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Oeufs Brouillés aux Champignons Sauvages
Scrambled Eggs with Wild Mushrooms
The Country Cooking of France
In France as everywhere else, cooks are spending less time in the kitchen, and dishes like scrambled eggs and soft-boiled eggs are right in style. In the foothills of the Alps and Savoy in spring, you will find local morels in a brouillade of scrambled eggs, and later in the year, the full range of chanterelles, oyster mushrooms, hedgehogs, and cèpes will be joined together with butter and herbs in one glorious scramble. Serve the eggs with crusty country bread or on a slice of toast.
8 ounces/225 g mixed wild mushrooms
4 tablespoons/60 g butter
1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives
Clean the mushrooms. Melt 2 tablespoons of the butter in a frying pan over high heat. Add the mushrooms and sauté, stirring often, until they are tender and all the liquid they released has evaporated, 5 to 7 minutes. Stir in the parsley and chives and season with salt and pepper. The mushrooms can be cooked an hour or two ahead and left at room temperature.
If necessary, warm the cooked mushrooms. To scramble the eggs, whisk them in a bowl with salt and pepper. Melt the remaining 2 tablespoons butter in a heavy saucepan over low heat. Add the eggs and cook, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon, until they begin to thicken. This should take at least 5 minutes. Continue stirring, lifting the pan from the heat as necessary so the eggs thicken smoothly and form quite small curds. In France, scrambled eggs are served soft, but you may prefer them almost set. When cooked to your taste, stir in the mushrooms. Taste, adjust the seasoning, and serve at once on warmed plates.
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Capacite calorifique molaire du compose Sb·405Te·595 dans les etats solides et liquides entre 298 K et 922 K
Authors: B. Legendre, Y. Feutelais, and J. R. Didry
Heat capacity (C p) of the compound Sb·405Te·595 in solid and liquid states at constant pressure are calculated from the results of experimental “drop calorimetric” method. The heat of fusion of the compound is deduced. A phase transition in the solid state has been put in evidence.
Carbosilane dendrimer of second generation with terminal methoxyundecylenate groups
Authors: B. Lebedev, T. Kulagina, M. Ryabkov, S. Ponomarenko, E. Makeev, N. Boikov, V. Shibaev, E. Rebrov, and A. Muzafarov
The thermodynamic properties of carbosilane dendrimer of second generation with terminal methoxyundecylene groups were studied between 6 and 340 K by adiabatic vacuum calorimetry: the temperature dependence of the molar heat capacity Cp 0 was measured, the physical transformations were established and their thermodynamic characteristics were obtained. The experimental data were used to calculate the thermodynamic functions Cp 0 (T), H 0(T)-H 0(0), S0(T), G 0(T)-H 0(0) of the compound in the range 0 to 340 K. from the relation Cp 0 (T) the fractal dimension of the dendrimer was experimentally determined. The heat capacity of the dendrimer was compared with the corresponding additive values calculated from the properties of its constituents - a dendritic matrix (carbosilane dendrimer of second generation) and the corresponding amount of moles of methyl ester of 11-(tetramethyldisiloxy)undecanoic acid serving as terminal groups.
Non-debye nature in thermal relaxation and thermal properties of lithium borate glasses studied by modulated DSC
Authors: Y. Matsuda, C. Matsui, Y. Ike, M. Kodama, and S. Kojima
Complex heat capacity, C p *=C p '–iC p '', of lithium borate glasses xLi2O(1–x)B2O3 (molar fraction x=0.00–0.30) has been investigated by Modulated DSC. We have analyzed the shape of C p * by the Cole-Cole plot, performed fitting by the Havriliak-Negami equation, and then determined the parameters related to the non-Debye nature of thermal relaxation. Moreover, the concentration dependence of the thermal properties has been investigated. Glass transition temperatures become higher with the increase of molar fraction of Li2O and shows the board peak around x=0.26. Temperature ranges of glass transitions become narrower with the increase of Li2O concentration.
Heat capacity of methacetin in a temperature range of 6 to 300 K
Authors: Igor E. Paukov, Yulia A. Kovalevskaya, Alexei E. Arzamastcev, Natalia A. Pankrushina, and Elena V. Boldyreva
Heat capacity of methacetin (N-(4-methoxyphenyl)-acetamide) has been measured in the temperature range 5.8–300 K. No anomalies in the C p(T) dependence were observed. Thermodynamic functions were calculated. At 298.15 K, the values of entropy and enthalpy are equal to 243.1 J K−1 mol−1 and 36360 J mol−1, respectively. The heat capacity of methacetin in the temperature range 6–10 K is well fitted by Debye equation C p = AT 3. The thermodynamic data obtained for methacetin are compared with those for the monoclinic and orthorhombic polymorphs of paracetamol.
Quasi-isothermal measurement by TMDSC in isotactic polypropylene
Authors: H. Kaneko, T. Osada, and M. Iijima
We measure the frequency dependences of complex heat flows for isothermally crystallized isotactic polypropylene (iPP) by the quasi-isothermal TMDSC. Regarding the quasi-isothermal melting processes as a kind of the single relaxation process, we analyze them by the Debye model. The resultant heat capacity of iPP is larger (about 11%) than usual thermodynamic heat capacity. We also found that the excess of the heat capacity, C p (excess), has non-monotonous temperature dependence. A simple model introducing some kinetic modes into amorphous producing after and during temperature modulation can reproduce the temperature dependence of C p (excess) very well.
Thermal Properties of Polycrystalline ZnIn2Se4
Authors: L. Soliman, M. Wasfi, and T. Hendia
A pulse method was used to measure the thermal conductivity, specific heat capacity C p and thermal diffusivityξ of polycrystalline ZnIn2Se4 in the temperature range 300–600 K. The temperature dependence of λ, C p and ξ demonstrated a light decrease for this material in the temperature range 300–600 K, indicating that there is not a significant change in the structure in this temperature range; this was confirmed by DTA measurements. The results showed that the mechanism of heat transfer is due mainly to phonons; the contributions of electrons and dipoles are very small.
The Measurement of Heat Capacity Differences Due to the Change of Water Structure in Aqueous Solutions of Organic Compounds
Authors: H. Nakayama and K. Aida
In order to observe more directly the structural organization of water molecules around a non-polar molecule in an aqueous solution, heat capacity differences between two kinds of solutions (solution I and II) of quaternary ammonium salts were measured. In the solution I stable water structure was retained as much as possible and in the solution II water structure was destroyed either by heating to high temperatures or by irradiating with ultrasonic waves. It was found that the heat capacity differences ((Cp)II-(Cp)I) were slightly positive and its maximum values corresponded to 7-8 percent of the heat capacity of pure water itself.
Heat capacity of β-alanine in a temperature range between 6 and 300 K
Authors: Igor Paukov, Yulia Kovalevskaya, Elena Boldyreva, and Valery Drebushchak
Thermodynamic properties of β-alanine in the temperature range 6.3–301 K were studied. No phase transitions were observed for the sample specially prepared to contain no solvent inclusions. At 298.15 K the calorimetric entropy and the difference in the enthalpy values are equal, respectively, to 126.6 JK−1 mol−1 and 19.220 Jmol−1. The C p (T) in the temperature range 6–16 K can be well described by Debye equation C p = AT 3. A comparison of the data on the entropies of glycine polymorphs and of β-alanine was used to show, that the empirical Parks–Huffman rule holds in the case of these compounds.
Low-temperature heat capacity of dysprosium diboride
Authors: V. Novikov and A. Matovnikov
Heat capacity C p(T) of dysprosium diboride is experimentally investigated at the temperatures of 5–300 K. On the dependence C p(T) smooth anomaly at the temperatures of 15–20 K and sharp anomalies at T m1=47.8 K and T m2=178.8 K are revealed. Anomaly at T m1 is caused, obviously, by ferromagnetic phase transition in DyB2. The lattice contribution to DyB2 heat capacity is determined by comparison with heat capacity of non-magnetic YB2. The estimation of Schottky contribution to DyB2 heat capacity is made, the scheme of splitting of the ground state of Dy3+ ion is offered.
Cytopathogenicity markers in the genome of Hungarian cytopathic isolates of bovine viral diarrhoea virus
Acta Veterinaria Hungarica
https://doi.org/10.1556/avet.53.2005.1.12
Authors: Á. Bálint, Claudia Baule, S. Kecskeméti, I. Kiss, and S. Belák
Since genetic recombination is a major factor in the evolution of the cytopathogenic (cp) bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) biotypes, in this study the cytopathogenicity markers were investigated in the genomes of two cp BVDV strains recently isolated from mucosal disease (MD) cases in Hungary. In the genome of strain H4956, a Jiv-like insertion was found similar to those described in reference strain NADL and in other BVDV 1, BVDV 2 and border disease virus (BDV) strains. The 133 amino acid Jiv-like sequence is inserted at nucleotide position 4984 (amino acid position 1533), 9 nucleotides upstream of that of strain NADL. The insertion showed 96% amino acid sequence identity with the cellular Jiv protein. In the genome of cp BVDV strain H115/PCR, an ubiquitin-containing duplication was found. The duplicated sequence started at nucleotide position 7978 (amino acid 2531) in the NS4B gene. The duplication contained a complete ubiquitin monomer of 76 amino acids and the complete NS3 gene starting at nucleotide position 5153 (amino acid 1589), which corresponds to the first N-terminal amino acid of NS3. The duplication was located further downstream of the known ubiquitin-containing genomic regions of cp BVDV strains, and it consisted of the shortest inserted nucleotide sequence. The insertions and duplication of strains H4956 and H115/PCR further confirmed that recombinations occurring at positions A and B are the most common mechanisms leading to the development of BVDV cytopathogenicity.
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33-13: Infections Caused by Haemophilus Species
Bryn A. Boslett; Brian S. Schwartz
Boslett BA, Schwartz BS. Boslett B.A., & Schwartz B.S. Boslett, Bryn A., and Brian S. Schwartz.Infections Caused by Haemophilus Species. In: Papadakis MA, McPhee SJ, Rabow MW. Papadakis M.A., & McPhee S.J., & Rabow M.W.(Eds.),Eds. Maxine A. Papadakis, et al.eds. Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2020. McGraw-Hill; Accessed January 18, 2021. https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2683§ionid=225055852
Boslett BA, Schwartz BS. Boslett B.A., & Schwartz B.S. Boslett, Bryn A., and Brian S. Schwartz. (2020). Infections caused by haemophilus species. Papadakis MA, McPhee SJ, Rabow MW. Papadakis M.A., & McPhee S.J., & Rabow M.W.(Eds.),Eds. Maxine A. Papadakis, et al. Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2020. McGraw-Hill. https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2683§ionid=225055852
Boslett BA, Schwartz BS. Boslett B.A., & Schwartz B.S. Boslett, Bryn A., and Brian S. Schwartz. "Infections Caused by Haemophilus Species." Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2020 Papadakis MA, McPhee SJ, Rabow MW. Papadakis M.A., & McPhee S.J., & Rabow M.W.(Eds.),Eds. Maxine A. Papadakis, et al. McGraw-Hill, 2020, https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2683§ionid=225055852.
H influenzae and other Haemophilus species may cause sinusitis, otitis, bronchitis, epiglottitis, pneumonia, cellulitis, arthritis, meningitis, and endocarditis. Nontypeable strains are responsible for most disease in adults. Alcoholism, smoking, chronic lung disease, advanced age, and HIV infection are risk factors. Haemophilus species colonize the upper respiratory tract in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and frequently cause purulent bronchitis.
Beta-lactamase–producing strains are less common in adults than in children. For adults with sinusitis, otitis, or respiratory tract infection, oral amoxicillin, 750 mg twice daily for 10–14 days, is adequate. For beta-lactamase–producing strains, use of the oral fixed-drug combination of amoxicillin, 875 mg, with clavulanate, 125 mg, is indicated. For the penicillin-allergic patient, oral cefuroxime axetil, 250 mg twice daily; or a fluoroquinolone (ciprofloxacin, 500 mg orally twice daily; levofloxacin, 500–750 mg orally once daily; or moxifloxacin, 400 mg orally once daily) for 7 days is effective. Azithromycin, 500 mg orally once followed by 250 mg daily for 4 days, is preferred over clarithromycin when a macrolide is the preferred agent. Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (160/800 mg orally twice daily) can be considered, but resistance rates have been reported to be up to 25%.
In the more seriously ill patient (eg, the toxic patient with multilobar pneumonia), ceftriaxone, 1 g/day intravenously, is recommended pending determination of whether the infecting strain is a beta-lactamase producer. A fluoroquinolone (see above for dosages) can be used for the penicillin-allergic patients for a 10- to 14-day course of therapy.
Epiglottitis is characterized by an abrupt onset of high fever, drooling, and inability to handle secretions. An important clue to the diagnosis is complaint of a severe sore throat despite an unimpressive examination of the pharynx. Stridor and respiratory distress result from laryngeal obstruction. The diagnosis is best made by direct visualization of the cherry-red, swollen epiglottis at laryngoscopy. Because laryngoscopy may provoke laryngospasm and obstruction, especially in children, it should be performed in an intensive care unit or similar setting, and only at a time when intubation can be performed promptly. Ceftriaxone, 1 g intravenously every 24 hours for 7–10 days, is the drug of choice. Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole or a fluoroquinolone (see above for dosage) may be used in the patient with serious penicillin allergy.
Meningitis, rare in adults, is a consideration in the patient who has meningitis associated with sinusitis or otitis. Initial therapy for suspected H influenzae meningitis should be with ceftriaxone, 4 g/day in two divided doses, until the strain is proved not to produce beta-lactamase. Meningitis is treated for at least 7 days. Dexamethasone, 0.15 mg/kg intravenously every 6 hours, may reduce the incidence of long-term sequelae, principally hearing loss.
Brouwer MC et al. Epidemiology of community-acquired bacterial meningitis. Curr Opin Infect Dis. 2018 Feb;31(1):78–84.
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Sriram KB et al. Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a review for clinicians. Crit Rev Microbiol. 2018 Mar;44(2):125–42.
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24-20: Vitamin E Deficiency
Vanja C. Douglas; Michael J. Aminoff
Douglas VC, Aminoff MJ. Douglas V.C., & Aminoff M.J. Douglas, Vanja C., and Michael J. Aminoff.Vitamin E Deficiency. In: Papadakis MA, McPhee SJ, Rabow MW. Papadakis M.A., & McPhee S.J., & Rabow M.W.(Eds.),Eds. Maxine A. Papadakis, et al.eds. Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2021. McGraw-Hill; Accessed January 18, 2021. https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2957§ionid=251687469
Douglas VC, Aminoff MJ. Douglas V.C., & Aminoff M.J. Douglas, Vanja C., and Michael J. Aminoff. (2021). Vitamin e deficiency. Papadakis MA, McPhee SJ, Rabow MW. Papadakis M.A., & McPhee S.J., & Rabow M.W.(Eds.),Eds. Maxine A. Papadakis, et al. Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2021. McGraw-Hill. https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2957§ionid=251687469
Douglas VC, Aminoff MJ. Douglas V.C., & Aminoff M.J. Douglas, Vanja C., and Michael J. Aminoff. "Vitamin E Deficiency." Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2021 Papadakis MA, McPhee SJ, Rabow MW. Papadakis M.A., & McPhee S.J., & Rabow M.W.(Eds.),Eds. Maxine A. Papadakis, et al. McGraw-Hill, 2021, https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2957§ionid=251687469.
Vitamin E Deficiency
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e6-01: Overview: Women's Health Issues
Brigid Dolan; Judith Walsh
Dolan B, Walsh J. Dolan B, & Walsh J Dolan, Brigid, and Judith Walsh.Overview: Women's Health Issues. In: Papadakis MA, McPhee SJ, Rabow MW. Papadakis M.A., & McPhee S.J., & Rabow M.W.(Eds.),Eds. Maxine A. Papadakis, et al.eds. Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2021. McGraw-Hill; Accessed January 18, 2021. https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2957§ionid=251687964
Dolan B, Walsh J. Dolan B, & Walsh J Dolan, Brigid, and Judith Walsh. (2021). Overview: women's health issues. Papadakis MA, McPhee SJ, Rabow MW. Papadakis M.A., & McPhee S.J., & Rabow M.W.(Eds.),Eds. Maxine A. Papadakis, et al. Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2021. McGraw-Hill. https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2957§ionid=251687964
Dolan B, Walsh J. Dolan B, & Walsh J Dolan, Brigid, and Judith Walsh. "Overview: Women's Health Issues." Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2021 Papadakis MA, McPhee SJ, Rabow MW. Papadakis M.A., & McPhee S.J., & Rabow M.W.(Eds.),Eds. Maxine A. Papadakis, et al. McGraw-Hill, 2021, https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2957§ionid=251687964.
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Infertility, Male
Infertility, Male. In: Papadakis MA, McPhee SJ, Bernstein J. Papadakis M.A., & McPhee S.J., & Bernstein J(Eds.),Eds. Maxine A. Papadakis, et al.eds. Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2021. McGraw-Hill; Accessed January 18, 2021. https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2986§ionid=251097136
Infertility, male. Papadakis MA, McPhee SJ, Bernstein J. Papadakis M.A., & McPhee S.J., & Bernstein J(Eds.),Eds. Maxine A. Papadakis, et al. (2021). Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2021. McGraw-Hill. https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2986§ionid=251097136
"Infertility, Male." Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2021 Papadakis MA, McPhee SJ, Bernstein J. Papadakis M.A., & McPhee S.J., & Bernstein J(Eds.),Eds. Maxine A. Papadakis, et al. McGraw-Hill, 2021, https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2986§ionid=251097136.
For further information, see CMDT Part 23-07: Male Infertility
Essentials of Diagnosis
Male infertility is common, contributing to approximately 50% of infertility cases
Causes include decreased or absent sperm production or function, or obstruction of the male genital tract
Abnormal semen quality may indicate poor health or increased risk for certain health conditions
Infertility is defined as the inability of a couple to conceive a child after 1 year of regular, unprotected sexual intercourse
Infertility affects 15–20% of couples who wish to conceive
Approximately 50% of cases result from male factors
Simultaneous evaluation of the female partner is warranted (see Infertility, Female)
Evaluation is indicated at 1 year
Male infertility is associated with a higher risk of testicular germ cell cancer; thus, these men should be counseled appropriately and taught testicular self-examination
Prior testicular insults (torsion, cryptorchism, trauma)
Infections (mumps orchitis, epididymitis, sexually transmitted infection)
Environmental factors (excessive heat, radiation, chemotherapy, prolonged pesticide exposure)
Testosterone, finasteride, cimetidine, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), and spironolactone may affect spermatogenesis
Phenytoin may lower follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH)
Sulfasalazine and nitrofurantoin may affect sperm motility
Tamsulosin may cause retrograde ejaculation
Drugs (eg, alcohol, marijuana)
Sexual function, frequency and timing of intercourse, use of lubricants, and each partner's previous fertility are important
Loss of libido, headaches, visual disturbances, or galactorrhea may indicate a pituitary tumor
Past medical or surgical history
Chronic disease, including obesity; cardiovascular, thyroid or liver disease (abnormalities of spermatogenesis)
Diabetes mellitus (decreased spermatogenesis, retrograde or anejaculation)
Radical pelvic or retroperitoneal surgery (absent seminal emission secondary to sympathetic nerve injury)
Physical examination: signs of hypogonadism, such as underdeveloped sexual characteristics, diminished male pattern hair distribution (axillary, body, facial, pubic), body habitus, gynecomastia, and obesity
Evaluate testicular size (normal size ~4.5 × 2.5 cm, volume 18 mL)
Examine for varicocele in the standing position, with Valsalva maneuver
Palpate the vasa deferentia and epididymides
Semen analysis after 3 to 5 days of ejaculatory abstinence (see Infertility, Female)
Evaluation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis
Initial testing should include serum testosterone and FSH
Specific abnormalities in these hormones should prompt additional testing, including serum LH, and prolactin
Elevated FSH and LH and low testosterone (hypergonadotropic hypogonadism) in primary testicular failure
Low FSH and LH and low testosterone in secondary testicular failure (hypogonadotropic hypogonadism) of hypothalamic or pituitary origin
Elevation of serum prolactin may indicate the presence of prolactinoma
Elevation of estradiol may impair normal gonadotropin production and impact normal spermatogenesis
Imaging Studies
Scrotal ultrasound
Can aid in characterizing the testes
May detect a testicular mass or a subclinical varicocele
Transrectal ultrasound to evaluate the prostate and seminal vesicles
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Wladimir Klitschko Advises Joshua Before Ruiz Rematch
by Stevan Plavšić December 2, 2019
by Stevan Plavšić December 2, 2019 1300 views
Wladimir Klitschko is consulting Anthony Joshua on his diet and training regime ahead of the much-anticipated rematch between himself and Andy Ruiz Jr.
Wladimir Klitschko retired after Joshua clash
The Ukrainian boxer suffered defeat by Anthony Joshua in 2017 at Wembley. The British heavyweight won with a technical knockout and Klitschko eventually retired later that year, aged 41.
Still, the two have remained close after their fight and now Klitschko is to one to hand his advice.
“He said loads of stuff to me, Wlad was definitely ahead of the game. He’s more disciplined than me, he’s more diplomatic,” Joshua said.
“He was giving me dietary and training advice and that is maybe what people are talking about now when they see a difference in my body. Maybe that’s why – because I’ve adapted some of his teachings – my weight may fluctuate.”
Andy Ruiz produced one of the biggest upsets in modern boxing – he dethroned the then-undefeated world champion Joshua at New York’s Madison Square Garden in June. The second fight of the pair for the WBA, IBF and WBO title is dubbed the “Clash on the Dunes” since it will take place in Saudi Arabia.
Still, Joshua says it’s not about the titles, but rather proving things to himself.
“There’s nothing I’ve missed about being world champion,” Joshua said. “I’ve always said the belt should never define the man. I walked as a champion before I even had a belt.”
“This is fighting. One loss doesn’t take the spots off a cheetah. We don’t play games when it comes to boxing, we’re serious and after I took the loss I’ve had time to reflect. I now have things to prove to myself. I want to take it more seriously because I’m going to that next level.”
The boxing gala between Ruiz and Joshua will take place on Saturday, December 7.
Stevan Plavšić
Stevan was a sports fan ever since he was old enough to walk and kick the ball around. He is working as a content writer, covering sports events for nearly half a decade. He spends his free time gaming, enjoying a cold one every now and then, and waiting on Arsenal to win the Champions League.
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Heather and I rounded out our awesome weekend together with a show in New Braunfels, TX! The crowd wasn’t doing the rapid-fire request thing like usual, but they still sent up enough to keep us busy from 8:30p-1a. Greg joined…
Live Stream 1/1/21
Our first show of 2021 was on Facebook for a great group of friends and fans. The comments flying were making Heather and I laugh through our 3-hour show. It was a great way to start off the new year…
Moonshine & Ale 12/31/20
2020 is done! 2020 is done! 2020 is done! Heather and I played New Year’s Eve in New Braunfels. We had bunches of requests, and the show went great (except for when some dude cut the power off for a…
Quarantine Keys 12/30/20
For my last livestream of 2020, I was on QK for about 2 hours. I can’t believe how much 2020 has forced all of us to be online together, but it really has given me a way to feel like…
I’m so happy that I get to share the stage with one of my absolute best friends. We did our Christmas gift exchange before heading to our show tonight, and she gave me an awesome Wookie painting! Told ya she…
Livestream 12/23/20
Man!!! I had fun tonight on the livestream! A bunch of friends were on, sending me great requests, and it ended with me breaking out the keytar. My partner, Heather, showed up with her family, and I had my brand…
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Goods subject to mandatory declaration on Russian border
About the list of goods subject to mandatory declaration on the State border according to the Russian Federation law::
Here is the list of personal goods subject to mandatory declaration during their movement through the State border according to the 8th Paragraph of the Government Decree No. 715, dated 27.11.2003:
Imported Goods with aggregate value exceeding RUR 65,000 and/or total weight in excess of 35 kg.
Imported to RF: cash foreign exchange, Russian rubles (RUR), travelers checks, foreign and (or) domestic securities to a sum total exceeding the equivalent of USD 10,000.
Exported from RF: cash foreign exchange and (or) Russian rubles (RUR) to a sum total exceeding the equivalent of USD 3, 000 USD.
Exported from RF: travelers checks to a sum total exceeding the equivalent of 10,000 USD.
Exported from RF: foreign and (or) domestic securities (except the situation of export of the securities that were earlier imported or transitted to Russian Federation according to all the customs requirements. In this case it is necessary to show the customs declaration or any other document confirming their import on transition to Russian Federation).
Precious metals (gold, silver, platina and any metals of platina group – palladium, iridium, rhodium, rhutenium, osmium) in any form and condition:
- Imported temporarily;
- Exported (except for the jewelry conveyed across the border with the purpose of temporary exportation).
Precious stones (temporarily imported, exported emeralds, true rubies, sapphires, alexandrites, natural pearls in any form, unique amber units, diamonds, imported nature diamonds).
Valuables of art and cultural valuables.
Exported state Russian Federation awards
Flora and fauna objects under the threat of extinction, their parts and parts made of them.
Weapons (devices and subject designed for target damaging, signal transmitting), main parts of the firearm (tube, bolt, cylinder, receiver, barrel receiver), cartridges (any subject used for a shot from the weapon, containing a primer, a propellent charge, and a missile in a shell, ammunition, explosives, parts of the cartridges (shells, capsules, gun powder).
Imported alcohol beverages in a quantity that exceeds 2 litres. Imported tobacco products in a quantity that exceeds 50 cigars, 100 cigarillos, 200 cigarettes, 0.25 kg tobacco (in a case of import of tobacco products in one form in a quantity exceeding 100 cigars, 200 cigarillos, 400 cigarettes, 0.5 kg tobacco).
Narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, as well as their analogues.
Poisonous and intoxicant substances, potent drugs.
High-frequency and radioelectronic devices except for the data terminal equipment.
Technical means made up of one or several radio transmitting/receiving apparatus and their combinations and auxiliary equipment used for secret information collection.
Exported material subjects conveying some information which is considered to be state secret.
Nuclear materials, equipment, special non-nuclear materials and corresponding technologies.
Radioactive isotopes, substances and products made on its base.
Exported materials, equipment, scientific and technical information, results of the intellectual activity which can be used for creating the destruction weapon, means of its transferring, other kinds of ammunition or military equipment.
Imported chemicals which can be used for creating chemical weapon.
Military products.
Means of trasport.
Goods in the unaccompanied luggage.
Goods which are sent to the address of some person for individual use except for the goods sent in international post.
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Tag: football cappers
August 16, 2020 by Author1 Comment
RB Leipzig will play against PSG in Champions League and we got Value soccer betting tips for the matches. The game is on Tuesday, August 18 from 20:00 UK at Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica. Who would thought when the Champions League started last year that we will see Leipzig in the ½ finals. However, that is a fact and the German team is only one victory away from the match for the title. After the Bulls qualified for the eliminations round their first opponent was Tottenham with Jose Mourinho. The team from London was the favorite but end up losing both of the matches. Five months later Leipzig played their clash from the ¼ finals against Atletico Madrid. Of course, Atletico was the favorite but the Bulls won it after a late goal in 88th minute by the American Adams Tyler. That is the fairytale for Leipzig so far in Champions League but the best is yet to come. PSG is...
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Atalanta will play against Inter in Serie A and we got Best free soccer tips for the match. The game is on Saturday, August 1 from 19:45 UK at Gewiss Stadium. Atalanta is in 3rd place with 78 points after 37 games. The team is only one behind Inter and if they win they will finish in second place. The club from Bergamo is still unbeaten after the restart of football and even started with 6 victories in a row. Then Atalanta finished 2:2 against Juventus and if they won that game now the can even have the chance to win the title. However, that can’t happen this season but I finish as the second-best team in Italy will be a success. Their last clash was against Parma and they won it 1:2. After that, the club will continue his journey in Champions League where they will face PSG. Without a doubt that will be a game that every football fan...
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Milan will play against Cagliari in Serie A and we got a Football forecast that win for the match. The game is on Saturday, August 1 from 19:45 UK at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza. Milan is in 6th place with 63 points after 37 matches. That is the place that the club will finish because AS Roma has 4 more points than them but Napoli is with 4 fewer points than them. However, after the resuming of the football, the team is unbeaten in 12 games. It will be a great achievement if they finished without a loss and because of that, I expect them to be motivated. In their last 5 clashes in Serie A, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and his teammates won 4 of them. The only match that they didn’t win was against Atalanta 1:1. Their last game was away from home against Sampdoria but that didn’t stop them to scored 4 goals and win 1:4. Ibrahimovic scored 2 of these...
Handicap prediction today for AC Milan vs Internazionale
September 20, 2019 by AuthorNo Comments
Handicap prediction today for AC Milan vs Internazionale Milan welcome Inter to the Serie A. Round 4 derby. The match will be played on Saturday 21 September at 19:45 UK at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza. Milan have been offering extremely lean production since the start of the championship after losing in the first round of the season at Dacia Arena against Udinese by 1-0. This was followed by two consecutive victories but with only 1:0 against Brescia and Hellas Verona, with Hakan Çalhanoğlu in the first of the two duels and bringing Krzysztof Piątek out of the penalty spot in the second. So after three rounds the Rossoneri scored only two goals and conceded one. The problems ahead of the goal are obvious, and Suso and Borini will surely be helping to get out of this crisis. Inter showed a great attack game in their first game by beating Lecce 4-0 but after that they did not convince in the front positions as they...
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Home Politics Aquaculture Review Board members appointed
Aquaculture Review Board members appointed
The Atlantic Fisherman
HALIFAX, NS — Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Keith Colwell has appointed the first members of the new independent Nova Scotia Aquaculture Review Board.
Jean McKenna of the Halifax Regional Municipality was appointed as chair of the review board. McKenna is a retired lawyer with 30 years’ experience as a litigator. She is currently the chair of the Nova Scotia Police Review Board. She also has involvement with such bodies as the Elizabeth Fry Society, Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society and Metro Resource Centre for Independent Living. McKenna is being appointed as chair for a three-year term.
Michael McKinnon of Halifax Regional Municipality was appointed as a member of the review board. Mr. McKinnon is an owner of two businesses giving him experience in business management and financial risk assessment. He has knowledge of recreational fishing industries through his long time enjoyment of recreational salmon fly fishing. His appointment is for a two-year term.
Richard Patterson of Halifax Regional Municipality is currently the president of AquaEng Consulting. He is an adjunct assistant professor of the Engineering Department, Dalhousie University and a member of the Aquaculture Engineering Society. He continues to study the engineering aspects of aquaculture broadly. His appointment is for a three-year term.
“Appointing members to the Aquaculture Review Board is an important next step in ensuring our aquaculture industry continues to grow in an environmentally sustainable way,” Colwell says. “The knowledge and experience these members bring to the review board will give us one of the most robust approaches for regulating aquaculture in the world.”
The Nova Scotia Aquaculture Review Board is a new adjudicative board to review and makes decisions on applications for marine aquaculture licenses and leases. It will also hold public hearings on applications.
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The heights of Shanghai – and on the box in Beijing
Shanghai shall overcome?
“I got you… under my skin…”
As the train eased into Shanghai’s central station, the strains of Frank Sinatra’s famous song wafted through the carriage. There’s always music in the mornings on Chinese trains – normally it’s something rousingly patriotic to remind passsengers of the bright and glorious future that awaits China… but entering Shanghai is different.
Here, it’s Sinatra.
It fits. Shanghai has all the brash swagger and unerring confidence of “Ol’ Blue eyes” at his peak. I was last here in 2007, but even since then the city has changed – more skyscrapers, more high-end shops, more street-wise kids parading down the pedestrianised main drag.
It’s telling that the smartest museum here is dedicated to the future, not the past. The “Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall” is an amazing reflection of the high-flown ambitions of this very 21st century city. If you believe the hype, within a few years Shanghai is going to be the world’s leading eco-city, the world’s leading digital city, the leading global airport transport hub, an international shipping centre, and a tourist attraction to end all tourist attractions. With the 2010 Shanghai Expo around the corner, the pace of change is if anything increasing.
But all may not be quite what it seems… there are rumours that the Expo is being hit hard by the global credit crunch. Apparently the US has cut it’s investment in the Expo drastically, and the fantastic Access Asia newsletter last week reported some pretty interesting numbers – inbound tourism, fell 11% in January to April 2009 down from the same period last year; hotel occupancy rates were only 45.9% in the same period, down around 10%.
Right now, the buzz is still here though. It’s going to be fascinating to see what happens at and beyond the Expo next year.
Beijing takes on the world
If Shanghai is becoming China’s New York, Beijing is sometimes called its Washington DC – a city centred on a powerful polity and burgeoning bureaucracy.
But my experience here was of the creative end of the city – five days in China’s kicking capital passed in a blur. Beijing has the feel of a city that‘s just beginning to realise it’s own global importance.
I arrived armed with an introduction to the owner of the highly successful Plastered T-shirts brand, Dominic Johnson-Hill. A Beijinger of 17 years standing, he is both a resident and a shop-owner on the achingly cool Nanluogo Xiang – a small hutong catering to the growing urban-hip crowd here.
Dominic tipped me off first to the Turner show that is visiting here from Tate Britain. It has become one of the most popular art exhibitions ever held here. After 8 months, the dose of western European culture was hugely welcome.
Next stop was a gig by Carsick Cars, the brightyoungthings of the underground Beijing rock scene. Music’s one of the things that’s pretty hard for authorities to pin down, and Carsick Cars play with words and images in a way that has definitely captured the imagination of Beijingers. Their most famous song “Zhongnanhai” is the name of a cigarette brand – and also the name for the seat of Chinese government. With lyrics like “I love my Zhongnanhai”, the song has become an iconic (and ironic) anthem. This was the launch of their second album “You can Listen You can Talk”. The energy and sense of release at the gig was palpable.
A couple of days later, an enigmatic email from Dominic pinged into my inbox:
“tomorrow i am going to the great wall to be in a chinese tv show – i am in fact in need of a western face to be on the tv show wearing one of my t shirts, there will be a studio audience of 600 people, if you fancy coming along i’ll throw in a free t shirt and cover your expenses…”
It was what’s commonly called a no-brainer.
The show turned out to be the launch of a major new government push behind entrepreneurial activity in China, complete with the top business people in China on a panel, young entrepreneurs from around the country presenting their stories, the top Chinese pop stars providing interludes (including Zhang Liangying in the picture), and a special appearance from Jackie Chan, the darling of the masses here.
It was an amazing event. The five businessmen were all billionaires and included Jack Ma, founder and CEO of Alibaba.com, Li Yanhong, founder and CEO of Baidu (the Chinese Google), and the billionaire brothers Liu Yonghao and Liu Yongxing, whose Hope Group has turned chicken feed distribution into billions of Yuan.
Dominic was there for an interview as “the foreign entrepreneur-done-good“, which he conducted effortlessly in Mandarin. I was there to carefully position myself beside him to get maximum exposure for the excellent t-shirt I was sporting.
The whole thing was a fascinating insight into the construction of narrative here – stories of heroes from the countryside were myriad, a sign that the government recognises all too clearly that it has to deal with the thorny issue of a growing urban/rural divide. The idea of unleashing entrepreneurialism in the countryside is a compelling one, at least on paper. And a consequence of one-party government is that when the government says something’s going to happen, it usually does. So watch this space.
I loved Beijing. Other highlights included a day in the 798 Art district, dinner with friends I met in Xinjiang, and a couple of late nights out to sample the vibrant nightlife. It may not be typical China, but it is developing into one of the great cities.
I have a few more days in Shanghai and then move to Hong Kong.
ENDNOTE: Follow-up to the previous post (“Brnads” story)… Plastered T-shirts, mentioned above, is successful enough to attract copies already – Dominic’s attitude is, however, refreshingly pragmatic – “The fakes I couldn’t give a f*** about really – it’s quite flattering. It’s the bastards who try and nick my brand that piss me off…”]
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Home / Opinion / Commentary / Despite benefits of tax cuts, critics continue to attack
Despite benefits of tax cuts, critics continue to attack
By: Guest Opinion September 13, 2018
A new report from Fidelity Investments is yet another reminder of the white-hot American economy induced by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. According to data from the second quarter of 2018, there are now more retirement accounts worth over $1 million than ever before — roughly 50,000 more than just last year.
That means more everyday Americans are able to retire comfortably without financial worry.
More evidence of success from the tax relief package are obvious and plentiful. Small business optimism is at a record high. Unemployment is historically low. Over 700 companies, including some of the nation’s largest employers, have reinvested their tax cut savings into worker compensation. And the most recent GDP growth figures reported that the economy is growing at a rate of 4.1 percent — quicker than most thought possible just a few years ago.
Drew John
Meanwhile, over 90 percent of middle-class families are getting a tax cut, according to the left-of-center Tax Policy Center. The average family can expect roughly $2,000 in savings every year.
Yet, critics of the tax bill continue to pull dishonest attacks out of the woodwork.
First they tried to belittle the tax savings as crumbs. And when that didn’t work — unsurprisingly so since essentially everyone is benefiting in one way or another — they tried to spin the new standard deduction and lower rates for small businesses as a windfall for the wealthy. But anyone with eyes can see that the owner of the pizza shop on the corner or the general store down the street aren’t affluent millionaires.
Opponents of the tax cuts are throwing all the attacks they can conjure against the wall. But since the facts aren’t on their side, nothing will stick.
Unfortunately, they’re so committed to these tried-and-failed policies that they’ve stuck their heads in the sand to avoid all the good news about the federal tax cuts.
In a recent batch of headlines, the power of the tax cuts is unleashing American industry. Over 95 percent of manufacturers, large and small, feel good about their economic prospects — the highest level since the National Association of Manufacturers started measuring outlooks 20 years ago. Manufacturers are also raising wages, hiring new workers, expanding benefits, and purchasing new equipment.
CEOs say the tax cuts are spurring them to increase hiring and spending. Small businesses are also doing well. More small businesses plan to grow wages and operations than have in decades. Overall wages are growing faster and average base wages are up. Unemployment is low for everyone, but especially for minority groups compared to historical data.
Voters know the tax cuts work. Majorities have long supported the new code, approved of the economy, and expressed satisfaction with their opportunity to get ahead today. And consumer confidence remains strong.
All the griping from the critics hasn’t made a dent.
As the data rolls in, it’s clear that the tax cuts have produced such remarkable results while ensuring that the burdens of our tax code are well-balanced and fairly distributed. Nonpartisan experts estimate that high earners will pay more of the tax code burden this year than last and Americans in lower brackets will pay less.
Politics always gets heated in an election year. And Democrats and their well-funded activist army want to make tax cuts the wedge issue. That’s fine. While they try to ride their shopworn talking points to victory, Arizona voters will respond with something real that’s on the line: their bigger paychecks.
Drew John, a Republican from Safford, represents Legislative District 14 in the Arizona House of Representatives.
The views expressed in guest commentaries are those of the author and are not the views of the Arizona Capitol Times.
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This article is misleading. Not knowing Mr. John, I can’t say whether he is malicious or simply white. Does Mr. John really describe those with retirement accounts of over $1 million as “everyday Americans”? If he is not joking, he is showing how out of touch the rich are. I could not find any statements from the Tax Policy Center to support the numbers Mr. John uses, but I can say that the TPC opinions do not support Mr. John’s position. The predictions that economic gains for the average American are small and temporary, while gains for the rich are large and long term, still stand. …. It is true that we needed a stimulus, but this is not the one we needed. We did not need to give the rich so much money. The Average American will eventually be paying that debt. We needed that money to further stimulate. ….. Mr. Johns claims that voters support the tax cuts is also misleading. Anyone can read to see that virtually every poll shows the opposite. ….. Mr. Johns then goes on to discuss investments due to tax cuts, ignoring the very small percentage of the tax cut money that was reinvested. By far, most was turned into simple profit for the rich. ….. There is just too much information readily available for anyone to believe this article.
How long will the tax-cut infused bump last and what will be the repercussions then?
At what point will Arizona realize that they are not fully and properly funding schools and other key infrastructure items in order to give a few companies a few million dollars. They sacrifice the common good in order to fellate a few rich donors. No one (outside of shareholders and CEO’s) see any benefit from these tax cuts but they cause the rest of the state and society to suffer from the want of what these taxes do. And for those of you who babble “tax cuts pay for themselves” then why is the Arizona School budget 820 Million Dollars LESS that it was 10 years ago. When will these tax cuts make up for that shortfall?
By Guest Opinion
Choice, competition and jobs: A clean energy plan that works for Arizona
Compared to where our nation stood just 10 years ago, America’s energy revolution is moving further and faster than most people ever dreamed. Arizona played a leading role in this revolution, and thanks to the ACC’s new clean energy rules, we will continue to lead in the years and decades to come.
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Appears in set 75098-1, Assault on Hoth- UCS
Wedge Antilles, known as TIE SS-2-5 during his time at Skystrike Academy, was a renowned human male starfighter pilot from Corellia who first served in the Imperial Navy as a TIE fighter pilot until defecting to join the rebellion. He would also serve in the Alliance to Restore the Republic and years later the New Republic during their fight against the Galactic Empire. He became a member of the Rebel Alliance during the Galactic Civil War and fought in several battles of the war. He fought in the Battle of Yavin, where he flew in Red Squadron alongside Luke Skywalker. After Skywalker destroyed the Death Star, he and Antilles were left as the only survivors of Red Squadron.
In the years that followed, Antilles became a respected member of Rogue Squadron, flying as Rogue Three during the Battle of Hoth. Antilles and his gunner Wes Janson became the first duo to successfully destroy one of the All Terrain Armored Transports that were attempting to destroy Echo Base, the Rebel outpost on the planet Hoth, while aboard an T-47 airspeeder. Six months after the evacuation from Hoth, Antilles commanded Red Squadron during the Battle of Endor, and he and General Lando Calrissian destroyed the second Death Star during the battle. The decisive battle led to the death of the Emperor, Darth Sidious, and left the Empire shattered in their defeat.
The Rebel Alliance soon reorganized into the New Republic, and Antilles continued to serve in their war against the now weakened Empire. Antilles undertook a lone reconnaissance mission to the planet Akiva, where he was captured while observing a gathering of Imperial forces that were preparing for a counterattack against the Republic. Following the rebellion on Akiva, Antilles formed Phantom Squadron and took part in the liberation of Kashyyyk. While Phantom Squadron was disbanded by the New Republic authorities for launching an unauthorized strike on Kashyyyk, Wedge was able to reform the squadron in time for the Battle of Jakku, which saw the definitive defeat of the Empire.
Following the signing of the Galactic Concordance, Antilles retired to Hosnian Prime to work as a flight instructor. Sometime afterwards Wedge married Norra Wexley and settled back on Akiva until they were visited by Norra's son Temmin and his wife Karé Kun during the war between the Resistance and the First Order.
In 35 ABY, Wedge fought alongside Rebel veterans Lando Calrissian and Chewbacca over Exegol against the Sith Eternal fleet of the resurrected Darth Sidious.
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Here they Are! Meet Bay’s New Faces!
Together with the massive rebrand launch earlier today, Bay has, as from today, embarked on a new schedule which will see you through the coming weeks and months, but more about that later.
We promised a new way to Radio, we promised a new Bay, and a new Bay comes with new faces!
From ISLE of MTV, to WorldClub Dome Malta, to UNITE with Tomorrowland – LEX has been in the biggest lineups of the country for the past years. His signature is creating mashups to keep the crowd guessing what’s going to happen next in his shows – from playing with live vocalists to performing with orchestras.
The Bay Weekender with Lex | Fridays | 22:30 – 23:30
MICIMAGO
The Micimago sound has developed into something of good character. His sound is easily distinguished in any songs in whichever genre he decides to work in. This sound was cemented into the Maltese music scene by reaching the no. 1 spot on several radio charts with several singles. Recently Micimago was also the winner of the Best Dance Artist Bay Music Award. He is also one-fourth of the chart-topping MTEAM!
The Bay Weekender with Micimago | Saturdays | 22:30 – 23:30
DEBRII
Fresh yet familiar – the name Debrii has been making waves in the Maltese clubbing scene for the past few years and shows no signs of slowing down. Debrii is one of the island’s youngest, and most promising talents. Youthful, vibrant, and energetic, Debrii’s versatile DJ sets have distinguished him from many other local talents.
The Bay Weekender with Debrii | Fridays | 23:30 – 00:30
POCCI
The driving force behind Strictly RNB and a close affiliate of Ziggy, Pocci has been busy behind the scenes making sure the party never ends. Starting off as an event organiser, Pocci looked into his DJ Career when his love for dance music became apparent, and no one ever complained!
The Bay Weekender with Pocci | Saturdays | 23:30 – 00:30
Who knew that Jamie had a face for Radio? While many of you might recognise Jamie from TV hits such as L-Gharusa, and recently L-Ispettur, Jamie is also a stage actor with a lot of productions in his cap including the Maltese version of a Clockwork Orange! Jamie is the latest presenter to join the Bay Squad!
Saturdays and Sundays | 13:30 – 15:30
Are YOU as excited as we are?
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NO ONE KNOWS THE DAY OR THE HOUR?
At the Time of the End, the wise shall understand. Dan 12:10
Understanding the expression "No man knows the day or hour" is not possible
by simply taking the English translation literally, because in the book of
Daniel and the Book of Revelation, we are given EXACT descriptions of
timing, relative to KEY events - such as the shutting down of the altar
sacrifices in Jerusalem at the MID-POINT of the 70th week. Dan 9:27
Jesus was asked, "When shall these things be?" Matt 24:3
His answer ties us in to a very specific event (The Abomination of
Desolation) which can be measured on our calendars: "When you therefore
shall see the Abomination Of Desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet,
stand in the holy place, (whoever reads, let him understand:)..." Matt 24:15.
It is now clear that "no man knows the day or hour" does NOT mean "no man
knows the day or hour" as we read it from a modern-day English perspective.
>From his book "Signs In the Heavens" by Avi Ben Mordechai, he devotes a
chapter to explaining what "no man knows the day or hour" truly means from
a rabbinical Hebraic perspective. It is a figure of speech.
The following chapter contains edited excerpts from Avi Ben Mordechai's
commentaries and builds on them aiming to explain that the Holy Bible does
in fact reveal the "day and hour" or "exact timing" of our Lord's Return.
Christians over the centuries have separated themselves from their Hebraic
roots causing the misunderstanding of key Jewish biblical idioms. An idiom
is also a figure of speech. When Y'shua (Jesus) uttered His famous words
concerning the Messianic Era in Mattityahu (Matthew) 24:26,
"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in Heaven, nor the Son, but
only the Father", He used a common Jewish figure of speech referring to a
specific Jewish Festival. In essence He was saying, "I am coming for My
Bride on such and such a day! Be watching!" What day could the Jewish idiom
be referring to? Keep reading!
HEBRAIC ROOTS
Y'shua HaMashiach (Jesus the Messiah) was Jewish and lived a
Torah-observant Jewish life. Evidence suggests that He communicated to His
audience in the Hebrew language, in Hebraic ways. What does it mean to
communicate in Hebraic ways?
It means to think and talk like a Jew. In Y'shua's day it meant to speak in the language and idioms of the day.
Those who heard the Lord speak knew what He was saying and usually what He was
alluding to unless He was speaking in parables, which had their own
analogies. Of course, today's generation of believers struggles to
understand His words and concepts.
Speaking, thinking and acting like the
Jewish Rabbi He was helped His mission in bringing the gospel message to
"the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (Matt 15:24).
Y'shua was quoted in Mattityahu (Matthew) 8:11 as saying: "I say to you
that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places
at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven".
Since we are talking about Jewish idioms, have you ever considered the meaning of
these words? Specifically, our Lord used and confirmed common Jewish ideas
about the Day of the Lord - the millennium - and its relation to the Feast
of Sukkot (Tabernacles) in Z'kharyah 14.
In speaking, Y'shua referred to
the Festival and its traditional guests of honour, Avraham, Yitzchak and
Ya'acov, called the ushpizin (uoosh-piz-zin) or seven shepherds (exalted
guests), invited into every succah (tabernacle) at the Feast of Sukkot in
the fall of the year.
The seven shepherds in descending order are
1. Avraham (Abraham), 2. Yitzchak (Isaac), 3. Ya'acov (Jacob), 4. Mosheh
(Moses), 5. Aaron, 6. Yosef (Joseph) and 7. HaMelech David (King David).
By mentioning the feast and three of the seven shepherds,
His audience
immediately understood the allusion to the Messianic age - "Millennium" or
"Day" of the Lord.
"For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost" (Luke 19:10).
Again, in this simplistic phrase Y'shua, the Son of Miriyam and Yosef,
spoke of two things: His Deity (by calling Himself the subject of the
prophet Dani'el's vision) and His mission (by calling Himself the One God
Who spoke to Mosheh on Mount Sinai) as it is written in Dani'el and
Yechezk'el (Ezekiel):
In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was One like a Son of
Man, coming with the clouds of Heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days
and was led into His presence (Dani'el 7:13-14).
For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I Myself will search for My sheep
and look after them (Yechezk'el-Ezekiel 34:11ff).
In the Gospel narrative of Luke 23:31, Y'shua said: "For if men do these
things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?" In this
verse Y'shua points His audience, who had portions of the writings of the
Prophets memorized, to the verses in Yechezk'el (Ezekiel) 20:45 to 21:7.
Without question, Y'shua's hearers knew He referred to Chevlei HaMashiach
or Ya'acov's Trouble in the Great Tribulation and warned His audience that
what they do to Him in hardness of heart now, God will do to the nation in
judgement later.
Y'shua's encounter with Natan'el (Nathanael) is recorded in Yochanan (John)
1:47-48: When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, "Here is a
true Israelite, in whom there is nothing false". "How do You know me?"
Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, "I saw you while you were still under the
fig tree before Philip called you".
Again, our Lord used a strong figure of speech pointing to a widely taught
Jewish expectation concerning the resurrection and the millennium. In
brief, He told Natan'el that he will be alive on the Last Day to inherit
the land promised to Avraham (Bereshith-Genesis 17: . From Y'shua's words,
Natan'el understood he would participate in the resurrection since "that
Day" was yet future.
This is understood in the first century Jewish figure
of speech, "I saw you while you were still under the fig tree", which
refers to life and study of Torah in the millennium (Midrash Rabbah
Genesis, Rabbah Song of Songs).
Y'shua also told Natan'el that he is like
righteous Avraham who received his reward for trusting God. This is
understood because of the phrase, "Here is a true Israelite, in whom there
is nothing false". The millennial concept of the fig tree is found
throughout the Tanach including Z'kharyah 3:10:
"In that day each of you will invite his neighbor to sit under his vine and fig tree", declares the
LORD Almighty. For this reason Natan'el responded emphatically to Y'shua
and His words, saying: "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; You are the King of
Israel!"
God through HaMashiach Y'shua spoke to the Jews in many portions and in
many ways (Hebrews 1:1-2) relying upon known figures of speech, common
expectations and direct thoughts from Talmudic and Pharisaic teachings. The
concepts I addressed only scratch the surface, so-to-speak.
Every phrase
and word from the mouth of the Lord meant something to His audience. He
spoke with precision. With that as a basis, let us go on to one of the most
interesting Jewish figures of speech misunderstood by the Church over the
years. It concerns Y'shua's phrase,
"No one knows about that day or hour,
not even the angels in Heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father". In
context, He refers to the home-taking of His bride, the beginning of the
Messianic era and His millennial reign as King of kings over all the earth.
To understand this concept, we begin by examining its foundation.
Chapter Five described the annual Jewish Festival of Trumpets or Rosh
HaShanah - the first day of the seventh month. A few themes linked to this
Jewish festival are resurrection, repentance, kingship, corronation and a
marriage feast.
This chapter shows another theme and convincing proof that
Rosh HaShanah is not only the start of "The Day of the Lord" (Millennium),
but is also the day of the resurrection! It has to do with the moon and its
29-day cycle of renewal.
In this period of slightly less than 30 days, the moon goes from darkness
to light and back to darkness again. This is not a haphazard occurrence
attributed to evolution or science.
God planned it for many reasons, one
being as a picture of resurrection and renewal. With each cycle of nearly
30 days the ancient rabbis understood that the moon was being reborn or
"born again" (Sefard siddur, Mussaf for Shabbat and Shabbat Rosh Chodesh,
p. 509 and 646-648).
In Y'shua's day, the moon was so important that a Jewish festival was
proclaimed at the beginning of every month (Talmud Tractate Chaggigah 17b;
Shavuot 10a; Arachin 10b). This was called the New Moon Festival and in the
B'rit Chadashah, Rabbi Sha'ul (Paul) makes note of it (Colossians 2:16).
Even in the Tanach, King David provoked King Sha'ul (Saul) over it (1
Shmu'el-Samuel 20:5).
In the coming millennium the gate of the inner court
of the Temple facing east shall be opened on the new moon
(Yechezk'el-Ezekiel 46:1).
And finally in the millennium all nations will
celebrate the New Moon festival every month (Yeshayahu-Isaiah 66:23). It is
obvious from the Hebrew Scriptures that in the millennium God has no plans
to do away with His system.
Since it is so important, exactly what is a new moon? It is the opposite of
a full moon. Every month the moon goes through a complete cycle of renewal
called Rosh Chodesh, the head or beginning of the renewed month. Twelve
times a year on Rosh Chodesh, the moon always starts off with its disk
being very dark to the naked eye.
Over the course of 15 days it gets
brighter and brighter until it finally reaches a full white-faced disk or
full moon. Over the next 15 days it becomes darker and darker and finally
becomes invisible to the naked eye again.
The ancient rabbis saw a great lesson in this. Just as the moon has no
light of its own but receives its light from the sun, so we too have no
light of our own and must receive it from God.
As the moon goes through a
near 30-day cycle of dark to light to dark, so we need constant spiritual
renewal and repentance. Like the moon, we too must be reborn or "born
again" into HaMashiach and constantly renewed through repentance. This is
why God called it a faithful witness in the sky (Mizmor-Psalm 89:37).
If the moon is so important to God, why do we pay so little attention to
it? We have lost touch with God's faithful witness in the sky. But Y'shua
and the people of His day never lost touch with it. And as I previously
noted, not only was the new moon necessary for the Jewish calendar, it was
also a monthly festival celebrated with a feast fit for a king!
So, when
Y'shua said His famous words in Mattityahu-Matthew 24:36, it had
far-reaching implications. Here are the words of Y'shua in a few different
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but
my Father only. (KJV)
No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the
Son, but only the Father. (NIV) But of that day and hour knoweth no one,
not even the angels of heaven, neither the Son, but the Father only. (ASV)
About the exact time, however, and the hour, none knows - not even the
messengers of Heaven; but My Father alone. (Fenton Modern English
Translation)
Failing to think like Y'shua and taking phrases out of Jewish context can
lead one to misunderstand His words. For example, in many places of the
B'rit Chadashah Y'shua knew the future and talked about it openly. In one
instance He warned His talmidim (disciples) about their future saying,
"See, I have told you ahead of time" (Mattityahu-Matthew 24:25). His
context concerned the tribulation, the destruction of the Temple, the rise
and fall of false messiahs (antichrists), etc.
If He knew the future in
Mattityahu 24:25, and the context concerns the Day of Trouble, why would He
suddenly speak as though He did not know the future in the same context
just 11 verses later in Mattityahu 24:36? Was He confused? Or was He making
perfect sense in light of the customs of the Jews?
Since the subject of our discussion is the new moon and figures of speech,
realize the phrase, "Of that day and hour no man knows" refers to the
sanctification or setting apart of the new moon. Without this
sanctification, the Jews had no way of determining God's "appointed times"
or moedim.
Twelve times a year a new Jewish month (Rosh Chodesh) was announced to the
people. We have no system like it today. We look at a calendar to determine
the first of the month; the Jews, however, looked at the moon.
This system
of chronology was given to the Jews to know precisely when the Holy
festivals (moedim) would fall (there are still eight of them; seven
appointed times and Shabbat). The moon was the faithful Jewish calendar or
witness in the sky and 12 times a year was sanctified as the basis of the
Jewish stellar calendar.
GOD'S APPOINTED TIMES
Because the moon was so important for Jewish date - setting, the authorities
in charge of announcing the new moon in Y'rushalayim took great care to
ensure the first day of the month was announced on time. To correctly
announce the first day of the month, established by the new moon, was one
of the Sanhedrin's greatest responsibilities. They had to ensure the people
knew when the first of the month began 12 times a year! Therefore God said
to the leaders of Israel:
These are the appointed times of the Lord, holy convocations which you
shall proclaim at the times appointed for them (Vayikrah-Leviticus 23:4).
In other words, God gave the Sanhedrin authority to announce and sanctify
the new moon to the people. Its proclamation on earth was supported by God
in Heaven (c.f. Mattityahu 18:18-20 where the Jewish context supports a
believers' Sanhedrin as seen in Acts 15).
As soon as the new moon was
announced, the first day of the month began. Once the beginning of the new
month was established, the festivals and weekly Shabbats for the upcoming
month were sanctified for observance. In Hebrew, those observances have
always been called "appointed times" or moedim, literally "a sacred and
set time".
From God's perspective, the appointed times belong to Him
(Midrash Rabbah Numbers, Vol 2.21.25, p. 852) and no one has the authority
to change the celebration of an appointed time.
To do so was a serious
matter and great sin. Appointed times had to be kept because of their
Messianic implications.
Further in Vayikrah (Leviticus) 23:4, notice the phrase, "holy
convocation". The phrase in Hebrew is mikraw kodesh, better translated,
"holy convocation and rehearsal". In other words, God's appointed times are
actually "holy rehearsals" set apart to reflect events in the Messianic
era. God said to the people,
"Pay attention! On this day I am going to do
something! Wake-up! The Jews were to know and practice all of God's mikraot
or holy convocations. This is the essence of Rav Sha'ul's words that the
Shabbat, new moons and festivals, "are a shadow of things to come; the body
of Mashiach" (Colossians 2:17).
Twice a year, in the spring and fall, there were several appointed times
and specific days of holy convocation dedicated to the Lord. The new moon
was the key in being able to fulfill those set times, holy convocations and
rehearsals.
For example, when the new moon was announced on the first day
of Nisan, also called Aviv, the people knew when to observe the holy
convocations and set times of the 10th (Shemot-Exodus 12:3), 14th and 15th
(Shemot-Exodus 12:6; Bamidbar-Numbers 33:3), 16th (Vayikrah-Leviticus
23:15), and finally the 21st.
In the same way, when the new moon was
announced on the first day of Tishri also called Ethanim, the people knew
when to observe the Holy convocations of the 1st (Vayikrah-Leviticus
23:23), 10th (Vayikrah-Leviticus 23:26), 15th (Vayikrah-Leviticus 23:39),
and 22nd (Vayikrah-Leviticus 23:36).
Thus from the announcement of the new
moon to the festival dates which followed, it was only a matter of counting
the right number of days. In a moment you will understand how this applies
to the phrase that Y'shua spoke concerning His coming again.
THE SANHEDRIN AND THE TWO WITNESSES
The Mishnah, also referred to as the Oral Law, dealt with the legal
elements of daily Jewish religious life, in Hebrew called halachah. In the
treasure of the first and second century halachah we find many explanations
to help us understand the Torah particularly in Y'shua's day since it was
still oral then.
In volume two called "moed" or festival, tractate Rosh
HaShanah teaches us about the Sanhedrin and its selection process of two
witnesses who would tell us when the new moon arrived. Once a month the
Sanhedrin discussed when to proclaim the new moon. They did this through
the agency of two witnesses, the element of all legal transactions in
Judaism.
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any
sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the
mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. Deut 19:15
The men were important because by their witness, Israel celebrated God's
appointed times. They had to be of good character and were always treated
with great honour.
They had special privileges such as authorization to
ride into Y'rushalayim on horseback on the Shabbat to bring the good news
of the new moon festivities! The men had special status because they were
the confirmation that Y'hudah (Judaea) depended on for the correct timing
of the new month and the festivals.
Rosh HaShanah Chapter 2, Mishnah 5 reads: There was a large court in
Jerusalem called Beth Ya'azek. There all the witnesses used to assemble and
the Beth Din used to examine them. They used to entertain them lavishly
there so that they should have an inducement to come. (The witnesses were
allowed to break the Shabbat travel restrictions for this one purpose lest
they might be reluctant to come and give the essential evidence of the
sighting of the new moon).
Continuing in Chapter 2, Mishnah 6: How do they test the witnesses? The
pair who arrive first are tested first. The senior of them is brought in
and they say to him, tell us how you saw the moon - in front of the sun or
behind the sun? To the north of it or the south? How big was it, and in
which direction was it inclined?
And how broad was it? If he says (he saw
it) in front of the sun, his evidence is rejected. After that they would
bring in the second and test him.
If their accounts tallied, their evidence
was accepted, and the other pairs were only questioned briefly, not because
they were required at all, but so that they should not be disappointed,
(and) so that they should not be dissuaded from coming.
In qualifying the witnesses, the Sanhedrin used the following criteria:
They never arrived at the same time.
They were never questioned at the same time.
There were always two new witnesses each month.
In short, the two qualified witnesses usually stood before the Nassi or
President of the Sanhedrin (Jewish High Court) to give account of the
moon's appearance prior to its becoming total dark (Moed Rosh HaShanah,
Chapter 3, Mishnah 1).
Just before the moon's disk enters total darkness,
there are tiny slivers of white on the edges of the waning disk. These were
called the "horns" of the moon.
Correctly sighting the "horns" (on the
waning crescent) determined the beginning of the new month. Once the two
witnesses were qualified and questioned, if the President (who had
knowledge of astronomy) was convinced their observation was accurate, he
publicly sanctified the start of the new month.
After careful scrutiny to determine the official arrival of the new moon,
the Nassi or President of the Sanhedrin proclaimed Rosh Chodesh with the
words: "Sanctified", and all the people repeat after him, "Sanctified,
sanctified". After the proclamation, the Sanhedrin ordered watchmen on the
nearby hillsides to light fires and thus inform the Jews in all of Y'hudah
(Judaea), Shomron (Samaria), Egypt, Babylon and the galut (diaspora) that
the new month had begun. That started the festival of the New Moon and
counting of the next 29- days to the next new month proclamation.
Again, once the Sanhedrin set Rosh Chodesh, or the beginning of the new
month by sighting the new moon, the rest of the festivals were calculated.
However, the seventh month, Tishri, was particularly important because it
was the only month that had a holy convocation or appointed time on the
first day of the month.
This posed a unique problem. The first day of
Tishri was the appointed time called Rosh HaShanah, the Feast of Trumpets
(Vayikrah-Leviticus 23:24). Yet no one could begin observing the festival
until they heard those famous words from the President of the Sanhedrin,
"Sanctified!"
No one in Israel could plan for the first day of the seventh month Tishri,
called Yom Teruah or the Feast of Trumpets (also called Rosh HaShanah).
When they knew how many days to count to a festival, that would be easy.
HOW COULD THEY PLAN FOR A FESTIVAL THAT THEY DID NOT KNOW AT WHAT DAY OR
HOUR IT WOULD PUBLICALLY BE ANNOUNCED AND THUS BEGIN?
This was unique to Rosh HaShanah and dependent upon the testimony of the
two witnesses. Prophetically, we are informed of two important witnesses
during the Great Tribulation:
And I will give power unto My Two Witnesses, and they will prophesy 1260
days, clothed in sackcloth.
Rev 11:3
Of course, anyone could look up into the twilight or early morning sky and,
if they looked hard enough, see the new moon or at least its "horns". And
certainly an astute observer knew when about 29- days were completed since
the previous Rosh Chodesh.
But recall, ONLY THE SANHEDRIN NASSI had the
authority to proclaim the first of Tishri, which was already established as
a technical procedure.
Once proclaimed, the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh
HaShanah) commenced. Until that public announcement by the Nassi, everyone
had to wait before they could begin the observance of the festival. No one
could begin the festival beforehand!
Thus, we can more clearly see the
analogy Jesus made with His words: "But of that day and hour knoweth no
man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only" was in regards to
this important festival of Rosh HaShanah.
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Berserk: Manliness and the Importance of Person
At first glance, Berserk seems to have all the bells and whistles of an edgy teenage boy’s daydream. It sports an incredible amount of violence, almost every one of its leading female characters appear nude on screen at least once, and the majority of actual sexual encounters in the series are either violent rape or attempted rape, both of which dare you to look away. In effect, Berserk could be called the Game of Thrones of anime. And while my description thus far might make you think that the show lacks substance, strangely, I found that the show taught mature and complex lessons on manliness. While its grittier aspects have likely, and understandably, caused some people to drop the show before its more redeeming qualities can kick in, I consider that all the more reason for me to defend and share why Berserk was edifying for my understanding of what it means to be a man.
All of Berserk’s lessons in manliness follow the character development of the protagonist Guts in relation to the people he encounters. Guts’ development is most affected by the Band of the Hawk’s leader, Griffith, and a female member of the Band, Casca. Griffith’s ambition is to be the lord of the world’s greatest kingdom; to possess not just power but also people as devoted property, which he acquires with an unnatural charisma. Guts wants to win Griffith’s favor as a friend and an equal, and as he and Casca both struggle to earn Griffith’s approval they end up falling in love with each other. Griffith becomes obsessed with the fact that in turning their affections to one another, he no longer has sole and entire command of their devotions. In response to this insult toward his supremacy, when Griffith comes into power, he rapes Casca and forces Guts to watch helplessly before putting out Guts’ right eye so that the rape of the woman he loves will forever be the last image that eye saw. Did I mention this show’s kinda dark?
Understandably, Gut’s chief goal becomes making Griffith pay for what he did to Casca and protecting her from any further harm. He develops a PTSD state of wrath and bloodlust that can overwhelm him completely and which he attributes to wanting vengeance for Casca. But later, during an attempted rape of Casca at the hands of thugs, Guts flies into a rage and kills her assailants but then turns and forces himself on her. Guts comes to his senses, sees what he is doing, and he is horrified at the realization that the anger at his core was not because of what Griffith did to Casca, but what Griffith did to Gut’s pride. Griffith raped Casca not out of a desire for her but because he desired to use her as a tool against Guts, to prove he still owned her in a way and, if not, that he was capable of ruining her. Guts’ nearly used rape as a powerplay of his own to demonstrate that Casca was his possession and not Griffith’s. Instead of killing Griffith, Guts became him.
The interactions Guts has with Griffith and Casca teach that becoming a true man revolves around the need for person. The truth is that it’s incredibly difficult to model yourself after the photo-negative of someone or something. It wasn’t enough that Gut’s declared his ideal to be “whatever Griffith isn’t,” because Griffith remained the standard by which he measured himself and eventually became his destination. The goal you’re aiming toward has to be specific, personal, and, therefore, has to be a person. The same applies to Guts’ wrath for Casca’s sake. While his own attempted rape of Casca served as a wake-up call for where his focus truly was, the importance of person is reinforced for Guts later when he discovers that putting Casca and her defense as his focus is the only way he can escape the rage that overwhelms him. It is instinct for Guts to fly off the handle, and he must make the decision to submit those instincts to the service of a person other than himself if he wishes to master those impulses.
Jesus warns us in scripture that such is the nature of things. He declares that he can not help but do the will of the Father who begat him (John 8:28-29). Then, in the same breath, he tells the people listening that they are bound to lie and kill because their father is the devil (John 8:39-47). In fact, the very reason Jesus had to redeem humanity is because we are hopelessly incapable of perfectly following a code of unembodied laws (Gal. 2:15-16 & 3:10-14). And, again, this inability of ours comes back down to our natural headship under Satan and the need to be adopted by God through submission to the headship of Jesus.
Other lessons in manliness come as Guts starts to attract a band of followers like Griffith even though he has no ambition to do so. One of the members is Farnese, a female commander of an army whose efforts to stop Guts were so thoroughly frustrated that the entire army under her leadership dissolved and Farnese joined Guts band in admiration. As a leader, Farnese was sadistic and cruel, so her character growth mirrors Gut’s growth in that she learns to care about people instead of use them. But, for a series that features so much sexual violence, Berserk actually takes a very traditional turn in distinguishing Farnese’s growth in this area as a woman and Guts’s growth as a man in an Ephesians 5 sense.
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Even though Farnese was previously a military commander, Guts does not ask her to accompany him in fights when their band is in danger. Instead, he asks her to look after Casca who, due to trauma from being raped by Griffith, has regressed to an infantile state of interaction and lost the ability to speak. This is not the equivalent of Guts telling Farnese to “get back to the kitchen” and “tend to the children.” Farnese regularly risks her life to rescue and defend Casca in order to fulfill her role within the group. But it is interesting how the show juxtaposes Farnese laying her life down for the defenseless within the band, while Guts is laying his life down to protect Farnese, Casca, and the band at large. The result is that both Guts and Farnese become more dynamic characters as Guts learns to fight for the sake of others and as Farnese allows herself to be defended even as she lays her life down for Casca.
Another member of Guts’ band is Ishidoro, a young thief who began following Guts with hopes of being trained by him. Guts becomes the person of Ishidoro’s focus like Griffith was for Guts. Because of this, many of Guts’ lessons to Ishidoro are also lectures to himself:
Ishidoro: “Is this good enough? I mean, isn’t training [supposed to be] practicing basics for a long time and inheriting techniques and stuff?”
Guts: “You’re practicing basics everyday. […] Do you expect to go to battle only after training for dozens of years and becoming a master swordsman? That’s a pretty long game.”
I: “No I don’t!”
G: “Then you need to manage with what you have now. Isn’t that what you’ve been doing all along anyway?”
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The tactic of focusing your life on the right person in order to change can seem easy when you’re example is the strong, will-powered, and all-suffering character of Guts. In a similar way, submitting yourself to Christ and making him your focus also sounds simple, but that does 10.49.37-PM-300x164.png" alt="" width="347" height="190" />n’t make it easy. Ishidoro’s complaint is the same as the Christian man’s often is, “Isn’t there more to this than just daily faithfulness? Isn’t there some kind of secret technique or special method that I need to learn before I can start ‘fighting the good fight?’” Guts gives an answer he has found to be true through years of struggle, but it’s one that God seems to tell us men as well: “What else is there but daily faithfulness? You should start by learning to manage with what I have given you. I trust you enough to include you. Now, trust that my grace is sufficient for you (12:9">2 Cor. 12:9) and that I am strong enough to defend you even as I train you to fight.”
Berserk takes a theme that, in a younger show, might boil down to, “the power of friendship,” and makes you feel it viscerally by adding actual stakes. Guts is not a manlier character because of the violence and sex 10.46.44-PM-300x148.png" alt="" width="372" height="183" />ual violence he faces and suffers in the series; rather, he starts becoming a man when he finds people for whom he is willing to fight and suffer all of those things. The band began forming once Guts had that horrific realization after his attempted rape of Casca. He realized that he could not bear his responsibility alone, so he let people in to help bear the load like Farnese and Ishidoro. Even though Guts is described as the formidable “Black Swordsman,” with personal kill stats that would qualify him for 23:8-39">King David’s Mighty Men, and a hard-nosed loner complex the likes of a Clint Eastwood character, Berserk develops Guts into a character who recognizes his own need for help. He recognizes his need for person, for people, and then focuses the sacrifice of his life and physical well-being on those people. That is what makes Berserk’s Guts an unexpected study in manliness.
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4 thoughts on “Berserk: Manliness and the Importance of Person”
David Schooley
10.12.2017 at 11:50 PM Reply
Interesting points, thank you for making this post I watched the old anime series so I actually thought Griffith raped her to death, I kinda needed to stop after that point for a while because of how brutal the scene was. Anyway I like your point about how guts doesn’t become a man or at least doesn’t show aspects of manliness till he is willing to open himself up to others wishing to help. Fantastic post.
10.13.2017 at 1:10 AM Reply
Thanks a lot, David. I sympathize with that need to stop. I lost it too after Griffith’s rape of the king’s daughter, and the whole Eclipse episode was even worse. I appreciate that you thought the post worth while. God bless you!
Yeah that was messed up but I don’t think he raped the princess, she actually consented to it and wanted to continue, what did bother me and really shows how nasty Griffith truly is in such a twisted way. The entire time he is thinking of guts. What this tells me is that after he lost to guts he felt powerless and weak so he went to someone who truly cares for him and just like everyone else in griffith’s life he uses her as a tool, really nothing more. That is what sickened me about the scene, it was truly a wolf in sheep’s clothing stealing the from her what she will never get back, and the sad truth is as far as the story goes (at least for that arc) she is perfectly fine with it because she is still disillusioned by the wolf believing like everyone else that griffith is pure. He was the devil from the beginning by the way he deceived all he knew, the irony comes from the fact that when he takes his true form at the end and his loyal followers all die except for two (being that they are main characters and all.) Griffith is a great example of the devil, luring his prey with lies of happiness and glory but only to end in misery and death.
You’re right and that use of the princess foreshadows Griffith’s later use and abuse of Casca. That similarity is what I had in mind when I presumed what happened with the princess was rape. Perhaps it was consensual, but there were so many moments in that short (yet eternally long) scene where I thought it ceased to be so. It’s awful that it impresses me, but the levels of depravity and psychological complexity in each of those scenes is one of the reasons I find the series so arresting. That devil comparison certainly isn’t far off, and the fact that Griffith was still so very human is what made it all that much more horrific.
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I must say that the buses in Buenos Aires are among the worst Ive ever seen. The pollution and the noise are hard to believe. Are they inspected at all? Is it true that the mayor´s father owns many of the bus lines and this is why he can get away with waking me up throughout the night with such noise? And Im glad summer is over. I tried to explain to a few locals that back home we enjoy air conditioned buses around the city. They looked at me like it was science fiction.
Sometimes I can hardly see across the street, the pollution at street level is so thick. Cant anything be done about it? Dont the locals care at all? Should we be bringing out children here at all?
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Welcome to Argentina.
You have obviously never ridden across Java, with 18 people, a pig, and a dozen chickens in a Mitsubishi Minivan that seats 8.
Or in most of central and south america, africa, the middle east, south east asia, or for 2 days across the midwestern USA with stinking drunks seated next to you while meth heads have sex and smoke crank in the bathroom at the back of the greyhound.
The buses in BsAs are quite nice, if you ask me. They are cheap, frequent, and the windows open.
They have snappy filete paint jobs, and I have never been on a bus anywhere with old ladies wearing fur coats, which happens here if the temp drops below 45 farenheit.
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todd said:
I must say that the buses in Buenos Aires are among the worst Ive ever seen... Should we be bringing out children here at all?
I never had the opportunity to ride in a Mercedes Benz as a child...
Haven't you ever lived in the flight path of a major airport? If so, you would be used to the noise.
"or for 2 days across the midwestern USA with stinking drunks seated next to you while meth heads have sex and smoke crank in the bathroom at the back of the greyhound".
Ries, the writer was talking about city buses, not intercity buses. Anyway, Greyhound buses are a lot quieter than BA city buses and pollute a lot less. If the passengers behave badly on Greyhound that is the fault of the passengers, not the bus company.
The buses here could be a lot quieter and pollute less but the bus companies and the city have no interest in doing anything about it. It is really irrelevant to me what buses are like in the Middle East. I just wish they were quieter and cleaner here. Is that asking too much?
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Obviously the poster of the original message hasn't travelled much to other parts of the world. The buses here are just fine, not bad at all, not luxurious but excellent reliable transportation. And all for $1 peso! In New York City the buses may be more modern but they are so badly vandalized that every 3 months on the road they require a complete overhaul of the interior. The people here are much more decent and that is why the buses although they may be older still are useable. And air conditioning? It's a city bus for goodness sake, air conditioning is a luxury, NOT a right / entitlement to any citizen. Grow up! and learn that the world is not totally airconditioned and that is something you have to live with if you want to get ahead in life.
I hadn't noticed that MTA buses were in such bad condition. They looked just fine to me in February. The vandalism you speak of is also a surprise. The NY subway used to have this problem, especially with graffiti but I haven't seen graffiti in years. I agree that expecting air conditioning in a country like Argentina is too much. It would never be properly maintained, so it's better to have windows that open. The same for the trains to Tigre. There IS air conditioning but it often doesn't work and the windows are sealed shut. The old trains had windows that opened. The bus noise and pollution problem, however, COULD be resolved if the authorities cared.
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Every now and then the city authorities launch campaigns to control the buses's noise and pollution. They fine some lines and put some posters but that's about it.
The problem is the same problem you can find pretty much in all of Argentina's infrastructure. If the city were to have all buses inspected and the companies fined, the city would be left practically without a public transit system, and the chaos this would generate would be far worst than noise and pollution.
In BA (not so in the rest of the country) the bus fare is amongst the cheapest you can find anywhere. The bus companies are heavily subsidise by the government to keep the fare cheap so everyone can ride the bus. If companies were looking for better, more modern buses, then the fare would be much higher.
Also you have to keep in mind than unlike the US, most people here rich or poor, rely on public transportation. And BA has one of the most extensive bus networks in the world. You can prety much get to any point in the city and the metropolitan area by bus, and the frequency of the buses is very short.
The noise and pollution is bad, but if you ask today the people of BA wether they prefer the current bus network at the current prices or a new reduced and more expensive system but with more modern buses and less contamination, im sure porteños would pick the former.
If you ride city buses in a yuppie city like Seattle, its true the buses make less noise and smoke- but you will encounter, on a regular basis, truculent teenagers blasting rap music from huge boom boxes, extremely foul smelling drunk people, vomiting people, mentally ill people who swear for the entire bus ride, and, occasionally, people with guns or knives.
This is true in pretty much any city bus system in the USA.
Drunks, crazy people, criminals, and extremely rude people are all too common on the city buses I have ridden in LA, or Phoenix, or NYC.
I have never run into anything like this in BsAs- and, to me, the lack of in your face offensive human beings far outweighs a bit of noise and smoke.
My place has a bus stop right in front of it, and, frankly, its a lot quieter than two of the places I lived at in Seattle in the 80's that had bus stops right in front. American buses, for some reason, idle for long periods of time at bus stops, sometime 20 minutes or more, at 2 in the morning. Porteno buses barely stop.
One thing I have to say about the buses here also is that they MOVE fast. Maybe not the safest thing, but you are sure to get to your destination quickly. Try taking a crosstown bus in New York City, and the trip takes forever. The last time one of the news channels in New York timed it, a person started out on a bus at 7:00PM and one started walking at 7:00PM from the same corner. The person walking made 15 blocks in 20 minutes and the bus took 45 minutes to go the same 15 blocks. I guarantee you in Buenos Aires you would do 15 blocks on a bus in 10 minutes.
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It perplexes me why anyone would question the perfectly logical move by Israel to deny Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar entry to the country.
Who invites guests whose motive is to destroy their host?
We certainly don’t do it in the USA. No one, elected official or not, is permitted entry into the USA whose agenda is the destruction of our country.
Both Tlaib and Omar are aggressive supporters of the BDS movement — boycott, divest, sanction — whose objective is economic strangulation of Israel. They are voices of unremitting hostility toward Israel’s existence.
Let’s get some perspective.
According to Tlaib, the BDS movement is a freedom movement. She tweeted that she is “tired of folks discrediting a form of speech that is centered on equality and freedom.”
But Tlaib’s agenda is not freedom. It’s about eliminating Israel.
Freedom House is a nonpartisan organization in Washington, D.C., that issues an annual report ranking nations around the world according to freedom — measuring political rights and civil liberties in each country.
Freedom House ranks countries in three categories, “free,” “partly free” and “not free.”
In the region that Freedom House calls Middle East and North Africa, there are 21 countries and territories, and only two are ranked free, Israel and Tunisia, with Israel receiving the highest total freedom score in the region.
The total population of the region is 420 million, and of the 420 million, 5% are free, including Israel’s tiny population of 8.9 million.
So freedom is the exception rather than the rule in the Middle East, and Israel is the shining light. Yet Israel is the only country in the region that seems to bother Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.
Have we heard a word from them about the 95 percent — nearly 400 million — in the region who are not free? Of course not.
They do not lose sleep because there is not enough freedom in the world. They lose sleep because Israel exists.
Although the West Bank, where Tlaib’s grandmother lives, and Gaza are not sovereign countries, Freedom House identifies them as territories and includes them in its freedom rankings.
Both are ranked “not free” and have rock-bottom scores.
This is not because of Israel. Palestinians have autonomy in their internal affairs.
Why doesn’t Tlaib speak to the fact that where Palestinians do have control over their own affairs, they choose to live under a corrupt, un-free regime?
In 2005, Israel unilaterally pulled out of Gaza, and Palestinians assumed full control.
What did they do? Rather than starting to build, they announced, “Today Gaza, tomorrow Jerusalem,” and started firing rockets into Israel.
Meanwhile, as part of the operation, Israel uprooted 8,500 Israeli settlers who were living there. Despite protesting being evacuated from their homes, these Israelis accepted the fact, and some moved eastward into the desert, which, in short order, they irrigated and made bloom — characteristic of the history of Israel.
Within five years, they were exporting $50 million per year of organic vegetables.
According to the Pew Research Center, there are 49 Muslim-majority countries in the world. Two, per Freedom House, are free. But what bothers Tlaib and Omar is the world’s single Jewish country, Israel, which is free.
You would think they would admire and want to help others emulate the social and economic miracle that Israelis have created in their young country. Instead they spread hate and blame.
A former prime minister of Israel, Golda Meir, famously said, “Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”
This was true when she said it 62 years ago, and unfortunately, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar continue this destructive legacy today.
Both Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump are right to marginalize these negative personalities who work so hard to push the world in the wrong direction.
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Star, YOU should be in Congress, rather than those two misguided women!
Zelda B Torna
Star, your are 100% correct. Israeli Foreign Minister Deri ( remembering Golda Meir ) said, ” Rashida Tlaib hates Israel more than she loves her grandmother. “
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Latest Brain Tumor Research News from the 20th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Neuro-Oncology
By Tom Halkin | Published December 3, 2015
As has been our custom, we like to provide a recap of the some of the most intriguing news every year that comes out of the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO), the preeminent scientific conference dedicated specifically to brain tumors and brain cancer, which was convened this year on November 20th- 22nd in San Antonio, Texas.
During the multi-day conference, hundreds of presentations and discussions are given, highlighting the latest news and views of the global neuro-oncology field. With so much important information coming out of SNO, NBTS (who also sponsors the conference) sends a number of our staff – including both of our on-staff scientists, CEO, and Chief Research Officer – to take in the news, and help compile a list of some of the most noteworthy developments. Below we share those with you:
Marking History
Celebrating its 20th year, the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Neuro-Oncology set a record for attendance with more than 2,200 participants from across the field and across the globe. According to SNO, this means the 2015 conference was one of the largest-ever international neuro-oncology meeting.
Standing in stark contrast – and to show how far the field has come – SNO provided a history booklet to attendees with a list of participants at the first-ever SNO organizational meeting (a precursor to the inaugural Annual Scientific Meeting in 1996) in 1995, featuring a total of just 18 attendees! Two of which were NBTS’ founding members Bonnie and Sid Feldman!
Avastin & The Future of Angiogenesis Inhibitors
This year’s “late-breaking abstract” was from a randomized phase III European clinical trial called EORTC 26101, which compared the safety and effectiveness of treating recurrent glioblastoma (GBM) patients with the chemotherapy Lomustine (CCNU) alone against the combination of Avastin (bevacizumab) and Lomustine. We shared a short new release about this study immediately after it was announced.
As per the release, this study failed to show that adding Avastin to Lomustine increases survival for recurrent GBM patients. As Avastin is one of the three current drugs approved to treat GBM patients – yet only conditionally – these results are disappointing, particularly given findings from two other large phase III trials involving Avastin back in 2013.
However, this does not necessarily mean the end of the road for Avastin as a treatment option for GBM patients. The FDA still has to review data that Avastin’s developer – Genentech – submits to the agency for review of its approval status.
Additionally, Avastin is currently being investigated in combination with various other anti-cancer medications as part of a number of ongoing clinical trials. These include a phase II trial called ReACT (which we’ll cover in more detail in the next section), which is using Avastin in combination with an immunotherapy called Rintega (rindopepimut) and is showing some auspicious results.
Finally, a company developing a therapy in the same class of anti-cancer medicines that Avastin falls into – called anti-angiogenic therapies – reported, still very preliminary, but positive results at SNO. VBL Therapeutics presented data showing their lead oncology product VB-111, a first-in-class, targeted, anti-angiogenic gene-therapy agent, demonstrated improved overall survival at 12 months over historical data. These results will need to be confirmed in a randomized, prospectively controlled setting.
Angiogenesis is the process by which a tumor creates its own network of blood vessels to provide an adequate supply of nutrients and oxygen to support its growth. Anti-angiogenic drugs, like Avastin, target specific proteins that researchers have found play a role in angiogenesis and prevent tumors from creating their own blood vessels.
NBTS is closely monitoring the status of Avastin and other anti-angiogenic agents, and will inform the community as we learn more about their future role in treating brain cancer.
ReACT Data Gets Better With Time; Larger Trials Still Needed
If there was one presentation that could be described as the “show-stopper” at this year’s SNO, it was ReACT. As mentioned in the previous section, the data presented from the phase II ReACT immunotherapy study – which compared treating recurrent EGFRvIII-positive GBM patients with Avastin plus placebo control or Avastin plus the experimental immunotherapy Rintega (rindopepimut) – showed encouraging results. Encouraging enough in fact, to receive feature coverage in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Forbes.
Data previously presented on Rintega showed a modest survival benefit for patients in the study who received Rintega along with Avastin, versus those who received Avastin alone plus placebo control. However, the newly presented data – which has had more time to mature – also shows that Rintega appears to increase long-term survival significantly (despite still modest overall results).
For example, while median overall survival benefit so far is only a two-month increase (11.3 months vs. 9.3 months), two-year survival rates for the Rintega and Avastin group were 25%, versus 0% for the Avastin-only control group. Dr. David Reardon of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (and a member of NBTS’ Clinical Trial Endpoints Steering Committee) presented the data and commented that over time the survival curves between the two arms continues to separate and become “even more pronounced.”
Researchers were impressed with the long-term survival rates to date, and the fact that the treatment appeared to be tolerated very well, and even improve other endpoints including a reduction in the need for steroids. The study, however, was small, consisting of only 70 patients. Because of its small size, the FDA has already indicated that a larger randomized study will need to be completed before approval.
Rintega is being developed by Celldex Therapuetics and falls into the ‘vaccine’ category of immunotherapies. Rintega targets the mutant protein called EGFRvIII that is present in about 25% to 30% of glioblastoma cases. The mutation is associated with poor prognosis even compared to other glioblastoma patients.
ReACT is one of two current clinical trials Celldex is running to evaluate Rintega in GBM. The other clinical trial, called ACT IV, is for newly diagnosed EGFRvIII-positive GBM patients.
Note: NBTS provided funding for an early clinical study of Rintega in GBM patients, which provided data supportive of advancing its further clinical evaluation.
Notable Finding Leads to Quick Phase III Trial Launch
At this year’s SNO conference, Dr. John S. Yu (founder of ImmunoCellular Therapeutics) presented data from ImmunoCellular Therapeutics phase II study of ICT-107, an immunotherapeutic agent. While results from the study as a whole were modest, researchers identified one subgroup of patients that appear to respond exceptionally well to the treatment.
Patients with HLA-A2-positive GBMs had “substantial improvements in overall survival,” compared to other patients, according to Dr. Yu. Median overall survival in the HLA-A2-positive group of responders, was 23.1 months compared to 13.7 months in non-responders. Additionally, 60% of HLA-A2–positive patients receiving ICT-107 experienced a significantly increased immune response, compared with 36% of patients in the control group.
Based on these results researchers and ImmunoCellular decided to quickly move to a larger, definitive phase III study on ICT-107 in newly diagnosed HLA-A2-positive GBM patients. The phase III registration trial will enroll more than 400 HLA-A2-positive patients across approximately 120 sites in the US, Canada, and Europe. Patients will be randomized to receive either temozolomide (the current standard of care chemotherapy for newly diagnosed GBM patients) with a control treatment, or temozolomide with ICT-107. The trial hopes to begin enrolling soon.
Like Rintega, ICT-107 falls into the overall “vaccine” category of immunotherapy, but differs in that it is cell-based and uses special dendritic cells prepared from patients’ own blood which are then treated to express antigenic proteins present on glioblastoma tumor cells. The vaccine has been shown to be well tolerated in patients in early studies.
New Immunotherapy Approaches Taking Shape
To date in neuro-oncology, a majority of the immunotherapy candidates that are advancing in clinical study fall into the “vaccine” (like ICT-107 and Rintega) or “oncolytic virus” (like the poliovirus and CMV treatments) categories. At this year’s SNO conference, however, a number of additional and emerging immunotherapeutic approaches for brain tumors were presented. This is critical because, as Dr. Reardon noted during one session, “no single immunotherapeutic agent is going to [be a cure-all] and we need to consider combination approaches.”
“…We Need to Consider Combination Approaches.” – Dr. David Reardon, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors – In many cancers, tumors protect themselves from the immune system (which would normally destroy invaders and abnormalities in the body) by using molecules known as “immune checkpoints” to block the immune system from recognizing and destroying tumor cells. As such, the class of so-called “immune checkpoint inhibitors” has become an intriguing area of study for cancer immunotherapy experts and researchers, and has seen some progress in other cancers such as lung cancer, kidney cancer, and melanoma. While still very early in their development, a number of companies presented data on their checkpoint inhibitor candidates for treating GBM, demonstrating, thus far, the feasibility of evaluating these further in future clinical trials.
Adoptive Cell Transfer (ACT)/CAR T-Cell Therapy – T-cells are a main component of the human immune system, helping our bodies effectively fight disease. However, many tumors find ways to make themselves ‘invisible’ to T-cells, thus rendering them ineffective at fighting cancer. In recent years, researchers have experimented with a technique called “Adoptive Cell Transfer,” in which a patient’s own T-cells are extracted from their blood and then trained to recognize and kill tumor cells by genetically engineering them to produce special receptors on their surface, called chimeric antigen receptors (CARs). CARs are proteins that allow the T-cells to recognize other specific, corresponding proteins (antigens) on tumor cells. The engineered cells are then infused back into the patient where they multiply, and with guidance from their engineered receptors, recognize and kill cancer cells that harbor the antigen on their surfaces. This is another area that has seen some really positive results in other cancers, particularly blood cancers like leukemia, and is now being explored in early stages for brain tumors. Dr. Carl June, one of the pioneers of this treatment, along with his colleague from Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Donald O’Rourke, presented at this year’s SNO on a pilot study to determine the possible effectiveness of CAR T-cell therapy in patients with EGFRvIII-positive GBM. Dr. O’Rourke, who directs the Human Brain Tumor Tissue Bank at Penn Medicine, showed that in very early findings (the treatment has been applied to only eight patients, and the presentation focused on only five of the eight) the treatment appears to be well-tolerated and shows early signs of therapeutic activity in the patients, making larger studies feasible to move forward with.
Clinical Trials* for Other Gliomas
Most of research above is focused specifically, at this time, on GBM – a grade IV, or high-grade glioma. The reason for the acute focus on GBM is largely attributable to the fact these tumors are the most common and most lethal of malignant brain tumors. In fact, GBMs are so complex and aggressive that many researchers believe that if we can solve GBM, “we can solve any tumor.” In other words, what is learned in GBM studies could also help benefit research on other brain tumor types.
Yet, there were a number of clinical studies presented at this year’s SNO that also looked specifically at other types of high grade gliomas as well as lower-grade gliomas; those that are designated either as grade II or III, such as oligodendrogliomas, astrocytomas, anaplastic astrocytomas, and mixed gliomas.
RTOG 9813 – Dr. Susan Chang (a member of NBTS’ Clinical Trial Endpoints Steering Committee) of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) presented results from a phase III study of 196 patients diagnosed with anaplastic astrocytoma, which showed that there is no difference in survival outcomes between a group of patients treated with radiation and temozolomide, and a group treated with radiation and the chemotherapy, nitrosourea. The study also showed that patients better tolerated the radiation and temozolomide combination than radiation and nitrosourea.
CODEL – Dr. Kurt Jaeckle of the Mayo Clinic presented results from a phase III trial of newly diagnosed anaplastic glioma patients with 1p/19q co-deletions, which compared the survival of patients in three different groups: one receiving only radiation, another receiving radiation and temozolomide, and a third receiving temozolomide alone. Patients in the study who received temozolomide only, fared worse than the patients in the other two groups, leading an independent medical committee to recommend closing that arm of the study. Moving forward, 488 newly diagnosed grade III anaplastic glioma patients with a 1p/19q co-deletion will be randomized into one arm receiving radiation and the chemotherapy regimen procarbazine, CCNU, and vincristine (PCV), versus another arm of radiation and temozolomide. The adjusted study is expected to be completed by December 2018.
RTOG 9802 – Dr. Jan Buckner of the Mayo Clinic (and a member of NBTS’ Clinical Trial Endpoints Steering Committee) presented results from a phase III trial of radiation alone versus radiation combined with the chemotherapy regimen of PCV in low-grade gliomas. The results showed that a subgroup of patients – those with IDH1-R132H mutations, which are typically associated with more favorable prognosis – saw marked survival benefits from adding PCV to radiation therapy. Among IDH1 R132H–positive patients, overall survival was superior in patients receiving radiotherapy and PCV (median survival not yet reached at 11.3-plus years), compared to patients receiving radiation alone (10.1 years).
Additionally, Dr. Mitch Berger of UCSF (and a member of NBTS’ Strategic Scientific Advisory Council) gave a presentation providing a strong rationale for aggressive resection policy for low-grade gliomas. This was followed by a discussion led by Dr. Buckner regarding medical management of low-grade glioma patients, including when to begin treatment. Dr. John Costello, also of UCSF (and NBTS’ Scientific Advisory Council), presented on the origins and evolution of low-grade gliomas.
Et cetera, Et cetera, Et cetera
Additional trials, studies, and research that made news from news include the following:
Mipsagarin Demonstrated Clinical Benefit in Subset of Glioblastoma Patients
FGL2 as a regulator of Tumor-Mediated Immune Suppression
Gene-Mediated Cytotoxic Immunotherapy Improves Survival in Newly Diagnosed Glioma Patients
BRAF and MEK Inhibitors Show Promise for Pediatric Astrocytoma
Final Takeaways
In keeping with the trend of the past couple of years, the two obvious themes of this year’s conference were precision medicine and immunotherapy. While often looked at as two separate therapeutic categories and strategies, it is interesting to note the convergence of the two areas. These overlaps include the use of targeted anti-cancer drugs (i.e. Avastin), typical of precision medicine, which may increase the effectiveness of immunotherapies (Rintega), as well as the need in immune-oncology to still identify tumor-specific markers and the patients expressing the corresponding antigens.
It is also important to note that beyond presentations on results of clinical trials, there was much discussion – playing a big role, in fact, in both keynote speeches from Drs. Don Berry of MD Anderson Cancer Centers and Mark Gilbert of the National Cancer Institute’s Neuro-Oncology Branch (and a member of NBTS’ Endpoints Steering Committee and Medical Advisory Board) – about the need to better conceive, design, and collaborate on clinical trials in the precision medicine era. Dr. Gilbert discussed the need for more collaboration in clinical research to realize precision medicine, including to help recruit for clinical trials which currently enroll only 5% of malignant brain tumor patients, according to Dr. Gilbert. Dr. Gilbert’s remarks were buttressed by observations by Dr. John Sampson of Duke University (a member of NBTS’ Scientific Advisory Council), who reported that 53% of current brain tumor clinical trials are taking place at only one institution, and only 16% of trials are enrolling more than 100 patients, leading to lengthy start-up times for trials and studies that are likely under-powered from a statistical standpoint. Others noted that almost all of the positive trials presented at this year’s conference required multi-institutional involvement to reach the necessary number of patients.
Collaboration is of course a hallmark of NBTS’ approach to funding advances in brain tumor research, including our signature program the Defeat GBM Research Collaborative and our efforts co-leading the Jumpstarting Brain Tumor Drug Development Coalition (whose work on improving imaging in brain tumor research was a theme that cut across SNO this year). And the message from researchers themselves at this year was clear: we have to maintain the focus. We promise we will. To get involved please visit here.
To see a list of award winners at SNO, please visit here.
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Gandhi Resignation, Indian Democracy and Nepali Politics
Posted byUWB March 25, 2006 Posted inWagle Web Log 2
Not all things from India are suitable for copy but things like Sonia Gandhi’s giving up of two important posts and promising to go to people certainly qualify for imitating and implementing in Nepal.
By Dinesh Wagle
This is why, I think, the Indian Democracy rocks. People like Sonia Gandhi and Atal Bihari Bajpayee, stalwarts from the two opposing political parties, are there to save the Indian Democracy and push it upward as and when needed. Barely two years after she famously rejected the premiership of the world’s largest democracy, Sonia Gandhi, the president of India’s Congress Party today sacrificed two major posts- Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) and Presidency of the National Advisory Council. Even if this latest move turns out to be a part of the larger political drama, Sonia deserves praise for giving up greed and trusting the people power. She said that she will be fighting for the Parliament seat from her constituency (Rae Bareilly).
To see Sonia Gandhi announcing resignation in front of TV cameras was a moment of solace for me who was confined in house for the last four days suffering from common cold and staying away from the world of web and TVs. Son Rahul Gandhi was proudly standing behind her. As expected, the move was a breaking news for all Indian TV channels I have in my cable. Suddenly, opposition that was attacking Gandhi for taking “office of profit” has found itself in defense after the announcement. The pressure has fallen in to the court of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) because, as Indian media report, many of its MPs are also holding the “offices of profit”. “She proved that she is no political novice,” commented a broadcaster in Headlines Today channel. “She is assuming the moral high ground,” another commentator said.
I do not want to comment on the rivalry between Congress and BJP, but the Indian Democracy has clearly emerged as the winner because of the brilliant combination of the vibrant opposition, responsible government and the ever watchful media. System as such has nothing to do with its success or failure. The behavior of people playing vital role in that system matter the most. Here in Nepal those players miserably failed to do their duties. They mostly ran after opportunities, they united to suck the country (remember the Pajero scandal) and killed the parliament with them. With the notable exception of saint leader Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, all other democratically elected Prime Ministers either killed or unsuccessfully tired to kill the parliament well ahead of its full term. In that sense, Girija Prasad Koirala and Sher Bahadur Deuba are the biggest politically failed leaders of post-1990 Nepal. It is unfortunate that even in this time when we are involved in a pro-democracy movement, they are in the lead position. It is our compulsion to go after them without first punishing them. But they should be punished after the restoration of democracy. Nepali people should take note of this.
I have been reading news about India’s astonishing economic progress and competition among multinationals to come into Indian market in various international media including International Herald Tribune. Now, with this kind of activities happening, only the democracy will flourish in India. There is no need for the emergence of an autocrat from within the high walls of a palace. Without any dictator emerging out of the palace promising the save democracy, people-centric Indian political system is functioning well.
With the bold and laudable actions of the actors, the system purifies and moves ahead with the best traditions leaving the dark shadows behind. When people honestly perform duties, the system works. Indian people should be proud of their leaders like Sonia Gandhi and Bajpayee. Bajpayee too played fair game before being the Prime Minister and while assuming the top post. That should not be forgotten. When good people set illustrative example, bad people feel the heat. They are forced to change themselves or face the possibilities of being perished prematurely. “Even the communists who frequently talk of morality have fallen into the catch 22 situation,” said a reporter in Headlines Today.
In Nepal too, we saw Ganesh Man Singh sacrificing the premiership for the shake of democracy and there was Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai proudly announcing his resignation from the Parliament. But their legacy could not be continued.
Sometime I feel like fool while actively participating (though in my own way) in the pro-democracy rallies and patiently listening to the often repetitive speeches of G P Koirala. But I think I have to be optimistic. A hope from within me emerges and says, “Wait and see the day when democracy is restored, we will fight back. This time, people of democratic Nepal, will fight against the incompetence of these leaders and move ahead with the purified democratic system.”
UWB: This blog was written on Friday (March 24) and posted on Saturday.
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bhudai pundit says:
“With the notable exception of saint leader Krishna Prasad Bhattarai”
What are you talking about. How does an alcoholic womanizing incompetant leader that makes idiotic statements like he will make Nepal into Singapore qualify as a saint leader?????
G-Hangman says:
yes Wagle,
Yes, we need to learn from the incident of her resignation, but Sonia did not resign copletely out of political ethics. Then, as you Wagle say, they also have more matured and watchful media.
I think Sonia resigned largely because the people there are not as cowardly as we are here.
why does not the king resign here? Because we are cowardly and we allow him to loot the tax payers’ money freely. we, people and media, also have allowed the political party leaders to shit on our head. we are cowards, not SAHASHI, courageous Gurkhali anymore.
what right does the king have to take million dollar pay check doing nothing?
Is he educated?
Does he have any skills?
Is he qualified to handle any situation?
Did he compete for any public office?
Why is the luxuary he has?
why not the same luxuary to people?
why are we growing this blood sucker?
because he is Vishu avatar king?
that is simply rediculous, no logic.
He has violated everything in the constitution. he should resign and start working as a porter or loborer to live his life. he must earn his living, not loot people by unethically claiming to be CNC. The army should learn to disobey him and kick him out if he does not quit.
Any ruler, king or political leaders, is a corrupt individual by nature. But it is the people that should line them up. Nepali people should learn from the Sonia resignation incident or any such incident that they should act because the leaders/king/Maoists will never learn unless there is true people’s uprising. Rise, people!
acharya says:
Dinesh dai,
Before people start criticizing you for being a pro-indian or criticizing other parts of the post, let me congratulate you on a good post – something that I sensed had been missing for a while.
There is indeed much to be learned from India – its economic and political success is enviable but so are the grassroot movements that is shaping up issues of human rights, environment etc.
People who comment in this blog, I sense, have been more and more radical in their comments. I don’t know if its because of their ineptitude to come up with constructive solutions or they enjoy playing the blame game.
Like the comment above about Krishna Prashad Bhattarai – I agree with the commenter’s sentiments – yet I have to ask him : what is it that you bring to the table except criticism? Krishna Prashad might be or the Indians might be a lot of things, both good and bad, but what are you?
What contributions have you made socially, politically, economically or otherwise to gain this morally higher ground to criticize those who have stayed years in exile or behind bars in the name of their country? May be they are evil, but through inaction, we can’t even earn that title.
I am not an expert on politics or economics, so won’t comment on those. What fascinates me as a Nepali looking south is the way urban India is rapidly changing and how we can emulate their growth. What are the pitfalls and how can we avoid them? What is the role of an individual in contributing to rapid growth? What are the social fallouts due to economic growth and how do we avoid those?
I wish people would comment on things we don’t already know. Of course KP Bhattarai may be “alcoholic womanizing incompetant leader” but at least he’s done much more than each of us combined for the country. Let’s not quarrel over what others did or didn’t do – let’s focus on what we can do.
Shree Shrestha says:
The people might gloat about Indian democracy but mind you that there is no democracy within the party. There is huge corruption within the party. Without bribing the senior leaders no one can even declare candidacy for the election. And senior leaders are bribing junior leaders to be in the influential positions. That’s the reason they don’t solve the critical problem facing the country like Kashmir. Hindu Muslim is the another issue the leaders are benefitting from. In the face of Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and somewhat Pakistan these leaders act like the superpower in the world. But they can not even build houses for its citizens who born, live and die in the sidewalk. Only way India can prosper is by dividing into separate countries along Soviet Union line. Without central government watching them each country like Kashmir,Bihar, Goa, Nagaland, Punjab, Gujrat, Sikkim, Rajasthan, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu and other countries can prosper.
Shree Shrestha:
That is an interesting observation. Too bad its wrong.
I don’t know where you get your information but India has a strong viberant democracy. If Nepal can emulate a tenth of what India has accomplished we would be in good shape. There are still alot of problems in India there is no doubt about it. But at least its top leadership is generally clean for the most part. Manmohan Sgin may have some questionable policies but his character is beyond reproach. I can say the same for Atal Bihari. Look at what happned to Natwar Singh… do you not read the news. Despite the poverty India is projected to grow at 10% in the next few years. When you have economic growth everything falls into place and gradually India will move into a medium country.
It really is high time that we Nepalese stop looking around and pointing fingers and conjuring these wild conspiracy theories at India and clean up our own act and take advantage of India’s economic boom!!!!
Oh by the way what are you talking about states like Goa, Tamil Naidu, Gujurat are propering…. read the stats my man.
India-Coke says:
ha..ha..
there are some learned peple around UWB
who think the neighbor is emulative
good to know that
Cyp says:
Good evening everybody,
As a tour-leader and trekking guide I lived, worked and travelled through most parts of the Subcontinent, since 1976.
India is a success and Nepal a failure, this is obvious. Though Nepal’s destitution can be compared with some states of India, even those’s misery is shrinking as rapidly as it is spreading in the -hopefully soon ex-kingdom.
India is criticizable and that itself builds its pride and strenght, as citizens of a democracy are requested not to shut their mouths.
The repartition of common wealth is certainly not perfect in India, but it definitely works as I am amazed with the great embetterment that occured in thirty years.
Still a lot has to be done in India, as Indians have to cope with a difficult heritage and face
a very defying future. But they will do it, no doubt.
And, after all, the corruption level in India seems not higher than in many western countries, including mine (France).
Of course they don’t have to suffer from a bloody dictator such as Kim Jong Il or Gyanendra and their Gestapos.
It is sure that is is not in march 2006 in Nepal that an italian born lady who could have been… well… The First Lady… would quietly resign.
Not yet. But I’m confident. Something is changing.
Look : in France we still have to learn a lot from the streets, especially those days.
Maybe this is merely democracy.
Good night to all.
Cyprien Luraghi
AKA Pascal Dai
King Kong says:
Wagley is completely out of track. He thinks he analyses well but absurd ideas only come from his absurd brain. I do not want to say this but will say again, Please handover this site to someone more responsible with a great analysing capability.
“Not all things from India are suitable for copy but….”
So you still want to defend you being a pro-indian.
I had asked you previously “why you din covered the story on Chinsese mission on Nepal?” I know you won’t cover even you wrote on Indian Big Brotherism recently and tried to wash your image.
But you are like the fox who was treated as a King of a jungle but could not change, always remained a fox.
Infact you look more indian than a real Indian and remember Sonia is not an indian. so copy from italy because she is an italian.
May be you also know what a real indian prime minister Indira Gandhi had done in the past, killing the so-called great and vibrant indian democracy, that you love so much.
Remember Indira Gandi had also defended her emergency move saying that it was necessary for strengthening the democracy. But she was also a dictator, there are those who hate her and also who love her.
Try to analyse all aspect of what happens around you. All things that look good from outside may not be good from inside.
Ask BJP they’ll tell you this is another stunt.
Wagley start writing from your brain not from your heart.
Thapa says:
king kong,
there is truth in what you say,
but context wise Wagle sounds more plausible
Wagle is talking about today, the open India
you are talking about the closed india of some 30 years ago
you bring up the history of the time when india had not opened up enough to globalization and free trade
yes, if today india were the same as what it was 30 years ago, following Indira,
it would have gone far down
but today india is emulative for the whole world in technology and medical science (and a couple of more areas),
but india is not worthy of imitation in mainstream culture and politics
why don’t you write a blog from the brain king kong? We can get a first hand account of your analyzing capacity.
Wagle,
you ate up my comments, why?
UWB: Thapa ji, no body ate your comment as you can see.
oh NO says:
Don’t follow your mind or brain but follow your heart.
Brotherhood-Hindu and Muslims, How long will you killing process in Nepal ??? How long such a gruesome act will be remained in nepal???A Muslim man has been beaten to death in Thailand after attacking a Hindu shrine in the capital, Bangkok.such event often happening in Nepal too.
Indian coffee and Nepalese Himalayan ice,won’t effect to ‘my Whisky on the rock’.
totally naive policy,grow up !!!
Where is Nepal standing at the moment?
bhudai pundit, before you get too excited about Indian democracy I want you to remind you that Indians still have colonial mind set. Coming out of British colonial rules they have not learnt to treat their neighbours with respect. In the present context India is helping Maoists by giving them shelters and keeping eyes shut in arms deal. At the same time India is encouraging Nepalese politicians to go into the streets to disrupt daily lives. Most of these politicians may as well be in the Indian Embassy payroll. And I am sure some circles in India encouraging the King to hold unto the power regardless what may come.
India does not want peaceful Nepal. India just want to manage Nepal.
One other point before making Sonia Gandhi larger than the picture let’s not forget that she will be forced to resign if she has not withdrawn before hand. Indian Parliament want to use the same rule to Sonia Gandhi as applied to Jaya Bhaduri Bachhan. The rule says parliamentarians can not have another profitable job elsewhere. Jaya Bhaduri Bachhan quit parliament to stay in the Uttar Pradesh Film Board. But Gandhi’s congress table the bill to protect Sonia Gandhi.
So what did we learnt from this incident? My answer is nothing. But we definitely have to learn from the present conflict between three forces: Royalist, Parties, and Maoists. Forget Indian democracy where Party leader become automatically the Prime Minister. Nepalese people should elect their Prime Minister directly. Make this Prime Minister reponsible for all the people not for the party only. To make government stable keep the elected Prime Minister in government for six years.
Parliamentarians should not be in government as Ministers or Assistant Ministers. Limit their role in just making laws.
I only hope that our so called leaders listen to us instead of listening to India.
King Kong(original) says:
Old ‘King Kong’ is now ‘Ahimsa’
For about one year now i participated in the discussions on this blogsite under the nickname ‘King Kong’. Since a few days someone else found pleasure in using the same nickname on this blog.
I want to make clear, that my last entry was from March 24th, 2006 at 12:53 pm on the story “Making a joke of democracy” and was named “Change the name of the party”. Henceforth you will read my entries under my new nickname: “Ahimsa”
Ahimsa knows: Kings are past, criminals are present and we, the people are the future!
It is this very attitude that keeps Nepal suspicious and agitated while India charges ahead with economic reform and social development.
We Nepalese think too highly of ourslves and flatter ourslves a little too much. India does not have anything to gain by having an unstable Nepal. Why would India want a Maoist insurgency to be successful when they know that it could spillover into India and it will provide encouragement to other insurgants groups in India. This concept that India wants to takeover Nepal is just a pathetic excuse because we need someone to blame for all our problems.
I realize that the Maoists are getting support and sanctuary in Indian territory. However, the Indian government isn’t the ones providing this. There are many Maoist sympathizers in UP, Bihar and West Bengal. The Communist party has a big clout in these regions.
India wants to join the security council and wants to be a major world player – you think they care about controling a resource-less landlocked himalyan Kingdom with Strategic importance???
Of course India is helping our politicans to come to the street and protest an autocratic, lunatic King that is running the country down the drain. They were behind the boudal in 1990 – did you forget that. It is not India’s fault that Girija and his evil spawn Sujata koirala robbed the country. It is not India’s fault our monkey politicans fought for power like a bunch of hungry monkeys in pasupathinath fighting over coconut.
Of course India wants to economically dominate us. And there is nothing we can do about it given our geographic reality. However, Nepal can also take advantage of India in terms of tourism, education etc. and make lives better for the Nepalese people…
I don’t understand what your problem is with the Indian democracy. The rest of the world acknowledges that India is a fair democracy and they have fair elections. I don’t every read or hear anyone – including Indian – ever complain about that fact that they don’t elect their prime minister directly. Really lets not even discuss India’s internal matters. All I am concerned about is Nepal being able to tap into India’s success.
Oh and another thing: do you know our currency is pegged to the Indian rupee? if it wasn’t Nepal would in a fiscal crisis right now!
sorry I meant to say NO strategic interest.
India Coke says:
where are anti-india Durbaria Dhokez today?
come out of the dark hole of the palace
here is the golden chance and best topic to vent out your anger against india and show your love for the SRIPECH
Bhudai Pundit, I completely agree with what you have to say. While it is true that India may not have acted in Nepal’s best interests all the time, the truth is that India has to be concerned about India’s interests. One needs to keep in Mind that the Indians do not have any obligation to help Nepal, yet they have done so in the past. For too long we have been blaming India for anything that is wrong with our country or its political system.
At a time when no other nation cared about Nepal, India supported the Nepalese peoples’ fight for democracy. It is all too easy to sit back and blame “Big Brother” India for all that is wrong in the country. Our leaders have failed miserably in providing sustained economic development and political stability, two things that are of paramount importance to any country.
They are the ones who need to be held to task for the role they have played in the disintegration of the social fabric of the country. It is time to stand up and be counted, to act responsibly- rather than accusing India for everything that is wrong with Nepal. Besides, India is well on its way to becoming a world power and it is too preoccupied with its own goals to be concerned about spreading an insurgency in Nepal. I mean, these are ridiculous ideas that germinate in idle minds.
I don have time my prof pissing me darlin.
But India jaye bhade main.
This is UWB’s topic.
Gandhi, shyam sharan,Indian democracy, vajpai etc.
Wagely is limited and myopic.
Hope that either the americans or the europeans will invite this rising star in Nep. journalism to see what exists beyound India.
UWB: Dear Coke, You are welcome as always with all your cirticism to Wagle and UWB. For your kind information, your hope has been fulfilled. Wagle has been invited! We will tell you more about this very soon.
This is indeed a great news. I am really happy for Wagle. I criticize wagle’s writing just because i want him to improve i donot have any personal bad feelings about him. but i suggest him to visit and see what exists beyound India and come home with a broader perspective.
remember that not everything stops in Delhi. there are much to learn from outside.
i know Wagle is not as narrow minded as some might like to think of him
both of you are, Wagle and Acharya, already as bright as anyone living in the U.S. or France or Germany
well, it would not do any harm to find out that you really are as bright as the one from the West.
people who cannot see you beyond india are themselves limited by india
they are blindfolded by india, not you
good to hear the good news that Wagle will soon be pursuing his journalism studies in the west (or somewhere abroad ?)
Coke:
I cannot belive you are talking about a broader prespective when all you do seems to be blaming India for everything. That’s not a very broad prespective! Using your own words: not everything originates from New Delhi!
pls come back home mr wagle after your finish yor studies.
UWB: Ah..thanks for caring this much about Mr. Wagle. We hope he understands meaning behind this message!
It seems Indian cocks are stronger than Nepalese
coveag says:
Can you make pages for foreign people? For example Spanish.
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Nov 11, 2019 • By Laura Knutson
Veterans help us be our best
Imagine you sign up to serve your country at age 18. You go to boot camp and push your physical and mental limits to an extreme. You spend years on a ship. Maybe you serve in a war zone.
You come home, start a family, get deployed again. Months later, you’re back at your local grocery store, trying to readjust to an old lifestyle that’s suddenly foreign.
To many veterans, this transition back to the civilian world is no easy feat. And at the core is finding a job that fits, which can be the biggest hurdle of all.
At General Mills, we’re proud to employ and support hundreds of veterans and transitioning military members in the U.S.
We spoke with several veterans throughout the company to find out what made them successful in the workplace; discipline and collaboration were common themes.
Teresa Viola is based at our headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She works on our supply chain team, using her experience from the U.S. Navy. Hear from her in this video.
General Mills Veteran Employee Spotlight: Teresa Viola
Meet Teresa Viola, regional replenishment manager, supply chain. Prior to joining General Mills, Teresa served in the U.S. Navy for six years as a sonar technician. Learn more about Teresa’s experience in this video.
We also caught up with three veterans working at our Albuquerque, New Mexico plant. Watch videos featuring Russell Holloman, Andrew Amador and Jim McGonigle.
When talking with our employee veterans, our Veterans Network came up a lot. This is a special community within General Mills that provides mentorship for veteran applicants and new hires, ongoing support that’s tailor-made for veteran employees and their families, and volunteer work with community programs, like Tee It Up for Troops.
Joel Stamp is the president of the General Mills Veterans Network, and has been an active member of the Army National Guard for more than 20 years. He told us about how the veterans network began and grew throughout the company, in this audio clip.
Our Veterans Network encourages honest conversation on difficult cultural topics – like mental health and the Take a Knee movement – to build a truly supportive and inclusive environment.
Efforts like these are why we’ve been awarded a VIQTORY Military Friendly company for seven years, and, for the first time this year, a Best Corporation for Veterans Business Enterprises by the National Veteran Owned Business Association for our work with more than 70 veteran suppliers.
Pat Higgins
Pat Higgins rose up the ranks in the U.S. Army to become a tank platoon leader and intelligence officer, and then worked his way up at our Wellston, Ohio, plant to lead a processing line making Totino’s Pizza Rolls.
While at General Mills, he was called to deploy, and when he told his manager, “There was not a single question asked outside of, ‘How can we support you?’.”
In fact, Higgins’ manager stayed in touch with him through his deployment, and his fellow employees frequently checked in on his two young kids and expecting wife. And he received plenty of care packages with his favorite snack, LÄRABARs, while serving abroad.
Aimee Mortenson, a research and developer for Lucky Charms, had a similar experience, but from a different viewpoint.
Aimee Mortenson
Her husband, who doesn’t work at General Mills, never expected to get deployed based on the nature of his military role. But he was called for duty suddenly, and at a time when they were caring for a little one at home.
“My co-workers have been as close as family helping me get through this tough time, offering to mow my lawn, shovel my driveaway, get my groceries, babysit. As a new mom, all these small acts have been a game-changer while my husband is away. And General Mills’ workplace flexibility has enabled me to balance the load,” says Mortenson.
On this Veterans Day, we salute our veteran employees, and their families, and give thanks for their work at home and when away.
Have an idea for a story you’d like to see on “A Taste of General Mills”? Email us at contact.blog@genmills.com.
Laura Knutson is a senior corporate communications associate in Corporate Communications at General Mills, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She supports the company's Supply Chain communications. She began her career at General Mills in 2016. More posts by this author
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A new sense of direction with Live View
Mirko Ranieri
Product Manager, Google Maps
Published Oct 1, 2020
Live View in Google Maps helps you keep your bearings so you can find your way around. With new ways to use Live View, we're making it even easier to orient yourself in the world whether you’re walking around, leaving a public transit station or meeting up with friends.
We launched Live View last year, and since then it’s helped people get around efficiently–especially during the pandemic, when getting from place to place as directly as possible is top of mind. Thanks to augmented reality (AR), you can see arrows, directions, and distance markers placed right on top of your world so you spend less time figuring out which way you should be headed.
Use landmarks to orient yourself in Live View
When you select or search for a place on Google Maps, you can already tap on the Live View button to visualize your destination in the real world. Soon, you’ll also be able to see nearby landmarks so you can quickly and easily orient yourself and understand your surroundings. Live View will show you how far away certain landmarks are from you and what direction you need to go to get there. These landmarks can include iconic places, like the Empire State Building in New York and the Pantheon in Rome, and easily recognizable places, like local parks and tourist attractions.
Seeing landmarks in Live View helps you better understand your surroundings.
Get Live View in more places
You can now access Live View right from the transit tab in Google Maps. Back in 2018, we launched multi-modal navigation–a way to get directions for a trip that involves a combination of transportation types, including walking, driving, biking and transit. Now, if you’re using transit directions and have a walking portion of your journey, you can use Live View to find your way. This is particularly useful when you exit a transit station and don’t know which way to go.
Use Live View right from transit navigation.
Live View in Location Sharing–
soon available on Android and iOS
If you’re meeting up with friends for a socially distant gathering, it can be hard to pinpoint exactly where they are. Last month, we launched Live View in Location Sharing for Pixel users, and we’ll soon expand this to all Android and iOS users around the globe. When a friend has chosen to share their location with you, you can easily tap on their icon and then on Live View to see where and how far away they are–with overlaid arrows and directions that help you know where to go.
Live View in Location Sharing will soon expand to all Android and iOS users globally on ARCore and ARKit supported phones.
A more accurate pin
To bring all of these features to life, we’ve made improvements to global localization, the underlying technology that powers all Live View features on Google Maps. With the help of machine learning and our understanding of the world’s topography, we’re able to take the elevation of a place into account so we can more accurately display the location of the destination pin in Live View. Below, you can see how Lombard Street—a steep, winding street in San Francisco—previously appeared far off into the distance. Now, you can quickly see that Lombard Street is much closer and the pin is aligned with where the street begins at the bottom of the hill.
Improvements to global localization now show a more accurate pin placement.
No matter where you’re walking, Live View can help you get there as efficiently as possible. You’ll start seeing Live View in the transit tab and Location Sharing on Android and iOS in the coming weeks, along with a more accurate pin. Landmarks start rolling out soon on Android and iOS in nearly 25 cities* around the world, with more to come.
*Amsterdam, Bangkok, Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, Dubai, Florence, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur, Kyoto, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Milan, Munich, New York, Osaka, Paris, Prague, Rome, San Francisco, Sydney, Tokyo, Vienna
Take a snowy stroll with Street View
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Equatorial meets digital: Online journalism in Guyana
John Mair is a senior lecturer in broadcast journalism at Coventry University. Writing from Georgetown, Guyana for Journalism.co.uk, he takes a look at the South American country’s media landscape.
In London it is all too easy to get swept along by the tide of digital mania. Too easy to think the future of our craft is all tweeting, Facebook, citizen journalism and all the buzz words of the recent news:rewired sessions.
But what is the digital reality here in the Third World? It is limited, to say the least. Communication is still mostly about chopping down trees and spreading ink on them. The four nationals here don’t really ‘get the net’. They put their editions up on the web after publication and leave them there for a day. No updating and very little interactivity. Where news is concerned, the web is a static platform here.
One man is making some headway though. Former employee of state radio station GBC Denis Chabrol has created a multi-platform site, Demerarawaves.com, with a radio programme and some text, plus Facebook and Twitter sharing tools. Chabrol still has a long way to go however, his efforts are still based on a weekly radio programme and daily text alerts. He can scoop with the best though – this week he revealed that the president had sold his recently built house to the man who does his election advertising for a substantial profit. But a story like that that needed the full internet works and it didn’t quite get it.
It is on the blogs that Guyana comes closest to facing the future. The country’s blogs are satirical and they are political – so much so that at least one Guyana media critic has been driven out of business by the government. Today, at least three survive: propagandapress.wordpress.com; ohguyana.blogspot.com; liveinguyana.blogspot.com. With varying degrees of success they dig and they lampoon the Jagdeo/PPP government and various public officials. They are, though, too often a melange of half-truths, viciousness and malice. I suspect many are edited outside Guyana.
The bloggers here are also very coy about breaking cover. Under strict conditions of anonymity, I managed to obtain an interview with ‘Nelly’, one of the founders of propagandapress.wordpress.com. She and her colleagues see their purpose as “propaganda for the masses”:
“Fodder for intelligent asses as our slogan says. Guyana is a fucked up country and we want to see changes. We want an end to state sponsored murder. We want an end to privatisation of the country by PPP Crime Family & Friends Inc and soon.”
These bloggers do not necessarily follow strict checking of story sources and facts, it all seems a bit laissez faire in fact.
“Some things don’t need to be checked. Once our agents operating behind enemy lines send in certain things, we don’t need to check it because they’re putting their lives on the line to get some of that info.”
And what about their effect on the country’s polity?
“That’s hard to say as we do not know at this time. We know people like James Singh, CEO of Canu (the custom’s anti-narcotics unit), and others wake up daily panicking at what we’re going to say next about them as we have moles in Canu. As far as our impact on political/cultural life of Guyana that’s still to be seen. Until our flagship was hacked, we were getting six to eight million hits a year. That’s since dropped tremendously but we are building bigger, better and stronger. We’re here to stay!”
It is difficult to predict how long some of these bloggers will last. They will persevere at least until the national and presidential elections in 2011, when they hope their work will culminate in the ousting of the Jagdeo/PPP party.
Image courtesy of Douglas F. on Flickr
This entry was posted in Online Journalism and tagged Demerara Waves, Guyana, John Mair, Online Journalism on July 21, 2010 by John Mair.
Trinidad’s tabloids scream loudly, but Barbados’ press could do with some balls
John Mair is a senior lecturer in broadcasting at Coventry University. He was born in Guyana and regularly returns there to help build local media, print and TV. Previous posts looked at the Caricom Summit held July 2-5 in Georgetown. Trinidad and Barbados were the final stops.
After experiencing Guyanese ‘journalism’ during the Caricom summit, any order is better. In Trinidad, there is much economic prosperity due to oil and natural gas: ‘What recession?’ they ask here. The economy is healthy but the society has some of the fissures of Guyana.
Trinidad politics
Indians were brought here in thousands as indentured labourers to replace the freed black slaves one hundred and seventy years ago. They live in the south of the island, the African Trinidadians in the North. They have much of the wealth, the prime minister and his ruling PNM party are black and have the political power.
There is much violent crime – especially kidnappings and murders – and that is the staple fare of the super tabloids who make up the Trinidad & Tobago newspaper market. The Guardian, the Express and Newsday are much the same. Screaming headlines on the cover but much content inside. They are big in pagination and include lots of classified ads.
Politics gets a big shout and through that the racial dimension. The leader of the opposition (at the moment) Basdeo Panday is Indo-Trinidadian. He was prime minister until 2001 but was driven from office for alleged corruption. Today his UNC is breaking into bits.
His former attorney general Ramesh Marhaj is leading a ginger group/internal opposition within the party together with another MP – Jack Warner, who runs football in this part of the world, is vice-chair of FIFA and has been the subject of critical investigations on British TV about his dodgy behaviour in that job.
Warner’s son sold the travel packages and tickets for Trinidadians to the to the 2006 World Cup. Panday wants Warner to account for $30m (T&T) of election expenses. Warner says it was money he gave the party so no need to account. This makes the British MPs look tame.
Columnists abound on the pages of the T&T press. Different races. All have views. Many far too prolix for the page. Sub-editing is not a craft that seems to have been found in the Southern Caribbean. But the three dailies and the local TV news programmes – sadly also divided on racial lines – make for lively reading and listening. Crime sells. They certainly put the fear of God into the bank manager cousin with whom I was staying.
Keeping awake in Barbados
Not so Barbados. The problem here for a journalist is keeping awake. The best description for the Barbados Nation and Advocate? Stodgy, boring, dull. They make the Bedworth Advertiser look interesting. Boring headlines and even duller stories. It is like reading a parish newsletter for a nation.
The ‘news’ is based on government news conferences and other press conferences by NGOs and the like. On such sexy subjects like polyclinics, insurance and diabetes. Again, writing is prolix and not of great quality.
Barbados is a very polite and ordered society (the murder rate is a fraction of Trinidad’s) and that shows in its press. The hacks need to get themselves some more balls. The TV news is not much better.
There we have it. Prosperity, tabloid culture, Little England and the news values of British suburbia. Funny how they all travel. But Blighty calls.
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It’s no use having a platform if you have no customers. Full stop.
John Mair is a senior lecturer in broadcasting at Coventry University. He was born in Guyana and regularly returns there to help build local media, print and TV. His last posts looked at the Caricom Summit held July 2-5 in Georgetown.
As one door closes in the media, another opens. The trick is to spot whether the train leaving the station will crash or make it to the new destination. British newspapers and others are standing watching the various emerging platforms wondering which ones to accept and which to reject.
Some are dithering and may die. Imagine you are the editor of the Coventry Evening Telegraph facing steadily declining sales. Do you boost them on a new web platform, do you throw your resources, mainly journalists, at that platform? Do you try to revive the traditional paper? Or do you give up the ghost?
For the last two and a half weeks, I have witnessed, here in Georgetown, the death of one platform and the rise of others. The Plaza Cinema in Camp Street is, or was, right opposite my hotel. It was a Georgetown institution when I was a boy. A huge art deco cinema which played the big films. I saw ‘Ben Hur’ there over 50 ago as a young boy.
There were five or six big cinemas in the town which provided entertainment for the masses especially at weekends. Films came from Britain or the USA a few weeks after their release there. Each town and village on the coastal plain had a small cinema too. The films they showed varied according to the ethnic group of the area.
Indo-Guyanese village cinemas showed Hindi films with English subtitles – early Bollywood; the African Caribbean diet was Hollywood. Cinema was part of the very fabric of life. The cinemas supported a daily full page advertisement in the local papers.
Then along came television. Most of it illegal – stealing from satellites and from video shops. Copyright was for the birds. They showed anything and everything. When I pointed out to one transgressor that the film he was showing on his TV station clearly said on screen ‘For Home use only’, his retort was instant: ‘I show it in my home, they watch it in theirs. What’s wrong with that?’ Iron logic. TV stole the cinema audience. People preferred the comfort and safety of their living rooms to the trip into town where cinemas were old and often smelt of bodily functions.
The illegal DVD trade took up any slack (last week within twelve hours of it happening live in LA, I could buy a DVD of the Michael Jackson Memorial Service in Georgetown market). The cinema platform firmly died first in the villages, then in the town. There were fewer and fewer ads in the paper.
Three weeks ago, part of the art deco facade of the Plaza fell down. It had been closed for two or three years now. That was followed by an army of scavengers who, day and night, over two weeks literally stripped the place of anything worthwhile.
Timber went first, taken away in scores ofdray carts (horse drawn carts) to pastures new to make new or improved houses in which to watch films on TV or DVD. It was like watching ants taking food from one place to another.
Now all that is left of the once great Plaza is a breeze block back wall and some steel pillars. The human scavengers have like locusts left just the shell. If ever I wanted a real-time demonstration of the death of one media platform and the rise of another, this was it.
In the not-so slow death of the Plaza Cinema in Georgetown lie big lessons for those trying to ride the tiger called the internet.
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This is Georgetown but it could be Westminster: journalists hunt in packs wherever they are
John Mair is a senior lecturer in broadcasting at Coventry University. He was born in Guyana and regularly returns there to help build local media, print and TV. His last post looked at how summits bring out the lazy side of journalists.
The herd mentality is alive and well and living in the sun. I’ve just seen it at the Caricom (Caribbean Community) Summit (July 2-5) of 14 Presidents and Prime Ministers with the Caribbean media. A pack without teeth. The government of Guyana established a very slow accreditation system and a media centre in the conference venue. But the media centre was a broiler room. Up to 20 hacks, computers (usually working), tea, coffee and confusion.
The highlight of the day was often lunch, with the President’s press secretary presiding over just who got fish and who got meat. Big decisions. He and others in the communications team at the Summit did precious little briefing, precious little spinning in advance, or even ex post facto. That was left to the principals and usually in impromptu corridor press conferences where they were waylaid by journalists. The worst sort of herd mentality. One hooked the prey while the others piled in, often not knowing what questions to ask, but not wanting to miss out on the action. A journalism flash mob with plenty of heat and not much light. The leaders love this. They can bluff on a wide variety of subjects for several minutes to feed morsels to the hungry hacks.
Away from the pack, the masters of journalism. None bigger than Rickey Singh. Sitting typing in the corner of the media centre. Thousands of words over three days for his outlets in Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados (where he lives) and his native Guyana. He is a one-man Caribbean press corps and the institutional memory for the travelling correspondents covering the Summit. Any historical or other questions they ask Rickey out loud. He knows all the answers. He has lived them.
Rickey has been to virtually all the Summits since the founding of Caricom. After 40+ plus years as a journalist, often against the odds and the subject of official displeasure, there are no new names and faces for Rickey in the Caribbean. Just watch him in action, prowling the corridors of power at a big event like this. No media scrums for him. As he walks around casually, his name is all. The powerful stop him and talk to him. Now, that’s contacts and working them. Rickey pumps out news, features, opinion, the works from his corner position in the Summit newsroom. The ultimate freelance, the ultimate journalistic craftsman.
For many Guyanese journalists, a little knowledge is enough. The big issues they leave to politicians and their prolix communiqués. The hacks take what they are offered, too often with little or no deep questioning. Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson was given a very easy ride in a press conference he called after facing criticism for an exercise in ‘ethnic cleansing’. It’s not a pretty sight to see how easily young journalists can be kept happy.
There we have it; experience against naivety, age against youth, solo against the pack. This is Georgetown but it could be Glasgow or the Westminster lobby. Herds don’t need cold weather to exist.
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Reporting from ‘the EU in the sunshine’ where hacks are hunting in packs
John Mair is a senior lecturer in broadcasting at Coventry University. He was born in Guyana and regularly returns there to help build local media, print and TV.
Summits bring out the worst in hacks. Lazy journalism by design. You arrive, get spoon-fed information, report it and then leave. You get fed and watered too. No need for digging, no need for investigation.
The Caricom (Caribbean Community – think EU in the sunshine) Summit, which opened last week here in Georgetown, Guyana, is no exception. Fifteen regional leaders and distinguished others from all round the world propelled at speed by police outriders all over the Capital City to a brand new Conference Centre. They ‘meet’ for three days to discuss the pressing issues of crime, security, economy and more in the region. But, like all summits it is a sham. The team have long been at work preparing the final communiqué. One person told me minutes after the end of the Opening Ceremony last night that the final communiqué was done and dusted – just crossing the ‘T’s’ and dotting the ‘I’s’ left to do. Where is the journalism in reporting that charade?
But the 60 or so journos from all over the Caribbean who are here go through the motions. The Guyana Government has set up a press centre in an anteroom of the summit to feed regular morsels to the hungry hacks. They run on the spot, faithfully file and come back for more. The herd instinct in action.
There is one real story at this talkfest. The Prime Minister of Barbados, David Thompson, is it. He is a pariah in the Community as it heads towards integration. He wants to clear his Little England island of illegal Guyanese immigrants. His police round them up early morning, interrogate then and so far 53 have been dispatched South in two months. Caricom is supposed to be about the free movement of labour. Thompson held a bizarre press conference on arrival in Georgetown. Local journos failed to ask the right questions. But the ‘Bajan bans Guyanese’ story will run and run.
The local media hunt firmly in packs – whatever their race or the politics of their paper/TV station. At the ceremonial opening last night, the usual suspects were present. All corralled in the lobby or in one small room. All using the feed from the State broadcaster as their only source. Some of them will not file for a day or so. ‘Soon come’ journalism is common here. But how many of the Guyana Press Corps will have the courage to announce the opening as a non-story? Nothing really happened. Fifteen men in suits sat on a stage and listened to six of their number drone on for two hours. Sound bites aplenty there were not.
More to follow on the conference, which ran July 2-5. Over the weekend, the Premiers and the Pack headed off to the Chinese built Conference Centre to go through the elegant quadrille that’s called ‘reporting’ major summits. Me – I got hold of a copy of the final communiqué and sat beside a hotel pool reading it and reporting it. If you are going to be lazy, do it right.
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Guyana: Four daily papers and 20+ television stations but a poor standard of journalism
Regular Journalism.co.uk contributor John Mair is a senior lecturer in broadcasting at Coventry University and the inventor of the Coventry Conversations, now on iTunes U. He was born in Guyana and returns there regularly to observe and advise the local media. His nom de plume in Guyana is Bill Cotton/Reform.
I am at one of the frontiers of modern journalism: Guyana in South America, but of the Caribbean. Most things go here. Four daily papers and 20+ local television stations feeding the news appetite of the 750,000 population. Journalists rank just above dog catchers as a trade in Guyana. At least the latter get some training.
Over here there is a university course in ‘Public Communication’ but little else to fine-tune wannabe hacks. The best and brightest go north drawn by the bright lights of the USA and Canada, like many others in their country. Newspapers are still sold on the streets by vendors on commission. The four on sale range from the supermarket tabloid Kaieteur News to the urbane Guyana Times. Kaieteur is the baby of local shoe shop entrepreneur Glenn Lall. Brash, vulgar, full of crime stories with some challenging columnists (including me behind a nom de plume).
It hits the popular mark as nearly does The Stabroek News, a paper instrumental in bringing democracy back to Guyana in 1992 after a period of dictatorship. Its guiding light, the Caribbean media giant David Decaires, died last year. The paper has lost some direction since. It is worth looking at though – for the letters column alone. A national Conversation tree but one which is prolix. Working out which letters are genuine makes for a fascinating read. Both major political parties (the PP and the PNC) and racial groups (Indo and African Guyanese) employ specialist correspondents to support their positions under a variety of noms de plumes (I am not alone in my anonymity. It is a Guyanese tradition).
Third in the press race is the Government-controlled Daily Chronicle. Cynics dub it The Chronic or The Daily Jagdeo in honour of the now second term President Bharrat Jagdeo. If a government minister speaks, they report it. If the President does, it hits the front page. The masses have not gone for it in thousands, nor for the new kid on the block for the last year, The Guyana Times. Intelligent, erudite, semi-broadsheet and the brainchild of a pharmaceutical baron Bobby Ramroop. It is well-written if stodgy, but at a level way beyond the literary level of the mass of the population. The Guyanese middle classes are now not here but in Toronto, New York and Miami. They read their papers on the internet.
The big action is on screen-in TV journalism. That is madness. Tout court. 20+ stations all stealing product from international satellites and re-transmitting it. The Guyanese journalism content ranges from the vulgar-local poujadist and station owner CN Sharma, the soi-disant ‘voice of the people’ with oppositional news shows like ‘Capitol News’ and ‘Prime News’, to the ‘Chronic’ of the airwaves NCN and its ‘Sixo’Clock News’ – which I invented a decade ago. The latter is news on the station owned by the Minister of Agriculture (and President manque) Robert Persaud and makes few pretences to impartiality.
Few of the TV journalists have any training. Few stay in the job for long. Few ever work out what the medium means. They think relaying a press conference with a few links is a ‘story’. More than one over several days if they can spin it out as they get paid per piece. Wallpaper is too kind a word to describe their use of pictures to tell tales.
So there you have it. Poor journalism by under-trained hacks. But all will change later this week when the heads of the Caribbean Governments come to town for their Annual Caricom Csummit. They bring with them the cream of the Caribbean Press Corps. That should be an intriguing piece of media anthropology in action. I will be there.
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A tribute to a brave Guyanese newspaper editor
John Mair, television producer and associate senior lecturer in journalism at Coventry University, shares his thoughts on David De Caires, the Guyanese newspaper editor who died last November. A memorial service was held in the UK on Friday.
David De Caires was a Great Guyanese. His death – last November 1 – robbed Guyana of a brave and noble editor and publisher. The Stabroek News lit the beacon of press freedom, since followed by the likes of the Kaieteur News.
Last Friday in London, his second home, his life was celebrated by his family and the great and good of the UK diaspora in a memorial service. The group that the late President Hoyte once disparingly called ‘The Putagee Mafia’ were out in force.
An overcast London winter’s day. The spiritual headquarters of the Jesuits in Britain, the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Farm Street, Mayfair. This is the home of High Catholicism where sinners come to repent. Decaires, despite his Catholic education at the British Catholic Public School Stonyhurst, later became an agnostic. One hundred plus were gathered to celebrate his life and achievements and to pray for his soul.
The faces in the congregation were predominantly white. The Decaires family, including widow Doreen, daughter Isabel and her partner Michael Atherton the former England Cricket captain. It was a gathering redolent of a bygone age in what was known as ‘BG’. Two former British High Commissioners-Edward Glover and Stephen Hiscocks, plus Guyana’s long-serving (and soon retiring?) High Commissioner to London Laleshwar Singh among the congregration. Professor Clem Seecharan there too, to pay tribute to a fellow restless mind, the Rev Ivelaw Bowman, Canon of Southward Cathedral, to salute a fellow Guyanese.
The tributes paid were warm. Atherton in his deep Lancashire burr, Nick King in pukka English: an old friend telling tales out of Stonyhurst about the ‘Dec’s’ life-long love affair with the turf and betting. It cost him dearly. As a teenager, he refused to apologise to a Bishop for hurrying a cricket innings so that he could hear the result of the Epsom Derby. He lost his first eleven cricket place at Stonyhurst as a result. He took up tennis instead.
That boy of principle became the man of principle three decades later when it came to setting up the Stabroek News and battling the PNC and later the PPP governments over press freedom.
David was a resolute life time fighter for that, defending it against attacks whichever direction they came from. Some think his final battle two years ago with the Jagdeo regime over the withdrawal of ads for the paper may have weakened his already damaged heart and led to his final demise.
David would have enjoyed his memorial service. Warm words, Miles Davis reverberating through the huge church, friends old and new meeting and ‘gaffing’ as they say in Guyana plus a dash of high Catholicism. Not a bad epitaph or memorial to have for a life of such great significance for Guyana.
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of imagery and thought. When writing in the fashion of the times his lines are cold and constrained, often forced and unnatural;—he appears hampered by confinement, and sings, to use his own phrase, though in a different application, “like a committed linnet;"_when he escapes from his thraldom, the gay air of a gallant high-thoughted cavalier graces every line. We will conclude this paper with a few scattered lines which we remarked in our perusal, but which, though worthy of notice, were not, for different reasons, of importance enough to be introduced into the body of our extracts.
In the duel of the toad and spider, he speaks of a description of punishment more horrible than any other we remember to have heard of.
“Now as in witty torturing Spain,
The brain is vex'd, to vex the brain;
Where heretics' bare heads are arm’d
In a close helm, and in it charm'd
An overgrown and meagre rat,
That piecemeal nibbles himself fat."
In the triumphs of Philamore and Amoret, he has this finely expressed comparison.
"as at a coronation,
When noise, the guard, and trumpets are o'er-blown,
The silent commons mark their prince's way,
And with still reverence both look and pray."
He compares a toad and a spider, about to engage with each other, in these terms.
“Have you not seen a carrack lie
A great cathedral in the sea,
Under whose Babylonian walls, i
A small thin frigate alms-house stalls;
So in his slime the toad doth float,
And th' spider by, but seems his boat.”
Perhaps a black patch on a lady's cheek, covering a bee's sting, was never before mentioned in terms so exalted as the following
“And that black marble tablet there,
So near her either sphere,
Was plac'd; nor foil, nor ornament,
But the sweet little bee's large monument.”
Arr. IX.-The History of the Gwedir Family. By Sir John Wynne, the first Baronet of that name:
. Cui genus, a proavis ingens.-Virg. 8vo. London, 1773.
Sir John Wynne, the historian of the Gwedir family, was the representative of one of the wealthiest and most ancient families in North Wales. He was born in 1553, and married Sidney, daughter of Sir William Gerard, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, by whom he had nine sons and two daughters. In 1611, he was created a baronet, and died fifteen years afterwards, at the advanced and venerable age of seventy-three. The baro-, netcy terminated in his grandson, Sir John, in default of male issue; but some of the first houses in the principality claim an alliance with the family through the female branches, as the Burrells, Lords Gwydyr;-(who are also representatives of the extinct dukedom of Åncaster,)—the Wynns of Wynnstay and Penniarth,—the Vaughans of Nannau and Hêngwrt, and the Mostyns of Mostyn and Gloddaeth.
But, in addition to these hereditary qualifications, Sir John Wynne possessed others more immediately obvious and endearing. Endowed with nearly every characteristic of the warm-hearted Cambro-Briton, he was, also, an elegant scholar, a kind and affectionate father, and an upright and benevolent man. Generous, patriotic, hospitable, and remarkably tenacious of the honour and antiquity of his family, he affords, in his character, an admirable specimen of a thorough-bred Welshman, whose genial virtues infinitely more than counterbalance his trilling and innocent eccentricities. To improve a mind naturally and powerfully imbued with a thirst for knowledge, he visited Italy in his youth,* and afterwards returned to Wales, where he passed his time in the midst of his dependants, cultivating their esteem, and alleviating the misery of the poor around him.
It was during this part of his life, that he compiled his “ History;" the principal object of which appears to be the deduction of his pedigree from Griffith ap Cynan, who swayed the
* The celebrated Archbishop Williams, who was tutor to the Baronet's sons at St. John's College, Cambridge, characterizes him as a man,
Multorum mores hominum, qui vidit, et urbes.
sceptre of North Wales, during the latter part of the eleventh and the commencement of the twelfth century; and the zeal and industry which the worthy baronet has evinced in a cause so very unimportant, when abstractedly considered, to any but himself and his friends, is admirably illustrative of his own indefatigable perseverance, and of that of his genealogy-loving countrymen.* He has spared neither pains nor expense in procuring all the old, neglected, and forgotten documents, which might in any way tend to elucidate his subject; and it must he confessed, that, after a good deal of toil and trouble, he has succeeded in most satisfactorily establishing the yalidity of his descent from one of the best and wisest monarchs that ever reigned in Wales. And this task he has accomplished in a very entertaining and masterly manner. Instead of merely confining himself to the genealogical tree, and its nearest and most conspicuous branches,
-telling us, that Griffith ap Cynan had so many children, the eldest of whom was Owen Gwynedd, who had a son by his first wife Gwaladys, named Yorwerth Drwndwn, or Edward with the broken nose, and so forth ;-he launches out collaterally, and diverges most amusingly, into the history of each particular period, recapitulates the most remarkable events,--and fails not to relate as many of the heroic exploits of his ancestors, as he can possibly prove them to have performed...
In this manner he has collected and narrated many important and interesting historical facts, and made his “History" really worthy of its title ; so much so, indeed, that nearly every subsequent historian has made frequent reference to it; and that amiable and accomplished antiquary, Bishop Percy, deemed it so excellent a work, that he enriched it with four copious and accurate genealogical tables, besides several learned and valuable notes. Well, indeed, may we apply to the baronet of Gwedir, the merited compliment which he himself paid to a contemporary antiquary; designating him as a man,“ to whom his country is much beholden, preferring nothing more than the honour thereof, which he most carefully raketh out of the ashes of oblivion, in searching, quoting, and coppying, to his great chardge, all the ancient records he can come by.”
The “amor patriæ, indeed, glowed brightly in the bosom of our author; and it was his ardent patriotism, added to a qua
“ Genealogiam quoque generis sui,” writes Giraldus Cambrensis, who travelled through Wales in 1188," etiam de populo quilibet observat, et non solum avos, atavos, sed usque ad sextam vel septimam, et ultra procul generationem memoriter et promptè genus enarrat."
Cambriæ Descriptio.cap. 17. lity still more congenial to the mountaineer,*--namely, pride of ancestry, that first prompted him to undertake the task, and afterwards stimulated him to industry in its execution, and however ridiculous this latter virtue--for pride of ancestry is a virtue-may appear, when exercised without discrimination by the illiterate and the vulgar; yet, in the genuine Welsh gentle, man, it is an ornament which derives additional brilliancy, from the very influence which it possesses over the mind and manners of the individual.-But we wander from the work before us. 1.5. The most valuable and interesting feature in the History of the Gwedir Family, is the clear and comprehensive view which it exhibits of the manners of the Welsh, at a time when they were little better than actual barbarians; and at a period when “not having the fear of God before their eyes,” they despised all manner of restraint, and all manner of moral and divine coercion. It is chiefly on this account, that we have undertaken á review of it ; and as some one or other of the good baronet's progenitors were more or less interested in all the sanguinary feuds which we are about to detail, we cannot have better authority, or a more amusing and circumstantial narrator. . is *** Before we proceed, however, to transcribe any part of our author's narrative, we will take a cursory glance at the state of Wales, previous to the time when Sir John's ancestors became so conspicuous; and we willt hen select from the Gwedir History such extracts as will elucidate still more clearly, the “ bloody and ireful quarrels of that disastrous - period, which immediately preceded the union of Wales with England....
The laws which passed in the English parliament, at the beginning of the fifteenth century, in consequence of the insur
* “ The inhabitants of mountains form distinct races, and are careful to preserve their genealogies. Men in a small district necessarily mingle blood by intermarriage, and combine at last into one family, with a common interest in the honour and disgrace of every individual. Then begins that union of affections, and co-operation of endeavours, that constitute a clan. They who consider themselves as ennobled by their family, will think highly of their progenitors; and they, who, through successive generations, live always together in the same place, will preserve local stories, and hereditary prejudices. Thus every mountaineer can talk of his ancestors, and recount the outrages which they suffered from the wicked inhabitants of the next valley.".
Dr. Johnson's Journey to the Western Isles.
+ “God hath shewed such mercy to our kind,” says Sir John, " that ever since the time of Rodericke, the son of Owen Gwynedd, Lord of Anglesey, there lived in the common-wealth, in eminent sorte, one or other of our name, and many together at times.” ni :
rection of Owen Glyndwr, subjected the Welsh to a state of bondage, the most deep and severe.* While they were yet in arms, the provisions of these statutes could not be enforced ; but no sooner was the rebellion quelled, than they were put into execution with the most relentless and oppressive vigilance. With Owen Glyndwr expired the last glimmer of the regal power of the principality, and the Welsh, no longer animated by the presence of their native princes, and actuated solely by their passions, degenerated into a state of gloomy and savage ferocity. Their keen and warlike disposition, no longer kept alive by the power of an hereditary enemy, sank into sanguinary feuds among themselves, or became actively engaged in the pleasures of the chace. The rude inhabitants of the mountain districts still retained an enthusiastic predilection for that boisterous mode of living, bequeathed to them by their ancestors, and, indignantly spurning the adoption of the more refined habits of their conquerors, it was long, very long, ere they began to imitate the more polished manners of the English. · The period which succeeded Glyndwr's abortive attempt to regain the liberties of his country,—was one of gloom and anarchy, and one which our regard for historical truth compels us to pronounce most barbarous and disgraceful. Its history, as Mr. Pennant truly observes, is the history of revenge, of perfidy, and of slaughter. As in the calamitous wars between the “Rival Roses,”-father rose against son, brother against brother, and kinsman against kinsman': and much as we may admire the noble and heroic struggles of the Welsh, in defence of their independence for so many years, we cannot but deeply lament and deprecate their want of unanimity,--the ferocity of their manners,-and the turbulence and cruelty, which at this particular period characterized their still undaunted spirit. In so disturbed a state was the principality at this time, that no gentleman dared to venture abroad unarmed, or unguarded. “Questioning with my uncle,” says our author, " what should move him to demolish an old church, which stood in a great thickett, and build it in a plaine, stronger and greater than it was before; his answer was, he had good reason for the same, because the countrey was wild, and he might be oppressed by his enemies on the suddaine in that woodie countrey ; it therefore stood him in a policie to have diverse places 'of retreat. Certaine it was, that he durst not goe to church on a Sunday, from his house of Penanmen, but he must leave the same guarded with men, and have the doores sure barred and boulted, and a watchman to stand at
: * See particularly the second and fourth statutes of Henry IV. and the first of Henry V.
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tenants' houses not farre off, to make merrie and to wench.” To the latter of these families--as we have just seen--fled two of tủe parson's murderers, but they were not probably aware that our hero-Jevan ab Robert, to wit—was in league with the chieftain of the opposite faction. So, however, it was; and Jevan sent to inform Meredith ab Howel ab Moris, the chief of the Kyffins, that he should come privately into Chirkeland, “ onely accompanied but with six,” for the purpose of apprehending the assassins; at the same time desiring his ally to be on the alert, and to watch narrowly the movements of the murderers, He accordingly went, and "abode there many days, in secret and unseene, sleeping in the daye, and watching all night.”
It was a long time, however, before he could apprehend the felons; and when at last, with the help of his friends, he did succeed in catching them, a complete gathering” of the two clans was the consequence, with the war-cry of “ the Trevors to their friends, and the Kyffins to their leaders!” But our author must relate the rest.- .. ....... ini wo: “To the latter of these cries Meredith ab Howel ab Moris resorted; who told Jevan ab Robert that it was impossible for him to carry the murtherers out of the countrey to any place to have judiciall proceeding against them, by reason that the faction of the Trevors would lay the way and narrow passages of the countrey; and if they were brought to Chirke Castle gate, to receive the triall of the countrey laws, it was lawfull for the offender's friends, whosoever they were, to bring £5 for every man, for å fine to the lord, and to acquit them, soe it were not in cases of treason.* A damnable custom used in those dayes in the lordships' marches, which was used also in Mowddwy, untill the new Ordinance of Wales, made in the seven-and-twentieth yeare of Henry viij. Hereupon Jevan ab Robert ab Meredith commanded one of his men to strike off their heades; which the fellow doeing faintely, the offender told him, that if he had his necke under his sword, he would make his sword take better edge than he did ;so resolute were they in those dayes in contempt of death : whereupon Jevan ab Robert in a rage stepping up to them, strucke off their heads."
* But his vengeance was yet incomplete. Two only of the murderers had been disposed of, and one still remained unpunished. Jevan, however, departed from Chirkeland, and determined to leave to time and chance the apprehension of the remaining villain. On his return home, he was detained till night by the tide at Traethmawr ;t and talking carelessly with his
* A custom not wholly unknown in England, and very common on the continent, during the middle ages.
+ Traethmawr signifies the greater tract of sand, to distinguish
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men as he rode on, an arrow suddenly whistled by him from a thicket on the hill-side above the road. The party immediately halted, and shot altogether, towards the spot whence the shaft issued; and it so occurred, that one of their arrows killed the person who had interrupted them, and he happened to be the very murderer who had éluded their vigilance in Chirkėland. “ Soe God revenged that wicked murder,” says the historian, “ by the death of every one of the three brethren.” .
But this did not end the quarrel,-it merely aggravated it; for a short time after this adventure, Jevan ab Robert had occasion to attend the assizes at Caernarvon, with the greater part of his retainers ; leaving only in the house his wife and her domestics, with some desperate red-hands, who had sought his protection," as the manner then was ;”—and whom he probably found no unwelcome addition to his band. His old enemy, Howel ab Rice, resolved to hazard the apprehension of these criminals, and “ bring them to Caernarvon to be hanged,-for there was none of them but was outlawed for murther;"_in return for the vengeance inflicted upon the three murderers by Jevan. For this purpose, he summoned his trustiest friends to his aid, and procured the assistance of a celebrated freebooter of the times, named David ab Jenkin, who was also a kinsman of Howel.: These worthy confederates succeeded in reaching their enemy's house without being discovered, and immediately commenced the assault; but they were vigorously resisted by the inmates, who, on this occasion, as on many others, " bestirred themselves handsomely.” It happened, moreover, that Jevan's wife-the same lady, be it remembered, who threw the handstay of the bridge at her brother's head-stood at the fire-side, “ lookeing on her mayde boyling of worte to make metheglyn;" and, unlike the timid and tender ladies of these degenerate days, she bestowed the seething liquor so liberally among the assailants, that they were forced back, and ultimately compelled to raise the siege. David ab Jenkin, the freebooter, strenuously advised his kinsman ab Rice to take Jevan ab Robert for his brother-in-law, neighbour, and friend ; “For," said he, “I will not be one with you to assault his house when he is at home, seeing I find such hot resistance in his absence." "c
This advice, however, was not followed, and “ dayly bickerings, too long to be written, passed betweene soe neare and hatefull neighbours. In the end, the plague, which commonly
it from Traethbach, or the lesser tract, which is the road from Penmorfa in Caernarvonshire to Harlech in Merionethshire. These sands are not commonly passable till the tide has ebbed nearly three hours. . followeth warre and desolation, after the Earle of Pembroke's expedition, tooke away Jevan ab Robert, at his house of Keselgyfarch, in the flower of his age, being thirty-one yeares of age, -whose death ended the strife of these houses.”
In this licentious and unworthy manner did the days of the Welshmen of yore glide on; and dark and dreary, indeed, must have been that period, when crimes of the deepest die were thus perpetrated in open and daring defiance of all laws human and divine. The union of Wales with England, however, was the first step towards the abolition of these gloomy and disgraceful practices; and the hitherto unruly mountaineers soon began to experience those benefits, which the judicious and salutary measures consequent on this union were so well calculated to confer. .. It was by the wise and efficient policy of uniting Wales to England,--and by admitting the Welsh, at the same time, to a full participation in the laws and privileges of the English, that the English monarch effected the subversion of the turbulent contumacy of the natives of Cambria; and it was by the same policy that the Welsh secured to themselves that tranquility which they now so pré-eminently enjoy. And, in contrasting their present manners with those of their ungovernable forefathers, during the tempestuous times which we have noticed, may they not justly say with Robert Vaughan, the venerable antiquary of Hengwrt? -“ We must confess that we have reason to bless God for his mercy to us, in our happy establishment under one monarch; and we may well say, we were conquered to our gain, and undone to our advantage.”
policy that of the man effectedand pri
Art. X.— Tamburlaine the Great, who from a Scythian Shep
heard by his rare and wonderful conquestes became a most puissant and mightie Monarch : And for his tyrannie and terrour in Warre, wäs tearmed The Scourge of God. The first part of the two tragical discourses, as they were sundrie times most stately shewed upon stages in the Citie of London. · By the right honorable the Lord Admirall his servantes. Now newly published. Lond. 1592. Black letter.
The second part of the bloody conquests of mightie Tamburlaine,
with his impassioned fury for the death of his lady and love, faire Zenocrate : his forme of exhortation and discipline to his three Sons, and the maner of his owne death. 1593.
The Massacre at Paris, with the death of the Duke of Guise; as
it was plaide by the right honorable the Lord high Admirall his servantes. Written by Christopher Marlow. Lond. (no date.] The troublesome raigne' and lamentable death of Edward the
second King of England, with the tragical fall of proud Mortimer, and also the life and death of Piers Gaveston, the greate Earle of Cornewall, and mighty favorite of King Edward the second; as it was publickly acted by the Right Honorable the Earle of Pembroke his servantes. Written by Chri. Marlow,
Gent. Lond. 1598. The tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus.
Written by Ch. Narlow. Lond. 1616. The famous tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta, as it was played before the King and Queene in his Majesty's theatre at White Hall, by her Majestie's servants at the Cock-pit. Written by Christopher Marlo. Lond. 1633. Lust's Dominion, or the Lascivious Queen. A Tragedie. Written
by Christofer Marloe, Gent. London, 1657.,
Although that “pure elemental wit, Christopher Marlowe,” has recently become better known than the writers whom we have considered in our preceding numbers, it is necessary, in order to complete the series of articles on the “ Early English Drama," that we should devote a few pages to the consideration of his merits. He was born, as it is conjectured, about the year 1562, and came to a tragical and premature end before 1593. The manner of his death is differently related, and a degree of obscurity hangs over his life, as well as the termination of it. It has also been affirmed, that he was an atheist, and “not only in word blasphemed the Trinity, but also, as it was credibly reported, wrote divers discourses against it, affirming our Saviour to be a deceiver, and Moses to be a conjurer; the holy Bible to contain only idle stories, and all religion but a device of policy.” Such is the nature of the accusation brought against Marlowe—an accusation which, when considered, rests on a very slender foundation. It appears to have originated with Beard, who states it in his Theatre of God's Judgments, from which it was transcribed by Anthony Wood, and has now become an accredited verity. Nay, some have not only received this assertion without examination, but in their laudable zeal for religion have denounced the unfortunate poet in still stronger terms of reprobation. Bishop Tanner calls him
atheista et blasphemus horrendus; and Hawkins, in a note to The Return from Parnassus, in which Marlowe's name occurs, says, that " he was an excellent poet, but of abandoned morals, and of the most impious principles; a complete libertine, and an avowed atheist.” These are hard words, and one should like to see some authority for them. Neither the originator nor the propagator of these asseverations, however, pretend, that they have seen even one of these several discourses. The story rests entirely upon the authority of Beard, who goes no further than saying, that“ it was credibly reported.” If Marlowe had really written several discourses, it might reasonably be expected, that one of them would, by some chance or other, have been preserved, unless some puritanical croaker,like Beard, had adopted the same summary mode of extirpating his opinions, as Tamburlaine does with the Koran and other Mahometan books; or, at least that some extract from them would have survived. But we do not hear of a single individual who had readnot one who had ever seen them. So that the above quotation affords no proof whatever of Marlowe holding the opinions imputed to him.
Nor can any such conclusion be drawn from what Robert Greene says in his address to Marlowe, in the passage quoted in a preceding number,—" Wonder not that Greene, who hath said with thee (like the fool) in his heart, there is no God, should now give glory unto his greatnesse ;"-_all that can be collected from this passage is, that Marlowe, by a life of pleasure and indulgence, shewed, that his heart was not impressed with a proper sense of religion. Greene was his intimate friend, and must have known if he had promulged atheistical opinions, or written the discourses ascribed to him; and with such a knowledge it is not likely that he should have omitted to mention them, when he was sending his warning voice from a sick bed. But Greene says the same thing of himself as he does of Marlowe; and we are not aware that he was ever accused of being an atheist, although it has fallen to the lot of few to have such a rancorous enemy as he had one who collected, with the most curious industry, every petty story that might blemish his character. Besides, he addresses Lodge and Peele in a not very dissimilar strain; and, indeed, he explains his meaning, when he conjures them all to “ delight not as he had done in irreligious oaths, to despise drunkenness, flie lust, abhor those epicures, whose loose life hath made religion loathsome to your ears.” · It is true, Greene uses tolerably strong language, and it is said to have given offence to Marlowe. But that he was a free liver, given to the pleasurable enjoyments of life, perhaps in an inordinate degree, must be conceded; and that he
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The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volumes 1-11; Volume 12, Parts 1-3; Volumes 13-16; Volume 17, Parts 1-2; Volume 18; Volume 19, Parts 1-2; Volumes 20-22; Volume 23, Parts 1-2; Volume 24, Parts 1-3; Volume 25, Parts 1-2; Volume 26, Parts 1-2; Volume 27, Parts 1-3; Volume 28, Parts 1-2; Volume 29, Parts 1-2; Volume 30; Volume 31, Parts 1-3; Volume 32, Parts 1-3; Volume 33; Volume 34, Parts 1-4; Volume 35, Parts 1-2; Volume 36, Parts 1-3; Volume 37, Parts 1-2; Volume 38, Parts 1-5; Volume 39, Parts 1-3; Volume 40, Parts 1-3; Volume 41, Parts 1-4; Volume 42, Parts 1-3; Volume 43, Parts 1-2; Volume 44; Volume 45, Parts 1-2; Volume 46, Parts 1-3; Volume 47, Parts 1-3; Volume 48, Parts 1-2; Volume 49, Parts 1-2; Volume 50, Parts 1-2; Volume 51, Parts 1-2; Volumes 52-53; Volume 56; Volumes 58-59; Volume 62; Volume 81; Volume 83; Volumes 101-102; Volumes 118-121; Volumes 124-125
United States. War Department, Fred Crayton Ainsworth
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972 - Confederate States of America
Found also in the House Miscellaneous documents of the 52 to the 56th Congress./ Each number has special index. Inserted in each volume: Additions and corrections ... Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1902./ Series 1,v. 1-53, series 3,v. 1-5, and series 4,v. 1-3 include "Alternate designations of organizations mentioned." /Vol 54-55 of series 1 (serial no. 112-113)"HAVE NOT BEEN PUBLISHED, AND NO MATERIAL FOR THEM IS IN HAND." cf. General Index, p. xi. Series 2,v. 1 (serial no. 114) with imprint 1894, was not issued until 1898./ Edited in the War Records Office, 1880-July 1899; in the Record and Pension Office, July 1899-1901 Robert N. Scott compiled and edited v. 1-18, 1880-87, and also collected the greater part of the material for v. 19-36, 1887-91. After his death in 1887 the work was continued by Henry M. Lazelle, 1887-89, and by a board of publication, 1889-99, consisting of George B. Davis, 1889-97, Leslie J. Perry, 1889-99, Joseph W. Kirkley, 1889-99,and Fred C. Ainsworth, 1898-99; from 1889-1901 edited by Fred C. Ainsworth and Joseph W. Kirkley. A digital reproduction made from a copy held by Cornell University is available from Cornell University's Making of America Web Site.
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union ...
United States. War Department
army Army Corps Artillery assigned Assistant Adjutant-General attack Baltimore battalion Battery bridge Brig brigade Brigadier-General BUTTERFIELD Capt Captain carried cavalry Chief of Staff Colonel command communication companies Confederate Corps cross Department desire directed dispatch division duty enemy enemy's February force Ford Fredericksburg front George give guard guns HEADQUARTERS HEADQUARTERS ARMY Hooker horses Infantry James John Jones Joseph keep leave letter Lieut Major Major-General March Mentioned Michigan miles morning move movement necessary North obedient servant officers Ohio operations Pennsylvania Troops pickets position possible Potomac present R. E. LEE railroad rebels received Regiment relieved Reserves respectfully Richmond river road Robert Second Secretary Sedgwick sent soon supplies telegraph Third train Union United Valley Virginia Virginia Troops Volunteers wagons Washington West WESTERN York Troops
Page 4 - ... and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Page 4 - I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you.
Page 4 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying, that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have; given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 4 - Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you.
Page 142 - No noncommissioned officer or private can give his parole except through an officer. Individual paroles not given through an officer are not only void, but subject the individuals giving them to the punishment of death as deserters. The only admissible exception is where individuals, properly separated from their commands, have suffered long confinement without the possibility of being paroled through an officer.
Page 4 - You are ambitious — which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm; but I think that, during General Burnside's command of the army, you have taken counsel of your ambition and thwarted him as much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer.
Page 63 - No sentence of a court-martial appointed by the commander of a division or of a separate brigade of troops, directing the dismissal of an officer, shall be carried into execution until it shall have been confirmed by the general commanding the army in the field to which the division or brigade belongs.
Page 791 - Providence, are now lost to us. But while we mourn his death, we feel that his spirit still lives, and will inspire the whole army with his indomitable courage and unshaken confidence in God as our hope and strength. Let his name be a watchword to his corps, who have followed him to victory on so many fields. Let his officers and soldiers emulate his invincible determination to do everything in the defence of our beloved country.
Page 4 - The short time that he has directed your movements has not been fruitful of victory, or any considerable advancement of our lines, but it has again demonstrated an amount of courage, patience, and endurance that under more favorable circumstances would have accomplished great results.
Page 477 - Sir : When I wrote on the 7th, I had an impression that possibly by an early movement you could get some advantage from the supposed facts that the enemy's communications were disturbed, and that he was somewhat deranged in position.
The Plantation School
Anthony Gerald Albanese
Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History
Jurgen Brauer,Hubert van Tuyll
Title The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
Volume 1 of Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, George Breckenridge Davis
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The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, George Breckenridge Davis
Volume 1 of The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Pub. Under the Direction of the ... Secretary of War, United States. Record and Pension Office
United States congressional serial set
Volume 1127 of War of the Rebellion
Authors United States. War Department, Fred Crayton Ainsworth
Editors Robert Nicholson Scott, George Breckenridge Davis, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph William Kirkley, Fred Crayton Ainsworth
Compiled by Calvin Duvall Cowles
Contributors United States. War Records Office, United States. Record and Pension Office, United States. Congress. House
Publisher U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972
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Science Books for Kids
Books for reading about and doing science
Tag: plant science for kids
Plant Science Books for Children
Below is a list of children’s books that focus on plants and gardening, organized by reading level and genre. They were chosen to support and inspire plant science projects. Be sure to visit our earlier list of children’s books about seeds, as well.
Do you have any favorite plant science books for kids? We’d love to hear your suggestions.
Note: Linked titles go to Amazon for further information and reviews. Just so you know, I am an affiliate with Amazon. If you make a purchase after clicking on one of the links, I will receive a small commission at no extra charge to you, the proceeds of which will help pay for maintaining this website.
Plants: Real Size Science by Rebecca Rissman
Don’t let the short sentences fool you, this informational book is full of vocabulary and concepts, such as what are roots, stems and flowers. Be sure to read the notes for parents and educators in the back to get the most from the book.
Age Range: 4 – 6 years
Publisher: Acorn (July 1, 2013)
Plants Can’t Sit Still by Rebecca E. Hirsch and illustrated by Mia Posada
Although they can’t run around like some animals can, plants can move quite a bit. Sunflowers follow the sun, tendrils can creep around, and seeds can shoot away. A deeper look into the life of plants.
Isn’t the cover beautiful?
Publisher: Millbrook Press (September 1, 2016)
Flowers (Plant Parts) by Melanie Waldron is the perfect introduction to flowers in the garden. This informational book covers what a flower is, the parts of a flower, how flowers make seeds, and become fruit, etc. It also discusses how flowers attract insect pollinators. Two hands-on activities are included with clear and well-organized instructions to help reinforce learning.
Grade Level: 2 – 4
Series: Plant Parts
Publisher: Raintree Perspectives (January 1, 2014)
Seeds and Fruits (Plant Parts) is also by Melanie Waldron and is part of the same series as Flowers. It covers variation in seeds and fruits, what seeds and fruit are for, the parts of a flowering plant, how seeds are made, what’s inside a seed, what seeds need to germinate, different types of fruit, methods plants use to disperse seeds, and how humans interact with seeds and fruits. This book contains an activity of finding seeds in fruit and an experiment to investigate germination of bean seeds under different conditions.
These books in the Plant Parts series would work well with a school garden as well as in the classroom for a unit on plants.
Vegetables aren’t the only plants we can study. Weeds Find a Way by Cindy Jenson-Elliott and illustrated by Carolyn Fisher introduces young readers to the wonders of the natural world by exploring these often ignored, deplored plants. Jenson-Elliott’s text conjures up lighthearted word pictures. For example, can’t you imagine seeds coming out of pods “…like confetti from a popped balloon?” The back matter, however, includes a serious discussion of weeds, why they are interesting and important, and a list and descriptions of some common weeds.Pick up a copy and you will find out, as the author says, “Weeds are amazing!” (Review with activity suggestions at Growing with Science).
Grade Level: Preschool – 3
Publisher: Beach Lane Books (February 4, 2014)
Plant a Pocket of Prairie by Phyllis Root and illustrated by Betsy Bowen is a perfect introduction because it encourages planting of locally-adapted plants in pocket wildlife gardens. The book may focus on the prairies of Minnesota, but it carries a message about preserving habitats that is important anywhere in the world. Get the full scoop at Growing with Science.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (April 15, 2014)
Secrets of the Garden: Food Chains and the Food Web in Our Backyard by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld and illustrated by Priscilla Lamont
This creative picture book walks the line between fiction and nonfiction. Although Alice is the narrator, leading the way to her discoveries in her family’s garden, two chickens provide the science concepts in informative sidebars.
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers; First Printing edition (February 28, 2012)
Older favorites:
A Seed Is Sleepy by Dianna Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long
This is an absolutely gorgeous and well-researched book. Highly recommended!
Age Range: 5 – 10 years
Publisher: Chronicle Books; First Edition edition (March 1, 2007)
Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden by George Levenson, Shmuel Thaler (Photographer)
When I lent this one to someone and never got it back, I knew I had to go out and buy another copy. This book is really one of a kind. The photographs are exceptional, although they do have a flower fly identified as a honey bee, which is a common mistake. The website has good information, too.
Publisher: Tricycle Press (August 7, 2002)
Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
You can see what it is about in this video.
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition (February 28, 1992)
Linnea’s Windowsill Garden (Linnea books) by Cristina Bjork, illustrated by Lena Anderson, and translated by Joan Sandin
For fans of Linnea’s Garden (see fiction section below), this gardening how-to is a useful introduction to indoor gardening. It is written in a cozy, journal style.
Publisher: R & S Books (October 1, 1988)
Related Fiction
Tops & Bottoms by Janet Stevens
Children will learn all about which parts of plants are edible in this folktale retelling. Lovely illustrations explain why this was a Caldecott Honor Book.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace; 1st edition (March 29, 1995)
The Gardener by Sarah Stewart and illustrated by David Small
Lydia Grace Finch isn’t used to living in the city, let alone with her dour uncle. Can she work miracles with a small suitcase full of seeds?
Publisher: Square Fish; Reissue edition (May 1, 2007)
Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
This classic picture book reveals how planting flowers can make a difference. A family favorite.
Publisher: Puffin; Reprint edition (November 6, 1985)
Our School Garden! by Rick Swann and illustrated by Christy Hale
Discovering the joys of the school garden helps lonely Michael make friends.
Winner, 2013 Growing Good Kids Book Award, Junior Master Gardener & American Horticultural Society
Publisher: Readers to Eaters (March 6, 2012)
Linnea in Monet’s Garden by Cristina Bjork, Lena Anderson (Illustrator), Joan Sandin (Translator)
If you are interested in art, artists, Monet, nature, gardening or traveling to Paris, this is the book for you. Definitely inspires me to want to grow a “Monet Garden” of my own. Beautiful, sweet, and informative, I keep our copy with the art books, but it wants to be with the nature and gardening books, too.
Publisher: R & S Books; 1st American ed edition (October 1, 1987)
Grow: A Novel in Verse by Juanita Havill and illustrated by Stansislawa Kodman
Twelve-year-old Kate helps Berneetha turn a vacant lot into a community garden, gathering help and friends along the way. Can they protect the garden when the lot owner decides to build on it?
Publisher: Peachtree Publishers (April 1, 2011)
Compost and Decomposition Books
List of Children’s books about seeds.
Gardening activity books for adults working with children
Children’s Garden Week Activities at Growing With Science Blog
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Patriots, Revolution & Patriot Place Partner With MBTA To Distribute Masks, Hand Sanitizer
Filed Under:Coronavirus, covid-19, MBTA, Patriots, Revolution
BOSTON (CBS) — The Patriots and the Revolution are helping MBTA riders stay safe this winter.
The New England Patriots, New England Revolution and Patriot Place recently donated 2,500 face masks and 5,000 bottles of hand sanitizer to distribute to MBTA riders, the MBTA announced Wednesday. The donation is in support of the T’s Ride Safer campaign.
The campaign consists of three components: providing face coverings to riders in need at key stations during peak travel times; signage and messaging to promote the importance of keeping a safe distance and wearing face coverings while on the T; and the Ride Safer webpage at mbta.com/RideSafer that provides travel tips and a behind-the-scenes look at the MBTA’s expanded efforts to clean and disinfect stations and vehicles.
“The health and safety of our riders and employees continue to be our top priorities during these challenging times,” MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak said in a release. “The MBTA greatly appreciates this contribution from the Patriots, Revolution and Patriot Place as we strive to provide safe, essential transit services to those who rely on buses and trains.”
Pat Patriot poses with masks and hand sanitizer that the Patriots, the Revolution and Patriot Place are donating to the MBTA. (Photo from Kraft Sports & Entertainment)
“We are proud to support the MBTA’s Ride Safer program to help meet the ongoing needs for masks and hand sanitizer in our surrounding communities,” said Brian Earley, Vice President and General Manager of Patriot Place. “We are thankful to continue our strong partnership with the MBTA by teaming up on this great initiative to keep members of our communities safe and healthy.”
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NHL Central Division Notebook: Five Teams in Contention
Murphy's Hockey Law Blog
0shares Share Tweet Flipboard Reddit Comment Email The NHL Central Division continues to live up to the hype. While the Winnipeg and Nashville continue to grab the headlines, three other teams continue to scratch and claw to get into the playoffs. Of those three teams, one of those teams are making headlines for the wrong […]
Jim Biringer
The NHL Central Division continues to live up to the hype. While the Winnipeg and Nashville continue to grab the headlines, three other teams continue to scratch and claw to get into the playoffs. Of those three teams, one of those teams are making headlines for the wrong reasons. With the All-Star break coming shortly, each of these teams will make a push to stay in the playoff race. Time to go inside this week’s Central Division Notebook.
The Winnipeg Jets have hit the 60 point mark prior to the All-Star break again. The Jets are firing on all cylinders even without Dustin Byfuglien and Nikolaj Ehlers in the lineup. Now the Jets will be without defenseman Tyler Myers, as he deals with an upper body injury. If someone told you Blake Wheeler would have less than 10 goals 45 games into the season, you say no chance. That is exactly what happened. Wheeler has nine goals, but leads the team with 49 assists. This is a player who hasn’t even hit his stride yet. Patrik Laine joined some great company in the victory over Anaheim. Laine becomes the seventh player in NHL history to record 25 goal mark in three seasons before his 21st birthday. The others are Wayne Gretzky, Bobby Carpenter, Ilya Kovalchuk, Brian Bellows, Dale Hawerchuk, and Jimmy Carson.
It was a decent week for the Nashville Predators. Nashville is finally getting back to full strength. Filip Forsberg is back in the lineup and continues to wreak havoc on opposing teams. Forsberg has 18 goals on the season. If he did not miss so much time, Forsberg could be over the 20 goal mark easily. One player that has picked up the slack in the absence of the top players has been Craig Smith. Through 47 games, Smith has 14 goals tied for the second most on the team. The other player that has 14 goals is Viktor Arvidsson. Arvidsson is another player that missed a chunk of time and could easily be over the 20 goal mark. After that the Predators have players around the 10 goal mark. This team is deep and each and every night somebody different might score.
For all the turmoil that is in Dallas, the Stars are sitting in third place in the Central Division. However, after the week the Stars had, the question will be how much longer will the Stars sit in third place with Colorado and Minnesota breathing down their necks? Tyler Seguin continues to be a bright spot for the Stars. Though his point streak ended at seven games, Seguin’s play has been elevated ever since he was called out by his CEO. A new story has come out today where the Stars regret signing Jamie Benn to his long term contract. Now take this story for what it is worth, but that is a pretty big leak from inside the organization. Dallas has every right to be upset at their mediocracy, but that will only change if the Stars can win and make improvements.
Best of the Rest:
Colorado Avalanche – Things have gone from bad to worse for the Colorado Avalanche. Nothing is going right for the Avalanche these days. Despite all their recent struggles, the Avalanche are still in a playoff position in the West. Throughout the season, there is only four games where the top line has been held without a goal. Through 45 games Mikko Rantanen has been held without a point in only one game. It was Saturday night in Montreal. However, regardless of what you think about the depth scoring for Colorado, it has been the shaky play of the goaltenders that has put Colorado in this position. Semyon Varlamov and Philipp Grubauer are just not getting done. Especially Grubauer, whom the team traded for. Something must change in favor of Colorado or else this will be a major collapse.
Minnesota Wild – As it stands right now, Minnesota rounds out the final team in the Western Conference playoff picture. It was a decent week for the Minnesota Wild. Winning two games and losing two games. The Wild would like to put more distance between them and the other teams in the West. That can only happen by playing more consistent which will lead to more wins. Over the last month or so, the Wild tend to win games against better opponents and lose to weaker teams. On any given night, any team can beat any other team, but those teams near the bottom of the standings are the games the Wild should win. Consistency is the name of the game this time of year. If the Wild want to be taken seriously as contenders, win the games are you are suppose to.
St. Louis Blues – It was a good week for the St. Louis Blues as the team won three of four games. In fact, the Blues are looking ahead to their future as Jordan Binnington as recalled from the AHL. All this kid has done for the Blues is win. In his first career game, Binnington got a shutout. He then followed that performance with back to back wins. Confidence breeds confidence and for the Blues confidence in the goaltender position has allowed the other players to be more relaxed and able to play their style. Vladimir Tarasenko is finding his scoring touch again. And while Ryan O’ Reilly wasn’t a bad addition to the Blues, giving up first round picks and young prospects for a team that didn’t make the playoffs the season prior wasn’t ideal. The only logic here is that the Blues thought they were a contender.
Chicago Blackhawks – Well it is getting closer and closer to the trade deadline for the Chicago Blackhawks. Who knew the Blackhawks fall from grace would come so quickly. Chicago could be one of those teams that will be sellers at the deadline. Despite how bad the season has gone, Patrick Kane remains a force to be reckoned with. Kane leads the team with 60 points (27 goals and 36 assists) and continues to make unbelievable plays. Ever since Dylan Strome came over to Chicago, Alex DeBricant’s play has risen. DeBricant always had the talent, but having his good buddy on his line has helped both of them elevate their game to another level. It will definitely be an uphill climb the rest of the season.
NHL Central Division Notebook: Chicago Making a Push
Photo Credit: By Lisa Gansky (Flickr: IMG_3214) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Biblioteca Histórica: Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
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Sobre mimGertrude Stein (3 February, 1874 – 27 July, 1946) and Alice B. Toklas (30 April 1877 - 7 March, 1967) were prominent figures in the modernist, avant-garde movement of the Left Bank during the early twentieth century. Stein was an American writer of novels, plays, and poetry. Moving to Paris, she met Toklas and began collecting artworks by Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, and Cézanne, among others. Together they hosted a regular literary salon where they influeneced the works of writers of the period such as Hemingway, and Fitzgerald.
Sobre a minha bibliotecaThe library of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas was located on Paris' Left Bank, first at 27 rue de Fleurus and moved to 5 rue Christine in 1938. Their books lay among their collection of artworks in what has often been described as the first museum of modern art.
After an offer of depositing Stein's works within the library in 1937, she expressed in a letter to Andrew Keogh, a librarian at the university, that in the event of her death "all this material becomes automatically your property." The collection, which included her personal papers and manuscripts, continued to grow by later contributions throughout her life. With Stein's death in 1946, the French government however refused to allow the remainder of her papers to be exported:
It was only when the American Embassy intervened in the Library's behalf that the initial shipment of two boxes plus a third box packed after Miss Stein's death was allowed to leave the country. These arrived on February 1947; two more boxes followed on May 8, and there have been numerous smaller shipments since. Miss Stein had not exaggerated when she described the papers as being "in a good deal of mess," and a corner of the Yale Collection of American Literature room looked for many days like a wastepaper collection center. Gradually the incredible wealth of the material was revealed.
Stein and Toklas' collection of books was shipped in 1947, catalogued by Yale University as manuscripts, books, photographs, and personal material. Included in this were "more than a hundred and fifty presentation copies of books, mostly first editions, by Sherwood Anderson, Louis Bloomfield, Jean Cocteau, Bernard Fay, Ernest Hemingway, Clare Boothe Luce, the Sitwells, Carl Van Vechten, Thornton Wilder, and other noted writers."
Extracts taken from: Gallup, Donald. "The Gertrude Stein Collection." The Yale University Library Gazette, Vol. 22, No. 2 (October 1947), pp. 21-32.
Source: The personal library of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas was reproduced from the original bequest inventory, and from records of extant copies held by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University.
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Bump Foot
No Flu do Mundo / Flu [foot053] (2007.07.23)
Two bands from Brazil (Chico Correa & Electronic Band, and Aerotrio) have provided us full length album so far. And now, this is the third one, Flu! His first release from Bump Foot consists of 13 pieces of various flavours.
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Flu's music does not offer proofs or definitive results, nor does it hype itself, and although it may seem easy to listen to, when the multifaceted vase which holds all this music together dissects itself into myriad split pieces, one has to be very perceptive to really detect the multitude of influences that these fragments reveal. People have said that Flu makes samba pop, that he is psychedelic, or that he is modern. Words are not always the most exact way of defining sounds. Flu's new record is something to be listened to and tasted in all its richness before it is labeled or thrown into one of the many preconceived pigeon-holes of pop culture classification. The music elaborated by Flu is functional in as much as it fills one of the basic rules of what is called pop music: like a healthy drug with no side-effects, it is pleasing to the senses and produces states of euphoria, going from excitement to full relaxation. Sometimes the habit, rather than the monk, dresses and disguises the prejudice in sombre colours of we agreed calling critical spirit. To listen to Flu's new album one should undress oneself from these obvious "garments of reason" that prevent us from listening to the essence of the work. If this text sounds so unusual it is also because this new album from Flu is not exactly the most common of records. But it also does no harm to the sensitive ear to enjoy the sound nuances of each fragment patiently gathered by Flu, like a gold digger looking for the rarest of gems, to make this incomparable sound mosaic. As seldom happens in this polluted world addicted to pop, Flu's new record is an invitation to adventure and a means to rediscover the pleasures sometimes buried by marketing strategies, over (or under) exposed media and all types of "micro-fame": the pleasure of listening to a new song, both reinvigorating and reinvigorated.
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A band from Brazil. As seldom happens in this polluted world addicted to pop, Flu's new record is an invitation to adventure and a means to rediscover the pleasures sometimes buried by marketing strategies, over (or under) exposed media and all types of micro-fame : the pleasure of listening to a new song, both reinvigorating and reinvigorated.
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From the ever prolific, Bumpfoot comes this delightful release, No Flu do Mundo [foot053]. This one is hard to categorize...aren't they all. I leave it to the liner notes: People have said that Flu makes samba pop, that he is psychedelic, or that he is modern. Words are not always the most exact way of defining sounds. Flu's new record is something to be listened to and tasted in all its richness before it is labeled or thrown into one of the many preconceived pigeon-holes of pop culture classification. Go get all thirteen tracks... this one is a keeper.
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Flutune (5:48)
Cidra e Cigarrinho (4:51)
Costa Quente (4:27)
Rei do Mundo (4:25)
Também (3:13)
A Vez do Brasil (3:18)
Madrecita (3:40)
No Flu do Mundo (3:25)
Nortche (1:49)
Vinet San (2:22)
Bobo Alegre (3:39)
Enxao Xa (2:59)
Dia de Chuva (9:01)
MP3, total time 52:58 total size 72.6MB
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[Album/DVD Review] AC/DC | Back In Black | DualDisc Version
January 14, 2021 BuriedOnMars AC/DC, Album Reviews, Blu-ray Reviews 13 comments
I remember looking up the DualDisc version of Back In Black a few years ago and, of course, Mike Ladano had a review up for it. Seeing that came out in 2004, was out of print, and slightly pricey online, I put the idea of getting it out of my mind.
Some weeks later, I found a copy while flipping through used CDs at a store… and it was priced the same as a regular CD version of Back In Black. Someone didn’t do their homework!
The disc is a flipper (or a “2 sided disc” if you want to get technical) with side A holding a remastered version of Back In Black in CD format. The idea being you can play the disc on any old CD player. Side 2 is a DVD that contains a higher quality PCM audio version of Back In Black with extras.
I’m not going to get into review the album itself. Everyone and their grandma already has a review of it somewhere… including me. All I’ll say about the CD side is it is the exact same as the 2003 remaster of Back In Black.
For the DVD side, we’ll start with the extras.
There is a 22 minute plus change documentary on Back In Black with sound bites from all of the band members. Yes, you do even get to hear Cliff and Phil talk, so that’s nice. It is decent with the band members talking about the loss of previous singer Bon Scott right before work on Back In Black was to begin, then hiring Brian Johnson as a replacement. Eventually they get into the writing process of the tunes which I found very enlightening. Thing is, most of the doc is available for free and bumped up to 720p on AC/DC’s Youtube channel. Here is part one:
There is an on screen discography. It is the same one that you can find on the Live at Donington DVD. Kind of neat. Mostly out of date. Slightly useless in 2004 but even more so today.
So, that leaves the PCM audio version of the Back In Black being the disc’s only exclusive content. It boasts on the back cover that this version is of “superior sound”. So I took it to task.
I compared the PCM audio to the disc’s CD side, a 2003 remaster, and an original 1987 “A2-16018” which many claim is the “best version of Back In Black” on CD. All the discs were played on my Sony Blu-ray player to my 5.1 home theater. And I have to admit, the PCM version did very well in comparison. More bottom end, better clarity, and Brian’s voice lifts over the guitars. Heck, even Cliff bass has some major presence.
I’d rank them in this order:
DualDisc PCM-DVD audio
Tie – DualDisc CD audio and 2003 Remaster
A2-16018
But only on the home theater. I also played the discs down on my computer, which I have hooked up to a stereo amp and bookshelf speakers. I could not hear a difference between the Remastered CD(s) and PCM audio if my life depended on it. A2-16018 was noticeably flat. I think people who love this version have just become accustomed to the way it sounds. Fair enough.
The packaging is quite nice. The disc comes in a unique jewel case where you press a button on the front to open it and it felt like both sides of the disc are secure. It comes with a hefty booklet, but it is very close to what you get in the 2003 remaster CD or if you to buy the album new on vinyl today.
Forgive my fancy booklet holder.
I’d say go for it if you are into unusual formats or have a high end system to truly enjoy it on. You are not going to notice a difference otherwise. I see the prices online for this are just a bit more than a new copy of Back In Black on vinyl, which is by far a better investment. But, far be it from me to tell you what to do with your money, honey.
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So what you’re saying is AC/DC added more to the new vinyl copies of Back In Black other than the original sleeve which was pics on one side and not much else on the other?
The sleeve insert has a little write up on it with some photos. It is the same as what you get in the 2003 CD remeaster booklet. It is nothing to write home about.
destroyerofharmony says:
I have a few of these Dual Disks from other bands and I’ve never listened to side 2, the DVD side. Maybe I should.
Yeah, if you have a sound system for it. I don’t think it will make much of a difference on a stereo reciever.
Lana Teramae says:
“What to do with your money, honey” haha, good one! I have the 2003 remaster, I believe, and my theory is, if I have all the songs on the original CD, then there’s no need to get more copies of it (unless I break it, of course)! I watched that documentary, and I was like. “YESSSSS FINALLY I GET TO HEAR CLIFF AND PHIL SPEAK IN AN INTERVIEW!!!”
I wish I could say I do the same. I have rebought albums I like for one reason or another way too often. And it was nice to hear Cliff and Phill talk! Their parts usually get cut out.
Well you are older than me and work, so keep that in mind! But yeah, why get the album again if I already have it?
NO KIDDING!!! I watched a Behind the Music documentary with AC/DC (two versions). One of them Cliff hardly spoke and another one, Cliff’s parts were taken out completely! I was so mad!!!!
Yeah, they cut Phil and Cliff so Angus can answer questions about the school boy uniform again, lol
What an outrage, especially since Angus has told that story a billion times lol! Give us an interview about how Phil developed his drum technique or how his wrists still work after playing “Let There Be Rock” for 14 freaking minutes straight!
I will skip this one and stick with my vinyl! But if I ever upgrade my TV system beyond a sound bar, maybe I’ll think about it.
So many versions of this album, cool there’s a dual disc of it. I have nothing here that would make that worthwhile (I own a couple of dual discs, never play the second side). I have a CD, of course, and an old vinyl. I’m dinosaur enough to be fine with the old stuff for this one. Any audio quality lacking is probably filled in by my brain anyway. Still, cool score!
It is a neat piece of history but nothing more.
Not worth the small boost in audio fidelity, IMHO.
Audiophiles like to feel superior, that’s my guess at a target audience!
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Reaches 100
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Mark Conrad
Byline Times and Nursing Notes collaborate to pay tribute to the staff who have lost their lives during the battle against COVID-19 — but political questions over personal protective equipment remain.
Deaths of frontline health and care staff reached an awful, unwanted landmark today with the passing of the hundredth staff member to lose their life while battling Britain’s Coronavirus outbreak.
Figures verified by Nursing Notes, a website representing nursing professionals, and shared with Byline Times reveal that 100 frontline health, care and related staff have now lost their lives during the pandemic.
The list includes 19 medical professionals (such as doctors), 49 nursing and midwife staff, nine allied health professionals, nine social care staff, 13 ancillary staff and a student nurse volunteer.
Byline Times will update its full of names list shortly.
Fresh fatalities among frontline staff have again raised questions about the Government’s handling of key aspects of the public health crisis, particularly the procurement and supply of vital personal protective equipment (PPE) since the outbreak began.
Despite weeks of warnings that stocks of vital masks, protective gowns and gloves are running low, some hospitals – and many care homes and mental health sites – are still desperate for fresh supplies of PPE.
Amid concern that an intended supply of 400,000 protective hospital gowns from Turkey has been delayed due to administrative issues, Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, warned that there was “no doubt” that some hospital trusts now faced shortages.
Unlike the Government’s official figures, Byline Times and Nursing Notes‘ data includes a wider range of NHS and care-related staff who have died since the pandemic began –including care home staff and hospital support staff, as well as NHS doctors and workers.
He added: “Given the current uncertainties over gown manufacture and supply, due to global shortages, we suggest that any future announcements on what gowns might be available for delivery, when, just focus on what we can be certain of. Bitter experience in recent weeks has shown that promised consignments of gowns cannot be relied on until they come, are checked and found to contain the right kit.”
A senior Whitehall source told Byline Times: “PPE stocks the world over are in short supply. We want all staff to have the highest level of protection from this virus while working. No country is finding it ‘easy’ to procure PPE stock, but there is enough out there. Ministers and officials are working extremely hard to obtain all available stocks for the NHS and other organisations and to continue to encourage fresh production of PPE from within the UK.”
Byline Times and Nursing Notes this week began a collaboration, under which Byline Times will update its figures for the number of frontline staff fatalities in line with Nursing Notes‘ comprehensively researched data.
Both publications have long paid tribute to the extraordinary staff who have died, and their families, and Byline Times will also donate to a Nursing Notes fund used to plant a memorial tree for every health and care staff member who dies during the outbreak.
Unlike the Government’s official figures, Byline Times and Nursing Notes‘ data includes a wider range of NHS and care-related staff who have died since the pandemic began – including care home staff and hospital support staff, as well as NHS doctors and workers. Both publications believe the broader measurement of fatalities paints a more accurate picture of the sacrifices made by frontline health and care sector staff during this unprecedented period.
Nursing Notes uses a team of professional nurses to check fatalities and liaise with families and employers of staff who have sadly died as a result of their work. This means that the website is often able to confirm fatalities sooner than the Government – and also provide vital support to the families involved.
Last week, Byline Times and Nursing Notes revealed that 44 health and care workers had died since the Coronavirus outbreak began – but that figure has more than doubled over the past seven days.
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Removing obstacles to voting needs to be a national priority
DateDecember 03, 2018
AuthorDorian Warren
CategoryBlog
Since the midterm election, a few things have become clear:
Yes, we did have a blue wave. A big one, with 39 pick-ups for Democrats in the House, seven governor’s seats flipped red to blue, and a net gain of 350 state legislative seats.
Media reports of lack of enthusiasm among Latinos prior to Election Day were way off — in fact, Latino turnout increased approximately 174% from 2014.
And, finally, voter suppression doesn’t start or stop on Election Day. In Georgia and Florida, efforts to ensure that all votes are counted were aggressively challenged by the officials in charge of voting systems in those states — both of whom just happened to be Republican candidates in two of the contested races. Talk about the fox guarding the henhouse. The Democratic candidates in both states conceded their races.
There’s a common thread that runs through these three observations: there is growing movement of voters who support electing more diverse and progressive federal and state officials — and there is an overt effort being made by the Republican establishment to thwart that movement. We are seeing a shift in power from a nearly all-white political party that supported the gutting of the Voting Rights Act to an inclusive party that has made legislation to expand voting rights one of its top priorities for the coming year.
In fighting for restrictive voting practices and against a full counting of votes, Republicans in Georgia and Florida chose short-term political expediency over the long-term health of their state’s electoral process, and they provided a vivid illustration of what likely motivated Democratic voters (including record numbers of people of color and young voters) to turn out in the numbers we saw on Nov. 6.
Despite a glaring lack of evidence, Republicans (including the president) continue to spew falsehoods about voter fraud and rush through the democratic process. Two days after the election, Florida Governor Rick Scott said, “Every Floridian should be concerned there may be rampant fraud happening in Palm Beach and Broward counties… No ragtime [sic] group of liberal activists or lawyers from DC will be allowed to steal this election from the voters in this great state.”
In response to Scott’s request that law enforcement seize and monitor ballots and voting equipment, Judge Jack Tuter said there was no evidence of fraud or irregularities in the vote counting in Broward and Palm Beach.
Meanwhile, in Georgia, Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp declared victory as the Abrams campaign pointed out large-scale voting inconsistencies that shed light on Kemp’s questionable practices as Secretary of State (a position he held until several days after the election), such as deleting inactive voters from registration rolls or consolidating polling locations, resulting in long lines for voters. Additionally, President Trump’s Department of Justice has refused to investigate the claims of Georgian voters who fear and experienced systemic and deliberate voter suppression.
It’s clear that voter suppression is a problem in these two states and beyond. Volunteer poll workers were tasked with deeming what constitutes an “exact signature match,” outdated polling machines broke, polling places were seized into foreclosure, and air conditioning in polling places was off with voters waiting in line for hours.
You have to wonder – why are some elected officials (often, Republicans) so hellbent on adding never-ending hurdles on the American electoral process?
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Archenemy – Film Review
8 December 2020 by Peter Gray Leave a Comment
In a time when superhero movies have become such a driving force within the realms of both cinema and pop culture in general, Adam Egypt Mortimer’s Archenemy manages to stand out due to its anti-heroism tale. Taking a bit of the wind out of the capes of the more traditional comic book players, Archenemy still delivers the narrative you’d expect – backstory, world building, villainous conflict – but Mortimer twists the ingredients just so that there’s a bit of humanity and realism to a very outlandish premise.
Through a stunning animated rendering, Archenemy introduces us to Max Fist (Joe Manganiello), an other-worldly warrior of sorts who, on Earth, appears as anything but. After being thrown through a multitude of dimensions following battle, Fist lives out his days destitute, rambling to anyone who’ll listen to his wild tales as he swigs back copious amounts of alcohol.
Someone who takes interest in his ramblings is Hamster (Skylan Brooks), an aspiring e-journalist who’s hoping he’ll go viral by showcasing the superhuman abilities of Max, proving that superheroes do indeed exist. This unlikely duo would’ve been enough for writer/director Mortimer to lay focus on – and you imagine if this was a larger budgeted film it may have opted for this more audience-friendly route – but Archenemy isn’t the type of film that wants to please the general masses, so Hamster’s older sister, Indigo (Zolee Griggs), earns prominence in a parallel plot that sees her caught up with exactly the type of people you don’t want to be associated with. Her boss, simply known as The Manager (Glenn Howerton), has instructed her to retrieve a significant sum of money from one of his associates (Paul Scheer, in an absolutely wired extended cameo), but when said retrieval goes awry, Indigo lands a target on her back, leading to Max having to step up as the hero we all know he is, even if he doesn’t believe it himself.
And it’s with Max’s own self-doubt that the film continues on its own distinct path, constantly presenting us with a “hero” who never views himself as a saviour in any manner. He’s aware of how he is perceived on Earth due to his lack of superhero strength, and as disagreeable as he wants to be, through both Mortimer’s writing and Manganiello’s acting he’s a character we can’t help but become engaged with. Given his hulking stature and rugged looks, it’s quite a surprise that it’s taken this long for Manganiello to headline his own superhero effort. And though Archenemy doesn’t necessarily give him the big action set pieces that other films of this ilk can afford, he handles his own brute force with a unique sensibility and deadpan humour that plays to the actor’s strength.
Next to Manganiello, Archenemy‘s other main ingredient is the addition of Amy Seimetz. An all-around chameleon of the industry, Seimetz wouldn’t be the most obvious choice to play a character that can go toe-to-toe with someone like Fist, but she injects a true sense of terror into the role of Cleo, the “big bad” from his home planet who, as we learn, has been waiting with bated breath for their inevitable reunion. She’s simply delicious in the role, and though Cleo could have easily been written as a standard villain, the emotional connection evident between herself and Fist adds an additional layer to their evidently complex relationship. The only downside being that the conflict between them is not nearly as built up as it could be, leading their showdown to lose some of the impact it should’ve had.
As he proved with the psychological horror film Daniel Isn’t Real, Mortimer is a filmmaker and storyteller that isn’t afraid to take risks. Archenemy, though working with an archetypal superhero plot, doesn’t always play to the expected, delighting in its own choices to bend the rules. Even without the assistance of a large budget Mortimer creates a world with intricacy, and the visual artistry he has fashioned suggest an ambition that many of these multi-million dollar projects lack.
Fans of the traditional superhero aesthetic may not warm to Archenemy – this isn’t Marvel or DC – but for those who appreciate grit, and can swallow a narrative that isn’t solely relying on action to propel itself forward, Mortimer’s bold outing should hopefully find a receptive audience who can appreciate a creative mind that follows through on their big swings.
About Archenemy
Max Fist (Joe Manganiello) claims to be a hero from another dimension who fell through time and space to Earth, where he has no powers. No one believes his stories except for a local teen named Hamster. Together, they take to the streets to wipe out the local drug syndicate and its vicious crime boss known as The Manager.
Archenemy (MA15+) is screening exclusively through Dendy Cinemas from December 10th, 2020.
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Where No ScreenPlay Has Gone Before
December 14, 2015 December 14, 2015 Todd Crapper ScreenPlay Broken Ruler Games, complications, conflict rolls, playtesting, ScreenPlay, Stamina, Star Trek, Where No Man Has Gone Before
An actual photo of an actual game of ScreenPlay in progress. Every game designer’s dream come true.
They say, “Be careful what you wish for.” Then again, sometimes you get exactly what you were hoping for in the craziest way possible.
This past Thursday, I had the pleasure of running a ScreenPlay demo in a downtown Ottawa pub for six players, including ENnie Award winner, Jason Pitre (Spark, Posthuman Pathways). This was part of Cardboard Kingdom’s #beersnboardgames night and a big thanks to Kat for helping to set this up. Rather than walk into this demo with a preconceived treatment or genre in mind, I wanted to see how the game would hold up against any possibility and have the Writers devise the genre, setting, plot, everything. Let the chips (and dice) fall where they may. What I did not count on was an experienced bunch of story gamers who love to let the mayhem fly when the GM doesn’t clip their wings and while it initially sent a wave of panic through my chest, it ended up being the greatest game of ScreenPlay to date.
Here’s what they came up with: a deep space romantic reality show (akin to The Bachelorette) where aliens of all genders attempt to win the affection of Captain Kirk’s preserved head in a glass jar (a la Futurama style). Yep, you read that right. Now the main thing to take from this is “romantic” and this is actually the most definitive element to the story. There was never going to be physical violence (maybe some face slapping) and all conflict rolls were going to be rolled against other lead characters to complicate their aspirations of winning Kirk’s affections and wearing down his Stamina until he could no longer resist one of the competitors. Oh, and those competitors included Kirk’s gorn ex-wife, a pure energy being, a cyborg who thought it was still human, a vulcan going through the full effects of pon farr, a half-Ferengi bartender with a drinking problem, and the Klingon director of this show (titled “Where No Man Has Gone Before”) calling the shots from behind the camera.
Feel free to take a moment and read over that last paragraph again. I’ll wait.
How did it work out? Incredibly well. Aside from the numerous laughs and rounds of applause (especially after the half-Ferengi decided to create a wormhole into a parallel dimension and bring back young Kirk – AKA Chris Pine – as a means of cheating and causing a tie in the competition), the game managed to keep this madness together and flowing. While I’ll admit there were moments when the rules were tossed out the window for the sake of brevity, I’m rather proud that what may be the best attempts to break it only helped make it stronger.
Now if this is your first impression of ScreenPlay, rest assured this is not par for the course. Yet the fact that it is possible and could become the norm for your own group should they wish it to be gives this game a much needed confidence boost. And me too.
(This post was written by The Warden, creator and lead designer of ScreenPlay… actually he is the sole embodiment of Broken Ruler Games working with a team of talented freelancers to create games that break the rules.)
Learn To ScreenPlay: Hitting Those Milestones
October 13, 2015 Todd Crapper ScreenPlay conflict rolls, Learning to ScreenPlay, milestones, resources, ScreenPlay, ScreenPlayers Guild, Stamina, step bonus, Writers
ScreenPlay: The Rehearsal Edition launches October 20, 2015.
If you’re reading this post immediately after it’s been published, there’s only one more week until you can stop reading about what ScreenPlay will be about and try it for yourself. But it’s even better if you’re reading this post AFTER publication because that means the wait will be even less or not at all. Patience is for suckers.
Stories are about more than pacing, action, drama, and more. Without characters, stories are nothing more than descriptions without meaning, actions without purpose, and tension without resolution. Characters are what make stories captivating and connect with the audience. Part of what latches us onto a character is their growth and development as people, whether they learn to overpower their enemies physically or their deepest fears. If a character remains the same at the end of a story as they were in the beginning, the audience loses interest in them and that is why such development remains an important part of ScreenPlay‘s characters too. But how?
So glad you asked. And even if you didn’t, this next instalment of Learn To ScreenPlay’s gonna talk about it anyway through milestones.
Developing A Character, Rewarding A Writer
The key to a successful story in ScreenPlay is moving the story forward by working together with your fellow Writers and the Director, using the material provided to create a logical and exciting tale of heroes, villains, and the people caught between their struggles. As Writers must tell the story through the eyes of their characters, it only makes sense for an experience system common in RPGs to reward players through the development of their characters as it relates to the story and for doing so co-operatively with their fellow players. Milestones are points awarded to Writers for not only playing the game and keeping the story moving, but for doing so in a unique and engaging fashion based on what they’ve created with their characters, be they leads or supporting.
Milestones are handed out by the Director at the end of a scene as they relate to its goals and character motivations, as well as excellent gameplay, use of descriptions, and anything else the Director feels made the scene a memorable experience. The guidelines for awarding milestones are fairly loose as this is a game built on improvisation, but many treatments that will be available in the Rehearsal Edition will showcase some examples for handing out milestones. For example, in the Tracking The Scarab Witch scene in Ironbound (a dark fantasy story of holy warriors tasked with slaying all warlocks and witches), Writers are awarded 1 milestone whenever they can describe their lead character(s) utilizing clues from the previous scene where local village children are killed or captured using the skills and traits established through each character’s potentials and their primary role.
While milestones are awarded in response to character descriptions, these little babies are handed to the Writer playing them. Regardless of which character earned them those milestones, Writers can redeem them for any character in their pool, even those later brought into their fold. The key is milestones are points handed out to the Writers to make their characters stronger and more prominent in the story.
Beefing Up The Heroes
Milestones can be spent over the course of the story to create one of two types of effects: immediate bonuses or long-term increases. To be specific, there are four ways milestones can be spent to improve the chances of survival for any character under a Writer’s control as they exist in Version 1.1 of the Rehearsal Edition.
Increased Maximum Stamina: A Writer can redeem 2 milestones to increase a character’s maximum Stamina by 1.
Conflict Re-Roll: A Writer can redeem 1 milestone to re-roll one of their conflict rolls immediately after it is rolled and before complications (if any) are applied. Whatever the new result, it must be honours and multiple milestones can be redeemed for the same conflict roll.
Step Bonus: A Writer can redeem 1 milestone to gain a one-time +1 step bonus for one of her characters. This must be redeemed on the same turn the step bonus is applied and can only be done once per scene.
Additional Resources: A Writer can redeem 3 milestones to permanently gain an additional resource slot for one of her characters.
Playtesting to date has revealed a lot of Writers plan to use their milestones to increase a lead character’s maximum Stamina, but the temptation to make that suddenly important conflict re-roll complicates this character growth. Which is exactly what they were intended for, but this point assignment is one of the key ingredients for moving forward with a public playtest. How quickly can characters grow in your average ScreenPlay? What is the average number of milestones awarded per scene? Per session? Per story? These are the answer we’re hoping players like YOU can help answer.
While there may be another class in this series of lectures we call Learn To ScreenPlay, this is the final lesson for now. There is only one other way you can learn about this game and that is to download the completely free, totally-up-your-own-discretion download of ScreenPlay: The Rehearsal Edition. In the meantime, we invite you to join in the ScreenPlayers Guild, a Google+ community dedicated to nothing but creating a discussion on what works, what doesn’t, and how to make it better. Hope to see you there.
Learn To ScreenPlay: Keeping Up Your Stamina
September 24, 2015 Todd Crapper ScreenPlay complications, conflict rolls, damage, description, detail, Learning to ScreenPlay, milestones, scene, ScreenPlay, Stamina
Before we begin the third instalment of Learn To ScreenPlay, I’d like to draw your attention towards the official Learn To ScreenPlay page of this site and bring out the Learn To ScreenPlay dancers. Ok, that last one’s still waiting on auditions (and a reality check), but the rest is totally true. If this is the first one of these posts you’ve ever seen or perhaps you may have missed one in the past, we’re collecting all these teasers to our upcoming Rehearsal Edition onto one handy, dandy place.
Now on with the show.
Not every character gets to live until the end of the story. Every tale has its share of casualties, sacrificial lambs, and nameless goons who must be defeated in some gruesome fashion for the protagonists to reach the conclusion. Or sometimes it’s a protagonist who’s gotta go to add suspense to the plot. In a game like ScreenPlay, how do you determine who concludes their journey down the rabbit hole you and your fellow Writers have created? With Stamina, of course.
It’s All About Your Stamina
Stamina is very much akin to (and yet nothing like) the standard hit points you see in many roleplaying games. Each character has a maximum number of points in the beginning that are dwindled down and refreshed as the story progresses until they either reach zero and are no longer involved in the story or the story reaches the end and everyone’s happy. (Note: This can assume the character dies, but is not always the case. How a character is removed from the story remains in control of the player who dropped them down to 0 Stamina.) Whenever someone takes damage from a conflict roll, it’s Stamina that’s depleted. Survive until the end of a scene and you can recover half of your current Stamina (yet no more than your maximum amount), keeping you ready to continue on for yet another scene and bring you one step closer to the end. Pretty standard fare, but now this is where things get interesting.
Stamina also allows your character room to cheat. Certain options are available to lead and supporting characters (but not extras; they’re not supposed to stick around long enough to make it worth the effort) wherein they can cut in line and offer a description before they are chosen, increase your conflict roll by one, smack someone back even when they’ve already provided a description and more. You can get through a scene (or an entire story) without using these cheats, but if you want to use them, it’ll cost you. For each of the cheats provided below, you must spend 1 Stamina from that character’s reserve. Cheat too often and it’ll backfire on you if they dish our major damage on an even-numbered roll… and that’s the point. It’s a tempting offer and just like any deal with the Devil, you have to be prepared to pay the price for your greed.
Shift: You can spend 1 Stamina to increase or decrease the result of a die roll (either one you rolled or one rolled against you) by 1. For example, if an opponent rolls a 6 on their conflict roll, you can spend 1 Stamina to reduce it to a 5 and at least only suffer a minor complication.
Interrupt: A character who has yet to act in the current round can spend 1 Stamina to cut in line. The player can choose whether they want to interrupt before another player is chosen or before or after a character’s description is provided.
Retaliate: Immediately following a conflict roll, regardless of its outcome, a player can spend 1 Stamina for the targeted character to make a conflict roll of their own against the same opponent.
Remove a Minor Complication: You can spend 1 Stamina to remove a minor complication with one detail instead of a full description.
And to answer the immediate question, lead characters start with a story with 15 Stamina, supporting characters start with at least 7 Stamina (if they’re designed for a Writer; Directors have flexibility to take it as high as 50 Stamina for those truly bad-ass villains), while extras never have more than 3 Stamina (and can never use the cheats mentioned above).
Taking It To Another Level
But is that as much Stamina as you’ll ever have to work with? Not by a long shot, it simply depends on how faithful you are to the development of the story, your characters, and the spirit of gameplay. It is entirely possible for characters to increase their maximum Stamina through the collection of what’s called milestones… and that’s where we introduce a cliffhanger. Next time, we’ll discuss these points and how they help keep everyone on the same page.
Learn To ScreenPlay: Damage and Challenges
September 9, 2015 September 9, 2015 Todd Crapper ScreenPlay absolutes, challenges, complications, conflict rolls, damage, Difficulty, Learning to ScreenPlay, resources, Stamina
Tension and stress are two key elements to dramatic storytelling, regardless of whether you accomplish this through high stakes negotiations, car chases, shootouts, even a first date. Bringing those elements into a game of ScreenPlay is what this week’s lesson is all about because as awesome as it is to do whatever you want simply by describing it does not necessarily equal a fun game. Tension and stress create challenges for all players to overcome despite your personal desires and when you overcome those challenges, the game becomes all the better.
In this week’s instalment of Learn To ScreenPlay, we’re going to cover two of the biggest threats to Writers and their characters: damage and challenges.
Dishing Out The Damage
If there’s a staple in nearly every action-based RPG out there, it’s damage. We covered complications and how they work their magic in last week’s premiere instalment of Learning To ScreenPlay, but there are times when you simply want to have your character beat the crap out of another character. Do you need to all the time? No. Are there moments when it’s more advantageous to hinder an opponent by knocking them to the ground, locking them inside a burning car, or drug them so they stumble around the nightclub in a daze? Most definitely. But there are also times when smacking your villain senseless and eliminating them from the scene entirely is the way to go and that’s where damage comes in.
Before we can explain damage, let’s introduce you to resources. Your characters can carry any number of items, articles of clothing, and however many tiny pocket-filling objects seems reasonable without any burdening rules for encumbrance, pre-assigned equipment lists, and the standard mechanics of items in many games. Resources are specifically assigned items players select as key items and skills they wish to apply in the upcoming scene. They can provide either a step bonus (increasing your conflict roll dice by one size, such as a d8 to a d10) or a damage bonus and these are noted on the character sheet at the start of the scene to suit whatever your character wants to accomplish and how they want to do it.
Damage reduces a character’s Stamina and when it reaches 0, the character is removed from the scene. How they’re removed depends on who dropped them to 0 and the odds of your friends doing this are slim, so you can imagine the typical end result. Any character can choose to inflict damage instead of placing a complication whenever prompted by a conflict roll. Just like complications, damage comes in two forms: major and minor damage. Whenever you can place a major complication on a character, you can instead inflict major damage and the same goes with minor damage substituting minor complications. Minor damage is only the damage bonus assigned to a particular resource involved in a description. Major damage is a juicier version where you combine the damage bonus of your resource with the difference between your conflict roll result and the Difficulty. So if you roll an absolute 12 on a d12 against your average extra’s Difficulty of 3 and it’s with a two-handed baseball bat granting a +2 damage bonus, that’s 11 damage. And when you consider the average lead character starts off a story with 15 Stamina… ouch.
Looking For A Challenge?
There is an inherent risk in a game like ScreenPlay where the players are calling the shots and helping to create the danger they’ll face: how do you know they won’t simply play the easiest possible version of the game? There are two solutions to this risk. One, ask yourself if you’re playing with friends like this and why. Two, use challenges.
Challenges are points accumulated by the Director during the course of the story. Without getting into specifics, they basically land in the Director’s palm whenever the Writers have it easy or accomplish something really impressive. Ok, one example. Whenever anyone rolls the highest possible value on their conflict roll, it’s known as an absolute and means that result cannot be altered in any way by another player. When a Writer rolls an absolute, the Director gains 1 challenge. From that point on until the end of the story, the Director can redeem these challenges to ramp up the tension and make things harder for the Writers and their characters.
Let’s say the lead characters are detectives solving a triple homicide that soon becomes revealed as the work of a satanic cult who is actually lead by an angel. After kicking down the door to a presumed abandoned warehouse, the detectives find themselves setup and need to escape in a serious hurry. In no time flat, the Writers describe their detectives stay miles ahead of their attackers and easily make it to the fire escape to freedom… until the Director decides that’s not nail-biting enough and redeems 1 challenge to alter the setting a little bit – the doors have been chained shut from the outside. Now, with the cultists literally steps away from their prey, the detectives have to resort to Plan B.
A Game Of Survival Against The Odds
That’s the kind of tension we’re talking about, no matter the genre, mood, or style you’re going for in your story. When one really good (or really bad) dice roll can lead to half of your Stamina suddenly spilled all over the floor or discovering the Director has other plans for your big action sequence, things can take a sudden and amazingly entertaining turn.
So what else can you do with Stamina to make them so damned important? Join us next week when we shed a little light on what keeps your characters ticking.
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Scientific Buddhist — 5 “Emptiness” meditation how-tos for achieving Theta brainwaves, for health and cognition benefits: mindfulness, repetition, sound, visualization, mantra
Mantra | Meditation | Mindfulness | Scientific Buddhist
Theta is not beyond reach, but why do it?
Five Main Styles of Meditation to Achieve Theta or Altered States
But NOT Analytical meditation
Emptiness: the common element of the five styles
Five methods of self-hypnosis
Ordinary mind deliberately induces stress
Mindless thrillers as meditation?
Meditational Altered States: THETA mind
Office Mindfulness: Theta helps cognition
Explaining brainwaves: electrical power?
THETA: “ideation mode”: ideas flow without censorship
DELTA: dream mode
What Buddha Taught
Quick How-Tos
1. Mindfulness
2. Guided Meditation and Mindfulness
3. Mantra
4. Sound: drumming, rattling, chanting
How to drum
The steps are literally 1,2,3:
5. Repetitive tasks: wax on, wax off
Theta brainwaves in meditation have significant health and cognitive benefits — according to numerous studies. Theta is associated with “ideas without censorship” or “ideation” mind mode [2]. It is also one of the secrets to a healthy mind and body.
Despite the science, Theta is notoriously difficult to achieve. According to one study it occurs “more frequently in highly experienced meditation practitioners.”[3]
The different brainwaves we experience, including Beta (survival mode, job mode), Alpha (relaxation mode), Theta (the goal of most meditations) and Beta (dream mode.)
[Five mini how-tos on the five meditation methods at the end of this feature.]
“During meditation, theta waves were most abundant in the frontal and middle parts of the brain” reports NTNU in Science Daily. [3] Jim Lagopoulos, of Sydney University (Australia) comments: “Given the popularity and effectiveness of meditation as a means of alleviating stress and maintaining good health, there is a pressing need for a rigorous investigation of how it affects brain function.” He is one of the principles of a joint study between his university and researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) on changes in electrical brain activity during nondirective meditation.
Unfortunately, the health and cognitive benefits of Theta escape many meditators. As Lagopoulous explains:
“Previous studies have shown that theta waves indicate deep relaxation and occur more frequently in highly experienced meditation practitioners. The source is probably frontal parts of the brain, which are associated with monitoring of other mental processes.” Less experienced meditators usually attain an Alpha wave state — relaxed and reflective, but not necessarily as deeply beneficial as Theta.”
There are many proven ways to achieve Theta — and ultimately altered states of consciousness (ASC or Altered States) — but the question is why do it? Isn’t it just some nostalgic hippie trip, or a detached-from-reality buzz, or new-age trend? On the contrary, ASC — also called non-ordinary state — is vital to human health, and is the body-mind mechanism for relieving stress, and — according to Psychologists — highly therapeutic. Christa Smith (Psy.D.) explains in Psychology Today [1]:
In a breakthrough study by NTNU, scientists used a special “cap” that measured brainwaves during meditation.
“Altered states of consciousness, sometimes called non-ordinary states, include various mental states in which the mind can be aware but is not in its usual wakeful condition, such as during hypnosis, meditation, hallucination, trance, and the dream stage.* Altered states can occur anywhere from yoga class to the birth of a child. They allow us to see our lives and ourselves with a broader lens and from different angles of perception than the ordinary mind.”
Meditation, which inspires Theta brainwaves, also inspires insight and ideas. According to Ned Herrman in Scientific American [2]:
People experiencing Theta “are prone to the flow of ideas… The ideation that can take place during the theta state is often free flow and occurs without censorship or guilt. It is typically a very positive mental state.”
The study from NTNU (cited above), used “Acem Meditation, a “nondirective method developed in Norway. They were asked to rest, eyes closed, for 20 minutes, and to meditate for another 20 minutes, in random order. The abundance and location of slow to fast electrical brain waves (delta, theta, alpha, beta) provide a good indication of brain activity.” [3]
The main methods fall into various “practice styles,” which could loosely be tagged as:
Zen Mindfulness can be achieved in many ways, including concentrated activities such as skateboarding or martial arts. See this BW feature on “Riding to Enlightenment.”
Guided meditations and visualization.
Mantra.
Sound: binaural sounds, drumming, rattling, singing.
Repetitive tasks (for example, the Zen practices of sweeping, archery, martial arts).
Each of these breaks down into more detailed methods, for example, mindfulness of perception, mindfulness of breath, and mindfulness of body. Under guided meditation, there are innumerable methods. Shamanistic-style drumming and rattling are just two of many approaches to sonic methods.
Analytical meditation, logic, debate, and other forms of spiritual meditation are not necessarily ideal for generating Theta. They tend to push the mind into either Beta or Alpha. They have their place — as a method of developing wisdom — but they are not the focus of these studies.
A “non-ordinary state” of mind — Theta — is the goal of people pursuing creative insight, health benefits or cognitive development. One healthy mechanism for “non-ordinary state” is built into our daily lives: dreaming and day-dreaming are altered states, and vital to our health. Advanced practitioners often engage in lucid dreaming.
Aside from natural and lucid dreaming, the main “learned” methods are various forms of “non-directed” meditation, which has the added benefits of insight, reflection and blissful mind.
Matthieu Ricard is still smiling after a gruelling, claustrophobic meditation session in an MRI. He is a monk participant in an extensive study on compassion’s effect on happiness and health.
In this feature, we explore these five mains styles of meditation — mindfulness, guided, mantra, sound, and repetitive tasks — all proven methods to achieve altered states of consciousness, without drugs, fasting or other unhealthy tricks. They are so diverse; one is bound to appeal to you.
Meditators often experience a sense of ONENESS with the Universe, and expansiveness often described as “Emptiness.”
Clearly, there is some common element in these five styles. The research from NTNU identified it very precisely:
“Several studies indicate better relaxation and stress management by meditation techniques where you refrain from trying to control the content of the mind. These methods are often described as nondirective, because practitioners do not actively pursue a particular experience or state of mind. They cultivate the ability to tolerate the spontaneous wandering of the mind without getting too much involved. Instead of concentrating on getting away from stressful thought and emotions, you simple let them pass in an effortless way.”
All of the five styles generate a form of “non directed mind.” In Buddhism, this is somewhat akin to the concept of Emptiness. Emptiness does not mean nothingness or non-existence. It means empty of ego, empty of direction, empty of stress — it is also a sense of “fullness” and unity with everything else. When you are mindful, your mind expands. Distant sounds become clear. Your mind expands beyond logical Beta thought.
Expansive Theta mind becomes One with everything, no longer censored or constrained by logical mind and ego.
Genuine cognitive and health — and Dharma — benefits are associated with attaining Theta brainwaves.
The known benefits of meditation.
How can these five methods — including guided visualizations — all be non-directed meditations? All of them have an element of “hypnosis.”
Mindfulness: clearly non-directed mind applies. You become the observer. You do not try to think, but if you do have thoughts, you observe them. [For more on the science of mindfulness, see the BW feature: “The Science Behind Stilling Your Mind with Mindfulness.”>>]
Guided meditation and visualization: you allow your mind to be guided — you do not direct, you follow direction. [For the science behind visualization, see: Science: Research proves visualization improves cognitive performance…>>]
Mantra: sacred sounds repeated over and over until they become “emptiness” of mind. Yet, because a “meaning” is subtly attached to each mantra, it has the hypnotic effect of implanting desired “goals” in the subconscious. (Or, if you don’t accept this definition, it’s still repetitive sound.) [For a story explaining the benefits of mantra, please see “No time for daily practice? Chant a mantra…>>]
Sound: notably binaural rhythms, but one of the most effective proven methods in various studies are drums (as in shaman drums pounded at a high repetitive beat) and rattles. [See this story on studies reinforcing the “drumming for mindfulness” and its benefits for health, support for cancer, Parkinsons and depression.]
Mr Myagi teaches the “Karate Kid” the “Wax on, Wax off” method. Repetitive tasks — washing the car, painting the fence, sweeping the floor, raking the leaves — can induce Theta.
Repetitive Tasks: ever wonder why Zen masters assign novices to sweep repetitively? Are they clean obsessed? Assigning the dirty work to someone else? No, they are engaging in skilful means. Repetitive chores such as sweeping, memorized martial arts routines such as Tai Chi, and even waxing the car can be meditative: “Wax on, wax off” (Mr Miyagi in the Karate Kid movie.) Even skate-boarding can be considered repetitive meditation. [See this unique story on the Zen of skateboarding>>]
All of these are non-directed meditations can induce Theta.
The stress of daily life induces alert, survival BETA.
“Ordinary mind” — in brainwaves classified as BETA, the stress-inducing frequency of our survival “awake” mind — evolved to help keep us alive. It motivates us to act, to work, to gather food, to cope with danger. The ordinary, awake mind induces wakeful stress to help us survive — an evolved stimulation that has its evolutionary roots in our hunter-gatherer beginnings. Ordinary mind also evolved ALPHA brainwaves — the relaxed and reflective mind — once we evolved enough to seek refuge in caves, to build castle walls, or houses with locks.
Only at night, in the safety of our caves — our homes — did the mind release the high-alert ordinary mind, and allow a little stress-reducing downtime, in the form of THETA and DELTA brainwaves: THETA during relaxing escapes such as napping, story-telling and song (today, movie watching and stereo) and DELTA during dreaming and sleep — both achieved, mostly, in the relative serenity that comes from a rampart (today, an alarm system.) This is why it is often difficult, for instance, to achieve relaxing THETA or DELTA as a stressed-out patient in the hospital.
Mindless thriller entertainment can induce a form of Theta. It’s escapism that invites “suspended disbelief” — and in some cases, a drowsy state of mind akin to Theta.
Ever wonder why silly action-movies and mindless thrillers and comic-book adaption movies are so popular? It’s not that they are “relaxing” in tone and manner; it’s simply because they are a form of escapism. It’s so far removed from our stressful BETA lives, that it genuinely induces an ALPHA state in many of us — relaxed mind— probably similar to the feeling the ancient Greeks must have experienced when they listened to the exciting tales of the gods and heroes. On the other hand, a gritty, artsy, true-to-life biography or war history movie might inspire the opposite — triggering BETA — simply because it resonates with our day-to-day stress-mode.
In fact, going one step further, an over-the-top adventure or comedy movie or novel, while it usually induces an ALPHA state, can trigger THETA. (Yes, that’s you, the movie-goer who drowses slightly during the action movie.) In meditation, the goal is usually either a deep ALPHA (highly relaxed and reflective mind, for instance in Samatha meditation) or light THETA (visualization meditation.) So, although an escapist myth, movie or novel will not replace meditation, it’s certainly “good for you.” Just avoid the too-real, too-historical, too frightening stress-inducing stories unless you’re ready to jump back up to stressful BETA.
When an EEG is taken of a person focused on drumming at four beats per second, the brainwave will inevitably go to Theta or least Alpha. An experienced Buddhist monk or meditator during silent mindfulness meditation would likewise achieve Theta brain waves in the low cycles. Theta brainwaves occur between 4 – 7 Hz or 4 – 7 cycles per second and is associated with meditative serenity, daydreaming, fantasy, imagination, ideas, inspiration. Deep Theta is often achieved by very expert meditators, and could almost be described as lucid dreaming. For the rest of us, mindfulness tends to result only in a light Alpha wave.
A sense of safety and security helps coax the BETA brain to release its “red alert” state. Laughter, song, silly movies, good food, friends — all these help us feel safe and secure and encourages a wholesome ALPHA relaxed mind. Ultimately, for real health benefits, we hope to achieve a deep ALPHA or a light THETA. Meditation, in a safe environment, is certainly one of the surest ways to induce stress-relieving brainwaves. With mindfulness, you might also accidentally slip into DELTA (sleep mode) but if you’re doing formal Zazen retreat watch out! — whack on the shoulder from the teacher might wake you back up.
Drumming a fast, regular beat has been shown in numerous studies to induce Theta with associated health, meditational and cognitive benefits. The simple method has been used since the time of ancient shamans and is still used today in many traditions. Above: H.E. Zasep Rinpoche drums for mindfulness at a retreat. For a full story on the science behind “drumming for mindfulness, see>>
From a meditational point of view — and certainly from a Buddhist perspective — ASC is the mechanism that makes meditation valid as both a stress-reliever and a doorway to insight. Altered States — specifically THETA brainwaves — is not the goal, it is only the mechanism. The goal of meditation can vary: health, stress-relief, insight (in Buddhism, “wisdom”), relief from depression, and, specific to Vajrayana and Buddhism: achieving “bliss and wisdom in union.” But the mechanism for achieving most of these is a state of THETA.
In Vajrayana, it is sometimes said that altered state is the horse, and insight is the destination. In other traditions, such as shamanism, the drum might replace the horse — the drum being the audible mechanism helping achieve ASC — and “meeting” a spirit guide might be the goal. In real yoga — not the one-hour gym class — the mechanism and goals are similar.
Mantras and meditation can be done almost anywhere. Mingyur Rinpoche coaches us to at least do a few seconds or minutes of meditation at a time, instead of waiting for that long session that never comes.
Although we’re tuned to BETA brainwaves in work and survival mode when out of our safe-places, many problems are best solved when the mind is at least in “reflective” mode — ALPHA brainwaves. This is why office workers often engage in short mindfulness sessions throughout the day. Not only for work problems but for “healing” and therapy, Altered States of Consciousness is often superior. Christa Smith, in Psychology Today, explains [1]:
“I often witness clients relying too heavily on the ordinary mind. They painstakingly analyze themselves and their problems with little payoff, as if the ordinary mind is the only and best tool for healing. Adele was one such client. She was a 45 year-old mother of two who suffered from depression related to aging. She was highly intelligent and could articulate perfectly why being in her forties bothered her so much. But as much as she tried to convince herself it wasn’t true, she could not shake the idea that her life was essentially over, that all of the good times were in the past. She struggled to overcome this belief, which was at the heart of her depression, but made little progress.”
One way to explain brainwaves is with electricity. In Scientific American, Nedd Herrman explains brainwaves this way[2]:
In several studies, MRI scans are used to visually measure the significant changes mindfulness meditation can achieve.
“Even though this electrical power is very limited, it does occur in very specific ways that are characteristic of the human brain. Electrical activity emanating from the brain is displayed in the form of brainwaves. There are four categories of these brainwaves, ranging from the most activity to the least activity. When the brain is aroused and actively engaged in mental activities, it generates beta waves. These beta waves are of relatively low amplitude and are the fastest of the four different brainwaves. The frequency of beta waves ranges from 15 to 40 cycles a second. Beta waves are characteristics of a strongly engaged mind. A person in active conversation would be in beta. A debater would be in high beta. A person making a speech, or a teacher, or a talk show host would all be in beta when they are engaged in their work.”
He goes on to describe ALPHA as the opposite of BETA:
“Where beta represented arousal, alpha represents non-arousal. Alpha brainwaves are slower, and higher in amplitude. Their frequency ranges from 9 to 14 cycles per second. A person who has completed a task and sits down to rest is often in an alpha state. A person who takes time out to reflect or meditate is usually in an alpha state. A person who takes a break from a conference and walks in the garden is often in an alpha state.”
When those frequency cycles per second drop to between five and eight, we move into THETA, at first a light day-dream-like state, what Nedd Herrmann calls “ideation” mode. Repetitive tasks — drumming, mantras, watching or counting breath, jogging and running, or even driving long miles of monotonous straight highway — can induce THETA. (Obviously, not desired when driving those highways!)
Chanting and disciplined ritual is still important in many schools of Zen. Repetitive actions — the powerful sound of the fish drum (foreground) and chanting a repetitive mantra or praise — are proven methods to induce Theta. Here, Zen students chant with the famous “fish drum.” For a feature on Fish Drums see>>
This is why some of your best ideas occur when bathing, showering, jogging, or meditating. The relaxed mind, slower than ALPHA is “prone to flow of ideas,” according to Herrmann. Even brushing your hair, or sweeping the floor, or any automatic, repetitive task can inspire your most creative moments. Hermann describes THETA:
“It is a state where tasks become so automatic that you can mentally disengage from them. The ideation that can take place during the theta state is often free flow and occurs without censorship or guilt. It is typically a very positive mental state.”
Importantly, formal meditative practice is specifically designed to quickly induce THETA — or in some cases light DELTA.
Dream Yoga or Lucid Dreaming for the purpose of Dharma practice is particularly effective helping us understand the true nature of reality. For a story on Lucid Dreaming, see>>
Lighter DELTA could be thought of as daydream mode, but in meditation is associated with visualization practice and LUCID dreaming. While THETA is ideal for stress-reducing and idea/insight, DELTA has a more specialized meditative mission: deeply altered states of consciousness that allow us to see beyond conventional reality biased by conditioning.
Buddha taught many methods for loosening the grip of conditioning on our fragile psyches. We grew up conditioned by pain and suffering — from our wailing emergence from the safety of our mother’s womb to the often-traumatic experiences that follow. We also develop attachments to those things we enjoy. The Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path provide the initial teachings on overcoming this conditioning that keeps us in a “suffering” state of mind.
Other methods include meditative methods, including visualization, that helps us see the world without the lens of our “conditioning.”
In the dream world, we can fly; when awake gravity takes hold. When we visualize the merit field of Enlightened Beings, we see a Pure Land as it could be if we removed attachments, conditioning and clinging; when awake, we see endless pain and suffering.
Even pragmatically, when our therapist coaches us with a guided meditation, to help us overcome some specific trauma, we are experiencing Theta.
Although we have more extensive “how-tos” on these various practices, here is a quick “cheat sheet” to inducing Theta through the Five Styles of Altered States Meditation.
It might seem that mindfulness is the “easiest” of these practices. In fact it is a practice that eludes many, including some experienced meditators. While guided meditation and drumming can be quickly approached, mindfulness is — by definition — not easy to instruct. Basically, you sit, stand, walk and try to “disengage” the Beta and Alpha mind by “observing.” As indicated in the above NTNU study, the “observing” mind engages the “frontal parts of the brain, which are associated with monitoring of other mental processes.”
Guru Rinpoche, the great Sage of Tibet, stressed the importance of alone time. Even if you can’t get away to a handy “meditation cave” a close door and a turned-off cell phone makes sense.
So, by way of instruction, sit, stand or walk (in all three cases in a situation where your mind doesn’t have to intervene) and then try to simply observe. Not only do you “observe” what is happening around you — the ticking of the clock, the chirping of the bird — but without engaging with it.
The great teachers would say, “simply be.” Be mindful. Be observant. Be there but not participating. Attempt this for at least 1o minutes. Don’t try to “empty” the mind of thoughts — some meditators try to force this — but simply, instead, observe them. Even if they are stressful, nasty, hateful thoughts. No judgment. Simply observe.
The basic steps could include:
Sit or stand in a way that is non-involving (comfortable).
Adopt an upright but comfortable posture.
Simply observe.
Meditation in the office can make you more productive. Mindfulness during a meeting can result in fewer mistakes. Breathing meditation can calm the stress that inhibits innovation and enthusiasm.
Some people add in additional steps — also a bit counter-intuitive for a process designed to disengage mind. For example:
Sit comfortably.
Initially, count your breaths and relax.
Correct your posture, but remain comfortable.
Half close or fully close your eyes.
Watch your breath. Feel it. Observe it. Do not participate.
Begin to notice, without participating, what is going on around you: sounds, feelings, heat, cold, dampness, itchy skin.
Observe your mind and its thoughts, but do not participate. Simply let it be. Watch.
Expand your observation. Try to listen beyond your immediate space.
Continue observing, without participating as long as you can. If you start participating or correcting random thoughts that bother you. Simply cease and observe. Do not correct.
By releasing control (Beta mind) to a guide, we can experience a most intense Theta session. The objective of Vajrayana visualization is to help induce this “open and empty” mind to introduce our minds to the concept that the true nature of reality is not what we think. This idea was first expressed by the Buddha in the great Maha nidana Sutta:
“If this exists, that exists; if this ceases to exist, that also ceases to exist.”
By removing the “eyes” from the observer role, the mind becomes the observer — which changes everything. The guru of Quantum Physics, Niels Bohr explained why science and Shakayamuni see “eye to eye” (so to speak):
“Observations not only disturb what has to be measured, they produce it… We compel a quantum particle to assume a definite position.” In other words, as explained by physicist Pascual Jordan: “we ourselves produce the results of measurements.”
[For a full exploration of this concept, supported by both science and Buddhist thought, see “What does quantum physics have to do with the five Buddhas>>]
You don’t have to involve spiritual visualization to achieve some benefits from this method, but for a Buddhist, Vajrayana visualized meditation is the pinnacle of technique.
The easiest way to experience the power of Vajrayana deity visualization — where we visualize ourselves as perfectly Enlightened beings (a form of positive-reinforcement role play) — is to follow along with a meditation master. Here’s one of our most popular guided visualization videos for visualizing Green Tara, as guided and taught by H.E. Zasep Tulku Rinpoche:
Or for those seeking “healing” reinforcement, here is another popular video with guided visualation of Medicine Buddha:
Om Mani Padme Hum, the great compassion mantra of Avalokiteshvara.
Any collection of sounds can become a mantra, but in Buddhist meditation, many are profound and meaningful — expressing in sound and rhythm deep truths. Some are open to everyone; others are restricted practices because they require instruction.
The goal of mantra is a little more specific. Although the “mind” is still observer and detached from calculated thought, the repetitive or hypnotic element is a repeated mantra. The sound is repeated hundreds of times. Often, this is combined with visualization — even something simple, such as healing blue light filling your body. Other times, it’s just the sound and a mindful, watching mind.
Mantras in serious practice are usually intoned at a very low, rhythmic pitch, like the beat of a drum. They go beyond the role of rhythm and sound, however. Mantra contains within it a “stated intention.” If you chant the Medicine Buddha mantra, you are likely planting the seed of healing in the mind.
When mind is in Theta, it is highly suggestable. This is why, in psychotherapy, for example, hypnosis is used. Hypnosis, like all of these techniques, opens the mind — not only the “observing mind” and the “learning mind” but also the “receptive mind.”
It is said you can’t implant a hypnotic suggestion that the recipient doesn’t agree with. It’s still your mind and will. But mantra reinforces the positive intention to heal, or live a long life, or receive protective energies.
To experience a mantra anyone can practice, try singing along with the amazing Yoko Dharma, chanting the Amitabha Buddha mantra Om Ami Dewa Hri:
Aside from mantras, which include the added purpose of implanting an intention, other repetitive sounds also induce Theta, notably drums, rattles and chants.
The benefits of sound go beyond some other Theta techniques. Although Theta mind is one of the reasons drumming works in meditation and healing, several studies have revealing benefits:
Reduces blood pressure, anxiety and stress: a 2014 study published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine.
Improves cognitive function: 2014 study in the Journal of Huntington’s Disease.
Pain Reduction: 2012 study published in Evolutionary Psychology
Improve Immunity: 2011 study published in Alternative Therapies and Health Medicine
Induces Theta; enhanced meditation: 2004 study published in the Journal Multiple Sclerosis
Depression and Emotional Disorders: 2001 study published in the Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Theodore Tsaousidis leading a drumming session at a Buddhist temple.
Drumming, or any form of percussion provides a strong focus on mindfulness. It’s as simple as taking your favourite meditation technique and adding the drum as the focal point, rather than the breath. You can either drum for yourself (which has extra benefits: the live sound of a drum is very moving), or use a drumming MP3 or recording.
1. Sit and get comfortable. Alternately, some people prefer to stand or even dance while drumming.
2. Using any drum, beat a regular, monotonous beat. You can beat quickly, which tends to induce a Theta response (helpful for visualization practices in Vajrayana, for example), or slowly. A heart beat, ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump has also been identified as therapeutic.
3. Drum for at least 15 minutes. I find 30 better. Simply focus on the beat (rather than your breath). Become the sound. As always, with mindfulness, if the mind drifts, just refocus gently back on the beat. If images appear, just observe. Be the listener (observer).
[For a more detailed exploration of drumming, see “Mindfulness of Drumming”>>
There is serenity in the broom, the mop or the clothesline. Many people, when they are furious — say, a fight with a significant other — will take refuge in cleaning the house. The repetitive tasks, such as brooming, mopping, vacuuming can be highly therapeutic.
Sweeping the temple is often assigned to monks. It is not considered a chore. It is a practice, a high form of meditation, dedication and good merit.
More formally, in Zen traditions, repetitive tasks are often assigned, such as “sweeping the temple” or weeding the garden. However, instead of simply saying “Go clean the floor” the teacher will actually show a specific hand motion to be used, a direction to sweep and a speed to employ. The mindless repetition is the meditation. It unleashes the Theta mind, in the same way, a monotonous curve-free highway does for a drowsy driver.
To make this work, either receive instruction, or create your own “ritualized” repetitive task. Clean the floor, yes, but do it with a precise, memorized pattern and speed.
Any repetitive task can be therapeutic, but to rise to the standard of meditation and Theta requires an element of ritualization.
[1] “Altered States of Consciousness” Psychology Today, Christa Smith Psy.D.
[2] “What is the function of the various brainwaves” Scientific American, Nedd Herrmann
[3] “Brainwaves and meditation” Science Dailey, NTNU research source.
Lee Kane
Lee Kane is the editor of Buddha Weekly, since 2007. His main focuses as a writer are mindfulness techniques, meditation, Dharma and Sutra commentaries, Buddhist practices, international perspectives and traditions, Vajrayana, Mahayana, Zen. He also covers various events.
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Rodger Ricketts on October 3, 2019 at 3:21 am
Thank you for the informative and interesting article. One point I don’t understand is why Theta is called an ‘ Altered State’ or ASC when in fact all the Brain wave states exist together and are a continuum of experience. One doesn’t change or make different the brain waves, one only modifies the frequency.
Broken Commitments: 3 Teachers weigh in on practice “overload” and breaking Vajrayana practice promises. What do we do about it?
Healing meditation, prayer and mantras? Do they work — according to research? Can we turn to mantras for help?
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Pro-Monero Film Briefly Tops US Box Office With $3,430 Gross
An independent film touting the virtues of the privacy coin, Monero (XMR), briefly topped the U.S. box office charts earlier this month.
The film accomplished this feat with a total gross of just $3,430 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Unabridged lecture on privacy coins tops US box office
Monero Means Money, a self-distributed feature-length film praising the virtues of XMR momentarily stole the top-ranking slot at the U.S. box office. The film claims to “raise awareness for electronic and financial privacy rights.”
With cinemas in lockdown, Monero Means Money’s $3,430 gross had the film sitting at the top of the box office for a brief moment on April 10, according to the-numbers.com.
The movie was screened to empty seats at the Laemmle Theater in Los Angeles, before moving to the Tampa Theatre, with additional showings taking place at the Parkway Theater & Film Lounge near Pittsburgh.
The figures were later revised, with a film called Phoenix, Oregon grossing $11,479 knocking the pro-XMR film back to second place.
The film’s creation was motivated by opportunity to top charts
The 88-minute film comprises an unabridged keynote speech delivered in 2019 by crypto advocate, Daniel Kim. Mr. Kim promotes the adoption of privacy coins amid increasing financial surveillance.
In an interview with Vice, Monero Means Money’s producer and director, Justin Ehrenhofer, states that the film was put together after he identified the opportunity to make a box office topping film on a minute budget.
“I saw the box office results for the weekend of March 20 and was curious to see how there were any reported sales with US theaters closed,” Ehrenhofer said.
“I investigated the top movie for that week and saw that they partnered with theaters for digital showings. I thought that the opportunity to make the #1 box office film in the US would be unique.”
Creating the movie appears to have cost Ehrenhofer less than $2,000 in total. He asserts that most of the money grossed has gone to the cinemas, with a small cut dedicated to marketing the film.
“We strongly believe the film achieved its intended goal of raising awareness for Monero, privacy rights, and struggling theaters,” Ehrenhofer added.
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1 Grace Jones Videos
2 Grace Jones’ Assets
3 Peak and Human Body Dimensions
4 Her Private Life
5 Quick Truth About Grace Jones
Grace Jones is actually really just a famed singer, actress and also a model who’s famous for her dramatic personality, her chart-topping singles such as “Slave to the Rhythm” along with also “Personal Life”. This visionary personality was busy in show business since 1973. Her dad was Robert W. Jones, an Apostolic clergyman and neighborhood fighter and also her mum — Marjorie Jones expired in ancient 20 17. It’s understood that the mum of Grace was a top jumper. She qualified for Olympics however, her daddy ‘s church forced her to draw as she’d be revealing her tight legs. Grace’s slender framework made her different. While she had been attending Onondaga Community College at New York because of seventeen-year-old, she’d used her distinctiveness being a benefit to look right into modelling. After moving to Paris in 1970 and getting a massive victory for a version, Grace appeared on the cover of many respectable magazines for example “en-vogue “, “Elle” along with also others. At the time of 1974, Grace had found her interest. She signed to Island Records to produce her debut record “Portfolio” at 1977. She found popularity as a singer with her record “night-clubbing ” which published in 1981 and proceeded to becertified gold and platinum in various countries such as Australia and Germany.
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As she had been appreciating with her career as a singer, she acted in tv show such as “Stryx”,” “BeastMaster” and more. A head-turner every where she moves,Grace took a further step to behaving and attracted the eye of bigshots from the when she looked in 1073’s picture — “Gordon’s War”. She’d later reveal her prominence from acting because she starred in movies such as “Siesta”, “V-amp “, “Conan the Destroyer” along with a number of other movies that include: lethal Vengeance (1981), A Viewtoa Twist (1985), directly to Hell (1987), Boomerang (1992),Cyber Bandits (1995),McCinsey’s Isle (1998),Palmer’s grab (1998),Wolf Girl (2001), No Place Like Home (2006),Falco — Verdammt, wir leben noch! (2008),” Gutterdmmerung (20-16 ), and some the many others.
Bloodlight and Bami is now available to pre-order ahead of its release on DVD and Blu-Ray on February 26th in the UK! Link in bio #BloodlightandBami
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Grace Jones’ Assets
Grace became powerful even while a celebrity making her complete celebrity. These endeavors helped her create her profits bigger and bigger eventually. Initially, her acting career gave her fiscal success that she enlarged with her acting and singing gigs. The proceeds out of her hit movies such as “Boomerang”, “right to Hell” along with a number of different movies; in addition to the ones from her hit songs including “rollup The Bumper”, “that I ‘ve Seen That Face Before” yet many others included too to her income earning her a multi millionaire. Currentlythis multi millionaire diva resides a fantastic lifestyle with her son at New York where her daily extravagant is left is permitted by her own financial capability which sums to $2 million in the moment. More over, given her trend setting design and striking acting art, Grace continues to be honoured with AQ Idol Award.
#BloodlightAndBami is now available to watch at home in North America. Get it today on @iTunes. https://t.co/PZjOCesb1U pic.twitter.com/iRqrFlWopy
— Grace Jones (@gracejones) July 10, 2018
Peak and Human Body Dimensions
Chest: 3-4 ” (86 cm)
Waist: 2-4 ” (61 cm)
What’s the magnitude of her buttocks? Lots of men and women consider this recognized model, actress, and singer expecting to locate answers to questions like this. Well, here are what we understand about Grace’s human body arrangement.
Hips: 3-5 ” (8-9 cm)
Shoe size: 1 1 (US)/ / 4 1 (EU)
Bra size: 34A
Watch Grace on The Jonathan Ross Show, tonight at 21:40 GMT on @itv #JonathanRossShow ? @thejonathanrossshow
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It’s thought that she had an open association with Thorsen.
Speaking about it diva’s personal lifetime, Grace was married two in her lifetime but now is just as her marriages ended in divorce. A mother to your young child, Grace was credited as the inspiration of several other renowned musicians of the creation like Lady ga-ga, Rihanna, Santigold and lots of more. Grace Jones met jeanpaul Goude — the dad of the sonin1977. The French photographer, that was likewise a manager was magnetized with her novelty and charm. Not long then, their initially pro dating turned into a romantic the one that may lead to the arrival of his son, Paulo at November 1979. It’s understood she obsolete her bodyguard, Dolph Lundgren for 36 months between 1983 to 1986 until they finally awakened. Additionally, she aged actor Chris Makepeace, whom she grew keen on after their acting characters together from the 1986 picture “V-amp “. It was rumoured that she had a three some with Chris along with his brother set. Grace Jones was said to be wed toChris Stanley, also a manufacturer from the late 80’s. She denied any such union took place inside her memoirs,” ‘that I ‘ll Never Compose My Action ‘. Yet in 1996, she married into a Turkish bodyguard,” AtilaAltaunbay. Even the marriagedidn’t last long since he (AtilaAltaunbay) couldn’t even handle his wife’s open way of life and threatened her with a knife into her throat in which point Jones decided she’d had enough and left the union despite the fact that these weren’t officially divorced.
#BloodlightAndBami is also expanding to more @LandmarkLTC in Berkeley, LA, San Francisco, Atlanta, Minneapolis and St. Louis. For tickets to any of these showings, go to https://t.co/JpCpsQupR3 pic.twitter.com/HPp2KJ1oo9
— Grace Jones (@gracejones) April 25, 2018
Quick Truth About Grace Jones
Complete Name: Grace Jones
Ethnicity: American
Marital status: Divorcee
Height: 5ft 9 at
Profession: Model, singer, celebrity, songwriter, musician
Place of Birth: Spanish Town, Jamaica
Astrological sign: Gemini
Grace Jones Net Worth: $7 thousand
Nationality: Jamaican
Swipe through a selection of snaps from last nights premiere of Bloodlight and Bami. Full album on Facebook #GraceJonesLive
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QA-Tr-1: QA-Triple Triangles
Triple Triangles / Triple Lines
The four points P1, P2, P3, P4 in a Quadrangle can be placed in 3 different cyclic sequences.
These cyclic sequences are:
P1 – P2 – P3 – P4,
P1 – P3 – P2 – P4.
Each of these 3 cyclic sequences represent a Quadrigon.
Just like a Quadrangle has 4 Component Triangles, it also has 3 Component Quadrigons.
In these Component Quadrigons points can be constructed belonging to the domain of a Quadrigon or a Quadrilateral. This gives us per Quadrangle 3 versions of a Quadrigon Point / Quadrilateral Point.
These 3 points form a Triple. The Triangle formed by this Triple is called the “QG-Px-Triple Triangle” or “QL-Px-Triple Triangle” in a Quadrangle.
When the 3 points are collinear the Triple forms a Line called the “QG-Px-Triple Line” or “QL-Px-Triple Line” in a Quadrangle.
For a further explanation see QG-P1 and QL-Tr-1.
Special properties related to Triple Triangles
Triple Triangles are because of their construction special triangles.
They often have an intrinsic structure which lead to special properties.
There are many examples of incidences of Circumcircles of Triple Triangles with QA-points.
There are many examples where the vertices of a Triple Triangle lie on a special conic, cubic or other curve.
There are flat Triple Triangles, where the vertices are collinear.
There are many examples of homothetic sets of Triple Triangles, perspective pairs of Triple Triangles (see QA-Tr-2), Orthologic pairs of Triple Triangles (see QA-Tr-3), Cyclologic pairs of Triple Triangles (see QA-Tr-4), Parallelologic pairs of Triple Triangles (see QA-Tr-5).
Last but not least there are Triple Triangles that are perspective, Orthologic or Cyclologic with all Component Triangles of the Reference Quadrangle. In this case we call these Triple Triangles (as proposed by Seiichi Kirikami, Ref-34, QFG #979, #980) resp. Quadri-Perspective (or Desmic, see Ref-34, QFG #986), Quadri-Orthologic, Quadri-Cyclologic.
Flat QA-Triple Triangles
The vertices of the Triple Triangles of QG-P3/QL-P5/QL-P15/QL-P18 are flat/collinear.
Homothetic sets of QA-Triple Triangles
FAM-QA1 = Family of Homothetic sets of Triple Triangles of QG-P1/QG-P2/QG-P4/QG-P8/QG-P15/QL-P12
FAM-QA2 = Family of Homothetic sets of Triple Triangles of QG-P3/QL-P15
FAM-QA3 = Family of Homothetic sets of Triple Triangles of QG-P5/QG-P10/QL-P2
FAM-QA4 = Family of Homothetic sets of Triple Triangles of QG-P7/QG-P9/QL-P6
FAM-QA5 = Family of Homothetic sets of Triple Triangles of QG-P12/QG-P14
FAM-QA2 are "Flat" Triangles, their vertices are collinear.
FAM-QA3 and FAM-QA4 are Families of Similar but rotated Triangles.
Quadri-Perspective or Desmic Triple Triangles
Definition Desmic Configuration
Three Quadrangles are said to form a Desmic Configuration when the Quadrangles are pairwise perspective in a fourfold way.
When three Quadrangles P1P2P3P4, Q1Q2Q3Q4 and R1R2R3R4 form a Desmic Configuration the perspective organization will be as follows:
Wrt pair of Quadrangles P1P2P3P4 and Q1Q2Q3Q4 (points in given order):
P1P2P3P4 ~ Q1Q2Q3Q4 with perspector R1
Wrt pair of Quadrangles Q1Q2Q3Q4 and R1R2R3R4 (points in given order):
Q1Q2Q3Q4 ~ R1R2R3R4 with perspector P1
Wrt pair of Quadrangles Q1Q2Q3Q4 and P1P2P3P4 (points in given order):
R1R2R3R4 ~ P1P2P3P4 with perspector Q1
R1R2R3R4 ~ P3P4R1P2 with perspector Q3
“~” stands for “is perspective with”.
See Ref-13, keyword "desmic mate".
The most important implication of above definition is that any Component Triangle of any given Quadrangle will be perspective with any Component Triangle of any of the other two Quadrangles. Moreover the perspector of any set of two Component Triangles from different Quadrangles will be a vertex of the third Quadrangle.
Desmic Cubic
An extra property is that there is an involutary QA-DT-cubic (see QA-Cu-1) passing through the 3x4 vertices with a pivot point that can be constructed form the 3x4 vertices (method Ref-11, Hyacinthos # 2451).
This cubic was mentioned earlier by Barry Wolk at Ref-11, Hyacinthos # 462.
For QA-examples see Ref-34, QFG#2017.
Different configurations being Desmic
There are configurations with far less elements that can lead to a Desmic Configuration.
A. When a triangle A1B1C1 is perspective with all component triangles of a quadrangle A2B2C2D2, they also form a Desmic Configuration.
They have to be entangled like this:
A1B1C1 is perspective with A2B2C2 with perspector D3
A1B1C1 is perspective with D2C2B2 with perspector A3
A1B1C1 is perspective with C2D2A2 with perspector B3
A1B1C1 is perspective with B2A2D2 with perspector C3
Moreover there will be a perspector D1 of triangles A2B2C2 and A3B3C3.
Now the triple of Quadrangles A1B1C1D1, A2B2C2D2, A3B3C3D3 form a Desmic Configuration.
When the triangle is a Triple Triangle of Px (some point QG-Px or QL-Px) and it is perspective with all Component Triangles of Reference Quadrangle P1.P2.P3.P4, then involved Triple Triangles are called “quadri-perspective” (just like the notions of quadri-orthologic Triple Triangles and quadri-cyclologic Triple Triangles) and the organization is as follows:
Let QG2=P1.P3.P2.P4, QG3=P1.P2.P3.P4 and QG4=P1.P2.P4.P3 be the 3 Component Quadrigons of a Quadrangle (note that the Quadrigon number is determined by the vertex number opposite to P1).
Let Q2 = Px wrt QG2, Q3 = Px wrt QG3, Q4 = Px wrt QG4. Now
Q2Q3Q4 is perspective with P2P3P4 with perspector R1
Moreover there will be a perspector Q1 of triangles P2P3P4 and R2R3R4.
This completes the construction of the triple of Desmic Quadrangles P1P2P3P4, Q1Q2Q3Q4, R1R2R3R4.
The Triple Triangles of QG-P12 and QL-P1 are perspective with all 4 Component Triangles of Reference Quadrangle P1.P2.P3.P4 and form a Desmic Configuration.
See further table at QA-Tr-2.
B. For a set of 3 triangles A1B1C1, A2B2C2, A3B3C3 being “Desmic” they have to be entangled like this:
A1 = B2C3∩B3C2, B1 = A2C3∩A3C2, C1 = B2A3∩B3A2
A3 = B1C2∩B2C1, B3 = A1C2∩A2C1, C3 = B1A2∩B2A1.
Consequently the triangles A1B1C1, A2B2C2, A3B3C3 are pairwise perspective.
Let D1 be the perspector of triangles A2B2C2, A3B3C3.
Now the Quadrangles A1B1C1D1, A2B2C2D2, A3B3C3D3 form a Desmic Configuration.
But also the 3 Triangles being entangled like described before are said to form a Desmic Configuration (because they define the 3 quadrangles).
The Triple Triangles of QG-P2, QG-P8, QG-P15 form combined a Desmic Configuration.
The Triple Triangles of QG-P1, QG-P18, QG-P19 form combined a Desmic Configuration.
See Ref-34, QFG #986,#2017.
C. Furthermore even a set of 2 perspective triangles A1B1C1, A2B2C2 is enough to construct a Desmic Configuration:
Let A3 = B1C2∩B2C1, B3 = A1C2∩A2C1, C3 = B1A2∩B2A1
Examples: See Ref-34, QFG#2017.
Quadri-Orthologic Triple Triangles
There is a special type of Triple Triangle with the property that it has an Orthologic relation with all Component Triangles of the Reference Quadrangle.
It occurs for the Triple Triangles created by QG-P1, QG-P5, QG-P7, QL-P2 and probably more Quadri-points. See QA-Tr-3 and Ref-34, QFG #964, # 980 and #982.
Two triangles A1B1C1 and A2B2C2 are Orthologic if the perpendiculars from the vertices A1, B1, C1 on the sides B2C2, A2C2, and A2B2 are concurrent.
The point of concurrence is known as the Orthology Center of A1B1C1 with respect to A2B2C2.
If this is the case, then the perpendiculars from the vertices A2, B2, C2 on the sides B1C1, A1C1, and A1B1 are also concurrent, as shown by Steiner in 1827. See Ref-13, Orthologic Triangles.
Quadri-Cyclologic Triple Triangles
There is a special type of Triple Triangle with the property that it has a Cyclologic relation with all Component Triangles of the Reference Quadrangle.
See QA-Tr-4 and Ref-11, Hyacinthos #22721.
It occurs for the Triple Triangle created by QL-P1 and probably for more Quadri-points. See Ref-34, QFG # 977.
Two triangles A1B1C1 and A2B2C2 are Cyclologic if the A1B2C2, B1A2C2, and C1A2B2 are concurrent in a common point. The point of concurrence is known as the Cyclologic center of A1B1C1 with respect to A2B2C2.
If this is the case, then the circles A2B1C1, B2A1C1, C2A1B1 also will be concurrent.
The point of concurrence is known as the Cyclologic center of A2B2C2 with respect to A1B1C1.
Quadri-Eulerologic Triple Triangles
There is a special type of Triple Triangle with the property that it has a Eulerologic relation with all Component Triangles of the Reference Quadrangle. See QA-Tr-6 and Ref-11, Hyacinthos #24415.
It occurs for the Triple Triangle created by QG-P5. See Ref-34, QFG # 2015.
Triangle A1B1C1 is Eulerologic wrt A2B2C2 if the Eulerlines of triangles A2B2C1, A2B1C2, A1B2C2 are concurrent.
The point of concurrence is known as the Eulerologic Center of A1B1C1 with respect to A2B2C2.
In constrast to the orthologic and cyclologic relation this Eulerologic relation isn’t always reciprocal. However there are cases that also A2B2C2 will be Eulerologic wrt A1B1C1.
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July is National Park and Recreation month, and the City of Gadsden’s Parks and Recreation Department is celebrating by bringing outdoor games and activities to a new park each weekend in July with its Get Your Play On campaign.
Parks and Recreation staff will be in a different city park from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. each Saturday and Sunday in July. The staff will provide games like giant Jenga, bean bag toss, and ladder ball with other summer toys like bubbles, hula hoops, and jump ropes for children to play with.
In conjunction with National Park and Recreation Month, the City of Gadsden has plans for the renovation of several city parks, including Moragne Park. Dwight Park, Louis Street Park, Cherry Street Park, and Hastings Park have already been renovated with new playground equipment.
Gadsden’s Get Your Play On campaign is a branch of the National Recreation and Park Association’s (NRPA) annual Park and Recreation Month. NRPA encourages people to be active and involved in July, whether they visit parks on their own or participate in events put on by their local parks and recreation department. The Parks and Recreation Department hopes that the Get Your Play On event will encourage residents to take advantage of Gadsden’s passive parks. These parks, though they do not have playground equipment, provide ample space for outdoor recreation and relaxation.
For more information on the Get Your Play On campaign, contact the City of Gadsden Parks and Recreation Department at 256-549-4680.
The complete Get Your Play On parks schedule is listed below:
July 1st- Hastings Park
July 2nd- Adams Park
July 8th- Carver Community Park
July 9th- Cherry Street Park
July 15th- Dwight Park
July 16th- James D. Martin Wildlife
July 22nd- Louis Street Park
July 23rd- North Gadsden Park
July 29th- Banks Park
July 30th- Coosa Landing
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New Release ☆ Racing the Sun by Karina Halle
From the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of Where Sea Meets Sky comes a new adult novel about a young woman who becomes a nanny in Capri and falls for her charges’ bad-boy brother.
When I’m traveling, I feel like the secret to my life, to myself, to really becoming, is one step ahead. It’s in the next destination, the next town I get lost in, the next stranger I talk to. It’s always next but never here . . .
After six months of backpacking and soul-searching across the world, Amber MacLean is flat broke. There are worse places for a twentysomething to be stuck than the Amalfi Coast, but the only way she can earn enough money for a plane ticket home to California is to teach English to two of the brattiest children she has ever met.
It doesn’t help that the children are under the care of their brooding older brother, ex-motorcycle racer Desiderio Larosa. Darkly handsome and oh-so-mysterious, the young master of the crumbling villa tests Amber’s patience and will at every turn—not to mention her hormones.
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Sub-Dissociative Ketamine and Fentanyl to Treat Moderate to Severe Pain
Recruitment Status : Terminated (Residency completed.)
Last Update Posted : September 11, 2020
Mercy Health Ohio
The objective of this study is to evaluate the potential opioid-sparing effect associated with the novel combination of fentanyl and sub-dissociative ketamine in adult patients with moderate to severe pain in the emergency department.
Pain, Acute Drug: Fentanyl Combination Product: Fentanyl and Ketamine Drug: Ketamine Phase 4
Pain is a very common complaint in the emergency department (ED). The use of opioids to treat moderate to severe pain has increased over the last decade as well as the number of opioid related deaths. In 1999 to 2016, more than 630,000 people died from a drug overdose. Treatment for acute pain has been assessed in the ED, with review of several different pain medications. Sub-dissociative ketamine (SDK) has become a valuable treatment option for acute pain and in recent years, has been of increased interest due to the growing concerns regarding opioid abuse and opioid shortage in the United States. Sub-dissociative ketamine, an NMDA receptor antagonist, has been studied in dose ranges of 1-4.5 mg/kg for dissociative sedation, as well as dose ranges of 0.1-0.3 mg/kg to treat pain. The onset of action for an IV dose of 2 mg/kg has been studied, with onset usually within 30 seconds after injection and anesthetic effect lasting 5-10 minutes. Common side effects include elevated blood pressure, diplopia or nystagmus, nausea and vomiting. More rare and more severe side effects in dissociative doses include respiratory depression, emergency phenomenon, tonic and clonic movements, and anaphylaxis. However, these were rarely, if ever seen, findings in sub-dissociative doses. Several studies indicate that SDK is a safe and effective alternative to opioids for patients with complaints of moderate to severe pain that provides adequate analgesic effect by itself. In particular, several studies have compared SDK versus morphine, particularly looking at pain in individuals with abdominal pain, flank pain, low back pain or musculoskeletal pain, and acute fractures. SDK has also shown to decrease opioid consumption and the need for rescue analgesia. The studies showed that that there was no difference in average pain scores, but the amount of morphine required was significantly decreased. SDK has proven to be a safe alternative, but the side effects, although short, make it less desirable to use. To the investigator's knowledge, there has never been a study focusing on the use of combination fentanyl and SDK. Fentanyl, an opioid agonist, has been studied in low dose forms of 2 mcg/kg for pain, moderate dose forms of 2-20 mcg/kg for major surgical procedures, and high dose forms of 20-50 mcg/kg for orthopedic and open heart surgeries. Onset of action is almost immediate when given IV, and maximal effect of the drug may take several minutes. The usual duration of action is 30-60 minutes. Common side effects include hypertension, hypotension, dizziness, blurred vision, nausea, vomiting and laryngospasm. Serious side effects included respiratory depression, apnea, rigidity, bradycardia, serotonin syndrome, adrenal insufficiency, and if left untreated could cause cardiac arrest and circulatory depression. There have been several combination studies with SDK, but none regarding fentanyl and ketamine. In one study, combination SDK and reduced dose hydromorphone produced rapid pain relief without significant side effects. Another study indicated that morphine and SDK both provided adequate pain relief alone, but combined morphine and SDK required less morphine administration, had faster onset of relief, and provided sustained reduction in pain intensity for up to 2 hours.
Actual Enrollment : 6 participants
Masking: Single (Participant)
Official Title: A Combination Study With Sub-Dissociative Ketamine and Fentanyl to Treat Moderate to Severe Pain in the Emergency Department
Actual Primary Completion Date : June 5, 2020
Actual Study Completion Date : June 5, 2020
Drug Information available for: Fentanyl Fentanyl citrate Ketamine
Active Comparator: Sub-Dissociative Ketamine alone
0.3 mg/kg of Sub-Dissociative Ketamine IV administered over at least 1 minute
Drug: Ketamine
Other Name: Ketamine Hydrochloride
Active Comparator: Fentanyl alone
1 mg/kg of Fentanyl IV administered over at least 1 minute
Drug: Fentanyl
Other Name: Fentanyl Citrate
Experimental: Sub-dissociative Ketamine and Fentanyl
Combined dose of 0.15 mg/kg of Sub-dissociative Ketamine and 0.5 mg/kg of Fentanyl IV administered over at least 1 minute
Combination Product: Fentanyl and Ketamine
Combined dose of 0.15 mg/kg of Sub-dissociative Ketamine and 0.5 mg/kg of Fentanyl IV administered over at least 1 minute.
Analgesia of combination fentanyl and SDK as assessed using the pain scale 1-10 [ Time Frame: ED encounter (less than 24 hours) ]
Analgesia of combination fentanyl and SDK as assessed using the pain scale 1-10
Analgesia of fentanyl as assessed using the pain scale 1-10 [ Time Frame: ED encounter (less than 24 hours) ]
Analgesia of fentanyl as assessed using the pain scale 1-10
Analgesia of ketamine as assessed using the pain scale 1-10 [ Time Frame: ED encounter (less than 24 hours) ]
Analgesia of katamine as assessed using the pain scale 1-10
OARRS report [ Time Frame: ED encounter (less than 24 hours) ]
A retrospective review of OARRS report will be performed with each patient.
Opioid sparing response as assessed by number of times additional rescue doses of fentanyl were required [ Time Frame: ED encounter (less than 24 hours) ]
Opioid sparing response as assessed by number of times additional rescue doses of fentanyl were required
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
Moderate pain defined as 4-6 out of 10, severe pain defined as ≥ 7 out of 10 as defined by the numeric rating pain scale (NRS)
Proficient in reading and understanding English
Are deemed by the attending physician to require opioid therapy.
Inability to give consent,
Inability to use the numeric rating scale (NRS) score
Long-term use of opioids, history of chronic pain
Known substance abuse known as excessive use of a drug such as (e.g. alcohol, narcotics or cocaine)
Known hypersensitivity to ketamine or fentanyl
Alcohol intoxication
On dialysis
Heart rate (HR) less < 60 bpm or > 120 bpm
Systolic blood pressure (SBP) < 90 mmHg or > 180 mmHg
Ketamine prior to arrival
Trauma patients
Sepsis or septic shock
Weight > 100 kg.
St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital
Boardman, Ohio, United States, 44512
Study Director: David Gemmel Director of Research
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Responsible Party: Mercy Health Ohio
Other Study ID Numbers: 18-040
Last Update Posted: September 11, 2020
Last Verified: September 2020
Keywords provided by Mercy Health Ohio:
Sensory System Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Anesthetics, Dissociative
Anesthetics, Intravenous
Anesthetics, General
Excitatory Amino Acid Agents
Analgesics, Opioid
Adjuvants, Anesthesia
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Outreach & Policy >
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Brexit and changes to the UK's immigration policy
2019 responses
Migration Advisory Committee consultation
In light of the UK’s decision to leave the EU, the Government are reviewing the UK’s immigration policy from 2021 onwards. In 2018, the Government published a White Paper outlining a proposed new system, which was informed by evidence gathered in a previous consultation by the Migration Advisory Committee. The proposed salary thresholds in the White Paper were only in partial agreement with the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) recommendations of September 2018.
The Government has since asked the MAC for further advice on the issue of salary thresholds, as they would fit within a points-based ‘Australian-style’ migration system, as proposed by the Prime Minister in July 2019. MAC is gathering evidence to form a report for Government on the issue and the Society is formulating a response in which your comments would be appreciated.
In the current UK migration system a wide range of salary thresholds exist depending on occupation, skill level, sector, and other attributes. The 2018 Immigration White Paper proposes a single migration salary threshold of the 25th percentile of average full-time earnings (or £30,000, whichever is higher). In the geosciences, a number of occupations from a range of sectors are likely to be impacted by the proposed changes, including postdoctoral researchers, technical and support staff, those in the early stages of their career, and those employed outside London. We would encourage Fellows who employ foreign nationals, who have experience of the current Tier 2 visa system, or who have applied for settlement in the UK to get in touch.
To help the MAC better understand the future migration salary threshold and its wider implications, they are seeking evidence to improve their understanding of how skill level and salaries vary across the UK. We are asking Fellows to get in touch and share their knowledge with us to help formulate a data-driven response to their call for evidence. Please submit your comments to our Policy team at policy@geolsoc.org.uk by close of business on Friday 18 October 2019 to be included within the response.
A summary of the questions asked by the call for evidence is provided below. Fellows are encouraged to email comments to policy@geolsoc.org.uk for inclusion within the Society's response. Full details of the content in the call for evidence can be found via the gov.uk website, or by downloading the document 'Annex B: Call for Evidence Questions'.
Are staff located regionally or nationwide?
In the last five years have you recruited staff from:
EEA countries
Non-EEA countries
In the next 12 months are your likely to recruit workers from:
Experience of Tier 2 visas
Have you any non-EEA employees recruited under a current Tier 2 visa?
How do Tier 2 visa salary requirements compare with usual pay for the same role?
Have you any issues with Tier 2 visas?
Have any Tier 2 visa staff applied for settlement?
How does the £35,800 settlement salary threshold compare to salaries paid at the time of application for settlement?
Salary thresholds
Should there be a minimum salary threshold (above the legal minimum wage)?
Should such a threshold be applied universally across the economy and the UK to ensure simplicity?
Should there be a variety of salary thresholds to reflect employer needs and, if so, how should these be decided (e.g. by sector/region/career level/occupation)?
What accommodations should be made to the salary threshold for jobs in shortage?
What is your opinion of the current salary threshold?
Do you think the minimum salary requirement of £30,000 for most occupations is too high, too low, or about right?
What should count towards salary when assessing whether an individual meets the threshold (e.g. company car, pension, commission, part-time working hours, housing allowances, employee equity, etc.)?
Australian points-based system
The Government is considering adopting an Australian-type points-based system of immigration. Please tell us the relative importance of the following characteristics typically used to award points to migrants:
Having studied in the UK
Having a job offer
Priority occupations
If you have any questions or would like to discuss submitting information to this call for evidence, please contact policy@geolsoc.org.uk.
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The Art of Executive Coaching
Secrets to Unlock Leadership Performance
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Mini-Interlude 10 – Mateo
The following is a commissioned mini-interlude focusing on Mateo and Roxa interacting with the pack shortly after he introduced her to them.
The rhythmic, somehow soothing sound of a basketball bouncing against pavement mixed with the shuffling of sneakers in a sort of orchestra of sounds that also included the occasional grunt, bang of the ball against a backboard or rim, and swish of the net.
And if those sounds were the music of the song, the trash talk was its lyrics.
“C’mon, you ain’t got nothing. Nothing. I’m gonna take the ball, toss it, and then put you through the net, midget.” The words came from an enormous Samoan man who appeared to be patient zero for the stereotype about his people being large. His face was fresh and smooth, his head entirely hairless. His shirtless torso rippled with muscles.
The other figure playing defense alongside the giant was a young black woman with short hair that had been dyed purple to match the color of the lenses in the sunglasses that she wore. She wore an Indiana Pacers jersey and running shorts. “Man, you better put it up!” she taunted their opponent while working for an opening. “Put up the rock! He gonna take it from ya! Strip it from ya like a hooker in a convent!”
The one with the ball wasn’t quite a ‘midget’ as the Samoan teased, though anyone seemed to be next to that giant. He was slightly under average height at five foot six, with red hair and a pale complexion that made him stand out whenever he went out in the South American city of Bogotá where they made their home.
He also gave as good as he got, firing back at the two defenders, “Maybe we could go up to that convent y’all keep talking about and get a couple of those nuns to play some decent D for you.”
The man-mountain took a step forward at that, moving to grab the ball from the small red-headed guy. Before his arm could come down, however, another figure blocked his way. Her dusky skin and long, luxurious dark hair currently tied into a ponytail betrayed her Hispanic heritage. She was, in fact, the only member of their group beyond the leader who had actually been born in Colombia.
“Just cuz they call you a mountain,” she informed the giant of a man after putting herself between him and her teammate with the ball, “doesn’t mean you always gotta move that slow.”
As the game continued that way, the two figures who stood at the edge of the court continued to watch. The male of the pair was clearly older, a thin and unassuming-looking Hispanic man who appeared to be in his early thirties and who would look perfectly at home sitting behind an accountant’s desk. His companion, meanwhile, was a teenage girl with blonde hair and a swimmer’s build.
“Can I ask you… I mean is it rude to ask—I mean is there a good way to…” the little blonde girl trailed off then, biting her lip indecisively as she struggled to find the right way to phrase her question.
Mateo Dias just smiled faintly, thinking back to the time that all her questions had been on the tip of his tongue. The awkwardness, confusion, even the fear. He remembered it all as if it had been yesterday.
Mierda, he still couldn’t believe it had been as long as it had. The memories and scars (even if they were emotional rather than physical ones) were still fresh enough to sting if he paid attention to them, like a physical burn that he couldn’t help but touch just to see if it was still painful.
“How did I get this way?” he offered easily while his eyes followed the path of the ball as it arced up to bounce off the backboard before dropping into the net. The score prompted groans and cheers from each pair of teammates. “How’d I become a wolf-man?”
The girl—Roxa, he reminded himself, flushed a little bit. “I mean, you don’t have to talk about it right now,” she quickly responded. “If it’s… just… rude or whatever.”
Mateo shook his head. “For some it is. Me—well, it was a long time ago. Back when it was a lot harder to find a date if you were…” He paused, glancing sidelong to the girl. “If you were gay,” he finished. “I was a teenager, just a dumb kid who thought I found the right guy to experiment with these new feelings I had. Turned out to be a bad choice. He was part of a super-religious pack of wolves who thought it was their calling to turn kids like me into soldiers for the faith. They called it education. It was torture and reconditioning. They tried to strip away the bits they didn’t like. Made boot camp look like paradise. It wasn’t a school, it was a torture camp.
“People thought they had a good success rate. Turns out, shock a kid’s genitals enough times when you ask him if he’s attracted to the picture of the naked guy you put up on the wall, and it doesn’t take long for him to figure out which answer you wanna hear.”
Roxa was staring at him in horror, her mouth open. “Oh my god. I—I didn’t—I’m sorry, I–”
“Like I said, it was a long time ago.” Mateo put a hand on her shoulder. “After a few weeks of games like that, they thought they had me broken. Say what they wanna hear, convince them you’re serious and you get fed. Even get a blanket to sleep with. Say anything wrong, let them think you’re still a nasty little sinner, and you get electro-therapy, poison food so you throw everything up until it feels like your stomach’s turning inside out, and… shit I’m not gonna tell you about. Point is, I played good little soldier for them, said what they wanted to hear. So they turned me, made me one of their wolf-troops. But as soon as I had a chance, I tore my recruiter’s throat out and took off.”
He gestured behind them at the tiny, unused church building where his pack had made their home. “Maybe that’s why I set up shop in this place. Felt like just another way of giving them the middle finger.” The thought made him smirk to himself before he nodded to the court. “I know you just made introductions yesterday, but you remember everyone?”
“Oh,” Roxa straightened with a nod. “Yeah, I think so. The um, the big guy’s Rangi, but he prefers Fezzik because he loves that one movie–”
“The Princess Bride,” Mateo confirmed. “And yeah, might as well stick with Fezzik because he barely responds to the other one. Oh, and don’t even think about getting between him and the TV when Star Trek’s on. He may look like he eats linebackers from the American football teams, but he’s really a giant nerd.”
Clearly snickering in spite of herself, Roxa continued. “His partner with the purple hair, she’s ummm…. ummm… Lesedi, right? From South Africa.”
“Right, those two are Fezzik and Lesedi. They usually work together whenever we have to go out in pairs. And the other two?”
“The red-head’s from Texas,” Roxa recited, thinking about it for a second. “His name’s… Corson? Franklin Corson, but it’s mostly just Corson.”
Nodding once again in confirmation, Mateo was about to say something else when the last member of their pack, the Colombian girl, called out to them while holding the ball under one arm. “Yeah, and I’m Hasty. Now you gonna hurry up and get in on this game or what?”
“You see why we call her that,” Mateo muttered an aside toward Roxa even as his own amusement made a smile pull at his lips. Her name wasn’t actually Hasty, of course. But it fit the girl more than her given name of Nicole did. She tended to act without thinking, rushing into things in ways that often got her in trouble. But she was loyal, and fierce.
Fezzik, Lesedi, Corson, and Hasty. Along with Mateo, they had been a pack for the past several years. There had been others, more before them, but between the Heretics, rival packs, and the actual Nocen (otherwise known as Alters who had gone completely dark and evil) that roamed the streets of Bogotá, they lost members more than he liked to think about.
And now they had Roxa. It was going to take the former-Crossroads student time to settle into the situation, he knew. Just like it was going to take the rest of the pack time to get used to sensing a Heretic whenever they saw her. But at least they were trying, on both sides. Which was good, because if this worked out, the girl would be an incredible asset to the pack. Especially considering the fact that she retained her Heretic-abilities.
“What do you think?” Mateo asked her with a little nudge. “Should we show these losers how to play some real BloodBall?”
“BloodBall?” Roxa echoed with a slight frown. “What’s that?”
Hasty smirked from the court. “What’s BloodBall? You know how they say, ‘no blood, no foul’? We take it a step further than that. No foul, period. If you’re not making the other team bleed, you’re not playing hard enough.”
Mateo clarified. “Since we heal everything anyway, we play hard and we hit hard. Full contact. You okay with that?”
For a second, Roxa seemed to be considering it. She shifted her weight a little, biting her lip before giving a short nod. “Okay. Sure. Might as well give it a shot.”
“Cool! Three-on-three!” Corson grinned, his pale face flushed from their work-out so far. “We’ll take the new girl. Shorty and the purple people-eater can take Mateo, since y’all need the help.”
“Shorty?” Fezzik demanded, obviously trying hard not to laugh. “Right, just because I can fold you into–”
That was as far as the big guy got before Hasty threw the ball to literally bounce it off his forehead. As Fezzik reeled from the blow, Corson lunged to catch the ball and did a quick alley-oop behind his back. As the ball neared the backboard, Hasty leapt, her enhanced werewolf strength carrying her high enough to catch the ball. By that point, Lesedi was already jumping to intervene. But Hasty put a foot against the other girl’s chest, kicking her down while tipping the ball through the hoop.
“BloodBall,” Mateo repeated for Roxa. “If it goes too far, hold a fist up. Means you need a second to heal or something’s wrong. Got it?” When the blonde nodded, he gave her a little push. “Great. See? Since you’re here, I actually get to play. You’re making good things happen already.”
His trio took the ball out then, tossing it in before working their way down the court. Mateo kept an eye on their newest recruit, but Roxa seemed to be doing just fine. Especially considering where she’d been. Every once in awhile, he caught either her or one of the pack staring at each other. Obviously, it was going to take some time for them to get used to the Heretic thing. But he trusted his pack. He had to. They weren’t just a family. They were both family and warriors. They depended on each other to survive. Which meant they had to trust every member to have each other’s back no matter what happened.
Thankfully, his pack had spent enough time around Sebastian that sensing Heretics wasn’t completely foreign to them. That helped enormously. He was pretty sure that if they hadn’t had that much familiarity at least, it would have taken much longer to get them to accept Roxa’s recruitment.
Shaking the thought out of his mind, Mateo gave the ball a hard pass straight through Corson’s outstretched arms and into Lesedi’s hands.
Catching the ball, the girl pivoted around on one foot while her other one lashed out to nail the incoming Hasty (who was living up to her name) in the side of the leg. The blow made her stumble with a wolf-like yip, and Lesedi took advantage to rush toward the net.
Roxa was the only one still in her way, and Lesedi smiled at the blonde. “Think I’m gonna take it easy on you just because you’re the rookie, Pup?”
Continuing to back up, giving ground as the black girl came closer, Roxa shook her head. “Nah, if you did, this’d just seem unfair.” As she finished speaking, the blonde girl gave a feint lunge forward before spinning around. She dropped to one knee, her other leg lashing out to sweep Lesedi’s out from under her. As the other girl hit the ground, Roxa caught the ball.
Then she was gone. Wolves were fast runners, even in their human form. But they were still bound by human speeds that way. Roxa, on the other hand, must have hit sixty miles per hour before she even reached the other side of the court. She tossed the ball up and through the hoop while everyone else was still realizing that she’d stolen the ball.
As the ball dropped to the ground, the girl caught it and turned to find the rest of the pack all staring at her. Her mouth opened and then she hesitated, looking unsure of herself. “Err, you did say full contact and power, right? That means… wait, did I… I mean… was that… shit, sorry I–”
Lesedi laughed, doing a quick kip-up to put herself back on her feet. “Good trick, Cub. But it ain’t gonna work again. We’re onto you now.”
Smirking a little, Mateo walked that way, holding his hand out for the ball. “No need to apologize. Like we said. Full power. Full strength. No fouls. You give as good as you get, you’ll fit in here just fine.”
Something damp was in Roxa’s eyes before she blinked it away and cleared her throat. She rolled the basketball over in her hands, then threw it to him. “Okay,” she said simply, though that one single word, ‘okay’ betrayed more emotion than he’d heard in some entire speeches.
Taking the ball out once more, Mateo watched the others. His pack. His people. Roxa would be one of them. He knew that just by looking at her. She belonged here. Belonged with them.
And he was going to make sure she knew that.
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See? I told you guys the new mini-interlude would come out soon! Hope you guys enjoyed seeing Roxa interact with her new pack, and we’ll definitely be seeing more of them as time goes on. After all, Flick is gonna need her allies outside of the school…
Anyway, today’s tags are: Corson, Fezzik, Hasty, I Really Fucking Wish That Electrocuting Genitals To ‘Cure’ Gayness Was Something I Made Up., If You Think That’s Violent – Wait Until You See Their Version Of Golf., Lesedi, Mateo, Roxa Pittman
KageLupus says:
This is probably going to sound really bad and insensitive, but when I read the tags I thought that the golf one was in relation to the previous. Which made me even less into the idea of conversion therapy than I already was.
The same happened here- its not insensitive, you just misread it.
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I Really Fucking Wish That Electrocuting Genitals To ‘Cure’ Gayness Was Something I Made Up
…Damn I’d kind of been thinking it was. Or at least that it was just a story/myth. Now I’m not enjoying this chapter nearly as much.
It is quite literally difficult to exaggerate the shit that goes down in conversion therapy. I know of one camp which would insert red-hot nails under their victims’ fingernails. When conversion therapy is referred to as ‘torture’, that’s a very literal term. I would not be anywhere near surprised to learn that some conversion therapy programs lifted their methods directly from Spanish Inquisition playbooks.
And what’s equally fucked up about that is not only is that shit legal in most states, but it’s also legal for parents to forcibly send their children to such places if they’re so inclined.
Nah. They do things the Inquistion would get audited by a centralised body to prevent. I’m being serious: the Inquisition had rules with personal and proffesional consequences for overstepping them both within the organisation and without. They still did tremendously horrible things, mind you — but, a lot of their atrocities are greatly distorted and exaggerated. If you were a heretic, a suspected false convert or a political activist with a personal grudge against specific Church personages, your day was guaranteed to be a bad one, if a by-the-book one. Not so much the case if you were bonkers, ignorant, mentally challenged or a witch (aka “bonkers”), though. Once that was determined, you basically got a cup of tea and a biscuit while your community got a slap on the wrist for being idiots. 😛
Those running conversion therapy camps? Not so much. They don’t go in for limits. -_-
Nice that Roxa seems to be integrating into her new pack, even if her background & abilities as a (former) Crossroads Heretic have some potential for awkwardness. Though good for Mateo that he’s going to do whatever he can to make her feel welcome there.
Wonder whether Roxa’ll end up wanting to go back to Crossroads if/when Flick & the rest manage to take that necklace from Pace, or if she’d rather stay with the pack after having been with them for a time?
Though it does sound like it can be a risky existence for the werewolves.
And damn, does Mateo have one fucked up backstory, being turned into a werewolf after getting preyed upon by some sort of weird cult that wanted werewolf crusaders, and subjected him to ‘conversion therapy.’ At least he made the guy responsible pay for what he did, though I’m guessing that cult is still in business.
I Really Fucking Wish That Electrocuting Genitals To ‘Cure’ Gayness Was Something I Made Up.
Yeah, if only that shit, whether done for that particular reason, or for any other was something done by evil bad guys in fiction….
Well, that was a nice and relaxing minilude. I’m excited to see more of these guys. Also, naming the huge Samoan guy after an Andre the Giant character has made me think of him as a bigger, jolly version of Samoa Joe.
I’m also a bit worried, because between Mateo’s backstory including trusting the wrong person and Deveron’s explanation of the rebellion beginning in earnest when he and Joselyn trusted the wrong person seem like pretty clear indications that Flick is going to end up making the same mistake. Or that she has already.
On a lighter note than that, I have a few questions. Where’s Gidget? I’m guessing she’s with Sebastian, but I wanted to be clear. Generally speaking, how old are the packmates other than Roxa? Do they all know Spanish and will Roxa start trying to learn it? Pretty sure the answer to that one is yes. Then again, she lived around L.A., right? Am I remembering that one right? I’d half expect someone who grew up in that situation in that area to already know some Spanish.
Also, naming the huge Samoan guy after an Andre the Giant character has made me think of him as a bigger, jolly version of Samoa Joe.
*googles* Yeah, think of him as sort of Samoa Joe’s face on Dalip Singh’s body.
Where’s Gidget? I’m guessing she’s with Sebastian, but I wanted to be clear.
Yes. I meant to work in a reference to that, but it got lost in the shuffle of explaining who everyone else was.
Generally speaking, how old are the packmates other than Roxa?
Mateo looks like he’s in his early thirties, but he’s actually about twice that. Rangi/Fezzik is in his early forties. Hasty is in her late twenties. Corson and Lesedi are early twenties. Regeneration slows the aging process, of course.
Do they all know Spanish
and will Roxa start trying to learn it? Pretty sure the answer to that one is yes. Then again, she lived around L.A., right? Am I remembering that one right? I’d half expect someone who grew up in that situation in that area to already know some Spanish.
Correct, she did live in California. And she knows some Spanish, though not enough for a conversation.
Who? *google* Oh, that guy. Got it.
Yeah, I remember you telling us that awhile ago. Honestly, I’m surprised some of the other packmates aren’t older. I was expecting more of them to have cleared the fifty year mark.
I was also expecting Roxa to be the youngest, and am happy to see that I was right about that. I really like the “Pup” nickname.
Also, I’ve added Fezzik to my headcanon of pro-wrestling fans. Right there with Twister. And Herbie, can’t forget him. He’s just so flattered that The Rock was inspired by him.
Gidget probably has better things to do than play dunk with a bunch of wolfpeople. Like find a nice sunbeam to recharge in way up on a ledge… while keeping half an eye on things.
Roxa’s got this, no need to tag team. 🙂
“But as soon as I had a chance, I tore my recruiter’s throat out and took off.””
Me: Honestly, I can’t blame him for that course of action. What was described happening to him is well beyond the pale.
“you just made introductions yesterday, but you remember everyone?”
“The Princess Bride,” Mateo confirmed. “And yeah, might as well stick with Fezzik because he barely responds to the other one. ”
Me: I wonder, does he like to refer to the pack as the Brute Squad?
Me: I am pleased that Roxa seems to be acclimating well to the pack, and them to her.
>I’m also a bit worried, because between Mateo’s backstory including trusting the wrong person and Deveron’s explanation of the rebellion beginning in earnest when he and Joselyn trusted the wrong person seem like pretty clear indications that Flick is going to end up making the same mistake. Or that she has already.
Me: Well, many of the people Flick associates with atm seem on the level at least, but yeah that is a valid worry.
So how big are normal werewolf packs? cause the two we’ve seen are 20+ and 6- this seems rather diffrent
It does vary a lot. Mateo’s is pretty much just the people he can trust to be okay with his boyfriend being a Heretic.
Roxa could so much be their daughter. Heretic, outcast, strong social instinct (if Gidget doesn’t show an underlying wish for connection, I’m a cabbage), clever, werewolf… She’s got traits of both of them. 🙂
“a super-religious pack of wolves who thought it was their calling to turn kids like me into soldiers for the faith. ”
Good grief, even werewolves have religious extremists.
“Electrocuting Genitals to ‘Cure’ Gayness”
That. Is. Fucked. Up.
And it’s something that happens in real life too.
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami is set to meet Ministers and officials at the Secretariat today, to review monsoon preparedness in the State.
This comes in the wake of cyclone alert issued for southern Tamil Nadu. R B Udayakumar, Minister for Revenue, Disaster Management and IT, said the CM will consult Collectors of Southern districts too in this regard.
Palaniswami has announced the extension of the general Covid-19 lockdown till midnight December 31, 2020 subject to certain relaxations.
In a statement, Palaniswami said that it was decided to extend the lockdown, with new relaxations till December 31, based on the discussions with the medical and public health experts, District Collectors to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
New set of relaxations :
– The existing system of E-registration for those coming to Tamilnadu from states would continue. Those coming from Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Union Territory of Puducherry would be exempted from this registration.
-Final year undergraduate courses in all colleges and universities and medical courses (undergraduate and post graduate) to start from 7.11.2020.
-For the first year college students, classes for the academic year will commence from 1.2.2020.
-Swimming pools for sports training purposes will be allowed to function following standard operating procedures (SOP).
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-Indoor social, political and religious gatherings allowed, subject to 50 per cent seating capacity and not exceeding 200 persons from 1.12.2020 to 31.12.2020. Permission from the District Collectors and from Greater Chennai Police (for Chennai meetings) are necessary.
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Bitcoin recovers after market chaos – Weekly news 11/2020
Tags: Bitcoin, corona, hodl, Russia
Robin Nyberg
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After a week of dramatic drops and market chaos Bitcoin has again started a rocketing rise upward. But since it’s about Bitcoin it’s also possible that the chaos will continue and the price will plunge down again right after this text is published. Bitcoin is indeed quite an unpredictable rascal.
Our technical analyst provides a deeper look at bitcoin’s historical drop in his recent blog. We have also published an article on how to short bitcoins on the market.
This week we will take a look at bitcoin hodlers who hodl and most certainly were not behind the recent market crash. Meanwhile the raging coronavirus has inspired people to do good in the crypto scene, while also creating opportunities for scammers abusing the pandemic.
In other news we have Russia’s attempts at curbing cryptocurrencies, as well as the curious case of an alleged Bitcoin time traveller from the future.
Last week’s news can be found here.
Bitcoin is rising again and philosoraptor ponders.
Hodlers were not behind the market crash
Cryptocurrency prices have been swinging back and forth after crashing dramatically during the past week. One assumed reason was that so called “hodlers” who have long held their bitcoins would have started selling them in the chaos and uncertainty caused by the coronavirus.
However, fresh data reveals this assumption is wrong. According to a study by Unchained Capital, bitcoin hodlers – in this case defined as having held bitcoins more than five years – did not start transferring their coins.
In contrast it seems both last year’s bull market and the ongoing bear market are related to investors who have only held their bitcoins for a short time. Most of the recently sold bitcoins were ones held by investors for only 6 months or less.
“The volatility certainly didn’t come from the >5y HODLers. Are those coins lost or do those bitcoiners have hands of steel?”, Unchained Capital asked after publishing the results.
Hodlers just hodl.
Russia wants to ban cryptocurrencies
According to Alexei Gusnov, head of the Russian central bank’s legal department, the central bank is going to prohibit the issuance and circulation of cryptocurrencies in the country. Guznov spoke of the plans to local news agency Interfax.
The new restrictions are part of a wider regulation yet to be formed. An earlier draft of the regulation would have allowed cryptocurrency use and exchange, but the new law is significantly stricter in the matter.
“In terms of the functioning of the financial system and consumer protection system, legalization of the issuance and facilitating the circulation of cryptocurrencies is an unjustified risk. As such, the bill explicitly prohibits emission and organization of cryptocurrency circulation, introducing legal liability for violating these rules,” Guznov told.
It is so far unclear when the law is set to come into effect. A bigger question is whether it’s even possible to effectively oversee the restrictions. Guznov did not reveal how the ban would be practically implemented.
Russia’s central bank wants to curb crypto – or at least try.
Famous bitcoin analyst accused of forgery
Jacob Canfield, a crypto analyst followed by over 63 000 people, is accused of manipulating pictures to make his investments look more successful than they actually were. Canfield’s forgery seems to have been revealed from screenshots taken by Twitter username King.
Canfield admitted to having photoshopped at least “some” screenshots. He also defended himself by claiming the forgeries would have taken place early in his career. Additionally he claimed to have been delirious after staying awake three days without sleep.
It has been verified that Canfield manipulated at least one picture, in which he exaggerated his profit as 15.59 bitcoins while the actual amount was 7 bitcoins. King in turn claims to have evidence of at least 10 other forgeries.
The case is a good reminder that screenshots in practice do not work as evidence in modern times. It also serves to show that investors are willing to lie about their success in order to improve their own reputation.
An alleged screenshot from the discussion.
Scammers abuse the coronavirus
Cybersecurity company Sophos reports that a group of online scammers have impersonated the World Health Organization with the intention to lure bitcoin donations. The perpetrators claim the money is used in the battle against the corona epidemic.
The scammers send emails from the fictive address [email protected] In contrast to normal scam messages filled with errors, the language is relatively high in quality. So far it seems the scammers have failed to find victims, since the bitcoin addresses in question remain empty at press time.
The case is not the only scam related to the coronavirus, since the pandemic has also made other miscreants crawl out. According to authorities in the United Kingdom some scammers are selling corona insurances and demanding payment in bitcoins. A malware called CovidLock is also currently spreading and locking down computers while demanding $100 dollars worth in bitcoins as ransom.
Scammers are trying to abuse people’s panic and goodwill.
Crypto mining power used to combat corona
CoreWeave, the largest Ethereum miner in the United States, has redirected its computing power to modelling coronavirus proteins. CoreWeave took 6 000 units specialized for computing from its network and dedicated them to Stanford University’s [email protected] project.
[email protected] is a project enabling decentralized modelling. When the corona epidemic grew worse the Stanford University decided that all of its computing power would be used to simulate coronavirus proteins, unless specifically earmarked for something else.
[email protected] has earlier partaken in the development of different medicinal breakthroughs. According to Coreweave’s CTO Brian Venturo the project has at least a chance at finding a cure for the virus.
“Their research had profound impacts on the development of front-line HIV defense drugs, and we are hoping our computing power will aid in the fight against coronavirus,” Venturo said.
Anyone can use [email protected]
Reddit’s Bitcoin time traveller mystifies
A strange mystery is unfolding at Reddit’s Bitcoin forum, related to a user claiming to be a time traveller. In 2013 the user wrote a message claiming to come from an apocalyptic future in which bitcoin has risen to a million dollars. The user was blocked from the forum already years ago, but now his original message has been edited.
Under normal conditions Reddit messages can no longer be edited if the original sender has been blocked from the forum. Despite this the message has been edited as if done by the original user.
“In my world, soon to be your world, most governments no longer exist, as Bitcoin transactions are done anonymously and thus most governments can enforce no taxation on their citizens,” wrote username Luka_Magnotta.
The user also told that there are so called “Bitcoin citadels” in the future where bitcoin users seek shelter from hostile regimes and their drone armies. The username ”Luka_Magnotta” is assumed to be connected to Luka Rocco Magnotto, a prison convict known for murdering a Chinese man and sending his body parts to the Canadian parliament.
While the case and afterwards edited message may seem strange, it is probably not as bizarre as it sounds. The editing has most likely been done playfully by an admin or employee of Reddit.
The username Luka_Magnotta claims he can prove his time travel.
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ROB/3/2/139 Drawing of Express Engine manufactured by Messrs Robert Stephenson & Co for the York, Newcastle & Berwick Railway
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ROB/3/2/140 Drawing of Express engine for York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway
ROB/3/2/141 Drawing of Express engine for York, Newcaslte and Berwick Railway
ROB/3/2/142 Arrangement of Working Gear of Express Engine manufactured by Messrs Robert Stephenson & Coy for the York, Newcastle & Berwick Railway
ROB/3/2/143 Drawing of Three Cylinder Express Engine for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway No 737
ROB/3/2/144 Drawing of Canadian Grand Trunk Railway Nos 989, 990, 991
ROB/3/2/145 Drawing of Egyptian Railway Nos 995, 996, 1021, 1022
ROB/3/2/146 Drawing of Amsterdam and Rotterdam Railway No 1023
ROB/3/2/147 Drawing of Smyrna and Aidin Railway Nos 1201 – 1210
ROB/3/2/148 Metropolitan Railway drawing of Engine No. 1314
ROB/3/2/149 Drawing of North Eastern Railway Nos 1411, 1412, 1413
ROB/3/2/15 First after "Rockett" (sic) drawing
ROB/3/2/150 Drawing of Elevations of Locomotive Engine and Tender Employed on the Grand Junction Railway and Manufactured by R. Stephenson & Comp'y
ROB/3/2/151 Drawing of Cross Section - Design of Engine with an Eight Feet Wheel
ROB/3/2/152 Great Western Railway – Drawing No 2 Side elevation and Cross Section
ROB/3/2/153 Great Western Railway - Drawing No 1
ROB/3/2/154 Drawing of Passenger Engine
ROB/3/2/155 Working drawing of Thompson's engine
ROB/3/2/156 Working Drawing of 800 Gallon Tender
ROB/3/2/157 Drawing of "French Tender"
ROB/3/2/158 Drawing of four-wheeled tender
ROB/3/2/159 Tender Frames
ROB/3/2/16 Nos 7 & 8 Liverpool Locomotive Engines drawing
ROB/3/2/161 Drawing of a tender
ROB/3/2/162 Drawing of Tender Horn and Spring Half Size Nos 130, 131, 132 etc.
ROB/3/2/163 Drawing of a Tender Axle
ROB/3/2/164 Drawing of Wheel and Axle
ROB/3/2/165 Drawing of Valve gear
ROB/3/2/166 Drawing of Working Gear for Nos 764, 765
ROB/3/2/167 Drawing of Working Gear for Nos 803, 804, 805, 806, 807, 808, 809, 810, 811, 812
ROB/3/2/168 Plan of Working Gear for Luggage Engines for the London & North Western Railway
ROB/3/2/169 Drawing of Reversing Gear for Locomotives 1947 – 54, 1869
ROB/3/2/170 Drawing of Boiler for Passenger Engine "Abbas Pasha" for Egyptian Railway Sections
ROB/3/2/171 Drawing of Cylinder for Nos 995, 996, 1021, 1022, diameter 14" stroke 22"
ROB/3/2/172 Drawing of Frame for Nos 995, 996, 1021, 1022
ROB/3/2/173 Drawing of Large Axle Box for Nos 995, 996, 1021, 1022
ROB/3/2/174 Drawing of Small Axle Box for Nos 995, 996, 1021, 1022
ROB/3/2/175 Drawing of Axle Box Guides for Nos 995, 996, 1021, 1022
ROB/3/2/176 Drawing of Iron Work for Nos 995, 996, 1021, 1022, pump stay and frame stay
ROB/3/2/177 Drawing of Dome Cover for Nos 995, 996, 1021, 1022, and 1001-1005
ROB/3/2/178 Drawing of Chimney with spark arrester for Nos 995, 996, 1021, 1022
ROB/3/2/179 Drawing of an elevation of a 2-2-2 Broad Gauge locomotive
ROB/3/2/18 Liverpool Locomotive Engine No 9 Side Elevation drawing
ROB/3/2/180 Drawing of a plan view of a 2-2-2 Broad Gauge locomotive
ROB/3/2/19 Liverpool Locomotive Engine No 2 End View drawing
ROB/3/2/2 Rough sketch of Liverpool Travelling Engine drawing
ROB/3/2/20 Outside elevation & end view "Northumbrian" type drawing
ROB/3/2/21 No 12 Liverpool Locomotive Side and End Elevation drawing
ROB/3/2/22 Drawing of "2 Boilers to be made thus, and 2 others similar to the Northumbrian . . . these two engines Nos 10 & 11"
ROB/3/2/23 No 10 Liverpool Locomotive drawing
ROB/3/2/24 No 10 Liverpool Locomotive, side and end elevations drawing
ROB/3/2/25 No 10 Liverpool Locomotive "Planet" drawing
ROB/3/2/26 "Planet" type frame drawing
ROB/3/2/27 Small Garnskirk (sic) locomotive drawing
ROB/3/2/28 End View of Small Garnskirk (sic) Locomotive drawing
ROB/3/2/29 Small Garnskirk (sic) Engine drawing
ROB/3/2/3 The Lancashire Witch No 11 drawing
ROB/3/2/30 Small Garnskirk (sic) locomotive or type drawing
ROB/3/2/31 Liverpool "Goliath" locomotive drawing
ROB/3/2/32 Design for an engine to be called "Goliath" for Liverpool drawing
ROB/3/2/33 Sections of the Goliath Locomotive Engine drawing
ROB/3/2/34 Plan of Large Garnkirk Locomotive
ROB/3/2/35 Plan, Side Elevation & End Views of Large Garnskirk (sic) Locomotive
ROB/3/2/36 Mohawk and Hudson Locomotive drawing
ROB/3/2/37 Mohawk and Hudson locomotive, plan of frame
ROB/3/2/38 Plan of Boiler for Mr Steven's Locomotive Engine
ROB/3/2/39 Plan of Steam Boiler for Susquehana Locomotive
ROB/3/2/4 Darlington Engine A drawing
ROB/3/2/40 No 22 locomotive engine drawing
ROB/3/2/41 Plan of engine as made for the Bolton Railway Co
ROB/3/2/42 Rough plan of engine drawn at Shildon
ROB/3/2/43 Drawing of Locomotive Engine for the Stockton and Darlington Railway
ROB/3/2/44 Darlington Locomotive Engines drawing
ROB/3/2/45 Sketch of Forman's Locomotive Engine
ROB/3/2/46 Alterations to Forman's Locomotive Engine drawing
ROB/3/2/47 Drawing of a Locomotive Engine to elucidate a proposed method of construction for preventing accidents, in case of a crank axle breaking
ROB/3/2/48 No 27. 1 Locomotive for America ordered by Mr Smith drawing
ROB/3/2/49 Drawing of "Planet" type with grasshopper springs on inside bearings
ROB/3/2/5 End view of the Darlington Locomotive Steam Engine A drawing
ROB/3/2/50 Drawing of four coupled "Planet" type with dome behind chimney and grasshopper springs on inside bearings
ROB/3/2/51 Drawing of four-coupled "Planet" type
ROB/3/2/53 Plan of a proposed alteration to locomotive engines
ROB/3/2/54 Drawing of No 5 Locomotive for Liverpool ordered by Mr Smith
ROB/3/2/55 Drawing of No 5 Locomotive for America ordered by Mr Smith
ROB/3/2/56 Drawing of No 6 Leicester Locomotive
ROB/3/2/57 Drawing of "Planet" type
ROB/3/2/58 Drawing of No 7 Locomotive Engine for Liverpool
ROB/3/2/59 Drawing of 2 Locomotives for Boston, America
ROB/3/2/6 Humfray's (sic) Engine B Wales drawing
ROB/3/2/60 Drawing of 1 Locomotive for the Newcastle and Frenchtown Railway No 28
ROB/3/2/61 Drawing of No 28 Locomotive
ROB/3/2/63 Drawing of No 25 Susquehanna Locomotive and No 26 French Locomotive
ROB/3/2/64 Drawing of No 31 Locomotive for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
ROB/3/2/65 Drawing of 2 locomotives for the Leicester Nos 34) Railway (& 35 (sic)
ROB/3/2/66 Drawing of outside elevation of "Planet" type locomotive
ROB/3/2/67 Working Drawing of a Locomotive Engine for the Stanhope Railway, No 37
ROB/3/2/68 Drawing of a Locomotive with six wheels No 37
ROB/3/2/69 Drawing of "Patentee" Liverpool and Manchester Rwy
ROB/3/2/7 Liverpool Engine C drawing
ROB/3/2/70 Drawing of No 58 (or the 4th Patent) locomotive, for the Leicester and Swannington Railway
ROB/3/2/71 Drawing of First Design of a Locomotive for the Saratoga and Schenectady Railroad
ROB/3/2/73 Drawing of Nos 60 & 61 Locomotives
ROB/3/2/74 Working drawing of (No 75) Locomotive Engine
ROB/3/2/75 Working drawing for Nos 103
ROB/3/2/76 Working drawing for Nos 114, 115, 116
ROB/3/2/77 Working drawing for No 118 (148) Der Adler Locomotive
ROB/3/2/78 Working drawing for No 120 & 121
ROB/3/2/79 Working Drawing for No 124 Locomotive
ROB/3/2/8 Forman's Engine D drawing
ROB/3/2/83 Working Drawing for Nos 149, 1st time, Locomotives
ROB/3/2/84 Working Drawing for No 149 (150 deleted)
ROB/3/2/85 Drawing of 150. End View
ROB/3/2/86 Working Drawing No 155
ROB/3/2/87 Working Drawing for Nos 153, 154, 155, 156
ROB/3/2/89 Coloured drawing of Elevations of the (Locomotive) Rocket
ROB/3/2/9 Forman's Engine cylinder & valve arrangement drawing
ROB/3/2/91 Working Drawing for Nos 163 Locomotive("s" deleted)
ROB/3/2/92 Working Drawing for No 164
ROB/3/2/93 Working Drawing for Nos 205, 206, 263, 264, 252, 240, 250, 255, 257, 258, 259, 223, 225, 225, 226 (some numbers missing or obscure)
ROB/3/2/94 Working Drawing No 211, 212
ROB/3/2/95 Drawing of general arrangement of engine details
ROB/3/2/96 Working Drawing for Nos 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 296, 300
ROB/3/2/98 Working Drawing of Nos 267, 268, 269 (all deleted) 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 307
ROB/3/2/99 Working Drawing for Nos 273, 274
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ROB/4/1 Works Ledger
ROB/4/2 Sales Account Ledger
ROB/5 Papers
ROB/5/1 File of letters
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ROB/6/12 'Rocket', 'The Northumbrian'
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Acequias
Water Information Archive
Scholarly Research
Description of Project Goals:
The Acequia Conservation Initiative RCPP will bring acequia landowners and a variety of resource partners together to place conservation easements on acequia properties to protect and secure senior water rights, prime soils, native habitat and the areas agricultural heritage. Concurrently, the project will also employ a suite of conservation practices through the EQIP program targeting acequia farmers specifically. The goal is to conserve an additional 2900 acres and deploy over $500,000 in additional EQIP projects and technical assistance.
Description of Expected Environmental, Economic, and Social Outcomes
The acequia communities were identified as critical part of the Sangre de Cristo priority landscape by the Colorado Conservation Partnership, which sought to identify those places that give Colorado its unique natural heritage and character. This region is recognized for its unique cultural history, high ratio of private to public lands, tremendous opportunities for landscape-scale conservation, and outstanding scenic, agricultural, and wildlife resources. The Hispano land grant communities are a critical piece of Colorado’s land settlement and water rights history. !cequias are only found in the southern portion of the San Luis Valley within Colorado.
This project will protect historic agricultural lands, their water resources and prime soils, by placing conservation easements on an additional 2900 acres of land in the Culebra Basin. Additionally, these easements will also maintain the viability of the wet meadow complex’s that exist along the ulebra and the wildlife corridors and habitat that run with them. Conservation of these properties, along with the implementation of EQIP conservation projects will provide financial and technical assistance to the areas agricultural producers to address natural resource concerns and deliver environmental benefits such as improved water and air quality, conserved ground and surface water, reduced soil erosion and sedimentation keeping these agricultural lands economically viable and resilient.
Acequia properties are a Colorado treasure -the oldest agricultural settlements, fed by the state’s first adjudicated water rights. These properties have been owned by the families for over 150 years and their importance cannot be overstated. They are a communal system of irrigation canals and ditches, that serve as the agricultural, social, and ecological foundation of the community. These acequias still function in their original form making them a nationally unique treasure and a key part of olorado’s living history. This project and its programs ensure that the social fabric of these acequia communities remain relevant.
Impacts:
The Rio Culebra, tributary to the Rio Grande River, begins high in the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains that form the eastern boundary of the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado. Hispano settlers established several small villages along the Rio ulebra in the San Luis Valley in the early 1800’s as part of the Sangre de Cristo Land Grant. It is from this initial settlement that the surrounding acequia communities were born. Settlers received narrow parcels of land, called varas, which were situated perpendicular to the waterway. This configuration maximized the number of people that could access water for irrigation. The varas were located purposefully from the foothills of La Sierra to the valley floor and provided rich soil for growing crops. This gravity-flow system of community shared ditches, or “acequias” fed the agriculturally rich basin communities, but left the natural riparian area intact and actually helped expand it, as seepage from the unlined acequias created willow and cottonwood stands.
The early settlement and agricultural development of this area resulted in the ability of these families to gain right to the first water rights in the state. The Hispano farming families who still irrigate from acequias are direct descendants of the settlers of the Sangre de Cristo Land Grant. It is the convergence of historical, cultural, agricultural, and ecological values in this system that has put this area on the map and given rise to federal recognition. In 2009, it was congressionally designated as part of the Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area, in large part because the acequias that only currently function in Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico. In 2012, the area became part of the Sangre de Cristo National Conservation Area, administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
There are significant challenges faced by this community that threaten the Hispano land ownership and stewardship of the acequias within the Rio Culebra watershed. These challenges include a prolonged drought of fifteen of plus years, development pressure from newcomers looking to own a property in an undeveloped rural area that offers so many resource amenities and recently, a renewed interest in buying and moving water from the San Luis Valley to olorado’s growing front range. These landowners have been historically underserved, and continually face financial and educational hardships due to the areas rural location and lack of employment options.
This area was originally chosen because it currently lies at a crossroad of nationally recognized cultural significance, landowner interest in conservation, and significant threat to this underserved population. This area is of both state and national conservation significance and is supported by Hispano farmers who have a united vision for improved watershed health and protection of their water rights to ensure continued viability of their productive and culturally unique agricultural community.
The second phase of the Acequia Conservation Initiative will continue where phase one left off. The interest by local landowners spiked, once their applications began to rank high enough for funding. The Acequia Phase l RCPP provided critical sustainability to these Hispano owned family farms and ranches by connecting these landowners to resources to enable management for improved agricultural and watershed health, at the same time permanently linking the land and water through conservation easements. The Phase ll project promotes a variety of NRCS resource needs that include long-term land protection, soil quality health and productivity, water quality and quantity, terrestrial and aquatic habitat, erosion and long term resilience in a way is aligned with and guided by the heritage and traditions that shape this unique community. The project will focus on placing conservation easements on farms and ranches with senior water rights and continue to build on those landowner relationships to develop, implement, and steward a variety of EQIP practices that will be used throughout the watershed.
Rationale for to the project to generate conservation benefits
There are significant challenges faced by the communities in the target area that threaten the Hispano land ownership and stewardship of the acequias within the Rio Culebra watershed., where 86% of its members share demographic, geographic, or economic characteristics which impede or prevent their access to services. A 2018 Strategic Plan Study conducted by Adams State University, found the average annual income for acequia landowners to be $17,200.00, well below the federal poverty level.
To address these needs Colorado Open Lands has spent significant staff and resources over the past nine years helping the community identify priorities and resource needs. In the implementation of the first Phase of the Acequia Initiative RCPP (Project number 1826) Colorado Open Lands (COL) worked with partners and community members to build an understanding of NRCS programs and see the on the ground benefits of these programs. Once the landowners could see the projects in action the applications for both programs filled. In the current RCPP we were able to commit funds for 2128 acres of conservation easement with 8 landowners. In terms of the EQIP dollars, we have used the funds to Improve irrigation water management and structure replacement. We currently have $125,000 obligated, but with sign-ups that are in the hopper, waiting to be ranked, we will obligate those funds in early 2020. The interest in the program far exceeded the goals of the Phase l RCPP application.
Continued placement of these easements has become a critical element in the sustainability of underserved farms and ranches in the Culebra Basin. There is an additional 2912 acres that could be funded with a second phase of the Acequia Initiative RCPP. There is an additional 2912 acres that could be funded with a second phase of the Acequia Initiative RCPP. The ACEP-ALE program has helped these farms and ranches protect key water assets, by tying the water to the land. This is the fundamental premise behind the acequia tradition. ACEP-ALE monies funded through the RCPP Program provide two critical needs: the RCPP Program funding lets us target the ranking criteria, comparing acequia properties with each other to level the playing field. Secondly, an RCPP contract helps us bring other funders to the table and together we make significant changes to the long-term sustainability of the acequia community. The conservation easements placed through the funding of the Regional Conservation Partnership Program prohibit further subdivision of these prime agricultural lands and ensure that the communities rich Hispano farming and ranching culture remains intact.
The EQIP funding pool through the RCPP program meets two critical needs: having a targeted ranking tool lets these landowners be compared to like size projects instead of the open ranking where ranking against larger projects is difficult and the RCPP contracts attract and are leveraged by a diverse array of matching funds which increase project impact.
Finally, the RCPP gives our state and regional NRCS Partners additional technical assistance funding, giving them the opportunity to provide assistance to a diverse group in need of their assistance.
Rationale for the geographic scope of the project
This area is of both state and national conservation significance and is supported by Hispano farmers who have a united vision for improved watershed health and protection of their water rights to ensure continued viability of their productive and culturally-unique agricultural community. The target area of the initiative is the Rio Culebra watershed, a sub-watershed of the Upper Rio Grande River watershed in Southern Colorado. As a result of long-term investment by Colorado Open Lands, this area has long-standing partnerships between nonprofits, NRCS staff, and landowners. Outreach and engagement events have resulted in an agricultural community with a strong vision for its future. These landowners and partners stand ready to implement this proposal which supports their vision for agricultural sustainability and watershed health.
This population in this geographic target area is comprised of historically underserved Hispano farmers and ranchers. The community faces financial and educational hardships due and agriculture within the Rio Culebra is being pressured on many fronts. A long-term drought has priced water at a premium, ongoing economic instability has left many irrigation structures in need of repair and a water export threat are among the concerns the area is facing. This leaves many acequia landowners feeling that their agricultural heritage is in danger. To address these pressures and increase the economic and ecological sustainability of this unique watershed and its agricultural producers, the following Colorado resource priorities will be addressed in this RCPP project: long-term land protection, soil quality health and productivity, water quality and quantity, terrestrial and aquatic habitat, erosion and long term resilience.
These resource concerns have been repeatedly identified through a variety of stakeholder studies. As part of the 8-Digit Watershed Planning process, area conservation districts highlighted the need to preserve water quantity and quality by integrating healthy soil practices. During landscape planning conducted by the USFWS, it was recognized that portions of the Rio Culebra provide key habitat for the federally endangered Southwestern Willow Flycatcher and noted the need to conserve this habitat. Studies from the University of New Mexico have shown that acequias provide substantial emergent freshwater wetlands and serve key groundwater recharge functions. The Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area designation study identified the unique historical and water resource features as key part of the federal designation process. The Costilla County Economic Development Council 2012 report named the local agriculture as the number one economic driver in the region; noting that the area’s small farms and ranches (averaging 63 acres in size) support the areas schools, health care systems and small businesses.
Finally, Colorado recently adopted its first statewide water plan, which is built on the local and regional planning efforts done by each of its river basins. The Rio Grande Basin plan has identified the following resource issues: prolonged and systemic drought, lack of a diverse economy, at-risk wildlife habitats, compact obligations to downstream states and aging irrigation and municipal water infrastructure. The plan further identified the need for collaboration, bringing technical expertise and monetary resources to address these needs. The implementation of key NRCS EQIP programs by producers throughout the watershed will add sustainability to this economically and ecologically endangered area.
Evaluating the success of the project, including outcomes
Colorado Open Lands has developed a comprehensive evaluation tool that will help us direct successful project outcomes. The Acequia Initiative – Phase l RCPP allowed the partners of the project an opportunity to trial this methodology, which proved to successfully keep partners on track, keep the community engaged and provided a platform to address issues that might arise during implementation.
COL will be using a community assets model to evaluate the success of the Acequia Initiative Phase ll RCPP projects and programs. The project will be assessed using the following parameters:
Natural and Working Lands - Did the placement of easements and incorporation of practices lead to healthier natural resources? How? How did the project protect the assets of working lands?
Financial - Did monetary assets invested in land protection, site improvements and programs build economic health? Was the conservation of the property an active catalyst improving the communities economic outlook?
Built - Did the improved ag infrastructure serve the needs and meet the desired outcomes?
Equity and Access - Did the placement of both easements and practices increase equity for the community? How did it equalize the disparity? Political -How did the project, support or enhance individual, group and organizational connections? Did the project influence the distribution of resources and identify what resources are available?
Social - Was trust built? Did relationships and networks that support communities and regional investments around conservation lead to conversations, shared experiences and connections?
Intellectual, Emotional and Spiritual - How did the project connect people with the landscape and generate new knowledge?
Cultural - Did the placement of the conservation easement support the values and identity rooted in place, class and/or ethnicity? Do on the ground conservation efforts support and enhance the cultural knowledge? How does the project showcase cultural achievement and pass on knowledge and skills?
Data - Number of acres conserved? Stream reach protected? Infrastructure installed?
The final report will include the results of the project along these parameters as compared to the baseline data collected at project onset. Here is what we expect to have through the implementation of each program:
The success of the ACEP portion of this proposal will be based on the successful completion an additional six conservation easements within the Rio Culebra watershed protecting the Rio Culebra itself, as well as the critical water rights and prime soils that serve as the foundation for this agriculture-based community and economy. The completion of this second RCPP will increase protection for some of the most senior water rights in the state and see an additional increase in the participation of historically underserved landowners in the ALE program. All COL easements are monitored annually by the COL stewardship staff. This ongoing stewardship ensures the success of the RCPP outcomes long after project completion.
EQIP Programs/Projects: Properties that utilize these programs will work with NRCS technicians to develop a conservation plan. Site will be mapped and photographed at the implementation phase. COL and the SdCAA will conduct landowner surveys to document current uses, yield and water use data to include: water availability and application. The same survey will be conducted post project. The project team will use the data to quantify changes. We expect to see better utilization of irrigation water, increased water efficiencies, riparian and stream health improvements, better grazing management and more sustainable operations. Partners will use the data to assess the replicability of project components and summarize the success and improvements needed. This will be released to all participants and partners upon project completion.
Helping Producers meet or avoid natural resource regulatory requirements?
This project will help improve and protect critical habitat for the Rio Grande cutthroat trout, a federally recognized Threatened Species as well as the Southwest Willow Flycatcher and Yellow Billed Cuckoo, both listed as Endangered Species. Proactive habitat improvement through the Acequia Initiative Phase II will continue to demonstrate agricultural compatibility with these species and avoid any regulatory action.
Partner Contribution
The RCPP team for the Acequia Conservation Initiative Phase I ll include a diverse group of stakeholders who are committed to the unique acequia history, heritage, landscape and agriculture-based values in the Rio Culebra Watershed. The lead partner for this project will be Colorado Open Lands (COL). COL is a 501(c)3 nonprofit land trust that exists to protect olorado’s land and water resources. Led by a full-time staff of twenty and governed by a Board of Directors with wide ranging expertise, Colorado Open Lands operates efficiently and effectively. olorado Open Lands’ oard of Directors brings a wide range of expertise to our work that includes the financial, real estate, legal, public relations, economic, natural resource, agricultural, and wildlife fields.
Our staff has an equally wide range of expertise that spans fundraising, non-profit management, environmental education, community outreach and engagement, and event management, to geographic information systems (GIS), rangeland ecology, conservation easement negotiations and stewardship, ecosystem science and water rights law. We work primarily with private landowners to place voluntary conservation easements on their property. We also have a comprehensive stewardship program that works with landowners to help them reach the resource goals they have set for their property. The process is driven by the wishes of the landowner with the goal of protecting open space, agriculture, water, and wildlife habitat – forever. Founded in 1981, Colorado Open Lands holds 470 conservation easements in 44 Colorado counties. We are proud of the fact that we have played a direct and critical role in protecting nearly 520,000 acres and protected over 358 miles of olorado’s waterways. COL has successfully administered approximately $25 million in conservation easement funding. As a result of our initial RCPP The Acequia Initiative Phase l (Contract 1826), COL has developed an RCPP management team, this includes San Luis Valley Conservation Project Manager, Judy Lopez; Conservation Director, Sarah Parmar; Stewardship Director, Cheryl Cufre; Stewardship Land Owner Liaison, Jaclyn Kachelmeyer and Finance Director, Lori Pufahl. The local contact for COL will be Conservation Project Manager, Judy Lopez.
Key partners for the project include the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) – State Office: Randy Randal, Becky Ross, Heather Foley and James Sperry; NRCS Colorado Area 3 – lead by District Conservationist, Ron Riggenbach; Trout Unlimited National Project Affiliate, Kevin Terry; Sangre de Cristo Acequia Associati on (SdCAA), led by Office Administrator, Nancy Escalante; Costilla Conservation District, Costilla County Conservancy District (a local water entity), Costilla County Commissioners, The Rio Grande Basin Roundtable, The Gates Family Foundation, The LOR Foundation, The Trinchera Blanca Foundation, Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO), The Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area and participating landowners.
Along with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Colorado Open Lands provides conservation planning and assistance to landowners to benefit the soil, water, air, plants, and animals for productive land and healthy ecosystems. Trout Unlimited works to develop programs and recommendations based on the very best information and thinking available. Together these three-primary technical assistance partners have the experience in managing, developing, stewarding and implementing a variety conservation projects and each will be bringing their abilities to this critical RCCP project.
The Acequia landowners alongside the Sangre de Cristo Acequia Association, Costilla Conservation District, Costilla County Conservancy District, and the Costilla County Commissioners will provide the critical local voice for the project. Colorado Open lands has worked with these community partners for over 9 years and it is through this work that the original RCPP project was conceived and this application was developed. Together they will see this multi-year proposal to fruition and will support the landowner education and outreach needed to implement the identified conservation practices.
Value Added Partner Contribution
The Acequia Initiative Phase I leveraged $3.2 million dollars and Acequia Initiative Phase II leverage $2.7 million in state and private funding. . The reengagement and continued commitment by funders of the first phase of the Acequia Initiative have returned for Phase ll, speaks to the success the partnership has had in addressing the areas resource concerns.
The Sangre de Cristo Acequia Association and the Rio Grande Basin Roundtable have committed to match requested EQIP funds. The LOR Foundation, Great Outdoors Colorado, Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area, Trinchera-Blanca Foundation, Rio Grande Basin Roundtable and landowners will match ALE funding and provide funds for the necessary the acquisition and due diligence to complete the conservation easements.
Finally, Colorado Open Lands, The Costilla Conservation District, the Costilla Water Conservancy District and the Sangre de Cristo Acequia Association will supply and support the landowner education and outreach needed to implement the identified conservation practices as part of the project in-kind.
Like phase one, the second phase of this this project is highly leveraged, with NRS’s contribution limited to 38% of the project costs, NRCS funds will be matched by both public and private funding.
The funding provided through the RCPP program allows us to target the specific resource needs of Acequia Farmers in the Culebra Basin, which are different from other agricultural producers in Colorado. The smaller scale of acequia farms and ranches makes it challenging for these landowners to compete in regular rounds of the ACEP-ALE and EQIP include all landowners in the area. The small scale of these properties also makes it difficult to address resource concerns on a property by property basis. The cumulative impact of RCPP in bringing a significant number of landowners into programs at one time in a targeted, strategic manner that allows the partners to garner the necessary funding and scale of landowner participation to impact resources at a watershed scale.
The Acequia Conservation Initiative specifically targets Hispano-owned family farms and ranches in Costilla County Colorado by connecting these underserved acequia landowners to resources that will enable management for improved agricultural and watershed health, at the same time permanently linking the land and water through conservation easements. The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2014 (2014 Farm Bill) recognized the unique circumstances and concerns of traditionally underserved producers and the Natural Resources Conservation Service, as an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is committed to ensuring that its programs and services are accessible to all our customers, fairly and equitably, with emphasis on reaching the underserved and socially disadvantaged farmers, ranchers, and tribes. Nowhere is this more relevant than in the Rio Culebra acequia communities, that were settled as part of the Sangre de Cristo Land Grant. These farms and ranches have been supporting over 300 families for seven generations, but they face some critical challenges that include olorado’s increasing development pressure, long-term drought, economic instability and water export.
Further, the USDA has long recognized the relationship between water quality and quantity when it comes to irrigation. The NRS standard practices address a critical tenet and “Efficiently convey and distribute irrigation water to the soil surface point of application without causing excessive water loss, erosion, or water quality impairment.” The olorado !g Water !lliance found that “improving basic infrastructure in an agricultural operation, assures not only the success of an individual operation, but also protects the agricultural assets of operations in the area.”
The partners will work with landowners by building on past project success to execute projects that address the resource concerns this historically underserved population is facing. The implementation of land protection, irrigation improvement, soil health, habitat, and resiliency planning projects at an appropriate scale permanently protect critical land and water rights and ensure the long-term sustainability of the community.
10 Describe any proposed innovative methods or approaches for conservation planning, implementation, or assessment, and/or the proposed use of promising new technologies that have a demonstrated likelihood of success.
The Acequia Initiative Phase ll is a nexus of innovation. Since project participation is open only to acequia farm/ranch producers in the Rio Culebra watershed, it is very focused on preserving the cultural integrity of this rural farming region. This area has been recognized by the US Department of Interior’s Great Outdoors Initiative; named by US Fish and Wildlife Service as the Sangre de Cristo Heritage Area, Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area has named it one of the last surviving representations of the Hispano culture. The National Park Service and History Colorado recognize the area as a unique representation of the culture that settled Colorado and New Mexico. The RCPP enables partners and local stakeholder who have all been independently doing successful work in the target area to come together and approach the resource issues in the target area in a holistic manner and at a greater scale than could be achieved by any of the groups independently. The group’s approach to resource concerns couples key resource practices and restoration with projects that increase farm and ranch revenue, at the same time permanently protecting the prime soil and senior water rights on which the agricultural and ecological system depends.
Partnerships and Management
This project will be the second phase of the RCPP funded Acequia Conservation Initiative (1826) that was funded in 2017. Our original goal was to place 2000 acres under conservation easements. To date we have committed funds for 2128 acres across 8 landowners. This work generated an additional 2912 acres acequia irrigated acres could be funded with the RCPP renewal. Placing easements on acequia properties has become a critical element in the sustainability of the acequia underserved farms and ranches. The ACEP-ALE has allowed these farms and ranches to protect key water assets, by tying the water to the land. This is fundamental premise behind the acequia tradition. In terms of the EQIP dollars, we have used the funds to Improve irrigation water management and structure replacement on eight landowner properties. We currently have $125,000 obligated and have additional -but with sign-up applications that are ready at the local NRCS office and are simply waiting for the 2018 farm bill rules to be adopted before projects can be ranked. We will obligate those funds easily in early 2020, two and a half years ahead of schedule.
COL has worked with NRCS to secure a variety of agricultural land easements across the state of Colorado. Together we have protected numerous acres of grasslands, prime soils, agricultural lands that have statewide and regional significance and worked to ensure the economic viability of underserved and first-time farmers and ranchers.
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Health Construction Speeds Need to Pick Up Post-COVID-19, CO Panelists Say
By Nicholas Rizzi September 28, 2020 11:24 am
From left: Loida Ramos and Thomas Ahn of Mount Sinai Health System and Steven Friedman of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Headshots courtesy of the speakers
The coronavirus pandemic caused massive upheaval and strain on the healthcare industry, with hospitals around New York City scrambling to open up temporary spaces to deal with the surge of COVID-19 patients.
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Organizations have started to rethink future designs of healthcare facilities to better equip them to handle potential future pandemics. And one thing seems clear, timelines for construction projects need to quicken, panelists at Commercial Observer’s Fourth Annual Healthcare Construction Forum said on Sept. 24.
“We could build a field hospital in 10 days while it takes us six, nine or 12 months to design a property and two to three years to build them,” Joe Ienuso, senior vice president for facilities and real estate for New York-Presbyterian, said during his keynote (which, like other panels and talks during the forum, was delivered virtually). “We need to take that urgency that we all realized together … [and] we need to improve the efficiency of the work we do together. We should not be relieving ourselves of that obligation.”
Panelists through the form echoed Ienuso’s thoughts and said the speed at which many were able to get temporary solutions up and running meant it will be hard to go back to the long timelines projects had pre-COVID-19.
“We had put up six trailers in approximately three weeks,” Steve Friedman, director of facilities engineering for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, said during the second panel. “Then you wonder how come we can’t do this on a regular basis.”
Aside from shortening the time to build projects, another thing the pandemic taught healthcare facilities was the need to build flexible spaces that can be converted to handle emergency situations in the future.
“To spend the time and the money to construct a space, then decommission and take it apart later is not financially viable,” Friedman said. “You want to think about putting together spaces that could be used as permanent spaces.”
And one of the things healthcare operators can do to speed the pace of projects is to include contractors in the process earlier.
“The contractors bring an extraordinary benefit and insight that the design teams are not always thinking about,” Patrick Burke, Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s associate vice president of capital project management, said during the second panel. “That helps give us a better product faster.”
Burke and Friedman were on the second panel, moderated by AECOM Tishman’s Mitch Green, along with EwingCole’s Mary Frazier, AKF Group’s Michael Gillespie and Talisen Construction Corporation’s Joseph Rigazio.
Loida Ramos, vice president of planning, design and construction for the Mount Sinai Health System, said during the first panel that the hospital has started to look at all of its future projects to figure out ways they can easily be converted to handle a future pandemic.
Some of the ways Ramos has looked at is the addition of plumbing for dialysis machines and additional power outlets for monitors in rooms in new projects so “in an emergency, if we needed to, we can flex them to an [intensive care unit].”
But one of the issues healthcare facility operators are facing is how to pay for all the changes. These could add millions of dollars to projects, so operators need to figure out the most important features to implement in new facilities.
“It’s walking that tightrope between capital available and where do you really want to go,” Jonathan Cogswell, Northwell Health’s assistant vice president of facilities service and engineering in the Manhattan region, said during the first panel. “If money was no object … we would have a truly adaptable facility.
“You have to figure out, as we look back on what we had to do for this, what took the longest, what was our biggest challenge and can we put that in place now,” he added. “From a capital perspective, what can you justify as preparation without going too far.”
The first panel, moderated by LF Driscoll Healthcare’s John Haught, also included McLaren Engineering Group’s Jeremy Billig, Cauldwell Wingate’s Jeremiah Laureano and Construction Management & Development’s Scott Stay.
For many hospitals, the pandemic has cut their revenue, leading many to focus on revenue-generating projects with “infrastructure being put on the back burner,” Jason Adkins, director of project management for CBRE Healthcare, said during the third panel.
“There’s been a shift in focus for institutions to start a project that could help fight a resurgence,” he said. “And most of the projects with an eye on revenue-producing are still being put back online.”
Adkins stressed that infrastructure isn’t “something that should be put on the back burner,” and CBRE started a program to shell out the upfront costs for these projects and let health care facilities pay them back later.
Adkins was on the third panel, moderated by Withum’s Justin O’Horo, along with Turner Construction Company’s Rich Alvarez, Holt Construction’s Wayne Lawrence, Hunter Roberts Construction Group’s Robert O’Donohue, Northwell Health’s Glen Tilkin, and Ingram Yuzek Gainen Carroll & Bertolotti’s Melissa Billig.
The final portion of the event focused on the life sciences sector, which has started to see an increase in activity in New York City. While it’s still not comparable to hubs like Boston, the coronavirus pandemic could provide a boost to the sector in the city.
“I think we’re going to have an enormous amount of growth based on the fact we’re going to have a huge amount of empty office space,” SGA’s Brooks Slocum said during a one-on-one discussion with Thor Equities’ William Hunter. “Things you can’t do remotely is lab work. That’s going to mean we’re going to need a lot more space going forward.”
And New York City already has most of what it needs to develop a strong life sciences industry.
“We have the medical students, we have the researchers, we have the post-docs, and we have a collection of pharma companies based in New York City and New Jersey,” H. Guy Leibler, president of Simone Healthcare Development, said during the final panel. “There’ll be a lot of great things that come out of the situation today that will lead to a lot of great opportunities in New York City over the next decade.”
Leibler was on the final panel, moderated by Jaros, Baum & Bolles’ Christopher Prochner, along with Gil-Bar Health and Life Science’s Jack Conway, Lendlease Construction LMB’s Thomas Drumm and Ennead Architects’ Peter Schubert.
Thomas Ahn, vice president of real estate for Mount Sinai, gave the final keynote.
Keywords: AECOM Tishman, AKF Group, Brooks Slocum, Cauldwell Wingate, CBRE, Christopher Prochner, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Construction Management & Development, Ennead Architects, EwingCole, Gil-Bar Health and Life Science, Glen Tilkin, H. Guy Leibler, Holt Construction, Hunter Roberts Construction Group, Ingram Yuzek Gainen Carroll & Bertolotti, Jack Conway, Jaros Baum, Jason Adkins, Jeremiah Laureano, Jeremy Billig, Joe Ienuso, John Haught, Jonathan Cogswell, Joseph Rigazio, Justin O’Horo, Lendlease, LF Driscoll Healthcare, Loida Ramos, Mary Frazier, McLaren Engineering Group, Melissa Billig, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Michael Gillespie, Mitch Green, Mount Sinai Health System, NewYork-Presbyterian, Northwell Health, Patrick Burke, Peter Schubert, Rich Alvarez, Robert O'Donohue, Scott Stay, SGA, Simone Healthcare Development, Steve Friedman, Talisen Construction Corporation, Thomas Ahn, Thomas Frumm, Thor Equities, Turner Construction Company, Wayne Lawrence, William Hunter, Withum
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Do open-source plugins need to be submitted to the VCV Library by its original developers?
ShyOfTime (Efthymios) October 21, 2020, 9:25pm #1
I 've come across some modules that regardless of their libre source code and 1.x porting status, they are not available to VCV. E.g. Southpole which was ported to 1.x but not from the original developer:
https://github.com/gbrandt1/southpole-vcvrack is the original branch and https://github.com/dogonthehorizon/southpole-vcvrack/tree/v1 is the ported fork.
For a module to be in the library is it mandatory for the original developer to continue being the module’s active owner ?
And if somebody ports the module to 1.x is there an active need (e.g. maybe copyright issues) for the original developer to take action on a pull request for the module to appear in the library?
Aria Salvatrice Modules: Psychopump & Future of the collection
Aria_Salvatrice October 20, 2020, 10:47pm #2
There seems to be an expectation that a fork will either have the blessing of the original author, or be rebranded by the submitter. (Cf. Palette, ethics policy)
Vortico (VCV - Andrew) October 20, 2020, 10:58pm #3
If the original developer hasn’t responded to questions/comments in a month, I’ll consider the developer inactive. Once inactive, another developer who has made significant improvements to the plugin can adopt the project and request build updates on its VCV Library thread with the same slug/name. Of course, all IP licenses have to be followed.
Thanks a lot to Aria and Andrew for your responses,
A bit more clarification: Does a port to 1.x count as an improvement worthy of adoption?
Will the new developer have to redo the graphics? I mean if the previous developer’s trademarks remain in place no graphics changes are needed right?
Aria_Salvatrice October 21, 2020, 7:26pm #5
This answer brings multiple questions about hypotheticals to mind:
If a plugin has no serious bugs like crashes, is the inactivity policy enforced as strictly as if the plugin were broken?
If a plugin no longer works with current versions of VCV, does fixing it constitute an improvement sufficient for takeover?
In the case of a plugin such as mine, that is named after the author, would you allow takeover of the name and slug for inactivity?
Would the author be allowed to expand upon the collection (create new modules, take it into a different creative direction than intended by the original author), or be only allowed to take on a maintenance role?
Should the original author resurface, can they claim back their plugin and slug?
Personally, I regard my more esoteric modules as being part of work as an artist, not as utilitarian tools whose authorship can change without denaturing them.
And my personal life certainly hasn’t been so kind to me so far that I can exclude being AWOL for over a month and unable to make time for hobby software communities.
It’s concerning there’s any chance I could come back from a personal hardship to see myself disowned of my artistic work. But it’d be cool if they could be kept working if I were hit by a bus.
I welcome people to fork my code to do anything they want with it, but I do not want them to do it under my name.
Vortico (VCV - Andrew) October 21, 2020, 7:37pm #6
ShyOfTime:
Does a port to 1.x count as an improvement worthy of adoption?
Sure, it’s a “significant improvement”.
You probably mean copyright. Most open-source modules don’t use a registered trademark.
That depends on the licenses of the graphics and/or whether you have permission to derive or distribute the graphics.
Aria_Salvatrice:
The policy just mentions “significant improvements”. If the original developer is inactive and the fork is significantly improved from the original project by fixing serious bugs or adding lots of features, then it can replace the original version in the VCV Library.
Possibly, depending on the specific case.
If their “new original” significant improvements are more significant than the fork, and it doesn’t break patches much, it can replace the fork on the VCV Library.
Same answer as above.
Then I would recommend a non-open-source license such as freeware or commercial. One of the Four Essential Freedoms of free software is the “freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others”.
Make sure you state this in your plugin’s license text. In the US there is no IP protection of your name unless you file a trademark. But VCV doesn’t only follows IP laws, it also follows morals and the non-legal wishes of software creators.
Vortico:
I did not release this work as free software out of a lack of education about what the licenses I use actually say. People are free to do whatever they want with my code. My signature logo is copyrighted, my docs say so unambiguously, and that logo is added to the faceplates at runtime as a separate SVG, specifically to make it easy for people to remove or alter it if they fork my stuff.
What’s concerning is that the VCV project could allow for its library, the de facto arbiter of what is the “canon” fork of a plugin, to release under my own name a fork that is not canonical to what I created. That people are allowed to distribute forks of my code in the library under their own name is not a concern. And changing the slug of an existing JSON patch save is trivially automatable, so migration to a fork isn’t a pain point for users. Didn’t the VCV website used to automate the task for the old paid version of Audible Instruments?
A huge amount of plugins are named after their author. Whether a nickname or a real name, it’s not something anyone should be able to simply take over. Almost none of us have adversarial clause in our documentation saying “Software libraries are only allowed to release my canonical fork under my own name, other forks should change the name”: most of us assumed it went without saying.
My signature logo is copyrighted
Then a fork cannot use your signature logo without your permission.
to release under my own name a fork that is not canonical to what I created
As I said above, make sure you state this in your plugin’s license text, and VCV will respect the wishes of you, the creator of the software. Something like the following statement: “As a non-binding recommendation, I request that all forks of this software do not include the name Aria Salvatrice.”
Aria_Salvatrice October 21, 2020, 8:51pm #10
It’s unreasonable to expect authors to have to state explicitly that the name they go by as shouldn’t be taken over.
In a context where ethics guidelines say that “You may not clone the brand name, model name, logo, panel design, or layout of components (knobs, ports, switches, etc) of an existing hardware or software product without permission from its owner, regardless of whether these are covered under trademark/copyright law.” (emphasis mine), it’s simply incomprehensible that a protection gladly afforded to corporations would not extend to the very names we go by as humans, whether they are legal names or nicknames.
It’s also a long-standing cultural expectation of open-source and free software that forks either change the name, or obtain the authorization of the original author to continue under the same name, even if the fork is adversarial, as it prevents user confusion.
Does it look good for the VCV project, and encouraging to potential developers, if every single plugin’s README has language that roughly says “Aria Salvatrice is my name as a person: the VCV project, and software libraries compatible with the VCV API, should only distribute my own canonical fork under the name Aria Salvatrice. Should I become inactive, maintained forks of my code should not be released in a way that impersonates me.” ?
Because you bet it goes on mine right now.
Vortico (VCV - Andrew) October 21, 2020, 9:20pm #11
You’re explaining a pretty hypothetical/exotic/rare scenario that I’ve not yet needed to handle, so I haven’t given it enough thought to make a general policy about it. Policies are for “mass-producing” case-by-case decisions. It’s pointless to make a policy if specific cases have never happened!
I feel confident that given a specific situation, I would make the most reasonable decision for the situation. But the situation is unlikely so I likely won’t need to make a decision at all, because all of the below have to occur in order for the decision to arise.
An original developer uses their personal name as their plugin name.
The original developer becomes inactive.
Another developers finds it interesting enough to fork and make significant improvements.
They decide to use the same name as the original plugin.
They ask me (on the VCV Library thread) to replace the original plugin with their fork.
That’s a lot of requirements for your hypothetical situation to occur! What I’m telling you is that I don’t know what I will decide in a future specific situation, so if you feel strongly about it, don’t rely on my “hypothetical policies” that don’t exist, just cover your own bases. I helped you write a statement to add to your license, so take it or leave it.
Of course one would have such an abject reaction to the idea one could be impersonated, have software released in their own name, then have the matter treated in such a legalistic fashion, as if it were a generic resource identifier that’s more convenient not to change.
I have added language to my docs leaving no ambiguity whatsoever that I ask for my own name to be treated the same way as that of a company.
Vortico (VCV - Andrew) October 22, 2020, 10:57pm #13
You should definitely be fine now. I see that you chose to write your own license statements instead of using my one-sentence statement suggest which would have been enough. But either way, there is now no chance that VCV will accept someone’s fork named “Aria Salvatrice” to replace your plugin in the VCV Library in the event that you become an inactive developer.
By the way, when I said “take it or leave it”, I was referring to my license statement suggestion, not anything else. Apologies if there was any confusion over what that was referring to.
If you’re curious why I’m not adopting a general policy that bans all forks that use the original plugin’s name from being accepted to the VCV Library and replacing the original plugin, imagine the following very likely scenario.
According to Rack development blog, there will be a >=6 week period where plugin developers have access to Rack v2’s source and development builds but before Rack v2.0 is released. In this period, I predict most developers will do what is needed to make their plugin work in Rack v2. But there still might be a dozen or so who can’t be reached, so VCV or volunteers may update their plugins for them. (This is usually as trivial as updating their plugin’s version from v1.2.3 to v2.migrate1.2.3.) In this case, it’s perfectly reasonable to make this change, because the developer would likely not want their plugin to be unavailable in Rack v2 simply because they were busy or on vacation for 6 weeks. And yes, some of the plugins we migrate contain the author’s name or pieces of the name, such as ChowDSP, JW-Modules, Grande, KautenjaDSP Potato Chips, DHE Modules, ML Modules, and a few more, but if they are inactive and a volunteer adopts those plugins, I will likely accept them as is.
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Symbol S (Solid Earth Sciences) » S-MP Mineralogy & Petrology
[S-MP14] Supercontinents and Crustal Evolution
Tue. May 24, 2016 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM A07 (APA HOTEL&RESORT TOKYO BAY MAKUHARI)
Convener:*Madhusoodhan Satish-Kumar(Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Niigata University), Yasuhito Osanai(Division of Evolution of Earth Environments, Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University), Grantham Grantham(Geology Department, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.), Krishnan Sajeev(Centre for Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Science), Tomokazu Hokada(National Institute of Polar Research), Chair:Tomokazu Hokada(National Institute of Polar Research)
Supercontinent formation and dispersion has been enigmatic in the Earth's history. Eurasia is one such current supercontinent and incredible progress in the understanding of its geological evolution has been achieved in the past decade. Earlier supercontinents in the Earth's history such as Gondwana (0.5 Ga), Rodinia (1.0 Ga), Columbia/Nuna (2.0 Ga), Kenorland (2.5 Ga) and Vaalbara (3.1 Ga), have been the focus of several studies, however limited information on older supercontinents has restricted an understanding their tectonic evolution. Several important unsolved issues remain, such as how, when and where these supercontinents formed and how long they remained as such before breaking apart. Additional questions arise on the processes that triggered the fragmentation and unification of continents. In this session, we invite authors around the world to present original new data as well as review results on the continental scale crustal processes and tectonic evolution that are associated with supercontinent formation events in Earth's history. The well-studied Eurasia and Gondwana supercontinents are of particular focus. Topics of interest include, but not restricted to, extremes in metamorphism, P-T-d-t evolution, magmatism, and the role of fluids. We hope to provide a platform for scientific discussions that will enlighten our understanding of the physical and chemical processes in the continental crust that records episodes of orogenesis that contributed to the formation and evolution of supercontinents.
[SMP14-07] Geological evolution of the Archean Chitradurga schist belt, Dharwar Craton, southern India
*Madhusoodhan Satish-Kumar1, Kaoru Mishima2, Tsuyoshi Toyoshima1, Kentaro Koinuma3, Yoshiihiro Enya3, Itsuki Muramatsu3, Tomokazu Hokada4, Yuichiro Ueno2, Atsushi Kamei5, Kyoko Kataoka6, Krishnan Sajeev7 (1.Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Niigata University, 2.Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan, 3.Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, Japan, 4.National Institute of Polar Research, 10-3, Midori-cho, Tachikawa-shi, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan, 5.Department of Geosciences, Shimane University, Matsue 690-8504, Japan, 6.Research Institute for Natural Hazards and Disaster Recovery, Niigata University, 7.Centre for Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012 India)
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Journal of Berry Research - Volume 1, issue 2
The main objective of the Journal of Berry Research is to improve the knowledge about quality and production of berries to benefit health of the consumers and maintain profitable production using sustainable systems.
The objective will be achieved by focusing on four main areas of research and development:
1. From genetics to variety evaluation
2. Nursery production systems and plant quality control
3. Plant physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology, as well as cultural management
4. Health for the consumer: components and factors affecting berries' nutritional value
Specifically, the journal will cover berries (strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, blueberry, cranberry currants, etc.), as well as grapes and small soft fruit in general (e.g., kiwi fruit). It will publish research results covering all areas of plant breeding, including plant genetics, genomics, functional genomics, proteomics and metabolomics, plant physiology, plant pathology and plant development, as well as results dealing with the chemistry and biochemistry of bioactive compounds contained in such fruits and their possible role in human health. Contributions detailing possible pharmacological, medical or therapeutic use or dietary significance will be welcomed in addition to studies regarding biosafety issues of genetically modified plants.
The Journal of Berry Research will feature reviews, research articles, brief communications, position papers, letters and patent updates.
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Awareness and knowledge of allergens: A need and a challenge to assure a safe and healthy consumption of small fruits
Authors: Laimer, Margit | Maghuly, Fatemeh
Article Type: Review Article
Abstract: Food allergy is a widespread phenomenon: An estimated 1–2% of the population suffers from some type of food allergy. Fruits and vegetables are considered among the most important elicitors of food allergy. Berry fruits rich in phenolic compounds including flavonols, flavones and anthocyanins have recently gained increasing interest due to their possible beneficial effects on human health. However, they may harbour a series of allergenic proteins that cause discomfort or even represent serious threats to certain individuals. The identification and characterization of allergens in fruits like berries from distant taxa, requires novel approaches involving genomic and proteomic tools. The allergen …content of blueberries (Vaccinium myrtillus), strawberries (Fragaria ananassa), raspberries (Rubus idaeus), and blackberries (Rubus fruticosus) was determined. Different extraction procedures are required to improve protein detection with polyclonal and monoclonal antisera raised against different allergens from Malus domestica in Western blotting. Due to the cross-reactivity they are able to recognize similar epitopes in highly conserved protein families of other plant species. Fruit extracts were analysed by two dimensional electrophoresis and mass spectrometry. Using clinical screening tools from a high number of patients and patient sera delivered conclusively results on allergenic proteins present in the small fruits. Show more
Keywords: Small fruit allergens, non-specific lipid transfer proteins (nsLTPs), pathogenesis-related proteins, thaumatin like proteins (TPLs), strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, blueberry, IgE-reactivity, Fra a 1, Fra a 3, Rub i 1, Rub i 3, class III acidic chitinase, cyclophilin, profilin
DOI: 10.3233/BR-2010-012
Citation: Journal of Berry Research, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 61-71, 2010
Maximising blackcurrant anthocyanins: Temporal changes during ripening and storage in different genotypes
Authors: Giné Bordonaba, Jordi | Chope, Gemma A. | Terry, Leon A.
Abstract: Increasing evidence suggests that anthocyanins, as natural antioxidants, exert anti-carcinogenic, anti-inflammatory, vaso-protective and anti-obesity effects when tested in vitro or in vivo. Blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum L.) berries are a rich source of anthocyanins with concentrations up to 4-fold greater than that of other common fruits. However, there is a paucity of information on how blackcurrant anthocyanins change during ripening on the bush or during postharvest storage, which could lead to better selection of fruits with enhanced health-promoting properties. Accordingly, the present study describes the temporal changes in anthocyanins in different blackcurrant genotypes during the late stages of development or as …a result of postharvest storage at different temperatures. In all cases, four major anthocyanins (viz. cyanidin-3-glucoside, cyanidin-3-rutinoside, delphinidin-3-glucoside and delphinidin-3-rutinoside) were identified, accounting for over 80% of the total anthocyanin concentrations. Three different development stages (viz. early ripe (ER), fully ripe (FR) or over ripe (OR)) were chosen when fruit were at commercial maturity but presented different colorations. Anthocyanin concentration was nearly double in OR berries than ER, however the temporal changes during ripening were genotype-dependent, with some cultivars reaching maximum concentrations at the FR stage. During postharvest storage anthocyanin synthesis was observed in both ER and FR berries during storage, but ER berries never reached the concentrations of those harvested at FR stage. Storage temperature crucially affected anthocyanin concentrations in FR but not in ER berries. The results from this study may provide both growers and industry with additional information for maximising anthocyanin concentrations in blackcurrant berries. Show more
Keywords: Maturity, Ribes nigrum L., temperature
Absorption of strawberry phytochemicals and antioxidant status changes in humans
Authors: Azzini, E. | Intorre, F. | Vitaglione, P. | Napolitano, A. | Foddai, M.S. | Durazzo, A. | Fumagalli, A. | Catasta, G. | Rossi, L. | Venneria, E. | Testa, M.F. | Raguzzini, A. | Palomba, L. | Fogliano, V. | Maiani, G.
Abstract: In this study the antioxidant composition of fresh and stored strawberries and the bioavailability of the main strawberry bioactive compounds were determined in humans. In addition we have investigated plasma total antioxidant capacity. On 13 healthy volunteers, blood samples were collected before and after acute ingestion of fresh and stored strawberries, 300g respectively. Ferric Reducing Antioxidant Power (FRAP) values after consumption of fresh and stored strawberries showed a significant increase (P < 0.05) at 5 and 8 hours time interval, while significantly decreased TRAP (Total Radical-Trapping Antioxidant Parameter) values (P < 0.05) were found at 8 hours respect to baseline …after stored strawberries consumption. After consuming fresh strawberries, plasma levels of α-carotene increased significantly (P < 0.05) respect to stored ones. Moreover, consumption of fresh and stored strawberries resulted in a significant increase of vitamin C at 2, 3 and 5 hours (P < 0.05). The bioavailable amount of strawberries antioxidant compounds reflects the variations observed in fresh and stored fruits. We could summarize that the global food quality is related to both native quantity of bioactive compounds and storage treatments. Show more
Keywords: Strawberry, domestic storage, bioactive compounds, plasma antioxidant status
Development and quality of cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus L.) as affected by female parent, male parent and temperature
Authors: Martinussen, Inger | Uleberg, Eivind | McDougall, Gordon J. | Stewart, Derek | Junttila, Olavi
Abstract: In this study we investigated the interaction between temperature and genotype on fruit development and levels of total phenols and anthocyanins in cloudberry. The experiment was done in a phytotron using one female (‘Fjellgull') and one hermaphroditic (‘Nyby') cultivar. Plants were grown at 9, 12, 15 and 18°C in 24-h photoperiod. The female cultivars were pollinated with pollen from a male (‘Apollen') clone and from the hermaphrodite clone. Parthenocarpic fruit development was induced by gibberellic acid (GA3 ). Ripe berries were frozen individually at −80°C and stored until analyses. There was a linear, double logarithmic relationship between temperature and number …of days from pollination/GA3 -treatment to ripening. ‘Fjellgull' had significantly larger berries than ‘Nyby', and the largest berries were obtained at 12 and 9°C. Pollen clone did not have a significant effect on berry size. GA3 induced parthenogenesis in ‘Fjellgull' and partial parthenogenesis in ‘Nyby'. In ‘Fjellgull', the parthenocarpic berries were comparable to pollinated ones at low temperatures, but at 18°C their development was restricted. The level of total anthocyanins was significantly higher in ‘Fjellgull' than in ‘Nyby', and these levels were significantly enhanced at 9 and 12°C compared to higher temperatures. Levels of total phenolic compounds were not significantly affected. In conclusion, the present results indicate that low temperature is favourable both for size and quality of cloudberries. Show more
Keywords: Cloudberry, temperature, gibberellin, berry development, anthocyanins, phenols, Rubus chamaemorus
Citation: Journal of Berry Research, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 91-101, 2010
Evaluation of F. x ananassa intra-specific and inter-specific back-crosses to generate new genetic material with increased fruit nutritional quality
Authors: Diamanti, Jacopo | Capocasa, Franco | Battino, Maurizio | Mezzetti, Bruno
Abstract: During the last few years, the nutritional value of fruit has been widely studied and requested by consumers, especially for the general health benefits it can provide. Some of these benefits can be ascribed to the antioxidant capacity of fruit. Both quality and antioxidant attributes are currently considered as good tools to describe the nutritional quality of fruit. In this study, offspring from inter and intra-specific strawberry cross combinations were studied with the aim of evaluating and identifying new genotypes that can show the best compromise between quality and nutritional characteristics. Parents and offspring populations were studied by analyzing fruit …nutritional quality taking in account the following parameters: Total antioxidant capacity, total phenol and anthocyanin content. Eighty strawberry offspring, originating from 8 Fragaria spp. inter and intra-specific crosses, were screened to study the role of the genetic origin of the parents in segregating new genotypes with an improved nutritional quality of the fruit. Strawberry progenies having F. virginiana glauca as a common parent showed a significant enhancement of their fruit quality and nutritional features confirming the interest that wild species are useful in improving several characteristics in cultivated strawberries. Show more
Keywords: Strawberry, F. virginiana spp. glauca, antioxidant capacity, phenols, anthocyanins, breeding methods
Citation: Journal of Berry Research, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 103-114, 2010
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INTERVIEW: Mercer Partner Susan Eichen Offers Tips to Avoid Compensation Pitfalls in 2019
Susan Eichen, Partner, Mercer’s Executive Law & Regulatory Group
With more scrutiny on a wide range of compensation practices, companies are under pressure to develop a fine-tuned approach going into proxy season. Mercer Partner Susan Eichen, who recently published a list of six tips to tackle such issues, spoke to CorpGov about a range of topics from the risk of excessive director compensation to avoiding gender pay gaps. She also pointed out that while the CEO pay ratio disclosure didn’t cause a huge stir on the face of it, there remains a risk of legislation penalizing companies that don’t pay employees more fairly.
CorpGov: Why has the CEO pay ratio drawn such little attention since disclosures rolled out and do you think there are other measurements that investors would prefer to see?
Ms. Eichen: The response to the first year of CEO pay ratio disclosures was muted for a few reasons. First, the ratios were lower than expected. For S&P 500 companies, for example, the median ratio was 166:1. Most people were expecting ratios to be around 350:1 or more, based on highly publicized statistics that were calculated using general economic data for employee pay figures, instead of company-specific pay levels.
Second, differences in companies’ workforce structure, combined with the rule’s flexibility, limited comparability of ratios between companies, even within the same industry.
And third, companies with relatively high ratios explained how their business model and workforce structure contributed to the large gap, such as having a lot of part-time or overseas workers.
Interestingly, the ratios have drawn attention to pay inequality more generally, and investors are asking companies to provide more information on their workforce demographics and pay. And Democratic lawmakers are looking at pay inequity. As a result, some are proposing to limit stock buybacks (which return money to shareholders) unless companies improve worker pay.
Also, several state and local initiatives have piggybacked on the disclosure — proposing economic penalties on companies with large executive-to-worker pay gaps. Portland, Oregon, was the first jurisdiction to enact legislation imposing a tax on companies with high ratios.
In terms of other measurements, two come to mind. Proxy advisers look at the ratio of CEO pay to that of other proxy named executives as an indication of potential succession planning issues. And shareholders have submitted proposals asking companies to disclose the gap in compensation between male and female workers (which is already a requirement in Great Britain).
CorpGov: How often do pay packages require a significant percentage of equity or stock ownership and do you expect shareholders to push for more?
Ms. Eichen: This is an interesting question. Companies typically already pay the largest portion of executives’ compensation in the form of equity, and expect executives to meet stock ownership guidelines. Shareholders generally push for at least half of CEO equity compensation to be performance-based, including a preference for longer performance periods.
Stock ownership guidelines are generally expressed as multiples of pay or a fixed number of shares. Typical guidelines are 5 or 6x salary for CEOs, scaling down to 2 or 3x salary for less senior officers. They’re enforced in various ways, including restrictions on sale of company stock until the guidelines have been met and paying a portion of annual incentives in stock instead of cash.
CorpGov: When it comes to pay, do you find investors doing more of their own analysis and relying less on proxy advisor recommendations?
Ms. Eichen: When it comes to pay, investors use proxy advisers’ evaluations in different ways. Some follow the advisers’ voting recommendations, some use the advisers’ analyses to make independent voting decisions, and others have their own voting guidelines. There has been a lot of criticism of proxy advisers recently, including the SEC looking at their role in the overall proxy process. Large investors generally follow their own voting guidelines, but smaller investors may not have the resources to conduct their own research and are likely to continue to rely heavily on proxy advisers, absent any SEC action.
CorpGov: Director pay is generally a fraction of the packages received by senior management executives. Why, then, is it important for companies to monitor closely?
Ms. Eichen: Since directors set their own pay, there are greater concerns about conflicts of interest. Plaintiffs have had greater success in high-profile director pay litigation than when executive pay is attacked. As a result, attention has been drawn to a handful of outlier companies that have high director pay. And proxy advisers have begun targeting excessive director pay and looking for more disclosure of how companies determine director pay. It’s a natural outgrowth of scrutiny of the executive pay-setting process, with a perception that some directors may be too close to management, possibly clouding their perspective.
CorpGov: Recent studies show a steady increase in board diversity in several respects, especially gender and race. Should companies begin to consider other types of diversity such as age and professional background?
Ms. Eichen: All companies should strive for a balanced board with diverse perspectives. Many companies already consider other types of diversity in selecting director nominees, including leadership, skills, and experience in addition to gender, race and age. Since the natural board refreshment process may not be sufficient to keep up with the board’s changing needs, some companies are wrestling with issues like mandatory retirement age and term limits.
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Military Data Analytics: ‘It is the question that drives us’, or at least it should be
By David Lynch September 16, 2019
What is the question? Well, let’s first consider how much data our Army, and indeed the Australian Defence Force, is collecting on a daily basis and what sense is being made of that data. Frankly, there is no point giving you numbers and statistics: it’s just a lot, in many different data silos, disparate and fulfilling specific purposes, but not joined up to create intelligent cross-silo pictures. The thing that can and does join up these data repositories are questions; intelligent questions, incisive questions, the sort of questions only data, or in fact targeted data analysis, can answer. The data is there, but the questions are absent. Or are they? What questions should we be asking? How to be better, faster, safer, more agile, more efficient, flexible, smarter – perhaps all of these? What questions are being asked of, and answered by, data right now, and how can we get better at asking them?
There is no doubt a bigger data problem (or opportunity), but there are already efforts afoot to deal with a smaller data problem, one of importance, one that could start on a dark night, with low ambient illumination levels due to thick cloud, the sort of night that night vision devices still struggle with. Heavy showers forecast, cloud down to the ground, poor visibility, an apparently essential mission, what could go wrong?
It’s every commander’s worst nightmare. A late night phone call, the frantic disembodied voice on the other end of the line - “Ma’am, there’s been an aircraft accident...”
The ensuing hours, days and weeks invariably and frustratingly furnish more questions than answers. But we crack on, we keep analysing the evidence and asking the questions until we have the answer; an answer to the question of ‘why and how did it happen’, or as close as we can get to it.
We’re good at it. Very good. Gauges are placed under microscopes to ascertain the position of the needle when it struck the face of the instrument, light bulbs receive the same treatment to determine their state of illumination at impact. Every element of human participation is examined in staggering detail. Then we find it. Burnt, half buried under wreckage and earth, damaged but still a faithful guardian of its precious cargo. The Flight Data Recorder (FDR).
The FDR is the holy grail of accident investigation. A virtual treasure trove of data contained within its memory banks. Now, the mechanism of the accident can be distilled to mathematics and physics, with just the ‘why’ remaining to be established. While there is still a tremendous amount of work still to be done, being in possession of the FDR data is a huge advantage for the investigators. It is capable of answering many questions.
Months, sometimes years pass and the investigation is complete. Findings and recommendations are handed down, all with the sole intent of preventing reoccurrence.
Prevention, Proaction, Prediction – Aiming to Eliminate
Prevention, yes, what if there were a way... a way to get to the preventing without suffering the indescribable anguish of having the accident. If only there were a way to perform all the analysis, the number crunching and the inquiries into the human behavior - all without the accident. After all, FDRs are significantly easier to find and access prior to the accident. Let’s say you did access and download FDR data in the absence of an event such as an accident - what then do you do with such data? What do you look for? What is your focus for the examination? What questions do you want answered? What questions should you be asking? What outcomes do you want to achieve?
What if there was a way of testing our understanding of our risk environment using data, and our subsequent approach to that environment through risk management? Risk management is an oft overused and misunderstood term. In aviation, risk management is relatively well known and used, and has reached a high level of refinement. But it can always be better, and surely this is not just an aviation thing. Our people are injured and killed doing things other than flying, aren’t they?
What forms does risk management come in? In simple terms, it has historically been either reactive or proactive. Reactive systems respond to events and seek to make change to avoid future occurrences of the same or similar events. This approach relies on data from incidents and accident reports, and suffers from the obvious failing of only addressing what has happened. Proactive systems attempt to address hazards/risks that have been assessed as having the potential to cause harm before this harm has occurred. In addition to accident and incident report data, proactive systems utilise data from inspections/audits as well as voluntary reporting and surveys. Proactive systems seek to prevent, rather than explain and mitigate, but the aforementioned data sources have their limitations. They look at what is on show and what people say they do, and voluntarily report, but they do not measure or assess what is actually done.
So how can we move beyond being proactive and into the realm of predictive risk management? In practice this involves moving to the left not only of potential causes for accidents, but also potential causes for incidents, to analysis of pre-incident trends. If we can get ahead of incidents actually occurring, and address equipment or training shortfalls before they lead to unsafe acts, we are attacking the accident vector before it gains velocity. Predictive risk management is precisely what the name suggests – it endeavours to predict what risks are not yet obvious through seeking to identify trends and allows operators to track changing risks that they currently believe are being managed.
Achieving predictive risk management is all about asking questions, and data analysis… back to the FDR and its treasure trove. Modern FDRs record thousands of parameters, but how do we analyse that massive amount of data to give us what we want – a predictive approach to Risk Management? One highly effective methodology is termed Military Flight Operations Quality Assurance (MFOQA).
MFOQA
MFOQA, also known as Flight Data Monitoring, is the practice of obtaining and analysing flight data to enhance the Aviation Safety Management System. The accepted ADF definition is:
‘Through the routine collection, compilation and analysis of parametric flight data MFOQA programs provide insight into the flight operations environment. This allows the identification of trends and the efficient allocation of resources to reduce operational risks and improve capability’[1]
MFOQA is not new in aviation with the first such program having its origins in the early 1960s in the UK. Early programs simply sought to check compliance and conformance with rules and procedures. But to be truly predictive, modern MFOQA programs need to do far more. The big shift in modern platforms is the richness and detail in the data available. As an example, the ARH Tiger, our first new generation digital aircraft, is capable of recording a combination of 1553 data bus traffic, video and audio, essentially enough data to completely reconstruct a flight from what the aircraft did, which switch was selected when, and what was said. With all recorders turned on, this equates to 12 GB of (incredibly rich) data capture per aircraft per hour, all there for the taking, waiting for the questions.
Army Aviation’s MFOQA program has been in place for close to a decade, and in this time has:
allowed the identification of non-compliance with flight manual limits, and other rules and procedures
allowed monitoring of trends in flight parameters associated with known higher risk flight profiles – allowing us to actively evolve our flying techniques
helped us discover previously unknown (latent) hazards in our operations
provided a basis to better quantify risks already addressed by the Safety Management System (SMS)
provided efficiencies in maintenance.
There are three main stages from data capture through to having an actionable product, with the decision to act being the fourth stage, per fig 1 below.
figure_1_-_aaavn_mfoqa_process_model.png
Stage 1 - Data collection – This involves the physical recording of the aircraft parameters and the method of getting the data out of the aircraft, into a storage repository and then onto a medium to permit analysis. The aircraft download can be via live telemetry, manual download (post flight) or Wi-Fi data transmission. While this would appear to be a somewhat simple task, this element can be technically complex and provide significant challenges in the establishment and ongoing maintenance of the program. Importantly, a target of a minimum of 95% data capture is a key measure of an effective program that is truly looking across an entire fleet. The system needs to seek 100% data capture, but due to recorder failures and data corruptions, 95% is realistic. Ideally, knowing the value of data capture and subsequent monitoring, we would build not only data capture on new platforms, but also the analysis system required into acquisition activity. We would ask the questions up front, and ensure that by using a data analysis system, the data could answer them.
Stage 2 - Data Interrogation – Machine (no context) – Second, once the data is at hand, it is compared to a predetermined set of parameters (or ‘event set’ AKA ‘the questions’) to ascertain if an event has occurred. While some of the events are relatively simple (e.g. exceeding a bank angle of 60°), others will require input from numerous sensors to establish if an event has occurred (e.g. greater than 20° of pitch below 50’ above ground).
In the establishment of event sets, multiple levels of event can, and should, be created. This allows for objective assessment of the hazard and associated risk level of the event against objective parameters. The quality of event sets develop over time, and parameters are refined until the data is providing meaningful information about aircraft operation.
Stage 3 - Data Analysis – Human (with context) – Once the data has been reduced by applying the ‘event set’ to the ‘data set’ in the machine, the events of interest are analysed by (human) environmental experts and context is added. At this stage, corrupted data is identified (i.e. parameters that cannot coexist identified and discarded from consideration) and events of significance requiring action are prioritised for presentation at the MFOQA review board where action decisions will be made. At this point, the information provided by the analysis of the data is used to achieve the main goal of the program – training improvement or behavioral change to enhance the system safety.
In Army Aviation, the MFOQA program is used to enable and inform the chain-of-command in orfder to enhance safety and is thus intended to be non-punitive in nature. In cases of deliberate repetitive violations or potential gross neglect, only the existence of the event of interest would be provided, and the Commanding Officer would get to choose the next step. This approach works because experience has shown that events of this type are almost never isolated, and effective supervisors know without identification where to look to solve these problems or apply increased supervision. MFOQA is a ‘race-to-the-heights’ of aviation safety, and it seeks to improve and inspire rather than frighten and punish. This philosophical vector is important.
Stage 4 – Act and Review – The review board is held routinely to ensure identified trends are acted upon quickly before incident/accident vectors develop. Though not yet at this frequency, Army Aviation has a desire, and arguably a need, to review MFOQA trends monthly and implement changes regularly. This will stop ‘trend admiration’ and ensure that the legislative requirement to continuously review risk to ensure controls are effective is executed.
The first stage, data collection, should reach steady state operation fairly quickly once implemented with changes only required for identified equipment or process improvements. The next three stages are subject to a continuous evolution cycle to allow us to adapt and learn from our evolving environment.
figure_2_-_continuous_evolution_cycle_of_mfoqa_.png
A contemporary example from Army Aviation highlights how MFOQA can assist in identification of hazards and the management of the associated risk[2].
The flight data (fig 3) from an S70 Black Hawk revealed what appeared to be an unsafe flight manoeuvre, which required further investigation to establish the context of the event.
figure_3_-_flight_data_trace_from_an_s70_black_hawk_showing_bank_angle_over_90deg.png
Contact with the crew of this sortie allowed us to learn that the flight was conducted for the purpose of flight testing an aircraft component, and the crew were flying a prescribed flight manoeuvre. However, had the procedure associated with this test flight been appropriately risk managed? In this case, the profile had been authorised, but not optimised for the safest outcome. As a result of this event, the procedure followed for this test flight element was modified and the appropriateness of the risk managed flight profile confirmed. Had this not been the case, and the event had occurred in the course of a flight other than a test flight, the event might have given insight into an adverse trend emerging in our flight operations.
The following table (Table 1) shows some of the MFOQA ‘event set’ for the S70 Black Hawk in Australian service over recent years. The trends in the occurrence of trigger events are obvious, and the likely safety implications of not operating the aircraft anywhere near actual or monitored limits undoubtedly positive. Just looking at this table, even the unfamiliar observer can immediately see trends, both apparently positive and negative, and understand what elements might warrant further attention and what seems to be tracking well. This ability to ‘see’ results intuitively is an indicator of a good set of questions, in this case refined over time. In the case of this data set specifically, the adding of context significantly reduced the events of interest to single figure numbers. An important effect here is the understanding by operators what the event set triggers are, and the subsequent thought process they will engage in before triggering them through a specific manoeuvre. It doesn’t limit aircrew safely and appropriately manoeuvring the aircraft within specified limits, but it does ensure triggering events are both necessary and justifiable, because we may ask the question to confirm this during the review process.
table_1_-_s70_black_hawk_event_set_selective_2012-2018.png
Surely this is not just an aviation thing?
Yes, surely there are applications of this methodology outside of aviation? Well, of course there are!
While data monitoring of this nature has its origins in aviation, there is an obvious and logical conclusion that the principles are just as applicable to the operation of any vehicle involving a human-machine interface. Most major ground transport companies in Australia have implemented some kind of data monitoring (In Vehicle Monitoring Systems or IVMS). While the majority of these systems work on a limited number of parameters, usually transmitted via a mobile telemetry system, the system can also function effectively with a fixed recording system that requires a manual download.
In the case of a ground vehicle, it comes back to - yes, you guessed it - the questions. If, for example, we wished to track pre-cursor events to vehicle rollovers through data, then we would need some detail about what the pre-cursor conditions were so we could establish the ‘event set’ and then compare the data to it. The question might be, ‘How often have we nearly rolled over a G-Wagon on a dirt road in the last 12 months?’ Assuming of course there was a program of routine data collection in place, we could get the actual ‘event set’ for a rollover from an accident that has already occurred. It could include numerous parameters, some on vehicle, some off vehicle, such as:
Body critical rollover angle
Steering wheel position and use
Activation of vehicle safety functions like traction control and ABS
Vehicle lateral accelerations (ie. is the vehicle drifting?)
Type of road
Ambient weather and road conditions
Once we know what a rollover ‘event set’ looks like in data, we set a predictive ‘event set’ prior to actual rollover but providing clear indicators of potential, go to the vehicle fleet data, and then pass it through the filter. Importantly, many of these measurements that relate to vehicle dynamics may not be detected by a dashboard mounted system that isn’t in some way integrated with, or at least ‘sniffing’, on board systems for information. Also, some of the information may not be directly sensed by the vehicle but could be attained in other ways. For example, how might we establish the class of road?
In a study conducted by DSTO[3] where Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) were fitted to M113AS4, Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle (PMV) and Australian Light Armoured Vehicle (ASLAV), vehicle speed and vertical acceleration inputs were used to establish whether the vehicle was travelling on a first or second class road or moving cross country. Once the type of road or terrain is established, context can be provided to search for triggers from other parameters of interest[4]. Of course there is GPS positioning available to confirm the location, while further information may be gleaned from satellite imagery for events of interest.
The important point here is to ensure we are ‘question led’, rather than ‘data led’. If we simply start with the data provided, and work out what it will give us, we will never go past it. But if we start with the questions we want answered, then we will understand what the current data collection systems can and can’t provide, and what needs to be done to collect or indeed combine the data sets we need to answer them.
How safe is safe enough?
The US Air Force says it very well:
‘Apply the principle that there is no limit to the amount of effort justified to prevent the recurrence of one aircraft accident or the loss of one life.’[5]
With this sage advice in mind, the vision of the Army Aviation MFOQA program is simple.
We seek to capture and analyse the data generated by an aircraft in operation and apply the lessons from this analysis to help find new ways to improve flight safety and increase overall operational efficiency.
But this need not be limited to the aviation environment. Every life is precious, and we have a legislated responsibility to continuously do our best to ensure we are applying the effort necessary to protect not only those it is our duty to protect but, most importantly, the men and women either side of us - our mates. In many cases, we have the data available and could be using it to enhance safety; in some cases we have not deliberately decided not to, so we need to get after it.
Safety focused, safe operations (both domestically and deployed) underwrite capability delivery. Certainly for aircraft operations, over the last 30 years far more aircraft have collided with the ground or other things in theatres of operation than have been successfully engaged by threat weapon systems of all types. We must first survive peacetime domestic training operations to be ready to deploy, alive and intact, when the call comes and then apply those same practices when deployed. The statistics do not lie, and a review of vehicle accidents over the last 30 years would likely yield similar findings to aviation.
MFOQA, and military vehicle operations quality assurance (MVOQA), to coin a new term, gives us the processes and procedures to wade through massive amounts of data and create something meaningful and noble from it. Trends in our routine training operations that could cause harm need no longer remain a mystery. We must only decide and act to progress, and ask questions.
This article was co-authored by Richard Armitage.
[1] Defence Aviation Safety Manual
[2] From CAAP SMS-4(0): Flight Data Analysis Program (FDAP) - (SMS)
[3] Health and Usage Monitoring Proof of Concept Study Using Army Land Vehicles David Ludovici, Michael Bray, Vish Wickramanayake
[4] The determination of the thresholds for vertical acceleration and speed which correlate to specific terrain types would need to be established experimentally)
[5] Accident Investigation Manual of the US Air Force
David Lynch is the current Director of Operational Airworthiness for HQ FORCOMD Aviation Branch. Currently an ARH Tiger pilot and instructor, his previous experience includes capability AIOS, aviation platform acquisition (CASG, CH-47F) and sustainment, training system design, development and management and most recently command of the School of Army Aviation.
The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Australian Army, the Department of Defence or the Australian Government.
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Located in the state of Wisconsin, the Milwaukee River is about 100 miles long, stretching from Fond du Lac County to Lake Michigan. Once the center of the city's industry, the river has seen a boom in the housing industry, creating interesting scenery along its banks. As the river's popularity continues to grow, ample options abound to explore the area on a Milwaukee River cruise.
Edelweiss Boat Tours
If you're looking for a themed cruise, or one offering food and beverage options, you'll want to check out Edelweiss Boat Tours. Tours operate seasonally, typically from May through the end of summer. Edelweiss has five boats in its fleet, including some with two levels and accommodating between 40 and 150 passengers.
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Edelweiss Boat Tours offers a variety of themed cruises. These include:
Champagne Brunch Cruise: Two hours; Champagne, orange juice and seasonal breakfast menu; children allowed; cash bar; prices are around $50 for adults and $25 for children 12 and under
Weekend Margarita Fiesta Cruise: 1.5 hour cruise with complimentary margaritas and taco buffet; cash bar; 21 and over only; $28 per person
Late Night Party Cruise: 1.5 hour cruise; price includes 2 Miller Lite vouchers and DJ entertainment; cash bar available; 21 and over only; Edelweiss Boats reserves right to refuse boarding to already intoxicated guests; about $25 per person
Historic Milwaukee Boat Tour: 1 hour, 20 minute cruise through downtown Milwaukee and some of its best landmarks; cash bar available; prices are approximately $18 for adults and $9 for children 12 and under
Throughout the season, look for special event cruises like Halloween, wine and beer themed cruises, and even an Oktoberfest cruise.
Milwaukee River at night
Edelweiss can accommodate manual wheelchair boarding only on the Highland Avenue dock. They cannot accommodate motorized wheelchairs or scooters due to weight restrictions and doorway widths, so contact the reservations office ahead of time if you are in need of handicap boarding.
If you're planning to bring a big group, Edelweiss doesn't offer special group pricing. Birthday parties are popular on the boats, but skip the cake as some cruises are standing-room only for a majority of the trip.
Some cruises, like the Margarita Fiesta or Late Night Party Cruise, are 21 and over, and that means no children under 21 are allowed, even if they are accompanied by a parent.
Edelweiss Reviews
Edelweiss is one of top recommended river boat tours per Visit Milwaukee Tourism. Reviews on sites like TripAdvisor are mixed, with some people loving the views and sightseeing cruises, while others were not necessarily fans of the "party" cruises. Others noted the boats feel dated and aren't necessarily that clean, but it's important to note that most negative reviews are at least two years old.
Riverwalk Boat Tours
Riverwalk Boat Tours is the company to check out for a variety of "booze cruises" and alcohol themed options. Like Edelweiss, these cruises operate seasonally, so expect scheduled dates around summer. The two smaller 40-foot pontoon boats take up to 22 passengers, whereas the two larger 45-foot pontoon boats can accommodate up to 49 people. Both have on-board bathrooms and are available for private charter.
Riverwalk Boat Tours offers everything from Margarita Monday and Tiki Tuesday Cruises to Funky Fridays and Sunday Bloody Mary Cruises. A couple tours of note include:
Wild Wednesday Craft Beer Cruise: 1.5 hour cruise down the river and out to Lake Michigan; new brewery featured each week with onboard brewery rep discussing their beers; wine, soft drinks, and beer infused appetizers included; $29 per person
Saturday 3 Pub Cruise: 4.5 hour, Saturday afternoon pub crawl by boat, stopping by three different pubs; price includes drink tickets at each location; $34 per person
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There are times when multiple boats may be scheduled for the same cruise, so make sure you are booking the same boat if you're part of a group who are booking their own tickets.
Many of these cruises, if not all, involve alcohol or stops at bars. These cruises are 21 and over, no exceptions. You must show government-issued ID when checking in.
Reviews on sites like Yelp are mixed. Some people aren't a fan of the stops on the pub crawl cruise, despite it being their most popular. Some users noted a tendency for rowdy crowds on these cruises, and the food is relatively mediocre. Those who went with the mindset of a fun booze cruise all rank this experience as pretty awesome. A number of the positive reviews are also from guests who rented their own small pontoon boat, so consider that option if you want to explore the Milwaukee River at your own pace.
Several of Riverwalk Boat Tours' itineraries made TripSavvy's list of best river cruises in Milwaukee. They recommend the Tiki Tuesday, Thirsty Thursday, and the Pub Crawl cruises.
Milwaukee Boat Line
Guests who want a more historical or landmark-rich river cruise should look at Milwaukee Boat Line offerings. Milwaukee Boat Line also comes recommended by Visit Milwaukee Tourism. There are three boats in the fleet, including two yachts and the Iroquois historic boat originally christened as the "Detroit" in 1922 by Defoe Boat & Motor Werks. The yachts include such features as flatscreen TVs and wrap-around windows.
Milwaukee Boat Line offers a number of cruises, complete with historical narration.
Sightseeing Tour: Most popular tour; 90 minutes learning about Milwaukee's past and present; live narration from the captain and experienced guides; snacks, soft drinks, beer, and cocktails available; $17.99 for adults, kids ages 4-12 are $8.99, children 3 and under are free
Sightseeing - Happy Hour Cruise: Adults-only 90-minute cruise; $17.99 and option to purchase $5 drink package online
Mondo Milwaukee: Two-hour tour led by true crime author Matthew J. Prigge, reliving some of the creepiest and scariest aspects of Milwaukee's history; 18 and over only due to adult content; $17.99 per person
Reviews and Important Notes
The original sightseeing tour is dog friendly, but dogs must be well-behaved, leashed, and "take care of business" prior to boarding. Be sure to look online for possible meal package options as well, otherwise brats, hot dogs, and other snacks can be purchased individually on board.
Milwaukee Boat Line is #3 for boat tours in Milwaukee on TripAdvisor. Guests really love the narration, and note the length of the tour is perfect, although some noted that the narration on the happy hour tour was not as thorough as they would've preferred. Of the very few negative reviews, the complaints centered around not being able to hear the narration, or it felt like the guide was reading from a script.
Milwaukee Paddle Tavern
For a completely different way to experience the Milwaukee River, consider Milwaukee Paddle Tavern. This is a little more work than the other river boat tours as you are actually pedaling on this one! Similar to the big bike pedal tours you might've seen, this one is on a riverboat.
Paddle Tours
Tours are about 1 hour, 45 minutes and pedaling is said to be easier on the boat than some bicycle pedal tours. The boats hold up to 14 people, so you won't be alone. Most of these are private tours, but they run public tours each Friday and Saturday. Prices are $30 per person for Sunday to Thursday and $39 per person for Friday and Saturday. Private tours are $499 for Friday and Saturday, $375 for "Sunday Funday," and $350 for Monday through Thursday.
Look for seasonal cruises, like a Fireworks cruise, that are only offered a couple times a year. The Fireworks cruise sells out quickly, and it's a three hour cruise that leaves at 7:30 p.m. and returns at or after 10:30 p.m.
FAQs and Reviews
There are no food or beverages on Milwaukee Paddle Tavern; it's BYOB. The boats have four built-in bar coolers to cool down your drinks. They request no glass, and you are allowed up to three drinks per person. Food is permissible as well, but they recommend you only bring items you can eat one handed, like a pretzel or maybe a sandwich.
Milwaukee Paddle Tavern is the #1 rated boat tour on TripAdvisor with almost all five-star ratings. The only one-star rating mentions an unfriendly captain who made for an uncomfortable trip.
This is a new tour with only one season under its belt so far. There was a lot of local press in early 2017 when the new tour was announced. The first season saw such popularity, owners told local media they are already planning to expand soon, and they have had to turn people away, especially on Saturdays.
Choosing a Milwaukee River Cruise
There are a number of options available for Milwaukee river cruises, so it really comes down to what aspects are most important to you. Do you want a historical tour, a booze and party cruise, a Champagne brunch, or a combination drinking and paddle yourself tour? Or maybe you want a private tour? No matter which you choose, you're in for a fun day (or night) along the beautiful Milwaukee River.
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Camino Del Faro - Hike to Albir Lighthouse in Serra Gelada, Costa Blanca
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My Impressions of Camino del Faro
Because of a similar name to the most popular trail in the world, to some “Camino del Faro” might sound like a long and hard walk. The reality couldn’t be more opposite. From the starting point to the very end, the whole 2.5km of road is wheelchair-friendly. The route is relatively flat; thus, elderly people can do it as well. Having in mind the wonderful scenery of the hike, and the accessibility, Camino del Faro is somewhat a paradise for all kinds of nature lovers.
Being one of them, and also into science, the relaxing walk made my mind to drift away thinking of the hiking as an activity. We all know that it is good for you, but why? Having in mind all the features of the route I mentioned before, was like a perfect storm to try deconstructing the whole hiking thing to the very bits. It is then, what I saw was really upsetting. Observing some people exploiting the good conditions of the road left me with somewhat mixed feelings. It looked to me like they miss the entire point of hiking.
Albir lighthouse from Albir beach, Spain. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
Location: Serra Gelada
Starting Location: Serra Gelada tourist information center
Target Location: Albir Lighthouse
Coordinates: 38°56′33″N 0°05′18″E
Distance (One way from the parking): 2.5km / 1.55mi
Ascend (from the parking): 66m / 215ft
Ascend (from the sea level): 112m / 367ft
Duration: 40-60min
Difficulty: Very Easy (Wheelchair Friendly)
Permit: Required between June 15 – September 30
Rules: The Official rules of Serra Gelada
Accomondation: Calpe, Altea, Albir & Benidorm
Due to its accessibility and gorgeousness, Camino del Faro might be the most popular hike if not in the whole of Costa Blanca, then definitely in the area near Benidorm. It is a perfect place to start uncovering the beauty of Costa Blanca, but there is much more to see. These are some of the best hikes around Benidorm in Costa Blanca.
Well, like any hike, it depends on your preparation. To some people it might look hard, even a segway is required to do the “walking“. On the other hand, I bet the blind people could do the hike. Jokes aside, if you can walk 5km with as many breaks as you want – you can do the hike. I‘ve seen people from all age groups doing Camino del Faro: from those who can barely walk to those who just learned to do so. After all, Camino del Faro is as easy as a walk in a park and it is the beauty of it. We all can enjoy this walk despite our conditions.
Electric Bike Guided Tour
In case it is hard physically for you to reach Albir’s lighthouse on foot, it is possible to rent e-bike to do the hike. It is even possible to get a guided e-bike tour to reveal more than just the beautiful nature of Serra Gelada. Unfortunately, I could only find such a guided tour from Benidorm.
From Benidorm: Electric Bike Guided Tour (3h00 | € 35/person) The price covers e-bike with all the gear required, and a professional guide in either English or Spanish.
Whatever is comfortable. I’ve seen people doing the hike with proper mountain hiking gear but if you prefer flip-flops – don’t worry – this is THE HIKE. You’ll do just fine.
Entrance to Camino del Faro in Serra Gelada, Spain. Photo by Aiste [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
Serra Gelada is located between Albir and Benidorm – popular tourist getaway – which guarantees a good connection to the area. It could be reached by Autopista de Mediterraneo, a toll road Ap-7, or N-332 – slower and busier free alternative. Whichever road you pick, I’ll guarantee you – you’ll feel like you could drive straight to the Albir lighthouse.
Parking of Parc Natural de la Serra Gelada. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
Just next to the entrance to Serra Gelada park there is a huge parking lot built there for visitors of Parc Natural de la Serra Gelada. Despite its size, I expect it to be full in the evening, during the high season. Just have in mind that the same would apply even more for the rest of Albir town.
Parc Natural de la Serra Gelada from airplane. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
The key feature of the park is the large cliffs, rising above 400 meters above the sea level providing some of the most dramatic landscapes of Costa Blanca. Heights of the most prominent point, Alt del Governador (438m), are enough to rank them among the tallest cliffs in the whole Iberian Peninsula. Other interesting features of the park are: hanging fossilized dunes among the coast; the underwater area with all of its flora and fauna, including the presence of cetaceans. All of this is enough to make it one of the most unique protected spaces in the entire Valencian Community.
Crossroad at the entrance to Parc Natural de la Serra Gelada. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
Camino del Faro (Albir – Albir Lighthouse Yellow Route)
Camino del Faro starts straight at the entrance to Parc Natural de la Serra Gelada, sharing the starting point with several other hikes, which you can find on the edge of a popular beach resort town, Albir. A tourist information center is located at the spot with drinkable water and public WC. It is the only one on the whole route, with no possibility to do your nasty work somewhere off-route. Camino del Faro contains twelve designated stops across the 2.5km route. That alone will be enough to help you take more from the hike than just beautiful pictures.
Camino del Faro leads to the left toward a picnic area with another access to water. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
To my surprise, the area of the park even includes free wi-fi. Ironically, the routes, which need a connection for navigation the least, are the only ones to have it. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
Flora in Camino del Faro, Serra Gelada, Spain. [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
The first information stand will direct your attention to the surrounding flora in the shadowed parts of the park. If there is one thing people should learn here is that Serra Gelada is the home to some endemic (found only in this area) plant species to this area of the Mediterranean. Respecting their habitat could be a life and death question to the survival of whole species.
It won’t take long until the road will roll out of the vegetation layer to give the first glimpse of what is to come. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
Soon after you‘ll reach the first viewpoint area with jawbreaking scenery. Photo by Aiste [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
It is the best distance/view ratio I‘ve ever experienced in any hike. Seriously, anywhere else I would walk 10km for this. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
Puig Campana
In this area, a 10km hike will get you to the top of this mountain – Puig Campana. Elevated 1,406m above the sea level it is the second-highest mountain in the Province of Alicante. The key feature of this giant mountain is a small gash, just next to the peak of it. Curious how it got there? There are several legends which you can read here.
The next thing to catch your attention, undoubtedly, is going to be a tunnel, built here 60 years ago to make the access to 156-year old Albir lighthouse less dangerous. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
Be sure not to miss the road on the left to the tunnel, where hides the second viewpoint of the route. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
Compared to the last viewpoint, this one gives only a slightly different angle, but it is hard to get enough of it. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
Penon de Ifach from Camino del Faro. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
Penon de Ifach
From now on you’ll be constantly followed by this scenery. See that rock? That is Penon de Ifach, a Gibraltar-type rock of Costa Blanca in Calpe. If you want to climb that one instead – I highly recommend reading the pieces of advice written in climbing Penon de Ifach guide. This hike falls into the category – high risk, high reward.
After the second viewpoint, head back to the tunnel. Just don’t think too much about its dynamite origins. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
Fossils found on Camino del Faro. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
These are fossils of extinct bivalve mollusks – Condrodontos. While the shape of it might not impress you, the fact that they are here proves that at least this part of Serra Gelada was at the seabed 100 mya.
After the tunnel, the path goes to the sunny side of the park (not today). For that reason, the vegetation is totally different, including more endemic plant species. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
The road goes deep into Serra Gelada, around La Mina Cove. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
The next point of interest is Boca de Ballena, which could look like an ordinary cave, but its name actually translates to Mount of Whale. Hope this will spark your imagination. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
Down the road, Cala de la Mina is accessible to anyone willing to do the climbing back. I imagine this beach would be appreciated more by snorkeling enthusiasts rather than usual swimmers.
After a few couples of hundred meters, deep in the cove, iron-rich red stones of La Mina (eng. Mine) appear right into your face. This ochre mine was run by a single family from the mid-19th to early 20th century. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
The last viewpoint before the Grande Finale of the hike is named after mining engineer and geologist, Alfonso Yebenes Simon, who’s scientific work and publications were very important understanding the stone formations of Serra Gelada. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
Albir lighthouse was built in 1863. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
The old alternative to Camino del Faro went along the coast to the very end, where the steps led right to the lighthouse. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
Once you reach the lighthouse, it feels like the whole Mediterranean Sea opens in front of your eyes. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
Spotting Cetaceans
The Albir lighthouse area is great for spotting cetaceans, especially, the bottlenose dolphins. The Serra Gelada Natural Park is home to one of the few schools of these wonderful creatures, found around the waters of the Iberian Peninsula.
At the point, where Albir lighthouse was built, the height of the cliff facing the sea is about 112m. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
Alt del Governador (438m) in Serra Gelada, Spain. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
Cliffs of Serra Gelada
These dramatic cliffs formed 70 mya when Africa shifted northwards and collided with the Iberian Peninsula. This resulted in many mountains and similar cliffs across Spain and Europe. The gap between these two peaks is about 170m, formed as a result of an erosion caused by the water.
Camino del Faro is a linear walk, but, at least, it is a pleasant walk in a park. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
The coves of Serra Gelada and Benidorm Island were regular hideouts for pirates between the 16th and 18th centuries. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
Camino del Faro is highly recommended for anybody happen to be in the area. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
As a European country, Spain is one of the larger ones, and it is no secret that it has a lot to show-of. For that reason, it is expected for some places to have better infrastructure, and some places to lag behind it. Camino del Faro is an example of excellence not only in Spain but in the rest of Europe. Not that every hiking route should be paved (and I’m strongly against it) but that it is possible to have some of these top-notch scenery areas made accessible to everyone.
Man sitting on a rock on Camino del Faro. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
The views might look like the main reward here, but the actual motivation for hiking is rather different. Getting direct sun and exercising increases the levels of serotonin in the brain¹. Nowadays, it is a well-known fact that serotonin reduces anxiety of the people vulnerable to depression and increase the mood for all of us². Thus, I cannot stress myself enough to express how it is sad for me to see “like vampires” missing the entire point of outdoor activities.
No kidding, right. Photo by Alis Monte [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
Just because this beautiful route is paved, that doesn’t mean that people should grab a segway, or electric scooter, and ride along. It is hard to explain my thoughts once I saw a young woman getting off her Segway and trying to climb a rock by a cliff. All this risk just to get a beautiful picture. She couldn’t do more things wrong here.
The reason why I’m stressing about this is, that she risked her safety for a short-term behavior reinforcing dopamine boost obtained from the likes on social network for a cool picture³, while totally ignoring the main benefits of hiking. As I mentioned before, exercising would have similar effects due to increased levels of serotonin, minus the addictive part, plus all the other benefits of active lifestyle, which we all can equally enjoy on Camino del Faro.
Peace. Photo by Aiste [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Connecting the Dots
¹ Young S. N. (2007). How to increase serotonin in the human brain without drugs. Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN, 32(6), 394–399.
² Jenkins, T. A., Nguyen, J. C., Polglaze, K. E., & Bertrand, P. P. (2016). Influence of Tryptophan and Serotonin on Mood and Cognition with a Possible Role of the Gut-Brain Axis. Nutrients, 8(1), 56. doi:10.3390/nu8010056
³ Trevor Haynes (2018). Dopamine, Smartphones & You: A battle for your time. http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/dopamine-smartphones-battle-time
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India’s Debt to Veer Savarkar
By Atanu Dey on Saturday February 26, 2011 • ( 45 )
One thing that constantly astonishes me is my ignorance of Indian history. I admit that freely and feel sorry for myself — and for the hundreds of millions of Indians who are ignorant like me. I am partly to blame but we should remember that the Indian government — what I should really call the British Government 2.0 which started off with faux Britisher Jawaharlal Nehru at the helm — did much to misrepresent Indian history. Thanks to the interwebs (and thanks to Al Gore for inventing them internets), slowly I am learning a bit of history.
The other day I was thinking that even though I am ignorant of history, I figured out that Nehru was a clueless retard even though his name is plastered all over the country and they all say what a great man he was. I figured out that MK Gandhi must have been a self-obsessed authoritarian with an inflated ego.
The thing is, as Yogi Berra pointed out, you’d be astonished what you observe if you care to see. (I don’t know if Yogi Berra actually said it but it sounds like something that he may have said.) I saw without distorting glasses and I observed that India is a disaster zone. There were people who directed it since its political independence in 1947. They were in control. They — what’s the word I am looking for — yes, fucked up. Pardon my French.
My reasoning was syllogistic:
Major premise: India is evidently in dire distress.
Minor premise: India was led by Cha-cha and friends.
Conclusion: Cha-cha and friends were retards.
Those worthies — Cha-cha Nehru and his gang of retards — are definitely to blame. Cha-cha. Don’t you just feel like getting up and doing a bit of a dance. One-two-cha-cha-cha. Let’s do the cha-cha-cha.
The other day I was thinking. (A different other day than the other day mentioned previously.) In his book, “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution“, Richard Dawkins makes a point that I had not pondered before. He argued that circumstantial evidence is not the poor county cousin of eyewitness evidence, but rather circumstantial evidence can be more solid than eyewitness evidence.
Did you see that man enter the house at 7 PM? Yes, says the witness. But memories can be very unreliable at times. People make mistakes in identifying people. Circumstantial evidence, if available, can be quite foolproof. The finger prints on the knife, the shirt of the accused with the bloodstains that DNA shows to be the victim’s blood, the motive that the accused had, etc.
I pondered that matter at some length. I realized that the history we are taught in school about how great a person Cha-cha Nehru was is like an eye-witness account which has been retold a few thousand times. Someone somewhere made the assertion that Nehru was smart — and then it got repeated uncritically by others.
The circumstantial evidence says otherwise. Nehru was clueless about economic policy. Fabian socialism was known to be a disaster. Nehru was clueless about military policy. Thousands of Indian soldiers died in the disastrous war with China, thanks to Cha-cha. He was clueless about industrial policy. Import substitution industrialization (ISI, not to be confused with the Pakistani organization that DiggyVijay Singh moonlights for) chained India’s growth to what is now rightly called the “Nehru rate of growth.” Nehru was clueless about military strategy. He told the Indian army to halt their campaign to throw out the Pakistanis from Kashmir and took the matter to the UN. Tens of thousands of military and civilians have died as a consequence, and a few million Kashmiri Hindus are languishing in refugee camps in their own country.
I’d love to continue on the subject of the Nabob of Cluelessness, Mr Nehru. But I am sure you have better things to do and I don’t have the time to list all the cluelessness of Mr Nehru. India’s pathetic education system is his doing. The IITs are a prime example of that. But I will go into why the IITs have been a curse to India later.
Anyway, if you need convincing that Nehru, Gandhi and the rest of the unholy bunch were crazily mistaken, take a look at India — and weep.
So here’s what I learned today. India owes a debt to Savarkar. Taken from The Daily Pioneer. Reproduced in full since it is hard to find the piece when you need it in a hurry. If they come after me for copyright violations, I will take this down.
India’s debt to Savarkar
Second opinion: Priyadarsi Dutta
His Irish admirers fondly misspelt him as ‘Sawarkar’, and politely declined to make amends when Shyamji Krishna Verma, his sponsor in England, clarified the point. It was difficult for his readers to imagine him without invoking imageries of war. His pen, dipped in blood, breathed so much fire that it was a wonder that “why the paper did not burn”. In those days, India’s freedom movement was not stricken with the phthisis of non-violence and obsessive compulsive disorder of Hindu-Muslim unity introduced by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, whose 125th birth anniversary was marked on May 28, was 14 years junior to Gandhi. But he was years ahead of him on many counts. He set the goal of absolute independence for India in 1900; Gandhi asked for it in 1929. He performed a bonfire of foreign clothes in 1905, during the movement against Bengal’s partition, an idea emulated by Gandhi for his noncooperation movement.
India could have been spared of its emasculation had it abided by Savarkarite clarity rather than Gandhian absurdities. To Savarkar, as he succinctly put down in his last book, Six Glorious Chapters of Indian History, no nation could aspire for civilisational greatness without acquiring military strength.
Savarkar lived to see the vindication of his proposition in contemporary India. Gandhi’s policy of pacifism failed to buy peace with Muslims, leading to carnages and expulsion of Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan. Jawaharlal Nehru’s dream of “talking his way to leadership of the world”, and forging Hindi-Chini brotherhood through slogans failed badly. Slapped hard by China, he was exposed for what he was — a meek leader of a Third World country.
Independent India scarcely realises the greatest debt it owes to Savarkar; turning a Muslim dominated Indian Army into a predominantly Hindu-Sikh Army with his whirlwind recruitment drive during World War II. If it were otherwise, Pakistan, even after partition, would have 60 per cent to 70 per cent of soldiers, enough to overwhelm West Bengal, East Punjab, threatening Delhi, let alone much talked about Jammu & Kashmir.
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Ungrateful Alive
Saturday February 26, 2011 • 4:54 am
“The IITs are a prime example of [India’s pathetic education system]. But I will go into why the IITs have been a curse to India later.” — Are we there yet? I can’t wait…
Nice post. The fraction of middle class Indians who believe reform is still possible by throwing more resources at India, but without ruffling feathers, stepping on toes, or some considerable bloodshed, is surprisingly large. The truth is that reform has become impossible without beating up a large number of crooks. Otherwise, they have elaborate pipelines to siphon off any amount of resource you pump in.
The above holds even within the relatively idyllic confines of universities, even IIXs.
We need to hurry or the crooks will actually outnumber the crook-beaters soon.
Independent India scarcely realises the greatest debt it owes to Savarkar; turning a Muslim dominated Indian Army into a predominantly Hindu-Sikh Army with his whirlwind recruitment drive during World War II.
40 years after asking for “absolute independence for India” Savarkar was leading a recruitment campaign for the British Empire during WWII?! WTF!
Not that that’s the only inconsistent bit in this extremely tawdry article but considering that that the author hasn’t even bothered to provide sources, it’ll be a waste of breathe to even point them out.
“what I should really call the British Government 2.0 which started off with faux Britisher Jawaharlal Nehru at the helm”
…I think you are being kind when you put the current and former Independent India Administrationst in the same basket as the British Raj.
Atleast the British were reformers and they introduced the idea of a pan India. On the other hand Con-Raj has introduced nothing but extreme poverty, illiteracy, millions of teeming slums and denial of freedom.
Ofcourse you cannot ignore the cruelties during the British Raj (Jalianwalla Bag, Divide and Rule etc) – but the Con-Raj is surely guilty of way more atrocities by way of denial of freedom to its own people..
Other than that this article is a little boring – you are fast becoming the fat boorish man in the party…we come to read you because we are all alike – but lets stop the acidity and talk about changes shall we?
Sunday February 27, 2011 • 12:45 am
An interesting article! People generally get what they deserve. As long as they are happy in the hands of such rulers who dance to the tune of foreign intervention, thats what they will get. I think, as people, we are too selfish – No wonder, we get such leaders! Democracy makes sure that we get what we deserve. I am yet to read in detail about the contribution of Veer Sarvarkar. Thanks for encouraging me to do so…
Rationalist
Sunday February 27, 2011 • 1:15 am
http://hinduonline.blogspot.com/2011/02/indias-debt-to-veer-savarkar.html
@Atanu : This blog post of yours copied word to word.
@GD People don’t even have an idea that they are being looted. That things have been going like this from the beginning. Today the youth population is so large in India and they don’t have clue to why the country is in this quagmire. Just have a look at the history books — trumpeting the Non-achievements of Congress and Nehru-Gandhi. And I believe redundancy and repetition helps while pointing out the bad policies of politicians.
Sunday February 27, 2011 • 2:55 pm
Agreed, many greats like Netaji Bose, Veer Savarkar, Shaheed Bhagat Singh and others haven’t received proper coverage in our schools’ history text books. They were true freedom fighters, but their stance is portrayed as “wrong” compared to the non-violent struggle championed by certain others, which takes up majority of the history syllabus.
How did the “Yankees” get their independence from the empire, it was by fighting a war! And they’re damn proud of this fact, every American kid knows it growing up. Whereas young Indians are taught about civil disobedience, and self-reliance. These concepts might be in sync with our Hindu beliefs of self-sacrifice, but to gain your independence you must fight some battles. Our eventual freedom from the empire was all played out by politics, not a war.
The revolutions we are seeing today in the middle-eastern countries, are civil disobedience movements. That’s the most these “struggles” will get you, you’ll drive out the present government, but what you’re left with is politicking over who gets to rule. When you drive out an enemy forcefully, the triumphant will be swift in their post victory moves and take charge. Our “leaders” let the massacres of Hindus and Muslims happen, over and over again, because while the populous was being torn apart by poltics, these guys were enjoying a free run.
So unfortunately our people have been misled, and continue to blindly vote for more misfortune. The people who replaced the “raj” were not very different from them themselves, having deep control over the system such that our misery continues. To drive them out we need a revolution, we need to put into practice what has been learnt in those books and replace these blood-suckers with some real leaders. Some fighters, who can inspire, motivate, instill confidence and evoke pride. Not old men who seem to worry more about matching the colour of their turbans with “madam’s” sari!
A WSJ revolution index (http://on.wsj.com/ehrCT4) puts India at no. 14, just behind Libya at 13. Hopefully, we’re next.
Yes I just read the letters of Savarkar written from Adaman prison. Savarkar was intelligent, handsome and brave, a man who could see beyond his time, a type of person that India does not produce too often. One has to read what the man wrote and not rumors by Congress designed to denigrate him. And he was a real reformer and did not care for caste and amongst the first to eradicate untouchability, not like Nehru who was liberal in front of cameras but quite different when it came to his own family. It is so sad to read about his life because he suffered a lot for the sake of India, but his country does not honor him as he deserves. He was the fist to understand that a nation has to be clear about what it stands for and what its identity is before it can attain to any greatness…A far superior man to Gandhi in every way…
I forgot to add that while Savarkar was above caste and all that he was deeply rooted in our culture. This is why he is different from Nehru who has a very shallow understanding of his culture. His favorite book was Kipling’s Kim, that should tell you something, the taste of a teenager…
Reading the complete works of Sawarkar made me his great admirer. If he had done nothing except writing poetry he could have easily become a great poet.
He was an atheist, however not like the jholawallahs. He was a social reformer who worked hard to unite all castes. He was linguists. He had senses that time that the major disadvantage with Indian languages is that their large character set. He proposed several changes to the way we write the script so that all letters can be just fit into 26-30 keys.
He embraced death through “prayovepashan”.
Monday February 28, 2011 • 1:02 am
In the article from the Daily Pioneer that you quote, the writer says that the British Indian Army was predominantly Muslim and that Savarkar helped correct the imbalance. Could you provide any further information as to where this proportion of Muslims and Non-muslims was obtained from? From what I’ve read and heard, the British Indian Army was two-thirds Hindu and the rest Muslim, with the officer corps consisting mostly of Britishers and Hindus, which explains why Pakistan employed so many British officers on contract till around 1951 to make up for the shortage of mid-level and senior officers.
Also, could you point to where I can get more information about this ‘recruitment drive’ that Savarkar undertook ?
http://www.defencejournal.com/sept99/martial-races.htm
Refer ANNEX B
From 37% Muslims in 1940, the composition went down to 32%. Whereas, the Hindus share increased from 37% in 1940 to 48% in 1946. This despite Congress taking an opposing view. Also note that share of Sikhs and Gurkhas also fell.
The recruitment drive was because Savarkar wanted Indians to learn how to fight, he thought it would be good for them to be exposed to the war in order to acquire military experience which they were lacking…He was an atheist yes but not in the Western sense as being opposed to religion, he was atheist in the sense of it being one of the philosophical schools of Hinduism. India’s conservative party does not have educated visionary leaders like this anymore…I was reading Freedom at Midnight recently. It is amazing how much we have been reading our history written by Weserners. The book describes Savarkar as a “fanatic” and is full of praise for Gandhi and supports every single one of his idiosyncracies…Best to read Savarkar’s writings for itself and not to read second hand sources…He was not a “fanatic”; on the contrary the true liberal unlike Nehru the liberal in front of cameras. Also the British always gave trouble to Savarkar and jailed him quickly because they realized he was dangerous as far they were concerned, they were lenient towards Gandhhi and Nehru as they did not pose a threat to them like Savarkar…
sumitreddy711
Tuesday March 1, 2011 • 12:29 am
Hello Atamu!,
I closely follow your blog. But surprisingly, this article by The Daily Pioneer tells very less about Savarkar.His contribution is very undoubtedly significant but should have chosen a better article to point out.
Tuesday March 1, 2011 • 6:03 am
If you had bothered to read Savarkar you would have already known the answer.
Savarkar did not bring this up at WWII but had written about it much earlier but WWII was when he first had the chance to put it into practice.
He wanted Hindus to get military training so that later the same trained soldiers could be used against Britain, the other reason for his promotion of this was that he realized Muslim over representation in the British army of that time.
Many ungrateful brats like you have no idea what he went through in the Andamans.
By the way a less well known fact is that unlike Gandhi’s periodic fasts unto death Savarkar did it for real near the end of his life when he gave up food and drink because he realized that he was getting old and wanted to go out on his own.
In a speech on Azad Hind Radio (June 25, 1944) Netaji acknowledged Savarkar’s foresight in these words: “When due to misguided political whims and lack of vision, almost all the leaders of Congress party have been decrying all the soldiers in Indian Army as mercenaries, it is heartening to know that Savarkar is fearlessly exhorting the youths of India to enlist in armed forces. These enlisted youths themselves provide us with trained men and soldiers for our Indian National Army”
Source: Balbir K. Punj Subhas vs Savarkar. 2002. The Asian Age, May 20, 2002
It is a divine inspiration that everyone should join in a battle for defending the country’s freedom. Vitality of a Nation is its political independence. Once this is achieved, the nation is prepared to progress. It all depends on necessary physical and mental training of its youngsters. But many short-sighted leaders ignore this training. The weak will not survive in this world. Every nation needs to raise such ‘National Youth Armies.’ It is very easy to do. And what are we doing in India? Playing cricket!!
http://www.satyashodh.com/Savarkar%20Newsletters1A.htm#two
Also check the link sky provided to see my point about Muslim over representation in the British Indian Army. They were only about 23% of Akhand Bharat but in the army they were nearly 37%.
Here is Savarkar in his own words:
Now I ask you all whether you could have ever been able to bring about such rapid militarization and industrialization of the country within a year out of your own sources ? Could have the Hindu Mahasabha or the Congress or any such public organization ever been able to recruit, train and equip half a million of our men and send them to learn real fighting on the field on the strength of its own resourses ? And even if you had aimed to do so, would the British Government have ever allowed you to do so ? We could not have conducted even lathi clubs on such a large scale. Even last year were we not as alive to the urgency of militarization of our Hindu people ? But were we not unable even last year even to run half a dozen institutions to impart military education even to a few hundred Hindu youths ? And now that the war has opened out an opportunity for us to send hundreds of thousands of Hindus to the army, the navy, the air services and to get them fully trained, equipped and armed as up-to-date soldiers and commanding officers and for building shipyards, aeroplane factories, gun factories, ammunition factories and get thousands of our mechanics trained into war technical experts,-hall we turn our back on all these facilities, refuse to join the army or to decline to participate in the manufacture of our materials simply because some fools will call it a co-operation with the Government or some booby will curse it as an act of violence ? If we do so we shall but deserve even ourselves to be bracketed with the fool and the booby…
Of all courses open to us at present, I emphatically recommend to you this course : that the Hindus can best utilise the war situation by helping on their part the militarization and industrialization of India which the British on their side are also eager to effect for their own interests. And again, just think of the fact, that even if you Hindus refuse to join the army or the navy or the air force or the factories of war materials, the only immediate result will be that the Moslems will get into the saddle and instead of weakening the British Government you will find that you have strengthened a second enemy who is no less bent upon subjecting you to helotage in your own land…
Again, what is the alternate programme to one adopted by the Hindu Mahasabha ? Shouting some slogans and going into the jail ? I appreciate the motive of those patriotic men in the Congress; I sympathise with their sufferings. But I must plainly state, that they have made a mess of all political movements and the Satyagraha they have now launched can bring no subatantial good to the country. It is to some extent useful and was perhaps meant to serve as a stunt for the next elections. Are the Hindu Sanghatanists going to adopt a counter-stunt ? We would have been justified in doing that too. But the Hindu Mahasabha as an organization cannot do the two things at one and the same time. If it participates in the war efforts with a view to reap the most subatantial benefits in militarizing the Hindus, and allies itself with the Government to that extent, it cannot as an organization take to any civil resistance to the Government, which act will directly prove detrimental to our first and greater objective. You cannot both eat and have the cake. Of course, the Hindu Mahasabha can resort to Civil Resistance, if the issue is more profitable than the two great objective which it seeks to gain, viz. militarization and industrialization…
If the programme, most beneficial under the present circumstances of participating in the war efforts with the two objectives mentioned above, is likely to suffer by civil resistance on issues which do not serve the Hindu interests in any substantial manner and if the elections could only be won by any such harmful means, itis our clear duty to lose the elections rather than try to win them by pandering to the folliesof the electorate to the detriment of the Hindu cause. The Nizam Civil Resistance movement affords a sufficient and the latest proof to convince any sensible electorate that the Hindu Mahasabhaits are even braver than the Congressites even if going to jail is to be taken as the only test of bravery and patriotism. The thousands of Hindu Sanghatanists who braved ‘Lathi Mars’ in the Nizam jails can surely stand the ‘Laddu Mar’ in the A, B, and even the C class in the British jails standing shoulder to shoulder with their Congressite co-sufferrers. If the Hindu Sanghatanists were only out to win elections with a view to form ministries and gain pelf and power, they could have very easily done it by changing a cap as so many other people have done it…
Click to access hindu-rashtra-darshan-en-v002.pdf
I have only pasted parts of his long speech on this issue, the full speech can be read at the above link.
We denounce you doctrine of absolute non-violence not because we are less saintly but because we are more sensible than you are. Relative non-violence is our creed and therefore, we worship the defensive sword as the first saviour of man. It was in this faith that Hindus worship the arms as the Symbols of the Shakti, the Kali, and Guru Govindsingh sang his hymn to the Sword. सुखसंताकरणम् दमितहरणमु् खलदलदलनम् जयतेगम् ।।And we also join with the great Guru in the refrain and sing with him, ‘Hail Thee, Sword.’
It goes then without saying that the Hindu Sanghatanist actuated by such a faith can never associate with the Gandhist ‘Satyagraha’ which demands freedom to preach this immoral principle of absolute non-violence condemning all armed resistance even to alien aggression, as it is highly detrimental to our Hindu interests in particular.
Thus after taking stock of all other courses and factors for and against us, I feel no hesitation in proposing that the best way of utilizing the opportunities which the war has afforded to us cannot be any other than to participate in all war efforts which the Government are compelled by circumstances to put forth in so far as they help in bringing about the militarization and industrialization of our people.
It was only a few Hindu Mahasabhait leaders like our revered Dr. Moonje and Bhai Paramanand who were trying their best to counteract the senseless policy of the Congress owing to which the Hindus alone had to suffer and lose whatever numerical strength they had in the army. Not only that the sophistical teaching of the so-called Satyagraha creed sought to kill the very martial instinct of the Hindu race and had succeeded to an alarming extent in doing so. That was the reason why throughout my tours as the President of the Hindu Mahasabha I made it my duty to put this point above all others and tried my best to give a fillip to military awakening amongst the Hindus by addressing thousands and thousands of Hindu youths from Punjab to Madras with no negligible success. But I was always at a loss to know how we Hindu Sanghatanists can find immediate ways and means to impart to our young Hindu generation the practical and up-to-date military training. Just then the war broke out and the British Government, to serve their own interests, were compelled to raise new military forces in India on a large scale…
In examining these results we must bear in mind that the British are raising these Military forces and encouraging industrial development so far as it helps their war efforts with no altruistic motives of helping the Indians. They are doing whatever they have to do to help themselves. We are also participating in these war efforts or at any rate are not out to oppose them, with no intention of helping the British but of helping ourselves. I have put the situation almost bluntly in the above manner to disarm the political folly into which the Indian public is accustomed to indulge in thinking that because Indian interests are opposed to the British interests in general, any step in which we join hands with the British Government must necessarily be an act of surrender, anti-national, of playing into the British hands and that co-operation with the British Government in any case and under all circumstances is unpatriotic and condemnable. It is all the more amusing to find that this spirit of silly bravado is more rampant amongst those very Congressites who did not hesitate to serve the British Government by conducting their Provincial Ministries swearing loyalty and allegiance to the British Domination in the oath of allegiance which they had to take; who wept over the fancied destruction of Westminster Abbey, only the other day and had served the British Government as their recruiting officers during the last war and are even now promising full co-operation to the British, if but they get some of their fadist demands satisfied and assure the British that they would do nothing even as it is to embarrass the British…
But the Hindu Sanghatanists at any rate must realise the difference between a senseless bravado and real act of bravery. As I have explained above in para ( c) how in practical politics, alliances are to be based on any point of common interests in spite of the fact of the conflict in all other interests between the allied parties. Who can say that Hitler or Stalin can be wanting in bravery or can be silly enough to play into the other’s hand and yet did not both of them join in alliance, in spite of their opposing interests on all other points, as soon as they found that their mutual interests coalesced on some points during this war?
The hallowed Gandhi and Congress launched Quit India campaign achieved almost none of its goals, led to many deaths but was dead as a doormat once the British supressed it.
No ad hominem please. And I do know that the conditions in Andaman were nothing to be sneezed at. In fact, so bad were they that a broken and contrite Savarkar appealed for clemency multiple times from the British government. So desperate was he to get out that he promised to “abhor methods of violence” (so much for “denouncing the doctrines of absolute non-violence”) and swore “loyalty to the English government”. True to his word, after that, he gave up all campaigns, violent or not, against the British. 🙂
How convenient that the only theatre that Savarkar got to put his plan into practise was the British Indian Army so that these Indians could fight (and get killed) for the freedom of Europeans! But maybe he was just living up his promise of being loyal to the British Empire. One has to always admire a man who keeps his word. Wonder why Bose never followed this logic and merged his INA with Britain’s forces!
Of course, that “speech” by Bose is a hoot! Bose was championing on the efforts of Savarkar which was helping to swell the numbers of His Majesty’s forces which in turn were combatants of his own Azad Hind Fauj! Predictably, the only source you have is a newspaper article by Punj.
Actually the speech by Bose is quoted in multiple books which you would have known if you had done your research.
Here is another source:
Two great Indian revolutionaries: Rash Behari Bose & Jyotindra Nath Mukherjee by Uma Mukherjee, pg. 160, 1966.
By the way it was for Bose’s INA that Savarkar’s book on 1857 was translated into Tamil for the numerous Tamil recruits of INA. Bhagat Singh had earlier brought out the third edition in Panjabi and Urdu.
You seem to forget that Gandhi helped recruit soldiers both for the Anglo-Boer war and WW1 but that never seems to raise questions about his loyalty to India for our “secularists”.
Going by your “logic” Shivaji must have been intensely loyal to Aurangzeb because of all the promises he made when he submitted lol.
“How convenient that the only theatre that Savarkar got to put his plan into practise was the British Indian Army so that these Indians could fight (and get killed) for the freedom of Europeans!”
Where else would he put into practice numbskull?
Was there another major power willing to enlist millions of Indian’s to get trained in military matters?
If so what country was this?
And like the genius you are you seem to forget that it was also a way to counteract Muslim overrepresentation in the army.
WW2 wasn’t just about European “freedom” too numbskull, if Hitler had won you think he would have freed India?
Do read what Hitler thought of Indian’s and British occupation over India.
If otoh Savarkar had asked Hindus to go join the Axis powers the same “secular” lobby would cite that as evidence for his Nazism.
Hey at least Savarkar for all his disagreements with Congress didn’t go sabotage and spy on fellow freedom fighters the way those patriotic commies did during Quit India and continue to do so today for China.
Here is what Aurobindo thought of Hitler:
“No, it is not a matter to laugh at. It is a very serious matter. … If these people want that the Ashram should be dissolved, they can come and tell me and I will dissolve it instead of the police doing it. They have no idea about the world and talk like children. Hitlerism is the greatest menace that the world has ever met—if Hitler wins, do they think India has any chance of being free? It is a well-known fact that Hitler has an eye on India. He is openly talking of world-empire….
http://voiceofdharma.com/books/ir/IR_part5.htm “
Tuesday March 1, 2011 • 7:46 pm
There was in fact another freedom fighter who was subjected to similar torture though for a shorter period of time. He too wrote petitions.
“VOC, languishing in prison, was left to fend for himself. His young wife, Meenakshi Ammal followed him — almost single-handedly organising the logistics of his appeals — from the Tirunelveli sub jail to the Coimbatore and Kannur central jails, where he spent his term. In those “pre-Non Cooperation days”, when there was no category of political prisoners, he did hard (convict) labour. VOC was even made to work the oil mill, depicted so poignantly in a poem by his friend Subramania Bharati. In prison he continued a clandestine correspondence, maintaining a stream of petitions going into legal niceties and giving evidence against them in a jail outbreak.
When he stepped out of prison in late December 1912, after a high court appeal had reduced his prison sentence, the huge crowds present on his arrest were conspicuously absent. Probably externed from his native Tirunelveli district, he moved to Chennai with his wife and two young sons. Having been convicted for sedition, he had lost his pleadership sanad, thus depriving him of his livelihood. The Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company had collapsed, having been liquidated in 1911. His family had lost all its wealth and property in his legal defence, the public subscriptions for his defence fund being too paltry.
Never really recovering from the penury caused by his prison life — he tried his hand at selling provisions, worked as a clerk in Coimbatore and for a few years after regaining his pleadership sanad, practised in the Kovilpatti court which by his own admission was only enough to meet his “betel leaves and areca nut expenses”. This however did not come much in the way of his public life.
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mag/2003/01/26/stories/2003012600160200.htm”
“He came out of prison a broken man, without money, without a Bar licence, with few others at the time showing the same zeal for freedom he had done, and banned from returning to Tinnevelly. He settled in Madras, offered advice to labour welfare organisations, and continued to play a role in the Indian National Congress he had joined in 1905, but his heart was not in it and he passed away in Tuticorin on November 18, 1936.
http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/09/08/stories/2008090850980500.htm”
According to resident armchair cyber warrior “Hades” VOC Pillai must have been no hero at all!
Say that in Tamilnadu and see the reaction.
While Gandhi’s grandsons continue to rake in money peddling his name and the ruling family which took the Gandhi surname are living like royalty, descendants of many of these freedom fighters are in penury. Savarkar’s grandson has been found begging on the streets.
In their own lifetimes they were reduced to poverty, Bipin Chandra Pal died in poverty just like VOC Pillai.
In Savarkar’s own family his 2 other brothers were also freedom fighters. In 1909 his elder brother Babarao/Ganesh Savarkar was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Andamans along with forfeiture of his entire property. Partly to avenge this Anant Kanhere, Krishnaji Karve and Vinayak Deshpande assassinated the British officer Jackson with a pistol sent by VD Savarkar from London, they were hung. In 1910 Narayanrao Savarkar the youngest brother was sentenced to 6 months rigorous imprisonment, VD Savarkar was arrested in 1910 and sentenced to Transportation for Life in 1911. In 1918 Yesuvahini Babarao Savarkar’s wife died without seeing her husband which was her last wish, with the arrest of the three brothers she was reduced to penury and her health began to fail. It was 3 days after her death that a letter finally came from the Andaman saying that the British had no objection to her seeing her husband. Babarao was finally released in 1922 on a stretcher near death, its another matter that he survived and lived till 1945.
Most people don’t know this but after Godse shot Gandhi Congress goons attacked and killed several Chitpavan Brahmins (Godse’s caste) much like they massacred Sikhs after Indira’s death. It was in one of these mob attacks on the Savarkar residence that Narayanrao the youngest was severely beaten, he never recovered fully and died in 1949.
shshsh
Wednesday March 2, 2011 • 3:45 am
perhaps after all savarkar was not at fault, it was his proponents who said they had the sole dealership of his ideas….they went on to do things this country is ashamed to tell the world, example, sons of soil arguments in Maharashtra, crap that thing destroyed the indutrial base it was and the commercial center it was…u have quoted the Dialy Pioneer…didnt knw they spoke the truth, the only truth and truth alone, without any referances, it seems to me like the article was similar to wat is written abt gandhi and nehru in the text books….sometimes prejudice blinds the greatest of the mind, and blunts the critical thiking tht finds no logic in blasphemy…
“perhaps after all savarkar was not at fault…”
Perhaps? Perhaps? What was his fault? Why does he have to be linked with the actions of people he is not responsible for? People like you should read what he wrote and then you can understand the man, but people who have not read a single word are quick to form opinions. It was after reading Gandhi’s autobiography written by the man himself, that I came to feel disgust, what a self-centered man with so many complexes, a man I could not relate to at all or see as a leader or comprehend how people could follow such a one…His only saving grace was that he was very, very determined….
Wednesday March 2, 2011 • 8:37 pm
Firstly, there was a comparison being made about Gandhi and Savarkar about who asked for purna swaraj first from the British. Ergo, to raise Savarkar’s demand from 1900 as a data point is absurd because ever since his release from Anadaman Savarkar was staunchly pro-British and there is no record of any anti-government activity for Savarkar neither in thought nor deed after his release.
Your point about Gandhi is of course correct but superfluous to this discussion. And if you think that Gandhi was secular you either do not know the meaning of the word or have little knowledge of Gandhi’s methods. Theoretically speaking, Savarkar was more “secular” than Gandhi. That does not mean to whitewash the formers blatantly racist theories but just follows from the definition of the word ‘secular’. Hitler was pretty secular, as well, come to think about it.
If someone had asked Bose this question, what answer do you think he’d have given? Or Bhagat Singh? Or the Hindu revolutionary groups in Bengal? Savarkar recruited for the British Empire because he wanted to help the British. All this talk of inculcating the martial spirit by a man who swore in writing to “abhor methods of violence” (and stuck to his promise) is nothing but a load of claptrap.
If he had stuck to his promises till his or Auranzeb’s death then yes Shivaji would have been “intensely loyal to Aurangzeb”. But Shivaji did not. Savarkar OTOH scrupulously stuck to his promise of loyalty to the British and did not launch any anti-government activity neither in thought nor deed after his release. After his release he was just a pawn that the English played in in their communal game, sending Hindus soldiers to their deaths in service of the British Empire being a prominent example.
Thursday March 3, 2011 • 5:35 am
Hades,
Has it occurred to you that the problem was not Savarkar? Brave men can only lead men not eunuchs…
Thursday March 3, 2011 • 11:56 am
I’m not a fan of Nehru, and I am a fan of Savarkar because, as a Hindu, his message still has a lot of relevance for me. I remember, some 20 years ago, I got out of having to consume ‘panchgavya’ by quoting Savarkar’s opposition to the practice (guess which of the 5 products he found unsavory!)
However, Savarkar was quite willing to embrace ‘Socialism’ if that would make India strong. This is not a black mark against him because he had been completely marginalized and was way out of the loop.
But this was Gandhi’s fault. He used ‘khaddar’ as a way to drive any independent person with their own following out of Congress and into the wilderness.
Nehru got his promotion precisely because he was a supine fellow with no critical intelligence. Why blame the West for Nehru? Aurobindo was a far greater master of English as well as Greek, Latin, Philosophy, Law etc. But Aurobindo was ready to take up arms and give his life in the struggle. This is very different from saying- you are welcome to beat me to death, I will never raise a finger- why? Because, then the policeman who did the beating will be accused of having destroyed the property of the King- i.e. a source of tax revenue has been chopped down. Some bureaucrat will say- did you need to beat him all the way to death? Why not just make his cry a little? So what if he wanted to do a little hand spinning or whatever? These animals should be treated with kindness otherwise they will stop giving milk.
BTW, Gokhale may not have gone to England for studies but his mastery of English, Statistics, Economics, Law, Parliamentary procedure etc, exceeded that of the great Q.C’s and Ministers of the period. Curzon scoffed at this young ‘Maths Professor’ but he changed his tune after meeting him. The point about Tilak was that he showed what Indians can do on their own. But, if so, why would they need the British?
Gandhi had the answer. He showed that Indians were cowardly stupid and absolutely in love with the idea of remaining as dirty, ignorant, stupid and rustic as possible. Every time a Britisher negotiates with Gandhi, he gets to look good. People say- ah! the spiritual greatness of the British is revealed by their not giving this half naked monkey two tight slaps!
Gandhi’s cleverness has never been properly appreciated. But it was a purely selfish cleverness. At least Nehru wanted his daughter to have some sort of life. Gandhi wanted to tyrannize over everybody.
Why blame Nehru for being a stupid guy whose Dad sent him ‘phoren’ for education because (vide. Wolpert) he’d have turned into a typical ‘banka’- including being a catamite- if he’d stayed at home. After failing his ‘Matric’ for the third time, he’d have been married off before his nose collapsed from tertiary syhpilis and nothing more would have been heard of him.
Nehru’s fault is not that he was stupid and initially misled but that he persisted in a suicidal policy even after its folly had been spelt out to him. But the fact that he stuck with Gandhi was sufficient proof that he was not fit to lead. Why blame the little man?
Ireland is an example of a country which embraced very stupid policies after independence- similar to Indian nuttiness. The spent billions on promoting the gaelic language which only upper middle class professionals know hot to read(most of their mummies and daddies were part of the political elite).
The Irish working class aren’t stupid and they can be extremely aggressive. But they cowed their working class by telling them that their ancestral language (which they didn’t know) was the best and their ancestral religion (which kept them poor, drunk and wretched) was the best and so on.
Okay, Ireland did start doing well over the last twenty or 30 years but the idiotic nationalist parties utterly ruined the country running up massive debts.
My fear is that India is seeing a sort of de facto break up and that corrupt kleptocratic chauvinists like the DMK in Tamil Nadu will simply enrich themselves by saddling their own people with debts that can’t be repaid.
Thursday March 3, 2011 • 8:30 pm
I might disagree with the RSS/Sangh Parivar/Abhinav Bharti and their antediluvian policies but calling them eunuchs might be counter-productive. 🙂
Has it occurred to you that the problem was not Savarkar?
And Savarkar was neither part of the problem nor the solution. In fact he was a pretty much a nobody ever since his release from prison and he had almost no part to play in the Freedom Movement (as per his promise to the British). This Savarkar resurgence we see now is more a function of today’s politics than being based on any historical facts per se.
Don’t be surprised if no one here on this board can provide a proper reference in order to back this recruitment drive of his and its effect, if any, on the composition of the British Indian Army.
Friday March 4, 2011 • 5:18 am
No Indians are so intelligent, they produce men like Savarkar and get ruled by Nehru and his offspring. Even his daughter in law who can barely speak the language or ever went to college or held a job gets to rule them. And the very best for this mentality, may her son and his hispanic girlfriend also rule them, is this not great, the mentality that allows for this? Yes you are a part of that eunuch mentality so it is useless arguing with people like you, as eunuchs cannot understand what genuine freedom consists in…
Savarkar got jailed because he was a real threat to the British, Gandhi and Nehru toed their line and the British did not deal harshly with them…How could a man like Nehru whose favorite book was Kipling’s Kim be a threat, a man whose who barely understood his own culture juding from his superficial book The Discovery of India?
Savarkar is popular today because people have begun to realize that everything he had predicted has become true…
@Hades
“Savarkar resurgence we see now is more a function of today’s politics than being based on any historical facts per se…”
Its because intelligent Indians realize that Congress has ruined them since independence that they have begun to realize the vision of Savarkar. He stood for everything which is against what Congress and their cronies stood for…And associating Sarvarkar with people he was not responsible for is retarded and Congress has been cleverly trying to blacken his name through this tactic, people cannot be fooled by such rhetoric anymore, they have access to information and facts…they are getting smart and much to your dislike, I would not be surprised if Sarvarkar might gradually be resurrected and his contributions recognized, you cannot hide the truth for too long ultimately…
Yes you can’t find the positive “effects” of all kinds of schemes and politics that Congress says is designed to “help” the nation as well, I cannot find such effects since independence, can you? I will not be surprised if neither you or anyone can find positive “effects” of these things, it is pointless arguing with fools like you…
@Hades,
I see you have digested the contrived history syllabus at school quite well that your masters have set up for your edification…Sorry to speak negatively of your Cha Cha…but we believe in facts not fiction!
Saturday March 5, 2011 • 2:29 am
Yes you can’t find the positive “effects” of all kinds of schemes and politics that Congress says is designed to “help” the nation as well, I cannot find such effects since independence, can you?
Larissa, this is beyond ridiculous. The Congress’ schemes, good or bad, have nothing to do with the fact that there are no proper reference in order to back this recruitment drive of S’s and its effect, if any, on the composition of the British Indian Army. If you have no cogent points to make then, like Julian, it’d be better if you kept quite, with all due respect.
I am just showing your mode of reasoning is irrelevant as you do not make any point…Savarkar’s popularity I think can only grow as people recognize he was right about most things…
Saturday March 5, 2011 • 11:17 am
I find the causal link you draw between being “right” and popularity most interesting.
Based on popularity, I doubt Savarkar would even make it to a top 50 of India’s Historical figures (not surprising given that we didn’t have a squeak out of the man after his release from prison–a point which just about makes we burst with irony when Savarkar of all people goes about inculcating martial spirit in other people). Most probably, Gandhi would be the most popular, which, going by your logic, is because people have recognised that he was “right about most things”? Or does your model only apply to people that you are already biased towards? Nehru would be fantasically popular as well as would be Bhagat Singh and Bose. Come to think of it, I quite like your model. 🙂
Anyway, I’m off. If you ever get the time, do try and read up a bit of Savarkar’s own work. I pity you if after that you still end up admiring the man.
P.S: A good guide to political morals: http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml. I know most of it might seem radical but it’ll surprise you to know that this was adopted while Savarkar was alive.
What exactly are you setting out to prove? When I say popular, you know very well that I mean among those Indians who read. I grew to like Savarkar from his writings, he was a brave, perceptive and intelligent man, just as my dislike of Gandhi began after I read his biography, not from what I have been taught reagarding the man.
Contrary to what you think Savarkar was a true “liberal” thoroughly grounded in our culture…Actually his ideas might be too radical for the fake ‘liberals’ out there…
The Mindset
Monday March 14, 2011 • 2:52 am
Can I quote your article on my blog ??
Yes, of course. And you don’t need permission to quote from someone’s blog. It’s public domain information, anyway.
Sheetal Vyas
Tuesday March 29, 2011 • 4:00 am
Dear Mr Dey,
I have been an admirer of Veer Savarkar since childhood. Loved the blog. Are you aware that Savarkar was also into poetry? There is one, which he wrote addressing the ocean that prevented him from embracing his motherland while studying abroad. The mangeshkars have set it to tune and the result is a beautiful song (It’s in Marathi). You could check out this link… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yKu1lOvMeA
Tuesday April 19, 2011 • 9:04 pm
Anybody who wants to learn more about Veer Savarkar should read his magnum-opus “Savarkar Samagra” these are 10 volumes and worth to read.
Bedekar Prakash
Tuesday June 26, 2012 • 10:39 pm
Veer Savarkar was a visionary in the correct sence. His views on foreign policy, militarisation, adoption of latest warfare and equipments for Indian armed forces, his views on building our nation as srong and well equipped nation are legendary. He was treated very shabbily by our Govts under Congressrules, however Neharu paid heavy penalty because of his illconceived foreign policy and under preparation of military, due to which our nation had to suffer humilliating defeat in war against China in 1962. Tit for tat policies adopted by Smt Indira Gandhi against Pakistan and first step in this regard taken by Lalbahadur Shastriji was in a sense tribute to Veer Savarkar.
Amol Patil
Thursday March 21, 2013 • 2:20 pm
True!! … I really regretted when i first came to know about Veer Savrkar’s whole life after competing my school and how i wasted my time in preparing for History exams with chapters of Gandhi and Nehru which all were wrongly pictured there. ….After 1947 it is British Government 2.0 ruling in India (indirect Modern Slavery) , India really needs to raise group of freedom fighters again to battle against these corrupt ruling politicans and caste system. and it will need to control over Indian Police force.
Friday May 30, 2014 • 2:46 am
It doesn’t have to be Gandhi vs Savarkar. It was the the needs and times of that era – when the nation was yet to be carved out of 8 provinces, and freedom struggle was largely limited to Greater Mumbai and Bengal, and it was all too easy for British to divide and rule. They have learned their lesson from 1857. I would recommend below article’s by Karl Marx to whoever is really interested in understanding India under British Rule, and how he could almost predict 1857.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1853/06/25.htm
Almost all freedom fighters got enlightenment when they visited abroad; what Gandhi did different was that when he came back he travelled across India, and his that effort helped him understand what divides it and what can be done to unite it. He actually choose a smart path, a path that could unite India; without alarming British right-way – as you could see how they went after each episode of agression after 1857, one of which was actually reason for Savarkar sent to Andaman.
Lot can be learned about Gandhi from the words he choose to describes his mentor:
“Gokhale as an admirable leader and master politician, describing him as pure as crystal, gentle as a lamb, brave as a lion and chivalrous to a fault and the most perfect man in the political field.”
Under nonviolence, he could bring everybody together, with fear of savagery of war, muslims, women’s and children, all under the nose of British Empire. We must not forget that he supported the British recruitment of Indian soldier in 1914!
What we call is minority appeasement – is actually minority fears, a bandage, and slow but sure path to bring them to mainstream, there is no alternative – if you taunt equality for all, there they go, because they don’t feel equal to start with!
Had India been a country similar to 18th century US, with clear regions/country to fight for, and somewhat educated n equal people fighting the battle, Savarkar would have lead it’s freedom struggle!
Where we are and what should we be doing now: As proud citizens of free India, the least we could do is pay tributes to all who got us here, from Savarkar to Gandhi and Netaji to Nehru; and try not to air efforts to divide India on their name!
We did lot better than military oriented PAK; we are 3rd biggest economy, we didn’t choose outright socialism either – CHINA right now might look like USSR of 50s; but like UUSR they have instability in their DNA. I always felt proud to be an Indian, if you explore, everything is unique about us (i would recommend reading Swami Vivekananda works for greater understanding); yes we have our share of problems, starting with population growth and corruption; but all it will take now is little effort on our part, effort to spread the knowledge, find and do right, convince people around us to do right, and above all have a hope, and soon we will see it becoming even better country!
Keshav Bedi
Saturday July 16, 2016 • 11:14 am
Read this on “Veer” Savarkar.
https://m.facebook.com/justicekatju/posts/1214443818596162
Five essentials to nail lies on Veer Savarkar – Ashish Shukla
Here are the 5 most popular lies that leftists peddle against Veer Savarkar
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West Point Cadet’s Pillow Fight
tags: Michael Lucas, military academy, United States Military Academy, West Point, West Point cadets
When I first read this story I though perhaps Michael Lucas was back making more porn and had tapped West Point cadets to star in his film. But then the story turned bloody and I wondered what in hell is going on at this military academy.
For generations, freshmen cadets at the United States Military Academy have marked the end of a grueling summer of training with a huge nighttime pillow fight that is billed as a harmless way to blow off steam and build class spirit.
But this year the fight on the West Point, N.Y., campus turned bloody as some cadets swung pillowcases packed with hard objects, thought to be helmets, that split lips, broke at least one bone, dislocated shoulders and knocked cadets unconscious. The brawl at the publicly funded academy, where many of the Army’s top leaders are trained, left 30 cadets injured, including 24 with concussions, according to West Point.
In interviews, cadets who asked that their names not be used for fear of repercussions in West Point’s strictly controlled culture, said the fight had left one cadet with a broken leg and dislocated shoulders in others. One cadet was knocked unconscious and taken away in an ambulance and had not returned to school, they said.
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kanYe West late registration
Kayne West might have just released an album that’s dated before it even hits stores. Late Registration stands on that hopeful vibe that backed The College Dropout and actually contains less preaching than Common’s truimph. At that it’s not as vapid as say Black Eyed Peas nor is it as creative as Outkast’s shit or really anti-con, but what it is another update on sincerity. Kanye’s samples, which include Gil Scott Herron’s Home is Where the Hatred is, seem more chilled. If anything, the cynicism that marked his debut has gone away, While Kanye’s recent remarks are certianly sensationalist, they are, unfortunately, somewhat true. No one seemed to consider the problem of the poor with out cars, but to switch over to the period where Kayne made Late Registration is to enter a different world. Right when intelligence seems to be meeting up with good production and sucess something has to come along and ruin it. Katrina is, as the economist put it, reveals the bitterness of the U.S. racial divide. Does Late Registration represent a period that’s already gone to end? Well thanks to back ups in production schedules, chances are the first truly sorrowfull mississippi crunk love sung to refugees will probably only occur some 6 – 8 months down the road on u.s. radio, granted 12″ plants began churning George Bush Hates Black People 12″s with in hours of the pronouncement. Hopefully, it’ll be David Banner that comes to provide that howl in pop form. Blackness and poverty when mixed have a tendency to encourage neglect instead of aid. Regardless, Late Registration sounds a sincere optimism in what was a commericialized world of despair (50 cent) and a joy (black eyed peas) although like Common and Outkast or even Banner it seems like hip-hop has returned to sincerity. His ability to use his own co-opting to bring ghetto despair to the fore-front hardly seems like a ploy for attention now, in fact it seems to have stuttered straight into reality. It’s a shame then, that Late Registration showed Mr. West moving past all of that. From embittered MC to producing an album that’s more redemptive in nature, “go to school get your doctorate… but she still supported me when I did the opposite. Now I feel like their’s things I gotta get… just to prove you…” if anything West has turned from the cynical to the sentimental. Late Registration explodes the myth of defeatism, here one dude did it with out bling and extortion, just a little drug dealing and some common sense. A little kindness can go a long way.
September 19, 2005 at 7:22 pm ALJ 1 comment
Letters Supporting Science
Yeah I’m an activist these days… or sorts… kinda… just read that Malcom Gladwell piece in the New Yorker and rather like it. Anyway, via Cosmic Variance a bill being introduced in the Senate that’s well… actually good. Wow, when did this happen positive movement in the U.S. (I am being jaded here Bush has improved public school education programs and passed a few good anti-poverty measures too). Anyway, here’s the summary of the bill:
I am writing to urge you to help prevent political interference in government science by co-sponsoring the Restore Scientific Integrity to Federal Research and Policy Making Act (S. 1358).
Countless policy and legislative decisions affecting the health and safety of the American public and the environment rely upon transparent, independent scientific information. Over the past several years, however, science has been suppressed, manipulated, and distorted by political appointees at an unprecedented level, threatening our nation’s unparalleled scientific legacy and capacity.
In one recent example, a Government Accountability Office report found that the EPA distorted its analysis of the health impacts of mercury on brain development in children and fetuses. The EPA’s own inspector general reported that agency scientists had been pressured to alter scientific findings to justify the proposed rules.
The Restore Scientific Integrity Act would take significant steps to prevent the misuse of science and ensure that you and other decision makers have access to independent scientific advice. Please help preserve the scientific integrity that is critical to making decisions that protect our safety and security by promptly co-sponsoring S. 1358. I look forward to your response on this issue.
You can sign the thing here
September 19, 2005 at 7:13 pm ALJ Leave a comment
The Housing Problem or more ideas or another solution
Once again marginal revolution has forced me to google stuff and actually learn something about what has worked in the U.S. The revolution condemns Bush and FEMA’s plans to build mobile home cities. The one example of this type of community is rather scary.
So what has worked when it comes to getting the poor housing and then jobs? It turns out North Carolina is leading the way. “The key to Charlotte’s new approach is time limits. This simple idea promises to make public housing more like the new welfare system—short-term aid, provided on the assumption of the recipient’s serious effort to improve her situation.” North Carolina provides residents with a 5 year lease in an average housing project and then the ability to move to a better neighborhood if they meet some requirements, high school education, a job, and enrollment in social work programs. It’s worked pretty well so far with 400 people leaving their housing projects for better apartments and homes before their 5 year limited lease is up “it is more likely.. that even in a welfare-reform environment, an unreformed public housing system will keep people from being all they can be.” Says Howard Husock.
Husock is the author of America’s Trillion Dollar Housing Mistake: The Failure of American Housing Policy . Mr. Husock is a historian of American housing projects, and unfortunately most have failed to provided adequate programs for the poor. Obviously the sit around in a housing project model isn’t working as Howard says, “Consider Greta Greer, who entered Charlotte’s public housing system as a young welfare mother in 1993. In 1996, welfare reform pushed her into the workforce, where she landed a low-paying job as a day-care assistant. But public housing kept her horizons low. Why try to move up? After all, she had her apartment, and if she made more money, her rent would increase. She’d only get to keep 66 cents out of every additional dollar. So why bother?” In the case of the FEMA mobile home cities, they might actually give citizens a reason to move: their crime rates are higher than even inner-city ghettos with over 200 calls a month to the local police for merely 1500 people. Scale this up for the 20,000 or more people Bush wants to house by these means and we begin to see the blueprint for possibly the most violent city on Earth (highest country is 200 reports for every 1000 so technically speaking the Fema Village already is higher than current crime statistics show. The point being a time limit program and some decent local housing could do more than trailers. Time limit housing rewards those who work hard while providing rewards for exceptional members of the program. So why can’t we provide katrina victims with housing vouchers, and nicer housing for people who enroll in work training programs, keep down jobs for over 6 months, have high school degress etc? One could differniate by neighborhood and square footage. Single bedrooms and effenciencies for starting out mothers, those who do well move up to double bedrooms, more squarefootage. Better places to live, better neghborhoods. One of the problems is that Bush changed Welfare Reform from the 1996 act requiring 30 hours of work to qualify to 40 meaning that already stressed victims, now have the additional problem of fullfilling 10 additional hours of work while resettling a family. However it’s important to note that Bush also left addendums to allow states to ammend their welfare reform act by their own means. Meaning that is might be possible to eek out a program similar to this under federal guidelines using Fema’s already active housing voucher as your base. After all if states have to accomodate the newly unemployed, their going to have to deal with unemployment in better ways. All of this also assumes that 1 million displaces from Katrina are all in need of programs like this. The reality is, most are probably more than capable of finding new work and housing. This means only a smaller number of folks will actually need such aid. Obviously we can do better than ghettoes for those already slumming from them.
Bush plans for welfare reform
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/welfarereform/
additions: more money and 40 hours a week to qualify for welfare either working or in a reform program
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030114.html
Bush promotes marriage
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/02/26/welfare.reform/
300 million towards married couples.
Bush called single mothers “heroic” and said they had “the toughest job in our country.” Still, he said, statistics show that children from two-parent families are less likely to end up in poverty, to drop out of school, to do drugs or to commit violent crimes.
And people in suburbs are usually more over-weight than urban dwellers, but recent research has suggested that fatter people choose the suburbs over urban areas i.e. the fat go to the burbs and the slim job in urban enclaves. In other words, people who choose to get married probably do so becuase of values they already have that increase their ability to climb up the economic ladder and the single decend away.
“We must never be content with islands of despair in the midst of a nation of promise. We want all Americans to believe in the potential of their own lives and the promise of their own country,” Bush said.
– wasn’t that what New Orleans was? Why has Welfare Reform in Louissana sucked so much?
“The Bush welfare reauthorization proposal runs counter to everything we have learned in the past five years about what helps poor families survive,” Deepak Bhargava, director of the National Campaign for Jobs and Income Support, told the Associated Press.
Deepark Bhargava articles: http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?name=View+Author§ion=root&id=852
Deepak on the welfare reform act and what to do about it:
The debate in Washington over welfare policy has taken an unfortunate turn: Republicans and many Democrats seem to be in a battle over who can be tougher on poor people rather than who can be tougher on poverty.
So let’s see what we can do about housing reform and the katrina displaced. First, housing vouchers. Housing vouchers subside apartment. Their relativelly cheap
September 19, 2005 at 5:50 am ALJ Leave a comment
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Kingdom Hearts taking place of Fantasmic!?
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NO. But make it at DCA for the heck of it.
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This would actually probably be really good! But I love Fantasmic so much. I say make it a new show at DCA.
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Could we just merge the threads, and put the poll in the new one?
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Originally posted by stinkerbell View Post
Well, since I have NO clue what the heck Kingdom Hearts is, I'm going to have to say....NO.
This has been a Filmways presentation dahling.
Professortango
Re: Kingdom Hearts taking place of Fantasmic!?
Sorry, but I don't think its a good idea at all. Yes, it has Disney characters and such...but c'mon... A show ripped from a anime video game??? Why not keep Kingdom Hearts and keep Fantasmic! or create something new and ORIGINAL to replace it. Why do people like Fantasmic!? Because it features known characters in an original story. The same reason people like Kindom Hearts. But the crossover would just be confusing and would totally alienate a major disney demographic.
Women, they make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
drnilescrane
Having a Grand Day!
I still think FantasDON was a good idea...
Vegetarian Disneylander
The comic-book fan in me loves a good cross-over, and Kingdom Hearts seems like something I would get into. However, not owning a PS2, I've never really had much of a go at the thing.
That said, I like the general concept and I enjoy the idea of multiple characters mixing it up.
Alternatively, I'd love to see a House of Mouse-style show!
mycroft16
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Originally posted by TheRockr View Post
i'm still standing by my idea.
Does anybody have any ideas for this kind of show/
I get the impression that the OPer does not dislike F! at all, and in fact really likes it, but is doing some good, old fashion armchair imagineering and just tossing out a random idea for a show. I don't think the point of this is to "replace F!" at all. It's more of a for-fun,-what-idea-did-I-come-up-with thread. Some like the idea of KH some don't... so if you were tasked with coming up with a new show for the venue, what would you put in there? (no plussing of F! allowed... new show ideas).
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. mycroft16 on Twitter
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Actually, I think that you could incorporate many of the ideas from Kingdom Hearts into Fantasmic as it already is instead of replacing it with a whole new show. Sora, Donald, Goofy, and King Mickey could duke it out with Maleficent at the end and the sealing of the keyhole could somehow figure into the finale of the show. Also, a Kingdom Hearts segment could either augment or replace one of the other segments in the show.
Resident DL'er
As much as I like KH, I don't think that's a good idea. Fantasmic is one of the best shows in the park, and you have to consider the people who have never seen it, or have only seen it a few times before taking it out completely. KH would be very difficult to pull off as a stage show without it looking a bit cheesy. Besides, not that many people are familiar with KH characters. It just wouldn't work out.
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na, i'll have to pass on that one.
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I do think it would be cool, however Fantasmic! is very special and I don't think they should do anything to it...
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MickeyMania
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Nope, keep Kingdom Hearts out of the parks. Just like the comic books and various darker Disney properties like Gargoyles, while I don't think it's BAD I think it's not appropriate for all ages.
It's far-too-serious attitudes and all the occasions you see Disney characters whuppin' on characters that are real people (yes, the storyline comes up with an excuse that says they aren't real people, and they were given 80s hair to look more fantasy-like, but come on) is not what I'd want for a 5 year old.
Originally posted by mrfantasmic View Post
Better yet, let DisneySeas work on that. Squaresoft is a Japanese company, to begin with.
Disney owns Kingdom Hearts, Square just makes the games for them and puts in their own charactesr as unimportant cameos. Disney could take the license elsewhere, because they own the main characters, and Square's cameo characters would just disappear.
I'm sorry to disappoint, but I just printed and sealed up a letter to WDI about this idea. I haven't mailed it yet...
Then you'll know for sure it won't happen, since WDI doesn't listen to "outside solicitations." Almost no company does, since if it happens 6 years later or something someone could come back and say "Hey, I wrote the letter with that idea! Pay me for it!"
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Crazybirdman
It's a good idea for a show, (Disney has tried worse things) but not a good replacement for Fantasmic. Maybe put it in another area. The paradise pier lagoon perhaps? Or make it a parade of some sorts?
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Originally posted by MickeyMania View Post
Square's own characters are not unimportant to the story, and often times aren't merely cameos but main characters. Sora is a Square character, and happens to be the main character of the entire series.
edit- Well to be fair, Square created Sora but he and others in the game might be classified as Disney characters now.
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nish221
Minion FOREVER!
I personally think that Kingdom Hearts is interesting. However, I don't think
the topic has the sufficient recognizability among the general public
at large to have anything close to the F!. Everything in F! is drawn (pun intended)
from existing and mostly well known (in some cases, very well known) Disney
work. KoH is well known among some video game players, but it released
mainly on PS2 and never reached the popularity of break-out hits like "Tomb raider" or "Mario".
Sora definitely is the main character and it would be deathnell (at least
as a KoH show) to not to include him.
New MiceChatter
This is just my idea: What if Fantasmic! was reinvented, and transformed into a Kingdom Hearts epic special effects spectacular?
I'd absolutly love it, not that I don't love Fantasmic! but a Kingdom Hearts show would be spectacular!
You know what though... a Kingdomhearts show or something may get those non Disney fans to come out and check it out... only to fall in love with the place. That's always a good thing right?
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Originally posted by Coheteboy View Post
I have a better idea, let the Disney studios in floriday have that show. I love me my Fantasmic CA version.
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Originally posted by scorsese View Post
Sora and his two friends are owned by Disney. I'm talking about crossover characters from other video games.
Depends. Have seen the "fans" that flock to that game? I've gone looking for information and found, uh, hand-drawn works that look fit for a NAMBLA promotional. Don't know who those people are, but if they're Disney fans then they're giving responsible Disney fans like this board a bad name.
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Road to Kargil & Drass
What began as a fall-back plan (with the rains playing spoil sport to the Ladakh trekking plans),the trip to kargil & Drass became one of the best road trips I had ever done.
I boarded the bus around mid-night @ Leh to take me to kargil and this meant that I could not see the “magnetic hill”. I pleaded with the guy next to me to swap places, so that I have the window seat and a better view…. and the nice guy that he was, he obliged.
Once the sun was up, we were really far out in the middle of nowhere. With barren mountains and valleys, and an occasional glimpse of the Indus- it was the kind of landscape I had only once seen before- in Lakshya 🙂
I opened the windows inspite of the morning chill and started clicking- had a simple point & shoot camera and two data cards- so no worries about going overboard. My co-passengers somehow learnt to bear with me- I guess it was the obvious excitement that I was showing in soaking in the beauty of their land. One even commented – “kya bhaiya saari vaadi ka photo kheench logo kya?”.:-)
We stopped at a small village on the way and I managed to grab some breakfast. The pit stop turned out to be very benefecial, as I managed to befriend the driver & the conductor and convinced them to stop at some of the most beautiful places on the way.
They gave me the seat nearest to the door, so that I could signal when I wanted em to stop.
Am I good or what !!
So we stopped for a few seconds at Fotula top, at the Moon-land-view and a few other places – you see I was trying really hard not to abuse my privileges, hard as it was.
Some 200 snaps later we reached Kargil. The barren mountainous landscape had given way to hilly regions with occasional patches of greenery.
Entry into Kargil is through a heavily guarded bridge across the almost fully silted river. One crossing the bridge us civilians go towards Drass on the right while most of the army establishments are in the cantt. area on the left. I checked into a not-so-comfortable hotel in Kargil and went about walking in the town. The market place was alive with a lot of action and I kept walking along the river towards the cantt. area.
As soon as I entered this area the machine guns of the sentries started tracking me, wherever I went on the road. It was truly a very eerie feeling and I quickly traced back my path to the civilian area. later on the same thing happened to me in Srinagar, and I couldnt stop thinking how much stress these soldiers must be in- following every unidentified person that passes by finger-on-the-trigger. Phew!
In Kargil, I asked for how far Drass was and how long would it take to reach Srinagar etc and after a few discussions it was decided that I would take a shared cab the next day to go into Drass, spend the afternoon there and come back in the evening. Would then take a cab again early morning from Kargil to Srinagar.
So the next day I went looking for the cab at the market to take me to Drass and what hit me was that almost all of the young & old of this town seemed to be perennially at the market. trust me, you would end up asking exactly what I did- when do they work? And then it slowly sinks in, that years of turmoil in the valley have really eroded life so much that most people here are without any meaningful employment.
The road between Kargil and Drass is just too picturesque to be described perfectly in words by someone like me. Since photography is not allowed in most of that area, I do not have too many snaps to share with you but take my word for it, its a trip that you should do, atleast once. You have the Drass nulla flowing on your right and a sheer drop of a few hundred metres to it at most times. On your left is the mountain face which has been carved by the heroes of BRO (Border Road Organization) to make the national Highway 1E. And across the nulla are even higher peaks beyond which are our not so friendly neighbours.
The first few minutes of the drive were anxious for me,as I saw pebbles made loose by our tyres falling down the gorge and it took me a while to get comfortable enough to notice and enjoy the scenery around. And then it happened.
There was sign on my side of the road which said – “Caution! The enemy is watching you” Its tough for me to recall now how exactly I felt but all i remember is that it had left me completely blank with hair standing to attention. I couldn’t help notice the choice of words, it didnt say “The guys across the border”- it said “the enemy”. It didnt say, “the enemy can see you”. It said, “The enemy is watching you!” Whoever chose the words, am sure it had the desired effect on me.
And as soon as we passed the first such sign, I saw villages on the road with houses having bullet holes (or were they shell holes?) and it was amazing to see people still living a seemingly normal life in such obviously dangerous conditions. It says a lot about the human spirit.
The whole area looks like a war zone, with army establishments on either side of the highway every few kilometers. Every now & then you would see a Bofors gun or a multi barrel rocket launcher or an anti aircraft gun, all aimed towards the west. Watching all of these, I was excited like a kid. I started remembering how I had almost joined the NDA and how I had dreamed of a career in the services.
Just before we reached Drass, I saw a war museum on the highway (around 5-6 kms before Drass) and told myself that I have to come & visit this. I reached Drass around noon and was really hungry, so asked around for some veg food w/o much luck. Finally found a place where some Bihari labourers were eating and I reasoned that this place must serve something vegetarian. So I had some amazing Rajma with not so fresh chapatis.
I rested for a while, took a couple of snaps with Tiger Hill in the backdrop, said a silent prayer for the men who fought in the Kargil war and started walking towards the war museum.
While walking I started thinking what we usually think sitting in places far away from the frontiers- Why do people fight? What is so crucial about an otherwise barren sparsely populated area that we have to lose so many men every year.
And somehow the answer was there in the calm and serene Drass valley. I saw this man sweeping the road with a branch- sweeping a road that hardly sees an traffic. A road that hardly had any dirt or dust on it, because it was the road around his home.
After a leisurely trek down, I reached the war museum and was about to enter when a soldier stopped me asking for some identification. I was carrying none. I had left my license etc back in kargil and all i had was some cash and a Citibank Credit card.
After a few minutes of questioning, the chap seemed visibly irritated and finally asked “What are you doing here”. And I answered in my sincerest best “I wanted to come and see what is it that our men in uniform have been protecting”.
That was like the magical password. I was ushered in, introduced to the young captain on command there, and given a complete VIP treatment.
Drass War Museum
They told me that the war museum is built with Tololing as the backdrop, the famous peak that we had re-captured. I was told that the war took place in 3 sectors, Kargil, Drass and Batalik and the wall @ the museum had names of each & every soldier & officer who had laid down their lives- their regiment, the honors they got and the sector that they finally protected from Paki invasion.
I was also told that today was the dry-run of the celebrations for Vijay Diwas, which meant that the soldiers were practising the parade routine and overseeing the lighting of lamps on the peaks. This was interesting, coz the lamps were strategically placed at such places where they would be seen from both the sides- India and Pakistan. 🙂
I learnt the significance of such gestures in the lives of people at the front. In Drass the army paints a mountain face which says “Op Vijay VII” depending on the number of years it has been since the successful Operation Vijay. I also noticed that the officers in these areas didnt wear mettalic stars,but ones made of cloth. I assumed it was so that the metal reflection is not seen by any sniper.
After my VIP tour of the museum I trekked back to Drass to get a cab into Kargil but was greeted with some really shocking news. It seems Zojila pass is closed one day of the week in either directions i.e. once a week no vehicles from Srinagar come across the pass into Drass/Kargil and today was that day. This meant that I had no one to share the cab with and the guys in Drass asked for a crazy 8000 Rs fare for the 60 km trip. I could not spend the night at Drass as my stuff was in kargil and I had a flight to catch from Srinagar the next evening.
So I decided to give my new found friendship a test. I went back to the war museum and told the soldiers there my urgent need to get into Kargil. The guard stopped the first truck that was passing by- a really old pickup truck, on army duty that was carrying a bull dozers fender- and asked the driver to drop me into Kargil. I thanked my army friends from JakLi and boarded the truck for the journey back into Kargil.
What was otherwise a few hours drive, was now a 6 hour trip in this old thing. But it was blessing- coz we were going really slow, I had all the more time to soak in the beauty . Also coz the truck was so much higher than the sumo I had taken in the morning,it meant I had a much better view of the Bofors guns and the rocket launchers along the way !
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Toshiro, Zaraki, Byakuya vs Gerard! Fighting Together – Bleach 671
Suniteon April 21, 2016 /26 comments
Bleach 671 covers all three Shinigami’s, Toshiro, Zaraki and Byakuya as they all fight against Gerard. While Toshiro uses his abilities in his new Adult-Body, he freezes Gerard in an effort to stop him but escapes quickly. This is when Zaraki and Byakuya step in to defeat him all at once. Byakuya even uses his Bankai in order to pierce through Gerard.
Bleach 671 begins as Toshiro talks to Byakuya telling him that once all the ice flowers falls, this is when his Daiguren Hyourinmaru will be complete. His power is still not mature enough to use Hyourinmaru to it’s fullest potential. It seem as he matured, so did his own body. He even mentions that he’s not a fan of his adult self either.
Gerard asks who he is, he mentions his name as Gerard goes on to further mention that he’s already released his Bankai so this must be some sort of transformation. Either way, it’s how it should have been. He is better suited to be his opponent. Gerard attacks but misses as Toshiro just moves around.
Gerard throws his shield but Toshiro just freezes it. Gerard then swings his sword but Toshiro just cuts it in half. Gerard mentions that him even touching his Hoffnung will cut himself. But Toshiro mentions that once it has been frozen, it’s function will cease to activate. His hope will be suspended. Next up, Gerard goes on to use his own Quincy Bow in order to attack against Toshiro.
But out of nowhere, we see Toshiro use his own power when he uses his Shikai Hyouketsu. He can freeze all matter before him, including Earth, Wind, Air and Fire. He is able to use it within three seconds. However, Gerard quickly escapes and grabs onto the body of Toshiro. He mentions that he cannot be imprisoned by the likes of a Shinigami, and thus he shall crush him.
However, Zaraki gets up and grabs onto the foot of Gerard. Seems like Zaraki has gained his consciousness and able to use his powers. Further to this, we see Toshiro gain wings and mentions that he won’t be able to do anything as he keeps on unleashing his powers upon Gerard as it continuous to freeze.
Whilst he tries to get up, we see him even more frozen. Out of nowhere, he’s surrounded by a thousand swords when we see and hear Senki Senbonzakura Kageyoshi, Ougi, Ikka Senjinka. The thousands of swords surrounding Gerard eye up on Gerard as they begin their wild and savage dance. Bleach 671 ends here.
A wonderful chapter if I say so myself. Seems like all three are fighting together in their own way. Trying to push against Gerard is exhausting for all three, but they seem to be going in the right direction when it comes to defeating them. Nevertheless, I can’t wait to see what Gerard comes up with next against these three in next week’s Bleach 672.
Tagged: Bankai Bleach Bleach 671 Bleach 672 Byakuya Kuchiki Daiguren Hyorinmaru Gerard Valkyrie Quincy Senbonzakura Kageyoshi Toshiro Hitsugaya Zaraki Kenpachi
kurosaki z April 21, 2016 at 12:07 pm
wew this chapter is great..i doubt this will be the end of gerard..
Sunite April 21, 2016 at 1:38 pm
Yup, I think he’s still got a special something left in the tank. Left for situations just like these.
akulis4 April 21, 2016 at 5:04 pm
I’m totally loving the new adult hitsugaya
trinin ninja April 21, 2016 at 5:41 pm
Some favorite parts of this chapter for me: toshiro’s speech about freezing hope, zaraki’s return, and byakuya’s new technique. I’m surprised that byakuya actually used all the swords to attack gerard (he never used this against ichigo). I don’t see how that is going to stop gerard though but maybe it will provide an opening for someone else besides byakuya to finish him.
P.S. Still waiting for Aizen’s bankai.
thetaicho April 21, 2016 at 7:24 pm
I could not help but notice how Hitsugaya’s wings looked exactly like that guy in the Diamond Dust Rebellion. My supposition is since the guy ( same zanpakuto) said he was using The full power of Hyourinmaru’s, maybe we shall Hitsugaya able to turn into an ice dragon soon. Hopefully. #fantasy.
rahmaru April 21, 2016 at 9:56 pm
i doubt this will be not the end for Gerard…
Sunite April 21, 2016 at 11:14 pm
He’s definitely not dead, I think he’ll come back with a new form which will make him look even stronger.
rahmaru April 22, 2016 at 10:48 am
i think those three would facing a huge surprise and definitely getting a big problem from Gerard..Hitsugaya freeze Gerard and if Kuchiki piercing him with his thousand swords, Gerard will shattered into pieces of ice.. as we know Gerard cannot freeze by Hitsugaya’s ice for less of one minute and we know that the more cuts he received, he become more powerful.. so i think the only way to defeat him is they need to use some magical power such like kido or else because the only way for you to countering magical power is by using another magic power..
shodic April 22, 2016 at 1:31 am
truly epic!
Paddyz April 22, 2016 at 5:28 pm
I think if were cut into pieces and still frozen Gerald can’t regenerate himself but I think Gerald hasn’t show the part that he was the heart of soul king
josephbhwanah April 22, 2016 at 7:15 pm
Epic chapter, & finally, Toshiro lives to the hype, im glad his transformation falls from something i explained a chapter ago, & the interesting part is even with this transformation(bankai maturity), he still doesnt think he can use the full extent of his zanpaktou’s power, I always thought Hyourinmaru was one of the most powerful zanpaktou if not the most powerful. I rewatched the filler arc “The invading army” the other day & in the battle between Hitsugaya & his zanpaktou, Hyourinmaru barely recognized HItsugaya as his master, he also said whoever was going to will him is going to be the most powerful soul-reaper & he didnt believe Hitsugaya was that Soul reaper since it barely knew him(just goes to show how hitsugaya hasnt yet mastered or used his power to a point where his zanpaktou spirit barely knew him)
It warms the heart to see Zaraki still has a fight in him(Its so like him, i wouldnt expect any less from the current kenpachi, shows his strong will to fight yet again!)
So Byakuya too went bankai! Well, It was only a matter of time, & its execution could have been played any better, i was actually vouching for something like this to happen given how gerald’s power works & given Toshiro & Byakuya where to battle him(Toshiro freezes & Byakuya shreds the ice), im glad Kubo kept Byakuya’s bankai traditional as always & appreciated the fact that we have seen it a couple of times & know all its moves to make it seem any more special by leaving it for the last panel
@trinin, that move Byakuya used isnt knew, he said in the battle at SS arc wen battling Ichigo as he was using “Senkei” that Ichigo should relax since he wasnt going to use all swords to attack him, more so, it is a form he use to a few that he desires to kill them with his own hand, as he called only upon only one sword & use it to fight Ichigo head on & we see later as their progressed that he called upon another one & stabbed Ichigo on his foot before he used kido, its a new move in a sense we havent seen it being used by Byakuya but its something byakuya already had.
I dont know if this is all it takes to defeat Gerald, I wouldnt be surprised if he bounces back even after this assault but again, i wouldnt be surprised if he doesnt either since like “Hoffnung” his miracles might have been suspended before Byakuya chopped him to pieces( thats if the miracle power is even still operational as became gigantic) but again, this guy is also bragging about being a god, he might have another form or power to counter this, im really open up to anything happening here, but all & all, it was an epic chapter, cant wait for the next chapter! bleach has had a good run lately…
I was also shocked at how powerful toshiro became. He was able to completely cut through gerard’s “sword of hope” while zaraki was only able to nick gerard’s sword with his shikai, which destroyed a meteor!
trinin ninja April 25, 2016 at 10:35 pm
Also, I’m still waiting for an explanation about zaraki’s bankai and why his skin turns red.
Damn! No bleach chapter this week?
Nop, it’s golden week in Japan, next week 🙂
nickdunnaquatic April 29, 2016 at 1:54 am
Yup, no Bleach this week. Makes us wonder if Gerard is dead or not. I believe he isn’t dead but you never know. I feel like the blood Quincy cross is his heart is his weakness.
It’s pretty obvious that Gerard is not yet defeated. He has to show at least one or two more devastating moves and then the good guys will show their new techniques too. Then Gerard will be defeated. This is just Kubo’s way of doing things.
suifeng April 29, 2016 at 4:19 am
i think this where suifeng would unleash her nigeki kessatsu against gerard if he is still alive cant wait to see that 🙌
nickdunnaquatic April 30, 2016 at 6:37 pm
I don’t know if this is confirmed or not, but the next chapter is titled “Son of Darkness.” Or something similar to that. It is possible Gerard is defeated or Kubo just wanted to show someone else. Yhwach did call Ichibei his son born in darkness when he revealed that Masaki was a Quincy. So maybe we’ll see Ichigo and Orihime. Or it may show Uryu and how he’s doing against Jugram.
I’d like to see how Uryu is doing, he’s basically sacrificing himself for this cause and it’s like meh :S He deserves a bigger part, I think he’ll get it soon enough.
nickdunnaquatic April 30, 2016 at 11:44 pm
By bigger part, you mean help Ichigo defeat Yhwach, than ya I think so. I am actually very very excited for Uryu vs Jugram.
Who would you see winning?
nickdunnaquatic May 1, 2016 at 8:03 pm
Logically, Jugram. But we don’t know what Uryu’s A is. It could be a weaker version of The Almighty. I also heard Bleach spoilers were out on mangahelpers. It summarizes what happens in chapter 672. And if it’s true, the chapter sounds amazing.
Sunite May 1, 2016 at 8:33 pm
I’d say Jugram would win too, I actually forgot Uryu will “inherit” A’s power, but then again it doesn’t seem like it’ll happen anytime soon, or maybe, it’s already happened. Just had a brief look at mangehelpers, seems like Golden Week will hold the chapter out of our hands for a while longer. But younkouproducts says Ichigo meets Yhwach, and Orihime has a few moments here a there. Even other websites have their spoilers which map it out for everyone. I’ll be sure to write something tomorrow if I get the time (currently got a masters report/presentation to prepare for)
Ultimate Coordinator May 2, 2016 at 2:34 pm
BLEACH 672 is Out, & its sick.
Thanks for the heads up 😀 Wrote it all up and posted 🙂
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Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, The Jooz December 14, 2019 December 14, 2019
Three guesses who is to blame, and the first two don’t count. By Jeremy Corbyn
Yesterday the Progressive Community was hit by a Disaster, a Naqba if you will. Labour lost huge swathes of Districts across the Nation. You see, Labour’s loss affected me deeply. I truly felt pain. A stabbing pain. In the back to be precise. But today we must take stock of our losses and identify just how this happened to us. Or more appropriately, who did this to us. Walking in the Heath yesterday, I had some time to reflect, and had an epiphany. I believe that I know the root cause of our loss. I will give you three guesses who is to blame for our calamity, but the first two don’t count.
Perhaps there is a group of people out there. A bit different. Unfamiliar with British irony. Perhaps they live clustered along a certain rail line in London. Just for the sake of argument, let’s say the Northern Line. I had a chance to discuss this with Ken Livingstone last night at Momentum’s weekly potluck and he seemed to be two steps ahead of me. He truly has a talent for seeing hidden truths. I believe the younger people would call this “being Woke”. But anyway, we agreed there was a group of people out there. People with a knack for finances. People who also live in a certain country along the Western Mediterranean Coast. But not Lebanon or Syria.
Our friends in Hamas and Hezbollah have perhaps an even keener insight into this group of people. In fact I was simply delighted to learn that Hamas even included folktales about these people in their Charter. I simply did not know how ecologically-minded Hamas was until I heard their folklore about the group of people whom we are currently discussing and how even the rocks and the trees of Palestine knew what we in Britain are just learning now. Fascinating. Simply fascinating.
Have you guessed yet?
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Election 2018, Jeremy Corbyn, The Jooz February 20, 2019 March 30, 2019
Exciting times for The Democratic Party! By Jeremy Corbyn
I just wanted to take a moment from my day to reflect on some simply amazing developments across the Atlantic. For too long, the Democratic Party pushed all of the same sad old Center-Left/Clinton-Blair themes. But today there are some exciting new faces shaking things up! It is in this vein that I have looked on with much fondness and anticipation at the exciting young voices in the Party, especially Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. Now Ms. Tlaib has created a very robust coalition, consisting of the Many not The Jew Few, and her friends have some very innovative solutions to the crisis in Palestine. Indeed, some of their Solutions seem rather Final. If this was not exciting enough for one day, finding out that Ms. Tlaib used to write for Louis Farrakhan’s newspaper was quite simply delicious. Minister Farrakhan and I share so much, particularly in our views concerning “The People of the Book”.
Yet in much the same case as with today’s Labour Party, there are unseen powers working against Rashida, Ilhan, and our other friends in the Democratic Party. Who are these Unseen Powers? We really don’t know for sure, but we have a pretty good idea who (((They))) are. Speaking of which, Ilhan quickly determined the source of Power wielded by a certain group of Rootless Cosmopolitans who claim to come from the Levant. As the Young People would say, it is in fact “All About the Benjamins“. (Isn’t the Vernacular of the Street simply delightful in its ability to turn a phrase? Fascinating, really.) Finally, we had a voice pointing out what so many of us on the Progressive Left have known for so long: that Israel has been hypnotizing the World. Furthermore, watching Ms. Omar’s vociferous cross-examination of that Zio former Reagan and Bush Administration appointee Elliot Abrams was quite simply a breath of fresh air. And while she did not know his actual name, and would not let him respond to her questions, her fighting spirit reminded me of the best of George Galloway (who may be back in Labour sooner than you think. You heard it here first!). This was almost as refreshing as my Comrade McDonnell informing us this week that Winston Churchill was a villain!
Yet as much as I admire Ms. Tlaib and Ms. Omar, I would be remiss to ignore the great achievements of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez! Her astute views on the merits of a Socialist Command Economy are a clear indicator of her bright future in politics. We even Tweet to one another sometimes! So while Ms. Ocasio-Cortez may not yet be as far along as Ms. Tlaib and Ms. Omar when it comes to the Jewish Question, all of us in Labour have confidence that she will soon see this issue as we see it.
So while I am not one to blow my own horn, to the extent that any of their new direction was inspired by today’s Labour Party, well I am right chuffed. In fact, I look forward to inviting Ms. Tlaib and Ms. Omar for Tea at the House of Commons some time this Spring!
Filed under: #Woke, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes, All About The Benjamins, Farrakhan, For the Many Not The Jew, Ilhan Omar, Jeremy Corbyn, JihadiJezz, Labour, Labour Anti-Semitism, Labour Party, Louis Farrakhan, Rashida Tlaib
Jeremy Corbyn, Mossad September 20, 2018 September 20, 2018
Jeremy Corbyn reviews the new Eichmann Movie
Today we look at the newly released film “Operation Finale“, the sad tale of a rogue nation taking so-called justice into its own hands. This movie recounts the story of Israel’s illegal and extra-judicial kidnapping of Adolph Eichmann from Argentina, a lovely country that is also home to the Malvina Islands. Apparently, Mr. Eichmann had some sort of role in the Holocaust. Now let me say clearly that the Holocaust was a tragedy (although truth be told some of my friends in Hamas whom I have hosted for tea would agree to disagree. Also, they would have put quote marks around the word “Holocaust.”) Yet Israel’s all-too-familiar use of force was to compound a tragedy with a tragedy, much like America’s illegal execution of one Mr. Bin Laden (Real World Non-Satire Alert: He Really Really said this about the death of Bin-Laden). Truly, if Mr. Eichmann were in fact guilty of a crime, why not simply notify the nearest Argentinian constabulary?
The movie depicts the commendable efforts Mr. Eichmann had made to open himself up to other cultures, to include learning the local language, and adopting the lovely Spanish name of “Ricardo Klement.” And in a singular act of proletarian solidarity, he took the bus to work every day. Yet Mr. Eichmann’s earnest attempts at multiculturalism failed to impress the Mossad, which took upon itself the task of kidnapping him and trundling him off to “Israel” for trial. And if being kidnapped by the Mossad wasn’t unpleasant enough already, Eichmann then had to fly on EL AL..
Israel then tried and executed Eichmann, another sad tally on its list of victims. Just to add insult to injury, Israel then spread his ashes in the sea, precluding any future graveside memorials, like the wreath that I specifically did NOT lay at the grave of Black September activists.
Now you may scoff at my review. You may even accuse me of willful ignorance. Yet remember this: it’s still not as dumb as what Hannah Arendt wrote about the Eichmann trial.
Filed under: #CorbynKnew, Adolph Eichmann, Eichmann, For the Many Not The Jew, Hannah Arendt, Israel, Jeremy Corbyn, JihadiJezz, Labour, Labour Anti-Semitism, Labour Party, Mossad, Operation Finale
BDS, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, The Jooz March 13, 2018 March 13, 2018
Labour MP angry she wasn’t invited into Corbyn’s secret anti-Jewish Facebook group
By Yuval Weiss
Last Updated 3/13/2018 at 6:00 PM
Camden, London: Today a very irate Labour Activist is demanding to know why she wasn’t invited to join Jeremy Corbyn’s secret Anti-Semitic Facebook Group “Palestine Live”. An investigation by David Collier uncovered that the Secret Facebook Group “trafficked in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, posted articles by Neo-Nazis, denied Israel’s right to exist, and called pro-Israel Jews “Zio-Nazis.” The group included Holocaust Denier Paul Eisen, as well as “the Jew who was too Anti-Semitic for the BDS Movement” Gilad Atzmon. And in a revelation that shocked people who still believe in the Tooth Fairy, the head of Breaking the Silence was also a member of the group…..Well rest assured, Labour Member of Parliament Danielle Lynne-Stephens is quite upset and wants to know why she never received an invite. The Daily Freier stopped by Momentum Headquarters in London to meet up with MP Lynne-Stephens and have a little chat.
“I really didn’t want to ‘Go There’, but I can’t help but think there is a bit of sexism in the BDS Community. Honestly, sometimes it feels like the Anti-Israel Left has a Glass Ceiling. I mean, how else to explain why I wasn’t asked to join Palestine Live? I’ve paid my dues. The mob that attacked the Israeli Club at King’s College? I was there……I own 12 keffiyehs….. The Women’s Boat to Gaza? I was First Mate. I mean, until we got lost.….”
Danielle went on to explain just how unfair her exclusion from the group was. “How many times do I need to talk about the Rothschilds before I get an invite? And the sad part is, I could have really helped them with the quality of their memes……Like, they passed around pictures of hook-nosed Jews with demonic eyes? Big Deal. For a month my profile picture was a giant octopus with a big nose and a Star of David!”
“I’m sorry, but my obsessive hatred of Israel takes a back seat to nobody in that group. Posting articles by David Duke? Hellooooo? David Duke once posted an article written by me!….Saying that 9/11 was an Israeli False-Flag operation? Please. I’ve been saying it since the days of dial-up Internet.”
“It just isn’t fair.” Danielle continued. “How many times do I have to use the word “Zio” before I start getting the respect I deserve? And don’t tell me Corbyn didn’t know I wasn’t in the group. He commented and ‘Liked’ posts all the time! I’m tempted to take a walk over to Jeremy’s gardening allotment and give him a piece of my mind.”
For his part, Mr. Corbyn says he denounces anti-Semitism in all its forms and has launched a committee to look into any wrong-doing by Labour MP’s. The Committee will be led by Ken Livingstone, Jackie Walker, and George Galloway.
Filed under: #AntiZionistNotAntiSemitic, #BDSFail, #CorbynKnew, #PalestineLive, BDS, Breaking the Silence, David Collier, George Galloway, Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Ben Zona, Ken Livingstone, Labour, Labour Anti-Semitism, Yuval Weiss
Chanukah, Jeremy Corbyn December 12, 2017
Jeremy Corbyn recounts the story of Chanukah
As we enter the Holiday Season, once again we are reminded of a truly shameful episode in history: the Celebration of Zionist violence and dispossession known as “Chanukah”. Approximately 2200 years ago in Historic Palestine, the Jewish people were fortunate enough to fall under the wise leadership of Syria, a nation whose current leader I consider a friend and which I have visited in the spirit of bonhomie and brotherhood. Syria was then ruled by a most dynamic and motivated man, King Antiochus Epiphanes. Now Antiochus was a rather forward-thinking leader who encouraged the Jews to engage in physical exercise at the well-appointed leisure centres known locally as “Gymnasiums”. The tradition at the time was to exercise naked, which may strike some as unorthodox, but not anyone who has ever visited me in my Gardening Allotment during Mid-Summer. Additionally, Antiochus did his best to encourage the Jews to participate in group activities within the Syrian polity, but again and again he was rudely rebuffed. They even declined to take part in the Community Pig Roast and Pot-Luck that Antiochus sponsored at their Temple.
Just when Antiochus seemed to be making serious headway in terms of showing the Jewish Community a path toward peace, a gang of Likudniks known as the “Maccabees” began agitating and detracting from the shared sense of community in Palestine. The clique’s leader, one Judah Maccabee, felt compelled to attack his Syrian neighbors, a trend that sadly continues to this day. And in an incident that really should be brought to the attention of the RSPCA, the Maccabees engaged in wanton cruelty toward the Syrians’ pet elephants. Finally, despite the noble resistance of the Syrians, they were expelled from Palestine by the Maccabee war machine.
Then the Maccabees returned to the Temple and proceeded to undo all of the improvements made by Mr. Antiochus. Tellingly, they first sought fuel to light their lamps, sadly marking this as just another War for Oil. Today, this unfortunate episode in the Struggle of the Dispossessed is celebrated with such crass spectacle as unhealthy fried foods, doughnuts filled with empty calories, and encouraging children to gamble. Stay tuned next month when I decry the Imperialistic Land Grab known as “Tu B’Shvat”.
Filed under: Chanukah, Hannukah, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour
Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party May 30, 2017
No, I’m serious. Just what must I do to get kicked out of Labour?
By Jeremy Corbyn, MP
Finsbury Park: So far 2017 has been a rather trying year for me. The Islington People’s-Socialist-Fair-Trade-Third-World-Food Co-Op has been quite simply in an uproar since last month’s “Venezuelan Quinoa Incident“. The Food Co-Op’s whatsapp group has become veritable torture for me. To be honest, I am quite the Luddite, so I only took an iPhone under duress because Party Leadership said I needed to be “more accessible” when I go on my morning walkabouts in the Heath. And it is not only the Quinoa Incident that they debate endlessly in the chat group. Of course there is the NGO “Palestinian Lesbian Anarchists against the Wall” that wants to sell their wares in our shop. So far so good, but what is their position on Climate Change? And the NHS? And manspreading?
Then there is my bicycle, which continues to break at the most inopportune moments, like when I was on my way to the Marwan Barghouti Benefit Concert in Tower Hamlets last week. Of course, one would be remiss without mentioning my garden allotment. Ms. Bannister insists that it was my kale crop that introduced the weevils that seem poised to make quite a snack of her corn crop. Incidentally, a certain Mr. Goldstein continues to illegally occupy encroach upon my radishes with his rather arcane crop of chick peas and red peppers. So you can see, Mr. Corbyn’s (very vegan) plate is rather full. I am burning the (vegetable oil) candle at both ends. Jezz needs a break.
With all of my responsibilities, I simply do not have time for all of the nonsense in Parliament. “Votes“. “NATO”. “Protecting the citizens of the United Kingdom“. Therefore, for the past several months I have done everything in my power to get myself removed from office so that I may return to focusing on the important things, like the problematic gear shift on my Schwinn. And the sorry state of my lettuce crop. And improving my attendance for the Yoga Classes at the Leisure Centre. But it appears to be all for naught. I have tried everything.
So visiting Syria as the guest of Bashar Assad was not enough? How about if my travel-mate was Jenny Tonge? How about that I attended a wreath laying ceremony for the lead architect of the 1972 Munich Olympics….misunderstanding? Then I refused to apologize for inviting the Irish Republican Army for tea at the height of their 1980’s bombing campaign. For goodness sake, I blamed the Manchester attack on British Foreign Policy
Now it appears that even if Labour loses next month’s election, I still won’t be allowed to step down. I am simply at my wit’s end. Once again…. Just what must I do to get kicked out of Labour?
Filed under: Bashar Assad, Irish Republican Army, Jeremy, Jeremy Corbyn, JihadiJezz, Labour, Munich Olympics, Omar Barghouti
ISIS, Jeremy Corbyn March 14, 2017 March 15, 2017
ISIS and the West: moving past the name-calling, by Jeremy Corbyn
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What I am about to say may cause some discomfort, but perhaps it is time that we move beyond the Neo-Thatcherite/Neo-Blairite visions of the world and find a new approach. Today the West finds itself once again mixed up in a war in the Middle East, and once again we are hearing the name calling of our so-called enemies. Words like “fascist”, “murderous”, and “evil”. But I used those words just last week to describe proposed changes to the NHS. So perhaps it is time to step back, take a deep breath and try to understand “The Other”. To work toward a more even-handed vision.
Again, the usual suspects continue to use quite slanderous words about ISIS. Yet right here in London, we can witness genuine outreach on their part, with the very real example of Anjem Choudary, who has made sincere efforts to work with the Progressive Community by defending a Labour MP when she got slightly ahead of herself and suggested that Israel should be dismantled and the Jews shipped off to the United States. In fact, one can even compare ISIS to Israel, which I have been known to do in the past.
So today I stand before you as a proud member of the Progressive Left and say: It is time for us to look at ISIS objectively and see it for what it truly is. A community that is ethnically diverse, dissatisfied with the status quo, critical of Western Imperialism, and clearly motivated enough to take direct action. They embrace the philosophy of Said Qutb. But so do many people whom I count among my friends. They are fond of their beards, as am I. They have some serious problems with a certain group of people clustered along the Levant and the London Northern Line. As do I.
And to those of you who think this speech is crazy and something I can’t possibly have really said, please think long and hard and ask yourself: ‘If Jeremy Corbyn said this would I actually be shocked?‘
Filed under: Anjem Choudary, Hamas, ISIS, Jeremy Corbyn, JihadiJezz, Labour, MOMENTUM, Said Qutb
Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party July 13, 2016
Corbyn Hires Bianca Jagger as Social Media Director
By The Daily Freier Staff
Last Updated 7/13/2016 at 11:20 AM
London: Noted rock star ex-wife and activist Bianca Jagger got into a bit of a pickle yesterday when she inadvertently (we think!) tweeted out a list of British Members of Parliament who had voted for the Iraq War. The list, helpfully compiled by the White Nationalist site Metapedia, included such pertinent information as the race, sexual orientation (with details!), and sometimes even the religion (We’ll give you three guesses which religion they singled out, and the first two guesses don’t count) of individual MP’s. But it’s all good because she tweeted at 4 AM and forgot to like read the link and stuff.
Yet out of Crisis comes Opportunity. Upon seeing Ms. Jagger in action, Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn reached out to her and offered her the position of Social Media Director. Labour Spokesperson Liam C. explained. “With Mr. Corbyn, the strategy is all about keeping his opponents off-balance as they try to figure out if he’s malicious, obtuse, or just inept. And Ms. Jagger’s tweet certainly demonstrated that she has what it takes to join our team.”
Bianca, who is a reminder of just how much blow they must have done at Studio 54 in the 1970’s President and Chief Executive of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, promised to hit the ground running. “I am very excited to join Mr. Corbyn’s team as we work toward true equality for all.” Ms. Jagger then sought to put to rest any lingering doubts from yesterday’s tweet. “Along with Labour, I stand four-square against any form of racism. Today’s inadvertent tweet certainly does not represent my true feelings. And neither will the next inadvertent tweet……Or the one after that.”
Filed under: Bianca Jagger, Jeremy Corbyn, JihadiJezz, Jooz, Labour
Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party July 5, 2016 March 21, 2018
The Entebbe Raid as recounted by Jeremy Corbyn
Forty years ago, an ad-hoc troupe of Palestinian activists and Germans with a passion for Social Justice staged a direct-action work stoppage, temporarily disrupting and re-routing scheduled air transportation from Occupied Yafa Tel Aviv to Paris. This protest was not unlike how some of our more boisterous Trade Unionists might temporarily shut down the Bakerloo Line in an attempt to draw attention to the cutbacks enacted by today’s Neo-Thatcherite Government under Mr. Cameron.
The activists then took the passengers on an impromptu excursion to Uganda where they were hosted by a man I considered a friend, Idi Amin. Mr. Amin, who was in the midst of taking his country on a somewhat accelerated course toward true equality (with the unfortunate side effect of several hundred thousand deaths and the expulsion of the Indian minority), proved a gracious host. In order to better achieve a sense of Solidarity, the activists separated the passengers into “working groups“, to include “Jews and Israelis” and “Everyone Else“. In order to better focus the Collective toward the goal of reducing Palestinian incarceration rates, “Everyone Else” was sent home, allowing for a true emphasis on the interaction between the Social Justice activists and the “Jews and Israelis“.
Mr. Amin received his guests with the traditional hospitality that he was known for, and allowed everyone to camp out at the Entebbe Airport, not unlike the Occupy protests around St. Paul’s Cathedral in 2011, but somehow not as filthy. Unfortunately, for reasons not entirely known, Israel did not appreciate the gesture and planned to disrupt Mr. Amin’s Conclave. Instead of meeting with the Activists in the spirit of constructive dialogue, Israel went down a path that is all too familiar to those of us who care for Justice. The Israelis chose to violate the laws of an African State through an act of piracy. Incidentally, the man in charge was named “Netanyahu“. There are so many things that one could say about this gross violation of sovereignty, but I feel one must focus on the quite frankly racist Israeli action of disguising one of their soldiers as Mr. Amin.
Once again, Israel chose to go down the path of violence, missing a genuine opportunity to dialogue with those with whom it has disagreements. My friends in Hamas and Hezbollah could tell you more about this subject. If you will excuse me, I need to go. A MOMENTUM activist at a Labour Press Conference is about to harangue a female Jewish Labour MP until she leaves the room in tears and I need to be on hand in order to do nothing to help her.
Filed under: 7 Days in Entebbe, BaaderMeinhof, Entebbe, Idi Amin, Jeremy Corbyn, José Padilha, Labour, Labour Anti-Semitism, London, Operation Thunderbolt, Operation Yonatan, Uganda, Yoni Netanyahu
Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party July 1, 2016 July 5, 2016
“I can’t believe Corbyn would say that” said by Nobody after yesterday’s Corbyn speech
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London: Reaction was mixed after yesterday’s Labour Party Press Conference on Anti-Semitism where Jeremy Corbyn compared Israel to ISIS, with his supporters and detractors divided as to Mr. Corbyn’s true intent with the remarks. The Daily Freier put on its peasant hat, messenger bag, and corduroy blazer and interviewed attendees as they departed the Labour/MOMENTUM Press Conference.
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Filed under: George Galloway, Gerry Adams, Israellycool, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, MOMENTUM, Time Travel
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ADDRESS TO THE NATION BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE ENDSARS PROTESTS, 22ND OCTOBER, 2020
Fellow Nigerians,
It has become necessary for me to address you having heard from many concerned Nigerians and having concluded a meeting with all the Security Chiefs.
2. I must warn those who have hijacked and misdirected the initial, genuine and well – intended protest of some of our youths in parts of the country, against the excesses of some members of the now disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
3. On Monday 12th October, I acknowledged the genuine concerns and agitations of members of the public regarding the excessive use of force by some members of SARS.
4. The choice to demonstrate peacefully is a fundamental right of citizens as enshrined in Section 40 of our Constitution and other enactments; but this right to protest also imposes on the demonstrators the responsibility to respect the rights of other citizens, and the necessity to operate within the law.
5. As a democratic government, we listened to, and carefully evaluated the five-point demands of the protesters. And, having accepted them, we immediately scrapped SARS, and put measures in place to address the other demands of our youth.
6. On approving the termination of SARS, I already made it clear that it was in line with our commitment to the implementation of extensive Police reforms.
7. Sadly, the promptness with which we have acted seemed to have been misconstrued as a sign of weakness and twisted by some for their selfish unpatriotic interests.
8. The result of this is clear to all observers: human lives have been lost; acts of sexual violence have been reported; two major correctional facilities were attacked and convicts freed; public and private properties completely destroyed or vandalised; the sanctity of the Palace of a Peace Maker, the Oba of Lagos has been violated. So-called protesters have invaded an International Airport and in the process disrupted the travel plans of fellow Nigerians and our visitors.
9. All these executed in the name of the ENDSARS protests. I am indeed deeply pained that innocent lives have been lost. These tragedies are uncalled for and unnecessary. Certainly, there is no way whatsoever to connect these bad acts to legitimate expression of grievance of the youth of our country.
10. The spreading of deliberate falsehood and misinformation through the social media in particular, that this government is oblivious to the pains and plight of its citizens is a ploy to mislead the unwary within and outside Nigeria into unfair judgement and disruptive behaviour.
11. On the contrary, both our deeds and words have shown how committed this administration has been to the wellbeing and welfare of citizens, even with the steadily dwindling revenues, and the added responsibilities and restrictions due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
12. Government has put in place measures and initiatives principally targeted at youths, women and the most vulnerable groups in our society. These included our broad plan to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in the next 10 years; the creation of N75 billion National Youth Investment Fund to provide opportunities for the youths and the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Survival Fund, through which government is:
a. paying three months salaries of the staff of 100,000 micro, small – and medium – enterprises,
b. paying for the registration of 250,000 businesses at the Corporate Affairs Commission,
c. giving a grant of N30,000 to 100,000 artisans; and
d. guaranteeing market for the products of traders.
13. These are in addition to many other initiatives such as;
a. Farmermoni,
b. Tradermoni,
c. Marketmoni,
d. N-Power,
e. N-Tech and
f. N-Agro.
14. No Nigerian Government in the past has methodically and seriously approached poverty-alleviation like we have done.
15. With regard to the welfare of police personnel, the National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission has been directed to expedite action on the finalization of the new salary structure of members of the Nigeria Police Force. The emoluments of other paramilitary services are also being reviewed upwards.
16. In order to underscore the importance of education in preparing youths for the future, this administration has come up with a new salary structure and other incentives for our teachers.
17. Let me at this point reaffirm the Federal Government’s commitment to preserving the unity of this country.
18. We will continue to improve good governance and our democratic process, including through sustained engagement.
19. We shall continue to ensure that liberty and freedom, as well as the fundamental rights of all citizens are protected.
20. But remember that government also has the obligation to protect lives and properties, as well as the right of citizens to go about their daily businesses freely and protected from acts of violence.
21. To our neighbours in particular, and members of the international community, many of whom have expressed concern about the ongoing development in Nigeria, we thank you and urge you all to seek to know all the facts available before taking a position or rushing to judgment and making hasty pronouncements.
22. In the circumstances, I would like to appeal to protesters to note and take advantage of the various well-thought-out initiatives of this administration designed to make their lives better and more meaningful, and resist the temptation of being used by some subversive elements to cause chaos with the aim of truncating our nascent democracy.
23. For you to do otherwise will amount to undermining national security and the law and order situation. Under no circumstances will this be tolerated.
24. I therefore call on our youths to discontinue the street protests and constructively engage government in finding solutions. Your voice has been heard loud and clear and we are responding.
25. And I call on all Nigerians to go about their normal businesses, and enjoin security agencies to protect lives and properties of all law abiding citizens without doing harm to those they are meant to protect. Let me pay tribute to officers of the Nigeria Police Force who have tragically lost their lives in the line of duty.
26. I would like to thank those state Governors, traditional and religious leaders who have appealed for calm and restraint. I also thank youth leaders who have restrained their followers from taking the law into their hands.
27. This government respects and will continue to respect all the democratic rights and civil liberties of the people, but it will not allow anybody or groups to disrupt the peace of our nation.
Thank you all. God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
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You know... all those bad, bad things... you see on the news every... night? How you... can't believe that... any human could ever... do them? Well... what if humans... didn't do them?
— Leo Chandler
Martian Manhunter (Volume 4) #1 is an issue of the series Martian Manhunter (Volume 4) with a cover date of August, 2015. It was published on June 17, 2015.
1 Synopsis for "Weapon!"
2 Appearing in "Weapon!"
Synopsis for "Weapon!"
The strange is all around us, waiting to be noticed and interrogated.
In a boarded-up basement, an inhuman-looking figure in a suit with coattails, spats and a fedora sits snoring. A sign taped to his chest identifies him as "Mr. Biscuits", and says he is only to be woken in an emergency. A small girl, on a dare from friends, breaks into the basement to present him with a bag of baked goods. He responds by presenting her with a quarter by an act of prestidigitation. She, asks if he is a good man; he responds that he doesn't know.
Returning from a missing-persons case on the Moon, the Martian Manhunter sends out a telepatic signal to anyone who can hear him: something called the Epiphany is coming, performing terrible acts, and they need to save as many souls as they can. He flies over an airplane with a flaming engine, about to crash into the ocean, and tries to carry it to safety. When he cannot, he phases into the airplane and telepathically sends all the passengers to sleep.
However, one of the passengers is immune to his power: an old woman with glowing red eyes who says that he should be a weapon for their side. He waves her aside, phasing outside the aircraft again and turning into a dragon to better carry the plane to safety. In his head, he agonises over his origin, how he was created as a weapon of infiltration for his shadowy masters, and now they are coming to Earth.
At the Watchtower space station, the Justice League are responding to Martian Manhunter's telepathic signal by tracking him down. But after they find him in the South Pacific, they realise that a vast number of terror attacks and military escalations are happening around the globe.
In Dubai, a cat-burglar named the Pearl sits on a windowsill, waiting for a member of the local royal family to fall asleep so she can steal from him. However, just before he does, a man enters the room, promptly shapeshifts into a large blue creature with four arms, and murders him. As Pearl is horrified, the murderer tells her that she can run, but he can see into her mind, and he already knows how the chase will end.
On an island in the South Pacific, the plane got down safely. Martian Manhunter comes to with one of the children from the plane asking if he is a monster. Martian Manhunter, whose shape was humanoid but misshapen, swiftly changes to his more familiar "super hero" form, which causes the child to run, calling him a monster. Hurt, Martian Manhunter flies away.
In Washington D.C., federal agent Daryl Wessel has just arrived at a strange crime scene. A mother kidnapped her adult son from a care facility in Pennsylvania and drove her, upon which the son strangled her to death... except that the son has motor neuron disease and is effectively quadruplegic. It was why he was in the care home for the last five years in the first place.
Wessel goes in to interview the son, Leo Chandler, who claims he murdered his mother because she was annoying, and she wasn't his real mother. Leo goes on to claim that records can be altered, that both he and Wessel have friends in high places, and demonstrates knowledge he should not have, which he credits to an "epiphany". As Leo pauses, a pair of colossal explosions go off elsewhere in Washington D.C. Wessel demands to know how Leo knew they were coming. Leo, with a sadistic grin, posits a hypothetical world: that inhuman acts among humans are the result of inhuman intelligences at work.
In NASA headquarters in Florida, Dr. Helen DeMoff is keeping up with the news. An emergency update on the terror attacks is joined by the security correspondant, Lincoln Brahn, who explains that the attacks were not just concurrent, but all started at the same time, as though synchronised. Furthermore, the extremist groups being blamed could not have co-ordinated because the groups have such divergent ideologies. Grinning and demonstrating glowing eyes, Brahn says the pattern is truly terrifying and that probably no-one is safe.
DeMoff is interrupted by a mournful-looking Martian Manhunter, who says she needs to help him. He has to be killed...
Back in the basement, Mr Biscuits gives the girl the coin and tells her to run away. She gleefully complies, as he tucks into his baked goods using a prehensile tongue with four prongs.
Appearing in "Weapon!"
Martian Manhunter (J'onn J'onzz/Daryl Wessel/Mr. Biscuits)
Helen Demoff
Aquaman (On a TV or computer screen)
Batman (On a TV or computer screen)
Green Lantern (On a TV or computer screen)
Shazam (On a TV or computer screen)
Wonder Woman (On a TV or computer screen)
Villains:
Martians
Leo Chandler
Lincoln Brahn
Tina the newsanchor
Justice League Watchtower
Martian Manhunter's adventure on the Moon was in the free online preview for this series.
Cover gallery for the Martian Manhunter series
Images from Martian Manhunter Vol 4 1
Retrieved from "https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Martian_Manhunter_Vol_4_1?oldid=2302119"
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Dan Panosian/Cover Artist
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DC Human Trafficking Victim Service Providers Directory
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Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) For Children of DC
515 M Street SE, Suite 201, Washington, DC 20003
Our mission is to promote court appointed volunteer advocacy so that every abused and neglected child in the DC foster care system can be safe, establish permanence and have the opportunity to thrive. This mission is carried out through the recruitment, training and support of volunteer advocates (CASA volunteers) who serve youth in DC.
Courtney’s House
P.O. Box 48626 Washington, DC, 20002
Courtney's is a survivor run anti-sex trafficking program that focuses on males and females 12-21yrs in the DCDMV area, this is a drop in center not housing.
2001 Mississippi Ave. SE, Washington, DC 20020
To break the cycle of chronic adult homelessness and bridge the gap of support in the lives of our youth, Covenant House has developed three core services known as our Continuum of Care: Street Outreach, Crisis Care, and Rights of Passage.
These core services are comprised of a wide array of in-house training programs, including healthcare, educational support, GED preparation, job readiness and skills training, drug abuse treatment and prevention, legal services, mental health services, the Mother/Child program, life skills training, and aftercare. These programs are designed to provide our youth with a holistic approach to leaving the streets and achieving independence.
Creative Learning Enterprises, Inc.
Creative Ways Therapy
1443 Euclid St., NW
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DC Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA)
Office Hours (9am-5pm, M-F), 24 Hours
200 I St. SE, Washington, DC 20003
A Title IV-E Child Welfare Agency in the District of Columbia managing prevention, foster care, in-home and adoption services.
DC Crime Victim’s Compensation Program
Court Building A, 515 5th St., Suite 109, Washington, DC 20001
The Crime Victims Compensation Program is funded by fines and fees paid to the DC Courts. Monies are used to compensate victims for out of pocket crime-related expenses for: medical treatment and medications; mental health counseling; funeral and burial costs; loss of wages; cleaning of a crime scene; replacement of value of clothing held as evidence; reimbursement for car rental while vehicle is being held as evidence; temporary emergency shelter where necessary for the health and safety of the victim; and home security for the safety of the victim.
DC Department of Human Services
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DC Dept. of Behavioral Health – Homeless Outreach Program (HOP)
1905 E St. SE, Bldg 14, Washington, 20003
HOP helps individuals experiencing homelessness who are temporarily or chronically homeless get off the streets and into safe, decent housing where they can get the support they need.
We thank the victim service provider organizations for working with the DC Human Trafficking Task Force and dedicating their time, effort, and support to this directory. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of victim service providers in the DC area, and is a constantly evolving directory.
If you would like to add or update an organization’s information, please email your updates to Info@amaralegal.org.
If you cannot find the services you are looking for or would like direct personal assistance, please contact the NATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING HOTLINE at 1-888-373-7888 or help@humantraffickinghotline.org.
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Hospitality industry unlikely to recover until next year
By Dat Nguyen  May 15, 2020 | 10:55 am GMT+7
A motorbike driver rides past Vanda Hotel in Da Nang City in March 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Nguyen Dong.
Hotel occupancy rates are set to plummet this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, and a recovery is only expected next year.
The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism expects foreign tourist arrivals to fall by 70 percent this year from 18 million last year if the disease is contained globally by June. The drop will be 75 percent if the pandemic continues until September.
Property consultancy CBRE said in a recent report that whatever the scenario there would be a huge fall in the number of tourists this year sending hotel occupancy rates plummeting.
In Hanoi, occupancy rates could fall from over 80 percent last year to about 29 percent if the disease is contained in June, and to 25 percent if contained in September, and average tariffs would drop by 13 percent and 20 percent in the two cases, it said.
In Ho Chi Minh City, rates could drop to 25 percent and 21 percent respectively from over 70 percent last year, and rents could fall 15 percent and 22 percent.
Fifteen new hospitality projects with 3,000 rooms were scheduled to enter the market by 2023, but there have been delays in construction because of the coronavirus.
Mauro Gasparotti, director of Savills Hotels Asia Pacific, said most hotels have closed partially or fully to reduce costs, and only key personnel are still working to prepare for reopening.
In any event, a full recovery is unlikely until next year, he said.
Since international air services have yet to resume, in the short term local tourism will be the only source of demand. Younger people and independent travelers, would play a key role in the recovery of the industry, he added.
There is still uncertainty about when tourist numbers will return to pre-pandemic levels, he said.
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This isn't America say French politicians, after candidate quits in sex scandal
By Tara John, Martin Goillandeau and Pierre Bairin, CNN
Updated 2029 GMT (0429 HKT) February 14, 2020
Benjamin Griveaux is pictured as he announces his withdrawal from the mayoral campaign on Friday.
(CNN) The French do not care about the extramarital affairs of their politicians; but they do care about being told that they should.
That was on display Friday when President Emmanuel Macron's candidate for Paris mayor pulled out of the race after it was alleged he sent explicit content to a woman who is not his wife.
While withdrawing his candidacy on Friday, Benjamin Griveaux said he and his family have endured "defamatory statements, lies, rumors, anonymous attacks, the disclosure of private conversations that were stolen and death threats" for over a year.
"Yesterday a new stage has been reached: a website, and social networks relayed vile attacks on my private life," he said in a televised statement. "My family does not deserve this." Griveaux did not deny that he had sent the explicit videos.
France to limit access to Western Europe's highest mountain in conservation effort
His resignation enraged many in France -- including his political rivals -- who decried what they feared was an assault on France's liberal attitude to sex.
"I do not like this Americanization of political life in which politicians come and apologize because they have a mistress, we don't care," Alexis Corbiere, a senior member of radical left-wing party "France Insoumise" told CNN affiliate BFM.
Sébastien Chenu, a politician in Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally party, said the "Americanization of political life is detestable," on Twitter, adding that nothing could be gained by its voyeuristic "puritanism."
Even the current mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo -- who is running for reelection -- called for the "respect of privacy" in a statement to BFM. "This is not worthy of the democratic debate we should be having," she said.
Art meets politics
Russian dissident artist Pyotr Pavlensky admitted to publishing the text messages and 30 second explicit video alleged to have been sent by Griveaux to the unidentified woman.
The content was published on a website, shared on Pavlensky's Facebook page, which invites users to send "correspondence, photographs or videos" of a sexual or pornographic nature sent by "civil servants and political representatives" who impose "puritanism on society."
Pavlensky is famous for his acts of protest, including sewing his lips together over the jailing of the Russian feminist protest punk band Pussy Riot -- for their part in a performance critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin -- and nailing his scrotum to Moscow's Red Square.
He justified the move as a way to reveal the hypocrisy of a candidate who espouses "family values," Pavlensky told the French daily Liberation.
"He is someone who constantly relies on family values, who says that he wants to be the mayor of families and always quotes as an example his wife and children," he said. "But he [Griveaux] wants to be the head
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Edo 2020: APC says campaign flag-off shows party united behind Ize-Iyamu
The State Media Campaign Council for the Edo Governorship election has said its campaign flag-off rally, attended by numerous Governors of the platform of the APC and other leaders of the party, was a display of the party’s unity and consensus to ensure the victory of its candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, at the polls.
Mr. John Mayaki, the Chairman of the Media Campaign Council, in a statement released on Sunday said the comprehensively peaceful rally showed that Pastor Ize-Iyamu has obtained the favor and love of the people and will coast to victory on the 19th of September.
He said: “Our great party, the APC has continued on its exemplary path with a campaign flag-off that only excites admiration and awe. With the comprehensively peaceful rally which drew an enormous crowd of loyal supporters after our candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, received the endorsement of the President, we have set off a campaign that is certain to bring success and victory on the 19th of September.”
“A rare kind of unity and consensus factored the rally as it converged Governors elected on the platform of our great party who vocally reiterated their support and eagerness to ensure the success of the APC and the emergence of Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu as the next Governor of Edo State.”
“The leaders of our party in Edo State were delighted to receive Governors Mai Mala Buni (Yobe State), Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna), Babajide Sanwoolu (Lagos), Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi), Hope Uzodinma (Imo), Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo), Abubakar Sani Bello (Niger), Gboyega Oyetola (Osun), Dapo Abiodun (Ogun), Abubakar Badaru (Jigawa), Deputy Governor, Chief Edwin Onoja (Kogi), and other leaders of our party including Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, Minister Rotimi Ameachi, Minister Timipre Sylva, and Minister Uchechukwu Oga.”
“The flag-off entailed, also, a remarkably successful outing at the palace of the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, where, having fulfilled the necessary traditional requirements, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu obtained the royal blessing which his opponent, the outgoing Governor Obaseki, failed to receive having forgotten the necessary ingredients needed for the ceremony in the usual sloppiness and disorganization that rendered his administration impotent and a complete failure.”
“The flag-off rally, through its peculiar characteristics of peace, unity, large crowd turn-out, and people-centered approach, recalls the historical electoral display of 2015 that saw President Muhammad Buhari coast to victory, riding on a nationwide support novel in Nigerian politics. The same President gave his blessings, endorsing Pastor Ize-Iyamu, and beginning the plot and setting of a similar story of eventual success preceded by a long and repeated attempts.”
“For Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, the sail has set, and the winds seem aright for sure victory. Through a modern and inclusive engagement so far, he has obtained the favor and love of the people, and by the significant flag-off event yesterday, the APC will no doubt reclaim Edo State.”
Posted byedopolitiks August 9, 2020 Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Edo 2020: APC says campaign flag-off shows party united behind Ize-Iyamu
EDO 2020: Ize-Iyamu receives blessings of Enigies in Benin
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the Edo Governorship election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has received the blessings of the Enigies in the Benin Kingdom to emerge victorious in the Sept. 19 Governorship election.
This took place on Sunday, July 26, when Pastor Ize-Iyamu, alongside other leaders of the APC including Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, visited the Enigies at the palace of its President, His Royal Highness, Edomwonyi Iduozee Ogiegbean, the Enigie of Egbaen town, to present the core policies and plans of his campaign manifesto, the SIMPLE agenda.
He lamented the elitist, detached style of administration of the incumbent which, according to him, has resulted in the implementation of wrong policies that fail to address the problems of the people, especially at the grassroots.
Ize-Iyamu cited the worsening conditions of security in Edo State, explaining that the Governor has failed to tackle the problem due to his poor investment in the security architecture of the state and refusal to work with traditional rulers and community heads closer to the people and in possession of vital intelligence reports.
He also criticized the government’s failure to address the acute shortage of teachers in rural communities across the state. According to him, most of the schools in the communities have only one teacher, a situation which has resulted in poor performances during national exams and low enrollment.
He promised to reverse these failures and run an inclusive government that will bring needed developments to the grassroots through a respectful partnership with the traditional rulers who are well-versed on local infrastructural needs.
His Royal Highness, Edomwonyi Iduozee Ogiegbean, who spoke on behalf of the Enigies expressed their non-partisanship and gave him their blessings for his governorship bid.
On his part, the former Governor of the State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole who received a warm reception at the event, assured the Enigies that Ize-Iyamu will continue his tradition of regular meetings with the traditional rulers to give an account of his stewardship and seek their inputs in policy formation and implementation.
He apologized for endorsing Governor Obaseki who he criticized for abandoning the projects his administration initiated and for frittering away the trust and resources of the state on ineffectual consultancies and MOUs.
All the Enigies of the Benin Kingdom were at the event, including HRH Edugie. O. Oguigo, the Enigie of Ugo- Niyekorhiomwon, HRH Anthony Osagie, the Enigie of Uruegbe, and HRH Dr. Aiweroghene Iduriase, the Enigie of Eyaen.
APC leaders at the event included Chief Lucky Imasuen, former Deputy Governor of Edo State, Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon, Vice-Chairman of Media and Publicity Committee of APC National Campaign Council, Hon. Washington Osifo, member-elect of the Edo Assembly, Hon. Osaretin Edosomwan, former Special Adviser, Rt. Hon. Festus Ebea, former Speaker of the Edo Assembly, Hon. Razaq Bello Osagie, former member of House of Reps, Hon. Samson Osagie, Edo South Coordinator, and Hon. Chris Okaeben, member of the Edo Assembly.
Other dignitaries present are Lawrence Okah, APC state secretary, Engr. Isaac Isahon, former member House of Reps, Prince Ekpen Eweka, Chief Francis Inegbeniki, Mr Gallant Ogbomo, Mr. Tony Uwaifo, Mr. Osadolor Omoregie among others
Posted byedopolitiks July 26, 2020 Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on EDO 2020: Ize-Iyamu receives blessings of Enigies in Benin
Edo 2020: APC accuses PDP, Obaseki of unleashing violence over rally, public rejection
The Edo State Media Campaign Council of the APC for the governorship election has accused Governor Godwin Obaseki and his party, the PDP, of unleashing violence on the people in Benin City following a confrontation in which the Governor was booed and embarrassed while trying to gain entrance into the palace of the Oba of Benin.
The Chairman of the Media Campaign Council, Mr. John Mayaki, in a statement released today, said the Governor instructed his thugs to attack the people as retribution for their public booing of his arrival with various chants labeling him a thief and rejected candidate and for spurning his rally allegedly attended by tax-collectors and mobilized thugs.
He also accused the Governor and his loyalists of destroying their own billboards at few locations in the State as a gimmick to deflect responsibility and get a reprieve for the alleged organized destruction of APC billboards after the party filed a petition with the Police and other relevant agencies.
He said: “It is sad that Mr. Godwin Obaseki, the outgoing Governor of Edo State, has, today, Saturday, July 25, displayed the same traits of intolerance and penchant for violence that made the people of Edo State unanimously reject him.”
“Booed by the people at the entrance of the Palace of our great Oba for handing the State to the PDP tax collectors who are unconscionably feasting on our collective patrimony, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, as an act of revenge, instructed the thugs and cultists he has spent the past few weeks recruiting in the State and beyond to attack the people with dangerous arms.”
“This criminal and heartless action not only affirms our repeated warnings that Mr. Godwin Obaseki fully intends to prosecute the election with violence and thuggery, but it also shows his lack of empathy, conscience, and respect for the lives and dignity of the people he was elected to serve.”
“His thugs have presently invaded the State Capital, unleashing mayhem to anyone perceived to be critical of the failed Governor or supportive of our party and candidate. After converging at the venue of the Governor’s campaign flag-off, they have poured into the streets, vandalizing properties and causing panic. We have heard unconfirmed reports of fatal injuries.”
“Furthermore, as a way to avoid responsibility and expected sanction for the undemocratic and criminal destruction of our billboards, the Governor’s thugs are going around the city, deliberately pulling down their own billboards in an orchestrated gimmick meant to portray the false impression of “violence on both sides” when in truth, the desperate Governor, in cahoots with his PDP godfathers, are the ones threatening the peace of the State.”
“We condemn this action in totality and demand immediate intervention by the Police and other security agencies. Our party, the APC, has built an effective campaign on the strength of our documented manifesto. Tellingly, on the back of four years of no achievement, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has neither a plan nor record of office to show, hence the resort to violence and thuggery.”
“We call on the Inspector General of Police and all well-meaning Nigerians to immediately rein in on Mr. Godwin Obaseki and begin the arrest of his recruited thugs who are committed to causing chaos and violence in a bid to prevent the people, who have already voiced their rejection of Obaseki, from participating in the election freely and without intimidation.”
Posted byedopolitiks July 25, 2020 Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Edo 2020: APC accuses PDP, Obaseki of unleashing violence over rally, public rejection
EDO 2020: Oshiomhole arrives Edo to a cheering crowd.
The former National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress APC, Comrade Adams Aliu Oshiomhole has arrived Edo State ahead of the governorship election slated for September, 2020.
The Former Chairman and two time Governor of Edo State who was welcomed by cheering crowd of supporters did not hide his joy when he stood on his car to address the mammoth crowd.
He said ” I tried so hard to avoid this, the reason I came at night but despite refusing to stop on my way here Haven seen the crowd gathering along the way waiting for me, I am constrained to do so now in appreciation ” He went further to say that today, he will address his people.
But now he said “It is time to do YANGA”
We will do YANGA says Oshiomhole as he returns home to meet an appreciative people who lined the roads to accord him an unprecedented rousing reception.
The crowd was intimidating and electrifying.
Posted byedopolitiks July 19, 2020 Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on EDO 2020: Oshiomhole arrives Edo to a cheering crowd.
EDO 2020: Edo Residents Furious As APC Bill Boards Is Destroyed
In what looks like a coordinated approach, residents of Benin City the Edo State capital wake up to Saturday morning to discover that some APC bill boards mounted at strategic locations has been destroyed and some outrightly removed.
Some residents who described the incidence as a mere waste of time haven received the messages there in contained in each bill boards, however expressed dissatisfaction on the Obaseki led Administration of being so vindictive and encouraging such barbaric act during his time. “Those who want to vote have made up their minds and this destruction will not stop them” a female resident was captured as she expressed her feelings in anger.
Reacting to the the ugly incidence, the Edo South APC Campaign Council described it thus: “The vicious destruction and vandalization of these bill boards and posters is not only barbaric, undemocratic, uncivilized, reprehensible, but a stark display of political brigandage and desperation of our main opponent which is in consonance with their usual style of violence, intolerance, thuggery, rascality, barbarism and undemocratic actions”
The Organization therefore call on the law enforcement agencies to be at alert and ensure perpetrators are brought to book. “Consequently, we wish to call on the Inspector General of Police and the Edo State Commissioner of Police to as a matter of urgency arrest all those who are responsible for this desperate act and ensure this does not repeat itself again to avoid a situation of self help by our members who are already provoked and vexed by this senseless act”
Recall that Edo Governorship election is slated for September 19th this year. The All Progressive Congress candidate Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu is up against the incumbent Governor Godwin Obaseki whose political fortune has dwindled over the past few Months.
Posted byedopolitiks July 19, 2020 Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on EDO 2020: Edo Residents Furious As APC Bill Boards Is Destroyed
Kwara Governor Invites EFCC For A Probe
Abdurahman Abdurazaq, the executive governor of Kwara State has invited Officers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC to probe his government spendings from May 29th 2019 till date.
In a statement made available through his Twitter handle @RealAARahman, the Governor stated as follows:
For the sake of accountability and transparency, I am officially inviting the EFCC to come and probe the funds so far received as allocations and disbursed to the 16 local government between May 29 and now.
Our conscience is clear, we have nothing to hide. But for abundance of caution, we will be tasking not just the EFCC but also a panel of inquiry with members drawn from various backgrounds to investigate the LG funds and expose any mismanagement or diversion of funds if found.
This has become necessary in view of strange claims by some persons that money to the tune of N300m was diverted monthly from LG accounts.
Similarly, I appeal to the House of Assembly — which comprises the elected representatives of the people with oversight powers — to hold a public hearing on the said matter.
I have always believed that the local governments should be allowed to manage their own funds with minimal or no supervision by the State as the law may allow.
Lastly, any official found to have diverted or mismanaged public funds under me would be made to account for same as prescribed under the law.
Posted byedopolitiks July 15, 2020 Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Kwara Governor Invites EFCC For A Probe
VIDEO SPEAK: Pedro Obaseki Endorsed Ize-Iyamu’s Manifesto
Dr Don Pedro Obaseki, former Governorship candidate of the Labour Party said he would rather vote someone whose manifesto is in the public domain rather than rely on speeches.
In an interview granted to Independent Television ITV in the build up to 2016 election in the State, Dr Pedro Obaseki, described the The Simple Agenda of Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu as a document that meets his expectation as a Leader.
In his words, Dr Don Pedro Obaseki said ” I would rather vote for someone whose manifesto is in the public domain. I don’t want to vote for Godwin, no manifesto ”
Speaking more of the qualities of both candidates in 2016, Obaseki said ” I speak Bini to Osagie, he replies me with Bini. I speak Bini to Godwin Obaseki he said permit me to speak English “
He continued ” I don’t want to vote for someone who comes from my area and cannot pronounce Isonoroh. You cannot repair me when you don’t know me. When you are alien to the inner workings of my mind”
All these he said in 2016 when both candidates contested for the first time, the Governorship election in Edo State. Things has changed now as Dr Don Pedro Obaseki is now on the side of the Governor in what he described as his outstanding performance in the development of the State.
The SIMPLE Agenda is a policy document of Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu the candidate of the All Progressive Congress APC in Edo State, detailing all that he intends to achieve if voted into power as Governor.
Posted byedopolitiks July 6, 2020 July 11, 2020 Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on VIDEO SPEAK: Pedro Obaseki Endorsed Ize-Iyamu’s Manifesto
EDO 2020: Again PDP Chieftain blast Obaseki
Prince Kassim Afegbua, former Commissioner for Information and Orientation in Adams Oshiomhole’s government of Edo State has again lambasted Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State in what he described as bad omen for PDP, flying the party’s flag in this year Governorship race.
In a press statement titled Slug: Obaseki remains a bad Omen for PDP, the former Commissioner describe as ridiculous those who call him mole now that he is criticizing the way other PDP aspirants were schemed out to pave way for Mr Obaseki to be nominated.
He said “I have been inundated with phone calls by those who felt my last week outburst against my party’s guber candidate was rather harsh. Rather than controvert my submissions, they tend to pander to undue sentiments to rein me into dropping my gauntlet. This I found somewhat awkward. Between conscience and Party, I will opt for my conscience over party. While party plays a temporary platform for acquisition and abuse of power, conscience defines the content and character of a man in his interaction with fellow beings and human emanations. While I am in constant touch with my conscience, my party abandoned me as it sold away my right of being heard in its negotiation to gift a “stranger” the party’s ticket. That is a bad omen for our collective sufferance and a sad commentary for democracy. It is a contradiction that leaves a gaping hole in the heart of proper democratic practice.
I have read all manner of responses to my principled stance. Some called me a mole, others said I am a spy, yet others called me unprintable names. For those who know me, they are aware that I am not an Oshiomhole’s lackey. In 2016, as an appointee of the then Governor Oshiomhole, I raised serious queries about the Obaseki project. When I joined others to form R-APC before i joined the PDP in July 2018, I was not a mole. As a member of the APC, I criticised the internal inconsistencies in the party and challenged the lacklustre leadership of Chief Oyegun-led APC then. During the 2019 elections, I was a regular guest on television programmes to interrogate the under-performance of the Buhari-led APC government. At those times, naysayers didn’t see me as neither a mole nor spy, but a good party man who kept PDP in the front burner of national discourse.
My current position is informed by a number of factors. First, it is utterly wrong for a party to surreptitiously surrender its apparati, privileges, structures and “ideological” stratophere to a new entrant as though there were no persons in the party. Within 24 hours, scheduled primary elections were postponed, and all processes leading to the scheduled event were disrupted. If the urge was dictated by altruistic intention to feature Godwin Obaseki on account of strong and result-driven leadership, or performance, one could have understood, but anywhere I turned, the motivation was that Godwin Obaseki has state funds to fund the campaigns. Should that be a selling point if truly we are serious-minded opposition?
Only three months ago, the state chapter of the PDP lambasted Governor Obaseki’s lacklustre leadership in the state, and scored him F9 in all the critical sectors of the Edo economy; health, education, human capital development, infrastructure, and economy. The party mocked his job creation initiative that had yielded no positive result other than recruiting his driver and a few domestic staff. We raised queries about his style of governance that dwells so much on Memorandum of Understanding without concrete implementation. In 2017, I wrote eloquently about the plans of the government based on those espoused ideas, but three years later, they remain a pipe dream, some kind of “OBUBUYAYA” as often said in local parlance, yet, you still want me to support such a leadership because he was gifted the party’s ticket? My conscience bleeds.
What has changed from the abysmal scorecard of the Obaseki’s governance barely three months ago? For me, that was a holistic appraisal of a regime that has become too combative for the wrong reasons, thus putting the state wrongly in the news as one troubled, restive environment. The PDP also challenged his academic claims in 2016 up to the courts until the court said the party filed out of time.This time round, I was expecting the PDP to direct Governor Obaseki to join another party, to create a stronger opportunity for the PDP to fly with older, loyal party members, since his exit from the APC will weaken part of its internal structure. Instead, the party swallowed all its initial vomit, embellished them in a contradictory and double standard manner, and grabbed Governor Obaseki’s trousers by the pocket. It was dollar rain, but it hurts the very soul of the party.
I have been receiving calls from all quarters, read the boring intervention from the national headquarters of the PDP on the APC campaign council. I found the tenor utterly nauseating. What you accuse the APC of doing including adding up names of persons who have queries to answer also apply to the PDP. You complained about Ize-iyamu’s allegations, but you have forgotten it was a PDP government that sent campaign funds to him for the 2015 election. You point one finger forward, three others are pointing backward at you. That is the immorality, lethargy and subterfuge of Nigeria’s party-based democracy, where often times, the opposition is at sea, to decipher what the real issues should be. Pastor Ize-Iyamu’s comportment, diligence at delivering responsibilities, sense of organisation and marksmanship, are direct opposite of Governor Obaseki’s combative style, laced with blackmail, pretentiousness and over santimoniousness.
Democracy talks about constructive engagement and collective bargaining. It preaches inclusion not exclusion. It reinforces participation, involvement and collectivity. Governor Obaseki is the opposite of what an ideal democratic situation should be. His politics is destructive, exclusive, and demonising. He acts alone, intoxicated by the sheer banality of being called the leader of the party, and glamourises in the vainglorious euphoria that he owns life and death. He demolishes houses, terrorises the populace, intimidates opponents and radicalises the youths as a mark of magisterial presence. He dishes out ingratitude in place of gratitude, a simple thank you becomes abominable in his elocution, as he gleefully spends tax payers money to fight imaginary wars. Such a candidate cannot enjoy my support. I had thought the party would interrogate him on all fronts before it gifted the tickets to him, but alas, in an age of money politics, the pockets speak louder than the mouth.
Directing my Chairman, ward 5 Okpella to suspend me or scouting for my polling scores in the 2019 election, would not suffice because my votes and those of my supporters cannot be suspended. For Edo’s combustible politics of late, occasioned by the intemperate response by Governor Obaseki, it is only human to have a man with subliminal humility and peace to assume the leadership of governance in the state. This is why Osagie Ize-Iyamu fits my endorsement. The man for whom Oshiomhole went above board to call Ize-Iyamu unprintable names has since shown his true colours. Pretenders cannot hide their traits for too long, something must betray their real self. Dr Pius Odubu served the state for eight years, Obaseki, a succeeding government refused to pay his legitimate severance allowance.
He fought against Dr. Odubu’s nomination as NDDC chairman, ditto for Victor Ekhator, both of them proud Edo sons. When Honourable Samson Osagie lost his appointment in the Space Technology agency, the Obaseki group celebrated. Till date, 14 duly elected lawmakers are still roaming the streets because the conquistador in Osadebe Avenue won’t allow them to be inaugurated. Where is the place of the Edo collective in the scheme of affairs in Nigeria. Insecurity has taken over the state, whereas security vote has continued to increase geometrically”
Prince Kassim concluded by saying “The roads in my limestone community of Okpella have remained mere eyesore, begging for completion from where Oshiomhole took them, yet, Okpella contributes hugely to the internally generated revenue. Thrice, Governor Obaseki came to promise my people, raised their hopes, and dashed their hopes without qualms. Is that a candidate that should earn my vote? Tufiakwa!. I will come your way again”
Posted byedopolitiks July 5, 2020 Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on EDO 2020: Again PDP Chieftain blast Obaseki
EDO 2020: Obaseki Failed Owan People, APC Chieftain Said.
A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress APC has said that the Governor of Edo State, Mr Godwin Obaseki has failed Owan people.
Addressing party faithfuls today at an APC Meeting in Owan, the Chieftain Alh Abdul Lawani popularly called Abu The Million berates those who claimed the Governor has done well especially for Owan people.
He said “Obaseki said he has approved Afuze-Erah Road. We were all very Happy, to the extend Afuze people gave him a RAM and food items as a sign of appreciation.
As he (Obaseki) was leaving Afuze that same day, the tractors left with him till date”
In a very sober tone he concluded that “No reasonable Owan indigene can support Obaseki/Shaibu desperation. A man that didn’t do anything in 4yrs, What do you expect from him in another 4yrs”
He therefore charge them to go and mobilize the people towards voting APC in the forthcoming governorship election.
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NNPC Announces Top Management Level Appointments, Redeployment
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced new appointments and redeployments in the National Oil Company, as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen and reposition NNPC for greater efficiency, transparency and profitability in line with the Next Level Agenda of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
Mr. Adokiye Tombomieye, the Group General Manager, Crude Oil Marketing Division (COMD), has been appointed the new Chief Operating Officer (COO), Upstream while Mr. Mohammed Abdulkabir Ahmed, the Managing Director of the Nigerian Gas Marketing Company (NGMC), has been appointed the new Chief Operating Officer, Corporate Services, following the retirement of Engr. Farouk Garba Sa’id, last week.
A release by the corporation’s Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Dr. Kennie Obateru, stated that the change witnessed the redeployment of Engr. Adeyemi Adetunji, the Chief Operating Officer, Upstream, to the Ventures & Business Development Directorate as COO, a position left by Mr. Roland Onoriode Ewubare, who voluntary retired last week.
The top-level staff movement also affected Sir. Billy Okoye who has been redeployed from the NNPC Downstream Company, NNPC Retail Limited, as Managing Director, to replace Mr. Tombomieye as the Group General Manager, Crude Oil Marketing Division; while Mrs. Elizabeth Aliyuda, the General Manager, Sales and Marketing NNPC Retail Limited, takes over from Sir Okoye as Managing Director.
Similarly, Mr. Usman Farouk, Executive Director Asset Management and Technical Services at the NGMC takes over from Mr. Ahmed as Managing Director.
The release also explained that President Buhari has accepted the resignation of Mr. Roland Ewubare, who was the immediate past Chief Operating Officer, Ventures and New Business Directorate of the National Oil Company while the retirement of the immediate past Chief Operating Officer, Corporate Services, Engr. Farouk Garba Said had also received the approval of Mr. President who thanked the two former COOs for their meritorious service to the corporation.
Speaking on the development, Group Managing Director of the Corporation, Mallam Mele Kyari, said the new appointments would enable the corporation live up to the expectation of her shareholders, Nigerians, and give impetus to the ongoing restructuring within the Corporation, which, he said, was in line with the corporate vision of Transparency, Accountability & Performance Excellence (TAPE).
Dr. Kennie Obateru Group General ManagerGroup Public Affairs DivisionNigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)Abuja.5th July, 2020
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Chapter 168: The Final Trial (3)
“There are one hundred of you here that have passed the final trial. Well done!” The image of Shen Yufeng chuckled in the sky above. “You shall all receive the Divine Profound Pill as your additional reward.”
Lu Qingyun and most of the survivors were shocked. Did they hear her correctly? The Heavenly Fragrance Villa was actually giving out a hundred Divine Profound Pills. It was too good to be true!
Shen Yufeng chuckled, “Naturally as the ones that have passed the final trial, I shall see you in the Moon Demon Forest in a month’s time. Naturally when you have arrived, I will be giving you the Divine Profound Pill. At the same time, you will be joining the other seven hundred young geniuses of our divine realm there.”
The cultivators were startled. They had almost forgotten about the Moon Demon Forest that was mentioned by her earlier. Shen Yufeng did mention before that the top 100 competitors would be picked for a special expedition to the Moon Demon Forest.
“Crap, I have almost forgotten about it…”
“The Moon Demon Forest isn’t a joke. We may really lose our lives there…”
“So are we the lucky ones or the unlucky ones?”
“Shen Yufeng is too cunning!”
“I can’t believe that we are really going to the Moon Demon Forest…”
“Did she say that we will be joining seven hundred other cultivators there?”
“This sort of expedition has never happened before…”
“Maybe something has happened recently…”
“This is too weird…”
“What? We won’t be getting the Divine Profound Pill immediately? She didn’t mention that earlier…”
Lu Qingyun was smiling to himself. This was a perfect chance for him to pick some rare spirit plants in the Moon Demon Forest.
Qian Jingjing saw that Lu Qingyun did not look worry at all. Rather, he seemed quite happy. So she asked, “Brother Qingyun, you are not worried at all?”
Lu Qingyun smiled, “Erm, there will be more than eight hundred of us there. Even if there are monsters, they will flee from us.”
Qian Jingjing chuckled softly, “Brother Qingyun, you are so cute. If it is a sixth rank and above devious monster, the ones that will be running will be us.”
Ling Xiu nodded quietly. In the Misty Desolate Valley, they had encountered a sixth rank Desolate King Drake and were forced to flee. It was only with the timely arrival of Qin Keqin that they were saved from their possible demises.
Lu Qingyun muttered, “If it isn’t a Golden Desert Silkworm and if my feet aren’t struck in the sands, I can still beat off a sixth realm devious beast. But it is hard to say for a seventh rank devious monster…”
When Qian Jingjing and Ling Xiu heard him, they were both smiling bitterly. Even a fifth realm golden celestial expert may not be able to beat off a sixth rank monster. It did not matter if it was a desolate or a devious monster. They were at the same level of difficulty.
But Ling Xiu was smiling, “I feel safe with Brother Qingyun around.”
Qian Jingjing was secretly startled and she was secretly pleased. Did it mean that this would not be their last parting? She would see him again in a month’s time.
So she quickly said, “Brother Qingyun, you won’t forget about me right? If it is possible, can I follow you when we are at the Moon Demon Forest?”
Lu Qingyun said, “Sure. Why not?”
Qian Jingjing and Ling Xiu exchanged a quick look and they were secretly pleased. Earlier, they had tested each other on their thoughts about Lu Qingyun and whether if they minded Lu Qingyun to have multiple consorts. They technically had an unwritten secret agreement between the two of them.
Qian Jingjing was thinking as she sighed secretly, “I have only one last chance to impress him. After that, we may never meet again…”
This was really heartbreaking to her because she had never met anyone as worthy and fine looking as Lu Qingyun.
Shen Yufeng suddenly said to them, “Alright. Wait here for a while. I have a surprise for all of you later.”
Surprise?!
For them all?!
Many of the cultivators were shivering nonstop now.
“Erm, I’ve thought that we have already passed the trial?”
“I really got an uneasy feeling over this.”
“I know that it is not that easy and there must be a trick somewhere…”
Even Lu Qingyun was blinking his eyes as he muttered, “You mean we can’t exit the trial yet?”
On the stage above, many of the celestials were now talking incessantly on the outcome of the fifth trial.
“Haha. My protégé is among the 100 survivors…”
“Say. Isn’t that Lu Qingyun really too freaking lucky? He didn’t really do anything much and he has actually cleared all the trials?”
“I heard that Shen Yufeng is staying at the Heavens Ridge Villa. Do you think that they have some under the table dealings?”
“That Lu Qingyun is actually quite dashing and maybe Shen Yufeng is too lonely. Maybe they…”
“The performance of the Clear Sky Pavilion has been so outstanding but they are so unlucky at the fifth trial…”
“I cannot accept the result of the fifth trial! That is too random!”
“That Qian Jingjing is too shameless. She keeps hooking up to that Lu Qingyun…”
“It seems that the performance of the Divine Nine Palace is so dismay this time…”
The thousands of protégés from the Heavens Ridge Villa did not break into cheers for Lu Qingyun. In fact their reactions were somewhat muted. It was because it seemed to them that their Senior Brother Lu Qingyun did not have any outstanding performance at all. Moreover they were beginning to think that he had been cheating his way through the trials.
While everyone was discussing on the outcome of the trials, Shen Yufeng and Qin Keqin had quietly left their seats…
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Closed reservoirs mean ending duck waste in drinking water
How do Portland’s drinking water rates stack up? Take a look at this story, and see. Also learn more about why the Portland Water Bureau is closing open reservoirs, and building new, closed tanks …
Midway Business Association President Dr. David Day of Day Chiropractic welcomes attendees to the group’s October meeting.
Story and photos by David F. Ashton
At the October 8 Midway Business Association (MBA) meeting in outer East Portland, members and guests learned more about the issues with which the Portland Water Bureau (PWB) is grappling.
The twenty business and community leaders gathered in the Pizza Baron meeting room for a presentation given by PWB Senior Public Outreach Coordinator Tim Hall.
Groups such as “Portlanders for Water Reform” and industry high-volume users grumble that the City’s water rates have risen out of hand.
PWB Senior Public Outreach Coordinator Tim Hall begins his presentation.
“In Portland, you get two gallons for a penny,” Hall stated. “If you go home and take a look at your water bill, it is considered right about in the middle and the rest west coast region. Seattle’s rates are very high; even the City of Tualatin’s water rates are higher.”
Shutting down open water reservoirs
The federal government has mandated that the City of Portland no longer use open reservoirs to store drinking water, Hall said. “Believe it or not, federal health officials have been after the City close these [open] reservoirs for more than 40 years.
“In answer to that mandate, in 2009, the PWB began projects to change the way we store our drinking water – beginning with the construction of a second Powell Butte Reservoir in September 2009.”
> Read the latest story about this project, and get a last look inside before it was sealed up: CLICK HERE.
Tim Hall points out features of the Kelly Butte Reservoir, now under construction.
“Also, we have a 25 million gallon underground reservoir under construction on Kelly Butte, off SE Powell Boulevard at 99th Avenue, to replace the 10 million gallon steel above-ground tank that was built in 1969.”
> Read about the early construction of the Kelly Butte Reservoir, and see the pipes being put in place: CLICK HERE.
Keeping drinking water in closed reservoirs does have several benefits, Tim Hall says.
Holding drinking water in open reservoirs is problematic, Hall said. “One reason is, they’re ‘duck pond’s. Folks, I kid you not, some people believe that it’s okay to have ducks swimming, ‘doing what they do’, in the water that comes out of your tap.”
All kinds of city-dwelling animals seek out water and potentially contaminate it, he added. “And, some humans intentionally foul the water.”
It takes a lot of disinfectant – and even then, sometimes it’s not totally effective – to keep the water safe to drink he said.
“When folks say the sunlight is a better disinfectant than chlorine, this is not completely true. Sunlight only penetrates a few feet of water. In a deep pool, you’re not getting much ‘disinfection’ from the sun.”
PWB’s Tim Hall points out features of the new Powell Butte Reservoir #2.
As it leaves the Bull Run Watershed reservoirs, PWB injects chlorine into the water, Hall went on. “Then, we have to [chlorinate] it again as it leaves Mount Tabor and again the Washington Park reservoirs, because they are open facilities. What this means is you’re getting more of the chlorine taste and smell in the drinking water. Once all the system is covered, you’ll notice that that smell will diminish.”
Covered reservoirs, Hall explained, keep water cooler, lowering incidences of coliform bacteria and algae growth.
“Finally, the new reservoirs are engineered to last 150 years. The old reservoirs were designed to last about a hundred years – and we’re now 20 years past that point. They’re really starting to show their age and starting to come apart, making it a challenge to maintain a system that is over a hundred years old.”
The Midway Business Association next meets on November 12
This month: Oregon State District 48 Representative Jeff Reardon (D) will hold a question and answer session with members and guests to learn more about the needs of the area.
Visitors ARE welcome, and the presentation is free (but you pay for your own lunch). Their meeting runs from 11:45 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. at Bill Dayton’s PIZZA BARON Restaurant on SE 122nd Avenue, just south of Division Street. For more information, see their website: CLICK HERE.
© 2013 David F. Ashton ~ East Portland News
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1 0 Bexley, Greater London, S Mary, 8, 7-0-18 (364 kg) in A. Thu. [website] TQ497734 Map it
2 1.4 NE Crayford, Greater London, S Paulinus (T), 8, 11-2-15 (591 kg) in F♯. Tue. [website] TQ511751 Map it
3 1.9 SW Foots Cray, Greater London, All Saints (GF;T), 5, 3-1-27 (177 kg) in E. Rung from nave. Wed. [website] TQ475712 Map it
4 2.4 WSW Sidcup, Greater London, S John Ev, 6, 8-3-22 (454 kg) in A. Wed (1st, 3rd, 5th). [website] TQ464715 Map it
5 2.6 ESE Wilmington, Kent, S Michael (T), 3, 6 cwt (~300 kg) in B♭. Ropes fall in a straight line. [website] TQ538724 Map it
6 2.9 E Dartford, Kent, Holy Trinity (T), 8, 18-2-1 (940 kg) in E♭. Wed. [website] TQ544740 Map it
7 2.9 NNE Erith, Greater London, Christ Church, 8, 17-0-23 (874 kg) in E♭. Mon. [website] TQ512779 Map it
8 3.1 SSW St Paul's Cray, Greater London, His Royal Majesty House, 3 U/R, 7 cwt (~360 kg) in D. Former church of S Paulinus (Anglican) (until 2002); derelict; unringable. [website] TQ473690 Map it
9 3.3 NNE Erith, Greater London, S John Bapt (GF), 8, 16-3-22 (861 kg) in F♯. Wed (1st) 20:00. [website] TQ507787 Map it
10 3.5 SSW St Mary Cray, Greater London, S Mary, 6, 11-3-21 (606 kg) in G. Thu. [website] TQ472683 Map it
11 4 WSW Chislehurst, Greater London, S Nicholas (GF;T), 8, 15-2-19 (796 kg) in F. Wed (with exceptions). [website] TQ444699 Map it
12 4 WSW Chislehurst, Greater London, Annunciation BVM, 8, 19-1-17 (986 kg) in E. Detached tower. [website] TQ438709 Map it
13 4.5 W Eltham, Greater London, S John Bapt (T), 8, 10-2-24 (544 kg) in G. Tue 20:00. [website] TQ426744 Map it
14 4.9 E Stone by Dartford, Kent, S Mary, 6, 8-0-1 (407 kg) in A. Thu. [website] TQ576748 Map it
15 5 SE Horton Kirby, Kent, S Mary (T), 8, 6-1-2 (318 kg) in B♭. Thu (with exceptions). TQ562685 Map it
16 5.1 SE Farningham, Kent, S Peter & S Paul, 6, 9-2-23 (493 kg) in A♭. Wed (with exceptions) 20:00. [website] TQ547669 Map it
17 5.2 WSW Bickley, Greater London, S George (T), 8, 14-1-9 (728 kg) in F♯. Wed (with exceptions). [website] TQ426690 Map it
18 5.5 NW Woolwich, Greater London, S Mary Magd (T), 8, 12-3-6 (650 kg) in G. PN: see tower website. [website] TQ430791 Map it
19 5.6 SSE Eynsford, Kent, S Martin, 8, 9-2-13 (489 kg) in F♯. Fri. [website] TQ540654 Map it
20 5.6 NNE Rainham, Greater London, S Helen & S Giles (GF), 3 U/R, 8½ cwt (~430 kg). Unringable. TQ520822 Map it
21 6 SSW Chelsfield, Greater London, S Martin of Tours (T), 8, 10-3-14 (552 kg) in A♭. Mon. [website] TQ479640 Map it
22 6.2 WSW Bromley Common, Greater London, S Luke, 8, 15-1-8 (778 kg) in F. Thu. [website] TQ414679 Map it
23 6.5 WSW Bromley, Greater London, S Peter & S Paul, 8, 16-2-8 (842 kg) in F. Tue. [website] TQ401692 Map it
24 6.6 E Swanscombe, Kent, S Peter & S Paul (GF), 8, 18-0-5 (917 kg) in F. Wed. [website] TQ604739 Map it
25 6.7 SSW Farnborough, Greater London, S Giles, 6, 2-2-26 (139 kg) in E. Also hung for ringing: service bell ('Great Giles'); future plans: to become 8; ringing discontinued while restoration work under way with the 4th away for retuning leaving the remainder available for ringing. [website] TQ443641 Map it
26 6.9 N Dagenham, Greater London, S Peter & S Paul, 8, 14-3-0 (749 kg) in F♯. TQ500845 Map it
27 7.2 SW Hayes, Greater London, S Mary V (GF), 6, 8-1-26 (431 kg) in A. Tue. [website] TQ405663 Map it
28 7.3 ESE Southfleet, Kent, S Nicholas (T), 6 U/R, 12 cwt (~610 kg) in G. Unringable; anticlockwise; tuning: (approx) 1♭,2-6 of 6. [website] TQ613711 Map it
29 7.4 NE South Ockendon, Essex, Holy Cross (RC) (T), 8, 3-3-9 (195 kg) in D. Thu. TQ583816 Map it
30 7.4 W Lewisham, Greater London, S Mary, 8, 21-1-14 (1086 kg) in E♭. Mon 20:00. [website] TQ379748 Map it
31 7.4 NNW Barking, Greater London, S Margaret (T), 8, 18-2-21 (949 kg) in E♭. Thu. TQ440838 Map it
32 7.5 S Shoreham, Kent, S Peter & S Paul (GF), 8, 9-1-16 (477 kg) in A♭. [website] TQ522615 Map it
33 7.6 WNW Greenwich, Greater London, S Alfege (T), 10, 23-2-14 (1200 kg) in D. Wed (see tower website) 20:00. [website] TQ382776 Map it
34 7.7 ENE Grays, Essex, S Peter & S Paul (GF;T), 8, 10-3-16 (553 kg) in G. Rung from side chapel. Mon. TQ613777 Map it
35 7.7 WNW Isle of Dogs, Greater London, Christ Church (S;T), 8, 10-3-27 (558 kg) in F♯. CC recognised Ringing Centre; ART Teaching Centre: Docklands Ringing Centre. TQ385785 Map it
36 7.8 E Northfleet, Kent, S Botolph, 8, 14-0-10 (716 kg) in F. Anticlockwise. Tue. [website] TQ623741 Map it
37 7.9 WNW Deptford, Greater London, S John (T), 8, 14-0-18 (719 kg) in F. PN: see tower website. [website] TQ373762 Map it
38 8 WSW Beckenham, Greater London, S George (T), 10, 14-0-2 (712 kg) in F. Thu. [website] TQ374696 Map it
39 8.1 WNW Deptford, Greater London, S Paul, 3 U/R, 11½ cwt (~580 kg) in A. Unringable; tuning: 1,3,5 of 6. TQ372774 Map it
40 8.4 SSW Downe, Greater London, S Mary Magd (GF), 6, 10-0-1 (508 kg) in G. Mon 20:00. [website] TQ431616 Map it
41 8.5 SE Ash by Wrotham, Kent, S Peter & S Paul (GF;T), 6, 8-3-11 (450 kg) in G♯. Sat 09:00. [website] TQ601645 Map it
42 8.6 SW West Wickham, Greater London, S John Bapt, 6, 13 cwt (~660 kg) in F♯. Wed. [website] TQ388648 Map it
43 8.6 NW Poplar, Greater London, All Saints, 10, 23-3-6 (1209 kg) in D. TQ380809 Map it
44 8.9 NNW Ilford, Greater London, S Mary (T), 8, 7-0-22 (366 kg) in A♭. Also hung for ringing: service bell. Tue. [website] TQ448868 Map it
45 8.9 NNE Hornchurch, Greater London, S Andrew (T), 10, 18-0-0 (914 kg) in E♭. Tue 19:00. TQ543869 Map it
46 9 S Otford, Kent, S Bartholomew (GF;T), 6, 10-1-7 (524 kg) in A♭. Thu. [website] TQ528593 Map it
47 9 SSW Cudham, Greater London, S Peter & S Paul (T), 10, 10-0-21 (518 kg) in A. Mon (with exceptions) 20:15. [website] TQ444599 Map it
48 9 NE North Ockendon, Greater London, S Mary Magd (GF;T), 6, 9-2-21 (492 kg) in G. Anticlockwise. Mon. TQ587848 Map it
49 9.1 NW West Ham, Greater London, All Saints (T), 10, 26-1-23 (1344 kg) in E♭. Fri. TQ393838 Map it
50 9.1 W Penge, Greater London, S John Ev, 6, 9-1-21 (479 kg) in A♭. [website] TQ353704 Map it
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Will RNA-guided gene drives enable us to edit the genomes of wild populations?
Gene drive limitations
Safeguards and control strategies
Reversibility
Applications of RNA-guided gene drives
Development and release precautions
Transparency, public discussion, and evaluation
Decision letter
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Gene drives may be capable of addressing ecological problems by altering entire populations of wild organisms, but their use has remained largely theoretical due to technical constraints. Here we consider the potential for RNA-guided gene drives based on the CRISPR nuclease Cas9 to serve as a general method for spreading altered traits through wild populations over many generations. We detail likely capabilities, discuss limitations, and provide novel precautionary strategies to control the spread of gene drives and reverse genomic changes. The ability to edit populations of sexual species would offer substantial benefits to humanity and the environment. For example, RNA-guided gene drives could potentially prevent the spread of disease, support agriculture by reversing pesticide and herbicide resistance in insects and weeds, and control damaging invasive species. However, the possibility of unwanted ecological effects and near-certainty of spread across political borders demand careful assessment of each potential application. We call for thoughtful, inclusive, and well-informed public discussions to explore the responsible use of this currently theoretical technology.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.03401.001
Despite numerous advances, the field of molecular biology has often struggled to address key biological problems affecting public health and the environment. Until recently, editing the genomes of even model organisms has been difficult. Moreover, altered traits typically reduce evolutionary fitness and are consequently eliminated by natural selection. This restriction has profoundly limited our ability to alter ecosystems through molecular biology.
If we could develop a general method of ensuring that engineered traits would instead be favored by natural selection, then those traits could spread to most members of wild populations over many generations. This capability would allow us to address several major world problems, including the spread of insect-borne diseases, the rise of pesticide and herbicide resistance, and the agricultural and environmental damage wrought by invasive species.
Scientists have long known of naturally occurring selfish genetic elements that can increase the odds that they will be inherited. This advantage allows them to spread through populations even if they reduce the fitness of individual organisms. Many researchers have suggested that these elements might serve as the basis for ‘gene drives’ capable of spreading engineered traits through wild populations (Craig et al., 1960; Wood et al., 1977; Sinkins and Gould, 2006; Burt and Trivers, 2009; Alphey, 2014). Austin Burt was the first to propose gene drives based on site-specific ‘homing’ endonuclease genes over a decade ago (Burt, 2003). These genes bias inheritance by cutting the homologous chromosome, inducing the cell to copy them when it repairs the break. Several efforts have focused on the possibility of using gene drives targeting mosquitoes to block malaria transmission (Scott et al., 2002; Windbichler et al., 2007, 2008, 2011; Li et al., 2013a; Galizi et al., 2014). However, development has been hindered by the difficulty of engineering homing endonucleases to cut new target sequences (Chan et al., 2013a; Thyme et al., 2013; Takeuchi et al., 2014). Attempts to build gene drives with more easily retargeted zinc-finger nucleases and TALENs suffered from instability due to the repetitive nature of the genes encoding them (Simoni et al., 2014).
The recent discovery and development of the RNA-guided Cas9 nuclease has dramatically enhanced our ability to engineer the genomes of diverse species. Originally isolated from ‘CRISPR’ acquired immune systems in bacteria, Cas9 is a non-repetitive enzyme that can be directed to cut almost any DNA sequence by simply expressing a ‘guide RNA’ containing that same sequence. In little more than a year following the first demonstrations in human cells, it has enabled gene insertion, deletion, and replacement in many different species (Bassett et al., 2013; Cho et al., 2013; Cong et al., 2013; DiCarlo et al., 2013; Friedland et al., 2013; Gratz et al., 2013; Hu et al., 2013; Hwang et al., 2013; Jiang et al., 2013a, 2013b; Jinek et al., 2013; Li et al., 2013b; Mali et al., 2013c; Tan et al., 2013; Upadhyay et al., 2013; Wang et al., 2013b).
Building RNA-guided gene drives based on the Cas9 nuclease is a logical way to overcome the targeting and stability problems hindering gene drive development. Less obvious is the extent to which the unique properties of Cas9 are well-suited to overcoming other molecular and evolutionary challenges inherent to the construction of safe and functional gene drives.
We submit that Cas9 is highly likely to enable scientists to construct efficient RNA-guided gene drives not only in mosquitoes, but in many other species. In addition to altering populations of insects to prevent them from spreading disease (Curtis, 1968), this advance would represent an entirely new approach to ecological engineering with many potential applications relevant to human health, agriculture, biodiversity, and ecological science.
The first technical descriptions of endonuclease gene drives were provided by Austin Burt in his landmark proposal to engineer wild populations more than a decade ago (Burt, 2003). Any of the rapidly expanding number of laboratories with expertise in Cas9-mediated genome engineering could attempt to build a gene drive by substituting Cas9 for the homing endonucleases described in his proposal. Indeed, the well-recognized potential for gene drives to combat vector-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue virtually ensures that this strategy will eventually be attempted in mosquitoes.
While considerable scholarship has been devoted to the question of how gene drives might be safely utilized in mosquitoes (Scott et al., 2002; Touré et al., 2004; Benedict et al., 2008; Marshall, 2009; UNEP, 2010; Reeves et al., 2012; David et al., 2013; Alphey, 2014), few if any studies have examined the potential ecological effects of gene drives in other species. After all, constructing a drive to spread a particular genomic alteration in a given species was simply not feasible with earlier genome editing methods. Disconcertingly, several published gene drive architectures could lead to extinction or other hazardous consequences if applied to sensitive species, demonstrating an urgent need for improved methods of controlling these elements. After consulting with experts in many fields as well as concerned environmental organizations, we are confident that the responsible development of RNA-guided gene drive technology is best served by full transparency and early engagement with the public.
Here we provide brief overviews of gene drives and Cas9-mediated genome engineering, detail the mechanistic reasons that RNA-guided gene drives are likely to be effective in many species, and outline probable capabilities and limitations. We further propose novel gene drive architectures that may substantially improve our control over gene drives and their effects, discuss possible applications, and suggest guidelines for the safe development and evaluation of this promising but as yet unrealized technology. A discussion of risk governance and regulation intended specifically for policymakers is published separately (Oye et al., 2014).
Natural gene drives
In nature, certain genes ‘drive’ themselves through populations by increasing the odds that they will be inherited (Burt and Trivers, 2009). Examples include endonuclease genes that copy themselves into chromosomes lacking them (Burt and Koufopanou, 2004), segregation distorters that destroy competing chromosomes during meiosis (Lyttle, 1991), transposons that insert copies of themselves elsewhere in the genome (Charlesworth and Langley, 1989), Medea elements that eliminate competing siblings who do not inherit them (Beeman et al., 1992; Chen et al., 2007), and heritable microbes such as Wolbachia (Werren, 1997).
Endonuclease gene drives
Natural homing endonuclease genes exhibit drive by cutting the corresponding locus of chromosomes lacking them. This induces the cell to repair the break by copying the nuclease gene onto the damaged chromosome via homologous recombination (Figure 1A) (Burt and Koufopanou, 2004). The copying process is termed ‘homing’, while the endonuclease-containing cassette that is copied is referred to as a ‘gene drive’ or simply a ‘drive’. Because copying causes the fraction of offspring that inherit the cassette to be greater than 1/2 (Figure 1B), these genes can drive through a population even if they reduce the reproductive fitness of the individual organisms that carry them. Over many generations, this self-sustaining process can theoretically allow a gene drive to spread from a small number of individuals until it is present in all members of a population.
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The spread of endonuclease gene drives.
(A) When an organism carrying an endonuclease gene drive (blue) mates with a wild-type organism (grey), the gene drive is preferentially inherited by all offspring. This can enable the drive to spread until it is present in all members of the population–even if it is mildly deleterious to the organism. (B) Endonuclease gene drives are preferentially inherited because the endonuclease cuts the homologous wild-type chromosome. When the cell repairs the break using homologous recombination, it must use the gene drive chromosome as a repair template, thereby copying the drive onto the wild-type chromosome. If the endonuclease fails to cut or the cell uses the competing non-homologous end-joining repair pathway, the drive is not copied, so efficient gene drives must reliably cut when homology-directed repair is most likely.
Engineered gene drives
To build an endonuclease gene drive, an endonuclease transgene must be inserted in place of a natural sequence that it can cut. If it can efficiently cut this sequence in organisms with one transgene and one natural locus, reliably induce the cell to copy the transgene, and avoid being too costly to the organism, it will spread through susceptible wild populations.
Standard drives spread genomic changes and associated traits through populations. Burt‘s original study proposed using them to drive the spread of other transgenes or to disrupt existing genes (Figure 2A,B) (Burt, 2003). The gene drive copying step can take place immediately upon fertilization (Figure 2C) or occur only in germline cells that are immediate precursors to sperm or eggs, leaving most of the organism‘s somatic cells with only one copy of the drive (Figure 2D).
Consequences and timing of gene drive replication.
(A) Gene drives can carry other genes with them as cargo. For example, a transgene that blocks malaria transmission could be driven through wild mosquito populations. There is no selection to maintain the function of a cargo gene. (B) Gene drives can disrupt or replace other genes. For example, a drive might replace a mosquito gene important for malaria transmission. Because it cannot spread without disrupting the target gene, this strategy is evolutionarily stable. (C) If homing occurs in the zygote or early embryo, all organisms that carry the drive will be homozygous in all of their tissues. (D) If homing occurs in the late germline cells that contribute to sperm or eggs, the offspring will remain heterozygous in most tissues and avoid the consequences of drive-induced disruptions.
Suppression drives reduce the size of the targeted population. Austin Burt outlined an elegant strategy involving the use of gene drives to disrupt genes that cause infertility or lethality only when both copies are lost (Burt, 2003). These ‘genetic load’ drives would spread rapidly through minimally impaired heterozygotes when rare, and eventually cause the population to crash or even become extinct due to the accumulated load of recessive mutations. A second approach would mimic naturally occurring ‘meiotic’ or ‘gametic’ drives that bias the sex ratio (Craig et al., 1960; Hickey and Craig, 1966; Hamilton, 1967; Newton et al., 1976; Wood and Newton, 1991). In this model, the Y chromosome (or its equivalent in other sex-determination systems) would encode an endonuclease that cuts and destroys the X chromosome during male meiosis, thereby ensuring that most viable sperm contain a Y chromosome (Newton et al., 1976; Wood and Newton, 1991; Windbichler et al., 2007, 2008; Galizi et al., 2014). The progressively dwindling number of females will culminate in a population crash or extinction (Craig et al., 1960; Lyttle, 1977; Burt, 2003; Schliekelman et al., 2005; Deredec et al., 2008, 2011; North et al., 2013; Burt, 2014).
Whether a standard gene drive will spread through a target population depends on molecular factors such as homing efficiency, fitness cost, and evolutionary stability (Marshall and Hay, 2012); only the rate of spread is determined by the mating dynamics, generation time, and other characteristics of the target population. In contrast, models suggest that the deleterious and complex effects of genetic load and sex-biasing suppression drives render them more sensitive to population-specific ecological variables such as density-dependent selection (Burt, 2003; Schliekelman et al., 2005; Huang et al., 2007; Deredec et al., 2008; Marshall, 2009; Yahara et al., 2009; Deredec et al., 2011; Alphey and Bonsall, 2014).
No engineered endonuclease gene drive capable of spreading through a wild population has yet been published. However, the Crisanti and Russell laboratories have constructed gene drives that can only spread through laboratory mosquito (Windbichler et al., 2011) and fruit fly (Chan et al., 2011; Simoni et al., 2014) populations that have been engineered to contain the endonuclease cut site. The Burt and Crisanti laboratories are attempting to build a male-biasing suppression drive using an endonuclease that serendipitously cuts a conserved sequence repeated hundreds of times in the X chromosome of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae (Windbichler et al., 2007, 2008; Galizi et al., 2014). If successful, their work promises to substantially reduce the population of this important malaria vector.
All engineered gene drives based on homing endonucleases cut the natural recognition site of the relevant enzyme. Despite early hopes, it has proven difficult to engineer homing endonucleases to cleave new target sequences. Numerous laboratories have sought to accomplish this goal for well over a decade with only a few recent successes (Chan et al., 2013a; Thyme et al., 2013; Takeuchi et al., 2014). More recently, a team constructed new versions of the fruit fly gene drive using modular zinc-finger nucleases or TALENs in place of the homing endonuclease (Simoni et al., 2014), both of which can be engineered to cut new target sequences. While initially successful at cutting and homing, both declined in effectiveness over time due to the evolutionary instability of the modular repeats inherent to those proteins.
These early attempts demonstrate that it is possible to build synthetic gene drives, but also emphasize the importance of cutting any desired gene and remaining stable during copying. The recent discovery of the RNA-guided Cas9 nuclease represents a possible solution.
RNA-guided genome editing via the Cas9 nuclease
One straightforward method of genome editing relies on the same mechanism employed by endonuclease gene drives: cut the target gene and supply an edited version for the cell to use as a template when it fixes the damage. Most eukaryotic genome engineering over the past decade was accomplished using zinc-finger nucleases (Urnov et al., 2005) or TALENs (Christian et al., 2010), both of which are modular proteins that can be redesigned or evolved to target new sequences, albeit only by specialist laboratories (Esvelt and Wang, 2013). Genome editing was democratized by the discovery and adaptation of Cas9, an enzyme that can be programmed to cut target DNA sequences specified by a guiding RNA molecule (Deltcheva et al., 2011; Jinek et al., 2012; Cho et al., 2013; Cong et al., 2013; Jinek et al., 2013; Mali et al., 2013c).
Cas9 is a component of Type II CRISPR acquired immune systems in bacteria, which allow cells to ‘remember’ the sequences of previously encountered viral genomes and protect themselves by recognizing and cutting those sequences if encountered again. They accomplish this by incorporating DNA fragments into a memory element, transcribing it to produce RNAs with the same sequence, and directing Cas9 to cut any matching DNA sequences (Deltcheva et al., 2011). The only restriction is that Cas9 will only cut target ‘protospacer’ sequences that are flanked by a protospacer-adjacent motif (PAM) at the 3′ end. The most commonly used Cas9 ortholog has a PAM with only two required bases (NGG) and therefore can cut protospacers found approximately every 8 base pairs (Jinek et al., 2012).
Remarkably, it is possible to direct Cas9 to cut a specific protospacer in the genome using only a single guide RNA (sgRNA) less than 100 base pairs in length (Jinek et al., 2012). This guide RNA must begin with a 17-20 base pair ‘spacer’ sequence identical to the targeted protospacer sequence in the genome (Fu et al., 2014). The process of editing a target gene involves choosing protospacers within the gene, building one or more guide RNAs with matching spacers, and delivering Cas9, guide RNAs, and an edited repair template lacking those protospacers into the cell (Figure 3).
RNA-guided genome editing via Cas9.
The Cas9 nuclease protein and guide RNA must first be delivered into the target cell. This is often accomplished by transfecting DNA expression plasmids, but delivering RNA is also effective. The guide RNA directs Cas9 to bind target DNA ‘protospacer’ sequences that match the ‘spacer’ sequence within the guide RNA. Protospacers must be flanked by an appropriate protospacer-adjacent motif (PAM), which is NGG for the most commonly used Cas9 protein (Jinek et al., 2012). If the spacer and protospacer are identical or have only a few mismatches at the 5′ end of the spacer, Cas9 will cut both strands of DNA, creating a blunt-ended double-strand break. If supplied with a repair template containing the desired changes and homology to the sequences on either side of the break, the cell may use homologous recombination to repair the break by incorporating the repair template into the chromosome. Otherwise, the break will be repaired by non-homologous end-joining, resulting in gene disruption. Cas9 cutting is efficient enough to alter both chromosomes at the same time and/or to edit multiple genes at once (Li et al., 2013; Wang et al., 2013a). If the cell being edited is a germline cell that gives rise to eggs or sperm, the changes can be inherited by future generations.
Cas9 is efficient enough to cut and edit multiple genes in a single experiment (Li et al., 2013c; Wang et al., 2013a). The enzyme is active in a wide variety of organisms and is also quite specific, cutting only protospacers that are nearly identical to the spacer sequence of the guide RNA (Hsu et al., 2013; Mali et al., 2013a; Pattanayak et al., 2013). Moreover, methods that allow Cas9 to bind but not cut enable the expression of target genes to be regulated by selectively recruiting regulatory proteins attached to Cas9 or the guide RNA (Gilbert et al., 2013; Mali et al., 2013a). All of these applications were developed within the last two years.
Because RNA-guided genome editing relies on exactly the same copying mechanism as endonuclease gene drives, it is reasonable to ask whether it might be possible to build gene drives based on Cas9. In principle, RNA-guided gene drives might be capable of spreading almost any genomic alteration that can be generated using Cas9 through sexually reproducing populations.
Although we cannot be certain until we try, current evidence suggests that RNA-guided gene drives will function in some and possibly most sexually reproducing species. Learning how to insert a drive into the germline and optimize its function in each new species will likely require months to years depending on generation length, with subsequent drives in the same species taking less time. Because inserting the drive into the germline with Cas9 involves the same molecular copying process as the drive itself will utilize, successful insertion may produce a working if not particularly efficient RNA-guided gene drive. But if population-level engineering is to become a reality, all molecular factors relevant to homing – cutting, specificity, copying, and evolutionary robustness – must be considered. Below, we provide a detailed technical analysis of the extent to which Cas9 can address each of these challenges. Capabilities, limitations, control strategies, and possible applications are discussed in subsequent sections.
The first requirement for every endonuclease gene drive is to cut the target sequence. Incomplete cutting was a problem for the homing endonuclease drive constructed in transgenic mosquitoes (72% cutting) and also for the homing endonuclease, zinc-finger nuclease, and TALEN drives in fruit flies (37%, 86%, and 70% cutting) (Windbichler et al., 2011; Chan et al., 2013b; Simoni et al., 2014). The simplest way to increase cutting is to target multiple adjacent sequences. However, this is impractical for homing endonucleases and quite difficult for zinc-finger nucleases and TALENs, as each additional sequence requires a new nuclease protein to be engineered or evolved and then co-expressed.
In contrast, the RNA-guided Cas9 nuclease can be readily directed to cleave additional sequences by expressing additional guide RNAs (Figure 4). The sequences of these additional guide RNAs can be altered so as to avoid creating unstable repeats within the drive cassette (Nishimasu et al., 2014; Simoni et al., 2014). Including more guides has been demonstrated to improve upon already high rates of cutting. For example, fruit flies expressing both Cas9 and guide RNAs in their germline exhibited target cutting rates exceeding 85–99% in males for four out of six tested guide RNAs (Kondo and Ueda, 2013). The two least effective guide RNAs individually cut at rates exceeding 12% and 56%, but exhibited cutting rates above 91% when combined. Using more than two guide RNAs should further enhance cutting. The notable success of Cas9-based genome engineering in many different species, including studies that targeted every gene in the genome (Shalem et al., 2014; Wang et al., 2014), demonstrates that most sequences can be efficiently targeted independent of species and cell type. Thus, RNA-guided gene drives should be capable of efficiently cutting any given gene.
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Technical advantages of RNA-guided gene drives.
Clockwise from lower left: The targeting flexibility of Cas9 permits the exclusive selection of target sequences with few potential off-targets in the genome. Targeting multiple sites increases the cutting frequency and hinders the evolution of drive resistant alleles, which must accumulate mutations at all of the sites. The Cas9 nuclease is can be quite specific in the sequences that it targets; fruit flies do not exhibit notable fertility or fitness defects resulting from off-target cutting when both Cas9 nuclease and guide RNAs are expressed in the germline (Kondo and Ueda, 2013). Choosing target sites with few or no close relatives in the genome, using truncated guide RNAs (Fu et al., 2014), employing paired Cas9 nickases (Mali et al., 2013a) instead of nucleases, or utilizing Cas9-FokI fusion proteins (Guilinger et al., 2014; Tsai et al., 2014) can further increase specificity. Several of these strategies can reduce the off-target mutation rate to borderline undetectable levels (Fu et al., 2014; Guilinger et al., 2014; Tsai et al., 2014). The frequency at which the drive is correctly copied might be increased by using Cas9 as a transcriptional regulator to activate HR genes and repress NHEJ genes (Gilbert et al., 2013; Mali et al., 2013a) (Figure 4—figure supplement 1). By choosing target sites within an essential gene, any non-homologous end-joining event that deletes all of the target sites will cause lethality rather than creating a drive-resistant allele, further increasing the evolutionary robustness of the RNA-guided gene drive. Other options include using distinct promoters and guide RNAs to avoid repetitiveness and increase stability (Figure 4—figure supplement 2) or employing newly characterized, engineered, or evolved Cas9 variants with improved properties (Esvelt et al., 2011; Mali et al., 2013b). These optimization strategies have also been summarized in tabular form with additional details (Figure 4—figure supplement 3).
Because cutting other sites in the genome may seriously compromise the fitness of the organism, the second requirement is to avoid cutting non-targeted sequences.
While several studies have reported that Cas9 is prone to cutting off-target sequences that are closely related to the target (Fu et al., 2013; Hsu et al., 2013; Mali et al., 2013a; Pattanayak et al., 2013), more recent developments and strategies designed to improve specificity (Mali et al., 2013a; Fu et al., 2014; Guilinger et al., 2014; Tsai et al., 2014) have demonstrated that the off-target rate can be reduced to nearly undetectable levels (Figure 4). Notably, Cas9 does not appear to represent a noticeable fitness burden when expressed at a moderate level in fruit flies with or without guide RNAs (Kondo and Ueda, 2013). Organisms with larger genomes may require more careful target site selection due to the increased number of potential off-target sequences present.
The third and most challenging requirement involves ensuring that the cut sequence is repaired using homologous recombination (HR) to copy the drive rather than the competing non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) pathway (Figure 4). HR rates are known to vary across cell types (Mali et al., 2013c), developmental stages (Fiorenza et al., 2001; Preston et al., 2006), species (Chan et al., 2013b), and the phase of the cell cycle (Saleh-Gohari and Helleday, 2004). For example, the endonuclease gene drive in mosquitoes was correctly copied following ∼97% of cuts (Windbichler et al., 2011), while a similar drive in fruit flies was initially copied only 2% of the time (Chan et al., 2011) and never rose above 78% even with extensive combinatorial optimization of promoter and 3′ untranslated region. This difference is presumably due to a lower rate of HR in fruit fly spermatocytes relative to mosquitoes (Chan et al., 2013b). Ideally, drives should be activated only in germline cells at developmental stages with a high rate of HR, but this may be challenging in many species.
Copying efficiencies may also depend on whether the cut produces 5′-overhangs, 3′-overhangs, or blunt ends (Kuhar et al., 2014). Because Cas9 nickases can generate either overhang type while Cas9 nucleases produce blunt ends, the enzyme can be adapted to the needs of the cell type and organism.
The ability to regulate gene expression with Cas9 might be used to temporarily increase the rate of homologous recombination while the drive is active (Figure 4). For instance, the Cas9 nuclease involved in cutting might simultaneously repress (Gilbert et al., 2013) genes involved in NHEJ and therefore increase the frequency of HR (Bozas et al., 2009) if supplied with a shortened guide RNA that directs it to bind and block transcription but not cut (Bikard et al., 2013; Sternberg et al., 2014). Alternatively, an orthogonal nuclease-null Cas9 protein (Esvelt et al., 2013) encoded within the drive cassette could repress NHEJ genes and activate HR genes before activating the Cas9 nuclease. Lastly, Cas9 might be used directly recruit key HR-directing proteins to the cut sites, potentially biasing repair towards that pathway.
Evolutionary stability
Even a perfectly efficient endonuclease gene drive is vulnerable to the evolution of drive resistance in the population. Whenever a cut is repaired using the NHEJ pathway, the result is typically a drive-resistant allele with insertions or deletions in the target sequence that prevent it from being cut by the endonuclease. Natural sequence polymorphisms in the population could also prevent cutting. These alleles will typically increase in abundance and eventually eliminate the drive because most drives – like most transgenes – are likely to slightly reduce the fitness of the organism. A second path to gene drive resistance would involve the target organism evolving a method of specifically inhibiting the drive endonuclease.
The best defense against previously existing or recently evolved drive-resistant alleles is to target multiple sites. Because mutations in target sites are evolutionarily favored only when they survive confrontation with the gene drive, using many target sites can render it statistically improbable for any one allele to survive long enough to accumulate mutations at all of the sites so long as cutting rates are high (Burt, 2003). However, very large populations – such as those of some insects – might require unfeasibly large numbers of guide RNAs to prevent resistance. In these cases it may be necessary to release several successive gene drives, each targeting multiple sites, to overcome resistant alleles as they emerge. From an evolutionary perspective, the ability to preclude resistance by targeting multiple sites is the single greatest advantage of RNA-guided gene drives.
We propose to extend this strategy by preferentially targeting multiple sites within the 3′ ends of genes important for fitness such that any repair event that deletes all of the target sites creates a deleterious allele that cannot compete with the spread of the drive (Figure 4). Whenever the drive is copied, the cut gene is replaced with a recoded version flanked by the other components of the drive. Recent work has demonstrated that most genes can be substantially recoded with little effect on organism fitness (Lajoie et al., 2013); the 3′ untranslated region might be replaced with an equivalent sequence from a related gene. Because there would be no homology between the recoded cut site and the drive components, the drive cassette would always be copied as a unit.
Relative to drive-resistant alleles, inhibitors of Cas9 are less likely to arise given the historical absence of RNA-guided nucleases from eukaryotes. Any inhibitors that do evolve would presumably target a particular Cas9 protein or guide RNA used in an earlier drive and could be evaded by building future drives using a Cas9 ortholog with a different guide RNA (Esvelt et al., 2013; Fonfara et al., 2013). Alternatively and least likely, organisms might evolve higher RNase activity to preferentially degrade all guide RNAs; this may be difficult to accomplish without harming overall fitness.
A final evolutionary concern relates to the stability of the gene drive cassette itself. The zinc-finger nuclease and TALEN-based gene drives in fruit flies suffered from recombination between repetitive sequences: only 75% and 40% of each respective drive was sufficiently intact after one copying event to catalyze a second round of copying. Because RNA-guided gene drives will not include such highly repetitive elements, they are likely to be more stable (Figure 4).
Development time
RNA-guided genome editing is advancing at a historically unprecedented pace. Because it is now much easier to make transgenic organisms and therefore candidate gene drives, the design-build-test cycle for gene drives will often be limited only by the generation time of the organism in the laboratory. Moreover, many advances from genome engineering can be directly applied to RNA-guided gene drives. For example, all of the methods of increasing Cas9 specificity described above were developed for RNA-guided genome editing in the past 2 years. Future methods of increasing the rate of HR relative to NHEJ would be useful for both technologies. These factors suggest that scientists will enjoy an increasing number of tools well-suited to rapidly building and testing gene drives in addition to those we describe above.
None of this is to gloss over the many practical difficulties that are likely to arise when constructing a particular gene drive in a given species. Early success is as unlikely as ever when engineering complex biological systems. But if half a dozen or even a dozen design-build-test cycles are sufficient to produce moderately efficient gene drives, many molecular biology laboratories around the world will soon be capable of engineering wild populations.
Could gene drives alter human populations?
Not unless we wait for many centuries. Even in a hypothetical future in which human germline editing was considered safe and ethical, a driven alteration would be only four times as abundant as a non-driven alteration a full century after the birth of an edited human. This assumes future generations would not elect to remove the drive. Whole-genome sequencing - a technology that is available in many modern hospitals and is widely expected to be ubiquitous in the near future - is quite capable of detecting the presence of any gene drive if we decide to look.
Given their potentially widespread availability, it will be essential to develop a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental limitations of genetic drive systems.
First and most important, gene drives require many generations to spread through populations. Once transgenic organisms bearing the gene drive are constructed in the laboratory, they must be released into the wild to mate with wild-type individuals in order to begin the process of spreading the drive through the wild population. The total time required to spread to all members depends on the number of drive-carrying individuals that are released, the generation time of the organism, the efficiency of homing, the impact of the drive on individual fitness, and the dynamics of mating and gene flow in the population, but in general it will take several dozen generations (Burt, 2003; Huang et al., 2007; Deredec et al., 2008; Marshall, 2009; Yahara et al., 2009; Deredec et al., 2011). Thus, drives will spread very quickly in fast-reproducing species but only slowly in long-lived organisms.
Second, gene drives cannot affect species that exclusively practice asexual reproduction through clonal division or self-fertilization. This category includes all viruses and bacteria as well as most unicellular organisms. Highly efficient standard drives might be able to slowly spread through populations that employ a mix of sexual and asexual reproduction, such as certain plants, but drives intended to suppress the population would presumably force target organisms to reproduce asexually in order to avoid suppression.
Third, drive-mediated genome alterations are not permanent on an evolutionary timescale. While gene drives can spread traits through populations even if they are costly to each individual organism, harmful traits will eventually be outcompeted by more fit alleles after the drive has gone to fixation. Highly deleterious traits may be eliminated even more quickly, with non-functional versions appearing in large numbers even before the drive and its cargo can spread to all members of the population. Even when the trait is perfectly linked to the drive mechanism, the selection pressure favoring the continued function of Cas9 and the guide RNAs will relax once the drive reaches fixation. Maintaining deleterious traits within a population indefinitely is likely to require scheduled releases of new RNA-guided gene drives to periodically overwrite the broken versions in the environment.
Fourth, our current knowledge of the risk management (Scott et al., 2002; Touré et al., 2004; UNEP, 2010; McGraw and O’Neill, 2013; Alphey, 2014) and containment (Benedict et al., 2008; Marshall, 2009) issues associated with gene drives is largely due to the efforts of researchers focused on mosquito-borne illnesses. Frameworks for evaluating ecological consequences are similarly focused on mosquitoes (David et al., 2013) and the few other organisms for which alternative genetic biocontrol methods have been considered (Dana et al., 2014). While these examples provide an invaluable starting point for investigations of RNA-guided gene drives targeting other organisms, studies examining the particular drive, population, and associated ecosystem in question will be needed.
Could gene drives alter domesticated animals or crops?
In theory they could, though probably not without the permission of the farmers, scientists and breeders who typically monitor reproduction. For example, genetic records and artificial insemination are so common among cattle and other domesticated animals that it would be exceedingly difficult for a gene drive to spread through any of these species. Seed farms play a similar role for crops. Long generation times will represent a further barrier for many domesticated species. In general, our expectation is that beneficial applications are more likely to involve the alteration of weeds and insect pest populations rather than the crops themselves.
Given the potential for gene drives to alter entire wild populations and therefore ecosystems, the development of this technology must include robust safeguards and methods of control (Oye et al., 2014). Whereas existing gene drive proposals focus on adding genes (Ito et al., 2002), disrupting existing genes (Burt, 2003), or suppressing populations, RNA-guided gene drives will also be capable of replacing existing sequences with altered versions that have been recoded to remove the sites targeted by the drive (Figure 3). We hypothesize that the unique ability of RNA-guided gene drives to target any gene may allow them to control the effects of other gene drives or transgenes.
RNA-guided gene drives could reverse genome alterations that have already spread through populations. Suppose a given gene drive causes unexpected side-effects or is released without public consent. A ‘reversal’ drive released later could overwrite one or all genomic changes spread by the first drive (Figure 5A). The new sequence spread by the reversal drive must also be recoded relative to the original to keep the first drive from cutting it, but any amino acid changes introduced by the first drive could be undone. If necessary, a third drive could restore the exact wild-type sequence, leaving only the guide RNAs and the gene encoding Cas9 as signatures of past editing (Figure 5B).
Methods of reversing, preventing, and controlling the spread and effects of gene drives.
(A) Reversal drives could correct or reverse genomic alterations made by an earlier drive with unexpected side effects. They might also be used to reverse conventionally engineered or evolved changes. Immunization drives could prevent other gene drives from affecting a specific population or provide a population with resistance to DNA viruses. Precision drives could exclusively spread through a subpopulation with a unique gene or sequence. (B) Together, these can quickly halt an unwanted drive and eventually restore the sequence to the original wild-type save for the residual Cas9 and guide RNAs. (C) Any population with limited gene flow can be given a unique sequence by releasing drives A and B in quick succession. So long as drive A does not escape into other populations before it is completely replaced by drive B, subsequent precision drives can target population B without risking spread into other populations.
The ability to update or reverse genomic alterations at the speed of a drive, not just a drive-resistant allele, represents an extremely important safety feature. Reversal drives could also remove conventionally inserted transgenes that entered wild populations by cross-breeding or natural mutations that spread in response to human-induced selective pressures. However, it is important to note that even if a reversal drive were to reach all members of the population, any ecological changes caused in the interim would not necessarily be reversed.
RNA-guided gene drives could be used to block the spread of other gene drives. For example, an ‘immunizing’ drive could prevent a specific unwanted drive from being copied by recoding sequences targeted by the unwanted drive (Figure 5A). This could be done preemptively or reactively and would spread on a timescale comparable to that of the unwanted drive. A combined ‘immunizing reversal’ drive might spread through both wild-type individuals and those affected by an earlier gene drive, converting both types to a recoded version that could not be invaded by the unwanted drive (Figure 5B). This may represent the fastest method of neutralizing an already-released drive. As with a standard reversal drive, any ecological changes caused in the interim would not necessarily be reversed.
Precisely targeting subpopulations
RNA-guided gene drives might be confined to a single genetically distinct target species or even a subpopulation by targeting unique genes or sequence polymorphisms. Because these ‘precision drives’ will only cut the unique sequence, they will not be able to spread through non-target populations as long as that sequence is sufficiently distinct. We estimate that either the PAM or at least five base pairs of the spacer must differ within each target site in order to prevent the guide RNAs in the drive from evolving to recognize the equivalent non-target sequence (Fu et al., 2013; Hsu et al., 2013; Mali et al., 2013a; Pattanayak et al., 2013).
Populations that are not genetically distinct but experience only intermittent gene flow, such as those on islands, might be given a unique sequence permitting them to be specifically targeted by precision drives later on. For example, releasing Drive A into the island population would recode a target gene, but exhibit no other effect (Figure 5A). Releasing Drive B, a precision drive which would exclusively spread through Drive A but not the wild-type allele, would similarly replace Drive A with a unique sequence. So long as Drive A does not escape the island before being replaced, the unique sequence in the island population would allow it to be targeted with future precision drives that could not spread through mainland populations (Figure 5C).
Limiting population suppression
Population suppression may be one of the most powerful applications of gene drives. The previously described genetic load and sex-biasing drives (Burt, 2003) could potentially lead to extinction (Deredec et al., 2008, 2011). While this outcome may be necessary to achieve compelling goals such as the eradication of malaria, other situations may call for more refined methods. Here we outline a handful of alternative architectures that would provide greater control over the extent of population suppression.
Chemical approaches to population control might utilize ‘sensitizing drives’ to render target organisms vulnerable to a particular molecule using one of three strategies (Figure 6). First, a sensitizing drive might reverse known mutations that confer resistance to existing pesticides or herbicides. Second, it might carry a prodrug-converting enzyme (Schellmann et al., 2010) that would render a prodrug molecule toxic to organisms that express it. Third, it could swap a conserved gene for a version that is strongly inhibited by a particular small molecule. Because sensitizing drives would have no effect in the absence of their associated molecule – and in some cases vice versa – they could grant very fine control over the geography and extent of population suppression with minimal ecological risk.
Controlling population suppression.
Previously proposed genetic load and meiotic suppression drives spread without limit and may incur a substantial risk of extinction. Alternative gene drive types might be used to grant finer control over the extent of suppression. ‘Sensitization drives’ would be harmless save for conferring vulnerability to a particular chemical, which could then be used as a population-specific pesticide. Evolutionarily ‘unstable drives’ would place a limit on the average number of drive copying events and thus the extent of population suppression. ‘Interacting drives’ would initiate suppression only upon encountering a specific genetic signature in the population, in this case a different gene drive. The combination would create a sterile-daughter effect (Figure 6—figure supplement 1) capable of continuing suppression for several generations. Finally, an immunizing drive could protect a subpopulation from a full genetic load or male-biasing suppression drive employed elsewhere. Interacting drive and immunizing drive approaches would be effective on very large populations spread across substantial geographic areas (Figure 6—figure supplement 2) while suffering from correspondingly reduced geographic resolution and greater ecological risk (Figure 6—figure supplement 3). Resolutions are approximations only and will vary with the specific drive utilized in each class.
Temporal approaches to controlling populations would deliberately limit the lifetime of a suppression drive by rendering its effects evolutionarily unstable (Figure 6). For example, a male-determining or female-specific sterility gene carried by a standard drive on an autosome would suppress the target population, but the effect would be short-lived because any drive that acquired a loss-of-function mutation in the cargo gene would be strongly favored by natural selection due to its ability to produce fertile female offspring. Notably, turning existing female-specific sterility lines (Fu et al., 2010; Labbe et al., 2012; Alphey, 2014) into unstable drives may increase their effectiveness. Periodically releasing organisms carrying new unstable drives that are capable of replacing earlier broken versions could extend the suppression effect.
Genetic approaches to population control might initiate suppression only when two distinct ‘interacting drives’ encounter one another (Figure 6). For example, a cross between standard drives A and B might produce sterile females and fertile males that pass on the ‘sterile-daughter’ trait when crossed with females of any type. Scattering A- and B-carrying individuals throughout an existing population would produce many tiny pockets dominated by either A or B and very few organisms in between due to the infertility of AB females. Because each drive would spread from a small number of initially released individuals scattered over a wide area, this strategy may be capable of large-scale population suppression, but its effectiveness and resolution will depend on the average distance between released A and B individuals. Further suppressing the residual A and B populations could be accomplished by releasing only members of the opposite drive type. Modeling studies will be needed to determine whether this possibility is feasible for different species. Interestingly, the use of this drive type would effectively induce speciation in the affected population.
Finally, immunizing drives might protect specific subpopulations from the effects of full-scale suppression drives released elsewhere (Figure 6). Assuming some degree of gene flow, the immunized population will eventually replace the suppressed population, though this might be delayed if crossing the two drives generates a sterile-daughter effect as described above. Due to the comparatively uncontrolled spread of both drive types through the wild-type population, this method would only be suited to large geographic areas or subpopulations with limited gene flow. For example, immunization might be used to protect the native population of a species while suppressing or eradicating populations on other continents.
What types of genes can be edited using gene drives?
Genes can be edited reliably if they are important to fitness. This is because NHEJ events that create drive-resistant alleles by deleting all the protospacer cut sites will only be harmful if they disrupt the function of important genes. NHEJ events in unimportant genes and sequences will produce drive-resistant alleles lacking the targeted sites. These will spread and interfere with propagation of the drive. As a result, unimportant genes can be reliably disrupted or deleted but not edited.
Genes that are carried as cargo will not be evolutionarily stable unless they directly contribute to the efficient function of the drive. This limits opportunities to spread transgenes unrelated to drive function, although periodically releasing new drives that overwrite earlier broken versions could potentially maintain functional cargo genes in a large fraction of the population.
RNA-guided gene drives have the potential to merge the fields of genomic and ecological engineering. They may enable us to address numerous problems in global health, agriculture, sustainability, ecological science, and many other areas (Figure 7). Of these opportunities, perhaps the most compelling involve curtailing the spread of vector-borne infectious diseases, controlling agricultural pests, and reducing populations of environmentally and economically destructive invasive species.
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Potential applications of RNA-guided gene drives. Clockwise from left.
Disease vectors such as malarial mosquitoes might be engineered to resist pathogen acquisition or eliminated with a suppression drive. Wild populations that serve as reservoirs for human viruses could be immunized using Cas9, RNAi machinery, or elite controller antibodies carried by a gene drive. Reversal and immunization drives could help ensure that all transgenes are safe and controlled. Drives might quickly spread protective genes through threatened or soon-to-be-threatened species such as amphibians facing the expansion of chytrid fungus (Rosenblum et al., 2010). Invasive species might be locally controlled or eradicated without directly affecting others. Sensitizing drives could improve the sustainability and safety of pesticides and herbicides. Gene drives could test ecological hypotheses concerning gene flow, sex ratios, speciation, and evolution. Technical requirements for these applications vary with the drive type required (Figure 7—figure supplement 1).
Eradicating insect-borne diseases
The human toll inflicted by infectious diseases spread by insects is staggering. Malaria alone kills over 650,000 people each year, most of them children, while afflicting 200 million more with debilitating fevers (WHO, 2013). Dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya, trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, Chagas, and Lyme disease are also spread by insects. These afflictions could potentially be controlled or even eradicated by altering vector species to block transmission. Several laboratories have identified candidate gene disruptions or transgenes that interfere with the transmission of malaria (Ito et al., 2002; Dong et al., 2011; Isaacs et al., 2012) and other well-studied diseases (Franz et al., 2006). Depending on their effectiveness, these alterations may or may not allow the disease to be eradicated before the pathogen evolves resistance. Alternatively, the relevant vector species might be suppressed or eliminated using RNA-guided gene drives, then potentially reintroduced from sheltered laboratory or island populations once disease eradication is complete. In the case of malaria, gene drive strategies may represent particularly effective solutions to the emerging problem of mosquito vectors with an evolved preference to bite and rest outdoors, traits that render them resistant to current control strategies based on indoor insecticide spraying and bednets.
Agricultural safety and sustainability
The evolution of resistance to pesticides and herbicides is a major problem for agriculture. It has been assumed that resistant populations will remain resistant unless the relevant alleles impose a substantial fitness cost in the absence of pesticide or herbicide. We propose that RNA-guided sensitizing drives might replace resistant alleles with their ancestral equivalents to restore vulnerability. For example, sensitizing drives could potentially reverse the mutations allowing the western corn rootworm to resist Bt toxins (Gassmann et al., 2014) or horseweed and pigweed to resist the herbicide glyphosate (Gaines et al., 2010; Ge, 2010), which is currently essential to more sustainable no-till agriculture. Because these three organisms undergo one generation per year, comparatively large numbers of drive-bearing individuals must be released to quickly exert an effect, but fewer than are already released to control pests using the sterile-insect technique (Gould and Schliekelman, 2004; Dyck et al., 2005). Releases would need to occur in local areas not treated with pesticide or herbicide, which would quickly become reservoirs of sensitizing drives that could spread into adjacent fields. Periodically releasing new drives could potentially allow any given pesticide or herbicide to be utilized indefinitely. Modeling experiments will be needed to evaluate feasibility for different target species.
A second form of sensitizing drive could potentially render pest populations vulnerable to molecules that never previously affected them. For example, a gene important to fitness might be replaced with a version from another species or laboratory isolate whose function is sensitive to a particular compound. In principle, this approach could eventually lead to the development and use of safer and more species-specific pesticides and herbicides.
Controlling invasive species
One of the most environmentally damaging consequences of global economic activity is the introduction of invasive species, which often cause ecological disruption or even the extinction of native species. Isolated ecosystems such as those on small islands are especially vulnerable. RNA-guided suppression drives might be used to promote biodiversity by controlling or even eradicating invasive species from islands or possibly entire continents. The economics of invasive species control are also compelling: the top ten invasives in the United States cause an estimated $42 billion in damages every year (Pimentel et al., 2005). Black and brown rats alone cause $19 billion in damages and may be responsible for more extinctions than any other nonhuman species.
Deploying RNA-guided suppression drives against invasive species will incur two primary risks related to undesired spread. First, rare mating events may allow the drive to affect closely related species. Using precision drives to target sequences unique to the invasive species could mitigate or eliminate this problem. Second, the suppression drive might spread from the invasive population back into the native habitat, perhaps even through intentional human action.
Native populations might be protected using an immunizing drive, but doing so would risk transferring immunity back into invasive populations. Instead, we might grant the invasive population a unique sequence with a standard drive (Figure 5C), verify that these changes have not spread to the native population, and only then release a suppression drive targeting the recoded sequences while holding an immunizing drive in reserve. Another approach might utilize a sensitizing drive to render all populations newly vulnerable to a specific compound, which could then be used as a pesticide for the local control of invasive populations. All of these possibilities will require modeling and experimentation to establish safety and feasibility before use.
Most importantly, all decisions involving the use of suppression drives must involve extensive deliberations including but not limited to ecologists and citizens of potentially affected communities.
Because any consequences of releasing RNA-guided gene drives into the environment would be shared by the local if not global community, research involving gene drives capable of spreading through wild-type populations should occur only after a careful and fully transparent review process. However, basic research into gene drives and methods of controlling their effects can proceed without risking this type of spread so long as appropriate ecological or molecular containment strategies are employed (Figure 8).
Containment strategies and ecological risk.
Ecological containment involves building and testing gene drives in geographic areas that do not harbor native populations of the target species. For example, most gene drive studies involving tropical malarial mosquitoes have been conducted in temperate regions in which the mosquitoes cannot survive or find mates. Molecular containment ensures that the basic requirements for drive are not met when mated with wild-type organisms. True drives must cut the homologous wild-type sequence and copy both the gene encoding Cas9 and the guide RNAs. Experiments that cut transgenic sequences absent from wild populations and copy either the gene encoding Cas9 or the guide RNAs - but not both - should be quite safe. Ecological or molecular containment should allow basic research into gene drive effectiveness and optimization to be pursued with negligible risk. Figure 8—figure supplement 1 categorizes these and many other possible experiments according to estimated risk.
A great deal of information on probable ecological outcomes can be obtained without testing or even building replication-competent gene drives. For example, early studies might examine possible ecological effects by performing contained field trials with organisms that have been engineered to contain the desired change but do not possess a functional drive to spread it. Because they do involve transgenic organisms, these experiments are not completely without risk, but such transgenes are unlikely to spread in the absence of a drive.
We recommend that all laboratories seeking to build standard gene drives capable of spreading through wild populations simultaneously create reversal drives able to restore the original phenotype. Similarly, suppression drives should be constructed in tandem with a corresponding immunizing drive. These precautions would allow the effects of an accidental release to be swiftly if partially counteracted. The prevalence of gene drives in the environment could in principle be monitored by targeted amplification or metagenomic sequencing of environmental samples. Further investigation of possible monitoring strategies will be needed.
Technologies with the potential to significantly influence the lives of the general public demand societal review and consent. As self-propagating alterations of wild populations, RNA-guided gene drives will be capable of influencing entire ecosystems for good or for ill. As such, it is imperative that all research in this nascent field operate under conditions of full transparency, including independent scientific assessments of probable impacts and thoughtful, informed, and fully inclusive public discussions.
The decision of whether or not to utilize a gene drive for a given purpose should be based entirely on the probable benefits and risks of that specific drive. That is, each drive should be judged solely by its potential outcomes, such as its ability to accomplish the intended aims, its probable effects on other species, the risk of spreading into closely related species by rare mating events, and impacts on ecosystems and human societies. As scientists developing these technologies, it will be our responsibility to make all empirical data and predictive models freely available to the public in a transparent and understandable format. Above all else, we must openly share our level of confidence in these assessments as we determine how best to proceed.
The potentially widespread implications of RNA-guided gene drives demand a thoughtful and collected response. Numerous practical difficulties must be overcome before gene drives will be in a position to address any of the suggested applications. Many of our proposals and predictions are likely to fall short simply because biological systems are complex and difficult to engineer. Even so, the current rate of scientific advancement related to Cas9 and the many outcomes accessible using the simplest of gene drives suggest that molecular biologists will soon be able to edit the genomes of wild populations, reverse or update those changes in response to field observations, and perhaps even engage in targeted population suppression.
What criteria might we use to evaluate an RNA-guided gene drive intended to address a given problem? There are compelling arguments in favor of eliminating insect-borne human diseases, developing and supporting more sustainable agricultural models, and controlling environmentally damaging invasive species. At the same time, there are valid concerns regarding our ability to accurately predict the ecological and human consequences of these interventions. By bringing these possibilities before the scientific community and the public prior to their realization in the laboratory, we hope to initiate transparent, inclusive, and well-informed discussions concerning the responsible evaluation and application of these nascent technologies (Oye et al., 2014).
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Reviewing Editor; Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany
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Thank you for sending your work entitled “Concerning RNA-Guided Gene Drives for the Engineering of Wild Populations” for consideration at eLife. Your article has been favorably evaluated by Detlef Weigel (Senior editor) and 3 reviewers, one of whom is another Senior editor.
The Reviewing editor, the other reviewers, and the editorial leadership discussed their comments before we reached this decision, and the Reviewing editor has assembled the following comments to help you prepare a revised submission:
We appreciate that the overall purpose of the article is to alert the scientific community to the new capabilities offered by the CRISPR nuclease Cas 9 RNA-guided gene drives in engineering wild populations. You briefly review the concept of gene drives, the CRISPR/Cas9 technology, and current research driving advancement of gene drive and CRISPR technologies. Most of the manuscript focuses on “likely capabilities” of Cas9 mediated gene drives, including the theoretical uses for “sensitizing”, “unstable”, “interacting”, and “immunizing” drives. You briefly state that these future applications of Cas9 gene drives are associated with environmental, safety, and security concerns that should be considered before any experimentation is conducted. You conclude that Cas9 RNA-guided gene drives offer new capabilities and applications beyond what is currently available, but the implications for the environment and society as a whole should be considered. You do not, however, address any issues concerning a possible deliberately harmful use of the technique; since it does not involve complex technology, there is the possibility that it is applied outside the reaches of governmental or societal regulation.
To encourage thoughtful review of the Cas9 technology as it continues to develop and be applied in different ways, you should ensure that your manuscript is clear about which technologies have been developed, which are currently under active investigation, and which are yet to be developed. To better encourage public discussion on this complex technology, you should describe the CRISPR/Cas9 technology more clearly, as the sections describing the basic technology are difficult to read and visualize for non-specialists. It would be helpful to define CRISPR, Cas9, the DNA repeat elements, their natural functions (targeted cleavage of foreign DNA), and how they can be tailored to use as gene editing drives in multi-cellular organizations. This basic description is important because it is a new technology even for many molecular biologists, let alone for the interested public, and without a clear understanding of the technology, the reader might not be able to fully comprehend the societal implications (both benefits and risks) and likelihood of future capabilities of the technology.
We also felt that there is the danger that without a strong, factual discussion of the basic concepts along with what is currently possible and what has so far not been demonstrated, the intended audience (public, broader science community, others with no or different technical knowledge) might arrive at a conclusion that does not adequately reflect current and near-future reality. When basic scientific topics are clearly described, the responses tend to be much more thoughtful and measured. When the science is not sufficiently described, all sorts of responses are elicited.
This article will be treated as a Feature article, so it will be clear on both the web and PDF versions that it is not a Research article. This will be especially clear in the PDF, which will have a two-column layout. It is planned to be published under the heading “Emerging Technologies” and it is suggested to change the title into “Possible applications and potential concerns related to the use of RNA-guided gene drives to engineer wild populations”. The Abstract should be intelligible to a broad public. The eLife editors offer to work with you to ensure that the title and abstract accurately reflect the content of the article.
Supplementary notes cannot be used in the intended article format. Notes 2 and 4 describe important possible limitations of the technology that should be integrated into the text to ensure that it is understood by the general reader that the technology is not immediately ready for use and may even turn out to be not as powerful as it might seem at present. Notes 1 and 3 could be moved into boxes. Please ensure in all passages that a balanced discussion between possible benefits and (current) technological limitations is maintained.
To avoid any possibly distracting discussion around this article, you are asked to be particularly careful with citing previous relevant work when discussing specific issues and ideas.
We appreciate that the overall purpose of the article is to alert the scientific community to the new capabilities offered by the CRISPR nuclease Cas 9 RNA-guided gene drives in engineering wild populations. […] You conclude that Cas9 RNA-guided gene drives offer new capabilities and applications beyond what is currently available, but the implications for the environment and society as a whole should be considered. You do not, however, address any issues concerning a possible deliberately harmful use of the technique; since it does not involve complex technology, there is the possibility that it is applied outside the reaches of governmental or societal regulation.
We hope to initiate discussion concerning how this potentially powerful technology can be responsibly developed, evaluated, and used to solve major ecological problems in a way that minimizes the risk of harmful consequences. This latter purpose is best served by ensuring that control measures are developed concomitantly. We consequently devote much of the manuscript to detailing reversal and immunization drives intended to undo earlier genomic changes and protect populations against gene drives. To emphasize the importance of these novel drive architectures in this revision, we have combined the earlier figures describing these drives into a single larger and clearer Figure 5. We have also included boxes that explicitly address whether gene drives could be used to alter populations of humans, crops, or domesticated animals. The possibility that unauthorized gene drives might be deliberately misused is more relevant to regulators and consequently is discussed in greater detail in our related manuscript on preparedness and risk governance scheduled for simultaneous publication in Science.
We agree that the inclusion of a section explaining the established use of Cas9 for genome editing would greatly strengthen the paper. While the subject of CRISPR systems and Cas9-mediated genome engineering is large enough for entire review articles, we have done our best to provide a concise but thorough explanation in a new section at the end of the Introduction. We briefly detail Type II CRISPR systems as requested, but devote the bulk of the section to RNA-guided genome editing. We have additionally created a new figure detailing the mechanism of genome editing that emphasizes the similarity of this process to the homing observed in endonuclease gene drives.
The Abstract and Introduction have been revised to more clearly explain the topic to a general audience. We welcome the chance to emphasize in the article format that this technology remains entirely theoretical, as our intent is to initiate discussion prior to development of this technology in the laboratory. We are grateful to eLife for establishing a new section on emerging technologies for this purpose.
While clarifying public perception is in this case an overriding reason to classify this as a Feature article rather than a Research article, we regret the implication that theoretical analysis does not constitute scientific research. Many of the most respected publications in the history of science consisted entirely of conceptual insights – some of them without any mathematical or computational component.
Points relevant to the non-specialist reader that were previously covered in the Notes have been incorporated into the text and new boxes if they were not already present. Material of concern only to specialists has been transferred to new figure supplements: Figure 4—figure supplement 2, Figure 4—figure supplement 3, and Figure 7—figure supplement 1. Figure 4—figure supplement 3 specifically details existing technologies that could be applied to optimize RNA-guided gene drives and notes the challenges involved in doing so.
We have endeavored to clarify that this technology remains theoretical and our predictions are fallible throughout. Most notably, the last sentence of the Abstract describes the technology as “currently theoretical” and the section “Building Functional Gene Drives” has been prominently renamed “Will RNA-Guided Gene Drives Enable Us to Edit the Genomes of Wild Species?” It goes on to explicitly state that we cannot know for certain until we try. Combined with our cautionary statement in the Conclusion noting that, “Numerous practical difficulties must be overcome before gene drives will be in a position to address any of the suggested applications. Many of our proposals and predictions are likely to fall short simply because biological systems are complex and difficult to engineer...”, we think it unlikely that a reader will come away with a mistaken impression.
We have endeavored to cite relevant works and additionally mention several major contributors to the field of endonuclease gene drives by name.
Kevin M Esvelt
Synthetic Biology Platform, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
KME, Conceived of the study, performed the analysis, designed new drive types, drafted and revised the article
For correspondence
kevin.esvelt@wyss.harvard.edu
KME: Filed for a patent concerning RNA-guided gene drives.
"This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0001-8797-3945
Andrea L Smidler
ALS, Designed new drive types, drafted and revised the article
ALS: Filed for a patent concerning RNA-guided gene drives.
Flaminia Catteruccia
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, United States
FC, Revised the article
fcatter@hsph.harvard.edu
No competing interests declared.
George M Church
GMC, Revised the article
gmc@harvard.edu
GMC: Filed for a patent concerning RNA-guided gene drives.
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering (Technology Development Fellowship)
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering (Synthetic Biology Platform funds)
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
We thank the participants of the MIT/Woodrow Wilson Center workshop ‘Creating a Research Agenda for the Ecological Implications of Synthetic Biology’ for sharing their thoughts concerning the potential impacts of this technology on various ecosystems (Drinkwater et al., 2014). We are grateful to S Lightfoot, K Oye, JP Collins, and M Wilkinson for critical reading of the manuscript, and to F Gould, T Wu, J Braff, and members of the Church and Oye laboratories for helpful discussions. KME was supported by a Wyss Technology Development Fellowship.
Reviewing Editor
Diethard Tautz, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany
Received: May 18, 2014
Accepted: July 9, 2014
Accepted Manuscript published: July 17, 2014 (version 1)
Accepted Manuscript updated: July 17, 2014 (version 2)
Version of Record published: August 1, 2014 (version 3)
© 2014, Esvelt et al.
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A gustatory receptor tuned to the steroid plant hormone brassinolide in Plutella xylostella (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae)
Ke Yang et al.
Feeding and oviposition deterrents help phytophagous insects to identify host plants. The taste organs of phytophagous insects contain bitter gustatory receptors (GRs). To explore their function, the GRs in Plutella xylostella were analyzed. Through RNA sequencing and qPCR, we detected abundant PxylGr34 transcripts in the larval head and adult antennae. Functional analyses using the Xenopus oocyte expression system and 24 diverse phytochemicals showed that PxylGr34 is tuned to the canonical plant hormones brassinolide (BL) and 24-epibrassinolide (EBL). Electrophysiological analyses revealed that the medial sensilla styloconica of 4th instar larvae are responsive to BL and EBL. Dual-choice bioassays demonstrated that BL inhibits larval feeding and female oviposition. Knock-down of PxylGr34 by RNAi attenuates the taste responses to BL, and abolishes BL-induced feeding inhibition. These results increase our understanding of how herbivorous insects detect compounds that deter feeding and oviposition, and may be useful for designing plant hormone-based pest management strategies.
Proteomics reveals synergy between biomass degrading enzymes and inorganic Fenton chemistry in leaf-cutting ant colonies
Morten Schiøtt, Jacobus J Boomsma
The symbiotic partnership between leaf-cutting ants and fungal cultivars processes plant biomass via ant fecal fluid mixed with chewed plant substrate before fungal degradation. Here we present a full proteome of the fecal fluid of Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants, showing that most proteins function as biomass degrading enzymes and that ca. 85% are produced by the fungus and ingested, but not digested, by the ants. Hydrogen peroxide producing oxidoreductases were remarkably common in the proteome, inspiring us to test a scenario in which hydrogen peroxide reacts with iron to form reactive oxygen radicals after which oxidized iron is reduced by other fecal-fluid enzymes. Our biochemical assays confirmed that these so-called Fenton reactions do indeed take place in special substrate pellets, presumably to degrade plant cell wall polymers. This implies that the symbiotic partnership manages a combination of oxidative and enzymatic biomass degradation, an achievement that surpasses current human bioconversion technology.
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L’Oréal Paris has an arsenal of new reds
The new Color Riche is darker, richer and it's got every crimson hue you want
By Arshie Chevalwala January 5th, 2015
Freida Pinto, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Soanm Kapoor for L'Oréal Paris India
L'Oréal Paris Pure Reds
L'ORÉAL PARIS International campaign
Freida Pinto, Eva Longoria, Natasha Poly, and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Choosing a bold red can be overwhelming. That’s where L’Oréal Paris steps in. Their new collection gives you the scarlet that suits you best. The Color Riche Pure Reds Collection promises to deliver bold, luscious colour that lasts for a full six hours with jojoba oil that hydrates your lips. The range includes seven exquisite matte shades ranging from bright pinks to deep reds; they’ve really got something for everyone. And they’ve got three of Bollywood’s leading ladies convincing you that you can pull off that bold lip as gracefully too.
The beauty brand’s international campaign has pulled together an impressive set of famous faces too. The campaign includes Blake Lively, Zoe Saldana, Jane Fonda, Julianne Moore, Laetitia Casta, Freida Pinto, Eva Longoria, Ines de la Fressange, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Natasha Poly.
Flip through the gallery to see these women flaunting fierce reds
Photographs: L’Oréal Paris; Manasi Sawant
Lorealparis.co.in
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Name to know: Aditi Veena
She's a little girl with a big voice, and we’re listening closely
By Sophia Ann French March 21st, 2014
Twenty-four-year-old Aditi Veena is petite and button-cute (twinkle-in-eye, shaggy bob et al). You almost don’t see that voice coming. Sweet choir girl gives way to seductress gives way to harridan and climbs back down again without breaking a sweat. If you’re lucky, she’ll give you a trumpet interlude too. ‘Adult Contemporary’ is how the singer classifies her sound, which swings between soul, rhythm, blues and rock.
The Delhi native went pro at 14 and has clocked every kind of live gig since then. Choir singing with premier Delhi foundation Artistes Unlimited, low-lit alt jazz duets as one half of Ditty and Mark (now disbanded), guest-fronting outfits like The Jass B’Stards. She’s also sung in a production of the musical Hair, and performed at a Delhi restaurant with author Rana Dasgupta on keys.
Later this year, Veena will release her first EP, Daddy’s Little Girl, which will feature four songs written and composed by her, each inspired by “four special men – my father (who passed away recently), my brother, a former boyfriend and a man I recently met.” The stripped-down acoustic sound will be a departure from her usual vocal stylings. The next frontier for Veena, who is also studying architecture, is finding ways to segue between music and art. “I’m trying to understand how space can become a part of a performance,” she says. Veena designs the sets for her shows, the latest being Spot C, which will be hosted by the Arch-i platform in Delhi this month. “I’ve always wanted to be an artist,” she confesses, “not just a musician.”
Leather crop top, Lecoanet Hemant. Cotton maxi skirt, Lovebirds. Metal earrings, Aldo Accessories
Photograph: Shovan Gandhi; Styling: Arushi Parakh; Make-up and Hair: Sonam Kapoor
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Q&A: Erika Johansen
Emma Watson is set to star in the movie adaptation of this debut author’s dystopian fantasy series
By Cheryl-Ann Couto July 31st, 2014
The first instalment in Erika Johansen’s Hunger Games-meets-Game Of Thrones trilogy takes place in the Tearling, a dystopian Middle-Ages kingdom in the 24th century, where economic injustice, drug abuse, flailing education and unemployment are rampant. Into this bleakness (inspired by the 2007 US recession), strides the young, idealistic and weight-conscious heroine, Kelsea Raleigh Glynn, heir to the throne, who is thrust with the job of rescuing the land from exterior threats and interior corruption and is dead set on reviving democracy. And actor Emma Watson is all set to star in and produce the movie adaptation of this young adult novel.
ELLE: Your 19-year-old heroine is unusual in that she is most ordinary. What are her extraordinary qualities?
Erika Johansen: We have a dearth of believable yet heroic women in fiction. Too many heroines are either extraordinarily beautiful or obsessed with their own romantic lives to the detriment of more interesting problems. I thought that the mix could use at least one more woman who doesn’t meet the beauty standards of her time and has more pressing things to worry about than dating (a situation to which many contemporary women can probably relate). Kelsea’s life is fairly stressful, but she still manages to be intelligent, compassionate and, occasionally, altruistic. I wish that these were not extraordinary qualities.
ELLE: How big a role does the supernatural play in the series?
EJ: Not too big a role. There’s magic present in the Tearling, but most of the time it serves more of a mythical and superstitious function, setting tone rather than driving plot. My heroine has a pair of magic sapphires, but what she’s able to accomplish with them doesn’t interest me nearly as much as what she’s able to accomplish by being herself in her environment. When I read fantasy, I’m usually less interested in the magic than in watching old human problems play out against an entirely new background.
ELLE: Which authors have influenced your work the most?
EJ: Since childhood, my favourite author has been Stephen King. It’s one of my great regrets that I’m completely inept at writing horror, but King’s writing style has certainly influenced mine pretty heavily, no matter what genre I’m working in. In trying to write fantasy, I usually look to Tolkien, Terry Brooks, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Frank Herbert, among others.
ELLE: When are the next two books due?
EJ: They’re scheduled to come out in the summers of 2015 and 2016. We’re currently finishing up editing on book two, and I will spend the next year writing book three.
The Queen Of The Tearling (Random House India) is out this month
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May 26, 2011 Evan W.S. Morgan Book Reviews
The Skin Map by Stephen R. Lawhead
Kit Livingstone’s great-grandfather has reappeared with an unbelievable story–one explorer knew the pathways to other worlds and tattooed his map onto his skin. Rival factions are in desperate competition to recover it and regain Paradise.
It is the ultimate quest for the ultimate treasure. Chasing a map tattooed on human skin. Across an omniverse of intereing realities. To unravel the future of the future.
Kit Livingston’s great-grandfather appears to him in a deserted alley during a tumultuous storm. He reveals an unbelievable story: that the ley lines throughout Britain are not merely the stuff of legend or the weekend hobby of deluded cranks, but pathways to other worlds. To those who know how to use them, they grant the ability to travel the multi-layered universe of which we ordinarily inhabit only a tiny part.
One explorer knew more than most. Braving every danger, he toured both time and space on voyages of heroic discovery. Ever on his guard, and fearful of becoming lost in the cosmos, he developed an intricate code–a roadmap of symbols–that he tattooed onto his own body. This Skin Map has since been lost in time. Now the race is on to recover all the pieces and discover its secrets.
But the Skin Map itself is not the ultimate goal. It is merely the beginning of a vast and marvelous quest for a prize beyond imagining.
The Bright Empires series–from acclaimed author Stephen Lawhead–is a unique blending of epic treasure hunt, ancient history, alternate realities, cutting-edge physics, philosophy, and mystery. The result is a page-turning, fantastical adventure like no other.
At first when this book was available to review for Thomas Nelson last year, I was not interested. It did not seem intriguing to me at all. But when Thomas Nelson put the paperback version up for review, I decided to go for it.
This tale is full of science and time travel, things that get your mind thinking. I enjoyed this book as an adventure book, because that is what it is, is it not? There was really no suspense to this book except toward the end.
But I do not think that Stephen had it in mind to make it suspenseful. I believe that he wanted to make it a semi-lighthearted adventure book that you would enjoy on a rainy day. In this, he succeeds most definitely.
The characters were great to tag along with as they got use to making jumps between place and time. My favorite in particular was Kit’s girlfriend, Wilhemina.
Stephen does a splendid job in describing the numerous places we visit throughout the novel. From London to Egypt, I felt like I was actually there.
This book is recommended to all of you who love adventure novels and books that drift you away to distant places.
I received a copy of this book from the publisher for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are mine.
2 thoughts on “The Skin Map by Stephen R. Lawhead”
James L. Rubart says:
I agree, Evan. I read The Skin Map last year and LOVED it! Can’t wait for the next in the series.
Daniel Richard Tipton says:
Just thought I’d let you know that this review made me want to check out the book. I’ve got it waiting for me as soon as I finish Forbidden and a couple other books I’m working on.
Stain of Guilt by Brandilyn Collins
Fade to Blue by Julie Carobini
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Part 6 - Up the creek without a pump
Captain Custard
In hindsight, following a route that all the locals said was impossible was a bit daft. We have a habit of doing this in the belief that it all adds to the sense of adventure, which to be fair it normally does.
Getting cut off by a rock fall at 3,000 metres on a trail used mainly by goats wasn’t on the cards when we all said “yeah bollocks lets go that way”.
The main cause of this predicament could be traced back to the night before. After an exhausting day crossing the Middle Atlas mountains we found a market town and decided to reward ourselves with some proper food for a change.
We're having the Gruffs for dinner
The local butcher proudly advertised his stall with a row of freshly severed goat’s heads. The attention with which he’d made sure each goat head was looking in the same direction gave the impression of a man with pride in his work.
It was only the massing swarm of flies feeding on eyeballs and windpipes that cost him the AA rosette. We ordered a large bag of goat mince while trying to look the other way.
Open the hatch
Back on the rooftop terrace of our hotel, we fired up the petrol stoves and set about making goat meatballs. Now, at the mere mention of rooftop terrace you’ve already started thinking we were in some plush hotel with a pool overlooking the mountains. In reality we’d climbed out on to the roof because the “hotel” had no windows and no air conditioning and someone had taken a shit in the communal shower. In other words it was basically a kiln with beds in that smelt like a potty. We could see the mountains though so it wasn’t all bad.
As the sun disappeared and the first stars began to appear we ate our dinner in torchlight and mused that the only thing missing was a cold beer. A warm one would still have been good. A warm one with a beetle floating on a layer of cheese would still have been preferable to our staple diet of stale water, mint tea, and the occasional bottle that said Fanta on it, but was just as likely to be Toilet Duck.
"Best Good Cooking Oil"
We were remarking about how we wished watermelon was alcoholic when Kaspars turned up with good news and better news. Firstly he’d managed to fix the large hole in his bike frame courtesy of a bloke with a welder. Unfortunately it was a carbide powered welder so the five minute job took three hours. Oh how we laughed. On the plus side this allowed Kaspars enough time to explore, and like all good Latvians (who are trained from birth) he tracked down the local home brew.
So we now had two innocent looking bottles of “Best Good Cooking Oil” containing Mahia, the local moonshine. Reportedly it was made from figs but judging by the taste, somebody’s flip-flop.
It did however become more figgy and less flip floppy the closer we got the bottom of the bottle. By bottle number two it was up there with an XO Cognac.
Gas Mark 8 for 6 hours
Water...water
The next morning was not good. The combination of sleeping in the kiln overnight with a skinful of the local sauce meant we were all stumbling around half dazed and wondering why we had tongues like a stale baguette.
Packing up took ages, packing the bikes took ages, paying the hotel owner took ages, everything took ages. It was because of this that when it came to looking at the map and deciding on whether to go the established (but longer) route, or the impossible (but shorter) route we uttered the fateful words “yeah bollocks lets go that way”.
We're not digging round that
Things were going so well. It did in fact appear that there was a route across the mountains. In the early morning sunlight we wound our way up through the mighty peaks and took in the views whilst congratulating ourselves on finding an epic shortcut.
It’s just a shame the shortcut was about 50 kms short of being a full cut.
Whether it was the result of a landslide or a badly built house, we just didn’t know. All we knew was that the route ended abruptly in an impassable wall of rubble.
No way back
The thought of backtracking was too much to bear so we pondered on a strategy of heading down to the valley floor to follow the river bed. The most direct route was straight off the side of the path down a ridiculously steep slope but with absolutely no way to get back up if it turned out to be the wrong choice.
The other option was to backtrack quite a way and drop down in the other side of the valley. We would have all gone with the latter option if Oz hadn’t already lobbed himself off the side of the mountain and was now sliding with both wheels locked up in a haze of dust.
This created a problem since it was apparent that neither Charlie nor Greg could follow. Charlie’s front brake was held on with gaffer tape and his back brake was somewhere in Fez so he simply couldn’t risk it. As for Greg, it wasn’t so much a matter of whether he would lose control and die horribly, just how quickly and how horribly.
So Kaspars was sent down after Oz and the plan was to “wave at each other from opposite sides of the valley and meet somewhere in the middle“. This was quite possibly the worst idea ever conceived.
Follow the trail of poo
After half an hour or so of mopedaneering, Oz & Kaspars reached a small village. People only ever arrived in this village from below so the locals were bemused to find two people descending from above…on pink and orange mopeds.
They invited us for tea and bread and then took great delight in telling us we were the only motorised vehicles to ever set wheel in their village. This was plainly awesome but also meant there wasn’t a road out.
We paid our way, shook hands and set off. We picked our way through the tiny gaps between the houses and while trying not to fall in to the open sewers we made our way to the donkey trail that would take us down.
The helmet of shame
Oz is presented with the local Darwin award
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The path of least resistance
Not only had we made it down the valley but the track was now much wider and smoother and by luck more than judgement we’d timed it just right to see Charlie and Greg on the other side of the valley, albeit high above us. As per the plan we stopped our bikes and commenced the pre-agreed signal (frantic waving). When that didn’t appear to work we upgraded to shouting:
“Oi”, “Down Here!”, “Oi”, “Wankers”, “Oi”, “Are you fucking blind or WHAT!!…OI! OII!!! OIIII!!!!”
My tent smells funny
We abandoned the plan, got on our bikes and took off to catch them up. We got about one kilometre before Oz’s back tyre ended up with a three inch nail in it. This meant we now had no chance of catching them and worse still was the realisation that Charlie and Greg had both the pumps and the puncture repair kit. None of us had a mobile phone signal.
Kaspars headed back to the village in search of a pump. He quickly realised that miming the action for a hand pump was easily misconstrued. Miming the action for a foot pump didn’t fare much better, with most people assuming he wanted to find a place hosting country dancing. Two hours later he came back empty handed.
Somehow we had to get further down the valley or hope that Charlie and Greg would find us. After three hours we were running out of options. Oz remembered reading about a biker who’d got a puncture in the desert and had stuffed his tyre with a blanket. It was enough to stop him wrecking the tyre and reaching place where he could get a permanent fix. We didn’t have a blanket but we had some clothes.
It was a risky bodge since we had no spare wheels and this didn’t work it was gameover. Pants, socks, t-shirts and a pair of swimming trunks later and we set off at a snail’s pace. All we could do now was hope we found help soon. What we did find was totally unexpected. Propped up against the side of the track was Charlie’s bike, seemingly abandoned. A little girl was sitting on a rock opposite.
No clutch, no brakes
We motioned to her “where is the rider?”. She pointed down into the bottom of the valley. After some searching we spotted Greg and a local both attempting to push his bike up the side of the valley. We could only guess that they’d tried to cross to our side of the valley and got into difficulty.
About an hour later, Charlie appeared on Greg’s bike with Greg and the local running along behind. “What happened?”. Charlie’s reply; “well, let’s just say we are the only motorised vehicles ever to cross that valley”. “Funny you should say that” said Kaspars.
Greg comes close to torching Charlie’s bike just to avoid dragging it any further
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