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Home / 1001 Inventions' Science Show and Schools Programme launches in Sao Paulo, Brazil
World-premier show and educational productions uncovering fascinating scientific legacy from Muslim Civilisation
www.1001inventions.com.br
Tuesday 23rd September 2014, Sao Paulo: A new theatrical science show and educational programme was launched today at the Institute of Butantan. The ‘1001 Inventions Brazil Schools Programme’ provides a fascinating insight into the history of science, medicine and technology from over one thousand years ago in a period known as the Golden Age of Muslim Civilisation.
Over the last decade, 1001 Inventions has reached over 100 million people across the globe, with educational campaigns in cities such as in London, Istanbul, New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Kuala Lumpur,Jeddah, Karlstad and Rotterdam.
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Developed specifically to engage schools in Brazil, the programme was produced by the United Kingdom based educational organisation 1001 Inventions in partnership with the Institute of Butantan in Sao Paulo, Qatar Museums, Qatar Ministry of Culture, the Government of Sao Paulo and is launched as part of the Qatar Brazil 2014 Year of Culture.
The science show and educational programme introduce a world of science and inventions from a creative era of Muslim Civilisation that spread across three continents from Spain and southern Portugal to as far east as China. During this historic period from the 7th century onwards, inspirational men and women of different faiths and cultures built upon the knowledge of ancient civilisations and made discoveries that have had a huge and often underappreciated impact on our world. Settlers who arrived in Brazil in the 16th century brought with them many of these ideas and discoveries that still shape modern life today.
“This programme is so important to inspiring our children today because it helps demonstrate that science is global and that other civilisations have contributed to the world we live in. This journey to the past can help us build a better future”, says Jorge Kalil, Director of Butantan Institute.
The ‘1001 Inventions Brazil Schools Programme’ provides educators and schools with a new, first-of-its-kind, live science show and short feature film starring Sir Ben Kingsley, and classroom materials that enrich the teaching of science, technology and mathematics. The diversity of the content provided interlinks themes of science with art and culture, helping to nurture student creative skills.
David Uip, São Paulo State Secretary of Health, commented that “It is wonderful to see the leading role in the 1001 Inventions science show as the character impersonation of Malba Tahan, our celebrated early 20th century Brazilian mathematician. Through his beautiful stories and books he introduced us to the same Middle Eastern golden age of science and discovery and this 1001 Inventions school programme continues that journey demonstrating how societies today, including those of Latin America, have had centuries of interactions with Muslim Civilisation.”
Ahmed Salim, Producer and Director of 1001 Inventions, said “Our 45 minute science show is fun, engaging, interactive and educational. It features actors role playing scientists from the past who attempt to bring back to life fascinating stories of discovery and link them to our lives today. From algebra to inoculation, from algorithms to time telling machines; This was an enlightening time in human history, contrary to what is sometimes called the darks ages, the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the European Renaissance”.
Commenting on the significance of the ‘1001 Inventions Brazil Schools Programme, Safiya Al Hajari, Director of the Office of Strategic Cultural Relations, Qatar Museums, said: “We are delighted to be a part of this exciting educational programme that will further contribute to the cultural bridges that we are building between Qatar and Brazil as part of the Qatar Brazil 2014 Year of Culture.”
The ‘1001 Inventions Brazil Schools Programme’ is managed in Brazil by the Institute of Butantan in Sao Paulo. The first phase of the programme will be hosted at the Institute of Butantan where many schools will attend the live show and receive educational materials.
1001 Inventions is a British educational organisation and world leader in celebrating the scientific and cultural legacy of Muslim Civilisation.
1001 Inventions delivers global educational campaigns and creates award-winning productions including blockbuster exhibitions, festivals, films, live shows, books and learning materials.
1001 Inventions is the world’s leading Muslim Civilisation brand that has engaged and educated over 100 million people and established a global network of strategic partnerships and relationships with governments, educational institutions and organisations.
1001 Inventions demonstrates that for a thousand years from the seventh century onwards, exceptional scientific andtechnological advancements were made within Muslim Civilisation. In an areathat spread from Spain to China, men and women of various beliefs and backgrounds built upon knowledge from ancient civilisations, making breakthroughs that helped pave the way for the European Renaissance and impact our world today.
Many of these discoveries, inventions andideas spread, with the settlers, to Brazil in the 16th century influencing life today in homes, schools, hospitals, towns, and our understanding of the world and universe. www.1001inventions.com
About Qatar Museums
Qatar Museums connects the museums, cultural institutions and heritage sites in Qatar and creates the conditions for them to thrive and flourish. It centralizes resources and provides a comprehensive organization for the development of museums and cultural projects, with a long term ambition of creating a strong and sustainable cultural infrastructure for Qatar. Under the patronage of His Highness the Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and led by its Chairperson, Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, QM is consolidating Qatar’s efforts to become a vibrant center for the arts, culture and education, in the Middle East and beyond.
Since its foundation in 2005, QM has overseen the development of the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, and the Al Zubarah World Heritage Site Visitor Centre. The QM also manages the QMA Gallery at Katara and the ALRIWAQ DOHA Exhibition Space. Future projects include the opening of the Fire Station: Artists in Residence in 2014 and the launch of the highly anticipated National Museum of Qatar and the 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum.
QM is committed to instigating Qatar’s future generation of arts, heritage and museum professionals. At its core is a commitment to nurturing artistic talent, creating opportunities and developing the skills to service Qatar’s emerging art economy. By means of a multi-faceted program and public art initiatives, QM seeks to push the boundaries of the traditional museum model, and create cultural experiences that spill out onto the streets and seek to involve the widest possible audiences. Through a strong emphasis on originating art and culture from within and fostering a spirit of national participation, QM is helping Qatar find its own distinctive voice in today’s global cultural debates.
About Qatar Brazil 2014
Qatar Brazil 2014 is a year-long cultural exchange programme dedicated to connecting people in Qatar and Brazil through culture, community and sport. Through a year full of thought-provoking activities, both nations strive to strengthen bilateral relations and create lasting partnerships. For more information: www.qatarbrazil2014.com
About Butantan Institute
Institute of Butantan is a leading research institution in Brazil, developing biological products for public health, undertaking basic and applied research, and promoting scientific knowledge. Founded in 1901, it is one of the largest biomedical research centres in the world in the areas of Biology, Biomedicine, Pharmacology and Biotechnology. For more information: www.butantan.gov.br
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MuslimHeritage.com Newsletter Issue 3 and The Times Summer Book 1001 Inventions
U.K. Prime Minister endorses Muslim Heritage
Tony Blair has embraced the Muslim community with his endorsement of the pioneering book 1001 Inventions
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2014 John and Emma Bonica Public Service Award
Robert H. Dworkin, PhD
Robert H. Dworkin received his BA in 1971 from the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD in 1977 from Harvard University. He is currently professor of anesthesiology, neurology, oncology, and psychia¬try; professor in the Center for Human Experimental Therapeutics; and director of the Anesthesiology Clinical Research Center at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Dr. Dworkin is director of the Analgesic, Anesthetic, and Addiction Clinical Trial Translations, Innovations, Opportunities, and Networks (ACTTION) public-private partnership with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA); cochair with Dennis C. Turk, PhD, of the Initiative on Methods, Measurement, and Pain Assessment in Clinical Trials (IMMPACT); a member of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Zoster Working Group; and a special government employee of the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. He is an associate editor of Pain, is a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Pain and Current Pain and Headache Reports, and has previous¬ly served as a consultant to and member of the FDA Anesthetic and Life Support Drugs Advisory Committee and as a member of the CDC Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella Working Group. As director of the Anesthesiology Clinical Research Center, Dr. Dworkin has been the principal investigator for a large number of clinical trials of analgesic treatments.
The John and Emma Bonica Public Service Award honors outstanding contributions by an individual or an organization to the field of pain through public education, dissemination of information, public service, or other efforts to further knowledge about pain. The award is named for John Bonica, a leading force in the development of the pain treatment movement, and his wife, Emma.
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Pg. 69: Keith Hollihan's "The Four Stages of Cruelty"
The current feature at the Page 69 Test: The Four Stages of Cruelty by Keith Hollihan.
NAMED ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S BEST BOOKS OF 2010
A female corrections officer works with a young male inmate to uncover a criminal organization that has taken control of a maximum security prison
Ditmarsh Penitentiary holds many secrets within its walls, and the inmates aren’t the only ones who keep them. Given absolute authority, the guards often slip across the divide from law enforcement to criminality.
Officer Kali Williams tries her best to stay on the right side of the law. Then she meets an inmate named Joshua who claims that another prisoner has drawn an elaborate comic book that holds a guide to Ditmarsh’s criminal underworld. At first Kali can’t take it seriously. But soon after, the artistinmate disappears completely.
Intense and arresting, The Four Stages of Cruelty is a powerful debut for fans of Umberto Eco and Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
Read an excerpt from The Four Stages of Cruelty, and learn more about the book and author at Keith Hollihan's website.
The Page 69 Test: The Four Stages of Cruelty.
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Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz
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Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz currently acts as a Visual Effects Artist & Sequence Designer for the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica. He has been with the show since "33", making him the longest-running FX artist on the series (second only to Visual Effects Supervisor Gary Hutzel). Highlights of Mojo's work have been designing the chase in "Scar" and the climactic moments of "Exodus, Part II", when the Pegasus sacrifices herself to save Galactica.
Along with his fellow artists at Zoic Studios, he was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2003 for the episode "33" and in 2007, Mojo and the current in-house Visual Effects team won the Emmy for "Exodus, Part II" (yes, it's true that he attended the awards ceremony in his Original Series Colonial Warrior uniform)[1]. No one would argue that he is the biggest fan of the Original Series currently working on the show, and when the series is over he plans to pursue a career in vagrancy because he can't imagine any job is better than this one[2].
Prior to Battlestar Galactica, Mojo served as a CG Supervisor for Star Trek: Voyager and as Visual Effects Supervisor for the Las Vegas attraction "Borg Invasion." His career began in 1992 with Foundation Imaging, the very first company to use computer graphics as a visual effects tool on the series Babylon 5. His other credits on genre shows and movies include Serenity and the re-mastered version of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. He won an Emmy Award for his work on the Voyager episode "Dark Frontier". He was previously nominated for the episode "Year of Hell, Part II".
On his blog, he talks about his FX work on Battlestar Galactica, as well as his previous work on Babylon 5 and Star Trek.
Darth Mojo's blog
↑ BSG nerd wins Emmy, cops open fire (almost)
↑ Anatomy of a Cylon
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National Park air tours restricted at sunrise and sunset for first time
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It’s not much, but it’s a start. The troubled FAA/NPS collaborative planning process has completed an actual final plan to manage air tours at a national park. But don’t get too excited: it’s not a full-on Air Tour Management Plan, as was the goal for all national parks with sightseeing flights when the two agencies were charged with the task fifteen years ago. Taking advantage of new rules encouraging voluntary agreements with air tour providers, Biscayne National Park in Florida is on the verge of finalizing such agreements with two flight providers.
The good news is that these agreements limit flights from 8am to 6pm, which leaves sunrise free from flights year-round, while sunsets only occur a bit before 6pm for a couple months in the heart of winter. Similar provisions for flight-free times extending an hour before sunset and an hour after sunrise at the Grand Canyon were derailed at the last minute by Senators McCain and Reid in a rare show of bipartisan meddling. The Grand Canyon remains the only National Park with a formal air tour plan, thanks in part to the fact that the FAA was not part of that process, which predated the start of the FAA/NPS efforts (the FAA and NPS have different approaches to the EIS process, which they’ve been unable to resolve). So it may be an encouraging sign that the first agreements to come out of the joint planning do manage to keep the magic hours on each end of the day free for quieter recreation.
Of course, Biscayne is not your typical National Park. Within sight of Miami, there is plenty of boat traffic and most of the action takes place near the seashore, with all of its natural and human soundscapes, as well as on and under the waters of Biscayne Bay. Plus, the number of air tours is small (200 annual flights, most from November to May), and there is probably little demand for sunrise and sunset flights. Still, perhaps this first small step will set a precedent for plans at other parks.
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Abdulaziz Othman Altwairji
Director General, Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO)
Breakout Session: Baku Process: Responding to New Challenge for Global Intercultural Dialogue
Dr. Abdulaziz Othman Altwairji is the Director General of ISESCO. He is a Saudi Arabian author and lecturer who has served at various posts including Executive Director of “Islam Today”, an Islamic academic journal published in Arabic, English and French; and “AL JAMIA” Journal published by the Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World. Abdulaziz was director general of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization –ISESCO, served as secretary general of the Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World, was a member of the Royal Al-Albayt Institute for Islamic Thought, Jordan, of the advisory committee of the Arab-Islamic Civilization Encyclopedia, of the World Islamic Forum for Dialogue, of the board of trustees of the Arab-European Centre for Studies in Paris, of the Arab Thought Forum in Amman and of the scientific committee of Prince Abdulmuhsin Bin Jallawi Center for Research & Islamic Studies Sharjah.
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Local MP Helps Out At Barnardo's For 'Make A Difference Day'
Banff & Buchan MP Dr Eilidh Whiteford joined the staff at the Barnardo’s shop in Peterhead’s Erroll Street for an hour on Friday as part of Barnardo’s ‘Make a Difference Day 2011’.
Shop Manager Irene Pearson was on hand to show the MP the ropes, as Eilidh joined volunteers Sophie Grant and Carina Ventura on the shop floor as part of Barnardo’s campaign to attract more volunteers.
Shop manager Irene Pearson remarked:
“We are very grateful to Dr Whiteford for taking time out of her busy schedule to help our campaign.
“There are children in Scotland struggling to cope with their everyday lives, and people can help by becoming a volunteer. If you are interested in helping, then please call in and speak to the manager of any Barnardo’s shop, or go online at www.barnardos.org/volunteering.
“No experience is necessary for most volunteer roles – just enthusiasm and a warm friendly nature - Barnardo’s will supply all the support and training you will need.”
Talking of her visit, Eilidh said:
Dr. Eilidh Whiteford MP,
volunteers Carina Ventura and Sophie Grant,
and shop manager Irene Pearson
“I was delighted to have the privilege of volunteering at Barnardo’s shop in Peterhead, and I enjoyed chatting to the volunteers and customers.
“Volunteering is a wonderful way of giving something back to the community and is also an opportunity for people to learn new skills or acquire work experience. I would encourage people in Aberdeenshire to consider volunteering at their local Barnardo’s shop, particularly over the busy Christmas period when they could really do with extra help - even for just a few hours a week."
Whiteford Speaks Out In Support Of OXFAM Grow Campaign
Banff & Buchan MP Eilidh Whiteford has given her backing to Oxfam Scotland’s ‘Grow’ Campaign.
The campaign is aimed at promoting sustainable food production, addressing inequalities which plague the food production system from farm to fork, and improving the protection of those in poverty from food price crises.
Speaking at an Oxfam meeting held at the SNP Conference, Eilidh Whiteford MP said:
(l to r) Fiona Hyslop MSP, Cabinet Secretary for External Affairs;
Naile Salima, Programme Development Officer, Oxfam Malawi:
Judith Robertson, Head of Oxfam Scotland; & Dr Eilidh Whiteford MP
“I’m delighted to lend my backing to the Oxfam ‘Grow’ campaign.
“I’m particularly pleased to be joined at this meeting by the Scottish Government’s Culture and External Affairs Secretary, Fiona Hyslop, who has restated her support for the Scotland-Malawi Development Programme, which assists over 40 projects in Malawi.
“Today, in the 21st century, nearly one billion people worldwide don’t have enough to eat. Not because there isn’t enough food to go round –there is: the planet is more than capable of supporting all the people on it with sufficient food. Rather, it is the system of food production which is broken and needs to be fixed.
“In Scotland, Oxfam will be focussing on four major issues to help fix the broken food system. These are Climate Change, which affects crop yields as temperatures rise; Food Price Spikes, because when you spend 80% of your income on food as some poor families do, spikes in food prices are especially destructive; Land Grabs, which force poor farmers off the land; and Small-Scale Farming, because there is enormous potential in small-scale farming in developing countries.”
as contributed to Scotland on Sunday
THERE has been a nasty, belittling and misogynistic undercurrent to the events of the past two weeks. In so many ways it would have been easier to ignore the comments directed toward me by Ian Davidson MP during a meeting of the Scottish Affairs Committee.
Instead, I spoke out about the use of threatening language by the chairman of a parliamentary committee and have been vilified as a result. Like other women who complain, my motives have been questioned and some have tried to smear me. But the bully-boy culture of Westminster has to end. We must stand up to it.
I am not alone in my concerns. Over the past week Labour MPs both front- and back-bench sidled up to me to express their support for my position. Most talked under their breath.
As an aside to the issue of bullying and misogynist language in parliament, the fear of speaking publicly amongst Labour MPs and the failure of its leadership to take proper action against Ian Davidson – a man who is being allowed to stand for a leadership role himself – speaks volumes about a party that has lost its way.
By contrast, non-party political organisations and individuals have rallied in a more public way. They point out the unacceptable nature of Mr Davidson’s threat to give me “a doing” during a meeting of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee, which he chairs.
Organisations and individuals interested in good parliamentary representation highlight the ease with which misogyny can thrive within a political institutional architecture where only one in five MPs is female. The gender imbalances are compounded by a relentlessly adversarial format of debate that limits opportunities for meaningful discussion.
My experience is just one consequence of the chronic under-representation of women in public life. The former MP Tess Kingham described it as “yah-boo nonsense, point scoring and silly games”. Until we blow the final whistle on these silly games, large numbers of our citizens will remain alienated from the political process. On the evidence of this week, Westminster has a long way to go.
Ian Davidson’s denials finally unravelled in a radio interview on Thursday when he admitted having made the remarks. But his admission was followed by an extraordinary attempt to pass the buck on to other committee members. Like a playground bully caught in the act, he resorted to the tired old defence – “it wisnae me, it wis them too”.
Well, let me put it firmly on the record. At the committee meeting Ian Davidson said I would get a doing if I stepped out of line. In his radio interview, he altered this to claim that all he said was that I “got a doing” at the Scottish Affairs Committee.
The change of tense is transformational. It is no longer a threat but a boastful observation. It suggests collective culpability. Unfortunately for Mr Davidson, that’s not what happened.
Cathy Jamieson and Fiona O’Donnell did not give me a “doing”. Nor Mike Freer MP. Simon Reevell made his points in his usual urbane way. And the idea of Alan Reid, the mild mannered Liberal Democrat MP for Argyll & Bute, giving anyone a doing is frankly laughable.
The only person who went too far – way too far – was Ian Davidson. To try to pin responsibility for his own behaviour on others, while painting himself as the referee who called time in the ring, does a huge disservice to fellow committee members who kept the language of their criticisms within the prevailing conventions of parliamentary norms.
One female committee member was concerned enough to pass a note to the chairman suggesting his remark was unacceptable. If the past tense was used, and I “got a doing”, why on earth would she have felt the need to advise the chair that his comments might be misinterpreted in a sexual way?
Why would she have felt the need to mention it again – according to Mr Davidson – when leaving the meeting early? And why would Mr Davidson have felt the need to clarify his remarks to me afterwards? He approached me to point out they were not sexual in nature. I said I found the threat of physical violence just as offensive.
The MP who wrote the note might be able to shed some light on this matter – but there has been silence on that front so far. The inference has been that the “doing” I am alleged to have received was punishment for my “misbehaviour”, as if I were some deviant six-year-old sent to stand on the naughty step.
It does not matter that all I had done was disagree with the committee. In fact what inspired Mr Davidson’s remark is utterly irrelevant. There is no action, no misbehaviour that justifies the threat or act of “a doing”. We hear too often of women being told they were “asking for it” in justification for intimidation or violence. I never expected to hear that from an MP in Parliament.
But this is not simply an issue of aggression towards woman; it’s about a culture of intimidation and bullying affecting men and women that seems to flourish with impunity in the Westminster world.
Moving Scotland forward has to involve moving our political discourse beyond its present tribal partisanship. We need to learn to accept our differences and how to distinguish dissent from treachery. We need to foster political institutions and ways of working that put dignity and genuine equality at their heart. And, as I learned over the past two weeks, we need to move beyond fear of those who try to use aggression and humiliation to silence and intimidate us, and instead call those people to account for their actions.
Banff & Buchan MP Dr Eilidh Whiteford will be helping out at a local charity shop as part of ‘Make a Difference Day 2011’.
Dr Whiteford will be attending the Barnardo’s shop, 12 Erroll Street, Peterhead on Friday 28 October 2011 (tomorrow) at 11.00am. Acting Shop Manager Joyce Summers will be on hand to show the MP the ropes.
Speaking in advance of the visit, Eilidh said:
“I am delighted to have the privilege of volunteering at Barnardo’s shop in Peterhead and am very much looking forward to helping out with various tasks.
“Volunteering is a wonderful way of giving something back to the community and is also an opportunity for people to learn new skills. I would very much like to encourage people in Aberdeenshire to consider volunteering at their local Barnardo’s shop, particularly over the busy Christmas period when they could really do with extra help, even if its just a few hours a week. All you have to do is pop into your local shop and find out more."
QUESTION NOW FOR LABOUR OVER ACTION
Commenting on the purported 'apology' by the chairman of the Scottish Affairs Committee over inappropriate comments to Dr Eilidh Whiteford, the Banff and Buchan MP said Mr Davidson was implicitly acknowledging that he had made inappropriate remarks, but failed to recognise the inherently threatening nature of his comments.
Dr Whiteford said:
“This was an empty apology from Ian Davidson who clearly, still, does not recognise why his comments during and after last week's meeting were inherently threatening and unacceptable.
“We know now that at least one other member of the committee heard his remarks, and understand that another member passed him a note regarding his comments. I accept that some members of the committee did not hear the remarks, given that they were, as Mr McGovern seems to acknowledge, made in a casual, throwaway manner. For me, this only served to reinforce their menacing nature, a menace that was compounded by Mr Davidson's subsequent comments immediately following the meeting.
“There is no context in or out of Parliament where such comments are acceptable, and I am surprised that anyone would try to minimise, brush off or try to justify the remarks made by Mr Davidson.
“I am not prepared to be threatened and intimidated, and until Mr Davidson takes responsibility for his behaviour I regret that I will not be returning to the committee.”
SNP Westminster leader Angus Robertson welcomed the publication of a letter, endorsed by thirteen academics and equality organisations, backing Dr Whiteford’s stance.
Mr Robertson said:
“Ian Davidson’s behaviour was inappropriate in any circumstances, but it is especially unfitting from the chairman of a parliamentary committee.
“One of the ugliest aspects around this has been the way people around Mr Davidson have immediately sought to attack Eilidh Whiteford for having the courage to speak out.
“In contrast, it is encouraging that organisations and individuals outwith parliament have been swift to condemn Mr Davidson’s remarks and, given his own reluctance to take responsibility for his behaviour, the question is now for the Labour party over what action it will take.”
The text of a letter signed by a number of academics and organisations – and posted on the Scottish Womens Budget Group FaceBook Page (http://www.facebook.com/budgetgroup) - can be found below
Dr. Eilidh Whiteford MP for Banff and Buchan has withdrawn from membership of a Westminster Select Committee over the threatening and sexist remarks of the Committee Chair, Ian Davidson MP.
The remarks from Mr. Davidson were exposed by Dr. Whiteford and witnessed by other MPs and Committee officials. Mr Davidson’s alleged threat to give Dr. Whiteford “a doing”, and his subsequent – and bewildering - clarification that his remark was “not intended as a sexual threat” underscore the extent of persistent sexism rooted in political and parliamentary culture.
According to the newly launched “Counting Women In” campaign, men outnumber women 4:1 at Westminster. There are only 5 women in the Coalition Cabinet. The Equality and Human Rights Commission has repeatedly highlighted the slow pace of change. Women are not only under-represented in elected politics, this incident shows they are also under-valued and disrespected.
The allegations from Dr. Whiteford go well beyond party politics and our reaction and condemnation is not party-aligned. This incident is the latest evidence of the dominance of a sexist and antiquated political culture that underlies our political and economic institutions. So long as sexism is left unchallenged, and ‘casual’ references to violence are left unchecked and unsanctioned, women will continue to be held at arms’ length from the political process.
Dr. Whiteford has made clear she has spoken out about the incident on the basis that it is unacceptable behaviour in any circumstance, and in recognition of the many women who experience intimidation and threats of violence. It is in that spirit that we support Dr. Whiteford’s stance.
Prof. Ailsa McKay, Glasgow Caledonian University
Angela O’Hagan, Convenor, Scottish Women’s Budget Group
Dr. Fiona Mackay, University of Edinburgh
Prof. Liz Bondi, University of Edinburgh,
Dr. Marsha Scott, Engender
Jenny Kemp, Co-ordinator, Zero Tolerance
Anna Bird, Acting Chief Executive, The Fawcett Society
Anne Meikle
Susanne Ross, Scottish Women’s Budget Group
Morag Gillespie, Scottish Women’s Budget Group
Bhabani Nayak, Glasgow Caledonian University
Emily Thomson, Glasgow Caledonian University
Andy Aitchison, University of Edinburgh
Banff and Buchan MP Dr Eilidh Whiteford has this evening withdrawn from proceedings of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee over inappropriate and unacceptable conduct by the committee chairman.
During a meeting of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee on Wednesday 19 October, comments of an unacceptable and inappropriate nature were made by the committee chairman, Ian Davidson MP, to Dr Eilidh Whiteford MP.
After the meeting had concluded Mr Davidson approached Dr Whiteford and clarified to her that his earlier remarks about "getting a doing” were not intended to be taken as a sexual threat. He also indicated that another Member of the committee had passed a note to him relating to the appropriateness of his comments.
Dr Whiteford has withdrawn her membership of the committee until Mr Davidson resigns as chairman.
Commenting on her decision, Dr Whiteford said:
“Threats and intimidation of this nature are unacceptable under any circumstances. It is never appropriate to threaten to give a woman 'a doing'.
“If people in my position are not prepared to stand up against aggressive and threatening behaviour, then people who face this kind of conduct in their homes and workplaces will continue to think the perpetrators can get away with it.
“I do not believe this behaviour is compatible with the position of Chair of a Select Committee, and therefore I have withdrawn from the Committee while Mr Davidson remains in his role as chair.”
Proposals by the Boundary Commission for Scotland released last week for the redrawing of Westminster constituency boundaries see the historic area of Buchan as the land north of the Ythan reunited.
The number of Westminster MPs in Scotland is being reduced from 59 to 52 leading to new boundaries. The boundaries last changed in 2005 when the number of Scottish MPs reduced from 72 to 59, and in 1997 as part of a general review.
The proposals for the North-east see Banff & Buchan retained and expanded to take in the Ellon & District council ward and most of Mid-Formartine, except Balmedie and Oldmeldrum. The remainder of the current Gordon Constituency merges with West Aberdeenshire to form a new constituency.
Commenting, Banff & Buchan MP Eilidh Whiteford said:
“It is important that the communities involved in the proposed boundary changes have their say. To that end, I would encourage community groups and individuals to make their comments to the Boundary Commission’s consultation which runs until 4 January 2012.”
Comments on the Boundary Commission’s proposals can be made by e-mail to comments@scottishboundaries.gov.uk or via the webform at www.bcomm-scotland.gov.uk
SNP Work and Pensions spokesperson and local MP Eilidh Whiteford has called for the UK Government to review the operation of Child Trust Funds after it emerged almost a quarter of a billion pounds has been lost from the value of funds in the last year.
A report has revealed that, in Scotland, the loss stands at about £24million affecting 500,000 children.
Dr Whiteford has called for the UK Government to review the advice that it provides to parents on the scheme and investigate reforming the scheme to allow the fund to be transferred into Junior ISA or savings schemes.
Commenting, Dr Whiteford said:
“With some parents seeing a third wiped off the value of their children's funds over the last year this has been a painful reminder of that old small-print warning that the value of investments can fall as well as rise.
“The UK government should now consider updating the advice that it gives to parents on how these funds are managed and investigate reforming the scheme to allow the fund to be transferred into alternative, lower risk, schemes such as Junior ISA or savings schemes.”
Banff & Buchan MP Eilidh Whiteford has raised the ongoing fisheries dispute with Iceland and the Faroe Islands with the UK Fisheries Minister on the floor of the House of Commons.
Speaking during Question Time in the House of Commons, Eilidh Whiteford MP asked the Minister:
“Alongside CFP reform, the ongoing mackerel dispute with Iceland and the Faroe islands continues to cause great concern, not just for pelagic fishermen but for the white fish fleet and fish processors. Will the Minister update the House on the progress of negotiations with Iceland and tell us, in the event of a deal, what recompense will be made available to Scottish fishermen? Might it possibly take the form of additional quota?”
Responding, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at DEFRA Richard Benyon MP said:
“I cannot give the hon. Lady that precise information at the moment. I can tell her that there has been a slight improvement in the relationship with the Icelanders, and I hope that we can build on that. I am still pessimistic about our discussions with the Faroese, but I assure her that I will keep her closely involved, because we are talking about our most valuable fishery. It is sustainable, and we face a severe risk of losing marine stewardship accreditation for the stock, which would cause great harm to her constituents and our economy.”
Commenting afterwards, Dr Whiteford said:
“2500 jobs, many of them in the North-east, are dependant on the mackerel sector. I have been in close contact with industry representatives and will continue to press the case for them at the highest level in Westminster, while I know my colleague Richard Lochhead will do likewise from a Scottish Government perspective because this issue has serious knock-on effects for parts of the white fish fleet and processors.
“The UK Government, as the EU Member State, must redouble its efforts to ensure a just and fair outcome for our fishing industry in the face of outrageous and irresponsible behaviour by the Faroese.”
‘WASTEFUL WESTMINSTER’ SHOULD LEARN FROM SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY
A parliamentary question obtained by SNP MP Dr Eilidh Whiteford has revealed that the cost of a computer case management system purchased by the UK Government for the Child Support Agency has more than doubled from its original budget of £94 million to more than £225 million.
The PQ also revealed that the cost of subsequent improvements to the CS2 system, used by the CSA, have totalled more than £117 million extra on top of the development costs since 2006.
The cost of the CSA system follows revelations over recent weeks that the cost of the Libra IT scheme used by the Department of Justice had trebled from its original budget of £146 million to more than £444 million; while another IT system, purchased for the Passport Agency, had quadrupled to £365 million.
Commenting, SNP Work and Pensions spokesperson Dr Eilidh Whiteford MP, whose question uncovered the figures, said:
“Given the catalogue of IT cost overruns, we would all be better off if Westminster got a calculator rather than another computer. It seems the Westminster government is incapable of delivering big projects on time or on budget.
“At a time when household budgets are under real pressure, revelations over how wasteful Westminster has been with taxpayers’ money are an absolute scandal.
“Serious questions must be asked about how the cost of the CSA computer system was able to more than double – and the first of those questions should be raised with the former Labour Ministers who signed the contracts.
“When it comes to efficiency, Westminster needs to take a leaf out of the Scottish Government’s book. The SNP Government has pursued a vigorous programme of efficiency and public sector reform that is delivering results and driving improvements. In the first two years of the programme, it has exceeded its targets by £300 million and £400 million. Last year, £2.276 billion of efficiency savings were made - £673 million above the target - through new ways of using resources, collaborating across public services or improving procurement.
“That money is being reinvested in the public sector to deliver frontline services or lever in new efficiencies. This is a level of delivery that wasteful Westminster should learn from.”
1. Details of Dr Whiteford’s question on the CSA IT system can be found at the link below.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm110719/text/110719w0003.htm#1107204001531
Dr Whiteford: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the original estimate, at current prices, was of the cost to the public purse of the computer system supplied by EDS Systems for the Child Support Agency's payment system; what the final cost, at current prices, was at the time of completion; and whether additional costs have been incurred since completion. [65626]
Maria Miller: The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission is responsible for the child maintenance system. I have asked the child maintenance commissioner to write to the hon. Member with the information requested and I have seen the response.
Letter from Noel Shanahan:
In reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about the Child Support Agency, the Secretary of State promised a substantive reply from the Child Maintenance Commissioner as the Child Support Agency is now the responsibility of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission.
You asked the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the original estimate, at current prices, was of the cost to the public purse of the computer system supplied by EDS Systems for the Child Support Agency's payment system; what the final cost, at current prices, was at the time of completion; and whether additional costs have been incurred since completion. [65626]
The question has been assumed to relate to the CS2 child maintenance system, which was built by EDS and went live in 2003. “The cost to the public purse of the computer system” has been assumed to mean the cost of developing the system, rather than the cost of developing and running the system.
The original outline estimate given by EDS (now Hewlett Packard) in 1999 for the cost of the build of the new CS2 system was £94m. This estimate is disclosed in the National Audit Office's (NAO) June 2006 report “Implementation of the child support reforms”. At today's prices, based on the Retail Price Index at December 1999 and June 2011, the £94m translates to £132.2m.
The actual cost of developing the CS2 system was £225m. At today's prices, based on the RPI at April 2003, when the system went live, and June 2011, the £225m translates to £292.1m.
During the Operational Improvement Plan (OIP), which ran between April 2006 and April 2009, a further £107m was invested in development to the CS2 system. This amount was disclosed in the NAO's December 2009 report on the performance of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission. At today's prices, based on the RPI for April 2009, when the OIP closed, and June 2011, the £107m translates to £119m.
Following the closure of the OIP, two further remedial releases were made on the CS2 system. The cost of release 17, in 2009, was £4.2m. Release 18, in 2010, cost £5.4m. At today's prices, based on the RPI for December 2009 and December 2010 respectively and the RPI for June 2011, these translate to a total cost of £10.1 m.
2. Details of Dr Whiteford’s previous question to the Home Office can be found at the link below:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm110719/text/110719w0001.htm#110719112001686
3. Last month the Scottish Government announced that savings of 2.2 billion pounds would be reinvested in Scotland's public services, and that Scotland's public sector efficiency targets have been smashed for the third year in a row.
The latest figures show that the public sector delivered 2,276 million pounds efficiency savings in 2010-11, exceeding the target of 1,603 million pounds by 673 million pounds. That equates to 8.5 per cent of the 2007-08 baseline, considerably above the target for six per cent savings for the year. Efficiency savings are reinvested in improving public services.
The Efficiency Outturn report 2010-11 is available at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2011/09/Outturn2010-11
SNP Work and Pensions spokesperson, Eilidh Whiteford MP, has welcomed confirmation that plans to raise the state pension age to 66 in 2020 will be delayed to address concerns that thousands of women will be unfairly disadvantaged.
Dr Whiteford said the decision was a victory for women who had campaigned against the UK government’s plans.
Commenting, Dr Whiteford:
“This is a welcome retreat by the UK Government and a victory for the thousands of women who campaigned against these unfair changes.
“These changes would have wrecked the retirements of thousands of women, already in their late 50s, and denied them the time to make alternative pension arrangements.
“We must now see the full detail of the UK Government’s transitional proposals to be certain that they go far enough and will help all the women affected.”
Banff & Buchan MP Eilidh Whiteford officially re-opened the refurbished Buchan Street Hall in Macduff at the weekend.
The Buchan Street hall was one of the contenders on ITV’s ‘People’s Millions’ and won a popular vote to secure lottery funding to upgrade the facility.
Speaking after Saturday’s official opening, Eilidh said:
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“The Buchan Street Hall is a great community facility which I know is well-regarded locally by the various hall user groups. Growing up in Macduff in the 1970s, I used to attend dancing classes there.
“The hall is looking absolutely fantastic after the upgrade, which the Committee project-managed by themselves. There is a wonderful new kitchen and a new meeting room which really adds to the facilities available for hall users.
“Community facilities such as the Buchan Street Hall are extremely important and I know that the hall is well-used at the moment. With these new facilities, the hall will continue to be a focal point for local groups and community events in Macduff.”
Whiteford Comments On Scottish Affairs Committee 'Sideshow'
SNP MP and Member of the Scottish Affairs Committee, Dr Eilidh Whiteford, today (Wednesday) described the announcement of twin inquiries by the Committee into the Scottish Government’s plan to hold a referendum on Scottish independence as a ‘sideshow’.
Dr Whiteford also said she was bemused that the committee’s terms of reference appear to have been lifted from the Secretary of State for Scotland’s party conference speech, and expressed concern at the short timescale for interested parties to answer the Committee’s calls for evidence.
“These inquiries are a sideshow from the real issues affecting Scotland. It is obvious from the terms of reference that this will be a partisan and pejorative inquiry and that those driving it have already decided what its conclusions will be.
“There are already questions over the chairman’s judgement after his ridiculous neo-fascist remarks during a debate on the Scotland Bill. This just shows how Labour is obsessing about the SNP when the committee should be investigating the impact of Tory cuts.
“A referendum in Scotland is clearly a matter for the Scottish Parliament and Government – and the referendum that is happening is the one the SNP pledged in the election campaign, which we said will be held in the second half of this parliament. That is the platform the SNP stood on in May, and which the people of Scotland gave us a resounding mandate to deliver.
"The days of Westminster Committees or Tory and Labour Governments telling the people of Scotland what to do are over.
“Considering the many pressing issues in the areas where the Scottish Affairs Committee could make a useful contribution, it is disappointing they are instead proceeding with a partisan inquiry into something which has nothing to do with them.
“David Cameron and Nick Clegg have both conceded this is a matter for the people of Scotland and the Scottish Parliament but it would seem their backbenchers now want to hijack this issue by political grand standing.”
Commenting on the terms of reference for the second inquiry, which include six questions listed by Scotland Secretary Michael Moore in his conference speech, Dr. Whiteford said:
“It’s absolutely extraordinary that the agenda for the Scottish Affairs Select Committee seems to have been lifted from a LibDem conference speech by Michael Moore! It seems Ian Davidson has been rummaging through Michael Moore’s waste paper basket looking for inspiration?”
SUCCESSIVE UK GOVERNMENT’S ‘SHAMEFUL RECORD’
SNP Work and Pensions Spokesperson Eilidh Whiteford today (Tuesday) described the UK Government’s record on tackling child poverty as a tragedy as the IFS and Joseph Rowntree Foundation published figures showing that 17% of children in the UK were living in absolute poverty in 2009 – 10 with that figure set to rise over the next two years.
According to the report’s authors, the UK Government is unlikely to meet its target of reducing child poverty by 2020.
“These figures must be a wake-up call for the UK Government over the impact that their savage cuts are having on the most vulnerable.
“Children wherever they are born deserve the best possible start in life. While the Scottish Government is focussed on tackling the root causes of poverty such as education, health, employment, skills and housing, kids across the country are still being let down by Westminster.
“The record of successive UK Government’s on tackling child poverty is shameful. After thirteen years, Labour singularly failed to close the gap between rich and poor created during the Thatcher years.
“The aggressive deficit reduction policies of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are hitting family incomes, making it harder to make ends meet.
“Meanwhile, Labour MPs who failed to tackle the problem whilst in government and sat on their hands through a vital vote in opposition. In February 2011, MPs had the chance to vote down the UK Government’s plans to link benefits to the consumer price index instead of the retail price index.
“This would have given hard pressed families some breathing room but Labour abstained with only one Scottish MP brave enough to break party ranks and join the SNP in voting against.”
More details of the IFS Study can be read here: http://www.ifs.org.uk/pr/poverty_pr_1011.pdf
Katy Clark was the only Scottish MP to vote against the move to link benefits and pensions to CPI instead of RPI: http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2011-02-17&number=212
MP Welcomes APD Devolution Calls From Leading NE Figures
Banff & Buchan MP Dr Eilidh Whiteford has welcomed the publication today of an open letter by a group of leading North-east business and public sector figures to the Chancellor calling for devolution of Air Passenger Duty (APD) to the Scottish Parliament.
The letter is endorsed by Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce, the LibDem Leader of Aberdeenshire Council, the Leader of Aberdeen City Council, North-east Scotland SCDI, NESTRANS, BAA Aberdeen Airport, Aberdeen City & Shire Economic Futures and Eastern Airways.
“Support is growing for devolution of APD and, given the changes proposed for Northern Ireland, the Treasury must recognise its refusal to devolve control to Scotland is unsustainable.
“There is overwhelming evidence for the devolution of APD with all four of Scotland’s largest airports backing the call and Transport Scotland saying ‘there is no good reason why passengers in Scotland should have to continue to travel in such numbers through other UK airports or should not benefit from levels of connectivity enjoyed in other parts of the UK’.
“Devolution of APD would enable us to incentivise airlines to provide new direct international routes, providing Scotland's passengers with enhanced options as they go about their business more freely and more effectively. It would also provide a substantial boost to the Scottish economy and create jobs.
“It is time for the UK Government to stop being hypocritical and allow Scotland to have control over flight taxes, just like Northern Ireland.”
HM Treasury’s Northern Ireland announcement: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/press_107_11.htm
'CONFUSED AND CONTRADICTORY'
Commenting on Willie Rennie’s speech to the Scottish Lib Dems' autumn conference in Dunfermline, SNP MP Dr Eilidh Whiteford said:
“The Lib Dems' continuing obsession with the SNP is plain for all to see. By becoming frontmen for the Tory Government in London, their position on the constitution has crumbled into a mess of confusion and contradiction.
"They say they want Home Rule but fail to support the extra powers the SNP propose for the Scotland Bill. Their position sounds as hollow as their pledges in 2010 to oppose increased tuition fees, higher VAT and accelerated Tory cuts.
"Scaremongering against the financial and operational benefits of a single police force was at the heart of the LibDems' disastrous election campaign in May - and they were rejected by the people of every single constituency in mainland Scotland: rural and urban, Highland and lowland, north, south, east and west.
"They also promised 3,000 police officers in their 2010 election manifesto but since they have become Tory frontmen there are over 4,000 less police officers in England & Wales. Another pledge as hollow as their stance on Home Rule."
PUBLIC HALL AND SHOP TO BE OFFICIALLY OPENED BY LOCAL MP
Banff & Buchan MP Dr Eilidh Whiteford will carry out engagements in Banff and Macduff on Saturday 8 October.
At 2.00pm, Eilidh will officially re-open the refurbished Macduff Old Folk’s Association Community Hall in Buchan Street, Macduff. The Buchan Street hall was one of the contenders on ITV’s ‘People’s Millions’ and won a popular vote to secure lottery funding to upgrade the facility.
Commenting ahead of the opening, Eilidh said:
“The Buchan Street Hall is a great community facility which I know is well-regarded locally by the various hall user groups.
“I’m looking forward to hearing from the committee members on Saturday about the upgrade and their future plans for the hall.”
At 4.00pm, Eilidh will perform the official opening of the The New Arc shop at 21 Low Street, Banff.
The New Arc is one of Scotland’s largest independent animal rescue centres based just outside Ellon and is currently home to over 400 animals and birds both domestic and wild. The centre is run entirely by volunteers. The charity pays no rent, no expenses, no utilities, fuel, travel or phone costs ensuring that all proceeds raised are spent 100% on the animals in their care.
Local Bereavement Care Group Cashes In On MP's Opinions
Deveron Branch of Cruse Bereavement Care Scotland has benefited from a cash donation from Banff & Buchan MP Dr Eilidh Whiteford.
The SNP MP was recently asked to take part in a research study by a well-known polling organisation which offered a £75 fee. Eilidh donated this to Cruse following an invitation to assist the local group with their recent supermarket bag-pack which raised over £700, thereby adding another 10% to the sum raised when she visited the volunteers at the Turriff branch of Tesco at the end of July.
All the funds raised stay locally, and will be used to buy new books for their library, and finance the ongoing training required to ensure volunteer counsellors are equipped to a high standard. The Deveron Branch of Cruse covers Fraserburgh, Memsie, New Pitsligo, Huntly, Oldmeldrum, Banff, Macduff and everywhere else within that area, and the counsellors are kept busy with many referrals coming from GP’s and other health professionals.
Dr Whiteford commented:
“I was delighted to support the Deveron Branch of Cruse Bereavement Care Scotland.
“I am very much aware of the excellent job Cruse counsellors do in providing a listening ear, advice and support for those suffering after the loss of a loved one. Their support has proved invaluable for many individuals and helped them through a traumatic and distressing time in their lives.
“I am therefore pleased to be able to add to the sum raised by the Cruse volunteers at their recent bag-pack.”
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You are here: Home | Human Rights | Asia lets Myanmar off hook over Suu Kyi again: analysts
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Asia lets Myanmar off hook over Suu Kyi again: analysts
HUA HIN, Thailand – Asian leaders barely mentioned Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi at a weekend summit, making a mockery of the region’s grand claims for its new rights body, analysts said.
Leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which includes Myanmar, devoted just three lines to the military-ruled nation’s political situation in the nine pages of their final declaration.
While the statement called for elections promised by the junta in 2010 to be “fair, free, inclusive and transparent”, it made no mention of the opposition leader, who has been detained for 14 of the past 20 years.
The summit at the Thai resort of Hua Hin opened with the inauguration of ASEAN’s first human rights body, hailed by members as “historic” but widely derided by activists, given the lack of action on Myanmar.
“The whole thing is a bit of a farce,” David Mathieson, a Myanmar expert at Human Rights Watch, told AFP.
“There were pretty low expectations for the human rights commission and ASEAN has probably fulfilled these expectations. There’s no way ASEAN can maintain any credibility while kowtowing to the Burmese leaders,” he added.
Burma is Myanmar’s former name.
Suu Kyi had her house arrest extended in August for 18 months after she was convicted over an incident in which an American man swam uninvited to her home. It effectively keeps her out of the way for next year’s elections.
A senior Southeast Asian diplomat confirmed to AFP that Myanmar and Suu Kyi were not discussed at the ASEAN leaders’ retreat, although they did come up when the bloc met with leaders from China, Japan and South Korea on Saturday.
Myanmar’s Prime Minister Thein Sein told his counterparts that the junta could relax the conditions of Suu Kyi’s detention, a Japanese official said – but this possibility was earlier raised by the junta at her conviction.
The rights commission’s launch was also marred by a row over the barring of rights activists from Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines and Singapore, who were meant to meet ASEAN leaders at Hua Hin to discuss the new watchdog.
The Myanmar representative, Khin Ohmar, said their exclusion was an “extreme disappointment”, but not a surprise.
“Now the trial is done and Aung San Suu Kyi is back in house arrest, ASEAN is coming back to avoiding the whole Burma issue again,” she added.
Khin Ohmar said ASEAN was prevented from applying any real pressure on the military regime because of its long-standing policy of non-interference in members’ internal affairs.
“As long as they have that they will not be able to solve the Burma problem”, she added.
Myanmar’s ruling generals did allow Suu Kyi two meetings with a minister this month after she wrote a letter to junta chief Than Shwe offering suggestions for getting Western sanctions against Myanmar lifted.
The move coincided with a recent shift in US policy to re-engage the isolated regime, after decades of hostility.
“These are positive developments and I think Myanmar authorities have promised their commitment to the… roadmap (to democracy)”, Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya told reporters in Hua Hin.
The positions of ASEAN and the international community “remain firm”, he said, reiterating the call for free and fair elections and the release of all political prisoners.
But ASEAN nations have been reluctant to admonish Myanmar when they face their own rights issues, especially in communist Vietnam and Laos but also in Thailand, which has been under fire for its treatment of ethnic minorities.
“The change in the US approach reduces the pressure on ASEAN to push for reform in Myanmar,” said Bridget Welsh, a Southeast Asia expert at the Singapore Management University.
“ASEAN has usually had limited impact on reforms in Myanmar, and this pattern is likely to continue,” she added. –Rachel O’Brien, AFP
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You are here: Home | Climate Change | 3/7/2015 - Environmental coalition calls for ‘ambitious’ climate action plans from ASEAN
3/7/2015 – Environmental coalition calls for ‘ambitious’ climate action plans from ASEAN
We need to take substantial action to address climate change and its effects, said the ASEAN for a Fair, Ambitious, and Binding Global Climate Deal (A-FAB) Coalition during a livestreamed press briefing between Manila, Bangkok, and Jakarta.
A-FAB is made up of Greenpeace, Oxfam, and the Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration (EROPA).
“The burning of fossil fuels for energy production has been found to be primarily responsible for emitting large amounts of greenhouse gases. A harmonized ASEAN policy reform to de-subsidize coal, oil, gas, and to support renewable and other low carbon technologies is therefore necessary, especially in the context of the ASEAN economic integration,” said Zelda Soriano, Legal and Political Advisor of Greenpeace Southeast Asia.
Soriano added that ways to address carbon emission during energy production can be built into the intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs) or climate action plans of ASEAN countries that they intend to undertake under the climate treaty that the 21st Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) hopes to come up with.
“INDCs are concrete steps of the global community to address climate change,” said Wanun Permpibul, Coordinator, Climate Action Network, Thailand. However, governments, Permpibul said, shouldn’t rush creating their INDCs and should instead focus on their quality.
Call for developed countries to take responsibility
But it’s not just ASEAN countries that need to step up.
“There are no outsiders in the climate change issue,” said Dr. Gary Theseira, Environment Management and Climate Change Division Deputy Undersecretary of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Malaysia. “Climate change affects everyone.” He added that some countries benefited more than others from the use of fossil fuels during the industrial period, and these countries have a greater responsibility to use their resulting wealth to help address climate change.
Zelda Soriano, Legal and Political Advisor of Greenpeace Southeast Asia, said that just 90 entities have contributed to 63% of overall global carbon emissions. Of these, 50 are corporations.
“We believe that countries primarily responsible for greenhouse gas emissions, should also be responsible for addressing the adaptation needs of climate change victims,” said Riza Bernabe, Policy and Research Coordinator for the East Asia GROW campaign of Oxfam. — TJD, GMA News
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Jimmy Sengenberger Show, Bob Beauprez, May 3, 2014
Station: KNUS, 710 AM
Show: Jimmy Sengenberger Show
Guests: Beauprez
Link: http://sengenberger.podbean.com/
Topics: Tea Party, Establishment, GOP, Republican Party Divide, Education, Common Core, Conservative School Boards, Race to the Top, Western Governors, Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, Regulation, Oil and Gas Industry, John Hickenlooper, A Return to Values, Rural voters, War on Rural Colorado, Renewable Energy Mandates, Gun Laws, Leadership, Opportunity, Economy, Public Safety, Acid Test, Overreach, 2006 Gubernatorial race, Energy Independence, Jefferson County, School Choice
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HOST JIMMY SENGENBERGER: The crossfire is always going with gubernatorial candidates having their debates, and discussions, and issues of the day. What happens in politics continues to go on and to shake things up. There were four candidates running for governor: Mike Kopp, top line – by just 18 votes, but still top line at the assembly; Scott Gessler, Secretary of State; former Congressman Tom Tancredo; and our guest, who we caught up with earlier, Bob Beauprez, also former Congressman. Let’s go straight to that interview.
[playing the pre-recorded interview]
I’m very pleased to have on the program, a good friend, a good guy – all-around good guy, candidate for governor, former Congressman Bob Beauprez is with us. Good evening, sir. It’s good to have you with us.
FORMER U.S. REPRESENTATIVE FROM COLORADO, FORMER & CURRENT GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE, BOB BEAUPREZ: Nice to be speaking with you again, Jimmy. Good evening to you.
SENGENBERGER: Now, you are all around the state, at least you’re about to be all around the state tomorrow. You’re kicking off a tour to crisscross Colorado. Talk to us about that.
BEAUPREZ: We are. We’re going to be – I think over in the northwest corner before the weeks out. We’re also going to be clear down in Lamar, and all points in between. And in the two opposite corner, if I put it that way, the Durango area and then out toward Sterling. We’ll leave that for the week after. A good bit of the state, we’re going to get to see next week.
SENGENBERGER: Now, it’s always interesting to me, because obviously I’ve never run for state-wide office, what it’s like when you have to actually put all those miles on a car and go travel around from one part to the other. And the state is so diverse. What’s that experience like?
BEAUPREZ: Oh, this is the part I like the best, Jimmy. You know, being a native Coloradoan, having spent a good bit of my life in rural Colorado, in uh – we were dairy farmers, now we’re buffalo ranchers up in the mountains. I always got around a lot of the state then, because we were always buying and selling our cattle, and I had reason to visit folks from corner to corner, and meeting people where they live, where they work, where they –in some cases of rural CO–they try to eke out a living. Parts of the state are extremely dry again, unfortunately. I like to sense that myself. I’m a visual learner. And so I like to see, II like to interact with people. And you know, it really brings home the point you made when you do something like this – how very diverse our state is. You stick around the metro [Denver] area, as important, as vibrant, as exciting as it is, you get a—you get one perspective. And that’s a healthy perspective. It’s important. But the state is so much more diverse and different than that, corner to corner.
SENGENBERGER: I do want to give you a chance real quick, because tomorrow night you do have – or tomorrow afternoon you do have an event to kick off that. You got some details for us?
BEAUPREZ: Yeah. It’s going to be at the Tavern down in the [Denver] Tech Center, and I think it starts at 5:30. Folks, if they want to attend, they can certainly still do that. We’ll take walk-ins. RSVPs are nice, but it people just want to show up, that would be fine. It’s going to be a fun time. Kind of a kick off to the statewide tour, a formal beginning, I guess, of the bigger part of the campaign now, if you will.
SENGENBERGER: And now let’s delve in to the bigger part of the campaign, where you have a very interesting race. I haven’t seen anything like this in a state-wide race in my memory. And that is a four way primary – and we listed earlier in the program all of the candidates that are running. What differentiates, in your mind, Bob Beauprez from rest of the pack, in terms of the qualifications and the things that you feel you bring to the table?
BEAUPREZ: Well, it’s what we were talking about a little bit earlier, Jimmy. It’s my diversity of experience. I am a Colorado native. But more importantly, I’ve been in a number of different careers. [I] started as a typical family farm. We had dairy cows, did pretty good at that. Ended up selling our cattle all over the world. And then we developed the farm and the families asked me to look after that, and I did. So I had that experience. Thirteen hundred housing units, no small undertaking, and [I] learned a great deal about how you create jobs and deal with a lot of government when you take on a project that big. We – Claudia and I – bought a little community bank. grew it from $4 million to $450 million, created a lot of jobs, had five employees, I think it was when we started. [We] ended up with over 150. And most importantly, touched a great many people in our part of Colorado. I think at one point we were in five or six different counties here in the north metro area, including downtown Denver. And so you get a great deal of experience in dealing with that many different people small, especially small business people. [I] went to Congress, and now come back home– we’ve got the buffalo ranch up in the mountains. So, I’ve had a great deal of real life experience of creating jobs, seeing how government sometimes does it well, lots of times does it not so well at all. And in every career, I’ve found myself in a leadership role. I think Colorado is void of leadership, right now. It’s the place I fault John Hickenlooper the most. I think my experience, –hands on, real world experience–will help me relate to the diversity of Colorado. I want to get this economy moving again. I think we have lost a tremendous amount of opportunity, and I fault John Hickenlooper and Barack Obama for that. I think there is a better way. I know that way, and I want to lead us in that direction. So, I think it’s experience that sets me apart, Jimmy, and I look forward to making that case to Colorado.
SENGENBERGER: Now, one thing we always like to do is give a chance for candidates to respond to one or two of the criticisms that are often levied against them. There is the 2006 loss, for example, that you had. Now, it was several years ago. It was a ways back. What has changed since 2006? What have you learned since 2006, when you did lose by a fairly sizeable margin, and there were some people that say, “Well, he ran in 2006, and he lost big. That makes me a little hesitant to support him this go around. How do you respond to critics in that issue?
BEAUPREZ: Well, I haven’t done everything perfect in my life, and that was one of the times. And you know, making a mistake is one thing. You don’t want to do it twice, and I won’t. The biggest mistake I made in ’06 was that I did not give full consideration to how difficult it would be to be a member of Congress, as I was, on the Ways and Means Committee, a fairly involved responsibility, and also running a state-wide campaign back here for the office of governor. It proved to be extremely difficult. In addition to that, Jimmy, the landscape was tough. My pollster told me – and this isn’t meant to sound like an excuse, it’s just a piece of reality–my pollster told me not since Watergate had he seen an environment so difficult for Republicans as it was in ’06. That’s all changed. We’ve now got an incumbent governor in John Hickenlooper, who has taken some hits, most of them self-inflicted. He’s now got a record. I look forward to exposing that record. I think it is a record of failed leadership and lost opportunity. And we’re going to take him to task for that. We’re going to present a better plan for Colorado, a better leadership plan, and a better economic plan, a better public safety plan, a better plan to really make education about our children and give them a fighting chance to get all these jobs we’re going to create in Colorado. And I think, when we’re done, I think we’ll make a clear case to Colorado voters and offer them that better choice. I think this is the year that they’re hungry for a better opportunity, and I look forward to making that case and hopefully being that choice.
SENGENBERGER: Before we delve into those issues for a few minutes with our guest […], one more thing that I hear, especially in a lot of Tea Party circles, we’ve got this divide that I really want to be bridging, I think that it’s something we need to move past. I’ve talked a lot about it on my program. But you’ve got this divide between the so-called Establishment and the so-called Tea Party wing. And there are a lot of people that I know that say, “Oh, Bob Beauprez is somebody from the establishment. He’s getting establishment support. He’s getting support from out of state. He’s getting all of these kinds of things.” How do you see yourself vis-à-vis the supposed divide in the Republican Party? Do you think that is an accurate picture for people to paint, and say, “Oh, Bob Beauprez is the ‘establishment guy in the race?’”
BEAUPREZ: Well, I think “establishment” is a word that we throw around a lot, right now. It’s meant to be pejorative. Here’s what I am: I’m a guy who spent almost all of his live but 4 years of it in the private sector. Did I serve my party? Yes. I think that is an important thing for all of us citizens to do. I started as a precinct committee man, eventually was asked to be county chairman, and then state party chairman. And proudly, once I was recruited to go to Congress, I did for a grand total of four years. If that makes you “establishment”, I don’t know, I guess I’ll leave that in the eye of the beholder. What I understand, Jimmy, is that you have to have principle. I wrote a book about this. Lots of people talk about being principled. I actually wrote it down. Here’s what I believe. Here’s how I think we need to solve the big problems in front of America today. I wrote it in a book. I would encourage people to take a look at that – A Return to Values is the name of it. And in that book, I said there really ought to – here’s the acid test, and it’s one that I’ll use when I’m governor, to be for something or against something. If it enhances, preserves, protects, defends freedom, then we ought to be for it. If it diminishes, infringes, detracts in any way from the freedom, the individual liberty, the opportunity that has always been at the forefront of the American Dream, then we best be against it. That’s my guiding principle, Jimmy. I don’t think that that is anti-Tea Party, anti-liberty, or for that matter, anti-Republican establishment. I think it’s at the core of what it means to be an American, first and foremost. So, that will be the case I make, and I hope, just like I was able to do in 2002, that after we’re done with the primary and into the general election, I hope that I could bring this party together, this conservative movement together, and reach even well beyond that to people that are looking for some common sense leadership again. And I hope I can be that choice and be that kind of governor.
SENGENBERGER: Now, you just talked about constraints on freedom, Bob Beauprez, our guest. And we have seen that dramatically increase here in the state of Colorado. Last year, for example, talking about gun issues, where there are Coloradoans that are deeply concerned, especially in the more rural parts of the state, that you’ll be doing a lot of traveling in, that they don’t feel particularly represented on that issue and energy—we’ll get to that in a moment—and agriculture and some of these other things that have come up. But on the gun control issue, what does that tell you about John Hickenlooper, and where do fall in terms of repealing those gun laws?
BEAUPREZ: I look forward to signing a full repeal of those. I think they were a gross over-reach of our individual liberty and freedom as the Constitution guarantees it. I think he was playing clearly to a constituency within his party that is anti-gun and anti-freedom, but it wasn’t good for all of Colorado. I think the recall election proved that a lot of Coloradoans said it was an over-reach and I think they do want those laws repealed. I think we have got more than enough–way too many, laws on the books. In fact, there are some good ‘liberty” things we could do, such as, not requiring people that already have a concealed weapons permit, have already been approved to carry a concealed weapon, why in the world should – if they go buy another gun of any kind, why do they have to go through another background check? But yet, we make them do that. There’s things we can do to make it better for peoples’ individual liberty and freedom, rather than trample on them.
SENGENBERGER: And certainly encouraging people to just be safe with their own firearms—which they are!
BEAUPREZ: Well, you know Jimmy, there is plenty of evidence that one of safest groups of people out there are people that have concealed weapons permits, and do carry — one of the safest constituency groups in all society.
SENGENBERGER: That’s part of why I remember at the Republican state assembly, somebody – I forget who it was who spoke. It might have been one of the candidates—said ‘This is the safest I’ve ever felt in Boulder.” Because they were allowed to conceal carry on that location on campus. All right. So, one other thing that obviously is affecting countless Americans across the country but also here in Colorado is the job market and the struggling economy. Across the country we see the lowest labor participation rate since 1978. Here-in Colorado, my understanding is, the lowest since 1976, before Jimmy Carter even took office. Bob Beauprez, what do we need to do to get jobs going again in Colorado?
BEAUPREZ: Well, we need to stop this mindless promulgation of new regulation. Does anybody really think we’re short on regulation? And one of the biggest reasons the economy hasn’t gotten moving again, –yes, it’s policies that they’ve passed: Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, here our renewable energy mandate on rural Colorado, the anti-gun legislation. But in Colorado specifically, this will be the sixth or maybe even seventh year in a row, additional regulation has been dumped on top of just one industry – the oil & gas industry. And if they have their way, they won’t be happy until they run that industry completely out of the state. Jimmy, that’s just wrong! It is–if it weren’t for Weld county, –which is producing by the way, 85% of all oil and gas in all of Colorado right now, our economy would be in a world of hurt. Do we need to do it safely–environmentally safely? Absolutely. Do we need to do it in a sound manner? Absolutely. The good news is that we’ve got the technology and the ability to do exactly that, to move in a huge way in the direction that used to be just a fantasy: Energy independence for North America. And Colorado can be a big part of that. So, we’ve got a government right now, — and a governor who brags about having put the most restrictive regulation on that industry in the entire nation. And that was before the air quality regulation which he brags are the only regs in the entire nation, so obviously the most restrictive. That’s just wrong. In order to get our economy moving again, Jimmy, we’ve got to get rid of needless anti-job, anti-economic growth regulation, keep that playing field level, put up a great big sign that says, “Business is OPEN in Colorado and welcome here!” And I think we’ll see things flourish. My goal is–.
[commercial break @15:30]
SENGENBERGER: […] I want to ask you about education. We saw a tremendous push-back against the status quo last November when we had reform school boards elected across the state, especially in Jefferson County which remains the single largest school district in the state as of at least this school year. We also saw the tremendous downfall – two to one, of the Amendment 66 push to raise our taxes and set it up as a progressive income tax, despite Mayor Bloomberg and Bill Gates coing in and spending a couple million dollars combined on this initiative. What do we need to do in your view in terms of reforming education, providing better quality education that diminishes the status quo, while enhancing the education of students, the opportunities for parents and students, and also the ability for teachers to do what they do best?
BEAUPREZ: Well, there is plenty of opportunity, Jimmy. And the simplest way, we need to turn the model on its head. We have been top down– and Common core is the latest example of Washington trying to tell us what to do. Our governor embraced and supported that. They think they know better than local school districts, than parents, than teachers do. We need to turn that upside down, give more choice to parents, more flexibility to teachers. I would pass, and encourage to be passed something that’s called a “Teachers bill of rights.” Let the teachers teach. I’m told, Jimmy, that right now, that 1 in 6 days – 30 – basically 30 out of the 180 days in a school year — are taken up by mandatory testing. That doesn’t allow them enough time to teach. Common Core and PARCC call for more of that, not less of that. We also need to give teachers the flexibility to manage their own classrooms, to deal with problem kids and problem parents so that they can teach. We need to put 100% effort behind a shameful, disgraceful problem in Colorado that has existed too long, that 30% of our third graders can’t read at third grade level proficiency. We passed some laws several years ago, and said we’re going to put an end to that and provided the means to do it. But nobody seems to know if we’re even making any progress yet. On my watch, we will. There’s an opportunity to provide something called a Scholarship Tax Credit that would be a huge benefit to about half of our lower economic level folks in the state – their children, to provide an opportunity for scholarships for them to choose a school that best suits their child’s needs, provide an incentive for companies and wealthy individuals to give, and for at risk kids– kids without great means, to be able to attend those better schools, the best schools. And that’s the way we can unleash the —liberate our young people in the state and get them really job-ready and opportunity-ready so that they can live out the best of the American Dream.
SENGENBERGER: And we have talked with Pam Benigno of the Independence Institute about that very proposal, I think–
BEAUPREZ: They’re doing great work!
SENGENBERGER: –they’re right on spot with you there. Real quick, final question, before we give you a chance to let everyone know where they can find information about you. One of the cornerstones of education policy in this state that started this Common Core push and some of these other things, was the Race To the Top program, at the federal government, where they dangled this carrot – “we’re going to give you money if you make these reforms.” So we do it. We do SB 191. We take some steps and then we don’t get the money. As governor of the state of Colorado, if elected, how would you respond to those kinds of carrots that are held out by the federal government that could drive Colorado into position that would hurt our society, rather than improve upon it?
BEAUPREZ: Jimmy, I talked earlier about the need to do the ‘Freedom Test’. And states and state citizens are not free if you are ever more dependent, ever more at the beck and call of the federal government. Common Core is one of many of federal mandates, federal interventions that I look forward to pushing back on. Not just alone. But I’m convinced that there is a huge group of like-minded, almost universally Republican governors in the Rocky Mountain west that want to band together and do just that. It’s time we remind Washington D.C. what the 10th Amendment was all about: everything not expressly defined in the enumerated powers of the Constitution was to be left for the states. And that certainly means education. We know what’s best for our kids. We don’t need Washington telling us that. So, I’d look forward to not only pulling the plug on Common Core, but a whole bunch else, including, importantly, letting our federal lands go. Let us manage our federal lands. And keep Washington D.C.’s hands off of our precious water out here, as well.
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The Top 10 Weird Sex-Related Mishaps
by JayDubya on Tue 28 Jul 2009, 11:18 am
Keeping it fresh and interesting in the bedroom is imperative for a healthy sex life. It is part of human nature to try new things, experiment, and get kinky. However things don’t always pan out as planned and with all the sex happening across the globe something is bound to go terribly wrong. When mishaps happen in the bedroom, it can cause great embarrassment, a trip to the ER, or even worse.
10. The Unreliable Penis Extension
A hapless Russian man with a small penis made a last ditch effort to save his marriage which ended in disaster.
Grigory Toporov, a 47-year-old man, had feelings of inadequacy after his wife berated him for his small penis. His wife reportedly told him repeatedly that he did not measure up in the bedroom. He decided to take action and doctors fitted him with a special prosthetic penis extension.
The newly well-endowed Russian decided to take his new length for a trip between the sheets. He made the moves on his wife, resulting in a marathon session of wild sex. Then disaster struck. The penis extension broke off during intercourse, ruining the moment and her impending orgasm. This was the last straw for Grigory’s unfulfilled wife who quickly demanded a divorce.
Grigory tried to save the marriage, saying, "I told her I would get a new one but she wasn't having any of it. She said she was fed up with my failures in bed and wants a divorce."
Toporov's wife really needs to learn the whole, "motion of the ocean" bit.
9. Woman Injured In Sex Toy Mishap
Source: Dorling Kindersley/Getty Images
Earlier this year a Maryland woman ended up in the hospital after a bloody mishap involving a homemade sex toy.
An unidentified couple was getting it on in the bedroom one Saturday night and decided to spice up their love making by using a sex toy. For reasons unknown, the sex toy, which we can assume was a dildo of some sort, wasn’t doing the trick. So what’s a guy to do when his lady needs an extra hand? Improvise. This chap decided to attach the sex toy to a Saber saw. Bad idea!
According to reports, the unidentified man placed a call to 911 saying “he had placed a sex toy over a saber saw blade, and then used the power tool on his partner, but the blade cut through the plastic and injured the woman.” The man literally drilled and sawed his lover. The 27-year-old woman, who was bleeding profusely, was rushed to the hospital by a Maryland State Police helicopter.
Police conducted an investigation into the incident and decided not to press any charges, determining the injury was a “result of a consensual act between two parties and no crime was committed.”
Next time the couple should just visit a sex shop.
8. The Case of the Broken Boner
A British couple getting it on was interrupted when the man’s penis broke mid-thrust.
Robert McClenahan, 38, was doing the deed with his wife when tragedy struck and his penis snapped in half. “We were having sex and he missed and broke his willy. We turned on the light and it was bent,” recounted his 32-year-old wife Emma.
Wait a minute, how can a penis break? Penile fractures are caused by a "tear in the tunica albuginea, the thick fibrous coat surrounding the corpora cavernosum tissue that produces an erection." It's extremely rare and most often caused by a blunt trauma to an erect penis, which results in a loud cracking or snapping sound, immediate flaccidity, and intense pain.
In the late '90s a man sued his lover in a Massachusetts court for “breaking his penis” in the case known as John Doe vs. Mary Moe:
The plaintiff was lying on his back while the defendant was on top of him. The defendant's body was secured in this position by the interlocking of her legs and the plaintiff's legs. At some point, the defendant unilaterally decided to unlock her legs and place her feet on either side of the plaintiff's abdomen for the purpose of increasing her stimulation. When the defendant changed her position, she did not think about the possibility of injury to the plaintiff. Shortly after taking this new position, the defendant landed awkwardly on the plaintiff, thereby causing him to suffer a penile fracture.
In that case the court ruled the woman was not negligent as the two were engaged in consensual sex.
Unlike his American counterpart, Robert, who required surgery to fix his member, he now laughs about his broken boner.
7. Train Track Tragedy
A South African couple was caught having sex on the wrong side of the track and literally paid for it with their lives.
Mduduzi Michael Bandezi, 28, and Sibongile Radebe, 25, met at local tavern in the Mpumalanga Province. One thing led to another and they ended up having sex on the railway tracks near the abandoned Kinross railway station. The station was no longer in regular use and the area was known as a haven for drug dealers and prostitutes. There is speculation that Sibongile was a prostitute.
According to reports, the freight train driver spotted the couple from a distance and repeatedly yelled at them to get off the tracks. However, they “continued with their business” apparently unaware of the oncoming freight train.
Mr. Bandezi died immediately at the scene, while Ms. Radebe was rushed to the hospital and died shortly after.
6. Couple Trapped in Sex Position
A Russian couple experimenting with a sexual position from the Kama Sutra was rushed to hospital after they became stuck to each other.
Valentina Sokolov, age 51, had been given a copy of the classic sex book for her 50th birthday. She and husband Ivan, age 56, decided to get kinky and practice one of the positions. They aimed for the stars and chose the Indrani or “deck chair” position. This complicated position involves “the woman drawing up her knees so her feet are jammed under her partner’s armpits.”
Things were going great for the couple until Valentina started to climax, triggering a muscle spasm that trapped Ivan inside her. The couple tried unsuccessfully to separate themselves for two hours. Finally they called an ambulance.
A medic sent to help the couple found the situation wildly amusing. He said, "We couldn't help laughing looking at them. The two lovers, who were not young at all, were in such a complicated position!"
The couple was taken to the hospital where they were separated. Ivan was so embarrassed he immediately ran out of the hospital. Valentina required surgery and made a full recovery.
5. Autoerotic INXSphyxiation
INXS frontman Michael Hutchence was found dead in a hotel room, naked with a belt tied around his neck. Was it suicide or a case of autoerotic asphyxiation gone wrong?
The practice of autoerotic asphyxia, or breath control play, can quickly turn deadly. This paraphilia involves intentionally cutting off oxygen to the brain for sexual arousal. The effects of strangulation are known to cause intense erections in men and the practice dates back to the 1600s where men used it as a treatment for erectile dysfunction and impotence.
The story of 37-year-old Australian rock star Michael Hutchence is perhaps the most famous case of autoerotic asphyxiation turned deadly. The INXS front man was found alone in a Sydney hotel room on November 22nd, 1997. His cause of death was officially ruled a suicide, even though no suicide note was found and there was anecdotal evidence to suggest it was in fact caused by autoerotic asphyxiation. Hutchence’s brother Rhett believes his death was a result of this sexual fetish gone wrong and has gone to the highest court in Australia to try and overturn the verdict of suicide.
It is reported that somewhere between 250–1000 people die of autoerotic asphyxiation every year in the United States. The majority of them are men in their mid-20s. It's rumored that the recent death of actor David Carradine in Thailand was such a case.
4. I Heart You
A night of rough sex and a bizarre act of consensual "knife play" ended with a trip to the hospital and criminal charges for one Canadian couple.
After a big night of drinking, a Canadian couple decided to get freaky. An unidentified man asked his girlfriend Catherine McCoubrey, a then 25-year-old Winnipeg University student, to “carve a heart-shaped symbol onto his chest.” Catherine obliged, but accidently “pushed the knife in too deep.”
The knife pierced the man’s body, puncturing his heart. He was rushed to hospital, clinging to life. Criminal charges were leveled against Catherine. Luckily, the man made a full recovery and supported Catherine in her court case. Catherine eventually pleaded guilty to assault and was given three years of probation.
The couple is reportedly still together.
3. The Priest and the Potato
A British priest was rushed to hospital after a potato “accidently” became lodged in his rectum. The clergyman, in his 50s, said he was hanging curtains in the nude when he accidently fell back onto his kitchen table and landed smack bang on the offending potato.
Trudi Watson, who treated the unidentified male, said, "He explained to me, quite sincerely... but it's not for me to question his story.” I will! Who in their right mind hangs curtains in the nude? Is it even possible to get a potato lodged in your arse by falling on it?
The man of God underwent delicate surgery to remove the spud, maintaining all along it was an innocent accident, not a sexual experiment gone wrong.
2. Oral Sex Becomes a Mouth Full
A Singaporean businessman received the worst blowjob in the world when his penis was accidently bitten off.
The unidentified businessman was having an affair with his 30-year-old secretary. The two would sneak off to a nearby park for sex. The man was receiving a blowjob in a parked car when the car was hit by a reversing van. The impact of the crash caused the woman to chomp down of her lover’s Johnson, dismembering him.
To make matters worse, the entire incident was caught on tape by a private investigator, hired by the businessman’s wife who rightfully suspected her husband of having an affair. The investigator followed the car to the park, watched it park, and witnessed it “shake violently.” He said, “After the car was hit by the van, there was a loud scream from the woman whose mouth was covered with blood.”
The businessman was rushed to the hospital. His lover soon followed with a piece of his manhood in her mouth.
1. Sex in the City Leaves Man Legless
A 34-year-old New Yorker suffered ''extravagant complications'' after injecting cocaine into his penis in 1987, at the height of the cocaine boom in the United States. Cocaine was regularly used by men to heighten sexual pleasure and maintain an erection.
It is reported that the unidentified man “occasionally squirted a cocaine solution into his urethra.” On this occasion the man suffered from a “persistent painful erection immediately after intercourse with his girlfriend.” His erection lasted three days, at which point he sought out medical attention. Call me crazy, but after three hours I'm heading to the ER.
Later, he developed blood clots in his genitals, arms and legs, back, and chest. After 12 days in the infirmary, gangrene had taken over and his legs, nine fingers, and penis were amputated. Yikes!
http://www.spike.com/blog/top-10-weird-sex/82978?page=2&numPerPage=1
Re: The Top 10 Weird Sex-Related Mishaps
by Ninotchka on Tue 28 Jul 2009, 5:55 pm
I...wish I hadn't read that.
by Lima Bean on Thu 06 Aug 2009, 9:32 pm
OH.MY.GOD. lol!!
Yeah, like Lima here hasn't had at least 3 of those things happen to her...
by Tweetey55 on Thu 06 Aug 2009, 11:34 pm
Wow,she's lucky
by Mr Moon on Sat 08 Aug 2009, 9:44 pm
NextJen wrote: Yeah, like Lima here hasn't had at least 3 of those things happen to her...
by Marla on Mon 24 Aug 2009, 1:34 pm
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I just finished writing a short review of the fantastic Kinks album Something Else for RYM which contains one of the greatest pop songs ever.
Something Else might fool people to think this is some of in-between or conceptual album by The Kinks, but nothing could be farther from the truth. Something Else is in fact one of the groups best albums. B-side in particular is superb. Only "End of the Season" might sound out of place until you realise it's Ray Davies's way of giving the finger to the whole summer of love thing. He has never been one to follow suit. The album is of course capped of by one of the greatest pop songs ever written, "Waterloo Sunset" but "Afternoon Tea", "Love Me Till The Sun Shines", "Two Sisters" and "Situation Vacant" are great pop songs as well. The only song I would swap out from this album is "No Return".
This album was released almost simultaneously with Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band so it's interesting to compare the two. Sgt Pepper's is an excellent album as well but I think Something Else shades it. Overall quality is better and this sounds more like an album rather than a collection of songs. And this album has a more universal sound to it. If someone made an album that sounded like Sgt Pepper's it would just sound old or odd. An album sounding like Something Else wouldn't sound out of place. This isn't a dig at Beatles, White Album and Revolver are superb albums, Sgt Pepper's just is a bit over-rated and shades some other contemporary albums for no reason.
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Grow backwards. A conversation with Joe Simon
Joe Simon has spent most of his adult life trying to be a kid again—and inspiring others to do the same.
Call it the Benjamin Button effect: he grows as a filmmaker by growing backwards as a person.
If this picture had audio, you'd hear Joe screaming, "Look! I'm on top of a car!"
Owner of Austin production company The Delivery Men, Joe bought his first camera in 1998 (from a Best Buy, using an employee discount no less) to make BMX videos, as he'd been riding professionally since 1994.
It wasn't until 14 years later when, after more than a decade of running through the full gamut of project types, Joe launched The Delivery Men with friend, writer and producer, Hussain Pirani. The company gave Joe and Hussain full control over the production of their films, and with it the freedom of diversity.
Yet, if one were to watch Joe's many films, a pattern would emerge.
Each film comes from a place of total, compulsive childishness: celebrating the energy and joy in doing exactly what you want.
Despite every neuron in your brain screaming otherwise, that’s not a bad thing.
Being a kid is about the restlessness of curiosity, about being precocious and wild and finding a way to enjoy life for the beautiful mess of possibilities it presents.
It’s that kind of fearlessness Joe sees as the main motivation that’s carried him through his career as a filmmaker.
Kids...they just don’t care what people think about them or what they’re doing. They’re just doing what they’re doing because they’re doing it. And that’s it.
We find something very refreshing in that. After all, what may be keeping us from some truly amazing stories is that we’ve spent too long acting like a bunch of adults.
Since Joe’s been doing what he’s doing for the sake of doing it for over a decade now—and loving every day—this has meant SXSW tour guides, not-for-profit promotions, and irreverent jeans commercials, as well as the occasional wedding film or BMX epic to keep his priorities in check. Whatever's fun, right?
So, with that in mind, the self-professed “class clown” offered us some advice on how to relive all the fun you once had, so many years ago, figuring out that brand new camera for the first time.
Here are 4 childish behaviors we hope will inspire you to go out, find cool things, and remember what it's like to be a kid again.
1. Kids are always learning.
For any filmmaker, a lack of technical knowledge about your craft can sometimes seem like an insurmountable obstacle.
When Joe began, he made a series of “user guides” and “quick tips!” videos. Their purpose was to both test out some new skills and emulate the same videos he watched to get his bearings when he was first figuring out how his camera worked.
In some ways, Joe’s videos were a reaction to the early filmmaking community's tendency to keep knowledge and resources close to the chest. But when people finally started responding to his instructional films (due in no small part to his sense of humor), he saw what kind of power community could wield when working in tandem.
He learned, above all, that sharing his know-how only helped encourage others to share theirs.
You learn that once you actually start sharing stuff, and letting people in, that you actually learn more...So it’s kind of a two-way street. Every time I teach I learn just as much as they learn from me. So, it’s always a learning process.
An adult can often feel stymied, too far behind the curve to ever get started. A kid, instead, gobbles up information from wherever it comes, with no real concern for what he or she doesn’t know.
2. Kids are always exploring.
It all started with BMX, really.
A bike to me is freedom...
...the freedom to go wherever I want, do whatever I want, there’s no rules in a sense. You’re just going around town, looking for these new and different things that you haven’t seen before...when you find that new thing it’s so exciting, it’s so much fun to be able to then ride it. It’s that new excitement that drives you to keep going and find the next thing.
Joe may refer to it as ADHD, but that freedom has given him the confidence to grab a camera and find adventure in the process of filmmaking.
...Exploring to find the next project. What is the next thing that will excite you? That’s where the diversity comes in: I have to have that excitement. it’s almost like an addiction—filmmaking or shooting photographs or any of that—it’s the process that leads you there, and finding that discovery, and then creating, and then you go into the editing process and it’s the whole thing over again.
About a year ago, Joe traveled to India for no other reason than to do so. He brought along his camera—as if we’d expect otherwise—and captured a wealth of untold stories.
A lot of people don’t really go on adventures. They don’t get out there and get out of their comfort zone. When I go on these vacations or these trips, I like to go to places that people don’t normally go.
It was a personal journey for him, yet he still cut the footage, made a short film, and shared it on Vimeo. He describes it as “A story of grown-ass people enjoying life.” In other words: shame on us "grown-ass people", because we've forgotten that a big part of enjoying life is about pushing it into the unknown.
Being a kid is about the restlessness of curiosity, about being wild and finding a way to enjoy life for the beautiful mess of possibilities it presents.
I want people to see: take chances. Go out and see things you normally wouldn’t see. So many people have never left the US that live in the US and it blows my mind that they just don’t travel...By being so closed-minded, you don’t experience those cultures and those people and see that everybody is a human, and we all are basically all exactly the same.
I think it’s a good experience for everybody. It’s inspirational.
Adventure is a way to remember that rules can be broken, and that the best stories we can tell are those we have yet to discover.
For most kids, adventure is their bread and butter, the only way to catch a first glimpse of just how big, broad, and beautiful this world is.
3. Kids are always open-minded.
Since, in “The Great India Adventure”, Joe calls himself a “great traveler”, we asked him the best quality a traveler can have.
A traveler just needs to be open-minded. ...Open-minded to accept whatever is going to happen...you just have to be open-minded to take everything as it happens and just roll with the punches.
Easier said than done. So Joe referenced one of his time-lapse films, “A Day in Rio De Janeiro”.
I’ll want to capture the beauty of what I’m doing. But sometimes if you’re actually going out and filming stuff, you’re not able to be in the moment because you’re there, filming it, real time, constantly and constantly. You set up a time-lapse for 30 minutes, you’re able to then set up the camera, you’re done with it, and then you can hang out at that beautiful location, have a drink, whatever...actually take it in for 30 minutes.
It may be blasphemy coming from a filmmaker, but Joe believes a camera can sometimes take the place of actual experience.
It’s the existential failure we face as grown-ups: looking forward to remembering an experience, instead of just letting the experience unfold as it will.
People take so many pictures nowadays...and it’s all they’re doing: they’re going wherever they are to post that picture on Facebook or whatever. That’s actually making their memory worse, because by taking that picture they’re not processing the moment.
4. Kids are just that: kids.
Which is just one way of saying: a kid can’t be anything but a kid.
Similarly, Joe Simon can’t be anyone but Joe Simon. And this attitude has allowed him to shape his career as a filmmaker into one where he gets to tell exactly the stories he wants to tell.
Maybe that’s simplistic advice, but through just being himself, making films that fall all over the emotional spectrum, Joe learned exactly the kind of films—as well as the parts about filmmaking—he was most passionate pursuing.
It helps people find their path, I think, because if you don’t learn the different processes, you can’t really find out what you’re passionate about and what you really care to do within filmmaking.
Over a decade into it, he’s capturing the stories that mean most to him.
Enjoying what he’s doing, every single day, is more than a means to an end. It’s the end itself.
When we convince ourselves we’re officially grown-ups, we become locked into a firm way of being: risk and curiosity take second place behind stability and comfort.
But for all filmmakers—from those with an established reputation to those shopping for cameras at Best Buy—taking to our craft with a youthful spirit can uncover something purer in our storytelling.
If we’re not afraid to act like kids, the stories we tell will come from somewhere more authentic than we could have ever imagined.
Now try to dig up some memories. Think of one moment from your childhood you wish you could have filmed and share in the comments below. You may find some inspiration in storyboarding your youth.
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USC post-game links
Posted by Mason Kelley
Here are a few links for what should be happy day-after reading for Husky fans:
— You can find all of our coverage here.
— Specifically, here is my game story, focusing on the last drive.
— The notebook, leading off with Jake Locker’s big day.
— Jerry Brewer’s column, stating that UW made the improbable happen again against USC.
— Here’s the 2-minute drill with some notes and quotes.
— Here’s the game story from GoHuskies.com, which includes links to some player quotes, as well.
— The LA Times notes that USC has seen this ending before.
— LA Times columnist Bill Plascke says USC simply had no defense.
— The Orange County Register has some video and other thoughts.
— The Long Beach Press-Telegram has a photo of Steve Sarkisian hugging Donald Butler, as well as some notes on the game, including that Sarkisian apparently engaged in some banter with USC fans and Lane Kiffin noting his team didn’t tackle well..
— ESPN.com’s Ted Miller gave Jake Locker a helmet sticker for his performance.
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Three More Reasons to Invest in Health for the Excluded
Melissa West
This blog is part of a series on Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The series includes contributions from external bloggers and reflects their view. Follow the conversation on Twitter #healthforall.
At the heart of universal health coverage (UHC) is leaving no one behind. Remarkable efforts are underway to energize culture, activate politicians and align global actors to prioritize actions that reach the poorest and most marginalized people first. The health, economic and social benefits of UHC are well-documented. At VillageReach, three additional reasons inspire us to lead with the last in order to ensure access to affordable and quality health services for all.
Beginning with the hard-to-reach builds resiliency. Starting with communities that are geographically or socially difficult to reach helps us develop a model that can be adapted to other, less challenging areas. In resource-constrained environments, you need to move quickly to put in place contextually appropriate systems. And you must break down silos create more efficient systems that reach everyone. In the remote province of Equateur, Democratic Republic of Congo, we implemented a model to bring medicines and supplies directly to health workers rather than having them leave patients for days to retrieve products from a provincial warehouse. Later, when Equateur became ground zero in the fight to control a fast-moving Ebola epidemic, this strengthened supply chain was used to move 30 tons of medicine to 57 health centers that serve more than half a million people in a matter of days.
The logistically challenging region in northwestern DRC of Equateur, where rural communities must rely on the Congo River to access health products and services. (Photo by VillageReach staff)
Incredible innovation comes from looking to the margins. The primary health care system of the future will be tech-enabled, integrated and more responsive to consumer needs. This is driving organizations like VillageReach to develop services that increase accessibility and convenience. Like Uber has revolutionized ridesharing for passengers, SampleTaxi is helping increase the efficiency and speed of getting results from time-sensitive tests like for early-infant diagnosis of HIV. And in collaboration with governments and a range of partners, we are testing the applicability of drone deliveries to bridge geographic distance in remote areas of several low-income countries. Although far from proven, drones have the potential to get oxytocin, emergency blood supply, vaccines and other products closer to where they are needed, and also to reduce costs of reaching remote populations by traditional modes of transport.
The populations we are trying to serve understand their needs better than anyone else. Several years ago, the Malawi Ministry of Health and Population and VillageReach developed a community-based hotline in the Balaka district of Malawi to address barriers accessing maternal and child health information. What we couldn’t have predicted is how this service evolved to address social barriers. In Malawi, nearly one in three girls aged 15-19 are having children and there’s a significant unmet need for family planning. When we share that there’s an anonymous health hotline where people are trained to answer questions about adolescent health, their relief is palpable. Today Chipatala cha pa Foni is available nationwide, reaching people in their own homes and according to Dr. Nedson Fosiko, Deputy Director of Clinical Services “it provides a lot of potential to achieve universal health coverage”.
We share a common humanity with each person on the planet. Perhaps the most important reason to fight for UHC are the individuals themselves – those who have systems, structures and business models stacked against them. They are patients like Gloria and Hawa, who have incredible stories and children to care for and dreams. They are health workers like Ruphin and Helena who are fighting long odds to care for the people in their communities. These are the people for whom UHC was designed. And when we give statistics a name, a face, and a story, we humanize them, we make them real. We don’t want to let them down.
The world will continue to experience shocks due to climate change and global instability. The health system of the future requires people-centered systems that are more resilient in the face of these shocks. We must embrace and shape this system to maximize access to quality health care for the very poor – the Hawas in our midst. Our push for UHC provides an opportunity to do just that.
Director of Advocacy and Communications at VillageReach
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Music And Comic News
CHIRP Radio, which has a well-established reputation for supporting local, independent musicians, is now broadcasting from Chicago’a north side and can be heard at 107.1 FM. The station also holds its CHIRP Record Fair And Other Delights mammoth record and pop memorabilia event each April on Washington, just west of the Loop.
The NutTapper Holiday Variety Show takes place tomorrow morning, December 1, at The Old Town School of Folk Music. Reggio “The Hoofer” McLaughlin once again hosts the annual multicultural reimagining of Tchaichovsky’s classic ballet The Nutcracker, with help from local students and professional dancers. The show kicks off (literally) at 10:00 a.m.
The locals musicians behind Great Moments In Vinyl continue their series of honoring classic LPs with a double dose of The Rolling Stones this Saturday night at Martyrs’ on Lincoln Avenue. They’ll be performing Sticky Fingers and Some Girls in their entirety. Next week, on Wednesday, December 7, Tributosaurus will become Paul McCartney at Martyrs’.
The perception that only guys are interested reading and/or creating sci-fi graphic novels gets upended on the first Wednesday of each month at Graham Crackers in downtown Chicago. That’s when the store hosts Ladies Night, which members describe as, “Wimmen talkin’ ta wimmen ‘bout comics!” The next get-together takes place on December 6 next week. Ladies Night compilations, featuring several local comic creators, are available for sale at the store.
Various Artists - We Weren’t Meant To Last
We Weren’t Meant To Last is the latest Norcore Comics Group compilation that casts a spotlight on the once vibrant punk scene in Norwood Park. The northwest side Chicago neighborhood seems fairly sedate now, but back in the early 1980s, it spawned numerous bands that rocked The Courtside Racket Club and other local venues. We Weren’t Meant To Last unleashes 27 songs originally recorded between 1983 and 1986 that have been mastered by Blaise Barton at Joyride with additional engineering by Brian Leach. Not all the tracks qualify as punk, but the album is a complete success.
“Lost Track” (I’m not sure if that’s the real name or just what Noncore is calling it) by Crinkum Crankum is raw and bluesy, while the boogie of The Gadderwalls’ “No Doubt About It” sounds more like Canned Heat than The Clash. The Outer Ring’s instrumental “Ska Tune” works an espionage mystique and Puss ’N Boots offers the acoustic and compelling “Parting Sees.” Blue Eyed Pasty Whites kick things off with good time rock of “Coulda Woulda Shoulda” and The Beach Hermits mix ska and power pop on “Watershed.”
The punk music exhibits a variety of approaches as well. Throttle Body’s “23 (Listen For It),” The Chocita Bandits’ “Russ Meyer,” and Helstrom’s “Something Special” are fast-paced, guitar driven efforts, while The Supreme Hustle adds a bit of funk to “Back On Up To Me.” “Jump Start” by Vagiant is a catchy, romantic song with female lead vocals, and The Tardagens rage through “Hand To Hand Combat.” The colorful liner notes by Terry Fox describe a scene “whose frenetic pace was only eclipsed by its own brevity.” Thanks to Norcore, that brief exuberance can still be experienced decades later.
Photo from The Regrettes Facebook page.
Some fun things around Chicago in the next few days.
The Los Anegles-based band The Regrettes return to the Chicago this Thursday night at The House Of Blues as the opening act for co-headliners The Interrupters and Swmrs. It looks to be an evening of vintage punk, and as young as they are, The Regrettes are authentic practitioners. On the quartet’s full-length debut Feel Your Feelings Fool, lead vocalist-guitarist and main songwriter Lydia Night consistently brings grit and humor to her lyrics.
The explosive but irresistible arrangements on songs like “I Don’t LikeYou” and “How It Should Be” tap also into the 1960s girl group sound in a way that’s reminiscent of the very early Go-Go’s. Even when Night creates upbeat romantic songs like “Hey Now” and “’Til Tomorrow,” they exude an off-kilter and vulnerable charm. “A Living Human Girl” mocks the limitations society places on women. The Regrettes have previously been in town for gigs at Riot Fest and Schubas.
Rhett Miller’s Holiday Extravaganza with Special Guest Matthew Ryan takes place this Thursday, November 30 at City Winery Chicago. Miller is the lead vocalist for the alt/roots rock band The Old 97s, and if you’ve seen them, you know he’s a high-energy, charismatic showman. It should be interesting to see how he works Old 97s classics like “Champaign, Illinois,” “Let’s Get Drunk And Get It On,” and “Time Bomb” into a holiday show.
WXRT overnight radio personality Emma Mac continues her series of Holiday Hours with Heineken events at venues around the Chicago this Thursday, November 30. The event will be at the Fado Irish bar on Grand Avenue. The festivities last from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. and those who show up have a chance to win a Heineken guitar.
Bloodshot Records will be spinning tracks from its various artists Christmas album when it hosts a Holiday Pop Up Store on December 2 at its headquarters on Irving Park Road. The Chicago-based indie label is promising refreshments and snacks, along with exclusive holiday stuff like records, clothing, and signed memorabilia for sale. The event, which will run from noon to 7:00 p.m, ties in with Bloodshot’s seventh annual Stuffed Animal Drive, which collects soft toys and warm clothing.
Alt rock band whitewolfsonicprincess and garage rocker The Telepaths are holding a Toys For Tots Benefits Show on December 2 at Red Line Tap. Led by vocalist Carla Hayden and guitarist-vocalist James Moeller, whitewolfsonicprincess are veterans of Chicago’s holiday charity scene.
Turkey Casserole
Photo from the Squeeze Facebook page.
A festive Broken Hearted Toy welcome to Squeeze, who have a show tomorrow night at the Vic. The critically acclaimed British act, whose chief songwriters Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford are sometimes compared to John Lennon and Paul McCartney, released their most recent album The Knowledge this past October. Singer-guitarist Wesley Stace (John Wesley Harding) is the opening act.
There’s going to be a Skanksgiving 80s Ska Revival at The Beat Kitchen tomorrow night featuring Heavy Manners, DJ Chuck Wren, and Max And The Invaders. Admission is $15, doors open at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets are now on sale for U2’s May 23 concert at the United Center as part of its eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE tour. The band’s album by that name comes out next Friday.
Bad Examples lead vocalist/chief songwriter Ralph Covert will be at FitzGerald’s tomorrow night, as Ralph Covert’s Acoustic Army.
The power pop scene took a major hit with the recent death of veteran musician Tommy Keene. Although he never became a major star, it’s obvious from the numerous emotional posts across social media that he was highly respected and a close friend to musicians as well as journalists and promoters.
There are still some tickets left for the 93XRT Goose Island Holiday Jam featuring Spoon with special guest Real Estate on December 10 at the Chicago Theatre.
WXRT Live From The Archives Volume 19 will be available on December 1 at Chicago area Target stores. A partial list of the artists involved has been posted on the station’s website and includes Phoenix, Cold War Kids, Sting, Portugal. The Man, Vance Joy, and Real Estate. All of these live performances were recorded in 2017.
Tributosaurus, one of the Chicago area’s best known tribute bands, becomes Paul McCartney on December 6 at Martyrs’ on Lincoln Avenue.
Punk’s Not Dead. The Regrettes, an L.A.-based band that blended vintage punk, the 1960s girl group sound, and a defiant spirit on its Feel Your Feelings Fool debut, has a gig coming up on November 30 at House Of Blues in Chicago. They’ll be supporting co-headliners The Interrupters and Swmrs. The Regrettes have visited Chicago at least twice already, for appearances at Riot Fest and Schubas.
Saturday Night Live: The Experience, a multimedia exhibit celebrating the long-running NBC show, is currently running at the Museum Of Broadcast Communications in downtown Chicago.
I had a successful early morning Black Friday Record Store Day visit to the Reckless Records on Madison in downtown Chicago today, where I picked up the Cheap Trick Christmas Christmas album, The Minus Five’s Dear December album, and both Holidays Rule seven-inch singles by Paul McCartney, Jimmy Fallon, and The Roots. (One has The Decembrists singing Alex Chilton’s “Jesus Christ” on the flip side and the other has Norah Jones singing “Peace.”
Rock And Roll Holiday Gift Guide
First of all, a Happy Thanksgiving to all the American readers of this blog. Even if you’re not located in the U.S., it’s never a bad idea to take a few moments to consider the things you’re grateful for.
It’s that time of year when indie newspapers and major publications alike offer gift guides for their readers. Their choices are decidedly quirky and aimed at those with special interests or hobbies. It’s a great way to discover items you won’t likely encounter in your local department store. With that goal in mind, here’s the somewhat annual (I know I’ve missed a few years) Broken Hearted Toy Rock And Roll Gift Guide.
When I was at Fest For Beatles Fans - Chicago this past August, I had the honor of meeting Vivek J. Tiwary, author of The Fifth Beatle - The Brian Epstein Story. It’s an eye-pooping, 135-page graphic novel tribute to the man who gave us The Beatles, and has won a number of awards. Tiwary, who’s also a successful Broadway producer, is currently bringing The Fifth Beatle to television as a six-part mini series.
For the vinyl lovers in your life, choose from the limited-edition releases coming to record stores tomorrow only for Black Friday Record Store Day. It’s not as massive as the April version, but there are lots of choices in every imaginable genre. Keep in mind, the earlier you get there, the better the selection. In yesterday’s post, I mentioned some of the artists participating, but I’d like to add something to my comments on the Dear December holiday album from The Minus Five. The band’s founding member Scott McCaughey is recovering from a recent stroke, and a portion of the sales will go to his medical fund. As noted in an email from Yep Roc Records, several well-known artists helped out on Dear December, including M. Ward, Ben Gibbard, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, The Posies, Kelly Hogan and Nora O’Connor.
Author Bill Bentley’s Smithsonian Rock And Roll - Live And Unseen hardcover book is the result of the Smithsonian museum asking fans in 2015 to submit photos they had taken at their favorite concerts. The Woodstock and Lollapalooza festivals are included, as well as gigs at the Whisky A Go Go. The photos include Chuck Berry, Bruce Springsteen, and other major artists.
For sci-fi, gaming, action figures, vintage toys, movie and TV memorabilia, and other collectibles, check out the Chicago Pop Culture Convention at the Pheasant Run Mega Center and Ballroom in St. Charles this Saturday and Sunday. The event also promises cosplay, artists, sports memorabilia, and music in vinyl and CDs.
As reported in the most recent edition of Parade magazine, rock and roll fans can purchase photos of iconic musicians like The Doors; The Beatles; Crosby, Stills and Nash; Joni Mitchell; The Clash; Stevie Wonder; The Rolling Stones; Jimi Hendrix; Bruce Springsteen, The Who; and Bob Dylan from the Morrison Hotel Gallery. Books, posters, t-shirts, and tote bags are also available on the site’s marketplace.
After buying a pack of colorful David Bowie stickers at the Alice’s Tea Cup restaurant when my wife Pam and I were on vacation in New York, I was surprised to discover Last Craft, the company that makes them, is located in Chicago. The website also sells candles, clothing, stickers, tarot cards, enamel pins, and shoelace locks—aimed at new wave, goth, feminist, gay, lesbian, and witch consumers.
Also, be sure to check out the Facebook pages and websites of your favorite artists for exclusive music, apparel, and other items. Record label websites like Bloodshot, Yep Roc, and Fruits de Mer are always worth shopping, and The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame website has lots of inductee and exhibit memorabilia. Pledge Music, Go Fund Me, and other crowd funding sites are a good way to support your favorite artists and pick up autographed items. And you never know what rare treasures you’ll discover on eBay.
The Black Friday version of Record Store Day has yet to achieve the success of the original that comes in April, but there are still enough vinyl treasures in a variety of genres to make a trip to your nearest record store worthwhile. The artists involved include Tori Amos; Chuck Berry; The Byrds; Papa John Creech; Steve Earle; Janis Joplin; Wes Montgomery; Queen; Southside Johnny; The Sundays; Tangerine Dream; Big Star; Muddy Waters; Chet Atkins; U2; Sparks; Sun Ra; The Turtles; The Brian Setzer Orchestra; Gram Parsons and The Fallen Angels; The Doors; Aretha Franklin; The Grateful Dead; Richard Hell and The Voidoids; John Lee Hooker; Lydia Loveless; Waylon Jennings; Ziggy Marley; Petula Clark; Procol Harum; The Raspberries; Otis Redding; and Neil Young. There are also various artists collections featuring garage rock, jazz, soul, and 1960s Los Angeles-area bands.
The colder weather, holiday celebrations, and an already established tradition of shopping department stores may cut down on your competition for RSD limited editions, but it’s still advisable to get out there early. Afterwards, you can celebrate your successful hunt over a hot beverage (in my case, a chai tea latte) at a nearby Starbucks, Argo, or Dunkin Donuts. Here’s a look at some of the records I’m hoping to snag this time around.
Paul McCartney, Jimmy Fallon, and The Roots - A pair of Holidays Rule seven-inch singles, both with “Wonderful Christmastime” on the A-Side. The green vinyl version has The Decemberists singing Alex Chilton’s “Jesus Christ” on the flip side and the red version has Norah Jones singing “Peace.”
Cheap Trick - Christmas Christmas A 12-song holiday collection of original tunes and cover versions of The Kinks, The Ramones, Chuck Berry, and Wizzard.
The Minus Five - Dear December A 12-song seasonal collection from the quirky power pop band.
Ooh, You’re A Holiday
Some festive activities coming up in town.
WXRT overnight radio personality Emma Mac will be hosting Holiday Hours with Heineken at venues around the Chicago every Thursday through December 21. This week’s event at O’Shaughnessy’s on Ravenswood takes place tomorrow (Wednesday) night due to Thanksgiving. Mac will be at Fado, Elbo Room, Emerald Loop Bar and Grill, and Lottie’s in the coming weeks. The festivities last from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. and those who show up have a chance to win a Heineken’s guitar.
Vinyl fanatics can unwind with some live music after buying limited-edition albums and singles on Black Friday Record Store Day at Val’s Halla in Oak Park. Scheduled performers include Ellis Clark and Ary Jeebie; the Greg Jackson Combo; Decoy Prayer Meeting; Scott Williams Family Band; Phoenix; Tom Klein Experience; Phil Angotti; Black Friars Club; and Hamburglars.
Bloodshot Records will be spinning tracks from its various artists Christmas album 13 Days Of Xmas when it hosts a Holiday Pop Up Store on December 2 at its headquarters on Irving Park Road. The Chicago-based indie label is promising refreshments and snacks, along with exclusive holiday stuff like records, clothing, and signed memorabilia for sale. The event, which will run from noon to 7:00 p.m, ties in with Bloodshot’s seventh annual Stuffed Animal Drive, which collects soft toys and warm clothing.
Alt rock band whitewolfsonicprincess and garage rockers The Telepaths are holding a Toys For Tots Benefit Show on December 2 at Red Line Tap. Led by vocalist Carla Hayden and guitarist-vocalist James Moeller, whitewolfsonicprincess are veterans of Chicago’s holiday charity scene.
The Empty Bottle is hosting Warm, Safe and Sound, A Coat/Sweater Drive for Homeless Chicagoans on December 21. Donating a coat or sweater will get you in to see the blues rock band North By North, psychedelic rockers Secret Colours, indie rock band The Handcuffs, and the coed indie pop duo Star Tropics.
Gee, But It’s Great To Be Back Home
I’ve offered excuses in the past for being AWOB (Absent Without Blogging) but this is a particularly valid one. My wife Pam and I were on vacation in Manhattan starting last Wednesday and just returned today. It was my first visit, and New York more than lived up to its billing as an eye-popping, multi-cultural, bigger-than-life entertainment mecca with delightful surprises and cultural icons around every corner.
All the credit goes to Pam for crafting an itinerary that included the best tourist attractions as well as places that appealed to our own unique interests. We walked at least 10 miles a day, including a journey up inside The Statue Of Liberty to her crown, and taking in the view from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building. We mingled with the crowd in Times Square each night and listened to a lecture on immigration at Ellis Island.
We passed by The Ed Sullivan Theatre, where The Beatles performed and David Letterman held court; and got a quick view of The Apollo in Harlem. We joined the fans at the John Lennon Imagine memorial in the Strawberry Fields area of Central Park, and browsed the John Varvatos store where CBGB’s—the cradle of America’s punk scene—used to stand. Broadway retains its status as the most influential and star-studded theatre scene in the country.
As we passed through LaGuardia Airport today, a guard asked if I had any magazines or newspapers in my luggage. It’s the first time I’ve been asked that by airport security, and I answered that I had a ton of them. Luckily, it just involved her taking a quick look through my newfound collection. I’m hoping to post more about those New York publications, as well as some record stores and small eateries, in a future post.
Photo of Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow from The Posies' Facebook page.
2018 will mark the 30th anniversary for The Posies, and some celebrations are in the works. Founding members Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow plan to tour as a duo starting in January, and and at some point, as a full band. Upcoming dates include New York, Boston, Memphis, Atlanta, Washington, D.C. and Nashville. They’ll hit City Winery Chicago on January 31. A post on the band’s Facebook page states: “We will be doing material from four different decades in these shows. Good Grief! Special guests . . . mayhem . . . harmonies . . .” The Posies will also release deluxe reissue of their albums from the 1990s.
CIMMfest (Chicago International Movies and Music Festival) is back for its annual run at various venues around Chicago. The four day event runs through tomorrow and will screen films featuring David Bowie, Sharon Jones, Penelope Spheeris, Paul Butterfield, Public Image Ltd., X, Blind Boys From Alabama, System Of A Down, Dixie Hummingbirds, Circle jerks, Pansy Division, and others. Live music performances include a Sharon Jones and Dap Kings Tribute, Tom Rush, Lee Ranaldo, and Nth Power.
They’re still in love with him. A number of local musicians will join together at Martyrs on Lincoln Avenue this Monday, November 13 for Love And Happiness: The Music of Al Green. John Mead (who’ll serve as host), Bill Brickey, Steve Dawson, and Alton Smith are going to pay tribute to the iconic singer, with help from Chris Greene, Jack Cassidy, Gros Nolle Polossi, and Lenny Marsh. The show starts at 8:00 p.m.
Phil Angotti will likely be showcasing songs from his latest album Such Stories when he performs at Montrose Saloon on Wednesday, November 15.
The Chicago Art Book Fair will run from Thursday, November 16 through Sunday, November 19 at the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel on Michigan Avenue. The first annual showcase promises zine-makers from around the globe, book and comics artists, and self publishers. Admission is free.
Record Store Day Black Friday is a great opportunity to pick up one-of-a-kind vinyl treasures, either as holiday gifts or for yourself. You can also catch some live music throughout the day after Thanksgiving at Val’s Halla record store in Oak Park. The scheduled performers are Ellis Clark and Ary Jeebie; Greg Jackson Combo; Decoy Prayer Meeting; Scott Williams Family Band; Big Hair Trouble featuring Ellis Clark and Ary Jeebie; Phoenix; Tom Klein Experience 3:30; Ellis Clark and The Big Parade featuring Ary Jeebie; Phil Angotti; Black Friars Club; and Hamburglars.
Limited-edition 18 x 24 screen prints of artist Shepard Fairey’s dazzling portrait of Debbie Harry will become available for $75 each between 10:00 a.m. and noon on November 13 on his Obey Giant website. The prints will be signed by Fairey and Blondie founding members Debbie Harry and Chris Stein.
The Bill Graham Rock And Roll Revolution ends its run at the Illinois Holocaust Museum And Education Center in Skokie tomorrow. Graham is credited with helping the careers of Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, The Who, and Jimi Hendrix.
Congratulations to Rolling Stone on its 50th anniversary. The magazine is celebrating in various ways, including a recent two-part special on HBO and special printed editions. If you missed the TV special, it’s likely it will air again, and/or be released on DVD or Blu-ray.
The Bad Examples will be performing the energetic rock of “Not Dead Yet,” along with Squeeze-worthy gems like “Kill Amanda” and “Pictures Of A Masquerade” at FitzGerald’s in Berwyn tomorrow night. Billy Prine, younger brother of iconic folk singer John Prine, and his band are the opening act. Bad Examples lead vocalist/chief songwriter Ralph Covert will be back at the same venue on November 25 as Ralph Covert’s Acoustic Army.
Other highlights at FitzGerald’s this month include critically acclaimed singer-songwriter James McMurtry with Max Gomez next Saturday, and the Speed4Sarah Fall Fundraiser and Concert with Expo ’76 and Nasty Snacks on November 24.
IFP Chicago will celebrate 30 years of supporting independent filmmakers with a bash on tomorrow at Noisefloor on Erie Street. There will drinks, entertainment, and raffle prizes.
There’s a four-band showcase taking place at Silvie’s on Irving Park Road tomorrow night featuring Go Time!, Paul Coady And The Edsels, Letterbomb, and Too Much Saturn.
The 34th Annual Chicago International Children’s Film Festival continues through this Sunday at Facets on Fullerton, The Music Box on Southport, and six partner venues around Chicago and the suburbs. The films—several are animated—are divided into the categories of Tots, Big Kids, Tweens, and Teens.
The Arcada Theatre in St. Charles just might be ornate enough to pass for a ballroom when The Sweet performs there on at on March 31. Tickets are now on sale on the venue’s website.
Tickets went on sale earlier today for Los Lobos at SPACE in Evanston on December 9, Anne Heaton at SPACE on December 28, and Guided By Voices at Empty Bottle on December 30.
If it’s not too early to make holiday plans, The BoDeans will be at City Winery Chicago on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
Saturday Night Live: The Experience is now running at the Museum Of Broadcast Communications in downtown Chicago, and judging from the press it has been receiving, the exhibit, to quote Wayne and Garth, is “Excellent.” The suburban Aurora basement studio where Wayne’s World was filmed is just one of the sets that has been recreated for the exhibit. You can even pose on the couch in your ripped jeans and baseball cap while reciting your favorite catch phrases from the skit. The exhibit’s format of a typical SNL work week includes props and costumes, as well as a representation of the Wednesday table read, where everyone involved with the show would go over that week’s script.
The Safes, a Chicago-based band whose punk/garage rock Record Heat and Thanks To You albums were favorably reviewed here on BHT, have a record release party for their latest release Tasty Waves coming up at Beat Kitchen on November 22. The Differents (who were very impressive at Martyrs’ last Saturday), Little Boy, Jr., and The Hustle are are also on the bill that night.
The Social Act, one of the first bands I interviewed for the Illinois Entertainer back in the late 1980s, have been working on a new album, and they’ll be performing at Martyrs’ on Lincoln Avenue on December 15. Razorhouse will also be on the bill that night.
The Bill Graham Rock And Roll Revolution continues its run at the Illinois Holocaust Museum And Education Center at 9603 Woods Drive through Nov. 12.
Desiree Burcum and Tina Teske, longtime members of the Famous In The Future comedy group, will be performing at the Lady Laughs Comedy Festival in Madison. WI tomorrow night. Their Sketch-She (Improv & Sketch) show goes on at 7:00 p.m. at the Artemis Bow Stage. Burcum is a Marilyn Monroe fanatic, so I wonder if she knows about Milton H. Greene’s new book The Essential Marilyn Monroe: 50 Sessions. It has 154 photos that have been previously unseen by the public.
In the Garden of Atlantis, a fashion show benefit for Elements Ballet, will take place on November 18 at the Hairpin Arts Center in Logan Square. Models on the runway will be sporting Atlantis-inspired fashions from Rebirth Garments, MJ Ernst, and Amara Black. There will also be art, photography, dance performances, and a reading of a new novel by Miata Boayue.
There’s going to be a Skanksgiving 80s Ska Revival at The Beat Kitchen on November 25 featuring Heavy Manners, DJ Chuck Wren, and Max And The Invaders. Admission is $15, doors open at 8:00 p.m.
The Second Disc website recently reported on a new box set of seven-inch singles that were originally released only to members of the Official Beatles Fan Club from 1963 through 1969. The records are packaged in reproductions of the original sleeves.
Record Store Day Black Friday - For The Vinyl Junkies On Your Holiday Gift List
Traditionally, the day after Thanksgiving is when bargain hunters swarm retail outlets, battling for the best prices on items for gifts or for themselves. In recent years, it’s also become a challenge for vinyl aficionados hoping to acquire limited-edition releases. Record Store Day Black Friday is the seasonal version of the original RSD that takes place every April. The timing has been ideal for nabbing one-of-a-kind Christmas gifts.
This year, some of the more interesting Black Friday releases are literally Christmas gifts. Cheap Trick’s Christmas Christmas is a 12-song album with original holiday tunes and cover versions of The Kinks, Wizzard, and The Ramones. Paul McCartney is releasing a new version of “Wonderful Christmastime” he recorded with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots on two separate seven-inch singles. The red vinyl one has Norah Jones singing “Peace” on the B-side and the green vinyl one has The Decembrists performing “Jesus Christ” on the B-side.
Also, The Minus Five, the Scott McCaughey-led band that excels at mixing quirky ideas with catchy indie rock arrangements, is releasing Dear December. It’s hard to figure how titles like “Musical Tribute To The Oscar Meyer Weiner Wagon” fit the holiday theme, but it is a white vinyl album with an Advent calendar inspired cover. I’m hoping to post more about Record Store Day Black Friday as it gets closer.
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FOR more than a decade, the people of the South Mayo village of Crossboyne have been patiently awaiting connection to the sewerage scheme that has long been promised. However, as yet, not one household in the village has been connected, despite the fact that Crossboyne is the location for the Claremorris Treatment Plant.
This week, Fine Gael’s General Election Candidate John O’Mahony is raising the issue on behalf of the people of Crossboyne, as they have been waiting for their connection for far too long.
According to Mr O’Mahony, it is not good enough that the people of Crossboyne are being treated in this way. "The Community Council have been campaigning to be connected to the Claremorris scheme for the past 10years, but to no avail. The Treatment Plant for Claremorris is situated in the village yet despite this, not one house in the area is connected and there is a huge reliance on septic tanks," explained Mr O’Mahony.
Continuing, the Claremorris-based Candidate noted that as recently as last month, the members of the Community Council met with Minister Dick Roche in Dublin and he promised them faithfully that he’d make an announcement on their plight before February was out.
"Well, February is over and there was no announcement despite the Minister spending a full day in Mayo recently. I don’t think that’s any way to treat a community and I’m now calling on the Minister to immediately sanction the connection for the people of Crossboyne," remarked Mr O’Mahony.
Cróna Esler
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Matthias Wachter: Career 2004-08
Matthias Wachter
Photo: FIVB
Birth Date June 27, 1979 (40 years old)
Home Town Grabs, Switzerland
Resides Vaduz
Web Site www.indra-wachter.li
International 7th $2,500
FIVB 33rd $0
FIVB C&S 7th $2,500
Europe 13th (3 times) � 2,950
CEV 13th (3 times) � 2,950
CEV C&S 26th � 0
Overall 7th $6,330
Season Assoc Played 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 7th 9th Money Points Rank 13th 17th 19th 21st 25th 26th 27th 29th 33rd 41st 57th
2004 FIVB C&S 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $100.00 3.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2004 FIVB 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 2.0 319th 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
2005 FIVB C&S 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $600.00 16.0 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
2005 FIVB 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 2.0 362nd 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
2006 FIVB 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 16.0 247th 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
(405th) 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 $2,500.00
(920th) 209.0 5 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 11 6
2004 CEV C&S 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 0.00 4.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
2005 CEV 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 500.00 40.0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
2006 CEV 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 1,150.00 255.0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
2008 CEV 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 0.00 90.0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
(151st) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 2,950.00
(252nd) 599.0 3 3 1 5 0 1 2 1 0 0 0
(923rd) 808.0 8 4 1 7 2 1 2 1 1 11 6
F�d�ration Internationale de Volleyball World Tour
Partner Played 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 7th 9th Money Points 13th 17th 19th 21st 25th 26th 27th 29th 33rd 41st 57th
Oliver Indra 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 141.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11 6
Total 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 141.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11 6
F�d�ration Internationale de Volleyball Challenger & Satellite
Oliver Indra 15 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 $2,500 68.0 5 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 15 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 $2,500 68.0 5 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Conf�d�ration Europ�enne de Volleyball
Oliver Indra 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 2,950 595.0 3 3 1 5 0 0 2 1 0 0 0
Total 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 2,950 595.0 3 3 1 5 0 0 2 1 0 0 0
Conf�d�ration Europ�enne de Volleyball Challenger & Satellite
Oliver Indra 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 0 4.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Total 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 0 4.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Oliver Indra 49 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 $6,330 808.0 8 4 1 7 2 1 2 1 1 11 6
Total 49 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 $6,330 808.0 8 4 1 7 2 1 2 1 1 11 6
Location Summary
Location Assoc Played 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 7th 9th Money Points 13th 17th 19th 21st 25th 26th 27th 29th 33rd 41st 57th
Austria: Klagenfurt FIVB 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 12.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Bahrain: Manama FIVB 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 9.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
China: Shanghai FIVB 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 9.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Czech Republic: Brno FIVB C&S 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 4.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Czech Republic: Prague FIVB 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 9.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Estonia: P�rnu FIVB C&S 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 $600 16.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finland: �land FIVB 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 9.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
France: Marseille FIVB 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 6.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
France: Paris FIVB 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 12.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Italy: Alba Adriatica FIVB C&S 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $100 3.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italy: Cattolica FIVB C&S 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $100 3.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italy: Milan FIVB C&S 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 4.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italy: Rimini FIVB C&S 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $250 6.0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italy: Roseto degli Abruzzi FIVB 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 21.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
Liechtenstein: Vaduz FIVB C&S 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 $700 16.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Morocco: Casablanca FIVB C&S 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $225 4.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norway: Kristiansand FIVB 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 8.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Poland: Stare Jablonki FIVB 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 18.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Switzerland: Gstaad FIVB 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 28.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3
Switzerland: Lausanne FIVB C&S 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 $375 9.0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ukraine: Kiev FIVB C&S 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $150 3.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austria: St. P�lten CEV 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 650 120.0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Croatia: Zagreb CEV C&S 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 0 4.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Germany: Hamburg CEV 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 1,300 180.0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Netherlands: The Hague CEV 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 0 30.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Russia: Moscow CEV 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 750 80.0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Spain: Valencia CEV 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 250 68.0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Switzerland: Lucerne CEV 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 0 96.0 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Turkey: Alanya CEV 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 � 0 21.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
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Home>Music> Grammy Award-Winning Trumpeter Roy Hargrove Dead At 49
Grammy Award-Winning Trumpeter Roy Hargrove Dead At 49
Roy Hargrove worked with artists like D'Angelo, Erykah Badu & Common, over the course of an illustrious career that spanned several decades
NPR is reporting that renown jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove has died of a cardiac arrest at the tender age of 49. News of his passing this morning was relayed to the media via his longtime manager. His family is in the course of penning his obituary.
Hargrove's incredible talent as a trumpeter saw him move past the confines of the jazz community, as he contributed to works by hip-hop artists like Common, Erykah Badu, and D'Angelo, among others. His precocious talent was discovered by famed-jazz arranger and bandleader Wynton Marsalis, when Hargrove was but a high school student coming up in Dallas, Texas.
Hargrove was soon jettisoned over to the prestigious Berklee College of Music, where he inevitably "outgrew" his surroundings after only one year of enrollment. He then began his professional career as a jazz musician well before reaching the legal drinking age.
In 2000, he provided all the brass arrangements on Erykah Badu's 2nd album Mama's Gun. Within the first couple years of his "deployment," Roy had already formed his own quintet, taking the Jazz World by storm. Those who know, know.
At the tender age of 49, Roy Hargroves had amassed a discography the likes of which normally takes "regularly productive" musicians a lifetime to complete. My sympathies go out to Roy's family and those who knew him best.
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'Identity Thief' Remains Strong on Tuesday
on February 13, 2013 by Daniel Garris
Universal's Identity Thief grossed $2.83 million on Tuesday to lead the daily box office for a fifth consecutive day. The modestly budgeted comedy starring Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy experienced a 13 percent increase over Monday, which was in line with the type of daily increases experienced by most other films in the top ten on Tuesday. Identity Thief continues to outpace pre-release expectations with a strong five-day start of $39.88 million. Compared to previous comedies that opened the frame before Presidents Day weekend, Identity Thief is running 7 percent stronger than the $37.30 million four-day start of 2007's Norbit and 2.5 percent stronger than the $38.90 million five-day take of 2011's Just Go with It.
Open Road's Side Effects was up one spot and a healthy 23 percent over Monday to claim second place with $0.90 million. After a slower than expected start on Friday, the Steven Soderbergh directed thriller has displayed solid holding power thus far, though whether or not it will be able to keep it up going forward remains to be seen. Side Effects has grossed $10.94 million in five days, placing it 9 percent ahead of the $10.03 million five-day start of last year's Haywire.
Warm Bodies fell one spot from Monday to place in third with $0.78 million. Lionsgate's PG-13 zombie comedy was unchanged from Monday and down 46 percent from last Tuesday. Warm Bodies has grossed $38.04 million through twelve days of release.
Silver Linings Playbook held steady in fourth pace with $0.60 million. The Best Picture nominee from The Weinstein Company was up 19 percent over Monday and down 33 percent from last Tuesday. With a current domestic total of $90.63 million, Silver Linings Playbook is on the verge of surpassing the $93.62 million total gross of 2010's The Fighter.
Paramount's Top Gun 3D placed in eighth with $288,225. The IMAX re-issue of the 1986 blockbuster was up 13 percent over Monday. Top Gun 3D has grossed $2.51 million in five days from just 300 locations. The lifetime unadjusted domestic gross for Top Gun currently stands at $179.29 million.
Tags: Top Gun 3D, Silver Linings Playbook, Warm Bodies, Side Effects, Identity Thief
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2996: We Remember John Resta And Sylvia San Pio Resta
(originally published 9/11/06)
I’m putting this up early because I refuse to let the WWF trivialize the lives of my friends and my countrymen.
We all know the story of how they and so many others died on that day, but we must never forget how these wonderful people lived, either. John and Sylvia adored life, and they adored each other. They were so deeply in love and so happy together. Newsday tells the story of their engagement
Halloween, with its orange candy, spooky costumes and family fun, is not generally considered a romantic holiday. But since John Resta and Sylvia San Pio Resta met five years ago today at an office costume party, Halloween had always been about romance for them.
Two Halloweens ago, on the third anniversary of their meeting, John, 40, stayed home from work and rented a tuxedo. He bought flowers, lit candles and set the table with a stone crab dinner specially flown in from Sylvia’s favorite restaurant in Miami. When Sylvia, 27, got back to the couple’s Bayside apartment, he got down on his knees and proposed.
In August of 2000 they were married in Hazlet at the Catholic school that John had graduated from. Their reception was held at the Molly Pitcher Inn in Red Bank, which is far and away the nicest place for a wedding reception in the area. And boy did John and Sylvia have a great party: the weather was perfect, and from cocktails out on the deck overlooking the river to dinner and dancing inside every guest spent the evening laughing and basking in the glow of the newlyweds. We sat at a table with a mix of their family friends and business associates and just had a great time passing stories about the couple, which seems to be required at weddings. Sylvia had this habit of reading cookbooks on the train from cover to cover, as if they were mysteries, and we would kid her about it.
They both loved children, and
John’s 10 nieces and nephews in New Jersey adored the couple right back, said Mazzeo, of Hazlet, N.J. The Restas spent almost every other weekend in New Jersey, taking the kids out on outings, to movies and for pizza. Sylvia even played Pokémon cards with the smallest ones.
Sylvia also loved to play videos games, and to have an Aunt who’ll come over and play them with you surely ranks high atop any young boy’s list of dreams!
We had dinner with them in February of 2001 while they were out on one of these visits, and they brought a lovely colorforms-type art present for our daughter. It wasn’t a special occasion, but they knew just the right gift to bring that would keep an 8 year old occupied at the table in the nice italian restaurant that we ate in; that’s just a small example of how thoughtful they were. John and I spent the whole meal talking about families, and how much he loved having such a large extended family so near by, and how excited he was about his future with Sylvia. I noticed during the meal that Blondie (‘Blondie’ was my nickname for Sylvia. The first time I met her her hair was dyed blonde, so I always called her that, which in turn would confuse the bejeebus out of people when they finally met her as her natural brunette, which in turn led to a lot of laughter on our parts) wasn’t touching her wine, nor had she run out to have a cigarette. I asked her about this odd behavior the next day and she told me the wonderful news that she and John were expecting.
This news set off a crazy period in their lives, as it does in all of our lives. They were living in an apartment in Queens, and their first thought was that they needed to buy a house. With all of John’s family out in Monmouth County, NJ, that was where they concentrated their efforts. We all know how stressful home buying can be, let alone when expecting your first child, and I would talk to Sylvia every Monday and hear how the previous weekend’s searching had gone, and I would pass along any houses that I saw in our neighborhood onto them as well, because they were the kind of couple you would adore having near you.
As the frustration grew they reached a decision together which to my mind I’m so glad they did: they said the heck with it. They realized that a lot of kids spent their first few years in cramped apartments and turned out ok; family is what matters. As Sylvia’s family lived mostly in Spain the summer of 2001 would be their last chance to visit for quite awhile, so they flew to Spain to spend a few weeks visiting them. They had a wonderful trip.
John and Sylvia worked at Carr Futures; he was a project manager and she was a commodities broker, which is how I knew her. As our market closes around noon, she was able to schedule appointments at very convenient times. On September 11th she and John were going to visit her doctor that very afternoon, and she was one week away from going out on maternity leave.
They were so thrilled at having a boy, and they were going to name him Dylan. I would always kid her that she was condemning him to a life of whiskey drinking, and she would laugh and say that at least they’d get some good poetry out of him.
Carr Futures was on the 92nd floor of the North Tower.
Flight 11 hit the 94th floor.
From the New York Daily News, March 19th, 2002:
John’s older brother, Tom, says he finds what little solace he can in the very real possibility that John and Sylvia were together when they died.
“I think my feeling is they wouldn’t have wanted to die any other way,” Tom said. “They were always together. They were inseparable. Like my sister says, they were like a left and right shoe. I just can’t imagine what life would be like if one of them had lived.”
Tom doesn’t know for sure what happened next. As far as he knows, his brother and sister-in-law didn’t make any cell phone calls or write any E-mails after the plane hit. He has heard news reports that the impact of the crash filled the stairwells of the 91st and 92nd floors with rubble, but he also has heard secondhand stories that they were seen several floors lower, working their way down the stairs.
“I can imagine him trying to help her down the stairs, with smoke all around,” Tom said.
He thought for about a day and a half that Sylvia might have made it out after a reporter told him she had heard that a pregnant “Spanish” woman had been found alive.
“We had hope,” Tom said.
But that hope soon vanished. Philosopher’s wisdom In the grief- filled weeks and months since, Tom has thought a lot about something Emanuel Swedenborg, an 18th century philosopher and scientist, once wrote: “Those who are truly married on Earth are in heaven one angel.”
On Feb. 14, a police officer and a representative of the Monmouth County, N.J., coroner’s office came to the family’s house to relay news that John’s remains had been identified.
“From dental records,” Tom said.
“I think if John could have picked a day to be identified, it would have been Valentine’s Day,” he said. “He was a very romantic person. He believed in love and friendship.”
Sylvia is among the more than 2,000 people whose remains have not been identified. A few days ago, her mother was asked to provide more DNA samples.
So the family has decided to wait until she’s found. “We don’t want to bury him without her,” Tom said. “They did everything else together.”
Together forever, as they were meant to be.
We love you and miss you, and we will always remember you.
A special thanks to DCRoe for all the work done in honoring all of the victims.
Humanity...or the Lack Thereof, Life | Mr. Bingley | September 11, 2009 2:18 am
14 Responses to “2996: We Remember John Resta And Sylvia San Pio Resta”
JeffS says:
A beautiful, happy couple.
Jim - PRS says:
Today, while driving to work, I remember thinking to myself that it was just this kind of cyrstal clear September morning in 2001 when I saw the smoke pouring from the towers in my rear view mirror. It’s as if it happened yesterday, and it doesn’t get any easier. Thanks for posting this.
Mr. Bingley says:
Jeff, they were incredibly sweet people. I miss them terribly.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing, Jim. September in NY is beautiful.
And horrible.
nightfly says:
These remembrances always make me tear up.
Val Prieto says:
Dude. Im in tears.
Your tribute to John Thomas Resta and Sylvia San Pio Resta has left me in tears. Thank you so much for sharing their story. I will never forget.
Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life says:
Most excellent, B. Mine goes up just after midnight.
TimBo says:
Thank you for this poignant tribute to your friends – I mourn for their and your loss.
On this day I am sullen, angry and reflective.
What am I doing at work today?; I can’t concentrate.
Dip your flag and courteously remind others to reflect.
Gary from Jersey says:
Simple, elegant and unforgetable. Beautifully written, Mr. B.
What Cathy said.
Another heartbreaking story. Thank you for this. I honor Christopher Paul Slattery.
Defiant_Infidel says:
I am so sincerely sorry. Your account of them was incredibly poignant. This entire week has been a flashpoint of anger and tears for me. I can’t imagine the thinking of those ever growing numbers of people who would prefer to just forget. Each life was a human, feeling, experiencing one… like their own. How can the gigantic loss of so many be allowed to slip one’s consciousness?
Thank you so much for this tremendous, noble effort to pay them the respects they so justly deserve. God bless.
Renee P says:
Thank you for your tender, moving account of John and Sylvia Resta, and their little unborn son Dylan. May they be forever reunited in eternity.
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