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HONEY 3: DARE TO DANCE (Blu-ray combo) FISHES ‘N LOAVES: HEAVEN SENT (DVD)
EQUALS (Blu-ray)
James Plath, Family Home Theater PG-13 rated, Romance, Sci-Fi/Fantasy Leave a comment
Rated PG-13 for thematic content, sensuality, partial nudity and disturbing images
Featured audio: DTS-HDMA 5.1
Bonus features: C+
Includes: Blu-ray, Digital HD
Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult in a dystopian romantic drama? Sounds like a surefire hit with teens, doesn’t it? Especially when it’s all about emotions, as Equals is.
Sometime in the far future—far enough to where everyone wears white uniforms and the buildings and residential cubicles are all as sanitized as can be—human emotions and illnesses have been all but eliminated. People go about their sanitized jobs like futuristic zombies or contented cows, until a new disease pops up: SOS (Switched on Syndrome), the stages of which ultimately lead to the afflicted being “put down” in a humane and painless way, though an ubiquitous videoboard and voiceover reassures them that “a cure is coming soon.”
When Silas (Hoult) is affected, he goes through treatments. He also suspects that co-worker Nia (Stewart) is suffering from SOS but hiding her symptoms. The main symptom, of course, is that they can feel emotions and therefore notice each other, then feel for each other. A romance grows . . . though unfortunately, not fast enough for most teens.
Therein lies the chief problem. How do you convey a sterile and emotionless environment and a futuristic existence bereft of real meaning without subjecting viewers to stark repetitive images and what feels like real-time boredom? Thirty minutes into Equals our dystopian-novel-loving teen was ready to pull the plug, and I can’t say as I blame her. It’s slow going. What’s worse, though, is that if you’ve seen The Giver, or even Gattaca, you’re already have a slight sense of deja vu. The concept isn’t new or original, and that places a burden on director Drake Doremus and his cast to make their version of dystopian disappointment memorable or distinctive it in some way. And I’m not sure that happens.
Doremus seems to wrestle with the sense of inevitability that’s embedded in the film’s plot, determined to shine the spotlight on these ill-fated lovers when what’s more interesting, frankly, are the other patients who have formed both a support group and underground movement to deal with not just SOS but their newfound “knowledge” of emotions that feels a little like the problem Adam and Eve faced after tasting of knowledge in the Garden of Eden.
Is Equals stylish? Yes. Is it cold and sterile? Yes. Is it satisfying to watch? Honestly, no . . . though things really pick up in the third act when SOS patients played by Guy Pearce and Jacki Weaver both literally and figuratively try to come to the rescue. By then, though, many viewers—young ones especially—might feel a little too zombified themselves to care.
Sex: No nudity, but clothing removed and implied coupling
Violence: Nothing much—a body appears to have been the result of a “jumper,” and other references to suicide are made
Adult situations: Other than a frighteningly sterile vision of the future? Nothing much
Takeaway: There had to be a way to tell this story without focusing so much on the mind-numbing sterility of this future world and more on the capacity of the human spirit to rise above such things
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Home » MTV Developing TV Show Based on Film The Escort
Miss the days of MTV actually playing music videos – but at the same point – that’s not to say that we don’t enjoy their TV shows. As you can probably tell by our devotion to such shows as Teen Wolf that we are willing to take on any new MTV show in our life.
MTV is now developing The Escort, which is based on the movie of the same name.
The film, “centered on a sex-obsessed writer (Doneger) in need of a big story to land an editorial gig. After retaining the help of a beautiful, Stanford-schooled hooker (Fonseca), the two form a symbiotic relationship as he tags along on her tricks to research his article, while she covertly uses him as a quasi-bodyguard against her not-so-dear Johns. Soon their business deal becomes a friendship that evolves even further.”
Michael Doneger is set to write, executive produce and star in the show.
We’re a little confused how this will be on the MTV screen, but we’re all for giving it a try, as we have every other TV show.
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Adele Laurie Blue Adkins
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Music Category:
"Chasing Pavements"
"Rolling in the Deep"
"Set Fire to the Rain"
"Someone Like You"
Adele is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist. She was offered a recording contract from XL Recordings after a friend posted her demo on Myspace in 2006. The next year she received the Brit Awards "Critics' Choice" award and won the BBC Sound of 2008. Her debut album, 19, was released in 2008 to much commercial and critical success. It certified four times platinum in the UK, and double platinum in the US. Her career in the US was boosted by a Saturday Night Live appearance in late 2008. At the 2009 Grammy Awards, Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
Adele released her second album, 21, in early 2011. The album was well received critically and surpassed the success of her debut, earning the singer six Grammy Awards in 2012 including Album of the Year, equaling the record for most Grammy Awards won by a female artist in one night. The album has also led to her receiving numerous other awards, including two Brit Awards and three American Music Awards. The album has been certified 16 times platinum in the UK; in the US the album has held the top position longer than any other album since 1985, and is certified Diamond. According to IFPI, the album has sold over 26 million copies worldwide.
Adele is the first female in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to have three singles in the top 10 at the same time as a lead artist, and the first female artist to have two albums in the top five of the Billboard 200 and two singles in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously. 21 is the longest running number one album by a female solo artist on the UK and US Albums Chart. In 2011 and 2012, Billboard named Adele Artist of the Year. In 2012, Adele was listed at number five on VH1′s 100 Greatest Women In Music, and the American magazine Time named Adele one of the most influential people in the world. In 2013, she received an Academy Award as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for her song "Skyfall", written for Skyfall, the twenty-third James Bond film.
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Adelaide concert - daughter getting married on Saturday
Submitted by Merrilyn (not verified) on Sat, 03/11/2017 - 19:28
Would make my daughters week if you could wish her a happy wedding week. Annabel is getting married this Saturday - sitting in B5 and just adores you.
What I've been through to get good tickets to your Melbourneshow
Submitted by Justine Salvatico (not verified) on Fri, 03/17/2017 - 17:26
I'm writing to adele to show how special she is to me and how much her music has touched me.. I discovered Adele in 2010 when I first got together with my now husband. We both share the love of Adeles music and we're excited to discover such a fantastic , talented new artist. I've waited 7 years for her to tour Australia and wanted tickets so bad I spent two days calling nova 100 to win some, it's just so happened that her concert dates fell on the weekend of our first wedding anniversary (paper/tickets) how perfect, I had to get tickets! Spent so much time calling nova I nearly lost my job! But I won and was exstatic! i get the tickets from nova Tuesday (the week of the concert) and find out they are way up high, level 3 of etihad when I was willing to buy the best tickets on offer.. I wish I had known what "winning" tickets would be.. I wouldn't have wasted so much time trying to win them.. So upset with what we won I then had to buy tickets from viagogo and pay double the price. My husband didn't speak to me for three days but I know it will be totally worth it! Can't wait to see u Adele!! Do us proud or my husband will kill me!! Lol.. I know you will be amazing, thanks for Sharing your gift with the world!if u see this by some miracle,shout out to us and get me back in the good books with my husband! Love from Justine Salvatico Melbourne Australia , etihad stadium , Saturday 18th march, level 1 ,aisle 11 row n seats 16/17 xxxxx
Submitted by Debra Simmons (not verified) on Tue, 03/21/2017 - 06:18
Hello Adele from the other side of the world (Australia). I went to your concert in Paris on the 9th of June 2016 and then to the Melbourne concert on the 19th March for my birthday. I wanted to get the lithograph posters but couldn't get them. How can I get a copy of the 2 concerts I attended. By the way the BEST concerts I have ever attended. Thanks for coming to Australia and making my 55th birthday the very best.
Submitted by Helen Canning (not verified) on Wed, 03/22/2017 - 04:10
Dear Adele. I did not attend any of your Australian concerts but I was dismayed to see that lots of balloons were released at the concerts. These are an environmental problem for the turtles here as they can fall down into the sea and turtles swallow them thinking they are jelly fish. The balloons are indigestible and can lead to a slow death for the turtles. You may not be aware of this problem but I urge you to consider ending this stunt in the future. Hopefully the releasing of balloons will be banned in the not too distant future but with your influence people may end this action sooner.
NZ concert 25 march 2017
Submitted by Patricia (not verified) on Sat, 03/25/2017 - 20:19
It was just the best therapy for my life experiences with the men in the world who have been able to manage to get close to me. Not many of them have been successful and adelle s words spoke of her first album how it was made and why. When I heard this and how she got through the episode she inspired me and I realised that it is really good to have the memory of something that you have been through even if it turned into sadness. It helps to heal.
Thank you for helping me heal and realise that better things will come.
Never live your life by somebody else's values and ideals.
Arohanui Adele
YOU PROMISED US TIX - SOMEONE DROPPED THE BALL!
Submitted by BOSTON GIRLS (not verified) on Mon, 03/27/2017 - 18:51
Hi, Adele! My bestie and I flew from Boston to see you at the O2 on 3/20/16 - best concert EVER!! We were in the third row and we had glowing necklaces on and a Boston T-shirt for Angelo (hope he got it!). We spoke to you during the concert and you promised to get us tickets to your Boston show in September. Your handler took our information but we never got the tickets!!! I don't want to seem greedy, but I just heard on the news tonight that touring isn't for you.... Now I'm wondering if I'll ever have the opportunity to see you live in concert again. We saw you at the O2 for my friend's 60th birthday and if you could get us tickets to your big show finale at Wembley Stadium for MY birthday (6/29) it would be unbelievable!! Oh, and by the way.... Fire that handler!!! I know you're a woman of your word and would feel horrible if you knew this generous offer on your behalf fell through the cracks. Regardless.... THE BOSTON GIRLS LOVE YOU!!!!! Thank you!
Submitted by Neil Lyons (not verified) on Thu, 04/06/2017 - 10:37
I think you are the most beautiful woman alive. Not are you strikingly beautiful, but you have the most amazing voice ever. Freddie Mercury was my favorite singer ever but, you run a very close second. Thank you for your time, if you are in interested in knowing more about me you can look me up on Facebook at Neil Anthony Lyons.
Submitted by Janet (not verified) on Sun, 06/04/2017 - 01:39
Sorry, with my last email, I forgot to tell you Adele, I with my sisters own a fabulous B and B surrrounded by wineries(yay I say! Lol) but also history of Adelaide....our building was build in 1863, and anonymity is key!!! I HATE popin do you? Lol you your hubby and baby would be welcome there, so you can just 'rest'
Adele's darlingness
Submitted by Bruce Howard Hamlton (not verified) on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 00:59
Adele reminds me of 'the kind of dream
whose only purpose is to rouse a scream
confusing everything with cool dry steam
officiously about to bleed some stream .... ' [maybe!]
Song for you
Submitted by Radwan (not verified) on Mon, 06/12/2017 - 14:23
Adele .. After hearing your song " someone like you " and because i lost my love .. I wrote a few lines and I want you to take a look at them , I think you will like them. I love you so much .
can't wait for Wednesday - thanks for helping me
Submitted by Amanda Spicer (not verified) on Mon, 06/26/2017 - 06:04
I'm so excited to come see you at Wembley on Wednesday. As an American living in Britain and removing my partying ways to become a mother I've moved through my angst ridden 20s in parallel with you. I would have given you a run for your money on the night. I bought Hello and the album on release and after laughing and crying with you through all life up and downs you were there for the most crucial moments my fathers untimely death right before Christmas.
The placed me in my bathtub when the shock wouldn't wear off and left your album on for me in the background. The track Hello will always bring not just the grief but the healing for this life changing moment. My relationship with my Father had always been difficult ...4 kids, he'd rather party and he would always make us leave answer phone messages before he'd pick up the phone. I never resolved the hurt of my childhood and here he was now dead and I wouldn't have the chance to get to the other side of healing with him.
Remedy, Hello, River Lea hell all of them helped heal my soul. As I left my husband and children for the 24 hours plane trip to rural America I boarded the plane with only your album as an escape from the chaos around me. As everyone cheered and was ready for the Christmas holidays I sat on the plane over Christmas Eve and balled like a baby. When I met my mother at the airport your album was immediately on repeat we would both be using your words to mend our souls.
Your show Wednesday night will be the closure I need to carry on being the best wife, friend and mother I can be in spite of loss and lost chances. Thanks for always being there and give us a wave up in the stands we'll be the ones sobbing, snotting, laughing and singing. Can't wait Amanda Spicer x
3 Concerts, 66400kms!
Submitted by Tony & Rowena F... (not verified) on Mon, 06/26/2017 - 12:45
Back in early 2016 we didn't think that you'd ever travel down under to Oz, so at the last minute we managed to get 2 tickets for Antwerp on 15 June 2016. From our home a 4 hour drive to Sydney then 33, 530 kms to Sport Paleis and back, total of 34,170 kms. Thank heavens the 'shits' didn't stop the show.
Then on 10 March 2017 our 'hometown glory', 95,400 fans,18 songs non-stop and pre-show Mexican waves, thanks to Sydney's transport stuff up. Only an 8 hour return drive this time, 640 kms.
As a 43 year wedding anniversary present off to Wembley on 29 June, round trip 34,600 kms. Only hope that the set for Set Fire to the Rain is as good as Sydney's. 68,400 kms - should've been a roadie! Understand why you might not want to travel down under again.
Tickets for concert 29/6
Submitted by Anna Barone (not verified) on Wed, 06/28/2017 - 15:47
Seriously what stress. Paid loads of money to viagogo for tickets for tomorrow's concert and they haven't arrived! I can show I bought them and will turn up anyway. But is it worth the stress! How can these companies charge so much for tickets with face value of £45 (up in the Gods!!) and then not get them to you? Can anyone help please?
London Concert
Submitted by Clare McCarteny (not verified) on Wed, 07/26/2017 - 14:43
I don't know who to contact but I am writing on behalf of my sister. She was recently in England for the Adele concert. She is a huge fan and bought tickets for the Saturday and Sunday concerts. She saved for this trip for a very long time and traveled from New York. Is there a way to get her airfare refunded as she would not have gone to England if it were not for the concert. I can provide her tickets if needed. If she had the funds I would not be writing but she is not a rich person and had also accommodations to pay for which were not cheap. I know you get a lot of requests but this is genuine. I do feel bad Adele could not perform but there are true fans like my sister that traveled very far. please advise what we can do to get a refund? I do wish Adele luck in her future.
Submitted by Elise (not verified) on Sun, 07/30/2017 - 21:39
Hi! My name is Elise and I just wanted some singing tips. I want to sing Someone Like You for an audition, so, any tips are helpful!
Submitted by Audie Siegel (not verified) on Sat, 08/12/2017 - 21:16
Please take care of your vocal cords and all. Love you sooooooooooo much! Would love to hear all is well with the vocals.......
You go girl.
Submitted by Apsingh (not verified) on Fri, 08/18/2017 - 06:11
To be true... I have heard much of your songs earlier, but I've read much about about you, if it's true then i can say you're a kind a human deasined to be extraordinary, you'll be pained at most of the steps in your life, because you can never be happy, it is true for some people happiness is mere blink, and to set things straight you'll do as much as you can to create happiness, that strives for achieving happiness would make you all perfect as you are now, you are perfect and i love you.
je moeder is een hoer
Submitted by kimpiepaarntie (not verified) on Mon, 10/02/2017 - 04:05
We motten ff een clip voor je maken dus morgen in je huis met een fanboii. dit mot van school dus zeg ff ja met je pretmuil :)
Submitted by Derek Trusk (not verified) on Tue, 10/03/2017 - 17:37
Adele I am a police officer going through a tough time and wanna know if you will drive in my police car and do a carpool karaoke
permission to use your work
Submitted by Matthew Carson (not verified) on Tue, 10/17/2017 - 09:16
My class and I would like permission to use your song "Hello" in the background of a class project. We will not do anything other than show the video to our class of about 25 students. Thank you for your time.
Submitted by Thomas and Candace (not verified) on Sat, 11/18/2017 - 15:51
You and Neil Diamond are both timeless. Every year we play Coming to America non stop on the 4th of July. We think an Adael version of that song would inspire generations yo come. Please be timeless.
Just thinkin
Submitted by Bobby johnson (not verified) on Mon, 11/20/2017 - 20:23
Listening to your songs has really got to me . Since my marriage I went through life drinking , drugs , you name it I probably did it to the point I thing my life and everyone around me . I starting listening to your songs and after all the tears after many years I think it time to pick myself back up and mabe repay the people that stuck with me and never give up on me. I love you for that and sorry for all the heartbreak your life has brought you
Submitted by Maegan Ward (not verified) on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 04:34
Adele about this time last year I wrote you a letter and mailed it to you, not sure that you got it. But I wrote in to tell you about my aunt whom I was very close to, lived with her for six years, at any rate when I wrote to you last year she had just had emergency surgery because she had a perforated colon she ended up going septic and passing on us. Needless to say this has been the hardest year of my life! She loved you as do Iand while she was in the hospital in ICU and in a medically induced coma and we didn't know what would happen with her, to comfort myself I would listen to your music and many times fall asleep listening to it. I still do it to this day when I'm having off days and grieving my aunt badly your music helps me so much! We used to rejoice together while listening to your music! My favorite song I'm obsessed with by you is Water under the bridge. I doubt you will read or get this message but I had it on my heart to let you know what an inpact your music has on society but especially people such as myself going through turmoil in their life right now. I hope one day I will be able to attend one of your concerts in honor of my aunt, in the mean time keep doing what you do you definitely have a God given talent and are very blessed!
Blessings Maegan Ward!
My 8 year old grandson
Submitted by LINDA COLEMAN (not verified) on Sat, 10/27/2018 - 13:25
I have an 8 year old rough and tumble grandson who thinks you are the greatest thing ever! Didn't care much about music antil he heard your CD. His favorite song is rolling the deep which we play over and over in the car . He has had a tout life. His mom,my daughter,gave him and his brother to their dad as she was on drugs. He was3 at the time and didn't remember much about her but his brother did when she told his teacher that she hit him. She spent time in prison and I haven't seen her in over 4 years. Jordan, the 8 year old has led a life filled with sadness and confusion. Listenito you has made him smile and when your song ends he keeps saying again ! Thank you for making a little boy smile !!
Submitted by Ronnie Goodson (not verified) on Fri, 12/28/2018 - 10:43
Hi, I hope so so much we havnt seen the last performance and recording from you.
I have tried and better tried to get tickets to see you live. The ticket totes seem to get there before me.
Please let's hear your voice again , live, maybe I could be lucky and get a ticket.
Ronnie xxx
on how i want to be a singer
Submitted by Alivia (not verified) on Wed, 02/27/2019 - 20:28
HI! adele i have been a fan of you since i was like little and i just love you voice and how you are not afraid to stop the song if you have something to stay.But i want to know on how to become a singer or start on the right path so if you can help me that would be great.....LOVE YOU
Submitted by Kirklynn (not verified) on Sun, 04/14/2019 - 01:13
Hi Adele, I know this may not get to you but it has always been a dream to meet you one day. You have I spires me to do my talent show at school and sing. You have been such an inspiration to me for so long. I know of that I may never get to meet you but it is just 1 wish of mine
I think you're the greatest female vocalist
Submitted by Glenn (not verified) on Sun, 05/12/2019 - 10:47
I love your voice listening to your songs lift my heart all the time. The car karaoke showed how real and down-to-earth you are. Someday I will be lucky enough to meet you.
next cover ballard song
Submitted by Dave (not verified) on Sun, 05/19/2019 - 12:00
I would love to hear Adel sing Todd rundgren The Verb To Love off back to the bars album think it is about time this song was rerecorded with a female singer
Submitted by Andre (not verified) on Mon, 07/29/2019 - 12:43
Hi Adele,
Thank you for opening your heart with your songs. I can really relate to your experiences in love and relationships. I was unfortunate enough to date a "lady" called Adele *****, just when you released 21 in South Africa. I loved it but she fancied herself a bit of a vocalist and always said that she did not relate to her namesake. We eventually broke up and the irony was that you, Adele, vocalised exactly how I experienced my relationship with her but just with the male / female roles reversed, and after a few late nights, thinking "We could have it all" and drowning out the pain with Vodka, "I set fire to the rain", not my proudest moment (I scratched all her CD's that had the word "Love" in the title). I still carry with me a few "what if's" but like you know, it is the scars that we hide inside that ultimately makes up our character and helps us build resilience to the hard facts of life! Not wanting to sound clichéd but i would like to meet you someday and look into your big, beautiful eyes and see a faint reflection of what I went through hidden behind the amazing woman you have become. That is when we realise, pain helps to mould us, but it will never define us! 247365
Submitted by Sheila Guckin (not verified) on Mon, 09/09/2019 - 02:53
My husband and I just celebrated our 25th anniversary. We married when I was 18 years old. We have a 21 year old daughter, 19 year old son and 18 year old son.
I love your music. I fall asleep to it. Thank you
Sing some Patsy Cline
Submitted by Randy Bass (not verified) on Sat, 09/14/2019 - 00:26
Adele, I would like to here you sing some of the great Patsy Cline songs. "Crazy" and others. No singer has been able to recreate or improve on her songs since she died. I think your voice may be able to provide a new and wonderful sound.
Randall Bass
you take the fog away
Submitted by Crystal (not verified) on Tue, 11/05/2019 - 15:43
Hello! :-)
First and foremost, I must say that your music has helped me and others so very much, I appreciate you and the hardwork that goes into putting out your album(s) as well as touring, replying to fans, ect.
With that being said, I must go on with why I found myself on this page in the first place...
I work for a non-profit organization that supports adults/children with disabilities. There is one gentleman in paticular that I am fond of. He has a morbid sense of humor, just like I do. :-)
He is a huge fan of yours. He has a traumatic brain injury that affects his memory/humor/ect. Typically he has trouble remembering if he had breakfast that day. But the lyrics to your songs, he remembers... By heart. Him and I will belt out the words (sometimes out of tune lol), and in that moment he is clear headed and coheirent. Your voice and songs take the fog away from his brain for a few moments. And for that, I am endlessly grateful.
I am trying to talk his family into letting us travel across the country and come see your upcoming tour in NY. If that does happen, I was wondering if you'd be interested in meeting him? :-)
The support behind your new fan ;-)
Adele, thank you
Submitted by Richard (not verified) on Wed, 11/27/2019 - 12:15
Adele,
I’m just recently discovering your music. I’m 61 but still remember what it was like being romantic and enduring failed relationships with users and takers. I finally found my soulmate at 48. Never stop writing because you give your fans hope for true love. Love is worth every disappointment and heart-breaker. Now I help all my children to seek their true love and not settle for users that disrespect their tender empathetic hearts.
Bob Dylan song can u please sing its a rare one
Submitted by Elle (not verified) on Mon, 04/13/2020 - 15:10
Hello could you please sing and record"Forever Young" by Bob Dylan its a 1973 song really kewl.
Lightchildren
Submitted by Monique Bakker (not verified) on Sun, 04/19/2020 - 07:51
Are you aware you are a new-age child. In my honest opinion you are a so called starchild. If you'd look that up on the internet I think your world would change for the better. Things that feel unconfertable wiil change into awareness. Your perception of things will change for the better.
-all to my humble opinion.
With love, Monique
Submitted by Christa Larson (not verified) on Thu, 05/07/2020 - 04:51
I have never tried to contact an artist before but something in me wanted nothing more than to let you know my support for. I've read about criticism of your weight lose and all I can say to myself is really? What is wrong with people. As one who has struggled with weight loss all her life i applaud you for wherever you are at in your journey. You are talented no matter what your weight. Why do people have to be so cruel?
I have the best employee!!!
Submitted by Cathleen (not verified) on Wed, 01/13/2021 - 04:53
Dear Adele,
Hello!! I am a nurse and I’ve been lucky enough, despite this pandemic, to be employed running a COVID testing drive thru line. My staff is exceptional and mostly comprised of bad ass Pre-Med students. One of them specifically amazes me. He will be the very best doctor and he’s worked so hard through this pandemic and his amazing GPA proves it. The kid was wait listed to Harvard. I write to you because he is crazy about you. Apparently his friends tell me he was #2 in the country in “Adele trivia” and he blasts your music all the time. Like ALL the time!! I’d do anything to give him a little message from you. It would make his world.
Cathleen O’Shea
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Fanning Tower House Farenrory Co Tipperary
The Migration of the descendants of William Fanning of Co Kilkenny & Co Tipperary to Co Mayo & Leitrim and to North America
A.B.Reilly has been a genealogical researcher for almost sixty years with particular interests in the O’Reilly, Fanning and O’Brien families from Co Kilkenny, Co Tipperary & Co Mayo and the journeys of their descendants in Ireland and abroad.
It is with great pleasure that I publish this extensively researched genealogical paper.
Below is his documented research relating to the descendants of William Fanning of Co Kilkenny & Tipperary. This William Fanning died in 1590.
“THE MIGRATION OF THE DESCENDANTS Of William FANNING Of COUNTY KILKENNY & COUNTY TIPPERARY, IRELAND
To Counties Mayo & Leitrim & On To North America
The progenitor of this family of Fannings was William Fannyng (sic), who owned land in the Barony
of Kells, [1] County Kilkenny in 1570. He is also recorded in 1570 having extensive land holdings
in the Manor of Killenaule, Barony of Slievardagh in County Tipperary. William Fannyng died in
1590.[2]
William Fannyng may have been a kinsman of Oliver Fannynge who was granted lands in County Kilkenny
by Henry VIII in 1545 and in 1548[3]. Oliver Fannynge was of Kylry in the County of Kilkenny. [4]
He was mentioned as one holding land by knight’s service in the Manor of Knocktopher in 1570. [5]
All indications point to Co. Tipperary as the ancestral home of William Fannyng of Kells. His
estates were settled prior to his death with all of the Fannyng Trustees being from Co. Tipperary,
that is: James, son of Thomas Fannyng of Ballingtaggert, Co. Tipperary; Robert, son of Walter
Fannynge of Mohobber, Co. Tipperary & Richard Fannynge of Kappaghintallagarry. [7]
The Fanning family has ancient roots in Co. Kilkenny & Co. Tipperary. [8] John Fanning was the
Fanning recorded in Co. Tipperary on the 20th of November, 1285 [9] and again on the 20th of
1295. [10] Mohober, in the Parish of Lismalin, Barony of Compsey, County Tipperary, was for several
centuries principally a Fanning manor. [11] In addition to sons Thomas, Walter & Richard, William
Fannyng of Kells had two other known sons, James & William. Son, James Fanning, was born around
1555 and died before his father’s death in 1590. Son, William Fanning II, was born in 1565. His
date of death is unknown. [12]
William Fanning II had a son named James Ffaning who was born in 1589 in Knocktopher Parish, Co.
Kilkenny. [13] James Fanning was one of the Fannings who received a certificate of transplantation
after the Cromwellian confiscations of 1652. [14] He received this certificate in 1657 which
entitled him to settlement in Co. Leitrim. [15] He settled in the Parish of Fenagh, Co. Leitrim.
His estates in Co. Kilkenny were never restored to him. [16]
Thomas Fanning, son of James Ffaning, was born in 1625, in Co. Kilkenny. He married Mary
Mcloughlin of Co. Limerick. They both are believed to have died around 1660 in Co. Mayo. Nothing
is heard from them after the birth of their youngest son. [17] Thomas & Mary Mcloughlin Fanning had
two sons that are known. Their oldest son being James who was born abt. 1647 in Co. Kilkenny. [18]
This James Fannning was the grandfather of James Fanning who married Elizabeth and emigrated to
America. They settled in South Carolina around 1750. [19] They had a son, James, born November 28,
1739 who married Elizabeth Saffold on October 13, 1776. He died on November 4, 1803.[20] They have
a great number of descendants in the southern United States. Col. James Walker Fannin of Goliad,
Texas fame was a member of this family. However, the legitimacy of his birth is questioned.
The youngest son of Thomas & Mary Fanning was Loughlin Fanning was born in Co. Mayo after the
transplantation, in 1658. He married Ann O’Brien, daughter of John [21] [22] & Ann Elizabeth
(O’Reilly) O’Brien of Co. Leitrim, Oughterragh Parish. [23] Ann Elizabeth O’Reilly was the
daughter of John & Margaret (O’Reilly) O’Reilly of Ballymacadd, Co. Meath. John O’Reilly died Feb.,
This family of O’Briens were of Ballynalacken, Co. Clare and descend from Donal, a younger son of
Turlough Donn O’Brien who died in 1528. He was of the O’Briens, Kings of Thomond pedigree. [25]
The lineage comes down to 1. Donal O’Brien, who was known as Donal Bacach (“bacach:” Irish, lame):
second son of Teige-an-Chomhaid: m. Saibh, dau. of O’Loghlin, Prince of Burren then to 2. Connor
O’Brien, of Carruduff: third son of Donal Bacach O’Brien; m. Celia, dau. of O’Dea, Prince of
Ive-Fermaic. The lineage continues with 3. Donogh O’Brien, of Carruduff, who married Honora, dau.
of O’Hehir, lord of Ive-Cormaic. It continues on with 4. Dermod O’Brien, of Carruduff: son of
Donogh O’Brien, m. Eleanor, dau. of Teige MacMahon, of Dangan-an-Elly, in the barony of Moyarta,
Co. Clare. On to 5. Donal O’Brien, of Carruduff: son of Dermod O’Brien. In 1652, (see the “Books
of Survey and Distribution”) this Donal O’Brien lost his estate by the Cromwellian Settlement of
Ireland; he m. Honora, dau. of O’Connor of Corcomroe.
Donal & Honora O’Brien had a son, 6a. Brian, of Leitrim, [26] who, under the Act of Repeal passed
by King James II. in the Parliament held in Dublin, A.D. 1689, possessed himself of the Estate of
Carruduff, aforesaid. This Brian O’Brien m. Mary[27], dau. of Lochlin MacConsidine of Lac, in the
Co. Clare, Chief of his name. Torlogh O’Brien, of Leitrim: second son of Brian of Beatath-Corcick,
Esq. [28] (by Catherine, dau. of Jeoffry O’Connell, of Breantry, Esq., and sister of Colonel
Maurice O’Connell, who d.s.p.). Donal & Honora O’Brien’s second son was 6b. John O’Brien who
married Ann Elizabeth O’Reilly, dau. of John O’ Reilly. [29]
Loughlin & Ann (O’Brien) Fanning relocated from Co. Mayo to Co. Leitrim, where his grandfather
James Ffaning had settled and where the O’Briens had settled after the Cromwellian Confiscations.
Loughlin Fanning’s principal livelihood was farming. [30]
Loughlin and Ann (O’Brien) Fanning had the following known issue:
1. James Fanning born abt. 1683 in Connacht, Co. Mayo
2. Thomas Fanning born abt. 1687 in Connacht, Co. Mayo
3. Loughlin Fanning ( Jr.) b. abt. 1690 in Connacht, Co. Mayo [31]
4. Bryan Fanning b. abt. 1693 in Connacht, Greagh Townland, Fenagh Parish, Co. [32],
[33]Leitrim. He emigrated to America settling in Virginia. [34]
5. Elizabeth Ann Fanning b. 1698 in Connacht, Greagh Townland, Fenagh Parish, Co. Leitrim.
Died 1714. [35] [36]
Loughlin Fanning, (Jr.), # 3 above, was a farmer and the tutor of the notable blind Irish Harpist
Hempson. [37]
Denis Hempson (O’Hempsey) was born in 1695 some four miles west of Garvagh in the townland of
Craigmore. At the age of three he lost his sight as a result of smallpox; when he was twelve, he
began to learn to play the harp, which was not unusual for a blind person at that time.
His training continued over a period of years under various tutors, all of the old school. These
Laughlin Fanning from Connacht, an area famous at the time for the quality of its harp music. In
1713 two residents of Garvagh, Doctor Bacon and Mr Gage, purchased a harp from Cormick O’Kelly of
Draperstown and presented it to Hempson. This he treasured for the rest of his life. Hempson’s harp
is now known as the Downhill harp and is in the Guinness museum in Dublin. In 1745 Denis Hempson
played before Bonny Prince Charlie in Scotland. He attended a great harp meeting in Belfast in 1792
the age of 97 and told someone afterwards, that when he had played his piece the others harpers
refused to play as a mark of respect. It was said that he was the only harper there who had the
traditional long finger nails, associated with this profession.
Denis Hempson died at Magilligan on the 5th November 1807 aged 112. He had lived in three centuries
and was one of the last great Irish Harpers who played in the traditional way. Just beside the
museum, visitors can see the memorial stone, erected in 1992, in what was the garden of Lord
Garvagh where Hempson began his musical career.
R.W.Patterson, in his “Garvagh’s Hidden Treasures and Secret Places” cites 1706 as the year Hempson
started playing the harp and 1713 as the year he began making a living playing the harp. He further
cites one of Hempson’s principal tutors as C. Carragher. His tutors in succession were Bridget
O’Cahan, C. Carragher (John C. Garragher) from Buncrana, Loughlin Fanning and Patrick Conner.
Loughlin Fanning, ( Jr. ), # 3 above married Unknown and had the following issue:[38] [39]
1. Charles Fanning b. 1736 Foxfield, Co. Leitrim, Connacht Province, Ireland who married a
kitchen maid of one of his patrons Mrs. Baillie. [40] [41] Charles was a noted harpist and won
first place three years running at the Granard Co. Longford Grand Balls held in 1781, 1782 &
1783.[42] He, also, won first premium of ten guineas at the Belfast Harp Festival held in 1791.
[43] [44] [45] Charles Fanning died around 1809. [46]
Charles had one or two children. [47]
2. Bryan Fanning b. abt. 1738 Foxfield, Co. Leitrim, Connacht Province d. abt. 1749 of
3. Francis Fanning b. abt. 1740 Foxfield, Co. Leitrim, Connacht Province. Issue:
A. John Fanning, b. abt. 1775. Issue:
i. Agnes Fanning b. abt. 1807 of Greagh Townland, in the Parish of Killarga,
Co. Leitrim. She married Thomas Conboy of Fenagh, Co.Leitrim abt. 1824 [48]
ii. John Fanning b. abt 1802 of Greagh Townland: Issue:
• John Fanning, III[49] married Mary Unknown at Sruhaun Townland, Fenagh, had two children:
* Daughter Mary Ann Fanning born in Sruhaun in 1862. This Mary Ann Fanning went on to marry Michael
Stratton at Drumbibe, Fenagh in 1890.[50]
* Son, Francis Fanning [51]
4. William Fanning b. 1744 Fenagh, Co. Leitrim, Connacht Province
5. Thomas Fanning b. 1746 Fenagh, Co. Leitrim, Connacht Province
married in 1780 to Mary Bohann from Cloone, Co. Leitrim, Connacht Province. Issue:
A. John Fanning born 1790 in Fenagh, Co. Leitrim m. in 1810 to Mary Dobson. Issue:
i. Thomas Fanning b. 21 December, 1812 in Fenagh Parish, Co. Leitrim. He married Bridget Reilly,
born 1 February, 1810 in Ballinamore Parish,
Co. Leitrim. They emigrated to America around 1838 and first settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. They
later moved to Corning, Reeve Township, Daviess County, Indiana. [52] [53] Thomas & Bridget Fanning
are buried in St. Patrick Cemetery, Daviess Co, Indiana. Thomas died April 16, 1871(2)[54] &
Bridget died Nov.18, 1893. [55]
Tom & Bridget Reilly Fanning had the following children: [56]
a. Mary Faning born abt 1842 in Ohio
b. John Faning September 8, 1843 in Cincinnati, Ohio
c. Ellen Faning born abt 1842 in Ohio
d. Francis Faning born abt 1849 in Ohio (male)* See note below
e. James H. Faning born abt 1851 in Cincinnati, Ohio**See note below
f. Catharan Faning born abt 1853 in Ohio
* d Francis Fanning (1846 – 1893) married Margaret Ann Flanagan (June 6,1852 – Mar. 22, 1931). [57]
**e James H. Fanning (b. 1853 – d. 1877) married Margaret Farrel ( Sept. 22, 1854 – Oct. 9, 1878) in 1876 in Indiana. They had one child, John J. Fanning.[58]
ii. Henry Fanning born 1814 in Sruhaun, Co. Leitrim. He married in 1850 to Catherine O’Neill of
Cullagh in the Parish of Fenagh – born 1830. Henry died in 1886 and Catherine died in 1889.
Henry & Catherine had the following issue:
a. James Fanning b in 1850’s and died in the 1930’s. He married Bridget Geehemn. She died in 1952.
James & Bridget had a son named James Fanning who married Mary McHugh. James & Mary had three
sons: 1st James Patrick (J P) Fanning who married Greta Beirne in 1970. They live in Foxfield, Co. Leitrim. [59]
2nd Leo Fanning of Drumigna, Co. Leitrim, who is unmarried & 3rd Frank Fanning of Mohill, Co. Leitrim, who is married with no children.
b. Patrick b. 1850 married Mary E. Bierne. They had a son, James Fanning b. 1893 and married Mary Ann Curran. James died ca. 1963. James & Mary Fanning had a son, Patrick “Paddy” Fanning born 1931 and
married Chrissie Foley. They had a son named Patrick Colm Fanning.
iii. Margaret, daughter of John & Mary Dobson Fanning was born 1826.
iv. Patrick Fanning married Bridget Gannon. He died in 1855. They had a son, Michael fanning b. 1852. Michael had a son, Charles Leroy Fanning who was born in 1902 in Rhode Island.
v. John Fanning b. ca. 1830 married Mary Canning. He died in 1916. They had a son, John Fanning b. 1870 who married Rose McCabe. He died in 1916.
vi. Francis Fanning of Glasdrumman. Fenagh, Co. Leitrim.
Thomas & Mary Bohann Fanning had another son:
B. Michael Fanning born in 1794, Co. Leitrim, Ireland. He died in Osgoode Township, Ontario,
Canada on May 8, 1868. He left his native land on 05 May, 1818 with his wife , Sarah Jane O’Brien,
& their 7-week old son, Patrick & settled first in Macisque Co., St. Armond , Quebec. Sarah was
born in 1794 and died May 17, 1868. In 1833 they moved to Bytown, & in 1838 to Osgoode, Ontario,
Canada, settling on lot 12 con. 6. For many years. Michael Fanning (Fenning) operated a blacksmith
shop. His account books date from 1838 to 1862. Michael and Sarah Jane had 5 children: Patrick,
Elizabeth, Alexander, Margaret, Mary Jane. [60]
i. Patrick Fenning born March 17, 1818, Co. Leitrim, married April 24 1834 to Ann Guilfoyle, born
April 2 1823, Co. Limerick Ireland., settled on the west half of lot ,14 .con .7 where they raised
9 girls and 4 boys. [61]
ii. Elizabeth Fenning, born Lower Canada ,1825, died 1911, married John Keany, farmed Lot 11, con. 5. 4 children.
iii. Alexander Fenning, born 1827 Lower Canada, married Feb.18,1878 Mary Malone, daughter of John
Malone & Ellen Meagher and farmed on the homestead – lot 12. con .6. Alexander died 1898. His wife,
Mary, was born 1837 died 1929. They had two sons, Michael John, born July 27 ,1880 died Dec. 7 1961, [ single] John Alexander, born May 24 1884, died 1972, married Nov.24,
1925 to Anne Kehoe , daughter of Patrick Kehoe & Johanna Fenning.
iv. Margaret Fenning , born 1836 in Bytown married John Moran.
v. Mary Jane Fenning. [62] [63]
# 4 Bryan Fanning, son of Laughlin Fanning, Sr. and Ann O’Brien was born about 1693 in Greagh Townland, Fenagh Parish, Co. Leitrim, Ireland. He emigrated to America and settled in Prince George County of the Colony of Virginia probably around 1720 to 1725. He married Elizabeth Unknown.
[64] It is not sure whether he married in Ireland or Virginia.
Around 1734/1735, Amelia County was formed from Brunswick County which itself had been formed
earlier in 1732 from Prince George County. At this time Bryan Fanning is found with his young
family in what was later known by 1752 as Nottoway Parish, but was initially called Raleigh Parish
1735.[65] He was commissioned to survey for a road to the fork of the Little Nottoway River in the
spring of 1735.[66] Brian Fannon was named in “A List of all the Titheables below Deep Creek in
1736”. [67] On January 2, 1737, he received 294 acres of land by patent from King George II [68]
and by the summer of that year he was involved in the clearing of a new road from the county line
the Tomahitton Creek and the Birchen Swamp. [69] Here he would clear a plantation site and raise
his family. The location is now occupied by Fort Pickett, Blackstone, Nottoway County, Va. (first
known as Camp Pickett). Bryan would later receive another patent for an additional 280 acres on
in the same area. [70]
Bryan & Elizabeth Fanning, sometimes spelled Fannen, Fannon or Fannin, raised their family in
Nottoway Parish. Their plantation was located at the present site of Fort Pickett, Blackstone,
Virginia. The old Camp maps show the Tomahitton Creek beginning at the site of the Camp airfield.
This is the location mentioned in the patents & deeds for Bryan Fannin, Sr.’s lands. Bryan died
there in 1765. It is presumed that he is buried there. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers removed any
known graves as they built Camp Pickett.[71] Bryan & Elizabeth’s graves were not found. [72]
Bryan died between January 3rd & February 17th of 1765. [73] Elizabeth Fanin had sold her 92 acre
share of the plantation on September 25th, 1765 to Nathaniel Hobbs [74] and most likely went to
live with one of her children. Achals, Briant, Jehu & Laughlin Fannin were all listed along with
Elizabeth Fannin in the 1765 Amelia Co., Va. Personal Property Tax List. [75] Laughling Fannen,
Achales Fennen (with other free male William Fennen on 140 acres) & William Fennen were all listed
1766 Personal Property Tax List for lower Nottoway Parish of Amelia Co. [76] It appears sons Jehu &
Briant had moved on by 1766 and Elizabeth may have died or moved with one of her children. Jehu
died in 1770 in Halifax County, Virginia. His wife was Anne Unknown. & Bryan, Jr. died in Sussex
County, Virgina in 1767. His wife was Rachel Rottenberry. Laughlin moved to Mecklenburg County,
Virginia, where he served in the militia during the American Revolution. His wife was named
Winnefred Unknown. After the war he moved to Elbert County, Georgia, where he died around 1806-
Bryan & Elizabeth Fannin, Sr.’ son David drowned in Deep River, Orange County, North Carolina
around 1755, shortly before the birth of his son, David Fanning, later a Loyalist Colonel of South
Carolina, who died in 1825 in Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Achilles Fannin, Sr., son of Bryan & Elizabeth, married Rose Unknown and moved to Halifax Co., Va.,
Fincastle Co., Va., Montgomery Co., Va. and died in Wythe Co., Va in 1812 (now Bland Co., Va.). He
had five children: Akerless Fannon, Jr., Bryant Fannon, William Fannon, David Fannon (Fannin,
Fanning) & Sarah Straighley.
Records of Amelia County, Virginia
First Court for Amelia County, Va. was held May 9, 1735 — Page 1 of Original Order Book 1
13 February 1735 (Old calendar 1734) Amelia Co., Va. Order Book 1 Page 6
Bryan Fenell Appointed Surveyor of a Road to be cleared a little below John Jacksons to the fork of
Little Nottoway.
1736 “A List of all the Titheables below Deep Creek in 1736”.
The list was taken by Abraham Green. Amelia microfilm reel #55, Library of Virginia, 1736-1771.
This is roughly the southern 2/3 of Amelia County. Prior to about 1735, this area was part of
Prince George County. In other words, these individuals were residents of Prince George County the
year before Amelia was carved out of Prince George.
Included in the list of names was: Fannon, Brian
10 December, 1736 Order Book 1, Page 18
Court held To Lay the County Levey
Bryan Fanney 1 old wolf’s head 140
10 June 1737 Amelia Co., Va. Order Book 1 Page 28
Upon the petition of John Jackson, Thomas Jackson, Solomon Harper, Bryan ffenney, William Green,
William Keatly, William Pool, and William Parush, Leave is given them to clear a road from the
county line between Tomahitton and the Birchen Swamps to the Chappel on Nottoway the most
convenient way & they are accordingly ordered to clear the same.
10 December, 1737 Amelia Co., Va. Order Book 1, Page 41
Court held on Laying the County Levy
To Bryan Fanin, 7 young, 1 old ditto 630
20 April 1739 Amelia Co., Va. Order Book 1 Page 65
John Leverett appointed Surveyor of the Road from Letbetters low grounds on Nottoway River the
nearest way to Butterwood road. Bryan Fenning W.m Jackson Thomas Jackson Hez. Powell John Jackson
and all other persons convenient and not employed on other roads to assist in doing the Same.
19 August 1748 O. S., Page 105
Ordered that William Jackson be Appointed Surveyor of a Road from Battes Path to the County Line
and that William Cryer Charles Jackson Bryant Fannell Capt Haynes and their Male Labouring
Tithables Assist him in doing the Same —
A list of all —-Surveys made in the County of Amelia from 1st day of September 1746 to the 15th
day of May 1751 by William Watson, surveyor includes the following entry:
28 March 1751 David Fannin a Survey on the South Side of the Burchan Swamp joining Bagsdales
Jackson and John Hugh’s lines 125 Acres
Amelia Co., Va. Will Book 2X pg. 89 Written: 3 January, 1765 Proven: 18 Feb., 1765
WILL OF BRYAN FANNIN AMELIA COUNTY, VA.
In the name of God, Amen, I Bryan Fannen of Amelia County, being weak in body yet in proper sence,
considering that certainty of death, I recommend my Soul to God’s mercy and my Estate as followeth
Item: I lend to my dearly beloved Wife, Elizabeth Fannan the plantation where I now live
& all my hogs & Cattle & Household furniture during her widowhood or Life & I give her my Horse
Saddle & Bridle; and the Land I have lent to my Wife, after her time to be Equally divided between
my Son Laughlin and my Son Phillip; Beginning to divide at the burchin where my line and magoons
(?) crosses & if either of them dies without heir, the other is to possess the whole & if both dies
without Heir, to my Son Achilles Fannan, Laughlans part to be joining the Burchin & spring branch
fork. Item I give to my son Jehu Fannen all the land that lyes on the East side of my spring
branch only about half an acre joining the spring, to keep it good not to sell till his Mother’s
death nor swap. Item I leave all my land that lyes on the south side of the burchen to be sold by
Executors to discharge my Debts & if any Left of the money the said land sells for, besides paying
my Debts, to be equally divided between my Son Laughlin & my Son Phillip and my daughter Judith;
also after my Wifes time, the Hogs & Cattle & Household furniture to be equally divided amongst the
same three children, Laughlin, Phillip & Judith. Item I leave to my Children David, Mary, Bryan,
Anny, Bety, Peggy and Frankey one shilling apiece. Item I do hereby make constitute & appoint my
beloved wife Elizabeth Fannan & my son Achillis Fannan Executors of my last Will & Testament
intesta of all I have hereunto set Hand seal This 3 day of January, 1765.
Signed Sealed in the presence of us : Bryan B F Fannan (his mark)
Joshua Hightower
John Kirkland (his mark) Thomas Hightower
Pg. 90 –
At the court held for Amelia County this 18th day of Feby 1765 this will was proved by the oaths of
Joshua Hightower Jr. and John Kirkland two of the witnesses thereto sworn to by Elizabeth Fannon
the Executrix therein named and entered to be Recorded and on the motion of the said Executrix who
entered into and acknowledged Bond with Joshua Hightower her Security as the law directs
Certificate was granted her for obtaining a probate in due form.
Testa P. G. Peachy
Amelia Co., Va. Will Book 2X pg. 130
October 6, 1765 Court: Inventory & Appraisement recorded for Estate of Bryan Fannan. No value total
given. Appraisers: Joshua Hightower, Charles Williams & George Hightower.
The following two entries have been purported by some to be Personal Property Tax Lists, but were
actually from the “List of Titheables for Amelia County”. Amelia County didn’t have Personal
Property Taxes until after the Revolutionary War.
1765 Amelia County, Va. List of Titheables: Achals, Briant, Elizabeth, Jehu & Laughlin Fannin,
all in Nottoway Parish.
1766 Amelia County, Va. List of Titheables: Laughling Fannen, Achales Fennen ( with other free
male William Fennen), all in Nottoway Parish.
Of the twelve children of Bryan & Elizabeth Fanning (Fannen), nothing is known of six of them; that
is: Phillip, Judith, Anny, Bety, Peggy or Frankey. Some say that Mary Fannin married Burwell
Burchett, but evidence seems to suggest that Mary Burchett was the daughter of Achilles Fanning,
Sr. There is also an obscure reference to Elisabeth Fannen of Nottoway Parish (Amelia Co., Va),
daughter of Betty Fannen, found in “Miscellaneous records Amelia County , VA 1735-1865”, regarding
an entry in Order Book 6. The entry is as follows:
“Jan 22, 1761 Elisabeth Fannen of Nottoway Parish, daughter of Betty Fannen page 85”. The order
books deal with children who were bound out from 1735 – 1782.
It states: “Not all children who were bound out were paupers. However, by law, each Parish was
required to support its own paupers. The church wardens were ordered by the court to bind out, to
the age of maturity, the children of such persons as were deemed incapable of supporting them or
bringing them up in “honest courses”.”
[1] Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth,
1515-1624, ed. J.S. Brewer, and William Bullen. 6 vols. (London 1867-1873) p. 402.
[2] Ibid. Calendar p. 404
[3] D’Alton. Illustrations, etc. of King James’s Irish Army, 1689, vol. II., p. 620
[4] Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chauncery in Ireland. Morrin. Dublin, 1861-2,
vol. 1., pp. 175, 184
1515-1624, ed.
J.S. Brewer, and William Bullen. 6 vols. (London 1867-1873) p. 402.
[6] Knocktopher: MIs in the graveyard: including Bassett’s Directory of Knocktopher 1884:
Kilkenny graveyard inscriptions. Published Kilkenny: Kilkenny Archaeological Society, Author
Phelan, M M et al
[7] D’Alton, p. 620
[8] Tipperary’s families : being the hearth money records for 1665-67 Published Dublin : James
Duffy & Co., Ltd., 1911 Author Laffan, Thomas ed.
[9] Calendar of Documents, etc., 1285-1292. Sweetman. P. 58.
[10] Ibid., 1293-1301, p. 114
[11] Clyn. The Annals of Ireland, p. 61
[12] D’Alton. p. 620.
[13] Ibid., Knocktopher: MIs in the graveyard
[14] “Books of Survey and Distribution” 20 vols. Public Record Office, Dublin, vol. IX Wexford &
Kilkenny.
[15] John O’Hart “Irish Landed Gentry, second edition, p. 262
[16] Ibid. p. 898
[17] Hardiman. “Ancient Irish Deeds and Writings, chiefly relating to Landed Property, from the
twelfh to the seventeenth century”, Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 1828.
[18] Ibid
[19] Union County, S.C. Register of Mesne Conveyance Deed Index Book C Page 199 & others.
[20] Memoirs of the Fort & Fannin Families. Kate Haynes Fort 1903. MacGowan & Cooke Co.
Chattanooga.
[21] The O’Briens –Written in Irish in 1762, based on an earlier book by Hugh Buie Mac Curtin.
Translated from Irish Ms. by Standish O’Grady
[22] Irish Pedigrees by O’Hart, Volume 1, dated 1892.
[23] Ballinagleara Parish, Co. Leitrim: Aspects of its History & Traditions. by Padraig Forde.
[24] A Genealogical & Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland by Sir Bernard Burke, CB1899
[25] O’Brien of Thomond: The O’Briens In Irish History, 1500 – 1865
[26] Irish Pedigrees (Heber Genealogies): O’Brien No. 8, Of Ballynalacken, County Clare.
[27] The History and Topography of the County of Clare by James Frost Dublin 1893 [28] G.E.
Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord
Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and
the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6
volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VII.
[29] Ibid: A Genealogical & Hearldic History
[30] Ainsworth. “Report on the Dillon Papers, relating to the property of Dillon, Greene,
McKeogh, Donellan & other families and to lands in Cos. Galway, Roscommon & Mayo. Private
Collection No. 4.
[31] Irish Minstrels and Musicians by Captain Francis O’Neill Chapter VIII Harpers At The Granard
and Belfast Meetings. Chicago, Rrgan Printing House, 1913
[32] Ibid: O’Brien
[33] “MacUi-Brien Ara,” in Vol H. 1.7, MSS. Lib., Trinity College, Dublin.
[34] Ibid: “MacUi-Briens Ara”
[35] Irish History In Stone Inscriptions. Arnold Ross, Vol. 2, pages 212. Private Collection
E.C. Cochrane. Compiled observations from 1868-1873 of parish cemetery monuments from Connaught
Province.
[36] Ibid: The O’Briens
[37] Ibid. Irish Minstrels and Musicians.
[38] Ibid: Irish History in Stone Inscriptions.
[39] Ibid: Irish Minstrels and Musicians
[40] T h e M e m o i r s o f Arthur O ‘ N e i l l, Chapter VII,
http://pybertra.free.fr/ceol/oneill.htm
[42] Ms. 33 Book 3 Edward Bunting
[43] History of the Traditional Music of Leitrim 1600 -2000. A lecture given in the Glen Centre
Manorhamilton. It has to do with Leitrim Music. http://mairegarvey.com/home_page/index.html
[44] Grainne Yeats. Belfast Harp Festival, 1792
[45] Journal of the Dun Laoghane Genealogical Society Vol. 8 No. 4, 1999 – Article: “Ireland of
Hidden Centuries”. Michael Merrigan, FGSI
[46] Complete Collection of Carolan’s Irish Tunes, 1984; No. 129, pg. 92-93. Heymann (Legacy of
the 1792 Belfast Harp Festival), 1992; pgs. 18-20. Green Linnet GLCD 1128, Brendan Mulvihill &
Donna Long – “The Morning Dew” (1993). http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/COLM_COLV.htm
[47] Annals of the Harpers by Charlotte Milligan Fox. London- Smith, Elder & Co.
[48] Descendants of Agnes Fanning, Wife of Thomas Conboy b. 1810. by Walker. [49] Griffith’s
Valuation 1851 Co. Leitrim, Ireland.
[50] Ibid: Descendants of Agnes Fanning
[51] Ibid: Griffith’s Valuation
[52] 1860 US Federal Census of Reeve Twp., Daviess Co., Indiana Roll: M653_251 Page 804; Image
[53] 1870 US Federal Census of Reeve Twp., Daviess Co., In. Roll M 593_306 Page 297; Image 498
[54] Daviess County, Indiana 1886 (History of) by Weston A. Goodspeed –Biographical Sketches of
John & James H. Fanning
[55] Daviess County, Indiana Cemetery Books – St. Patrick’s Cemetery.
[56] Ibid. 1860 US Federal Census
[57] Ibid: Daviess Co., Ind. 1886 (History of) [58] Ibid. Daviess Co., Ind. Cemetery Books
[59] J. P. Fanning of Foxfield, Co. Leitrim.
[60] Pioneer Families of Osgoode Township Volume IX Osgoode Township Historical Society &
Museum Sept., 1978.
[61] 1881 Census Place: Osgoode, Russell, Ontario, Canada Source: FHL Film 1375865 NAC C-13229
Dist 104
SubDist G Div 2 Page 21 Family 92
[62] Ibid: Pioneer Families
[64] Amelia County, Va. Will Book 2X Page 89 3 January, 1765
[65] Will Book 2X Amelia County, Virginia (1761 – 1771) Abstracted & Compiled by Gibson
Jefferson McConnaughey Virginia Book Company
[66] Amelia County, Va. Order Book 1 p. 6 at Court held Feb. 13, 1735, there is a Bryan Fenell
appointed as a surveyor of a road to be cleared to the fork of Little Nottoway. Bryan Fannin
received a land grant in Amelia County for 294 acres on Jan. 2, 1737, plus other grants later.
[67] Amelia County, Va. Microfilm reel #55, Library of Virginia
[68] LVA-Va. State Land Office Patents, No. 17, 1735-1738, p. 425 (Reel 15) to Bryan Fennin .
[69] Amelia County, Va. Order Book 1 p. 28 10 June 1737
[70] LVA-Va. State Land Office Patents, No. 26 pp. 484-486 (Reel 24) to Bryan Fanning.
[71] Hunter letter re: U.S. Army Engineers work removing graves at Camp Pickett, Va.
[72] Hamner & Bevell Funeral Home, Blackstone, Va. Contracted by US Army to remove all graves from
future site of Camp Picket, Va.
[74] Amelia County, Va. Deed Book 8, Pg. 661
[75] 1765 Amelia County, Va. Personal Property Tax List LDS Microfilm FHL US/CAN #1902616
Laughling Fannen, Achales Fennen, (other free male: William Fennen 140 Acres), William Fennen.
END: Part 1 by A.B. Reilly”
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Secoo announces strategic partnership with Ruyi Group
By Danielle Wightman-Stone
Asia's largest premium lifestyle platform, Secoo has announced a strategic partnership with Shandong Ruyi Group, a Chinese textile conglomerate with an extensive portfolio of fashion, luxury clothing and accessories brands, as it looks to expand its business within the fashion industry.
In the press statement, both companies stated that through the partnership they will “leverage respective resources and expertise” in branding, technology, network and channel management to jointly establish a global omni-channel fashion supply chain in brand operations, big data, smart manufacturing and smart retail.
Ruyi Group is a key supplier and partner for a wide range of luxury brands across the globe. In recent years, it has acquired, or taken significant ownership positions in many global fashion and luxury brands, including Sandro, Maje and Claudie Pierlot, under SMCP, and it also own British trench coat brand Aquascutum, and has a controlling stake in Hong Kong menswear group Trinity, which operates Cerruti 1881, Gieves and Hawkes and Kent Curwen.
"We're thrilled to enter into this strategic partnership with the Ruyi Group," said Richard Li, founder and chief executive of Secoo in a press release. "Secoo is dedicated to establishing solid relationships with leading partners in the consumer, luxury and e-commerce spaces and our partnership with the Ruyi Group exemplifies this strategy.”
Li, added: “Our leading integrated luxury e-commerce platform is well-suited to drive growth through rapidly expanding brand collaborations and increasing product portfolios. Furthermore, Secoo will cooperate with the Ruyi Group in a variety of fashion and luxury retail innovations ranging from big data solutions to smart manufacturing to unique first-class shopping experiences for our premium customers.”
Yafu Qiu, chairman of Ruyi Group, commented: "Secoo's integrated online and offline shopping platform, which consists of Secoo.com, mobile applications and offline experience centres, has attracted approximately 20 million customers. We believe this expansive integrated platform along with our valuable brand assets and supply chain network expertise will synergise and unlock unparalleled opportunities in the fashion market for both firms.”
This strategic partnership follows Secoo securing 175 million dollars of investment from L Catterton Asia and JD.com, which will allow Secoo to leverage L Catterton’s global fashion and retail expertise to further expand within the luxury market by collaborating with existing L Catterton portfolio companies.
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Discuss the relationship between Jessica and Shylock.
Questions › Discuss the relationship between Jessica and Shylock.
raviraj asked 4 years ago
Discuss the relationship between Jessica and Shylock. Are we meant to sympathise with the moneylender’s daughter? Does Shakespeare seem ambivalent in his portrayal of Jessica?
Question Tags: Merchant of Venice
In Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice the father-daughter relationship between Shylock and Jessica is something that is never clearly expressed in the entire play. In fact, the conversation between Jessica and Shylock has been rather scanty. But Jessica’s speech before other characters like Launcelot sheds some more light on this.
As it comes to Shylock, he behaves very decently with his daughter. He is not seen to utter something hurtful to her. Even we see him rebuke Launcelot when he yells by her name. Shylock seems to be very proud of his Jewish ethnicity and religion, and proactive to protect everything he’s got including her daughter.
Again, Jessica seems to have respect and gratitude for her father. She speaks mildly with him. And when Launcelot was leaving his service, she expressed her concern for Shylock. But even then, she utters that the house has become a hell due to her father.
I am sorry thou wilt leave my father so.
Our house is hell,
Apparently surprising, Jessica is seen to be ashamed of being born to Shylock. She is feeling a kind of guilty for not being true to her father and her religion.
Alack, what heinous sin is it in me
To be ashamed to be my father’s child!
But immediately after this, she argues that she is okay with him on a person-to-person level, but on the ideological level, she wants to part from her father. She is more ashamed of her father’s ill-manners and stubbornness rather than he being a Jew. Interestingly, her father does not know all these and thinks her to be a very obedient daughter.
But though I am a daughter to his blood,
I am not to his manners.
So, what she does not like is Shylock’s rigid nature. She is desperate to break away from the restricted way of life that his father promotes as a hardcore Jew. Jessica wants to enjoy the freedom of Christian lifestyle. And that is why she decides to flee with her Christian lover, Lorenzo.
This may bring a sense of sympathy in the readers’ mind for Jessica to be born to such a father that she cannot lead a free life, cannot spend freely and even cannot peep through the window to see the ‘Christian fools’ dancing and singing.
But, we have got to sympathize with Shylock too. He has always protected his identity and his home and lived with his head held high even after receiving so much torture from the Christians. So, it’s difficult for him to bear with the shock seeing his daughter gone with a Christian whom he has hated all his life. Again, some readers feel that it is Shylock’s own fault of character that leads to Jessica’s elopement and he deserved that shock.
To your first question, I would say we are meant to sympathize with both Jessica and Shylock in their respective situations, as already explained. And, I would say ‘yes’ to your last question that Shakespeare has been ambivalent in portraying Jessica’s character with both good traits and the opposite.
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June 04, 2020 Updated 10:52 GMT
Homepage : News : Malta to set up support centre in Libya to fight 'illegal immigration'
Malta to set up support centre in Libya to fight 'illegal immigration'
The centres will be funded by Malta's government [Getty/ Archive]
Date of publication: 4 June, 2020
The move comes as Malta's ports remain closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Malta, Libya, Migrants.
Malta has signed an agreement with Libya to set up coordination centres in Tripoli and Valletta to help support efforts to combat "illegal immigration".
The centres will "offer the necessary support relating to combatting illegal immigration in Libya and the Mediterranean region," according to the memorandum of understanding signed by Malta and Libya's UN-recognised unity government on May 28 and presented in Malta's parliament on Wednesday.
The centres will be each manned by three officials and funded by Malta's government. They will be "limited to support and coordination", states the agreement, which is valid for three years.
Malta has long complained it is unable to accommodate the influx of migrants arriving in the small Mediterranean island from war-torn Libya.
Currently, more than 400 rescued migrants remain stranded on four tourist vessels chartered by Malta just outside Maltese territorial waters, awaiting entry to an EU port.
Maltese Foreign Minister Evarist Bartolo told parliament on Wednesday that "the EU has a responsibility to reach a comprehensive agreement with Libya in order restrain irregular immigration."
"The number of immigrants arriving in Malta is disproportionate compared to other European countries," Bartolo said.
Since 2005, only 8 percent of irregular migrants in Malta have been relocated to other EU member states, according to Malta's foreign affairs ministry.
'Political negotiations'
The document states that Malta will propose to the European Commission an increase in financial support to help Libya's unity government in securing its southern borders and dismantling human trafficking and organised crime networks.
Malta will also propose funding of "additional maritime assets necessary for the interception and follow-up of human trafficking activities in the search and rescue region in the Mediterranean basin."
Both parties signed the agreement last week when a Maltese delegation including Bartolo and Prime Minister Robert Abela travelled to the Libyan capital.
Malta's ports have been closed for over two months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
On Wednesday, humanitarian ocean rescue group SOS Mediterranee condemned what it called a lack of response from EU countries as the 400 migrants were stranded outside Malta.
"Instead of disembarking them in a safe place as international law requires, those rescued at sea are being used for political negotiations with EU member states," the group said in a statement.
It warned of a "chaotic and deadly spiral" in the Mediterranean, with countries delaying, or failing to respond to distress signals from migrants at sea.
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The Banner Saga Review
February 24, 2014 September 9, 2020 Callum Rakestraw PC, Reviews
Developer Stoic’s first entry in its three-part turn-based strategy role-playing game epic The Banner Saga is excellent, both as a standalone game and as an introduction to a greater narrative. It’s expansive world and endearing cast craft a compelling stage, tense battles and difficult decisions giving each exchange weight and uncertainty. It’s beautiful and dark; depressing, yet heartwarming; bleak, but hopeful. Not a pleasant game by any means, but a wonderful one all the same.
The Banner Saga is set in a world on the brink of destruction. The gods have died, and the sun has stopped. Stone creatures known as dredge, thought to have been banished to the north many years ago, now ravage the land once more. Death and desolation lay spread throughout the frigid landscape, villages traveling in packs in an attempt to find sanctuary, seemingly hopeless as it may be. As Rook, you head up one such caravan following a forced evacuation of your home due to an invasion of dredge, your job as the newly appointed leader to keep everyone safe and fed. A difficult task given scarce supplies and frequent fights breaking out along the road.
It’s a beautiful, fascinating world. Even in spite of the bleak circumstances, it’s hard not to take interest in the rich lore and breathtaking sights. It’s history is long and storied, the map containing info on just about everything; from mountains and cities to the oceans and fields, each extolling vignettes and facts on the world itself or specific points in time. The hand-drawn art lends a unique style, almost reminiscent of old Disney films, which helps make your time spent here all the more enjoyable. Though none of it is animated outside of combat and a single cutscene right at the start, it’s gorgeous to behold all the same.
Most of The Banner Saga is spent on the road. It plays a lot like The Oregon Trail here. Your caravan travels along a set path, your only actions on the road handling random events, which range from encounters with bandits and dredge to solving disputes from within your clan and deciding when to stop and rest. Setting up camp and relaxing for a few days helps regain morale (very important for battle), but it also eats away at your supplies. Few markets line the roads you roam, those still in business seldom selling more than a few days’ worth of food, and at a high price.
Balancing resources and the caravan’s well-being makes the long stretches of travel interesting. The Banner Saga already delivers plenty of drama and suspense through its story and random interactions on the road by hanging the threat of constant, unexpected death over you. (Your troops can only die permanently outside of battle.) Everything else merely conspires to make you into a complete emotional wreak. Watching supplies dwindle with each passing day, inching closer and closer to running dry, hoping and praying desperately that a market’s nearby is nerve-wracking. That battle could suddenly strike and wound most of your soldiers, leaving you no time to recover in time for a story-critical campaign even more so.
It never gives you a break. You’re constantly on edge, analyzing everything very deeply before committing to anything – even the most pedestrian of questions – out of fear of it coming to bite you in the ass later on. And that’s precisely the genius of The Banner Saga: everything matters. Actions don’t exist in a vacuum, always playing a role in deciding what lies in wait for you in the future. A trusted ally could suddenly betray you, or vast supplies gained from charitable travels could prove to be spoiled, possibly tainting the rest of your food. It’s a constant balancing act of weighing pros and cons, wants and needs, etc. You can never avoid loss, only prepare for, mitigate, and recover from it as best you can.
Battle delivers similarly tough situations, albeit in a different manner. The Banner Saga uses a turn-based system, one that keeps the turn order even. Rather than have both sides move all their units on the same turn, each character takes their turn individually, swapping back and forth between you and the AI; you take a turn, then the enemy does, then it’s back to you, and so on. This continues until either side is down to a single unit, at which point whoever holds the advantage gets to move all their characters in sequence until the skirmish ends. You can decide the turn order of your soldiers during deployment, which is just as important as whom you choose to send out.
Your units run the usual gamut of archers, swordsmen, spearmen, and more. Even though many characters share the same class, each is wholly unique. Apart from the obvious stat differences, their abilities differ greatly. One archer, for instance, can fire an arrow that pieces multiple foes in a single line, while another can trap specific squares to halt enemy movement, making multiples of the same class more than mere redundancies.
Everyone’s use is limited without proper leveling, though. Every few slain foes, the option to promote one of your soldiers comes up. Doing so grants a couple of skill points that can be invested in one of their many stats (strength, defense, armor break damage, etc.) in exchange for renown. The costs start low, but rapidly climb as characters grow. Everyone can be promoted up to five times, but only a few will ever grow so strong, if at all. The need for level five units is small, the majority of battles able to be handled through sheer tactical prowess alone. I was able finish The Banner Saga just fine without a single level five unit, even in spite of a few choke-points.
No matter how strong the adversary, tactics are what decide the outcome of battle. Brute force gets you or your opponent nowhere. You have to smart in how you attack, with whom, and when. Just rushing toward the nearest foe with whoever you can may work in the short-term, but such focus on a single enemy will only cost you in the long-term. Low strength (hit-points, essentially) and defense only make you an easier target, all but ensuring the enemy’s victory, whereas carefully drawing them in and steadily whittling away at whoever seems to be the biggest threat often increases your chances of success. It’s all a matter of reading the situation and positioning your troops intelligently. No battle can’t be won that way.
There is one instance to the contrary right at the end, though: the final boss, where suddenly the difficulty jumps unexpectedly. Up until that point, The Banner Saga keeps up a steady, even challenge, always ensuring you can turn a bad situation around. But during the final boss? Not so. The battle is engineered to be tackled in a very specific way, leaving you with few options if you haven’t properly prepared for it.
I tried countless strategies and all of them failed, none of my usual go-to tactics or troops able to make much of a dent. It felt hopeless, like I’d somehow made some horrible miscalculation I wouldn’t be able to recover from… until I turned the game difficulty down to easy. Then it was a complete cakewalk. It’s a horrible bit of unbalance that closes the game out on a sour note.
Even so, everything leading up that point is handled so well, so finely crafted and tuned that it’s hard to let that one mishap color the entire experience. From the intriguing world and characters to the intense combat and nerve-wracking micromanagement of the caravan, the engrossing story and marvelous writing, it all comes together in spectacular fashion. The Banner Saga is nothing short of a masterpiece. That this is only the first entry makes it difficult to imagine how Stoic could possibly top itself with the rest of the trilogy, but it’s an exciting prospect all the same.
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Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts to appear in global live stream | Inquirer Entertainment
Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts to appear in global live stream
Associated Press / 06:46 AM April 28, 2020
LOS ANGELES — Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts and President George W. Bush will be among 200 star-studded participants in a 24-hour global livestream event.
This combination photo shows, top row from left, media mogul Oprah Winfrey, former President George W. Bush, actress Julia Robert and musician Yo-Yo Ma, bottom row from left, guru Deepak Chopra, rapper Common, musician Questlove, and actress Jennifer Garner, who are among the participants in the 24-hour livestream event, The Call to Unite, beginning Friday, May 1 at 8 p.m. EDT. (AP Photo)
The Call to Unite event will kick off Friday evening to offer performances and conversations about overcoming the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic.
Event organizers hope participants can help inspire people to “emerge from this crisis better than when it began.”
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What Is Gleaning? Past, Present & Future
Gleaning is an ancient form of food recovery & support that’s making an amazing modern comeback! Here’s a definition of the word “glean”, a history of the movement, and a discussion of gleaning today.
A History of Gleaning and the Food Recovery Movement Today
The Gleaners by Jean-François Millet, 1857
What does “glean” mean anyway?
Glean:(‘glēn) verb
1) to gather or collect (something) in a gradual way
2) to search (something) carefully
3) to gather grain or other material that is left after the main crop has been gathered
Gleaning has been an important form of social welfare for well over 2,000 years. The Old Testament of The Bible commanded Hebrew farmers to leave a portion of their crops un-harvested and allow poor neighbors and strangers to come onto their land to pick what was left for themselves and their families. In England and France, the government actually protected the rights of rural poor to glean leftover crops from nearby farms.
Picking leftover crops for the local community was an essential part of farm life and the harvest process for hundreds of years, until new private property laws and farming technology began to limit gleaners’ rights. It was common to see people out in fields picking leftover crops until after the end of World War II.
In 1987 the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Hunger held a hearing to raise awareness of and support for gleaning organizations across the United States. Nine years later President Clinton signed the “Good Samaritan Act,” which encourages individuals and organizations to donate excess food instead of throwing it away by protecting donors from liability on any food donation made in good faith.
Now there are gleaning organizations across the country, and over 20 organizations in California alone! The Society of St. Andrew, which has been gleaning in the United States since 1983, has distributed food in every state except Alaska and Hawaii and has recovered over 700 million pounds. Gleaning organizations today – predominantly faith-based and non-profit organizations – recover food from farms, restaurants, grocery stores, wholesale markets, Farmers Markets and backyards.
Future of Gleaning
Sadly, we need gleaning programs more than ever right now. A recent report estimated that as much as 40% of the food that we produce is never eaten. At the same time, there are 49 million people in the United States who do not have enough money to cover their basic food needs.
More organizations across the United States are beginning to look at food-waste recovery as one of the most efficient ways to address both problems at once, and several have come up with exciting new ideas. Non-profit and for-profit organizations have begun using social media and the Internet to connect abundance with need, and there are food-waste recovery Apps in development in San Francisco, Boston, and Southern California. Organizations like Food Forward are finding new ways to glean, but the idea is still the same: Harvest Food, Fight Hunger, Build Community.
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Sources and Further Reading
Liana Vardi, “Construing the Harvest.”
Peter King, “Gleaners, Farmers, and the Failure of Legal Sanctions in England 1750-1850.”
Stephen Hussey, “The Last Survivor of an Ancient Race.”
Sandrine Badino, “Understanding Gleaning.”
Gleaning groups across North America
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http://www.nrdc.org/food/files/wasted-food-ip.pdf
http://www.villageharvest.org/harvestingdirectory
http://www.wastenotoc.org/
http://foodspoileralert.com/
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3 thoughts on “What Is Gleaning? Past, Present & Future”
i want to initiate a gleaning ministry in my local small church; it will be separate from the food pantry ministry.
kathleen gusky-sharp says:
Is there a gleaning group I can join around Healdsburg/santa rosa,CA.
I need to do some gleaning in a group for my senior apt bldg.
kathy, o.t. 707.894-9318
Hi Kathleen, you can find a long list of Gleaning Organizations in California on our Gleaning Organizations page: https://foodforward.org/learn/gleaning-organizations/. Thanks for your interest!
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Listen to this: Bo Burnham on You Made it Weird
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You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes: Bo Burnham #3
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It’s a three hour conversation, which is about 6 times longer than the average podcast episode I listen to, but it’s such a great conversation. It’s the type of conversation that seems to cover everything, even though it’s not really focused on anything at all. But it works. It’s great. It covers all the things, all the conversational topics that I would like to talk about with someone, but I’m too self conscious about how pretentious it will all sound if I say it. This just does that unapologetically and it’s great. There are about 12 moments throughout the podcast where I had to stop and write extensive notes to myself because it gave me ideas about things that I would like to write/talk about at some point in the future.
Even if if you don’t really like Bo Burnham or his specials or his style of comedy in general, I’m pretty sure that you’ll find this conversation to be interesting and very inteligent.
It’s three hours well spent. Trust me.
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Dan Fogler Cast In ‘Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them’ As Jacob: Comic Con
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Deadline: Warner Bros has set Dan Fogler to join the cast of Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, the David Yates-directed adventure set in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World. Fogler joins Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Ezra Miller and Alison Sudol in the cast. He’ll play the role of Jacob, a non-magical person whom Newt (Redmayne) befriends while on his adventure in New York. Rowling wrote the script and the Harry Potter gang of David Heyman, Rowling, Steve Kloves and Lionel Wigram are producing. Warners’ Courtenay Valenti is shepherding.
Cinema Dan Fogler Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them San Diego Comic-Con deadline.com
StarWarsFan2019d ago
Sounds like an awesome cast. Dan Fogler is underrated. I think he could do a lot of creature characters in movies with makeup and all.
freshslicepizza2019d ago
the guy is hilarious in balls of fury and he shows he's a good actor in scenic route.
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Russian passenger aircraft with 220 onboard goes off radar, crashes over Egypt
A Russian plane carrying over 220 people has been lost from radars, according to sources in the Russian and Egyptian air traffic controllers. It's been reported that the plane crashed over Sinai. Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail confirmed that the Russian plane did go missing over Sinai and said a cabinet-level crisis committee has been formed to deal with the incident. Kolavia Flight 7K9268, an Airbus A320, went off radar 23 minutes after taking off the Sharm El-Sheikh International… (www.rt.com) Plus d'info...
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Chris B il y a 5 ans 5
Crash Site video. The tail is conspicuous in its absence. We can wonder whether this was as a result of terrorist action or structural failure, this aircraft did have a tail strike repair.....
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dcc_1446472746
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Brian Lager il y a 5 ans 1
From the video it appears as if the aircraft stuck the ground like a pancake landing. There doesn't seem to be any or little in the way of high speed impact. The silhouette of the wings and fuselage show catastrophic fire. The tail is some distance away from the main wreckage but the nose and cockpit area show little impact damage. You can clearly see the radar antenna and the area where the radome would fasten. One of the initial pictures showed the nose upside down but intact. The latest shows someone has righted the front, presumably to recover victims. My thoughts and prayers go to the families of the victims..
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Wolfgang Prigge il y a 5 ans 3
First reports of claims by ISIS they destroyed the aircraft are coming in. IT's not in their usual way to claim things so quickly, let's see what the investigation will show.
Ian Narita il y a 5 ans 1
I would doubt terrorism. The aircraft was above 30000 when it had problem and that is above what a man portable surface to air missile(SA-7, Stinger) is capable of.
Also a columnist from Daily Beast wrote the aircraft had a tail strike many years ago whilst flying for MEA.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/31/did-accident-from-14-years-ago-doom-russian-plane-over-egypt.html
Richard Rael il y a 5 ans 1
ISIS could use the terrain as its advantage to gain altitude. The area near the plane crash can range fro 7 to 10 thousand feet. Plenty of room for a SA-16 or IGLA model s manpad to do the job.
10,000 foot elevation and an 11,000 foot ceiling from launch still does n or add up to 30,000 feet.
joel wiley il y a 5 ans 2
According to a couple google searches the max altitude of the SA-16 is 3500 meters, seems still a bit short for FL300. Too soon to tell. Thoughts and prayers for the families.
Derek Thomas il y a 5 ans 2
Now apparently confirmed down - god rest their souls.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/world/middleeast/russian-plane-crashes-in-egypt-sinai-peninsula.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
The Islamic State jihadists are claiming they destroyed the airplane, according to this report. (In French)
http://www.lapresse.ca/international/201510/31/01-4915923-lei-revendique-lecrasement-de-lavion-russe-dans-le-sinai.php
Pictures. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3297871/Russian-passenger-plane-220-tourists-board-missing-Egypt-Fears-aircraft-crashed-Sinai-desert.html
Tail is EI-ETJ. I could not find any current data on flight aware. Flight tracker' s Twitter site has ADS-B video of flight track, altitude and speed.
The last info shows a ground speed of 98mph and a 4000fpm descent(I don't think an A321 can do this in controlled flight).
As to claims that the aircraft was shot down, the flight was flying above 30,000 ft in level flight. No man portable system(SA-7, Stinger) has a missile capable of this altitude. The other possibility is an attack on departure that went unnoticed.(unlikely).
Personally I'll wait until investigators play the data and voice recorders.
PS I think this is about a 20 year old A321.
mary susan watkins il y a 5 ans 1
the story as of today is that more and more it appears to have been an explosive device,possibly in a piece of luggage that caused the plane to fall apart..the terroist group isis is taking credit for it and a reporton cnn today said there was "chatter" monitored stating something big was about to happen..empty planes are eing flown into the resort are from Britain to bring home their citizens,but they must depart without their luggage..this is awful...
Paul Latreille il y a 5 ans 1
The is a picture of the site showing a burned wing WITH THE FLAPS DOWN !! Tha means the pilots had time to react to some emergency. Isn't that significant ? How come nobody has noticed nor mentionned that fact. I am unable to show it here, but if anybody is interested pls contact me at latreille4@videotron.ca
kurtgavino15 il y a 5 ans 1
Airbus A320 from Russian Airline Kolavia/Metrojet has disappeared and probably crashed in Egpyt
An Airbus A320 from Russian Airline Kolavia/Metrojet has disappeared and probably crashed in Egpyt.
Flight #7K9268 took of from Sharm el-Sheikh at 03.50 UTC and signal was lost at 04.13 UTC. Just before signal was lost the aircraft started to descend with about 6000 feet per minute.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-plane-reported-egypt-after-6739453
Joseph Howes il y a 5 ans 1
BBC now reporting the aircraft broke up in mid-air
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34694057
Jon Van Staalduinen il y a 5 ans 1
Looking like an explosive device, russia definatley has not made any friends in that region as of late.
Colin Seftel il y a 5 ans 1
For latest updates, see http://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-34687309
matt jensen il y a 5 ans 1
Reportedly the "black" boxes have been found
Correction its not Airbus A320 but Airbus A321.
AWAAlum il y a 5 ans 1
flightradar24.com (out of Sweden) has further detail. https://twitter.com/hashtag/7K9268?src=hash
Deep deep sympathy for pax, crew and families.
Follow here for constant updates: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-34687309 BBC reporting caution as to unconfirmed reports.
Tom Lull il y a 5 ans 0
The departure airport has a record of lax security. Putting something in with the luggage should not have been that difficult. Also ISIL isn't the only group with an axe to grind. The Muslim Brotherhood could be a player.
miles wohl il y a 5 ans 0
Russian Passenger Jet Crashes Over Egyptian Sinai Peninsula
A Russian plane carrying more than 200 passengers from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh is believed to have crashed in central Sinai.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/31/russian-plane-crashes-in-sinai-egyptian-pm-says
Kevin Brown il y a 5 ans 0
Russian Airbus A321 crashes over Sinai
This is a DEVELOPING STORY:
A passenger plane belonging to a small Russian airline, which was flying over 220 people from an Egyptian resort to Saint Petersburg, has vanished from radars over Sinai. Authorities in Egypt have confirmed the plane has crashed.
https://www.rt.com/news/320225-plane-crash-russian-egypt/
Devid Thomas il y a 5 ans 0
Russian passenger plane with over 200 onboard crashes in central Sinai, confirms Egypt PM
A Russian passenger plane with over 200 people on board crashed in Sinai, confirmed Egypt PM.
Egypt’s air accident chief said on Saturday that a missing passenger plane on its way to Russia had safely left Egyptian airspace and made contact with Turkish air traffic control.
http://www.theaviationnews.com/russian-passenger-plane-with-over-200-onboard-crashes-in-central-sinai-confirms-egypt-pm/
Glen England il y a 5 ans 0
Egyptian rescue team at scene of plane crash -aviation ministry
CAIRO, Oct 31 (Reuters) - A Russian airliner carrying 224 passengers and crew crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Saturday, the Egyptian prime minister's office and civil aviation ministry said.
The Airbus A-321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia with registration number KGL-9268, was flying from the Sinai coastal resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg in Russia when it went down in a desolate mountainous area of central Sinai soon after daybreak, the aviation ministry said.
There was no immediate word on casualties. Egyptian security sources said there was no indication that the plane had been shot down. Islamist militants are active in parts of Sinai.
Sergei Isvolsky, a spokesman for Russian aviation authority Rosaviatia, told Interfax news agency that the plane took off from Sharm el-Sheikh at 6:51 a.m.(0351 GMT) and ground contact with it was lost with it about 25 minutes later.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/egyptian-rescue-team-at-scene-of-plane-crash-aviation-ministry/ar-BBmEu1G?li=AAa0dzB
Sainulabid Pothangodan il y a 5 ans 0
Images: Metrojet flight 7K9268 wreckage
Egyptian officials has confirmed that there is no survivors in the crashed Metrojet Flight 7K9268, whose wreckage was located in mountainous region in the Sinai peninsula.
http://www.aviationanalysis.net/2015/10/images-metrojet-flight-7k9268-wreckage.html
ride click il y a 5 ans 0
Russian Airbus 321 goes down over the Sinai
Report states was at altitude when contact was lost
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/31/middleeast/egypt-plane-crash/
Metrojet Airbus A321 crashed in Egypt
A Russian passenger jet operated by Kolavia/Metrojet has crashed shortly after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh International airport in Egypt.
http://www.aviationanalysis.net/2015/10/metrojet-airbus-a321-crashed-in-egypt.html
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Captain Eric’s Psychic Thumb Feature Presentation
Hey hey hey! It's tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime—FOR THE THUMBS. Sorry for keeping all you Thumbatics waiting, but there was just so much info this month that I had trouble cramming it all in. In fact, it got loose and bit me a few times. After several ice packs and Space Ghost Band-Aids, I am back...AND HERE ARE YOUR THUMBS! Enjoy.
Contributed by Eric Regan on February 10th, 2011 in Categories ColumnsWith content involving Tags Captain Eric's Psychic Thumb Feature Presentation, co-op, Darkspore, Diablo, Dungeon Siege, Dungeon Siege III, Eric Regan, The Cursed Crusade, The Next Big Thing, WWE All-Stars
Hey hey hey! It’s tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime—FOR THE THUMBS. Sorry for keeping all you Thumbatics waiting, but there was just so much info this month that I had trouble cramming it all in. In fact, it got loose and bit me a few times. After several ice packs and Space Ghost Band-Aids, I am back…AND HERE ARE YOUR THUMBS! Enjoy.
The Cursed Crusade (X360/PS3/PC)
When I first heard about The Cursed Crusade, it sounded like an intriguing game to keep an eyeball on. Of course, I promptly forgot and never kept any spare eyeballs around for it! UNTIL NOW.
One thing I hadn’t noticed before is that this is an Atlus title. Atlus?! Don’t they strictly make Japanese games?! What are they doing in the Crusades?! It makes no sense, man! Apparently too, it’s being developed by Kylotonn Entertainment, which is…a FRENCH videogame developer?! When did France start making videogames!! THIS IS ALL JUST TOO WEIRD FOR ME.
It’s being billed as a third-person hack-and-slashy game. The best part—the part that my eyeball was SUPPOSED to be keeping tabs on—is that it features what sounds like a pretty sizable CO-OP mode! Both ONLINE and OFFLINE! WHOA!! These guys may finally be on to something! In addition, the gameplay sounds a bit reminiscent of Drakengard. Hopefully the good parts of Drakengard. Oh please, please pleeeease just don’t make it Samurai Warriors: CRUSADE EDITION. That’s all I ask!
Captain Eric’s Psychic Thumbs say… Thumbs Up!
Dungeon Siege III (X360/PS3/PC)
Dungeon Siege III out before Diablo III!? What madness!! I mention this because Dungeon Siege was the first game I ever came across touting that ridiculous “killer” moniker. DUNGEON SIEGE: DIABLO KILLER!! RAAAWWWR. Of course, it didn’t work out like that. It never does. Everyone can stop pretending games kill each other.
ANYWAYS, it seems that the Dungeon Siege series may have been departing from its Diabloliness ever since the first title. I have no idea. I only ever played the first installment. Well…the demo of it. That counts, right? My worry about this game right now is that, unlike the one I spoke of above, it seems like Dungeon Siege III is NOT giving co-op players what they want! Or anything really viable; it’s just more of the convoluted strangeness of online/co-op features in games like Fable II or Demon’s Souls. Really? No XP in co-op?! How does that make sense. JUST LET US PLAY GAMES WITH OUR FRIENDS! Why water down the fun?! I will never understand this!
Perhaps the single-player mode will be rich and engrossing like a Baldur’s Gate or a Neverwinter Nights. However, I have my doubts.
Captain Eric’s Psychic Thumbs say… Thumbs Down.
WWE All-Stars (X360/PS3/Wii/PSP/PS2)
I am a fan of over-the-stop stylized arcade graphics. I mean, I bought that XBLA Madden game, while I haven’t bought a real Madden title in like four years!! …OK, that may be more due to cheapness. But WHATEVER. After seeing the various videos, screenshots and trailers for this title, I can tell you it spoke to my heart. MY HEART. Mainly because the Ultimate Warrior is in it, and he’s super great and I don’t care how crazy he is now; I will totally beat everyone with a Gorilla Press Slam. EVERYONE!
Unlike that Madden game I mentioned earlier, I was a bit surprised to find out that this is a full title, not just some PSN/XBLA release. A full game of this much awesomeness?! It could really turn out to be special! Imagine if it has a create-a-wrestler mode! Could it be the game to stop wrestling fans from yearning for No Mercy?! Well, no. Of course not. But this game does look like a fun and wacky departure from the traditional Raw vs. Smackdown games. I for one can’t wait to see what it is all about!
The Next Big Thing (PC)
After just talking about a wrestling game, it would behoove me to something something BROCK LESNAR!?! something something about this title. Sadly, no. This has nothing to do with THAT next big thing.
Apparently, this is an adventure game. One that Mr. Chief Editor Paul Franzen is beyond over the moon about! It’s quite strange. This is all he talks about these days. Even after totally not liking this company’s last game! You ask him a question? His only answer is THE NEXT BIG THING! No, it never makes sense; but that is all you get from him. He just sits in his room nowadays, waiting for this game’s release. Rocking back and forth with a blank stare. Really…it is quite creepy!
Anyways…UNLIKE the One True Franzen, I have the courage to stand up and say “NO!” I do not trust this game! I have little faith that Pendulo will supply a quality game. SURPRISE ME! Please?
Darkspore (PC)
SPORE! But…DARK! Oh Maxis, how you suck me in. I always get so totally pumped for your games! I think Spore might have been the most pumped I’d been for a game…in like EVER. I spent tons of time with that adorable Creature Creator program…then I didn’t even buy the game!? WHAT. Yeah, I am not sure how that worked out, either. But it did.
But now…DARKSPORE! It looks so cool! …Just like before. However, this time COMBAT is a big part of it all! Combat is a big part of the FUN of games…so that’s a good thing! Many people have been comparing Darkspore to the famed Diablo. I mean, we do that with everything though, don’t we? I think this is the third time in this ARTICLE that I have mentioned it, in fact. WHOOPS. Still…Spore customization + Diablo combat?? Sounds awfully tempting, I gotta say! Time will tell how it all turns out. But much like a rocking Franzen, the Spore hype always seems to be able to trap my attention!
Well, that finishes up another FANTASTIC edition of the THUMBS that tell you EVERYTHING you need to know about upcoming games! 2011 is shaping up to be a truly memorable year! So don’t forget to come back next month to see what further AMAZINGMENT is just around the corner.
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Too much money? Bling your iPhone with the $1000 app
iPhone users can now buy themselves a picture of a red gem to display on their handsets, purely to demonstrate they've got enough money to throw $999.99 at such a pointless gesture. The application - subtly entitled "I am rich" - is available through Apple's Application Store, though we're not clear if anyone has bought a copy …
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Wednesday 6th August 2008 11:29 GMT Anonymous Coward
It's tempting to submit an "I am poor" app, that displays a lump of quartz, and costs $1
Wednesday 6th August 2008 11:29 GMT Gulfie
Post-Modernist Irony
Clearly this is an expression of post-modernist irony, the iPhone owner is able to purchase a work of art and display it on his or her phone... the next version will allow you to choose your own images and it will automatically shuffle between them... no, hang on, that's called the Photos application.
But seriously, this merely demonstrates a flaw in the whole app store model - there is no 'demo mode' available unless the developer chooses to ship both a crippled and non-crippled version of an application. Perhaps Apple could have a time-locked demo mode for apps that are offered with a demo, the user gets a developer-defined period of time to try the app and must then purchase it to get further access.
I'm not buying apps, not because I don't want any, but because I have no idea how good they are.
Any suggestions as to how the bling app would have a 'demo' mode? A flawed ruby perhaps?
Paris, because even she can recognise a rip-off when she sees one
Wednesday 6th August 2008 11:45 GMT Jared Earle
Sales?
I reckon the only sales will be journalists buying it to write about it. Its real name should be "Im a hack for an online journal and got advertisers to pony up for this comedy app."
I wish the programmer the best of luck in getting a sale.
Wednesday 6th August 2008 11:45 GMT Paul
Ah, the personalised license plate comes to the mobile phone
It's no different from someone buying "R1CH W4NK3R" for their car. I've never understood that either.
Although complaining that iTunes is charging more to UK buyers is a little unfair in this case, $999 in £, +17.5% VAT = £600. Remember that sales tax is not listed on items in the US and varies between state. So British idiots get to pay basically the same, but the government gets to take a cut of their stupidity.
That's an idea, how about tying VAT rates to stupidity? I suggest 6000% for buyers of irritating ringtones.
Red Zirconium Dioxide version ...
.. is in the works and should be available for free soon.
Kudos to...
...the first person to write a near identical hacked app with a blue pill^h^h^h^h gem in an app called "I'm clever" for those who chose to go into the techie field rather than sales.
The floor length leather one filled with guns and whatnot.
Wednesday 6th August 2008 11:47 GMT Marc Lawrence
Copycats
Actually it sounds like a great way to make some quick Dosh. Perhaps we should submit alternative photo schemes with 'glittering' effects to make it look like a Damien Hirst Diamond Skull.... or encode a "hello Michael" voice synthesiser of "Kitt"... complete with 'virtual' remote control of your car.
A 'dont panic' button on the screen to bring up the latest HHGTTG comment for "Earth".
Wednesday 6th August 2008 11:47 GMT bluesxman
@ Mat Stace
I think a picture of a lump of dog turd priced at $0.01 would be more fitting for your concept ... and the device.
re: Sales
You're right. No-one will buy this. But you might (as I just did) look at this app on the store.
The description of which includes this line: "It if's too expensive for you - check out my other apps - they are all much cheaper."
So, all in all it's just a clever way to get himself some free advertising courtesy of sites like El Reg.
It does of course
replace the picture of the dog turd, automatically installed on the iphone as a symbol of "I bought this shit?!"
Mine's the armour plated one suitable for wear in an orchard.
Efros
Wednesday 6th August 2008 12:46 GMT Simon
Not 'typically overpriced'
I hate being charged more than the Americans as much as anyone - however, at todays exchange rate $999.99 is £511.95. Once we add on VAT (which is never included on US prices but always included on UK prices) we get to £601.54.
Looks to me like a bargin saving of £1.56. Enough for a beer I reckon.
Come on guys, don't blame Apple when you simply forget the VAT.
Wednesday 6th August 2008 12:46 GMT Killian
@bluesxman
"I think a picture of a lump of dog turd priced at $0.01 would be more fitting for your concept ... and the device."
That would be for v1. The app for the 3G version would be the same with someone attempting to polish it
Wednesday 6th August 2008 13:20 GMT StillNoCouch
@ BluesXMan
When the next (£100 cheaper) version of the iBone comes out in time for the holidays, I'll rush right out and get one ... and the Turd-App.
What better and more appropriate use of that scatch-n-sniff screen ?
Yes thank you, the one with the brown scuff-mark on the lapel.
Wednesday 6th August 2008 13:20 GMT jai
i am worried that El Reg are on a cheapo dial-up if it's really taking you guys that long to download the small iTunes update
it came down in only a few minutes on my connection at home
Wednesday 6th August 2008 13:20 GMT Paul Charters
If I had...
If I had the money to waste on buying a silly little graphic for my mobile phone, what in the name of all existence would possibly make you believe I would even be USING an iPhone?
I'm just wondering when this mediocre, slow-acting 'phone' will be recognised as the pretty but poor device it really is.
Wednesday 6th August 2008 13:20 GMT Bob Gulien
What about the support....
Is that v 1.0 or should we wait for the sp1
If you realy want something....
that does nothing, then look here:
http://www.bernardbelanger.com/computing/NaDa/index.php
Wednesday 6th August 2008 13:43 GMT Ed
Its Sad But
You just know its gonna sell more than a few units....
Paris... well it clear why aint it ?
Wednesday 6th August 2008 14:03 GMT Darren B
@simon
Where are you getting your beer from? I want in.
Wednesday 6th August 2008 14:03 GMT Battles
VIP Luxury Ringtones
Isn't this a bit like the $100 VIP Luxury Ringtones in Grand Theft Auto 4?
Life imitating art?
Wednesday 6th August 2008 14:21 GMT Webster Phreaky
iPhone 2.0.1 Update Fixes Bugs, BREAKS SOME Devices ... S O S
Now WHY wasn't this tasty tid-bit about the Same Ol Shit from Apple of an Update DOING MORE DAMAGE than it fixes, reported??? Ain't Apple soooo wonderful? Huh, kook AppleTards?
"iPhone 2.0.1 Update Fixes Bugs, Breaks Some Devices"
Patricia Resende, newsfactor.comTue Aug 5, 4:51 PM ET
iPhone owners planning to add the newly available 2.0.1 software update need to be careful or they could end up with a dud.
When Apple launched its App Store and iPhone 2.0 software along with the iPhone 3G, users of both the 3G and upgraded first-generation iPhones with the 2.0 software faced several problems. Users reported slower synchronizations, dropped applications, unexpected reboots with both the iPhone software and downloaded applications, and problems with core GPS functions.
On Monday Apple responded with a 2.0.1 update that is expected to solve many of the performance-related issues the company described as bugs. Some changes included the ability to drag application icons across several pages in one motion, quicker keypad loads, and a better user interface.
No Permanent Fixes
But users are having problems installing the 249.2MB update and then connecting to services. And they are being warned to not put the iPhone in airplane mode, or they could lose more than connections.
Participants on Apple's support forum are complaining that they lost all wireless functionality, while others say the update bricked their handsets. Users who paid to have their iPhone 3Gs unlocked by Vodafone are also complaining that they are not able to reconnect to the service after the update.
Users having problems installing the 2.0.1 update are advised to attempt the install several times, as the iPhone may fail to update on the first try but should succeed on additional attempts.
Squashing Pwnage
The update was reportedly expected to do more than improve the user interface and increase sync times. According to some reports, one goal was to squash and make useless the jailbreaking Pwnage Tool, which opens up the iPhone's file system.
Calls to Apple for comment were not returned in time for publication.
Wednesday 6th August 2008 14:33 GMT Simpson
It would be for the same reason that a person would wear a $15,000 watch.
Because some attractive lady might recognize "that's a $15k watch!", lean over and say to you "nice watch". It's a convenient in.
Wednesday 6th August 2008 14:33 GMT Chris Gibson
@Paul Charters
"I'm just wondering when this mediocre, slow-acting 'phone' will be recognised as the pretty but poor device it really is."
Don't worry, Paul, it's only a matter of time. People like me, who own an iPhone and love it, will soon realise that people like you -- who I'm guessing have only seen an iPhone on TV, or played with it for five minutes in an Apple store -- are in fact correct. Please try and tolerate our ignorance until this happens.
Seriously, I'm so bored with the "I hate the iPhone!" posts. "It's not 3G! It's too expensive! Hang on -- the new version is 3G, and it's cheaper. Er... wait... that's polishing a turd! I think...? Well, I hate it, anyway. Anyone who disagrees, and who likes their iPhone, is therefore an idiot."
Wednesday 6th August 2008 15:07 GMT Robert Hill
Golly gee...my 2.0.1 update went flawlessly...
Perhaps I should try it a few more times just to see if I can replicate the "horror" being reported here.? And all of my services seem to work too...
Wednesday 6th August 2008 15:22 GMT tony baldwin
I BE PO'
I just want an app on my phone that shows my 1988 Ford Escort and patched jeans...
Wednesday 6th August 2008 15:32 GMT Andrew Tyler
Wish I'd thought of that.
Can you imagine Paris buying a copy when she sees it online? I thought so.
Wednesday 6th August 2008 15:50 GMT StopthePropaganda
@ those complaining of overpriced vs. America
just wait a few weeks. the way the exchange rate is going, it'll be a bargain price for ya. Your pound sterling is already twice the dollar. Any bets on it hitting 2.5x within two years, or 3x after Obama and a Democratic congressional majority rule?
Wednesday 6th August 2008 16:34 GMT Mike Richards
@ StopthePropaganda
'Any bets on it hitting 2.5x within two years, or 3x after Obama and a Democratic congressional majority rule?'
Nah, with the current lot in charge over here we'll be in a race to parity with the Zimbabwe Dollar.
Wednesday 6th August 2008 19:13 GMT J
I'm sure that there is a market for that... You know, there is a $300,000 watch that does not tell the time (only tells whether it's night or day...).
http://laptoplogic.com/news/detail.php?id=4859
http://www.elitechoice.org/2008/04/04/300000-timeless-watch-a-pricey-possession-substitutes-sun-moon/
Wednesday 6th August 2008 19:13 GMT Herby
There are lots of idiodic applications
The "NaDa" one is classic. Then go back around 40 years (or more) and you find "IEFBR14". I leave it to others to explain this, but it WAS useful at the time!
Wednesday 6th August 2008 21:16 GMT Richard Cartledge
That is soooo cool!
Wednesday 6th August 2008 21:16 GMT Graham Lockley
@Darren B
Head up North, a pint of bitter in my local is £1.38 !!
OK so the town centre places charge closer to £2 but I can live with that.
Whats that in the distance ? Oh no ! Coach loads of Southern alcoholics !!
Wednesday 6th August 2008 22:24 GMT John Benson
Ceci n'est pas un bijou
Already been done, 'nuff said.
Wednesday 6th August 2008 22:54 GMT Michael
@ Herby -- IEFBR14
Holy Flurking Shnit! A remembrance of things past. I have not written a line of JCL since 1999; I'd almost forgotten that one.
The fact that I wrote lines of JCL almost into the 21st century is another story... but now I can run OS virtually on my desktop, so maybe I can get back into practice.
And almost forgot
XYZZY -- in both Colossal Cave *and* AOS/VS
Thursday 7th August 2008 12:59 GMT Paul M
IEFBR14
Blimey, yes - good one! It was in fact extremely useful *because* it did nothing!
It was also (originally) the only single instruction program that contained a bug! (didn't set reg 14 to zero before branching back).
We really do need an Old Farts icon you know.
Thursday 7th August 2008 13:29 GMT Richard Cartledge
It's gone
Some stupid idiot bought it for a joke, then left a 1* review crying that it was not a joke and his VISA was charged $999. What a turd!
Sunday 10th August 2008 10:32 GMT pctechxp
Wish I'd thought of the idea first and put up an app to display some gold bullion on the screen
the cost? £10k
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Exhibition/Display
©Paola Paredes, from the series, Unveiled.
July’s featured photographer is Paola Paredes
Born in Quito, Ecuador in 1986. Paola graduated in Graphic Design in Quito in 2010. She became intrigued by the art of taking pictures and signed up for a photography course.
Paola recently finished an MA in Photography at Middlesex University. Her latest photography project ‘Unveiled’ has been published on various online publications, such as, Feature Shoot, Fotografia Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and Huffington Post. She is currently undertaking a second MA in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism at LCC, London.
In a three-hour conversation, I told my parents “I’m gay.” Accompanied by my sisters, I documented the event in the experimental photography project “Unveiled.”
In the planning process, the reality of Unveiled both excited and unnerved me. At 28, the possibility of rejection by my conservative Catholic, Ecuadorian parents, was one of many potential risks. My parents needed to be comfortable. I wanted to document natural reactions.
I needed to desensitize them to cameras. Much preparation was in order.
So… I prepared.
I photographed them cooking, brushing their teeth, shaving, smoking, and watching soap operas. I photographed them walking, tying their shoes, waking up, working in the office. I photographed my mother doing her nails.
The preparation for the project, surprisingly, plays an integral role in the actual project: coming out to my family at a dinner table, with three cameras, each shooting every five seconds.
The finished product provides the viewer a series of images, each telling a different story of the family they portray, the way those members interact, and ultimately, a photographer Unveiled.
©Paola Parades, from the series, Unveiled.
Interview with Paola Paredes
Foto Féminas: Tell us a little about the production process behind your series Unveiled? How much time did it take you to prepare the set?
Paola Paredes: I’d say it took me at least four months and then I went to Ecuador, which took another week. I first organised the set in London, planning it mentally and thinking about how, technically, to capture this particular moment. I made a mock-up set in a studio in London. I got a table and chairs and asked friends to stand in for the actual subjects: my dad, my mum and my sisters. From there I started to move around the table with my camera, studying the takes a little more, which led to the next step…
I watch a lot of films and I would say that a lot of my inspiration for projects comes from cinema. For this project I began to analyse scenes from films featuring people eating or talking around a table. I would watch a film, pause it and analyse the camera angle, which would then inspire my work in the studio. After three months of this process I had established where the cameras were going to be placed using precise measurements, for example, one camera would be a metre away from another camera. It was then a case of transporting all of this to Ecuador. When I arrived it took a week to prepare everything and I only assembled the set the day before the shoot with the help of two friends. I rented three cameras and I went to a carpenter and asked them to make the table. Everything was set up as it had been in London; it was simply a case of recreating things and adjusting to the room where I was going to work.
FF: At the back of the set there appears to be a black curtain…can you explain what this is?
PP: Yes, the black curtain was put there to conceal the rest of our living room. Initially I thought about making the project in a studio. I began practicing there and learning how to work with the lights. After further consideration I decided I didn’t want to work in an artificial environment because I planned to give the sitters some big news, therefore I didn’t want them to feel inhibited by an artificial set, which is why I did it at my house. As I mentioned before, I had been practicing in London but I hadn’t practiced in the actual space of my house. I realised that the camera was pointing towards a raised space at the back of the shot, which was a distraction, so on the day we put up a sheet to act like a wall and this is what you see in the background.
FF: Why did you decide to document the moment you revealed you were gay?
PP: I think it was due to the fact that being gay in Ecuador can be difficult. I never had a desire to ‘come out of the closet’. My parents had, on certain occasions, made homophobic comments when they were talking about friends or certain subjects. This frightened me so I decided not to come out, keeping this private and just getting on with my life. However, one day I felt challenged and inspired to make this project. I was influenced by the personal work of other photographers and the idea came to me, because, to not do it like this through taking photographs…and then I thought, “no this idea is absurd, it would be completely mad, how would this be possible?” But despite these doubts the idea never went away and better yet it felt like a fact that I couldn’t express coming out in any other way than through my art.
FF: How long have you been an artist? How long have you been a photographer?
PP: It began when I was little. I started to draw, and when I was a young girl I was asked what I wanted to be when I grew up… My interest in art led me to study graphic design, which was the next step. I really liked it, however I didn’t feel I could dedicate myself entirely to it because of its commercial aspect. However, graphic design led me to take classes in photography. My best friend told me one day, “you know what, I think you have a good eye for photography and you should explore it more”. From there I began to take more photos; I later went to the United States, not for anything thing art related but as more of a three-year break. The truth is I didn’t do much over there so I told myself I would go to London to do a Masters degree in photography and during my studies I made Unveiled.
FF: Tell us what your vision is? Would you say the topic of homosexuality is rarely addressed in Latin American art?
PP: I would say that sadly, projects like mine and similar projects by other people that open up this dialogue have only begun to happen recently. I don’t think homosexuality is talked about a lot in Ecuador, in every sense. It seems to me that it continues to be a very taboo subject; therefore I believe that there is a lot of work to be done before we can begin to talk about these issues. Sadly, as I said, it’s only the beginning. I feel that in Ecuador there are only a few LGBT events available. I have a friend who puts on an LGBT festival at a cinema in November so there are small things happening that are helping people to talk about this subject. There are foundations, there is a Pride March, so these small things are helping people to open up and talk.
I lament the fact that the topic of homosexuality in Ecuador is rarely discussed, partly because people are uneducated and misinformed on the subject. When I came out to my parents, the conversation I had with them involved explaining what it means to be gay and why someone is gay. Up to that point they hadn’t known much about it. I think we should start to educate children about these issues in school and from there we can take further steps, but we know that this isn’t going to happen any time soon like it has in Colombia, Peru and Venezuela. They are never going to teach these facts in school, now, or in the future, but well….
FF: You made Unveiled, but later you also made Beyond the Veil II and III and even published a book. Could you explain why you decided to continue developing Unveiled through the latter two projects and a book and web page specifically for this work?
PP: I think the reason I decided to make a specific web page for Unveiled was because the project had so many chapters that I couldn’t just add them like a photographic series to my website because the process was so complex. There is a section on my web page that is about the ‘making of’ Unveiled. Just the mental and technical planning around this project alone was so extensive that I wanted to share it with the public as well as other photographers who might be working on a project similar to this. I wanted to share my process.
Beyond the Veil II & III, really came before Unveiled because of a particularly important conversation I had with my sisters about my idea; one of them said to me: “look Pao, I support you, I am here with you, but I would like you to make our parents feel as comfortable as possible and not just like subjects who are aware of cameras around them.”
This gave me the idea to photograph my parents from the moment they got up until the moment they went to bed so they got used to the cameras. Therefore if you read the story and the captions, I explain what I did to make my parents feel at ease…for three weeks I photographed them and used some of these pictures for one of my series, and the truth is that it worked because while we were sitting at the table, they didn’t notice the cameras, in fact no one did, because we were already so used to them.
FF: I actually wanted to ask you about that because it caught my attention that in the photographs your family look very unaware of the cameras.
PP: Yes, for this I am grateful to my sister because if she hadn’t given me this little thought then I wouldn’t have considered it, but because I prepared them so much regarding the camera, they didn’t even notice it. I had thousands of photographs to look through because I had three cameras shooting every 5 seconds for three hours. There was only one photo where my sister was looking at the camera but no one else did. That gives you an idea of how little we noticed the cameras’ presence. Another thing that I did was to ask my dad to put some music on. The music came from small speakers positioned next to each camera, which masked the sound of the cameras’ shutters.
Beyond the Veil II is comprised of self-portraits which felt like self-exploration because I am very conscious that I am usually behind the camera …therefore it felt like therapy through photography…there are a pair of images of me with my then partner that also seemed relevant to the series.
The book featured on the website isn’t yet published so at the moment it’s only a one-off example. As you know, nowadays it’s difficult to publish photo books.
FF: Have you exhibited this series in Ecuador and if so, how was it received?
PP: Sadly, as you know, I have only exhibited this exhibition in other countries and still not in Ecuador. There is a reason behind this concerning one of the conditions I agreed to when making this work. Ten months after finishing the project I showed the photographs to my parents. I obviously needed their permission to exhibit them. I showed them the photographs I had selected for exhibition, which they approved. The only thing they requested of me, relating to the unfortunate situation in Ecuador, is that while they are happy to know about this, my family on my dad’s side would not be happy due to their strong Christian beliefs and so my father said that they are not ready to know. Therefore he said I could show them in London and other countries, just not in Ecuador. The truth is we spoke about it so much that I said ok because it felt like a formal agreement. My dad said it would take some time to confront things before my work can be shown in Ecuador. This is the main reason why I haven’t shown it there. The second reason is that I’m not living there, which makes it practically difficult. Thirdly, I have had exhibitions in London, a couple of photographs shown in Washington and I won the opportunity to have a solo exhibition with Unveiled that will take place in November 2016.
FF: Is there anything else you would like to add?
PP: More than anything I want to take this exhibition to Ecuador, this is my wish. However I have a lot of work to do to translate it. One of the reasons I made this project was for other lesbians facing exactly the same things I did and therefore my in heart my goal is to take this project to Ecuador. That is basically it.
To see her Unveiled book, here.
To know more about her work, click below.
www.unveiledtheproject.com
www.paolaparedes.com
La fotógrafa del mes de Julio es Paola Paredes.
Nace en Quito, Ecuador (1986). Paola se gradúa en Diseño Gráfico en Quito en el año 2010, sin embargo, comienza a intrigarse por el arte de tomar fotos y así empieza un curso fotográfico.
Recientemente, Paola culminó un maestreado en fotografía de la universidad de Middlesex en Londres. Su más reciente proyecto, ‘Unveiled’ ha sido publicado en varias publicaciones digitales, como, Feature Shoot, Fotografia Magazine, Cosmopolitan, y Huffington Post.
Actualmente, Paola está cursando un segundo maestreado en fotografía documental y periodístico en London College of Communication en Londres.
16 de Marzo 2014.
Quito, Ecuador.
En una conversación que duró tres horas, le confesé a mis padres, ‘soy gay’.
Acompañada de mis hermanas, documenté el evento en este proyecto experimental, Unveiled.
En el proceso de planificación, la realidad de Unveiled (develar) ambas me emocionaban y enervaban. A los 28 años, la posibilidad de rechazo por mis padres Católicos y conservadores – padres ecuatorianos – era uno de los tantos riesgos. Mis padres necesitaban estar cómodos. Yo también quería documentar reacciones naturales.
Yo necesitaba desensibilizarlos ante las cámaras. Así que mi preparación comenzó…
Los fotografié cocinando, cepillándose los dientes, afeitándose, fumando y viendo telenovelas. Asimismo, mientras caminaban, atándose las trenzas, despertándose, trabajando en la oficina. Fotografié a mi madre pintándose las uñas.
La preparación del proyecto juega un punto importante en el desarrollo del proyecto como tal: revelarme ante la mesa del comedor, con tres camaras disparando cada cinco segundos. El producto final, provee al espectador con una seria de imágenes cada una contando una historia de la familia que ha retratado, la forma en que estos miembros interactúan y finalmente, a una fotógrafa Unveiled.
Para ver el libro, Unveiled, aquí.
Para conocer más sobre su obra, pinche abajo.
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Three Men Arrested on Drug Charges in Avon
by Joe Rutigliano
AVON– A routine traffic stop conducted by the Livingston County Sheriff’s Department resulted in the arrests of three men. Two men from Olean, New York and one from Belfast, New York are now allegedly facing several drug related charges, including a few that relate to heroin.
According to a press release from Sheriff Thomas J. Dougherty on Tuesday, David J. Vattes, 37, Samuel J. Kelley, 32, of Olean and Karl E. Vattes, 40, of Belfast were stopped by Deputy Shawn Whitford in the Town of Avon for vehicle and traffic violations. Allegedly, upon further investigation of those inside the vehicle, Deputy Whitford learned that David Vattes was operating the vehicle with a suspended license, suspected to be under the influence of drugs and was in possession of heroin, as well as hypodermic needles. Deputy Connor Sanford of the Sheriff’s STOP DWI unit responded to the area of the stop and would later arrest David Vattes DWAI Drugs.
After an evaluation conducted by Sergeant Joseph Breu, who is a certified Drug Recognition Expert (DRE), it was allegedly found that David Vattes was under the influence of a narcotic. Vattes was also charged with Aggravated Unlicensed Operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree, Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the seventh degree, Criminal Possession of a hypodermic needle and other Vehicle and Traffic Violations.
Kelley was charged with Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the seventh degree, Criminal Possession of a hypodermic needle, as well as Facilitating Unlicensed Operation of a Vehicle in the third degree.
Karl Vattes was charged with Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance also in the seventh degree along with Criminal Possession of a hypodermic needle.
All three men were arraigned in Avon Town Court, David Vattes and Samuel Kelley were remanded to the custody of the Sheriff’s office with bail set at $2,500 cash or $5,000 bond. Karl Vattes was remanded to the Livingston County Jail without bail due to a history of felony convictions.
Also assisting in the arrests was Deputy Menzo Peck.
[LEFT TO RIGHT: DAVID VATTES, KARL VATTES, SAMUEL KELLEY]
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How one firm took their values off the shelf and put them to work
Growing a firm comes with many challenges, but maintaining a strong company culture can be one of the more difficult. It’s also becoming more important as firms compete for the talent they need to meet their goals.
In this issue of The Friedman File, we go behind-the-scenes with 110-person Nitsch Engineering (Boston, MA), a fast-growing firm that is putting its values-based workplace culture at the center of its growth plans.
In the past 5 years, the firm has grown by 45% in staff size and revenues, moving from a successful one-office firm to a larger regional player. Along the way, they’ve prioritized building on the firm’s award-winning progressive culture to attract and retain high-performing employees.
“I wanted a way to measure our culture – I’m an engineer,” says Chairman and CEO Lisa Brothers, PE. “I wanted to define that culture and keep it intact as we grow.” They’ve done it by implementing a comprehensive system of Core Values Assessments (CVAs) based on the Barrett Value System for Cultural Alignment.
“Like many firms, we already had core values,” Brothers says. But working with an organizational consultant, The LEGACY Center, Nitsch spent eight months evaluating, refining and setting up systems to assess how they live up to them. That involved surveying employees, holding working sessions to review values and the mission statement, aligning those things with their CVA results, identifying behaviors that support the values and rolling it all out to employees.
To engage staff, the in-house marketing team developed a fun buzz campaign around icons representing eight core values. They then held employee workshops and unveiled the new framed mission statement in posters and banners for central office areas and issued pocket-size mission statements and 32-card decks listing core values and behaviors.
The CVAs are easy to take (the firm takes them every other year) and provide a wealth of actionable information, says Brothers. Participants choose their personal core values, the values they observe in the workplace and the values they desire in the workplace. The assessment then measures the level of values conflict, with a desirable score being under 10%. Firms with a score of less than 10% are value-driven, highly engaged workplaces. On its first assessment, Nitsch’s firm-wide score was 4% and the leadership team scored 1%. Firm-wide scores edged up to 5% when they added a second Massachusetts office, illustrating the challenges of exporting culture to new offices (and allowing the firm to address it).
“What makes this process remarkable is that it’s going beyond identifying core values to identifying the behaviors that demonstrate those values and measuring our progress to align ourselves with them, as a firm, as leaders and employees,” says Brothers.
Leaders are given 360 evaluations, personal coaching and action plans around their CVA results. The coaching is particularly important, she says, to allow leaders to better understand and use their results. For example, a manager who has recently changed behavior may have a higher score than they expected because the perceptions of the 20 people completing the evaluation are still catching up.
The ability to sort results by office and by demographics has also proved valuable. Millennial employees, for example, report a strong desired value of diversity, which led to the creation of a Diversity & Inclusion focused Employee Resource Group. “As a woman-owned firm where 38% of our engineers are women – well over the industry average of 12% – we’ve always been dedicated to advancing diversity and inclusion efforts,” says Brothers. “However, we learned from the CVA that our younger staff didn’t see that commitment on a daily basis. That drove us to more clearly define what a diverse workforce means for Nitsch, and take more active steps to improve diversity within our company and the industry.”
Managing for culture
One of Nitsch’s core values is work-life balance. Brothers herself worked a flexible 6-4 schedule as COO, with the support of founder Judy Nitsch. Behaviors around that include providing flexible work schedules, supporting outside commitments and encouraging staff to use their paid time off (PTO). But the firm also prioritizes managing workload spikes so that when people take paid time off, someone is there to handle the workload.
“No one here is expected to check in while on PTO,” says Brothers (who disconnected from the server while on her own summer vacation). “Some people can relax more if they check to see things are taken care of, but they know the firm doesn’t expect them to, and that means a lot! I tell everyone that if I felt I had to check in, that tells me I have not created a strong leadership team that can manage without me and that the same is true for everyone in the firm.”
Culture is a big part of the firm’s onboarding process. Core values are visible in each office and discussed in interviews. The card decks are issued to new hires. After 90 days, Brothers checks in with new employees by taking them to breakfast to talk more about their onboarding and the firm’s values.
Managers use the core values to define the goal of meetings, to evaluate employee performance, and to make and explain decisions. They’re also a tool for addressing workplace conflicts or concerns objectively.
“You can point to the behaviors and say, ‘Here is what we all agreed to and what we expect, but I am experiencing you doing something that doesn’t correlate with that,’” says Brothers. “Not everyone is comfortable with having those conversations and these defined behaviors can help.”
For example, missing deadlines for marketing deliverables without alerting those waiting on them does not align with respecting all employees. “In this culture, we’ve agreed that you deliver what you said you would or you let the other person know that you can’t, just as you would do with a client.”
Nitsch defines its value of transparency as sharing financial statements monthly with managers and twice a year with all employees. It means keeping employees in the loop about management decisions (Brothers uses a … directly to you custom letterhead to communicate personally to employees on important topics), listening generously and having an accessible leadership team.
When hiring senior-level people who have worked in other firms, the culture shock can be real and require 1:1 time to connect the dots between the firm’s values, behaviors and policies, she says. Seasoned employees may have to un-learn how they did things at their last job.
And it’s working. After years of rating as one of the AEC industry’s best places to work, in 2015, the Boston Globe rated Nitsch as its #4 small company Best Place to Work. By 2016, they were considered medium-sized and ranked #1 in that category. While 2017’s large field dropped them down the list, Nitsch welcomes that more companies are taking workplace culture seriously.
The firm’s CVA results also show that employee recognition is a highly observed, not just highly desired, value. That’s the result of intentional practices such as sharing client feedback and employee achievements internally; an HR-administered program for giving gift certificates as a thank you to colleagues; and bonuses for milestone anniversaries and PE/PLS certifications, along with lunch with the CEO to celebrate and encourage their career goals.
“For many years, our industry has believed that you work 8-5 with your head down at your desk all the time,” says Brothers. “That is not our culture, and we run a really good business, have always been profitable and have a highly engaged staff.”
“You have a corporate culture, whether you are intentional about it or not. If it’s not measured and intentional, you may get something you don’t want. What I want is a place where people want to come to work every day and be engaged. That could mean working on challenging projects, voicing an idea, or taking initiative – it creates a positive environment that contributes to the bottom line.”
What role is culture playing in your firm? Are you intentional about what you’re building, or letting it happen by default? Tell me more at rich@friedmanpartners.com or (508) 276-1101.
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Drones used for commercial or recreational purposes have new no-fly restricted areas as directed by the Department of Defense. All unmanned aircraft is banned from flying within 400 feet of a select list of U.S. military facilities. These No Drone Zones have been updated by the FAA.
Effective April 14, 2017, DOD has updated its list of 133 military facilities where drone flights are now strictly prohibited. The FAA and the Department of Defense have agreed to restrict drone flights up to 400 feet within the lateral boundaries of these 133 facilities. Operators who violate the airspace restrictions may be subject to enforcement action, including potential civil penalties and felony criminal charges – even jail time. These new restrictions will be constantly enforced, unlike temporary restrictions put in place for special events or natural disasters.
Some of the new restricted areas, such as Air National Guard facilities, have a small range, but larger military sites have restricted areas that range for miles. Also, areas that may look uninhabited enough for drone flight, such as military target ranges, are now off limits.
An attorney for a coalition of companies that want to make or use drones said the language of the restriction is broadly written and may be used to apply to other types of facilities besides military installations.
As in most things legal, if a drone operator unknowingly flies an aircraft into one of these new restricted areas, the operator still faces penalties. To check the newly restricted areas, click on the FAA’s interactive map If you’re feeling unsure about whether you’re about to launch a drone in a No Drone Zone, the FAA has an easy-to-use smartphone app called B4UFLY. It lets you see whether you’re standing in a place that has airspace restrictions.
Drones weighing less than 0.5 pounds are exempt from the new FAA rule.
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World Venezuela Opposition Leader Charged With Spurring Violence
Venezuela Opposition Leader Charged With Spurring Violence
Monday, April 29, 2013 at 10:16 pm | י"ט אייר תשע"ג
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) -
A Venezuelan court charged retired general Antonio Rivero on Monday with inciting post-election violence in the latest political flash point in the bitterly divided nation.
Opposition leaders say Rivero, a member of the Popular Will movement that is a driving force of Venezuela’s opposition coalition, became new President Nicolas Maduro’s first political prisoner when he was arrested over the weekend.
Authorities say he was one of those behind a wave of violence, on the day after Maduro’s disputed April 14 election, that represented a coup attempt and killed nine people.
Rivero, who was an ally of former socialist president Hugo Chavez until 2008, was charged with “conspiracy” and “public instigation” at a Caracas court after authorities showed a video of him helping coordinate protesters in the capital’s streets.
“This is part of the persecution the government has carried out, to spread fear,” opposition leader and losing presidential candidate Henrique Capriles said, calling for Rivero’s release and an end to alleged harassment of his supporters.
“If they continue like this, they are going to have to jail eight million Venezuelans.”
Though his case appears to be losing steam and has not garnered much support from other Latin American countries, Capriles plans to challenge the presidential vote both in local and international courts.
He has asked for a full vote recount, alleging thousands of irregularities and accusing Maduro of “stealing” the poll.
Maduro, who was Chavez’s chosen heir and won the vote by less than two percentage points, has warned Capriles of legal action against him too and called the opposition leader a “fascist” bent on destabilizing the OPEC nation.
The president said violence whipped up by the opposition after the vote had included protests outside the home of Tibisay Lucena, head of the election board. The opposition accuses her of taking orders from the ruling Socialist Party.
“Why did they attack her house? Why did the [private] media not denounce this?” Maduro said on Monday. “Sooner rather than later, the feelings of fascist hate will be defeated.”
This article appeared in print on page 3 of the April 30th, 2013 edition of Hamodia.
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by John Ruhlin | Oct 30, 2018 | Blog, Optin
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I caught half an episode of THE SOPRANOS the other day…
The late (and great) James Gandolfini simply made that show.
Mob boss, sociopath, and iconic robe-wearer in the middle of a midlife crisis.
If you’ve never seen it (WUT??), the show paved the way for Walter White (Breaking Bad), Don Draper (Mad Men), and Frank Underwood (House of Cards).
Tony was the anti-hero… the anxiety-ridden, cigar-smoking, quick-to-anger, Escalade-driving, bad-guy-you-loved-anyway.
A handshake MEANT something to Tony.
And in real life, a gift MEANT SOMETHING to the actor-behind-the-character.
Understand that James Gandolfini had to go to some evil places, mentally and emotionally, to play Tony Soprano.
Getting in and out of character often times created collateral damage.
For example, he was frequently heard screaming and swearing and breaking things in his trailer.
“Necessary,” James scowled “to get into Tony’s dark soul.”
For those of you that haven’t seen the show, that “dark soul” would:
Beat a man down with only his fists and a staple gun (ouch)
Give a man his last meal (a diet soda. lol!) before rage-shooting him to death
Steer a debt dodger into the back of a parked garbage truck before shaking him down
Curb-stomp a guy in broad daylight (don’t EVER “say things” to a mob boss’s daughter!)
In fact, even his own mother was involved in a plot to kill him.
So yeah. You could say the role would be taxing for any actor.
“All due respect, you got no f—–g idea what it’s like to be Number One. Every decision you make affects every facet of
every other f—–g thing. It’s too much to deal with almost. And in the end you’re completely alone with it all.”
That was one of MANY famous Tony quotes.
And the same “heavy is the head that wears the crown” thinking was often speculated about PLAYING Tony Soprano
James Gandolfini was said to have a few monkeys on his back.
Don’t we all. 🙁
Sometimes he would leave the set in the middle of a shoot.
Sometimes he wouldn’t even show up.
(James went MIA once… the same night production shut down an *entire airport* to film a helicopter scene… quite an expensive no-show)
And, yes, often times he would fly off the handle in a rage.
And frankly?
I don’t blame him. Not one bit.
James was the central figure of a series that would re-invent the entire television industry.
Prior to THE SOPRANOS, there were a small handful of major networks.
And their goal was eyeballs… quantity, not quality… which meant making shows that appealed to the *most* number of people.
More views meant selling more advertising.
And “sell more advertising!” was the business model.
Until HBO said:
“Nah, we’re not going to do that. We’re going to focus on creating a stunningly good show that will appeal to LESS people.”
For the first time ever: quality over quantity.
The only way to succeed would be to make people fanatical enough where the show would become a REASON to pay (not steal) HBO’s premium subscription fee.
It’s because of this that show creator David Chase once remarked that THE SOPRANOS “would never, could never get made.”
And James was one of the key people –the lead disruptor, so to speak– that was too dang stubborn to believe him.
So to say there was a lot of pressure on James would be an understatement.
But here’s where I love love LOVE James Gandolfini the man (not just the actor):
He knew how to say I’M SORRY when his antics caused massive logistical inconvenience for his coworkers and colleagues.
He would pay (out of pocket) to bring sushi chefs to the set.
For massage therapists.
And other “ohmigosh, this is so thoughtful! James, you shouldn’t have!” gifts.
In fact, he was a master of Gift·ology “planned randomness.”
Doing something awesome, out-of-the-blue. Just because.
To say “thank you.” Or “I appreciate you.” Or “I love you.”
Thoughtful planned randomness is THE way to endure people to you forever.
Which is why, nearly five years after his passing, his friends and co-workers are still talking about what an amazing man James was.
He once randomly gave 16 people on set *EACH* a check for thirty-three thousand bucks.
“Thanks for sticking by me” was written on the memo line.
(Normally I don’t condone giving people money… but if you’re gonna give somebody enough cash to buy a car?)
(Might as well let them pick it out.)
And so, Mr. Gandolfini, as I continue to marvel at your acting… may you continue to RIP.
And may we all be as remembered for the lives we touch as for the talent we have.
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Turkish court orders lifting of Twitter blockade, for now at least
David Meyer Mar 26, 2014 - 4:03 AM CDT
Good news for Turkish Twitter(s twtr) users: an Ankara court has ordered the lifting of a blockade on the social network, according to local reports. The ban, which drew international condemnation, came in 6 days ago as Turkey’s administration tried to put the lid on a growing corruption scandal. Citizens were able to bypass it fairly easily at first, but new forms of blocks made access very difficult. According to Wednesday’s reports, the telecoms regulator that instituted the blocks may appeal the ruling, but access will need to be restored in the interim, making this a “stay of execution”.
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Politicians have come together across the aisle to decry the storming of the Capitol on January 6 as “lawless,” “anti-democratic,” and “extremist,” going so far as to misrepresent the result as “anarchy.” But the problem with the invasion of the Capitol was not that it was unlawful, undemocratic, or extremist, per se, but that it was an effort to concentrate oppressive power in the hands of an autocrat—which is precisely the opposite of anarchy. Direct action, militant tactics, and a critique of electoral politics will remain essential to movements against fascism and state violence. We must not let the far right associate them with tyranny, nor permit centrists to muddy the waters.
The way politicians and corporate media tell it, there was nearly an anarchist revolution in the United States on January 6 when Trump supporters invaded the Capitol.
Democratic Representative Elaine Luria labeled the protestors “the President’s anarchists,” condemning “those members of Congress who have supported this anarchy.” Republican Senator and Trump loyalist Tom Cotton echoed, “Violence and anarchy are unacceptable,” while Marco Rubio couldn’t resist injecting a racist and nationalist note: “This is 3rd world style anti-American anarchy.” For sheer Orwellian doublespeak, nothing could beat the Fox News headline: “Attack on Capitol by un-American anarchists is a terrorist act and disservice to Trump.”
Compounding the confusion, Trump loyalists from Rush Limbaugh’s radio show to Rep. Matt Gaetz in Congress are claiming that “Antifa” infiltrators were somehow responsible for the lethal riot—even as QAnon enthusiasts and Proud Boys are being identified and arrested or fired for their roles in the mêlée.
Elsewhere around the world, headlines trumpeted the “anarchy” that had broken out at the Capitol, with British tabloids decrying “Anarchy in the USA.”
Strategic disinformation.
For actual anarchists who opposed Trump and his agenda from day one at severe cost, it is a particularly cruel irony. At the dying gasp of his administration, when the final act of his ignominious reign finally unites the entire political spectrum against him, his last die-hard militant supporters are slapped with the label of those who struggled the most courageously against everything he stands for.
Mark our words—in the long term, the repressive measures provoked by our bitterest enemies storming the Capitol will be directed at us. Biden has announced that he will prioritize passing a domestic anti-terror law and create a federal post “overseeing the fight against ideologically inspired violent extremists.” Since September 11, 2001, the top “domestic terror” priorities have been suppressing earth and animal liberation activism as well as anarchist and anti-fascist movements; we can anticipate a new wave of crackdowns on our own struggles under the guise of cracking down on the extreme right.
But this effort to rebrand unruly Trumpism as anarchy could have even more sinister consequences.
The Movement for Black Lives that emerged onto the national stage in Ferguson in 2014 and exploded this year with the George Floyd uprising represented a tremendous step forward for social movements. As we argued last summer, these protests reflected anarchist ideas in action in that they embodied decentralization, mutual aid, resistance to white supremacy, and other core values. For a brief period, anarchist approaches to social change gained widespread traction, with police and politicians of all stripes in retreat.
Fierce backlash against these movements consequently focused on demonizing anarchists and anti-fascists, while manufactured panic over the election diverted momentum from struggles based in direct action towards voting for the lesser evil. Now, outrage over the storming of the Capitol could equip centrist politicians to portray key anarchist approaches to social change as beyond the pale, confining movements to ineffective reformism for many years to come.
As the world pushes back against Trump and his crumbling authoritarian spectacle, the extreme right appears to be on the defensive, and we may dare to hope that the coming years could offer popular movements for freedom a chance to regain the initiative. It remains to be seen whether the events of January 6 provoke a backlash that incapacitates the MAGAverse or lay the groundwork for a mass base for fascism to emerge—or both. But our ability to respond, both offensively and defensively, depends on whether we can reclaim core anarchist ideas and practices and apply them on the new terrain that is emerging in the aftermath of the storming of the Capitol.
Today, it’s more important than ever for anarchists to speak up—actual anarchists, who fight for a world without hierarchy or domination, not the clowns LARPing in the Capitol with Confederate flags and “Fuck Antifa” patches. We have to defend and extend our approaches to social change, showing what distinguishes them from both the fascists who attempted to carry out a coup and the politicians they sought to bully. We have to make it clear that direct action is not the province of the extreme right—that Trump and his minions don’t have a monopoly on critiques of electoral democracy—that militant protest still belongs at the center of our movements for liberation.
What does it take to change the world? Anarchists have long insisted that the best way to get things done is to take matters into our own hands rather than waiting for politicians to pass laws or police to grant permission. We call this direct action. We endorse direct action not only because it’s effective, but because it’s a means of self-determination, a way to realize our own desires rather than those of leaders or representatives. In this model, everyone takes responsibility for pursuing their own goals while seeking to coexist and collaborate as equals and respecting each other’s autonomy.
But as we saw at the Capitol on January 6, defying the law and acting directly against politicians can serve other ends, as well. Expanding the range of permissible tactics to concentrate power in the hands of authorities at the top of the hierarchy has been a defining feature of fascist politics from Mussolini’s blackshirts to the Nazi Kristallnacht. Even when it involves breaking the law, carrying out marching orders from your Beloved Leader the way the MAGA drones did at the Capitol is not anarchist direct action. The whole point of anarchist direct action is to keep power horizontal.
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In the narrative emerging from Washington, the heroes of January 6 are the politicians and on-duty police—the same people who exploit and brutalize us on a daily basis, whose job is to prevent us from engaging in real self-determination. The villains in this narrative are the ones who defied the law, fought the police, and drove the politicians from their comfortable seats—not because they were attempting to keep Trump in the office that democracy elevated him to in the first place, but because this time, they were doing so in defiance of democracy and law and order. According to this logic, had Trump won the election by receiving a few thousand more votes, any degree of tyranny he might have introduced would have been absolutely legitimate, so long as he did so via legal means.
Should this version of the story gain traction, the reaction to the coup attempt will become a profound defeat for all who seek liberation—for it is precisely this separation of the ends of political action from their means that characterizes both the politicians and Trump’s insurgent hordes.
The same police who brutalized people all summer to suppress the Movement for Black Lives emerged from January 6 as heroes, at least in the narrative spread by centrist politicians.
To the politicians, no action is legitimate unless it goes through their channels, follows their procedures, and affirms their power over us. Freedom and democracy, they claim, only function if the rest of us content ourselves with casting a vote every four years and then returning to our roles as spectators. What’s important is not the outcome—whether we have access to health care, are able to survive COVID-19, or can protect ourselves against racist police, to name a few examples—but that we remain complacent and leave everything to our representatives, come what may.
For Trump supporters, the ends are also separated from the means, but in the opposite way. Their goal is to preserve authoritarian power by any means necessary, and to subjugate and punish all who oppose them. In defense of that “sacred” end—Trump’s tweet on January 6 shamelessly channeled Mussolini here—they hold that people are justified taking power into their own hands, regardless of what on-duty police or politicians say.
Only anarchists insist both on freedom for all and the unity of ends and means. Freedom is meaningless unless it is for everyone, without exception; and the only way to get to freedom is through freedom. Whatever progressive reforms Biden claims he will enact, we are supposed to submit and obey as we await them—to delegate our power away. Such “freedom” can only be a hollow shell, vulnerable to the next shift in the seats of power. But the insurrectionary means of the Capitol rioters, though clothed in the rhetoric of freedom, can only further disempower us when its goal is to bolster white supremacy and prop up a tyrant’s power.
This is why we must defend direct action as a pathway to social change, rather than letting the proponents of law and order reduce us to the dead ends of lobbying representatives and begging power brokers. Remember—had their clumsy coup attempt somehow succeeded, direct action would have been the only way to resist the government they would have implemented. At the same time, we insist that the value of direct action lies in restoring power where it belongs—distributing it to all on a decentralized basis, rather than concentrating it in the hands of leaders.
In an Orwellian fashion, the far right have attempted to appropriate the language of rebellion—including the word “Orwellian”— to serve their project of suppressing rebellion.
The Critique of Electoral Politics
By storming the Capitol in a mob bent on upholding authoritarian rule, Trump’s rioters did the Electoral College a favor. Critics across the political spectrum have condemned this bizarre system; even the most fervent loyalists of US electoral democracy have criticized its flaws. Yet suddenly, despite the fact that it was designed explicitly as a hedge against popular sovereignty, the incursion of January 6 has transformed it into a sanctified symbol of the popular will, reuniting the country behind this archaic procedure.
More importantly, it has intensified a phenomenon that Trump’s months-long campaign against the validity of the election catalyzed: the uncritical defense of American electoral democracy as the only bulwark against fascism. Trump’s fascistic belligerence has been a blessing for defenders of the status quo, marshaling fear to prop up a system that had been losing legitimacy in the public eye and associating any criticism of US democracy with authoritarian ambitions.
In the solemn rhetoric of the politicians who were chased out of their cozy offices, the only alternative to fascism or mob rule is their brand of democracy. But this centralized, winner-take-all, majoritarian electoral system has bred widespread popular disillusionment, while propagating the idea that it’s perfectly legitimate to employ systematic coercion to govern one’s political adversaries. Together, these effects make more authoritarian approaches dangerously appealing in times of crisis, especially in the hands of a charismatic leader who glorifies power while presenting himself as victim, underdog, and superman all at once. One of Trump’s strokes of genius has been to craft a language that deploys popular resentment against Washington, “the swamp,” federal power, elites, and the like to expand that very power and elitism while concentrating it in his hands alone. This is how he was able to incite a band of self-described “revolutionaries” to attempt to carry out a coup intended to strengthen the same state that they were defying. Trump tapped into the resentment and alienation that democracy has generated to lead a rebellion against democracy in the name of defending democracy—a rebellion that, had it succeeded, would have only exacerbated the worst things about democracy.
Trump has capitalized on widespread disillusionment with representative democracy to promote something even more authoritarian.
Many liberals scratch their heads at Trump’s misled masses who continue to insist, without a shred of evidence, that the election was “stolen,” that somehow Trump must have actually won. While the precise mechanics of how this supposedly occurred vary from one absurd conspiracy theory to the next, it’s more useful to look beyond the conspiracies to the emotional context of the election and its political consequences.
Nearly 75 million people cast their ballots for Trump. In the winner-take-all system of American democracy, since these weren’t distributed in such a way as to capture an Electoral College majority, they had zero impact on the outcome. Having been whipped into a frenzy by demagogic rhetoric and encouraged to believe that voting for Trump was the only thing they could do to protect their liberty, these voters were suddenly confronted with liberal media outlets telling them that all their votes had amounted to nothing. Facing that outcome, and encouraged by Trump and other proponents of white supremacy or Christian dogmatism to feel that they were the only ones entitled to power, it’s not surprising that many chose to embrace a dramatic narrative in which nefarious liberals had stolen the election.
If you believed that narrative, you, too, might come to Washington, dreaming of taking a lead part in the drama yourself, imagining a story in which your actions wouldn’t be limited to a wasted vote, in which you could put your body on the line to sweep away the corrupt elites from the halls of power and usher in the millennium yourself.
Of course, the dream became a nightmare. Whether they were trampled by their MAGA comrades, shot or beaten by police, fired from their jobs, or arrested on federal charges—or simply returned home with the world labeling them seditious traitors—their efforts to take revenge for the profound disempowerment of the election by disempowering others failed, for now. But if the political center thinks that this means that democracy is safe, they are deluded.
The lesson here is not simply that demagoguery threatens democracy—it was democracy that rewarded Trump’s demagoguery in the first place. Rather, it is that democracy is buckling under its own contradictions, its own failure to deliver the sort of empowerment and self-determination that it promises. Smug liberals may condemn the ignorance of Trump die-hards who tilt at voting machine windmills and spout absurdities from QAnon conspiracy networks. But they are failing to see that the grievances Trump voters are voicing are caused by real problems, even if their response is misdirected. While those who deny Biden’s victory employ rhetoric about democracy having been betrayed, it would be more precise to say that they feel that democracy has betrayed them. And in a sense, they are correct about this.
What kind of a system presents the vote as the supreme expression of empowerment and participation, describing it as our sole and sacrosanct political “voice”—then tells 75 million voters that their votes meant nothing and changed nothing, that they have to return to passivity for four years, obeying the dictates of a regime they oppose and had no hand in choosing?
A democratic one.
This is the context in which we must view the denial of Biden’s victory. Key hallmarks of fascist politics include popular mobilization, the emotional investment of the masses in the state, and the sanctification of politics. Trump’s machine masterfully manufactured all of these, generating high levels of voter turnout and intense reactions of furious denial when he lost. Yet these could not have had such power if not for the already existing disillusionment with the way that the lofty promises of democracy compare to the reality of the alienating electoral spectacle. We see this in the popular disdain for Washington, with its remoteness from the everyday lives and concerns of ordinary people and its air of unaccountability and corruption.
The events of January 6 cast this political cartoon of ours in an even grimmer light.
There’s much here that resonates with an anarchist sensibility. The difference is that we take this frustration to its logical conclusion by looking at the root cause. The problem is the system itself—a way of organizing society and making decisions that limits our participation to meaningless rituals and delegates our power to distant icons, while forcing us to go along with decisions made without our consent and imposed on us from above. At best, we can choose who wields coercive power over others, but we can never escape it ourselves. When this alienating hierarchy in the political sphere is echoed in the other spheres of our lives—at work, at school, and in so many other contexts in which someone else is calling the shots—it’s no wonder that people feel powerless and resentful. Without an analysis of how this power operates, they may displace that resentment onto others who are not actually responsible for their alienation, siding with some of the beneficiaries of the system against those who are even worse off than themselves.
Unlike the political center and left, which insist on the legitimacy of the election’s process and outcome, and the far right, which insists that it was stolen, anarchists say every election is a steal. Representative politics steals our agency, our ability to make decisions collaboratively and to determine our own lives directly. The problem with the 2020 election wasn’t that Trump should have won instead of Biden—that would have led to even more people being disempowered and oppressed. The problem was that no matter which politician wins, we all lose.
While the 81 million people who voted for Biden emerged from the election with a greater sense of satisfaction or at least relief that their vote counted for something, in fact they have no control over what Biden does with that power and little recourse if he wields it contrary to his promises or their desires. As for the 77 million who voted for someone else—not to mention the 175 million who didn’t or couldn’t vote, the real majority, as in every other election in the history of the United States—they don’t even have the consolation of being on the winning team. No wonder this leaves people cynical and alienated, grasping for conspiratorial explanations, however far-fetched.
Anarchists propose that we need neither the false promises of democracy nor the false premises of conspiracy theories to organize our own lives. What we need, rather, is collective self-organization from the bottom up, solidarity and mutual defense, and a shared understanding of what we all have to gain from coexisting in peace rather than struggling for supremacy. We reject the legitimacy of any system, democratic or otherwise, that alienates us from our shared capacity for self-determination and collective coordination.
As we argued around the election, if Trump had been duly elected according to protocol and certified by the Electoral College, that wouldn’t have made it any more ethical to accept the legitimacy of his rule. There is no democratic process that could justify mass deportation, mass incarceration, mass COVID-19 deaths, mass evictions, homelessness, hunger, ecological devastation, or any of the other consequences of Trump’s authority. Those things are wrong—not because they are “undemocratic,” but because they are incompatible with a free, just, and egalitarian society.
Even—or especially—if it is unpopular after this contested election, we must articulate these critiques and demonstrate alternative forms of popular self-determination. We can put these into practice in countless ways in our everyday lives without necessarily needing to storm a Capitol to do it. We can undertake collective participatory decision-making in our homes, workplaces, schools, and movements. We can organize mutual aid projects, neighborhood assemblies, and other gatherings as spaces of encounter to build relationships with each other outside the adversarial model of party politics. We can draw inspiration from radical experiments around the world that organize power from the bottom up, from the caracoles of autonomous Zapatista territory to the council system of Rojava. We can undermine the authority of bosses, managers, and politicians who claim to speak for us by defying their orders and organizing to meet our needs without them, or at least organizing to resist their efforts to prevent us from trying to.
At a moment when the entirety of what passes for the left in the US seems to have no more visionary program than to defend the integrity of the electoral system, anarchists have a responsibility to acknowledge that the emperor has no clothes—to affirm all the good reasons why the electoral process should not be worshipped as the highest expression of freedom and responsibility. If we fail to do this, that will leave the far right as the only ones articulating the problems with the current system, just as they have managed to position themselves as the chief critics of the corporate media.1 That would be a huge advantage for them and a costly missed opportunity for us.
The “revolution” that these self-described patriots have in mind is the very opposite of the free world we want to create. Where anarchists propose coexistence and mutual respect across lines of difference, they aim to use force to dominate everyone else. For all their “Don’t Tread on Me” rhetoric, the events of January 6 showed their willingness to trample—literally and figuratively—on the bodies and freedom of any who stand in their path, even their allies. Anarchists, by contrast, advocate racial justice, mutual aid, and horizontal grassroots organizing as antidotes to the toxic mixture of white supremacy, hyper-capitalist individualism, and authoritarianism that the red-hatted crowds embody.
Even if some Trump supporters are responding to real frustrations with American democracy, we must distinguish their confusion from our critiques. Like all binaries, the supposed absolute opposition between authoritarian “liberty” of the Trump hordes and the alienated “democracy” of the Congress they stormed breaks down when we examine it more closely. Whereas we aim to decentralize power so that neither majorities nor minorities can coerce us, those who stormed the Capitol want to centralize it in their preferred executive rather than the unwieldy legislature. This makes it all the more critical that we distance ourselves from both centrist “defenders of democracy” and those who attack it from the right, asserting that neither fascist strongmen nor duly elected Washington elites deserve to call the shots in our lives.
While pundits lament the partisan divide, there’s always one issue that unites all politicians, both Democrats and Republicans: they agree that they should be the ones making decisions for us. This is what brought Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell together so swiftly on January 6. If Trump and Biden supporters joined the actual majority—the ones who cast no ballot last year—and decided that together we could make decisions better than representatives in Washington, we could remake society from the bottom up.
Those who occupy the Capitol building and those who stormed it have at least this much in common: both seek to rule us.
Militant Protest
In the aftermath of the “riot” of January 6, Joe Biden joined many commentators in pointing out the stark contrast between the militarized repression brought to bear against the Black Lives Matter uprising last summer and the willingness that police officers showed to let an armed mob storm the Capitol. From a liberal perspective, this illuminates how race, rather than a concern for law and order, shapes police responses to protest; from a radical perspective, it shows how white supremacy is integral to law and order. But the agenda that Biden was pursuing when he made this comparison sheds light on how last year’s protests are being strategically (mis)remembered to reframe what sort of protest tactics will be publicly affirmed as legitimate in the years to come.
In contrasting the Justice for George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests to the storming of the Capitol, most liberal media outlets define the anti-police uprisings as “peaceful” or “mostly peaceful” while castigating Trump’s hordes as “violent.” Have we forgotten that one of the most catalytic moments of 2020 occurred when rebels captured and burned the Third Precinct in Minneapolis? Have we forgotten the looting that broke out from New York to Los Angeles to Philadelphia? Have we forgotten the months of nightly clashes with police and federal officers in Portland? The conservative media certainly hasn’t, even if their cherry-picking is just as disingenuous as they attempt to paint pro-Trump rioters as the real victims.
This is just the latest example of the tendency to define actions or groups as “violent” or “nonviolent” according to whether the speaker wants to frame them as legitimate or illegitimate.
President Obama notoriously praised the Egyptian revolution—a mass uprising in which a hundred police stations were burned during weeks of fierce fighting—as “the moral force of nonviolence that bent the arc of history toward justice once more.” He used this rhetoric in order to acknowledge the legitimacy of the outcome—the overthrow of a (US-backed) dictator—without acknowledging the efficacy or even existence of approaches to social change that exceed the limits of “nonviolence.” We have already seen that sort of selective amnesia and doublespeak in regards to the Justice for George Floyd rebellion. The left portrays the actions of last summer as legitimate by emphasizing that they were nonviolent, while the right condemns them as illegitimate by emphasizing that they were violent. These are competing strategies for keeping people pacified and forestalling the threat of revolutionary change. While the right-wing strategy promotes aggressive repression by conjuring images of violence to justify external policing, the left-wing strategy carries out underhanded repression by spreading a false memory of a nonviolent movement in order to justify internal policing. The goals are the same: both seek to keep people in line, protecting the rich and powerful against real threats to their power.
If the anti-police uprisings of 2020 were legitimate, it was not because they were “nonviolent.” They were legitimate because they responded to immediate threats to people’s lives and communities. They were legitimate because they mobilized millions to push back against racism and brutality, expanding popular awareness of white supremacy and policing and shifting the balance of power in the United States. It was strategic that some of the demonstrations remained non-confrontational, especially in places where the forces arrayed against them could have easily overpowered and brutalized them; and it was strategic that many of the demonstrations were confrontational, especially where that empowered the participants, pushed back the police, and sent powerful messages of resistance that resonated across the world.
So the ones who invaded the Capitol should not be condemned simply for being “violent.” Certainly, we don’t want to live in a society governed by coercive force; neither the brutality of the Capitol stormers nor of the riot police who belatedly pushed them away model the world we want to create. But what was significant in the events of January 6 was not the violence that the rioters undertook in pursuit of their message—or that the police marshalled in response—but the immense suffering that would have resulted had they succeeded. Trump’s supporters deserve to be condemned because they were trying to help a tyrant hold on to power in order to preserve an administration that is inflicting misery upon millions of vulnerable and oppressed people. The problem was not that the invaders adopted militant tactics, but that they did so in order to intimidate and dominate.
Insofar as Biden will govern by the same means and preserve many of the same policies, it will be necessary to resist his administration as well as the fascists who threaten it.
Neither the brutality of those who stormed the Capitol nor of the authorities who seek to establish a police state represent the world we wish to create.
As anarchists, we’ve always insisted on the value of a diversity of tactics and the importance of doing more than politely asking the powerful to make concessions. In the aftermath of January 6, we can expect to see politicians and pundits across the political spectrum uniting to shift focus away from the agenda of those who stormed the Capitol towards the tactics they used that exceeded the boundaries of law and order. A particularly brazen and hypocritical example of this occurred just hours after the incursion, when Florida governor and Trump loyalist Ron DeSantis used what had happened at the Capitol as an excuse to revive his push for one the most draconian anti-protest laws in the country. This echoes Trump’s notorious effort to make a false equivalence between the murderous fascists in Charlottesville and the anti-fascists who sought to defend against them, or the Southern Poverty Law Center’s shift from targeting hate groups to focusing on “extremism,” a category that includes militant liberation movements as well.
In the face of such maneuvers, we should redirect the focus to what we’re fighting for and what it will take to get there. We can challenge the liberal amnesia about this past summer’s uprisings by pointing out that the only reason we know George Floyd’s name—in contrast to the names of thousands of others the police have killed—is because the courageous rebels in Minneapolis paid no attention to the boundaries between violence and nonviolence. We can point out that for all of the invective against the supposed violence of “antifa terrorists” and Black Lives Matter rioters, the red hat-wearing Blue Lives Matter crowd killed more police officers in one afternoon than the entire movement against police violence and white supremacy did throughout 2020. We can draw on revolutionary history and examples from parallel struggles around the world to show that militant tactics are necessary to make lasting change and to defend ourselves against an emboldened extreme right that has no scruples about wielding force.
Finally, we can organize in our communities to turn out into the streets in defiance of whatever efforts politicians make to clamp down on protest in response to the events of January 6, insisting that fascism can only be defeated through popular grassroots self-organization. Strengthening the state will not protect us from fascism—it only sharpens a weapon that, sooner or later, is bound to fall into the hands of fascists.
From Charlottesville to Berkeley, anarchists and other anti-fascists have played an essential role in impeding the rise of the far right through militant tactics. Who knows how much stronger they would be by now if not for these efforts to interfere with their recruiting.
Facing Forward
In the aftermath of January 6, we have to debunk the smear campaigns that portray Trump supporters as anarchists, refute efforts to delegitimize our ideas and tactics by associating them with our enemies, and brace for the repression that may nonetheless sweep us up alongside them. Our work is cut out for us.
But we have many advantages, too. This past year, millions of people saw how powerful direct action and militant protest can be. They can catalyze millions to act, effecting lasting change. We know that our critiques of electoral democracy speak to an alienation that is deeply felt throughout this society.
For anarchists, revolution doesn’t center around storming symbolic citadels, but reorganizing society from the bottom up—so that even if the Capitol is occupied, the occupants cannot impose their will on us. In the end, this is the only truly reliable defense against aspiring strongmen like Trump and mobs like the one that tried to seize power for him. Electoral politics can just as easily raise them to power as remove them; laws and police can implement their power grabs as easily as thwart them. Horizontal grassroots resistance is the only thing that can secure our freedom.
Now more than ever.
Direct Action—What It Is, What It’s Good for, How It Works
The Illegitimacy of Violence, the Violence of Legitimacy
This Is Anarchy—Eight Ways the Black Lives Matter and Justice for George Floyd Uprisings Reflect Anarchist Ideas in Action
“The knee-jerk reaction to Trump’s strategy has been to defend the importance and integrity of the corporate media. On the contrary, Trump would not be able to capitalize on widespread distrust of the media if we hadn’t already failed to popularize an anarchist critique of the corporate media ourselves. One of the roles that the far right plays is to compel us to side with the other oppressive forces in this society, normalizing them. If we do so, the next generation of rebels will have no reason to trust us—and the next time corporate media outlets attack us, it will be more difficult to undermine their narratives.” –“The Real Truth about Fake News” ↩
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Subjects & Symbols in Art: General Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
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Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art by James A. Hall; Kenneth Clark (Introduction by)
Rev. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1979. The best source for quick information about subjects, symbols, and attributes.
Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography by Helene E. Roberts (Editor)
2 vols. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998. Alphabetically arranged essays on actions, situations, and concepts. Each essay is divided into sections on motifs and iconographic narratives.
Music in Art
Music in Art by Alberto Ausoni
Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. An overview of the topic of music, musical instruments, and musical performance throughout the centuries, as depicted in Western works of art ranging from ancient sculpture to Renaissance paintings to modern art.
Music in Art by Tom Phillips
Munich; New York: Prestel, c1997. 50 short essays focus on a particular work of art or contrasts two or more approaches to a similar theme.
Symbols in Art
The Illustrated Dictionary of Symbols in Eastern and Western Art by James A. Hall
New York: IconEditions, c1994. Objects are arranged into 6 sections by broad subject categories: abstract signs, animals, artefacts, earth and sky, human body and dress, and plants. A seventh section focuses on collective symbols that have multiple attributes and meanings.
Symbols and Allegories in Art by Matilde Battistini
Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005. Divided thematically into 4 sections featuring symbols related to time, man, space (earth and sky), and allegories or moral lessons. Each entry contains a main reference image with the symbol or allegory and a summary of essential characteristics appears in the margin.
Dictionary of Symbols in Western Art by Sarah Carr-Gomm
New York: Facts on File, 1995. Entries on saints, mythological, biblical and religious characters and events, arranged in alphabetical order. Broader topics ranging from Adam and Eve to Zodiac are interspersed.
Hidden Symbols in Art by Sarah Carr-Gomm
New York : Rizzoli, 2001. Each chapter organized thematically, explains the significance meaning of key symbols and figures in Western art.
Symbols of Power in Art by Paola Rapelli; Nicole Garnier-Pelle
Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011. Divided into 6 sections of symbols: antiquity; Middle Ages; Western emperors & Russian czars; ruling dynasties of the West; European aristocratic families; Napolean Bonaparte. Includes indexes of subjects, artists, & noble titles.
How to Understand a Painting by Françoise Barbe-Gall
London: Frances Lincoln, c2010. Choosing 10 symbols from the natural world and 10 man-made, the author shows how these have been used and developed in art from the 15th-21st century.
Nature in Art
Gardens in Art by Lucia Impelluso
Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007. Analyzes the elements of gardens and their symbolic meanings. Includes nearly 400 art works.
Nature and Its Symbols by Lucia Impelluso; Stephen Sartarelli (Translator)
Los Angeles: J.P. Getty Museum, 2004. Includes chapters on plants, flowers, fruits, and animals of the earth, air, and water, as well as fantastical creatures such as centaurs, griffons, and dragons--all used as symbols in art.
The Continuum Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in Art by Hope B. Werness (Illustrator)
New York: Continuum, c2003. Entries on particular animals begin with brief zoological information, which includes the animal's scientific name and classification as well as its range, habitat, and behavior. General entries on cultural, chronological and geographical areas include cross-references to specific cultures discussed in greater detail.
Fish in Art by Christine E. Jackson
London: Reaktion Books, 2012. Examines the diverse ways fishes have been presented by artists and what these images tell us about the catching, storage, preparation and cooking of fish over the centuries.
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Latest NC-09 mystery: Why did Harris GOTV specialist have over 800 absentee ballots?
Ed MorrisseyPosted at 8:41 pm on December 12, 2018
As mysteries go, this one won’t qualify at the level of Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, or perhaps not even Encyclopedia Brown. A witness has filed a deposition alleging that Leslie McCrae Dowless possessed over 800 absentee ballots in the run-up to the midterm election in North Carolina’s ninth congressional district. The GOTV specialist for Mark Harris’ winning House campaign should not have had any other ballots than his own, and now people wonder what exactly Dowless did with them:
Kenneth Simmons and his wife said they saw McCrae Dowless — who is listed as a “person of interest” by the state board of elections — outside of a campaign event in the fall.
At that time, Simmons said Dowless was holding more than 800 ballots in his possession. Simmons and his wife were immediately concerned as to why Dowless had them and why they were not turned in to the board of elections.
Simmons says he came forward because he feels this could be a violation of voters’ Constitutional rights. He signed an affidavit in front of a WECT reporter on Tuesday. …
Dowless is accused of tampering with or destroying absentee ballots to benefit candidates he worked for in Bladen County, including Mark Harris for the 9th Congressional District.
The Hill has more of Simmons’ testimony:
“During the campaign, my wife and I were working putting out signs for a local candidate,” Simmons said in the affidavit, according to a copy provided to the WRAL News by the North Carolina Democratic Party.
“While we were in Dublin attending a meeting of Republicans, we spoke with McRae (sic) Dowless. During the conversation, we noticed that Mr. Dowless had in his possession a large number of absentee ballots. I questioned his reason for having that many ballots. He stated that he had over 800 ballots in his possession. I asked him why he had not turned them in. He sated (sic) you don’t do that until the last day because the opposition would know how many votes they had to make up.
“My concern was that these ballots were not going to be turned in.”
Just to remind everyone, Harris only won the election by 905 votes. Possession of the ballots violates the law in itself; North Carolina requires voters or a direct family member to transmit absentee ballots themselves. That bar on “ballot harvesting” preserves the chain of custody for voting and keeps any suspicion of tampering from damaging the credibility of elections.
That’s already out the window in the NC-09 race, of course. People already suspect Dowless might have trashed non-Harris votes and only turned in those ballots that supported his employer. But what if Harris actually marked the ballots himself? Would Simmons have known whether those ballots were completed — or blank?
Or were they ballots at all? WRAL reports that Dowless might claim they were absentee ballot applications, which wouldn’t have been illegal to hold:
The Simmonses told The Times that Dowless spoke to them during the meeting while holding a thick packet of documents they could not see up close. They told The Times that Dowless boasted he had 800 or 900 signed and completed absentee ballots in his possession.
Some in North Carolina politics have suggested that perhaps these were not absentee ballots, but ballot request forms voters send in to have mail-in ballots sent to them. It would be unusual for someone to have so many of those forms, but not illegal. In his affidavit, Kenneth Simmons repeatedly says they were ballots, but he also told The times he was not well versed in state election laws.
It doesn’t make much sense to hold applications, though, especially not for the strategic reasons Simmons says Dowless stated. A GOTV specialist would want those out immediately in order to make sure that their voters got the ballots in time for the election, and then submitted them in time too.
None of this helps Harris to insist on certifying the election result, and he won’t be helped by this photo dug up by local reporter Joe Bruno, who has done much of the shoe-leather reporting that blew open this scandal. This pose between Harris and Dowless comes from March 2018, well before the general-election ballot issues that have frozen the NC-09 election in place, but perhaps as Dowless was preparing his operation for Harris’ tough primary against incumbent Robert Pittenger:
The implication here is that Harris’ attempts to distance himself from Dowless may be less than credible:
Harris’ connection to Dowless was in place before the photo was taken.
Former 2017 Charlotte City Council candidate Pete Givens told Channel 9 Mark Harris introduced him to Dowless.
Records show Givens paid Dowless $800 for consulting fees.
“Mark told me about this guy’s process of, you know, that he had a process, he didn’t know what it was, and he was going down to meet because he said ‘maybe this is something you want to do,'” Givens said.
There are now allegations that vote totals were shared by precincts prematurely as well, leading both parties to call for a special election. The question still remains whether that will encompass a new primary as well. The New York Times called Pittenger a potential victim of Dowless as well, but that there’s not much that can be done about it:
In that primary against Representative Pittenger, Mr. Harris won 437 of the 456 ballots cast through the mail in Bladen County; his overall margin of victory was only 828 votes. By contrast, in an earlier run against Mr. Pittinger in the 2016 primary, Mr. Harris won only four of 226 such ballots in the county. Mr. Dowless did not work for Mr. Harris in that 2016 campaign.
North Carolina officials are now examining the May primary to see whether they could establish patterns of election fraud and gather evidence for possible criminal prosecutions.
But even if fraud was found in the primary, state officials would be limited in their ability to overturn the Harris-Pittinger outcome given state law and the status of those primary results. The incoming Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives could refuse to seat a winner from the Ninth District, leading to a do-over primary and general election, but it is unclear if Representative Nancy Pelosi and her allies would opt for that.
Nevertheless, the state GOP will push for a primary do-over, CNN reports:
Republicans in the North Carolina legislature are seeking to change state law to guarantee that any call for a new general election in the scandal-plagued 9th Congressional District will also include a re-run of the party primaries.
The GOP-controlled state House and Senate passed a provision requiring a new primary on Wednesday. It is the clearest sign yet that, should there be a new election, Republicans in North Carolina are inclined to move beyond current nominee Mark Harris, who appeared to have secured a narrow victory in November over Democrat Dan McCready. …
It is unclear whether Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper will sign the Republican bill. “North Carolinians deserve honest and fair elections and the Governor is reviewing this legislation carefully,” said Ford Porter, a spokesperson for Cooper.
The odds of Cooper signing this bill are better than the chances that a Nancy Pelosi-led House would demand a new primary, which are as close to nil as it gets. Cooper has to run for office in a state where Republicans still compete effectively. If Dowless’ primary activities could be established as potentially decisive, pressure might increase on Cooper to sign the bill and for the election board to order the whole election tossed out and a true do-over put in its place. Otherwise, the GOP will be stuck with Harris, who barely won the last time out in an R+8 district even with Dowless’ apparent fraud. His chances in a general-election-only rerun look pretty grim.
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Meatless Monday is a weekly initiative that encourages Americans to scale back meat intake by eating vegetarian or vegan one day a week. Meatless Mondays are growing in popularity for a variety of reasons. Many people are choosing to go meatless once a week for health reasons, others for environmental reasons. Omnivores and flexitarians are seeking to reduce their meat consumption and introduce more vegetarian options into their diet. Even cities are jumping on the bandwagon, with Los Angeles formally endorsing a city-wide observance of Meatless Monday.
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Moscow, May 10 (IANS/RIA Novosti) An ammonia leak was detected in the cooling system in the US section of the International Space Station, a Russian space agency official said Friday.
“Yes, there was indeed an ammonia leak. It took place in the American section of the station, and it is not critical,” said Alexei Krasnov of Roscosmos.
“Unfortunately, it is not the first time that something like this has happened. The Russian section of the station and all other parts of it are working normally,” he said.
Ammonia is used to cool the station’s power channels that provide electricity to station systems. Each solar array has its own independent cooling loop.
This ammonia loop is the same one that spacewalkers attempted to troubleshoot a leak on during a spacewalk Nov 1, 2012. It is not yet known whether this increased ammonia flow comes from the same leak which, at the time, was not visible.
According to the space agency, the leak rate could result in a shutdown of this cooling loop.
–IANS/RIA Novosti
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As my Notorious Women of Brighton/Kemp Town walks wind down for another year, I’ve come to realise that one of the things that make them fun for me is the people I meet. I just love to have a chatty group. Really, the noisier the better. If you want to add things, ask questions, pull me up on something you think isn’t right, scream, shout, laugh, just go ahead. There’s nothing trickier for a tour guide than a sea of blank faces giving nothing away. And I love talking to people as we move from place to place. This year I have had a very vocal dog who barked when I stopped for more than 10 minutes (a handy way of knowing when I was starting to go on a bit too long), a cabaret dancer, a synchronised swimmer, an escapologist’s assistant, a man who remembered seeing Laurel and Hardy at the Hippodrome, and a wife sales expert (of the historical nature, I should add). I enjoyed chatting to the synchronised swimmer. She told me that she goes swimming in the sea from Brighton beach every Sunday afternoon, regardless of the weather and the season. ‘With a wet suit?’ I asked. She looked at me as if I’d suggested she swim in a Mickey Mouse costume and said ‘of course not!’ Come to think of it, I think she mentioned it was her seventieth birthday this weekend. With this in mind, I thought I’d add something about a local woman, born in the Queens Park area of Brighton in 1900, who for a time was the hottest celebrity of the swimming world.
Born in Freshfield Road and educated in England and Germany, Mercedes worked as a typist in London, but it’s for her feats in the water that we remember her. In 1923 she set a British women’s record of 10 hours, 45 minutes swimming the Thames. In 1927 she became the first English woman to swim the channel, setting off from Gris Nez near Calais at 2.55 on a foggy morning, arriving in England 15 hours and 15 minutes later with the water temperature never having nudged more than 15 degrees celsius (nippy when you consider the temperature in the usual swimming pool is 25 – 28) after almost being barged into by boats and lost in the fog. An odd footnote to this story is that just a few days later another woman claimed to have swum the Channel too but was shown to have cheated, leading Mercedes to attempt it a second time. She didn’t quite manage it this time but at least people believed that she was the genuine article. Just a year later she became the first person ever to swim the Straits of Gibraltar from Tarifa in Spain to Morocco. Just last year I went to southern Spain and stood on a hill behind Tarifa overlooking this exact stretch of water. Africa, 9 miles away, looks deceptively within touching distance and the stretch of sea is blue, beautiful, crammed with tankers and as choppy as hell. According to OpenWaterPedia just over 600 people have made this swim (fewer than people who’ve climbed Everest) and the average time is 4 hours, 41 minutes. Mercedes took just under 13 hours but didn’t have the energy drinks, understanding of nutrition, and knowledge of how the body works at her disposal that swimmers have today. In the different websites dedicated to swimming this stretch of water, things to beware of, as well as unpredictable and changing currents, plummeting water temperatures and sudden sea fog, include vomiting and passing out from excessive consumption of sea water, exhaust fumes from boats and accidentally swimming into oil spills and other polluted areas. Oh, and sharks. ‘So you’d better keep close to the support boats’, one website helpfully advises. Although it’s still a huge feat these days, at least swimmers have the benefit of others’ experience. As the first, Mercedes was – literally – swimming into the unknown. What possessed her?
Another feat that she achieved closer to home was breaking the British endurance swimming record at Worthing Baths in May 1933 when she swam non-stop for 47 hours – yes, you read that correctly, 47 hours. Mercedes became a star and her career took her all over the world, greeted by crowds and signing her autograph wherever she went. Overall she managed to complete 5l endurance swims with 25 of them taking at least 26 hours to complete and many of them attracting thousands of spectators. I found a great description of one of these that took place in Manly Baths in Australia in 1931, which was apparently one of the first occasions on which women were allowed to compete on an equal basis with men. It really is worth a read to get a taste of the atmosphere of these incredible events that were hugely popular then. There’s a great description of one competitor, a New Zealander called Katerina Nehua, who had given birth nine weeks previously, and swam coated in axle grease and olive oil, determined to win the £500 prize money because her husband had been unemployed for nine months and they needed the money. In the end Mercedes swam for almost an hour longer than Katerina but shared her prize money. (Imagine a sportsperson doing that with the runner-up these days?) This is the link… http://manlylocalstudies.blogspot.co.uk/2012_10_01_archive.html
During her channel swim, Mercedes became the first person to wear a waterproof watch – a Rolex Oyster – and became a poster girl for Rolex. She received plenty of fan mail and she always tried to reply personally to it. On one occasion she received a letter from an English man who lived in India, informing her that he’d fallen in love with her. After a few months’ correspondence, strangely, Mercedes agreed to marry him. Yet when they met in the flesh it doesn’t seem to have worked out. Mercedes admitted – tactfully? – that she wasn’t ready to commit herself to marriage when there were still so many swimming challenges ahead of her. ‘What is the use of letting a man make a home for me when in my thoughts the sea spells ‘Home Sweet Home’ to me?’ she was quoted as saying in a newspaper. However, just a year later, she had got over her qualms and married Irish engineer Patrick Carey, an event captured on a newsreel here… http://www.britishpathe.com/video/channel-swimmers-romance (I love the bit where she is congratulated by the reporter and tells him that she is just about to set off for Turkey to swim the Hellespont in the same breath as ‘thank you’.)
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Robert Green attempts to resurrect the Holliehoax
There have been distinct stirrings from the once-moribund Hollie Greig hoaxers’ camp of late, most notably from Robert Green.
Readers will recall that Mr Green gained a small amount of national prominence a few weeks back, when it was revealed in a Sunday Times article that Chief Constable Veale of the Wiltshire Police had contacted him in relation to Mr Veale’s attempts to skewer Sir Edward Heath, post mortem:
The police chief in charge of the sex abuse inquiry into the former prime minister Ted Heath has been in personal email contact with a campaigner who was jailed for harassing people he falsely accused of paedophilia, The Sunday Times can reveal.
Mike Veale, the chief constable of Wiltshire, emailed Robert Green, of Warrington, two weeks ago in response to an email Green had sent him. Veale wrote: “As ever thank you Robert.”
The words suggest the pair had communicated previously and will cast fresh doubt on the evidence that Veale’s force has gathered, which the chief constable has reportedly described as “120% convincing” that Heath was a paedophile.
Green is an activist closely involved with fraudulent allegations in Scotland in the so-called Hollie Greig case, in which claims that a girl with Down’s syndrome had been abused were found to be false. He was jailed for 12 months in 2012 for harassment.
Lord Macdonald, the former director of public prosecutions, said: “It seems strange that, during a live sex-crime investigation, the chief constable is communicating with someone who has previously been jailed for making false sex-crime allegations against people.”
As one might imagine, Mr Green was not delighted at being described as a conspiraloon and liar [There’s a difference? —Ed.], and so wrote an “open letter” on David Icke’s web page, which we are certain the editors of The Times scour regularly, looking for hidden journalistic gems. In this, he explained that the Holliehoax WAS TOO real, and he had letters from various people that proved it, etc. and so on and so forth.
A few days later, a letter which appeared to have been written by Mr Green appeared in the Comments section of the excellent Barth’s Notes blog:
Now that Chief Constable Mike Veale has published his report on Operation Conifer, with his customary display of dignity, professionalism and clarity, it may be an appropriate time for me to disclose some details of my limited involvement in the investigation.
As readers may be aware, the Chief Constable and I were recently subjected to a nasty, poorly-researched and inaccurate attack by the Heath-supporting Sunday Times. It included a cowardly and baseless smear against the evidence of Hollie Greig, undeniably a brave victim of multiple sexual abuse.
Despite being furnished with all the independent expert and police evidence fully supporting Hollie, the ST was thus gutter journalism of the lowest kind.
I suspected that I was included in the attack, which was primarily aimed at undermining the gallant Chief Constable, because of the quality of the evidence that I had been able to relay to him, during the course of our correspondence.
This is how it all came about.
Over seven years ago, following the publicity surrounding the unlawful arrest and imprisonment I suffered in Aberdeen over Hollie`s case, I was invited to meet Dr Joan Coleman, a specialist in the field of child and ritual sexual abuse of impeccable reputation. Amongst other details, including some relating to Jimmy Savile and Cyril Smith, she offered some evidence about Sir Edward Heath. Although I was naturally not party to any depth of information, I did learn that evidence against Sir Edward had been provided by no fewer than five witnesses, all of them totally independent of each other.
I can say that due to the consistency of aspects of the content of the various statements, it would be impossible to deny that such evidence must be wholly credible.
Now, here in October 2017, it is interesting to recall that had I not been snatched from an Aberdeen street in February 2010, it is possible to imagine that such valuable evidence would never have seen the light of day.
In the meantime, I do ask readers to continue their support for Chief Constable Mike Veale and his team, who will have done much to restore public confidence in the police`s determination to investigate serious allegations of sexual crimes against children, without fear or favour.
Now that Mr Green seems to have found a police ally in Chief Constable Veale, it looks as though he’s getting just a little cocky, and has (as we predicted) decided to take another kick at the can.
After all, why not? He’s been mentioned in the country’s “newspaper of record”; he’s become chummy with his very own lantern-jawed, pink-skinned, shiny-shoed policeman, who writes to him respectfully and asks him what he thinks about Satanic abuse and things; and he’s been out of prison a good while and has forgotten what porridge tastes like.
A couple of days ago, someone named “Jane” called a phone-in radio show on LBC to harangue the on-air host about the Hollie Greig case. He seemed politely nonplussed, and said he’d “have to look into that”—we’re sure he was making frantic slashing gestures to his technicians, urging them to move the mad bint off the air so he could go on with his show.
Mr Green somehow caught wind of this incident, and has written to the host himself to follow up:
From: Robert Green
To: nick@lbc.co.uk
Subject: Hollie Greig case
Dear Nick,
With regard to your recent call from Jane, you mentioned on air that you would look at this issue further. As the initial campaigner on this horrific case, I should be very pleased to assist you with any further information, including independent expert witness evidence, including supportive documentatiofor [sic] Hollie from the police.
Unfortunately for LBC, your colleague Alex Salmond is heavily implicated in concealing the case, having been found on 26 May 2011 by the Information Commissioner of twice breaching the law in trying to cover up the Hollie Greig case.
Moreover, Mr Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon came within 24 hours of facing a criminal charge of contempt of court on 11 July 2011, for continuing to ignore Commissioner Kevin Dunion`s ruling. I am also in possession of a letter sent on behalf of Mr Salmond dated 14 February 2014, in which your colleague attempts to deceive his own constituency secretary, Neil Bailie over his proven breaches of the law.
This is a cover up case of Jimmy Savile proportions and I trust that you will allow your listeners to learn of the true facts behind this case.
My cooperation with LBC on this matter is assured.
To those who might be thinking right now, “But doesn’t this violate his gagging order?” we would say, “Yes. Yes, it does”.
And that is why we have forwarded the link and a screenshot to the relevant authorities. Sadly for Mr Green, the police department to which we’ve sent this material is not located in Wiltshire, they have not been on a strange and misguided witch-hunt against a dead man, and they don’t consider Mr Green an expert in anything save harassing and slandering innocent individuals.
Tough rocks, that.
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Keekee says:
He’s obviously bored with life then, but not half as bored as everyone else is with him. Anne sacked him years ago, she spoke to him like shit. Cover up blah blah blah, secrets and threats blah blah blah. Robert Green Robert Green riding through the Glen, blah blah blah. What happened Greeny, didn’t the Ted Heath thing give you enough mileage? I bet Malkie’s jumping up and down with so much excitement just now I bet a bit of wee came out.
Babs says:
And where does Belinda fit in to all this?
Just a bit of wee?
My guess: directly behind him, whispering encouragement in his ear.
So, they had all this evidence, but Robert never ever produced any of it in court, just a scrap of paper. The Sherrif told Robert if he wasn’t careful he’s be in the soup, Roberts reply was with a funny kind of laugh, oh that’s alright I’ve been in the soup before. Six months they gave him to produce evidence, and he produced nothing. Anyway Robert pleaded guilty in the end. I guess he’d had enough of CoCo Pops in prison, Oh this is going to be sooooo boring all over again, I just hope next time he goes to prison he remembers to take some clean pants with him, as last time I me he forgot. Then there was that phone call some one recorded, that was taken off YouTube in rather a hurry, where Robert was heard saying nasty things about Anne Greig, I wonder if Belinda is going to do another funny dance. I just hope Malkie changes his pants and I expect I’ll get called Slaaaaagy Maaaagie again. Why can’t Robert and Belinda go and investigate Steiner schools instead.
Belinda knew nothing, she never even read the poilce report, just kept making up stupid story’s as usual, and I bet she pushed Robert under a bus again
Ok a lot
Charlie Veitch says:
Robert Green wrote the 48 Laws of Power and some plays
Sonic Van-Welder says:
Babs, can I ask you to clarify what you said on the previous page about Kevin Weaver being Tracey Morris’s partner?
To repeat what I asked at the end of the last post, for anyone who missed it, would someone please be able to email LBC to fill them in on the truth? I’d do so myself but this isn’t my area of expertise and I know there are a number of very eloquent Holliehoax experts/veterans among us.
3rd Person Singular says:
Is the real Charlie Veitch a fan of Green too, do we know?
Mrs Overall says:
It’s boring in Warrington. Best thing about Warrington is the M62 which takes you to Liverpool. He must have been ecstatic to get to go all the way to Aberdeen!
Warrington does have The Museum of Policing but I expect that’s not much of a thrill these days for Robert.
How’s this? I’m totally open to tweakage suggestions before I send it!
Sent: 24th October 2017
Subject: ‘Jane’, Robert Green & the Hollie Greig Hoax
Dear Mr. Ferarri
It has come to my attention that you’ve been contacted by one Robert Green (see email dated 23.10.17, 7:02pm), urging you to follow up on a comment you made to a caller (‘Jane’) in a recent radio broadcast, who made a number of remarks regarding “the Hollie Greig case”. You told her you would look into it.
These articles from reputable newspapers reveal the basics of the “case”:
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13062006.One_devastating_fantasy__the_impact_of_an_internet_scandal
Of course, it isn’t my place to tell you what to think or believe as regards this case but it’s only fair to point out that Mr. Green has been, shall we say, somewhat economical with the truth. The Hollie Greig case was proven beyond all doubt to have been a cruel hoax which wrecked the lives of numerous innocent people and their families. A list of names of alleged abusers transpired to include several people who did not exist and Mr. Green was unable to stump up one single scrap of evidence to support his claims in court, despite having had six months to find any.
Mr. Green was given a 12-month prison sentence for harassing innocent members of the Scottish community in which Hollie lived, his second such conviction.
He has also been revealed as a discredited source in the recent Ted Heath fiasco, as covered in both the Times and Private Eye:
http://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1455/news
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/fresh-doubt-over-heath-sex-inquiry-rx7cpzptw
The ‘Holliehoax’ was an example of what is known colloquially as ‘satanic panic’, a particularly nasty modern form of medieval witch-hunting in which incredible, unfeasible allegations of ‘satanic ritual abuse’ are made against innocent people by unscrupulous groups of individuals with their own sinister alterior motives. It has hurt a number of communities over the years and has been roundly discredited. It has often been covered by the mainstream media, including the BBC. Here are some examples, in case you’re not familiar with the phenomenon:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-modern-witch-hunt/2015/07/31/057effd8-2f1a-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html?utm_term=.56bb8aa50b85
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/real_story/4602302.stm
https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=eF8W1YVsS5g
https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=8y_LFXbzIo0
Moreover, Mr. Green is widely regarded as a hoaxer and an ill-informed, dishonest and manipulative conspiracy theorist with links to David Icke and a number of discredited SRA hoaxers. It should also be noted that he is bound by a gagging order and would be breaking the law were he to speak about the HG case on your show.
[Name redacted]
Fabulous!! 🙂
Thanks, EC 🙂
I’ll keep you posted.
In the meantime, people can also send messages to Nick Ferarri via his LBC page, should they feel so inclined:
http://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/nick-ferrari
Tracey Ireland says:
#Psycho
Raymond Throatwobbler-Mangrove says:
“Tick fukendy do one of em one’s???? Lol”
Yeah, thanks for clearing that up for us, Mark.
Is that actually English?
Ethel the Aardvark says:
Justin/Sam/Steved/anyone else – are any of you familiar with Cathy Kezelman?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/weekend-australian-magazine/the-disputed-memories-of-child-abuse-activist-cathy-kezelman/news-story/fb0b24837c3955ad1ff441029e88f7c3
https://www.centralwesterndaily.com.au/story/4958561/cathy-kezelman-hits-back-over-false-memory-claims
Mr. Apostrophe and his little friend 'E' says:
Tracey Morris, YOU’RE gonna be fucking sorry you forgot about us. It’s going to be a LONG SENTENCE for you, you slimy little bastard. (See what I did there?)
Costa del Troll says:
Haven’t got a clue, Mary. Sorry 😀
Headless chicken update…
The aforementioned video, for anyone who was fortunate enough to miss it:
And this is the “admission” that Maggs Shaw O’Neill is an expert on the Hollie Greig hoax. Which of course means that she runs a blog about the Hampstead hoax. Where would we be without you, Defective Costa? ROFL!
(This is Kristie Sue’s own screenshot and her own underlinings)
Only whats in the media, but her mother and brother both think she’s not ‘being accurate’ in what she’s saying, she had ‘no memory’ of any sexual abuse by her father and her torture at the hands of a pedophile ring led by her grandmother until she underwent repressed memory therapy- sound familiar?
Publicly she is starting to become a bit of a millwheel around the neck of the commission, too many people are beginning to doubt both her story and her suitability to be involved in the Royal Commission as an expert witness
Partners in their “Activism”.
Probably 2 years ago they were doing “whatever” in their activism
Not in a sexual relationship sense.
And the Action Man is the little doll he looks a bit like with his hair cut and pretends to be.
Well they both start with a H, and both have an e in them, and…. um and…
Well thats it really, but its about as close to facts as she’s likely to get…
I’m not sure which videos you have linked, but there is one where Mark Daly of the BBC speaks of why he could not proceed with a documentary about the Hollie ‘case’. Of course, after which the usual accusations were levelled at Mark, who has made extremely good documentaries, re child abuse, some groundbreaking, but knew that this had no substantiation. I’ll see if I can find the right one, if you were not aware of that. Really good email, isn’t it ‘ulterior’, tho ? Not that I’m a hot at spelling 🙂
The Vintage Meme Revival club says:
Oh bugger, yes it is ‘ulterior’. In my defence it was half past three in the morning, lol. Thanks – I’ll amend that before sending.
They all ready know the truth like most people, I believe last year or the year before, Mumsy was being a pain in the arse and they told her to go away
Mark Daly has some recordings of talking not to Robert Green at Anne Greigs house, that uncovered the truth, that’s why Mark Dally and the Panorama team walked away because it was utter rubbish, too many inconsistencies, unfortunately Robert knows this ant won’t let Mark release any of ot
All this has been done before, it’s just going round in circles, what should really be investigated and put and end to, it why so many people lie about institutional child abuse, force vulnerable people to say they’ve been abused when they havn’t. In that Ted Heath thing, some one made an allegation that he was abused, but used three different names for three different allegations of abuse, how is that helping anyone? The Hollie Greig shit is all done now, Robert and Belinda are wasting their time. All the evidence is there, it’s a pile of crap, It’s all been talked about before, the interesting thing and should of been looked into was why wasn’t Hollies Uncle investigated more before he killed him self?
Jack Burton says:
Yet another repressed memory nut-job. It’s amazing that people in positions of power still fall for this BS after 30 years even though they have the Internet at their fingertips.
Of course it’s nothing at all to do with making money from selling books and going to speak at conferences is it Cathy!
SN …. 🙂 I am making alot of mistakes, I’m struggling to do anything useful, so I’m very happy to have been of some tiny assistance 🙂
This mob think if they shout and scream and stand outside somewhere in a “demonstration” shouting rude things at people, that suddenly authorities will simply cave into their bullying and ignore the law.
And whatever happened to the appalling Angela Power-Disney’s campaign to ‘release’ the idiot Rupert?. She’s all mouth isn’t she. The one time she could be arsed to do something as in the recent family court case where the mother lost her case and there was a suicide.
The bunch of them: Kiss of Death.
Surprised she hasn’t summoned up her pals in the Paramilitary or the IRA (can’t remember which side she was- all I know is she sent one lot packing from her garden although Why The Fuck they wanted to be in this shrew’s garden is anyone’s guess)
Disturbingly the Australian Royal Commission seems to be running off track. I’m surprised they haven’t lauded Fiona Barnett although that may be a step too far.
Also odd characters keep cropping up such as Mark Tedeschi QC (who has had a terrible falling out with his son the concert pianist Simon Tedeschi). Seems to be considered a brilliant prosecutor but has come under intense criticism recently with some cases, accused of twisting evidence. Now being sued for malicious prosecution in a very big case by a man found innocent of murder after his appeal.
There is an extraordinary backlash and it’s a very concerted one and that includes Carol Kezelman who was appointed by a government probably just wanting the whole child abuse thing to disappear.
They keep referring back to a 90’s Royal Commission in NSW where the Judge accepted and praised the evidence of Elizabeth Loftus and creeps like Barnett have been sitting seething ever since claiming “pedo’ cover-ups etc but the bloody Commission was about bent police and many were discovered and prosecuted including 2 who accepted large bribes to drop cases from a now deceased man.
# One aspect of the 90s Royal Commission was a lunatic NSW MP who began naming names in Parliament of so-called VIP ‘pedos’ claiming cover-ups -it was almost a carbon copy run of Geoffrey Dickens claptrap.
But in doing so she managed to name one judge who had been arrested 20 years earlier for possibly importuning a teenage boy in a station toilet- he committed suicide the following day.
## This stupid woman also described the exact plot of an Australian film :The Everlasting Secret Family which had been fed to her by a convicted pedophile who just wanted to cause havoc as he admitted later.
### The same MP had 2 twin gay sons and apparently gay groups threatened to expose them as not only being part-time rent boys but having sex with underage boys. Both fled Australia and have never returned.
These lunatics have victims and many are not their intended targets.
mik7777 says:
Top work Spiny,I suspect that will firmly see the matter filed under F for “Fake news”,Fraudulent Falsehoods”,”Feckin Ejits”or simply good old”FFS”.
Allegedly Angela only got involved in the recent family court case with the suicide because she and her daughter were being paid for diesel, childcare and food.
Angela’s son had to sleep on the sofa and give up his bed to a mother that had recently given birth.
Angela could have given up her own bed.
Plenty of times I’ve slept on the floor if I’ve stayed overnight at someone else’s home.
It’s no big deal.
The boy slept on the sofa!
Whoopie do…
I doubt any good will come of the demo, you never know.
The only people getting arrested though will be the demonstrators’.
Angela for sure is the Kiss of Death.
Kezelman’s “recovered memories” of abuse come from her association with Liz Mulliner and her odd ‘Heal 4 Life’ foundation based in NSW’s Hunter Valley where Mulliner claims there is an active Satanic abuse ring operating.
Mulliner was a top theatre agent with many artists like Cate Blanchett & Russell Crowe and she herself had “therapy” and “recovered” memories of her father, a Guy’s Hospital administrator who according to her, ran a pedo satanic ring.
The main accuser of actor Robert Hughes “recovered ” her memories of his alleged abuse at a “Heal 4 Life” retreat. The fact Hughes’ wife was also Mulliner’s theatrical agency partner seems to be co-incidental.
After Hughes was convicted Mulliner demanded stars like Blanchett & Crowe leave the agency run by Hughes’ wife but they ignored Mulliner and remain with her.
Heal 4 Life is planning to set up “retreats” in the UK. They have had $Millions in government grants.
Thankfully with all its faults modern civilization has evolved away from mob rule and has gradually come down from the tree and established non violent methods of initiating change.
The Morris attempt to cut through due processes by flaming torch,bully tactics and flicking the “V”at “Da system” will only ever land her in deep shit and rightly so.
Seems the recently noted quiescence in Loonyville may have been but a prelude to a storm.Great news for voyeurs and pop corn shares.
This disturbing video at least needs to redone with an appropriate graphic before being eventually consigned to the digital shredder.
But do I still get a C+ for effort at least?
Thank you, Mik 🙂
Great work Spiny. From what i know of Nick Ferrari he doesn’t seem to be the kind of person who would have much time for conspiraloons.
I give you an A—yes, it’s all been done before, frustrating as that is, but we know these people are “delusional, irrational, obsessive, and odd”, and they’ll take any opportunity to try and restart their bizarre hoaxes. Their hope is that they’ll find people who weren’t paying attention first time round, who they can manipulate and use for their own purposes. If we can nip that in the bud, so much the better.
Breaking: Facebook no longer “a Jewish conspiracy run by MI5 to brainwash the sheeple”
What a nasty little person:
Lol yes that had me stumped also. Must be some kind of fruitloop code.
You always come out with some great gifs Mik7777
But not so well known for her use of the English language.
Thankyou, FG.
I agree, EC. Well put.
Blimey !
Costa's Piles of Poo says:
Nice letter Spiny!! Good Job!
Yes, Mik is our reigning GIF king. 🙂
Google Hoaxtead says:
Jelly Shouldn't Run says:
Nice little hissy fit starts building up from 9:45 onwards…
When she says she’s gonna take out the parasites, does she mean she’s going to kill them or has she planned a nice little trip to the zoo followed by a picnic in the park or something?
I’m sure it must be the latter. After all, would they allow someone who makes death threats to be around children?
As I said to Kristie Sue, she’s about two years late and 10 quid short on the Maggs thing.
Yes, some of us knew someone by that name very briefly—a couple of months at most—but she never had anything to do with setting up or running this blog. In fact, I’m not really comfortable naming her here, because I believe she’s disassociated herself from anything to do with either the Holliehoax or Hoaxtead. I don’t know her well enough to begin to guess why, but that’s really her business, not anyone else’s.
Of course, Malky is utterly besotted with the woman for whatever reason, but that cannot be helped. Tertiary syphilis is a terrible thing.
Do you know, it never fails to amuse me that these people rant on about us “taking this much time and effort”…when in fact, what we’re doing is responding to the enormous amount of time, effort, and energy they have put in to set this thing alight and keep the embers hot.
My question would be, “What is making these loons put so much time and effort into proving something which has been disproven and debunked over and over again. What do they get out of it? Who is behind them? What are they hiding?”
The fact that we are more stubborn and determined than they are only speaks to our dedication to the truth: that the people of Hampstead are innocent and have been victimised by a bunch of losers who have their own sinister reasons for wanting to believe that children have been raped, murdered, and eaten.
Yes – sorry, EC – I won’t mention her again. We’ve had our chuckle at Kristie Sue’s hilariously incompetent attempts to play detective and Paedogilvy’s determination to make his spurned crush look like hatred and now it’s time to move on, methinks. Christ knows these nutters provide us with enough (unintentionally) entertaining material for us to be able to pick and choose anyway!
Oh, I’m not upset with you, not at all. I’m really annoyed with Kristie Sue, but then that’s natural. I think she evokes that response in many people. And canines.
As you say, her incompetence is hilarious, and I’ve been having a good chuckle over her idiocy too. 🙂
The guy who made the video would probably like that.
I think Mel Shaw did say Abraham et al’s fantasty to do with Hampstead was a hoax.
She also slated Power-Disney very early on.
Just got an FB notification. It’s official – a photo of a middle-aged man snogging a scantily clad 13-year-old girl “doesn’t go against any of our specific community standards”. There goes my faith in humanity.
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2017/10/22/torture-and-the-hampstead-sra-hoax-myths-busted/#comment-83454
Sadly, though, she still idolises Brian Gerrish.
Yes very true.
But has he ever visited her in prison?
Seems its a technical term of some kind possibly relating to not being able to find the right hole when absolutely bladdered.
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/thebothy/fuckin-pyshed-tae-fukendy-fuck-fuckin-shyte-t499.html
It’s because:-
1. They have nothing better to do.
2. They have spent years on these hoaxers and don’t want it all to have been a waste of time.
3. They want to be part of some “alternative ‘celebrity'” drama.
4. It makes them feel as though they are important.
5. For the likes of Angela etc. it’s a way to make a bit of cash of the side for sharing other peoples posts on
fb. On Twitter there isn’t a lone person giving her any attention.
6. …..I’m sure there’s many more reasons.
Oh, Catherine tried trolling me the last day or so, sounds very bitter.
daisies2017 says:
Another of Angela’s ‘admirers’, friend of TM.
Lee Shannon angel power disney you really need to fuk ur mouth up u gave bby H clothes and changing bag and damandin them back you say ur there for that bby but tske stuff bk the child doesnt need fuk all from yous we are bby H family so dont you talk about any1 are my family u wanted t and p to stay there so u could get the money from them and Niki Tenkids Laverty has spoke the turth about you ur s fuking key borad worrior
I think my shorthand was much more understandable than that post back in the day. 😂
Disgusting, I reported it also but didn’t get the notification yet.
Catherine’s blipped on our radar before:
“Bronny’s ‘Catherine O’Connell’ mate/sock is on Alanson’s page, echoing the freckle-faced one’s hilarious claim that Abe’s ‘RawHempStars’ channel is an RD sock:
My God, I’d love to see the look on Abe’s face when he sees that 😀”
~ Common Porpoise, 14/02/16
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/a-challenge-to-alan-alanson-back-up-your-claims-or-go-home/#comment-21511
Also on that same thread:
El Coyote: “The wee man will be hopping up & down in rage…”
Common Porpoise: “The original claim on Humpty Brompty’s blog: ‘Abraham Jemal Christie – with the Raw Hemp Stars banner – definite. Report!!’ It’s the use of the word ‘definite’ that seals the magic for me 😀”
Sam: “Catherine looks like she would enjoy a good night at Biddie Mulligans.”
Sam: “Catherine is right on the ball. She’s just discovered the Robert Green case and tried to telephone him in prison but they had no knowledge of him. All done and dusted a few years ago poor thing.”
Charlie Zant: “Honestly, this woman is as thick as two short planks. Is there actually anything between her ears?”
And she features in a post about Butlintwat here (from 17th Dec 2015):
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2015/12/17/twitter-mob-descends-on-butlincat
Gotta love those key borad warriors 😀
I’ve posted her the link to this thread, lol. This is the video where she’s been trolling me:
OK, this was posted to me on that ‘heavy breathing’ video. I’ve tried to read it three times now and I just keep zoning out after the first three sentences. Can someone give me the gist? Best summary wins a night out with Angela…
Two big names supoorting her peter mcclelland and mark tedeschi who obviously belive the repressed memory crap. She is giving advice on policy and funding. Angela and cohorts spread nastiness and lies but small time crazy affecting a few unfortunates. Cathy is big time crazy.
Blah blah blah blah.. he wants you on his couch.
So my initial impression was correct – he IS a wanker.
Basically, he says: “Spiny, I love you, I have a crush on you and I want to take you back to my place to ‘meet Jesus’.”
If I win the night out with Angie, do I have to pay? And should I bring a few packets of fags to keep her calm?
Latest update from the world of bollocks:
‘Coincidentally’ at the same time as Tracey Morris and her mates will be live-feeding their Regina Ceoli protest?
#Hmmmm 😀
Oh dear, Kristie Sue won’t like her minion’s comment about her heavy-breathing hero!
This is gonna be a hoot 😀
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! The stupid is killing me! 😂😂😂
https://archive.is/UG4nc
LMFAO! Can someone please sit that drooling fucktard Paedogilvy down and explain to him in words that a 3-month-old lobotomised chimp would understand that the above was posted in reply to a Spiny Norman comment?
https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=rrvbDTKeKj0&lc=z23kjtxzhmy4clzspacdp4350nflrv1f3ancsjaev1hw03c010c
LOLOLOLOLOL!!
“So nowhere here does Calum Ross mention Spiny..”
Ogilvy you’re a sandwich short of a picnic. Calum Ross’ large comment was IN REPLY to SPINY. You never even looked at the video!
Bless… can you understand now? Calm yourself doon tae a frenzy noo..
The guy’s totally lost it, Jake. Now he thinks that there are 18,000+ people trying to hack his blog, lol:
https://archive.is/etR7h
Don’t forget your roller-skates, in case you have to make a quick getaway.
Hashtag barrel-scraping
Seriously, how desperate for friends must she be to be supporting someone like Eugene Lukjanenko? LOL
http s://ww w.facebook. com/eugene.lukjanenko/videos/10156647858402004
And stuff some rolled up newspaper down the back of your kecks, Raymond, to stop her pinching your arse.
Sally the SENCo says:
I beg to differ, Angie – you are most definitely ‘special’.
Why would anyone want to hack his blog? LOL! It’s becoming a carbon copy of this one, with posts of our comments all over it now anyway.
Immer Beobachtend says:
Ah dinnae ken, hen! The guy’s a wee barmpot.
Liza McRadley says:
Och, he’s a total radge.
#Daft sod
Subject: Alex Salmond and the Hollie Greig case
With regard to my previous email, may I propose a very simple method of highlighting the true facts and resultant issues before your listeners ?
I would like to suggest a live public debate with Alex Salmond on LBC over the Hollie Greig case in general and his involvement in it. I am also wiling to take any questions from members of your audience.
I would also stress that I would neither ask for nor accept any payment whatsoever from LBC for my contribution. My only motive is to place information before your listeners in order to enable them to make up their own minds about this extraordinary matter.
Since my false arrest and subsequent unsound conviction, which are currently being in the process of being formally challenged, I have spoken widely and publicly across the UK, including Scotland and on radio about the case, my only restrictions being that I should not repeat the accusations relating to the identities of those named by Hollie, nor should I seek to make contact with any them.
The other many issues have been presented openly by me without any problems at all.
I look forward to your response and trust that Mr Salmond will not avoid the opportunity I have offered to him of facing me.
She’s associated with THAT mob???
Didnt know that, they are seriously lala land- and seriously dangerous too, anyone who even hints they should be investigated for inappropriate behaviours (and theres plenty of those associated with H4L) gets the full treatment, threats of lawsuits, counter accusations of criminal acts, public smear campaigns, all on a mob that is functionally identical to the Hampstead claims….
I still wonder about Robert, I only saw the press footage, but to me he just seemed so bewildered by it all and the recovered memorys thing was strongly discredited even then, and apart from that there was no evidence at all….
That is the most disturbing thing about these ‘recovered memory’ mobs- there is serious evidence that they never happened, and people can go to jail based on them… even if they are found innocent, the stain remains on that persons life forever after, and that can be just as bad if not worse than the actual jailing
Yes, she blocked me on Twitter ages ago. Apparently doesn’t like any kind of reality intruding into her little fantasy world, LOL.
I’m sure Nick won’t pay any attention to that email after receiving the one from Spiny!
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/1934561/satanic-ritual-child-sex-abuse-claims/
“Dr Christine Edwards, who has a PhD in psychology science and has completed a number of evaluations of Heal for Life, said Ms Mullinar’s comments about satanic ritual abuse and the lack of a team of health professionals in the organisation left the organisation, and Ms Mullinar, vulnerable to criticism.
‘‘She’s a strongly religious person. With the belief in God comes the belief in Satan, but when she’s put in government submissions for funding I’ve said straight out to her, ‘Don’t write about satanic ritual abuse because there’s not enough evidence to support it. You don’t want people to think you’re a ratbag’.’’
Not enough evidence? – try nada, nil, zip, zero…
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/2561269/cessnock-centres-excessive-discussion-of-cults/
“In July this year, the commission confirmed it would not investigate the handling of a number of allegations that were based on the ‘‘recovered memories’’ of a sexual abuse survivor who became a staff member, who alleged other sexual abuse survivors who were also staff members had engaged in satanic ritual abuse involving people staying at the centre.”
Great, people with false ‘recovered memories’ start treating others and guess what they find?- MORE false recovered memories…. And not just in private therapy sessions- but group sessions…
(and we have all seen the ‘super soldiers’ like APD’s reactions in group claims- they all end up trying to oneup each other)
Interestingly (and perhaps rather worryingly) is that these ‘satanic cult’ claims- in which babies were killed and eaten, coerced sexual activities etc were in the media just prior to the Hampstead hoax… did Abe get his ideas from this mob’s media coverage?
Geordie? Sure. says:
Alanson, you ignorant far right racist twat. LOL
The Rothschild’s what? And which Rothschild are they talking about?
Or to put it another way, shouldn’t the fucking “master race” know how to use apostrophes?
The emails that were read in court between Hughes’ accuser and her agent were very disturbing. The accuser actually states that the money the agent was negotiating to sell her story (long before Hughes’ arrest and very similar to Rolf Harris) was not nearly enough and she wanted much more so she could set herself up as a film producer in the USA.
It was basically an agreement to make the story of abuse much more sensational.
Her dedication to Liz Mulliner- who also happened to be her agent is unshakable and she has given workshops at Mulliner’s ‘Heal4Life’ retreat which is like a 5-star country club all paid for by donations or government grants (the grants have now dried up). Completely unqualified people take alleged victims through these ‘repressed memory” scenarios. Not even a psychologist is on hand (which may require paying them a significant wage when those running the “memory” course work for free).
There have been so many calls for inquiries of Mulliner’s actions but the sensations seem to die down each time.
Unfortunately for the victim she has also tried to sue Hughes’ theatrical agent wife- not sure how that works, suing relatives – but has hit a blank wall as she lives in Singapore where she operates her agency from and a local court threw out the lawsuit.
As for the agent, I’ve been hearing very disturbing tales. Just gossip and rumours which can of course be completely fictitious but for some reason the name “Max Clifford” comes to mind.
Dontcha just love the mindset of these people : they accuse all & sundry of murdering 100s of babies and eating their flesh, of mass raping babies and children. They stand outside churches and scream profanities and abuse at startled parishioners and publish the names and addresses of innocent people basically calling upon others to attack them (Rupert Quaintance- draw blood?). They publish and re-publish the images of 2 genuine child abuse victims (abused by their mother’s boyfriend as she sat by as he threatened to bury them in the desert) despite the guarantee of anonymity of these genuine vicitms and so on.
But call them out as liars and provide real evidence of their lies they scream “troll” and “slander”.
She really is begging to go to jail.
There will still be starving children and rape & abuse victims Deborah Mahmoudieh because lazy ignorant sods like you sit at your PC ranting and a’raving all day & think you have actually dome something.
Has this Jesus RSVPed that he will be there?
Juts another bullshit quote or to use today’s parlance -Fake News.
https://www.quora.com/Did-Winston-Churchill-say-something-about-Germany-extricating-her-economic-power-from-the-worlds-trading-system.
“The quote appears to have been invented in 2001 by a man named David Pidcock, a convert to radical Islam who blamed the 9/11 attacks on a Jewish conspiracy to discredit Islam and undermine the West.
The book ‘Propaganda in the Next War’ was published in 1938, and there is no trace in any reputable catalogue or bookshop of there being a second edition ever published….The Churchill Centre, which holds a 13-million-word digitised archive of Churchill’s writings, confirmed on request back in 2006 that nothing resembling the quote is held in their files.”
What Churchill actually said (to me personally) was that “one day there will be thing called the Internets where all manner of fruitcakes and fuckwits will reign supreme and spread their vicious loony lies and I expect you Ghost of Sam, when you grow up, to be on the ball and dispute each & everyone of them and state the truth and for God’s sake, do not go a’sailing with anyone called ‘Heath'”.
He then asked me to “pour me another G&T love” and suggested I join him in his bath-tub.
I thought Hitler was a secret Rothschild and the war (all wars actually) were Rothschild plots? . Their story changes all the time.
Given statically its pretty much a dead cert that it wont end at all well,it may be wise to check your life insurance cover,that your will is in good order and notify all psychiatric hospitals as to your inside leg measurements so that the straight jacket does`nt chaff too much.
Good luck sir,its been a privilege serving with you.
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I will tune in for a laugh promptly at around 5.30pm gmt onThursday by which time her technical team should be getting quite close to working out if her mic is on or off.
This one has all the makings of a right old giggle,up there with the lampshade episode.
Some bloke down the pub told me that both World Wars were really False Flag events and all of the dead and injured people were actually just crisis actors. He said that it must be true as he read about it on the internet.
LMFAO! 😀
The Vintage Video Revival club says:
😀 Ooh, you little tease, WW. You knew I wouldn’t be able to resist…
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Home ▶ Vol 76, No 4 (2020) ▶ Lincoln
The use of paradigmatic research: The model of a perfect world according to Targum Qohelet
Lawrence Lincoln
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies | Vol 76, No 4 | a6172 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.6172 | © 2020 Lawrence Lincoln | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Lawrence Lincoln, Department of Ancient Studies, Faculty of Humanity, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa
The purpose of this study is to identify and explain a religious paradigm in Targum Qohelet (TgQoh). Targum Qohelet is dated to a period between 500 CE and 1101 CE. This study concludes that the most probable setting for this Targum was the beit midrash (the house of study). A paradigmatic research approach is used to identify the range of translation components to explain the translation method employed in TgQoh and the rationale behind it. This research approach reveals how the translator(s) used their interpretative ability to create a completely different thought-world when compared with the original Hebrew Text. Various subparadigms emerge as a network of connected religious beliefs to form a cogent systematic rabbinic theology of a perfect world order to replace the pessimism of the Hebrew base text. The Aramaic version reflects a complete solution to the existential problems raised by Biblical Qohelet. It seeks to provide humankind with guidelines for creating a ‘perfect world’ both on earth and in the afterlife. The use of a paradigmatic analysis based on the concept of a ‘perfect world’ provides an ideal model for analysing the translation strategy of TgQoh and understanding its method of rendering.
Contribution: The application of paradigmatic methodology bridges the gap between the relatively secular nature of the Hebrew version of Qohelet (Ecclesiastes) and the overwhelmingly and inescapable theological forms of the Aramaic targum. The paradigms in the Aramaic translation identify how the targum applied rabbinic ideology to explain the meanings that lies behind the original Hebrew text of Qohelet. The paradigms, when taken together reveal how the cynical nature of Hebrew Qohelet was changed into a rabbinical guide for righteous living, here described as ‘perfect world’.
Targum; Eschatology; Biblical interpretation; Paradigms; Translation studies
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CTPartners’ CEO Resigns; Rival DHR Acquires Growing Stake in Company
March 12, 2015 – Brian M. Sullivan tendered his resignation from embattled CTPartners after the markets closed yesterday afternoon on a day which saw the company’s stock price swing up by nearly 20 percent on anticipation of the news. The company’s board of directors announced the appointment of CTPartners’ vice chairman, Sylvain Dhenin, as CTP’s new chief. Mr. Sullivan has agreed to step down after more than 10 years at the helm, effective April 2. The board is conducting a search for a new non-executive director to chair the board. “Sylvain is a world-class executive with a sophisticated understanding of global leadership needs and a strong track record of success in growing CTPartners’ European operation and board practice. He has effectively operated as the No. 2 executive at CTPartners, has the complete trust and confidence of partners and the board, and is the ideal person to lead CTPartners going forward,” said Thomas Testwuide, chairman of the company’s nominating committee. Mr. Dhenin joined CTPartners nearly nine years ago and during that time has grown CTPartners’ European offices from two to 15 in eight countries. Prior to joining CTPartners, Mr. Dhenin was managing partner of Whitehead Mann SAS, the French branch of Whitehead Mann plc. “I am looking forward to building upon CTPartners’ success, and focusing on the firm’s strategic initiatives to better serve our clients and enhance shareholder value,” said Mr. Dhenin. How Mr. Dhenin enhances shareholder value remains a wide open question, given today’s early morning news that rival DHR International has again raised its ownership stake in the company, from 6.3 to 7.3 percent, buying some 635,000 shares in total since January. Last month, DHR submitted an unsolicited acquisition proposal to the board of CTPartners to acquire 100 percent of its equity. “We now look forward to having our proposal fully vetted and approved,” said David H. Hoffmann, the principal shareholder of DHR and founder of Osprey Capital LLC. “As the third largest shareholder of the company, we are in it to win it and we will. We are totally committed to getting this deal done.” Mr. Hoffmann has gone so far as to propose a slate of blue chip board candidates to the CTPartners’ board – including William Perez (former president and CEO of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, Nike and SC Johnson); William Farley (current chairman and president of private equity firm LV Ventures); William Smithburg (former chairman, president and CEO of The Quaker Oats Company); John Jastrem (current chairman and CEO of Callison LLC); Daniel Connors (turnaround specialist and former EVP and CAO of Kinko’s); and Geoffrey Hoffmann (current CEO of DHR International). “The collective expertise of our board nominees will help drive maximum value for shareholders while fostering an employee centric environment,” said Mr. Hoffmann.
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Whitham Group Continues Expansion
November 23, 2014 – Whitham Group Executive Search has added Laura Bailey and Jody Davis to further develop its portfolio of regional and national accounts. Ms. Bailey comes with experience within the industry, having spent the last eight years at Davenport Major Executive Search as an executive recruiter for full life-cycle national and international executive search assignments in technology, media, and wireless telecommunications industries. Ms. Davis comes to Whitham Group with recruitment experience within numerous industries, disciplines and geographic locations. She has extensive recruitment experience for direct and contract employees within in-house and agency environments filling high-in-demand positions while providing recruitment services to many of the top companies in the U.S. “Laura and Jody’s wealth of experience and industry knowledge has already made them key additions to the Whitham Group team. We view their appointment as a sign of our commitment to being the leading company in our industry and our unique niche in renewable energy recruitment,” said Carina Whitham, CEO. “Our new innovations and the increasing demand from our clients led us to look for additions to our team who will fit in with our ethos of innovation and exceptional service, and it is very fortunate that we were able to find two executives of this caliber.” Founded in the Bay Area in 2010, Whitham Group is an executive search firm focused on recruiting executives for the clean-tech and renewable energy sectors.
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PCMag India News
Should Robots Pay Taxes?
Federal taxes are due this week in the US. But what about our synthetic coworkers? Should they cough up, too? Jordan Harrod, a Harvard-MIT PhD student, has something to say on the subject.
By S.C. Stuart
July 14, 2020, 10:20 p.m.
(Jordan Harrod)
COVID-19 means the US delayed this year's federal tax deadline to July 15; if you've procrastinated, it's time to get to it. But while tax collectors will only accept payment from humans in 2020, will we soon be sending tax bills to robots, too?
That's the question posed by Jordan Harrod, a medical engineering and neurobiology PhD student at Harvard by day and YouTube creator by night. On her channel, she digs into geeky topics like whether it's possible to make artificial intelligence speak and the aforementioned android taxation.
As she explains, US companies are taxed based on how many employees they have. More machines and fewer people mean less money paid in taxes. So the argument is that companies that lay off human workers and move to automation should not necessarily get a big tax break, and the taxes they do pay should go to retrain or support people who are now out of a job.
"I’m certainly not an economist or tax professional, so I spent a lot of time digging into research and current policy proposals on this topic to make that video," Harrod tells PCMag. "Personally, I like the idea of an automation tax, where the money is redirected to retraining programs that help people re-integrate into the modern workforce and unemployment payments to support them through their training."
She acknowledges reports that say automation won't have as dire an effect on the US employment rate as some predict, thanks in part to the emergence of new industries and technology. And even if a robot tax is put in place, it "wouldn't necessarily solve the income inequality issue without other policies implemented in parallel to make sure that money gets to the people who need it," she says. "You can take money from the rich, but if you don't give it to the poor, it doesn't really solve that problem."
Still, it's an "interesting question" to ponder, she says. How did Harrod get thinking about these and other complex issues? We spoke to her recently about her neurobiology studies, distinguishing AI hype from reality, algorithm bias, and why she started a YouTube channel.
You're scheduled to complete a joint PhD from Harvard Medical School and MIT in 2023. What brought you to this field?
I came to neuroscience somewhat by accident. I’ve done research in a few different fields since starting college, and used each past experience as a way of narrowing down what I wanted to do next. By the time I started my PhD, I’d narrowed my research interests down to something that would let me use machine learning and build devices for medicine, which is obviously still pretty broad.
And, interestingly, you’re working with not one, but two labs.
At the end of the day, I settled on a project that I both found interesting and that was in a lab run by faculty who I felt matched my mentorship preferences, which actually happened to be two labs: the Neuroscience Statistics Research Lab and the Synthetic Neurobiology group.
Tell us the story behind your YouTube channel.
I was about to start my PhD, and knew I wanted machine learning to be a significant part of my research. However, given that my program focuses on translational and clinical research, I wanted to learn more about how people interact with algorithms, and I wasn’t able to find a lot of resources that were geared towards the average person. A lot of people supplement their education in one way or another by watching Crash Course or Khan Academy videos, so YouTube seemed like the place to be. And I’ve been involved in science communication since high school as both student, and teacher. So I put my plan to do science communication on YouTube together with my interest in AI, and the channel was born.
How do you come up with your sometimes strange and philosophical subject ideas?
They’re often random ideas that pop into my head when I walk down the street and see a piece of technology that I hadn’t really considered before. My goal is to give people the tools and information they need to interact with the algorithms that often govern significant aspects of our lives, even if we don’t always know it.
In your TedX talk you say that few humans have 'AI literacy' and, as such, are at a disadvantage when interacting with expert systems.
It’s true. Many people can’t distinguish AI hype from reality, and I don’t think you need to be an expert researcher in order to do so. You also may not realize that you are interacting with an AI system in the first place, which can become problematic when these systems are making life-or-death decisions. More broadly, a lack of AI literacy can lead to policies and regulations that don’t effectively govern new technologies, and individuals engaging with biased systems without understanding the risks associated with that.
You also point out that AI isn't just handling the big stuff.
It also affects your day-to-day experiences in small ways online. You may be missing content from friends and family members because an algorithm is prioritizing content that you react to instead, which, in turn, causes stress and negatively impacts your mental health.
What do you want people to do after watching your videos?
I think it depends on the video. Most of my videos are purely for education and awareness, so that people can walk away from it having learned something new that might help them the next time they encounter a similar system. On the other hand, I hope that people watching my AI 101 series might continue to improve their programming skills and look for additional resources to do so if they found the tutorial interesting.
On Juneteenth, you did a video explaining how AI preserves systemic racism through social systems like education, healthcare and the law. How can we make AI explicitly anti-racist to rectify this?
That’s the goal, isn’t it? Unfortunately, one of the many things that I’ve realized in making videos on AI fairness and bias research is that there’s no one way to 'fix' it, because the fix will always be predicated on your definition of fairness, which comes with your own personal biases.
Which is why diversity in AI is so important, to have checks and balances on so-called 'hidden biases.'
Right. Balancing datasets and regularizing distributions during training are also steps you can take, but what a lot of the research has shown me is that community engagement is both extremely important, and often skipped, while developing AI systems. By involving the communities that will be affected by these technologies in every stage of the design and development process, you’re more likely to tailor your solution to the needs of the community and consider on- or off-target effects that you may not have been aware of otherwise.
Good point. What are your plans for post-doctoral life?
In terms of post-doctoral life, I haven’t settled on a path quite yet. Luckily, I just finished my second year of my PhD, so I have a good amount of time before I have to decide. I’d like to continue working on high-risk/high-reward projects, likely in industry, so places like Google X are interesting to me. But, I also wouldn’t be surprised if my dream job hasn’t been created yet. Some of these technologies move so quickly that there might be a whole new field for me to consider by the time I finish my PhD.
Finally, you hint that sometimes you use AI to curate YouTube videos for you. Tell us more.
Well, if I told you that secret, everyone would be able to do it!
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by Donny Syofyan December 29, 2020 January 6, 2021 0376
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The coming 2021 remains to be a great challenge following Indonesia’s fight against COVID-19 of flattening the curve of new infections. Yet it should not put a bridle on us to move ahead and do not lose sight of priority lists in 2021.
We should not forget our own new year resolution to define our future steps. We are facing a real-time challenge, no less perilous than military warfare, which is the cultural challenge. The military war results in fatalities for sure, yet the cultural challenge or war detaches the losers from their root and identity. While the former is harmful, the latter is subtle and gives no pain. Being unfamiliar with our own cultural identity and blinded by foreign values or anything from outside paves the way for the loss of traditional values. Extremity is synonymous with destruction.
Loss of traditional values is alarming than physical destruction. It is even everlasting. Demolished apartments or skyscrapers can be rebuilt, but we could not restore vanishing culture heedless of a continued and planned undertaking. For example, when I was a child in West Sumatra, ninik mamak (the men who have the authority to decide in accordance with customs law) were highly respected. For me, mamak is my mother’s brother – uncle. Every time my mamak paid our family a visit, I turned shy and was fearful of behaving badly for his charisma.
I do not think, alas, kids have their great respect to their mamak as I did a long time ago. Thought the government of West Sumatra has introduced local content into the curriculum of elementary school intending to instil local wisdom and traditional values in students, many mamak seems to have lost their dignity in the eyes of young people. This suggests that traditional values and actors are unable to harmonise themselves with recent and foreign influences.
Retaining traditional values should not be viewed as opposing modern, recent, and external ideas. No single community can survive through xenophobia – fear, hatred, or mistrust of that which is foreign, especially strangers or people from different countries or cultures – on earth.
Singapore and Dubai, no matter how small their size and population are, prove that openness to something new as well as transparency and eagerness to collaborate with any country are very central to their economic prosperity and social stability.
Preserving our values is compatible with elevating our culture to the point where it sits equally low and stands equally high to other cultures. There will be a new balance as the traditional and modern ideas work hand in hand. People will be proud by the time they contribute to maintaining the balance.
Speaking your own language is a part of elevating your culture. Having stayed in Australia for a couple of years, I found that preserving the Indonesian language is blessing and pleasure for my kids. Prior to going overseas, I thought that encouraging my kids to speak English is the best way to be accepted in Australia. Much to my surprise, today Australia is a multicultural society emphasising diverse culture rather than pushing sole assimilation. At school, teachers expect students to speak not just English but also their national language. I am thrilled to find that my children are good at code-switching, speaking different languages with different interlocutors.
As a country of immigration, Australians understands that it is everybody’s right to get to know their own root in an attempt to close the door for an identity crisis. Culture dies when we lose a language.
Speaking English as a global language of communication and Indonesian or local languages at the same time suggests that the globalised world is a world of diversity as opposed to a uniform world, which is only found in utopian movies and fiction. Speaking your own language is an investment in a cultural preservation effort.
Learning language, however, is not simply learning grammar and words that form sentences. It means learning custom of the place, story, song, or poetry. That is why speaking, and learning languages make you fathom how people view the world.
This is true. Some of my students researched the relationship between language and world view among Minangnese students at my university. They discovered that local wisdom and values in Minangnese proverbs, for instance, impact their belief in egalitarianism or their preference for self-reliance such as being an entrepreneur or businesspeople.
So, do not sell your local language short and underrate your dialect. Your worldview reflects well on what and how you speak.
The writer is a lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities at Andalas University.
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URBANA, Ill. — Although sorghum lines underwent adaptation to be grown in temperate climates decades ago, a University of Illinois researcher said he and his team have completed the first comprehensive genomic analysis of the molecular changes behind that adaptation.
Patrick Brown, an assistant professor in plant breeding and genetics, said having a complete characterization of the locations (loci) affecting specific traits will speed up the adaptation of sorghum and other related grasses to new production systems for both food and fuel.
Brown is working on the project through the Energy Biosciences Institute at the U of I, hoping to use the sorghum findings as a launching pad for working with complex genomes of other feedstocks. The EBI provided the startup funding for the study.
To adapt the drought-resistant, tropical sorghum to temperate climates, Brown explained that sorghum lines were converted over the years by selecting and crossing exotic lines with temperate-adapted lines to create lines that were photoperiod-insensitive for early maturity, as well as shorter plants that could be machine-harvested.
“Surprisingly no one had ever really genotyped these lines to figure out what had happened when they were adapted,” Brown said. “Now that genotyping is cheap, you can get a lot of data for a modest investment.”
Previous studies had looked at a specific genomic region or a smaller subset of these lines. “This is the first study to look at all of them. A previous paper had come out looking at a specific region of chromosome 6. What we did was not much more expensive, and we got a bigger picture that was completely technology enabled,” he said.
The researchers used a new technique called genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) to map genetic differences in 1160 sorghum lines. Brown said GBS is a new technology developed in the last two years. Brown and his team, along with other researchers, have made refinements to the process. “Using GBS, we’re now able to cover the whole genome with some gaps in individual lines,” he said.
While much improvement has been done for grain sorghum, Brown said little improvement has been done for sweet or bioenergy types.
“Part of the reason for caring about all of that now is that up to this point sorghum has mostly been grown for grain. It’s pretty short stuff, doesn’t blow over on the windy high plains, and is really hardy. But now there is a lot of interest in using sorghum for other things, such as growing sweet sorghum in areas where they grow sugarcane, and growing biomass sorghum for bioenergy through combustion or cellulosic technology.”
Getting a complete map of the traits researchers are most interested in — plant height and maturity — will help researchers unlock the diversity in the exotic lines and bring it into grain sorghum, Brown said.
“We’ll be able to start moving forward. We’ll basically be able to breed all these sorghum types more easily and use the genes that we bred for in grain sorghum over the last hundred years and move them into sweet sorghum and biomass sorghum. We think that finding those genes is going to be critical,” he said.
Even with this complete genetic map, Brown said the research is still not at the end point.
“The case I always make is that over here we have grain sorghum, where we’ve done almost all the plant breeding, and where we’ve stacked the good genes. Over here we’ve got exotic sorghum, which hasn’t been improved at all, yet it’s where most of the genetic diversity is. For that genetic diversity to be useful to grain sorghum, we need to know where the genes are for height and maturity so we can bring in good diversity while keeping our grain sorghum short and early like we need it,” he said.
On the other hand, Brown added that if improvements are to be made for sweet, forage, or biomass sorghum, researchers will need to bring in some of the genes from grain sorghum, for traits like seed quality or early-season vigor.
“This is the general agronomic stuff we’ve been breeding for, not the genes for dwarfing and earliness. Most of this sorghum now goes to chicken feed or ethanol in the United States.”
“We do have a collaboration with Markus Pauly, an EBI researcher at Berkeley who is looking at the composition of sorghum. But the bigger problem with biomass sorghum right now is the moisture content of the biomass. Unlike miscanthus or switchgrass, where you can go in and harvest in February when it’s pretty much bone dry, and all the nitrogen has already been moved back down underground, sorghum doesn’t work that way,” Brown said.
Because biomass sorghum is grown annually, growing until frost comes, when it is harvested it has a high moisture content. “When we cut it down, there’s tons of biomass. I don’t know that there’s anything else that can match it in the area, but the biomass is really high moisture. For the existing cellulosic idea as it stands now, that is not very useful,” he said.
“That’s one of the roadblocks to biomass sorghum right now,” he said. “Sweet sorghum, where you squeeze the sugary juice out like sugarcane, may be closer on the horizon. There is an ethanol plant starting up in southern Illinois that plans to use 25 percent sweet sorghum. “Right now, we’re using sorghum as a model –maybe we can find sorghum genes that we can also tinker with in miscanthus or sugarcane,” he said.
Brown added that with genetic studies and improvements there are other value-added opportunities for sorghum grain. “It’s not quite as nutritious as corn, but researchers are looking at it as a way to combat obesity. They are looking at compounds that will prevent you from absorbing all the nutrition in your food in the small intestine,” he said.
Another gene found shows that sorghum produces a huge amount of antioxidant in the outer layer of the grain. “It produces 10 times more antioxidant than blueberries. The yield of sorghum hybrids with those traits aren’t quite what they need to be yet. There is stuff to work out with all of this,” he said.
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Xencor Enters Collaboration with Janssen with Aim to Discover Novel CD28 Bispecific Antibodies for the Treatment of Prostate Cancer
-- Research collaboration focused on the discovery of novel bispecific antibodies directed toward the CD28 co-stimulatory receptor and an undisclosed prostate tumor target --
-- Xencor receives $50 million upfront payment and is eligible to receive potential milestone payments and a royalty on net sales from commercialized medicines --
-- Each company receives the right to conduct directed non-registrational clinical studies in prostate cancer, combining agents in its respective pipeline with select agents from the other’s portfolio --
MONROVIA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 7, 2020-- Xencor, Inc. (NASDAQ:XNCR), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing engineered monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases, today announced it has entered into a research collaboration and license agreement with Janssen Biotech, Inc. (Janssen). The research and license agreement is focused on the discovery of XmAb® bispecific antibodies against CD28, an immune co-stimulatory receptor on T cells, and an undisclosed prostate tumor target, for the potential treatment of patients with prostate cancer. Additionally, Xencor has a right to access select, predefined agents from Janssen’s portfolio of clinical-stage drug candidates and commercialized medicines to evaluate potential combination therapies in prostate cancer with agents in its own pipeline in non-registrational clinical studies. Janssen has the same right with Xencor’s portfolio of clinical-stage drug candidates to evaluate potential combination therapies in prostate cancer, as well.
“Our XmAb bispecific Fc domains enable the creation of a wide range of multi-specific antibody and protein structures, such as bispecific antibodies in our new CD28 platform. These antibodies can co-stimulate T cells in a tumor-target dependent manner and can synergize with both checkpoint inhibitor therapies and other tumor-targeted agents, like CD3 bispecific antibodies, in order to enhance anti-tumor activity,” said Bassil Dahiyat, Ph.D., president and chief executive officer at Xencor. “In addition, the ability to study combinations of therapies from both companies’ prostate cancer portfolios leverages Xencor’s broad clinical pipeline and the leading prostate cancer therapeutics portfolio at Janssen. This collaboration with Janssen expands the use of our CD28 platform and complements our first wholly owned internal candidate, a B7-H3 x CD28 bispecific antibody designed to treat a range of solid tumors, which is currently advancing through preclinical development.”
Under the terms of the agreement, Xencor will apply its XmAb bispecific Fc technology to create and characterize XmAb CD28 bispecific antibody candidates against the tumor target specified by Janssen. Preclinical activities and all clinical development, regulatory and commercial activities will be conducted by Janssen, which has exclusive worldwide rights to develop and commercialize the novel drug candidates. Xencor will receive an upfront payment of $50 million and will be eligible to receive development, regulatory and sales milestone payments and high-single digit to low-double digit percent royalties on net sales.
Upon clinical proof of concept for a bispecific antibody candidate, Xencor has the right to opt-in to fund 20 percent of development costs and to perform up to 30 percent of the detailing efforts in the United States; Xencor would be eligible for milestone payments and low-double digit to mid-teen percent royalties on net sales.
The agreement is subject to customary closing conditions, including clearance under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act, and closing is expected to occur by year end.
About Xencor, Inc.
Xencor is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing engineered monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. Currently, 18 candidates engineered with Xencor's XmAb® technology are in clinical development internally and with partners. Xencor's XmAb antibody engineering technology enables small changes to the structure of monoclonal antibodies resulting in new mechanisms of therapeutic action. For more information, please visit www.xencor.com.
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Re: New Stones album for 2020?
Posted by: Rocky Dijon ()
Date: February 12, 2020 22:29
keithsman
Okay Rocky my beauty, I've read your post now, what i love about you is that you don't let the truth spoil a good story.
It's fantasy, but bloody good fantasy, i give you that.
No claims of truth whatsoever. Just speculation until such time as we have something worthwhile to consider...and I don't mean "Gotta Get a Grip" or "England Lost."
Posted by: NilsHolgersson ()
Am i the only one that just wishes they would abandon this Stones album and all three of them go in the Studio and make a solo album of originals each. That way we get something good to listen to. I loved Ronnies solo album, Feel Like Playing.
This is the thing though concerning Mick's writers block, if he really could write great music he would have made a very good solo album in the past 15 years. I rest my case.
Even though Mick is my favourite artist I think he's not much on his own.. he wanted to do solo stuff because he felt the stones were holding him back and then he released some pretty mediocre albums and went on tour in Australia with a lookalike Keith to play old stones tunes.
Posted by: Maindefender ()
What happens over the last 5 years or so when Mick and Keith have their intimate recording moments of new material? How many have they had? How long do they last? Is it just nostalgia?
Did it mean nothing
Was it all in vain
Or was I just your fool
Or was the pleasure pain
And have you set me free
Or will I wake up in the morning
And find out it's been a bad dream
Posted by: DandelionPowderman ()
MelBelli
DandelionPowderman
NilsHolgersson
Keith didn't even play the opening riff on Doom and Gloom, their last major single.. it was all Mick :/
Not all Mick. Keith came in and doubled the riff after a second or so. Right channel, if memory serves
Similarly on “Don’t Stop” and “I Go Wild.” How that choice gets made — as opposed to “High Wire” or “Oh No, Not You Again,” where Keith plays lead/fills — might have something to do with whether Ronnie is around at the moment. Who knows!
And Crazy Mama is a rare example where Keith does both - doubling Mick's open G-guitar and plays the licks (except for Ronnie's toward the end)
Posted by: keithsman ()
Rocky Dijon
That's right Rocky and I'm the same and it's completely speculative with all of us. Who knows where it comes or how things manifest in our minds that cause us to draw the conclusions we do. But i tell you it's fun, and it helps to deal with the frustration of this album. To be honest I'm past the point of caring, on one level I'm disappointed in all of them, on another level just grateful we still have them with us, it's a miracle these old guys take to the road and the studio together, it's a dream come true, and yet i wish they had called it a day in 2006, it's a slow painful decline that's hard to watch sometimes, especially when it comes to Keith's stage performances.
But having said that i wouldn't put it past them to come up with a fairly good album when they finally get over themselves.
Posted by: GasLightStreet ()
jahisnotdead
Why do you keep calling it a fantasy? What are you basing your judgement that Keith is not the one holding up the new album on? It appears that if Mick was in charge, England Lost & Get A Grip would have been Stones singles. Multiple posts in this thread refer to Mick's forty demos and Keith's three dynamite riffs, along with Pete Townshend's quote about Mick's frustration.
Someone could make the case that Keith is rightly keeping quality control as high as possible and rightly vetoed the two singles and forty demos and who knows what else Mick has proposed in the last fifteen years. But from everything I've read, it seems clear that Keith is likely the one that is holding up the release of any new Stones music. It's not that there's a lack of material, but a lack of material that Keith likes.
And THAT may be it.
Mick's 40 demos? More new songs? Maybe they're all like Charmed Life or MAWGJ - just a bunch of crap.
Ronnie though...
Where are we as regards a new Stones album?
That’s ongoing. We are very happy with the way studio work’s coming on, but, as you know, the Stones never make an album overnight. But aside from our busy schedule touring, we’re just fitting little studio visits in and it’s shaping up nicely.
What a load of crap.
What busy schedule touring? Fitting little studio visits in... WHEN? Between the busy schedule touring?
They clearly condense time to fit their narrative.
Posted by: retired_dog ()
Of course it's all completely speculative with all of us. Furthermore, these speculations are always fuelled by one's personal background. As an old bugger who's been a fan more or less since their very start who got nervous when a new single did not appear every couple of weeks or a new album or at least EP did not not appear every couple of months, I'm far beyond the point of being disappointed that a new album of original material did not appear since one and a half decades by now. The last time I was disappointed in this direction was when after the promising "comeback album" Steel Wheels it took them 5 years to come up with with a rather weak follow-up Voodoo Lounge - weak because they used their best songs for solo albums back then. It became obvious for me that producing new original Stones music was not their main priority anymore. After the slightly better, but still uneven Bridges To Babylon, A Bigger Bang (released 8 years later!) finally sealed my impression that creatively, my favourite band had finally become a spent force. And when the well is dry, it's dry, no matter how much you want to squeeze a last drop of water out of it. Not even the old "sealing Jagger/Richards in the kitchen"-trick could hide the fact that everything the band could say is already said and done. Wyman already sensed this nearly two decades ago when he left.
So with even a small ounce of realism left who can honestly be disappointed by them? I'm certainly not. Meanwhile, I stick with what I've heard (admittedly already some time ago by now) from someone who actually did take part in some recording sessions for this fabled new album, and the essence was: "There definitely will be a new album. But when it's going to be released is not something that's been discussed during the proceedings. They're obviously not in a hurry. My best guess is that it's a 60's Anniversary thing".
And that is that. And if I'm allowed to speculate a bit further, the album will be in the vein of Chuck Berry's last one: Unrecognizably Stones music, but no big creative surprises. And that's fine with me, as long as the actual songs are good, and that's the bread and butter for me. In this scenario, I honestly can see no reason for any creative fighting between the two major songwriters anymore. That's a thing of the now distant past.
Last correction: Wyman obviously left nearly three decades ago, not "nearly two" as I wrote above. Sorry for the mistake!
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Posted by: KRiffhard ()
retired_dog
The problem is not what we think...is what they say!!! If band members have been saying for 6 years that they are working on an album and after 6 years they are still talking about it like a 'puzzle' (plus reissues of old albums), it seems reasonable to express doubts.
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KRiffhard
Of course it's all completely speculative with all of us. Furthermore, these speculations are always fuelled by one's personal background. As an old bugger who's been a fan more or less since their very start who got nervous when a new single did not appear every couple of weeks or a new album or at least EP did not not appear every couple of months, I'm far beyond the point of being disappointed that a new album of original material did not appear since one and a half decades by now. The last time I was disappointed in this direction was when after the promising "comeback album" Steel Wheels it took them 5 years to come up with with a rather weak follow-up Voodoo Lounge - weak because they used their best songs for solo albums back then. It became obvious for me that producing new original Stones music was not their main priority anymore. After the slightly better, but still uneven Bridges To Babylon, A Bigger Bang (released 8 years later!) finally sealed my impression that creatively, my favourite band had finally become a spent force. And when the well is dry, it's dry, no matter how much you want to squeeze a last drop of water out of it. Not even the old "sealing Jagger/Richards in the kitchen"-trick could hide the fact that everything the band could say is already said and done. Wyman already sensed this nearly three decades ago when he left.
Well, the timespan between Chuck Berry's second to last and last album was 38 years and I don't know when he started to talk about "recording new material", probably also decades ago...
...not to say that the Stones actually take Chuck as a role model this time, but the situation is quite similar to Chuck's when he was doing his recordings: They are old men by now, and they actually don't need a new album right now at least as long as they're able to perform live. They've got exactly nothing left to prove, there is no pressure whatsoever on them to release new music, they do it just because they want to do it and when they want to do it. And who can be sure that the "album" is not actually finished by now and that they're just holding it back for the right occasion? I actually don't give rat's ass to their public remarks, because if there are masters of PR, then it must be the Stones who always knew how to throw bits and pieces at the feet of their beloved fans to give them some bones to chew on.
It's all well and good to say they owe us nothing and we should expect nothing because they have given us so much already etc etc. But for Mick, Keith and Ronnie to keep saying it's going well for 6 years and to continue to say they are writing songs is insulting to the fans. It's treating fans with contempt. The only thing that might help explain the extended delay would be a double album of originals.
The other thing is why the secrecy over the making of this album, 6 years of being deceived, why can't they be honest with us, what was the reason they allegedly started again and scratched an almost finished album.
What pisses me off the most is all the missed opertunities to play the new material at the live shows, live shows are begging to be something more than nostalgia, something more than just the hits. It would be fantastic if they played 3 or 4 new songs live each night this coming tour, i mean come on what are they saving it for, is that not reason enough for the timing to be now, as soon as one Stone becomes too sick to tour that's it, the opertunity to play the new tracks will be gone forever, and as we know with the Stones, album tracks come to life when played live, that's what this band was always about, bringing music to life.
If it is the case that indeed Mick goes to the well and it's ran dry, then why was my insistence that he might have writers block met with such hostility on here, obviously it's a strong possibility, and if that's the case why didn't Mick abandon the album and let the others concentrate on solo albums etc. But this way, with a never ending album in the pipeline we get nothing from any of them. I see what's happening here.
If they're still capable of deceiving you, that's on you. This contempt thing is a chuckle. Was already wondering when Mick's ineptitude would come into it, but you never disappoint
I don't agree with you. The band as it still exists in your imagination (creating new music, bringing new music alive on stage) does not exist anymore. Let's face reality! It's been like that for a very, very long time by now. Whatever role the recording of new original material will play in the grand scheme of things will turn out sooner or later. I seriously doubt they're doing this to have new material to play during their shows or even to justify a new tour. These times are gone. My best guess is they're doing these recordings to have something ready for the right occasion, and I don't want to repeat myself here.
It has nothing to do with any "writer's block" by anybody, nor does Mick stand in the way of any solo albums by other band members: if they really want to do solo albums, well, just do them, they don't have to ask Mick for permission, and it's not exactly that touring with the Stones and the rare Stones recording sessions already use up the majority of any calendar year.
Posted by: Hairball ()
Thought this might make a cool cover as a follow up to GRRR...this one called PSSS....a compilation made up of songs that have been compiled from other compilations.
Keep on rolling.......
One last addition to my previous post: A "writer's block" is something totally different than realizing that no matter how many songs you still write, you simply can't add anything with a lasting impression to your already huge and outstanding body of work from decades ago. That's what I mean with this "well that's dry", that creatively, they can't do anything that they haven't done before, that creatively (not financially!), "this band has achieved everything it could achieve" (in Wyman's words). Also, their ongoing success as a live band and the financial gains from touring might lead to a certain laziness in creating new material. Then there's their age. Consider all this and it's a miracle that they're recording new material at all.
Posted by: Testify ()
It will be that I consider Voodoo Lounge a masterpiece and Bridges to Babylon an excellent album, I still have hopes of seeing a great album!
I don't know what the problem with this slowness is, but I don't feel fooled. When they want they will!
Posted by: iraq0708 ()
bitusa2012
New Q magazine Mick says he’s finishing off some tracks for GHS Reissue and WRITING new songs for the Stones new album.
He’s STILL writing tracks for a new Album? It’s been 15 (FIFTEEN) years since the last album and the “new” one has been being worked on for at least 5 years. Wow. He’s still writing for it...
I haven’t seen the magazine, but it sounds like a repeat of original quote given to iHeartRadio.
Which was:
«I'm just writing songs for the (new) Stones album. I'm trying to get some other ones done - we got a reissue of Goats Head Soup with a couple of extra tracks - I'm trying to finish those».
He's writing songs for the new Stones album for many years!!! 40 demos, 30/40 basic tracks...it's not enough?!!!
Haven't you heard?!...it's gonna be a quadruple album so....
Posted by: mpj200 ()
No. They just haven’t been happy with all the songs. Some of them have already been release by Mick solo as Keith didn’t like them. Ronnie is just being honest.
"as you know, the Stones never make an album overnight"
And they've never made one that has taken 15 years either!
FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE SEES IT. 15 years god damn it, the Stones do 15 shows a year, just excuse after excuse.
This is just the usual public relations BS from Ronnie.
There's still ZERO proof that they've recorded anything new. It's all talk. And you know someone's album... those videos of Mick playing along with whatever mean NOTHING. All this "40 demos" BS means NOTHING. How many years later and not even a single?
Hogwash. This thread needs to die.
Posted by: JordyLicks96 ()
GasLightStreet
So what do you think they've been doing in the studio the handful of times since 2015? Taking massive shits and calling it a day? Please don't tell me you actually believe what you wrote there.
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Posted by: Shott ()
Crosseyed Heart is great reason for hope.
mpj200
If referring to GettaGrip/England Lost, seems it was more than Keith who didn't like them.
Beyond the few Stones fans on here who have proclaimed to have liked one (or both), you can probably count the rest of the people in the world who liked them on one hand.
Those tunes have simply disappeared off the face of the earth as far as staying power, so you gotta think Keith was right in not wanting anything to do with them.
As Shott said above, Crosseyed Heart is great reason for hope (at least it was), as was the collaborative team effort on the blues covers album, but those are quickly growing old and any momentum is probably already lost.
It's beyond any explanation or justification of why the Stones haven't released a new album of originals in nearly 15 years - seems clear they really don't give a crap about it. They hint and bluff during interviews, but in reality it's probably the last thing on their minds. Meanwhile, a new tour is around the corner and tickets are selling great - why would they give a crap about releasing new material when practically nobody cares whether they do or they dont? Their days of being honest to goodness creative artists are long gone - now they're simply actors reenacting the glory days by playing tunes from days of yore. Still fun to watch and a thrill to expereince, but a far cry from what they once were.
JordyLicks96
HAHA. Well, maybe a little bit. It's certainly frustrating.
They have been deceptive in the past, feigned surprise or have gotten seriously sarcastic when things are figured out.
Well, I just got fed up with writing all those credit lists out and everyone wants one above the other one, and then I couldn't remember who is playing, so I thought Oh, everyone got paid anyway. So it's much easier to leave the whole thing. I mean I didn't get any credits on it except for the songwriting... I mean it didn't mention my name and what I did and played on the album.
Obviously (Mick Taylor) didn't write enough of them for me to give him credit. But people always moan when they leave a band.
- Mick Jagger, 1981
GOATS HEAD SOUP is the new album for 2020. That's all there is to look forward to this year (except for those that are getting to see the tour).
I'm consistent, and over time my thoughts usually turn out right.
Crosseyed Heart was a blow to Mick's ego, it was shockingly good and Mick is having trouble coming to terms with the fact that Keith can deliver great music this late in the game, Mick is struggling creatively, that's evident to all but a few on here. 15 years with nothing to shout about, It happens to musicians at Mick's age, writers block is one word for it, but it's not even that, he just can't make great music anymore period. I'm not picking on him, it's just a fact. Hope the new album proves me wrong though.
What i don't understand is why don't Mick and Keith make an album up from previously unfinished tracks if they have hit a wall. There must be enough good material left that didn't make it on various albums to make a fantastic double album of originals. That's what Tattoo You was, unfinished tracks from up to a decade before.
I agree with posters above, Crosseyed Heart gives us hope, but i feel Keith efforts have been derailed for 6 years now, time to ditch this album and Keith go it alone again, this album is nothing more than a sinking ship at this stage, Keith and Ronnie need to bailout.
There did that disappoint.
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Posted by: Witness ()
For there to be someone of the type present here, I confirm that I was one to like both "Gotta Get a Grip" / "England Lost" and, besides, I was quite bored by CROSSEYED HEART.
So what gives me hope and what not, is quite opposite to many other posters.
In addition, I am one of those, who do not so much want to see them live play a largely unchanged setlist and are much more interested in obtaining a studio album of unknown material (preferably quite new). The realization of such an album and the live playing of some songs therefrom, is really what would make me strongly wish to see them in concert anew.
Ronnie can't say anything else when he's asked can he. If he said Mick is struggling to come up with anything good enough for a Stones album he'd be out, no way can Ronnie be honest with a boss like Mick. If you think Ronnie can say that all Mick can come up with in 6 years is a load of crap you don't know or understand this band or the people in it. We are talking about alfa males with giant egos.
And if anyone thinks England Lost is a great single worthy of being on a Stones album, well all i can say is that if that's the best Mick could come up with after 5 years and 40 plus demos, i can see why Keith rejected it. Who could blame Keith for that reaction.
Posted by: wupperstein ()
My taste is different from yours. I don't like England Lost and Gotta GetA Grip.
But Keith Richard's Crosseyed Heart is a fantastic album, especially Robbed Blind and Trouble.
Posted by: GetYerAngie ()
At 3+ years and literally nothing has changed, yes it’s the Dead Sea thread. Not healthy either.....blow it up
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The Poems of Ossian book. Read 9 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. The Poems of Ossian translated by James MacPherson Esq., to whic /5. FINGAL: AN ANCIENT EPIC POEM. BOOK I. ARGUMENT. Cuthullin (general of the Irish tribes, in the minority of Cormac, king of Ireland) sitting alone beneath a tree, at the gate of Tura, a castle of Ulster (the other chiefs having gone on a hunting party to Cromla, a neighboring hill,) is informed of the landing of Swaran, king of Lochlin, by Moran, the son of Fithil, one of his scouts.
Feb 02, · In this volume the text of Ossian remains as it was left by Macpherson in his edition ofand the poems are presented in the final order arranged by him.
The four last translations only, "The Battle of Lora," "Temora," "Conlath and Cuthona," and "Berrathon," have, owing to the exigencies of space, been omitted. Some curtailment has been. The book: Rare and attractive edition of the Poems of Ossian - Ossian is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson from Macpherson claimed to have collected word-of-mouth material in Gaelic, said to be from ancient sources, and that the work was his translation of that Seller Rating: % positive.
Ossian purports to be a translation of an epic cycle of Scottish poems from the early dark ages. Ossian, a blind bard, sings of the life and battles of Fingal, a Scotch warrior. Ossian caused a sensation when it was published on the cusp of the era of revolutions, and had a massive cultural impact during the.
poems, composed by Ossian, the son of Fingal; translated The poems of Ossian book the Galic language by James Macpherson. These were published in a combined edition: The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal.
And finally, in a revised edition as The Poems of Ossian. A new edition, carefully corrected, and greatly improved. Fingal, a poem in six books, by Ossian: [Reprint] () by Macpherson, James, 1n,Hole, Richard, translator and a great selection of related books, art.
Of The Poems of Ossian. InJames Macpherson announced the discovery of an epic on the subject of Fingal written by Ossian, and in December he published Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six The poems of Ossian book, together with Several Other Poems composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language, written in the musical measured prose of which he had made use in his earlier volume.
The Poems of Ossian James Macpherson This collection of ancient poetry called «The Works of Ossian” including the two epic poems “Fingal” and “Temora”, as well as other fragments, were published by James Macpherson The poems of Ossian book /5.
The poems of Ossian: with dissertations on the era and poems of Ossian, and a life of the translator, James Macpherson, Esq.printed for Richard Griffin & Co. and Thomas Tegg, London in English.
About the Project About Ossian. This project aims to make available the various editions of the sequence of eighteenth-century works known collectively as the Ossian poems. Initially presented by Scottish writer James Macpherson as ‘fragments' of original manuscripts he had found on journeys around the Highlands of Scotland, the publication of his Fragments of Ancient Poetry in was a.
Ossian, the Irish warrior-poet of the Fenian cycle of hero tales about Finn MacCumhaill (MacCool) and his war band, the Fianna Éireann. The name Ossian became known throughout Europe inwhen the Scottish poet James Macpherson “discovered” and published the poems of Oisín, first with the epic.
Oct 21, · Ossian plays a harp and sings of Fingal to Malvina, a name probably made up by James Macpherson that became popular in Norway amid the success of. May 09, · Poems of Ossian. By James Macpherson. With an introduction, historical and critical This book, "Poems of Ossian", by James Macpherson, is a replication of a book originally published before It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as Brand: Apps Publisher.
The Poems of Ossian: to which are prefixed a preliminary discourse and dissertation on the Aera and poems of Ossian by James MacPherson (trans), Ossian (maybe) and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at mikemccarthycomedy.com Ossian purports to be a translation of an epic cycle of Scottish poems from the early dark ages.
Macpherson claimed that Ossian was based on an ancient Gaelic manuscript. There was just one problem. The existence of this manuscript was never established.
Internet Archive BookReader The poems of Ossian Internet Archive BookReader The poems of Ossian. Preface To Ossian by James mikemccarthycomedy.comT increasing his genius the author may have improved his language in the eleven years that the following poems have been in the hands of the. Page27%.
Feb 24, · The poems were presented as translations from 6th-Century Scottish manuscripts discovered by MacPherson--or so he claimed. Anachronisms and deviations from other sources made the authenticity of this work suspect from the start, and many have considered the Poems of Ossian to have been composed by MacPherson himself.5/5(1).
James Macpherson (Gaelic: Seumas MacMhuirich or Seumas Mac a' Phearsain; 27 October – 17 February ) was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector and politician, known as the "translator" of the Ossian cycle of epic poems.
He was the first Scottish poet to Alma mater: Marischal College, University of. Page - As autumn's dark storms pour from two echoing hills, so towards each other approached the heroes. As two dark streams from high rocks meet and mix, and roar on the plain: loud, rough, and dark in battle meet Lochlin and Inisfail.
As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves on high; as the last peal of the thunder of heaven; such is the noise of the battle. James Macpherson’s “poems of Ossian”, first published from as Fragments of Ancient Poetry, were the literary sensation of the age.
Attacked by Samuel Johnson and others as “forgeries”, nonetheless the poems enthralled readers around the world, attracting rapturous admiration from figures as diverse as Goethe, Diderot, Jefferson, Bonaparte and mikemccarthycomedy.com by: 1.
James Macpherson (Scottish Gaelic: Seumas MacMhuirich or Seumas Mac a' Phearsain) was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector and politician, known as the "translator" of the Ossian cycle of poems.
Early Life Macpherson was born at Ruthven in the parish of Kingussie, Badenoch, Inverness-shire. The Poems of Ossian. Translated by James Macpherson, Esq.; In Two Volumes. A new Edition, carefully corrected, and greatly improved.
London: Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, appointed to inquire into the nature and authenticity of the Poems of Ossian. Too bad Ossian most likely never wrote any of these poems, epic or otherwise.
The praise goes to James MacPherson for having the guts to publish them under the name of a legendary Irish bard. I commend MacPherson for his literary efforts. OSSIAN remains worth reading today, even if /5(5). The latest addition to our collection of literary odds and ends is a curious collection of poems by a fictional poet name Ossian.
Originally published in (our edition hails from ) The Poems of Ossian is a collection of poems and prose by Scottish author James Macpherson, who claimed he'd collected purportedly lost ancient Gaelic poems written by fictional epic poet Ossian.
The Poems of Ossian, Volume 1. Dewick, - Bards and bardism. 0 Reviews. Preview this book. Read this book on Questia. This annotated edition is based on the text of the Works of Ossian, republished here for the first time in its entirety; major variants from other editions are included, together with a comprehensive descriptive register of Ossianic names.
The Poems of Ossian | This is a pre historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Too bad Ossian most likely never wrote any of these poems, epic or otherwise.
The praise goes to James MacPherson for having the guts to publish them under the name of a legendary Irish bard. I commend MacPherson for his literary efforts.
OSSIAN remains worth reading today, even if Reviews: 5. The International Companion to James Macpherson and The Poems of Ossian. by Dafydd Moore. Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, ISBN pp.
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To the modern reader, Hazlitt's addition of Ossian to his short-list of the world's greatest poetry seems bizarre. Few people today have even heard of The Poems of Ossian, and fewer still have read them (indeed, Macpherson's obscurity is more or less sealed by the lack of twentieth-century editions).
Ossian purports to be a translation of an epic cycle of Scottish poems from the early dark ages. Ossian, a blind bard, sings of the life and battles of Fingal, a Scotch warrior. Ossian caused a sensation when it was published on the cusp of the era of revolutions, and had a massive cultural impact during the /5(5).
Ossian Online is a project to publish the various editions of the sequence of eighteenth-century works known collectively as the Ossian poems. Initially presented by Scottish writer James Macpherson as fragments of original manuscripts he had found on journeys around the Highlands of Scotland, the Ossian poems grew into a body of work that inspired readers, courted controversy, and profoundly.Jan 21, · The Poems of Ossian by James Macpherson.
Ossian purports to be a translation of an epic cycle of Scottish poems from the early dark ages. Ossian, a blind bard, sings of the life and battles of Fingal, a Scotch mikemccarthycomedy.com: Appspublisher.Ossian (; literary falsehood in modern history." [1] The work was internationally popular, translated into all the literary languages of Europe and was influential both in the development of the Romantic movement and the Gaelic revival.
"The contest over the authenticity of Macpherson's pseudo-Gaelic productions," Curley asserts, "became a seismograph of the fragile unity within restive.
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4 stabbed, attacker killed at California university
Nov. 5, 2015 07:42 am JST Nov. 5, 2015 | 08:00 am JST
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Nov. 5, 2015 07:13 am JST
Good thing he didn't have a gun. Otherwise, it would have been 5 dead -- at least 5.
The Second Amendment is a lethal anachronism. It must be put down.
Moreover, the Republican party must be destroyed.
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But it was a gun that stopped this idiot.
Reply again.....totalitarianism is desired? Are you kidding me!!!
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Haaa Nemui
Good thing he didn't have a gun. Otherwise, it would have been 5 dead -- at least 5. The Second Amendment is a lethal anachronism. It must be put down.
Completely agree... yet the pro firearms advocates will tell you if somebody had a gun he wouldn't have got close. They've got an answer for everything.
No, not all the answers but lunatics are lunatics. They'll us whatever it takes to promote their twisted desires. Do we have a solution for that?
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ThePBot
Before the pro-gun nuts say "See, guns aren't the problem, people are. People kill people, not guns. This guy didn't have a gun", you've got to see that the only person being shot and killed here was the attacker, done by the police. The victims survived. Should we ban knives or sharped objects (strawman)? Well, I wouldn't mind if no one brought any of those at school to be honest, but less guns definitely means less ways of committing mass murders.
Agree with Mark G. And, by the way- thread would blowing up off the chain if it read, "4 Shot Dead" . . . . but since it was a knife, I guess it's okay. Just goes to show what 1 motivated "killer" and his "knife" are able to accomplish.
Are we going to ban knives now? It's ridiculous, it really is.
kcjapan
lunatics are lunatics. They'll us whatever it takes to promote their twisted desires. Do we have a solution for that? - comments
Yeah, keep the firearms out of their hands. There's a solution.
PTownsend
@MarkG Reply again.....totalitarianism is desired?
Unbeknownst to the binary-worlders, there is a spectrum of political possibilities, but I know the 'my way good, any other way bad' makes life much simpler.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH79iloJycQ
By the police aka the proper authorities. Not some armed vigilante student or teacher that could accidentally cause more harm than good.
It's called mental care institutions, therapies, guidance councilors, or even proper background checks. Guns are part of the problem, not the solution. This incident here can't be, and shouldn't be, used by the pro-gun people to defend guns because it literally is an example where an attacker doesn't have a gun and therefore couldn't commit murder.
shonanbb
Gotta love America.
Great Smart Gun episode on last week's 60 minutes. Check it out if you can.
In the hands of the police.
In the hands of the police
Exactly. . . .who were 'most likely' prior military. Vote (R) and come from a culture of law abiding citizens who purchase and own guns freely.
Illyas
By the police aka the proper authorities.
Police are oppressing and killing innocent black men every day in AmeriKKKA!
Only police should be allowed to own firearms!
Dennis Bauer
@Illyas if people stopped polishing their guns and use them as intended to overthrow the corrupt government that support these out of control police institutions.
bass4funk
And that's an acceptable number for you libs? The center focus is not on the lives that were lost, but on the guy anOT having a gun, typical.
If you libs want another civil war to happen, try it, just try it!
But now, if you look at how both parties have done poorly to represent the people, a good thing would be to restructure both parties.
But it was still a gun, all the more reason to own one....or more.
SenseNotSoCommon
thread would blowing up off the chain if it read, "4 Shot Dead" . . . . but since it was a knife, I guess it's okay
well the subtle difference for slow learners is that they're
expected to recover
Getting stabbed is no picnic, but to the shrill, "ban all knives, then too, huh?" brigade, the difference is that this young man would have easily ended those same lives, had he had a gun.
difference is that this young man would have easily ended those same lives, had he had a gun.
Yup. But in the end, they still push up daffodils. So maybe we ought to ban knives as well. The left is ridiculous.
Matthew Harding
I don't think he would have necessarily ended more lives were it a gun instead of a knife. The guy was clearly an amateur especially compared to other rampages of similar nature (attacks on schools/public places). If he had a gun and didn't know how to fire it, not even one person might have been hit. Had he known what he was doing with that knife, there would be several more casualties than just himself.
Kagemusha
It's a pity that both sides of the gun-control 'debate" tend to be so irrational with regards to their rhetoric. Saying that one should be able to own guns because of the Second Amendment is like saying that Louis XIV was the rightful king of France because of divine mandate. It's all just words put on paper by people. Their is nothing inherently right or wrong about it but everything should be interrogated and questioned.
The second amendment made sense at the time and it was a perfectly acceptable thing to have implemented in a fledgling frontier nation that needed the potential to raise militias at short notice. In modern society it is completely anachronistic and borders on irrational to carry firearms simply because a piece of paper is interpreted to say that you can do so. And it is most definitely an interpretation.
My personal reading of the second amendment, as a non-American, is that people were given the right to take up arms in defense of the nation. To bear arms against an aggressor. That aggressor may be the federal government or an invading army. To think it means that people can carry assault rifles on combat harnesses when they go to Walmart is borderline madness.
Guns are not inherently bad. They have a place in society. They should be regulated and it should not be simple to gain access to them. People should not be allowed to own firearms without passing gun safety courses. And carrying firearms should become a thing of the past. The current escalation of force between the police and unarmed civilians springs from the issue that in America a civilian is considered (rightfully) armed until proven otherwise.
When a system allows people to carry firearms and it is culturally acceptable to do so then every interaction becomes a potentially life or death situation.
On topic. This attack at this school has nothing to do with gun control and has everything to do with the fact that violence is a language that is used to express ourselves when we feel we have no voice. The same happens in every country that has severe inequality and gives more respect and attention to people who commit violent crime. You can be ignored your whole life but when you pull out a weapon and start attacking people suddenly everybody knows your name. The only other way to gain that kind of publicity as a pleb in America is to be gunned down by the police.
*Moreover, the Republican party must be destroyed.
Reply again.....totalitarianism is desired? *Are you kidding me!!! This was in response to the above rediculas statement.
Regarding the gun paranoia most gun owners are just regular people. Most anti gun people never handled a gun and know little about them. Anti hunters are a bit short on understanding we humans have displaced the natural predators of the deer and with farming and home gardens have increased the deer population. I much rather a deer is hunted, shot, butchered and consumed over a deer hit by automobile to run off and die or worse injure the car occupents. The numbers need culling, humanely.
Noliving
Well no....most people who are shot by firearms survive their injuries. You have the mother's day parade shooting in New Orleans where over 10 people were shot and no one died and then you had the Chicago basketball court shooting in September of 2013 in which over 10 people were shot and no one died. Odds are you will survive being shot.
The victims survived.
Only because of the law enforcement officer being their to physically stop the attack.
example where an attacker doesn't have a gun and therefore couldn't commit murder.
No the attacker could have committed murder just that the attacker was physically stopped before he could and immediate medical attention was provided to those who had been stabbed preventing them from succumbing to their injuries.
the difference is that this young man would have easily ended those same lives, had he had a gun.
So in other words a stop-gap for the problem that is not going to go away regardless of gun laws.
But in the end, they still push up daffodils. So maybe we ought to ban knives as well. The left is ridiculous.
No more questions, thank you.
This attack at this school has nothing to do with gun control and has everything to do with the fact that violence is a language that is used to express ourselves
You're right. But it is fair to exploit the gun control topic this thread. Why? Cause there'd be (about 100 by now) posts after posts of gun bashing and US bashing. Yet, they're pretty quiet when a slasher on campus gets a few kills.
Jimizo
'The Second Amendment is a lethal anachronism. It must be put down.'
'If you libs want another civil war to happen, try it, just try it!'
Scratch the surface of many gun-lovers who'll argue with the veneer of common sense, rationality and logic and you'll find something as hysterical and visceral as this.
They LOVE these things.
therougou
Notice it was by the police. I guess the ordinary gun-lovers did nothing to protect these people.
Peter Payne
Great, I was in the middle of researching universities for my daughter and this one was on the list. O_o
Schools are gun free zones (thank you libs). Nobody legally had a gun other than police. And as we saw last month in Oregon nobody legally had a gun at campus other than the shooter....a gun stopped his rampage also. When the police arrived he ended his rampage and left one more casualty, himself. Guns do end gun violence.
Yeah so? Still a firearm that was used to stop someone from hurting/killing more people.
Why are you expecting an ordinary gun lover to protect these people when the gun laws in California prevent gun owners from carrying firearms on school campuses or even being within 1,000 feet of the school without the schools administration permission?
And as we saw last month in Oregon nobody legally had a gun at campus other than the shooter
My understanding was there was one person who was legally carrying a firearm on that school's campus that day but choose not to seek out the shooter because by the time he was aware of what was going on a SWAT team was already on the scene.
Peter, my daughter, born and raised in Japan, is in her first year at Cal State Monterey Bay and loves it! They have provided excellent, tailored support to a dual national, and I recommend it highly. Contact me if you want some advice. (No violence there so far.)
Notice it was by the police. I guess the ordinary gun-lovers did nothing to protect these people
If the liberal loons would step out of our way and get rid of these gun free zones, then maybe more people can be protected.
Nov. 5, 2015 12:04 pm JST
Notice that it was in California.
puregaijin
Killed by police fire, doesn't sound painful enough, but I hope it was ..... burn in hell. Am so thankful that others survived.
LFRAgain
A gun wielded by a trained professional whose job it is to protect the public stopped this idiot.
Not some civilian who just happened to be packing when this nut showed up and started slashing people.
And that's a key point gun control proponents have been making for years. Screening, training, registration, follow-up: All common sensical approaches to tools whose sole function is to kill.
It doesn't take a genius to see that this attack would have been much more deadly had the attacker been using a gun. Anyone claiming otherwise is living in an unfathomably bizarre fantasy world.
Steel phallus cult out in force, failing to understand the news (n o f a t a l i t i e s), and knee jerking away like pubescent primates.
Kuya 808
So I read the heading, “4 stabbed, attacker killed at California university”, then I read the article and sure enough there it was. An unidentified student at a California University campus stabbed four of his fellow students and was subsequently shot to death by campus security. No name was given and no possible motive was suggested.
With such a shortage of information there’s really not enough to base an opinion on. But what is clear is that something bad happened at that school, that day, and it happened for a specific reason. You gotta wonder what that reason was. Attacks like this are really not that uncommon, not only in the US but around the world as well. It appears to be a fairly commonly occurring behavior that is exhibited across the spectrum of human society. Understanding the underlying influences that can promote such deviant behavior would be a totally bitchin’ thing to shoot for. Even a partial grasp on the drive behind these kinds of actions could go a long way towards developing a mitigating strategy. This is the kind of discussion that would benefit from all kinds of input from all kinds of different perspectives and is a conversation that is really worth having.
But alas, there seems to be little interest in looking at it for what it really is. Instead the usual suspects drag out their respective dead horse and get to beating away on it. The very first post on this thread went straight to ragging on guns and it went downhill fast. Twenty six posts and counting and everything from the second amendment to gun free zones to the intent of the founding fathers has been hashed and rehashed to the same inevitable end, which is nothing.
There is something slightly ghoulish about the eagerness with which some posters here dive on any possible opportunity to chant their cherished mantras. And that goes for both sides of the issue. This is a human story, a story about deviant human behavior; this is not a story about guns. Unless people start looking at stuff like this as a behavioral, and not a hardware, issue we will have a snowball’s chance in hell of ever getting a handle on it.
timtak
There is something slightly ghoulish about the eagerness with which some posters here dive on any possible opportunity to chant their cherished mantras. And that goes for both sides of the issue. This is a human story, a story about deviant human behavior; this is not a story about guns. Unless people start looking at stuff like this as a behavioral, and not a hardware, issue we will have a snowball’s chance in hell of ever getting a handle on it
There will always be deviant behaviour, but one can limit the hardware. There is something slightly ghoulish about failing to see this. What is going on?
Steel phallus cult
Seriously plausible.
Remember: no ideology is an ideology in and of itself.
The above sounds like a coveted diatribe in and of itself.
No it's not. Those who are criticized for their ideology like to spout this sound byte, but there isn't any actual basis behind it.
But there are many cases where armed civilians have stopped a shooting without creating further mayhem (and plenty of instances that police engage in excessive force). Just because no one apparently had a gun that arrived at the scene before the authorities proves absolutely nothing except I'm sure the students who were injured wish there had been.
Just because no one apparently had a gun that arrived at the scene before the authorities proves absolutely nothing except I'm sure the students who were injured wish there had been.
Some yahoo with a gun may have shot an innocent bystander as well as, or instead of, the offender.
The last thing I want is some loon gun-nutters trying to protect people.
Maybe you should ask the victims if that was a chance they were willing to take.
Sure, just tell me who the victim of the accidental shooting would be, and I'll ask him/her.
This incident proves that a ban on guns, i.e., an infringement upon American's right to bear arms and defend themselves, is not a deterrent of violent crimes. Many of you say "thank Gawd he didn't have a gun or many more would've bitten the dust!" But how do you know that for sure? If you're such a psychic, why aren't you out preventing crimes in the first place? 4 people dead is just as tragic as 5. To simply count numbers and build castles in thin air is to view the victims lives abstractly.
This incident proves that a ban on guns, i.e., an infringement upon American's right to bear arms and defend themselves, is not a deterrent of violent crimes.
No one has ever said a ban on guns would be a deterrent of violent crimes. Only that it would prevent guns from being used in them.
Many of you say "thank Gawd he didn't have a gun or many more would've bitten the dust!" But how do you know that for sure?
We don't for this single incident, but if you look at averages for mass shootings vs. mass stabbings, more people die in a mass shooting.
4 people dead is just as tragic as 5.
Only one person dead in this incident - the attacker. The odds of no victims ending up dead if he would have had a gun are pretty minimal.
Haha! But you look at only the statistics that you want to look at. What about all the crimes that were prevented because the potential victim(s) had a gun, and that are rarely sensationalised in the media? What about the number of women who were able to thwart a rapist because they were packing a gun? This guy most likely wouldn't have attacked if he knew or suspected that his targets were armed.
But you look at only the statistics that you want to look at.
Because they are pretty apt statistics.
What about the number of women who were able to thwart a rapist because they were packing a gun?
And what about 500 other irrelevant things? We aren't talking about incidents that didn't happen, only the ones that did.
This guy most likely wouldn't have attacked if he knew or suspected that his targets were armed.
In America you should always suspect your targets are armed. So that argument falls apart.
There is something slightly ghoulish about failing to see this. What is going on?
timtak,
I think what's going on is that we have different ideas about what ghoulish means. I go by the old standby; having the qualities of a ghoul. And for me a ghoul is any person who intentionally seeks to gain something from the death or misfortune of others. Taking a story like this and spinning it into an opportunity to promote your personal agenda is ghoulish to me.
There will always be deviant behaviour, but one can limit the hardware.
Just about anything can be the hardware of deviant behavior, the deviant mind can be amazingly creative. That's why I think it would be far more beneficial to focus on the behavior instead of fixating on the hardware. Granted there will always be deviant behavior but that is not a reason to dismiss it. This type of behavior is at the root of every incident like this and should be the real focus of attention.
Mr Noidall,
It sounds like it because it is. It's a carry over from many years of working in human service related positions. When you work with people you never stop learning and one thing I have learned is that unless the fundamental issue behind deviant behavior is identified and addressed the behavior will continue in one form or another. Maybe it's my training or personal experiences but I strongly feel that human issues need to dealt with at a human level. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Talk about arguments falling apart. Jeeze. I guess you're like the republican candidates: you don't like the question.
The question is irrelevant.
@Lizz & @MrNotoall
Do you think the number of people saved or potentially saved by someone with a gun exceeds the number of people killed by a gun 'accidentally' discharging?
The more I read about gun crimes in the US and about how necessary some think it is to have guns in the US because of all the dangers there, the more I think the US is not a place anyone should send their kids for any schooling.
Noble713
I hope the victims recover quickly.
If guns are bad, why are homicide rates in the US declining over the past 2 decades, despites MASSIVE firearms purchases?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-01/homicide-rates-cut-half-over-past-20-years-while-new-gun-ownership-soared
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-04/october-sixth-consecutive-month-record-gun-sales
And here's a great article comparing homicide rates and firearms ownership across a wide spectrum of countries (instead of the usually cherry-picked statistical outliers of "countries that banned guns and have low murder rates").
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-16/mistake-only-comparing-us-murder-rates-developed-countries
I don't have exact figures, but yes, I believe the number of crimes prevented by guns exceeds the number of gun related accidents or deaths. The reason you read about the bad stuff is because that's all the media wants you to read. Which headline sells more papers or gets more clicks: Women thwarts her attacker on way home? Or, Man walks into a school and randomly kills 10? The latter of course happens less frequently than the former, but the former doesn't sell as good as the latter.
Correlation does not equal causation.
I don't have exact figures, but yes, I believe the number of crimes prevented by guns exceeds the number of gun related accidents or deaths.
You don't have the exact figures because it's impossible to know. It never happened, so you cannot count it.
How aspirational: "Look, honey! We're not as bad as Murderstan, or the Republic of Butcherania!"
BTW, Second Amendment is a target-rich environment for anagrams:
Damnedest Conmen. Madmen Consented. Men Decant Demons.
Actually, it possible to know. And you can research it. I meant I didn't have the figures off the top of my head. You can't really be this silly, can you? Do you think after a person scares of a burglar, robber; after a women scares of a rapist that they don't still call it in and report it? C'mon! And your comment about a ban on guns wouldn't deter violent crimes but would make sure guns weren't used in them is bogus. The law already prohibits guns for convicted felons and criminals. Who do you think commits the most gun crimes in America? You don't think it's only mad men in schools like the media portrays, do you? 10 people get shot by a loner in a school once in a while; 40 people get shot over the weekend in Chicago by career criminals, gangbangers, people for whom it's illegal to own a fire arm. But that doesn't stop them. And what does it matter if someone gets shot or stabbed and the outcome is the same? Yeah, this time the victims were lucky. But people also survive gunshots and people also die of stab wounds.
Umm... Mr. Noidall, none of the victims died. And that's the entire point here. Had the attacker used a gun, you can be sure not only that the 4 victims would more likely have died, and that the number of victims would have been higher.
I believe the number of crimes prevented by guns exceeds the number of gun related accidents or deaths.
Were this to be even remotely true then would that not be an utterly terrifying prospect? It suggests that for every one person shot with a firearm (some 108,000 incidents last year), there were one or more additional unsuccessful attempts.
This, by my estimation, would make the streets of America a truly terrifying place to live, with more than 200,000 Americans wandering the streets with gun-related murder/armed robbery/suicide/stupidity on their minds.
Yeah, gun control most definitely needs to happen in this sort of dysfunctional nightmare.
Meanwhile, in as perfect an example of "correlation does not imply causality," the often-bandied-about claim that communities with right-to-carry laws experience lower crime rates has never been proven, and is still incapable of reconciling the fact that crime is down in all communities across America, and not just those that have regular citizens toting guns.
Actually, it possible to know.
No, it's not.
If you are about to kill someone, and I stop you with a gun, we will never know if you would have killed zero people, one people, or dozens of people. There's this whole thing about not being able to visit alternate realities to find out what would have happened.
I know the victims didn't die. But how do you know some would've if he'd had a gun? Are you a psychic? We could flip that argument and say what if the victims would've been packing heat? Maybe they wouldn't have gotten stabbed.
@strangerland: you just don't get it. The point is is that there are plenty of statistics, records, reports, where a person saved their own life, or prevented a crime because a person was carrying a gun. And you can't be serious.
You should double check the logic of this argument. If you stop me, then we can safely assume that I killed zero people.
kabukideath
America needs stricter knife control laws.
@strangerland: you just don't get it. The point is is that there are plenty of statistics, records, reports, where a person saved their own life, or prevented a crime because a person was carrying a gun.
But this is what you said:
We don't know how many crimes were prevented, because the fact that they were prevented means they didn't happen. You yourself even used this logic in the very same post:
how do you know some would've if he'd had a gun? Are you a psychic?
Exactly. Unless you're psychic, you can't know how many crimes were prevented. And that's if you even believe in psychics.
I said I didn't have exact figures meaning I didn't have the number off the top of my head. But I also said that these figures are available. If someone prevented an attack, burglary, rape, ect, because they were legally carrying a fire arm, the person still reports the attempt to the police. Of course these cases are rarely reported by the news.
@Strangerland
Exactly my point. Hell, "strict gun laws" and "fewer homicides" aren't even correlated!
from: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-09/heres-what-happened-when-venezuela-imposed-gun-control-laws
But how could the same policy engineer completely different results in two cities? This disparity becomes even more >vexing when we look at other countries. Honduras and Brazil both have very high homicide rates. Yet Brazil has >highly restrictive gun laws, while Honduras has fairly lax gun laws. Pakistan has some of the loosest gun laws in the >world. Chile’s are fairly restrictive. Yet both have low homicide rates. Bosnia has a very liberal gun laws. Belgium >has very restrictive laws. Yet their homicide rates are similar. Luxembourg has few privately-owned guns per capita, >yet its murder rate is much higher than Germany’s, which has over twice as many. Hawaii and Vermont have polar >opposite gun laws yet nearly the same homicide rate. Maryland and Virginia have vastly different gun laws, yet >almost identical rates of gun-related deaths.
The numbers are all over the board.
@SenseNotSoCommon
It makes sense to compare the US to other countries with similar historical backgrounds, i.e. the rest of the Americas. Countries that are populated largely by European immigrants and slaves within the past few hundred years, of diverse ethnic origins. Like one of the articles states: "If we’re honestly trying to evaluate the nature of crime and violence in a comparative atmosphere, we cannot limit ourselves to a handful of countries that have very little in common with the US beyond a handful of economic indicators."
Doo-Bop
I have a problem with a government wanting to take the guns away from all citizens while at the same time handing them out fast and furiously to criminals!
theeastisred
This was a terrible tragedy perpetrated by a lunatic acting in an unpredictable manner. Luckily he did not have access to guns, unlike many of his fellow lunatics, and so the outcome was relatively less terrible than it could have been. How anyone could fail to see and understand that basic analysis is extraordinary. His victims were neither protected nor harmed by any gun control laws, but the case highlights beyond any counterargument why we are all better off with fewer guns flying around.
If you had friends that had been tied up and robbed in their own home without a gun and no chance to call the police you wouldn't need to ask anyone.
Saiaku
he might have been stopped by a gun, but was it necessary? that's what tazers are for!!!! then he would have been able to serve his time. but on the other side, a piece of trash was removed from the world so win win?
that's what tazers are for!!!
Wrong. Law Enforcement Officers are trained to fire on suspects wielding knives. Officers want to go home at the end of their shift. Not wind up slashed cause only one of the tasers dart's hit the suspect. So yes, it was necessary.
Both darts need to penetrate the suspect in order for a taser to be effective. Would you risk your life in that scenario?
theFu
Responsible firearm owners practice shooting, at lease monthly. Many that I know are expert-level marksmen - much better than the average "campus cop." It takes time to become a good shot, just like it takes time to become an expert with knives.
OTOH, any idiot with a knife, screwdriver, or any other slightly sharp object can kill another human. The fact that this attacker didn't just shows poor planning and execution of the plan.
Late night shopping TV where I live has "knife-sets" for sale. Some are 5 little pocket knives for $20 and other sets are 20 differently sized hunting knives, or 1 sword for $400. Recall seeing one kit for $200 that included over 50 knives from those meant to be placed in boots to combat knives - I recall thinking these shouldn't be sold without any tracking of the purchaser at all. Who needs a knife designed for boot storage?
BTW - I searched this article and didn't see anything to say a knife was used. Perhaps some other tool was used or some other article contains this important data?
It makes sense to compare the US to other countries with similar historical backgrounds, i.e. the rest of the Americas
So a country with one of the planet's highest GDPs per capita, world-famous universities, pioneering healthcare facilities and formidable commercial and cultural assets is, in essence, a failed state?
Perhaps you should call in the UN?
Many that I know are expert-level marksmen - much better than the average "campus cop."
@theFu. Does matter how expert one is with a firearm. The scary fact is that in an intense, "heat-of-the-moment" stand-off with an armed assailant (whether armed with firearm or knife), the shooter won't be as accurate.
This is cause under training conditions at the range, there really is no threat perceived. In a real situation, ur mind is doing 100mph & the adrenaline is pumping.
donkusai
Reading the comments on this news story damages my brain ( I stopped after the first 2 dozen, but I think the damage has been done). There is certainly a lot of "truthiness" here - things that make no sense at all but appeal to people's preconceived ideas. What we can CLEARLY see is that this attack was carried out by someone who is clearly not mentally well. THIS is the key thing here and the thing we should be discussing. What we also see is that a knife was used and not a gun, and thankfully no one was killed except the attacker. FACT: Guns can do far more damage than knives (a simple fact of range and impact). I don't think we'd find anyone on in this discussion board that thinks it's right for mentally ill people to own weapons.
Just pause, people, and actually THINK. You want the right to own guns? That's fine. You want to stop mentally ill people owning guns? A wonderful idea. THEN WORK OUT HOW TO ACHIEVE BOTH. All I seem to see is "ban them" / "I need my gun" arguments. Neither actually SOLVE the problem. It all seems like a lot of hot air and insincerity.
CruisinJapan
The good news here is that none of the victims lost their lives, only the attacker.
Now to make a logical argument not related to weapons and violence.
People ought to be looking for warning signs in the mental health of their classmates and co-workers. We should be concerned about the fact that typical attacker is reported as a "loaner" or "socially maladjusted".
In other words, after a tragedy, people are quick to recall how "weird" an attacker was, but how often are we reaching out to them? It seems to be much easier to shun them and ignore their silent calls for attention and help.
We sit next to these people every day, but how often are we asking them things like "how are you doing today?" or just being nice in general. It doesn't matter what your personal politics are, you can still look out for a human being that is visibly struggling, and extend a hand to help point these individuals in the right direction.
turbotsat
CJ: People ought to be looking for warning signs in the mental health of their classmates and co-workers. We should be concerned about the fact that typical attacker is reported as a "loaner" or "socially maladjusted".
He was a college freshman who wouldn't talk to his suitemates. Ignored them when they tried to talk to him. Had an Islamic name but that doesn't mean Islam had anything to do with it. Newly thrust out into the world, likely.
To all the posters posting a good thing it was not a GUN!! DEATH IS DEATH gun or KNIFE!! Nothing changes!!! FIs
Fadamor
Personally, I would rather see the Second Amendment amended to reflect modern times but that discussion is irrelevant to this article. The assailant did not use a firearm and even if the Second Amendment WAS "put down", public safety officials would STILL be armed with firearms. In short, no matter what was done or not done to the Second Amendment, the result in this incident would have been the same.
If I see a threat, I will give a warning, if the person persists, I will just unload, center mass, that's it. Threat is neutralized.
So a country with one of the planet's highest GDPs per capita, world-famous universities, pioneering healthcare >facilities and formidable commercial and cultural assets is, in essence, a failed state?
That you consider the western hemisphere a collection of failed states merely belies your ignorance of the world around you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Fragile_States_Index
Excepting Haiti and Colombia, Russia, India, and Israel are farther up the "failed states" list than any place in the Americas. Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, and Costa Rica are all reasonably close to the US's ranking.
@Wc626
This is cause under training conditions at the range, there really is no threat perceived.
That's why those "tactical shooter" courses have value: more realistic conditions that get your adrenaline pumping, which helps acclimate the shooter to firing under physically/mentally stressed conditions. I once read it's partly why special operations troops are so lethal: they spend SOOOOO much time doing realistic shooting scenarios, their bodies are acclimated to it. Their heartbeat is like a metronome in conditions that most normal people would sound like hummingbirds, which also means their muscles aren't twitching like crazy and consequently they accurately put rounds on target.
deadbeatles
So... should I fear the random actor or the suppressed adrenalin addict looking for a mis-step.
This from Wikipedia:
A failed state is a state perceived as having failed at some of the basic conditions and responsibilities of a sovereign government... there is no general consensus on the definition...
The DC think tank's ranking (which you kindly linked to) of the US's position in the world is frankly irrelevant. Their definition of failed state and the interpretation of (their) determinants thereof, serves their agenda, whatever that may be.
The fact remains that despite the great economic, intellectual, political and cultural assets that the US so capably projects worldwide, it has patently failed in its duty of care to protect its citizens from a very real fear of lethal violence.
No small factor in this is the lack of political appetite to address social inequalities, resulting in 14% of adults being "unable to perform simple and everyday literacy activities," 20 million people living in trailers, and incarceration rates that put the world's dictatorships to shame.
America can't afford excuses, whataboutery and comparisons with developing nations. But it's well within the gift of US politicians to educate all their citizens, help them out of poverty, and start shutting prisons.
@Bass If I see a threat, I will give a warning, if the person persists, I will just unload, center mass, that's it. Threat is neutralized.
Have you actually been in a situation like this, or maybe reported on one while you worked for the Washington Post or NBC?
To all the posters posting a good thing it was not a GUN!! DEATH IS DEATH gun or KNIFE!! Nothing changes!!!
Sure death is death, but apparently you missed the fact that none of the victims of this knife attack died.
So yes, it's a good thing it wasn't a gun.
The short answer, Yes.
WilliB
Turbosats:
" Ignored them when they tried to talk to him. Had an Islamic name but that doesn't mean Islam had anything to do with it. "
Police also found a manifesto on him, that included 'praise for Allah' and a plan for beheading.... but you are right, the media will tell us that islam had nothing to do with.
But to be fair there are plenty of mass knife homicides that occur all around the world each year, like in Australia where 8 people where murdered with a knife at the end of 2014. You had the five people who were stabbed to death this year in Hyogo Japan.
So it is really more luck than anything that it was only the attacker that was dead.
BNlightened
A handwritten manifesto carried by a California college student whose stabbing spree Wednesday left four wounded bore names of his targets, a vow “to cut someone’s head off” and as many as five reminders to “praise Allah,”
In the two-page document found in Faisal Mohammad’s pocket by the county coroner, the 18-year-old freshman wrote a numeric list outlining his plans of who he wanted to kill, and how, including beheading and shooting his victims, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke told FoxNews.com
“No. 27 was to ‘make sure people are tied down,’ No. 28 was “sit down and praise Allah,'” Warnke said. “I remember seeing four or five times, scribbled on the side of the two-page manifesto, where he wrote something like ‘praise Allah.
Isn't it amazing that the above article completely fails to mention any of this...not even that fact that the guy's name was Mohammad! But of course, go on talking about "guns" in a situation where guns played no part in the attacker's plan....
At last something substantive and meaningful to the situation. Thank you, BNlightened.
I think a conversation about the radicalization of an American youth with a fundamentalist Islamic overtone would have been much more enlightening than a rerun of the same old back and forth.
Isn't it amazing that the above article completely fails to mention any of this...not even that fact that the guy's name was Mohammad!
Because article was written Thursday for an attack occurring on Wednesday, and:
AP: Campus officials said the assailant was a male student but had not confirmed his identity or provided a motive for the attack.
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Everything has a cost. Cost, though, has a double entendre. Cost can be the price one pays for a product or service that becomes the amount a business or person providing the product or service takes in, including profit. Cost can also be the consequence one pays for behavior, which might or not involve money. After a fun night’s romp, the cost might be a serious hangover, fine, or greater.
As heaven is the goal for Christians and Muslims, so is profit for capitalists. To stay open, a business must meet its costs, and many, especially small businesses that are the backbone of the American economy, operate on slim margins. That’s especially true in a seasonal, tourism-based economy in which traffic is imperative to remain sustainable.
But traffic, whether vehicular or foot, negatively impacts the environment in which it occurs. It’s not only devastating for the ecosystem itself but also for businesses environmentally related. Which is to say all Clear Creek businesses. As much as one might love Tommyknocker microbrews and Beau Jo’s pizzas, it’s not likely folks would travel from afar to enjoy them without the benefit of their location in an historical town set amid breathtaking scenery.
Given capitalism is our global religion, it’s interesting to view everything from an economic perspective: a commodity, product, or service. Hiking Mount Bierstadt could be considered a commodity when gauging its impacts. Hope springs eternal hikers will not just drive in and out without dropping a few bucks at a restaurant, motel, or curio shop and not trashing the mountain in the process. Unfortunately, excessive, uncontrolled traffic to and on the mountain is degrading that product. And that foot traffic is sustained by the vehicles that get people here.
That’s the conundrum we face in Clear Creek. On one hand, we want and need our small businesses to be profitable. But at what point will the cost to the community and ecosystem due to overuse become unsustainable?
The same is true across Colorado. Hanging Lake, St. Mary’s, and Maroon Bells areas are becoming exhausted.
In a recent Denver Post article on the I-70 Corridor through Clear Creek, Steve Harelson, a CDOT program engineer for the area, asked the ultimate question.
“Even 25 years ago, traffic would back up, but it would be for an hour or two. Now, it’s four or five hours. What we’re going to move into is six or eight hours, or 10 hours. And then people just stop going.”
Exactly, I thought. At what point will people quit coming up? What is that tipping point?
It’s critical to keep in mind our valley is a limited expanse. It’s critical also that we look at it through the lens of it being a limited resource. Upwards of 80 percent of it is undevelopable. It’s only so wide along its base, a restricted area that struggles to accommodate a major highway, a side road, several communities, and other private homes and businesses.
It comes down to values. Will we summon the political and moral courage to protect our natural treasures not only for environmental reasons but also for maintaining the quality of the product? How much do we value our environment, quality of life, homes, and businesses? For tourists, what value do they place on their time and experiences?
Should we Los Angeles-ize the corridor with more lanes that will certainly encourage more people to come up and sit in idling vehicles? Should we Aurora-ize it by building atop—develop—every parcel in the hope more will come and drop more bucks? At what point, if the answer is yes, will Clear Creek reach a saturation point?
During the recent eclipse, hundreds of thousands of Coloradans made their way up into Wyoming. Right after the peak moment, most revved their engines and headed south. For many, it was a 12-hour commute. That was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, so by all accounts everyone kept his/her cool. To Harelson’s point, that air of good feelings is not likely to happen during angst-filled drive back from skiing. Frustration will boil over into anger, leading to much worse.
We have a call to make, and the time is now. We’re at the tipping point.
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Your article pretty much defines one of the major questions that the Clear Creek Econ Dev team must answer. The question goes something like this:
We want to develop CC County to be an authentic highly desirable destination for mountain recreation, mountain hospitality, mountain ambiance. We want to attract the customers who will really appreciate the mountain culture and spend $$$ and time (days, not hours) in the county. We DO NOT want to attract those who create crowding and congestion but spend little. Preventing/minimizing crowding is critical for two reasons: a high quality of life for CC County residents AND provide a desirable mountain culture experience for the premium visitors/tourists we do want to attract.
The question: How can we do this?
For sure this would be very difficult, but smart, innovative people on the CC County Econ Dev team need to think about it and strive to achieve this or a similar set of goals.
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I believe we really need to focus on ramping up shoulder seasons (non-recreational tourism, marketing efforts specific to shoulder periods, etc.). I recently spoke with a CCC business owner in G-town who would love to stay open year-round, but ends up shutting down every January. Her business offers a unique non-recreational tourism opportunity that could be promoted with other activities to increase traffic. I realize that the weather can get interesting during this time of year, so I understand there are some challenges! It was also mentioned that radio stations down the hill rarely report the correct weather for CCC–it may be hazardous further west, but beautiful here. Just some things to think about.
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Remembering Remember WENN
MissCarleyentertainment, nostalgia, vintageAMC, Remember WENN, Rupert Holmes, Turner Classic Movie7 Comments
Do you Remember WENN? Oh, I so Remember WENN. In the pre-TCM days when American Movie Classics was still American Movie Classics, Remember WENN was the refreshingly original bit of programming that consistently hit the “Ahhh, that’s nice” spot.
Remember WENN
The show was a complete anomaly from day one. Premiering in 1996, the same year that American TV sets were faithfully tuned in to ER, Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond and Law & Order (the latter of which people still do), a show like Remember WENN was an oddity. Writer Rupert Holmes had crafted a period dramedy set at a Pittsburgh radio station during WWII with no modern considerations: No laugh track. No big names. No established audience.
The show‘s executive producer, David Metzler, had this to say in a 1997 interview: “When we first sold AMC on the idea, we promised them something that would be completely consistent with their programming, that would have the feel and look of a 40s movie. The aim was to create a show where viewers couldn’t immediately tell, either through the writing or visual style, whether this was new programming or a classic films.”
The show was a big gamble for AMC, but the station’s faithful viewers–and we were reverently faithful during that period–tuned in loyally each week. In those days, the Internet was a relatively new and somewhat exclusive phenomena, hardly the global village it is today, and therefore AMC did not benefit from the close-knit community that its modern day counterpart, Turner Classic Movies, enjoys today. We were there, we simply had no means of connectivity. Perhaps if Remember WENN had been borne under more liberal architecture, it’s lifespan would have lasted.
“Originally,” said Metzler, “we were going to end the show before Peal Harbor. Then we were going to end with Pearl Harbor. … Frankly I could see us doing this show during the early days of television.”
It was not to be. The show was canceled at the end of it’s fourth season– not coincidentally in 1998, the same year that AMC came under new management… and things were never quite the same again.
The cast of Remember WENN
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Film writer and social media marketing professional. 2019 Social Ambassador for the 10th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival. Previously: social media associate at Warner Archive and script writer for Turner Classic Movies. Working on a Montgomery Clift biography due late 2020.
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7 thoughts on “Remembering Remember WENN”
Julie Bestry says:
In the words of Scott Sherwood, “Well, will you look at the time?”
I definitely remember Remember WENN, and considering that The Hollywood Reporter (just today) claimed that the show “wasn’t memorable at all after its four-season run,” I hope your readers will comment at http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/emmys-how-amc-became-hbos-203084 and let reporter Tim Apello know he’s way off base. I’ll never give up hope that Remember WENN will someday be available on DVD or via streaming video. Thanks for your post!
basti says:
iam sorry but the hollywood reporter is not right remember wenn was a wonderful show i still love it and i always will love that show
when i watch remember wenn it like being with family and friends that the those shows made to feel i guess the hollywood reporter don’t know anything about family or friends i feel sorry for them
I remember seeing commercials for Remember WENN on TV back in the day, but I don’t think I ever actually saw it. I really wish it were available on DVD because I’d love to check it out.
I guess one thing AMC has always had good luck with is vintage styled original programming. First with Remember WENN, then about a decade later with Mad Men.
The Lady Eve says:
I Remember WENN. It went so well with AMC’s then-format. Seems TCM was just picking up steam as AMC came crashing down. I’m wondering what happened to those who appeared in the series – I don’t recall the names of those in the ensemble cast. Will have to check. Thanks for the memories, Kitty.
I truly miss Remember WENN. With the start of the theme song I could sit down and relax, forget the stresses of Silicon Valley and for 30 minutes visit a place located somewhere between 1939 to 1940. No internet, HDTV or cell phones, just a cast of charters that despite their own unique personalities were all very likable people. IMO AMC made a very bad decision to replace Remember WENN for that short lived program named The Lot. I’m sure the show will never be revived, but it would be wonderful if AMC would release the series on DVD.
Remember WENN will always be one of my favorite shows. To this day, I still can’t watch AMC. Fifteen years later and the way they cancelled the show and treated everyone involved with the show still upsets me. They might get back in my good graces if they’d release WENN to DVD, but they don’t seem all that interested, so I will continue to ignore their existence.
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IKEA finishes publishing its iconic catalog
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The annual publication from IKEA is probably one of the most famous catalogs in the world. Every year, many fans of the Swedish network are waiting with flushed faces for the next edition. Recently, however, it turned out that this year's catalog will be the last publication in the history of the Swedish store.
Christmasare fast approaching, next week is the last time to buy presents and prepare Christmas dishes. On this occasion, IKEA has prepared very creative recipes, from which we will learn how to make the most popular furniture made of ... gingerbread!
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Report launch: Which Way Next?
July 7, 2020 Cat
Local Area Coordination Network Report, Executive Summary
The Councils who make up the Local Area Coordination Network have coproduced a new report entitled ‘Which Way Next?’. The report is based on the testimony of many people involved, and outlines how the approach has adapted to meet new challenges by:
Supporting people and families to achieve their vision of a good life, to use their gifts and make their contribution.
Helping communities to be self-supporting and to flourish.
Supporting systems transformation, building bridges and strengthening relationships between citizens, communities and services.
‘Which Way Next?’ looks to the future challenges in this ever-changing world for people and families, communities and the service system alike and outlines ways Local Area Coordination can help coproduce multilevel recovery, renewal and rebuilding efforts around these concerns. It focusses on its potential to nurture and sustain the recent surge of community action without compromising the natural authority of people and groups to lead in their own communities. This will be a tricky balance to strike and with further challenges and opportunities ahead we will face a tough question, “which way next?”
The report argues that one choice of paths leads us to more familiar territory; enhanced gatekeeping of resource, reduction in services, pulling back from community, deficit-based commissioning and hoping for better times to come. Whilst another sees us intentionally building a powerful new deal based on the strengths and assets of our communities and the abundance of neighbourliness which will in turn reduce demand and cost upon systems.
It concludes by outlining how Local Area Coordination can and should be a key piece of the new puzzle. It brings to life visions of more equitable, cooperative localities where people help people first with services in place as an essential, well-resourced and supportive backup to a functional society.
There are currently over 100 Local Area Coordinators working in communities of around 10,000 or so people. The Network is made up of the Councils of Derby City, Leicestershire County, Kirklees, Luton, City of York, Thurrock, Wiltshire, Swansea, London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Haringey and Havering. Over the next year we will be seeking to support a number of new areas to implement Local Area Coordination taking the approach to even more communities across England and Wales. Come and join this powerful movement for change.
Find out more: www.lacnetwork.org or email Nick Sinclair, the Local Area Coordination Network Director, nick@lacnetwork.org
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Kenneth Aitchison of Landward Research Ltd has contributed to a piece by Mike Pitts in SALON, the Society of Antiquaries of London‘s online newsletter. How Many Digs? In August the Greek Ministry of Culture announced that excavations underway near Sparta since 2009 had uncovered a Mycenaean palace. This, said a press statement, was just one indication of ‘the importance of the archaeological wealth and cultural heritage of the country’: already in 2015 ‘more than 150 archaeological excavations have been carried out in Greece’. I was reminded of a notice in Orkney Museum: ‘The following is a list of Orkney 2012 archaeological excavations that the Orkney Archaeological Society has been made…
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Trump Campaign’s Actual Argument in Appeals Court: We’re Only Trying to Disenfranchise Up to 1.5 Million Voters, Not 6 Million Pennsylvanians
Colin KalmbacherNov 23rd, 2020, 6:34 pm
President Donald Trump’s campaign filed a brief in federal appellate court Monday afternoon castigating a lower court and blaming their former attorney for various self-inflicted mishaps, mistakes and missed opportunities.
The filing, fashioned as an opening brief which requests a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order (TRO), offers a decidedly extreme form of relief for the Republican Party plaintiffs: tossing out some one million votes for Democratic President-elect Joe Biden.
As Law&Crime previously reported, the 45th president’s legal team was given a 4 p.m. EST deadline to submit an expedited appeal based on their desire to file a second amended complaint with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania–which previously denied the campaign’s efforts to file by dismissing their case with prejudice in a caustic opinion and order over the weekend.
To hear Trump and his newest attorneys tell it, U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann, a onetime member of the Federalist Society, committed reversible error when he denied the campaign leave to file their amended complaint in that ruling which determined the president’s legal team made “strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations, unpled in the operative complaint and unsupported by evidence.”
The appeal makes several excuses for why that original complaint was so bad it resulted in the case being laughed out of federal court.
First on the chopping block is now-former Trump campaign attorney Linda Kerns.
“Following the filing of the [original] complaint, the Trump campaign’s longtime, main counsel, Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP, received threats of violence and economic retaliation and withdrew,” the appeal notes. “The campaign’s remaining attorney, Linda Kerns, a sole practitioner, received a threatening telephone call from opposing counsel, Kirkland & Ellis. Rather than oppose the motions to dismiss, she filed the [first amended complaint] which incorrectly omitted numerous allegations and counts.”
A motion to amend the complaint was then filed by attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Marc Scaringi. The proposed “Second Amendment Complaint,” which came after Giuliani’s unforgettable appearance in federal court, didn’t go anywhere.
The campaign’s appeal outlines what they hope to accomplish from here:
Plaintiffs believe that these allegations and better pleading cures any deficiencies which the court found in the amended complaint. Plaintiffs are not asking this court to rule on the merits of the motion to amend – to the extent [the Pennsylvania defendants] assert futility, either on its own or based on the decision dismissing the [first amended complaint] (over which Plaintiffs believe there may be no “case or controversy” because they do not intend to prosecute it), it is the district court’s role to resolve these issues in the first instance.
Appellate lawyer Raffi Melkonian explained the upshot here:
This confirms my previous tweet. Note, this is their only shot on appeal. There’s not like, some other brief where they can challenge the trial judge’s decision on the First Amended Complaint. By filing this brief, they are done on that. pic.twitter.com/n8qKPaVnnX
— Raffi Melkonian (@RMFifthCircuit) November 23, 2020
But the major problem in procedural terms, according to the brief, was Brann’s effective refusal to allow the Trump campaign an opportunity to document their additional allegations and grievances in that would-be second amended complaint.
“The district court abused its discretion in denying the motion to amend for numerous reasons,” the appeal argued. “This prevents the [Trump] campaign from litigating its serious and well-founded claims that Defendants – Secretary [of State Kathy] Boockvar, and seven County Boards of Elections controlled by Democrats – engaged in a partisan scheme to favor Biden over Trump by counting potentially tens of thousands of defective mail ballots.”
The basis for those complaints of fraud is a familiar refrain for anyone who has kept track of Trump’s efforts to dispute the Keystone State so far: the issue of ballot canvassing observers.
The filing reiterated those accusations as follows:
Contrary to historical practice in Pennsylvania, observation of the canvassing of mail ballots was prevented in order to conceal that defective ballots – i.e., ballots that did not comply with Pennsylvania’s signature, dating, and other requirements – were being opened, mixed, and counted because Defendants knew that these ballots would overwhelmingly favor Biden over Trump.
“In other words, [Democrats] deliberately counted defective mail ballots because they knew the results would benefit their favored candidate, Biden, in violation of Equal Protection and Due Process under the Civil Rights Act,” the brief continues–making a substantial leap in the logic contained in each of those charges.
The appellate brief went out of its way to argue Judge Brann got things wrong when he excoriated Trump’s attorneys for trying to disenfranchise several million Pennsylvanians.
“The court also misconstrued the remedy sought, which may have affected its view of amendment,” the filing says. “The campaign is not seeking to disenfranchise 6.8 million Pennsylvanian voters. Instead, it only seeks to set aside the defective ballots among the 1.5 million cast in the defendant counties. The campaign seeks to examine a sample of the mail ballots to determine the defective percentage of ballots among the 1.5 million, which should then be deducted from Biden’s vote total.”
That suggestion was panned by legal experts:
“We’re trying to disenfranchise up to 1.5 million people, not 6 million” is not the ace they think it is. pic.twitter.com/2iTyUghDJu
Key point: the Trump brief says it is not trying to disenfranchise 6.8 million PA voters, “just” throw out about 70,000 votes. BUT it also asks ultimately for court to void election, and let PA legislature choose electors. That IS disenfranchising 6.8 million PA voters.
— Rick Hasen, Mr. Practicing Attorney (@rickhasen) November 23, 2020
Here’s where Trump made the broader request to disenfranchise Pennsylvania voters across the state by delaying certification:
In the proposed [second amended complaint], plaintiffs seek to prohibit defendants from certifying results of the 2020 Presidential general election in Pennsylvania on a statewide basis, including certifying results that include tabulation of unauthorized votes, including mail ballots which did not meet the statutory requirements, mail ballots which were cured without authorization, and any other vote cast in violation of law, and, instead, compel defendants to certify the election based solely on legal votes.
In a separate court document outlining the extent of the relief being requested from the appellate court–a TRO or preliminary injunction–the Trump campaign largely repeated the arguments in their appeal.
“Extensive evidence exists that Defendants mis-administered the 2020 Presidential Election in such a disastrous manner that they violated the Equal Protection Clause and structural guarantees of our Constitution in order to favor Biden over Trump,” the TRO brief alleged. “And Defendants blocked Plaintiffs’ attempts to meaningfully observe and document their actions at almost every turn.”
“This mal-administration reached the point of patent and fundamental unfairness and evidences an intentional attempt by Defendants to jeopardize both the ability of Pennsylvanians to select their leaders and the constitutional rights of all Plaintiffs,” the second brief continued. “This courts hould stay the vote certification pending this appeal, otherwise Plaintiffs may be without a way to remedy the severe, innumerable constitutional violations.”
Notably, and perhaps fatally for the Trump campaign, the two briefs confused what a moving party is actually entitled to on appeal with what they were originally requesting from the district court–stopping the certification of Pennsylvania’s electoral votes.
In other words, their proposed solution for Judge Brann’s allegedly improper denial is for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to issue a restraining order barring that certification–a request the district court was never exposed to in the first place.
Again, legal experts scratched their heads at the effort.
University of California, Irvine Law Professor Rick Hasen described the incongruity here as “bizarre” and then explained why that was the case.
They are trying to get a TRO asking to delay certification based on a complaint that the district court did not even accept for filing. And in their separate brief, they don’t ask for 3rd circuit to order district to file, just to consider it. /3
And the remedy is super strange too. They want an order that prevents the legal “effect” of certification. If the results are certified by the governor, nothing happens until the electors meet on Dec. 8. So what would this order even do? Bizarre. 5/5
One other point: their appeal is based on the Court’s denial of motion to amend. But the relief they want on this is to STOP THE CERTIFICATION. They’re asking for more than they could get from their appeal. That is… impossible. So no.
While all of this was going on, the transition was set in motion and President Trump claimed that his “case” would continue on “STRONGLY.”
I want to thank Emily Murphy at GSA for her steadfast dedication and loyalty to our Country. She has been harassed, threatened, and abused – and I do not want to see this happen to her, her family, or employees of GSA. Our case STRONGLY continues, we will keep up the good…
…fight, and I believe we will prevail! Nevertheless, in the best interest of our Country, I am recommending that Emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols, and have told my team to do the same.
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Legal News 1993 Mumbai Blast Case: Supreme Court has confirmed death sentence of Yakub Memon dismissing his review petition
1993 Mumbai Blast Case: Supreme Court has confirmed death sentence of Yakub Memon dismissing his review petition
April 9, 2015 Administrator
New Delhi: A convict of Mumbai serial blast case of the year 1993, Yakub Memon’s plea where he sought review of capital sentence ordered against him, before the Hon’ble Apex Court, now no more survive. Hon’ble Court has maintained the punishment of death sentence to him.
In the serial Blast at Mumbai in the year 1993, around 257 people died and many were subjected to severe injuries. Mr. Memon is the only accused in the case who has been awarded with the capital punishment i.e. death sentence. At the time he sought review by filing a petition before Hon’ble Apex Judicial authority (SC), then the execution of his death sentence was stayed, however, now the Court has confirmed the sentence and its execution has now became very possible.
His stand in his petition was that no special reason or ground was mentioned in the Courts order awarding such top ranked punishment. Besides it was seen, as per sources that, the said Memon being unhealthy was under medication in the Jail has sought review of the death sentence also on the ground that he has already undergone 20 years of the Jail and he should not be punished twice for the same offence.
The Said Yakub Memon was held liable for committing the offence of Criminal conspiracy and also for financing tickets for sending co-accused being other conspirators for Arms and RDX training to Pakistan. He was convicted under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (now repealed) in the year 2006. And on the retracted confessions of the approvers and co-accused persons his conviction, mainly, was based.
The parents including 3 brothers, Suleiman, Essa and Yusuf and Sister-in-law, Rubeena, wife and mother of Yakub Memon were tried and his wife, mother and brother Suleiman were acquitted and Yakub, two brothers Essa and Yusuf and sister-in-law Rubeena were convicted and sentenced.
The Hon’ble Apex Court has observed that said Memon was the driving force and a mastermind behind the tragedy of the said blast as being a Charter Accountant by profession and was also a brother of Tiger Memon who was a proclaimed offender.
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"Someday...I want to play music with someone who trusts me as much I trust them... That's always been Ibuki's dream. I think believing that dreams come true as long as you believe is the first step toward fulfilling your dreams!" - Ibuki Mioda
Ibuki Mioda (澪田 唯吹 Mioda Ibuki) is one of the characters featured in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair and a participant in the Killing School Trip.
Ibuki has the title Ultimate Musician (超高校級の「軽音楽部」chō kōkō kyū no “keiongaku-bu”; lit. Super High School Level Light Music Club Member).
Ibuki appeared in Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak Academy as a student of Class 77-B enrolled in Hope's Peak Academy with the other Remnants of Despair. Ibuki succumbed to despair along with her classmates after being brainwashed by Junko Enoshima and became a part of Ultimate Despair.
In Danganronpa 2, Ibuki was one of the students who contracted Despair Disease and was later murdered by strangulation at the hands of Mikan Tsumiki along with Hiyoko Saionji, all during Chapter 3.
After staying comatose, Ibuki regained consciousness and her pre-despair self along with the rest of her classmates, and together they stopped Ryota Mitarai's plan to brainwash the world using the hope brainwashing video.
At the end of Danganronpa 3, Ibuki and her classmates decided to atone for their sins as the former members of Ultimate Despair.
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7.1 Hiyoko Saionji
7.2 Mikan Tsumiki
7.3 Mahiru Koizumi
7.4 Ultimate Imposter
7.5 Peko Pekoyama
7.6 Ryota Mitarai
7.7 Teruteru Hanamura
7.8 Sato
7.9 Hajime Hinata
7.10 Black Star
7.11 Mako Mankanshoku
7.12 Rottytops
7.13 Samus (Ibuki Mioda's Guitar)
7.14 Mine
7.15 Nonon Jakuzure
7.16 Rin Tohsaka
7.17 Sheena Fujubayashi
7.18 White Star
Appearence
Ibuki is a young woman in her early twenties, around 22 at youngest. Her virtual avatar in the Neo World Program appeared as her 17 year old self.
She is a pale girl with pink eyes. She has long multi-coloured hair consisting of black, pink, blue and white, some of which is tied into two oni horns on the top of her head.
Ibuki has a style of clothing that is very unlike what one would think a Light Music Club member would wear. She wears a sailor uniform with a black pleated skirt and ripped thigh highs (the right one is pink and the left one is blue). Both of her ears have six needle earrings and an earlobe gauge. She also has three piercings under the left side of lip and black nail polish. She wears a necklace, a black scrunchy with a stitch-like pattern on right wrist, a black and pink glove-like sleeve on her on her left upper arm with a silver bracelet and three silver rings on her left hand. Her shoes are white, with blue shoelaces on the right one and pink shoelaces on the left one.
Ibuki also has a long scar tattoo with stitches on her left thigh. The tattoo was shown on her right thigh in Danganronpa 3, but this could have just been an error.
As a member of Ultimate Despair, Ibuki has the same hair, but her clothes are different with more black. She appears to have a spiked collar and more piercings.
When enrolled in Hope's Peak Academy, she wore a white button up dress shirt with a pink tie that has light pink-colored x's, a black pleated skirt with a thin belt, a blue scrunchy on her right wrist; a yellow spiked bracelet on her left, two black rings on her left hand and black thigh highs with white skeletal markings on them. She also wore the same necklace and shoes.
At first, Ibuki is a bit shocking in bold and unique personality and appearance. She is one of the most upbeat people out of her classmates. She is very energetic and loves to talk, though she almost always ends up going off on bizarre, unrelated tangents. She forgets things quite quickly, so she tries to write memos to help her remember. Ibuki is very quirky as she loves to do all sort of bizarre things and she dislikes "dull" things, like reading and studying. She has a habit of breaking the fourth wall. When she gets upset, Ibuki seems to have a bit of a verbal tic: saying things twice. She also tends to scream or froth at the mouth when she panics. She seems to really enjoy panicking when there is no real danger, like when she's watching horror movies or going into the haunted house.
In the official artbook, it's stated that Ibuki adores cute girls, and she's often seen admiring the other girls during the game. She can act flirty towards both boys and girls, though she often appears to be just joking. In the Island Mode, during a more serious conversation, she states that "there are more important things in this world than a temporary physical relationship" - she appears to have very little interest in having a lover. Instead, it's implied that she's much more interested in having a deep platonic relationship with someone she considers her soulmate ("band member", as she puts it). She also implies that she has felt despair around other people, but finding her "destined one" would make sure that she would never feel despair again.
Despite her general quirkiness, Ibuki can be a startlingly wise and contemplative person, as in her last free time event she gives Hajime Hinata advice about being himself. Though she may appear a bit insensitive at times, she is actually a very caring friend, as she spends her whole Free Time Events trying to help Hajime with his memories and sense of identity. She seems to have strong respect for individuality, which is contrasted with her Gullible Disease which makes her for the most part unable to act on her own will and also tones down her unique quirks.
Ibuki often refers to herself in third person and calls everyone by their first name with "-chan" honorific in the original Japanese release. Ibuki also speaks in the third person in the English version, but not as frequently.
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Hiyoko Saionji
Ibuki appears to like Hiyoko, though she is amazed by how many tears Hiyoko can cry. They seem to have a similar taste in music, which is revealed in Ibuki's "Welcome Back" party for Fuyuhiko. Ibuki played one of her songs, but Hiyoko was the only one who enjoyed it.
Hiyoko seems to think of Ibuki as a friend as well, despite the fact that she often insults her. She joins Ibuki's improvised band as a dancer. During the events of chapter 2, it is revealed that both Ibuki and Hiyoko, along with Mahiru, Mikan, and Sato, were best friends at Hope's Peak Academy. During the Killing School Trip, Ibuki and Hiyoko were murdered together by Mikan, but despite this, the three were seen celebrating together along with Mahiru on the ship, following the events of the Tragedy and their awakening from their coma.
When Ibuki and Hiyoko were still members of Ultimate Despair, the two of them often performed together on the stage, rallying the spirit of the brainwashed army using the Monokuma helmets.
Mikan Tsumiki
Prior to The Tragedy, Mikan was one of Ibuki's best friends, which was later revealed in Monokuma's second motive, "Twilight Syndrome Murder Case". Ibuki was the only one in their class who addressed Mikan by her first name back then, along with Mahiru.
Ibuki takes joy in watching Mikan fall into humiliating poses, however no real harm is actually intended on her side. She is often one of the first to notice when Mikan finds herself in these situations and claims that Mikan looks so adorable whenever she is embarassed. Despite usually finding it entertaining, Ibuki sometimes shows concern for her, namely when Nagito knocked her down in Side: Hope and Ibuki being the first person who tried to chase after Mikan. Mikan is very shy around Ibuki, and is often interrupted by her. Ibuki still cares for Mikan after the murder incident and even forgives her for it and treated Mikan as her closet friends as usual. Ibuki's taste in music deeply disturbs Mikan, who reacted in horror upon hearing Ibuki play for the first time.
During the Killing School Trip, when infected with the Despair Disease, Mikan targets Ibuki as her first victim, due to Ibuki's illness turning her naive. It was shown that Mikan killed Ibuki for the sake of Junko Enoshima since Ibuki is the closest person and a dear friend to Mikan and Ibuki is the only one who could led Mikan into despair even more for her beloved. Despite this, the two remain close friends upon awakening from their coma and are even seen celebrating together on the ship alongside Mahiru and Hiyoko.
Mahiru Koizumi
Mahiru was another one of Ibuki's best friends before the Tragedy. Like she does all her friends, Ibuki called Mahiru by her first name. In return, Mahiru adressed her as Ibuki-chan.
Mahiru seems to be weirded out at times by Ibuki's eccentric behavior but still considers her a friend. She is deeply disturbed by Ibuki's odd taste in music, seen covering her ears when she hear Ibuki play at Hope's Peak Academy. Ibuki likes Mahiru and feels guilty about Mahiru's death in the Neo World Program because she didn't accept her invitation to talk.
After the two awaken from the Neo World Program, Mahiru helped Ibuki when a brainwashed troops attempted to shot her, and they are seen high-fiving each other. Later, they celebrate together on the ship along with Mikan and Hiyoko after the battle has ended.
Ultimate Imposter
Ibuki has a friendly relationship with the Ultimate Imposter (impersonating as Byakuya), though they are sometimes a bit annoyed with her.
Ibuki thinks that they are very cool and reliable and she admires their leadership skills. During chapter 2, after their death, she states that she misses him a lot. She even told Hajime that she also misses his piggy fingers. In addition, during chapter 5 when she and the other deceased characters show up, she greets him by oinking and explaining that she said “You're so cool” in pig talk.
While not apparent in the game, many manga portray Ibuki with a some sort of crush on the Ultimate Imposter and she's often shown to be attracted to his build. Though, it should be noted that the manga are non-canon.
Peko Pekoyama
Ibuki appears to be attracted to Peko. In Chapter 1, when Peko offers to be on guard duty and leaves the room, Ibuki grins and mutters to herself that she feels Peko has "this super cool, melancholy vibe".
In a Special Event during the first chapter, the two are walking together on the beach when they meet Hajime, Kazuichi and Teruteru. Ibuki winks and claims she was holding hands with Peko, though Peko stoically denies this and tells Teruteru not to fantasize about weird things when he imagines the two girls having sex. When Peko talks about splitting open a coconut and describes how she wouldn't make a mistake with a sword, Ibuki gets really excited, screaming that she's so cool and that she might fall in love with her quiet words. She then begins to call her "Peko-Peko". Peko seems to mostly ignore her behavior.
Ryota Mitarai
Upon meeting him for the first time, Ibuki seemed to take a liking to Ryota, most likely due to to her friendship with the Ultimate Imposter who impersonated him. She developed a similar relationship with Ryota, and likes to play around with him. She is seen eagerly talking to him on the ship with the Imposter, and even shoves food into his mouth at one point.
Teruteru Hanamura
During their time at Hope's Peak Academy, Ibuki found Teruteru to be very gross, due to his perverted nature. She would constantly physically hurt and interrupt him because of this. However, much like her fellow classmates, she enjoys Teruteru's cooking very much.
In Twilight Syndrome Murder Case, it was revealed that Sato was one of Ibuki's friends. They, along, with Mikan, Hiyoko, and Mahiru spent time together prior to Sato's murder.
Hajime Hinata
Ibuki and Hajime seem to be good friends. They bonded over performance exercises during her free time events. Also during her free time events, Ibuki was trying to help Hajime remember his talent. She insisted that it should've been obvious what she was trying to do, but Hajime claimed he didn't even realize it, and was touched that she was trying to help him.
Ibuki often pokes fun at Hajime, saying that he has developed a crush on her or, that he is looking for an excuse to be alone with her. Ibuki also gave Hajime some advice that even when people are constantly changing, either physically or otherwise, that they are always going to be their true selves and she made Hajime promise her that he will never give up on trying to find out his true self. In Hajime's official relationship chart, Ibuki states she wants him to be the drummer in her band, and insists that the two are in a band, even teaching him lessons. However, according to Hajime, she only taught him how to use a loudspeaker.
Mako Mankanshoku
Mako Mankanshoku and Ibuki Mioda became friends really quickly. Ibuki enjoys Mako's outgoing and energetic personality and even becomes part of her "HALLELUJAH" sessions. Mako loves her personality and even play music with her as part of her band.
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Samus (Ibuki Mioda's Guitar)
Ibuki Mioda's Boyfriend. Ibuki thinks he is real, but he is just a guitar. Ibuki's friends make fun of Samus. However, she does know he is just a guitar, as revealed in Ibuki's Sleepover.
Mine meets Ibuki in LOTM: Weirdmageddon. Mine finds Ibuki the most tolerable of Black Star's friends. But Ibuki does still annoy Mine when she plays loud music or when she does crazy things with her friends and does scold her to act more serious. Ibuki enjoys hanging out with Mine. And while she and her try to keep Black Star and the others from doing TOO dangerous things, Ibuki's sometimes oblivious to when she's annoying Mine.
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Nonon also thinks Ibuki is annoying and calls her "Wannabe Rock Star".
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Sheena Fujubayashi
Friends: Hajime Hinata/Izuru Kamakura, Hiyoko Saionji, Mikan Tsumiki, Mahiru Koizumi, Ultimate Imposter, Peko Pekoyama, Black Star, Mako Mankanshoku, Rottytops, Mine
Enemies: Junko Enoshima,
The name "Ibuki" (唯吹) means "a sole breath" or "merely breathing". This could be a reference to her demise later in the game by strangulation.
The name "Ibuki" may also be a reference to the Touhou Project character Suika Ibuki, an oni, which Ibuki Mioda also has several references to in her design.
Ibuki's last name, "Mioda" (澪田), could be translated as "rice field of the waterway".
Each kanji on her name is directly taken from the 4 protagonists of K-On!
She also shares the same birthday with the main character of K-On!, Yui Hirasawa, which is on the 27th of November.
While Ibuki's title in the official English translation is "Ultimate Musician", her original title, "UltimateLight Music Club Member" is actually much more specific. "Light music" is a very common after school club activity available in many high schools across Japan. Not to be confused with the music genre know as light music whose origins are in late 19th century Britain, the Japanese "light music" (or 軽音楽 "keiongaku") genre is something similar to pop music.
Despite her success as a light music performer as proven by her title, Ibuki's original music, some of which she performs in the beginning of Chapter 3, reveals her musical preferences to be much closer to the heavy metal genre.
There are currently two known songs from Ibuki's solo repertoire: "From Me To You Too" and "I Squeezed Out The Baby But I Have No Idea Who The Father Is"; the former she performs in the beginning of chapter 3.
Ibuki has extremely sensitive hearing.
The way Ibuki calls her classmates in the Japanese version, using their first names and adding "-chan" (i.e. Hajime-chan, Hiyoko-chan, Nekomaru-chan), is considered the stereotypical way for girls to call their close female friends in Japanese. Considering her friendly nature, it is highly possible that Ibuki calling both her male and female classmates this particular way is due to a habit she picked up back at her previous high school (where all of her classmates were girls).
Incidentally, the story of K-On! takes place in a girls-only high school as well.
Ibuki's school uniform - a sailor fuku with a pink ribbon - is reminiscent of Sayaka Maizono's casual attire. This might have been the character designers' intention as both characters have talents involving a career in music.
Also, in a very early draft for her beta design, Ibuki looks strikingly similar to Sayaka.
The 'X' on her sign during and after Chapter 3 resembles a pair of drumsticks.
Ibuki knows how to sew and had promised Hajime that she'd sew him a stage outfit.
Ibuki has screamed inside six different libraries and now isn't allowed to enter any of them.
During the Chapter 2 Trial, when she was told she is Girl C, Ibuki says "I guess I'll 'C' U Next Tuesday", which is a song by Pop Artist, Ke$ha. Additionally, that statement contains an obscene acronym.
During one of her free-time events, (at the end, specifically), Ibuki recites the beat-box portion of "Freak on a Leash" by American rock band, Korn.
In her last free time events, Ibuki breaking the 4th wall by saying, “After all this is the last event”.
One of Ibuki's sprites is a reference to Pinocchio.
Ibuki is one of the known LGBT+ individuals in the Danganronpa series.
In the official artbook, it's stated that Ibuki adores cute girls.
She is excited about seeing Mikan's embarrassing poses and the others girls in bikinis. In the official art book, she states that she was disappointed when Sonia didn't wear a bikini, and she excitedly talks about how the girls nowadays are curvy in just the right way.
In a Special Event during Chapter 1, Ibuki claims she was holding hands with Peko and talks about falling in love with her "quiet words", though Peko stoically denies this and seems to ignore her flirting.
During her Island Mode ending, it's heavily implied that she doesn't have much interest in a physical relationship.
In LOTM: Mageddon Trilogy, Ibuki is the smartest of Davey and the Multi-Universe but also the weirdest.
Ibuki is the oldest of Davey and the Multi-Universe at the age of 22.
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Petite Princess Eve proves that pint-sized girls can pack a punch. This spinner is quickly becoming one of the porn industry’s rising starlets with her insatiable sex scenes. Fans love her hot little tattoed body and the fact that she clearly loves her work. She loves being a bad little girl and it shows through her on-camera work that has quickly earned her a massive fanbase. This petite princess is one that must not be missed this 2020 calendar year. It is virtually impossible to take your eyes off of her once you see her impressive sexual skillset at work in front of the camera.
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Amber Alena has been making a name for herself by showing off just how much she loves to fuck big cocks. Her massive boobs are helping this luscious bimbo to build a huge fanbase of porn lovers as well. She is that perfect All-American girl that knows how to work it on camera and the contrast between her sexy, firm booty and her slim waist is enough to raise anyone’s heartbeat in a flash. Watching her lusty eyes while she gives a blowjob is enough to get any porn fan to crave more of this exciting new starlet.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ryansmilesxxxx
Ryan Smiles is aptly named as this Florida hottie has been making her fans smile a lot after they witness her juicy ass and tits. This former stripper has been making an impact on the 2020 porn scene and plans to keep it up. She has an endless appetite for taking huge cocks deep in her dripping pussy. With her natural 36D tits and her curvy figure, it is not hard to see why she has been receiving so much attention and getting so much work since she first hit the scene. This is one hottie to look for this year.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/azul_hermosaxo
Luscious Latina Azul Hermosa brings a body that cannot be ignored when she gets in front of a camera on a porn set. This Oregon girl with gorgeous dark hair has 34DDD tits and a booty to die for. Her sexual skills on camera are quickly becoming the stuff of legend. Sexual escapades are helping Azul Hermosa to build a devoted fanbase but she also lives an interesting life off-camera that includes trying new foods and traveling. She has already made an impact on the industry in 2020 and there is no reason to expect this to stop anytime soon.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/itsmelolamarie
Lola Marie is one of the hottest new pornstars going in the business this year. This ebony goddess combines an elegant look with an appetite for wild sex. She comes from the U.K. and grew up in an atmosphere where being open about sex was not encouraged. Since she is all grown up now, she has left this repressive past and allowed herself to indulge in all of her wildest fantasies. Lola is also a devoted reader and lover of poetry which just goes to show that there is much more to her than her stunning beauty.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jewelz_blu
You couldn’t talk about the hottest new pornstars of 2020 without mentioning athletic beauty Jewelz Blu. She started her adult career doing cam work before deciding to enter into the world of professional porn. Since then, she has made a dramatic impact that has helped her become one of the hottest starlets in porn this 2020. Kinky acts like rope and wax play help to get this insatiable hottie’s pussy wet and her sexual energy is totally addictive. She is also a well-known figure on the rave scene and is known for her ability with an LED hula hoop.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cakashova
Another one of the new pornstars to watch in 2020 is Casca Akashova. She has a glamorous look that screams elegance and she also has a luscious ass and amazing 32G tits that she loves to put to work for her fans when she gets on camera. Her body is true perfection and so are her passionate sexual performances that she puts on when she shows up at the porn set. She is a true woman of sophistication and loves the finer things in life such as expensive shoes and clothes. She also loves showing her fans what a naughty slut she can be.
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April Brookes is a hottie that loves to show off her ability to handle big cocks. She started her adult work as a dancer in clubs before going pro and has quickly built a fanbase that has helped to establish her as one of the new pornstars to see in 2020. Her love for being an exhibitionist has served her well in her porn career and has given some extra energy to her amazing scenes. Though she loves being submissive in the bedroom, she has an independent, take-charge attitude when she is out in everyday life.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sydneycolexxx
San Francisco’s Sydney Cole worked as an aerial artist and a dancer before she went into porn full-time. Since she started this career, she has delighted fans with her amazing body and her impressive skills. She loves showing off her luscious ass by putting it up in the air and beckoning to be filled with cock. She is also amazingly flexible and this only adds to her impressive set of sexual skills that have helped her to become one of the hottest pornstars of 2020. There is no better time than now to check out this sexy little minx and her hot little ass.
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It wouldn’t be a true hottest new pornstars of 2020 list without mentioning Kendra Sunderland. This natural blonde goddess has a body that gets attention quickly once she appears on camera. She started her career in adult work by camming before putting her tight pussy to work on the porn set and quickly gaining countless fans around the world. Her impressive skills, goddess-like body, and her endless appetite for sex have helped to make her one of porn’s most well-known names. She has already earned many AVN awards and Pornhub declared her to have the best tits around.
Naughty Aubree
Naughty Aubree also goes by the name Aubree Valentine and she is a new pornstar to keep an eye on in 2020. Her big tits, bubble butt have made this Utah girl a popular attraction in today’s porn scene. She used to work as a waitress before moving to Vegas to pursue her porn aspirations. That move has paid off as she has become one of the top-earning models currently working on social media. Her skills are enough to get any porn fan’s blood boiling in a good way. She also loves going hiking and fishing when she has some free time.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/skylermckayxxx
There are a lot of good reasons why Skyler McKay is on this list of top new pornstars this year. This bombshell hails from Scotland and she has been getting her fans excited and getting them off with her amazing looks and her ability to take cock. She loves showing off her amazing curves in the hottest lingerie pieces and loves taking her lingerie off to reveal her gorgeous booty and big tits. There is no doubt left about her place on this list of hottest new pornstars after one sees the kind of sexual performances that Skyler McKay regularly puts on in front of the camera.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hallehayes1
Halle Hayes is an ebony goddess with a tattoed body and a bubble butt that has become one of the must-see performers of 2020 in the porn industry. This stacked beauty has delighted her fans and blown their minds with her sexual prowess. She has some impressive flexibility that allows her to do the splits both possible ways and this has helped her to drive hard cocks wild on porn sets this year. You will be doing yourself a favor by checking this gorgeous ebony goddess out this year and adding her to your go-to list when you need to get off.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tommiejobabe
Tommie Jo is the perfect definition of a blonde bombshell. This British beauty has quickly won the hearts of porn fans in America and helped to stiffen many cocks in the process. She has plenty of experience doing nude modeling and has transferred this to a porn career that has helped to earn her a massive fanbase of adoring porn lovers. Her curves are enough to get anyone standing at attention and wanting more of her. Check her out ASAP to find out why she is one of the hottest new pornstars of 2020.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/xleninacrowne
Lenina Crowne is a redheaded stunner that loves to push the boundaries of sexuality. Her love for taboo sexual topics has made her a porn starlet of note in 2020 and she appears to only be getting started. Since she was 19 years old, she has been putting on shows on cam and she now uses that energy in front of professional porn camera crews to delight her constantly growing fanbase around the world. In her spare time, she enjoys studying topics such as history and loves to delve into forbidden subjects.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/skyebluewantsu
The name Skye Blue is one that is gaining a lot of attention in the 2020 porn industry. This sexy little fashion aficionado has been stimulating her audience of porn fans with her slim, sexy body and her ability to put on a show that elevates the heart rate of viewers. She is a true lover of porn but also loves to engage in her hobbies of painting, sewing, and drawing when she gets time away from her erotic work. Missing out on Skye Blue should practically be considered a crime if you are a true porn fan so check her out today to see why she is one of the top new pornstars this year.
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/alinaxbelle
Alina Belle is an adorable Brazilian sex goddess who has plenty of curves and some luscious 32DD boobs that go perfectly with her delicious bubble butt. She might be new to the porn business but she performs like a seasoned pro once she gets on camera. Her impressive sexual skills include an incredible ability to give blowjobs and this is helping her to gain fans around the globe. She rightfully takes her place as one of the top new pornstars to watch in 2020 and it won’t take long to realize why once you see her in action.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kenziemadisonxx
Kenzie Madison loves to get her fans off. Knowing that men are jerking off to her is one of the things that gets her wet. It has helped to turn her into one of the top new pornstars of 2020. She is an all-natural beauty who personally loves porn and watches it daily in her private life. She loves being dominated and gets off on showing her submissive side. She also loves showing her toned little ass and her blowjob skills. When she isn’t on set, she loves hitting the festival scene and dancing the night away.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bellarollandx_
Bella Rolland loves to satisfy and her animalistic sexual ferocity consistently does just that. This tall beauty has experience working as a vet tech but she now enjoys exploring her wild side on the set of adult films. It is obvious that she is into her work once you see her in action. The sexual energy she puts forth has helped her to put on some memorable scenes in her young porn career. She loves taking on more than one cock at a time and this includes gangbangs. A truly deserving member of the top new pornstar’s list.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/scarlitscandal
Latina sexpot Scarlit Scandal is a spinner with a booty and an ability to take huge cocks with ease. She is also known for paying careful attention to the balls of her male co-stars. This has made her popular with her fans and with the male talent in the porn industry. Once you see Scarlit in action it will be obvious why she is considered one of the best new pornstars to show up on the scene in 2020. Check her out as soon as you possibly can because there is no way that you will be disappointed in what you see.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/annyauroraporn
Once you see Anny Aurora you are going to want to see more. This hottie from Germany has the kind of passionate sexual energy that is sure to make her a favorite of porn fans in 2020. She has been involved in the swinger’s lifestyle since she was 18 years old and has transferred that adventurous spirit to her professional porn career. With the set of tits that she has and her tight, sexy little ass, it is no surprise that she has quickly become a porn starlet to keep an eye on this year.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/luvevelynclaire
The porn career of Evelyn Claire has really taken off in 2020. This is because she is truly into what she does and has a sexy body to die for. Her athletic frame translates perfectly to erotic adventures and this has made her a fan favorite in a short amount of time. She is a devoted masturbator and has allowed her love of sex to lead to a successful career in the porn industry. There can be no doubt about her place among the top 3o new pornstars to watch out for this 2020 calendar year.
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Becky Bandini has that MILF look that so many porn fans crave. She has been showing off her sexual skills to rave reviews in 2020. She has a cock-stiffening ass and an amazing set of tits to go along with her sweet Southern accent. Becky loves showing off her doggy style skills but she really loves getting busy on a sex swing. Porn fans around the world are doing themselves a big favor by watching Baton Rouge Becky Bandini getting busy on camera. You will see why she is one of the hottest new stars in porn.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/datevanessasky
Vanessa Sky rounds out this impressive list of the hottest new pornstars to grace the camera in 2020. She truly believes that her beauty is enhanced by the sight of a hard cock in her mouth. this Latina porn starlet is a true sex addict that loves to spend her time fucking with the camera on her. She has been showing off her impressive sexual skills as well as her perky tits and her tight, juicy pussy. When she has time, she also loves to travel around the world and does so as much as she can.
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Beattie is trying to reform the commission. AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi.
Beattie: I’ll walk away for the good of rugby league
Peter Beattie says he will press on with reforming the game's commission even if it means giving up his role as ARLC chairman.
Beattie is leading the charge to remove the three-year stand-down rule for club and state officials to join the commission and has set the goal of having the rule changed by February's annual meeting.
Beattie's three-year term as a commissioner expires then, too, with the former Queensland premier prepared to leave the game if he can push through the reform. The chairmanship is elected each year by fellow commissioners.
Beattie said he was willing to sacrifice his own role if it meant he was successful in passing through the reform.
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"No one is more important than the game," Beattie said. "My position is not important.
"If you get a new commission in place, they will decide who the new chair is. And they may just want to find another chair."
Beattie faces a tough ask to push through the reform. He has failed once already and needs the approval of 15 of the 16 NRL clubs and the two states to agree to the change.
The likes of Nick Pappas, Bart Campbell, Laurence Lancini and Dennis Watt have been mentioned as potential candidates to step up from their club roles into the commission if the reform is passed.
Beattie has already started speaking with club representatives and met with Queensland Rugby League chair Bruce Hatcher on Friday. He contacted the club chairs yesterday and said he would call them in the next few weeks.
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"We already have a talented commission but there is no point having talented players in the grandstand and not on the field," Beattie said. "I've communicated with the club chairs that this won't be easy.
"But we need goodwill from the game to get agreement. I tried to get it up last time and failed.
"It's not easy but this is in the best interests of the game."
Any change will be the biggest reform since the commission was founded in February 2012.
The game has a vacant seat at the commission table after Mark Coyne's resignation last month.
Beattie wants to have over the chairmanship to Racing NSW chief executive Peter V'landys.
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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry set up the photo opportunity after declining to pose for the traditional photo on the hospital steps. Picture: AP
Meghan, Harry threw ‘all-night parties’
25th May 2019 4:30 PM
Prince William and Kate might have breathed a sigh of relief when Prince Harry and Meghan moved out of Kensington Palace after a feud emerged between the two couples.
But not all their neighbours are pleased about the Sussex's decision to move to Windsor, including French Ambassador Jean-Pierre Jouyet, who took up the job last year, reports The Sun.
The couple apparently had a very active social life. Picture: Chris Jackson — Pool/Getty Images
His nearby residence's back yard on Kensington Palace Gardens looks right into the front of Nottingham Cottage, Harry and Meghan's old abode.
During a party last week, he reportedly said: "It is so quiet here now that Harry and Meghan have left.
"They used to have fireworks, soirees that would go all night, friends and family coming and going.
"Now all we see and hear is the helicopters landing. It's boring now."
Kensington Palace. Picture: Istock
However, his ex-neighbours didn't follow his wishes when it came to their son's name.
"They should call her a French name, perhaps Chantelle," he argued. Wrong sex for a start, as it turned out.
Prince Harry and Meghan moved to Frogmore Cottage earlier this year after it was gifted to them by the Queen.
Harry and Meghan with their newborn baby earlier this month. Picture: Dominic Lipinski — WPA Pool/Getty Images
The 10-bedroom home sits on 35 acres of lush land and has undergone a multimillion-dollar refit to transform it back into a luxurious family home complete with a new nursery, gym and yoga studio.
It had previously been chopped up into five units where palace staff have been living.
Frogmore Cottage.
Grade II-listed Frogmore House, formerly known as Double Garden Cottage, had been a popular royal hideaway for more than 300 years.
It was used by the Queen and other members of the Royal Family as a retreat for private and official royal engagements before Harry and Meghan made it their home.
This story originally appeared in The Sun and is republished here with permission
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Ferry operators weigh options ahead of island comeback
by Peter Carruthers
BOATIES keen to hit the islands can now do so for day trips but commercial ferries will not get back on the water until the second stage of the government's COVID recovery road map.
Far Northern marine tourism operators will have to assess the commercial viability of operating under COVID-safe regulations limiting groups to a maximum of 20 people expected to rolled out from June 12.
Association of Marine Park Tourism Operators executive officer Gareth Phillips expected some operators would take the opportunity to get back on the water when Stage 2 of the road map kicks off but others would wait.
"The challenge is calculating the number of passengers that can be on a vessel," he said.
Fitzroy Island will be off limits to commercial operators until Stage 2 of the government’s COVID road map begins on June 2.
"At the moment the industry is going through those calculations and each individual company has to make their own commercial decision whether it's viable or not.
"Everyone is very excited about the easing of restrictions and everyone is working through the rules. And I think some will be running and some won't depending on their business model."
Under Stage 2 social distancing guidelines, Mr Phillips said indoors one person was permitted in a 4sq/m area with a maximum of 20 people in that area. But if you have your own vessel Green and Fitzroy Islands are open, he said.
However, all overnight stays including camping remain off limits for the Frankland Islands and the Family Island Group (Dunk Island.)
The Frankland Island Group, 30 km northeast of Babinda, remains closed to all overnight stays.
Cairns MP Michael Healy said his office was working in collaboration with Tourism Tropical North to help operators comply with regulations and kick off day trips.
"It's difficult to give one answer to a broad issue … (but) if there is any (confusion) contact TTNQ and we will be able to give them clarification," he said. Mr Healy said by the end of this week he expected there would be further easing of restrictions.
"(And) police appreciate some of these matters are complicated and are not going to be fining people who are doing the right thing," he said.
Green Island business and event officer Megan Bell said the island was yet to reopen to day trippers and the resort would remain closed to allow the completion of non- COVID-related jetty upgrades.
"When the restrictions do lift … we will certainly be looking at our operation and see how we can start up," she said.
Fitzroy Island Resort Doug Gamble said he was waiting to government approval to reopen the island resort as COVID-19 restrictions ease.
Fitzroy Island Resort owner Doug Gamble said the resort remained closed while government clearances to open were being negotiated.
"We would love to open as soon as possible and see Cairns people visit but we just have to wait for clearances," he said.
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For ecological inspiration, and climatic salvation, we need to revisit the ancient open woodlands of North East Victoria.
A vista looking south-east from Mount Glenrowan, drawn by Eugen von Guerard in the 1860s, shows the Ovens, King River and Fifteen Mile Creek Valleys clothed in open red gum and box woodland. Blakey’s Red Gum can be seen in the foreground.
Note: This is a referenced transcript of the lecture I delivered at the Stanley Hall in the Spring of 2019 for the Geoff Craig Memorial lecture, organised by the Stanley Athenaeum.
I’d like to start by offering my thanks to the Friends of the Stanley Athenaeum for bestowing upon me the honour of giving this year’s Geoff Craig Memorial lecture, which I’ve titled ‘Revisiting the forgotten world of Victoria’s alpine valleys and ranges,’ and which I have decided to subtitle, ‘the case for restoring our ancient open woodlands’.
This lecture has its origins in the exhibition, Fire on the Plateau — A History of Fire and its Management in Stanley, which opened at the Stanley Athenaeum in May to commemorate the 10 year anniversary of the 2009 bushfires. It was curated by Ali Rowe, and I was employed as the principal researcher for the project with the idea that I would produce some panel text and a short essay. I started researching, and before I knew it, I had enough information for a book.
Today I won’t be speaking directly to the content of the book. Instead, I want to tell you about some of the broader insights I gained while I was researching. At the beginning of the project, myself, Ali Rowe and the Friends of the Stanley Athenaeum — in this case, namely Chris Dormer, Helen McIntyre, Janet Sutherland and Valerie Privett — brainstormed what we knew about the history of fire in Stanley. I asked, When was the last big bushfire in Stanley, prior to the 2003 fires? There’d been some big fire events in Victoria the 1980s — Ash Wednesday in 1983, and big fires through Mount Pilot and Mount Buffalo in 1985, and we expected that Stanley would have a similar history of bushfire. But no one could remember a bushfire in Stanley in the 1980s. We soon realised there were no stories about Stanley being burnt-out even in the infamous Black Friday bushfires of 1939, when most of Victoria was burnt. I trawled through the archives, and what I discovered was quite unexpected, at least to us: that there had been no significant bushfires on the Stanley Plateau for well over 100 years.
On reflection, what’s really interesting to me, is that we had started out expecting that Stanley would have this long history of big bushfires — it was almost as if we had projected our current expectations of the environment backwards through time — and it took a historical study to correct our view.
There’s no hard scientific evidence as to why Stanley had so few bushfires prior to 2003, but quite clearly, the area used to be a pretty safe bet in terms bushfire risk. The Stanley Plateau had a cool climate, with a high ground moisture content, and wet peppermint and blue gum forests, with ferny gullies that remained damp even in Summer; in fact it was so damp that if you walked through the forest, you’d come out with leeches on your legs. But as we all know, something really big has changed. The Plateau is drier and Stanley is now officially classified as an area of ‘extreme risk’ on the CFA’s Victorian Fire Risk Register.
When I started the project, I didn’t realise that I would be charting such a big environmental change. But during the research, I was engaging with letters, diaries, reminiscences and government records dating from the time of the arrival of Europeans in North East Victoria from the late 1830s onwards; and I came to realise that the environment I was reading about in these historical documents was so different from our current understanding of the environment today, that it now constitutes a kind of ‘forgotten world’ to us. However through historical records, we can revisit this forgotten world of North East Victoria’s alpine valleys and ranges, and see what’s changed.
When I was at university I was very fortunate to be lectured by a historian called Greg Dening, who earlier in his life had been a Jesuit priest. Dening used to talk about a particular Spiritual Practice originally taught to the Jesuit order by theologian Ignatius Loyola, which he in turn applied to his own method of composing history — a practice called ‘composition of place.’ In composition of place, when one reflects on a scriptural passage or events, one first imagines the scene in concrete detail, places oneself inside that scene, and then attends to the thoughts and feelings that arise in order to comprehend it. And this is what I would like for us to be able to do today with some of the vivid sites, sounds and sensations, that I have found in the archives, relating to this forgotten world of our alpine valleys and ranges.
A good place to start composing our forgotten world, is by using the reminiscences of George Kinchington. Kinchington was a child when he first arrived in the Yackandandah Valley in the winter of 1838. He was in the company of his family; his father was to be the manager of the newly formed Kergunyah station. They were among the very first non-Aboriginal people to enter the Yackandandah Valley. And he would later recall of it,
‘As we approached the Murramerangbong Hills and crossed the creek, I thought that of all the pretty places I had seen, Yackandandah was the prettiest. As far as the eye could reach stretched a great park, covered with large timber and under-growths of luxuriant grass. The creek itself could be seen for miles, and wound along in a wide and continuous bed of reeds and raspberry briars, with here and there a lake, in which were immense flocks of wild duck, widgeon, teal, black swan, and pelicans. The water, too, was beautifully clear and abounded with fish. Occasionally some native dogs, of which there were large numbers, would run across our path, and we would some times catch sight of a herd of kangaroo or wallaby, or see an emu raise its startled head to look at us. The country was very open; and with the exception of some native hop, grass trees, gebung, a little ti-tree, and some wild cherries, the land was quite devoid of scrub….’ [1]
This valley, in fact all of valleys of North East Victoria, were like parkland: grasslands interspersed with stately trees spaced widely enough to allow for easy travel — you could gallop a horse or pull a wagon through a valley, completely unhindered by undergrowth. Pre-Raphaelite artist Thomas Woolner who visited in 1852, described it as ‘splendid country that looked like an immense park left to decay and run wild: the trees shoot in sinuous, fantastic growth … the ground [is] spangled with serene little wildflowers’. [2] Woolner’s description of this park as being left to ‘decay and run wild’, was entirely appropriate, because by the time he was seeing it in 1852, European settlement had interrupted the Aboriginal burning regimes that had helped give the countryside its manicured, park-like appearance.
The native pasture in these valleys was spectacular; the first Europeans could barely believe their eyes. Local squatter David Reid noted that along the banks of the Ovens River at Tarrawingee in the late 1830s the kangaroo grass looked ‘more like a field of barley, or rather oats, than anything else’ and was so tall, it could be tied over a horse’s withers as it grew on either side. [3] I thought this had to be a bit of an exaggeration, but William Hovell (of Hume and Hovell fame) wrote in 1824 that in Victoria, ‘The grass .. is … frequently as high as [our] heads, and seldom lower than [our] waists.’ [4]
We can add to our composition of place by knowing that the soils of these valleys was soft, even spongy underfoot, because it had never been compacted by hard-hoofed animals. Early European arrivals had found their way into North East Victoria simply by following the impressions of cartwheels left by Major Mitchell’s expedition of 1836, which had sunk into the soft soils. Some Europeans were even distrustful of this weirdly open soil. Ovens Valley selector Edward Hulme complained of his ‘inferior crab-holey grassland’. [5] When in the Buckland Valley in 1853, English author William Howitt complained that ‘everywhere the soil is of a light porous quality, which absorbs the rain like a sponge, and in the heat exhales malaria. You may smell the dry-rot of decaying roots of trees as you walk over the surface.’ [6] Howitt thought the soils produced dangerous miasmas that were making the gold miners ill, but what he was describing was the rich smell of hummus, which retained moisture in soils, kept open and alive partly by the sheer mass of insect life.
You see, Howitt was a complainer, also about the insects here, which he said were ‘endless in numbers and form. Many are most singular and curious; but the ants, the flies, the centipedes, and the scorpions, are a terrific nuisance. … They cover the whole surface of the ground, I might almost say of the whole colony, of all colours and sizes; and almost every variety of them stings keenly. Nor is it the ground only on which they swarm; there is not a log lying on the ground, nor a tree standing in the forest, up and down which they are not creeping in myriads.’ [7] And I think, one can only imagine that the sound of cicadas and crickets in the summer must have been deafening.
Which brings us to another aspect of this forgotten world — the way it sounded. It was noisy! Across much of the countryside in Victoria were vast woodlands of silver banksia, which the colonists called ‘honeysuckle’. At Wooragee, Greta, Carboor, Myrtleford, Mudgegonga, and Whorouly — where the banksia vied with grasstrees — these woodlands, in season, were dripping with nectar, supporting huge numbers of insects, mammals — and of course, birds: black cockatoos and parrots, and songbirds — the sittellas, robins, honey-eaters, spine-bills, wattlebirds and friarbirds, made the bush a noisy place. It had been rumoured in England that Australian songbirds had no song — but Australian birds are louder and more melodious than any birds on earth. In fact, we now know that Australia is the ancestral birth place of songbirds. [8]
A map of newly surveyed agricultural lots at Murmungee (roughly 10km south of Beechworth), demonstrates that it was originally clad in a forest which included ‘Honeysuckle’ (Silver Banksia).
But it was at night that the sounds of the alpine valleys and ranges really came into themselves. Assistant Protector of Aborigines James Dredge complained of a night spent on Bontharambo station near Wangaratta in 1840, that he was kept awake all night by the ‘romping of rabbit rats’, [9] which were probably Rufus Bettongs — cute little animals, which scratch about and make a noise like a chainsaw when annoyed. Around Stanley, we still hear the hideous, choking growl of koalas in mating season, but we no longer hear the wailing, banshee-like cry of Bush Stone Curlews piercing the darkness of local forests. [10] Imagine what these two hideous calls sounded like in combination; and on top of that, Emily Skinner, the wife of a gold miner living in the Buckland Valley in the 1850s, described how the howling of dingoes at the top end of the valley would set off the next pack howling, so that the howling would spread down the length of the Buckland. [11] In 1881, Beechworth’s Ovens and Murray Advertiser reported that Mrs Morrison of Mudegonga had been ‘almost frightened to death with the yells of the dingoes all night’ when stranded overnight on the road to Stanley. [12]
And dingoes weren’t the only carnivorous predators in these forests. On 4 July 1854, American gold seeker Gordon Tucker celebrated Independence Day in Beechworth with a day’s sport of ‘killing native cats’. [13] He was shooting the glorious Tiger Quoll, aka the Spot-tailed Quoll — the largest marsupial carnivore of mainland Australia — it’s roughly 2/3 the size of a Tasmanian tiger — really, it’s a mini-Tassie-tiger with spots instead of stripes — with a piecing rasp of a bark.
But one of the weirdest sounds was a booming noise that came from swamplands, that many people thought could only be the call of the mythical bunyip; for it was a noise that came from an almost equally elusive and secretive marsh-dweller. William Howitt described its call, while travelling alongside a vast marsh near Wangaratta — the Greta swamp — in late 1852: ‘the most extraordinary thing there, was the booming of the bitterns. I never heard anything like it, and could not have supposed any bird capable of producing such a sound. It was like the low bellowing of bulls… but perhaps still more like some one blowing into the spout of a watering-[can]. The force and [the] compass of it, and the distance to which the sound could be heard, were amazing.’ [14]
The shallow cane-grass marshes at places like Tangambalanga, Bontharambo, and Greta not only supported the Australasian bittern, but also attracted flocks of Magpie geese, [15] and the dancing cranes we call brolgas, but which the Waveroo people called birranga. [16]
The colours of our forgotten world were different too. The Ovens River at Wangaratta wasn’t just clear, it was described as being azure-green. [17] And if you looked into that translucent azure-green water, you would see shoals of fish. At Markwood, in 1871, it was reported that fish of all kinds were constantly turning up in James Henley’s waterwheel, so that in half-an-hour there would be two dozen fish, chiefly bream [probably Macquarie perch] — some three and four pounds each. The small ones were returned to the river, but at least a hundred weight [50kg] of saleable fish were pulled out every 24 hours.’ [18]
Being able to see clearly what was at the bottom of a river could be a wondrous thing, but at the same time, it might put you off swimming. In 1885, the Ovens and Murray Advertiser recalled a time, ‘before the Snowy Creek and Omeo [gold] rushes took place, when [on] any day, in the then pellucid waters of the Mitta Mitta, one could see… fish, from the size of a minnow to the “leviathan,” …voracious codfish that could swallow a dog — or, for that matter, a baby — whole, disporting themselves in the depths among the boulders which are so marked a feature in the upper reaches of this lovely and picturesque river.’ [19]
Even tiny streams like Holmes’ Creek in Beechworth (which crosses Camp Street at the bottom of the hill), such a minor creek that barely anyone today even remembers its name, was a ‘beautifully clear stream with crayfish in it; and wild hop and may over-hung the water which sheltered the wild violet and geranium.’ [20] Beechworth was called Baarmutha by the Waveroo people, said to mean ‘many creeks’, which also suggests plenty of crayfish in winter. [21]
Creeks and Rivers often moved far more slowly than what they do today, as their banks were dense with reeds, and their waters snagged with timber. JFH Mitchell recalled that in his childhood, in the 1840s, the banks of the Murray River at Wodonga were dense with cumbungi and common reed, up to 20 feet high. [22] When it flooded in Spring, you could take a canoe from Wodonga to Townsend Street in Albury. [23] And when the water receded along the banks of the Ovens and Murray, it replenished the lagoons, whose warmer, stiller waters would be filled with river catfish, and thick beds of freshwater mussels. The catfish, which are now almost locally extinct, also thrived in the kinds of waterways like the Whorouly Creek and the Broken River, originally called the ‘Winding Swamp,’ that ceased to flow in summer. [24] George Kinchington explained, ‘The creeks stopped running about Christmas time [and] then became a chain of water-holes.’ [25]
What the woodlands surrounding these rivers, creeks and lagoons lacked in density they often made up for in height. In 1853, William Howitt reported fallen trees on the Nine Mile Creek up to 60 metres long. [26] That’s a tree which stood at least four storeys high; higher than the very top of the bell-tower on the old Beechworth Post Office. Today the tallest Brittle Gums we have in Beechworth, for example on the Golf Course, are probably 25 metres high. But where you have tall trees, you have a different animals. From the Gold Commissioner’s camp in 1853 on High Street in Beechworth, tent keeper William Murdoch recorded how, ‘One of the men shot a large flying squirrel, its length from the nose to the tip of the tail — four feet.’ [27] This was the beautiful Greater Glider, a wholly arboreal animal with such a huge wingspan that it can only glide safely between very tall, widely spaced trees. The presence of this glider tells us that our forests in Beechworth had mammoth and widely-spaced trees, mature enough to sustain these large flying marsupials in their canopies.
And imagining these tall tree canopies brings me to one last sensation that was once familiar but is becoming increasingly rare, and this comes from a Beechworth resident who wrote to the Ovens and Murray Advertiser in 1907:
‘Next to the Buckland Gap, probably the most delightful spot in the neighborhood of Beechworth was what was called the Cemetery Creek, but which has been more appropriately styled the Emerald Cascades by recent visitors, since [this] more nearly describes its beauties. … this charming locality is at the rear of Baarmutha Park, and consists of a wild glen. The well-worn path charmingly follows the parting stream of crystal water, which leaps from cascade to cascade for at least a mile, between cool-looking, moss-covered rocks. On a hot summer morning this glen was a most inviting scene for the painter, owing to the rare color effects that were produced in the natural objects from the bright sunshine, which with difficulty glanced through the clefts of the dense and beautifully disposed eucalyptus and [native] pines, dappling the deep green moss and grey rocks with its glories. No one ever visited it who did not loudly praise its wonderful coolness or its delirious shade.’ [28]
However, this letter was one of dismay, for the writer continued, ‘On visiting this spot a few weeks ago, sir, imagine my feelings in discovering these lovely trees, which were the cause of all this charm, were all rung [ringbarked] and fast dying! In a year they will be dead and falling, and nothing will be left but a bare, bold blazing mass of rocks. In this case there is I think not even the semblance of an excuse for the destruction.’ [29]
If you visit the Emerald Cascades today, I can guarantee you won’t recognise it. It’s a gully near the old rifle range at the back of the Beechworth golf course; which has trickle of water but no cascades. Its tree canopy is sparse, and the granite boulders have been swallowed by a mass of blackberry briars. Only a solitary tree fern still struggles on. In so many ways, the Emerald Cascades is a microcosm of the kinds of environmental changes we’ve wrought on the environment, and how far we’ve got to go in terms of restoring it.
In fact, if there was one lesson from the research done for Fire on the Plateau, it’s that the greatest environmental challenge we have now is how to restore and conserve the environment in ways that will accomodate climate change, but remain in sympathy with the environment of old. Designing ‘climate-smart’ environmental projects might sound like a controversial issue, but the reality is that even locally, ecologists and environmental organisations are now making some pretty valiant attempts to future-proof our forests and fauna:
In Chiltern where conservations have spent decades trying to conserve habitat for the critically endangered Regent Honeyeater, Trust for Nature and BirdLife Australia have given up on the idea of relying solely on local trees like Mugga Ironbark to provide enough nectar. The ironbark isn’t flowering consistently enough to ensure the survival of the honeyeaters, so they’ve started trials, planting super-tough non-indigenous native species — things like Hairpin Banksia, Crimson Bottlebrush, Spotted Gum, and Silky Oak — in an effort to guarantee that there will be food for the birds all year-round. Not so long ago, this would have been considered a form of environmental heresy.
Over the border on the Monaro Tablelands, the majestic Ribbon Gums (E. viminalis) — kind of like the Monaro equivalent of Victoria’s high country Snow Gums (E. pauciflora) — have been dying across the landscape since the 1990s. The weather’s been just too hot, and there have been too many droughts, and the gums are so water-stressed that they’ve become susceptible to invasion by Eucalyptus Weevil, which have been literally eating the tree canopies to death. Now Greening Australia and Upper Snowy Landcare have started running trials of 16 genetically different varieties of Ribbon gum, sourced from areas where the climate is hotter and drier, to see which varieties can withstand the changed climatic conditions on the Monaro.
Like the regent honey eater, the elusive bunyip bird of the marshlands, the Australasian Bittern, is also now critically endangered; and in their case, it’s due to loss of natural wetlands. The total population worldwide is now estimated at no more than 2,500 adults; and ecologist Matt Herring has made the amazing discovery that 40% of this global population has been forced to adopt the rice fields in the Riverina as their habitat during breeding season. Matt’s Bitterns in Rice project has been working with Birdlife Australia and the Ricegrowers’ Association to help farmers adapt their farming practices — things like water depth, and time-of-harvest — to help out the nesting birds. And to their credit, many rice farmers are starting to take pride in having bitterns in their rice. Herring says that, ‘There’s a growing body of global research investigating how human-made habitats can help fill the gap left by our vanishing wetlands, from ditches for rare turtles to constructed ponds for threatened amphibians.’ (And here’s where I quickly take my hat off to Beechworth Urban Landcare for their new frog pond on Silver Creek).
In short, there are now many environmental projects aimed at safeguarding flora and fauna against climate change, but if this is the way of the future, one might well ask, what’s the point of environmental history? What’s the point of us reimagining those forgotten valleys and ranges of North East Victoria from 150 years ago?
I think that the tangible sensations of this forgotten world — the coolness of the shade at places like the Emerald Cascades, the softness underfoot of healthy soils, the azure green sparkle of the Ovens River, and the orchestra of songbirds rising from open woodlands of stately gums, banksia and grass trees — these are ideas worth holding onto. I think they provide us with a vision.
I think that we might be able to have something approaching this stable and abundant environment once again, if we adopted a vision for restoring the ancient parklike woodlands of old. We still have the remnants of this woodland — in the form of veteran paddock trees — but these have a limited life span, and we need to bolster their ranks. Writing of Dunkeld at the southern end of the Grampians, ecologist Ian Lunt has described the way in which the remnant woodland there, while filled with venerable paddock trees, has not seen any meaningful regeneration. And he states, quite poetically (in his blog post ‘The Candles of Dunkeld’):
‘The woodlands bear the weight of a generation gap 100 years wide. We can’t fill that gap. But we can belatedly heal it. If we don’t, the woodlands won’t go on forever, but will peter out… We owe a huge debt to the farmers of Dunkeld. Their stewardship has kept the trees of Dunkeld alive for over a century. But stewardship of the past creates no future for the trees of Dunkeld. The Dunkeld woodlands need stewardship and more. They need some Succession Planning (and planting). Without a rapid transfusion of new plants, the beautiful woodlands of Dunkeld are doomed.’
And of course, so are ours in the alpine valleys and ranges.
It sounds like a big job, restoring woodlands, but elsewhere around the world we’ve seen the most spectacular efforts at reforestation in regions far tougher than our own, and I have to raise the example of Tony Rinaudo: he was a Myrtleford boy, who went on to join World Vision and has been instrumental in the reforestation of 5 million hectares of land in sub-Saharan Africa, simply by helping farmers to regenerate existing tree stocks. The farmers initially had some incentives (which is only fair), but when they saw that reforestation boosted soil fertility and crop yields, the project took off on its own.
The localised benefits of restoring the ancient woodlands of our alpine valleys and ranges are are profound. It’s a simple observation but — woodland creates its own local microclimate: the delirious shade of its trees really does create a wonderful coolness; the shelter of trees protects animals and pastures, and the evapo-transpiration from their leaves actually recycles rain into more rain. More tree coverage means less drought. Even if we forget about global climate change priorities like planting forests to capture carbon — and I’m not saying we should (!) but if we did — we still have plenty of reasons to restore our woodlands.
There’s not a fisherman in the world who wouldn’t like a bag a trout cod big enough to swallow a dog, there’s barely a farmer who wouldn’t want to have their stock grazing on rich native pastures — spangled with wildflowers no less, not a child who wouldn’t love to have the pants scared off them by the boom of the Bunyip Bird in Greta swamp. And personally, I’d like to see more Tiger Quolls in our forests again. The last sighting was at Staghorn Flat in 2015, but this is one of only a handful of sightings in the last 20 years.
There are dozens of interesting ideas I’d love to mention in relation to restoring our environment, which of course isn’t just about the trees and shrubs — there are regenerative agriculture practices including the use of diverse native grasses and different grazing regimes to restore soils and pastures; and there’s also the special need to slow down and retain water in our landscape, in the form of unregulated rivers, peatlands, marshlands, lagoons, and of course — importantly for Stanley as a high recharge area — retain ground water to feed natural surface discharge.
In conclusion, acknowledging how much the environment has already been degraded, and how rapidly it’s still changing in the face of climate change, can be psychologically debilitating. But I think if we care about the environment, that one of the most profound acts we can do now, is to raise our baseline of expectations. To do this, we have to commit radical acts of community remembering — we have to remember by whatever means possible and in as vivid terms as possible, the richness, diversity, and abundance that our environment used to have. We need to adopt that old Jesuit meditative practice of ‘composition of place’ — to hold onto to the vision of our ancient open woodlands — and share this vision, to raise the bar on what we will accept and create as our future environmental reality.
[1] ‘YACKANDANDAH IN 1838. SOME REMINISCENCES. BY MR. GEORGE KINCHINGTON.’ Ovens and Murray Advertiser, Saturday 16 September, 1899, p.8.
[2] Thomas Woolner, in Amy Woolner [ed.], Thomas Woolner RA – His Life in Letters, London, Chapman and Hall, 1917, p.20.
[3] Reminiscences of David Reid: as given to J.C.H. Ogier (in Nov. 1905), who has set them down in the third person, type-written manuscript, National Library of Australia, p.37.
[4] Bill Gammage, The biggest estate on earth : how Aborigines made Australia, Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2011, p.175
[5] Edward Hulme, A settler’s 35 years’ experience in Victoria, Australia, M. L. Hutchinson, Melbourne, 1891, p.18.
[6] William Howitt, Land, Labour and Gold, or Two Years in Victoria, Volumes 1 & 2, Sydney University Press, 1972 [first edn: 1855]. This reference: Volume 2, pp.153-4.
[7] William Howitt, op. cit., This reference: Volume 1, Chapter 11.
[8] ‘Where Birdsong Began,’ Catalyst, ABC television, 10 March, 2015.
[9] James Dredge, Assistant Protector of Aborigines, Goulburn Protectorate, Three volumes and one transcript of the diary, a letter book and a note book are in the La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection of the State Library [MS 11625 and MS 5244 (transcript) Box 16]. The diaries contain daily and weekly entries from 1817 to 1833 and 1839–1843. This entry: 22 April 1840.
[10] D. M. W. McKenzie, “To the Pioneers” Looking Back, The Early Days of Stanley, 1891, re-printed in association with the “Back-to” Stanley, January 1976, from the original publication by the late D. M. W. McKenzie.
[11] Edward Duyker (ed.), A Woman On The Goldfields, Recollections of Emily Skinner, 1852-1878, Melbourne University Press, 1995.
[12] MUDGEGONGA. Saturday. Ovens and Murray Advertiser, Tuesday, 8 February, 1881, p.2.
[13] Gordon Tucker, Journal, 1853 Apr. 12-1857 June 6. Manuscript 10649, State Library of Victoria. This entry: 4 July, 1854.
[14] William Howitt, op. cit., This reference: Volume 1, Chapter 9.
[16] Mary Spencer, Aunt Spencer’s Diary (1854): A Visit to Bontharambo and the North-east Victorian Goldfields, Neptune Press, Newtown, 1981, p.46; for Waywurru language, see: Dictionary of Way Wurru and Dhudhuroa Language, Nyanda Ngudjuwa Aboriginal Corporation Way Wurru and Dhudhuroa Language Program, Wodonga, 2007/8 (draft edition).
[17] William Howitt, Land, Labour and Gold, or Two Years in Victoria, Volume 1, Chapter 9 (this edition Cambridge University Press digital editions, 2010, p.153).
Last summer (in early 2020), my son and I visited a swimming hole in the Upper King River. It was sufficiently clear enough that it did have a slight azure green tinge, and I was able to imagine what Howitt meant.
[18] ‘District Road Boards,’ The Argus Supplement, 25 January 1871, p.1.
[19] ‘Our River Fish’, Ovens and Murray Advertiser, Thursday, 6 August, 1885, p.2.
[20] ‘Old Memories’, Ovens and Murray Advertiser, 10 November, 1908, p.8
[21] Dictionary of Way Wurru and Dhudhuroa Language, op. cit.
[22] J.F.H Mitchell Papers, 1903-1923, State Library of New South Wales. Mitchell gives many descriptions of the environment around Albury-Wodonga in the 1840s in these often rambling type-written notes.
[23] David Reid, ‘Old Memories — Floods and Droughts,’ Albury Banner and Wodonga Express, 30 December, 1898, p.16.
[24] For an amazing historical account of local fish stocks including catfish, see: Will Trueman, True Tales of the Trout Cod: River Histories of the Murray–Darling Basin, (Ovens River catchment booklet), Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA), Canberra, 2012.
[25] George Kinchington, op. cit.
[26] William Howitt, op. cit., This reference: Volume 1: Chapter 13.
[27] William Murdoch, A Journey to Australia in 1852 and Peregrinations in that Land of Dirt and Gold, unpublished diary manuscript (digital form), held by the Robert O-Hara Burke Memorial Museum. This entry: 26 November 1852.
[28] ‘The Destruction of Beautiful Beechworth’, Ovens and Murray Advertiser, 23 November 1907, p.6.
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Berkeley Moynihan
Salomon Scheepers and Alex Rippey
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Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, Lord Moynihan of Leeds (1865 – 1936) was an English General surgeon.
Moynihan was regarded as an authority on abdominal surgery, published widely and drew many students to learn under him.
Moynihan pursued interests in both the medical and military sectors, obtaining military positions including Chairman of the Army Advisory Board and major-general, and medical positions including professor of clinical surgery at the University of Leeds and president of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Eponymously associated with the Moynihan sign (1905), an adaptation of Murphy’s sign, a method used to differentiate pain in the right upper quadrant.
Born 2 October 1865 in Malta
1867 – Moved from Malta to Leeds, Yorkshire with his mother after the death of his father Captain Andrew Moynihan, VC.
1875-1881 Educated at the Blue Coat School, London
1881-1883 Educated at the Royal Navy School, Eltham
1887 – Graduated MB, University of London
1890 – Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS)
1893 – Master of Surgery, awarded the gold medal
1896 – Assistant surgeon to Leeds General Infirmary
1899 – Arris and Gale lecturer, examiner in anatomy at Royal College of Surgeons of England
1906 – Surgeon to Leeds General Infirmary
1909-1927 Professor of clinical surgery at University of Leeds
1912 – Knight Bachelor (KB) bestowing the title ‘Sir’ and the post-nominal ‘Kt’
1914 – 1918 World War One, held rank of major à la suite, was attached to the 2nd Northern General Hospital of the Territorial RAMC. Upon demobilisation, held rank of major-general (1919)
1917 – Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)
1918 – Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael & St George (KCMG)
1922 – Baronet of Carr Manor
1926 – 1931 President of the Royal College of Surgeons, England
1927 – Consulting surgeon to Leeds General Infirmary
1927 – Hunterian Orator
1929 – Raised to the peerage as Baron Moynihan, of Leeds
Died 7 September 1936 in Leeds, England
Whitehall, March 21, 1929: The KING has been pleased, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm, bearing date the 19th instant, to confer the dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom upon Sir Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, Baronet, K.C.M.G., C.B., and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style and title of Baron Moynihan, of Leeds in the County of York.
The London Gazette, 1929
Medical Eponyms
Moynihan sign (1905)
Moynihan acknowledged J.B. Murphy’s 1903 description of right upper quadrant interrogation in the upright patient with fingers gripped under the lower right anterior costal margin. He also took into account Bernhard Naunyn’s 1896 description of right upper quadrant examination on inspiration. [* aka Moynihan’s modification of Murphy’s sign]
I have found the simplest method of eliciting the pressure signs to be this: While the surgeon sits on the edge of the couch, to the right of the patient, the left hand is laid over the lower part of the right side of the patient’s chest, so that the thumb lies along the rib-margin; as a deep breath is taken the thumb is pressed upwards towards the under surface of the liver.
Moynihan 1905
Moynihan sign 1905: 151-152
Moynihan Gall-bladder Forceps
Moynihan gutter
Moynihan’s hump of right hepatic artery
The ‘Caterpillar hump’ of a tortuous right hepatic artery (RHA) is a rare variation which occupies the major portion of Calot’s triangle thus increasing the risk of vascular and biliary injuries during hepatobiliary surgery. The right hepatic artery lies in close proximity to the gall bladder and cystic duct and so it may be mistaken to be cystic artery and inadvertently ligated during surgical procedures. Moynihan’s hump should be suspected when an unusually large ‘cystic artery’ is seen through the laparoscope
Specimen no 6 showing single looped caterpillar hump of right hepatic artery in the Calot’s triangle. (CHA – common hepatic artery, LHA – left hepatic artery, RHA – right hepatic artery, GDA – gastroduodenal artery, MHA – middle hepatic artery, CH – caterpillar hump, CA – cystic artery, CHD – common hepatic duct).
Key Medical Attributions
1904 – Moynihan described as the first to use the term ‘hunger pain’
Many patients will volunteer the statement that the pain begins to appear “when they are beginning to feel hungry,” and I therefore suggested in one of my early papers the term “hunger pain” as descriptive of this particular symptom.
Moynihan 1910: 103
Though Keats and Isabella may beg to differ (1818)
For seldom did she go to chapel-shrift.
And seldom felt she any hunger-pain;
Moynihan classic aphorism regarding organisms and infection in gallstones. The full contextual quote reveals that he was aware that the not all organisms are dead within the stone:
Gall-stones are found only in the later stages of an infection of the gall-bladder. It is not yet certain exactly where they are formed, whether within the cavity of the gallbladder or in the mucosa. In the majority of cases they are probably formed within the cavity of the gall-bladder, being due to the clumping of organisms in the bile, and to the protective covering of these organisms by deposits of cholesterin. To impress upon students this truth, I told them long ago that “every gall-stone is a tombstone erected to the memory of the organisms dead within it.” But the organisms are sometimes buried alive. Llewellys Barker, of Johns Hopkins, records the case of a patient who, at the age of 8, suffered from typhoid fever; at the age of 48 he was operated upon for gall-stones ; from the interior of the stones living active typhoid organisms were recovered.
Moynihan B. On retro-peritoneal hernia: being the Arris and Gale lectures on the anatomy and surgery of the peritoneal fossae. 1899
Mayo Robson AW, Moynihan B. Diseases of the stomach and their surgical treatment. 1901 [2e 1904]
Moynihan B. Diseases of the pancreas and their surgical treatment. 1902
Moynihan B. On Hour-glass Stomach. Medico-chirurgical transactions, 1904; 87: 143-162. [Moynihan’s Hour-Glass stomach (1901, 1904, review 1909)]
Moynihan B. Gall-stones and their surgical treatment. 1905 [Moynihan sign]
Moynihan B. Duodenal ulcer. 1910
Moynihan B. The pathology of the living, and other essays. 1910
Moynihan B. Adress in surgery: Delivered at the eighty-first annual meeting of the British Medical Association. BMJ. 1913; 2(2743): 169-175
Moynihan B. Abdominal operations 3e. 1916 [Volume II]
Moynihan B. American addresses. 1917
Moynihan B. The surgery of the chest in relation to retained projectiles. British Journal of Surgery, 1919; 7(28): 307-360
Moynihan B. The surgery of the spleen. British Journal of Surgery, 1920; 31(8): 307-360
Moynihan B. The spleen and some of its diseases; the Bradshaw lecture. 1920
Moynihan B. The ritual of a surgical operation. British Journal of Surgery, 1920; 8(29): 27-35
Moynihan B. Essays on surgical subjects. 1921
Moynihan B. The early signs and symptoms of cholelithiasis. British Journal of Surgery, 1922; 10(37): 127–134.
Moynihan B. The Hunterian oration on Hunter’s ideal and Lister’s practice. 1927
Moynihan B. Addresses on surgical subjects. 1928
Moynihan B. The advance of medicine. 1932
Moynihan B. Truants: the story of some who deserted medicine yet triumphed. 1936
There are surgeons who operate upon the ‘canine’ principle of savage attack, and the biting and tearing of tissues are terrible to witness. These are they who operate with one eye upon the clock, and who judge the beauty of any procedure by the fewness of the minutes which it has taken to complete. There are other surgeons who believe in the ‘light hand,” who use the utmost gentleness, and who deal lovingly with every tissue that they touch.
The scalpel is, indeed, an instrument of most precious use – in some hands a royal sceptre; in others but a rude mattock. The perfect surgeon must have the ‘heart of a lion and the hand of a lady’; never the claws of a lion and the heart of a sheep. An operation is done quick enough when it is done right.
Moynihan is most likely the inspiration for Richard Gordon’s fictional character Sir Lancelott Spratt (with the above quote most often attributed to Spratt)
Leeds Medical School: A bronze cast of Moynihan’s hands is in the library of the Leeds Medical School, with a replica in the City Art Gallery; a bronze bust by F J Wilcoxson; and Moynihan’s instruments are in the museum of the Leeds Medical School.
Cast of the hands of Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan 1932
…every movement should tell, every action should achieve something. A manipulation, if it requires to be carried out, should not be half done and hesitatingly done. It should be deliberate, firm, intentional, and final. Infinite gentleness, scrupulous care, light handling, and purposeful, effective, quiet movements which are no more than a caress, are all necessary if an operation is to be the work of an artist, and not merely of a hewer of flesh.
Bibliography. Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan. World Cat
Crile GW, Lower WE. The treatment of shock and its prevention through Anoci-Association. The Anoci-association. 1914
OBITUARY. Lord Moynihan, K.C.M.G., C.B. The Lancet, 1936; 228(5898): 655–658
Nécrologie. Lord Moynihan. La Presse médicale, 1936; 84: 1641
Groves EWH. The Life and Work of Moynihan. BMJ, 1940; 1(4136): 601–606
Groves EWH. The Life and Work of Moynihan: Part II. BMJ, 1940; 1(4137): 649–651
Bateman D. Berkeley Moynihan, Surgeon. London, 1940
Biography: Moynihan, Sir Berkeley George Andrew, Lord Moynihan of Leeds (1865 – 1936). Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows Online. Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Salati SA, al Khadi A. Murphy’s sign of cholecystitis– a brief revisit. Journal of Symptoms and Signs. 2012; 1(2): 53-56
Kavitha Kamath B. An anatomical study of Moynihan’s hump of right hepatic artery and its surgical importance. Journal of the Anatomical Society of India 2016; 65(1): S65-S67
Fallas R. Heart of a Lion and the Hands of a Lady: Lord Moynihan of Leeds. Leeds Museums and Galleries. 2017
Marano L et al. The unwanted third wheel in the Calot’s triangle: Incidence and surgical significance of caterpillar hump of right hepatic artery with a systematic review of the literature. J Minim Access Surg. 2019;15(3):185‐191.
Moynihan, Lord Berkeley: Papers and Case Books. AMI25
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Sarah Firth a great aunt of mine was badly burned on her throat and chest at age 11 in 1920. A rich Lady in her home town of Halifax referred her to Lord Moynihan and paid £1000 for her surgery. My family believe that she was one of the first people to have plastic surgery and that her case was in the National newspapers. She accompanied the surgeon on a number of visits to other hospitals to demonstrate the success of the surgery.
Is there evidence that the Lord played a part in this surgery?
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COVID-19 Therapies We’re Testing
I was thinking of doing a roundup of COVID-19 treatments we're testing as we enter the final weeks of the year, but UVA Today has saved me the typing. One of their writers, Caroline Newman, talked to our Dr. Linda Duska, the School of Medicine's associate dean for clinical research; Dr. Kyle Enfield, who has been instrumental in coordinating our COVID-19 clinical trials; and Miranda West, the clinical research manager for emergency medicine.
One notable comment from Dr. Duska: "We are seeing clinical research happen at a speed that has never been seen before, both for drug therapies and vaccine development.” I can vouch for that -- there's amazing work happening here, and elsewhere, as scientists work as quickly as possible to put an end to the pandemic.
Caroline provides a nice breakdown of four different COVID-19 clinical trials under way at UVA Health. Check out her article here.
As an academic health system, we're fortunate to be able to provide access to these trials for our patients.
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Mixed Commission of Slovenia
Established in 1961 by decree of the Protocol of 1958
The Mixed Commission convened ten times. Panels of experts dealt with individual groups of questions and investigated and prepared materials. The experts were divided into six groups:
1. Claims against the Vienna-based Central State Archives
2. Claims against the Styria Provincial Archives
3. Claims against the Carinthian and Tirolean Provincial Archives
4. Claims against museums based in Austria
5. Austria's claims against Yugoslavia
6. Restitution of items and archives removed in the period from 1941-1945
During negotiations between 1975-1990, Austria restituted all material taken during World War II which could be found and most of the original material in accordance with the Archive Agreement. Eleven deliveries of archival material were made (encompassing 3453 documents from the twelfth to eighteenth centuries, including, among other documents, seven hundred documents of the Celje counts, approximately fifty manuscripts, material from the Vienna imperial-royal ministries, nineteenth century Cadastre material from the reign of Emperor Joseph for Carinthia and Styria, mining maps of Slovenian mines). Microfilm and photocopies of material were also delivered.
According to Central Registry correspondence, Slovenia will continue to claim the already-agreed delivery of photocopies of the material kept at the Austrian State Archive from Austria within the framework of the pragmatic resolution of the archival issue.
Official correspondence from the Slovenian Ministry of Culture (via the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in London). Central Registry Archives, 16 April, 2002.
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Home Blogs The legacy of Handmade Films
The legacy of Handmade Films
I can still remember as a kid the first time I saw 70’s cockney gangland drama ‘The Long Good Friday’, watching Bob Hoskins steadily lose the plot while he tries to fight off his unknown enemy as London gang-land leader Harold Shand, very gritty, very British and a kinda prelude to films like ‘Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’ and other independent British films that followed.
Later on I’d watch films like ‘Withnail and I’ and ‘The Life of Brian’ but never realised till years later when reading up on The Beatles that these films were the work of George Harrison’s Handmade Films production company that also produced other now classics like ‘Mona Lisa’, ‘Time Bandits’, and Alan Bennett’s ‘A Private Function’.
But its Handmade Films own story that’s nearly as interesting as some of the films it produced, like many innovate projects its results were outstanding with great success at the box office in its first 5 yrs but in the end it was a venture that gave Harrison a loathing for the film industry as well nearly bankrupting him, finally ending in bitter law suits.
Handmade’s origins were born out of the collaboration on ‘Life of Brian’ with The Monty Python team in 1978 urging Harrison to set his own film production company up when EMI’s chief exec Lord Delfont, at the last minute, pulled out of funding the film alarmed at the idea of backing this ludicrously outrages laugh at the good book, and the life of Christ. This last minute let-down left the crew and actors stranded in Tunisia on location in which Harrison saved the day by backing the film himself and putting up his own home by re-mortgaging Friar Park to the tune of 4 million pounds, in the process setting up Handmade Films with the help of his manger Denis O’Brien. This left the Monty Python team knocked out by George’s belief and financial backing for a film that was saved at the very last minute; Eric Idle said of the man…
“He’s one of the morally good people that rock’n’roll produced, he’s extremely generous and has backed and supported all sorts of people that you’ll never, ever hear of, George paid for the film because he wanted to see it, the most anybody has ever paid for a cinema ticket in history“
Handmade Films next feature was ‘The Long Good Friday’ then following that ‘Time Bandits’ which Harrison wrote the song that played over the end credits, at this time Georges new venture was the source of a new found pleasure, especially working with the Python Team who years previously had made the Beatles send-up ‘The Rutles’ which included George acting as an interviewer interviewing one of the Fab’s while figures in the background ran out of the Apple building with the furniture and fixtures, a scene that played on the scamming that went on at the Apple headquarters in its last days, George Harrison’s ability to laugh at himself and his former bands heavily documented break up was more than evident.
Its name ‘Handmade Films’ was simply derived from the fact everything they did was ‘handmade’, everything was done in-house which included marketing strategies, designing and recording music for the films themselves; to Harrison it was like being in a giant band which he loved. It’s why the Wilburys came about because George missed working with other people, he was a great collaborator. From this working partnership Handmade Films went on help shape a new age and genre of British Film, a film like Life Of Brian would of never been made by anyone else at that time and the process helped forge the talents of people like Terry Gillian, Bob Hoskins, Bruce Robinson and Michael Palin to name a few. This was exactly how Harrison originally imagined how Handmade Films would work, a wonderful collaboration with friends bringing their passions together under one umbrella
Ray Cooper;
“Perhaps this was the real ‘United Artists’, but ‘Handmade’ was a much more interesting name’
above – George with Ray Cooper and Richard E Grant on the set of How To Get Ahead In Advertising
What started so promisingly would end in financial mire, to all on the outside Handmade Films appeared as a massive success releasing 23 films in 10 years that ushered in a new era of British film making. But that streak ended with the box office flop ‘Shanghai Surprise’ starring Madonna, costing a total of 10million pounds to produce it took in less than half of that when released, The ‘Raggedy Rawney’ and ‘Checking Out’ came in even worse with the latter grossing less than 3% – for any independent film company these figures were ruinous which led to Harrison attempting to sever his links with the company after being advised that ‘if he carried on like this he’d be bankrupt’. This brought him to take manger O’Brien to court in a 25million dollar law suit. Taking a former manager to court was nothing new either as he went through the same ordeal with Allen Klein and now he found himself in the same position yet again.
above – George Harrison with Handmade Films financier Denis O’Brien
It was Denis O’ Brien’s financial structure that was brought into question, the ‘money go round’ O’Brien created was once shown to the Python team on a blackboard that showed various companies here and there with what appeared as a ‘state of the art tax avoidance’ system, that confusing the comedians were too embarrassed to admit that didn’t understand it and refused to sign up for this finical mystery tour. though Harrison felt he had every reason to trust O’Brien who first appeared as saviour after the betrayal of former Fabs manager Allen Klein, the companies films were chiefly financed by bank loans which one bank, Barclay’s ordered an audit of Harrison’s affairs which brought to light a deficit of something like 20million pounds. After talks with independent lawyers and advisers he immediately tried to sever links with the company and faxed the London office to tell staff they were fired while announcing that he no longer wanted to be involved in Handmade Films.
Later on the company was bought by Canadian company Paragon Entertainment in 1996 that went on to actually release ‘Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’, the company still lives on today in some form, registered as HandMade plc when it was sold on to the Equator Group in 2006.
Handmade Films un-commercial and pioneering attitude to film making is today still seen as some of the finest moments in British film making, a true innovator.
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Gary Kilroy June 20, 2012 At 13:52
One of many examples of a creative force being destroyed by creative thieves!
Jean Roy March 21, 2014 At 17:02
I have a list of 24 HandMade Films but you seem to have 23. Do you have a list of them ? Thanks
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Home Music Bands The Prefects release first full length vinyl collection – news
The Prefects release first full length vinyl collection – news
Nathan Whittle
After more than 40 years since the release of their Peel Sessions, original Birmingham punk outfit The Prefects are to have their first full-length vinyl collection released on Call Of The Void.
Entitled Going Through The Motions, after their 1980 Rough Trade single, the album pulls together the single alongside all other studio recordings and some of their live performces that were previously self-released for their 1991 reunion concert. For the first time, this collection will be available on vinyl and will be released on the 29th of November.
As punk broke and many of the prime aggitators of the scene were snapped up by major labels, The Prefects continued to rally against the system, never bothering to look for labels and never bowing to the faux-rebellion of the scene. They were true to themselves through and through. Despite tours with The Clash, The Damned, The Fall, The Buzzcocks The Slits and others, singer Robert Lloyd soon realised that he was drawn more to the experimentalism of Beefheart that the riot of The Ramones, and this is something that comes through in spades on this new collection. There are songs that show how they forged sounds that would later splinter into hardcore (Escort Girls) and the post-punk of Joy Division (The Bristol Road Leads To Dachau).
The record will also contain a true piece of punk history. During the White Riot tour, members of Subway Sect, The Slits and The Prefects joined in on a live encore loosely based on Velvet Underground’s Sister Ray. Incredibly difficult to listen to, the song was bootlegged widely before eventually appearing on The Slits’ 1980 album of early demos in a 5’20” version called “No More Rock And Roll For You”. Twenty years later, Vic Godard of Subway Sect edited a minute from the recording and released it on his Twenty Odd Years compilation. Two decades later, The Prefects have edited more than a minute from it and retitled it White Riot Tour. In another twenty years, it is hoped that the prolonged rite of ritual shortening of this song will leave no trace of it at all.
‘Going Through The Motions’ will be available on vinyl and CD via new label Call Of The Void on 29th November 2019.
1. Going Through The Motions
2. Escort Girls
3. Bristol Road Leads to Dachau
4. Faults
5. 625 Lines (live at the Electric Circus)
6. Barbarella’s
7. Things In General
8. Agony Column
9. Total Luck
10. She Cracked (live at the Electric Circus)
11. White Riot Tour (live)
All words by Nathan Whittle. Find his Louder Than War archive here.
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Dry start to the season compounds mice woes for grain growers
30 Jun Dry start to the season compounds mice woes for grain growers
After a record 2016 grain harvest, increasing numbers of mice are posing a major threat to this year’s crops.
An abundance of grain on the ground, good paddock cover and wet summer conditions have provided the ideal conditions for mice, with numbers exploding through many parts of the country.
In parts of Victoria, New South Wales and southern Queensland, frustrated farmers have seen entire paddocks of this season’s crops wiped out by mice, despite investing in costly baiting programs. Demand for off-the-shelf mouse bait products has increased the price from around $2/kg to more than $4/kg.
In South Australia, demand for bulk mouse bait from mixing stations is also at an all time high. With no similar program interstate, South Australian mixing stations have been taking orders from farmers in western Victoria.
Yorke Peninsula agronomist Chris Davey says the dry start to the season and damage from mice is making the 2017 season “one of the most frustrating I’ve seen in 20 years of being a consultant”.
In a tweet, Mr Davey posted photos showing the damage done to a client’s paddock on the Northern Yorke Peninsula where lentils were re-sown twice and even three times in certain patches, despite the farmer having applied up to eight applications of mice bait.
Hail knocked grain to the ground in November 2016, providing accessible feed for mice Tweet by Chris Davey, supplied.
“The hail storm that came through in November last year knocked a lot of grain onto the ground, so there’s been an abundance of food for mice for the last six or seven months”, he said.
Mr Davey estimates that the costs involved in baiting and re-sowing the paddock will cost the farmer between $110 and $140 / hectare on top of a yield penalty for this year’s harvest.
Dry times
A lack of rain during April and May is compounding the already difficult conditions faced by many growers. “There are guys around here who have been farming all their lives who tell me they’ve never seen such a dry April, May and early June before.
Even a small rainfall event could help to turn the season around, he explains. “We’ve got good subsoil moisture carried over from 2016 and we had good summer rains. Another 10mm would help to join the moisture bands up and give plants the boost they need to access moisture further down in the soil profile.
“Especially on heavier soil types – there are areas around here where sown crops haven’t germinated at all. There are also patches where seed has shot, but rotted and have needed to be reseeded”.
Dry conditions have caused cracks in the paddocks on the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. Tweet by Chris Davey, supplied.
The Bureau of Meteorology is predicting a drier than average winter for many cropping regions in Australia, influenced by temperature changes of the Pacific Sea and Indian Ocean.
Source: ABC
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Written by Lucas Pralle
Narrated by Larry Anderson
A miserable darkness pushed down on the Blades. Luland frantically shook his extinguished sphere and began whispering something into it. It was dark. Real dark. Pendleton watched tensely for an incoming attack. The impish collection of voices continued to sing.
When the Giver
Calls your name
Little minnow
Turn to flame
Pulleys creaked and ropes slipped. Something, troubling and immense, was shifting overhead. Pendleton looked to Luland in exasperation as the alchemist hysterically bashed the sphere he was holding against the wooden floor. Still nothing. No light. Just the unnerving song.
From the stars
Wears a crown
Something was overturned in the darkness. The sound of glass shattering rang out. A sickening murmur of voices, seething wounds, and flesh pulsated. Luland gave up on the sphere that he was holding and began digging through his satchel. The voices continued. They were growing in volume.
Through the sea
Waits for me
The murmur was now a collective wail. Pendleton heard a scream. It was Warhammer. He could feel the wooden planks trembling under his knees. Vials vibrated out of their racks.
Luland pulled out two spheres from his satchel and yelled to Pendleton, “Cover your ears!” A huge shelf overturned near their position, nearly smashing them. “Pass the word! Cover your Ears!” yelled Luland.
Pendleton covered his own ears and began yelling the command out into the darkness.
“Cover your ears!” Miko yelled out somewhere nearby. So did Gwen. Hopefully the others had heard. It was too late. It was time to make a move. Regardless of the consequences.
Luland brought the silver spheres together in a thunderous clash. There was a bright flash, and the table that Pendleton and Luland were taking shelter under disintegrated, sending chaff flying. Light swept away from the point of impact, out across the wooden floor, tables, vials, and fabric walls of the tent, coating it with a shimmering white glow. The Blades all looked up. Above, a terrible black mass came into view.
An immense star was suspended from the ceiling. All five of its appendages were stretched out in their hideousness by a network of pulleys and ropes, like a spider awaiting its prey in a murderous web. Hanging down and swinging rabidly from the heart of it was Romoa; his hellish face, scarred torso, and rangy arms. A long mess of dark hair, caked with blood and bile, clung to the quivering flesh around him.
Each of his five appendages were constructed from grafted bodies of the dead, much like the appalling creatures the Blades had encountered in the moor. The mismatched flesh quivered and fought against itself. Faces screamed out. Fists punched. The severed head of a pig squealed as fingers dug into its nose and ears.
Romoa smiled meanly and shook himself free from the ropes holding him aloft. He crashed down onto the tables below, crushing them flat under the enormous collective weight of his decomposing mass. The Blades watched in horror as Romoa pounced upon nearby defenseless Warhammer like a giant spider. The colossal Warhammer, a man who could fit three full-sized eggs in his mouth without cracking a shell and uproot a good-sized tree if he cared, was dwarfed by the beast as it set upon him.
Warhammer’s screams could barely be heard over the homicidal baying emanating from the faces jutting out of Romoa’s back. They knew that their host was getting his tongue wet with blood and pined foolishly for their share. Gwen and Finey released several arrows into the mass as it stabbed into its prey with the cracked, jagged, and deadly bones of three of its massive appendages. Key launched herself onto the demon and stabbed her dagger deep into him, repeatedly. Black blood spurt from where she had pierced his writhing hide. Romoa rocked back onto his hind legs and bucked her off into the nearby debris. He wiped the gore hanging from his mouth and tossed the shredded body of Warhammer over the heads of Pendleton and Luland into the library stacks behind them, knocking over a shelf filled with books. The Seven Blades were now six.
“I bet they didn’t teach you anything like this in your precious School of Alchemy,” said Romoa, with Warhammer’s blood running down his chest. “I hope you packed more than an illumination sphere.”
Pendleton, still looking back at his fallen comrade, turned around and pointed at Romoa, furiously. “You just made a big fuckin’ mistake.” Pendleton pushed past Luland and kept walk ing toward Romoa. “Motherfucker!” yelled Pendleton furiously as he flipped a nearby table.
“Oh really? The help speaks.” Romoa waved and stretched his ghastly arms in the air. A hundred human, horse, and pig mouths all laughed in unison. It was obvious that Pendleton’s rage didn’t concern Romoa in the least.
Luland grabbed Pendleton by the shoulder. The Blade didn’t take his eyes off Romoa.
“Kid, get your fuckin’ hands off me. We’re going to give you all the time that we can…don’t let us down. Castle Jade needs you, and this motherfucker needs to pay. Do whatever it takes.” Pendleton shrugged Luland’s hand off and continued to approach Romoa undaunted. His form was miniscule in contrast to the towering Romoa, a size difference of twenty to one.
Luland began searching through his spheres. He would have to think of something fast. Otherwise, they were surely all dead.
Pendleton stopped short of the grim monster and strained to look up at Romoa’s wicked face. “Before we kick your ass, I’ve got a quick question…why’d you do it? I know all those people in the castle are dead. The queen is probably dead. And for what?” asked Pendleton.
Romoa crossed his arms and smiled in amusement. Luland paused. Pendleton had just said something that resonated…that was it. The dead. Luland retreated through the shadows into the stacks behind him.
“You’re stalling for time…peon,” said Romoa. “Nevertheless, I will tell you why. It will pleasure me greatly to tell you, before I smash you and your kin, and grind the bones of your empire.”
Luland stumbled through the overturned shelves of the library until he came upon the twisted body of Warhammer. Large chunks had been taken out of him by Romoa’s needlelike thrusts and savage bites. He pushed past quietly and his illumination sphere started up again. He was out of Romoa’s range. Luland began searching through the massive volumes.
“The Queen, that bitch, was a fool to think that I gave a damn about her castle. She thought I was some miserable pet, a tool for her corporeal conquests. Castles throughout the Kingdom made pledges to help bring your king and his pathetic alchemist here, to take them down. And where are they? They sent a few pathetic volumes, some spheres, and their insincere best wishes. If I hadn’t taken care to utilize the resources of this castle, one of those dogs would have swept in and squandered everything. I couldn’t let that happen. Look at what I have achieved.”
Romoa stood on his hind legs and stretched out for Pendleton to see him in all his horrific glory. The patchwork of corpses snapped and sniggered at the miniscule man in front of them. Pendleton sheathed his sword and crossed his arms, unimpressed. He didn’t betray the fact that he was watching Miko and Frite approaching Romoa from behind. The Blades would not let the loss of one of their own go that easily.
Miko’s pike pierced straight through Romoa’s left leg, out the bare chest of an old man. He screamed as Miko plunged and twisted on the shaft, trying to reclaim his weapon. Frite chopped into the other leg of the beast, extracting huge chunks of meat with every blow. Romoa let out a scream and toppled onto his back. His torso was now exposed and flailing on the top of the thing. Gwen and Finey were waiting in nearby perches. They unleashed several arrows straight into his chest. The arrowheads punched through his back.
Romoa looked down at the shafts and fletching sticking out of his body and the black blood seeping from the wounds. He let out a final cry, betrayed, and slumped to the side atop the squirming mass beneath him. Pendleton unsheathed his sword and began climbing up the behemoth toward Romoa’s torso. It was time to take the head of this snake.
Pendleton made it half way before Romoa barred his teeth and flung his huge body onto him. Romoa had Pendleton pinned to the ground just as Warhammer had been restrained before he was murdered. The sound of arrows whizzing and the remaining Blades fighting was dulled as Romoa brought his disgusting face down to Pendleton.
“To live means nothing. All of these arrows, you, all of this energy means nothing. You can’t kill me. I’ve transcended life itself.” Romoa smiled. The creatures covering his body began to cry out in their bloodlust.
A tone rang out from the library.
Luland had found his spell. It was from the ancient times. From when alchemists were priests, and it was their job to honor the dead and ensure their passage into the afterlife. To make offerings of flesh and blood. Something that Romoa had forgotten about a long time ago.
Another tone.
In the olden days, the priests would carry the dead out to what was called the Drift, a sacred place of transition. There, they would hold vigil over the bodies, meditate, and wait for the flesh of the newly fallen to be taken back by the messengers of the gods. The tones were for the ravens. The Drift, and the sacred ritual was known by few outside the School of Alchemy. As time went on, it had been deemed backwards, taboo, even obscene.
Luland remembered.
And so did the ravens.
A different song descended upon the great tent. It was comprised of the beating of a million wings and cries from a million black beaks. All hungry. Romoa paused his attack and Pendleton could see a biting realization rise in his black eyes. It was time for the dead to be carried off to heaven.
Romoa flipped back off Pendleton and looked up at the fluttering ceiling. A tear began to form as beaks ripped at the fabric, desperately trying to get through so they could carry out their sacred mission. Pendleton rolled away and took cover behind an overturned table with the rest of the Blades. Luland, the alchemist, struck another tone. The fury of the ravens intensified as they breached the tent and the first few streamed down.
Romoa looked away from the incoming ravens at Luland. The first birds to land were crushed and stuffed into greedy mouths. Then more birds came, many more birds, all tearing at the dead flesh with black beaks.
“This is only the beginning, Luland. It’s only a matter of time before your precious castle gets swallowed up. Your enemies are lined up at the gates. They’ve been at the gates, many have already made it inside.”
Luland struck another tone. The form of Romoa was no longer discernable. A seething mass of wings, talons, and beaks tore at dead flesh, snipped grey stitches, filled their bellies to the point of almost bursting, and flew heavily up and out into the moonlit sky above.
Romoa was no more.
The ravens were thorough with their work. Warhammer, and the rest of the dead of the Battle of the Seven Blades were carried off, bones and all, as if they had never existed.
King Jade arrived with his forces and they made haste to breach the castle. Not a single soul was found inside. No sign of Queen Alleb. Upon her throne, in her stead, a mysterious sapphire ring. Luland collected the artifact on their way out, and King Jade offered asylum to any surviving Marytians. Only a few accepted his offer.
Ten years. The delegation from Ker. Luland. Sol. Lily. It had all been set in motion.
Neuralmagnesis
Lily was seething as she drove across Madison to her and Diane’s apartment. A few awkward college freshman boys made the mistake of trying to dodge traffic and sprint across Regent 6Street in front of Lily’s white Corolla. They made it about a step from the sidewalk before realizing that if they wanted to see graduation, or anything other than the grill of Lily’s car, they had better turn back. Lily mashed the gas and the horn simultaneously, making her piece of shit car seem more like a battering ram than a rusted out pile.
“Not today, shitheads!” yelled Lilly. The boys promptly repositioned themselves on the safe sidewalk and started heading for the nearest crosswalk.
Lily thought about all the bullshit catalogues that her mother had wasted so much time and money on over the years. And for what? To let a coward, Lily’s father Gary, pat himself on the back, and tell himself how much of a compassionate soul he was? And Sergei. Sergei was another story entirely. His involvement was some kind of weird voyeurism. Did he get off when Diane bought her amazing multi-choppers and non-slip high heels?
Lily figured that good ole Sergei had a grand ole time when she had finally broken down and bought her pants from one of his catalogues. He was probably cramming so many universal remotes up his ass and cutting his dick with scissors or whatever he liked to do, he forgot to send the pants in the first place. And who the fuck was the customer service rep that she was talking to on the phone earlier? It certainly couldn’t have been Sergei, or could it? Lily had no idea how deep this thing went, but it was going to come to a very abrupt end once she told Diane what had been going on. Lily pulled over and parked in front of her apartment.
She grabbed the box containing her pants and Sergei’s note. Lily would need that as evidence. Diane might take a bit of convincing. She stormed up the wooden porch steps and opened the door to the apartment.
It was dark inside. Lily was surprised. Today was Diane’s day off, but the blinds were drawn, and there wasn’t a sound.
“Hello? Diane, are you home,” asked Lily. There wasn’t an answer. Lily hit the lights.
There was a cyborg from the set of some terrible 1960’s sci-fi flick sitting at the kitchen table.
“Holy shit! I’m sorry,” said Lily as she spun around to leave the apartment. She wasn’t entirely sure why she had apologized. Fuck it. They could have it.
“Wait, wait, honey, it’s me. I’m sorry, I didn’t hear you come in. It’s all part of my new treatment,” said Diane. “Can you please turn the lights back off? I have five minutes left.”
Lily did a double-take. The figure sitting at the kitchen table was absolutely inhuman.
Diane had what appeared to be fifty diodes and wires coming from the top of her head, her face, and her body. The wires ran to a large black box on the table, which looked like a VCR from the 80’s. Her eyes were covered with some sort of ocular attachment like night vision goggles or something. Lily watched Diane put what looked to be ear buds in before she turned the lights off again. A slight humming was emanating from the VCR.
Lily collected herself in the dark for about ten seconds—trying to find words.
“Diane.”
“Diane!”
“What? What? Can you just give me a few more minutes? I told you that I needed a few more minutes. Otherwise, this is all going to be a waste,” said Diane.
“No. We need to talk now,” said Lily.
“Lily, do you have any idea how much I have been waiting for this, how much I paid for it, and how important it is for my transcendence into a higher plane of existence?”
“Now…Diane!”
“Fine. You never care about things that matter to me. But that’s fine though. It’s the burden I must carry as a single mother. Can we keep the lights off? The brochure said that immediate exposure to light of any sort might result in ocular hemorrhaging, or worse, my neuralmagnesis might be thrown entirely out of whack. So please, keep the lights off if you care about the woman that spent nine hours in a hospital giving birth to you. It’s the least you can do, and there’s a lot at stake here.”
Lily hated it when Diane played that card. The silhouette of her mother looked monstrous in the dark apartment. After a few seconds of silence passed between the two, Lily’s eyes adjusted to the dark, and she noticed a faint green glow emanating from the things on Diane’s eyes and the box on the table.
“Well?” asked Diane. “What’s so damn important?”
“Neuralmagnesis, Mom?”
“Neuralmagnesis.”
“You realize I’ve never heard, or seen, anything so ridiculous before in my life?”
“That’s because the technology is new. Well, sort of, it’s based on research conducted by Russian scientists in a secret underground facility. You know how these things happen. It took the scientists years to sneak it out, piece by piece. I’m not sure, but I think someone went to prison for a really long time, or died. Maybe they died in prison. But anyway, what do you think people thought when they first saw a television or heard a radio recording?”
“I don’t know, maybe wow, look at the cool moving pictures, or this music is amazing, it’s like we’re really there.”
“What? What is this stupid thing supposed to do anyway?”
“It maximizes my neuralmagnesis, or my neuralmagnetic pathways.”
“I’m going to pretend like those things actually exist for the duration of your explanation. What does that mean, besides being some new-age bullshit terminology?” Lily was fixated on her mother’s glowing green eyes. She felt like she was having a conversation with the boogeyman she imagined was lurking in her closet as a kid.
“Well, the technology has a lot to do with mathematics and physics, I guess, but from what I read in the manual, our neuralmagnetic pathways are like our antennas to the rest of the world, the universe, times…even dimensions. We’re all connected, Lily. Some have stronger pathways than others, but communications are being sent every moment of every day, even when we’re sleeping. There could be somebody in China that is trying to talk to you right now, but your neuralmagnetic pathways aren’t open, so you don’t have the ears to hear it. You could even be a princess or some kind of goddess somewhere.
“Did you know that one of the Russian scientists involved in the research played a game of cribbage with the ancient Greek horse trader by the name of Xenophonix, by using neuralmagnesis? The guy’s name was something like that, Xeno something.”
Lily wondered if Sergei had written this “manual” or even built the machine that her mother was plugged into. “And?”
“And Xenophonix won the cribbage match! One twenty-three to fifty-eight—a double skunk. The Russian scientist demanded a rematch…which Xenophonix obliged.”
“Did the ancient Greeks even have the game cribbage?”
“Of course they did, Lily. Don’t be silly. Xenophonix beat the scientist even worse the second time. I thought your grandmother used to be bad. Anyway, I guess the Russian scientist wasn’t a very good loser, because it said in the manual that he never spoke to Xenophonix again. Shame really.”
“Right. What about you? Now that your pathways are open, have you received any communications?” Lily wasn’t expecting much. She just wanted to see how deep the delusion went.
“First of all, my pathways haven’t been maximized. Somebody is interrupting my current session, and it will take twenty sessions a day for several weeks, before I can expect to see any real results. I actually quit my job today so I can take this on full-time. You’re going to have to get used to it being dark in here. Consider it payback for guitar lessons that never went anywhere.”
“I’m going on a road trip.”
“Oh that’s nice, where to?” The green orbs tilted slightly.
“I think the west coast. I don’t know how long I’ll be gone. I’m going with a man that I just met, who is most definitely completely insane. After I leave here, I’m going to call Staples and tell them to shove it and find someone else to fill pens.”
The green ocular glow that was Diane’s eyes looked down at the table. Lily continued.
“I’m going to go find Gary…dad Gary. He’s been sending you all those catalogues where you buy your stuff, including this thing, and this guy that has been helping him, the guy that I’m going with, says that he thinks Gary’s in trouble.”
Still no response from Diane.
“Everything that you know, that we know, or thought we knew, is complete bullshit. I feel like everything is crazy right now, and I need to find some answers for us. And I can’t do that here.”
There was a rustling of what sounded like pages, and it looked like the ocular apparatuses were scanning something on the table. “It says here, in the manual, that if you put a bunch of steel wool in a dryer with some metal washers, you can generate enough neuralmagnesis to initiate a pathway. It won’t be as good as this NMN machine, but that’s how they made the initial discovery. The scientist, Sergei Ovanoptop, had left some steel wool and washers in his pants; his wife did his laundry, and blammo, one of the most important scientific discoveries ever was made. It’s funny how those little accidents happen, isn’t it?” The green eyes shot back up from the table. “Lily, you could go to a laundry mat when you’re on your trip.”
It was time for Lily to leave.
“Goodbye, Diane. Stay out of the light. And don’t forget to eat.” Lily opened the apartment door behind her and quickly closed it, trying not to expose Diane. She squinted in the sunlight as she walked to her car. This was the first time Lily had actually been concerned for Diane. Her neurotic mother had just gone from annoying to troubling.
A taxi pulled up behind Lily’s Corolla, and after a moment, let its passenger loose. It was Sergei. He reached in, paid the driver, and the car drove off, leaving Lily and Sergei standing awkwardly on the curbside. Lily watched as a mammoth-sized squirrel twisted its way up a nearby tree.
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NORTHERN Rivers company Flow Hive will receive a $100,000 government grant from the Manufacturing and Modernisation Fund.
Richmond MP Justine Elliot visited the Newrybar-based company to confirm the news.
The funding will allow the popular company to upgrade and add two higher-powered laser-cutting machines to the existing manufacturing line, Mrs Elliot said.
"These upgraded machines will improve Flow Hive's ability to cut its beehive components at an expected rate of between three and for times greater than its existing laser machines," she said.
"This promises to be a huge increase in Flow Hive's production capacity."
Endorsed as an 'epic' enterprise recently by Hollywood star Chris Hemsworth, Flow Hive is the brainchild of father and son duo Stuart and Cedar Anderson, whose new design for a hive that allows easy access to honey crowdsourced millions in 2015.
Stuart Anderson said the grant will allow the company to employ more people as demand for their product has exploded during the pandemic.
"Before Covid we had hives in various warehouses around the world, we had a bit too much stock," he said.
"It was (during) the fires here and we thought it would be business as usual, and with the pandemic we didn't know if business would die.
"But as it happens more people want to get into beekeeping while they are at home.
"We can't keep up with demand at the moment."
Member for Richmond MP Justine Elliott looks at the Flow Hive with co-inventors Cedar Anderson nnd Stuart Anderson after a $100,000 was awarded to Northern Rivers manufacturer Flow (BeeInventive) to add two higher-powered laser cutting machines to the existing manufacturing line.
Mr Anderson said the new laser-cutting machines will be purchased and should arrive to the Northern Rivers within the month.
"There has been a fair bit in the news lately about Australian manufacturing capabilities, and I think we can do easily as well as China or whoever, just give us a go, don't automatically head overseas.
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JTTs Vol.6 No.3 , April 2016
Minimum Clearance Offsets for Providing Desired Stopping Sight Distances at Simple Curves with Variable Operating Speeds
Timur Mauga
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UAE University, Al-Ain, UAE.
Abstract: Lateral clearance on the inside of horizontal curves is required by all geometric design guidelines in order to provide at least stopping sight distance. There already exist graphical models, analytical models, and design charts for determining minimum clearance offsets to meet the requirement. Some of these models determine the offsets based on constant design sight distance values on the assumption that drivers negotiate horizontal curves at constant speed. Therefore, those models are suitable for sites where there is no difference in speeds between tangent and curved sections. Past studies have reported that there are sites where drivers decelerate on entering horizontal curves and accelerate on departing from the curves. At those sites stopping sight distance for a given driver varies with driver location due to variable speed. This paper presents an analytical model and a chart for determining minimum offsets needed to provide desired sight distances at horizontal curves with variable operating speeds. At those sites the offsets yield roadside clearance boundaries that have transition arcs with performances that are similar to those of elliptical arcs. Therefore, practitioners may choose to use elliptical equations or equations and the chart developed herein. Results of this study will be of value to practitioners in the area of roadside design.
Keywords: Sight Distance, Roadside Clearance, Clearance Offsets, Sightline Offsets, Clearance Envelope
Received 2 March 2016; accepted 12 April 2016; published 15 April 2016
Provision of sufficient sight distance is one of the requirements for safe and efficient operation of highways. On straight sections of highways sight distance is naturally provided since sightlines are accommodated within travel lanes. At horizontal curves sightlines are not accommodated within lanes but on the inside of the curves. Presence of high roadside objects such as steep side-slopes in cut areas, buildings, trees, retaining walls, longitudinal safety barriers, etc. on the inside of horizontal curves may block the sightlines and degrade visibility of highway sections downstream of drivers. Blockage of the sightlines may reduce safety and mobility of the highways. To preserve safety and mobility design guidelines require that high objects on the inside of horizontal curves be cleared off. Methods of determining clearance widths (technically known as clearance offsets) needed to provide design sight distances are presented in design guidelines and other literature. Examples are: the graphical method in the AASHTO’s Green Book [1] , design charts by Raymond [2] and Glennon [3] , and the analytical model and its chart by Mauga [4] .
The graphical method in the AASHTO’s Green Book [1] , design charts by Raymond [2] and Glennon [3] , and the analytical model by Mauga [4] are known for determining minimum offsets that provide a given fixed or constant design sight distance. The fixed or constant design sight distance is so since it is calculated from a fixed or constant design speed. The assumption is that drivers travel at constant speed along horizontal alignments (i.e. have cruise control on). Therefore, the models are suitable for sites where drivers travel at constant speed. However, past studies have shown that there are sites at which vehicles travel at high speed on approach tangents upstream of curves, decelerate on entering the curves, accelerate on leaving the curves, and continue to travel at high speeds on departure tangents downstream of the curves [5] . At those sites sight distance demands or desires vary with driver location. Sections near beginnings and ends of curves need wider clearance offsets so as to provide longer sight distances that match high operating speeds. Where operating speeds are higher than design speeds [6] clearance offsets that are wider than design offsets may be applied so as to accommodate longer desired sight distances. Models for determining those wide offsets are needed.
The only current model that may be addressing wide clearance offsets for beginnings and ends of horizontal curves is the simple analytical model by the Green Book [1] as presented by Equation (1). This model is mainly suitable for middle sections of curves but the guideline suggests that it be applied uniformly along curves. Although the intension is not to provide long sight distances, it may be serving that purpose. Wood and Donnell [7] conducted an analysis to support uniform application of the offset in Equation (1) within horizontal curves. Their rationale was consistency defined as no difference in probability of drivers’ noncompliance between tangent and curved sections. I agree that use of the offset given by Equation (1) at beginnings and ends of curves will provide greater sight distances that accommodate high speeds on approach tangents and acceleration at ends of curves. However, I am of the opinion that offsets determined with Equation (1) may still be greater than minimum offsets needed to provide longer sight distances for speeding drivers. Offsets that are significantly greater than minimum values have cost implications especially in cut zones.
M is the minimum offset measured from driver path;
R is the radius of curved driver path;
S is the design sight distance.
Objectives of this paper are three. First, to propose an analytical model for minimum offsets that when applied at beginnings and ends of curves desired sight distances (not necessarily minimum) will be available to drivers that are speeding on approach tangents and at ends of curves. The minimum offsets will serve as lower boundary values for checking offsets suggested by designers based on criteria such as roadside aesthetics and others. Second, to suggest a design chart for determination of the offsets. Third, to identify a known curve that approximates the roadside clearance envelopes that result when those minimum offsets are implemented in the field.
2. Graphical Solution
The general and intuitive solution to variable sight distance demands at a given curve is the use of the graphical method suggested in the Green Book. The method consists of manually drawing sightlines that start at many driver locations and end at downstream locations that are located at distances equal to desired sight distances. The procedure was demonstrated by Glennon [3] for constant design sight distance but here the procedure is modified by considering variable desired sight distances for each driver location. The term “desired” is used in place of “design” in order to match with drivers’ desired speeds which may be greater than design speed. The desired sight distances are calculated based on desired drivers’ speeds at each location. Figure 1 illustrates the graphical method. The dashed lines in the figure are a representation of two sightlines. Sightlines that originate within the approach tangent and end within the curve are expected to be longer than those originating and ending within the curve. It is because drivers have high speeds on tangents and low speeds within curves.
After the sightlines are drawn, a curve that is tangential to all sightlines is drawn. This curve is a clearance envelope and it is a boundary that marks the roadside area that accommodates sightlines for desired sight distances. To obtain clearance offsets a designer measures lengths of normal ordinates from driver path to the clearance envelope. Lines AB and CD in Figure 1 are examples of offsets at stations A and C, respectively.
In Figure 1, the envelope consists of three arcs for sites where curved driver paths are longer than desired sight distances. The first arc is between station PC − S1 and station B where S1 is the sight distance desired by drivers on the approach tangent. That arc has a radius that decreases gradually from infinity at PC − S1 to R-M at B where M is the desired offset determined with Equation (1). The second or middle arc is between B and D and is a circular arc with radius R-M. The third arc is between D and PT + S2 where S2 is the sight distance desired by drivers at PT. The third arc has a radius that increases from R-M at point D to infinity at PT + S2.
The envelope arcs that have variable radii in Figure 1 are of unknown functional form so far. But for sites with constant driver speeds the arcs are some form of spirals. Olson et al. [8] called the two arcs transition curves for lateral clearance. The words “for lateral clearance” imply that Olson et al. knew that the transition curves were not the Euler’s spirals that are used for transitioning horizontal alignment. Those envelope transition curves or spirals should not be confused with the Euler’s spirals or many other spirals such as the Archimedean spiral [9] , hyperbolic spiral, logarithmic spiral, etc. These spirals have different geometric properties and hence functional forms but the commonplace of all spirals is that radii change inversely proportional to lengths.
The graphical procedure is intuitive and accurate but it is also time consumming. To solve the problem of time consumption mathematical representation of the method is developed in the next section. Derivation starts with mathamatical representation of the clearance envelope in Figure 1. Then envelope equations are used to derive equations for offsets.
3. Analytical Solution
This section presents derivation of mathematical equations for the roadside clearance envelope and offsets that should equal the offsets determined with the graphical procedure. Graphical offsets are the target since the graphical procedure is the original, accurate, and intuitive solution to the roadside clearance on the inside of horizontal curves but also it has been recommended by the Green Book and accepted by researchers and practitioners. Previous analytical models and charts for minimum offsets were all developed by imitating the graphical procedure [2] - [4] .
Figure 1. Graphical method for determining minimum offsets.
Derivation of the analytical model considers the highway section from station PC − S1 to PT + S2 since this section is where high roadside objects on the inside of horizontal curves have negative impact on road visibility. The derivation considers two cases where the first case is for highway curves that are longer than sight distances desired by drivers when the drivers are at PC. The second case is for highway curves that are shorter than sight distances desired by drivers when the drivers are at PC.
3.1. Case 1: Long Curves
Derivation of equations for the clearance envelope is through modifying equations that were derived by Mauga [4] . The equations in [4] were derived for design speeds and hence constant design sight distances. Constant design sight distance implies that a driver cruising at design speed watches a downstream car that is also cruising at design speed and the two cars are separated by a distance that equals design sight distance. Equation (2) presents the equation developed in [4] . The clearance envelope corresponding to Equation (2) is termed here as the constant-S envelope.
TH is the horizontal length of a sightline from driver eyes to the point of tangency on the envelope;
d is the driver location from PC − S;
TM is TH when drivers are within the section between PC and PT − S, ;
L is the length of curve;
C1 is a constant given by ;
PC is point of curvature;
PT is point of tangency.
The first and third regimes of Equation (2) are spiral arcs described by sightline tangent length TH as a linear function of driver location d. These arcs are grouped as spirals since they have radii changing with lengths. But the arcs are different from the Euler’s spiral in the aspect of functional form and geometric properties such as curvature. Moreover, the Euler’s spiral does not match construction of the graphical method in Figure 1 hence it is not suitable for determining minimum clearance offsets for given sight distances [4] . The second regime is a circular arc of radius R-M. The regime is described by the constant term that is equal to half the length of a sightline.
Modification of Equation (2) is done through first, making variable the term S for sight distance in all terms of Equation (2) that contain S. The variable sight distance is thus denoted by Sd as seen in Equation (3). Second, regimes 2 and 3 are modified by factors and , respectively. The clearance envelope corresponding to Equation (3) is thus termed as the variable-S envelope.
C1 is given by ;
Sd is the desired sight distance for a driver at location d;
modifies driver location to that measured from PC − Sd, is given by ;
S1 is the desired sight distance based on tangent speeds;
modifies location of end of a sightline to that measured from PT + S2, is given by ;
S2 is the desired sight distance for a driver at PT.
The geometric meaning of Equation (3) is that the variable-S envelope is a curve that spans across many clearance envelopes that are based on constant S values. Figure 2 illustrates the way the curve for Equation (3) spans across constant-S envelopes. The variable-S envelope starts at PC − S1 then spans across envelopes until it merges with the envelope for minimum S. Then it spans across the other envelopes up to PT + S2. At a point of intersection of the variable-S envelope and a constant-S envelope is where values of Sd are equal to constant S. Therefore, Equation (2) is for specific cases of Equation (3) i.e. Equation (3) turns into Equation (2) if .
3.2. Case 2: Short Curves
The equation for the clearance envelope is obtained through accordingly applying modifications to Equation (19) in [4] .
3.3. Equations for Offsets
Offsets are calculated using Equation (29) presented by Mauga [4] . The equation is presented below as Equation (4a). The first regime of the equation has been added here to account for locations where clearance provided by lanes, shoulders, and clear zone is greater than those determined with regimes 2, 3, and 4. PC − S1 is considered as the origin of the horizontal x-y coordinate where x-axis is the approach tangent and y-axis is positive on the inside of a curve consistent with positive sign of offsets.
Figure 2. Geometric meaning of the variable-S envelope and Equation (3).
(4a)
is the normal offset in plan view;
is the lateral width of clear zone on a tangent, m0 is measured from driver path;
is the central angle of the horizontal curve;
is the angle as shown in Figure 3, ;
X is the offset station measured from PC − S1;
x is the x-coordinate of the envelope, ;
y is the y-coordinate of the envelope, ;
is the x coordinate of a driver or beginning of a sightline;
is the y coordinate of a driver or beginning of a sightline;
is the angle between a sightline and the approach tangent, ;
is the x coordinate of the end of a sightline;
is the y coordinate of the end of a sightline.
The location of an offset is given by Equation (4b)
(4b)
Figure 3. Relationship between terms of regime 4 in Equation (4a).
Consider a two lane highway with posted speed of 50 mph. At an isolated horizontal curve the driver path has a radius of 650 ft and a curved length of 600 ft. The pavement is a high friction surface with a superelevation of 8%. On tangent sections the highway has 3 ft paved shoulders and 3ft untreated shoulders. The roadside on the inside of the curve is to be cleared to accommodate up to 90th percentile speeds. The 90th percentile is used here only as an example of high percentile speed (since the Green Book suggests that designs be based on high percentile speeds) but designers may choose other high percentiles such as the 80th, 85th or any other percentile that best matches their jurisdictions’ needs. To estimate tangent and curve 90th percentile speeds Equation (6.9) and Equation (6.10) from the report by Medina and Tarko [10] are used. Transition speeds are calculated using Equation (6.11) also from the report by Medina and Tarko [10] . Figure 4 presents the 90th percentile speed profile and the profile of stopping sight distance (SSD) calculated using the 90th percentile speeds.
Stopping sight distances in Figure 4 are input to Equations (2), (3) and (4) to yield offset profiles. Figure 5 presents profiles of minimum offsets for variable-S as well as for four constant-S values. Values on the horizontal axis are not driver locations but locations of offsets that will provide desired sight distances for drivers upstream of the locations. Figure 5 also shows that the offset profile for variable-S envelope spans across profiles of the four constant-S offsets. Figure 5 is another way of presenting how the variable-S envelope spans across constant-S envelopes as presented earlier in Figure 2.
Figure 4. Profiles of 90th percentile speeds and stopping sight distances.
Figure 5. Profiles of minimum offsets for variable and constant stopping sight distances.
Figure 5 also presents the profile of minimum offsets determined with the graphical method for the variable-S envelope. It is apparent that offsets determined with the (variable-S) analytical model are in agreement with offsets determined with the graphical method. Agreement of the offsets validates the analytical model since the graphical method is considered accurate and has been recommended by the Green book and accepted by researchers and practitioners.
5. Design Chart
It is proposed that the design chart developed by Mauga [4] also be used for determining offsets at sites with variable sight distance demands. Although the chart was developed for constant-S envelopes, its L/S and m/M ratios allow offsets for variable-S envelopes to be determined. However, the location ratio is modified from
X/(2S + L) for constant-S to for variable-S where X is location of an offset measured
from PC − S1. This modification necessitates a user to know desired sight distance S at each location before using the chart. For the example in Section 4 the relationship between desired sight distance and offset location is given by Figure 6. Values on the horizontal axis of the figure were determined with Equation (4b). Figure 6 is necessary only for variable-S envelopes and is not needed for cases of constant-S envelopes.
Table 1 below presents how offsets are determined from the chart for the example given in section 4 above. Inputs to the chart are the location and L/S ratios in columns 5 and 6, respectively.
Figure 6. Relationship between offset location and desired stopping sight distance.
Table 1. Use of design chart to determine offsets.
The output is the m/M ratio in column 7. The offset M in column 8 is determined with Equation (1) for each S in column 3. The m/M ratio is multiplied by M to obtain offsets in the last column. The offsets determined are for locations where required offsets are greater than the clear zone of 12 ft used in the example.
Figure 7 below shows how the values of the m/M ratios in Table 1 have been obtained as a function of location and L/S ratios. The x-markers are for locations or stations in Table 1 above and
the green dashed line joining the markers is for all points making the envelope for the example in Section 4 above. It is worth to note that the chart includes low values of m/M ratios as a reservation for variable clear zone mo since the ratio mo/M can vary within a site as well as among sites.
6. Comparison with Other Envelopes
The Green Book [1] suggests that constant offsets determined with Equation (1) be applied uniformly all over the inside of a horizontal curve. Wood and Donnell [7] explained an advantage of applying such long offsets near beginnings and ends of horizontal curves as that long offsets provide sufficient sight distances for speeding drivers on approach tangents and for accelerating drivers as they depart from the curves. Examining the offsets in Table 1 and the offset ratios m/M in Figure 7 reveals that the minimum offset at PC is smaller than the middle offset at PC + 0.5L by approximately 20 ft despite longer desired sight distances on the tangent than within the curve. This difference in length of the two offsets supports my opinion that minimum offsets required to provide a desired sight distance at PC and PT are smaller than offset M for middle sections of curves. However, the suggestion by the Green Book and by Wood and Donnell [7] that design offsets determined with Equation (1) be used at PC and PT is accurate to some extent. Plugging the design sight distance of 425 ft in Equation (1) yields an offset of 34.43 ft. The 34.43 ft offset is only slightly greater than minimum offsets of 31.69 ft and 30.54 ft needed at PC and PT, respectively, hence there is sufficient sight distance for drivers on the approach tangent and for drivers near the end of the curve. Figure 8 presents profiles of available sight distances determined with the variable-S envelope, uniform-M envelope, uniform-M-plus-straight envelope, and the profile of calculated desired stopping sight distance. The uniform-M envelope is the clearance boundary formed by applying uniformly the design offset of 34.43 ft within the curve as well as on the tangents. The uniform-M-plus- straight envelope is the clearance boundary formed by applying uniformly the design offset of 34.43 ft within the curve but with two transition straight sections. One straight section transitions the clear zone mo from PC − 0.5S (where S = 425 ft) to the offset M at PC and the other straight section transitions the offset M at PT to mo at PT + 0.5S. A number of agencies use the straight sections in order to avoid applying the wide offset M on tangents where sightlines are already accommodated within travel lanes. The profile of calculated SSD and the profile of available sight distances for the variable-S envelope merge and diverge where calculated offsets to sight- lines are equal to the clear zone mo (measured from driver path).
Figure 7. Design chart for clearance offsets, R/S = 1.25.
Figure 8. Profiles of available sight distances and desired stopping sight distance, L > SPT.
In Figure 8, it is apparent that the uniform-M envelope provides longer sight distances for drivers travelling at high speeds on the approach tangent as well as near the end of the curve. The uniform-M-plus-straight envelope provides sight distances that are approximately equal to those of the variable-S envelope for drivers on the approach tangent and for drivers near the end of the curve. The only problem with the uniform-M envelope and its cousin is that the 34.43 ft design offset doesn’t consistently provide sufficient sight distances for drivers travelling at high percentile speeds within the curve. Uniform use of the design offset would be suitable at sites where vehicles decelerate significantly on approaching the curves such that high percentile speeds within the curve are equal to or less than posted speeds (i.e. sight distances demanded are equal to or smaller than provided design sight distances within the curve).
Wood and Donnell [7] also stated (contextually) that offsets determined with clearance spirals for PC are unsuitable for accommodating long sight distances demanded by speeding drivers on approach tangents. It has been demonstrated in this paper that the chart in Figure 7 (which was developed with clearance spirals for constant sight distances) is also applicable for sites with variable operating speeds. The chart uses location ratio and length ratio L/S as inputs. These ratios generalize the chart such that it works for any sight distance determined with any percentile speed as long as its clearance envelope is determinable by the graphical procedure in Figure 1. For example, Wood and Donnell [7] suggested that a sight distance of 467.2 ft be provided at PC for case 1 in Table 2 in their paper [7] so that the probability of noncompliance of 0.193% at PC would be lowered to 0.0001% (which is for the middle of the curve). Plugging 425 ft (i.e. the design value of stopping sight distance for case 1 in [7] ) in Equation (1) results in an offset of 29.52 ft. The 29.52 ft is the offset they would suggest be applied uniformly within the curve. An offset chart with R/S ≥ 1.5 by Mauga [4] or the graphical procedure suggests the minimum offset of 21.4 ft at PC in order to provide the 467.2 ft sight distance. The driver location corresponding to the 21.4 ft offset is PC-153.1 ft. Therefore, the 29.52 ft offset at PC works since it provides more than minimum desired sight distance but as a matter of principle it is not the minimum offset required to provide the 467.2 ft sight distance.
In general, geometry of a roadside clearance envelope is dependent on the functional form of the speed transition model as drivers approach curves or depart from the curves. The speed transition model used in this paper is linear [10] and the corresponding variable-S clearance envelope is approximated by a circular arc sandwiched between two transition elliptical arcs. One of the elliptical arcs is on the approach side and the other on the departure side. Figure 8 shows that the available sight distance profile for the variable-S envelope is closer to that of the envelope with elliptical transition arcs than to other profiles. Further analysis of the elliptical transition arcs revealed that the arcs also approximate constant-S envelopes but the approximation is not better than that of variable-S envelopes.
Other than being aesthetical, one benefit of the elliptical transition arcs is that they seamlessly transition clearance from any clear zone or shy-line offset on tangents to the offset M determined with Equation (1). The equation of the approach elliptical arc used for the profile in Figure 8 is given by Equation (5) considering a local origin at PC − Smin. The numbers 303.67 and 693.57 are calibration values specific only to the example presented in Section 4. These numbers were obtained by fitting in the general equation of an ellipse coordinates (0.5Smin, mo) where the arc is tangential to the edge of the clear zone and also fitting the (x, y) coordinates of the circular part of the envelope at PC + 0.5Smin. The elliptical arc on the departure side was determined through reflection of the approach elliptical arc on the line of symmetry joining the point of intersection of tangents (PI) and station PC + 0.5L. The elliptical arc on the departure side ends at PT + 0.5Smin where the arc is tangential to the edge of the clear zone. Offsets to the elliptical arcs may be determined analytically since their geometric formulae are known or the offsets may be determined using the design chart in Figure 7. For example, the offset at PC is for a sight line with an available sight distance of 537.26 ft which corresponds to driver location at PC − 195.38 ft. An offset ratio m/M for that location is 0.606. Multiplying this offset ratio with the middle offset of 54.72 ft (determined by pugging S = 537.26 ft in Equation (1)) yields an offset of 33.18 ft. This 33.18 ft offset is comparable to 31.69 ft in Table 1 for PC.
Smin is the minimum desired SSD within the curve;
SM is the SSD corresponding to M at sites with short curves;
is the lateral clear zone measured from driver path, here .
Equation (6) is for an elliptical envelope at a site like that in the example in Section 4 but with a 300 ft highway curve. Two elliptical transition arcs meet on the roadside at PC + 0.5L and there is no circular arc between the elliptical arcs. Figure 9 shows how available sight distances corresponding to the elliptical envelope are closer to the variable-S envelope’s than the other two envelopes. M in the legends of the two other envelopes is not determined with Equation (1) but with the equation for the middle offsets for sites with short curves. The uniform-M envelope has M applied uniformly within the curve and on tangents whereas the M-plus-straight envelope has two straight transition sections meeting on the roadside at PC + 0.5L. Note that all available sight distance profiles in Figure 8 and Figure 9 assume that a vehicle that is downstream of the subject driver is
Figure 9. Profiles of available sight distances and desired stopping sight distance, L < SPT.
very far such that it is out of sight of the subject driver hence the subject driver sees only the roadway and roadside surroundings. When there are vehicles within the sight of the subject driver the available sight distance is simply the spacing between vehicles.
Design guidelines require that the roadside area on the inside of horizontal curves be cleared of sight obstructions. One of the guidelines, the Green Book, has an analytical model for determining the minimum extent of clearance. The guideline suggests use of the graphical method where designers feel that the guideline’s model is unsuitable. The graphical method is intuitive and accurate but it is slow. This paper presents derivation of an analytical representation of offsets determined with the graphical method for sites with variable operating speeds. It also presents a design chart for determining minimum clearance offsets. It is worth noting that the words “minimum clearance offset” do not necessarily mean an offset for providing minimum sight distance but rather smallest offset needed to provide a given sight distance. Minimum offsets are low boundary values for checking suitability of offsets proposed by designers. Use of the minimum offsets at sites with variable operating speeds will yield roadside clearance boundaries that have transition arcs with geometric properties that can be approximated by those of elliptical arcs. Designers may choose to permanently mark elliptical clearance boundaries since their equations are known or the designers may use offsets determined with equations derived in this paper or offsets determined with the suggested design chart.
Cite this paper: Mauga, T. (2016) Minimum Clearance Offsets for Providing Desired Stopping Sight Distances at Simple Curves with Variable Operating Speeds. Journal of Transportation Technologies, 6, 107-117. doi: 10.4236/jtts.2016.63010.
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FARMING: Up River Road cane farmer Tony Hinschen. Peter Carruthers
Farming is about overcoming adversity
by peter.carruthers
TONY Hinschen's old man cleared the Up River cane farm in the early 1970s to add to the family's existing place in town for his two sons to inherit.
Mr Hinschen said his brother trained as a carpenter and moved to Brisbane leaving the family farm.
Born and bred in Proserpine, Mr Hinschen studied for a year at Burdekin Rural Agricultural College before getting a trade as a boilermaker for four years.
He then took off for a few years to Brisbane and Kingaroy, he got married and then came back to Proserpine.
On his return he did a little work at the mill but threw himself into cane farming at both farms.
Due to the huge interest rates when his father acquired the Up River farm, Mr Hinschen said he didn't draw a wage for the first seven years in the farming game and was forced to rely on wages earned by his wife.
Mr Hinschen said he loved being his own boss and enjoyed the flexibility of hours afforded by farming cane but also said running the farm by himself was isolating.
"It was good when my dad was alive. People don't realise how lonely it can be," he said.
"You don't have anyone to talk to, to throw things back and forwards with, to make decisions with."
Mr Hinschen said you need to be self-motivated in the farming game and overcoming challenges was a big part of working the land.
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ARLP’s mining operations
Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP) operates eight underground mining complexes in two regions: Illinois and Appalachia. These two regions are spread across five states: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, and West Virginia. ARLP also operates a coal-loading terminal on the Ohio River at Mt. Vernon, Indiana.
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R.I.P. Harry Hughes, a laid-back governor from a simpler time
by Len Lazarick | Mar 13, 2019 | News | 1 |
From a reception for the State House press corps at Government House sometime in the early 1980s. From right, Gov. Harry Hughes, wife Pat Hughes, and Len Lazarick, then political editor of Patuxent Publishing. Governor's Office photo
There’s a gallery of Hughes photos at the bottom of the story.
By Len Lazarick
Len@MarylandReporter.com
It was my first time covering a race for governor and I retain this clear visual image of sitting in a small, two-door car — could it have been a Ford Mustang? — outside a community hall in Ellicott City in early 1978, sharing a smoke with the candidate.
Harry Hughes was driving himself, and we were chatting in the front seat. I bummed a Kent from Hughes, the former state transportation secretary and former state Senate majority leader. Candidates for governor don’t drive themselves anywhere anymore — they didn’t generally do it even back then — and they certainly don’t smoke with reporters. I would have to find the long-ago clip to recall what we talked about.
Later in that campaign season, a wise old machine Democrat would refer to Harry with the golf sneer as “a lost ball in high grass.” Of course he was, to be sitting there chatting with a reporter for the Columbia Flier, a free community newspaper in the liberal new town.
My publisher’s brother, Wally Orlinsky, president of the Baltimore City Council, was also running with a little known mayor of Frederick named Ron Young, still kicking today as a state senator. Also in the primary was Baltimore County Executive Ted Venetoulis, and the person everyone expected would win — Lt. Gov. Blair Lee and his running mate, state Senate President Steny Hoyer.
Laid-back Hughes was from Denton in Caroline County, still one of the poorest in the state. He was the anti-corruption candidate — Gov. Marvin Mandel was in prison — but Hughes didn’t shoot ahead of the pack till the Baltimore Sun endorsed him on the front page.
Hughes won, and would serve two terms. The Senate President his first term was a friend of his from Howard County, Jim Clark. Clark, my main man in Annapolis, would become my mentor and friend. The speaker of the House was a youngish Baltimore City delegate named Ben Cardin. Some Democrats felt Cardin was running the show.
Hughes was a laid-back governor with laid-back staff that no one would much tolerate these days. His last press secretary was the great Baltimore Evening Sun columnist Lou Panos — did you know Baltimore once had three fairly robust newspapers? — whom I would hire a few years later for the once robust Patuxent Publishing chain.
Harry was a gentleman and friendly. That was back in the day when they would hold an annual soiree for reporters at Government House, the governor’s mansion. Now, most of the press corps will not accept food or drink from anyone, especially a governor, which is why the press is now held in such ethically high esteem.
Can you imagine having a snort of Chinese maotai from a bottle the governor had brought back from China after setting up the first U.S. sister state?
Harry had a great environmental record back when the environment was a new cause — he put a moratorium on catching rockfish that helped restore Maryland’s state fish. But he had a bit of a stumble in his final year over his handling of a savings and loan crisis, and in 1986, he lost a Democratic primary for U.S. Senate to a feisty Baltimore congresswoman named Barbara Mikulski, who would become the longest serving woman in Congress.
Harry died Tuesday at 92. Wife Pat died nine years ago. They had two daughters, a grandchild and great grandchildren.
Environmental service was always on his mind. The Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology is named for him.
There’s plenty of gossip to be shared about Harry, but that’s not what matters now. He was a product of an earlier, gentler time. God speed.
U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, who served with Hughes as speaker of the House of Delegates, put out a statement that included:
“It is in the environmental arena where Governor Hughes likely left the strongest legacy, as he signed into law the first multi-state Chesapeake Bay Agreement in 1983. So much of the subsequent progress we have made on restoring the Bay in the last three decades traces to this foundational document, and its passage was a tremendous accomplishment.
“There can be no doubt that Governor Hughes deeply loved the Chesapeake Bay and his native Eastern Shore alike. I consider myself privileged to have served as Speaker of the House during his years as governor and having had the chance to be his partner in advancing Maryland priorities. After he left public office, I made a point to see Governor Hughes whenever visiting Caroline County, and my wife Myrna and I had the chance to spend some time with him just last October. As we left, we remarked that Governor Hughes always reminded us what it meant to be a true statesman, and we are reminded of this again today as we reflect on having lost a trusted friend and advisor. Governor Hughes will be missed, but his lasting contributions to Maryland will not be forgotten.”
Here’s a gallery of recent photos of Harry Hughes.
In 2016, Gov. Hughes stands on his front porch with his Labrador retriever Miller. It overlooks his gravesite and the Choptank River. Capital News Service photo by Max Burnett.
Pat Hughes is already buried on the site overlooking the Choptank River. Gov. Hughes planned to be buried next to her. Capital News Service Photo by Max Burnett
At a Government House reception after the State of the State speech in 2017, Republican Gov. Larry Hogan stood with the two former Democratic governors who attended the speech: Harry Hughes, left, and Parris Glendening, right. Governor’s office photo.
On Larry Hogan’sinauguration Day Jan. 22,, 2015, Harry Hughes posed with former governors. From left, Harry Hughes, Marvin Mandel, Hogan and Bob Ehrlich. Photo by Governor’s Office.
Former governors Harry Hughes and Parris Glendening flank Gov. Martin O’Malley as he accepts PlanMaryland in 2011.
On Jan. 15, 2003, inauguration day of Gov. Bob Ehrlich, the five living governors pose on the staircase at Government House. From left, Ehrlich, Parris Glendening, William Donald Schaefer, Marvin Mandel and Harry Hughes. Governor’s Office photo by Tom Darden
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Len Lazarick
Len Lazarick was the founding editor and publisher of MarylandReporter.com and is currently the president of its nonprofit corporation and chairman of its board He was formerly the State House bureau chief of the daily Baltimore Examiner from its start in April 2006 to its demise in February 2009. He was a copy editor on the national desk of the Washington Post for eight years before that, and has spent decades covering Maryland politics and government.
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I met Harry Hughes at a picnic at Senator Clark’s farm. What astonished me and my husband was that he actually spent time talking with us—we were nobodies, not officeholders or well-connected in any way ( I HAD BEEN on the grand jury that indicted Gov. Mandel, but I do not think that bit of info came up!). His low-key friendliness really impressed people.
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State Roundup, April 4, 2019
by Cynthia Prairie | Apr 4, 2019 | State Roundup | 0 |
ED FUNDING PLAN NEARS ADOPTION: Maryland is on the verge of adopting an educational plan designed to transform the state’s public schools, a strategy that requires a down payment of hundreds of millions of additional dollars over the next two years, Ovetta Wiggins of the Post writes.
State senators voted Wednesday to approve the two-year plan to send more than $700 million in extra funding to the state’s public schools. The bill, called the “Blueprint for Maryland’s Future,” now moves to the House of Delegates, where it is expected to move swiftly in the final days of the General Assembly session, Pamela Wood of the Sun reports.
The bill, which implements the initial policy and funding recommendations of the Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education, or Kirwan Commission, is heralded by lawmakers as a first step toward generational reform in Maryland schools, Danielle Gaines of Maryland Matters writes.
Lawmakers have put SB1030 on a fast track. It would infuse an additional $725 million into public schools over the next two years. The heavily amended bill passed the Senate Wednesday on third reading by a vote of 43 to 1. The Senate reduced the amount of spending in the initial legislation, Diane Rey of MarylandReporter reports.
LAWMAKERS OK FOAM CONTAINER BAN: The Maryland General Assembly gave final approval Wednesday to a bill that would make Maryland the first state in the country to ban polystyrene foam food containers and cups. The House of Delegates voted 100-37 to approve the legislation sponsored by Del. Brooke Lierman, a Baltimore Democrat.
MOVE TO SLOW ROADWAY WIDENING: Environmental activists and other opponents of Gov. Larry Hogan’s plan to widen two major roadways are mounting an 11th-hour push to get the General Assembly to force additional review of the projects, reports Bruce DePuyt for Maryland Matters.
SENATE PANEL VOTES DOWN SEX ABUSE SUIT BILL: Erin Cox of the Post writes that a Senate panel on Wednesday voted down a bill that would have let childhood sex abuse victims of any age sue institutions that harbored their attackers. The legislation, proposed amid a global clergy sex abuse scandal, had passed the House of Delegates overwhelmingly last month. But the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee declined to advance it, with one Democrat joining the committee’s four Republicans in voting it down.
The Senate’s Judicial Proceedings Committee on Wednesday deadlocked 5-5 on the measure, which would have eliminated the statute of limitations for civil claims related to child sexual abuse. The bill had already sailed through the House of Delegates, Pamela Wood and Luke Broadwater report in the Sun.
REPAIRING PIMLICO: Baltimore officials trying to retain the Preakness Stakes and save Pimlico Race Course floated a half-billion-dollar plan to the track’s owner to pay for improvements there while also funding renovations at two of its other Maryland tracks, Pamela Wood of the Sun reports.
TOBACCO-BUYING AGE RAISED TO 21: Spurred by a sharp rise in teen use of e-cigarettes, the Maryland legislature voted Wednesday to raise the legal age to buy tobacco from 18 to 21. Gov. Larry Hogan (R) has not said whether he will sign the bill, which exempts members of the military, Erin Cox of the Post reports.
The bill, which proponents say is aimed at protecting teens from the harmful health effects of smoking, but which some Republicans decried as “nanny state” legislation, would make Maryland the ninth state in the nation to raise the age for buying cigarettes and other tobacco products, Luke Broadwater and Pamela Wood of the Sun write.
BAN ON CITY SEIZING HOMES: The General Assembly gave final approval Wednesday to legislation that would ban the city of Baltimore from placing liens against homes, churches and other properties over unpaid water bills, Luke Broadwater of the Sun reports.
MARYLAND ON VERGE OF LEAVING TITLE X PROGRAM: In a countermeasure to a proposed Trump administration rule, Maryland would become the first state to stop participating in a federal family planning program known as Title X, under a bill that received final approval Wednesday in the Maryland General Assembly. The rule proposed by President Donald Trump would prohibit family planning clinics funded by the program from making abortion referrals. The Maryland Senate voted 28-16 for the measure, sending the bill to Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, the AP is reporting.
TAX CREDITS FOR CHILD CARE: The General Assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed legislation to greatly expand the number of residents who can receive tax credits to help pay for child care, Luke Broadwater of the Sun writes.
PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICE CURBS: New legislation guaranteeing limited out-of-pocket prescription expenses for retired state employees has been approved by the Maryland General Assembly, Tamela Baker writes in the Hagerstown Herald-Mail. The Senate and the House of Delegates each approved a final version on Wednesday. The final votes were to approve a compromise reached by representatives from both chambers.
REPUBLICANS TRY TO DELAY HANDGUN BOARD BILL: Lawmakers were in a rush to get bills out of committee and over the hump to the floor for a vote on Wednesday, but Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee tried a different tactic to slow-walk a bill they oppose, Samantha Hogan of the Frederick News-Post reports. Republican members of the committee used a series of procedural “holds” to delay a vote on a bill that would eliminate the state’s Handgun Permit Review Board and keep it from advancing to the full House of Delegates, where Democrats have a firm majority.
UMMS REFORM: Maryland lawmakers advanced bills Wednesday to overhaul the University of Maryland Medical System’s board, which is at the center of a political firestorm after the revelation that its members benefited from lucrative contracts with the system they oversaw, Rachel Chason of the Post reports.
The House of Delegates voted 137-0 Wednesday night on a bill that would prohibit financial arrangements between the institution and members of its board, who will all be removed from their posts before Jan. 1, with the opportunity to re-apply, writes Danielle Gaines for Maryland Matters.
THE MANY ‘HOLLY’ MYSTERIES: Kevin Rector and Talia Richman of the Sun write that recent revelations that Mayor Catherine Pugh was paid nearly $800,000 for her self-published “Healthy Holly” children’s books — including by a health system she helped oversee and a large health provider that does business with the city — have raised many serious questions. Among them: Where did all the money go?
Columbia businessman J.P. Grant said Wednesday his company cut a check for $100,000 to then-Baltimore mayoral nominee Catherine Pugh’s Healthy Holly LLC in October 2016, Ian Duncan reports in the Sun. He said he received a copy of one book but no documentation of how his money would be used. The revelation brings to $800,000 the public accounting of how much money Pugh’s book company received from local entities since 2011.
Not only are “Healthy Holly” books missing but so are books about her little brother, Herbie, write Liz Bowie and Talia Richman in the Sun.
HOWARD SCHOOLS KEEP POST-LABOR DAY OPENING FOR NOW: Howard County schools are following in the footsteps of many Maryland school systems in delaying the use of newfound flexibility to have local control over when they start the academic year. Instead of altering the first day of school for this coming September, the school system is maintaining its Sept. 3 start date for the 77-school district, Jess Nocera of the Howard County Times reports.
JUDGE DENIES LEOPOLD CONVICTION REQUEST: A judge has denied former Anne Arundel County Executive John Leopold’s request to vacate his criminal conviction, Chase Cook reports in the Annapolis Capital. Retired Circuit Court Judge Diane O. Leasure denied Leopold’s request Monday, stating the former county executive’s claims of ineffective counsel were not valid.
BAY GOVERNORS ASK CONGRESS FOR FUNDS: The governors of Delaware, Pennsylvania and Virginia and the mayor of Washington, D.C., joined Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan in asking congressional leaders to increase the federal budget for the Chesapeake Bay’s cleanup Tuesday, writes Scott Dance for the Sun. In a letter released Wednesday, they called on House and Senate committee leaders to spend $90 million on the federal Chesapeake Bay Program, 2% more than the initiative’s current budget.
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Munich’s Royal Glass
In 1847, Joseph Gabriel Mayer of Munich, Germany, sought to reignite the art of the Middle Ages Cathedral building trades. To do so, he adapted his Institute of Christian Art Works to include fine arts, sculpture, stained glass production, architecture, and painting. Both himself and his son in law Fanz Xavier Zettler, who would strike out on his own in 1870, transitioned the stained glass industry toward a sense of depth, realism, and color previously unknown. Together the duo developed the “Munich Style” of glass windows, bringing with it a cultural narrative of style and meaning, and achieving unprecedented success by painting the religious scenes (they predominantly worked on churches and Cathedrals) on large sheets of glass before fusing the glass through firing in…
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Tag: Liz Saville Roberts
Brexit: 31st January 2020 is the final Brexit day for now
Well, this are not yet finished. There are dozens of problems ahead for Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his cabinet. It is not like Tories have won or succeeded anything. The possible reactions or results of the end of membership with the European Union (EU) isn’t carved out yet. Hell, even the issues of trade, border patrol, fishing nor the Northern Ireland questions are finalized.
The celebration of a new penny on the 31st January 2020 is a mockery, but also pointless. The Tories haven’t bagged it. They are not packing their briefcases and securing their tickets for the destination. Yes, the final Withdrawal Agreement was voted for and the next stage of Brexit is happening. However, the possible outcomes are from sealed. The ink isn’t even dry on the paperwork.
Who knows what the businesses will do, when the borders are shut and the hardships of trading across the Channel hits the fan. Who knows what will happen when the costs of banking and City of London comes across. It is not like the Tories can get it any harder. Not like they are getting the best deals and not getting issues from across the pond.
The PM will not address this and will rather deflect this. Surely, the industries and the ones whose exporting products will be hit the hardest. There are no certainty, the ones moving are already templating it or has already left. Several of businesses has moved to Ireland, France and Germany as a result of Brexit.
That is why, the projected downturns aren’t far fetched and the possible projections of the Withdrawal Agreement are bleak too. Not like this will not be a big natural hit on the consumer, the public and on the possible revenue of the state. However, the Tories will celebrate the end of Brexit. Loosing influence in Europe and become the “independent” island it is. Nevertheless, they still want to trade and be a partner, but not married to it. See how that will go and what cost that may bring.
This Brexit has been shambles from the Referendum until today. Not like Theresa May did it well. Neither has Boris Johnson. Boris is more superficial and conning, while May wobbled ahead. None of them is winning this. We just have to see if Boris will loose more. He won a mandate in Parliament, but if the wrecks the economy and beats the living hell out of the ones giving him a majority. He will surely be remembered for utter destruction on his own. Instead of finding good ways out of it.
He had nice times in his Jaguar. Nice time with screaming matches with his girlfriend. Mocking Corbyn in the PMQ. But what does that matter, when the public will be self-inflicted by dodgy deals and shoddy political work from the core group of people in Whitehall and Downing Street.
Who knows what this will entail, what sort of tariffs, regulations and the initial costs, who will be damaged, scorned by this deal and at what end has it?
I don’t have the answer, but by all reports, all studies with some barren I have come across. The negatives outshines the victories. Its like celebrating the French Fries, when you got a juicy burger sitting right there. By all means, the French Fries are a neatly cut potato with right amount of salt and oil. However, the burger is fresh breaded bun, with lettuce, ketchup and a barbecued patty. It should be easy choice.
So, on the 31st January, the ones celebrating are the ignorant, the ones who doesn’t care about the consequences, but are enjoying a break with Europe. The ones in sorrow, are not necessarily in support of the EU, but the ones that wonder if they are losing the benefits or the trade-offs made by the Union. Which the UK are now loosing out off. They got to bargain and leverage itself with everyone as a single entity. They got to do the right and at the right price. However, that will take time and the UK doesn’t have that. Especially, if they plan to cover the lost base and the lost power within the EU.
So in a few days time. The next chapter of negotiations start. The UK will have to fight and battle, they are not through yet. It is now all damage control. We got to see, if the EU citizens in the UK will get rights to stay or if they have to leave. We got to see, if the Northern Ireland will be hurt by this. That we will only with time.
However, what we do know … is that the UK is self-inflicting harm. They are doing damage to itself and hurting itself. We just got to see how it will be and by what estimates. Peace.
Author nilspeacePosted on January 26, 2020 January 26, 2020 Categories Business, Civil Service, Development, Diplomacy, Economy, Election, Ethics, Europe, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, PoliticsTags Allister Jack, Andrea Leadsom, Backstop, Ben Wallace, Boris Johnson, Brexit, Business, Caroline Lucas, Caroline Spelman, Claire Perry, Conservative Party, Dominic Cummings, Dominic Grieve, Dominic Raab, Donald Tusk, Elizabeth Tuss, ERG, Ethics, Europe, European Research Group, Gavin Williamson, Geoffrey Cox, Government, Heidi Allen, HM Government, Ian Blackford, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Jean-Claude Juncker, Jeremy Corbyn, Jo Johnson, Juilan Smith, Labour, Law, Leadership, LibDem, Liberal Democrats, Liz Saville Roberts, Mark Drakeford, Matt Hancock, Michael Gove, Nick Boles, Nicola Sturgeon, Oliver Letwin, Operation Yellowhammer, PM Johnson, Politics, Politics Allister Jack, Priti Patel, Sajid Javid, Stephen Barclay, Steve Barclay, Theresa Villiers, Tories, Tories Government, UK, United Kingdom, Ursula von der Leyen, Vote Leave, Withdrawal AgreementLeave a comment on Brexit: 31st January 2020 is the final Brexit day for now
Brexit: PM Boris Johnson letter to Nicola Sturgeon MSP (14.01.2020)
Author nilspeacePosted on January 14, 2020 January 14, 2020 Categories Development, Election, Ethics, Europe, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, PoliticsTags Allister Jack, Andrea Leadsom, Backstop, Ben Wallace, Boris Johnson, Brexit, Business, Caroline Lucas, Caroline Spelman, Claire Perry, Conservative Party, Development, Diplomacy, Dominic Cummings, Dominic Grieve, Dominic Raab, Donald Tusk, Economic Measures, Economy, Election, Elizabeth Tuss, ERG, Ethics, Europe, European Research Group, Gavin Williamson, Geoffrey Cox, Governance, Government, Heidi Allen, HM Government, Ian Blackford, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Jean-Claude Juncker, Jeremy Corbyn, Jo Johnson, Jo Swinson, Juilan Smith, Labour, Law, Leadership, LibDem, Liberal Democrats, Liz Saville Roberts, Mark Drakeford, Matt Hancock, Michael Gove, Nick Boles, Nicola Sturgeon, Oliver Letwin, Operation Yellowhammer, PM Johnson, Politics, Politics Allister Jack, Priti Patel, Sajid Javid, Stephen Barclay, Steve Barclay, Tax, Theresa Villiers, Tories, Tories Government, Trade, Transparency Allister Jack, UK, United Kingdom, Vote Leave, Withdrawal AgreementLeave a comment on Brexit: PM Boris Johnson letter to Nicola Sturgeon MSP (14.01.2020)
Opinion: United Kingdom, Boris is all yours…
For some today is a nightmare. Not only has Jeremy Corbyn and Labour lost. Not only have the Liberal Democrats lost too, but the Conservatives have won substantial in this election. They have gotten more mandate and more control. This is grand slam victory of Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
That Boris couldn’t win during this year in Parliament doesn’t seem to sink in. The man who has lied about everything and has spewed hateful rhetoric for decades. Still, this man will lead the United Kingdom into the final stages of withdrawing from the European Union (EU). A man who will not take responsibility to show up transparently for interviews nor trying to make a decent figure on TV.
No, the British have fucked themselves and they enjoy it. They will ride this one out with a abysmal people, who only consider the wealthy, the elite and the top 10 richest. This government won’t be for the people, no this for the Eton, the Oxford and Cambridge Elite.
I could lie to you, but I’m not in the business of Boris. I don’t even have any stakes in this election. Only feel sorry for the pro-European and liberals in the UK. You British liberals, you are screwed and you will be that for the coming time. You have lost to a hatful and disgraceful human being, someone who only lies and deceive. Even with that, you still lost.
That says something about the majority of British people, what sort of thoughts they have for themselves. The Merry Poppins and they let Grinch steal Christmas. The Tories haven’t kept their promises before and will trade it all away for some “independence”. The ones getting crushed is the marginal voters, who voted them in. Not the elite that running the Tories. The British public is doing self-harm and content with it.
So, when in the future, when the public cry havoc. Cry their tears of the destruction of the welfare state, public benefits and whatnot. You gave it away to the Tories and the next generation has to fight back to get something they deserve. The public has screwed themselves and they did it willingly.
Now Boris is yours. Now the lies are all yours. Eat it and don’t complain. When you get screwed, over and over again. Know that you made it yourself. You made your bed and now you got to sleep in it.
I pity a fool, but that would be to much sincerety in the era of lies and deceptions winning elections. Peace.
Author nilspeacePosted on December 13, 2019 December 13, 2019 Categories Development, Election, Ethics, Europe, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, PoliticsTags Allister Jack, Andrea Leadsom, Backstop, Ben Wallace, Boris Johnson, Brexit, Business, Caroline Lucas, Caroline Spelman, Claire Perry, Conservative Party, Development, Diplomacy, Dominic Cummings, Dominic Grieve, Dominic Raab, Donald Tusk, Economic Measures, Economy, Election, Elizabeth Tuss, ERG, Ethics, Europe, European Research Group, Gavin Williamson, Geoffrey Cox, Governance, Government, Heidi Allen, HM Government, Ian Blackford, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Jean-Claude Juncker, Jeremy Corbyn, Jo Johnson, Jo Swinson, Juilan Smith, Labour, Law, Leadership, LibDem, Liberal Democrats, Liz Saville Roberts, Mark Drakeford, Matt Hancock, Michael Gove, Nick Boles, Nicola Sturgeon, Oliver Letwin, Operation Yellowhammer, PM Johnson, Politics, Politics Allister Jack, Priti Patel, Sajid Javid, Stephen Barclay, Steve Barclay, Tax, Theresa Villiers, Tories, Tories Government, Trade, Transparency Allister Jack, UK, United Kingdom, Vote Leave, Withdrawal AgreementLeave a comment on Opinion: United Kingdom, Boris is all yours…
Brexit: European Commission launches infringement proceedings against the UK following its failure to name a candidate for EU Commissioner (14.11.2019)
Author nilspeacePosted on November 14, 2019 November 14, 2019 Categories Civil Service, Development, Diplomacy, Ethics, Europe, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, PoliticsTags Allister Jack, Andrea Leadsom, Backstop, Ben Wallace, Boris Johnson, Brexit, Business, Caroline Lucas, Caroline Spelman, Claire Perry, Conservative Party, Development, Diplomacy, Dominic Cummings, Dominic Grieve, Dominic Raab, Donald Tusk, Economic Measures, Economy, Election, Elizabeth Tuss, ERG, Ethics, Europe, European Research Group, Gavin Williamson, Geoffrey Cox, Governance, Government, Heidi Allen, HM Government, Ian Blackford, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Jean-Claude Juncker, Jeremy Corbyn, Jo Johnson, Jo Swinson, Juilan Smith, Labour, Law, Leadership, LibDem, Liberal Democrats, Liz Saville Roberts, Mark Drakeford, Matt Hancock, Michael Gove, Nick Boles, Nicola Sturgeon, Oliver Letwin, Operation Yellowhammer, PM Johnson, Politics, Politics Allister Jack, Priti Patel, Sajid Javid, Stephen Barclay, Steve Barclay, Tax, Theresa Villiers, Tories, Tories Government, Trade, Transparency Allister Jack, UK, United Kingdom, Vote Leave, Withdrawal AgreementLeave a comment on Brexit: European Commission launches infringement proceedings against the UK following its failure to name a candidate for EU Commissioner (14.11.2019)
Brexit: Alun Cairns MP resignation letter as Secretary of State for Wales to Prime Minister Boris Johnson (06.11.2019)
Author nilspeacePosted on November 6, 2019 November 6, 2019 Format ImageCategories Business, Civil Service, Development, Diplomacy, Economy, Election, Ethics, Europe, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, PoliticsTags Allister Jack, Andrea Leadsom, Backstop, Ben Wallace, Boris Johnson, Brexit, Business, Caroline Lucas, Caroline Spelman, Claire Perry, Conservative Party, Development, Diplomacy, Dominic Cummings, Dominic Grieve, Dominic Raab, Donald Tusk, Economic Measures, Economy, Election, Elizabeth Tuss, ERG, Ethics, Europe, European Research Group, Gavin Williamson, Geoffrey Cox, Governance, Government, Heidi Allen, HM Government, Ian Blackford, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Jean-Claude Juncker, Jeremy Corbyn, Jo Johnson, Jo Swinson, Juilan Smith, Labour, Law, Leadership, LibDem, Liberal Democrats, Liz Saville Roberts, Mark Drakeford, Matt Hancock, Michael Gove, Nick Boles, Nicola Sturgeon, Oliver Letwin, Operation Yellowhammer, PM Johnson, Politics, Politics Allister Jack, Priti Patel, Sajid Javid, Stephen Barclay, Steve Barclay, Tax, Theresa Villiers, Tories, Tories Government, Trade, Transparency Allister Jack, UK, United Kingdom, Vote Leave, Withdrawal AgreementLeave a comment on Brexit: Alun Cairns MP resignation letter as Secretary of State for Wales to Prime Minister Boris Johnson (06.11.2019)
Brexit: Ed Vaizey MP resignation letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson (05.11.2019)
Author nilspeacePosted on November 6, 2019 November 6, 2019 Format ImageCategories Business, Development, Diplomacy, Election, Ethics, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, PoliticsTags Allister Jack, Andrea Leadsom, Backstop, Ben Wallace, Boris Johnson, Brexit, Business, Caroline Lucas, Caroline Spelman, Claire Perry, Conservative Party, Development, Diplomacy, Dominic Cummings, Dominic Grieve, Dominic Raab, Donald Tusk, Economic Measures, Economy, Election, Elizabeth Tuss, ERG, Ethics, Europe, European Research Group, Gavin Williamson, Geoffrey Cox, Governance, Government, Heidi Allen, HM Government, Ian Blackford, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Jean-Claude Juncker, Jeremy Corbyn, Jo Johnson, Jo Swinson, Juilan Smith, Labour, Law, Leadership, LibDem, Liberal Democrats, Liz Saville Roberts, Mark Drakeford, Matt Hancock, Michael Gove, Nick Boles, Nicola Sturgeon, Oliver Letwin, Operation Yellowhammer, PM Johnson, Politics, Politics Allister Jack, Priti Patel, Sajid Javid, Stephen Barclay, Steve Barclay, Tax, Theresa Villiers, Tories, Tories Government, Trade, Transparency Allister Jack, UK, United Kingdom, Vote Leave, Withdrawal AgreementLeave a comment on Brexit: Ed Vaizey MP resignation letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson (05.11.2019)
Brexit: Prime Minister Boris Johnson letter to Leader of Opposition Jeremy Corbyn MP (04.11.2019)
Author nilspeacePosted on November 4, 2019 November 5, 2019 Categories Business, Development, Economy, Election, Ethics, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, PoliticsTags Allister Jack, Andrea Leadsom, Backstop, Ben Wallace, Boris Johnson, Brexit, Business, Caroline Lucas, Caroline Spelman, Claire Perry, Conservative Party, Development, Diplomacy, Dominic Cummings, Dominic Grieve, Dominic Raab, Donald Tusk, Economic Measures, Economy, Election, Elizabeth Tuss, ERG, Ethics, Europe, European Research Group, Gavin Williamson, Geoffrey Cox, Governance, Government, Heidi Allen, HM Government, Ian Blackford, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Jean-Claude Juncker, Jeremy Corbyn, Jo Johnson, Jo Swinson, Juilan Smith, Labour, Law, Leadership, LibDem, Liberal Democrats, Liz Saville Roberts, Mark Drakeford, Matt Hancock, Michael Gove, Nick Boles, Nicola Sturgeon, Oliver Letwin, Operation Yellowhammer, PM Johnson, Politics, Politics Allister Jack, Priti Patel, Sajid Javid, Stephen Barclay, Steve Barclay, Tax, Theresa Villiers, Tories, Tories Government, Trade, Transparency Allister Jack, UK, United Kingdom, Vote Leave, Withdrawal AgreementLeave a comment on Brexit: Prime Minister Boris Johnson letter to Leader of Opposition Jeremy Corbyn MP (04.11.2019)
Tories: Government Chief Whip Mark Spencer MP letter to Amber Rudd MP (30.10.2019)
Author nilspeacePosted on October 30, 2019 October 30, 2019 Format ImageCategories Development, Election, Ethics, Europe, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, PoliticsTags Allister Jack, Amber Rudd, Andrea Leadsom, Backstop, Ben Wallace, Boris Johnson, Brexit, Business, Caroline Lucas, Caroline Spelman, Claire Perry, Conservative Party, Development, Diplomacy, Dominic Cummings, Dominic Grieve, Dominic Raab, Donald Tusk, Economic Measures, Economy, Election, Elizabeth Tuss, ERG, Ethics, Europe, European Research Group, Gavin Williamson, Geoffrey Cox, Governance, Government, Heidi Allen, HM Government, Ian Blackford, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Jean-Claude Juncker, Jeremy Corbyn, Jo Johnson, Jo Swinson, Juilan Smith, Labour, Law, Leadership, LibDem, Liberal Democrats, Liz Saville Roberts, Mark Drakeford, Mark Spencer, Matt Hancock, Michael Gove, Nick Boles, Nicola Sturgeon, Oliver Letwin, Operation Yellowhammer, PM Johnson, Politics, Politics Allister Jack, Priti Patel, Sajid Javid, Stephen Barclay, Steve Barclay, Tax, Theresa Villiers, Tories, Tories Government, Trade, Transparency Allister Jack, UK, United Kingdom, Vote Leave, Withdrawal AgreementLeave a comment on Tories: Government Chief Whip Mark Spencer MP letter to Amber Rudd MP (30.10.2019)
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Author nilspeacePosted on October 29, 2019 October 29, 2019 Categories Civil Service, Development, Diplomacy, Economy, Election, Ethics, Europe, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, PoliticsTags Allister Jack, Andrea Leadsom, Backstop, Ben Wallace, Boris Johnson, Brexit, Business, Caroline Lucas, Caroline Spelman, Claire Perry, Conservative Party, Development, Diplomacy, Dominic Cummings, Dominic Grieve, Dominic Raab, Donald Tusk, Economic Measures, Economy, Election, Elizabeth Tuss, ERG, Ethics, Europe, European Research Group, Gavin Williamson, Geoffrey Cox, Governance, Government, Heidi Allen, HM Government, Ian Blackford, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Jean-Claude Juncker, Jeremy Corbyn, Jo Johnson, Jo Swinson, Juilan Smith, Labour, Law, Leadership, LibDem, Liberal Democrats, Liz Saville Roberts, Mark Drakeford, Matt Hancock, Michael Gove, Nick Boles, Nicola Sturgeon, Oliver Letwin, Operation Yellowhammer, PM Johnson, Politics, Politics Allister Jack, Priti Patel, Sajid Javid, Stephen Barclay, Steve Barclay, Tax, Theresa Villiers, Tories, Tories Government, Trade, Transparency Allister Jack, UK, United Kingdom, Vote Leave, Withdrawal AgreementLeave a comment on Brexit: John Manzoni letter to Meg Hiller MP Chair of PAC – Re: Public Information Campaign ‘Get Ready for Brexit’ (25.10.2019)
Brexit: Heidi Allen MP – Letter to my South Cambridgeshire constituents (29.10.2019)
Author nilspeacePosted on October 29, 2019 October 29, 2019 Categories Civil Service, Development, Diplomacy, Election, Ethics, Europe, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, PoliticsTags Allister Jack, Andrea Leadsom, Backstop, Ben Wallace, Boris Johnson, Brexit, Business, Caroline Lucas, Caroline Spelman, Claire Perry, Conservative Party, Development, Diplomacy, Dominic Cummings, Dominic Grieve, Dominic Raab, Donald Tusk, Economic Measures, Economy, Election, Elizabeth Tuss, ERG, Ethics, Europe, European Research Group, Gavin Williamson, Geoffrey Cox, Governance, Government, Heidi Allen, HM Government, Ian Blackford, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Jean-Claude Juncker, Jeremy Corbyn, Jo Johnson, Jo Swinson, Juilan Smith, Labour, Law, Leadership, LibDem, Liberal Democrats, Liz Saville Roberts, Mark Drakeford, Matt Hancock, Michael Gove, Nick Boles, Nicola Sturgeon, Oliver Letwin, Operation Yellowhammer, PM Johnson, Politics, Politics Allister Jack, Priti Patel, Sajid Javid, Stephen Barclay, Steve Barclay, Tax, Theresa Villiers, Tories, Tories Government, Trade, Transparency Allister Jack, UK, United Kingdom, Vote Leave, Withdrawal AgreementLeave a comment on Brexit: Heidi Allen MP – Letter to my South Cambridgeshire constituents (29.10.2019)
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How to Save When You Live in a Big City
By Meghann Foye — Feb 27, 2018
Research most smart and sane budgeting wisdom and you’ll likely find variations around the 50/20/30 rule, i.e. you should be spending your take-home salary using the following method: 50 percent on fixed costs, 20 percent on savings and 30 percent on discretionary income.
However, as any city-dweller who’s just realized they could have bought Hamilton tickets for the amount they spent on monthly takeout comes to realize, living near or around a big city, especially if you’ve got a growing family, can really eat away at any attempt to save. (Especially if you're a single parent!)
So, to make another Hamilton reference, how can you not throw away your shot?
We talked to Stefanie O’Connell, author of The Broke and Beautiful Life: Small Town Budget, Big City Dream, for some ways to hack the top five biggest expenses to city living (besides childcare) and start living within your means.
“I’ll concede that some city savings are easier implemented than others, but just because the big city can be expensive doesn’t mean it has to be.”
1. Save on Housing
This is going to be your biggest cost, so it pays to be conscious.
“Often, we get our heart set on a certain neighborhood, then try to shoehorn ourselves in to a higher rent,” says O’Connell. “Instead, figure out what you can afford and then make it a challenge to find your ideal home, if not your ideal neighborhood.”
If you’re iffy, O’Connell suggests subletting or renting an Airbnb apartment in neighborhoods you wouldn’t have considered and see how it feels. Here’s another thing to consider to boost the case for moving: people spending less than 50 percent on fixed costs tend to feel abundant, but any more, and you start to feel stretched.
$6,000/year, if you swap neighborhoods to shave $500 off monthly rent/mortgage.
2. Save on Transportation
Consider going carless for at least a year, says O’Connell. One perk of living in a city is that there are other ways to make commutes on public transport more pleasant.
“Public transit is the great leveler in big city cost of living calculations. Sure, we big-city dwellers may have inflated housing prices to contend with (even with all the savvy saving strategies mentioned above), but we regain some of that ground by giving up our wheels.
$9,122 (average, based on 15,000 miles of yearly driving)
3. Save on Food
According to budgeting tool Mint via Style Caster city dwellers in Los Angeles spent more than $170 million eating out in 2014, while New Yorkers and San Franciscans forked over $300 million in restaurants.
The painful but necessary fix? Disable your Seamless account, Dominos app, and other apps that make it too easy to order out, and instead, set a food budget. Try to automate weekly meal planning and cooking as much as possible, with, for example, a standard order at Trader Joes, supplemented by a three-times-per-week meal box kit, such as Blue Apron or Hello Fresh.
$4,800, if you’re averaging $200 a week on food and you bring it down to $100.
4. Save on Entertainment
Here’s where living in cities really pays off, says O’Connell.
Those Hamilton tix notwithstanding, “big cities are hot spots for free entertainment, classes and events—check your public library and parks and recreation event calendars to score everything from free concerts by A-list pop stars to free yoga classes.”
And these days, subscription cable is a luxury most people really don’t need. Consider getting a Smart TV, Apple TV, Roku or another streaming service to get on-demand shows you do want to watch.
It's important to prioritize your relationship with your significant other, which can be especially difficult after kids come into the picture. But there are ways to connect with your partner without spending a ton of time and money, like simply taking the time to listen to each other's days.
$840 per year if you cut bells-and-whistles cable (approx. $170 a month) and switch to a basic package with wifi (approx. $100 per month).
5. Save on Wellness
It's important to take care of yourself if you want to avoid the all-too-common problem of burnout among working moms and working dads. But with boutique fitness gyms charging upwards of $35 a class, and massage and other wellness services in abundance in big cities, it’s totally possible to spend upwards of $500 a month if you’re not careful.
While most people might not think of linking both physical and emotional wellness, giving yourself a comprehensive #selfcare fund for the month can help you figure out what’s truly working and what’s not. After a few months, make a list of what’s brought you the biggest results so you aren’t tempted to splurge on the latest juice fast on promo in your social feed.
You may just find that sitting alone and reading in a small local coffee shop for an hour might bring you just as much joy as a $100 therapy session, and it costs $5.
$1,200 to $2,400 a year.
So, at the end of the day, when you add up the savings from all 5 hacks, how much could you be saving? Drumroll please!
Total Annual Savings
All of a sudden those Hamilton tickets are looking mighty affordable.
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Henry and Kristl saw The Patriot (2000)
20/06/2013 20/06/2013 Posted in reviewTagged henry and kristl, mel gibson, movie, movies, review, reviews, the patriot, the patriot(2000)
“They were not Germans?” Kristl asked
“What?” Henry said. “Who? The English? Germans? Germans! That was a
deliberate joke wasn’t it.”
“Well, they burned all those people in that church.. Didn’t something
like that happen in the Second World War. Although, maybe it would be
safe to say those were Nazis… not Germans. But that church thing? Did
that happen? ”
“Well, the point is: it could have. Cause they were the enemy. That is
it. Symbolism.”
“Ah.” Kristl said, “So they were Germans, but with an English accent.”
“Sounded English to me. British English. Stuck up English.” Henry said.
” Sah..” Kristl shouted suddenly, making Henry jump.
“Stop mucking about, what has that a country to do with anything? It is
America against the Brits.” Henry said, “With some French help.”
“Just reminds me of my now dead granddad. Fathers side.” Kristl said.
“What of him?”
“Well, he saw this movie, back when he still lived.”
“I would think so. It works better while being alive.”
“Being dead spoils the experience.”
“Duh.” Kristl pouted her lips,” Anyway. He said the movie gave him
tears. You see he was always busy with those little tin soldiers and
uniforms and such. And he said he liked the uniforms in the movies. And
the soldiers. And the shooting. So beautiful. That is what he said.”
“He sounded a bit feeble in the brain department..”
“He might have been. He was in his eighties at the time. He died at
ninety one.”
“So your granddad liked the movie for the uniforms.”
“He gave me this tin soldier. See. I still got it.. I thought I take it
with me and show you.” Kristl held up a tin soldier with colors that
was neither the blue of the Continental army nor the red of the British
one. It was green with red.
“So what uniform is this?”
“Brunswick.”
“German?”
“Yes, but there was no Germany back then. All kind of small and big
states. Some were allied to Britain. Like Hessia and Hanover.”
“So the Germans were with the English?”
Well, there were Germans fighting for the Americans to. In the French
army that helped out the Americans. And there was a whole regiment made
up from German colonists.” Kristl stared at the tin soldier.
“Well, he said. It would have been a nice movie without Mel Gibson
standing in the way. If they had just kept out the action bits. Like
the silly fights. And the dumb warfare.That is what he said.”
“What? Without Mel there is no movie. What is a movie without action, a
hero and a good bad guy?”
“A shorter movie?” Kristl said cheerfully.
“And a boring movie too. Except for crazy old men who play with tin
soldiers.”
“Well. I thought they could have made two movies out of it and please
both sides.It is long enough for it.”
“Nope. I don’t think so.” Henry shook his head, “It would be a short
nonsensical action movie and a boring historical one. They go together.”
“It was just a thought.” Kristl said.
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When the caged bird sings..
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Military Family Appreciation Month
Military Family Appreciation Quote: "How Lucky I Am"
U.S. Marines with 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW) attached to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) are welcomed home on Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina. (U.S. Marine Corps/Jailine L. Martinez)
Military.com | By Amy Bushatz
They say that military families are the backbone of their service members. We are there to support, encourage and love. We are a reason to keep pushing toward redeployment. We are the reason for a homecoming.
But I think that a military family means more than just one service member leaning on a collection of supportive people stateside. A military family is a group of people leaning on each other — like Bubba and Forest Gump in a Vietnam downpour. Instead of thinking how hard it is for us to say 'goodbye' to them, we have to remember that it's just as hard for them to say 'goodbye' to us. We are strong for each other.
And it's our love and devotion that makes it that way. That's why I love this A.A. Milne quote:
Of all the military family quotes out there, this is my favorite.
November is Military Family Appreciation Month. Our military leaders may use it as a time to think about the best ways to support military families. We may use it to contemplate the ways the other military families around us hold us up when we feel like we can no longer move forward.
But let's also take a moment to remember how much our family means to itself. Because that love is worth fighting for.
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Things are going to be fine when the Grand Prix turns into a luxury Chetti Chit Bang Bang that the man has turned his children into. When that car turned, they seem to be able to own the car that has the ability to fly, and take her and her boyfriend on an exciting adventure.
Actors: Barbara Windsor,
Barbara Windsor 6 August 1937, Shoreditch, London, England, UK
Victor Maddern,
Victor Maddern 16 March 1926, Seven Kings, Ilford, Essex, England, UK
Sally Ann Howes,
Sally Ann Howes 20 July 1930, St. Johns Wood, London, England, UK
Gerald Campion,
Gerald Campion 23 April 1921, Bloomsbury, London, England, UK
Peter Arne,
Peter Arne 29 September 1920, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya [now Malaysia]
Michael Darbyshire,
Michael Darbyshire 15 October 1917, Pancras, London, England, UK
Bernard Spear,
Bernard Spear 11 September 1919, London, England, UK
Ross Parker,
Ross Parker 16 August 1914, Manchester, England, UK
Larry Taylor,
Larry Taylor 13 July 1918, Peterborough, England, UK
Davy Kaye,
Davy Kaye 25 April 1916, London, England, UK
Arthur Mullard,
Arthur Mullard 19 September 1910, Islington, London, England, UK
Director: Ken Hughes
Ken Hughes 19 January 1922, Liverpool, England, UK
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CRITICS OF "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"
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Has become modern classic, but falls so short of great.
A fast, dense, friendly children's musical, with something of the joys of singing together on a team bus on the way to a game.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Time has not enhanced its doubtful charms.
A fantastical car story custom made for kids.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was made in Britain for American consumption, but its magic works on kids and adults of any nationality.
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Ask yourself, would you rather show your kids Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or Marmaduke? I don't want to live in a world where the answer is the latter. [Blu-ray]
Ken Adam's sets are inventive, but the special effects are shoddy, the songs instantly forgettable, and the leisurely length an exquisite torture.
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A too cutesy musical.
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I'm old enough to have seen Chitty Chitty Bang Bang during its original theatrical run, and I've just about recovered.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang contains about the best two-hour children's movie you could hope for, with a marvelous magical auto and lots of adventure and a nutty old grandpa and a mean Baron and some funny dances and a couple of [scary] moments.
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ultimately all in good fun, although it's hard to shake entirely the sense that something is slightly askew, which is probably the point
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Starring Dick Van Dyke, this pleasant family fable with music was nominated for the Best Song Oscar
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Emmy-winning actor Zendaya isn’t known for leaking Marvel spoilers in the way her Spider-Man co-star, Tom Holland, is. But remaining tight-lipped when you’re part of some of the biggest blockbusters isn’t easy. Discover what Zendaya said about the upcoming third installment in the franchise.
Zendaya starred in ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ and ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’
Spider-Man: Homecoming premiered in July 2017. The film stars Tom Holland as high school student Peter Parker, who tries to keep his secret identity as the hero Spider-Man under wraps. This includes lying to those in his life, like his good friends Ned (Jason Batalon) and MJ (Zendaya).
The second film, Spider-Man: Far From Home, brought new challenges, as Peter and his classmates take a trip to Europe. While there, MJ, whom Peter has grown to have feelings for, learns his secret. The end of the film sees them get together, just as his identity is revealed to the rest of the world.
She’s in Atlanta filming the third film in December 2020
The as-yet-untitled third film in the franchise has been a long time coming. The joint Sony-Marvel production was officially confirmed in 2019 after a disagreement between the two studios was solved. Following delays due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, production began in October 2020.
While promoting a special episode of her HBO series Euphoria on December 3, 2020, Zendaya confirmed her location. “You’re in Atlanta right now shooting Spider-Man 3, correct?” the titular Jimmy Kimmel Live host asked the actor on his show via video chat. “Correct,” she replied while acknowledging that “everything is very secretive.”
Many believe that previous Peter Parkers will be in ‘Spider-Man 3’
Far From Home introduced the multiverse into the franchise. Though it wasn’t explored, upcoming titles like Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness assured fans that Phase 4 would go in that direction. And one fan-favorite idea that has sparked rumors involves previous Spider-Man actors.
Tobey Maguire portrayed Peter Parker in Sony’s first Spider-Man franchise, which lasted for three films. Then came Andrew Garfield, who played the character in The Amazing Spider-Man and its 2014 sequel. The multiverse creates a way to bring them in to reprise their roles without disturbing the MCU-affiliated world.
Zendaya refused to confirm the rumors
Kimmel tried to get Zendaya to confirm the rumors. “Is it called Spider-Man 3 because there are three Spider-Men in the movie?” he asked her. “I can neither confirm nor deny,” she answered. The host tried another tactic. “Did you have Thanksgiving there in Atlanta?” he asked. “Yes, we did,” Zendaya nodded. “We had a bubble Thanksgiving.”
“With Spider-Men?” Kimmel asked, saying the last syllable quickly. “Ye — I can’t say that,” Zendaya caught herself. “You almost — that was good,” she laughed, shaking her finger at the host. Kimmel then peppered in questions about Maguire and Garfield’s eating habits, but Zendaya didn’t slip up.
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Sony Pictures Responds to Allegations That ‘Spider-Man 3’ Has Already Been Pirated
Sony Pictures Responds to Allegations That Spider-Man 3 Has Already Been Pirated
Has been reported that stolen copies of the upcoming film is being sold illegally on the streets of China.
Sony Pictures Entertainment has issued a statement regarding reports of Spider-Man 3 piracy:
Contrary to news reports about stolen copies of Spider-Man 3 are being sold illegally on the streets in China, our investigation in China has revealed no case of the film being pirated to date. RELATED: Latest Spider-Man 3 Set Photos Tease Continuation of Big Far from Home Cliffhanger
Similar hoaxes and false alarms have occurred prior to the release of other major films. We have uncovered examples of Spider-Man 2 being sold in Spider-Man 3 boxes in China. But thus far we can find no instance where Spider-Man 3 has appeared on DVD.
In addition, after an initial investigation of online sites worldwide, we have so far found no pirated copies of Spider-Man 3 on the Internet.
This incident underscores one of the problems with piracy -- people who buy illegal movies often get ripped off themselves.
Spider-Man 3 arrives in theatres on May 4.
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Peter Pennoyer-Designed, Luxury Boutique Condominium The Benson Launches Sales
Leading developer Naftali Group today announced the launch of sales for the first new luxury condominium building on famed Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side in more than 20 years. Named after Chainman and CEO Miki Naftali’s father Benjamin, The Benson is the 19-story ground-up, boutique condominium that will feature 15 classically-inspired residences and a sophisticated suite of amenities.
Located at 1045 Madison Avenue and East 79th Street on Manhattan’s famed Upper East Side, The Benson has been designed inside and out by AD100 designer, Peter Pennoyer Architects. New York traditionalist architect, whose style is characterized by combining both modern and classical architectural designs, created a chic aesthetic inspired by the great historic apartment houses of the Upper East Side. The building features hand-carved, hand-laid Indiana Limestone, distinctive mullioned windows and a series of gracious set-back terraces.
Offering half-floor, full-floor and duplex residences, ranging from three-to-seven-bedrooms, several homes feature gracious private outdoor space and each comes with a private elevator landing. Three soaring penthouses, each with secluded terraces, crown the top of the building, while the stunning townhouse residence overlooks a garden.
The bespoke kitchens were designed in partnership with Christopher Peacock, the leading luxury, fitted British cabinetry creator. Custom-designed, hand-painted millwork cabinetry with solid walnut interiors and polished nickel pulls will be complemented by Pietra Cardosa slab countertops and backsplashes.
The residences will have the signature fireplaces with custom mantles that are the focus of the expansive living rooms. The master bathrooms feature an oversized window, which is placed above the soaking tub, custom marble vanity with polished nickel hardware, large rain shower, and radiant heated floors to complete the master suite.
Italian designer and architect Achille Salvagni created a jewel-box lobby, in addition to a stunning cinema room that is part of the robust amenities package available to residents. The Benson features a beautifully landscaped rooftop with a fire pit and view of Central Park, in addition to a spa with sauna and steam rooms, a library with an adjoining landscaped garden, an art studio and a fitness center and half-basketball court. A doorman and concierge will be on call around the clock, and the lobby features a cold storage room for food deliveries. There’s also a pet spa, bicycle storage, and additional storage available for purchase.
With construction well underway and the first closings slated for the end of 2021, residences at The Benson start at $12.5 million. Compass Development Marketing Group’s Alexa Lambert is the building’s exclusive sales and marketing agent.
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Heavensent-Behind the Character
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My fourth book will be released to the world next Saturday (July 15). If you follow me, you know I’m a sub-genre hopper–like a rabbit or a frog, I hop from one sub-genre to another for no rhyme or reason other than to write the story in my brain. Possibly not the best thing for me as I build up my platform but on the other hand, that’s who I am as a writer. Why not share it with my readers?
Lavender Fields is a M/M Paranormal Romance and had strange beginnings. Not unlike most of my books, this story started as a flash fiction piece written from a picture prompt, but took a whole unexpected life of its own.
Sky Heavensent was to be a girl alien at first (don’t laugh), but–pantser that I am–as I wrote the story she turned into a he, and the alien became an angel. By the time I was finished, the angel in my story grew to mean something much larger than just a character in a book. Thus the decision to turn a few pages of writing into a full-length novel.
Sky was born of some very deep beliefs I carry about humans and the way we relate to each other. It also embodies a lot of my hopes, fears, and emotional baggage.
As a character he’s not perfect. In fact, among his kind he’s an outcast ( know, I know. Another one), a very clumsy angel who seems to be an expert at making his boss, Gabriel, irate beyond what should be possible for an angelic creature.
But he is perfect in so many other ways. He’s color-blind, gender-blind, difference-blind. Like all angels he’s made of pure love but unlike the others he actually practices what he preaches. Sky is willing to do just about anything for what’s right even if that places him in all kinds of danger.
He has a big heart and he’s not afraid to use it.
Writing Lavender Fields was an amazing experience because it came from the depths of me, those corners of myself that remain under wraps most of the time. I’m a terrible introvert who is incapable of participating in a conversation involving more than two people. So, a lot of what I think, of what I feel, of what I believe stay buried deep inside. Writing this story was in so many ways a release because the characters (all of them but Sky in particular) spoke for me.They all have a little bit of myself in them (including Caleb’s foul-mouthed younger sister) but I dare anyone who knows me to figure out what.
In fact, I believe that Sky was indeed heaven-sent. Have you ever written a character who meant a lot more to you than all the others?
Tags: #loveislove #mmromance #tolerance books characters inspiration love romance writing
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Expatriate, speaker of many (but not enough) languages, writer, book lover, dance and art groupie with a taste for ethnic food.View all posts by Natalina Reis
Paula Harmon says:
Yes, I have a work in progress in which I became very fond of two of the characters. It started out that the story was about two characters called Simon and Sky through the eyes of Simon’s sister, Rose and then Rose became real and the story became hers as much, if not more than Simon’s. Her journey from grief to healing helped me work some things through for myself. Sky herself was initially comic, but then her struggles to fit in became very real too and ultimately I realised the story was more about the friendship which develops between Rose & Sky than anything else.
lisboeta1 says:
Isn’t that funny how we get attached to these figments of our imagination? The magic of writing ❤
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Report: Jamal Crawford would want to play for Cavaliers
By Dan FeldmanAug 7, 2015, 7:08 PM EDT
The Cavaliers and Clippers reportedly discussed a Jamal Crawford trade. Asked about joining Cleveland, Crawford said he wished he were a free agent.
In case you can’t connect the dots…
Chris Haynes of Cleveland.com:
I know Jamal personally, and I know he would definitely like to be a part of the Cavaliers’ organization.
Jamal is one guy off the top of my head that I know would be a fit, and I know that they’ll be looking at him.
They want to use that exception for a wing player.
Let’s be clear: This doesn’t mean Crawford doesn’t also want to play for the Clippers. Many role players want to join LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love in Cleveland for the open shots and championship chance, but Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan offer a similar opportunity.
The Clippers might not want to keep Crawford, though. He’s somewhat superfluous with Lance Stephenson, Austin Rivers and Pablo Prigioni coming off the bench. The Clippers might be happy to flip Crawford for just salary relief. Shedding Crawford would save the Clippers $16,180,533 – $5,675,000 in salary and $10,505,533 in projected luxury-tax payments.
The Cavaliers could absorb Crawford into their Brendan Haywood trade exception. That would create an even higher tax bill than the Clippers face with Crawford – the exact amount depends on salaries for Tristan Thompson and J.R. Smith – but Cavs owner Dan Gilbert has clearly green-lit massive spending.
How much Cleveland could use Crawford on the court depends whether Smith re-signs.
If Smith doesn’t, Crawford is a decent alternative as a spot-up shooter. His 3-point shooting sunk to 32.7% last season, but that was due to off-the dribble 3-pointers – which fell to 25.0% from 36.4% the year prior. Meanwhile, Crawford’s 3-point shooting without dribbling prior to launching ticked up from 36.0% to 38.0%.
If Smith returns, Crawford is even more of a luxury as another shooter. With the attention LeBron, Irving and Love attract, Cleveland can always use more spot-up threats.
Mo Williams filled the Cavaliers’ major need for an off-the-bench shot creator. The 35-year-old Crawford has declined in that regard, but there’s at least hope he could provide a little insurance.
The Cavaliers don’t need Crawford, at least not considering they could just sign Smith. But if Gilbert is willing to pay for him and the Clippers are willing to dump him for minimal return, the only question is whether Cleveland could better use that portion of the Haywood exception. Crawford would definitely strengthen the Cavs.
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Spoerri Bruno
Freiestr. 172
CH-8032 Zürich (ZH)
Tel: 41 (0)44 420 15 42
Fax: 41 (0)44 420 15 43
www.computerjazz.ch
* 16. 08. 1935.
Saxophonist, installation artist, composer and electronic and interactive music specialist Bruno Spoerri qualified initially as a psychologist following studies in Zurich and Freiburg im Breisgau. He simultaneously studied music in Basel, Zurich and Cologne but is, to a large extent, a musical autodidact.
As saxophonist or musical arranger Spoerri has worked with numerous jazz groups including the Metronome Quintet, the Modern Jazz Group Freiburg and his own bands. Spoerri later worked with the trumpeter Hans Kennel in the 'Jazz-Rock Experience', the first ever Swiss jazz-rock group and in the dialect-rock band 'Bode Bänd' with Walter Lietha.
He has worked as a professional musician since 1965, began improvising on electronic equipment in 1968 and developed Switzerland's first private electronic studio in 1970. Spoerri has produced music for over 500 advertisement spots, short films, industrial films, slide shows, documentaries, feature films and a musical. He has also recorded a complete series of LPs together with various Swiss jazz and folk-rock groups. Spoerri has been working on the development of an interactive computer music system for improvisational musicians since 1984 and has produced numerous computer music installations in various places. He has performed many solo and duo concerts using electronic equipment and concerted with the percussionist Reto Weber. From 1985 until 2000 he was the co-director and manager of the Swiss Centre for Computer Music in Oetwil am See and Geneva. He taught in the electronic music departments of the conservatories in Biel and Zurich and at the jazz school in Lucerne until 2005.
Divertimento 76 (1976)
Instrumentation: for wind quintet and analogue electronics
Waves of Montreux (1977/12)
Instrumentation: for synthesizer
Playback (1990)
Instrumentation: for saxophone quartet and electronic tape
A piece about the situation of the playback musician in the sound studio.
...for Cahill für obsolete Tasteninstrumente (1993)
Instrumentation: for synthsizer, hammond organ and fender piano
Hausmusik (1995)
Integrated into this piece is a farewell to the house in which the Swiss Centre for Computer Music and other projects were born. Found and provocative sounds of the house and its environment are processed by a computer.
De- / In- / Formation (1995)
Instrumentation: for voice, electronic saxophone and computer
Etude pour usines à fer (1996)
Homage to Pierre Schaeffer
In this ‘etude’ it was my intention to tease out elusive yet perceivable rhythms from short sound recordings taken in a steel foundry. I worked primarily with a computer programme, actually intended for use in the restoration of old LP recordings, whose undesired side effects interested me.
Krebsgänge (1997)
for René Krebs
Instrumentation: for jazz musician (see snails, trumpet) and an interactive computer system
A dialogue between an improvising musician and two computer programmes whose reaction to the musician’s performance is partly predictable and partly unexpected. The movements of the musician are registered using a video camera and then used to control a recording and play-back apparatus. The sound material for this piece is extracted from the musician and is continuously transposed and transformed by the computer.
The predetermined musical structure is suggested to the improvisor by way of the computer’s reactions - s/he has the possibility, however, to override them.
Duration: 14' 00" ((variabel))
Not what it seems to be (1995-1998)
Instrumentation: for synthophone and live electronics
Birds of Cochin (1998)
Instrumentation: for tape recorder
Coalburner's Delight (1998)
Dark Metal (1998)
Hit the Mark (1998)
Pannie's Afternoon (1998)
Paradise Garden (1998)
Stony Broke Night (1998)
Bolghatty Dreams (1998)
Instrumentation: for electric saxophone, guitar, trombone, percussion and computer
Tri-Van-Drumming (1998)
Instrumentation: for electronic saxophone, guitarre and percussion
Quod licet für 4 (1999)
Instrumentation: for violin, violoncello, flute and clarinet
A piece of minimal music - easy to play and hard to interpret.
Brouillard - débrouillé 2 (1999)
for Matthias Müller
Instrumentation: for bass clarinet and an interactive computer system
The beginning of this piece finds the player in the midst of an extremely dense ‘Brouillard’, a fog. Cautious groping or, depending on temperament, courageous interposition allows the player to explore their immediate environment. S/he is gradually ‘débrouillised’ and acquires a certain confidence in the handling of this environment. Diverse sound processes are provided by the background score hidden in the computer.
The Loose Blues Booze (2000)
Instrumentation: for jazz quartet
Bruno Spoerri: (2002)
for Barb Wagner & Werner Bärtschi
Instrumentation: for two pianists and an interactive computer system
This piece consists of 15 periods, each with a duration of 48 seconds. The process of sound production follows a score ‘hidden’ in the computer, which, as with the score of the interpreters, is derived from the intervals of a twelve-tone series. The contrast between the incessant sequence of the computer controlled sound and the extensively defined yet inevitable variability in timing and detail in the action of the interpreters allows each performance to result in a new version of the piece.
Verklungen (2003)
The sound of my mothers violin has not been heard for a few years now: she died in 2000. During the course of her varied life her violin career repeatedly stagnated; in the last years of her life the afflictions of old age silenced her completely. I attempt to capture my memories of her in this piece.
The composition tells her story in a manner similar to that of the jazz improvisor doing a soli.
Associations, stray thoughts and suddenly increasing anxieties play an integral part.
Klagelied (2004)
Instrumentation: for soprano, saxophone/synthophone and electronic
Prepare for the Show (2008)
Instrumentation: for voice and synthesizer
Singing in the closet (2008)
Singing in the dark (2008)
Dorine (2008)
Instrumentation: for jazz ensemble (3 brass, perc, db)
Glückskugel - Title (2008)
Walking (2008)
Glückskugel - The Race (2008)
Wer gwünnt? (who wins?) (2008)
Going to Work (2008)
Instrumentation: for synthesizer and jazz combo
Winding Down (2008)
On the Way (2008)
[2008] 3', Ms.
Soft Art Theme (2008)
Strange Sounds (2008)
The Dance (2008)
The Train (2008)
Drillin' (2008)
Fanfare (2008)
Colours (2009)
Age of Cannons 2 (2010)
Automation 1 & 2 (2010)
Roll on (2010)
Background Rhythm (2010)
Instrumentation: for 1-5 synthesizers
Ballad on a Row (2010)
Instrumentation: for jazz combo
Bicycle Ride (2010)
Walkers (2010)
Things are not (2011)
Doom's Blues (2011)
Sound horn (2011)
The Silliest Song (2012)
The Harp and the Whey (2013)
Instrumentation: for jazz ensemble, accordion and dulcimer
Hommage au Fromage (2013)
January 10th (2013)
Song for Nana (2013)
Valse du Fromager (2013)
Schweizerisches Zentrum für Computermusik (stv/asm Nr. 4, 1999)
Powell, Kit: Whale (1993)
Berger, Gary: im selben raum (1997)
Spoerri, Bruno: Etude pour usines à fer (1996)
Neukom, Martin: Studie 8.3 (1994)
Spoerri, Bruno: De- / In- / Formation (1995)
With more works of: Bruno Spoerri, Brigitte Schär, Harold Vasquez, Michael Horowitz, Simon Jaunin, Nicolas Sordet
Spoerri, Bruno: Jazz in der Schweiz, Chronos Verlag, Zürich 2005
Spoerri, Bruno: Bruchstücke einer Geschichte der elektronischen Musik in der Schweiz, in: Dissonanz 93 (2006) [Internet]
Spoerri, Bruno: Portrait Hans Eugen Frischknecht, in: Musik aus dem Nichts – die Geschichte der elektroakustischen Musik in der Schweiz, Chronos 2010, S. 79-80
Spoerri, Bruno: Musik aus dem Nichts. Die Geschichte der elektroakustischen Musikin der Schweiz, Chronos, Zürich 2010
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Shakespeare 2016!
Virginia Events
World-Wide Shakespeare
Home Shakespeare 2016! Special Events
Over the course of the year, the campus will celebrate with special Shakespeare-related events. Two such events are an Elizabethan feast in the Commons Dining Hall and a public Shakespeare Birthday party for the campus and community — both planned for the spring. More details will follow.
Shakespeare Feast:
Dining Services will host a Shakespearean feast on Thursday, March 31, in the Dining Hall from 5 - 8 pm. The feast will feature Elizabethan-era foods, drinks, and recipes, as well as entertainment, including Elizabethan Dancing and the Soliloquy Slam.
Birthday Celebration:
The campus will celebrate Shakespeare's birthday on April 29, the Friday of the first week of spring term and of Reunion Weekend, with Elizabethan-themed all-campus luncheon and entertainment.
Celebrating Shakespeare in Shenandoah Literary Magazine:
The spring 2016 issue of W&L's literary magazine contains an entire section of stories, poems and essays in celebration of Shakespeare. Click here to go to the issue.
"Your Favorite Professor's Favorite Shakespeare Film" Series:
Professor Erich Uffelman presents Kenneth Branagh's 1989 film version of Henry V on Tuesday, January 26.
Romeo and Juliet in Harlem:
In the fall, we hope to host filmmaker Aleta Chappelle, who has made a feature film with a "complete cast of color" called Romeo and Juliet in Harlem. She will come for a screening of the film, a talkback, and meetings with students interested in the film business or hearing about her career as a casting director and filmmaker. The visit will be sponsored by Shakespeare 2016! and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
"Can one desire too much of a good thing?"
— As You Like It
Hank Dobin
hdobin@wlu.edu
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AfCFTA, key to achieving Ghana’s Industrialization Agenda - GEPA
Sat, 21 Nov 2020 Source: GNA
The implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AFCFTA) agreement has presented local industries in Ghana the opportunity to contribute significantly to the industrialization agenda of the country.
Mr Albert Kassim Diwura, the Deputy Chief Executive Officer in charge of Human Resource and Administration, Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA), remarked in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region during the regional conference on the implementation of AFCFTA and the new National Export Development Strategy (NEDS).
Mr Diwura who spoke on behalf of Dr Afua Asabea Asare, the CEO of GEPA noted that with the operationalization of AFCFTA in January 2021, coupled with the rollout of the new National Export Development Strategy (NEDS) would enable businesses to form a synergy to increase output, diversify operations and add value to their products to expand trade.
NEDS, which is a 10-year policy document, designed by GEPA and other relevant institutions is meant to empower businesses in Ghana especially those in Non-Traditional Exports (NTEs) sector to diversify production and contribute to the country’s industrialization agenda.
The conference which is jointly organized across all the regions by GEPA, the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoTI) and the National AFCFTA Coordination Office was to equip stakeholders and industry players on how to harness the potentials of AFCFTA and NEDS to rake in more revenue.
It was held on the theme, “Empowering Ghanaian businesses to harness the benefits of the AFCFTA agreement under the framework of the NEDS”.
Mr Diwura noted that currently the rate of trade among African countries was about 15 percent which is low and noted that when the interventions of the NEDS were fully implemented and with opening of the market through AFCFTA, trade among African countries would increase and the country was expected to rake in US$525.3 billion in NTEs revenue by the year 2029.
He said in order to fully benefit from the government’s flagship programme of One District One factory, it was expected that “each district in Ghana should develop at least one exportable product that will provide the needed raw materials to feed the ever-expanding numbers of factories being established.”
The Deputy CEO explained that the Upper East Region was noted for its immense NTEs including; baskets, shea butter among others and added that it was imperative for stakeholders in each sector to work together and take advantage of the interventions of NEDS to increase output and quality to expand their market via AFCFTA.
“We know well that in this Region, one of the prominent products we are dealing with at GEPA is the popular Bolgatanga Baskets, which gave us lots of revenue in the industrial arts and crafts and even with the current low trading between African countries, producers of the baskets are not able to meet demand.
So we encourage a lot of synergy, partnership and even if it will mean districts or regions coming together to produce the needed quantity to feed market,” he said.
Dr John-Hawkins Asiedu, Technical Advisor, Industrial Parks and Special Economic Zones, MoTI, with the exception of Eritrea, all other African countries have signed onto the AFCFTA agreement while 32 have ratified already.
“I would like to indicate that the AFCFTA is the largest trade bloc in the world with a single market including duty-free and quota-free, and comprises of 55 member states which has a population of over 1.2 billion and a combined GDP of over US$3.4 trillion,” he disclosed.
Apart from government putting in place the required institutional structures, Dr Asiedu indicated, it has developed a national action plan that would enable the country to harness the full potentials of AFCFTA especially in the area of NTEs.
Mr Frank Fuseini Adongo, the Upper East Deputy Regional Minister, urged players in the NTEs sector in the region to seek the interventions of the NEDS to expand their production, diversify their production, add value to their products to significantly benefit from AFCFTA to help reduce poverty so to contribute to the attainment of the Ghana Beyond Aid agenda.
Source: GNA
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Empower businesses for AfCFTA and post-COVID recovery – AGI to government
Be proactive to benefit from AfCFTA – AfroChampions urges businesses in Ghana
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Protein misfolding cyclic amplification
Fabio Moda, Sandra Pritzkow, Claudio Soto
Prion diseases are caused by a conformational conversion of the cellular prion protein (PrPC) to a pathological conformer (PrPSc). The “prion-only” hypothesis suggests that PrPSc is the infectious agent that propagates the disease acting as a template for theconversion of PrPC. In 2001, we developed a novel in vitro technique, called Protein misfolding cyclic ampli fi cation (PMCA), which mimics this pathological process in an accelerated way. Thereby, minimal amount of PrPSc can be ampli fi ed to several millions fold, providing an important tool for diagnosis and investigation of prion biology, and the molecular mechanism of prion conversion. PMCA also offers a great platform for the study and ampli fi cation of the protein misfolding process associated with other neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.
Prions and Diseases: Volume 1, Physiology and Pathophysiology
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5305-5
PMCA
Prion decontamination procedures
Prion diseases
Prion transmission
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
10.1007/978-1-4614-5305-5
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Moda, F., Pritzkow, S., & Soto, C. (2013). Protein misfolding cyclic amplification. In Prions and Diseases: Volume 1, Physiology and Pathophysiology (pp. 83-92). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5305-5
Protein misfolding cyclic amplification. / Moda, Fabio; Pritzkow, Sandra; Soto, Claudio.
Prions and Diseases: Volume 1, Physiology and Pathophysiology. Springer New York, 2013. p. 83-92.
Moda, F, Pritzkow, S & Soto, C 2013, Protein misfolding cyclic amplification. in Prions and Diseases: Volume 1, Physiology and Pathophysiology. Springer New York, pp. 83-92. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5305-5
Moda F, Pritzkow S, Soto C. Protein misfolding cyclic amplification. In Prions and Diseases: Volume 1, Physiology and Pathophysiology. Springer New York. 2013. p. 83-92 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5305-5
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Tag: online gaming
All laptops today are gaming laptops
by monster September 4, 2020 October 15, 2020 Esports / GamingLeave a Comment on All laptops today are gaming laptops
Unlike our phones and tablets, laptops are divided into two separate categories. The first is a laptop with built-in graphics that cannot play games. The other is a laptop specially designed for gaming. And most of the laptops sold fall into the first category.
Embarrassing. This is bad for computer gaming and bad for Windows laptops in general.
With the announcement of the 11th generation Intel processor, standard laptops can finally break into this form. Soon, most laptops will be playable – even those small, thin, and light devices you might take for granted. That’s why it’s kicking your ass.
Intel Iris Xe raises the bar
For over a year, Intel has been revolving around its Xe graphics. While fans expect a discrete graphics processor that can compete with the Nvidia RTX 3080, Intel has always paid attention to what they call the Xe LP. These are discrete graphics built-in with low power consumption – nothing quite as elegant as what you build into your brilliant gaming platform.
Now that Iris Xe is available, I’m starting to understand why. If the Iris Xe turns out to be nearly as powerful as Intel claims, the company will change the way we expect our computers to be.
I paid close attention to comparisons with separate graphics cards for beginners.
In short, Iris Xe’s graphics are twice as powerful as last year’s stock graphics. This increased from 64 EU (executive unit) to 96 EU, which represents a nearly 33% increase in gaming performance potential. According to Intel, games like Borderlands 3, Far Cry New Dawn and Hitman 2 can be played for the first time at 1080p for Intel integrated graphics.
But beating your old built-in graphics doesn’t mean much. The comparison with discrete graphics cards for beginners really caught my eye. Averaging nearly 40 frames per second at average settings across many AAA titles this is an impressive feat.
To be honest, the Nvidia MX350 is not a proven graphics processor. It’s often found in thin, thin and light laptops like the Acer Swift 3 or Asus ZenBook 14. Even the Iris Xe can’t keep up with the Nvidia GTX 1650.
Make no mistake about it – there will always be room for a suitable gaming laptop. There’s nothing to pretend that this new generation of Tiger Lake laptops will meet the need for high refresh rates, RGB lighting, and powerful discrete graphics processors. This will also be the case if the performance of these integrated graphics is to double again next year.
The ability to play Fortnite at 50 fps or GTA V at 55 fps makes the potential for these graphics unmatched.
There’s a catch, of course
While graphics aren’t ubiquitous at Iris Xe’s level, they always feel like an extra feature. The bad internal UHD graphics from Intel are still like the ones you get on the Core i5-1125G4 and Core i3-1115G4.
This processor is often sold as an initial configuration in many newer laptops and is not suitable for gaming. This is a very popular configuration, especially one that drops under $ 1000. Technically, Intel has slightly improved these graphics compared to last year’s UHD graphics, but it may not be enough to make serious gaming possible.
The Intel Core i7-1135G7 may be more interesting. Despite being labeled “Core i7” and “G7”, the processor has less Intel Xe EU 16. We’ll have to test this particular configuration to see how it works, but we’re going to take a serious step back from other Core i7 configurations.
Wider adoption of higher-performance integrated graphics will occur at some point, but will remain an asterisk for the current state of Xe graphics.
It outperforms Intel
Intel is a major player in this gaming revolution and its upgrades this year will have the biggest impact.
But don’t forget how it started. Two of its main competitors are the ones pushing Intel to take graphics more seriously. The iPhone and iPad are great examples of where computers need to go. Due to its impressive graphics, any iOS device can play. This has allowed iOS games to evolve the way they do. With the Mac moving to Apple Silicon, there’s no reason to believe entry-level laptops like the 12-inch MacBook and MacBook Air haven’t improved the built-in graphics much.
AMD is in the same position. The integrated Radeon graphics card introduced in the Ryzen 4000 processor is impressive in laptops like the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 7.
Given the intense competition, the future of integrated graphics looks promising.
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Share this Story: Steroid drug hailed as 'breakthrough' in COVID-19 as trial shows it saves lives
Steroid drug hailed as 'breakthrough' in COVID-19 as trial shows it saves lives
Kate Kelland and Alistair Smout
LONDON — A cheap and widely-used steroid called dexamethasone has become the first drug shown to be able to save lives among COVID-19 patients in what scientists said is a “major breakthrough” in the coronavirus pandemic.
Trial results announced on Tuesday showed dexamethasone, which is used to reduce inflammation in other diseases such as arthritis, reduced death rates by around a third among the most severely ill of COVID-19 patients admitted to hospital.
Steroid drug hailed as 'breakthrough' in COVID-19 as trial shows it saves lives Back to video
The results suggest the drug should immediately become standard care in patients with severe cases of the pandemic disease, said the researchers who led the trials.
Britain’s health minister said the state-run health service’s standard hospital treatment for COVID-19 would include the drug from Tuesday afternoon, adding that Britain had stockpiled 200,000 courses of the treatment.
“This is a (trial) result that shows that if patients who have COVID-19 and are on ventilators or are on oxygen are given dexamethasone, it will save lives, and it will do so at a remarkably low cost,” said Martin Landray, an Oxford University professor co-leading the trial, known as the RECOVERY trial. “It’s going to be very hard for any drug really to replace this, given that for less than 50 pounds ($63.26), you can treat eight patients and save a life,” he said in an online briefing.
His co-lead investigator, Peter Horby, said dexamethasone was “the only drug that’s so far shown to reduce mortality – and it reduces it significantly.”
“It is a major breakthrough,” he said. “Dexamethasone is inexpensive, on the shelf, and can be used immediately to save lives worldwide.”
There are currently no approved treatments or vaccines for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus which has killed more than 431,000 people globally.
SAVE LIVES AROUND THE WORLD
England’s chief medical officer, Chris Whitty, said Tuesday’s announcement was “the most important trial result for COVID-19 so far,” adding: “It will save lives around the world.”
The RECOVERY trial compared outcomes of around 2,100 patients who were randomly assigned to get the steroid, with those of around 4,300 patients who did not get it.
The results suggest that one death would be prevented by treatment with dexamethasone among every eight ventilated COVID-19 patients, Landray said, and one death would be prevented among every 25 COVID-19 patients that received the drug and are on oxygen.
Among patients with COVID-19 who did not require respiratory support, there was no benefit from treatment with dexamethasone.
“The survival benefit is clear and large in those patients who are sick enough to require oxygen treatment, so dexamethasone should now become standard of care in these patients,” Horby said.
The RECOVERY trial was launched in April as a randomized clinical trial to test a range of potential treatments for COVID-19, including low-dose dexamethasone and the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine.
The hydroxychloroquine arm was halted earlier this month after Horby and Landray said results showed it was “useless” at treating COVID-19 patients. (Editing by Timothy Heritage)
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Anatomy of An Icons Signing: Behind The Scenes With FOOTY.com
July 1, 2016 Icons.com
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Earlier this year we invited our friends from the football price comparison site FOOTY.com to come with us to a signing with one of the world’s best footballers. It just so happened that player was Barcelona‘s Argentinean superstar and global phenomenon Lionel Messi. From the FOOTY.com blog, here’s what Michael Lowdon thought of one our sessions with the world’s best…
As I drove down the A1 in torrential rain to FOOTY.com HQ, another wet day in the North East lay ahead. Or so I thought. By 10pm I was in Barcelona, enjoying a warm night, as the atmosphere of the UEFA Champions League clash with Atletico Madrid spilled out of the Nou Camp and onto the city’s streets. Our friends over at Icons.com had given us an invite to join them in the Catalan capital to get an insight into the workings of a player signing session. The player in question: Mr Lionel Messi.
Home of one of the best club sides in the history of the game, with arguably the greatest player to have kicked a football, the journey to the airport required regular pinching.
Being a frequent visitor to the Icons.com website, I was intrigued to see what goes on behind the scenes at a signing. After meeting Ali and Ben at Heathrow, the first task was to help with checking in of a number of packed suitcases, all of which were full to the brink with Messi memorabilia to be signed. From his latest adidas boot collection to a range of Barcelona and Argentina shirts, UEFA Champions League balls and glossy photo prints, the Icons team took a wide range of products ready for the Argentine’s penwork.
Once we had landed in Barcelona, the breathless Catalan commentary of the night’s match blared through the taxi’s radio, as we used our best broken Spanish to get the driver on our side. The hotel Icons put us up in was a stone’s throw away from the Camp Nou, meaning towards the end of journey the surrounding streets were filled with endless queues of mopeds, carrying relieved and joyous Cules late into the night. After more trolley pushing and the hotel bellboy’s help, we retired to the hotel bar, filled with the debate between fans. A quick night cap and a briefing for the next day’s signing rounded off a day which had started with a quiet, rainy morning in the office.
FOOTY.com check out our signing photos – a key for authenticity
With signing day upon us, there was no time for a lie in and we were locked away in the hotel’s store room, preparing the cases and deciding what needed to be taken as a priority. It was the “less glamourous side of the signings” I was told, but as a Messi disciple and football merch geek I was like a pig in muck! Selections of football shirts and boots were asking to be jumped into and drooled over. Composed and professional, I managed to hide my excitement, just. As the deadline loomed, we met player liaison officer Jesus, Icons Founder Edward and CEO Dan outside of the Barcelona training ground and dissected Atleti’s defensive resilience, which would help them later progress to the semi final. Bumping into Pep’s superstar agent brother Pere Guardiola and a handful of other important figures, the team were escorted into the training centre to get the session underway.
Messi is delighted to receive a shirt signed by fellow Icon Wayne Rooney
Having been signed to Icons for over a decade, making it one of his longest running commercial relationships, Messi knows what to expect when he’s faced with another Icons memorabilia signing session and he quickly got about his business. Icons exclusively produce the official Messi signed range as part of their license with the Argentine superstar. He breaks from the rhythm of signing to get his photo lifting a signed Wayne Rooney shirt that he’s received from the England captain, smiling with that grin we’ve come to recognise after more than 500 career goals.
The session draws to a close with Messi needed elsewhere – those five Ballon d’Ors won’t polish themselves you know. With yet another successful session in the bag, we retreat back to the hotel bar as the team celebrate. Messi is just one of a glittering list of current players which sign for Icons, including Neymar Jr, Luis Suarez, Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale, Sergio Aguero and many more. Not a bad forward line to have on your books! As the dust settles from the Messi signing, we relax with a meal in the shadow of La Sagrada Familia, unwinding as each Wolfsburg goal against Real Madrid raises a roar from the locals. We could get used to this!
Icons and FOOTY.com join the fans outside the Barcelona training ground
It’s been a whirlwind 48 hours for FOOTY.com, but for Icons it’s simply another day at the office. They’ll do it all again before long, as they met Eric Cantona in Lisbon and Gareth Bale in Madrid before April comes to end. The team also reveal which players are on their radar to sign next, what affects their choice and whether the enigmatic Ronaldinho is within their grasp.
From logistically planned trolley runs to preparing products for smoother signings, it’s all in a day’s work, in the crazy job that is chasing footballers around the world. As FOOTY.com has come to realise, there’s a story behind every signing. We can’t thank Icons enough for inviting us along to their private signing session with the most in demand footballer on the planet. The care and effort they put into organising every aspect of the signing, from their planning, unrivalled authenticity they strive for and their relationships with players is something to be inspired by.
FOOTY.COM is the UK’s leading price comparison when it comes to everything football. We specialise in searching the web to bring you the best prices and biggest savings on products from boots to balls and everything in between. Shop with FOOTY.COM to pay less and play more!
Shop from our full range of official Lionel Messi signed items here.
Icons Visits Camp Nou Courtesy of Lionel Messi
November 28, 2015 Icons.com
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One of the perks of working with some of the best players in the world is the opportunity to watch them in action. This weekend was no different, as Icons flew out from our HQ in London to meet with Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi in the Catalan capital.
After a signing with the legendary forward on Friday evening, Messi personally invited Icons to watch Barça entertain La Liga rivals Real Sociedad at Camp Nou the following day. With pitch-side seats courtesy of Messi himself, Icons got to enjoy yet another irresistible performance from the European and Spanish champions.
Messrs Messi, Neymar Jr, Luis Suarez and company ran riot over Eusebio Sacristán’s side with a 4-0 victory that extended their lead at the summit of La Liga, at least for a couple of hours.
Sweeping home the first of Barcelona’s goals was Neymar, whose superb form this season has him leading the team and the league with 14 goals. He would add another midway through the second half with an equally impressive team move initiated by fellow Icon Andres Iniesta.
Suarez was on had to score the second and most impressive goal of the day just before the interval, acrobatically volleying in Dani Alves’s cross past Sociedad goalkeeper Gerónimo Rulli and into the bottom corner to send the Blaugrana faithful wild.
With the game 2-0 at half time, the feeling around the ground was that the points were safe and the only question left was how many more Barcelona would get.
Sure enough, Neymar added his second and the team’s third on the 54th minute, sliding in Jérémy Mathieu’s perfectly weighted pass. But the biggest cheer of the afternoon was reserved for the fourth and final goal of the game, as Neymar, Suarez and Messi combined to allow the latter to score his first league goal since returning to action after injury.
Impressive as the performance and the scoreline was, some would argue Barcelona still didn’t quite reach their full potential, which should tell you all you need to know about this phenomenal team.
For our full range of Barcelona products, including triple signed shirts from the Three Amigos and brand new products from Lionel Messi, Andres Iniesta and Luis Suarez – all in time for Christmas – check out icons.com now!
Photos courtesy of Matt Hardy. For more images of Icons’ visit to Camp Nou, visit www.matthardyphotography.co.uk.
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In the News: Thailand dance feature; charging stations in Digital Edge
Webster students spent two months studying Thai classical dance with Patravadi Mejudhon, Thailand's national artist in performing arts.
Recent media coverage of Webster University community members includes:
Thailand's "The Nation" featured the group of Webster dance students from the U.S. who recently traveled to Thailand to spend two months studying Thai classical dance with Patravadi Mejudhon, Thailand's national artist in performing arts, and Beckah Reed, professor of dance and artistic director in Webster's Leigh Gerdine College of Fine Arts.
One of the students, Shannon Haubrich, was there thanks in part to a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship.
The Nation's story spoke with several students about the experience. "I've studied dance since the age of three and feel that Thai dance allows me to see another side of the world," said student Abby Contreras. "When Webster University offered the Thai classical dance class here, I leapt at the chance. It was hard, very hard, and in some ways similar to ballet.
Read the full feature with additional photos at The Nation. Also see more photos in the Webster Thailand Facebook post.
Webster Charging Stations in Center for Digital Education
Greg Gunderson, vice president and chief financial officer, is quoted in a Center for Digital Education article about the trend of wireless charging stations appearing on college campuses.
The article notes that in addition to being a sustainability tool, one of Webster's stations serves to raise visibility and awareness -- and build community:
"Along with the stationary charging station, Webster University has a portable one that representatives take to regional events and festivals. This station serves as a recruiting and retention tool with its large university logo and place to charge devices.
"A university administrator saw a different charging station at a St. Louis Cardinals baseball team and observed how the 12 people who were charging their devices at it were talking to each other. These people wouldn't normally interact because they didn't know each other, but the charging station brought them together."
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Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical. Image courtesy of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.
10 great family adventures in Pittsburgh this December
Amanda Waltz
Events, Features, Kid Friendly Events, Kidsburgh Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is ending the year with a bang by offering up a month of great live shows, holiday festivals and New Year’s Eve fun. Sleep over at the Carnegie Science Center, dance the afternoon away at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater or craft your heart out at Handmade Arcade. You’ll find these and more in our December family events guide.
Image courtesy of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre.
1. The Nutcracker at the Benedum Center: December 1-27
A time-honored holiday tradition returns when Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre presents The Nutcracker at the Benedum Center. More than 100 professional company members and student dancers from the PBT School will bring a Pittsburgh twist to the fantastic tale. This version opens in early 20th-century Shadyside and contains references to the city’s own landmarks and cultural heritage, including the Snow Scene’s Mount Washington view, a Kaufmann’s-style proscenium clock and a Land of Enchantment inspired by Pittsburgh’s historic amusement parks. All 24 performances will feature Tchaikovsky’s iconic score, spectacular choreography, and costume and scenic designs by Emmy-winning designer Zack Brown. Of course, the scene wouldn’t be complete without a colossal Christmas tree, flurrying snow and mesmerizing magic tricks. Audience members also have the chance to take a souvenir photo with the Sugar Plum Fairy, shop for Nutcracker and holiday-themed gifts at the PBT boutique, and listen to lobby entertainment by local musical ensembles before select performances.
Tickets start at $28 and are available online, by phone at 412-456-6666 or at the Box Office at Theater Square in Downtown Pittsburgh.
Hands-on Handmade Activity Area at Handmade Arcade. Photo by Joey Kennedy.
2. Hands-on Handmade at Handmade Arcade: December 2
Shop til you drop at Handmade Arcade or make your own fun gifts at the event’s free all-ages activity area. Located adjacent to the massive, 170-plus vendor market, Hands-on Handmade features short and daylong drop-in projects, demonstrations, mini-tutorials, make-and-take activities, games, and large-scale community art projects presented by area nonprofits and arts groups. Create your own screen-print t-shirt design with Artists Image Resource and Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts High School, make holiday decor with Hatch Art Studio and Sarah Heinz House, or build your own upcycled “frankentoy” with the Mt. Lebanon Public Library. There are also stations for making cards, pins, stickers, jewelry and more, as well as workshops about leatherworking, wood burning and macramé.
Hands-on Handmade takes place during Handmade Arcade on Saturday, December 2 from 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. The event is free and open to the public.
My Brigadista Year by Katherine Paterson. Image courtesy of Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures.
3. Katherine Paterson: Words & Pictures at Carnegie Library Lecture Hall: December 3
The Carnegie Lecture Hall will play host to a kid lit superstar when Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures presents a talk by author Katherine Paterson. Most noted for her coming-of-age fantasy “Bridge to Terabithia,” Paterson has written 16 novels for children, including such award-winning titles as “Jacob Have I Loved,” “The Master Puppeteer” and “The Great Gilly Hopkins.” Her new book, “My Brigadista Year,” follows a Cuban teenager as she volunteers for Fidel Castro’s national literacy campaign and travels into the impoverished countryside to teach others to read. This event is presented as part of the Words & Pictures series, which showcases acclaimed children’s authors and illustrators to readers of all ages.
Katherine Paterson: Word & Pictures takes place at 2:30 p.m. Tickets cost $11. A book signing will follow the program in the Children’s Department of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
Ornament Extravaganza. Photo by Ben Filo. Courtesy of the Union Project.
4. Ornament Extravaganza at the Union Project: December 3
Give your tree a personal touch with keepsakes made at the Union Project‘s Ornament Extravaganza. Kids and adults will learn to slab build, coil build and glaze their own ornaments during this amazing holiday art class. The projects will then fired in the Union Project’s on-site kiln. Ornaments will be ready to be picked up before Christmas; more details will be provided at the workshop.
Ornament Extravaganza takes place from 1-3 p.m. Registration costs $25.
The Polar Express. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment.
5. Polar Express Sleepover at the Carnegie Science Center: December 8
Gather the whole family for a night of festive entertainment when the Carnegie Science Center presents their Polar Express Sleepover. The evening includes a 3D screening of “The Polar Express” on the massive screen in the brand new Rangos Giant Cinema. Based on the beloved children’s book, the 2004 computer-animated musical fantasy film follows a young boy who goes on an adventure to the North Pole aboard a magical train. And there’s plenty more sleepover fun to be had, including a planetarium, laser and live theater shows and activities.
Sleepover tickets cost $39 and include museum admission, a midnight snack and a continental breakfast served the following morning. Check-in begins at 6 p.m. Groups must have a minimum of one adult chaperone per eight children. To register, call 412-237-1637.
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Amanda Waltz is a freelance journalist and film critic whose work has appeared locally in numerous publications. She writes for The Film Stage and is the founder and editor of Steel Cinema, a blog dedicated to covering Pittsburgh film culture. She currently lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and oversized house cat.
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Home Lions Former Lions WR Titus Young Arrested For Assault With Deadly Weapon, Could...
Former Lions WR Titus Young Arrested For Assault With Deadly Weapon, Could Face 4 Years In Prison
TMZ Sports is reporting that former Lions WR Titus Young was arrested in Los Angeles for assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly beating up a guy in a street fight.
According to the report obtained by TMZ, Young caused “serious bodily injury” to the man in the fight that occurred back on January 30th.
TMZ adds that if Young were to be convicted for this charge, could face a four-year prison sentence.
Young, 26, was a former second-round pick of the Lions back in 2011. He lasted just two years with the team before he was ultimately waived in February of 2013.
There’s no question that his NFL career is over, considering that he has had numerous off-the-field issues since entering the league.
Young’s most recent arrest took place in July of 2014 when he taken into custody for battery and causing serious bodily injury. Before that, Young was arrested 3 times in one week in for DUI.
Hopefully Young gets the help he needs is able to turn things around at some point.
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