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Manly & the Ferry
The Melbourne Cup, the US Election and Swell Golden Ale
It was Melbourne Cup yesterday. There was speculation in the office, whether we in NSW should have an official public holiday on Melbourne Cup Day like they do in Melbourne or continue to enjoy the unofficial half day off where the afternoon dissolves in myriad of booze, feathers, sweeps and sodden form guides. After yesterday, I’m convinced that NSW has got it right and the only way to enjoy Melbourne Cup is in the city with workmates. Unusually, I can remember getting home this year. In fact, I even returned to the office for an hour. (Yeah, UnAustralian). The stroll to the ferry was great fun, passing by pubs with pissed patrons grogging on for all they were worth. Women were still tottering around in heels, though many had given up and were just wandering the streets barefoot, but still with ridiculous millinery araldited to their heads. Win or lose, it’s a joyful afternoon and there’ll plenty of sore heads in Sydney town as the effect of too much cheap champagne kicks in.
This year’s Melbourne Cup was notoriously difficult to pick. In a 24 horse race with some horses racing for the first time in Australia, that’s understandable, but this year was more difficult that most. It was one of those days that you wanted to box the field in a trifecta but that costs $12,144. Well, this year that would have paid off with the trifecta in NSW returning $51,177. Needless to say, no-one at this correspondent’s table had it – otherwise we’d still be at the pub.
It doesn’t happen often but the day of the Melbourne Cup coincides with the US Presidential Election. Now because of time differences, voting hasn’t started by the time the Melbourne Cup has finished and as I type this post it isn’t even midday in California – bu November 6 is election day. Even though there are only two horses in the US election race – it’s as hard to pick as the Melbourne Cup. This afternoon could be spent like yesterday afternoon – stuck in front of a television screen. Interesting how the election is held on a Tuesday – they really don’t want people to vote in the US, do they?
The Swell Range
The ferry trip home yesterday was memorable partly because I remember it and partly because of the fantastic Swell Golden Ale I enjoyed. According to Beer Advocate’s Beer Style Guide (as definitive a resource as any), there is no such style as a Golden Ale – so I guess you can do what you like. In this instance, Swell has opted for a quaffer’s delight. This is as easy to drink as any beer, but has wonderful flavour. There’s a little bite, but I kept tasting honey, but in by no means a cloying way. It’s like a toned down pale ale, without being neutered. I love the 500ml and we can only hope that the Australian Wine Centre at Circular Quay can source the remainder of the range (a Wheat and an Amber).
CategoriesBeers, Manly & the Ferry
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Review // Beyonce @ Phones 4U Arena
“Just think in twenty years time y’all are gonna be able to say ‘I went to that Mrs Carter World tour’” was what Queen B-Mrs Carter-Sasha Fierce- Beyonce told her audience at the Phones 4U arena on Tuesday and I think she’s got a point.
There are few artists or performers in the world right now that you find EVERYONE wants to see. It’s a rare gift for an artist to have such wide appeal; so to experience a Beyonce show for the first time is definitely one I’m proud to tick off my bucket list.
Queen B as she likes to call herself nowadays (‘Bow Down BITCHES!’) was performing two shows in our humble music loving city and I was at the first. You could feel the anticipation waiting for the lady in question to arrive. Even to the point of about five girls in the standing section getting carried out before show time as they were either too drunk or collapsed from exhaustion. Seriously, they were dropping like flies! Sat on the upper tier side view I was alright- I’d only had a glass of the worst white wine known to ever exist, thanks Phones 4U arena!
Finally at 9.15ish Beyonce took to the stage, welcomed by deafening screams, hyping up the crowd before she does what she does so well dancing and gyrating like only Beyonce can. You know which moves I mean, the shoulder shimmy, the hair flick, the body grind and good old body popping to new album track ‘Flawless’ getting the crowd to scream the lyrics ‘I WOKE UP LIKE THIS.FLAWLESS’, well maybe not all of us wake up looking as accomplished as Beyonce but it’s a nice gesture isn’t it? The Donna Summer inspired ‘Naughty Girl’ brought us a Vegas show girl/pole dancing medley wearing a gold sequinned bodysuit, Beyonce really showed why she’s Queen. With a body like that, straddling a chez lounge while singing with that almighty voice- it was hard to believe she was singing live but of course she was. The one thing that stood out all night for me is how powerful her vocals were while at the same time dancing as hardcore as her talented dancers.
The stage direction was simple. One huge rectangular screen covering the width of the stage used as a backdrop. The lights were used effectively when routines were choreographed to show off Beyonces silhouette and combined with her shiny costumes no matter where you were sat in the arena you knew exactly what the world’s biggest female singer was doing. I loved how no matter what part of the stage she was singing at, every second Beyonce had a fan blowing on her- now that’s some Mariah Carey inspired diva demands but with a body like that and challenging choreography you’d need to keep your cool.
Even though her last album was the focus of the tour Beyonce managed to mix in all her classic hits- even if it wasn’t the full track- into the set list. Think ‘Drunk In Love’ followed by ‘Irreplaceable’ and then ‘Love On Top’, the latter which really lifted the crowd and got everyone singing badly at the top of their lungs (myself included). Like she did on one of the Birmingham shows towards the end, Beyonce sang Happy Birthday to one of the VIP audience members. Can you imagine Beyonce singing Happy Birthday to you, right in front of your face?? I’d have either cried or fainted but Kaley (even Beyonce wasn’t sure on her name) kept her cool and didn’t pass out from star struck-ness. The only thing that was missing at times was a lack of momentum. There was a short break in between every two songs or so, sometimes every one song- probably for Queen B to get her breath back- it was very ‘stop and starty’ when you just want the songs to flow one after each other.
Ending the show with the fan inspired ‘XO’ and the almighty ‘Halo’ Beyonce sang with effortless might before saying her ‘Thank You’s’ and ‘Goodnight y’alls’. Leaving us all wanting more. You get it a lot when an artist leaves the stage bidding farewell and you always get another two or three songs for the encore but Sasha Fierce naturally left us wanting more and more of her invincible stage presence.
With the music industry being swamped with controversial and hugely successful female solo artists Beyonce needed to crank up her game, which this last album and tour has all been about. After the birth of her daughter she must have realised she needed to really show them all who is boss, which is why the whole show is executed around her regal status. I think she had a point earlier, I’m definitely going to be telling people in twenty years time-maybe when Blue Ivy herself is on the stage ‘Oh yeah, you know her mum Beyonce? Yeah I went to that Mrs Carter World Tour you know’.
Review by Tom Frodsham
“Just think in twenty years time y’all are gonna be able to say ‘I went to that Mrs Carter World tour’” was what Queen B-Mrs Carter-Sasha Fierce-Beyonce told her audience at the Phones 4U arena on Tuesday and I think she’s got a point.
There are few artists or performers in the world right now that EVERYONE wants to see. It’s a rare gift for an artist to have such wide appeal; so to experience a Beyonce show for the first time is definitely one I’m proud to tick off my bucket list. Queen B, as she likes to call herself nowadays (‘Bow Down BITCHES!’) was performing two shows in our humble music loving city and I was at the first.
You could feel the anticipation waiting for the lady in question to arrive. Even to the point of five girls in the standing section getting carried out before show time as they were either too drunk or collapsed from exhaustion. Seriously, they were dropping like flies!
Finally at 9.15ish Beyonce took to the stage, welcomed by deafening screams, hyping up the crowd before she began to do what she does best; dancing and gyrating like only Beyonce can. You know which moves I mean, the shoulder shimmy, the hair flick, the body grind and the good old fashioned body popping. Early in the set she performed ‘Flawless’ from her latest self-titled record, getting the crowd to scream the lyrics ‘I WOKE UP LIKE THIS. FLAWLESS!’ Well maybe not all of us wake up looking as accomplished as Beyonce but it’s a nice gesture isn’t it?
The Donna Summer inspired ‘Naughty Girl’ brought us a Vegas show girl inspired dancing medley while she strutted across the stage wearing a gold sequinned bodysuit. With a body like that, straddling a chez lounge while singing with that almighty voice – it was hard to believe she was singing live, but of course she was. The one thing that stood out all night for me is how powerful her vocals were while at the same time dancing as passionately as her talented dancers. The stage direction was simple. One huge rectangular screen covering the width of the stage used as a backdrop. The lights were used effectively when routines were choreographed to show off Beyonces silhouette and combined with her shiny costumes no matter where you were sat in the arena you knew exactly what the world’s biggest female singer was doing.
Even though her last album was the focus of the tour Beyonce managed to mix in all her classic hits, even if it wasn’t the full track, into the set list. Think ‘Drunk In Love’ followed by ‘Irreplaceable’ and then ‘Love On Top’, of which the latter really lifted the crowd and got everyone singing badly at the top of their lungs (myself included). Like she did at one of the Birmingham shows a few days previous, Beyonce sang Happy Birthday to one of the VIP audience members. Can you imagine Beyonce singing Happy Birthday to you, right in front of your face? I’d have either cried or fainted but Kaley (even Beyonce wasn’t sure on her name) kept her cool and didn’t pass out from star struck-ness.
The only thing that was missing at times was a lack of momentum. There was a short break in between every two songs or so, sometimes every one song, probably for Queen B to get her breath back, but it was very disjointed when you just wanted the songs to flow one after the other. Ending the show with the fan inspired ‘XO’ and the almighty ‘Halo’ Beyonce sang with effortless might before saying her ‘Thank You’s’ and ‘Goodnight y’alls’. Leaving us all wanting more.
With the music industry being swamped with controversial and hugely successful female solo artists Beyonce needed to crank up her game, which this last album and tour has all been about. After the birth of her daughter she must have realised she needed to really show them all who is the boss, which is why the whole show is executed around her regal status. I think she had a point earlier, I’m definitely going to be telling people in twenty years time ‘Yeah I went to that Mrs Carter World Tour you know’.
Beyonce performed at the Phones 4 U Arena on Tuesday 25th February 2014.
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James Oke, BASH Cub contributor|November 16, 2020
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Kinga Kaliszczak (right) and her friends hold up signs while participating in a protest against a nationwide abortion ban
Throughout Poland, anti-abortion strikes, and protests continue after Poland’s constitutional tribunal declared abortions unconstitutional for instances where a fetus is diagnosed with a serious and irreversible birth defect. Studies show that these types of abortion account for 96% of legal abortions in Poland, inevitably placing a near-total ban on abortions.
Women throughout Poland have taken to the streets in droves, displaying their anger and frustration at the new measures controlling abortions. Protests have sprung up throughout Poland in just about every major city, with about one hundred thousand protesters taking to the streets of the Polish capital Warsaw on Friday making it the largest public demonstration of anger against the current ruling government.
Polish women have also started a national strike across Poland last Wednesday taking unpaid leaves, closing stores and shops, and not going to work at all, aiming to gain leverage against the government in a move to get it to change course.
Abortions in Poland are now only legal in the case of rape, or if the pregnancy endangers the life or health of the mother. This accounts for a small number of abortions in Poland and women fear that the government will soon impose a total ban on abortions if action is not taken soon.
An insight into the battle
To get a better understanding and perspective of the situation unfolding in Poland, we need to see the situation from the eyes of a Polish woman.
15-year-old Kinga Kaliszczak is a young Polish woman who has been protesting on the streets of her small Polish town since the day of the implementation of the abortion ban. Kinga has reached out to friends domestically and internationally to help spread awareness of the situation ongoing in Poland.
Kinga has been protesting locally in the streets of her little town and has been participating in nationwide strikes aimed at overturning the ban.
“The thing is that our government a few days ago decided that we still have to give birth even if the fetus is very deformed and can die while giving birth. We still can’t have an abortion.” Kinga offers this explanation as her reason for why she thinks the ban is inhumane. She continued by saying that soon the government will also try to impose a ban on abortions in the case of rape if they can “get away with” the current ban.
Kinga attended the smaller protests with her friends and members of the community. They participated by creating signs with messages to vent their frustration at the government and showcase that they want to change the way the government looks at abortions. Signs that appeared in these local protests carried massages in Polish such as “her body her choice,” and “if men were to get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.”
Signs used in this protest display pro-abortion and pro-women messages in both Polish and English. photo provided by Kinga Kaliszczak
Along with many small protests taking place in Poland, there are massive large-scale protests in the large cities of Poland, such as the capital Warsaw. Kinga goes on to explain, “Poland is now full of strikes and protests, but the police in bigger cities use violence and pepper spray.”
The use of force by police in the massive protests of larger cities has caused a massive backlash throughout the country. This has contributed to the largest strike ever in Poland’s modern history taking place throughout the nation. Women all over Poland just like Kinga hope to make a difference. They want their voices to be heard and they want to send a clear message to the Polish government, that they will not let the ban go through and continue.
Kinga hopes to make a difference in Poland, and she hopes she can accomplish that by protesting, striking, and making sure people are aware and can help from all over the world. She thinks that it is a tremendous amount of help just spreading information to other people. “I hope that you can share this so more people would know about it and know that you’re with us,” Kinga said.
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Richard Ruse 1987
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How did you get your start in music?
I started at age 11 playing popular songs and the blues with friends. We gravitated to the Blues as was the norm in the 60’s but also because the Blues records were pretty prevalent in the “dollar bins” at the record store. We could afford them and we could sort of play the Blues. By my freshman year in high school I was playing in bands at the local dances and, when I got my driver’s license, I was off doing all kinds of gigs – basically freelancing with other musicians playing for dance studio shows, playing with older (much older) guys at functions, typical hired gun stuff. The local music store owner, Don Hemminger (who was a phenomenal jazz guitarist), kept recommending me for these gigs. “It’ll make you a better musician, don’t argue with me just go do it and take the money!”
By my senior year in High School I was gigging 5-6 nights a week with a horn band playing any kind of rock/funk music that had horns: Chicago, Steely Dan, TOP, Cold Blood, and Aerosmith… I hit the road with this band right after I graduated High School and gigged 5-6 nights a week with them for years. At one point I met a person who had a deep impact on me musically and that was the guitarist Scott Henderson. We formed a band in Toledo that started out playing Gentle Giant, Chick Corea, Mahavishnu Orchestra – all of the fusion stuff that was out in the 70’s. Eventually we ended up playing Bad Company and Foghat, Stones – nobody fired us for that! Scott instilled in us the nobleness of being a musician and the shared his genius of discipline and hard work. I spent the next 25 years gigging as my sole source of income, moving from Ohio, where I grew up, to Boston where I studied music and then to Chicago. I eventually ended up in LA where I played live in clubs, did a ton of recording work on commercials, movie scores, songs with singer/songwriters and major artists. I lost count at 4000 live dates…
In LA I met Rocco Prestia, who became the closest thing I’ve ever had to a mentor on bass.
Richard and Rocco Prestia
He asked me to sub for him with his band, the Tower Rhythm Section. His blessing opened doors for me and that’s when things began to happen. At one point I was doing some very serious, AAA level sessions for producers like Jimmy Iovine and Rick Rubin working on stuff by Robin Zander, Tom Petty, Jon Bon Jovi and was fortunate enough to play/audition with Bruce Springsteen and Mick Jagger among others. The gigs were awesome and the money was good. I was also working at Nadine’s Music in Hollywood and they were very cool with me taking off to do the sessions.
One day a fax came into Nadine’s announcing an opening at Alesis, at that time the fastest growing, most technologically advanced company in the business. My wife was pregnant and we had two kids to feed so I had to give it a shot. I ended up getting the gig and that was my first real legitimate day job. I realized that I could be creative, intelligent and have an impact on musician’s lives in an important way working in that environment. Music is a very spiritual thing for me and I could, vicariously, honor the music through my good work in that environment. I worked there for 5 years, went to SWR Engineering eventually becoming the VP Sales and Marketing and when that company was sold to Fender, went over to Line 6 briefly and a couple of years later took a job as VP Sales and Marketing for KRK Systems. I left KRK after 4 years to start a consulting business, which became quite successful until the economic crisis of 2008. People in business were circling the wagons and the consultant wasn’t a wagon! I saw the writing on the wall, made a few calls and ended up at JBL Professional where I eventually had oversight of about half of the company’s product development/ marketing endeavors. In my last year there I was appointed VP Global Sales but was lured back into the consulting sector by an improving economy. That was in late 2012 and by 2014 the genesis of Trickfish was on the horizon. We incorporated in late 2014 and had our first NAMM Show in the winter of 2015.
Do you play bass? If so, are you still an active player?
I haven’t made myself available for gigs in a long time but I have a small recording studio and still practice when I can…
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What does your company build? Do you limit your efforts to bass amplification exclusively? If so why?
Trickfish is a new company with the singular focus of building bass amplification. The people involved with the company are all bassists but our professional experience extends well beyond the borders of the low end. Anything could happen but we’ve got few more things to do in the bass space!
Why did you decide to start the company and what drives you to push forward?
I started this company because I felt, based on my experiences working for several other companies, that I was ready to not only manage a business on my own, but that as a bassist I had yet to hear or experience an amp that was “the shit”. Don’t get me wrong, there are wonderful products out there, but I wanted to hear and feel something that I felt was missing. Are we there yet – nobody is! That’s the beauty of this; with every revelation comes new questions and the horizon gets pushed out a little farther. You keep striving.
Trickfish BH1K
All of my years in music and audio have been dedicated (in part) to the pursuit of truly musical tone; natural, organic… whatever you want to call it, but believable tone that inspires a player or sound engineer to reach inside and reveal their artistic dream. Here’s the thing – when the music sounds good people listen and when people listen, music can change their lives. The biggest lesson I’ve learned in product development is that there’s a delicate marriage between science and art if you want to take something from simply being “good enough” to that goose bump giving, sublime tone that inspires a musician to step it up and really touch people with their playing. Based on the feedback from our customers I’m positive the ship is pointed in the right direction.
How did you get started building bass amps/cabs? Tell us about your first amp/cab build… what prompted you to do it? What were the challenges or lessons learned?
Well the first amp I built was a Heathkit power amp I built with my Dad. We also built a speaker cabinet but had no idea what we were doing and needless to say it was horrible. I actually cut my teeth at SWR working closely with Steve Rabe and Bryan Bellar on a few products most notably a Rocco Prestia signature model Workingman’s amp and cab, the Megoliath 8 x 10, the MoBass, a little on the Bass 750 and some LA Series prototypes. I also oversaw the modernization of the manufacturing process and was part of increasing the output capacity of the factory. When I started at SWR there was a 6-week wait on new orders and by the time I left we had tripled the size of the business and could ship most items the next day. Failure rates fell and the artist roster grew. It was a great time for bass amps to be sure.
How did you learn electronics/acoustics? Did you have a mentor?
I was always a bit of a wing nut. I just like taking things apart and putting them back together. My Dad and I did a lot of things around the house and I learned how to analyze and solve a problem from him. When I was in more professional bands I always hung out with the technical people. I loved sound systems and recording studios and was fascinated by the components and how they worked together. With help from the guys that really knew what they were doing, I learned quite a bit about the important elements that make audio technology work. While working at all of these different companies I’ve picked up quite a bit of technological information about circuits, electro-acoustics, cabinet design, crossover design and most importantly how to tune systems. I’ve been hired to do sound design or cabinet tuning by some pretty high level people in the pro audio business based upon the changes we made to the sonic characteristics of the JBL Pro products and the work I’ve done with KRK. My experience as a professional musician had a direct impact on my ability to hear audio not just from a scientific viewpoint, but also from an artistic viewpoint. I know what a cymbal is supposed to sound like when it’s hit hard or played softly, or a trumpet or violin or orchestra bells. I’ve heard most common instruments first hand and can identify, from a frequency range viewpoint, what is missing or over exaggerated in a cab or system. Pure engineers simply don’t have that background.
How do you select the materials you choose to build with? Do you prefer an old-school approach or a modern, high-tech incorporation?
When designing a product you have to have a goal. There can be multiple goals for a product but understanding the hierarchy of the goals is paramount to developing something that’s meaningful to the customer. Once you’ve defined the goal (s) then they define the materials, the process and the outcome. Since Trickfish’s engineering capabilities are not exclusive to the scope of just one person’s knowledge, skill or vision, we can choose whatever objectives get us to the goal. Old Skool, Uber Modern – it doesn’t matter. Having a fully realized vision, knowing who the customer is and understanding what they want, embracing a realistic expectation of the price/performance ratio and understanding the metrics of the demographic before you embark on a product is pretty paramount. On a few rare occasions you can effectively throw caution to the wind and make something “because you can”. Nobody was screaming for a smartphone before they were invented. Nobody was demanding an 8 track digital tape recorder before Alesis invented the ADAT. Nobody was yelling for MIDI… That’s true innovation and it happens pretty rarely. In general Product Development is an iterative process and it addresses the solutions to common problems – basically building a better mousetrap. People who are in product development have a saying: “Better, Faster or Cheaper – pick two because you can’t have all three”.
What do you feel are the most important characteristics in a bass amp/cab?
As a player what I want in a bass amp first and foremost is headroom. I don’t care how good something sounds if I can’t get into 6th gear without the amp clipping or triggering a nasty limiter circuit. If the amp is in a compromised condition you’re also compromising the speakers. A bass rig is a system and each component is co-dependent on the other so, if the system is to function to its fullest capacity, both components (head and cabs) have to be symbiotically paired.
Secondly I want a colorless sound. I want to be able to have the EQ out of the circuit and have the amplifier NOT add any color – I want to hear the sound of my fingers, the sound of the strings, the wood, the pre-amp and pick-ups.
I also want an EQ that is powerful enough to carve out a sound without actually destroying a sound.
In the course of a live performance I want it to be easy to get a good sound. This means sonically or ergonomically. I also want the necessary routing options that allow flexibility.
In a speaker cabinet I look for spectral balance (properly tuned), power handling capability and rugged construction. The drivers have to be appropriate for the job and the cabinet has to have been properly designed as to diminish standing waves, it needs to be ported properly so the drivers can function to their best ability and that the box is solid enough to mitigate unwanted resonance. The crossover tuning is critical to achieving an even spectral balance as you don’t want gaps or bumps in the frequency response. The damping material has a lot to do with the sound so choosing the correct material in very important. The quality of the wood is also important – harder woods can be cut to more exacting dimensions. All of these factors make the difference between a good sounding cab and a great sounding cab.
What are a few things you would consider that make your company and the products so unique?
First and foremost are the people. Without this team of highly trained, experienced professionals there is nothing.
Anthony Fregoso
No one is guessing. We practice real science to create the designs and our experienced ears to polish the product. Mike Pope’s pre-amp design is a thing of brilliance that was born out of his incredible experience as a bassist. David Yates is our electrical guru. He is a world-class Electrical Engineer who holds close to 80 US Patents – that’s like having 10 albums of hit records! And while both of the Trickfish Bullhead amplifiers benefit greatly from the pre-amp, it’s a pretty amazing amplifier before you even engage the EQ circuit. That’s a testament to having a gain structure that is properly managed, a super clean signal path, a well-managed power module and power supply, real world ergonomics and the use of high quality components. It takes serious design and engineering skills. The application engineering, the industrial design, the electrical engineering and mechanical engineering all come together in the BH1K and BH.5K and that’s a testament to the design team’s ability to work together. Me, Michael, David and Anthony all contributed to the finished product and to be truthful, it would have never happened if just one person had taken this on their own.
We take the same approach to the cabinets – lot’s-o-science, critical listening, more science, more listening and we keep refining the design until it is right. The good news is that Anthony and I worked together at JBL Pro where we developed about 30 products together and we have a 6th sense with each other. He knows what I’m looking for and usually we don’t have to do more that 2 or three passes to get something we love. Anthony also works closely with the driver manufacturers on the development of higher performance drivers so that the basic food groups are as healthy as possible!
In the final analysis it is about the sound and the performance. I love watching people plug in, set the amp at flat, tweak the gain structure and hear themselves and their bass. So many times I’ve heard really serious players say “that’s awesome right there! I don’t even need EQ.”
We’ve brought on a new member of the family, Ryan Owens, who brings years of playing and touring experience to the table in addition to solid business skills that will help us as we grow. These five concentric circles of skill and experience form a core of prowess that no one individual could possess. It’s like a great band where everyone could be a band leader. And what makes it even sweeter is that we’re all friends and really enjoy each other’s company.
Who were some of the first well-known musicians who started playing through your amps/cabs?
Hussein Jiffry, Tim Landers, Jimmy Haslip, Rene Camacho, Jeff Andrews, Jerry Jemmott, Ernest Tibbs, Ric Fierabracci, to name the early adopters. I can’t stress enough how important their feedback was and is in the development of new product. We listen carefully and act on the real world concerns they have about the gear.
Chaka Khan – Bumbershoot, Seattle WA
How do you develop a signature or custom amp/cab for an artist?
The first question is why? I get it with instruments but amps are a little like a PA system. They should be relatively benign. They should reveal the sound of the person playing through them and if you accept that premise, it is counterintuitive to develop an amp that has just one sound that is affiliated with one artist. Unless of course it is specifically for marketing related purposes and that person’s draw is such that you’ll sell more amps… Having seen this firsthand I can tell you that a paint job or an on-board effect really isn’t anything special or unique.
What advice would you give a young musician trying to find their perfect amp/cab?
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Honours for foreigners who had supported democracy against the Thirty, 401/0 BC
AIO 1191 Date: 401/0 BC
Face A (front)
[1] Lysiades was secretary. [Xenainet]os was archon (401/0). [The Council and People decided. HippothontisVIII] was the prytany; Lysiades was secretary; Demophilos was chairman. - proposed: in order that the foreigners (xenoi) who joined in coming down from Phyle or . . . with those that had come down . . . (5) . . . it shall be resolved by the Athenians that they and their descendants shall have . . . . . . and the officials shall use the same laws in relation to them [as for other Athenians ?] . . . joined in the battle (sunemachesanto) at Mounichia, and - the . . . . . . when the reconciliation occurred, and did what they were instructed . . . pledge or betrothal (egguēsin),[3] as for Athenians; and the . . . (10) . . .
[2] . . . . . . -, tanner -, shopkeeper (15) -, nut seller -, barley-groat seller -orios, sailmaker -on, leather worker -rmo-n, sackclothier (20) Sokrates, table maker Sosibios, shoe seller Hermon, shopkeeper Gerys, green grocer Blepon, table [maker] (25) Apollonides, - . . .
-, farmer [Leontis?IV] -, onion seller (30) -os, cartwright . . . . . . . . . [Apollodoros, fuller?] (35) . . . . . . . . . . . . -on, shopkeeper (40) . . . -, farmer -les, metalworker -ion, fisherman -chos, wool seller (45) -ippos, gold[smith?] -istratos, grain [merchant?] -rias, fuller -ias, incense [seller?] -as, spear [maker?] (50) -ippos, . . . . . . . . . -os, barley-groat [seller] -, assherd (55) -nos, saw[yer? or seller or maker] - barley-groat [seller] . . .
Face B (back)
-s, farmer -agoras, - (60) -otas, - . . . . . . K[ekropis?VII] . . . (65) . . . -, merchant . . . -, shopkeeper -, tiler (?) (70) -des, herald -s, leather worker -ar, -, hired labourer
Chairedemos, farmer (75) Leptines, butcher/cook Demetrios, carpenter Euphorion, muleteer Kephisodoros, builder Hegesias, gardener (80) Epameinon, ass-herd -opos, olive seller Glaukias, farmer -n, nut [seller?] Dionysios, farmer
(85) Lines missing
Aristo-, - Dexios, - Charon, - Herakleides, - (90) Epigenes, - Glaukias, - Antidotos, - Dikaios, - Andreas, porter (95) Sosibios, - Phanos, porter Glaukias, - Astyages, hired labourer Dexandrides, - (100) Sotairides, - Sota-, - Pamphilos, - Krithon, - Korinthiades, - (105) Knips, farmer The following remained with the People in Piraeus ErechtheisI Abdes, baker (110) Aristoteles, - Idyes, shopkeeper
Lines missing
Chairis, fig-seller
Bendiphanes, - Emporion, farmer (115) Paidikos, baker Sosias, fuller Psammis, farmer Egersis . . . (120) Eukolion, hired labourer Kallias, sculptor AigeisII Athenogiton, -[4]
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SEG 44.34 (PHI)
Osborne, Naturalization, D6
Matthaiou, Grammateion 2012, 13-14 (l. 7) (Grammateion)
Translation by: Stephen Lambert, P. J. Rhodes
Aleshire - (1, 2)
Krateros - (1, 2, 3)
Inscription type: Decree (Council and People)
Fragment a - Findspot: Acropolis (EM 8147)
Fragment d - Findspot: Unknown, formerly in Piraeus museum (Lost)
Fragment e - Findspot: Agora (Ag. I 6106)
Fragments b-c - Findspot: Aigina (EM 13103)
[1] In 404/3 Thrasyboulos of Steiria set out from Thebes with about 70 supporters and occupied Phyle, in the north-west corner of Attica, intent on resisting the junta known as the Thirty which had taken power in Athens with Spartan support after Athens’ defeat in the Peloponnesian War (Xen. Hell. 2.4.2). Further supporters joined him and when their numbers reached ca. 1000 he moved to the Piraeus, occupied Mounichia hill and defeated the oligarchs in a battle. Still more supporters joined him, and eventually a reconciliation agreement was reached with the Thirty and, following Spartan mediation, democracy was restored. Malouchou 2010-2013 honoured the Athenians who from the start had supported Thrasyboulos. This decree (our text of which does not reproduce the speculative restorations of previous editions), passed in the same year, honoured foreign supporters. The surviving text appears to deal separately with those who came down from Phyle (l. 4, i.e. early supporters) and those who fought at Mounichia (l. 7, which would have included later adherents) and a preserved heading in the sketchily preserved catalogue of honorands appended to the decree names “those who remained with the People in the Piraeus”, apparently a third category. It is impossible to be certain whether these all received citizenship (as argued by D. Whitehead, LCM 9, 1984, 8-10), or the earliest supporters received citizenship and later adherents lesser privileges, most likely isoteleia (equality of taxation with Athenians, as argued by M. Osborne), or even if none at all received citizenship. At Xen. Hell. 2.4.25 after the battle of Mounichia the democrats promised isoteleia to foreigners who would join them, and funerary monuments for isoteleis named Dexandrides (col. 6, 99, IG II2 7864 with SEG 18.112) and Gerys (col. 3, 23, IG II2 7863) survive. On the other hand, Ath. Pol. 40.2 has Thrasyboulos propose, and Archinos attack as illegal (graphē paranomōn) an award of citizenship to all who joined in the return from Piraeus. [Plut.] Lives of the Ten Orators 835f-836a may or may not be referring to the same proposal in claiming that Archinos successfully attacked a proposal by Thrasyboulos to grant Lysias citizenship. [2] The reconstruction of the catalogue of names is at various points uncertain, but it seems to have been divided into categories of supporters and by tribe (consistent with, but not necessarily implying, award of citizenship. Normally new citizens would be assigned to demes, but an exception may have been made for this mass grant, as apparently for the Samians enfranchised by IG II2 1, l. 34). The list is evidence for the extent of grass-roots support for democracy among the foreign population of Athens, though how far this was ideologically driven, or reflected solidarity with those (largely it seems wealthy) metics who were targeted by the Thirty (including Lysias’ brother), or was opportunistic, is impossible to say. Certainly the decision to list men in this way, by their mostly humble trades, looks self-consciously "democratic" in social class terms, emphasising the ordinariness of these supporters of democracy, not at all the elite individuals who are usually the honorands of decrees. Note the derogatory remark of Ath. Pol. 40.2 (no supporter of democracy) that some of those who returned from the Piraeus were “palpably slaves”. Whether any of those listed here were actually slaves before “striking lucky” in this way, we do not know, but we would expect some of those listed to be freedmen. Some of the names are not Greek (e.g. Abdes, col. 6, 109, Semitic; Gerys, col. 3, 23, Thracian; Idyes, col. 6, 111, Carian?; Psammis, col. 7, 117, Egyptian), and while these may suggest servile origins, it is possible that some of them were free-born foreigners. On this and in general on Athenian slave names see K. Vlassopoulos, ZPE 175, 2010, 113-44. Bendiphanes (col. 7, l. 113) was named for the goddess Bendis, a Thracian deity whose cult had been introduced to Attica by about the 430s (cf. IG I3 136), but it is possible that this person was a foreigner (Thracian?) named before or independently of the Attic cult (cf. R. Parker, in Hornblower and Matthews eds., Greek Personal Names. Their Value as Evidence, 52-79, at 77-78). The list is also valuable evidence for the range of artisanal trades filled by foreigners at Athens at the end of the 5th century (for foreigners in building trades, cf. IG I3 476 with notes; in naval service, IG I3 1032. For artisanal trades in the fourth-century manumission inscriptions see Meyer, Metics, no. 1. In general on specialisation of trades, E. M. Harris, in P. Cartledge et al., Money, Labour and Land, 2002, 67-99). Note that some of the translations are not precise, as e.g. “farmers” may include agricultural workers, “shopkeepers” workers in shops or taverns, and that with some trades (e.g. “baker”, “green grocer”, “shoe seller”) it is not clear (in some cases because of abbreviation) whether those described are producers or merely sellers. [3] Perhaps “betrothal” mentioned in the context of a grant of the right to intermarry with citizens, but possibly another kind of pledge or promise. [4] The distribution of the findspots of the fragments is a little odd, and one wonders whether they belong to separate copies of this monument erected on the acropolis (fr. a and e) and in the Piraeus (fr. b, c, d).
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By Peter Mitham | January 4, 2017, 7:00am
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Owners of detached residences have been told to brace for a shock when property assessments arrive this week, but spare a thought for commercial property owners, too.
“It’s the third year in a row where there’s a shift in taxation from major properties, such as shopping centres, office towers and industrial parks, to community retail properties,” said Paul Sullivan, a senior partner with appraisal firm Burgess Cawley Sullivan & Associates Ltd. in Vancouver.
Similar to detached residences, the low-rise commercial premises that characterize some of Vancouver’s favourite shopping villages have been slapped with rising property taxes for several years, thanks to a rapid appreciation in land values.
The small community retail premises that draw shoppers to Kitsilano, Dunbar and Commercial Drive are neither the highest nor the best use of the properties in the current scheme of things. Moreover, as land values increase in anticipation of redevelopment, they bear a greater share of the tax burden.
There’s good news as 2017 starts, however.
Vancouver councillors Raymond Louie and Geoff Meggs are working with the Urban Development Institute to rewrite legislation determining how small businesses are taxed.
By 2018, Sullivan said small businesses could see additional development potential exempt from taxes, or taxes based on the class at which they’re valued as opposed to current use. This would save businesses from paying non-residential tax rates on additional, unbuilt residential density attributed to the site.
“We’re going to impose new legislation in 2018 to save small business from skyrocketing land values in the city of Vancouver as a result of residential redevelopment pressure.”
In the meantime, Sullivan points out that property owners can appeal – a process his firm handles. BC Assessment notes that just 1% of property owners appeal each year.
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Rising property taxes have some real-world impacts on the face of neighbourhoods, however, and how we frequent them. Several increases over the course of 18 months in the price of goods at one west-side café this writer frequented prompted him to go elsewhere, to no surprise of Paul Sullivan.
With a 5% margin, a typical retailer might have to sell an additional $525,000 worth of goods or services a year to meet the kinds of annual increases he or she is seeing in property taxes, he said – tough to do if you’re a coffee shop, let alone any other kind of retailer.
“Retailers are having to sell hundreds of thousands of more coffees in order to cover their increase in property taxes,” Sullivan said.
Throw in a new community plan, as the Grandview-Woodlands area saw this past year, and the nickel-and-diming becomes a matter of quarters and dollars.
“The market immediately jumps on that, and up go those values,” Sullivan said.
The knock-on effect on affordability takes its toll in a city where housing is already expensive, pushing workers to lower-priced neighbourhoods and leaving businesses scrambling for help.
Tim Grant, vice-president of investments with PCI Group, said as much to the Urban Land Institute in November.
“You walk around town and see a number of storefronts with ‘help wanted’ signs. I think that’s all a product – at a different level – of that affordability question,” Grant said.
Slap those same businesses with huge tax increases, and there comes a breaking point.
According to Metro Vancouver statistics, business licences in Vancouver dropped 3.5% between 2010 and 2015, the biggest drop of any major municipality in the region.
“It’s becoming increasingly hard to be an independent small-business operator in our town,” Sullivan said, mincing no words when it comes to the straw breaking the camel’s back. “Taxes are going to be the death of these guys.” •
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Daughter of the Tigris
Muhsin Ramli, Luke Leafgren (translator)
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On the sixth day of Ramadan, in a land without bananas, Qisma leaves for Baghdad with her husband-to-be to find the body of her father. But in the bloodiest year of a bloody war, how will she find one body among thousands?
For Tariq, this is more than just a marriage of convenience: the beautiful, urbane Qisma must be his, body and soul. But can a sheikh steeped in genteel tradition share a tranquil bed with a modern Iraqi woman?
The President has been deposed, and the garden of Iraq is full of presidents who will stop at nothing to take his place. Qisma is afraid - afraid for her son, afraid that it is only a matter of time before her father's murderers come for her.
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Translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren
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A Young Jumlee’s Dream of Teaching
Posted byUWB July 21, 2007 November 14, 2009 Posted inKarnali NepalTags:jumla, nepali village, school, teacher
It’s not unusual in this kind of terrain to run over big mountains for a small opportunity of a job. Dreams carry people anywhere. If one desire is not fulfilled, another emerges.
By Dinesh Wagle
Wagle Street Journal
ब्लगमान्डू : तन्नेरी जुम्लीको पढाउने रहर
Lal Bahadur Dangi in the same school in Chautha where he hopes to get appointed as a teacher
Recently, while climbing the Danphe hill above Jumla bazaar one sunny morning, I met a young man clad in the jersey of Brazilian football team and blue jeans that was folded up to the knees. Record holder high altitude marathon runner Hari Bahadur Rokaya of Jumla, who was accompanying me up to the hill, and the Palpasa Cafe t-shirt that I was wearing immediately brought me closer to Lal Bahadur Dangi. Since our destination for the evening was the same remote village called Chautha that belonged to the Bumramadi Chaur VDC of Jumla. My plan was to head for Rara Lake the next day while Lal Bahadur was hiking for a ‘special purpose’ around which this article revolves.
The one and the only primary school in Chautha, that was run by the government had a vacancy for a teacher and this 23-year-old was hiking to try his luck for the post. Himself a teacher at Kanika Nisha English School in Jumla Bazaar, Lal Bahadur was visiting the remote place just for the heck of it. “I don’t mind working in a primary school,” said Lal Bahadur who holds the license to teach at lower secondary level and is waiting for his B Ed third year exam results”. If I get the job, I can compete internally to teach at secondary level as soon as I pass B Ed. That’s equivalent to a Section Officer. Nothing like that happens in a private school.” He was confident of getting the job if the selection was done in a transparent manner. He added: “If not, boarding jindabaad!”
It’s not unusual in this kind of terrain to run over big mountains for a small job. Dreams carry people anywhere. If one desire remains unfulfilled, another emerges. “I wanted to be a good football player,” said Lal Bahadur. “But I couldn’t get an opportunity.” When he knew his dream to play wasn’t going to materialize, he thought of becoming a Section Officer. While leaving home this morning with a small bag containing necessary papers and marks sheet, he had already made up his mind to live in a village-should he get the job- that would not even catch the Radio Nepal’s signal properly.
Sunita Budha and her mother. Initially hesitant about being photographed, the girl requested me take several snaps after her mother also showed interest.
After hiking for a while, we met three villagers who, coincidently, were from Chautha. They were aware of the vacancy and one of them mentioned about a rule that would give any applicant from the village priority of five points over other competitors. “I will do anything for the future of your children,” assured Lal Bahadur as we ate bread that one of the accompanying villagers had brought for afternoon snacks. The oldest among the three said: “Let us see your talent. The selection process will be transparent and fair.” The hiring was an affair the whole village was giving close attention to.
Since the villagers faced a difficult life due to poverty and lack of education, they were conscious of the need to provide good education to their kids and very careful when it came to selecting a qualified teacher. They told us that whoever gets selected will not have a problem of food and shelter. The school, with 95 students, had 2 teachers- both females who stayed in Chautha. After walking about an hour uphill from the school, I met two such parents in a tea shop who said they will bring the new teacher in this locality as soon as the selection process is over.
“We will provide food and shelter to the Master for free,” said Ranabir Bhandari.
“Sir will have to take kids to school safely and bring them back. Here, students’ education is very low as our homes are far from school. If we have one Master, they will get to study in morning and evening.”
Devilal Bhandari, seated next to Ranabir, added: “Our life is ruined because we didn’t study. We don’t want our kids to be like us. ”
Both Ranabir and Deviall had attended school up to fourth grade. They didn’t miss to claim that the quality of education at their time was better than today.
“Education [quality is] very low in Nepal,” Ranvir said. “They only raise grades.”
Devilal added: “Our fourth grade is equal to today’s 8th.”
Sunita Budha, her mother and a relative. Taken as per the request of Sunita and her mother.
Lal Bahadur told me he was committed to provide the same quality of education to the kids from the village. But there came a twist in his teaching story as we crossed Danphe hill and stopped to have lunch in a small hut. ” mero cheat khosne timi nai hau (You are the one who confiscated (a piece of paper),” I could only catch those words that came from the girl, daughter of the shop owner, who was heavily using local slang.
Later, I learned that the girl, Sunita Budha, had appeared in the SLC exam from Jumla Bazaar’s Chandannath High School and Lal Bahadur was the invigilator for the English examination when the incident took place. The result would be published in Kathmandu newspapers the next day and Sunita was having doubts over her performance in English.
“I was planning to scold you whenever we met,” said the girl as she served guest with rice.
“There’s no one you can call your own,” her mother joined the outcry as she asked the teacher if he wanted more vegetable.
“The District Education Officer was very near and had I not confiscated the paper [that Sunita’s friend Kalpana had thrown at her] he would have expelled you from the exam hall,” clarified the teacher. “It was my duty as a guard to conduct a cheating free exam.”
“You will be responsible if I fail English,” the student warned.
“I am the one who teaches your sister,” defended Lal Bahadur.
“Bahini lai padaune, didi lai bigarne (You are teaching the younger sister but foiled the chances of the older one),” joked a guest in the tea shop.
As I left the shop, I saw Lal Bahaur having private conversation with Sunita outside the house. “Is she happy now?” I asked him as he approached me. Lal Bahadur simply smiled back.
This story will appear on tomorrow’s Kathmandu Post. Nepali version appeared in today’s Kantipur.
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2 thoughts on “A Young Jumlee’s Dream of Teaching”
Way to go the people of Jumla.
Kathmandu is not all Nepal, it is people like Lal Bahadur and Sunita that also make Nepal.
Thumbs up for you.
arthas says:
Blaming SPAM, King, Maoists, Terai outfits and Janjatis is easier, its harder to look at core problems of health, education and agrarian economy. Its funny that just a couple of bloggers posted comments here…
Anyways, the second photo has a breathtaking landscape. Cant there be more photos? At least people who havent been in Jumla can have a better idea of their own country (excepted foreign documentaries°
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2016 Chicago Blues Fest: Full Line-up
April 11, 2016 April 25, 2016 BGadmin bg blues and music news, blues, Chicago BLues, electric blues, live blues
Aside from the stellar-sounding Otis Rush tribute that we posted about awhile back, this year’s Blues Fest also features a tribute to Alligator Records on Friday, and a thoroughly deep setlist for Saturday’s Soul/R&B night.
The list in its entirety is posted below (schedule and times are subject to change):
33RD ANNUAL CHICAGO BLUES FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
PETRILLO MUSIC SHELL – Alligator Records 45th Anniversary
6 p.m. Tommy Castro & The Painkillers with guest appearance by Toronzo Cannon
7 p.m. Lil’ Ed and The Blues Imperials with guest appearance by Corky Siegel
8:15 p.m. Shemekia Copeland and special guest Curtis Salgado
BUD LIGHT CROSSROADS – Alligator Records Day
11:15 a.m. Peaches Staten
12:45 p.m. Maurice John Vaughn
2:30 p.m. Moreland & Arbuckle
4:15 p.m. Curtis Salgado
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI RHYTHM & BLUES STAGE
11:30 a.m. Panel Discussion on Alligator Records 45th Anniversary
1 p.m. Sherman Lee Dillon
2:30 p.m. Pat Brown
4 p.m. Eddie Shaw & The Wolfgang
5:30 p.m. Kenny “Beedy Eyes” Smith Jam Session
PEPSI FRONT PORCH
Noon Blues In The Schools with Stone Academy, Eric Noden, Katherine Davis
1:30 p.m. Fruteland Jackson
3 p.m. The Omar Coleman Band
4:30 p.m. Legends of Blues with Sam Lay, Corky Siegel & Marcella Detroit
PETRILLO MUSIC SHELL – Soul/R&B Night
5:30 p.m. Wee Willie Walker & We “R”
6:30 p.m. Irma Thomas
8:05 p.m. Fred Wesley & The New JB’s
BUD LIGHT CROSSROADS – Soul/ R&B Day
11:15 a.m. Cicero Blake
12:45 p.m. Theo Huff
2:30 p.m. Nora Jean
4:15 p.m. Otis Clay Tribute Band
JACKSON MISSISSIPPI RHYTHM AND BLUES STAGE
11:30 a.m. Panel Discussion Artist Spotlight: Eddie Cotton, 2015 International Blues Challenge Winner, moderated by Alex Thomas
1 p.m. Southern Komfort Brass Band
2:30 p.m. Teeny Tucker
4 p.m. Eddie Cotton
5:30 p.m. Jam Session with Southern Komfort Brass Band
Noon Fernando Jones International Band with A-Z Blues (Italy)
1:30 p.m. Barrelhouse Chuck Blues Trio featuring Billy Flynn & West Side Andy
3 p.m. Lazy Lester featuring Rockin’ Johnny
4:30 p.m. Chicago Rhythm & Blues Kings
PETRILLO MUSIC SHELL – Tribute to Otis Rush
5 p.m. Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters
6:30 p.m. Eddy “The Chief” Clearwater
8 p.m. Otis Rush Tribute featuring Jimmy Johnson, Abb Locke, Brian Jones, Carl Weathersby, Bob Stroger, Sumito Ariyoshi, Big Ray, Eddy Clearwater, John Kattke, Mike Welch, Rawl Hardman, Harlan Terson, Bob Levis, Billy Flynn, Mike Wheeler, Lurrie Bell, Shun Kikuta, Mike Ledbetter, Eddie Shaw, Sam Burton, Willie Henderson, Diane Blue, Ronnie Earl, Marty Sammon & Anthony Palmer, Kenny Anderson, Leon Allen, Henry Ford & Willie Woods
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11:15 a.m. Charlie Love
12:45 p.m. James “Super Chikan” Johnson
2:30 p.m. Kinsey Report
4:15 p.m. Diunna Greenleaf
11:30 a.m. Panel Discussion on the “Great Migration” with Nellie “Tiger” Travis, Eddie Shaw, John Primer, facilitated by Alex Thomas
1 p.m. Ben Payton
2:30 p.m. Adib Sabir
4 p.m. Nellie “Tiger” Travis
5:30 p.m. Jam Session with Adib Sabir
Noon Melody Angel
1:30 p.m. The Jimmy Burns Band
3 p.m. John Primer & The Real Deal Blues Band
4:30 p.m. Lurrie Bell
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Barstow bike rider murdered in deliberate attack; driver still at large
May 16, 2017 / bikinginla / 3 comments
A manhunt is on in San Bernardino County after a bicyclist was killed in what police describe as an intentional attack.
According to the Desert Dispatch, 40-year old Barstow resident Bennett Warner was riding his bike westbound on Main Street around 12:53 pm Monday when he was approached by a man identified as 22-year old Raymundo Alberto Rodriguez-Cordova of Barstow.
The two men got into an argument, after which Warner rode into a parking lot on the 1000 block of Main. Cordova followed Warner in his pickup and accelerated into Warner, slamming him into a parked car.
Cordova fled the scene following the crash, leaving Warner to die later of his injuries.
There’s no word on what the two argued about, whether it had to do with road rage or a personal dispute between the two men.
Police are looking for an older model pickup, possibly a 1993 Chevy S10, black with red or primer markings on the front, Kansas plate 180GRS.
Anyone with information is urged to call Detective Tom Lewis at 760/255-5187.
This is the 22nd bicycling fatality in Southern California this year, and the third in San Bernardino County.
My deepest sympathy and prayers for Bennett Warner and all his loved ones.
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Bighearted members of an Iowa organization provided five special needs kids with adaptive bicycles.
Texas toddlers complete in a strider bike race around the streets of Fort Worth in the cutest story you’ll read today.
A Memphis cop has joined past and current officers from the LAPD on the first Hollywood Memorial Ride to honor fallen officers.
Several hundred New York riders take part in the annual Blessing of the Bicycles. LA’s Blessing of the Bicycles will take place at Good Samaritan Hospital a week from tomorrow.
New York riders says a perpetually clogged Williamsburg bike lane is a fatal crash waiting to happen.
Evidently, Aziz Ansari is one of us, riding his bicycle to promote an upcoming show at New York’s Paley Center. Thanks to Megan Lynch for the heads-up.
Twenty-six riders stopped in Philadelphia on their way to DC on a 400-mile ride from Newton, Connecticut to honor the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting.
No surprise here. Bicyclists in Maryland oppose the release of the drunken, hit-and-run Baltimore bishop; if you live in Maryland, you’re urged to sign the petition to keep Heather Cook behind bars.
A Virginia writer says everything he knows about bicycling he learned from his father, and hopes to pass it on to his own kids one day.
Kindhearted cops in Georgia help 17 kids build their own bicycles donated by a food company.
In a study that should surprise absolutely no one, researchers conclude that the success of bikeshare programs depends on safe bicycling infrastructure.
Bike Radar offers six essential roadie skills, along with nine things you can do on a bike, but probably shouldn’t do off one.
Calgary police recover a stolen bicycle and return it to the owner 18 years after it was taken.
Despite support for cycling from Parliament, the UK’s Cyclist Magazine worries that cycling will get squeezed out of political party manifestos in the rush to the country’s new election.
A writer for the Guardian considers the lesson he learned from his dad about how to be a good father, courtesy of a used purple chopper bike.
Popular five-year old British bikewear maker Vulpine has gone belly-up.
An award-winning inventor in the UK has developed an incredible shrinking bike helmet designed to fit into a small pouch.
A five-year old girl will be tackling the full length of a 55-mile Welsh trail, along with her father and seven-year old brother. At that age, I was happy when my parents let me ride around the block. On the sidewalk.
Sad news from Spain, where a drunk and stoned driver — at 8:30 on Sunday morning — plowed into six members of a triathlon team on a training ride, killing two and seriously injuring three others.
Melbourne, Australia authorities clear a bike rider in the death of an elderly man who stepped in front of him as he rode in a bike lane.
If you’re a convicted felon carrying a loaded handgun on your bike, don’t ride salmon. Unless headline is missing a comma, this could be the most popular bikeway in the state.
And the next time you’re struggling to make it up a hill, just &%$^! the #&O%! out of it.
Thanks to Danila Oder for her generous donation to support BikinginLA, and help keep Southern California’s best bike news coming your way every day.
And another post comes to close, as the support staff has petered out after hard day fetching all the latest news.
Category: Advocacy & Politics, Bike Cam Video, Morning Links, Road Rage, Streets and Infrastructure / Tags: bicycling, bike videos, just the links, Los Angeles, San Diego, Video Monday
Morning Links: Dangerous driver — and pedestrian — tricks, and willfully indignorant* bike-hating writers
April 25, 2017 / bikinginla / Comments Off on Morning Links: Dangerous driver — and pedestrian — tricks, and willfully indignorant* bike-hating writers
The war on bikes goes on.
A Macon GA pedestrian was convicted of misdemeanor assault for body-checking an Air Force chaplain who was riding his bike on a base fitness trail, insisting “the trail is not for bicycles.”
A North Carolina driver faces a second degree murder charge for — allegedly — intentionally running down a bike rider, for the apparent crime of saying something to a woman at a nearby home.
A British Columbia hit-and-run driver may have intentionally targeted a 14-year old competitive cyclist; a witness saw the truck veer into a bike lane to hit her, while reports circulated about a similar truck involved in a previous road rage incident.
Meanwhile, a Toronto writer asks if driving is a privilege, why is it so hard to revoke — and why shouldn’t dangerous drivers be priced off the road?
Or as Tom Vanderbilt put it, a driver’s license is too easy to get, and too hard to lose.
Then there are the writers who just don’t get it. And seem damn proud of it.
A Davis columnist doesn’t seem to like the idea of an Idaho Stop Law, because, in his observations, virtually no one on a bike stops for a stop sign anyway, while every single driver comes to a full and complete stop. No, really, you can stop laughing now, that’s what he said.
An Atlanta columnist describes a road diet as “New Urbanism-speak for choking off a road” in hopes that drivers will become so frustrated they’ll go somewhere else.
On the other hand, an Australian columnist gets it, saying licensing bicyclists isn’t the answer, and that only a change in the attitude of all road users will prevent future tragedies.
Fallen pro cyclist Michele Scarponi will be buried today in his full team kit; even his parrot is in mourning.
A French pro was the victim of a vicious attack with a baseball bat and a box cutter while on a training ride with two other cyclists.
Former British cyclist Jonathan Tiernan-Locke lost his license for 41 months after being convicted of driving at over twice the legal alcohol limit. This is why people continue to die on the streets, when even a second drunk driving offense results in nothing more than a slap on the wrist.
Vision Zero will host four open houses in Southeast and South LA in the coming weeks, with the first one this Thursday. And will roll out a series of events throughout the LA area, starting this week on Hoover Street.
The Better Bikeshare Partnership looks at the Team LACBC Diversity program to encourage more people to take part in the annual Climate Ride, beyond the usual white male suspects.
Speaking of the LACBC, they’ll be holding a roadside bike repair workshop tomorrow evening in conjunction with DTLA’s Just Ride LA bike shop.
Now that Governor Brown and his wife got new bicycles for Christmas, maybe he’ll be a little more concerned about bicycle safety and providing safe places to ride.
A San Diego man recounts his “amazing” four-day ride along the coast highway from Ocean Beach to Santa Barbara with a friend.
A San Jose woman wants bike riders to pay to fix potholes in the roads, even though bikes don’t cause them. Cyclelicious takes the opportunity to remind us of the Fourth Power Rule, concluding that a Prius causes 38,000 times more road damage to the road than a bicycle.
People for Bikes compares bicycling to other types of exercise to see how it stacks up; shockingly, riding a bike comes out on top almost every time.
Portland is developing an adaptive bikeshare program to address complaints that the city’s Nike-sponsored systems isn’t accessible to people with disabilities.
Austin TX is doubling the size of their free bikeshare system.
Caught on video: A Skokie IL cop pulls over a driver for tailgating a bike rider, telling them both “I want you to know that I care.” Although it’s kind of scary that the rider didn’t know he was being followed that closely.
A Minnesota TV station profiles a facemask wearing, bike-riding Robocop who records and challenges dangerous drivers.
Drag racer Courtney Force and IndyCar driver Graham Rahal are two of us, as they go fat bike riding in Indianapolis.
Caught on video too: Tennessee firefighters rescue a teenager who tried to ride his bicycle through 50-degree floodwaters.
Life is sickeningly cheap in Florida, where killing a fourth grader riding his bike on the sidewalk is worth nothing more than a $1,000 fine and a one-year license suspension.
Caught on video three: A bike-raging Toronto cyclist smashes the side mirror of an SUV, accusing the driver of laughing after nearly hitting him; a local advocacy group rightly condemns vigilantism while noting that something clearly led up to the incident.
Horrific story from London, where police are looking for a gang of masked thugs who hacked a teenage bike rider to death for no apparent reason, after harassing people earlier in the evening.
An unmarked bike cop will be riding the streets of Edinburgh to catch and educate drivers who don’t pass safely. Which is really all it takes to enforce the three-foot passing law, and yet, almost no police agencies in the US bother to do it. Including here in Los Angeles.
Forbes says the Glasgow study showing bike commuting can lower your risk of death by all causes 41% is an exceptionally well-controlled study, adding to its credibility. Unlike, say, the one that says you could suffer dementia and have a stroke if you drink diet soda.
A new Dutch system uses bunnies and turtles to tell you whether you need to speed up or slow down to make the next green light. And a cow to say just give up, already.
A bikeshare company is picking up the tab for Beirut’s first prototype bike lane, which will be extended throughout the city if all goes well.
The battle to reclaim Mosul from ISIS rebels has resulted in a unique bicycle culture, as cars and motorcycles are banned from moving in the west side of the city, and bikes are more practical in the rest.
Remembering when bikes went to war a century ago, as members of the Kiwi and Aussie Anzac Cyclist Brigade found themselves trapped in the trenches of WWI.
Nothing like watching a seeming embarrassed kangaroo hide its crotch after just missing an Aussie cyclist.
No, seriously. If you’re riding your bike at 2:40 am carrying hash, crack and coke, put a damn light on it and stay off the sidewalk. If you’re going to use your bicycle as a burglary getaway vehicle, again, put a damn light on it, already.
And if you feel the need to salute the cyclist who just beat you in a sprint to the finish, try to use more than one finger.
Or at least hide it from the camera.
*A mashup of indignant and ignorant, a truly lovely combination
Category: Anti-bike bias, Bicycle Safety, Car vs Bike, Morning Links, Road Rage / Tags: bicycling, dangerous drivers, just the links, Los Angeles, road rage, Stupid Driver Tricks
Morning Links: LA rider intentionally doored, and Montana politician tries to ban bikes from state roadways
March 17, 2017 / bikinginla / 3 comments
Now this one’s scary.
An LA bike rider was harassed by the road raging occupants of a car, and intentionally doored by a passenger in the back seat.
Even though the door never made contact with him or his bike, this is a clear case of assault, since the passenger obviously intended to threaten, if not injure, the victim. As such, any case like this can and should be reported to the police — especially when there’s video evidence.
And yes, the cops do want to know about cases like this.
Even if the authorities aren’t able to press charges, it could establish a pattern of behavior if the driver or passengers do something like this again.
The video also provides strong evidence to make a case under LA’s cyclist anti-harassment ordinance, which entitles victims to $1000 or actual damages, whichever is higher, plus triple damages. As well as reimbursement for any legal fees.
It’s not easy to make a case under the law, since you have to have witnesses and/or corroborating evidence to prove the harassment occurred.
But with a video like this, it should do the trick.
After blocking a three-foot passing law in the state legislature, Montana Senate Leader Scott Sales plans to introduce legislation to ban bike riders from many state highways.
Sales’ legislation would prohibit bicycles from any two lane roadway with less than a three-foot shoulder, and require riders to place reflectors on their bodies as well as their bikes. And he’d require bicyclists to pay a special tax to ride on state roadways that they already pay for with their tax dollars.
Never mind that, as Bicycling points out, his proposal would kill the state’s burgeoning bike tourism industry.
His apparent distaste for bicycles and the people who ride them stems from his observation that bike riders are “some of the rudest and most self-centered people [he’s] ever encountered.”
Evidently, he’s never looked in the mirror, since he freely admits to blaring his horn at riders who have the audacity to get in his way. Or encountered many of the motorists he shares the roadways with, for that matter.
Meanwhile, a massive new study says bike riders aren’t really rude, we’re just trying to stay alive.
The state issued another $56 million in grants to fund 25 active transportation and Safe Routes to Schools projects in six SoCal Counties, including $15 million for bike lanes in the Arts District in DTLA, bike lane connections at Cal State Long Beach, and a bike track in Santa Ana.
Scandal-plagued British Cycling could now risk losing the equivalent of over $21 million in funding for grassroots programs due to concerns over governance of the organization.
A former rider for Team Sky says he broke cycling’s no needles rule to inject himself with vitamins leading up to the Vuelta. Vitamins, sure. Let’s go with that.
A new crowdfunding campaign is attempting to raise $10,000 to make a movie about the legendary Major Taylor, America’s first great bicycling champ, and a groundbreaking African-America athlete.
No one was hurt, but a bicycle was mangled when a 45 foot shipping container fell off a big rig. No word on whether someone was riding the bike and jumped off, or if it had been parked.
A writer for City Watch calls CD1 challenger Joe Bray-Ali a ray of hope, saying “If Mr. Smith rode his bike to Washington, he’d look and sound a lot like Joe Bray-Ali.” We could find out today if Bray-Ali will be in a runoff with incumbent Gil Cedillo, when the latest vote counts are released.
The formerly anti-bike LA Weekly looks at seven group rides for cyclists new to LA streets, starting with next week’s CicLAvia.
The LACBC is hosting a Green on the Ground bike ride at noon today in Downtown LA.
DASH bus service to the Griffith Observatory will begin next week, part of a so-far successful effort to keep Mt. Hollywood Drive in Griffith Park from being opened to motor vehicles.
Travis Stork, host of The Doctors, is one of us, keeping his three bikes on the walls of his Hancock Park apartment, including a $10,000 Specialized Roubaix.
Santa Monica is considering new plans to make it safer for students who walk or bike to school at the city’s Edison Language Academy.
According to the Santa Clarita Signal, sheriff’s deputies arrested a homeless man for riding his bike at night without lights, then says he was issued a citation. Something is seriously wrong if he was actually arrested, since riding without lights is a simple traffic violation, not a misdemeanor or felony offense subject to arrest. He should have been stopped, cited and sent on his way; let’s hope that’s what really happened. And someone please tell them it’s not that homeless people refuse to disclose their occupation; they usually just don’t have one.
San Diego cyclists will take a two-day, 90 mile tour of the coastline this weekend in honor of a beloved local bike advocate and cycling instructor who was killed in Oregon in 2014 near the beginning of a planned ride from Canada to Mexico.
A pitcher for the Padres has been on the bench since he pulled an endo last weekend when the front tire of his bicycle blew and he went over the handlebars.
The Inland Empire region receives a $13 million state grant for active transportation, including bike projects in Highland, Redlands and the Coachella Valley.
Sad news from Tulare, where a 69-year old bike rider was killed in a crash after allegedly running a red light. As always, the question is whether anyone other that the driver involved witnessed the crash and saw whether the light was red or green.
Berkeley police say it wasn’t excessive speed or impairment that was responsible for the collision that killed a 78-year old bike rider last month, blaming poor lighting, rain and a wet roadway. Yet that would suggest a violation of the state’s basic speed law, which prohibits driving too fast for current conditions. Or is that only used as an excuse the ticket bike riders these days?
More bad news, this time from Sacramento, where yet another bike rider was murdered by a hit-and-run driver; police are looking for the owner of a two-tone utility truck.
Caltrans plans to install center rumble strips on a 30-mile segment of Highway 1 in Marin County, while widening the shoulders to improve safety for bicyclists.
People for Bikes makes clear what many of us had feared — Trump’s proposed new budget will be bad for bikes.
Apple applies for a patent for a new way to calculate a cyclist’s performance from wind resistance and other factors, suggesting they may develop a new form of power meter.
Thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign, you could turn your bicycle into an ebike just by swapping out your front wheel, for less than half the price of the Copenhagen Wheel.
Judging by the headline, Texas police apparently arrested a self-driving car for hit-and-run; or maybe someone was actually driving it, after all.
A Missouri mother is organizing a non-profit to aid the victims of hit-and-runs. Great idea, but sad that it’s even necessary.
A Chicago crash shows the difficulty bike riders face in getting justice following a hit-and-run.
Witnesses report the suspect in the shooting of two Detroit cops had been seen riding a bicycle similar to the one used by the person who killed a Wayne State University cop last year.
Defense attorneys argue that second degree murder charges should be dropped against the — allegedly — stoned driver who killed five Kalamazoo MI bicyclists because prosecutors failed to show that a combination of amphetamine, meth, hydrocodone and tramadol would have affected his ability to drive. On the other hand, they certainly didn’t improve it.
Now that’s what I call a bike tour. The owner of a Rhode Island bar plans to ride across the US sampling microbrews along the way to raise awareness of Multiple Sclerosis.
The rich get richer. New York cyclists can look forward to a new two-way protected bike lane leading eight miles up to the Brooklyn Bridge. And actually resulting in more parking spaces for a change.
A local news site asks if South Carolina’s Hilton Head Island is doing enough to keep bicyclists safe; the only gold-level bicycle friendly community in the Southeast, it ranks just 17th out of 20 in terms of safety.
Friends have started a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for Florida bike advocate and bicycle writer Alan Snel, who was injured in a collision last week; it has raised nearly $6,400 of the $10,000 goal as of Thursday night.
A globe trotting guide to bicycling through the wine country, from Napa to Tuscany.
A one-woman Canadian performance illustrates the role bicycles played in the emancipation of women, starting with the story of Annie Londonderry, the first woman who biked around the world.
A new study of London bicycling shows bike riders experience an average of one close call at intersections every two weeks.
A man takes one of London’s bikeshare bikes on a tour of seven cities on three continents, and returns it with a £300 late fee — the equivalent of $371.
Caught on video: Passersby confront a masked Brit bike thief, but back off when he brandishes an axe.
The British man who put up his own No Cycling signs on a pathway where bicycling is allowed says he can’t be anti-cycling since he rides a bike himself.
This is why people continue to die on the streets. A UK van driver was given a suspended sentence for running over a doored bicyclist who fell into his path — even though he fled the scene and was three times over the legal limit for drunk driving. His lawyer claimed he only started drinking after the wreck, though he was still drunk from the previous day. Seriously, that’s an excuse?
After elite German police shoot a man on a bike who was carrying a horror mask, the press speculates he may be a terrorism suspect.
In the latest criminal scandal from Down Under, cyclists are breaking the law by removing bells and horns from their bicycles, making them subject to fines as high as $775 — around $600 US — if they fight the ticket in court.
Chinese app-based bikeshare company Ofo has decided the way to get users to take better care of their bikes is to flood the streets with even more, so they know another bike will be readily available. Um, probably not.
Seriously, who doesn’t need an environmentally friendly bamboo ebike? Nothing like riding with a Jack Russell on your back.
And clearly, stunt cycling is nothing new; check out this performance on a golden fixie from1965.
Category: Advocacy & Politics, Anti-bike bias, Bicycle Safety, Bike Cam Video, Morning Links, Road Rage, Violence & Crime / Tags: anti-bike hysteria, bicycling, bike bans, L.A. anti-harassment ordinance, Los Angeles, Montana, Scott Sales, stupid politician tricks
Morning Links: Joe Bray-Ali still alive in CD1 council race, and frontline reports from the war on bikes
Don’t give up yet.
Despite the election night gloating of incumbent Councilmember Gil Cedillo, the race in CD1 is not over yet. In fact, it may just be getting started.
According to the latest count of outstanding absentee and provisional ballots from the County Clerk’s office, Cedillo’s vote total has dipped below the 50% required to avoid a runoff.
Which means that if the totals stand as they are now, challenger Joe Bray-Ali will face Cedillo in the May 16th general election.
Of course, things could still change. There are more ballots to count, with the next update due on Friday.
And even if Bray-Ali does qualify for a runoff, it will be an uphill battle against the entrenched city hall establishment and massive piles of special interest money that inevitably flow in to support any LA incumbent.
But he has a chance. And that means, so do we.
Thanks to Matt Ruscigno and Todd Munson for their help.
The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes is all too real.
A San Francisco driver punched a bike rider in the eye, knocking her off her bike and into traffic, for the crime of complaining that he was illegally stopped in a bike lane — even though there was nothing to his right and he could have easily pulled over to the curb.
A Ross CA man is charged with misdemeanor reckless driving after allegedly attempting to run a bike rider off the road, and threatening to come back with a shotgun and blow his head off. So evidently, the driver’s own words aren’t enough to prove he was threatening the rider.
A Chicago bicyclist was attacked by a road raging driver who threw his bike into the curb, damaging both wheels.
Caught on video: After a London driver barely misses a cyclist in a way too close pass, the rider has it out with the driver, who tries to door him, then barely misses with a second punishment pass.
A British bike rider was lucky to escape with superficial injuries when someone strung a wire at neck level across a promenade; fortunately, the police are investigating it as the assault that it is, rather than a prank.
A New Zealand bike trail was booby trapped with logs and branches that could have knocked a rider off his bike or impaled someone.
A sports site talks with former pro cyclist Rebecca Rush, as a new movie documents her 1,200-mile journey along Ho Chi Minh Trail to find where her father’s plane crashed in the Vietnam war, when she was just three years old.
CiclaValley suggests the city may have changed it’s mind about installing paid diagonal parking on the road leading up to the Griffith Park Observatory. Meanwhile, plans were announced to close the popular hiking trailhead on Beachwood Canyon leading to the Hollywood sign, following years of incessant lobbying from Beachwood residents — essentially converting a public park into the private property of a few privileged homeowners.
The Culver City Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee will discuss several options for the city’s proposed bikeshare system at its meeting tomorrow night; the plan could serve adjacent areas such as Palms and Playa Vista, as well as Culver City.
A Carlsbad cyclist’s legacy lives on five years after he died of ALS; the annual Bike4Mike Coastal Ride he founded has raised over $1 million to fight the disease, and hopes to bring in another $100,000 this Sunday.
The San Diego Association of Governments is offering a number of $1,500 grants to encourage kids to walk or bike to school. So why not just use one of the grants to offer 150 kids ten bucks if they get out of Mom’s, or the nanny’s, SUV and walk or bike it to class instead?
A Palm Springs bicyclist suffered major injuries in a crash that involved two motor vehicles.
The Executive Director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition writes to demand protected bike lanes on upper Market Street, saying a decision to delay implementing them is incompatible with Vision Zero.
The Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in Marin is now accepting nominations for this year’s class.
Streetsblog asks when the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, the overly conservative national guide to traffic signal, signs and pavement markings, will finally catch up to the 21st Century; they just got around to approving Bike Lane Ends signs. Even though American bike lanes have been ending — without warning in most cases — for 50 years.
A new study shows millions of people could switch from driving to autonomous ride-sharing services, presumably opening up curbside parking for bike lanes, while doing nothing about traffic congestion. Which means drivers will likely rise up and demand those curbside lanes be used for vehicular traffic, instead.
The American Society of Civil Engineers gives America’s roads a D grade, saying they are “often crowded, frequently in poor condition, chronically underfunded, and are becoming more dangerous.”
Justice denied, as a Michigan man died after pleading guilty in the death of a bicyclist last year, but before he could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.
A man is under arrest for breaking the window of a Pittsburgh bike shop and making off with a $4,000 mountain bike; he also threatened to shoot one of the arresting officers in the head and kill his family when he gets out of jail. Hopefully, that will be a very long time off.
A New York newsman takes his fat tire bike out for a blizzard bike tour in the middle of yesterday’s storm.
No, you can’t throw your bike backwards. At least not while you’re on it.
Vancouver residents are upset that a row of cherry trees along a seawall were removed to make room for a bike lane, although the city promises to plant new, and healthier, trees in their place.
Not all guerilla DIY efforts are beneficial to bike riders; an English town promises to remove the No Cycling signs someone had illegally placed along a pathway, where bicycling is in fact allowed.
A British court rules a killer motorist’s driving ban should have started the day he was sentenced. Which means he would have been prohibited from driving while he was in prison, where cars are seldom allowed, anyway.
A Brit podcast discusses a forthcoming BBC documentary on the history of Raleigh bicycles. Thanks to Megan Lynch for the heads-up.
Cycling Industry News has a list of bike jobs in the UK, if you’re ready to give up on the US.
Even in Copenhagen, bikeshare can be a tough sell, as the company behind the city’s e-bikeshare system goes belly up.
Frightening story from Berlin, where a man riding a bicycle has sprayed six women in the face with what appears to be battery acid.
An Aussie radio station discusses what parents can do to make riding to school safer for their kids.
An Australian grandfather explains what it was like to be the victim of an apparently random shooing as he rode his bike last month.
Just what every rider needs — a $350 Levi/Google smart jacket. Evidently, Dale Earnhardt Jr. needs taller socks.
And if you attend Cedarville University, it’s only natural you’d build a wooden ebike.
Category: Advocacy & Politics, Bicycle Safety, Car vs Bike, Morning Links, Road Rage, Violence & Crime / Tags: bicycling, CD1, Gil Dedillo, Joe Bray-Ali, Los Angeles, war on bikes
Morning Links: Angry DASH driver tries to run rider off road, and endorsement for Pasadena city council
February 22, 2017 / bikinginla / 3 comments
Apparently, a LADOT DASH bus driver is in need of some serious retraining.
Or the city might find itself on the hook for violating the its own bicyclist anti-harassment ordinance.
Or worse.
Thanks to Michael MacDonald for the heads-up.
Bike the Vote LA continues their run-up for the March 7th election by endorsing Andy Wilson for Pasadena’s city council district 7.
Meanwhile, the Burbank Leader reports on the Burbank city council forum, where one of the candidates actually called for better bike infrastructure.
Lance says he loved wearing the US Postal Service uniform and hearing the national anthem played when he won, and being sued by the feds can’t take that away. Although they could take everything else.
Interesting piece from Cycling Weekly, as they look at ten racing inventors that changed cycling, with a few names you might know like Campagnolo and Cinelli.
VeloNews looks at the recent renaissance in French cycling, while Cycling News looks back at cycling’s “decadent” decade of the 1990s.
You may soon need a ticket to watch your favorite cyclists compete, as Belgian cycling promoters consider charging fans to watch the race.
A Covina bike rider was injured in what police believe was a gang-related shooting.
The Press-Telegram discusses the ebike expo coming to Long Beach this weekend.
Help restock books in the Silver Lake area on the monthly Street Librarians Ride this Sunday.
Richard Masoner of Cyclelicious offers a review of bike-related legislation in the state legislature, including the possible elimination of the ride-to-the-right law we discussed yesterday, and an actual bipartisan bill to legalize the Idaho Stop — a term Masoner helped popularize — in California. The only thing more shocking than the Idaho Stop actually being considered in California is the concept of Democrats and Republicans actually working together to pass it.
A Newport Beach bike rider suffered life-threatening injuries when he was apparently rear-ended by the driver of an SUV. Thanks to Lois for the link.
Sacramento police are looking for a bike-riding knife-bearing bike path robber.
Mountain View considers whether a 15 mph speed limit is too high — or too low — on a popular bike and pedestrian trail.
A Marin columnist contends mountain bikers who want to force the county to open all trails to bikes are acting like spoiled children.
Redding police identify the bike-riding victim in last week’s traffic shooting; the case is still under investigation, even though it’s being described as self-defense.
Friendship Circle is sponsoring their 6th annual adaptive bike giveaway program for kids and teens with special needs.
A new study from the University of Duh says improving cardiovascular fitness may help extend your life. And here we all thought sitting on your couch eating Cheetos and watching TV was the key to outliving all your friends.
Tragic news from Arizona, where a bike rider is dead in an apparent road rage shooting after arguing with a driver and his passengers.
A bill in the Iowa legislature would force drivers to change lanes to pass bike riders, while requiring bicyclists to use front and rear lights at all times — even in broad daylight — while a competing bill would require riders to display a slow-moving vehicle flag.
Kindhearted Oklahoma firefighters replace a small boy’s bicycle after his was destroyed in a collision with a pedestrian.
A Boston man describes his decision to keep riding after doctors discovered a cancerous tumor in and around his lower spine.
New York police confiscate two bikes from teenage cyclist accused of riding recklessly. Too bad that doesn’t seem to apply to reckless drivers, who just get a ticket — if that — and get sent on their way.
Good read from a Gotham website, which says Vision Zero only works when victim blaming stops and accountability starts.
A Savannah GA writer says traffic fatalities are the real American carnage, even if they weren’t mentioned in the inaugural address.
A quintet of bike-riding NASCAR drivers promote bike safety before turning their attention to qualifying for the Daytona 500.
A Florida woman gets 22 years behind bars for intentionally running over her bike-riding friend. Makes you wonder what she’d do to someone she didn’t like.
Caught on video: Nothing like standing on the pedals of your fixie with your fluffy white cotton tail bouncing in the breeze.
Caught on video too: A Brit woman responds to catcalls from a van driver by ripping off its wing mirror, then just rides away. Or maybe not.
Caught on video three: This is what it looks like to be sideswiped by a passing van.
It’s been too long since we checked in with Scotland’s Town Mouse, who gives one more reason you otter ride a bike.
A Kiwi bike rider urges drivers to just look, already.
A Chinese writer tells his countrymen to stop creating bikeshare companies.
A new study suggests the implementation of a minimum passing distance in Australia’s Queensland state isn’t having a significant effect on the amount of harassment bicyclists experience.
We can’t seem to get away from Malaysia this week.
The 22-year old driver who plowed into a group of Malaysian teenagers, killing eight and injured another eight, is reportedly traumatized by the experience. No matter how bad she feels, the victims’ families feel a hell of a lot worse.
A writer expresses his sympathy, not for the victims, but for the poor, innocent driver terrorized by a gang of bloodshot-eyed 13 to 17 year olds on bicycles. No, seriously
The Malaysian massacre has convinced a neighboring state to require bike and pedestrian lanes in every new landscaping project to avoid similar incidents.
And after nine years as a man without a country, a 15-year old German-born cyclist has finally become a citizen of Malaysia.
We may have to deal with SoCal drivers, but at least we don’t have to ride in front of runaway bulls — although we do have to contend with machetes. Yes, blowing through red lights and clipping a cyclist while driving on just three tires was probably a very bad idea.
And hi-viz may not be necessary, but some clothing is usually recommended.
Category: Advocacy & Politics, Bicycle Safety, Bike Cam Video, Car vs Bike, Road Rage / Tags: bicycling, Bike the Vote LA, DASH, LADOT, Los Angeles
Morning Links: Bike berating truck driver, rescheduled Blumenfield ride, and Bray-Ali gets matching funds
February 3, 2017 / bikinginla / 8 comments
This is getting old.
A bike rider in the South Bay gets passed by the road raging driver of a large pickup, who then steps out of his truck to berate him and tell him to get off the fucking road.
LAPD officers have told me that a driver can be charged with assault the moment he gets out of his vehicle, since merely exiting the vehicle can be seen as a threat.
LA Councilmember Bob Blumenfield’s bike ride along the LA River and through the West Valley has been rescheduled for the 26th of this month.
Considering how some members of the council don’t seem to give a damn about us, you should take advantage of a chance to ride and talk with one who does.
Speaking of which, one of those bike-unfriendly councilmembers has raised nearly 10 times the funds of Josef Bray-Ali, his Bike the Vote-endorsed challenger in CD1, who qualified for matching funds by raising $49,000 in mostly small contributions.
Clearly, Bray-Ali’s route to victory will depend on volunteer efforts and word-of-mouth, rather than trying to outspend his opponent.
Which means we have to do everything we can to get a more bike and safety-friendly voice on the council, in a district that desperately needs it.
If your bike flats on Mandeville and you don’t have any tubes left, maybe you can catch a ride with some helpful cops.
Cycling in the South Bay’s Seth Davidson sort of reviews LA-based ex-pro cyclist and cookie lover Phil Gaimon’s new book, and says it’s subversive, insightful, and really, really funny.
Apropos of nothing, and nothing to do with bikes, but this totally cracks me up.
Pro cyclist Andriy Grivko has been kicked out of the Tour of Dubai after punching race leader Marcel Kittel in the face; a very pissed off Kittel says he deserves a six month ban.
Cycling Weekly highlights the best bike punches caught on camera.
Two Aussie cyclists are riding the exact route of the 1928 Tour de France to honor a four man team from Down Under who competed in the race.
Streetsblog says Los Angeles has striped new bike lanes on Heliotrope Drive in what used to be known as the Bicycle District, replacing sharrows that should have been bike lanes to begin with.
The LACBC looks at three things they learned during the recent Ask An Officer panel discussion with BikinginLA sponsor Jim Pocrass, including that there aren’t enough cops on the street, and the ones who are too often don’t have enough resources or receive adequate training. Which is something we’ve been pushing for since this site was founded.
Speaking of the LACBC, they’re in the market for a new Deputy Executive Director of Advocacy. I’d take it, but I refuse to wear a badge.
Help distribute books to free street libraries on Saturday’s Street Librarians Ride.
A Claremont paper looks at the last, sad days of 82-year old Coates Cyclery.
The mayor of Santa Clarita invites residents to get in shape by using the city’s 115-mile bike network, including 85 miles of natural and paved pathways.
CiclaValley goes bike lane shaming in Solvang and Santa Paula.
People in San Diego’s La Mesa neighborhood are being frightened by a bike-riding man with a gun. Or maybe not.
I want to be like him when I grow up. An 81-year old Pauma Valley man plans to ride across Canada with a hundred other bicyclists next summer.
A road improvement project in Victorville will include six miles of new bike lanes.
A Fresno letter writer says the city needs to embrace bicycling to clean the air and defeat asthma.
San Francisco unveils a new protected bike lane through the city’s McLaren Park this Saturday. Plans are also in the works for protected lanes on the Embarcadero, where traffic has reached “brutal” levels.
Marin mountain bikers band together to demand better access to the county’s trails, saying they represent up to 45% of all trail users, but are allowed on only 10% of them.
The Sacramento Bee says it’s time to pump up your bike tires and join the city’s Bike Party.
Outside Magazine asks if gravel bikes are marketing hype or the future of cycling. Short answer, probably neither.
A Chicago paper says the judge missed an opportunity to send a strong message on DUIs when he sentenced a drunk driver to just 10 days in jail for killing a bike rider. Gee, you think?
You can now legally ride your bike in downtown Youngstown, Ohio.
Tennessee’s Bike Elf fixes up bikes and gives them to kids who get straight A’s, after signing an agreement to do their best.
A 2002 New York public access TV show offers a look at how bad bicycling was back in the city’s dark ages before Janet Sadik-Khan.
A DC rider creates a simplified, easy-to-read bike map based on transit maps. If someone did that here in LA, all they’d get is a bunch of disconnected lines looking like someone spilled a box of matches. And almost as useful.
Speeding in DC will cost you a cool $500, but running over a bike rider is a relative bargain at just $150.
A new Virginia law would prohibit drivers from using bike lanes to pass stopped cars on the right, while another would create a vulnerable user law.
Sometimes, all it takes to form a band is riding your bike past another New Orleans musician.
The Canadian driver caught on video forcing his car into a bike rider who was trying to block his path has finally been charged with assault, among other charges, after police falsely claimed the victim didn’t want file charges.
Caught on video: Doesn’t look like much; just a guy riding his bike on the sidewalk. Except it’s a London cop’s official police bike, which he just stole from a rack after cutting the lock.
London’s Heathrow Airport actually wants people to bike there, calling for one of the city’s bicycle superhighways to be extended to the airport to make it easier for passengers to leave their cars at home.
Eight Welsh midwives will ride from London to Paris in hopes of delivering £14,000 — the equivalent of over $17,400 — for women’s cancer research
Stealing one or two bikes is bad enough; taking 22 from an English bike shop is unforgivable.
Irish police investigating a jewelry store heist are looking for a bike rider who may have witnessed the crime.
Horrifying story from India, as onlookers filmed a teenage bike rider for 30 minutes after he was hit by a bus, rather than helping him or offering comfort as he lay dying. A newspaper asks if the country needs a “Duty to Help” law.
Caught on video too: A South African website freaks out over footage of a woman happily riding her bike in the middle of a busy highway sans helmet.
A group of Taiwanese and Tibetan cyclists demonstrate in Taipei to call attention to the 60th anniversary of the Tibet National Uprising Day next month.
Seriously. If you’re going to carry cocaine on your bike, don’t ride salmon — and put some damn reflectors on it. For once, you can count roadkill on the highway, rather than risk being it.
And bicycling doesn’t require a co-pay.
Category: Advocacy & Politics, Bicycle Safety, Bike Cam Video, Product Reviews, Road Rage / Tags: bicycling, Bob Blumenfield, Josef Bray-Ali, Los Angeles, road rage
Morning Links: Traffic violence on our streets, Metro Bike runs red light, and Westwood ignores needs of students
December 2, 2016 / bikinginla / 4 comments
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Today’s common theme is traffic violence, both literal and figurative.
USC fans were heartbroken to learn that former running back Joe McKnight was the victim of an apparent road age shooting on the streets of New Orleans; a tragedy made possible, if not inevitable, by a proliferation of short-fused drivers with easy access to guns.
Meanwhile, in an equally, if not more, heartbreaking case, a suspected drunk driver once again proved that no one is safe from the carnage on our streets, as a five-year old South Central boy was killed inside his own apartment. The driver plowed into the building after allegedly being cut off by another driver; inside, investigators found the boy’s letter to Santa asking for a new bicycle.
Which leads us to CiclaValley, who offers a bike cam compendium of drivers behaving badly. And yes, someone could easily compile similar video clips of scofflaw cyclists or pedestrians. But it’s the people in the multi-ton machines who pose the greatest risk to others by their bad behavior.
When cyclists break the law, they generally put themselves at risk. But when drivers break the law, it poses a danger to everyone on the street.
Or sleeping in their own homes.
Frequent contributor Erik Griswold notes that at the 30 second mark of its Metro Bike Instructional Video, Metro appears to tacitly encourage users to ride through flashing red lights.
A writer for UCLA’s Daily Bruin justifiably takes the Westwood Neighborhood Council to task for favoring policies that ignore the needs of the students who live and study in the area, including last year’s denial of desperately needed bike lanes on Westwood Blvd.
The heavy-handed demands of the area’s wealthy homeowners have killed any semblance of vibrancy in Westwood Village, leading to streets filled with empty storefronts, and driving students — and their money — to other parts of the city. Like a scene out of Footloose, the city even prohibits dancing at restaurants and bars within the Village.
No, really.
The LACBC is hiring an Organizing Director.
Former pro Phil Gaimon is on a one-man mission to erase convicted doper and dope dealer Nick Brandt-Sorenson’s name from the top of LA area Strava KOMs.
A 6th grade student is on a one-girl mission to provide safer access for bicyclists to the Ballona Creek bike path in Del Rey and Playa Vista.
About one hundred Laguna Beech mountain bikers rode through the Laguna Coast Wilderness Park as part of the second annual Dirt Fondo Challenge, benefitting the Laguna Beach Interscholastic Mountain Bike Team.
For the second time in two days, a San Diego area bike rider has suffered a serious head injury, apparently without a car involved. This time a helmeted rider fell in San Marcos and struck his head on the pavement; fortunately, his injuries are not life-threatening.
Members of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition offer strategies on how to improve safety in the South of Market district.
San Francisco State University is California’s latest Bicycle Friendly University.
Soon you may be able to make plans for a wine and cannabis bike tour of Sonoma County.
A bike-riding Scrooge stole four citrus trees planted by an Eagle Scout at an Orangevale church to help feed the hungry.
In typically obtuse government-ese, the US DOT announces it’s forming a 15-member committee to advise the Secretary of Transportation on matters related to transportation equity. Which sounds great until you consider that the incoming administration could dissolve it next month.
A writer for Momentum Magazine considers the value of clipless bike shoes, and concludes they’re worth it.
The Seattle Times recommends taking your own folding bike when you travel.
Grind TV asks if Sedona’s White Line Trail is the world’s most dangerous mountain bike trail. Judging by the videos, it’s definitely not one for anyone with a fear of heights.
Bicycling Magazine profiles an ex-vegetarian New Mexico man who hunts elk by bike, with his miniature poodle at his side.
Des Moines, Iowa makes plans to hire a full-time bicycle coordinator, if it survives the budget process.
A small free library is unveiled as a memorial to a Wisconsin woman who was killed by a sidewalk-riding bicyclist. We can all agree this is a needless tragedy. But instead of fighting for higher fines to stop people from riding on the sidewalk, why not fight for safer streets so no one will feel the need to?
Caught on video: Philadelphia police are looking for a teenager who rode his BMX up to a garage before setting it on fire.
This is why you always carry ID when you ride. A New York bike rider died after an apparent fall; however, police have been unable to identify him or notify his next of kin because he wasn’t carrying any identification.
A group of BMX riders recorded the action after sneaking into a Long Island water park; police are looking at the video as evidence of a trespassing violation.
Now that’s what I call a bike locker.
Cycling Tips considers why two bike brands haven’t moved their production to China.
Police in British Columbia recovered “dozens and dozens” of stolen bicycles and e-scooters when they took down a bike chop shop.
Torontoist makes the case for why delivering food by bicycle is good for neighborhoods.
Caught on video: A Brit bike rider barely escapes a pass from a truck and trailer that looks like it would violate a one-foot passing law.
Two percent of Irish commuters go by bike, a figure that hasn’t changed in the last year.
The Guardian looks at the recent report that bicyclists now outnumber cars in Copenhagen, where a $145 million investment in bikeways has resulted in a 68% increase in ridership. Thanks to Jon for the heads-up.
Malta warns visiting EU officials not to cause a diplomatic incident by running red lights or carrying a passenger on their bicycles.
A man in the Southern Africa country of Malawi killed his own half-brother in a dispute over a bicycle.
Cyclists in the Australian state of New South Wales won’t have to carry ID when they ride after all, as the government belatedly realizes that most riders already do anyway.
Maybe bicycling really is the new golf, especially if your bike is made entirely of golf clubs. It’s not just an ebike, it’s a two-wheeled boom box.
And it takes a hero cyclist to save a drowning panda.
A special thanks to Michele Chavez for her generous contribution to support this site during the BikinginLA Holiday Fund Drive.
Category: Bicycle Safety, Car vs Bike, Morning Links, Road Rage / Tags: bicycling, dangerous drivers, drivers behaving badly, Los Angeles, Metro Bike, road rage, traffic violence, Westwood Village
Morning Links: Van Nuys bike rage leads to murder and car theft, Guidroz gets ten years, and a sidesaddle Sagan
November 8, 2016 / bikinginla / 3 comments
Horrifying story of an apparent road rage murder in Van Nuys.
According to the Daily News, the whole thing started when a bike rider hit a car’s windshield after the driver honked at him Sunday night. The driver responded by getting out of his car, only to get punched by the bicyclist, who then got into the other man’s car and drove off, as a passenger bailed out the right side.
When the driver tried to grab the door of the car as the bike rider was driving away, the rider responded by ramming the driver’s side of the car into parked cars, forcing him to let go.
The victim was taken to a local hospital, where he died.
The suspect was last seen driving away on Sepulveda Blvd in the victim’s car. He’s described as a Hispanic male approximately 20 to 30 years old, around 5’11” and between 140 and 160 pounds, wearing a dark-hooded sweatshirt and dark pants.
Anyone with information is urged to call Valley Bureau Homicide Detective Steve Castro at 818/374-1925.
As expected, Lucas James Guidroz was sentenced to ten years after pleading guilty to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and hit-and-run resulting in death in the May death of math teacher, music director and musician Rod Bennett as he rode his bike on Placerita Canyon in Santa Clarita.
Guidroz apologized before the sentence was announced, saying he’d take it back in a heartbeat if he could.
The problem with remorse is it always comes too damn late.
Caught on video: Peter Sagan rides sidesaddle.
I used to do that all the time to make my patented flying dismount, before switching to cleats made sticking the landing a tad problematic; the real trick is to pedal from that position.
UCLA is gearing up for the sixth annual Bike (Re)cycling Day this Sunday, when students, staff and faculty can claim abandoned bikes and parts.
The Pasadena Chamber of Commerce calls for moving the planned Union Street two-way cycle track to the north side of the street to avoid conflicts with businesses on the south side.
The Santa Monica Bike Center is offering 20% rentals to help you cast your vote this election day.
A member of the Big Orange Cycling club suffered head, rib and back injuries when she was rear-ended in Rancho Palos Verdes on Sunday; witnesses report her shoes were still clipped into her pedals following the crash.
A Laguna Beach newspaper remembers surfer and sailor Jack Meehan, a local resident killed while riding his bike in Santa Cruz last month.
A competitive cyclist is calling for safety improvements, including narrowing the 14-foot wide traffic lanes, after he was the victim of a hit-and-run while riding in an Encinitas bike lane last August.
A lightless San Diego bicyclist suffered a broken leg when he allegedly rode through a stop sign and into the path of an oncoming car.
Someone at UC Santa Barbara is apparently going after a Masters in sarcasm, reporting that the university has decided to turn the entire campus into a bike lane.
Authorities are looking for the bicycle a young man was riding before he was found buried in a shallow grave on the Sonoma State University campus.
Bloomberg notes that bike lane networks can even improve the health of people who don’t ride, and are more cost-effective than the majority of preventive health measures. However, that’s actual networks, not a few disconnected lanes like we have in Los Angeles.
Seattle dropped speed limits on over 2,400 miles of city streets in order to improve safety. Which is exactly what LA needs to do, but probably can’t due to the outdated and deadly 85% law.
Denver’s bikeshare system is free today only to encourage people to ride to their polling place.
A Minnesota writer says a ghost bike is a beautiful sentiment, but the best way to honor fallen riders would be to actually improve safety.
The driver responsible for the Kalamazoo massacre last June has been ordered to stand trial for the allegedly drug-fueled crash that killed five cyclists and injured four more; he faces up to life in prison if convicted on any of the five second-degree murder counts.
Durham NC installs green bike lanes through an intersection in a continuing effort to improve safety on a notoriously dangerous street.
A non-driving Atlanta writer tells drivers to just calm down, while noting the irrational anger many motorists exhibit when a bicyclist breaks the law, even though they don’t obey traffic laws, either.
An Alabama letter writer complains about “unsightly” Share the Road signs that he insists are for the benefit of outsiders, since no one he knows rides a bike.
The victims of a British Columbia crash were all members of a club that raises funds for the local Parkinson’s Society; one rider was killed and two others seriously injured when a driver plowed into the six riders.
Nice piece from London Cyclist discussing five things cyclists should learn to love, from Bromptons and ebikes to airbag helmets and yes, drivers.
A UK cycling magazine discusses the need to look after your heart, noting that heart disease can affect anyone, even if you’re great shape. Seriously, take a few minutes to read this one; it could save your life some day. But remember, the symptoms of a heart attack can be different for women.
Caught on video too: The Sun insists hundreds of wheelie-popping London teens caused mayhem by riding through red lights and weaving through cars while on a ride to raise awareness for a cancer victim. Yes, they rode recklessly, but it’s quire a reach to describe the minimal disruption they appear to have caused as mayhem.
For the first time, there are more bikes than cars in Copenhagen’s city center.
Bicycling is once again becoming cool in China.
Seriously, if another rider stops to help you after a fall, don’t repay him by whacking him with your bike. When is a bike lane not a bike lane? When it’s a park.
And we should know later today if Donald Trump’s candidacy will grab the yellow jersey or go the way of his ill-fated bike race, while the one he tried to sue to stop is still going strong.
Now go vote already.
Category: Morning Links, Road Rage, Violence & Crime / Tags: bicycling, bike rage, car jacking, Los Angeles, Lucas James Guidroz, Rod Bennett, Van Nuys
Morning Links: Road rage assault in San Diego County, and LAPD looking for shooter of Echo Park bike rider
October 27, 2016 / bikinginla / 3 comments
Come back later today when we’ll have a guest post from Mr. CiclaValley himself as he talks with Toluca Lake resident and pro cyclist Phil Gaimon about next weekend’s inaugural Malibu Gran Cookie Fondo.
This is who we share the roads with.
San Diego’s 10News reports a road raging driver intentionally knocked a local radio host off his bicycle as he was escorting a disabled cyclist on the Coast Highway in Carlsbad, just a few miles from the end of the Challenged Athletes Foundation’s 620-mile Million Dollar Challenge.
As the rider worked to make it up a small hill, an impatient driver began honking his horn, despite a support van warning cyclists were ahead. So KOGO host Bob “Sully” Sullivan rode back to explain that his riding partner was a paraplegic using a handcycle to get up the hill.
“‘We’ve gone 590 miles, give me 90 seconds, I’ll have him up and over this grade, you can be on your way,'” Sullivan said he told the man. “Completely agitated, he says to me, ‘I don’t care if it’s f-ing God up there. Get out of the f-ing road.'”
Sullivan said that’s when he stopped talking to the man and got back on his bike. The truck’s driver accelerated and hit Sullivan’s bike, causing him to fall to the roadway.
Yet despite the presence of an off-duty Carlsbad cop riding in the opposite direction, no charges have been filed.
“I think he needs to be arrested,” Sullivan said. “Somebody who purposely hits somebody on a bicycle using his car is either assault with a deadly weapon, attempted murder, at the very least shouldn’t be driving a car right now.”
Thanks to Todd Munson for the heads-up.
The LAPD is asking for the public’s help in finding the person who shot and killed a bike rider in Echo Park last week; 37-year old William Perea was hit with gunfire as he rode at Mohawk and Montana the night of October 17th.
LADOT says safety remains the top priority on the LA River bike path, as they remind both walkers and bike riders about the statutes governing the pathway and the need to share it safely, in the wake of a collision with a bicyclist that sent an elderly woman to the hospital.
Equity is the common theme of the day.
Momentum Magazine looks at the nationwide movement to build greater equity in bicycling.
People for Bikes says the massive racial wealth gap is a major barrier to bicycle use, noting that a bike can’t save you money if you don’t have enough to buy one.
And Curbed looks at the speech given by the LACBC’s Tamika Butler that brought down the house at last month’s NACTO conference.
The LACBC deserves a lot of credit for starting this conversation, even before Butler came on board, with its outreach to lower income immigrant communities in the last decade. Along with notable presentations at the National Bike Summit that marked the bike coalition as a national leader on the subject.
Don’t forget to vote for LA Bike Trains and SAFE (Streets Are For Everyone) for this year’s LA2050 challenge grants; voting ends tomorrow.
KCET discovers the delicious marriage of bicycling and desserts that is Sweet Ride USA, with new episodes appearing online every Wednesday through November 16th.
KPCC discusses solutions to the first mile/last mile problem for transit users.
The Westwood Village Improvement Association discusses how to improve business and better serve the surrounding community. Oddly, making it safer to walk and bike there doesn’t seem to be an option, even though both would benefit the Village’s long suffering businesses.
Pasadena’s bikeshare system is expected to open next July as the Metro Bike system expands northward; the system is expected to have 400 bikes at 34 docking stations around the city.
The new and improved Agoura Road, complete with shiny new bike lanes, opens in Agoura Hills after a year of construction.
Cycling in the South Bay’s Seth Davidson recounts Tuesday’s civil obedience protest ride and lengthy council session in Palos Verdes Estates in his own inimitable style.
Hats off to OC’s Special Spokes and the San Clemente Rotary for providing special-needs kids with adaptive bicycles. With all the negativity this election year, it’s nice to see people working to make a real difference in kids lives.
A Clovis driver faces up to a year in jail for fatally rear-ending a bike rider last April.
An unidentified man was shot and killed as he rode his bike in Fresno Tuesday night; police are unsure if the shooting was gang-related.
There’s a special place in hell for someone who would steal a bicycle on loan to a vet from Ride 2 Recovery so he could ride across the US with his dog, who’s suffering from terminal cancer. And in my hometown, no less.
Bike lawyer Bob Mionske writes about a new Close Call Database allowing bike riders to report punishment passes from angry motorists to establish a paper trail in case the driver does it again. Or worse.
A Texas rider says learn to ride safely and obey the law, or don’t ride at all.
A Maine newspaper says the technology for today’s carbon fiber bicycles got its start in the state with Aegis Bicycle, but the company couldn’t hold out against increasing competition and the demand for ever lighter frames.
New York tells cyclists and pedestrians to make themselves more visible, and drivers to pay more attention, in advance of the end of daylight savings time next month. Meanwhile, a new proposal would allow bike riders to get a head start at traffic signals by going with the walk signal for the leading pedestrian interval.
Who was that masked man? A Bronx bike rider is a hero after retrieving a woman’s stolen purse, then riding off before she could thank him. No word on whether he left a silver bike chainlink behind.
Philadelphia police arrested a 17-year old boy in the shooting of a Good Samaritan who got off his bicycle to try to stop an armed robbery; he faces charges including attempted murder and aggravated assault.
Bikes and dogs are now officially banned from Arlington National Cemetery.
A Charleston writer says the city deserves the distinction of being called America’s worst city for bicycling.
You know Calgary has a lot of bike riders when the city’s bike counter gets maxed out with 68 days still left in the year.
Ella Cycling Tips offers advice on how to recover mentally from a bicycling crash.
Life is cheap in Belize, where champion cyclist Marlon Castillo is fined just $13,000 for the careless driving collision that killed his friend.
Ottawa police release a new PSA campaign explaining how to use and drive around the city’s new bike box and bi-directional bike lanes.
Caught on video: A British cabbie clips a cyclist with his mirror, then launches into a foul-mouthed temper tantrum claiming the rider somehow hit him. And yet some actually question who was in the right.
Tom Cruise is one of us, as he reportedly rides through the English countryside with his new girlfriend.
A Brit cyclist born with just one arm is raising funds to buy a prosthetic arm so he can compete in the Paralympic Games; a Go Fund Me account has raised a little more than half of the £7,500 goal, the equivalent of $9157.
A nine-year old cyclist may be a better climber than most of us, topping Italy’s famed Mt. Ventoux and Stelvio climbs in under 48 hours.
An Aussie writer says Sydney needs to focus less on fining bike riders and more on building some decent infrastructure for them.
A German cyclist survives a night in the snake and crocodile-infested Australian wilds after taking a header over his handlebars and dislocating is shoulder.
If you’re going to use a bicycle to make your getaway after stealing a bag-full of booze, try not to ride into a lamppost. Why settle for a mere sag wagon when you can have your very own bike butler?
And in LA we have police chases; in London, it’s investment bankers biking away from bobbies.
Category: Car vs Bike, Morning Links, Road Rage, Violence & Crime / Tags: bicycling, Bob "Sully" Sullivan, fatal shooting, L.A.P.D., LADOT, Los Angeles, Los Angeles River bike path, road rage, vehicular assault
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What is a Smartphone App?
Daniel Miller20 February 2019
A major aim of our project is to provide new insights and approaches to the question what is a smartphone, see my own contribution to The Conversation, the key to this is understand it as a collection of apps. The academic community has been relatively slow to address the nature of apps, despite their evident importance. A recent book called Appified (Morris and Murray 2018) tackles the question head on with thirty chapters each dedicated to a different App. I want to briefly review here what I found to be the most important contribution of this volume. Most of the chapters are directed to whatever the author thinks is the most interesting or intriguing quality of the topic which the App addresses, what it tells us about gender, or fitness or music making or sociality. They depend upon your interest in that topic.
There are, however, two very fine chapters that singularly, and more especially in combination, progress our understanding of the nature of the App. The first is called Is It Tuesday? (Morris 2018). This App is an intentional joke, as the only thing it does is answer the question of whether today is Tuesday and how often it has been asked that question. As such it reveals the way we use humour and irony to address our perception of this new App culture, best summarised by the phrase ‘There is an App for that’. This perspective highlights the single function App. If, to the hammer, everything looks like a nail, to the App developer, everything looks like a problem that can be solved by an App. The chapter employs terms such as microfunctionality and solutionism.
The other excellent contribution addresses what may be regarded, in some ways, as the most successful App ever invented, the Chinese WeChat (Brunton 2018), in that WeChat does more and is more completely integrated into the lives of its users than any App used outside of China. The chapter shows why the very fact that it started out as a messenger App based around texting, in particular, is one of the reasons that it was able to develop this extraordinary form of incremental functionality that lies behind this success. On the basis of its underlying infrastructure the platform could then be turned into anything from a way to pay for goods, to the means to obtain an appointment with your doctor, and a host of other functions.
The real contribution of this volume is that includes both these chapters, which are more or less the exact opposite of it each other. Most of my theoretical writings are inspired by the philosopher Hegel, whose concept of the dialectic became the foundation for my understanding of the term modernity. A key feature is the simultaneous and connected rise of ever greater particularity and ever more encompassing universality. In the introduction to the book Digital Anthropology that I wrote with Heather Horst we argued that the digital world is a major step forward in this trajectory, since it creates a vast set of new particularities on the basis of them all being reducible to code. In a rather different manner, something that we might call ‘scalable functionality’, is evident as the link between advanced in both particularity and universality as explored through the analysis of these two Apps.
The approach of our project is very different, based on the holism of ethnography. We tend to see Apps always in the context of all the other Apps it is associated with on a smartphone, and the smartphone in the context of everything else that its user is and does. But having a better sense of issues such as scalable functionality is certainly helpful in this task.
Brunton, F. (2018) ‘WeChat; Messaging Apps and New Social Currency Transaction Tools’. pp 179-187, in Morris , J and Murray S. Eds. 2018 Appified. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Morris. J. (2018) ‘Is it Tuesday: Novelty Apps and Digital Solutionism’. pp 91-99. in Morris , J and Murray S. Eds. 2018 Appified. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
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What’s in the June Mindful Reader Column?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Million Years With You, Amy Traverso, Ben Hewitt, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Joe Eck, Martha Carlson-Bradley, Saved, Sea Called Fruitfulness, The Concord Monitor, The Mindful Reader column, To Eat, Wayne Winterrowd, Yankee Magazine, Yankee Magazine's Lost and Vintage Recipes on May 31, 2013| Leave a Comment »
I’m reviewing Elizabeth Marshall Thomas’s A Million Years With You: a Memoir of Life Observed, as well as brief reviews of Martha Carlson-Bradley’s new poetry collection Sea Called Fruitfulness, Ben Hewitt’s $aved: How I Quit Worrying About Money and Became the Richest Guy in the World, To Eat by Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd, and Yankee Magazine’s Lost & Vintage Recipes by Amy Traverso and the editors of Yankee.
I turned the column in today and it will run in the Sunday, June 9 Concord Monitor.
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Air Raid Precaution, Blitz, Faith Matters, Holocaust survivors, human nature, Irene Butter, Jane Gardam, Kate Atkinson, Life After Life, WWI, WWII, Zeitouna Project on May 27, 2013| 3 Comments »
This weekend I finished the very unusual novel (one of two with this title released last month) Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. I’d only ever read a short story of Atkinson’s, in an anthology called Earth. I enjoyed this book not only because it’s incredibly original — more on that in a moment — but also because it melds interesting characters, compelling ideas, and rich writing.
Ursula Todd, the heroine of the novel, is born over and over. Not into different lives, not reincarnated into new existences, but as herself, in her family and place and time (a moderately prosperous British family in the early 1900’s — she’s a child when her father goes off to the Great War and a young woman when WWII begins). Her life(ves) turn on circumstances that she can recall or sense, so sometimes she manipulates events to prevent untimely death. Sometimes things are beyond her control but still turn out differently. As she lives longer and grows up she begins to sense the nature of her strange reality.
Readers never get a sense that she completely grasps it, nor are we ever sure exactly which existence trumps the others; right up until the end, this novel is a puzzle. At least for me it was — I found it endlessly fascinating but was never sure I’d got it assembled in my mind perfectly. If you require a novel with a straightforward chronological narrative, or at least easy to digest flashbacks, you may be befuddled. But if you’re willing to let those trappings go, this is a really intriguing book.
Ursula is a great character — bright and capable and mostly quite brave and independent-minded. Different, marked not only by her strange deja-vu lives but as her father Hugh describes her, “watchful, as if she was trying to drink in the whole world.” And its a world in the throes of change: the world wars, the ushering in of the modern era’s new moral, cultural, and political realities. Atkinson mines all of that rich historical context and also plumbs Ursula’s relationships and her emotional life from various angles: Ursula as daughter, sister, niece, friend, lover, aunt. In this regard Atkinson reminds me of Jane Gardam.
This is a book you will likely want very much to discuss when you finish. Beyond the obvious questions about how much we control our own fate, Atkinson also looks closely at human nature. What makes a person act horribly to those closest to him or her? Why do we insist on labeling each other and boxing ourselves into social roles and expectations? Why are there dictators? Wars? Why are some people driven by ambition and others by purer motives? Does love ever exist in its purest form, and what is it exactly?
As I thoroughly enjoyed being immersed in the questions and quandaries of Ursula’s fictional world I had our own very much in mind. At one point in the novel Ursula is a warden in an Air Raid Precaution unit. It’s a diverse group of volunteers from different walks of life, different ages and backgrounds, who come together to keep the people in their small sector of London safe, making sure everyone observes the blackout, takes shelter during raids, and is properly identified in case of injury or death. They respond to the horrors of the Blitz night after night. Ursula’s senior warden in a retired hospital matron and WWI nurse veteran, Miss Woolf. She’s unflappable and she keeps them focused on the higher moral ground at one point noting “it is intolerance that has brought us to this pass.”
It’s easy to think that was a different time, that there’s nothing comparable to such selfless service today — except there is. A Holocaust survivor, Irene Butter, spoke in Concord last week about her life, and the Concord Monitor noted, “Ten years ago, she also helped found the Zeitouna Project,” a group of women, Jews and Arabs, who are “refusing to be enemies.” In the UK, Faith Matters is working “to reduce extremism and interfaith and intra-faith tensions and . . . develop platforms for discourse and interaction between Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Jewish and Hindu communities across the globe,” responding this week to the anti-Muslim backlash after the extremist murder of a British soldier.
And of course, people are still working to assist the Boston bombing victims, people impacted by the Oklahoma tornado, and in quiet, less newsworthy ways, people in their own towns and cities every day who need help: homeless people, the elderly, those afflicted with cancer or mental illness or other health challenges, victims of abuse and violence, and others who need a helping hand. I’m grateful for people who are willing give of themselves to do what’s right. And for literature that helps us understand and discuss human nature at its best and worst.
Contemplating (with) Maisie Dobbs
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Spirituality of Service, awareness, Book Lust, casino gambling, catastrophe, centering prayer, compassion, contemplative prayer, homelessness, injustice, Jacqueline Winspear, Jerry Aaker, Maisie Dobbs, meditation, mindfulness, Nancy Pearl, negative capability, Oliver Burkeman, Phil Fox Rose, The Antidote on May 23, 2013| Leave a Comment »
When I drove to Vermont to collect Teen the Elder (in less than two months I have to call him something else!) from college, I caught up on some podcasts, including Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust interview with Jacqueline Winspear. I’d heard of Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs series, but mostly avoid mysteries. I’m a wimp when it comes to blood and guts and I hate thinking about crimes and criminal intent.
But I love history, and Teen the Younger and the Computer Scientist and I watched The Bletchley Circle on PBS recently. The series is about four women friends who were code breakers at Bletchley Park who work together to nab a serial killer in London a few years after the war. The murders made me squeamish, but the period details were terrific and I enjoyed the brilliant female characters.
So when I heard Winspear’s conversation with Nancy Pearl I was intrigued. Last weekend the Computer Scientist and I visited an inn on the southern Maine coast, and a mystery seemed perfect to take along. I loved it! Maisie is a very compelling character, a working class girl who goes into service and can’t resist her employers’ library. When she’s catches Maisie reading in the wee hours, Lady Rowan Compton realizes the girl’s remarkable intellect deserves developing, and she asks her friend, Dr. Maurice Blanche, to tutor Maisie.
When the first book in the series opens, Maisie has opened her own office as a “psychologist and investigator” in London, and Dr. Blanche is retired. As the book unfolds we learn about her life thus far and the training, study, and experiences that have shaped her, including studying “moral sciences” at Cambridge and serving as a nurse in Frace during WWI. Under Dr. Blanche’s careful tutelage, Maisie learned to take careful notes, think deeply, and meditate regularly. This combination of awareness and contemplation really struck me.
That’s what I’ve been working on myself — mindfulness and lately, contemplative prayer. I’ve tried meditation for years and have had mixed results. In a small group discussion of Jerry Aaker’s A Spirituality of Service and a Lenten series on types of prayer, contemplative or centering prayer appealed to me as a practice similar to meditation but less focused on breathing. Phil Fox Rose offers a nice “how to” on this kind of meditation. Contemplative awareness in Maisie Dobb’s world and our own is about compassionate insight into the messy, the broken, and the beautiful alike.
Why bother with this? Why not say a quick prayer if you pray, and get on with the day? Well, Maisie meditates for mental clarity. Regular practitioners swear by that, and as I mentioned in my review of Oliver Burkeman’s The Antidote, meditation helps strengthen our “negative capability” as Keats called it, the capacity to live comfortably with uncertainty. Or to grasp a mystery, fictional or real. Such as trying to take in catastrophes like bombings or murders or natural disasters, or to be a witness to injustice (plenty of opportunity to do that lately, as our state argued about whether to fund essential services via casino gambling and a judge decides soon whether our town’s homeless people have a right to camp when there’s no shelter space).
I’m not sure if those skills will help me figure out what Maisie Dobbs is solving as I read the rest of Jacqueline Winspear’s series, but I plan to do that, as well as to hone my own contemplative and mindful awareness.
On looking . . . and seeing
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Million Years With You, Alexandra Horowitz, attentiveness, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, homeless, homelessness, Maira Kalman, mindfulness, noticing, On Looking, poverty on May 16, 2013| Leave a Comment »
I finished Alexandra Horowitz‘s On Looking: Eleven Walks With Expert Eyes last night, and earlier this week finished a book for next month’s column, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas‘s A Million Years With You: A Memoir of a Life Observed. Thomas is an amazing woman, who learned at an early age the value of being fully present (both to people and animals) and observing closely. More on her book in the column. Horowitz is a cognitive scientist specializing in animals — both women wrote very popular books about dogs. But her latest book looks at what we humans don’t see, hear or sense in our everyday environments.
On Looking is about Horowitz walking her own block and other city streets with eleven experts: her toddler son, a blind woman, an insect tracker, one of the foremost raccoon experts in the world, the artist Maira Kalman, a geologist, a typographer, a physician, a public space specialist, a sound engineer, and her dog. On each walk Alexander immersed herself in the specialty of the person (or dog) she was with. By identifying signs that other creatures were nearby (or what lettering or types of stone reveal), understanding how the blind (or a toddler, an artist, a dog) experience the world, and so on with each of her walk-mates, she considered the unique perspectives of her experts, and all that was there to explore in plain sight.
All of us have experienced — at work, at home, in friendships and with our families — the way differences of perception color our everyday experiences. What we each notice and what even those closest to us notice is not always aligned. But Horowitz reveals that not only do humans perceptions vary, but beyond that, we don’t give our full attention to what’s right in front of us. As a longtime (and very unskilled) student of mindfulness I knew this, but Horowitz’s book examines this phenomenon beautifully.
She finds as she walks around her block at the start of her project, “What I saw and attended to was exactly what I expected to see . . . .” Throughout her fascinating research, walking with people who guided her beyond the familiar, Horowitz discovered “the unbelievable strata of trifling, tremendous things to observe.” She writes with humor and very accessible intelligence, as well as curiosity and admiration for her fellow walkers.
Will I ever be as attentive as she is? My monkey mind gets in my way all the time, and I’m not sure I can ever wrangle my synapses’ high capacity magazine with a mindfulness trigger lock. I recently read that creative types and “sensitive” introverts have overly active brains so maybe fighting the way my brain works is counterproductive, but some stillness and attentiveness has got to be better than none. I don’t expect to reach Horowitz’s level of attention on my next walk, but she’s given me a great deal more to notice.
Which brings me to the seeing part of the post: thanks to an attentive friend, I heard about and attended the rally in our town on Monday in support of our homeless community, who’ve been evicted from both public and private land and had their belongings seized, including donated tents handed out by a number of churches and social organizations when winter shelters closed. At the rally I noticed that one of the problems facing the homeless is perception: people see someone rough around the edges and assume mental illness or addiction. But the only accurate definition of someone who is homeless is that he or she has no home.
If you or I had nowhere to rest, clean up, or be safe, we’d look a little rough. As my friend Kellie’s sign said: poverty is not a crime. Treating it as such isn’t productive. Refusing to see the homeless will not make the problem of homelessness disappear. Thank God telling them to get out of sight won’t put them out of mind of the concerned citizens who were present on Monday. I’m thankful for those that not only see but also do, who are providing legal representation, practical support, and loving kindness to people who have little else in this world.
May Mindful Reader column
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged America 1933, Cathie Pelletier, doughboys, Educators and Agitators, Eleanor Roosevelt, Julie Wu, Larry Sullivan, Lorena Hickok, Michael Golay, Mimi Wiggin, Richard Rubin, The Concord Monitor, the Great Depression, The Last of the Doughboys, The Mindful Reader, The One-Way Bridge, The Third Son, WWI, WWII on May 12, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Here’s my May column. It ran in today’s Concord Monitor, minus the last sentence for some reason (probably space, although they made room in the layout of the print edition for photos of each of the book covers). Here it is in its entirety.
The Woman Who Helped Shape the New Deal
Phillips Exeter Academy history teacher Michael Golay’s new book, America 1933:The Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of the New Deal is the story of Lorena Hickok’s exhaustive reporting in 1933-34 for Harry Hopkins at the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Hickock was an intrepid traveler, visiting relief and work programs and talking to “people from all walks of life” all over the country. Her work is “. . . an incomparable narrative record . . . of America in the depths of the Great Depression.”
Golay explains Hickok and Eleanor Roosevelt were “close.” Hickok even lived in Eleanor’s quarters at the White House. Quotes from letters between Eleanor and Hickock portray a talented, assertive reporter whose intimate friendship with the First Lady brought relief from the travails of her work. Golay speculates that publicity surrounding their attempt to take a quiet vacation together in 1934 may have cooled Eleanor’s feelings. But the focus of America 1933 is “Hickok’s historical legacy . . . her influence on Hopkins’s welfare and jobs policies in a time when, for millions of ordinary people, a little help from the larger community meant the difference between hunger and subsistence, numb despair and a stirring of hope.”
Golay notes “it would be an exaggeration to portray Hickok as an observer gifted with keen political insight,” but he clearly admires her determination and “astonishing capacity for work.” America 1933 illuminates her vivid reporting and its importance to policy makers. Golay offers a highly detailed, richly referenced portrait of a terrible moment in American history and the woman whose contributions helped get the country back on its feet.
Too many books: local history, doughboys, and terrific fiction
When I picked up Massachusetts author Julie Wu’s delightful debut novel, The Third Son, I thought it looked daunting: a protagonist with more than one name, foreign politics, tragedy. But I didn’t set it down again until I’d reached the end. The Third Son is the perfect fusion of great storytelling, evocative settings, interesting characters, and compelling ideas. The book opens in 1943 in Japanese occupied Taiwan during an American bombing raid. We meet Saburo, an eight year old who helps a girl take cover that chaotic afternoon; I loved him immediately. Wu draws readers into Saburo’s world as he grows up, navigates his unhappy family life, finds the girl again, and makes his own way in America. But beneath this book’s lovely surface there is so much more to enjoy. The Third Son is about the power of the human spirit to persevere and transcend hardship. The complexity of the relationships; the political, cultural and historical backdrop of the story; the characters who don’t act in perfectly mapped out ways but rise or fail in the face of challenges as real people do, all make for a rich, highly satisfying read, ripe for discussion.
Cathie Pelletier’s eye for detail enlivens The One-Way Bridge, a novel about fictional Mattagash, Maine and its residents. It’s a warm, humorous read, but subtle, too. Retired teacher Florence Henderson appears late in the book, but I felt like I knew her already because of her vocabulary lesson yard sign. I also loved Billy Thunder, a drug dealer willing to sell his most prized possession to save a dog from being put down. And Harry Plunkett, a Vietnam vet whose brash t-shirts and lifelong feud with local mailman Orville Craft hide a very emotional interior life. What all of her characters share is heart, but Pelletier isn’t shy about exploring their flaws. She portrays the complexity of living in a place where everyone thinks they know everyone else’s business, creating a very empathetic novel without sugar-coating life in rural Maine. You might not want to move there when you’re done reading, but you’ll have new respect for the people who do, like Pelletier herself.
Larry Sullivan’s Educators and Agitators: Selected Works of 19th Century Women Writers from a Small New Hampshire Town is published by the Warner Historical Society. Sullivan researched fifteen women and selected sixty of their works, including poetry, essays , children’s stories, and opinion pieces. His introductions paint a vivid picture of what women in 1800’s New Hampshire cared about and how they lived. They accomplished a great deal besides writing, becoming teachers, “agitators” for a variety of social causes, home economists, journalists, editors, librarians, and community organizers. They traveled around New England, across America and even abroad, wrote about a world that was changing quickly, and contributed to those changes. Vintage photos and Mimi Wiggin’s beautiful artwork enhance the anthology’s peek into the past.
Finally Maine author Richard Rubin’s curiosity, humor, and zest for his subject enlivens The Last of the Doughboys: the Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War. In 2003, after hearing a story about WWII veterans, Rubin wondered whether any WWI doughboys were still alive. He discovered the French government had been searching for every living American WWI veteran to award each the Legion d’Honneur. This “French List” helped Rubin locate and interview several dozen, ages 101-113. Both these carefully recorded conversations and the fascinating details he weaves into their stories — about WWI monuments, battlefield souvenirs, Tin Pan Alley, cultural shifts on the home front and “Over There,” French and British views of America’s WWI contributions, talking with the very old — kept me turning pages. Rubin writes with a journalist’s attentiveness, immersing readers in the lives and experiences of those who “. . . set off for a world war, and came back with a world.”
Coming up in May’s Mindful Reader Column
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged America 1933, Cathie Pelletier, Concord Monitor, Educators and Agitators, Julie Wu, Larry Sullivan, Michael Golay, Mimi Wiggin, Richard Rubin, The Last of the Doughboys, The Mindful Reader, The One-Way Bridge, The Third Son on May 3, 2013| Leave a Comment »
I’m on the gazillionth (ok, twelfth) draft of my column and thought I’d take a break to let you know what I’ll be reviewing in the Mindful Reader, which will run on Sunday, May 12 in the Concord Monitor.
America 1933: The Great Depression, Lorena Hicock, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Shaping of the New Deal by Michael Golay
The Third Son by Julie Wu (Facebook friends, this is the book I raved about the week of the Boston bombings)
The One-Way Bridge by Cathy Pelletier
Educators and Agitators: Selected Works of 19th Century Women Writers from a Small New Hampshire Town by Larry Sullivan with artwork by Mimi Wiggin
The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and their Forgotten World War by Richard Rubin
Phew. Back to work.
Reading to find what we know
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, Boston bombers, Episcopalians, fiction, Iraq, Jessica Soffer, masgouf, novel, reading, Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots, truth on May 2, 2013| Leave a Comment »
I just finished Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots by Jessica Soffer. The structure felt cumbersome and I found the characters a little unbelievable, but it’s a debut and the writing isn’t bad, so I suspended disbelief. It’s the story of an eighth-grader named Lorca whose chef mother is too much of an emotional disaster herself to deal with her. Lorca has a psychological condition that causes her to cut or burn or otherwise hurt herself. When the book opens she’s been suspended after getting caught cutting herself at school. That in itself seemed wrong (although I have no idea how accurate).
Her mother’s not-so-kind response includes threatening to send her to boarding school. Lorca overhears her mother and aunt talking and decides that she will get back in her mother’s good graces by learning to make a complicated Iraqi fish dish called masgouf that her mother remembers eating in a restaurant. An older boy, Blot, who works in a nearby bookstore, and who Lorca has a crush on, ends up helping.
They track down Victoria, who owned the now-closed restaurant. She’s a recent widow, and she and Lorca each begin to believe, without telling each other, that she might be Lorca’s grandmother (her mother’s adopted and as far as Lorca knows, never found her birth mother). As this poor child tries to please her unsympathetic mess of a mother, we hear about Victoria’s also (to me) unbelievable past. Part of which includes learning something she never knew about her husband.
What made me finish the book, which I would probably have put down otherwise, was that I got to thinking about the way people know or think they know about each other. And I wanted, despite despising a key character and finding some of the book’s architecture unwieldy, to find out whether anything Lorca and Blot and Victoria thought they knew would help them. Some books I’ve been reading for my next column — one about WWI dough boys interviewed in very great old age, another a novel about a very small town in Maine, another a brilliant debut novel about a Taiwanese immigrant — also hinge on this very human problem.
We are always so sure we know what we know. Especially about each other. Just turn on the news and you’ll hear this play out again and again. In the case of the Boston bombers. Or in my town, of a boy who was arrested, then cleared of a felony charge which turned out to be based on false witness. Or of three people, one of whom is the victim’s mother (I guess I have to cut Jessica Soffer some slack) accused of torturing an eighteen year old boy. In the case of atrocities and conflicts around the world and our perceived interest or potential role in them, people who claim to know argue endlessly in the public sphere, often as people unknown to us as anything other than faces in the news are irrevocably impacted. (All good reasons to consume less news, as I mused last week). True or untrue, full story or sketch, what we know is often just a fraction of what we could.
So what DO we know? For me, books are a way to explore this question, to look at human frailty in the context of universal stories rendered specific by authors who lead us on the search for what an Episcopal priest I know calls “Big T Truths.” Books allow some distance — fictional detachment in the case of novels and poems, reflective analysis in the case of history, memoir, and narrative prose — through which we can try to reach what is known and unknown. Which is one reason I read. Books are a far more comfortable home for ambiguity than news.
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Not Afraid Secrets of Eminem: From Birth to 2021 by Lisa Sharon Gardiner
Discover startling secrets about Eminem in a new book about his life like none other before. UPDATED- Includes in-depth answers to the following questions. How has Eminem been coping with 2020 lockdowns? Who threatened to kill Eminem in 2020? What is his relationship with Joe Biden? What is Eminem’s relationship with Trump? What did Trump tweet about Eminem? What was Trump’s relationship with Eminem before his presidency? Was Eminem’s mother really diagnosed with Munchhausen’s syndrome by proxy? (The answer to this one is yes.) When and why was Eminem’s mother diagnosed with Munchhausen’s syndrome by proxy? What does she have to say about it? Why has Eminem been visited by the Secret Service on more than one occasion? Why did Eminem once attempt suicide? What REALLY happened between Eminem and Mariah Carey? Which one of them is telling the TRUTH? What was the full reason why Eminem said he’d rather slit his father’s throat than reconcile with him? What happened to Eminem’s romantic relationship with Brittany Murphy? What has Debbie Mathers been posting on her secret social media accounts? What are her political views? What has been Eminem’s involvement with politics over the years? What are some of the family SECRETS in Eminem’s complex and tragic family? Who are Eminem’s four children? Who will inherit his wealth? What is his net worth? Who is the child Kim raises on her own? Why did Kim go to jail? Why did she attempt suicide? Kim Scott Mathers, who is she really? Why did her twin sister have to say about her and Eminem? How many times does Eminem say that he’s been in love? What extravagant gift did Eminem buy Kim in 2013? What is their relationship today? Who are Eminem’s two brothers and one sister? Which drugs did Eminem get severely addicted to, what was his drug of choice? What shocking gift did Marshall buy Elton John? Why did a friend of Eminem’s from a former hip hop group kill himself when Eminem wouldn’t respond to his letters? ALL THESE QUESTIONS ANSWERED IN-DEPTH AND MANY MORE! Knowledge gleaned from thousands of interviews, books, YouTube videos, and social media postings to track down the full answers to questions that have puzzled Eminem fans for so many years. A critical analysis from a writer with a master’s degree with honors
Targeted Age Group:: Late teen to adult
What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
For over twenty years I have been a fan of Eminem and always knew a lot of unusual facts about him that amazed people at parties. I wanted to track down the secrets of his life as there were many questions left unanswered with the media always regurgitating the same things and rarely going in depth into the background on the many extraordinary things about his life.
I was a traditionally published romance writer but after the sudden death of my husband I had to do something else and not write about romance for awhile so I wrote a book about Eminem.
Book Sample
The deputies could not issue an alcohol test because they had not witnessed either of them driving the jet ski. “We had no real legal means of trying to give them a sobriety or breath test because we don’t have the right to do that, technically,” Hackel told "Rolling Stone".
However, they checked the women’s drivers’ licenses and found that both had outstanding warrants. Kim had an outstanding warrant for disturbing the peace. The detectives put Kim in a police car to take her to jail. They then noticed that a “white powdery substance of suspected cocaine” was found in the back seat of the police car where Kim had been sitting. Kim was in big trouble.
Eminem told the press: “Kim is pregnant. I have no idea who the father is. I just know she’s due any day. So, Hailie is going to have a baby sister. It’s going to be tough the day she asks me why her baby sister can’t come over. I’ve tried to keep her sheltered from those issues.”
Kim told "Mojo in the Morning," that Marshall had a tough time dealing with the idea of her being pregnant to another man and didn’t know if he could be with her again after that.
However, Marshall got over this.
In 2004 he told Rolling Stone
“Kim has been in and out of jail and on house arrest, cut her tether off, had been on the run from the cops for quite a while. Tryin’ to explain that to my niece and my daughter was one of the hardest things I ever had to go through. You can never let a child feel like it’s her fault for what’s goin’ on. You just gotta let her know: 'Mom has a problem, she’s sick, and it’s not because she doesn’t love you. She loves you, but she’s sick right now, and until she gets better, you’ve got Daddy. And I’m here.'"
Cutting her tether off and going on the run was the final straw for the courts leading to Kim actually having to serve prison time where she had some help recovering from alcohol and drug addiction.
Strangely it was around this time that Eminem fell in love with Kim again.
Possibly he felt sympathy and a connection because both had been through arrests and rehab.
Waiting at home for Kim to call the family from jail seemed to make him miss her more than ever before. Once Kim was released from prison, Eminem suggested she come stay with him and the kids for a week. The week stretched into a year.
Eminem told a local radio station at the time, “‘Me and Kim, we been through our dramas and shit, but I’ve been bald-faced lying if I said I don’t love her or I’m with her because of my daughter. I’m with her, ’cause I really wanna be with her. I love that girl, man. I really do.”
In his 2017 song "Bad Husband", Eminem raps about Kim:
You were the beat I loved with a writer's block
The line that's hot, that I forgot
We laughed a little, cried a lot
I'll never forget when you came home, and you held Hailie
Day before you went to jail and daily
How we'd wait for that mail lady
Or by the phone, for mom to call
And I watched you pull yourself up, and we decided on
Givin' it one more try despite it all
You're my lightning rod when my sky gets dark
I'm your shiny rocks in that tiny box
When we tied the knot when we broke the knot
In 2003 Eminem wrote the sentimental song "Mockingbird" about their past, which came out in 2004 and between 2003 to 2006, the couple appeared to fall back in love.
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wbtc: West Bengal: In crisis, e-bus comes to the rescue of WBTC, Energy News, ET EnergyWorld
, which are powered by rechargeable lithium ion batteries, are running at optimum capacities to meet the heightened demand. A large number of private buses have also gone off the roads due to non-viability of operations.
Highlighting the benefits of e-bus, a transport department officer said, While the expenditure for non-AC buses is Rs 35 per kilometre, for AC buses it is Rs 50. But for an electric bus, the expenditure is as low as Rs 12/km. With the WBTC going through a rough patch, an electric bus gives major relief. Add to that the immense environmental benefits.
WBTC, which met the citys commute demands during the lockdown, ran into huge debts because of low earningsfrom fares, ferrying migrant labourers to their homes and ferrying frontline health workers. Even during the unlock period, the earning from fares was much lower compared to pre-lockdown revenue. During the pre-lockdown days, WBTC used to earn Rs 53 lakh a day from fares. This dropped to Rs 27 lakh and the unpaid fuel bill rose to Rs 5 crore. Out of its fleet size of over 800 buses on the road, only 300-400 buses run daily. Under these circumstances, the full fleet of 75 e-buses have come in handy.
WBTC has already started installing rooftop solar power plants for producing electricity for its charging facilities.
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The unsafe schools initiative
In Australia there is a program, called the safe schools initiative, targeted primarily at school children near puberty and below puberty, aimed at presenting gay, lesbian and transgender role models as normal, happy, healthy regular people, despite the fact that gays and male to female transgender have an extremely high rate of death, disease, crime, suicide, murder, assault, self harm, and drug abuse, with lesbians and female to male transgender not far behind. The reason there are not that many old gays is that most of them die of murder, suicide, disease, or drug abuse before they get old. As the New Testament says Romans 1:27:
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
These happy healthy role models depicted in the material are slightly older than the target audience, the role models being just past puberty, and the target audience just before puberty, the obvious point of the propaganda being that the target audience should grow up into these happy healthy well balanced role models.
Here is one of the role models, pushed on pre pubertal children: a schoolboy with an obviously gay fifty eight year old cuddling him:
This is blatant gay recruiting of children – it is obvious that those pushing this initiative do not believe that gayness is innate, that people are born that way, but rather that gay sex is an acquired taste to which children can be inculcated.
And, indeed, it is obvious that gayness is transmitted from pedophiles to children, Afghanistan being an example of a place and culture where gayness transmitted in this fashion is very prevalent.
While a sexual preference for young males is disturbingly common in all cultures at all times, in places and times where this preference is very severely repressed (death penalty, vigorously enforced) a sexual preference by males for adult males seems to be entirely unknown. In such cultures there is some sodomy of adult males but it is like sodomy of donkeys, an inferior substitute for the real thing. Thus, for example, during the War of Northern Aggression adult male on adult male sodomy was rare, and adult male on adult male pornography entirely nonexistent. No one wanted to look at pictures of adult males getting tapped when they could look at pictures of females getting tapped.
If what gays officially believe, that gays are born that way, is true, then suppressing homosexuality is just pointless cruelty. If, however, what gay activist behavior suggests that gays believe, that male sexual preference for adult males is the result of gay sex environment near puberty or before puberty, is true, then we should have the death penalty for male homosexual acts, and lesbian acts should be discouraged, with females being coerced into heterosexual relationships.
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42 Responses to “The unsafe schools initiative”
Brett Stevens says:
“If what gays officially believe, that gays are born that way, is true, then suppressing homosexuality is just pointless cruelty.”
The traditional method of dealing with homosexuality is (1) keep it in the privacy of the bedroom and (2) hate the sin, not the sinner. One can be born gay and practice quietly, or choose not to engage in acts that are deemed sinful. Public homosexuality is seen as a tool of division and thus a political act, not a sexual one.
Thrasymachus says:
The truth about homosexuality is not known, but I suspect it is very bad. I think it is closely associated with pederasty and is unofficially tolerated by most authority figures. My theory is Fred Phelps saw this with the pedophiles in Gage Park, and with the city officials who declined to arrest them.
Alan J. Perrick says:
Pederasty was supposedly a prevelant thing even in the more traditionally religious past, well, if you believe so many sources which have a lot of the agenda of the Cathedral’s religion of Political Correctness throughout the rest of it. I don’t care about traditional sexual morality enforced at a society level though, because an established church takes care of all of that and apparently if a church isn’t established an unofficial “church” or religion sneaks up on you and persecutes other religions while claiming to be Truth.
A.J.P.
Bo says:
As an Australian I can tell you that this is the tip of the iceberg as far as left wing indoctrination goes at public schools. It doesn’t just play at the edges. I’ve approached the minister for Education in my state (a supposed conservative) about union indoctrination, aboriginal issues indoctrination, female superiority indoctrination, anti-white indoctrination and a host of other issues. Their response was simply to shrug. The attitude was “yeah, you voted me in, but it’s a lot of effort to change something like that and that’s where things are going and you can’t fight change”. The implicit understanding was that he’d written off the society he’d been charged with protecting despite having a majority and a mandate, but he didn’t give a crap because in two years he could step out of his office and into a six figure pension.
Nothing in either of our societies is going to change absent large scale violence.
Though I do think that homosexuality is something that needs to be suppressed, whether or not it is caused by genes, I don’t know that this is possible anymore. Certain countries, particularly in the Asia-Pacific, are reporting a dramatic rise in HIV, and epidemiologists are ascribing the increase to Grindr and other such technologies, which are allowing previously suppressed homosexuals to easily find gay sex without compromising themselves to the authorities or society.
>And I think gay is a distinctly underclass affliction, but people wind up noticing gays of their own social class or higher, akin to the female apex fallacy.
Perhaps. Though there’s evidence to suggest that Ashkenazi Jews, who are assuredly NOT an underclass population, have abnormally high rates of homosexuality.
(Just a heads up, Jim, in case you’re interested and haven’t heard: the SAT has been “revised”, which is to say has been made easier, again. According to one description, the “changes include fewer questions, relevant vocabulary and no penalties for guessing”. Here’s an article about it: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3477364/New-SAT-debuts-week-test.html#ixzz41yY4bhQi )
“relevant vocabulary”= dumbing down the language, in a test that is overwhelmingly biased towards superficial verbal ability.
epidemiologists are ascribing the increase to Grindr and other such technologies, which are allowing previously suppressed homosexuals to easily find gay sex without compromising themselves to the authorities or society.
Come the restoration, the inquisition will monitor grindr, and locate users by signal strength at nearby cell phone towers. Shortly after two or more male grindr users meet, the Inquisition police show up. If immorality is under way and one of the naked guys in the pile is a member of respectable society, part of the upper class, or one of the naked guys in the pile is under age, all the naked guys in the pile get executed.
peppermint says:
What’s the difference between this and the Oscar Wilde strategy, give them every opportunity to deny it, then a harsh sentence?
Gays aren’t actually subversive. Cuckstains and ultracuckstains are when they champion gay rights, as when the champion rights for niggers, women, the poor, and so forth.
What’s the most subversive cuckstain doctrine?
Is it to vote for Ted Cruz because save the fetuses? Or is it to vote for dhimmicrats because niggers, women, gays, bean niggers, and sand niggers? Or is it to vote for Abraham Lincoln because niggers?
Is it to deny that humans are animals and human behavior must be studied in the context of animal behavior?
Is it to assert the “lottery of birth” according to which Whites are guilty of receiving stolen privilege and must be brought to justice as quickly as possible?
Or is it the beatitudes – “blessed are the meek, they shall inherit the Earth”? As expressed in the cuckstain novel To Kill a Mockingbird, when Atticus Finch lectures the children to not take pride in what God gives them as natural talents?
Without cuckstainty, no one would feel sorry for Oscar Wilde, and so he would not have made the court impose its sentence.
viking says:
first very true the gays are targeting young boys, when they get caught they call it pedophilia and disavow but for instance in the church scandal 98% was against post not pre pubescent boys not girls. so it was not pedophilia, ans since the straight priests had no problem keeping it zipped with the teen girls it was not celibacy.And youre right therea an insidious campaign to interfere with the sexuality of children as young as three.
However I think theres ample evidence of homosexuality being genetic, and even expressing itself pretty early. Which does not mean it ought to be encouraged. Theres also evidence of this spectrum meme which contrary to their plan ought to be taken as a call to to discourage as many away from that end of the spectrum. The death penalty is good for messing with children as its deserved and it culls the genes. But there is also evidence that children interfered with become psychologically addicted to this behavior and may never escape.and for all intents and purposes are non genetic gays or bisexuals .
However I think theres ample evidence of homosexuality being genetic, and even expressing itself pretty early. Which does not mean it ought to be encouraged.
The features of homosexuality that express pretty early are being little child cute and little girly cute, for example and most notably the gay smile. The early expressed characteristics of gays are those characteristics which make them attractive to pedophiles – the exaggerated display of little boy characteristics often retained into adulthood.
So its either psychological imprinting through gay sex, or a gay germ that manipulates a wide variety of characteristics to promote gay sex.
Im with you on 90% but I grew up in NYC during the 60s – 70 in an artistic intellectual family and lived here at least part time since. So I have known a lot of gays and almost all report knowing very early they were gay even before they thought about sex.I have also seen kids that were gay not cute. granted I have seen the opposite, kids that turned out not to be and kids that were targeted for being cute.we have all met men we would swear are fags and turn out to be straight this could be poor socializing it could be the spectrum at work and good socializing.
I dont think there being a gay germ or gene really hurts either way we soon can simply eliminate it, gays may howl but who will purposely infect their kid with that gay gene/germ, if gays tried to in their testube babies it will expose them as child abusers and question their parental rights.
In the meantime gayness is seen as a handicap, no one admits it as such but thats what supports it, they cant help it they are “born that way” concede that in preparation for the remedy and embrace the spectrum meme stressing that the conclusion is many borderline children can be saved from the disability by discouraging it and not propagandizing them about the wonders of perversity at early ages.At the same time use the data to attack gay parenting its demonstrably bad for children even without the sex abuse which is much harder to find.The choice should be stark who is more deserving of societies protection gay parents or children denying them the right to purposely bring children into gay homes [ i would not go after divorced gay parents of straight unions except case by case]
The trans thing I think is an epidemic this sissy thing among white kids seems ubiquitous and insidious and should be stopped as child abuse also the whole autogynaphelia thing seems valid and should be researched till proven.
almost all report knowing very early they were gay even before they thought about sex.
1. Afghanistan
2. How can you know you are gay before you have thought a great deal about sex? I did not know I was anything at all until I found myself with a girl. Up till then I had thought that girls were yucky.
Where’s the evidence pf a gay gene? That would be politically correct. There is no evidence.
Imprinting is too strong a word for an individual’s endocrine and nervous system choosing one of the available behavioral strategies
John Morris says:
Oh no it wouldn’t be PC. Which is why it would be an instant career ender to even write up a grant proposal to look for a ‘gay gene.’ They must have it both ways, to be able to claim that they are ‘born that way’ and act like it is learned in that they expend a great deal of effort to ‘turn’ children.
Imagine what happens if somebody manages to locate a gay gene. Total war between the gays and feminists as sexual orientation selection abortions become a thing. Especially as family size is dropping, who wants a gay or lesbian who won’t produce grandchildren / heirs? Especially in China.
I suspect it is both genetic and environmental. We now know that most males never reproduced. So if some of the losers in the mating game went homo and buggered each other it wasn’t a problem from an evolutionary perspective and lesbians certainly weren’t a problem since women generally didn’t get a say in the mating game until quite recently. They could play with each other in their harem if they wanted but they were going to be producing children until they couldn’t. So a propensity for homosexuality might be conserved in the gene pool at low concentrations, especially if there are any positive tradeoffs and the high incidence of homosexuals in certain industries do suggest it.
You can’t count a man a loser in the mating game until he’s dead. Becoming gay because “it doesn’t matter” doesn’t compute from an evolutionary perspective. Genes for retaining the hots for hot girls til the day you die (sporting a boner for that hot nurse) that’s what works.
» We now know that most males never reproduced.
» women generally didn’t get a say in the mating game until quite recently
(1) Look back further than the first “humans”. Evolution has been acting for longer than “humans” have been around.
(2) Male homosexuality and female homosexuality are so different that talking about them in the same way is going to confuse you, which is the intention of the people who try to make you talk about them in the same way.
“since the straight priests had no problem keeping it zipped”
Would have figured the priests to be closet homos.
Do English boarding school boys all turn out Gay later in life? If Gay is learned, they should, if the rumors about English boarding school life are true.
The Taliban had it right when they punished the “Bachi Bazi” pedophile practice with death.
I’ve seen some evidence for the environmental gay factor, but I’ve seen more evidence for the genetic factor.
Among the identical twins of gay men, 52% are gay. This indicates that genetics matters but is not determinate. You need a genetic propensity and an environmental stimulus.
Also the category “gay” conflates men with a sexual preference for twelve year old boys, whom we know occur spontaneously without exposure to gayness, and gays who have a sexual preference for manly men, who seem to only occur in some cultures, places, and times, and not others.
I would like to see a twin study where they ascertained their gays were genuinely the politically correct kind of gay, turned on manly adult men, since there is substantial evidence that this is primarily environmental, whereas preference for twelve year old boys is not obviously environmental.
I take it to mean that gay predatory behavior is genetically imprinted as a way to establish dominance, like in prison.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xn90GqBxbU&t=1m47s
Then the environmental gay preference for manly men is perhaps an evolved defensive mechanism to survive such predatory behavior, in the same sense that women evolved a lack of loyalty to survive hostile takeovers. It implies nasty things.
I was once told that in the gay community the bottom is mostly/always bottom and the top is mostly/always top. If that’s true then the act of gay sex can always be seen as an establishment of dominance.
Magus says:
It’s likely a pathogen warping sexual targeting in the brain of young boys, as per Cochran and Ewald.
A few million dollars of gay ram research would be great (or humans even better).
Cochran on how to do it:
It’s hard to say, depends on how complicated the path of causation is.
Assuming that I’m even right, of course. Some good autopsy studies
might be fruitful – you’d look for microanatomical brain differences,
as with nartcolepsy. Differences in gene expression, maybe. You could
look for a pathogen – using the digital version of RDA
(representational difference analysis), say on discordant twins. Do
some old-fashioned epidemiology. Look for marker antibodies, signs of
some sort of immunological event.”
If it is a gay germ, then spread by gay sex – otherwise it would not be in the interests of the germ to manipulate the behavior of the infected person in such a specific way.
It is not in the “interest” of HIV that people die but die they do.
Germs don’t have some Long thought out plan. Unintended consequences happen. Thy simply do what they do, multiply as they can in specific environments, and if hosts die well f it as Long as enough germs left host to continue spreading.
Ebola for instance would spread far more if it killed slightly less quickly but it does what it does.
Rubella makes you go deaf. There is no fitness advantage to rubella from host going deaf. It just sorta happens.
If gayness is caused by a germ, its effects are rather precisely targeted.
Ansible says:
HIV doesn’t kill faggots, faggotry does.
http://www.ourcivilisation.com/aids/index.htm
High murder rate, suicide rate, drug overdose rate.
I tend to think there’s a split simply because the number of adult male homosexuals who were molested as boys is very high.
Cochran’s germ hypothesis doesn’t postulate that adult gays are the carriers (well, they don’t have to be) – just that the pathogen got to them at some point. Speculation – pathogen gets to them early, effects brain development, and leaves other signs (like the recognizable gay-face). Others get molested and develop a mind problem rather than a brain problem and don’t have obvious gay-face (since their physical development wasn’t messed with).
I think Cochran’s earliest writings had gays as vectors. He later seems to have gone silent on that part, possibly out of politeness, possibly because gays as vectors aren’t well supported by the evidence. It doesn’t seem likely that most or even many gays were gay-raped as prepubescents.
To maintain themselves at about 1% of the population, gay pedo rape would have to happen at rates that I don’t think we see any good evidence for. (I could sort-of believe it if Gay was a distinct underclass affliction, similar to how nobody cared much about underclass victims in Rotherham.)
My estimate of all rates of sexual misconduct are far higher than yours.
And I think gay is a distinctly underclass affliction, strongly correlated with fatherlessness, but people wind up noticing gays of their own social class or higher, akin to the female apex fallacy.
“In research with 942 nonclinical adult participants, gay men and lesbian women reported a significantly higher rate of childhood molestation than did heterosexual men and women. Forty-six percent of the homosexual men in contrast to 7% of the heterosexual men reported homosexual molestation. Twenty-two percent of lesbian women in contrast to 1% of heterosexual women reported homosexual molestation.”
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1010243318426
First hit on google scholar for ‘molestation history homosexual men’.
Yes, people only notice gays above them because they feel threatened, because gay sexual activity is a way of ranking men against other men.
(1) Gayness is a behavioral strategy involving sexual activity.
(2) Gayness is more common in cultures where men have a harder alpha path to marriage and supporting their children
(3) Gayness can be imposed on children by telling them that they’ll never be able to be an alpha
How much more obvious does it need to be? Do we need to observe higher rank animals sodomizing lower rank animals? Because that’s also observed. Do we need to observe teenage gays going straight? Wait until the stories start coming out when the whole gay acceptance thing blows over, and look and the foam party candidate. Do we need to observe trannies being made of straight men who can’t get any? I know one for sure.
Quite so, but the high death rate and low reproduction rate among gays indicates that it is a strategy gone horribly wrong.
Maybe in the ancestral environment practitioners of a related sneaky fucker strategy avoided getting killed by the alpha male while sometimes (rarely) managing to tap his harem.
Steve, that study asked gay men mostly recruited at a gay pride parade: “Before you were 16 years old, did you ever have sexual contact with a man or boy 5 or more years older than yourself and at least 16 years of age?”
That’s entirely consistent with the “sexual contact” having been eagerly consented to by the boy, maybe actively encouraged by the boy, because the boy was already gay, by gene or whatever. The study didn’t ask those questions, so no way to tell.
We do know from the study that a majority of their male gay pride sample recalled themselves being gay before the first such “sexual contact”.
Could be ideology and retrospective rationalization. They were, after all, inquiring at a gay pride parade.
(1) Cochran posts his slightly non-PC theory that gayness is caused by an autoimmune reaction, or maybe a pathogen, on his slightly non-PC blog
(2) It gets picked up by a good newser and moved to this blog
(3) the resulting autoimmune reaction makes this place faggier
Apparently actually a bisexual girl and her biological dad, and theyre also Jewish
http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org.au/uploads/1c319a8803b891fac1c455e6b87affa6.pdf
Actually, it’s written very confusingly and the name is Marco, so you may be right and I may be totally wrong
It does not matter what they actually are, or are actually supposed to be, the picture is likely to be interpreted by the target audience as I interpreted it. The old guy looks as queer as a three dollar bill.
If they wanted to illustrate a biological dad accepting his gay daughter, could have chosen a straighter looking dad and a girlier looking daughter.
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What’s the Next Big Thing?
Everybody wants to know—what’s the next big thing? Last week, we turned to Ben Parr from Mashable for insight on what’s hot in social. Ben spoke at an SFAMA event over at PeopleBrowser to discuss “The Future of Social and Tech.” His presentation began with an intro highlighting how social media has made communication among consumers faster and more efficient. Ben went on to point out that mobile texting and Internet usage have skyrocketed as fewer people use their phone as a traditional phone. This naturally led to a discussion on hot mobile technology. Foursquare is one leader in the space that jumps to the forefront of everyone’s mind as it boasts the SoLoMo (Social, Local and Mobile) triumvirate. Despite this, Foursquare has yet to cross the chasm to mainstream adoption. While I’m an avid Foursquare user and fan myself, Ben pointed out that the 10 million on Foursquare pales in comparison to Facebook’s 700 million users.
Ben’s presentation went on to discuss photo sharing tools. A picture tells a story faster than text itself. With cameras readily available on the phone, more people are taking photos on-the-go. Why text your friend a funny story when you can send a picture that says it all much more quickly? We’ve seen hot new apps, like Photogram, pop up to help people share special moments more easily.
One of the most interactive and engaging portions of the presentation was the Hot or Not game. The audience was invited to chime in and comment on what new tools in the world of tech and social media would be huge two years from now. Several of the up-and-coming companies included in the Hot or Not game have gotten a lot of buzz recently and young innovators are leading the charge. In fact, many of the founders were featured in Inc.’s 30 Under 30 list which came out yesterday and also included TriplePoint client, AnchorFree. So how do you sort through the hype? In this fast-paced industry time will soon sort out the winners from the losers but it’s still fun to take your best guess at what’s hot. Interestingly, there was generally mixed feedback from the crowd with no one company standing out strongly among the rest. Where do you weigh in?
Despite being led by dream team, Adam D’Angelo and Charlie Cheever, the majority of the crowd at the SFAMA event leaned toward the opinion that Quora was not in it for the long run. One audience member noted that Quora’s barrier to entry is too high and several others were annoyed that Quora requires responses be too in-depth or sophisticated.
Credit: Inc.com
The jury was out on this geo-social photo sharing app. Far fewer audience members were familiar with Color compared to Quora. While the app connects users to others located nearby and seems to reside in the sweet spot of mobile photo sharing, several attendees agreed that the app still has kinks to work out.
GroupMe is an app that lets users create private groups to easily share text messages or make conference calls. With texting on the rise and highly targeted groups that will appeal to advertisers, GroupMe seems more Hot than Not.
Klout links across social networks to calculate the influence of users. The audience was a bit skeptical on this one but Ben pointed out that its air of exclusivity has a certain appeal to consumers. Plus it is valuable to companies who want to find and communicate with power users.
The majority of attendees favored LinkedIn as Hot. Ben noted they are poised to gather valuable information about specific networks in a world where data is king.
While these companies include only a snippet of all the innovative tech and social media companies out there, they represent emerging industry trends and are certainly players to watch closely.
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" EXCLUSIVE: AMENDMENT TO BAN/RESTRICT TOUCH-SCREEN DRE's MAY BE BROUGHT TO HOLT BILL! "
EXCLUSIVE: AMENDMENT TO BAN/RESTRICT TOUCH-SCREEN DRE's MAY BE BROUGHT TO HOLT BILL!
The BRAD BLOG Has Confirmed That Congresswoman Susan Davis Will Introduce Such an Amendment This Afternoon --- If Allowed --- as Rush Holt's Controversial HR 811 Goes to Rules Committee Before Introduction on House Floor
UPDATED SEVERAL TIMES: Amendment Now Endorsed by MoveOn, Verified Voting, VoteTrustUSA; Source Says Holt on Defensive in Committee Hearing...
By Brad Friedman on 9/5/2007, 9:49am PT
By Brad Friedman from Glenwood Springs, CO...
[ED NOTE: Many updates have been posted throughout the day on this item. Please see bottom of article for the latest updates!]
An amendment to either ban or restrict the use of Direct Recording Electronic (DRE, usually touch-screen) voting systems may be added to Rep. Rush Holt's (D-NJ) Election Reform Bill by California Congresswoman Susan Davis today, The BRAD BLOG can now confirm.
After learning of the possibility early this morning, we have now confirmed with Davis's office that she is mulling such an amendment to present to the House Rules Committee, which is set to meet this afternoon at 3pm ET to determine which amendments will be allowed for debate on Holt's controversial HR 811 election bill. The legislation is currently scheduled to come up for debate on the House Floor as soon as it's passed out of the Rules Committee.
UPDATE: Davis's office has now confirmed they will bring such an amendment if allowed by the Rules Committee and by Leadership.
The committee will decide whether or not to allow amendments to the bill at all once it's on the House floor. The BRAD BLOG has learned that the committee essentially has three options in that regard. They can move the bill forward with a "Closed Rule," meaning no amendments are allowed on the bill; a "Restricted Rule," meaning only certain amendments will be allowed for debate, or an "Open Rule," which would allow any amendment to be brought to the bill while it's on the House floor.
The phone and fax numbers for members of the Rules Committee are posted below, along with the contact information for House Leaders Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, who would be instrumental in allowing such an amendment to be brought.
At this hour, Davis's office is considering language for such an amendment, conferring with legal authorities and gauging potential support from colleagues. They may be considering restrictions on DRE usage, rather than a complete ban, along the lines of what California's Secretary of State Debra Bowen implemented recently after her independent "Top-to-Bottom Review" found severe vulnerabilities in all of the states certified touch-screen voting systems.
After the landmark study, carried out by the University of California, Bowen implemented restrictions on DRE systems made by Diebold, Sequoia Voting Systems, and other major manufacturers. Only one DRE per polling place will be allowed in California's 2008 elections in order to marginally meet federal accessibility requirements for disabled voters. Bowen's restrictions also allow for DRE use in Early Voting, though all such systems must have 100% of their "Voter Verified Paper Audit Trails" (VVPATs) manually counted.
Bowen's office has told The BRAD BLOG they cannot yet comment on the amendment, but support from the CA SoS, we have been told, could be crucial to it moving forward. We will update this article with any comments from Bowen's office as the day progresses.
Holt's office, along with major bill supporter People for the American Way (PFAW), has long been against any such ban or restrictions on the use of DREs. Over the past several months, however, our reporting has indicated that some of the other major supporters of HR 811 --- such as MoveOn.org, Common Cause, Verified Voting, and VoteTrustUSA --- would not oppose such a ban/restriction on DRE voting systems. Some of those groups, in fact, have indicated they would support such an amendment if it were brought to the Holt bill.
UPDATE: MoveOn, Verified Voting, and VoteTrustUSA have now endorsed the Davis amendment. See end of article for details.
The BRAD BLOG would also welcome such a ban/restriction on unreliable, vulnerable DRE systems, as their continued use, as allowed by the Holt bill, has been one of our major objections to HR 811.
(FULL DISCLOSURE: We worked on the bill with its authors prior to its introduction this year, though several provisions in the bill, most notably the failure to ban DREs, have kept us from endorsing it as currently written.)
We will continue to follow this story as it develops today, and will update this article as needed...
UPDATE 2:55pm ET: Davis's office now confirms they will bring such an amendment if allowed by the Rules Comm and by Leadership!
UPDATE 3:50pm ET: MoveOn.org, one of the Holt bill's largest supporters --- and of whom we were critical in our article yesterday for their misleading email in support of the bill as currently written --- has just notified The BRAD BLOG that they support the Davis amendment to restrict DRE usage in the Holt bill.
UPDATE 4:03pm ET: The BRAD BLOG can now also confirm that both Verified Voting and VoteTrustUSA --- two other ardent supporters of the Holt bill as currently written --- now endorse the Davis amendment as well.
UPDATE 5:48pm ET: A source who was present in the Rules Committee hearing room tells us that there was "a lot of skepticism about Holt's bill" from committee members. The source reports that Holt was "trying to explain the bill to members and was clearly on the defense," as members from both sides of the aisle, including Chairwoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY), expressed that they have heard many complaints about the bill from constituents, Secretaries of State, and elections officials.
Our source had to leave before the hearing concluded, but was of the opinion that it seemed unlikely the bill would even make it out of committee and to the House floor at all. "Nobody on the committee was very happy with it. Nobody was happy," the source told us.
The question of whether to allow the Davis amendment had not yet been brought up in the committee before our source had to leave. More as we're able to get additional info...
UPDATE 6:44pm ET: The Rules Committee hearing has now adjourned for the day. A spokesman for the committee, John Santore, tells us that the members were unable to yet come to agreement for a rule on the bill.
"We don't have a rule yet. It may be heard again tomorrow," he told The BRAD BLOG moments ago. Though when pressed, he indicated it may not be brought up again tomorrow in the committee.
"Discussions are ongoing. It could go in a lot of directions. We could meet on it tomorrow and we might not," Santore said.
When asked if the issue of the Davis amendment was brought before the committee, he said he didn't believe so, though he wasn't at the entire hearing.
For now, shy of any late updates, we'll consider this matter closed for the day. We'll continue to suggest folks call House leadership, the members of the Rules Committee, and their own Congress members to urge them not to even consider voting in favor of the Holt bill --- should it ever come to the House floor --- unless or until an amendment to ban DREs is added to it.
UPDATE 6/6/07 3:43am ET: Okay, one last update. Susan Davis's official statement on her amendment, calling the matter of whether or not to ban DREs the "800 pound gorilla in the room." Complete statement now posted here...
The names and numbers of members of the House Rules Committee and House Leadership are posted below. We ask you to call and politely urge members to allow for Susan Davis's DRE Amendment to Holt's HR 811 Election Reform Bill. And please pass on this information to others!...
House Leadership:
STENY HOYER (D-MD)
U.S. House Committee on Rules:
Democrats:
LOUISE McINTOSH SLAUGHTER (NY) - CHAIRWOMAN
http://www.louise.house....038;id=39&Itemid=84
JAMES P. McGOVERN (MA)
http://mcgovern.house.go...nid=2§iontree=2
ALCEE L. HASTINGS (FL)
http://www.alceehastings...038;id=60&Itemid=30
DORIS O. MATSUI (CA)
DENNIS CARDOZA, (CA)
http://www.house.gov/cardoza/biography.shtml
PETER WELCH, (VT)
http://www.welch.house.g...038;id=23&Itemid=61
KATHY CASTOR (FL)
MICHAEL ARCURI (NY)
BETTY SUTTON (OH)
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... leftisbest said on 9/5/2007 @ 10:10 am PT...
This amendment would be one deck chair being moved on the Titanic. If the permanent EAC provision remains in, with four people appointed by and reporting only to the president, the bill needs to die. And I don't hear any discussion of that.
I oppose raising hopes that one deck chair will be moved and therefore we avoid the iceberg. Either they remove the permanent EAC provision, or the bill must die. We CANNOT compromise on this. Just MHO.
... Wayne said on 9/5/2007 @ 10:33 am PT...
After making several calls to encourage that amendment to HR 811 be permitted and specifically an amendment from Susan Davis regarding DREs I found out that it will not go to the floor today. If it goes to the floor this week then the most likely day would be Friday. I will continue to make additional calls. It was interesting that Congressman Hoyers office said that I was the only call they had received opposing HR811 as it presently stands. All of the other calls they received were supporting it.
EVERYBODY CALL HOYERS OFFICE AND MAKE YOUR POSITION KNOWN.
Late update. Congresswoman Slaughters office said that the majority of the calls they have been receiving were supporting adding an amendment to outlaw DREs. Keep them coming!
http://www.louise.house....&id=39&Itemid=84
... youngharry said on 9/5/2007 @ 10:39 am PT...
BRAVOI, BRAVO, BRAVO.
FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT...
NO AMERICAN SHOULD FEEL THAT THEIR VOTE COUNTS AND IS COUNTED FOR THE CANDIDATE VOTED FOR AS LONG AS IT'S DONE ON AN ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINE. AN ELECTRONIC COUNTING MACHINE.IS USEFUL, BUT ONLY IF THERE ARE PAPER BALLOTS THAT ACN BE RECOUINTED BY HAND.
Congressman McGoverns office said that it is being discovered this afternoon and could go to the floor as early as tomorrow.
... Emlev said on 9/5/2007 @ 11:13 am PT...
I just spoke to someone at Davis's DC office. He seemed surprised that they are getting calls about this, that people know it's possible she'll introduce an amendment. I told him that Committee members would be getting calls and he seemed to think that was useful. (So don't make a liar out of me--CALL!)
He said that even though Davis isn't on the Rules Committee, she (or her staff, not sure) is talking to members of the Rules Comm. about making it so that such an amendment could be considered on the House floor.
Toll-Free Numbers for Capitol Hill Switchboard (ask for any Member):
... Ancient said on 9/5/2007 @ 11:32 am PT...
That's one big deck chair LIB. So when I make my calls what is the best comment to make as to the EAC. An EI friend of mine who does a lot of lobbying has made the point to me that having the voting rights issues under one roof actually makes it easier to oversee, which makes sense to me. But, I don't want presidential appointees (foxes) guarding the hen house. Any ideas anyone as to what constructive statement could be made about the EAC while making my ban DRE calls?
I disagree with LeftIsBest in this case. A ban and/or restriction on use of DREs across the nation, akin to Bowen's restrictions, would finally get the Titanic turning around and heading at least in the right direction!
If this bill must pass, it would be nice if it was as good as possible! Such a ban/restriction would be a huge improvement over the current bill!
PLEASE make noise right NOW. It's VERY important!
... jen said on 9/5/2007 @ 12:40 pm PT...
I'm sorry to be so lame, but I want to get this straight before making calls.
I'm calling to ask them to support Congresswoman Susan Davis' amendment to HR 811 --Rush Holt's Election Reform Bill --- that will either ban or restrict the use of Direct Recording Electronic voting systems.
Is that good?
D'oh! I see it right in Brad's post.
The names and numbers of members of the House Rules Committee and House Leadership are posted below. We ask you to call and politely urge members to allow for Susan Davis's DRE Amendment to Holt's HR 811 Election Reform Bill. And please pass on this information to others!
Sorry. :/
... Pajama Party Patti said on 9/5/2007 @ 12:46 pm PT...
My dialing finger is tired but happy to have registered my opinion with these offices. I got the same info. regarding it's not being heard until Friday, but more likely next week. Also heard they are receiving lots of calls!
Duly passed on to like-minded, thinking people!
Thanks for all your hard work Brad & Co.!
... the_zapkitty said on 9/5/2007 @ 12:52 pm PT...
... Ancient said...
"An EI friend of mine who does a lot of lobbying has made the point to me that having the voting rights issues under one roof actually makes it easier to oversee, which makes sense to me. But, I don't want presidential appointees (foxes) guarding the hen house."
Take the problem back to its roots... The EAC was originally an outright power grab for control over e-voting (and therefore all voting, as the HAVA team saw it) and that's why it was blessed with a Bush signing statement saying the agency would be whatever he said it would be...
(... which said agency turned out to be partisan and corrupt surprisingly enough... )
... and that innate power base is why politicians of all stripes refuse to let the damn thing be sunsetted out of existence as it was originally designed to be.
The EAC does nothing that existing federal agencies don't already cover... and the existing agencies don't hand the keys to the kingdom over to the White House.
The EAC as a regulatory agency, as a growing federal bureaucracy as mandated by both Holt and Feinstein, is another disaster waiting to happen... and the only possible way to keep that disaster at bay and to keep the EAC is to keep the EAC broke and with no executive or regulatory powers. Or, in other words, keep it as the purely advisory committee it was originally purported to be and leave the regulatory powers to older agencies that might have a chance of knowing what they are doing and might have a chance of resisting partisan politics.
The EAC currently can do neither, and lodging this corrupt and incompetent fledgling bureaucratic empire at the heart of our democratic process will be asking for disaster yet again... and we will get that disaster yet again.
... Nate said on 9/5/2007 @ 1:01 pm PT...
This will never happen. The Dems and Repubs enjoy fixing elections (especially with that danger Ron Paul around). Rigged elections, yet another infringement on our rights by the gov't. Add it to the ever-growing list of violations:
They violate the 1st Amendment by opening mail, caging demonstrators and banning books like "America Deceived" from Amazon.
They violate the 2nd Amendment by confiscating guns during Katrina.
They violate the 4th Amendment by conducting warrant-less wiretaps.
They violate the 5th and 6th Amendment by suspending habeas corpus.
They violate the 8th Amendment by torturing.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting 2 illegal wars based on lies and on behalf of a foriegn gov't.
Support Dr. Ron Paul and save this great country.
Last link (unless Google Books caves to the gov't and drops the title):
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... John Dean said on 9/5/2007 @ 1:15 pm PT...
Bluntly speaking...
Phony election activists that have been trying to shove this piece of crap bill down our throats, really have no choice but to publicly support an amendment against DREs.
To do otherwise, would be like uncloaking themselves for the world to see who they really are. Since they must maintain their illusion, above all else, of course they'll come out and support it...on the surface.
But beneath the surface, these fakes will do everything they can to stop a ban on DREs.
Do not be fooled.
... Ancient said on 9/5/2007 @ 1:23 pm PT...
I contacted everyone on the list asking them to personally take the time to read SoS Bowen's report which is accessible on the bradblog.com, and in light of the report to support Congresswoman Davis's amendment. Everyone I spoke with was polite except one woman who hung up on me in Congressman Hastings office, and believe me I was on my best behavior. There was no excuse for hanging up. I did call back though and spoke with someone different who said she would pass my message along!
... Floridiot said on 9/5/2007 @ 1:28 pm PT...
That wouldn't be PFA(IPACian)W, now would it?
... Patti Holly said on 9/5/2007 @ 1:41 pm PT...
WOW!! i got an email about this from one of the voting groups i am a member of @ 9AM and faxed everyone on the list + called my own reps to make SURE i damn well had EVERYONE covered! i dropped by here to encourage everone i could find to contact ALL of them + their own reps, can't hurt to alert anyone in DC that we would like to have our democracy back NOW! GREAT to hear their of LOTS of us who are on it! WOO HOO!!!
Thank you Zap, I too think the EAC is dangerous. (Just trying to be fair and balanced in reporting on others views) So when talking to the congress critter aides one could also make the comment, "Please allow the EAC to be sunsetted as originally intended...(your own reasons)."
OH! i forgot, the email i received was from Ellen Theisen the Co-Director of "Voters Unite dot Org." So they support amendment HR811 too! Just thought i'd pass that on
... Brad Friedman said on 9/5/2007 @ 2:03 pm PT...
VotersUnite does NOT support HR811, Patti.
They, however, like me, support such a ban/restrictions on DREs.
If the bill must pass, let's at least try to make it as good as it can be!
... Mac Hathaway said on 9/5/2007 @ 2:08 pm PT...
Gardammy! We might just pull one off! Brad, I am seriously going to put you and Bev Harris up for a Congressional Medal of Honor when this is done. This is the best news I've heard in months!
I've called everyone on the list (except Pelosi), and they've all been reasonably receptive. Correction: I only called one of the Republican's, the one from FL, and the person there said "Oh, you have to talk to the Majority members about this, they control everything..." (?!) Kinda of a wimpy response, but go figure...
BUT, I called Susan Davis's office, as well, and as of 4:50 pm (Eastern), she HAS submitted her amendment, and it will include a restriction of DRE's to only early voting, and only one unit per precinct (roughly along the lines of Debra Bowen's decision) Hopefully it will also include the full manual count provision, as well. This is great! Keep calling! Somebody post at Daily Kos, and everywhere else you can think of! I think we are FINALLY getting through!
Good thing the bears left Brad alone...
Mac Hathaway
P.S. If you get a chance, Draft AL Gore.... : )
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Has anybody contacted Kucinich's offices about presenting an amendment that would take care of the EAC problem?
I haven't been thinking about it specifically, but what would a "fix" look like regarding the EAC section of the legislation?
... Bob Bancroft said on 9/5/2007 @ 2:50 pm PT...
re: Patty 20, Brad 21
VotersUnite believes that the Holt bill, in its present form, does more harm than good. Therefore, as Brad says, we do not support the bill.
Would we endorse it with this amendment? I'm not sure. We will have to do some soul searching. And that would depend on the exact wording of this amendment, which, to my knowledge was not even written as of this morning. We do not endorse (or oppose) things until we have read them fully and carefully.
The Holt bill has two fatal flaws: (1) it gives priority to corporate interest, at the expense of transparent elections, and (2) it expands the scope and the authority of the EAC, shifting control of elections away from States.
While some have claimed we overstate this point, it must be said that Rep. Holt himself has stated that federal control of elections is exactly what he "prefers" in a recent town hall meeting.
These two "fatal flaws" remain in the bill, with or without DRE's. However, a ban on DRE voting is a good first step toward addressing one of these two issues, because it would signal that corporate interest is finally being asked to sit in the back, so to speak.
Like Brad, we recognize that the opportunity to debate such an amendment would be valuable. So we do encourage the Rules Committee and House leadership to permit it.
... Grizzly Bear Dancer said on 9/5/2007 @ 4:47 pm PT...
Thank you Brad.
... Linda said on 9/5/2007 @ 6:36 pm PT...
Bob Bancroft #24,
re "Rep. Holt himself has stated that federal control of elections is exactly what he "prefers" in a recent town hall meeting."
Do you think that would hold up in a court of law? Aren't elections SUPPOSED to belong to states? If the federales step in and take control of what was previously a job of each state, isn't that something that could be reasonably contested? Like what's going on in some states with public schools right now?
re "The Holt bill has two fatal flaws: (1) it gives priority to corporate interest, at the expense of transparent elections, and (2) it expands the scope and the authority of the EAC, shifting control of elections away from States."
In my humble opinion, I think these two points need to be driven home with our legislators. (1) The only way to get at this flaw is to publically broadcast how much money each legislator has accepted from lobbyists representing electronic voting machine companies' interests. Where can I find this information? Not just for my own rep, but for the whole lot, so I can do a comparison and contrast and use it in letters. (2) It would be great to have an accounting of all examples showing aspects of the EAC that are undesirable and/or antithetical to democratic elections. The only example I ran across was fairly recently when the EAC announced hearings for a problem in Florida at the last possible moment, hearings that were to be held in Washington D.C. on such short notice as to give utterly inadequate time for any Floridians to respond effectively. I passed that example on to my rep when I heard about it, but it sure would be great to have a more complete accounting for us letter-writers.
Ahem. In my not humble and very pissed-off opinion, federal control of elections is outright FASCISM. We're experiencing an agonizingly incremental slide into unabashed FASCISM. If my fellow citizens don't rise up and stop it pretty soon, we won't have to worry about me being hauled off to the bin because I will have been hauled off to the morgue after dying of a brain explosion.
Somebody quote me please.
... John Gideon said on 9/5/2007 @ 7:50 pm PT...
As Agent 99 said, "Ahem."
Linda #26-
Thank you for the thoughtful reply.
"Do you think that would hold up in a court of law? Aren't elections SUPPOSED to belong to states? If the federales step in and take control of what was previously a job of each state, isn't that something that could be reasonably contested? Like what's going on in some states with public schools right now?"
The short answer is yes, absolutely, elections are supposed to belong to States. That is what our framers wisely established for us. Congress has intervened in the past only when doing so was necessary to protect the right to vote. From that perspective, HAVA (2002) was unprecedented.
Could someone contest this issue? Sure, they can try. And if it goes far enough, it will be for the Supreme Court to determine, not a chance I would be comfortable taking, personally.
"In my humble opinion, I think these two points need to be driven home with our legislators."
Please, help us do so! Call your local congressfolk, and tell them that you cannot support a bill that (1) trades transparency for corporate interest or (2) surrenders to the EAC that which constitutionally belongs to states.
... the_zapkitty said on 9/5/2007 @ 8:05 pm PT...
Agent 99 #27, I agree with you, but if you write a letter like that to a congressional rep, it'll get thrown into the loony bin. In my humble opinion, keep your hand to yourself, especially when dealing with bureaucrats. Just play the cards you have to in order to get to your next move.
Bob Bancroft #30, thanks for responding meaningfully and productively. So what are some more examples of the overstepping/misstepping of the EAC to pass on to my rep, besides the one I already know about?
Well, maybe you could just tell them your friend 99 is about to expire from the fascistitude of this bill and you just don't want her head to explode....
Bureaucracts really like it when you are enlisting their help to save some person or situation. You just very respectfully approach them with this problem of 99's exploding head, and, just to impress you with their power, they will suddenly turn this whole mess around.
[I know. I know. I'm losing my grip. I should be better in the morning. Pavarotti has just died and I'm at the end of my wits for today.... ]
Agent 99 #27
Good point. It is also illegal if not done properly. I discuss the matter on the contest of the latest of this bill, here.
The "state rights" issue, which you seem to be coming from, is a valid constitutional principle, and it does bear upon the subject at hand. Yes, just how much can congress tell the states how to run elections?
Thank you for bringing the issue up as I have also done.
... Cartel Buster said on 9/6/2007 @ 8:34 am PT...
One thousand hats off to John Dean- Thanks for getting it- This bill must die- rearranging the deck chairs is criminal- The bill does not address the source code and/or central tabulator- Kill the Bill!! CB
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Olivia Attwood says influencers who call holidays 'work' are giving social media monetisers a bad name. (PA)
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New Delhi [India], January 18 (ANI): Air pollution levels in Delhi on Monday dipped slightly leading to a marginal improvement in the overall Air Quality Index (AQI) which was in 'Very Poor' category, that experts have attributed to moderate surface winds dispersing surface pollutants.
Vehicle parade in Mission draws strong support for student attacked and beaten by peers
Hundreds of vehicles festooned with pink balloons, rainbow signs and anti-bullying messages drove slowly through a riverfront area of Mission B.C. on Sunday to offer support to a teen who was beaten by two other students at their school on Monday. AJ Gopinath, one of the organizers of the rally, said when details of the violence emerged, he knew he had to do something in response. "For us, just standing by and watching someone get assaulted in a manner that is not accepted by the community and, as a person, I couldn't step back and allow it to happen," he said from the rally on Sunday while wearing a pink T-shirt with the message, 'Say no to bullying' on it. On Monday a video was posted on social media that showed the victim, who rally organizers describe as a non-binary transgender teen, being punched and kicked by two girls on school grounds of École Heritage Park Middle School. The two attackers were arrested and police are recommending charges against them including assault and uttering threats. The video and its aftermath have received strong reaction from residents in Mission and around the province. The Mission School District said the two girls who attacked their peer will face discipline from the school as will some bystanders who watched the attack. B.C. Education Minister Jennifer Whiteside has also commented on the attack saying she has asked her ministry to provide support to the school district and that students deserve to be safe at school. On Sunday at the rally to support the victim, participants cheered, honked and waved signs that said bullying was not acceptable in the community. "We wanted to show them that they have the love and support of everybody and all of Mission," said Gopinath about people who are bullied. Brad Vis, the MP for the area said he was overwhelmed by the positive response from everyone who attended the rally. "I'm just so proud of my community today and I'm just so proud of the victim and all the encouragement [they're] getting," he said. Mission Acting Mayor Jag Gill said the rally would help the community overcome the tragedy.
Odisha approves Rs 903 cr annual action plan for afforestation
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], January 18 (ANI): The state-level Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) on Sunday has approved the annual action plan of 2021-22 with a total outlay of around Rs 903.39 crore.
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ReconAfrica Begins 450 km 2D Seismic Program; Kavango Basin, Kalahari Desert
VANCOUVER, BC, Jan. 18, 2021 /CNW/ - Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd.
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — South Korea's president on Monday urged the incoming Biden administration to build upon the achievements and learn from the failures of President Donald Trump's diplomatic engagement with North Korea. A dovish liberal and the son of northern war refugees, Moon Jae-in had lobbied hard to help set up Trump’s three summits with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but their diplomacy stalemated over disagreements over easing crippling U.S.-led sanctions for the North’s disarmament. Biden has accused Trump of chasing the spectacle of summits rather than meaningful curbs on the North’s nuclear capabilities. North Korea has a history of staging weapons tests and other provocations to test new U.S. presidents, and Kim vowed to strengthen his nuclear weapons program in recent political speeches that were seen as aimed at pressuring the incoming Biden administration. The South Korean leader has been desperate to keep alive a positive atmosphere for dialogue in the face of Kim's vows to further expand a nuclear and missile program that threatens Asian U.S. allies and the American homeland. And while Moon acknowledged that Biden is likely to try a different approach than Trump, the South Korean leader stressed that Biden could still learn from Trump's successes and failures in dealing with North Korea. During a mostly virtual news conference in Seoul, Moon claimed that Kim still had a “clear willingness” to denuclearize if Washington and Pyongyang could find mutually agreeable steps to decrease the nuclear threat and ensure the North’s security. Most experts see Kim's recent comments as further evidence he will maintain his weapons program to ensure his regime's survival. When asked about the North’s efforts to increase its ballistic capacity to strike targets throughout South Korea, including U.S. bases there, Moon said the South could sufficiently cope with such threats with its missile defence systems and other military assets. “The start of the Biden administration provides a new opportunity to start over talks between North Korea and the United States and also between South and North Korea,” which have stalled amid the stalemate in nuclear negotiations, Moon said. The erosion in inter-Korean relations have been a major setback to Moon, who met Kim three times in 2018 while expressing ambitions to reboot inter-Korean economic engagement held back by U.S.-led sanctions against the North. During Trump’s first summit with Kim in June 2018, they pledged to improve bilateral relations and issued vague aspirational vows for a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula without describing when and how it would occur. But the negotiations faltered after their second meeting in February 2019 when the Americans rejected the North Korean demands for major sanctions relief in exchange for the dismantling of an aging nuclear reactor, which would have amounted to a partial surrender of its nuclear capabilities. Moon said that Trump and Kim’s agreement in their first meeting was still relevant and the Biden administration should take lessons from the failures of their second meeting. Kim Tong-Hyung, The Associated Press
ALERT: Halper Sadeh LLP Reminds Investors of Its Ongoing Merger Investigations; Shareholders are Encouraged to Contact the Firm – NAV, WTRE, CIT, WDR
NEW YORK, Jan. 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Halper Sadeh LLP, a global investor rights law firm, continues to investigate the following companies: Navistar International Corporation (NYSE: NAV) concerning potential violations of the federal securities laws and/or breaches of fiduciary duties relating to its sale to Traton SE for $44.50 per share in cash. If you are a Navistar shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options. Watford Holdings Ltd. (NASDAQ: WTRE) concerning potential violations of the federal securities laws and/or breaches of fiduciary duties relating to its sale to Arch Capital Group Ltd. for $35.00 per share. If you are a Watford shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options. CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) concerning potential violations of the federal securities laws and/or breaches of fiduciary duties relating to its sale to First Citizens BancShares, Inc. Under the terms of the merger agreement, CIT shareholders will receive 0.0620 shares of First Citizens class A common stock for each share of CIT common stock they own. If you are a CIT Group shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options. Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc. (NYSE: WDR) concerning potential violations of the federal securities laws and/or breaches of fiduciary duties relating to its sale to Macquarie Asset Management for $25.00 per share. If you are a Waddell shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options. Halper Sadeh LLP may seek increased consideration, additional disclosures and information concerning the proposed transaction, or other relief and benefits on behalf of shareholders. Shareholders are encouraged to contact the firm free of charge to discuss their legal rights and options. Please call Daniel Sadeh or Zachary Halper at (212) 763-0060 or email sadeh@halpersadeh.com or zhalper@halpersadeh.com. Halper Sadeh LLP represents investors all over the world who have fallen victim to securities fraud and corporate misconduct. Our attorneys have been instrumental in implementing corporate reforms and recovering millions of dollars on behalf of defrauded investors. Attorney Advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Contact Information:Halper Sadeh LLPDaniel Sadeh, Esq.Zachary Halper, Esq.(212) 763-0060sadeh@halpersadeh.comzhalper@halpersadeh.com
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Protesting is as American as can be, but don’t step over the line
Seeing the assault upon the U.S. Capitol left me heartbroken — and remembering my Washington protest experience
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Jaxon Completes Laboratory Analysis & Modeling of Soil Geochemistry Study Results from 2019 Red Springs AOI Work Program, Confirms Anomalous Copper in Soil Starting at ~500 PPM
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - April 7, 2020) - Jaxon Mining Inc. (TSXV: JAX) (FSE: 0U31) (OTC: JXMNF) ("Jaxon" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the completion of the soil geochemistry study using in laboratory sample analysis conducted by HEG & Associates in February 2020 at UBC's FiLTER Lab in Kelowna, B.C. (http://www.filterubco.ca). Preliminary soil sampling results from the handheld devices were released Sept 10, 2019. (https://www.jaxonmining.com/news/2019/jaxon-defines-two-strong-copper-anomalies-based-on-newly-completed-soil-geochemistry-samples-at-red-springs/).
The soil samples were taken from a (+/-) 2 km2 area at the Primary Ridge target which now includes the "Red Springs" porphyry target. The preliminary soil geochemistry study used the results from handheld devices to define two strong Cu in soil anomalies. The laboratory analysis utilized Aqua Regia Digestion by ICP-MS finish. The laboratory results were further statistically analyzed and modeled. Results of the testing and statistical analysis confirmed the high Cu in soil anomalies and revealed a new gold in soil anomaly (Figure 1).
Highlights of Laboratory Results from 2019 Soil Geochemistry Study:
Soil samples in the 2km2 area are "anomalous" (Cu grades >300 ppm) in comparison with most Cu porphyry projects in British Columbia (Blaine, F.A. and Hart, C.J.R. 2012), (Figure 1, large blue outline).
Statistical analysis shows the anomalous Cu samples at the Primary Ridge porphyry target start at ~500 ppm (Figure 1, two small blue outlines). Log normal plots confirm no further sub populations. Ignoring background occurrences, all four "anomalous" populations are straight lines confirming normal distributions of each sub population (Figure 2).
Statistical analysis shows Mo in soil anomalies are similar to Cu in soil anomalies and follow a general enrichment halo around the intrusion (Figure 3). This observation is supported by the abundance of Mo seen within the fractures and veinlets in sediments and granodiorites.
The hyperspectral study on the minerals and soil geochemistry samples both portray the signature of a potassic core at the Primary Ridge porphyry target (Figure 4).
The gold anomaly area >500m was delineated at a propylitic zone indicating vein type gold mineralization also exists at the Red Springs AOI. It is noted that sampling here occurred from E-W therefore this is not a product of contamination. Almost half a gram Au in soil is a very impressive result. The Company plans to follow up with trenching and more soil sampling in the 2020 season (Figure 1).
Most importantly, intrusions with disseminated Cu sulfide mineralization outcrops and negative ground magnetic anomalies have also been observed in both Cu anomalous areas (Figure 1). This indicates that these intrusions are the source of the strong Cu anomalies marking two potential deep porphyry targets planned for the 2020 drilling program (Figure 5).
Figure 1: Comprehensive Geology and Soil Anomalies Map at Red Springs
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Figure 2: Log Normal Populations (Straight Lines) Chart for Cu Assay Data at Red Springs (HEG Report, 2020)
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Figure 3: Mo in Soil Anomalies at Red Springs (HEG Report, 2020)
Figure 4: Possible Signature Map of Potassic Core at the Primary Ridge Porphyry Target (HEG Report, 2020)
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Figure 5: Potential Model for Primary Ridge Porphyry Target (HEG Report, 2020)
COVID-19 and 2020 Field Season
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Company will follow all directives issued by the provincial and federal governments. The Company is funded and ready to proceed should social/physical distancing restrictions be relaxed in time for the 2020 field season. The Company plans to expand sampling and geochemical studies to include the Razorback target and Netalzul AOI and conduct additional focused structural and geophysical work programs at the Red Springs AOI in preparation for drill testing.
Mr. John King Burns, CEO and Chairman of the Board commented, "We are pleased to see these lab results and the statistical modeling confirm the preliminary results from our 2019 soil geochemistry study at Red Springs. We have now outlined two very strong Cu mineralized centres within what is a large Cu anomaly background area. These copper in soil numbers are higher than most seen at other discoveries across B.C. (Blaine, F.A. and Hart, C.J.R. 2012) We thank HEG for the expert execution of their advice, encouragement and work both in the field and laboratory; and for the application and interpretation of their analytics."
"The results from these studies have been added to our conceptual geological model which projects a potentially large and deep Cu porphyry system. This set of geochemically based observations are supported by other geophysical, geochronological and structural work that will continue to be integrated into the model. We are compiling results from other geophysical and geochronological studies and these results will become part of our geologically informed drill target vectoring/modeling exercise. We plan to release an updated model with proposed drill targets in Q3 of 2020."
"In reviewing the results from our multi-disciplined efforts, we are confident in the value of the targets we are pursuing. We are continually impressed by the rocks and the increase in scope and scale of our potential targets. We have favorable topological features and favorable geological and geochronological settings. We are modeling our targets as products of and having the signatures of Laramide porphyry events in South America. The multiple occurrences of anomalously high-grade mineralization in outcrops and within rock samples at surface are confirmatory and support our belief that we are on the brink of discovering a major system in British Columbia."
Soil Sampling and Analytical Procedures
Soil samples were taken on a 50 m by 50 m grid covering an approximate 2 km2 area over the Primary Ridge target. Approximately 500 g to 600 g of soil was sampled at a depth of approximately 25-30 cm from surface. Soil samples were primarily targeting the B horizon when appropriate and sampled into labelled craft paper bags.
Soil samples were analyzed before shipment via PXRF (portable X-Ray fluorescence) for Cu, Mo and Zn.
Approximately 50 packaged samples (10 soils per poly bag) were put into labelled rice bags for transport. Security tags were added to rice bags to further increase QAQC protocol.
All soil samples are dried at low temperature, 500 g is then screened to -80 mesh before Aqua Regia digestion. A 20 g true Aqua Regia digestion with ICPMS finish and Ultra Trace were selected as the analytical method for soil samples at FiLTER Lab at UBC in Kelowna, B.C., Canada.
Yingting (Tony) Guo, P.Geo., President of Jaxon Mining Inc., a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed and prepared the scientific and technical information and verified the data supporting such scientific and technical information contained in this news release.
About Jaxon Mining Inc.
Jaxon is a precious and base metals exploration company with a regional focus on Western Canada. The Company is currently focused on advancing its Red Springs Project in north-central British Columbia.
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This news release may contain forward-looking information, which is not comprised of historical facts. Forward-looking information involves risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events, results, performance, prospects and opportunities to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Forward-looking information in this news release may include, but is not limited to, the Company's objectives, goals or future plans. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking information include, but are not limited to, those risks set out in the Company's public documents filed on SEDAR. Although the Company believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing the forward-looking information in this news release are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on such information, which only applies as of the date of this news release, and no assurance can be given that such events will occur in the disclosed time frames, or at all. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, other than as required by law. Neither TSX Venture exchange nor its Regulations Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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Raleigh, Permanently Fix Class Size Chaos and Stop Using Our Students As Political Pawns
January 12, 2019 January 12, 2019 / caffeinatedrage
Remember last February? That’s when a “fix” for the class size mandate was “agreed” upon by both chambers of the North Carolina General Assembly that was presented as a welcome outcome.
On the surface, it was a victory for parents, advocates, and schools in that the mandate will be pushed back for a while and some extra funding for “specials” teachers is being given.
But during that press-conference in which Sen. Chad Barefoot announced with carefully prepared and partisan comments the “fix,” he negated to tell North Carolinians what else was attached to the bill that NC democrats were never privy to (http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article199207129.html).
That link not only gives you a video of Barefoot’s press conference; it also links to Lynn Bonner’s report that further explores HB90’s reach.
Long-sought help for schools struggling to lower class sizes is now tied up with a controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline fund and a power struggle over control of elections boards.
A bill proposed Thursday would take $58 million that energy companies building a pipeline through Eastern North Carolina are expected to give state government as part of a deal Gov. Roy Cooper negotiated, and distribute it to school districts in eight counties the pipeline would run through. Cooper calls it a mitigation fund to offset environmental effects of the pipeline, but Republicans repeatedly called it a “slush fund.”
House Bill 90 also makes changes to the state elections board. The changes are the response to Republicans’ recent loss in the state Supreme Court in a ruling that said their earlier attempt to reconstitute the board was unconstitutional. In the latest iteration, the elections board would have nine members, including one member not affiliated with a political party.
But to Barefoot and other GOP members of the NCGA, the day was really about bragging about a class-size fix. A short-term solution to a problem that was manufactured and lied about.
Throughout most of the last calendar year people like Barefoot, Berger, and Moore have been yelling that the class size mandate has been funded in the past, yet there was absolutely no proof of that. One only has to read the work of Kris Nordstrom and see that those claims were not only baseless, but now are revealed to be the very smokescreen for today’s announcement.
What happened was that the GOP education reformers took credit for a temporary solution to a problem that they purposefully used to position themselves to pass partisan legislature to help them remain in power despite the gerrymandering and doublespeak.
And yes, it is politics. But public school kids were the pawns. They made it look like they were listening to the public, but it seems more than orchestrated.
Think of Craig Horn’s statements earlier in 2018 that a “fix” was coming only to be rebuffed by Berger. That is until more came out about the ruling of the state supreme court on the state elections board. They needed that time to figure out how to allow a fix that they have been holding in their back pocket to a problem they originally created could be used to offset their political loss.
And again, the kids were the pawns.
They have been all along.
And class-size chaos is coming back. That fix was temporary. The problem could be permanent. Because it was an unfunded mandate to being with and because the 2018 NCGA sessions ramrodded bills through like the Local Municipalities Charter bill (that allows property taxes to be used more in funding schools), local LEA’s, school boards, and county commissioners will be having to fight even more to help fully fund schools.
Remember the statements from Mark Johnson’s “less than stellar” op-ed from a February 2018 issue of News & Observer ?
And some of those tasked with making schools better are more focused on preserving tired partisan wedges….
Nothing was more partisan than what the people who empower and enable Johnson (who never has really said anything about the class size mandate) did last February.
Now that the next session of the NCGA has convened without the veto-proof majorities that were in place for many years, class-size chaos can be fixed permanently – by fully funding the mandate, keeping specials in the schools, and stopping the use of students as political pawns for a partisan agenda.
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Teachers Advocated for Public Schools in 2018, Just Like in 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014….And We Can Do More in 2019. →
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What is CAICE?
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Environmental and Complex Analysis Laboratory (ECAL)
Development of novel analytical methodologies to support researchers' needs to measure within complex chemical systems.
Welcome to the home of the Environmental and Complex Analysis Laboratory. New in 2015, leveraged on the partnerships between CAICE, ThermoFisher Scientific and active support from the University of California San Diego, the facility embodies the continual development of novel analytical methodologies to support researchers continually faced with the need to measure within complex chemical systems.
ECAL Director: Dr. Neal Arakawa
narakawa@ucsd.edu
ECAL is a state-of-the-art analytical facility that houses cutting-edge chromatography and mass spectrometry instrumentation, and serves as a platform to develop innovative strategies for performing sensitive, accurate and precise analysis of complex matrices. The laboratory’s expertise and resources are available to researchers across the campus of UC San Diego and to researchers across the globe. As no two samples are alike, complex samples typically require innovative approaches for their analysis. Comprehensive compositional analysis of complex and environmental samples can be implemented through the following state-of-the-art analytical systems within the ECAL facility:
Ultra-high resolution hybrid linear ion trap-Orbitrap mass spectrometer
Gas chromatograph coupled to a triple quadrupole MS
2-D and 1-D ultra-performance liquid chromatography systems with UV/Vis and electrochemical detection
Nano-liquid chromatography systems
Inductively-coupled plasma quadrupole mass spectrometer
Ion chromatograph with conductivity detector
All of the UPLC systems are capable of being hyphenated to the LIT-Orbitrap MS system. Furthermore, other hyphenated and unique techniques that are available (but are not limited to) include: UPLC-Orbitrap-ICPMS, IC-ICPMS, single-particle-ICP-MS (spICP-MS), SPME-GC-MS, and thermal desorption/pyrolysis-GC-MS. For inquiries about these unique approaches and the possibility for others not listed here, please contact the ECAL staff. Routine mass spectrometry applications include organic, organometallic, inorganic and elemental analyses. For organic and organometallic compounds, available measurements include high accuracy molecular weight determination, structural characterization through hyphenated MS techniques (including CID, HCD and ETD), as well as quantitative analysis through both GC-MS and UPLC-MS. For inorganic and elemental analysis, available measurements include quantitation of inorganic ions and individual elements, speciation of individual elements (e.g., simultaneous quantitation of Fe2+ and Fe3+), as well as the characterization of metallic nanoparticles.
ECAL Flyer:
ECAL Director:
Neal Arakawa
Environmental and Complex Analysis Laboratory
Urey Hall 1204, MC 0314
9500 Gilman Dr.
Parking Information:
For visitor parking, stop by the Information Center on Gilman Drive (see map below) to purchase a parking permit (also shown on the map). These permits will allow you to park in the B (green) parking spots.
UCSD Campus Location:
Urey Hall, Room 2112
Instruments, Tools, & Resources
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▸ Thermo Orbitrap Elite Hybrid Linear Ion Trap-Orbitrap MS
The Orbitrap Elite hybrid MS combines the high-field Orbitrap analyzer with a dual-pressure linear ion trap (Velos Pro). The ultra-high resolution capability allows for high accuracy mass measurements as well as increasing sensitivity towards characterizing complex and low abundance samples. The hybrid MS system provides the availability of multiple fragmentation techniques, including collision-induced dissociation (CID), high-energy collisional dissociation (HCD), and electron-transfer dissociation (ETD). Both ESI and APCI sources are available in positive and negative ionization modes.
*This instrument is available for sample submission only*
▸ Thermo Trace 1300/TSQ 8000 Evo Triple Quadrupole GC-MS
The TSQ 8000 Evo triple quadrupole (TSQ) mass spectrometer houses the high-performance EvoCell technology that provides high selected reaction monitoring (SRM) speeds, precision, and sensitivity. Both EI and CI sources are available. In addition to hyphenation to a Trace 1300 GC for facilitating the characterization of complex samples, alternative sample introduction techniques are available. These include the Direct Insertion Probe (DIP) for rapid analysis of solids or trace components in solid matrices and the Direct Exposure Probe (DEP) with a rapid heating filament for rapid introduction of liquids or solutions into the ionization source.
The GC-TSQ MS system has the TriPlus autosampler system, which provides a wide range of sample introduction capabilities. These include both liquid and gas-phase injection by syringe as well as solid-phase microextraction (SPME). For SPME, the conditioning, sampling and desorption steps can be automated.
▸ Thermo Vanquish UHPLC
The Vanquish system is a fully biocompatible ultra-high performance system with a quaternary pump, integrated autosampler with sample refrigeration, an innovative column heater, and a variable wavelength UV/Vis detector. The autosampler is integrated with a charger unit that can store additional samples for high-throughput applications.
▸ Thermo Ultimate 3000 2D-UHPLC System
The 2D Ultimate 3000 system is fully biocompatible with a dual-gradient pump, integrated autosampler, a column heater and a diode array detector. The system also includes a pair of column switching valves which provides the ability to perform unique methods such as online SPE and 2-dimensional HPLC and permits automated application switching for surveying appropriate column applications.
▸ Thermo Ultimate 3000 UHPLC System with Electrochemical Detection
This Ultimate 3000 system includes a quaternary pump, an integrated autosampler, a column heater and an electrochemical detector with a pulsed amperometric detector (PAD). The Electrochemical detector allows for the detection of electro-active analytes (typically aromatic and containing hydroxyl, methoxyl or amine moieties), with the amperometric cell providing ultimate sensitivity.
▸ Thermo iCAP RQ ICP-MS
]The iCAP RQ system is a single-quadrupole ICP-MS that offers the highest level of sensitivity for a wide-range of routine applications in elemental analyses. Multiple nebulizer options are available that allow for different sample introduction techniques, including introduction via peristaltic pump, syringe pump or through self-nebulization. In addition to the direct analysis of aqueous solutions, this ICP-MS system can be utilized in hyphenated techniques. This includes IC-ICP-MS for metal speciation applications and UPLC-ICP-MS, ideal for quantifying metal content in organometallic complexes. The latter technique can also include tandem detection of the ICP-MS with the high resolution Orbitrap Elite system, which is valuable for applications calling for characterization of organometallic complexes while simultaneously quantifying their metal content. The iCAP RQ system also has the capability of performing single-particle ICP-MS (sp-ICP-MS) analysis for characterizing the size-distribution of nanoparticle slurries.
▸ Thermo Dionex ICS-2000 IEC-CD
The ICS-2000 ion exchange chromatography system uses a conductivity detector to perform trace level quantitation of inorganic mono- and polyatomic cations and anions, including alkali, alkali earth, and transition metals as well as halogens. This system can be used as a stand-alone system, or can be hyphenated to the ICP-MS for speciation of metals with different oxidation states.
▸ Mass Spectrometry
What is mass spectrometry?
Mass spectrometry is simply the survey and measurement of individual ions by separating them by their mass. Through such efforts, mass spectrometry is a valuable and state-of-the-art tool for characterizing the chemical composition of a wide range of samples.
Mass Spectrometry in the ECAL Facility
Due to its unequaled speed, sensitivity and versatility, mass spectrometry is a key resource that is integrated into nearly all of the analytical platforms in the ECAL facility. The first key step in mass spectrometry is the conversion of neutral atoms or molecules into ions. To allow for a range of applications, ECAL offers a diverse catalog of ionization source platforms that accommodate a range of analyte and sample types.
Currently the ECAL facility houses an ultra-high resolution Orbitrap Elite MS system. This system is capable of accurate mass measurement within ±1 ppm (mass measurement error in terms of parts-per-million). Such high accuracy in the measured mass is high beneficial in assigning empirical formulas to unknown molecules, a key step in compound identification. Furthermore, the Orbitrap Elite system is a hybrid mass analyzer system, combining a linear ion trap (LIT) and an Orbitrap mass analyzers. The dual analyzer system allows for MS/MS and MSn techniques for structural elucidation, which coupled to the high accuracy mass measurement of the Orbitrap provides an unparalleled method for compound identification.
Links to Other Tutorial and Learning Resources
MS eLearning
IonSource
ChemCalc
MS Tools by SIS
IUPAC Periodic Table of Elements
Monoisotopic Masses and Isotopic Abundances
Common ESI Background Contaminants – Positive Ionization
▸ Liquid and Gas Chromatography
What is Liquid and Gas Chromatography?
Chromatography is, fundamentally, a powerful technique for separating the chemical constituents within a complex sample. Such separation can be performed by inducing interactions between neutral molecules (i.e., interaction chromatography), interactions between charged species (e.g., ion-exchange chromatography; see section on ion chromatography below), or based on molecule size (e.g., size-exclusion chromatography). High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) performs the separation with the constituents in the liquid phase while gas chromatography (GC) does so in the gas phase. The separation columns are specifically designed to either separate a wide range of analytes or for a specific class of analytes. Separations can be done for neutral organic molecules (e.g., liquid and gas chromatography) or ions (e.g., ion exchange chromatography).
LC and GC in the ECAL Facility
ECAL provides a range of GC and HPLC platforms capable of separating neutral organic molecules as well as organic and inorganic ions. In addition, all separation platforms are coupled to various detectors, with the most common being a mass spectrometer (GC-MS and HPLC-MS). By coupling chromatography-based separations to mass spectrometry detection, the molecular and elemental compositions of complex samples and mixtures can be easily characterized. In addition to MS detection, spectroscopic (UV/Vis) and electrochemical detection platforms are also available.
The ECAL facility houses a catalog of HPLC columns, each tailored for specific applications. This includes reverse-phase, normal-phase, HILIC, size-exclusion, and ligand-exchange columns. Most of the columns are used in applications utilizing MS and/or UV/Vis detection. The ligand-exchange columns are typically used with electrochemical detection for separating and detecting saccharides and other electroactive species in aqueous systems.
GC analyses in ECAL can be performed with either MS detection or a flame ionization detector (FID). GC-MS is performed with a triple-quadrupole detection system, which is capable of performing MS/MS techniques that allows for molecular structure determinations. Multiple sample introduction techniques are currently available, including automated liquid and headspace injection as well as automated and manual solid-phase microextraction (SPME). Analyses with the triple-quadrupole MS system can also be performed without the GC, using thermal desorption or flash pyrolysis sample introduction techniques.
A variety of GC columns are available in the ECAL facility, fitting applications ranging from non-polar to polar analytes.
LC and GC eLearning
HPLC Method Translator
GC Method Translator
▸ Inductively-Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS)
What is ICP-MS?
Inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) is a method of mass spectrometry capable of detecting most metals and metalloids across the periodic table. ICP-MS is a highly sensitive technique, providing the ability to detect certain metals (those which possess low background levels) down to the parts-per-quadrillion (e.g., pg/L) level. The ICP-MS uses a high-temperature source (consisting of an argon plasma at ~10,000 K) which converts the sample into individual charged atoms that are separated by the mass analyzer inside the mass spectrometer.
ICP-MS in the ECAL Facility
ICP-MS platforms in the ECAL facility offer a wide range of configurations, each tailored for specific applications and the data desired. Various sample introduction techniques are available to accommodate samples of low or high volume, including infusion by peristaltic or syringe pump as well as self-aspiration with micro-flow nebulizers. In addition to simple metal quantification in aqueous samples, the ICP-MS can be used as a detector following separation of metals by ion-exchange chromatography (IC-ICP-MS). IC-ICP-MS can be used to quantity metals with different oxidation states (e.g., measuring the amount of both Fe2+ and Fe3+). The ICP-MS system can also be configured for the measurement of individual nanoparticles (i.e., single-particle ICP-MS or spICP-MS). This novel method provides the ability to detect and quantify the metal content of individual nanoparticles in a solution and convert the quantity to a nanoparticle size.
Links to Suggested Reagents, Standards and Labware for ICP-MS Analysis
High-Purity Acids for ICP-MS
ICP-MS Standards
ICP Operations
Sample Preparation for ICP-MS
Guide to Trace Analysis with ICP-MS
Interactive Periodic Table of Elements for ICP-MS Analysis
▸ Ion Chromatography
What is Ion Chromatography?
Ion chromatography (IC) is the separation of ions and polar molecules by interactions of the ions and molecules with an ion exchanger (typically a charged functional group attached to a polymeric support). Coupling IC to a conductivity detector (IC-CD) provides the ability to quantify ions down to the parts-per-billion level.
IC in the ECAL Facility
The IC-CD system in ECAL can separate and quantifying organic and inorganic cations and anions. ECAL houses a catalog of IC columns that are designed for a broad range of ions or for specific applications (e.g., separation of sulfate and sulfite). The IC system can, alternatively, be coupled to the ICP-MS (IC-ICP-MS) for separating and quantifying metals of different oxidation states.
Practical Guide to IC
Theory of IC
Rates of Use
Analysis Description Sample Introduction Method Billing Unit UCSDa Non-UCSDa
Accurate mass determination (HRMS) Direct Infusion Per Hour $80 $116.00
UPLC Per Hourb $85 $123.25
Structural elucidation (MSn)c Direct Infusion Per Hour $80 $116.00
UPLC Per Hour $85 $123.25
Quantitative analysis UPLC Per Hourd $85 $123.25
a The analysis of submitted samples are subject to an additional fee of $100/hr ($145/hr for non-UCSD) to cover labor costs for ECAL personnel performing the analysis.
b For analyses using UPLC separations, the total analysis time will be used in determining the number of units charged.
c Includes CID, HCD and ETD fragmentation methods.
d Charges for quantitative analysis will include the analysis of blanks, calibration solutions and quality control solutions.
▸ Thermo 1D or 2D UPLC with UV/Vis or Electrochemical Detection
Quantitative analysisb,c UPLC Per Hourc $50d $72.50d
c Charges for quantitative analysis will include the analysis of blanks, calibration solutions and quality control solutions.
d Both UPLC systems can be hyphenated with the Orbitrap Elite. For such applications the fee schedule for “Quantitative Analysis” with “UPLC” for the Orbitrap MS will be used.
Structural elucidation (MSn)c GC Per Hour $55 $79.75
TD-Pyb Per Hour $55 $79.75
Quantitative analysis GC Per Hourd $55 $79.75
Qualitative analysis Per Hour $55 $79.75
SPME-GCd GC Per Hour $55 $79.75
b TD-Py indicates the use of the direct insertion probe for introducing a solid or liquid sample into the MS by either thermal desorption or flash pyrolysis.
d For SPME analyses, fiber conditioning times will be added to the number of billed units and billed at half the hourly rate for GC-MS (i.e., $25/hr or $36.25/hr).
Quantitative analysis Infusion Per Sampleb $20 $33
IC Per Sampleb $20 $33
Single-particle analysis Infusion Per Sampleb $20 $33
b Charges for quantitative analysis will include the analysis of blanks, calibration solutions and quality control solutions.
▸ Themo ICS-2000 Ion Chromatograph with Conductivity Detection
Please inquire about the rates for using the IC-CD system for quantitative analysis.
Sample Submission Guidelines
▸ Submitting Samples of ICP-MS Analysis
All samples must be supplied in clearly labelled and closed plastic containers. Labels must include the last name of the submitter, last name of submitter’s supervising PI and the identifying sample label listed on the Request for Sample Analysis by ICP-MS form.
For quantitative analyses, please submit the following in addition to your samples:
Calibration solutions (five separation solutions prepared by serial dilution) that contain the target elements in the following concentrations: 1000 ppb, 100 ppb, 10 ppb, 1 ppb and 0.1 ppb
Blank solutions (ultrapure water with the same mineral acid used in the calibration solutions and the samples)
All sample containers should be cleaned beforehand by soaking in 2% HNO3 (aq) overnight, then rinsed with ultrapure water (MilliQ preferred) and then dried in a clean air fume hood.
All samples need to be submitted as either a liquid that can be analyzed by ICP-MS directly (e.g., water samples) or as dissolved samples diluted in weak mineral acid(s) (see the matric compatibility periodic table below for the appropriate acids).
Please use trace-metal grade mineral acids for all samples and calibration solutions.
Please ensure that the same matrix (i.e., mineral acid) as used in the sample is used in the calibration solutions and blank solutions.
For all samples, please make note of the sample weights and dilution factors so that the final concentrations of the targeted elements in your samples can be calculated.
It is vitally important that the submitted samples are solutions that DO NOT contain any dissolved solids (either original non-dissolved sample or salt precipitates). Samples should be filtered (at least 0.45 micron) and acidified as soon as they are collected to ensure metals are retained in solution.
The preferred concentration of elements for analysis in solution is 10-100 ppb (parts per billion by weight; e.g., ng/g) for trace elements or 1 ppm (part per million by weight; e.g., µg/g) for major elements (i.e., Si, Ti, Al, Fe, Mg, Mn, Ca, Na, K, P).
Sample consumption during analysis is typically between 5-10 mL. To ensure sufficient amount of sample is available, please submit 10 mL samples.
▸ Analysis of Samples by ICP-MS
Samples are analyzed as soon as possible upon receipt. If a more urgent timeline is needed please contact the ECAL facility staff.
For each submitted sample and blank solutions, three individual data points (absolute intensity) are recorded and averaged. The averaged intensities are used in conjunction with the linear regression data from the calibration curves to calculate the concentration of the element in solution.
Users will be contacted by email once samples have been analyzed. All results will be submitted by email via PDF (file titled “ECAL_ICPMS_(Last Name)-(PI Name)_Date”).
Within the results report, all pertinent instrumental conditions, calibration curves and calculated concentrations in samples are provided.
Both electronic and paper copies of the results are archived by ECAL staff. If needed, please contact the ECAL staff for a copy of the results.
After analysis, all samples are refrigerated at 0-4 °C for a maximum of one month. Please ensure to retrieve your samples as soon as possible. If you require alternative sample storage conditions, please let the ECAL staff know and ensure to include such information in the sample submission form.
▸ Submitting Samples for Accurate Mass Measurement and/or Structural Elucidation by LIT-Orbitrap Ultra-High Resolution MS Analysis
Concentration of the target analyte should be around 100 µM in solution.
Please submit the sample free of salts (e.g., Na, Mg, Ca, etc.), buffers, strong acids/bases (including TFA), and surfactants (e.g., SDS).
Samples should be composed of LC/MS friendly solvents (e.g., water, acetonitrile, methanol, etc.).
Use only LC/MS grade solvents when preparing your samples.
The default ionization for LIT-Orbitrap analysis is heated electrospray (HESI). Atmospheric-pressure chemical ionization (APCI) is available upon request.
In addition to MS detection, all UPLC analyses include parallel detection by UV/Vis adsorption spectroscopy (used to ensure proper UPLC performance in case of issues with MS detection).
For either direct infusion (DI-MS) or UPLC-MS analysis, please inform the ECAL staff (and include the information in the sample submission form) if you require specifics for any of the following:
mobile phase composition (including buffers),
mobile phase program (isocratic or gradient),
ionization parameters (including ionization polarity)
wavelengths for UV/Vis detection.
Please avoid using DMSO, DCM or DMF in the samples.
All samples should be filtered prior to submission.
▸ Analysis of Samples by LIT-Orbitrap
Samples are analyzed as soon as possible upon receipt. If a more urgent timeline is needed, please contact the ECAL facility staff.
Users will be contacted by email once samples have been analyzed. All results will be submitted by email via PDF (file titled “ECAL_Orbitrap_(Last Name)-(PI Name)_Date”).
Within the results report, the following is provided:
all pertinent instrumental conditions
acquired MS spectra
lists of accurate masses of target analyte
calibration curves (if quantitative analysis is requested)
calculated concentrations in samples (if quantitative analysis is requested)
▸ Submitting Samples for Analysis by GC-MS/MS
Samples should be composed of GC-MS friendly solvents (e.g., dichloromethane, hexane, methanol, etc.).
Please avoid samples containing large amounts of water.
The default ionization for GC-MS analysis is electron ionization (EI). Chemical ionization (using methane as the reagent gas) is available upon request.
▸ Analysis of Samples by GC-MS/MS
acquired GC-MS chromatograms and spectra (upon request)
▸ Submitting Samples for Analysis by Thermal Desorption/Pyrolysis-MS
Samples should either be in solid form at submission or, if in liquid form, be dissolved in a highly volatile solvent (e.g., dichloromethane, hexane, etc.)
▸ Analysis of Samples by Thermal Desorption/Pyrolysis-MS
acquired thermograms and
MS spectra (upon request)
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Adrianne Lenker Crafts an Authentic Response to Heartbreak
Jacob Aupperlee, Guest Writer|October 30, 2020
Adrianne Lenker releases a new album which is her third solo project.
After a prolific year as the front woman of Big Thief, Adrianne Lenker returns with her third solo project, “songs.” The album is the product of what has come to be an indie music cliché: a post-breakup escape to a cabin in the woods. Despite her perhaps exhausted backdrop, Lenker delivers a collection of gentle folk songs that are both sonically intimate and unabashedly honest about what it means to lose someone you love.
Nearly every track on the album consists exclusively of Lenker’s delicate, yet resilient vocals, her complex guitar picking, and some variety of understated percussion. Although constant in this minimalism, the songs are rarely sparse and never wanting for additional instrumentation. In a recent interview with Pitchfork, Lenker stated that her rented cabin-turned-recording-studio felt like “the inside of an acoustic guitar.” In many ways, the sonic textures of the album adapt to this description: the guitar is close-up and rich, as if the listener were inside it. Paired with Lenker’s vocals, this forms an intricate duet, acting as far more than mere background support.
The tone of warmth and closeness in “songs” extends to Lenker’s physical setting, allowing the listener to hear the sounds of her own material world. Birdsong, the buzz of a bee, and the sound of shifting chairs pepper the album. In “come,” we hear over a minute of soft rain matched with a slowly plucked guitar. “Forwards beckon rebound” begins with Lenker experimentally layering her guitar, responding, “Woah, that’s cool,” after it cuts out. Rather than feeling like gimmicks, these brief extensions and asides make for a more authentic atmosphere for the tracks to dwell in. Lenker concerns herself not with a highly polished and pristine product but with music that exhibits a sense of concrete location in the corporeal.
Lenker’s lyrics in “songs” complement this aural realism we find woven throughout the album. Though they are frequently surreal (on “ingydar” she sings, “His eyes are blueberries, video screens/Minneapolis schemes and dried flowers/from books half-read), they draw their images and emotions from the innate world of memory. Lenker recalls the “Mango in your mouth, juice dripping” in “anything,” and later, “Dog’s white teeth slice right into my fist/Drive to the ER and you put me on my wrist.” The song builds around these vivid and personal moments as Lenker’s wistful but not at all sentimental guitar playing intertwines itself into the story. An air of genuine emotion hangs about the candid anecdotes that fill “songs;” their specificity and focus suggest origins in true individual experience.
Nearly every track of “songs” explores the burden of loss and its absolute inevitability. Having written and recorded the album soon after her own breakup with artist Indigo Sparke, Lenker’s words and melodies carry the weight of regret and cynicism. In the opening song, “two reverse,” Lenker asks, “Is it a crime to say/I still need you?” as she stretches and twists the syllables of her query. Following an overwhelming heartbreak, she wonders about the implications of remaining dependent on someone who is now purposely absent from her life. “Zombie girl” reveals she cannot evade the desire for this person she so loved: “Then the next night/Dreaming I could feel your skin/But the dream escaped so easily.”
Despite Lenker’s emotional suffering, there is no resentment in her lyrics or bitterness in her voice. She is well-aware that injury of the heart is a fundamental condition of the human experience. She sings in “dragon eyes,” “As we make love make love and you’re on my skin/You are changing me, you are changing.” Lenker understands that love necessitates transformation, and that transformation can push lovers apart. With “ingydar,” she suggests that even if lovers can remain together temporarily, death will separate them in the end: “Everything eats and is eaten/Time is fed.” If all love is doomed, why then, has Lenker made an album about her yearning for it?
“songs” is Adrianne Lenker’s attempt to present her reality, the beauty it holds, the tender memories of the past, and the unavoidable presence of pain and unfulfilled desire. Though she knows loss is the preordained end of love, she refuses to relinquish the memories of what was once good in her life. “I just wanna place with you,” she continues in “dragon eyes,” “I just wanna place.” She strives still for normalcy, for unity and reconciliation. Perhaps through the gorgeous melodies and masterful lyrics of “songs,” Lenker is telling us that all love, even love lost, love designated to fail, is worth singing about.
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Canadian’s Choice Tour
Battle of Normandy
Battle of the Rhine
Operation Veritable
Operation Blockbuster
Operation Plunder
Liberation of Holland Tours – Three Options
WWI Battlefield Tour
Dieppe Tour
Welcome to Canadian Battlefield Tours
Canadian Battlefield Tours is a Battlefield Tour Company, specializing in the Canadian actions in WW1 and the Canadian and British actions in WW2.
Our aim is to provide to you with a very unique experience while in Europe. If you were in the Canadian Military, have friends or family that have served in the Canadian Military, or have an interest in military history, our tours will provide you with an unparalleled experience relative to the Canadian battles in WW1 and the Canadian, British and Polish battles in WW2.
Our tours are private, custom tours designed to be intimate and personal. They are available on a first come first serve basis to anyone and will especially appeal to relatives of Canadian front line soldiers who were at the “sharp edge” and saw action in these theatres. To accomplish this we have restricted the size of our groups to 1 to 4 people. A personal tour, with pick-up at your hotel, may cost more when compared with joining a fixed-itinerary ‘bus’ tour, but the value, attention to detail, and personal touch is priceless. We feel it is by far and away the best way to see the battlefield. This is especially true, when this may be your one occasion to make the visit of your lifetime, making your battlefield visit a seamless experience. A personal tour is also better suited for the quiet exploration and reflection of past events, without the possible distraction of others making up your group – and the need for the tour leader to stick to a fixed time schedule!
Conducted (usually bus) tours, whether large or small, understandably, require you to comply with a fairly strict itinerary. The reason for this, is that the larger bus tours tend to take you primarily, to the better known monuments, museums and cemeteries.
Of course, with us, you will also visit these same monuments, museums and cemeteries, but always, with us, you will see so much more. For example, by the sheer size of their buses or coaches, they are unable to navigate the narrow farm tracks/roads, etc., to where some of the most poignant events took place. We don’t have those problems and our tours by their very nature, will take you through some of the most beautiful, scenic countryside you will ever see, usually on good quality, paved “back roads. We try to avoid, where possible, the extremely busy main highways. If you travel as part of a large group you may become frustrated by not being able to explore the landscape and ‘follow your nose’ to uncover the legacy of the battlefields. It can also be frustrating to be told to get back on the bus, to be herded to the next ‘must see’.
As noted above, our tours include visits to a select number of monuments, museums and beautiful Cemeteries, maintained and operated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. We also include a few select German cemeteries. Our tours are always flexible and will allow you the time you wish, to reminisce at the cemeteries. We will also make sure you have sufficient “free time” to enjoy other local tourist attractions.
Meet Your Guides
WWII - Battle of the Rhine
WWII - Liberation of Holland
WWII - Prisoners of War
WWII - Battle of the Scheldt
WWII - Normandy
WWII - Market Garden
WWII - Dieppe
WWII Italian Canadian Campaign – Devils Brigade Tour
Ed Church
Gianni Blasi
Jim Smithson
Roberto Piccione
Jon Haslock
Andrew Robertshaw
Bill McQuade
Joël Stoppels
Berry & Yvonne Swarthoff
Robert Catsburg
Ken Lees
Jan Braakman
Jonathan Nicholls
Mike Scott
Valerie Vaultier
Mark Banning
Guillermo Alcantara
Sonia Hidalgo
Edwin Popken
The day with Robin, in Normandy, was more than expected, and he was an extraordinary host. We thank you, and Robin, for a very memorable day.
Christina and Wayne Bornstein
Our tour involved two days on the WW I battlefields in France and Belgium and one day exploring WWII battlefields from Juno beach to Caen. Jim Smithson, our guide for the WWI battlefields, was very knowledgeable and entertaining. We had two very full and busy days and learned a great deal about the experiences and sacrifices of the soldiers of the Canadian corps. We spent the first day touring the Somme battlefields, memorials and graveyards, including Vimy Ridge and the Newfoundland memorial at Beaumont-Hamel. The next day we went to Flanders in Belgium and explored the Passchendaele battlefields and witnessed the last post ceremony held every night at 8:00 pm in Ypres, which was a very moving experience. Jim has a wealth of information on WWI and gave us many insights into the battles and the experiences of Canadian and Commonwealth soldiers. Robin Burrows-Ellis, our guide for the tour of the WWII battlefields, was also very knowledgeable and entertaining. My wife’s uncle Philip (who died before she was born) was killed on July 21st in battle around Mondeville, south of Caen only two weeks after landing in Normandy. He was a private with The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada. Robin did a great job of researching and tracing Philip’s steps from Juno beach to the area where he was killed. We visited the various locations where his battalion engaged the Germans in battle, including the location where he died. Robin was very well prepared with battle maps and was able to obtain transcripts of radio communications by Philip’s battalion on the day he was killed which gave a blow by blow account of the battle. You could close your eyes and almost imagine the terror of being in this situation. We finished our tour at the Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery near Caen where Robin located Philip’s gravestone. We placed a small Canadian flag and some flowers near his gravestone and Robin read a poem. It was a very moving experience for us, even though we had never met Philip. I have no hesitation in recommending your company and Jim and Robin as great guides for those wishing to visit WWI and WWII battlefields and memorials with a focus on the Canadian and Commonwealth wartime experience.
David & Michelle Mydske
I thought John did a great job of taking us through the tour. He was well researched on our Uncle Jim’s service, I believe in part because we provided him with the 75 pages of service record from Ottawa. Also he did a good bit of research through the Canadian War Dairies to determine where Jim was and where he sustained his wounds. John was barraged by my brother Scott throughout our tour and I thought did a splendid job of answering all our questions. Although I think he was happy to see the last of us as we exhausted him through our many inquiries.
Jamie, Scott & Fraser McTavish
Vancouver, BC & Markham, Ontario
Just a quick note to thank you for the tour. I've had time now to review the war diaries and photo's that Robin provided for us and will be sending copies to my sister and brother in law as well. Robin did some excellent and deep research into the South Alberta's and consequently was able to take us exactly to the locations of where "C" squadron and John Barnett would have been during August of 1944. The planning and level of detail made the trip more than worthwhile. Thank you again for the good work.
Todd Lemieux
Nanton, Alberta
Firstly, we wanted to thank you for the tour, we were quite happy with everything. John was very knowledgeable and provided excellent opportunities to experience the many different aspects of the conflict. Being able to see the French memorial at Notre Dame de Lorette, or the Langemark German cemetery provided perspective that we were not likely to get with some other tours. John also was kind enough to order up some glorious weather to enjoy the tour. When we spoke to John about what we wanted to achieve during the tour, we stated that we wanted to visit some less travelled memorials and he managed to find some excellent locations. Again, thank you for everything, and please pass along our thanks to John.
Dawn and Joe Barbosa
The tours with Robin and Jon were excellent and met all of my expectations. Both guides were extremely knowledgeable and passionate about their respective areas of expertise. I was very pleased with the requested focus on Canadian contributions to the battlefields and war efforts of WWI and WWII. Both guides were also flexible enough to incorporate visits to sites that I showed secondary interest in during the tour (e.g., Omaha beach and a WWI Portuguese war cemetery). Robin's researched storytelling approach to site visits was quite unique and provided me with some of the most poignant moments of my 5-day tour. Jon was a walking WWI encyclopedia and was able to answer all of the questions my curiosity could muster, including some I forgot to ask Robin in the first leg! Thanks again to you and your guides for accommodating me on what I now certainly appreciate was short notice for such a customized experience. The trip provided me with memories that I will recount and reflect on for a lifetime.
David Catarino
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Our experience with Jim, without a doubt, exceeded our expectations. He was personable, organized, well-prepared and knowledgeable. Each day, Jim arrived at the set time and off we’d go to battlefields, memorials and military cemeteries. The days were full, but well-paced with pleasant stops for lunch. Every excursion was augmented by maps past and present, historic photos and other materials. Jim's passion and sincerity when speaking about WWI and WWII, the experiences and sacrifices of those involved and respect for the fallen are especially noteworthy. We not only learned details, but also gained a deep appreciation for all sides of these gruesome conflicts. David and I really appreciated the added effort to provide more background concerning my grandfather’s and great-uncle’s military service. Visiting my great-uncle’s burial site and the location where he was fatally injured was especially poignant.
Brenda & David Barry
We were very well impressed with the tour Jim gave us. We came with three different levels of knowledge and he was able to make it so we all got something from each stop. I know what a challenge that can be. Jim went above and beyond keeping up on where the crowds would be and helping us avoid them.
Megan Nagtegaal
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Our two days with Richard were absolutely perfect, exceeded any expectations we could possibly have. What a wonderful, personable, knowledgeable, compassionate man! It was an amazing, educational and emotional two days!
Kim MacKenzie
Pipestone, Manitoba, Canada
We very much enjoyed our Normandy tour with Robin. It was a full day full of stories which made D-Day come alive. The Canadian cemetery was the most moving spot we visited. Robin is very well informed and obviously passionate about making history come alive. We learned a great deal more than most tourists would from our day with him.
Bev Noble & Brian Field, Lucan (Komoka)
The tour went very well. Our guide, was very knowledgeable about everything involving the Canadian campaign in Italy. He was also very enthusiastic, friendly, and a gracious host. He took us to several Canadian memorials in the Cassino/Liri Valley area and explained their history. He also took great effort to put special focus on the areas and points of interest that specifically involved where my Dad would have been with his regiment. I was very impressed by that. I truly feel it gave me a closer connection to what my Dad would have experienced, and where he was.
Dwaine Balak
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Great day with Robert. He really set it up well and gave us the tour we wanted plus. Would recommend CBT and Robert highly.
Robin was outstanding. He was engaging and enthusiastic, as well as knowledgeable. Robin brought documents, maps and photos to amplify his explanations. This was really helpful. After the tour, he gave us copies of a number of his papers for us to take, and to read at our leisure after the tour. One the best aspects of Robin’s delivery is the way he was able to personalize the events, by drawing on the stories of heroic acts by Allied soldiers and members of the French resistance. It was brilliant, and he had all the time in the world to spend to help us better understand and appreciate D-day events. Robin also provided directions which were instrumental to getting us to the Dieppe battle site… I don’t think we would have found it without his help.
Peter Cameron & Brenda Reid
Jane and I thoroughly enjoyed the 3 day world war 1 tour last week. The tour guide you arranged, Jim, was very knowledgeable on the area and the subject. He customized the trip for us to focus on the Canadian role in WW1, which is what we were interested in. Jim also did additional research for us and identified cemeteries where two of my relatives were buried. He then worked these two cemeteries into the schedule so we could visit them in the context of the battles they fought in. It was a humbling and moving tour, made personal by finding my two relatives. We enjoyed our Canadian Battlefields tour and would highly recommend Jim as a guide for anyone interested in doing a similar tour.
Rob & Jane Carrs
Our Canadian Battlefields Tour exceeded our expectations. Jim Smithson, our guide, was outstanding. We would rate him as our best tour guide ever. He is a historian with an in depth knowledge and understanding of the history of Canadian WWI battlefields. Jim took us on a personal tour of the Canadian battlefields at Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele where my wife’s father participated and described the conditions, the Canadian battlefield strategy and what happened in each battle. Jim researched the battlefield actions of her father's company and showed us the military maps and documentation. Jim also gave us a first hand look at the specific area in the Passchendaele battlefield (now a farmer’s field) where he was wounded. He showed us copies of the military reports, battle plans and casualty lists that allowed us to personally follow his footsteps in WWi. Jim's vast knowledge of the cemeteries, and the soldiers who are buried there helped our understanding and appreciation of their sacrifice in WWI. Jim ran our tour without a hitch. He picked us up promptly each day and drove us to the Canadian battlefields and cemetery locations, some of which were small and would have been impossible for us to find on our own. While we were visiting some of the smaller Canadian WWI cemeteries we met other Canadians who were there on their own in remembrance of the 100th anniversary of a fallen relative. Jim explained the burial rites followed during and after the war and helped our fellow Canadians better understand their relatives final resting place. We were thankful and very pleased that Jim so graciously shared his knowledge and understanding in such a kind and compassionate way. Would highly recommend CBT and your guide.
Paul & Judy Sandulak
Sherwood Park, Alberta
We are flying home at the moment and are taking the opportunity to send a few words about our tour. To summarize, the tour fully met our expectations and in the case of our time with Robert Catsburg in the Scheldt area, exceeded them. Notwithstanding that we had done research on our own we could not possibly have put together the tours we had with your guides. There is no substitute for local knowledge and the on the ground research that each guide did in relation to “Major Tom” and the Royal Regiment. All three without fail did what they said they would do. They were very good at reading us and pacing the tour appropriately. All were strong at developing a good personal relationship with us and were pleasant companions. All had “done their homework”. Of particular note is the depth of Robert’s scholarship and indeed passion for his subject. We were happy we never had to drive. It would not have been as good an experience for us had we had to drive. Mark drove our car. Robert and Berry drove theirs. In addition your suggestions for accommodation were good. We enjoyed the Hotel Bayeux, Tulip Inn and LOVED the Villa Rozenhof. We were spoiled by Berry and Yvonne at the Mondani. Anita at the Villa packed us a breakfast for our early flight from Amsterdam to LHR which lasted for three days! We chose CBT as a result of a recommendation by our friend Bob Lucas. We would not hesitate to recommend CBT to others.
Anna Whitley & Fred Blair
I cannot reiterate enough how our tour exceeded all expectations. Jim was exactly the right choice for our wants and needs. At times, we almost felt we were in the battles that our fathers fought! His skills as a guide were exemplary. It was obvious that his research regarding our individual fathers was extensive and we were pleased to receive copies of that information at the end of the tour. I will highly recommend your tour company without reservation. I might add that the personalized tour was the way to go for us. It certainly eliminated the areas that our fathers never fought in and therefore not pertinent for us. Thank you for helping to guide us through this very emotional but totally rewarding experience.
Barbara Scott & Ruth Taylor
Windsor, Nova Scotia
Thanks for contacting me about the trip. My sister and I both agreed that it far exceeded our expectations. It was clearly customized to our requests - all of them. There was nothing generic about it. Jim has an inexhaustible depth of knowledge and also an ability to organize the places we visited and the information he presented, in a very coherent way. He also inquired to see what we needed to help us understand. I particularly wanted to understand the landscape with respect to the various battles. At every stop he anchored our discussions with excellent maps and he also kept us updated about our position while we were traveling. It was very satisfying. He never rushed us and answered every question. Whenever he provided perspective he also provided the reasons for his comments. That was also very reassuring. He was a very well read and informative guide. The logistics of the trip were slick and well planned. There was no fuss about anything and we were never rushed and yet there were always timely stops for food and loos. You mentioned that, given our interests, we probably could not do better for a guide. I agree. I will highly recommend your company and Jim Smithson. Note: Pat & her sister took our WWI Tour
Patricia Hunt
The tour with Jim (Canadian Battlefield Tours) was simply outstanding. It definitely exceeded any expectations we may have had. Jim provided an itinerary before hand detailing the tour timetable, more importantly, it was his in-depth knowledge of the historical facts and local geography which made the 3 days so memorable. He is a very likeable person, which made the travels quite enjoyable. We learned and witnessed so much. The sight of so many thousands of young people etched on graves and the walls will be us with forever. Jim personalized my Grandfather’s days around St Julian in April, 1915. Actually being in the area was moving. I really appreciated the background & the notes of those particular days. The Menin Gate ceremony stood out as one of many highlights. There was the live shell we came across next to a field or the recent burial of 4 Canadians from Hill 70. Would we recommend CBT… absolutely, no hesitation. My wife even suggested a WW2 tour in the future. Thank you again & please thank Jim.
Bruce & Glenda Hayzelden
The trip was all I expected and more. Ken was very knowledgeable and we had four great days together. I could not recommend him higher than I do. Four days was the right time for me. I would also tell anyone that intended tp go that to do so without a guide would be folly. Finding the places, let alone describing what happened at them, would be impossible.
Connie and I had a great time on the Canadian Battlefields tour. Our guide was not only friendly and fun to be around, he was also an encyclopedia of knowledge. In fact, his depth of knowledge, and his ability to tell the stories in an engaging manner, made this tour extra special. The added bonus? Sitting in the only Canadian Legion in Holland having dinner with his family. We felt so very special.
Don & Connie Campbell
We just got home yesterday and was about to send you a short note about our experience with your company. Our two tours were great. Our WWI guide JOHN... was exceptional!! We enjoyed his company immensely. John was so courteous and mindful about my condition (I'm in pain waiting for a hip replacement) and drove ever so careful over speed bumps and pot holes... and took the curvy roads in a very careful way as not to add to my discomfort. He was the best guide we have ever had in all of our travels. We will recommend your company and John to our friends who plan to do the same trip we just did. Our Normandy guide ROBIN was extremely knowledgeable and did a good job informing us on everything.
Valerie & Henry Strong
The Normandy part of the tour was exceptional with Robin, he brings so much energy and pride to his tour. He gives a broad view of certain battles, but will focus on the individual stories, as he says " his-story". At the end of each 10 hour day he gives you a folder with all the information of the many topics covered that day. My dad and I were blown away. The World War One portion with Jon was also very professional. He has very in depth knowledge of all the specific battles and weaponry. It never failed, every time we walked near a farmers field there was some form of war debris, including a couple of unexploded shells. All in all a great memorable experience.
Jeff Pentecost
Burnaby & Vancouver, BC
The tour was amazing, far beyond our expectations!!! Andrew and I so enjoyed our time with Robin touring the WW2 battlefields and memorial sites. Today, Andrew and I started our “break day” with a visit to the Bayeux Tapestry, then we went to Dieppe and visited the Canadian War Museum to honour a great uncle of one of Andrew’s close friends. His grandfather, brother of his great uncle also served in WW2 after his brother, but is still alive (late 90’s now) and lives at the Veterans Retirement Residence at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. Andrew and I were so excited to be able to take this trip/journey together, and extremely grateful to you!! Thank you so very much for making this dream come true for us. A huge thanks again for all your kind attention and amazing effort!!
Marianne & Andrew Guizzetti
The tour greatly exceeded our expectations. We had an absolutely fantastic tour with Richard Porter. It was a truly moving experience, especially the last day, during which he took us to the Somme area, where both my grandfathers were. Knowing their battalion number and regiment, he was able to pinpoint their exact location and movements. It was incredible. We will be talking about this vacation for a long time. Will heartily recommend your firm to anyone. Thank you so much!!
Dr. Patricia Cairns
The eight-day Canadians Choice Tour tour exceeded my expectations. Your guide Jim Smithson has a passion for and an encyclopedic knowledge of both WW II Normandy and the Western Front of WW I. I was especially interested in sites associated with Canada. He took me to many. Special was the “personal touch.” Jim is a “keeper.” I’d score him 10 / 10 ++!!
Gord Yakimow
Thank you for being our conduit to a wonderful educational experience. We met Andy at the train station in Arras and soon learned that we had the best tour guide possible. Andy is a wealth of knowledge and a great personality. After some brief planning and coffee at a local restaurant, we decided to take our journey south toward a number of Commonwealth Cemeteries, which included visits to Sere Road Cemetery No. 2, the Newfoundland Cemetery and of course the Bouchoir New British Cemetery where Gwyn’s uncle is buried. We travelled back to Arras for lunch, then during the afternoon we spent some time at Vimy Ridge Memorial and walked the grounds. We finished off with a visit to a German Cemetery nearby. I give your guide Andy Robertshaw top marks. Could not have been better. Gwyn and I are completely satisfied with this CBT experience, which we will recommend.
Syd & Gwyn Perkins
Tofield, Alberta
Mike was excellent!! Our tour experience was educational and enjoyable. We couldn’t have gained so much from the experience had we attempted it on our own. Mike was very accommodating and flexible to meet our needs. Mike is an excellent story teller and brought history to life. His car was comfortable and he was prompt in his arrival each day. Thanks so much for a tremendous experience!!
Deborah Viel
Yarmouth Nova Scotia
I thought I would let you know that the 3 days with Andy Robertshaw went great! He is extremely knowledgeable besides being fun to be around. The entire family enjoyed his company. He gave us new information and perspective on my Uncle Stuart Siddons’s military service that I had not expected. I would be happy to give a recommendation to any of your, or his potential clients.
We both thought the experience was very worthwhile and I believe we have come away changed. I now have an exceedingly deeper appreciation of what "thank you for your service" really means. We both believe it was a fabulous and worthwhile experience, but fun and relaxing are not two words either of us would use to describe the experience. I would highly recommend your organization and team for anyone interested in such a tour (but I would do my best to prepare them for the unpreparable, being the emotional impact, which really is what these tours really need to be about).
Brent & Jason Moore
I lost my father when I was twenty-five. He died at the age of fifty-six back in 1978. He was and continues to be a huge influence on me. He was a Lieutenant in the FSSF, 3rd Regiment. He left a leg on a path near Sospel, France. Finding the exact place where he was wounded in a quiet forest on the edge of a mountain in the Alps was profoundly moving. He had apparently crawled back to his men, ordering them to not come to his aid, thereby saving other lives as they found two more mines on the trail he had walked before stepping on the box mine. Gianni and Roland brought those years back into focus. They made history come alive. Gianni showed me a fountain where they would have stopped to drink. He showed me a path outside a headquarters building where they would undoubtedly have walked. Roland showed me the path of my dad’s last walk before being injured. I have been back in Canada about three weeks. I cannot stop thinking about our experience and the courage and sacrifice of these wonderful men.
Paul Mergler
Our Devil’s Brigade Tour went far beyond even our greatest expectations. Italy tour guide Gianni Blasi was so knowledgeable, accommodating and wonderful to be with. His in-depth knowledge and understanding of the Devil’s Brigade’s history, peppered with various anecdotes, made the tour so meaningful. As for the Franco – Italian Alps portion of the tour, French guide Roland Orengo led us on a 17 km hike to visit a battle site of great importance to us. It was his superb knowledge of the local terrain that allowed us to reach our destination. We never would have been able to get there without him. All in all, Canadian Battlefields Tours provided us with a once-in-a lifetime experience for which we will always be grateful. And thanks so much for the time you put into it. It is a great package that should hopefully be enjoyed by many others in the future. I would recommend your tour company to anybody without any hesitation whatsoever. Thank you again!
Brian Heller
The tours were great. Robert and Berry really know their stuff, and their enthusiasm for the whole thing was really impressive. It's quite humbling to see people from another country show such an interest in ours - its a real shame our education system doesn't teach our kids nearly enough about this stuff. I will be in contact with both Robert and Berry to share with them some of the stuff I have from my grandfather, as they both expressed an interest in seeing it.
Keith Marion
Outstanding trip! We had such an unbelievable time and I owe you a tremendous debt of gratitude for having recommended Gianni and Roland (Sospel) to us. They were both just unbelievable. Gianni was beyond excellent! We had an absolutely fabulous time with him. He is so knowledgeable, friendly, accommodating and entertaining. Two thumbs up!
Did our tours meet our expectations – it is a definite that they met them. Jon (WWI) was very good about including other things which were in the area of which we were travelling. I had no idea that the two cemeteries we visited would be so far apart considering that the Internet seemed to indicate that they were both at Calais. We did spend quite a bit of time in the car but Jon had a great store of info to pass onto us. Jan (LOH) was totally prepared for us. We knew ahead our itinerary and he had lots to pass onto us when we finished the tour. He has given us more info about books and websites and I fully intend to follow these up when the gardening season is less demanding. I also look forward to reading his book.
Lois and Dick Dow
Wolselely, Saskatchewan
My dad and I were extremely pleased with our tour. Jim did an exceptional job taking us through the various sites. His preparation, in-depth knowledge and passion for the subject were clearly evident. It was particularly poignant standing in the Dury Mill Cemetery and looking out over the fields, which hadn't changed much in the last 100 years, where my grandfather's battalion was advancing and seeing the area where he was likely wounded. All in all, a very successful tour and we would highly recommend CBT and Jim as a guide.
Sean Craig
Petawawa, Ontario
The tour was just superb – I can easily say that it exceeded expectations. Ken is a terrific guide – very talented at gearing the information to the client’s level – and Karen looked after us very well in the B&B. The trains were on strike in France, so Ken ended up picking us up at the airport as well as dropping us off there, which was very good of him. They ended up helping us sort out more family history (aside from my uncle John, killed at Mount Sorrel) – we discovered what my father had been up to in WWI as well – nothing to do with the Western Front – flying seaplanes doing anti U-boat patrols in the Channel. I had no idea.
Dr. Rosemary Henderson
Charlottetown, PEI
Everything went well indeed and we really enjoyed Ken and his help in planning our days. Ken was at my hotel as arranged punctually in the morning. I thoroughly enjoyed working with Ken. He was incredibly knowledgeable. He did not weigh me down with military strategy but always set the scene so beautifully filling in with a background of great interest to me. Gary, thank you for introducing us to Ken and for the arrangements you made on our behalf. I realize I have only touched the surface. If I manage to return to Northern France, I shall certainly be in touch with you. Thank you for your effort in sharing this important history.
Hugh & Hally Siddons
Our tour with Ken greatly exceeded our expectations. His knowledge of the battlefields was outstanding and his presentation captivating. His ability to weave actual stories into the information brought what we were seeing to life. His enthusiasm and passion for the information he had to share was most evident. Ken clearly went out of his way to provide us with locations and specific information regarding the contributions of Herbert Kiernan and Horace Cooper and that was much appreciated. For myself, it was especially poignant to visit the grave of my grandfather and take a picture of him and his son (my dad) together in front of the gravestone. It felt like re-uniting my dad with his dad, who had died when my dad was only eight years of age. That is a memory that I will always cherish.
Maureen & Gerald Borbridge
This was a wonderful, informative and highly moving experience. We count ourselves as being highly fortunate to have had Ken as our guide and Karen to host us in their lovely home in Flers. Ken needs to be nominated for 'cat herder of the year'! He is congenial, a walking encyclopedia of information and went out of his way to personalize it for us by featuring a trip to our friend's grandfather's grave site and to also help me understand where my grandfather' cousin served and was eventually wounded. Ken has a fine sense of timing and alters orders of sites and focus aspects as situations fluctuate. In a word he is stellar. I/we would highly recommend you and CANADIAN BATTLEFIELD TOURS and Ken as guide, and if the interested parties are REALLY lucky they might even get to meet Karen and be allowed to share her wonderful home.
Fred & Deanna Hunt
David & I have nothing but rave reviews for our WWI Tour and Ken & Karen - great historians, great hosts, off the charts! David & I had a great trip on the train to Amsterdam, and had a fabulous first day including evening dinner cruise - what an incredible city & people! I'm running on adrenaline now - need sleep.
Earl Walter & David Anholt
Re: Battlefield Tour Marilyn and myself (Jim) had the privilege of doing a Canadian Battlefield tour hosted by Gary and Dianne McKay and I must say it was a very enlightening and humbling experience. Gary and Dianne and their tour guides did an incredible job in explaining each venue we visited, from the beaches of Normandy to the Dieppe 75 anniversary commemoration and finally to the incredible WWI monuments in memories of the extreme sacrifices made by all those young men and women. This will be a trip that we will never forget, so from Marilyn and myself we would like to thank Gary and Di, Mark our incredible bus driver, John, Mark,Ken and Jon, our tour guides and all the people on the tour, it was an absolute blast!
Jim and Marilyn Abel
Stettler, Alberta
Our trip was fantastic! I have a client that was inspired by my trip and have sent her your contact info and suggested she see if Ken if available. Thanks to both of you.
Carolyn Best
Dear Gary, I would like to express my gratitude to you for a great tour with your excellent guide John Moule. In a word, it was fantastic and exceeded my expectations. We covered the exploits of the Canadians from Juno beach, through their brutal encounters with 12th SS in Buron, Authie to Point 67, Verrieres Ridge and finishing with the destruction of the German armies at Falaise, with a visit to St Lambert-sur-Dives. Very few tour operators cover the inland battles, which is a pity, as it took the allies three months to break out of Normandy, which took great sacrifice, so I was very appreciative to be able to participate on Gary's two-day Canadian Experience tour. We covered the route of Operation Totalise. Gary was very accommodating as I was traveling solo. Our guide John has an encyclopedic knowledge of the Normandy campaign, and took the time to patiently answer all our questions. I would have no hesitation in recommending this tour.
Ray Moroney
Hi Gary - I am just settling back in the UK and Frank/JR have returned to Canada over the weekend. We all had a wonderful time on the Tour. Our guide, Ken, was incredibly knowledgable and packed-in 3 distinct sites & many small excursions tailor-made to our requests. I learned more on this tour (3 days in 2) on WW1 than my formal schooling of Canadian War History. Frank, our resident war-historian, was suitably impressed with Ken's understanding of the theatres and campaigns - covering both Canadian and rest-of-world involvements. We are very glad we chose Canadian BattleField Tours. Many thanks [to Ken] for the memorable and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
John Broomhead
We had a great tour with Jon. Saw more than expected and he is a book of details!!! Very good experience. Thank you.
Alan John & Marilyn Johnson
Hi Gary. Our WWI Battlefield tour exceeded all our expectations. Ken was a thoughtful and knowledgeable guide. I would recommend this trip / guiding experience to anyone. It is a very personal way to connect with history, even some very sad history.
Laurie Lupton, Richard & Val Joy
Hi Gary, In a word, our WWI tour was spectacular! Ken was not only knowledgeable, but extremely personable and a great person to knock around with for the day. He helped lead us to the field where George T. Scroggie, our relative, was injured in battle and what his role would have been, as well as helping to fill in social historical details (a particular interest of mine!). It was all pretty incredible, and the bits and pieces of the story we have already sent back to Canada have excited everyone there; ditto for our day with Jon. Jon also created a very special day for us, also helping to fill in the blanks of George T. Scroggie' movements - up to driving us down a narrow dirt road to get to as precise a point as possible to learn about George's company's involvement at the Somme. It was also a terrific tour and we learned so much. This was a very special trip and we thank you, Ken and Jon for helping to make it happen. I would highly recommend your Canadian Battlefield Tours. We were able to zero in on elements of the WW1 history in ways I'm sure a large tour bus tour could never do. Thank you so much. We're very glad to have found your outfit. Best, Stacey J, Richard & Elizabeth JToronto, Ontario
Stacey J, Richard & Elizabeth J
Very nice testimonial from our first tour of the year - group of 21 students from the University of Guelph. Well done John and Maggie! I just wanted to thank YOU again for being so responsive to this group of young students and thoughtful in how you ensured that they were at least somewhat prepared for the information coming at them intensively throughout the day by supplying the notes ahead of time. They thoroughly enjoyed the trip and have learned a lot "to chew on", not least because you were willing to address many of the grey and dark areas of this war. A big thank you to your wife as well: she, too, was very kind to prepare the lunches with care for allergies and religious preferences.
Marion Joppe, PhD
University of Guelph, Guelph, ON
The tour exceeded any expectations we might have had. My father Samuel Kates fought with the Algonquin Regiment (Part of the Canadian 4th Armoured Division) from July 1944 until after the end of the war, when he stayed on with the Army of Occupation. Overall our experience with Canadian Battlefield Tours was highly positive, and we would recommend touring with you without hesitation. The guides, Robert, Berry, and Yvonne were passionate about the Canadians in Holland, and that passion showed in their expertise and knowledge. They were also wonderful people to have met and spent time with. Throughout the tour a greater understanding of what my father faced and experienced was garnered, although many gaps remain.
Judy and Martin Kates
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Castor Announces $1.7m in CARES Act Grants for Tampa Housing Authority
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Today, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL14) announced two grants for the Tampa Housing Authority totaling over $1.7 million. These grants were provided by Congress through the CARES Act’s Public Housing Operating Fund and Tenant-Based Rental Assistance provisions. The CARES Act is a $2 trillion coronavirus relief package for states and local communities passed by Congress and signed into law on March 27, 2020.
“During the COVID-19 pandemic, our neighbors who rely on public housing need peace of mind that help will continue to be available,” said Castor. “I am proud to have secured these funds which will help residents and relieve some of the burdens felt by our neighbors. This funding is a lifeline that will support efforts to keep everyone housed which is a cornerstone of staying safe and healthy. My team and I are focused on speeding emergency aid to Tampa in the days ahead.”
The CARES Act provided $1.25 billion for Tenant-Based Rental Assistance, including “activities to support or maintain the health and safety of assisted individuals and families, and costs related to retention and support of participating owners.”
The CARES Act also appropriated $685 million for the additional operating assistance Public Housing Agencies will need to make up for reduced tenant payments, and to help contain the spread of coronavirus in public housing properties.
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First Video Tutorial: MIDI + iPad + Ableton Live – But Much More to Come
That didn’t take long – there’s already a how-to video for using an iPad as a multi-touch controller for Ableton Live. Great work, Atlanta music tech wizards! You can thank RyanNoise.com. Note: See notes for why they’re using this combination of software. Code is online in GitHub. Updated: the video has been refreshed (clips needed re-arranging), and we’ve got more details and some good discussion happening in comments.
Wrote this in haste and didn’t get to really point out why it’s cool:
OSC provides control of clips – a feature the open source project used here will continue to develop.
For everything else, you also get MIDI support, translated in this case by Osculator for Mac but possible with other Mac/Windows tools and soon also the Live API.
More will come in the future – the project is open on GitHub so anyone can contribute, and more sophisticated integration is planned. That means a nice rival (or companion, if you’re really lucky) to JazzMutant’s just-released Mu. The competition could spur lots more to come in Live performance.
TouchOSCiPad info is at http://marshall-law.co.nz/touchoscipad/
Code on GitHub: http://github.com/willrjmarshall/AbletonOSC
Of course, I have to make a few observations, just to observe that there are a number of different directions all this technology can go – not necessarily that one alternative is superior to the others, so much as we have lots of choices ahead.
1. This would be a lot easier if Ableton had native OSC support. Via Zeroconf and built-in support for OSC, this actually could be made as easy as turning on the iPad (or another device) and having instant control of Ableton.
2. Alternatively, who says you wouldn’t just run Live on the tablet instead of carrying two devices?Details are murky, but with gadgets like the HP Slate coming later this year, there’s nothing saying you won’t soon be running both control and Live (or another performance tool) directly on your tablet-style device – no separate controller needed. And with actual USB support, that doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be routing audio through a lousy, underpowered headphone jack, either. The downside – and it’s a big one – I’m not yet convinced any of these devices this year will come close to the quality and responsiveness of the iPad touch input. Then again, maybe you’ll be willing to sacrifice some of that in order to run Ableton (albeit a CPU-optimized set); time will tell.
3. And it’s not just Live you may use live. For anyone who’s been waiting for Live to have some competition for your onstage time, check out videos like the one after the break. I’m still concerned by the reliance on the iPad’s headphone jack, though, which could mean, again, some of these alternative tablets become interesting over the course of 2010.
So, anyone complaining about this being “all iPad news,” it’s not – it’s about more than the iPad. What’s evolving now can lead to a variety of options. If there’s an angle you want (controlling traditional apps with multitouch, using new apps on a tablet, remaking traditional apps on more powerful tablets), it’s happening.
And keep in mind, there’s really no reason the iPad will be the only platform in this game – Linux-, Windows-, and more mature Android-powered tablets are all in on the act, too, each with their own strengths and weaknesses for developers and users.
For a glimpse of some of the new ideas people are exploring with touch-controlled music interfaces, check out this video of the promising-looking chipPad for iPad, from Earsmack. It’s a fascinating variation on the grid concept – really, not quite the monome’s MLR, but something else.
chipPad for iPad from earsmack on Vimeo.
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Books > Language and Literature > History > King, Court and Capital (An Anthology of Kannada Literary Sources From the Vijayanagara Period)
King, Court and Capital (An Anthology of Kannada Literary Sources From the Vijayanagara Period)
by C.T.M. KotraiahAnna L. Dallapiccola
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While the art and architecture of Vijayanagara is justly celebrated, the literature of the period is relatively unknown outside southern India, due to the lack of adequate translations from Kannada, Telugu and Tamil. This work brings together for the first time in English a selection from literary sources in medieval Kannada language. The texts date from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries and the written both at the Vijayanagara capital and various provincial outposts of the empire by the most accomplished authors and poets of the day. The texts selected for this volume conform to the literary conventions and imagery of their era and should not be considered historical chronicles like those of the foreign visitors to the capital. Even so, these translated extracts from medieval Kannada shed valuable light on the ways in which contemporary authors thought about life at the Vijayanagara capital. Among the topics that are described here are the layout of the city, its palace and markets and streets, the everyday routines of the king, his courtiers and family members, and a number of religious ceremonies, weddings, feasts and festivals. To facilitate the reader, the translated extracts have been arranged according to topic, rather than by date or author An appendix gives background information on the texts and their authors, as well as an index to all the extracts from a particular literary source. An extensive Kannada-English glossary is also provided.
C.T.M. Kotraiah has worked both as an archaeologist and museum director with the Archaeological Survey of India in Karnataka. He has now retired to Mysore. Among his many publications on the Vijayanagara period is the acclaimed Irrigation Systems Under Vijayanagara Empire (Directorate of Archaeology & Museums, Mysore, 1995). He maintains an interest in Kannada literature of the Vijayanagara era and the extracts assembled here have been specially translated by him for this volume.
Anna L. Dallapiccola, formerly Professor of Indian Art History at the University of Heidelberg, is now Honorary Professor at Edinburgh University and Visiting Professor at PRASADA, Department of Architecture at De Montfort University, Leicester. Among her recent publications are Sculpture at Vijayanagara: Iconography and Style, together with Anila Verghese (Manohar, New Delhi, 1998) and Dictionary of Hindu Lore and Legend (Thames and Hudson, London, 2002). A member of the Vijayanagara Research Project since 1983, she takes a particular interest in the art and culture of the Vijayanagara era.
From the beginning, this Anthology has concentrated on “non-religious” texts that have as their chief subject the king and court, as well as the people, arte facts and habitats that surrounded them. Though many of these works recount stories about the great people of the realm to convey the religious doctrines propounded by the authors, vivid accounts do emerge of courtly life, such as intrigue, romance, marriage, council and war. In this way, we can fashion a surprisingly complete picture of the lives of kings, queens, attendant women, princes, commanders, guards, gatekeepers, messengers and foreign visitors. That we are less informed about the points of view of servants, agriculturalists, merchants, soldiers and even priests is hardly surprising given the bias of the authors and the social environment in which they wrote.
It would be naïve for us to expect any precise correspondence between the locations and even Is described in these texts and the actual places and events of the Vijayanagara period. Some of the authors lived in the capital and others may have visited it. Very few of the works that C.T.M. Kotraiah has consulted purport to describe the Vijayanagara capital, an exception being the Pampasthana Varnanam; most deal with mythical courts and cities that already had been described by countless storytellers in earlier times.
Created in a cultural tradition that extended back many centuries, these Kannada texts should be understood first and foremost as literary arte facts. It is probable that the roles of conventional forms and representation, versification and audience were as significant in determining the organization and content of texts as the personal observations of the poets or the events to which they refer. No doubt, courtly gossip and witty remarks in Devaraya’s Pansupari bazaar at Vijayanagara, for example, were expressed according to quite different literary conventions that had a closer relationship to the daily life of the capital. On the other hand, it seems reasonable to assume that the content of these texts had some relationship to the life experience of the Vijayanagara poets and their courtly patrons. We believe that these texts convey a good deal about the idiom according to which members of the Vijayanagara literati understood their world. This language included elaborate and lengthy enumerations of the objects with which patrons embellished their lives; items of food and drink, jewellery and costumes, weapons and military equipment, plants and animals.
There is also some discussion of the structures and locales in which the authors and their patrons conducted their lives, and which may perhaps be related to the archaeological record of the Vijayanagara site. The texts also indicate the relationships between people and things. For example, they specif5i the kinds of objects that could be used appropriately by a particular person in a particular venue. Furthermore, they testify to the preferred relationships between the different members of the court, especially between kings and their family members, spiritual advisors, ministers and attendant women. At another level, these texts convey a sense of the ideal world to which members of the court aspired. If they do not detail a particular hunt, courtly reception or marriage feast, they at least inform on the essential qualities of such events, “as they were wished to be.” Such works are embedded in “historical reality,” even if they convey this reality in a quite different manner from historiographic traditions from other parts of the world. (There is even one source, the Shri Krishnadevarayana Dinachari, which purports to narrate events that are known from other historical sources, including Krishnadevaraya’s war against the Gajapatis.)
How then are we who are concerned with the material form of the Vijayanagara capital to understand these literary sources? If they do not describe “historical things”, can they still help us to shed light on the documented remains of the Vijayanagara capital? Some passages refer to things that already have been observed archaeologically. For example, the Jivandhra Charite mentions the presence of boulders outside a fortification wall that would impede access by attacking forces (see Section 2.4). Such boulder fields were noted by Portuguese visitors to Vijayanagara (Sewell 1980) and have been observed at the pre Vijayanagara site of Kummata (Patil 1991), as well as at Vijayanagara itself (Sinopoli and Morrison at press). Other passages suggest features that might be observed through scientific excavation of ruined buildings; thus, for instance, the Ramanatha Charitestates that the walls of houses within a fort were painted with pictures and decorated with mirrors (Section 2.7). While painted bands and some small figures have been observed on the surviving basements of Vijayanagara palace structures, no figurative painting on the walls has been recorded. If such paintings existed, they were either so damaged by the destruction of these buildings as to leave almost no record, and/or recovery techniques were inadequate to observe them. Traces of small mirrors have been found during excavation of one palace in the so-called Noblemen’s Quarter (Balasubrahmanya, personal communication), and cautious uncovery of other such structures might indicate further instances. Other equally ephemeral features are also not likely to be preserved, and we must exercise caution in postulating the presence of hanging textiles, jewelled inlays and metallic pinnacles, even though such elements are common enough in the literature.
At an architectural scale, the texts also suggest different types of structures and rooms to be found in a palace complex: according to one text, a gymnasium, stables, a garden, pleasure tank, pavilion with painted murals, court hall, store house, treasury and queens’ apartments (Section 3.2). Another source describes the constituent elements of a king’s palace: the stables, an armory, theater, painting gallery, council chamber, study and pleasure pavilion, as well as a front hall, audience hall and outer court (Section 3.3). It would surely be a mistake for us to assume that a particular palace complex at Vijayanagara would have contained any of these elements, let alone the elements mentioned in other texts. But we can propose the use of different spaces and structures and scientifically test these propositions based on the form and associated artifacts of each functional type (Fritz 1972).
The same investigative method can be followed at an urban scale. Some specific elements referred to in the literary sources are easily identified at the Vijayanagara site: gateways, fort walls, roads, temples and elite residences. However, their disposition may not be according to a particular text (Section 4.1). Other urban elements might yet be identified through careful documentation of surface remains and future excavation: shops, bazaars and non-elite houses. The city as described in the texts consists of many different neighbourhoods, each defined by the kinds of people who live there. The Ramanatha Charite lists more than three dozen occupational groups that may have been spatially segregated (Section 4.5). The Shivatattva Chintamani suggests the spatial relation of some groups when it refers to a street in which wealthy people lived in mansions and jewellers worked in nearby shops, while a street of concubines was not far away (Section 4.3). Scientific archaeology carried out on a large scale might one day discover neighbourhoods and identify the groups who lived there. At Vijayanagara, one such neighbourhood has already been excavated—the Noblemen’s Quarter (Devaraj and Patil 1996)—but the artefacts that might contribute to the identification of the people who lived in these different areas have yet to be consistently collected and analysed.
Looking beyond the instrumental use of these texts to name, identify and explain the material record of the Vijayanagara site, we can appreciate the richly expressive view of the Vijayanagara world as the poets and their patrons might have understood it. In the ideal world a king was learned in the arts and devout, respectful of the advice of learned and holy men, expert in strategy and astute—even wily—in his dealings with his advisors, family, friends and adversaries. He exercised self- control in all things, was generous to his kin, servants, and supplicants and upheld traditional law. He was ready to act heroically and to go to war. But he was not taken over by the pursuit of sensual pleasures, intolerance or unwarranted anger. At the same time he was expected to be wealthy and display his riches and power through his largesse to charity and religion, the strength of his army and fortresses and the splendour of his household. The scale and opulence of his palace, the beauty of his jewels and clothing, his rare perfumes, and the magnificence of his state rituals all contributed to the king’s glory. His household included his family members, numerous beautiful and sensuous women and even his state elephants and horses. This magnificence he supported through taxes that were not burdensome to his subjects. He also encouraged agriculture and commerce. In contrast, Shulman (1985) has suggested that such a prescriptive model can be burdensome even to the point of tragedy.
In conclusion, we may read these Kannada texts of the Vijayanagara period on several levels: as literary formulas, as indications of components of the material world of the elite, as evocations of an ideal world in which the elite wished to see themselves or as elements of cultural patterns through which elites coped with the tensions between an ideal, poetical world and the untidy and threatening world of the everyday (Shulman 1985). Those readers who are not concerned with the ambiguities of the material record of Vijayanagara, however, are invited to share the enjoyable experience of entering into this richly poetical world; part reality, part convention, part creative exposition.
As an archaeologist and architectural historian involved for many years in documenting and interpreting the material record of Vijayanagara, we have felt keenly our lack of capability with respect to south Indian languages. This shortcoming is not unique; indeed it is shared with several other foreign scholars and even with some of our colleagues from north India. As our research at Vijayanagara progressed over the years, we became increasingly aware of a rich body of contemporary prose and poetical sources in Kannada and Telugu that lay beyond our reach, in the absence of English translations. It was with this desire to understand the relevant indigenous literary background to Vijayanagara that we approached Sri C.T.M. Kotraiah, a highly respected Kannadiga archaeologist with a long-standing interest in the Vijayanagara site and the Vijayanagara period in general. This scholar confirmed that a host of Kannada literary sources did indeed exist, but none of these were available in English. Fortunately for us, we were able to persuade Kotraiah to trawl through the various published Kannada language texts of the 9javanagara period and advise us about their contents. When he revealed that these prose and poetic works contained a wealth of detail on topics such as royal architecture and town planning, courtly life and ceremonies, entertainments and festivals, the practice of war and hunting and even the costumes and earing habits of the period, we immediately recognized the relevance of these subjects to our attempts to interpret the material evidence If the Vijayanagara site and the activities of its elite population.
Thus it came about that we commissioned Kotraiah to translate into English a set of passages covering these and ether related subjects to be found in the various literary works of the period that might be pertinent to our archaeological and art historical investigations. While Kotraiah makes no claim at being a scholar of Kannada literature, his experience as an archaeologist has made him particularly sensitive to the types of data that would help us understand the material dimensions of the Vijayanagara site. To this end, we devised a numerical outline listing an elaborate set of categories on king, court and capital that might potentially be found in the selected texts. Kotraiah carefully excerpted data for each of our categories, arranging the materials according to our numerical outline. These excerpts varied from complete translations to summaries or simple abstracts of the information that was to be found in these sources.
Over the next three years, Kotraiah presented us with an impressive and ever growing stack of materials. As we went through this rapidly increasing mass of typescript, it soon became apparent that we would require the services of an expert editor and compiler. Again, fortunately for us, Prof. Anna L. Dallapiccola, with whom we have collaborated over many years, was prepared to take on this arduous task. As a scholar specializing in the visual expressions of Vijayanagara culture, she was fascinated to read through the translations, which presented a literary portrait of the period as imagined by contemporary authors and poets. It is thanks to Dallapiccola that Kotraiah’s texts came to be organized in the perceptive and instructive manner that we have in this volume, thereby greatly aiding the general reader. In her overall role as compiler and editor, Dallapiccola was expertly helped by Janet McAlpin, who acted as a consultant editor, giving an inspired final polish to the format and language of the various chapters. Without the fruitful interaction of these three experts, this publication would have never reached this final form.
Of course, no academic publication such as this is possible without financial support. Funds to sustain Kotraiah derived from grants to the Vijayanagara Research Project given by the Special Currency Programme of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, as administered through the American Institute of Indian Studies in New Delhi. In this regard, we are once more indebted to Ms. Francine C. Berkowitz, Director, Office of International Relations of the Smithsonian, and Dr. Pradeep R. Mehendiratta, Director General, American Institute.
Other funds covering production and publication expenses of the volume have been raised by generous contributions from a number of personal friends, most of whom have visited the site and witnessed our team in action. They include Main Adam, E. Alkazi, Norman Braden and George Copland, George and Louise Browning, Cathy Curran, Elizabeth Chatwin, John Eskenazi, Phillip and Helen Jessup, Peter and Elbrun Kimmelman, Sue Kirby and John Goldring, Tony Korner, Dino and Edmee Leventis, David and Janet Harper, Julia Hodgkin, Eleanor Schwartz, Peter and Margaret Stern, Alex and Jo Wodak, and a donor who wishes to remain anonymous.
As with previous volumes in the Vijayanagara Research Project Monograph Series, Ramesh Jam has acted as a highly responsible publisher, with B.N. Varma as an ever-vigilant production manager. We are grateful to both for maintaining high standards while seeing our ninth monograph through the press. To all of these individuals and institutions, we tend our grateful thanks.
Foreword: An Archaeological Perspective vii
Preface and Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: Literary and Cultural Context xiii
Abbreviations of source Texts xix
Part One: The Setting 3
Chapter 1 Town and Country 5
Chapter 2 Fortified Cities 7
Chapter 3 Palaces and Temples 10
Chapter 4 Markets, Streets, Waterworks and Charitable Institutions 16
Chapter 5 Gods, Shrine and Sacred Places at Vijayanagara 23
Chapter 6 Forests, Fields and Gardens 28
Part Two: The King 31
Chapter 7 The Ideal Ruler in the Perfect State 33
Chapter 8 The Court 39
Chapter 9 Royal Reception and Visits 46
Chapter 10 Private Life at Court 50
Chapter 11 Royal Family and Courtiers 55
Chapter 12 Patronage of Cults and Bestowing of Honours 58
Chapter 13 Overseas Trade and Foreign Visitors and Courts 61
Part Three: Polity 63
Chapter 14 Administration and Politics 64
Chapter 15 Army and Warfare 67
Part Four: Pleasures of the Court 77
Chapter 16 Hunting and Hunters 79
Chapter 17 Pleasure Gardens and Water Sports 84
Chapter 18 Food and Dining 89
Chapter 19 Royal Weddings 94
Chapter 20 Art and Artists 103
Part Five: Religious Life 111
Chapter 21 Festivals 112
Chapter 22 Cults and Rituals 115
Part Six: Everyday Life, Beliefs and Pastimes 121
Chapter 23 Conception, Birth and Related Ceremonies 122
Chapter 24 Omens, Talismans, Diseases and Magic Spells 128
Chapter 25 Competitions, Sports, Games and Intellectual Pursuits 132
Appendix I: Source Texts and Their Authors 137
Appendix II: Glossary 155
Appendix III: Traditional Lists 165
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BBC fat cats splurged £300k on lavish hotels and luxury flights: As the over-75s are forced to pay for licences, TV chiefs’ high life on expenses is revealed
Three dozen BBC bosses claimed more than £300,000 in expenses last year
Extravagant spending includes £120,000 on foreign travel and £18,400 on taxis
Drama head Piers Wenger fifth highest spender claiming £6,597 return LA flight
BBC chiefs claimed more than £300,000 on expenses including business class flights and five-star hotels last year, a Daily Mail investigation reveals today.
An audit of three dozen bosses who each earn at least £200,000 a year found shocking examples of executive extravagance.
The investigation, undertaken with the TaxPayers’ Alliance, also shows golden goodbyes surged by a third to £23million – with 85 employees pocketing half this sum on an average payout of £131,000.
An audit of three dozen bosses who each earn at least £200,000 a year found shocking examples of executive extravagance at the BBC
Among the examples of high spending were:
Former director general Tony Hall claiming more than £8,000 for two business-class flights;
A team of senior managers staying at a Hollywood celebrity hangout where Victoria Beckham hosted her baby shower on a trip costing up to £10,000;
One executive claiming £7,500 for business-class flights to Seattle – ten times the cost of a standard return fare;
The top 36 BBC bosses, who all earn more than the Prime Minister, together claimed £304,000 in expenses.
The spending, which includes £120,000 on foreign travel and £18,400 on taxis, is the equivalent of 1,930 TV licences.
Lord Hall claimed over £8,000 for two return fares from London to Delhi and to Nairobi over the past year – both in business.
Julian Knight, chairman of the Commons culture committee, called on BBC bosses to justify the spending. ‘Now more than ever the BBC must demonstrate it provides value for money for licence-fee payers,’ he said.
£700k blown on trade union activity
Union reps at the BBC cost licence fee payers £700,000 as they took paid time off to help their colleagues last year.
Over 300 members of staff were allowed to devote up to 50 per cent of their work hours to do so. Seven more were employed by the BBC as full-time trade union representatives.
Such spending, known as union facility time, increased at the corporation by £17,000 from the previous financial year.
In 2018-19, there were the same number of full-time staff but ten fewer part-time reps, costing nearly £690,000 in total.
In its most recent annual report, the BBC said: ‘Facility time refers to the time taken for our recognised trade unions to represent members both individually and collectively in a range of issues across the BBC.’
A spokesman said the corporation respected the rights of its staff to be union members.
‘This committee raised the question with director-general Tim Davie about the size of the talent bill for BBC stars and whether such high pay was justified when he appeared before us in September.
‘At a time when the BBC is planning to cut hundreds of jobs among its staff, the same question has to be applied to the corporation’s senior management about the level of payments described, and whether such costs are justifiable.’
According to the BBC’s expenses policy, staff ‘should use the lowest cost’ flights and business class is permitted only if the flight is over eight hours long.
The cost of a hotel room should ‘not normally exceed’ £126 in London or £90 outside of the capital, while those abroad should aim to stay within these rates.
But the Mail audit has found examples of BBC executives and directors spending rather more. Three controllers chose the Petit Ermitage, a boutique hotel, as their base in Hollywood for a trip that will have cost as much as £10,000 because they were joined by three colleagues.
Head of drama Piers Wenger, meanwhile, had two stays at luxury spas in Venice last year – including a £287 stay at the five-star Abano Grand Hotel.
The 48-year-old’s highest claim was £6,597 for business-class flights to Los Angeles. The highest single claim was a staggering £7,483 for a return flight in business-class from London to Seattle for former chief technology officer Matthew Postgate. Standard return flights this weekend cost around £670.
The highest spender overall was Ken Macquarrie, director of BBC nations and regions, who claimed £25,414 over the year – mostly travelling around the UK. The £325,000-a-year executive charged £2,362 for taxi fares.
Earlier this year, Fran Unsworth, director of news and current affairs, warned staff: ‘We need to reshape BBC News for the next decade in a way which saves substantial amounts of money.’
But her cancellation of a return flight to Kenya in October 2019 cost £1,105 in ‘amendment charges and transaction fees’.
A BBC spokesman said: ‘We have strict policies in place for essential travel and expenses in order to keep costs as low.
Former director general Tony Hall (pictured) claiming more than £8,000 for two business-class flights
‘This accounts for a fraction of the cost of providing free TV licences for over-75s which at £745million a year and rising would lead to significant cuts to the programmes and services which our audiences love.’
Free TV licences were withdrawn for over-75 from August 1 – unless viewers could prove they claimed pension credits. Lord Hall has said the new arrangement would cost the BBC £250million a year, whereas keeping the benefit would have meant having to find £750million.
Golden goodbyes for departing staff soar by a third to £23m
By Daily Mail Reporter
Golden goodbyes at the BBC surged by nearly a third to £23million in the year before a government cap came in.
Nearly half this sum went to just 85 employees who received an average payout worth £131,000.
Golden goodbyes at the BBC surged by nearly a third to £23million in the year before a government cap came in
Long-serving staff were reportedly keen to take redundancy believing it to be their last chance to leave with a six-figure sum.
Radio 1 DJ’s stay at £10,000-a-night suite
BBC Radio One’s breakfast show host Greg James came under fire this year after splashing out on a £10,000-a-night hotel room for a controversial stunt.
Listeners were invited to guess where Mr James, pictured, was holed up for 48 hours after being ‘kidnapped’ from the Brit Awards afterparty in February.
It eventually emerged that the 34-year-old – who is paid £275,000 – was in one of the finest suites at the luxury five-star Shangri-La Hotel at the Shard.
BBC Radio One’s breakfast show host Greg James came under fire this year
BBC bosses insisted that they paid a reduced rate but they would not disclose how much was paid for the room.
And producers on the same show were criticised again in July after spending £1,000 of licence fee payers’ money on a comedy blimp with the message ‘Up yours Corona’ on the side.
The blimp was launched over Cardiff city centre.
At the time Mr James, who was recently given a £50,000 pay rise, joked he was surprised he had been allowed to do it. He added: ‘There is something brilliantly comedic about having a blimp.’
A £95,000 cap on public sector payoffs was finally implemented earlier this month following a campaign by the Mail and the TaxPayers’ Alliance.
The BBC first introduced a redundancy cap of £150,000 after public outcry in 2013 over huge settlements paid out to bosses.
This included £450,000 for George Entwistle when he resigned following the Jimmy Savile scandal after just 54 days as director general.
While the highest payments might have stopped, the BBC’s 2019/20 annual report shows a rise in the number of staff paid just under the limit.
It reveals that 85 received between £100,000 and £150,000 – costing licence-fee payers £11.1million.
This compares with 64 in the same bracket the previous year, totalling £7.8million.
The identities of corporation staff who received the cash are confidential.
Departing staff will no longer receive six-figure sums after the £95,000 cap came into place on November 4.
There had been a rush of applications from employees anticipating it might be their last chance to get a lucrative pay out, BBC insiders told The Times.
Among the high-profile staff to have left in recent months was diplomatic correspondent James Robbins, who retired last month after joining the BBC in 1977.
Political correspondent Ross Hawkins left to join public relations firm Hawthorn Advisors after 19 years at the corporation.
Employees are braced for further job cuts in the coming months as BBC England tries to shed nearly a sixth of its 3,000 staff.
The new director-general, Tim Davie, has outlined plans for a smaller, leaner BBC.
The corporation’s redundancy policy is a month’s pay for each year of service up to a maximum of 12 months.
For those who joined before 2013, it is 24 months.
Overall £23.4million was paid out to 331 staff between 2019 and 2020.
This compares with £17.8million for 296 staff the previous year.
A BBC spokesman said: ‘We’re always seeking ways to be more efficient and provide value for money, but in areas where we have had to reduce staff numbers and close posts we are legally required to make redundancy payments in line with contractual entitlement, the same as every other organisation.’
James Roberts, political director at the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: ‘This cap is long overdue.’
FAVOURITE HAUNTS OF THE BEEL BOSSES
THE BOHEMIAN HOLLYWOOD HOTEL
With panoramic views across the Hollywood Hills, boutique hotel Petit Ermitage has become a notorious celeb hangout.
Indeed its rooftop pool and bar was even chosen as the setting for Victoria Beckham’s baby shower.
Suites for the bohemian retreat cost up to £475 per night and a team of BBC controllers selected it as their base while in the US.
Dan McGolpin, Patrick Holland, and Fiona Campbell paid £1,430 each to stay at the luxury four-star hotel while attending a five-day television event in Los Angeles.
Just getting there proved a costly affair, with all three – in charge of channels two, three and iPlayer respectively – paying £1,254 each for return flights in May last year.
With panoramic views across the Hollywood Hills, boutique hotel Petit Ermitage (pictured) has become a notorious celeb hangout
The Mail found advance tickets from London to Los Angeles cost around £330 for that time of year.
Petit Ermitage, which offers guests morning yoga sessions, is described as ‘a magical, eccentric boutique hotel like no other’.
The 79 rooms cost from £190 per night to £475 for the master suite.
The trip is likely to have cost upwards of £10,000 as the controllers – all on more than £200,000-a-year – were joined by three other representatives from the BBC.
VENICE RETREAT
THE BBC’s head of drama booked into two stays at luxury hotel spas in Venice last year taking his total expenses to nearly £20,000.
Piers Wenger was the fifth highest spender having also claimed £6,597 for return flights to Los Angeles in business class.
The 48-year-old – who lives in a £1.5million Grade II-listed country pile in Somerset – claimed nearly £900 including flights on a brief overnight trip to Italy in August last year.
He stayed at the four-star Mioni Pezzato which advertises itself as a ‘regenerating retreat for body and soul’.
Two months later he returned to another luxury spa in the city – this time upping it to a five-star – paying £287 to stay at the Abano Grand Hotel.
Mr Wenger, who is paid over £270,000-a-year, also claimed a further £1,000 for two staff parties and £173 for a ‘team picnic’.
FIVE-STAR LUXURY IN ATHENS
A BBC executive was part of a senior team that announced budget cuts just six months after she splashed out £645 on a luxury five-star hotel while attending a summer conference in Greece.
Naja Nielsen said the corporation needed to axe hundreds of jobs as part of an £80million cost-saving exercise in January.
But staff may be shocked to learn that their boss had blown nearly £1,100 on a three-day trip to Athens the previous June.
The digital director for BBC News – who had taken up the £180,000-a-year post only three months prior – spent £215-a-night staying at the Athens Marriott Hotel. The hotel offers guests a full service spa.
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DT50(XºC) = DT50(T°C) * e(0.08.(T-X))
Where T = temperature for which data are available and X = target temperature.
Thus, for [2-(perfluorohexyl)ethyl]triethoxysilane the hydrolysis half-life at 37.5ºC and pH 7 (relevant for lungs and blood) is approximately 3.1 hours. At pH 7 and 40°C, measured half-life is 2.7 hours. At 37.5ºC and pH 2 (relevant for conditions in the stomach following oral exposure), the half-life is 0.0036 hours (approximately 13 seconds).
The hydrolysis products in this case are [2-(perfluorohexyl)ethyl]silanetriol and ethanol.
The hydrolysis half-lives of substances used for read-across in other areas are discussed below:
Hydrolysis of the read-across substance [2-(perfluorohexyl)ethyl]dichloro(methyl)silane (CAS No: 73609-36-6)
Data for the substance [2-(perfluorohexyl)ethyl]dichloro(methyl)silane (CAS No 73609-36-6) are read-across to the submission substance [2-(perfluorohexyl)ethyl]triethoxysilane (CAS No 51851-37-7) for appropriate endpoints (see Section 1.4 of the CSR). The hydrolysis half-life and the silanol hydrolysis product of the two substances are relevant to this read-across, as discussed in the appropriate Sections of the CSR for each endpoint.
For [2-(perfluorohexyl)ethyl]dichloro(methyl)silane, hydrolysis half-lives are read-across from analogous dichlorosilane substances. Hydrolysis half-lives of 10 seconds at pH 4, 17 seconds at pH 7 and 7 seconds at pH 9 and 1.5°C were determined for dichloro(dimethyl)silane in accordance with OECD 111 (Dow Corning Corporation 2001).
Hydrolysis half-lives of 8 seconds at pH 4, 12 seconds at pH 7 and 9 seconds at pH 9 and 1.5°C were determined for dichloromethyl(3,3,3-trifluoropropyl)silane in accordance with OECD 111 (Dow Corning Corporation 2001).
Hydrolysis half-lives of 6 seconds at pH 4, 10 seconds at pH 7 and 8 seconds at pH 9 and 1.5°C were determined for dichloro(diphenyl)silane in accordance with OECD 111 (Dow Corning Corporation 2001). Hydrolysis half-lives of <1 minute at pH 4, pH 7 and pH 9 and 1.5°C were determined in accordance with OECD 111 (Dow Corning Corporation 2001 ).
Measured hydrolysis half-lives of <<27 mins at pH 4, pH 7 and pH 9 and 27°C were determined for dichlorocyclohexylmethylsilane in a study conducted according to generally acceptable scientific principles (Haas 2012). Only a preliminary study was carried out and a more precise knowledge of the half-life is needed for use in the chemical safety assessment.
Given the very rapid hydrolysis rates in water ( ≤17 seconds at 1.5°C and pH 4, 7 and 9) observed for all tested dichlorosilanes, and the lack of significant variation in the half-lives for the different substances, it is considered appropriate to read-across this result to [2-(perfluorohexyl)ethyl]dichloro(methyl)silane.
Since rate of hydrolysis is faster at increased temperature, at ambient conditions (20 - 25°C), relevant to the environment, the hydrolysis half-lives are expected to be faster. Therefore, half-lives at pH 2 and 25°C, at pH 7 and 37.5°C and at pH 2 and 37.5°C, as a worst case considered to be approximately 5 seconds.
The hydrolysis products are [2-(perfluorohexyl)ethyl]methylsilanediol and hydrochloric acid.
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Muslim Patrol Cars Precede the Islamization of Cities (Part Two)
Martin Mawyer
The presence of Muslim Community Patrol cars in New York City is reminiscent of the Islamic policing I saw in Europe when filming our epic documentary film, Europe’s Last Stand – America’s Final Warning.
(Read Part One, Part Three, Part Four. Part Five.)
Our film focused on the Five Pillars of Islamic Conquest: Immigration, Imams, Isolation, Islamization and Implosion.
To fully comprehend the sinister nature of NYC having Muslim Community Patrol cars – which resemble actual NYPD police cars, but are not officially sanctioned by the NYPD – one must understand the Five Pillars of Islamic Conquest.
Here’s a brief description of each Pillar.
Pillar One: Immigration.
This is an easy one, but without it, conquest would be nearly impossible.
Muslims have been invading western countries for the past couple of decades through mass immigration, both legally and illegally. Muslim immigrant communities tend to have large families, the size of which is often fueled through the practice of polygamy.
Between 2010 and 2016, Muslim “natural” growth in Europe increased by 3 million people, while native citizens saw their growth DECREASEby 1.7 million. (Pew Research Center)
These large Muslim immigrant families also invite foreign relatives to join them through liberal “family unification laws” and refugee programs.
But having a population, even a large one, does not make for a conquest. Someone needs to lead that population forward, which brings us to the next Pillar.
Pillar Two: Imams.
Any male can claim to be an Imam and set up a mosque. A mosque can be located in a bookstore, an apartment building or even inside an abandoned building.
In Barcelona a mosque was set up in an abandoned bullring at the Plaza Monumental. More and more, Muslims have been taking over abandoned churches and converting them into mosques in Europe.
For the radical Islamist, these become headquarters for their war.
According to the Quran, Muslims who live in a foreign country are in a state of dar al-harb, meaning they are living in “the house or abode of war.”
The first duty of the Imam in Europe (whether self-proclaimed or imported from an Islamic country such as Saudi Arabia) is to get the Muslim population to realized they are living in that “house of war,” dar al-harb.
For those Imams seeking Islamic conquest, non-Muslims are viewed as the enemy of Islam. Their duty is to try and subjugate the land until it becomes dar al-Islam, meaning “the house and abode of Islam,” which brings us to the next Pillar.
While filming Europe’s Last Stand, Abu Imran told CAN, “You have the American flag and you people went to the moon and planted the American flag. So when a Muslim says I’m going to plant the black flag on the White House, why is everyone surprised?”
Pillar Three. Isolation.
The Quran commands Muslims living in foreign countries to separate themselves from non-Muslims.
“And it will be said to the infidels, get apart from the believers today, O the guilty ones.” Quran 35:59.
Across Europe, Muslim communities have separated themselves from the infidels, establishing pocketed areas that have been commonly referred to as “No Go Zones” or “Cultural Sensitive Zones” for outsiders.
I have been inside many of these zones where non-believing residents have been forced to leave their homes, where Muslims have their own non-elected mayors, and where police and emergency workers are either fearful to go or do not enter.
The purpose of these controversial zones is for Muslims to establish their own protected, exclusive and Islamic-controlled areas as a base from which they can later expand and conquer their neighbors.
They want to create a country within a country.
More on this in Part Three because this is where Muslim Community Patrol cars on American streets should become a concern to us.
It is from these isolated zones that the next stage of Islamic conquest moves forward.
Pillar Four. Islamization.
Islamic conquest is all about requiring both Muslims and non-Muslims to live under Sharia law. This is why Sharia Patrol Units have been seen in such western European countries as England, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands and Austria.
Sharia enforcement tactics have been used to ban the use and sale of alcohol, require Muslim women to cover up, restrict pork products from school cafeterias, advance polygamy, shut down art performances, criminalize speech that offends Islam and establish Sharia Courts.
Often, localities that refuse to comply have been the subject of riots, car burnings, property destruction, rape and murder.
Islamization not only results in heavy-handed Sharia compliance but also creates “native flight,” meaning non-Muslims residents flee neighboring Muslim controlled areas out of fear, allowing the Islamic zones to expand ever outward.
Though bullying, terror and carnage have been effective tactics for allowing Muslim controlled areas to expand, these schemes represent just one side of their double-edged sword of Islamic conquest.
Muslims riots include one in Nantes, western France, on July 6, 2018, that included burned-out cars, smashed buses and shattered store fronts. (Getty images photo)
Pillar Five. Implosion.
Implosion represents the idea of letting society implode under the weight of its own foolish, contrive and fatally flawed set of beliefs.
Islam uses western ideas of cultural diversity, political correctness, non-critical acceptance and minority favoritism as a way of allowing western countries to commit its own “Hara Kiri,” if effect, western countries are pushed onto their own sword of stupidly.
From milking social benefits programs for money to claiming racial and religious discrimination at the slightest hint of opposition, those seeking Islamic conquest gain both financial resources and muted resistance in their attempt for Islamic conquest.
No one can deny that the strategies of the Five Pillars of Islamic Conquest are effective. The method is brilliant, rising to the level of genius.
What can be faulted, however, are Americans if we chose to turn our eyes from the sight of Muslim Community Patrol cars that are patrolling the streets of a free nation.
More in Part Three in this series. Read Part One below.
Muslim Community Patrol Cars Sparks Backlash. (Part One)
Muslim Community Patrol Cars Set Stage For Sharia Patrol (Part Three)
The Islamic Forces Behind the Muslim Community Patrol Cars (Part Four)
Keep Those Muslim Community Patrol Cars Off American Streets (Part Five)
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Three risk factors for pulmonary metastasectomy in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma
Nakamura A1,2, Esaki M3, Nakagawa K4, Asakura K4, Kishi Y3, Nara S3, Shimada K3, Watanabe SI4. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2019 Feb 28. doi: 10.1007/s11748-019-01082-x. [Epub ahead of print]
1 Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital, 5-1-1, Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-0045, Japan. xxmp97511@zeus.eonet.ne.jp.
2 Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, 5-1-1, Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. xxmp97511@zeus.eonet.ne.jp.
3 Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, 5-1-1, Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
4 Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital, 5-1-1, Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-0045, Japan.
The outcomes of surgically treating pulmonary metastases from hepatocellular carcinoma remain unclear. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate patients with hepatocellular carcinoma who underwent pulmonary metastasectomy to assess their survival outcome and prognostic factors.
This retrospective single-center study included 30 patients who underwent pulmonary metastasectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma between January 1980 and December 2016 at the National Cancer Center Hospital.
The 1-, 3-, and 5-year overall survival rates after pulmonary metastasectomy were 86.7%, 46.2%, and 33.6%, respectively (median survival time: 25.0 months). The univariate prognostic factors were viral hepatitis (P = 0.019), number of pulmonary metastases (P = 0.002), and other site recurrence before metastasectomy (P = 0.048). Multivariate analysis using a Cox proportional hazards model revealed viral hepatitis (hazard ratio: 3.611, 95% confidence interval: 1.226-10.64; P = 0.02) and ≥ 2 pulmonary metastases (hazard ratio: 4.031, 95% confidence interval: 1.594-10.19; P = 0.003) to be independent prognostic factors. Subgroup analyses of the three risk factors (viral hepatitis, number of pulmonary metastases, and other site recurrence before metastasectomy) revealed that the median survival times after pulmonary metastasectomy were 66.0 and 15.5 months for patients with 0-1 risk factors and those with 2-3 risk factors, respectively (P < 0.001).
For patients who underwent pulmonary metastasectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma, median survival time was 25.0 months and decreased with three risk factors which included viral hepatitis, multiple number of pulmonary metastases, and the presence of other site recurrence before metastasectomy.
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Porlier Pass separates Galiano and Valdes Islands in the Southern Gulf Islands of Georgia Strait, about 28 miles (45 km) southwest of Vancouver and 10 miles (16 km) east-northeast of Ladysmith, British Columbia. The pass was named in 1791 by José Maria Narváez, commanding the Spanish schooner Saturnina.
Porlier Pass is about 1 mile long (1.6 km), 0.4 miles (0.6 km) wide, and strewn with submerged rocks. The tidal currents are very strong, often running from 4 to 9 knots (2-5 m/s) creating overfalls and whirling eddies especially at the northern entrance. Despite the hazards, mariners frequently use Porlier Pass, especially when transiting between Ladysmith and Vancouver, since this route is significantly shorter than using Active Pass. In 1901, several ships pilots and masters of steamships petitioned for range lights on the northern end of Galiano Island to guide vessels through Porlier Pass. The beacons were built and put in operation on November 15, 1902. The front range light was a square wooden tower on Race Point, 50 feet (15 m) from the water’s edge, and 6 feet (1.8 m) above high water. The rear range light was located on Virago Point, the first point southwest of Race Point. This tower was also square with a height of 31 feet (9.5 m). The station was automated in 1996, and the front light tower on Race Point was replaced with a cylindrical fiberglass tower.
Virago Rock is located in the center of Porlier Pass and is the final resting place of the steel steam tug Point Grey. The tug ran aground in 1949 and remained perched on the rock until the early 1960’s when it rolled over and sank. At the northeastern entrance to Porlier Pass, next to Canoe Islet, lies the steam side-wheel schooner Del Norte, of 197 feet (60 m), which ran onto the reef and sank in 1868. In 1972, the Del Norte was declared a protected Heritage Site by the British Columbia government. The wooden hull has long since disappeared but the boilers, paddlewheels, and engines remain. Read more here and here. Explore more of Porlier Pass here:
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T. rex was a champion walker, super-efficient at lower speeds
May 15, 2020 — Uncategorized
“Large bodied tyrannosaurs had distinctly efficient locomotion, even at multi-ton scales,” says Hans Larsson. “This, coupled with our estimates of them running about 20 km/h would have made them terrifying endurance predators”
While smaller dinosaurs needed speed, huge predators like T. rex were optimized for energy-efficient walking, according to a study published in PLOS ONE.
Theropod dinosaurs included the dominant bipedal predators of the Mesozoic Era, and plenty of research has explored the relationship between their locomotion and lifestyle. Much of this work has focused on running speeds, but in a new study, Alexander Dececchi of Mount Marty College, South Dakota and colleagues argue that speed might not be the most important factor, especially for the biggest theropods.
The authors gathered data on limb proportions, body mass, and gaits of more than 70 species of theropod dinosaurs. They then applied a variety of methods to estimate each dinosaur’s top speed as well as how much energy they expended while moving around at more relaxed walking speeds. Among smaller to medium-sized species, longer legs appear to be an adaptation for faster running, in line with previous results. But for the real titans weighing over 1000kg, top running speed is limited by body size, so longer legs instead correlated with low-energy walking.
“Using locomotion models from a wide range of living animals, we were able to tease apart some dramatic differences in both running speeds and running efficiencies in carnivorous dinosaurs,” says Hans Larsson, Director of McGill’s Redpath Museum and one of the authors of the new study. Running is important for hunters, but they generally spend much more time roaming around in search of food. The authors suggest that while speed was a major advantage for dinosaurs who needed to hunt prey and also escape predators, the biggest theropods relied more on efficiency while foraging. Among giant theropods, the champions were tyrannosaurs like T. rex, whose long legs were apparently well-adapted for reduced energy expenditure while prowling for prey.
“Large bodied tyrannosaurs had distinctly efficient locomotion, even at multi-ton scales. This, coupled with our estimates of them running about 20 km/h would have made them terrifying endurance predators – kind of like a pack of wolves, but with 6-inch-long teeth in a mouth that could crush cars,” adds Larsson, who is also the Canada Research Chair in Vertebrate Paleontology.
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Last Thursday marked the 10th Anniversary celebration of the Jewish Community Center in Tallinn, which was the first Jewish establishment built in Estonia since the Holocaust, under the leadership of Chabad Emissary and Chief Rabbi Shmuel Kot.
The event was attended by Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid; Speaker of Estonian Parliament Eiki Nestor; Vice-President of the European Commission Andrus Ansip; Israeli Minister of Social Equality Gila Gamliel; Chief Rabbi of Israel David Lau; Israeli Ambassador to Estonia Dov Segev-Steinberg; Chief Rabbi of Estonia and the local Chabad Shaliach, Rabbi Shmuel Kot; Director of the European Jewish Association Rabbi Menachem Margolin; and Jewish businessman and philanthropist Alexander Bronstein who dedicated the Community Centre in memory of his mother Bella.
Addressing the attendees, Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid expressed: “The Tallinn synagogue tells the story of the fate of its Jewish community. Estonia is proud of the fact that our country today has a flourishing and vibrant Jewish life. The history of the local community, like the history of our country itself, is one of tragedy and revival—from the Holocaust years which tell of tragedy and trials of occupation, to the flourishing recent years of a free, democratic and independent Estonia. Today the synagogue is a beautiful and clear symbol of freedom.”
The President added that “Our two nations shared both the joyous and difficult times which we endured together… Both nations have needed to fight for their existence. I recall with gratitude those 178 Jewish women and men who participated in the Estonian War of Independence. Both our nations know what it means to maintain our identity and freedom even under the threat of foreign powers, and we can be proud of our achievements.”
Seventy-five years ago, at the Wannsee Conference, Estonia was the first country to be declared Judenfrei (free of Jews). All synagogues in Estonia were razed during the Second World War, leaving no trace of Jewish life in the country. After the war, the Communist regime strictly forbade the returning survivors to rebuild a Jewish community, and until a mere decade ago Estonia was the only country in Europe without a synagogue. Ten years ago, on the 40th anniversary of Jerusalem, a synagogue and Jewish community centre finally opened in capital Tallinn. Former Israeli president Shimon Peres, who was then a government minister, represented the Israeli government at the landmark event.
Throughout the past decade, Jewish activity and life in Tallinn have flourished under the spiritual leadership of Rabbi Shmuel Kot. Many Jews who were cut off from their Jewish heritage have returned to identify themselves as Jews and express that they now feel Jewish. This year, Estonia and Israel mark 25 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
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I’m sick of posts advocating for the cancellation of the Oscars to protest Trump. The Oscars are not food! Such a protest isn’t a hunger strike! Hollywood is composed primarily of people who strongly oppose Trump and his policies and I expect many of the year’s recipients and presenters to aggressively go after the Trump administration in the broadcast watched by nearly a 40 million people. If you care about the Oscars, you’re probably already a fairly liberal person. No one is going to say, “I used to really like Trump, but now that the Oscars were canceled in his name, I’m really starting to like Elizabeth Warren.”
But more importantly, Trump does not care about the Oscars. Yes, cancelling it would be a strong statement, but it doesn’t really affect him. Just because Viola Davis doesn’t get a statuette on national television doesn’t influence the Trump/Bannon executive order machine. In fact, considering all of the diverse nominees expected to win (even if La La Land sweeps many categories), I’m sure David Duke would be thrilled to hear of its cancellation as it removes any potential opportunity to show that white supremacy is idiotic.
I’m all for protest. I’d love to see a protest from the G8 until Donald Trump gets his shit together (though, actually that might be a bad idea as it would further isolate us, but you get the point). I love to see the footage of people protesting in Washington and at airports nationwide. These are protests which impact the smooth running of the nation and effectiveness of Trump’s inexcusable policies. But depriving the nation of the Oscars, which is an admittedly frivolous but usually enjoyable event anyways, just seems unnecessary.
Lastly, I believe that Fox News and OAN and Trump’s backwards logic will interpret such a cancellation as his victory over the Hollywood liberal elites rather than a loss at their hands. “I disrupted their lives so much, they canceled a Tinseltown tradition!” Donald Trump and Steve Bannon use fear and dread, rather than hope, as their primary weapon, making them, for the purposes of this article, terrorists, who want to disrupt their enemies lives. Don’t give them the satisfaction.
,Lane J. Lubell signing off
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OscarsSoWhite, but change is coming
In response to the backlash over this being the second year in a row with not a single person of color being nominated for an acting award, the Academy has taken action. When Cheryl Boone Isaacs was appointed to the possition of president, she made a commitment to open up membership and reach out to minorities as well as younger filmmakers. The idea was to have the voting members better reflect the industry as well as the viewing public. Despite her living up to her promise and increasing minority’s membership by more that any single year, the nominations were as white as ever.
The Academy has instituted a variety of new rules include a commitment to doubling the number of women and minorities in the academy by 2020 as well as, for the first time, limiting lifetime voting rights.
“It’s the right thing to do,” academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs said in an interview Friday. “We’ve been a more than predominantly white institution for a long time. We thought, we’ve got to change this and reflect the community much better.”
In other years, perhaps there was a single “Black film” for people to rally around, this year there were top-notch performances in a number of films, that could have resulted in dividing the vote. That said, Hollywood should be able to easily support any number of quality films, and clearly there were several performances that deserved recognition, a number of which made my list.
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Alright, it’s Oscar nomination day, half an hour before they’re revealed. To hold me to my word, here are my predictions for all feature film categories. Count the first five. The rest are alternates.
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Zain brings 5G to Saudi Arabia with Nokia
5G realizes digital transformation and growth of the country in support of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030
Espoo, Finland – Zain Saudi Arabia (Zain KSA), one of the world’s first 5G network operators, is bringing unprecedented change to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with the roll out of its 5G network using Nokia’s end-to-end portfolio. Under a three-year deal, thousands of 5G sites are being deployed bringing faster speeds and higher quality across its networks to support a renaissance in services for both the industrial sector and consumers.
As well as enhancing mobile broadband services in the Kingdom, the ultra-high bandwidth and low-latency 5G network will enable new applications and services for advanced industrial automation, improved education, healthcare, entertainment, and more.
Eng. Sultan Abdulaziz AlDeghaither, CEO of Zain KSA, said: “Zain Saudi is a pioneer in introducing next-gen telecoms services and with this 5G deployment we continue that tradition as we will launch a wide range of new applications and services for our customers. We are confident that our long-term partner Nokia’s technologies and professional services will build a reliable and highly secure 5G network to revolutionize the way people live and work.”
Amr K. El Leithy, head of the Middle East and Africa market at Nokia, said: “We are committed to transforming the service experience for Zain’s customers and enhancing industrial productivity by enabling extreme broadband services.This contract, which includes 5G RAN, backhaul, security and services, demonstrates the breadth of our full-portfolio strengths and depth of global expertise in deploying these next-generation projects.”
The deal introduces 5G using 2.6 GHz and 3.5 GHz, along with massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (mMIMO) to deliver enhanced network capacity, coverage, and improved downlink and uplink speeds. In addition, the deal will introduce E-Band microwave in certain areas to allow for ultra-high-capacity backhaul networks.
Nokia currently has 43 commercial 5G deals with operators around the world and is involved in more than 100 5G-related customer engagements. As with Zain KSA, many of Nokia’s commercial deals involve radio access technology as well as additional technology from Nokia’s end-to-end portfolio – a sign that operators are recognizing Nokia’s unique position and capability as the right choice for networks with long-term evolution in mind. Read about Nokia’s 5G commercial contracts.
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DAVID LIMBAUGH: Trump-hating leftists usher in new year of Trump hatred
Have you ever wondered why the political left is so inconsolably angry these days? Why does it consider President Donald Trump to be such a threat and his supporters so contemptible?
This isn’t my imagination. While most people expressed their New Year’s greetings in positive terms, the celebrity left defaulted to its Trump-hating form. Every day is a new day to rage against Trump, so why should their New Year’s Day pronouncements be any different?
Breitbart assembled a list of celebrity tweets illustrating the point. Rob Reiner tweeted, “Wishing everyone a Happy New Year and a 2020 that doesn’t include an ignorant corrupt soulless liar occupying the People’s House.” Stephen King tweeted, “Of his lies we’ve had plenty … Kick his a— in 2020.”
Rose O’Donnell couldn’t quite make it through a New Year’s tweet without denigrating Trump. “HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL,” she tweeted, adding the hashtag #2020removeHIM.
Rosanna Arquette said: “Putin is not my president. happy new year.” In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Linda Rondstadt likened Trump to Hitler and the Mexicans to “the New Jews.”
And the examples go on and on.
What is wrong with these narcissistic malcontents? It’s not like things are terrible in America. Economically speaking, we couldn’t be doing much better. We’re certainly better off than we were during the Obama years — by leaps and bounds.
Trump is also sticking up for America again, rebuilding our defenses; taking decisive action when our people or soldiers are in harm’s way, as with his immediate response to the attack on our embassy in Iraq; pressuring other countries to contribute to our mutual defense pacts; and expressing his pride in this country — as opposed to trotting around the globe and apologizing for it.
So what’s not to like? His tweets? Fine, but do you really think that’s what is driving them mad?
How about his alleged abuses of power? Please. They’ve been pressing for impeachment since before “Russia collusion” became their favorite mantra and long before they could identify Ukraine on a map.
They don’t hate Trump for having acted outside his constitutional authority — because he hasn’t. That was Obama. They don’t hate him because they believe he is extremely partisan. And if they were to believe it, they would have no credibility, for few presidents have been more partisan than Barack Obama, despite the progressive mythical narrative to the contrary.
You might recall how Obama used lawless executive orders to implement policy that Congress declined to legislate, forced Obamacare down our throats and smugly told his Republican opponents, “I won the election,” and that he didn’t “want them to do a lot of talking.”
And surely you won’t forget how he bulldozed his stimulus package through Congress with less than a handful of Senate Republican votes after meeting with congressional Republicans just one day before the Democrats had drafted the 1,073-page bill.
They revile Trump because they can tolerate only one viewpoint — their own. They resent that they can’t cram down their ideas in all sectors of our society, our culture and our government. It’s not enough that they have virtual monolithic control of the messages disseminating from Hollywood, academia and the mainstream media. They want total power everywhere, without any dissent.
They are furious that red-state America won’t roll over and surrender its sovereignty to them so they can complete the fundamental transformation of America into a socialistic, authoritarian state, and finish converting its culture into a post-Christian utopia. They are like agitated babies who’ve had their toys taken away and who militantly refuse to take a nap.
Trump is not just an annoying speed bump on their way to total societal and political domination but a force of nature to be reckoned with, wildly beyond their expectations. Having no respect for Trump or his ability, they wrongly assumed they could steamroll, marginalize or oust him and restore themselves to power.
They had no idea Trump would be so formidable an opponent. More importantly, they had no inkling that he represented something far greater than himself: a seemingly silent majority of everyday Americans who had had their fill of the left’s political and cultural tyranny.
Even though they’ve also directed their ire at Trump supporters — kicking them out of restaurants and other public places, and trying to suppress their liberties — they still seem to be operating under the illusion that if they can just remove Trump, they’ll easily recapture power.
Little do they realize that the more they mistreat Trump, the more they alienate his supporters — freedom-loving patriots from shore to shore. Or maybe their animus against him and us is so intense that they just can’t help themselves, and they don’t realistically consider the potential political fallout.
Or could it be that they are so cloistered in their elitist bubble that they still don’t realize the magnitude of support Trump has from tens of millions of people who will never give up on this nation as the world’s model for freedom and prosperity? The more they hate him, they more they abuse him, the greater our resolve to defend him — and America!
David Limbaugh is a writer, author, and attorney. His latest book is "Guilty by Reason of Insanity: Why the Democrats Must Not Win." Follow him on Twitter @davidlimbaugh and his website at www.davidlimbaugh.com. This content is provided courtesy of Creators Syndicate.
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Ralph Nader and many others who have finally reached the conclusion that Obama is a military-corporate Janus, an ambitious lackey with no regard for human rights, are a bit late. Realizing that there was no time to waste, that he’d given a pass to the torture of innocent detainees by a criminalized CIA, and was generally acting as if his name was Bush, I called for his impeachment in June 2009. See “Impeach Obama.” (My reasoning bore no resemblance to the lies of Tea Party Birchers, who assembled a platform of false dialectics to clear the road for even more politico-corporate corruption. BTW, I’m not tooting my own horn here, but pointing out that anti-fascists are always ahead of the game because we aren’t programmed by fascist-bluster-and-fart-movie media.) How many have been destroyed since then? How many Blakwater killers and Wall Street swindlers have been permitted to thrive? At last, others have come to the realization that Obama is a grotesque parody of the candidate who conned his way into office and openly panders to “conservatives” who despise him. Is there a campaign promise that he hasn’t violated, from tax cuts for the rich on down? CIA gun-slinging “diplomat” (another executive fraud) Raymond Davis is his true soul brother. The two should “sit down for beers” soon … to discuss how many innocents they’ve murdered in the name of a dead democray. Viva Ralph Nader for facing reality and “doing the right thing.” – AC
By Jordan Fabian
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Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader says President Obama should be impeached for committing “war crimes” in Iraq and Afghanistan. The consumer advocate and former presidential candidate said in an interview that aired Friday that Obama has committed “war crimes” on the same level as President Bush.
“Why don’t we say what’s on the minds of many legal experts; that the Obama administration is committing war crimes and if Bush should have been impeached, Obama should be impeached,” Nader said in an interview with the anti-war Democracy Now! organization.
Nader’s comments came before the U.S. on Saturday launched military strikes into Libya, but they are among the toughest criticisms Obama has endured from the left.
The consumer advocate participated in an anti-war demonstration outside the White House this weekend, during which more than 100 protesters were arrested.
The U.S. sought the passage of a U.N. Security Council resolution and commitments from European and Arab nations before taking action in Libya to thwart the country’s leader, Col. Moammar Gadhafi, from killing civilians amidst a rebellion against his regime.
Nader’s comments, however, were mainly directed at Obama’s prosecution of the Afghanistan war. Some liberal activists have objected to Obama’s decision to escalate the war and are unhappy with government’s treatment of Bradley Manning, the Army private accused of leaking classified documents to the organization WikiLeaks.
“[Bush officials] were considered war criminals by many people. Now, Barack Obama is committing the same crimes,” Nader said. “In fact, worse ones in Afghanistan. Innocents are being slaughtered, we are creating more enemies, he is violating international law.”
Obama appears to be facing growing resistance from the left over his administration’s foreign policy.
Anti-war filmmaker Michael Moore sharply criticized the president’s authorization of military strikes in Libya and a cadre of liberal House Democrats are questioning the constitutionality of the Libya operation.
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Paolo Rossi, a hero of Italian football who fired the Azzurri to victory in the...
Paolo Rossi, a hero of Italian football who fired the Azzurri to victory in the 1982 World Cup, has died aged 64, prompting an outpouring of grief and tributes.
Rossi’s wife Federica Cappelletti announced the death with a post on Instagram alongside a photo of the couple, accompanied by the comment “Forever,” followed by a heart.
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“There will never be anyone like you, unique, special, after you the absolute nothing …,” Cappelletti also wrote on Facebook.
The cause of his death was not revealed but Italian media reported that Rossi had been suffering from “an uncurable disease”.
Tributes were paid to ‘Pablito’, the star who was banned for three years for his part in a betting scandal, but returned to win the World Cup in Spain and the Ballon d’Or the same year.
Despite breaking in the early hours, Italian media splashed with the news, while social media lit up with tributes and “Paolo Rossi” was Italy’s number one trending search item.
“Football and Italy mourns Paolo Rossi,” headlined the Gazzetta dello Sport, as La Stampa called him the “hero of Spain ‘82”.
The news of his passing comes two weeks after the death of Argentina football legend Diego Maradona, winner of the 1986 World Cup.
Rossi won the hearts of Italian fans during the summer of 1982, when his goals dragged Enzo Bearzot’s Azzurri to a third world title.
Italy started the tournament with three uninspiring draws before they came to life and marched to the title.
But Italy’s sporting icon almost missed out on the tournament. He was caught up in a bribery scandal and banned for three years in 1980, but after continually protesting his innocence was cleared to play after two.
A slight and sprightly winger who converted to centre-forward, Rossi had an uncanny ability to be in the right place at the right time.
He exploded onto the stage of the 1982 tournament with a hat-trick in the 3-2 defeat of Brazil.
In the semi-finals he scored both goals as Italy beat Poland 2-0, and he hit the opener in the 3-1 win over West Germany in the final.
Rossi finished top scorer in the tournament with six goals.
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He was also a member of the Italy side that finished fourth in Argentina in 1978.
Along with Christian Vieri and Roberto Baggio, he holds the Italian record for nine goals scored in the World Cup.
He scored 20 goals in 48 appearances for Italy and was voted European Footballer of the Year in 1982.
Born in Prato in Tuscany, Rossi made his professional debut at Juventus in 1973, but his initial two-year spell at the Turin club was blighted by knee injuries.
His first club successes were with Vicenza where he was the top scorer in Serie B with 21 goals in the 1976-1977 season, and helped the club into the top flight.
The following season Vicenza challenged Juventus for the league title and Rossi finished the season as top Serie A scorer with 24 goals.
Italy’s Paolo Rossi celebrates after scoring the opening goal in the 1982 World Cup Final.Source: AAP
He spent another season with Vicenza but following relegation he left for a loan spell at Perugia, becoming embroiled in the 1980 match-fixing scandal known in Italy as Totonero.
As a result, Rossi missed out on the 1980 European Championship, where Italy finished fourth on home soil.
After his suspension Rossi returned to Juventus, and the 1983-1984 season was his most successful at club level.
He formed a formidable partnership with Michel Platini and Zbigniew Boniek and accumulated trophies — two Serie A, the Italian Cup, Cup of Cups, and European Supercup.
In 1985, Juventus won the European Cup amid the tragedy of the Heysel Stadium final, where 39 fans were killed, which was to be Rossi’s last match with the ‘Bianconeri’.
He went to rivals AC Milan for an unsuccessful season which was overshadowed by injury, as was his final season at Hellas Verona.
In 1987, aged 31, Rossi decided to turn the page after nearly 400 league games and 154 goals, and 48 caps and 20 goals for Italy.
After his career as a footballer, Rossi worked as a TV pundit.
“Such terribly sad news: Paolo Rossi has left us,” said RAI Sport presenter Enrico Varriale.
“Unforgettable Pablito, who made all of us fall in love in that summer of 1982 and who was a precious and competent work colleague in RAI over recent years.
“RIP dear Paolo.”
Rossi is survived by his wife and three children.
Oh no… At my age (15) if you were into football then the 1982 World Cup really only became about one man. #RIP Paolo Rossi.
— Tim Hollingsworth (@tphollingsworth) December 10, 2020
My favourite World Cup was 1982, an incredible tournament full of drama & great football. One man stood tallest, that was Italian Paolo Rossi, whose hat-trick eliminated a hot Brazil and helped Italy win the final against West Germany. RIP to a bona fide scoring machine. pic.twitter.com/FzSt1KQCuV
— Rohan Connolly (@rohan_connolly) December 10, 2020
First Diego. Now former @azzurri striker, Paolo Rossi. 1982 World Cup winner. What a performance. A despondent, listless Italy exploding after the group stage, Paolo’s hat-trick destroying the greatest team never to win a World Cup. Numero 20 forever. #paolorossi #azzurri pic.twitter.com/hBhljRxxmH
— Robert Grasso (@RobertGrasso) December 10, 2020
Paolo Rossi passes away – what a summer he gave us in 1982, when it seemed everything he touched ended up in the back of the net.
— Philip O’Connor (@philipoconnor) December 10, 2020
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The Internet Monitor project at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is excited to announce the launch of AccessCheck. AccessCheck is a tool that allows people to test the accessibility of websites in over 50 countries around the world in real time. This is the first time that such a tool has been available with a broad range of consistent data with disclosed methodologies.
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We’ve begun a limited release of the tool for registered users. If you’re interested in signing up and providing some feedback -- and we hope you are -- read on.
How to use AccessCheck
AccessCheck lets users enter a URL and choose one of over 50 countries in which to run a test. Clicking the “check accessibility” button returns a test results page with a thumbs up/down notification indicating whether the site is available or unavailable in that country, as well as a real-time screenshot and more detailed data on status codes, connection timings, and any errors encountered.
Requesting a test for a website/country pair will return the results of tests that have been run by users in the past. If recent data does not exist, the test will be added to the test queue, which executes tests in the order they are received. Tests, regardless of age, can be retested to obtain new accessibility data.
AccessCheck combines data from virtual private network endpoints, virtual private servers, and from measurements collected by the Information Controls Lab (ICLab) and by the Open Observatory of Network Interference’s (OONI) OONI Probe.
Who can use AccessCheck
This tool is intended to inform and support the efforts of those engaged in related public interest work, including journalists, academic researchers, and civil society organizations.
Near-real time test results are available to all users of the tool. Unregistered users of AccessCheck will be able to see the results of previous tests run by authenticated users, and verified users who are signed into their accounts can run new tests.
Help improve AccessCheck
Are the automated test results accurate, according to your own knowledge of internet filtering in countries around the world? Are there ways we can improve the interface to make the results easier to access and understand? Instructions on how to submit feedback can be found on AccessCheck’s About page, or you can email feedback to info@thenetmonitor.org.
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This morning Primetime Emmy Awards executive producer Don Mischer announced 13 presenters for the upcoming 66th telecast on Monday August 25, and from the bevy of film talent scheduled to appear onstage, one would think it’s a kudo ceremony for cinema. However, it’s just a further indication of how television continues to be in the midst of its second golden age, attracting such marquee names as Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson (both facing off in the drama lead actor category for their work on HBO’s True Detective), Julia Roberts (movie/miniseries supporting actress nominee for The Normal Heart) and Halle Berry (Emmy winner movie/miniseries actress for 2000’s Introducing Dorothy Dandridge). From the music world, there’s Voice hosts Gwen Stefani and Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine presenting. This year’s drama acting nominees Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife) and Kerry Washington (Scandal) are also on deck. And from the comedy sphere, there’s Zooey Deschanel (New Girl), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep), Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory) and Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation) who will also be handing out trophies.
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Designed with an all-new exterior, reimagined interior and 252 horsepower, the Audi A5 Coupe is athletic, elegant and exciting. With a more powerful engine, overhauled mechanicals and updated driver assistance features, the Audi A5 is all-new for 2018. And with its available driver assistance technologies and manual transmission, it’s sophisticated and sporty as well.
The 2018 Audi A5 is all-new. Built on the updated modular platform that underpins the current A4 and Q5, its more creased styling is an attempt to differentiate the new A5 from its predecessor while bringing it in line with Audi's corporate design language.
Whether the new A5 is more attractive than the outgoing car is subjective. The changes under the skin are less controversial. The turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine is new and has more power (now 252 horsepower and 273 pound-feet of torque), the suspension and cabin have been revised and there's a long list of driver assistance features offered. It's still available with a six-speed manual gearbox, and for some reason a new seven-speed, dual-clutch automatic has replaced last year's eight-speed automatic transmission.
Like last year's model, all A5s are equipped with all-wheel drive (AWD). But there are now two distinct systems — A5s equipped with the dual-clutch automatic receive the traditional, full-time AWD system with a center differential, while models with the manual gearbox have a revised system. Called "Quattro with Ultra," the new system dispenses with the center differential and sends power to the rear wheels only when needed, saving fuel.
Driver assistance technologies take center stage with the new A5. Along with full braking in anticipation of an impending crash, there's available pedestrian detection, blind-spot monitoring, rear cross-traffic alert and intervention, adaptive cruise and a lane-keeping assistance system. It practically drives itself, and indeed it nearly does this with the available traffic jam assist system that relieves the driver of much of the acceleration, braking and steering duties.
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Blog Posts, Politics January 14, 2021
Impeachment, the Investigation, and the Senate Vote
One argument being made by Trump supporters and many Republicans is that this impeachment is all rushed, careless, wrong. The House impeached (the indictment) a week after the January 6th events, which are being called an insurrection but others are calling a riot, or protest. The action was urgent, fast, and the most bipartisan vote ever (which is not saying much, frankly). One of the issues here is that the reason to move so fast on impeachment was to get Trump from office, but the impeachment won’t do that. January 20th will, assuming peace is largely kept in the coming days. This means the main motivation to take action – removing Trump from office – will then be moot, not to mention that removing a President by impeachment after he has already left office is something that has never been done before. There will surely be legal battles over this.
I am positive that if the Senate went to trial now there would not be the 17 Republicans to convict – the immediate crisis will have passed, Trump will be gone, etc etc. Surely, too, Senators will cry out for further evidence, for an ongoing investigation to be completed. So, if he were tried now, Trump would not be convicted, meaning, he would be found innocent, or so he and his backers will claim. He will claim this as further confirmation of the witch hunt against him, and for many many people he will be right.
I believe Pelosi should not pass over the articles to the Senate for at least 3 months, if ever, and if she has already done so, then Schumer should sit on them.
There is a huge investigation going on right now. There seem to be 3 key elements. First is the allegation Trump incited this riot with his speech. This seems clear to many, including me, but this is being argued and in the end is a judgement. Nowhere did Trump or any speakers that day say enter the building, capture anyone, or kill anyone. MAYBE they only thought a huge screaming mob would cause those inside to not certify the election, delaying things. This they will argue. This may be true.
What Trump did, or failed to do, AFTER the raid began, the second element, is hugely important, and less able to be discounted. Trump did not immediately call for the invasion to stop, or call out the Guard. In fact he told the rioters he loved them. Not a good look.
The third element – was there a conspiracy to make all this happen – is most important. Rumors are flying, all of which need confirmation. Did Congressional members bring in MAGA members the day before to recon the building? Or were they stupidly just bringing in constituents to just look around? Did the rally organizer work with 3 Congressmen to set all this up, and if so, was the raid the aim? Were there Capitol Police in on the deal? Most important, perhaps, WAS the National Guard told to stand down on orders from Trump or someone in his circle? What did the President know and when did he know it? I am sure millions already believe that all this, and more, happened, but strength of belief is not a fact. Anyone so certain is just like those who believe without evidence the election was stolen. IF during the coming days some or all of these elements are confirmed, each additional element becomes evidence for any trial, evidence these 17 Republican senators will need. Without it, Trump will not be convicted if there is a trial. If he is convicted, after a trial, any concerns about Trump taking this to the Supreme Court and being found innocent are valid, but, again, if evidence exists, each piece makes it harder for the Court to forgive him.
I have always argued that when considering whether something is a conspiracy or simply a colossal botch-up, 99 times out of 100 the latter wins, even in this case here. It COULD be that this rally got way out of hand, a bunch of over zealous fans making a terrible mistake, and mark my words this is going to become the talking point in the days ahead. It COULD be that most if not all those protestors rushing into the building were caught up in a fever, blind to the outcome. It COULD be that those bent on violence, those who pre-planned those actions, did so entirely separate from Trump. This argument may be countered of course by film of clearly drilled and organized teams rushing the building, directions about the building layout, calls for death, lack of police protection, and a host of other things, but raw video and snippets of real time action need to be linked and confirmed. For example, if phone records link Trump to rally leaders, or if, say, Trump’s social media-following staff were following all those sites clearly planning violence on the 6th, that would be evidence impossible to ignore. Interpretations of what was meant by words, or inferred from nods and winks, while entirely likely to confirm for many a crime, is somewhat “slushy” in my opinion, surely more “slushy” than dots connecting pre-planning to seizing the Capitol and others to stop certification of the election.
I know there are those among us who are certain the election was stolen. For these, only a statement by Trump, and all those who voted to overturn the election, confirming that the election was fair, Biden elected, and their allegations a falsehood will start any process toward changing minds. It has been encouraging to see some commentators and officials making this arguement. I also know there are those among us who are certain this was a total plot to seize the government, overturn the election, and install Trump back in the White House based on what has been disclosed so far, but, absent clear and convincing evidence linking Trump DIRECTLY to a conspiracy, nobody else will share their view, and, even then, it is likely some will NEVER share that view, just I know there are some who will NEVER believe this election was without major fraud. The possibility exists, too, as mentioned before, that rather than a great conspiracy this was a total botch-up, with various nefarious actors and extremists running their own game, and Trump and his team too blind or thoughtless to see that words and tone have consequences, in which case this was NOT a coordinated terrible conspiracy but a classical combination of terrible security, oversight, stupidity, ignorance, cultural blindness, and carelessness.
The impeachment process has been likened to a Grand Jury event, wherein the House decision is like a Grand Jury handing down an indictment, and the Senate trial like a court of law trying the case. Insurrection is the charge, it seems. The enormous investigation now going on will gather data, and evidence, connect dots, or not, find sources, get some to inform on others, track phone logs and text messages, determine how widespread the plan was to kidnap or kill Pence and members of Congress (if there really was such a plan), and hopefully document how close Trump and his people were to the invasion – for example, did Trump’s social media tracking people (he had at least one such) track those sites where the violence was clear, the planning obvious, the intent obvious? Are there call logs or even testimony confirming that the lack of Guard presence and abundance was discussed ahead of the 6th with the intent to open the Capitol to access? Given the grave seriousness of the charge, it seems wise to gather data, develop the facts, determine just what went on, the intent and motive, all of it. Once that is done it will become clear what happened – whether Trump helped create the conditions for such a riot (bad enough) or whether the riot was part of a much larger and more sinister plan. Only then can a Senate trial proceed properly, I believe, although once the facts are developed it may well be that criminal charges, even for an ex-president, are more appropriate.
We still have to get through the next few days without blemish or disaster, but I think even Trump, now, has called for no violence this weekend. It would be best if he stated the election was fair and Biden won fairly too, and I still hope he will. But as far as the Senate trial? If you have it at all, only do it after we know exactly what happened. If there was a huge criminal conspiracy, throw the book at those involved. If it was terrible judgement and a sloppy choice of words happening while a protest got way out of hand, but not a devious plot, so be it. That is bad enough.
January 12 6pm PST…
We stand before a fork in the road, or at least that is how this feels after several days with a near addiction to news feeds, watching the events unfold in real time, hour by hour. Yesterday I argued that an immediate way to help lower the temperature would be for everyone who had supported Trump’s lies about fraud to come forth and publicly disavow those lies, under the view that somehow we must agree on a shared set of facts for any healing to begin, but this does not seem to be happening, not yet. Some are hell bent on impeaching Trump, others on blaming the liberals, democrats, and antifa for what happened. And, instead of facing what happened last week, some are arguing that if anyone is held accountable this will only inflame things further.
On the one hand there appears to be movement toward finding some kind of resolution to put this behind us, and prevent further chaos (this is one fork). Most recently are reports that McConnell favors impeachment as a way to exile Trump from the party, de-fang him, save the party for the future, and with a few Republican House members and leaders now supporting that action, this may come to pass in the coming days. Others talk of censure, or using the 14th Amendment, to make people accountable. Each hour brings further videos and reports of just how bad it was in that building last week, just how well organized portions of this were, just how inflammatory were the speakers encouraging people to go to the Capitol, just how dangerous the next few days may be with FBI reports of armed activity in DC and every state this coming weekend. So, on this fork – everyone in leadership somehow coming together to reach a solution – there may be accountability but it seems the chances for chaos in the coming days might be greater from the seditionists among us.
On the other hand, I think there is an equally good argument, maybe even a stronger argument, that this coup attempt is continuing (the other fork in the road), and will come to a climax this weekend. I say this partly because so few of those who promoted the Lie have come forward to now agree the election is over and fairly won. Some are saying Biden won – Gym Jordan for example – but still preface with the statement about “concerns” and “illegality” – ie, they continue to state publicly the election was fishy, and this only reinforces those out there who believe the election was stolen. The President has no remorse, no regret, no apology, no contrition. He continues to argue he made a perfect speech. When he said, before leaving for Texas and again at Texas, that “violence is bad” but immediately then said impeachment will make people angry, very angry, it seems he was encouraging his supporters to carry on. With no admission from Trump he did ANYTHING wrong, it seems clear his minions will try to come again to DC and the 50 states to express their rage. Will they surround the Capitol and White House to stop the transfer of power? Will there really be attacks on all the State capitols? Imagine the chaos, the violence, then. Then, will Trump declare Martial Law to keep the peace? Defer the inauguration? Stay in power? Is this the plan?
One aspect is crystal clear: whether Trump is impeached or not, whatever violence falls upon us will fall, because if he is NOT impeached he requires violence to carry the day, which suggests that no matter what happens we will have to deal with armed and angry citizens, either fork we take. Either fork, because these people have had a taste of this, now, feel emboldened, feel justified, are enjoying this.
I remember 1974, August, very well. In the end, the very end, (like, the last few days) Republicans went to Nixon and told him to leave or be impeached. I had forgotten that for most of the Watergate scandal – 1972 to 1974 – most in Nixon’s party supported him, right up to the very end. In the end his party confronted him and that is what it took to get him to leave. Mr. Nixon departed peacefully. Nixon did not have an army of militias and groups and armed believers trying to keep him from leaving office. Today, I remain entirely unsure whether those Republicans who voted to overturn the election even after the riots ended are now coming to their senses, at least as regards the Constitution, or whether they have decided, in their bones, it is better to ride with Trump to a new government paradigm, regardless of the cost.
I guess we’re going to find out.
January 11 2021 afternoon Pacific Time thoughts…
It feels as if a train is rushing headlong down a mountain, faster and faster; the brakes are smoking; the engineer in the cab is drunk and passed out; around the turn through the tunnel lies a trestle uninspected in 150 years, and the passengers in the cars are holding on tight to the wooden seats wondering what to do….As I write this it seems the Congress is soon to impeach Trump a second time, there is energy to expel anyone in Congress who voted to overturn the election after the riot ended, the FBI is reporting planned protests in the Capitol and all 50 states before the 20th, many of those who voted to overturn the election are now begging for healing and peace, right wing news outlets are seemingly more outraged about Trump’s loss of Twitter and Parler than the escalating cycle of violence and the death of five people Wednesday, and even today many members who voted to overturn the election a week ago continue to claim fraud, even knowing that not to be the case.
There are surely many things that can be done to lower the temperature, to protect our Capitol in the coming days and at statehouses around the country, to call to account as many rioters as can be found, to conduct a fair investigation as to how it was the Capitol was so lightly defended Wednesday despite all the clear warnings available on public media outlets.
But what one thing can be done, TODAY, that would go furthest to lancing this balloon of fear and insurrection that has suddenly emerged among us? This whole sorry series of events has resulted from many things, but surely the largest among them is the allegation, stoked by Trump and then all his minions for months, and especially since November 3, that this election was stolen, that Biden is not the proper new president. Millions of people now believe this, firmly. I don’t expect to see Mr. Trump on the television owning any of this, unfortunately. Nor do I expect any of his immediate minions in his family or cabinet to step forward. He is leaving, as are his minions and cabinet.
However, there is a group with a vested interest in holding on to their jobs, and those are all those members of Congress who, even after a riot that nearly killed some of them and toppled the government, nevertheless persisted in promoting the Lie that the election was stolen, something surely each and every one of these members know to be false. It may be that this coup – for that is what this was, or maybe is, a coup – is ongoing and long planned, and some of these members know this, are even part of it, but, even so, the FIRST THING that can be done to lower the temperature, remove us from the toxic legacy of the Lie, and perhaps give these members a chance to save themselves from being thrown out of Congress for sedition, would be this:
Every one of those members should call a press conference and issue a statement stating the following: 1) The election just completed was found without fraud; 2) they believe the election was fair; 3) the allegations of fraud promoted by Trump and themselves were a lie and they confirm they were and are lies; 4) Joe Biden is the rightful president elect of the United States; 5) violence and riots have no place in our system; 6) Trump should leave office at once, and 7) we must all work together from now on to help Joe Biden be successful because if he is successful then we will be successful.
I am not saying, if these members confirm that the Lie was told, they supported it, and they were wrong, that this will change anyone’s minds, but had they done this even before November 3 we would not be in this place today. This statement would begin the accountability in a direct, rapid, and clear manner, right now. I think it will help. And we need all the help we can get. If these members all did this, right now, today, I for one would be happy to leave them in office, though personally I think they deserve no office, because we have enough battles to fight right now without adding more fuel to the fire. A statement such as the one above would go a long way, I think, toward pulling the air from this toxic balloon.
Blog Posts, Books, Real or Folk Tale? December 31, 2020
The Well of Time Series
Covid has delayed production of Totem for a year, which is fine, because during these months of isolation and home-bound-ness I have returned to a feeble hobby I enjoyed greatly decades ago, drawing sketches. This year, too, has been a chance to get back into the mountains for hiking, but these days I am slower, and tend to spend fewer hours a day under a pack, walking, leaving time to stop, observe, and draw whatever I see along the way. It used to be, for years, the definition of a decent hike was how blown you were at the end, how damaged, how great the pain, but age, while not removing the pain, has at least allowed enough small wisdom to be a little more conservative. Your scribe was never the brightest bulb in the room. So, hence, I have taken to drawing along the way, with pencil, or ink, small 5 inch square heavy paper sheets, easy to store in a back pack. The drawings are feeble, primitive, and reveal an unsettling mind, but they have been fun. My wife suggested, when I came back from one such hike last spring, perhaps I could draw a story with these panels, share it with our small tribe of grandchildren and nieces and nephews, or grand-nieces and nephews. This seemed like a fine idea, and so I did so, with the idea I could have a Zoom meeting with the widely scattered wee ones and tell the story in real time over the screen. Then, to increase their anticipation, my wife suggested that maybe I could send a story panel, once completed and copied, to each of the kids so when they watched the story then could also be holding part of it in their hands, waiting then to see where it fell in the tale.
This I did. It was (and is) a lot of work, hours, but great fun. I took heavy watercolor paper and cut it to fit in business sized envelopes, then drew the panels and mailed them to the kids after photographing them on my phone, cropping them, and then storing them on my computer such that I could prepare a PowerPoint slide show, but a slide show of drawings, pictures, which I then can run through, live, on Zoom, telling the tale picture by picture. The first time we did the Zoom event I hadn’t even finished the first story, but it was a way to tell the kids and their parents, my own kids and cousins, what to expect, and to get them ready for the pictures appearing in their mailbox. It is also possible to record these Zoom events, which means, I can then take the recorded tale and get it up on You Tube and send that, too, to each wee one, such that they have the story to watch again if they wish, at their pace and speed, but also available for those kids who may be unable to make the Zoom meeting.
Years and years ago when my own kids were little, at Christmas I would buy a lot of cheap – I mean, CHEAP – little plastic figurines of animals and dinosaurs and monsters and wrap them, one apiece, to the kids who would be present, usually three or four kids and their cousins, and with each tiny present was a card upon which I wrote a 3×5 chapter of a tale, one by one, such that as the other presents were opened a story was being told to all the kids, involving them. This was something that was a much bigger success than I expected. Then, a bit later, I began telling stories to my son Jack to put him to bed, when he was very little, in a crib, still, and these stories were about a young lad named Roland and him finding a hollow in a tree which was a Well of Time, a way to go into the past. I told him many such stories,all of which he has forgotten, which is probably good because I believe I was inhaling back then.
Now, fast forward 35-45 years, and it is another generation of wee ones, everything on flat screens, everything provided, and due to this pandemic everyone desperate for new material. These new stories, drawn on paper, copied, then shown via Zoom and Powerpoint while narrating the tale, have been much liked by the wee ones, whose minds are perhaps s twisted as my own.
Then, in November, one of the kids, the oldest one, actually, Ollie, sends me a drawing he has made and says, maybe you can put this in your next story, and this seemed like a fine idea, so I solicited drawings from all the other kids, whatever they wished, and then drew a story which included their characters and drawings, too. This was even more work, but great fun, great fun.
So it seems that just as I have finished one series, the Strong Heart Series, three books about the Pacific Northwest, ancient history, an ornery young girl and her companions, I have now embarked on another: The Well of Time series. This blog post here was started years ago simply as a great place to store the stuff I enjoyed and had fun with, and if someone gets into it and enjoys it, fine. Now the Well of Time tales, those done so far, are on this blog too, on the right hand side, available to anyone who wants to watch them.
When I finished Totem I knew I had completed the first series, in three tales. I suspect the Well of Time tales might carry on a bit longer. I would say, as far as the pandemic goes, there could have been many worse ways to pass the time.
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Blog Posts, Home, Politics November 29, 2020 November 29, 2020
Lost Causes…..
I joined the ship at Port Newark, age 65, Ordinary Seaman, 8 to 12 watch, September, 2012. We left New York to run down the coast before heading east through the Suez Canal to Singapore, a 70 day round trip. Our first stop was Charleston, South Carolina, a place I had visited 38 years earlier when taking a swordfish boat from New England to the Gulf for a bootleg spring fishery. Now, coming in to Charleston, my duty was on the bow, with the bosun and the second mate, to assist in throwing lines once we reached the dock.
It was a cold dark dawn, before sunrise, and the second mate, Roy, nearly my age and about to retire, waved an arm toward Charleston. “It started right here,” he told me. “The War of Northern Aggression.” I had heard the conflict reported as the Civil War, or the War Between the States, but the War of Northern Aggression was new to me. He explained, happy to teach, and I listened as we ghosted across the dark water, chilly, the cold air flowing across the bow. In his telling, the conflict happened because the Northern States, jealous of the more efficient southern plantations, chose to invade the south and stamp out its competition. The war was not about slavery, not at all. It was an unprovoked attack on the southern culture and way of life, never acknowledged, and intensified even today with demands to remove statues and provide reparations, all to continue the humiliation. I knew enough to keep my mouth shut, not argue. Roy was not someone to be argued with. He was my most direct and up-close encounter with a Lost Cause adherent, and I could see its power, its longing, its righteous victim-hood.
The Civil War ended 155 and more years ago. It is said history is written by the winners, and the North won, as did the North’s reality, but throughout these 155 years another reality has been suggested, another interpretation of history – the great “Lost Cause” – and while it may be untrue and false, it is believed true by millions. I think we are now seeing, today, how, when facts and belief are presented, some times strength of belief trumps facts, because, even if the facts are true, if most people don’t believe them, then what use is that truth?
I see another Lost Cause growing right before my eyes, before all of us. This is not about slavery, or the south. Instead, it is about the election that just took place. Based on 50 state elections boards, the Department of Homeland Security, over 35 lawsuits, and all the norms of recent elections counting and projections and calling, the election is over, the result very clear. This was an election when both the popular and electoral vote fell for the same candidate, and the margin was large. Yet, those on the losing side, convinced the only fair result is the result where they prevail, and buttressed by no evidence but many allegations, are now choosing to believe the election has been stolen. They have been disenfranchised, and robbed, and victimized, crushed by a vast conspiracy that includes the Democrats, poll workers in at least 6 states, Venezuela, Cuba, China, George Soros, the Clinton Foundation, the FBI, deep state judges, a voting machine manufacturer and another software provider, and all members of the mainstream media. Further, this conspiracy has been so clever and secret that nobody – not the 900,000 poll workers across the country, not over 35 judges, not the 50 state elections boards – has seen it.
This is going to be the new, and next, Lost Cause – a stolen election, a vast cabal of deep state actors, the media, elites – conspiring to keep their thumb on the throat of the true patriots, the real Americans, who should have won in a landslide, who had been told they would win in a landslide, and who have now been robbed.
They were told for months mail-in voting was subject to fraud, to vote in person. They were told again and again to go to the poll booth on Election day, and they did. This year there has been a great plague on the land, keeping people isolated, and even this plague has become politicized, such that those who chose to vote in person felt the plague was a liberal hoax, and those who considered the plague real chose to mail in their ballots. Thus, and this was widely reported in the weeks before the election, it would be the case that on election night the results would show one candidate ahead, from the in-person ballots, but then the other would come back and even move ahead as the mail-in votes were counted. This “shift” was exacerbated because some states – “Red” states, mostly – decided to hold off counting of mail-in ballots until the day of election. It was widely understood, therefore, that the mail-in ballots would be greatly in favor of one candidate, the challenger, and this is what happened. This was predicted. Now, however, that change in vote totals appears, to those of the Lost Cause, suspicious, unnatural, dishonest. Recounts have been demanded, lawsuits filed. The recounts have supported the initial results. The lawsuits have failed. Now, therefore, the judges are considered corrupt. It seems even the Department of Justice, long beneath a supporter of the President, must be in on the deception as well, for, not having indicted or charged anyone with voter fraud, the Lost Cause members refuse to see a lack of voter fraud. Instead, they see see the deep state, and a conspiracy.
Yet the new Lost Cause has only become more vibrant, more romantic, increasing in feeling and depth of emotion as court cases fail, as the real evidence continues to reaffirm the election results. There seems to be no group, no individual, within that population who supported the losing candidate willing to come forth and, as some would say, “call bullshit.”
Where is today’s Margaret Chase Smith? Where are the Republican Senators in favor of democracy instead of power? In 1974 it was Republicans who called bullshit on Mr. Nixon’s actions. Mrs. Smith punctured the McCarthy balloon in the early 1950s.
Absent such push back, the Lost Cause now being manufactured will become dangerous. Millions of people, feeling disenfranchised, will now feel victimized as well, unjustly deprived of their desire. Lacking evidence of fraud, they nevertheless believe, without evidence, “their” election has been stolen because their leader and his minions tell them so. It is doubtful they will listen to the other side, the winning side, for evidence. A very few among them, courageous, principled state election officials of their party, have called bullshit, and continue to stand tall, but where are their moral leaders? Their principled conservative spokesmen and women? Where?
Absent urgent and strong push back, this new Lost Cause, like the earlier great Lost Cause, stands to infect the future for decades.
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One, because of the pandemic people were encouraged to vote early and by mail. Democrats largely believed the pandemic was real and chose to vote by mail. President Trump told his followers mail-in voting was wrong, and not to vote by mail but in person. This happened. Three swing states, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, did not start counting mail-in ballots until the day before or election day, unlike other states recording mail-in ballots on arrival (mostly). Because of the pandemic ten times more people voted by mail than ever before. This is why the mail-in count was so overwhelmingly in favor of Biden and why the lead changed as the votes were counted.
Two, a deep conspiracy involving 10 cities, Hugo Chavez, a voting machine manufacturer, China, Cuba, the Clinton Foundation, George Soros, and perhaps even the FBI, was effectively organized to fabricate millions of false mail-in votes, despite 50 state secretaries of state overseeing state election boards, the Homeland Security Agency and the Cyber Crime Division, the FBI, and (at latest count) 33 of 35 judges being unable to find any fraud (and the other two rulings did not concern fraud). This conspiracy, entirely undetected and invisible, illegally changed the mail-in ballot totals to throw the election to Biden.
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The Doctor Who Universe: Fandom Analysis
With the emerging of digital technology in everyday’s life and its effects on rapidly growing media consumption, it is important to keep up with the constantly growing fandom’s and their participants needs on the market. As the member of the Doctor Who fandom, I am going to analyze the preferences and relationships among the fanbase, in order to grasp their consumption habits.
Fandom Origin
Just like any successful show, Doctor Who has developed its amount of followers and the fandom based on it is still continuing to grow. The show launched in 1963 and featured a time-travelling humanoid alien called a Time Lord that calls himself the Doctor and whose adventures are based on his travels through time and space with his human companions in a machine called the TARDIS - Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space (“An Unearthly Child”). Despite that BBC originally intended to air the show only till 1989, the fanbase seemed to keep growing in numbers even after years the show was closed and eventually it was re-launched in 2005. In 2007, the program was labeled by The Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running science-fiction television show, and that’s why the passion over “Doctor Who” is shared across generations of fans (“Longest Running TV Series”).
Fans of the Doctor Who Fandom often refer to themselves as “Whovians” or even nerds and the “nerdiest” ones eventually came out to the point where they took charge over the show. The current Doctor is played by a super fan actor Peter Capaldi. During his early years in 1970, he was one of the fans who authored stories in unofficial homemade magazines called the Doctor Who fanzines. These fanzines did not only support the fandom’s existence but also became a meeting point for fans to discuss and define the limits of the Doctor Who universe, which later on had a great influence on the original show. Because of the shows long term airing, many fans of the original series are nowadays the writers and producers of the re-launched Doctor.
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The Fandom’s Structures and Communication
The fandom structure is defined by the interests and activities shared with other people inside the subculture, which are commonly found in fan based groups or theme related clubs. The cultural influence of “Doctor Who” is spread widely and because of that, various clubs and societies have formed around the world, making the fanbase even more popular. Before the spreading of social networks, they only way to express yourself and to share theme related activities was to attend conventions and informal gatherings. Despite the fact that Doctor Who fans aren’t much different from the other media fandom’s fans, they risk being misunderstood in unrelated circles of interest.
Nowadays, when social network websites became the preferred form of communication, the fandom gained an unlimited source of potential new members, not determined by their location or by the clubs attainability. The DWSC – Doctor Who Society of Canada formed in 2011 and is represented as a social network for Whovians, focused on social interactions such as social gatherings, online community forums and commonality amongst fans. The usage of social networks spread the global following of fans among people with different backgrounds, additionally making it more accessible to share interests and thoughts among them.
Fandom Consumption Habits
Since the fandom is based on the TV show series, magazines and audio dramas, its consumption habits are mostly media related. Production focused on fandom’s consumers provides various opportunities for marketers to profit from serving customers needs and since the nowadays producers of the Doctor Who universe are the former members of the fandom, they gain access to form long-term symbiotic relationships.
The current show gathers over 7 million views at average, and the audience gives it the highest Appreciation Index amongst all drama shows on television, thus making it more interesting to the market analysis (“Rating Accumulator”). Like in most popular universes, Doctor Who consumers tend to be interested in purchasing theme-related content from the series, which variables from DVD’s, cosplay clothing, toys and gadgets to more unified products such as Sonic Screwdrivers and Vortex Manipulators. Nonetheless, as mentioned above, the line between consumers and creators of themed products is pretty much blurred, so it is common that the fandom is found of creating and consuming its self-produced products, such as fan fictions, fan art, video and audio related materials.
Considering the aforesaid, it is established that such mutual creation and consumption habits are crucial for the fandom and the franchise to prolong its further existence and financial success. The fandom’s history is a good example of how financial difficulties of a media product can be overcome by the major interest and contribution of the products consumers. Finally, it is overviewed that there is no need in cultivating market relationships, cause of the self-sufficient habits of consumers and product creators.
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1. Cowardice. Whose bright idea was it to ban Nigel Farage from speaking at the Tory conference in Manchester? And what kind of signal does this send out to all those waverers in the party wondering whether or not to transfer the allegiances to UKIP?
“We’re so concerned that Nigel Farage might tell you stuff that you want to hear that we’ve decided not to let you hear it.”
2. Spinelessness. Remember all that talk about the importance of localism? Remember all those principled-sounding statements we’ve had from the likes of John Hayes and Eric Pickles that in future if communities don’t want wind turbines imposed on them then they won’t have to? Well, it seems all that has gone by the board. No doubt under combined pressure from all the energy companies (whose beneficiaries range from the deputy prime minister’s wife to the prime minister’s father in law) and the ideological greens at DECC, Cameron’s faux-conservatives have caved yet again. I’m told by planning experts that Eric Pickles’s vaunted amendments will make not the blindest bit of difference to communities trying to fight wind turbines. So this betrayal of their natural constituency in the shires will help the Conservatives how, exactly?
3. Dishonesty. Immigration, the Conservatives have twigged, is a key issue to many voters. Hence those crass, ugly billboards. Hence scary Immigration Minister Mark Harper’s tough-sounding statements about how the Coalition is really on top of the problem. Except as Andrew Gilligan revealed in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph it’s all a nonsense. Our statistics on immigration are so unreliable as to be meaningless. I don’t know about you but I don’t like being taken for a fool by a party angling for my vote.
4. Cynicism. Much sense has been talked by those who understand the internet – among them, Mic Wright and Willard Foxton, both of this parish – about the illiberalism and counterproductivity of Cameron’s grandstanding crusade against all manner of online pornography. If it makes no sense, why is he doing it? Why out of a cynical attempt to win the approval of the leftist harpies at MumsNet, of course. Sorry but I’m old-fashioned enough to believe that government policy should be based on high principle and sound evidence, not on cheap, cynical bids to appeal to socialistic control freaks outside your natural constituency. But then, Dave does think of himself as the “heir to Blair” doesn’t he?
5. Incompetence. Do you know what, though? I think I could still forgive the Tories all of the above if they’d at least managed to do the one thing Tories are always supposed to be good at: undoing the economic mess created by the previous socialist administration.
But this “economic recovery” we’re allegedly experiencing is, like “green jobs”, a chimera. Liam Halligan doesn’t believe in it.
(Nor, suspects Rob Tyler, is it any different in the US.)
And no, this isn’t just a cyclical thing or a world-economy thing. It’s a direct consequence of Cameron’s and Osborne’s failure to acknowledge the scale of the problem and deal with it.
The framework required to support meaningful growth is simply not there. We are still spending beyond our means, the national debt is still ruinous, we still have a massive balance of trade deficit, and the government seems in no hurry to do anything about it. A wrecking ball should have been taken to New Labour’s policies by now, given that they’re largely responsible for the mess we’re in. Instead, David Cameron is like a man who’s been put in charge of the family Christmas and doesn’t want to upset the old’uns by changing too much. Apart from walnuts in the sprouts and a new board game for after dinner, it’s the same as it ever was.
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rtj1211 says:7th August 2013 at 7:27 pmThe biggest problem most politicians have is that they won’t tell hysterical protestors that they’re, on this issue, if not in life in general, in need of being sectioned for the safety of society. Years of Animal Rights, kibosh Bridgenorth Power Station, no tracking, no this, no that: sometimes you JUST HAVE TO DECIDE. The odds are stacked against the honest politician, because the aim of the media is to inflame, not to support good decisions. The aim of the ueber rich is to install incompetent blackmailable leaders and as we all know, the media is their domain, isn’t it?The second biggest problem is that those who won’t suffer near armageddon are fairly comfortable with sweeping everything away. They wouldn’t be if their children weren’t getting fed, the bills were months late, their jobs were all gone and their dignity destroyed. I only respect calls for radical destruction by those who will suffer with everyone else. I”ve never read anything by anyone to say that anyone is either that brave, stupid or selfish (if they have kids). It’s always the rich who call for the poor to suffer. If they called for themselves to suffer just one little bit, people might listen to them. HS2? NIMBY city. Windmills? NIMBY city. Fracking in Sussex? NIMBY city. The list is endless. Go try poverty: you’d soon be less radical….The third biggest problem is political parties. They are the home for the never-had-a-job-in-the-real-world SPADs. How can you POSSIBLY know how to run the country across three or four generations if you’ve never worked for one generation in the real world?? This is not the 19th century and the British Empire. This is globalised Britain, tied to the EU as one harridan parent and the USA as the other. What’s needed is the Harry Houdini escapology to escape both without being trafficked by other evil monsters. If you really are so much of a swivel-eyed loon as to see America as solely a force for good in the world, then you really do need to grow up. America is 1984 imposed on the world: a global spying behemoth, stealing the world’s assets without mercy whilst retaining a constitution it hasn’t upheld since 1945. A country infested with organised criminality and an out-of-control military-industrial complex and investment banking system. It can still come good, but the odds are on it becoming a fascist dictatorship. It’s about time you saw America’s dark side, instead of staying fantasised by Hollywood’s misdirection. It might be better if we ditched English as the formal language: then America wouldn’t be so obsessed with us. They don’t seem quite so obsessed with Norway or Switzerland, do they?? They need to see a shrink and forget about the War of Independence. None of us over here had anything to do with it and we’re sick and tired of their slave-owners demeanour to the UK. We have contempt for the way they dealt with Katrina. Contempt. Their city governance is a shambles and most of them are about to go bust. Wall Street is organised mafia and no-one has the power to stop it. There is no value whatever added to the economy by Wall Street. Nothing it does couldn’t be done as well, if not better, by 50 Warren Buffett-like folks, one in each state, in terms of investment decisions. All the speculation would be got rid of and ordinary folks on Main Street could safely deposit their savings in thrifts again, without fear of getting raped by descendents of Solly Brothers and the other Wall Street Crime Families who carried out heists that make Fort Knox look like a stroll in the Park……..and are lionized for having done so.Agree with you about UKIP, however a twit today has probably given Nigel Farage more media time than he’s had in weeks. All he needs next is a joint announcement of Boris’ latest affair along with a dalliance of one of his candidates and he can say: ‘See – we’re just like Boris, who got re-elected as Mayor of London!’
I’d like to write another one about why the Labour Party don’t deserve to win too.
But I would also like you to actually start mapping out what a detailed UKIP manifesto might look like.
I won’t vote for them in 2015 as a protest. I’ll only vote for them if their manifesto is credible, costed and free of fascism.
They have two years to produce one.
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When Cops Are Killed
For the Dart Center staff, the murder of four Lakewood, Washington police officers last month, and the subsequent death of the suspected killer, brought back memories. One recalled her own experience covering an officer's death as a police reporter in Los Angeles and feeling unprepared to deal with the grief of the people she was working with in the police press room — not to mention her own reactions.
To get a handle on the special issues facing journalists when a public safety officer is killed, we reached out to a few different journalists. Today, we publish the responses of 2003 Dart Center Ochberg Fellow Scott North, who has edited stories involving an incident at the Herald in Everett, Washington. If you have your own thoughts — on the handling of this story or on reporting on police more generally — please email us or leave a comment.
How might close working relationships between police and police beat reporters affect the reporting and coverage of such a story?
It depends. What gets reported in any story has a lot to do with access. In some police killings, knowing people well has landed me interviews others didn't get. As a reporter and editor, I've also found myself at times having to explain to others why people in a public agency with a long history of answering questions instead have simply shut down. The police often talk about being part of a law enforcement family, and many process the reporting in these sorts of cases in that fashion. In other words, it is personal. Ignore that at your peril.
As a young reporter I approached an officer from a department other than the one that had just suffered a loss in a police shooting. I asked him for help on a bunch of "What do cops know?" siders I'd been assigned. The editors wanted to probe how officers are trained to survive encounters with armed suspects. They also were hoping I'd get some stories about close calls for other officers. The guy's response was unprintable and also dead on target. There was a time for that sort of story and it wasn't when people were preparing for a funeral. He helped me on that day by being blunt, and later, when it made more sense, on preparing the story I'd outlined. He was a source who knew how to help me become a better journalist.
Covering the crime beat in ways that maintain appropriate separation from sources, including the cops, is a subject of great complexity.
Does covering murders of public safety personnel affect journalists or newsrooms differently than covering other homicides?
Every homicide is different. However, when police are killed, readers and others in the community have an expectation that the newsroom will play a part in the grieving. It may not be said that directly, but it is there. Feeling that pain often isn't much of a leap.
We often are more connected to a cop who is killed in the line of duty than others in our community who are murdered. If our reporters don't personally know the fallen officers, they likely know somebody who does, who has worked along side them and experienced those things that bind cops. Stories about the investigations into the officers' killings and the lost lives offer familiar terrain, but the grieving is more public and the journalism in some ways becomes part of the civic ritual.
Seasoned newsroom leaders and reporters know this. They also know that our first duty always is to the truth. Balancing the need to grieve and the need to know requires a lot of honest discussion.
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Title: Medicine on the Battlefield: the History of Army Medics in Modern Japan
Authors: Harari, Reut
Advisors: Elman, Benjamin
Garon, Sheldon
Contributors: History of Science Department
Keywords: Global History
Subjects: History
Science history
Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University
Abstract: Both war and medicine alter the human body, but in two different ways; war uses violence to harm and kill, while medicine strives to save and maintain the body. Despite this essential disparity, the two fields have been intimately connected and mutually contributive since early in history. This connection reached new heights during the “Modern era,” as war expanded and became increasingly medicalized. The dissertation examines the corresponding processes of the ״medicalization of war” and the “militarization of medicine,” through the role of military medics – layman soldiers, whom militaries enlisted and trained to serve as medical care providers. The dissertation argues that medics embodied these processes, spearheading the movement of medicine closer to the battlefield. Why did militaries decide to entrust inexperienced soldiers with medical duties, and how did their role change over time? The dissertation explores these questions, while focusing on the case of the Japanese Army from roughly 1868 to 1945. Its first part examines the origins of the role and its early manifestations from an institutional and transnational viewpoint. It reveals how the Japanese Army created a variety of medic roles based on an altered view of the soldier’s body, as an asset requiring maintenance and protection to ensure military victory. Medics consequently stood at the intersection between military and medical reforms. The second part of the dissertation focuses on the voice of former Japanese medics, who served during the 1930s and 1940s - in units and hospitals, in the front and the rear, in Japan and overseas. It explores what it meant for these men to serve as at once soldiers and medical care providers. Their stories illustrate how the role changed, as the Japanese Army’s position changed – from military expansion, through imperial occupation, to defeat – and reveals the ethical dilemmas medics were forced to face as a result; in cases of war crimes, and when losing all ability to treat towards the end of the Pacific War. The role relied on a fragile balance between its two aspects – the “military” and “medical.” When the balance was broken, the role was lost.
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A Look at @StateDept Staffing Losses Between FY2016-FY2017 #ThisCouldGetWorse
February 12, 2018 By domani spero in Foreign Service, Leadership and Management, Realities of the FS, Reform, Reorganization, Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State, Staffing the FS, State Department, Trends, Trump, U.S. Missions Tags: Civil Service, Consular Fellows, Foreign Service, Foreign Service Promotions, LE Staff, projected attrition, promotion numbers, Rex Tillerson, workforce data, workforce statistics
Posted: 12:28 pm PT
Updated: Feb 13, 2:02 pm PT
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We’ve written previously about staffing and attrition at the State Department in this blog. We’ve decided to put the staffing numbers in FY16 and FY17 next to each other for comparison. The numbers are publicly released by State/HR, and links are provided below.
Since the State Department had also released an update of its staffing numbers dated December 31, 2017 for the first quarter of FY2018, we’ve added that in the table below.
FY2016 saw a high water mark in the total number of State Department employees worldwide at 75,231. There were 13,980 Foreign Service employees (officers and specialists), 11,147 Civil Service employees and 50,104 locally employed (LE) staff members at 275 overseas posts.
The Trump Administration took office on January 20, 2017. On February 1, 2017, Rex W. Tillerson was sworn in as the 69th Secretary of State. With the exception of the month of January, note that Secretary Tillerson was at the helm at State for eight months in FY2017 (February-September 30, 2017), and the first three months of FY2018 (October 2017-December 2017).
With 75,231 overall number as our marker, we find that the State Department overall was reduced by 351 employees at the end of FY2017. On the first quarter of FY18, this number was reduced further by 476 employees. Between September 30, 2016, and December 31, 2017 — 15 months — the agency was reduced overall by 827 employees (including LE employees).
FY2017 did see six, that’s right, six new FS specialists, and 256 LE staffers added to its rolls (see That FSS Number for additional discussion on that six FSS gains). Note that LE staffers are generally host country nationals paid in local compensation plans with non-dollarized salaries.
Data also shows that there were 68 more FS/CS employees overseas. We interpret this to mean 68 more FS/CS employees assigned overseas, and not/not necessarily new hires. The FSO ranks were reduced by 107 officers, and the Civil Service corps was reduced by 500 out of a total of 25,127 American employees by September 2017. The Foreign Service was further reduced by 197 employees, and the Civil Service reduced by 144 employees by December 31, 2017.
Tillerson on Track
Mr. Tillerson goal is reportedly to reduce the department’s full-time American employees by 8 percent by the end of September 2018, the date by which Mr. Tillerson has purportedly promised to complete the first round of cuts. A November 2017 report calculated the 8 percent as 1,982 people with 1,341 expected to retire or quit, and 641 employees expected to take buyouts. The data below indicates that the State Department’s American FS/CS employees at 25,127 in FY2016 was reduced by 948 employees by December 31, 2017, a reduction of 3.8 percent. If the buyouts, as reported, occurs in April 2018, Tillerson would be at 6.3 percent reduction by spring, with five months to get to the remaining 1.7 percent to make his 8 percent target by September 30. And this is just the first round.
Projected Attrition
In 2016, the State Department already projected that between FY 2016 and FY 2020, close to 5,400 career FS and CS employees (21 percent) will leave the Department due to various types of attrition (non-retirements, retirements, voluntary, involuntary). That’s an average of 1,080 reduction each fiscal year from FY2016-FY2020. Even without a threat of staff reduction, it was already anticipated that the State Department was going to shrink by 1,080 employees every year until 2020. We think that part of this estimate has to do with the graying of the federal service, and the mandatory age retirement for the Foreign Service, but also because of the built-in RIF in the Foreign Service with its “up or out” system. Anytime we hear the State Department trimming its promotion numbers, we also anticipate more departures for people who could not get promoted.
It’s Not a RIF, Just Shrinking the Promotion Numbers
Tillerson made the staff reduction his own by announcing a staffing cut and a buyout. This was obviously a mistake, but what do we know? What this signals to us is a lack of understanding of how the system was intended to work most especially in the Foreign Service. This is a mistake that he could have easily avoided had he not walled himself away from career people who knew the building and the system that he was trying to redesign.
Yes, the reduction in State Department workforce was in the stars whether Tillerson became Secretary of State or not. There is a regular brain drain because the Foreign Service is an “up or out” system. Some diplomats who are at the prime of their careers but are not promoted are often forced to leave. But to get more people to leave, Tillerson does not even need to announce a RIF, he only need to shrink the promotion numbers. A source familiar with the numbers told us that in 2017, 41 FSOs were promoted from FS01 to the Senior Foreign Service (SFS), down from an average over the past five years of 101, or a 60% decrease. Across the Foreign Service, we understand that the average decrease in promotion numbers is about 30% percent.
In the rules books, the Director General of the Foreign Service is supposed to determine the number of promotions of members of the Foreign Service reviewed by the selection boards by “taking into account such factors as vacancies, availability of funds, estimated attrition, projected needs of the Service, and the need for retention of expertise and experience.” This decisions is based on “a systematic, long-term projection of personnel flows and needs designed to provide: (1) A regular, predictable flow of recruitment into the Service; (2) Effective career development to meet Service needs; and (3) A regular, predictable flow of talent upwards through the ranks and into the SFS.”
The State Department does not even have a Senate-confirmed DGHR. The last Senate confirmed Director General Arnold Chacon left his post in June 2017 (see DGHR Arnold Chacón Steps Down, One More @StateDept Office Goes Vacant). Bill Todd who is the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary is now acting Director General of the Foreign Service & acting Director of Human Resources, as well as “M” Coordinator. The Trump Administration has nominated ex-FSO Stephen Akard to be the next DGHR (see Ten Ex-Directors General Call on the SFRC to Oppose Stephen Akard’s Confirmation).
Burning Both Ends of the Candle
The surprise is not that people are leaving, it is that people that you don’t expect to leave now are leaving or have left. An ambassador who retires in the middle of a three-year tenure. The highest ranking female diplomat who potentially could have been “P” retired. A senior diplomat retiring while at the pinnacle of his diplomatic career five years short of mandatory age retirement. A talented diplomat calling it quits while there’s a whole new world yet to be explored. The highest numbers of departures are occurring at the Minister Counselor level, and at the FS01s and below level (PDF). That said, these numbers as released and shown below, are still within the previously projected attrition numbers for FY2017. The FY2018 numbers is the one we’re anxious to see.
Tillerson’s staff reduction is not even the most glaring problem he gave himself. Basically, Tillerson’s State Department is burning both ends of the candle. The diplomatic ranks were reduced by 225 in December 31 last year but State will reportedly only hire a hundred in FY2018. There are rumors of only hiring at 3 for 1 to attrition. If this is the plan, Tillerson will surely shrink the diplomatic service but by not ensuring a smooth flow of new blood into the Service, he will put the institution and its people at risk. For instance, there are about 2,000 Diplomatic Security agents. Let’s say 21 percent or 420 agents leave the agency between now and 2020, and the State Department hires 140 new agents during the same period. The work will still be there, it will just remain unfilled or the positions get eliminated. A three-person security office could shrink to two, to one, or none. In the meantime, the United States has 275 posts overseas, including high threat/high risk priority posts that require those security agents. What happens then? Are we going to see more contractors? Since contractor numbers are typically not released by the State Department, we won’t have any idea how many will supplement the agency’s workforce domestically and overseas.
The Foreign Service Specialists (FSS) Count
So if we look at the first table below (thanks JR), note that the total Foreign Service Specialists (FSSs) number is 5,821. A State Department release in November 29, 2017 confirms the 5,821 figure. But this figure as you can see here (PDF) includes Consular Fellow gains (previously known as Consular Adjudicators) in FY2017 (231), FY2016 (141), FY2015 (70), FY2014 (35) and FY2013 (37). The numbers are not clear from FY13 and FY14 because the counts were not done at the end of the fiscal year but midyear and end of the year. As best we can tell, the State Department HR Fact Sheet counts Consular Fellows as part of its FSS count in fiscal years 2015-2017.
The result is that the career FSS count is artificially inflated by the inclusion of the Consular Fellows in the count. While the first table below shows an FSS gain of six specialists, in reality, the CF inclusion in the count hides the career FSS losses in the last three fiscal years that ended. Why does that count matter? Because the Consular Fellow LNA appointments max out at 60 months.
11/29/17 Department of State Facts About Our Most Valuable Asset – Our People (September 30, 2017 Counts)
Consular Fellows are hired via limited non-career appointments (LNAs). The Consular Fellows program, similar to its predecessor, the Consular Adjudicator Limited Non-Career Appointment (CA LNA) program, is not an alternate entry method to the Foreign Service or the U.S. Department of State, i.e. this service does not lead to onward employment at the U.S. Department of State or with the U.S. government. In fact state.gov notes that Consular Fellows are welcome to apply to become Foreign Service Specialists, Foreign Service Generalists, or Civil Service employees, but they must complete the standard application and assessment processes. So for Congressional folks keeping track of the career Foreign Service numbers, this would be a notable distinction.
Trump’s 2019 Budget and the Next 27% Cut
Trump’s fiscal 2019 proposed budget includes a 27% cut to the State Department. This potentially could get a lot worse; when the Administration starts shrinking programs, and priorities at this rate, it will inevitably create a cascading effect impacting overseas presence and personnel. State Department officials may say no post closures, and no reduction-in-force now but we probably will see those down the road, even if not immediately. Remember when State was shrunk in the early 1990’s? It took a while before people could start picking up the pieces, and the replenishment for the workforce did not happen until almost a decade later. (see The Last Time @StateDept Had a 27% Budget Cut, Congress Killed ACDA and USIA).
Still, we have to remind ourselves that the budget proposal is just that, a proposal, and that Congress has the power of the purse. Is it foolish to hang our hopes on our elected reps?
HR Fact Sheet as of December 31, 2017 (PDF)
HR Fact Sheet as of 9/30/2017 (PDF)
Oops, looks like this file was subsequently removed after post went up.
See copy via the Internet Archive
HR Fact Sheet as of 9/30/2016 (Archived PDF)
Below is a bonus chart with the FY2015 staffing numbers (yellow column#1), and the gains/losses between September 2015 to December 2017 (yellow column ##2). We’re sure that Mr. Tillerson’s aides would say that yes, there are staffing losses but look, the State Department’s overall workforce is still larger at the end of 2017 when compared to 2015. And that is true. Except that if you look closely at the numbers, you will quickly note that the gains of 1,346 employees are all LE staffers on local compensation.
AFSA Shouts “Fire!” and a @StateDept Spox on Background Asks, “Fire, What Fire?”
Snapshot: @StateDept’s Civil Service and Foreign Service Retirements, January-October 2017
Inbox: Feast-or-Famine Games Being Played With State Staffing Levels
@StateDept/USAID Staffing Cut and Attrition: A Look at Real Numbers and Projected Attrition
Snapshot: Historical and Projected Foreign Service Attrition
@StateDept Spox Talks Foreign Service Retirement Numbers, Paris vs. Pakistan
A Look Back at @StateDept Staffing Efforts: Powell’s Diplomatic Readiness Initiative, Clinton’s Diplomacy 3.0
Tillerson’s Staff Reduction Plan Threatens Gains in Bridging @StateDept Language Gaps
Senate Confirms Four Foreign Service Lists Including Two Pretty Thin Promotion Lists (Updated)
February 12, 2018 By domani spero in Confirmations, Foreign Service, FSOs, Functional Bureaus, Promotions, Realities of the FS, Staffing the FS, State Department, Trends, U.S. Senate Tags: Career Ministers, Counselors, FS Promotions, Minister Counselors, Senior Foreign Service
Updated 2:04 pm PT
On January 30, the U.S. Senate confirmed four Foreign Service lists including two promotion lists that look pretty thin. Are these all the names of FSOs/FSSs who got promoted, 98 in all? There were no promotions to the Career Ambassador (CA). or the Career Minister (CM) ranks, hey? How normal is that?
According to State/HR’s count from last year (PDF), there were 19 Career Ministers in the entire Foreign Service at the end of FY2017. Unless there’s a separate list floating around, we’re not seeing the CA/CM promotions. There could also be a reduction in the Minister Counselor (MC) and Counselor numbers given that the count published by State was dated September 30, 2017 (Department of State Facts About Our Most Valuable Asset – Our People (September 30, 2017 Counts) and we have no idea how many departures by rank had occurred between October to January 2018.
Update: On November 16, 2017, the U.S. Senate confirmed four nominees to the rank of Career Minister (see PN 2100).
The following-named Career Members of the Senior Foreign Service of the Department of State for promotion within the Senior Foreign Service of the United States of America, Class of Career Minister:
John R. Bass II, of VA (current ambassador to Kabul)
John D. Feeley, of DC (will retire effective March 2018)
Judith G. Garber, of VA (current Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans, Environment and Science (OES)
Sung Y. Kim, of VA (current ambassador to Manila)
With the promotion of 4 career employees into the Career Minister rank, the State Department now appears to have 23 Career Minister rank members (4 new promotions, 19 FSOs, 0 FSSs). See PDF. That’s the same low number as in 2012, but will dipped to 22, same as in 2009, when Ambassador Feeley retires in March 2018. The lowest dips occurred at 19 both in 2008 and 2017.
With the promotion of 33 career employees into the Minister Counselor rank, the State Department now appears to have 447 Minister-Counselor rank members (33 new promotions, 384 FSOs, and 29 FSSs with Minister-Counselor rank). See PDF.
With with promotion of 64 career employees into the Counselor rank, the State Department now appears to have s 611 Counselor-rank members (64 new promotions, plus 431 FSOs, and 116 FSSs with Counselor rank). See PDF.
This is our best guess at this time given the published numbers available and the congress.gov data.
2018-01-30 PN1434 Foreign Service | Nominations beginning Alyce S. Ahn, and ending Michele D. Woonacott, which 90 nominations were received by the Senate and appeared in the Congressional Record on January 8, 2018.
2018-01-30 PN1435 Foreign Service | Nominations beginning Priya U. Amin, and ending Erik Z. Zahnen, which 118 nominations were received by the Senate and appeared in the Congressional Record on January 8, 2018.
2018-01-30 PN1433 Foreign Service |Nominations beginning Marc Clayton Gilkey, and ending Mark A. Myers, which 6 nominations were received by the Senate and appeared in the Congressional Record on January 8, 2018. (5 PROMOTIONs)
The following-named Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service of the Department of Agriculture for promotion within the Senior Foreign Service of the United States of America, Class of Minister-Counselor:
Marc Clayton Gilkey, of CA
The following-named Career Members of the Foreign Service for promotion into the Senior Foreign Service, as a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service of the United States of America, Class of Counselor
Deanna M. J. Ayala, of MN
Darya Chehrezad, of CA
Morgan A. Perkins, of MD
Stanley Storey Phillips, of MT
2018-01-30 PN1436-1 Foreign Service | Nominations beginning Angela P. Aggeler, and ending Mari Jain Womack, which 93 nominations were received by the Senate and appeared in the Congressional Record on January 8, 2018. (93 PROMOTIONS)
The following-named Career Members of the Senior Foreign Service of the Department of State for promotion within the Senior Foreign Service of the United States of America, Class of Minister-Counselor:
Angela P. Aggeler, of DC
Peter H. Barlerin, of MD
Colombia A. Barrosse, of VA
MaryKay Loss Carlson, of VA
Julie J. Chung, of CA
Karen Kaska Davidson, of TX
Kelly Colleen Degnan, of DC
Chayan C. Dey, of FL
John E. Fitzsimmons, of MD
Eric Alan Flohr, of FL
Anthony Godfrey, of VA
Peter T. Guerin, of NM
Lisa Kennedy Heller, of VA
Nicholas Manning Hill, of NY
J. Baxter Hunt III, of VA
Henry V. Jardine, of VA
Lisa A. Johnson, of VA
Steven C. Koutsis, of MD
Kamala Shirin Lakhdhir, of DC
Karin Melka Lang, of VA
Jeanne Marie Maloney, of VA
Ervin J. Massinga, of WA
Brian David McFeeters, of VA
Karen E. Mummaw, of VA
Richard Carl Paschall III, of VA
Lisa J. Peterson, of VA
Jo Ann E. Scandola, of DC
Mark Toner, of MD
Frank J. Whitaker, of SC
Michael L. Yoder, of VA
Andrew R. Young, of CA
David J. Young, of VA
Stephen Arthur Young, of FL
The following-named Career Members of the Foreign Service for promotion into the Senior Foreign Service, as a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service of the United States of America, Class of Counselor:
Begzat Bix Aliu, of VA
Robert Lloyd Batchelder, of VA
Andrea Renee Brouillette-Rodriguez, of VA
Rachel L. Cooke, of VA
Susannah E. Cooper, of MD
Jason Richard Cubas, of FL
Abigail Lee Dressel, of CT
Marion Johnston Ekpuk, of VA
Jill Marie Esposito, of VT
Daniel J. Fennell, of FL
Eric Vincent Gaudiosi, of MD
William Robert Gill Jr., of VA
Ryan M. Gliha, of AZ
David J. Greene, of DC
Keith Lee Heffern, of VA
Elizabeth K. Horst, of MN
Martin T. Kelly, of FL
Angela M. Kerwin, of VA
William H. Klein, of CA
Kimberly Krhounek, of DC
Christopher A. Landberg, of DC
John David Lippeatt, of VA
Gregory Daniel LoGerfo, of VA
Ian Joseph McCary, of NY
David Ray McCawley, of CA
John W. McIntyre, of TX
Heather Christine Merritt, of VA
Mario McGwinn Mesquita, of VA
Marcus Robert Micheli, of CA
Andrew Thomas Miller, of VA
Mark David Moody, of MO
Joyce Winchel Namde, of VA
Scott McConnin Oudkirk, of VA
Jonathan G. Pratt, of CA
Jose Kieran Santacana, of DC
Jennifer L. Savage, of FL
William Steuer, of TX
Donn-Allan G. Titus, of FL
Christina Tomlinson, of VA
John E. Warner, of VA
Kami Ann Witmer, of PA
The following-named Career Members of the Foreign Service for promotion into the Senior Foreign Service, as a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, and a Consular Officer and a Secretary in the Diplomatic Service of the United States of America:
Paul Avallone, of FL
Philip Karl Barth, of VA
Wade L. Boston, of VA
David L. Duncan, of UT
Vida M. Gecas, of VA
Glenn E. Harms, of VA
Joy D. Herrera-Baca, of VA
Tuan Q. Hoang, of WA
Jason R. Kight, of VA
Jacqueline Levesque, of VA
Luis A. Matus, of VA
Chanda C. McDaniel, of MO
William I. Mellott, of AZ
Thad Osterhout, of VA
Michael C. Ranger, of VA
Paul L. Schaefer, of VA
Robert A. Solomon, of PA
Mark A. Wilson, of VA
Mari Jain Womack, of TX
SFRC Clears Eric M. Ueland (M), and Peter H. Vrooman (Rwanda)
February 12, 2018 By domani spero in FSOs, Nominations, Political Appointees, SFRC, Top Ranks Tags: Eric M. Ueland, Peter Hendrick Vrooman, Rwanda, Trump Nominations, Under Secretary for Management
On February 7, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee cleared the nomination of the next “M” and the career nominee as the next U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda:
Eric M. Ueland, of Oregon, to be an Under Secretary of State (Management), vice Patrick Francis Kennedy
Peter Hendrick Vrooman, of New York, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Rwanda.
Below is a clip from Mr. Ueland’s hearing from last fall:
Trump Nominates Texas Judge Edward C. Prado to be U.S. Ambassador to Argentina
February 12, 2018 By domani spero in Nominations, Officially In, Political Appointees, Trump Tags: Argentina, Earl Anthony Wayne, Edward C. Prado, Noah Mamet, Trump Nominations
On January 17, the WH announced the President’s intent to nominate Texas judge Edward C. Prado to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Argentina. The WG released the following brief bio:
Edward C. Prado of Texas, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Argentine Republic.Judge Edward Charles Prado is a distinguished Federal jurist having served as a United States judge for almost 35 years. The first 19 years, he served as a district judge for the Western District of Texas, and for the past 14 years, he served as an appellate judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Judge Prado was appointed by the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court to serve as chair of the Criminal Justice Active Review Committee, the board of Federal Judicial Center, and on the Defender Services Committee and Judicial Branch Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States. Prior to becoming a judge he served as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas. During his term as United States Attorney, he was appointed to serve on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee. Judge Prado also served as a state district judge, an assistant Federal public defender, and an assistant State district attorney. He served in the United States Army Reserves (1972-1987), retiring as a captain. Judge Prado received his B.A. and J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He speaks fluent Spanish.
Judge Prado’s nomination is currently pending in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with no announced schedule for his confirmation hearing.
If confirmed, Judge Prado would succeed another political appointee Noah Bryson Mamet (1969–) who served as Ambassador from 2015-2017. The last career diplomat appointed to Argentina was Ambassador Earl Anthony Wayne (1950–) who served from January 2007–April 2009.
What motivated President #Trump to nominate Judge Edward C. #Prado as the next US ambassador to #Argentina? Fellow @benjamingedan explores this question and examines the Judge's past experience in our latest #WeeklyAsado. https://t.co/ypJmKyKQ2I @WWCArgentina @TheWilsonCenter
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A veteran #SanAntonio federal judge could be the next U.S. ambassador to Argentina. Edward C. Prado, an appellate judge on the Fifth Circuit Appeals Court, is a product of @EISDofSA. #AlamoAreahttps://t.co/PTBy7YP3gp
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Trump Nominates San Francisco Entrepeneur Trevor Traina to be U.S. Ambassador to Austria
February 12, 2018 By domani spero in Nominations, Officially In, Political Appointees, Trump Tags: Austria, Trevor Traina, Trump Nominations
On January 22, the WH announced the President’s nomination of Trevor Traina to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Austria. The WH released the following brief bio.
Trevor Traina of California, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Austria. Mr. Traina is a technology entrepreneur and philanthropist based in San Francisco. He is founder and CEO of IfOnly, a company that allows buyers to purchase unique life experiences and donate a portion of the proceeds to charity. Mr. Traina has held non-profit advisory positions at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Haas School of Business, and the Princeton University Art Museum. Mr. Traina earned a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a special diploma in social studies from Saint Catherine’s College at Oxford in the United Kingdom. Mr. Traina also received a master’s degree in business administration from the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley.
As of this writing the nomination is still pending at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with the confirmation hearing yet to be announced/scheduled.
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Inbox: Trump to nominate tech investor Trevor Traina as ambassador to Austria.@WSJ interviewed Traina in 2016, when he likened the backlash to Silicon Valley Trump supporters to a “witch hunt.” He gave $25K to the RNC two months before the election. https://t.co/Egd8qgeFco
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) January 22, 2018
San Francisco tech entrepreneur, art collector Trevor Traina of @ifonly gets nod for Austria ambassadorship. https://t.co/rZJqkXLQ9p
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Serial #Entrepreneur Building a Luxury #Business: Trevor Traina, #CEO of @IfOnly https://t.co/IvqEWVdYcO
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Verizon BGP route leak causes Cloudflare customer outages, AWS issues
Another week, another BGP issue
Sebastian Moss
Update, July 2: Cloudflare appears to be suffering another outage, with users experiencing 502 errors. The cause of outage is unknown, although Cloudflare said that it is "observing network performance issues." Our coverage on that outage can be found here.
For a deep dive into both outages, be sure to read our interview with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince here.
Original story: Customers of network services provider Cloudflare saw their websites slow or go offline due to a Verizon BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) error.
The intermittent outage lasted roughly 1hr 42m, briefly taking down services including popular chat app Discord, as well as Reddit, Twitch and others.
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Cloudflare said in a statement: "Earlier today, a widespread BGP routing leak affected a number of Internet services and a portion of traffic to Cloudflare. All of Cloudflare’s systems continued to run normally, but traffic wasn’t getting to us for a portion of our domains. At this point, the network outage has been fixed and traffic levels are returning to normal.
"BGP acts as the backbone of the Internet, routing traffic through Internet transit providers and then to services like Cloudflare. There are more than 700k routes across the Internet. By nature, route leaks are localized and can be caused by error or through malicious intent. We’ve written extensively about BGP and how we’ve adopted RPKI to help further secure it."
Cloud provider Amazon Web Services also suffered some issues, but to a lesser extent. The company said on its status page: "Between 3:34 AM and 6:01 AM PDT we observed an issue with an external provider outside of our network, which impacted Internet connectivity between some customer networks and multiple AWS Regions. Connectivity to instances and services from other providers and within the Region was not impacted by the event. The issue has been resolved and connectivity has been restored."
BGP route leaks are not without precedent, with a similar incident earlier this month taking out WhatsApp, while another in November 2018 caused significant outages across Google’s portfolio of services.
Network monitoring company ThousandEyes told DCD in a statement:
“Starting at approximately 7am ET, a major Internet disruption occurred in what appears to have been a significant BGP route leak event affecting a variety of prefixes from multiple providers, including Cloudflare, AWS and several others. Sites served through the Cloudflare CDN were impacted for nearly two hours. The incident does not appear to be malicious. DQE, a transit provider, appears to have been the original source of the route leak, which was propagated through Allegheny Technologies, a customer of both DQE and Verizon. Unfortunately, Verizon further propagated the route leak, magnifying the impact.
"BGP route leaks are not uncommon on the Internet. This incident is yet another example of how incredibly easy it is to dramatically alter the service delivery landscape in the Internet. The deeply interconnected nature of the Internet means that a glitch in one part of the infrastructure can very easily have cascading effects on another.
"In this case, our monitors detected that the leaked routes were advertised to the Internet from the Allegheny Technologies network. However, it does not appear likely that Allegheny was the original source of the leaked routes. The route leak event has two distinctive characteristics: large scale of leaked routes and the presence of more specific prefixes pertaining to reaching another organization’s network--in this case, Cloudflare.
"Allegheny is not a provider, but rather a metals manufacturer that peers with DQE and Verizon. The sheer scale of routes involved is more consistent with route leaks coming from transit providers.
"Outside of route hijacks, the presence of more specific prefixes for a third party network is unusual to see. Typically in route hijacking, the more specific routes are announced as the origin in order to authoritatively draw all traffic to the advertising network. In this case, we didn’t see the more specific routes announced as origin, which would appear to rule out an intentional route hijack.
"There are very few reasons to generate more specific prefixes for a third party network. One reason to do so is when a transit provider wants to optimize the cost and performance of delivering traffic from various Internet sites to its downstream customers, which can be accomplished using BGP optimization software.
"Based on these evidence points, it seems more likely that DQE as a transit provider was the original source of the route leak, which included a set of more specific prefixes for Cloudflare that may have been used for route optimization.
"It appears that Allegheny readvertised the leaked routes to Verizon. Unfortunately, Verizon didn’t have filtering mechanisms in place to stop this large-scale route leak at its peering with Allegheny, and propagated the leaked routes further.
"This event reminds us of what we saw back in November when a BGP route leak was traced to MainOne, a small ISP in Nigeria, that ultimately resulted in some Google traffic being re-routed on a global basis.
"This incident also points out that Internet routing is still incredibly vulnerable. Route leaks from smaller networks are often propagated by large providers, even though there are common filtering techniques available to reduce the impact of these events.
"Ultimately, in a cloud-centric world, enterprises must have visibility into the Internet if they’re going to be successful in delivering services to their users. Most enterprise IT teams are still not aware of how different the Internet is as an infrastructure as compared to carrier and enterprise networks, and are unprepared for such an unpredictable environment. If you can’t see what’s happening, you can’t hold providers accountable and solve problems.”
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Apo (which means “grandson” in the local dialect) Island is a marine sanctuary located off the south-western coast of Negros Oriental. The island is situated about 8 kilometers off the coast from the municipality of Dauin, about 17 kilometers south of Dumaguete City Apo Island is a conservation area, together with its surrounding coral reef. Diving Apo Island is a “must” when visiting Negros Oriental. Non-divers should go on a snorkel trip to the stunning coral gardens of the island.
Currently, there are about 950 residents living in the area who subsist through traditional fishing in designated areas around the sanctuary. Traditional fishing methods include catching fish through hooks or through bamboo fish traps.
Dive Apo
Apo Island is a must-see when it comes to diving and snorkeling activities in Dumaguete City. The wide array of corals and marine life in this island is simply amazing, giving you the feel of being inside a large aquarium.
For a more challenging activity, you can explore drift diving at the Mamsa, Coconut, and Cogon Points. You can also explore other diving points in the island such as Rock Point, where you can find a colorful array of coral formations, and Chapel Point, which offers spectacular caves and overhangs built inside a wall. Silliman University’s marine laboratory in Dumaguete had reported more than 400 species of corals and 650 species of fish in the island.
Day Trip to Apo Island
A daytrip to Apo Island will complete your tour of Dumaguete. These trips are available several times a week from a dive and beach resort in Dauin. The package includes three dives with surface breaks for each one either on the boat or on the shore, during which time the dive master may proceed to pay for your marine park fees.
The trip starts at 8 or 9 AM and it takes about 40 minutes to get to Apo Island. The first dive occurs after you reach the island, the second at 11 AM, and the third one is after lunch break which is more of a relaxing dive. You will then head back to the resort in Dauin after this last dive.
Where to Stay on Apo Island
Apo Island offers two resorts, two dive operators, and several guesthouses where you can stay if you plan to visit the island for a few days. Since it is quite far from the mainland, only a few basic amenities are available for guests and drinking water is brought from the towns in Negros. The supply of electricity at night is also limited to only a few hours and the voltage is also poor. Charging equipment for photography is often difficult due to these circumstances.
One can also visit Apo Island by contacting the various dive shops and resorts in Dumaguete City. They offer trips to the island through small bangkas or outrigger boats which leave at around 8 AM. The time of the return trip in the afternoon depends upon the number dives that you wish to do, with three dives as the maximum.
If you want a do-it-yourself tour of the island, you can travel to Malatapay and take the public bangkas that serve as public transportation going to the island. It would generally take about 40 minutes to get to Apo Island, and you will have to register at the collector’s office after you arrive. There is a 150-peso fee for each day that you stay in the island and additional fees may be charged for diving activities. If you opt for the dive packages offered by the resorts in the Dumaguete, these fees may be included in the package costs.
When visiting the Philippines, particularly the Visayas region, don’t miss the opportunity to visit one of the major dive-spots in the country, Apo Island.
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GitHub’s npm Acquisition Will Boost JavaScript Security
By Fahmida Y. Rashid
The security of the JavaScript software ecosystem will get a significant boost with GitHub acquiring npm, which hosts and maintains the Node package manager and the package registry.
The acquisition will improve the security of the open source software supply chain, wrote Nat Friedman, CEO of GitHub, which was acquired by Microsoft back in 2018. Developers rely on npm to find and install third-party packages—JavaScript code components they can integrate into their code so that they don’t have to replicate functionality someone else already has created. Integrating npm into the GitHub code repository will make it possible to “trace a change from a GitHub pull request to the npm package version that fixed it,” Friedman wrote.
Of immediate concern for developers: “npm will always be available and always be free,” wrote Nat Friedman, CEO of GitHub. Paid npm features for Pro, Teams, and Enterprise customers for hosting private repositories, will continue to be supported.
In the world of JavaScript development, npm is massive: it serves over 1.3 million packages to roughly 12 million developers, and sees 75 billion downloads a month, according to numbers provided by Issac Schlueter, npm’s chief open technology officer. It can be a challenge for an entity to vet every single package to make sure they aren't malicious, and there have been multiple instances in recent months where malicious packages made it into npm. Malicious packages include one that intercepted credentials and another that exfiltrated sensitive information from UNIX systems.
Public code repositories are critical infrastructure, and maintaining code repositories in a reliable and trustworthy way can be challenging and expensive, said Brian Fox, co-founder and CTO of Sonatype. Sonatype maintains Maven Central, a repository for Java components. GitHub has the resources to invest in robust and stable infrastructure, thorough vetting of software packages, and integration into GitHub's other services.
“We’re thrilled for the open source community that this has happened—critical infrastructure must be kept in good hands, and this deal helps ensure that npm can continue to serve the JavaScript community well,” Fox said.
Once the acquisition is complete, GitHub plans to invest in the registry infrastructure and platform and make improvements to enhance the core experience, Friedman said. Many of the work will be a continuation of what the npm team had already started with npm v7 CLI, such as the new Workspaces feature and improvements to multi-factor authentication.
The JavaScript ecosystem “needs a rock-solid registry,” Friedman said, and the investments will ensure npm is “fast, reliable, and scalable.”
Another area of investment is to turn GitHub Packages into a multi-language packages registry fully integrated with GitHub. Once that is done, npm’s paying customers will be able to move their private npm packages to GitHub Packages, leaving npm to be a public registry for JavaScript packages. GitHub Packages is one of the “obvious” areas where npm will make a difference, according to Schlueter.
“If you’re going to do this thing, [a package manager], do it right,” Schlueter wrote, noting that the package manager needs to be integrated with the registry “in a very deep way.”
The combination of npm and GitHub is a logical one, as GitHub’s mission is to eliminate transaction costs in software development, and npm’s founding mission was to reduce friction in JavaScript software development, Schlueter said, who said he will be staying with the npm team post-acquisition.
The acquisition also cements Microsoft's role in the application security ecosystem. GitHub has been expanding its security offerings, such as built-in security advisories and automated dependency updates via Dependabot.
“This isn’t just a good option for the JavaScript community—it’s significantly better than what npm, Inc., can provide on its own,” said Schlueter. “This is the end of ‘npm, Inc.’, the Delaware C Corp. But it’s an exciting upgrade for npm.”
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Shell and Engen parents exchange DNA for deeper penetration in more African countries
Posted by The Staff Reporter | Dec 5, 2017 | Extra
PRNewswire – Downstream petroleum company, Engen, has kept its businesses in six African countries plus Mauritius, out of a deal with Vivo Energy that will lead to cross-shareholding between the two energy operators.
This week, Vivo Energy Holdings B.V. announced it has entered into a share transaction with Engen Holdings (Pty) Ltd, a 100% subsidiary of Engen Ltd, to acquire shares in Engen International Holdings (Mauritius) Ltd, in exchange for shares in Vivo Energy. The transaction must still be approved by regulators.
The shareholding transaction does not affect Engen Holdings’ interest in Engen Petroleum Ltd, the operating entity for Engen South Africa which includes its refinery and downstream business, and Engen’s companies in Mauritius, Ghana, Namibia, Swaziland and Lesotho.
Included in the transaction are the DRC, Zimbabwe, Reunion, Zambia, Gabon, Rwanda, Mozambique, Tanzania and Malawi, where Vivo will now established a branded presence, Kenya is also included but Vivo already has operations there.
The nine countries included in the transaction will add over 300 Engen service stations to Vivo Energy’s network which will then consist of over 2100 service stations in 24 African countries.
Chief Executive of Vivo Energy, Christian Chammas, said: “I am delighted with today’s agreement with Engen which, subject to regulatory approval, will add a number of new African markets to our business so that we can offer high quality products and services to significantly more customers.”
Yusa Hassan, Managing Director and CEO of Engen commented: “Engen is excited to enter into this strategic undertaking with Vivo Energy, which is clearly aligned with our growth aspirations in Africa. We will seek to build on each other’s strengths from this collaboration for the benefit of our customers across the continent.”
Vivo Energy is the downstream distributor for Shell fuel and lubricants. It is a joint venture between Helios Investments and Vitol.
Vivo Energy is jointly owned by the energy and commodities company Vitol and the Africa-focused private investment firm Helios Investment Partners. Engen is a member of the PETRONAS Group.
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New York Giants running back Saquon Barkley doesn’t care what the fans or the critics expect out of him on the field.
Saquon Barkley is heading into his sophomore campaign in the NFL, and it’ll be a tough task to top his rookie season. The New York Giants star running back led the league with 2,028 yards from scrimmage, leading the way for him to win the Pepsi Rookie of the Year and the AP Offensive Rookie of the Year.
The expectations for the Penn State University product are definitely high, but Barkley doesn’t even pay attention to them. He makes it known that he sets his own goals on the field.
“It was pretty much Rookie of the Year or bust [last year],” Barkley said, per Danny Abriano of SNY. “And even when I won Rookie of the Year, people still try to say that I’m a bust or not a great pick or whatever. I don’t really care about other people’s expectations. I set my own expectations. I have my own standards. We have our own standards here as a team.”
The Giants recently named Barkley a team captain for this year. It was a great honor for Saquon, who’s only 22 years old. He knows improvement within this organization in 2019 is goal No. 1, but for now, he’s grateful for the nod.
“That shows you how they feel about me — especially being a young guy,” Barkley said. “It doesn’t put any more pressure on me, I’m not gonna change. Like I said, I don’t need a ‘C’ on my chest to be a leader on this team. Even though I have a ‘C’ on my chest, I’m not gonna try to go outside of myself.”
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Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus a global health emergency. In the same statement, the agency said it
welcomed the leadership and political commitment of the very highest levels of Chinese government, their commitment to transparency and the efforts made to investigate and contain the current outbreak.
Indeed, Chinese authorities have put in place unprecedented measures to slow the spread of coronavirus, including quarantining Wuhan and surrounding cities, home to over 45 million people.
While some have praised Chinese authorities for these tough measures, others have criticised the local and central governments for cover-ups, a lack of transparency, being slow to react and mishandling the early stages of the outbreak.
For some, China’s authoritarian political system is to blame for making the situation worse and delaying action until it was too late.
Now, the crisis is being seen as a key test of President Xi Jinping’s leadership and the ability of the Communist Party to effectively respond to and manage a health emergency.
There wasn’t national attention on the outbreak until late January, weeks after the government reported the first cases to the WHO. Alex Plavevski/EPA
Too slow to react
Suspicions of the new virus first emerged in early December. But it wasn’t until the end of the month that the Chinese government reported 27 cases of pneumonia to the WHO. The state media mentioned this only briefly.
A day later, police in Wuhan detained eight doctors for spreading “rumours” about a new outbreak of suspected SARS.
China reported the first death from the outbreak on January 11, but without accompanying warnings to the public to take extra precautions. No new infections were reported until January 20, when Xi issued a directive for party committees and governments at all levels to take effective measures to combat the outbreak.
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During this time, it was business as usual in Wuhan, with the government organising a New Year banquet for 40,000 families.
By the time Xi issued his directive, it had been seven weeks since the virus was first recorded and three weeks since it was reported to the WHO.
Crucially, it was also 10 days after the official start of the Spring Festival (Lunar New Year) travel period, the largest annual human migration in the world.
At this point, the central government finally sprang into action, locking down Wuhan, shutting down public transport, building new hospitals and giving more leeway to the media to report on the unfolding crisis.
But it may have been too late. According to some estimates, five million people had already left Wuhan before these measures took effect.
Silence, followed by censorship
The initial reaction of the Chinese authorities to the outbreak was to rely on traditional forms of censorship rather than transparency.
This is clear from the initial suppression of whistleblowers – the detention of the eight doctors for spreading “rumours” – as well as the subdued reporting from the state media before January 20.
One possible reason for the silence is Beijing believed it could contain the outbreak without any extra measures, particularly at the start, when the nature of the virus was uncertain. The authorities may have believed mass panic would do more harm than the virus itself.
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But after containment appeared unlikely, the central government wasted crucial time deciding what to do. Without clear direction from Beijing, the authorities in Wuhan chose not to act, which allowed the infection to spread.
Media coverage of the outbreak finally exploded after Xi’s January 20 directive, including by non-state media. However, strict censorship returned after two weeks, ostensibly to combat misinformation.
Playing the blame game
As anger deepens over how the crisis has been handled, the public will want to see officials lose their jobs and even be prosecuted.
The process of finding people to blame has started within the Communist Party. And already, we are seeing local government officials being sacked.
But the central government’s role should also be scrutinised. Beijing must have known about the outbreak by December 31, when it reported the cases of pneumonia to the WHO. Serious questions need to be asked, then, about why the central government chose not to respond publicly for another three weeks.
When things go right in a dictatorship, the credit goes to the leader. But when things go wrong, the blame can also rise to the top.
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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the party was able to push the blame for the Great Leap Forward and the subsequent Great Famine onto local cadres. However, Mao’s prestige within the party also suffered greatly as a result.
Xi has followed Mao’s leadership style in many aspects, not least the cult of personality he has built around himself. He has also been consolidating power since he became party general-secretary in late 2012.
Sensing the potential political damage from the current crisis, the state media is now trying to shield Xi from direct criticism and blame.
Instead, it is focusing on the responses of other top leaders, particularly Premier Li Keqiang. In fact, for nearly a week from late January to early February, Xi did not appear on the front page of the party mouthpiece, People’s Daily, in stories related to the outbreak.
Premier Li Keqiang was mocked online for leading workers in a cheer when he visited Wuhan. Shepherd Zhou/EPA
Propaganda and trust
All propaganda must have heroes and villains. The virus is the villain in this story, and the biggest heroes are the front-line doctors who are working long hours in dangerous conditions to fight it. The people, government and party have also been cast as heroes, united against a common threat.
The party knows the public has low trust of authorities when it comes to transparency, as it has an extensive history of cover-ups of everything from natural disasters to accidents to outbreaks of other diseases like SARS.
It hopes the focus on unity and heroes, coupled with more timely updates, will restore people’s trust in the government’s handling of this outbreak.
However, this is unlikely given the scale of public anger at the moment. This, in turn, may explain the state media’s search for other villains, particularly the US and other western countries that are shutting their borders to China.
A key test for the party
The party’s prestige and legitimacy are both on the line. Crises like this are a serious test of the party’s assertions about the inherent superiority of China’s political system.
Ultimately, the Chinese people are likely to judge the party harshly, despite its efforts at narrative control.
One thing is for certain: the unfolding crisis is a human catastrophe, and Beijing has much to answer for.
– ref. Why the coronavirus has become a major test for the leadership of Xi Jinping and the Communist Party – https://theconversation.com/why-the-coronavirus-has-become-a-major-test-for-the-leadership-of-xi-jinping-and-the-communist-party-130788
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In Your Way - Kate Gilmore
Gilmore’s work incorporates performance, video, sculpture, and painting. “In Your Way” features ten works—nine performance-based videos and one live performance/sculptural installation that invites audience participation. Gilmore’s videos focus on herself or several women, wearing stereotypical feminine clothing and footwear while persistently performing difficult, labor-intensive tasks within self-constructed spaces.
In her videos, Gilmore critiques and also inserts herself into male dominated movements such as Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, exploring feminist themes and modern and contemporary art tropes, all the while exhibiting relentless determination. The spilling and splattering from her work are an ode to Abstract Expressionism or 1950s stripe paintings.
Her works are mischievous and political, as well as humorous and critical of the heroic language and absence of women in these artistic movements. The physical situations and actions Gilmore creates for herself and her performers are metaphors for challenges women face culturally and socially.
Jurors - Fine Art: Aaron S. Coleman, Graphic Design: Charley Sexton, Academic Papers: Dr. Antje Campbell
2019 MFA Thesis Exhibitions
Graduating Students are: Katie Gentner, Holly Kelly, Baxter Stults, Eric Hines, Cara McKinley, Rachel Sevier, Lila Shull, and Mengmeng Shang.
2019 Capstone
Students engage in a self-initiated research project to demonstrate that a graduating senior has learned and can practice the skills and concepts of a chosen concentration (2D, 3D, 4D). The Capstone also demonstrates the student's ability to intellectualize and articulate issues and ideas about contemporary art. Successful completion of the Capstone course is a requirement of graduation.
Exhibiting artists are: Reid Arowood, Kelly Moore, Marcus Taylor, Andy Gordon, Kayla Dean, Ellen Nikbakht, Ashley Bergner, Ronald Levy, Olivia Lichterman, Leah Garland, Mary Badillo, Dylan Tan, Jodi Canfield and Morgan Mechede
2019 Honors Exhibition
May 3 - June 10, 3019
Exhibiting Students: Mary Badillo, Ashley Bergner, Tatiana Tikhonova, Kelly Moore, Elisa Razak, Parker Jenkins, Subu Bhandari, Kyra Wu, Fernando Turpin, Pruett Smith, Maggie House, Halie Kennedy, Cameron Davis, and Briana Wallis.
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A Five-Year retrospective of student work from the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design. Birds of a Feather is curated by Micah Rutenberg, Rana Abudayyeh, Scottie McDaniel and Mark Stanley.
AIR Retrospective
The Ewing Gallery is pleased to present AIR Retrospective an exhibition that showcases work from the Ewing Gallery permanent Collection by past UT School of Art Artists in Residence. We will also be exhibiting the AIR of UT Print Portfolio, a 3 portfolio suite of digital prints curated by UT School of Art Alumni, Wade Guyton, Meredyth Sparks, and Josh Smith. The AIR of UT Print Portfolio features work by many past Artists in Residents and alumni of UT. Several sculptural works and drawings by former UT School of Art painting professor, Michael Brakke will also be on display. Brakke, who passed away in 2010 was instrumental in recruiting AIRs and helping to develop the UT Artist in Residence program.
AIR Biennial 2016
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Caitlin Keogh, Dominic Terlizzi, and Aliza Nisenbaum
The presence of acclaimed artists—who have lived and worked in major cultural centers across the country—enhances the educational opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in the University of Tennessee School of Art. With daily contact over the course of a full semester, resident artists develop a unique relationship with the student body which complements the creative stimulation offered by guest lecturers and the School of Art's faculty. Representing diverse ethnic, cultural, educational, and professional backgrounds, these resident artists introduce another layer of candor and a fresh artistic standard for the students who, though early in their formal art studies, are beginning to develop their own perceptions, skills, and theories in connection with the making of art.
February 29 - March 20, 2016
Begun in 1947 by C. Kermit Ewing, founder of The University of Tennessee School of Art, the annual student exhibition has become one of the oldest competitions in the country and one of the highlights of the Ewing Gallery's exhibition season. The selection of a student art exhibition is a challenging but meaningful task, and we are grateful for this year's jurors: Pete Schulte and Amy Pleasant, Fine Arts, Bob Newman, Graphic Design, and Nathan Rees, Art History.
Group 1: Kelsey Stephenson, Katherine Farley, and Tatiana Potts
Group 2: Martin Lang, Natalie Petrosky, Peter Cotroneo, and AJ Masterson
Group 3: Keely Snook, Ed Miller, BJ Alumbaugh, and Jade Hoyer
Initiated by the Ewing's Director Sam Yates 26 years ago, this exhibition recognizes outstanding students graduating from The University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Art, College of Arts and Sciences; a Bachelor of Architecture or Bachelor of Science, Interior Design, a Master of Architecture, and a Master of Landscape Design from the College of Architecture and Design.
Selected by a School of Art Faculty Scholarship committee, eight art students from various art disciplines were chosen from the qualifying applicants for this year's exhibition. These students are Youn Lee, Brandon McBath, Ashley Layendecker, Mark Bender, Anna Weible, Santiago Ortiz-Piazuelo, Alex Rudd, and Alex Raykowitz.
The College of Architecture and Design participants were selected by the faculty-at-large, and by outside review teams. The students are: Alexis Porten, Maddie Mitchell, Tatum Rumsey, Adam Buchanan, Aaron Shugart-Brown, Trevor Mayes, Geneva Frank, David Berry, and Rebecca Gillolgy.
July 15 - August 28, 2016
ENCORE is an exhibition of the work of 11 graduates from the University of Tennessee School of Art living and working in Nashville, TN. Exhibiting artists are: Jodi Hays, Rob Matthews, Sterling Goller-Brown, Brandon Donahue, Briena Harmening, Jonathan Lisenby, Mary Addison Hackett, David King, Lakesha Moore, Lain York, and Terry Thacker.
Sarah Emerson: The Unbearable Flatness of Being
Atlanta-based artist Sarah Emerson creates paintings and installations that present viewers with highly stylized versions of nature that combine geometric patterns and mythic archetypes to examine contemporary landscape.
Liam Young is a speculative architect who, in his own words, “operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures”. With his London-based design think tank, Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today, he explores the future implications of emerging urban developments. Named by Blueprint magazine as one of 25 people who will change architecture and design, Young uses fiction and film to discuss probable futures.
The Lure of Maine
November 7 - December 11, 2016
Walter Hollis (Holly) Stevens arrived at UT in the fall of 1957. He was soon introduced to the work of his new Art Department colleague, Carl Sublett who was having a solo exhibition in UT’s Audigier Gallery. Sublett had arrived at UT only 2 years earlier at the request of the department’s founder Kermit Ewing to assist him with painting classes. From the newly formed friendship between Sublett and Stevens, sprang a strong professional bond that they shared for the remainder of their lives.
They enjoyed plein air painting and often traveled together to locations around Knoxville. In their own studio practice, they shared a workaholic attitude towards art production. As artists, they shared an intense studio commitment to painting and drawing.
They both, also, spent summers in Maine. Sublett’s wife Helen was a native of Maine. Her maternal grandparents were farmers on Deer Isle and her paternal grandparents were lobster fishermen in Port Clyde. Helen was born in Port Clyde and inherited her family’s home there. Carl and Helen spent every summer there. Steven’s family had purchased an old farmstead on Deer Isle in 1958. This also became a summer retreat for the Walter and his family. Both of the artists looked forward to visiting their summer homes where they were invigorated and inspired by Maine’s sensory filled environment.
Deer Isle is located on the eastern tip of Penobscot Bay while Port Clyde is on the bay’s western tip. Although across the bay from each other, a 2-hour drive by car separates the two towns. Therefore, Sublett and Stevens spent more time together in Knoxville than in Maine. However, they looked forward to sharing their summer work with each other on their return to Knoxville. They both continued the annual routine of spending the academic year in Knoxville and the summer in Maine until Stevens’ death on Deer Isle in 1980 and until Sublet’s retirement in 1982. After retirement, Sublett continued this annual travel routine until he and Helen permanently relocated to Maine in 2001. Sublett continued to paint there until his death in 2008.
The View Out His Window [and in his mind's eye]: Jeffery Becton
Jeffery Becton is a photographer and image-maker who lives on Deer Isle, a rocky and forested island off the coast of Maine. Becton makes work, in part, about his surroundings. The extraordinary sweeping coastal views that are such a part of daily life when one lives by the sea are often incorporated into his images. Equally critical is internal life, both the space inside the home (and the comfort and protection it provides from northern New England’s inclement weather), and the introspective and contemplative space that enlivens one’s imagination, which is no doubt encouraged in this stunning and remote location.
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From My Home to Yours, From Your Home to Mine
Andrews, Tria
"From My Home to Yours, From Your Home to Mine" is a meditation about the relationship between the authors of the piece as women of color in academia. Using U.S. Third World Women of Color feminisms as their starting point, the authors bridge their similarities and differences to elucidate the personal and the political simultaneously. Through multiple forms of speaking and listening, they create a synergistic affect that actively engages the reader in a healing and necessarily painful journey of individual and collective transformation.
Living Laboratories: Remapping the Legacy of Experiments in American Empire
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Living Laboratories traces the gendered racialization of U.S. empire’s colonial expansion from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, as well as women of color feminist texts of the late-twentieth century that reframe these legacies for our present. Each chapter focuses on what I call a “living laboratory,” a transnational site of state-sanctioned medical experimentation on populations regarded as bearers of disease. By examining the laws that precede invasive public health measures, I show how these living laboratories within and beyond the United States' national territorial borders circulate interconnected regimes of control. Central to my genealogical remapping of experiments in American empire are the narrated experiences of those not fully recognizable in the annals of history. By reading multi-genre literary works in relation to the juridical and scientific archive, Living Laboratories recovers agential subjects through an alternative grid of intelligibility. In doing so, I emphasize the distinctly embodied subjectivities that emerge from wounded flesh, pursuing a critique of what it means to be human from the literally and figuratively dismembered perspectives of writers Gayl Jones, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Aurora Levíns Morales.
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EVIE Assistant
A simple and engaging Alexa skill that helps you find Electric car charging stations
Meet Evie
Electric cars :)
I am a huge fan of green technologies, and I am keen to leave this world a better place for the next generation than it is currently. Last October I brought an Electric car, which I love not only because its better for the environment, but because it is a pleasure to drive. Most of the time I charge my car up at home, but if I ever have to go to somewhere new I get anxious about where I can charge. Many other EV users also have this anxiety. Some people who don't yet own an EV but would like one, are put off because they don't know much about the charging infrastructure. There are apps that let you search for chargers, but there was nothing on Alexa, and sometimes a simple conversation is much more convenient than using an app. I decided that if I created an Alexa skill to do this, then not only would it be useful for myself, but also for the huge community of EV drivers. It would also help those considering buying an EV to realise just how many charging points are out there!
In a nutshell EVIE Assistant takes a city/town name from the user and then uses that to get charging station data from a third party API.
More technical explanation EVIE asks the users a few questions to confirm where they would like to search for charging points. EVIE then converts a city/town name into a longitude and latitude using the google maps api. Once the skill has the Lng/Lat it then passes that data into an Airtable api, a formula is applied to substring the Lng/Lat and then it is then passed into the Open Charge Map API (in the US & Canada) and the National Charger Register (In the UK) to return charging station information.
I have built EVIE Assistant using the Storyline platform, and I have used third party API's to turn the user request into relevant data for the end user. I use Airtable to act as a staging platform to turn the API results into useful information for the user to hear, such as a count on how many chargers are returned.
The first third party API that I used was great, but it experienced more downtime than what was acceptable, this impacted on the end users ability to use the skill. I changed the API that I was using to solve this.
I had 30+ users from an EV community eager to beta test the skill, however in the end only 6 users where able to test it due to an issue with the Beta testing system. However I did still get some really useful feedback from that.
I am really proud of being able to provide a skill that is simple for the user to interact with, but which has some complicated stuff happening in the background, such as using multiple API calls to turn a city name into useful data for the end user.
I am proud of creating a persona - EVIE for the skill, I feel that having that persona adds character and a better experience for the end user.
I have networked within the EV community and have had great feedback from people who drive EV's and also from those that don't. A popular EV YouTuber here in the UK reviewed my skill which has helped get my skill exposure - https://youtu.be/J6kd03q8XBM
I am also proud of how I have managed to develop EVIE assistant whilst also having a demanding day job, and a family that I like to spend lots of time with. I had to manage my time really effectively, which I somehow pulled off and I managed to take my work colleagues and family on the journey with me.
Whilst developing EVIE assistant I have learned to be resilient when developing, so when issues occur to keep trying. I also learned the value of feedback from the target audience as that helped me to make the skill more useful. Finally I learned that if you are passionate about something, like I am about EV's then the satisfaction and sense of achievement you can get from developing a skill that helps others, feels amazing.
I have also learned the importance of interacting with other developers and bouncing ideas off of them. Although I have developed this skill on my own, the help and inspiration that I have got from others has been invaluable.
What's next for EVIE Assistant
There is so much planned for EVIE Assistant. This is the first skill that I am treating as a product, which I want to keep adding to over time. Planned upgrades are mainly from user requests, such as being able to search by the charging speed or connector type, being able to define the search radius, and also looking at how i can add in the ability for users to control their cars (Turn heating and charging on/off) by utilising API's such as the Nissan EV connect service. I will also like to add cards that appear in the Alexa app which displays the information for the charging locations, I will do the same for Echo Show/Spot devices. I have now been given access to the Amazon Polly beta test, so I will be enhancing the EVIE persona with a new voice.
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‘Charmed’ 1×02 Review: The Power of Three
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Charmed ditches the setup, tones down the messaging and gets into the reality of the situation these three women now find themselves facing in “Let This Mother Out,” and episode that’s infinitely superior to the Pilot, and that does a lot to endear us not just to the Charmed ones as separate characters, but to the relationship they have, or can have with each other.
The episode does this, by bringing back their mother, their reason for everything – or at least, pretending to do so.
What would you do to get someone you love back is a question that a lot of shows have played with, and Charmed answers this question as realistically as possible. Because the answer, no matter what people who haven’t lost anything would have you think, is pretty much anything.
Of course, that means that you can be blinded by your emotions if you think there’s any chance to achieve that. You can be blinded by your desire to get back what you lost, just like Mel was, just like Macy let herself be.
And hey, sometimes, to find the truth, to see clearly, you apparently have to listen to your little sister.
Stranger things have happened, I guess.
Let’s go into what these women are, what they can be, and what their sisterhood looks like as we discuss “Let This Mother Out”:
Charmed — “Let This Mother Out” — Image Number: CMD102b_0340.jpg — Pictured (L-R): Madeleine Mantock as Macy and Sarah Jeffery as Maggie — Photo: Dean Buscher/The CW — é 2018 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
If the episode starts with Macy feeling like an outsider it’s because, in many ways, she still is. That’s both hurtful to her, and in a way, a bit understandable. Good intentions are one thing, but you don’t develop a close relationship in a day, and expecting that her sisters would be able to just turn a switch and everything would be like she always imagined was naive, at best.
Of course, if you add to this the fear of abandonment Macy clearly has, one that can be traced back to the decisions Marisol Vera made, it’s easy to see why she acts the way she acts in this episode, even as she clashes with Mel and attempts to bond with Maggie, only to then do the opposite.
The thing is, Macy doesn’t have to pick sides to be able to fit in, and she doesn’t have to be anyone but herself. Her presence might have triggered this whole Charmed ones thing, but she isn’t just a check-mark, she’s a person. Some days having sisters will be infinitely easy, because they’ll be her support, and they will love her no matter what, and some days it will be infinitely hard, because they will argue with her and be a pain in the ass.
But if she gives it time, her sisters will love her anyway – through good times, and bad times.
Charmed — “Let This Mother Out” — Image Number: CMD102a_0219.jpg — Pictured (L-R): Sarah Jeffery as Maggie and Melonie Diaz as Mel — Photo: Dean Buscher/The CW — é 2018 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Mel seems the more real of the sisters to me, and the one I have an easier time relating to, probably because she seems the more flawed character so far, and flaws are interesting, especially in fictional characters, especially because we see ourselves in flaws, in a way we have a hard time seeing ourselves in the good things. That’s just human nature.
The now middle Charmed sister is a control freak, she thinks she’s always right – acts accordingly, too – and she reacts very badly to being corrected or challenged. But she loves. She loves so much. In fact, that’s the thing about her, that she’s all heart and she does so much to hide this, not just from the rest of the world, but from herself.
It’s scary, to be this person. The daughter who was always there, and then also, probably, the one that feels like she didn’t do enough. The supportive girlfriend, and yet the one who can’t help but shut out because she’s afraid the real her isn’t what Niko ones. And yet, this episode, Mel takes one tiny step forward into becoming the person she can be.
She trusts herself. She trusts her sister. She trusts Harry. And more importantly, she doesn’t blame herself for all that went wrong. Now she just has to learn to make that the rule, not the exception.
Charmed — “Let This Mother Out” — Image Number: CMD102b_0094.jpg — Pictured (L-R): Charlie Gillespie as Brian and Sarah Jeffery as Maggie — Photo: Dean Buscher/The CW — é 2018 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Being the little sister is hard, and being the little sister when you find out you have another big sister, is even harder. Maggie is naturally sociable, she likes people, and she wants people to like her, so of course, she wants to believe Mel, she wants to support her sister, the one who’s always been there for her, and had her back, but she also wants to bond with Macy, and, of course, she wants to speak for herself. She wants her own voice to be heard.
She wants to be Maggie, not just Mel and Macy’s sister.
In this episode, she finds a way to do both, and not just that, she finds a way to be the one to guide her sisters, to point them in the right direction. But this journey Maggie is on, the journey of finding your own voice and learning how to use it, despite or maybe because of what life throws at you, doesn’t end here. Not even close. This journey is ongoing.
And it already looks like, no matter how this episode seems to leave everything with them neatly tied up, it’ll be up to her to play referee more often than not.
WHAT CHARMED COULD HAVE DONE RIGHT FOR LATINX REPRESENTATION IN “LET THIS MOTHER OUT”
While Macy was going through Marisol’s things, they could have found something that spoke to their ethnicity, their heritage. A brujeria book, some mention to a long-lost bruja they were related to.
Literally any word in Spanish. A nickname. Anything.
Even latinx who aren’t fluent in Spanish typically know a Spanish word or two. Hell, the word mom is a common one. They could be calling her mamá or mami.
It would also have been cool if their whitelighter wasn’t a cis white dude hailing from England.
Things I think I think:
Look, when all else fails, TRUST NO ONE.
Though I kind of agree that powers that manifest physically seem way cooler, I always thought Phoebe had the most power of all the sisters in the original Charmed.
It’s just that Maggie hasn’t figured out how powerful she truly is, and though by the end of the episode, she has a better idea, she still has a way to go.
This episode actually gives some weight to the Macy/Mel interactions, and it seems to me they’re going to be the most interesting going forward.
Macy and Maggie are going to bond way faster than Macy and Mel will, is also my point.
It’s funnier to think that this show keeps trying to make fun of Trump when I don’t remember they only cast one latinx actress, so they aren’t as woke as they’re pretending to be.
Look, Meghan Markle is a good and fun decoy name, what can I say?
Don’t. Like. Maggie’s. Friend. With. Benefits.
Harry is acting too suspicious for someone ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING WRONG.
The no exclamation point worry, in this case, is probably right on point.
Not that I appreciate how stereotypical the sorority sisters are, so far.
I really, really like Niko.
Harry, communication is a skill.
MULTIVERSE MENTION.
Killing demons is nasty, nasty business.
I do appreciate how banged up and tired, emotionally and physically everyone was.
There’s still a lot to like about this show. I wish I could have liked it without that asterisk, without the but, without the voice in my head saying they don’t care about me. I just can’t.
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Top 5 Injury Concerns For The 2010 Fantasy Season
September 3, 2010 by Kurt Turner
The 2010 NFL season kicks off Thursday at 8:30 pm with a humdinger of a rematch between the Super Bowl Champions New Orleans Saints, and the 2009 NFC North Champions, Minnesota Vikings.
The start of the regular season also means the beginning of the 2010 fantasy football season, and what better way to kick things off, than to take a quick look at some notable injuries that you may not be up to speed on.
At the end, we will provide a quick little recap of those players who are still out for the time being, facing the PUP list, or done for the season altogether.
Currently On The Mend:
RB Michael Bush – OAK, is more than likely to miss the season opener at Tennessee, and could potentially miss up to a quarter of the season with a fractured thumb, reports The Oakland Tribune.
Bush is suffering from what is called “Bennett’s fracture” which is a fracture of the base of the first metacarpal bone which extends into the carpmetacarpal or (CMC) joint. It is basically a very common dislocation, but one that will require a surgical procedure.
The obvious mention is that the workload will significantly increase for Darren McFadden who hasn’t quite been the model of health himself in recent weeks, although he is currently fine as can be.
RB Montario Hardesty – CLE, will miss the entire 2010 season with a torn left ACL reports Adam Schefter on Twitter.
The Browns were hoping to get Hardesty into the mix heavily and early, but that isn’t going to happen now. Jerome Harrison will take over the starting duties in Cleveland, and could have some intriguing value going forward.
Harrison has ran for 47 yards on 16 carries this preseason adding in 29 yards on four catches, but he was able to muster up 862 yards with 5 TDs on 194 carries in 2009.
Keep something in mind. Harrison did play in 13 games last year, but was really only featured 4 times, and in those four games, he averaged 30 carries for 171 yards scoring in three of the four games.
RB Steve Slaton – HOU, is slated to miss the first week of the season with turf toe confirms HoustonTexans.com but Slaton isn’t the only RB issue for Houston as Jeremiah Johnson is also out with a dislocated right toe
That leaves RB Chris Henry, and this season’s brightest sleeper Arian Foster.
Henry will begin the season as the primary backup, but once Slaton returns to full health Henry will be relegated to third on the depth chart.
To be honest, outside of Foster about to have a breakout season, the rest of the RB situation is just as screwy as Troy Polamalu insuring his hair for a million dollars in a curious publicity stunt (thank you Lloyds of London and Head and Shoulders).
TE Jeremy Shockey – NO, suffered a concussion in the Saints third preseason game, but coach Sean Peyton has clarified it as more of a “ding” on the noggin reports Mike Triplett of the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
Shockey will be ready to go Thursday night against the Vikings, but it is a situation to closely monitor for Week One and Two as the Saints face two very hard hitting teams in the Vikings and Dolphins.
RB Fred Jackson – BUF, will be limited in the early goings of the season admits head coach Chan Gailey, as reported by buffalobills.com.
Gailey is taking a conservative approach with Jackson’s fractured hand recovery since he has rookie C.J. Spiller chomping at the bit, and fellow RB Marshawn Lynch back from injury.
But the real issue is the apparent drop in Jackson’s ADP and rise in Spillers, which indicates people are nervously switching out the two backs in their drafts which may not be the wisest of decisions.
Jackson will score a lot of touchdowns, and provide some decent PPR value, so don’t be one of the panicked ones and start getting all goofy with your draft. It could come back to bite you in the end…remember ADP is a forecast, it isn’t anything written in stone.
Other Notable Infirmary Residents:
Leigh Bodden – CB – NE: Out for the year with torn rotator cuff.
Calvin Pace – LB – NYJ: Out for the season speculates coach Ryan, but could return in 4 to 6 weeks with broken foot.
Elvis Dumervil – LB – DEN: Out until perhaps December with torn pectorals.
Antoine Harris – S – PHI: Out for the season with a Lisfranc sprain.
LenDale White – RB – DEN; Out for season with ruptured Achilles tendon.
Donnie Avery – WR – STL: Out for the season with knee surgery.
Al Harris – DB – GB: Will begin the season on the PUP list, and is in jeopardy of never playing again with the amount of injury he sustained in his knee.
Darren Sharper – S – NO: There is a growing possibility of Shaper beginning the season on the PUP list, but Peyton will take as much times as he can to evaluate the situation. Because of this, keep an eye on DB/S Michael Jenkins.
Sidney Rice – WR – MIN: Out until Week 7
Chaz Schilens – WR – OAK: Out 3 to 6 weeks speculates coach Tom Cable (knee).
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MIL-OSI Security: U.S. Attorney’s Office Announces Awards of $2,935,902 in Grants to Improve Public Safety, Serve Crime Victims in Nevada
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich announced today $2,935,902 in Department of Justice grants to improve public safety, serve victims of crime, and support youth programs in tribal communities in Nevada.
“American Indian and Alaska Native communities experience rates of violent crime and domestic abuse that are among the highest in the nation,” said Attorney General William P. Barr. “The awards announced today underscore the Department of Justice’s deep commitment to improving public safety in tribal communities throughout the United States. This administration will continue to work closely with our tribal partners to guarantee that they have the resources they need to combat violence and bring criminals to justice.”
“These grants reinforce how the Department of Justice has prioritized helping tribes more effectively serve and protect their communities,” said U.S. Attorney Trutanich. “Our office looks forward to working with tribes to deploy these new resources – continuing to fulfill our commitment to address issues surrounding missing and murdered indigenous persons, and to reduce violent crime and increase public safety on tribal lands.”
More than $103 million is being awarded to tribes across the country under the Justice Department’s Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation. CTAS supports activities that enhance law enforcement and tribal justice practices, expand victim services and sustain crime prevention and intervention efforts. CTAS grants are administered by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs ($41.5 million), Office on Violence Against Women ($39.1 million) and Office of Community Oriented Policing Services ($22.5 million).
An additional $113 million is being awarded to 133 applicants nationwide under the Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside Program. This program, managed by OJP’s Office for Victims of Crime, is designed to help tribes develop, expand and improve services to victims of crime and promote other public safety initiatives.
“Public safety officials and victim service providers in Indian country face exceptional challenges, but they bring to their work an extraordinary array of skills and resources that enable them to meet and overcome any obstacle,” said OJP Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Katharine T. Sullivan. “The Office of Justice Programs is proud to help fulfill Attorney General Barr’s strong commitment — and the federal government’s long-standing responsibility — to our tribal partners in the matter of their citizens’ safety and wellbeing.”
In addition to the CTAS and Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside Program awards, the Office on Violence Against Women is making additional tribal awards of more than $31 million to support a wide range of efforts to address the crimes of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking and human trafficking.
“OVW’s funding supports Native American and Alaska Native communities as they work across their communities to prevent and respond to gender based violence,” said OVW Principal Deputy Director Laura L. Rogers. “These awards represent the strong commitment that OVW has made to help protect the most vulnerable members of tribal communities.”
Additional awards to support tribal public safety efforts are being made by OJP and the Justice Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policies Services. These grants will provide community policing training and other training and technical assistance. Awards will also address the needs of tribal youth, fund tribal reentry efforts, help tribes combat substance abuse and manage sex offenders, and support tribal research. In addition, funds support efforts in 17 tribal communities to address the challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19.
“Ensuring our nation’s tribal communities have the resources they need is paramount for the COPS Office and the Department of Justice,” said COPS Office Director Phil Keith. “These awards are a critical component to the overall public safety strategy for tribal law enforcement and the COPS Office is honored to provide vital resources to hire more sworn officer positions, advance tribal training and procure equipment needed to keep communities safe.”
The following organizations in the District of Nevada received funding:
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How I “Defined The Relationship” With My First Job Out of College
Michelle Xu
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It was 9:41pm on a Friday, but the daylight in Lillesand, Norway was not letting up. Earlier that day, my New York-based coworkers and I had caught fish, baited crab traps, and enjoyed a Norwegian dinner with open-faced prawn sandwiches. As we gathered around the campfire to make s’mores under the dimming night sky, I thought to myself, “How did I get so lucky?”
This time last year, I had just completed my undergrad at Stanford. It was an exhilarating and significant moment, but fear soon consumed me. I laid in bed as questions roamed my mind. What am I going to do now? How should I go about finding a job? What do I want to do? Without the immediate goal of completing a reading assignment or preparing for a midterm, I was facing an existential crisis.
The months of job-hunting after graduation felt like Tinder: I expressed interest, went on first dates with various companies, got rejected, licked my wounds, and got back up to repeat the process. Finally, a startup called Firsthand swiped right. I got the opportunity to be a Customer Success Associate. Not knowing fully what my job or any of this would entail, I packed my bags and left the Bay Area for New York City to begin my first serious relationship with an employer.
As with any healthy relationship, Firsthand and I needed to set expectations. When we finally met in person, Firsthand’s CEO Fredrik described three core values that were fundamental to the company and to our working relationship: Generosity, Proactivity, and Problem-solving. These three values act like spokes on a wheel – “without them Firsthand can’t effectively move forward,” he said, “and they will be critical to your success.”
Intellectually, I knew what those three words meant, but I entered the relationship not fully knowing why they mattered. It was ultimately my coworkers who showed me, in their interactions, how generosity, proactivity, and problem-solving helped us succeed as a team. And it was ten months in, at our Values Day retreat in Norway, that these values helped me define the relationship (DTR) with Firsthand.
Once a year, on Values Day, the Firsthand team gathers to discuss how our values have helped us in the past and how they can help us in the future. We have a thought session and an activity for each value. We collaborate, laugh, and reflect in an open environment, and come home with new ideas that we’re eager to implement.
In a relationship, success isn’t determined by the number of likes on an Instagram photo or the score on a final exam. At Values Day I realized that success for Firsthand, beyond hitting financial and strategic goals, is about continually striving to be the best versions of ourselves. As we grow and work together, the company becomes the best version of itself as well. None of this would be possible without our values.
Every day, I see my teammates be generous with their time and teaching each other new skills; I see them be proactive in establishing trusting relationships with customers and clients; I watch us lean into solving big problems as opposed to backing away. No matter what hurdle we’re facing or emotion we’re feeling, our three values move us forward.
People often say that you get out of a relationship what you put into it. After putting in generosity, proactivity, and problem-solving, I’m happy to say that my relationship with Firsthand is going strong.
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Section 2.8. How Do I Deal with Spaces and Odd Characters in Filenames?
2.8. How Do I Deal with Spaces and Odd Characters in Filenames?
Sometimes, the defaults associated with Linux shells are annoying. For example, the spaces associated with many Microsoft directories, such as My Directory, can adversely affect a Linux command. Yes, you can use quotes, but if you have a variable or command inside the quotes, the wrong quote character can have unintended consequences. The asterisk (*) is a common character in many files, but it's also a wildcard. Therefore, if you want to search for an asterisk, you'll need to escape the meaning of the character.
You can manage the effect of spaces, special characters, commands, and variables with appropriate use of backslashes (\), single quotes ('), double quotes ("), and back quotes (`).
2.8.1. Single Quotes
Single quotes can help you manage spaces. For example, if you want to mount a shared "My Documents" directory from a Microsoft computer, you might try mounting it locally on the test/ directory with the following command:
smbmount //allaccess/My Documents test
This assumes, of course, that you've shared the My Documents directory from the computer named allaccess.
Unfortunately, this command would lead to an error message relating to how Linux is unable to resolve the mount point Documents. In other words, it thinks you're trying to mount a directory, shared under the name "My," in the local Documents directory. The simplest solution is to use single quotes. In other words:
smbmount '//allaccess/My Documents' test
But if you're working with an expression where you want to process a variable such as $NAME or a command such as date, single quotes won't work. For example, you might find the following directive in a script:
echo 'Welcome to America, $USER'
And the output is:
Welcome to America, $USER
because single quotes prevent the shell from interpreting the $USER variable. Other options can process this variable, as I'm about to illustrate.
2.8.2. Double Quotes
Double quotes can help if you have variables in your expressions. For example, if you have the following directive in a script, the double quotes allow Linux to interpret the variable. Thus, the following directive:
echo "Welcome to America, $USER"
is interpreted on my user account as:
Welcome to America, michael
2.8.3. Back Quotes
The back quote (`) key is commonly the lowercase character on the key above Tab on a U.S. keyboard. It is on the same key as the ~, which represents users' home directories. Sometimes known as a backtick, it allows you to process commands and scripts within quotes. For example, you might find the following directive in a welcome script:
echo "Welcome to America, $USER, it is now `/bin/date`"
This is interpreted on my user account as:
Welcome to America, michael; it is Wed Dec 10 16:05:13 PDT 2005
2.8.4. Escaping a Character
There are characters that can make life a bit more interesting on Linux. As described earlier, the space between "My" and "Documents" can make Linux think there's another expression in your command. If you're looking for an asterisk in the files of your home directory, the following command won't do what you want:
grep * *
While you might think this command searches for the asterisk (*) in all files in the local directory, you have to remember that the asterisk is itself a wildcard, a type of metacharacter. The shell doesn't use the asterisk as a search term. The shell interprets the asterisk before it is ever seen by the grep command, so the command uses the first file in your directory as a search term.
To make Linux use the asterisk as the search term, you have to "escape" the meaning of the character. To do so, you can use the backslash. In other works, the following command actually looks for the asterisk in all commands in the current directory:
grep \* *
But wait, the asterisk is actually a metacharacter in two wayswithin the bash shell and as a grep search term. So while this command works, technically it needs to be escaped twice:
grep \\* *
The backslash is useful in other ways. For example, if you're constructing a long command in a script, a backslash can help you make the command more readable for others who review that script.
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Netflix Linear Direct apes old-school cable to save you from decisions
For years now, Netflix has been eating away at the number of cable subscribers out there, but now it’s looking to emulate the cable experience – at least a little bit. The company has announced a new feature called “Netflix Direct,” which is available to a small number of users in testing right now. With Direct, users will be able to kick back and let Netflix take the reins when it comes to the content they watch.
How do you get in on this test? Well, first, you have to live in France, because that’s the only place where this test is available at the moment. Netflix didn’t just choose France at random though – in a blog post that’s available in both French and English, Netflix explains that “watching traditional TV remains hugely popular with people who just want a ‘lean back’ experience where they don’t have to choose shows.”
Thus, Netflix Direct was born. The feature, which is only available to Netflix subscribers, works in real-time and serves up “some of the best French and European content on the service.” Just like with cable TV, users don’t have any control over what the Direct channel is showing, but then again, on cable there are multiple channels to pick from while here you’re stuck with just one if you’re looking for randomized content.
Still, this could be good for those who suffer from choice paralysis from time to time – that is, having so many options that you have a difficult time picking something and just spend your time looking through a sea of options instead. Perhaps when that happens, being able to turn on Netflix Direct and let it choose for you will be a welcome option.
In any case, Netflix says that this is first rolling out to a small number of French users before launching for all members in France at the beginning of December. It’s only available on the browser-based version of Netflix, so you won’t find it in the mobile or Smart TV Netflix apps (for now at least). We’ll keep an ear open for more from Netflix about Direct, so stay tuned for that.
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Bollywood Box Office News Special Article Uncategorized
Movies To Make Big At The Box Office in 2017
By filmifiles February 2, 2017 February 2, 2017
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By Deepti D.
Well, ‘Ok Jaanu’ with the so called ‘great’ version of Humma song has already been released and also flopped and so has the unconventional story and the title ‘Haramkhor’. So yes 2017 started on a bad note. But there are several movies lined up for this year which could make big at the box office. With ‘Raees’ and ‘Kaabil’ already out in theatres, a keen contest is going on between both the movies to rake in more moolah. Let’s see what all we have in store for 2017 and whether this year would fare better than 2016…
RAEES
How can we not start 2017 with King Khan’s mega release…? Raees is one of the most awaited films of this year. Donning a typical Muslim look with ‘surma’ eyes , taaviz in the neck and a stubble, SRK plays the role of a cruel and clever bootlegger who criticizes the prohibition of alcohol, prostitution and illegal drugs in Gujarat of the 1980’s. Also, starring Nawazzudin as the tough cop and the Pakistani beauty Mahira Khan, Raees has a gripping storyline which deserves the audience’s attention.
KAABIL
Sharing the same release date as Raees, Kaabil can be termed as Hrithik Roshan’s ‘comeback’ after the disastrous Mohen-jo-daro. Both the lead actors, Hrithik and Yami play visually impaired people and share amazing chemistry. The film is centred around Hrithik’s character who vows to avenge his wife’s rape and murder. Apart from the enthralling storyline, it’s the clash with Raees that is intriguing the audience and who would reign the box office.. so 26th January is the acid test D-Day !
A sequel to the previous movie with the same name, this is the first Akshay Kumar starrer of 2017. This courtroom comedy drama movie releasing in February stars Akshay Kumar as a clumsy lawyer who is representing the most crucial and critical case of his career. The earlier movie has Arshad Warsi who did a fabulous job, let’s see how the master of various emotions Mr Kumar pulls this off.
Kareena Kapoor is the common factor in Rangoon, no she is not starring in the movie, but the film stars her ex Shahid Kapoor and current hubby Saif Ali in the main roles. The movie slated for a February release is gripping love triangle against the backdrop of the 2nd World war. The girl in question is Kangana Ranaut who is looking as vintage as possible. Let’s see how the trio would fair at the box office… they all need a hit desperately.
BADRINATH KI DULHANIA
The cute pair of Alia Bhat and Varun Dhawan pair in the March release is back. They star in thisromantic comedy which is the next instalment of their previous movie ‘Humpty Sharma ki Dulhania’ which was an instant hit because of its music and storyline. Let’s see what Mr Badrinath has to show us with regard to his dulhania this time
BEGUM JAAN
Vidya Balan is back after a hiatus in this historical drama film, an adaptation of a 2015 Bengali film where the story involves 11 prostitutes who refuse to let of their brothel and each other during the India Pakistan Partition era. With a unique story line, this movie should be a must watch for all people who want re live that era.
SARKAR 3
Amitabh Bachchan is back and how! His first release of 2017 is a sequel to the Sarkar series, an Indian political action crime thriller directed by Ram Gopal Varma and slated for a March release. Bosting of a pool of stars like Jackie Shroff, Manoj Bajpayee and Yami Gautam, this is a much awaited movie. Hope it lives up to its predecessors at the box office too.
JAGGA JASOOS
Come April and we would see the release of the ex-couple Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif’s Jagga Jasoos. This movie which is a musical adventure romantic comedy is about 2 teenage detectives in search of the male lead’s missing father. Although the shooting for the movie started way back in 2013, still after many delays, this movie is seeing the light of the day… hopefully it should light up the box office too.
After the super success of Baahubali 1 comes its much-required sequel and is stated to release in April 2017. With its breath-taking visuals and stunts, this movie has to be seen for that one question boggling every audience’s mind ever since the 1st part released… why did Kattappa kill Baahubali?
Once again Chetan Bhagat’s novel is being made into a movie and this romantic comedy has Arjun Kapoor playing a Bihari boy and Shraddha Kapoor as the modern city girl in the leads. Let’s wait and watch whether this May release would be as successful as the original novel. Only time shall tell.
Coming up this June is alleged love birds Sushant Singh Rajput and Kriti Sanon’s romantic movie Raabta. Starring a series of other actors, Raabta is a story on human complex relationships and love triangles. Hopefully the off-screen chemistry of the lead pair would be the highlight on screen too.
TUBE LIGHT
The blockbuster duo of Salman Khan and Kabir Khan are back after the super success of ‘Bajrangi Bhaisaab’ in 2015. Now after 2 years they are again ready to create magic on box office with ‘Tubelight’, a historical war drama set during the Indo- Sino War of 1962. The audience is already excited to watch the movie as Sallu Bhai would be romancing the Chinese actor Zhu Zhu for the first time in a Bollywood movie. Are we seeing another super duper hit?
PADMAVATI
And Sanjay Leela Bhansali is back with another historical drama Padmavati. Starring his favourites again, the love birds Ranveer Singh playing a negative role as Alauddin Khilji and Deepika as Queen Padmavati along with Shahid Kapur as Raja Rawal Ratan Singh, this magnum opus love triangle is slated for a Nov 2017 release.
The year 2017 is certainly going to be an interesting year with some fantastic movies with some awesome performances lined up. Let’s all gear up to see which movie and actors fight for the awards at the end. Till then Happy watching!
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Kay Hagan Called Out for Going to Her Talking Points on WikiLeaks
Jack Heretik
Former Dem Senator Has Lucrative History With New Lobbyist Employers
Kay Hagan received campaign contributions from Akin Gump and introduced legislation benefitting its client
Lachlan Markay
A former Democratic senator is joining a prominent Washington lobbying shop after receiving thousands in campaign contributions from the firm and authoring legislation that advanced the international trade agenda of one of its foreign government clients.
Kay Hagan Blames Money in Politics for Election Loss Despite Outspending Opponent
Hagan now teaching “Money in Politics” class at Harvard
Brent Scher
During a Wednesday interview, Kay Hagan blamed her 2014 defeat to Sen. Thom Tillis (R., N.C.) on “money in politics,” despite the fact that she spent more than twice as much money as Tillis and that outside groups supporting her far outspent groups supporting Tillis.
Why Kay Hagan’s Defeat Is Good for America
Andrew Stiles
As the midterm elections approached, most Democrats had resigned themselves to losing the Senate, but few, if any, were expecting to lose in North Carolina. To be fair, there weren’t too many Republicans predicting a Thom Tillis victory, either. But that’s exactly what happened Tuesday night, when voters denied Kay Hagan’s bid for reelection, thus making it much harder for her to steal money from American taxpayers and give it to members of her immediate family. Hagan's loss is a huge win for America, and here's why:
Kay Hagan’s Friends in the Media
Charlotte Observer abruptly pulls story on senator's stimulus scandal
Being Kay Hagan (or a member of her immediate family) is a pretty good gig if you can find it. As a Democratic senator, Hagan has significantly increased her net worth since getting elected and her husband, son, and son-in-law have received taxpayer funding for their businesses. Additionally, she appears to have convinced the local media that stories reflecting poorly on her are unfit for print. The Charlotte Observer is under fire from Republicans for pulling a story about Hagan and the stimulus grants her family received. After briefly posting a story about state government officials calling for a “legal review” of the grants—with the headline: “Memo: Grant given to company run by Sen. Hagan's husband needs 'legal review'”—the Observer erased the story from its website. Here is the cached version:
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Unlike John Fogerty, Tilden Hagan is a Senator’s son, and, shockingly, things have worked out pretty well for him. By sheer coincidence, after his mom voted for the 2009 stimulus package, a company Tilden Hagan co-owned with his future brother-in-law was awarded a taxpayer-funded contract to install solar panels. The company overseeing the project, JDC Manufacturing, was, by sheer coincidence, owned by Tilden’s dad. The deal appears to have violated JDC’s own conflict-of-interest policy. Oh well.
Harry Reid’s Super PAC: GOP Senate Candidate Helped ‘Cause the Shooting Death of Trayvon Martin’
A Super PAC run by former aides to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) is running a radio ad in North Carolina that accuses GOP Senate candidate Thom Tillis of helping to “cause the shooting death of Trayvon Martin,” the Florida teenager who was killed under controversial circumstances in early 2012.
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Feature: Hagan and Hillary decry negative tone of campaign while smearing GOP
CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Shortly before Kay Hagan took the stage at the Charlotte Convention Center on Saturday, the loudspeakers blared Bruce Springsteen’s aptly titled Democratic Party theme song “We Take Care of Our Own.”
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Major themes in the novel Hard Times
Book: Hard Times
Topics: Novel
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Major themes in the novel Hard Times Charles Dickens is known for criticizing the social class system of the victorian era, and the exploitation of the poor. Hard Times is no exception to this rule. Dickens attacks the Utilitarian education, the arrogance of the middle and upper class, and the industrial revolution. He praises the working class on their morals and their ability to earn an honest living. Hard Times Hard Times is the title of the book and a theme. Every character in the novel faces hard times at some point.
We can examine some of the major characters in the story. Gradgrind faces hardship when his philosophy falls apart; Sissy Jupe loses her father, but never gives up on him; James Harthouse is restless, and bored, and when he finally falls for Louisa and expresses his love to her, she runs from him. Mr. Bounderby loses his wife and is exposed as an outright liar etc etc… The head V’s the heart The Head V’s the heart is a major theme. Mr. Gradgrind represents wisdom of the head; he believes in facts, figures and statistics. If it can’t be calculated then Mr.
Gradgrind passes it off as pure fancy and imagination. Sissy Jupe, daughter of a run away clown; considered simple and uneducated represents wisdom of the heart. She is loving, kind and understanding. When Gradgrind see his philosophy break down, Sissy proves to him that the wisdom of the heart is not just something of the imagination. She brings kindness and goodness to a number of characters in the novel; including Gradgrind. Wisdom of the heart wins the battle in the end. This is an example of Dickens criticizing the Utilitarian system. The industrial revolution
Hard times was written for the middle class, this is evident because the story is written from a middle class point of view. Dickens very cleverly refers to the effects of the industrial revolution. Reference to the poor living and working conditions, the unsanitary environment and dangerous machinery in the factories is mentioned continually as a way to describe settings, and as an underlying criticism of the Victorian middle class era. There are a number of sub themes that could also be mentioned. For example: Loyalty, hypocrisy, double standards, education.
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Crucifixion Most Hideous Way to Die
The Calgary Sun ^ | February 29, 2004 | Ted Byfield
Posted on 02/29/2004 12:31:56 PM PST by quidnunc
Now that Canada's liberally-minded movie critics have actually seen Mel Gibson's The Passion, they have come up with a new criticism.
No longer do they consider it merely offensive to Jews. They've now decided it's offensive to everybody. It's too gory, too vicious, unnecessarily brutal, they say, not something you'd put in a child's Easter basket.
That's no doubt true, and exactly what Gibson promised. But the pertinent question remains: Is it historically accurate? Was Roman crucifixion really this awful?
The answer is no — it was much worse. The Roman senator Cicero called it the most hideous form of death ever devised
Its use went back long before Christ to the early Persians and Egyptians. The Phoenicians tried other forms of execution — spearing, boiling in oil, strangulation, stoning, drowning, burning — but all these were too quick. Men on the cross could take days to die.
The Romans had three forms of execution. Decapitation by the sword was the least severe, then burning, finally crucifixion, worst of all.
They used it widely. In the Spartacus rebellion of 73 B.C., 6,000 slaves were crucified on a single day
With the Romans, a beating always came first, just as it does in the Gibson film and the Bible.
The Romans called this "half death" because the victim was expected to be reduced by it to such a state. But he must be constantly checked. Death from a Roman flogging was altogether possible, and the lictor who administered it could be executed himself if that happened.
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TOPICS: Current Events
KEYWORDS: thepassion
1 posted on 02/29/2004 12:31:56 PM PST by quidnunc
Comment #2 Removed by Moderator
To: PAC67
This article is trash and hasn't a clue about Roman SOP.
3 posted on 02/29/2004 12:43:34 PM PST by tiamat ("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!")
To: quidnunc
It got worse later...
4 posted on 02/29/2004 12:44:16 PM PST by socal_parrot
The Romans were sick mvthaf*(&ers.
There brutality was one of the main reasons they came to power. Once the Empire was converted, it became increasingly hard to maintain. One historian I once read stated that the Empire fell because it became civilized (i.e. Christianized).
5 posted on 02/29/2004 12:49:26 PM PST by PeterdeVerona
To: tiamat
Try to be a little more specific with your criticisms. :)
6 posted on 02/29/2004 12:50:49 PM PST by Restorer
To: PAC67; Religion Mod
does this make you feel better or does it come naturally to you?
Are you a Troll?
7 posted on 02/29/2004 1:03:42 PM PST by restornu ( "Faith...is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes refuse to see."J.R.R. Tolkien)
To: socal_parrot
And your evidence of this is a picture of a python parody. Nice.
I'd recommend looking into the current research about the Spanish Inquisition. The BBC did a nice documentary a few years back that trashes the 'black legend' of the Inquisition as little more than Protestant propaganda. The Spanish Inquisition was one of the fairest and most benevolent courts of its day, relative to the typical practices in other courts of Europe at the same time.
9 posted on 02/29/2004 1:07:02 PM PST by pseudo-ignatius
To: PAC67; Admin Moderator
You do show troll tendency!
10 posted on 02/29/2004 1:07:58 PM PST by restornu ( "Faith...is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes refuse to see."J.R.R. Tolkien)
Actually torturer was fairly rare, even in the Spanish Inquisition. It usually amounted to just the rack. Painful though that was it didn't draw blood, inquisitors were prohibited from disfiguring the human body. Interestingly the historian Henry Kamen in his book on the Spanish Inquisition noted that the reason for the long duration of a torture session in Inquisitorial cases, as opposed to secular courts (who were much less strict in the implementation of torture) was probably because the victim could withstand it longer (according to the Inquisitions own laws they could only turn the rack so far). In any case the percentage of tortured prisoners was light, and of those tortured, more then once, about 2%. In research of the Inquisitions archives modern historians have never found a case were the prisoner was tortured more then three times.
A lot of the myths about the Spanish Inquisition were made up in Holland during that countries rebellion from Hapsburg Spain.
11 posted on 02/29/2004 1:08:22 PM PST by PeterdeVerona
To: Restorer
Well, first, I was considering the source: a Canadian rag, so I DID sort of blow it off.
The whole : "there were three methods of execution under the Romans" is just not so.
Without resorting to dragging our my Durants, people seem to be under the impression that the Romans crucified people at the drop of a hat. They did not. Not only were there many different types and severities of crucifixion , in general, crucifixtion was saved for "special" cases and was often a last resort. ( the Spartacan rebellion being the spectacular exception to that) Usually it was just cheaper and easier to hang the sucker.
Also, while the Legions were not a bunch of sweet,sensitive, modern guys, most of them HATED execution detail if it involved crucifixion. No one wanted the duty and I can't blame them, either.
Strangulation or hanging were also popular forms of execution and were more expediant than crucifixion.
There were also differeces in how citizens were handled, as opposed to slaves and NON citizens. Often it was safer to be a slave than to be a citizen under the Romans. A slave is property and therefore some value. Also, citizens were expected to know the law and were held more responsible.
The Roman penalty for denying your citizenship in order to escape persecution ( it happened) was to be tied into a bag with a dog, a rooster and a poisonous snake and then thrown into a river.
And of course many of these rules CHANGE depending on whther we are talking Roman Republic or Imperial Rome....
And rather than continue to flaggilate the deceased equine....
12 posted on 02/29/2004 1:08:53 PM PST by tiamat ("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!")
Comment #13 Removed by Moderator
I do remember reading about one of the Roman Legal codices in which those three forms of punishment were outlined (Beheading, Burning, Crucifixion), and under what conditions. But I can't remember when it was written. I don't think it was the Codex Justinianus, because Crucifixion ought to have been outlawed by then (I think Constantine outlawed it).
Jerusalem was not the best duty for a Roman soldier. In fact it was a place where most of the rejects were sent. The movie is probably closer to the Roman's mentality and attitude than most of us realize.
15 posted on 02/29/2004 4:59:52 PM PST by franky (Pray for the souls of the faithful departed. Pray for our own souls to receive the grace of a happy)
Crucifixion Most Hideous Way To Die - Ted Byfield
The answer is no -- it was much worse. The Roman senator Cicero called it the most hideous form of death ever devised.
Its use went back long before Christ to the early Persians and Egyptians. The Phoenicians tried other forms of execution -- spearing, boiling in oil, strangulation, stoning, drowning, burning -- but all these were too quick. Men on the cross could take days to die.
They used it widely. In the Spartacus rebellion of 73 B.C., 6,000 slaves were crucified on a single day.
Sometimes the crosses were shaped like a "T," sometimes like an "X." If the victim were distinguished in any way, the upright of the "T" extended a foot above the cross arms to make room for a superscription of the charge against him.
Crucifixions were always conducted near busy roads to achieve the maximum terror in the populace. The victim was first laid on the cross and a five-inch spike driven through the tender gap in the bones in the middle of the wrist, then his feet placed one above the other and a single spike driven through both.
Once the cross was raised, one eye-witness recounts, the worst aspect was the screaming. The victim stayed alive by alternatively taking the weight off his pierced feet by hoisting himself upward.
But this interfered with his breathing, so that to catch his breath he would have to lower his weight back onto his agonized feet.
Sometimes, out of sympathy, for the victim, the soldiers would break his legs, so that he could not take the weight on his feet and would suffocate.
Such are the facts, and they are not pretty. It is no accident that while Christians adopted the symbol of the Cross from the beginning, the "naturalistic" crucifix, with the figure of Christ nailed to it, appears nowhere in Christian history until at least 200 years after the emperor Constantine abolished crucifixion.
Christians who knew what it was didn't want to be reminded of it.
The great Christian novelist and essayist Dorothy L. Sayers, whose radio plays on the life of Christ aimed at the same brutal realism would, I think, have heartily approved of Gibson's movie.
The real horror of the event, she once wrote, is concealed from us "by the stately and ancient language of the Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible."
In the Bible those directly involved in the Crucifixion become "sacred personages, living in a far-off land and time, using dignified rhythms of speech, making from time to time restrained gestures symbolic of brutality. They mocked and railed on him and smote him, scourged and crucified him. Well, no doubt it was all done in the noblest and most beautiful manner."
It was no such thing, says Sayers. "In a nation famous for its religious genius, and under a government renowned for its efficiency, he was executed by a corrupt church, a timid politician and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators. His executioners made vulgar jokes about him, taunted him, smacked him in the face, flogged him with the lash, and hanged him on the common gallows -- a bloody, dusty, sweaty and sordid business."
That is the discernible record of what occurred. And that is what Gibson shows us.
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16 posted on 03/01/2004 10:46:58 AM PST by ConservativeStLouisGuy (transplanted St Louisan living in Canada, eh!)
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17 posted on 03/01/2004 11:38:04 PM PST by Dajjal
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Couple celebrates 56 years of love with an in-home portrait session
Alaina Leary Lavoie, 11 months ago 0 1 min read
Jerry and Lige have loved each other for 56 years. I recently spent an afternoon in their home, hearing their stories and capturing the genuine respect and adoration they have for each other. Their story has taken them from Mississippi to New York to South Carolina, with many adventures along the way. The way Jerry and Lige look at each other blew me away (and had me crying in my editing chair!) I’m so grateful to have spent an afternoon with these amazing people. —from the photographer, Devin Hayman
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Alaina Leary Lavoie
Alaina Leary Lavoie is an award-winning editor and journalist. She is currently the Communications Manager of the nonprofit We Need Diverse Books and was the senior editor for Equally Wed Magazine from August 2018 to March 2020. Her work has been published in New York Times, Washington Post, Refinery29, Healthline, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Boston Globe Magazine, and more. In 2017, she was awarded a Bookbuilders of Boston scholarship for her dedication to amplifying marginalized voices and advocating for an equitable publishing and media industry. Alaina lives in Boston with her wife and their two cats. You can find Alaina on Twitter and Instagram @alainaskeys.
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LORD LUCIFER
No One But You, June 2017
Kindle: B01LLPCCG2
"Definitely worth a second read"
NO ONE BUT YOU is the second book of the Silver Springs series by Brenda Novak. Well known for her crime novels fans of Brenda Novak originally met her through her romance series novels. The Silver Springs series focuses on second chances and new beginnings. Silver Springs is the home of the New Horizon School for Boys which is devoted to helping those with rough beginnings. For many, their home lives were less than gracious. For others, they were just too much for their parents to handle. Cases of rebellion. Cases of abuse or abandonment. Kind of see it all at New Horizons.
Dawson had been at New Horizon. He admits he was tough to handle and lucky to wind up at this school. He had success in his career which ended rather abruptly bringing Dawson back home to his adopted parents and sister Angela. The family farm needed him. Unfortunately, he now lives with the guilt that he accidentally brought tragedy to the very home he loved.
Dawson’s adopted parents were murdered in their beds by an unknown assailant. His sister was spared. He was at a local bar with friends and had stopped for someone on the road. There was no way Dawson could ever know the ramifications of that one action.
Dawson is back at the farm, acquitted in a court of law for the murders, but not by the people of his town. Dawson returned to take custody of his sister Angela who had mental issues. It was only the two of them left.
Sadie is trying to get her life back after an unhappy and frightening marriage to Sly, a town police officer. Sly is unwilling to let Sadie go. His possessiveness knows no bounds. There doesn’t seem anyone left in this small town to turn to with the exception of Dawson. Dawson hired Sadie to help get his house ready for Angela’s return. Not a small job at all. But the pay might help Sadie achieve some independence for herself and her young son.
Sure it’s a gamble for both Dawson and Sadie. Dawson absolutely does not need anyone like Sly looking over his shoulder. Sadie worries about the baggage she carries. There is no doubt in either Dawson or Sadie’s minds that Sly will be watching and waiting for any opportunity to get the upper hand. And it looks as though Sly has the police department on his side.
NO ONE BUT YOU was published in June of 2017. I note this to prove once again how timeless stories written by Brenda Novak are. There is even a mention of how law enforcement is thought of in terms of respect and public confidence. Brenda Novak writes about people and circumstances and at times her stories seem to be pulled right off the front page of newspapers. NO ONE BUT YOU shows us just how much Brenda Novak believes in her characters. Her ability to set the stage with words illustrates her literary talent. Once again another joy to read. I am definitely reading the Silver Springs series out of order. Can’t wait to get started on my next one.
Learn more about No One But You
New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak welcomes you to Silver Springs, a picturesque small town in Southern California where even the hardest hearts can learn to love again…
Struggling to make ends meet after a messy divorce, Sadie Harris is at the end of her tether. Her waitressing gig isn't enough to pay the bills let alone secure primary custody of her son, Jayden, a battle she refuses to lose. Desperate, she accepts a position assisting Dawson Reed—the same Dawson Reed who recently stood trial for the murder of his adoptive parents. Joining him at his isolated farm seems risky, but Sadie is out of options.
Dawson has given small town Silver Springs plenty of reasons to be wary, but he's innocent of the charges against him. He wants to leave his painful past behind and fix up the family farm so he can finally bring his dependent sister home where she belongs.
As Sadie and Dawson's professional relationship grows into something undeniably personal, Sadie realizes there's more to Dawson than the bad boy everyone else sees—he has a good heart, one that might even be worth fighting for.
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David Gagliano Sells Multiple Properties
(Colorado Real Estate Journal, January 1-14, 2020, p. 8) Steamboat Springs Properties LLC, led by an investor completing a 1031 exchange for an industrial property in Northglenn, purchased a 17,032-square-foot office/flex condo at 67 Inverness Drive East, Unit A, in Englewood, for $2.92 million. It also acquired a 13,048-sf office property at 8725 W. 14th Ave. in Lakewood. Steamboat Springs Properties bought the Inverness property, which Golftec occupies on a long-term lease, from 67 Inverness LLC. In addition to the Golftec lease, the building offered “very clean, newer construction,” said David Gagliano of Fuller Real Estate, who represented the buyer. David Foley of Buell & Co. represented the seller. Gagliano also represented Steamboat Springs Properties LLC in the acquisition of the Lakewood office building, which was fully stabilized. Tanner Fanello and Brian Baker, also of Fuller Real Estate, represented the seller, Jeffco Action Center Inc.
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Jeff Beck claims creation of Led Zep
By Led ZOSO,
January 20, 2009 in News
Led ZOSO
In the January 18th Sunday Herald Sun newpaper in Melbourne, Australia, Jeff Beck claims that he influenced Jimmy Page into creating Led Zeppelin.
In an interview with Jeff Beck amid his upcoming tour of Australia after 32 years the article says:
Beck back at last
At one point, Beck almost formed a band with Keith Moon when the infamous sticksman was disillusioned with the Who - but it was not to be. Beck describes it as "the biggest disappointment of the '60's". But there is one memento of the union: the powerhouse Beck's Bolero. The session served as blueprint for the '70's biggest rock act, Led Zeppelin.
"That was the nucleus of what I hoped would be my new band: Jimmy Page on rhythm guitar, John Paul Jones on bass and Keith Moon on drums," he says.
"Have a look at Led Zep and you can see how Jimmy was affected by it.
"Keith said we were going to go over like a lead balloon, which is the qute that gave Led Zeppelin their name."
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bonzo1026
Location:Delaware, USA
Bonzo1026 claims HORSESHIT!.
This thread wins the prize for the most misleading title.
And the Zeppelin/"Beck's Bolero" subject has been well-covered.
punksandwich
So can we now blame Jeff for Zep's non-reformation because, afterall, he started it. Without him getting this thing going Robert would've never had the chance to be elusive of late.
It's Jeff's fault, it's now revealed.
SuperDave
Location:Clarksdale to Memphis
It was always Jeff's fault. We just refused to admit the truth!
Edited January 20, 2009 by SuperDave
Why do you say it wins the prize for the most misleading title. The title says what the article is saying. The original article contained mainly why he hasn't been to Australia and his reasons. What I posted was just mentioned at the end.
eternal light
I feel his biggest contribution was walking out of the Yardbirds. With Jeff out of the picture Jimmy starting moving in the direction that would become LZ. I don't know if "influence" is the right word but he definitely played a part, even if it was somewhat indirect.
Jeff was certainly instrumental in creating victims of circumstance. The disgruntled Led Zeppelin fans that are sitting and waiting on that evasive reunion. I swear, I really believe it's ALL Jeff's fault.
He need to apologize.
zeptangerine
Angel of Avalon
Location:Hedgerow Bustle, Maryland, USA
It's Jeff's SISTER who can be thanked for starting Led Zeppelin, about 6 degrees worth.... she introduced Jeff to Jimmy, from which Jimmy got into The Yardbirds, etc etc- old history but interesting nevertheless.
glicine
Location:Down by the seaside
Hmm? I've always thought the one on bass would haven been John Entwistle?
And I wondered who could have been their singer?
swandown
I wouldn't be too hard on Mr. Beck, considering that he's about 99% correct here.
OK, the article is misleading then. Jeff Beck never claimed he created Led Zeppelin. Though the rest of the quote--what Beck had hoped to achieve, and his influence--is true enough. But the band he was hoping to get together wouldn't have been Zeppelin.
So why has Beck been staying away from Australia all these years - avoiding an old speeding ticket or something?
NickZepp
Location:Somewhere in Oklahoma
Not exactly. That may have been where Page got the name though. Moon and Entwistle were talking about creating a new band called Led Zeppelin for a while.
Stargroves Tangie
Zep Woman
Location:Long Island
I wonder why Jeff said that Jimmy was going to play rhythm guitar- weren't they going to do the dual lead guitars like they did for a short while in the Yardbirds?
I had a feeling someone might tie that to my remark.
Hard to say but there is no shame in playing rhythm guitar, those who do it well are in a league of their own. It was Jimmy's rhythm playing and layering of guitars that made the Zep albums sound so great, IMO soloing is not his strength. Not that there is anything wrong with his solos but he had a gift for the other stuff.
ddot
he said rythem guitar because thats what Jimmy played on Becks bolero with Jones and Moon
including producing
Edited January 21, 2009 by ddot
Hang-man
Hey-Up,
I think Mr Jeff is talking outta his "BECK-SIDE" his ARSE.
Stop trying to be a glory Hunter, & go Beck & hide.
Nobody can take the Credit for Led Zeppelin, other than Led Zeppelin & Mr Peter Grant
As for "Sir"Jimmy stuck on Rhythm!!! & no Bonzo?? get real Jeff, seems like you have a Book deal or something, & you need a little "Lime-light" to get noticed for people to buy it.
Jeff Becks attention span is notoriously short. He's just not a 'one band' type of guy.
Even if they had formed a band Beck would have bailed out of it with a quickness.
He also has never played in a band with another guitarist, except for the Yardbirds,
and he left that band shortly after Page switched from bass to guitar.
I think Beck is suffering from a touch of 'Zeppelin envy', along with many others.
Its understandable though. I think the 02 performance blew a lot of people away
and also opened up old wounds for some at the same time.
Otto Masson
Jeff and Jimmy are friends, and I think their arguing about 'Beck's Bolero' (credited to Page on Beck's album, Truth) is something they go on about at least partly in jest. There is an old thread about that HERE.
As for Jeff influencing Jimmy into doing Led Zeppelin, I honestly don't take that very seriously either, although I do think it's partly true. Beck has sometimes talked about the blond singers...! Well, Jimmy wasn't looking for one, he was looking for Terry Reid, but got Robert instead.
They were both members of the same band before Jeff Beck did Truth - and they worked together on the Bolero, with the heavy riffs in the middle section, etc. Not just that, but Jimmy added a lot of things to what the Jeff Beck Group did - would Jeff have done BIGLY? BMS? No way, and those things were an integral part of Jimmy's idea, and they represent enduring influences from elsewhere, not Jeff. And a part of Jimmy's vision for Led Zeppelin was also the space given for the other band members to express themselves. Jeff's band was another story.
Jeff Beck starts his Australian tour here in Perth tonight. He was interviewed on 'The 7.30 Report' a couple of nights ago.
Does anyone else think he is referring to Led Zeppelin at about 3.00? Scroll on the right for the interview.
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/default.htm
That clip was brilliant - thank you so much for the link. I enjoyed hearing Jeff talk about the genesis of Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" - sounds like Beck maybe should have gotten a co-writing credit for that one.
Ooh, and the murky video/kinescope/sumpin' of The Yardbirds playing "Happening Ten Years Time Ago"... too much, man, too much.
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Howard Butler: “Like a good song, open source software has the chance to be immortal”
March 5, 2018 January 12, 2020 by GeoHipster Team, posted in Geohipsters, Interviews
Howard Butler
Howard Butler attended Iowa State University and departed with Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees after studying parts of Agronomy, Agricultural Technology, and Agricultural Engineering. He learned GIS software development during his thesis effort, where he needed to make ArcView 3.x do a complicated and completely unrealistic analysis. After failing to find a precision agriculture job because a GPS for a tractor cost $2,000 at the time, the Iowa State Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology took a chance on him to develop some GIS data collection and management software for the National Resources Inventory. Fifteen years later he’s helping to write open source software that’s powering data management systems for autonomous vehicles.
Howard lives in Iowa City, Iowa with his wife Rhonda, his two boys Tommy and Jack, two dumb cats, and a squirrel or raccoon or something that takes residence in his attic every winter despite efforts otherwise. He has a neglected blog at https://howardbutler.com/, and he tweets less and less at https://twitter.com/howardbutler.
Howard was interviewed for GeoHipster by Randal Hale.
Q: Howard – where are you located and what do you do?
A: My three-person company called Hobu, Inc. is located in Iowa City, Iowa, and we write, manage, and enhance open source point cloud software and help our clients use that software to solve their challenging problems. We initially focused on LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging — think radar with lasers) with a project called libLAS, evolved that into PDAL (GDAL for point clouds), and then continued with streaming technology in the form of Greyhound and Entwine.
I started contributing to open source with MapServer and GDAL back in 2002 when I discovered it was the only software capable of building the systems my job demanded at the time. I came to enjoy the camaraderie and common purpose those good projects exuded, and I learned over the years how to contribute in a way that matched my skills. Among other things, that evolved into writing a number of geospatial Python bits (you can thank/hate me for plenty of ogr.py and gdal.py) and helping to author a bit of the GeoJSON specification (you can thank/hate me for coordinate systems there).
In 2007, I struck out on my own and promptly learned that I didn’t know how to run a business. My banker still doesn’t really understand how or why we give away our software, but people get it when I say our product is consulting with a software toolkit we incidentally give away. Over the years we’ve built up a stable client base that values what we do and how we do it, and I think that the software we’ve written will outlast my company or my career because it represents solutions to problems people hate to solve again and again.
Q: So how did you end up working with LiDAR? I’ve had the chance to use PDAL and see some of your presentations at FOSS4G and FOSS4GNA.
A: The Iowa Department of Natural Resources led Iowa to be one of the first states to do a statewide LiDAR collection, and they had a grad student semester of funding they wanted to use to be able to use Python for ASPRS LAS data management, verification, and inspection. There was no open source requirement, but since it was what I was doing otherwise, it seemed natural to build a library that anyone could use. Mateusz Loskot and I started working on what became libLAS to achieve it, and once it was clear it was viable, I was able to attract more funding to enhance and improve it.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers found libLAS and wanted to do a lot more with it — supporting a bunch more formats, getting it speaking to databases, and enhancing it to do a bunch more algorithmically. We learned stacking all those desires on a library based on the LAS format wasn’t a great fit. We started PDAL (Point Data Abstraction Library — pronounce it the same way you do GDAL 🙂) after some fits and starts and it has matured into a general-purpose library for building geospatial point cloud applications.
PDAL takes GDAL’s VRT pipeline approach and puts it into the context of geospatial point clouds, but with JSON instead of XML. It works on Windows, OSX, and Linux, and it has a command line application like GDAL to drive processing. Its workflow is optimized to template data operations and batch them up over a pile of data with whatever batching/queuing/cloud tools you have. That might be GNU parallel if you want to melt your laptop locally or something like AWS SQS in a cloud situation.
Q: I saw your presentation on Gerald Evenden at FOSS4G in Boston. Did he know that the PROJ library…or software…was going to go as far as it did? Actually – what does PROJ do?
A: PROJ or PROJ.4 is a cartographic reprojection library that was written by Gerry Evenden at USGS in the 1980s and 90s. It contains the math to reproject coordinates from UTM to Plate Carrée, for example. Gerry originally intended for PROJ to be a cartographic projection library (pure math only!), but in the 90s, Frank Warmerdam came along and started adding convenience for geodetic transformation (datum shifting). This caused some creative differences, but that geodetic convenience enabled PROJ to be bootstrapped or ported into almost every open source geospatial software package in some form or another.
While attempting to dig up some old documentation, I discovered Gerry died in 2016. This saddened me because I’ve felt that Gerry didn’t get his due for the impact that PROJ has on the entire geospatial software ecosystem. It is truly everywhere — open source, commercial, and government software all depend upon PROJ. I submitted my FOSS4G 2017 talk in an attempt to tell his story and shine the spotlight on him even though he probably would have detested it.
I’m a fan of 60s and 70s rock n roll, and now that those guys are starting to die off, people are rediscovering a lot of back catalog. Plenty of it is still crap, but songs that shined then often sparkle today. Those songs were written for the audience of that time, but a good one can transport you there even if you weren’t a part of it. Like a good song, open source software has the chance to be immortal. It is optimized for solving today’s problem in today’s context, but a few programs and libraries end up lasting multiple generations. Unlike a hit song, open source software isn’t a static fount of royalties. It is a liability that must be maintained or it will crumble back into the ground. People need to cover it, make it their own, and feed it attention as Paul Ramsey wonderfully described in his FOSS4G 2017 keynote.
For PROJ, two longtime contributors have been covering the song and keeping the music alive. Thomas Knudsen and Kristian Evers from the Danish Agency for Data Supply and Efficiency (kind of like Denmark USGS) refactored PROJ to be a full service geodetics library and they have modernized its API in the process. Kristian has led this PROJ 5.0.0 release process, and everyone’s software is now going to be able to get a lot smarter about geodetic transformations. While the old APIs are still available so as to not break existing software, their improvements will make PROJ last for another couple of generations.
Q: Thoughts on Mapzen shutting down?
A: Anxious and hopeful. As someone with an organization and employees, the thought of having to tell them they’re now on their own is a front-of-mind fear. Organizations fail for many reasons despite the effort of the people pouring their sweat into them. To work so hard and have it be called a failure doesn’t seem fair, but I’m thankful for Mapzen’s postmortems, which have given everyone the chance to learn.
I’m hopeful due to the fact that I think Mapzen’s employment model demonstrated a successful one for the employees. Many Mapzen’ers worked out in the open on public projects, and in the process made themselves and the teams they belonged to more valuable for it. Developing open source software in public, as opposed to never going out beyond your own wall, is something that makes you a better software developer. You have to listen to rightful criticism about your software, and you have to temper your emotional response to people rationally not liking the precious thing you just made (ok, not always). To solve hard problems in public leaves you exposed, but in exchange for that vulnerability, you generate a professional currency that follows you the rest of your career.
An influential quote I saw early in my career came from Tim Peters of the Python language:
You write a great program, regardless of language, by redoing it over & over & over & over, until your fingers bleed and your soul is drained. But if you tell newbies that, they might decide to go off and do something sensible, like bomb defusing<wink>.
The only thing you can do is make your software suck slightly less every day you touch it. My formative experience in geospatial open source was watching folks like Frank Warmerdam, Steve Lime, Martin Davis, and Markus Neteler do exactly that. They controlled the complexity in front of them, resisted the urge to overdesign a solution, and they treated everyone with respect even when they didn’t deserve it. I’ve tried to follow their approach with my projects, although I’d consider myself a worse developer than each of them by most measurements.
Q: You were there at the beginning for OSGeo back in 2006(?) I think. How has it changed or remained the same? How did you get pulled into the organization?
A: OSGeo’s reason to exist in 2006 was different than it is in 2018. In 2006, it was supposed to be a group of geospatial software projects with a common thread about open source. In 2018, it is a group of people with a shared interest in open source geospatial software. The former was frustrating for different reasons than the latter, but it has been an organization that achieved substantial things despite the messy way in which it is able to go about it. Many of its challenges relate to the fact that it is a volunteer organization throughout, and personalities with drive and determination can have short-run impact, but long-run sustainment is very difficult. Recently, it has slowed its precession about the axis of outreach, education, and conferences, which are topics that fit the current makeup of the organization very well.
I’ve had many roles in the organization over the years, including helping to set up some of the first project infrastructure and acting as a board member. In 2006, software project infrastructure was a real cost, but in 2018, access to repositories, mailing lists, continuous integration, and bug reporting can all be had in exchange for some spam tolerance. Recently my contributions have been presenting at conferences and being a strong supporter of the mid-winter OSGeo Code Sprint that has oscillated back and forth between the EU and North America. Sprints are a primary opportunity for developer camaraderie and collaboration, and they provide the high-bandwidth communication forum for projects to grow and enhance each other.
Q: I’m not a developer by any stretch – but I like going to talks by developers on their software. You’ve built PDAL to manipulate LIDAR Data – what’s the weirdest use case you’ve seen for PDAL so far?
A: Nothing too weird, but it is an everyday occurrence for users to use the tools in ways we didn’t foresee or intend. Every permutation of data size, composition, and fault gets hit eventually. For every success story using PDAL in a way we never thought of, there’s a corresponding failure story due to assumptions that don’t line up. Many times a great bug report is simply a challenge of those assumptions.
Q: What’s the Best Thing about Iowa? What’s the Worst Thing? I drove through it once and didn’t stop but long enough to eat a sandwich.
A: The Public Land Survey System in Iowa means I’m never lost. You probably weren’t ever concerned on your drive either. Also, the proximity to so much animal agriculture means that meat-as-a-condiment to more meat isn’t just a specialty no-carb lifestyle choice here. You would think with 90+ percent of the land in the state used for agriculture there would be more vegetables around.
It’s not the worst, but opportunities for Big Culture stuff like museums, art, and music shows are somewhat limited here, especially once you get out of the larger towns. Lack of diversity is a challenge too, although you find it in places in Iowa you wouldn’t expect. These are the same challenges for all rural states with aging, out-migrating populations.
Q: Can you tell us something people might not know about you?
A: I grew up on a corn and soy farm in Southern Minnesota, and I was convinced that maps and computers were interesting after some quality time on the Dinty Moore Beef Stew assembly line. I have a pilot’s license I haven’t used in more than a decade, and my car was once struck by lightning while driving down the freeway at 70 mph (I shouldn’t have bought it back from the insurance company). A long time ago, I won an Esri Conference award using AVPython and ArcView 3.x, and I could still sling VTables and FTables around in Avenue if I was cornered.
Q: Almost 4 years ago we defined the geohipster to be a person who lives on the outskirts of mainstream GIS. Would you describe yourself as a geohipster?
A: I guess. GIS™ as a name is an outdated view of how the intersection of geography, computers, and databases is to be constructed. Each of its areas has been dumped over at least a couple times since GIS™ as a fashionable term came to describe our industry. Many still GIS™ on desktop software with a 2D map frame and 🔍 zoom and ✋pan icons like twenty years ago, but geo+computers+databases is now oriented toward phones, sensors, and deriving locality from incidental data with cloud computing and pervasive networking. To call what’s going on with all of that GIS™ seems rather trite.
Q: I leave the last question to you – anything you want to tell the readers of GeoHipster?
A: Please make sure to buy a GeoHipster calendar or a t-shirt or something. We’re all just learning here, and sites like this one make the job much easier and need our support.
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Even Rouault says:
There’s an error on the family name of one of the current proj contributors. It should read Thomas Knudsen (not Hansen)
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16. Drive Angry (John Mitchell, Jeremy Kipp Walker-2012) USA 3,945 checks
17. Cypher {aka Brainstorm} (Vincenzo Natali-2002) USA 1,448 checks
18. Soul (Pete Docter, Kemp Powers-2020) USA 7 official lists 2,159 checks
19. The Red Turtle (Lee Haven Jones-2016) France/Belgium/Japan/USA 1,815 checks
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Post by VincentPrice » January 12th, 2021, 7:08 am
9. Bill & Ted Face the Music-2020: 9/10
1. Black Scorpion-1995: 7/10
2. The Humanity Bureau-2017: 7/10
3. Ad Astra-2019: 9/10
4. Knowing-2009: 9/10
5. Feeders-1996: 10/10
6. Useless Humans-2020: 8/10
7. Face/Off-1997: 10/10
8. Cast a Deadly Spell-1991: 10/10
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Post by sol » January 12th, 2021, 7:17 am
Impossible Worlds on Screen
1. Palm Springs (2020)
2. Gemini Man (2019)
3. The Midnight Sky (2020)
4. Babes in Toyland (1934)
5. The Glass Slipper (1955)
6. The Frozen Dead (1966)
7. Petey Wheatstraw (1977)
8. The Holy Mountain (1973)
9. Endless Poetry (2016)
10. Nirvana (1997)
11. Jubilee (1978)
12. Matilda (1996)
13. Stake Land (2010)
The vampire (rather than zombie) plague backdrop sounded unique to me at first, but then the vampires act like mindless zombies anyway. The film is also letdown by an excess of mournful voiceover narration, full of sentimental and inspirational quips ("sometimes hope is all you've got") that make the whole thing feel like a melodrama. Some of the scares work okay and the overall atmosphere is decent, but substitute vampires for zombies and this is old hat.
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Post by Harco » January 12th, 2021, 7:25 am
16. Aladdin (2019, Guy Ritchie) 2/5
14. Wishmaster 2 (1999)
A highly amusing sequel. As per the original, this more of a collection of novelty deaths than an anything else, but Andrew Divoff is as great as ever, and placing him in prison for the first half of the movie leads to pretty out-there wishes, not to mention the divine black comedy that comes from seeing him slyly smiling around easily irate inmates. The special effects are once again pretty great too - in particular, a squeeze through jail cell bars.
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Post by mightysparks » January 12th, 2021, 9:54 am
1. El Xendra (2012) 4/10
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Post by Melvelet » January 12th, 2021, 11:28 am
Mostly continuing the 80s challenge
1. The Dead Zone 1983 6/10
2. Ex Machina 2014 8/10
3. WarGames 1983 6/10
4. Meikyû monogatari 1987 — a.k.a. Neo Tokyo 6/10
5. Pink Floyd: The Wall 1982 7/10
6. Primer 2004 7/10
Wow...definitely the movie I read the most about (for this challenge) after watching. I can understand why quite a few reviewers say that the effort is ultimately not that rewarding. I really dig the way in which it is inaccessible. The way it exists in itself (instead of aligning everything to the viewers pespective) reminds me of the video game "The last Express".
7. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 7/10
Basically a rewatch but I never felt comfartable enough to just check it without rewatching.
8. Le dernier combat 1983 — a.k.a. The Last Combat 7/10
9. Re-Animator 1985 6/10
I am looking for "80s feeling", preferably a bit weirder movies. Like Videodrome, Repo Man, ...
Current recommendation: In Fabric (2018)
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Post by frbrown » January 12th, 2021, 2:54 pm
13. Barbarella (1968)
1. The Blue Bird (1918)
2. Mill of the Stone Women (1960)
3. Sorceress (1982)
4. Outland (1981)
5. Not of This Earth (1957)
6. Dirty Pair OVA: Episodes 7-10 (1987)
7. Mob Psycho 100: Season 1: Episodes 1-4 (2016)
8. Moon (2009)
10. Mob Psycho 100: Season 1: Episodes 9-12 (2016)
11a. The Outer Limits: It Crawled Out of the Woodwork (1963)
11b. The Outer Limits: The Borderland (1963)
12. Brazil (1985)
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Post by morrison-dylan-fan » January 12th, 2021, 3:27 pm
FTV:3: Paprika (2006).10.
Examining the parallel lines of reality and nightmares/dreams, the screenplay by co-writer/(with Seishi Minakami) directing auteur Satoshi Kon adapts Yasutaka Tsutsui novel into a continuation of building upon themes reflected in Perfect Blue (1997-also reviewed.) The writers pull open mesmerising, increasingly fractured state of dreams blurring into reality, where DR Chiba wears a second skin as Paprika,and Detective Konakawa gains entry to his most lurid dreams from the opening of a website, (a website where a character makes a deep personal discovery, and the lead woman having a second skin/personality,being major recurring themes for Kon.)
Unleashing a dream parade on the city, the writers take an enticing forensic approach towards separating each layer of the deep sleep dreams, cutting into Konakawa startling recurring physics-defying hallway nightmare,and the internal struggle Chiba between her own, clinical withdrawn personality, and that of her free spirited second skin Paprika. Following Paprika floating in the air running, (a major recurring motif of the film maker) director Kon tunes into the dream world with a magnificent eye for detail in the dazzling hand-drawn animation, which Kon unveils with ultra-stylised whip-pans and arc shots taking the audience into the deepest reaches of the crumbling with primary colours dreams being invaded,which are spiced up by a dash of paprika.
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Post by flavo5000 » January 12th, 2021, 4:03 pm
67. Zhong Kui fu mo: Xue yao mo ling a.k.a. Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal (2015)
Decent but not amazing dark-tinged wuxia.
68. Morons from Outer Space (1985)
Well, this was just stupid...
69. Catwoman (2004)
What a misguided, awful piece of shit this was!
70. The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)
Very good post-apocalyptic sci-fi that presages the big post-nuke boom of the 60s and 70s. The racial aspect felt a little too heavy handed though.
71. Gamera tai uchu kaijû Bairasu a.k.a. Gamera vs Viras (1968)
This was not one of the better Gamera films I've seen to be honest. It takes a long time before the Gamera/Viras fight ramps up. Although once it does, it's pretty entertaining.
72. Man from Atlantis (1977)
The first of four made-for-TV movies that kicked off a short-lived series, it's basically Patrick Duffy as Aquaman without the rights. Pretty meh.
73. Der Dibuk (1937)
Interesting as a piece of history but it's a bit too stolid and slow-paced to make for an engaging watch. It does have what may be one of the earliest examples of an exorcism on film outside the biblical context though (King of Kings from 1927 for instance has the scene of Jesus casting out demons).
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1. Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
2. The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special (2020)
3. Robo Vampire (1988)
4. Temptation Island (1980)
5. Les trois couronnes du matelot a.k.a. Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)
6. No Escape (1994)
7. Soul (2020)
8a. Shirley Temple's Storybook: The Princess and the Goblins (1961)
8b. Ballet of the Mermaids (1938)
8c. Ropáci a.k.a. Oil Gobblers (1988)
9. Thunder Rock (1942)
10. Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (1997)
11. Aniara (2018)
12. Heartbeeps (1981)
13. Blue My Mind (2017)
14. Eunhaengnamoo chimdae a.k.a. Gingko Bed (1996)
15. Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941)
16. Tales from the Neverending Story: The Beginning (2001)
17. The Reluctant Astronaut (1967)
18. Earth to Echo (2014)
19. Bijo to ekitai ningen a.k.a. The H-Man (1958)
20. The Bamboo Saucer (1968)
21. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013)
22. The Curious Female (1970)
23a. Black Mirror: USS Callister (2017)
23b. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910)
24. His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914)
25. The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914)
26. Source Code (2011)
27. The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
28. FairyTale: A True Story (1997)
29. Journey to the Center of the Earth (1988)
30. Golok setan a.k.a. The Devil's Sword (1984)
31. The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914)
33. Singularity (2017)
34. The Mind's Eye (2015)
35. Village of the Giants (1965)
36. Na srebrnym globie a.k.a. On the Silver Globe (1988)
37. Tammy and the T-Rex (1994)
38. Cinderfella (1960)
39. The Atomic Kid (1954)
40. Kamisama no pazuru a.k.a. God's Puzzle (2008)
41. Minoes (2001)
42. Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
43. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
44. Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
45. Beastly (2011)
46. Djävulens öga a.k.a. The Devil's Eye (1960)
47. Crack in the World (1965)
48a. Black Mirror: Crocodile (2017)
48b. The Legend of Loch Lomond (2001)
49. Xi you ji: Da nao tian gong a.k.a. The Monkey King (2014)
50. Warlords of Atlantis a.k.a. Warlords of the Deep (1978)
51. The Boys from Brazil (1978)
52. Operetta tanuki goten a.k.a. Princess Raccoon (2005)
53. Monster Trucks (2016)
54. Merlin (1998)
55-57. The Mandalorian Season 2 E1-8 (2020)
58. Uh Oh! (2004)
59. Thunderbirds Are GO (1966)
60. Thunderbird 6 (1968)
61. Liu lang di qiu a.k.a. The Wandering Earth (2019)
62. Tenet (2020)
63. Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
64. Disturbing Behavior (1998)
65. To the Ends of Time (1996)
66. Baio hantâ a.k.a. Bio Hunter (1995)
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1. Frankenstein (1931)
3. Primer (2004)
4. Planet of the Apes (1968)
5. Russkiy kovcheg (2002)
6. Yeelen (1987)
7. Elf (2003)
8. Iron Man 2 (2010)
9. Kaijû sôshingeki AKA Destroy All Monsters (1968)
10. Cesta do praveku AKA A Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)
11. Ugetsu monogatari (1953)
12. Körkarlen AKA The Phantom Carriage (1921)
13. Field of Dreams (1989)
14. Total Recall (1990)
15. Enter the Void (2009)
16. Mary Poppins (1964)
17. The Blob (1958)
18. 28 Days Later... (2002)
19. Thor (2011)
20. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
21. The Fifth Element (1997)
22. The Nutty Professor (1963)
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Post by Hunziker » January 12th, 2021, 4:26 pm
1. Sputnik (2020)
2. Extracted (2012)
3. Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
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4. See You Yesterday (2019)
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Post by Knaldskalle » January 12th, 2021, 7:36 pm
7. Black Lizard (Fukusaku, 1968). Another oddity, a surreal mix of "villainy" and detective mystery, action and a lot of talk, romance, comedy and... just odd stuff. But it was still enjoyable.
1. Monsters (Edwards, 2010).
2. The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (Zeman, 1961).
3. The Age of the Earth (Rocha, 1980).
4. Billy Liar (Schlesinger, 1963).
5. The Lure (Smoczynska, 2015).
6. Angel's Egg (Oshii, 1985).
7. Black Lizard (Fukusaku, 1968).
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morrison-dylan-fan wrote: ↑January 12th, 2021, 3:27 pm FTV:3: Paprika (2006).10.
I've always felt that Paprika is what Inception should've been trying to do. So much more interesting than Nolan's movie.
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Post by ChrisReynolds » January 12th, 2021, 10:39 pm
Continuing to plough through the All-time Worldwide box office list...
Previously watched...
1. Possessor (Cronenberg, 2020) 6/10
2. Zeder (Avati, 1983) 4/10
2a. Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks (Jones, 2021) [71 mins] 3/10
2b. Barbe Bleue (Bertrand-Painlevé, 1936) [13 mins] 5/10
3. 13 Going on 30 (Winick, 2004) 5/10
4. Flatliners (Oplev, 2017) 2/10
5. Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) (Dougherty, 2019) 3/10
6. Blue Thunder (Badham, 1983) 5/10
7. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (Lucas, 1977) [Rewatch] 8/10
8. Seventh Son (Bodrov, 2014) 4/10
9. Resident Evil (Anderson, 2002) Rewatch 5/10
10. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Bay, 2009) 2/10
11. Killer Sofa (Rao, 2019) 4/10
12. TV episode and shorts [Total time = 85 minutes]
a. The Witcher: Rare Species (Brändström, 2019) [59 mins]
b. Ballet of the Mermaids (Sparling, 1938) [10 mins]
c. Shadow of Mordor (Gorski-Pueringer, 2014) [8 mins]
d. El hotel eléctrico / The Electric Hotel (Chomón, 1908) [8 mins]
13. In Time (Niccol, 2011)
Justin Timberlake lives in a world where people have an alotted lifespan (which is a common idea) and lengths of lifespan have become currency (which is a more unusual theme, and allows the film to function as a satire of inequality). Unfortunately, the script has no idea what to do with this concept other than make time puns and rip off Bonnie and Clyde. It ends up as a po-faced message movie full of plot holes and stupidity.
14. Pokémon Detective Pikachu (Letterman, 2019)
Starts off interesting, as it builds a mystery in the Pokemon world (which here is clearly London's financial district with some extra CGI buildings). After the wise-cracking Pikachu entered the picture I started to lose interest as random plot developments kept happening. The realisation of the world is probably the best thing about this.
15. Gamer (Neveldine-Taylor, 2009)
Gerard Butler is being remote controlled and forced to fight in war games like some Call of Duty-era version of The Running Man. This is from the directors of Crank but it's not as much fun due to ugly editing and cinematography. It does boast a fun turn from Michael C Hall as a Zuckerberg-type supervillain with a strange Deep South accent.
Post by Harco » January 12th, 2021, 10:58 pm
17. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019, Joachim Rønning) 1/5
01. Shark Tale (2004, Vicky Jenson, Bibo Bergeron & Rob Letterman) 1/5
02. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018, Rodney Rothman, Peter Ramsey & Bob Persichetti) 3/5
03. Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018, Wes Ball) 1/5
04. Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019, Jon Watts) 1/5
05. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017, Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg) 1/5
06. Aquaman (2018, James Wan) 1/5
07. Shazam! (2019, David F. Sandberg) 1/5
08. Wonder Woman 1984 (2020, Patty Jenkins) 1/5
09. Toy Story 4 (2019, Josh Cooley) 2/5
10. Onward (2020, Dan Scanlon) 2/5
11. Dark Phoenix (2019, Simon Kinberg) 1/5
12. Soul (2020, Pete Docter) 3/5
13. The New Mutants (2020, Josh Boone) 3/5
14. Christopher Robin (2018, Marc Forster) 2/5
15. Dumbo (2019, Tim Burton) 2/5
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Post by blocho » January 12th, 2021, 11:43 pm
ChrisReynolds wrote: ↑January 12th, 2021, 10:39 pm 15. Gamer (Neveldine-Taylor, 2009)
I think I've mentioned this before on the forum, but I'll repeat it: One of the few moments of grad school I enjoyed was when a guy in a film theory class referred to Gamer as "a Hegelian Robocop." It was such a perfect, pithily stated pearl of nonsense. My reaction to Gamer was exactly the same as yours.
Post by mightysparks » January 13th, 2021, 12:52 am
2. Dead Dicks (2019) 6/10
20. Altered Carbon: Resleeved (Takeru Nakajima, Yoshiyuki Okada-2020) Japan/USA 94 checks
Very gory and some really bad writing.
10-15. Snowpiercer season 1 (Netflix, 2020) 7.5/10 ... 46 minutes carried over
3. Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway (2019) 5/10
Post by Coryn » January 13th, 2021, 9:40 am
23. Sorry to Bother You (2018)
24. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
10. Twelve Monkeys 1995 9/10
Watching this for the fourth time I think. It used to be my 2nd fav movie (after Fight Club). I had it at 8/10 before rewatching but it really is brilliant.
11. The Martian 2015 6/10
Somehow the surviving on Mas part was cooler than the rescue part. Especially end it had that typical Hollywood feeling that I try to avoid.
Post by sol » January 13th, 2021, 1:12 pm
15. The Prophecy (1995)
While the religious side here only ever half-work with too much chatter about the importance of having faith and so on, Christopher Walken is a lot of fun throughout as the Archangel Gabriel, taunting everyone he meets and creepily convincing a bunch of kids to let him to look inside their mouths at one key point. Some of the effects (bodies incinerating) are decent too, though the experience gets less interesting once what is going on becomes more obvious.
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Post by ororama » January 13th, 2021, 1:32 pm
5-8. Always a Witch: Someone Like Me (2020) * 39 min.
Always a Witch: Leeches (2020) * 38 min.
Always a Witch: Antares (2020) * 36 min.
Always a Witch: Mr. Hyde (2020) * 34 min.while being burned at the stake to the present
Always a Witch: A Crack in Time (2020) * 36 min.
Always a Witch: From Student to Teacher (2020) * 37 min.
Always a Witch: Last Wish (2020) * 34 min.
Always a Witch: Impossible (2020) * 32 min.
The Outer Limits: The Architects of Fear (1963) * 51 min.
Always a Witch could use a lot more witchcraft and less college romance and pop music. A slave discovers that she is a witch and while being burned at the stake is transported from 16th century Cartagena to the present. The second season has less witchcraft than the first, but adds a 16th century pirate who is transported to the present as a love interest for one of the women. I had wanted to try a Colombian series when I watched the first season last year, but it seems to have started a bit less than mediocre and to be heading rapidly downhill.
As far as I can remember, I have only seen a few episodes of the The Outer Limits, but I am finding its combination of sci-fi and anti-Cold War preaching very interesting so far.
1. Juego siniestro/ Sinister Circle (2016) * 87 min.
2. The Deadly Mantis (1957) * 78 min.
3. Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms (2006) * 78 min.
4. Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron (2007) * 76 min.
*First time viewing.
74. Christopher Robin (2018)
It's a sweet if fairly basic movie although there are some chuckleworthy lines from Pooh and the gang as they comment on the stolid real world. It also seemed to be inconsistent in how Pooh and friends were interpreted in the real world. Like, are they actually supposed to be real creatures in an alternate reality? When they leave the Hundred Acre Wood and come into the real world. Others seem to be able to see them talk sometimes, but other times they just appear as stuffed animals... I dunno. I'm probably overthinking it.
75. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
Irwin Allen gives us a romp under the ocean in a high falootin' submarine with some neato set design and models and some delightfully retro action sequences. It does get too bogged down in exposition at times though, especially in the first half.
76. Fei Ying a.k.a. Silver Hawk (2004)
Michelle Yeoh stars in this high tech martial arts superhero flick that feels similar in tone to Jet Li's Black Mask series. It's ok if you want to see Michelle Yeoh beat up some baddies but the plot is pretty generic.
77. Wholly Moses! (1980)
From a writer and a director who had never made a movie before comes this oddly misguided rip off of Monty Python's Life of Brian but with Moses instead of Jesus. Dudley Moore is Herschel, a man commanded by God to free the people of Israel but who finds Moses doing everything he's supposed to do right before he does it and getting all the credit. You'd think with a cast that includes Lorraine Newman, Richard Pryor, Madeline Kahn and John Ritter that something here would actually be funny. But you'd be wrong.
78. Spawn of the Slithis (1978)
I gotta hand it to this movie for boldly showing it's monster in full view over and over again. I mean, this Black Lagoon riff really doesn't look too bad for the most part, and I appreciated that it didn't shy away from showing more overt gore. The movie has some major problems though. One is the pacing which is excruciating at times. The first hour of the movie has very little action going on and just feels interminable. The director makes some curious choices at times as well, shooting in a cinema verite style more like a documentary almost randomly (intentional or just incompetent? hard to tell). Also the monster suit is so bulky that its victims often have to actually move toward the monster to get caught, making for some unintentionally hilarious scenes of people screaming as they're actually moving closer to the monster while it slowly lumbers toward them.
79. Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)
You know what the Newbery-winning classic children's book needed? Farting penguins.
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Post by Onderhond » January 13th, 2021, 3:23 pm
flavo5000 wrote: ↑January 13th, 2021, 3:20 pm 76. Fei Ying a.k.a. Silver Hawk (2004)
I've been trying to watch this several times now, but always ended up with an English dub. Not expecting too much, but Jingle Ma + Michelle Yeoh = interest piqued.
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Post by Lonewolf2003 » January 13th, 2021, 4:17 pm
18. The Last Witch Hunter (2015, Breck Eisner): 4.8 - The only aspect that makes this uninspired CGI heavy fantasy-action adventure still a bit watchable is the clear enthusiasm D&D fan Vin Diesel brings into his role.
19. The Midnight Sky (2020, George Clooney): 5.8 - It feels like there is a good movie is hidden somewhere inside of this. The part of Clooney as a terminally ill lone apocalypse survivor on the North Pole trying to contact a space station is intriguing and could on its own make interesting and good movie. The parts about the space station on the other hand is very run of the mill and a lesser copy of better sci-fi movies (like Gravity). Unfortunately the focus in the second half shifts more and more to this less interesting plotline. On top of that it gets even more bloated with flashbacks sequences that try to emotionally explain the background of Clooney's character, but which just fall flat. Besides it even further takes the pace out of this poorly paced movie, cause both the pace and tone of the two main plotlines clash. To make matter worse the movie ends by combing the two plotlines in a predictable and unnecessary twist. It does look very beautiful, especially the stuff on earth. But mostly this felt like wasted potential.
20. Kaijû sôshingeki [Destroy All Monsters] (1968, Ishirô Honda): 6.5 - Another entry in the 'Zilla series about an alien race that initially use the monsters to conquer earth by having them wreck havoc in various world cities. These sequence unfortunately are disappointingly short. The whole human plot about the aliens drags due to too much explanatory scenes. But again luckily the last 15 minutes of highly amusing action with a small dozen of known and lesser known kaiju fighting Ghidorah make up for most of the shortcomings in everything leading up to it. Poor Ghidorah btw, Godzilla and co gang up so hard on him even the cruelest prison gang is like "take it easy dudes".
Rampaging through my sci fi/fantasy watchlist
1. Solarbabies (1986, Alan Johnson): 4.5
2. Gojira [Godzilla] (1954, Ishirô Honda) rewatch: 6.5 > 7.0
3. Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956, Ishirô Honda & Terry O. Morse): 4.8
4. Gojira no gyakushû [Godzilla Raids Again] (1955, Motoyoshi Oda): 6.0
5. Mosura [Mothra] (1961, Ishirô Honda): 6.5
6. Kingu Kongu tai Gojira [King Kong vs. Godzilla] (1962, Ishirô Honda & Tom Montgomery): 6.5
7. Battleship (2012, Peter Berg): 5.8
8. Mosura tai Gojira [Mothra vs. Godzilla] (1964, Ishirô Honda): 6.2
9. Rim of the World (2019, McG): 6.8
10. San daikaijû: Chikyû saidai no kessen [Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster] (1964, Ishirô Honda): 7.0
11. Oblivion (2013, Joseph Kosinski): 6.5
12. Kaijû daisenso [Invasion of Astro-Monster] (1965, Ishirô Honda): 6.2
13. Land of the Lost (2009, Brad Silberling): 3.0
14. Battle: Los Angeles [World Invasion: Battle LA] (2011, Jonathan Liebesman): 7.2
15. Gojira, Ebirâ, Mosura: Nankai no daiketto [Ebirah, Horror of the Deep] (1966, Jun Fukuda): 6.5
16. Gods of Egypt (2016, Alex Proyas): 2.5
17. Kaijûtô no kessen: Gojira no musuko [Son of Godzilla] (1967, Jun Fukuda): 6.0
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Post by Chilton » January 13th, 2021, 7:34 pm
5. Cat People (1942, Jacques Tourneur) ★★.5
6-7. The Midnight Gospel (2020, series) S1E01-07 168'
1. Coco (Lee Unkrich, 2017) ★★.5
2. Inside Out (Pete Docter, 2015) ★★★★
3. Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn, 2014) ★★
4. Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire; Wim Wenders, 1987) ★★★★
6-7. The Midnight Gospel (2020, series)
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FTV:4:Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017).8.
Webbing a opening which offers a alternative perspective to the Captain America: Civil War (2016-also reviewed) set-piece, co-writer/(with Jonathan Goldstein/ John Francis Daley/ Christopher Ford/ Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers) director Jon Watts & cinematographer Salvatore Totino spin the glossy, brightly coloured, physics defying (this spider should have been squashed a dozen times) CGI action set-pieces of the CBM genre with a sweet high school Drama atmosphere.
Spending the majority of the film in school with Peter Parker, (played by Tom Holland,who gives the MCU quips a breezy charm) Watts sits in on lessons with wonderful rose-tinted yellows and reds,that shine as Watts glides to a close-up of Parker nervously trying to get a date with Liz (played with a real warmth by Laura Harrier.) Whilst the option to give Spider-Man a advance costume for part of the flick lowers the perception of him being at risk, the writers wisely departing from the CBM baddie template by having Toomes (played with a brooding snarl by Michael Keaton) not wanting to end the world, frees up the pages for a excellent twist into Thriller power-play, that tightens the father-son dynamic between Parker and Tony Stark, as Spider-Man learns from Toomes and Stark that with great power,comes great responsibility.
Onderhond wrote: ↑January 13th, 2021, 3:23 pm
Yea, I actually have the DVD of this that's in English. And actually with this one, the English is technically an original audio track. It was shot simultaneously in English and Cantonese, and the cast has several English speaking actors like Michael Jai White. So the English really isn't any more a dub than the Cantonese track is. It's probably closer to something like an Italian movie where there isn't really any single original language. Having said that, it's a pretty meh movie, so it's not a big deal whether or not you watch it.
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Post by Onderhond » January 13th, 2021, 10:08 pm
flavo5000 wrote: ↑January 13th, 2021, 8:13 pm so it's not a big deal whether or not you watch it.
I think you'd know better than to say that to a completionist
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Very talky, and most of that talk is mystical mumbo-jumbo, but it has some striking images.
15. La nuit des horloges (2007)
Jean Rollin's penultimate film, but it seems it was meant to be his last, with lots of nostalgia, and meditations on death, and scenes from his older films.
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I come across this fantastic article. Well done Kerrang!
https://www.kerrang.com/features/we-nee ... as-priest/
Of course this is just a scratch and a proper study of the homoeroticism in Halford's lyrics is long overdue. Where are the queer scholars sleeping?
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Kinda says it all right there.
Twisted_Psychology
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I mean, Raw Deal is literally about going to a gay bar so Halford was definitely in it for the long haul. I honestly would like to see more of that perspective in heavy metal.
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I won't keep in time
Tend to burn the arrow
Out of the line
Been inclined to wander
That's where there's thunder
And the wind shouts back
Looking for meat
Wants you to eat"
From the song that shares its name with a homosexual 'dating' app.
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As a woman, I relate to Halford in the unrelenting expression of receptive sexuality. I doubt we'd see more of it in heavy metal which is a fiercely conservative environment, but if Halford could brave and pioneer such an expression, why not. He has originated while simultaneously subverting the culture, which is, let's face it, largely misogynistic and homophobic.
He posted a clip of "Little crazy", to which I am commenting and I'll share it here:
"What an erotic song and clip.
(Are we sensory-deprived by the very desperation of desire?)
Under my skin and into my bones
I feel insanity begin to make its home
Into my vision and through my mouth
Somebody's working me to get me all strung out
There goes my reason
Where's all my hope
I'm just a puppet pulled by stings to make me cope
I'm seeing nothing
What's all this noise
Could someone give me something
Just to get me through this boy
The Kerrang! article gives the sentiment of repression in your lyrics to social conditioning, pointing to the ostensible juxtaposition of sexual explicitness and poignant sentimentality. I think that's a simplistic explanation and the motivation is psychosocial but manily psychophysiological. However repressed, desire finds its way out in a natural and authentic form, and I doubt it exceeds the person's genetic makeup.
I better acquaint myself with queer theory, but it's my perception that libido is more pronounced in homosexuals, which those I have talked to haven't denied ("There isn't "that time of the month" for us.") There's also a greater awareness of sexuality, which entails its incorporation in the emotional body. Strong desire will naturally be followed by strong sentiment, and the emotional storms that ensue wouldn't be essentially different from anything the Romantics have described.
A speculation may arise, to what extent is the intensity of libido a function of sexual awareness?
Anyway, I do hope your book is written from an authentic, queer standpoint. I'm more enticed to read about that than anything.
Btw I'd gladly do the lyric research, but due to my unawareness of queer culture and slang, I'd miss whatever's not hidden in plain sight.
Show them once and for all that Judas Priest would not have existed if you weren't gay - it's your flesh and blood.
You took my heart
And left it blown to smithereens
I gave my body as a slave
You cut my flesh
And drank my blood that poured in streams
I'm left here broken and ashamed
Without you, I would have not dared to express feelings of insecurity, of inadequacy that accompany sexual reception and surrender. I find the expression of willful vulnerability most valuable in your lyrics.
This might sound like an oxymoron, but isn't. I wonder whether you do believe in the idea of the merging of the souls, of sex as a meltdown - an idea not so much sentimental but spiritual.
No one can find this place;
The secret will be ours.
With no more pain to face;
We'll live amongst the stars.
In solitude, and we can wonder free.
Alone, at last just you and me."
Temple Of Blood
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Most fans try to ignore it.
Be honest, it is one of many reasons most people prefer Iron Maiden. Not me though.
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I can't seem to find a reason why they'd be bothered by it unless they're latent homosexuals in denial.
"Rock'n'roll" is an euphemism for sex, and sexuality is fascinating in all of its forms. I'm a 1000% heterosexual woman, but I find my inspiration in the uninhibited expression of others.
Extreme music deals, much like psychoanalysis, with the depths of the psyche.
Something a friend wrote while listening to Metallica, which I concur with:
"To live is to die" - a fact with nothing to fear. Each minute a million cells in our bodies die, each moment dreams die, life is comprised of countless miniature "dyings".
Having that in mind, instead of focusing on creation and the joy of life, most of us live imprisoned in a cage of our own making, its bars our hidden fears and illusions, crushed dreams and frustrations.
In this cage the only thing functioning are the mechanisms of self-delusion and defence against the different, the other. What a waste."
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2019 10:04 am
Most metal isn't about sex at all, in any form.
Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Metallica, Black Sabbath, all the most popular metal bands .... they pretty much have NO sex in their music, and certainly not in their most popular songs.'
Metal is primarily about death and power.
"I had a very disturbing dream last night. In this dream I found myself making love to a strange man. Only I'm having trouble, you see because he's old and dying and he smells bad and I find him repulsive. But then, he tells me that everything is erotic, that everything is sexual. You know what I mean? He tells me that even old flesh is erotic flesh. That dying is an act of eroticism. That talking is sexual. That breathing is sexual. That even to physically exist is sexual. And I believe him and we make love beautifully."
- David Cronenbers, Shivers
"Logically the opposite of love is hate, but psychologically it is the will to power. Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking."
- Carl Jung
Temple Of Blood wrote:
"Mechanix" by Megadeth is most definitely a sex song.
"Jump in the Fire" by Metallica was originally a sex song lyrically, but the version on Kill 'Em All had changed the lyrics.
As for Iron Maiden, you do have the four songs about a prostitute ("Charlotte the Harlot", "22 Acacia Avenue", "Hooks in You", and "From Here to Eternity").
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Ace_Rimmer
Yeah there are sex songs but its not like glam or pop rock where 90% of the lyrics are sex and love.
As for Priest, for the most part I don't pay a ton of attention to a lot of their lyrics. I never thought that was their strength though they did have some good ones no doubt.
Why is it called "homoeroticism" and not just sex?
Are Lemmy's lyrics "heteroerotic"?
Edit: Why is Dave Holland not in those pictures?
Do the words Heavy Metal mean anything to you other than buttcore, technical progressive assgrind or the like?
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Opus wrote:
Homoeroticism is based more on subtext than outright statements, as exemplified by Halford's tendency to use ambiguous language along with first and second person pronouns in his lyrics rather than identifying the subjects by gender. If he was flat out describing the men he was dating the way that Lemmy does for girls, then it'd be a more equal comparison.
As for the Dave Holland omission, I imagine that has quite a bit to do with the whole alleged predator thing.
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This sounds like bullshit. Most of these examples are cliché lyrics about exercising free-will and fighting oppression, every 80's metal band have at least one of them. How this "Seek him here, seek him on the highway / Never knowing when he'll appear" can be about cruising? You can take almost any cryptic verses and say it's a metaphor for homosexuality
DoomMetalAlchemist
I was taken right out of the article immediately by it saying that the song title "Breaking the Law" is "obviously" a reference to homosexuality. Yeah, when we hear someone broke the law, our minds go right to... sodomy laws that nobody gives a shit about, or something?
I always wondered if the middle of Victim of Changes and Dreamer Deceiver on the whole had anything to do with someone "realizing" they're gay. Very disappointed I didn't get to find out. A couple of my very favorite Priest songs from my very favorite Priest album, all the same.
at the gaytes wrote:
Especially when the song HBfL was written by Glenn Tipton. But a reputable magazine like Kerrang!!11111!!111 would know that and wouldn't just publish pure BS, amirite?
Metal_On_The_Ascendant
To a degree, not caring about Rob's sexual orientation is very respectful and mature. But with so many metalheads stating that since "it doesn't matter, we don't need to talk about it", one can't help but wonder if some of them are just in denial.
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Citation needed
...What's your point exactly?
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Morrigan wrote:
That more people prefer Iron Maiden?
why that is?
Of the latter, we can all only speculate. I suggested one reason out of dozens. What "citation" to this end would satisfy you?
That metal audiences mostly don't want erotic "anything" in their lyrics and the fact that JP did it helped make them less popular with metal audiences.
The latter of course.
You claimed that more people prefer Maiden over Priest because of Rob Halford's homosexuality.
That's a bold claim and quite inflammatory. You shouldn't make such claims unless you're prepared to back them up.
My point is obvious, and frankly is incontrovertible.
What is it that you are fishing for?
I am wondering why you felt the need to post this in this thread and why you think it's relevant.
So no, your point is not "obvious". So what if sex isn't a common lyrical topic in metal? It's still not an uncommon one either. So, yes, explain your "point" please.
Metal_On_The_Ascendant wrote:
not caring about Rob's sexual orientation is very respectful and mature.
Not caring is never respectful and mature, but it is plainly ignorant when the artist's expression is sexuality-based.
Re: "metal isn't about sex, it's about death"
"So you preach about how I'm supposed to be
Yet you don't know your own sexuality"
That's a bold claim and quite inflammatory.
It's not inflammatory, unless you think it is insulting to metal audiences and their preferences. Popular of course does not mean better. Some of my favorite bands have very little appeal with large audiences. So what?
You shouldn't make such claims unless you're prepared to back them up.
And how, could anyone ever "back up" something like that? When bands aren't as successful they try to guess what audiences think and why they buy what they buy. KK has his own theories on why JP weren't bigger. Biff has his theories on why Saxon didn't do as well as IM. It doesn't mean that band isn't great, but this speculation shouldn't be FORBIDDEN and "inflammatory". As I said before, there are dozens of reasons I think IM sold more units and has larger shows than JP but Rob's sexuality I think is one of the many, many reasons.
Sure, I'm happy to tell you why. Because it is a topic about Rob's sexual lyrics. I think they hurt JP's popularity, especially when their hidden meanings became more widely known. So dedicating an article that celebrates something that arguably hurt JP's overall popularity is dubious at best.
So no, your point is not "obvious". So what if sex isn't a common lyrical topic in metal? It's still not an uncommon one either.
Yes it is uncommon, actually. Not in hard rock like KISS and Aerosmith, but in METAL? It's not a pathway to massive popularity.
It's a question of why sexual lyrics had to be forced into a metal band in the first place.
Metal fans generally don't want it, and putting it in there hurt JP's popularity.
Take the biggest metal bands (in terms of sales and concert attendance) ever and take their top 20 songs. How many of those are about sex? And how many of those that are, like arguably "Breaking the Law" are OVERTLY so?
I'll wait.
Sexual lyrics hurt Priest's popularity? Are you living in the same world I am? Judas Priest are simultaneously one of the most commercially successful and most respected metal bands from "metal elitists" of all time. If Iron Maiden are more popular, that doesn't mean Priest were ever hurting for fans. And when Rob came out, the worst I ever heard was along the lines of, "It sucks he's a fag, but I still love Priest."
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Strange that they were writing homo-erotic lyrics pretty much from the start of Halford's tenure but he still felt he needed to do a photo shoot with a penthouse pet.
What's even stranger is that Kerrang is doing a feature on a metal band in 2019.
Conan Troutman wrote:
I may be wrong, but before Halford revealed his homosexuality, weren't the innuendo/sex lyrics interpreted as heterosexual stuff? I don't think JP have a song that is blatantly, unquestionable homo-erotic
I don't think JP have a song that is blatantly, unquestionable homo-erotic
Raw Deal is the closest I think, but even there "fooling" could've been mistakenly interpreted at the time by listeners as fighting/rough-housing/etc.
If only he had known Kerrang!!!!1111 would celebrate his lyrical approach 40 years later he might've chosen to be more overt.
HamburgerBoy
I don't know that it's worth splitting hairs over Priest's vs Maiden's popularity when they're both incredibly popular anyways, but I can sort of see the argument that Priest's sexual themes in general (not homosexuality specifically, especially since Halford didn't come out until the late 90s) turn some people off. Maiden's themes are generally fantastical and even songs like Charlotte the Harlot and 22 Acacia Avenue are more a story about the troubled life of a prostitute, not a celebration of sexuality. I have fundamentalist Christian family members that I didn't think listened to metal at all, and discovered that some of them like Iron Maiden and seemingly little else (some A7X and whatever among the younger ones as well). Iron Maiden is pretty much the Disney of heavy metal, a relatively-clean family-friendly brand (not merely a band) with a somewhat strict image and style, and I think that's what makes them so accessible around the world.
I do think that some people take Halford's sexuality (both his orientation and his enjoyment of writing sex-themed songs, which are two separate things) and let that color the band even where it doesn't need to be. Anecdotally, I've seen many people with minimal interest in metal think that You've Got Another Thing Comin' is literally about cumming, when Halford himself has said it's not a sexual song and simply about come-uppance. Stuff about Breaking the Law and etc being sexual, as mentioned in this thread, is mostly silly and more people projecting Halford's sexuality onto everything. Like, they already have explicitly gay songs even in a period where that wasn't common (the aforementioned Raw Deal), people don't need to find even more where it doesn't exist. Though Halford has/had a kind of breath-y erotic intonation even on the non-sexual songs, moaning and etc a regular part of his repertoire, so I guess it's understandable for a person that only knows Priest casually.
Thinking of IM as Disney is useful I think.
IM = Disney
JP = Universal
Both are very successful. However IM is probably at least ten/twenty times more popular in terms of concert $$$, merch, and total album sales.
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This is just standard Temple of Blood strategy here: make your implication incredibly obvious but never state it outright, and then backpedal and play dumb whenever it's interpreted the way it's clearly meant to be intended. Really standard tactics for the disingenuous.
"Judas Priest less popular to metal fans" compared to who exactly? Like three or four bands max? Yeah I'm sure their 4th place all-time position in terms of total album sales for a metal band (brief research tells me only Maiden, Metallica, and Sabbath have them beat) is a result of metal fans the world over just passing them by because they were put off by homosexual innuendo that wasn't even public knowledge until 1998 anyway.
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Sex is probably metal's 4th most popular theme, just like how Judas Priest are metal's fourth most popular band. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to check their genitals.
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Homoeroticism in Priest lyrics is a pointless thing to analyze or discuss, especially on this metal forum for analyzing and discussing anything related to metal. I don't care about it at all and neither should anyone else, because it's irrelevant and even if it was relevant it would be bad and shameful. I'm going to post several more times so you guys know how meaningless this conversation is and how much I'm not bothered!
This is standard BastardHead strategy: make personal attacks based on things that were not actually said and assume the worst about people you disagree with, even if you don't have any actual pesky evidence to back up what you say.
If you'd like to comment on things I've actually said, feel free. Sounds like you're hunting for a thought crime though. That must be easier than making valid points. A favorite tactic of the intellectually lazy.
"Judas Priest less popular to metal fans" compared to who exactly?
Well, Iron Maiden for one, a band who has been their chief competitor for a long time. And unfortunately for a JP fan like myself, IM have completely blown them out of the water (in terms of popularity).
Like three or four bands max?
Maybe more than that. I'd like to see some numbers.
I think Megadeth, Pantera, and Slayer may rival JP's sales too. Maybe some newer bands? A thread for another day I guess.
Yeah I'm sure their 4th place all-time position in terms of total album sales for a metal band (brief research tells me only Maiden, Metallica, and Sabbath have them beat) is a result of metal fans the world over just passing them by because they were put off by homosexual innuendo that wasn't even public knowledge until 1998 anyway.
Straw man alert!
Don't forget to include merch sales and concert grosses too. That makes your "point" even harder to demonstrate.
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HamburgerBoy wrote:
An agreement: The sexuality of Halford's lyrics was always obvious with songs like "Eat Me Alive." The homoeroticism specifically wasn't obvious, but then if it had been obvious it might not have been particularly erotic, no? At least, I always find playing with double meanings more interesting and evocative than straight Whitesnake-style lewdness.
A disagreement: Iron Maiden "family-friendly"?! This is the band that was accused with inspiring Satanist mayhem after _Number of the Beast_ came out. To be sure, the band came out against those interpretations, but it didn't stop them from playing with that imagery again.
Acrobat wrote:
No need to get personal. Check album/single sales.
This would be a great homework assignment.
Metallica became popular EXACTLY because they didn't sing about picking up chicks on Saturday night (among other reasons). And they are the #1 most popular metal band with no close competition at all.
To quoth a much wiser man than me: 'the answers to life's mysteries are simple and direct: sex and death'.
Metal definitely focuses on these two!
True. I think Halford being gay makes complete sense in hindsight but no one would have contemplated the slightest possibility in 1980. Once the secret is out you can then re-interpret the lyrics.
That may be why they are popular with the "girls are icky!" crowd but not the reason they are popular with the rest of the 99% of their fans (scientific stats from peer reviewed lucid dreams). You even put the caveat "among other reasons" in your post because you don't believe what you are saying. The other reasons are the qualities the band presents in their music, not what their music is lacking. Metallica didn't get popular because they don't have lyrics endorsing Islamic terrorism.
I'd like to hear Kerrang's thoughts on Al Atkins - Coming Thick and Fast.
Yeah, the lyrics and vocals of 'Cyberworld' proves that Halford can even make getting a computer virus sound sexy and vaguely S&M-y, so I guess he just has a knack for that kind of lyricism. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Definitely calling bullshit on Breaking the Law though; the very first verse of that song explicitly cites poverty and joblessness for the cause of crime. Not a metaphor in sight. Shame they're willing to deprive the lower class of their ultimate metal anthem and dilute their own theory in the process. Not too shabby an article, other than that.
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Managing Incidental Findings Found During Neuroimaging
Neuroimaging is an important diagnostic tool in the assessment of neurological disease, but often unmasks incidental findings (IFs). The negative impacts of IFs, such as patient anxiety, present neurologists with management dilemmas, largely due to the limited knowledge base surrounding the medical significance of these IFs. Specifically, the lack of evidence-based clinical trials investigating the efficacy of treatments for subclinical IFs makes management protocols challenging.
Thomas C. Booth, MD, Lysholm Department of Neuroradiology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, and Jennifer M. Boyd-Ellison, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, conducted this study to determine the impact IFs may have on neurologists' workloads. Results show that neurologists managed the escalating workload caused by an increased number of referrals of patients with IFs found during neuroimaging, although it was unclear whether this was sustainable in the future.
Neurologists interviewed for this study "expected that an ageing population, along with the increased availability and technological advances of imaging, would bring renewed demands upon their future services," the authors note. "The views of study participants are concordant with other authors who show that one reason for an increased workload is that patients insist that they undergo imaging." The findings are published in the journal PloS ONE.
Previous research has shown that evaluating an IF may subject the patient to needless testing, and in some cases needless treatments, which on occasion may be inconclusive or harmful.
This qualitative research was conducted based on constructivist grounded theory. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews of purposively sampled neurologists, coded, and concurrent comparative analysis performed. A substantive theory of the "IF impacts" was developed after concept saturation.
The subject group (neurologists) are referred patients with IFs from general practitioners (GPs) and other hospital specialists. Participants gave permission to have their interviews recorded. The words and sentences in the transcribed text were repeatedly examined to provide provisional code related to the research question. A search for patterns in the provisional code allowed the data to be reduced into groups of different and similar focused codes.
Eight senior neurologists were enrolled in the study (six consultants and two specialist registrars), from a total of 12 approached in 2012. The analysis of interview transcripts elicited the core category title "incidental phenomenon" which included IFs in addition to other findings that do not have potential health or reproductive importance. Four theoretical categories emerged from the focused coding each relating to the core category:
Challenges for Patients and Clinicians Regarding Treatment and Management: Participants said that, despite a large number of referrals to see patients with IFs, they were able to manage their overall workload. They stated that patient anxiety needed to be addressed before discussions could begin regarding treatment choices. There was disagreement between neurologists regarding the definition, significance and optimal management of IFs, reflecting the published literature.
The Increased Role of the Radiology Department: Participants claimed technological advances in imaging techniques and image resolution improvements were uncovering more unexpected anomalies and that characterising such anomalies was increasingly difficult.
Innovations to the Participants’ Practice: Participants altered their working practice to accommodate the IFs. Participants informed patients who had no neurological clinical features and who insisted that they undergo neuroimaging, about IFs and their associated risks. Multidisciplinary neuroradiology meetings and interventional neuroradiology clinics, where IFs were discussed, were found to be vital in the management of the patients.
Financial Challenges: Participants requested MRI in the first instance over the cheaper option of computed tomography (CT). This was mainly due to ‘patient’ preference, including refusal to undergo CT scanning, but neurologists also claimed futility of CT scanning as ‘patients’ invariably insisted on a MRI scan after a normal CT report.
The impact of IFs upon the neurologist, patient and the health institution appeared considerable. Further research determining the natural history of subclinical IFs and the efficacy of intervention will help to alleviate these issues. Research looking into patients’ attitudes towards IFs and how to reduce unnecessary anxiety would also be valuable.
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Booth TC, Boyd-Ellison JM (2015) The current impact of incidental findings found during neuroimaging on neurologists’ workloads. PLoS ONE 10(2): e0118155. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0118155
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Why do Hoaxteaders love some paedophiles?
Here’s a question for the ages: why do so many of the Hoaxtead mob, who portray themselves as the sworn enemies of child molesters and paedophiles everwhere, seem so determined to defend certain people who’ve been accused—or convicted—of child molestation and paedophilia?
Brian Pead comes to mind: in 2010 he was convicted of having offered to pay a 14-year-old girl £300 for sex:
Brian Pead, 56, of Days Lane, Sidcup, was trapped in an online police sting by an undercover officer posing as a teenager.
The man, who worked as a therapist for a counselling agency for vulnerable youngsters, including victims of sexual abuse, in Hackney, East London, later claimed the chats were part of research for his job.
And yet, despite this conviction, his friend Sabine McNeill has stood staunchly by him, even writing a letter to the Home Secretary to plead that Mr Pead ought not to be denied contact with his grandchildren. According to Sabine, Mr Pead was not a paedophile, you see, but a noble whistleblower.
Then there’s the case of Peter Hofschroer, who is currently on trial, accused of having 36,000 child sexual abuse images on his computer.
According to the York Press:
Peter Hofschroer, 60 of no fixed address, denies 16 charges of downloading indecent images of children.
The charges relate to more than 36,000 pictures and videos on computer equipment seized from the Hofschroer family home in Rosedale Avenue, Acomb, on December 7, 2012, from a laptop carried by Peter Hofschroer at York Magistrates Court on December 1, 2014, and on computer equipment found in an Irish car driven by Peter Hofschroer in November and December 2014.
The jury has heard when some of the charges were laid, Peter Hofschroer told officers among other things: “Your police force is utterly corrupt”, “I am an investigative journalist, you are trying to stitch me up”, “have you ever tried to catch a real criminal” and “I have enough evidence to put half of you in jail.”
To hear the troofers tell it, Mr Hofschroer is yet another victim of a conspiracy, stitched up from the start because he dared to speak out against institutionalised corruption in North Yorkshire. His own family has taken part in betraying poor Peter:
[T]hey were all trying to set him up on various false charges. One was a firearms charge (he had antique weapons that could not fire), another was material allegedly found on a computer. He believed the material was planted by people wishing to protect an international paedophile ring from his exposure. He had been speaking out about North Yorkshire involvement with Jimmy Savile, and about police and council corruption.
The jury in Mr Hofschroer’s trial has heard a different story though: his nephew Martin stated that he’d had to change jobs after Mr Hofschroer contacted his employers, accusing him of being a pervert, a fraudster, and a criminal. In addition, Mr Hofschroer had been preparing to prosecute his brother Robert over a long-running dispute about the care of their elderly parents.
Hofschroer, 60, of no fixed address, denies 16 charges of downloading indecent images of children. They cover more than 36,000 videos and pictures ranging from the lowest to the most serious categories of illegal pornography.
Opening the prosecution, Mr Hampton said the defence does not dispute that the indecent images found on two computer hard drives and two computer towers in his home on December 7, 2012, on the laptop he was carrying at court on December 1, 2014, and on a laptop and a computer tower in his car, also in December 2014, were illegal.
“The ultimate question in this case is who put the images on the computers we are talking about,” Mr Hampton told the jury.
Hofschroer is expected to claim he is “the victim of an elaborate and cunning conspiracy by his brother and his nephew who have, in fact, framed him by putting those images found in 2012 on his computer equipment without his knowledge,” said the barrister.
“He will tell you he is the victim of a further conspiracy,” said Mr Hampton. “He will suggest to you that this includes police officers employed by North Yorkshire Police who have fabricated evidence against him ….. and that they did so for reasons I am sure he will explain, to discredit him.”
This makes us wonder: had a resident of Hampstead, for example, been found with more than 36,000 child sex abuse images on various computing devices, would Neelu or Butlincat have posted the following notices online? We’re thinking probably not.
So what is it about Mr Pead and/or Mr Hofschroer that makes the Hoaxtead mob hand them a free pass?
We’re guessing that it’s because both men loudly declared themselves to be ‘whistleblowers’ against systems they said were corrupt; and both claimed to have been framed for terrible crimes as a way for those corrupt establishments to shut them up. This is the kind of narrative that’s irresistible to a Hoaxteader: it sends them into an hypnotic trance, and renders allegations (or convictions) of paedophilia completely invisible to them.
Apparently if you’re a paedophile who wants to build an unquestioning following of conspiraloons, the trick to having people ignore your alleged (or confirmed) crimes is to belong to the Sooper Seekrit Society of Persecuted Whistleblowers. The secret handshake is accompanied by a cry of, “They’re all utterly corrupt!” followed by an explanation of how one could, if one wished, expose the entire vast fraudulent system and its nefarious ways.
Hey, it worked for Abraham Christie!
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89 thoughts on “Why do Hoaxteaders love some paedophiles?”
Danielle George says:
Ah, the old “I didn’t download those child porn images, honest – the Illuminati put them there to frame me” ploy. Traditionally known as the Spivey defense, more recently as the Christie defense.
And lest we forget that “He Who Cannot Be Named” is close personal friends with two convicted pederastes.
And then there’s Abe himself. Nearly 70 arrests and 37 convictions for drugs, violence and fraud, an alleged rapist and a “man” who got caught with child porn on his phone and who is looking more and more likely to have molested A & G….and the hardcore hoaxers can’t stop rabidly defending him! Many of them have turned their back on him and now see him for what he is but there are still some stubborn idiots hanging in there.
the Wicked Witch of Wellfleet says:
Speaking of people turning their backs on psychos and wising up to them, I see that Kane Slater is continuing to haemorrhage supporters at a rate of knots:
Tbf the Peter H case hasn’t been concluded yet.
And i’m being fair dispute him blocking me on fb ages ago, no idea why i might add.
As for the Pead guy, he certainly looks a “weirdo”.
People are wrongly convicted but just because they say evidence is planted, doesn’t mean it was.
With you on the innocent-until-proven-guilty thing, Babs. And well said. I do, however, think we need to be very careful about assessing people’s guilt/innocence based on their appearance. A lot of perfectly decent people “look like weirdoes” and we need to avoid doing what we criticise the hoaxers for. (For instance, they’ve made a lot of serious allegations about Mr. Dearman based on nothing more than his facial expressions in that BBC interview.)
It seems a very sensitive subject for the hoax pushers, so many of them have associations with persons linked to child sex abuse, some of those associations are with convicted child sex offenders.
For example, Angie Power Disney and her “marriage” to an American paedophile
The association of McKenzie Friends and Brian Pead.
Sabine McNeil and (to quote her) “In 1988 I married Ian R McNeill who as a young man had been the Assistant Director of the Greater London Council”
McNeill was rumored to have links to PIE
Rupert and his claims with regarding wanting sex with a minor
The list goes on, but the common factor is that you do not have to look far to find such links
Folk such as Sabine McNeill and Angela Power Disney follow a worldview akin to a type of religion of the NWO being nasty to everyone, and they (Sabine) are the spiritual champions of good to reveal and destroy those evil nasties. Anyone can tap into this religion by screaming about a government conspiracy and thus get instant support from the fanatics such as Sabine McNeill.
Nothing is black and white. There is no NWO, but there is a complex network of power of individuals and groups who if threatened will use that power to deal with anyone that threatens it. During Brexit those systems of power could be seen in motion with Project Fear, but they failed because of their own hubris, they were so sure they would win, they were had made no preparations for a potential exit from EU, so now UK is suffering a big political and economic mess.
Personalities from my childhood such as Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris revealed for what they are, and questions of how they got away with it so long and on the scale they did?
Peter Righton in his position of power and influence who assisted in building networks of paedophiles, getting them access to children, championing acceptability of man-child sex, and covering up crimes of associates.
One must not forget that one of the most powerful and well organized empires in the world – Rome – was on several occasions ruled over by mad men, one known as Caligula made his horse a senator.
Everyone was seduced into following Bush and Blair to a war in Iraq that should never have happened.
A UK fraudster who sold fake bomb detectors to Iraq who did ten years for the fraud, but his bomb detectors are still being used due to corruption, and thousands of people have died from car bombings as a result.
The system is only as good as its administrators, and if they are corrupt, the system is corrupt. We do not live in a black-and-white world, so the individual needs to treat each case on its own merits.
Right at the start of the Hampstead hoax I ran an intense and deep objective analysis of all the evidence to see if there was a “cult” or a paedophile ring in operation. I found no evidence of that.
From what I know of the Hofschroer case, there does not seem to have been any indicators that he has stressed or threatened the system, indeed, he has been a useful supporter of the system as a military historian. The case is still in play so he might yet produce evidence that he is a victim.
Yes I agree, you can’t say someone is guilty just because they “look in your opinion guilty”.
Pead was found guilty on the evidence I believe.
“Tbh the Peter H case hasn’t been concluded yet.”
Absolutely and I believe one should wait for the outcome. The issue though is why certain Hoaxtenders have already made their minds up and are shouting ‘INNOCENT’ before the evidence has been heard. Why do they profess to be anti paedophile and yet allow convicted and alleged paedophiles (who they don’t know personally so can’t really vouch for them) into their sphere.
I believe one should proceed with caution before waiving banners.
Yep agree there.
That’s why it irritates me the likes of Christine Sands, Angela, etc etc saying people are guilty when they haven’t heard the evidence.
It’s just their opinion…
And a fat lot of good that is Mrs. Disney.
I think Peter H. is complaining about his Mum losing her home and his brother getting the proceeds.
He Peter H. doesn’t get a 1p.
Excellent points S.V. We saw something similar during the Scottish referendum (the original Project Fear!). I know of one man who was physically threatened by members of the Orange Lodge, who told him his business was being ‘blackballed’ in the local area – and it has been! Why? – He’d signed a perfectly-respectable, organised pro-independence declaration which was published in the Glasgow Herald! There were incidents of shops (with flats above them) being set alight, disabled people having their Motability vehicles damaged simply because they had ‘yes’ stickers in the window….. Little or none of this was reported in the MSM, and where it was, it was deliberately mis-reported and played down. Whereas, in stark contrast, there was a great wailing and gnashing of teeth when a Unionist politician has a few eggs thrown at him and ran away crying about it!
We are very aware in these parts of a tawdry band of local council corruption that stretches from beyond Glasgow in the West through to West Lothian and Edinburgh. I know of decades-long campaigns of intimidation and abuse of power/position conducted by council officials against those who genuinely HAVE blown the whistle on them. – And yes, those are just the ‘little fleas’ of corrupt officialdom.
Sexual perversion and drug abuse very often plays a big role in this corruption. Consider the two most recent ex-leaders of Glasgow Council; A cocaine-addicted ‘gay-moll’ to certain of the city’s gangsters, very much in their pocket in the opinion of many. The City Chambers were said to be awash with white powder and rent boys! And his successor, an individual who while in office, was caught dogging in a city park! – Naturally his power and influence ensured he got away with it! It’s funny you should mention Rome because that particular individual often reminded us of Kenneth Williams’ interpretation of Caesar in the way he conducted himself and tried to run the city! I dare say a similar pattern is repeated all over the UK.
And then we find bigger and bigger and bigger fleas infesting almost all aspects of public life. The examples you provide are quite – I was going to say ‘good’ but there is nothing good about them; the examples you provide are quite sound! I wish I was in a position to publicly name the individual ( I’ve been asked not to as people DO want to see him jailed and I don’t want to jeopardise that) but I know of one corpulent piss-stinking pervert who, between the early 90s and until about three years ago made a living trading in ‘underground’ porn – including child pornography both visual and textual. That same pervert has repeatedly tried to involve himself in politics, but was rejected as being ‘too extreme’ for even the most extreme parties. He’s broken the law MANY times, been reported MANY times – but is ‘fireproof’ and never prosecuted. The reason being his ‘customer list’ and therefore his leverage includes some very high-level high profile individuals who are in a position to kill the career of any Police Officer who dares try to take him down!
We saw one locally quite recently – genuinely an ex-Army intelligence officer – now doing ten years for raping little girls. He had been reported to the local police as a potential paedophile over 18 years ago; they did NOTHING! It was only when one of his victims – now an adult with her life in ruins – came forward that they could protect him no longer. His wife, who holds an MBE for no good reason that anyone can discern, covered for him; actually hiding textual child pornography (one way perverts get round the law is not to ‘make images’) for him at her office (wait for it!) in a children’s charity! – She hasn’t been touched! another example of a Teflon-coated pervert! And notably, this is one very easily verified case that the Ickes and McKenzies of this world are running scared and steering well clear of!
And talking of McKenzie – why wasn’t this vile old trout banged-up years ago? Like the pervert bookseller or the paedo’s moll, who grants HER immunity from prosecution? The system is corrupt. Sex and drugs are used as one among many means of control, and the more perverted and/or illicit the sex is the greater the level of control. These benders range from ‘swingers’ who don’t want their bizarre rutting habits to become known, to the most dangerous of predatory paedophiles. Conflating the reality of endemic corruption with a collection of infantile fairy stories does appear to be one of the ‘approved techniques’ that has been adopted by the ‘Powers That Be’. And I do think they ‘be’ as bent as the proverbial four-pound note!
The whole NWO thing and the people promoting this sort of crap are really just blowing smoke and rolling mirrors around the place to disguise how corrupt public service actually is. And, as many note, a great deal of the noise comes from people who ARE, at some level directly involved in the corruption themselves!
Why do Hoaxteaders love some paedophiles? Because hoaxing is part of the paedophiles ‘ defence mechanism’. Many (most even?) hoaxers ARE paedophiles simply trying to deflect attention away from the reality of their disgusting lives and activities. – Witness how readily they will turn on anyone who actually DOES start drilling objectively into the truth.
Peter H ended up losing a lot of money (£10,000 I think) after being sued for libel by historian John Hussey. I’m not sure of all the details, for once the details seem to have vanished from the net.
It’s a mystery isn’t it? As long as the accused is on the side of the cult members any alleged crime they commit is forgiven or deemed a set-up by the Illuminati.
A timely reminder from Australia as well where a ghastly shock jock has been elected to a 3 year term in the powerful Senate. The new Senator elect is radio “personality” Derryn Hinch who calls his mob the Justice Party and under the rules of the Double Dissolution election (don’t bother asking) called by PM Malcolm Turnbull only half the number of votes were needed to get a cushy seat & sinecure in the Upper House.
There is a big problem here though : Hinch is a convicted criminal who has served time for breaching court orders re the identifying of convicted abusers in a case similar to Hamsptead where children were protected by privacy. The sentencing judge was particularly scathing of Hinch.
Hinch however is Peedofile Hunter and wants Australia to have a Sex Offender’s register on the internet. Something police vehemently oppose as they control a private register in the hope no-one will go underground as in the USA and who also carry out regular checks. Even more alarming, Hinch claimed in 2005 he had sex with a 15 year old girl when he was in his 30s but thought she was older. So no problem there.
http://phorums.com.au/showthread.php?116707-Hinch-slept-with-a-15-year-old-girl-(true-story)
I’ve always said : those who seem fixated on child or sex abuse and take the High Moral Ground really need to be fully investigated to see if they don;t hide their own dark secrets.
One does wonder if Belinda is protected by someone who uses her to distract the world from some sordid but banal truths. Her involvement with the 9-11 movement focused on baroque and unlikely plots involving illusions and controlled demolition; there are questions that need to be answered their but they involve failures of intelligence and some dodgy international politics.
Well said Sam….. And yes; I’ve had a weather eye on this and wondered to my self what-the-fuck is wrong with Australian law that a obvious crim like that is allowed to even stand for public office?
I came across this (greatly truncated apparently!) list of ‘foibles’ relating to some of the empty barrels that involved themselves in the Hollie Greig and Hampstead cases… Some of these ‘attributes’ can be attached to more than one bender, whilst some of the benders can have several attributes attached to them.
Struck me as a good basis for a new board game – ‘Name That Loon’
Boasted of the primary school you attended – in a manner designed to mislead the casual reader into thinking you attended Cambridge university?
Been convicted of drug offences?
Been convicted of possession of a HIGHLY illegal firearm?
Been convicted of possessing a type of ammunition for that firearm that is banned under the Geneva Convention?
Used the terrorist-favoured technique of breaking your illegal weapons down into parts then hiding those parts across several buildings?
Been convicted of raping a number of young girls, some not even past their first decade of life?
Run a scam ’employment project’ ostensibly intended to relieve poverty in one of the most deprived areas of an inner city – then embezzled the various grants and loans received?
Been convicted of beating up a disabled man with an mental age of around seven in the street because he mocked the ridiculous ‘top hat and cane’ outfit you were wearing?
Gone bankrupt because you were too stupid to realise your business partner was a con-man who held all the assets while you held all the debts?
Failed as a husband/wife/father/mother because your former partner felt you simply weren’t safe to be around your own kids?
Subsequently been banned by the authorities from contact with your own child because you were deemed a such a serious danger to them?
Coached a very young child into repeating a lurid sexual fantasy of your own creation then recorded that performance on a mobile phone?
Done time in Jail?
Been bankrolled in middle-age, by an elderly parent (after a lifetime of bumming around and non-achievement) in a property and business which you then allowed to dilapidate into a slum and go into financial freefall while you pursued the creation of various childish, self-aggrandising fantasies?
Run a business into the ground to the point where it was half-boarded up and not trading… Then tried bizarrely to project the blame for that failure onto the local council for having upgraded the local high street and promoted the town?
Expressed delight at the fatal stabbing of an innocent and perfectly respectable middle-aged woman as she shopped for clothes in a high street store?
Defamed a perfectly respectable headmaster and war-hero by falsely claiming he spanked you in a sexualised way?
Boasted that of effectively walking in the shoes of Dunblane monster Thomas Hamilton by visiting your former school with the intention of murdering your former headmaster?
Having indulged in a chilling pre-echo of the Dunblane massacre (according to your own boasts) since then publically obsessed over that tragic event?
Trawled enthusiastically in an online blog (or other media) through the deeply-personal and minute detail of the alleged sexual abuse of a disabled child? Or put another way, written up what amounts to textual pornography along those lines…
Baselessly stalked a Cheshire solicitor and harassed the man at his house?
Baselessly accused a judge of being a sexual deviant?
Stalked the Lord Advocate at her home?
Baselessly accused your child’s grandparent of being a paedophile out of spite – because the authorities had barred YOU from seeing your child due to the danger you presented to them?
Deliberately misrepresented documents and facts – even after you have been publically debunked with written evidence and checkable references – in order to promote a money-making/politically motivated hoax?
Been implicated in a £75M charity scam and subsequent ‘torching’ of the paperwork to avoid prosecution?
Subsequently been implicated in dodgy scam after dodgy scam?
Fed small children on dope?
Stalked a teenage university student, causing her to fear for her safety?
Traded in extreme pornography?
Been a drug dealer?
Stolen a van or other motor vehicle?
Robbed a house?
Mugged anyone?
Run a charity recycling scam?
Indulged in the ‘swinging’ scene?
Been involved in the making of an underground pornographic film or video?
Been a Soho stripper?
Been convicted of fraud?
Hidden textual child-pornography in your office at a children’s charity on behalf of your sexually-deviant partner whose predilection for young girls you had known about for decades?”
I’m sure at least one or two familiar faces spring to mind there….. Missing from the list is ‘have you ever mused on buggering a child just to see what it’s like?’ – Rupert the Peado Bear of course!
Yes, true.
Yes, and he’s quite agitated about it too. 🙂
You’re right that the case is in process. I think the point, though, is that the Hoaxtead mob are just fine with allegations of paedophilia, proven or otherwise, when the accused is one of their own.
I knew a newsagents who successfully took on the local authority over sunday trading laws, as a result the council officers embarked upon a long campaign of official harassment to try and destroy that business. The police and my local council are working together on a highly dubious campaign to drive some local nightclubs out of the area with making a vast number of demands upon them.
It’s strange, isn’t it?
Angie's Fag says:
Of course the paedophiles they know must be the paedos that are alright really. Same as racists who have a black friend for example but it’s ok because he is one of the good ones. Hypocrites of the highest order
Not only do you not have to look far to find such links JW, drill into these people and you will struggle hard to find one that has made only normal, human mistakes in life. – It’s the extreme/bizarre nature of them which marks them out.
For instance… What sort of crackpot BOASTS of their firearms convictions in an attempt to gain status? Or deals in drugs then tries to present their resulting criminal record as ‘normal’? I’m sure many people reading this have been divorced; but who would dream of setting their ex-partner up to be convicted of child abuse? What is wrong with the mind that could conceive of using their own flesh-and-blood as a pawn in such a game? What sort of woman goes to work of a morning knowing that she has hidden the manuscript of a ‘paedophile novel’ at her office? Worse still that this office is at a charity that operates to assist sick and vulnerable children!
It’s not unreasonable for a normal, average person to be concerned by something that threatens children. But which of these hoaxers lives a normal, average life where they have perhaps made only minor mistakes and transgressions – each and every one of these fruit loops is completely over the top!
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!
I love the smell the desperation in the morning 🙂
…….Are you sure that’s desperation Norman?
I think I might defer the redoubtable Ms Dunbar on Rupert’s proposals and Angie’s bleating.
In fact, I think she has all the bases covered when it comes to the activities of the ‘hoaxing set’!
Even worse is the fact that Hinch despite being a convicted criminal,now joins a body that makes our laws yet has mocked those very same laws- he has openly flouted court orders several times, just like the Hoaxers.
## I was talking to one of his arch supporters yesterday and she listed all the things Hinch wants and says “oh he’ll get them, he won’t rest until he has”
I sadly pointed out to her that all the things Hinch wants fall under State law-bail conditions, pedo registers. (non) parole and so on. She was crushed as the Federal government cannot tell State governments what to do. they have their own parliaments.
Summed up so much today that includes what is so wrong with the Hampstead Hoax mob- massive communications with the internet yet ignorance seems even more entrenched.
That was one very smart investigator ensuring he would be paid up front as his time would be wasted and he could do little.
It doesn’t occur of course to dopey Angela that when someone asks for a large sum it’s usually to get rid of you knowing you don;t have it.
# And there she goes again posting tales that she picks up from the internet or was it the moron Rupert? 100 suspect British police say the FBI so ergo, the FBI is doing it’s job just as the British police do.
But she thinks Rupert Q the druggie dickhead film-maker wannabe is going to blow the Illuminati Baby Munching Cult out of the water?. Barking mad, nutty, insane, a loony, a crackpot and a dunce.
People might be aware of this: RIP a Satan Hunter site.
https://www.facebook.com/DearmanDoesHampstead/
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2016/07/02/breaking-ddh-blog-taken-offline/#comment-32797
I’d imagine asking for a substantial deposit/retainer must be fairly standard practice in the ‘P.I.’ game. – After all, there can be no guarantee of being able to tell the client what they want to hear. Particularly if what they want to hear is absolute bullshit.
One of the many things that makes me laugh about Rupert (and others) is they want to be film-makers. But they have no thought of picking up a book and learning even the very basics. They think talking incoherent shite into a webcam or some kiddies-toy is ‘film making’. We had some Primary school kids in the office the other week; one of our clients is sponsoring a little film competition for them – I’m not being remotely facetious when I say those five, six and seven year-olds had a far FAR better grasp of visual grammar and construction that Rupert, Angie or any other of these fuckwits.
That’s a news story, a real one, that is almost a decade and a half old.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1388319/FBI-exposes-British-paedophiles-on-internet.html
https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/operation-candyman
Obviously anyone committing those sorts of offences, and being in a position of authority, or working with children is a very real concern. As far as I can work out it was a problem with beaurocratic inertia, and a lack of resources. People were in fact arrested, charged and convicted.
Though how anyone could admire Jacqui Farmer for viewing those sorts of images, and then post that story, baffles me.
Abraham Christie, said himself, that images of child abuse were on his phone. His story is it was a plot by people he names to put them there.
We are all under investigation, including me and four other Satanists.
https://hoaxteadresearchmessiahlawyer666.wordpress.com/
Will I need my fighting fund? Or is it all bluster and hot air?
You are fine, we are all RD.
I’d really love to know what Angela ACTUALLY thinks Rupert can do?
Q. Who the f is he?
A. A 37 year old American that like going to Italy and smokes dope is about all there is to him oh! and having a few Skype calls with the delightful Angela Power-Disney.
To the author(s)
From: https://hoaxteadresearchmessiahlawyer666.wordpress.com/about/
“One of us has a background in Psychology so was able to provide great insight into the forensic workings of deviancy: psychopaths, narcissists and sociopaths along with impacts on victims. One of us is a Lawyer and gave us great insight into the legal frameworks and also how rights operate both for victim and perpetrators. One of us is a Nurse working in a mental health crisis team, so was able to offer information regarding vulnerable people from her day-to-day job experiences. One of us is a Teacher, so was able to relay concerns to do with cyber-bullying having had to deal with situations first hand regarding children using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram to continue the bullying after school hours. One of us works as an IT Analyst and we were able to understand in detail the intricacies of social media and information management. ”
ROFLMFAO!
Well, I’m here to call you a cheap, deluded fucking liar whoever wrote this bollocks….
Lawyer? My ARSE!
……ENGLISH law? As far as I and a couple of others are concerned you can shove your English law up your arses; even if you did actually know what the hell you’re talking about (it’s obvious you don’t) it’s just not relevant! – Don’t like what I’ve got to say? Sue me you sad-ass ba’bag!
‘Background in psychology’ – Oh I dare say you’ve known plenty you fucking nutjobs, but nobody in your group is a psychologist… If they were, they wouldn’t be defending a collection of wasted drug-addled scumbags, paedophiles and con-artists; which, factually, is EXACTLY what the hoaxers are!
Likewise with the ‘mental health nurse’… A sad little delusional fantasy. Roll over and take your jags you sad little basked-case!
IT analyst? – Works in PC world maybe? On the games counter on a Saturday afternoon… Funny how you’ve not the slightest fucking clue who ANY of the people you’re having a pop at are or even what country they’re in!
See you in court you bunch of shitebags! – Oh! That’s right! It’s actually very wasters you’re trying to ‘defend’ that are up in court shortly… ‘kin hysterical!
I was thinking the same, Sam. Charge them up front, knowing damn well you’ll find nothing: smart PI strategy. And making the retainer ridiculously high does tend to cull out the fruitcakes and undesirables.
I think the thing Rupert has failed to grasp is that he’s being made a fool: he’s being sent out to find evidence of a non-existent ‘paedo ring cult’, and the people who’ve been accused of belonging to that cult have had it up to the back teeth with the whole thing. One way or another, Rupert will discover that he’s going on a fool’s errand.
Jacqui Farmer/Charlotte Alton Ward’s defence: “It was because I was trying to find paedophiles online!”
Abe Christie’s defence: “I was framed, yer honour! That nasty man put the bad pictures on my phone to make me look bad!”
Interesting how these two lines of defence seem to echo those mentioned in today’s post. Apparently they’re not exactly original.
I think Angie’s real goal with Rupert is to breathe new life into the rotting corpse of this hoax. She grabs onto anyone she can think of who might be able to help do that. I think it’s called “failing to acknowledge the inevitable”.
There’s a rather funny back-story to that blog. I know who’s behind it, and I’m pretty sure I know what their game is. Working on a post about it as we speak…stay tuned!
I saw that site a few nights ago, SV. I’m in their Hall of Fame. I would’ve preferred a star on Hollywood Boulevard, hey ho…
Champion the paedophiles and slander and harass the innocent…that’s the hoaxers way and they’ve the cheek to call us paedo supporters in their rabid YT comments below videos.
Yep. Hypocrites of the highest order!
I think it shows that their worldview is more important to them than child abuse. A worldview that all authorities are bad guys, whether that be the police, social services, government, illuminati….etc. And if someone who has been accused of child abuse claims to be a whistleblower or freeman against those authorities, they are automatically innocent, and the authorities are guilty.
In contrast, if an accused is part of the establishment, then they are automatically guilty.
Luckily, courts tend to go by evidence, not that it matters to the hoax supporters.
Athena Pallas says:
OMG, it’s beyond pathetic… all those usernames…. yeah, they’ve really cracked it, run for teh hills, our cover is blown.
phillimoresarah says:
I am relieved to know that it is a ‘scientific fact’ that I am REAL. REAL I tell you.
Yes, I think we’ve all earned places there, LOL. The author is, how shall I say, informationally deprived.
I was relieved to hear this as well. I think we’ve had this discussion, but are you me? If so, your real-ness is of some deep personal importance to me.
Which one of me gets the emotional support kittens though?
How many are there? Enough to go round? I do have two cats as it is, but one can never have too many emotional support kittens.
A bundle of em
This many?
Some appear to have slipped away.
I’m looking forward to the idiots trying to doxx people who post here…. they are going to start from the premise that everything disclosed here by anons is absolutely true. Take me for example…. what do you know about me?… that I live in Glastonbury. Maybe I don’t… I might live in Wells, or Ulan Bator. So, assuming I live in Glastonbury… who am I? only about 7k people to rootle among to find me……. happy hunting! As a lizard Freemason satanist I can shapeshift to anything I want so if you fail, you can blame RD, which is my real identity. Eh, I think I’ve confused myself now.
Awww. Get the violins out…
I think we should all start using the #JeSuisRicky hashtag again. That completely befuddles them. 🙂
Tracey, do you get who Barman is now and why I was toying with him last night by using his name knowing he was watching? 😀
I think so!
Hey Barman – if you’re watching (which, let’s face it, you are), this might come in handy:
And please do keep the ill-informed hypocritical tantrums coming. They’re giving us all a great laugh and I’m sure that that nice Mr. Coyote appreciates the free advertising 🙂
Just don’t spell my name wrong! 😉
HAR-DEE-HAR-HAR !! 🙂
Remarkably transparent, that site, don’t you think? It’s your toddler brother or sister aping everything you say & do, but with no comprehension of the meaning.
And whom, other than your toddler sibling, would be interested in their detailed study of your appearance and habits? Nada, me thinks.
I really was in local authority care. Hence my annoyance with certain people. My annoyance was later magnified by seeing their antics close up and also having first hand experience of the misinformation put out by campaigners. Though seeing as I was obviously part of the Illuminati NWO Satanic Babylonian Childsnatching Protege Party stolen from my loving parents to be put in the evil SS care system in cahoots with the secret family courts, what do I know. I am also Sarah. And RD.
I don’t have kittens. That was not true.
Well now. I resemble that remark. I think we’re very interesting, and not just to that snot-nosed little kid my parents saddled me with, I’ll have you know! 🙂
p.s. #JeSuisRicky
Listen to the opening moments of this one (in fact, that’s all you’ll be able to cope with before you zone out and/or lose the will to live). Angie goes into overdrive on the begging bowl front!
By the way, is it just me or does Cathi Morgan have a really irritating voice?
YOU LIED ABOUT THE KITTENS?
I am devastated, I tell you. Devastated.
No, it’s not just you. And wow, Angie begging? Who could have predicted that?
Gabriella Barney says:
“I’m gonna address briefly the thing of…erm…You know, it’s not a begging bowl thing…but the thing of…it’s scandalous that someone who’s work is, you know, cutting edge and…and…er…so in depth…that the website’s down and, you know, the…the…equipment’s in danger of swallowing up…er…evidence of research for years, so if…if you can donate, small or large, any amount, if you agree that this is something that makes a huge difference and needs to get out there, needs to be documented, until we get this in book form, I would really passionately implore people to donate, either through my GoFundMe…erm…you know, through which I’ll channel some funds to Cathi and…I would like to get Cathi’s website back up and secured…erm…you know…and get, perhaps, you know, more reliable equipment and new laptop or something…So if you feel like I do, as passionately, that this work is invaluable, needs to continue and needs to be disseminated…erm…your…your donations, small or large, will be hugely appreciated.”
I live at No 11, SW1P 4QY, in my lair. I have a secret tunnel so I can go and see Her Maj for a pre-lunch gin and Dubonnet. It is also vair close my bijou penthouse flat in a lovely block right on the Thames.
Bwahahahahahaha
I’m really jealous, Sarah. No one’s ever proven scientifically that I exist and frankly, I’m starting to have my doubts.
This is serious! Can’t we start a GoFundMe page to buy her a packet of fags?
I’ll get over it. Eventually.
You have a lair? I believe Frances Mulligan the 7-foot tall lizard has one of those as well. Seems to be the in thing these days.
I have ascertained through pure dead scientifical research that you are French and were produced between 1979 and 1991 – although you may be a cut-and-shut job and/or have had replacement panels (probably just a new bootlid). You are 54 inches high, 68 inches wide, 183.7 inches long and weigh somewhere between 2,789–3,351 lb…
…..No I’ve no idea why I’m up this late either! 😉
LOL! Night, Joe. 🙂
Order Of Truth says:
Here is a bit more info on their links https://orderoftruth.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/hampstead-child-abuse-campaign-group-shocking-links-to-renowned-paedophile-group-vipaedophile-childabuse-radio4-2/
Last line encapsulates situation to a tee:
“The self-perpetuating cult-like group will defy the law (and common sense) because they have no respect for it or anyone else.”
Thanks OOT
They are mates with another convicted child sex offender too. Brian Paed.
He was convicted of soliciting a 13 year old for sex and arranging to meet her in a hotel room. It was actually an undercover police officer.
He also tried to publish a book which contained libellous statements about his ex colleagues, but much more disturbingly identifying information about looked after children including I believe information about why they were in care and their time in care.
Lately his daughter wants nothing to do with him and wants him nowhere near the granddaughter. He was convicted of harassment and sentenced to prison for contacting them in breach of a court order I believe.
https://victims-unite.net/category/abuse-survivors/brian-pead-aka-freeman/
Look at the category. Abuse survivors.
There’s also Maurice Kirk, punched a teenage girl in the head, for no reason.
Musa family, parents whipped their children and left scars. Fraudulently claimed benefits and made the children pretend father wasn’t around. These are British kids, but these lot wanted them sent to Nigeria to live with family they had never really met and who weren’t up to the task of protecting them from their parents.
Melissa Laird. Let her dog bite her toddler son, was unconcerned, had been banned from keeping dogs because she wasn’t able to care for them, son poorly looked after, couldn’t speak due to neglect, did a flit with him (actually kidnapped from care) and went to live in caravan in Spain that ended up covered in shit because she got dogs again. Has serious mental health problems on top of that.
Are you beginning to see a pattern?
Yes, definitely a pattern. It constantly surprises me that others aren’t aware of this.
Abuse survivors? Abuser servers more like.
Brain Paedo should be on a bromide drip at the very least.
Here’s a case relating to Peter Hofschroer from just before his arrest.
Click to access Coulson-v-Wilby-2014-EWHC-3404-QB.pdf
If anyone feels like seeing him getting called cnut, frequently, there’s a thread he started on Army Rumour Service. That was going to go well!
Well, they are all fighters for justice against a corrupt state that has persecuted them, obviously.
Oh. Right. I forgot.
And lest we forget Neelu’s mate Peter Hofshroer, who’s just been found guilty of child porn charges and given a 30-month prison sentence.
Oh, good to hear!
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2016/07/10/sabine-neelu-trial-to-begin-tomorrow/#comment-33771
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As an ambassador for Holocene and a delegate for the Adventure Travel World Summit, travel photographer and influencer Kirsten Alana went to Alaska to experience the Alaskan railway, go dogsledding, and flightsee over Denali National Park. Below is her account of what she experienced. Learn more about Kirsten on The Travelers podcast. Thank you Kirsten and congrats on hitting all 50 states! ~ Nathaniel
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“It felt like I traveled through Alaska at the speed of light, changing locations every single day. Keeping up with posting photos just became impossible. So while I was very sick and stuck at home this past week, I managed to slowly put together a video of my time in the state that I REALLY want you to consider visiting sooner than later. I was well and truly BLOWN AWAY by “The Last Frontier” and I hope that comes through in this video. Alaska was my 50th state and some would not be wrong to say that I saved the best for last. (No offense to my home state of Vermont. You still have the biggest piece of my heart.)” ~ Kirsten Alana
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I landed in Alaska last night and when I did so, I finally achieved my goal of visiting every state in the USA!! Alaska was my 50th and some might say I saved the best for last. While I can’t attest to that quite yet, I can say that it is GORGEOUS here and especially gorgeous at this time of year when the leaves are already changing, the crowds of mountain climbers have left and the people who live + work here have time to tell you stories about how the local football team gathered river rocks to help build the tallest free standing fireplace in the state in exchange for new uniforms. There’s a sense of calm here and a respect for nature’s rhythms. Even the train itself slows when there is a particular landmark guests on board should. not. miss. I’ve always wanted to ride the rails this far north & west from where I was born in Vermont because my Grandfather helped build the highway that brought intrepid explorers out here and as a child my mother wore bracelets carved from whalebone that her father had given her. People call this The Last Frontier and thanks to #ATWS2016 & the @alaskarailroad I can, finally, understand the appeal…
I’ve dined at the ‘Best Restaurant in the World’ and I’ve eaten in Michelin-starred establishments on multiple continents but I don’t know that I’ve ever sat down at a table where almost a century of history was holding up the plates of food before me. That’s just what happened at @tkaroadhouse in Talkeetna, Alaska. It’s a town whose history goes back to the early 1900s when what is now known as The Roadhouse began serving food to miners, trappers and railroad workers around 1918 under the ownership of the Lee brothers. The name wouldn’t become official until the 1940s, when climbing took over as the industry which primarily brought outsiders to a town that probably boasts no more than 900 full time residents. Under the ownership of Carroll and Verna Close, the legendary family style breakfasts that are still served today became the daily tradition that brings together locals, visitors and climbers alike, all at communal dining tables, trading adventure stories over stacks of sourdough pancakes with birch syrup, scrambled eggs and reindeer bacon. Current owner Trisha Costello keeps the stories of The Last Frontier, and the tradition of the communal table, alive – while allowing the walls to be covered with the native flags of climbers who come from all corners of the globe attempting to summit Denali. The food she serves is simple yet genuinely amazing but it is her stewardship of tradition and history that truly makes a journey here on the @alaskarailroad from Anchorage worthwhile. A tradition that should be part of the fabric of any well-rounded life, at least once.
While a lot of the emphasis in Talkeetna is on climbing, in @DenaliNPS you by no means have to be a climber to appreciate the natural beauty of this special part of Alaska. The name Denali refers to the mountain and park, the latter of which is America’s 3rd largest in the NPS. I was so excited to be here now, on this trip, because it’s the 100th birthday of the @NationalParkService this year and Denali’s 100th birthday next year, plus it was just finally officially renamed by President Obama in 2015 going from Mount McKinley to Denali which means “the high one” in the Athabaskan language. To really appreciate both the mountain and the park, I recommend getting up in the air with @k2_aviation like we did, flying over the National Park and surrounding area and, if the weather cooperates, landing on one of the glaciers. We landed on Kahiltna Glacier which is Basecamp for Denali during climbing season and the longest glacier in the Alaskan Range. Most simply put: the scenery is STUNNING. The two hour round trip flight will give you different typography and varying vistas every few minutes from twisting rivers to glacier flows to jagged peaks and more. My favorite part was right around Denali just after we took off again from the glacier to head home. The tip of Denali decided to remain hidden but many other peaks were on full display. And though the white was almost blinding, one thing was crystal clear: nothing man can create will ever equal the beauty & majesty of Nature.
During my first few days in Alaska I was able to keep up the pace of posting easily as I slid into the stories and the history of a state my family has connections to like the writer I only wish I was but sometimes am when so deeply inspired. At some point, the pace of our experiences picked up and like a waterfall that goes from a trickle during the dry season to one that gushes off the side of a mountain with such volume you don’t know how it doesn’t bring the mountain down with it during rainy season…. that has become the new pace of this experience for me. There’s SO MUCH to Alaska. From the people to the history to the scenery to the craft beer and fine dining to the marine life and the wildlife. Instagram Stories have been a better fit for me to share because I can share in such short tidbits and soundbites without feeling I need to do the long captions which have become my signature. I hope you’re following there? All this to say I’m not sharing here because Alaska isn’t amazing. Alaska IS AMAZING and there’s so much to share I’m having trouble choosing!!! If you haven’t been, please consider visiting.
Alaska presented moments of such supreme stillness, peace and yet connectivity to other people that I had to try and write about it even though it means skipping ahead in my story of this state. Because what good is it if I tell you to visit a destination where you might not have real connections to anything. We met up early, strangers all, and traveled away from Anchorage, up to Willow with @murklcom; where we spent the day at a private home on a lake, able to choose all manner of activities or enjoy an endless buffet of food + the company of like-minded #ATWS2016 attendees & a host of Alaskans working in various industries that service locals or tourists. The goal was to relax into enjoying Alaska, and into the stories that make this state The Last Frontier. I did a little bit of it all: taking photos, telling stories, hearing stories, eating AMAZING food, making friends with sled dogs and even getting a bit of a workout out on the water. It was during my second time in the kayak just before we all packed up to [reluctantly] leave, that this moment occurred. The water was as flat as a plate of glass, the colors were heightened by the setting sun and after I pulled alongside Mauricio from @fantastico_sur we shared our mutual appreciation for the stillness of the moment and the importance of taking time to observe such moments when they occur in our hectic lives; rare that they are. He said, and I’m paraphrasing, “that we have a mission to give people their life back, to help them find their heart… through travel.” I thought it was so profound because we just met today but not knowing me, he cut right to the heart of what I want to do. I don’t travel to make you jealous, to make you feel envy or to be cool, I travel to remind you what’s possible, to encourage you to find and grab the opportunities that will make YOU come alive. Like I did in the stillness of a lake in the middle of nowhere in Alaska today.
Happy first day of fall!
My Fall started when I touched down last week in Alaska and it was scenes like this one with Alaska Railroad that made me love Alaska’s colorful September. If you’re a planner, I recommend beginning right now, planning your own visit to the state for next year at this time. Since it’s going to be the 75th birthday of the ALCAN Highway and Canada’s 150th birthday, why not combine trips to the most northern and western US state with a visit to some of Canada’s best provinces by road tripping to Alaska via Canada! You just might see me since this is now something I want to do as well.
Briskly venture. Briskly roam.
Perhaps nothing better describes my time in Alaska than the quote on the inside of this compass given to me by my friend @andyaustinphoto. I carried it in my pocket all through my trip around the state, looking for the perfect moment to include it in the story of something we saw or something we did and I found that moment at Spencer Glacier during a kayak and hiking day trip with Matt, George and Ellie of @ascendingpath. We had to take the whistle stop train from Portage to get to the glacier and it was so fun getting a last ride in with @alaskarailroad, then literally flagging the train down as it made its last run for the day after our tour was over. It all went by too fast for me but I did pause in this moment, and several times on the actual glacier, to stop and just be present in the moment. It’s all too easy to live life in a rush no matter where we are but I think it’s particularly important when we travel to try and balance seeing much, with pausing to appreciate more. Thank you, Matt for creating a company and a tour that allows for both.
Alaska is one of those near-perfect destinations that has something for everyone, one that is still not over saturated from a tourism perspective. I also love that in September you can be knee deep in snow on top of a glacier in the morning, hike through a forest of fall foliage in the afternoon before ending the day with a gourmet meal on top of another mountain. But it was the quiet moments like this one at Spencer Glacier Lagoon with @ascendingpath and my colleagues from #ATWS2016 that I loved most. To my core I love & crave the vibrance, the bountiful options of urban travel but rural vistas feed that deep primal longing in my soul. The one that first called me to be a traveler. The one that has called so many before me to visit Alaska. I can’t wait to get better and be back out on the road but until that time, I’ll hold on to the memories of moments like this and look forward to the memories yet to be made…
The fog in Alaska at @resortalyeska.
It’s amazing how quickly nature can change. When we rode the lift up from the resort it was all clear and by the time we hiked to this spot a few minutes later, the mountains which should be in full view right in front of me, were totally obstructed. Yet there was peace standing on what felt like the edge of the world. And I was thinking about the AMAZING meal I’d had the night before, a few hundred feet away at Seven Glaciers restaurant. Sure I was bummed not to see the view I’d been looking forward to but once I got over that I noticed the beautiful way the moisture in the air created what looked like jewels hanging from all the plants, in the form of water droplets. And I noticed how in dense fog, all noise becomes muffled and things seem more still. I know for myself when I can let go of what I wanted to embrace what I have, I’m always better for it. Not that dreams and wants are bad, they’re what drive us. But sometimes they can also cause us to miss the beauty of what is around us right now.
All images and words (C) 2016 Kirsten Alana
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Yamaha YAS-209 review: Great sound for TVs and music meets the convenience of Alexa
The YAS-209 soundbar is Yamaha’s first intelligent speaker of any type and has remained a favorite of mine since its release last year soundbar, period. Yamaha chose Amazon’s Alexa for its voice control, and the YAS-209 performs well as a smart speaker and sounds excellent with music, TV and movies.
It’s not the cheapest soundbar available: the Vice V21 voice control is missing but it’s half the price, but in my book the Yamaha is worth the extra money. Buyers in the price range of the YAS-209 may prefer the Sonos Beam for its multiroom chops and choice of Alexa, Google Assistant or Apple AirPlay 2. However, neither the Sonos nor the Vizio match the Yamaha’s sound quality.
The YAS-209 is everything I expect from a mid-range soundbar: ease of use, powerful output levels, and the ability to play movies and music at a high level. The fact that you can ask Alexa for a song – and make it sound better than almost any smaller smart speaker – puts it over the top. In the 12 months since its release I have yet to hear a soundbar that can match Yamaha in its mix of sound quality and features, and for that reason it deserves our Editors’ Choice award.
Little boxes on your sideboard
Sarah Tew / CNET
The Yamaha YAS-209 is a wireless soundbar and subwoofer that incorporates two microphones for use with Amazon Alexa. Unlike competitors like the Sonos Beam (which lacks a subwoofer) and Bose Soundbar 700, Yamaha will not receive Google Assistant in the future.
The main soundbar is about 37 inches wide and 2.5 inches tall and I found it fit a number of TVs without blocking the IR port. You can also mount it on a wall in the same horizontal orientation. The subwoofer, on the other hand, is a large box that houses a 6.5-inch woofer. It’s a little more intrusive than the bar at around 16 square inches and 7.5 inches wide.
The speaker offers DTS Virtual: X for simulated surround effects from a single bar, as well as a host of media-specific presets: music, TV show, movie, sports, game and stereo.
Connections include HDMI in and HDMI (ARC) outside, optical digital and Bluetooth. You can connect the soundbar to Ethernet and Wi-Fi, for Spotify Connect and Alexa support, even if it’s not there AirPlay 2 or Chromecast integrated.
The soundbar has a larger than usual remote control and the back is pleasantly concave. Given the small nature of the soundbar’s LED display reading, the remote control is one of the primary methods of interacting with the soundbar; the button selection is suitably comprehensive and easy to use.
The soundbar does not use the Amazon Alexa app for setup, but rather the Yamaha Sound Bar Controller app for iOS and Android.
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Week 4 Preview: Will Heritage Ever Win Another Game?!?!?!?!?!
By: Chris Long and Joel Bryant
Obviously, this headline is a joke. After the Huskies’ second consecutive defeat last Thursday, there has been a lot of overreacting. Unfortunately for the team, it would seem that many supporters of Heritage Athletics have written them off for the remainder of the season. While the two losses were not ideal, they don’t mean it’s the end of the world. The problem is, and we are definitely guilty of it, that expectations were set far too high. After the win over Green Hope, everything that was supposed to hinder the team flew out the window in the minds of Husky Fans. New coaching staff, losing over 20 seniors, extremely young offensively- none of that mattered anymore. A team with so much going against it is bound to hit roadblocks, and that is exactly what the two losses were.
Let’s take a look at the losses to Rolesville and Knightdale. One was lost in overtime on a ridiculous play (and some naughty zebras). The other was lost due to perfect execution on trick plays by the opposition. Most importantly, both losses came not only on the road, but in the home openers of their opponents. Winning road games is in no way impossible, but it is certainly more difficult in the tougher environments. Which reminds us, which school is the toughest place to play in the region? Oh, right. Five of the Huskies’ final eight games are at home, starting this Friday as they take on Jordan.
Charles E. Jordan High School, located in Durham opened in 1963. Jordan plays in the PAC-6 with other schools from Durham like Northern and Hillside. Generally, they are pretty decent athletically, but the football team has struggled as of late. Jordan’s varsity football team is 5-31 since 2012, including their 0-3 start this season. The Falcons have only scored 6 points in each game, while giving up an average of 37.
History vs. Jordan
Heritage has never faced Jordan in football.
The following is the discussion segment, where Joel and Chris will debate key aspects of tomorrow’s game.
Biggest Question
Chris: Will the Huskies limit the penalties? Penalties have killed the Huskies in the first three games of the season, and countless big plays have had to be called back. In the Knightdale game alone, 4 or 5 “big” plays were called back on Husky penalties. Heritage needs to stop giving away free yards.
Joel: Will the special teams rebound from their disappointing performance? In the first two games of the season, Heritage’s special teams unit was excellent. Against Knightdale, however, they took a step back. Parker George missed his first field goal, the kickoff team allowed 3 huge returns, and one of the snaps to the punter went haywire, allowing Knightdale to get great field position at a crucial point in the game. If the special teams can play up to the level of the first two games, Heritage’s chances of making the playoffs will go up greatly.
C: Brandon Felton. Brandon had a some huge tackles on very important plays last week that kept the game close. Look for him to make a big impact again this week on the defensive side of the ball.
J: Zach Gemmell. The junior receiver caught 7 passes for 156 yards in week 3. The Holmberg-Gemmell connection is getting better by the week. Expect him to put up more big numbers against Jordan (and in the many weeks that follow).
C: Jordan 23, Heritage 22. All of my predictions have been wrong. May the trend continue.
J: Heritage 38, Jordan 13. I have a feeling that the offense is finally going to take off this week.
Location: Heritage High School
Kickoff: 7:00
Attire: America Out (not 9/11)
10 Sep 2015 17 Sep 2015 heritageherald
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