, but her transition was dramatic because she grew up in Oaxaca
Crossing the border between Guatemala and Mexico, this is one of the routs they use, and they endure a hard time in their journey
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Published: 0211 GMT August 19, 2020
FAO supports Iran to strengthen its national agricultural drought monitoring
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) organized a three-day workshop to equip Iranian experts with operational knowledge and skills required to establish a country-level Agricultural Stress Index System (ASIS).
Designed by FAO to assist the countries in monitoring agricultural drought and managing its risk, ASIS, as a part of the Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture, uses satellite data to detect agricultural areas where crops could be affected by drought and as a result it helps countries to strengthen their agricultural drought monitoring and early warning systems, reported fao.org.
“ASIS can monitor the crop-specific areas during the crop cycle, detecting water stress and forecasting drought – that can produce a production reduction – two months ahead,” said Oscar Rojas, FAO Natural Resources Officer who led this three-day workshop held for Iranian experts.
Initially developed by FAO-HQ covering all around the world, the country-specific version of ASIS once calibrated with field data – including land-use maps, sowing dates, crop cycle duration and crop coefficients – it will detect periods of water stress in crops and forecast crop yields more accurately.
“The tool simplifies the results in the form of easy-to-interpret maps enabling decision-makers at national and local levels to implement drought mitigation activities in agriculture, including the payment of parametric crop insurances and the provision of social protection schemes, on a timely basis. These results are also useful for guiding public investments such as water harvesting, irrigation, and water reserves,” added Rojas.
In this endeavor, and as part of the “Integrated Program for Sustainable Water Resources Management in the Urmia Lake Basin” project jointly implemented by FAO and Urmia Lake Restoration Program (ULRP) and funded by the Embassy of Japan, the Organization supports Iranian authorities to establish country-level ASIS. “ASIS can assist in close monitoring of the agricultural stress within the Urmia Lake basin in order to manage the impact of those stresses on water resources management. Moreover, adding a probabilistic forecast to the ASIS which is going to be implemented within the extension of the ULRP-FAO project would be a proper tool for decision-makers,” said Behdad Chehrenegar, the head of Research Division of ULRP.
In this respect, “The National Drought Warning and Monitoring Center (NDWMC) which is affiliated to Iran Meteorological Organization, is nominated as the national counterpart to have access to the decadal update of ASIS indicators. NDWMC will calibrate the indicators in the Urmia Lake basin in the first phase and then develop the outcome to the whole country,” added Chehrenegar.
According to Chehrengar, “NDWMC has the technical capacity for establishing an automated process of calculating the ASIS indicators. However, NDWMC requires specific assistance from FAO experts on the calibration of ASIS indicators.”
FAO is the lead UN agency dedicated to increasing the resilience of agricultural livelihoods and food systems and supports its member countries in their efforts to develop and establish agricultural early warning, early action systems.
Criticality of agricultural biodiversity for food security in Iran
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Jackson Park Watch Update – July 23, 2018
Posted on July 23, 2018 by Jackson Park Watch
Greetings All!
Protect Our Parks (POP) lawsuit prompts the City to play catch-up
Protect Our Parks filed suit against the City and Park District in mid-May arguing, not against the Obama Presidential Center per se, but again its location in historic, public Jackson Park.
In opposing the POP suit, the City requested a hearing delay for a surprising reason: As reported in Crain’s, the City asserted that “The City Council has yet to introduce, much less enact, an ordinance authorizing the construction and operation of the [Obama Presidential] center….there is a significant gap in the approvals necessary for the project to proceed, and in the details of how the foundation will be authorized to use the site and operate the center.” The City maintained that a delay was therefore necessary for the City to introduce and the City Council to enact the needed ordinance and approvals.
Among the questions that leap to mind is this: How could the Plan Commission have acted or the federal review process been launched without such basic approvals?
The next hearing on the POP lawsuit was recently rescheduled for late August with the expectation that an ordinance would be introduced at the July 25 City Council meeting. However, such legislation does not appear on the agenda for that meeting, and a City spokesperson told Crain’s it would not necessarily be introduced in July, just “in the near future.” We and many others will be most interested in following the City Council action.
North Side/South Side Parallels
The coverage in recent days of the plans for a massive residential and commercial development on a prime spot along the north branch of the Chicago River has had clear echoes of the Obama Foundation’s unveiling of its plans for Jackson Park a year ago. The hyperbole and lack of details in the public presentations about those ambitious plans have invited skepticism and criticism, as have the efforts to limit public comments by refusing to hold a Q-and-A. Blair Kamin noted in his Tribune report:
“The Obama Foundation, which is charged with building the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park, repeatedly used the same tactic at its public meetings. Like Sterling Bay, the foundation said the format was an opportunity for intimate, reasoned discussion instead of a public shouting match.
“But democracy is, by its very nature, messy. Opponents of the Obama center rightly charged that the format denied the community a chance to hear itself.”
Also in the media
TIME has just published a major piece about controversies swirling around the OPC. The Hyde Park Herald published an important letter from JPW outlining its concerns with the federal review process.
Persisting
JPW’s current focus is the federal review process that has been triggered by the Obama Foundation’s expansive plan. As mentioned in the prior Update, the third Section 106 meeting, long postponed, is now projected to be held in “late summer,” whenever that might be, as is the initial public meeting regarding the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). We can only speculate about what is behind these repeated delays. In preparation, JPW is carrying on with research, analysis, collaboration, and careful monitoring.
Despite the impression that the City and Obama Foundation are cultivating, this is not a done deal. Our work continues. We will appreciate your contributions! Please send checks (payable to Jackson Park Watch) to JPW at P.O. Box 15302, Chicago 60615.
Brenda Nelms and Margaret Schmid
Co-presidents, Jackson Park Watch
www.jacksonparkwatch.org
jacksonparkwatch@gmail.com
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Temple in the Clouds : Faith and Conflict at Preah Vihear
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Faith and Conflict at Preah Vihear
Burgess, John, 1951-
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Prasat Prĕah Vihéar (Cambodia)
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Perched atop a five-hundred-metre cliff in the far north of Cambodia, Preah Vihear temple ranks among the world's holiest sites. It was built at a millennium ago as a shrine to the Hindu god Shiva by the same civilization that gave the world Angkor Wat. But modern times tragically transformed it into a battlefield prize. Cambodian factions fought each other for control during the country's long civil war, and in recent years the land around the temple has been the focus of a sometimes violent border dispute with Thailand. In 'Temple in the clouds, former Washington post correspondent John Burgess and author of two previous books on Cambodia, draws on extensive research in Cambodia, Thailand, France and the United States to recount the clifftop monument's full history, ancient and legal modern. He reveals previously unknown legal strategies and diplomatic maneuvering behind a contentious World Court case of 1959-1962 that awarded the temple to Cambodia. Written in a lively style, 'Temple in the clouds' brings new insight to one of Southeast Asia's greatest temples and most intractable border conflicts
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closed 9/12/2018 via BNC Analysis
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synopsis: SAGE Publishing, a leading independent, academic and professional publisher, has acquired Lean Library, a Netherlands-based company that provides a browser extension plugin for libraries. Lean Library's plugin offers one-click access to all licensed library resources and offers up legal routes to discover open access full text.
buyer: SAGE Publishing
SAGE Publishing is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. SAGE helps inform and educate a global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students spanning a wide range of subject areas. "
target: Lean Library B.V.
Founded in 2016, Lean Library is a Netherlands-based company that provides a browser extension plugin for libraries. Their plugin offers one-click access to all licensed library resources, both on and off campus, and offers up legal routes to discover open access full text.
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closed 8/22/2018 via Company Press Release
SAGE Publishing, acquired Talis Education Limited
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synopsis: SAGE Publishing, a leading independent, academic and professional publisher, has acquired Talis, a UK-based software company that helps universities manage and deliver learning resources online. Talis' Talis Aspire platform allows universities and libraries to provide easy, efficient, and compliant digitisation services.
target: Talis Education Limited
Talis is a UK-based software company that helps universities manage and deliver learning resources online. Their Talis Aspire platform allows universities and libraries to provide easy, efficient, and compliant digitisation services.
closed 4/4/2018 via BusinessWire
Corwin, acquired Visible Learningplus
synopsis: Corwin announced the acquisition of Visible Learningplus, the school change model based on John Hattie’s research, from the New Zealand-based Cognition Education Group. Visible Learningplus is an in-depth school change model of professional learning and development.
buyer parent: SAGE Publications
buyer: Corwin
Corwin, a SAGE Publishing company, was established in 1990, first as a professional book publisher, now as a full-service professional learning company, offering professional development solutions to achieve a school or district’s objectives. "
target parent: Cognition Education Group
target: Visible Learningplus
Visible Learningplus is an in-depth school change model of professional learning and development. It is based on the principles of Visible Learning that have developed from John Hattie’s research and his two books: Visible Learning (2009) and Visible Learning for Teachers (2012).
announced 9/16/2015 via BNC Analysis
SAGE Publications, will purchase 19 Journals from Multi-Science Publishing Co Ltd
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synopsis: SAGE is delighted to announce that it has acquired the majority of journals owned and published by the independent science and technology publisher, Multi-science. The acquisition results in 19 titles transferring to SAGE as of 2016.
buyer: SAGE Publications
SAGE Publications is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. SAGE helps inform and educate a global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students spanning a wide range of subject areas. "
seller: Multi-Science Publishing Co Ltd
Multi-science is an independent publisher of scientific and technology journals, publishing a unique portfolio of journals across engineering, energy and environmental studies, aerospace/aeronautics and sports science.
SAGE Publications, acquired Three Legal Journals
synopsis: SAGE has purchased three journals from Federal Legal Publications, Inc. including Contemporary Drug Problems (CDX), The Antitrust Bulletin (ABX), and The Journal of Psychiatry & Law (PLX). CDX publishes research on how drugs affect brain functions. ABX is focused on antitrust law. PLX is devoted to the ventures of psychiatrists and lawyers.
target: Three Legal Journals
Contemporary Drug Problems (CDX) publishes research on how drugs affect an individual's brain functions. The Antitrust Bulletin (ABX) is focused on research pertaining to antitrust law. The Journal of Psychiatry & Law (PLX) is devoted to the ventures of psychiatrists and lawyers.
SAGE Publications, acquired Pion Ltd.
synopsis: SAGE, one of the world's leading independent and academic publishers, has announced the purchase of Pion Limited, independent publisher of high quality academic journals founded by Adam Gelbtuch and John Ashby in 1959. The acquisition results in Pion's entire publishing portfolio becoming a part of SAGE's journal program.
target: Pion Ltd.
Pion Limited is an independent publisher of high quality academic journals founded by Adam Gelbtuch and John Ashby in 1959. Pion’s portfolio comprises of the four journals of the acclaimed 'Environment and Planning' series of journals alongside Perception and the open access i-Perception
SAGE Publications, acquired Symposium Journals
synopsis: SAGE has purchased education journals publisher Symposium for an undisclosed sum. Symposium Journals has a portfolio of nine titles within childhood studies, educational policy, contemporary educational practice, international education and teaching assessment, including the flagship journal of one the European Educational Research Association.
target: Symposium Journals
Symposium Journals has a portfolio of nine titles within childhood studies, educational policy, contemporary educational practice, international education and teaching assessment, including the flagship journal of one the European Educational Research Association.
SAGE Publications, acquired MD Conference Express
synopsis: SAGE, the global independent scholarly and professional publisher, announced the acquisition of The Goodwin Group International, LLC, publisher of MD Conference Express®, the first publication to subject medical conference highlights to the rigorous test of peer review.
target: MD Conference Express
MD Conference Express, published by The Goodwin Group International, LLC is the first publication to subject medical conference highlights to the rigorous test of peer review.
announced 11/23/2012 via Company Press Release
SAGE Publications, will purchase Medicine journals from RSM Press
synopsis: SAGE, a world-leading independent academic and professional publisher, announced a landmark agreement with the Royal Society of Medicine to acquire its journal program. With immediate effect, 28 titles formerly published by the Royal Society of Medicine Press will be published by SAGE.
seller parent: Royal Society of Medicine
seller: RSM Press
RSM Press is the publishing division of The Royal Society of Medicine. RSM Press publishes a range of sponsored publications for healthcare professionals and academics in medicine, from medical history to symposia proceedings and short guides on clinical topics.
closed 10/11/2012 via Company Press Release
SAGE Publications, acquired Adam Matthew
synopsis: SAGE, one of the world’s leading independent academic and professional publisher, announced the purchase of primary sources publisher Adam Matthew. Adam Matthew is an award winning publisher of online primary source collections for the humanities and social sciences.
target: Adam Matthew
Adam Matthew Digital publishes online primary source collections and works with the leading libraries, archives and scholars from around the world. The results are creative resources that offer powerful research and dynamic teaching for universities, colleges and libraries.
closed 7/11/2012 via Market Wire
Leadership Directories, Inc., purchased Government Directories from CQ Press
synopsis: Leadership Directories, the premier provider of background and contact information for U.S. decision-makers, announced the acquisition of the CQ Press Directories and First Street. Going forward, current subscribers to these CQ Press products will receive comparable Leadership Directories Yellow Books and online directories.
buyer: Leadership Directories, Inc.
With editorial offices in New York City and Washington, D.C., Leadership Directories is dedicated to providing high quality, accurate and up-to-date information on the key leaders in government, business, legal, media and nonprofit organizations in the United States. "
seller parent: SAGE Publications
seller: CQ Press
CQ Press is a good source for information on politics, policy, and people. It is the leading publisher of books, directories, subscriptions, and Web products on American politics, federal and state government, American institutions, campaigns and elections, current events, and world affairs.
Sage Publications, Inc., purchased Six Journals from A B Academic
synopsis: SAGE Publications announced the acquisition of six journals from A B Academic, a small independent publisher. The new titles are: Medical Law International, Nutrition and Health; Gifted Education International; Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics; International Review of Victimology; and International Journal of Discrimination and the Law.
buyer: Sage Publications, Inc.
seller: A B Academic
A B Academic is a small independent publisher in the United Kingdom that has, over the last thirty years, published a diverse range of academic journals.
Sage Publications, Inc., acquired CQ Press
synopsis: CQ Press, the book publishing unit of Washington-based Congressional Quarterly, Inc., has been sold to SAGE Publications, Inc., the independent academic publisher. The sale was announced jointly by Robert W. Merry, CQ’s president and editor-in-chief, and Blaise Simqu, SAGE’s president and CEO.
SAGE Publications is an independent international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media. Known for our commitment to quality and innovation, we are a world leader in our chosen scholarly, educational, and professional markets. "
target parent: Times Publishing Company
target: CQ Press
CQ Press serves the library, college, and professional markets with a diverse array of print and online products. It publishes about 100 new titles each year, with a growing list of textbooks and reference titles focusing on political science, mass communication, and related disciplines.
Zungu Investments Company (Pty) Ltd, acquired Shuter & Shooter Publishers (Pty) Ltd.
synopsis: Shuter and Shooter Publishers (Pty) Ltd, a proudly South African company has been acquired by Zungu Investments Company. Shuters publishes both educational and general books. Shuter & Shooter Publishers (Pty) Ltd. is based in Shuters House Pietermaritzburg, the capital of KwaZulu-Natal - one of nine provinces in the Republic of South Africa.
buyer: Zungu Investments Company (Pty) Ltd
Zungu Investments Co. is a deep-rooted, performance-driven investment holding company. Based in South Africa, they are a young, dynamic team of entrepreneurial professionals whose investment philosophy is guided by long-term partnerships. "
target parent: Craib Family
target: Shuter & Shooter Publishers (Pty) Ltd.
Shuters publishes both educational and general books. Shuter & Shooter Publishers (Pty) Ltd. is based in Shuters House Pietermaritzburg, the capital of KwaZulu-Natal - one of nine provinces in the Republic of South Africa.
closed 8/7/2008 via Company Press Release
Pearson Education, acquired Longman Nigeria Plc
synopsis: Pearson, the international education and information company, announces the acquisition of an additional 22% stake in Longman Nigeria, taking its ownership to a controlling 51% stake, subject to regulatory approval. Longman Nigeria is a leading educational publisher in Nigeria, the largest country in Africa.
buyer parent: Pearson plc
buyer: Pearson Education
Educating 100 million people worldwide, Pearson Education is the global leader in integrated education publishing. "
target: Longman Nigeria Plc
Longman Nigeria main business is the publication of books (book publisher), especially textbooks for the entire gamut of the educational system in Nigeria, as well as general reference and leisure reading materials.
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closed 10/25/2007 via PR Newswire
EMC/Paradigm Publishing, acquired Lawrenceville Press Inc.
synopsis: EMC Publishing, LLC, an independent educational publisher, today announced it had acquired Lawrenceville Press, Inc., a Pennington, NJ-based developer and publisher of computer applications and programming textbooks for the U.S. and Canadian school market. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
buyer parent: The Wicks Group of Companies, L.L.C.
buyer: EMC/Paradigm Publishing (:$0.00)
EMC/Paradigm publishes textbook programs for accounting/math, allied health, computer applications, developmental skills, English/communications, keyboarding, machine transcription/shorthand, office systems, psychology/human relations/careers, staff development, and world languages. "
target: Lawrenceville Press Inc.
Lawrenceville Press Inc. publishes educational and teacher-resource materials covering computer applications and programming.
announced 5/3/2007 via Company Press Release
Macmillan Publishers Ltd., will acquire Editorial Estrada, S.A
synopsis: Educational publisher Ángel Estrada y Compañía S.A., Argentina, has announced a non-binding acquisition agreement with publisher Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Under the deal, Macmillan will acquire Ángel Estrada’s publishing business by buying out Editorial Estrada, S.A, a company controlled by Ángel Estrada.
buyer parent: Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH
buyer: Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
Macmillan Publishers Limited was founded in 1843 and is part of the German media group Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH. The Macmillan group has been established in Argentina since 1998 and is a market leader in textbooks for teaching the English language. "
target parent: Ángel Estrada & Cía S.A.
target: Editorial Estrada, S.A
Editorial Estrada, S.A, the publishing division of Ángel Estrada y Compañía S.A., provides high quality, creative educational texts and complementary teaching materials.
announced 6/12/2019 via Yahoo, Inc.
Springshare, will acquire QuestionPoint
synopsis: Springshare, a provider of software solutions for libraries, will acquire QuestionPoint from OCLC, a nonprofit global library cooperative. QuestionPoint is a complete virtual reference management system that integrates chat, e-mail, a reference knowledge base, reports and analytic tools to give users a complete view of reference activity.
buyer: Springshare
Founded in 2007, Springshare is an internet software company focused on developing engaging web applications for libraries and educational institutions. Springshare offers a cloud-based platform that helps libraries thrive in a digital-first world and provide superb service to their users. "
target parent: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
target: QuestionPoint
QuestionPoint is a complete virtual reference management system that integrates chat, e-mail, a reference knowledge base, reports and analytic tools to give users a complete view of reference activity. QuestionPoint allows libraries to expand their hours of service to offer live help at anytime.
closed 12/5/2018 via Company Press Release
Infobase, acquired Credo Reference
synopsis: Infobase announced that it has acquired Credo Reference. Founded in 1999, Credo Reference is a leading provider of innovative research platforms and information literacy instructional materials serving libraries worldwide.
buyer parent: Centre Lane Partners, LLC
buyer: Infobase
Infobase, a Centre Lane Partners portfolio company, is one of America’s leading providers of supplemental educational materials to the school and library markets. Infobase is a family of highly regarded brands, including Facts On File, Ferguson’s, Bloom’s, The World Almanac®, and The Mailbox®. "
target: Credo Reference
Founded in 1999, Credo Reference is a leading provider of innovative research platforms and information literacy instructional materials serving libraries worldwide. Credo’s Online Reference Service (CORS) platform enables the flexible configuration of content, technology, and discovery services.
Grey House Publishing, purchased Sears List of Subject Headings from EBSCO Information Services
synopsis: Grey House Publishing acquired H.W. Wilson’s Sears List of Subject Headings from EBSCO Information Services. Now in its 95th year of publication, Sears List of Subject Headings has served the unique needs of small and medium-sized libraries since 1923, suggesting subject headings and sub-headings to use when adding new titles to their collections.
buyer: Grey House Publishing
Grey House Publishing has published reference works and information products for the library, school, academic and business markets since 1980, with over twenty authoritative databases of vertical industry information as well as critical reference tools in health, education, and more. "
seller parent: EBSCO Industries, Inc.
seller: EBSCO Information Services
The Sears List of Subject Headings is a thesaurus-like database delivering a core list of headings, together with examples to guide the cataloger in creating further headings as needed. Since the first edition in 1923, the Sears List has served the unique needs of small and medium sized libraries.
closed 8/2/2017 via PR Newswire
Elsevier B.V., acquired Bepress
synopsis: Elsevier, the global information analytics business specializing in science and health, acquired Bepress, a Berkeley, California-based business that helps academic libraries showcase and share their institutions' research for maximum impact.
buyer parent: RELX Group plc
buyer: Elsevier B.V.
Elsevier is a global information analytics business that helps institutions and professionals progress science, advance healthcare and improve performance for the benefit of humanity. Elsevier provides digital solutions in the areas of strategic research management, R&D performance, and more. "
target: Bepress
Founded by professors in 1999, Bepress exists to serve academia. Bepress builds hosted solutions that let academic institutions showcase and share their works for maximum impact. The Bepress model is unlimited, cloud-based, and fully hosted, and includes dedicated consulting and support.
Media Source, Inc., purchased Library Journal and School Library Journal from Reed Business Information
synopsis: Ohio-based Media Source Inc. announces that it has acquired Library Journal and School Library Journal from Reed Business Information-US. The acquisition includes all print and web products, services, supplements, and newsletters, including Library Hotline.
buyer parent: The Riverside Company
buyer: Media Source, Inc.
Media Source is the parent company of Junior Library Guild (JLG) and The Horn Book, Inc. JLG is a review and collection development service that provides books to more than 17,000 school and public libraries. The Horn Book, Inc. reviews children’s and young adult books in two print publications. "
seller parent: Reed Elsevier
seller: Reed Business Information
Reed Business Information is a leading provider of critical information and marketing solutions to business professionals in targeted industry sectors. Our market-leading properties include more than 135 business-to-business publications and over 125 Web sites.
The Gale Group, acquired HighBeam Research, Inc.
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synopsis: Gale, part of Cengage Learning, has acquired HighBeam Research, Inc., producer of the award-winning HighBeam Research Library and the online reference site Encyclopedia.com. HighBeam's growing base of content includes newspaper archives, journal articles, magazines, reference works and more.
buyer parent: Cengage Learning
buyer: The Gale Group
Gale® is a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. Best known for its accurate and authoritative reference content as well as its intelligent organization of full-text magazine and newspaper articles, the company creates more than 600 databases. "
target: HighBeam Research, Inc.
HighBeam is a premiere online library for research, facts, and articles. HighBeam also provides an in-depth online library of reference works. HighBeam’s web sites have attracted millions of unique visitors and thousands of subscribers.
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Springer Science & Business Media, purchased 29 journals, including Society from Transaction Publishers Incorporated
synopsis: Transaction Publishers is selling its journals portfolio to Springer Science+Business. In a move that will considerably expand its social sciences offering, Springer has acquired 29 journals from the New Jersey-based specialist publisher.
buyer parent: Cinven
buyer: Springer Science & Business Media
Springer Science+Business Media is a publishing company for specialist knowledge and information. They publish textbooks, reference works, databases and provide online services used by both academics, students and practitioners. "
seller: Transaction Publishers Incorporated
Transaction Publishers is a major independent publisher of social scientific books, periodicals and serials. Transaction's mission is scholarly and professional inquiry into the nature of society. Transaction offers publications in older, established disciplines as well as recently established ones.
closed 1/14/2021 via BusinessWire
Top Hat, acquired Fountainhead Press
synopsis: Toronto-based Top Hat, the leading active learning platform for higher education, has acquired Fountainhead Press, an independent press with an expansive portfolio of higher education content across multiple disciplines. Fountainhead Press brings 250 authors in disciplines spanning communication, composition, and science to Top Hat’s platform.
buyer: Top Hat
Based in Toronto, Top Hat is the only all-in-one courseware platform that enables active learning—a proven student-centred teaching pedagogy that promotes deep understanding, critical thinking, and subject mastery—with interactive content, tools, and activities. "
target: Fountainhead Press
Fountainhead Press is an independent press with an expansive portfolio of higher education content across multiple disciplines. Fountainhead Press develops high-quality textbooks with authors, producing personalized, content-rich course materials designed with student success in mind.
closed 12/2/2020 via PR Newswire
KnowFully Learning Group, acquired The Income Tax School
synopsis: KnowFully Learning Group, a leading provider of end-to-end professional education, has acquired The Income Tax School, Inc. (ITS), a provider of training programs, continuing education courses, and certificate programs for tax preparation. ITS provides e-learning solutions to tax, accounting and financial services professionals.
buyer parent: NexPhase Capital
buyer: KnowFully Learning Group
KnowFully Learning Group is a leading provider of end-to-end professional education in the accounting, finance, and healthcare sectors. KnowFully's brands enable students and professionals to prepare for and pass professional licensure exams and satisfy required credit hours to maintain credentials."
target: The Income Tax School
The Income Tax School (ITS) is a provider of training programs, continuing education courses, and certificate programs for tax preparation. ITS provides e-learning solutions to tax, accounting and financial services professionals. ITS also publishes student textbooks and instructor guides.
announced 5/26/2020 via BusinessWire
Top Hat, will purchase Canadian Domestic Higher Ed Textbook Business from Nelson Education Ltd
synopsis: Top Hat, the leading active learning platform for higher education, announced it is acquiring more than 400 higher education textbook titles published by Nelson, Canada’s largest educational publisher.
Top Hat’s all-in-one teaching platform enables professors to connect with students inside and outside the classroom with engaging content, tools, and activities. "
seller: Nelson Education Ltd
The acquisition includes 400 higher education textbook titles published by Nelson, Canada's leading educational publisher providing innovative products and solutions for learners of all ages.
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, acquired Zed Books Limited
synopsis: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, a global independent publisher, has acquired Zed Books Limited, the London-based academic and non-fiction publisher. Zed will operate within Bloomsbury's Academic & Professional division, strengthening its offerings in African Studies and Development Studies.
buyer: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (LSE:BMY:$182.14)
Bloomsbury Publishing is a global independent publisher across trade, specialist, professional, school, and higher education markets. Its Academic division publishes around 1,800 titles per year, specializing in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. "
target: Zed Books Limited
UK-based Zed is the world's largest publishing collective that operates in two divisions, Zed Books and Zed Scholar. Zed Books publishes socially and politically meaningful books for general readers. Zed Scholar is an award-winning, academic publisher of critical social science research.
Taylor & Francis Group, acquired F1000 Research
synopsis: Taylor & Francis has acquired open research publisher F1000 Research from its founder Vitek Tracz. F1000 Research launched the world’s first open research publishing platform in 2013; it also provides open research publishing services directly to research funders and institutions including Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
buyer parent: Informa plc
buyer: Taylor & Francis Group
Taylor & Francis Group partners with researchers, scholarly societies, universities and libraries worldwide to bring knowledge to life. Taylor & Francis is a leading publisher of scholarly journals, books, ebooks and reference works in Humanities, Science, Technology and Medicine, and more "
target: F1000 Research
F1000 Research is an open research publisher based in London, founded by Vitek Tracz. F1000 Research launched the world’s first open research publishing platform in 2013; it also provides open research publishing services directly to research funders and institutions including Emerald Publishing.
announced 7/1/2019 via BusinessWire
Wiley, will acquire Zyante
synopsis: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., a global leader in research and education, announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Zyante Inc., a leading provider of computer science and STEM education courseware. Zyante was founded in 2012 and its zyBooks platform has served over 500,000 students across 500 institutions.
buyer: Wiley (NYSE:JW.A:$1,864.09)
Wiley drives the world forward with research and education. Through publishing, platforms and services, they help students, researchers, universities, and corporations to achieve their goals in an ever-changing world. "
target: Zyante
Zyante Inc. is a leading provider of computer science and STEM education courseware. Zyante was founded in 2012 and its zyBooks platform has served over 500,000 students across 500 institutions.
closed 3/6/2019 via BNC Analysis
Inflexion Private Equity Partners LLP, acquired Times Higher Education
synopsis: Inflexion Private Equity has acquired Times Higher Education (THE) from TPG Capital (TPG), the global private equity platform of alternative asset firm TPG. THE is the world leader in university data, rankings and content, with institutions, academics, students, industry and governments utilising the information to gain insight.
buyer: Inflexion Private Equity Partners LLP
Inflexion is a UK mid-market private equity firm. They invest in high growth, entrepreneurial businesses and work with them to accelerate growth. Inflexion’s flexible approach allows it to back both majority and minority investments, typically investing £10m to £150m of equity in each deal. "
target parent: TPG Capital
target: Times Higher Education
Times Higher Education (THE) is the world leader in university data, rankings and content, with institutions, academics, students, industry and governments utilising the information to gain insight, inform strategic priorities, benchmark, assess and select higher education institutions.
closed 12/19/2018 via BNC Analysis
P&V Holding AG, acquired Manz Verlag Schulbuch GmbH
synopsis: P & V Holding takes over MANZ Schulbuch Verlag. The previous owners, MANZ GmbH (Stein and Fliri families) and Wolters Kluwer, transferred their shares in MANZ Schulbuch GmbH to P & V Holding. The MANZ Schulbuch Verlag publishes educational materials for vocational schools. They are based in Vienna.
buyer: P&V Holding AG
The P & V Holding AG is the holding company of printing and publishing group and other companies, in which about 500 people are employed. The group is based in Vienna. "
target parent: MANZ GmbH
target: Manz Verlag Schulbuch GmbH
The MANZ Schulbuch Verlag publishes educational materials for vocational schools. The catalog currently contains 295 titles, and each year about 100 new titles and new editions are published. MANZ Schulbuch Verlag is based in Vienna, Austria.
announced 7/13/2018 via PR Newswire
LendingTree, Inc., will acquire Student Loan Hero
synopsis: LendingTree, Inc., America's leading online loan marketplace, will acquire Student Loan Hero, a personal finance website dedicated to helping student loan borrowers manage their student debt. Student Loan Hero provides current and former students in-depth financial comparison tools, educational resources, and unbiased, personalized advice.
buyer: LendingTree, Inc. (TREE:$723.15)
LendingTree, Inc. operates America's leading online loan marketplace and provides consumers with an array of online tools and information to help them find the best loans for their needs. LendingTree's online marketplace connects consumers with multiple lenders that compete for their business. "
target: Student Loan Hero
Student Loan Hero combines tools with financial education to help people manage and pay off their student loans. The website provides advice and educational resources that help users to find the best student loan for them. Their tools allow users to sync loan data and calculate repayment scenarios.
Ticker: BSE:540497
S Chand Group
S. Chand is the leading publisher of education content and digital solutions in India with an established brand selling over 24 million books. They specialize in Children Books, School Books K-12, Higher Academics Books, Engineering, Professional & Technical Books and more.
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Ticker: NYSE:JW.A
Wiley is a global provider of knowledge and knowledge-enabled services that improve outcomes in areas of research, professional practice and education. Wiley provides digital and print scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals, reference works, books, database services, and advertising.
Ticker: ENXTAM:BRILL
Founded in 1683, Brill is a publishing house with a rich history and a strong international focus. Brill’s publications focus on the Humanities and Social Sciences, International Law and selected areas in the Sciences.
Ticker: OTCPK:PBYA
ProBility Media Corp.
ProBility Media Corp. is an education and training technology company. ProBility is executing a disruptive strategy of defragmenting the training market place by offering high quality training courses and materials and preparing the workforce for excellence.
Ticker: KLSE:SASBADI
Sasbadi Holdings Berhad
Sasbadi is a publisher of books and educational aids for the school-going children of Malaysia. Sasbadi is an essential guide for students and teachers in elite smart schools in the cities, as well as simple schools in the kampungs.
Ticker: KROT3
Kroton Educacional S.A.
Kroton is one of the largest private educational organizations in Brazil and worldwide, operating in the primary and secondary education segment for over 45 years and in the postsecondary education segment for more than 10 years.
Ticker: TSE:9470
Gakken Co. Ltd.
The Gakken Group is involved in the daily lives of people on many different levels through its broad scope of business activities. Gakken carries out wide-ranging publishing activities, provides various classrooms and preparatory schools, and other preschool- and school-related activities.
Ticker: PCSV
PCS Edventures, Inc.
PCS Edventures!.com, Inc. is a developer of STEM – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – education products for preschool through college students.
Ticker: CEDU
ChinaEdu
ChinaEdu Corporation's primary business is to provide comprehensive educational services to the online degree programs of leading Chinese universities, including academic program development, technology services, enrollment marketing, student support services and finance operations.
Ticker: SCHL
Scholastic is the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books, a leading provider of print and digital instructional materials for pre-K to grade 12, and a producer of educational and entertaining children’s media.
Ticker: LRN
K12 Inc., a technology-based education company, is America’s largest provider of proprietary curriculum and online education programs for students in kindergarten through high school.
Ticker: OTCPK:SCOO
School Specialty, Inc.
School Specialty is a leading distributor of innovative and proprietary products, programs and services to the education marketplace. The Company designs, develops, and provides educators with the latest and very best school supplies, furniture and both curriculum & supplemental learning resources.
Ticker: NYSE:SPGI
S&P Global is a leading provider of transparent and independent ratings, benchmarks, analytics and data to the capital and commodity markets worldwide. The Company’s divisions include S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Dow Jones Indices and S&P Global Platts.
Ticker: HMHC
As a global leader in K–12 education, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) provides comprehensive learning solutions to help all students achieve their maximum potential. HMH also delights readers throughout the world with award-winning children's books, novels, non-fiction, and reference titles.
ItoKuro Inc.
Founded in 2006, ItoKuro is a Japanese company that operates comparison websites for cram schools and preparatory schools. Their websites covers schools for elementary school to high school students. The company also offers marketing services to the education industry.
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[Source: INDYCAR PR]
INDIANAPOLIS (Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013) – INDYCAR announced today that Chevrolet and Honda will provide distinct aerodynamic configurations for the IndyCar Series chassis beginning in 2015.
As part of its long-range focus on innovation, INDYCAR announced in June that aerodynamic bodywork “kits” would be introduced and utilized for all 2015 races and include separate specifications for superspeedways and road/street/short ovals.
The bodywork components mated to the Dallara rolling chassis will provide INDYCAR a platform for performance and efficiency developments. Fans can look forward to cars with new, distinctive looks that are branded by the manufacturers. This is a significant element in a suite of technical changes that make the cars capable of achieving higher speeds.
“Aero kits will improve the diversity of the fan experience and renew technical engagement, while providing a controlled cost structure,” said Derrick Walker, president of competition and operations, INDYCAR.
The forward-thinking program is relevant to short- and long-term design and development objectives of the global automotive industry and aligns with research and development in multiple technology sectors. Additionally, an entrant’s aero kits will be aligned with its manufacturer, with the car incorporating the name given by the supplier.
Beginning with 2016, additional engine manufacturers and/or third party vendors will be eligible to be an INDYCAR-approved supplier. Correspondingly, Chevrolet and Honda will be able to upgrade their aero kits, which will be approved through homologation.
“We are excited to be an IndyCar-approved supplier of an aero kit for our Chevrolet-powered teams beginning with the 2015 racing season,” said Chris Berube, Chevrolet Racing Program Manager for IndyCar Series. “It is a unique situation in non-production based series to provide engines and aerodynamic body kits. This will allow Chevrolet to impact a wider bandwidth of car performance which comes with increased responsibility to our teams to put them in a position to win. We are confident that our collective team of technical partners are capable, enabled and focused to succeed.”
Added Honda Performance Development Inc., Technical Director Roger Griffiths: “We’re looking forward to the introduction of aero kits in 2015. Along with continuing engine development, aero kits will provide another area for innovation and manufacturer competition. The introduction of bespoke bodywork from Honda and Chevrolet will provide fans with additional brand identification and that can only help IndyCar racing.”
Examples of areas open for development by INDYCAR-approved aero configuration manufacturers include sidepods, engine cover and oval front wing main plane and end plates. Potential alterations to the car’s undertray in an effort to advance safety are under consideration. On-track testing begins Oct. 6, 2014, and closes Jan. 18, 2015.
Highlights of the regulations:
• No entrant may use more than two aero kits during a season. The 2012 Dallara aero kit is approved as one of the aero kits.
• Dallara will continue to supply a number of standard components that affect aerodynamic performance.
• For the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race, an entrant may use more than one aero kit during practice sessions. The aero kits utilized in qualifications must be used in the race.
• Entrants will be charged no more than $75,000 per aero kit by the supplier, inclusive of all components, but excluding fasteners. A 2016 upgrade kit will cost no more than $15,000.
• Six days of pre-production testing have been approved, with each supplier using a maximum of two cars from entrants. Engine mileage accrued will not count against the entrants’ 10,000-mile-per-year allocation or engine count.
The aerodynamic platforms will complement engine manufacturer competition that returned to the IndyCar Series in 2012 following a six-year period in which Honda was the sole supplier.
For the 2014 season, both manufacturers will supply consumer-relevant 2.2-liter, twinturbocharged V6 engines using E85 fuel.
Tags: Chevrolet, Honda, Verizon IndyCar Series - Technical
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A UK woman has an extra cone cell in her eyes and can see more colors
by ideapod | Aug 15, 2017 | Uncategorized |
Most people are trichromats.
Most animals are dichromats.
In some rare cases some women might be a tetrachromats.
Okay, I see you have lost me. I’ll teach you what I myself have just learned.
We see color because of specialized nerve cells in the retina called cones, which function only in bright light. Most people are trichromats which means they have three of these cones to perceive color with. Each cone cell is capable of perceiving about 100 different colors, so the total number of colors a trichromatic person can perceive is 100ᶟ, or one million.
As you can probably guess, most animals are dichromats and have two cones. As do color-blind people who can only perceive 10,000 shades.
Tetrachromats, which include certain fish, birds, and insects, and some humans, have four different types of cone cells. This is a very rare condition and affords the person the ability to see an incredible 100 million colors.
Discover Magazine reported in 2012 that Newcastle University neuroscientist Gabriele Jordan and her colleagues had been searching for people with this super-vision and after more than 25 years finally found one.
A doctor living in northern England, referred to only as cDa29 in the literature, is the first tetrachromat known to science.
The idea that tetrachromats might exist was hinted at in 1948 when Dutch scientist HL de Vries, discovered something interesting about the eyes of color blind people. While color blind men only possess two normal cone cells and one mutant cone that’s less sensitive to either green or red light, De Vries showed that the mothers and daughters of color blind men had one mutant cone and three normal cones, in other word four cone cells. The possibility was that people who possessed an extra cone cell would be able to see a much greater range of colors than the rest of us.
It was only in the late 1980’s that John Mollon from Cambridge University started searching for women who might have four functioning cone cells. Assuming that color blind men pass this fourth cone cell onto their daughters, Mollon tested such women but couldn’t find anyone with unusual color perception.
Was tetrechomats just a figment of scientific imagination?
Then, in 2007, Jordan, who had formerly worked alongside Mollon, tried a different test. She found 25 women who had a fourth type of cone cell, and put them in a dark room. She presented the women with three flashing colored circles that they peered at through a lab device.
To a tetrachromat, though, one circle would stand out because it was not a pure color but a subtle mixture of red and green light randomly generated by a computer. Only a tetrachromat would be able to perceive the difference, thanks to the extra shades made visible by her fourth cone.
When one of the woman was able to distinguish the extra shades, Jordan was ecstatic.
“We now know tetrachromacy exists,” she told Greenwood. “But we don’t know what allows someone to become functionally tetrachromatic, when most four-coned women aren’t.”
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Clerk’s Committee Minutes from October 24, 2014
Clerk’s Committee Meeting Minutes
Dean’s Conference Room
Attending: Dave Dobson (Clerk), Edwins Gwako (Social Sciences), Adrienne Israel (Vice President for Academic Affairs & Academic Dean), Sherry Giles (Business & Policy, and Sports Studies), Lisa McLeod (Humanities), Jeffrey Ray (SGA), Steve Shapiro (Natural Sciences & Mathematics), Zhihong Chen (Recording Clerk).
Not attending: Tim Lindeman (Arts), Colin Macintosh (Community Senate).
The meeting started with a moment of silence.
The minutes from October 3 Clerk’s meeting were approved.
Nomination for Honorary Degree
So far there is only one nominee for the honorary degree. The Clerk’s Committee will rank the nominee(s) and forward our recommendation to the President. It is not expected that the college award honorary degrees every year. There will be further discussion on this at the next Clerk’s meeting.
Proposed Changes to Music Major
The Music Department proposed to increase the number of requirements for the Bachelor of Arts in Music from 8 credits in Performance Studies to 12 credits, with the requirement that the student take Performance Studies every semester. The main purpose of this proposal is to keep the upper level students involved in the major. The Clerk’s Committee approved this proposal, and will announce it on Beacon.
Proposed Changes to Chemistry Major
The Chemistry Department proposed to add CHEM 310: Quantitative Analysis (2 credits) to the chemistry curriculum as part of the department’s efforts to become approved by the American Chemical Society (CAS) to grant a B.S. – ACS certified degree. The Clerk’s Committee approved the proposal and will announce it on Beacon.
Proposed Grading Policy for Removed Faculty
The Clerk’s Committee approved the proposal with the recommendation to change the word “removed” (or “removal”) to “replaced” (or “replacement”). The Clerk’s also suggested to add a reference to grading policy in the Faculty Handbook to the proposal. The proposal will not go to the faculty meeting. Dave will edit the proposal and send it to the President for it to be updated by Human Resources.
Proposed Biotechnology Major
The Biology Department proposed to establish a Biotechnology, B.S. major utilizing existing courses and resources at Guilford as well as at other area institutions. The Curriculum Committee has approved it after suggesting some revisions to the proposal.
The Clerk’s Committee recognized the creative nature of this idea and the Biology Department’s great effort at making Guilford more attractive to students in drafting this proposal. At the same time, the committee members also expressed some concerns as follows:
Practicality: how feasible is it for students to take at least two classes in the major at other institutions? Is there transportation?
Ethics: there is limited coverage of ethics in the proposed major.
Distinctiveness: how is our biotechnology major different from other biotechnology programs in this area? Are we the only institution that offers this major at night?
Cost difference: since the tuition at one institution is different from that at another, will students feel OK paying a higher tuition at Guilford while taking classes at a lower tuition school such as GTCC? Also, for CCE students who have taken credits at community colleges, it works for them to transfer their credits and finish their degree at Guilford. But is this cost structure friendly to traditional students who come with no transferred credits? It seems that traditional students have to pay more to get the same degree.
Enrollment: the CCE survey data from Rita is several years old. We don’t know the current need among the CCE for this major. Is it realistic to gear the major towards transfer students?
Catalog Description: the various courses listed in the catalog description need to be further sorted out. For example, there are three Biotechnology courses listed in the “Tools in Biotechnology”: BIO 280 (GTCC), BIO 348 (Elon), and BIO 427(Bennett). Are they the same course?
The Clerk’s Committee decided to invite Michele Malotky to the next Clerk’s Committee meeting to talk about the proposal and answer questions.
Topics for Faculty Meeting on Nov. 5
Possible topics for the next faculty meeting:
Biotechnology major proposal
General education curriculum revision
The meeting closed with a moment of silence.
Submitted by Zhihong Chen.
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The Return of Thunder Famoso
Ryouji, Hanami, Tatsuo, Hisomu, Red
A simple escort mission to the land of lightning's border turns out to be the end for one Thunder Famoso.
Poster's note: foul language filtered in obvious places.
"The Return of Thunder Famoso"
Land of Lightning
Ryouji says behind a door in the Raikage's office, "But Michiko-chan, I can't take a genin mission right now. Um…I've got training to do." Some more muffled voices. Ryouji calls out, "Well fine, you drive a hard bargain. I'll take them out." Ryouji opens the door and looks back, "But don't think I'll enjoy it." He slips the scroll into a pocket and isn't pleased by this mission.
A mission summons has been given to each genin, Hanami, Tatsuo, Hisomu, and even Red if he's taking missions. An escort mission of an old man and his merchant wagon out of the border of the land of lightning. He must be a paranoid merchant, because at the border, there's supposed to be another group of ninja waiting there to complete the escort mission into the next country. It's only a D rank mission and a perfect outing for the genin of the village, new or experienced. Ryouji hasn't made it to the front gates yet. But the old man is, he's waiting with his cart right outside the gates. He's slumped in the seat of his cart, a pair of donkeys are sitting there chewing on some grass content not to want to move. He's wearing a simple green vest, brown pants, and a large kasa perfect for keeping the sun out of his eyes. In the back of his cart are several bags of merchandise to peddle in the next country's hidden village.
Hanami got her summons and was eager to set out on a mission, even a simple escort mission. Stretch her legs, get out some. Do her good. So she makes sure to pack up her gear and hurries to the gates. She sees the old man and his wagon and approaches politely, "Hello there sir, I assume you're the one who hired us for escort? My name is Shinatobe Hanami, a pleasure to meet you." She gives a bow and polite smile, glancing around for the others, especially Ryouji.
Despite being a visitor to this Village, Red joins this mission as an 'honourable' guest, having been granted access to join these low level tasks by the offices of the Raikage. And so, with his thick bomber jacket, baggy pants and boots (all of which appear far too big for someone his size), the boy wanderer fronts up. A backpack is slung across his shoulder, the red eyed youth looking about at those who have gathered about.
"My name is Red!" He declares happily, hands going to his hips in a braizen manner. "Please be gentle with me." The big toothy grin is beamed far and wide. Even at the old man!
"Oho, old man! You're in luck today. No harm will definitely come to you with US protecting you!"
There's an almost heartbeat feeling coming from Hisomu as she sits away from the village sweating. Her body sitting in the lotus position as she meditates, concentrating inwardly. Her mind trying to focus on the thing inside of her that has grown more and more frustrated with the girl over time. Even as she tries to tame it and her emotions, her meditation and concentration is shattered by the arrival of a summons. She takes a shakey moment to read it before moving off toward hte village entrance of Kumogakure. As she arrives, she gives a bow to Ryouji, "Hello." She states, "I am reporting." She then looks to Hanami before llooking to Red and giving him a once over.
Tatsuo is here visiting the Hidden Cloud with Kaido for a months time as part of a training mission, both for the team to learn about their allies as well as a chance for Kaido to visit folks and even do a little of his specialty training. As part of it all they were also going out on missions if requested, leading Tatsuo to arrive at the gates, tugging at his Konoha hitai-ate around his arm nervously as he stops and looks at all those gathered, offering a half bow to all of them in general, then just kind of…hangs back, not saying anything for now. He's here, that's all they need right?
The old man looks down from his wagon and tips his kasa hat up to look at the genin for a moment. He narrows his eyes and says, "Huh? Well now, you all don't look like much. Well, I get what I pay for." He counts Tatsuo, Hisomu, Hanami, and Red, "Wait a second, there's supposed to be five here. I paid for a team of five. Where's the booming fifth one?"
At that point, Ryouji appears at the gates with a ring puff of speed radiating out from his feet. He lifts a hand in greeting and says, "Hey all, sorry about being late. I had issues with something that needed my attention. But, it looks like you all made it, good job." He looks between the four genin here and grins. "Now, let's see." He pulls out the scroll and opens it. He looks at it, then looks up at the old man and says, "You're Yuu-san, correct? You need an escort to the border where we're to meet a ninja team who we'll hand you to them." The old man grumps and says, "Of course, that's right. I'm Mr Yuu, don't forget it. You all have to protect me and my goods, right?" Ryouji grins and waves a hand, "I'm the leader for the mission and a chuunin. I can assure you, we'll protect you with our lives. But it shouldn't have to come to that." He claps his rubs his hands, "So, should we be going?" Without saying much after that, Mr Yuu picks up the reins to his donkeys and they start clopping along the stones leading away from the village at a walking pace. Ryouji looks around at the genin and nods, "I'm Reizei Ryouji, perhaps we should introduce each of us to the others, ah, since some of us I haven't seen before."
Hanami nods quietly to the disgruntled Mr. Yuu, then waves to Ryouji when he appears. As Mr. Yuu takes off she turns to the others, Hisomu the only one she recognized, the others foreign-nin visiting. She smiles, "Hi there, I'm Shinatobe Hanami. Nice to meet you, look forward to working with other village shinobi." She gives a quick nod of her head as she eyes the wagon and moves to take off after it before it gets too far, preparing for any trouble if it comes to it.
As the other shinobi begin to trickle in, Red looks to each one with a careful gaze, though a friendly expression. A wave is given to all, and a small bow of his head once Ryouji arrives so swiftly. Once the wagon begins to trundle along, Red thrusts a fist into the air. "MISSION! MISSION! YEAH, YEAH!!" Yep, he's pumped. Mega pumped even! "Like I said, I'm Red. I'm the demon from the Snow! Um, but I'm still learning water walking. So if we come over a body of water, I'm going to have to jump one someone's shoulders." Some demon. Oy.
"Nice to meet everyone. I'll try my best to get old man Yuu, his donkeys and cart to the border safely."
A nod is given as she is asked to introduce herslef and Hisomu states, "I am Hebisuuhai Hisomu." SHe nods her head, "I am also looking forward to working with you." She looks at the 'demon' of the snow and then shakes her head a little before glancing to Tatsuo. She hmms as she looks at him a moment and then walks forward to prepare to go, checking her blades, her outfit, her tools, and then herself, "I am prepared to protect this merchant."
Tatsuo watches the exchange between the client and the other Genin, then the Chuunin in charge. Maybe he got in over his head with this here mission. But it's too late now to back out so he just has to stay. The boy swallows loudly as Ryouji asks them to introduce themselves and he gives another half bow. "I'm Tatsuo from Konohagakure," the boy says as way of introduction, skipping over the family name for some reason. How odd. As they start to depart he follows after, kind of hanging back so as to not be in the way of the others. He's a foreigner after all…they all know each other, he doesn't know any of them. His eyes hang around Hisomu for a few extra, uncertain seconds as they go.
Yuu tips his hat back down as he drives the wagon. It's not moving too fast, so keeping up isn't an issue. The donkeys call out as Yuu says, "Shuddap, you're both too loud." He looks down at Red's antics and lifts the hat back up, "Demon from the snow huh? I ain't never seen a demon of the snow." He snorts and chuckles, "Don't oversell yourself kid." Ryouji smiles and looks over at Red, "Well, I do like your eagerness." He holds out a fist for Red to bump. The village soon disappears as the group soon turns and heads southwest, leading to the mountain road that'll take the group to the land of frost in a few days hike. The trip is uneventful and the group reaches the meeting place, a high pass in the mountains leading to the flat cold lands of the 'land of frost'. The donkeys call out and stomp their feet as they grow nervous with the wind cutting through the pass, moaning amongst the rocks. Suddenly, the wind stops and all is quiet. Then, from everywhere at once, this begins playing
A man appears on a cliff over head after a few moments. He's dressed as a luchador wrestler with wrestling tights that are cut just above the knees, a red and yellow mask with a fire motif running down the sides, and a few pouches around a belt for ninja tools he might use. He looks really strong and well muscled, despite his comical looks. His gloved arms are out wide and says, "Salutations, ninos. You are all fortunate enough to be graced by…me! Introductions are in order! I am the master of the square ring! Master of all beasts! Master of all women! Bandit of bandits! Thunder Famoso! Perhaps you've heard of me, no?" He gives a broad smile, his teeth are even sparkling and one of them pings. Several ninja, they could be called that, wonder out from behind rocks in the pass, each playing mariachi instraments. Trumpets, those little guitar things, even one has castainets…he's not very good at playing anything else. Thunder Famoso calls out, "Now then, my little ninos. Who will give me trubute for passing by, Thunder Famoso?! What you have in your wagon would be just fine, HA! Thunder Famoso has won again!" He points, "Get them, my mariachi ninja!" The four instrament ninja stop playing as they pull out kunai and throw them at Hanami, Red, Hisomu and Tatsuo before rushing for them.
Ryouji just…stares. "I…wow." he is stunned for a moment, then points, "Ok guys, protect the wagon and keep those guys from getting the stuff." He looks up at Famoso, "You're not getting this stuff…you." He rubs the bridge of his nose, "I'm not even going to say your name guy…it's…too bad. Crash, look out!" Ryouji is mostly out of the fight unless the genin need his help.
Hanami keeps her senses alert, the wind around her bringing her information and her expanded though unhoned chakra sense alert beyond that. She's kind of amused by the gusto of the 'Demon of the Snow', but everyone seems in good standing. Hanging on the left side near the front she senses the chakra of Thunder as he appears, cursing herself for not being sharper, to give a warning. Instead they're ambushed. And by those clowns, she had thought they would've been dealt with by now, but no. Part of her wanted to charge up at him, the guy and his cronies annoyed her but she wasn't dumb enough to rush that group, especially on an escort mission. So as the kunai rain down she gathers her chakra to her and dances out of the way deftly. She glares up at him, "Think you're all that huh?" While not leaving the wagon, she can still return the favor and unleashing two wind kunai straight at Thunder while a third goes to one of his lackeys beside him. "Ryouji, you going up or we all staying down here to defend? Anyone able to bring them down to us?"
"Heh heh!" Red beams with approval as he fist bumps Ryouji, before tucking his hands behind his head as he continues to walk. The trek down the hill wasn't too difficult. Almost leisurely, really! Much easier than the walk it will take to get back up to the top. "You're in luck, old man Yuu. Now you can say that you have." Down and down the winding path they go, eventually reaching the meeting point without fanfare. "Aruh?" Red gawks in confusion, looking around. "Aren't we meant to be seeing people around now?"
Of course, that is the least of his concerns when out comes a group far more braizen than Red could have ever dreamed of. The boy blinks with his red eyes, gawking at the wrestler atop his perch. "That… mask… is… AWESOME! I WANT IT!" The wandering lad begins to clench his fists, before turns to face the shinobi that round on the escort group. As Rouji gives the official command to defend and attack, the so called 'Demon' flicks a thumb up, before jumping to the side! His sideways leap carries him across the dirt, where he comes to a sliding stop. Reaching into his pouch, three shuriken are sent spinning with one single throwing motion! They spin for the attacking ninja, spiralling through the air to meet the target.
A whipped out kunai of her own has Hisomu ducking low and throwing it charged with chakra right for the same ninja that threw a kunai at her. She then stands up straight as she simply makes one seal that isn't actually all that necessary. Chakra mixes in her throat as she breathes in deeply before appearing nearer to the group and unleashing a cloud of poisonous smoke right from her throat and sending it right toward the group. The cloud flows out at the group to whip over them and likely give them something nasty to deal with. A few hand seals later and her hands hit the ground before behind Thunder Famoso a copy of Hisomu will rise up and lunge for him to try to hit him right in the small of his back, "You are annoying and need to die." Her voice somewhat monotone when she states that and stands up, "Do so, preferably quickly."
Staying near the back of the traveling group proves to be at least partially beneficial as they travel. Sure the whole walking and guarding thing isn't so bad and he keeps watch as best as he can, but he's not…super amazing at any of it. He also stays silent throughout the whole trip, just listening to the others but kind of being by himself. The only Konoha shinobi and already very much a loner…just doesn't work. When the weird people appear and throw kunai it only takes a second for water to appear and shoot in a stream between him and the weapon to deflect it away. As the others move in to attack he watches even as he makes seals. Too many people directly in between him and the band, so there's only one option. He throws water needles into the air at an angle so that instead of going through the Kumo nin they will rain down on the Marichia crew.
The kunai thrown from the mariachi miss their targets or are blocked by each as Thunder Famoso shakes his head, "These ninos need to be taught a lesson. Never send a mariachi to do a MAN'S job!" Then through the attacks from Hanami one of the mariachi goes down, face planting onto the ground and goes still. Red hits his target with one of his shuriken, cutting the ninja mariachi a bit, but not enough to slow it down. Then Hisomu's poision breath shoots out engulfing the area and poisoning most of them. The earth clone however, appears next to Famoso and strikes him. A shaddering boom sounds out from the hit, but Thunder only crosses his arms and blocks the hit, not moving an inch. "Well now, guess Thunder Famoso needs to join the fight! Here I come!" He leaps from the cliff above and drops down, kicking out at Tatsuo after the water needles strike into another one of the Mariachi's, injuring that one again. "Dynamic Entry!" Thunder shouts out as he kicks. The other three remaining mariachi throw out another set of kuani as they reach the genin. But with one down and the rest woudned, they don't seem like they'll last very much longer.
Ryouji probably does not need to jump into this, besides being a bit worried about Thunder Famoso. He lets the genin handle it while he protects Mr Fuu making sure nothing bad happens to him.
Hanami watches as success seems to lean their way some for now, which is good. And then Thunder seems to shrug off their attacks and join the fray, crashing down to attack Tatsuo. Ryouji has Mr Yuu's defense well in hand and though the mariachi above are few one kunai finds its mark slicing her arm. So close too! Time enough to get upset later, she unleashes a wind kunai at the mariachi that hit her while continuing to move on Thunder. She reaches into her pouch and unleashes a cloud of powder using her wind chakra to move it straight for the man. If it comes in contact with him he'll feel weaker, which is what she hopes will happen.
Red clears his throat when two of his shuriken miss, but one hits. "Heh!" He smirks in victory, brushing the edge of his thumb against his nose. "Not many can keep up with my blistering shuriken throwing." Obviously a lie. "Time to go all out!" With this, Red charges forward! Swinging his right arm around in a windmill fashion, his left hand comes around to grip his right shoulder. "ORIYAAAA!" Leaping into the air (at the same time dodging the incoming kunai attacks), Red spins and twirls, before ideally LANDING on his opponent with a flurry of hard pressed kicks right into his neck and head!
With Thunder arriving to the battle-scene afar, the boy mutters something under his breath. But, one thing at a time. This first!
The dome of Earth flies up behind Hisomu as she hears the call out of the mariachi idiots lead by Thunder Idioso. Hisomu sighs and shakes her head as she sends up another clone made out of Earth. She sends it to try to slam into Thunder from behind while he attacks Tatsuo. Then she is forced to quickly repurpose her earth dome into another clone that she attempts to send tackling at the mariachi ninja who seems to be focusing on her.
Tatsuo blinks in surprise as the damage is done to the mariachi troupe. He's so focused on who had already attacked him that by the time he realizes the main man is barrelling down on him he can't complete the hand seals in time and he gets smashed into by the flying kick, sending the boy flying back and bouncing along the ground a few times before he can get back to his feet, using a hand on the ground to help balance him before he fully stands. That hurt. As he straightens he's already moving through seals and water forms up in front of him in a large, spherical, quite sharp lance. Without a word and with his eyes narrowed in focus on Famoso he shoots the lance towards the man…and follows it immediately by a second.
The battle is certainly going quick as the genin are punching the lights out of the mariachi ninja. Hanami responds from that kunai with a wind sharp of her own, but the mariachi ducks out of the way grinning and even blowing a few notes of the guy's trumpet, very classy. The fatigue smoke however drifts over to Thunder as he sucks in his breath to laugh from the kick, taking in some of the smoke and coughing on it. Red's attacker clenches his feet as Red gets out of the way of the last kunai he threw. But his face is a blur as Red pounds the Mariachi into submission, sending his limp body bouncing away and it goes still. Hisomu's mariachi target, unable to block the earth clone, is flattened by the hard fist of the clone before it crumbles away. He's either out or dead. But the killer attack goes to Tatuso.
Thunder Famoso laughs at the smaller genin and says, "Please, a little water will never EVER hurt Thunder Famoso." He's breathing hard though and doesn't look so good. As Tatsuo draws up the water and fires out the two lances, they penetrate Thunder Famoso while he's laughing. He stops laughing. The look of shock on his face as he looks down at the reddening water lances sticking through his body is enough to make anyone take notice. His body slumps forward as he says, "I…am…Thunder…gack…*gurgle*" then his head drops forward, eyes still looking out but now lifeless.
Ryouji slides his swords back into their sayas, he didn't even need those it seems. Ryouji looks over at the genin and nods, "Good job, everyone. Make sure the bodies are taken care of. We'll wait here for the ninja team from the land of frost. Is there anyone that is wounded bad?" He makes note that he should get first aid one of these days. But, since he's in charge, he has yet to really do anything in this mission. It's the Genin's time to shine anyway, no sense in Ryouji jumping in.
Hanami smiles, "Nice job Tatsuo, way to show him not to underestimate one's opponent. Not that it matters to him now!" She gives the boy a thumbs up, though still listening to Ryouji and turning to give him a nod. "Nothing major, slice of a kunai but I'll live." She bandages it, not really with medical skill but most people can wrap a bandage anyways. Moving swiftly she makes her way up to where the mariachi are to do just that. After that's taken care of she'll come back down and likely wait out the arrival of the other ninja team quietly.
"Tatsuo!" Red cries, watching the Nara kid bouncing around from the attack. With his own physical blows raining down on the enemy ninja, knocking him out, the boy wanderer turns his attention upon Thunder. Who is … well … slumping forward! VICTORY!
"Yosha!" Cries Red, who walks back towards the carriage, donkeys and other shinobi with a beaming face. "I didn't even get hit! Fufu!" Rubbing his nose with his index finger, it's clear that he seems happy with that little victory. "You guys smashed everyone real good!" A look goes up to the older citizen, where Red flicks a thumb up. "See, old man? I told ya. You'll be safe with us here to look after you! Oh."
Remembering something, Red skittles over to Thunder's body, keen to obtain that mask. "Do you think he'd mind if I took this?"
And it is over. Hisomu watches as the masked man slumps and then she looks to Tatsuo with a nod, "Well done." She states to him before her gaze goes to the loud Red. She places her hand to her face, finger rubbing the bridge of her nose and then she states, "Don't take teh mask off that man. If he looks half as bad as he sounded, the view may very well kill us all." She then looks to Ryouji with a nod, "I will find a high point and watch for the other batch of shinobi."
Tatsuo releases his hold on the chakra in the water, letting it splash to the ground. It's only then that what happened kind of actually sinks in and he blinks, looking a bit…surprised. He'd just reacted, it hadn't really been anything he'd planned. He certainly hadn't planned on killing the guy. But…oops. Well, what was done was done. When Ryouji asks about injuries he shakes his head, "I…um…I'm fine…thanks…" he says, tone soft. Now that the adrenaline has died down some it's just a bit…strange. Especially when other people say he did a good job. He ducks his head a bit and mutters out a few 'Thanks' to people before looking to Red as he wants to take the mask. "Um…I don't think it matters…he's dead…" Well duh! He helps with the bodies and all that as well, once again silent and just kind of watching the others.
Soon after the adreline dies down and things return to 'normal', the Frost ninja show up. They were late, held up by bandits on their own side of the border. Old man Yuu looks at the genin and nods, "My thanks for escorting me here and protecting me. At first, I didn't think you guys could do it. But guess I was wrong with that." He looks over at the white and blue frost ninja and says, "You guys should be more like them, really. They're better than I thought." He clicks his tongue and the donkeys being trotting down the trail. He lifts a hand as a farewell to the genin, "Take care now…"
Ryouji has pulled out lunch and is eating a sticky rice ball in his hand. He mumbles, "Common, we should head back to the village. I'll file the report once we get back."
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MediaPunch Signs A 10-Year Exclusive Deal With The Ralph Dominguez Collection
Innovative celebrity photo agency, MediaPunch, enters into a ten-year deal with The Ralph Dominguez Collection that chronicles his life journey and work as a photographer
MediaPunch has again reiterated their goal of bringing celebrities closer to their fans as the New York-based agency recently entered into a 10-year exclusive deal with Hollywood Photographer, Ralph Dominguez. The new deal will set the tone for the Ralph Dominguez Collection, digitizing images of the talented Hollywood celebrity photographer that spans over three decades. The recent feat is also a testament to MediaPunch’s increasing popularity and ever growing archival offering.
Millions of people in different parts of the world often admire their fans and cherish knowing as many details about their life as possible. Unfortunately, there are only a few sources that offer such a privilege to fans, which is where MediaPunch has been of great help over the years. The agency recently signed a 10-year deal with Ralph Dominguez, making them the representative of the photographer’s diverse collection and giving it a new life and unprecedented exposure.
Ralph Dominguez moved to Los Angeles to work in a photo lab. However, his ingenuity and creativity behind the lenses was triggered after honoring an invitation to a party in Hollywood by someone from the lab. Ralph rubbed shoulders with some of the top stars in Hollywood and was inspired to pursue a career as a Hollywood celebrity photographer. One life-changing night evolved into decades of taking “out of this world” photos of Hollywood stars. He has taken it a step further by allowing MediaPunch to digitize the over three decades of devoting his life to documenting the people that the public loved.
The collection will feature the seemingly humble beginnings of Ralph and how he was able to build casual friendships with celebrities while according them the respect they deserve. The Ralph Dominguez Collection will also have the interesting stories about the images by Ralph even as MediaPunch work with the talented photographer and his family. MediaPunch allow Ralph to reach a wider and newer audience.
For more information about MediaPunch’s Ralph Dominguez Collection and other works from the company, please visit – http://www.mediapunchinc.com/.
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By: Kacie Albert Wednesday, January 13, 2021 @ 12:33 PM
In 2021, the elite Unleash The Beast will feature upwards of 60 one-day competitions. Photo: Andy Watson/Bull Stock Media.
PUEBLO, Colo. – Ahead of the launch of the 2021 PBR (Professional Bull Riders) Unleash The Beast season Saturday in Ocala, Fla., the league has announced a major format change for the premier series. PBR is introducing one-day competitions, which will create daily winners, further intensifying the race for the PBR World Championship and accompanying $1 million bonus.
The format change will afford the world’s best bull riders more opportunities to earn world points, while guaranteeing that fans will see a winner every time they attend or tune-in to an Unleash The Beast tour stop.
The 2021 season – now comprised of one-day competitive showdowns all season long – is projected to host more than double the amount of premier series competitions compared to past seasons.
“Every time a fan buys a PBR Unleash The Beast ticket, they want to see a championship round and a winner. The new format makes that a reality,” said PBR CEO and Commissioner Sean Gleason. “Additionally, there is now the potential for more outs per weekend, giving riders more opportunities to garner points. By emphasizing winning, these changes will make our gold buckle race even more exciting and enhance the fan experience.
“Additionally, this change can help keep our industry moving forward by allowing us to remain flexible in places where health guidelines may change quickly and without notice.”
For every premier series event, each calendar day of action will constitute a competition.
Each competition will be comprised of two rounds. The Top 30 riders in the world will attempt one bull each in Round 1 of the competition, with the Top 12 advancing to the championship round. If fewer than 12 qualified rides are logged in the first round, the remaining positions will be filled on buck off time.
Riders will be awarded world points for their finish in each round and the competition aggregate. The rider with the most world points at the conclusion of each competition will be crowned the competition winner. One rider will have the chance to earn a maximum 140 world points at each competition.
At the conclusion of each weekend of action, the rider with the most world points earned across all the competitions will be anointed the event winner, presented with a Montana Silversmith’s belt buckle and presented a $10,000 bonus. The event winner will not receive additional world points.
The new format for the PBR Unleash The Beast will debut on Jan. 16-17 in Ocala, Florida for the season-launch PBR Monster Energy Invitational at the Southeastern Livestock Pavilion where riders will begin their quest to qualify for the season-culminating 2021 PBR World Finals on Nov. 3-7 in Las Vegas.
PBR has also increased the number of world points available at the World Finals for the upcoming season. One rider will now be able to earn a maximum of 2,160 world points at the five-day World Finals, further intensifying the 2021 World Championship race.
The new points tables are as follows:
2021 UTB COMPETITION POINTS
2021 PBR WORLD FINALS POINTS
ROUND POINTS
AGG. POINTS
Riders who concluded the 2020 season inside the Top 25 of the world standings will be given five guaranteed events (10 competitions) for the 2021 season. Those riders ranked from No. 26-No. 30 at the end of the 2020 season will receive four guaranteed events (eight competitions).
Riders will also still have a pathway to the elite Unleash The Beast via the Pendleton Whisky Velocity Tour (PWVT), the league’s expansion series. Like past seasons, each PWVT event winner will earn an automatic berth to a pre-determined Unleash The Beast tour stop.
New for the 2021 season, the top rider from the PWVT standings will also earn a berth to compete weekly on the premier series.
Should the PWVT event winner already be seeded on the premier series, the event invite will be negated; however, if the standings leader is already in the draw for the Unleash The Beast event, the invite will pass down to the next rider in the PWVT rankings.
If the event winner and the top-ranked rider in the Velocity Tour standings are the same, that rider will be the lone individual extended an invite.
PWVT riders will begin to earn berths following the Cedar Park, Texas event on Jan. 16-17. Riders competing at the PWVT season-opener in Cedar Park will be battling it out for spots in the two-day Unleash The Beast tour stop in Okeechobee, Florida on Jan. 30-31.
For more information on PBR, including the latest schedule of events for the Unleash The Beast and Pendleton Whisky Velocity Tour, visit PBR.com.
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Urban Farmhouse closing after rescue attempt
by Steve Lackmeyer
Published: Sun, October 20, 2019 1:08 AM Updated: Sun, October 20, 2019 1:29 AM
Urban Farmhouse Designs has grown by creating popular furniture pieces from reclaimed wood
Urban Farmhouse Designs, a sprawling operation that included reclamation of vintage wood and materials to make furniture then showcased for sale, is closing this week following an unsuccessful effort to revive the operation tied to bad loans at Farmers Bank.
New owners brought in by the bank earlier this year to take over the operation and try to revive its fortunes say they are about to start a closing sale, ending a retail experiment that once drew shoppers from Dallas and beyond.
Urban Farmhouse Designs was started by Jason and Cherami Thomas in 2013. Jason Thomas had a background in building, and Cherami Thomas was a designer. According to their online history, the couple merged their passions to start building custom dining tables from reclaimed materials in their garage.
Starting with old boxcar wood flooring given by a friend, the couple expanded their operation and soon came up with an offering of furnishings and décor with a mix of farmhouse and industrial designs. After three years, the couple moved their shop and showroom to a warehouse located along Western Avenue at Interstate 40.
They grew into two more adjoining warehouses and then opened a showroom in Dallas. Farmers Bank, led at the time by third generation CEO Aaron Johnson, financed the operation. By March, Johnson was out as CEO and the bank was under an FDIC consent order over misspending and loan policies.
The bank ousted Jason and Cherami Thomas, who faced an array of lawsuits over loans and claims of unpaid debts. That was when investor and developer Shyon Keoppel and SK Ventures was asked to take over.
“We were brought in as an investment group to try to save the business,” Keoppel said. The bank had called us and said they had an opportunity and asked if we would help them how to save this deal. They had foreclosed on the previous owner and they were trying to minimize their exposure as much as possible to give it a second chance.”
Keoppel and his partner took on the challenge with an understanding their risk ultimately would be limited.
Article: Urban Farmhouse Designs has grown by creating popular furniture pieces from reclaimed wood
Video: Reclaiming the Past (2015-04-20)
“I had been there before, everyone knew the brand, it had been there awhile,” Keoppel said. “We thought it was a great brand.”
Attorneys for Jason and Cherami Thomas did not return calls to The Oklahoman. Keoppel said he discovered the couple had mismanaged the operation and grew too fast. Keoppel said they found inventory was only 1/15th what was reported by the couple and the company had 287 customers with backed-up orders.
“There were a lot of people unhappy, and we came in and made it whole,” Keoppel said. “We took it to ground floor, closed Dallas. The company had grown too fast. That type of furniture isn’t as popular as what it was before. It was a high trend when they opened.”
Efforts to open a third location were halted. The Dallas operation was quickly closed and the Oklahoma City shop and showroom were consolidated into smaller space. With the urban farm look losing popularity, the new operators attempted to expand the variety of furnishings and décor.
But problems persisted.
“Every time we turned over another rock there was another snake,” Keoppel said. “There were hundreds of people who they had collected money from and not sent to.”
The Oklahoma City showroom is closing today and will be followed by some private invitation-only sales while liquidation plans are finalized.
“If this wouldn’t have happened, it would have closed and people would have been out of money and product,” Keoppel said. “We saved 287 customers’ orders, and everyone got their custom furniture.”
Jason Thomas shows one of the tables his company made from reclaimed wood at "Urban Farmhouse" in this 2015 photo. [OKLAHOMAN ARCHIVES]
Steve Lackmeyer
Steve Lackmeyer is a reporter, columnist and author who started his career at The Oklahoman in 1990. Since then, he has won numerous awards for his coverage, which included the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, the city's... Read more ›
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Old Buckenham pedestrian crossing
Ready to be switched on
The builders' compound and the equipment has gone has gone, just leaving some flattened grass. Grass seed has been liberally sprinkled over the disturbed ground.
The new posts have been wired up and the lights fitted. Covers are draped over the lights.
All looks ready to be in operation for when school restarts at the beginning of next week.
Old Buckenham September newsletter
What can you learn from this month's issue?
There is information on the re-thatching of All Saints Church, the infamous village Produce Show, the possible future for the Gamekeeper and the metal detectorists next visit.
Read it all carefully.
Gamekeeper in Old Buckenham
Can you help with a rescue?
The owners of the Gamekeeper are intending to sell. The Gamekeeper pub is registered as a community asset and the parish council registered an interest to buy. Villagers are trying to set up a team to create a community pub/restaurant. There is a lot of work to do some of which will need people with specialist skills such as having an accountant on the team. These specialist positions will need to be voluntary as there is no cash at this stage. Unfortunately, despite initial enthusiasm, it has not been able to get a team together at present. Therefore one more request is being made to ask for volunteers, particularly accountants, builders, food and drink specialists, etc. If there is not any response it would mean that there is insufficient appetite in the village for this purchase. So if you are interested in being a part of a group to progress this exciting opportunity for our village please urgently express your interest by contacting Steve Milner via stevemilner1@gmail.com
Old Buckenham's new white lines
Road markings for the new crossing
White lines have now been painted on the B1077.
Old Buckenham parish council
Notes of August minutes
These notes have been written by the blog editor from the draft minutes and so may contain information that is amended at a later date.
Old Buckenham Parish Council met on Thursday 1 August in the Village Hall. Those present were councillors Jonn Hicks (Chair), Steve Milner, Adrian Joel, Andy Nicholls and Mike Farrington as well as Rachel Noyes (Clerk), Stephen Askew (County and District councillor) and 13 members of the public.
Apologies for absence had been received from councillors Donna Oakley, Gemma Frost, Terry Cook and Ben Devlin. The minutes of the meeting held on Thursday 4 July were approved (5 in favour).
Matters arising from those minutes. Adrian Joel is to meet with George Freeman MP on Friday 2 August about the proposed weather radar.
Public participation relating to agenda items. An enquiry had been made about the use of metal detectors around the roadworks area that has been dug up (after work is finished for the day). Bus shelter stop has been suspended but no replacement announced. Rachel Noyes will look at information and enquire. County Broadband deadline is by Friday 6 September for those interested in signing up. District councillor Stephen Askew said the local plan has been delayed but hopefully will be signed off by the end of the year. There has been some confusion during the road works on the B1077 including some lorry drivers but it was felt this was generally their own fault as the works had been clearly signed.
Financial matters. The community account balance was £41,073.98. Total payments of £712.90 were approved including £240 to power wash both the play area and the phone box and £106.65 to the community car drivers.
Planning applications. (All planning applications are available for viewing on the Breckland District Council planning portal www.breckland.gov.uk/article/
2933/Search-Planning-Applications and parish councillors have been asked by the chairman to view the new applications in advance of the meeting.)
New planning applications. Slade Lane Farm, Slade Lane. Proposed 6m extension to general purpose agricultural building (3PL/2019/0778/F). This application was supported by the parish council (5 in favour).
Planning decisions by Breckland Council. Southview, Fen Street. Erection of single storey front extension to create sun room, hall and wc (3PL/2019/0661/HOU).
Eastview, Cake Street. Conversion of existing detached bungalow to 2 number 3-bedroom semi-detached houses, incorporating ground floor side and rear extensions with new roof to accommodate new first floors (3PL/2019/0540/F).
Both the two above applications have now been considered by Breckland and have been approved.
The Gamekeeper. Adrian Joel informed about an open meeting held to discuss possibilities around the Gamekeeper pub. Breckland Council have been contacted for a clearer definition of a ‘Community Group’. There was a need to inform Breckland Council by Sunday 4 August about possible interest (and therefore prevent it going on the open market). If there is an interest, the PC or a community group would have until Tuesday 24 December to find funding. While the only current group (under their definitions) is the Parish Council, a community group could still form in that time and make the purchase, according to Breckland Council. By triggering the full moratorium period, there is no commitment to purchase.
A parishioner was keen to investigate the possibility of purchasing it. He explained the disadvantages of triggering the full moratorium period would be delaying outside investment in the pub/village. The advantages would be that it would provide time for those interested to investigate the building/business fully and establish if it was worthwhile purchasing and how best to run it (ie run it themselves, hire someone in, change style, etc). Several parishioners supported trigging the moratorium period. They explained that as the parish council had shown interest in listing as a community asset previously, then they should give the community time to investigate it fully now. Some councillors expressed a clear desire for the parish council not to fund the purchase but to be there to simply help any community groups and to facilitate any possible purchase.
Steve Milner put forward a proposal and Adrian Joel requested a named vote on the topic. The proposal to trigger the full moratorium period was approved (4 councillors in favour with Adrian Joel voting against).
Allotments. An allotment holder has written to the Parish Council enquiring about the possibility of running a gardening programme to help those less fortunate (ie suffering from depression, Alzheimer sufferers, etc). Everyone felt this was a very good idea and could help a lot of people. However Jonn Hicks explained that there may be some slight problem if they are planning on running a business from it (as it said a business plan was to be written) and making money. The parishioner will be invited to the next meeting where clarification and further information can be provided. A parishioner suggested looking at Norfolk Community Foundation for extra support.
Action Log. Councillor Gemma Frost was absent and so this item will be discussed at the next meeting.
Chairman’s report. The Village Green Working Party had received two quotes for installing concrete bench bases for seats by Ottomer pond. Locations have been chosen so that all face towards the pond. Some memorial benches in village have not been well maintained. New guidelines on the placing of benches have been drawn up and these were approved (5 in favour).
Roadworks for the crossing had started. Still waiting to hear from D Jacklin (Highways) to approve sites for the electronic speed sign. Thank you to councillor Stephen Askew for all his hard work to get the crossing on the B1077.
Play Area. This would be closed on Sunday 11 August for maintenance and repairs. Thanks were due to all of those that cleared weeds recently.
Councillors’ reports. Andy Nicholls said the village handyman unable to sand-blast the phone box but was happy to paint it if needed. Jonn Hicks explained that he has a volunteer from the village to paint it. Steve Milner talked about the County Broadband meeting held in the Village Hall recently about providing fibre broadband to properties. Requires 179 people to sign up to get it started. The Parish Council is not endorsing the company but simply explaining what was said. Adrian Joel said thanks were due to Martin Hodgson and Dave Tranmer for a new duck house by Ottomer Pond. Also that the Ox and Plough have donated £50 to the Raise the Roof fund.
Neighbourhood Plan. Presently looking at project plans for other villages. The clerk is to enquire about costs, etc, for a private company to complete a neighbourhood plan for the village.
Items for next agenda. These would include spending money on the play area and the Neighbourhood Plan.
The next Parish Council meeting will be held on Thursday 5 September at 7.30pm at Old Buckenham Village Hall.
Apologies, a note from the clerk. In June’s parish council meeting, it was explained that a councillor witnessed a van bearing the company name Culling Scrap Metal Ltd disposing of their waste in to the village waste bins. Since then, discussions with the van driver have said that the van is no longer registered to the company and the waste was general daily rubbish and so was nothing to do with the company.
Old Buckenham displays musicals
Flower Festival at the Methodist Church
If you visit the Methodist Church in Hargham Road today from 1pm or tomorrow from 10am you can see many flower arrangements depicting famous musicals. You can have a go at the quizzes, enjoy the refreshments and even have a go at doing an arrangement yourself.
The event closes at 4pm on each day.
Here are some photos of the colourful arrangements, go and see them all for yourselves.
(click on the images to see them at a larger scale)
Happening on Old Buckenham Green
Today's activities
The village handyman is installing the concrete bases for new seats that will be positioned around Ottomer pond.
The closure of the B1077 is due to start again tomorrow and the signs are ready in position.
Thankfully the spelling has been corrected and we have become Old Buckenham again.
Work continues on the new pedestrian crossing. The poles for the lamp posts are being installed as well as the pathways to the spot where you will be walking across the B1077.
Church closure in Old Buckenham
Re-thatching to re-start soon
At 11am on Sunday 8 September, after you've popped your entries into the village hall for the produce show, you are invited to come along to All Saints Church for a very informal service to mark the forthcoming closure of the church building and the start of the nave re-thatching work.
Every month All Saints have a service called ‘Morning Prayer’ (or sometimes ‘Service of the word’). It is often led by someone other than a minister and doesn’t include communion. Those leading the worship have a bit of freedom when it comes to the content of the service and on Sunday 8 September it will stray even further away from the ‘norm’. Even if you have never been to a church service at All Saints (or anywhere) before, they would love to see you. There will be a few hymns and prayers and a chance to share a bit of history and to meet a couple of ‘visitors’ from All Saints past.
Instead of the usual weekly collection for church funds there will be a donation box in the church for the Norfolk Churches Trust - an organisation committed to supporting the wonderful wealth of church buildings in Norfolk. The 'bike ride' around the various Norfolk churches, also raising funds for the NCT, will be taking place on the following Saturday 14 September.
Coffee, etc, will be served in the Church Rooms after the service. You will still have time to get home for lunch before heading off to the village show to check on the prize winners in the Produce Show.
You are of course welcome to every service at All Saints. The last service in the church before it closes for the re-thatching work will be the Harvest Festival on Sunday 15 September. Services after that date will either be held in the Church Rooms or an alternative venue (watch out for more information) until the work is completed in the early spring 2020.
Hardy exotics in Old Buckenham
The Club ended July with a visit to Mickfield Hostas on what was a very hot day. Several members made the journey and had a very enjoyable time exploring the nursery and buying a selection of hostas.
The attendance at the August meeting was low mainly because of holidays and a clash of date with the NAFAS Diamond Anniversary celebrations in London that several members were attending. Those that were able to attend enjoyed a talk by Richard Clark of Panache Plants entitled ‘Hardy Exotics’. Richard delivered an excellent talk, encouraging members to ask questions. He managed to captivate everyone with his enthusiasm for the plants and his wealth of knowledge that he was happy to share. He also brought along a selection of plants for members to purchase. There were no entries in the monthly competitions but members still enjoyed the raffle and refreshments. A special thank you to Sally Westrup for holding the fort and making sure everything ran smoothly with the absent of so many members.
The Club’s next meeting is in Old Buckenham Village Hall on Thursday 12 September at 2pm with a talk by Sarah Hammond titled “Peonies”. The competition is “Summer” using last of the garden treasures with the Joan Fisher trophy for best use of colour
For more details regarding any of the above including membership/visiting the club, please contact Christine Hewson on 01953 454528 or Sally Westrup on 01953 788712.
Old Buckenham WI in July
Improving your driving
The July meeting of Old Buckenham WI began with a minute’s silence in memory of their dear friend and committee member Gill Freitag.
The speaker for the evening was Martin Woodhouse of the charity 'I am road smart' (formerly known as the Institute of Advanced Motorists). Martin gave a great deal of advice and information on how to drive more safely. He told members that road traffic accidents are the leading cause of premature death in the world and 95% of all crashes are caused by driver error. The majority of roads in Norfolk are rural and these pose more hazards than motorways and A roads. Reaction time for an adult is 2/3rds of a second (greater with age) which at 30 mph means travelling 30 ft before applying the brake. Martin advised giving cyclists a wide berth (as if overtaking a car) and if alongside a lorry on a roundabout stay behind it as the driver can't see you. This applies on dual carriageways too, drive in the gaps between lorries until you can safely go past. Another good tip is to apply the 2 second rule. Allow 2 seconds between you and the car in front to give yourself braking time. If you are being tailgated increase this to 4 seconds. There was also advice on driving on flooded or icy roads and using fuel economically by removing unnecessary baggage and not leaving the engine running to defrost the windscreen. With theft in mind Martin suggested locking valuables out of sight and for keyless ignition cars using a Faraday purse to contain your entry key. All this information was given in an entertaining and anecdotal way.
President Kate Lloyd thanked the hostesses and cooks for making the annual Progressive Supper such a success. Names were taken for the Norfolk and Norwich Operatic Society’s production of 'Made in Dagenham' in January, for the visit to Costessey WI.in September, for proposed visits to Hotter shoes and Norwich Cathedral's Broderers Guild and for a quiz.
The meeting took place on the hottest evening of the year and members were treated to a spectacular thunderstorm as they left.
The next meeting is on Thursday 26 September at 7.30pm in Old Buckenham Village Hall when Miss Gerry Foster will speak about sheepdog training.
Old Buckenham village produce show
Are you getting ready to show?
The Open Produce and Handicraft Show takes place on Saturday 8 September. Schedules giving details of all the 102 classes were distributed with the June issue of the village newsletter.
Here are all the classes. You can enlarge the images just by clicking on the
Housing appears in Old Buckenham
The roofs of the new housing in March Field Way are now surfacing above the cornfield alongside Ragmere Road.
Over the limit in Old Buckenham
Speed measurements
As part of a planning application for work on a house in Cake Street, the developers needed to get a traffic survey done. For just one week (27 June to 3 July) the amount of traffic and its speed was measured on the B1077 just by the entrance/exit of the blog editors's front garden.
There is a 30mph speed limit on this stretch of road.
Some 30,418 vehicles were counted.
Of these 2599 vehicles were measured doing 35 to 40mph
266 vehicles were doing 40 to 45mph
46 vehicles were doing 45 to 50mph
No vehicles were measured in the 55 to 60mph range
One vehicle was found to doing over 60mph.
With a total of over 30,000 vehicles, perhaps 2928 doing more than 5mph over the official speed limit doesn't seem too unusual. But if all of them had been given the standard fine of £100 this could have raised nearly £30,000. Assuming this was a typical week for traffic, in one year that would amount to over £15 million...
Luckily the blog editor was not driving out of his front drive when the vehicle doing over 60mph was coming round the blind corner so he is still here to post things on the Old Buckenham blog.
Parking at Old Buckenham village hall
The following information was provided for people bringing children to the primary school during term time but may be of interest to other villagers.
Why do we need to pay to park in the Village Hall car park? The Village Hall is responsible for maintaining its private car park. The car park is not a public car park. The school parents/carers collecting and dropping off children at the school are the most regular and largest body of traffic to use the car park and money from the permits helps pay towards the ongoing cost of maintaining it.
Why is there a permit system? There aren't enough spaces for everyone who might want to park here. The permit system ensures the number of daily users closely matches the number of spaces available.
How much does it cost to use? A permit for the entire school year costs £30 for school users or £20 for pre-school users. If you join mid-year, it's either £10 per term for school users, or £7 per term for pre-school users.
How many permits do I need? You only need to pay for 1 permit per household. If you have multiple different adults driving the same children, that's fine; just tell us how many permits you need. It's still only £30 but of course, you can only use 1 permit at a time.
What about family/friends who occasionally collect my children? We know sometimes you'll have to ask someone else to do the school run. That's fine - we sometimes undertake permit checks in which case they may be asked for your name and it will be checked against the permit database.
How do I get a permit? The system is run by parent volunteers on behalf of the Village Hall. Please email obcarpark@outlook.com and they will send you a copy of the Terms and Conditions, plus a Data Protection Statement. They will also ask you for some basic details.
What if I don't want to buy a permit? Sorry, but you can't use the Village Hall car park for the school run. Work is being conducted by OId Buckenham Parish Council to determine how the village can meet the parking needs of future school users. For the current generation, efficient use of the Village Hall car park is essential to meet the needs of parents/carers and we welcome your ongoing support of the permit system to ensure the safety of our children.
For other information please take a look at our Facebook page @OBcarpark
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The apple maggot (Rhagoletis pomonella), also known as the railroad worm (but distinct from the Phrixothrix beetle larva, also called railroad worm), is a species of fruit fly, and a pest of several types of fruits, mainly apples.This species evolved about 150 years ago through a sympatric shift from the native host hawthorn to the domesticated apple species Malus domestica in the northeastern ... The full power of modern genetics has been applied to the study of speciation in only a small handful of genetic model species - all of which speciated allopatrically. Here we report the first large expressed sequence tag (EST) study of a candidate for ecological sympatric speciation, the apple maggot Rhagoletis pomonella, using massively parallel pyrosequencing on the Roche 454-FLX platform ...
National Centre for Biological Sciences. (2017, January 25). Apple maggot fly: How an altered sense of smell could drive the formation of new species. ScienceDaily. Retrieved February 7, 2020 from ... The Apple Maggot fly (adult form) Another example of sympatric speciation through habitat differentiation that has occurred within the last few hundred years has involved the apple maggot fly, Rhagoletis pomonella. This species is native to North America, where it breeds in the fruit of Hawthorn trees. Females lay their eggs on Hawthorn fruit ...
Hybridization may be an important process interjecting variation into insect populations enabling host plant shifts and the origin of new economic pests. Here, we examine whether hybridization between the native snowberry-infesting fruit fly Rhagoletis ... Abstract. Evidence suggests that the apple maggot, Rhagoletis pomonella (Diptera: Tephritidae) is undergoing sympatric speciation (i.e., divergence without geographic isolation) in the process of shifting and adapting to a new host plant.Prior to the introduction of cultivated apples (Malus pumila) in North America, R. pomonella infested the fruit of native hawthorns (Crataegus spp.).
One of the textbook examples of recent speciation in sympatry is the apple maggot fly Rhagoletis pomonella, in which genetically differentiated host races feed on either hawthorn or apple. Three recent articles by Feder and collaborators show that the history of these host races is more complicated than was previously realized. Genes that differentiate races of flies that feed on either apple or hawthorn are located in chromosomal rearrangements. Speciation in the apple maggot fly: a blend of vintages? / Jiggins, CD; Bridle, JR. In: Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 19, 2004, p. 111 - 114. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article As the Worm Turns: Speciation and the Apple Maggot Fly by Martin G. Kelly Department of Biology Buffalo State College Hawthorn trees grow throughout North America and they produce a small fruit which is eaten by a small fly larva.
Sympatric speciation can be seen in many different types of organisms including bacteria, cichlid fish, and the apple maggot fly, but it can be difficult to tell when sympatric speciation is occurring or has occurred in nature. There have been some controversial examples of sympatric speciation documented in the literature. The apple maggot fly (Rhagoletis pomonela) mates and lays eggs on a specific host, originally Hawthorn. In 1864 Rhagoletis was found on apple trees that had been introduced Speciation is when two species become reproductively isolated, and over evolutionary time, become two new species. There are two main types of speciation: allopatric and sympatric. Allopatric means “different country”, and is defined by being repr...
The apple maggot fly, Rhagoletis pomonella Walsh (Diptera: Tephritidae), is a model system for sympatric speciation in phytophagous insects. The hawthorn fly (Rhagoletis pomonella), also known as the apple maggot fly, appears to be undergoing sympatric speciation. Different populations of hawthorn fly feed on different fruits. A distinct population emerged in North America in the 19th century some time after apples, a non-native species, were introduced. Only that speciation event would have taken longer than the current ongoing hawthorne/apple maggot fly event, because generations in apes are much longer than those of fruit flies.---More Info: All Hail the Apple Maggot! Rapid evolutionary change seen in fruit fly
“Evidence for inversion polymorphism related to sympatric host race formation in the apple maggot fly, Rhagoletis pomonella.” Genetics 163: 939-953. For low levels of gene flow between the two populations, see Feder, J. L. et al. 1994. “Host fidelity is an effective premating barrier between sympatric races of the apple maggot fly ... Research on insect olfaction was initially conducted on moths, but now advances in equipment have allowed detailed neurological study in non-model systems, such as the apple maggot fly. The current article therefore offers a beginning, rather than a conclusion, to research involving Rhagoletis olfaction.
The apple maggot fly—how an altered sense of smell could drive the formation of new species. by National Centre for Biological Sciences Over a long enough period of time, an entirely new species might develop Hypothetical example New species. Sympatric Speciation Hawthorne American maggots fly Apple. Sympatric Speciation Example 1. Polyploidy in plants 2. Sexual selection in animals. Summary Allopatric Peripatric Parapatric Sympatric Original population Initial step of speciation Barrie New habitat New habitat Genetic ...
This channel is dedicated to students of biology, medicine, pharmacy, agriculture and other branches where biology science is studied. Also sympatric speciation can be observed in many different types of organisms such as the apple maggot fly, bacteria and cichlid fish; however it is usually not easy to tell when sympatric speciation has happened or is happening in nature. Some evidence suggests that sympatric speciation is occurring. Hawthorn flies mature later in the season and take longer to mature than apple flies; and there is little evidence of interbreeding (researchers have documented a 4-6% hybridization rate). The emergence of the new hawthorn fly is an example of evolution in progress.
Start studying Anthropology final 2. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Nevertheless, sympatric speciation has been shown to have occurred in apple maggot flies (Rhagoletis pomonella), a parasitic insect that laid its eggs in the fruit of wild hawthorns (Crataegus) until one subset of the population began to lay its eggs in the fruit of domesticated apple trees (Malus domestica) that grew in the same area.That small group of apple maggot flies selected a different ...
The importance of speciation without the complete geographical separation of diverging populations (sympatric speciation) has become increasingly accepted. One of the textbook examples of recent speciation in sympatry is the apple maggot fly Rhagoletis pomonella, in which genetically differentiated host races feed on either hawthorn or apple ... Seasonality appears to be a major driver of speciation, particularly in plant-eating insects that specialize on hosts that are only available during limited seasonal windows. The apple maggot fly, Rhagoletis pomonella, provides a textbook example, historically feeding on native hawthorns in North America but now shifting to exploit apples, an introduced crop.
The textbook example of sympatric speciation is Rhagoletis pomonella, the apple maggot fly. Populations of this tephritid fly in northeastern USA switched from the ancestral host, hawthorn, to feed on introduced apples sometime during the mid-19th century. As apples and hawthorn commonly grow together within the ‘cruising distance’ of a fly ... The apple maggot fly, Rhagoletis pomonella is a prime example of a species just beginning to diverge. These flies are native to the United States, and up until the discovery of the Americas by ... "Speciation By Hybridisation In Heliconius Butterflies" Jesús Mavárez, Camilo A. Salazar, Eldredge Bermingham, Christian Salcedo, Chris D. Jiggins and Mauricio Linares, Nature, 441: 868-871 (15th June 2006) I want to add a link to Cornell University biologist Allen MacNeill's blog article on the emergence of new species.
2. If not, and if apple maggot flies belong to their own species, what would be a biologically reasonable scenario for how the speciation occurred? Facts about Hawthorn and Apple Maggot Flies (Rhagoletis pomonella) The Organisms The apple maggot fly (Rhagoletis pomonella, Walsh) is native to eastern North America. It originally The apple maggot, Rhagoletis pomonella, is a model for sympatric speciation in progress4,5. Hawthorn (Crataegus spp.) is the native host for R. pomonella in N. America5. But in the mid-1800s, a ... This case addresses that fundamental question by asking students to decide whether apple maggot flies are distinct as a species from hawthorn maggot flies. In making their decision, students examine the different models of speciation and consider the primary forces that effect evolutionary change. Developed for an advanced undergraduate course ...
Kansas State University Greg Ragland studies apple maggot flies to chart pest evolution, help producers determine when to apply pesticides, and protect our food supply. Produced by Anthony ... A possible example of sympatric speciation is the apple maggot, an insect that lays its eggs inside the fruit of an apple, causing it to rot. As the apple falls from the tree, the maggots dig in the ground before emerging as flies several months later. The apple maggot originally laid its eggs in the fruit of a relative of the apple—a fruit ... Here, we examine the question of host plant-dependent competition for apple (Malus pumila)- and hawthorn (Crataegus mollis)-infesting larvae of the apple maggot fly, Rhagoletis pomonella (Diptera: Tephritidae) at a field site near Grant, Michigan, USA.
Unlike the previous modes, sympatric speciation does not require large-scale geographic distance to reduce gene flow between parts of a population. How could a randomly mating population reduce gene flow and speciate? Merely exploiting a new niche may automatically reduce gene flow with individuals exploiting the other niche. This may occasionally happen when, for example, herbivorous insects try out a new host plant. The apple maggot, Rhagoletis pomonella, is a model for sympatric speciation in progress. Hawthorn (Crataegus spp.) is the native host for R. pomonella in N. Americas. But in the mid-1800s, a new population formed on introduced, domesticated apple (Malus pumila). Recent studies have conferred 'host race' status on apple flies as a potentially ... Hannah Kim AP Biology February 17, 2010 Speciation and the Apple Maggot Fly 1. What species concept should be used in this case? Interbreed and reproduce healthy, fertile offspring. The two species follow sympatric speciation, where two closely related organisms overlap in terms of geographical range. Both the flies inhabit the hawthorn trees, but the apple maggot flies have an advantage ...
Here ia link to an article fully explaining the sympatric speciation in the apple maggot fly: Speciation and the Apple Maggot Fly. In a somewhat similar scenario that also does not necessitate geographic isolation, parapatric speciation can occur. In parapatric speciation there is no specific extrinsic barrier to gene flow. The population is ... Probably the best-known example of sympatric speciation is the divergence of Rhagoletis pomeonella, the maggot fly (Feder et al., 1988, 1990). This species has recently diverged into two subspecies due to the introduction of apple trees in the northeastern United States, where hawthorn trees were native.
The flies are textbook examples for the process of sympatric speciation, a process by which new species evolve in the same geographic region from a common ancestor species. The two races of flies maintain separate populations on the basis of preferred host fruits, which they detect through smells – apple flies prefer apple scents, while hawthorn flies prefer hawthorn fruit smells. In America Rhagoletis pomonella, the apple maggot fly, originally fed on and its larval stage lived within fruits of hawthorn which is also a member of the Rosaceae.However soon after apple trees were introduced - apparently in about 1800 - some of these flies laid eggs on and lived in apple fruits.
patric speciation) has become increasingly accepted. One of the textbook examples of recent speciation in sympatry is the apple maggot fly Rhagoletis pomonella, in which genetically differentiated host races feed on either hawthorn or apple. Three recent articles by Feder and collaborators show that the history of these host The apple maggot fly, Rhagoletis pomonella is a prime example of a species just beginning to diverge. These flies are native to the United States, and up until the discovery of the Americas by ...
Over a long enough period of time, an entirely new species might develop Hypothetical example New species. Sympatric Speciation Hawthorne American maggots fly Apple. Sympatric Speciation Example 1. Polyploidy in plants 2. Sexual selection in animals. Summary Allopatric Peripatric Parapatric Sympatric Original population Initial step of speciation Barrie New habitat New habitat Genetic ... speciation, which was first coined by biologist Orator F. Cook, refers to the process of evolution through which new species arise. In nature there are four different means of speciation: allopatric, parapatric, sympatric, and peripatric.
Case Study: As the Worm Turns Speciation and the Apple Fly Maggot Introduction: Hawthorn trees grow throughout North America and they produce a small fruit which is eaten by a small fly larva. In 1864, apple growers discovered an unknown maggot had started feeding on apples. sympatric speciation example. apple maggot fly. apple maggot fly. native to US hawthorn, lays eggs in hawthorn, europeans brought apples to US, some switched to apples -- individual flies tend to look for mates and lay eggs around same types of fruits they were born (temporal variation) apple maggot fly is an example of _____ speciation by host shift. speciation by host shift. tight species ...
Unlike the previous modes, sympatric speciation does not require large-scale geographic distance to reduce gene flow between parts of a population. How could a randomly mating population reduce gene flow and speciate? Merely exploiting a new niche may automatically reduce gene flow with individuals exploiting the other niche. This may occasionally happen when, for example, herbivorous insects try out a new host plant. The textbook example of sympatric speciation is Rhagoletis pomonella, the apple maggot fly. Populations of this tephritid fly in northeastern USA switched from the ancestral host, hawthorn, to feed on introduced apples sometime during the mid-19th century. As apples and hawthorn commonly grow together within the ‘cruising distance’ of a fly . One of the textbook examples of recent speciation in sympatry is the apple maggot fly Rhagoletis pomonella, in which genetically differentiated host races feed on either hawthorn or apple. Three recent articles by Feder and collaborators show that the history of these host races is more complicated than was previously realized. Genes that differentiate races of flies that feed on either apple or hawthorn are located in chromosomal rearrangements. The apple maggot fly, Rhagoletis pomonella Walsh (Diptera: Tephritidae), is a model system for sympatric speciation in phytophagous insects. Sympatric speciation can be seen in many different types of organisms including bacteria, cichlid fish, and the apple maggot fly, but it can be difficult to tell when sympatric speciation is occurring or has occurred in nature. Samsung galaxy f super phone gsm. This channel is dedicated to students of biology, medicine, pharmacy, agriculture and other branches where biology science is studied. Kansas State University Greg Ragland studies apple maggot flies to chart pest evolution, help producers determine when to apply pesticides, and protect our food supply. Produced by Anthony . 2. If not, and if apple maggot flies belong to their own species, what would be a biologically reasonable scenario for how the speciation occurred? Facts about Hawthorn and Apple Maggot Flies (Rhagoletis pomonella) The Organisms The apple maggot fly (Rhagoletis pomonella, Walsh) is native to eastern North America. It originally patric speciation) has become increasingly accepted. One of the textbook examples of recent speciation in sympatry is the apple maggot fly Rhagoletis pomonella, in which genetically differentiated host races feed on either hawthorn or apple. Three recent articles by Feder and collaborators show that the history of these host Hybridization may be an important process interjecting variation into insect populations enabling host plant shifts and the origin of new economic pests. Here, we examine whether hybridization between the native snowberry-infesting fruit fly Rhagoletis . The flies are textbook examples for the process of sympatric speciation, a process by which new species evolve in the same geographic region from a common ancestor species. The two races of flies maintain separate populations on the basis of preferred host fruits, which they detect through smells – apple flies prefer apple scents, while hawthorn flies prefer hawthorn fruit smells.
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Congressional leaders over the weekend reached a bipartisan agreement on legislation to fund the government through the rest of fiscal year 2021, provide roughly $900 billion of COVID relief, and enact other measures. The legislation will prevent a government shutdown and provide important funding for vaccine distribution, unemployment insurance, rebates to households, aid for schools, and support for struggling small businesses. We recently estimated the COVID relief plan will boost economic output enough to close the 2021 output gap – though the gains would be spread over time. However, the package took too long to enact and includes too many extraneous measures.
Below is a statement from Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget:
With coronavirus vaccines being administered as virus cases are spiking, there is light at the end of the pandemic tunnel – but still months of darkness ahead. This COVID relief package can make a big difference in helping households and businesses get through the winter to a time when the country can begin to resume normal activity.
The CARES Act went a long way to propping up personal incomes and small business cash flow, but most of those resources expired some time ago and the rest are about to end. This package will help the country get through the last, most difficult phase of the pandemic, and help support the economic recovery that follows. It also funds the government for the next 9 months, preventing what could have been a devastating government shutdown amidst a pandemic.
That being said, this process took far too long. We should have funded the government before the beginning of the fiscal year on October 1, and we should have passed economic relief before that. The time wasted on political bickering cost jobs and it may have cost lives.
It’s also sad that to get agreement on this vital legislation, politicians had to add extraneous measures like wasteful tax extenders, clean energy tax credits, and a 100 percent tax deduction for business meals.
While a crisis like this is exactly the right time for the government to borrow, these unnecessary political pet projects waste vital emergency funds and could undermine support for crisis response efforts in the future.
It’s also important to recognize that continued borrowing, necessary as it is, will add to our near- and long-term debt challenges. The federal debt recently breached the size of the economy for the first and only time outside of World War II. Once the economy recovers, corrective actions will be needed to slow debt growth and avoid the looming insolvency of at least four major trust funds.
Despite its flaws, we need Congress to pass and President to sign this legislation without any brinksmanship, so we can get this fiscal aid out the door as soon as possible and begin conversations about what to do next.
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An information transformation is taking place at many major U.S. airports including Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY). Here, Planar and partners such as Clear Channel are changing the way retail advertising is presented to travelers and airport visitors. They're also collaborating on new entertainment systems; notably, on ClearVision, Clear Channel's revolutionary in-airport television network.
Leading-edge solutions, such as Planar displays and the ClearVision network, greatly enhance the experience of visiting and traveling through an airport such as Louis Armstrong New Orleans International. These are innovative, reliable and affordable technologies that can be counted on to keep people informed and entertained, and to deliver retail advertising and promote airport businesses and services in a very engaging and effective manner, according to David Thibeau, president of Mtek Kiosk, Inc., the systems integration firm involved in the MSY project.
At MSY, the technology deployment kicked off with the installation of nearly 50 of Planar's latest large format LCD displays. Approximately 20 of the company's new Planar® UltraLux™ Series 70-inch and 80-inch displays run Clear Channel's retail client advertising in concourses and baggage claim areas. At approximately 25 gate areas, 46-inch Planar® PSSeries™ displays, deployed in ceiling and wall mounts, and in state-of-the-art freestanding versions, run the new ClearVision entertainment system. This first-of-its-kind system provides travelers with a diverse, 18-hour-a-day line-up of top network shows, news, weather and sports programming from more than 140 content providers, along with local TV programming and innovative promotions of airport concessions and service providers.
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Planar UltraLux Series 70-inch and 80-inch large format LCD displays feature a state-of-the-art, edge-to-edge glass design and best-in-class 24x7 performance - perfect for digital advertising. Clear Channel selected Planar UltraLux Series displays for MSY because it believed this modern, industrial design would help attract passengers' attention in the busy airport. "These displays have a beautiful, sleek look that is very different from what people are used to seeing in the airport setting," says Faith Roland, Public Affairs Director for Clear Channel Airports. "Your eye is drawn to them and then to the exquisite manner in which they present the content, so the advertising makes a stronger and more lasting impression on you."
Planar UltraLux Series displays measure three inches in depth and weigh between 170 lbs. and 225 lbs., depending on the model. "These factors are important for several reasons," says David Thibeau of Mtek. "The slimness brings Planar UltraLux Series displays well within the requirements of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) – which means the displays don't protrude into a concourse, baggage claim or other public area where someone could bump into them. And because they weigh much less than other displays, it is easier, faster and cheaper to install them, benefitting both the integrator and the airport."
Both MSY and Clear Channel wanted a display that could withstand the rigors of the high traffic environment and still deliver a very high quality image. Planar's ERO™ (Extended Ruggedness and Optics) option addresses this need. Optically bonded glass completely covers the display screen, providing protection and enhanced durability. "We also like that it enhances picture contrast and minimizes glare, which makes the advertising content really pop out," Roland adds.
Clear Channel chose a floor-mounted version of Planar's UltraLux Series displays for what it calls its Ad-e-Motion application in one of the MSY concourses. Here, three 70-inch Planar UltraLux freestanding displays are positioned in portrait mode close to each other in a single line. As travelers pass by, their content changes in sequential fashion. "The unique positioning, combined with the eye-catching freestanding design and changing content, helps make this advertising approach work very well," Roland says.
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For the deployment of ClearVision at MSY, Planar's PS-Series line of LCD displays filled the bill. Affordability was a key factor in the displays' selection."The Planar PS-Series is one of the most cost-competitive display lines in its class on the market," says Thibeau. "Planar has done an excellent job of engineering a quality product that will accommodate tight budgets and still meet the demanding needs of an entertainment platform like ClearVision."
At less cost than other LCD displays, the Planar PS-Series displays deliver 24x7 operation, readily accommodating ClearVision's extensive program schedule. The displays provide the full range of commercial connectivity on which ClearVision relies, and compatibility with many types of media players. Their image quality with 500-nit brightness maximizes ClearVision content, and Planar's three-year advance replacement warranty, make them the ideal platform for this unique application.
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Legionella Causing Lung Abscess in an Immunocompetent Patient
Rohan Madhu Prasad , Fazal Raziq, Tyler Kemnic, Muhammad Nabeel, Madeeha Ghaffar
American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2021, 9(1), 18-21. DOI: 10.12691/ajmcr-9-1-6
Received September 16, 2020; Revised October 18, 2020; Accepted October 25, 2020
Legionella lung abscess (LLA) is known to develop from pneumonia and Legionnaires’ disease in immunocompromised patients and aspiration. Literature review showed reports of aspiration pneumonia in immunocompetent patients; however, no such was found between LLA and immunocompetency. A 53-year-old male with history of depression and paraumbilical hernia presented for chest pain, which was right sided, started acutely, constant, radiated to the back, and exaggerated with taking deep breaths. The patient denied all other symptoms. Social history was only pertinent for being an active 35 pack-year smoker. The patient was recently admitted one month ago for viral meningitis from Echovirus. On physical exam, the patient was vitally stable, had absent breath sounds in the right middle lobe, and was significantly tender at the right anterior chest. Labs revealed elevated sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein. Imaging demonstrated a right middle lobe lung abscess. Throughout the hospital course, Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 (LPS1) was found to be positive on urine antigen, sputum polymerase chain reaction, and sputum cultures. The patient was switched to intravenous levofloxacin and ampicillin-sulbactam. Upon symptomatic resolution, the patient was discharged home with recommendations for a follow-up chest computed tomography and diagnostic bronchoscopy. We hypothesize that smoking causes neutrophilic stasis within the lung and the development of the LLA. Treatment includes intravenous long term antibiotics and possibly drainage.
Keywords: case report Legionella pneumophila infection lung abscess Immunocompetence cigarette smoking
Legionella commonly presents as community acquired interstitial pneumonia and sometimes as Legionnaires’ disease. From these, a Legionella lung abscess (LLA) can develop. Those at high risk are immunocompromised patients, such as chronic steroid therapy, cellular immunodeficiency, and immunomodulatory treatment. Aspiration pneumonia is a common etiology of lung abscesses. However, they usually present in patients with periodontal disease, seizures, alcohol abuse, or dysphagia. Aspiration pneumonia is usually seen with a mixture of anaerobic and aerobic organisms, including Legionella 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. After extensive literature review, we report the first case of a LLA occurring in an immunocompetent patient.
The pathogenesis of emphysema has been described as smoking causing a neutrophilic stasis within the lung parenchyma. 6 We propose that our patient had a similar presentation that eventually progressed to a LLA. Treatment guidelines for LLA are intravenous antibiotics for four-six weeks and if abscess does not resolve, drainage should be considered 1.
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A 53-year-old male presented to the emergency department for chest pain. The patient has a medical history of depression and paraumbilical hernia with repair. In regards to the chest pain, it was localized to the right sided and acutely started six hours prior to admission. The patient described it as constant, dull, achy, radiated to the back, and exaggerated with movement, coughing, and taking deep breaths. The patient denied having fever, chills, night sweats, weight loss, occupational exposures, or recent travel. He also denied any history of immunodeficiency (congenital or acquired), intravenous drugs, incarceration, or contact with someone infected with tuberculosis. The patient admitted to a recent hospitalization for viral meningitis that was one month before the current presentation. He was treated with intravenous vancomycin, ceftriaxone, and acyclovir, but they were discontinued when the cerebrospinal fluid polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was positive for Echovirus. After clinical improvement, he was discharged and denies recurrence of symptoms. Social history revealed he was an active 35 pack-year smoker and worked in sales.
On presentation, the patient was afebrile at 98.7°F, 140/81 mmHg, tachycardic 102 bpm, tachypneic 24 rpm, and with oxygen saturation of 98% on room air. He appeared in significant distress from severe chest pain. On physical exam, he was significantly tender to palpation at the right anterior chest, specifically between the third and sixth ribs at the midclavicular and midaxillary lines. Auscultation revealed absent breath sounds in the right middle lobe. Due to the tenderness, percussion was not performed. Neurological, cardiovascular, abdominal, and pelvic examination was unremarkable. Laboratory investigations showed elevated sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein. No leukocytosis was seen, but there was a neutrophil predominance. Electrocardiogram showed a normal sinus rhythm. A comprehensive respiratory infectious work-up and echocardiogram was ordered (Table 1). The patient was given intravenous morphine for pain control. Chest x-ray illustrated a cavitary lung lesion in the right middle lobe. A chest computed tomography (CT) with contrast demonstrated a large cavitary lung lesion in the right middle lobe with thin-walled lucency and an air-fluid level (Figure 1).
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Due to the recent hospitalization one month prior to this admission, we initiated broad spectrum antibiotics with vancomycin, levofloxacin, and piperacillin-tazobactam to cover for hospital acquired pneumonia. On the second day of hospitalization, Legionella urine antigen was positive for Legionella pneumophila. On day three of the hospital course, the sputum deoxyribonucleic acid PCR was also positive for Legionella pneumophila serogroup one (LPS1). Additionally, sputum culture on Legionella specific buffered charcoal yeast extract agar grew LPS1 on day six. Based on culture sensitivities, the patient was switched to intravenous levofloxacin along with ampicillin-sulbactam for empiric anaerobic coverage (Table 1).
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Figure 1. Admission chest computed tomography of Panel A) Coronal view, Panel B) Axial view, Panel C) Sagittal view. Cavitary lung lesion in the right middle lobe with thin-walled lucency and an air-fluid level, measuring 8.0 x 4.9 cm, indicated by the circle. No emphysematous changes or infiltrates seen.
Infectious disease recommended four weeks of intravenous ampicillin-sulbactam and oral levofloxacin. Therefore, a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) was placed and the patient was discharged home after clinically improving. We provided resources and counseling for smoking cessation. He was also recommended to follow-up in six-eight weeks with infectious disease for a chest CT and pulmonology for a diagnostic bronchoscopy, to ensure resolution of lung abscess and rule out cancer. The patient states his symptoms have fully resolved and he completed the antibiotic course. Follow-up chest CT was completed three months after antibiotic completion and showed resolution of the lung abscess (Figure 2). Additionally, the patient did not follow-up with pulmonology.
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Figure 2. Follow-up chest computed tomography, Coronal view. Previous right middle lobe cavitary lung lesion is now resolved. Circle indicates where previous lesion was
Legionella is an aerobic gram-negative bacteria that is found in hot water and soil. The most common species in humans are Legionella pneumophila and Legionella micdadei. The risk factors for Legionella include immunocompromised status, advanced age, smoking, and underlying pulmonary pathology 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Legionella commonly presents as community acquired pneumonia with a diffuse multilobar interstitial pneumonia. It may cause Legionnaires’ disease in some cases, which is recognized by its symptoms of non-segmental lobar consolidation, Pontiac fever, pleural effusion, diarrhea, and hyponatremia from acute interstitial nephritis 2. Although rare, these infections can progress and form a lung abscess, usually in immunocompromised patients 6. We conducted an extensive PubMed search using the following keywords: 1) Legionella or aspiration; 2) abscess, cavity, or cavitary; and 3) immunocompetent, non-immunocompromised, or non-immunosuppressed. There are reports of immunocompetent patients developing aspiration pneumonia, but they were all non-Legionella species 7, 8, 9, 10. However, upon finding none with LLA, we report the first LLA case in an immunocompetent host.
A study analyzed 79 cases of LLA. The most common organism isolated was LPS1 at 82.3% The other organisms were Legionella pneumophila serogroups three-six, Legionella micdadei, Legionella bozemanii, Legionella dumoffii, and Legionella maceachernii. The majority of the patients had a history of steroid use (69.4%), cellular immunodeficiency from various etiologies, or taking post-transplant immunomodulators 6. Other risk factors are chemotherapy for malignancy and acute neutropenic episodes after an acute infectious/inflammatory process 4, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. The proposed pathogenesis of the abscess was poor cell-mediated immunity along with decreased chemokine and lymphokines signaling. This leads to relative lymphopenia with neutrophil accumulation and stasis in the lung tissue. Eventually, proteases and elastases are released and degrade the lung parenchyma that forms a lung abscess 6.
The typical etiology of lung abscess is via aspiration of oropharyngeal contents. Patients at high risk usually have either periodontal disease, seizures, alcohol abuse, or dysphagia. Infrequently, an infectious pneumonia may progress to lung parenchymal necrosis and abscess. Anaerobic bacteria are classically predominant, especially Streptococcus anginosus, but can also be Peptostreptococcus, Prevotella, Bacteroides, and Fusobacterium. However, a mixture of aerobic and anaerobic organisms have also been implicated. The aerobic organisms are typically Pseudomonas aeruginosa or Klebsiella pneumoniae. Moreover, an abscess may develop from a tumor obstructing the bronchus, infective endocarditis, or tuberculosis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Our patient did not present with any of the above risk factors or etiologies on his history and work-up.
Our patient was unique as his history did not indicate any risk factors of being immunocompromised or having a cell-mediated immunity deficit. He was, however, an active smoker. Reports have associated smoking with neutrophilic stasis within the lung parenchyma and the development of emphysema 16. We hypothesize that the neutrophilic stasis due to the smoking during emphysema is similar to that during Legionella pneumonia. Furthermore, we recommend that a patient with risk factors for developing intra-parenchymal neutrophilia within the lungs, careful consideration should be given for future development of an abscess.
Legionella pneumonia, Legionnaires’ disease, and LLA require a regimen of antibiotics. The American Thoracic Society recommends fluoroquinolones, macrolides, tetracyclines, and a potent antipseudomonal B-lactam 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. While, the first two infections can be dealt with short term duration; the course for LLA is four weeks with confirmation of cavity resolution. In our patient, we chose intravenous levofloxacin based on culture sensitivities along with ampicillin-sulbactam for empiric anaerobic coverage. Drainage is recommended for abscesses that are refractory to 12 weeks of appropriate antibiotics, size greater than six centimeters, loculation, and concurrent empyema. Possible drainage methods are bronchoscopically with a laser, percutaneous transthoracic tube drainage, chest tube drainage, or surgical resection 1.
Legionella infections, pneumonia and Legionnaires’ disease, can eventually cause a lung abscess. However, LLA is typically seen in immunocompromised patients (chronic steroid therapy, cellular immunodeficiency, and immunomodulatory treatment) and aspiration. We present a 53-year-old immunocompetent male who developed a right middle lobe lung abscess from LPS1. This is the first reported case of LAA in an immunocompetent host. We associated the LLA to be from his smoking, causing neutrophilic stasis within the lung. Treatment includes long term intravenous intravenous antibiotics and possibly drainage.
The authors have no financial or proprietary interest in the subject matter of this article.
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"By the side of those early Scorsese films, watching Good Time, it's fascinating to note how New York has changed since the early seventies, and how it hasn't."
"The significance of observation is amplified by the brothers' almost exclusive use of close ups."
Martin Scorsese has been an iconic patriarch of cinema for enough years now that devotees of modern film may not recall a time when his work lacked the mature brilliance that exemplifies it today. Films like Who’s That Knocking on My Door and Mean Streets painted a picture of New York City with a raw energy that was literally unlike anything that had reached cinema before. Scorsese wasn’t the first filmmaker to maintain a fascination with New York, and he wasn’t the last.
Good Time, the new film by the Safdie Brothers, is infused with an exciting greenness that reminded me of those films. Though it might not cover Scorsese’s mean streets geographically, the unmistakeable quality that the famous city brings to every film it houses permeates Good Time. By the side of those early Scorsese films, watching Good Time, it’s fascinating to note how New York has changed since the early seventies, and how it hasn’t.
Another Scorsese film with which Good Time shares a kinship is his lesser known 1985 black comedy, After Hours. Both films largely take place over the course of one night, in the city that never sleeps. But whereas Paul Hackett’s adventures in After Hours were farcical, Good Time is a feverish hallucinatory bender. Anyone who has had a big night out might recognise the basic path that protagonist Connie Nikas (Robert Pattinson) treads. Hopefully most of you won’t have tread it quite as much lawless ferocity as Connie does. His New York is full of mean streets and he walks them meanly.
After an attempted bank robbery goes awry, Connie and his mentally challenged younger brother, Nick (co-director Benny Safdie) flee from the police on foot. Nick is caught and taken into custody, where authorities are quick to realise that he is probably not the driving force behind the crime. Confused and scared, Nick is placed in a Rikers Island holding cell, setting Connie off on a desperate journey to raise enough funds to secure a bail bond.
The Safdie’s brothers’ previous film, Heaven Knows What, was about survival. It followed the detached drifting of a women entrenched in the grips of heroin. The characters in that film existed only in each moment because each moment was everything; their next meal or hit or place to sleep usually only secure in the occasion it was happening. So is this new film too about survival, but in a different sense. Connie has a brazen confidence; an almost implausible capacity to act. Every move keeps him just ahead of the law but pushes him further toward a point of no return. This is demented survival, and Connie might have seemed farfetched had Pattinson’s performance not possessed a confidence to match that of his character.
Like Heaven Knows What, the film toes the moralistic line in regards to its inhabitants. Connie, like Arielle Holmes’s Harley, has the capacity to behave poorly, but it’s rare that his actions alienate us completely, even when they ought to. That’s a consequence of strength in performance. It’s also because the Safdie Brothers don’t allow time for consideration of those actions. Their cinema is observation, not contemplation.
The significance of observation is amplified by the brothers’ almost exclusive use of close ups. The film is visually immediate, engendering a startling sense of intimacy in relation to what is occurring. That same intimacy elevated Heaven Knows What above the innumerable films that share a narrative kinship with it. The pressure that the closeness Good Time establishes is relentless, but the pace keeps it from being suffocating. Like Connie actions, we never have enough time to feel stifled by the claustrophobic aesthetic of one scene before the next scene has arrived.
What’s exciting about Good Time is that it’s palpable that it has been made by filmmakers who are excited by the medium, and excited with what they can bring to it. That’s why Martin Scorsese’s early films remain impressive, even with over fifty years of hindsight. Like those films, Good Time is the work of filmmakers yet to perfect their artistry, with years of potential ahead of them.
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Was it a coincidence that upon returning from HARRAH'S CAEASAR'S PALACE in Las Vegas the corporation's earnings took a big jump? I hit the slots pretty hard there, giving not receiving, but not enough to send Harrah's second-quarter profit on an 85% surge. The company, which is going private via a takeover later this year or early next year, announced it earned $238 million compared with $129 million for the same period a year ago. WOW! I was in the Sin City to play in the MILLIONAIRE MAKER blackjack tournament along with some 25 other players from the Horseshoe, Grand and Sheraton who qualified for it but the group did not fare well.
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The staff at Caesars did a great job running the tournament and on hand to observe the logistics were a Horseshoe staff team of RICHARD LYNCH, SALLY WEBB, SAXTON HALTOM, KRISTI MILLER and KEN GIBSON. Count on this experienced crew to do a good job next August and even improve on the recent event.
While we are on the subject, you still have time, if it's not already filled, to enter Horseshoe's second "LEGENDARY" Blackjack Tournament over the Labor Day weekend that will be worth a quarter of a million dollars in prize money. First place alone is $100,000. The first such event was only held about four months ago and was such a popular success; it was decided to run it again. Buy-in is a little steep but so is the prize money and the $1,000 buy-in last time around didn't prevent a full house. Only 250 can play, so don't wait. If you need more info, call the Casino Host Desk at 800-303-7463. If you sign up early, a $100 chip rebate will help mitigate the cost. Early bird registration is at Bluesville promotions counter on Friday Aug. 31 from 5 to 10 p.m. I'm told you can also call 800-371-7568 to pay and reserve a spot. It will be another sell out. See you on the final table.
You HEARD it here…Keep your schedule open for the end of September if you are in to blackjack tournaments. There will be a $100,000 event with a $500 buy-in at GRAND CASINO. Stay tuned.
MARK SILVERBERG, who knows a good menu when he sees one, tells how these much loved printed pieces come about in a casino. Marc and his guys have spent about 10 weeks coming up with a new and improved one for TWAIN'S STEAKHOUSE at SAM'S TOWN and it is a time consuming and well-thought through process. Diners just see the finished printed piece delivered to their tables but if you are interested in how a restaurant staff decides it needs a new menu and how the process is planned and implemented, check out the feature in JACKPOT'S CASINO DINING GUIDE on page 22 of this issue.
The spotlight will be on SOUTHAVEN'S DEANDRY ABRON when the slugger puts his 13-1 (10 KO's) record on the line against undefeated Shane Benfield 17-0 (9 KO's) at THE FITZ Sept. 1. They will be fighting for the vacant NABO light heavyweight championship. Benfield, called the "Irish Hitman," is seeking respect and has Abron in his crosshairs. The fights will also feature a female bout between Kita Watson from Little Rock and Nicole Wood out of Atlanta.
The cuisine of the old Mississippi Delta has been re-invented and made its debut at the new MAGNOLIA…A DELTA GRILLE, which opened last week at HORSESHOE CASINO. A casual fine dining restaurant that replaces Café Sonoma, it features an inventive twist on traditional Southern fare. Award winning Chef JAMES GENTRY will be presenting such dishes as soft shell po' boy, frog legs, seared beef and grilled asparagus salad, cornmeal dusted Mississippi fried catfish, chicken livers three ways, and braised ham hocks served with white beans and cornbread, among other dishes. For reservations call 1-800-303-7463. Interested to see what livers three ways are.
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The last free tournament to practice for the WORLD SERIES OF POKER takes place at Grand August 21 starting at 4 p.m.The first place prize for the warm-up event is a seat in the WSOP main event at the RIO LAS VEGAS and $2,000 cash. Second place gets a seat in the 2077 circuit event at Grand on Sept. 13 and $1,500 cash. The tournament is open to all Total Rewards card holders and the entry fee and buy-in are FREE. You can register after you complete four hours of live action poker in a jackpot eligible game. The event is limited to 176 players.
If you want to check out how much your Confederate Dollars are worth visit the new Confederate Currency exhibit at the TUNICA RIVERPARK. The 322 note collection is on loan from the Pink Palace museum in Memphis. We said in an earlier column that the BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GT which will be given away at HORSESHOE on Oct. 13 is the most expensive single vehicle ever put up for a prize in Tunica. Checking it out online, and not knowing what accessories are included, it appears this powerful beast is worth about $170,000, give or take. You will find out its real value when you win it.
Q. I split tens recently in $25 blackjack game and the players called me bad names and made me feel really bad. I left but what did do wrong? Eloise B., Marked Tree, AR.
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Syria redeployed and withdrew some of its troops from Lebanon in 2004. Another group pushing for reforms, the My Nationality is a Right for Me and My Family Campaign, supplied Al Arabiya English with copies of a variety of complaints they had received from women in comparable situations, who had additionally been denied the help cost.
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With the inflow of Syrian refugees, resources in these two areas at the moment are much more strained. This website is not intended for users positioned throughout the European Economic Area. This material is probably not published, broadcast, written or redistributed. In the Beirut sq. where check over here Jouny’s household and friends gathered to commemorate her demise, Zainab Kawtharani, 25, lit a candle. We will proceed until the tip,” she said she wished to tell Jouny. In many of her photographs, Jouny flashes a wide, seemingly carefree smile that belies the anguish her family says she saved private.
“Despite the disaster, studying ought to by no means cease,” mentioned UNESCO’s Regional Director for Education within the Arab States, Dr. Hamed al Hamami. The initiatives were devised to help college students proceed to be taught whereas at the same time “constructing a extra resilient schooling system for the long run,” he stated. The #SafeHands4Lebanon problem, promoted handwashing to protect in opposition to COVID-19. Social media stars Salma Abu Deif, Rita Lamah and others shared United Nations health messages. North Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley are underserved regions with almost 53% and 30%, respectively, living below the poverty line in 2008 . Additionally, based on a multidimensional poverty index, 49% of households in North Lebanon and forty five% within the Bekaa Valley had been disadvantaged of health providers in 2004 .
She remembers a young woman, her hair down, carrying — Fahs thought disapprovingly — too much red lipstick. Jouny was chanting, “Corruption, corruption, it’s underneath the turbans,” a controversial slogan she became known for, referring to allegations towards some non secular judges. Protests convulsing Lebanon for more than a month have given a new platform for those demanding change. The protests erupted over proposed new taxes and escalated into calls for the removing of Lebanon’s complete political elite and its sectarian power-sharing system.
“Women and men are an equal source of energy, trust and inspiration, which is why women need to be talked about in the nationwide anthem,” Touma advised Xinhua. Women in the Arab world expressed their admiration for Lebanese ladies who had been commonly seen appearing at the forefront of the demonstrations, bravely asking for their rights. Middle East and North Africa is a largely center income area however, it tends to perform more like a low revenue area on many crucial financial and personal sector financial indicators. This is a vital explanatory variable as to why MENA job growth is so weak. This transient supplies an outline of a sequence of areas the place MENA lags behind other regions, significantly LIC areas similar to Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Mirshad says there have been instances where bystanders have hurled insults at female protesters regarding their bodies and general appearance. The protests have introduced Lebanon to a halt, leading to the resignation of Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri. They shortly morphed into anti-corruption marches and rallies towards a deeply sectarian government. Lebanon ranks in the backside 10 of the 149 countries surveyed by the Global Gap Report, which measures gender inequalities. “This is why an increased position of girls in politics will enhance the society all in all,” she said. Nehme stated she noticed a very important position for Lebanese women within the uprising, by encouraging protesters to undertake a peaceful perspective while voicing their demands. Social activist Tracy Nehme has created “Coffee and Politics”, a platform that raises political awareness and training while highlighting past revolutions’ successes and failures.
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The Taif Accord includes a commitment to a transition to a nonsectarian political structure within 10 years, however this path has not but been pursued. The authorities ought to take away all reservations to CEDAW and take steps to implement it locally. The population of Lebanon is estimated to be four.2 million but many argue that the numbers are a lot larger. Lebanon’s inhabitants features a vital variety of Palestinian refugees, as well as Armenians and minority Kurds. While most Kurds and Armenians have been granted Lebanese citizenship, the majority of Palestinians preserve refugee standing.
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Lebanon was established as a French mandate in 1920 and gained its independence in 1943. A lengthy sequence of conflicts started in 1975, with a civil struggle that continued erratically till after the 1989 Taif Peace Accord. In 1976, the president of the republic invited Syrian forces to enter Lebanon as a peacekeeping mission to help expedite an end to the civil war, and Syria has since retained a military presence. After partial withdrawal in 1985, Israel continued to occupy a portion of South Lebanon, “the Occupied Strip,” until the resistance movement compelled its evacuation in May of 2000.
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A source in the Ministry of Social Affairs stated the choice to bar Lebanese women married to foreigners from receiving the assistance had been made by the Army, not by the ministry. In this case, it additionally meant that the family was deemed ineligible to obtain the aid. Last month, they had been relieved to be taught the government would be distributing money help funds of 400,000 Lebanese lira (about $267 on the official trade rate, and $a hundred on the present road trade price). They discovered about this system by way of the general public faculty their two eldest youngsters attend within the southern metropolis of Saida, and so they stuffed out the required form and have been put on the record to receive the help. According to the National Commission for Lebanese Women, some600 women were electedduring the 2016 municipal elections, a rise of 15% compared to the last elections held in 2010. More educated and extra present in the work sphere, women seem to be gaining illustration in the public sphere, serving their native communities. At current, solely 6 out of 128 members of parliament and 6 out of 30 ministers are women.
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Specifically, this consists of the use of carbon taxes, emissions buying and selling methods and crediting mechanisms. International cooperation on carbon pricing and the status of work surrounding Article 6 of the Paris Agreement can be canvassed. “There are a lot of female interior and protection ministers on the planet and they have proved their efficiency. It could be a brand new phenomenon for Lebanon and Arab countries, however hopefully it is going to be repeated and never be distinctive,” she added. Nearly a year into the pandemic, we face a human tragedy, and a public well being, humanitarian and growth emergency. For the primary time since 1945, the complete world is confronted by a common menace, regardless of nationality, ethnicity or faith.
But while COVID-19 does not discriminate, our efforts to stop and comprise it do. For that purpose, the pandemic has hit the poorest and most vulnerable in our societies hardest. With schools hit hard by the crisis, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization , UNICEF and Food and Agriculture Organization stepped up efforts with the federal government to ensure college students’ continued access to quality and inclusive training.
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My son is getting older and I know nothing about him,’” her mother Majida mentioned. Ahmad Taleb, a Shiite cleric, mentioned the answer is to reform the principles of religious courts, noting that there is a couple of opinion on the custody issue in Shiite jurisprudence. He helps elevating the maternal custody age to no less than seven whereas permitting judges to leave the children with the mother longer when it’s in their finest curiosity. Hamzeh was inspired by the ordeal of her sister, who made information in 2016 when she was arrested and held for a couple of days over her refusal to turn over her son to his father. Jouny, she stated, was one of many individuals who helped her sister’s case turn out to be public and led chants in a march to the police station where she was taken. Badia Fahs, a 49-year-old who has turned out for the current round of protests, first met Jouny at a protest years in the past.
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Profile | Career Statistics
Sean Kuraly
#52 - Boston Bruins
Position Center
Ht/Wt 6'2" / 213 lbs
Birthdate January 20, 1993
Birthplace Dublin, Ohio
Draft 2011 - Round 5 (133 overall) by San Jose
Experience 3 years
+/- -1
PIM 4
Date vs Score G A P +/- PIM PP SH S HT BS SHF TOI
1/16/21 @ NJ L 1-2 (OT) 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 23 18:09
1/14/21 @ NJ W 3-2 (SO) 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 2 - - 19 13:07
8/25/20 @ TB L 3-4 (OT) 0 1 1 -1 2 0 0 0 6 - 22 14:36
8/23/20 @ TB W 3-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 23 17:12
8/19/20 CAR W 2-1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - 14 11:44
8/17/20 @ CAR W 4-3 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 1 2 - 14 9:20
8/15/20 @ CAR W 3-1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 3 - 15 9:27
8/13/20 CAR L 2-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 1 18 13:46
8/12/20 CAR W 4-3 (OT) 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 3 1 - 32 17:34
8/9/20 @ WAS L 1-2 0 0 0 -2 2 0 0 1 2 - 14 9:21
Statistics | Career
Season Team GP G A Pts +/- PIM PPG SH Shots Sh%
20-21 BOS 2 0 0 0 -1 4 0 0 2 0
19-20 BOS 69 6 17 23 -2 34 0 0 95 6.32
18-19 BOS 71 8 13 21 6 38 0 0 134 5.97
17-18 BOS 75 6 8 14 -5 40 0 0 134 4.48
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Gusev, Boqvist help Devils top Jets in shootout
NHL Headlines
Penguins beat Capitals in SO for 1st win
Flames' Markstrom shuts out former team
Thornton scores 1st for Leafs in win
Wild rally, defeat Kings in OT again
Knights score late, edge Ducks in OT
Petry, Tatar score 2 as Habs top Oilers
Richardson snaps tie, Preds beat Jackets
Sharangovich's late OT goal lifts Devils
Kessel scores 2 as Coyotes beat Sharks
Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck (37) looks back for the puck as it comes out in front of New Jersey Devils' Kyle Palmieri (21) and Adam Lowry (17) during the overtime period of an NHL hockey game, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Fred Greenslade/Canadian Press via AP)
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) The New Jersey Devils are making up for a slow start to the season.
Nikita Gusev and Jesper Boqvist scored in the shootout to lift the Devils to a 2-1 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday night.
Nico Hischier scored in regulation for the Devils, who are 4-1-2 in their past seven games.
Mackenzie Blackwood stopped 32 shots for New Jersey, which was playing the second game of a five-game trip.
"I think the group is still a little bit frustrated about the way we started, but we've turned a new leaf here with the way we've played and the way we know we want to play so the results have been coming for us, which is great," Blackwood said.
"Guys are happy, the vibes in the room are growing," the goaltender added. "There's a long way to go still, but at least we're headed in the right direction."
Andrew Copp scored in regulation for the Jets, who started a four-game homestand and lost in extra time for the first time this season.
Connor Hellebuyck made 31 saves for Winnipeg, which went 1-4 in its last homestand.
"I feel we hold ourselves to a pretty high standard and didn't play all the way up to that," Copp said. "With that said, it's not like we were off by a lot. We did some good things.
"Obviously played pretty well defensively. (Hellebuyck) was great again. Some good things, but we got to keep building."
Winnipeg had won its previous seven games against the Devils.
"I think the game played out exactly the way I thought it would," Jets coach Paul Maurice said. "They're a good, quick team and I didn't think we would have all of our quickness there and that was fair.
"Nothing was easy in terms of moving the puck. Part of that is they play that kind of game, part of that is we were just gonna grind this one."
New Jersey led 1-0 after the first period and the game was tied after two.
Hischier scored his second goal of the season at 4:44 of the first off a rebound, extending his point streak to four games with two goals and three assists in that span. Taylor Hall assisted, giving him eight points in a six-game point streak, including seven assists.
"It feels good," Hischier said. "I think we knew in the locker room if we keep playing the way we can play we'll get those wins, and now they're coming."
Copp tied it at 8:38 of the second when he deflected in Josh Morrissey's shot from the point.
Jack Hughes went in alone on Hellebuyck late in the second, but the netminder stopped the first overall pick in this year's draft.
New Jersey had a 12-8 lead in shots on goal after the first period. At the end of regulation, the Devils had 31 shots to the Jets' 29. Winnipeg had four shots in overtime to New Jersey's one.
Jets center Bryan Little left the ice with 12:33 remaining in the third after teammate Nikolaj Ehlers blasted a one-timer from the point that hit Little on the left side of the helmet. He collapsed to the ice and some blood could be seen before he skated off to the dressing room, accompanied by trainers. Maurice said he thought the puck hit Little's ear. Little missed the first nine games of the season with a concussion.
New Jersey travels to Calgary to play the Flames on Thursday.
Winnipeg hosts the Vancouver Canucks on Friday.
More AP NHL: https://apnews.com/NHL and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports
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2020/BEST OF/END OF
A few days ago, I overheard a coworker on a Zoom call preparing to give 2020 the old heave-ho, and among his list of complaints about the year was that “There were no movies! Only Wonder Woman 1984 qualifies as a movie, and it was great, but there were no other movies this year!” That was certainly not his foremost complaint (thank God for a little perspective, I suppose), but unless your definition of “movies” is limited strictly to the sort of blockbuster fare like WW84 that has clogged theaters for the last 20 or more years, such a complaint registers as, at best, shortsighted. What is true is that the big theater chains which showcase the superhero franchises and other mega-budget action franchises are, for the most part, currently closed in many parts of the country. But if the success of the WW84 release simultaneously in those theaters that are open (including drive-ins) and on HBO Max is any indication, Hollywood will find a way to get these potential blockbusters in front of your eyeballs, even as the industry template for production, distribution and exhibition seems to be necessarily mutating on a weekly basis.
But what is certainly also true is in 2020 that mutating model, and the amplified importance of viewing/streaming at home, has opened up and spotlighted a window of access to sorts of lower-budget, character-driven films that have of late become sublimated to the pursuit of the monster theatrical hit. Documentaries, foreign language films, adult-oriented comedies, dramas and even arthouse fare have found a captive audience in pandemic-restricted home viewers, who seem to be willing to sample content like Small Axe, The Queen’s Gambit, Time, How Do You Mend a Broken Heart?, Minari and countless others at home when they would be hard-pressed to drag themselves out to a theater to see any of the same.
One of the big question marks hanging over the future of movies in America and all over the world is, of course, if and when theaters reopen, will we go back? Or will our viewing habits have been so altered by the necessity of attempting to stay alive and safe and having thousands of options available to revolve around our schedules that the relative hardship of dragging our collective asses back out to theaters for a specific film at a specified screening time will no longer seem worth it?
Well, it has been ten months since I’ve been in a movie theater. Previously, the longest I’d been away from one, at least since I began college, had been a dry stretch of a month back in 1982, and I remember at the time that that gap seemed like a year or more— I so pined for the experience of seeing a movie on the big screen that when I finally made it back I was momentarily overwhelmed and found myself near tears, even though the theater was only a typically under-designed cracker-box multiplex. Here in 2021, it’s still hard to accept that resuming this activity is still so far away from being an accessible reality. But I can’t let go of my optimism that one day we’ll be able to return to seeing movies the way we used to. The undeniable truth is that, before the world changed, being in a movie theater had already become a source of stress long before the distinct possibility of losing one’s life (or at least getting extremely sick) for the chance to see the new James Bond movie. Rude, inconsiderate audiences, incompetent exhibition of the films themselves in multiplexes run by minimum-wage employees, and a host of other annoyances and booby traps have made the home viewing option seem like the far more attractive option for years, and God knows, when audiences do return to theaters, the habit of treating these auditoriums as if they were big screen TVs set up in their homes, where they don’t have to worry about decorum or talking over the picture and disturbing others, or even getting out of their pajamas, isn’t likely to improve. (It could very well get worse.) I’ve thought of theaters as a second home since I was about four years old, when I saw my first movie (Gay Purr-ee, 1964, Marius Theater, Lakeview, Oregon), and though before March 2020 I didn’t get out to one nearly as often as I used to, and though I miss the communal experience of seeing a movie—any movie—on the big screen, when they finally do reopen I know I will hesitate at the prospect of returning until I can be assured the environment has truly been made safe. But I can’t imagine not going back one day, and on that day I will try to rekindle once again the habit of an activity that has, as much as any other, framed the way I’ve lived my life for almost 60 years… unless and until those bozos sitting in front of me once again just won’t shut up and eventually drive me home for good.
With these thoughts in mind, my 12 favorite movies of 2020 were all, with the exception of two, films that I would have rushed to see in a theater but which I just happened to see at home. And without exception they were films that, while I feel sure would have been enhanced by the size of the image and enveloping sound of a really good theatrical experience, were not reduced in their impact by the relatively dinky home theater setup that graces my living room. Here’s that list, one that, given how much I have left to see from the blighted year past, might seem a little more constricted than most, followed by 13 movie viewing experiences from 2020 that, for one reason or another, I’ll never forget.
My Favorite Movie of 2020
First Cow (Kelly Reichardt) For many viewers her movies are intolerably slow, tedious and lacking in dramatic urgency, but after seeing this latest, after previous work like Certain Women, Meek’s Cutoff, Wendy and Lucy and Old Joy (I have yet to see her 2013 Night Moves), I have to rank Kelly Reichardt as one of my favorite directors currently making movies. Reichardt’s tales of ordinary people making their way through life and sometimes history, small-scale visions that reach well past their ordinary realms into specificity which allows both rich observations linked to time and place as well as a pointed universality, are realized with the patience of a documentarian, the tranquil gaze and empathy of a poet, and the assured exhilaration of a filmmaker who is at the top of her game. (These qualities are also a hallmark of another film on my list, Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock.) In First Cow Reichardt tells a story of friendship, community, and enterprise in mid-19th century Oregon—a baker sets adrift by circumstances meets up with an entrepreneurially minded Chinese immigrant and the two of them create a sensation making fried cakes using milk they surreptitiously pilfer from the titular beast. It’s a winning formula for the fledging businessmen and their customers, until it isn’t. First Cow seduces the viewer with its apparent simplicity— it feels like a lushly photographed kinescope of a time and sensibility too far past now for anything but remotely aestheticized access. Yet the movie is also a work of deep feeling, a lovely melody in a minor-key expressing the song of an emerging America which rings of possibility, but also of dire, inevitable fate.
(the rest, in descending order)
Emma. (Autumn de Wilde)
American Utopia (Spike Lee)
Zappa (Alex Winter)
Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen)
Minari (Lee Isaac Chung)
Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee)
You Should Have Left (David Koepp)
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (George E. Wolfe)
Bill & Ted Face the Music (Dean Parisot)
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin)
The Old Guard (Gina Prince-Blythwood)
As of January 3, 2021, I still need to see Ammonite, An American Pickle, Bacurau, Bad Hair, The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?, Black Bear, Dick Johnson is Dead, Farewell Amor, Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds, The Forty-Year-Old Version, Freaky, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, The Jesus Rolls, John Lewis: Good Trouble, Mulan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Nomadland, One Night in Miami, Small Axe: Mangrove, Red White and Blue, Alex Wheatle and Education, Soul, Synchronic, The Trip to Greece, Wander Darkly, The Witches and Wolfwalkers.
My 13 Best Viewing Experiences of 2020
1) One of the most wonderful evenings I've yet spent since the days of quarantine were imposed was with one of my dearest friends, Katie Warrener, back in May. We cobbled together a watch party on Facebook IM, synched up our Blu-rays, pressed play and reveled in Fellini Roma (1972), bookended with an hour of catch-up conversation before and another hour of excited chatter after. So about four hours total in communion with the only other person I know who reveres this movie as much as I do. Roma serves as a sort of bridge between the self-reflexive fantasias at the heart of 8 ½ and Giuletta Degli Spiriti and the more openly nostalgic biography of Amarcord. It's a fantastically entertaining, exuberantly congestive, inclusive and episodic celebration of Rome's ancient ties, its ghosts of culture and religious ceremony and its messy social rituals. All of these are married to the director's usual rich visual bombast and randy iconoclasm to produce a haunted vision of a city which Gore Vidal, on camera, describes (considering its history of unlikely rebirth and clashing sensibilities) as a perfect place to experience the end of the world. Three or four sequences here rank among the absolute peak of Fellini's imaginative cinema-- a long, cacophonous traffic jam leading into the city which includes among its many varieties of travelers and vehicles Fellini's crew (and the director himself) getting the whole thing down on film; an eerily gorgeous tour underneath the streets which hints at the cavernous secrets the city still holds; a hilarious staging of a vaudeville show held for a raucous, heckling audience on the eve of World War II; and probably the movie's most notorious sequence, a visionary fashion show of Catholic vestmental finery culled from the Church's history and its possible future, attended by a Vatican rogue's gallery of worshipers nostalgic for the trappings of Catholicism's influence in a more "innocent" (read more culturally dominant) age. Fellini's great movie would be exhilarating enough on its own, but seeing it with Katie, even though she’s 2,000 miles away, made it genuinely magnificent.
2) Taking the three main people in my life, my wife Patty and my two daughters, Emma and Nonie, to see Gremlins (1980) at a drive-in. We made it back out to the outdoor cinemas we’ve always loved several times over the summer, but this is the one where everything coalesced into a magical experience, one which seemed as close to the “normal” we’ve known ever since I introduced all of them to drive-ins in 2005 as we’re likely to get for the foreseeable future.
3) Watching the 1988 cheapo horror thriller Necromancer (1988) with my best pal Bruce during a rare get-together, with masks, and after we were both tested for COVID-19, at his house in San Diego. Bruce and I were on the set for this one, guests of the movie’s lovely leading lady, Elizabeth Kaitan (or Cayton, as she’s credited here), and Bruce can actually be seen for about .5 seconds during a party scene we were both on hand for. Hard to believe it took us this long to finally get around to seeing this one. It’s no great shakes, but it’s much better than either of us ever imagined it would be, and it was memorable fun watching it together. Well, they can’t all be Animal House, I suppose…
4) Being dazzled by the Arrow 4K Blu-ray of Flash Gordon (1980), and knowing that I had written an essay that was included in the booklet featured inside, a rare honor afforded to me by Arrow Films producer Neil Snowdown. Thanks so much, Neil!
5) Ushering out my 50s late at night on August 17 with the splendid madness of Ken Russell’s Lisztomania (1975), one of my favorite movies. When the movie was over, as Liszt ascends to heaven, reunited with all the important women of his life and all borne on a chariot-spaceship shaped like a pipe organ, I was blissed out and suddenly 60 years old.
6) Creating the subtitles for 8½, part of the Criterion Collection’s gorgeous Essential Fellini boxed set, released to commemorate the great filmmaker’s centennial. This one took me all night, and it was the one and only time I haven’t minded pulling a 22-hour all-nighter to get the job done.
7) Seeing, or rather being absorbed by Francesco Rosi’s Christ Stopped at Eboli for the first time on Criterion’s newly released Blu-ray.
8) Seeing Emma. with Emma for her 20th birthday, 3/6/2020, just before the lockdown—it was the last movie we would see in a movie theater for the foreseeable future (ten months and counting…)
9) Finally seeing Alex Winter’s long-awaited documentary Zappa and accessing it via the virtual screenings link at Salem Cinemas in Salem, Oregon. So, I was able to support this arthouse-in-an-unlikely-place and relax into Winter’s brilliantly assembled, anti-hagiographic story about one of my favorite musicians.
10) Taking in Lee Isaac Chung’s delightful and moving Minari in an entirely unlikely environment, at the Mission Tiki Drive-in during the movie’s week-long Oscar-qualifying run. A really good Asian movie, about 60% of which features English subtitles for the Korean dialogue, running on a screen which might otherwise have been occupied by any number of loud, obnoxious cartoons or action movies I wouldn’t be even slightly interested in seeing? Yeah, I’ll drive 60 miles round trip for that.
11) Seeing American Utopia for the second time, on November 4, 2020, the day after the election, when it still looked like Trump was gonna pull it off. At that moment it seemed like the last thing I wanted to see— wouldn’t the movie’s optimism be too unbearable? But it really cheered my soul, and by the end of the week its optimism felt, if not entirely fulfilled, then at least reasonable, something like a gift, a reason to keep going.
12) Catching up with John Ford’s Seven Women (1966) and 13) Louis Malle’s Murmur of the Heart (1971) for the first time, on TCM and on the front porch of my house on my iPad, respectively, and bemoaning the fact that I’d waited so long—too long-- for the privilege. How many more times could I have thrilled to these movies had I not been so slow on the uptake?
FIRST TIME SEEN IN 2020
Hearts of the West (Howard Zieff; 1975)
The Wrath of God (Ralph Nelson; 1972)
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (Roger Corman; 1967)
Pete Kelly’s Blues (Jack Webb; 1955)
Murder She Said (George Pollock; 1961)
I Wake Up Screaming (H. Bruce Humberstone; 1941)
The Skull (Freddie Francis; 1965)
The Uncanny (Denis Heroux; 1977)
Bullets or Ballots (William Keighley; 1936)
The 13th Chair (George B. Seitz; 1937)
Farewell, My Lovely (Dick Richards; 1975)
The Stalking Moon (Robert Mulligan; 1968)
Cover Me, Babe (Noel Black; 1970)
The Big Doll House (Jack Hill; 1971)
Smarty (Robert Florey; 1934)
Town Bloody Hall (Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker; 1979)
History is Made at Night (Frank Borzage; 1937)
Sapphire (Basil Dearden; 1959)
Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur; 1956)
Ulysse (Agnès Varda; 1983)
Salut Les Cubains (Agnès Varda; 1964)
Wicked Woman (Russell Rouse; 1953)
Mur Murs (Agnès Varda; 1981)
Uncle Yanco (Agnès Varda; 1967)
Suddenly (Lewis Allen; 1954)
Black Panthers (Agnès Varda; 1968)
Fallen Angel (Otto Preminger; 1945)
After the Curfew (Lewat Djam Malam) (Usmar Ismail; 1954)
Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman; 1957)
The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler; 1946)
The Return of Doctor X (Vincent Sherman; 1939)
Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle; 1971)
Phantom of Chinatown (Phil Rosen; 1940)
Victim (Basil Dearden; 1961)
Attack of the Mushroom People (Mantango) (Ishirô Honda; 1963)
A Slight Case of Murder (Lloyd Bacon; 1938)
4D Man (Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.; 1959)
Whirlpool (Roy William Neill; 1934)
Hamilton (Thomas Kail; 2020)
No Way Out (Joseph L. Mankiewicz; 1950)
Vigilante (William Lustig; 1982)
Il Bidone (Federico Fellini; 1955)
Aloha Bobby and Rose (Floyd Mutrux; 1975)
The White Sheik (Federico Fellini; 1952)
Sex Kittens Go to College (Albert Zugsmith; 1960)
The Giant Claw (Fred F. Sears; 1957)
I Knew Her Well (Antonio Pietrangeli; 1965)
Crime of Passion (Gerd Oswald; 1956)
6-Day Bike Rider (Lloyd Bacon; 1934)
Sam Whiskey (Arnold Laven; 1969)
The Devil’s Rain (Robert Fuest; 1975)
Gone to Earth (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger; 1950)
Man Bait (Terence Fisher; 1952)
The Crimson Kimono (Samuel Fuller; 1959)
The Boston Strangler (Richard Fleischer; 1968)
Loan Shark (Seymour Friedman; 1952)
Race Street (Edwin L. Marin; 1948)
Manpower (Raoul Walsh; 1941)
Chosen Survivors (Sutton Roley; 1974)
Werewolves on Wheels (Michel Levesque; 1971)
Alien Vs. Predator (Paul W.S. Anderson; 2004)
Seven Women (John Ford; 1966)
Danger Signal (Robert Florey; 1945)
Scorpio (Michael Winner; 1973)
Have I the Right to Kill? (The Unvanquished) (Alain Cavalier; 1964)
The Nightcomers (Michael Winner; 1971)
Dr. Who and the Daleks (Gordon Flemyng; 1965)
The Ghoul (T. Hayes Hunter; 1933)
The League of Gentlemen (Basil Dearden; 1960)
Chop Shop (Ramin Bahrani; 2007)
The Werewolf (Fred F. Sears; 1956)
The Black Sleep (Reginald Le Borg; 1956)
Christ Stopped at Eboli (Francesco Rosi; 1979)
Berserk (Jim O’Connolly; 1967)
The Hill (Sidney Lumet; 1965)
Daughter of Shanghai (Robert Florey; 1937)
Tomorrow is Another Day (Felix Feist; 1951)
Odds Against Tomorrow (Robert Wise; 1959)
Macao (Josef Von Sternberg, Nicholas Ray, Mel Ferrer, Robert Stevenson; 1952)
Variety Lights (Federico Fellini; 1950)
Fellini: I’m a Born Liar (Damian Pettigrew; 2002)
Directors with multiple entries on this “First Seen” list:
Basil Dearden (3)
Federico Fellini (3)
Lloyd Bacon (2)
Fred F. Sears (2)
Michael Winner (2)
PERFORMANCES I LIKED IN 2020
Michelle Dockery (The Gentlemen), Nicolas Cage (Color Out of Space), Julia Garner (The Assistant), Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ewan McGregor (Birds of Prey…), Riley Keough (The Lodge), Jim Carrey (Sonic the Hedgehog), Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Mia Goth, Bill Nighy, Gemma Whelan, Miranda Hart (Emma.), Elizabeth Debicki, Donald Sutherland, Mick Jagger, Claes Bang (The Burnt Orange Heresy), John Magaro, Orion Lee, Toby Jones, Rene Auberjoinois, Evie (First Cow), Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Chadwick Boseman (Da 5 Bloods), Bill Burr (The King of Staten Island), Kevin Bacon, Amanda Seyfried, Avery Tiiu Essex (You Should Have Left), Rose Byrne, Steve Carell, Natasha Lyonne, Chris Cooper (Irresistible), Charlize Theron, KiKi Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts, Marwan Kenzari, Luca Marinelli, Chitewel Ejiofor (The Old Guard), John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki (Tenet), Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Samara Weaving (Bill and Ted Face the Music), Steven Yuen, Yeri Han, Youn Yuh-jung, Alan S. Kim, Will Patton (Minari), Joel Kinnaman (The Secrets We Keep), Sunita Mani, John Reynolds (Save Yourselves!), Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong, Mark Rylance, Frank Langella, John Carroll Lynch, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Keaton (The Trial of the Chicago 7), Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan), Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Booboo Stewart (Let Him Go), Amanda Seyfried, Arliss Howard (Mank), Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn, Micheal Ward (Lovers Rock), Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci (Sound of Metal), Dearbhla Molloy (Wild Mountain Thyme), Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman, Viola Davis, Colman Domingo (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha (Sylvie’s Love)
WORST OF 2020 (besides the year itself, of course) from worst to least-worst
The Personal History of David Copperfield (Armando Ianucci)
Greenland (Ric Roman Waugh)
Dreamland (Miles Joris-Peyrafitte)
Wild Mountain Thyme (John Patrick Shanley)
Tenet (Christopher Nolan)
It ain’t all gonna suddenly get better now that the calendar has changed, but nonetheless I wish you all health and safety and sanity and justice and many more good movies in 2021, until such delights once again become the norm.
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Noy’s lips have slipped EDITORIAL 06/26/2011
Noy’s lips have slipped
The string of ratings upgrade that the country received the past few days appears to be teasers for Noynoy to persuade him to push forward the breaking of his pledge of no new taxes or tax increases.
Already, Noynoy had stated that taxes will be increased in 2013, saying that the pledge for new taxes was only for a year.
Plagiarizing the elder and the better George H.W. Bush during his 1988 US presidential campaign, Noynoy boasted “Read my lips, no new taxes” during his own campaign in the elections last year to stress his politician’s vow.
After being elected, he was already singing a different tune saying that the new taxes or tax increases pledge was only effective for his first year in office and which means it will effectively expire this month..... MORE
Non-sequiturs from Noynoy EDITORIAL 06/26/2011
Non-sequiturs from Noynoy
Miffed at former President Gloria Arroyo’s blast of Noynoy’s “nobody home” presidency, along with her stating that Noynoy has not built on the economic gains made, Malacañang quickly put its dukes up and said it was ready for a fight with Gloria.
But Noynoy’s deputy mouthpiece, Abigail Valte, charged that Gloria’s blurbs against her patron, Noynoy, are “unsurprising” and full of generalizations, and that they in the Palace give specific answers.
Yet in was clear that even as Valte was slamming Gloria, she failed to answer directly what which was being charged, such as the 10-year economic growth toward sustainability that certainly has decelerated under Noynoy’s presidency.
For all that Gloria is, and is not, what cannot be denied and official data can attest to that, is that it was under her presidency that there was uninterrupted growth and that the first quarter growth this year under Noynoy, has slowed, with the economy expected to slow down some more..... MORE
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Aspersion VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 06/26/2011
Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz
After saying something about the lamentable and distressing syndrome called “Asperger’s Disorder,” what comes to mind in the context of words and sounds is the term “Aspersion.”
In its more common understanding, aspersion is a reproach, a censure, a depreciation.
Aspersion is in a way understandable when the object of contempt is vile, obnoxious and revolting. But when something is virtuous, noble and lofty, its aspersion is not only a big shame but also a downright abomination.
And the Malacañang occupant plus his loyal cohorts and obedient allies are now avidly engaging in “kadiri to death” aspersion on the endearing presence of children, on the profound blessing of family and the big wonder of human sexuality, Malacañang plus buddies in the legislature and comrades among the NGOs, are bent on pushing and selling the following hideous agenda: Hate children (Reproductive Health bill). Destroy families (Divorce bill). Debase sex (Same Sex Marriage bill).
Poor Philippines. Pitiful Filipinos. It is not enough that the country is going nowhere in commerce and industry. It is neither enough that the Filipinos are wallowing more and more in poverty and misery. Nor it is enough that the national leadership talks but does little. Thus it is that: Development is but a pie in the sky. Better living conditions are simply a big drawing. Justice and peace are merely dreams and more dreams..... MORE
Obama stays open to more foreign intervention FEATURE 06/26/2011
Obama stays open to more foreign intervention
WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama declared Wednesday that although battered by a decade of war America should not shrink into isolationism but remain pragmatic and open to foreign intervention.
Announcing the start of the US drawdown from Afghanistan, Obama acknowledged the heavy cost of America’s overseas adventures as he sought to reassure a war-weary public the “tide of war is receding.”
Under pressure from Congress over continued US involvement in the three-month-old air war in Libya, the President stood firm and warned against caving in to those questioning the nature of America’s foreign engagements.
“Some would have America retreat from our responsibility as an anchor of global security, and embrace an isolation that ignores the very real threats that we face,” he said. “Others would have America over-extend ourselves, confronting every evil that can be found abroad.”.... MORE
Kasambahay TABLETS OF STONE Larry Faraon, OP 06/26/2011
Kasambahay
Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada is urging President P-Noy to certify as priority legislation that would uplift the plight and labor conditions of the kasambahays or the 2.5 million domestic helpers in the country. Senate Bill 78, also known as the “Freedom Charter for the Household Workers,’’ is long overdue, perhaps as far back as time immemorial, for as long as there have been family households, kitchens to mind, dirty linens to launder, living rooms to tidy up, kids and elderly to watch over and care for.
To further neglect their plight in terms of minimal working conditions and benefits that rightfully belong to them is already “immoral” or a “sin of omission” on the part of the government and the legislators. We hope that the urgency of this bill evades the perceived dilly-dallying or indecisiveness of this administration!
The bill recently approved by the Senate defines household workers as maids, cooks, yayas and houseboys. In Metro Manila their compensation shall be pegged at P2,500 as monthly minimum wage, while those in chartered cities will receive P2,000. It is noted that some household workers receive salaries as low as P800 per month! This is aside from the present and post-employment benefits from the Social Security System (SSS), Phil-Health and Pag-IBIG fund which respective premiums shall be paid for by the employers..... MORE
15 missing, 300,000 affected as ‘Falcon’ leaves RP 06/26/2011
15 missing, 300,000 affected as ‘Falcon’ leaves RP
After dumping rains and causing major floods in various parts of the country, including Metro Manila, tropical storm “Falcon” left Philippine territory early yesterday and is moving further away toward China with its full strengh intact.
Nearly 90,000 people were forced to flee their homes due to floods caused by Falcon, with 15 persons listed as missing, the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) yesterday said.
The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) warned that rains brought by the southwest monsoon will still fall over Metro Manila.
While Falcon only brushed the eastern side of the country, it still brought torrential rain for most of the week..... MORE
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Noy: Bring it on; GMA: Face issues By Virgilio J. Bugaoisan and Charlie V. Manalo 06/26/2011
AQUINO, ARROYO ALLIES POUNCE ON EACH OTHER
Noy: Bring it on; GMA: Face issues
By Virgilio J. Bugaoisan and Charlie V. Manalo 06/26/2011
The Aquino-Arroyo battle royale raged on yesterday as the Palace dared the camp of former President Arroyo to bring it on amid her allegations of the lack of leadership of Aquino, while a key Arroyo ally challenged the administration to face head on the issues raised by the current Pampanga representative in the House.
Presidential deputy spokesman Abigail Valte said yesterday the former President’s attacks against Aquino was designed to “deflect attention from her refusing to submit to proper procedures for ascertaining accountability.”
“We’ve been parrying the attacks of former President Arroyo’s camp for too long now but this time we are hitting back. We are ready,” Valte said in response to Mrs. Arroyo’s claim that the Aquino administration supposedly did not build on the gains of her administration but eroded them instead.
Zambales Rep. Ma. Milagros “Mitos” Magsaysay, an ally of Arroyo, however, claimed it is the Palace that is diverting the people’s attention from its failure to address the country’s pressing concerns, adding the Aquino administration should face head-on the issues raised by Arroyo..... MORE
SMC’s P13.5-B Caticlan Airport rehab gets Noy’s PPP rolling By Danessa O. Rivera 06/26/2011
SMC’s P13.5-B Caticlan Airport rehab gets Noy’s PPP rolling
By Danessa O. Rivera 06/26/2011
It took Asian conglomerate San Miguel Corp. (SMC) to get the President Aquino’s Private-Public Partnership (PPP) initiative going with the inauguration of the renovated Caticlan Airport at a cost of $300 million or P13.5 billion that SMC unit TransAire Development Holdings Corp. is undertaking.
Aquino led yesterday’s inauguration of the airport, which serves as gateway to the world renowned Boracay beaches, saying that it will pave the way for more tourism opportunities for the country.
He said the development of the Caticlan Airport will bring long-term economic benefits for the country, particularly by creating more jobs for the people in the tourism sector. These developments in the Caticlan Airport will make tourists more comfortable, according to the President.
SMC president Ramon Ang said the $300 million investment will cover all developments, including the expansion of the runway, terminal, convention center, commercial centers and hotels. Ang said setting up complete tourism facilities would assure that the airport will draw in more tourists..... MORE
Authorities to probe target of bomb blast in Bulacan jail By Gina Peralta-Elorde 06/26/2011
Authorities to probe target of bomb blast in Bulacan jail
By Gina Peralta-Elorde 06/26/2011
The Bulacan police are conducting investigation to determine who was the target in the bomb explosion that took place inside the Bulacan provincial jail last Saturday afternoon, police report said.
According to the Philippine National Police (PNP) spokesman Chief Supt. Agrimero Cruz Jr., two suspects reportedly climbed at the detention facility’s wall and dropped two hand grenades and two molotov bombs inside the detention cell.
The Bulacan police are looking into an angle that the two suspects who hurled the two bombs are targeting Alfredo Mendiola — a prime witness in the murder of car dealer Venson Evangelista.
“Malaki ang posibilidad na si Mendiola ang target ng mga suspects pero nangangalap pa ng konkretong ebidensya ang pulisya,” Cruz added..... MORE
Tornado rips 20 houses in Bulacan 06/26/2011
Tornado rips 20 houses in Bulacan
MALOLOS CITY, Bulacan— Twenty houses were partially damaged after a powerful tornado swirled through Meycauayan City and Marilao town as strong winds and heavy rains pounded many parts of Bulacan last Saturday morning.
However, no casualties were reported according to the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (PDRRMC).
The PDRRMC said that 17 houses were partially damaged in Barangay Bayugo and one in Barangay Bahay Pare in Meycauayan City and two houses were washed out in Barangay Poblacion 1st in nearby Marilao town.
Gov. Wilhelmino Sy-Alvarado sent a team to assess the total damage wrought by the tornado and provide assistance to the victims..... MORE
Binay exhorts fellow alumni: Help UP produce more patriotic scholars 06/26/2011
Binay exhorts fellow alumni: Help UP produce more patriotic scholars
Vice President Jejomar Binay has called on his fellow University of the Philippines alumni awardees to take a proactive stance in helping the university produce more Filipino scholars committed to serving the country.
“As awardees, it becomes our solemn duty to do whatever it is within our individual and collective capacities to raise the State University’s standards to the summit of universal excellence,” Binay said during a special dinner for awardees hosted by UP president Alfredo Pascual.
The Vice President noted that UP alumni could help the university “continue to produce an endless and a more abundant stream of Filipino scholars and patriots worthy of the highest aspirations and hopes of our people and country.”
Binay has been chosen as the UP Alumni Association’s (UPAA) Most Distinguished Alumus for 2011. The Vice President accepted his award yesterday, June 25, at the Bahay ng Alumni in UP Diliman..... MORE
Solon seeks magna carta for aggie, fisheries workers By Charlie V. Manalo 06/26/2011
Solon seeks magna carta for aggie, fisheries workers
By Charlie V. Manalo 06/26/2011
The country can ultimately achieve sustained food security by ensuring the economic and social well-being of its agriculture and fishery development workers.
This is the logic behind the proposed Magna Carta of Agriculture and Fisheries Development Workers, contained in House Bill 4602, principally authored by Camarines Sur Rep. Diosdado Macapagal Arroyo and co-authored by former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo.
“This bill seeks to accelerate the development and modernization of Philippine agriculture and, more importantly, improve the economic and social well-being as well as their working conditions and employment status of the sector’s workers,” the young Arroyo said.
The Bicol lawmaker added the proposed measure is a companion statute to the landmark Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act of 1997 (AFMA) which provides the “policies and plans to the continuing modernization and development of the agriculture and fisheries sector amid the ever-changing demands of globalization and food security.”.... MORE
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Fold Zandura
Jyro Xhan, guitar, voice, electronics
Jerome Fontamillas, bass and vocals
Heart & Soul Cafe
Mt. Prospect, Illinois
Interviewed by Linda T. Stonehocker
It would only seem natural that a rock band as committed to electronics as Fold Zandura would have a big following on the Internet, a major hangout for technos worldwide. Armed with questions generated by some of our more technically savvy writers, I approached Jyro Xhan and Jerome Fontamillas at a recent Midwest appearance. They were polite, pleasant, and discussed their art in everyday terms. Only one subject elicited a strong response--their previous artistic incarnation as Mortal.
Xhan - Are they going to ask us about Mortal?
Tollbooth - A little. No? Okay, I don't have to. . . Let's talk about where you are now. How do you define your band?
Fontamillas - I think we're treading on uncharted territory.
Xhan - We're fighting the whole Mortal thing. Our music is completely different from what we used to do. Mortal's a stigma we've been trying to overcome. But it's not because Mortal wasn't a great band. It's just that we wanted to do something different.
Tollbooth - And what are you doing? Just straight rock 'n roll?
Xhan - No, it's definitely not straight rock 'n roll. It's electronics, it's 90's, it's year 2000 music. Not very many bands do what we do, very few in fact anywhere. Especially, the kind of pop music we make. It's got such a different slant than anything on this planet.
Tollbooth - And what instruments will you be playing?
Xhan - Most of the work for the live show is done way before we go on. We have a four-track mini disc digital player that does all our samples. We just follow it. Plus your regular rock setup-drums, bass, guitar. But our music is not complete without all the electronics that are going on, all the samples, drum loops, etc.
Tollbooth - All that is laid down in advance? No one is mixing for you on stage?
Xhan - Our drummer controls a lot of it.
Tollbooth - How would you define your fans?
Xhan - Eclectic, snotty, music people. (Laughs)
Fontamillas - They are people who are into art, more into the music aspect, not just going to a concert to mosh or to skank or something. Our fan base is growing. That's an indication that they understand what we do.
Xhan - A lot of our fans aren't Christian. They're not as trendy. It seems like whatever is happening in Christian music is real trendy, and then they drop you.
Fontamillas - When we play out in the clubs, people seem to just enjoy listening to the music more, rather than to what you have to say or sing. We really like that.
Tollbooth - And you have a commercially acceptable sound that fits the venues.
Fontamillas - Oh, yeah. We've played with a lot of bands. It's easy for us to play with a lot of bands.
Tollbooth - What percentage of your gigs take place in a mainstream venue?
Xhan - The ones at home, mostly. But when we're on tour with Stavesacre or the Insyderz, it's mostly Christian. We have played some clubs on this tour. We're opening for John Taylor from Duran Duran.
Tollbooth - Even though your message is not your biggest emphasis, would you say that you still have one?
Xhan - Definitely. See, during Mortal, it seemed like I became molded into youth pastors's expectations. They were telling me to say the right words and the Holy Spirit would come. That's why I had to quit. I had to stop Mortal because it was just getting to the point where people believed they were changing lives. Which is never the fact, and will never be the fact. The Holy Spirit does that.
What we're called to do is make great music. Just because I have Jesus in my lyrics or I do altar calls doesn't mean that God is going to use it. Assuming that is the worst thing that you could ever do. At the same time, it doesn't mean that God can't use Marilyn Manson. He says, "I don't need your praises. I can make the rocks and mountains to sing." That's how huge my view of God is, and I think He uses us in clubs. In fact, in a youth group setting, if you say "Jesus" a lot of people will cheer, but you don't know how many of those people get it, how many have really embraced it. In the club setting, when someone comes up to you after the show and says, "There is something different about your music," you know it is the Holy Spirit. I think we're always open to what God decides to do, and people's lives have been changed by the Holy Spirit at our shows. We're not trying to hide anything; there is no hidden agenda. I think the Lord uses us in spite of ourselves.
Tollbooth - Some people complain that they have problems playing in clubs because they are Christians. Do you find that to be true at all?
Fontamillas - Like getting heckled? Yeah, people heckle. Even in a Christian show.
Xhan - Most of the time, we get heckled more in Christian shows than in mainstream clubs.
Fontamillas - It makes the band stronger to be able to play and take all the abuse.
Xhan - They'll respect you. They may not like you, but they will respect you.
Tollbooth - What do they hassle you about at Christian shows?
Xhan - That we're not ska.
Fontamillas - We don't have a lot of heavy moshing type stuff.
Tollbooth - Are you following the dance trends?
Fontamillas - We have a big influence from dance music. We listened to dance music for a long time. I think it shows in our music.
Xhan - I always try to keep current with what's happening electronically, all the trends in programming and so forth.
Tollbooth - Do you have some rap influence?
Xhan - Not really. I've listened to tons of early Grand Master Flash.
Tollbooth - How much of "Rapper's Delight" can you recite from memory?
Fontamillas - Actually, most of it.
Tollbooth - Has the Internet changed how you interact with your fans?
Fontamillas - It is more accessible. You can stop rumors right away. It's just easier to get the word out.
Xhan - You don't have to spend so much money on newsletters.
Tollbooth - You've been evolving and changing. Have you finished changing? Is this what you are going to sound like forever?
Xhan - No, no. Actually, anything we've ever done in music has been an experiment. Most bands end up doing one thing for the rest of their lives, and I think that's completely boring.
Fontamillas - Since we're artists, we try to push our creativity.
Xhan - We could do an R & B record, we could do an electronic record, we could do a heavy record. With Fold Zandura, we just decided to chose a certain path which is pretty wide open and still use our expertise with electronics to make pop music. I just want to make pop music like the Beatles.
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The Texture of Air: A History of Two Hospitals in Sound and Image
Image by Ben Evans James The Art Deco stairwell connecting the floors of the Eastman hospital
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A few weeks ago, I attended the opening exhibition of ‘The Texture of Air’, a heritage project in honour of two old hospitals famous for their pioneering work introducing narrative therapy for children, snoring therapies and cochlear implants on the NHS amongst other things: the (old) Eastman Dental Hospital founded in 1931 and the (older) Royal National Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital (RNENT) opened in 1875. I learned that the project was commissioned three years ago after it was announced that the Eastman and the Royal National Hospitals would be moving from their ‘historic homes’ on Grey’s Inn Road to a new purpose built facility just around the corner. Today, this is the fully functioning New Eastman Hospital on Huntley Street whose foyer, with its 21st century hospital colour scheme and giant geometrical light fittings, I had the opportunity to visit since it served as the venue for the official opening of the exhibition.
I arrived expecting an oral history but the exhibition was much more than this. In addition to an archive of recorded conversations with hospital staff and patients captured over three years, there were films, photographs and artworks all inspired by the atmosphere and architecture of the buildings, the achievements of their inhabitants and the remnants of their working lives together. Accompanying it all was an orchestral score for a wind trio that had been composed especially. The composer, Nicole Robson spoke at the opening about how she had wanted to write a piece of music with the power to enchant its listeners in a way that would be reminiscent of the old (now deceased) Eastman hospital, with its maze of corridors, spiral staircases and the resounding footsteps of people coming and going from all directions.
Specialising as they did in the treatment of oral and aural conditions for many years, the two hospitals offer endless amounts of material for a project of this kind, leading to the discovery of resemblances between the work of trying to reconstruct the past creatively and the that of restoring lost hearing and speech by medical means. Affinities are drawn out in some of the more experimental field recordings featuring medical instruments or other specialist technology put to work in attempts to mediate the sounds of the hospital’s past. In one recording, the sound of an old television set is transmitted using induction coil pick-ups. In another, a much loved fountain on the hospital grounds is made audible from underwater using something called a hydrophone. Most recordings though, are of everyday noises made very simply by volunteers: fittings, machines, ways of life. They evoke the many worlds that disappeared along with the hospitals, of ancient doors swinging shut, an ornate lift grinding to a halt and patients chatting in the waiting room.
Several of the audio recordings have a strange echo-like quality of seeming to be simultaneously caught up in the present and the far flung past. The sounds of machinery whirring away in a non-existent lab for instance, the elongated beeps of the standard hearing test, the passing remarks of women stood together during a fire alarm test, are soundscapes that might belong to different decades or even to different centuries of the same institution. Whereas in the audio-visual archive, the old things of different eras are thrown together in the exhibition in a disorientating way with some of the images from the exhibition appearing almost ahistorical. Film footage of uniformed staff gazing into the camera and blanched out photographs of empty showroom clinics are cut off from anything that might bind them to a particular time period. They seem already to be disappearing into their own atmospheres as though detached from any actual past or future. The lidar scans showing cross sections of the hospital in fossil form also fall into this category of seeming to come from outside time altogether.
Another temporal grouping is reserved for things that have grown old during our own lifetime with a speed that seems to have been accelerated by the much older physical environment of their surroundings. An example of this is the image, shot in a side room of one of the old hospitals, of a heap of medical technology that can’t be older than twenty years being left to gather dust. The actual age of the materials and their connection to the present feels irrelevant. Like all the other things that fall into this category of discarded things from the long past of the institution, the objects lose any foothold in the recent past and get jumbled up with the things of other eras.
The circumstances surrounding the work might help to explain some of its anachronisms. Materials for the oral history were presumably being gathered in the final months and years just before the buildings were closed (demolished in the case of most of the Eastman Dental Hospital), and the work of collecting the past appears to have shared roughly the same timeline as the work of dismantling the two hospitals. There is at least one mention of this in recorded conversations when two women are overheard speculating hopefully about whether or not they will still get to see eachother after the crossover, “…we will still have time together, won’t we?”. But for the most part, nothing is said on the subject of the future. Its conspicuous absence lends the whole project an eerie quality, cutting it adrift from the present and making it seem as though the voices of staff and patients populating the institutions and now the archive, were never to leave the hospitals after those last days. Had somebody stayed around long enough to have overheard them making their way through the end of one era and into the start of another, the exhibition might have felt a little less haunted than it turned out to be, but the Texture of Air seems always to have been a project more interested in opening a portal to the past than in finding continuity with the future.
The project was led by Oral Historian, Laura Mitchison in association with Screen Deep and On the Record and featured the work of artists and the contributions of volunteers. A complete list of credits and the archive itself are available at https://www.thetextureofair.uk/
The exhibition will remain open for the public to view in the new Eastman hospital.
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Acting Like It Matters: John Malpede and the Los Angeles Poverty Department
by James McEnteer
This new book tells how a New York performance artist came to a poor section of Los Angeles in the mid-1980s to research homelessness, got a grant and started a theater group, the Los Angeles Poverty Department (the LAPD acronym being no coincidence) — comprised mostly of homeless and formerly homeless men and women. The group has evolved from staging 'happenings' on street corners and in shelters to taking complex ensemble pieces to cities across the United States, Europe and Latin America. This excerpt tells what happened when the LAPD took their anti-Drug War play to Bolivia in 2009.
Taking a show about the War on Drugs to Bolivia seemed like risky business but was far more sensible than recent U.S.-Bolivian diplomacy.
John Malpede has never worried much about transgressing the line between brave and crazy. Otherwise he would not have started a theater company in Skid Row Los Angeles in the mid-1980s, when few services existed there and most people, including his own first theater members, predicted the idea would never fly. Nor would he have thought it a cool idea to join members of his L.A. troupe with Bolivian actors in 2009 to tour Bolivia — where coca is a major cash crop – with a play about the War on Drugs. That notion seems an especially quixotic idea at this moment, as relations between the United States and Bolivia have reached a nasty pass, largely because of drug issues.
Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia, also heads the federation of coca growers. Morales often pleads the case for coca — as he did at the United Nations — as a plant of traditional importance in Bolivian culture that has been unjustly vilified. He and other Bolivians like to stress the difference between coca and the drug synthesized from it by a nineteenth century European chemist, cocaine. Bolivians compare themselves to the French who grow grapes: they can‟t really be blamed for the alcoholics who abuse wine.
The Bush administration faulted Morales for failing to curb coca production or deter the manufacture of cocaine. Morales accused the U.S. of meddling in Bolivian affairs, plotting with his political enemies to overthrow his government. The countries expelled each other's ambassadors. Citing lack of drug enforcement cooperation, the U.S. ended its preferential trade terms with Bolivia. In retaliation, Bolivia threw out U.S. government employees, including the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Peace Corps.
A recovering cocaine addict, he refused the tea and ordered up some oxygen instead.
Some Bolivian and U.S. officials expressed a cautious optimism that relations between the two countries might improve in the Obama era. But Morales accused the United States of complicity in the Honduras military coup. Emotions remain raw and official relations, tense.
John Malpede wondered if touring a play about the Drug War along the front lines of that war might stimulate more constructive dialogue about drugs and drug policies than the two governments have thus far managed. Would Americans who had been affected by drugs and anti-drug sanctions find common ground with Bolivians who live where coca has long grown, but where cocaine use is also a growing problem? As the foreign actors would find out, the war on drugs has claimed many victims in Bolivia as well.
Members of the Malpede‟s Skid Row theater troupe, the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD), landed in mid-July at El Alto airport, one of the highest in the world at 13,000 feet, near Bolivia‟s capital, La Paz. Coming from sea level in Los Angeles, Tony Parker felt dizzy and short of breath. After quaffing some coca tea, the local remedy for altitude sickness, Tony was soon all right again.
But LAPD member Kevin Michael Key, a recovering cocaine addict, refused the tea, though his doctor had assured him that coca does not possess the addictive properties of the drug that is made from it. Kevin ordered up some oxygen instead, which the airport keeps stocked for afflicted visitors.
Malpede and his wife, Henriette Brouwers, had less trouble adjusting to the thin altiplano atmosphere above La Paz. They had just arrived from Huancayo, Peru, visiting the family of Nilo Berrocal. Nilo grew up in Peru, but emigrated to Holland, where he has lived and worked for more than twenty years, as a theater director in Utrecht. Part of Nilo‟s task was to bring other cast members up to speed in the language, since the drug war play — Agents and Assets — was being staged for the first time ever in Spanish.
In 1985 John Malpede started the LAPD (whose initials mock the police force which harassed many of their members). A rising theater performer of national reputation, Malpede took a detour from his personal career to share his theatrical knowledge with the homeless and formerly homeless denizens of Skid Row, the poorest section of Los Angeles. Branded as losers and welfare cheats by the Reagan administration, residents of Skid Row had no voice in their own destinies.
John Malpede telling it like it isn't, blasting out a Spanish version of U.S. legislative bureaucratic double-talk. Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 2009.
Malpede empowered some of them with theatrical skills, enabling them to communicate their dilemmas publicly and powerfully. Over decades the group has become increasingly articulate and sophisticated, gathering information from other communities in the U.S. and beyond, making connections among poverty, globalization and militarization. They know how the drug war profits a few and victimizes many.
Malpede wrote the play script, Agents& Assets, based on a 1998 U.S. Congressional hearing. The House Intelligence Committee was looking into allegations of CIA complicity in the smuggling and dealing of crack cocaine in the United States by agents of the anti-government forces in Nicaragua, known as the Contras. Backed by the Reagan administration, the Contras fought against the democratically elected leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua. Reagan called the Contras “freedom fighters,” but Congress denied them U.S. funding.
So the Contras turned to drug smuggling to fund their anti-Sandinista military actions, with the acquiescence of the CIA and White House shadow operative Oliver North, who permitted and abetted the Contra drug operation. As journalist Gary Webb detailed in an explosive 1996 newspaper series, “Dark Alliance,” the CIA enabled huge shipments of cocaine to enter the United States to raise money for the Contras.
Malpede told a Bolivian audience after one performance: “We work in the poorest part of Los Angeles, where people come when they have no place else to go and end up living in the streets. LAPD lives and works in an area affected by drugs. It was the anger of Los Angeles citizens — that the CIA might have been involved in smuggling crack cocaine into the country — that sparked these legislative hearings. These hearings are also a metaphor for all things the U.S. government does all around the world that they shouldn't, instead of taking care of their own people.”
As the play shows, in 1998 CIA Inspector General Frederick Hitz denied and obfuscated the CIA connection to Contra drug smuggling. As the play toured Bolivia, the Agency released a highly redacted CIA Inspector General's report about CIA torture techniques. Some of the same players were involved in both episodes. Porter Goss, chairman of the dramatized hearing, played down the allegations of CIA-Contra malfeasance. Later, as CIA Director under George W. Bush, Goss lobbied for keeping the 2004 torture report secret to avoid damaging America‟s reputation and CIA morale.
The judge, responsible for supervising about 2000 prisoners, asked if she could be in the play herself.
The dramatized hearing reveals the hypocrisy of lawmakers who decry illegal drugs, even as they refuse to sanction the CIA for enabling millions of Americans to become cocaine addicts, to pay for an illegal war. Malpede edited the hearing transcript for length and clarity, but did not change a word of it. LAPD actors and others, who play committee members and the CIA inspector general called to testify, are men and women who have been personally affected by illegal drugs and the 'war' against them. Some have suffered addiction and/or incarceration. By speaking the very words of hypocritical lawmakers who permit this systemic abuse, the actors bear witness against them.
Agents & Assets began its long run of performances during the uncertain post-presidential election period of 2000, touring many cities throughout the United States. The 'second act' of the show is a discussion, led by a moderator and a couple of speakers, who relate current and/or local issues to the themes of the play. So each performance is a unique event. With different drug reform laws up for votes in various states, the show showed its political potency. Agents & Assets also proved relevant in Utrecht, in the Netherlands, which suffers its own intransigent problems with drugs and drug laws. For its South American premiere, the Spanish-language version of the play was titled Agentes y Activos.
Malpede and Brouwers found congenial Bolivian artistic partners in Wiler Vidaurre and his wife, Zulma. Wiler and Zulma are professional actors on stage and in films. They run a school of Artes y Talentos in Cochabamba. The couple came to Malpede‟s attention because of an innovative theater program they have run in local prisons for the past eight years. Many of their prisoner performers, incarcerated under the local anti-drug law 1008, have 'graduated' to parole or to full liberty outside their jails, thanks in part to the rehabilitative aspects of their theater experiences.
It was important to John Malpede and Wiler Vidaurre to feature Bolivians playing the bureaucrats who — like their fellow players from L.A. — have felt the impact of the drug policies of their country. Wiler had a couple of actors in mind for parts in the play, but one of them was still on restricted parole, only allowed out of prison during the day to work. He had to return to his cell each night. Wiler appealed to a judge he knew from this prison work to let this actor rehearse in the evenings and travel when the group took the show in the road.
The judge, Yolanda Ramirez, is responsible for supervising about 2000 prisoners in various stages of incarceration or parole. The judge decided to see the group for herself. She came to the first rehearsal, met the visiting gringo artists and talked with them about the play. Then Yolanda told them she had some theatrical training herself and asked if she too might join the cast. When she read the part of one of the more indignant members of the Congressional Committee — Juanita Millinder-McDonald of California — she found a sympathetic point of view. So Agentes y Activos featured a convicted felon in its cast, as well as a judge who sentences and supervises convicted felons. In the many incarnations of the show this was a first.
Bolivian cast members of Agentes y Activos before an outdoor performance in a park in LaPaz, Bolivia.
Every morning, Nilo tutored the foreign actors in Spanish. Every night, the combined cast of foreigners and Bolivians rehearsed the play. The linguistic obstacles to this project were almost as formidable as the political ones. Several of the foreigners barely spokr Spanish. They had to learn their parts phonetically. Also, the language of the play was tricky to decode. Legislators tend to converse in a demagogic doublespeak, which audiences must first comprehend in order to see through and discount. The point is to grasp the evasions and outright lies beneath the polite, empty rhetoric and Parliamentary niceties which morph, as the hearing progresses, into grotesque absurdities that would be comic but for their real-world consequences. The devil is in the details of this discourse, full of sound and fury, signifying, sometimes much less, and sometimes even the opposite, of what is said.
Layers of meaning in the play might have disappeared or become muddled in translation. Fortunately, Bolivian culture, despite its low literacy rate, is exceptionally eloquent. Ordinary Bolivians, despite a lack of education, are often articulate public speakers. Americans tend to hem and haw in public. Bolivians can speak cogently at length, because they have learned to enunciate their needs clearly, in order to reach a community consensus. As a society of practiced public speakers, Bolivians are able to spot the hypocrisy beneath the bombast of public rhetoric.
Agentes y Activos had its first public performance in the maximum-security El Abra prison near Cochabamba. Set in dry desert mountains, the prison is bound by brick walls topped with barbed wire and guard towers. On this bright, hot sunny early August day, the brown ragged peaks pushed against the flawless blue sky. Tony Parker, who has performed in various productions of Agents and Assets over the years in many cities pronounced this setting “the strangest place of all.”
The performance space was the brick-and-glass pentagonal Roman Catholic chapel. Large religious paintings festoon the chapel walls, between large windows. Behind the altar is a huge floor-to-ceiling triptych of Christ, risen and joyous and nearly naked, below God the Father with arms outstretched and flanked by adoring angels. The long cloth-covered hearing table with pitchers and water glasses, name plates and eleven chairs, backed by a dozen American flags, set before the garish altar, resembled its own sort of last supper. Hundreds of men filled up the four-tiered bleachers to see the show, and at least a dozen kids, whose shrieks and eruptions punctuate the cavernous acoustics.
When Wiler, as the CIA Inspector General, told the Committee he had found no Contra-drug connections, some members of Congress snorted in disbelief, causing the attentive captive audience to 'shush' the actors! After the performance, Kevin Michael Key told the inmates: “I used drugs for forty years, and sold them. I've also been a criminal defense attorney. I‟ve been free of drugs and alcohol since 2002, for seven years. This penitentiary looks like the place I did time [in Tehachapi, California].
Forced confessions are all that is needed for proof of guilt in Bolivian judicial proceedings.
“Since the war on drugs began, the prison population of the United States has increased dramatically, especially among minorities...” Someone asked him the difference between the people in prison in Bolivia and the U.S. Kevin said, “They‟re the same, mostly poor, working class folks...” Someone else asked, “If the United States wants to eradicate illegal drugs, but most illegal drug users are there, what are they really doing?” That question hung in the air and still does.
After rehearsals and performances in Cochabamba, the show played the Bolivian cities of Oruro, La Paz, El Alto, Sucre and Santa Cruz. Questions and comments in every city reflected the intense emotions the issues of the play raise about the drug war, notions of justice and international relations.
Bolivian historian, activist and ex-government official Rafael Puente told audiences in Cochabamba that events in the play might seem remote, but similar things were happening here in Bolivia at the same time. In 1980 the CIA enabled the violent 'narco golpe de estado' (drug coup) of General Luis Garcia Meza. As Puente noted, former DEA agent Michael Levine recounted these events in his book, The Big White Lie.
Ex-Gestapo honcho Klaus Barbie emerged from his Bolivian hiding place to oversee the arbitrary arrests, torture and disappearances of the narco dictatorship's political opponents. Cocaine exports reportedly totaled US$850 million in the 1980-81 period of the García Meza regime, twice the value of official government exports. Puente described the huge CIA cocaine processing plant at Huanchaka, in eastern Bolivia, where the drugs were produced to help finance this repressive regime.
The United States has always maintained a duplicitous drug policy. Officially the United States expresses moral outrage about the manufacture and importation of illicit substances. For thirty years the “war on drugs” has consumed enormous human and financial resources. But the CIA has an even longer history of dealing drugs to finance covert wars around the world that the U.S. prefers not to acknowledge. (See The Politics of Heroin by frequent Agents and Assets panelist, Alfred McCoy). Most Americans seem unaware of this dark history. But, as one Bolivian audience member put it, “Everybody knows the CIA is the biggest drug trafficker in the world.”
Bolivian actor Wiler Vidaurre as CIA Inspector General Frederick Hitz, denying all wrongdoing. Left to right: Bolivian judge Yolanda Ramirez, who has sentenced drug offenders; John Malpede; a Bolivian actor; and LAPD's Tony Parker.
Kevin Michael Key told a Santa Cruz audience, “It's in the interest of the governments to continue narco-traffic as a means of controlling the people. Criminalization is the American way. Though rehabilitation exists, many drug users are simply locked up in jail. The demand for rehabilitation has to come from the people.”
A Bolivian man asked whether things will change under Obama. John Malpede opined that, “Changing drug policy is not a high priority for Obama. Changes in drug policy have come from communities or states in defiance of federal law, to reduce penalties and put treatment in place of jail time.” Malpede's tag line for the show, that “The war of drugs imposes a military solution to a social and public health issue,” was widely printed in the Bolivian press.
Bolivians have their own defective drug war in place, thanks in large part to Law 1008, passed in 1988 under intense pressure from the United States. Anyone accused of drug violations under what one former law school dean calls this 'inhumane' law loses basic human rights, such as the presumption of innocence, the safeguards against self- incrimination, the right to a defense, or to an impartial judge, to due process or to a speedy trial. Law 1008 expands the definition of trafficking to mean "to produce, possess, keep, store, transport, deliver, administer or give as a gift.‟ Judges routinely hand out harsh sentences, since an accusation is tantamount to a judgment of guilt, and they fear public outrage for giving lesser punishments.
Law 1008 rewards denuncias or snitches. These snitches often turn in people for the reward money, for grudges unrelated to drugs. Police routinely resort to torture to extricate confessions from the accused. Such forced confessions are all that is needed for proof of guilt in Bolivian judicial proceedings. In their book, The Weight of Law 1008 (1996), the Andean Information Network compiled heartbreaking narratives of poor, illiterate Bolivians hounded into prison because they could not pay the bribes that were demanded by officials to make their cases disappear. Several of these drug war victims report being tortured under the direction of American DEA agents.
On the post-show panel at one of the Oruro performances, two drug officials parried questions from the audience about Bolivia's war on drugs. Alex Alfaro, Departmental Director of the Special Police Force to Fight Drug Trafficking, said drug production was rising in Oruro. His forces have found seventeen cocaine labs in the past year. Midway through 2009 the police had confiscated more than a ton of cocaine, as much as in all of 2008.
Alfaro said a kilo of marijuana costs one hundred dollars (U.S.) and a kilo of cocaine, $1200. He handed out anti-drug pamphlets, warning of dire organic consequences from using marijuana, cocaine, tobacco, alcohol and inhalants. Members of the audience, unaccustomed to seeing these usually invisible officials, began to ask penetrating questions.
What did Alfaro, or the public prosecutor appearing with him, Franz Villegas, think of Law 1008? Villegas fudged his opinion, merely describing it as a drug law. Kevin Michael Key asked if the men thought the CIA really was involved in drug trafficking in the 1980s as the play alleged? They did not know. Was it a good or bad for Bolivia that the Morales government had expelled the DEA? Alfaro said it was a national government decision, not his. He said he had worked with the DEA and “they supported us. Now the national government helps us fight drugs...”
The drug officials evaded questions in ways that precisely mirrored the dynamics of the play.
A Bolivian woman said: “You are preoccupied with drug consumption and apprehension. Is there any attention being paid to the health aspects of this problem?” The two officials made no attempt to respond. Someone else asked: “Is drug enforcement a form of social control?” The public prosecutor answered that “Drug enforcement involves citizen participation. It's everyone‟s fight. Denuncias are an important part of the system.”
Someone else asked: “What about innocent people caught up and arrested under Law 1008? Like a taxi driver whose passenger might have drugs without the driver‟s knowledge?” Most of the personal stories in The Weight of Law 1008 center on and decry false accusations. Villegas said: “We don‟t accuse people just to accuse them. I don't know of a single case where a taxi driver has been unfairly jailed...”
And so it went that night in Oruro, as the drug officials evaded questions and shaded their responses in ways that precisely mirrored the dynamics of Agentes y Activos, in which the CIA Inspector General danced around issues, answered questions he had not been asked or flat out lied about the CIA‟s links to the Contra cocaine scandal. The show was not only relevant but was being replayed immediately afterward in an updated, Bolivian mode right out where everyone (except the officials themselves) could see it.
Agentes y Activos played theaters and schools, public plazas and even a prison. The post-show conversations showed that the real struggle is not between Bolivia, where coca grows, and the United States, where much cocaine is consumed. Rather, the greater problem lies within each country, between each government and its own people.
By declaring war on drugs, the United States and Bolivia have both declared war on their own populations, but only against the small-time users and dealers, not the powerful few who profit most from the ongoing, proliferating traffic in illicit drugs. With the U.S. and Bolivian governments entrenched in socially self-defeating positions on drugs, it was courageous and creative of John Malpede to use theater as a way to initiate people-to-people conversations about the issue.
After thirty years of the 'war on drugs', more people are in jail than ever before and more drugs are available. It's a 'phony war,' as Evo Morales has said, a cover for the United States to project a militaristic presence into foreign countries, and for authorities of countries like Bolivia to control their own people. In the sense that 'illicit drugs' are a bogeyman, Agentes y Activos fits the horror genre, all the more frightening because the monster's many victims are real.
Acting Like it Matters: John Malpede and the Los Angeles Poverty Department by James McEnteer has just been published by Streetwise Press and is available on Amazon.
This article first appeared in The Journal of Wild Culture, April 24, 2015.
JAMES MCENTEER is the author of several books including Shooting the Truth: the Rise of American Political Documentaries (Praeger 2006). The above excerpt is from pages 221-228 from the book.
Acting Like it Matters: John Malpede and the Los Angeles Poverty Department, Los Angeles Poverty Department, War on Drugs, James McEnteer
What Came Down in Bolivia: A Citizen's Report
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How to Go Sane Under a Post-Truth 'n' Tweetin' Commander-in-Chief
Young people seeing their power
Normalizing Authoritarianism is Not an Option
Radical Memory & Willful Amnesia in the Films of Patricio Guzman
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Name Wilson Reynolds [2]
Alt. Birth Cal 1843 , , Northern Ireland, United Kingdom [3]
Alt. Birth Cal 1847 , , Northern Ireland, United Kingdom [4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
He died at the age of 64 yrs.
Born 9 Nov 1849 , , Northern Ireland, United Kingdom [9, 10, 11, 12]
Alt. Birth Cal 1850 , , Northern Ireland, United Kingdom [13]
Emigration 1859 , , Northern Ireland, United Kingdom [11]
Immigration 25 Jul 1860 New York, New York, New York, USA [14]
A ship passenger record for the "Chancellor", depart Liverpool, arrived New York July 25, 1860. Passengers originating Ireland, final destination Canada. Samuel Reynolds 58, Christina 48, Bonan (Bowman) 25, Elinor (Ellen) 22, Mary Ann 20, Samuel 18, Robert 13, Wilson 10. The 3 oldest children, James, John and Margaret are not listed and may have been in Ontario at earlier.
Census 1871 Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada [6]
He was C. Presbyterian of Irish origin.
Occupation 1 Mar 1871 [13]
Religion 1 Mar 1871 [13]
Residence 1 Mar 1871 Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada [13]
Occupation 7 Dec 1872 [15]
Occupation 22 Aug 1874 [15]
Occupation 5 Sep 1876 [16]
Occupation 27 Oct 1878 [17]
Residence 27 Oct 1878 Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada [17]
Occupation 26 Sep 1880 [18]
Residence 26 Sep 1880 Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada [18]
Census 1881 Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada [19]
He was C. Methodist and a farmer.
8th concession
His religion was Salvation Army. He was a farmer, a Canadian of Irish origin. He could read and write. He was a widower.
He was methodist, a Canadian farmer of irish origin. Wilson was white, head of the family, and married. He was able to read, write and speak English. His mother tongue was English. He was working on own account.
Find-a-Grave Link https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/ 131321306
Died 11 May 1911 Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada [7, 8, 22]
Buried Stroud/Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada [7]
Person ID I5667 Reynolds-Lake Genealogy
Father Samuel Reynolds, b. Abt 1797, , Armagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom , d. 11 Feb 1881, Innisfil Twp., Simcoe, Ontario, Canada (Age ~ 84 years)
Mother Christina Bowman, b. Abt 1811, , , Northern Ireland, United Kingdom , d. 6 Aug 1877, Innisfil Twp., Simcoe, Ontario, Canada (Age ~ 66 years)
Family 1 Agnes Rainey, b. Cal Feb 1853, Innisfil Twp., Simcoe, Ontario, Canada , d. 23 Sep 1889, Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada (Age ~ 36 years)
Married 1 Mar 1871 Barrie, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada [13, 23]
Bachelor + Spinster
Presbyterian + Methodist
Rev. William Hansford, WesMeth Minister
Wits: Jonathan Rennie & Robert Reynolds, both of Innisfil Twp.
Marriage License 1 Mar 1871 [13]
1. Sarah Ann Reynolds, b. 7 Dec 1872, Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada , d. 4 Mar 1945, Cookstown, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada (Age 72 years)
2. Christine Reynolds, b. 22 Aug 1874, Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada , d. 19 Mar 1891, Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada (Age 16 years)
+ 3. Adeline Marie Reynolds, b. 5 Sep 1875, Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada , d. 31 May 1948, Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada (Age 72 years)
+ 4. Clara R. Reynolds, b. 27 Oct 1878, Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada , d. 14 Apr 1910, New Tecumseth, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada (Age 31 years)
5. John Thomas Reynolds, b. 26 Sep 1880, Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada , d. 2 May 1904, South River, Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada (Age 23 years)
+ 6. Albert Reynolds, b. 28 Oct 1882, Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada , d. 4 Jun 1934, Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada (Age 51 years)
7. Ida Reynolds, b. Sep 1884, Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada , d. 8 Mar 1885, Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada (Age ~ 0 years)
Family 2 Margaret, b. 9 May 1848, , , Ontario, Canada , d. 8 Oct 1929 (Age 81 years)
Married 1 Jun 1892 Barrie, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada [24]
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Alt. Birth - Cal 1843 - , , Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Born - 9 Nov 1849 - , , Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Emigration - 1859 - , , Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Immigration - 25 Jul 1860 - New York, New York, New York, USA
Census - 1871 - Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
Residence - 1 Mar 1871 - Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
Married - 1 Mar 1871 - Barrie, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
Residence - 27 Oct 1878 - Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
Residence - 26 Sep 1880 - Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
Married - 1 Jun 1892 - Barrie, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
Died - 11 May 1911 - Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
Buried - - Stroud/Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
Pin Legend : City/Town : County/Shire : State/Province : Country : Not Set
Reynolds, Samuel (abt 1797 - 1881)
Samuel Reynolds Family
by Agnes Theresa Reid Reynolds
written about 1940-1950
Historical Review, 1950
The Reynold's family emigrated from County Armagh, Northern Ireland about 1850.
The older generation coming, then consisted of two brothers Henry and Samuel who was married to Christina Bowmen.
The latter couple settled on N.1/2 lot 8, con. 8, Innisfil. They passed on in 1881 and 1881 at the ages of 84 and 64 respectively.
Of the union between Samuel and Christina Reynolds nine children were born. John married Elizabeth Gilbbons and of a large family, Sylvester Barrie is best known in Innisfil, his sister Mrs. Herbert is the oldest living descendant.
James Reynolds preceded the rest of the family from Ireland. He returned again in 1886 for a time with his wife (Margaret Ferrier) and son Samuel James, who still resides in Stroud.
A third son Samuel wed to Mary Ann Bowmen had a family of six, the last surviving member is Mrs. Thomas Bowmen, Knock . Her brother the late Harry Reynolds was Deputy Reeve of Innisfil.
A fourth son Bowmen married Maria Bennett, of their family of five, four survive. Samuel living at Big Bay Point.
Two sons Robert and Wilson married two sisters, Sarah and Agnes Rainey. They both were blessed with six children. Two of Robert Reynolds family still survive, Fred of Stroud and Mrs. Dunn of Alliston.
Three daughters were Mary who married Samuel Wright, they had one son, Robert who is now deceased. Ellen who married Dennis Whalen. They also had one daughter Margaret who married Samuel Corbett, there were eight children. Twenty grandchildren are the livng descendents. Of 170 descendants of this branch of the Reynolds family there are living approximately 125.
Reynolds, Wilson (1849 - 1911)
Side 1: In memory of / Wilson Reynolds / died May 11, 1911 / Aged 64 yrs / Agnes Rainey / wife of Wilson Reynolds / Died Sept. 23, 1889, aged 36 yrs 7 mos. / John Thomas Reynolds / Died May 2, 1904, Aged 23 yrs. 3 mos.
Side 2: Christine Reynolds / Dau of Wilson / & Agnes Reynolds / Died Mar. 19, 1891. / Aged 16 yrs, 6 ms
Side 3: Albert Reynolds , / Born Oct 28, 1882, - Died June 4, 1934 / Beloved husband of / Laura B. Carruthers / Born Mar 21, 1882 - Died Feb 1, 1983 / Frances Armstrong / Born Apr 22, 1920 - Died Oct 6, 1993 / Beloved wife of / Albert W. Reynolds / Born Apr 19 1920 -
Side 4: IDA / REYNOLDS / Dau. of Wlson / & Agnes Reynolds / died March 8, 1885 / Aged 5 mos.
[S923] Web Site - Heart of Simcoe County (Ontario), Sherman, Patricia, (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=heart-of-simcoe&id=I26279 : 200701009), ) (Reliability: 3).
[S109] Personal - Groce, Jeanne L., Jeanne L. Groce, (2000, 2001, eMail), File: Reynolds; Reynolds, Robert., Form titled -Reynolds Census- received 29 Aug 2000 by EMail (Reliability: 2), 29 Aug 2000.
[S1089] Census - Can., ON, Simcoe, Innisfil - 1891, National Archives of Canada, (Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, Microfilm. National Archives Film T-6369), File: Reynolds; Reynolds, Robert., Div 2 Page 9 (Reliability: 3), 27 May 2001.
[S924] Census - Can., ON, Simcoe, Innisfil - 1881, National Archives of Canada, (Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada. Microfilm C-13250), File: Reynolds; Reynolds, Henry., p3 h.3 (Reliability: 3), 31 Aug 2000.
[S1079] Census - Can., ON, Simcoe, Innisfil - 1861, National Archives of Canada, (Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada. Microfilm C-1072, C-1073), File: Reynolds; Reynolds, Henry., page 82 district 3 (Reliability: 3), 31 Aug 2000.
[S1082] Census - Can., ON, Simcoe, Innisfil - 1871, National Archives of Canada, (Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada. Microfilm C-9961), File: Reynolds; Reynolds, Henry., page 58 div 3 (Reliability: 3), 31 Aug 2000.
[S154] Cemetery - Can., ON, Simcoe, Stroud - St. James United Church, Transcribed by Susan and Barry Reynolds, (Stroud, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada), Notebook 5 Sep 2000. (Reliability: 3), 19 Sep 2000.
[S44] Newspaper, Notice - Barrie Saturday Morning, Barrie Saturday Morning, ((Barrie, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada), Microfilm), Notebook August 2001., 20 May 1911 p. 8 (Reliability: 3), 29 Oct 2001.
[S338] Personal - Groce, Jeanne L. - Reynolds/Bowman, Jeanne L. Groce, (2000, eMail), File: Reynolds; Reynolds, Samuel. (Reliability: 3), 12 Nov 2000.
[S927] Census - Can., ON - 1881, National Archives of Canada, C-13250, "H-3" Innisfil Twp., pg. 03 (Reliability: 2), 6 Apr 2005.
[S339] Census - Can., ON, Simcoe, Innisfil - 1901, National Archives of Canada, (Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada. Microfilm T-6497), Div 5, Page 3, Dwelling 18, Family 18 (Reliability: 3), 27 May 2001.
[S1081] Census - Can. - 1861, (National Archives of Canada), C-1072, Innisfil Twp., pg. 82 (Reliability: 2), 27 May 2006.
[S289] Vital - Can., ON - Marriage - Reynolds, Wilson & Agnes Rennie -1871, Archives of Ontario, (1871, Microfilm LDS Film # 1862696 it 2 page 155), File: Reynolds; Reynolds, Samuel. (Reliability: 3), 17 Oct 2000.
[S272] Personal - Goldstein, Colleen Farrow, email 12 April 2013. (Reliability: 2), 14 Apr 2013.
[S1645] Vital - Can., ON - Birth - Reynolds, Christina - 1874, Archives of Ontario, (1876, Microfilm LDS Film # 1845209 Record 28820), File: Reynolds; Reynolds, Robert. (Reliability: 3), 31 Aug 2000.
[S1646] Vital - Can., ON - Birth - Reynolds, Addie Maria - 1876, Archives of Ontario, (2 Dec 1876, Microfilm LDS Film # 1845209 Record 28821), File: Reynolds; Reynolds, Robert. (Reliability: 3), 31 Aug 2000.
[S1647] Vital - Can., ON - Birth - Reynolds, Clara R. - 1878, Archives of Ontario, (1878, Microfilm # 1845223 Record 028945), File: Reynolds; Reynolds, Samuel. (Reliability: 3), 4 May 2001.
[S1648] Vital - Can., ON - Birth - Reynolds, John T. - 1880, Archives of Ontario, (1880, Microfilm LDS Film # 1845401 Record 031706), File: Reynolds; Reynolds , Samuel. (Reliability: 3), 29 Nov 2000.
[S924] Census - Can., ON, Simcoe, Innisfil - 1881, National Archives of Canada, (Innisfil, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada. Microfilm C-13250), File: Reynolds; Reynolds, Henry., page 3 h. 3 (Reliability: 3), 1 Sep 2000.
[S1649] Vital - Can., ON - Birth - Reynolds, Elbert - 1882, Archives of Ontario, (1882, Microfilm LDS Film # 1845865 Record 031765), File: Reynolds; Reynolds, Samuel. (Reliability: 3), 17 Oct 2000.
[S284] Newspaper, Notice - Barrie Examiner, Barrie Examiner, ((Barrie, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada), Microfilm), Notebook August 2001., 10 October 1889 p. 8 c. 2 (Reliability: 3), 28 Oct 2001.
[S1096] Vital - Can., ON - Death - Index, Archives of Ontario (Reliability: 3), 11 Jul 2001.
[S41] Marriage Registrations - Canada, Ontario 1869 - 1918, Province of Ontario, (Ontario Archives), MS-932, Reel 6, pg. 155 (Simcoe Co.) (Reliability: 4), 6 Apr 2005.
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Macroeconomic and financial market commentary
The Keynesians, the Pavlovians, and other tribes.
Staunch Austrian Economists argue that a known quote, attributed to Milton Friedman in 1965, was taken out of context. For most, he signed in for Keynesianism when he coined the phrase “We are all Keynesians now”. Well, maybe he did. But such enthusiasm does not jibe with the fact that, three years later, he felt the need to fine tune his views on the issue. He then stated that what he really meant was that “We all use the Keynesian language and apparatus; (but) … none of us any longer accepts the initial Keynesian conclusions.”
That goes a long way to prove that Keynesianism’s obsolescence has roots in the very distant past! Fifty years ago, a key economist like Milton Friedman felt the urge to distance himself from the “Keynesian initial conclusions”. Not that he was a stand-alone dissenter. For that matter, Von Hayek had used much stronger words to underline the major economic shortcomings of Keynesianism. “Bon-Vivantism” or “Shortermism” might have been a more accurate depiction of the discipline’s content.
Unsurprisingly, it was only the initial, tweetable quote, that remained in the minds of the economists of the time. Fast forward to 1971, and Richard Nixon wasn’t in the mood for subtleties at the time. Reportedly talking off camera, he told an ABC news reporter “he had also become a Keynesian in economics”. Off camera, or not, he was just talking his book. He had no choice but to officially embrace Keynesianism, and the leeway provided by the indiscriminate use of monetary and fiscal indulgence it supported. Sure enough, six months later he suspended the USD convertibility into gold, effectively defaulting on the gold peg of the, from then on, reserve fiat currency of the global economy.
Regardless of the need to cut the peg short at the time (defaulting in full was the only other option), nobody in the Austrian School of Economics can pardon the fact that he failed to anchor the currency to some other alternative peg (I stand for a peg of the monetary base to “Gross Output”, with a 2% flexibility band on each side). From then on, money printing was to be unlimited in nature and relied exclusively on the collective decision of the FOMC, and that of the other Politburos. Keynesianism provided a free entry into the wilderness of limitless public deficits, ever expanding debt levels, boundless CB balance sheets, and manipulated interest rates.
Taking his cue from that doctrine, Ben Bernanke pondered the merits of the modern technology called “printing press”, together with the use of helicopters to spread out the money. That infamous speech earned him the deserved nickname of “Heli-Ben” -and a long tenure as the chair of the Federal Reserve. From then on, the world has been run on the premise of full conversion to the Keynesian religion.
A couple of decades later, and we all ought to be enthusiastic Keynesian converts by now. If Nixon had no other choice at the time, just think about what our real options are, today! Even if we wished to abandon the Keynesian discipline we have long gone way past the point of no return. We are truly stuck.
Piles of debt effectively impede moving forward, or even backward, with fiscal or monetary recipes, for much longer.
Outrageous inequality has been enabled by financial repression (punishing savers to enrich investors in the top wealth tier), and fostered by the availability of ever cheaper debt, with the aim of subsidizing faltering aggregate demand. Obviously, technological change hasn’t helped either. Ditto for educational levels, nearly everywhere. Top chart with the daunting wealth pyramid, courtesy of Gordon Long.
Supply side neglect has rendered a substantial part of our goods and services produce, obsolete, or environmentally unsustainable.
Keynesian public spending has bloated government sectors to more than 50% of GDP in some countries. European Labor Unions think it is not enough!
Unlimited liquidity has generated bubbles and inefficient pricing in most markets.
Zero financial costs for borrowing has favored a gearing up of most non-financial conglomerates, and a desperate search for yield (read return) by most investors -at all costs.
Yet we keep switching from monetary to fiscal Keynesian policies, suggesting escape velocity came real close with QE, or, of late, suggesting that fiscal reflation would solve the previously described pathology of our global economy business model. An endless continuum of policy mistakes. For how long? Continue reading →
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Coralius reaches 100 bunkerings milestone – LNG demand on the rise
Friday, 01 March 2019 | 00:00
Gasum's liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunker vessel, Coralius, made its 100th bunkering on February21. Coralius is operating on behalf of Gasum (former Skangas) and the vessel mainly operates in the North Sea and the Skagerrak area.
The LNG bunker vessel Coralius celebrated a milestone at the end of February, as she completed her 100th bunkering operation in just 18 months. Coralius delivers LNG through ship-to-ship bunkering at sea and in port. This has significantly increased Gasum's flexibility and responsiveness to vessels that require LNG but are unable to visit a terminal or a port. By making LNG more accessible to vessels, ship-to-ship bunkering also boosts efficiency.
“100 ship-to-ship bunkerings is a great milestone for Gasum as well as for our customers. With Coralius, we have been able to perform bunkering to different types of vessels, which is quite unique and demands us to be prepared for all types of vessels. The bunkering operations are swift and safe, and we have received great feedback from our customers. Coralius has definitely increased Gasum's flexibility as an LNG supplier,” says Kimmo Rahkamo, Vice President, natural gas and LNG, Gasum.
In 2019, Coralius will perform more bunkering operations than in 2018. Gasum foresees an increase in the average amount of delivered stem, as it will perform bunkerings on shuttle tankers and other bigger vessels. Coralius has increased its efficiency due to LNG bunkering operations becoming faster – they are now nearly as quick as normal oil bunkerings, which has also increased customer satisfaction.
LNG marine fuel meets all current SOx (sulphur oxides) and planned NOx (nitrogen oxides) requirements. It eliminates particles and can reduce CO2 emissions by at least 20% compared to traditional fuels. LNG is suitable for all vessel types and it contributes significantly to a greener shipping environment.
Coralius was built by the Royal Bodewes in the Netherlands and is the first European built LNG bunker and distribution vessel. It is equipped with state-of-the-art LNG transfer equipment for bunkering and has a cargo capacity of 5,800 m3.
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For Portland startup Project 529, fighting bike theft is just the beginning
May 28, 2014 Michael Andersen (News Editor)
The Project 529 team in the office on Wednesday. Their new free mobile app makes it far easier to track and report a stolen bike, but the company has bigger plans.
(Photos by M.Andersen/BikePortland)
Working from an office high above Interstate Avenue, a team of Portlanders has spent the last year quietly building what might be the country’s most ambitious bike-specific software company.
Funded out of pocket by three co-founders and led by the lead creator of the XBox, the ten-person company calling itself Project 529 hit the Internet last month with a web and mobile app that aspires to be a next-generation Stolen Bicycle Registry and with an attention-grabbing petition asking eBay and Craigslist to begin requiring serial numbers for the bikes they sell.
But the most interesting part of Project 529, which is pronounced “five two nine” in reference to the hours of rest and recreation, is what it wants to do.
J Allard, the company’s ballcap-clad CEO, says the firm might create “the eHarmony of trails,” matching riders to their perfect outdoor adventures. Or it might track maintenance reminders and fitness routines, becoming to “the regular Joes” what Allard says the six-year-old Strava has become for “the pros.” Or it might become a digital toolkit for bike shops that need to upgrade their services to compete with online discounters.
Or all of the above.
“We’re thinking long-term,” Allard said in an interview Wednesday. “I want to be the trusted brand that helps you get more out of your bicycle.”
Wherever the company might be headed, its first product, a free bike registry and stolen bike reporting tool called “529 Garage” with no obvious revenue model, certainly looks great:
“We’re kind of starting backwards, right?” 529 spokesman and co-founder Jason Scott said. “Most companies start on a commercial venture and then they give back.”
Instead, he said Project 529 is starting with a social mission — pitting mobile tech against bike theft — and “seeing where it goes from there.” The company developed its free anti-theft app’s features with input from the Portland Police Bureau and Portland State University security, among other law enforcement agencies.
One of the many nice touches: the moment you list your bike as stolen, the app automatically sends a push notification, with photo, to the phones of 529 Garage users for 10 miles in every direction, warning them to keep an eye out.
529 Garage users can get a push notification when nearby bikes are stolen.
Another: the program automatically creates a printable PDF of a reward poster for your bike.
Posters of lost bikes hanging in the 529 headquarters Wednesday. One has been recovered so far.
“We are looking at different ways to monetize what we’re doing. but we probably won’t pull that together until version 2 of the product,” Scott said. “We’ll go out for funding after we launch our initial product. So right now we’re in beta with the Garage, and we will launch the fully functional iPhone version around the second week of June, and I think we’ll have the Android version soon after.”
The pilot area for this initial experimentation is, of course, Portland. This Thursday, 13 local bike shops will offer free Project 529 anti-theft stickers and assistance registering bikes on the new site and app:
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Project 529 says “a West Coast tour and national bike shop rollout” will follow later this year.
Project 529′s founder and CEO is J Allard, whose official bio says he “crashed his first bike at 4″ and later led the development of the XBox project for Microsoft, leaving in 2010 after 19 years with the company. His co-founders are Lara Ferroni, another former Microsoftie who moonlights as a cookbook writer and commercial photographer, and Scott, a onetime Intel employee who’s worked in political marketing and several startups.
J Allard, Project 529′s CEO, is a former Microsoft executive and bike lover who became fascinated with bike theft after his own bike was stolen in 2012.
Scott said they settled on bike theft as their first problem to solve after a series of meetings with contacts in the bike industry and elsewhere.
“There was a lot of value that technology can bring to the table that wasn’t being leveraged,” he said.
“Bike theft is a $400 million problem,” said Allard, who two years ago tapped his own digital knowhow to track down and reclaim a $7,500 racing bike that had been stolen from him. “Thieves will steal as many bikes as bike shops will touch this year. … We’re going to find a business model.”
Wherever Project 529 goes from here, though, it’s clear that like so many Portland-born projects, this one is driven primarily by its creators’ passion for two things: good people and good bicycling.
“The bottom line is that we’ve been really successful in those careers, and were kind of excited about (a) working together, and (b) working together on a project that we’re really excited about,” Scott said.
Interested in bikes and tech? Check out Portlander Aaron Kaffen’s Startup Swag ride during PedalPalooza June 14.
The post For Portland startup Project 529, fighting bike theft is just the beginning appeared first on BikePortland.org.
bike based business, Bike Theft, Front Page
Guest perspective on the PBOT street fee: Kiel Johnson
Riding Columbia County: Burn Road Loop traces pioneer history
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CQ Press Political Reference Suite
The Brooklyn Law School Library’s subscription to CQ Press Political Reference Suite of Online Editions combines a number of CQ’s government and political reference materials. Among the titles in the suite are:
CQ Almanac (with analysis on politics and policy in Congress since 1945)
The Supreme Court Yearbook (coverage of the Court updated yearly since 1989)
Vital Statistics on American Politics 2010–2011 (complete, authoritative, data-rich resource on the full-spectrum of U.S. politics)
Political Handbook of the World (the most authoritative resource for political information on more than 200 countries)
Historic Documents Series (key documents and analysis-updated yearly since 1972)
Washington Information Directory (essential guide to key contacts at government and nongovernmental organizations).
Users can search the whole Reference Suite or work with selected titles. The opening screen provides a single search box, Search Your Online Editions, as well as an advanced search link. Further down the page is the option to Browse Your Online Editions followed by a column of all the titles to which the library subscribes. Users can link to the Your Profile link to Log in/Create Your Account, Document History, Favorite Documents, and Saved Searches
A search for “Fiorello La Guardia” yielded 16 results ranging from Unions and Labor-Management Relations Legislation, Background, 1900-1945 in Congress and the Nation Online Edition to CQ Almanac and from Guide to U.S. Elections Online Edition to Encyclopedia of the First Amendment. The first document refers to the Norris–La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act of March 23, 1932; another is a state-by-state account of the 1914 House of Representatives elections, with candidate names, party affiliations, and the votes each received.
The Advanced Search permits searches of the entire database or of specific titles only, as well as queries that include only certain topics—Congress, The Courts, Elections, Executive and Federal Government. Users can limit by document type, such as case summary or election (an icon labels the type, and an explanation of each is available under User Resources), and by event date. An advanced search for “Fiorello La Guardia,” limiting results to biography, returned one result: an entry for Lloyd N. Cutler from the Encyclopedia of the First Amendment (Cutler’s father was one of the mayor’s law partners).
A review in the October 15, 2011 edition of the Library Journal used the search term “immunization refusal” and found the results were “right on target, ranging from information on public health programs to a mention of immunization programs in a state of the union address.” Users can change the display ranking by date, number of hits, type, or alphabetically by title or source. The type and quality of information includes legislative analyses, primary-source materials, encyclopedias, in-depth current issues and archival reports, biographies, maps, chronologies, images, case summaries, bibliographies, and more.
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HOME : Greek Coins : Bactrian Silver Coins : Bactrian Silver Tetradrachm of King Eukratides I
Bactrian Silver Tetradrachm of King Eukratides I - LC.025
Circa: 171 BC to 145 BC
Collection: Greek Coins
Style: Bactrian
Medium: Silver
Obverse: Heroic Bust of the King Wearing a Military Helmet
Reverse: Conjoined Busts of Heliocles and Laodice
This coin represent King Eukratides I of Bactria, a land in central Asia (Afghanistan) that was conquered by Alexander. The adoption of the title 'Great King', implying imperial rather than merely royal status, followed some years after Eukratides' consolidation of control over Bactria. He established himself as king of "the thousand cities of Bactria" and set out to enlarge his kingdom in all directions. While returning from one of his campaigns, he was killed by one of his sons, who seized the throne. Bactrian coins were made to the Greek Standard, and this is one of the most beautiful coins of the late Hellenistic period. Known for their strongly realistic portraits, this tetradrachm of Eukratides is no exception. He is depicted as a formidable warrior, wearing a cuirass and a bronze helmet over his diadem. His features are individualized, his expression stern. On the reverse, his parents, Heliocles and Laodice, have been memorialized.
How many hands have touched a coin in your pocket or your purse? What eras and lands have the coin traversed on its journey into our possession? As we reach into our pockets to pull out some change, we rarely hesitate to think of who touched the coin before us, or where the coin will venture to after us. More than money, coins are a symbol of the state that struck them, of a specific time and place, whether contemporary currencies or artifacts of long forgotten empires. This stunning hand-struck coin reveals an expertise of craftsmanship and intricate sculptural detail that is often lacking in contemporary machine-made currencies. This coin is a memorial an ancient king and his kingdom passed from the hands of civilization to civilization, from generation to generation that still appears as vibrant today as the day it was struck. - (LC.025)
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Croydon Tram Link
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Using the ERF to strengthen the case for the Tram link to come to Sutton
(Adapted from Sustainable Energy without the hot air by David JC McKay)
One the most efficient method of transport in South London besides cycling and walking in energy terms is the Tram link.
It only requires 9 KWHrs of energy per 100 people per kilometre against 68 KWhrs per 100 people per kilometre travelling by car or 32Kwrs per 100 people per kilometre by a London bus if Sutton could link up with the Tram link and power it using the ERF then the savings in CO2 would be huge.
What’s the average energy-consumption of public transport systems, and what’s a realistic appraisal of how good they could be?
In 2006–7, the total energy cost of all London’s underground trains, including lighting, lifts, depots, and workshops, was 15 kWh per 100 p-km – five times better than a car. In 2006–7 the energy cost of all London buses was 32 kWh per 100 p-km. Energy cost is not the only thing that matters, of course.
Passengers care about speed: and the underground trains delivered higher speeds (an average of 33 km/h) than buses (18 km/h). Manager’s care about financial costs: the staff costs, per passenger-km, of underground trains are less than those of buses.
The total energy consumption of the Croydon Tram link system in 2006–7 (including the tram depot and facilities at tram-stops) was 9 kWh per 100 p-km, with an average speed of 25 km/h.
Electric Trams and trains can make a large reduction in energy consumption, and independence from fossil fuels. Buses and coaches have obvious advantages of simplicity and flexibility, but keeping this flexibility at the same time as getting buses and coaches to work without fossil fuels may be a challenge.
To summarise, public transport (especially electric trains, trams, and buses) seems a promising way to deliver passenger transportation – better in terms of energy per passenger-km, perhaps five or ten times better than cars.
Powering our public transport system from waste is much better than using diesel and burying the waste in the ground.
32 kWh per 100 p-km
9 kWh per 100 p-km
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BRAVE, SMART KIDS SAVE THEIR TOWN IN “GOOSEBUMPS 2: HAUNTED HALLOWEEN”
Following the huge success of the first Goosebumps film, the filmmakers behind Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween decided that instead of limiting themselves to the stories in the 200 books in the Goosebumps library, they would bring an original story to the screen, an adventure inspired by the cherished series.
The story begins with three regular kids who needed to be anything but average when it came to saving their town and family from certain disaster, all at the hands of one of author R.L. Stine’s most famous creations, SLAPPY, a memorable ringmaster of chaos.
Says R.L. Stine, “No one ever taught me a formula for writing books. The formula for Goosebumps is to make real kids, believable kids. Once you have that element, you can really go crazy with the plot.”
As for building on his legacy, Stine expresses a gracious encouragement to the screenwriters: “It’s very exciting to write something and also get to see what other people create with that inspiration – what direction they go.”
The books always shone a spotlight on young, brave, smart heroes – kids who stepped up when the need arose to take down monsters. Rob Lieber consciously honored that element when crafting the screenplay, and the production furthered it in their casting of Madison Iseman as Sarah, Jeremy Ray Taylor as Sonny, and Caleel Harris as Sam. The young trio fit the mold of their intrepid schoolkid heroes perfectly. Says producer Deborah Forte of her cast, “They are all exceptionally talented and really managed to embody the characteristics of the characters.”
The camaraderie made for a spirited set, according to executive producer Timothy M. Bourne. “From day one they really all jelled together,” says Bourne. “They became friends instantly and have maintained that throughout the movie. They are all just a pleasure to be around and that trickles down to everybody.”
They also managed to become a family off screen, says Forte, adding, “They’ve really invested themselves and I think the fact that they’ve built that relationship on and off camera has made their performances ring true.”
Concludes Forte, “At the root of this film is family. It’s about how growing up is hard. It centers on Sarah and her relationship with her mom and her brother, Sonny. Through the course of this adventure with Slappy and these crazy monsters, Sarah comes to realize that it is her family - her mother and her brother - that she values most.”
In Philippine cinemas October 31, Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween is distributed by Columbia Pictures, local office of Sony Pictures Releasing International.
About Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween follows the Quinn family – high school senior SARAH (Madison Iseman), her middle school brother SONNY (Jeremy Ray Taylor), and their mother KATHY (Wendi McLendon-Covey) -- into an entirely new set of spooky, exciting, and funny events. Sonny and schoolmate SAM (Caleel Harris) are best friends with a side job as the “Junk Brothers,” collecting discarded stuff other people don’t want. But it’s a gig that unfortunately leads them right into the path of (gulp) SLAPPY (Avery Lee Jones), the mischievous ventriloquist dummy from an unpublished Goosebumps book.
At first, Slappy seems to want nothing more than to be part of the Quinn family, but when his hijinks go too far, Sarah, Sonny and Sam realize that this pernicious puppet must be stopped. Rejected in his obsessive need to be a member of the Quinn household, Slappy decides to build his own “family” by kidnapping Kathy and bringing all of his Halloween friends back to life - including new right-hand Ogre WALTER (Chris Parnell).
As Halloween transforms their sleepy town into a full-on monster mash-up, boasting such hilariously freaky creatures as giant gummy bears and creepy garden gnomes, Sarah, the boys, and neighbor MR. CHU (Ken Jeong) team up to save Kathy and the town from Slappy’s wicked plan.
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Hepatitis C Test Recommendations
An estimated 3.5 million persons living in the United States are infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) and approximately 50% are unaware they are infected. HCV is primarily transmitted through percutaneous exposure to infected blood. Other modes of transmission include mother-to-infant and contaminated devices shared for noninjection drug use. Sexual transmission also occurs but generally seems inefficient except among HIV-infected men who have unprotected sex with men. Injection drug use poses the most significant risk for HCV infection, accounting for at least 60% of acute HCV infections in the United States.
CDC established risk-based HCV testing guidelines in 1998. These guidelines were expanded in 2012 with a recommendation to offer a one-time HCV testing to all persons born from 1945 through 1965 without prior ascertainment of HCV risk factors. Both CDC and the USPSTF recommend a one-time HCV test in asymptomatic persons belonging to the 1945 through 1965 birth cohort, as well as other individuals based on exposures, behaviors, and conditions or circumstances that increase HCV infection risk.
Other persons should be screened for HCV infection risk factors. One-time testing should be performed for all persons with behaviors, exposures, and conditions or circumstances associated with an increased risk of HCV infection.
Risk Behaviors
Injection-drug use (current or ever, including those who injected only once)
Intranasal illicit drug use
Risk Exposures
Persons on long-term hemodialysis (ever)
Persons with percutaneous/parenteral exposures in an unregulated setting
Healthcare, emergency medical, and public safety workers after needle-stick, sharps, or mucosal exposures to HCV-infected blood
Children born to HCV-infected women
Prior recipients of transfusions or organ transplants, including persons who:
Were notified that they received blood from a donor who later tested positive for HCV
Received a transfusion of blood or blood components, or underwent an organ transplant before July 1992
Received clotting factor concentrates produced before 1987
Persons who were ever incarcerated
Other Conditions and Circumstances
Sexually-active persons about to start pre-exposure prophylaxis (PreP) for HIV
Unexplained chronic liver disease and/or chronic hepatitis, including elevated alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels
Solid organ donors (deceased and living)
All persons recommended for HCV screening should initially be tested for HCV antibody using an FDA approved immunoassay. FDA-approved tests include laboratory-based assays and a point-of-care assay (OraQuick HCV Rapid Antibody Test). A positive test result for HCV antibody indicates either current HCV infection (acute or chronic), past infection that has resolved, or a false-positive result. Patients with positive HCV antibody should have HCV nucleic acid test to distinguish between these possibilities.
For patients with no apparent risk for HCV infection, the likelihood of a false-positive HCV-antibody test is directly related to the HCV prevalence in the tested population. False-positive HCV-antibody tests most commonly occur in populations with a low prevalence of HCV infection. For an immunocompetent population with HCV prevalence of <10%, the chance of a false positive antibody test ranges from 15-60%. False positive tests are seen most often in the elderly, dialysis patients, patients with autoimmune disease and following immunizations.
If further testing is desired to distinguish between a true positive vs biologic false positivity for HCV antibody, repeat testing may be done with a different FDA-approved, HCV-antibody assay. A biologic false result should not occur with two different assays. An alternative strategy is to go directly to HCV RNA polymerase chain reaction.
Persons who have a positive HCV-antibody test and negative results for HCV RNA PCR should be informed that they do not have laboratory evidence of current HCV infection. Additional HCV testing is typically unnecessary. The HCV-RNA test can be repeated when there is a high index of suspicion for recent infection or in patients with ongoing HCV infection risk.
Patients with a positive HCV antibody and positive HCV RNA tests have active infection and should be referred for treatment.
Circumstances associated with a false-negative EIA include patients with acute HCV infection, persons with major immunosuppression (advanced HIV infection or organ transplantation recipients), and persons with chronic renal failure on long-term hemodialysis. These patients may require HCV RNA PCR for diagnosis.
The first enzyme immunoassay (EIA), which detected antibody to a single viral antigen, was introduced in 1989. A more sensitive second generation EIA, was introduced in 1992, which detects antibody to several viral antigens. Today, laboratories usethird-generation immunoassays that detect antibodies that bind to recombinant antigens derived from four viral regions: core, nonstructural 3, nonstructural 4, and nonstructural 5.
The third generation immunoassay has sensitivity of 98% and specificity of 99%. HCV window period is typically 6 to 9 weeks from time a person is infected until HCV antibody becomes detectable.
Specimen requirement is one SST tube of blood. PCR & genotype testing can usually be performed on the residual serum sample used for the HCV antibody test.
https://www.hcvguidelines.org/evaluate/testing-and-linkage
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Lagos deputy governor and semi-nude dancers intersection
May we give a round of applause to Hon. Victoria Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, the deputy governor of Lagos State who did what was expected of an elderly woman at a public event last Wednesday. You may wonder why she should be applauded when she only did what was to be expected, but don't forget that ours is a country where most 'elders' look the other way while heavily-pregnant goats deliver in tethers.
The deputy governor is worth the clap for taking exception to what should be frowned at but have been allowed to assume the status of a norm in our society. She, at that event, stood up for her number one constituency which is womankind. She also proved that she has indeed had a stint with social work. All these and more she evinced by just throwing one stone, like the Reggae musician, Culture, would sing.
You wouldn't be forgiven if you expected anything less from a princess who has a committed passion for the emancipation of the womenfolk. No, such a person can't be present yet stomach what went down that day. I can imagine how uncomfortable the former Lagos House of Assembly member would have felt while the desecration lasted. How she prayed for the show to end abruptly so she can address the anomaly.
But she kept her cool till the end only for her to make the correction in an indulgent manner, adopting what was more like a slap on the wrist for an offence some hardliners would only have been placated by the severing of wrist. And if you ask them, they will quickly remind you of the good book's injunction for us to chop off whichever part of our body that comes between us and heaven. We shall return to this presently.
However, before we veer off too far, the woman chose the path of dialogue. Do you blame her? Of course, not! If there is any word that has been most mouthed in our polity right now, that word is surely dialogue. It is so much on every tongue that GEJ had to inaugurate an advisory committee just for it. Who knows, our Lagos mummy may have opted for dialogue as a form of rebuke in order to put her in better stead to dialogue when the stage is set for the national version. Let's now hear the dialogue that ensued between her and her interlocutors:
Deputy Governor: I guess you are professional dancers?
Interlocutors: Yes ma!
Deputy Governor: If you must entertain without pants on, certainly not in a gathering like this. Just see how you are disgracing and degrading womanhood. Don’t try it again.
Still lost, I suppose? Let me find you. The dialogists are kukere crooner, Iyanya's female dancers who wore no pants while they danced seductively. The conversation happened shortly after the sensational artiste and his troupe performed at the closing ceremony of the MTN Lagos Street Soccer that was staged at the Campos Mini Stadium in Lagos Island.
Footages from that event which went viral on the social media revealed how the dancers in question appeared almost naked such that it wouldn't take much peer before their pudenda are gleaned. To make matters worst, they danced like agents of satan sent to advertise sex by flaunting what traditionally shouldn't be flaunted.
Indeed, provocative would be an understatement for what they displayed. Yet for all of this, Hon. Orelope-Adefulire only charged them to take their display elsewhere! Verily, you will be forgiven if you expected more from her. There are lots of options before her, even within the ambit of civility, that could have been employed in ramming her disgust in and avoid a recurrence. I'm talking of options that could cause the dancers to change profession, but the good lady chose to be gentle instead.
Excuse me, did I just call for a round of applause for the deputy governor? My bad! It should have been a round of half clap, if there's anything like that. So, feel free to collect the remaining half from her, if you can. While we try to accommodate the temperate scolding she gave, her asking the dancers to take their flirtatious brand of entertainment elsewhere is a no-no! Hence, she should please make do with a half clap.
Given her statement that their show shouldn't be 'in a gathering like this', that ordinarily suggests that such display can be taken elsewhere. This elsewhere can be on music videos with impacts that would be even more devastating. It can be on television channels where advertisers would employ their craft on the claim that sex sells. The right thing would have been for the honourable to use the opportunity that availed itself to dissuade the girls from engaging in such an act no matter the setting.
If it so pained her, she could have demanded a means of contacting them or prevailed on them to see her afterwards. When they do, she could re-orient them after which they will be empowered to reach-out to other ballerinas who are still disgracing the sanctity of womanhood in other gatherings and under different capacities. Only this would have guaranteed that the gals and their like won't try it again.
The above option should have been favoured in view of the fact that the girls who were cautioned weren't just dancing for the fun of it. Rather, they performed because that is how they make ends meet. They may not have wanted to dress that way but were cajoled by the higher pay such costume would attract.
Given that this is how they earn a living, it then becomes unreasonable and unjust for anyone to ask them to give that up without providing an alternative means of livelihood. It becomes even hypocritical for the person making such demand to be in a position to provide a more decent job yet chose to be mute about that. Now you know why the number two citizen of Lagos State reserved other options before her.
Be that as it may, it is good that she at least condemned their desecration of womanhood. That is one profanity we know women to always stand against. I have witnessed an scene where a deranged lady was about stripping herself bare but was stopped by women around who rallied round and covered her with a wrapper donated by one of them.
If they could do this for an apparently raving female, why can't they prevail on ethically-mad ballerinas who appear almost naked in the guise of entertainment? The girls engaged in this nudity definitely have mothers, aren't their mothers curious about the kind of work their daughters do? Or do they know yet see nothing wrong in it since that pays the bills and makes their daughters stars? All these are vain things which a mother who ab initio did not bring up her girl-child well will glory in.
And now the poser: where are the women societies and women-cause advocates who should be campaigning against what musicians are turning young members of their gender into? I sense they have been so busy chasing 35 per cent affirmative action that they have rendered this one negligible. Looking at Iyanya, who the ballerinas were dancing to his singing, he was well clad concealing what everyman should conceal, why then should those dancing for him not clad themselves well enough?
It is in reaction to this that American divas like Beyonce, Rihanna and sorts are now trying to make boys act in a manner that degrade manhood in their music videos. This points to their acknowledgement that females are being abused in musicals, albeit they started it. Warts and all, that wouldn't change the given that womanhood had been and has continued to be desecrated globally on the altar of entertainment.
This smacks of the selfishness of the average Nigerian music artiste like his counterparts abroad. They don't really care about us, neither do they still give a heck about morality. They are basically about anything which helps in increasing their fan-base not minding how injurious that thing is to the society. I'm sure Iyanya would least be bothered when told that one of those who watched his performance that day went ahead to rape an under-aged girl.
We have really suffered at the hands of our music stars. After leading many to sin through their sex-glorifying lyrics, they are rubbing it in with pornographic visuals as well. If only Hon. Victoria Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire had spared some words for Iyanya as well...
Ugochukwu is a freelance journalist who you can follow on twitter via @ugsylvester or reach through: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
PhotoNews: Demolishing The Poor in Lagos
In the below image taken Thursday Feb. 28, 2013 A bulldozer levels the site of demolished houses at Ijora Badia slum in Lagos, Nigeria. The bulldozers arrived at dawn to this neighborhood of shanty homes and concrete buildings in Nigerias largest city, followed by police officers in riot gear carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles. The police banged on doors, corralling the thousands who live in Ijora-Badia off to the side as the bulldozers blades tore through scrap-lumber walls, its track grinding the possessions inside into the black murk of swamp beneath it. It left behind only a field of debris that children days later picked through, their small hands dodging exposed rusty nails to pull away anything of value left behind. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
A man sits in the rubble of his partly demolished house at Ijora Badia slum in Lagos, Nigeria, (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
children stand on the rubble of a demolished house at Ijora Badia slum in Lagos, Nigeria. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Lagosians search through the rubble of demolished houses at Ijora Badia slum in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
A man salvages engine oil from demolished houses at Ijora Badia slum in Lagos, Nigeria. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Residents salvage wood from demolished houses at Ijora Badia slum in Lagos, Nigeria. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Men carry a salvaged refrigerator from the site of demolished houses at Ijora Badia slum in Lagos, Nigeria. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Lagos: Truth, Bigots and Purveyors of Ignorance
Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode’s piece titled, Lagos, The Igbo and Servants of Truth made an interesting reading. The clearly unconstitutional deportation of some Nigerians (of Igbo extraction) from Lagos to Anambra State on the grounds that they were destitute was the catalyst for Fani-Kayode’s outburst. His and other uninformed response to an issue that is essentially a constitutional matter has once again exposed the fault lines in our so called unity in diversity.
I was tempted to ignore the said contribution just like a few others that made no sense to me. However, I feel obliged to respond to Fani-Kayode simply because he claims to be a student of history and a historian as well. He no doubt imagines himself informed and thus on a mission to educate, in his words “younger Nigerians” who need to learn “to do their own research and to study their own history”. It is against this background that this intervention will attempt to evaluate his claims and ascertain their veracity or otherwise.
Fani-Kayode made four main assertions:-
1) That the relocation from Lagos to Anambra of 19 destitute persons of Igbo extraction by the government of Lagos State was in order.
2) That the Igbos have nothing to do with the development of Lagos “other than Ajegunle, Computer Village, Alaba and buying up numerous market stalls in Isale Eko”.
3) That “younger Nigerians” (and I read that to mean “younger Igbo Nigerians”) are ignorant of their history and need to do their research like the one he has done in the piece under discussion.
4) That Lagos was developed by Yoruba money (whatever that means) and not oil money.
I understand that Fani-Kayode is a lawyer. Any lawyer knows that the forced “relocation” of a Nigerian citizen under our constitution without recourse to law or due process is a gross infringement on the fundamental right of that person irrespective of the person’s state of origin, circumstance of birth, social status or occupation.
Indeed, the reference to these citizens as destitute which was the basis for the breach of their most fundamental right guaranteed by the constitution is reflective of the contempt which the ruling elite now hold their fellow citizens simply because of their privileged access to the Commonwealth.
These destitute and homeless people were displaced by the greed and visionless policies of successive governments. Lagos State government as one of the few functional governments in Nigeria must realise that part of the responsibility of government anywhere in the world is the care and welfare of the weak and vulnerable segments of the society. This attempt to criminalise poverty in a dysfunctional and deeply corrupt environment that is ours is intrinsically immoral and reprehensible evil. Human beings are not refuse to be dumped by trucks at bridgehead in the middle of the night. This act does not reflect our core values and do not mirror who we are. The rights invested in the citizen under the constitution are so sacred that no responsible government would trample them in this manner.
One of the sore points in the United States drone war against terrorists arose as a result of the assassination of a known terrorist who happened to be an American citizen. The indisputable fact that the victim was a terrorist did not make his killing acceptable because he was first and foremost an American citizen and the government has no power to kill American citizens without recourse to law and due process. What I had expected Fani-Kayode and the army of “human right” lawyers (who are mainly Fani-Kayode’s kinsmen) was to rise in defence of the common man irrespective of their origin, class or creed. It is sad that they became silent because the victims are Igbos!
I know Governor Babatunde Fashola is a smart person and I believe that he would soon do the smart thing by acknowledging this wrongful act, make amends and move on with his good works. Fashola does not need the meaningless posturing of Fani-Kayode and the other political chameleons defending an indefensible act.
It is a gratuitous insult for anybody to suggest that the only contribution the Igbos have made in the development of Lagos is in the area of trade and commerce. Yes, the Igbos are proud of their entrepreneurial skills just as the Yorubas are proud of their penchant for funfare and merriment. Every tribe has an identity.
Lagos boasts a mega-city status not due to its indigenous population but its non-indigenous immigrant population comprising Yorubas, Igbos, Hausas, Ijaws, Efiks and other Nigerian tribes. Historically, Lagos indigenous population were not famous for their intellectual or commercial endeavours. The emergence of Lagos as a centre of trade and commerce started with its contact with Portuguese traders in the 15th century when it became a major market and outpost for shipment of slaves to South America.
Interestingly, modern day Lagos was founded by the Bini in the 16th Century. The Bini ruled Lagos until 1851 when the British colonialists captured the city and later annexed it in 1861. With the abolition of slave trade, returnee freed slaves who have been exposed to western influence and education became the first intellectual community. These freed slaves were not only Yorubas but (as their names suggest) also from other ethnic groups affected by the slave trade. These pioneers of modern Lagos were Nigerians from all parts of the country. Most of the slaves were actually captured from the hinterlands and taken to the sea ports for transportation.
In modern day Lagos, the influence of Igbo merchants dates back to the commercial exploits in the transport sector of Sir Louis Odimegwu Ojukwu and other numerous Igbo business pioneers whose offsprings today control more than 40% of the major financial institutions in Nigeria and whose contributions to the GDP of Lagos State over the years run into trillions of naira. These are the pioneers who can rightly claim Lagos as we know it today. Ikeja which was the administrative headquarters of Lagos State for more than 25 years and had a huge Yoruba population cannot boast 10 (ten storey buildings) that was not built by the federal government or privately owned by immigrant business concerns.
This claim that Lagos was not developed by oil money is turning truth on its head and a complete hogwash. Lagos served as the capital of Nigeria from independence to 1991. In this period, a substantial investment in infrastructure by the federal government was concentrated in Lagos. The Third Mainland Bridge and virtually all major roads in and out of Lagos were all constructed and some are still being constructed by the federal government to date. Where did the federal money come from? Maybe from Fani-Kayode’s cocoa plantations.
Since he is a historian, it may interest Fani-Kayode to know that in the early part of the 17th century , the Oba of Bini sent a war expedition led by Prince Ado to Lagos over a minor issue of disagreement over the passage of the Oba’s merchants through Lagos. The people refused to fight and instead welcomed Prince Ado and his soldiers and requested him to govern them. Prince Ado agreed on the condition that they surrender their sovereignty to the Oba of Bini which they quickly accepted. Consequently, the Oba of Bini in exercise of his authority over Lagos sent some of his chiefs including Eletu Odibo, Obanikoro and several others who assisted Prince Ado in the running of Lagos. These are indisputable historical facts and not the falsehood Fani-Kayode wants to teach younger Nigerians as history. The reality is that modern day Lagosians have so intermingled that no single tribe or people can claim it even though the predominant language is Yoruba.
The reference to Lagos often as “no man’s land” is not in bad faith or taste but more as a tribute to Lagos as the amalgam of all ethnic nationalities in Nigeria and beyond. I have not met an Igbo man who traced his ancestry to Lagos. This brazen attempt to cause disaffection amongst inhabitants of a mega metropolitan city is in my view unbecoming of a man who claims to be a nationalist.
I do not know which generation of Nigerians of Igbo extraction Fani-Kayode wants to learn history but I do know that most Igbos born after the civil war are aware of their history despite not witnessing the tragic events of the civil war. I do not think that Fani-Kayode is a nationalist. Genuine patriots walk the talk and do not engage in acts or utterances that polarise ethnic groups and deepen mutual suspicion.
Yes, God will deliver Nigeria but He urgently needs to deliver the bigots and purveyors of ignorance in our midst.
•Chuka Odom is a former Minister of state (FCT)
The Kidnapping Of Poor Nigerians By Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola Of Lagos
"We the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, having firmly and solemnly resolve, to live in unity and harmony as one indivisible and indissoluble sovereign nation under God, dedicated to the promotion of inter-African solidarity, world peace, international co-operation and understanding. And to provide for a Constitution for the purpose of promoting the good government and welfare of all persons in our country, on the principles of freedom, equality and justice, and for the purpose of consolidating the unity of our people" - The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
When it comes to the constitution, Nigeria’s political class abandons discretion so stupidly. The legal impotence of the Nigerian constitution will likely rank first when compared to other developing nations of the world. Politicians, the corruptly enriched and powerful routinely find creative ways to simply side-step sections that they deem inconvenient or uncomfortable. The section dealing with fundamental rights of Nigerian citizenship had long been dust binned and completely forgotten. When convenient or supportive of some of their excesses, like the devil who quote the Bible to justify an evil scheme, these corrupt politicians recite the same constitution often violated at will.
Governor Babatunde Fashola toed this now predictable line, barely, twenty-four hours after trampling on the protected rights of ordinary Nigerian citizens. Fashola, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, sought refuge in the principles of separation of powers when protesting a call for the national government to review his reckless acts. The validity of contested provision is not in doubt, yes Fashola have state police powers. However, he has absolutely no powers on earth to deport a fellow citizen! The right of citizenship is inalienable and remains the fundamental principle of society. Today, with evil power-drunk dictators, like Babatunde Fashola, those rights mean little in Nigeria.
Somebody should whisper into the ears of Fashola that the ultimate purpose of separation of powers is to protect the liberty and security of the governed, as opposed to giving him the unfettered discretion to decide who to forcefully kidnap and deport to any place of his choice.
To understand the game that Fashola is playing, we may have to take a big leap to the past to see how our leaders, treat citizens (citizens is often viewed as a derogatory term by corrupt politicians).
DEPORTATION OF ALHAJI SHUGABA ABDULRAHAM
My first encounter with this ugly fact was as an eavesdropper in a conversation between my father and a gentleman. The man, a radical (a term often used by the government to discredit social critics), had then asked my father, the worst possible thing that the government can do to a Nigerian citizen. My fathers of blessed memories, was quick with his answer, denial of the right of citizenship. In complete shock and horror, I listened as my father narrated the story of Alhaji Abdulraham Shugaba.
During the years of "Shagari –Democracy" a one-party dictatorship similar to what we have now, NPN was in power. Shugaba, a member of the opposition party, GNPP was a strong opponent of the all-powerful NPN in Bornu State. He was a very flamboyant orator whose populist agenda appealed to his constituents. Shugaba, became too popular and could not be rigged-out by the NPN (then with a slogan, NPN-POWER!). Shugaba was a huge challenge to the power of NPN to rig in any politician of their choice.
Through a scheme and a series of political intrigues that will even baffle a hard-core Machiavellian, he was labeled a citizen of a neighboring country, Chad. Undeterred, he blasted the NPN rigging machines and called them citizens of Hell.
Black-market court injunctions were hurriedly purchased by the NPN, preventing him from contesting elections based on lack of, Nigerian citizenship! A determined Shugaba, painstakingly and successfully challenged most of the early injunctions. His success at the tribunals outraged the ruling oppressors.
His detractors became more desperate that he could have ever imagined. NPN, purchased another decision with a deportation order, without procedural due process. Before, Shugaba could say, “appeal,” Security agents were in his house very early in the morning, all armed to the teeth. Before the embattled Shugaba could say "what-up?" he was whisked away in his sleeping clothes (half-naked, barefooted) and deported to Chad. The protests of the Chadian government, that, Shugaba is not from Chad, met the unsympathetic ears of the ruling class.
The sensibilities and conscience of Nigerians were agitated, that was then, before the current state of hopelessness. A group of people with similar political interests mounted a legal defense. It went all the way to the Supreme Court, thank goodness, the apex court overturned the deportation order.
Monetary damages were awarded to the obviously rattled Shugaba, no amount of money can compensate one for such blatant and traumatic ordeal. The sad thing is that, Shugaba had to overcome high artificial obstacles before he was given a fraction of the court award. The result was again surprised, oppressive leaders found a weapon of choice, deportation.
DEPORTATION AS A WEAPON BY IBB - PATRICK WILMOT.
When a professor in ABU, Patrick Wilmot, became critical of the excess of Babangida, the man called Maradonna simply laughed. Nigerians watched helplessly when without any due consideration to his legal status, Babangida deported the hapless professor.
GOV. BABATUNDE FASHOLA’S FORCEFULLY SEIZURE, AND “DEPORTATION” OF FELLOW NIGERIANS THE HEIGHT OF CITIZEN ABUSE.
Now, the ruling class is moving it notches higher, of course in geometrical progression. Deportation based on poverty, is even worse that the above cases and that is exactly what Fashola is doing, period. What the man who at the bare minimum understands the meaning of human rights is doing is unreasonable or more obnoxious to Nigerian constitution which he once swore to uphold.
When Gov. Babs Fashola started his new wave of violating fundamental human rights of Nigerians, he did by deporting, Northerners. His rationale for the deportation was "to free the state of the destitute and beggars, and who are mostly from the northern part of the country." Some of us cried out in shock. This argument remains the most heart-breaking argument proffered by any person anywhere in the world for an egregious constitutional breach. One of the most important duties of a government is to improve the welfare of the citizens, including the poor, rather than do that, Fashola is not only trampling of the rights of the poor, but committing mass-murder. Some of these people will die off out of frustration.
After listening for a while, and sensing that Nigerians have forgotten. Fashola then embarked on a new wave. This time just like in the first exercise, he looks at people faces, and decided that they are likely from Anambah State, and deported all of them.
Even if one grudgingly listen to Fashola’s belated argument of “Welfare,” what type of welfare is he providing by forcefully deporting them from a place they call home. Fashola is eager to welcome the rich who swell the huge purse of his godfather with monies taken through taxes, levies and penalties for unlawfully confiscated goods, yet he cannot even use a small percentage of the fund to provide basic amenities for the poor. The quick-fix is deportation.
THE WRONGFUL ACT OF FASHOLA IS NOT DEPORTATION BUT KIDNAPPING
Simple definitions with very little explanation:
The expulsion of an undesirable alien from a country! Therefore, to be deported, one has to be expelled from another country where he is an alien. Never in the history of mankind has a man been deported from his own country! If there is genuine dispute as to the citizenship of the deported, the court ought to resolve it, not the executive. That is exactly why we have anti-aggrandizement principle.
The crime of unlawfully seizing and carrying away a person by force or Fraud, or seizing and detaining a person against his or her will with an intent to carry that person away at a later time. See http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/kidnapping
The situation even when viewed in a light most favorable to Babatunde Fashola, will still be kidnapping. The formulation of illegal deportation decrees in these type of cases presents problems of considerable complexity. Any public policy consideration of appropriate goal of freeing the state of destitute must necessarily be subordinated to the primary question -- the constitutionality of a dictatorial state governor trampling in a most egregious manner, on the constitutional rights of Nigerian citizens. Such an act is a violation equal protection of the laws and the most basic right, fundamental human rights.
Obi Enweze was the Secretary General of NADECO –USA/Canada
Only 14 destitutes returned to Anambra –Fashola
CNPP cautions Obi over backlash
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State yesterday cleared the air on the controversies trailing the alleged forceful ejection of some Igbo from the state, saying only 14 destitutes were picked on the streets, ehabilitated and resettled back to their state.
Governor Fashola thus distanced the state’s government from the claim that those resettled were 67 or 72.
Fashola who also disclosed that he just ordered the rehabilitation of a mad woman who was allegedly impregnated by unknown person in Oshodi, said the state’s government’s care for its residents had no ethnic or political colouration.
Meanwhile, the Lagos State chapter of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) has urged Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State not to allow the controversy cause rancour between Igbo and Yoruba in Lagos.
In a statement signed by the state’s chairman of CNPP, Hon Akinola Obadia, the group said that the issue should not be allowed to cause disaffection among the Igbo people living in the state with their Yoruba neighbours.
The CNPP also warned against tribalising the alleged deportation issue. The statement reads in part: “We in the CNPP have gone extra mile to find out the fact from government source on the issue of the return of destitutes in the state to their states of origin.
We decided to make a clean breast of the matter against the disinformation and rumour some people are making.”
Speaking during a visit of Aka Ikenga, Igbo community in Lagos to his office in Alausa, Ikeja, Fashola said what happened was indeed minor issue that had been exaggerated to score cheap political gain.
Explaining the genesis of the controversy, Fashola recalled that there was correspondence between the Lagos State Government and the Anambra State liaison in Lagos.
Governor Fashola explained that his Anambra State counterpart could not claim ignorance of the whole matter.
BRF: Is Lagos State Still Working?
Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola: Is Lagos State Still Working?
You were a reference point, some even compare you with Cassius Longinus- philosopher and rhetorician, described as a "a living library and a walking museum".
You define style, you were a syllabus other states study, your simplicity, style of governance, traffic management, road management, environment, water transportation, housing, metro rail line project, education, health, public service were areas other states in Nigeria tried copying.
With your Better Re-assuring Future to Before Retiring Finally in 2015, is Lagos State still working? Your 1st term was an endless footprints on the sands of Lagos State history You break barriers, you were honored locally and internationally, as the world stand aside to let BRF passes , because you knows where you were going.
In your second term, it seems Lagos all these giant strides has virtually left to be wallowed. Through political bickering and manoeuvrings, your erstwhile deputy governor was replaced, and possibly you could not worked with the present one.
BRF, Lagosians are still dumfounded! Eko tin baje o! [Lagos is no longer working}. The Atlantic City, Lekki Free Trade Zone, are indeed an endless footprints of yours on the sand of Lagos State. The street sign posts in some areas has been abandoned. Most people were actually swayed to ACN because of your attributes and accomplishments.
Your second term is indeed not as vibrant as the first term, the political bickering and manoeuvrings that is already playing itself out in Lagos State to some, may be the reason why you have soft pedaled on consolidating on your unrivaled accomplishments. You are not serving any semi-god or godfather, but your service is to Lagosians by leaving an endurable, unrivaled, undeniable endless footprints of BRF on the sand of Lagos State now Before Retiring Finally!
You surrounded yourself with intellectuals, you established yourself in the minds of Lagosians as a master of initiatives, your voice is strong and harmonious, your manly understanding is strengthened and adorned with study.
And for those who have tied down your advancement, remind them; it was just as certain Indian wise man had observed: "O King Alexander, each man possess just so much of the earth as this one which we stand; and you being a man like other man, save that you are full of activity and relentless are roaming over, all the earth far from your home, troubling yourself, and troubling others. But not so long hence you will die, and will posses just so much of the earth as suffices for your burial."
BRF, Before Finally Retiring, Is Lagos State still working? Eko tin baje o!
My hopes for 2015: BRF/Tambuwal Ticket!
Taiwo Lawrence Adeyemi. Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Cells:+234 [0] 701-224-8573.
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PhotoNews:Lagos Govt destroys slum Neighborhood
"The bulldozers arrived there on Feb. 23, a Saturday morning, along with the police. They tore down the homes quickly, leaving most people to sleep outside afterward. Days later, they were crowded into a community hall, an open-air room covered by a thin tin roof. Others slept in a nearby church, their possessions gathered on top of benches under the watchful eyes of pictures of Jesus Christ near the altar. A spokesman for Lagos state government did not respond to requests for comment about the demolition.
The bulldozers came at dawn to this neighborhood of shanty homes and concrete buildings in Nigeria's largest city, followed by riot police carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles. The police banged on doors, corralling the thousands who live in Ijora-Badia off to the side as the bulldozers' blades tore through scrap-lumber walls, their tracks grinding the possessions inside into the black murk of swamp underneath. Days later, children picked through the field of debris, their small hands dodging rusty nails to pull away anything of value left behind.
The demolition of this slum neighborhood follows others in Lagos, a city of some 17.5 million inhabitants where a dozen can sleep in a single room and more flock to every day from the countryside. While the city continues to grow, the government has started programs to improve roads and railways, but target poor neighborhoods for demolition and street traders for arrest." - Associate Press
Photos Credit:(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
PhotoNews: Where is Kim Kardashian? Lagos, Nigeria.
Kim Kardashian, United States TV reality star arrived in Lagos to host a concert with Darey Art, a Nigerian soul singer. On February 17, the ‘Love Like a Movie’ concert was held at Expo Hall of the Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island
Kim at Lagos Airport
Kim Kardashian with Nigeria's R&B singer Darey Art
Photos: Ade Plumptre and Victor Ekezie
Toxic waste ship still detained in Lagos
The ship, MV Marivia, arrested at the Tin-Can Island Port in Lagos on Wednesday with two containers of e-waste is still being detained, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
An official of the Tin-Can Island Container Terminal, who preferred anonymity, told NAN on Saturday that the ship is still there and has not sailed out’. The source said that the ship had finished discharging other goods and was closely being guarded by security men.
The two offensive containers were laden with used electronics, including television sets, computers, central processing units (CPU), digital video recorders, microwaves, pressing irons and stereo sets. The 23,652 tonnage container ship which berthed on Wednesday arrived from Tilbury in London.
The authorities of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), NESREA and the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) detained the vessel. The numbers of the two containers are: ECMU 9894510 and ECMU 9870858.
On Friday, Hajia Hadiza Mailafia, the Minister of Environment, told reporters in Abuja that the owners of the vessel had been fined one million dollars to serve as a deterrent. Mailafia said that the culprits involved in the intercepted vessel would face life imprisonment if convicted. Earlier, Dr Ngeri Benebo, the Director-General of National Environment Standards Regulatory Agency (NESREA), had told NAN that the containers would be sent back to the port of origin.
Benebo said the repatriation of the containers were in conformity with the provisions of the Harmful Wastes Act. "We are sending the e-wastes back to the port of origin,’’ the director-general said. She said that the agency’s action was guided by the provisions of the laws of Nigeria and warned that
"Nigeria would resist any attempt by any country to make the country a dumping ground.” The director-general said the suspected importers of the cargo were traced to Umezime Street, Alaba International Market, and arrested.
Meanwhile, a maritime expert, who did not want his name mentioned, said the security around the ship was expected. According to the expert, the security agencies will strive to avoid a repeat of the escape of the illegal bunkering ship MT African Pride from Nigerian waters in August 2004. NAN reports that this is not the first attempt to dump toxic wastes in Nigeria.
The first time was in 1988 when a shipment of over 3,500 tonnes of toxic wastes from Italy was dumped in Koko Port in Delta. In April 2010, the NCS arrested and detained a Maersk Line vessel, MV Nashiville, laden with toxic waste (lead batteries classified as Basel code A1180 and broken televisions. In June 2010, NCS also arrested and detained a ship, MV Gumel, in Lagos Port for bringing eight containers with materials suspected to be toxic waste. Also a vessel, MV Vera D, carrying three containers laden with toxic black and white television sets, was detained at the Tin-Can Port, Lagos, in October 2010.
The toxic-laden containers were sent back to the port of origin in the U.S. In December 2012, NESREA impounded four containers of used electronics described as `e-wastes’ in Apapa port.
Nigeria: Man arrested with 767 500 dollars at airport
The Nigeria Customs Service on Friday arrested a Hong Kong-bound passenger at Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, with 767 500 dollars.
The Customs Command at the airport said the passenger was arrested while boarding Emirates flight number EK782 to Hong Kong.
The Public Relations Officer of the Customs Service at the airport, Thelma Williams, said although the passenger declared the amount on the prescribed forms CDF1A and CDF1B, he could not explain satisfactorily the source of the money.
Williams said upon investigation, the suspect was observed to be a frequent traveller. “Upon investigation, the passenger was noted as a frequent traveller with the currency.
"He travelled between 27 April and 15 September 2012 with 1.3 million dollars, which he took to Hong Kong.
“Also on 3 November 2012, the suspect travelled with 10 000 dollars to China and the present case of 10 Januarie when he was caught trying to smuggle out 767 500 dollars to Hong Kong,” Williams said.
She said the passenger and the amount had been handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for further investigation.
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SEIPASA SA Spain
Category：Crop ProtectionBiopesticides & BiocontrolsBiostimulants
Seipasa launches a campaign that pays tribute to farmers and thanks them for all their work during the pandemic
SEIPASA is a leading company specialized in natural treatments for agriculture. SEIPASA is pioneer in researching, manufacturing and marketing biopesticides, biostimulants and fertilizers. From its headquarters in Valencia, Spain, and conducted by the R&D department, SEIPASA formulates solutions of high technological value which are applied in the most demanding agricultures of the world. The company is established in over 25 countries worldwide.
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Date：Dec. 21, 2020 Category：Companies
Seipasa, the Spanish company specialised in the development and formulation of bioinsecticides, biofungicides and biostimulants, presents its campaign that pays...
Seipasa wins the 2020 National Innovation Award
Date：Nov. 11, 2020 Category：Companies
The Spanish company, as highlighted in the jury’s decision, has received this award from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation in recognition of its "...
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Hitachi to Release the HG73M Series of ASICs that Integrate High Speed Logic and a High Density DRAM on the Same Chip
- Adopting a DRAM micromodule architecture for higher performance, lower power consumption, and miniaturization -
<!-====NewsRelease MENU=============================-------------> Hitachi, Ltd. has developed a process of combining logic and DRAM for multimedia equipment, and image processing and storage areas. Hitachi is to release the HG73M series that can incorporate a maximum 140 Mbit DRAM. Orders will be accepted starting in October 1997. Since combining a DRAM and logic on a single silicon chip allows the width of the bus between the DRAM and the logic to be increased, this series allows the data transfer efficiency to be increased ten to one hundred times more than that of previous systems which use an external DRAM. Combining a DRAM and logic on a single silicon chip also allows power requirements to be reduced to 1/10 or 1 /20 of that of previous systems.
Recently, there is a strong need for increased performance, miniaturization and reduced power in areas such as portable information processing equipment, image processing devices, storage, and games. For example, in the area of high performance image processing, a high speed of more than 1G byte/ sec. is required for 3D graphics processing. However, it has been difficult to realize such speed in previous systems which use an external DRAM due to the width of the bus between the external DRAM and the logic. Given this background, at the 1996 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Hitachi announced the development of a test chip , which includes an on-chip 8 Mbit DRAM for 3D graphics, and developed the fundamental technology for combining a DRAM and logic on the same chip. Based on that technology, Hitachi is to release the HG73M series, which can include a high density DRAM.
The basic concepts behind Hitachi's ASICs are an extensive cell library, a short design period, and an easy-to-use design environment. Hitachi has already released the HG71 series that adopts a 0.8-micrometer process, the HG72 series that adopts a 0.5-micrometer process, and the HG73 series that adopts a 0.35-micrometer process and includes the HG 73C series which can incorporate either an SH-3(SH7708) or an H8S CPU core. Hitachi has also prepared a development environment based on an ASIC procedure that allows users to design their products themselves. In the logic blocks, this series adopts the 0.35-micrometer CMOS process, which features a 0.35-micrometer gate length and a three-layer metal wiring technology. Random logic is designed using the same cell library as with the HG73C series. A high-level language model is used for the DRAM blocks, and after the user customizes the required number of modules on an engineering workstation, the user simulates the combined DRAM and logic circuit.
Hitachi's DRAM modules adopt a DRAM micromodule architecture, which can achieve the high performance and low power consumption required of ASICs that include a DRAM and can flexibly support the diverse memory structures that occur in ASIC products. Hitachi's DRAM micromodule architecture supports scalability and expansion using a 256-Kbit clock-synchronous DRAM micromodule as a single bank unit. For example, a 4-Mbit DRAM module would be constructed from 16 banks. This multi-bank architecture allows independent X-Y address control for each bank, and pipelining memory accesses using a 128 bit wide bus can provide data transfer rates 10 to 100 times those achievable with an external DRAM system. The fabrication process was optimized for combined DRAM/logic systems, and retains the high-speed performance of 0.35-micrometer logic (clock rates up to 150 MHz) and allows the inclusion of large-scale DRAM systems on chip.
Since combining DRAM and logic on the same silicon chip allows an internal bus to be used to connect the DRAM to the logic, and allows low-current drive to be used to drive that bus, the bus load can be reduced significantly from that associated with the external bus on the system board used in earlier systems. This allows power requirements to be reduced to 1/10 or 1/20 that required by previous systems. Furthermore, the adoption of the multibank technique allows applications to significantly reduce DRAM module power consumption by only making the selected bank active. This series can incorporate a maximum 140 Mbit DRAM. The maximum amount of DRAM that can be included on a chip is determined by the allocation of chip space between memory and logic for the largest chip size the user can accept from a cost standpoint. For example, a 10-mm square chip can hold 30 Mbits of DRAM if 100% of the chip is used for DRAM, and 16 Mbits of DRAM if 200,000 logic gates are required.
In addition to standard QFP packages with between 100 and 296 pins, the HG73M series will also be available in low-thermal expansion QFP packages that include a built- in heat spreader, and in BGA packages with up to 352 pins for high-density high-speed applications. This series will also be available in chip scale packages (CSPs) with between 136 and 262 pins, and 135 to 401-pin PGA ceramic packages, and thus all Hitachi packages that can be used with ASICs can be used with the HG73M series. As is the case with earlier Hitachi's ASICs, the HG73M series supports the use of a consistent design environment based on commercial EDA tools running on an engineering workstation. (These EDA tools include Cadence*, Mentor*, and Synopsys* products.) For DRAM modules, Hitachi also provides a timing information matching model written in a high-level language.
Future developments in this HG73M series will include the ability to include Hitachi's high-performance CPU cores and analog modules along with a DRAM and logic. These features are planned for release next spring. Additionally, Hitachi has already established 0.25-micrometer process technology, and is aiming at creating an ASIC system product that can combine CPU cores, analog modules, DRAM, flash memory, and random logic on a single chip.
Application Product Examples
- High-performance image processing areas such as multimedia equipment, amusement equipment
- Data storage areas such as HDD systems, DVD systems, CD-ROM systems
- Information-processing areas such as PDAs, cellular telephone areas
Pricing in Japan
Gate count
On-chip DRAM size
Price in 100,000 unit lots (Yen/unit)
HG73M QFP208 200k 16 Mbits 4,800
HG73M Series
Process 0.35-micrometer 3-layer metal CMOS<5-layer>
Power-supply voltage 3.3V +/- 0.3V, <2.5 V +/- 0.2V>
Operating temperature -20 to +75 C degrees
Maximum operating frequency Logic: 150 MHz/3.3V
Memory: 100MHz/3.3V
Maximum application circuit scale Logic: 5 million gates, DRAM: 140 Mbits
(for logic-only and DRAM-only ASICs, respectively)
DRAM module Adoption of the DRAM micromodule architecture
- Multibank technique (each bank operates independently)
- 256 Kbits/bank
- 4 to 16 banks/module
*: Standard modules: 1 Mbit, 2.5 Mbits, 4 Mbits
I/O interfaces CMOS/TTL/<PCI>/<GTL>/<HSTL>/<5 V I/O>
Special functions Shift-scan technique for automatic diagnosis, boundary scan, PLL, support for automatic clock generation technique that minimizes clock skew.
Packages QFP; 100, 136, 168, 208, 256, 296
BGA; 256, 352, <400>, <600>
PGA; 135, 256, 299, 401 (With fins)
CSP: 136, 152, 168, 184, 200, 216, 232, 248, and 262 pins
Other features Support for a consistent development environment based on commercially available EDA tools that run on engineering workstations.
These EDA tools include Cadence*, Mentor*, and Synopsys* products.
Note: Items in angle brackets are under development.
* Cadence: Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Mentor: Mentor Graphics Corporation, Synopsys: Synopsys, Inc.
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INTRODUCING "CYBERFRONT"
A NEW SYSTEM FOR BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
Hitachi Announces the Launch of "Solutionmax for Finance" - Financial Services Business Solution for the Big Bang -
Hitachi, Ltd. today announced the "Cyberfront" group of business solutions aimed at solving the problems that companies face in business development. As the first of the "Cyberfront" solutions, Hitachi commercialized a business solution for financial services called "Solutionmax for Finance" in accordance with the "Big Bang" liberalization of financial services in Japan. Solutionmax for Finance employs the Hub & Spokes architecture.* Sales of this new solution product will start on August 5 in Japan.
*Hub & Spokes architecture: architecture which enables flexible and efficient connections between new channel systems, new product systems, management systems and existing systems based on distributed object technology.
Many industries, especially the financial services industry, are symbolized by such expressions as the "Big Bang," "deregulation" and "globalization," and are facing an era of increased competition, which will extend beyond the existing business boundaries. Therefore, information systems must provide business solutions which are more closely related to management, including areas ranging from the analysis of business opportunities to risk management.
In May 1996, Hitachi announced the basic concept of information systems, called "FOREFRONT with Cyberspace," aimed at establishing a humanized and sophisticated information society which manages corporate activities, social activities and family life in a global networkspace based on "Network Computing."
Through joint development with Sakura Bank, Hitachi launched an integrated profit and risk management system called the Asset Liability Management (ALM) system. Further, Hitachi has been quick to provide information system packages and services adapted to the financial Big Bang using an application package from Nomura Research Institute. These efforts have encouraged the spread of systems such as over-the-counter mutual funds sales system for banks to sell mutual funds.
The newly released "Cyberfront" is a product which groups together all of the solutions which Hitachi previously provided to meet the particular needs of various industries and businesses in order to directly address corporate management issues. Cyberfront is composed of the "Solutionmax Series" developed for every industry and business that has a common solution base. "Solutionmax for Finance" is the first in the series of solutions commercialized by Hitachi.
"Solutionmax for Finance" is a business solution based on the new Hub & Spokes architecture. Combined with the latest know-how of product groups from Japan and overseas, Solutionmax for Finance will assist financial service companies in the speedy and efficient adaptation to the Big Bang. Composed of seven business sub-solutions, Solutionmax for Finance can be adapted to the broad and varied business operations of financial institutions.
In order to strengthen the development and sales of these kind of solutions to the financial services industry, on August 21, 1998, Hitachi will establish a Financial Big Bang Business Promotion Center within the Information Systems Division that will specialize in the planning and development of related new products. The Center will further promote business solutions adapted to the Big Bang for the financial industry in Japan through marketing and alliances with leading customers and partners. The Center will consist of staff related to the Big Bang including researchers, software engineers, system engineers and engineers in charge of ATMs and branch systems, and will provide system using their combined talents.
In the future, Hitachi plans to develop solutions for other areas outside the financial services industry such as for distribution, manufacturing and the public sector, gradually commercializing these solutions in the "Solutionmax Series".
Hitachi, Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is one of the world's leading global electronics companies, with fiscal 1997 (ending March 31, 1998) consolidated sales of 8,417 billion yen (63.8 billion dollars**). The company manufactures and markets a wide range of products, including computers, semiconductors, consumer products andpower and industrial equipment. For more information on Hitachi, Ltd., please visit Hitachi's Web site at http://www.hitachi.co.jp.
** At an exchange rate of 132 yen to the dollar.
Key Components of Solutionmax for Finance
Solutionmax for Finance takes the information system base, sales channel, product, business management and settlement as strategies which will be important for the financial services industry in the future, and provides seven business sub-solutions adapted for these strategies.
(1) Information System Base Solution
This supports the planning and construction of a system base which efficiently achieves multi-channel and multi product adaptation. Using Hub & Spokes architecture, which flexibly connects every new system developed into the existing system, users can interlock individual systems such as sales channel, product, marketing and risk management so as to improve convenience for customers and management efficiency. Additional operational functionality and development can be completed in a short period of time. The baseis "Network Objectplaza," which is a distributed object technology.
(2) Branch and ATM Solutions
This solution supports the planning and construction of a system which strengthens the operations of branch systems and ATMs, and rationalization of back office processing by making use of image processing and distributed object technologies.
(3) Remote Channel Solutions
This supports the achievement of efficient operations via new channels using the Internet and call centers. In addition to supporting system development at the user company, it supports the efficient expansion of channels through outsourcing via call center services.
(4) Solutions for Financial Products
With advances in technology and deregulation, this solution supports the efficient expansion of the ever increasing number of financial products. This solution continually provides new know-how of business solutions through such means as cooperation with external consulting companies.
(5) Risk Management Solutions
This assists in the planning and construction of profit and risk management systems based on our integrated profit and risk management system "Chaser" and includes business consultation.
(6) Marketing Solutions
This provides complete support for system planning and construction ranging from the creation of a database needed for marketing, analysis, strategy and tactics development, activity management to information provision, including business consultation.
(7) Settlement Solutions
This efficiently assists in settlement in the network age and intra- and inter-company systematic connections based on services such as Hitachi's Commerce Solutions and TWX-21.
Shipping dates for main services:
Solutionmax for Finance: Business Solutions and Services
Business Solutions, Services Release Dates
1. Basic strategy:
System base solution
- HUB & Spokes construction service First half of 1999
- Data warehouse construction service Shipment from July 1998
- Groupware construction service Shipped
2. Channel strategy:
Branch/ATM solutions
- Branch BPR planning service Shipped
- Branch system construction service June 1999
- Integrated image processing system construction service June 1999
- Multi-media ATM system construction service June 1999
Remote channel solution
- Internet banking service October 1998
- Internet brokerage and insurance Scheduled for first half of 1999
- Telephone banking system construction service Shipped
3. Product strategy
Solutions for financial products
- Basic system service Shipped
- Over the counter mutual funds system service Shipped
- Fixed premium pension system service Scheduled for first half of 1999
- Loan assistance system construction service Shipped
4. Management strategy
- Industry analysis and planning service October 1998
- Market risk management construction system service October 1998
- Profit management system construction service October 1998
- Credit risk management system construction service Scheduled for first half of 1999
- MCIF*1 construction service Scheduled for first half of 1999
- OLAP*2 system construction service Scheduled for first half of 1999
- Marketing strategy support service Scheduled for first half of 1999
- PR support system construction service Shipped
- Consultation support system construction service Shipped
5. Settlement strategy
Settlement solutions
- Integrated networking service Shipped
- Validation service Shipped
- IC card solution Shipped
All price estimates will be on an individual basis.
*1 MCIF: Marketing Customer Information File
*2 OLAP: Online Analytical Processing
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What It's *Really* Like to Quarantine with Martha Stewart, According to Her Gardener
They've spent more than 7 weeks sharing her Bedford, New York estate.
Karla Walsh
Somebody call Bravo, because this is a reality show waiting to happen!
For the past 50 days, Martha Stewart has been sharing her Bedford, New York estate with a delightful, spirited trio. Her driver Carlos, housekeeper Elvira and gardener Ryan appear to be in very good spirits—despite the not-quite-Ina-sized quarantine cocktails—as they shelter in place at her home.
Besides cooking, cleaning and landscaping—three of Stewart's main hobbies according to her Instagram account and our sister magazine Martha Stewart Living—what's keeping the foursome busy? (Please tell us they're hopping on Zoom calls with Snoop Dogg?!)
Gardener Ryan McCallister, who has worked with Stewart for nearly a decade, recently told Town & Country that he's been polishing his camera skills.
"All the videos you've seen of her since March were done by me," he said, of her Instagram videos, like this pasta-making primer. "I hope I'm getting better at it."
Credit: Martha Stewart/Instagram
They're also tending to a big vegetable garden and preparing to plant hundreds of tree saplings, including maple, oak and chestnut, across her 152-acre property.
Spring is traditionally the busiest time of year for McCallister and Stewart, so he decided to spend the quarantine at her place instead of his New York City apartment. That way, they could tackle the projects together.
"Since we're at the house all the time, we can work earlier and later and we get a lot more things done. And Martha doesn't just sit there and say, 'Do that!' She's out there doing everything with you," McCallister told Town & Country.
Related: 4 Things Martha Stewart Does to Stay Healthy and Look Younger
They've also been organizing her pantry, taking care of all of Stewart's animals (including the fluffiest, most adorable chicks), playing cards at night and sharing meals throughout the day.
We sure wouldn't be mad about living in a home full of cookies the size of your face, but McCallister admitted to Town & Country that this does present some challenges...
"Ordinarily I can burn off extra calories. But when Martha offers you a cookie you can't just say no. They're delicious and you eat three."
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Copies of Shadows arrive! Release date is just around the corner…
Five stars for Shadows from Candace’s Book Blog
Kirkus Reviews likes Twist of the Blade even more than Song of the Sword
By admin in Edward Willett Books, Featured, Song of the Sword, Twist of the Blade
The first review of Twist of the Blade, the second book of my Shards of Excalibur series (written as Edward Willett) has shown up, and it’s a good one. Kirkus Reviews says:
The sequel to Song of the Sword (2014) improves on its foundation….Willett realistically explores the difficulties Ariane and Wally face and paints Rex Major in such a light that readers may be unsure as to whether he is a master manipulator or misunderstood hero…Engrossing and more nuanced than its predecessor. (Fantasy. 12-16)
Read the whole thing!
And if you like, you can preorder now from Coteau Books!
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Equinet, European Network of Equality Bodies, brings together 49 organizations from 36 European countries, which are empowered to counteract discrimination as national equality bodies across a range of grounds including age, disability, gender, race or ethnic origin, religion or belief, and sexual orientation.
Equinet builds upon the two year project "Strengthening the co-operation between specialised bodies for the implementation of equal treatment legislation" (2002-2004) and is currently funded by DG Justice - Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme 2014-2020.
Our Strategic Plan 2015-2018
What are national equality bodies?
Equinet, European Network of Equality Bodies promotes equality in Europe through supporting and enabling the work of national equality bodies. It supports equality bodies to be independent and effective as valuable catalysts for more equal societies.
Equinet values and promotes:
Respect for and recognition of the diversity of individuals and groups in society.
Equality on grounds such as gender and gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, and age.
The potential of equality bodies to contribute to positive change for individuals, organisations and institutions, and society as a whole.
Equinet operates in a manner that:
Reflects a shared ownership and control of the network by its members.
Relies on the active contribution of the equality bodies that form part of the network.
Reflects the needs and interests that are common to equality bodies.
Takes account of the diversity of equality bodies.
Respects the independence of equality bodies.
Promotes innovation in the work of its Members
Equinet manages its work in a manner that:
Mainstreams equality and diversity in all of its work.
Is open, transparent and innovative
Achieves a high standard of excellence and professionalism.
Implements good practices as an employer.
Strives to give due consideration to environmental sustainability.
Equinet seeks to engage with its partners and stakeholders in a manner that:
Is based on constructive cooperation and openness.
Reflects the unique and singular position of equality bodies as public institutions that are independent from both civil society and the statutory sector
Our Strategic Plan 2015 - 2018
Over the lifespan of this Strategic Plan, Equinet will pursue four objectives, with a number of areas of action planned for each:
A. Build capacity and peer support of equality bodies
Develop knowledge and skills of staff members of national equality bodies.
Develop strategic and organisational capacity of national equality bodies.
Foster and promote innovative approaches in the work of equality bodies.
B. Contribute to the European Equality Agenda
Contribute to equality policy and law at European level.
Convey an expert voice of equality bodies by sharing their expertise, experience and recommendations.
Inform and engage with policy makers and partners.
C. Serve as a knowledge and communication hub on equal treatment
Inform and engage equality bodies on relevant European developments.
Provide information on equality bodies to external audiences.
Facilitate exchange of information and networking among members.
Generate, collect and communicate knowledge on equal treatment.
D. Consolidate the network and the position of its members
Support the development of standards for and in the work of equality bodies.
Strengthen the standing of equality bodies in a changing context.
Enhance cooperation with stakeholders.
Ensure the sustainable development of the network and its capacity to respond to the diverse needs of members
Work Plan 2016
Equinet seeks to engage in advancing equality in practice by facilitating the contributions and a stronger voice of national equality bodies to the wider European debate, by promoting and organizing:
Ongoing information exchange and sharing of data and expertise from and among national equality bodies
Regular training seminars for staff members and experts within national equality bodies
Ongoing collaboration, exchange and research within Working Groups structured around thematic work areas of relevance to national equality bodies, namely:
Equality Law in Practice
Communication Strategies and Practices
Policy Formation
Gender Related Issues
Publications and perspectives on relevant themes and policy developments relating to equality and non-discrimination at European level.
Studies on selected themes relating to the work of national equality bodies
Read the Equinet Highlights 2014-2015 for a summary of our work from January 2014 to July 2015.
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) consisting of all national members is the highest decision-making body within Equinet. An elected Executive Board led by the Equinet Chair is responsible for the overall management and the strategic leadership of the network. The operational structure consists of Working Groups of staff of national equality bodies (Equinet members) and a Secretariat headed by an Executive Director, based in Brussels.
Equinet, European Network of Equality Bodies is an international not-for-profit association (Aisbl) with an operational secretariat based in Brussels since the end of 2007.
Equinet Statutes in English and French
National equality bodies are independent organisations established on the basis of EU equal treatment directives – Directive 2000/43/EC (the so-called Race Directive), Directive 2004/113/EC (the so-called Gender Goods and Services Directive) and Directive 2006/54/EC (the so called Gender Recast Directive) - with a mandate to provide an independent assistance to victims of discrimination, conduct independent surveys concerning discrimination and publish independent reports and make recommendations on any issue relating to discrimination in their country.
Read the brochure on Equality bodies and Equinet promoting equality in Europe.
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Weekend Trek “Samaritan Snare”
Jimmy and Tom suspected that, after the momentous “Q Who” that the next episode would be a bit of a let-down.
Well, the next was “Samaritan Snare”. Was it a big let-down to the guys? See below to find out.
“Samaritan Snare”
Geordi’s well-meaning offer of assistance goes bad while Picard is away from the Enterprise.
jimmy: Surprisingly, Ensign Total Recall returns.
tomk: Apparently, she was intended as a love interest for Geordi in a plot that would have ended with him getting his eyes fixed so he could look at her.
jimmy: Seems kinda shallow.
tomk: Geordi’s love life always does.
jimmy: That’s cold.
tomk: Scotty’s was also pretty bad.
jimmy: It’s hard out there for an engineer.
tomk: I’m not joking here. Scotty’s love life on the old show is rather terrible. He’s either defending a woman he’s smitten with but who isn’t interested in him, he’s upset over a break-up between episodes, he’s a suspect in a murder for a woman he was last seen in, and so forth.
jimmy: Kirk probably scared off all the rest.
tomk: Or they went for Spock and wasted everybody’s time.
jimmy: Anyways, I guess we’ll see how long she sticks around. I was surprised it surpassed one episode.
tomk: There were plans! Like Worf with that Vulcan doctor!
jimmy: …who we haven’t seen since.
tomk: Look, if you’re gonna complain about love interests the show wasn’t really interested in, I’m going to suspect you don’t have much to say about the Pakleds.
jimmy: They look for things.
tomk: They’re smart.
jimmy: They’re jerks.
tomk: Really, though, you’d think about the Borg showed them they don’t always know what they’re doing, that they’d be a bit more careful before going over to an unknown spaceship.
jimmy: Heh, excellent point. This didn’t look very good on Riker’s resume.
tomk: Worf and Troi are the only ones who stop to think about the whole thing.
jimmy: And Troi was just going by “feeling”. Worf was going by logic.
tomk: Both of which were right.
jimmy: I get the nonchalance. They seemed like imbeciles. But when your security chief is raising such objections and you don’t even check with your empathic counselor who knew immediately they were lying, Riker got some ‘splaining to do.
tomk: Well, the Reverse Angle guys had some really strong opinions about this one:
jimmy: Geez guys, there’s really not much difference between a C- and a D.
tomk: Where I work, one of those is a barely passing. The other isn’t.
jimmy: We all know about your grading system.
Anyway, they do hit a lot of nails on the heads. Including Worf being the man and how Picard telling a story about kicking ass and almost dying was the best part of the episode.
tomk: That’s because Patrick Stewart can raise mediocre material to high art. I mean, have you ever seen Lifeforce?
jimmy: Seen or heard of?
tomk: Seen.
jimmy: I’ll say no.
tomk: Well, he got his first onscreen kiss in it. It’s with a dude because his character is possessed by a space vampire that normally takes the form of an attractive naked woman.
jimmy: …
tomk: Directed by Tobe Hooper of Texas Chainsaw Massacre fame.
jimmy: I guess we’ll have to add it to Cult Watch if we ever bring that back.
tomk: Something tells me you’d like at least one part of the movie.
jimmy: I do like clocks.
tomk: I meant the gray walls with the flatscreen monitors.
jimmy: Oh, sorry.
They’re ok.
tomk: Hey, I could have been wrong.
jimmy: You’d fit right in with most of the people in this episode then.
tomk: Sadly, yes. I too would have ignored the chief of security and the empath when it comes to trusting weird aliens.
jimmy: That’s why they needed the storyline to get Picard off the ship, because he wouldn’t have been so stupid. It was like the old Marvel Assistant Editor’s Month.
tomk: Picard did have all the best moments.
jimmy: The future needs better sandwiches though. I think they were just lettuce.
tomk: The replicators were also acting stupid this time.
jimmy: There was a lot of that going around. Even Picard’s insistence on flying in a shuttlecraft 6 hours (why so slow? And couldn’t the Enterprise had dropped them off?) instead of just letting Pulaski discreetly do the surgery? Even ignoring things going wrong and everyone finding out, his behavior was so suspicious, they were all likely to pry into it anyway.
tomk: Why? None of these people were curious enough to question the Pakled…aside from Worf and Troi. And you clearly can’t keep secrets from Troi.
Then again, I wondered if this episode would have worked better with Beverly Crusher. Asking Wesley to keep an eye on Picard would have made more sense that way.
jimmy: She also may have taught him how to open a door.
tomk: I was wondering if we’ve even seen Wes and Pulaski in the same room up until this point.
jimmy: Weren’t they both at the Worf Pain Stick Palooza?
tomk: Oh yeah. The one time someone challenged Pulaski as the most obnoxious member of the main cast.
Actually, Crusher being the expert needed might have also been a good reason for Picard to be wary of doing it on the Enterprise.
jimmy: I think she was there when he got command of his first team too.
tomk: Given how little Pulaski appears in some episodes, it’s probably not that surprising I didn’t notice her interacting much with her predecessor’s son.
jimmy: You probably missed all the times he typed “You suck!” On all the terminals in sick bay too.
tomk: That was Data.
jimmy: Oh. You’re right.
tomk: Don’t ask what Worf did in her office.
Though I am a bit surprised Geordi took a phaser with him on a solo repair job. If he was that worried, he could have gone with more people.
jimmy: Good point. Maybe they are standard issue for any solo away missions.
tomk: Probably, but what was he going to do if he got into trouble and wasn’t stupid? Phaser everybody?
jimmy: Sure. Stun’em all.
tomk: Instead of his episode-long stunning stupidity, he could have just started stunning. Got it.
jimmy: Now you’re getting it!
tomk: I was too enraptured by Picard’s story on how he got an artificial heart.
jimmy: Do you really think that Picard could have an artificial heart and no one on the ship know about it?
tomk: Do people know you have a cybernetic foot?
jimmy: Only everyone.
tomk: Well, that’s because you like to show it off. Picard doesn’t like to show potential problems to the rest of the crew.
jimmy: Fair enough. But you’d think someone would have heard somewhere along the lines. From a friend, at Starfleet, something.
tomk: Oh, like Picard has friends aside from all those friends he has.
jimmy: lol
I’m surprised you haven’t brought up Cobra Commander yet.
tomk: He was a Klingon.
jimmy: And a Pakled.
tomk: Well, I didn’t need to point it out because you did it for me.
See, now you know (who he is).
jimmy: Just read that he died at 44. Sad.
tomk: You go for sad after I set up a “now you know,” so this is on track for being as messed up as anything involving Pakleds in the A-plot.
jimmy: Sorry, I missed that. Good one.
tomk: You missed it like Geordi thinking Pakleds are harmless.
jimmy: Not just Geordi.
tomk: Well, Geordi was the one who went over and got phasered a bunch of times.
If only he’d just built the Pakleds a phony photon torpedo made of used pinball machine parts, he could have left much faster.
jimmy: Speaking of used parts…so the crew knows “something” happened with Picard and likely that he had surgery and almost died…but do they know exactly what happened? Pulaski and Wes obviously know.
Also, I know it’s the future, but getting a replacement artificial heart hardly seems like day surgery and you’d be back on the bridge in a couple of hours.
tomk: Those are good points. I spent the episode wondering how the hell the Pakleds managed to use that “we’re helpless” trick to fool the Romulans and the Klingons without getting killed.
jimmy: Stupidity is a powerful thing.
tomk: See, here’s how I think that would have gone down…
PAKLEDS: We need help.
ROMULAN CAPTAIN: Get lost, losers!
PAKLEDS: We have your engineer. We’re smart.
KLINGON CAPTIVE: TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO DIE!
KLINGON CAPTAIN: Open fire.
jimmy: Both plausible. Though I doubt the Klingon’s even send their engineer over to help. So the first line could have been the same in both scenarios.
tomk: Probably. Romulans are ruthless. Klingons just like fighting.
jimmy: Neither are as stupid as the Enterprise crew. Hence Worf is the only one that objects. (For reasons other than being empathic.)
tomk: He should get a promotion.
jimmy: I agree.
tomk: But he won’t.
jimmy: I’ve seen a few mentions of the Pakleds storyline dragging the episode down and taking away from the Picard storyline. Could Picard’s surgery have been used to carry the entire episode? Obviously, it would need to be flushed out quite a bit.
tomk: It would have gone better. The Pakelds, at best, feel like a colossal waste of time.
Well, before this chat becomes a colossal waste of time, do you have anything else to add, Jimmy?
jimmy: Not really. It’s funny, usually the bad ones lead to lots of conversations, more so than the good ones. But I guess it is easier to talk about plot holes than the entire Enterprise crew acting stupid. Except Worf.
tomk: And a little bit Troi.
Then again, there are bad episodes…and then there are BAD episodes.
jimmy: Uh oh…I hope that’s not a segue…
tomk: Well…
Shall we go on anyway?
jimmy: Before we do, I read that this was Ensign Love Interest’s last appearance. Sorry Geordi.
tomk: Geordi can’t catch a break.
jimmy: He’ll always have Data.
tomk: And Data has…perfect recall of Tasha Yar.
jimmy: Fully. Functional.
tomk: Well, at least it doesn’t suck to be Data.
jimmy: Who does it suck to be?
tomk: Geordi.
jimmy: Maybe he’ll make out better in the next one.
tomk: Maybe. Shall we go and see?
jimmy: We shall.
NEXT: “Up the Long Ladder”
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Players didn’t like the idea. When’s the best time to do it: After June 1, or now with a post June 1 designation. “The NFL and our players are at our best when we help create a sense of unity in our country and our culture.
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Pence said: don think it too much to ask NFL players to respect the Flag and our National Anthem. As you can see, that tempered the rush to the draft briefly, but the numbers have since rebounded to record levels..
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The Eagles gave it a good effort, but New York is just plain good. It’s just as much about the game as it is about spending time with each other, and I’m really grateful for that.’.
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A second half of surprising effectiveness by a short handed Miami offensive line. It’s not often you see a safety taken in the top three, but I think the Bears pluck the tone setter out of Baton Rouge if the first two picks fall this way. It’s going to be a long year in Indy.
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If Kaepernick were Tom Brady, Matt Ryan, Dak Prescott or any of the other star quarterbacks in the league, he’d have a job. It means everything to my family and I. People shouldn’t have to choose.”. On July 16, Elliott was involved in a bar altercation in Dallas, a source said, where a local disc jockey was punched in the face and had his nose broken.
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The best news yet for Mularkey and the Titans is the fact that the team escapes the preseason without any major injuries. Top draft pick Corey Davis returned to practice this week after missing almost the entire preseason with a hamstring injury and Eric Decker is also expected to be ready to go for the opener.
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While it unclear exactly how big of an impact the BoycottNFL movement is having on the ratings, it becoming readily apparent that there is a large segment of Americans who have turned away from football for reasons other than the games themselves. They are upset about the injection of political and social issues into what ought to be a form of escapist entertainment, disagree with the beliefs of players who are seen as privileged and uneducated about the very issues they are protesting, do not support the lack of sanctions from the league for the protests as opposed to other actions, or some combination of these factors.
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In some circles, Kaepernick protests have actually had the opposite effect, sparking discussions over the national anthem and patriotism rather than the issue that he wishes to raise awareness of among citizens, police violence against African Americans. He also doesn seem to understand how that happened. Many emailers have cited the NFL decisions to not only allow players to protest the national anthem but disallow the Dallas Cowboys from honoring fallen police officers with a decal on their helmets as a point for them to ultimately turn away from pro football.
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Trump kept pushing. In one of several tweets on the subject, he said that the initial demonstrations showed solidarity for our National Anthem, and that with locked arms is good, kneeling is not acceptable. Bad ratings. But he later added, fans should never condone players that do not stand proud for their National Anthem or their Country. NFL should change policy!
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Eventually, the couple divorced, and McMahon says she saw his symptoms go from “0 to 100 in six months.” The last straw was a confrontation at her children’s pediatrician office, where an irate Strzleczyk raged at their child physicians, who confided in McMahon that they feared he would “come back with a gun.” McMahon notified her children’s school not to allow her ex husband to pick up their kids anymore.
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He still traveled to the East West Shrine Game, but only went through interviews with teams. He never received the NFL combine invitation that likely would have come with good health. And he watched his Nebraska teammates go through their pro day workouts on March 14 because he wasnt quite back yet.
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Former San Diego Chargers, Denver Broncos and Dallas Cowboys football wide receiver Anthony Miller (far left) gets a high five from Tony Gaeta of Manahawkin, New Jersey, during the 8th annual Andre Reed Celebrity Golf Classic at the Lehigh Country Club on Monday, June 26, 2017. Numerous past NFL stars and other sports personalities participated in the tournament, which raises money for the Andre Reed Foundation. (HARRY FISHER / THE MORNING CALL)
Toronto has long been mentioned as a potential landing spot for an NFL club, but the survey says only 15 per cent of Torontonians would want a franchise here at the expense of the CFL. Eighteen per cent would be happy to see the NFL in Canada only if the CFL continued to operate with only seven per cent not wanting the NFL on Canadian soil at all.
“I think maybe some of the kids you graded high versus the kid that maybe graded a little bit low, they had some good reps, they had some bad reps,” he said. “Now we’ll sit down and have to watch this film a lot more closely over the next couple of weeks and go back and watch some more game film.
It’s impossible to say if New England can navigate a four month regular season without a loss before gearing up for the playoffs. But Bill Belichick’s team, which has won the AFC East a record eight consecutive years, looks well stocked and 40 year old quarterback Tom Brady is set to play an entire season after the Deflategate suspension cost him the first four games in 2016.
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They traded their first round pick to the Saints for wide receiver Brandin Cooks, minimized the departure of No. 2 tight end Martellus Bennett in free agency by trading for Colts tight end Dwayne Allen and signed arguably the top cornerback in free agency, Stephon Gilmore, submarining the Bears’ plan to add the former Bill.
Stadium parking lots will fill early, tailgates will drop and charcoal will perfume the air. At home, feet will rest on a coffee table in between beer and chips. Games and hope arrive with the cooler fall air, helping chase the NFL problems and bringing its audience back to what is has always done: watch.
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What started as a protest against police brutality has mushroomed a year later into a divisive debate over the future of a football player who refused to stand for discount jerseys the national anthem and now faces what his fans see as blackballing for speaking out in a country roiled by racial strife.
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But first football and the brain. And when I said that I bet your mind went to all the recent stories about brain trauma and America’s most watched sport. But I’m actually talking about a former NFL player who is now training to become a neurosurgeon. Myron Rolle played at Florida State then after taking a brief detour to enjoy his Rhodes scholarship, he played for the Tennessee Titans and Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Mueller, like George Mitchell before him, will not have subpoena power, so he’ll be depending on the voluntary cooperation of all involved. Goodell has promised to make all NFL personnel and previous investigative material available, but it will be no surprise if Mueller’s report simply produces a meticulous timeline documenting everything we already know.
Was Rick Ankiel, Hurst said, referring to the former pitcher with the St. Louis Cardinals who suddenly lost the ability to throw strikes during a playoff game against the Atlanta Braves in 2000, and eventually made a comeback in the majors as an outfielder. exactly what I was going through. My hands would shake so much I couldn throw strikes. got to the point where Hurst couldn play catch with a teammate football records to loosen up before a practice.
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Many of us tend to ignore the fact that textiles used to be a major industry in many developing countries. Used to, that is, until it collapsed under the weight of tons of ratty sweatshirts and pieces of NFL merchandise featuring teams that lost the Super Bowl. One study concluded that charitable donations caused the clothing industry across Africa to suffer a 40 percent decline in production and a 50 percent jump in unemployment from 1981 to 2000.”It looks like my only options are UNICEF commercials or helping unload clothing donations.”
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The Average Salary of a Second String NFL Running Back by Jonathan Lister ; Updated September 26, 2017 It is difficult to quantify the average salary of second string NFL running backs. This is due in part to the fluid nature of depth charts at this position and the penchant for modern NFL teams to go with two back tandems resulting in a lack of true first string running backs across the league.
The chorus gets louder every time a quarterback vacancy is filled on an NFL team, such as when the Miami Dolphins brought 34 year old quarterback Jay Cutler out of a short lived retirement to lead its franchise. Cutler was out of work like Kaepernick, Robert Griffin III, and others and planned to work as a television analyst before the Dolphins reunited him with coach Adam Gase.
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James Brown: We all dealt with this topic ad nauseum on Sunday. The pundits everywhere certainly did. Ray brings a very unique perspective to this because, as an ex player he was overseas there in London as we’ve already set the stage with how much the conversation was about everything but football but you seemingly, from the optics, got caught up in this as well, too, because, in fact, you did take a knee when you are allegedly on record as saying that you never would.
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Whether they stick to a 3 4 defense or go with a more Seattle Seahawks like system, the 49ers must improve their pass rush. Ahmad Brooks and DeForest Buckner tied for the team lead with six sacks apiece. The good news is that free agency and the draft are loaded with pass rushers.
“We are very concerned that, if there is a significant release of coal into the river, that it will have a significant impact on the recreational waterway here in Danville,” Eisenhauer said. “We see some tourism benefit by having the river run right through town and will so more once the riverfront project is complete. So to then ruin whatever tourism opportunities exist now or in the future because of the release of the coal ash could have a detrimental economic impact.”.
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(Conservative Tribune) For the eight years of Barack Obama’s presidency, American conservatives suspected the first lady of the United States never really respected the position she held, or even the country she represented. Now, with two words recorded in an admirer’s autobiography, that suspicion is finally confirmed. “We’re free,” Michelle []The post Michelle Had 2 Words After Leaving WH, Showed How Much “Respect” Obamas Had for the Office appeared first on Tea Party.
“There are some traits that Alvin Kamara has that remind me of Marshall Faulk, with regards to his intelligence and his ability to run routes,” Payton said. “(Faulk) was as good as there was in that element of the game and probably one of the top three or four backs of all time. He was one of the smartest players I ever coached.”.
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Lombardi didn’t get his first head coaching job until he was 45 years old. Before coming to the Packers, Lombardi was an assistant coach with the New York Giants. Lombardi also coached at Army. HOT SEAT: McCoy was Denver’s offensive coordinator when he was hired by the Chargers in January 2013 to replace the fired Norv Turner. McCoy turned in two 9 7 seasons, including a playoff win and loss after the 2013 season, before the Bolts collapsed to 4 12 last season. The Chargers are 24 31 under McCoy and general manager Tom Telesco, also hired in January 2013.
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DeShone Kizer, the rookie out of Notre Dame, is the 27th starting quarterback for Cleveland since 1999. He will join a long list of Browns QBs to lose to Ben Roethlisberger, who is 21 2 against Cleveland in his career. Pittsburgh has won 12 of the last 14 meetings.
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Coach Todd Bowles would like to identify a presumptive starter before training camp, and the reason is because he believes in giving one quarterback the starter’s share of the reps to prepare for the regular season. He’s calling this an open competition, but it would be an upset if Josh McCown doesn’t prevail over Hackenberg and Bryce Petty. It’s hard to imagine one of the young quarterbacks overtaking the grizzled vet, especially with the limited amount of practice time..
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Added that he doesn believe Trump the majority of Americans in this country. Also released a video Saturday, saying Trump has tried to divide the country. Now using sports as the platform to try to divide us, James said. “I could have said, ‘I love you!’ ” Peterson said, drawing a laugh. “There’s no conflict, so let’s not try to spin it like there is. People jump to conclusions and make their own assumptions, but they have no idea what’s going on.
A campus police officer, identified as 28 year old Alan Horujko, who happened to be nearby because of a gas leak arrived on the scene and shot Artan in less than a minute, Stone said.Horujko has been on the police force less than two years, officials confirmed.Nine Injured in Intentional OSU Attack: Officials Ohio State University officials give an update on the car and knife attack that placed nine pedestrians in the hospital after a male suspect rammed into them with a car and slashed at them with a butcher knife early Monday morning on Nov. 25, 2016.(Published Monday, Nov. 28, 2016)Those injured in the attack included an Ohio State faculty member, four graduate students and three undergrads.Surveillance photos showed Artan in the car by himself just before the attack, but investigators were looking into whether anyone else was involved, the campus police chief said.Colin Kaepernick Files Grievance Against NFLPolice did not provide details on a possible motive, but earlier said “this was done on purpose” and would not rule out terrorism.
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Seattle finished first in NFL in points allowed (17.3 per game) for fourth straight year. Vikings reached playoffs for first time since 2012 and won NFC North for first time since 2009. Vikings are 11 5 in two seasons at TCF Bank Stadium at University of Minnesota, best winning percentage in league history by team in temporary home.
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And they still have great fan support. But there’s a growing disparity in income between the top quartile teams and the bottom quartile teams, and that’s something we have to be conscious of. And a new stadium would help them a great deal.”. Going to go there and work hard and stay humble, he said. Going to act like I wasn drafted, so I going to have that mindset in my head the whole time I there, act like I was a free agent and no one wanted me so I still have something to prove. Earned second team All MAC honors last season with the Chippewas.
It’s a homecoming for Bills coah Sean McDermott, who served as Carolina’s defensive coordinator for six seasons before landing the Buffalo gig. His intel on the Panthers’ offense should keep it close but the Bills aren’t good enough to spring the upset. Panthers 23, Bills 18.
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Family Returns Home to Find Dog Still AliveTwo men who hiked for miles through Northern California wildfire territory in Santa Rosa expecting a grim discovery were met with a joyful one instead.(Published Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017)She was not the only one who spoke out against Trump. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, along with the NFL players’ union, said Trump’s comments are “divisive.”Many of the NFL players also joined in criticizing Trump.Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman tweeted: “The behavior of the President is unacceptable and needs to be addressed.
The 26 year old is among the best in the league when healthy, but has only appeared in 25 games since the Chargers drafted him at No. 25 overall in 2014. Although we do not pre screen comments, we reserve the right at all times to remove any information or materials that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable to us, and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy the law, regulation, or government request.
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Hue Jackson has said that Al Davis had trained him on how to run the team, and just like Al, he made a deal that he believed would propel his franchise back to greatness. Al Davis and the Raiders have never been shy about giving up draft picks to acquire top rate talent, even when that talent is in its later years. Carson Palmer is no spring chicken in NFL years at 31.
Top Level ExecutivesAside from the commissioner, other top NFL executives also bring in multi million dollar salaries. The top three executives earn an average of more than $5 million. The head of NFL Media and the NFL Network, Steve Bornstein, has the highest earnings at $7.44 million.
Now, if you want to pick losers? Don’t go with Jacksonville, I don’t think. Why waste the Jags this early? Same with the Jets. You might need them later. Ms. Soups is in ready to serve. “And I look at myself in the mirror on this one. Loser: Chicago’s South Side. Robert McGee enjoyed the atmosphere at Draft Town and Roosevelt University’s Auditorium Theatre, he just wishes the NFL and city of Chicago could’ve spread the wealth a little more by involving more young people from the South Side and the neighborhoods there. “I don’t know if the city has thought far enough ahead or put that type of thought into involving the kids in something like this,” said McGee, a 43 year old IT auditor from North Kenwood.
What Is the Starting Salary for an ESPN Sports Commentator? by Jonathan Lister ; Updated September 26, 2017 The starting salary of an ESPN commentator depends largely on name, personality and experience in the field. Radio and television announcers with more experience but less name recognition or celebrity tend to earn a smaller starting salary than former professional athletes and coaches. This is due to the effect that announcers have on TV ratings, which drive advertisement sales and keep the network in business..
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When such a high ranking member of law enforcement feels compelled to share such broad, inaccurate, and shameful comments, their judgment can no longer be trusted to help protect Michigan diverse communities. Col. Kriste Kibbey Etue needs to step aside.
“Malcom Brown can two gap, he can penetrate, and to me that versatility is one of the reasons why I have him up there, because those guys are hard to find,” Jeremiah said. “Malcom Brown and Arik Armstead are” outside of Williams “the two guys I think that can give you a little bit of both. And I put Eddie Goldman a little bit behind them because with Eddie you’re getting a true two gap guy.
Fitzgerald has caught a pass in 179 consecutive games, longest active streak in league. Arizona is 2 0 in postseason overtime games. Cardinals 29 2 under Bruce Arians when allowing 20 points or fewer. This year, online voting participation grew by 42 percent over last year’s competition.”We’re thrilled that the city has really taken to the competition,” said Liz Borten, Times Union Media New Business Sales Director. “We have more winners than ever, as voted by more people than ever. We’re excited to highlight the community’s favorite businesses and share them with locals and visitors alike.”Before we reveal all the winners, we want to take a look at what makes Jacksonville the great city we know and love.
The owner of the Harp Dragon is a business owner and has the right to do with his business what he wants I think there is a lot of people missing the point on the protest, said Daniels. Really not about dishonoring the flag. It not about dishonoring our military.
NFL owners issued statements of support for their teams’ players last weekend in the wake of the contemptuously worded criticism by President Donald Trump. They stood on fields and locked arms with those players. Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones knelt alongside them before the national anthem.
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Appreciate what you have...
Had the amazing opportunity recently to take a cruise with my husband to the Caribbean . . . a trip that almost didn't happen. The Friday before the week we were scheduled to set sail, my boss told me he was in financial distress and filing bankruptcy. Do the math. "Payroll" was no longer on the list of items he could afford.
I was devastated, not to mention my own financial status had just taken a hit with a wedding the week before. Lovely timing. Thinking the best option would be to cash out the insurance we purchased and cancel the trip, I told hubby we should postpone to a better time. His answer? What if a "better time" never happens? Tomorrow is promised to no one.
This picture I took from our balcony the first morning we sailed into the Gulf of Mexico after cruising all night on the Mississippi River. I wanted to document the first day of my "Better Time." Two days later, we ported in Jamaica, my first tropical island, and first time in a foreign country.
I experienced a lot of "firsts" during my "Better Time." I also learned a valuable lesson about appreciating life.
Jamaica is beautiful, the people warm and friendly. They like to "touch" you. They don't have problems. They have "situations." The Jamaican flag is gold, green, and black, standing for sunshine, lush foliage/good crops, and strength, much like their people. We also visited the Cayman Islands and Cozumel, and while I expected to see lush greenery, an aqua ocean that has a crayon named in its honor because no other color describes "Caribbean Blue," not to mention so clear you could see hundreds of feet below, I was surprised at the level of poverty we encountered. No welfare system to fall back on and wages far below our standards. I don't know anyone who could live on $400/month, do you? And if you want a comparison of cost of living, gasoline in Jamaica is equivalent to paying $11.00/gallon here in the States. Lots of bicycles and scooters! Of course, we did manage to find a few "comforts from home" on every island.
One night on board the ship, we attended a stage show, but before the entertainer came out, the MC shared an enlightening article/post about what the world would be like if there were only 100 people. Put life in perspective and made me grateful my "situation" was so small on the broader scale. Hopefully after reading this, you too will be a bit more appreciative of what you have, instead of wanting more than you need.
1. 50 would be male - 50 would be female
2. There would be 26 children and 74 adults, 8 of who would be over age 65.
3. There would be:
60 Asians
15 Africans
14 people from the Americas
11 Europeans
4. Christians would dominate the religious sector at a count of 33, followed by:
22 Muslims
14 Hindus
7 Buddhists
12 people who would practice other religions, and 12 who not be aligned with a religion
5. Only 5 people would speak English. The dominating language? Chinese.
6. 83 people would be able to read and write, while 17 remained illiterate.
7. Only 7 people would have college degrees.
8. 22 people would own or share a computer.
9. 77 would have shelter from the elements, but 23 would not.
10. 1 of the 100 would be dying from starvation, 11 severely malnourished, yet 21 would be overweight.
11. 1 out of every 2 children would live in poverty.
12. 14 people would live with a disability.
13. 87 people would have safe drinking water, while 13 did not.
14. 37 people would still lack access to adequate sanitation.
15. 1 adult age 17-49 would have AIDS/HIV.
16. 20 people own more than 75% of the village's income.
17. 21 people would live on less than $2.00 per day.
18. USD $1.24 trillion would be spent on the village's military, while less than $100 million would be allocated to development and humanitarian assistance.
If you can put food in a refrigerator, hang clothes in a closet, sleep on a bed, and have a roof over your head, you are richer than 75% of the world's entire population today.
I'm so glad my husband insisted we go forward with our cruise. I witnessed so much beauty, relaxed for a change, and came home renewed in mind and body. Every day I greeted a glorious sunrise and relished a fiery sunset melting into the Caribbean Sea. I also consumed waaay to much food! Besides increasing my word count to finish my novella, I now have to up my exercise routine to fit back in my clothes!
"No problem, man....just a situation. Yeah, man."
"Wanti, wanti, cyan getti, getti, getti nuh want it"
Translated:
Count your blessings and do not take what you have for granted,
because others may just be hoping they had what you have.
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Souls of Mischief "93 Til Infinity" (The Source, 6/93)
"While the San Francisco Bay and Oakland areas may have been put on the hip-hop map by cries of "b-aitch" and "Hammer Time," those who think that the Oaktown sound is exclusively comprised of "hoe" lyrics, heavy 808 drum kicks and genie pants are in for a rude awakening. From the streets of Oakland come an army of kids sporting 'fros, locks and slick heads, baseball bats and angry grins who are ready to claim a spot on the hip-hop wall of fame by tagging it up with a fat marker - Hieroglyphics '93. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien was the first slang talker to represent for the Hieroglyphic lyrical society. Now come four soulful kids (A-Plus, Opio, Tajai and Phesto) who have a penchant for maiming MCs who doze on their ability to articulate their definitions of self and proclamations of self worth. The title of their debut lets you know right away that these kids plan to be in the game for the long haul. With producers like Del, Domino, Casual and Jay Biz behind the boards the Souls can't lose. True to the Oakland sound, the funk is employed but it's more of an East Coast / Meters groove than the Zapp or P-Funk flavor that you might be expecting. Still, the bass on most tracks is so deeply inaudible that it can be felt quaking your chest." Cont'd below...
"These kids have so many lyrics it's ridiculous. It would be an insult to try and give a sample of their breathless flow in print. Just imagine a nasal Organized Konfusion with a Daisy Ager's humble sensibility. Because of the weight given to the lyrics, most cuts will be most appreciated in your Walkman rather than in your jeep (just make sure you invest in your headphones that can handle the deep bass). For straight flavor skills check for "Disseshowedo." "Batting Practice," the incredible "Make Your Mind Up," and "That's When Ya Lost," which employs the talents of their potnah, Pep Love. When you combine the album's fifteen fat tracks with its many guest appearances and inevitable B-side remixes, it is clear that the Souls will be a force to be reckoned with from '93 till."
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Chris Read "Classic Material: 1993" (Mix, 2011)
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Solar Power On Cloudy Days, Wind Power On Breezeless Days
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Storage innovations exponentially increase renewables’ reliability
It’s amazing what money can buy. And as the U.S. moves generally towards a less-and-less moral brand of capitalism, money becomes more-and-more capable of buying (and burying) morality.
This is why oil and coal companies are permitted to continue in business long after the top scientists in the U.S. and the world have stated unequivocally that it’s production and use—in light of accelerating global warming—are immoral. The corporations profiting from the destruction of world resources can buy not just PR but also politicians. Thus, they cement the status quo.
What makes it worse is that renewables are ready and able to replace fossil fuels. The immediate argument from dirty oil and dirty coal is that sun and wind are only available when it’s sunny and windy. Hogwash! As we speak, there are at least a dozen new technologies in electrical storage that make renewables more reliable than ever.
Among the battery types available or in development are:
Lithium sulfur
Sodium-ion
Thin film lithium
Zinc-bromide
Zinc-cerium
Vanadium redox
Sodium-sulfur
Molten salt
Silver-zinc
Oxide semiconductor (Quantum Battery)
Electro-mechanical (flywheel)
The last one on the list, the kinetic flywheel battery, is most fascinating to me. It’s not only highly efficient and suitable for industrial (power plant) storage, its simplicity is a thing of beauty. Basically, energy powers a spindle which connects to the center of a 5,000-lb. disk, which in turn spins in a vacuum (the spindle releases at a specific point), holding the energy transferred from the electrically powered, initial rotations. The flywheel can be reconnected to the spindle, which then creates electrical current for use as needed.
Combinations of lithium and other metals abound in experimental batteries. Many are robust, like thin-film lithium batteries, some of which can even be cut with scissors without breaking the circuit. Whenever I hear old-industry spokespeople from oil and coal putting down renewables, I see a red flag. These folks can’t possibly speak frankly, because their shareholders would have them removed from their jobs!
Rarely, perhaps never, will you hear oil and coal industry executives talking about any of these new technologies and applications. That’s part of their manipulative PR scheme: Make it seem like there are no other options. The facile “no sun, no solar power; no wind, no wind power” argument that, unfortunately is accepted by many at face value.
And doesn’t it really boil down to an educated, forward-looking public versus a closed-minded, backwards-looking one? There’s no indication that the profit-takers plan to slow down or discontinue their purposefully misleading rhetoric, so it’s up to We, the People, to educate ourselves and remain skeptical of information from unreliable sources.
My upcoming novel, ULTIMATE ERROR, is about the public misinformation that turns the power of the people against the people. In true democracies, the people are the government. Too often, we defer to politicians who pursue their own interests long before and way above those of the citizenry.
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Must see @ SCANORAMA ’14
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This article is a part of the series to discover female career paths within the creative and digital industries
Read the series by @rtumasonyte
SCANORAMA’14 Opening, organiser’s photo
SCANORAMA – European Film Forum – will take place in Vilnius 6th-16th November. In Kaunas 13th-23th, November.
I have selected the most positive Scandinavian (got to love the sound of the languages) movies to watch this year, if you feel like this might be interesting for you as well, check those out:
The Optimists SCANORAMA’14
The Optimists
Despite their weekly training sessions the volleyball ladies The Optimists (66-98) have not played a match for 30 years. Now this is exactly the plan. But against whom? Rumours say there is a group of handsome Swedish gentlemen across the border. Goro (98) is the Queen of the team with her will power and purple Converse shoes. Laughter is their match strategy.
2013, 91 min.
Trespassing Bergman SCANORAMA’14
Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman built his house in the mid 1960’s, choosing to withdraw from Stockholm, to an island in the Baltic Sea. Throughout his life, the exact location of the house was a well- guarded secret. Here the demon director would live and shoot some of his seminal films until his death in 2007. Trespassing Bergman takes you to Bergman’s mystical home in the company of great directors such as Michael Haneke, Claire Denis and the Ale- jandro González Iñárritu. The documentary tells the story of Ingmar Bergman, his island and some of his most central films.
2013, 107 min.
Something Must Break SCANORAMA’14
Something Must Break
A love story between two young men where one is the androgynous Sebastian and another is Andreas who is not gay. They form a unity. It’s them against the polished Swedish Ikea-society. They dream about escaping boredom and the risk of becoming what everyone else is. And then there is Ellie – the superwoman growing inside of Sebastian whom Andreas loves and fears. This is the summer when everything happens and both of them will choose paths that will determinate their lives forever. It’s a battle for love where Sebastian finally has to realise that he has to let Ellie loose, find the strength within him and not let his happiness depend on someone else.
Rock Bottom SCANORAMA’14
A young journalist is on the last chance, both in his job and his relationship because of his drinking problem. He decides to try to save the relationship by taking the girlfriend to a hotel in the Eastern Iceland to get peace and some space with her. But as this is decided, his boss makes him two choices, to keep the job and work the weekend or lose the job to hang out with the girlfriend. At least he tries to strike two birds with one stone, but we’ll see how that goes.
Paris Of North SCANORAMA’14
Paris of the North
Seeking shelter from the trials and tribulations of city life, Hugi has built a quiet existence for himself in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere. Here, he passes his days jogging, attending AA meetings and taking Portuguese lessons online. But when Hugi’s estranged, boozy father shows up out of the blue, the precarious balance he has worked so hard to achieve is tested to the limit.
Iceland, France, Dublin
Sorrow and Joy SCANORAMA’14
Filmmaker Johannes and his wife, schoolteacher Signe, experience the biggest sorrow and misfortune one can ever imagine. Nevertheless, in all the hopelessness they must try to reach for mutual and mature love in order to continue life after death. Director Nils Malmros is one of Danish films most significant personalities and during the last forty years his characters have always had a strong autobiographical element. Being his most personal film to date, Sorrow & Joy is no exception.
Force Majeure SCANORAMA’14
A Swedish family travels to the French Alps to enjoy a few days of skiing. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular but, during a lunch at a mountainside restaurant, an avalanche turns everything upside down. With diners fleeing in all directions, mother Ebba calls for her husband Tomas as she tries to protect their children. Tomas, meanwhile, is running for his life… The anticipated disaster failed to occur, and yet the family’s world has been shaken to its core, a question mark hanging over their father in particular. Tomas and Ebba’s marriage now hangs in the balance as Tomas struggles desperately to reclaim his role as family patriarch.
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Home > United States Lawyer > Alabama Lawyers > Andalusia
Lawyers near Andalusia, Alabama
Mr. John Fletcher Jones, Jr., Member at Jones & Jones, P.C.
Address: , Andalusia, AL 36420-0000
Practice:Personal Injury, General Practice
Admitted:1987, Alabama; 1987, U.S. District Court Northern District of Alabama;
Law School:Jones School of Law, Class of 1987, J.D.
Mrs. Amy Williamson Jones, Member at Jones & Jones, P.C.
Admitted:1987, Alabama;
Law School:Jones School of Law, J.D.
Hon. Stacy Leigh Bryan Brooks, Member at Jones & Jones, P.C.
Mr. John Fletcher Jones, Member at Jones & Jones, P.C.
Practice:Wrongful Death, Personal Injury Claims
Admitted:1953, Alabama; 1959, U.S. District Court, of Alabama and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth and Eleventh Circuits; 1971, U.S. Supreme Court;
Law School:University of Alabama, Class of 1953, LL.B., , University of Alabama, Class of 1969, J.D.
Mr. Mark John Christensen, Member at South Alabama Law, LLP
Address: 1 E. Court Sq., Andalusia, AL 36420
Practice:Criminal Defense, Business Litigation, Corporate Law, Personal Injury Law, Trials and Appeals, Criminal Law, Appellate Practice, Probate, Tax Law
Admitted:1994, Florida; 1995, Alabama; 1995, U.S. District Court, District of Alabama; 1996, Georgia;
Law School:Hastings College of the Law, University of California, Class of 1994, J.D.
James R. Clifton, Member at Albrittons, Clifton & Moody, P.C.
Address: 109 Opp Avenue P.O. Box 880, Andalusia, AL 36420
Practice:Probate; Estate Planning; Real Estate; Corporate; Taxation; Banking
Admitted:1974, Alabama, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit and U.S. District Court, Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama
Law School:University of Alabama, LL.M. in Taxation, 1981; Cumberland School of Law of Samford University, J.D., cum laude, 1974
Julie S. Moody, Member at Albrittons, Clifton & Moody, P.C.
Practice:Litigation; Worker's Compensation(70%); Insurance Defense(15%); Corporate Law(5%); Employment Law(10%)
Admitted:1993, Alabama, U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit and U.S. District Court, Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama
Law School:Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, J.D., 1993
Corey D. Bryan, Member at Corey D. Bryan Attorney at Law, LLC
Address: 119 East Three Notch Street, Andalusia, AL 36420
Practice:Criminal Defense; Personal Injury; Construction Law; Wills; Probate; Corporate Law
Admitted:2004, Alabama
Law School:St. Thomas School of Law, J.D., 2004
Mr. Christopher Michael Sledge, Member at Woodard Law Firm
Address: 1213 East Three Notch St., Andalusia, AL 36420
Law School:Oklahoma City University, Class of 1999, J.D.
Mr. Allen Gerald Woodard, Member at Woodard Law Firm
Practice:Personal Injury, Consumer Rights
Admitted:1987, Alabama; 1987, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Alabama; 1990, Florida; 1991, Mississippi (inactive); 1991, U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi;
Law School:University of Alabama, Class of 1986, J.D.
Ms. Meagan Deanne Gantt, Member at Meagan D. Gantt, Attorney at Law
Address: 199 E. 3 Notch St., Andalusia, AL 36420
Practice:Elder Law, Estate Planning, Contracts, Business Formation, Domestic Relations, Criminal Defense
Law School:University of Alabama School of Law, J.D.
Ms. Meredith Shay Peters, Associate at The Powell Law Firm, P.C.
Address: 201 East Troy Street, Andalusia, AL 36420
Law School:University of Alabama, J.D.
Mr. Abner Riley Powell IV, Member at The Powell Law Firm, P.C.
Practice:Insurance Defense, Personal Injury, Litigation, Criminal Defense, Automobile Accidents and Injuries
Admitted:1994, Alabama; 1994, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Alabama; 1996, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; 2000, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Alabama;
W. Sidney Fuller, Member at W. Sidney Fuller
Address: 28 South Court Square, Andalusia, AL 36420
Practice:Insurance Law, Personal Injury Law, Wrongful Death Law, Trial and Appellate Practice, Civil Mediation
Admitted:1956, Alabama; 1957, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Alabama; 1957, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court;
Mr. Earl Verner Johnson, Member at Earl V. Johnson
Address: 29 South Court Square, Suite A, Andalusia, AL 36420
Practice:Commercial Law, Personal Injury, Domestic Relations, Probate, Real Estate
Admitted:1974, Alabama; 1975, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Alabama; 1980, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Alabama and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit;
Law School:Cumberland School of Law of Samford University, Class of 1974, J.D.
Mrs. Virginia Williams Grimes, Associate at Murphy, Murphy & McCalman, P.C.
Address: Murphy Building, 5 East Court Square, Andalusia, AL 36420
Practice:Real Estate, Probate, Trusts and Estates, Secured Transactions, Corporate Law
Law School:Jones Law School, Class of 2006, J.D.
Mr. Patrick Steven McCalman, Member at Murphy, Murphy & McCalman, P.C.
Practice:Commercial Real Estate, Residential Real Estate, Probate, Trusts and Estates, Corporate, Secured Transactions, Commercial, Business Law, Buying and Selling of Businesses
Admitted:1994, Alabama; 1994, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Alabama;
Mr. James Mark Murphy, Member at Murphy, Murphy & McCalman, P.C.
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David Gordon Green Teams With Clooney and Bullock For OUR BRAND IS CRISIS
George Clooney-produced film hires ‘Pineapple Express’ director…
David Gordon Green (‘Manglehorn,’ ‘Joe,’ ‘Prince Avalanche’) writer-director has reportedly closed a deal to step behind the camera to direct a narrative feature based on Rachel Boynton’s 2005 documentary ‘Our Brand Is Crisis.’
With Sandra Bullock attached to star and George Clooney producing, the film focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in Bolivia.
Bullock will also serve as executive producer alongside Clooney and his Smokehouse Pictures partner Grant Heslov. The script comes from Peter Straughan (‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’).
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Passion of a lifetime for the passionate ones
Gooding & Company rescheduled the most anticipated auction of our lifetime for September 5, 2020. Three classic Bugattis are at stake, and the sale will take place in Hampton Court Palace.
Due to the global pandemic, the auction will be held remotely with a live broadcast on Gooding’s website, YouTube, and other mobile apps.
The three Bugattis being auctioned are the 1934 Bugatti Type 59 Sports, 1937 Bugatti Type 57S Atalante, and 1928 Bugatti Type 35C Grand Prix. All vintage vehicles are from a collection of one of the world’s most prominent collectors. The cars reflect years of passion and dedication. They’ve been perfectly preserved and surely deserve all the best owner and price.
Let’s take a closer look at each.
1934 Bugatti Type 59 Sports
This unique sports car lived a brilliant career with some distinguished achievements. Purchased by King Leopold III of Belgium, he changed its color to black and honored Belgium by adding the yellow strip.
The specs include:
• 3,257 CC DOHC Inline 8-Cylinder Engine
• Twin Zenith Carburetors; Roots-type Supercharger
• 4-Speed Dry Sump Manual Gearbox
• 4-Wheel Cable-Operated Mechanical Drum Brakes
• 250 BHP at 5,000 RPM
1937 Bugatti Type 57S Atalante
Though perfectly designed, this unique classic car couldn’t have been offered for an extensive production because of its high set doors and split front window. Built on the 57S chassis, the Atalante has some of the most impressive technical specifications.
• Single Stromberg Carburetor
• Marshall K200 Supercharger
• Estimated 220 BHP at 5,500 RPM
• 4-Speed Manual Gearbox
1928 Bugatti Type 35C Grand Prix
Surely, Bugatti Type 35 is one of the most successful racing cars ever winning multiple Grand Prix races up to 1930. Interestingly, it has had only three owners who valued the car for its amazing specs.
• 1,991 CC SOHC Inline 8-Cylinder Engine
• Roots-Type Supercharger
• Single Zenith Carburetor
• Front Solid Axle with Semi-Elliptical Leaf Springs and Shock Absorbers
• Rear Live Axle with Reversed Quarter-Elliptical Leaf Springs and Shock Absorbers
Car lovers worldwide await the most anticipated event of this fall. Hopefully, these classics will be appreciated accordingly and become new pieces of pride for leading car collectors.
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Select Chapter 01 – Sunza Save The Bones 02 – Bird’s Eye 03 – Making Smoke 04 – Dead Words
Fear the Bones
by DBethel on 25 November 2014
Chapter: Save The Bones
Characters: Hellrider Jackie
Location: Mono Lake
This story was an exercise in restraint. Hellrider Jackie is, undoubtedly, a dark character and, given what she does in this story, it could have been a disgusting story to tell. As you will read in Josh’s notes below, we actually didn’t want to show much in the way of gore, but we still wanted it to be horrific. As I’ve said multiple times before, Josh was the key to that. His art is simply unsettling but also beautiful, especially when looking at the actual line art (I’ve been including the uncolored line art in each page’s notes so you can really see the effort Josh is putting into this story).
Because the “script” I gave Josh was actually drawn layouts, I did have some control over how things could be shown––though I must be clear, Josh was given full reign to reinterpret these pages as he saw fit. I figured closeups would be the best bet if only because it causes the reader to really look around and figure out what it is they’re looking at. If you show a severed hand with bone nubs and spurting blood, the thing your brain registers first is “gore.” But if you show a close up of a hand, or of a face, the first thing the brain processes is “hand” or “face” and then it has to figure out what’s going on around it. The reader is, in a sense, forced to ask, “What does it mean?” If that’s too much to ask of a reader, then fine; at least it looks awesome.
“Save the Bones” wraps up on Thursday––yes, we will still provide an update on Thanksgiving Day––and then it’ll be relative radio silence on the website until Long John starts updating again in what looks like will be late January 2015.
Josh’s Notes
I didn’t want this page to be gory by any means. I don’t find horrific gore to be that amusing anymore. In my early comic-reading days, that was all the rage; being uncensored and edge was really getting pushed onto readers. [Editor’s note: He’s talking about early to mid-nineties comics, especially those published by Image comics.] With all the wars in the world going on right now and the atrocities to innocent people, I didn’t feel the need to push the gore factor.
In an earlier conversation with Daniel [Editor’s note: Josh is one of the only people allowed to call D. Bethel “Daniel”], Jackie was just removing a blight on her land…that was all. Like spraying ants and spiders with pesticide. She is removed from the damage she is causing. I wanted to show the rot leaving the bodies, not their blood or hacked body parts and severed limbs.
Original art by Josh Tobey.
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How to Avoid being a Riotous Looter of Hashem's World: Rav Avigdor Miller on Parshat Naso
In Rav Avigdor Miller's dvar Torah Parshas Naso 3 – The Dedicated Nazir, Rav Miller focuses on the correct response we should have to our positive physical & material qualities.
For example, he relates an enlightening story from the Gemara (pages 3-7) about a nazir with beautiful hair.
A young man became a nazir after he saw his reflection in the water where he pastured his sheep and noticed that he was actually quite good-looking.
(Rav Miller notes that back then, men didn't look in mirrors. Apparently, they kept themselves clean & tidy, but otherwise didn't focus on their physical appearance.)
Rav Miller says the young shepherd was struck by the yetzer hara of vanity, immediately realized it, so decided to commit himself to a process in which his hair would grow out beautifully — after which he must cut it off.
In this way, the young shepherd would distance himself from too much connection to This World.
In those times, Bnei Yisrael focused on awareness of Hashem.
They kept Torah & mitzvot; everyone did, everyone grew up with that, that was the norm.
But they didn't lose sight of the deeper purpose of the mitzvot: connecting with Hashem.
Awareness of Hashem.
The more one attaches to This World, the less he or she attaches to Hashem.
The more one focuses on one's body, the less one focuses on the soul.
(Having said that, it's important to clarify that Judaism does not support unholy deprivation or abuse of one's body; the body is a vehicle, a vessel of sorts, so it needs proper care but not more than that.)
Update for Our Times: DON'T become an Actual Nazir Today
Don't take on being a nazir in our times.
Once you take it upon yourself, you cannot release yourself from it.
We have no Beit Hamikdash and hence, no korbanot today, so there is no way to release the vow via a korban (sacrifice).
So whoever becomes a nazir now must remain in that state for the rest of his or her life.
Which Light Means to Start Thinking about Hashem?
On page 9, Rav Miller repeats his characteristic encouragement about improving yourself 30 seconds at a time.
Think about Hashem when stopped at a traffic light.
For 30 seconds a day, merely think the thought that This World is not ours; we're just here as guests of Hashem.
Spiritual Looters
On pages 10-12, Rav Miller discusses looting & how the police stand by because the mayor is on the side of the looters and if the police intervene too forcefully, the police suffer negative consequences.
Rav Miller passed on in 2001, so his observations were stated over 2 decades ago, but they're still 100% applicable to our times.
The thing is...if we don't say a bracha before eating, we're also looting from Hashem.
If we treat our world like it's Ownerless and just help ourselves without a thought of Hashem, we are also looting — so says Rav Miller.
Reading these pages plants the thought in my mind that maybe all this riotous looting is a hint to us to check out our own attitude toward Hashem's world.
Are we properly appreciative?
What are we doing with the gifts Hashem gives us?
Do we use our eyes & ears & mouth for good things or for things Hashem doesn't like?
And what about our fingers? Did Hashem like whatever we just tapped into our keyboard or touchscreen?
Feel Good about Swimming against the Tsunami
Rav Miller notes that real tzaddikim are concerned with what THEY owe Hashem, not with what they feel Hashem owes them.
This is a massive shift in mentality, and particularly challenging for those who have really suffered life — and especially for those who've undergone emotional deprivation, causing them to feel like a bottomless cup that can never really be filled.
So whatever forward movement you achieve in this area is HUGE, particularly in our times when the entire ruach of the generation is "What have You done for ME lately?"
Any movement you make in the direction of giving back to Hashem is like moving against a tsunami wave, so you receive massive merit for just trying.
Heck, just being aware of the fact that we owe Hashem is a huge achievement in this generation.
So feel really good about whatever you can do in that direction.
Seriously. No psychobabble platitudes intended.
It's REALLY challenging in our generation, so you must force yourself to feel pleasure about whatever you can do in this direction. That's right!
If you wish to see a particularly powerful example of this, please see:
The Secret Beneath the Greatness of the Sassover Rebbetzin
Practical 30-Second Exercises to Bring Out the Real You
A review of Rav Miller's powerful practical exercises that literally take only seconds:
Before you drink, hold the glass of water and say, "This isn't mine." (It's Hashem's — thank You!)
As your food sits on your fork, before you put it in your mouth, say, "I’m eating Hashem’s food right now. It’s His world and He let’s me take it off the shelf.” (page 12)
For 30 seconds a day, simply think the thought that This World is not ours; we're just here as guests of Hashem.
Credit for all quotes & material goes to Toras Avigdor.
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PHOTOS Grižane Castle ruins on rocky cliff
In the area of the former Vinodol principality, the princes Frankopan had built nine castles. In today’s Vinodol area, there are still three of the nine existing castles and...
by Tena Brnad 7. October 2020.
In the area of the former Vinodol principality, the princes Frankopan had built nine castles. In today’s Vinodol area, there are still three of the nine existing castles and one of them is in Grižane.
In the medieval age it was a strategic point in Vinodol valley, but it was damaged in an earthquake in 1323.
The castle was in the shape of an irregular square with round towers in the corners.
The irregularity of the building was caused by the specific terrain, because it was located on porous soil, built along a rocky cliff known in Croatian as “griže” meaning “ living rock” from which the town took its name.
Only the remnants of the walls of the castle of Grižane are reminders of its glorious past today.
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SOLDIERS OF EMPIRE
The stomach at war
The 1860s wars were battles of economies as well as of weapons.
Keeping soldiers fed and adequately supplied involved huge expenditure. Troops fighting for the Crown were supported by the Imperial Treasury and resources of the colonial government while Maori were sustaining livelihoods, crops and stock at the same time as campaigning.
Over the 2015/16 summer Angus Crowe worked on a Summer Scholarship investigating the scale and economic impact of provisioning the thousands of British soldiers stationed in New Zealand.
Quantity of rum imported to Auckland between 1860 and 1867. Rum imports increased by 185.39% between 1861 and 1864. Data from 'Statistics of New Zealand, 1860–67', Statistics New Zealand.
Each man was entitled to 1 pound of bread (around half a kilo), 1 pound of fresh meat and a quarter pint of rum per day. Supplying these rations meant big business. Auckland’s economy boomed with huge spikes in the quantities of supplies landed and traded.
Cattle, wheat and rum came in from New South Wales and Victoria, and further afield. Local merchants vied for lucrative contracts from the Commissariat; bakers and butchers had their hands full. Rivalry and rumour as to who got the best price was rife. And in the field, men complained often about the quality and quantity of food they received.
Getting food supplies from Auckland wharves to inland redoubts and camps was also a major undertaking.
In the StoryMaps that follow Angus has provided an overview of ‘the stomach at war’. ‘The role of the Commissariat during the Waikato Campaign, 1863 – 1864’ contains links to full statistical tables of some of the economic patterns in evidence in wartime New Zealand of the 1860s.
When the majority of British troops departed in 1866 Auckland fell into sharp economic recession.
The role of the Commissariat during the Waikato Campaign, 1863 - 1864
The route to the Waikato
Living under orders
Everything from the most mundane to the exceptional feature in the army record.
A unique perspective on the day-to-day conduct of war can be found in the 1864 Garrison Order Book held in Puke Ariki’s research collection. (ARC2002-811)
Over the summer Samantha Hunt, a Summer Scholar co-funded by Puke Ariki and Victoria University worked her way through the Marsland Hill barracks Garrison Order Book – all 456 of its large pages. Covering the period 8 January to 18 October 1864, the Book details the movements and activities of men serving with the 57th and 70th regiments, the Taranaki Militia and Military settler volunteers. Samantha created an index to the Book listing people, events and topics. The index enables greater access to the Book’s extensive contents.
The format of the Order Book is consistent: each daily entry begins with the date, duty officers for the day and a table recording the guard and picquet placement at the numerous outposts through the region. This is followed by the daily garrison and general orders, which is where we have a window onto the conduct of the conflict. The work of the garrison can be seen for example in the order issued on 27 March 1864 noting that “The Deputy asst. [Quarter Master] General will be pleased to hand over without delay to the [Commissariat] Department the whole of the Crops, Potatoes etc. taken from the Rebels at Kaitake on the 25th Inst, these crops to be stored by the [Commissariat] at the Kaitake and Oakura Redoubts, By Order S Brutton, Lieut. + Garrison Adjutant”.
As well as indexing the Order Book Samantha produced an array of short accounts for a popular readership featuring significant events and themes from entries in the Book. These provide a view of garrison life in the raw. They are available on the Puke Ariki website. A recurring theme throughout was alcohol and problems arising from its consumption. The order book begins with a note that “A Board of Officers will assemble at the [Commissariat] Store at 11am tomorrow for the purpose of testing the quality of some Rum offered for the use of the troops” – a most important duty!
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Favicon image: Thomas Matravers album, Sir George Grey Special Collections, 3-137-26d, Auckland Libraries
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Vs > Zante/ Zakinthos
Puerto Princesa, Palawan vs Zante/ Zakinthos Climate & Distance Between
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The distance between Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines and Zante/ Zakinthos, Greece is approximately 10,025 km or 6,230 mi.
To reach Puerto Princesa, Palawan in this distance one would set out from Zante/ Zakinthos bearing 77.5° or ENE and follow the great circles arc to approach Puerto Princesa, Palawan bearing 128.4° or SE .
Puerto Princesa, Palawan has a tropical wet and dry/ savanna climate with dry winters (Aw) whereas Zante/ Zakinthos has a Mediterranean hot climate (Csa).
The mean temperature is 9 °C (16.2°F) warmer.
Average monthly temperatures vary by 13.4 °C (24.1°F) less in Puerto Princesa, Palawan. The continentality subtype is extremely hyperoceanic as opposed to truly oceanic.
Total annual precipitation averages 663.7 mm (26.1 in) more which is equivalent to 663.7 l/m² (16.29 US gal/ft²) or 6,637,000 l/ha (709,539 US gal/ac) more. About 1 5/7 as much.
The altitude of the sun at midday is overall 21.4° higher in Puerto Princesa, Palawan than in Zante/ Zakinthos.
Relative humidity levels are 0.5% lower.
The mean dew point temperature is 8.6°C (15.5°F) higher.
The table shows values for Puerto Princesa, Palawan relative to Zante/ Zakinthos. You can also view this comparison the other way around from the perspective of Zante/ Zakinthos vs Puerto Princesa, Palawan.
Average Max Temperature °C ( °F) +17 (+30) +18 (+32) +16 (+29) +14 (+25) +10 (+17) +4 (+8) +1 (+2) +1 (+3) +4 (+8) +8 (+14) +12 (+22) +15 (+27) +10 (+18)
Average Temperature °C ( °F) +16 (+28) +16 (+28) +15 (+27) +14 (+24) +9 (+17) +3 (+5) +0 (+1) +0 (+1) +3 (+6) +7 (+13) +11 (+20) +14 (+26) +9 (+16)
Average Min Temperature °C ( °F) +13 (+23) +13 (+23) +12 (+21) +11 (+20) +9 (+15) +5 (+9) +3 (+5) +1 (+2) +3 (+6) +6 (+11) +10 (+17) +12 (+22) +8 (+15)
Average Precipitation mm (in) -112 (-4) -85 (-3) -30 (-1) -9 (0) +119 (+5) +164 (+6) +176 (+7) +192 (+8) +196 (+8) +61 (+2) +45 (+2) -52 (-2) +664 (+26)
Number of Precipitation Days (% chance of precip. on a day ) -9 ( -29) -7 ( -25) -6 ( -19) -1 ( -3) +10 (+32) +13 (+43) +15 (+48) +16 (+52) +14 (+47) +9 (+29) +4 (+13) -6 ( -19) +52 (+14)
Sun altitude at solar noon on the 21st day (°) +27.9 +27.7 +27.8 +23.7 +7.1 +0.6 +6.6 +23.2 +27.9 +27.9 +28 +28 +21.4
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LIVE: RNC kicks off with Sen. Tim Scott, Nikki Haley and Donald Trump Jr.- 25.08.2020 Nr.336 Anul XXII / Anul XXX
LIVE: RNC kicks off with Sen. Tim Scott, Nikki Haley and Donald Trump Jr. by Yahoo! News August 24, 2020, 11:01 PM GMT+3 ·1 min read The 2020 Republican National Convention kicked off Monday, with President Trump formally accepting the GOP presidential nomination. The four-day convention — which was originally supposed to take place in-person in Jacksonville, Fla., before the coronavirus crisis struck — will be held in limited-capacity venues in Charlotte, N.C., the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., and at the White House. Eschewing political norms, Trump is expected to speak in primetime each night. Other speakers on night one include Sen. Tim Scott, Reps. Steve Scalise, Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan, former U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump Jr., and Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who pointed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters who walked past their home.
Tune in here beginning at 9 p.m. ET.
Rebecca Corey
Tonight’s lineup
Here in the list of speakers for RNC night one, in the order they are scheduled to appear:
• Timothy Cardinal Dolan, archbishop of New York
• Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA
• Rebecca Friedrichs, public school teacher
• Tanya Weinreis, small business owner whose coffee shop qualified for a loan under the Paycheck Protection Program
• Representative Matt Gaetz
• Kim Klacik, Republican congressional nominee
• Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee
• Amy Johnson Ford, nurse practitioner
• Dr. G.E. Ghali, surgeon
• Representative Jim Jordan
• Herschel Walker, former NFL player and businessman
• Natalie Harp, Trump campaign advisory board member
• Vernon Jones, Georgia state representative
• Andrew Pollack, father of Meadow Pollack, who was killed in the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
• Mark and Patricia McCloskey, St. Louis couple who pointed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters
• Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump campaign fundraiser and girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr.
• House Republican Whip Steve Scalise
• Sean Parnell, Republican congressional nominee
• Maximo Alvarez, founder of Sunshine Gasoline
• Nikki Haley, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations
• Donald Trump, Jr., oldest son of President Trump
• Senator Tim Scott
Homeowners who pointed guns at protesters praise Trump at RNC
Mark T. and Patricia N. McCloskey, the armed homeowners who pointed their guns at protesters in St. Louis, Missouri, denounced the Black Lives Matter demonstrators, calling them „radicals.”
„These radicals are not content with marching in the streets,” Mark said of protesters. „They want to walk the halls of Congress. They want to take over. They want power. This is Joe Biden’s party.”
„President Trump will defend the God-given right of every American to protect their homes and their families,” he added. Read more.
Armed homeowners Mark T. and Patricia N. McCloskey stand in front their house along Portland Place as they confront protesters marching to St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson’s house Sunday, June 28, 2020. (Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Father of school shooting victim speaks on first night of RNC
Andrew Pollack, whose daughter was killed during the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018, spoke on the first night of the Republican National Convention and praised President Trump’s response to the shooting.
„After my daughter’s murder, the media didn’t seem interested in the facts. So I found them myself. I found that gun control laws didn’t fail my daughter — people did,” Pollack said.
„I truly believe the safety of our kids depends on whether this man is reelected,” Pollack added of Trump.
(Republican National Convention via Reuters TV)
Democrat speaks at RNC: ‘We are free people with free minds’
Georgia State Representative Vernon Jones, „a lifelong Democrat,” spoke on the first night of the Republican National Convention.
„You may be wondering, “Why is a lifelong Democrat speaking at the Republican National Convention? That’s a fair question. And here’s your answer: The Democratic Party does not want Black people to leave the mental plantation they’ve had us on for decades. But I have news for them: We are free people with free minds,” Jones said.
Former NFL player and ‘Apprentice’ contestant: ‘Racism… isn’t Donald Trump’
Former NFL player and „Apprentice” contestant Herschel Walker defended President Trump, saying racism „isn’t Donald Trump.”
„It hurts my soul to hear the terrible names that people call Donald,” Walker said. „The worst one is ‘racist.’ I take it as a personal insult that people would think I would have a 37-year friendship with a racist. People who think that don’t know what they are talking about. Growing up in the deep south, I have seen racism up close. I know what it is. And it isn’t Donald Trump.”
Registered nurse defends Trump’s COVID-19 response
Amy Johnson Ford, a registered nurse who was deployed to New York and San Antonio, Texas, during the coronavirus pandemic, defended President Trump’s COVID-19 response.
„Let me be clear so that the media cannot twist my personal story to fit their narrative,” Ford said. „As a health care professional, I can tell you without hesitation, Donald Trump’s quick action and leadership saved thousands of lives during COVID-19. And the benefits of that response extend far beyond coronavirus.”
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel: ‘Unlike Joe Biden, President Trump didn’t choose me because I’m a woman’
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel took shots at last week’s Democratic National Convention.
„If you watched the DNC last week, you probably noticed that Democrats spent a lot of time talking about how much they despise our President, but we heard very little about what they actually plan to do.”
She also took direct aim at Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
„Unlike Joe Biden, President Trump didn’t choose me because I’m a woman – he chose me because I was the best person for the job,” McDaniel said.
Kim Klacik: ‘Democrats still assume that Black people will vote for them’
Kim Klacik, the first Black female Republican candidate running for a Maryland Congressional seat, delivered a message on race on night one of the Republican National Convention.
„The Democrats still assume that Black people will vote for them, no matter how much they let us down and take us for granted,” Klacik said.
„The days of blindly supporting the Democrats are coming to an end.”
Klacik also spoke on America’s inner cities, encouraging Americans to „help me make Baltimore great again.”
„I want Baltimore to be an example to Republicans around the country that we can compete in our inner cities if we reach out to the citizens and deliver real results,” Klacik said.
„So, I’m asking you to help President Trump complete the Great American Comeback, and I’m asking you to help me make Baltimore great again,” Klacik added.
Kim Klacik speaks during the virtual Republican National Convention on August 24, 2020. (via Reuters TV)
Republican National Convention: Trump fights for re-election amid coronavirus, economic crises
Yahoo Finance• August 24, 2020
Trump to make a case for his re-election at the RNC
President Donald Trump will speak on the opening night of the Republican National Convention, along with Nikki Haley and Tim Scott. This comes as a number of Republican Party figures have come out saying that they will not re-elect President Trump for a new term. Yahoo Finance’s Jess Smith and Rick Newman join The Final Round to discuss what to expect from the RNC and break down the details of how President Trump has lost some of the support in his own party.
President Donald Trump will make his case for re-election this week during the Republican National Convention.
He will formally accept the Republican nomination from the White House under much different circumstances than in 2016, when he made his acceptance speech in front of a massive crowd.
At the start of this election cycle, it seemed almost certain Trump would be campaigning on a strong U.S. economy. Then the COVID-19 pandemic changed everything.
In the beginning of 2020, Trump frequently touted the United States’ economic strength — pointing to the unemployment rate below 4% and a stock market setting records. “America is now the hottest economy anywhere in the world,” he said in January.
Throughout his first term, Trump has taken full credit for the U.S. economy, ignoring the economic growth of the President Obama years.
In 2017, with a Republican U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, Trump signed his signature tax cuts into law.
“I consider this very much a bill for the middle class and a bill for jobs,” he said as he signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. “Jobs are produced through companies and corporations and you see that happening. Corporations are literally going wild over this.
While in office, Trump has publicly clashed with CEOs and businesses whose policies he doesn’t like. He’s gone after Amazon, Twitter, GM and many others. Most recently, he called for the boycott of Ohio-based tire manufacturer Goodyear. He repeatedly attacked Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and pressured the Fed to cut interest rates.
Trump declared himself “a tariff man” and used the tariffs as a negotiating tactic, often despite opposition from many within his own party and the business community. “I love properly-put-on tariffs,” he said earlier this month in Ohio.
Trump made good on a 2016 campaign promise to negotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. The newly branded United States Mexico Canada Agreement (or USMCA) earned the support of labor groups and Corporate America alike.
In January, he also signed the Phase 1 trade deal with China, but only after a trade war that resulted in tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars in goods that hurt U.S. businesses and farmers.
FILE – In this Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, signs a trade agreement with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, in the East Room of the White House, in Washington. China’s government welcomed an interim trade deal with Washington and said Thursday the two sides need to address each other’s “core concerns.” (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Roughly seven months later, the United States’ relationship with China is as rocky as ever. Trump frequently blasts the Chinese government over its handling of the coronavirus.
“I don’t want to deal with them now. With what they did to this country and to the world, I don’t want to talk to China right now,” said Trump earlier this month.
As the coronavirus continues to plague the United States, voters will judge Trump on his handling of the virus he downplayed for months. More than 170,000 Americans are dead, the unemployment rate is at 10.2% as millions remain out of work, and small businesses are going under as the wealthiest nation in the world continues to be battered by the virus.
Boosted by trillions of dollars in stimulus, U.S. stocks have bounced back from their March lows. Trump insists his administration is handling the virus well, often using the stock market as a measure of success.
The president is making the case that he is the only candidate who can bring the economy back, but Democrats argue the United States can’t afford four more years of Donald Trump.
Jessica Smith is a reporter for Yahoo Finance based in Washington, D.C. Follow her on Twitter at @JessicaASmith8.
Pence helped secure 2nd term with Trump by reportedly remaining ‘relentlessly positive’ on coronavirus
Kathryn Krawczyk
August 24, 2020, 6:39 PM GMT+3 ·2 mins read
How did Vice President Mike Pence secure President Trump’s trust in a historically tumultuous administration? Very, very carefully.
Over the past four years, Pence has done everything he can to avoid blocking Trump’s spotlight, allies and administration officials tell The Washington Post. That „durable and close” relationship secured Pence’s spot on Trump’s 2020 ticket, one Pence ally said — but also reportedly came at the expense of the advice Pence delivered Trump on coronavirus.
As the head of America’s COVID-19 response, Pence has delivered „detailed instructions for governors about how they can request federal resources and assistance,” and „gone out of his way to compliment” them in a very un-Trumpian manner, the Post writes. But some aides also say Pence has „painted a ‘relentlessly positive’ picture” of the virus to Trump, perhaps harming his coronavirus response, the Post continues. Dr. Anthony Fauci told the Post that Pence always gave Trump an „optimistic” view of the virus, but that didn’t stop him from presenting „darker” news when necessary.
Beyond his positive coronavirus spin, Pence’s allies maintain he has never stepped beyond his current duties to imply he’ll seek the presidency in 2024. That political future is uncertain anyway because, as one Republican operative told the Post, „Who do you talk to who’s fired up for Mike Pence?” And if 2020 doesn’t work out, it’s even more clear Pence is headed for the „markdown bin,” allies say. Read more about what’s next for Pence at The Washington Post.
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Trump says Democrats trying to ‘steal’ election in RNC acceptance speech
·National Correspondent
August 24, 2020, 10:09 PM GMT+3 ·3 mins read
WASHINGTON — In an event that seemed more like a campaign rally than a convention, President Trump used his speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination to make unfounded accusations about electoral security, relitigate the 2020 Democratic presidential primary contest and muse about a presidential ticket made up of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln campaigning on a liberal platform in Texas.
“This is the greatest scam in the history of politics,” Trump said at one point during his remarks, in reference to plans by millions of Americans to vote by mail in November’s presidential election.
President Trump speaks on Monday, the first day of the Republican National Convention, in Charlotte, N.C. (Chris Carlson-Pool/Getty Images)
It was far from the event Trump had imagined, with the coronavirus pandemic having largely frustrated his plans for a celebratory Republican National Convention. He had intended to move part of the convention to Jacksonville, Fla., but called that plan off after cases of COVID-19 surged in Florida earlier this summer.
And so the president arrived in Charlotte, N.C., on Monday to deliver the first of what are slated to be several speeches he plans to make during the RNC. He will make his main speech on Thursday evening. Monday’s remarks came after, as expected, Trump easily surpassed the 1,276 delegate endorsements needed to secure the nomination.
“I just tell it like it is,” he said in a freewheeling speech that included a number of misstatements, exaggerations and insinuations.
“Your American Dream will be dead,” he said of a potential Democratic victory, referring specifically to judicial appointments, which have been a hallmark of his own administration. Trump celebrated those appointments, as well as his tax cut for corporations and wealthy individuals. He did not, however, offer much substance on what a second Trump term might look like.
A significant portion of his speech focused on unfounded accusations that voting by mail will result in widespread fraud that will help his Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden.
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“The only way they can take this election away from us is if this is a rigged election. We’re gonna win this election,” Trump said, describing what he said were record levels of enthusiasm for his presidency. In fact, more than half of Americans disapprove of the job he is doing.
A Save the Post Office demonstration outside a United States Postal Service location in Los Angeles on Saturday. (Kyle Grillot/AFP via Getty Images)
And yet Trump has continued to assert that Democrats can win only by cheating, which he charges they intend to do by engaging in systematic mail fraud. Fraud is infrequent when it comes to voting by mail, which many people may prefer to do in the midst of a pandemic.
“What they’re doing is using COVID to steal an election,” Trump said in Charlotte, referring to COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, which has killed about 176,000 Americans. “They’re using COVID to defraud the American people — all of our people — of a fair and free election.”
Studies have shown that one party does not benefit inordinately over the other from voting by mail.
That has not stopped Trump from making accusations that some believe could cause a loss of confidence in the November election. “They’re going to mail out 80 million ballots. It’s impossible, they have no idea. Who’s mailing them? Mostly Democrat states and Democrat governors.”
Contrary to that assertion, many Republican governors support and encourage voting by mail. Trump, a resident of Florida, votes by mail, as do many top officials in the White House.
Live: Republicans kick off presidential convention
August 24, 2020, 8:39 PM GMT+3
The 2020 Republican National Convention kicks off Monday, with President Trump formally accepting the GOP presidential nomination.
Prominent Republicans throw weight behind Biden as Trump’s convention opens
Reuters• August 24, 2020
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than two dozen former Republican U.S. lawmakers, including former Senator Jeff Flake, endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president as the Republican National Convention opened on Monday, a rebuke to President Donald Trump by members of his own party.
The 27 former members of Congress joined a „Republicans for Biden” initiative organized by the Biden campaign to encourage Republican support for the Democrat, the Biden campaign said. They cited Trump’s „corruption, destruction of democracy, blatant disregard for moral decency, and urgent need to get the country back on course” as reasons for the move, according to a Biden campaign statement.
„I was a Republican long before the president ever called himself one, and I’ll be a Republican long after identifying as such is no longer useful to him,” Flake said in a 16-minute video explaining his decision to endorse Biden and vote for a Democratic presidential nominee for the first time.
„Given what we have experienced over the past four years, it’s not enough just to register our disapproval of the president. We need to elect someone else in his place, someone who will stop the chaos and reverse the damage.”
The former lawmakers are only the latest Republican group to endorse Biden and oppose Trump in the Nov. 3 election.
Separately, the Lincoln Project, one of the most prominent Republican-backed groups opposing Trump, said on Monday that former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele had joined it as a senior adviser.
„The chair behind the Resolute Desk has always been bigger than any political party,” Steele said in a statement. „Sadly, we have witnessed its occupant devolve into preying upon fears and resentments with narcissism that nurtures only chaos and confusion. Leadership is needed now more than ever.”
On Sunday, one of the group’s co-founders, George Conway, and his wife, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, both stepped down from their political roles, citing a need to spend time with family.
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Last week, 73 former Republican national security officials, including former chiefs of the FBI and CIA, endorsed Biden while calling Trump unfit to serve.
Opposition groups object to Trump’s alienation of U.S. allies abroad and his leadership at home, including his response to the coronavirus pandemic that has killed over 176,000 Americans.
The Trump campaign has described the groups as disaffected former officials „trying to take down the duly elected President of the United States.”
(Reporting by David Morgan; Editing by Scott Malone and Leslie Adler)
How to watch the 2020 Republican National Convention
Caroline Linton
CBS News• August 24, 2020
This week, it’s the Republicans who are holding their four-day national convention, culminating in President Trump’s formal acceptance of the party’s nomination on Thursday night. He’ll speak on the South Lawn of the White House — after a few venue changes in the last couple of months stemming from the coronavirus pandemic.
Vice President Mike Pence will speak on Wednesday and first lady Melania Trump will speak on Tuesday.
CBSN will provide live coverage and analysis throughout the day, with full coverage beginning at 5 p.m. ET on „Red & Blue,” with Elaine Quijano. At 8 p.m. ET, tune in ahead of each night’s convention speakers and live coverage of the proceedings. CBSN coverage continues at 11 p.m. ET with post-convention analysis.
From 10-11 p.m. ET, CBS television stations will broadcast live coverage anchored by „CBS Evening News” anchor and managing editor Norah O’Donnell.
Download the free CBS News app for full CBSN coverage and live convention updates. CBSN streaming is available on all major platforms, including iOS, Android, Roku, Amazon, Apple, Samsung and Pluto.
How to watch the Republican National ConventionWhat: Republican National ConventionDate: Monday, August 24 through Thursday, August 27, 2020Convention coverage on CBSN: 5 p.m. ET, 8:00 p.m. ETConvention speakers live on CBSN: 8:30-11 p.m. ETConvention coverage on CBS television stations: 10-11 p.m. ETPost-convention coverage on CBSN: 11 p.m. ETOnline stream: Live on CBSN — in the player above and on your mobile or streaming device.
Elected officials who are expected to speak include Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Senator Tim Scott, Senator Joni Ernst, and South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, and Trump administration officials including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley.
Others who are set to speak at the RNC include Donald Trump Jr.; Ivanka Trump; Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who were captured in a viral photo pointing guns at Black Lives Matter protesters; Alice Johnson, the grandmother pardoned by Mr. Trump after facilitation from Kim Kardashian West; Andrew Pollack, whose daughter Meadow was killed in the Parkland school shooting and Nick Sandmann, the Covington Catholic High School student featured in viral video.
Portions of the RNC will take place in Charlotte, where Mr. Trump was originally set to speak after receiving the nomination. On Friday night, multiple people were arrested during protests in Charlotte against the RNC, according to CBS affiliate WBTV.
The Democrats formally nominated Joe Biden and Kamala Harris last week.
Here is a look who is expected to speak each night at the Republican National Convention:
Monday speakers include:Timothy Cardinal Dolan, archbishop of New YorkCharlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USARebecca Friedrichs, public school teacherTanya Weinreis, small business owner whose coffee shop qualified for a loan under the Paycheck Protection ProgramRepresentative Matt GaetzKim Klacik, Republican congressional nomineeRonna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National CommitteeAmy Johnson Ford, nurse practitionerDr. G.E. Ghali, surgeonRepresentative Jim JordanHerschel Walker, former NFL player and businessmanNatalie Harp, Trump campaign advisory board memberVernon Jones, Georgia state representative Andrew Pollack, father of Meadow Pollack, who was killed in the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High SchoolMark and Patricia McCloskey, St. Louis couple who pointed guns at Black Lives Matter protestersKimberly Guilfoyle, Trump campaign fundraiser and girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr.House Republican Whip Steve ScaliseSean Parnell, Republican congressional nomineeMaximo Alvarez, founder of Sunshine GasolineNikki Haley, former U.S. ambassador to the United NationsDonald Trump, Jr., oldest son of President TrumpSenator Tim ScottTuesday speakers include:First Lady Melania TrumpSecretary of State Mike PompeoSenator Rand PaulIowa Governor Kim ReynoldsFlorida Lieutenant Governor Jeanette NuñezKentucky Attorney General Daniel CameronFormer Florida Attorney General Pam BondiAbby Johnson, anti-abortion rights activistJason JoyceMyron Lizer, Navajo Nation vice presidentMary Ann Mendoza, mother whose son was killed by an illegal immigrantMegan PauleyCris PetersonJohn PetersonNicholas Sandmann, student who sued news outlets after confrontation with Native American activistEric Trump, son of Mr. TrumpTiffany Trump, daughter of Mr. TrumpWednesday speakers include:Vice President Mike PenceSecond Lady Karen PenceSenator Marsha BlackburnSenator Joni ErnstSouth Dakota Governor Kristi NoemRepresentative Dan CrenshawRepresentative Elise StefanikRepresentative Lee ZeldinRichard Grenell, former acting director of national intelligenceKellyanne Conway, White House counselorKeith Kellogg, national security adviser to the vice presidentJack Brewer, former NFL playerSister Dede Byrne, surgeon and military veteranMadison Cawthorn, Republican congressional nomineeScott Dane, executive director, Associated Contract Loggers & Truckers of MinnesotaClarence Henderson, civil rights activistRyan Holets, police officer known for adopting opioid-addicted babyMichael McHale, National Association of Police Organizations presidentBurgess Owens, former NFL player and GOP congressional nomineeLara Trump, Trump campaign adviser and wife of Eric TrumpThursday speakers include:President TrumpHUD Secretary Ben CarsonSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellSenator Tom CottonHouse Minority Leader Kevin McCarthyRepresentative Jeff Van DrewIvanka Trump, White House senior adviserJa’Ron Smith, White House assistantAnn Dorn, widow of former police officer killed in St. LouisDebbie FloodRudy Giuliani, former New York mayorFranklin Graham, evangelical leaderAlice Johnson, ex-inmate pardoned by Mr. TrumpWade MayfieldCarl and Marsha Mueller, parents of U.S. aid worker killed by ISISDana White, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship{„@context”:”https://schema.org”,”@type”:”VideoObject”,”thumbnailUrl”:”https://cbsnews3.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2019/06/21/cf422e24-1501-4289-95a4-8fdb9833c2ea/thumbnail/1200×630/b6ea51c1100568254685ce88e68608d5/logo-cbsn-1920×1080-new.jpg”,”embedUrl”:”https://www.cbsnews.com/live/”,”name”:”Live stream: How to watch the 2020 Republican National Convention”,”description”:”President Trump will accept the Republican party’s nomination for president on Thursday night at the South Lawn of the White House”,”contentRating”:”MPAA PG-13″,”videoQuality”:”720p”,”publication”:{„@type”:”BroadcastEvent”,”isLiveBroadcast”:true,”startDate”:”2020-08-24T11:00:00.000Z”},”uploadDate”:”2020-08-24T11:00:00.000Z”,”contentUrl”:”https://dai.google.com/linear/hls/event/Sid4xiTQTkCT1SLu6rjUSQ/master.m3u8″}
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14 killed, 75 wounded in bomb attacks in south Philippines
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In this photo provided by the Philippine Red Cross, volunteers attend to an injured man after two explosions struck the town of Jolo, Sulu province southern Philippines on Monday Aug. 24, 2020. Bombs exploded in a southern Philippine town Monday, killing several soldiers and wounding other military personnel and civilians despite extra tight security because of threats from Abu Sayyaf militants. (Philippine National Red Cross via AP)
Police attend to their injured at a site of an explosion in the town of Jolo, Sulu province southern Philippines on Monday Aug. 24, 2020. Bombs exploded in a southern Philippine town Monday, killing several soldiers and wounding other military personnel and civilians despite extra tight security due to threats from Abu Sayyaf militants. (AP Photo/Nickee Butlangan)
In this photo provided by the Philippine Red Cross, troopers secure an area after two explosions struck the town of Jolo, Sulu province southern Philippines on Monday Aug. 24, 2020. Bombs exploded in a southern Philippine town Monday, killing several soldiers and wounding other military personnel and civilians despite extra tight security because of threats from Abu Sayyaf militants. (Philippine National Red Cross via AP)
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In this photo provided by the Philippine Red Cross, troopers secure an area after explosions struck the town of Jolo, Sulu province southern Philippines on Monday Aug. 24, 2020. Bombs exploded in a southern Philippine town Monday, killing several soldiers and wounding other military personnel and civilians despite extra tight security because of threats from Abu Sayyaf militants. (Philippine National Red Cross via AP)
In this handout photo provided by the Philippine Red Cross, troopers secure an area after two explosions struck the town of Jolo, Sulu province southern Philippines on Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. Bombs exploded in the southern Philippine town Monday, killing several soldiers and wounding other military personnel and civilians despite extra tight security because of threats from Abu Sayyaf militants. (Philippine National Red Cross via AP)
JIM GOMEZ
August 24, 2020, 9:08 AM GMT+3 ·3 mins read
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Muslim militants allied with the Islamic State group set off a powerful motorcycle explosive followed by a suicide bombing that together killed 14 people on Monday, many of them soldiers, in the worst extremist attack in the Philippines this year, military officials said.
At least 75 soldiers, police and civilians were wounded in the midday bombings in Jolo town in southern Sulu province, regional military commander Lt. Gen. Corleto Vinluan said. The bombings were staged as the government grapples with the highest number of coronavirus infections in Southeast Asia.
Vinluan said most of the victims, including children, were killed and wounded in the first attack, when a bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded near two parked army trucks in front of a grocery store and computer shop in Jolo.
“It was a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device which exploded while our soldiers were on a marketing run,” Vinluan told reporters.
A second blast, apparently from a female suicide attacker, occurred about an hour later and killed the bomber, a soldier, a police commando and wounded several others, a military report said. It said the suspected bomber walked out of a snack shop, approached soldiers who were securing a Roman Catholic cathedral and “suddenly blew herself up.”
Snipers were deployed in the area to guard against more bombers as the victims were carried to an ambulance.
A third unexploded bomb was reportedly found in a public market. Jolo was immediately placed in a security lockdown by troops and police.
Presidential spokesman Harry Roque condemned the bombings “in the strongest possible terms.”
Initial pictures seen by The Associated Press showed soldiers carrying a man from the scene of the explosion near an army truck while another victim lay on the road. The wreckage of a motorcycle and body parts were seen on the road.
The first bombing was carried out near a town plaza and the cathedral in the predominantly Muslim and poverty-stricken province. The country’s southern region is home to minority Muslims in the largely Roman Catholic nation and has been the scene of decades of Muslim separatist unrest, particularly in remote island provinces such as Jolo.
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Rumors about Kim Jong Un dying are going viral again, but experts say not to believe them
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People watch a television broadcast reporting an image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on May 2, 2020.
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Rumors are once again spreading that Kim Jong Un is dying, but experts say they’re unfounded.
The rumor began on Friday after a former South Korean minister said he had on good authority that the North Korean leader was in a coma.
Since then, the claim has been carried by several notable English-language news outlets, and is trending on Twitter.
However, multiple experts have poured cold water on the issue, noting that Kim has been conducting his official duties as normal and highlighting the sketchy nature of the original source.
A wild rumor that North Korean despot Kim Jong Un is dying is once again spreading across social media but experts are saying not to believe them.
On Friday, Jang Sung-min, a former South Korean minister, said that an unnamed source in China had told him that Kim was „in a coma” but „his life has not ended,” according to the Korea Herald, a South Korean news outlet.
Speculation has abounded in the wake of the report, and social media has become abuzz with the rumor that Kim is dead or close to it. The Mirror and the New York Post both reported on the rumor that Kim was in a coma.
That fire has also been stoked by news that Kim’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, was recently given a slew of new official duties, including overseeing the country’s relationship with South Korea.
However, North Korea watchers, including academics and analysts, say the rumors about Kim Jong Un’s health are just that.
Alistair Coleman, a researcher at BBC Monitoring covering North Korea, said that the source of the rumor is sketchy.
„Former South Korean govt official, putting in a guess on the word of an unnamed source in China, going on to say that all recent Kim media appearances are forgeries. I’m not convinced,” he wrote on Twitter.
John Delury, a professor at Yonsei University in South Korea, also called the news item „random speculation” that was „informed by nothing in particular.”
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