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TiVo Completes The Evening TV Dinner: Adds Domino's Pizza Ordering
Kit Eaton
Ahh...digitally controllable TV, and the chance of fresh tasty pizza: That's what TiVo and Dominos Pizza are now offering. Broadband-connected TiVo users will be able to order pizza for delivery or pick-up (though that'd involve leaving the comforting hug of your sofa's cushions...crazy!) and then can even track the progress all via the TiVo interface. It starts today, it's free to broadband TiVo subscribers, and the only inconvenience is having to pay in cash when the food arrives. Press release below.
LVISO, CA & ANN ARBOR, MI - November 17, 2008 - TV has never tasted this good. That's because TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), and Domino's Pizza, Inc. (NYSE: DPZ), the recognized world leader in pizza delivery, have teamed up to give broadband connected TiVo subscribers the ability to order pizza for delivery or pick-up, and track delivery timing, right from their TV sets using the TiVo® service. It's a service that cooks up the perfect pizza purchasing recipe. "Our commitment to customer satisfaction is what has helped us become the leader in the global pizza delivery market, said Rob Weisberg, vice president of precision and print marketing at Domino's Pizza, Inc. "We are confident that teaming with TiVo on this novel, easy, and convenient way to order pizza right from the TV will be very well received by our customers. This is the first step in the future of customer interactions with the brands they seek to engage with and buy from. This is the first time in history that the ‘on-demand' generation will be able to fully experience couch commerce by ordering pizza directly through their television set. You'll see a television ad for Domino's and you'll click ‘I want it' through your remote. In about 30 minutes, your pizza will show up at your door." Karen Bressner, Senior Vice President of Advertising Sales, TiVo Inc said, "Joining forces with Domino's Pizza creates an effective marketing and commerce tool for Domino's while enhancing and further distinguishing TiVo as the ultimate way to watch TV with a closed-loop advertising experience. This exciting new partnership offers yet another advertising solution as commercial avoidance continues to increase. With just a few clicks of the remote, TiVo users can order a pizza, then sit back, relax, and enjoy their program. Now, TiVo delivers the absolute best television viewing experience…and a pizza." TiVo subscribers can seamlessly access their Domino's Pizza order from various advertising entry points on the TiVo user interface including Gold Star Sponsorship, Program Placement, Interactive Tags in live TV spots, and through Music, Photos, Products, & More by clicking on "Order Your Pizza." TiVo is serving up a piping hot new service that's truly made to order and gives a whole new meaning to the term "TV dinner." TiVo subscribers can set-up a user name and password on Dominos.com so that each time they use their TiVo remote to place an order, they can log-in with a simple account number. Alternatively, TiVo subscribers can enter their delivery address, build their pizza order right from the television set by selecting type of crust, toppings, and sauces, and get the pizza delivered by their local Domino's Pizza. Bressner added: "Our commitment to revolutionizing interactive advertising and commerce on the television is a direct result of the innovative solutions and features we provide. TiVo's growing list of interactive features also includes the ability to find and purchase products on Amazon.com related to a customer's favorite TV show or the convenience of being able to search for a movie that's playing nearby and purchase tickets through Fandango – all by using the TiVo remote." Starting today, this new service is free of charge to all broadband connected TiVo subscribers and supports both delivery and pick-up orders. Viewers pay in cash when the pizza is delivered.
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Hooray4Zoidberg
Say what you want about Dominos, but their online ordering system works extremely well. Others should follow their lead. As a software engineer myself I'm usually very tough on these sort of things, I give them two thumbs up for ease of ordering, they've even included a place to ask for extra sauce as well as a progress bar on what stage your order is at ie. prep, cooking, out for delivery. I love it, even if I do find their pizza a bit lacking.
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PH rebukes China for militarizing sea
Posted by aurelius77 on July 1, 2013
The Philippines on Sunday accused China of a “massive military buildup” in the disputed West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), warning a Southeast Asian security forum that Beijing’s tactics were a threat to peace in the region.
Speaking at the 46th Asean ministerial meeting in Brunei, Del Rosario said China’s “increasing militarization” of two shoals in the West Philippine Sea was a violation of the Declaration of Conduct in the sea that the 10 members of the bloc signed with Beijing in 2002, agreeing not to cause tensions in the area.
Del Rosario said China’s persistent “destabilizing actions” in the West Philippine Sea posed “serious challenges for the region.”
His rebuke came a day after the Chinese newspaper People’s Daily warned that a “counterstrike” against the Philippines was inevitable if it continued to provoke China in the West Philippine Sea.
Asean has been trying to persuade Beijing to join talks on a proposed code of conduct this year, but China’s naval action has alarmed some members of the bloc, particularly the Philippines and Vietnam.
Until Sunday, China had appeared in little hurry to begin negotiations with Asean, saying it would do so “when the time is rife.”
Malacañang said Sunday that the government should not take lightly the Chinese threat of a counterstrike in the West Philippine Sea.
Secretary Herminio Coloma of the Presidential Communications Operations Office said the government should remain “vigilant” in protecting the country’s sovereignty in the face of China’s threat.
“We can’t be complacent. That’s the highest priority: protection of sovereignty,” Coloma said.
Full article: PH rebukes China for militarizing sea (Inquirer Global Nation)
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Nutrition / Foods / Healthy Foods
16 Foods High in Vitamin C
Vitamin C is an important, naturally-occurring nutrient. From deterring cold and flu,[1] to rebuilding tissue, bones and blood vessels,[2] and boosting the body's ability to synthesize calcium,[3] vitamin C is something we all require on a daily basis.
Studies have confirmed that vitamin C not only supports brain function,[4] but also helps you heal from injuries[5] and recover from illness.[6] A potent antioxidant for neutralizing free radicals, a diet lacking vitamin C may lead to health issues over time.[7] According to the Food and Nutrition Board at the Institute of Medicine, we should all eat vitamin C foods on a daily basis; men require about 90 mg and women require 75 mg every day.[8]
The following foods are high in vitamin C and will super-charge your diet with a major serving of this essential nutrient.[9]
One of the tastiest and healthiest berries on the planet, strawberries are extremely high in vitamin C. They're also high in fiber and antioxidants, which are responsible for reducing oxidative stress and protecting the heart from bad cholesterol.[10, 11] Just one serving provides about half of your daily vitamin C requirements.
2. Acerola Cherry
The acerola cherry (Malpighia punicifolia) — also called Barbados cherry — is a small, red fruit but it's packed with vitamin C! It contains about 65 times more vitamin C than an orange. Fresh, raw acerola cherries are available, but if they're not in season, you can also buy them in supplement form.
3. Citrus Fruits
Oranges, grapefruits, lemon and limes! Citrus fruits pack a powerful vitamin C punch. Enjoy one medium orange for a whopping 70 mg. A small glass of orange juice has up to 93 mg of vitamin C, and a small glass of grapefruit juice has up to 70 mg of vitamin C. Even though oranges are probably the most popular vitamin C food, they don’t have the highest amount.
4. Kakadu Plums
Kakadu plums, native to Australia, are an incredible superfood, with some of the highest vitamin C content in any fruit on earth.[12] They also contain the antioxidant ellagic acid, which has excellent health benefits.
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5. Black Currant
With its dark purple hue, it's easy to imagine that this fruit would be high in vitamin C. Black currants hold around 180 mg per serving, as well as plenty of potassium, iron, vitamin B5, and phytochemicals.[13]
It may surprise you to learn that this small bright green fruit from New Zealand has more vitamin C than an orange! They are also high in flavonoids and have as much potassium as a banana.[14] Studies have shown that children who eat these vitamin C-rich fruits experience stronger respiratory tract health than children who do not.[15]
7. Bell Peppers
Bell peppers are another food high in vitamin C, as well as beta-carotene. These colorful veggies have been studied for cardioprotective benefits, and have also been shown to prevent cataracts, blood clots, and may even reduce the risk of heart attack or stroke.[16] One-half cup of raw red pepper holds over 140 mg of vitamin C. All bell peppers are high in vitamin C, but yellow has the most and red peppers come in second.[17]
8. Guava
This exotic fruit is another great vitamin C food, with one guava containing over 250 mg. That's over twice your daily requirement! They are also rich in dietary fiber, folic acid, potassium, and manganese, making guavas one of the best superfoods to add to your diet.[18] Many supermarkets are now importing these fruits from the tropics, so they are easy to find.
9. Brussels Sprouts
While not everyone's favorite food, Brussels sprouts have an excellent reputation as a source of vitamin C. One serving of cooked Brussels sprouts has almost 50 mg of vitamin C. Brussels sprouts are also high in vitamin K, folate, vitamin A, manganese, potassium, and dietary fiber.[19]
10. Melons
Many melons contain vitamin C. Just one cup of cantaloupe will provide you with approximately 67 mg of vitamin C, plus plenty of vitamin A and potassium. Additionally, watermelon is another great source of vitamin C, as one serving will give you 112 percent of your daily requirement.[20]
11. Dark Leafy Greens
Kale, mustard greens, turnip greens, watercress, chard, and spinach (as well as most other leafy greens) are all great vitamin C foods to add to your diet. While they all provide different amounts of this essential nutrient, they are all very healthy for you. Kale is the best choice, as it may have up to 130 mg of vitamin C in one serving — that’s one full day’s requirement of vitamin C!
12. Camu Camu Fruit
An exotic berry from the Amazon rainforest, this nutrient-dense superfood is high in C as well as flavonoids and anthocyanins.[21] Because of its tart flavor, it's generally used in powder or supplement form for its immune-boosting properties.
13. Broccoli
Whether you eat it raw or cooked, you can never go wrong with broccoli. One serving of this little green tree has over 90 mg of vitamin C. As a bonus, broccoli is also one of the best detox foods to add to your diet.
14. Amla (Indian Gooseberry)
The amla fruit, also known as Indian gooseberry (Emblica officinalis), is incredibly high in vitamin C. One berry has 600 to 700 mg of vitamin C — second only to Acerola cherry![22] They also contain tannins, which have additional antioxidative properties, as well as the potent polyphenol gallic acid, which promotes immunity.[22]
Bright, red tomatoes are another common vitamin C food. Try using sun-dried tomatoes; they are particularly concentrated with this essential nutrient. Just one, 100-gram serving holds over 100 mg of vitamin C. This equals 170 percent of your daily requirement.[23]
16. Select Herbs
Many fresh herbs such as cilantro, chives, thyme, basil, and parsley are high in vitamin C. Buy some fresh herbs and sprinkle on every meal. In fact, just one cup of fresh parsley has over 130 mg of vitamin C. Thyme comes in first, with 160 mg in one cup.[24]
There you have it, 16 delicious foods that are great sources of vitamin C. If you don't get enough of these fruits and vegetables, consider Global Healing's Organic Plant-Based Vitamin C.
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Wei F, et al. Vitamin C treatment promotes mesenchymal stem cell sheet formation and tissue regeneration by elevating telomerase activity. J Cell Physiol. 2012:3216-3224.
Morton, DJ, et al. Vitamin C Supplement Use and Bone Mineral Density in Postmenopausal Women. J Bone Miner Res. 2001:135–140.
Masaki KH, et al. Association of vitamin E and C supplement use with cognitive function and dementia in elderly men. Neurology. 2000:1265-1272.
Mohammed BM, et al. Vitamin C promotes wound healing through novel pleiotropic mechanisms. Int Wound J. 2016:572-584.
Lee JY, et al. Fluoxetine and vitamin C synergistically inhibits blood-spinal cord barrier disruption and improves functional recovery after spinal cord injury. Neuropharmacology. 2016:78-87.
Carr AC, Frei B. Toward a new recommended dietary allowance for vitamin C based on antioxidant and health effects in humans. Am J Clin Nutr. 1999:1086-1107.
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Ajibade TO, et al. Modulatory effects of melatonin and vitamin C on oxidative stress-mediated haemolytic anaemia and associated cardiovascular dysfunctions in rats. J Complement Integr Med. 2017 Mar 1;14(1).pii: /j/jcim.2017.
Alvarez-Suarez JM, et al. One-month strawberry-rich anthocyanin supplementation ameliorates cardiovascular risk, oxidative stress markers and platelet activation in humans. J Nutr Biochem. 2014:289-294.
Williams DJ, et al. Organic acids in Kakadu plum (Terminalia ferdinandiana): the good (ellagic), the bad (oxalic) and the uncertain (ascorbic). Food Res Int. 2016 Nov;89(Pt 1):237-244.
Ferrara P, et al. Beneficial therapeutic effects of vitamin C on recurrent respiratory tract infections in children: preliminary data. Minerva Pediatr. 2016.
Sharma R, et al. Effect of pre-treatments and drying methods on quality attributes of sweet bell-pepper (Capsicum annum) powder. J Food Sci Tech. 2015 Jun;52(6):3433-3439.
Langley PC, et al. Antioxidant and associated capacities of Camu Camu (Myrciaria dubia): a systematic review. J Altern Complement Med. 2015 Jan 1; 21(1): 8-14.
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Attention-seekers stir the pot in Alfie Evans case
As the tragic case of Alfie Evans drags on, Tracey Morris and her sidekick Linda Byrne O’Riordan have inserted themselves into the “Alfie’s Army” group of protesters outside Liverpool’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, and various other Hoaxtead pushers have jumped into the fray to stir things up even further.
Alfie’s parents, Tom Evans and Kate James, launched another emergency appeal yesterday, in hopes of taking their son to a hospital in Rome, where he would be offered palliative care. The Italian government had apparently offered Alfie Italian citizenship in order to facilitate his transfer to Rome, and a “military grade” air ambulance was on stand-by during the court hearing. As the legal argument got under way at the Royal Courts of Justice, two people believed to be from a German air ambulance crew were escorted from the hospital.
Following arguments, the three-judge appeals tribunal ruled against the parents on all grounds, backing Tuesday’s High Court decision. Yesterday’s claim by the parents included the threat that medical staff involved in Alfie’s treatment could face criminal charges in Italy if he dies.
According to The Guardian,
The high court ruled on Tuesday that Alfie may be allowed home from Alder Hey, where his life support has been withdrawn following a long legal fight, but barred the parents from taking their son to the hospital in Vatican City. Mr Justice Hayden said that although Alfie had been a “fighter” since his life support had removed, his undiagnosed degenerative condition had “almost entirely wiped out” his brain matter and he stood no chance of recovery.
It is worth noting that physicians from Italy had previously agreed with Alfie’s UK doctors that the child stands absolutely no hope of recovery; if he had been transported to Italy, it would have been to receive palliative care, not some miracle cure.
Tuesday’s High Court decision also stated that Alfie could be allowed to go home with his parents for palliative care, but this option seems to have been ignored. It seems clear that the courts are attempting to find a middle ground which will allow Alfie to die with dignity, while respecting the wishes of his parents; however, things have reached such a fever pitch that it’s unlikely a reasonable accommodation will be made.
While the case itself is emotionally gripping, we believe that the current tensions around the fate of little Alfie have been exacerbated a hundred-fold by people like Tracey, Linda, Wesley Hall, and their ilk.
Tracey and Linda got their three seconds of fame (yes, it was originally to have been 15 minutes, but they got the discounted version), appearing very briefly on BBC:
Sadly, Tracey’s name was not shown, but at least she was wearing an appropriately tragic t-shirt.
For her part, Tracey not only posted a record-breaking 11 live-streamed videos on Facebook yesterday (which we are not going to publish here because they’re basically just Tracey screaming at the top of her very capacious lungs), but managed to post a number of inflammatory comments as well. Here’s a small selection:
…and so on and so forth, ad infinitum.
Wesley Hall leapt in with an attempt to smear Mr Justice Hayden, who handed down the High Court judgment in February, and heard the parents’ appeal on Tuesday: Wesley’s claim that Judge Hayden “ridiculed Alfie Evans legal advisors” is a reference to the judge’s expressed disapproval of some of Tom Evans’ lawyer’s tactics, which could have earned him a citation for contempt of court.
And yes, Wesley, Rochdale Borough Council had a legal representative in the 2005 case, which was not, as you claim, the “uncovering of Satanic ritual abuse”.
It’s customary for both sides in a legal dispute to have legal representation, which we’re sure Wesley knows from bitter experience.
And the case in question was not, as Wesley seems to think, the Rochdale SRA fiasco, but rather involved an application by the BBC for an order permitting them to disclose the identity of two social workers involved in the original Rochdale ‘satanic abuse’ investigations. It took us all of five seconds to Google this, just in case Wesley ever decides to ever bother, you know, fact-checking anything.
Oh, but he’s not only claiming that Mr Anthony Haydon QC, as he then was, had had the unmitigated gall to represent Rochdale MBC…he’s also slamming him for writing a legal handbook about the issue of children and same-sex families. Homophobic much, Weaselly?
He also tries to smear Alder Hey Hospital, bringing up the 2001 retained organs scandal, in which Alder Hey and other hospitals within the NHS were retaining patients’ organs without family consent.
Hospital staff affected
As you might expect, all of this attention has made life very difficult for those who work at the hospital, attempting to deliver the best possible care to their patients. According to a BBC story,
Over the past fortnight, hospital chair Sir David Henshaw said, staff had endured a “barrage” of abuse. …
In an open letter, Sir David and chief executive Louise Shepherd said staff had been “deeply affected” by Alfie’s “desperate” story.
“We share the heartbreak that occurs when a child cannot be cured and when a child dies,” they wrote.
“All of us feel deeply for Alfie and his whole family and we continue to do everything we can to support them as best we can, just as we have for the last 17 months”.
But, they said, staff had recently been the subject of “unprecedented personal abuse that has been hard to bear”.
The hospital has seen several protests in recent weeks, and police have investigated claims patients and staff were intimidated.
Sir David and Ms Shepherd said the previous fortnight had been “a very difficult time.”
“As an organisation, we have endured attacks upon our motivation, our professionalism and our ethics,” they said.
Charges may be brought for abuse of judges
Meanwhile, The Telegraph reports that judges who are subject to verbal abuse in the courts and online might have to bring prosecutions against their abusers.
Lord Burnett of Maldon said the possibility of prosecuting online trolls was “should be looked at” but warned that it was often too difficult to find the identity of the person involved.
His comments come in the wake of abuse online of judges involved in the Alfie Evans case, in particular Mr Justice Hayden, the High Court judge who ruled in February that the terminally ill child’s life support could be withdrawn.
A petition calling for the judge to step down and describing him as a “disgrace to our legal system” had received more than 14,000 signatures by Wednesday afternoon.
Lord Burnett told the Lords Constitution Committee that abuse “hurled at judges in the courtroom” was often shrugged off but in persistent cases “the contempt jurisdiction should be explored more fully”. …
He said the abuse was “capable of undermining the rule of law because it erodes confidence in an institution which doesn’t deserve to have its confidence eroded”.
Police watching social media trolls
Some relief could be on the way for those who’ve been attacked by online trolls using the Alfie Evans case as a springboard, however: Merseyside Police issued a statement yesterday, pointing out that some trolls had already been pointed out, and that they would be keeping an eye on social media discussions regarding the case. Obviously people are allowed their opinions, but threats of violence, or egging people on to “storm that hospital” (just as an example, naming no names) should not be tolerated.
Edited to add:
This synopsis of Alfie Evans’ medical history, current condition, and the “treatment” options offered by the hospital in Italy is basic required reading for anyone wishing to understand what’s happening. We’re reprinting it from Dr Dominic Pimenta’s Twitter feed.
26/04/2018 in Assorted knobheads. Tags: Court of Appeal, Tracey Morris, trolls, Wesley Hall
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128 thoughts on “Attention-seekers stir the pot in Alfie Evans case”
Blabberwatch says:
Ooh, we’ve got a live one here:
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2018/04/24/storm-that-hospital-tracey-morris-fans-flames-in-alfie-evans-case/comment-page-1/#comment-102765
Once again Wesley has been caught lying. This guy gives Angela a run for her money!
That news about the possible tightening of laws to address verbal abuse in the courtroom will come as a shock for Neelu and Edward. Rather like a pair of junkies being told the opium crops have failed this year.
I’m fast losing respect for the parents due to the ratbags they are associating with. The attacks upon hospital staff are atrocious. We even have Angela Power-Disney inferring that some billion pound deal is behind it. As if nurses don’t have a hard enough time working and surviving on minimal wages as it is.
I can grasp the concept of Tracey saying that if she hadn’t been there. But…er…she was. So why didn’t you storm the building, Tracey? Too busy flirting with that nice BBC cameraman, perhaps?
I guarantee the majority of those protesters are on social security as they don’t seem to have to go to work.It’s one of the real downsides of unemployment- nurses, doctors, hospital staff like cleaners etc subsidize a bunch of lunatics to abuse and harass them.
Angie’s just jealous that the billion pounds went into supporting a shady conspiracy rather than her GoFundMe fags-and-gin appeal.
Yesterday Tracey was calling on people to dump their kids somewhere and “come on down” to either Alder hey or the protest in Belfast. And going by the responses a lot of parents were obliging!
Byrne Baby Byrne says:
What country does Linda think Belfast is in?
The Tracey Morris Alder Hey Saga, wc 23.04.18
I can’t imagine where Tracey got the inspiration for that t-shirt from.
*Sorry, I meant “come on dine”.
The father seems to be heading down the rabbit hole at a great rate of knots
The father now has taken on a different legal team to his wife, she continues to work with the law
Tom on the other hand has taken after another Tom, and dug deep into the FOTL, posting this
“Thomas Evans
Admin · 8 hrs
Given the failings in the judicial and statutory systems, I have now turned to the Common Law Court to protect my family.
I have recorded my birth and Alfie’s birth with the Common Law Court and have obtained our Birth Certificates. These certificates confirm our standing under common law and protect our inherent birth rights.
In addition to recording our births with the Common Law Court, I have also obtained the ownership of our legal fictions through the Common Law Court and have the certificates to prove it.
The judicial system in this country has no authority over someone standing under common law jurisdiction, which means that when they issued an order to switch off Alfie’s machine, they were dealing with the legal fiction and not the living child.
As I have now obtained ownership of the legal fiction for Alfie, I can confirm that the fiction is not attached to him. This means that the court orders are not applicable to him and that they have no authority to prevent me from removing him.
If you wish to stand with us, please show your support by recording your own birth with the Common Law Court, there is no charge for doing so and it can be done by visiting the website
CommonLawCourt.com
If a statutory court were to interfere, fail to recognise, or abide by a Common Law Court process, this would be a denial of Common Law Rights and a Common Law crime against the people.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/alfiesarmy/about/
He has broken with his wifes legal team (also formerly his) to take the FOTL path, but interestingly also has taken a different legal team on, being Paul Diamond
http://www.christianconcern.com/defender-of-the-faith-paul-diamond
Until now he’s not been on the radar (basically Christian fundamentalistic orientation from my quick perusal of his history) but if he is onboard with Tom’s adopting FOTL arguments, I suspect he and his organization will soon be under some close scrutiny
https://www.commonlawcourt.com/
Whose is this?
Tracey and her friend were on BBC news, from yesterday
That’s right, they were. I shared the video yesterday and EC refers to it in the post above, followed by a screenshot of it. Here’s the video for anyone who missed it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-merseyside-43894291/alfie-evans-the-people-supporting-his-family
They’re at 0:14 and 2:00.
Stan Butler says:
Bloody hell, that Linda Byrne O’Riordan looks like a two-man job….
Thanks, Steve. Very interesting and sad to see.
I see Blabberfangs is planning another public hissy fit embarrassing screamfest perfectly dignified protest:
Jeez, she’s obviously been watching too many Neelu videos, does she realise the legal implications of defaming professional healthcare staff??
She is accusing staff of murder and illegal experimentation, not a light thing to accuse a professional healthcare worker of….
Hope she has the evidence to back these statements up, or the people working at the hospital would be quite within their rights to sue her…
‘Alfie Evans: Parents and doctors to discuss sending toddler home’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-43904809
No Tracey “the world” didn’t come out screaming and is not represented by a bunch of Liverpool fanatics. In fact if you read the comment’s section of most tabloids the vast majority are urging Alfie’s parents to let nature take it’s course and for the poor boy to slip away as he will soon.
And your comments on nursing staff are de3spicable you vile creature.
I should qualify my previous words: the poor mother is going through the very awful thing of losing a child which is an “unnatural” state of affairs. Parents should not outlive their children and if you know any mother who has lost or is losing the child you will understand the extraordinary bond that exists between mother and child.
The father seems to be the driver of this campaign which can only end in tears for all concerned. Respect to the doctors & nurses at Alder Hey hospital and all those workers who keep the place going.
Dumbed Down Britain. What do these people mean when they say they “support Alfie”?. How is standing outside the hospital support anyone?. One woman even said she hopes he will recover in Italy. As much as I adore Italy doctors there (or anywhere) are not able to regenerate a brain (and they have said all they can do is provide palliative care which is what he is getting now). Don’t these fools even follow the case?
Politeness precludes me from commenting but I wouldn’t like to meet her in a dark alley. As for Tracey..brrrrr.
One thing I love about Oz is the endless sunshine (especially in Winter) but it’s a harsh atmosphere that does not always show up people in a complimentary light.
I miss the softness of the Britain’s gray skies which is usually far softer on the face. Lynda Byrne & Tracey have broken that rule.
And the irony of that one is that the info’ posted by Samantha actually explains that Alfie can’t be cured and strongly criticises the protesters for their behaviour at the hospital. Hey, why bother reading stuff before commenting on it, eh?
“Can’t italy file for extradition of alfie”
No dear, they can’t. Now off you pop, Jeremy Kyle has just started.
I bet their neighbours are dreading that.
My jaw hit the floor when I saw that too, Stan. Does Paula think Alfie’s a wanted fugitive or something?
The serious dangerous of the vaccines
Oh joy, now the antivax lowlives have scented publicity and are clambering aboard the bandwagon. What fun!
Do we have #AlfieEvans vax history? How much vigabatrin did he get, where is his mitochondrial disorder specialist and other tests, can someone give home water, can you?
— John Hewitt USA (@jhewitt123) April 24, 2018
Yeah, Angie’s been pushing that line too. One of her friends said it, so she instantly shared it as fact.
Interesting thread on Tracey Morris’ Facebook page by Samantha Lavelle. She reports the doctor’s findings on Alfie and appears to be subtly trying to report the truth. One of Tracey’s friends attacks her but Morris tells her to keep it up. She seems ignorant that the thread is demolishing her own case. It’s an example of the disconnect this mob has. I don’t believe they really care about Tracey. They love the drama. They love a rumble.
The father seems quite ignorant and seems to be praying for Alfie to recover. How?. My mother had to make a decision after consulting the family, to turn off my brother’s life support at the age of 51. My mother was great believer in miracles but still faced reality- that to keep him artificially alive was cruel and of no use. This lot seems to be driven by religion but if they truly believed that surely they would think Alfie deserves to move on.
Sadly many of those tabloids have branded judges “Enemies of the People” and throw their hands up in mock horror when some of those people take it as literally as they intended it to be.
The judge in this case has read the medical evidence. He has seen and heard more than any commenter has been privy too. His judgements have been sympathetic and comprehensive. I see no reason to second guess him.
I have personally been in a similar situation but at the other end of a life. The ability to think rationally is not always available. The medical profession can be wrong. The right thing to do is not always clear. I cut the father a HUGE amount of slack here.
The leeches who have attached themselves to this, deserve none.
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2018/04/26/attention-seekers-stir-the-pot-in-alfie-evans-case/comment-page-1/#comment-102804
Really sorry about what you and your family had to go through with your brother, Sam. That’s awful 😦
Sam, when you said “I don’t believe they really care about Tracey”, did you mean Alfie?
Arrested repeatedly “for exposure”? Oo-er. This is not something to boast about.
Eggs'n'Bacon says:
The medical history of Alfie & evidence in the original judgement make it abundantly clear that no recovery to anything even remotely resembling a normal life is possible for him. Sadly, in this case, there is no life to be saved. That Alfie is continuing to breathe unaided is a bonus for the parents, one they should be using to spend time with him, not endlessly trying to find a remedy that simply is not available or, worse, even if they succeed, will not give a better outcome for their child.
I see that Merseyside Police are monitoring social media and it is to hoped that they will prosecute those issuing threats of harm to the hard-working and caring staff at Alder Hey.
I had (& still have) some sympathy for the parents. I would not wish the illness of their child on anyone, let alone at their age. They, in desperation, have taken advice which is not helping and can clearly (objectively) be seen as self-serving for those giving it. Those concerned should be thoroughly ashamed, but they aren’t and probably won’t be,.
What about all the other parents with children in the hospital? The protestors & the lawyers acting for the parents don’t seem to give a damn about them.
Hahaha, one for the Book of Fruitcake Quotes, I reckon 😂
Frank Bruno’s taken away her post? 😮
There’s no point in suing someone who has no money. I think she’ll eventually end up with another Restraining Order. The way she’s going she’ll be able to paper the walls with them.
Re Paula – crap, that’s a new level of stupid.
***IMPORTANT NOTICE***
I hereby declare myself a freeman on the blog.
I am no longer answerable to your laws, EC.
So take that, Daddio
Yes, it’s very sad. Grasping at straws is one thing, but this gets into sheer delusional territory. I think we may be witnessing something like the breakdown Neelu experienced at the sad death of her niece: literally driven mad with grief.
GREAT THEOLOGICAL DEBATES OF THE 21st CENTURY
No. 94: Queen Bitch v Queen of Zog
That’s okay, I hereby declare you a legal fiction. Or something.
Oh, and no remedies for you, Bucko! So don’t even bother asking.
Samantha, bless her, is posting a Twitter thread originally put up by Dr Dominic Pimenta (@juniordrblog), who has clearly and calmly explained Alfie’s medical history and current situation. It’s very much worth reading, so I’ve done a series of screen grabs which I’ll post here shortly.
Shaking in their boots?
Why does Tracey think everyone’s scared of her?
For the record, they’re not.
Rosie H says:
Their tv appearance or what was shown must have been such let down for them! 😂
Okay, I’ve updated today’s post to include the Twitter thread which explains the situation.
A particularly important part of the story is that the Bambino Gesu hospital in Italy is not offering Alfie treatment for his condition. They are offering to cut a small hole in his neck to insert a breathing tube directly, and basic hydration…at a cost of €65,000. That’s all.
This will not help Alfie in any way. It might make his father and mother feel somewhat better for a while, but ultimately their boy is already dead to all intents and purposes.
Another anonymous grass says:
“pick up the kids from school”??? which kids Tracey? surely not your own, I thought they was removed from your care?
Brilliant! Very informative. Thanks, EC. I’ve now added those to the drive:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10kQBxERDKLeL_VIE9QMVTyLqwqxfNc1Y?usp=sharing
Everytime Tracey Morris purports to expose something, someone is always shaking in their boots, this is a classic example of her using words to attack the credibility of the courts & the hospital & to get more attention from her deluded followers, who probably believed the two twats, (excuse my language), were going to arrive at Alder Hey & ‘rescue’ that poor little boy from the hospital & spirit him away on the plane to Italy.
So people gave them money to go & stay in a hotel to flatter themselves for self-aggrandizement. Did those people really really believe that Tracey Morris, who is the worst kind of conspiracy theorist with no experience in anything except making unfounded allegations against various establishments & Morticia, a ‘paralegal’, who ‘knows everything’ according to herself, could actually go to Liverpool & achieve that when the mob couldn’t make any difference?
They deserve to lose what ever money they gave to them.
There is a page on FB that refute the allegations called, ‘Dignity4life’, who actually believe in a dignified passing for the little boy. A lady from America wrote on it one day saying something like, ‘I am so happy to have found this group, I was very worried that nobody in the UK could spell or understand things’, not a direct quote btw. I can’t remember it word for word, but it is terribly sad that people would even think that about the U.K.
gharris1968 says:
Tracey was up in Belfast magistrates this morning for harassment and should really be up in court again in Liverpool for claiming doctors are giving babies lethal injections, she’s also threatening to name the nurses and doctors in the Alfie case against the anonymity order granted in court. She spent two days making a pest of herself outside Alder Hey and strangely the family, who according to her rang her on Sunday night for help, didn’t speak to her once, why oh why are people still being fooled by this foul woman. She claims to save other people’s children but her time would be better served looking after her own young sons, given the awful job she did with her older children who by her own admission spent most of their lives in the care of the state you’d think she’d want to do a better job this time but no she’s more interested in living a fantasy life online and sticking her nose in where it is not wanted or needed.
Well said, GH.
Thanks, Scarlet!
That won’t be an exclusive Tracey you stupid person. Sadly the father already showed the names of the medics involved by waving court papers about on a live.
The names of the medics could be seen very clearly on the papers. It may have been in Monday after one appeal but not too sure. He also of course, released other information which the judge had expressly said could not be released to the public.
Next up for discussion – the number of angels balancing on the head of a pin. That’s also about as useful.
95% of Indians are vegetarian. eh? She’s full of it, isn’t she! It’s more like 20%. The UK is 14%.
BBC: The myth of the Indian vegetarian nation
The dad seems to have lost the plot entirely, his wife has remained working with the hospital and the original legal team, the dad has gone the freeman on the land route, and a xtian fundy legal group who apparently want to go back to the good old days of the middle eastern crusades….
I wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up in jail, he’s already doing the FOTL ‘you’re not the boss of me’ shtick and ignoring court orders.
Sad to see what grief can do to a person
I did. Well spotted.
Has it dawned on Tom Evans that confrontation has failed?
A Damascene conversion?
The parents of Alfie Evans have released a joint statement asking for privacy and saying they now wish to build a relationship with Alder Hey.
In the letter passed out by Tom Evans, 21, and Kate James, 20, they also called on their supporters to “return back to their everyday lives”.
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/parents-alfie-evans-ask-privacy-14582485
She thinks she’s some kind of hero, like Liam Neeson in ‘Took’.
Breaking: ‘Bill Cosby found guilty of sexual assault in retrial’
Going by her last comment, does Tracey think she’s Linda now?
Tracey is obviously not watching the latest news.
I take back what I said above. She does know the latest news.. and doesn’t give a damn. Nasty, vicious woman.
The Bandwagon Club should issue Angie with a tardy slip.
Tom Evans wants to build bridges and have a good relationship with Alder Hey Hospital now.
STOP INTERFERING, TRACEY!
She’s in full conspiracy bandwagon mode now, mind. Making up for lost time, I guess…
“Alfie Evans’ father calls on ‘Alfie’s Army to ‘stand down’ and praises Alder Hey staff for ‘dignity and professionalism'”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/alfie-evans-father-calls-alfies-12433620?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mirror_main
Tracey apparently can’t bear the fact that Mr. Evans isn’t ‘towing the party line’. He MUST have been gotten to!
“Hey we are so coming for you all”
*Coming for you’s all, surely?
“He’s been silenced!” “They’re not his words!”
Typical bloody conspiraloon talk. Grrr..
Face it, Tracey. Mr and Mrs Evans, just like Sabine, do not want your so-called “help”. Accept it.
Not sure what prompted Mr. Evans’ U-turn but it’s a very positive development, imo. I’m hoping he just “snapped out of it”, as the saying goes, though I suspect there’s so much going on behind the scenes that we don’t know about. Surely there must be some rational, loving, level-headed friends/relatives who’ve been trying to talk sense into him over the last week or so.
Either way, hopefully his statement will help to quell the madding crowd.
I think she needs to be hauled in and questioned. She’s making vague threats that could mean anything.
Power-Disney wracking her brains as to how she can monetize the drama.
Breaking: Angie finally reveals where she gets all her information from:
Sam, I couldn’t agree with you more. I just wish Facebook would. I’ve reported all of Tracey’s vile threats over the last 5 days and not one has been deemed to breach their community rules.
LOLOLOL!!
Hehe, thanks Jake 🙂
Another one for the fruitcake quotes, I reckon.
Another positive side effect of Mr. Evans’ change of heart is that it’s pissed off Malcolm.
I made a mistake there.. I referred to them as Mr and Mrs Evans. I don’t think they’re married.
That’s funny, “What does it mean?” often runs through my head when I read Ogilvy’s posts too.
That’s right – the mother is Miss James.
Cue his next post: it will either be “Spiny and Jake: nonce cunts triggered” or “Spiny Nonceman and Jake want Alfie’s dad silenced – I wonder why”.
Place your bets now 🙂
Ooh, so close!
The Crying Scotsman says:
Yeah, he doesn’t sound pissed off at all! 😂
It seems Mr. Ogilvy’s had a wee drink or two. Hic
Awww, good luck with that, Malky. Bless
Phew! I was starting to think he’d forgotten the bit about burning us in a wheelie bin. Nice save, Malk!
At least I think it was. Perhaps if an English speaker could translate his hissy fit for us, we might be able to check.
Thank fuck he disproved the claim that his posts are incomprehensible by posting “POOR SPINY THE NIGHT WATCHMAN THE DAWN BOREUS ,RICKYS ARSELICKERS SO EASY TAE TRIGGERLIKE BURNING A NONCE IN A WHEELIE BIN”.
Take that, Jake 😂
Dare I say… what does it mean? 😀
Great article sent to me by Tim of the MKD Clan:
‘Alfie Evans’ parents needed help. The vultures came instead’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/26/alfie-evans-parents-activists
“As if the heartbreak over the fate of their son was not enough, the vulnerable couple became the focus of activists with their own agendas,”
Bam – the whole thing in a nutshell! Kudos to Gaby Hinsliff
Call it a hunch but I suspect this may be a fake user name:
If it were the real Virgin Mary, she’d have a tick by her name 😀
I’ve PMed it to Tracey, which I’m sure she’ll appreciate 🙂
“Call it a hunch but I suspect this may be a fake user name”
No, ‘Tracey Morris’ is definitely correct.
I’m ‘ere all week.
I can assure you Tracey’s increasingly unstable behaviour is not making her many friends in N Ireland, people are horrified at how she’s exploiting this tragedy.
Those who still follow her, a dwindling group of Facebook Mums and misfits must be daft. Here is her MO, find a cause to latch onto claim you have people contacting you ‘hundreds are coming forward’ no one ever sees these people, she’s claims to have an army of support, the last time she was in court there were five people with her, one was a convicted stalker. Her best legal team in the world is just a legal aid solicitor who looks like he drew the short straw. She has no legal team no army no supporters. She’s a scumbag who is banned from seeing her own grandchildren for life. She’ll move on from this like she did all the others, remember the ranting outside the children’s hospital and what she was going to do there? Not one thing has changed she did absolutely nothing apart from filming herself.
Yes, that’s pretty much our assessment of her too, GH.
“id comply too and then if lynch them once I for his to Italy it’s absolutely disgraceful”
Once I for his to New Zealand was great holiday!
Both Tracey and her sidekick have been reported to Alfie Evans family members for using the child’s plight to crowdfund their recent holiday to Liverpool, and falsly claiming to know and have spoken to Tom Evans, I have been reliably informed they have both also been reported to Merseyside police, for falsely claiming to have a connection to the family in order to falsely obtain money and making illegal and fabricated claims about medical staff- she’ll never learn but maybe the vulnerable people she is preying on will finally see sense
Saddayforeveryone says:
Exactly!! Organised a protest that hundreds were going to be at – I reckon there was 20 at the most. She’s totally deluded but very dangerous. I feel sorry for the vulnerable people who are sucked in by her rants and funding her lifestyle through their donations to her PayPal. I wonder is she declaring all her extra income to the Dhss lol
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Ella’s strange cult activities re-examined
Angela Power-Disney does waffle on, doesn’t she? The other day she published three videos in which she “exposed” her erstwhile friend and fellow Hoaxtead mobster Tracey Morris—literally hours of Angela droning on about Tracey’s various shenanigans.
It’s Angie’s signature move, really: befriending somebody, singing their praises to the skies, and then turning on them and “outing” them on her blog, Facebook, YouTube, or all three. We’ve lost count (well, all of us but the Office Tapir, who remembers everything) of the number of people she’s done this to, but yesterday in our Comments section we were reminded of a particularly egregious instance: her repeated allegations against Ella Gareeva Draper, whom she accuses of having participated in the imaginary Hampstead cult, and of having made videos featuring herself sexually abusing a young child.
We have absolutely no love for Ella, but we reject Angela’s story, which she claims came to her via one of her usual “impeccable sources” who turned out not to actually have the goods. Surprise!
However, a conversation in yesterday’s Comments section reminded us that while Angela’s version of Ellagate was obviously fabricated, there are other well-documented reasons to suspect that Ella was involved in cult activities of one kind or another.
The Gold-Digger Academy
In October 2017 we noted that Ella was the admin of a group on “OK.RU”, a sort of Russian version of Facebook. The group was called “Ellochka the Cannibal”, a well-known Russian fictional character whose single-minded man-hunting proclivities made her the model for Russian “gold-digger academies”.
These schools teach attractive women all they need to know to attract and retain the attentions of wealthy men—so a poor art student, struggling to get by in Moscow, might meet a well-to-do financial expert and latch onto him, just for example.
As commenter Surreal Hustle pointed out, the “gold-digger academies” engage in some very nasty practices:
There is a post on this blog about Ella’s involvement with a “Man-Eater / Gold Digger Academy” and this raised many red flags for me as I have been researching these organisations for almost a decade. Many of them (in fact all of them that have some to my attention) are linked to extremely dangerous cults / sects that harvest collateral / compromat from followers early on in their involvement. The collateral usually takes the form of compromising photos or videos of transgressive sexual acts. This is exactly the same method used by the cult NXIVM, except that in NXIVM the women were told that collateral being collected to keep them in line. In the Gold-digger Academies (often called Goddess schools / Geisha schools / courtesan academies and the like) compromat is collected during “tantric initiations” that are portrayed as spiritual awakenings.
There have been reports in credible sections of the Russian press that, when the police raided these establishments they seized photographs and video films showing cult members sexually abusing children and engaging in sexual acts with animals.
So, just for the record, I do believe that it is possible that some compromising film or video of Ella exists, in fact, given her involvement in the Gold-Digger Academy it would be surprising and unusual if some compromising material on her does not exist. It would certainly consist of Ella engaging in a sexual act that would be considered transgressive and very shameful by most people. That is the whole point of the collection of such material. Such material would have been collected prior to Ella’s marriage to Mr Draper and would not have involved her own children as they had not been born back then.
This interests us, as we recall that in the early days of the Hampstead SRA hoax, Ella complained that RD had been “harassing” her by sending her “unwanted pornography” on her phone. This seemed very odd to us, as the former couple had been involved in a protracted and very bitter legal battle over RD’s access to the children.
Is it possible that the unwanted pornography in question might have been something which either RD or one of his friends dredged up online? We may never really know the answer to this, but it raises some disturbing possibilities.
Ella and the Supreme Master
We can be much more certain, though, of Ella’s involvement in a well-known cult: as Ydychyncachu Tracey pointed out yesterday, Ella was a devotee of the “Supreme Master” Ching Hai, who claims to have a direct pipeline to God (don’t they all?).
An article on DW.com states,
In just four years, vegan restaurant Loving Hut has opened more than 200 locations in the United States, Austria, Germany, Australia and South America, which makes it the biggest vegan chain worldwide. Its founder, known as Ching Hai, has more than 500,000 followers (by some counts up to 2 million) who believe she has direct conversations with God and call her Supreme Master.
With thousands of videos on YouTube showing spiritual lectures going back to the 1990s, Ching Hai preaches all over the world to acolytes of a meditation-based philosophy she has dubbed Quan Yin. Wearing colorful outfits and sitting on outlandish sets with one or two favored followers, Ching Hai mixes Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism and Islam to instruct her believers in how they can achieve higher levels of consciousness and also speak directly to God. She claims to be the next “master” following in the likes of Jesus, Buddha, and Mohammed.
In the lectures, she also reminds her adherents that they should not be ashamed of making money, “people will make you feel guilty about making money…it’s none of their business.”
She also sometimes advocates something called breatharianism, which is a denial of food and water in favor of spiritual “sustenance.” The practice, sometimes associated with older religions, has been tied to numerous dehydration and starvation deaths.
In a 1999 article in The Independent, Ching Hai’s London recruitment drive was highlighted. At that time, alarm was expressed over her organisation’s control over members:
Fears are growing…that Ching Hai’s recruits have undergone changes in personality after being recruited at great speed. According to the Cult Information Centre, relatives of her followers are also worried by the large amounts of merchandise available to disciples and the money they can spend to be in the presence of their leader. Last week the sect gained 300 new British members during a course of 19 lectures where people crowded around desks to be “initiated” before being “immediately enlightened” by Ching Hai.
Recruits are interviewed and have to follow five rules including becoming vegetarian and meditating for two-and-a-half hours a day.
Visitors to Ella’s home prior to the Hampstead hoax have told us that her walls were plastered with posters featuring Ching Hai. And readers might recall that during the police interviews, the little girl mentioned that she was able to meditate for three hours per day, though she did not enjoy it and tried to find ways out of it.
Whether Ella’s involvement in Russia’s gold-digger academies led to incriminating material being posted online or not, she certainly did not seem averse to exposing her children to a bona fide cult which advocates some very strange practices.
Peculiar, then, that when it came time to accuse her ex-partner of the most heinous crimes possible, she chose to set them in the context of cults and cult behaviour. Then again, we suppose it’s easiest to talk about what one already knows.
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129 thoughts on “Ella’s strange cult activities re-examined”
“It’s Angie’s signature move, really: befriending somebody, singing their praises to the skies, and then turning on them and “outing” them on her blog, Facebook, YouTube, or all three. We’ve lost count (well, all of us but the Office Tapir, who remembers everything) of the number of people she’s done this to…”
Thanks, EC. And your wish is my command…
Friends Angela’s alienated/fallen out with:
Alan Alanson
Eilish de Avalon
Sandy Bergen
Biggi Boho
Heather Brown (on and off)
Abraham Christie
Kris Costa
Beth ‘Jockney Rebel’ Donnellly
Ella Draper
Dawn ‘Hope Girl’ Feagin
Jason Goodman
Wesley Hall
Christine Hart
Miles Johnston
Arthur Kaoutal
Mary McDermott
Belinda McKenzie
Jim McMenamin
Tracey Morris
Stephanie Oostveen
Andy Peacher
Rupert Quaintance
Margaret Sneddon
Nina Valentine
Sonia van Gelder
Mel Ve
Charlotte Ward
Many of them (in fact all of them that have some to my attention) are linked to extremely dangerous cults / sects that harvest collateral / compromat from followers early on in their involvement.
So they purport to be teaching a scam to would-be scammers, whiley in fact they are operating a scam on them?
So ella was trained to be able to romance and control wealthy men for her own gain ? probably skipped a few lessons as she ended up with a failed gold investor cum hemp soup nutritionist who helped her lose custody of both her children and flee the uk as a wanted fugitive. I recently read a post where someone claimed abe would publicly drink his own pee as a party trick.
It’s claimed the scientologists do that. some would say the catholic church’s confession is open to abuse. cults are bad m’kay.
Cat & Malcolm’s Butt-Hurt Bonanza:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tb8UHAoIVAuv21tlpn9QQ0Hnb8KcOGXf
A roundup of the last 24 hours of fuming, fury and feather-spitting by the Highland Hag and the Kincorth Creep
I particularly love how they’ve posted a Wiki entry that states ‘coyote’ means someone who smuggles people into the US – and that it has nothing to do with people-trafficking – to ‘prove’ that EC traffics children into the UK. I genuinely believe that these people don’t actually read their own sodding evidence before posting it!
I once heard Angela described as a dangerous cult. I think they said cult anyway.
When a mexican illegally aids someone over the border they’re a coyote. when a canadian crosses the border their satnav had packed up.
Cat uses spiderman as her avatar image. just google rock spider and pay attention to it’s usage as australian slang. by the powers invested in me by casual coincidence and the ability to type words into an online search engine i find her guilty !
She also sells Mickey Mouse (Boo! Evil Disney!) and demonic skull keyrings. Join the dots, sheeple 😮
An impressive list by any standard.
Dances with Swords says:
OMG, where is the outrage? 😡
Keyrings you say ? well a key is used by a gatekeeper of course. and we all know what a gatekeeper is. as for ring ? well this is the ring a satanistickal term for anus and also a very real circle drawn on the terrorchamber floor with a child’s dismembered limbbone dipped in blood and known to initiates as the ring of fire. Only when inside the confines of the ring is it ignited. and it burns burns burns, the ring of fire. Be careful not to fall into a ring of fire. the mouse of course is symbolic of the saucemakers apparatus, chill medievel devices to harvest the hormonal juicewaters of a victims prostate glands as they are sacraficiated on the alter of darkness. the skull represents the skull, no symbolistickal elements there. i declare her guilty of keyringery most foul.
Sounds accurate to me.
Roman popalovski attended many terrorchamber masses while researching rose marie’s baby and he later showed the ring of fire ceremony in the nine greats with johnny depp as a turfaccountant who stumbles into frank langella’s evil insurance scam to raise the value of antique books and get his castle fixed up. i watched the film only through a tinted mirror with to sound off to prevent mack basking of subliterate messages defeating me.
Two things strike me about ella.
1. she is incredibly uptight and completely obsessed with control. she flies into rages when challenged and smoulders bitterly over any challenge to her.
2. she never acts alone. she had abe make the videos and put the children before the camera. she had other people post the police interviews on her behalf. on the recent polygraph fiasco she had footage of a long dead person cut into it to speak on her behalf along with the polygraph specialist. ella very rarely does anything without someone else pretending to be an expert on her behalf.
as for the compromising video that was reduced to ‘written evidence’ from a vague source and related to oldcastle’s journo in chief ? i’d give that a very wide berth as it’s probably imaginary at best.
as far as cults go i’m not very clued up beyond watching stuff on tv but they do attempt to convince people of all manner of bizarre practices at large in the unsafe world beyond the true beliving members of the cult.
Damn it. finger slipped and i lost an entire boxful. i forgot what i wrote now. in short i think it’s possible the vegan cult influenced ella in some ways, it’s equally possible she was already of a mind to agree with the cult if it echoed her own opinions. as for the importance of diet it was central to the issues that first brought ella into conflict with the teachers and social services concerned the children were underfed.
Now assuming you’re an extremist vegan who is almost militantly against meat your absolute nemesis and chief nightmare would be an infanticidal anthropophage (anyone who isn’t a joe d’amato fan or egregdously overvocabulized can google it, that means you cat and malcolm). so maybe the cult or the meditation planted the cannabalistic elements into the storyline. maybe cult members believe that any outsiders eat babies ? just a thought. obsession with food is frequently a problem for people with control issues, just google ian brady or anorexia for more details.
JasmineRose says:
Well. I just want to know what’s taking Interpol so long in capturing Abe and Ella? RD and his kids and all the people unfairly harmed by those criminals have a right to justice. Eddie et al are itching to restart this hoax. What will stop its re-emrgence is for all those who started this evil lie to be behind bars. Come on The Police, do your job please!
I have an unrelated question that I hope you guys can help me with because its something that is upsetting me greatly.
My neighbour for some reason has become fixated with me and he has asked me to be his life partner. This neighbor is in his early 60s, I am over 30 years younger than him, he has also told me he has come up with a new religious way of life were you can’t eat meat or drink milk or buy wood or paper or write with pencils but he has written a letter to me. Confusing isnt it?? Its so odd, he clearly is unstable and he does have bipolar so I wonder if he is off his meds? Couple of weeks ago he also exposed himself to me as he was looking at me across the street from his window and he has been knocking on my door constantly as he has stated in the letter he wants me to answer his letter or ask him questions about his religion-which was two pages long. In that creepy letter he says he is not egotistical but he is and creepy. I am literally living in fear. I feel like he is becoming a dangerous stalker. Also I haven’t spoken to him for over a year as he tried to start problems with me with other neighbors and come on to me. I rebuffed him and ran away from him. I really dislike him.
Please advise me in what I should do. My friend thinks I should report him to the mental health department in our area or even the police. But I don’t want to if it will make things worse as he lives one door down. But if I need to I will. Another friend has said her husband will talk to him but it could turn nasty and I don’t think that’s a good idea either as it might lead to confrontation or even violence.
Thank you for reading and I hope you can help me.
The more i think about it the more the extreme diet becomes the central theme of the initial conflict with the school. has anyone got the dates and history of it ? when did abe enter the fray ? before or during the food conflicts ? did ella provide the cannabalism to which abe added the sexual and cult elements ? was ella planning it before she met abe and had him add to the bizarre conspiracy plot ? bloody hell, it’s like listening to beatles records and working out which bits john and paul did.
Ching hai is interesting. once donated a massive sum to the clintons but had it refunded due to concerns of how it was raised. suck that up pizzagatekeepers, suck it up. she also had an illegal artificial island removed by the feds and it’s assumed her followers built it. in china she is considered a dangerous anti communist. she maintains people have ten eyes but nine of them are closed if you’re boozed up. drugs and booze aren’t allowed. she’s vietnamese. she’s worth a mint but is suspected of improper fundraising. she has a clothing line should you wish to dress like a supreme master.
Some of them are exactly like that Smut Clyde, some present themselves in different ways, with more of an emphasis on being a spiritual school of shamanism, a yoga school, a tantra school, an academy where parents learn how to raise genius children, a business school teaching the “money making secrets” of the Jews or the ancient Egyptians.
Women are generally treated so badly in Russia and have such little power that marrying a wealthy man, whether a Russian “Forbes” or a foreigner, like Mr Draper (Ella’s mission was a success in that respect) is an aspiration for many. Feminism is considered a disease of the West. Domestic violence and rape are serious problems and victims seldom secure justice. Women have very limited choices and these academies exploit a range of women from would be scammers and social climbers through to women who are vulnerable through poverty, abuse and poor mental health.
The article linked to in the original Hoaxtead article is below and well worth a read.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russias-gold-digger-academy
The article describes the school that teach women how to ensnare a wealthy husband and they charge a lot of money to do so.
At one time I could have shown you clips on the BBC and on Channel 4 where famous journalists visited one of the most monstrous of the cults involved. In both examples the cultic school concerned was reported on with an element of humour and disbelief but the reporters seemed unaware of quite the kind of enterprise they were involved with.
The female reporter on the Channel 4 documentary at least expressed disgust that the school taught women to lick men’s arseholes in order to impress them but taught them that they should never expect a reciprocal arse licking. The BBC male reporter seemed embarrassed to watch a class in which women were invited to practice deep-throating bananas. He declined to try the banana element of the class himself and seemed rather shocked by the whole thing.
Both programmes have since been removed from all platforms and are unavailable, which is probably for the best.
The more overtly cultic end of these businesses emphasise a range of practices including but not limited to:
Complete, unquestioning obedience to a teacher or guru
Prolonged periods of chanting and / or meditation
Vegan, low protein raw food diets
Water fasts (prolonged periods of starvation)
So called “liver cleanses” (the use of emetics and purges)
The use of enemas to rid the body of “blockages”
Drinking urine as a form of medicine
Theatre and acting skills
Clowning skills (often presented as a sacred path)
Yoga, especially kundalini and tantric yoga but any kind of yoga will do
Tantra / neo-tantra
The acquisition of sexual and seduction skills
The acquisition of erotic dance skills including pole dace / lap dance / striptease
The acquisition of skills in bellydance and other dances that may be perceived as sexy e.g. tango
The acquisition of skills in hypnotism and emotional manipulation
The acquisition of martial arts skills (although to be fair the “martial arts” they learn are usually as fake as everything else the teach)
A syncretic mishmash of spiritual beliefs incorporating appropriated and twisted elements of shamanism, Buddhism, sexualised “tantra”, Hinduism, Christianity, the debunked works of the fraud Carlos Castaneda and whatever else they can think of.
Aliens usually feature in the narrative, sometimes the guru claims to be an alien
Training in divination, astrology, tarot etc.
The use of “magical make-up” – basically drugs applied via the transdermal route
The consumption of highly addictive drugs via so called “life-enhancing elixirs” that leave students in a robotic, disengaged state.
The denouncing and abandonment of friends and family. The guru is everything.
One of the links to false SRA allegations that these “schools” have is the teaching that trauma is trapped in the body at a cellular level. Narratives about “awakening” and “yoni activation / awakening” through intimate massage, learning “sacred sexual secrets” and learning how to use supernatural energy fields in the body and how to use orgasms to develop supernatural powers permeate various schools of body psychotherapies and schools for goddesses / gold-diggers.
We have already started to discuss here some of the many links between body psychotherapies, cults and false allegations of SRA / CSA.
In the below link various “academics” posit that quack body psychotherapy can be used to treat DID
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232998513_Using_Psychomotor_to_Treat_Dissociative_Identity_Disorder
The Notorious SRA promoter Norma Howes, who presented a lecture in the UK on 22nd September 2018, is now practicing as a Sensorimotor Psychotherapist (a body psychotherapist)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/curiosity-not-conclusions-assisting-not-assuming-with-norma-howes-tickets-45555495714
SRA promoter Phil Mollon has his insane theories about “energy therapies” plastered all over the www.
Self-proclaimed SRA survivor and sinister cult leader Teal Swan also has multiple articles and videos re “tantra” using orgasms and sacred energy to awaken human body. She posits that women need to remember / awaken their “divine feminine”. The below video is an interesting example
She describes the divine feminine as something that women repress and that they need to awaken. In some ways this narrative mirrors that of Scientology. The concept is that humans have forgotten who we are. In Scientology we are alien souls reincarnated in human bodies. In goddess cults and gold-digger academies women are really goddesses who have forgotten who they really are. In both instances they are invited to “remember who they really are”. Both Scientology and the goddess schools are, at heart, organisations inviting us to remember things that never happened. They are organisations whose foundations are false memories.
Narratives regarding gender are common in these sects and a much promoted theme is that feminism is toxic and that women are pressurised by society to be masculine and that to become empowered women need to awaken their “inner goddess” (actually her inner “holy whore”) who knows about ancient spiritual and sexual secrets. The narrative is like a highly sexualised version of the “surrendered wife” movement combined with pick up artist and hypnotism / NLP skills.
Another common theme is to present sex work as a sacred sexual path that helps women to be lightworkers, goddesses, “dakinis”, etc. and to awaken the planet from it’s state of sleep. It is unsurprising that some of these schools have faced legal problems in various territories, usually relating to criminal charges re sex trafficking and other sexual offences including sexual offences against children.
In these schemes women learn to “awaken their inner goddess” and then are encouraged to set up their own goddess school with associated blog / website / FB page / youtube channel inviting more women to do the same. And so it spreads, like a virus, via social contagion and multi-level marketing.
Because of the way in which it spreads via social networking sites, it leaves a trail behind and anyone taking to time to examine the lineages can identify “tics” or indicators and email addresses, telephone numbers etc. that demonstrate the evolution of the schools and their histories. Taking screen shots is highly recommended. Saving videos and webpages in the archive also recommended. Websites come down, FB groups close and change, videos come down or are changed to “private”.
It is no big surprise to me that Ella was (is?) involved in such schemes. She fits the demographic in many ways. Yoga teacher, new age entrepreneur, raw vegan diet, promoting videos on “natural” ways to stay young (facial yoga), promoter of cannabis as a cure-all, into enemas / colonic irrigation, neglectful of her children and incredibly narcissistic. I can’t help wondering whether her robotic, distant, disengaged manner is a result of the consumption of “elixirs”?
Again I am left feeling devastated for Ella’s children, for Mr Draper and for RD. They all deserve so much better and I hope that they can find some much deserved peace and enjoyment in their lives.
Looked around. i say around, on here of course. the kids being left alone and hungry dates to 2013. Apparently vegan diets are a complicated affair as there are vital nutrients harder to find outside of meat and dairy so you need to be very careful and really know what you’re doing, doubly so if you’re feeding children. so the food issue predates the Pissdrinking hemphead’s arrival and establishes ella’s initial conflict with the school she would mercilessly attack the next year. i read an interesting blog that theorises that cults use vegetarian or vegan diets to control followers as
The hard to find nutrients missing result in impaired mental ability, unclear thoughts, docility, lack of concentration. dunno how much validity there is in that but some people obsessed with control are funny eaters and ella obviously took exception to social workers criticizing her parenting skills and, allegedly, malnourished children. of course the Wankers all conveniently forget this and want to only focus on the tattoos and ‘believe the children’
PMSL Grobnob
Been digging again and just read about mister draper and the monthly payments he made to ella. The comments on that post are closed, just like mister draper’s wallet. i’d love to have been a fly on the wall when ella realized she wasn’t getting her income cheque or bank deposit. don’t suppose the warm salty lager drinker was happy either. oh it’s all gone so monumentally wrong for ella. lost her marriage, lost her boyfriend, lost her kids, lost her uk citizenship (unless she likes prison food), lost her alimony that afforded her a comforable life without working and has to content herself with kisses from the wet salty lips of a urine drinking imbecile who thinks cannabis soup can be given in place of blood in transfusions. not really what you can call a success is she ?
Sorry to hear about your experience Rose
Definitely, definitely phone the police. It sounds like a potentially dangerous situation. He is harassing you and in exposing himself to you he has committed a crime. It is an extremely unsafe situation and you need all the help and support you can get.
You may also like to phone your local rape crisis or similar helpline. The helplines are there for women who have been sexually assaulted and your neighbour exposing himself to you is a kind of sexual assault and can be deeply traumatising. What concerns me the most about this is that it is part of a pattern of slaking and harassment of you. He may be harassing others online or in real life. He sounds potentially dangerous unless he gets urgent treatment.
I appreciate that you don’t want to make matters worse but you are in a a dangerous situation right now.
You have the letters from him yes? This is great as it is evidence of harassment. Record any further interactions / conversations with him on your phone. Also explain to the police that you are afraid of making things worse. They may be able to contact the MH team and get him sectioned without him knowing it was you who reported him.
You may prefer to phone the police and make an appointment to attend the police station or to request non-uniformed police to attend for discretion.
Just tell him to Fuck Off
Here is a non-recent Russian documentary regarding possibly the most notorious of these gold-digger academies / goddess schools, the extremely dangerous “Ashram Shambala”. Warning: Includes distressing scenes.
The video shows a reporter attempting to infiltrate a yoga event run by the sect. Yoga is one of the many fronts the sect uses to disguise its activities.
The video shows a lot of non-recent promotional material produced by the sect. In one horrifying scene a skeletal cult follower shows off his emaciated body, apparently in the belief that he possesses supernatural martial arts skills (a common delusion of people in the cult).
At 5.03 you can see cult members engaging in the practice of acting out stabbing cult enemies, this is a routine practice in the cult.
The cult teaches that “might is right” Hitler was a wonderful person who was misunderstood. Women should be sexy “goddesses” who serve men sexually. People not in the cult are “grey mice” upon whom any violent act can be committed with impunity. Cult members are routinely drugged with addictive psychoactive substances, recommended by the cult as life enhancing “elixirs”.
longer video here
Pay attention especially at 5.12, where there is a brief clip showing some of the promotional material of a goddess school / gold digger academy (similar brief cutaways appear throughout the documentary) – this is exactly the kind of group that Ella was involved with and in fact appears to be an administrator for such an online group.
13 mins in there is a brief section showing one of the first of many sections showing a popular pastime for cult members; practicing stabbing enemies of the cult.
At 15.36 there are brief cutaways of goddess / gold-digger school promotional material and then a section showing the distressed parents of a missing young woman who got involved with the sect. The mother leafs through a folder showing various certificates awarded to her daughter by the “school” before she went missing.
At 16.42 a former cult member leafs through a similar document folder from the same organisation. The website URL on the top of the page is no longer active but you can see a translated version of a 2012 archived page here
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20101124064436%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.ladyworld.ru%3A80%2F&edit-text=
I would recommend NOT clicking on any links in the above archived page. Just read it and then close the link.
The section immediately following this is interesting as the former cult member talks about the school’s training in yoga and massage and at 18.09 there is another brief clip of some of the sect’s published materials.
Viewers wishing to avoid watching scenes of extreme violent abuse / torture of women and subsequently of a helpless cat by the cult leader are advised to skip the section between 23.33 to 25.25
at 35.10 the report refers to the use of drugs by the cult
at 35.12 the report covers criminal charges against a senior member of he sect a man called Pavel (Paul) Handozhko whose face is clearly visible in the footage. He is a Russian psychiatrist and surgeon who is fairly high up in the cult and a very close associate of the leader.
He travels all over the world recruiting new members and was in the UK in 2010.
I have photos of him attending a raw food cafe in Chalk Farm, NW London, at this time. I also have screen shots from his blog advertising his London events.
He has HIV and is wanted in Russia for infecting dozens of people with HIV in orgies presented to followers as “tantric rituals”.
Even though the above videos are in Russian language they are worth paying attention to. They show how many Russian families are losing their beloved children to this disgusting cult.
To conclude:
I have no idea whether Ella sexually abused children. However her involvement in a gold-digging / man-eater academy does raise the possibility that she has been involved serious criminality including sexually transgressive acts. It is extremely likely that someone somewhere possesses compromat on Ella.
In fact Ella was not simply involved in a gold-diggers’ academy, she ticks all the boxes indicating involvement in one of the sinister criminal sects that use sexual rituals and the sexual abuse of minors as part of their MO.
Operates as an admin in a goddess / gold-digger school – major red flag
Succeeded in marrying a wealthy, influential man – check
Involvement in yoga – check
Advocates raw, vegan diet – check
Advocates enemas / colonic irrigation / purging – check
New age entrepreneur – check
Promoting anti-ageing products or techniques – check
Advocates the use of psychoactive drugs to attain enlightenment – check
Appears to be under the influence of drugs / robotic – check
Alienated from immediate family – check
promoter of conspiracy theories – check
Abandoned her children – check
Hmm, good luck with that, Johnny. Sigh 🙄
Thank you surreal hustle. Yes I will call the police because things are getting out of hand. Yes I do have the letters. Thank you for advising me. Its means a lot.
What the actual Fuck is going on with arsehole licking (annilingus, trade ~ rimming, rimjob) being taught as something to do to please me. next they’ll be encouraging them to slip a cheeky finger up the bottle and glass. ladies, golddiggers or otherwise, please restrain yourselves from going anywhere near my jacksy. I’m writing to the british ambassador in moscow about this. i refuse to have russian bints hell bent on tonguing my rusty sherif’s badge. keep these communist sirens out of the uk and away from my chocolate starfish.
What the actual Fuck is going on with arsehole licking (annilingus, trade ~ rimming, rimjob) being taught as something to do to please men. next they’ll be encouraging them to slip a cheeky finger up the bottle and glass. ladies, golddiggers or otherwise, please restrain yourselves from going anywhere near my jacksy. I’m writing to the british ambassador in moscow about this. i refuse to have russian bints hell bent on tonguing my rusty sherif’s badge. keep these communist sirens out of the uk and away from my chocolate starfish.
All those people must be delighted at Praterson and Devine publishing their email addresses.
Someone’s spell check has gone wrong.
ella gareeva is found in no sense a fit mother.
I can remember watching this documentary years back and can remember my disbelief at the sex lessons in how to please a man as a way of winning a Westerner,
Also Ella’s involvement in the Ching Hai sect does not in any way detract from her involvement in the gold-digger academy and associated cults.
To study cults is to study networks, nodes and how networks interact with one another.
While some people might possibly be involved in insular cults that have little or no connection to other cults this is not the case for most cults. Even before the internet many cults endorsed each other and gurus and leaders posed for photos and PR events alongside other gurus and leaders. Cults are just businesses and in the same way that DJs and producers in a certain genre of music will promoted and endorse each other cults do the same thing.
Most people involved in Ashram Shambala, to my knowledge, are also involved in other cults. It is easy to target vulnerable people and recruit them if they have a social network page identifying their interests, especially if they are already involved with cults that have been exposed on reputable news sites or on cult awareness websites. Anyone who is a proud member of a cult that has been exposed multiple times is someone with a strong commitment to “positive thinking” (critical thinking is based on fear. or something). They are likely to reject the MSM as a source of information. They are ripe for the picking by other cults.
The worst of these cults are merely criminal enterprises. If you look at the traditional structure for Italian mafia networks it is pyramidal. The Don is at the top of the pyramid, the Capos are underneath him and the soldiers are at the bottom. OC networks emanating from former soviet territories have a different structure. They are not pyramidal, they are nebulous shape shifters. Individuals may belong to several networks or may shift alliances. Networks form, disperse and reform depending on the task in hand. This shape-shifting model seems to me to be the new way in which OC networks operate post internet.
The study of cultic networks is the study of shape shifting, nebulous entities. Their use of social networking websites and their strategy of “cuckooing” the personal blogs and social network pages of vulnerable people means that they can change appearance and form extremely rapidly.
In some ways they are like this remarkable creature
I will worry about you now, as will others here
Do let us know how you get on
For anyone still in doubt about Malcolm Konrad Ogilvy being a sick fuck (trigger warning):
https://postimg.cc/TK7R4nHj
I think that you would be wise to follow the advice from Surreal Hustle. This man has already displayed behaviour that is way beyond anything that could be described as normal behaviour. It is best to try and get this man stopped before he gets worse. Don’t feel guilty or sorry for him when reporting him to the police as you have done nothing wrong whereas he has already overstepped many boundaries.
Yes, hardly a success at all Grobnob. Whatever her life-plan involved i am sure that losing her children and being skint whilst unable to return to the UK was not part of her life’s dreams.
I picture Praterson and Devine both wearing over-sized suits with orange curly hair wigs, white face paint with a red nose and over size shoes.
Poor old JournoAngie. She never was the sharpest pin on the porcupine…
Wait – who’s obsessed with whom, Angie?
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DhwAfc1GMaBuYqi27_dvBFN9zp5QuCV4
Angie’s disgusting posts about Karen’s daughter and the numerous banned videos she and her ‘anons’ posted to intimidate Karen aren’t included in the above folder.
Jasmine Rose, I have gone through something eerily similar to what you are going through, only a few years ago. Please, contact the Police.
Also, pass on any crime reference numbers to his landlord (private, council, Housing Association) and make them aware. They may remove him from the property.
From the same pair who brought us such gems as “We’re working hard to expose the Hamptead children” 😆
Just realised that the videos I linked to show old video footage that is very out of date
Nowadays recruitment looks more like this
I think the last video gives a clear impression of the brand of the cult and how it appeals to new agers
Arthur Pint and surreal hustle thank you. I have spoken to the police this morning and a non-uniformed police officer will come over tomorrow morning. The police operator also said they will have to get mental health involved too if he does have a mental health issue. As well as discuss ways of protecting me like restraining order. I just hope I will get no more letters from him and he leaves me alone.
Will keep you all posted.
OK, pardon my dimissitude but I’ve now read that post through three times and can’t see that quote! Whereabouts is it?
“It is best to try and get this man stopped before he gets worse”
Yep. And before he does this to someone else.
Flashing his old chap at you is never a good sign and unchecked there’s a likelihood it could escalate to something more extreme. the guy’s obviously got a screw loose and isn’t very happy so needs a mental health intervention before he pulls his stunts on the wrong person and gets beaten up or worse. call the authorities and maintain that you want him compassionately attended to as a sick person and not a malicious criminal. i’m sure there’s a department for steering lonely old perverts back on to the straight and narrow short of clink.
The female to the left of the first video has travelled extensively internationally including long periods in the UK. She is Lithuanian. Poster who have known Ella, Araya Soma and others in the dirty 30 IRL may recognise her.
I hope he leaves you alone too.
I don’t know where you are, or whether you own or rent your home, but in the U.K. if you or your neighbour are council or housing association tenants they can get involved protecting you as well. Not harassing neighbours is often on private tenancies.
I hope the police are helpful.
If you are in immediate danger ring 999 or whatever your emergency number for police is.
There are also charities who provide advice to victims of stalking.
Singlewhitefemale ? angie didn’t get the memo then ? hilarious stuff when a police interviewed suspect who’s had high ranking officers come and confiscate her web devices and two cars who personally knows people who’ve been locked up for exactly the behaviour she’s involved in has the gall to type this utter codswhallop and balderdash ? is she going for diminished responsibility on the grounds of being from planet wrong ? alert australia, the hole she’s digging for herself might pop out the other side.
Good for you for doing the right thing.
If he had done to someone else what he had done to you, you would have no hesitation in advising her that she reported him to the police.
The effect of violating sexual and other assaults and harassment is, very often, to leave the victim questioning her/his own reality and I think that this is what happened to you Rose. I have experienced it myself, countless times.
When someone intrudes upon our life in a violating and frightening manner we cannot comprehend it. “People are not supposed to treat me like this” we think and a part of us might think “so maybe it didn’t happen or isn’t serious”. It can have the effect of putting the victim into a helpless trance of inaction.
Cults routinely abuse victims for exactly this reason.
Apologies for using your delicate situation to make a point about dissociation, but I think it is important to think about this kind of thing.
The hoaxers spout insane narratives about MKUltra and the creation of Manchurian candidates or mind controlled super-soldiers and while their narratives are as crazy as they sound there is a grain of truth in the idea of abusing people in order to better control them. Abe knows a thing or two about this very subject.
I am so pleased that you have stood up for yourself and called the police. If this man intrudes upon you between now and your appointment tomorrow morning just call 999.
Wishing you well
And speaking of mentally unhinged bandwagon jumpers…
Aww, bless – another opportunity for Malcolm and Freakyfucker to demonstrate their pathological hatred of women to the World and for Malcolm to clarify once again why he’s not allowed anywhere near his daughter.
Fasting, low calorie and low protein diets are fairly routine as is sleep deprivation.
You only need 2-3 hours sleep a night if you want to be a shaman. Apparently.
Also not all cults promote raw, vegan diets but most do in my experience.
It is easier to control people if they are sleep deprived and starving, obviously,
Cat must be so proud of him 😆
I really don’t want to alarm you and I’m sorry if this does but I just need to make you aware and to be on alert. Restraining Orders don’t always work and didn’t in my case.
Cat will love Ogilvy’s comment about “fat fucks” too, I’m sure.
Something Abraham Christie aka Abe Christie, Abraham Jemal Christie, Papa Hemp and Nemesis says, frequently, “If you are crying you are lying”. I can only conclude childrens’ distress is evidence of deception to the foul individual.
I know he is paranoid. He assaulted his minor son over an accusation of theft of money, he accepted a police caution for this. You must accept your guilt of the offence to receive a caution. He also accused the children of stealing money and bits and pieces.
Food comes up a lot with Ella and Abraham. They were raw food devotees. I think Ella was controlling with food.
Paragraph 27 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2015/26.html She also made a fuss about her children eating vegan Hula Hoop crisps.
Having said that, I don’t really have any criticism of a healthy vegetarian or vegan diet, even for children. I know there are lots of sweets and treats that are vegan!
She properly Fucked herself up with an absolute anti midas touch own goal of the most inept blackmail attempt ever. if the guiness book of records had a stupidest scheme section she’d be a shoo in.
How’s Gus?
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1VT3DYbv98MxLO5x81nlI2oG_CE9WKCjc
On a side note to answer your first question, Interpol has no powers of arrest. It is an intelligence sharing operation only.
Extradition to the UK from Morocco is only available for offenses that carry a sentence over 12 months. Can’t remember if Abe or Ella have ever been charged but criminal harassment has a maximum sentence of 6 months. Those who get headline higher sentences are normally done for breach of an order, contempt of court, or a higher order crime (such as assault) not the original offence.
They’ve going to be furious when they find out that ‘karen irving’ is only a pen name adopted for the fictional novels she published 2 decades ago and she’d hardly use her real identity on a facebook account set up only a year ago when she was fully aware of what the mob was like. suck it up people, suck it up.
I could have worded that better, I’m not saying don’t get a R.O.
Just remain alert if you do.
Thanks for this hadn’t realised they had tried to put my name up and location.
Yeah. i’m convinced the food stuff was instrumental in ellas warped vision of child rearing early on prior to mister p drinker entering the story. i’d also agree that in the right circumstances vegetarian or vegan diets can be healthy for children, but only if you’re very sensible and have really done your research on nutrition. Ella and abe probably aren’t such individuals and thankfully school and social service intervention will probably have ensured the children were fed at the school along with being monitored. it looks, to me, that the diet was the source of all the early conflicts between ella and the school while child access was entirely the issue between ella and ricky. i wonder if she has a karl pilkington level iq ? it’d explain how she thought the baby killing scam would work.
There is something very disturbing about his sense of ‘humour’ there. 😟
“Up all night writing”?. It may take you 12 hours to string a paragraph together Olgivy out of that sewer pit of a mind but us ordinary mortals can usually do it within minutes.
“The blog came to the realization that it is pointless”.
Oh I don’t know Olgivy- how else would we be able to read in one place about all the arrests and convictions of hoax promoters like you?. I won’t mention names but Quaintance & Berry come to mind (others are awaiting court appearances).
We may read all about you one day.
That’s very perceptive of you Arthur as a pal of mine at the Home Office (MI5 operative) sent me copies of their passport snaps and you were very close.
My flabber is completely ghasted! Thanks for all that, SH.
I assume this is the same sister she said should be horsewhipped:
Have all your fucks been whatted?
You’re welcome SC
This isa youtube channel from the Mexican wing of the cult – should let you know that this is a massive criminal network operating in multiple territories internationally
https://www.youtube.com/user/Diosasyartefemenino/videos
If you check out the videos you will see videos promoting colonic irrigation, tantra, bellydance, healing foods, yoga type exercises and spiritual retreats to the Altai mountains in Siberia.
This old video shows some of the subjects I have described in earlier posts being taught in Mexico
I would advise extreme caution re researching these networks. They are extremely dangerous, not least because they exert profound influence over many mentally unwell and brainwashed people all over the world (see earlier cult activity of practicing stabbing enemies with knives).
The earliest videos on this channel feature a female with many aliases who appears in many of the cult videos. In these videos she is called Miradas, she is also known as Tamara Ra and Ilirya Kanti and a load of other names.
Also this is the sexual predator and criminal who is wanted in Russia for infecting dozens of people with HIV. Like all the people in this network he uses multiple aliases.
He liked to hang out in Chalk Farm in London when he was here. He was especially keen on an expensive raw / superfood vegan cafe in Chalk Farm (now closed) and also a yoga school in the area (re-branded – under new ownership?). I have not been on FB for a while but from my old screen shots of his FB friends pages I know that he is / was FB friends without least one of the original dirty thirty.
Breaking news: There’s some action going on between a YT user named Wavyevergreen and Angela Power Disney. Check out both their channels.
Angela is the angriest I’ve ever seen her on her response video to Wavyevergreen.
Grateful if someone could please let us see the conversations hereif poss as some of us don’t have facebook
They’re both on YouTube.
That WavyEvergreen guy ain’t taking no prisoners. Can I make a suggestion that we don’t comment on there, as Angie would inevitably use it to counter RD’s complaint against her and it could undermine the case. Probably best not to post the link here either, so she can’t accuse us of being part of the harassment. The guy’s threatening to attack her and her friends across various platforms, so my thinking is we should avoid being associated with it. Any thoughts, EC?
That said, Angie’s apoplectic response is well worth a butcher’s. Sample quotes:
“Take your glasses off, you Brummie bastard” 😂
“Eww, you can see Satan coming out of your mouth” 🤣
Thanks for letting us know about these, Jake
I see from her screengrabs that the PC she’s been lent is still on Windows 7 🙄
“One has to assume you’re a paedo”. That well worn cry of all the hoaxers 🙄
I’ve just reported the bit at 12:40, where she says she hopes the UVF track him down.
Simply because the guy told her he would troll her on all platforms.
I reckon Ange’s idea of “saving her life” was when she was throttling her in the playground and then decided to stop and let her live!.
WaveyEvergreen is my new Hero.
It’s amusing that they have gone into overdrive re Ms. Irving and are posting ever increasing hatefests..yet it was all RD or GCHQ before. Flighty bunch they are.
Actually, my view is that we should distance ourselves from him. She’ll inevitably link him to us and use it to undermine the RD harassment case.
Thank you everyone for your kind words. I didn’t realise the council could help me too in staying safe, I will discuss this with the police too.
The police operator discussed a woman’s refuge if I was in serious danger so my neighbour doesn’t know where I am.
Yes I have been informed to call 999 if things get worse and I will guys.
R.O might not work but atleast it will go on his record so there is a history of his behaviour. I wish I reported him when he exposed himself. I realise now my very calculated and unhinged pervy neighbour is very controlling as he has tried to cause me problems with others all in the hope I believe to isolate me and make him think I will run to him. That will never happen.
Thats one of the funniest videos ive seen in ages! lololol
Well done JasmineRose. You have done the right thing by alerting the police to his behaviour. You just never know what actions you may have prevented him from doing to yourself or somebody else in the future. Well done indeed JR, a great move that you have made, 👍
Wow GOS, that is quite spooky in their likeness. You must thank your MI5 operative contact for us.
“Dimissitude” has surely got to be recorded in our Big Book Of Words as today’s word of the day? Well done Tinribs. 👏🏻
Yes, that really could have gone better.
So…just to clarify here: I am actually a Mexican who smuggles people across the U.S. border? Helluva long commute to work each day.
Yes, very good points. She likes to have others do her dirty work for her.
Good luck, JasmineRose. I hope the police will help, and that you regain peace in your life.
Yes, it’s interesting to consider how many times the children mention food during the police interviews. Food, the obtaining thereof, etc. obviously loomed very large in their lives at that time. And for some reason they didn’t seem to think that Abe’s hemp soups were particularly tasty.
Dear, dear, dear. Funny how some people think that if they say awful things about you while they have you blocked on Facebook and Twitter, you won’t know about them, and will have no opportunity to reply. 😀
Yes, it’s not the vegetarianism or veganism which concerns me, but the children’s evident obsession with food. The fact that they were fishing food out of the bins at school says a great deal to me. Interesting, too, that the medical report notes that both were significantly under-sized for their age. While some children are just naturally tiny, RD’s children’s current pictures don’t show them as emaciated or under-sized, which makes me wonder whether they had gone a very long time without enough to eat.
Yes, I was not impressed with Wavy’s video either. I feel that sort of thing can be “weaponised” by someone like Angela, who will use it to claim that we are bullying her.
Agree 100%, Tinribs. He’s nothing to do with us, and while we disapprove of Angela’s actions, getting behind someone who appears to be making threats towards her is not the way to go, in my opinion.
Why does one “have to assume” this? Is this the standard thing one “assumes” whenever one thinks someone has said unkind things about one?
In that case, must I “assume” that Catriona Selvester/Catherine MacKinnon, Angela Power-Disney, Malcolm Whatsisname, and others are all “paedos”? Nasty unintelligent bullies, yes, but “paedo” seems a bit of a stretch to me.
I was taking a good look at the morocco footage and the girl had bags under her eyes and looked worn out. on repeated viewing the amount of coaching and leading responses from the children is chillingly evident. i suspect this contributes to the belief in the videos because the children were definately abused, but not by the named individuals. you can clearly see the girl looking to offscreen ella and back to the camera as she’s guided in to giving the coached responses. I dread to think how weak and uncomfortable the combination of underfeeding, drugging and sleep deprivation made those poor children feel as they were forced to lie repeatedly.
‘Fox dimissa nescit reverti,’ he murmured.
‘Dimissus!’ snapped Chapman, always a stickler for that kind of thing.
‘Kindly leave my wife out of this,’ Keats said stiffly
I have to say, I thought a “Gold Diggers School” would just be a paticularly venal charm school, equipping young women to snare rich older men. This is coming across as closer to the Manson Family.
Hehe, thanks Hugh 🙂
I’ve been hoping that one might catch on, lol.
The guy’s clearly a pervert.
I believe the phrase is “Lie, cry and deny” and it’s something I’ve been happy to throw back at him whenever he’s told porkies, thrown hissy fits and/or blocked me and run away 😀
I think it’s becoming a default term of abuse, EC. I reckon in time it will lose its impact and become akin to calling someone a bastard, which has completely lost its original meaning.
I was just thinking, Charles Manson was simply ahead of his time.
I’d say that Malcolm and Angie are child abusers but not paedophiles to my knowledge.
By the way, do I take it that Catherine McKinnon is a Cat pseudonym (or “pysendeum” as that nice Miss McDermott would call it)?
You don’t want a big kiss from Ella then?
Neelu’s up to her antics again. Somehow I didn’t think the auction would be the end of the matter…
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I saw that. She is not going to give up and accept the situation. She didn’t pay all the mortgage. The bank got the house.
The sad thing is all the costs for the security will mean she gets less money in the end.
I saw she has posted the pictures off the two policemen she says are the same person. They are very clearly different blokes. Someone needs to get her some help.
Also,no one took her niece’s organs. The baby’s eyes were padded slightly with something.
This is an article which explains some of what embalmers do. Perhaps they were eye caps to keep the eyelids closed and a more natural shape. Don’t read it if you are squeamish about things like this.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/spiky-contact-lenses-keep-your-5229622
I think Neelu is deluded as in she has delusions.
Looks that way, yes.
I wonder what excuse she will use when the new owner moves in?
“Excuse me (as she barges past them through the door) you are in my stolen house, I need my remedy! Please remove yourself at once!”
He’s obviously not one of us but I was sort of amazed by his “passion” as she has upset him dreadfully somehow. I guess time will reveal what it’s all about. I didn’t think he was physically threatening her which of course is unacceptable.
But Ange should not think one person’s actions- unconnected to this website- cancel out her shenanigans. She cyber harasses innocent individuals and encourages others to take physical actions against them ( Rupert Quaintance).
She endlessly harasses an innocent father and continues to publish details about 2 children who should be left in peace to grow up. Even when they try to make an honest living she attacks.
She should not be surprised when she pushes a person over the edge to the point. Clearly she has done so with this guy. Why? Who knows.
New owner will just call the police and it’ll be a much more serious matter than trying to annoy a security guard who she’s being billed for. dunno what the procedure is but it’ll probably involve a restraining order and however many breaches it takes to escalate it in order to prevent her going near the former home. if it was me i’d just ignore the silly woman and let her enjoy the weather as it turns colder and wetter.
Yes. If you study folk tales such as those of the Brothers Grimm for example, food and the need to avoid starvation feature prominently. The Hampstead children’s sorry tale of abuse, neglect and starvation reminds me of the story of Hansel and Gretel. It is a very modern nightmare rather than a folk tale with countless evil people playing the role of the child eating witch.
On a tangent I can remember reading a news story about rising rates of rickets amongst middle class vegan families where the parents failed to grasp the central importance of vitamin D in bone growth.
Some examples of the problems that can arise from vegan diets for children below
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/shock-as-vegan-diet-girl-12-979912
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-26382654
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Wedger pushes SRA, invites ‘testimony’ from survivors
It’s been a while since we heard from ex-Met police officer Jon Wedger, but yesterday he and his friend Lou Collins released an interview on Collins’ radio show and blog.
“An Interview with Jon Wedger 1 year on—Satanic Ritual Abuse” is pretty much what it sounds like. Following a review of the various physical challenges which Wedger took on in 2018 (walking from Parliament to Manchester, cycling from Parliament to Penzance, swimming round the Isles of Scilly, where he claims “dark forces were at work” as there were a lot of stinging jellyfish about), he and Collins settle in to discuss the difficulties he’s encountered in his campaign.
Wedger says he’s sat down with cabinet ministers, sexual abuse survivors, and therapists.
He claims to have met with “one of top criminal profilers in Belgium”—we assume he is referring to Carine Hutsebaut, a “Commissioner” at the ITNJ cosplay in London, about which we’ve written fairly extensively.
Hutsebaut is particularly noted for her interest in the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory, as well as “global pedocriminal pedosexual networks“, chemtrails, QAnon, and various health frauds such as “vaccines cause autism”.
Wedger also mentions having sat down with “former gangsters”, a reference to Kray twins enforcer Chris Lambrianou, who is linked to the “Jesus Army”, described by some as an abusive cult:
Trolls, trolls, trolls…
Wedger and Collins agree that one of the worst problems he’s faced in the past year is relentless trolling:
Collins: You’ve been targeted by, you know, you’ve had various things happen to you. Has that increased, or has it sort of like, uh…
Wedger: Well what’s happened is, the trolling came soon as I started raising money, that came, and it did increase, and it got to a bit of a fever pitch, and I’m not going to name names, but we all know who it was, uh, luckily, you know, there’s no words for these people. There’s no words, and I said this from the very start. the one thing that causes any campaign of this nature to fail is division. It is divide and rule. Anyone who seeks to drive a wedge between any of us doing right must be looked on with incredibly suspicious eyes. There was another campaign by someone else that I’m going to class as double despicable, and that’s because he’s an ex-copper. And he’s tried doing it. And I think that’s a bit like, um…
Collins: Kind of horrendous.
The “double-despicable” campaign “run by an ex-copper” is a reference to some questions raised by Julian King, who runs an organisation called the Independent Police Support Group. Just last month, King posed some uncomfortable questions about Wedger’s claims to be a “whistleblower”.
Wedger: And you know, I don’t know what motivates them. Maybe there’s guilt, maybe there’s jealousy, but none of it is benevolent. And they can sod off because I’ve really not got words for them, Lou. I really haven’t got words for these trolls, and really, they are exposing themselves when they do this. I mean, stupid little things that they’re picking up on. I mean, one fellow has gone through every single one of my interviews, and picked up every inconsistency that he can, and said, ‘look, I’ve found Jon Wedger out’, and I think one of them was, I think I was a week out on one of my dates that I gave. Now there’s a term in law, you know, that discrepancy does not constitute a breach. And this is what it is, you know, there’s always going to be discrepancy, especially when you have suffered like myself and many others have, you do suffer mental trauma, and…
Collins: Course you do!
Wedger: …and lapses in memory and everything else, so, um…but no, on the whole I’ve broadened my shoulders with them, I don’t care for them any more, and I’ll just say to anyone that does look on all that, that you’ve just got to take it for what it is. Everyone has their critics…
Collins: It’s the people that are putting it out there, and are supplying the information, they’re not hiding their faces, their names are out there, their faces out there. These people who are attacking are behind the shadows. There is no names.
Wedger: Oh yeah, yeah, that’s right. Well the other thing is…I mean one group that I’ll happily name is a group called Hoaxtead.
Collins: Right.
Wedger: I mean, they must be the most vilest campaign group I’ve ever come across, and I’d encourage anyone to look at their work. Not that I want to advertise their work, cause it’s absolutely disgusting. And what it is, is a group in my opinion that have got Satanic roots! They centre anyone that starts exposing the negative religious connotation to abuse, which is Satanism, and it is real, and it is prevalent, and there have been dozens of cited cases in recent criminal history in our Crown Courts, where Satanism has been used, and Satanists have been convicted for that reason. So this is not a myth, it is reality, and it does go on. Satanism does go on.
Yes, Satanism definitely “goes on”. No doubt about that—just ask James Hind, who has commented here as Satanic Views for nearly four years.
However, we would be very interested if Wedger could provide us with a list of actual criminal cases involving “Satanic ritual abuse”. As we wrote a few days ago, horrific crimes are committed against children who are believed to be possessed by evil spirits—but those crimes are committed by religious fanatics who believe that children can be “possessed” by evil spirits.
This is not the same thing as SRA, and to claim that it is betrays either fundamental ignorance or extreme disingenuousness, we don’t like to guess which.
‘All us brave whistleblowers’
Wedger throws in a good word for Mike Veale, former chief constable of Cleveland Police, who resigned last month and is currently facing and investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC); he claims that Veale was pressured out of his job by MI5, and that “this is what the Establishment does to all us brave whistleblowers”.
Claiming that “the rape of a child is probably the biggest, most lucrative crime there is”, Wedger urged listeners, “So get on board, because we need each other. I need your testimonies, I will bravely put your testimonies out, but you need to stand by”.
This call for survivors of sexual abuse to bring him their testimonies so that he can make them public—sorry, bravely make them public—strikes us as a very poor idea indeed.
First, should survivors really be bringing their stories to Wedger, who is no longer a police officer, rather than to the actual police? He has expressed some very odd ideas, affiliated with some very dodgy people, and has stated outright that he does not trust the police, so how does he propose to assist any survivors who might approach him?
What does Wedger propose do with the information he receives from any survivors who do accept his invitation? Does he have protocols in place to protect people’s confidentiality? Will he be able to assist anyone in coming to terms with their abuse? Will he be able to help bring abusers to justice?
By his own account, all Wedger has to offer survivors is publicity, but that’s okay, because he seems to think that’s all they really want:
Wedger: When you speak to the victims, you say, “What to you actually want?” and they all say, “We want the world to know what went on”. I’ve got a platform for it now, and I talk about it. For me, there is no other subject, because this is the end of humanity if we allow our children to…
Collins: Children are our future, this is why we’re here, we’re here to recreate. We’re on this time, this earth, this plane for a short time, we’re here to create, and we have children…
If Wedger’s unswerving belief in SRA weren’t enough, his dedicated self-promotion and puffery, as well as his emerging status as a full-blown conspiraloon, ought to be sending up some serious red flags for anybody who cares about the well-being of survivors of abuse.
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You have “He claims to have met with “one of top criminal profilers in Belgium”—we assume he is referring to Carine Hutsebaut, a “Commissioner” at the ITNJ cosplay in London, about which we’ve written fairly extensively. ” repeated…
Thanks, Steve. Fixed. 🙂
He is definitely going down the rabbithole…
Considering the company he has been keeping, I would worry if any abuse survivor had given him anything, these people seem determined to gather peoples details and stories, yet have literally no protections in place, and many of them are actually associates of convicted predators…
One does wonder how many of these convicted ones (and unknown/unconvicted ones) are using these to actually get the ‘lurid details’ to gratify themselves???
What a pompous puffed-up windbag he is and now that we are seeing him beginning in full stride it’s obvious he’s just another in a long line of self-appointed “whistle-blowers” who are yet to blow a whistle on anything.
Instead they make these sweeping generalizations which is the opposite to a genuine whistle-blower who reveals actual evidence.
To ask for donations to do this seems pretty sick to me.
And ex-plod Mike Veale deserves everything coming to him. While innocent unless otherwise proved with his cowardly manner of resigning (which leave his generous pension intact) the allegations made by two female officers should be fully investigated as the public has a right to know and other Wiltshire coppers have a right to have their name cleared.
I’d love to know why Wedger left the force but of course all who do have a right to privacy except when they are making sweeping generalizations and accusing others of malfeasance even if it is MI5. I suggest he may have been invited to.
Baloney’s last remaining fan, lol:
Sorry if I’m overthinking this but I find it pretty disturbing that vulnerable people are turning to Wedgie as their guiding light and saviour.
There just aren’t enough sick buckets in the World…
I see Davy hasn’t closed those speech marks yet, so presumably he’s still banging on about Wedger somewhere.
Ah, the joy of reporting a Piers Morgan tweet 🤭
people like wedger are not interested in children one bit. there has been a Bees Nest of a child abuse cover up on his own door step for years and he isn`t the slightest bit interested.
Piers Morgan who got the sack from a well known news paper a few years back for putting fake pictures of soldiers on the front page.
I lost part of a post. TInribs and Steved have pre-empted me stating it’s dubious whether Mr W is an appropriate person to whom survivors of abuse should turn. I don’t want any survivors of abuse who might read this page to ‘out’ by saying ‘Well I went to so and so’ themselves but surely there are genuine and trustworthy organisations to whom survivors could turn. I can’t make my mind up whether Mr W means well but is going about things the wrong way.
I’m not even saying there isn’t any satanic abuse goes on though I think it is rarer than some people would suggest.I’ve read on this board that there have been some alleged satanic abuses which did qualify as abuse though didn’t have a satanic element. When such abuse does occur it is difficult to know whether people do despicable things expecting Old NIck to manifest himself hooves, horns, tail and all or whether they just use the name as a vehicle for doing nasty things.
Have you noticed what has been published on Amazon by horizontal Iphone expert Anna Brees? It is a book from a survivor who these people have been interviewing under the brand Brees Media. Now colour me cynical but I think this may be why they are pursuing survivors stories to try and profit from the misery of the story they can sell rather than solve any issues regarding child abuse. There are to many desperate money grabs and publicity stunts for it to be anything other than a shoddy marketing campaign to sell some books and grow a brand.
Reverend Bruce Howard says:
David Icke’s James Busby attacks The SAFF few weeks back. Wedger talks ill of Hoaxtead in the same month. Odd. My conspiracy mind says its a coincidence and there is no such thing as a coincidence!
Hoaxtead is a poisoned chalice. Once reading you turn full Satan and the only way back is to buy a Jon Wedger T-shirt and coming soon the full motion picture “Wedger – the Movie. I was a cop, but no Kojak” Seems even those that have never read Hoaxtead and ask questions of people like Jon, Andy and that circus are also Hoaxtead. Didn’t realise Hoaxtead was a gang? Is it official, you know like postcode gangs?
WTF? I mean what has Wedger actually exposed?. Sod all.
There are bound to be terrible cover-ups of all manner of crimes but he’s all talk.
I say f*ck Jon Wedger.
The minute he made the ludicrous claim MI5 nobbled Mike Veale is the minute this dill should be ignored.
As with all these fanatics: their propensity to aid and comfort highly dodgy people is legendary. We’ve seen how those who promote the Hampstead hoax are not only friends with convicted pedophiles and proven child abusers they actually go out of their way to promote them.
Belinda McKenzie even housed one who was on the run.
The frightening thing about bozos like Wedger is that they truly believe Satan has all these powers and that the only way anyone can obtain power is by selling their soul to him/her.
Some of them even say The Beatles didn’t write their songs and are a manufactured tool of The Devil to seduce young people (mind you all their fans are now aged pensioners).
They think all politicians have got where they are because they are cannibal baby abusers who are blackmailed by Beelzebub into doing something or other.
Madness.
It’s only a matter of time before they claim 788 – 790 Finchley Road is a portal to the underworld and Mephistopheles is the real landlord.
Speaking of Pandora’s Box Nutters- has anyone heard of John Paterson lately? I wonder if he is enjoying the hospitality of HM Prisons?.
I still say Wedger missed his calling and should have had a main role in I Claudius.
They were all barking mad as well.
Mephistopheles, I believe that was the name of the debt collection agency run by a ‘star’ Mckenzie. The other partner being a notorious paedophile.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/law-report-order-against-litigant-affects-partners-mephistopheles-debt-collection-service-a-firm-v-1419645.html
Oh, GoS, I sometimes wonder if things have become more loony in the 21st century but of course it is probably more likely that the internet is giving strange ideas a chance to flourish more widely. I’ve never been sure whether 788/790 Finchley Road is a place that sells ‘off the shelf’ companies or a firm (legal firm?) that acts as the registered address for various companies. I’ve come across a conspiracy theory that Paul McCartney was replaced (I don’t believe it before people jump on me metaphorically). SOME of what David Icke says is true (mind you it’s stuff that is in the public domain) but when he goes on about the British royal family being lizards and the moon being an illusion he loses all credibility for me. Also he goes on about not having been sued but there was a Canadian man who sued him successfully.
I imagine that most if not all of us who comment here take YouTube ‘truthers’ with a liberal grain of salt but I do have some fears in case unstable people were triggered by the loonies. Mr Trans Investigator’s channel was taken down but I saw a comment there (more fool me for looking at it – but some of the comments are the things that worry me). I may have mentioned this before but someone had made a comment about somebody should kick a pregnant celebrity’s belly (because they are convinced most female celebrities aren’t really female). What if some nutter acted on that and attacked a pregnant lady. Mind you, there is no reasoning with some people, one can try and point out that their reasoning is a syllogism – Female Celebrity X is pregnant, ‘moon bumps’ exist, ego X is faking a pregnancy with a ‘moon bump’ – you can try saying till the cows come home that I (i.e. CAW) exist, dogs exist but that doesn’t make me a dog owner but it’s to no avail.
I won’t link (they don’t have to do with the Hampstead Hoax) but a YouTuber called Shoe0nHead did a reaction video to an offering by another YouTuber (HeatherGotRedPilled) implying that Shoe is a secret transgender. Shoe’s reaction was just funny but she provided a link to HGRP’s channel to prove it was an actual channel but asked people not to ‘troll’. However some of Shoe’s fans went over to HGRP’s channel and made disapproving remarks about her video and HGRP accused S0H of being a bully! Petty Politics also did a send-up (PP does a ‘trainwreck of the month’) about Mary40 (Australian YouTuber – she’s another one who promotes the ‘everyone famous is secretly transgender’. The Mary40 fans were all over the comments section like a rash but I thought it was funny.
Gatehouse says:
Sniff the bullshit…
Being called stupid by Cat Scot is like being called smelly by a skunk.
By the way, the Chrome spellchecker doesn’t recognise ‘Catriona’ and is suggesting ‘castration’. I think on balance I’d take the latter.
@PoliceSupportUK says:
Thought it necessary to add my comments as i am mentioned in this blog post.
I am not running a campaign against Mr Wedger, I just give the facts and the public can make up their own minds, I have noticed that sometimes people are blinkered and no matter how much evidence is available they will continue to support people like John Wedger.
I am not an armchair warrior and proactively help police whistleblowers having been one myself and am still being victimised for doing so after many years.
I have personally met Mr Wedger on 3 occasions initially to try and help him as a whistleblower and it soon became apparent that he is not a genuine whistleblower, did not want any help wishing to go solo and did not care about or show any concern for other police whistleblowers.
He did also not seem to care about the victims he talks about and I found a nasty side to him supported by vile messages he sent to me recently.
Reading this blog post there is mention of people picking up on discrepancies in Mr Wedger’s interviews, these are not discrepancies and down right lies. Everything he says is either false or embellished. He was not on pay for 3 years, he served 23 years not 25 years and only a small proportion of this time on child abuse.
He has lied about Maggie Oliver’s and my own case to try and bolster his own case.
When he was of sick he was swinging the lead including healing victims at his home address apparently by touching their hands.
He had nothing to do with SRA until recently when being followed on Facebook for those in that field.
I know his promoter Anna Brees as I did one of her mobile video courses along with another volunteer organisation.
She was a nice lady but I feel was a bit naive having undertaken Jon Wedger as her first project having returned to work after being away from work for a long time having had children.
She has too much invested including her reputation to withdraw.
At the end of the day it call comes down to money, Wedger is a good source of clients including for a former officer Rick Pendlebury who runs a new criminal defence company.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/police-sergeant-cleared-shoplifting-charge-14186744
https://wrongfullyaccusednow.co.uk/
Rick seems to be now sucking up to Jon Wedger when he previously was against him following issues that arose from the now well known Manchester whistleblowers meeting which was hijacked by Jon Wedger.
Jon informed me that he acted at work in the same aggressive way that his friend Bill Maloney acted because it got results and his bosses could not deal with him.
He was refused an ill health pension and went to a Police medicals Appeal Board where he informed me that he threw a chair at a doctor who ran out of the room.
He is a good actor but he is not what we would consider a genuine police whistleblower, he is in it for himself and will continue to act up so long as people are blowing smoke up his ar** and burying their heads in the sand.
‘It’s only a matter of time before they claim 788 – 790 Finchley Road is a portal to the underworld and Mephistopheles is the real landlord.’
I spit my coffee out when I read that….still laughing.
Careful. That way lies madness.😜 You are heading into Encyclopedia Dramatica territory!
Yes, this is disturbing. I think of organisations like the “Fresh Start Foundation”, and individuals like Kevin Annett, who collect people’s stories not in order to help them in any way, but to exploit them for their own gain. It’s all about pushing a specific agenda, and it stinks.
Join the dots, people! It’s all falling into place now….
I haven’t seen that, Flo. Very concerning.
This is the publication in question.
Thanks for commenting, PSUK, your thoughts are much appreciated.
Hello PoliceSupportUK. I know you aren’t running a campaign, but you have posted a couple of not 100% supportive articles. You aren’t the only non-Hoaxteader with concerns by any means.
I have serious concersns about his behaviour while off sick, but still employed as a police officer. He was in communication with Plymouth Studio in a shed bloke. He somehow got hold of Ella’s list which was the class list that parents pass round to arrange play dates and meet ups down the pub. Ella Draper read this out later on accusing them all of killing and raping babies. Jon Wedger “Nathan Numnuts” forwarded this to professional standards (AFAIK and based in Empress State). No problems with that. BUT! Brian Gerrish then claimed a police officer had been warned off. Fast forward a few years and Jon Wedger claims he was warned off. I mean, for fuck’s sake, he was off sick and getting involved in a police investigation, I would expect him to be told to back off. Imagine JW having to go to court? Muppet.
There is also a weird thing that Brian Harvey claimed. He claimed JW used a key to let them into a block of flats and record on the roof. If JW used a **** key to get into a block of flats he had no business being in I think that is disgusting.
frasersherman says:
Rape of a child is lucrative? Clearly all the actual pedophiles I read about are doing it wrong.
Sorry to see the whackaloons that side of the Atlantic are as bad as the ones here in the US.
Order Of Truth says:
Maybe it’s just me, but Wedger seems far too THICK to have been a detective police sergeant – or even a bobby – but perhaps he may just have scraped by as a traffic warden (no offence to traffic wardens) if he is able to write some numbers and big letters (in ink – not crayon).
Talking of coppers, whatever happened to that ‘Ray’ or ‘Roy’ the ex-copper from Sussex who ran a caravan park and seemed to have an unhealthy interest in SRA stuff and kidnapping children? He seems to have disappeared.
According to press reports the idiot was a constable, not a sergeant as the lunatic Disney whatsername claims.
JOHN WANOA’S PETITION
Don’t all rush at once, now 🤭
“46 have signed. Let’s get to 100!”
OMG, the dizzy heights of success 😂
Eddieisacock live again 🙄
The Inquisitor says:
Immediately blocked for asking an awkward question, Quell surprise 🙄
Jay Wratten says:
Eddie: “Keep deleting those devils. We don’t need the wickedness” 😂
He’s just blocked and deleted CatChair, Max Frisch and Kells Bells too.
Anyone find it ironic that Eddie’s on a pro-free speech march… blocking everyone who disagrees with him or asks awkward questions?
I read your article and thought it extremely fair and non-judgemental in that you laid out the facts and pointed out important discrepancies that need answering when someone, Mr Wedger in this case, is on a “crusade”.
In fact I cannot see any reason Jon Wedger won’t speak to you as there are matters he needs to clear up.
Yes, our whackaloons are top-notch. World-class, even. And yes, the business about child rape being lucrative was apparently plucked from Wedger’s nether regions.
He needs to clarify his definitions. Everyone who disagrees with him is a troll…or a devil. Which is it, Paul? Also, could he please clarify whether his surname is spelt “Rogers” or “Rodgers”? I’ve seen both.
A “Yellow vet weekend”. Has a veterinarian chickened out of spaying Cat?
He used to be Paul Rodgers but he’s all right now.
I think there’s been a jaundice outbreak 😮
I have looked at that site (ED) but only for a laugh. Although I have worried about conspiracy theory believers the existence of sites like Rational Wiki reassure me somewhat.
“He is a good actor but he is not what we would consider a genuine police whistleblower….and will continue to act up”.
Aha..did I not say so!. (editor- you’ve already done this..you’re fired)
He gave us permission to speak… then took down the video 😆
I still don’t get Eddie’s pathological hatred of “fat” people, especially as he’s looking a little porky around the gills himself these days. Besides, I’ve seen EC and she is in fact very slim. Find a healthier way to deal with your jealousy, Eddie.
I’m really not sure why he’s so interested in my body in any case. Creepy little wanker.
Get some sleep, Andy 🙄
788 – 790 Finchley Road is a portal to the underworld
I would watch that movie.
Eddieisacock says:
Fregoli update
Lovely little Hoaxtead rant by Devine @19:58:
And midichlorians come from Midian. Connect the dots people!
Devine @ 12:44 – Everyone keeps thinking I’m the intelligent one”
Trust me, Andy – they don’t.
🙄💤
Define “everyone”.
Of course it does. Meanwhile you are the genius who can talk for hours about the lizard people, aliens and clones. I’m so impressed with your ability to rabbit on for hours about sod all….I know I couldn’t do it.
If he’s the intelligent one I can only pity the others.
So he didn’t take it down because he was embarrassed about the comments then. Nice to know.
‘They’re evil mate….they’re evil’.
That’s not what CW Chanter says:
Soulless Hive Minds? I heard them once at the Brixton Academy as the support band at a Sex Gang Children concert.
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I humped* the Sex Gang Children in 1983.
* I would like to point out that humped in this context refers to who transferring a band’s equipment from their vehicular transport to the stage and then back again at the end of the gig! 🤣
The debt agency said it would “pursue debtors to the gates of Hell if necessary” – given that one of the partners was a convicted paedophile and the other a serial conman, they probably knew the way.
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Future Armoured Vehicles Power Systems London, UK
22sepallday23Future Armoured Vehicles Power Systems22-23 September 2021, London, UK
As the shift from traditional power packs towards alternative means of vehicle propulsion accelerates, and armed forces around the world begin to embrace innovative solutions to armoured vehicle mobility, powertrain
As the shift from traditional power packs towards alternative means of vehicle propulsion accelerates, and armed forces around the world begin to embrace innovative solutions to armoured vehicle mobility, powertrain and power management considerations have never been so important.
SMi Group proudly presents the newest addition to our sell-out Armoured Vehicles events portfolio: Future Armoured Vehicles Power Systems 2021, the only conference for armoured vehicle experts focused on vehicle power and propulsion systems.
Highlights for 2021:
Explore how technological advances will enhance overall performance for future armoured vehicles, as platform electrification moves closer to reality, and software developments allow for superior survivability, mobility and situational awareness capabilities
Listen to key host-nation decision makers
Network with key OEMs and System Integrators
Understand the opportunities for industry to engage in the future of armoured vehicle propulsion, with the UK and international partners continuing to develop innovative technology at a rapid rate
Discuss a diverse range of topics including; platform electrification, hybrid fuel-cells and hybrid-electric drive, maintaining the operability of increasingly power-sensitive systems, enhancing situational awareness, survivability and lethality through more effective APUs, and many more.
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VC Deals that closed! July 15, 2013
Information provide by Associated Press, CB Insight, Crunchbase, Forbes, Market Watch, Rueters, and other sources. Please check company website for best information.
uSamp, an Encino, Calif.-based provider of technology and survey respondents for market research, has raised $15 million in Series D funding from OpenView Venture Partners and DuPont Capital Management. www.usamp.com
HyTrust Inc., a Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of policy management and access control for virtualization and cloud infrastructure, has raised $12.5 million in Series C funding. In-Q-Tel andVMware Inc. were joined by return backers Cisco Systems, Epic Ventures, Granite Ventures and Trident Capital. www.hytrust.com
AirTight Networks Inc., a Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of cloud-managed Wi-Fi solutions, has raised $10 million in Series D funding co-led by return backers CMEA Capital and Trident Capital.www.airtightnetworks.com
TrustRadius, an Austin, Texas-based online platform for user reviews of enterprise software, has raised $5 million in Series A funding from Mayfield Fund. www.trustradius.com
Judo Payments, a London-based provider of mobile payment solutions for UK merchants, has raised $5 million in seed funding from undisclosed investors. www.judopay.com
PathoQuest, a Paris-based molecular diagnostics company for infectious disease, has raised €3.8 million in new VC funding. Idinvest and Aurinvest were joined by return backer Kurma Life Science Partners. www.pathoquest.com
Drip Drop Inc., a San Francisco–based developer of medical-grade oral hydration products, has raised $2.3 million in new VC funding led by Pacific Advantage Capital. www.dripdrop.com
The Royalty Exchange, a Raleigh, N.C.-based online platform for the valuation and sale of music royalties, has raised $2.1 million in Series A funding from Grotech Ventures.www.theroyaltyexchange.com
Taxibeat, a Greek e-hail app maker that has expanded into Latin America, has raised $2 million in new VC funding from undisclosed backers. www.taxibeat.com
Mark43 (f.k.a. Nucleik), a Boston-based provider of law enforcement information management software, has raised $1.95 million in seed funding from Spark Capital, General Catalyst, Lowercase Capital, SV Angel, Launchpad LA, Rough Draft Ventures, and HBS professor Tom Eisenmann www.nucleikapp.com
Happy Networking,
The Morris Team URL: http://www.themorristeam.com/
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Black&White-News
Please join in the development of the Black&White-Community – Organizing international teamwork to ensure the human survival!!!
BlackandWhite 1. Oktober 2020
Organizing international teamwork to ensure the human survival!!!
Please join in the development of the Black&White-Community
We want to connect people from the North and South of the world in teams. We believe the thesis of Willy Brandt’s North-South Commission is correct when he writes: “Without a fair North-South-relations, peace cannot be created or maintained and humanity risks its survival.”
We have created our own social network, independent of Facebook, for networking and the exchange of information and opinions: https://initiative-blackandwhite-community.de/
Anyone who wants to help us ensure North-South justice and above all fair European-African relations, can register here.
Our Blog is called: „Our World„, because we want to contribute to the understanding of central developments problems in the world today. At the same time, we want to lay claim to the creation of a world that serves all of us, all members of the “One World Human Family”; a world shaped by states in solidarity according to the principles of the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with peace and dignified living conditions for all. The contributions of the blog are available to everyone in the newsfeed.
So far, we have been concentrating on team building and development of teamwork in Ghana and Germany. We have the Black&White partner-associations in Ghana and Germany and we have so far established reliable connections and contacts between activists of these two countries. If you want to promote networking in Ghana, you can join the Ghana Group there and get information and comment in the Ghana Forum. We want to promote this networking with our partner association, which is mainly active in the Ghanaian city of Sunyani.
The same goes for networking with activists for peace and justice in West Africa and networking for the implementation of North-South justice. In order to promote networking among committed people from all over the world for the implementation of the UN Charter and the Declaration of Human Rights, there is the group and forum of the Peace Factory Wanfried; in order to build a majority political will in society, we propose the establishment of non-partisan constituency forums. We want to start with this in constituency 169; this constituency is the seat of the Black&White Initiative in Germany.
Come and let us work together for a just and peaceful world!!!
Dr. Emmanuel Ametepeh
Categories: Englisch, In Deutschland/Germany, In Ghana, Initiative Black&White, Nord-Süd-Gerechtigkeit
„Never kill in God’s name!“ No peace without religious peace, no religious peace without religious dialogue – a landmark document by Muslims and Christians in the humanist spirit
APOSTOLIC JOURNEY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCISTO THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES(3-5 FEBRUARY 2019) A DOCUMENT ON HUMAN FRATERNITY FOR WORLD PEACE AND LIVING TOGETHER Faith…
„Whoever picks up a gun again, his hand shall fall off.“ Initiate non-party peace alliances in the constituencies for the Bundestag elections: Speech on the peace actions „Disarmament instead of rearmament“ in Wanfried and Eschwege: Answer of the member of the Bundestag Michael Roth to the open letter, which asks him not to agree to the planned armament. What do you think of his attitude?
In constituency 169, the Friedensinitiative Herfeld-Rotenburg, the Friedensforum Werra-Meißner and the FriedensFabrik Wanfried organized protest events at several locations. As in many cities throughout Germany,…
BlackandWhite 6. Dezember 2020
Africans in the rich world can achieve a lot for Africa. Let us get down to action. We are building the Black & White community via the Internet and hope to advance what we have said above.
Africans in the rich world can achieve a lot for Africa. Our Black&White initiative has been developed by Africans and locals living in Germany. We…
A critical look at US activities in Africa has the Black Alliance for peace. It acts to shut down of Africom: The purpose of AFRICOM is to use U.S. military power to impose U.S. control of African land, resources and labor to service the needs of U.S. multi-national corporations and the wealthy in the United States.
https://blackallianceforpeace.com/usoutofafrica GET THE FACTS ON AFRICOM Download our 4-page AFRICOM fact sheet to distribute in your circles. This document prints out best on 11-inch x…
In (international) teamwork lies the chance for us „common people“ to ensure our survival. The Black&White initiative and the Wanfried Peace Factory have created a platform for this purpose, to built it up step by step „from below“
In (international) teamwork lies the chance for us „common people“ to ensure our survival. The Black&White initiative and the Wanfried Peace Factory have created a…
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Rachel Kendall's Passles
Covid-19 Testing: New Guidance for Employers
Outsourcing and TUPE Caselaw 2020
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Changed for good? How Covid-19 has impacted our working patterns
A survey from the British Council for Offices (BCO) has found that the Covid-19 pandemic has permanently changed the way in which we...
New Covid-19 Restrictions: People in England should work from home if they can
After days of debate among cabinet ministers and serious warnings about the possibility of an exponential increase in Covid-19 cases from...
Whitty and Vallance warn to prepare for 'significant restrictions' over the winter, but what does this mean for the return to work?
England's chief medical officer, Professor Chris Whitty, and the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, have warned...
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Successful Cooperation Examples between Brands and Instagram Influencers
Reaching out to Instagram influencers can be a true way to increase your brand awareness and visibility on this social network. Ever since brands noticed what an influence Instagram influencers have on users, their services have become irreplaceable. And if you still doubt whether to apply to an influencer who can connect your offers to your target audience, InstaBF would like to present to your attention four successful examples of cooperation between brands and influencers. But before that, let us remind you that right at this moment you are on one of the most reliable platforms of ordering likes, comments, and followers for your Instagram account. Everything is provided in a safe and affordable manner.
Being as Creative as Adidas
Women love to accentuate their strength and power, and the brand, who underlines it makes a win-win step just like Adidas did. A year ago, the brand organized a campaign and shot thirty-second videos of fifteen women athletes who spoke about their way toward success. The whole campaign radiated energy and feminine creativity. It’s needless to say that all these athletes have thousands of followers on Instagram. With the help of this cooperation, Adidas reached to millions of people around the world.
Inspiring Adventure with Johnnie Walker
Johnnie Walker is known for its adventurous nature. And this brand is proud to demonstrate its passion for life and new experiences. Through the collaborations with Instagram influencers, the brand boosted tremendous brand awareness! Some of the most popular influencers took the brand through a number of adventures including Formula 1 in Milan, the launch of the brand’s new luxury production in Shanghai, and the brand’s heritage in Scotland. Johnnie Walker realizes it well, that once an influencer creates an excitement over a certain product, it becomes more desirable not only for the influencer’s audience but also the brand’s.
Madewell Campaign with Five Instagram Influencers
Cooperating with a team of five popular Instagram influencers including such names as Bethany Marie and Stephanie Sterjovski, Madewell team managed to reach as many as one million targeted customers in promoting their new signature #TOTEWELL. This campaign brought the brand an immense popularity on this social platform. Besides, the brand regrams these influencers’ posts with their production and then posts on its company’s blog. Through this blog, the brand’s fans can get acquainted with the influencers they might not know. By the way, Madewell’s blog amazes with the diversity of posts that include behind-the-scenes photos, the day’s outfit, Questions and Answers, some styling tips etc.
Having Fun with Fanta
It’s so entertaining to watch people have fun and even more remarkable to have fun yourself. Once Fanta created a fan campaign and introduced short Vine comedy videos with the participants of three popular Vine influencers, people started making their own videos and photos to post on Instagram. The result was utmost engaging and prominent as millions of likes and shares were achieved let alone the tons of wonderful content!
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FASHION, DESIGN & STYLE
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Anti-Gay Wave Floods South Korea After New COVID Cases
May 10, 2020 by Devin Randall
Photo by Bhavya Shah on Unsplash
LGBTQ people in South Korea are under fire from anti-gay backlash after a new wave of coronavirus infections.
Previous to this current situation, South Korea seemed to be doing well in the pandemic. As of May 9, 2020, the county has 10,874 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 256 reported deaths from the disease. This number is reasonable compared to the United States of America’s 1.35 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 80,186 deaths. But according to The Guardian, the rate of new confirmed cases rose for the first time in weeks.
A 29-year-old man who visited bars in Seoul’s gay district called Itaewon tested positive this past Thursday (May 8). Then on Friday,14 of his contacts were confirmed as carriers of the coronavirus.
Because of the fact that South Korea’s infection rate was so low, social distancing restrictions were much more relaxed than in Western nations. But now that these new cases have emerged, health officials have asked anyone who visited similar bars and clubs to get tested. They estimate that approximately 1,500 people attended Itaewon bars in the past week. In addition, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) suspects the man to have possibly infected an estimated 2,000 people. This is because he walked around Seoul and other neighboring providences like Gangwon and Gyeonggi, according to Reuters.
After hearing of these new infections, local Korean news sources like Kookmin Ilbo focused on the fact that the 29-year-old frequented gay clubs. Quickly, the conversation turned homophobic on social media. The terms “gay” and “Itaewon corona” started trending on South Korea’s Naver web search portal. Social media users also shared video footage of these bars and clubs with comments like “help put a stop to these disgusting goings-on.”
“I don’t usually go to gay clubs and it’s been two years since I visited Itaewon [Seoul’s gay district],” Hong Yoo-jin, a 35-year-old IT worker told the Guardian. “But I read on gay community websites that Youtubers are joining gay apps to out gay men live. So myself and everyone I know have deleted our photos from all of our accounts.”
“The company where I work is a regular Korean company, which means they are very anti-gay. I have taken part in conversations where my boss and colleagues said all gay men should be put to death in a gas chamber,” he added.
“If they find out that I was at a gay club, they would most likely tell me to leave under some other pretext or make my life there a living hell so I would have no choice but to leave,” Yoo-jin concluded.
Photo by Thái An on Unsplash
While gay sex and homosexuality are not illegal in South Korea, the Asian country is a complicated atmosphere for LGBTQ people. For many Korean citizens, LGBTQ existence seems like a foreign issue. And despite a growing acceptance for LGBTQ people, there’s also a growing hostility in some sections of the country.
As we’ve reported before, military higher-ups conducted witch hunts for gay soldiers. One trans soldier was even infamously fired in January (with a weeks’ notice) after coming out. And though there are LGBTQ parades and events in metropolitan areas, they are frequently met with Christian protesters.
Now, this current situation is seeing that hostility coming out into the open. With increased frustration due to the pandemic, it seems anti-gay aggression is growing in South Korea.
Source: The Guardian, Business Insider, Reuters
Tags #covid19, #lgbt, #lgbtrights, #QPOC, #SouthKorea
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RADIO SYSTEMS PETSAFE EUROPE LTD IS ONE OF TOP THREE PLACES TO WORK IN EUROPE
UK & Ireland Release
PetSafe® Brand parent company ranks 3rd in the 2018 Great Place to Work® Best Workplaces in Europe awards
Radio Systems PetSafe Europe Ltd (RSPEL) – owner of PetSafe® Brand - is one of the top three places to work in Europe, ranking 3rd in the 2018 Great Place to Work® Best Workplaces in Europe awards – beating its 2017 ranking by six places.
The accolade from the esteemed Great Place to Work® group follows on from RSPEL achieving 1st place in the Best Workplaces in Ireland 2018 list in February where 100 per cent of employees voted the company a great place to work.
Specialising in innovative companion pet and sport and hunting products, RSPEL offers comprehensive pet training, health and wellness, waste management and play product solutions through its leading PetSafe® Brand, and superior training and tracking products for professional trainers and hunters via its global SportDOG® Brand.
Since it first opened in Dundalk in 2012, business has flourished for RSPEL, growing by 25 per cent over the last three years and headcount has risen by 50 per cent. In the last year, RSPEL has built on its projects to foster great working practices and inspire and motivate its team. The company has introduced new programmes such as ‘Creative Thinking’ and ‘Office Improvement’ and established a bi-annual ‘Fantastic Five’ award initiative. Categories include ‘Einstein Idea’ which recognises great creativity and ‘Iron Man/Woman’ which offers those with 12 months’ full attendance an extra three days of annual leave.
RSPEL has also introduced policies to help encourage better work/life balance, offering employees both flexi-time and working from home. It is also focused on employee wellness, having appointed a Wellness Champion who runs a programme that includes a plant-filled wellness room, regular talks from external motivational speakers, wellness breaks and voluntary annual employee health check-ups.
On top of more traditional perks, as a pet-centric business RSPEL also offers perks to ensure employees have great relationships with their pet. These include being allowed to bring dogs into the office, eight hours’ ‘paw-rental’ leave to help new pets settle and three days’ paid pet bereavement leave. Additionally, RSPEL helps to cover the cost of pet care, including microchipping, insurance and health check-ups.
A key part of the RSPEL culture is giving back to the local community. As well as nurturing employees’ pets, RSPEL gives back to animals in the community and has an annual budget dedicated to supporting animal-related charities, including Dundalk Dog Rescue (DDR). The business has also recently formed a partnership with the charity RehabCare to help develop disadvantaged adults who have fewer employment opportunities.
David Verdon, General Manager at RSPEL said: “We’re delighted to have been recognised as a Great Place to Work® in Europe for the second year running and to rank in third place is a great achievement, especially given entries have increased 40 per cent on last year. None of this would have been possible without our fantastic Dundalk team who continue to demonstrate daily commitment and passion for our brand – this award is theirs. Over the coming months our focus will be to continue business growth and ensuring we continue to foster the best possible work environment for our staff and an excellent experience for our customers.”
Great Place to Work’s CEO, Michael Bush added: “The organisations on this year’s Best Workplaces in Europe list represent forward-thinking cultures that cultivate inclusion for all. They understand that employees are people first and foremost and provide them with environments where they can be themselves, build strong bonds, and thrive with their peers.”
The Best Workplaces in Europe is the largest annual survey in the region and this year 2,800 companies across Europe participated, 800 more than last year. The unique awards recognise organisations that are dedicated to sustaining high-trust cultures for their employees and winners are decided by evaluating employee and management feedback on areas including trust, culture and policies.
www.radiosystemscorporation.com
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University explains how voting will work — March 3, 2016
University explains how voting will work
March 3, 2016 /iwgb
Voting in the ICE elections will open on Monday 7th March – until now, the University has been strangely silent on exactly how this will work.
As a result of requests from the IWGB slate for clarity on this point, HR have finally given this information:
“On 7 March all staff who are eligible to vote will receive an email from ERS. The email will provide a link to a secure site where staff will cast their vote. Staff will be required to input two security codes to reach the voting page. Once in the voting page, staff will see a list of the names of the candidates who are standing for election in their constituency, and will be asked to click the names of the candidates they wish to vote for – two or three candidates can be selected, depending on the constituency the member of staff belongs to.
Staff who are absent from the University, for instance due to maternity or sick leave, will receive a postal ballot paper to their home address.”
This should reassure anyone who has been worried about the security and confidentiality of votes. Please ensure that you share this information with colleagues so that everyone can vote with confidence!
If you do not receive an email from ERS on Monday, do contact us or write directly to HR on kim.frost@london.ac.uk.
UCU and UNISON members explain why they are voting IWGB
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The Meme Project
Mumbai's Culture Map
Corporate Patronage Paper
Digital Thinkathon 2018 - A Study
Leadership Programme
6 press pieces from 2016
Team Culture Lab
Blog » 6 press pieces from 2016
City Story
The Ladies Finger
NDTV 24/7
The press was really kind to us in 2016. Here are a few curated pieces pieces that we thought you might like!
At the World Economic Forum, Lab head Parmesh Shahani was spoke about equal rights for the LGBT community at a momentous panel discussion that included Minister of Textiles, Smriti Irani. Watch the video that played on TV later here.
Ladies Finger
Our scholar in residence and curator of Lavani LIVE! Sejal Yadav was born into a family of performers. She wrote a personal account of her interest in Lavani and navigating the worlds of performance and academia. Read it here.
Lab head Parmesh Shahani talks about growing up ‘different’ as an LGBT person, and how the Culture Lab has become a place that celebrates difference and thrives on new ideas that emerge from it. Read the piece here.
In a country with draconian laws against the LGBT community, India Inc is proving to be a flagbearer for change and Godrej is leading the charge. Lab head Parmesh speaks to ET about this. Read the piece here.
We deliver substance with style. Elle shows you how we roll. Check it out here.
The City Story
Shivani Shah’s beautiful chronicler of the cities website took a trip down memory lane to see how the Lab started and where it is today. Read the piece here.
The Culture Lab – an update
Rashmi Dhanwani on Arts Management in India
Surpiya Joshi on Writing Sketch Comedy
Supriya Nair on Cultural Journalism: The Joys and the Challenges
Point of View build and amplify the voices of women and other marginalized genders. Their work focuses on sexuality, disability and technology.
AGENTS OF ISHQ
Agents of Ishq is a multi-media project about sex, love and desire by Parodevi Pictures, an independent media and arts company based in Mumbai.
People’s Archive of Rural India
The People's Archive of Rural India is an online repository of the stories of 833 million rural Indians. Founded by P Sainath, PARI documents the everyday lives of everyday people.
Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS)
The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) is a national education institution committed to the equitable, sustainable and efficient transformation of Indian settlements.
Video Volunteers
Video Volunteers train citizen journalists to tell stories from marginalized citizens that do not get a chance to be seen and heard
Junoon has come out of a belief that the arts are integral to a healthy society.
Teach for India
Teach For India is a nationwide movement towards the pursuit of equity in education.
Bhau Daji Lad Museum
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Ford Is Urging 2,900 Ranger Drivers To Stop Driving Right Now
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Ford today said that it would tell 2,900 owners of certain 2006 Ford Rangers to stop driving their cars immediately. Owners need to bring them in for fixes after they’d previously confirmed that a second death had been linked to a bad Takata air bag, according to Reuters.
The Rangers are believed to be at the highest risk for air bag explosion, and were all built in the same day and might have gotten the same bad air bags. In addition to Ford, Mazda said that they would be doing something similar for 2006 Mazda B-series trucks. The news came after Ford had confirmed that a deadly crash in West Virginia in July 2017 was because of a bad airbag.
Ford says they’ll pay for towing costs, loaner cars, and other costs associated with getting customers’ cars fixed. Ford will also contact the owners individually.
From Reuters:
Ford issued a new recall for automobiles that had been previously recalled in 2016. Of those 391,000 2004-2006 Ranger vehicles, the new recall announced on Thursday affects 2,900 vehicles. These include 2,700 in the United States and nearly 200 in Canada. The new recall will allow for identification of the 2,900 owners in the highest risk pool.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration urged owners to heed Ford’s warning. “It is extremely important that all high-risk air bags are tracked down and replaced immediately,” NHTSA spokeswoman Karen Aldana said.
Remember, always fix your recalls.
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DEFENSE PLANNING GUIDANCE 1992 PDF
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DOE letter forwarding the 92-6 implementation plan. • DoD should discontinue use of Defense Planning Guidance scenarios in the development of service programs in favor of conformance to the National Military Strategic Plan., Defense Planning Guidance, U.S. Department of Defense, 1992 A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies Paper, July 8, 1996.
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REFERENCES Reliable Security Information. planning guidance for regional threat scenarios. In view of the disintegration of the former Soviet Union and other changes in Eastern Europe, the Navy needs to reassess its future ship repair, FY 1992-97 presented strategies for a global war with the Soviet Union. This omission precipitated a debate between the Joint Staff and Mr. Wolfowitz, who in May had become Under Secretary of Defense ….
The Plan was published in unclassified form most recently under the title of Defense Strategy for the 1990s, (pdf) as Cheney ended his term as secretary of defense under the elder George Bush in early 1993, but it is, like “Leaves of Grass,” a perpetually evolving work. It was the controversial Defense Planning Guidance draft of 1992 – from which Cheney, unconvincingly, tried to distance This is in response to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) Recommendation 92-6 regarding Operational Readiness Reviews (ORRs). As reported to you in my acceptance letter of October 19, 1992, we have been developing standards for the planning and conduct of ORRs at the Department of Energy. As our experience has grown with the conduct of ORRs at various facilities, we have been
in March 1992 in the initial draft of the Penta-gon’s Defense Planning Guidance document for fiscal years 1994–1999. It stated that the goal of us grand strategy henceforth would be to main-tain America’s preponderance by preventing new great powers from emerging. The United States, it declared, “must maintain the mechanisms for deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a Defense planning, guidance, and security issues : hearings before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, June 3, 10, 16, and 18, 1992. By United States.
reports, studies, manuals) that relate to civil defense for statewide and local emergency planning in the event of a nuclear attack, natural disasters, or a terrorist threat. the full Defense Planning Guidance (DPG) document in two parts. TAB A is the final review version of the Policy, Strategy and Programming sections, which you have seen before. TAB B . …
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Department. of the Navy . Small Business . Innovation . Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase III Guidebook. Phase III Guidance for Program Managers and Deputy Program Managers, For the first time since the Defense Planning Guidance process was initiated to shape national security policy, the new draft states that the fragmentation of the former Soviet military establishment has eliminated the capacity for any successor power to wage global conventional war.
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RG18 MILITARY DEPARTMENT NEBRASKA EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. STRATEGIC PLANNING IN THE DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY (DLA) A Case Study of DLA_s Efforts Under the Government Performance and Results Act Pamela Trump Headquarters, Air Combat Command Langley Air Force Base, Virginia June 1996 The kinds of programs and agencies that may find this case study relevant include: 1 DoD organizations 1 Business-like agencies [--- Unable To …, For the first time since the Defense Planning Guidance process was initiated to shape national security policy, the new draft states that the fragmentation of the former Soviet military establishment has eliminated the capacity for any successor power to wage global conventional war..
§111 TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES Page 26. planning documents, such as a 1992 Pentagon Defense Planning Guidance draft,22 a 1996 strategy paper prepared for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 23 a 1998 letter to President Bill Clinton, 24 and a U.S. think-tank report published in 2000. 25 Each of these boardroom blueprints, Download PDF (1 MB) Abstract L'elaborazione del Defence Planning Guidance del 1992 illustra la natura dell'amministrazione di George H.W.Bush in politica estera e la sua influenza nell'amministrazione del figlio George W. Bush nel periodo successivo ai tragici avvenimenti dell'11 settembre 200.
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China’s Challenge to US Hegemony High Point University. Department of Defense DIRECTIVE NUMBER 1400.31 April 28, 1995 Certified Current as of December 1, 2003 ASD(FMP) SUBJECT: DoD Civilian Work Force Contingency and Emergency Planning and principles outlined in 1992 by Paul Wolfowitz’s classified Defense Planning Guidance; now Deputy Secretary of Defense for President W. Bush, the reappearance of these guidelines is a testament to the influence of a president’s advisers. 10.
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Article 58.pdf - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing site. Search Search principles outlined in 1992 by Paul Wolfowitz’s classified Defense Planning Guidance; now Deputy Secretary of Defense for President W. Bush, the reappearance of these guidelines is a testament to the influence of a president’s advisers. 10
The invasion of Iraq was initially conceived in 1992, in the Defense Department of the first Bush Administration. It was formally proposed again in February of 1998. Wolfowitz Doctrine is an unofficial name given to the initial version of the Defense Planning Guidance for the 1994–99 fiscal years (dated February 18, 1992) authored by Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Paul Wolfowitz and his deputy Scooter Libby.
After the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Wolfowitz and his then-assistant Scooter Libby wrote the "Defense Planning Guidance of 1992", which came to be known as the Wolfowitz Doctrine, to "set the nation's direction for the next century." Defense Reviews. The Quadrennial Defense Review 2006 Office of the Secretary of Defense, 06 February 2006 (printable .pdf file). Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.
Department. of the Navy . Small Business . Innovation . Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase III Guidebook. Phase III Guidance for Program Managers and Deputy Program Managers, (m) DoD 7110.1-M, "Department of Defense Budget Guidance Manual," May 1990 (n) DoD Instruction 7045.7, "Implementation of the Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS)," May 23, 1984
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planning guidance for regional threat scenarios. In view of the disintegration of the former Soviet Union and other changes in Eastern Europe, the Navy needs to reassess its future ship repair principles outlined in 1992 by Paul Wolfowitz’s classified Defense Planning Guidance; now Deputy Secretary of Defense for President W. Bush, the reappearance of these guidelines is a testament to the influence of a president’s advisers. 10
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• DoD should discontinue use of Defense Planning Guidance scenarios in the development of service programs in favor of conformance to the National Military Strategic Plan. Both strategic aims -- preemption and hegemony -- echo the recommendations Paul Wolfowitz made back in 1992 in his controversial Defense Planning Guidance draft. August 2002 Within Administration
U.S. Defense Planning Guidance, NATO Ministerial Guidance, NATO force goals, force assignments as reflected in the U.S. response to the NATO Defense Planning Questionnaire, and the NATO Strategic Commanders’ (SCs) long-term infrastructure plans. Department of the Navy Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase III Guidebook Phase III Guidance for …
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Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System This revision describes an enhanced Army Planning, Programming, and Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES) that responds to the following-- US Defense Planning Guidance 1992-1999 (Leaked NY Times) - actual documents US Defense Planning Guidance 1992-1999 - actual documents Wolfowitz and his 1992 Strategy of World Dominance: "The Defense Planning Guidance"
For the first time since the Defense Planning Guidance process was initiated to shape national security policy, the new draft states that the fragmentation of the former Soviet military establishment has eliminated the capacity for any successor power to wage global conventional war. planning documents, such as a 1992 Pentagon Defense Planning Guidance draft,22 a 1996 strategy paper prepared for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 23 a 1998 letter to President Bill Clinton, 24 and a U.S. think-tank report published in 2000. 25 Each of these boardroom blueprints
department of defense 400 army navy drive arlington, virginia 22202-2884 . may 14, 1992 . memorandum for director of defense procurement assistant secretary of the army (financial Both strategic aims -- preemption and hegemony -- echo the recommendations Paul Wolfowitz made back in 1992 in his controversial Defense Planning Guidance draft. August 2002 Within Administration
FY 1992-97 presented strategies for a global war with the Soviet Union. This omission precipitated a debate between the Joint Staff and Mr. Wolfowitz, who in May had become Under Secretary of Defense … For the first time since the Defense Planning Guidance process was initiated to shape national security policy, the new draft states that the fragmentation of the former Soviet military establishment has eliminated the capacity for any successor power to wage global conventional war.
Defense as specified in classified annex to Pub. L. 104–201, and related personnel, assets, and balances of appropriations and authorizations of appropriations, planning documents, such as a 1992 Pentagon Defense Planning Guidance draft,22 a 1996 strategy paper prepared for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 23 a 1998 letter to President Bill Clinton, 24 and a U.S. think-tank report published in 2000. 25 Each of these boardroom blueprints
scenarios used by the Army for force planning purposes and the forces actually needed by theater commanders for their operational requirements, in which case, … - Army War College on National Military Strategy 1992, pdf. o NMS 1995 · Defense Planning/Strategic Guidance. o For an overview of the complex Pentagon processes, see AcqNotes.com. o DPG 1992 Bush 41- DPG extract from New York Times 1992,02,18 pdf
The Plan was published in unclassified form most recently under the title of Defense Strategy for the 1990s, (pdf) as Cheney ended his term as secretary of defense under the elder George Bush in early 1993, but it is, like “Leaves of Grass,” a perpetually evolving work. It was the controversial Defense Planning Guidance draft of 1992 – from which Cheney, unconvincingly, tried to distance - Army War College on National Military Strategy 1992, pdf. o NMS 1995 · Defense Planning/Strategic Guidance. o For an overview of the complex Pentagon processes, see AcqNotes.com. o DPG 1992 Bush 41- DPG extract from New York Times 1992,02,18 pdf
Download PDF (1 MB) Abstract L'elaborazione del Defence Planning Guidance del 1992 illustra la natura dell'amministrazione di George H.W.Bush in politica estera e la sua influenza nell'amministrazione del figlio George W. Bush nel periodo successivo ai tragici avvenimenti dell'11 settembre 200 In June 1992, the DOD Inspector General criticized the Navy for not preparing a cOEA to demonstrate that the F/A-18E/F is the most cost-effective solution to a recognized military need. The Office of the Secretary of Defense countered that the F/A-18E/F would be a major modification of an existing aircraft and that, according to DOD regulations, a COEA is not necessarily required. The
U.S. Defense Planning Guidance, NATO Ministerial Guidance, NATO force goals, force assignments as reflected in the U.S. response to the NATO Defense Planning Questionnaire, and the NATO Strategic Commanders’ (SCs) long-term infrastructure plans. DoDD 5230.11, June 16, 1992 2 2.1. The Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Military Departments, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Joint Staff, the Unified and Specified
This is in response to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) Recommendation 92-6 regarding Operational Readiness Reviews (ORRs). As reported to you in my acceptance letter of October 19, 1992, we have been developing standards for the planning and conduct of ORRs at the Department of Energy. As our experience has grown with the conduct of ORRs at various facilities, we have been The information provided in the addendum to The Army Posture Statement satisfies information required by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994. The information is presented
department of defense 400 army navy drive arlington, virginia 22202-2884 . may 14, 1992 . memorandum for director of defense procurement assistant secretary of the army (financial The information provided in the addendum to The Army Posture Statement satisfies information required by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994. The information is presented
inspector general . department of defense . 400 army navy drive . arlington, virginia 22202-2884 . february 14, 1992 . memorandum for director of defense procurement - Army War College on National Military Strategy 1992, pdf. o NMS 1995 · Defense Planning/Strategic Guidance. o For an overview of the complex Pentagon processes, see AcqNotes.com. o DPG 1992 Bush 41- DPG extract from New York Times 1992,02,18 pdf
Download PDF (1 MB) Abstract L'elaborazione del Defence Planning Guidance del 1992 illustra la natura dell'amministrazione di George H.W.Bush in politica estera e la sua influenza nell'amministrazione del figlio George W. Bush nel periodo successivo ai tragici avvenimenti dell'11 settembre 200 DoDD 5230.11, June 16, 1992 2 2.1. The Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Military Departments, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Joint Staff, the Unified and Specified
in March 1992 in the initial draft of the Penta-gon’s Defense Planning Guidance document for fiscal years 1994–1999. It stated that the goal of us grand strategy henceforth would be to main-tain America’s preponderance by preventing new great powers from emerging. The United States, it declared, “must maintain the mechanisms for deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a the Defense Planning Guidance and in the Annual Report to the President and the Congress. This new strategy is built upon the four key foundations of the National
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DOE letter forwarding the 92-6 implementation plan. The information provided in the addendum to The Army Posture Statement satisfies information required by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994. The information is presented, inspector general . department of defense . 400 army navy drive . arlington, virginia 22202-2884 . february 14, 1992 . memorandum for director of defense procurement.
Official Strategy Posture and Commission Documents. Joint Task Force Planning Guidance 1992. FM 3-100. NBC Defense, Chemical Warfare, Smoke and Flame Operations. FMFM 11-2. 23 May 1991. FM 8-9. NATO Handbook on …, Defense Planning Guidance, U.S. Department of Defense, 1992 A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies Paper, July 8, 1996.
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Defense Planning Guidance 1992 International Politics. The following is an excerpt from the recent Department of Defense release of the February 18, 1992 draft Defense Planning. Guidance that was leaked to The New York Times. reports, studies, manuals) that relate to civil defense for statewide and local emergency planning in the event of a nuclear attack, natural disasters, or a terrorist threat..
The New York Times headline on March 8, 1992. [Source: Public domain] The Defense Planning Guidance, “a blueprint for the department’s spending priorities in the aftermath of the first Gulf War and the collapse of the Soviet Union,” is leaked to the New York Times. Called the "Defense Planning Guidance," it is an internal set of military guidelines that typically is prepared every few years by the Defense Department. This policy guidance is distributed to
in Defense Planning Guidance. To the extent that DOD continues to regard To the extent that DOD continues to regard CB threats as serious in its areas of operations and expects its medical The following is an excerpt from the recent Department of Defense release of the February 18, 1992 draft Defense Planning. Guidance that was leaked to The New York Times.
For the first time since the Defense Planning Guidance process was initiated to shape national security policy, the new draft states that the fragmentation of the former Soviet military establishment has eliminated the capacity for any successor power to wage global conventional war. Defense planning, guidance, and security issues : hearings before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, June 3, 10, 16, and 18, 1992. By United States.
Called the "Defense Planning Guidance," it is an internal set of military guidelines that typically is prepared every few years by the Defense Department. This policy guidance is distributed to Created Date: 2/5/2008 4:56:45 PM
department of defense 400 army navy drive arlington, virginia 22202-2884 . may 14, 1992 . memorandum for director of defense procurement assistant secretary of the army (financial After the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Wolfowitz and his then-assistant Scooter Libby wrote the "Defense Planning Guidance of 1992", which came to be known as the Wolfowitz Doctrine, to "set the nation's direction for the next century."
- Army War College on National Military Strategy 1992, pdf. o NMS 1995 · Defense Planning/Strategic Guidance. o For an overview of the complex Pentagon processes, see AcqNotes.com. o DPG 1992 Bush 41- DPG extract from New York Times 1992,02,18 pdf Department of Defense DIRECTIVE NUMBER 1400.31 April 28, 1995 Certified Current as of December 1, 2003 ASD(FMP) SUBJECT: DoD Civilian Work Force Contingency and Emergency Planning and
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The information provided in the addendum to The Army Posture Statement satisfies information required by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994. The information is presented Department. of the Navy . Small Business . Innovation . Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase III Guidebook. Phase III Guidance for Program Managers and Deputy Program Managers,
Defense planning guidance, modified in May 1994, requires DOD to be ready to engage in two nearly simultaneous major regional conflicts and prepare for smaller scale operations other than war. The invasion of Iraq was initially conceived in 1992, in the Defense Department of the first Bush Administration. It was formally proposed again in February of 1998.
- Army War College on National Military Strategy 1992, pdf. o NMS 1995 · Defense Planning/Strategic Guidance. o For an overview of the complex Pentagon processes, see AcqNotes.com. o DPG 1992 Bush 41- DPG extract from New York Times 1992,02,18 pdf reports, studies, manuals) that relate to civil defense for statewide and local emergency planning in the event of a nuclear attack, natural disasters, or a terrorist threat.
department of defense 400 army navy drive arlington, virginia 22202-2884 . may 14, 1992 . memorandum for director of defense procurement assistant secretary of the army (financial (m) DoD 7110.1-M, "Department of Defense Budget Guidance Manual," May 1990 (n) DoD Instruction 7045.7, "Implementation of the Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS)," May 23, 1984
Department of Defense DIRECTIVE NUMBER 1400.31 April 28, 1995 Certified Current as of December 1, 2003 ASD(FMP) SUBJECT: DoD Civilian Work Force Contingency and Emergency Planning and With the demise of a global military threat to U.S. interests, regional military threats, including possible conflicts arising in and from the territory of the former Soviet Union, will be of primary concern to the U.S. in the future.
18/02/1992 · Created Date: 2/5/2008 1:08:59 PM Wolfowitz Doctrine is an unofficial name given to the initial version of the Defense Planning Guidance for the 1994–99 fiscal years (dated February 18, 1992) authored by Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Paul Wolfowitz and his deputy Scooter Libby.
Department of Defense DIRECTIVE NUMBER 1400.31 April 28, 1995 Certified Current as of December 1, 2003 ASD(FMP) SUBJECT: DoD Civilian Work Force Contingency and Emergency Planning and Defense i>lanning: Guidance. EX 1994-1992 (U) (U) Th:s Defense Planning Guidance addresses the fundamentally new situation which has been created by the collapse of the Soviet Union -- the diSintegration of the internal as well as the external empire, and the discrediting of Communism as an ideology with global pretensions and influence. The new international environment has also been …
This guidance was interpreted to limit sizing of new facilities in support of new munitions to that which would support production for the Five-Year Defense Plan. The invasion of Iraq was initially conceived in 1992, in the Defense Department of the first Bush Administration. It was formally proposed again in February of 1998.
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Jewlicious • Popalicious
Bloomsday in Kikar Bryant and Rehov Eccles Sheva
There are few joyous Jewish holidays between Shavuot and Jerusalem Day in June, and the start of the High Holidays in September, unless you also count The Tony Awards and Bloomsday.
Neil Patrick Harris sang on national television last Sunday (see video here) that the Tony’s and Broadway shows are not just for Jews (or suburbanites and intellectuals who are actually Jews) anymore. He realizes that the Tony’s are a modern Jewish ritual.
Leopold Bloom as drawn by James Joyce
And for the past thirty years, Bloomsday, which falls on June 16, has grown in popularity. Jews have reclaimed the character of Leopold Bloom as their hero. Leo Bloom is a character in “Ulysses,” a novel by James Joyce. “Ulysses” is a retelling of the Greek epic, “The Odyssey,” as if it took place in Dublin on Thursday, June 16, 1904, except that Odysseus of an uncircumcised Jewish outsider in Ireland, a man who works in advertising and who has converted to Catholicism in order to marry his wife Molly. (The character of Bloom was based on Joyce’s friendship with Aron Ettore Schmitz).
In Dublin, New York City, and various cities around the Earth, fans of Joyce and Bloom dress like characters from the epic, and relive adventures from the books episodes. They eat what Leopold ate. They read the sexually charged paragraphs. They recites lines and phrases in a Dublin accent. They wish for a blazing extra-marital affair with Molly. They ponder the life of Stephen Dedalus. Maybe they try to rescue someone from a local brothel. They wonder if there are relationships between the Irish nationalism i nthe novel and British occupation of Ireland, and Jewish Zionism and the British Mandate in Palestine. Perhaps they think of Leopold’s late infant son Rudy, named for Leopold’s father Rudolph, a Hungarian Jew, when they hear the morning kaddish in shul.
Joyce and Jewish Identity
But mainly they wonder how an agnostic Leopold, raised Christian, baptized thrice, and a convert to Catholicism, is still seen as an outsider and Jewish in turn of the century Ireland.
HAPPY BLOOMSDAY!
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Will Your City Be Airing Randall Terry's Gross Fetus Ad During the Super Bowl?
Operation Rescue's Talking Sphincter-in-Charge Randall Terry is running for President as a Democrat, and he's using federal election law to force TV stations to air his graphic bloody fetus campaign ads during the Super Bowl. Will his propaganda be encouraging you to barf up your nachos on a TV near you this Sunday? Let's find out!
Mother Jones has gotten hold of a copy of the (not-so) exhaustive list of places that will be airing Terry's Fetus Bowl, and when the ads will be airing so you know to excuse yourself from the room beforehand. Thankfully, no one who lives in any of these cities cares about either the New England Patriots or the New York Giants, so no one will watch, anyway.
Kansas City, Kansas/Missouri
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
During the game
Ada, Oklahoma
Paducah, Kentucky
If your city's not on the list, you don't get to rejoice just yet. The station that's airing the Big Game in the Chicago market has contested the airing of the ads, saying Terry hasn't done enough actual campaigning in the state to qualify him as a serious candidate. Terry says that they have to air the ads because of the law. The station isn't so sure. Lawsuits will most assuredly fly.
In the meantime, non-coastal sports fans unlucky enough to live in markets airing the ads, consider billing Terry and Operation Rescue for the food that you won't be able to eat after watching them.
Randall Terry's Gory Super Bowl Ad Gets Intercepted [Mother Jones]
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Oh my god I just read the Operation Rescue website. Their spin is amazing........ly awful.
However, their name is laughable. It just makes me want to say - Fine, yall, you want to rescue fetuses? Come right over and rescue mine from my womb. Here, take it, it's yours
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ホームページ > The Venetian Macao Press Center > The Venetian Macao Takes Double Honours at the 2017 World Travel Awards
The Venetian Macao Takes Double Honours at the 2017 World Travel Awards
Integrated resort wins ‘Macao's Leading Casino Resort’ and ‘Macao's Leading Resort’ at prestigious industry event
(Macao, June 5, 2017) – The Venetian® Macao has been voted both Macao's Leading Casino Resort 2017 and Macao's Leading Resort 2017 for the Asia region at the 24th Annual World Travel Awards (WTA) held recently in Shanghai. Both accolades reflect
the integrated resort’s dedication to service excellence and highlight its success in the industry.
This is the ninth year The Venetian Macao has been recognised at the WTA, after also picking up World's Leading Hotel Dining & Entertainment Experience at last year’s event.
“We are deeply honoured to have been recognised by the industry in this way, now for the ninth year in a row,” said Mark McWhinnie, Senior Vice President of Resort Operations and Development, Sands China Ltd. “The Venetian Macao is a wonderful, iconic property and our talented and dedicated staff work hard to ensure all guests enjoy the best possible experience when they stay with us.
“These prestigious awards are a testament to the consistently high level of service we are achieving and confirmation of our excellence in the hospitality industry.”
The World Travel Awards were established in 1993 to identify and reward the world’s best travel organizations. They have now developed into the most prestigious and comprehensive awards program in the travel and tourism industry and acknowledged worldwide as the benchmark of industry excellence. WTA’s mission is to drive up standards within the industry and recognise brands that exceed expectations.
The organization is independent and impartial, with winners chosen according to seven criteria: customer satisfaction and quality of service; overall business performance; product innovation; staff relations and development; corporate social responsibility and contribution to the local community; commitment to sustainable policies; and fulfilment of long-term corporate vision.
Votes are cast by professionals in the travel and tourism industries, including senior executives, travel buyers, tour operators and travel agents. Voting has also been open to the public since 2009 to reflect the growing role the awards play in influencing how consumers make their travel purchasing decisions. Votes are submitted on the World Travel Awards website.
2017 also marks a significant milestone for The Venetian Macao as the integrated resort celebrates its 10th anniversary in August. In addition the hotel has also undergone an extensive refurbishment of its guest rooms; plus added a new Event Lawn, an outdoor garden space which will be able to accommodate up to 5,000 people for cocktail style events.
About The Venetian® Macao
Opened in 2007, The Venetian® Macao is Macao's first integrated resort featuring stunning replicas of the famous canals and architectural icons of Venice, Italy. The Venetian Macao features 3,000 suites, 1.2 million square feet (111,000 square metres) of convention and meeting facilities as well as a 15,000-seat Cotai Arena designed for world-class sports events and electrifying entertainment. The Venetian Macao is also home to the unique, 1,800-seat luxury Venetian Theatre, hosting the best in international and Chinese entertainment; more than 30 renowned restaurants; TAIVEXMALO Day Hospital; the incredibly fun QUBE indoor playground and more than 350 retailers at Shoppes at Venetian. Outdoor recreation areas include swimming pools and cabanas and a mini-golf course.
For more information, please visit www.venetianmacao.com
Public Relations, Venetian Macau Limited
Donna Campbell
Email: donna.campbell@sands.com.mo
Lily Cheng
Email: lily.sw.cheng@sands.com.mo
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A Tyrosine-Rich Region in the N Terminus of CCR5 Is Important for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Entry and Mediates an Association between gp120 and CCR5
Michael Farzan, Hyeryun Choe, Luis Vaca, Kathleen Martin, Ying Sun, Elizabeth Desjardins, Nancy Ruffing, Lijun Wu, Richard Wyatt, Norma Gerard, Craig Gerard, Joseph Sodroski
Michael Farzan
Division of Human Retrovirology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School,
Hyeryun Choe
Luis Vaca
Kathleen Martin
Perlmutter Laboratory, Children’s Hospital, and Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and
Elizabeth Desjardins
Nancy Ruffing
LeukoSite, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
Lijun Wu
Richard Wyatt
Norma Gerard
Department of Cancer Biology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, and
Craig Gerard
Joseph Sodroski
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) requires the presence of specific chemokine receptors in addition to CD4 to enter target cells. The chemokine receptor CCR5 is used by the macrophage-tropic strains of HIV-1 that predominate during the asymptomatic stages of infection. Here we identify a small tyrosine-rich region of CCR5 proximal to the N-terminal cysteine that is critical for entry of macrophage-tropic and dual-tropic variants of HIV-1. HIV-1 infection of cells expressing CCR5 mutants with changes in this region was substantially reduced compared with the infection of cells bearing wild-type CCR5. Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIVmac239) entry was also ablated on a subset of these mutants but enhanced on others. These differences in virus entry were correlated with the relative ability of soluble, monomeric HIV-1 and SIVmac239 gp120 glycoproteins to bind the CCR5 mutants. These results identify a region of CCR5 that is necessary for the physical association of the gp120 envelope glycoprotein with CCR5 and for HIV-1 infection.
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) is the etiologic agent of AIDS, which results from the destruction of CD4-positive lymphocytes in infected individuals (6, 22, 24). The related virus simian immunodeficiency virus (SIVmac) can cause an AIDS-like disease in macaques (26, 27). The entry of HIV-1 into target cells is mediated by the viral envelope glycoproteins, gp120 and gp41, which are assembled into an oligomeric structure on the viral membrane (18, 19). The HIV-1 exterior glycoprotein, gp120, binds to the cellular receptor CD4 (12, 31). CD4 expression on target cells is not sufficient for viral entry, however, and the chemokine receptors CXCR4, CCR5, CCR3, and CCR2b, as well as the orphan receptor STRL33, can function as necessary coreceptors for HIV-1 (2, 8, 14, 16, 17, 23, 29). Among these coreceptors, CCR5 is thought to be especially important because primary viruses that infect T cells and macrophages efficiently use CCR5 (11). Furthermore, individuals who fail to express CCR5 appear to be largely protected from HIV-1 infection (13, 30, 34). SIVmac also uses CCR5, as well as the orphan receptors STRL33, gpr15, and gpr1, as a coreceptor (15, 20). Soluble HIV-1 or SIVmacgp120 glycoproteins incubated with soluble CD4 (sCD4) can bind CCR5 and compete with the binding of the natural chemokine ligands of CCR5, which include MIP-1α, MIP-1β, and RANTES (37, 38). This binding is dependent on the presence of the third variable (V3) loop of HIV-1 gp120, and the sequence of the V3 loop to a large extent determines which coreceptor can be used by HIV-1 (8, 9, 38). Binding of the envelope glycoproteins to the chemokine receptors is thought to trigger additional conformational changes in the gp41 transmembrane glycoprotein, leading to the fusion of the viral and target cell membranes.
Several studies have examined HIV-1 entry into cells expressing chimeras constructed between human CCR5 and either human CCR2b or murine CCR5 (5, 7, 21, 33). These studies in general have not been able to identify discrete domains that are required for HIV-1 entry. Rather, they collectively indicate that all or most of the external domains of CCR5 participate in supporting HIV-1 entry. Interpretation of these studies, however, should include the caveat that the various external domains are likely to interact quite closely, and thus indirect effects of the exchange of relatively large domains on the observed phenotypes cannot be excluded.
In this study, we used a panel of CCR5 alanine substitution mutants to explore the interaction of CCR5 exterior domains with HIV-1 and SIV envelope glycoproteins. We show that a region of the N terminus proximal to the first cysteine of CCR5 plays an important role in the association of the gp120 glycoprotein with CCR5 and in HIV-1 and SIV entry.
Plasmids.Plasmids pHXBH10ΔenvCAT and pSVIIIenv, used to produce recombinant HIV-1 virions containing the envelope glycoproteins from the primary HIV-1 isolates YU2 and 89.6, or the SIVmac239 envelope glycoproteins, have been described previously (8, 25, 35). Plasmid pCD4, used to express full-length CD4 in CF2Th cells, has been described elsewhere (36). For expression of CCR5, cDNA was cloned in a pcDNA3 vector. To create plasmids expressing the CCR5 alanine substitution mutants, mutagenesis of this pcDNA3 vector was performed by the QuikChange method as specified by the manufacturer (Stratagene, Inc.).
Cell lines.CF2Th canine thymocytes (ATCC CRL 1430) and HEK293T cells were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection. Cells were maintained as described previously (8).
env complementation assay.A single round of HIV-1 infection was assayed by using a previously describedenv complementation assay (8). Briefly, recombinant HIV-1 with the nef gene replaced by a gene encoding chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) was used to infect CF2Th cells transfected by the calcium phosphate method with 10 μg of plasmid encoding CD4 and 5 to 20 μg of plasmid encoding wild-type or mutant CCR5. For these assays, 10,000 cpm of reverse transcriptase activity of the recombinant viruses containing the YU2, 89.6, or SIVmac239 envelope glycoproteins was used, and cells were incubated with virus for 1 h at 37°C before washing. Cells were lysed after infection, and CAT activity was measured, indicating the level of infection (25). Normalized values for entry on mutant CCR5 receptors are calculated by expressing CAT activity of the mutant receptor as a percentage of the expected activity of wild-type CCR5 with the same mean fluorescence. This latter value is determined by extrapolating a line between the two wild-type CCR5 values, obtained by transfecting with various amounts of plasmid DNA, whose expression most closely bounds that of the mutant receptor. Mutant receptors whose mean fluorescence was greater than that of the highest wild-type CCR5 value, or lower than the lowest wild-type CCR5 value, were excluded from analysis.
Antibodies.A cocktail composed of equal parts of the anti-CCR5 antibodies 5C7, 2C4, 3A9, 3D8, 10G11, 5H11, and 1G4 (39) was used to measure surface expression of the CCR5 mutant proteins. The use of this antibody cocktail minimizes the chance that antibody recognition of the mutant CCR5 molecules will be disrupted by the introduced amino acid changes. For some experiments, the 5C7 antibody, whose epitope maps to the N terminus of CCR5, and the 2D7 antibody, whose epitope maps to the second CCR5 exterior loop (37a), were used individually, to confirm the efficiency of recognition of individual CCR5 mutants by this cocktail.
Binding assay.HEK293T cells were transfected by the calcium phosphate method with 30 μg of plasmid DNA encoding wild-type or mutant CCR5 receptors. Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) analysis using the 5C7 and 2D7 antibodies was used to confirm comparable expression on transfected cells. Cells were resuspended in binding buffer (50 mM HEPES [pH 7.5], 1 mM CaCl2, 5 mM MgCl2, 0.5% bovine serum albumin). Approximately 106 cells were mixed with 0.1 nM 125I-labeled MIP-1α (DuPont NEN) or 0.5 nM 125I-labeled YU2 or SIVmac239 soluble gp120 glycoprotein (38) and competed with the indicated concentrations of unlabeled MIP-1α or YU2 or SIVmac239 soluble envelope glycoprotein, respectively. Assays for gp120 envelope glycoprotein binding also included 100 nM sCD4. Cells were incubated for 30 min at 37°C in a total volume of 0.1 ml, centrifuged, resuspended in 0.6 ml of the same buffer containing 500 mM NaCl, and recentrifuged. Bound ligand was quantitated by liquid scintillation counting. Nonspecific binding was determined in the presence of 100 nM unlabeled competitor and subtracted from each value for bound ligand.
Effect of CCR5 amino acid changes on CCR5 expression and HIV-1 entry.A panel of CCR5 mutants in which alanine was substituted for most of the charged and aromatic residues in the exterior domains was created (Fig. 1). Cell surface expression of these mutants was examined following transfection of CF2Th cells with plasmids encoding human CD4 and the mutated CCR5 proteins. In parallel, CF2Th cells were transfected with the CD4-expressing plasmid and different amounts of the plasmid expressing the wild-type CCR5 protein. FACS analysis was performed 48 h after transfection with an aliquot of the transfected cells, using a cocktail of anti-CCR5 monoclonal antibodies. Eleven of the mutant proteins exhibited levels of surface expression (legend to Fig. 1) below the lowest value detectable with wild-type CCR5, and these mutants were excluded from further analysis.
Relative entry of YU2 and 89.6 viruses into CF2Th cells expressing mutant CCR5 proteins. Entry is expressed as the percentage of expected CAT conversion on wild-type CCR5 at the same level of surface expression determined by FACS, as described in Materials and Methods. Data represent averages of values from two to five independent experiments. For all values, variation of normalized values was less than 25% of the value indicated. Surface expression of mutants Y10A, D11A, Q21A, D95A, K191A, and Q280A was consistently lower than that of wild-type CCR5 when the same amount of plasmid DNA was transfected. Mutants D2A, Y3A, C20A, Q27A, R168A, K171A, R172A, Y176A, C178A, S270A, and D276A failed to express at levels above which detectable entry could be measured in cells expressing wild-type CCR5 (data not shown).
The remainder of the transfected CF2Th cells were incubated with recombinant viruses containing envelope glycoproteins from two primary HIV-1 isolates, YU2 and 89.6. The YU2 isolate is macrophage tropic, while the 89.6 isolate is dual tropic (10, 28). A linear relationship between wild-type CCR5 cell surface expression and the efficiency of entry of the HIV-1 recombinant was observed in multiple experiments (e.g., Fig. 2). Figure 1shows the efficiency of infection by the recombinant virus of CF2Th cells expressing CD4 and the CCR5 mutants. These values represent the ratio of infection that was actually observed for the mutant CCR5 proteins to that expected for the wild-type CCR5 with same cell surface expression level. The latter value was extrapolated from the infection levels observed for wild-type CCR5 with the higher and lower expression values closest to those of the mutant (Fig. 2). Mutants Y10A, D11A, Y14A, Y15A, E18A, K21A, Q22A, and Q280A were substantially less efficient at supporting the entry of viruses with YU2 and 89.6 envelope glycoproteins than was wild-type CCR5 protein expressed at comparable levels (Fig. 1). Most of these mutants demonstrated a lower than wild-type expression level for the same quantity of DNA transfected, with the exception of mutants Y15A and E18A, which typically expressed at wild-type or higher levels (Fig. 2). Also of note is the greater sensitivity of viruses with the 89.6 envelope glycoproteins to the E18A change (Fig. 1). This glutamic acid is common to CXCR4 and CCR5, and the specific contribution of this amino acid to 89.6 entry may help explain the ability of this virus to use both coreceptors. We conclude that the CCR5 region between but not including glutamine 4 and lysine 26 plays an important role in the entry of primary HIV-1.
Relationship of wild-type and mutant CCR5 surface levels and infectability. A representative experiment of the kind used to assemble Fig. 1 is shown. CAT activity (percent conversion of chloramphenicol) in cells transfected with 5, 10, 15, or 20 μg of plasmid DNA expressing wild-type CCR5 protein (•) or 15 μg of plasmid expressing mutant CCR5 proteins Y10A (◊), Y14A (○), Y15A (▵), or E18A (□) after incubation with recombinant YU2 viruses, is shown. The level of wild-type or mutant CCR5 protein detected on the cell surface by FACS is plotted on the x axis.
Effect of CCR5 amino acid changes on SIVmac entry.We then investigated the effect of changes in the N-terminal CCR5 residues on the entry of an HIV-1 recombinant pseudotyped with the SIVmac239 envelope glycoproteins. This was of interest both because the envelope glycoproteins of SIVmac239 and HIV-1 are relatively divergent and because additional SIVmaccoreceptors that exhibit sequence similarity to CCR5 in the N-terminal region have been identified (15, 20). These receptors retain the tyrosines located at CCR5 positions 10, 14, and 15. Figure3 shows that relative to cells expressing the wild-type CCR5 protein, SIVmac239 entry into cells expressing mutants Y10A, D11A, and Y14A was decreased. Surprisingly, cells expressing mutants Y15A and E18A supported SIVmac239 infection better than cells expressing comparable levels of the wild-type CCR5 protein (Fig. 3). In these experiments, normalized values for SIVmac239 infection of cells expressing mutants K21A and Q22A could not be determined, because SIV entry was not detectable on cells expressing wild-type CCR5 whose surface expression was comparable to that of these two poorly expressing mutants.
Relative entry of SIVmac239 recombinants into CF2Th cells expressing N-terminal CCR5 mutants. Entry is expressed as the ratio of observed chloramphenicol conversion to that expected for wild-type CCR5 at the same level of surface expression, as in Fig.1. Data represent averages of values from two or three independent experiments. Error bars represent the range of observed values.
Effect of CCR5 amino-terminal residue changes on binding of MIP-1α and gp120-sCD4 complexes.The ability of mutants Y15A and E18A expressed on the surface of HEK293T cells to bind YU2 or SIVmac239 gp120 envelope glycoproteins in the presence of sCD4 was examined. Mutants Y15A and E18A were both expressed on the cell surface at somewhat higher levels than wild-type CCR5 when comparable amounts of plasmid DNA were transfected (Fig. 2). Both CCR5 mutants demonstrated markedly lower affinities for YU2 gp120-sCD4 complexes compared to wild-type CCR5 (Fig.4 and 5a). These affinities correspond to the relative ability of the recombinant YU2 virus to infect cells expressing these mutants. The binding of SIVmac239 gp120-sCD4 complexes exhibited some sensitivity to the Y15A and E18A changes as well (Fig. 4 and 5b), although the change of affinity was much less dramatic than in the case of HIV-1 YU2-sCD4 complexes. The dissociation constants for the SIVmac239 gp120-sCD4 complexes were 17.2 nM, 21.2, and 11.7 nM for Y15A, E18A, and wild-type CCR5, respectively. MIP-1α, a natural ligand for CCR5, also demonstrated a reduced affinity for mutants Y15A and E18A (Fig. 4). It is likely that the lower efficiency of infection by viruses containing the YU2 envelope glycoproteins of cells expressing mutants Y15A and E18A is due, at least in part, to a substantially lower affinity of the envelope glycoprotein-CD4 complex for these mutants.
Specific association of 125I-labeled YU2 or SIVmac239 gp120 envelope glycoproteins or125I-labeled MIP-1α with cells expressing wild-type or mutant CCR5 receptors. HEK293T cells transfected with plasmids expressing wild-type CCR5, Y15A, or E18A were incubated with 0.5 nM125I-labeled YU2 or SIVmac239 gp120 glycoprotein and 100 nM unlabeled CD4 or 0.5 nM125I-labeled MIP-1α for 30 min at 37°C, washed, and counted. Radioactive counts measured on mock-transfected cells were considered background and subtracted from all values. Values shown are normalized to the wild-type CCR5 values measured for each ligand. Expression levels in this experiment, as measured by FACS with the anti-CCR5 antibody 2D7, were 79 for cells expressing wild-type CCR5, 75 for cells expressing Y15A, 66 for cells expressing E18A, and 10 for mock-transfected cells.
(a) Binding of HIV-1 YU2 gp120 glycoprotein to cells expressing CCR5 mutants. HEK293T cells transfected with wild-type CCR5 (□), Y15A (○), or E18A (▵) were incubated with 0.5 nM125I-labeled HIV-1 YU2 gp120, 100 nM unlabeled soluble CD4, and the indicated amounts of unlabeled HIV-1 YU2 gp120 for 30 min at 37°C, and washed, and counted. Counts were normalized to the level observed for wild-type CCR5 in the absence of unlabeled competitor. (b) Binding of SIVmac239 gp120 glycoprotein to cells expressing CCR5 mutants. The binding experiment is identical to that in panel a except that 0.5 nM 125I-labeled SIVmac239 gp120 glycoprotein was incubated with 100 nM sCD4 and the indicated amounts of unlabeled SIVmac239 gp120 glycoprotein.
We have shown that several changes in a region proximal to the N-terminal cysteine of CCR5 result in substantial reductions in the entry of the macrophage-tropic HIV-1 variant YU2 and the dual-tropic HIV-1 variant 89.6. It is notable that three of the residues that appear to be important for HIV-1 entry are tyrosines. All of the known coreceptors for primate immunodeficiency viruses, but only a fraction of receptors with homology to chemokine receptors, have an N terminus that is rich in tyrosines as well as acidic amino acids. There is ample precedent for a high-affinity binding site to be composed of an aromatic residue surrounded by charged or polar residues (1, 40). For example, the binding site on CD4 for gp120 is composed of phenylalanine 43 and several positively charged residues (3, 4). In the case of CCR5 binding to the gp120-CD4 complex, more than one tyrosine may be necessary for a high-affinity association. Supporting this conclusion are the observations that alteration of with any one of three tyrosines affects viral entry and that other coreceptors that support macrophage-tropic HIV-1 or SIV entry (gpr15, gpr1, STRL33, and CCR3) have similarly arranged tyrosines (15, 20, 29).
The relative entry of HIV-1 into cells expressing the Y15A, E18A, and wild-type CCR5 proteins correlates with the ability of each of these CCR5 molecules to bind soluble complexes of the gp120 and CD4 glycoproteins. This finding suggests that the major effect on virus entry of the amino acid changes in this CCR5 region is due to a change in ability of these CCR5 mutants to bind envelope glycoprotein-CD4 complexes. A direct association of CD4 with this region of CCR5 cannot be ruled out by these studies, although the differential affinity of the SIV and HIV-1 envelope-sCD4 complexes for the CCR5 mutants suggests that the envelope glycoprotein is the major determinant of the strength of this interaction. The reduced affinity of MIP-1α for E18A and Y15A mutants suggests that these or nearby residues may constitute a portion of a common binding site for HIV-1 gp120 and the natural ligands of CCR5.
SIV entry also demonstrated sensitivity to changes in the amino-terminal CCR5 motif, implying that this portion of the N terminus of CCR5 may be generally important for viruses that use CCR5 as a coreceptor. The enhanced entry of SIVmac239 on cells expressing Y15A or E18A is possibly the result of an enhanced accessibility to or flexibility of the actual virus binding site, which probably includes residues immediately in the vicinity of Y15 and E18. The observation that a change in asparagine 13 of CCR5 allows the SIVmac239 gp120 envelope glycoprotein to bind CCR5 in an sCD4-independent manner supports this conclusion (32). The enhanced entry of SIVmac239 on cells expressing Y15A or E18A does not appear to correlate with the slightly lower affinity of these mutants for soluble monomeric gp120-sCD4 complexes. This discrepancy may be accounted for by the sensitivity of the virus entry assay, but not the binding assay, to an enhanced on rate, or by differences in the properties of monomeric and oligomeric envelope glycoproteins in the contexts of these different assays. The decreased sensitivity of SIVmac239, compared to HIV-1, to changes in tyrosine 15 and glutamic acid 18 may help explain why STRL33, which has a glycine and serine, respectively, at these positions, functions as a more efficient coreceptor for SIVmac239 than for HIV-1 (15, 29).
The identification of a region on CCR5 that is important for the entry of diverse viruses which use CCR5 may imply that this region associates with a relatively conserved structure on the HIV-1 envelope glycoproteins. Further characterization of this interaction may prove useful in efforts to understand the role of chemokine receptors in viral fusion and perhaps in efforts to block this interaction pharmacologically.
The first two authors contributed equally to this work.
This work was supported by NIH grant AI 41581, by the Rubenstein/Cable Fund, and by the Mathers Charitable Foundation.
Accepted 27 October 1997.
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Biden Nabs Klobuchar, Buttigieg Backing on Super Tuesday Eve
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SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg are uniting behind Joe Biden's presidential bid as the Democratic Party's moderate wing scrambled to boost the former vice president just hours before voting begins in high-stakes Super Tuesday states.
Klobuchar formally suspended her campaign and endorsed Biden on Monday, a day after Buttigieg announced his exit.
Buttigieg planned to announce his support for Biden later Monday at a rally in Dallas that Klobuchar also planned to attend.
That's according to two people familiar with the decision who were not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Fourteen states, one U.S. territory and Democrats abroad cast ballots Tuesday.
Filed Under: Amy Klobuchar, democrat, endorsement, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Primary, Super Tuesday, United States
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Santa is coming…SOON!
November 7, 2020 November 7, 2020 bawdybookwriterBad Santa, Christmas romance, Christmas2020, Gay Romance, Holiday Erotica, holiday romance, mfm, mm, mmromance, Naughty Santa, Queer ROmance, Romance, Santa EroticaLeave a comment
How did this happen? Well… Someone posted a thing on Twitter and I said I would as a joke but I was almost done with All Is Bright and the idea pretty much devoured my brain. It’s practically writing itself and I’m having too much fun. How about an oh-so-unedited peek since I’m wrapping up writing in the next few days? Here you go:
“And the very lonely snowman wasn’t lonely anymore,” Marcus whispered and shut the book. He leaned and his neck stretched as he peeked to make sure she was sleeping. A soft swear of relief escaped from him as he eased off the bed. He slipped off her elf ears and Sam’s eyelashes made Marcus’s heart squeeze. He glanced at the clock on her bedside table and smiled. 11:27. It took three hours and a stack of books but she was finally asleep. “Merry Christmas, princess,” he mouthed as he caressed her cheek then went to turn off the light. It was a touch early but he made the rules, right?
Marcus’s feet dragged down the hall and he yearned for his bed but he headed downstairs because he still had hours’ worth of work to do. He yawned as he flipped on the kitchen light and grabbed the milk from the fridge as he passed it. He poured a glass and picked the best two gingerbread men from the pan and arranged them on a plate. Marcus swiped Sam’s letter off the fridge and chuckled at it as he hurried through the living room and set everything out on the mantle. Marcus took a bite out of the gingerbread man’s leg to make it look like Santa had a nibble then dusted his hands off and went to get the gifts and the tree.
Sam was an angel and cut Marcus a lot of slack but he had to get his shit together. It was his second Christmas as a single father but this year was harder than the first. He was so determined to make last year perfect he overcompensated and got way ahead of the game. This year, depression hit him like a freight train and work fell to pieces so he doubled-up on editing jobs so he could work from home. He should’ve had plenty of time to wrap presents and decorate but Marcus was in the weeds because he turned the living room into a tent fort and gained ten pounds living on takeout and cupcakes.
“The carrots!” Marcus gasped and headed back to the kitchen. Sam thought the reindeer would appreciate them so he bought the kind with the long leafy bits. He pretended to be a reindeer and munched on one of the carrots as he waited for the coffee maker. “That’s enough of that,” he decided and tucked the bundle of deceptively nibbled carrots under his arm and was dunking a cookie in his coffee as he headed back to the living room. “Time to drag out the beast,” Marcus decided. They inherited the tree from Rick’s parents and dreaded pulling it out because he didn’t want to get bogged down in memories. He went to the basement and ignored the tattered old box with the frazzled plastic tree. Wisps of memories taunted him but Marcus ignored all the old jokes and duct tape repairs. He had hid Sam’s presents and stocking in the washer and dryer and there was another squeeze but this one hurt his heart. Sam asked Santa to bring Grandma and Gramps but the storm had flights canceled around the country. She also wanted a Switch but Marcus had to cut his rates because everyone was struggling.
The alarm on his watch told him it was midnight so Marcus sucked it up and grabbed the old rolls of wrapping paper on his way up the stairs. He managed to shut the basement door as he juggled the gifts and wrapping paper then tripped when his heel bumped into something heavy. Marcus grabbed the wall and frowned at the massive red bag. It appeared to be made of very thick velvet and tied tight with a thick gold rope and the bag didn’t budge when Marcus pushed it with his toe.
“What the fuck…?” He whispered under his breath and craned his neck as he made his way past the kitchen and the stairs. He glanced at the front door and it was closed and appeared to be locked so he peeked around the living room wall. “Oh…my God,” Marcus said and dropped the bags of gifts and rolls of wrapping paper. A very large man in a red velvet suit with fluffy fur trim was bent over the coffee table. “Ummmm….?” Marcus squeaked and the other man turned. “Holy shit,” Marcus said then clapped his hands over his mouth to hold in a scream.
“Oh! Hello, Marcus. I hope you don’t mind,” Santa said as he waved the hobbled gingerbread man at him then took a bite. “You’re getting really good at this,” he said encouragingly.
“I’m sorry. What?” Marcus rasped and stomped on his toe but Santa was still there.
“These are just about perfect,” Santa said then took another bite. There was absolutely no doubt that he was Santa. He was just a touch too large to be a mortal man—he was at least seven-feet-tall—and the heady scent of cookies and peppermint radiated from him. His beard was silver and his eyes sparkled with cheer. “Thank Samantha for these!” He said as he tucked the carrots into his coat pocket. “The reindeer always appreciate a snack.”
“The reindeer…” Marcus repeated breathlessly and the room began to spin around him.
“Easy!” Santa laughed as he caught him. “Let’s go over by the fire,” he said and put an arm around Marcus.
“Thanks,” he said weakly.
“Why don’t you have a seat,” Santa offered and pulled the armchair closer to the fire but Marcus shook his head.
“I don’t want to,” he said. Santa’s head pulled back before he laughed.
“You are a delight!” He declared and slapped his knee. “But we should get to work. You’re exhausted and Sam’s going to be up in six hours,” he warned. Marcus choked on a laugh and his brain finally kicked back on.
“A delight? Not on my best day,” he promised and shook his head. “What is going on?” he demanded. Santa’s clear blue eyes glistened as he reached for Marcus’s cheek.
“I promise you, my boy. You’re on the Nice List and it looks like you could use some help.” He gave Marcus’s nose an gentle flick. It tickled and the tingle danced down his spine. Marcus laughed softly because he knew it was going to be ok. It was a soft, warm thing that spread through him and the muscles in his shoulders that never, ever unkinked let go and he felt like he was melting.
“I’m on the Nice List?” He babbled and Santa nodded firmly.
“Of course, you are. You’ve always had a kind, open heart and look at all you’ve done to help me make Christmas magical for Samantha.”
“Really?” Marcus asked but Santa tapped a gloved finger against the side of his nose.
“If anyone would know, it would be me.”
“Right.” Marcus turned and it was still his living room and was sure he was awake. He was also completely sure he was talking to Santa… “I’m awake?” He asked. He could have fallen asleep while he was reading to Sam. It happened pretty regularly. Marcus decided to check again and gave the underside of his arm a pinch then gasped when it stung.
“You’re awake! And we’ve got work to do!” Santa scolded with a chuckle as he opened his coat and slid out of it. Marcus’s eyes widened as Santa tossed it at the armchair. Santa’s ripped? He thought in confusion. Santa was wearing an oatmeal-colored Henley and suspenders and while he was pleasantly thick around the midsection, his arms and shoulders made Marcus feel a little too warm. It didn’t help that the two buttons on Santa’s collar were open and offered Marcus an intriguing peek of snowy white chest hair. Jesus. Get your shit together. It’s Santa!
“It might be time to start dating again,” he whispered to himself.
“What was that?” Santa asked and Marcus shook his head quickly.
“Nothing! Just realized it’s been too long since I…” His head bobbled as he wondered if he was actually going to tell Santa that it had been more than four years since he’d touched another man like that. “Since I got out. I haven’t been this close to another adult human in months and it’s warping my brain,” he confessed.
“Ah.” Santa nodded knowingly. “You must be lonelier than usual,” he said gently as he gestured at Sam’s gifts and the rolls of wrapping paper. “Let me take care of those.” He tapped his nose and there was a poof of snow and glitter.
“What?” Marcus laughed as he waved in front of his face and the gifts were perfectly wrapped with big curly bows. “Wow!” He picked up the biggest box and shook his head in disbelief. “I don’t know if I’m more dazzled or relieved that I don’t have to stay up all night wrapping these myself,” he admitted.
“That’s why I’m here!” Santa said then gestured for Marcus to follow as he went to his bag. “I was thinking a fresh tree would be just the thing.” He gave the gold cord a tug and it unraveled easily and a swirl of snow and glitter rolled from the bag and down the hall.
“Seriously?” Marcus asked as he hurried back to the living room and a startled laugh burst from him. He clapped his hand over his mouth and spun to make sure he hadn’t woken Sam.
“Don’t worry. She won’t wake up. Look at the time,” Santa said and Marcus glanced at his wrist.
“Holy…” He slurred. It was still midnight. Marcus blinked at his watch in shock then pushed his gaze to the fully lit and decorated tree. There were so many presents and a Switch was set up and waiting beneath the television. “That’s so… Thank you!” He cried as he threw himself at Santa.
“You’re very welcome!” He said as he held Marcus. He smelled like a Christmas tree and a little like marshmallows and Marcus sighed as he rubbed his cheek against Santa’s chest.
“That’s really nice,” he said dreamily then flinched and jumped back. “I’m so sorry! I don’t know what’s wrong with me!” He whispered loudly. Santa just laughed and threw a hand at Marcus as he went to sit by the fire.
“It happens all the time,” he said as he lowered into the armchair and Marcus winced. The seat was just able to accommodate him as he got comfortable and propped his elbow on the armrest. Marcus was momentarily distracted by Santa’s thick thighs and gave his head a shake to clear it.
“With children, not adults, though. And you can’t even begin to know how wrong it is in here,” Marcus argued and gave Santa an apologetic wince as he pointed at his forehead. Santa laughed and his head fell back as his chest shook.
“I don’t come across a lot of children on Christmas Eve! But I do meet a few parents in my travels and some stops get a little x-rated,” he confided. Marcus’s jaw dropped in shock.
“Really? What about Mrs. Claus?” He whispered, as if he didn’t want to get Santa in trouble. He laughed again and gave his thigh a pat.
“I told you, you’re a delight! Why don’t you come and have a seat, lad?” He offered tenderly. Marcus’s head pushed forward in confusion but his feet still carried him across the room and there was a mortifying heaviness to the front of his pajama pants.
“A seat?” He asked weakly and Santa winked cockily at him.
“You can have a lot more than that if you’ll tell Santa what you really want.”
“Oh.” Marcus looked at the hall and remembered that Sam wouldn’t hear them or wake up then rubbed his lips together nervously.
“Have a seat and don’t be shy.”
“You’re sure Mrs. Claus won’t mind?”
“She’s had just about an eternity of me. We find that a little adventure keeps things fresh and makes coming home even sweeter,” Santa explained as he held out his hand.
“That’s…confusing,” Marcus murmured and his brows pulled together. But he rose on his toes so he could slide an arm around Santa and pull himself up. Marcus was 5’11 but he felt small on Santa’s lap.
“A strange thing happens when you’ve been alive for as long as we have. You grow up. And she’d want you to have a little fun, Marcus,” Santa said gently and kneaded Marcus’s shoulder. It was firm but affectionate and all the tension drained from Marcus as he became fixated on Santa’s beard and lips. He was as enigmatic and charming as you would expect but there was a frisky quirk to his smile that drew Marcus in.
“Me? Why would she…?” He mumbled as he stretched toward Santa’s lips.
“We’ve both been worried about you. That’s why I’m here,” Santa said.
“What?” Marcus frowned and swallowed hard. “This is nuts,” he whispered to himself and Santa shushed him.
“Go ahead and give it a try,” he urged so Marcus shut his eyes and touched his lips to Santa’s.
“Oh!” Marcus’s lips throbbed and a current of pleasure zipped down his spine and he shivered. “That’s…nice,” he breathed and licked tentatively. “Wow!” He giggled and there was another shiver. Santa’s lips tasted like vanilla and peppermint.
“Don’t lose your nerve now. Take what you want. You deserve a little joy,” Santa crooned as his hands cradled and rubbed Marcus’s back soothingly.
“Joy?”
“You outgrew toys a long time ago but I can still put a smile on your face,” Santa said and angled his head so his lips could nudge Marcus’s. His breath was sweet and minty and Marcus’s mouth watered as his tongue swept into Santa’s mouth. Santa groaned encouragingly when Marcus’s fingers twisted in his beard and the kiss became desperate. “Slow down. You can take all the time you need,” he reminded him but Marcus shook his head and kissed Santa again.
“You taste so good!” He said and pushed against Santa’s chest so he’d sit back. He was starving and Marcus couldn’t stop his hands from wandering Santa’s broad chest and round belly. His hands drifted to the front of Santa’s trousers and Marcus squeaked when he found an alarming bulge in the red velvet. “I guess you brought the North Pole with you,” he teased and Santa snorted in amusement.
“You can climb it, if you’re brave enough,” he challenged. Marcus sat back and his chin tilted haughtily.
“You’ve gone and brought my honor into it,” he replied then slid off Santa’s thigh.
“See what I mean?” Santa laughed softly and flicked the end of Marcus’s nose. “Delightful,” he observed but Marcus’s face scrunched dubiously before he shrugged.
“Not as delightful as this,” he said as he braced his hands on Santa’s thighs and kissed him again. “I want to know if the rest of you tastes this good.”
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50 Shades Of Grey At Drive In Sparks Complaints
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While 50 Shades Of Grey racked up $94 million, the best four day movie opening in history, it appears playing it at a drive in might not have been a great idea.
So your in the car with the family returning to Sacramento from a weekend in the mountains or Lake Tahoe for the President's Day holiday and you pass the West Wind Sacramento 6 drive in, it's weird enough there are still drive ins and open in the winter. You catch a glimpse of the number one movie in the land and it's not Frozen.50 Shades whoops.
Parent's who took kids to see The Sponge Bob movie began yelling at the kids, don't look, when passing the theater where 50 Shades was playing. The theater operators didn't return phone calls to the media, but took plenty of heat from motorists and other theater goers.
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(if I were) King of (the) Forest
political and social commentary from a reasonably conservative perspective
Domestic Partners Benefits
February 11, 1997 March 17, 2018 by Augustus Lowell
In the beginning of 1997 the government of San Francisco initiated a new policy: henceforth, all organizations which have any contractual relationship with the city must offer the same benefits to ‘domestic partners’ as they do to spouses. For the uninitiated, a ‘domestic partner’ is someone with whom you have a long-term, committed, live-in (but not legally-binding) relationship; in San Francisco this typically (but not necessarily) means a gay relationship for which a formal marriage is simply not available.
The policy is a noble attempt to reward loving, committed, stable relationships, whether or not they fit the traditional mold. It is also an act of hubris, perhaps even rising to the level of cultural imperialism: the law seeks to extend this policy beyond San Francisco to wherever any city contractor operates, from San Mateo, CA, to Atlanta, GA, to every major airport in the world (United Airlines, which has a major hub in San Francisco, is thereby considered to have a city contract, and was notified it must comply across the board), and even to the Vatican (the catholic church, which ducked the issue by offering benefits to “any member of an employee’s household”, operates much of the city’s social safety net). Imagine the citizens of Little Rock or Des Moines trying to enforce a ban on benefits for domestic partners in San Francisco…
This essay was submitted to the San Francisco Chronicle as an article for their Open Forum series. It was not published.
The civic institution of marriage is more than a public proclamation of personal commitment between two people. It is also a public proclamation of legal commitment by the governing civic authority. In marrying, two people pledge to support each other through whatever may come; by sponsoring the marriage, the state pledges to enforce that support, at least in its legal and financial aspects. Thus are spouses legally as well as spiritually bound.
It was this legal bond, as much as any other factor, which undergirded the social climate in which provision of benefits to spouses became not just another incentive plan but a fundamental expectation of employment contracts. Today, companies provide such benefits as much out of a sense of civic responsibility, bordering on moral imperative, as out of any practical use as a bargaining position, largely because spousal benefits are, fundamentally, an extension of compensation to those to whom employees already have a legally-enforceable financial obligation. The legal bond between employee and beneficiary makes the process simple, unambiguous, and free of controversy and abuse.
What, then, of domestic partners? The city of San Francisco wishes to impose its vision of fairness on all America through its corporate servants, to spread the benefit of spousal privilege to anyone who is willing to make a public commitment of mutual support. This may be noble, and perhaps in San Francisco such commitments will be blessed and enforced by the civic authority with legal, not just personal, obligation. But what of Butte, or Green Bay, or Atlanta, or Anytown USA? Can the same San Francisco liberals who fear and demonize corporate power in all its other manifestations really expect — really demand — that corporations enforce the legal bonds of marriage where governments refuse to do so?
It seems to me the reasonable position would be for the San Francisco supervisors to limit their scope: require from city contractors extension of spousal benefits to domestic partners only within any jurisdiction in which the civic authority has made the same commitment, the commitment to enforce such arrangements with legal sanction. Call it a marriage, or not, as your taste and moral compass dictate, but recognize it as a purely civic enterprise. By all means, require business to accommodate the local civic compact, but do not require them, or even allow them, to dictate it.
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Waterloo Region students get their first virtual 'snow day'
Nicole Lampa CTV News Kitchener Videographer
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Published Tuesday, December 1, 2020 12:58PM EST Last Updated Tuesday, December 1, 2020 6:51PM EST
KITCHENER -- Tuesday's wintry blast cancelled school buses and in-class learning for all students in Waterloo Region, marking the first virtual school snow day.
It's the first time since September that all students in the region are logging on for virtual school. Thousands of families were alerted in the morning.
"I was kind of like, 'I have school work?' because normally I don't do school work on snow days," said student Amelia Fischer.
Other students said they weren't assigned much work.
The Waterloo Region District School Board changed its snow day policy in mid-November.
Now, if school buses are cancelled due to bad weather, all schools will close because students can sign in for class at home.
"It's frustrating because if you don't have the flexibility to stay home now you have to figure out how to have your kids do school while you're doing work from home, or you're having to give up going to work so that your kids can now be focused and get their work done at home," said her mother, Elaine.
Public school board officials said that they keep the learning going is a priority in light of how much school students have already missed.
The director of the Waterloo Catholic District School Board said the changes are part of new pandemic protocols.
"We could not ensure that we would not have to blend cohorts, as that is a frequent reality on inclement weather days, and thus we made the decision to declare a remote learning day when we cancelled buses," a statement from Loretta Notten said in part.
Elizabeth Ziegler Public School seen on Dec. 1, 2020, when the school board had its first virtual snow day. (Dan Lauckner / CTV Kitchener)
No snow days: Waterloo Region's public schools will switch to online classes in bad weather
Storm closes schools, leaves thousands without power
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We need an open and honest government that works for the good of everyone in the Newtown Township community. As a Supervisor, I will work hard to develop and implement more effective print and digital media communications that will inform and engage residents and businesses regarding issues before the Board of Supervisors (aka BOS Definition).
But all this is worthless if the information is not transparent, complete and easy to use. Minutes of BOS public meetings, for example, must provide sufficient information so that residents who could not attend the meeting can understand the issues discussed, see the questions posed by the Board and by the public, and be informed of the decisions and voting record of the Supervisors.
Also, minutes should be searchable. Before I was elected Supervisor, BOS meeting minutes PDF files were NOT searchable. At the January 2, 2018, BOS meeting I explained the benefits of searchable minutes: (1) it makes it easy to find specific topics, comments, and how Supervisors voted on issues when reading the minutes, and (2) it is possible to search for PDF files of minutes by keyword on your computer without having to open each document first. At the very next BOS meeting, Kurt Ferguson - who was the Township Manager at the time - announced that all minutes going back to the beginning of 2016 are now searchable PDF files!
Excerpts from Board of Supervisors Meeting Minutes
Details of important Environment related Newtown Board of Supervisors' decisions and discussions in last few years (organized by issue in reverse chronological order). This is NOT a complete list of items. You can find complete minutes of BOS meetings here. Click this button Definition to access the Glossary for definitions of terms and links to related information.
To keep up-to-date on Newtown Township BOS decisions, follow “Summaries of Newtown Board of Supervisors Meetings” Scoop.It topic, which summarizes the official minutes and/or audio and video recordings of public meetings.
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Minutes of BOS Meetings
13-Dec-2017: Mr. Gallagher will also prepare procedural rules and conduct guidelines for Supervisors Definition that would be adopted each January. The Board changes often and this would help maintain the continuity of procedures and rituals.
27-Dec-2017: Mr. Gallagher ... presented a proposal of Ethics, Rules of Procedure, and Standards of Conduct for Newtown Township Board of Supervisors. The Standards would help new supervisors with a foundation to maintain the continuity of procedures and rituals. Mr. Gallagher made a motion to approve the Ethics, Rules of Procedure, and Standards of Conduct for Newtown Township Board of Supervisors. Motion Discussion: Resident John Mack, Supervisor-elect, was concerned about the contents of the document. Mr. Gallagher read a few of the standards for Mr. Mack for examples. [Find the complete Guidelines here.] Copies of the document would be shared with incoming Supervisors to review and make any proposed changes.
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28-Mar-2018: Resolution Definition 2018-R-12 passed 5-0: The Finance Committee is created to serve as an advisory committee to the Supervisors with a dual emphasis on budget analysis and revenue generating opportunities or any tasks or responsibilities as assigned by the Board of Supervisors, and to advise on economic development. Members of the Finance Committee with terms ending December 31, 2018 are: Mark Boada, Stuart Caplan, Richard Weaver, Hank Schrandt, Margaret Dissinger, Jack Brod and George Skladany
13-Jun-2018: Josephine Vlastaris, Chair of the Technology Committee, presented a summary of accomplishments of the Committee. The following is a partial list of the Committee’s current agenda items: Emergency notification system (researched/proposed Nixle): Proactive Township notification of urgent events; Analytics: Committee recommended setting up Google Analytics account to monitor traffic and bounce rate for the township website, and make changes to pages as needed; Parks and Rec: Committee recommended using geolocation technology to assist residents with park navigation. Committee proposed use of drones capturing footage of parks and trails to post on website to familiarize residents with recreational options.
28-Mar-2018: Report by Mr. Mack, Technology Committee Liaison. The Committee met last night and re-appointed the chairperson and co-chairperson. There was discussion about how to better communicate with the Board and vice versa. Mr. Mack informed the Committee that the Board would like to hear suggestions and suggested that the chairperson make a report to the Board at a work session or Supervisors’ meeting. Mr. Calabro suggested the Committee report at a televised meeting as is done with other committees.
28-Mar-2018: The Technology Committee resolution was updated to reflect one year term [also revising its mission]. Mr. Mack made a motion to approve Resolution 2018-R-11 establishing the Newtown Township Technology Committee and setting forth its mission, structure and composition. The motion passed 5-0.
28-Feb-2018: Mr. Mack, Technology Committee liaison, reported that three new members joined the group. He suggested not to cancel meetings if there wasn’t a quorum adding that topics could still be discussed. Minutes would be available for absent members to review in order to stay up-to-date. Mr. Mack would like to modify the mission ordinance of the Technology Committee to add using technology to communicate to residents. The Committee consists of 9 members for a quorum of 5. The Board will need to give priorities to the Committee. Mr. Calabro suggested that this be discussed at the March 19, 2018 BOS Work Session Definition. Five topics will be decided for the Committee to review.
Veterans Committee
28-Mar-2018: Resolution 2018-R-13: passed 5-0: Committee members will have a one year term ending 2018. Mr. Ferguson stated he would be able to approve funding to a certain amount but if the Committee would create an action plan and specific projects/events, that it could be a line item in the 2019 budget Members of the Veterans Committee with terms ending December 31, 2018 are: Jay Schnitzer, Ed Valenti, Rhett Baxter, Jim Casey, Charles Resch, Jim Gieseke and John D’Aprile.
13-Dec-2017: Mr. Gallagher suggested that the Township create a Veterans Committee to help guide veteran affairs. He will have information prepared for the next meeting for approval.
13-Nov-2019: Savvy Citizen: Mr. Mack inquired about adding Savvy Citizen to the budget as he believes it is a useful tool that would not require much maintenance. Mr. Sander confirmed Board consensus is required at this time to add or subtract from the budget. Mr. Lewis said there is no staff to maintain it. Mr. Mack believes there is not much maintenance required. A discussion ensued on the Savvy Citizen app including the cost, upkeep, staffing and benefits to the community. Mr. Mack moved for the Board to consider revising the budget to purchase the Savvy Citizen App. Mr. Fisher seconded. The motion failed 2-3 with Mr. Calabro, Ms. Bobrin and Mr. Davis voting nay.
14-Aug-2019: Savvy Citizen Presentation: Mr. Mack confirmed that the Savvy Citizen representative will be attending the September 16 work session. At the Last Board meeting it was proposed that a Savvy Citizen representative be invited to attend a future work session. Recall that Savvy Citizen offers a mobile phone based notification system that can inform citizens of meetings, public service notices, Parks and Rec programs, road closures, emergencies, etc. Soon after that meeting, I notified Mr. Lewis that Jeralyn Brown, senior account manager at MSA, the company that is responsible for Savvy Citizen, confirmed that she can attend the Sept 16 Work Session and answer questions.
[Listen to the presentation here.]
27-Jun-2018: HOA Roundtable: Mr. Mack followed up with the Board about a proposed for a roundtable discussion with HOA [Home Owners Association] officers to improve communications and discuss MS4 projects. A date will be determined in the future.
14-Mar-2018: HOA Roundtable: Mr. Mack suggested that HOAs be contacted to attend a roundtable discussion to improve communications and discuss MS4 Definition projects. Mr. Calabro asked that a future date be selected so there could be time to identify the HOA attendees, and to plan and advertise the event.
25-Apr-2018: Mary Kremser, Doylestown Borough. Jan Filios invited her to speak to the Board about gerrymandering and fair districting. She asked the Board to approve a Resolution Definition in support of an independent, non-partisan, citizens’ commission to draw the lines for the legislative districts for US Congress and for the PA General Assembly. In 2016, 80% of the primary incumbents ran unchallenged by anyone in their own party. In the November 2016 elections, 50% of incumbents had no challengers from the opposite party. She believes the reason is that politicians have drawn the districts to make their jobs safe, and resulted in the gridlock in Washington and Harrisburg. Mr. Calabro requested that a draft resolution be added to the May 9, 2018 agenda. [At the May 9, 2018, Newtown Board of Supervisors public meeting, an anti-gerrymandering, PA Congressional Redistricting Resolution proposed by Fair Districts PA was passed by a 4 to 1 vote. Read "Supervisors Pass PA Congressional Redistricting Resolution".]
16-Apr-2018: Public Comment by Jan Filios, 454 Trumbull Court: Reviewed Congressional district maps are drawn every 10 years according to the change in census population data. Currently the maps are drawn with the 2010 census. The PA Constitution allows political party leaders to reconfigure the maps. This is a conflict in interest. The worse contortions have been in Southeastern PA and Pittsburgh.
Fair Districts PA and the League of Women Voters is supporting two bills in the General Assembly to amend the State Constitution to form an independent citizens’ commission to take over the task of redistricting in time for the next census results in 2020. Some Bucks County municipalities that have passed this resolution representing 39% of the population are Lower Makefield, Buckingham, Doylestown Township, Bristol, and Middletown. Mr. Calabro recommended that State Representative Perry Warren should visit the Board of Supervisors and he thanked Ms. Filios for her information. He would like to have both Mr. Warren and a representative from Fair Districts attend a Board of Supervisor meeting.
10-Jan-2018: Resident Mike Gallagher, Newtown, commented that he was told there would be no public comment after each motion at the re‐organization meeting on January 2, 2018. Public comment was done at every motion during the 2017 reorganization meeting. There was no public announcement for interviewing professional staff. He then investigated the campaign finance reports and the amounts that were donated and believes there are conflicts. Mr. Gallagher requested the Board to reconsider open and public interviews with multiple professional firms and to reconsider the Board’s appointments.
10-Jan-2018: Mr. Mack favorably acknowledged that the minutes are now searchable PDF files and explained how searching to find a particular subject can be done quickly.
28-Mar-2018: Mr. Mack made a note that minutes are accessible to the public once they are approved. However, there is a delay on posting them on the website until Board member signatures are acquired or corrections need to be made. Mr. Ferguson said if there are no changes, the minutes can be signed and posted the following day. If corrections need to be made, the Township administrative assistant will post a temporary copy of the minutes which would then be replaced with the corrected copy.
28-Mar-2018: Mr. Sander spoke on a proposed social media policy for the Township. He recommended that the Board authorize his office to draft a policy to bind all non-union employees and elected officials. The policy would be used as a negotiation point in 2018 union negotiations with CWA non-uniform and CWA fire, and police. Motion Discussion: Mr. Mack asked for an estimate of the cost and that it wouldn’t infringe on a person’s 1st Amendment rights. Mr. Sander replied that the policy would include reference to the 1st Amendment, and that the policy would take approximately 3 hours to draft. The motion passed 5-0. [John Mack put together a resource folder on his Google Drive of resources related to social media and online ethics that may be useful for Newtown when creating SM GLs. Included are sample guidelines from other municipalities as well as from pharma companies which may be relevant. Also, I included a partial list of books, articles, blog posts, and presentations that I published that discuss issues relevant to developing social media guidelines and online ethical principles. Although these references are focused on the healthcare industry, the principles and issues discussed are relevant for all industry sectors as well as governmental agencies.]
14-Mar-2018: Mr. Mack stated that it was National Sunshine Definition Week regarding the Sunshine Act and the right to know about public document access. He held an online quiz regarding this topic and with 55 people responding, the average score was 50% (see more results here). An example question asked if you could record a public meeting with your cell phone. The answer was that you have the right to record the meeting with your cell. Some public meetings that are not televised can also be recorded (i.e. a zoning board hearing). The Right-To-Know Law Definition allows a person to receive a transcript or recording of a meeting within five days of the request. Requests can be made using a form available on the Township website and submitted to Mr. Lewis, Open Records Officer.
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A DESCRIPTION OF THE REFORECAST DATASET AND HOW TO ACCESS IT.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE RAW REFORECAST DATA.
REFORECAST APPLICATIONS.
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Running mean (an average over the previous 365 days) of the 500-hPa geopotential height AC from the deterministic control reforecasts. The filled areas denote anomaly correlation from the first-generation GFS reforecast described in Hamill et al. (2006); the bounding lower line denotes the Southern Hemisphere AC and the bounding upper line the Northern Hemisphere AC. Blue indicates day +3 forecasts, pink indicates day +5 forecasts, and green indicates day +7 forecasts. The second-generation reforecasts are shown without filled areas; thicker lines denote Northern Hemisphere AC and thinner lines the Southern Hemisphere AC.
Global tropical cyclone track error (solid lines) and spread (dashed) over ~5-yr periods during the reforecast. Statistics were accumulated only for 1 Jun to 30 Nov of each year and included data from all basins.
Brier skill scores (BSS) of 24-h accumulated precipitation forecasts from 1985 to 2010 over the continental United States (CONUS), postprocessed using the rank analog technique. (a) BSS for the >2.5 mm 24 h–1 event. (b) BSS for the >25 mm 24 h–1 event. Scores are plotted as a function of month of the year and for different forecast lead times from 1 to 6 days. Solid lines indicate the scores for the second-generation reforecast (V2), dashed lines for the first-generation reforecast (V1). Black, green, red, blue, purple, and orange lines indicate the respective skills for days +1 to +6. Edges of the shaded gray regions provide the 5th and 95th percentiles of the confidence interval, determined via a 1000-sample paired block bootstrap following Hamill (1999).
Equitable threat scores (ETS) and biases (BIA) for raw ensemble-mean forecasts, control forecasts, and deterministic forecasts generated from postprocessed analog ensemble-mean forecasts. ETS for (a) the >0.5 mm 24 h−1 event, (b) the >5 mm 24 h−1 event, and (c) the >50 mm 24 h−1 event. (d)–(f) BIA for these respective events. The 5th and 95th percentile confidence intervals for the difference between the raw ensemble mean and the deterministic analog are plotted over the analog results. Confidence intervals were calculated with a 1000-sample block bootstrap following Hamill (1999).
(a) +5- to +10-day forecast of ensemble-mean 80-m AGL wind speeds, initialized at 0000 UTC on 1 Jan 2010 for the period 0000 UTC 6 Jan–0000 UTC 11 Jan 2010. (b) Quantile for this ensemble-mean forecast relative to the cumulative distribution of past ensemble-mean forecasts for the month of January. (c) As in (a), but for CFSR analyzed conditions, and (d) as in (b), but for CFSR analyzed.
A 72-h track forecast for Hurricane Rita initialized at 0000 UTC 22 Sep 2005 from the (a) global GFS ensemble reforecast and (b) regional AHW ensemble forecast. The individual ensemble member tracks are shown in gray (control run in green) with red dots marking every 24 h. The observed track is shown in black with black dots marking every day at 0000 UTC. The inset in (a) shows the intensity forecast for Rita from the global GFS ensemble (gray) and AHW (red). The observed intensity is shown by the blue dashed contour. The black line represents the ensemble mean and the shading encompasses intensity values within the 5th and 95th percentiles. The inset in (b) shows the 48-h forecast composite reflectivity (shaded according to the color bar in dBZ) from the 4-km domain of the control member of the AHW ensemble.
(a) Observed and (b) +6-day forecast blocking frequency as a function of latitude for Dec–Jan–Feb 1985–2010 (green lines) and for the subset of cases with an Indian Ocean strong MJO as defined in the text. The MJO data were defined 6 days prior to the analysis or the forecast. Gray area denotes differences that are between the 5th and 95th percentile confidence intervals as determined from a block bootstrap algorithm.
NOAA's Second-Generation Global Medium-Range Ensemble Reforecast Dataset
Thomas M. Hamill 1 , Gary T. Bates 2 , Jeffrey S. Whitaker 3 , Donald R. Murray 4 , Michael Fiorino 5 , Thomas J. Galarneau Jr. 6 , Yuejian Zhu 7 , and William Lapenta 7
1 Physical Sciences Division, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado
2 Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
5 Global Systems Division, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado
6 National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
7 Environmental Modeling Center, NOAA/National Centers for Environmental Prediction, College Park, Maryland
https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00014.1
A multidecadal ensemble reforecast database is now available that is approximately consistent with the operational 0000 UTC cycle of the 2012 NOAA Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS). The reforecast dataset consists of an 11-member ensemble run once each day from 0000 UTC initial conditions. Reforecasts are run to +16 days. As with the operational 2012 GEFS, the reforecast is run at T254L42 resolution (approximately 1/2° grid spacing, 42 levels) for week +1 forecasts and T190L42 (approximately 3/4° grid spacing) for the week +2 forecasts. Reforecasts were initialized with Climate Forecast System Reanalysis initial conditions, and perturbations were generated using the ensemble transform with rescaling technique. Reforecast data are available from 1985 to present.
Reforecast datasets were previously demonstrated to be very valuable for detecting and correcting systematic errors in forecasts, especially forecasts of relatively rare events and longer-lead forecasts. What is novel about this reforecast dataset relative to the first-generation NOAA reforecast is that (i) a modern, currently operational version of the forecast model is used (the previous reforecast used a model version from 1998); (ii) a much larger set of output data has been saved, including variables relevant for precipitation, hydrologic, wind energy, solar energy, severe weather, and tropical cyclone forecasting; and (iii) the archived data are at much higher resolution.
The article describes more about the reforecast configuration and provides a few examples of how this second-generation reforecast data may be used for research and a variety of weather forecast applications.
* The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Dr. Thomas M. Hamill, NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Physical Sciences Division, R/PSD 1, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305 E-mail: tom.hamill@noaa.gov
A new set of NOAA reforecasts—now featuring a current operational model and a wider set of variables archived in higher resolution—is freely accessible to the weather forecast community.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
The weather and climate prediction community have made continued, significant improvement in the quality of numerical forecast guidance. This has come as a result of increased resolution; improved physical parameterizations; improved chemistry and aerosol physics; improved estimates of the initial state estimate due to better data assimilation techniques; and improved couplings between the atmosphere and the land surface, cryosphere, ocean, and more. Nonetheless, judging from the pace of past improvements, medium-range forecast systematic errors will not become negligibly small within the next decade or two. For intermediate-resolution simulations such as those from current-generation global ensemble systems, users of forecast guidance may notice biased surface temperature forecasts, precipitation forecasts with insufficient detail in mountainous terrain, or perhaps too much drizzle or too little heavy rain. They may notice over- or underestimated cloud cover or that near-surface winds are characteristically much stronger than forecast. They may notice that hurricanes are too large in size but less intense than observed. Sometimes, however, systematic errors may be less obvious. Does the model forecast of the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO; Zhang 2005) propagate too slowly or decay too quickly? Are Arctic cold outbreaks too intense, and do they plunge south too quickly or too slowly? Does the model overforecast the frequency of tropical cyclogenesis in the Caribbean Sea? Do tropical cyclones tend to recurve too quickly or slowly? Such questions may be difficult to answer quantitatively with a month or even a year of model guidance.
In such circumstances, reforecasts can be used to great advantage to distinguish between the random and the model errors. Reforecasts are especially helpful for statistically adjusting weather and climate forecasts to observed data, ameliorating the errors and improving objective guidance (Hamill et al. 2006; Hagedorn 2008). Reforecasts, also commonly called hindcasts, are retrospective forecasts for many dates in the past, ideally conducted using the same forecast model and same assimilation system used operationally.1 Reforecasts have been shown to be particularly useful for the calibration of relatively uncommon phenomena such as heavy precipitation (Hamill et al. 2008) and longer-lead weather–climate phenomena (Hamill et al. 2004), where there is small forecast signal and comparatively large noise owing to chaos and model error. In both cases, the large sample size afforded by reforecasts is useful for finding a suitably large number of past similar forecast scenarios. With associated observational data, one then can estimate a conditional distribution of the possible observed states given today's numerical guidance, assuming past forecasts have similar errors to current forecasts. Even when no observed data are available for calibration, reforecasts can be useful for determining the climatology of a model. A 20 m s−1 surface wind would be exceptionally strong in most locations on Earth, but if the forecast model severely overforecasts wind speeds, such an event may be of less concern. A reforecast can thus be used for estimating the forecast climatology, placing the current forecast in context (Lalaurette 2003, 2013).
The reforecast dataset discussed here makes an unprecedentedly large volume of data accessible to users. Over 27 years of once-daily, 11-member ensemble forecasts were computed using the same model version, the same uncertainty parameterization, and a very similar method of ensemble initialization to the currently operational National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS). More than 125 TB of forecast output is conveniently available for fast-access download, and the full model dataset (~1 PB) is archived on tape. This dataset is more extensive than contemporary alternatives, such as the 5-member, ~20-yr weekly reforecasts from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF; Hagedorn 2008; Hagedorn et al. 2012), and there is no charge for its use. Daily lagged reforecasts were also generated for the NCEP Climate Forecast System (CFS) seasonal forecasts (Saha et al. 2010).
We had several rationales for creating this extensive a reforecast dataset. The first is that we hope that the greater number of forecast samples from a statistically consistent model will lead to the diagnosis of model errors and development of novel and improved statistical calibration algorithms and algorithms for rare events and for novel applications—algorithms that may be less accurate were they developed with smaller training datasets. An example of this is products for the renewable energy sector, such as extended-range wind and solar energy potential forecasts. We also hope that by making these data and experimental products from it freely available, the dataset will be used widely.
A second major reason for generating this extensive dataset was to quantify the benefits of this additional training data. Do we really need an exceptionally large training sample size, or might the products be acceptably similar in skill were they developed with a smaller reforecast dataset, perhaps with fewer members, fewer past years, or skipping days between samples? Generating a large reforecast dataset is computationally expensive and labor intensive. For this dataset, more than 15 million CPU hours were used on the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory supercomputers, and approximately 5 person years of effort were expended to generate the reforecasts and set up the archives. Such extensive data may also not be an unalloyed benefit; the reforecasts in the distant past may have larger errors owing to a thinner observing network. Hence, should reforecasting become a regular component of National Weather Service's suite of numerical guidance, it will be helpful to determine the optimal configuration to apply to future ensemble forecast systems—the compromise that provides adequate training data to the statistical applications while being as computationally inexpensive as possible.
The next section of the article will discuss the contents of the dataset and the procedures to follow in order to download these data. We will then demonstrate some statistical characteristics of the raw reforecast dataset. The penultimate section describes several forecast applications. The final section provides conclusions.
The operational configuration of the NCEP GEFS changed as of 1200 UTC 14 February 2012. The real-time and reforecast models use version 9.0.1 of the GEFS, discussed at www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/GFS/impl.php. For more detail on the GEFS, see Hamill et al. (2011a). During the first 8 days of the operational GEFS forecast and the reforecast, the model is run at T254L42 resolution, which with a quadratic Gaussian transform grid is an equivalent grid spacing of approximately 40 km at 40° latitude, and 42 vertical levels. Starting at day +7.5, the forecasts are integrated at T190L42, or approximately 54 km at 40° latitude, and data are saved at this resolution from days +8 to days +16—the end of the GEFS integration period. Note that there is a bug in version 9.0.1, resulting in the use of incorrect land surface tables in the land surface parameterization, which has introduced significant biases to near-surface temperatures. These errors are at least consistent between the current operational GEFS and the reforecast.
Through 20 February 2011, control initial conditions were generated by the Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) (Saha et al. 2010). This used the Grid-Point Statistical Interpolation (GSI) system of Kleist et al. (2009) at T382L64. From 20 February 2011 through May 2012, initial conditions were taken from the operational GSI analysis, internally computed at T574L64. After 22 May 2012, the GSI was upgraded to use a hybrid ensemble Kalman filter–variational analysis system (Hamill et al. 2011a,b). This analysis improved the skill of operational GEFS forecasts and thus of the reforecasts introduced into the archive subsequent to that date.
The perturbed initial conditions for both the operational GEFS and the reforecast use the ensemble transform technique with rescaling (ETR) (Wei et al. 2008). For the operational real-time forecasts, 80 members are cycled for purposes of generating the initial condition perturbations. However, only the leading 20 perturbations plus the control initial condition were used to initialize the operational medium-range forecasts. The operational medium-range GEFS forecasts are generated every 6 h from 0000, 0600, 1200, and 1800 UTC initial conditions. In comparison, the reforecast was generated only once daily, at 0000 UTC, and only 10 perturbed forecast members and the one control forecast were generated. However, the 6-hourly cycling of ETR perturbations was preserved, though this cycling used only the 10 perturbed members rather than the 80 used in real time. Model uncertainty in the GEFS is estimated with the stochastic tendencies following Hou et al. (2008) for both operations and reforecasts.
Here are some details on the reforecast data that are available. About 29 years (December 1984–present) of reforecast data are currently archived. The archive includes the 0000 UTC GEFS real-time forecasts, which will be available with some delay, perhaps by 1300 UTC, though many fields will be available more quickly via the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/National Operational Model Archive and Distribution System (NOMADS; http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov). Ninetyeight different forecast global fields are available at 1° resolution, and 28 selected fields are also available at the native resolution (~0.5° Gaussian grid spacing for the first week's forecasts and ~0.67° grid spacing for the second week's forecasts). Data are internally archived in GRIB2 format (www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/docs/grib2/). The 1° data were created from the native-resolution data via bilinear interpolation using wgrib2 software (www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/wesley/wgrib2/). The listing of the fields that were saved and their resolutions are provided in Tables 1 and 2. Reforecast data were saved at 3-hourly intervals from 0 to 72 h and every 6 h thereafter. The 28+ years of data daily currently archived totals approximately 125 TB of internal storage.
Reforecast variables available for selected mandatory and other vertical levels. Geopotential height is indicated by F, and an X indicates that this variable is available from the reforecast dataset at 1° resolution; a Y indicates that the variable is available at the native ~0.5° resolution. AGL indicates “above ground level.” Hybrid sigma-pressure vertical levels (a very close approximation to sigma levels near the ground) are called “hyb.”
Single-level reforecast variables archived (and their units). Where a [Y] is displayed, this indicates that this variable is available at the native ~0.5° resolution as well as the 1° resolution.
Reforecast data can be accessed in many different ways. For users who want a few select fields (e.g., precipitation forecasts) spanning many days, months, or years, we provide a web interface for accessing such data (http://esrl.noaa.gov/psd/forecasts/reforecast2/). The interface allows the user to select particular fields, date ranges, domains, and type of ensemble information (particular members, the mean, or the spread). While data are internally archived in GRIB2 format, the synthesized files produced from a user's web form input are in netCDF format (www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/). Should a user desire GRIB2 data instead, the raw data can be accessed via anonymous ftp (at ftp://ftp.cdc.noaa.gov/Projects/Reforecast2) or using wgrib2's “fast downloading” capabilities (www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/wesley/fast_downloading_grib.html). We request that users be conservative with their downloads in order to minimize computations and bandwidth.
Some users may desire only selected days of reforecasts but want full model output rather than the limited set of fields and levels available from Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL). In this case, the user can download these data from the tape archive at the U.S. Department of Energy (the web form for this is at http://portal.nersc.gov/project/refcst/v2/). Such full data may be useful for, say, initializing high-resolution regional reforecasts. An example of this will be provided in the forecast applications section.
The skill of the second-generation global ensemble reforecasts has improved very significantly from those from the first generation. Figure 1 shows a time series of yearly averaged global 500-hPa geopotential height anomaly correlations (AC) from both systems. For recent years, the day +5 second-generation reforecasts are more accurate than the day +3 first-generation reforecasts. Considering the second-generation reforecast, there is a modest change in average skill of the reforecasts during the 26-yr period shown. Yearly average AC increases in the version 2 reforecasts during the period with the change somewhat less than 1 day. For example, the day +5 forecasts for 2009/10 appear to be roughly comparable to the day +4 forecasts (not shown) from 1985 to 1986. This is likely due primarily to changes in the observing network and observation data processing during the reanalysis period (Wang et al. 2011; Kumar et al. 2012).
Citation: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 94, 10; 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00014.1
Tropical cyclone forecast tracks were calculated using the GFDL tracker algorithm (Gopalakrishnan et al. 2012). Figure 2 shows track statistics binned by half decades. There has been a pronounced improvement in track forecasting during the period of the reforecasts. This is at least in part due to greater changes in the forecast skill of the steering flow in the tropics, owing to improvements in the CFSR analyses over time. Tropical 500-hPa geopotential height anomaly correlations improved by 1–2 days between 1985/86 and 2009/10 (not shown). Such large changes in skill during the reforecast period can make it more difficult to achieve high forecast accuracy with simple statistical postprocessing algorithms, for the forecast errors in past cases will not be fully representative of current forecast errors. Some of these differences, however, also might be due to a change in the accuracy of the observed locations; past observed tracks may not be as accurate as more recent observed tracks. Our own internal computations of blended climatology and persistence track forecasts (CLIPER; Neumann 1972) shows that western Pacific CLIPER track errors have also decreased substantially in the past 25 years.
We anticipate that many groups will use this reforecast dataset to explore, compare, and validate methods for statistically postprocessing the model data. Here we consider the usage of the reforecast for postprocessing 24-h accumulated precipitation forecasts, both probabilistic and deterministic.
Previously, an analog technique was demonstrated with the first-generation reforecasts as one of many possible methods for statistically downscaling and correcting the forecasts, improving their reliability and skill (Hamill et al. 2006; Hamill and Whitaker 2006). Figure 3 shows Brier skill scores from the first- and second-generation reforecasts, processed using the rank analog technique described more generally in Hamill and Whitaker (2006). Skill scores were calculated in the conventional manner (Wilks 2006), ignoring the tendency to overforecast skill by not separating the data into subsets with homogeneous climatological uncertainty (Hamill and Juras 2006). Analog dates were selected on similarities of past ensemble-mean precipitation forecasts to the current ensemble-mean forecast for the current grid point and others in a ~100-km (7 × 7 grid point) box around the point of interest. Probabilities were then estimated from the ensemble of analyzed conditions for the dates with the closest match. Different numbers of analogs were used, depending on how unusual the precipitation forecast was for the day in question. When the event was rather common, judged relative to the forecast climatology, as many as 200 members were used. When the forecast event was in the extreme tail of the forecast distribution, as few as 30 analogs were selected. The use of fewer analogs for extreme events, especially for the short lead times, improves the forecast skill (Hamill et al. 2006, their Fig. 7). Confidence intervals were calculated with a paired block bootstrap algorithm following Hamill (1999). North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) 24-h accumulated precipitation analysis data (Mesinger et al. 2006; Fan et al. 2006) were used both for training (cross validated by year) and verification. There are systematic errors with the NARR (Bukovsky and Karoly 2007). Still, currently we know of no other precipitation analysis that has the NARR's complete coverage of the contiguous United States over the full period of the reforecasts. We use it here, for better and worse.
The postprocessed forecasts validated from 1985 to 2010 show an improvement of slightly greater than +1 day additional lead time at the early forecast leads from the first- to the second-generation reforecast; that is, a 24–48-h version 2 forecast could be made as skillfully as the previous 0–24-h forecast from version 1. At longer leads, the improvement sometimes approaches +2 days additional lead time. All differences are statistically significant. The improvement of postprocessed forecasts from version 1 to version 2 is smaller than the improvement in the raw forecast guidance. This is to be expected; the postprocessing is correcting more systematic error in version 1 than in version 2. Postprocessed guidance from both versions is highly reliable, though forecasts from version 2 tend to issue high and low probabilities more frequently; that is, they are more “sharp” (not shown). Forecast skill probably is overestimated somewhat for the samples early on in the reforecast period (e.g., the 1980s), for the crossvalidated training procedure used analogs from future forecasts that were more accurate. Experimental products based on this method are available over the contiguous United States in near–real time (at www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/forecasts/reforecast2/analogs/index.html).
Deterministic forecasts can also be improved with the statistical postprocessing. A slightly different approach was used to generate the deterministic forecast from the analogs. First, rather than using the observed on days with similar forecasts, the difference between observed minus forecast on the days with the closest analog forecasts was used to “dress” the current forecast; this provided somewhat higher precipitation amounts when anomalously large events were forecast. The mean of this dressed set of analog forecasts was then computed. As with deterministic forecasts generated from an ensemblemean forecast, the analog-mean forecast tends to overforecast the light precipitation and underforecast heavy precipitation. To ameliorate this, following Ebert's probability-matched mean approach (www.cawcr.gov.au/staff/eee/etrap/probmatch.html) the ensemble mean of the analogs was adjusted before it was used as a deterministic forecast. Specifically, for all the forecasts for a given month of the year, the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of these analog ensemble-mean forecasts was computed (cross validated) using the current month and the surrounding two months, as well as the CDF of the NARR dataset. The quantile associated with the current analog-mean forecast relative to the forecast climatology was noted, and the final deterministic forecast was the precipitation amount associated with the corresponding analyzed quantile. Figure 4 shows that the analog postprocessed deterministic forecast skill also provides an improvement relative to either the GEFS control or ensemble mean, particularly at the light precipitation amounts, where apparently there was a drizzle overforecast bias. The ensemble mean from the raw ensemble shows a characteristic underforecast bias, while the control forecast has a slight overforecast bias. Interestingly, the probability-matched mean analogs provided little improvement in skill relative to the ensemble mean or control at the longer forecast lead times. We believe that this is a consequence of applying the probability- matching process. Though this improves forecast bias, if there is little association between forecast and observed anomalies, as becomes more common at longer leads as skill degrades, then the algorithm can become overconfident of extreme events. For more on this, see Hamill and Whitaker (2006, their Figs. 2 and 7 and associated discussion).
These calibration approaches are relatively simple; they are univariate, based only on the forecast precipitation amount, and they do not factor in changes in skill of the forecasts during the training period such as may be due to increasing observational data density with time. Though not attempted here, there have been several other methods proposed in the recent past that may also be worthy of consideration, including quantile regression (Bremnes 2004), Bayesian model averaging (Sloughter et al. 2007), logistic regression (Hamill et al. 2008), and mixture models (Bentzien and Friederichs 2012). We hope and expect that other groups will explore methods that may extract further value from the extensive reforecast dataset, using different and new techniques and additional predictors, and test them against existing techniques. This dataset may be helpful in such comparative evaluation of different methods.
Suppose now that a long time series of observations is not available to accompany the time series of reforecasts. How can one leverage the reforecasts to provide value-added guidance? Reanalyses might be used for the calibration, but analyses may be contaminated somewhat by model forecast bias. Should the user desire guidance for a point location, the reanalysis cannot provide this, only for the gridbox averaged analyzed state. In such cases, perhaps usage of diagnostics like the extreme forecast index (EFI; Lalaurette 2003, 2013) may be of use. The EFI quantifies how unusual the current ensemble guidance is relative to the climatology of past forecast guidance. Ideally, even when the ensemble guidance is biased in some fashion, it can still provide some advanced warning of potential extreme events. For such events, today's ensemble guidance should be ranked in the extreme quantiles of the distribution defined by the past forecasts.
Figure 5 considers the problem of extended-range wind energy forecasts, specifically a +5- to +10-day forecast of 80 m above ground level wind speeds—a common height of the hubs of wind turbines. Suppose a wind farm operator in North Dakota does not have a multidecadal time series of wind observations at hub height, but he or she wishes to extract some information from a reforecast that may indicate when it would be relatively inexpensive to shut down a turbine for maintenance. Figure 5a shows the ensemble-mean forecast wind speed for a particular case day in early 2010. The winds appear relatively light on average in this location, but they might be biased. However, the availability of the reforecasts allows that wind speed forecast to be placed in context. Figure 5b shows the quantile of the ensemble-mean forecast wind speed relative to its climatology for that month—a calculation similar in spirit to the EFI. The wind speed forecasts are indeed unusually light in this location relative to their forecast climatology, which ended up being consistent with analyzed conditions (Figs. 5c,d).
Let us turn our attention from postprocessing to other potential applications of the reforecasts. One possible application is to use the global reforecast ensemble data as initial and lateral boundary conditions for a high-resolution regional reforecast ensemble. The ability to perform high-resolution regional reforecasts may be of interest to many, perhaps to examine the ability of a higher-resolution regional model to provide value-added guidance for high-impact weather events. As discussed previously, the full model output for the global reforecast ensemble is available on the U.S. Department of Energy website. An illustrative example of a regional reforecast ensemble is shown in Fig. 6. Here, an 11-member ensemble 72-h forecast initialized at 0000 UTC 22 September 2005 for Tropical Cyclone (TC) Rita was generated using version 3.3 of the Advanced Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting model (AHW), with 36 vertical levels up to 20 hPa (Skamarock et al. 2008). Details of the modification of AHW for hurricane applications are described in Davis et al. (2008). This implementation of AHW was run over a fixed 36-km domain that covers the entire North Atlantic basin, North America, and the extreme eastern North Pacific (see Galarneau and Davis 2013, their Fig. 2 and Table 1). Two-way moving nests of 12 and 4 km are located within the 36-km domain, and the movement of these nests is determined by the TC's motion during the previous 6 h. Specifics on the AHW configuration are as follows: WRF single-moment 6-class microphysics (Hong et al. 2004), modified Tiedtke convective parameterization (Zhang et al. 2011) on the 36- and 12-km domains (no parameterization on the 4-km domain), Yonsei University boundary layer scheme (Hong et al. 2006), Goddard shortwave scheme (Chou and Suarez 1994), Rapid Radiative Transfer Model (Mlawer et al. 1997), and Noah land surface model (Ek et al. 2003).
The global reforecast ensemble shows a range of possible model trajectories, including significant impact on Houston, Texas (Fig. 6a). The track forecast from the global reforecast ensemble was consistent with the official National Hurricane Center track forecast for Rita 3 days prior to landfall (not shown), which resulted in an evacuation order for the Houston area. The track forecast had a significant left-of-track error, as the observed storm made landfall farther northeast, near the Texas– Louisiana border. The intensity forecast was consistently underestimated in the global reforecast ensemble (Fig. 6a inset)—a common characteristic with global data assimilation and forecast systems with grid spacing of many tens of kilometers. The AHW regional reforecast ensemble also had a left-of-track forecast error, although the ensemble track envelope expanded slightly farther northeast along the Gulf Coast (Fig. 6b). That the left-of-track error appears in the AHW reforecast ensemble in addition to the global model suggests that track errors were driven by errors in the TC steering flow. This is modulated by large-scale features such as the subtropical ridge over the U.S. Southeast and an eastward-moving midlatitude trough over the central Great Plains (not shown). The AHW reforecast ensemble inherited the initial underestimate of intensity seen in the global reforecast (Fig. 6a inset) but was able to intensify the storm to a major hurricane by 48 h, just prior to landfall (Fig. 6a,b insets).
Another potential application for reforecasts is to understand the ability of the model to predict uncommon phenomena or even the relationships between several uncommon phenomena. As an example, let us say that we wanted to understand whether atmospheric blocking statistics (Tibaldi and Molteni 1990) can be correctly forecast given a recently strong or weak MJO. To make the problem more statistically challenging, let us further suppose we are interested in the blocking forecasts related to a certain phase of the MJO, where it is most pronounced in the Indian Ocean, and at a certain time of the year, here December–February (DJF). In such a situation, a year or two of past recent forecasts will not provide enough samples.
Using the first two empirical orthogonal functions of MJO variability (Wheeler and Hendon 2004), commonly known as real-time multivariate MJO (RMM1) and RMM2, a strong MJO, should it exist, would be classified as being in the Indian Ocean roughly if RMM1 ≅0 and RMM2 << 0. Accordingly, for the angle θ defined by the arctangent of RMM1 and RMM2, we define the Indian Ocean “strong MJO” as occurring if −(π/2 + π/8) ≤ θ ≤ −π/2 + π/8, and if the amplitude (RMM12 + RMM22)1/2 is in the upper quartile of the climatology of analyzed amplitudes for this phase and for DJF. Figure 7a shows the CFSR analyzed unconditional December–February 1985–2010 blocking statistics and the blocking statistics under a strong Indian Ocean MJO 6 days prior to the analysis. The lagged observed blocking frequency from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean is apparently strongly suppressed with strong MJOs relative to the climatology. Composites (not shown) indicate that there are generally negative 500-hPa height anomalies in the climatological ridges and positive anomalies in the troughs, resulting in generally more zonal flow and less blocking. Figure 7b shows the blocking frequency in the +6 day control member reforecasts (using analyzed RMM1 and RMM2; i.e., a −6 day lag so that analyzed data are used to define the MJO indices). There is a similar depression of the forecast blocking frequency under a strong MJO; the forecast model does well at replicating the climatology of blocking and its relationship to this phase of the MJO. This simple illustration shows how the reforecast dataset offers a unique opportunity to potentially diagnose and examine model systematic forecast characteristics related to infrequent or low-frequency phenomena.
For the foreseeable future, weather and climate prediction model guidance will be contaminated by at least some systematic errors. Since most end users want reliable and accurate guidance, some statistical postprocessing may be helpful. Sometimes, such as for rare events and longer-lead forecasts, a long training dataset of “reforecasts” can be especially helpful. The large sample provides enough similar cases to statistically correct the forecasts, even with relatively uncommon events. At longer leads, the large sample can be helpful for extracting a useful forecast signal from within the bath of chaotic noise and model error (Hamill et al. 2004).
This article described one such dataset: a second-generation experimental reforecast that is approximately consistent with the 0000 UTC cycle of the NCEP Global Ensemble Forecast System as it was configured in 2012. We showed a variety of uses of this reforecast dataset, such as the statistical postprocessing of precipitation forecasts, the initialization of regional reforecasts, and the diagnosis of the forecast-ability of uncommon phenomena.
This dataset was generated from a large high-performance computing grant by the U.S. Department of Energy to explore the potential for improving longer-lead weather forecasts related to renewable energy; it was not created on NOAA computers. Currently, NCEP has not allocated any of its high-performance computing to the generation of reforecasts specific to weather time scales. While we intend to keep running this version of the GEFS for the foreseeable future, even after NCEP upgrades its GEFS, the regrettable truth is that soon enough the GEFS will change and the reforecast will be inconsistent with the operational version of the model. ECMWF embraced some years ago the approach of computing a more limited set reforecasts on their operational computer using whatever model version is currently operational. In this way, their reforecast dataset is continually relevant to today's model guidance. As NOAA determines the amount of high-performance computing it needs in the coming years and decades, we expect that the computers will be sized so that NOAA too can generate reforecasts (and the necessary reanalyses) regularly, save the data, and make these readily available to the weather enterprise. This current reforecast dataset will help us decide on a realistic configuration for such reforecasts.
The U.S. Department of Energy provided the high-performance computing to produce this dataset under its Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC). We are grateful to the DOE and its very professional support staff for their help. The mass storage array within ESRL was partially supported by NOAA THORPEX funds distributed by NOAA's Office of Weather and Air Quality (OWAQ). We had tremendous help from the IT staff in the Physical Sciences Division at ESRL; in particular Nick Wilde, Alex McColl, Barry McInnes, Chris Kreutzer, and Eric Estes were all helpful in configuring the storage array and helping us get to voluminous reforecast data to and from it. The AHW reforecast ensemble was generated using the Bluefire super-computer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Tony Eckel and one anonymous reviewer are thanked for their careful evaluations of this manuscript.
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1 We prefer the term “reforecast” in this instance to “hindcast” so as to make the association in the reader's mind with reanalyses. This reforecast would not have been very useful were there not a high-quality reanalysis to provide initial conditions, here from the NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis.
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Leicester City 4-1 West Ham: The Foxes are back!
January 26, 2020 by leicestershirepress Leave a Comment
By Ben Sanderson
It was written in the Daily Mail after the 2-1 defeat suffered at Burnley that Brendan Rodgers’ honeymoon period as Leicester manager was finally over.
After a streak of imperious form that had seen Leicester enjoy an 8-game winning run, Jamie Vardy have arguably the best spell in front of goal in his career (which sees him still lead the Premier League’s scoring charts) and victories against Tottenham and Arsenal – a season ago “top six” clubs Leicester could not compete with – making a statement about where Leicester were heading, the Foxes were finally brought back down to Earth after losing to two bottom-half teams.
Leicester are back, though, and in a big way, after sweeping West Ham United aside 4-1 at the King Power Stadium.
Photo courtesy of Matt Teagle: View from the stadium as players in action
Harvey Barnes opened the scoring for the second game in a row, tapping into the net from close range to finish a clever move started by James Maddison after being squared the ball by Ricardo Pereira on 23 minutes.
Pereira turned from provider to scorer and Barnes from scorer to provider for Leicester’s second, after Barnes was left to get the ball by offside Wilfred Ndidi and crossed to Pereira who thumped the ball into the right-hand bottom corner, in the last action of the first-half.
A tame punch from Kasper Schmeichel, who for a second game in a row showed poor command of his box, after a West Ham free-kick resulted in a crazy break-out from a free-kick huddle.
It did not take much for Sebastien Haller to go down after Ndidi nudged him but it was enough for referee David Coote to award a spot-kick (affirmed by the ever-controversial VAR) which Mark Noble sent down the middle for West Ham’s consolation goal in the 50th minute.
Leicester scored a penalty of their own in the 80th minute after substitute Kelechi Iheanacho was brought down by Andrea Ogbonna, and Ayoze Pérez, taking the penalty due to Vardy coming off injured, firing the ball into the left-hand side of the back of the net and sending goalkeeper Darren Randolph the wrong way.
Pérez was on the scoresheet again two minutes from the end of normal time, curling an effort into the left-hand bottom corner of the goal after receiving the ball from a blocked Iheanacho in a move organised again by Maddison.
A drab first-half was characterised by two injuries to Leicester, as both Papy Mendy and Vardy were injured in a half Leicester made as many substitutions in as they scored goals.
Mendy went off after holding his knee in agony following a collision with Haller in the 34th minute.
Vardy went off ten minutes later, after trying to carry on in the face of what seemed to be a hamstring injury but being forced by it to go off.
This has provoked fears Leicester have lost their talisman for a few games at least, which manager Rodgers has, according to Sky Sports, played down.
The play was as dull as the stoppages in the first-half, as, goals aside, there was little for either goalkeeper to do.
Snodgrass shot marginally over on 15 minutes and Barnes went on a very promising run near the end of the half which resulted in a fabulous challenge from Aaron Cresswell to stop Barnes in his tracks, in an otherwise stagnant first 45 minutes.
The second half saw West Ham come alive after Noble’s penalty, with Cresswell crossing to Antonio for a golden opportunity to equalise, which Schmeichel managed to gather.
During the last 20 minutes, however, Leicester seized total control of the game.
Pérez had a curling shot saved by Randolph, who was on his feet to go to his left and palm that away, and the Spaniard was at it again not long after providing a shot for Barnes which was deflected wide by Diop, who earlier blocked a shot from Iheanacho.
Maddison, whose orchestration of Leicester seemed to give Leicester’s maestro control of the entire game, tried his luck from distance and would have scored one of the goals of the season had his shot hit the roof of the net, but Randolph managed a good fingertip save.
In between Pérez’s first and second goals, Ben Chilwell had a shot from a great position easily saved by Randolph.
A Barnes tap-in, a Pérez penalty, and curling efforts from Pérez and Pereira were enough for Leicester to emphatically take all three points in a game they dominated, taking 13 shots more than West Ham and having 68% of possession.
West Ham drop to 17th and look once again to fall disastrously short of expectations set by the money spent and players signed by the Hammers’ board.
Leicester remain third and three points behind Manchester City after this victory, but relief was the main emotion around the King Power Stadium after a victory which affirmed to Leicester fans that the last two games were not a permanent nosedive, which the Leicester Mercury addressed fans on.
Their cushion in the UEFA Champions League places has increased as well, and they are now fourteen points clear of Manchester United in 5th and eight clear of Chelsea in 4th, who drew with Arsenal, as the chances of another shot at European glory become ever more promising for the Foxes.
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Movie Review: Begum Jaan
Priyanka gets rare honour!
Srijit Mukherji’s Bangla period film ‘Rajkahini’ (2015), that this one is the exact replica of, was slightly refreshing, mainly because it was set during 1947 Partition, yes, but on the eastern front, where East Pakistan was being separated from West Bengal, Assam. Normally, Partition narratives get placed in the North, mainly Punjab. As is this adaptation, by the way. Except you don’t hear as much Punjabi here.
The characters belong to multiple ethnicities, regions. The setting is a brothel. And isn’t it true what they say (and this film does as well) about whores having no religion, caste, or nationality? Her clients don’t discriminate against her along such narrow lines either. One such prostitute, or rather the head of a whorehouse, is Begum Jaan.
The line threatening her identity is bizarrely enough the Radcliffe Line, named after an unsuspecting British lawyer with poor eye-sight who was brought to the sub-continent to divide India and Pakistan, displace 14 million people, in four weeks flat, through near arbitrary doodles on a map of a country that he had never been to before. Ram Madhvani, incidentally, has made a fine, somber short film on Cyril Radcliffe at old age, that is worth viewing online.
This picture, though slightly low-budget, is more over-the-top, or bombastic, driven too much melodrama, in the interest of grabbing attention, and popular entertainment, as it were. The appropriate euphemism is more ‘mainstream’. Vidya Balan plays Begum Jaan whose ‘kotha’ falls on the new Indo-Pak border being demarcated by reps from either side (Ashish Vidyarthi and Rajit Kapoor).
The ‘kotha’ must go, right away—to make way for India and Pakistan. It’s pretty ballsy for Vidya Balan to pick up a part like Begum’s, although, on the face of it, she seems far too soft and feminine to pull off this rugged character, who’s foul-mouthed, cynical, suppressed, confident, and very much the head of an independent republic herself.
She has the local king’s (Naseeruddin Shah) patronage; her own fine Pathan guard (Sumit Nijhawan) at the door; connections with the high and mighty of the area since they’re inevitably her clients. And she treats the women in the whorehouse like a queen would her subject, or a mother would her daughters. The film does well to humanise the prostitute. It is very ‘Manto’ that way. Or in many other ways, actually.
For one, the reference to Saadat Hasan Manto’s ‘Toba Tek Singh’, based on a mental asylum during Partition, which falls both in India and Pakistan, or neither, would be a legit inspiration for Srijit Mukherji’s script. The sub-text is rather important, if not even more relevant. Which is quite simply that when the world chooses to divide itself in hoards—Left, Right; India, Pakistan; Hindu, Muslim—what happens to the muted, neutral, centrist? What do with those who’re neither here nor there? You see this play out daily in this nation’s discourse, that’s only getting coarser by the day, with those not in the ring, gawking quietly at the absurdity of it all, starting with hashtags on Twitter.
Begum Jaan’s women, who sell split-second love for a living, are forced to take up guns, to protect themselves from both India and Pakistan. Partition (1947) itself is a subject Hindi cinema largely shied away from, up until ‘Garam Hawa'(1974). In 2016, Ketan Mehta had made a wonderful short film with Pankaj Kapur as Manto’s ‘Toba Tek Singh’. It was part of an Indo-Pak peace initiative. The project was laid to rest later last year because that Radcliffe Line continues to divide our small hearts and minds.
The irony was lost on no one. I’m glad this effective film, on the same subject, is out in Indian theatres for audiences to sit (if not take a stand), and ponder over. In the words of Sahir, used well in this beautiful picture, “Woh subah kabhi toh aayegi.”
Courtesy:mid-day.com
Garam Hawa Rajkahini Saadat Hasan Manto Srijit Mukherji Toba Tek Singh Woh subah kabhi toh aayegi
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Star Sign: Cancer. However, Jeremy eventually reveals the truth to his friends. Bonnie and Jeremy are reunited after she becomes the new anchor to the Other Side, though she sacrifices her life once more in the finale to save Elena, Stefan, Enzo, Tyler and Alaric.
It was revealed that Jeremy's supernatural hunter status was inactive as a result of the anti-magic barrier around the town.
In season six, Jeremy has become a drunk after Bonnie's death, paying her cell phone bill just to hear her voicemail recording.
Later, Jeremy came to the conclusion that it was time for him to move on with his life and leave for Santa Fe, New Mexico.
While nearly all of his friends and family are under the impression that Jeremy is going to art school there, in reality, Jeremy has moved there to hunt vampires, with only Alaric, who planned to feed him leads, knowing Jeremy's true plans.
Jeremy returns in the series finale, shown teaching gifted youngsters how to defend themselves against the supernatural at the Salvatore School.
She was the sister of their mother, Miranda Sommers-Gilbert. After her sister and brother-in-law were killed in a car crash, she took over as Elena's and Jeremy's legal guardian and moved into the Gilbert family home.
In the beginning, Jenna had trouble coping as an authority figure, having been a partying college student, but as the series progresses she becomes better at it.
She begins dating news reporter Logan Fell, who had cheated on her in the past. However, Logan was turned into a vampire by Anna and then killed by history teacher Alaric Saltzman; Jenna was told that he had left town.
She later begins a relationship with Alaric. In season two, John Gilbert begins to cause trouble between Jenna and Alaric, and Jenna suspects that Alaric is not completely honest with her.
When Isobel Flemming, Alaric's supposed dead wife, shows up at Jenna's door, Jenna becomes angry with Elena and Alaric — who then tell her everything about vampires.
Jenna was later turned into a vampire by Klaus, to be used in the sacrifice to release his werewolf side. She attempts to kill Greta Martin, Klaus' witch, to stop the sacrifice and saves Elena, at which point Klaus stakes her to death.
In season three, Jenna is seen in the season finale, in flashbacks of the night Elena's parents' car went off Wickery Bridge.
She is later seen as one of Katherine's hallucinations in season five. Jenna then appears in the series finale, where she and her family reunite with Elena as she passes.
From season seven, she becomes one of two female leads. She is good friends with Elena Gilbert and Caroline Forbes.
In the beginning of the series, Bonnie discovers that she is a witch born from a line of witches. Her grandmother, Sheila Bennett, helps her learn to use her powers.
When her grandmother dies, Bonnie continues training and becomes more and more powerful. In the midst of season two, she starts a relationship with Jeremy Gilbert, Elena's younger brother.
She later discovers, from warlock Luca Martin, that the only way to kill Klaus, the original vampire who wants to kill Elena, is for her to get the power of one-hundred dead witches.
Once she does this, she pretends to be dead in a scheme of Damon's to trick Klaus. But when she brings Klaus to the brink of death, Elijah does not kill him, as planned, and carries Klaus away before Bonnie could react.
In the season two finale, Bonnie is able to save Jeremy from dying after she tells her dead ancestor Emily Bennett that she loves him.
However, bringing Jeremy back from the dead allows him to see his dead ex-girlfriends. Bonnie later finds out that Jeremy kissed Anna when the doorway to the Other Side was temporarily opened, and she breaks up with him.
Later on, Bonnie reconnects with her mother, Abby, who had abandoned her as a child, and who helps her to kill the original vampires.
However, Abby is turned into a vampire by Damon and abandons Bonnie again. In the season three finale, Bonnie places Klaus' soul into Tyler's body, thus preventing him from being completely destroyed by Alaric and saving Tyler, Caroline, Damon, and Stefan from dying as part of Klaus' bloodline.
In the beginning of season four, Bonnie learns that there is a forbidden magic, but she is forced to use it to transfer Klaus back to his original body, as a result, angry spirits attack her grandmother's ghost.
Professor Atticus Shane mentors Bonnie in regaining her powers. However, unknown to her, this 'Art of Expression' draws magic from the spirits of a massacre.
It is revealed that Bonnie is a key component to finding the cure, as she was a descendant of the witch who entombed Silas, and is the only one who can open the tomb.
During the course of the fourth season, she becomes closer to Jeremy again, hinting at a possible reunion between the two. However, upon finding the cure, Jeremy is killed by Silas.
Feeling unimaginable grief, Silas, posing as Shane, manipulates Bonnie into believing that she can bring him back from the dead, but only if she brings back every supernatural creature who has died.
When Bonnie drops the veil to the Other Side, she is overpowered by Silas. Bonnie manages to petrify Silas.
Afterwards, Bonnie is determined to bring Jeremy back to life, despite Sheila's warning. The spell ends up killing Bonnie, who awakens as a spirit.
She eventually brings the veil back up, leaving Jeremy who she resurrected as the only one who can see her.
In season five, Bonnie is resurrected — but every supernatural who dies has to go through her to the afterlife, thus she feels the pain of their deaths.
She and Damon are then trapped in another dimension together while the others think they are dead. In season six, Bonnie and Damon develop a friendship and find out from a psychotic killer, Kai, that they can get home by using her magic.
However, the plan backfires when Kai tries to kill Bonnie and she sacrifices herself for Damon, which sends him back home.
Later, Kai also returns to the living world, leaving Bonnie all alone. Bonnie eventually manages to come home but has a more-violent disposition.
She got revenge when she left Kai in a prison world but he returned, due to the Heretics. At the end of the season, she is linked to Elena through a spell Kai made that put Elena in a coma as long as Bonnie lives.
In season seven, Bonnie is more united with Damon and their relationship develops while she starts having feelings for Enzo.
Her friendship with Damon ends because he left Bonnie while he desiccated himself in a coffin until Elena wakes, so Bonnie would never see him again.
Three years later, she had romantic a relationship with Enzo. She discovers that the armory is looking for her so she hides with Enzo.
They make a deal with Rayna, but she did not tell them that she was going to be the next huntress. She almost killed Enzo but Damon burned the last shaman in the armory so Bonnie was not the huntress anymore and saved Enzo.
Finally, she forgave Damon. By season eight, Enzo and Damon disappeared and Bonnie could not locate them, leaving her without two of the people she most cared about.
Bonnie manages to rescue Damon and Enzo from Sybil's control using objects from the Armory, and resumes her relationship with Enzo. They plan for him to take the cure and live as humans together, but Stefan kills Enzo after his humanity shuts off.
Bonnie injects him with the cure and her grief from Enzo's death causes her to unlock her psychic abilities.
She manages to forgive Stefan and uses her power to see Enzo, but she breaks off the connection in order to channel her power into saving Caroline's twins.
Inspired by her ancestors and Enzo, Bonnie gains new empowerment, saving Mystic Falls by redirecting Hellfire back to hell and destroying it along with Katherine.
Her newfound strength allows her to break the spell over Elena and reunite with her best friend. Bonnie then fulfills her promise to Enzo to live her life, and leaves to travel the world as he watches over her.
She was born in Mystic Falls, Virginia on October 10, From season seven she becomes one of two female leads.
Caroline is the daughter of the Sheriff of Mystic Falls, Liz Forbes, with whom she has a troubled relationship that develops into a more-loving relationship.
Her father, Bill Forbes, leaves her and her mother after coming out as gay. In the beginning of the series, Caroline is shown as pathetic and selfish girl.
Also as shallow, self-absorbed, jealous and envious of Elena. She is also known for being insecure and competitive, especially with Elena. However, Caroline's character deepens and matures over the seasons.
After she becomes a vampire, she forms a confidence in herself that is not seen at the beginning of the series.
She stops looking at her life in a shallow and negative light, and her insecurities fade as the series continues. In season one, she is first attracted to Stefan but Stefan does not show interest in her and is instead attracted to Elena.
This triggers the beginning of her competitive energy with Elena. When Stefan chooses Elena instead of her, Caroline shows interest in Damon.
Because of her insecurities, Caroline allows Damon to take advantage of her. Damon uses her in many ways, compelling her to forget much of it.
He frequently bites her so that he can suck her blood, and he compels her to wear scarves around her neck any time that he bites her. He also compels her to stay with him so that he can have a source of amusement and so that he can have a way to get his crystal from the Lockwoods.
It is also during this time that she starts dating Matt Donovan, Elena's ex-boyfriend. She dates him even though she knows that he still has feelings for Elena.
At the end of season one, Caroline, Matt, and Tyler meet an accident. Tyler is driving Caroline and Matt him from the Founder's Day party, and he swerves out of control when he hears a high-pitched noise.
The car crashes into a barrier, and Caroline is rushed to the hospital because she has serious internal injuries. Although the chances of survival are slim, the doctors perform surgery, attempting to save her life.
In season two, Caroline is fed Damon's blood to heal her injuries; however, Katherine kills her and Caroline feeds on a bag of human blood at the hospital, turning into a vampire.
When she wakes up, she is very confused. After feeding on the blood bag, she struggles dealing with her bloodlust on her own. She ends up killing Bonnie's love interest, and this is when she realizes that she needs help.
Damon tries to kill Caroline immediately because he does not think that she can get her bloodlust under control. However, Stefan appears at the right time and saves her from Damon.
Stefan helps Caroline control her bloodlust and they build a friendship. Caroline also becomes closer to Elena. After she loses control and feeds on Matt when he cuts his wrist, Caroline realizes that she cannot keep her bloodlust under control when she is with him.
Because of this, she deliberately starts an argument and purposefully causes him to end their relationship. When Tyler Lockwood starts his werewolf transformations, Caroline helps him and he starts to develop romantic feelings for her.
However, Caroline is in love with Matt and they get back together as soon as Tyler leaves town. Matt later finds out that Caroline is a vampire; feeling alienated and betrayed, he tells her mother.
At first they don't accept her, but when they realize that Caroline has retained her humanity, they soften. However, Matt breaks up with her, due to his aversion of the supernatural since the vampire death of his sister, Vicki.
When Tyler returns to Mystic Falls, he and Caroline become closer. He comforts her after Matt breaks up with her, and she convinces him to stay in Mystic Falls.
In the season three premiere, Caroline and Tyler sleep together. She tries to sneak out of his house before anyone else can notice.
However, Carol Lockwood knows that she is there, and she shoots Caroline with vervain. After she is unconscious, Carol contacts Bill, Caroline's father.
He thinks Caroline is a monster and tries to "fix" her through torture. When Carol finds out that her son is a werewolf, she calls Liz to help Caroline.
Liz and Tyler find Caroline and Bill, and they save her from being tortured any further. Bill and Caroline eventually make amends, and she is devastated when he is killed during season three.
Alaric Saltzman kills him while he has vampire blood in his system, and he refuses to drink blood and complete his transition into a vampire after he wakes up.
His choice of not transitioning into a vampire causes his life to be cut short. After Klaus Mikaelson turns Tyler into a werewolf-vampire hybrid, there is a strain on Caroline and Tyler's relationship.
After hurting Caroline because of his sire bond to Klaus, Tyler leaves Mystic Falls, hoping to break the sire bond. Klaus takes a liking to Caroline during this season and she refuses to be wooed by him, staying loyal to her friends despite her slight attraction to him.
However, when Tyler returns to Mystic Falls after breaking the sire bond, he becomes jealous when he sees a sketch that Klaus drew for Caroline.
In season four, Caroline helps Elena with her vampire transition. Her relationship with Tyler becomes strained with Klaus and the werewolf, Hayley, around.
Klaus continues to pine for Caroline's attention and affection, and Hayley's friendship with Tyler causes some jealousy from Caroline.
Caroline assumes something is going on between Hayley and Tyler, but Tyler denies it which is the truth. During the plan to get the cure, Caroline and Tyler watch over Klaus, who is trapped in the Gilbert home by Bonnie.
Klaus bites Caroline causing her to almost die just to prove to Tyler that he is Tyler's worst nightmare but eventually he heals her with his blood.
They learn there is only one dose for the cure. After a talk with Klaus, it is revealed that Caroline would never take the cure, preferring herself as a vampire.
When the spell wears off, Klaus tells Tyler to run, because Klaus would kill him for tormenting and teasing him. Caroline doesn't want Tyler to go because she loves him but knows it is for the best.
Caroline completes the Expression triangle by killing 12 witches in an attempt to save Bonnie, which opens up the gates to Other Side, letting all dead supernaturals loose in Mystic Falls.
Caroline graduates high school with Bonnie, Matt, Stefan, and Elena, the ceremony interrupted by the 12 dead witches who make an attempt on Caroline's life.
She is saved by Klaus, who she had invited to the graduation. Klaus says goodbye to her and that he intends to be her last love.
In season five, Caroline and Elena start college, both thinking Bonnie will come soon. Caroline assumes that Tyler will join them at Whitmore College.
Caroline and Elena meet their new roommate, Megan, and are upset about rooming with her because they want Bonnie to be their roommate. Caroline and Elena become fearful that Megan knows that they are vampires because her drinks have vervain in them.
They receive a phone call from Megan at a party later, and Megan is thrown out of the second floor window. She dies and has a vampire bite on her neck, meaning that there is another vampire at Whitmore.
Later, Tyler returns to let Caroline know that he will not be attending college with her. However, he also informs her that he is leaving because he wants to get revenge against Klaus because he killed Tyler's mother.
He says that their relationship seems forced because it is as if they are only together because Klaus granted them permission to be together. This upsets Caroline, and as Tyler packs his things to leave, she tells him that they will be broken up forever if he leaves.
Although this seems to be a tough decision for him, he leaves, and Caroline's heart breaks. Klaus returns to Mystic Falls in an attempt to gloat over a dying Katherine, but is distracted by Caroline.
She confesses her hidden desires for him, and they sleep together, Klaus vowing to never come back to Mystic Falls for her confession.
Despite judgement from Tyler, Caroline refuses to feel guilty for her actions and builds a strange friendship with Enzo. In season six, she realizes she has feelings for Stefan, despite his attempts to ignore her all summer.
She drops out of Whitmore College while trying to cope with Bonnie and Damon's deaths. She looks for ways to break the Travelers' spell on Mystic Falls so that they can go home this is later accomplished when Kai absorbs the magic.
Although Caroline has feelings for Stefan, there is a halt in their possible relationship when Stefan's mother, Lily Salvatore, and her adopted children come to Mystic Falls.
Among her children is Valerie, Stefan's former girlfriend. Caroline's mother, Liz, is diagnosed with cancer and Stefan attempts to comfort her. Caroline turns off her humanity as she can't deal with the pain of Liz dying.
Stefan realizes that he has feelings for Caroline. However, he realizes that he is too late when he sees that she has already turned off her humanity.
Caroline asks for a year with no humanity where she promises to behave as long as they don't attempt to trigger her humanity before then.
Stefan refuses to leave her alone as he feels at fault for her no humanity bender, angering Caroline and as revenge she kidnaps Stefan and Damon's niece, Sarah Salvatore, and blackmails Stefan to turn off his humanity.
Stefan attempts to make Caroline lose control, and after numerous attempts he finally succeeds. Lily, Stefan's mother, triggers his humanity with when she comes back to him, and he is determined to help Caroline turn on her humanity again.
He pretends to Caroline that his humanity is off and they get locked up together in a bed and breakfast in Grove Hill by Damon and Elena.
Caroline eventually turns her humanity back on. All her loss hits her at once thus she decides that she needs time to heal so she tells Stefan she doesn't want to get into any relationship.
In season seven, Caroline and Stefan attempt to form a romantic relationship but his past with Valerie prevents this. Doing as Elena wishes, Caroline begins writing diary entries for Elena.
Lily captures her because she knows that Caroline plans to kill her and the heretics. Caroline later discovers that the Gemini Coven had placed Alaric and Jo's twins inside her to protect them.
Stefan tells her he loves her and he won't leave her but when he gets marked with Reyna Cruz's sword Stefan decides to break-up with Caroline as he runs from the Hunter with Valerie, as he's afraid to put here in any danger.
Caroline and Alaric move to Texas and become a family, where Caroline quickly steps into the motherly role. While living together, Alaric begins to fall for Caroline.
He proposes to her and, even though she does not love him back, she accepts his proposal, hoping that this is a positive thing for their family.
Caroline reunites with Stefan three years later, but their relationship is nonexistent. After working together when Bonnie becomes a vampire huntress, they form a new friendship with each other.
During the season finale, Caroline and Alaric break off their engagement when Alaric encourages her to leave with Stefan, since they both still loved each other even after three years.
Although she is afraid of losing her family if she leaves, Alaric assures her that they will always be a family whether they live together or not.
After she leaves, she kisses Stefan, and they begin to date again. By season eight, Caroline is co-parenting her children with Alaric and soon becomes engaged to Stefan.
Alaric suggests that he, Caroline, Josie, and Lizzie move in together again because co-parenting proves to be difficult. However, Caroline knows that this is a bad idea and declines the offer.
Throughout the first part of the season, Caroline looks for ways to free Damon and Enzo from Sybil. She continues to worry about Bonnie's well-being because of how she tirelessly searches for Enzo.
Her relationship with Stefan becomes complicated when Stefan is told that he must become Cade's servant to ensure the safety of Caroline's daughters.
Part of the deal is that he turns off his humanity switch. This causes him to behave in ways that impress Cade but do not impress Caroline.
While she at first wants the relationship to work, Caroline becomes so annoyed with him and his actions that she throws her engagement ring at him out of anger.
Although she never explicitly breaks off the engagement, she begins to wonder if their June wedding will ever happen.
Caroline saves her children and Alaric from the recently returned Kai and helps Alaric open a school for supernatural children. She and Stefan resume their engagement after he flips his switch back on, and the two stage a wedding in an attempt to draw out Katherine but ends up being a really beautiful wedding.
Shortly after, Caroline is forced to say goodbye to Stefan when he sacrifices his life to save Elena and Damon. Caroline chooses to leave town with her daughters, though she and Stefan do get a bittersweet goodbye.
Caroline and Alaric open a school for gifted supernatural children after receiving a large donation from Klaus, who praises her actions.
It is implied from Alaric's voiceover that the donation is the "beginning of another story. Matthew G. Vicki Donovan is Matt's older sister, who he takes care of as their troubled mother has left them.
When Vicki dies, Matt is devastated. He is best friends with Tyler Lockwood. He is employed at the Mystic Grill as a busboy. Elena had broken up with Matt at beginning of the series, though Matt has feelings for her and wants to get back together, since Elena and Matt were each other's "first".
However, he later starts a relationship with Caroline Forbes. When Caroline is turned into a vampire in season two, she tricks Matt into breaking up with her, for she can't control her bloodlust around him.
However, they later get back together. When Matt learns that Caroline is a vampire, he suspects she had something to do with Vicki's death.
He asks her to make him forget, but he secretly has vervain in his system and only pretends to forget; this was a plan of Sheriff Forbes.
However, Matt finds out that Caroline is still the same person and tells her about the plan. He then breaks up with her due to the fact that he has too much to handle with work and school and doesn't want to deal with the fact that Caroline is a vampire.
In season three, Matt learns that Jeremy is able to see Vicki's ghost; after he drowns himself and is saved by Bonnie, he is able to see and speak to Vicki as well.
She tells him that with his help, the original witch can make her Vicki come back whenever she wants without needing Matt to think about her.
After he helps her, Matt finds out that the original witch wants Vicki to kill Elena in return; with the help of Bonnie, Matt makes Vicki return to the Other Side and shuts her out of his thoughts.
In season four, Matt blames himself for Elena's vampire transformation — Damon also blames him and wants Matt dead. Matt holds a grudge against Rebekah for trying to kill him and causing Elena's transition.
Matt later moves into the Gilbert house when Elena moves out, due to Jeremy's urge to kill her. However, Elena moves back in, only for Jeremy to be killed soon after.
Matt is shown to be devastated by the loss of his friend. He later develops a relationship with Rebekah Mikaelson and leaves Mystic Falls after graduation to travel with her.
They part on good terms as she goes to New Orleans in season five. Don't know why he's still alive at this point Another woman the two had encountered and slept with in Europe, Nadia, later appeared in Mystic Falls where she followed Matt.
It is revealed that she is Nadia Petrova, and is searching for her mother, Katherine. Matt was possessed by a Traveler for a brief time and was involved with Nadia.
Nadia later compelled him to forget that Elena was possessed by Katherine. In season six, Matt helps Jeremy cope with the apparent death of Bonnie and the two attempt to kill Enzo.
After Elena falls into a magical, coma-like slumber, Matt takes on more responsibility and eventually becomes the sheriff of Mystic Falls.
During this time, Matt ejects all vampires from Mystic Falls. In season seven, Matt falls in love with his partner, Penny Ares. A vampire makes Matt kill Penny, and he becomes hellbent on getting revenge on Stefan.
However, after a series of events forces Matt to try and save Bonnie from being a bloodthirsty supernatural Huntress, Matt is exhausted of the war between humans and vampires; he decides to leave Mystic Falls and start a normal life.
In season eight, Matt is reunited with his long-lost father, Peter Maxwell, who had abandoned him and Vicki when they were children.
Peter reveals that Matt's ancestors were the founders of Mystic Falls before the 'founding' families took it over. They had built a bell in the Clock Tower, that upon being hit twelve times by a Maxwell descendant, would unleash the Hellfire and kill everyone around it.
Stefan compels Matt to ring the bell, but Damon manages to stop him on the eleventh ring. This inadvertently allows several individuals to escape Hell, including Matt's own mother and sister and also Cade, Katherine and Kai.
His mother and sister later go to work for Katherine in order to stay out of Hell: Kelly injures Peter before dying again and Vicki plans on ringing the bell.
Matt tells Peter about Vicki; they all go up the clock tower and Matt watches Peter and Vicki reuniting and hugging. Matt and Peter later watch the tower erupt in flames after the twelfth ring of the bell.
After Hell is destroyed, Matt continues to be sheriff and is about to run for mayor, where he's watched over by his sister and Tyler.
Vicki was a troubled drug-addict, taken care of by Matt as their mother had left them. In the beginning of the series, she was dating Tyler Lockwood.
Vicki and Jeremy hooked-up a few times but Vicki didn't want people to find out, since Jeremy was younger than her.
Later, acknowledging that she had feelings for Jeremy, Vicki breaks-up with Tyler and starts a relationship with Jeremy. She was later turned into a vampire by Damon.
She was unable to control her bloodlust and when she attacked Jeremy, Stefan kills her. Stefan and Damon make it seem as if Vicki had left town.
Her body is later found by Caroline Forbes, devastating Matt and Jeremy. Later, when Jeremy is brought back to life, he was able to see and communicate with Vicki, who asks for his help.
Matt learns of this and engineers a near-death experience so he can also see Vicki. She tells him that with his help, the original witch can make sure she can come back whenever she wants.
However, Matt later finds out that the original witch ordered Vicki to kill Elena in return; with the help of Bonnie, Matt makes Vicki return to the Other Side and shuts her out of his thoughts.
Vicki later returns in season five, to ask Jeremy and Bonnie to tell Matt to stop sleeping with Rebekah. Vicki returns in season eight and appears in Damon's mind, when he has flashbacks of his attack upon her in the pilot episode.
It is later revealed that Vicki managed to escape Hell alongside Katherine and her mother. Vicki went on a killing spree before going to the Mystic Falls Clock Tower to ring the bell and bring the hellfire to destroy Mystic Falls.
Vicki is then reunited with her brother and father and completely breaks down. She had wanted to get out of the torturous Hell by ringing the bell for Katherine, but her family inspires her to become the person she always wanted to be.
She goes through with their plan to save Mystic Falls and kill Katherine. Vicki then finds peace in the afterlife with Tyler, where they continue to watch over Matt.
Tyler does not have a good relationship with his father, who sometimes acts violently towards him. However, when his father dies, Tyler is shown to be genuinely upset.
In the beginning of the series Tyler is an arrogant bully. He is dating Vicki Donovan, who breaks-up with him for Jeremy Gilbert, causing them to become rivals.
Tyler is shown to have a short temper and in season two Tyler learns from his uncle, Mason Lockwood, that he acts this way due to the werewolf gene.
After Tyler accidentally kills Sarah, a classmate who was compelled by Katherine to provoke him, his fears come true as he has triggered the werewolf curse.
Caroline Forbes, a young vampire, helps him prepare for his new life, and Tyler eventually falls in love with Caroline. A werewolf named Jules comes to town and tells Tyler that Caroline, Stefan and Damon are responsible for his uncle's death, making Tyler feel betrayed.
After Caroline is captured by a group of werewolves and Tyler hesitates to come to her rescue, Caroline breaks off their friendship.
Hurt by Caroline's decision and wishing to protect his friends, Tyler later leaves town with Jules.
However, he returns when his mother is in the hospital and makes amends with Caroline, deciding to stay in Mystic Falls. Tyler and Caroline's friendship deepens and in the season three premiere, they end up sleeping together.
After his mother learns that Caroline is a vampire and kidnaps her as she is trying to sneak out, Tyler reveals that he is a werewolf by transforming in front of her.
After he helps Sheriff Forbes rescue Caroline from her father, they begin an official relationship.
Tyler is later turned into a hybrid by Klaus. Due to his transformation to a hybrid, he is sired to Klaus, and would do anything to protect Klaus as his master.
When Tyler tells Caroline that he is okay with this, she breaks up with him. Tyler eventually realizes that the sire bond isn't in his favor, and breaks it by repeatedly turning into a werewolf.
He and Caroline get back together, but in the season three finale, Bonnie places Klaus' spirit in Tyler's body in order to save his bloodline which includes Katherine, Stefan, Abby, Damon, Caroline and Tyler himself.
It is unknown what happened to Tyler's spirit during this time, or if he agreed to the plan. Klaus later forces Bonnie to return him to his original body; once the transfer is complete, Tyler regains control of his body.
Tyler, along with a new friend, Hayley, begin to secretly unsire all of Klaus' hybrids. However, on learning about this, Klaus murders them all, along with Tyler's mother.
As a result, Tyler is eventually forced to leave town, knowing that Klaus will seek revenge upon him. He returns briefly for prom. Klaus later grants Caroline a graduation present, allowing Tyler to return to Mystic Falls.
Later, Tyler became possessed by Julian, a Traveler. After the Travelers used the Body Sealing Spell on Tyler, Julian gained permanent control of Tyler's body and due to Markos destroying the Traveler's Knife that was needed to remove Passengers, Julian could not be banished.
Later, Julian was captured by the Travelers and they brought Julian to Mystic Falls, where they had cast a spell that can undo magic, including vampirism.
Thus, when Julian entered Mystic Falls, he lost Tyler's vampirism and they both died, because vampirism was what kept them alive. Tyler ended up on the Other Side, but thanks to Bonnie and Damon's sacrifices, he was able to come back to life and he discovered that he was no longer a hybrid.
In season six, Tyler struggles to stay human, and develops a relationship with the witch Liv Parker. At the end of the season, Liv's brother Kai attacks and critically injures them both, and Liv convinces Tyler to kill her in order to trigger his curse and thereby heal.
Tyler reluctantly agrees, knowing that she was going to die anyway. He manages to injure Kai and save Alaric's life. Tyler leaves Mystic Falls after saying goodbye to Elena.
Tyler returns in season seven in order to take Elena's coffin to protect her from the Heretics. He returns again in season eight and is killed by Damon.
Tyler is seen in the series finale as having been reunited with Vicki, where the two find peace together and continue to watch over Matt. Alaric J.
Saltzman, known as "Ric" based on Alaric K. Saltzman from the novels , was the history teacher at Mystic Falls High School.
Alaric originally comes to town to kill Damon, to avenge his wife. However, it was later revealed that his wife, Isobel Flemming, requested that Damon turn her into a vampire.
Alaric then starts to become friends with Damon. Alaric owns a Gilbert Ring, which he obtained from Isobel, which prevents him from being killed by anything supernatural.
However, John Gilbert later claims the ring. Alaric starts a relationship with Jenna Sommers. In the second season, Gilbert starts causing trouble between Jenna and Alaric, and Jenna leaves when she meets Isobel and knows Alaric has been keeping secrets from her.
His body was later possessed by Klaus to gain the group's trust. Eventually Klaus releases Alaric, who gets back together with Jenna, but soon afterwards Klaus turns Jenna into a vampire and kills her for his sacrifice ritual, leaving Alaric heartbroken.
In season three, Alaric moves in with Elena and Jeremy to take care of them, and represents the Gilbert family on the Founders' Council.
He later starts dating council-member Meredith Fell, a local doctor. It is later learned that Alaric was unknowingly killing people, due to the Gilbert ring giving him a vampire-hating alter ego, which was referred to as "The Darkness" or "Evil-aric".
He was later turned into an Original vampire by Esther in order to kill Klaus with an indestructible White Oak stake. In the season three finale, he dies when Elena drowns because their lives had been linked by Esther.
He appears to Jeremy as a ghost to say goodbye, stating that he will always be there for them, and later at his grave where he listens to Damon lament about his responsibilities.
Late in season four, Alaric's ghost appears to Damon when Bonnie partially drops the veil to the Other Side. In the season five finale, Alaric came back to life by passing through Bonnie.
Alaric is a regular in season six, [2] having trouble adjusting to life as a vampire. He gets a job at Whitmore College as the occult studies professor.
After Elena is unable to recover from Damon's death, she begs Alaric to compel her to forget that she ever loved Damon — which he can do as an enhanced Original.
Alaric starts forming a relationship with Jo, a doctor at the college, but decides it would be best if they weren't together and attempts to compel her into thinking she didn't enjoy their time together; this fails to work as Jo is a witch.
After Damon comes back to life, Alaric tries to convince Elena to allow him to undo the compulsion. Damon and Enzo are abducted by Tripp Cooke, who plans to kill them by driving them into Mystic Falls.
Alaric and Stefan attempt to save them, but Alaric passes the border and begins to succumb to the injuries that caused his death until Jo arrives to keep him alive in a human state.
This prevents him from reversing his compulsion on Elena. In season six, Alaric and Jo are married and expecting a baby. Jo is killed at their wedding and in season seven he attempts to resurrect her.
In season seven, it is revealed that the Gemini Coven placed Alaric and Jo's twins inside Caroline Forbes for protection.
They eventually move to Texas and become a family. Caroline and Alaric do not remain together as she begins a relationship with Stefan.
In season eight, Alaric and Caroline co-parent their children, who've begun using magic. Alaric later turns the armory into a school for children like his daughters, to teach them to control their powers.
In the series finale, Alaric opens a school for gifted youngsters with Caroline in Stefan's name, where he and his daughters are watched over by Jo.
Lorenzo "Enzo" St. John is a vampire formerly under the imprisonment of the Augustine society, where he was Damon's cellmate in the s.
He and Damon later revive their friendship while he searches for his lost lover, Maggie. Enzo shuts off his humanity after Damon reveals that he was the one who killed Maggie and then killed himself by having Stefan rip his heart out.
He was resurrected in the season finale. Enzo is a series regular in season six, [3] helping Caroline discover a way to resurrect Damon and Bonnie.
After they visit Stefan and learn that he had been lying about searching for a solution, Enzo kills Stefan's human girlfriend, Ivy. In response to this, Stefan later finds Enzo, incapacitates him, and turns him over to Tripp Cooke, a vampire hunter with a familial link to Mystic Falls.
It is later revealed that Enzo had made Ivy drink his blood, and she became a vampire. Enzo won't reveal the names of other vampires, so Tripp plans to drive him and Damon into Mystic Falls to kill them, reuniting the two friends in chains once again , who are narrowly saved by Stefan and Alaric.
In season seven, out of love for Lily, Enzo allies himself with the Heretics. Eventually, he begins working for The Armory due to his interest in his past and later to learn his family's purposes.
Enzo hides Bonnie from the Armory as they need her to open a mysterious vault. He gives her pills to mute her magic and the two fall in love.
Enzo pursues Damon into a vault in the Armory when discolored and long-clawed hands grab his face and pull him backward. In season eight, Enzo falls under the control of the siren Sybil, killing many humans across the country with Damon.
His love for Bonnie, however, prevents him from falling completely under Sybil's control. Bonnie rescues him and the two resume their relationship, eventually planning for Enzo to take the cure and buy a house together in New York.
Enzo is murdered by Stefan on Cade's orders , which causes Bonnie to unleash her psychic powers. She sees visions of Enzo but breaks their connection in order to channel her powers into saving Caroline's daughters.
Enzo makes her promise to live her life and swears he will see her again before she lets him go. Enzo then makes Bonnie realize her strength, and continues to watch over her as she fulfills her promise by living her life as she happily travels the world.
The following is a list of characters that are, or at one time were, a recurring guest on the series but never starring.
They are listed in the order that they first appeared on the show. Her husband, Bill Forbes, who was a member of the town's council, had left her for another man after revealing that he was gay.
She is first introduced at a Founders Day party at Mayor Lockwood's house. There, she is shown to have a strained relationship with her daughter. However, she does care a lot for her well-being, which is shown when she arrests a bartender after Caroline gets drunk.
She is revealed to be a member of the Founders' Council, a secret organization dedicated to protecting Mystic Falls from vampires.
Liz becomes friends with Damon after he saves her from Lexi Branson, and is seen letting him know about the council's plans.
In the season one finale, she is handcuffed by John Gilbert for disagreeing with his plan to use the town as bait to capture the tomb vampires.
She is later saved by Carol Lockwood, but they are unable to save Mayor Lockwood, who is burned with the vampires. Liz then finds out that her daughter has been in a car crash and goes to the hospital, where she is comforted by Damon.
In season two, Carol accuses Liz of getting Mayor Lockwood killed. Liz is later informed by Mason Lockwood that Damon and Stefan are vampires, though she is skeptical, particularly regarding Damon.
She tests him by slipping vervain into his drink and he reacts negatively to it. When Damon and Stefan assume Mason did it and attempt to take care of him in the woods, Liz ambushes and shoots the brothers and has them injected with vervain.
Liz tortures Damon in an attempt to learn how he and Stefan can walk in the sun, but is interrupted when Elena appears, followed by Caroline, who kills the deputies.
Liz is locked in the cellar at the Salvatore House so that the vervain can get out of her system and she can be compelled to forget everything.
Liz asks Damon to keep Caroline away from her, but after a talk Liz eventually accepts Caroline being a vampire; Caroline decides to compel her and Liz loses her memory of the whole ordeal.
After Matt discovers the truth about vampires from Caroline, he tells Liz, who comes up with a plan to make Matt pretend to be compelled to forget, while he actually has vervain in his system.
Liz then uses Matt to spy on Caroline, who she believes is a monster. Liz tries to capture and kill Damon, but accidentally shoots Jeremy instead.
Believing she has killed Jeremy, she is shocked to discover that Bonnie is able to resurrect him. She finds out that Matt came clean to Caroline.
After confessing that neither wanted to secretly live in fear of one another, Liz accepts her daughter for what she is. After Caroline is locked in a cellar by her father for being a vampire, Liz and Tyler come to her rescue.
Liz assists her daughter and her friends throughout the series as their relationship continues to improve and she becomes closer friends with Damon, before it is revealed that she's dying from cancer in season six.
Liz is seen in the series finale watching over Caroline. He had a bad relationship with his son and acts very authoritative towards him.
It seems that he thinks of Tyler as a disappointment and when Tyler gets into a fist-fight with Matt Donovan at a party, Richard tells him to never embarrass his family again.
When Tyler gets into a fight with Jeremy, he takes them outside and tells them to fight rather than talk to solve their problems. He had an unhappy marriage with Carol Lockwood and they constantly fight; he also flirts with Pearl.
Although he seems kind and amicable to the outside world, he was actually quite selfish. In the season one finale, during Founders Day, he helps John Gilbert execute his plan to kill the tomb vampires.
However, it backfires when he is affected by the device that neutralizes the vampires, due to carrying the werewolf gene.
The deputies believe him to be a vampire and lock him in the basement, where he was killed by one of the tomb vampires.
She was a member of The Founders' Council and knows of the existence of vampires, but not of the existence of werewolves.
Throughout season one, Carol was locked in a hostile relationship with her best friend. She acts as a bad influence on her son Tyler, with much of his negative behavior emerging as a direct result of her snobbish behavior and emotional outbursts.
In the season finale she shows, for the first time, that she cares for Richard. After releasing Liz, they vainly try to save Richard from the burning basement.
Carol was shaken and upset by her husband's death and blames it on the deputies. Carol finds Tyler in his father's study thrashing the room in an angry tantrum; this behavior frightens her and she was further shaken after Mason Lockwood calms Tyler.
Carol later informs Damon that she was replacing Richard as the mayor until the next election and asks him to lead the council, which he accepts.
After Tyler has turned into a werewolf and runs away, she finds a note from Tyler. It was later revealed that Elijah, one of the original vampires, convinced Carol to stop taking vervain in order to compel her.
Later, Carol was compelled to make a phone call to Tyler, saying that she was in the hospital and wanted him to come and visit; Maddox then uses his powers to push her off the stairs, and she is hospitalized.
In season three, Carol learns that Caroline Forbes is a vampire; after Caroline sleeps with Tyler in the Lockwood Mansion, Carol shoots her with vervain darts.
Carol then calls Caroline's father, Bill Forbes, and tells him about her. The next day, Carol slips vervain in Tyler's coffee to test if he is a vampire, and is relieved that he isn't.
However, Tyler discovers this and confronts his mother, who says Caroline a monster. Tyler then shows Carol that he is a werewolf, and Carol promises that she will make sure Caroline isn't hurt.
However, when she later calls Bill, she was unable to persuade him to free Caroline. When the doorway to the Other Side was opened, the ghosts of the tomb vampires decide to take revenge on the founding families and attack Carol.
Caroline comes to Carol's rescue and holds them until the doorway is closed. In the ninth episode of season four, Carol was killed by Klaus as payback for Tyler's plan to kill him.
Sheila Bennett was the grandmother of Bonnie Bennett and a very powerful witch. She died after overusing her magic to seal away the tomb vampires.
She usually appears to Bonnie as a spirit to help guide her whenever she overuses magic or is having trouble with her powers.
Sheila continues to appear throughout the series, ensuring Bonnie's and indirectly Damon's survival.
She makes an appearance in the series finale to help Bonnie save Mystic Falls with the rest of the Bennet witches. Emily Bennett was the handmaiden of Katherine Pierce in and a powerful witch.
She was a direct descendant of one of the women accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials of Emily was an ancestor of Bonnie Bennett through Sheila Bennett.
She was the one who gave Katherine, Pearl, Anna, Harper, Damon and Stefan the jewelry which enabled them to walk in the sun.
Although she helped these vampires, she secretly fought against them, for she enchanted Jonathan Gilbert's inventions, including a device which could hurt vampires.
When the vampires were rounded-up by the Founding Families, she and Damon made a bargain: Damon would protect Emily's descendants and Emily would use her grimoire to protect Katherine by entombing her with 26 other vampires under the old Fell's Church.
Emily was later burned at the stake by the Founding Families and her possessions, including her grimoire, were taken and buried in Giuseppe Salvatore's grave.
Damon rescued Emily's children when the townspeople came for her. In season one, Emily possesses Bonnie in order to stop Damon from freeing Katherine from the tomb.
In season two, Bonnie takes on the power of a hundred dead witches, including Emily, by performing a spell on the place where the witches were burned.
Bonnie and Stefan later go there again to ask the witches if they know a cure for a werewolf bite inflicted on Damon.
Emily possesses Bonnie and tells Stefan there isn't a cure, but when Bonnie is herself again, she tells Stefan that Emily mentioned Klaus, whose blood turns out to be the cure for a werewolf bite.
When Jeremy dies, Bonnie was able to save him with help of Emily after she tells Emily that she loves him. Alexia "Lexi" Branson was a vampire and Stefan's best friend and companion.
She had known Stefan and his brother Damon for over a century. Damon killed her to make the town council think that she was the vampire terrorizing Mystic Falls.
Lexi returned as a ghost to help save Stefan. She later choked Damon for killing her but let him go. She and Stefan stayed together for the most part drinking and later parting on good terms.
For about 6 months they hung out while Lexi would ask Damon about Katherine, trying to help him remember love. One night Damon claimed that he didn't love Katherine and that he had fallen for Lexi, and they had a night of wild sex; the next morning he locked her on a rooftop with the sun coming up as punishment for her spying.
She came back for a scene at the end of the series finale, where Stefan hugs her. Annabelle "Anna" was a vampire who comes to Mystic Falls in order to free her mother from the tomb.
She was in Mystic Falls in with her mother, Pearl, and wants to open the tomb to free her mother. Anna turned Noah and Ben McKittrick into vampires to make them help her save her mother, turned Logan Fell to get Honoria Fell's diaries, and befriended Jeremy Gilbert to obtain his ancestor's journal.
Anna later kidnaps Elena and Bonnie in order to make Bonnie open the tomb, but they are saved by Stefan, who kills Ben in the process.
After Bonnie opens the tomb for Damon to free Katherine, Anna succeeds in freeing her mother and bringing her back to life. Anna later reveals to Damon that she knew Katherine wasn't in the tomb, but needed him to believe it in order to free her mother.
Anna developed romantic feelings for Jeremy, who suspects that she was not human and tests it by forcing her to drink his blood.
Anna confronts Jeremy over this, and refuses his requests to turn him into a vampire. She initially attempts to hide her involvement with Jeremy from Pearl, and Anna and Pearl eventually get into a fight.
Anna agrees to turn Jeremy but learns his motive is to get over his first love, Vicki. After a short period of distance, they make up, both admitting to having used each other, but have fallen in love along the way.
Anna enrolls in high school in order to spend time with Jeremy, and they begin a romantic relationship. On Founder's Day, Anna gives Jeremy a vial of her blood, telling him that if he drinks it he will die and become a vampire.
She goes to the remaining tomb vampires, then reveals their plans to Damon — possibly to protect Jeremy.
Damon warns her about the device; she is protecting Jeremy when John Gilbert sets it off, and was immediately incapacitated. A policeman finds her with Jeremy, injects her with vervain and takes her to the Gilbert building to be burned with other vampires, repeating the plan to eradicate their kind.
When John Gilbert sees Anna lying in the building with the other vampires, he stakes her; her body is burned with the others.
Damon sees this and later tells Jeremy how Anna died, regretting that he wasn't able to help. Jeremy questions whether it would be better to be a vampire and Damon admits it would be easier to turn the emotions off.
Later, Jeremy drinks Anna's blood and takes all of Elena's sleeping pills. In the season two finale, Anna and Vicki's spirits appear to Jeremy, after he was brought back to life by a spell of Bonnie's.
In season three, Anna and Vicki appear more often to Jeremy, and Anna warns Jeremy not to trust Vicki, who asks Jeremy to help her come back to life.
Later, Anna tells Jeremy that she was "on the other side".
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Recent data from our youth indicate a decreasing perception that marijuana can be harmful and a drastic reduction in disapproval of peer use. Further, our youth are starting to use marijuana at a younger age. The average age of first use in L/OL is 14.0 years on our most recent youth survey, a decrease from 14.6 in just two years. All of these factors predict an increase in use over time.
These troubling indicators led us to launch this campaign. We invite you to learn more about the postcards on our website, including marijuana research and survey data. Please talk with your teens and younger children about the risks of marijuana.
The research behind the six postcards:
This is Your Brain on Drugs
By Abigail Sullivan, NY Times, Oct. 29, 2014
Researchers, Brain imaging, casual users, potency, emergency room admissions, addiction, IQ, working memory
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/education/edlife/this-is-your-brain-on-drugs-marijuana-adults-teens.html
Drug Facts: Marijuana
National Institute on Drug Abuse, January, 2014
Brain development, IQ and memory, cardiopulmonary effects, mental health, psychosis, pregnancy, driving, potency, addiction, effects on user’s life
http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/marijuana
CASFY_POSTCARD(vol2)_FINAL_RSD18 Marijuana Dependence: Not Just Smoke and Mirrors
By Ramesh, Schlosburg, Wiebelhaus, Lichtmann.
NIH Public Access Author Manuscript, March, 2014
Dependence/addiction, endogenous cannabinoids, laboratory animal and human studies showing that repeated administration of cannabinoids can result in physical dependence, withdrawal symptoms
Casual marijuana use linked to brain abnormalities in students
Breiter, Journal of Neuroscience, April 16
Recreational marijuana users’ brains abnormally altered for at least two structural measures-density, shape, volume. Alterations directly linked to amount of marijuana smoked.
http://medicalxpress.com/print316779525.html
Considering Cannabis: The effects of regular cannabis use on neurocognition in adolescents and young adults.
Lisdahl, Wright, Medine-Kirchner, Maple, Shollebarger
Curr Addict Rep (2014): 1:144-156
Overview of studies outlining the effects of regular (at least weekly) cannabis use on neurocognition, including studies outlining cognitive, structural, and functional findings. “It needs to be emphasized that regular cannabis use, defined here as once a week is not safe and may result in addiction and neurocognitive damage, especially in youth.”
http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/670/art%253A10.1007%252Fs40429-014-0019-6.pdf?auth66=1423585160_5f79cc5a7bc27a16f3c937012a264b09&ext=.pdf
Drug Facts: Drugged Driving
National Institute on Drug Abuse, December 2014
“Considerable evidence from both real and simulated driving studies indicates that marijuana can negatively affect a driver’s attentiveness, perception of time and speed, and ability to draw on information obtained from past experiences.”
http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/drugged-driving
Gone to pot—a review of the association between cannabis and psychosis
Radhakrishnan, Wilkinson, D’Souza
Frontiers in Psychiatry, May 2014
“Converging lines of evidence suggest that early and heavy exposure to cannabis is associated with a higher risk for psychotic outcomes, including schizophrenia in later life. In addition, cannabinoids can induce immediate-onset psychotomimetic symptoms that do not persist beyond the period of intoxication. Finally.. cannabinoids are also associated with acute episodes of psychosis that 1) manifest immediately following exposure, 2) last beyond the period of intoxication and 3) require clinical intervention.”
Drugs and Sports: Marijuana
Wadler, ESPN Special Section
Effects on performance, short-term adverse health effects, long-term adverse health effects, addiction, drug testing.
http://espn.go.com/special/s/drugsandsports/mari.html
Summary of marijuana’s effects on athletic performance
http://adcaps.wsu.edu/athletes/mj-performance/
From NPR: Why Teens are Impulsive, Addiction prone, and Should Protect Their Brains
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/01/28/381622350/why-teens-are-impulsive-addiction-prone-and-should-protect-their-brains
To Learn more about prevention in Lyme and Old Lyme, visit the CASFY page by clicking here
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Road Recap: Grizzlies 107, Thunder 97 — If You Don't Know, Now You Know
by Chris Herrington
LARRY KUZNIEWSKI
Rudy Gay went large against the Thunder.
A double-digit home win on Sunday against one of the reigning NBA Finalists, the Miami Heat, felt like a breakthrough, with a raft of national attention following in its wake. But this follow-up double-digit win over the the other reigning NBA Finalist felt like a confirmation: This year's model of the Memphis Grizzlies is, until further notice, one of the very best teams in the NBA.
You could put a mild asterisk on the Heat win if you really wanted, based on Wayne Ellington's career night. But there was nothing extraordinary about this one, unless you count Rudy Gay going head-to-head against one of the NBA's two best players and coming away with something close to a draw. But Gay's done that before. He did it on Sunday too.
Instead, this victory felt encouragingly ho-hum. Unlike most of the Thunder's opponents so far this season, the Grizzlies got off to a slow start, struggling to get their new-and-improved offense in gear and escorting the Thunder to the foul line at the other end. But, as the game wore on, the Grizzlies' — get this — superior overall talent wore the Thunder down, and the Grizzlies maintained a decent lead the whole second half.
Gay, hitting a series of tough shots directly over Durant in the third quarter, had his best game of the young season (28 points on 12-21 shooting, 6 boards, 5 assists). Zach Randolph hit the 20-point mark for the first time this season and kept his double-double streak alive. Quincy Pondexter hit from both corners and added another, joined by Jerryd Bayless to continue the bench's three-point production. Mike Conley and Marc Gasol were not quite as good as they have been, but Conley was in control (7 assists to 2 turnovers) and was again solid defensively, while Gasol closed the door late with a showoff-quality post score and a touch pass to set up a Randolph lay-up when the Thunder had been building momentum for a final push.
It also felt like a confirmation of what I expected going in: With the Grizzlies' improvements and the Thunder's trade of James Harden, I think the Grizzlies are now legitimately the better team, at least unless Kevin Durant (34-10-5) or Russell Westbrook (17-6-13, but on 6-19 shooting) explode. They're both more than capable, but they couldn't carry what has become an otherwise ordinary team in this one.
At the end, there was a bit of an on-court disagreement between Randolph and Thunder center Kendrick Perkins that got each ejected and, per on-the-scene Twitter reports, culminated in some sort of confrontation after the game. At the 17-second mark here, Randolph makes an audible promise (credit @HPbasketball):
Thunder Rudy Gay Zach Randolph Video
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Home biography Kadir Dogulu Biography
Kadir Dogulu Biography
Facts of Kadir Dogulu Biography
Kadir Dogulu
Mersin, Turkey
Rasim Dogulu
Istanbul Okan University
$ 12 million
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https://www.instagram.com/kadirdogulu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadir_Do?ulu
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4146405
Neslihan Atagul
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Is Kadir Dogulu Lesbian ? No
37 years old Kadir Dogulu is a married to a fellow Turkish actress Neslihan Atagul in 2016. The couple is currently happily married and is living a blissful life together. So far the couple hasn't parented any children yet. As of 2019, the actor duo is still together and happy. As of 2019, he enjoys a total net worth of around $12 million.
Who is Kadir Dogulu?
Kadir is an actor who is known for a Turkish TV historical drama, Muhtesem Yuzyil: Kosem. He is also known for bringing Mehmet Giray Khan to life. In the past, he also held leading roles in Fatih Harbiye, Pis Yedili, and Sajan Capsize.
Kadir Dogulu: Early life, Family, and Education,
Kadir was conceived in Mersin, Turkey on April 19, 1982, to parents Rasim Dogulu. His birth sign is Aries. He grew up along with his sister Kemal Dogulu in Mersin. Further, the actor belongs to Turkish nationality and is of white ethnicity. Further, he Istanbul Okan University graduate.
Kadir Dogulu: Acting Career
He made his debut in Kucuk Sirlar as Ali Erarslan. After that, he took part in several TV actions drama series and soup soap opera. His latest project will be the history TV-novel "Muhteşem Yuzyil Kosem".
Some of his best TV projects include leading roles in Fatih Harbiye, Sajan Capsize, and Pis Yedili.
In addition, he was also working with Hande Yener for some time and appeared in her "Romeo" music video. He also appeared as a lead in Kucuk Sırlar, a Turkish Gossip girl spin.
Other than being an actor, he is also a restauranteur as he owns a restaurant in Istanbul.
Kadir Dogulu: Salary and Net Worth
From his successful career, he earns a reasonable sum of money. So, Kadir Dogulu's net value as of 2019 is estimated at $12 million. Additionally, his salary per episode is estimated to be around $200,000 by 2019.
Is Kadir Dogulu Single or Married?
Speaking of his relationship, 37 years old Kadir Dogulu is a married man. He married a Turkish actress Neslihan Atagul in 2016. With no extramarital affairs and divorce-related rumors, the duo currently lives a happy life.
Kadir Dogulu: Awards and Accomplishments
Despite being a famous and accomplished actor, Kadir Dogulu hasn't received any awards to date.
Kadir Dogulu: Controversies and Rumors
Kadir Dogulu was once caught into a marriage-related rumor after his ex-girlfriend Giovanni Pernice posted a photo on Instagram captioning it with "Getting ready for marriage".
Other than for the hoax, he isn't involved in Controversies and has managed to stay away from any personal life-related rumors.
Kadir Dogulu: Body Measurements
Kadir has a tall stature and is 5 feet 10 inches tall in height. Moreover, he weighs around 170 LBS. Likewise, he has a dense black hair and light brown eyes.
Kadir Dogulu: Social Media
He's active on social media such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. On Facebook, Dogulu has over 1.4 K folders. Likewise, on Twitter, he has 484 K followers. The highest number of his followers are on his official Instagram as he has over 2.4 Million there.
Updated On Fri May 10 2019 Published On Fri Sep 28 2018 By
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The ClackPak 'node'
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, ClackPak (the precursor to the Martello Tower Group) ran a number of packet radio nodes to help increase AX25 coverage in the area and provide a backbone link into the main UK network.
One of our nodes was built into a large cabinet and located on the roof of the El Dorado snooker club in Jaywick which was the location of the old Clacton-on-Sea radio club. The club callsign was G3CRC and that's what we used for our packet stations before G0PKT was issued.
In early 2017, some old photographs of what we lovingly called "The Node" were discovered. These have never been seen outside of the group before.
These pictures show the box, the two radios for 2m and 4m, the TNCs, PSU and CW ident generator. The two nodes were connected together providing a very useful link in and out of the area.
CLSX22: G3CRC-3 was on 144.650 MHz
CLSX40: G3CRC-4 was on 70.4875 MHz
The ClackPak 2m and 4m AX25 packet radio node
Yaesu CPU-2500R on 144.650 MHz (2m) and Daiwa PS-140II PSU
Pye Westminster on 70.4875 MHz (4m) as part of the ClackPak packet radio node
Two Tiny-2 TNCs for CLSX22: G3CRC-3 and CLSX40: G3CRC-4 along with the CW ident generator
The rear view of the ClackPak AX25 packet radio node
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Welcome to my resources page, an extension to my books and blog articles. Conducting research is one of the most fascinating and gratifying aspects of writing historical fiction. In addition to books and documents, countless people and places have provided me with so much creative inspiration and helpful information. This page aims to acquaint you with them through stories, images, and links to useful resources on this site and external websites.
The summer before I began a Journalism program at Humber College in Toronto, I travelled to Malta, intent on spending sunny days at the beach, late nights bar-hopping around Paceville, and endless hours laughing with good friends. I checked off every box, every day.
This trip still occupies a spot in my top five memories.
But not only because of the sea, sand, and sun.
At the suggestion of my dear friend Gwenda, a fierce and fabulous Dutch girl I met on a Maltese beach three years earlier, I caught a bus to Valletta and bought tickets to The Malta Experience, an audio-visual masterpiece that depicts the island's incredible seven-thousand-year history.
The moment the Great Siege of 1565 played out on the screen, everything changed. Malta’s rich history came to life as never before. The resilience and fortitude of this little island and its people had been tested in ways few might comprehend.
It was an underdog story for the ages.
Just like that, the idea to write a novel based on this most epic of battles took root.
And quickly blossomed into a goal—a mission.
Of the war, eighteenth-century French Enlightenment writer and historian Voltaire said, “Nothing is better known than the siege of Malta.” And yet, it seemed so few people I’d encountered outside of Malta had even heard of it.
Perhaps, in my small way, I could help remedy that.
Twenty years, many miles, and a few thousand cups of tea later, I am completing work on the third book of the siege trilogy.
Check out the Malta Experience
What a dream come true to have my novel on display in the very place that inspired me to write it
Locations visited
Heritage Malta is the national agency for museums, conservation, and culture. Most archaeological sites and historical structures fall under Heritage Malta's management and protection.
The Inquisitor's Palace The Roman Inquisition reached Malta’s shores around 1560 as a system of tribunals developed by the Holy See. It prosecuted individuals accused of anything related to heresy—sorcery, blasphemy, Lutheran sympathy, and witchcraft, as well as possession of censored literature. Even being left-handed might land you before the Inquisitor.
The National Museum of Archaeology Thanks to lucky timing, I had the privilege of seeing Grand Master Jean Parisot de Valette’s dagger on display while on loan to Malta from the Louvre for the first time since 1798.
Fort St Angelo A very important location in all three novels—a massive stone sentinel keeping watch over the village Birgu and repelling even the most determined of attacks.
Mnajdra Temples Located remotely on a rugged expanse of Malta’s southern cliffs, the nearly six thousand-year-old temples of Mnajdra serve as the setting of Katrina’s archery lessons in the first novel, and later, the site where she instructs her students.
Hagar Qim Temples Prehistoric temples situated on the same stretch of rocky terrain as those of Mnajdra.
The Maritime Museum Housed within the Old Naval bakery in Birgu, the museum exhibits artefacts from Malta’s colourful maritime history and showcases the impact of seafaring on Maltese society.
Fort St Elmo and the National War Museum The star-shaped fortress played a pivotal role in the Great Siege of 1565 and World War II and is now home to the National War Museum.
The Palace Armoury Located in Valletta, the armoury showcases the beautifully tooled weapons and armour of the Knights of St John.
Mdina Birthplace of protagonist Angelica Tabone and one of my very favourite cities in the world, the Whispering City is a living museum.
Limestone Heritage Following a fascinating, interactive tour of this former quarry, which explores the island's limestone history with exhibits and sculpting demonstrations, I watched in shock as a goat scaled a wall and jumped four storeys to a field below. He was no worse for wear, bleating and tramping and carrying on, as his brother goat beseeched me with his eyes to do something.
St John's Co-Cathedral Built by the Knights of St John in the late sixteenth century, this Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to the Order's namesake is the crown jewel of Valletta.
Gozo is Malta's sister island and the second largest in the archipelago.
The Citadel A feat of military architecture, the Cittadella is a fortified city atop a summit, visible from across the island, and the site of Dragut Raïs and Sinan Pasha’s 1551 raid of Gozo, featured in Eight Pointed Cross.
Ta Kolla Windmill is one of the few surviving windmills in Gozo constructed during the Knights' rule.
Comino is a tiny, virtually unpopulated island in the Maltese archipelago with a lagoon so blue, it doesn't look real.
Tour guide and interpreter Burak Sansal is always available to answer my questions about daily life in sixteenth-century Turkey. Check out Burak's Great Istanbul
The Basilica Cistern One of my favourite locations in Istanbul, the Underground Cistern serves as a literal crossroad in Demir’s journey.
Topkapi Palace The home of Sultan Suleiman. The seat of the Ottoman administration. Site of Demir’s training. Harem to which Fariha is confined.
Photo by Meriç Dağlı
Ayasofya/Hagia Sophia A spectacular domed monument originally built as a cathedral in sixth-century Constantinople (now Istanbul) and converted to a mosque in 1453.
The Sultan Ahmed Mosque/the Blue Mosque is a seventeenth-century wonder of engineering and one of the most impressive structures in the world.
Çemberlitaş Hamami or Çemberlitaş Bathhouse Sixteenth-century Turkish bath located in the Çemberlitaş district of Istanbul. Magnificent architecture. And so many bubbles.
Source: howtoistanbul.com
Süleymaniye Mosque and the tomb of Sultan Suleiman is an Ottoman imperial mosque located on the Third Hill of Istanbul and dedicated to Sultan Suleiman. The cemetery is situated near the mosque's main entrance and houses the tombs of Suleiman and his wife Hürrem Sultan (Roxelane).
The Hippodrome Once a circus that served as the sporting and social centre of Istanbul, the Hippodrome was where horsemen played Cirit.
The Grand Bazaar (or Kapalı Çarşı) is one of the largest and oldest covered markets in the world, boasting 61 sheltered streets and more than 4,000 shops. Demir and his friend Murad frequent the bazaar.
Spice Bazaar (or Mısır Çarşısı), where vibrantly coloured spices are displayed next to rows upon rows of gemstone-like Turkish delight
Dolmabahce Palace is a beautiful nineteenth-century palace which served as the administrative centre of the late Ottoman Empire.
Archaeological Museum and Islamic Art Museum This complex consists of three museums: the Archaeology Museum, the Ancient Orient Museum, and the Islamic Art Museum.
Galata Bridge (or Karaköy Bridge) spans the Golden Horn and connects Eminonu to Karakoy.
Galata Tower (or Galata Kulesi) Genoese occupiers built the tower in the fourteenth century as a defensive structure.
Tomb of Barbarossa Renown Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa's tomb, situated in Beşiktaş, was built by Sinan the Architect in between 1541 and 1542.
Taksim Square is the modern city centre of Istanbul.
Historians consulted
Evarist Bartolo, writer, communications lecturer, minister of education and employment, author of Min kien Callus, a play based on the life of Maltese patron Dr Giuseppe Callus.
Giovanni Bonello, historian, author, and former Judge of the European Courts of Human Rights. He writes extensively and with keen wit on human rights, art, and history. Author of Histories of Malta –Versions and Diversions and Misunderstanding the Constitution: How the Maltese judiciary undermines human rights, he has also penned dozens of articles on the law as well as Maltese and Hospitaller history.
Dr Carmel Cassar, professor of cultural history, director of the Institute of Maltese Studies, and chairman of the Platform for Mediterranean Foodways at the Mediterranean Institute. He is a historian and the author of A Concise History of Malta; Society, Culture and Identity in Early Modern Malta; Honour and Shame in the Mediterranean (translated into five languages); Witchcraft, Sorcery and the Inquisition; Daughters of Eve; and Fenkata. An Emblem of Maltese Peasant Resistance? Dr Cassar developed an Ethnography Section and oversaw the restoration of the Inquisitor’s Palace within the Malta Museums Department (now Heritage Malta). His efforts saved the national clothing collection from ruin. A Catholic policy scholar, he also reconstituted sections of the Cathedral archives and was particularly helpful with my research on the Roman Inquisition.
Dr Louis E Fenech, professor of history at the University of Northern Iowa and author of the Sikh Zafar-namah of Guru Gobind Singh: A Discursive Blade in the Heart of the Mughal Empire; and the Cherished Five in Sikh History. Dr Fenech shared insights on sixteenth-century Ottoman art and artists, poems and poets, architecture and architects, and how to cook really good Indian food.
Dr Simon Mercieca, senior lecturer within the Department of History at the University of Malta. An expert in Historical Demography, he is the author of The Knights of St John in Malta and the editor of the quarterly cultural magazine Kultura.
Dr Stephen C. Spiteri, Maltese military historian, author and illustrator of several books on Hospitaller fortifications. Dr Spiteri gave generously of his time, answering my endless questions, providing me with intricate, hand-drawn maps and elaborate images, and guiding me to very useful resources. His recent publications include Armoury of the Knights; The Great Siege; The Art of Fortress Building in Hospitaller Malta; and A Visual Guide to the Fortifications of Malta. You can see his documentary about the fortifications of the Great Siege here:
The Maltese Historical Fencing Association Founded in 2009 and launched to the public in 2011, the association furthers the study, research, and practice of historical fencing. It serves also to support the rediscovery of European martial arts practised across the Maltese islands through the ages. Andrei Xuereb (Founder and President) and Franco Davies (Secretary) have been extraordinary resources, sharing their vast knowledge about the period and its blades. They provided me access to a subterranean vault where the knights had trained centuries earlier. Andrei designed the cover of Eight Pointed Cross. Franco gave me a guided tour of Fort St Angelo. He’s also as terrified of giant cockroaches as I am.
Research materials—books, articles, and documents
Historical correspondence
While exploring the Adriatic gem that is Croatia, I stepped inside a charming little bookshop in the beautifully preserved medieval city of Dubrovnik, where I found copies of letters from the Ottoman Sultan and Emperor Charles V. The artistry and authenticity of the script and signatures made them impossible to resist, especially as I was compiling research for my first novel (and because I thought they’d look cool on my wall).
The first letter is an inquiry from the Turkish Sultan to the Dubrovnik Government asking about his brother and requesting officials not permit him entry to the territory but instead, arrest him on sight. View the Sultan's letter
The second is Emperor Charles V’s written attempt to resolve a dispute concerning a Spanish vessel captured in the Adriatic by the Turks. View Charles V's letter
The Knights of Malta, John Attard
The Great Siege of Malta, Bruce Ware Allen
Captain Juan de la Cerda and the Great Siege of Malta: a confused story, Bruce Ware Allen
Min Kien Callus, Evarist Bartolo
The Great Siege: Malta 1565, Ernie Bradford
Histories of Malta – Versions and Diversions, Giovanni Bonello
Giovanni Bonello’s Times of Malta articles:
“Paolo del Rosso, knight, assassin, poet.”
“Paolo del Rosso tortured to reveal plot to murder Cosimo de’ Medici.”
“Del Rosso’s description of Malta in 1566.”
Daughters of Eve, Carmel Cassar
The Shield of Europe: the Life and Times of La Valette, Bridget Cassar Borg Olivier
Diary of the Siege of Malta of 1565, a day-by-day eye-witness account of the siege, by Francisco Balbi di Correggio, a knight of St John
A Chronicle History of Knights, Andrea Hopkins
The Knights of St John in Malta, Simon Mercieca
Malta 1565, Tim Pickles
Knight Hospitaller Medicine in Malta (1530-1798), C Sarona-Ventura
The Monks of War, the Military Religious Orders, Desmond Seward
The Knights of Malta, H.J.A. Sire
Armoury of the Knights, Stephen C. Spiteri
The History of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem, René-Aubert Vertot
The Ottoman Empire
Topkapi Palace, Turhan Can
Sexual Life in Ottoman Society, Sema Nilgun Erdogan
The Wisdom of Islam, Robert Frager
Topkapi Palace, Godfrey Goodwin
The Ottoman Empire, Collin Imber
The Ottoman Turks, Justin McCarthy
The Ottoman Empire 1326-1699, Stephen Tunrnbull
The Mystery of the Ottoman Harem, Aksit Kultur Ve Trizm Yayincil
Siege history
The Book of Old Ships, Henry B. Culver
Siege Warfare, Christopher Duffy
Galleons and Galleys, John F. Guilmartin
Gunpowder and Galleys, John F. Guilmartin
Annals of a Fortress, E. Viollet-le-Duc
Other helpful resources
For the past two decades, Ruben Xuereb and Mark Brincat have been invaluable to my research effort as impromptu guides—carting me to different sites, gaining me access to some hidden gems, and providing a world-class lexicon of Maltese swearwords.
Map of Birgu (Città Vittoriosa) I picked up from the local tourist office
Nothing like an anachronism to damage credibility Online Etymology Dictionary
Finally, I must acknowledge my wedding dress for being the inspiration behind a rather remarkable gown that appears in Falcon's Shadow. You’ll know it by the full roses nestled within the bustles of the train.
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Posted on March 22, 2017 by martianr3d
A few years ago Jack adopted an old bulldog called Mr Fine. Mr Fine belonged to people who lived down the street from Jack. When they decided to leave town and dump the dog at the SPCA, Jack offered to take him. Mr Fine didn’t seem to mind. As far as we knew, Mr Fine continued his life from the one day to the next without much of an interruption. It also became clear that he was not an ordinary dog.
“He’s weird,” Jack said when I visited.
Mr Fine sat on the carpet, regarding us patiently. He had bushy eyebrows and large jowls and a pink dewlap. I could picture him in a Chesterfield with a tumbler of brandy. His gaze moved between us as we spoke and he drooled a little.
“How come?” I asked.
“For starters,” Jack said, “he likes espresso.”
At this Mr Fine perked up. He bit the air in a way that sounded as though he’d said yup, and he sat up straight.
Jack got up and started to make an espresso at the messy little table that was his kitchen. Mr Fine went over to watch him. He hitchhiked with his stubby tail and said yup every now and then. When the espresso was done, Jack took a sip. Mr Fine gave a loud bark and shook drool around. Jack poured the rest of the espresso into a saucer which Mr Fine attacked and slobbered over until there was nothing left.
“See?” Jack said.
“And how did you find this out?” I asked.
“Well,” Jack said, “he went berserk when I made one. I didn’t teach him that, if that’s what you’re thinking.”
“So you just gave him some espresso?”
“To shut him up?”
“Well—yes.”
We looked at Mr Fine who had taken up his position on the carpet again.
“What stops you from giving him beer?” I asked.
Jack grinned.
“He prefers stout.”
“I thought so,” I said. “What else?”
“He can spell cheese.”
“Mr Fine,” Jack said, “would you like some C-H-E-E-S-E?”
Mr Fine barked and wheezed and waddled to the fridge. When Jack opened the fridge, Mr Fine tried to climb inside but his size and age prevented that.
“He’ll only stop when I give him a slice,” Jack said and tickled Mr Fine between his ears.
“How did you find this out?”
“Well,” Jack admitted, “I kind of taught him.”
Mr Fine took up his position on the carpet again and regarded us.
“He watches me when I sleep,” Jack said after a few moments.
Mr Fine shifted his feet.
“Yup,” he said.
“I wake up for no reason and there he is, staring at me. It’s freaking me out.”
Mr Fine looked out the window as though he knew what we were saying.
“He hates cell phones,” Jack added. “I don’t know why.”
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.
“You should see him. Talk on the phone—even look at one—and he nearly shits himself.”
“Yup,” Mr Fine said.
“Which brings me to another problem,” Jack said. “He doesn’t shit.”
Technically, of course, this wasn’t true. Mr Fine caused four-pound turds but the real problem was that we could never prove it. In the nearly two years Mr Fine stayed with Jack before he died, we never saw him take a crap. Jack took Mr Fine for long walks to regulate his bowels, but it didn’t work. Jack pleaded and tried to explain the benefits of being on the clock while Mr Fine sat by the side of the road and stared into the distance. Then, when they got home, Mr Fine shat a foot-long turd in some corner of the house.
“Guess where he’s crapped,” Jack said one day when I went to visit him.
“On my chair.”
Jack coughed and sneezed while I tried not to laugh.
“I’m sick,” he said.
“How’d he get up on the chair?” I asked.
Jack ignored this.
“I’m keeping a record now,” he said and blew his nose. “So far he’s crapped on the floor in every single room of the house, including the pantry and the wine cellar. He’s crapped in a pot plant and in the shower. He’s crapped on Frank Zappa’s face—I left a CD on the carpet. He’s crapped behind the toilet, under my bed and on top of my bed. And now he’s crapped on my chair.”
“He’s moving up in the world,” I said.
In the living room Mr Fine sat in his usual position.
“Coffee?” Jack asked and started toward the kitchen table.
“Yup,” Mr Fine said and joined him.
“He’s crapped again,” Jack said, “but I can’t smell a thing, so I can’t find it.”
“Are you sure he’s crapped?” I asked.
“Yup,” Mr Fine said as he bit the air.
He wanted an espresso but his timing was perfect.
“It could be anywhere,” Jack said. “Be careful.”
We recently talked about Mr Fine again. Jack had only one picture of him and he’d put it up as his desktop background. In the picture, Mr Fine sat on the carpet in his favourite position and regarded the camera with some suspicion.
“He was deeply weird,” Jack said.
He opened another picture.
“His finest turd,” he said.
On the screen was the turd we’d found that day. Jack had been struggling to write an article about the local craft beer industry but the effort had become too documentary, too factual. He had left his notes and a hand-written draft on the floor beside his bed. Across this Mr Fine had draped an editorial turd.
“He was right,” Jack said. “It was a piece of shit.”
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Foundation Seeks Support For Katsina Displaced
The Dan Alhaji Foundation has called on the Local and international community as well as other Non Goverment Organizations (NGOs) to come to the help of the displaced persons in Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State.
According to the foundation, the insecurity ravaging Batsari LGA has made it inposible for people to go to farm.
Addressing journalists at the Unity Fountain in Abuja during a protest, Legal Adviser of the Lawal Dan Alhaji Foundation, Emeka Nwachukwu, said the peaceful protest was to call on the Federal goverment as well as other Nigerians, NGOs and the international communities to come for the aid of Batsari people.
The foundation said the immidiate need of the people is health care services and foood.
While calling on the government to still do more to protects the lives and property of its citizens, the foundation said the residents have deserted their homes adding that women and children are molested by the bandits.
“We urged both local and the international organisation to assist the victims of rape and insurgency in Batsari local government. The people need food, drugs and other relevant materials.
“Those bandits, when they killed, the members of the families including women and children are left to suffer, ” he said.
Also speaking, Aminu Alqasim, who shared his recent experience in Batsari LGA, said many people have runaway from their farms.
“People living in that community are not business oriented, they are farmers. Now they can’t access their farms as a result of the bandits attacks. People in Batsari are afraid to talk about what is going on their. If they do, they are visited with more terror by the bandits, ” Aminu said.
Mandate Forum Commends Obaseki, Deputy’s Move To PDP
Atiku Welcomes Obaseki To PDP
Presidency Rejects UK Report On Religious Freedom In Nigeria
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Chat: R.J. Anderson
Welcome to Baseball Prospectus' Wednesday October 23, 2013 1:00 PM ET chat session with R.J. Anderson.
Talk World Series and upcoming offseason moves with BP's Transaction Analysis specialist.
R.J. Anderson: Happy World Series Day, folks. Let's get cracking.
Alex (Anaheim): What's the best reason you can think of that the Cardinals will win it all?
R.J. Anderson: The Cardinals are a good team, and we all know good teams can beat other good teams four times in seven tries. If you want an actual reason, then I'd point to St. Louis having (likely) two of the three best starters in the series. Given how teams can leverage their top starter, that's a notable advantage-albeit not an insurmountable one.
Jose Abreu (Cuba): The White Sox? Really?
R.J. Anderson: It was a little surprising at first, seeing as how nobody expects the White Sox to contend next season and maybe not the season after next (at least not at this point), but it makes some sense. Chicago has the payroll flexibility to take a chance, and their offense could use the help.
I don't know if Abreu is going to develop into a difference-maker type-too many smart people have tagged him as a potential Quad-A type for anyone's comfort-but the White Sox weren't the only team offering around that dollar threshold for the same opportunity.
Cal Guy (Cal): Hi R.J., Who would you rather have long term, Wacha or Gausman, both said to be mainly FB CH pitchers without great 3rd pitches. Gausman had been more highly rated before the season.
R.J. Anderson: This is a tougher question than it would've been six months ago. Gausman did enter the season with more prospect cachet than Wacha-in fact, he was ranked 40 spots higher on the preseason top-101 list-but the latter's in-season performance certainly carries weight. I'd like to say Gausman, but the fact that Wacha's been there and done that makes it tough to do so. Man, I don't think you can go wrong either way.
Spam Fuld (St. Pete): Why did the Giants give Lincecum a No Trade Clause?
R.J. Anderson: I assume to get the deal done or to save some money. I don't know if it matters much either way, honestly. Technically it does limit flexibility, but I question if the Giants would trade Lincecum under any circumstances; they didn't do it this year, after all. If he stinks they can try him in the bullpen (or release him sometime in year two), and if he's great then they'll work on an extension.
Chopper (Indy): R.J.- Do you think Bogaerts is the everyday SS in Beantown next season? What are realistic expectations of Jorge Alfaro, assuming he reaches MLB?
R.J. Anderson: I think Bogaerts is an everyday player in Boston next season, but the position is to be determined. I could see Boston keeping Drew and throwing Bogaerts at third base just as easily as I could see them inserting him as the new shortstop. He's been very impressive this postseason at any rate.
I've never seen Alfaro, so I don't feel too comfortable dishing on him. Instead I'll defer to Jason Parks who threw an All-Star ceiling on him not long ago.
bradleyankrom (NYNY): If you and Rich Garces were trapped in a bottle, how would you escape?
R.J. Anderson: Depends on the size and type of the bottle.
Tee (Phoenix ): A bit off topic R.J. but I'm a senior in college looking for a thesis topic. Is there anything you can think of that you would like to know more about that involves baseball and statistical analysis? Thanks!
R.J. Anderson: There are a lot of things. I don't know the parameters here, but something I've been interested in is if certain teams beat the arbitration projections more often than others. I don't know if that helps you any though.
Cal Guy (Cal): Hi R.J., Assuming Tanaka comes to MLB in 2014, where would he rank on a list of starting pitching prospects?
R.J. Anderson: I haven't seen Masahiro Tanaka for myself but, based on what I've read and heard, he'd likely rank pretty close to the top. Should everything translate, he seems like a potential no. 2 starter.
Ashitaka1110 (Houston, TX): Aside from Giancarlo Stanton, what are some OF you think might be available for trade that are both above-average regulars and relatively young/cost controlled?
R.J. Anderson: Cost controlled and above-average who might be available via trade. Hm. Generally speaking, there aren't too many of those types out there at any position. Maybe Gerardo Parra? Granted, I'm not sure if Arizona would/intends to move him, but he fits the bill otherwise.
Steve Kinsella (Tampa): Between Tampa and Cleveland which team needs Justin Morneau more and which team do you see him ending up with? In your opinion what type of contract is he looking for & what will he get.
R.J. Anderson: I would expect a one-year deal worth a few million. Morneau is not a player I feel as though I have a good grasp on, and I'm struggling to place him as a potential top-50 free agent. Maybe Tampa Bay re-signs James Loney and Cleveland wins by default. Although would the Indians be better off with Swisher in the outfield and Morneau at first base, or with Swisher at first base and someone else in the outfield?
Paul (DC): How many years does Kris Bryant man Third for the Cubs before he gets shifted over to First? And how much of this answer depends on where other top Cubs prospects shake out to their natural positions across the defensive spectrum?
R.J. Anderson: A fair amount, which is why it's tough to answer these kinds of questions. It wouldn't surprise me to see Bryant spend a few years at third base, nor would it surprise me to see him transition to another position if needed. I will say I was impressed with what I heard from Bryant in a few interviews. He's obviously talented, but how he presents himself gives him face of the franchise potential.
MetsFaithful5 (Syracuse): Does Noah Syndergaard have ace potential? I remember you guys ranking him a high-6 on last years mets top ten Propsects.. I mean he dominated double A (take away that last start and his numbers were crazy). Or is his ceiling still a number 2? Also, from what we saw offensively from d'Arnaud, is it anything to worry about?
R.J. Anderson: Zach Mortimer threw an ace projection on Syndergaard. Obviously that's aggressive, but that's how Mortimer views his talent. My guess is he's more likely to turn into a no. 2 starter, though that's true of every elite pitching prospect.
Regarding d'Arnaud, I wouldn't be too worried yet. We're talking about a rookie catcher learning a new league and a new staff while having a rough month at the plate. Without taking a closer look, I'd say the most important thing for him is staying healthy. If he does that I think he'll be okay.
Paul (DC): I play in a 20 Team Strat-o-matic League and we are allowed 3 'uncarded' slots on our 40 man rosters for players with no MLB experience the previous season. Last Strat season I had Toronto pitcher Drew Hutchison on my roster. He didn't make it back to Toronto in the 2013 MLB season after 2012 TJ surgery. Is he worth one of my 3 'uncarded' roster spots?
R.J. Anderson: Without knowing the alternatives it's hard to say, but if Hutchinson gets healthy he has the chance to be a middle-of-the-rotation starter.
Matt (Chicago): There seems to be a disconnect between local writers & national writers , with regard to Theo/Jed's level of aggressiveness in upcoming FA mkt. Locally , the expectations are very modest- save a run at Tanaka. Nationally , people see them in on Choo, Ellsbury, etc. What gives?
R.J. Anderson: That's an interesting observation. My guess would be the national guys talk with league-wide execs more often, and that can paint a different picture from what the team tells the local types.
jlarsen (chicagoland): Arb. projections of Price have him making 13.1 MIL in '14. Does this help the Rays case in possibly keeping him long-term or does this price(no pun intended) make Price more enticing of a trade piece?
R.J. Anderson: I don't think the Rays can justify signing Price to a long-term contract regardless of whether he was projected to make $13 million next season or $16 million. Both are below his market value. His agent knows it, too, so it's not as though you can convince him to take $13 million for the next five seasons.
One Flap Down (Leonardsville): What do you think is most likely move the Rays make with respect to David Price? And what do you see as a fair (and realistic) return for him in trade?
R.J. Anderson: Lots of Price questions today.
I would guess a trade is the most likely move, with the return following the template used in the Matt Garza and James Shields trades. Obviously Price costs more money than either of those guys did, but he's also the best pitcher of the three.
Matt (MA): Salty, Drew, and Napoli. Who would you give a qualifying offer to and who do you think will get one?
R.J. Anderson: If I'm Boston I probably give one to each. Why not? I'd be fine having them on a one-year deal. It wouldn't surprise me if Boston does the same thing.
JusitnG (Pittsburgh): Think Price and/or Stanton get moved this offseason? Potential spots? Not too many teams have both the need and prospect currency, IMO.
R.J. Anderson: I'd be surprised if Stanton gets moved. He's still affordable and the Marlins can justify keeping him and trying to extend him. At worst, they see how their young guys look in 2014 then evaluate whether they can make a push in 2015; if not, then they can trade Stanton and aim for 2016 or 2017 instead.
Price I expect to see moved. Obviously the Dodgers, Rangers, Cubs, Pirates, Diamondbacks, and so on are going to be mentioned. Some of those teams could get it done if they wanted to, but you're right-plus, the Rays aren't going to trade Price just for the sake of trading him.
MrNegative1 (Tampa): How big of a disadvantage will the Red Sox be when playing in St.Louis. At least having Napoli or Ortiz on the bench helps in late innings (right?)
R.J. Anderson: They are disadvantaged, no doubt. Although, as you mentioned, they'll have a good pinch-hitter available off the bench either way. The weird thing is the Cardinals will be hurt by not having a DH, too, since they'll need to sit Matt Adams or Allen Craig.
Josh (Wyoming): If you're running the Dodgers, do you keep Mark Ellis around next season now they you've signed Alexander Guerrero?
R.J. Anderson: Probably. But, if I'm the Dodgers, I probably have a higher opinion of Guerrero.
cracker73 (Florida): Can you tell me anything about Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez? Is his ceiling a number 3 in the rotation?
R.J. Anderson: Haven't seen him but that seems to be about right.
JusitnG (Pittsburgh): Since ERA - FIP discrepancies no longer appear to be a bargain hunting tool (according to the Lincecum deal), do you have any ideas of what else could be used for FA bargains that a non-GM and non-scout and non-stats guru wouldn't know about yet?
R.J. Anderson: This is a lame answer but I don't think there's a single number or characteristic that you can look at and say for certain whether a guy is going to pitch well next season.
I will say I don't buy into the idea that the Lincecum deal is based on FIP. That's not because I think the Giants are too stupid to use FIP or anything of the sort-they're not, and they appear to be ahead of the curve in some other analytical areas-but rather because I think they're too smart to overlook that FIP ignores holding baserunners, which is a skill that Lincecum does not possess. Jose Contreras had the same issue when it came to keeping runners at first and, when you look at his years as a starter, his ERA was almost always worse than his FIP as a result. That's going to be the case with Lincecum, too, unless he improves in that facet or keeps everyone off base.
nictaclacta (Glendale): With Xander Bogaerts showing maturity in playoffs and Kris Bryant tearing up Arizona Fall League, who do you think has the better MLB career? Thanks
R.J. Anderson: I'd lean Bogaerts.
Derek (Orlando): Top draft prospects from 2014 draft ? Thoughts on Gordon ?
R.J. Anderson: I don't follow the amateur circuit too closely at this point in the year. We've had some 2014 draft pieces already though, and there's more on the way.
Matt (Chicago): Outside of David Price, which cost-controlled arms do you see being potentially available this offseason?
R.J. Anderson: Off the top of my head, I wouldn't be surprised if the Cardinals moved one of their arms in a trade to shore up the shortstop position.
Jason (Philly): Fantasy Keeper League, you can only keep 3 of the following players. Who do you keep? Bryce Harper, Yasiel Puig, Hanley Ramirez, Edwin Encarnacion, Jose Fernandez, Felix Hernandez and Adam Wainwright
R.J. Anderson: I'd lean Hanley, Harper, and Felix. Although you can probably make a case for Fernandez.
justarobert (Santa Clara): What are your expectations for Jeff Samardzija in 2014? He got off to a fairly impressive start this year, but still hasn't seemed to put it all together.
R.J. Anderson: Something like a middle of the rotation starter. Come to think of it, perhaps he'll be on the move this winter.
L'Chaim Bloom (HoustonHangout): Is it too late for the Red Sox to sign a velocity masher like Donnie Murphy?
R.J. Anderson: This seems like a good place to call it a day.
R.J. Anderson: Thanks for the questions. We'll do it again soon. Enjoy the World Series.
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Interposition arthroplasty with an achilles tendon allograft as a salvage procedure for the elbow
A. Noelle Larson, Bernard F. Morrey
Background: Interposition arthroplasty is often considered to be a salvage option for the treatment of severe elbow arthritis when conservative treatment has failed and total joint replacement is contraindicated. The present retrospective study summarizes the results of a specific interposition arthroplasty technique for the treatment of inflammatory and posttraumatic arthritis of the elbow. Methods: Between 1996 and 2003, sixty-nine elbows were treated with interposition arthroplasty with an Achilles tendon allograft. Forty-five elbows, including eleven with inflammatory arthritis and thirty-four with posttraumatic arthritis,met our inclusion criteria. The mean patient age was thirty-nine years. The mean duration of clinical follow-up was 6.0 years. Seven patients subsequently underwent revision surgery and were excluded from the analysis. For the thirty-eight remaining patients with surviving allografts, the current Mayo Elbow Performance Score and Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand score were obtained and the most recent clinical outcomes and radiographs were reviewed. Results: In the group of thirty-eight patients with surviving allografts, the mean flexion-extension arc improved from 51° preoperatively to 97° postoperatively (p < 0.001). The mean Mayo Elbow Performance Score improved from 41 points preoperatively to 65 points postoperatively (p < 0.0001). Thirteen patients had a good or excellent result, fourteen had a fair result, and eleven had a poor result; the remaining seven had a revision. On the basis of the Mayo Elbow Performance Score, twelve patients rated the elbow as somewhat better and nineteen rated the elbow as much better following the interposition procedure. Despite efforts to reconstruct the collateral ligaments, preoperative instability on physical examination (found in eleven patients) was associated with low Mayo Elbow Performance Scores (p = 0.03) and high Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand scores (p = 0.006). Four of five patients undergoing reconstruction of both collateral ligaments had a net decrease in the Mayo Elbow Performance Score. Conclusions: We consider interposition elbow arthroplasty to be a salvage procedure as it neither completely eliminates pain nor restores full function. It may be indicated for young active patients with severe inflammatory or posttraumatic arthritis, especially those with limited elbow motion. Furthermore, we do not recommend this procedure when patients present with preoperative instability on physical examination. Level of Evidence: Therapeutic Level IV. See Instructions to Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series A
https://doi.org/10.2106/JBJS.G.00768
10.2106/JBJS.G.00768
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Achilles Tendon Medicine & Life Sciences
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Larson, A. N., & Morrey, B. F. (2008). Interposition arthroplasty with an achilles tendon allograft as a salvage procedure for the elbow. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series A, 90(12), 2714-2723. https://doi.org/10.2106/JBJS.G.00768
Interposition arthroplasty with an achilles tendon allograft as a salvage procedure for the elbow. / Larson, A. Noelle; Morrey, Bernard F.
In: Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series A, Vol. 90, No. 12, 01.12.2008, p. 2714-2723.
Larson, AN & Morrey, BF 2008, 'Interposition arthroplasty with an achilles tendon allograft as a salvage procedure for the elbow', Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series A, vol. 90, no. 12, pp. 2714-2723. https://doi.org/10.2106/JBJS.G.00768
Larson AN, Morrey BF. Interposition arthroplasty with an achilles tendon allograft as a salvage procedure for the elbow. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series A. 2008 Dec 1;90(12):2714-2723. https://doi.org/10.2106/JBJS.G.00768
Larson, A. Noelle ; Morrey, Bernard F. / Interposition arthroplasty with an achilles tendon allograft as a salvage procedure for the elbow. In: Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series A. 2008 ; Vol. 90, No. 12. pp. 2714-2723.
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GATA4 Is a Direct Transcriptional Activator of Cyclin D2 and Cdk4 and Is Required for Cardiomyocyte Proliferation in Anterior Heart Field-Derived Myocardium
Anabel Rojas, Sek Won Kong, Pooja Agarwal, Brian Gilliss, William T. Pu, Brian L. Black
Anabel Rojas
1Cardiovascular Research Institute
Sek Won Kong
2Department of Cardiology, Children's Hospital, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Pooja Agarwal
Brian Gilliss
William T. Pu
Brian L. Black
3Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-2240
For correspondence: brian.black@ucsf.edu
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Inactivation of Gata4 in the AHF results in lethality due to right ventricular hypoplasia and VSDs. (A and B) Whole-mount in situ hybridization showing expression of Gata4 mRNA in control (A) and Gata4 AHF knockout (B) hearts at E10.5. The excision of the Gata4 floxed allele by Mef2c-AHF-Cre results in loss of Gata4 mRNA in the right ventricle (RV) and outflow tract (OFT) in Gata4 AHF knockout embryos. LV, left ventricle. (C and D) Gata4 AHF knockout embryos (D) display obvious vascular hemorrhage (arrowheads) compared to littermate controls (C) at E13.5. (E to H) Hematoxylin- and eosin-stained transverse sections of littermate control (E) and Gata4 AHF knockout (F) embryos show that the formation of the ventricular septum (arrowheads) is aberrant at E13.5 in Gata4 AHF knockout embryos compared to controls. LA, left atrium; RA, right atrium. (G and H) The compact wall myocardium of the right ventricle (asterisks) is thinner at E13.5 in Gata4 AHF knockout embryos (H) than in littermate control embryos (G). Bars, 100 μm. Genotypes for control (Gata4flox/flox) and Gata4 AHF knockout (CreTg/0; Gata4flox/flox) embryos are indicated. n was 4 for each genotype.
Gata4 AHF knockout embryos have profound myocardial proliferation defects. (A to H) Immunohistochemical analyses of proliferation markers on transverse sections show that Gata4 AHF knockout embryos (B, D, F, and H) have reduced proliferation compared to control embryos (A, C, E, and G) at E10.5. (A and B) Gata4 AHF knockout embryos display decreased staining of the nuclear antigen Ki67 (brown) in the right ventricular myocardium and interventricular septum compared to control embryos (asterisks). (C and D) Closer view of the right ventricle (RV) shows that Ki67 staining in Gata4 AHF knockout hearts is reduced in the myocardium (myo) but not in other regions where Gata4 was not inactivated, such as the epicardium (epi). (E and F) BrdU incorporation is diminished in the myocardium of the right ventricle of Gata4 AHF knockout embryos compared to control embryos (asterisks). (G and H) Expression of the mitotic marker phospho-histone H3 (pHH3) is reduced in the right ventricle in Gata4 AHF knockout embryos compared to control littermates (arrowheads). No differences in the staining of any of these proliferation markers between Gata4 AHF knockout and control embryos was observed in the left ventricle (LV). (I and J) TUNEL staining on transverse sections of embryonic hearts shows no difference in apoptosis between Gata4 AHF knockout and control embryos at E10.5. Genotypes for control (Gata4flox/flox) and Gata4 AHF knockout (Gata4flox/flox; Mef2c-AHF-CreTg/0) embryos are indicated. (K and L) Quantification of BrdU (K)- and pHH3 (L)-labeled cells shows a significant decrease in proliferation in the right ventricle of conditional knockout (CKO) embryos compared to littermate controls. The total number of DAPI-labeled cells and the number of BrdU- or pHH3-labeled cells were determined by counting cells in a series of sections from three CKO and three control hearts. Data are presented as the mean percentages of cells labeled with BrdU or pHH3 plus standard errors of the means from three hearts of each genotype. P values were calculated using a two-tailed, unpaired t test.
GATA4 regulates multiple cell cycle control genes. Affymetrix gene expression data were analyzed by gene set enrichment (72). Several sets of genes with known roles in cell cycle regulation showed statistically significant, concordant differences between control (Gata4flox/+) and Gata4 CKONkx (Gata4flox/flox; Nkx2-5Cre/+) hearts. The heat map of genes comprising the cell cycle gene set with the most significant statistical score (Brentani cell cycle gene set) is shown (10). Color indicates degree of upregulation (red) or downregulation (blue) relative to the mean expression across all samples (see the color scale at the bottom). Numerous cell cycle control genes were significantly downregulated in Gata4 CKONkx hearts compared to controls, including Cyclin D2 (CCND2), Cyclin A2 (CCNA2), and Cdk4, which are denoted by arrows.
Gata4 inactivation leads to decreased expression of cell cycle proteins. Immunohistochemical staining of transverse sections with anti-cyclin D2 (A and B), anti-Cdk4 (C and D), and anti-cyclin A2 (E and F) antibodies shows that the expression of all three cell cycle proteins is dramatically reduced in the right ventricular myocardium in Gata4 AHF knockout embryos (B, D, and F) compared to that in littermate control embryos (A, C, and E) at E10.5 (asterisks). In panels A to D, staining for cyclin D2 and Cdk4 is red and nuclei have been counterstained with DAPI (blue). In panels E and F, cyclin A2 is stained in brown. No differences in cyclin D2, Cdk4, or cyclin A2 protein expression between knockout and control embryos were observed in regions outside the Mef2c-AHF-Cre domain, such as the left ventricle (LV). Genotypes for control (Gata4flox/flox) and Gata4 AHF knockout (CreTg/0;Gata4flox/flox) embryos are indicated. RV, right ventricle.
GATA4 binds directly to the Cyclin D2 and Cdk4 promoters in vivo and in vitro. (A and B) Schematic representations of the mouse Cyclin D2 and Cdk4 promoters. The Cyclin D2 construct encompasses nucleotides −671 to +260 relative to the transcriptional start site (bent arrow). The Cdk4 construct encompasses nucleotides −771 to +56 relative to the transcriptional start site (bent arrow). Boxes denote consensus GATA binding sites in the Cyclin D2 (Gata I [GI], Gata II, and Gata III) and Cdk4 (Gata I/II and Gata III) promoters. Arrowheads indicate the locations of primers used to amplify regions of the Cyclin D2 and Cdk4 promoters, containing consensus GATA sites, in ChIP assays. (C and D) Recombinant GATA4 proteins were transcribed and translated in vitro and used in EMSA with radiolabeled double-stranded oligonucleotides encompassing the CyclinD2 Gata I (C, lanes 1 to 4), Gata II (C, lanes 5 to 8), and Gata III (C, lanes 9 to 12) sites and the Cdk4 Gata I/II (D, lanes 1 to 4) and Gata III (D, lanes 5 to 8) sites. Lanes 1, 5, and 9 (C) and lanes 1 and 5 (D) contain reticulocyte lysate without recombinant GATA4 (−). GATA4 efficiently bound to all GATA sites in the Cyclin D2 and Cdk4 promoters in vitro. mI, mutant version of the Gata I site. (E) GATA4 binds to the endogenous Cyclin D2 and Cdk4 promoters in vivo. Differentiated P19CL6 cardiomyocytes were subjected to ChIP to detect endogenous GATA4 bound to the Cyclin D2 and Cdk4 promoters using anti-GATA4 antibody. Following ChIP, the Cyclin D2 promoter was detected using primers P1 and P2 (lanes 1 to 3) and the Cdk4 promoter was detected using primers P1 and P2 (lanes 4 to 6) and primers P3 and P4 (lanes 7 to 9). In addition, primers were used to detect the second exon of Cyclin D2 as a nonspecific control (lanes 10 to 12). PCR products were analyzed by agarose gel electrophoresis. Lanes 3, 6, 9, and 12 contain PCR products obtained following ChIP using anti-GATA4 antibody (α-G4). Lanes 1, 4, 7, and 10 contain PCR products obtained following ChIP using a nonspecific anti-IgG (α-IgG). Lanes 2, 5, 8, and 11 contain PCR products from input DNA (Inp) amplified prior to immunoprecipitation. ChIP products were detected only from promoter regions in samples where anti-GATA4 antibody was used. Sizes in bp are shown at the left.
The GATA sites in the Cyclin D2 and Cdk4 promoters are required for activation. (A and B) The Cyclin D2 (A) and Cdk4 (B) promoters were significantly activated by endogenous GATA factors in differentiated P19CL6 cardiomyocytes (lane 2) compared to the activity of the parent reporter construct, pAUG-β-gal (lane 1), and mutation of the GATA sites in each promoter significantly attenuated activity (lane 3). RLU, relative light units. (C) The Cyclin D2 promoter was significantly activated in C3H10T1/2 fibroblasts (lane 2) compared to the activity of the parent reporter (lane 1), and mutation of the GATA sites significantly attenuated promoter activation (lane 3). (D) GATA4-EnR inhibits activation of the Cyclin D2 promoter in C3H10T1/2 cells. Cotransfection of GATA4-EnR expression plasmid resulted in potent repression of the Cyclin D2 reporter construct (compare lanes 3 and 4). (E) Cotransfection of a GATA4-VP16 expression plasmid with the Cyclin D2-lacZ reporter plasmid resulted in potent transactivation of the Cyclin D2 promoter in C3H10T1/2 cells (lane 6). Mutation of the GATA sites (mGATA) in the Cyclin D2 promoter disrupted transactivation by GATA4-VP16 (lane 4). In all cases, the total amount of transfected plasmid DNA was held constant by addition of the appropriate amount of the parent expression plasmid. Error bars represent the standard errors of the means for at least three independent triplicate sets of transfections and analyses for each panel. P values were calculated by two-tailed, unpaired t test.
Loss of Gata4 function in the AHF results in embryonic lethality by E13.5a
Mouse genotype
No. of offspring at:
E10.5 (0.83, 0.841)
E13.5 (11.10, 0.011)
P0 (44.47, <0.0001)
Gata4 flox/+ 28 13 33 17 44
Gata4 flox/flox 28 12 24 16 35
CreTg/0; Gata4flox/+ 34 11 22 21 47
CreTg/0; Gata4flox/flox 29 12 19 4* 0**
↵ a Gata4 flox/+; Mef2c-AHF-CreTg/0 mice were crossed to Gata4flox/flox mice, and the offspring were collected at the indicated developmental stages. Offspring of each genotype from E10.5 to E12.5 were present at normal Mendelian frequencies. By E13.5, most of the conditional knockout embryos (*) lacked a heartbeat. No Gata4 AHF knockouts were present at birth (P0; **). The χ2 and P values are in parentheses (χ2, P) after the developmental stage.
Molecular and Cellular Biology Aug 2008, 28 (17) 5420-5431; DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00717-08
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by McIlveen Family Law Firm | Mar 26, 2017 | Equitable Distribution, North Carolina Law
1. What is Equitable Distribution in NC?
Equitable Distribution in NC is the division of assets (property) and debts that were the product of a marriage.
2. My husband and I are separated. How will our property be divided?
NC is an equitable distribution state. Equitable means fair. The court will fairly divide your marital property and debt.
The property division part of a divorce is called equitable distribution. When there is an action for equitable distribution, the Court requires a list of everything you own in a special affidavit form. This will include your house, your cars, any other real estate, your couches, your chairs, your retirement accounts, your pension, your business, digital assets – even your airline miles.
The Court also wants a list of all of your debts – your mortgage, your car loans, your Discover card balance, etc. The Court is ONLY able to divide property that is “marital property.”
The Court will attempt to determine the value of your property. In cases involving the division of a business, a business valuation is usually done by a professional.
The Court will then try to divide them or in legal terms, the court will distribute the marital property in a “fair” manner. This may be called a distribution of marital property. Typically, a fair distribution means that the marital property will be distributed 50-50. So if you have a house that has $100,000 of equity in it, you both get $50,000.00. If one of you cannot afford to pay the other, the house would be sold and the equity split.
Having an attorney assist you can really be helpful in dividing property. Sometimes you think your spouse is hiding property or you cannot agree on a value. Sometimes, you have no interest in ½ the house but really want all of your retirement. In these instances, an attorney can help you create a legally binding agreement without letting the Court tell you what you have to do.
3. What is “marital property?”
Marital property is anything acquired during the marriage that IS NOT a gift given to only one party from a person outside of the marriage. For example, if your mother gives you a necklace for Christmas it is not marital property. If your spouse gives you a gift it is marital property. Typically, people understand that a house purchased or paid for during the marriage is marital property. People get confused about things that are only in the name of one spouse. For example, a car purchased during the marriage may be only in the wife’s name, but it is still marital property subject to division in an equitable distribution.
Where it gets a little confusing is with things that one person owned PRIOR to the marriage and the couple has contributed to during the marriage. For example, if the husband had $4,000.00 in his retirement account prior to marriage and now has $400,000.00 at the end of the marriage. The Court will determine what percent of the increase has resulted from the return on the $4,000.00 that was there at the beginning and what amount in the account is through marital contributions.
4. Is Equitable Distribution taxable?
Generally, no. As long as the property (real estate, cash, etc.) occurs within one year of the separation, the law assumes that the transfer happened because of the separation and divorce. If it happens after one year, the law assumes that the transfer did not result from the divorce and the transfer is taxable. However, this can be rebutted by showing that the transfer resulted from a separation or divorce. As long as it did, the transfer is NOT taxable.
5. How are retirement plans divided?
Typically, through a Qualified Domestic Relations Order, also known as a QDRO (pronounced quad-row). A regular separation agreement or divorce decree cannot divvy up a retirement account. Instead, a judge must sign a QDRO that has to conform to certain guidelines so the administrator of the retirement account will divide the account. Using a QDRO eliminates the necessity for the party paying to remove funds from the retirement account and thus passes the tax liability to the recipient.
6. I have to pay alimony and child support. Does that impact how we split up the property?
No. The laws are very clear that property has to be distributed without any consideration to alimony and child support. HOWEVER, when you are creating a separation agreement or other agreement without the Court making a determination, you can sometimes leverage property against alimony or child support.
7. My spouse died after a claim for equitable distribution was filed; now what?
The equitable distribution claim continues on. Prior to 2003, death terminated an equitable distribution claim (unless the divorce was already final and the ED claim was just taking longer). Additionally, if a claim for Equitable Distribution had not been filed before a person died, it could not be filed ever. However, in 2003, the legislature changed the law to say that an estate could file a claim for Equitable Distribution if it was done within a year after death.
8. We divided our property but now we’re back together. Who gets what?
If the property division was an add-on to a separation agreement, meaning that the separation was the primary purpose and the property distribution was secondary, reconciliation may release performance of the agreement. However, if the property division was a contract where the intention is to complete a property settlement, regardless of whether they were to reconcile, reconciliation may void the agreement only to the extent that enforcement of the contract depended on the parties living separate and apart.
9. What happens to the property before an order is entered?
Because litigating takes time, and litigating over equitable distribution is no different, it may take many months (or longer) for the Court to determine who owns what. During this time, whoever has possession of the property can use it. If there is a risk that the property will be damaged (or, money will be spent), the Court can issue an Order prohibiting the use of the property.
10. How do you know what I owe?
You (and your ex-spouse) complete equitable distribution affidavits listing, under oath, what you own, what you owe, and the value of each item. Different courts require slightly different information and formats, but the basic goal is the same. If you do not plan to litigate, it may not be necessary to complete the equitable distribution affidavit. Generally, however, it is a good idea to make an inventory of your property to help ensure everything is considered.
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Having Highly Educated, Wealthy Neighbors Reduces Expectant Mother’s Chance of Having Preterm or Low Weight Baby
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Jennifer Buher Kane PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology University of California, Irvine 92697-510 MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Response: It’s not uncommon for new parents to relocate in search of neighborhoods with better schools, safer streets and healthier, more kid-friendly activities. But our new study found that living in such neighborhoods before a baby is born protects against the risks of poor birth outcomes. Published online this month in SSM – Population Health, the research shows that having highly educated, wealthy neighbors reduces an expectant mother’s risk of delivering a low-weight or preterm baby – health markers that can be associated with neurodevelopmental problems, language disorders, learning disabilities and poor health later in life. Our study is the first to look at how both the level of affluence and disadvantage — two sociologically distinct attributes of neighborhoods — affect newborn health; past studies have only explored the impact of neighborhood disadvantage. Neighborhood disadvantage signals factors such as poverty, unemployment, or underemployment. On the other hand, neighborhood affluence is thought to signal the presence of locally-based community organizations that can meet the needs of all residents – health-related and otherwise – regardless of one’s own socioeconomic resources. (more…)
Author Interviews, Diabetes, Heart Disease, JAMA, OBGYNE / 17.10.2017
Gestational Diabetes Associated With Greater Risk Of Heart Attack and Stroke
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Cuilin Zhang MD, PhD Senior Investigator Epidemiology Branch Division of Intramural Population Health Research NICHD/National Institutes of Health. Bethesda, MD 20817 MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Response: Gestational diabetes (GDM) is a common pregnancy complication. The American Heart Association identifies gestational diabetes as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in women, based on consistent evidence for the relationships between gestational diabetes and subsequent hypertension, dyslipidemia, type 2 diabetes, vascular dysfunction and atherosclerosis. Also, previous studies identify GDM as a risk factor for intermediate markers of CVD risk; however, few are prospective, evaluate hard cardiovascular disease end points, or account for shared risk factors including body weight and lifestyle. (more…)
Author Interviews, Lancet, OBGYNE / 06.10.2017
Many US Women Face Distance Barriers To Abortion Access
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Jonathan Marc Bearak, PhD Senior Research Scientist Guttmacher Institute New York MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Response: Although U.S. women who live farther from abortion clinics are less likely to obtain one, no national study has examined inequality in women’s access to abortion and whether inequality in abortion access has increased as the number of abortion clinics have declined. We found that half of women live within 11 miles of an abortion provider. However, 1 in 5 women would need to travel at least 43 miles. We found substantially greater variation within than across states, because even in relatively rural states, women and clinics were concentrated in urban areas. These disparities have persisted since at least 2000. (more…)
Author Interviews, Brigham & Women's - Harvard, Cost of Health Care, JAMA, OBGYNE / 03.10.2017
Does Brand Name 17P Work Better Than Generic In Reducing Preterm Births?
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Andrew L. Beam, PhD Instructor in Biomedical Informatics Department of Biomedical Informatics Harvard Medical School MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Response: This study is one piece of a larger story regarding the use of 17-alpha-hydroxyprogesterone caproate (17P) to treat recurrent preterm birth. This drug was originally only available in a compounded form, but since receiving an orphan drug designation in 2011, a branded and manufactured form was marketed under the name "Makena". This branded form was then sold for a much higher price than the compounded version, but a study that provided concrete data on pricing and outcomes had not been done. (more…)
Author Interviews, Infections, OBGYNE, Pediatrics, Vaccine Studies / 03.10.2017
TDAP Vaccine During Pregnancy Prevents Whooping Cough In Young Babies
Tami H Skoff Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta, Georgia MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Response: Infants are at greatest risk for severe pertussis (whooping cough) morbidity and mortality, especially during the first months of life before infant immunizations begin. CDC and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) currently recommend that women receive a dose of Tdap during the third trimester of each pregnancy. This recommendation has been in place since 2012. By getting Tdap, pregnant women pass critical short-term protection to their unborn babies. This helps protect babies until they are old enough to start getting their own whooping cough vaccines at 2 months of age. The purpose of our study was to evaluate the effectiveness of maternal Tdap during pregnancy at preventing whooping cough in infants <2 months of age. In our evaluation, Tdap administration during the third trimester of pregnancy prevented more than 3 in 4 (78%) infant cases. Additionally, Tdap vaccination during pregnancy was even more effective (90%) at preventing whooping cough serious enough that the baby had to get treatment in a hospital. (more…)
Author Interviews, Blood Pressure - Hypertension, JCEM, OBGYNE, Pediatrics, Weight Research / 28.09.2017
Maternal Blood Pressure Rise During Pregnancy Linked To Increased Risk Of Childhood Obesity
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Duo Li, PhD Chief professor of Nutrition Institute of Nutrition and Health Qingdao University, China. MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Response: Childhood obesity is becoming an emerging public health issue worldwide, owing to its association with a variety of health problems at younger ages in adulthood, including obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Identification of prenatal and early life risk factors is key for curbing the epidemic of the childhood obesity. Main finding of the present study is that among pregnant women, elevated blood pressure is associated with a greater risk of overweight and obesity for their children. (more…)
Author Interviews, Infections, JAMA, OBGYNE, Surgical Research, Weight Research / 20.09.2017
48-Hours of Antibiotics Reduced Infection Rate After C-Section in Obese Women
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Dr. Carri R. Warshak, MD Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology University of Cincinnati MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: Cesarean deliveries are the most common major surgical procedure performed in the United States. A common complication of cesarean section is wound infections that can include infections in the skin and incision site, or infections in the uterus itself after delivery. These complications can lead to prolonged hospitalization after delivery for antibiotics and even further surgery in severe infections. Often these wound complications lead to delayed healing, wound opening which can sometimes take several weeks to heal. Studies have demonstrated as many as 12% of women experience a surgical site infection after delivery. Obesity is a strong risk factor for increased surgical site infections. Increasing maternal weight increases the risk of wound complications, with a two to five fold increase in risk, making surgical site infections and common and concerning complication of cesarean delivery in obese women. (more…)
Author Interviews, JAMA, OBGYNE, Pediatrics, Smoking / 19.09.2017
Cheap Cigarettes in Europe Associated With Increased Infant Mortality
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Filippos Filippidis MD MPH PhD Lecturer in Public Health School of Public Health Imperial College London London MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Response: Smoking kills millions of people every year. It is well established that increasing tobacco prices is the most effective way to reduce tobacco consumption and hence mitigate the devastating effects of tobacco on health. Taxation on tobacco products is high in the European Union, which makes cigarettes less affordable. However, transnational tobacco companies are known to manipulate prices, ensuring that cheap or ‘budget’ cigarettes are still available. This is particularly important for younger smokers and those of low socioeconomic status who are more sensitive in price increases. Smoking during pregnancy, as well as exposure of pregnant women and babies to cigarette smoke increase infant mortality. There is also evidence that increasing tobacco prices is associated with lower infant mortality. However, researchers typically use average or premium cigarette prices. We analysed 54 million births from 23 European Union countries to see if the differential between average priced and budget cigarettes (i.e. the availability of cigarettes much cheaper than average priced ones) is associated with infant mortality. We found that increasing average cigarette prices by 1 Euro per pack was associated with 0.23 fewer deaths per 1,000 live births in the same year and an additional 0.16 fewer deaths per 1,000 live births in the following year. A 10% increase in the price differential between budget and average priced cigarettes was associated with 0.07 more deaths per 1,000 live births the following year. This means that 3,195 infant deaths could potentially have been avoided in these 23 countries if there was no price difference between cigarette products over the 10-year study period. (more…)
Author Interviews, BMJ, Brigham & Women's - Harvard, OBGYNE / 13.09.2017
Longer Breastfeeding Linked To Lower Risk of Endometriosis
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Leslie V. Farland, ScD Assistant Director of Epidemiologic Research Center for Infertility and Reproductive Surgery Brigham and Women's Hospital | Harvard Medical School Instructor | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: Endometriosis is chronic gynecologic condition that affects approximately ten percent of women. Women with endometriosis can experience painful menstrual periods, general chronic pelvic pain, and pain associated with intercourse. Currently we know very few modifiable risk factors for endometriosis. (more…)
Author Interviews, Autism, Environmental Risks, OBGYNE, Toxin Research, UC Davis / 12.09.2017
Folic Acid May Reduce Risk of Autism Associated With Pesticide Exposure During Pregnancy
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Rebecca J. Schmidt, M.S., Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Public Health Sciences UC Davis California MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: Maternal folic acid taken near conception has been linked to reduced risk for autism in the child in previous studies. Separate studies show that exposure to pesticides during pregnancy is associated with increased risk for autism. Animal studies demonstrate that folic acid and other B-vitamins can attenuate effects of certain environmental contaminants, including pesticides. This case-control study examined combined maternal folic acid and pesticide exposures in relation to autism in the child. (more…)
Author Interviews, BMJ, Mental Health Research, OBGYNE, Pharmacology / 10.09.2017
Study Evaluates Pediatric Outcomes of Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Xiaoqin Liu, PhD Department of Economics and Business Economics Aarhus University MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Response: Previous research on the long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes of serotonin-reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) use during pregnancy has primarily focused on offspring risk of autism spectrum disorder. Given SSRIs cross the placental barrier and affect the fetal brain, in-utero SSRI exposure may increase risks of other psychiatric disorders as well as autism spectrum disorder. We conducted a population-based study to look at a range of diagnostic groups of psychiatric disorders in children whose mothers used antidepressants during pregnancy. This was possible because of the nature of information available in Danish population registers, allowing us to follow children for many years. We found increased risks of various diagnostic groups of psychiatric disorders in children whose mothers continued antidepressant treatment during pregnancy, in comparison to children whose mothers stopped antidepressant treatment before pregnancy. (more…)
Author Interviews, Nature, OBGYNE, Pediatrics, Toxin Research / 05.09.2017
Adverse Birth Outcomes and Agricultural Pesticide Use in the San Joaquin Valley of California
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Ashley Larsen, PhD Assistant professor Bren School of Environmental Science & Management University of California, Santa Barbara MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Response: The relationship between pesticides and adverse birth outcomes has been recognized as an important question for quite some time, and there have been many good studies on the topic. Since randomly exposing people to different levels of pesticides is clearly unethical, researchers focused on the health consequences of non-occupational pesticide exposure often have to choose between detailed studies that follow a couple hundred or couple thousand individuals through pregnancy or larger scale studies that use easier to observe, but less accurate metrics of pesticide exposure (e.g. nearby crops or crop types). Here we tried to provide complementary insight by bridging the gap between detail and scale using detailed pesticide use data and individual birth certificate records for hundreds of thousands of births in an agriculturally dominated region of California. While we found negative effects of pesticide use on birth outcomes including low birth weight, preterm birth and birth abnormalities, these effects were generally in the magnitude of a 5-9% increase in probability of an adverse outcome, and only observed for individuals exposed to very high levels of pesticides. (more…)
Author Interviews, BMC, OBGYNE, Pediatrics / 05.09.2017
Maternal Cell Phone Use Did Not Adversely Affect Children’s Language or Motor Skills At Age 5
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Jan Alexander, MD,PhD Norwegian Institute of Public Health Oslo Norway MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Response: The background for this study was the widespread uncertainty and general concern among the public about increasing exposure to weak radio frequency electromagnetic fields (EMF-RF). The concern on whether using your cell phone while pregnant can harm your foetus are mainly due to the extensive use of cell phones, that emit EMF-RF. Even though the RF-EMF exposure that may reach the foetus is very low, evidence from previous epidemiological studies with mothers and children are inconsistent as to whether EMF-RF emission from cell phone might harm the developing brain of the foetus. This includes also animal experiments where the exposure may be very different from that in humans. We therefore studied the association between maternal cell phone use during pregnancy and child’s neurodevelopment at 3 and 5 years. We included around 45,000 mother and their children from all over Norway from the Norwegian Mother and Child Study (MoBa study) and used language development as the outcome because we in previous studies found this parameter to be sensitive to exposure to neurotoxicants. T here was no evidence of a harmful effect of the mother using her cell phone during pregnancy on her child’s neurodevelopment at 3 and 5 years. Surprisingly, we even found that the more the mother was using her cell phone during pregnancy the better language and motor skills her child had at 3 years of age. We observed no associations when the child was 5 years old. (more…)
OBGYNE, Pediatrics, Weight Research / 30.08.2017
Weight Gain Early In Pregnancy Linked To Higher Birthweight Babies
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Leanne M. Redman MS, PhD LPFA Endowed Fellowship Associate Professor Pennington Biomedical Research Center Baton Rouge, Louisiana MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Response: Two well-documented risk factors for aberrant weight gain and obesity is whether your mother was obese when she was pregnant and the amount of weight she gained. Up until now few studies have asked questions about whether the pattern of weight gain in pregnancy affect outcomes in offspring, such as birth weight. In a cohort of over 16,000 pregnant women and infants, we found that regardless of the obesity status (BMI) of the mother at the time of pregnancy, weight gain that occurs up until week 24, had the strongest effect on infant birth weight. Infants born to mothers who had weight gain in excess of the 2009 IOM guidelines from conception until week 24, had a 2.5 times higher likelihood of being born large for gestational age. The weight gain that occurred after 24 weeks until delivery, did not attenuate this risk. (more…)
Author Interviews, OBGYNE, PLoS, Weight Research / 23.08.2017
How Much Does Mother’s BMI Influence Children’s Metabolic Health?
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Prof. Deborah A Lawlor MSc(Lond), MBChB, PhD(Bristol), MPH(Leeds), MRCGP, MFPHM Professor of Epidemiology MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School Oakfield House, Oakfield Grove, Bristol MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Response: As the obesity epidemic has occurred there has been increasing concern about pregnant women being more adipose (having higher levels of fat) during their pregnancy. One particular concern is that women who are on average fatter will have more extreme changes in pregnancy on their lipid, fatty acid, amino acid and glucose levels. In normal ‘healthy’ pregnancy these metabolites increase during pregnancy as part of the physiological response to pregnancy which ensures that the developing fetus has sufficient fuel (nutrients – fats, proteins, sugars) for healthy growth and development. Women who are more adipose tend to have a more extreme change in these fuels and as a consequence the developing fetus is ‘overfed’. There is a linear relationship between a pregnant woman’s body mass index and her infants birth weight, such that each increment greater adiposity (body mass index) of the mother there is on average and increment greater infant birth weight. Recently, using a method that uses genetic variants (Mendelian randomization) we have shown that this association is likely to be causal (JAMA 2016). But whether there is a lasting effect on offspring health of being overfed in the uterus is unknown. There are concerns that there will be a lasting effect and that for daughters of more adipose women, this would mean that they go into their pregnancies on average fatter and with higher levels of the metabolites that could then overfeed their developing fetus. If this were the case it would mean the obesity epidemic could be accelerated across generations. There are associations of mothers body mass index with later offspring body mass index, BUT this might not be anything to do with developmental overfeeding of the feeding in the uterus – it could simply reflect shared lifestyles that offspring adopt from their mother (and father) or shared genetic effects. In this study we tried to separate out whether there was evidence for a long-term offspring effect on their lipids, fatty acids, amino acids, glucose, and an inflammatory marker, of having a mother who was on average fatter during her pregnancy that was due to overfeeding in the uterus, as opposed to shared family lifestyle and genetics. We did this by comparing associations of mothers pre-pregnancy BMI with offspring outcomes to the same associations of fathers pre-pregnancy BMI with the same outcomes. Our assumption here was that fathers BMI could not directly result in overfeeding of the fetus and so if the associations were similar this would suggest that they were largely driven by family factors. (more…)
Author Interviews, Cancer Research, OBGYNE, PLoS / 11.08.2017
Cadmium in Shellfish and Smoking Linked to Endometrial Cancer
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Jane McElroy, Ph.D. Associate professor Department of Family and Community Medicine MU School of Medicine MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Response: More than 31,000 new cases of endometrial cancer are expected to be diagnosed in 2017. Through a five-year observational study, we found that women with increased levels of cadmium had an increased risk of endometrial cancer. Cadmium is a metal commonly found in foods such as kidneys, liver and shellfish as well as tobacco It’s a finding we hope could lead to new treatments or interventions to prevent the fourth most common cancer in women. (more…)
Stress of 911 Linked To Decrease In Male Babies Born With Birth Defects
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Parvati Singh B. Tech, MBA, MPA PhD student, Department of Public Health, University of California, Irvine and Dr. Tim Bruckner, first author MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Response: This study builds upon earlier research by our group which showed that male fetal deaths rose and the number of liveborn males fell after the 9/11 attacks. Here we show that, in California, the number of live born males with birth defects fell after 9/11. This finding appears consistent with the notion that frail male gestations, such as those with defects, may have been lost in utero as a result of the stress induced by the 9/11 attacks. (more…)
Author Interviews, BMJ, Exercise - Fitness, OBGYNE, Weight Research / 20.07.2017
Dieting and Physical Activity During Pregnancy Linked To Lower C-Section Rate
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Shakila Thangaratinam Professor of Maternal and Perinatal Health Joint Director of BARC (Barts Research Centre for Women's Health) Women's Health Research Unit | Multidisciplinary Evidence Synthesis Hub (MESH) Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry R & D Director for Women's Health Queen Mary University of London MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Response: Pregnant women who are overweight or obese, or who gain excess weight gain in pregnancy are at high risk of complications. We wanted to find
If healthy diet and physical activity in pregnancy reduced weight gain, and improved outcomes for the mother and baby
If the effects of the interventions differed according to the characteristics of the mother such as body mass index, parity, ethnicity, and underlying medical condition
We established a network (International Weight Management in Pregnancy i-WIP) of researchers from 16 countries, and 41 institutions to answer the above. We found that women who followed a healthy diet and moderate physical activity gained less weight in pregnancy than other women; this beneficial effect was observed irrespective of mother's body mass index, parity, ethnicity, and underlying medical condition. Diet and physical activity in pregnancy has a beneficial effect on weight gain in pregnancy, and lowers the odds of caesarean section, and gestational diabetes. (more…)
Babies Find Nipples To Nurse Because of Higher Areolar Temperature
Francesca Volpe Psy.D and Prof. Vincenzo Zanardo Division of Perinatal Medicine, Policlinico Abano Terme Abano Terme, Italy MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Response: Newborn infants, placed skin-to-skin on their mother’s chest instinctively have the ability to crawl to their mother’s breast, exploring with their hands and massaging the breast to support the first feed. Left undisturbed, the infant will make several attempts until it finds and latches onto the nipple and begins to nurse. What leads mammalian infants who are placed on their mothers’ chests to seek out, without any assistance, the nipple and to attach themselves to it to nurse is not fully understood. When we turned our attention to the thermal properties of the female’s nipple-areolar complex (NAC) in lactating mothers soon after birth, we found that it had a higher temperature and pH value and lower elasticity with respect to the surrounding breast skin. We hypothesised that the higher temperature could help the newborn infant to locate the nipple and to latch onto it, leading to the first sucking experience. In addition, the diffusion of odorous molecules is presumably enhanced by the relatively high surface temperature of the areola in view of the rich supply of blood capillaries that irrigate the region. There is, in fact, some scientific evidence that show that infants respond to the odours released by the breasts of lactating women; breast odours, which are enhanced by the skin’s greater warmth, are another factor that facilitates breastfeeding by helping the infant to recognize its mother participating in the mother-to-infant bonding. (more…)
Author Interviews, CDC, OBGYNE, Pediatrics, Race/Ethnic Diversity / 17.07.2017
Breastfeeding Rates Increase But Racial Gaps Persist
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Dr. Erica H. Anstey PhD Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Immunization Services Division National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases CDC MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that infants are breastfed exclusively for about the first 6 months and that breastfeeding continue for at least 12 months, and thereafter for as long as mother and baby desire. Although breastfeeding initiation and duration rates have increased overall in the United States, breastfeeding rates vary by geographic location, socioeconomic, and race/ethnic groups. Breastfeeding initiation and duration have been historically and consistently lower among black infants compared with white and Hispanic infants. There are many factors that influence a woman’s decision to start and continue breastfeeding. These include knowledge about breastfeeding, cultural and social norms, family and social support, and work and childcare environments. Some barriers to breastfeeding are disproportionately experienced by black women, including earlier return to work, inadequate receipt of breastfeeding information from providers, and lack of access to professional breastfeeding support. (more…)
Author Interviews, OBGYNE, Testosterone / 23.06.2017
Prenatal Acetaminophen Linked To Decreased Masculinization and Testosterone in Male Offspring
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: David M. Kristensen, PhD Assistant Professor Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3A, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Response: We have demonstrated that a reduced level of testosterone during fetal life by paracetamol means that male characteristics do not develop as they should. This also affects sex drive. In the trial, mice exposed to paracetamol at the foetal stage were simply unable to copulate in the same way as our control animals. Male programming had not been properly established during their foetal development and this could be seen long afterwards in their adult life. Moreover, the area of the brain that controls sex drive - the sexual dimorphic nucleus - had half as many neurons in the mice that had received paracetamol as the control mice. The inhibition of testosterone seem to have led to less activity in an area of the brain that is significant for male characteristics. (more…)
Author Interviews, Nutrition, OBGYNE, Pediatrics, Weight Research / 19.06.2017
Fewer Refined Grains During Pregnancy May Reduce Obesity Risk In Kids
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Cuilin Zhang MD, PhD Senior Investigator, Epidemiology Branch Division of Intramural Population Health Research NICHD/National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20817 MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: Refined grains with a high glycemic index and reduced fiber and nutrient content have been linked to increased adiposity and higher risk of metabolic syndrome among adults. Despite these differences and the growing body of literature on the link between maternal diet/nutrition during pregnancy and subsequent offspring health consequences throughout the lifespan, little is known about the intergenerational impact of refined-grain intake during pregnancy on long-term cardio-metabolic outcomes in the offspring. (more…)
Author Interviews, Depression, OBGYNE, Pharmacology / 19.06.2017
Brexanolone Shows Promise in PostPartum Depression
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, MPH Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Faculty Development Director, Perinatal Psychiatry Program Director, Taking Care of Our Own Program Department of Psychiatry Chapel Hill, NC 2759 MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Response: The Lancet published results from a randomized, placebo-controlled, phase 2 clinical trial with the investigational medication, brexanolone, for women with severe postpartum depression (PPD). During the study, which was conducted at multiple sites across the country, physician researchers administered brexanolone in 21 women, 10 of whom were administered a 60-hour infusion of brexanolone. The other 11 women were given a placebo. Results from the trial showed that 70 percent of participants who received the drug saw remission of their PPD symptoms within 60 hours of treatment, an effect that was maintained until the 30-day follow up. (more…)
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Blocking the Buzz
New device provides better "masking" for tinnitus sufferers
December 4, 2009 | By Andrew Mitrovica
Imagine for a moment that the loud, incessant buzz of bees inhabits your head. Now, imagine being told by doctors to “get used to it” since there is little, if anything, that can be done to make it stop.
That has been the unfortunate fate of many of the 360,000 Canadians that endure tinnitus – a condition where sufferers hear sounds in one or both ears when there is no external source.
While there is still no cure, researchers and physicians have offered tinnitus sufferers hope and relief through medications and masking devices, as well as cognitive, relaxation and sound therapies.
Now, work by Dr. Jerry J. Halik, a professor in the department of otolaryngology, offers tinnitus sufferers an improved alternative. Dr. Halik, along with Lorraine Vosu, a Toronto audiologist, and Mike Petroff, a California-based inventor and tinnitus sufferer, have developed a promising new masking therapy called Dynamic Tinnitus Mitigation.
Tinnitus is linked to hearing loss, and can be triggered by exposure to loud noise, head trauma or certain medications. For many sufferers, the condition is a tolerable nuisance. For others, the constant, high-pitched hissing or buzzing, or pulsating sound of crickets, provokes debilitating depression and anxiety.
A universal treatment for tinnitus remains elusive because doctors’ understanding of what causes the condition is still evolving. Previously, researchers believed tinnitus stemmed solely from ear problems. Today, new medical scanning devices have revealed that tinnitus is likely often generated in the brain.
Dr. Halik’s masking therapy uses a device resembling an MP3 player. The mechanism delivers computer-generated sounds via headphones or two miniature speakers. Over time, it helps patients habituate to their particular tinnitus sounds.
Traditional tinnitus masking devices produce steady wind-like sounds that are often easily distinguishable from typical tinnitus, making it difficult to effectively mask the offending noise. What makes Dr. Halik’s device innovative is that it produces pleasant sounds at a low volume and over a broad spectrum of frequencies that can mask and temporarily suppress almost all types of tinnitus.
A 2004 study of Dr. Halik’s therapy found that test subjects who were asked whether the new device reduced their annoyance to tinnitus when compared with 11 conventional masking sounds said they found Dr. Halik’s device twice as effective, on average.
Dynamic Tinnitus Mitigation will be available from North American hearing care providers or directly from Audio Bionics by early 2010.
Tags: Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Prototype,
Andrew Mitrovica
6 Responses to “ Blocking the Buzz ”
Iradj Victory says:
I read an article a few months ago that tinnitus and hearing loss are close to be fixed by changing the sound waves to light waves. Is there any further information on this hope giving way of correcting tinnitus?
Mike Petroff says:
I appreciate your article 'Blocking The Buzz' on Dr.Jerry Halik's contribution to Dynamic Tinnitus Mitigation (DTM) tinnitus sound therapy. While Drs. Jerry Halik and Lorraine Vosu provided invaluable insight and input on the practitioner protocols and patient utilization programs of DTM, the sound aspects of DTM therapy and the Audio Bionics sound delivery device were invented and developed by Mike Petroff of Audio Bionics. Mike Petroff and Audio Bionics wish to express their gratitude to Drs Jerry Halik and Lorraine Vosu for their extremely important participation in DTM tinnitus sound therapy.
Mike Petroff, Audio Bionics, LLC (www.audiobionics.com).
John Hudson says:
I am very interested in learning more about this therapy. How would I be able to access it?
@John: I would suggest calling Dr. Halik's office in Markham, at 905-472-7123
Tinnitus sufferer on the verge of suicide finds his OWN cure by emailing expert 3,000 miles away in America.
Doctors in Toronto should look into this. There is a cure out there.
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2292618/Tinnitus-sufferer-verge-suicide-finds-cure-emailing-expert-3-000-miles-away-America.html
I would like to hear more from other readers about turning sound waves into light waves and how that can be done for tinnitus sufferers.
How the medical system is trying to wean patients off opioids
By Marcia Kaye
The High Price of Pills
More than two million Canadians don’t take their full dose of medications because of the cost. How can they be helped?
Who Cares for the Caregivers?
There is a steep personal cost to caregiving, from chronic stress to physical injury. How can we help those who minister to family and friends?
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#songoftheday = RIHANNA: “KISS IT BETTER” NSFW
Well, all of the critics who said there wasn’t a single on Rihanna’s latest album, ANTI-, can shut the fuck up now. If this slick, sultry R&B ballad isn’t addictive then I don’t know what is. I think it’s her best single in ages, one of her best songs, ever, in fact.
Youtube info:
“Kiss It Better” from Rihanna’s eighth studio album ANTI, available now:
Download on TIDAL: http://smarturl.it/downloadANTI
Download on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/i_dlx_ANTI
Download on Google Play: http://smarturl.it/ANTIdlxgp
Download on Amazon: http://geni.us/amzANTI
Stream on TIDAL: http://smarturl.it/streamANTIdlx
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Tags: #songoftheday, 2016, review, reviews, Rihanna, Video, videos
Written by Paris365
An entertainment journalist for 20 years, Michael McCarthy was a columnist and contributing editor for the magazines Lollipop and LiveWire. He co-created and wrote for Cinezine, one of the '90's most popular movie E-zines. The only time he's not listening to music is when he's watching television shows and movies or reading, usually music magazines.
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SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF PAULINE HARWOOD
Since graduating from the Famous, Barbara Angelie School of Modelling in Mexico City, Pauline has worked worldwide as an International Model Including:- U.S.A, Canada, Mexico, Spain, The Caribbean, France, U.K, Spain, Canary Islands, Italy and Central and South America. Featuring in many National and International Photo Shoots for Magazines, Products and Promotional Material, Fashion Catwalks, Live Promotional Demonstrations, Magazine Interviews and Featured on Television and Hollywood Movies.
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Pauline then started the Pauline Harwood Modelling School and Agency in Spain which became very successful with several graduates going on into National and International Modelling and Film work including Hollywood, and winning Major European Competitions and Pageants.
Pauline then started PH Modelling & Finishing Academy eight years ago when she came to live in Penang, which has already produced Winners in Pageants and students going on into National and International Promotional and Magazine Photo Shoots and also Catwalk Fashion Shows.
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I have always believed in looking after myself and staying healthy and fit and so when I started modelling this helped me. However when I attended the course at The Barbara Angelie`s Modelling School it changed my life completely, it brought out in me qualities that I had previously not known I had. My confidence increased, I would take on any challenge and succeed and I approached my whole life with a different attitude and outlook, In Spain I helped many young people and some,” not so young,” realize their potential and become the person they wanted to be and I have found that here in Malaysia as well as Spain people who do not actually want to be models attend the courses purely to increase their confidence, poise levels and develop their people skills.
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The Righteous Mind
I want to point to two reviews of Jonathan Haidt's new book, which has the title of this post. It brings exceptional clarity to the definition of contemporary liberals and conservatives, and argues that it is the liberals who are not getting the point. First, some clips from Kristof's comments:
Jonathan Haidt, a University of Virginia psychology professor, argues that, for liberals, morality is largely a matter of three values: caring for the weak, fairness and liberty. Conservatives share those concerns (although they think of fairness and liberty differently) and add three others: loyalty, respect for authority and sanctity...Those latter values bind groups together with a shared respect for symbols and institutions such as the flag or the military...This year’s Republican primaries have been a kaleidoscope of loyalty, authority and sanctity issues...Americans speak about values in six languages, from care to sanctity. Conservatives speak all six, but liberals are fluent in only three...Moral psychology can help to explain why the Democratic Party has had so much difficulty connecting with voters.
From Saletan's review:
Haidt argues that people are fundamentally intuitive, not rational. If you want to persuade others, you have to appeal to their sentiments...We were never designed to listen to reason. When you ask people moral questions, time their responses and scan their brains, their answers and brain activation patterns indicate that they reach conclusions quickly and produce reasons later only to justify what they’ve decided...The problem isn’t that people don’t reason. They do reason. But their arguments aim to support their conclusions, not yours. Reason doesn’t work like a judge or teacher, impartially weighing evidence or guiding us to wisdom. It works more like a lawyer or press secretary, justifying our acts and judgments to others...Haidt invokes an evolutionary hypothesis: We compete for social status, and the key advantage in this struggle is the ability to influence others. Reason, in this view, evolved to help us spin, not to help us learn. So if you want to change people’s minds, Haidt concludes, don’t appeal to their reason. Appeal to reason’s boss: the underlying moral intuitions whose conclusions reason defends.
We acquire morality the same way we acquire food preferences: we start with what we’re given. If it tastes good, we stick with it. If it doesn’t, we reject it. People accept God, authority and karma because these ideas suit their moral taste buds. Haidt points to research showing that people punish cheaters, accept many hierarchies and don’t support equal distribution of benefits when contributions are unequal...You don’t have to go abroad to see these ideas. You can find them in the Republican Party. Social conservatives see welfare and feminism as threats to responsibility and family stability. The Tea Party hates redistribution because it interferes with letting people reap what they earn. Faith, patriotism, valor, chastity, law and order — these Republican themes touch all six moral foundations, whereas Democrats, in Haidt’s analysis, focus almost entirely on care and fighting oppression. This is Haidt’s startling message to the left: When it comes to morality, conservatives are more broad-minded than liberals. They serve a more varied diet.
Is income inequality immoral? Should government favor religion? Can we tolerate cultures of female subjugation? And how far should we trust our instincts? Should people who find homosexuality repugnant overcome that reaction?..Haidt’s faith in moral taste receptors may not survive this scrutiny. Our taste for sanctity or authority, like our taste for sugar, could turn out to be a dangerous relic. But Haidt is right that we must learn what we have been, even if our nature is to transcend it.
Haidt's book references a number of experiments noted in MindBlog posts, on differences in the psychologies and autonomic nervous system reactivities of conservatives and liberals.
By the way, in this same vein, I might point to Chris Money's comments on his book "The Republican Brain," which he almost called "The Science of Truthiness," which asks why very intelligent Republicans deny scientific realities such as evolution and climate change.
Blog Categories: culture/politics, evolutionary psychology, human evolution, morality
Synthetik 2:59 PM
Thomas Friedman's recent op ed piece 'Elephants Down Under'
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/opinion/friedman-elephants-down-under.html?src=me&ref=general
points out that there appears to be a fundamental difference between the stark conservative mindset seen in the USA vs other parts of the world.
Democrats don't value loyalty? Is Kristof kidding? Or is a subtle dig at a distinction between "blind loyalty" and "thoughtful loyalty"? Most Democrats I know have robustly developed senses of loyalty ("I need to do this even though it does not accord with my primary values because I have a conflicting value of a past public identity to a group or a relationship to a person or group of persons.") If Democrats were less loyal, I suppose this implications would be: greater incidence of conscientious objection when going into war; greater incidence of "resistance" when non-Democrat is in power; more resistance and non-compliance to paying taxes, etc. I'm sure there are many others measures... the point being that I think reasonable people would say the incidences of adherence is larger for some things for some -left-right divides, smaller for others, so it's a wash.
I don't think it's a matter of whether Democrats value loyalty or authority or sanctity, but that they don't SPEAK about those things, giving the impression that they don't.
"By the way, in this same vein, I might point to Chris Money's comments on his book "The Republican Brain," which he almost called "The Science of Truthiness," which asks why very intelligent Republicans deny scientific realities such as evolution and climate change." -
Just asking. What is a "scientific reality"? Something agreed by "scientists" as forming a "consensus view" held by the same "scientists"? For example, does a "consensus view" by "scientists" about the existence of God become a "scientific reality"? Implying that "scientific reality" is a report on the subjective attitudes of a professional group towards some part of the greater universe? As a conservative scientist I fail to see any objective evidence for the objective reality of "global warming"; and as a scientist I see "evolution" as nothing more than a working hypothesis that may one day be replaced by something better. A good line of further research would be to ask why liberals more so than conservatives are prone to treat science as a kind of religion whose practitioners should be worshiped. Could it be because ultimately Marx made a fetish of his own pseudo-scientific methods ("scientific materialism"), and liberals follow lock-step behind.
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Mitobridge
An Astellas Company
targeting mitochondria advancing human health
science & pipeline
We have joined forces with Nanna Therapeutics in the field of developing medicines for the treatment of diseases linked to mitochondrial dysfunction.
nanna therapeutics
U.S. FDA Grants Fast Track Designation for ASP0367/MA-0211, a Selective PPARδ Modulator Being Developed for the Treatment of Primary Mitochondrial Myopathies
TOKYO, October 20, 2020 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas” ) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation for the development of ASP0367/MA-0211 (“ASP0367”) as a potential treatment for primary mitochondrial myopathies (PMM).
PMM is a complex mitochondrial disease in which genetic mutations primarily impair the function of mitochondria, resulting in reduced muscle function, reduced endurance to exercise (i.e., exercise intolerance), increased fatigue, and muscle atrophy. In addition, PMM may present serious and life-threatening health conditions due to multiple organ involvement. For example, decreased myocardial function may lead to cardiomyopathy and heart failure. Decreased function of respiratory muscles may cause respiratory failure and pneumonia. In patients with mitochondrial disease due to pathogenic mutations in either the mtDNA or nDNA genome, the minimum point prevalence is estimated at 12.5 in 100,000 (approximately 1 in 8,000) for adults with clinical manifestations, and 23 in 100,000 (approximately 1 in 4,300) for adults with or without clinical manifestations.1 There is no FDA-approved treatment for PMM, a rare disease with a high unmet medical need.
Preclinical data and results from Astellas’ Phase I healthy volunteer study collectively suggest that ASP0367 - an orally administered PPARδ modulator - could improve exercise intolerance and fatigue in PMM patients by increasing the number and enhancing the function of mitochondria in patient’s cells. ASP0367 will be entering a Phase II / III study (MOUNTAINSIDE) to validate the efficacy and safety in PMM patients.
Astellas explores mitochondrial biology as a Primary Focus of its R&D strategy and is committed to providing treatments using new modalities. Targeting mitochondrial function is an innovative approach to address diseases with significant unmet medical needs in novel and effective ways. With the acquisition of Mitobridge, Inc. in 2018, Astellas has gained access to Mitobridge’s expertise in mitochondrial biology and a pipeline of innovative programs including ASP0367.
The FDA's Fast Track designation system aims to expedite the development and review of therapeutic agents for serious or potentially life-threatening diseases with high unmet medical need. The Fast Track designation is expected to accelerate the clinical development of ASP0367.
“Primary mitochondrial myopathies are a serious, complex disease with significant unmet need and no approved therapies,” said Salim Mujais, M.D., Senior Vice President and Therapeutic Area Head, Medical Specialties, Astellas. “With the development of ASP0367, an oral, once daily modulator of mitochondrial energy production, we are hoping to alleviate the serious burden of this disease on patients, their families and caregivers.”
“At Astellas, mitochondrial biology is one of our Primary Focus Areas, driving our commitment to bring new biological concepts into the clinic for rapid proof of concept,” said Mike Patane, Ph.D., President of Mitobridge, an Astellas Company, located in Cambridge, Mass. and part of the Astellas Biomedical Innovation Hub. “We are pleased to see this new milestone for ASP0367 as it shows steady progress in our Primary Focus and further demonstrates our focus on turning innovative science into value for patients.”
U.S. FDA Grants Fast Track Designation to Astellas for the Development of ASP1128 for Patients at Risk for Acute Kidney Injury
TOKYO, October 28, 2019 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation for the development of ASP1128 for patients at increased risk of developing moderate to severe acute kidney injury (AKI) after coronary artery bypass and/or valve (CABG/V) surgery. The Fast Track designation is intended to facilitate the development, and expedite the FDA review, of drugs to treat serious and life-threatening conditions so that, if approved, the compounds can reach the market more expeditiously.
ASP1128 is an investigational compound that is a potent and highly selective PPARδ modulator. ASP1128 is believed to have protective effects on kidney cells that are under cellular stress following CABG/V surgery by promoting fatty acid oxidation in the mitochondria. Further, ASP1128 may have the potential to reduce systemic and local inflammatory responses and oxidative stress. The 1128-CL-0201 proof of concept Phase 2 study is ongoing. The study design is a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled study enrolling approximately 220 patients across the United States.
“Following the acquisition of Mitobridge, Inc. in 2018, Astellas is now at the forefront of developing mitochondrial-directed therapeutics. Today’s announcement is an exciting advancement in an entirely new therapeutic modality and approach with the potential to treat patients with AKI, an area of high unmet need,” said Salim Mujais, M.D., Senior Vice President and Therapeutic Area Head, Medical Specialties, Astellas. “Astellas recognizes the serious burden of AKI on patients and we are pleased that the FDA also acknowledges this unmet need and has granted the Fast Track Designation for ASP1128.”
Mike Patane, Ph.D., President of Mitobridge, an Astellas Company located at Astellas’s site in Cambridge, MA, commented, “Mitochondrial dysfunction is now recognized as an important driver in various diseases with high unmet medical need. For the past six years, our team has focused on this research, first as a biotech joint venture with Astellas and now as an integrated global Biopharma. At Astellas, mitochondrial biology is one of our Primary Focus, and this biology platform drives our commitment to bring new biological concepts into the clinic for rapid proof of concept. Developing ASP1128 in AKI is the lead example of this effort and our robust pipeline as this area continues to expand.”
About ASP1128
ASP1128 is a selective modulator of PPARδ. The Investigational compound is a potentially first-in-class approach to treating AKI. Mitobridge, an Astellas Company. has generated pre-clinical data demonstrated that intervention with ASP1128 improved mitochondrial function, overall energy metabolism and performance of the kidney following an acute ischemia reperfusion injury. In AKI animal models, ASP1128 improved renal function, histopathology and injury biomarkers. Additional information about the trials and participating centers can be found at Clinicaltrials.gov (identifier: NCT03941483).
About AKI
AKI is a sudden loss of kidney function that often occurs in hospitalized patients as a result of cardiac and/or vascular surgery, trauma, infection, cardiac disease or being treated with nephrotoxic anti-cancer therapy. AKI occur in up to 30% of cardiac surgery patients. Dialysis is required in 2% to 6% of the cardiac surgery-associated AKI patients. Currently, there are no drug available for either preventing or treating AKI. The clinical manifestations are, in part, due to early-onset mitochondrial deficits that drive multiple pathophysiological events that lead to AKI and appear to be linked to the severity of AKI and progression to Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD).
About Mitobridge, an Astellas Company.
Mitobridge, located at Astellas’ site in Cambridge, Mass., is dedicated to delivering therapeutics that improve mitochondrial function. Our team of experienced drug discovery and development scientists is leveraging their exceptional knowledge of mitochondria biology to develop a pipeline of innovative programs for the treatment of kidney, muscle and other diseases with high unmet medical need. Mitobridge was launched in October 2013 with funding from Astellas Pharma, Inc., MPM Capital and Longwood Ventures and a shared vision for the promise of mitochondrial-targeted therapeutics. In January of 2018, the Company was acquired by Astellas Pharma. For more information about the Company, please visit www.mitobridge.com. The Mitobridge site, now acting as one of Astellas’ affiliates in Massachusetts, continues to advance innovative compounds to proof of clinical concept and works with global Astellas teams to advance mitochondrial and biology driven medicine.
About Astellas
Astellas Pharma Inc., based in Tokyo, Japan, is a company dedicated to improving the health of people around the world through the provision of innovative and reliable pharmaceutical products. For more information, please visit our website at: https://www.astellas.com/us/
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In this press release, statements made with respect to current plans, estimates, strategies and beliefs and other statements that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements about the future performance of Astellas. These statements are based on management’s current assumptions and beliefs in light of the information currently available to it and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to: (i) changes in general economic conditions and in laws and regulations, relating to pharmaceutical markets, (ii) currency exchange rate fluctuations, (iii) delays in new product launches, (iv) the inability of Astellas to market existing and new products effectively, (v) the inability of Astellas to continue to effectively research and develop products accepted by customers in highly competitive markets, and (vi) infringements of Astellas’ intellectual property rights by third parties.
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Astellas Completes Acquisition of Mitobridge, Inc.
Tokyo, Janurary 24, 2018 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Yoshihiko Hatanaka, “Astellas” ) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Mitobridge, Inc. (“Mitobridge”), and Mitobridge has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Astellas as of U.S. Eastern Time January 23, 2018.
By exercising the option right to acquire Mitobridge, Astellas paid $225 million1 to acquire 100% of the equity in Mitobridge. In addition, Mitobridge shareholders will be eligible for additional payments from Astellas that total up to $225 million2 depending on the progress of various programs in clinical development.
The transaction accelerates Astellas’ research and development in diseases associated with mitochondrial dysfunctions and will enable the delivery of innovative new treatment options to patients. At this point, Astellas will maintain the organization in Cambridge, MA, and retain the Mitobridge name as a division of Astellas.
Astellas is still reviewing the impact of the completion of the acquisition on its financial results for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2018.
As Astellas is a shareholder in Mitobridge, the actual payment by Astellas to Mitobridge shareholders after adjustment based on the estimate of cash and cash equivalents etc. held by Mitobridge is $161.7 The amount is subject to further true-up based on actual numbers as of the closing date.
As Astellas is a shareholder in Mitobridge, the actual payment by Astellas to Mitobridge shareholders will be $165.5 million.
Astellas Pharma Inc., based in Tokyo, Japan, is a company dedicated to improving the health of people around the world through the provision of innovative and reliable pharmaceutical products. We focus on Urology, Oncology, Immunology, Nephrology and Neuroscience as prioritized therapeutic areas while advancing new therapeutic areas and discovery research leveraging new technologies/modalities. We are also creating new value by combining internal capabilities and external expertise in the medical/healthcare business. Astellas is on the forefront of healthcare change to turn innovative science into value for patients. For more information, please visit our website at https://www.astellas.com/en.
Contacts for inquiries or additional information:
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Astellas Acquires Mitobridge Under Existing Collaboration
-Accelerating the Discovery and Development of Novel Drugs that Target Mitochondrial Functions -
Tokyo and Cambridge, November 30, 2017 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Yoshihiko Hatanaka, “Astellas”) and Mitobridge, Inc.1 (President and CEO: Kazumi Shiosaki, “Mitobridge”) today announced that Astellas has exercised its exclusive option right to acquire Mitobridge under the amended terms of the October 2013 partnership agreement governing their an R&D collaboration focused on discovering and developing novel drugs that target mitochondrial function. Mitobridge will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Astellas following the close of the acquisition.
Under the 2013 partnership agreements, Astellas and Mitobridge have collaborated to discover and develop compounds that target mitochondrial function. These drug candidates have the potential to treat genetic, metabolic or neurodegenerative disorders as well as conditions of aging. MA-0211, the most advanced program emerging from the collaboration, is currently in Phase 1 clinical studies for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD).
“Astellas has increased the involvement in mitochondrial drug discovery through its partnership with Mitobridge and the network of key scientists that the company has assembled. The achievements resulting from the collaboration have exceeded our expectations including the rapid advancement of multiple programs,“ commented Yoshihiko Hatanaka, President and CEO, Astellas. “Through the acquisition of Mitobridge, Astellas accelerates our investment in diseases caused by mitochondria dysfunctions in order to deliver innovative new treatment options to patients.”
“We at Mitobridge are delighted to become part of Astellas’ major initiative to develop new therapies for serious diseases. We are grateful for the tremendous support and guidance from Astellas, MPM Capital, and Longwood Fund that enabled Mitobridge to rapidly build an exciting pipeline,” said Kazumi Shiosaki, Ph.D., President & CEO, and co-founder of Mitobridge. “Mitobridge – as a subsidary of Astellas – will now have additional resources to continue to advance and expand on its achievements to date.”
By exercising the option right according to the amended agreement, Astellas will pay an upfront fee of $225 million2 to acquire Mitobridge. Mitobridge will be eligible for additional payments that total up to $225 million2, depending on the progress of various programs in clinical development. The closing of the acquisition is subject to customary regulatory approvals, and is expected to be finalized in the next several weeks.
The impact of this transaction on Astellas’ financial results for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2018 will be immaterial.
(1) The name of Mitokyne, Inc. was changed to Mitobridge, Inc.
(2) As Astellas is a shareholder in Mitobridge, the actual payment by Astellas to Mitobridge will be $165.5 million. The amount assumes the current Astellas’ shares on a fully diluted basis. The amount will be adjusted depending on the cash and cash equivalents etc. held by Mitobridge at the closing.
Acquisition Summary
(1) Acquiring company: Astellas Pharma Inc.
(2) Major shareholders of Mitobridge: MPM Capital, Longwood Funders Fund, Astellas Pharma Inc.
(3) Payment: Cash on hand
(4) Amount:
$225 million* to make Mitobridge a wholly-owned subsidiary of Astellas
Up to $225 million* in future contingent payments based on the advances in clinical programs
*As Astellas is a shareholder in Mitobridge, the actual payment by Astellas to Mitobridge will be $165.5 million. The amount assumes the current Astellas’ shares on a fully diluted basis. The amount will be adjusted depending on the cash and cash equivalents etc. held by Mitobridge at the closing.
(5) Expected timing of closing: Next several weeks, subject to customary regulatory approvals
Overview of Acquired Company
(1) Corporate Name: Mitobridge, Inc.
(2) Location: Cambridge, MA
(3) Representative: President & CEO Kazumi Shiosaki
(4) Founded year: 2011
(5) Number of employees: 27
(6) Relationship with Astellas: Equity-method affiliate, research and development partner
About Mitobridge (fka Mitokyne)
Mitobridge is discovering and developing small molecule therapeutics that enhance mitochondrial function and that build upon the emerging scientific findings linking mitochondrial dysfunction with disease pathologies. The Company is progressing innovative approaches to the treatment of diseases with high unmet medical need with the strategy to establish proof of concept in rare diseases and then expand into more common diseases. The Company was founded in 2011 with seed financing from MPM Capital. In October 2013, it closed a Series A financing from MPM Capital, Longwood Fund, and Astellas Pharma and a shared vision for the promise of mitochondrial-targeted therapeutics.
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Mitobridge Presents Preclinical Data Demonstrating Beneficial Effects of PPARδ Modulators in Acute Kidney Injury at American Society of Nephrology Annual Meeting
Results support the therapeutic potential of targeting mitochondrial stress associated with kidney injury and advancement of MA-0217 into clinical studies
CAMBRIDGE, MA, November 6, 2017 -- Mitobridge, Inc., dedicated to the discovery and development of therapeutics that improve mitochondrial function, presented results highlighting the potential of selective PPARd modulation to treat acute kidney injury (AKI). AKI is the sudden loss of kidney function that often occurs in hospitalized patients following cardiac and/or vascular surgery, trauma, infection, cardiac disease or treatment with nephrotoxic anti-cancer therapy.
The data, presented last week at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), demonstrated that Mitobridge’s proprietary compound MA-0217 (also known as MTB-2) corrects the mitochondrial deficits and alleviates the renal dysfunction in a rat ischemia reperfusion AKI (IR-AKI) model. Additionally, MA-0204, a close analog of MA-0217, dosed post IR-AKI in a rat model of patients with hypertension, chronic kidney disease and diabetes and thereby at high risk to develop AKI, reduced kidney injury, accelerated recovery of kidney function and decreased the onset of fibrosis and slowed progression of diabetes and chronic kidney disease by 4 weeks. The posters are available on the Company’s website:https://mitobridge.com/news/publications.
“These proof-of-concept data demonstrated that MA-0217 can enhance mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation in human kidney cells and restore kidney function in animal models of the disease” commented Effie Tozzo, Senior Vice President, Translational Sciences at Mitobridge. “These results are encouraging and support advancing MA-0217 into clinical development as a first-in-class interventional approach for cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CSA-AKI).”
“AKI is a serious condition and there are no currently approved therapies to help manage patients,” said Bruce A. Molitoris, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Indiana Center for Biological Microscopy at Indiana University. “MA-0217 may address the cellular injury, mitochondrial dysfunction and organ damage associated with AKI and represents an innovative option for this life-threatening condition. The presented data are quite promising and I look forward to seeing the compound enter clinical development.”
About Mitobridge
Mitobridge is dedicated to delivering therapeutics that improve mitochondrial function. Our team of experienced drug discovery and development scientists is leveraging their exceptional knowledge of mitochondria biology to develop a pipeline of innovative programs for the treatment of kidney and muscle diseases with high unmet medical need. Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, Mitobridge was launched in October 2013 with funding from Astellas Pharma, Inc., MPM Capital and Longwood Ventures. For more information about the Company, please visit www.mitobridge.com.
About MA-0217
MA-0217 (MTB-2) is a potent and highly-selective PPARδ modulator and the second program to emerge from Mitobridge’s platform. The compound is a potentially first-in-class approach to treating acute kidney injury (AKI). Mitobridge has generated preclinical data demonstrating that intervention with MA-0217 improves mitochondrial function, overall energy metabolism and performance of the kidney following an acute ischemia reperfusion injury.
AKI is a sudden loss of kidney function that often occurs in hospitalized patients as a result of cardiac and/or vascular surgery, trauma, infection, cardiac disease or being treated with nephrotoxic anti-cancer therapy. AKI affects more than 13 million people each year worldwide and is associated with extended hospitalization and increased mortality. Currently, there are no therapies to prevent or treat AKI. The clinical manifestations are, in part, due to early onset mitochondrial deficits that drive multiple pathophysiological events that lead to AKI and appear to be linked to the severity of AKI and progression to Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD).
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Mitobridge Adds NAD⁺ Modulation as a Therapeutic Approach for Improving Mitochondrial Function
Mitobridge Adds NAD+ Modulation as a Therapeutic Approach for Improving Mitochondrial Function
Company Licenses Intellectual Property from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
CAMBRIDGE, MA, September 18, 2017 -- Mitobridge, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company pioneering the discovery and development of products that improve mitochondrial function, broadens its therapeutic approach to include Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide (NAD+) pathway modulation. The company entered into a license agreement with École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) for intellectual property (IP) related to the treatment of a broad range of diseases as well as conditions of aging utilizing compounds that boost NAD+ levels. The company is advancing therapeutics for muscular dystrophies and myopathies as well as kidney, liver and neurodegenerative diseases that will benefit from improved mitochondrial function.
NAD+ is an essential coenzyme that plays a key role in metabolism, mitochondrial energy production and cell signaling. Numerous studies have demonstrated that reduced NAD+ levels are associated with mitochondrial dysfunction and that maintaining or raising NAD+ levels in cells that are under stress diminishes the deleterious effects. Compounds that protect or elevate NAD+ levels could provide therapeutic benefits in many medical and age-associated conditions. Mitobridge is developing drug candidates that are directed at multiple points in the NAD+ biosynthetic and metabolic pathway. Our approach to modulating NAD+ levels includes programs targeting Poly ADP Ribose Polymerase (PARP), Aminocarboxymuconate Semialdehyde Decarboxylase (ACMSD) and N′-Nicotinamide Methyltransferase (NNMT).
The exclusive worldwide license includes IP based on research from the laboratory of Johan Auwerx, MD, PhD. Dr. Auwerx, a leader in the field of NAD+ modulation, is a Professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. “Modulating NAD+ levels represents an innovative strategy for improving mitochondrial function and holds great promise for therapeutic development. I am delighted that Mitobridge is pursuing this approach and look forward to working with the team to progress new product candidates,” stated Dr. Auwerx.
This intellectual property expands Mitobridge’s NAD+ modulation patent portfolio, which also includes composition of matter patent applications. “Our goal is to develop novel therapeutics for restoring healthy mitochondria and impacting severe diseases with limited treatment options. This license strengthens our IP estate and expands our opportunities to address multiple medical conditions associated with mitochondrial dysfunction,” stated George Mulligan, PhD, Senior Vice President, Translational Medicine.
Mitobridge is employing several therapeutic strategies for improving mitochondrial function. The first compound to enter clinical development is MA-0211 (MTB-1), an orally bioavailable PPARd modulator being tested in healthy volunteers in preparation for a trial in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). As DMD is characterized by mitochondrial defects, inadequate energy supply and muscle fibrosis, intervening with MA-0211 may be therapeutically beneficial for all DMD patients, regardless of their underlying dystrophin mutation. Additional clinical studies of MA-0211 in other diseases characterized by mitochondrial defects are currently being planned.
Mitobridge is dedicated to delivering therapeutics that improve mitochondrial function. Our team of experienced drug discovery, translational and development scientists are leveraging their exceptional knowledge of mitochondria biology to deliver a pipeline of innovative programs for the treatment of muscle and kidney diseases as well as other serious medical conditions. Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, Mitobridge was launched in October 2013 with funding from Astellas Pharma Inc., MPM Capital and Longwood Ventures. For more information about the Company, please visit www.mitobridge.com.
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Mitobridge’s Novel Treatment Approach for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Advances into Clinical Development
First-in-Class PPARδ Modulator with Potential to Improve Mitochondrial Health
CAMBRIDGE, MA, August 8, 2017 -- Mitobridge, Inc., a pioneer in the discovery and development of products that improve mitochondrial function, today announces a key milestone with the initiation of the first-in-human Phase I trial of its PPAR-delta (PPARδ) modulator, MA-0211 (also known as MTB-1). The study will assess the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of MA-0211 in healthy volunteers, which will provide the basis for a trial program in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) patients. MA-0211 is the first clinical compound to emerge from Mitobridge’s mitochondrial enhancement platform. The PPARδ modulator aims to reverse the mitochondrial deficits in DMD, which play a key role in disease progression.
DMD is a rare genetic disease caused by loss-of-function mutations in the dystrophin gene. This debilitating fatal disorder affects males and leads to progressive cardiac, skeletal and smooth muscle weakness and eventual loss of muscle mass. Mitobridge’s research has confirmed and expanded upon previous studies showing that mitochondrial defects contribute to abnormalities in the dystrophic muscle and play a central role in the etiology of DMD.
“PPARδ modulation represents a promising therapeutic approach to improving mitochondrial function and muscle health in DMD patients,” stated Mike Patane, CSO of Mitobridge. “This milestone with our lead program further validates our mitochondrial enhancement platform and ability to generate promising drug candidates that modulate mitochondrial function. Our research teams are actively evaluating MA-0211 in other diseases associated with mitochondrial dysfunction and developing other novel approaches to restoring healthy mitochondria.”
Mitobridge scientists have assembled extensive nonclinical data in patient samples and genetic animal models demonstrating that MA-0211 may be therapeutically beneficial to DMD patients. Treatment of DMD patient muscle cells with MA-0211 upregulated genes related to fatty acid oxidation, which increased mitochondrial function and mitochondrial biogenesis. MA-0211 was evaluated in the widely used DMD mouse model, the mdx mouse, which has a point mutation in the dystrophin gene and recapitulates many of the deficiencies seen in DMD patients. Once-daily oral dosing of MA-0211 for five weeks in mdx mice produced several therapeutic benefits including increased running endurance on a treadmill, decreased muscle necrosis and inflammation and decreased diaphragm fibrosis. In a similar study, six months of dosing in older mdx mice resulted in decreased serum creatine kinase and improved cardiac and respiratory function compared to untreated mdx mice. The strong pre-clinical data are the basis for advancing the compound into clinical development and highlight MA-0211’s potential to reverse key defects and slow disease progression. MA-0211 is being developed with the Company’s corporate partner, Astellas Pharma, Inc.
Recently, George Mulligan, Mitobridge’s SVP of Translation Medicine, presented an update of the MA-0211 program at the Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy Annual Connect Conference on June 30, 2017. The presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/leQnKrVm4YI
MA-0211 (MTB-1), an orally bioavailable PPARδ modulator, is the first clinical compound to emerge from Mitobridge’s mitochondrial enhancement platform. In studies with patient muscle cells and animals, MA-0211 improves mitochondrial function, overall energy metabolism, muscle performance and regeneration. As DMD is characterized by mitochondrial defects, inadequate energy supply and muscle fibrosis, intervening with MA-0211 may be therapeutically beneficial for all DMD patients, regardless of their underlying dystrophin mutation. Additional clinical studies in other diseases characterized by mitochondrial deficiencies are currently being planned.
Mitobridge is dedicated to delivering therapeutics that improve mitochondrial function. Our team of experienced drug discovery and development scientists are leveraging their exceptional knowledge of mitochondria biology to develop a pipeline of innovative programs for the treatment of kidney and muscle diseases with high unmet medical need. Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, Mitobridge was launched in October 2013 with funding from Astellas Pharma, Inc., MPM Capital and Longwood Ventures. For more information about the Company, please visit www.mitobridge.com.
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Mitobridge Announces Sponsored Research Agreement to Evaluate PPARδ Compounds in Cells from Patients with Mitochondrial Disease
CAMBRIDGE, MA-- Mitobridge, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company pioneering the discovery and development of products that improve mitochondrial function, announces the signing of a sponsored research agreement to assess Mitobridge’s selective Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Delta (PPARδ) modulators in mitochondrial disease patient cell lines. Mitobridge will support research in the laboratory of Dr. Marni J. Falk, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Director of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Mitochondrial-Genetic Disease Clinic. The aim of the collaboration is to evaluate the therapeutic effects of PPARδ modulators on mitochondrial function in fibroblasts derived from patients with genetically-defined mitochondrial disorders.
“We have a shared commitment to progressing innovative treatments for mitochondrial diseases, a group of disorders with tremendous unmet medical need,” commented Effie Tozzo, PhD, Vice President of Translational Biology at Mitobridge. “We are delighted to be collaborating with a leading mitochondrial disease clinician-scientist who has demonstrated expertise in translating her experience with patients into important scientific advancements.”
The research plan is designed to evaluate the ability of Mitobridge’s proprietary compounds to improve mitochondrial function in patient cells. The cells harbor specific disease-causing mutations in mitochondrial DNA and in nuclear genes that are essential for mitochondrial energy production. Positive results could support the clinical development of the PPARδ modulators for certain mitochondrial diseases such as MELAS and Leigh’s Syndrome. Earlier this year, Mitobridge convened a panel of key opinion leaders in the field including, Patrick Chinnery, MD, PhD, Richard Haas, MD, Gregory Enns, MD, Michio Hirano, MD, and Tanja Taivassalo, PhD, and they recommended that Mitobridge study the activity of PPARδ modulators on mitochondrial function in patient-derived cell lines.
Mitobridge believes that testing therapeutic candidates in Dr. Falk’s collection of fibroblast cell lines, which are derived directly from mitochondrial disease patients’ skin biopsies, should lead to a better understanding of the defects in these cells and the potential benefit for patients.
Members of Mitobridge Mitochondrial Myopathy Advisory Panel
Patrick Chinnery, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurology and Head of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge, Richard Haas, MD, Professor of Neuroscience at UC San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine and Director of the UCSD Mitochondrial Disease Laboratory, Gregory Enns, MD, Professor of Pediatrics (Medical Genetics) at Stanford University, Michio Hirano, MD, Professor of Neurology at Columbia University and Co-director of the North American Mitochondrial Disease Consortium (NAMDC) and Tanja Taivassalo, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology at McGill University.
Mitobridge is a leader in the emerging field of mitochondria-related drug discovery and development. The Company is utilizing its innovative screening platform to identify and develop novel therapeutics that improve mitochondria function and provide treatments for mitochondrial genetic diseases, musculoskeletal, kidney and neurodegenerative disorders as well as diseases and conditions of aging. Mitobridge’s scientific founders and advisors include world-renowned leaders in biology and mitochondrial function. For more information about Mitobridge, please visit the company's website at www.mitobridge.com
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Alliance Management
Mitobridge Secures Key Intellectual Property from the Salk Institute
– Agreement includes comprehensive intellectual property estate for multiple programs
–CAMBRIDGE, Mass., February 23, 2015 — Mitobridge, Inc., previously known as Mitokyne, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company pioneering the discovery and development of products that improve mitochondrial function, today announced that the Company has entered into an agreement with the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences to access intellectual property and technology related to Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Delta (PPARδ). The exclusive worldwide license grants key patents and reagents developed in the laboratory of Mitobridge co-founder Professor Ronald Evans for the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases in both humans and animals. Dr. Evans, who was bestowed the Lasker Award for his work in nuclear hormone receptors, is the March of Dimes Chair in Developmental and Molecular Biology and Professor and Director of the Gene Expression Laboratory at the Salk Institute. He is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
Mitobridge is advancing a selective PPAR modulator (SPPARM) program based on recent developments in the understanding of the pharmacology of this drug target and the potential to utilize a PPARδ modulator as an exercise mimetic. The Company’s latest results indicate that a PPARδ modulator may be working through mitochondria and have potential to treat mitochondrial myopathies as well as other musculoskeletal disorders.
“We are excited about the opportunity to capitalize on the innovative PPARδ technology that has been developed over the past several years in the Evans lab. The results from pre-clinical studies suggest that our molecules might be safer yet similarly effective to earlier generation PPARδ compounds”, commented Mike Patane, PhD, Senior Vice President of Drug Discovery at Mitobridge. “We hope to translate the original discoveries from the Evans lab into meaningful therapeutics for disorders that will benefit from improving mitochondrial function.”
The Company was launched in October 2013 under the name Mitokyne to capitalize on the emerging biological understanding of how mitochondria function impacts health via bioenergetics, signaling, dynamics and biosynthesis. The Company recently changed its name to Mitobridge and filed a trademark application for that name. In addition, Mitobridge has closed a second tranche of financing led by MPM Capital, Longwood Fund and Astellas Pharma Inc.
“I am pleased with the progress the Company has made in our first year and the commitment demonstrated by our investors and our therapeutics partner, Astellas Pharma,” said Kazumi Shiosaki, PhD, President and CEO of Mitobridge. “Considerable insight linking mitochondrial dysfunction and disease pathologies has been gained over the last few years, and Mitobridge is poised for a leadership position in discovering innovative therapies.”
Mitobridge is a leader in the emerging field of mitochondria-related drug discovery and development. The Company is utilizing its innovative screening platform to identify and develop novel therapeutics that improve mitochondria function and provide treatments for mitochondrial genetic diseases, musculoskeletal and neurodegenerative disorders as well as diseases and conditions of aging. Mitobridge’s scientific founders and advisors include world-renowned leaders in biology and mitochondrial function. For more information about Mitobridge, please visit the company's website at www.mitobridge.com
About the Salk Institute for Biological Studies
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is one of the world's preeminent basic research institutions, where internationally renowned faculty probes fundamental life science questions in a unique, collaborative, and creative environment. Focused both on discovery and on mentoring future generations of researchers, Salk scientists make groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of cancer, aging, Alzheimer's, diabetes and infectious diseases by studying neuroscience, genetics, cell and plant biology, and related disciplines.
Faculty achievements have been recognized with numerous honors, including Nobel Prizes and memberships in the National Academy of Sciences. Founded in 1960 by polio vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk, MD, the Institute is an independent nonprofit organization and architectural landmark.
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Astellas and Mitokyne to Pursue Mitochondria-Related Disease Therapies
– Collaboration Will Focus on Expanding the New Frontier of Mitochondria-Related Disease –
Tokyo and Boston, October 7, 2013 --- Astellas Pharma Inc. (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 4503, President and CEO: Yoshihiko Hatanaka, hereinafter called “Astellas”) and Mitokyne, Inc. (President and CEO: Kazumi Shiosaki, hereinafter called “Mitokyne”) announced today that the two companies have entered into an exclusive R&D collaboration focused on discovering and developing novel drugs that improve mitochondrial functions. These drug candidates have the potential to treat genetic, metabolic or neurodegenerative disorders as well as conditions of aging. The emerging biological understanding of mitochondria, along with new tools and assays available to better elucidate mitochondrial function and processes, will enable the identification of breakthrough treatments for patients suffering from mitochondria-related diseases and improve their quality of life.
Concurrently, Mitokyne closed a $45M series A equity financing from Astellas, MPM Capital, and Longwood Founders Fund. In connection with the financing, Ansbert Gadicke, MD, MPM Capital, Rich Aldrich, Longwood Founders Fund, and a designee from Astellas joined the Mitokyne Board of Directors.
Under the collaboration agreement, Astellas and Mitokyne will collaborate to discover and develop compounds that target mitochondrial function. Mitokyne will lead all the research and drug discovery activities and be responsible for delivering IND candidates, whereupon Astellas will assume all clinical development activities as well as commercialization. In addition to generating a pipeline of novel drug candidates, Mitokyne is developing a novel mitochondrial screening platform to enhance ongoing R&D programs and identify new drug targets. Astellas has the exclusive right to acquire Mitokyne during certain periods during the term of the five– year agreement. Including upfront, R&D funding, acquisition and milestone payments, the total value of the partnership agreement could reach up to $730M. Taking into account Astellas’ participation in Mitokyne’s equity financing, Astellas’ actual payment for the acquisition based on equity in Mitokyne could be over $500M in accordance with conditions of the agreement.
“This R&D partnership is an excellent opportunity for Astellas to utilize more external capabilities and resources, and to undertake initiatives related to new therapeutic areas, as we announced “Reshaping Research Framework” in May,” said Yoshihiko Hatanaka, President & CEO of Astellas. “Through this partnership, we expect to pursue advanced drug discovery and establish a winning model with which it can solidify its position as the leader in the field of mitochondria-related diseases, and eventually develop advanced medical solutions for patients around the world, adding to our portfolio of innovative new drugs.”
Mitokyne’s scientific founders include world-renowned leaders in biology and mitochondrial function. Johan Auwerx is the Nestle Chair in Energy Metabolism and Professor at the cole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne. Andrew Dillin is the Siebel Distinguished Chair of Stem Cell Biology, HHMI Investigator and Professor of Genetic, Genomics and Development at UC Berkeley. Ronald Evans is the March of Dimes Chair in Developmental and Molecular Biology and Professor and Director in the Gene Expression Laboratory at Salk Institute for Biological Studies and was awarded the Lasker Award for his work in nuclear hormone receptors. H. Robert Horvitz is Professor in the Department of Biology and a member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Horvitz received the Nobel Prize in 2002 for his contributions to mechanisms of cell death. The scientific founders will join Mitokyne’s Scientific Advisory Board, which also includes founding member Jodi Nunnari, a Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology at University of California, Davis.
“I am delighted that we were able to bring together a committed corporate partner in Astellas along with great investors and scientific advisors to help shape and build this company in such an exciting area,” said Kazumi Shiosaki, CEO and co-founder of Mitokyne. “Clearly Astellas and Mitokyne share a singular vision to become leaders in discovering and developing novel compounds that beneficially modulate mitochondrial function. Both companies will be able to contribute their complementary strengths to forge a robust partnership.”
The impact of this collaboration has been accounted in Astellas’ forecasts for fiscal year ending March 2014.
Astellas Pharma Inc., located in Tokyo, Japan, is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to improving the health of people around the world through the provision of innovative and reliable pharmaceuticals. Astellas has approximately 17,000 employees worldwide. The organization is committed to becoming a global category leader in Urology, Immunology (including Transplantation) and Infectious diseases, Oncology, Neuroscience and Diabetes Mellitus (DM) Complications and Kidney diseases. For more information on Astellas Pharma Inc., please visit the company website at www.astellas.com/en.
About Mitokyne
Mitokyne is a biotech company focused on mitochondria-related drug discovery and development. The company is utilizing its innovative screening platform to identify and develop novel drugs that improve mitochondria function and provide treatments for genetic, metabolic and neurodegenerative disorders as well as diseases and conditions of aging. Mitokyne’s scientific founders and advisors include world-renowned leaders in biology and mitochondrial function.
About MPM Capital
MPM Capital is one of the world's largest life science-dedicated venture investors. With committed capital under management in excess of $2.6 billion, MPM Capital is uniquely structured to invest globally in healthcare innovation.
About Longwood Founders Fund
Longwood Founders Fund is a healthcare venture capital firm that founds, manages, and builds biotechnology companies. Longwood’s mission is to identify technologies and to found companies that will advance new therapeutics that can not only make a difference in the lives of patients worldwide, but also create significant value for investors. This is achieved by leveraging the management team’s history of successful biotechnology company formation and operational leadership.
About Mitochondria
Mitochondria are present in almost every cell of the human body. The main function of mitochondria is generation of ATP as the energy for humans to function. In addition, mitochondria are involved in numerous other functions including fatty acid metabolism, reactive oxygen species (ROS) production/elimination, cell death regulation, and so on.
About Mitochondrial Diseases and Mitochondria-Related Diseases
Mitochondrial diseases are caused by various mutations, acquired or inherited, in either mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) or nuclear DNA (nDNA). Dysfunction of mitochondria can affect only certain tissues due to factors not yet fully understood. Affected patients suffer from muscular dysfunction, neurological dysfunction, cardiac dysfunction, ocular/otic dysfunction, metabolic dysfunction and so on. Typical onset in most cases is during early childhood, impairing a patient’s quality of life.
Three disorders account for 60~70% of mitochondrial diseases:
1) mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS);
2) chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia/ Kearns-Sayre syndrome (CPEO/KSS); and
3) myoclonus epilepsy associated with ragged-red fivers (MERRF).
Other mitochondria-related diseases include Leigh’s syndrome, mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalopathy (MNGIE), Alpers’ disease, Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON), neuropathy, ataxia, and retinitis pigmentosa (NARP) and fatty acid oxidation disorders (FAOD).
Mitochondrial dysfunctions are suspected of playing roles in seemingly unrelated disorders, such as muscular, metabolic, neurodegenerative, ophthalmic, aural and other disorders that include cancer, heart failure and kidney damage. Specific disorders considered to be linked to mitochondria-related diseases include Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), stroke, mood disorders, diabetes, fatty liver disease, osteoporosis, cancer, peripheral arterial disease (PAD), agerelated hearing loss (AHL) and others.
Today, the diagnosis of mitochondria-related diseases remains a complicated process due to the wide range of symptoms.
American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week 2019; Washington, DC
Design of the 1128-CL-0201 study, A Phase 2 Proof of Concept, Double-blind, Randomized, Placebo-controlled Study of ASP1128 in Patients at Risk for Acute Kidney Injury following Cardiac Surgery (pdf)
Poster Presentation ASN Conference, San Diego, October 2018
Mitobridge Poster presentation at American Chemical Society Meeting, Boston, August 2018
American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week 2017; New Orleans, LA
Poster: PPARδ modulator MTB-2 enhances fatty acid oxidation (FAO) in vitro and attenuates ischemia-reperfusion-induced gene expression changes in vivo, 48 hours and 14 days post AKI (pdf)
Poster: Modulation of PPARδ with MTB-2 post-reperfusion attenuates ischemia-reperfusion-induced acute kidney injury (IR-AKI) biomarkers and histopathology in rats (pdf)
Poster: MA-0204 modulation of PPARδ promotes recovery after AKI in normal and aged proteinuric diabetic CKD Zsf1 rats by enhancing fatty acid oxidation in proximal tubular epithelial cells (pdf)
INFORM: International Network for Fatty Acid Oxidation Research and Management; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Poster: A novel small-molecule PPARδ modulator for the treatment of fatty acid oxidation disorders (pdf)
Medicinal Chemistry: Gordon Research Conference; New London, NH
PPMD: 2017 Connect Conference; Chicago, IL
Presentation: MA-0211 Activates mitochondria and improves multiple abnormalities in DMD patient muscle cells and mdx mice
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Poster: Selective PPARδ modulation with MA-0211 improves disease phenotype in DMD muscle cells & mdx mice (pdf)
UMDF: 2017 Scientific Program Mitochondrial Medicine; Washington, DC
Poster: PPARδ modulation improves the bioenergetic defect in mitochondrial myopathy (pdf)
Euromit 2017: International Meeting on Mitochondrial Pathology; Cologne, Germany
Poster: Characterization of small molecule inhibitors of Drp1 (pdf)
FASEB SRC - Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Dynamics in Health, Disease and Aging; West Palm Beach, FL
Poster: Discovery of MF-0094, a potent, selective and cell permeable inhibitor of USP30 (pdf)
2017 Keystone Symposia Conference: Mitochondria Communication; Taos, New Mexico
Poster: PPAR modulation partially restores the mitochondrial deficiency caused by the absence of dystrophin in mdx mice (pdf)
Poster: A novel assay evaluating mitophagy in postmitotic skeletal muscle cells (pdf)
PPMD 2016 Annual Connect Conference; Chicago, IL
Presentation: MTB-1 mediated gene regulation shows beneficial effects in DMD patient cells and mdx mice (pdf)
NHLBI/NIDDK Mitochondrial Biology Symposium: Novel Roles of Mitochondria in Health and Disease; National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland
Poster: Mitochondrial deficiency in primary myoblasts from mdx mice (pdf)
Intimate Relations—Mitochondria and Ageing
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Targeting acute kidney injury in COVID-19
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Mitobridge; Highly selective peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor d (PPARd) modulator demonstrates improved safety profile compared to GW501516
Mitobridge; Selective PPARδ Modulators Improve Mitochondrial Function:Potential Treatment for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)
Mitobridge; Novel highly selective inhibitors of ubiquitin specific protease 30 (USP30) accelerate mitophagy
Mitobridge; Novel highly selective peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor d (PPARd) modulators with pharmacokinetic properties suitablefor once-daily oral dosing
Discovery and characterization of selective small molecule inhibitors of the mammalian mitochondrial division dynamin, DRP1
Mitobridge Dpr1
Novel highly selective peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor δ (PPARδ) modulators with pharmacokinetic properties suitable for once-daily oral dosing
Lagu B, Kluge AF, Fredenburg RA, Tozzo E, Senaiar RS, Jaleel M, Panigrahi SK, Tiwari NK, Krishnamurthy NR, Takahashi T, Patane M
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A Novel Mitophagy Assay for Skeletal Myotubes
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Specialty firm Edison Pharmaceuticals of Mountain View, California, has entered a strategic alliance worth up to $4.3 billon with Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma (DSP) of Osaka, Japan, to develop drugs for inherited respiratory chain diseases of the mitochondria. Under terms of the deal, the companies will jointly expand Edison's pipeline, bringing…
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Jim Pollock & Friends - Banjos, Ballads And Blues Album
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Jim Pollock & Friends
Banjos, Ballads And Blues
Dixieland, Ragtime, Bluegrass
1 Canadian Capers 2:33
2 Side One
3 This Land Is Your Land 2:11
4 Crazy 3:57
5 Nevertheless 3:48
6 Mandy 2:06
7 Basin Street Blues 2:32
8 Georgia On My Mind 2:17
9 Unforgettable 3:57
10 Liebes Freud 1:47
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12 When The Saints Go Marching In 2:36
13 Amazing Grace 3:03
14 Dueling Banjos 2:00
15 Stephen Foster Medley 2:49
16 Baby Won't You Please Come Home 2:29
17 Mame / I'm Gonna Sit Right Down & Write Myself A Letter Medley 2:21
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19 Granada 2:24
20 Alabamy Bound 1:51
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Ballads And Blues - Joey DeFrancesco. Лента с персональными рекомендациями и музыкальными новинками, радио, подборки на любой вкус, удобное управление своей. Jim Pollock 2. 프로필: Started playing the banjo at Menlo School and Stanford in the 1950s. His early mentor was Don Van Palta and his recent mentor is Buddy Wachter. After graduation from Stanford, Jim traveled with Freddy Finn nee Soetje and played at Shakeys at 47th Street in Sacramento, The Honey Bucket in San Francisco, the Red Garter in San Francisco, Ye Olde Pizza Joynt in Hayward, the Swing Door in San Mateo and Homewood Lodge at Lake Tahoe. He also played with Wally Rose at Gold Street in San Francisco. Jim Pollock 2 & Friends - Banjos, Ballads And Blues CD, Album. Not On Label. Blues and Ballads is a studio album by jazz pianist Brad Mehldau. It is a piano trio recording, with Larry Grenadier on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums. Mehldau received a Grammy nomination at the end of 2016 for Best Improvised Jazz Solo on the album's I Concentrate on You. The previous release by the trio of Brad Mehldau piano, Larry Grenadier bass, and Jeff Ballard drums was Where Do You Start, in 2012. Banjos, Ballads and Buddies. All proceeds are to benefit Beth and Johnny Rawls. Beth is fighting breast cancer. Well friends and family, today is the first annual Banjos, Ballads and Buddies anniversary. I am happy to say that Beth Welch Rawls has come a long way since this time last year. About this time last year, we were listening to some awesome music by Carl, Larry, Jerry, Val, Bradley and some great jokes by Lonnie. I am so thankful to all of you and will forever be grateful to each of you for the support and love that you showed to Beth and Johnny. Blues Library - BALLADS AND BLUES 2020. To favorites 0 Download album. Listen album. Blues Library. СТРАНА: USA. Songs in album Blues Library - BALLADS AND BLUES 2020. Blues Library - Ballads And Blues. Blues Library - The Air Near My Fingers. Blues Library - Take Me Down. While Ballads and. While Ballads and Blues may sound like a mellow batch of tunes to listen to while strolling in the park, the ever-soulful Joey DeFrancesco has something else in mind. The album takes off with Get It All, a groovy piece of funk complete with Paul Bollenback's zesty guitar and Byron Landham's balanced backbeat. A steady, rocking groove also defines pieces like Take the Coltrane and Jammin' in the Basement. Ballads, Blues And Boasters - Harry Belafonte. Sings Ballads And Blues - Josh White. Slow Blues & Blues Ballads - The Best Slow Blues Songs Ever Vol1. MASTERS OF BLUES, B. King - Eric Clapton -SRV - Buddy Guy And Friends. Язык: Русский. Страна: США. Most important - you can download the album Blues and Ballads - 1962 - 21 Successes to your computer or phone absolutely free of charge, and without registration. Listen online and stay in a good mood. Album: Blues and Ballads - 1962 - 21 Successes 2018
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Taking flight: Boeing 737 MAX is back in the skies
Commercial flights with Boeing 737 MAX jetliners resumed on Wednesday for the first time since they were grounded worldwide following two deadly accidents nearly two years ago.
Brazil’s Gol Airlines became the first in the world to return the planes to its active fleet, using a 737 MAX 8 on a flight from Sao Paulo to Porto Alegre, according to flightradar24.com.
The company’s own announcement did not specify the route of the flight.
Gol is set to start regular service on December 18, according to aviation data firm Cirium, with several daily flights between São Paulo and other major Brazilian cities.
Customers will be able to exchange their tickets if they do not want to fly on a 737 MAX, a Gol spokesperson told The Associated Press news agency in an email.
Gol, the country’s largest airline with 36 million passengers annually, owns seven 737 MAX aircraft, according to Cirium. It is the only Brazilian company with the model in its fleet.
The Boeing plane was grounded globally in March 2019, shortly after a 737 MAX crashed in Ethiopia. A prior crash in Indonesia involving the model occurred in October 2018. In all, 346 people died.
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Foreword to the history of the great academic dictionary of the russian language
Портал «Наша среда» начинает публикацию глав из «Истории Большого академического словаря русского языка», подготовленного коллективом авторов под редакцией доктора Марка Карамяна (США/Мексика) и доктора Станислава Голованя (США/Мексика).
Это подарок от американских лингвистов-русофилов русскому народу, студентам и профессорам факультетов славянских языков, всем любителям русской словесности.
Выражаем признательность доктору Марку Карамяну за любезно предоставленные материалы.
Статья взята из: Kaрамян М., Головань С. История Большого Академического Словаря Русского Языка, стр. 16-22: Σίγμα: Лондон, Сан-Франциско, Акапулько, 2012.
Jack L. Cross, Ph.D.
Austin, USA, 2011.
“We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything”.
– Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
This Monograph is a result of a collective effort of hundreds of editorial years employed, starting from Aristotle, Voltaire, É. Littré, L.V. Shcherba, V.V. Vinogradov, H.H. Adjarian, S.G. Barkhudarov, Yu.D. Apresyan, K.S. Gorbachevich, A.S. Gerd, F.P. Sorokoletov, L.E. Kruglikova to the Editorial Collegium of TDK, lead by M.M. Karamian. The topic of the Monograph is apropos to the Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language along with some fascinating moments and facts from Russian history and the period during which the Dictionary was being written. It covers approximately 175 years of turbulent and glorious history of Russian academic lexicography.
The title of this Monograph, by containing the word history, would definitely manifest, chronicle and archive changes in Russian academic lexicography during a given period of time.
The History of the Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language is exclusively intended and envisaged for those in masterful virtuosity in philological, linguistic, and mainly lexicographical studies, who are eloquent in Russian, English, French, Bulgarian, German, articulate in Greek, Latin and Armenian. The principal languages employed for this ouvre are Russian and English. Without this precondition by compulsory stipulation of multilingual proficiency in linguistic expertise, simply governed by common sense, the coherently apprehensive notion of the Monograph will be worthlessly discredited and unscrupulously defaced in underestimating “intellectual” merit through the darkness of the reader’s ignorance.
The History of the Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language is profoundly understood as the combined history of Academician Jacob Grot’s Dictionary of the Russian Language, the first, second (Словарь современного русского литературного языка) and new editions of the Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language.
The Monograph is sectioned into two correspondingly independent anthological partitions:
1) The Prolegomenon as an extended introductory passage which can be surveyed as a guide to a condensed and reflexive version of the Extrapolated Inferential Proposition;
2) The Extrapolated Inferential Proposition, formulated through Terminal Objectives, which is an anthology of select essays directly related to the theoretical and practical aspects of the History of the Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language and the Great Academic Dictionary.
The entire work, as a single unit, is chronologically arranged essays, directly complementing the main subject. Each chapter can be read, used and lectured independently. Therefore, the work is formulated to appear not just as a glorious appendix to the Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language, serving as a companion volume, but it is also composed and devised to perform as a functional and utilitarian textbook on Russian academic normative lexicography not just for Russian students of philological studies, or foreign students at departments of Slavic languages at different universities around the world and russophiles likewise, but, in the interim, to play an impressive role to function as a guidebook for professorial lecturers and as an illustrious Preface to the Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language, as well.
The deficiency of an empirical textbook on such a subject has never existed before for foreign students. The state of Russian studies abroad have always been in dire demand for it for many years with no positive outcome. Hence, the Monograph is considered to appear as the first and only attempt on this particular subject matter to be realized outside Russia as somewhat of a complete portrait of Russian academic lexicography to serve its objectively affirmative duty for illuminating numerous specialists in Russian studies theoretically and practically.
The History of the Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language is not just a descriptive subject on what the bare name of the Monograph suggests. The Great Academic dictionary is a normative explanatory dictionary. Its lexicographical motivation does not just focus on the descriptive methodology of Russian words. In fact, it is a normative dictionary, meaning that the dictionary maintains and focuses on several norms: grammatical, morphologic, syntactic, semantic, orthographic, orthoepic, word-formational, word-combinational, phraseological, idiomatic, stylistic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic metamorphosis, correct mode of expression in reading-writing-speaking strategies of contemporary Russian literary language etc.
As a result, all the above mentioned disciplines and lexical factors candidly constitute the dictionary as of an active type lexicographical toil, both for a learner to master Russian and for a reader to understand the written text in Russian. In another words, the Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language is prepared for a specific purpose:
1) for obtaining correct and error-free reading skills;
2) for developing perfect and clear cognitive abilities;
3) for mastering reader’s skills into learner’s expertise.
One (1 and 2) is intended to comprehend correct letter-perfect writing artistry and aptitude, and the other (3) for the ability to precisely master word-perfect speaking and virtuosity. This particular subject is well elucidated in § 85 (see pages 471-475).
In due course, some minor portions in different essays are recapitulated, leaving the editorial collegium no choice to avoid this method of several attempts of “dress rehearsals”. However, Thomas Aquinas’ platitude comes to us proficiently to remind everyone that “Repeticio est mater studiorum”. Such recapitulation has its own deductive purposes.
To understand the essence and the difference between classical Russian, literary Russian, current Russian and contemporary Russian literary language altogether has generated a unique vortex of perplexity to such a considerable degree that entirely unabridged chapters by the giants in lexicography had to be integrated into compositional oeuvres, essays and discourses to alleviate the the process of comprehension as transparent as possible. The end result of this predicament is to approach the reader of the Great Academic Dictionary closer to Russian literature. Hence, the Great Academic Dictionary justifies the dutifully respectful title of being the genuinely attested envoy to the norms and usages of classical and current Russian language.
The Monograph generously reflects most related subjects, dealing with the lexicographical questions in theory and practice. There are sufficient amounts of information regarding the dictionary making art, the place where the Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language is made, and the people who have laboured very strenuously for many decades to compile, edit and re-edit the Dictionary for us as a lexicographical symbol to be unified under one nation and one language, amplifying all of our love towards our Mother Russia and our sacred Russian language.
It would be very erroneous and delusional to consider this Monograph either complete or finished. It is far from being a perfect manual yet it serves its true purpose for the cause. However, the second edition will be systematized, edited and mastered in a better and suitable scheme than this present prototype if unconditional support will be provided by the professionals from the Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Based on many suggestions from Alexander Gerd, the editor-in-chief of the Great Academic Dictionary, and Oxford University colleagues this Monograph shall reflect the principal questions regarding Russian academic lexicography and its indispensable value as a scientific project, functional and constructive manual for the reader and the student of philological studies, especially, keeping in mind the obscure fact, that this particular subject matter has been very vaguely and incompletely ill-presented to the professionals and students of the West.
As a result, the system of delivering the message must have been modified from the norm, in order to incorporate the following four aspects in the dictionary making art for elucidating the reader about the immense achievements of Russian academic lexicography, and especially Soviet lexicography which still stands very resolutely on its firm plinth as the foundation for today’s and tomorrow’s lexicography whether in Russia or elsewhere in the world:
■ the analysis of the general philology: Russian linguistics, study of Russian literature, literary criticism and textology within the Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language;
■ historism: (not to be confused with historicism) philosophical and historiographical theory; man, his binding to tradition, and the awareness of human’s affection by their past, documented in lexicography, e. g. the history of Russian academic lexicography and Russian words;
■ semantism, the study of meaning; the “synergic” picture of semantic (polysemantic) definition of lexical values within descriptive (and sometimes prescriptive) definition of presented systemology. Semantics is the subfield that is devoted to the study of meaning, as inherent at the levels of Russian words, phrases, sentences, and larger units of discourse (referred to as texts). The basic area of the study is the meaning of signification, and the study of the relation between different linguistic units and compounds: homonymy, synonymy, antonymy, hypernymy, hyponymy, meronymy, metonymy, holonymy, paronymy. The focal concern is how meaning attaches itself to larger portions of text, possibly as a result of the composition from smaller units of meaning. Traditionally, semantics has included the study of sense and denotative reference, truth conditions, argument structure, thematic roles, discourse analysis, and the linkage of all of these to syntax.; and
■ pure lexicographism as it has been developed by the same governing body, now the Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Developing contemporary Russian literary language through normative, historical and other types of dictionaries by passionately selecting quotations from Russian literature for correct usage and its functionality as the motivation and the essence of St. Petersburg academic lexicography. Based on Professor Alexander Gerd, lexicographism is contingent upon several predicaments:
«1. взаимопроникновение методов различных наук и совершенствование методов традиционных школ и направлений;
2. постоянное возникновение новых научных направлений;
3. интеграция отдельных отраслей знания и дальнейшая все углубляющаяся дифференциация внутри различных наук, рост их полиаспектности;
4. коллективный характер научного творчества, рост комплексно решаемых тем, проблем;
5. интеграция вузовской науки и науки академической, отраслевой;
6. появление межотраслевых, межведомственных коллективов;
7. практическое внедрение результатов научных разработок;
8. постоянное совершенствование системы организации и управления наукой, автоматизация всего исследовательского процесса» (1).
The Monograph is written in a classical style of mindset or in an old philological spirit to counterpart the modus operandi of the Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language. The Prolegomenon is a brief and reflective version of the Monograph itself. However, the Prolegomenon and the Monograph do not absolutely compliment each other in every respect, even though they both exemplify identical rendition of similar subject matter in different proportions and emphases. Nevertheless, they could be surveyed and considered as independent components at the same time.
Each chapter in the Prolegomenon is a reference and a link to the Terminal Objectives in the body of the Monograph where the same topic is discussed in a completely different light either by the author or other famous academic figures, portraying Russian academic lexicography through Golden Essays, unveiling numerous cardinal theoretical cases, later to become maxims in the science of global lexicography.
Consequently, each chapter is an independent essay or lecture. The entire book is an indispensable reserve which can be also utilized as a majorly invaluable source in the role of significantly accumulated and meaningfully edited material for future projects in further studies in lexicography and linguistics for those who propose it as an initial topic for their dissertation in lexicography and linguistics in pursuit of one’s advancement in academism (see appendix 1 ,“To the student-researcher” on page 495).
The History of the Great Academic Dictionary is not compiled based on a new idea. It took seven years (1794–1801) for Professor A.L. Schlözer from Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen to finish his Review on Словарь Академии Российской (тт. I–VI, Санкт-Петербург, 1789–1794) which was sent to him by Catherine Dashkova in 1794. Ironically, Professor Schlözer wanted to do the same, to write a brief history on the Russian Academy, Academic Lexicography and the Словарь Академии Российской which had never happened. Coincidentally, that wish has been fulfilled presently, ever since the initial work was commenced on this Monograph six years ago, in 2006 (MMK, ИБАС: 33).
Once again, “The History of the Great Academic Dictionary is compiled purposely to serve as a Companion Volume or as a Grand Introduction to the Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language. In another words, the Great Academic Dictionary is a monumental oeuvre, supported by a temporary pedestal, the History of the Great Academic Dictionary, for the time being until its permanent version is finalized by utilizing the material herewithin.
The traditional style and structure of a monograph is not what has been maintained or chosen in this instance. This Monograph is purposely structured as a draft presentation to an applied dissertation to serve as an example for students in advanced studies.
All the material used for comparison purposes traces back to Academician Jacob Carlovich Grot’s Dictionary of the Russian Language, Volume I, А–Д, St. Petersburg, 1893. As a result, the existence of the Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language is emphatically credited to this particular and unfinished academic normative dictionary, formatted and edited by Jacob Grot (2), and Словарь Современного Русского Литературного Языка. Grot’s
Dictionary had become the beacon to Russian normative lexicography and the initial reasoning behind this Monograph to come into existence.
The dictionary is not just a book about words. Words are symbols of graphemes, structured with the aid of powerful capabilities of the alphabet. Therefore, the text of this Monograph takes into consideration the state of the Russian alphabet. In fact, the entire work is somewhat of a system, coinciding with an epigram “От азбука до словаря”.
The originally compiled amass of material regarding Russian lexicography was arranged to represent the subject from Cyril and Methodius’ cyrillic alphabet to Peter the Great’s orthographical reform to the establishment of the Russian Academy in 1783 by Catherine the Great and Catherine Dashkova; from the Russian Academy’s Dictionary of the Russian Academy to Academician Grot’s Dictionary of the Russian Language leading to the postulation and realization of the Great Academic Dictionary and its newest edition which has been in the production process since 2004.
In this respect, the proposed outline was going to discuss the following periods in Russian lexicography:
1) from the XI century to 1710 (Кирилица – Гражданица);
2) from 1710 to 1783 (Петровская реформа – САР);
3) from 1783 to 1895 (САР – Словарь русского языка Я.К. Грота);
4) from 1895 to 1940 (Словарь русского языка Я.К. Грота – БАС1);
5) from 1940 to the present day (БАС1 – Новый БАС).
However, due to the extremely intense magnitude of this project with very little help, the realized plan had to be shelved in order to apply a rational approach to it, waiting to be condensed and re-planned in a different method for complimenting the subject matter properly. The material was extremely large, requiring the drudgery to be sectioned into a multi-volume set. The cost for the production would not be feasible. To facilitate the plan for the book and find a solution for this dilemma, by turning it into a more reasonable version, the editorial collegium made a firm decision to start the project from 1895, from the first normative dictionary to the latest, Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language in its new edition. This resolution would give more logical time frame and space, intended for the actual work to be prepared and printed sensibly.
Even the present History of the Great Academic Dictionary (from 1895 to the new GAD) is still an immensely devised work in its size, material coverage and numerous illustrations pasted throughout the entire Monograph. This would make the printing process almost impossible! The only solution suggested to us by the Oxford University Press was to reduce the text of the History of the Great Academic Dictionary micrographically to have the chance to represent our opus in a comfortably desirable single volumed book, furnished with a similar magnifying reading lens which is exclusively designed for the deluxe edition of The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, containing the entire 20 volumes of the second edition of the OED in a single book. Without employing this method of production, the History of the Great Academic Dictionary would have become another white elephant”(MMK, ИБАС).
To expedite the utilization of the book, the editorial team decided to furnish the book with iBooks version for iPad, containing the extended variant of the History of the Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language and USB micro-flash drive to provide the reader with an option to print-out any desired portion of the Monograph for further study.
The history of the Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language cannot be supported by itself only. Even though it is a new dictionary, written on new principles, however, it must have originated from somewhere. All these questions will be answered throughout the entire Monograph which has acquired an identity of a manual or a textbook designed for native or non-native students of philological studies, and for all who are interested in lexicography and the Russian language.
The History of the Great Academic Dictionary is written and prepared for one purpose in mind – to elucidate the reader on theoretical and practical questions, concerning the several disciplines, unifying and consolidating the lexicographical science into a single book along with essentially systematic and canonic writings of the Soviet lexicographic giants in this field, since the Preface to the Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language (Большой академический словарь русского языка. Том 1. Санкт-Петербург. 2004.) appears to be overly and equivocally concise.
The inverted or “contrapuntal” purpose of the Monograph is to review the Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language from the historical and theoretical point of view by discussing its scientific and philological impact on the Russian language and its usage, the pure motivations of a normative dictionary in its active capacity.
The authors perspicuously take into consideration the fact that any omissions and misinterpretations are directly related to the history of Russian Lexicography which still remains as an underdeveloped chapter in history.
Meanwhile, it is essential to note that major epochs of historical developments through which Russian lexicography has been shifted forward have found their irreplaceable venue throughout the text of the History of the Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language.
Alexandre Pouchkine (1799-1837)
Eugène Onéguine, La Lettre De Tatiana
«Je vous écris ; voilà c’est tout.
Et je n’ai plus rien à vous dire.
Maintenant, je sais, vous pouvez
Me mépriser pour me punir.
Mais vous aurez pour mon malheur
Juste un petit peu de pitié.
Vous ne m’abandonnerez pas.
Au début, je voulais me taire.
Croyez-moi : vous n’auriez jamais
Rien su de ce qui fait ma honte,
Si j’avais pu avoir l’espoir
De vous voir dans notre village
Peut-être une fois par semaine,
Juste d’entendre votre voix,
De vous dire un mot, pour, ensuite,
Jour et nuit penser et penser,
Jusqu’à ce que vous reveniez.
Oui, mais non vous dit misanthrope.
Notre campagne vous ennuie.
Ce que nous offrons est bien peu.
Mais nous vous l’offrons de bon cœur.
Il a fallu que vous veniez.
Perdue au fond de mon village,
J’aurais pu ne pas vous connaître,
Le trouble de mon cœur naïf
Aurait passé avec le temps
(Qui sait ?) et j’aurais rencontré
Un compagnon ; j’aurais été
Fidèle épouse et bonne mère.
Un autre ! Non personne au monde.
Mon cœur n’était pas fait pour eux.
Le ciel en avait décidé ;
Il l’a voulu : je suis à toi.
Toute ma vie fut la promesse
De cette rencontre avec toi.
C’est Dieu qui t’envoie, je le sais
Pour me garder jusqu’à la mort…
Tu apparaissais dans mes rêves ;
Sans te voir je te chérissais
Ton regard me faisait languir,
Ta voix résonnait dans mon âme
Depuis toujours… En vérité
Je t’ai reconnu tout de suite.
Ce fut pour moi un froid, un feu,
Et dans mon cœur, j’ai dit : c’est lui!
Je t’entendais dans le silence,
Quand j’allais secourir les pauvres
Ou quand la prière apaisait
L’angoisse de mon âme en peine.
Et maintenant, à l’instant même,
C’est toi qui viens de te glisser,
Chère vision, dans la pénombre,
De te pencher à mon chevet,
De me dire des mots d’espoir,
Ces mots d’amour qui me consolent.
Qui es-tu ? Mon ange gardien?
Ou le perfide Tentateur?
Je doute. Viens me rassurer.
Tout cela, serait-ce un mirage?
Mon âme naïve se trompe!
Et l’avenir sera tout autre…
Eh bien ! J’y consens ! A jamais
Je te confie ma destinée.
Je suis là, devant toi, je pleure.
Protège moi, je t’en supplie.
Songe que je suis seule ici,
Que personne ne me comprend.
Songe que ma raison s’égare,
Que je vais mourir sans rien dire.
Je t’attends, que, d’un seul regard,
Tu rendes l’espoir à mon cœur,
Ou qu’un reproche mérité,
Hélas ! mette fin à mon rêve.
J’achève. J’ai peur de relire…
Je frémis de peur et de honte…
Mais je compte sur votre honneur.
Hardiment, je me fie en lui» (3).
(1823-1831).
1) Герд А.С. Ларинская лексикографическая школа Петербургского (Ленинградского) Университета // Русская историческая лексикология и лексикография, № 7, Санкт-Петербург, 2007. С. 3-24.
2) Jacob Carlovich Grot (Яков Кaрлович Грот) (1812–1893), was a XIX century Russian philologist of Swedish extraction who worked at the University of Helsinki. Grot was a graduate of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. In his lifetime he gained fame for his translations of German and Scandinavian poetry, his work on the theory of Russian orthography, lexicography, and grammar, and his approach to literary editing and criticism, exemplified in a full edition of the works of Derzhavin (1864–1883). His Russkoye Pravopisaniye (1878, 1885) (Русское правописание, Russian orthography) became the standard textbook of Russian spelling and punctuation until superseded by the decrees of 1917–1918, although his definition of the theoretical foundations remains little changed to this day. Shortly before his death, he assumed the compilation of the Academic dictionary of Russian (1891–1923), which, although continued by Aleksey Shakhmatov, was never to be completed. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1858, its chairman from 1884, and its vice-president from 1889. He was appointed Russian-language tutor to the future tsars Alexander II and Alexander III. His spelling primers «reduced words to historical hieroglyphs of a kind, mismatched with the living spoken language of most Russians»; later linguists like Baudouin de Courtenay and Filipp Fortunatov promoted reforms that would make spelling a better reflection of the spoken language.
3) Alexandre Pouchkine, Eugène Onéguine, 1823-1831 traducteur: Jean-Louis Backès. Paris: Folio Classique, 1996.
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A Recap of our 80th Anniversary
The Nature Lab just finished celebrating its 80th year with the closing of Biodesign: From Inspiration to Integration, an exhibition curated in collaboration with William Myers. Biodesign looked to the future to decipher how our complex relationship with nature might evolve, a fitting culmination to the 80th anniversary programming series that began with the founder Edna W. Lawrence’s vision for the institution.
During her 50+ year tenure, Miss Lawrence introduced students to a way of seeing nature (and its details) as fundamental forms and patterns in art and design. She valued object-based learning, close-looking, and interdisciplinary thought. While her shells, insects, plants, animals, bones, textiles, ceramics, wood, and more have catalyzed creativity for students each year, Miss Lawrence's lifelong endeavor resulted in a significant resource for the RISD community, and a legacy that continues to grow today.
The 80th anniversary celebration featured 20 events, ranging from exhibitions such as Latin-American Collection Exhibition: aka "The Greatest Show on Earth" curated by Oswaldo Chinchilla [BFA '21 ID CER] to an entire symposium on biodesign. Some highlights from the year include:
Patterns Inconceivable: the History and Influence of the Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab
Patterns Inconceivable ran from Sept 7–Dec 15, 2017 at RISD Fleet Library and made connections between Edna Lawrence’s ideas and the Nature Lab’s advancements in recent years. Combining collections from the Lab with records from RISD’s Archives, the exhibition traced Edna’s development of the Lab, from her idiosyncratic acquisition records to her extensive travels. The exhibition also presented selections from the variety of collections that had become part of the Nature Lab over the years.
Tribute Booth: Anecdotes about Miss Lawrence and the Nature Lab
We had a wonderful response at 2017's RISD Weekend events that kicked off our 80th year. The Weekend featured workshops, lectures, exhibitions, field trips and conversations around how the Edna Lawrence Nature Lab began and what we're planning for the future. During the Tribute Booth, several alums were interviewed and reflected on their experience at the Nature Lab. Click the link above to hear the stories!
Graduate Liason Fall Workshop Series
Led by Maria Eugenia Moya Martinez [MFA '18 SC], Adam Chuong [MID '19], Peter Lokken [MFA '18 FURN], and Kylie King [MDes '18], these workshops invited members of the RISD community to grow crystals, experiment with bioplastics, and make paper using invasive species.
The Nature Lab: An homage to the RISD Nature Lab and its founder Edna Lawrence
Curated by RISD Alumnus Eric Wolf, this group exhibition featured contemporary work by 92 artists and ran from Feb 17–Mar 17, 2018. The selections for this show represented nature in widely varying ways across an extensive spectrum of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, video, installation, photography, and even writing. The result was a salon-style installation that felt richly colored, textured, and patterned, much like the Nature Lab itself.
Salon: RISD's Nature Lab and the vision of founder Edna W. Lawrence
The Providence Athenaeum's April 6th Salon brought together three panelists to discuss the significance of Edna Lawrence’s vision from their respective disciplines. Entomologist David Wagner discussed the role of color and pattern in nature; Nature Lab Coordinator Betsy Ruppa regaled with stories about the origins of the natural history collection and its value to an art school; and Senior Critic in RISD’s Experimental and Foundation Studies department Alba Corrado shared memories of Edna Lawrence as one of her former students. The salon also served as the opening of the Observing Nature: Edna Lawrence & Cabinets of Curiosities exhibit in the Philbrick Rare Book Room.
Nature Lab Workshop Series: MACRO
On May 4, the Nature Lab invited the RISD community to explore color, pattern, and structure in natural specimens through multiple scales. Participants learned to use different imaging systems—from the stereoscope to SEM microscopy to the Lab’s recently acquired Macropod—to photograph specimens magnified 40x to 40,000x!
Completion of the Biodesign Makerspace
Starting with the installation of the Living Wall in 2017 followed by two INTAR studios (Designing with Nature and ADv) and a summer build led by Jen Bissonnette and Eduardo Duarte, students designed and constructed the new Makerspace. Projects completed include the biophilic ceiling, nesting tables that pivot around the room's columns, a biomorphic work bench, and cabinetry with custom cork countertops and mycelium detailing. Funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the space will test the impacts of biophilic design in an educational setting and provide a STEAM makerspace for working with nature's technologies.
Growing Crystals, Learning about Bioplastics, and Papermaking with Invasive Species
Open Call for Proposals!
The Nature Lab is Building a Biodesign Maker Space
Patterns Inconceivable : the History and Influence of the Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab
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Judicial ethics and discipline
A blog of the Center for Judicial Ethics of the National Center for State Courts
Posted on October 11, 2016 by graycynthia
The Alabama Court of the Judiciary suspended the Chief Justice from office without pay for the remainder of his term for entering an administrative order that directed or appeared to direct all Alabama probate judges to follow Alabama’s marriage laws in disregard of a federal court injunction. In the Matter of Moore, Final judgment (Alabama Court of the Judiciary September 30, 2016).
The California Commission on Judicial Performance admonished a judge for making discourteous and undignified comments to 4 prospective jurors during jury selection and improperly ordering 1 of them to wait in the hall after she had been excused. Inquiry Concerning Clarke, Public admonishment (California Commission on Judicial Performance September 29, 2016).
The Illinois Courts Commission censured a judge for making misrepresentations in her mortgage application that caused the lender to believe she occupied the property as her primary residence when, in fact, she resided at another property and had no intention of establishing residence at the property she was re-financing. In re Santiago (Illinois Courts Commission August 18, 2016).
Based on the judge’s agreement, the Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission suspended a judge for 14 days without pay for keeping a witness incarcerated for contempt of court for over 2 months without appointing an attorney to represent her, setting bond, or holding a hearing. In re Miniard, Agreed order of suspension (Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission September 2, 2016).
Based on the judge’s agreement, the Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission suspended a judge for 7 days without pay for granting a father’s ex parte motion for immediate custody of a child. In re Stein, Agreed order of suspension (Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission September 12, 2016).
The Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission privately reprimanded a judge for allowing cases to remain active, in some cases for several years, without ruling on pending motions or issuing final orders. Order of private reprimand (Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission September 7, 2016).
Based on an agreed statement of facts and joint recommendation, the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct admonished a judge for (1) making condescending and inappropriate remarks about a teenage sexual assault victim during a plea discussion while the jury was deliberating; (2) becoming angry with the county district attorney in a second case and making loud and derogatory statements to the district attorney; and (3) making disparaging and provocative comments in a third case regarding the familial relationship between the district attorney and a potential witness. In the Matter of Hafner, Determination (New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct August 29, 2016).
Based on the judge’s acknowledgement of the basis for the complaint and her successful compliance with a judicial diversion program, the Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline dismissed the Judicial Conduct Board’s complaint alleging the judge engaged “in unpleasant treatment both on and off the bench” of lawyers, litigants, her personal staff, and county employees and engaged in ex parte communications. In re Domitrovich, Order (Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline August 31, 2016).
Based on an agreement for discipline by consent, the South Carolina Supreme Court reprimanded a magistrate for hearing matters involving the sheriff’s department after her husband became the sheriff. In the Matter of Underwood (South Carolina Supreme Court September 14, 2016).
Based on the judge’s resignation and his agreement to be disqualified from judicial service in the state, the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct agreed not to pursue further disciplinary proceedings against the judge; the agreement notes that (1) the Commission had been investigating allegations that, in February, the judge exchanged sexually graphic messages, photos, and videos with a woman while attending a Commission meeting as vice chair and while attending an education conference in his official capacity; (2) during the investigation, the judge failed to timely produce requested records and evidence, deleted information from a social media account and from his cell phone before donating it to charity, failed to provide complete and candid testimony in response to Commission inquiries, and attempted to influence the testimony of a witness; and (3) in June, the judge was indicted on 3 counts of violating the Texas Open Meetings Act. Baker, Voluntary agreement to resign from judicial office in lieu of disciplinary action (Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct September 22, 2016).
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Murphy Said He Holds His Campaign to a ‘Higher Standard’ Than Others
By Alyana Alfaro • 06/30/16 1:54pm
Murphy at a town hall event in Hackensack.
As Former Ambassador Phil Murphy continues working to claw his way into a state of relevancy ahead of the 2017 Democratic gubernatorial primary, the candidate claims that his campaign is working to inspire New Jerseyans who have grown weary of Governor Chris Christie and Trenton politics.
In an email blast sent out on Thursday, Murphy said that he had countless conversations with New Jerseyans before his decision to enter the gubernatorial race as the first high-profile Democratic candidate to officially declare.
“What I heard over and over in these conversations was that our residents believe that Governor Christie and his allies in Trenton serve themselves instead of the people of our state,” Murphy said in the email blast. “They’re not wrong — and they’re right to be fed up with a state economy that lags behind the region and the nation.”
Murphy also said that his campaign will not be accepting anonymous donations.
“We’re not going to fund this effort the way others do. I’m holding our campaign to a higher standard. I won’t accept any anonymous donations. Dark money has no place in our politics,” Murphy’s email said. Additionally, Murphy’s campaign has recently been pushing a trip giveaway to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia to a donor.
Murphy’s email comes on the same day that lawmakers in Trenton—including likely gubernatorial challenger Senate President Steve Sweeney—attempt to pass legislation that will fix the bankrupting Transportation Trust Fund (TTF). The deadline for that fix is looming. Initially, a senate-approved plan aimed to levy at 23 cent per gallon tax increase on gas to fund the TTF while tax cuts like an estate tax phase out would provide some tax relief. On Monday night, however, the assembly voted late in the night on a deal Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto stuck with Christie to keep the gas tax increase and, instead of the senate’s favored tax cuts, cut the New Jersey sales tax to 6 percent. Because Murphy is not a legislator, he has been left out of those negotiations and with little route to express his opinions on the plan.
Even so, Murphy did not hesitate to blast Christie for his connection to Trump as the TTF deadline comes nearer.
“It’s critically important for us to build a progressive movement in New Jersey that not only stands with workers and families to defeat the Christie – Trump agenda this November, but also keeps fighting for those values in the gubernatorial election next year,” Murphy wrote.
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The Israeli-Palestinian ensemble drama Ajami is thoroughly polarized and amazingly un-polarizing: No matter which side you’re on, the brutality will make you sick. Co-directed by an Israeli Jew, Yaron Shani, and a Palestinian Arab, Scandor Copti, the film is a tapestry of tragedies that skips between Tel Aviv and the Palestinian territories. Rash acts of violence lead to rash retaliations, which lead to even more pointless blowbacks. It’s not a one-to-one, eye-for-an-eye ratio: The homicidal rage is rather amorphous. Shani and Copti invert the narrative so that you see the carnage first and only later figure out the senseless reason someone died.
The opening scene depicts the senseless assassination by Bedouin motorcyclists of a Palestinian Arab teenager fixing a car: senseless because it turns out to be payback for the teen’s uncle’s shooting of a Bedouin gangster who (senselessly) shot up the uncle’s café; and even more senseless because the motorcyclists killed the wrong teenager (a neighbor). Jaffa’s Ajami neighborhood, not far from Tel Aviv, is like Chicago in the twenties — only worse, because the pressure on Palestinians comes from their own side as well as Israeli cops and soldiers. To pay off the Bedouin crime family and keep their desperately ill mother alive, the young Muslim Omar (Shahir Kabaha) and his gifted, artistic kid brother, Malek (Ibrahim Frege), need to earn a lot of cash quickly. So they steal car parts and scam gas money and slip into Israel proper to work as illegals and end up trying to sell a large quantity of drugs that has passed from hand to hand in a most confusing way. Long after the horrifying consequences of their meeting with an Israeli buyer, the filmmakers are still doubling back to preceding events and teasing out more of the characters’ motives.
A touch more linearity wouldn’t have hurt: Even accounting for its purposefully puzzling structure, Ajami is murkier than it needs to be. The film was partially improvised and shot with handheld cameras, and the actors often blur together — although that in itself is a source of fascination. We think, “Wait — who are we watching? Are these Arabs or Israelis? Do they really look that much alike?” They do. Shani and Copti downplay outright racism. It’s more a matter of poverty and class and tribalism and wounded pride and a climate of vengeance that drives people to violence. Ajami is all about landmines, metaphorical rather than literal. A barbed but initially casual exchange between a Jewish patriarch and his young Arab neighbors grows more and more ugly and explodes into brutality, which ripples through the neighborhood causing more brutality — and somehow leads to a good-natured character (played by director Copti) doing something bizarrely self-destructive, which leads back to Omar and Malek and their bag of drugs and their collision course with a grieving, unstable Israeli cop, Dando (played by ex-policeman Eran Naim).
Apart from Malek, whose haunting sketches evoke his struggle to see beyond the wretched surface of his life, the characters don’t have much stature, and the movie peaks too early. But Ajami transcends its often-mundane mise-en-scène. Palestinian and Israeli parents weep over dead children whose only guilt was by association — until it hits you that every interaction in the movie, from the testy to the murderous, is based on guilt by association. — David Edelstein
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The Confederation of All India Trade (CAIT) on Sunday gave a call for the boycott of Chinese products and has also demanded high custom duties of up to 500% on these goods. The CAIT has taken these steps to condemn China’s act of supporting Pakistan’s case against India’s actions on Jammu and Kashmir at the UNSC (United Nations Security Council).
It said that when China supported and presented Pakistan’s case on the scrapping of article 370 which gave special rights to the state of Jammu and Kashmir, it placed itself amongst the probable enemies of the state.
CAIT National President BC Bhartiya and secretary general Praveen Khandelwal said in a statement- “The import from China in 2017-18 was about 90 billion dollars. Trade with China constitutes more than 40 per cent of total trade deficit which shows that India is a very big market for China and instead of supporting genuine stand of India, it always takes the side of Pakistan even without any logical reason and therefore it is the time when Indian traders and importers should began boycotting Chinese goods.”
The issue will be discussed in a national conference of traders from all states and will be held by the CAIT on August 29.
The CAIT has also requested the government to levy custom duty from 300 to 500 per cent on the import of Chinese goods.
“China has become habitual in supporting Pakistan every matter which is against India and therefore now the time has come when we should reduce our dependence on Chinese goods” said the CAIT. It has also urged the government to seriously consider this issue and take the steps to minimise China’s export to India.
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Blue House to Haddrick’s Mill – Our Technical Response
We have looked at the proposals on the Blue House to Haddrick’s Mill route, to provide a detailed technical response. In our previous overarching response, we have already pointed out our assessment on the Northern Access Corridor schemes. The council’s justification for such destructive changes is wrong to start with and will be a huge detriment to the city, the local area and urban environment for years to come. Available here: https://newcycling.org/gross-greenwash-on-blue-house-roundabout/. Beyond these overall concerns, there are also significant issues that we feel exist at a technical level. In this response we seek to raise these.
Primary road system and local streets
We do not understand how the council is justifying the needs for increasing capacity through this junction. Between 2005 and 2015 the A roads on the Northern Access Corridor have seen an actual reduction in motor traffic volume.
Chart showing change in motor traffic volumes on A roads connected to the Northern Access Corridor (data taken from http://www.dft.gov.uk/traffic-counts/cp.php?la=Newcastle+upon+Tyne)
The roads that the Northern Access Corridor junctions connects show a decrease in traffic volumes and hence demonstrate spare capacity. With no change in car parking planned for the Newcastle city centre (NB we advocate a reduction in car parking), and with the significant planned housing developments being outside the A1 and A19 roads (primary road system), there is no technical reason to cater for an increase in traffic volumes along this route.
Local streets are for local people and their communities
By designing to increase traffic volumes the council will encourage driving on a route that already creates severance issues between Jesmond and Gosforth. Instead council should work on defining a road system that directs drivers to use of the primary roads that circle the city (A1 and A19). If there are capacity issues along the A1 and A19 these should be assessed by Highways England with input from Newcastle City Council, (also including LEP and NECA for transport systems going beyond Newcastle). Instead of increasing the volume of traffic across the North of Newcastle (ie through the Northern Access Corridor), the council should be looking to reduce traffic so that the roads only provide access to the immediate surrounding areas, serving local people, their neighbourhoods and communities. Council must make a step change in transport planning and clearly define the use of the roads based on their ideal function.
The Cycle Network
A number of Strategic Cycle Routes are needed to prioritise cycle movements. These enable high volumes of safe cycling to and from the connected residential areas of the city. Build it (well enough) and the users will come.
Of the proposal included in the council’s current Cycling Strategy, one route links the city centre with Gosforth and the Parklands ward and shows a corridor that crosses the Blue House junction (route 4 on the map below). The route is direct, which is good, so the provision of quality cycle infrastructure is now key to ensuring that cycling along the proposed route is safe, intuitive and convenient.
In addition to the routes included in the existing strategy, we identified gaps in the proposed network. We understand these gaps in the proposed cycle network have also been noted by council. The additional routes we propose (see route 4a for Gosforth/Benton, and 2a for Woolsington direction, below), would fill these gaps in the strategic cycle network. We raise these here https://newcycling.org/SCR/ and have included a map below.
In addition to the need to for a Strategic Cycle Route through the Blue House junction, providing a more cohesive network will require high quality cycle provision at Haddrick’s Mill too, and along Jesmond Dene Road, to link up the two routes on an orbital ring. To link the radial routes, we hence have proposed orbital corridors (see Inner I and Outer O on the route plan).
Overall cycle routes 4, 4a and O are running along sections of the Northern Access Corridor. It is important that the council integrate and design for these Strategic Cycle Routes now, allocating road space at an early stage, to avoid costly retrofit solutions. Council must make clear plans for the Strategic Cycle Network and enshrine the routes in policy to ensure and protect their construction.
Due to the amount of detail we have separated the response into the three main locations (junctions). Please click on the links below to see our response for each section of the consultation:
Blue House Junction
Jesmond Dene Road Area
Haddrick’s Mill
In summary and conclusion
We object to this scheme.
It was truly unbelievable to witness that council still have not moved on from outdated engineering and planning practices. This continues to blight the city as it solely prioritises motor traffic, consigning everything else to the margins. It also runs completely counter to council’s own transport policies of community and environmental improvements, and providing alternatives such as cycling.
Politicians must now take note too. We suggest that politicians must be more vigilant next time. When plans like this motorway-style scheme ripping through the hearts of Newcastle are proposed by council officers, some probing questions have to be asked by Councillors: “How does that scheme achieve policy goals of a city with better health, cleaner air, more decent neighbourhoods and enabling Newcastle citizens to walk and cycle”. These destructive plans should never have been released to the public as these goals are not met. If we veer off these goals Newcastle will be consigned to a reduction in liveability and economic viability as it will fail to attract new businesses and people into the area and families will continue to leave the city.
Together with policy, we also must get data and evidence back at the heart of decision making again. Vehicle traffic has reduced substantially on the roads under consideration, and continues to fall. By actively facilitating modal shift by providing cycling alternatives, this reduction can be continued. Since-ever the Northern Access Corridor was mooted, politicians have failed on asking probing questions. Politicians now need to lead on putting this right.
We congratulate the council on wanting to reduce rat running in residential areas. However in the absence of road classification, a citywide movement plan, and community circulation plans, any piecemeal changes the council put forward will lack the necessary context.
It is “back to the drawing board” to put good sense into the idea of a Northern Access Corridor. We urge council to look at data and heed their own policies for reduction of car dominance and volumes, and make plans for the implementation of these policies.
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Topic: Captain Cook Graving Dock
Flagship enters dock for maintenance
Published on November 12, 2020 by LEUT Anthony Martin (author), CPOIS Kelvin Hockey (photographer)
Landing Helicopter Dock HMAS Canberra, one of the Royal Australian Navy’s largest vessels, enters the Captain Cook Graving Dock at Garden Island in Sydney.
The flagship of the Royal Australian Navy, the landing helicopter dock HMAS Canberra, has entered the Captain Cook Graving Dock at Garden Island, Sydney.
‘Parra’ enters dry dock ahead of next phase of deployments
Published on July 10, 2020 by LEUT Geoff Long (author), LSIS Leo Baumgartner (photographer)
HMAS Parramatta during a refit in the Captain Cook Graving Dock at Garden Island, Sydney, NSW.
HMAS Parramatta will boast improved crew internet connectivity and other services when she emerges from her first significant maintenance period since mid-2018, following a strong year of deployments and achievements.
Gascoyne’s push to greater efficiency in the water
Published on April 20, 2020 by LEUT Ryan Zerbe (author), LSIS Ryan McKenzie (photographer)
HMAS Gascoyne undergoing refit in the Captain Cook Graving Dock at Garden Island, Sydney, following a recent deployment.
HMAS Gascoyne is receiving renewed life through a five-yearly refit, ensuring she remains ready to fight and live up to her motto “Return to the sea”.
Graving Dock continues to serve the nation at 75
Published on March 24, 2020 by LEUT Geoff Long (author), POIS Andrew Dakin (photographer), POIS Peter Thompson (photographer)
File image: HMAS Adelaide (III) rests on blocks within Captain Cook Graving Dock at Garden Island, Sydney, after entering dry dock for maintenance, in May 2017.
The Royal Australian Navy’s most important strategic asset, the Captain Cook Graving Dock at Garden Island, Sydney, has turned 75 today.
Heritage dock delivers for future fleet
Published on December 08, 2017 by Department of Defence (author), ABCSO Steven Thomson (photographer), LSIS Peter Thompson (photographer)
HMAS Sirius in the dry dock at Garden Island, Sydney NSW.
The dry dock at Garden Island in Sydney Harbour is one of Defence’s oldest pieces of infrastructure. So what happens there?
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Betty Tishler Celebrates 97th Birthday at Wesleyan
by Olivia Drake • December 20, 2006
Pictured at top, from left, Gina Driscoll, associate director of stewardship, Penny Apter; Betty Tishler, and Philip Bolton, chair of the Chemistry Department and professor of chemistry. Pictured at left, President Doug Bennet reads a Proclamation to Tishler. (Photos by Olivia Drake and by Roslyn Carrier-Brault)
Betty Tishler, wife of the late Professor Max Tishler, celebrated her 97th birthday Dec. 14 in the Exley Science Center. Tishlers family and friends, Wesleyan affiliates and students attended.
During the two-hour party, President Doug Bennet presented Tishler with a Mayors Proclamation that acknowledged Tishler for her contributions to the greater Middletown community.
Tishler, who was married to Max Tishler for 55 years until his death in 1989, raised two sons, Peter and Carl, and has three grandchildren.
She was a partner in her husbands productive and distinguished career at Merck pharmaceuticals from 1937 to 1970. Max Tishler led the development of new drugs and vitamins, which culminated in his receipt of the Presidential Medal of Honor from President Reagan. His developments included products for heart disease, hypertension, rheumatoid arthritis, mental depression and infectious diseases.
The Tishlers came to Middletown in 1970. They had an immediate and lasting impact on Wesleyan, especially the Chemistry Department, to which Betty Tishler remains especially devoted today.
She has established prizes at Wesleyan for art, music and for an annual piano competition, and most recently a Research Chair in Medicinal Chemistry in honor of her late husband.
In addition, she is a regular and generous supporter of the Middlesex County United Way.
Over the past 36 years, Tishlers vitality, resilience, curiosity, generosity, and engagement have marked her as a special citizen of Wesleyan and Middletown.
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Smolkin-Rothrock Authors Publications on Soviet Space Exploration
Victoria Smolkin-Rothrock, assistant professor of history, instructor of Russian and Eastern European studies, has several forthcoming publications: “The Voices of Silence: The Death and Funeral of Alexander Blok” in Petersburg/ Petersburg: Novel and City, ed. Olga Matich (University of Wisconsin Press, 2010); “Cosmic Enlightenment: Scientific Atheism and the Soviet Conquest of Space” in Into the Cosmos: Space Exploration and Soviet Culture in Post-Stalinist Russia, eds. James T. Andrews and Asif A. Siddiqi (University of Pittsburgh); and “The Contested Skies: The Battle of Science and Religion in the Soviet Planetarium” in Cosmic Enthusiasm: The Cultural Impact of Space Exploration on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe Since the 1950s (Palgrave/Macmillan).
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Earth Month Activities Include Speakers, Films
by Lauren Rubenstein • April 10, 2015
Lynda Nead of the University of London will speak April 14 on “The Tiger in the Smoke: The Aesthetics of Fog in Post-War Britain c. 1945-55” as part of a series of Earth Month events at Wesleyan.
In honor of Earth Month, Wesleyan will host a series of speakers and films beginning April 14.
At 4:15 p.m. on April 14, the College of the Environment will present a talk, “The Tiger in the Smoke: The Aesthetics of Fog in Post-War Britain c. 1945-55,” by Lynda Nead, the Pevsner Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London. The talk will be in 41 Wyllys, Room 112. It is cosponsored by the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life; the Mellon Fund for Lectures in Ethics, Politics and Social Issues; Art History; History; and the Science in Society Program. The event is free and open to the public.
Climate Justice Conference, Long Lane Farm Workdays During Earth Month Celebration
by Natalie Robichaud ’14 • March 31, 2014
Throughout April, Wesleyan is hosting its second annual Earth Month.
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On April 12, Wesleyan is hosting a “Climate Justice Conference of Solutions” event. Participants will lay out the organizing, technological, and policy solutions to the climate crisis and explore how taking action on climate can improve social justice, create jobs, grow businesses, and enhance national security. Register for the event here.
Other Earth Month events include a Sustainability Career Panel on April 8, Long Lane Farm grand workdays, WILDWes workdays, a Wesleyan Joulebug Competition, an Earth Week Rant with Professor of Physics Brian Stewart, a Mama Earth Fest, a film screening of Victoria Mamas and more.
Earth Month is sponsored by Wesleyan’s Sustainability Office and the College of the Environment.
For more information about these events and others, go to the Earth Month website or see the Earth Month poster below:
Festival, Guest Lectures, Waste Audit at Wesleyan’s Earth Month Celebration
by Hannah Norman '16 • May 13, 2013
Wesleyan’s Sustainability Office hosted several earth-friendly opportunities in honor of Earth Month. On April 21, students from the Bread Salvage group promoted their organization during Earth Fest, a music and food festival on Foss Hill.
April is Earth Month at Wesleyan
by Olivia Drake • April 1, 2013
Join WILD Wes from noon to 4 p.m. on April 6 and April 27 to plant understory berry bushes and herbaceous plantings in the West College Courtyard.
Plant trees, create recycled art, tour a chestnut orchard, work on an organic garden and much more during Earth Month at Wesleyan!
During the month of April, Wesleyan’s Sustainability Office is hosting several earth-friendly opportunities. Events begin April 4 with a luncheon discussion on “Waste: Uncertainty, Futurity, and Democratic Engagement” at Woodhead Lounge. The Wesleyan community also is invited to the 6th Annual Global Environmental Sustainability Symposium on Transportation, Human Mobility and Sustainability at Central Connecticut State University the same day.
On April 6, join student organization WILD Wes to plant the berry bushes and herbaceous plantings for the Edible Forest Garden. Planting takes place in the West College Courtyard.
On April 9, Michigan-based folk musicians and environmental activists Samuel Seth Bernard and May Erlewine will participate in a performance and conversation over a vegan dinner for Wesleyan students, faculty and staff. Bernard and Erlewine have been perennial attractions at the Earthwork Collective farm’s annual Harvest Gathering, a music festival devoted to local independent artists and responsible, earth-friendly activism. The dinner takes place at Daniel Family Commons.
The English Department will present a panel discussion on “Green English: Nature and the Literary Humanities,” in honor of the works and career of William Stowe at 4:15 p.m. April 18. Presenters are Lois Brown, professor of English, professor of African American studies; Stephanie Weiner, associate professor of English; and Courtney Weiss Smith, assistant professor of English.
The Recycled Art Competition takes place April 19 at the Usdan University Center’s Huss Courtyard.
On April 19, view the Recycled Art Competition at the Usdan University Center’s Huss Courtyard, and on April 20, join students at Wesleyan’s Long Lane Farm to work in the organic garden.
On Earth Day, April 22, Juliet Schor ’75, professor of sociology at Boston College will speak on “Treading Lightly on the Earth: the Practice of Plenitude” in the Public Affairs Center. In this talk, Professor Schor will discuss the emergence of “plenitude,” a set of new practices, networks and ways of living that emphasize eco and carbon footprint reduction, sharing, self-provisioning, and reduced engagement with the “Business As Usual” economy. Schor will draw on research from a series of case studies across a range of places and communities.
Earth Month events will wrap up with a Sustainable Transportation Think Tank on April 24; the 6th Annual Earth Week Rant on April 25; an Arbor Day tree planting and Earth Day Veg Out on April 26; a North End spring cleaning and WILD Wes work day on April 27; and a Sustainability Poetry Slam and workshop on May 2.
Other Earth Month events include an Environmental Action Conference, Bike Walk Summit, residential waste audits, an Earth Day 5K, a Wild and Scenic Film Festival, Middletown Chestnut Orchard tour and more.
For more information on these events and to register, see the Sustainability Office’s web site.
WILD Wes Hosts Earth Day Gathering
Wesleyan students and staff participated in an Earth Day Celebration April 22 at the West College Courtyard and planted an American Chestnut seed. The student organization WILD Wes spearheaded the event. Photos are below:
(Photos by Nam Anh Ta ’12)
Wesleyan Community Celebrates Earth Day
by Olivia Drake • May 12, 2010
Barry Chernoff, the Robert Schumann Professor of Environmental Studies, professor of biology and director of the Environmental Studies Certificate Program, welcomes the audience to Wesleyan’s 2010 Earth Day Celebration titled ““Keeping Our Feet to the Fire: Joining Art and Science to Engage Environmental Issues.”
Wesleyan Celebrates Earth Day with Film, Panel Discussion
by Olivia Drake • April 21, 2010
Feet to the Fire: Exploring Global Climate Change from Science to Art was an 18-month project which included research opportunities for a team of students and faculty to explore first-hand the effects of global warming. Feet to the Fire included an eco-arts festival in a neglected city park.
“Keeping Our Feet to the Fire: Joining Art and Science to Engage Environmental Issues” is the topic of Wesleyan’s 2010 Earth Day celebration on April 22.
The event will feature a world premier screening of Paul Horton’s film Connections within a Fragile World.
A panel of environmental experts will discuss the question “are art and science as natural allies in communicating environmental issues to the public?” It will be moderated by Jeremy Isard ’11, with panelists: Godfrey Bourne, University Missouri St. Louis; Marda Kirn, EcoArts Connections, Colorado; Cassie Meador, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Washington, D.C.; and Barry Chernoff, the Robert Schumann Professor of Environmental Studies, professor of biology and director of the Environmental Studies Certificate Program at Wesleyan.
The Schumann Prize for Distinguished Environmental Stewardship will be awarded to a member of the class of 2010 and a reception will follow the event.
Population Growth Topic of Stewart’s Earth Week Rant
Brian Stewart, associate professor of physics, led this second annual "Earth Week Rant" April 23 in Exley Science Center. The event was open to the Wesleyan and broader communities.
Stewart focused his "rant" on the connection between resource depletion, pollution including global warming, and population growth. Here, Stewart discusses the Canadian and U.S. natural gas resources and reserves.
Stewart decided to establish his annual tradition in recognition of the urgent need for discussion of these critical issues. He regards the nearly full house of attendees from the Wesleyan and broader communities as evidence of the popular appetite for information on resource, pollution and population issues.(Photos by Olivia Bartlett)
Filmmaker Speaks to Wesleyan About Water Crisis
Eco-activist. filmmaker and reality television star Shalini Kantayya spoke about the global water crisis during Wesleyan’s Earth Day Celebration April 15. Her production company, 7th Empire Media, is committed to using media to give a powerful voice to the unheard.
Kantayya captured the attention of the nation during the television series “On the Lot,” a reality show created by Steven Spielberg for the purpose of finding Hollywood’s next great director. Out of over 12,000 filmmakers, Kantayya was the only woman to finish in the top 10.
(Photos by Alexandra Portis ’09)
Special Collections Honors Earth Day with Exhibition
At left, Suzy Taraba, university archivist and head of Special Collections, speaks to Phil Resor, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences, and Suzanne O'Connell, chair and professor of earth and environmental sciences, director of the Service Learning Center, during the Special Collections and Archives Earth Day Open House April 22. Taraba is explaining printer and publisher Robin Price's 43 Paper maps from locations along the 43rd parallels are bound in an accordion that structurally supports the main text, which is printed on graph paper and joined together as an accordion.
Rebecca McCallum, cataloging librarian at Olin Library, used old cataloging cards to knit this "fabric," which was on display at the Earth Day event. Several Olin library employees created recycled art for the open house.
Filmmaker, Eco-Activist Shalini Kantayya Addresses World Water Crisis at Earth Day Celebration
Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya is Wesleyan's Earth Day Celebration keynote speaker April 15.
Through film, eco-activist, and reality television star Shalini Kantayya will speak about the global water crisis during Wesleyan’s Earth Day Celebration April 15.
“Water is life,” says Kantayya, the event’s keynote speaker. “We are facing a world water crisis. A world in which nations are at war for water and every drop is for sale.”
The event begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Center for the Arts Cinema. Kantayya will discuss her film, “a DROP of LIFE”, which will be viewed following her presentation. “a DROP of LIFE,” is a futuristic sci-fi flick about the mounting global water crisis. It has been used by The African Water Network as an organizing tool in over 40 villages across Africa, and has been screened at festivals worldwide, winning the Best Short Film at Palm Beach International and Audience Choice Award at the IUOW Film competition.
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Kenya Chief Justice famed for quashing 2017 presidential poll retires
By oluwatobiloba626 11th January 2021
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KENYA – David Maraga’s tenure as Kenya’s Chief Justice came to an end on Monday. He turns 70 on January 12.
Maraga has been at the helm of the East African nation’s judiciary for four years.
He replaced Dr Willy Mutunga who resigned in June 2016.
Special proceedings were held at the Supreme Court in Nairobi in Maraga’s honour.
He later handed over the instruments of power which included an original copy of the constitution and the institutional flag to the acting Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu.
“Political stability in this nation can only be guaranteed if the rule of law reigns. Without the rule of law, nobody will be safe in this country. Say no to impunity and maintain the rule of law”, Maraga said in his farewell speech.
At the ceremony, he was disrobed to symbolise the end of his tenure.
Mwilu is battling corruption charges. She was arrested in August 2018 by officials from Kenya’s anti-corruption agency in a fashion scene by the legal fraternity in the country as disrespectful.
Her supporters have said that the charges are a political fabrication meant to punish her for supporting the nullification of the 2017 presidential election.
Friction with the Executive
Maraga’s tenure was marked by the nullification of the 2017 Kenyan presidential election.
It was the first presidential election to be annulled in Kenya’s history and in Africa.
In its ruling, the Supreme Court agreed with the petitioner – veteran opposition activist Rail Odinga – that the election had been manipulated in favour of President Uhuru Kenyatta.
“A declaration is hereby issued that the presidential election held on Aug. 8 was not conducted in accordance to the constitution and applicable law, rendering the results invalid, null and void,” Maraga’s ruling read in part.
The verdict set him on a rocky road with Kenyatta, whose victory he quashed.
The President criticized the judiciary as full of ‘hypocrites’ and accused Maraga of ‘subverting the will of Kenyans’.
In 2019, Maraga blasted the government for ‘mistreating and disrespecting’ the judiciary after the Executive ordered cuts to the judiciary’s budget.
He was Kenya’s second Chief Justice under the country’s new constitution.
Maraga leaves office after having served the Judiciary for 18 years.
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2018 Aston-Martin Vanquish Zagato Volante
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Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato Volante Number 69 of 99.
The relationship between Aston Martin and Zagato is one of the most enduring and legendary partnerships in the automotive world. Beginning back in 1960 with the creation of the DB4 GT Zagato, which now fetch upwards of £10 million at auction, every so often these two masters of their crafts come together to create a highly exclusive, limited production run of truly special cars. The latest Aston to be given the ‘Zagato treatment’ is the already stunning 2012 Vanquish and was the 5th Aston Martin to have the Italian coachbuilders design flare sprinkled upon it to create what can only be described as an automotive masterpiece.
The Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato was built in 4 different body styles, coupe, volante and shooting brake which were limited to 99 examples of each, whereas the speedster was limited to just 25 examples. Based on the Vanquish S, the Vanquish Zagato Volante has been thoroughly re-engineered, it’s 6.0L V12 powertrain producing 580 bhp, coupled with its smooth Touchtronic III gearbox and unique suspension setup can deliver a projected 0-62 mph time of 3.5 seconds. This performance creates a unique driving experience to stir the senses. Lightweight hand-rolled aluminium and carbon fibre panels clothe the body, taking over 2000 hours to craft, representing the most dedicated application of Aston Martin’s talents for engineering cutting-edge design.
The car we have on offer today was registered in 2018 and is finished off in a Q department colour of Cairngorm brown with ivory rekona and bitter chocolate leather interior and a bitter chocolate brown hood. The car features a One-77 steering wheel, satin chrome finish, garage door opener, carbon paddle shifts, ventilated front seats, touring pack and embroided ‘Z’ logo on each of the headrests. This is a one owner car that was ordered and supplied new in the UK and has only covered a mere 312 miles. A small extra addition to accompany this car is a special photobook showing the car being built within Aston Martin.
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Indigenous activists brace for worsening wildfires under climate change
By Cody Nelson | August 30, 2020
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Members of the Three Sisters Collective gathered to make air purifiers to help elders.
SANTA FE — Up in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the Medio Fire is burning over four square miles of forest land. Its smoke has been combining with that from wildfires across the West and spilling down the mountains into Santa Fe and nearby communities.
When Carrie Wood found out that elders in the Nambé, Tesuque and Pojoaque pueblos had been contending with that smoke for days, she decided to step in and help. Wood and other organizers of the Three Sisters Collective first tried looking for air purifiers in stores, but everywhere they looked from Española to Santa Fe to Albuquerque had low stock.
They bought what they could and took donations, but wound up making purifiers themselves. Three Sisters members set up shop in Wood’s patio on Monday and, using box fans, 20-inch Filtrete air filters and duct tape, they made over 30 filters to bring to the elders and others with respiratory issues exacerbated by the smoke.
“We’re only doing what Indigenous women have been doing forever — helping the community,” Christina M. Castro, a Three Sisters member of the Taos and Jemez pueblos, said.
While it was a scramble to get all the air purifiers together and delivered in just a couple days, Castro and Wood are braced for the reality that they’ll have to do this again.
The changing climate and development encroaching onto natural spaces are making wildfire seasons worse in New Mexico and across the West.
In addition to threatening homes on Santa Fe’s outskirts, the Medio Fire has brought poor air quality to the region. The state Environment Department’s Air Quality Bureau said those with respiratory conditions should take extra precautions.
“Smoke from wildland fires does not discriminate, as evidenced by the smoke impacts we are seeing in the Santa Fe area,” the agency said in a statement. Real-time air quality monitoring fis available on an online map from the department.
While the recent smoke and haze make wildfire concerns more pressing, they aren’t new. New Mexico’s state government said the trend of worsening wildfires began over 20 years ago in the late 1990s.
“Both climate change and fire exclusion have created fuel conditions and fire behavior that is unprecedented [and] creating large burn scars on the landscape,” the state forestry division wrote in its draft 2020 Forest Action Plan. “Wildfires continue to grow larger, burn hotter, and leave vast areas denuded of trees and vulnerable to debris flow.”
‘The manifestation of the climate crisis’
Artemisio Romero y Carver, a high school senior, was on a run near his home just outside Santa Fe recently on a route he’d been running for years when something new happened: His eyes started to burn from the wildfire smoke.
The first thought that came to his mind was bleak: “This is the manifestation of the climate crisis and this is only going to get worse from here,” he said.
While burning eyes were a fresh symptom of climate change for Romero y Carver, he said he has already seen winters and summers get warmer in his young lifetime. He’s noticed fires get worse and more frequent and the monsoon season go from predictable to ever-changing.
Romero y Carver is on the steering committee for YUCCA Action, a youth-led climate activist group. Part of the blame for climate change, he said, lies with New Mexico politicians.
He’s pushing for a moratorium on fracking, the controversial drilling technique where sand, water and chemicals are pumped underground to extract oil and gas. It’s widespread in New Mexico, especially in the northwest’s San Juan Basin and the Permian Basin in the southeast.
Fracking’s environmental impacts are major — from polluting water to drying out soil to emitting methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
Those impacts are worsening climate change and are partly to blame for the increasing wildfires, Romero y Carver said. He believes it’s time for New Mexico officials to stop allowing fracking on state lands.
“Our land is being sold out,” he said. “Our forests, our wildlife, our children are being sold out.”
With the effects of climate change already bearing down on New Mexico, Castro said Indigenous knowledge can help everyone. Many environmental and Native activists say tribal fire management practices could mitigate some of the catastrophic wildfires of recent years.
While U.S. fire officials have a history of fully suppressing fires, tribes historically were able to avoid the massive blazes of today by learning to coexist with fire, often letting natural fires burn, restoring the forest floor and eliminating the fuel for a larger fire.
“The fire makes me so sad. Our local community is suffering,” Castro said. However, she said investing in Indigenous knowledge is helpful “so that we can be fortified to all the imminent changes that are already upon us with the environment.”
Wood, who is Navajo, noted that the mutual aid efforts that have gained prominence in the coronavirus pandemic will be just as vital as climate-induced disaster continues.
She said that while bureaucracy often slows aid efforts by the government or other larger entities, smaller, local collectives can act fast — like Three Sisters did to get air purifiers to elders.
“Having that strong, tight-knit community where we trust each other and we work [together] is very important,” Wood said. “We need to be able to act fast, and that is not going to happen with just one person.”
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Things We Wish Criminal Defense Attorneys Could Say
By Stacy Wilson September 5, 2019 December 16, 2019
The victim and the accused played lacrosse at the University of Virginia (this fact will be become significant, at least on the defence, at a minute ). In this case, and others like it seems like it is going to come down not to the interpretation of this law, but using language by either side.
As soon as the Commonwealth of Virginia prosecutor called it a murder committed as a member of a fiery rage, the defence indicated that”she died in a horrible accident.” After Huguely stole the victim’s pc and hauled it into a skip at the night of the murder, he did say the prosecutor, to pay the e-mails he’d sent her. The defence countered that throwing her away was Huguely’s method of attempting to get Love to”reach him out” the morning after his struggle.
An April 30, 2010 email he delivered to Enjoy before her murder stated, “A week ago, you stated you’d reconcile with me when I stopped getting so drunk, then you (are unfaithful).
The prosecution claims Huguely was angry because she’d had a relationship with a man lacrosse player from the University of North Carolina defense attorney. What the Commonwealth lawyer known as a threat to damage the defence lawyer defined less a threat, but”innocent idiom.”
Okay. So thusly defined, “I must have killed you” has exactly the exact same semantic burden as “I am so hungry that I could eat a horse” or even”I could kill for a cigarette right now”?
The prosecution states Huguely kicked Love’s bedroom doorway and shook her violently that she suffered brain damage. His lawyer described it as both having experienced a”physical experience.” He explained, “George never, never, never had any intention to kill her” “He is not complex. He is not intricate. He is a lacrosse player” Wait a moment! He only called me a dumb jock!”)
Huguely’s lawyer urged the jury to think about his client capable of involuntary manslaughter (in light of the”horrible accident”) rather than premeditated murder.
Having been a cop for more than a week, I recognize the purpose for a number of members of the defense bar is to offer a vigorous and lively argument on behalf of their customers, that the law isn’t right, the proof isn’t right, the authorities were incorrect, the prosecution isn’t right, or the Constitution is incorrect. “Everybody’s entitled to some fantastic defence, their day in court,” so we’ve been told for more than a century.
However, there are a few defence lawyers I know who are equally realistic and honest in their customers when they are really guilty of the crimes they perpetrated.
To them, it is not about using different verbal suggestions together with the prosecution, but about obtaining the defendant to the machine (mental wellbeing, penal, or probation) in a means that’s supportive of the rights but also does not postpone justice or deny the clear.
From the Huguely instance, the jury isn’t being told the cops arrested the wrong man, only he did not mean to do exactly what the prosecutor has charged him with. So is it a case of purpose or is it merely semantics.
There’s an old joke, frequently told one of cops and prosecutors about defence lawyers: “You men could get sodomy to plead down to following too close.” I remember first hearing in the 1979 Al Pacino film, “And Justice for All,” but it is popular with cops and courthouse individuals everywhere.
Many pleas occur due to the time-honoured and wearying term,” in the interest of justice,” that can be coded language for, “our courts, jails, and prisons are way, way too crowded, so let’s cut a deal in which you admit to a lesser variant or fewer illustrations of what we know you did.” Ergo, the man who devotes 120 instances of automobile burglary (together with all the stolen car stereos, IPads, bags, etc.. ) still in his possession) requires a request for five of these and gets annually at the County Jail.
In California, it is typical for first-time drunk drivers to plead guilty for what’s known as a”wet reckless.” This is described as reckless driving and being drunk in public, just two connected however insignificant charges that, taken individually, make it look like the suspect drove around committing a couple of visitors infractions, then hours, days, or even months later, got from her or his vehicle and wandered around the streets drunk until detected and detained by the cops.
I testified as an authority in a civil case in which a guy who was working as a janitor at an apartment complex had sexually attacked a maid, who worked there cleanup a few of the tenants’ flats. The defendant had a previous conviction for rape, which wasn’t found because his employer didn’t background check on him.
The defence lawyer for your apartment complex asked me to explain my comprehension of the event of battery and that I did. He responded, “You mean, sort of like two teens would do, outside on Lover’s Lane?” As if to indicate the maid had agreed to this conduct. Before I could reply with a firm no, I discovered several members of this prosecution gasp in astonishment in his impolite portrayal of a near-rape.
His customer, Amy Bishop, opened fire in a February 12, 2010 school meeting at a conference room in the University of Alabama. She murdered three coworkers and injured three others. Mr Hill has my vote because he didn’t deny what his customer did, and said she was”mad” (his term ) in a televised interview.
He made this announcement about a girl who supposedly”accidentally” killed her brother using a shotgun in 1986, and might have delivered two pipe bombs into a colleague she despised in Boston in 1993. Mr Hill intends an insanity defence for his client and that I thank him for his honesty about the real chance that her deteriorating mental health was has become the reason behind her activities, not the cops arrested the incorrect individual or mishandled the blood signals.
The most favourable purpose of a defence lawyer would be to intervene on these infrequent but upsetting events once the cops do arrest the wrong person, or when witnesses or victims intentionally or finger the incorrect individual, or the laboratory people make enormous and crucial mistakes in their handling of critical evidence. The demand for defence lawyers to safeguard the rights of this arrested, falsely accused, or convicted is clear, essential, and historic.
But lots of the public appear to greatly despise criminal defence lawyers due to their usage of words which indicate it is always somebody else’s fault. Would not it be quicker, more sterile, and let us to become supportive of the defence bar generally to listen to a lot of these say, “My man did it. He is sorry about it (or he is not ). My job would be to move this situation through the justice system in a manner that attempts to secure his faith, but to give close to either side by being truthful about what happened.”
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The Best Dressed Women in Tech
By Michelle Konstantinovsky
Deepa Pakianathan at Filoli Gardens in Woodside, Calif., on Friday, August 17th, 2018.
If you think fleece vests and hoodies are the only acceptable wardrobe staples in Silicon Valley, think again. Thanks to a handful of brilliant, bold, creative women at the top, the tech world is rivaling fashion runways while transforming the world.
Deepa Pakianathan
Ph.D., managing member of Delphi Ventures
Even if you don’t know Pakianathan’s name or impressive body of work, you very likely know her red carpet presence and head-turning sense of style. The former J.P. Morgan vice president worked as a postdoctoral scientist in the immunology department at Genentech Corporation before joining Delphi in 2001, but she’s somehow found time to remain a major part of the city’s social scene. The Hillsborough resident serves as vice-chair of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Board of Trustees, and she’s frequently spotted at A-list events serving up seriously fierce looks (like the dazzling custom Alexander McQueen ‘cage’ she wore on her head to the season-opening Opera Gala in 2013).
Spotted in: Donna Karan, Pamela Roland, Zuhair Murad, Gucci, Zang Toi
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – July 12 – Jess Lee and Shiza Shahid attend ELLE CELEBRATES 4th ANNUAL WOMEN IN TECH POWER LIST on July 12th 2017 at Wayfare Tavern in San Francisco, CA (Photo – Drew Altizer)
Shiza Shahid
Co-founder of Malala Fund, founding GP of NOW.Ventures
Islamabad-born Shahid began building a name for herself in America when she received a scholarship to Stanford University. But the entrepreneur, investor and women’s rights advocate is still firmly connected to her roots. “I grew up in Pakistan and my home is now in America, so my sense of style integrates the many places and cultures I hold in my heart,” she says. “I love to add a sense of history and story to a midi dress by draping a hand-embroidered shawl made by women in Pakistan, or wearing vintage jewelry from Afghanistan that has passed countless hands and holds many stories. It keeps me connected to home and rooted in my identity.”
Spotted in: Shamaeel Ansari, Tena Durrani, Rebecca Taylor, LoveShackFancy, Ulla Johnson, Alice & Olivia
Third Love CEO & Founder Heidi Zak. Photo by Gabriela Hasbun.
Heidi Zak
Co-founder and co-CEO of ThirdLove
Like most brilliant ideas, ThirdLove was born from pure frustration. In 2013, company co-founder Zak found herself without a well-fitted bra before a holiday party, and couldn’t bear the thought of shelling out cash for another disappointment. Instead, she left her position at Google to help launch a bra brand based on real women’s measurements. Eight years later, Zak is still obsessed with impeccable design. “I generally prefer to mix it up,” she says. “My style really depends on the day and what I have scheduled. When I’m in a casual mood and running around the office, I love my high-waisted Apiece Apart Merida Pants in white denim. When I’m speaking at a conference or attending an event, I love to wear jumpsuits. They instantly make me feel dressed up and are so easy to accessorize.”
Spotted in: Alice + Olivia, Rag & Bone, APIECE APART, Vince, DVF, Paul Green
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – May 17 – Whitney Wolfe attends Elle Women in Tech 2016 on May 17th 2016 at Mourad in San Francisco, CA (Photo – Drew Altizer Photography)
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Founder and CEO of Bumble
What started as a dating app has become something of a feminist movement — and who better to lead the charge than Bumble’s founder and CEO? The Tinder co-founder broke the mold when she created her own swipe-based app that put women in the driver’s seat — ”symbolic of a Sadie Hawkins dance,” she told Forbes. Nearly four years after its launch, Bumble now offers non-dating modalities for women to network professionally and socially, and the company is valued at $1 billion. Through it all, Wolfe Herd has weathered the ups and downs of running an empire with grace and style, favoring classic silhouettes and fabrics that work equally well for daytime meetings and evening events.
Spotted in: Victoria Beckham, Crimson, Loro Piana, Chanel
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Thursday 7 August 2014 – Swettenham, and the Murky Depths of Deepest Cheshire
For the latest in Notchy’s ‘Deepest Cheshire’ series of evening walks, we convened, just about on time, at the Swettenham Arms, where our leader confessed to having crocked himself on the recce. “Tricky terrain” he commented.
So he gave me some instructions and legged it back home (insofar as he can ‘leg it’ anywhere these days). That left me and Sue and Richard and Jenny pondering what would happen, as we left The Lavender Meadow, which was lovely in the evening light.
By some sort of fluke we found the prescribed route without too much difficulty as we left the fleshpot – though socialising with the heavily strapped and even more fed up Notchy had delayed our start by 30 minutes, the consequences of which would become apparent later.
Following Notchy's instructions assiduously, we ventured down a country lane and bravely negotiated the River Dane - there would be no way to cross back to 'our' side of the river for several miles...
The footpath was slightly eroded, as we headed west towards Holmes Chapel, with some giant lumps of earth seemingly about to head off towards the river, possibly taking my companions with them.
Jenny gasped in wonder that Notchy had even managed to complete the recce, given the nature of the terrain, which it has to be said was a bit trickier than the norm for ‘Deepest Cheshire’.
After this eroded bank section the map showed a path going in a straight line. I’d been told an easy mistake would be to follow the river too closely. I did the opposite and managed to give some electrocution lessons whilst negotiating the lively fences installed by the local farmer.
We'd strayed a little from the faint path, but everyone seemed happy enough as we marched on beyond Woodhouse Farm, blinded by the dipping sun. We weren't anywhere near half way along Notchy's route, but nobody seemed bothered, other than ‘mole’ who had retired gracefully by turning turtle when faced with yet another muddy barrier.
We lost the sun, but we gained the A535 main road, which delivered us safely back onto the correct bank of the river, beside a fine railway viaduct.
After dodging some commuters, a barking donkey and a tuneful tandem, we escaped from the dangers of the verge of the A535 and followed the DVW - Dane Valley Way - all the way back to Swettenham. This wasn’t as straightforward as it sounds, as the path was a bit tricky to follow through the fields in the dark, so we deviated slightly where it wasn't clear; but at least the moon behaved as a good torch (except under tree cover, which was frequent).
I think Jenny may have preferred the road route given the frisky cows, attentive horses with soft noses, honking ducks and muddy declivities. And Sue’s shorts weren’t the best equipment to avoid the nettles and brambles of the ‘open road’ – ie the bits of the path that weren’t in deep wet grass, through fields of sweetcorn, or through troughs of mud.
The moon, and the signposts, did come in handy on their occasional sightings.
Civilisation, on the edge of Swettenham, greeted us in the form of a large black dog and a recorded message informing us that “Attention – your movements are now being recorded by a security camera”. Some of our group found this a little intimidating, but I suspected it was just one of Notchy’s jokes, so I ignored any danger and carried on.
When others had had been counselled into following, we found a bit of tarmac that led miraculously to St Peter's church, last renovated in 1926, but dating from Norman times.
This was a welcome sight, and my companions were so pleased to have been delivered to mercy from Notchy's muddy adventure into the Murky Depths of Deepest Cheshire, that they bought me a drink! Notchy was of course nowhere to be seen.
The route we followed wasn't quite the green dashes that were intended, but we gave it our best shot - 9.5 km, 90 metres ascent, in a shade over 2 hours.
There’s a slideshow – only 17 pictures – here.
Thanks to Notchy for planning this route, albeit not actually accomplishing it on the night. It was considerably entertaining!
Labels: Cheshire, Evenings, Walks
Hyde and Godley
Last night Sue and I enjoyed another summer’s evening outing with SWOG, starting from the Cheshire Ring pub in Hyde. Numbers were down – only 27 tonight – people must be on holiday.
We started off by dashing across the A57 and onto the Peak Forest Canal towpath – a rather muddy section of the Cheshire Ring canal network (but unlike the towpath through Timperley, this one is at least open).
Conditions were lush and warm.
We left the towpath at Apethorn Lane to stroll along a 2.5 km section of disused railway between Apethorn Lane, Hyde and Green Lane, Godley, managed by The Countryside Service. This is a section of the Trans Pennine Trail, providing a good path for walkers, cyclists and horse riders, even wheelchair users.
The route of the old railway is green corridor with woodland, scrub and grassland creating a local wildlife haven. In the grasslands flowers like knapweed, teasel, and clovers provide colourful displays and food for insects and birds.
The original railway was built in 1866 by the Cheshire Lines Committee, primarily as a freight link to Chester and Liverpool, avoiding Manchester. In 1954 the eastern mainline near Godley was electrified and a large turntable had to be built at that end so that engines could be changed. The pit for this turntable is shown below, with Howard either showing particular interest, being sick in the pit, or dropping his glasses. With the closure of the Woodhead route in the 1970's the line became little used and was closed in 1981. It remained disused until the new Trans Pennine section of trail was created in 2000/01.
After back-tracking a little, Pete and Sue led us through a series of ginnels and into Vincent Park, between Godley and Hyde.
The name "HYDE" is apparently derived from the hide, a measure of land for taxation purposes, taken to be that area of land necessary to support a peasant family. In later times it was taken to be equivalent to 120 acres .
Anyway, a bit further on we came across this folly, under which some members of the party recalled lighting fires back in their youth.
The folly isn’t accessible from the front as it’s in the grounds of a day nursery, but I believe it is in fact a castellated pigsty dating from 1767. The handsome structure, built of local stone and still with many of its original features still intact, is apparently one of a pair. I don’t know where the other one is – perhaps at the bottom of Sandra’s garden? But who is Sandra?
All in all, a very interesting route, on ground that other than the canal section I was not familiar. Thanks Pete and Sue.
Here’s the map – 8 km (5 miles), with 50 metres ascent, taking rather less than 2 hours, and adjourning to the excellent Beartown bitter of The Cheshire Ring.
There’s a ‘Deepest Cheshire’ evening walk on 7 August (today), starting at the Swettenham Arms (SJ 800 672) at 7.30pm. All are welcome, though I can’t guarantee even a fraction of last night’s attendance figures.
Labels: Cheshire, Cheshire Ring, Evenings, SWOG, Walks
Summer in Timperley
Well, it doesn’t seem like ten days since we landed back at our pristine house that is now strewn with various ‘trip’ debris.
We are often away at this time of year, so the shorts and t-shirt regime whilst at home is very pleasant. It was also nice to say hello to our screeching swifts before they flew off to Africa. Judging by the amount of poo below their nest (on our front doorstep), they seem to have successfully raised another family. Good luck to them on their travels.
We have missed our usual activities – walks, rides, jogging… beside the Bridgewater Canal, having arrived home to find the towpath closed for the two mile stretch between Brooklands and Altrincham. The path is being resurfaced, presumably as part of the Bridgewater Way project, though the Bridgewater Way website hasn’t been updated recently and the ‘Towpath Closed’ signs are singularly uninformative. Hopefully we’ll be able to use the path this coming winter without the need for wellies!
A ride with JJ to Wilmslow for a night of excitement at the Boddington Arms with the Backpackers Club saw us diverted from our usual route by a road closed for bridge demolition (see below), but we found a way round that and enjoyed a pleasant evening amongst throngs of backpackers, albeit most of them non-members.
A visit to Old Trafford cricket ground saw me almost single-handedly applauding Lancashire to victory over Glamorgan by one run in a 20-20 match that should have taken about three hours to complete but because of showery weather took almost two days – perhaps that’s why the stadium was nearly empty, most people having gone home. (My visit was brief – a short tram ride after I heard the match was due to start ‘in a few minutes’, so I got there just in time.)
A trip to Tatton Park was well timed to avoid traffic chaos due to the demolition of the motorway bridge referred to above (taking with it our ‘back route’ to the airport), and got us to Etruria in plenty of time for a ‘taste of the Mediterranean’ and an afternoon with the Silvermoon Quartet.
To work up an appetite, Sue and I took a stroll around the perimeter of Tatton Park, where the young stags near the beech avenue were contentedly munching in the shade, building up energy for the sparring to come.
Our route led us into a VW car show. Some were in better condition than others.
The show was crowded. We’d wandered inadvertently into it without realising people were actually paying to see all the wrecked camper vans etc. We declined the offer to have our hands stamped so that we could re-enter for free, and headed on past a herd of fallow deer and a large area of devastation where the flower show had recently been held. I’m sure it’ll recover quickly.
On the Mere, a large party of scouts was enjoying messing about in boats, the tranquil scene being hampered only by a strong breeze.
(The scouts hadn’t drowned – they were just out of shot due to the sun direction.)
The ‘perimeter route’ brought us out neatly at Etruria, for a very pleasant afternoon of food and jazz with Richard and Jenny and Jaqui, and of course Hayley and Mike and the rest of the Silvermoon gang. It was nice to encounter drummer Mark and his twins, and his dad Paul, who has been so helpful to Mike over the years. Mike and Mark have a rock band, Kill for Company – guitar and drums only – that generates some interesting sounds – good luck to them.
The route we took around Tatton Park is shown below, starting from the P&D car park in Knutsford (free on a Sunday but you need to arrive by 11 – 11.30). From the south entrance it follows a new fence by the beech avenue along which walking is now being discouraged. WW2 tank training took place here, some of the bridges for which are still intact. A series of information boards leads to the back of the main car park, and on past the fleshpots of the Hall – refreshments available – then you continue on around the perimeter, past the Old Hall and along the east bank of the Mere. After exiting the Park you can enter Knutsford via a railway bridge, or take a thin (maybe muddy in wet weather) path to the right of the railway.
It’s about 10 km (6 miles) with very little ascent – about a two hour stroll. A very pleasant way to spend a relatively lazy Sunday morning.
It has been good to catch up with the Adlington quizzers at the Spinners on Tuesday nights, though I have to admit I can be something of a liability to the team, who are continuing to enjoy some beer vouchers won in my absence. Still, we did come near to the top last night, thanks to John and Bev being on good form and Lyn having returned from the Commonwealth Games with all the sporting answers and long tales of her encounters with an assortment of athletes and royalty. If only Stuart knew a bit more about music….
Labels: Cheshire, Home, Tatton, Tatton Park, Timperley, Walks
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Our Hurting World Needs Saints
by Tony Magliano
Most likely, you are reading this shortly before, or shortly after the U.S. presidential election.
America’s next leader will have the means at hand to do tremendous good or tremendous harm. The new president-elect of the United States will have many opportunities to purposefully move forward policies and legislation that can make not only the U.S., but the world a far better place. Or the next president can dangerously choose to greatly exacerbate the many serious problems facing humanity.
Our prayers and political activism will be needed to persuade the fledgling president to reject all that is deadly, and instead choose the way of goodness, the way of life, the way of God (see Deuteronomy 30:15-18).
But we should not place all of our marbles in the one basket of the U.S. president.
No single human being alone — president, prime minister or pope — can build a world where justice, peace and love reign. Such a vision realized needs all of us, and not just a mediocre version of ourselves, but rather the best version of ourselves.
The world needs saints!
Our hurting world needs Christians who are committed to being the very body of Christ on earth — saints.
As St. Teresa of Avila said so beautifully, “Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks [with] compassion on this world. Yours are feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.”
Imagine if you and I, and every person who professes to be a Christian, decided with the power of the Holy Spirit to be the body of Christ. Imagine if every disciple of Christ decided to think, feel, pray, speak and act as Christ did when he walked the earth.
Just imagine what good could be realized if every Christian would commit to becoming a saint.
Pope John Paul I — the saintly smiling pope — said, “If all the sons and daughters of the church would know how to be tireless missionaries of the Gospel, a new flowering of holiness and renewal would spring up in this world that thirsts for love and for truth.”
Just days ago, the Catholic church celebrated All Saints’ Day to remember all the countless faithful disciples of Christ who now and forever bask in the glorious, loving presence the Almighty Holy One.
Through the intercession and example of the saints, may we be given the faith, love and courage to imitate their holiness. For Jesus is calling every single Christian to become a saint.
In the Second Vatican Counsel’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, the world’s Catholic bishops solemnly declared, “In the church, everyone … is called to holiness.”
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May we more fully realize that becoming holy — becoming a saint — is not meant for our good alone, but for the good of the whole world.
Saints spend their lives loving God by loving all others — especially those who are suffering in body and/or soul.
By actively practicing the Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy, we become the hands, the feet and the eyes of Christ on earth. We become saints!
[Tony Magliano, an internationally syndicated columnist on peace and justice issues, is available to speak at diocesan or parish gatherings about Catholic social teaching. He can be reached at tmag@zoominternet.net.]
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angybone says:
I really need these right now. I’ve felt so discouraged since the election. Both sides of human…both sides are those we were told to love. Thank you.
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Kenshi o Mezashite Nyūgaku Shitanoni Mahō Tekisei 9999 Nandesukedo! ? – Chapter 20
Chapter 20: Royal Capital Ledion desu
It is being said that the population of Falleon Kingdom is around two million.
The Royal Capital Ledion which was in the center of the country is adjacent to a wide river, and the waterways that are pulled from there runs like a mesh.
There is a prosperous flow of physical distribution utilizing that, and because it was simply beautiful, it has a good reputation within the citizen.
But there are rare times that water-type monsters enters the waterways, so the adventurer guild is commissioned by the country, and they are always on the lookout.
Laura was walking in that royal capital with Charlotte and Anna beside her.
Playing in the town to play with friends.
I am so happy even if it was for such a trifle thing.
And, I had not had the chance to carefully look at it until now, but I can see how beautiful the waterways of the royal capital by walking slowly like this.
The sunlight that reflects on the water surface looks very beautiful.
And the boat that runs over that was also cute.
The ground is made of colorful bricks, and it gives the fun feeling.
「I, didn’t know that the royal capital was such a beautiful town!」
「If I think about it, Laura-san came from another town right」
「Yes. I was very worried living far away from my parents for the first time…… but thank goodness that my roommate was a kind person like Charlotte-san!」
「I-Is that so……you’re welcome!」
When Charlotte is praised, and saying thanks, she immediately blushes.
It seems like she was quite a shy person.
She is a very cute person although she was older.
Laura liked that Charlotte.
「Is Charlotte-san from the royal capital?」
「Yes. From generations, the House of Gazard are magicians in the royal capital. I mean, for a person that aims to become an adventurer, you should at least know the name Gazard」
「Uhmm, I’m sorry…… I didn’t know」
「Well, Laura-san is from the House of Edmonds that hates magicians so it cannot be helped. So please, it is okay even if you do not make such an apologetic face」
「A-re. Was I making that face?」
「Laura-san immediately shows in her face, so it is very easy to read your expressions desu wa」
「Mumu…… but, I think it’s not as bad as Charlotte-san!」
「I-I don’t show emotions on my face! It’s Poker Face desu wa!」
「Eh?! Are you saying that seriously?」
If Charlotte has a poker face, then anyone in the world would have a poker face.
「That, “What is she saying” face, please stop it!」
「Even if you say that……」
「Anna-san. You, between Laura-san and I, who do you think has expressions easier to read? Please answer honestly」
Anna who was asked, stared at Laura and Charlotte’s face alternately, and shook her shoulders.
「You’re both the same. Shows what you’re thinking immediately」
「No way……I didn’t know……」
「I have to be careful, my mind will be read during battle……」
「See. You clearly get down」
Being pointed out by Anna, Laura and Charlotte was astonished at the same time.
And because it shows in their faces that they were astonished, there was no saving them.
It looks like the path of the poker face is very hard.
「And what about Anna-san, where did you come from?」
「Probably, royal capital」
「Probably, you say, what does that mean?」
「I also don’t know a lot. I was here ever since I remember」
「That was likely of Anna-san, a goofy answer」
「I have no excuses」
Anna scratches her head as if to let it pass by.
「In the first place, why is Anna-san aiming to become an adventurer? In my case it was the influence of my parents, Charlotte-san’s case, I know that her family was generations of magicians」
「That’s embarrassing so it’s a secret. I won’t tell Laura」
「Haa〜……」
「You are too mysterious desu wa」
「They said that mysterious women are popular」
「Eh, Anna-san, do you want to be popular with boys?」
“She really is a person who says strange things〜”, Laura was impressed.
You couldn’t tell what she is thinking from reading her expression.
But, she already had that level of sword skills since she entered school.
There is no doubt that there is a deep reason.
「Rather than that, the number one question…… is why are you wearing uniform although it is rest day desu wa!」
Right. As Charlotte had said, Anna was still wearing the school’s uniform.
Although one part of having fun when going out with everyone was, what are they going to wear.
I don’t think that it’s like that, but.
「Uniform is my best clothes. Also, I only have the pajama」
That was really it.
Does she really not care how she look. Or does she has no money.
And the reason of aiming to become an adventurer, also might be around there.
Laura was scared to ask. Charlotte was also making a serious face.
「I also have a question to Charlotte. That pendant. It’s not that cute, why are you wearing it?」
「Ah, I’m also curious about that! Charlotte-san, although you’re very fashionable, why is your pendant very ominous? It doesn’t fit you」
Today’s Charlotte’s attire is a fluttery frilly, clothes that really look like a milady.
Regardless of that, her pendant was shaped like a skull that was minimized and rounded.
Honestly, it was very eerie.
「O-Ominous, don’t say it like that! This is the treasure that is passed in the House of Gazard. It is the Pendant of Magic Sealing desu wa. Wearing this will place a burden on the mind, and you can train magic powers using it naturally desu wa!」
「Eh〜. We went out to play, so you can stop training right〜」
「I will not stop! Thanks to the Pendant of Magic Sealing I can play with you two while training. If you tell me to remove it I will go home!」
Charlotte, every day and every minute, she is doing all her best during classes and even after.
That’s why she should at least rest during the rest day.
Today, Laura was relieved although she wasn’t the person itself because she came like this.
But, to think that there was that kind of mechanism.
She’s probably not planning to stop training for 365 days.
There’s a training maniac here.
「But, I’m a little interested in the Pendant of Magic Sealing. I also want to wear it!」
「Laura-san will? Fufu, as you want. Even if it is you, I think that the unfamiliar burden in the mind is hard!」
Charlotte happily lent the pendant.
Maybe she wanted to see Laura whine defeat.
Is it that hardーーI got ready, and wore it.
「……ohh, it really feels my mind being pushed!」
「Eh, is that all?」
「Yes. That is all」
「Is that so……」
Charlotte was blatantly disappointed and took away the pendant from Laura.
It looks like she was expecting a huge reaction.
「Pendant of Magic Sealing, I also want to wear it. Let me borrow it for a bit」
Anna was observing the pendant very curiously.
「Anna-san should think twice. Anna-san who is from the Warrior Department cannot bear with it」
「That’s not true at all. I have recently, been taught of magic from Laura. That’s why it’s alright」
「……Laura-san, is that true?」
「U〜n……it’s true that I taught her the basics of controlling magic powers though」
With that much, it couldn’t be said that she could use magic.
Let alone be enough for the burden on the mind that Charlotte has judged “It can be used for training”, I’m sure that she would not be able to bear it.
Regardless of that, Laura had not felt any burden at all, but……she could at least be aware that her senses deviate from the rest of the world.
「It is really for a bit, alright?」
Anna received the pendant from Charlotte, and wore it on her neck.
That instant.
「GYAN!」
She shouted and collapsed.
「A-Anna-saaaaaan!」
「This is bad!! This is bad!!」
Laura and Charlotte raised Anna up with their arms in a hurry, removed the pendant, and *PechiPechi* slapped her cheeks.
「U-U〜n……where is this?」
「Anna-san, you’re awake! Thank goodness〜」
「See, did I not tell you. The Pendant of Magic Sealing is too early for Anna-san」
「……to think it was that much……I mean, Charlotte who’s wearing this unfazed is weird. What kind of nerves do you have?」
「Do not call me as if I am a person without nerves! It is just from the difference of magic powers! In the first place, was not Laura-san also unfazed!」
「It’s because it’s common sense that Laura is weird」
「You said something cruel casually right?!」
The Pendant of Magic Sealing has its place again on Charlotte’s neck.
Anna stood up while her lips were frowning from frustration, and dropped the dust on her skirt.
「By the way, that is the store I bought the pajama」
It was a large general store that Anna was pointing to.
It looks like she collapsed close by the destination.
「I-If we go there……we can get that cute stuffed toy pajama huh……quickly, as quickly as you can!」
Charlotte ran off while sounding her steps by herself.
It felt as she couldn’t hold it any longer.
Even though she was like that, it was very funny that she wasn’t planning on coming for today on the start.
「The cutest one is Charlotte」
「I agree desu. Charlotte-san is very cute desu yo!」
And chasing after that very cute Charlotte, Laura and Anna went towards the general store.
Chapter 19 <-> Chapter 21
8 comments on “Kenshi o Mezashite Nyūgaku Shitanoni Mahō Tekisei 9999 Nandesukedo! ? – Chapter 20”
Irina Akashira says:
bunnythor says:
The chapter starts off with foreshadowing about monsters in the river, and immediately turns into a cliffhanger about pajama shopping.
Sure. Why not.
Jigoku Shounen says:
Dark Jackel says:
So cute! 😆
SpiralBaka says:
thank you for the translation
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Ana Silvera – Oracles
Really I could sum up my thoughts on this album in just a few words: Oracles by Ana Silvera is the most beautiful album I have heard for years. It grabbed me with the same sense of wonder I felt when I first listened to Maria Callas sing Tosca. I saw a different performance of that role at the Royal Opera House in 1977. There was Pavarotti as Cavaradossi and Raina Kabaivanska as Tosca. I scurried off the next day to a record store on Tottenham Court Road and came home with Maria Callas’ Tosca on vinyl. Fast forward to 2018. Most of us will never be in the situation of poor Tosca, but we all experience grief, struggle daily with our losses. The music is Ana’s response to the death of her brother, to whom the album is dedicated. I feel years of thought have gone into this album, it’s symphonic in its scope and stature, a complete and perfect work of art. There is a small stellar orchestra and choir, and rising above it all the wonderfully affecting voice of Ana Silvera, as fragile as a moth yet strong as sinews.
Oracles is seven compositions that string together like pearls, with delicate lustre, their beauty revealed with repeated listens. The words will stick in your head, you’ve been there: “I stood under the bridge on the eve of his birthday”, “I wasn’t meant for this life”, “I love you so hard I feel my heart break”. Thank you Ana for such beauty, for inspiring such satisfying performances from everyone involved, and for your bravery in letting us into your grief and growth.
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Album review: Anders Ammitzbøll – Hymns for Hearts (2015)
12/04/2016 Mary James 1 Comment
What is the Aarhus sound and why do I love it? The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark has turned out some very good musicians such as Alex Jønsson Christensen (The Lost Moose), Jens Mikkel (Lift Me Up So I Can Reach) and Jakob Sørensen (Bagland). All of these musicians have produced works of outstanding musicianship, atmospheric and recognisably Nordic. Hmm… there seems to be a pattern here… and here’s another one – double bass player Anders Ammitzbøll with his debut album (financed by Kickstarter) Hymns For Hearts, as exuberant and fresh an album as those which went before from fellow alumni.
The combination of two guitars makes for a bubbly texture, the two instruments weaving in and out of each other. There is an African highlife lilt to the sound of the two guitars which is very attractive. Anders told me he chose two guitars in order that one could create soundscapes while the other plays a more “traditional” role and it certainly works in this live recording.
The album could be considered as a symphonic shimmering whole, the lovely tunes gently unfold until the uneasy, freer Paranoia. There is the some delicate songlike solo work – sometimes just guitar, sometimes double bass – and plenty of space for the drums. The sound is beautiful, made for vinyl.
This is an impressive, accomplished and confident debut album and we can expect to hear more from this bassist and I hope from this band.
Anders Ammitzbøll Hymns for Heart
Anders Ammitzbøll, double bass
Stian Swensson, guitar
Viktor Sandström, guitar
Rasmus Iversen, drums
Mary James, 12 April 2016
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JazzFM Awards 2016 – interesting category – Digital Initiative of the Year
The nominations for the 2016 Jazz FM Awards have been announced. The most prestigious ceremony in the jazz, soul and blues calendar is this year taking place on Tuesday 26th April at London’s Bloomsbury Ballroom and will feature a performance by Gregory Porter, who will also receive the Jazz Impact Award.
Once again the public will be able to vote for the winner of three categories Album of the Year, UK Jazz Act of the Year and Live Experience of the Year. Voting will be open from 24th February to the 31st March via the Awards website. This year also sees the addition of a new award, the Digital Initiative Award, that has been created to recognise a musician who has harnessed the power of technology to engage with audiences.
You can read the full list of nominees here but my interest is in the new award Digital Initiative of the Year (Sponsored by 7digital) with nominees:
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Jacob Collier is recognized as one of the world’s most distinctive, inventive and prodigious young musicians. Based in London, Jacob has been inspired by many sounds – his music combines elements of Jazz, A cappella, Groove, Folk, Trip-hop, Classical music, Brazilian music, Gospel, Soul and Improvisation (to name a few), which culminate to create the world of “Jacob Collier.” Jacob grew up in a family of musicians, and has honed his musical ideas from a very young age.
He has embraced the world of the internet to share his uniquely creative talent, becoming best known for creating his trademark multi-faceted YouTube videos from his music room at home, wherein he sings all the parts, plays all the instruments, and visualises every component with a mosaic of screens. Since his first YouTube upload in December 2011, Jacob’s online social channels have gathered over 70K international subscribers and more than 4.7 million views. With viral hits such as his rendition of the Stevie Wonder classic, “Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing,” Collier has garnered a global following, and some of his greatest fans among the elite Jazz community include Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, Steve Vai and Take 6, to name a few (and me!).
He has collaborated with many different musicians, including being featured on Snarky Puppy’s Family Dinner Vol. 2 and collaborating with Take 6. Jacob was also most recently involved in Beats by Dre’s Ruby World Cup “The Game Starts Here” television and online campaign, where Jacob arranged and recorded “Jerusalem” as the soundtrack for their spot. The video on YouTube has garnered over 7.5 million views.
I can’t wait to see him live at Cheltenham Jazz Festival on Friday 29 April, I’ve been admiring his trajectory for a few years now and I wish him good luck in the awards!
Mary James, 1 March 2016
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Album of 2015: Maciek Pysz – A Journey
Maciek Pysz – A Journey
This album is pure, clean, austere. Not austere in the sense of frugal or bleak – no, not at all. Austere in the sense of simplicity, modesty and honesty, the powerful starkness you experience in the unadorned interior of an abbey such as Pontigny. I have lived with and loved this album for twelve months, from the very first listening. A Journey by Maciek Pysz is my album of 2015 because of its beauty, its emotional depth and variety, and the dazzling compositional and performance talents of Maciek Pysz on guitar.
A Journey is guitarist and composer Maciek Pysz’s second album, recorded and engineered once more by Stefano Amerio at Artesuono Studio with the same musicians as his first album Insight – Yuri Goloubev on bass and Asaf Sirkis on drums – but with the inspired choice of Daniele di Bonaventura on piano and bandoneon. The mutual inspiration between Pysz and Bonaventura on bandoneon is nowhere clearer than on the haunting Innocente by Ralph Towner with its delicate impressionist water colour introduction. This has a touch of genius about it, inspired by the moment.
You can appreciate this album for the beauty of the sound: clear, pristine and sparkling yet warm – everything you would want to hear in an acoustic guitar if you can’t actually be in the room with it – this album is made for vinyl. But you soon forget the technicalities as you are swept away in the emotions of each composition. Take Water Streets inspired by a trip to Venice, the gentle rocking of a gondola, the ripple of sunlight on ancient facades, masks and carnival – you experience all of these things unforgettably in just a few bars. The clarity is not just clarity of sound, but clarity and honesty of emotion, and that is why I love this album so much. There is no escaping the wistfulness of Until Next Time, the opening bandoneon so full of longing, the warmth and peace of Coming Home, the affection in Paris, the joyous momentum of Always On The Move.
Insight was my album of 2013, reviewed here. There is no denying the technical, stylistic and emotional growth in this second album, the easy flow of melody disguising music that is challenging to perform. It is unnecessary to list influences since Maciek has his own sound and colour pallet, as subtle, gorgeous and extensive as any painter’s, every note delivered with passion and breathtaking skill. It was quite evidently a magical few days in the studio with inspiration from all involved. And the order of tracks is very satisfying, from opening Fresh Look to closing Coming Home. A perfectly executed work of art in every sense. And what next? Well, I for one can’t wait for the next stage in this particular journey….but in the meantime, I will always enjoy A Journey.
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The Turner Bequest at the Tate Britain is the largest collection in the world of arguably Britain’s greatest painter. Join artist and tutor, Nick Pearson as he takes you on a virtual tour the collection of his favourite artist.
Learn about a large selection of the works on show and trace the influences and development of this intense, original and influential artist – who did his best and most memorable work when he was in his sixties!
Please contact Nick directly on connie.spark@btopenworld.com and he’ll let you know how to pay the fee into his account or where to send a cheque, to secure your place. If you don’t have or have never used Zoom, let Nick know and he can show you how to download it and get started very easily.
Nick’s tour of The Turner Bequest takes the form of illustrated slide lectures. If you sign up, you’ll be sent a pdf with high-resolution images that you can easily flick through on screen, or print out and follow as he takes to the floor on Zoom, with projected images on his studio wall. These projected, filmed and transmitted images won’t be as sharp as those he’ll be sending you on the pdf, but will allow him to point things out as he speaks, in an attempt to make the presentation as much like a live lecture as possible.
Nick Pearson is an internationally exhibited contemporary artist whose practice encompasses sculpture, drawing and photographic work. His simple interventions and appropriations of the familiar things that surround us (made uncanny by way of his approach and working practices) deal with the language, the possible associations and the status of ‘ordinary’ objects. Nick first studied on the Art & Design Foundation Course at Leeds (Jacob Kramer) College of Art and continued his studies at The Polytechnic Wolverhampton and Stourbridge College of Art.
He lectures on modern art and design history and runs other, short art & design units at London College of Contemporary Arts, OPEN Ealing and Richmond Adult Community College.
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The stability of the keyhole decreases for deep penetrated high-power laser beam welding. The keyhole tends to collapse with increasing laser power and e.g. keyhole induced porosity can occur. This study deals with the observation of the keyhole during high-power laser beam welding in partial penetration mode by means of a high-speed camera. A butt configuration of 25 mm thick structural steel and transparent quartz glass was used for the experiments. An oscillating magnetic field was applied perpendicular to the welding direction on the root side of the steel plate. The keyhole was highlighted with a coaxial diode laser. It was ascertained that the stability of the keyhole and the weld penetration depth were increased by applying an oscillating magnetic field with an oscillating frequency of 1.2 kHz and a magnetic flux density of 50 mT.
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The choice of solvents influences crystalline solid formed during the crystallization of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). The underlying effects are not always well understood because of the complexity of the systems. Theoretical models are often insufficient to describe this phenomenon. In this study, the crystallization behavior of the model drug paracetamol in different solvents was studied based on experimental and molecular dynamics data. The crystallization process was followed in situ using time-resolved Raman spectroscopy. Molecular dynamics with simulated annealing algorithm was used for an atomistic understanding of the underlying processes. The experimental and theoretical data indicate that paracetamol molecules adopt a particular geometry in a given solvent predefining the crystallization of certain polymorphs
Potentialities of Reaction Sintering in the Fabrication of High-Strength Macroporous Ceramics Based on Substituted Calcium Phosphate (2020)
Orlov, Nikolai ; Kiseleva, A. K. ; Milkini, P. A. ; Evdokimov, P. V. ; Putlayev, V. I. ; Günster, Jens
Calcium alkali metal (potassium and sodium) double and triple phosphates have been synthesized in different ways. Was for the first time used reaction sintering to produce ceramics based on calcium alkali metal mixed phosphates and investigated the densification behavior of mixed phosphate-based multiphase materials during sintering by this method. Was presented the microstructure of polished surfaces of sintered samples differing in phase composition and determined the density of ceramics prepared using reaction mixtures differing in composition. The effect of reaction sintering on the porosity of the ceramics has been assessed. Using stereolithographic printing and reaction sintering, was produced macroporous mixed Calcium phosphate-based ceramic implants. Their compressive strength has been determined to be 0.78 ± 0.21 MPa for two-phase samples and 1.02 ± 0.13 MPa for three-phase samples.
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Geopolymers and alkali-activated materials have emerged as a complement, and partly as an alternative, to traditional materials in various applications, such as traditional ceramics, energy saving, waste management, building construction, and filtration. These new materials can play an important role in mitigating climate change and promoting a circular economy, which is one of the reasons why they are being actively researched in many laboratories around the world. Open Ceramics, the official, peer-reviewed, Open Access journal of the European Ceramic Society, is dedicated to foster this research and is compiling a Special Issue with the title “Alkali-activated and geopolymer materials in ceramics and various applications”. The aim of this Special Issue is to promote new applications, the use of previously underused raw materials, and in particular a better understanding of the chemical and mechanical behavior of these materials. The scope of the Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, research on the following topics: - valorization of previously underused raw materials - a better understanding of established raw materials - detailed spectroscopic characterization of alkali-activated materials and geopolymers to elucidate their phase assemblage - the mechanism of formation of the phase(s) that comprise these binders - control of their mechanical properties - the effect of fillers/aggregates on their mechanical properties - their durability under various conditions and the underlying deterioration mechanisms - special applications and recycling-related considerations.
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The dispersive properties of Lamb waves can be utilised for material characterisation because the frequency-wavenumber-relationship, as well as the group velocity, depend on material parameters. These dependencies make a non-destructive estimation of an elastic constant possible. This preliminary study investigates the sensitivity of dispersion curves caused by a change in elastic constants. The Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method is used to compute special dispersion curves, which show the sensitivity value of the frequency and group velocity as a colour value. This representation allows for easy identification of patterns and local effects. Two sets of dispersion curves are presented, one set for a steel plate and the other set for a plate made of a carbon fibre reinforced polymer. In general, we notice that the sensitivity often increases with the frequency and that higher-order modes seem to be more suitable for material characterisation. Moreover, specific modes respond to material changes while others are relatively unaffected, which must be taken into consideration for material characterisation.
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In order to shorten time to market of products and to support new developments, the European Community is funding a HORIZON 2020 project called i-TRIBOMAT. In the field of tribology, renowned institutions combine their testing and analytical capabilities to provide the respective services. The later will be offered in Europe via a Single-Entry Point (SEP). Due to this combination of services, a testbed is created consisting of more than 100 tribometers. Thus, a large variety of testers exists, either commercially available or in-house built. Each tester is optimised to simulate a specific tribological contact situation. Currently, there is no standard available for the design of such testers. Especially, the way forces (normal load, friction force) and distances (e.g. stroke, linear wear) are measured, recorded and pre-processed differs from type to type. These forces and distances are essential for the determination of wear/ wear rates and coefficients of friction (COF), the core results of tribo-tests. This matter is complicated by the fact that e.g. for reciprocating motion, there are at least four different ways to determine COF. Depending on the testing conditions, these ways can lead to considerably different results. Currently, it is not obligatory to specify the method used for determining the COF. In order to make data comparable, there is a need for measures which ensure that each tribometer is delivering similar, at best the same results under the same test conditions, irrespective of its manufacturer, design, location, determination method and even operator. The way forward are improved Round-Robin tests. First results and other challenges faced by creating comparable tribological data will be considered in the present contribution.
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In the framework of the European project H-House various concrete façade elements were developed with the aim to ensure a long service life by combining a very durable material with self-cleaning properties. The façade elements presented are made of a shell of UHPC filled with blocks of aerated autoclaved concrete as insulating material. Self-cleaning properties were realized amongst others by imprinting a microstructure into the surface during casting. The paper focuses on selected technological aspects of the manufacturing process of prototypes which had to be performed in two concreting sections. Furthermore the challenges faced when upscaling the self-cleaning properties are addressed and the strategy to assess the self-cleaning properties by measuring the contact and the roll-off angel is presented. The results show that a successfull upscalaing process requires detailed planning and that the best results can often be achieved with a moderate work effort or material use.
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Fractographic Analysis of Fatigue Striations Formation under different Microstructures and Loading Conditions (2020)
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Fatigue failure of a component can occur at service loads considerably lower than the yield strength of the material. Under fatigue loading condition, the material in the vicinity of the tip of a propagating crack repeatedly deforms plastically, leaving microscopic marks on the crack surface, commonly known as fatigue striations. Counting and measuring fatigue striations is a method in estimating the number of loading cycles a component went through until fracture. Some studies suggest a one-to-one relation between the number of fatigue striations and the number of load cycles, but this relation is still debatable, given that there are many factors influencing the formation of those striations. The main purpose of this work is to analyze the influence of microstructure and mechanical strength on the formation of fatigue striations in structural steels, in order to understand how these material properties are related to the fatigue crack behavior. For such, standard Charpy-V samples were subjected to hardness, fatigue and impact testing. Metallography was performed to characterize the microstructure, and a fractographic analysis by using optical and scanning electron microscopy was carried out to investigate the fracture surface. This study shows that steels with higher ductility have a closer one-to-one relation than those with a higher tensile strength. Above a certain level of tensile strength, fatigue striations do form rarely or completely disappear.
High molecular weight poly(l-lactide) via ring-opening polymerization with bismuth subsalicylate-The role of cocatalysts (2020)
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The catalytic potential of bismuth subsalicylate (BiSub), a commercial drug, for ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of L-lactide was explored by variation of co-catalyst and polymerization time. Various monofunctional phenols or carboxylic acids, aromatic ortho-hydroxy acids and diphenols were examined as potential co-catalysts. 2,2´-Dihydroxybiphenyl proved to be the most successful co-catalyst yielding weight average molecular weights (uncorrected Mw values up to 185 000) after optimization of reaction time and temperature. Prolonged heating (>1-2h) depending on catalyst concentration) caused thermal degradation. In polymerization experiments with various commercial Bi(III) salts a better alternative to BiSub was not found. By means of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry a couple of unusual and unexpected transesterification reactions were discovered. Finally, the effectiveness of several antioxidants and potential catalyst poisons was explored, and triphenylphosphine was found to be an effective catalyst poison.
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Ontario couple faces charges over 1st cases of new COVID-19 strain, detected only by fluke
The first known cases in Canada of the U.K. variant of the coronavirus were discovered only by fluke, and the couple who fell ill are now facing public-health charges, CBC News has learned.
The woman and man, from Durham Region east of Toronto, had contact with a traveller from the U.K. prior to falling ill, the provincial Health Ministry said last month.
But the ministry also indicated the man and woman initially withheld that information.
“Additional investigation and follow-up case and contact management has revealed that the couple had indeed been in contact with a recent traveller from the U.K., which is new information not provided in earlier interviews,” the ministry said in a Dec. 27 statement, one day after it said the couple had had “no known travel history, exposure or high-risk contacts.”
The Durham Region Health Department confirmed to CBC News that both are facing charges, but would not comment further on the case, citing that the matter is before the courts. The couple has not been named publicly.
It is not clear what the exact charges might be, or whether others might also be charged. Officials said the couple has been served a notice to appear in court in early March. It is believed the charges are under the Health Protection and Promotion Act, a provincial law that gives regional medical officers of health broad power to impose restrictions or conditions to control epidemics.
Detected by fluke
It was only by accident that the coronavirus variant, first reported in the U.K. in December and known as B117, was found in the couple, according to Public Health Ontario.
Currently, if someone tests positive for the more common coronavirus in Ontario, their sample is assessed for the B117 strain in only a few circumstances. According to Public Health Ontario, those include if the person recently travelled outside Canada or have been in contact with someone who did.
‘Airplanes are always going to be faster than science,’ said Amir Attaran, a professor of law and public health, reflecting on the arrival of new coronavirus variants in Canada. (CBC)
But in the case of the Durham couple, Public Health Ontario says their swabs just happened to be processed at a private-sector lab using a test that can also serve as a screen for the B117 strain.
“The test results flagged with the possible variant,” the agency said in an email. “The initial flag by the community lab about the two Durham samples was coincidental, in that they were not purposefully searching for the variant.”
Further genetic sequencing at a Public Health Ontario laboratory confirmed it was the new strain, which scientists consider to be much more contagious but not more virulent.
The B1-17 coronavirus variant, first discovered in the U.K., is now in at least 40 countries, including Canada. It has 23 mutations, including one that attaches to healthy cells like a key going into a lock. 1:56
CBC News canvassed other provincial public health authorities about their efforts to detect the new strain. Only Saskatchewan said that all its current COVID-19 testing will detect the variant. Most provinces said that, like Ontario, they send positive test samples for further scrutiny if the context warrants.
Amir Attaran, a University of Ottawa professor of law and public health, says it was inevitable the coronavirus variant would find its way into Canada.
“We have pleasure travellers going back and forth, as we’ve so recently found out among politicians. This is incompatible with keeping new and dangerous strains out of the country,” Attaran said.
“The problem is that airplanes are always going to be faster than science, and so by the time scientists discover a new dangerous strain and warn about it, the airplanes have crisscrossed in and out of Canada countless times.”
Because millions of people have continued to legally enter the country during the pandemic, the couple are likely not the first people in Canada to actually have the B117 variant, but they were the first to be publicly announced.
The Durham health department wouldn’t say whether co-workers of the couple have been alerted. It said it does “thorough” contact screening but also said it doesn’t share private health information with employers.
As of Friday, there have been 14 documented cases in Canada of the coronavirus variant first reported in the U.K., and one case of a variant first reported in South Africa, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada.
With files from CBC’s Exan Auyoung, Jorge Barrera, Jonathon Gatehouse, Albert Leung, Jasmine Mani, Madeline McNair and Andreas Wesley
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Motorsport: Competitive And Starter-Friendly Racing For £5000? MGCC, Helped By Students, Offers Just That!
Competitive And Starter-Friendly Racing For £5000? MGCC, Helped By Students, Offers Just That!
The ever-escalating costs of going motor racing and lowering the barrier to competitors’ entry are common issues in modern motorsport. Yet MG Car Club has made the sensational step of unveiling a low-cost MG3 race car designed both to be competitive and ideal for beginners. You can hit the track with it for just £5000, over and above the cost of buying any road-going MG3. Even more sensationally, its race-preparation was devised by a team of students. And the MG3 is poised to make its race debut this weekend, at MGCC’s Silverstone season-opening race meeting. This will be in the standard road-going ‘Class A’ in the club’s MG Cup championship. MG has been synonymous with motorsport since the marque’s inception and MGCC organizes and manages six race meetings, six championships and two series. Its popular MG Cup championship, now entering its 31st year, offers close budget racing for a range of MG models, across standard, modified and full race specifications.
The students are working during their studies as interns at SAIC Motor UK Technical Centre; for their intern project they were tasked with converting a production MG3 to a race car, with a budget of only £5000. The team got going properly in early December last year, and even with only being able to devote one-fifth of their work time to it they got the car prepared well in advance of this season’s start. They estimate that working full-time a road MG3 can be converted for the track in around two weeks. Currently only the prototype MG3 racer exists but the club is hopeful that many MG3s will join it on the grid in short order as other potential participants see the benefits. As well as being low-cost and fine-handling—making it ideal for beginners—it’s even designed to match the lap times of its class pacesetter. The student team is prepared to share its build list to make it easier for others to replicate its work. The MG Cup’s regulations allow any MG3 model to be converted and get on the grid, not just the All-New MG3 which went on sale last year.
“We are delighted to be involved in bringing the latest iteration of MG cars to race circuits up and down the country,” said MGCC’s general manager Adam Sloman. “Motorsport is a huge part of MG and the Club’s heritage, and we are very much invested in bringing new cars, drivers and young competitors to our grids in the future.” Intern Joanna Burland concurred. “The Intern Project has provided a great opportunity to work on something slightly different, and gain valuable experience of helping to develop a new low-cost race car and work with MG Motor and MG Car Club to make the project a success,” she added. MGCC is further seeking to encourage wider racing participation by holding down and for some meetings reducing its competitor entry fees for 2019, with some fees under £300, as well as continuing to offer half price entry fees for those aged 25 and under.
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Geometrical quench and dynamical quantum phase transition in the $\alpha-T_3$ lattice
28 Apr 2020 • Gulácsi Balázs • Heyl Markus • Dóra Balázs
We investigate quantum quenches and the Loschmidt echo in the two dimensional, three band $\alpha-T_3$ model, a close descendant of the dice lattice. By adding a chemical potential to the central site, the integral of the Berry curvature of the bands in different valleys is continously tunable by the ratio of the hopping integrals between the sublattices... By investigating one and two filled bands, we find that dynamical quantum phase transition (DQPT), i.e. nonanalytical temporal behaviour in the rate function of the return amplitude, occurs for a certain range of parameters, independent of the band filling. By focusing on the effective low energy description of the model, we find that DQPTs happen not only in the time derivative of the rate function, which is a common feature in two dimensional models, but in the rate function itself. This feature is not related to the change of topological properties of the system during the quench, but rather follows from population inversion for all momenta. This is accompanied by the appearance of dynamical vortices in the time-momentum space of the Pancharatnam geometric phase. The positions of the vortices form an infinite vortex ladder, i.e. a macroscopic phase structure, which allows us to identify the dynamical phases that are separated by the DQPT. (read more)
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Questions on derivation of the Rayleigh-Jeans law
I'm following this derivation of the Rayleigh-Jeans law:
https://thecuriousastronomer.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/derivation-of-the-rayleigh-jeans-law-part1/
There are a few points that I don't quite understand, and I would appreciate help in understanding them:
In part 2, it is mentioned that the electric field at the walls must be zero, or otherwise electric field would impart energy to the cavity walls and lose energy itself. But why is this required? I thought that "thermal equilibrium" in this situation means the radiation and cavity are at the same temperature; so I thought the wall would be continuously absorbing some amount of radiation, only to re-radiate it and lose the gained energy again.
It is mentioned that the energy of one mode is $kT$. This is the result of applying the equipartition theorem, which states that every degree of freedom has an energy $1/2kT$. So apparently every mode has two degrees of freedom. Do these correspond to two possible polarizations of light? But from other sources I've found out that the ultraviolet catastrophe arises from the idea that every mode has this energy $kT$. But why does every mode have this energy? Would this mean that the degrees of freedom are acctually the numbers $n_x$, $n_y$, $n_z$?
And why do we even apply equipartition theorem to radiation? I understand that for an ideal gas, $1/2kT$ is the energy per degree of freedom, but neither the radiation nor the cavity are ideal gasses. I don't even see what it means for radiation to have temperature $T$.
I would very much appreciate help in understanding this derivation.
thermodynamics thermal-radiation
S. RotosS. Rotos
I thought the wall would be continuously absorbing some amount of radiation, only to re-radiate it and lose the gained energy again.
This is where you got confused. The wall is, by assumption, perfect reflector of radiation. Thus it does not absorb any part of radiation. It does not re-radiate any radiation after some thermalization - this does not take place. The wall can be at completely different temperature than the system inside, or does not have temperature at all. There is no thermal equilibrium between the system inside and the wall. The theoretical purpose of the perfectly reflecting walls is just to completely contain the system including the radiation so that system can reach thermal equilibrium with itself. Without such walls, the system would lose or gain energy from the environment via radiation.
So apparently every mode has two degrees of freedom. Do these correspond to two possible polarizations of light?
No, cuboid cavity mode has only one polarization, but still has two degrees of freedom, because it takes both vector potential value and also rate of its change to express the contribution to the net Poynting energy. It is the same for any 1D harmonic oscillator - it has two quadratic terms in its Hamiltonian, one for position and one other for velocity.
But why does every mode have this energy?
This follows from the assumption that EM energy inside is given by the Poynting formula
$$ H = \int_V \frac{1}{2}\epsilon_0 E^2 + \frac{1}{2\mu_0} B^2 \,dV. $$
When E,B are expressed using vector potential A as superposition of mode oscillations, H turns out to be sum of quadratic terms. Then the second step is to assume that these obeys the equipartition theorem.
why do we even apply equipartition theorem to radiation? I understand that for an ideal gas, is the energy per degree of freedom, but neither the radiation nor the cavity are ideal gasses.
From the standpoint of early 20 century physics, this was somewhat natural to do. Molecules of gas do produce and interact with EM radiation. When gas is in thermodynamic equilibrium, it is in equilibrium also with EM radiation. So it should be possible to apply similar statistical ideas to it that have been so successful for gases.
I don't even see what it means for radiation to have temperature $T$ Radiation has temperature $T$ when it comes off body that is in thermodynamic equilibrium and has temperature $T$.
You are right to question whether results of classical statistical physics such as equipartition can be applied so directly to EM radiation. The failure of the Rayleigh and Jeans formula in high frequencies shows that the applicability is indeed limited.
Ján LalinskýJán Lalinský
$\begingroup$ Very thorough answer, thank you! But one thing bothers me: You say that light in cuboid cavity has only one polarization, why is this? The derivation says (on page 3): "Light can exist independently in two different polarisations at right angles to each other, so we need to double the number of solutions to our standing wave equation to account for this ". Another thing: What are the things here that are in thermal equilibrium? If the cavity can be at any temperature, what does $T$ mean? Is there gas inside cavity? I thought the cavity simply encloses radiation coming from the outside. $\endgroup$ – S. Rotos Nov 9 '18 at 10:38
$\begingroup$ The factor of 2 due to polarization is indeed a confusing point in these derivations; I think even one of the original authors initially made an error in that and corrected it later. I'll try to explain this later. Regarding the thermodynamic equilibrium, this is assumed to take place between the radiation and some small particle of matter inside. Without such particle, the radiation would not attain thermodynamic equilibrium on its own. The cavity is introduced into these considerations solely to trap the radiation inside. Radiation or matter outside do not influence the inside in any way. $\endgroup$ – Ján Lalinský Nov 9 '18 at 13:21
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Turning Point, or Tipping Point | Aries New Moon and Monday Morning Horoscope by Eric Francis
Kingston, NY, Sunday night, March 22, 2020 | Link to original
Dear Friend and Reader:
I trust this letter finds you doing your best to take care of yourself. At this juncture, your first responsibility is to stay healthy, and then to keep the people around you healthy.
Whatever this situation is about — and I know enough to know that I don’t know — making sure your body is well-rested, well-hydrated and well-nourished will all help. Of course, many are being thrown into the most stressful situation of their lives, which is not good for one’s immune system. So we are on the razor’s edge.
One of the most challenging things to deal with in this moment is going to be people’s psychology. We have now been put on notice that anyone you see on the street might kill you by breathing. Perhaps check with your inner teacher and ask if this is really true.
Before I get into the New Moon, as of Saturday/Sunday, Saturn is now in Aquarius. This begins the test of a new social system, lasting through July 1 (around the time when we’re told we’re getting out of quarantine).
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Everything is Lining Up
At 5:28 am EDT on Tuesday, March 24, we experience the Aries New Moon. Positioned just four days out from the vernal equinox, this would be an influential event under any circumstances. Yet the Moon-Sun conjunction plugs into all of the other astrology early in the cardinal signs that has dominated this year’s news.
And while that is happening, Pluto in late Capricorn — which means the U.S. Pluto return — is powered up by a conjunction from Mars and Jupiter in Capricorn, and a square from Eris (which is in late Aries, being squared by that whole menagerie). So we are in an “everything, all at once” moment, with a chart running at about maximum power. As if you could not tell.
Did this look like disaster astrology?
Well, it would, if one was in the business of predicting disasters. The charts have a massive global quality these days, and have for a while. There is tension everywhere. The aspects have impact, and describe far-reaching events. These events stand at the personal-collective juncture associated with the Aries Point, or vernal point (the beginning of the zodiac), and a similar thing called the lunar nodes — which are themselves now aligning with the Aries Point.
Everything is lining up. The astrology looks political above all else, and it has momentum. What is not so easy to see is the theme of virulence. But the shakeup? For sure. The stress on society’s structures? For sure. But stress to the point of total collapse or shutdown? Well naturally, I would have said that — if I was the astrologer of Infowars. Context is everything.
For those with some astrology literacy or those curious, I’ll give a couple of paragraphs of description of the charts, and I’ll include a basic diagram. See if you can follow along. Then, I will offer some interpretation.
The upshot is that while what’s occurring is a global event, it’s happening concurrently with the first return of Pluto to its natal position in United States history. What we are seeing are all things plutonian: deep, dark, and affecting the millions. Pluto with his cloak of invisibility seems to have snuck up on us.
But everyone in government and in science knows this kind of thing is possible, and not only that, inevitable. However, it’s the practice of our society not to use the precautionary principle: that is, to consider the potential worst-case scenario. We put nuclear power plants into service, assuming the worst thing won’t happen, which is a meltdown or a series of them. This is done under the theory that “it probably won’t happen.”
New Moon Conjunct Chiron, Square the Nodes — and Pholus
Tuesday’s Aries New Moon is a degree away from Chiron. It’s a conjunction of Moon-Sun-Chiron in Aries, close to the Aries Point. And it’s meeting the lunar nodes — the karmic axis, now in Cancer and Capricorn — at a 90-degree angle. Each of these factors multiplies the next, though the square to the lunar nodes says turning point — or tipping point.
Simplified chart for the Aries New Moon conjunct Chiron, early Tuesday EDT. The main event is at the left — it’s easy to spot the Sun, the Moon and Chiron. Notice all the right angles they are making, to the lunar nodes and to Pholus (the little green thing). Those are “squares.” Then there is a second square pattern, including everything around degree 22-24. That pattern is Pluto (top of chart, a little to the left), surrounded by Pallas (a political asteroid), plus Jupiter and Mars. This is all square Eris — the red thing on the left, with the number 23 next to it. That’s your chaos factor. The outlier is Saturn in Aquarius. It’s the yellow planet next to the 00 and the wavy Aquarius lines.
The Moon and Sun conjunct Chiron in Aries vibrate with the Chiron-dominated theme of a healing crisis. All global science-fiction-type scenarios aside, this is a chart that blares out “crisis over the discovery of who I am.” Yet Chiron can represent something medical. And we are most definitely seeing a medical crisis at the intersection of the private and the collective.
Where it gets interesting is that Chiron is square Pholus. (I most recently covered that in detail with the March monthly horoscope.)
Pholus is the centaur associated with the small cause with a big effect. Hooee! It’s also the out-of-control release. Pholus is the energy of something that keeps going and going, with no end in sight. Where Pholus is concerned, eventually, it runs its course. And from living through several Pholus releases, I can tell you that it helps to take steps to mitigate things. Those steps may seem futile at the time, or like too little too late, or whatever — do them anyway. Do them anyway.
Saturn in Aquarius
Let’s end where we began, with Saturn in Aquarius. This is the new factor in the equation. Pretty much everything else in the charts is chugging and churning along as it has been for a couple of years, except that Saturn is now in Aquarius, which last happened 1991-1994.
This is exactly what we need. Saturn in Aquarius (which I covered in some detail on Thursday) is the version of Saturn that is about where social responsibility meets personal responsibility. It is one of the best placements in all of astrology, if it can avoid intellectual arrogance. The remedy for that is know when you don’t know. Recognize when you’re wrong, and be pliable about it.
I hear people talking about things with utter confidence when they are completely clueless. Get a clue. Recognize the limits on your knowledge, work to build knowledge, and learn how to be analytical. Learn how to reason with others.
Saturn in Aquarius draws its true power from its deliberative quality, and its ability to integrate different points of view.
This is not a group. These people are not thinking for themselves; they are caught in mass consciousness. The distinction is easy to spot, but few bother to make it. Hence, humanity tends to proceed in herd mentality in situations when conscious, intelligent thought is called for.
Mass Consciousness and Group Consciousness
In her work Esoteric Astrology, Alice Bailey leaves students with a takeaway about the sign Aquarius. She draws a distinction between mass consciousness and group consciousness. It’s an easy distinction to make, and the more you consider it, the more relevant it becomes.
Mass consciousness is a crowd cheering at a football game. It’s a stock market panic.
Group consciousness is a collective of individuals who come together and can think together. The problem here is that to be an individual requires having done some indication and self-actualization, and being strong enough to stand up to those mass emotional currents, which on some level have the theme, “we believe.”
We now need all of the self-actualized individuals we can muster up, and we need to work together in small groups. The Chiron New Moon in Aries is pushing self-awareness and growth like few things can. Saturn in Aquarius is giving us an abundant opportunity to put it to work.
That’s where we stand. The tipping point can be a mass surrender to what looks like medically induced fascism. The turning point is toward individuals dealing with a collective problem. You are one of them.
Take care of yourself, then take care of others.
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Monday Morning Horoscope #221 for March 23, 2020 | By Eric Francis Coppolino
Aries (March 20-April 19) — On Tuesday, there is a New Moon in your birth sign. This event connects to the planetary pattern that’s driving the rather strange world situation. In other words, the Moon and the Sun line up with centaur planets Chiron and Pholus, which are connected to the lunar nodes. That might mean something to you but if not, you are plugged into the zeitgeist — exactly and precisely, and you’re placed at the turning point. That astrology describes the nature of the healing crisis we are in. You are part of the solution. Practice this in small ways. Begin with awareness: pay attention to what is happening in all directions. Continue with quietly being a catalyst, which is the chemical agent that facilitates a reaction and then can be fully recovered at the end. Practice the art of correct action. This New Moon is conjunct Chiron, though even more closely conjunct Salacia. That is where desire meets maturity. Stay close to your biological cravings, which are emissaries of the life force. Count that as an energy source, and use it appropriately. Get your full Aries reading by Eric here.
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Anyone who has encountered it is curious about Chiron. Planet Waves provides one of the few dependable online sources of information on this unusual planet. For the 10th anniversary Astrology Studio reading, I will be covering Chiron in Aries — a momentous event for all those born under this sign, and of high interest to everyone else. Pre-order this reading here for the best price.
Taurus (April 19-May 20) — I had a feeling Uranus in Taurus would shake things up, but I was not expecting what we’re witnessing. While the value of financial markets may be going down, your value is increasing. While much of the world is shaking, you have the ability to be cool and steady. Your astrology and world events are calling forth something deeper from you, something you know is there and coexist with. Though it’s a level you rarely go to, like the boiler room in a ship you’re sailing on. You know it’s there, and you can connect to the power source in the form of thrust and drive, often without getting your hands dirty. I suggest you go down to the lower decks and check out the machinery of your personal dynamo. Turn your awareness within, and descend into yourself. Feel the energy, the heat and the rumble. Tune into the aspect of yourself you never, ever reveal to others, just long enough to make conscious contact. Then go back to doing what you do and being who you are. Get your full Taurus reading by Eric here.
Gemini (May 20-June 21) — One thing we can say about the world is that many people’s search for themselves has intensified in an unexpected and deeply poignant way. You are probably witnessing the full spectrum of what is possible regarding this search for self. You may also be noticing how any point along that gradient represents some potential for you to express who you are. The key idea here is that there is a wide diversity of possibilities, and you have the ability to set your vibration to any of them. So what you’re seeing and feeling is essentially an energetic buffet. It may at times feel like a freak show, or a tour of a military hospital, or an encounter with the pantheon of saints, in no special order. Use your skill of language to tell it like it is, to yourself (don’t worry about telling anyone else, unless it’s an intimate party you absolutely trust). Know that this is not about all of them, it’s about you. The spiritual key for you will be identifying the vibration level you want, and then stabilizing yourself there. Note, this should not be a struggle; follow an emotional path of least resistance. Get your full Gemini reading by Eric here.
Cancer (June 21-July 22) — This is a moment for you, a moment when you can discover and enter your destiny. I know that is a potentially charged word, though I mean it in the sense of encountering and choosing what feels so natural as to be a calling you answer. To do this, you will need to shed a few skins. There is a kind of reticence, conditioned by various clobberings and threats and so forth to avoid existing on your true path. It feels dangerous, it feels like being naked, and then if you go there even a little, you may feel the guilt at betraying someone else. That’s worth a weekend workshop, though the essence is that to be yourself, you must betray your not-self in all the forms that it takes, and move onward and upward and do the thing you’re called upon to do. To respond to your environment in the way you’re being called upon to respond, which is an entirely enlightened way, and cool and level-headed and pausing with some amazement of the strange, fascinating quality at the moment. Align yourself, listen, and proceed. Get your full Cancer reading by Eric here.
Leo (July 22-Aug. 23) — You now have a glimpse of how much energy was building, that sense of a storm about to crack. This is a duty-calls moment for you. Whatever you’re doing, you’re a first responder. This might involve your family, your workplace, or an actual role on the front lines. Whatever you’re called to do is equally important. You don’t need to feel like you should be doing something else. Be impeccable in whatever your assignment is. Expressing this from the other side of the spectrum, if you’re doing fantastic right now, this phase of your life is not a break or a retreat. By all means catch your breath and stay in alignment with yourself. You have a job to do and you must do it well. If you’re in a more difficult position and your assigned role is survival, trust that you have a gift for pulling through. And if you’re in that situation, bring along as many people as you can, though one by one. You have resources and you have abilities. You have energy. Use it wisely, decision by decision. Get your full Leo reading by Eric here.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22) — You may feel the temptation to meet people wherever they are. I suggest you take the approach of meeting them where you are, because that is something you can know and monitor. Where others are at, you cannot be sure. If you think you’re sure, that’s a liability. So therefore, it would be better to leave your assessment of the spiritual location and condition of others as a variable: as a known unknown. However, there’s a potential issue: you may see what you want to see rather than what is. And if that’s happening, you’re unlikely to notice. So I suggest you put in a few extra layers of perception filtration. And, instead of focusing on others, which is a problem in itself, use your basic self-awareness techniques. Focus your attention on your emotional state, your bodily needs, and physical feedback. Then branch out to what your mind is telling you. Draw yourself into your core, and then gradually extend out from there. This will do a lot more than insulate you from propaganda. You will have plenty of information to navigate by. Get your full Virgo reading by Eric here.
Libra (Sep. 22-Oct. 23) — You may be looking into the reflection of all you need to heal, all you struggle to understand, and all that you want to be in your ideal stage. And it may seem impossible, or so overly complicated as to be inaccessible. Still, maintain your awareness of what you are reaching for, as best you can. You at least have a direct view of what is so. Look right at it, though also make sure you look in other directions as well. Turn your head left and right. Look up and down. Look around the edges of what you perceive. Then return your awareness to what is right there before you. Rather than decide what you’re looking at, perhaps use a technique I learned from someone named Gurani Anjali: ask yourself quietly, “What is it?” This may be a helpful life lesson now, as we certainly have more questions than answers, though where questions are concerned, the simpler the better. Then pause, and listen patiently for a response. Get your full Libra reading by Eric here.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) — Now that Saturn has moved into Aquarius and entered your solar 4th house, you may be feeling more grounded in your situation. For you, grounded is a positive development, as you tend to fly around a bit, and make things more complicated than they are. Yet suddenly you have a sense of how to state your situation in a way you understand. When you do, you might decide you’re better off than you imagined before. It’s true you’re facing a healing challenge. This is signified by Tuesday’s Chiron New Moon in your house of work and wellbeing. Where Chiron is present, there’s a need to proceed slowly and even meticulously. There are other influences that are pushing you to accelerate your thought process and your speech, and you may feel like you’re in a struggle between speeding up and slowing down. Really, it’s between choosing and not choosing. And at the very bottom, this is about who influences you, or who in truth you admit does not have the power to do so. Get your full Scorpio reading by Eric here.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22) — Now may not seem like the time to think about art or creativity, though I could imagine no better. Everything you do now must bear the mark of experimental art — everything, no matter how practical. You have stunning power of imagination at the moment, and you’re in the perfect place to connect it to your direct experience. Your chart describes you as a master of improvisation. This is about thinking standing up, while walking or juggling. If you have a need, it will be your creative mind that helps you fulfill it. If you have a desire, your ability to synthesize will help you make it real. You need to be bold, and that should be pretty easy at this moment. Two other pointers from your solar chart: put several approaches before spending money; if you need it, you’re likely to already have it. And it will help if you take an idea and think it through a few times, refine and improve it. Get your full Sagittarius reading by Eric here.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) — Saturn has left your sign, beginning a kind of test run in Aquarius. Of all the people this will register with in a tangible way, you’re at the front of the queue. Though Saturn in one’s sign has a lot to offer, its exit after several years can feel like having a weight lifted off of one’s body or emotions. Yet all of the benefits it has to offer are equally or more accessible to you. You need the stability this transit is offering you, particularly through the Aries New Moon that takes place early this week. No matter what else may be going on in your life, you’re still subject to the same inner cravings, quests and struggles, and currently you’re in one related to claiming your identity. Or rather claiming it back from whomever took it from you. Often when this kind of revolution happens, it’s through a struggle of some kind. What you can do to your own benefit is to turn anything you may be confronting into a quest for expressing your true being. You are you — not who others tried to convince you that you were. Get your full Capricorn reading by Eric here.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Saturn entered your sign overnight Saturday to Sunday, which seems custom-designed to have a sobering, focusing effect on you. It’s akin to placing a lens in front of your ability to see, feel and experience yourself. Saturn distills the high-voltage, sometimes erratic quality of Aquarius into a slowly vibrating flow of information. You will appreciate this transit, which stretches into 2023 (and of which the current ingress is just a test run that lasts until July 1). Here are few clues. You can afford to be less certain — about anything and everything. It will do you good. You can afford to be more flexible. You are being invited to engage yourself in a maturing process that mainly will feel like burning off mental baby fat. Aquarius prides itself on its ability to reason, though this does not always happen. Saturn in Aquarius is the very picture of discernment, balance and easygoing sincerity. Let yourself be reminded of all you do not know, and proceed from there. Get your full Aquarius reading by Eric here.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Over the weekend, Saturn made its first move into Aquarius. It will be there through July 1, and then return to stay in December. This may come as a relief to you, as it helps you find a private space within your own mind. Everyone is being made to take a step out of the social and public realms, and into the interior. You need time alone. So does everyone else, though it’s especially important that you focus your thoughts and feelings inward and work through a series of necessary adjustments associated with this transit. What you’re really doing is taking back space that is yours, which has been left abandoned for a while. Part of this will happen in the silence of meditation, some will happen in your sleep, and some with tools such as your sketchbook or your journal. You will recognize this space immediately when you arrive there. It will be as familiar as a summer cottage you have not been in for a few years. Tidy up, open the windows and put some soup on the stove. Get your full Pisces reading by Eric here.
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Katie & Andrew’s Modern Warehouse Wedding
by Ms Polka Dot | Australia - Queensland, Bride, Inspired Weddings, Queensland
Katie & Andrew
I love vintage and old as much as the next person. But there is something awesome about a modern wedding and today’s modern warehouse wedding (with plenty of sparkle) is just the ticket to inspire the industrial, modern loving couples out there who perhaps lead different lifestyles that are more about clean, urban lines and bold colours and the sweet city vibe. Todd Hunter McGaw was there to snap the moments of the day.
Katie tells their story. “We actually met on RSVP. Meeting a partner in a Bar or Club didn’t appeal to me so I thought I would give it a go. Andrew had just moved to Brisbane from Canberra and seemed too good to be true on paper. For our first date we had dinner and drinks that lasted for over 4 hours and although it seems cheesy afterwards I knew he was the one!
Andrew, on our one year anniversary took me to Australia Zoo. He had secretly planned a private tiger walk in the morning that included a photographer from the Zoo. While we were kneeling next to the tiger for some photos, Andrew reminded me to not scream, as he got down on one knee and asked me to say some beautiful things. We were extremely lucky to have the photos to capture the moment.”
The bride chose a gown by Karen Wills Holmes, her bridesmaids in sage green gowns from White Runway.
Katie and Andrew chose Lightspace, Fortitude Valley for their wedding. Katie explaining, “I work in property so a warehouse wedding was a fun fit. We loved that we could make the space ours and unique. Andrew loved that he’d never been to a wedding in a venue like it and we were able to have both the ceremony and reception in the same space. This suited the guests that were coming from Canberra to not have to travel between venues.”
Katie tells, “I walked down the aisle to “Forever” by Ben Harper. The song is a declaration and promise that when things get tough Andrew and I will stand by each other until the end and that love is one of the few things that can last forever.”
Joshua Withers performed the ceremony, Katie remarking, “We wrote our own vows and they truly were the highlight of the day for both of us.”
Brisbane Mini Bus carted the bridal party and photographers around, the bride remembering, “I loved our mini bus – being able to spend the time traveling with our bridal party and our photographers to locations along with an esky, really got us in the mood for the reception and the festivities ahead.”
The bride had her heart set on out of season peonies, so settled for silk blooms from Peony Perfection noting, “I wanted peonies but they weren’t in season so I had silk flowers made by Peony Perfection, they were just what I wanted, no one could tell they weren’t real and I can keep them forever. ”
Of their photographer, Katie remarks ” We chose Todd Hunter McGaw, he seemed very different, way more funky and artistic than the type of photographer we would normally pick (Andrew is one of the least creative people ever), but we wanted something different. After seeing a few photographers it became clear that we knew what we would get with each of them – a stock standard set package, well produced, but run of the mill wedding photos. However, with Todd we saw his past work and just had a feeling that he would be awesome and would come up with ideas we’d never dream of!
I never thought I would be laying down on my wedding day in my dress as he took a photo from above, that we would be taking silly photos of the bridal party in the middle of rainwater tanks or would reproduce an amazing photo I’d seen walking along the river (he even captured a flying v of ducks in the background – but Todd was easily one of the best decisions we made for the wedding…and on top of that his wife Alyda and him are just plain rad people who we’ve stayed in touch with since the wedding!”
Reception celebrations kicked on at Lightspace, Fortitude Valley which had been transformed into a black, white and metallic industrial space.
Katie describes the day as, “Romantic warehouse chic with a touch of glitter”. Creative Cakes by Lisa created a white and gold wedding cake.
AV Ideas lit the venue, the bride telling, “Chris and Greg from AVIDEAS Wedding Lighting and Styling Brisbane were so amazing to work with. They travel all over the world to do lighting and styling and have a warehouse full of amazing pieces. Their ideas were so key in planning the wedding of our dreams and most of all they were just lovely people to deal with. We would highly recommend them to anyone who is looking for those special touches to be added to their wedding.”
Of their first dance, Katie remembers, “I used to compete in Ballroom Dancing so initially we planned a dance routine with lifts, twirls and spins as Andrew wanted to give it a go. He was feeling the pressure and had been practicing hard, but had actually picked it up really well. When I made the decision to add buttons to the wedding dress I didn’t quite realise how hard and complicated it would be to get into it. The thought of my poor MOH having to quickly get me out of it and into something I could move in was worrying me and I just couldn’t do it to her. Andrew was pretty upset, and it was a shame we couldn’t go through with it but instead we did a basic waltz to The Goo Goo Dolls “Iris”. Although it wasn’t what we had been planning, the moment still brought tears to our eyes and was a feeling I will never forget.”
Katie remembers, “After the speeches had concluded we were ushered into the second space at Lightspace where Andrew and I were seated in front of a huge projector with everyone standing around. The film started with a picture of Andrew and I, getting engaged behind the tiger in our proposal story and slowly focused in on the Tiger’s eyes, with a voice over saying the secret to a healthy marriage is here.
The song Eye of the Tiger then started belting out with our wedding guests dressed up, lip-syncing and dancing to different parts of the song. Our amazing MC Bek had emailed everyone at the wedding prior, asking them to sing to Eye of the Tiger, dance and do whatever while videoing themselves and then send them all to her. She had pieced it all together and produced a hilarious film clip which had Andrew and I and the rest of our guest crying with laughter.”
“We were lucky enough to have Kim and Chris Sheehy play for us at the wedding. They are friends of ours so we were so happy to have them a part of the day. They were both on The Voice and are so amazing at entertaining. The guests both young and old were on the dance floor loving their songs and didn’t want them to stop playing at the end of the night.”
Congratulations Katie and Andrew! Thank you for sharing your stories with us! Thank you also to Todd Hunter McGaw and Karen Wills Holmes for sharing today’s wedding with us!
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Entering the Phantom Dance Department with FV
May 15, 2018 May 17, 2018 by Camille
Any chance to show love to a Philly band is always a very welcomed opportunity, especially when that band is of the emo-punk-pop genre, which I am a huge sucker for. And if you are too, then you should really get to know FV.
If your aesthetic is “throwing a goth party in a mausoleum with red wine and eye shadow everywhere” (sign me up), then you’ve found the right band. Their debut EP, Phantom Dance Department, is out now (my personal favorites include Steal It Now and Perfect), and if you enjoy Catfish and the Bottleman or The 1975, you will most certainly love FV.
We sat down and chatted outside before their show that night at PhilaMOCA.
Tim (lead vocals/guitar), Sean (guitar/vocals), Chris (drums), Evan (bass)
How did this band come to be? Funny enough, the guys were all indirectly fans of each other and their other bands; some of their old bands even played at the same shows. Tim and Sean met while they were both at Rowan University, and the song Fake Love brought them together, when they realized that this is the type of music they wanted to make:
Tim: So I made a three-song acoustic demo, Fake Love was one of those songs actually, and it went locally viral. Then it was time to go to college, where I met Sean. The song brought us together, and we vowed to make something different than what was already out there. I met Chris at a Japanese House concert – we both went alone. He was looking at the drummer (of Japanese House) and he said “Oh, you see that thing up there? I have one of those.” And I was like, “Do you want to play music like this?”
Sean: We were all in bands, and I knew Chris, who was in a metalcore band at the time. And one day we played a local show, where we talked about The 1975, and I was like, “Wait, he’s in a metalcore band…he likes them?”.
Tim: There’s actually a picture of me from when Chris’ old band was playing a show, and I’m in the crowd wearing his band’s shirt, acting way too tough.
Evan: Sean and I were friends but had never collaborated, since we were in different States. But then he sent me a Facebook message after stalking my Spotify profile.
Sean: We went to a show Evan was playing with our friends Watermedown at the Barbary. We all knew of each other through the grapevine, but we were doing our own thing; we eventually meshed because we all wanted to do something different.
Evan: Our old bands actually played together one time – I was in a band and Sean was in a band called Breaking Tradition, and I watched his set one time and thought “This guy is insane”.
Tim: We all had the ambition to do something that was a little more pop. We grew up in a very punk/emo scene, and we really like that and that’s our roots, but we definitely wanted to explore something different.
On their musical inspirations (I told them I got some Catfish and the Bottleman vibes):
Evan: I’ll get this out of the way – all music is recycled from other bands. There’s no such thing as authentic art.
Tim: For me personally, INXS; their lead singer Michael Hutchence is my idol and I rip him off in everything. He definitely wore what I’m wearing right now at a show before. I owe everything to that frontman.
Evan: I really love the The Cure, I grew up on them.
Chris: Stylistically, I’d say Bruce Springsteen. Drumming-wise, Dave Matthews Band – fantastic dummer.
Sean: I like a lot of Death Cab, The Killers and I listen to a lot of math-rock-ey stuff, but in that realm of a little more technical.
Tim: I would say that Sean’s guitar influences definitely make us stand out a little bit more in our genre; it sounds like the guitar of Death Cab is playing over The Killers. The twinkle-emo didn’t get lost in the genre change.
Sean: I don’t mean to play that way, it just happens.
The band agrees that there is a strong mutual love for both The Killers and The 1975.
FV has already had headlining and opening gigs. We talked about who would be their dream headliner to open for:
Chris: Bruce Springsteen all the way and Dave Matthews. Post Malone would be sick.
Tim: If Lorde wants to take us on tour, that would be sick. I would love to open for Pale Waves and have a goth party all night – we’d go all out. There’s so much we want to do.
Sean: Catfish, Death Cab and COIN.
Evan: When Bloc Party’s Silent Alarm ten-year tour comes to America, I would love to open for them.
On challenges of being a new, young band and making it all happen:
Chris: The challenges would definitely be being four, young twenty-somethings who work and need to pay bills. Getting together in one room to play after working full-time is a struggle.
Evan: Because we work full-time to support FV, we don’t have the all time we want to dedicate to FV stuff.
Tim: Another challenge is coming back to reality after an amazing tour. It’s definitely a two-steps forward, one-step back kind of deal. But you’ve gotta do what you’ve gotta do.
Chris: Maintaining friendships, too.
Sean: It’s an investment that we’re putting our all into.
And about the two times they avoided death?
Evan: On the first time we ever hit the road – our line-up wasn’t even what it is now – it was just two week of dead shows. One night, we took someone up on a place to stay in Alabama. It was a filthy, disgusting house – we were pretty sure we were going to die.
Tim: We walked in and there were two ski masks on the counter, and we just hoped they were really big twenty one pilots fans.
Evan: And our second tour in December was a lot more successful, we had a great time, but the first 48-hours were spent driving through the back roads of Pennsylvania in three different snow storms overnight. That was sweet.
Sean: Hot Fuss by The Killers saved our lives. The last song from the album – Everything Will Be Alright.
Tim: We were going down this icy road, we got to the bottom and Evan said “The brakes weren’t working, but we’re alive, so it doesn’t matter.”
Sean: I was begging Evan to pull over and he said, “Absolutely not, we’ll get stuck if we pull over”, and I said, “We’ll die if we keep going”.
Tim: Another story before we even started making music – we all became friends and went to a 1975 show in Pittsburgh, and we basically lied and told everyone we were in a band. We told them we had been a band for a while and everyone believed us.
Sean: And at that point, we had to do what we said we are, so we became a band.
After our conversation, they played to a full crowd at PhilaMOCA:
So what’s next for FV? A lot, it turns out, especially with the recent release of their debut EP. They’re supporting a band called MILKK and they’re planning on doing some headline dates around those shows, and are hoping to do a tour in July. They also plan to make music videos and visual content for the new EP.
Members of the band also produce other records and are working on other projects. Sean is in another band called 2319, and Evan is producing their record and a record for Watermedown. FV has a studio in the home of their basement, where other bands can go to record. They are extremely supportive of everyone who has supported and inspired them. This includes Rich People, who opened for the band that night (it’s important to note that FV has cited Rich People as their dads).
If anything, I learned that there is a strong sense of support and community within this band and within this music scene. As they said at the end of our interview, “When bands breakthrough, they don’t breakthrough alone. And it’s amazing to have your friends come up with you.”
I’m really excited for these guys, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to interview them. Be sure to listen to them on Spotify and Soundcloud. Keep an eye on FV, Philly, they are certainly a band to watch.
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Drake Hollow (Xbox One) Review – Work/Life Balance
Drake Hollow is outrageously compelling, even when frustrating. It has been a hot minute since I’ve walked away from a game out of annoyance only to come back to it immediately. It’s not always fair but it is consistently engaging, offering up a buffet of mechanics and systems that interlock in fun ways but desperately needs some balancing.
The Molasses Flood has packed a lot into Drake Hollow and it begs to be explored and understood. It’s a strangely sad take on an adventure title, one that quietly hides tales of isolation and loss behind adorable plant friends and frontier living.
There are problems but look past them and you’ll find a unique game with some lovely little secrets.
Drake Hollow Review
As I extensively noted in my preview of the game, Drake Hollow dances with ideas much bigger than its britches would imply. The game shirks off the typical trappings of ‘chosen one’ stories and instead opts for a much more subdued narrative, most prominently seen in the opening. You play as a young adult lost in a storm of failing relationships, financial hardships and the overwhelming existential dread that accompanies both. It’s a shockingly melancholic way to begin a grand adventure, conveyed beautifully through storybook-style animated sequences that pop up throughout the game to progress the story.
For lack of a better term, it has an unmistakable vibe to it – your town is polluted by factories, its landmark is a white painted church on the street corner, you sit endlessly scrolling through notifications in what looks like the place you come to get away from it all. Your small, Americana town life feels entirely on the verge of collapsing when an other-worldly crow appears from the woods with the ultimate offer of escape – travel to a far off land and become a bonafide hero.
After the requisite character customisation, which is largely unremarkable except for its hugely welcomed decision to ditch binary gender options and instead allow you to just build the character you want to and run with it, you’ll be whisked away to The Hollow. An ethereal realm contorted by malevolent magical forces, The Hollow is home to a race of adorable plant creatures named the Drakes who need your assistance.
Drake Hollow ambitiously interlocks several systems, each alone normally would be fleshed out to an entire title. You’ve got your settlement building sim, with its resource management, build limits and resident needs bars. Combat encounters that require a combination of melee and ranged attacks using weapons with degradation bars and individual stats. Collectathon monster-catching of the Drakes, caring for their needs and evolving them into stronger versions with dozens of crystal types. Then you still need to navigate and explore The Hollow itself.
I imagine The Molasses Flood slapping the roof of Drake Hollow proclaiming how much gameplay you can fit into this bad boy. Remarkably it does, mostly, fit; the game struggles under the weight of the systems in the backend but hums along with engrossing energy until then. Progression is measured in seasons in The Hollow; you’ll start in idyllic Springtime and will cycle through Summer, Autumn and eventually, Winter as the narrative progresses alongside. Each season brings something new to the systems, with varying degrees of success.
Spring is a relatively chill time and serves as a fantastic introduction to Drake Hollow. Upon arriving in The Hollow, the Wise Crow will give you a basic list of things to get done, culminating in climbing a local lighthouse to scout out the surrounding islands for Drakes and supplies. During this time you’ll get a handle on the camp building and Drake needs management, a deceptively simple premise that can quickly get away from you. Each Drake needs a certain amount of food, water and entertainment, along with a place to sleep. The older the Drake, the higher the needs.
Meeting these requirements is your number one priority and, potentially, your number one headache. The camp building is akin to Fallout 4’s somewhat awkward placement system, slapping down prebuilt structures as you control the camera and your character in the same space. It’s a fine way of handling it but missing some key features, such as the ability to move something once it has been built or snap together fences and walls. Much like the other issues in the game, these gripes only really rear their head in Winter but more on that in a bit.
Construction use resources and also take up some of your strangely limited build allowances. The bigger the structure, the bigger the cost to your build limit. It’s a system you’ve seen before but I’d be lying if I said its welcome here. As the seasons roll on and your Drakes age up, their needs will grow, requiring larger and more advanced contraptions in the camp. On top of this, you’ll also need to budget for defences against a constant cycle of raids. These constructions chew up your budget, and resources, at a profound rate in the late game and I found myself frustrated when trying to balance it all.
The game’s antagonistic threat, the Ferals, will attack your camp once every half hour or so and as the game progresses the attacks do too. The first few seasons are easy to fend off by yourself; just plop down some fences and run the perimeter with your trusty thwacking stick. But later seasons become a nightmare for players going it alone as raids will quickly demolish your hard-earned structures. By the time you gather up resources and rebuild to balance out your plummeting needs meters, the raid alarm will sound again and the cycle begins anew.
It’s a disheartening loop to get trapped in, especially in the last season of the game. Up until winter, things are progressively more challenging and it makes the thrill of defending your little home all the better. But without co-op buddies to help, the last leg of the game feels wildly unbalanced and unfairly punishing. Fortunately, there is a sandbox mode on the way if you just want to enjoy these systems without the story pressures.
Nabbing more resources, and finding new Drakes to join your family, means venturing out into The Hollow. These procedurally generated islands are surrounded by a toxic miasma and typically occupied by roaming bands of Ferals, supply trucks and general little story notes to find. The supply trucks will send a steady stream of building materials back to camp provided you hook them up to your waypoint system. These form beams of magic light that you can ride to and from your camp in a system that reminded me just slightly of Death Stranding. The highest of praise, coming from me.
Taking out packs of Ferals will net you more crystals to feed to your Drakes to make them grow. Along with the resources for building, the crystals make the laundry list of items you’ll need to collect quite lengthy. This does add some welcome depth to the systems but the crystals are difficult to discern from one another and a clearer UI or menu to indicate which Drake needs what would have been nice. Still, once you adapt to what Drake Hollow does here it becomes an addictive loop of exploration, hunting and gathering, and then domestic bliss with the little dudes.
The Hollow itself is strangely beautiful but often recycles assets and begins to feel less distinct a location as the seasons wear on. The procedurally generated map is great for replay value but, of course, it also sacrifices some degree of balance in island locations which can cause some issues. Some maps will cluster the islands close by, allowing you to form a proper network of waypoints, while others will leave far too much of the miasma between them. The waypoints can only connect to one another within a certain distance and if the toxic ocean is too wide then you’re out of luck.
It is, at the very least, visually quite interesting. It lifts elements from your small town, like the church on the corner or quaint homesteads, and warps them with surreal vines and sickly glows. The art direction is clean and full of little quirks that pair nicely with its almost toy like plastic sheen. Backing this up is a score that uses melancholic strings and low, earthy tones to embue the game with a sense of danger and rural realness.
Those map issues are not a deal-breaker, and ultimately a small price to pay for a fresh map every playthrough, but Drake Hollow’s frustrations are all of that same ilk. Minor things here and there that culminated in a less than stellar final leg of the game. Which is really only as frustrating as it is because the run-up to that final portion is genuinely a blast to play. Combat is pretty straightforward, your standard assortment of light and heavy attacks, blocks, jumps etc, but it has a satisfying whack when you smack a Feral. It also serves its purpose well enough in those early seasons because the raids aren’t yet overwhelming you with odds that require more precise combat mechanics.
There is also a minimalist narrative you can explore through various notes you’ll find around the islands. It is, thankfully, in lockstep with the game’s overall melancholic tone and weaves an interesting, if light, little story. The Wise Crow also has different talking animal buddies that you’ll get to know across the seasons and while they are all visually super fun, none of them gets anywhere near as much time to shine as their avian leader. Fortunately, the Drakes themselves are more than enough company for your wayward soul and you’ll quickly form attachments to them.
They are often visually distinct, with plumes of feathers or flowers growing larger and larger from their weird little faces. They chitter-chatter with indistinct sounds and play with the toys you provide. Beyond gathering crystals for you to use in construction you can also accept buffs from them, ranging from combat benefits to camp boosts. I had my favourite little trio who gave me lightning powers, HP regeneration and the chance for materials to not be consumed during item crafting. I do wish I could have named them myself but again, small gripe with a largely wonderful system.
It all leaves me with the impression that Drake Hollow deserves to be played with friends, or at least strangers on the internet. Which is a mixed feeling to sit with because so much of the game’s tone and aesthetic lends itself well to a solo experience. You feel lonely out in The Hollow, you feel overwhelmed, but you fight to protect you little family and the rewards are, in turn, that much sweeter. Coordination with other players would easily fix some of the balancing issues but it’s a shame that a game with such a strong sense of isolation would require that as much as this does.
And yet, I can’t deny how much fun I had with Drake Hollow. It’s not perfect but it is earnestly trying and I’d applaud that for effort alone, nevermind that most of it truly works for me. Ideally a more balanced single player mode will eventually manifest, because it deserves it, but for now I can think of worse places to widdle away the year than in Drake Hollow.
Drake Hollow was reviewed on Xbox One using digital code provided by the publisher.
Compelling world
Fun interlocking systems
Adorable art direction
Lengthy campaign
Single player needs balancing
Overly simple combat
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Universal Credits
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Universal credit is currently rolling out across Scotland and is set to be the most significant change to the welfare state in years. Research by charity Unlock has indicated that at least 75% of people who leave prison will not have paid employment to go to upon release. Most will be dependent on benefits and/or other financial help for a period after their release. Pamela Morrison provides a summary of the details, timescales and implications, for those working with young people on their release from custody.
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Gender and Salvation: Jaina Debates on the Spiritual Liberation of Women
Is a total renunciation of clothing a prerequisite to attaining salvation? In Gender and Salvation, P. S. Jaini brings to light heretofore untranslated texts centering on a centuries-old debate between the two principal Jaina sects, the Digambaras and the Svetambaras. At the core of the debate is the question: should gender-based differences of biology and life experience condition or limit an individual’s ability to accomplish the ultimate religious goal?
For the Digambaras, the example of total nudity set by Mahavira (599-527 B.C.), the central spiritual figure of Jainism, mandates an identical practice for all who aspire to the highest levels of religious attainment. For the Svetambaras, the renunciation necessary occurs purely on an internal level and is neither affected nor confirmed by the absence of clothes. Both sects agree, however, that nudity is not permitted for women under any circumstances. The Digambaras, therefore, believe that a woman cannot attain salvation, while the Svetambaras believe they can. Through their analysis of this dilemma, the Jaina thinkers whose texts are translated here demonstrate a level of insight into the material and spiritual constraints on women that transcends the particular question of salvation and relates directly to current debates on the effects of gender in our own society.
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Prima Staff | End of the Week Recap
So many pre-orders… so many.
Published Sept. 25, 2020, 4:26 p.m.
by Morgan Shaver
Hello again, it’s me, Prima's EIC and resident sleep paralysis demon. I thought it’d be fun to start doing a weekly feature where the team looks back at some of the interesting events that took place that week.
Sort of like an “in case you missed it” with a few cant-miss articles along with our thoughts and opinions thrown in to help spice things up a bit.
With that out of the way, here’s the very first End of the Week Recap!
Xbox & Microsoft News
Xbox Series X Pre-Orders Weren't A Total Disaster
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Doom Eternal Will Be Available on Xbox Game Pass in October
Demon's Souls Looks Like a Nightmare In the Best Way Possible
Supergiant’s Hades Has Sold Over One Million Copies
Call of Duty Modern Warfare Season Six Trailer & Release Date
Baldur's Gate 3 Romance Creates Authentic & Reactive Relationships
Nier Replicant Gets North American Release Date & Limited Edition
Animal Crossing: New Horizons Getting Halloween Update on September 30
Even More Game News
Ex-Lab Zero Employees Form New Worker-Owned Co-Op
Live-Action Yakuza Movie Announced
Amazon Reveals Brand New Cloud-Based Streaming Service Luna
Former Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime Unveils Publishing Company, Dreamhaven
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WWE 2K Battlegrounds Review | Developmental Talent
Kirby Fighters 2 Review | Smash Lite Starring Kirby and Friends
Fun Features
A Letter From The Editor | Hello, I'm New Here
Demon's Souls Looks Like a Nightmare In The Best Possible Way
Fishing in Hades is My Own Personal Hell
Mario's Most Important Moments
A Quick History of PlayStation Consoles
How YT, Twitch, and Henry Stickmin Helped the 2018 Indie Game Among Us Go Viral
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5 Reasons You Should Play War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius
Did you get an Xbox Series X and/or PS5 pre-order?
Yep! Pretty painlessly too. I definitely got lucky.
What pre-order was more of a pain, Series X or PS5?
For the Series X I just happened to get on Amazon fast enough, so no problems there. I also got into the PS5 lottery gimmick, which was smooth too. The whole situation around the PS5 was pretty stressful, though.
Did you pre-order any games or accessories for either?
Does Game Pass count? Otherwise no, I'm mostly just excited for backwards compatibility.
Thoughts on Microsoft buying Bethesda for $7.5 billion?
Aside from major corporate acquisitions being bad news in general, I don't care that much. As long as MachineGames still gets to do its thing I'll be happy.
Favorite piece on the site this week and why?
To put myself over a bit, I had a ton of fun trying something a bit different for my Super Mario 3D All-Stars review. But I also love how distraught Jesse was over fishing in Hades.
What are you playing this weekend?
I'll probably bounce between different stuff because ADHD be like that, but my main funsies projects right now are Octopath Traveler on Switch, and Lunar: Silver Star Story for PlayStation. I also usually get some Minecraft Dungeons time in with my kid. We're trying to get all the achievements... eventually.
What are you watching this weekend?
I need to go and finish Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, but I'll probably end up just watching some Star Trek with my wife.
Doing anything else interesting or exciting this weekend?
Does wallowing in existential dread count?
I did end up getting both because I have zero self-control.
Xbox for sure. Not that it was particularly hard, but similar to Lucas I got into the PlayStation 5 lottery so that was very easy. The Xbox Series X was more difficult because I sat there trying to figure out if I even wanted to get one, so that's on me.
I did end up pre-ordering Demon's Souls and Spider-Man Miles Morales Ultimate Edition. I already have a Game Pass subscription so I'll play whatever is on that when the Xbox releases.
My biggest gripe with this is that they dropped the news at 9 am on a Monday. Otherwise, it makes sense, Xbox struggles in Japan so it's clear that they are doubling down on their foothold in the west. Also hopefully some of that money can go to fixing their broken engine.
That's a tough one. I've loved so many of the pieces from everyone on the site this week. We did all get to work on the collaborative Hades Tips guide which was really fun and certainly worth checking out.
Unsure. I finally saw credits on Hades earlier this week so I might do some cleanup on that before putting it on the shelf. Other than that I might try some more Escape from Tarkov with a friend who just got his very first gaming PC.
I have a few more episodes of Umbrella Academy to finish as well as the new episode of The Boys that released today. Otherwise, I'll just catch up on the Giantbomb content I missed this week.
Guesting on a friend's podcast tonight which should be a lot of fun and then probably just playing games and hanging out with my roommate.
Yes, though some form of sorcery I was able to pre-order the Series X and the PS5. No console wars for me, I just want the newest, shiniest gaming boxes.
The PS5, absolutely the PS5. GameStop's site wouldn't work, I was refreshing Best Buy for ages, it was a nightmare. I did not get into the PS5 lottery, I feel very rejected lol.
Huge kudos and thanks to Wario64 whose Twitter updates kept me sane and helped me keep track of when pre-orders were going live at various retailers for both consoles.
I actually haven't... I want to for a few things, like an extra PS5 controller, but I keep forgetting. It's fine, they'll be available in-store, and it's fun to browse.
It's a smart decision, even smarter to announce right before pre-orders went live. I think Microsoft might take advantage of the situation and make (some) future games exclusives, but only because that's what I'd do if I spent $7.5 billion.
I also feel worse for the people who got the shaft at Mixer, I think more could've been done with it, and we see now that Microsoft probably had the money to do more with it. RIP, Mixer.
All of them, if I had to pick, I love the Xbox pieces from Jesse, and I love the Mario review from Lucas. I also really loved writing about the accidental One X pre-orders and going down that weird rabbit hole of information.
Hades, Among Us, replaying Resident Evil 7, and as always, Tetris 99.
I don't want much in the way of TV and movies. I have been working my way through Schitt's Creek though. Highly recommend that series.
Planning even more cool content ideas for Prima.
Morgan Shaver
Morgan is a writer, metalhead, horror lover, and indie game enthusiast. When it comes to games, they love nothing more than to wax poetic about all the latest and greatest indies to anyone who'll listen. They're also a Tetris fanatic who's fiercely competitive in games like Tetris 99 and Puyo Puyo Tetris. On a typical day, you'll find Morgan perched in front of the computer like a gargoyle browsing through Steam's new releases with a large cup of coffee. Morgan's current platform of choice is PC, but they're down to play games on anything and everything from Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
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Irish Republican News · September 7, 2019
Tories please DUP allies by rolling back equality measure
In a u-turn demanded by unionists, photos of the English queen have once again been hung on the walls of government offices in the north of Ireland, two years after being removed.
In July, it was revealed that photos had been removed after a government official took action over sectarianism in the workplace, a common equality concern in the north of Ireland and one which is addressed by human rights legislation.
But on taking office, the new British Direct Ruler Julian Smith tweeted an image of the queen on the mantelpiece of his office. It wsa a deliberate snub to both nationalism and to equality legislation.
Mr Smith ordered a civil service “review” of the initial decisions, which resulted in a quick reversal. A photo of the queen on her own has now been placed in the main entrance corridor of Stormont House. It is one of a series of royal photos now on show throughout the building. A portrait removed from Hillsborough Castle several years ago has also been replaced.
Political commentator Ed Moloney said the u-turn “sends a pretty loud message”. He warned that “the danger of renewed violence in the North really lies...not at a Brexit-bred hard Border but by the British indulging the DUP in order to keep Boris Johnson in Downing Street and in the process abandoning the balance implicit in the Good Friday Agreement.”
Sinn Féin did not comment on the reversal, but warned of continuing moves by Smith to impose full Direct Rule of the north of Ireland from London after Brexit.
Smith said this week he would take further steps towards Direct Rule at the “earliest opportunity” if the powersharing Stormont institutions cannot be restored before an October 31 Brexit.
Among the edicts already being handed down by British officials include one for cars registered in the north of Ireland to display a GB sticker on crossing the border, a suggestion that drew a hostile response on social media.
Sinn Féin MP Elisha McCallion said “any moves by the British government to impose direct rule on the north - in any guise - is unacceptable.
“The ongoing events in Westminster have shown that the interests of the people of Ireland will never be served by the British government or British parliament.
“The fact this action is being considered by Julian Smith is in contravention of the St Andrew’s Agreement and underscores once again that the dysfunctional Tory government is in complete hock to its toxic pact with the DUP.”
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A protocol for integrated management, monitoring, and enhancement of degraded Themeda triandra grasslands based on plantings of indicator species
Ian Lunt
Institute for Land, Water and Society
Lowland temperate grasslands dominated by Themeda triandra (kangaroo grass) are an endangered ecosystem in southeastern Australia. Grass biomass must be removed frequently to maintain plant diversity, but few studies of the impacts of different biomass removal techniques have been undertaken, and no rapid monitoring schemes have been developed. Low species densities in many reserves (due to past stock grazing) make it difficult to assess the effects of management regimes on plant diversity. Management impacts could be assessed by planting indicator species in replicated enhancement plots and subjecting these plots to adaptive management trials. A protocol for selecting potential indicator species is described, based on a regional quadrat database, using clearly defined criteria. Potential indicator species need to be conspicuous, easy to identify and abundant in high quality diverse grassland remnants, to have relatively broad ecological tolerances, to occur in sites that are relatively species rich and have a comparatively low cover of dominant exotic species, to commonly persist at low densities in long-grazed reserves, to be responsive to changes in management, and to have been studied ecologically. Only three species from western Victorian grasslands satisfied these criteria: Calocephalus citreus (lemon beauty-heads), Chrysocephalum apiculatum (common everlasting), and Leptorhynchos squamatus (scaly buttons). All are widespread, herbaceous, hemicryptophytic daisies. Despite a number of caveats, the scheme has the potential to provide a more clearly focused framework for grassland ecosystem management than currently exists.
https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1526-100X.2003.00201.x
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grasslands Agriculture & Biology
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Lunt, I. (2003). A protocol for integrated management, monitoring, and enhancement of degraded Themeda triandra grasslands based on plantings of indicator species. Restoration Ecology, 11(2), 223-230. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1526-100X.2003.00201.x
Lunt, Ian. / A protocol for integrated management, monitoring, and enhancement of degraded Themeda triandra grasslands based on plantings of indicator species. In: Restoration Ecology. 2003 ; Vol. 11, No. 2. pp. 223-230.
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Urine retention in cattle putatively associated with injection of an ivermectin and closantel anthelmintic formulation into the ischiorectal fossa
F. Castillo-Alcala, S. Brown, T. Crawshaw, R. A. Laven, G. Riddle, I. Lizarraga
Case History: A group of 39, 19–22-month-old Friesian bulls were administered an ivermectin/closantel anthelmintic via intended S/C injection in the ischiorectal fossa on 15 June 2017 (Day 0). Over the next 50 days, 22 affected bulls presented various degrees of anorexia, abdominal pain and urine dribbling. Seventeen bulls were examined by transrectal ultrasonography which revealed urinary bladder distension in all 17, and peritoneal fluid accumulation in some. Overall, eight bulls died or were subjected to euthanasia. On-farm postmortem examination of three bulls revealed urinary bladder rupture. Clinical Findings: On Day 50 one affected live bull was admitted to Massey University for further investigation. This bull continuously dribbled urine and had an overtly distended urinary bladder as determined by rectal palpation and ultrasonography. Pathological Findings: Postmortem examination of this bull revealed a markedly distended urinary bladder, massive subcapsular and pericapsular renal oedema with retroperitoneal fluid accumulation, minimal hydronephrosis and no evidence of mechanical urinary outflow obstruction. The right ischiorectal fossa contained multifocal areas of tissue fibrosis that extended into areas innervated by the distal cutaneous branch of the pudendal nerve and the pelvic nerve. Histopathological changes consisted of extensive fibrosis, myonecrosis and neurodegeneration, and evidence of granulation tissue and inflammation at the putative injection site and in surrounding tissues. Diagnosis: A local inflammatory reaction at the presumed injection site together with localised peripheral neurodegeneration and myelopathy may have led to detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia causing urine retention. Clinical Relevance: These cases of urine retention and bladder rupture in cattle were of putative iatrogenic origin. Veterinarians should be aware of this rare complication after S/C injections in the ischiorectal fossa.
New Zealand Veterinary Journal
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closantel Medicine & Life Sciences
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ivermectin Agriculture & Biology
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Castillo-Alcala, F., Brown, S., Crawshaw, T., Laven, R. A., Riddle, G., & Lizarraga, I. (2019). Urine retention in cattle putatively associated with injection of an ivermectin and closantel anthelmintic formulation into the ischiorectal fossa. New Zealand Veterinary Journal, 67(3), 148-154. https://doi.org/10.1080/00480169.2019.1581112
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In: New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Vol. 67, No. 3, 11.02.2019, p. 148-154.
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Disability in Patients With Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
Sang-I Lin, Ruey Mo Lin, Lee Wen Huang
Lin S-I, Lin R-M, Huang L-W. Disability in patients with degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis. Objective: To determine factors associated with disability in patients with degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis. Design: One-group cross-sectional study. Setting: University hospital. Participants: One hundred eight patients with degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis. Interventions: Not applicable. Main Outcome Measures: Oswestry Disability Index and 4 categories of factors, including patient demographics (age, sex, number of comorbidities, medications), symptom-related factors (intensity, location, onset duration, neurogenic claudication), body structure and function as described in the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health model (muscle strength, vibration sense, spine flexibility), and stenotic condition (type and number of spinal segments involved). Results: Patients with symptoms in both back and leg reported greater disability than those with symptoms only in the leg or back (P=.008). Greater disability correlated significantly with greater symptom intensity (r=.385, P<.001) and higher vibration threshold (r=.236, P=.014). While controlling the variance in patient demographics in the regression analysis, vibration sense and symptom location each added 10% of the variance in disability, and symptom intensity and strength each added 5%, with a total of 44% variance explained (P=.044). Conclusions: Symptom intensity and location, vibration sense, and muscle strength were identified as significant factors and, together with patient demographics, accounted for 44% of the variance explained in disability. Further investigations are needed to determine if causal relationships exist between these factors and disability.
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2006.05.021
Published - 2006 Sep 1
10.1016/j.apmr.2006.05.021
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Vibration Medicine & Life Sciences
Muscle Strength Medicine & Life Sciences
Back Medicine & Life Sciences
Demography Medicine & Life Sciences
Leg Medicine & Life Sciences
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Medicine & Life Sciences
Comorbidity Medicine & Life Sciences
Lin, S-I., Lin, R. M., & Huang, L. W. (2006). Disability in Patients With Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Stenosis. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 87(9), 1250-1256. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2006.05.021
Lin, Sang-I ; Lin, Ruey Mo ; Huang, Lee Wen. / Disability in Patients With Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Stenosis. In: Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 2006 ; Vol. 87, No. 9. pp. 1250-1256.
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Disability in Patients With Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Stenosis. / Lin, Sang-I; Lin, Ruey Mo; Huang, Lee Wen.
In: Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vol. 87, No. 9, 01.09.2006, p. 1250-1256.
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My Favorite Modern Giant Monster Movies
On June 4, 2014 June 3, 2014 By James CastroIn Movies, Reviews
Since Gareth Edward’s Godzilla is turning a bigger profit than the Nevada pleasure industry I thought it would be fun to share with some of the newer Big G fans some of my personal favorite, lesser known, Japanese Daikaiju films and series. I’m sticking with the Japanese film industry for these so there won’t be any Pacific Rims or Cloverfields on this list. And while fans may say “that’s not a lesser known film” these are just the films that, in my experience, Kaiju neophytes don’t seem to know about. In addition I’ve tried to include a broad spectrum of giant monster movies. Those for die hard monster fans, horror fans, comedy fans, even kids’ movies.
1.) Godzilla Heisei Series: This series started with the epically hard to find (in the states at least) Godzilla 1985 or Godzilla Returns. Then followed a terrific series of movies with some of the most creative monsters Godzilla ever had to fight and some of the best sci-fi stories in giant monster movie history. These movies follow a broad continuity where the people don’t always track from one film to the next but the general concepts do. Godzilla is halfway between good guy and bad guy in this series. He looks badass and the series has a very satisfying arch. For those unfamiliar with Godzilla or trying to escape the goofy king of the monsters from the 60s and 70s, this is a great series to start with.
Heisei Godzilla is one Bad Dude.
Godzilla Heisei Series:
Godzilla vs. Biollante
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
Godzilla vs. Mothra
Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla 2
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
2.) Gamera Heisei Series: I know a lot of people grew up with Gamera on MST3k and became familiar with the giant, flying, rocket-powered turtle from his older, kid friendly movies, but this series changed it up. In the 60s and 70s Toho’s Godzilla took a page from Daiei’s Gamera and became more family friendly. In the 90s Gamera took a page from Godzilla and became a ferocious, kick ass monster. He’s still generally a hero, though there is complexity added by showing the problems created when giant monsters are stomping around fighting, even if they’re doing it for “good” reasons. Furthermore the second film Advent of Legion actually contains some very good horror elements. Gamera finally gets his due as a seriously good monster and made some of the BEST (no joke) Daikaiju movies out there. It’s only a trilogy and well-worth the time.
This isn’t “friend of all children” Gamera. This is “mess with me and I’ll wreck your sh*t” Gamera.
Gamera Heisei Trilogy:
Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
Gamera 2: Advent of Legion
Gamera 3: Awakening of Irys
3.) Big Man Japan: This is a stand-alone comedy/mockumentary following the life of a Japanese man who inherited the ability to grow to giant size to fight giant monsters who invade Japan. Directed by Hitoshi Matsumoto, who plays the titular “big man” it is an often hilarious look at the life of a guy whose job this is, rather than the more fantastical tales normally told. We see his lousy apartment, his broken family, his inability to live up to his ancestors, and how difficult it is to be publicly mediocre. It is very funny and marred only by a surreal (but typically Japanese) ending featuring some good, old fashioned, Ultraman style fun. It takes some getting used to but is a serious blast if you don’t take things too seriously.
The Big Man. Make no mistake this is a weird ass movie but tons o’ fun for giant monster fans and there aren’t enough INTENTIONALLY funny giant monster movies.
4.) Rebirth of Mothra Series: I have no shame in saying I LOVE Mothra. In fact I may like Mothra more than I like Godzilla. I’m not sure if it’s her feminine wiles, her fuzzy lil face, or her endearing squeak (maybe it’s the hot little faeries that accompany her everywhere) but I’ve always loved Mothra… She escaped the Godzilla machine with her own films in the 90s the “Rebirth” series, which featured both Mothra and a “new” Mothra often identified as a “male” version. I have to stress these are KIDS movies. VERY much so. They are kind of like Willow meets Godzilla and have all the elements that keep kids watching, including bright action, kid heroes, and a generally happy mood. These movies are great fun, again if you don’t take them seriously and can just turn your brain off and view them as a kid. Great starter films for a younger generation of monster fans and a great series for Mothra fans in general. The first two are available on a two set DVD. The third one has NEVER been released in the states! C’mon Toho. Help a fan out here!
If you can’t find love in a giant, fuzzy, environmentalist moth there is something wrong with you…
Rebirth of Mothra Trilogy:
Rebirth of Mothra
Rebirth of Mothra 2
5.) Godzilla Millennium Series: These are my personal favorite Godzilla films. In these Godzilla looks as just about as cool as he ever has, there is a TON of monster mashing, loads of new opponents or a very good use of the monsters from the Toho canon, and some of the best human plots ever in giant monster movies. Godzilla stays somewhat “bad guy” here, and the humans fight to defeat him using all the best tricks from previous series, mazer cannons, mecha-monsters, other monsters. It has all the great plot elements too, invading aliens, guardian monsters, etc. The first movie is a terrific intro to Godzilla for someone who’s never seen a Big G movie. The third movie in the series takes a very different approach but is one of the best out there. The final movie in the series may be my favorite Godzilla movie ever. In it Godzilla is indestructible, EVERY Toho monster ever (and even the 1998 US “Zilla”) shows up, and it is just straight crazy action from start to finish. All of the monster suits look great. These movies are filmed well and you actually LIKE and care for the human characters. Just a great series.
Millennium Godzilla might be my favorite Godzilla design of all time. It’s close between him and Heisei, but the serpentine head and ultra spikey dorsals just make him extra menacing.
Godzilla Millennium Series:
Godzilla 2000: Millennium
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla
Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.
Godzilla: Final Wars
Those are my personal picks for giant monster fun. Of course there are MANY others but if you just saw 2014’s Godzilla and want a modern taste of great these movies can be sans CGI be check them out!
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Reflections from Palestine
EILEEN FLEMING
Why is this Woman Smiling?
A Book Review of Reflections from Palestine: A Journey of Hope a memoir by Samia Nasir Khoury is also a most necessary history lesson.
My copy is the third Samia signed at the book launch in Jericho on her 80th birthday at the closing festivities for Sabeel's 9th International Conference and Celebration of 25 years of Christian Liberation Theology.
I began reading Samia's book that night as soon as I took an aisle seat aboard the red-eye from Tel Aviv to JFK Airport.
After the couple of ultra-Orthodox Jews settled in next to me, she turned to me and asked if I spoke Hebrew.
I replied with a smile, "I am your typical American; I only know English" as I flipped the front cover over and they both took a long look at it.
Samia writes:
"At the beginning of the occupation, nobody envisioned how long it would last. We were all sure that the international community would not allow the seizure of land by force, and that no occupation would be viable in the 20th century...
"There is no such thing as a benevolent occupation...
"It is a process of dehumanization and deprivation of freedom of all basic rights.
"As an occupied population we had no backing, neither from world opinion nor the United Nations, to see that international law was applied...
"Violations of human rights marked every town, every family and every organization.
"The resistance reached its climax with the Intifada, the [spontaneous] popular uprising against Israeli occupation that began in December 1987...
"The PLO had been established in 1964 after the Palestinians had given up on believing that the United Nations would redress the injustice that was inflicted on the Palestinians in 1948 or that it would implement the many United Nations resolutions pertaining to the rights of the Palestinians."
Samia then tells us the story of her cousin Kamal Nasir, and two other PLO leaders in Beirut who were assassinated in 1973, by an Israeli hit squad led by Ehud Barak.
Kamal fought the Israeli occupation with words and slayed them in poems which got him deported and that led to his becoming the spokesman for the Palestinian Liberation Organization in Lebanon.
Samia explains, "It was because of Kamal's writings and his speeches that he was targeted by the Israeli hit squad that took his life...
"There wasn't one family that did not have its share of suffering during those years of Intifada. In 1988, our son Suhail spent six months in jail for producing a tape of popular folk songs with alternative lyrics that glorified the intifada" [Arabic for rise up and cast off].
Samia recalls Israel's kidnapping of her son and "seeing how bruised his neck was, presumably from torture. When they brought him to the court room the next day, he pointed at the hand cuffs and shackles on his feet and said to me:
"Tell your American friends these are made in the USA."
Samia remembers the USS LIBERTY at the end of the book, but This American friend now jumps with Israel's attack upon America's premier spy ship as it navigated in international waters on 8 June 1967:
On that day in infamy, Israel killed 34 and wounded over 170 Americans out of the unarmed crew of 294.
Many years after the attack, Lieutenant Colonel Shmuel Kislev, the chief air controller at general headquarters in Tel Aviv, confessed that he knew the U.S.S. LIBERTY was an American ship as soon as an Israeli pilot radioed in its hull numbers.
Two months before the sailor's mass burial at Arlington Cemetery, Navy analysis also uncovered that the Israeli torpedo boat gunners had targeted the spy ship with 40-mm tracer rounds made in the United States.
In 1967, the Republican representative from Iowa, H.R. Gross, stated on the Congressional record:
"Is this Government now, directly or indirectly, subsidizing Israel in the payment of full compensation for the lives that were destroyed, the suffering of the wounded, and the damage from this wanton attack?
"It can well be asked whether these Americans were the victims of bombs, machine gun bullets and torpedoes manufactured in the United States and dished out as military assistance under foreign aid."
By November 1967, lawmakers were willing to spend six million USA tax dollars to build schools in Israel but during the debate, Representative Gross introduced an amendment that "not one dollar of U.S. credit or aid of any kind [should] go to Israel until there is a firm settlement with regard to the attack and full reparations have been made [and Israel] provides full and complete reparations for the killing and wounding of more than 100 United States citizens in the wanton, unprovoked attack...
"I wonder how you would feel if you were the father of one of the boys who was killed in that connection-or perhaps you do not have any feelings with respect to these young men who were killed, wounded and maimed, or their families."
Samia continues:
"What remains on top of the list is the usage of the term ‘security measures' for violations of human rights...
"It is only in Israel that birthright residency can be withdrawn at the whim and wish of the Minister of Interior, simply because one is not a Jew...
"Security reasons is a gimmick Israel has long used to get away with all its illegal actions and violations of the rights of Palestinians."
Samia then tells us the story of Josef Ben Eliezar who had been an Israeli soldier in 1948, and spoke at Sabeel's 7th International Conference
She recalls how Mr. Eliezar shared with us his part "in the expulsion of the Palestinian population from Lydda and robbing them of their money and personal possessions.
"Josef could not live with the reality of that day in July 1948. He realized that what he had done to the Palestinians was what the Nazis had done to his people and to his family before he emigrated from Germany to Palestine after the Holocaust.
"The inhumanity of that war, which as a Jew he had believed was a war of liberation and independence, haunted him until he eventually left the country and settled in Europe.
"I was so moved that I stood up and recognized his courage, thanking him for his testimony and assuring him that we do forgive him. I thought of the Bible passage as Peter asks, ‘Lord how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?' Jesus answered, ‘I tell you, not seven times, but seventy times seven times'" [Matthew 18:21-22]
Maybe Samia smiles because she does just that- and she believes in "a dream that could still be realized if the Jewish people would ponder and act in accordance with the words of their great prophet Micah:
What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God." [Micah 6:8]
The Declaration of the Establishment of Israel claims:
"On the day of the termination of the British mandate and on the strength of the United Nations General Assembly declare The State of Israel will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel: it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion it will guarantee freedom of religion [and] conscience and will be faithful to the Charter of the United Nations." -May 14, 1948
On December 6, 2013, Samia Khoury wrote On Nelson Mandela
"Last night was the debut in London of the film about his memoirs ‘Walking Towards Freedom.'
"How ironic that before the film was over the news about his death had reached the audience.
"Of the Palestine Liberation Organization Nelson Mandela once said: ‘We are in the same trench struggling against the same enemy: the twin Tel Aviv and Pretoria regimes, apartheid, racism, colonialism and neo colonialism.' "
Nelson Mandela also noted that "freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians".
Review by Eileen Fleming: author, reporter, leader of TNT
Published on eileenfleming.org
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