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Nikon Software & Firmware
Download Firmware & Software Nikon Camera
Nikon COOLPIX P7700 Firmware Update
Nikon COOLPIX P7700 Compact Digital Camera
Nikon COOLPIX P7700 Firmware Update – The Coolpix P7700 tops Nikon’s point-and-shoot range with a 12.2MP BSI-CMOS sensor a 28-200mm zoom lens, a relatively long telephoto range in this class. Full 1080p video is offered, along with the continuous shooting of 8fps and a fully articulated 3.0-inch LCD, but no optical viewfinder.
Nikon COOLPIX P7700 Design, Features, and Performance
The front of the Nikon Coolpix P7700 features the a-mentioned 7x zoom lens surrounded by a respendable metal ring to allow for additional Nikon installation such as wide-angle converters or telephotos. The maximum telephoto setting of 200mm is the main difference between the P7700 and its main rivals, providing candid shots and details within range, while the 28mm wide-angle setting makes it easy to shoot subjects such as buildings on narrow streets or groups of your friends in confined spaces. The maximum aperture of f/2.0 at 28mm and f/4.0 at 200mm represents a major improvement on the f/2.8-f/5.6 aperture on the P7100 and more according to the serious nature of the camera.
The bottom left of the lens is the Fn1 button; one of the ways in which the P7700 can be adjusted to suit your shooting style. One of six different settings can be mapped to these buttons – RAW, ISO, White Balance, Picture Control, D-Lighting, and Metering – which provide one-touch access to some of the more commonly used functions. On both sides of the lens are two light bulbs, one that doubles as an automatic timer plus an AF-aid lamp, and another that serves as an infrared receiver for use with the optional ML-L3 remote control.
The P7700 records 1080p (1920×1080 pixels) movies at 30fps, plus 720p and VGA modes. The new Custom Movie Mode allows you to take pictures in full Aperture-priority or Manual mode and/or apply one of the seven Special Effects and apply Custom Picture Mode, use the built-in ND filter, choose autofocus mode and enable wind noise reduction.
Check the camera firmware version.
Turn on the Nikon COOLPIX P7700 camera.
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Create a new folder on your computer.
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Extract the Firmware file (F-P7700-V11W.exe / F-P7700-V11M.dmg) containing “firmware.bin” (camera firmware) to a folder called “P7700Update“.
Copy the file “firmware.bin” to the memory card that has been formatted in the Nikon COOLPIX P7700.
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Newcastle must ditch Gibson pursuit
Date: 23rd July 2019 at 10:00am
If there was an area in which Newcastle United need to strengthen this summer, it would be their attack – not their defence.
Rafael Benitez introduced a new dynamic at St James’ Park last season, switching the Magpies to a five-at-the-back formation which along with Martin Dubravka, saw them pick up 11 clean-sheets – the seventh-best in the Premier League.
Players such as Fabian Schar and Jamaal Lascelles really came into their own, and were colossal at the heart of the Newcastle defence, frequently being joined by either Ciaran Clark or Paul Dummett after Florian Lejeune’s injury.
TeamTalk has recently reported that Newcastle are lining up a loan-to-buy bid for Burnley defender Ben Gibson, and Steve Bruce must immediately put a stop to that pursuit, with much better options already available at the club.
Gibson has failed to make any impact whatsoever at Turf Moor, only completing 63 minutes in the Premier League last season, with the defender surely having to do much more to prove he is worth making a move for.
Comparing Gibson in his last full season, which was at Middlesbrough in the Championship, via WhoScored, it is clear to see that Bruce would be wasting his time making an offer.
Fabian Schar almost tripled the average of tackles and interceptions made per game in the pairs last full seasons, with the Swiss international becoming an integral part of the squad last season.
Newcastle captain Lascelles also excelled, averaging more offsides, clearances, blocks and made fewer fouls that the Burnley man.
With teamTALK suggesting that Sean Dyche would prefer to sell Gibson rather than loaning him out, only a year after they paid £15million for the English enforcer, only highlights the minimal effect the 26-year-old has had at his relatively new club.
Bruce already has a number of more than capable options and St James’ Park and must ditch the idea of making a move for the Burnley defender.
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Tag: #historicalromance
Blog Tour: The Secrets Of Colchester Hall by Sophie Barnes
The Secrets of Colchester Hall
by Sophie Barnes
Purchase: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | Apple Books | Google Play
She’s the woman he wants… But will his love for her be enough to make her stay?
As one of six possible candidates vying for Viscount Sterling’s hand, Lady Angelica has been invited to stay at his grand manor for a week-long house party. But an unpleasant feeling lurks within Colchester Hall. It’s almost as if someone’s watching Angelica just beyond the edge of her vision. And while she tries to explain the chill creeping up behind her as merely a draft, she can’t shake the feeling that something disturbing might be at play.
When Sterling decides she’s the woman he wants, can Angelica accept her new home and the sinister secrets she fears it might hold, or will she give up on true love because of what could be nothing more than her own imagination?
A Gothic inspired Regency Romance to get your heart racing.
Born in Denmark, USA TODAY bestselling author Sophie Barnes spent her youth traveling with her parents to wonderful places all around the world. She’s lived in five different countries, on three different continents, and speaks Danish, English, French, Spanish, and Romanian with varying degrees of fluency. But, most impressive of all, she’s been married to the same man three times—in three different countries and in three different dresses.
When she’s not busy dreaming up her next romance novel, Sophie enjoys spending time with her family, swimming, cooking, gardening, watching romantic comedies and, of course, reading.
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Blog Tour: An Unexpected Temptation by Sophie Barnes
The Townsbridgesby Sophie BarnesPublication Date: December 8, 2020Genres: Adult, Historical, Romance
No other woman compares…Six years ago, Athena Townsbridge broke up a wedding. This worked out well for her brother and the lady he loved, but Athena has never forgiven herself for what it did to Robert Carlisle. No one has seen him since he fled the church in humiliation, so when she learns of his estate’s proximity to the property she is staying at during a family visit, she sets out, determined to make amends.When Robert, Marquess of Darlington, is reunited with Athena, she’s no longer the troublesome girl he remembers, but rather a fully grown woman. Trapped with her when a blizzard sets in, he rediscovers her playful side, the laughter and joy she can bring to his life. But it is her willful nature that tempts him, both with the need to tame her and with the dream of making her his.
About Sophie Barnes
Born in Denmark, USA TODAY bestselling author Sophie Barnes spent her youth traveling with her parents to wonderful places all around the world. She’s lived in five different countries, on three different continents, and speaks Danish, English, French, Spanish, and Romanian with varying degrees of fluency. But, most impressive of all, she’s been married to the same man three times—in three different countries and in three different dresses.When she’s not busy dreaming up her next romance novel, Sophie enjoys spending time with her family, swimming, cooking, gardening, watching romantic comedies and, of course, reading.
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Release Blitz/ARC Review; A Duke Never Forgets by Bianca Blythe
Title: A Duke Never Forgets
Series: The Duke Hunters Club
Author: Bianca Blythe
Cover Design: Angela Waters
When the duke trying to evict Genevieve and her family from their cottage gets amnesia, Genevieve’s mother declares that the duke and Genevieve are… married.
Sebastian, the Duke of Sandridge, has been looking forward to holidaying at his cottage in Cornwall. He is disgruntled when he discovers the cottage has been rented, and he is furious when he discovers the cottage has been rented to a woman he despises.
After Genevieve’s father encountered financial difficulties, her mother took Genevieve and her younger brother to Cornwall, far from their home in the Lake District. Genevieve is determined to keep her family’s new home, even after a grumpy duke demands to take the cottage away from Genevieve and her mother.
Still, when Genevieve witnesses the duke have a swimming mishap, she rescues him. When the duke wakes up, he has lost his memory. Her mother quickly announces that Genevieve is married to this man. Will the duke ever know that the woman he considers his wife is not only not his wife, but a woman he has always abhorred?
My thoughts 💭
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This was an entertaining read. Sebastian has amnesia and his sort of nemesis pretends to be his wife. I liked Genevieve. Without the incident clouding their words they actually got along and fell in love. I liked the book.
“He’s moving, Mama!” A high-pitched voice sounded beside Sebastian’s ear, and he shifted irritably.
Whoever said children sounded like angels had been mistaken.
Footsteps plodded through the room, as if a miniature elephant were roaming about it. Perhaps one of his friends had brought a foal or other animal into his house. It wouldn’t be the first time one of his friends from the now-defunct Hades’ Lair had decided to play a prank on him.
No doubt, there was no small child here either. Just one of his friends, testing his falsetto abilities.
Sebastian grudgingly opened his eyes. He blinked. Normally, when Sebastian opened his eyes, he gazed upon a particularly naughty French painting:
Venus in Repose. The white plaster before him was an imperfect replacement. Sebastian rather missed Venus’s soft, rounded curves and the manner in which her skin glowed on the silky strands of verdant grass the painter had depicted her on.
Where on earth was he?
His head ached. Pain ripped through it, accompanied by an odd pounding, as if some tin miner had crawled into his head and had decided to dig his way out, armed solely with his hammer and chisel.
Bang.
Well, the horrible pain rather explained things. Obviously, he’d managed to get absolutely drunk last night.
He scrunched his forehead together. Clearly, the public house needed to improve the quality of their spirits. They must have sold him firewater, at a potency that even he couldn’t be expected to drink unscathed.
He would have to speak with the manager immediately.
He nodded. If his head pounded in such a ferocious manner, then others’ heads must also pound in a ferocious manner. It was only polite to inform them of where they were going wrong.
This bed, certainly, was imperfect. It was lumpy. He wriggled in it. Yes, it was decidedly lumpy. Clearly, they hadn’t changed the feathers in years. What sort of establishment used old feathers? He shook his head. Obviously, this place lacked standards.
“Mama! Mama!” the boy called. “Genevieve!”
Sebastian frowned. Was this public house run entirely by females?
No doubt, this person’s mother was simply a servant here.
Footsteps approached him.
Sebastian didn’t bother to turn his head. Turning his head would be painful, given his outrageous hangover.
“Can you please bring me some coffee?” Sebastian asked.
“See? He’s talking,” said the high-pitched boy again.
“How marvelous,” said a female voice.
Sebastian shifted uncomfortably in the bed. Most of his friends said Sebastian was always quick to take an opportunity to brag, but he wondered whether he might have met someone even quicker to give him compliments than himself.
Talking was an activity he’d mastered by the time he was two, and he’d just been increasing the frequency of his use of multi-syllabled words since then. Perhaps Sebastian hadn’t given himself enough credit for that achievement, and he flashed a beatific smile at the maids who approached.
Born in Texas, Wellesley graduate Bianca Blythe spent four years in England. She worked in a fifteenth-century castle, though sadly that didn’t actually involve spotting dukes and earls strutting about in Hessians.
She credits British weather for forcing her into a library, where she discovered her first Julia Quinn novel. She remains deeply grateful for blustery downpours.
Bianca lives in California with her husband.
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Release Blitz: Breaching Boundaries: Part One by Elizabeth Newton
Title: Breaching Boundaries: Part One
Author: Elizabeth Newton
Breaching Boundaries Part one, is a period romance set at the turn of the 20th Century. It focuses on the heir to the 35,000 acre Carneforth Estate, Elliot Harrington. When his self-serving father Henry Harrington the 4th Earl of Carneforth marries a young French woman soon after his wife’s death, Elliot is torn between his growing feelings for his beautiful step-mother and his sense of honor. As much as he hates his father, can he betray him in this way and are his feelings reciprocated?
Available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited
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Release Blitz: Once Upon A Christmas Rouge Anthology
Once Upon a Christmas Rogue Anthology
by Heather Snow, Sophie Barnes, Tammy Andresen, Collette Cameron, Amanda Mariel, Ellie St. Clair, Jillian Eaton, Bree Wolf
Genres: Adult, Historical, Romance, Anthology
Purchase: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | Apple Books
Allow yourself to be enchanted by these delightful Regency Christmas romances.
A woman seeking a killer infiltrates the war department only to find herself matched with an irresistible spymaster.
A shopkeeper soon discovers that kissing the man she’s determined to hate is so much better than being his enemy.
A rake with no interest in wallflowers or bluestockings is enchanted when he finds both in the form of one woman.
A duke determined to woo a beautiful widow and make her his own. Only she has no interest in marrying again.
A rogue and a lady give in to their passion. Now everything they hold dear is in jeopardy—most of all their hearts.
A lady is neglected by her betrothed. Until he sees her at a ball and must ask why he’s been trying to avoid her.
A duke with an icy heart finds himself falling for the one woman he was never supposed to love…his wife.
A countess, now a stranger to her husband after a riding accident makes him forget her, fights to reclaim his love.
For the first time, you can get these eight previously published novels in one must-have bundle.
Find the Authors
Heather Snow | Sophie Barnes | Tammy Andresen | Collette Cameron | Amanda Mariel | Ellie St. Clair | Jillian Eaton | Bree Wolf
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Review: Bound Through Time by Twyla Turner
Rating:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Source: Kindle Unlimited
Elliot Allen has known nothing but loss in her life. Becoming an orphan twice over, she has no one and fills her lonely days living vicariously through the adventurous stories of love in the historical romance novels she adores. Little does she know that a trip to visit the Scandinavian lands once occupied by Vikings would catapult her back nearly one-thousand years in the past like a heroine in one of her favorite books.
Thorin is the newest chieftain of his clan after the unexpected death of his eldest brother. Used to life as the baby brother, he’s done nothing but chase skirts and glory in battle. Is he really ready to lead an entire village? And would anyone try to challenge his seat as the leader of the richest clan on Iceland?
Just as Thorin attempts to find his way as the chieftain, a mysterious woman with skin of bronze and hair as dark as night is dragged before him. Now as his captive, her beauty sets his blood on fire. Her spirit challenges him at every turn. And his weakness for her threatens his precarious place as chieftain.
Ellie’s fear of losing those she loves, jealousy and danger lurking around every corner, and being from two different worlds could rip them apart.
Will Ellie stay? Or will she be forced to return to her own time?
Find out in the sweeping time travel romance, Bound Through Time: Past.
Warning: This novel contains adult content. 18+ only
This was a wonderfully written historical romance! I absolutely loved Ellie and Thorin’s story. Ellie is thrown back in time where a hot Viking has her chained to his wall. Their chemistry is amazing. Ellie fears her love is cursed and Thorin doesn’t care if it is he just wants her to feel for him what he feels for her. This book gave me all the warm and fuzzy feelings and I loved it. I definitely recommend this!
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Release Blitz: After Dark: 9 Modern Takes On Classic Fairytales
Title: After Dark
Authors: Lena Maye, Lizzie Hermanson, Rose Amberly, RA Winter,
Polly J Brown, K C Freeman, Roxanna Haley, Vianne Sophie May & Stella Knights
Genres: Contemporary, Historical, Paranormal and Fantasy Romances
Add to your #TBR Goodreads
9 Favourite fairy tales get a grown-up make-over. Charming heroes, dangerous royals, Hollywood stars, farmers and mysterious neighbours take you on a sensuous magical journey from London to Washington DC, Tuscan hills to a rugged Canadian nature reserve. Nine stories full of passion, glitter and unexpected twists.
Includes: The Ugly Duckling, Goldilocks, Robin Hood, The Little Mermaid, Pinocchio, Labyrinth, Snow White, Mother Hulda the Snow Maker, and Rumpelstiltskin.
These charming old favourites are retold as passionate love stories (contemporary, historical, paranormal and fantasy romances) Experience tears, heartbreak and happy smiles as our heroines make life-changing choices, overcome troubles and find true love.
Equinox romance carefully selected nine exciting romance authors to create this collection with high-quality writing and delicious escapism.
“A great anthology with some unexpected interpretations. Happy ever after comes in so many ways, sometimes sweets and sometimes so sexy that you must read in private but always worth the wait.” EMMA GREENFIELD. ROMANTIC FICTION LIST
Whether contemporary, magical fantasy or paranormal, they’re all romantic, passionate, sometimes funny always moving.
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Lena Maye:
Lena Maye writes about twenty-somethings finding their way in life and love. Her books are full of second chances, shadowed pasts, and kissing. (Lots of kissing!)
When she’s not writing, she enjoys spending time with her family–which usually involves a board game or two. She also enjoys gardening, reading, and is always up for a game of eight-ball. She lives in Colorado with her amazingly supportive husband and fabulously sweet son.
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Lizzie Hermanson:
Lizzie Hermanson writes feel-good romance – a place to escape to at the end of a hard-working day. She’s married with two grown-up sons, one and a half cats (long story!) and a crazy dog. When she isn’t writing, she can be found roaming the countryside with her trusty camera.
Find her other publications: Wanted: Plus One For Christmas. A Romance Anthology. Wanted: Plus One For Christmas
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Rose Amberly:
When Rose Amberly was little, she pestered her mother for stories every night (and morning and afternoon.) In the end, her parents taught her to read so they could have some peace, but very soon she pestered them for books and more books. By the age of six, she started to make up stories and tell them to her parents pretending she’d read them in a book. Happily, now she’s all grown up and no longer has to pretend
She travelled widely and tried different careers is education, therapy, art management and even briefly, bookkeeping but none of them were as much fun as making up stories.
Rose Amberly lives in London which she thinks is the most fabulous city in the world. She loves to set her stories in England to share with readers some of her favourite places.
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RA Winter:
A cowgirl stuck in the suburbs, RA loves animals and sipping drinks in a secluded cabin in the winter time while the snow falls outside. Long walks calm her but raunchy humor is always bubbling to take over. Beaches are her second love. White sand, the sound of the surf as it splashes against the shore and watching pelicans dive for food energize her, She’ll survive anywhere as long as she has family and friends around.
RA has lived in many countries including Egypt, Jordan, Turkey and Germany. Now you can find her in the US in Pittsburgh, Pa.
She has written 3 previous books under her married name
Today she is writing her sixth novel and fifth novelette.
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Polly J Brown:
Polly J. Brown writes stories of hope and romance with Atlantic Canadian connections. She lives near the ocean in Nova Scotia with her husband, three children, and an ever-changing number of pets. When she isn’t dreaming up new problems for her characters to solve, she can be found at the beach hunting for sea glass or searching for inspiration on the hiking trails.
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K C Freeman:
After leaving the corporate world to raise five rambunctious children in North Carolina, I eventually caved to my lifelong desire to write fiction. First, I dipped her toes in the writing world by freelancing for various clients through a freelance internet service. Gaining confidence in my skills, I quickly dove into ghostwriting. I have ghostwritten two cozy mystery series and one contemporary romance. Recently, I was lucky enough to be asked to contribute a short story to the Autumn/Winter 2017 anthology The Bowman’s Inn, currently available on Amazon.
I write mostly urban fantasy and paranormal romance novels. My current work, a trilogy for the Greylyn the Guardian Angel series, is in progress. I spend a lot of time on Scribophile with my author friends who have encouraged me and always make my work better.
When not writing, I am running my children to practices, football games, swim meets, wrestling tournaments, and generally all over town. In my spare time…who are we kidding? That doesn’t exist.
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Roxanna Haley:
Roxanna Haley has been writing for many years as a way to keep the craziness from taking over her life. She loves to read and has been living in Regency England for as long as she can remember. When she finds herself in the modern world, she is usually in Southern California with her husband, a spoiled dog and a flock of parrots and other birds. She loves to hear from her fans, so please contact her or follow her at the links below.
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Vianne Sophie May:
Vianne Sophie lives in the heart of Germany. When she is not writing one of her diverse, from steamy hot to deliciously sensual romances, you can find her with her face hidden behind a camera, having fun with all kinds of people. She loves to travel the US, hang with her family and watch movies and the behind the scenes.
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Stella Knights:
Stella Knights has lived and worked in several countries across four continents, journalling her life experiences along the way. She enjoys blurring the lines between what is real and what is fantasy and hopes her stories will inspire others to break free and live the life of their dreams.
Having spent a good part of her life in Australia, Stella wrote her first novel series based on things she experienced and learned about while living there. Stella hopes that The Dusty Rider Series opens others to the resilience, hardship, beauty and eternal love of those living in the Australian bush.
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When A Scot Ties The Knot By Tessa Dare!
Rating:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
On the cusp of her first London season, Miss Madeline Gracechurch was shyly pretty and talented with a drawing pencil, but hopelessly awkward with gentlemen. She was certain to be a dismal failure on the London marriage mart. So Maddie did what generations of shy, awkward young ladies have done: she invented a sweetheart.
A Scottish sweetheart. One who was handsome and honorable and devoted to her, but conveniently never around. Maddie poured her heart into writing the imaginary Captain MacKenzie letter after letter … and by pretending to be devastated when he was (not really) killed in battle, she managed to avoid the pressures of London society entirely.
Until years later, when this kilted Highland lover of her imaginings shows up in the flesh. The real Captain Logan MacKenzie arrives on her doorstep—handsome as anything, but not entirely honorable. He’s wounded, jaded, in possession of her letters… and ready to make good on every promise Maddie never expected to keep.
This was a nice historical romance. Madeline is horribly shy and has panic attacks in large groups. Before she’s set for her debut London season she creates a fake fiancé. Over the years she writes this Captain Logan MacKenzie like she’s writing in a diary since she believes the letters aren’t actually being received by anyone. But they are and he shows up to collect what he’s due…after she had given him a heroic death. Which she later comes to regret since it had such an effect on him. Logan wasn’t pleasant at first but it was understandable. He just wanted to give his men the peace and land that was promised them. Maddie just wanted to live her life the way she wanted but when what she wanted changed it was so sweet! I thought they had good chemistry but I did get tired of them almost consummating their marriage and then stopping.
This book was good but had some cringe worth references to lady parts(breeding parts) I had to reread the sentence to make sure I saw correctly😂😂.
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BEGUILING THE BEAUTY SHERRY THOMAS PDF
03.11.2019 19.11.2020 admin Food
It happened one sunlit day in the summer of Until then, Christian de Montfort, the young Duke of Lexington, had led a charmed life. His passion was the natural world. As a child, he was never happier than when he could watch hatchling birds peck through their delicate eggshells, or spend hours observing the turtles and the water striders that populated the family trout stream. Come summer, when he was taken to the seashore, he immersed himself in the tide pools and understood instinctively that he was witnessing a fierce struggle for survival, without losing his sense of wonder at the beauty and intricacy of life.
Author: Diktilar Basho
Uploader: Yozshull
Shelves: romance First please indulge me as I spend a paragraph or two hating on the cover illustration. It looks so uncomfortable! The scratchy-looking lace on the neckline is digging into her breasts, but if she lowered her arm, the bodice would fall right off.
So, the story! You know, if someone had told me that the next Sherry Thomas book would involve two people who grow affectionate towards one another thanks to their shared love of paleontology, I would have been ecstatic. Despite the dinosaurs, however, I did not love this book. Well, I loved the dinosaurs look, in this story, the act of sending a massively heavy set of fossilized dinosaur footprints to the other person is highly fraught with emotional significance , and Thomas as always has her moments of very beautiful prose.
By the way, in Beguiling the Beauty, the beauty does all of the beguiling herself. Anyway, I think that some of the annoyances in the last paragraph are the unfortunate byproducts of trying too hard to set up for Books 2 and 3 in the middle of Book 1. Here is why: When the hero and heroine were about 18 or 19 years old, and the heroine was married to her emotionally abusive first husband, the hero caught a glimpse of the heroine across a playing field and "fell in love.
There is nothing wrong with being powerfully attracted to a beautiful someone whose character is a total mystery to you, but I want to take the idea that this can be Love, and that it can and should be important to the attracted person, and that this experience can and should be a life-changing event, and crumple it into a tiny ball and bite it and jump on it and then set it on fire. And guess what -- the hero then goes on to illustrate one of the very best reasons why I hate that idea so much.
Because this woman whom he only loved for her face, and yet whom he regards as having transformed his life, is apparently shallow and greedy and heartless. At first, he felt entitled to a chance at courting her, because he saw her and found her so beautiful.
Even though she owes him nothing at all, even though she has no idea who he is, he still thinks of her as having the power to make him miserable.
And then, to make matters even worse, he uses this is really eyerollingly terrible evolutionary psychology to make himself feel better. He likes to think about how the real purpose of beauty is only to promote reproduction, and it has nothing to do with character whatsoever.
I wish she had simply left him alone to ferment in his own ego. Unbiased by her face and all its imaginary associations, he learns her character, her history, her desires, and they are all exactly what he loves. Fate has given him his ideal, and she has that face. Would you like me to walk you there? Thank you, Sherry Thomas, for no bullshit about the point of no return. This is one of the many reasons why I love your books and will keep buying them despite not loving this particular book.
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36 Eyewitness News Segments (1978-9)
News segments broadcast on Austin’s KTVV-TV, including Run for Your Life with Willie Nelson and a record-...
Baylor University Cancels Willie Nelson Concert - Footage of the Leroy Bank (1988)
Footage of a failed bank in Leroy, Texas
Baylor University Cancels Willie Nelson Concert - Interview with Eugene Baker (1988)
Interview with a Baylor administrator about the university’s cancellation of a 1988 Willie Nelson concert
Baylor University Cancels Willie Nelson Concert - Interview with a Leroy Resident (1988)
Interview with a Leroy, Texas resident about Baylor University’s cancellation of a Willie Nelson concert
Baylor University Cancels Willie Nelson Concert - Interview with Heather Johnson (1988)
Interview with a Baylor University student about her school’s cancellation of a 1988 Willie Nelson concert
Farm Aid V, Texas Stadium, no. 3 - Interviews with Willie Nelson and Paul Simon (1992)
Interviews with Willie Nelson and Paul Simon at the 1992 Farm Aid concert
Farm Aid V, Texas Stadium, no. 1 - Backstage Interviews and Concert Footage (1992)
Behind the scenes footage of the 1992 Farm Aid concert
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Footage of the 1992 Farm Aid concert
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Farm Aid V, Texas Stadium, no. 5 - Press Conference (1992)
Footage of a 1992 Farm Aid Concert press conference
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Footage of the headlining acts at 1992 Farm Aid concert
Interview with Willie Nelson - Raw Footage (1989)
Raw footage of a 1989 interview with Willie Nelson
John Russell “Hondo” Crouch (1979)
Filmed in Luckenbach in 1979, Wally Pryor interviews actor Guich Koock and Becky Crouch Patterson about h...
Kerrville Folk Festival (1987)
Concert footage of Lubbock musicians at an annual festival in Kerrville
Parking Lot Fire at Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic (1974)
Footage of the parking lot fire that occurred at Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic in 1974, which des...
Texas Entertainment News, Ep. 31 Raw Footage - Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic (1996)
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Texas Entertainment News, Episode 31 (1996)
This episode of Texas Entertainment News - The Texas Music Special - broadcast in August of 1996, centers...
This episode of Texas Entertainment News, broadcast in June, 1996, focuses on Austin's music scene.
This episode of Texas Entertainment News, broadcast in July of 1996, focuses on the summer movie season, ...
The Avena-Wilson Collection, no. 1 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Funeral Procession (1968)
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The Tyrrell Historical Library Collection - PM Magazine Episode (1980)
Complete episode of PM Magazine for Beaumont’s KFDM-TV, featuring a profile of musician-turned-actor Will...
The Wallace and Euna Pryor Collection, no. 2 - Aqua Fest, Interview and Performance by Willie N...
Footage of Willie Nelson giving an interview and a performance at Austin’s Aqua Festival
The Wallace and Euna Pryor Collection, no. 1 - Aqua Fest, Performance by Willie Nelson
Footage of Willie Nelson and his band performing at the 1973 Aqua Festival in Austin, TX
Tribute to Darrell Royal (1981)
Retrospective honoring former University of Texas at Austin Head Coach Darrell Royal, narrated by Austin ...
Willie Nelson in Concert with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (1989)
Shot by Dallas-based director Jim Ruddy, this footage captures a Willie Nelson concert in Dallas ...
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NUMUSIC: IllBliss – Illy Chapo X (Album)
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Ace Nigerian rapper and businessman, IllBliss has finally released his highly anticipated body of work, the “Illy Chapo X” album. The “Illy Chapo X” album is quite lengthy, it houses 17 tracks including collaborations with some…
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Can Alibaba and Didi’s Favorite Microservices Perfectly Integrate with Blockchain?
With the maturity of micro-service architecture technology in recent years, more and more well-known enterprises, including Alibaba, Didi and Vipshop, have turned to utilizing microservices for refactoring their systems. Even in the blockchain industry, a global hit in 2017, the micro-service architecture is also a go-to choice for refactoring blockchain systems.
Why are these famous companies beginning to renounce monolithic architecture by choosing to use microservices instead? How can the blockchain be integrated with microservices?
What is Monolithic Architecture?
Since the early stage of Web applications, the monolithic architecture has been the dominant architecture in software systems. So what is a monolithic architecture?
Suppose you intend to develop an e-commerce system that contains various functional modules such as orders, customers, and goods. After the development is completed, you package the whole project and then deploy them to a server, which responds all queries from users.
The architecture of a system like this, where all the functions are deployed on the same server, is a monolithic architecture.
Defects of Monolithic Architecture
Those who have maintained a large software system using a monolithic architecture know that when adding a new business function to the system, you have to download all modules code from the repository, deploy it in the IDE, and then develop and test it. Even though there exists part of the code you need in an implemented module, there is no way to call it directly and you have to make a copy and then modify to realize the new business functions.
These are reflections of tight module coupling, poor code reusability, and low scalability in a monolithic architecture. In small software systems, as the business logic is not too complex, it is often feasible to adopt a monolithic architecture as a development cost tradeoff.
However, in large software systems, maintenance and iteration are constant. Ensuring better maintenance of the system after the development is of great importance too, and micro-service is an architecture designed for the sake of reducing these maintenance costs.
Micro-Service Architecture Features
Microservices are a type of architecture. It divides a complex large-scale software system into different modules according to different business logics, where each module can be deployed independently and provide services.
If you have experience in developing a system using micro-service architecture, you will find that a typical feature of the micro-service architecture is business-driven.
In the early 1980s, after the emergence of the RPC (Remote Procedure Call) technology, developers began to use RPC to build large systems. In the process, developers realized that not all functions should be divided even though they are dividable technically. Therefore, it is more reasonable to divide functions under specific business purposes. This experience eventually evolved into one of the design principles in the micro-service architecture: business-driven functionality.
Another feature of the micro-service architecture is modular services. In a system developed with micro-service architecture, each individual business unit is developed as a separate module, and each module can be independently deployed in the server to provide corresponding business services. In the end, the services provided by all the modules are pulled together to form a complete business process and become a system.
Business-driven and modular services triumph over the limitations of the monolithic architecture system. Modules are independent from each other, and the communication between the modules is achieved via the interface, which effectively loosens the coupling of the code. When developing new business functions, you only need to download the required modules from the repository instead of all the code, which allows you to develop and test with great ease. In addition, new functions won’t have any impact on the original system. The scalability of the system can be effectively improved.
The Perfect Combination of NULS Blockchain and Microservices
Not only do the traditional Internet companies such as Alibaba and Didi have a preference for micro-service architecture, but the blockchain industry that has been booming since 2017, has also made strides using micro-service architecture.
NULS, a public blockchain project that officially launched its main-net in July 2018 and won a prestigious award from the Chinese Ministry of industry and Information Technology, adopts a modular concept in the design of NULS1.0 to implement a customizable blockchain infrastructure.
However, the design of NULS1.0 is not perfect, and there is still plenty of room to improve, including the following three major issues:
Testing and deployment must still be applied to the entire project;
The user interface is still an integral part of the repository;
Only one development language can be used to enhance the system and make modifications.
In order to resolve these issues and further optimize the overall design of NULS, the NULS core team and technical community (CCC) jointly designed a brand-new architecture based on microservices- NULS2.0.
NULS Module Repository: Your Blockchain-building “Lego” Set
After optimizing NULS based on this new micro-service architecture, NULS will use the modularity of microservices to build a module repository that will include all the basic modules needed to build a blockchain.
The successful construction of the module repository enables companies or institutions to customize their desired blockchain fast and easy: the same way that children build multiple toys with varied features using Lego sets. For example, if a financial institution that wants to use the NULS module repository to build a blockchain system, it can directly pick up the basic modules such as accounts, transactions, and blocks from the module repository via direct download. In addition to this simple step, any business can easily add any new functionality or specific need, by quickly developing new modules to meet specific business needs.
Another reason why NULS is the Lego of blockchain-building systems is that a developed module can be deployed independently and can provide services, so that each module can be reused by multiple blockchains. In the same way you build with Lego sets, a particluar Lego block — or module in this case can be used not only for trains, but also for cars, houses, animals, trees, etc. This makes the module more reusable and more flexible, and adds incredible value to developers who can contribute to and pull from the module repository.
Obviously, the development of the repository makes the overall development of blockchain faster, easier, and much simpler.
One challenge to consider is how to better ensure inter-module communication for systems using micro-service architecture. On this point, NULS also provides its own innovative and outstanding solution.
Inter-module communication is a task that each module must handle. To facilitate development and avoid repetitive work, a service base repository is added to each base module. This way the base module can easily inherit the generic methods described without having to rewrite the corresponding code.
In order to further reduce the workload of developers and facilitate the seamless connection between the external application and the platform, the NULS2.0 architecture offers basic application repositories adapted to various terminals. These repositories are pieces of code that provide complex details about how to manage network resources, i.e. design messages, protocol processing, etc., so that developers can focus on the issues their applications are aimed at resolving, without ever concerning themselves over how to integrate them into the platform. In time, these repositories can be transplanted to multiple development languages, attracting more outside developers to join the project, and thereby growing the repository even faster.
NULS is a global open-source and community-driven blockchain project for customizable services. The complete NULS2.0 micro-service architecture is mainly divided into three layers:
Layer 1: micro-service infrastructure layer
Layer 2: blockchain basic service layer
Layer 3: DAPP application layer
This design is beyond the common blockchain thinking and refactors NULS from a higher dimension. The NULS core team decided to refactor NULS 2.0 based on this architecture. With this design, NULS will be more than the underlying extremely efficient infrastructure of blockchain, it can be a distributed infrastructure that seamlessly integrates with any blockchain systems. It will become a platform for seamless communication between different systems, which will enable companies that build thier blockchains based on NULS to thrive faster, more efficiently, and sharply reduce their development costs and time.
NULS is becoming the most optimal, powerful and flexible platform in the blockchain industry — a true driving force of innovation. Thanks to NULS the future of adaptability and scalability in the blockchain space will be beyond imagination!
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Life is worth swimming by Murray Rose
OceanFit
Be inspired by Murray Rose's story of Olympic success, his unique training techniques and the way in which he captured the hearts and minds of Australian's throughout his life.
Having not grown up in Australia, the first time I heard of Murray Rose was through his association with Murray Rose’s Malabar Magic ocean swim and all the great work he was doing for children as the Patron of the Rainbow Club.
So last week when I got the chance to watch the ABC’s Australian Story ‘A feeling for the water’ I was completely inspired by his story of Olympic success, his unique training techniques and the way in which he captured the hearts and minds of Australian’s throughout his life.
The greatest swimmer of all time
Often referred to as the ‘greatest swimmer of all time’, Murray Rose won 6 Olympic medals (4 gold), 4 Commonwealth Games medals and held numerous world records during his career.
Murray held a lifelong fascination with Australia’s beach culture, becoming an active member of North Bondi Surf Club and pursuing his passion for ocean swimming.
He sadly passed away in 2012 from acute advanced leukaemia, but he has left a legacy behind and an autobiography which provides an intimate glimpse into the personal journey of an Australian swimming icon.
About the book – Life is Worth Swimming
Life is Worth Swimming is an intimate glimpse into the personal journey of Australian swimming icon Murray Roseóîhis life, his stories and his innermost thoughts. Throughout the book, enchanting imagesóîsome nostalgic, some recent and many from his private collectionóîdocument his life, highlight his words and bring the events described into sharp focus.
Those who lived through the ‘golden era of swimming’ will delight in revisiting Australia’s astonishing achievements and revel in the inside stories – including stories of some highly controversial moments – which could only be shared by someone who was there. Others, who have only heard about this magical era, will discover one of Australia’s greatest sporting heroes, while anyone with a philosophical bent, or anyone who wonders what makes an athlete tick, will find deeper meaning in Murray’s words.
Commenting on sport, focus, philosophy and family, this highly engaging and accessible book provides insight and inspiration not only for athletes but also for anyone who has ever pondered life’s important questions.
It’s a fascinating read and I recommend it to anyone looking for inspiration in life’s challenges in and out of the water.
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Pseudosarcomatous Fibromyxoid Tumor of the Bladder and Prostate: A Case Report
Jason R Lomboy 1, Tejas Desai*, 2, Corey Allen J3
1 Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
2 Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
3 Eastern Urological Associates, P.A., Greenville, North Carolina, USA
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* Address correspondence to this author at the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA; Tel: 252-744-1380; E-mail: tejas.p.desai@gmail.com
Pseudosarcomatous fibromyxoid tumor (PSFT) is a rare pseudotumor of the genitourinary (GU) system that typically presents with gross hematuria. These tumors are benign, locally aggressive tumors. Metastasis has never been reported. Pathology is significant for spindle cell proliferation without malignant nuclear features that are commonly seen in sarcomas. Herein, we report a case of an 8-centimeter PSFT found within the bladder of a 71-year-old gentleman with gross hematuria. We also review the literature on genitourinary pseudotumors, including postoperative spindle cell nodules (PSCN). Lastly we describe the importance of considering these types of tumors in the presence of a GU mass as early identification may preclude the patient from receiving unnecessary imaging and aggressive treatment measures.
Keywords: Inflammatory pseudotumor, pseudosarcoma, pseudosarcomatous fibromyxoid tumor, postoperative spindle cell nodule, nodular fasciitis, pseudosarcomatous myofibroblastic tumor, fibromyxoid pseudotumor, pseudo-malignant spindle cell proliferation, inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor..
Pseudosarcomas of the genitourinary tract, first described in 1980 by Roth [1] as a reactive pseudosarcomatous response, are uncommon, benign lesions of the urinary tract. They are unique lesions in the manner in which they are easily mistaken for malignant sarcomas upon gross inspection. While they are known by many different names in the literature—including nodular fasciitis, pseudosarco- matous myofibroblastic tumor, fibromyxoid pseudotumor, pseudo-malignant spindle cell proliferation, inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, and inflammatory pseudotumor [2]— the most commonly referenced names are pseudosarco- matous fibromyxoid tumor (PSFT) and postoperative spindle cell nodule (PSCN). The two lesions are essentially identical histologically, and very little evidence in the literature has found reliable methods to separate the two lesions aside from history of surgical instrumentation of the urinary tract.
We present a case report in which a 71-year-old gentleman with no history of urologic surgery or instrumentation who presented with several episodes of gross hematuria and was found to have a PSFT larger than 8 centimeters emanating from the prostate and into the bladder.
A 71-year-old gentleman presented from an outside hospital with a 2 day history of gross hematuria and nocturia up to eight times a night. The patient reported having gross hematuria intermittently for the past several years but denied any further work-up. The patient did not report other urinary symptoms, fever, or pain. The patient had a past medical history of hypertension, controlled with diet and exercise. Prior surgeries included a hemorroidectomy. Social history revealed patient was a prior smoker. Vital signs on admission were stable with blood pressure 150/91, temperature 36.9 degrees Fahrenheit, pulse 90 beats per minute, and respiratory rate 18. Physical exam was relatively benign, with no signs of distress, focal tenderness, or anemia. Patient was unable to tolerate an adequate prostate examination.
A CT urogram on this admission showed marked prostatomegaly with a pedunculated mixed density mass with heterogeneous enhancement indistinguishable from the prostate gland extending into the lumen of the bladder. The intraluminal portion was measured to be 8.3 x 6.8 x 8.1 cm. Representative images are present in Fig. (1). Following 3 days of hand irrigation and CBI, the patient’s urine became clear, and he was discharged home with a 24 French 3-way catheter. A plan for a cystoscopy and transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) was scheduled 5 days later.
Fig. (1).
Representative cuts from a computed tomography (CT) scan of patient’s abdomen and pelvis showing an 8-centimeter mass from the prostate gland extending into the lumen of the bladder. (A) Sagittal view (B) Coronal view (C) Transverse view.
Cystoscopy revealed obstructing and friable lateral lobes as well as nodular lesions particularly in the left lateral lobe of the prostate. A very large mass occupied the majority of the bladder, which appeared to be originating from the bladder neck. There was an additional raised erythematous lesion on the right lateral bladder wall. Five separate biopsies were taken from the right lateral bladder wall, bladder mass, bladder neck, left lateral prostatic lobe, and distal prostatic urethra. Pathology revealed pseudosarcomatous fibromyxoid tumor in the bladder mass, bladder neck, and left lateral prostatic lobe. Additionally focal urothelial dysplasia was identified from the bladder wall specimen. Immunostains with Ki67 and CK20 were performed with adequate controls. The Ki67 stain showed increased positive cells in the upper urothelium. After continuous bladder irrigation (CBI) with catheter traction, the patient’s urine cleared and he was discharged home with a Foley catheter and a plan for suprapubic prostatectomy.
Following two Emergency Department visits for gross hematuria in the interim, the patient returned 17 days later for his operation. Following the suprapubic prostatectomy, pathology confirmed the diagnosis of pseudosarcomatous fibromyxoid tumor. The patient had an uneventful postoperative course and was discharged home. The patient followed up as an outpatient, his catheters were removed, and he has been voiding without any complaints.
Pseudosarcomas of the genitourinary tract are uncommon lesions whose pathogenesis is poorly understood. On gross inspection, they may resemble aggressive sarcomas. Histologically, these tumors are diagnosed by the presence of spindle and stellate cell proliferation without active mitoses in a background myxoid stroma [3]. With only sparse case reports existing in the literature, naming and classification have been inconsistent. The most commonly used terms include pseudosarcomatous fibromyxoid tumor (PSFT) and postoperative spindle cell nodules (PSCN). These lesions together are not only histologically identical, but they also present similarly, have a similar prognosis, and are cured typically by surgical excision alone.
Pathologists and urologists have struggled with the classification of lesions with pseudosarcomatous histology. With a multitude of names for these lesions existing in the literature, the focus has been on distinguishing spontaneous pseudosarcomatous fibromyxoid tumors (PSFT) from postoperative spindle cell nodules (PSCN). Multiple case studies have reported on PSFT of the bladder and prostate in addition to sparse reports of these lesions located in other areas of the urogenital system, including the ureter [4], vagina [5], and urethra [6]. Postoperative spindle cell nodules (PSCN), first recognized in 1984 by Proppe et al. [7], are found only in patients with a history of urologic surgery or prior urinary tract instrumentation. One study involving 38 instances of spindle cell tumors concluded that PSCN differ from spontaneous inflammatory pseudotumors such as PSFT in that PSCN involved older patients, smaller average tumor size, the presence of eosinophils, and a higher mitotic rate [8]. Another study also agreed with differences in age at presentation [9]. Additionally, this study found that PSFT were most often encountered after work-up of painless, gross hematuria, while PSCN were most often discovered by surveillance cystoscopy for bladder cancer [9].
In addition to the struggle of classifying lesions with identical histology, physicians have also investigated the designation of urinary tract pseudosarcomas as benign reactive change or potentially malignant neoplasms. While the histologic hallmarks of pseudosarcomas typically lack cellular atypia, active mitoses, and other signs of neoplastic change, their rapid and locally invasive growth patterns support their designation as neoplastic processes. It is crucial to understand the well-studied differences between pseudotumors and abdominal or pelvic sarcomas for this reason, as their gross appearance and locally invasive properties are strikingly similar. A recent study found that the key features of sarcomas separating the entity from pseudotumors were histologic features of nuclear atypia, mitotic figures, the presence of necrosis or myxoid degeneration, and predominantly neutrophilic inflammation [8]. It is important for physicians to understand the differences between pseudosarcomas and sarcomas, because the latter requires a larger and more expensive work-up as well as more advanced and aggressive therapy. Unlike sarcomas, metastasis has never been reported with pseudotumors despite their ability to have aggressively appearing, rapid local invasion. Thus, further imaging of chest, bone, and/or brain for potential metastasis are not warranted permitting the urologist has tissue evidence of a pseudotumor.
Sarcomas and pseudotumors of the urinary tract vary in their treatment regimen and prognoses. For both PSCN and PSFT, local excision is the gold standard treatment, whether by radical or partial cystectomy, prostatectomy, or transurethral resection (TUR). Transurethral resection has demonstrated success in the literature, however recurrence has only been reported with this type of treatment, inferring that it could be persistence from lack of negative margins rather than an actual recurrence. Death from disease is rare, with the most common result being obstructive urosepsis. Conversely, invasive sarcomas may also be treated with excision, but wider margins must typically be achieved. In addition, more aggressive treatment with chemotherapy may be indicated with these invasive sarcomas. Local recurrence and distant metastasis is common, and death has been reported in up to 50% of patients [9].
In conclusion, the rarity of pseudosarcomatous lesions in the urinary tract have led to sporadic reports of patterns regarding epidemiologic data, clinical presentation, and histologic morphology. In this case study, a 71-year-old gentleman without known history of instrumentation presented with recurrent painless, gross hematuria. Despite several studies’ conclusions that postoperative spindle cell nodules tend to present later in life, this case emphasizes that these urinary tract pseudotumors may have protean presentations without precise epidemiologic trends. It is important for pathologists and urologists to consider medical and surgical history, the presence or absence of metastasis, and histologic findings to support an accurate diagnosis and direct appropriate therapy to avoid unnecessary radical measures.
The authors confirm that this article content has no conflict of interest
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Ethical Intuitionism and Naturalism: A Reconciliation.M. B. E. Smith - 1979 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 9 (4):609 - 629.details
I argue that, If one adopts a minimal naturalism (of a kind rejected by moore, Hare, "et al".), One would adopt a methodology which yields conclusions identical (...) to that yielded by intuitionistic methodology (of a kind employed by ross, Prichard, "et al".). I dilate upon the advantages which thus accrue to each theory, And I defend my minimal naturalism against a variety of objections. (shrink)
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Indifference And Moral Acceptance.M. B. E. Smith - 1972 - American Philosophical Quarterly 9 (1):86-93.details
Should Lawyers Listen to Philosophers About Legal Ethics?M. B. E. Smith - 1990 - Law and Philosophy 9 (1):67 - 93.details
In the recent spate of philosophers' writing on legal ethics, most contend that lawyers' professional role exposes them to great risk of moral wrongdoing; and some even (...) conclude that the role's demands inevitably corrupt lawyers' characters. In assessing their arguments, I take up three questions: (1) whether philosophers' training and experience give them authority to scold lawyers; (2) whether anything substantive has emerged in the scolding that lawyers are morally bound to take to heart; and (3) whether lawyers ought to defer to philosophers' claims about moral principle. I return a negative answer to each. (shrink)
Legal Ethics in Applied Ethics
Normative Approaches to Legal Reasoning in Philosophy of Law
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Wolff's Argument for Anarchism.M. B. E. Smith - 1973 - Journal of Value Inquiry 7 (4):290-295.details
Anarchism in Social and Political Philosophy
Rights, Right Answers, and the Constructive Model of Morality.M. B. E. Smith - 1980 - Social Theory and Practice 5 (3-4):409-426.details
Political Theory in Social and Political Philosophy
Rawls and Intuitionism.M. B. E. Smith - 1977 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 7 (sup1):163-178.details
Moral Intuitionism in Meta-Ethics
Review Essay / the Best Intuitionistic Theory yet! Thomson on Rights.M. B. E. Smith - 1992 - Criminal Justice Ethics 11 (2):85-97.details
Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Realm Of Rights Harvard University Press, 1990, viii, 383pp.
Political Ethics in Applied Ethics
Rights in Social and Political Philosophy
Historical Studies on the Phlogiston Theory.—II. The Negative Weight of Phlogiston.J. R. Partington M. B. E. D. Sc & Douglas McKie D. Sc PhD - 1938 - Annals of Science 3 (1):1-58.details
History of Science in General Philosophy of Science
Morten Wormskiold: Botanist: (1783–1845).Jessie M. Sweet M. B. E. B. Sc - 1972 - Annals of Science 28 (3):293-305.details
The Collection of Louis Dufresne (1752–1832).Jessie M. Sweet M. B. E. B. Sc - 1970 - Annals of Science 26 (1):33-71.details
Foot and Hare on Naturalism.M. B. E. Smith - 1974 - Metaphilosophy 5 (3):187–197.details
In "moral arguments" ("mind", 1958), Philippa foot displayed what she claimed to be a deduction of an evaluative conclusion from a non-Evaluative premise. In "freedom and (...) class='Hi'>reason", R m hare attacks foot-Style deductions on two grounds: he first offers a "reductio", Comparing them to a racist deduction; he then offers an explanation of where all of these arguments go awry. I argue in my paper's first part that hare's explanation rests upon a defective criterion of entailment. In passing I show how this counts against certain noncognitivist arguments that purport to show that moral judgments cannot be factual. In the second part I show that foot-Style deductions--And the racist deduction as well--Are either unsound or else superfluous to the naturalist's enterprise. From this I draw certain morals as to what conditions a successful naturalism must satisfy. (shrink)
Rawls and Intuitionism.M. B. E. Smith - 1977 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 3:163.details
Reply to David Luban.M. B. E. Smith - 1991 - Law and Philosophy 10 (4):427 - 432.details
The Origins of the Atomic Theory.J. R. Partington M. B. E. D. Sc - 1939 - Annals of Science 4 (3):245-282.details
Atomic and Molecular Physics in Philosophy of Physical Science
KÖHLER, W. - The Mentality of Apes. [REVIEW]E. M. B. E. M. B. - 1925 - Mind 34:369.details
Biological Theories of Consciousness in Philosophy of Mind
Commentary: How Much Should Lawyers Know When Picking a Jury?M. B. E. Smith - 2005 - Criminal Justice Ethics 24 (2):2-54.details
Professional Ethics in Applied Ethics
Do Appellate Courts Regularly Cheat?M. B. E. Smith - 1997 - Criminal Justice Ethics 16 (2):11-19.details
Criminal Justice Ethics in Applied Ethics
Review Essay / Can a Lawyer Be Happy?M. B. E. Smith - 2000 - Criminal Justice Ethics 19 (2):44-52.details
William H. Simon, The Practice of Justice: A Theory of Lawyers? Ethics Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998, viii + 253 pp.
Review Essay / Rights and Responsibilities.M. B. E. Smith - 1996 - Criminal Justice Ethics 15 (1):75-85.details
Lloyd Weinreb, Oedipus at Fenway Park: What Rights There Are and Why There Are Any Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994, viii, 221 pp.
Applied Ethics, Miscellaneous in Applied Ethics
Rights and Values in Social and Political Philosophy
Review Essay / the Obligation to Obey the Law: Revision or Explanation?M. B. E. Smith - 1989 - Criminal Justice Ethics 8 (2):60-70.details
Kent Greenawalt, Conflicts of Law and Morality New York: Oxford University Press, 1987; xii, 383pp.
William Bullock's Collection and the University of Edinburgh, 1819.Jessie M. Sweet M. B. E. B. Sc - 1970 - Annals of Science 26 (1):23-32.details
British Philosophy in European Philosophy
Gilles Deleuze in Continental Philosophy
Notes bibliographiques. [REVIEW]P. -M. S., E. B., G. Gougenheim, G. Grua, M.-O., P. D. & E. N. - 1952 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 142 (96):142 - 157.details
Assessment of Children's Capacity to Consent for Research: a Descriptive Qualitative Study of Researchers' Practices.B. E. Gibson, E. Stasiulis, S. Gutfreund, M. McDonald & L. Dade - 2011 - Journal of Medical Ethics 37 (8):504-509.details
Background In Canadian jurisdictions without specific legislation pertaining to research consent, the onus is placed on researchers to determine whether a child is capable of independently consenting (...) to participate in a research study. Little, however, is known about how child health researchers are approaching consent and capacity assessment in practice. The aim of this study was to explore and describe researchers' current practices. Methods The study used a qualitative descriptive design consisting of 14 face-to-face interviews with child health researchers and research assistants in Southern Ontario. Transcribed interviews were analysed for common themes. Results Procedures for assessing capacity varied considerably from the use of age cutoffs to in-depth engagement with each child. Three key issues emerged from the accounts: (1) requirements that consent be provided by a single person thwarted researchers' abilities to support family decision-making; (2) little practical distinction was made between assessing if a child was capable, versus determining if study information had been adequately explained by the researcher; and (3) participants' perceived that review boards' requirements may conflict with what they considered ethical consent practices. Conclusion The results suggest that researchers' consent and capacity knowledge and skills vary considerably. Perceived discrepancies between ethical practice and ethics boards' requirements suggest the need for dialogue, education and possibly ethics board reforms. Furthermore we propose, where appropriate, a ‘family decision-making’ model that allows parents and their children to consent together, thereby shifting the focus from separate assent and consent procedures to approaches that appropriately engage the child and family. (shrink)
Biomedical Ethics in Applied Ethics
Informed Consent in Medicine in Applied Ethics
ABET Criterion 3.F: How Much Curriculum Content is Enough?B. E. Barry & M. W. Ohland - 2012 - Science and Engineering Ethics 18 (2):369-392.details
Even after multiple cycles of ABET accreditation, many engineering programs are unsure of how much curriculum content is needed to meet the requirements of ABET’s Criterion (...) class='Hi'>3.f (an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility). This study represents the first scholarly attempt to assess the impact of curriculum reform following the introduction of ABET Criterion 3.f. This study sought to determine how much professional and ethical responsibility curriculum content was used between 1995 and 2005, as well as how, when, why, and to what effect changes in the amount of content occurred. Subsequently, the study sought to evaluate if different amounts of curriculum content generated differing student outcomes. The amount of curriculum content used by each of the participating programs was identified during semi-structured interviews with program administrators and a review of ABET Self-Study documents. Quantitative methods were applied to determine if a relationship existed between the curriculum content and performance on a nationally administered, engineering-specific standardized examination. The findings indicate a statistical relationship, but a lack of structure between the amount of required content in the curriculum and performance on the examination. Additional findings were also generated regarding the way that programs interpret the Criterion 3.f feedback generated during accreditation visits. The primary impact of this study is that it dispels the myth that more courses or course time on professionalism and ethics will necessarily lead to positive engineering education outcomes. Much of the impetus to add more curriculum content results from a lack of conclusive feedback during ABET accreditation visits. (shrink)
Academic and Teaching Ethics in Philosophy of Social Science
Engineering Ethics in Applied Ethics
Technology Ethics in Applied Ethics
Athenian Proxenies of the Fifth Century B.C.Attische VersinschriftenDie Inschriften von Magnesia Am Sipylos: MIT Einem Kommentar Zum Sympolitievertrag MIT SmyrnaDie Inschriften von Kyzikos Und Umgebung. Teil 1. Grabtexte. [REVIEW]A. Geoffrey Woodhead, M. B. Walbank, W. Peek, Inschriften Griechischer Stadte aus Kleinasien, T. Ihnken & E. Schwertheim - 1982 - Journal of Hellenic Studies 102:294-296.details
Classical Greek Philosophy in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
Chemistry of Organic Fluorine Compounds II.B. E. Smart, M. Hudlicky & A. E. Pavlath - 1995 - A Critical Review 187:979.details
Organic Chemistry in Philosophy of Physical Science
Cristiano Wolff E Il Razionalismo Precritico.M. B. M. - 1940 - Journal of Philosophy 37 (22):611-612.details
Christian Wolff in 17th/18th Century Philosophy
An Interview with Geoffrey Ashe, M.B.E.Dale Ahlquist - 2013 - The Chesterton Review 39 (3/4):321-328.details
An Agta Grammar.E. B. & Phyllis M. Healey - 1961 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 81 (4):459.details
Austrian Philosophy in European Philosophy
A Bibliography of Indology. Vol. I. Indian Anthropology.E. B., J. M. Kanitkar, D. L. Banerjee & A. K. Ohdedar - 1961 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 81 (4):461.details
A Course in Urdu.E. B., M. A. R. Barker, H. J. Hamdani, K. M. Shafi Dihlavi & Shafiqur Rahman - 1968 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 88 (2):373.details
A Handbook of Asian Scripts.E. B., R. F. Hosking & G. M. Meredith-Owens - 1968 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 88 (2):374.details
The Early History of Chemistry Professor J. R. Partington, M.B.E., D.Sc.: Origins and Development of Applied Chemistry. Pp. Xii + 597. London, New York, Toronto: Longmans, 1935. Cloth, 45s. [REVIEW]K. C. Bailey - 1935 - The Classical Review 49 (06):239-.details
History of Chemistry in Philosophy of Physical Science
Dharmasenagaṇi Mahattara's Vasudevahiṃḍī Madhyama KhaṇḍaPadmasundarasūri's Pārśvaṅāthacarita-MahākāvyaVardhamānasūri's JugāijiṇiṃdacariyaPadmasundarasūri's YadusundaramahākāvyaDharmasenagani Mahattara's Vasudevahimdi Madhyama KhandaPadmasundarasuri's Parsvanathacarita-MahakavyaVardhamanasuri's JugaijinimdacariyaPadmasundarasuri's Yadusundaramahakavya.E. B., H. C. Bhayani, R. M. Shah, Dharmasenagaṇi Mahattara, Kshama Munshi, Padmasundarasūri, Rupendrakumar Pagaria, D. P. Raval, Dharmasenagani Mahattara & Padmasundarasuri - 1990 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 110 (1):181.details
Indian Fiction in English.E. B. & Dorothy M. Spencer - 1960 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 80 (4):392.details
Nirukta Notes.E. B. & M. A. Mehendale - 1967 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 87 (2):214.details
Readings in Urdu.E. B. & C. M. Naim - 1967 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 87 (2):215.details
Chemical StructureBasic Ideas of Abstract MathematicsThermal Physic.B. E. Dawson, A. M. Hodgson, M. Fyfe, D. Woodrow & A. G. E. Blake - 1971 - British Journal of Educational Studies 19 (2):232.details
Philosophy of Education in Philosophy of Social Science
M. B ETTALLI : I mercenari nel mondo greco I: dalle origini alla fine del V sec. a.C. (Studi e testi di storia antica, 5.) Pp. 176, 4 maps. Pisa: ETS, 1995. Paper, L. 30,000. ISBN: 88-7741-882-. [REVIEW]Philip de Souza - 1999 - The Classical Review 49 (1):281-282.details
Classics in Arts and Humanities
A Vietnamese Reader.M. B. E., Laurence C. Thompson & Nguyen duc Hiep - 1962 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 82 (1):139.details
Critical Notices.M. B. E. - 1925 - Mind 34 (135):369-372.details
Burgess, J.P. and Rosen, G. Subject with No ObjectElliott, R.Faking Nature.
Standardization of Two Tests of Equilibrium: the Railwalking Test and the Ataxiagraph.M. B. Fisher, J. E. Birren & A. L. Leggett - 1945 - Journal of Experimental Psychology 35 (4):321.details
The Turing Test in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
New Books. [REVIEW]M. B. Foster, H. R. MacKintosh, W. D. Lamont, A. C. Ewing, J. Drever, S. N. Dasgupta, John Laird & T. E. Jessop - 1929 - Mind 38 (149):111-124.details
New Books. [REVIEW]M. B. Foster, H. F. Hallett, A. E. Taylor, A. C. Ewing, Rex Knight, John Laird, F. C. S. Schiller, J. S. Mackenzie, L. J. Russell & O. de Selincourt - 1931 - Mind 40 (157):106-124.details
Bertrand Russell in 20th Century Philosophy
The Duty to Obey the Law: Selected Philosophical Readings.Leslie Green, Kent Greenawalt, Nancy J. Hirschmann, George Klosko, Mark C. Murphy, John Rawls, Joseph Raz, Rolf Sartorius, A. John Simmons, M. B. E. Smith, Philip Soper, Jeremy Waldron, Richard A. Wasserstrom & Robert Paul Wolff - 1998 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.details
The question 'Why should I obey the law?' introduces a contemporary puzzle that is as old as philosophy itself. The puzzle is especially troublesome if we think (...) of cases in which breaking the law is not otherwise wrongful, and in which the chances of getting caught are negligible. Philosophers from Socrates to H.L.A. Hart have struggled to give reasoned support to the idea that we do have a general moral duty to obey the law but, more recently, the greater number of learned voices has expressed doubt that there is any such duty, at least as traditionally conceived. (shrink)
Political Obligation in Philosophy of Law
Soviet-American Philosophic Discussions.M. B. Mitin & M. E. Omel'ianovskii - 1964 - Russian Studies in Philosophy 3 (2):52-55.details
Russian Philosophy in European Philosophy
Notes bibliographiques. [REVIEW]P. M.-O., P. -M. S., E. B., J. M., Magalhães-Vilhena & M.-O. - 1951 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 141 (96):135 - 143.details
Notes bibliographiques et Informations. [REVIEW]P. M.-O., P. -M. S., E. B., M.-O., P. Masson-Oursel, G. D., M. Laffranque & J. -L. Destouches - 1952 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 142:466 - 482.details
Use of [14C]-2-Deoxyglucose to Detect Regional Brain Activities Associated with Fearful Behavior in Wild Norway Rats.B. E. Morton, R. J. Blanchard, E. M. C. Lee, K. Pang & D. C. Blanchard - 1983 - Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 21 (3):235-238.details
Emotions, Misc in Philosophy of Mind
Mental States and Processes in Philosophy of Mind
Baaz, M., HaHjek, P., Montagna, F. and Veith, H., Complexity of T-Tautologies (1} 3) 3} 11 Beauquier, D. and Slissenko, A., A" Rst Order Logic for Speci" Cation of Timed Algorithms: Basic Properties and a Decidable Class (1} 3) 13} 52. [REVIEW]L. Boasson, P. Cegielski, I. Guessarian, Y. Matiyasevich, E. Dantsin, M. Gavrilovich, E. A. Hirsch & B. Konev - 2001 - Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 113 (399):400.details
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Cowgirl golfers scramble way through event
Lon Austin
Crook County High School boys team wins nine-hole tourney on Eagle Crest course
The OSAA season 1 spring sports season ended this Friday for all Central Oregon schools that were allowing competition.
Although season 1 officially runs until Dec. 27, the five Central Oregon schools that have so far elected to participate in competitions have agreed to divide season 1 into three equal six week sessions with spring sports followed by fall, and then winter sports.
Consequently, all spring high school competitions in Central Oregon are finished until next spring.
Golf was no exception.
Both the Crook County High School boys and girls golf teams were in action this past week, with the girls taking part in a three-team scramble on Tuesday at Eagle Crest Golf Course, while the boys played a nine-hole tournament on the same course on Wednesday.
Ridgeview and Redmond also competed in both events.
In a scramble, players tee off as in a normal round of golf. Golfers then choose what they consider their team's best shot, with all players shooting from that location. After each shot, teams again select which location they wish to play from. To insure that each player on a team is involved in the scoring, scrambles generally require teams to count at least two tee shots from each player.
Scrambles are not common in high school competition, but are popular when played as they usually lead to lower scores than any of the golfers could shoot on their own.
No scores from Tuesday's even were available as of press time, although Crook County's Cowgirls head coach Sarah Shinkle was pleased with what she saw from her team.
"Overall they played well," she said of her team. "I am excited for spring and to see how this team does. They are excited and they have a great attitude."
Wednesday's boys event was dominated by Crook County as the Cowboys finished 24 shots ahead of second-place Ridgeview. Crook County posted a team score of 165, while Ridgeview had a score of 189 and Redmond was a distant third with a score of 228.
After tying for medalist honors in Crook County's previous tournament, senior Hogan Smith dominated Wednesday's event, shooting an even par 36. Fellow senior Carlos Sanchez finished second in the event with a score of 40. Other Cowboys who counted in the team scoring were sophomore Palmer Smith, 44, and senior Cayden Lowenbach, 45.
Several other Cowboys also played in the tournament, with Alex Iverson posting a score of 47, J.J. Ramos a 49, Cameron Carr, 52, Tucker Bonner, 55, and Clay Wagner, 57.
Cowboy head coach Zach Lampert was also pleased with how his team performed this fall, but more importantly, since the team did not play in any tournaments last spring, he said that the extra practice and tournament experience should prove valuable when the spring season begins.
"I think it will definitely help," he said of the fall practice and tournaments. "It gets everyone some tournament rounds and the new kids got some experience while the older kids can get back into competition. If nothing else, we were able to cover a lot of the rules and basics that we would normally have to go over the first few weeks of practice, so we should be able to hit the ground running full speed in the spring."
Both Shinkle and Lampert are hoping that their players will be able to play additional rounds prior to the start of the OSAA spring sports season, which is scheduled to begin on April 19.
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From David Crockett with "Old Betsy" to the mountain men and their Hawkens to the buffalo hunters and their Sharps and Winchester '73s - These are the rifles that fire the imagination of both hunters and historians. Now, Gun Digest presents a unique compilation of articles celebrating these iconic guns. Classic Sporting Rifles, written by a "who's who" of gun writers from the twentieth century, includes stories by Col. Townsend Whelen (a.k.a., Mr....
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From one of the country's foremost experts on shotgunning comes the all new Gun Digest Shooter's Guide to Shotguns. Rich in history and filled with information useful for every shotgun owner from beginner to expert, this book explores the makers, the uses and the trends in shotguns past and present. Inside you'll find information on: The shotgun through history, from its humble beginnings to its iconic status today. A complete examination of shotgun...
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Robert Ruark was perhaps the most renowned safari writer of the twentieth century. As a respected columnist and author during his lifetime, his writings have influenced thousands of hunters to travel to Africa to see the places that Ruark has immortalized in his writings. Despite his impact, Ruark only wrote from a period of fifteen years, but it was a time where he lived his life to its fullest potential. He travelled all across the world in order...
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In Great Hunting Rifles, firearms expert Terry Wieland leads the reader on a journey through the history of some of the most exquisite rifles made in the twentieth century. The rifles featured in the book, all personally owned by the author and described in loving detail, were chosen for their particular importance. Each rifle either represents a particular era of gun making, is historically important, or is simply a paragon of gun making skill....
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The end of recorded music?
Yesterday in the Irish High Court, a judge ruled that there was no law presently available to him to force ISPs to cut off users who used the ISP bandwidth to illegally download and share music for free…not just a song or two but on a commercial basis. This is a very serious issue…and possibly the end of the recorded music business. It’s wrongly criticised by people who haven’t thought it through as being just about ‘fat cats at record companies, who ripped us off in the past, so sod them!’ The fat cats ripped the artists off too but in those days that route was the only option open to an artist or to a songwriter who depended on the artist to record his/her song. Now, even if you’re an independent artist putting out your own records on your own ‘label’, it’s hard to sell enough units to pay for the cost of recording. Those who shout, ‘Let them go out and tour and sell records at gigs’ etc ignore the fact that there are countless songwriters who are not performing/recording artists and for whom touring is not an option. The younger generation, who historically think everything should be free anyway because their parents paid for everything…Duh!…in short-sightedly championing free music have shot themselves in the foot. Even their own artists and songwriters can’t make a living from records any more. This is simply shop-lifting on an institutionalised scale. When an ISP allows its service to be used for this is it’s like setting up a ‘free line’ in a supermarket where you can just walk out with no checkout at the end. See Ya!
It’s mad, and the Government should realise this. The sooner we get a law to stop it the better. Those in favour say ‘Aye!’
Jonathan beech says
I think you have to ask the question who is robbing who? Take the case of the recent Bob Dylan box set called Tell Tale Signs. There was a 2 cd set available at around £20 and a 3cd set with some extra live material and might I add, an interesting version of the lovely song, Mary and the Soldier at about £80. Where is the sense in that? Die hard fans get to shell out more than four times the cost for a few extra songs, Dick Turpin used to wear a mask for heavens sake. I assume that Bob somehow gave consent to this rip off and much as I admire the man for the music he gave the world, it can only lead me to assume that he is a very flawed human being like the rest of us.
There was the same argument about how home taping was killing music back in the seventies and eighties. What seems bizarre to me is that back then, The Sony corporation manufactured hi fi stereos with twin tape decks. What did they expect people to do with these twin tape decks? Create copies of tapes of their own singing or talking? I think not! Remember this is the same corporation that now owns The Columbia Records back catalogue. The people that put that little logo “home taping is killing music” on the back of LPs back in the day also gave people the power to carry out the home taping… you really couldn’t make it up!
Perhaps its Bill Gates and Steve Jobs fault for supplying us computers which make it easy for folk to download music. Maybe you could ask your record company to tap those two for some cash? Apparently Bill Gates has billions and spends it on rubbish like an authentic version of the Gutenburg Bible! How is that supposed to help anyone. Not exactly sharing the wealth is he?
I personally think the only people who win out of all this confusion and mess are the lawyers. As the late Bill Hicks put it, any organisation that lives off fear has to create it in order to survive!
Brian@irelandfavorites says
Hi Paul, the it’s for free generation is now learning nothing is for free. What you gain in naive free taking or as you rightly put it institutionalized shop lifting, you lose in opportunity for gain. What incentive is given to the performer to record in any manner if the fruit of their labor is given away? The answer lies in using or finding a method which pays the artist and services the customer. Most people will pay for product they like if it is presented correctly. Sources such as i tunes charge for individual downloads and they seem to be forging ahead. I like individuals to be in charge of their own product but the large centralized depository of music in this download era is probably a necessity
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Johnny Campbell’s most recent fight officially lasted less than 30 seconds. But it’s one fans will likely talk about for a while.
They may not instantly recognize the 10-year veteran’s face, but they’re probably familiar with Campbell’s ear, or what’s left of it, after he suffered a grisly loss at Taura MMA this past Friday in Rio de Janeiro. The organ was nearly torn from his head, prompting a quick stoppage in a vacant interim bantamweight title fight against top prospect Ary Farias.
Days later, MMA Fighting caught up with Campbell to get an update on his condition and get his perspective on how the gruesome scene played out.
“I didn’t entirely feel it,” Campbell said on What the Heck. “If you watch real close, I throw a low kick at his calf, it half-connects, he blitzes at that time and I weave my head as he throws a right hand. It’s like, my head is coming kind of up as his fist is going down and it just, like, pulled my ear off basically. I felt a very sharp hit. It was like, ‘Wow, why did that just hurt so bad?’ I kind of saw the punch coming and it was like, ‘We’re gonna get hit.’
“If you watch in the video, he hits me with a couple of shots that are kind of grazing, and then I stumbled backwards and lose my balance because my body was like, ‘Holy f*ck!’ My mind was not totally focused on the feeling of pain, but it was like, that smarted way more than it probably should have. I don’t know why. I wasn’t rocked, but it was like, ‘Yikes, that was sharp.’”
Campbell, 33, recalls bouncing off the cage and then shooting in to grapple with Farias, a multiple-time jiu-jitsu champion. The Brazilian took Campbell’s back and fired an elbow that Campbell remembers striking the back of his head, because he immediately complained to the ref about it. That’s also how he knew it wasn’t the elbow that damaged his ear.
With Farias working for a choke, Campbell was more concerned about avoiding a submission, seemingly unaware of the flesh hanging off the side of his head.
“A part of me knew something’s not right on the left side of [my] head, but my mind was focused on the world champion on my back,” Campbell said. “All I can remember thinking is he’s not nearly as strong as I thought, I figured if he’s on my back he’s just gonna rake my face and crush my head and it was like, ‘No, he’s not doing that.’ He puts on a nice, tight body triangle, I immediately get to my knees, which is generally not an easy thing to do when a fcking world champ is on your back. I’m defending good and then I see the blood on the floor and I’m like, ‘Man, he cut me with that fcking punch? I did not think that was gonna hit that hard, how did that happen?’
“And the ref looks at me a little bit awkwardly, and I’m continuing to defend and then the ref comes in and it’s like, ‘He’s gonna check this cut? How bad could this cut really be? That shot was not that hard, this is kind of weird.’ And I can still tell something’s not right, but I don’t know what it is. Then he starts waving his hands off before he even says anything else.”
At first, Campbell was frustrated with the referee’s call. After all, he’d taken this fight on less than two weeks’ notice as a replacement opponent and had to scramble to get his medicals done, book flights, and make the weight. He hadn’t gone through all that to lose by cut stoppage in under 30 seconds.
It took Campbell a few seconds to realize what had happened and even then, he seemed somewhat surprised that he wouldn’t be participating in the usual post-fight rituals.
“It was tough,” Campbell said of his fight preparation. “So tough and now it’s been, like, 40 seconds and he is stopping the fight. I’m like, ‘What is going on?’ He says, ‘Your ear, it exploded.’ And I’m like, ‘Huh? My ear?’ Then it kind of comes in, ‘Oh, that’s what that feeling is on the side of your head. Your f*cking ear, is it hanging off right now?’
“In the video you can see I reach up and kind of cup it real quick and it was hanging off my fcking head. It did not really hurt all that bad necessarily, but It was just, sht I guess we can’t continue. Ary came over, he was fcking cool as fck, we bowed and whatnot, it was good times. They immediately got me out of there, I’m like, ‘Wait, I don’t even get to see him get the belt on?’ They’re like, ‘Nah, you have to get the fck out of here. We have to sew that sht up.’”
Campbell estimates he needed 20 stitches to treat the injury. But otherwise, he’s recovering fine. He assumes there’s still dried blood that pooled in his ear, and while his hearing was affected in the moment, he’s no longer having any issues with it.
Once the injury fully heals, Campbell expects the ear to be new and improved.
“It feels pretty awesome,” Campbell said. “It feels a little bit swollen, that’s like the only thing so I think once the swelling goes completely down it’s almost going to look better than before. Both my cauliflower ears were pretty bad but this one was somewhat grotesque looking. It didn’t even look like cauliflower ear, it looked like it was almost mutilated, so I think it’s gonna actually look better.”
More than anything, Campbell is eager to get back into training and to book another fight to capitalize on his sudden notoriety. Campbell had won four straight fights prior to running into Farias and competed for well-known regional promotions such as Cage Titans and Classic Entertainment & Sports MMA.
He has no regrets about taking the short-notice fight in Brazil and hopes to again compete for Taura MMA if he doesn’t return to his familiar New England stomping grounds.
“I feel like I’m in a pinball machine and I was kind of bouncing around and I landed in one of those holes where you get the bonus,” Campbell said. “It feels for a second like I’m stuck, but I’m just gathering so many points right now. I’ve got so many Brazilian fans who are reaching out, they like gritty fighters I think. To see somebody who-You’re watching the video and you’re like, ‘Sht, dude’s on his back, oh wait they’re stopping it, why are they stopping it? Holy sht his ear is f*cking hanging off, how long did he fight with his ear hanging off?’
“You can be the greatest fighter, a f*cking perfect record, immaculate, and then you run into a brick wall and then they can’t fight through it. My career is defined by never giving up. All of my struggles or most of them, first-world problems probably, have been in the cage. People know that I’m not gonna ever give up so now it’s like can you back it up with good fighting? I think I’ve shown that I can. I think I’ve weeded out all the mistakes and whatever it is that I went through throughout my career that didn’t let me be one of those perfect fighters.”
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27 Play Submissions Opps w/ September Deadlines
by PSH | Aug 24, 2019 | Play Submissions | 0 comments
Howdy, Playwrights! Here’s a list of 27 play submission opportunities with September 2019 deadlines.
Note: What’s written below is just a quick rundown of what the theaters are looking for. For complete submission guidelines, please go to their websites by clicking the theater’s name.
Name Length Nature of Opportunity Deadline Location Add’l Info
Creede Repertory Theatre 10-20 page excerpt Theatre for young audiences. Bilingual (English/Spanish) plays preferred, but not required. 9/1/19 Creede, Colorado n/a
Darkhorse Dramatists One Act
(10-25 pages) Halloween themed plays. Previous prods ok, so long as it is unpublished. Monologues ok. 9/1/19 Binghamton, New York n/a
HBMG Foundation n/a Playwrights Retreat. Open to playwrights of all ethnicities and gender, at least 20 years of age. 9/1/19 Creede, Colorado No App Fee
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts max 30 pages 2 to 8 weeks residency. One-act plays or excerpts from a longer work. Each resident receives a $100 stipend per week. 9/1/19 Nebraska City, Nebraska App Fee: $35
OnStage! Award Full Length Playwrights living in the US and writing primarily in English. Plays must be unproduced and original. Previous workshops or university productions ok. Any theme, subject matter, and style (except musicals). 9/1/19 Rome, Italy Fee: $45/40€
Stage Right Theatrics max 20 mins Seeking plays with traditional, conservative points of view. Pro-life, pro-religion, free speech (etc.) plays most welcome. 9/1/19 Columbus, Ohio Fee: $10
$100 stipend
The Commons Full Length, One Act Especially interested in fearless new plays and one acts, socially relevant contemporary musicals, ensemble driven pieces, daring solo works, unproduced screenplays, pilots and web series centering LGBTQ+ characters. Int’l submissions ok. 9/1/19 Los Angeles, California n/a
Ucross Foundation Full Length 2-6 weeks residency. There is no fee for a residency. 9/1/19 Ucross, Wyoming App Fee: $40
Harbor Repertory Theater 7-15 mins For October and December Episodes. Halloween or holiday-season themes welcomed but not required. Comic scenes only. Content, language and subject matter should be “PG-13”-ish. Open only to writers living in Minnesota. 9/4/19 Plymouth, Minnesota Fee: $12
The NYC Audio Theater Writing Contest max 10 mins (10-15 pages) Scripts for Audio Theater. Any genre; comedy preferred. Non-audio theater plays will be considered. 9/6/19 Brooklyn, New York Prize: $200
HERE WE GO 8-20 mins Plays/pieces that have not been produced before in NYC (with an exception for readings/staged readings). 9/9/19 Brooklyn, New York n/a
Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program max 30 pages Nine months residency. For Playwriting: Applicants must have a significant body of independent work in the form. This will include, most typically, plays produced or under option. 9/12/19 Boston, Massachusetts n/a
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Hambidge Full Length 2-8 weeks residency. Resident Fellows pay $250/week. Limited Distinguished Fellowships for first-time residents are available. 9/15/19 Rabun Gap, Georgia App Fee: $30
MacDowell Colony Full Length Residencies of up to 8 weeks. Int’l submissions ok. There are no residency fees. 9/15/19 Peterborough, New Hampshire App Fee: $30
New Perspectives Theatre Company 10-15 pages (sample) Development lab for emerging and mid-career women playwrights. 9/15/19 NYC n/a
Old Library Theatre One Act
(15-30 mins) Playwrights who have not had plays produced in previous festivals will receive priority in selection. 9/15/19 Fair Lawn, New Jersey Fee: $5
Playwrights First Full Length Int’l submissions ok. Plays with no prior full scale production. Readings and workshops are acceptable. 9/15/19 NYC Prize: $1,000
Small Fish Radio Theatre max 10 mins Horror radio plays. Gothic, supernatural, non-supernatural – whatever invokes FEAR and DREAD! Must be unproduced. 9/15/19 n/a n/a
New Works Of Merit Playwriting Contest max 2 hrs or 90 pages Full-lengths, one-acts, short stage plays, children’s plays, published scripts, scripts that received a workshop, scripts that received a staged reading, scripts that received a non-union production, scripts produced with an AEA Showcase Code or Plan. Int’l submissions ok. 9/16/19 NYC Fee: $25
American Academy in Berlin n/s Fellowship program. Restricted to candidates based permanently in the US. US citizenship is not required. 9/23/19 Berlin, Germany stipend of $5,000/month
Landing Theatre Company Full Length Playwright must be a citizen or legal resident of the USA. Play must not have been produced. Play must not have had a public reading in the Houston area. Selected playwrights must attend the festival. Playwrights must cover their own travel expenses. 9/30/19 Houston, Texas Fee: $15
Sterts Theatre One Act
(25-35 mins) Open to anyone, 16+ years of age. Entries must be original plays not previously published or publicly performed. No theme or restriction on location. Writers from outside the UK may send work by email (contact the office for details.) 9/30/19 Cornwall, UK Fee: £8
Prize: £100
Theatre Three max 40 mins Unproduced works only. Plays that have had staged readings are eligible. 9/30/19 Port Jefferson, New York $125 stipend
Rubicon Theatre Company Full Length New plays. Year Round Ventura, California n/a
FORGE Fuel “sample” Writers retreat. Open to writers of all kinds, including playwrights. Year Round Danbury, Connecticut Fee: $80
Playwrights Offering Free Feedback Full Length Full-length trade program. You must read a play and give feedback, and in return will have an opp to send a play and get feedback from other playwright. Year Round n/a n/a
Trade A Play Tuesday 10 mins Send in 10-min play and get same-day feedback. You must also read 10 pages of another playwright’s work, and give thoughtful feedback. Runs every Tuesday. Year Round n/a n/a
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Election 2016: 23 persons pick presidential forms
The race to the Flagstaff House has intensified, as 23 presidential hopefuls have so far picked nomination forms to contest in this year’s December 7 general elections.
Out of the 23 who have picked the forms, 16 are political parties and seven are independent candidates, including Jacob Osei Yeboah, Kwaku Antwi Owusu, Lawrence Yamil Nketia, John Alex Hamah, Major Ibrahim Rida (rtd), Kwame Asiedu Walker and Chief Dr Yaw Kumey.
The political parties are the National Democratic Congress (NDC), led by John Mahama; New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo; Convention People’s Party (CPP), Ivor Kobina Greenstreet; Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom; People’s National Convention (PNC), Dr Edward Nasigri Mahama; National Democratic Party (NDP), Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings and United Front Party (UFP), Nana Agyenim Boateng aka Gyataba.
The rest are Great Consolidated People’s Party ( GCPP), Henry Lartey; Democratic People’s Party (DPP), Thomas Nuako Ward-Brew; Independent People’s Party (IPP), Kofi Akpaloo; Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), Akua Donkor; United Progressive Party (UPP), Akwasi Addai Odike; United Development System Party (UDSP), Richard Nixon Tetteh; United Love Party (ULP), Ramon Osei Akoto; All People’s Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga and Reform Patriotic Democrats (RPD), Kwabena Adjei aka Bambata.
The Electoral Commission (EC) on Tuesday, September 13, 2016, allowed interested political parties and individual candidates to pick nomination forms to contest in this year’s elections.
Presidential candidates are to pay a filing fee of GH¢50,000, while parliamentary candidates will pay GH¢10,000.
Dr Nduom’s PPP has, however, gone to court over what it called ‘killer fees,’ asking the court to cause a reduction of the fees.
Both the presidential and parliamentary candidates are required to return the nominations forms to the EC from September 29 to 30, 2016.
It’s not clear if all the aspirants would submit the forms upon paying the stipulated fees.
Charlotte Osei, Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, who was speaking at the launch of ‘A Guide to Candidates and Their Agents’ which was compiled by the commission, said this year’s elections will be very competitive.
This, she said, was due to the high level of interest shown in the picking of the nomination forms.
Mrs. Osei said, “For a democratic political system to be truly representative, voters need an electoral process that is imbued with integrity.
“Ensuring integrity in the electoral process demands that candidates, agents, voters and the electoral management body all conduct their activities in line with laid-down law and policies.
“This guide will help the various presidential and parliamentary aspirants and their agents to understand the requirements that they have to meet before they can be accepted as candidates in order to compete in these elections.”
In order to ensure integrity in the electoral process, she called on candidates, voters, agents, as well as the EC to conduct their activities in line with the electoral laws and policies.
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Announcing Southeast Asia Video Camp
Last week, we announced the work that we will begin doing in Myanmar. One of the main activities that we will be holding in Myanmar is the Southeast Asia Video Camp.
The camp is aimed to be a space for Burmese video and filmmakers to meet, interact and collaborate with video and filmmakers from the rest of Southeast Asia. We are aiming to create an interactive learning and collaboration environment for three days, where film and video makers can learn from each other about the following topics:
Effective distribution strategies within our region and for different communities
Video security issues and strategies
The use of video for social change and advocacy
Subtitling of videos in Southeast Asian languages
We will open the agenda of the camp to participants to make sure that the event is relevant to everyone. For those of you who are familiar to our Camp Sambel 1 and 2, we envision this camp to be as interactive, engaging and collaborative as those events. We will be asking participants to propose and lead sessions about topics they want to learn, share and discuss.
While we have not chosen specific dates for the camp, we will definitely be holding it in the first two weeks of June 2015. We will also definitely do it somewhere in Myanmar. We will be announcing the dates and the application form for the camp by February 2015.
We are also looking for local partners who will help us organise the camp. If you are interested in participating and/or helping us as a local partner, please contact us.
Participatory Video Workshop in Beautiful Flores
by Yerry Nikholas Borang — September 18, 2016
EngageMedia recently travelled to Flores, an island in eastern Indonesia, to document participatory video workshops conducted by the Kelola Foundation.
We began our journey to inner Flores in Labuan Bajo, which is a growing tourist destination site since it's located near Komodo Island. As we neared Ruteng city to meet some of the facilitators in this Kelola Foundation project, we noticed the island's rich and attractive nature.
While it has been categorized as "underdeveloped" in the eyes of the Indonesian government in Jakarta, we were taken in by people of Flores who were so hospitable and helpful to complete strangers. Our work in this island was to document the activities surrounding Kelola's participatory video workshop in at least 8 scattered villages.
And so, for almost 7 days we moved from one location to another, documenting and learning so much along the way. We met several people from these workshops who fascinated us with their stories of how they've been introduced to cameras, learned how to edit video, write stories, and the challenges that they've faced.
On this journey, we also noticed how video or media literacy can change people, making them feel more confidence. The workshops also became tools to bring diverse people together to discuss their social problems and looking at the various solutions they have come up with by themselves.
At the end of trip, when we were just about to leave this island for Labuan Bajo, we left reminiscing the amazing experience, and hoping that we can return very soon!
Videos documenting Kelola's work can be seen here.
Announcing our Myanmar Program
by EM News — November 20, 2014
We are excited to announce that EngageMedia is launching a series of activities in Myanmar to amplify the impact of human rights and environmental video through effective collection, curation and outreach. As some of you will remember, we conducted a scoping study on the use of video to support democracy in Myanmar last year, and we aim to put some of the recommendations from that report into practice.
The first phase of the programme is to curate and promote videos from Myanmar to a global and regional audience, as well as to promote videos on regional issues that resonate with audiences in Myanmar, through translation and subtitling. Through this, we hope to build stronger connections between video advocates and campaigners in Myanmar and those in the region focusing on issues in Myanmar. An ongoing networking and collaboration effort will enhance the knowledge sharing of video advocates in Myanmar via the development of a shared community of exchange.
In the second phase of the program, we are planning a video camp that will bring video activists from Southeast Asia together with those in Myanmar to foster networking, peer exchange and collaborations. You can take a look at previous video camps we ran: Camp Sambel I and Camp Sambel II. The camp will take place in Myanmar and the dates for the camp will be announced shortly, so keep watching this space.
We are interested in partnerships and collaborations as we launch these activities. If you are a video maker, campaigner, activist, media outlet or an enthusiast with interest in Myanmar, we would love to hear from you, and discuss how we might be able to work together. Please get in touch!
Deadline Extension: RightsCon Southeast Asia Proposals Due 1 December
RightsCon proposal deadline extended until 1 December. Be a part of the program and submit your proposal.
https://rightscon.org/submitasession/
A quick update about RightsCon Southeast Asia. We’ve received some excellent submissions, and are encouraged by the breadth of the proposals that people around the region and the world are preparing for submission.
To account for this volume of interest, we’re extending the deadline to December 1st.
Propose your sessions here! And don’t forget, you can reach out to us about the submission process - we’re happy to answer questions, play matchmaker if you’re looking for session partners, or just to chat.
Speakers Confirmed
Many corporations, governments, and institutions have committed to sending high-level representatives, including Twitter, CloudFlare, Mozilla, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, ICANN, ISOC, Amnesty International.
Some participant attendees thus far include: Dan Bross (Senior Director of Corporate Citizenship, Microsoft), Eileen Donahoe (Director of Global Affairs, Human Rights Watch), Richard Stallman (Founder, GNU Project and Free Software Foundation), Charles Mok (Hong Kong Tech Sector Legislative Representative), Nnenna Nwakanma (FLOSS activist and organizer, Web We Want Foundation), Roger Dingledine (Director, Tor Project), and more to be announced, soon!
Programming Committee Assembling
To help us craft the most relevant, action-oriented program possible, we’re enlisting some expert help. Joining our Advisory Committee are experts from every sector, and all corners of the globe.
Newly confirmed are May-Ann Lim (Young Leaders’ Programme Singapore), Rebecca MacKinnon (New America Foundation), Jacob Applebaum (Independent Researcher), Matt Perault (Facebook), Shita Laksmi (Hivos Southeast Asia), Jed Adao (TechSoup Asia), Nick Grossman (Union Square Ventures), Sara Harrington (LinkedIn), Andrew Puddephatt (Global Partners Digital), and more!
Listening to Papua
by Dhyta Caturani — December 12, 2014
Upon hearing the name 'Papua' in Indonesia, people usually thing of two things: ‘independence struggle' and ‘Freeport’. They both might be valid examples to describe what’s going on in Papua, but they are also over-simplification. West Papua, like any other place in Indonesia, is multi-dimensional in its character and in terms of the problems faced by the people. Only that the problems are worse.
For example, large scale economic development is taking place right across West Papua in the form of logging, agricultural plantations, mining and gas extraction. The Papuans enjoy very weak or non-existent land rights and many are losing vast areas of land with little compensation. Everywhere this is creating conflict and hardship for local people.
And although a significant number of Papuans work in the public service, senior positions are mostly held by migrants while most private sector employment is also in low paid jobs. Business and economic activities are dominated by non-Papuan migrants.
Education and health services are also very poor in most regions with few doctors and medical staff and few teachers who actually turn up for work. The HIV-AIDS rate in West Papua is around 2% (although the data is incomplete), making it the worst affected area of Indonesia. The Papuans are the poorest, worst educated and most unhealthy population group in Indonesia, even though their province is the richest in the country in natural resources.
Freeport is widely considered to be causing the most exploitation and environmental devastation, there are also a plenty of other corporations that do just that. Take the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE) program, for example, whose propaganda claims the planned large-scale cultivation of rice-fields, integrated with other food items would provide for Indonesia’s food security in the future. Activist groups such as awasMIFEE have documented that 2.5 million hectares of now under control of MIFEE was seized from indigenous people.
Instead of food security, West Papuans now face food crises, socio-cultural problems and several other issues. The story of MIFEE is told in one of the films from the first Papuan Voices collection, Ironic Survival (featured below).
Information that comes out of Papua today is limited. International media remains banned in West Papua, as seen with the recent arrest of two French journalists who now face five years in jail.
From 2011-2012, we ran a project in Papua called Papuan Voices, which was a project that combined capacity building and video production by focusing on training and producing content by citizen video journalists and human rights advocates in Meruake and Jayapura.
For the second edition of Papuan Voices we worked with participants from Wamena and Sorong. It is currently in the process of post-production and is set to be released in January 2015.
One of the films in Papuan Voices II, Mutiara Dalam Noken (Pearl in the Noken), tells the story of a Papuan woman who was fortunate enough to get a higher education and became a doctor. She then devoted her life to treat the ill in very remote areas in Papua. And she does that to carry on the legacy of her parents who did the same when they were young health officers.
And that's just one out of eight amazing stories from Papuan Voices II that we can't wait to share with the world. So stay tuned to our website and follow us on Facebook and Twitter for more updates in the lead up to the official launch!
Meet the Amazing Advisors of RightsCon 2015!
by Becky Hurwitz — November 13, 2014
Introducing the all-star group of advisors for RightsCon Southeast Asia.
On March 24-25 2015 in Manila, we are co-hosting RightsCon Southeast Asia with our partners Access and Foundation for Media Alternatives.
This event an brings together activists, advocates, researchers, media makers, corporate tech developers and business owners, and government officials to discuss human rights and the internet.
Access has hosted this event 3 times already -- twice in the USA in Silicon Valley and once in Brazil in Rio de Janeiro. RightsCon Silicon Valley 2014 was an international event, and with RightsCon coming to Southeast Asia, the event will focus on regional challenges and opportunities.
We have an all-star group of advisors, who you'll be hearing more from in the coming months in a series of EngageMedia interviews. These advisors are located around Southeast Asia and work in all of the previously mentioned sectors. They are bringing their knowledge and networks to the event and will help us to shape the program and activities. Read more about them here.
RightsCon Southeast Asia Advisors:
Al Alegre, Executive Director, Foundation for Media Alternatives
Donny BU, Co-Founder, ICT Watch
Htaike Htaike Aung, Co-Founder, Myanmar ICT for Development Organization (MIDO)
Jac Kee, Women's Rights Programme Manager, Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
Merlyna Lim, Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society, School of Communications, Carleton University
Charles Mok, Legislative Council, Hong Kong
Mong Palatino, Former legislator and Blogger, Global Voices
Pranesh Prakash, Policy Director, Center for Internet and Society India (CIS)
Chat Garcia Ramilo, Deputy Executive Director, Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
Bobby Soriano, Security Expert
Arthit Suriyawongkul, Co-Founder of Foundation for Internet and Civic Culture and Coordinator with Thai Netizen Network
Gayathry Venkiteswaran, Executive Director, Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA)
You're invited to be a part of the program. Submit a session proposal and email conference [at] accessnow [dot] org if you have any questions.
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SIBO – an in-depth update
With SIBO appearing more prevalent and discussion around testing methods, Nutritional Therapist, Adrienne Benjamin, takes a closer look.
Can you explain what SIBO is?
Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is an increase in the number and/ or changes in the types of bacteria present in the small intestine (SI). [1]
The official definition is an overgrowth of bacteria in the SI to greater than 100,000 CFU/ml of proximal jejunal aspirate (compared to the normal levels of <10,000 CFU/ml). [2] Often, these bacteria are commensal types, but are in the wrong location, having moved from the colon to the SI – primarily, Gram-negative aerobe and anaerobe species that ferment carbohydrates into gas. [3]
These bacteria then cause structural damage to the SI brush border and affect digestion and absorption of nutrients, thereby, producing further symptoms. [4]
Whilst most SIBO is associated with an excess of hydrogen in the SI, 15 percent of patients are estimated to have methanogenic bacteria in their gut (methane-producing species). [5]
SIBO PREVALENCE
Why do you think it is something that appears to be growing in incidence?
There is limited data regarding the number of healthy people presenting with SIBO and estimates vary greatly from 2.5 percent to 22 percent, depending on the age of the population and the substrate used for the test. [6]
Many experts state that SIBO is more prevalent than previously thought, but link the apparent increase with more accessible testing methods. [7] Quigley (2019) [8] believes this has led to ‘a highly controversial expansion of the spectrum of SIBO’ that may simply be a result of testing those who are sick from ‘disparate disorders’.
What are the likely signs that a person is experiencing SIBO?
Unlike with IBS studies, most of the studies into SIBO have not used ‘validated symptom questionnaires’ and the most commonly reported symptom is diarrhoea, followed by abdominal pain, then bloating. Other symptoms often relate to nutrient malabsorption, including weight loss due to fat, protein, and carbohydrate malabsorption and vitamin (A, B12, D and E) and mineral (iron) deficiencies. [9]
What are the most common factors that can cause it? Are some people more susceptible than others? Can it be connected to any other health issues?
At its core, the aetiology of SIBO includes lowered stomach acid, pancreatic enzyme, and bile acid secretions, and anatomical changes, including small intestine obstruction, fistula, diverticula and ileocaecal valve insufficiency. A high prevalence of SIBO has also been found in elderly populations, in people with a history of abdominal surgery and/or narcotic use and in those with diabetes mellitus, scleroderma, cirrhosis, exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, IBS, IBD, coeliac disease and a long list of other disorders. [6,10]
More than a third of individuals with IBS have been shown to have SIBO and the odds of SIBO are increased by nearly five times in those diagnosed with IBS – older age, female gender and IBS-D are key factors to consider. [11] The incidence of SIBO has also been shown to be substantially increased in IBD patients – both in Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. [4]
Compromised motility or transit time is key and is usually caused by anatomical or endocrine changes or by drug usage, such as proton pump inhibitors, which artificially alter the pH level of stomach acid. [12]
PRACTITIONER ASSESSMENT
From a practitioner point of view, what are the most important considerations to make when assessing if a client has SIBO?
The non-specific clinical presentation and limitations of testing for SIBO can affect the confidence of an accurate diagnosis and the most important and challenging consideration is to identify and correct the underlying causes for the individual client. [13]
Where clients present with severe bloating, abdominal pain, flatulence, diarrhoea or constipation, and particularly if they have been diagnosed with IBS, testing for SIBO should be considered. Studies have particularly pointed to SIBO in IBS-D subtypes. [5]
Other key things to look for include unexplained weight loss and nutritional deficiencies, which can result from malabsorption, severe diarrhoea and reduction in food intake to ease symptoms. [14]
What kind of testing would need to be done?
The major challenge for practitioners in identifying SIBO is the current lack of agreement regarding a gold standard test. [13] Jejunal aspirate was once considered to be the gold standard, but it is invasive and costly, with high potential contamination of the samples. [9]
The response of symptoms to antibiotics has also been suggested as a method for diagnosis of SIBO [6], but hydrogen breath test using lactulose (LBT) as a substrate is the current preferred method, as it is ‘inexpensive, noninvasive, and relatively simple’. [13]
Whilst, glucose has a higher sensitivity and specificity than lactulose, it is mostly absorbed in the proximal small intestine (duodenum and jejenum) and may not detect bacterial overgrowth in the more distal part of the SI (ileum). As a result, while the clinical significance of distal SIBO is still not well-defined, lactulose is considered to be the preferred substrate for SIBO testing. [13]
To further complicate the situation, between 15 per cent and 30 per cent of people do not produce hydrogen and have methane-producing methanogenic microbes in their gut – so the test should always look for both hydrogen and methane. And some test results show neither hydrogen nor methane, potentially due to bacteria producing mainly hydrogen sulphide, which the current tests do not measure. [5,13]
The final confounding factor is that the patient needs to adhere to strict preparation rules to ensure low fasting levels of hydrogen. [13]
In his 2019 review [8], Quigley refers to a new capsule-based technology to measure intraluminal gases, but while we wait for new technology, the lactulose breath test is the best option.
A SIBO PROTOCOL
What factors should be included in a protocol when looking to address? This can include dietary, lifestyle, and other factors?
The three main approaches to SIBO cited in the literature are: [1,2,14]
Treatment of the underlying causes.
Treatment of the bacterial overgrowth.
Removal of nutritional deficiencies.
Antibiotics are currently the first-line therapy for addressing SIBO [16] and a number of studies have identified Rifaximin as the best choice for hydrogen-dominant SIBO due to its characteristics (poorly absorbed, with a broad spectrum of activity that includes both aerobic and anaerobic Gram-positive and Gram-negative microorganism). [17]
A combination of rifaximin and neomycin has been identified as more effective in treating methane-producing SIBO. [5]
As FODMAPs are prebiotics for specific microbial species, [18] and one of the key issues with SIBO is carbohydrate malabsorption, a low FODMAPs diet is a key dietary consideration and is effective for symptom improvement in some patients. [19] It should be considered a short-term intervention, as longer-term FODMAP depletion may result in physiological effects on the intestinal bacteria, colonocyte metabolism and altered nutritional status, although an adapted FODMAP diet under the guidance of a practitioner is considered to be suitable for up to 18 months. [20] It is also worth noting that the FODMAPs diet can reduce symptoms, but does not address the underlying causes of SIBO.
Other dietary recommendations include fat restriction when the patient is experiencing fat malabsorption [13] and consideration of an elemental or formula diet to personalise the nutrient composition to the individual and potentially support bile acid secretion and immunoglobulin secretion. [14]
Stress management is also a major consideration as stress impacts the physiological function of the gut and may affect gut motility, secretions, visceral sensitivity, mucosal blood flow, the composition of the gut microbiota and paracellular permeability. There is also evidence that stress can lead to ‘increased adhesion and translocation of bacteria’. [21]
Supplement wise, what are your recommendations for those with SIBO?
Whilst the research is currently limited, there are some studies supporting the use of natural supplements for SIBO and herbal therapy has been shown to be as effective as antibiotic therapy. [22] The antimicrobial herbs recommended for SIBO include garlic, berberine and oregano.
A recent meta-analysis of evidence relating to the use of probiotics for SIBO concluded that ‘the treatment efficacy of probiotics was remarkable’ and comparable to results achieved with antibiotics but without the potential side effects. Whilst probiotics have not been shown to prevent SIBO and low doses may not be effective, the results indicate that probiotics should be part of a SIBO supplement protocol. [23]
Prokinetic agents have been suggested to support motility1 and pancreatic and other digestive enzymes should be considered, particularly where there is evidence of fat malabsorption6 and in the case of weight loss when a strategy for achieving and maintaining a healthy weight should be considered. [14]
Finally, vitamin and mineral levels should be checked in case of deficiency due to malabsorption, particularly vitamin B12, fat-soluble vitamins A, D and E (in cases of fat malabsorption) and calcium, magnesium and iron. [1,9]
LONG-TERM IMPLICATIONS
Can SIBO cause any long-term issues if not dealt with?
It has been suggested that SIBO may ultimately lead to intestinal failure, although the long-term prognosis of SIBO is primarily determined by the underlying disease that caused it. A high rate of relapse has also been reported and this is further linked to older age, appendectomy and long-term use of proton pump inhibitors. [2]
Pro-Ven Probiotics In-house nutritionist, Adrienne Benjamin
Adrienne Benjamin
Nutritional Therapist and NLP Practitioner, having completed her Nutritional Therapy degree at CNELM in 2013. Prior to studying nutrition, Adrienne achieved a degree in business and an MBA and had more than 12 years of experience working in the media industry in senior marketing positions. Adrienne is now Marketing Manager and Nutritionist at ProVen Probiotics.
For reference, please visit: www.ihcan-mag.com/References
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[3] Pyleris E et al (2012) The Prevalence of Overgrowth by Aerobic Bacteria in the Small Intestine by Small Bowel Culture: Relationship with Irritable Bowel Syndrome Dig Dis Sci 57:1321-1329
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[5] Ghoshal UD, Srivastava D (2014) Irritable bowel syndrome and small intestinal bacterial overgrowth: Meaningful association or unnecessary hype World J Gastroenterol 20(10):2482-2491
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[11] Chen B et al (2017) Prevalence and predictors of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth in irritable bowel syndrome: a systemic review and meta-analysis. J Gastroenterol https://doi.org/10.1007/s00535-018-1476-9
[12] Su T et al (2018) Meta-analysis: proton pump inhibitors moderately increase the risk of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth J of Gastroenterol 53(1):27-36
[13] Adike A & DiBaise JK (2017) Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth – Nutritional Implications, Diagnosis, and Management Gastroenterol Clin N Am https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gtc.2017.09.008
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[16] Shah SC et al (2013) Meta-analysis: antibiotic therapy for small intestinal bacterial overgrowth Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2013 28:925-934
[17] Gatta L & Scarpignato C (2017) Systematic review with meta-analysis: rifaximin is effective and safe for the treatment of small intestine bacterial overgrowth Aliment Pharmacol Ther 45:604-616
[18] McIntosh K et al (2016) FODMAPs alter symptoms and the metabolome of patients with IBS: a randomised controlled trial Gut 0 :1-11
[19] Magge S & Lembo A (2012) Low-FODMAP Diet for Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome Gastroenterol Hepatol 8(11):739-745
[20] Altobelli E et al (2017) Low-FODMAP Diet Improves Irritable Bowel Syndrome Symptoms: A Meta-Analysis Nutrients 9:940; doi:10.3390/nu9090940
[21] Konturek PC, Brzozowski T, Konturek SJ (2011) Stress and the gut: Pathophysiology, clinical consequences, diagnostic approach and treatment options J Physiol Pharmacol 62(6):591-599
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[23] Zhong C et al (2017) Probiotics for Preventing and Treating Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of Current Evidence J Clin Gastroenterol 51:300-311
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Wall Avenue analysts say they’re shopping for shares in Marvell & Campbell Soup
By Elton Drewry On Dec 13, 2020
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This week, Wall Street looked to Washington as lawmakers tried to reach an agreement on a coronavirus aid package before the end of the year.
Both sides of the aisle seemed far from reaching an agreement. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Chairman Chuck Schumer turned down Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s $ 916 billion proposal because there were fewer funds available for unemployment benefits. The stimulus package should be part of the broader expenditure account for the fiscal year, which was also not adopted.
With this in mind, new jobless claims last week reached 853,000 versus the 725,000 originally expected.
“The market is gasping for breath and is reaching for a new lead signal. Vaccines, viruses, stimuli and spending are reasonably priced in the market. People have different expectations, but they’re pretty much there as the market knows. I think Who have favourited The next step, especially if you’re a trader, is likely to be greed. And there is one greed catalyst that I find very influential, “commented George Ball, CEO of Sanders Morris Harris.
How should investors find compelling investment opportunities? By reaching out to the professionals who tend to get it right. TipRanks’ analyst forecasting service seeks to identify the top performing analysts on Wall Street. These are the analysts with the highest success rate and average return per rating.
Here are the top five best performing analysts’ top performing stock picks today:
EVO payments
For BTIG analyst Mark Palmer, EVO Payments will remain a top choice until 2021. On December 9th, the five-star analyst reiterated a buy rating and a price target of USD 30. Based on that goal, stocks could rise 17% in the coming months.
“Although the company’s shares have regained much of the value they lost in the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak, given their exposure to the restaurant, travel and hospitality sectors, we still view the stock as a reopening game – nearly 20% off his pre-crisis exposure – and the increasing possibility of face-to-face meetings that would allow him to re-accelerate his expansion strategy, “said Palmer.
Regarding EVOP’s expansion, the company is working to establish referral partnerships in countries that are at an early stage in the transition from cash to card payments, as was the case in Poland, Mexico, Ireland and Spain. Palmer believes the company is also likely to consider M&A in most regions of the world, including Eastern and Central Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South and Central America.
In addition, management emphasizes the fact that the B2B payments business saw virtually no churn during the pandemic.
However, the analyst admits that investors were somewhat skeptical about the adjustment to the company’s cost structure, which reduced its core SG&A by approximately 10% and improved the Adjusted EBITDA margin by 300 basis points, fearing that the Costs will rise once the effects of the pandemic wear off. However, Palmer notes that management has an obligation to maintain the margin improvement.
With a success rate of 70% and an average return of 19.9% per rating, Palmer is one of the top 100 Wall Street analysts according to TipRanks.
Zimmer Biomet Holdings
In contrast to the information in the earnings statement for the third quarter in November, Zimmer Biomet recorded a decline in the volume of proceedings in the USA, with the volume in EMEA also deteriorating. The five-star analyst Mike Matson from Needham, however, still stands with the bulls and reiterated a buy rating on December 9th. Together with the call, he has a target price of $ 168 on the stock (13% upside potential).
Looking closer at the updated numbers, management found flat fourth quarter volume year over year, compared to a 3% increase in the third quarter. For EMEA, the company predicts Q4 volume will drop double-digit year-over-year to high teens, up from a 6% decline in the third quarter, with APAC volume improving slightly.
“We assume that these trends will continue through the first quarter of 2021 before they improve. What is important is that we do not believe that these trends are specific to the ZBH and that other medical technology companies, especially those with significant commitment in Europe, growth will be slower in the fourth quarter of 2020. ” Matson explained.
However, he added, “Given our expectation of improved growth following the pandemic target and management to achieve an operating margin of 30% by the end of 2023, we expect ZBH to see stronger EPS growth over the next few years and we also see potential for P / E multiple expansion. “
Based on data from TipRanks, Matson is currently tracking a 66% success rate.
Campbell Soup Company
Campbell Soup has just received the RBC Capital seal of approval. The five-star analyst Nik Modi reiterates his buy recommendation and price target of USD 59. With this goal, the possible upward trend is 25%.
On December 9, CPB reported that its net sales increased 7% and organic net sales increased 8% for the first quarter of fiscal 2021. Management said this shows the strong demand for its products. Additionally, adjusted earnings per share increased 31% to $ 1.02.
For the second quarter of fiscal 2021, the company was targeting revenue growth of 5% to 7% year over year, compared to revenue of $ 2.16 billion in the second quarter of fiscal 2020. Also, earnings per share will be in the range of 0 $ 81 expected – $ 0.83 versus projected sales growth of 6.5% and earnings per share of $ 0.84.
However, in Modi’s opinion, the broth segment remains a key concern due to capacity constraints.
“We know that CPB is using co-packers to keep pace with demand in the short term, which is likely to weaken over time as capital investments increase. While scanner stocks continue to trend negative, we see the purchase rate increasing and repeat purchases are gradually changing prices for consumers of CPB broth, which tend to be a leading indicator of improvement, “explained Modi.
Regarding CPB’s rebound, Modi said, “We would argue that we are still in the early stages of a recovery. Yes, it will likely get restless as spending increases and advertising intensity decreases (versus many promotions a year ago) will be quarterly volatility, but we believe the company’s enhanced consumer insights and R&D capabilities are just beginning to take hold. “
Modi’s impressive track record is backed by its success rate of 75% and average return of 12.7% per review.
After the release of the earnings report for the third quarter of the fiscal year, Credit Suisse’s John Pitzer remains optimistic about the long-term growth prospects for semiconductor company Marvell. In addition to maintaining a buy rating, he kept a target price of $ 50 on the stock, indicating upside potential of 17%.
Investors were disappointed with the pressure as the company’s ability to meet demand was negatively affected by supply restrictions. This headwind is expected to continue into the first quarter of the fiscal year. Poor corporate / local performance and headwinds in China reflected additional reasons for concern.
However, network revenue of $ 445 million, up 34.8% year over year, topped the consensus estimate of $ 432 million. In addition, management expects storage to grow 13-15% Q4 in the fourth quarter as demand for Fiber Channel recovers and the Cloud DIY Controller spikes.
However, Pitzer is optimistic as, in his opinion, the future chance will only improve. Significant 5G design wins at NOK / Samsung, an ASIC win at Tier 1 Hyperscaler, the dynamics of LiquidIO Smart NICs / LiquidSecurity HSMs in the cloud, the dynamics of Datacenter SSD Controller and the upcoming INPI acquisition should all be in favor of the Corporate effect.
“Despite short-term risks such as COVID, delivery bottlenecks and tensions between the US and China, MRVL remains one of the most strategically important assets in Semis,” said Pitzer.
Given Pitzer’s 75% success rate and the average return of 23.9% per review, he deserves more than his 40th place in the TipRanks ranking.
On December 9th, the intermodal marketing company Hub Group announced that it would acquire NonstopDelivery (NSD), a non-asset white glove last mile service company that provides warehousing, sales, product assembly and Reverse logistics offers $ 94.5 million. Cowen analyst Jason Seidl believes the move will “expand HUBG’s supply chain solutions for its customers.”
Seidl said: “The acquisition of NSD should create opportunities for the Hub Group as its customer base will now benefit from its last mile delivery solutions and the application of NSD’s logistics technology that provides customers with real-time information and analysis for shipments. Hub The Group and NSD have been working together for about 10 years and we expect synergies to be unleashed in 2021 as technologies are integrated, cross-sell initiatives are introduced and operational efficiencies are achieved. “
In addition, the Hub Group anticipates cost savings in the millions. Seidl argues that the company will be active in the M&A market in the future.
As a result, the five-star analyst revised its EPS forecast for 2021 upwards. In addition, Seidl increased his price target from USD 62 to USD 65 (12% upside potential) and repeated a buy recommendation.
Seidl ranks 23rd on the TipRanks list and has a success rate of 77% and an average return of 20.9% per review.
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Eric Bailly will make his return to Manchester United a little earlier than expected, after Ivory Coast were knocked out of the African Cup of Nations. The holders were knocked out at the group stages on Wednesday; needing a win to progress from Group C, they were beaten 1-0 by Morocco. As such, United’s summer signing from Villareal will return to the club shortly.
It’s certainly bad news for Bailly and his country, but Ivory Coast’s loss is United’s gain, with Jose Mourinho sure to welcome his centre back’s return. Bailly started the season in impressive form, and quickly became a first-choice option for United’s defence.
Of course, the surprise emergence of Phil Jones and Marcos Rojo as a defensive pairing has mitigated Bailly’s absence through injury and his international commitments, but with United fighting on four fronts, the return of a dependable defensive option is good news.
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Sketch Films; Red Thread to Premiere Fourth Dance Film
by Jim Provenzano
The always-innovative Amy Seiwert's Imagery will premiere the fourth dance film as part of the Sketch Films series online January 15. Choreographer Ben Needham-Wood's "What the Body Holds" was created with filmmaker Matthew McKee, and focuses on dancer Jenna Marie.
The work's dramatic theme focuses on domestic violence, inspired by advocate Svetlan Pivchik and her 15 years spent assisting San Francisco's Survivor Restoration Program. "What the Body Holds" and the program's three other dance films can be viewed online, where donations are appreciated.
Believe me, as a former modern dancer, I can attest that it is the most demanding art form, requiring a literal full-bodied focus to create and perform. So, when a choreographer decides to focus on an important issue that effects bodies and spirits, it's worth viewing, not just because of the two main artists' impressive accomplishments.
Choreographer Ben Needham-Wood
Choreographer Needham-Wood worked for several years as a Company Artist for Louisville Ballet. He has also performed as a guest artist with several companies, including: SFDanceworks, Appalachian Ballet Company, Dance China New York, Dayton Ballet, Fort Wayne Ballet, and Bruce Wood Dance Project. In 2013, he joined Smuin Contemporary Ballet, where, along with creating his own dances, he added multiple guest-choreographers' works to the company's repertory. Needham-Wood won a 2019 Isadora Duncan Award for his featured pas de deux in Amy Seiwert's "Renaissance."
Dancer Jenna Marie's many credits include being a scholarship student at The Ailey School, and becoming a member of Ailey II under the direction of Sylvia Waters. Following Ailey II, Jenna was a member of Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Nai Ni Chen Dance Company, Momix, The Metropolitan Opera and Ballet Hispanico. Locally, she dances with Post: Ballet and Robert Moses' Kin, and has danced in film projects by Nile Rodgers, Betsey Johnson, and oh, yes, Beyoncé.
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Air Niugini maintains complex is fire-proof
Less than 24 hours after its official opening, questions have already been raised about the safety of the new Air Niugini residential complex at 7-Mile, Moresby North-East.
BY MICHAEL ARNOLD
Building contractor, Matrix Constructions PNG has come forward, alleging that Air Nuigini has breached a number of fire safety regulations, which due to their severity, now render the new building a fire hazard.
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Documentation provided by Matrix Constructions PNG show that a routine inspection of the building by the PNG Fire Service on May 25 last year, concluded that the eight-level apartment complex did not satisfy requirements under the PNG Fire Code PNGS 1629, for the provision and installation of portable fire extinguishers and fire blankets, in all residential unit kitchen areas.
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“It was then I understood: it is a fundamental flaw in Creation that other people can disagree with me, and I must fix that mistake.”
– Dread Emperor Imperious
The sack over his head was gently removed, which meant the hand was not the Saint’s. Dear old Laurence liked to surprise him with the glare of daylight against his unprepared eyes, when she could, and Amadeus last remembered being spelled into slumber at evening time. As always, the former Black Knight took a languid moment to assess the state of his captivity: feet bound, chest bound but, to his surprise, though his hands were still bound they were no longer behind his back. Interesting. They’d never done this before.
“It is not a kind thing to say, but I’ve always found autumn in these parts to be a foul season,” the Grey Pilgrim said.
Amadeus did not immediately reply. Their surroundings, he thought, were worth a second look. Under a gate of raised stones – three slabs of granite, the capstone supported by the other two almost incongruously large – he’d been propped up against one of the supports and arrayed so that he would be looking at an endless expanse of starry night. They were atop a hill or man-made barrow, he decided, for the sodden plains below were distant. If they were still in Iserre, which Amadeus suspected to be the case, then this should be one of the ‘Mavian prayers’ he’d read of: old Alamans tribal monuments many an Imperial scholar has suspected of being tied to the fae in some manner. Well, this was a pleasant surprise. He’d meant to have a look at one while he passed through the region, but the demands of the campaign had not allowed.
“It was always an interesting time, where I was born,” Amadeus noted.
Autumn had been the last gasps of the war season, in the Green Stretch. Once upon a time that’d meant raiding parties from the Blessed Isle riding east under the banner of the White Hand, or companies of miserable legionaries trudging down the old Miezan roads to their winter quarters facing the Wasaliti. His birthland’s status as the granary of Praes meant its freeholders were under the protection of the Tower, and so spared many of the issues farmers and villagers would usually face when soldiers passed through their lands. That protection was no shield for the consequences of paladins and legionaries skirmishing in the region, though, or of the sharp rise in banditry that would often follow larger clashes between Callow and Praes. Still, for all the roving wolves on two feet Amadeus had much preferred autumn to spring. Soldiers, even deserters, could be bargained with. Not so the floods that followed broken levees, or the thick morasses of cloying mud they left behind. His family’s freehold had not been so close to the river as to risk yearly flooding, but the scuttling and swarming vermin those disasters had brought had been just as dangerous in some ways.
“I’ll confess no surprise to the revelation that Proceran weather suits you ill, however,” he added.
Green eyes flicked down to the bemusing sight of the Grey Pilgrim stoking the flames of small fire but a few feet to the side, trying to prod wet logs into burning like dry ones. Cautiously positioned under the large granite capstone, the two of them along with that campfire would be safe from the rain Amadeus’ damp clothes suggested had burdened their day.
“Don’t get me wrong,” the Pilgrim said, “the night sky around here is a wonder. It’s the miserable, cold wetness of it I can’t stand. Sinks into my bones, these days.”
“I am told it will not snow even at the peak of winter, in most of Levant,” Amadeus said, genuinely curious.
Most of the few books entirely dedicated to the region where the Dominion now stood dated back to the golden age of Praesi scholarship, under Dread Emperor Sorcerous. Which meant that while at least they accounted for the changes that’d followed the creation of the Titan’s Pond by the strife between Triumphant and the Gigantes, they were also on average seven centuries old. More recent works were either pieced together from the accounts of traders or outright borrowed from foreign sources, such as the notoriously unreliable Proceran scholars.
“Not exactly,” the old man laughed. “We’ll get snowfall south of Tartessos, now and then, but it rarely lasts the day. Melts quickly. Once in a blue moon a blizzard will tumble down the slopes of the Titanomachy and the afterbirth will touch a shore of the Pond, but that is a much rarer occurrence.”
“I’d never seen true snowfall before my first winter in Callow,” Amadeus admitted. “It was quite jarring.”
“Mine was in Orense,” the Pilgrim fondly said. “I was pursuing this Arlesite warlock who’d cooked up a scheme to hold towns for ransom with this swarm of insects he’d enchanted to be full of diseases.”
“I take it they were not enchanted to be cold-proof,” the dark-haired man said, openly amused.
“Whole swarm died overnight,” the Peregrine chuckled. “He tried to make the remains into some sort of disease-carrying monster, but I caught him halfway through the ritual.”
“I was never impressed with the fibre of Proceran villainy,” Amadeus noted. “Malicia and I looked into making alliance in the region, when it became clear the crusade was inevitable, but it was bare picking all around.”
“There’s a pirate on the Segovian coast, I believe,” the Pilgrim said.
“The Ghastly Marauder,” he agreed. “Wouldn’t hear of taking either gold or information from the Tower, said it’d bring down either yourself or the Saint on his head. There was a promising sorceress in Tenerife, but the Tyrant had her captured and sealed in a barrel full of leeches.”
The older man winced. For a hero who must have tried some rather nasty lairs over the years, he was still surprisingly tender-hearted. Amadeus himself had been inured to the sight of spiders eating people alive before he’d reached twenty. On the rare occasions when Nefarious remembered he was supposed to rule the Empire, he often had a few members of the Imperial court tossed into the arachnid pits and attendance had been, in a sense, mandatory – the Chancellor would pass along the names of any absent to the point the Emperor at them when he next felt like stabbing at shadows. No, after so many years in Praes the mere mention of a cruel method of execution would buy no reaction from him.
“That boy has a nasty streak even for a Theodosian,” the Pilgrim sighed.
“Ours is an uncivil time,” Amadeus replied, tone droll.
“Aren’t they all?” the hero tiredly said.
Even as they conversed, the Duni continued to consider his situation. He could hear, in the distance, the sound of the rest of the party settling in a camp of their own. Given that he was currently atop a hill surrounded by water-logged plains, escape was unfeasible save if heavy rain started to fall. There was not even a drizzle, at the moment, though by the thick humidity of the air Amadeus suspected it was only a matter of time until the autumn showers began anew.
“It is not my execution you intend,” the green-eyed man calmly said. “If so, there would have been better occasions.”
And it was unlikely the Grey Pilgrim himself would do the deed, Amadeus did not say, for when Catherine returned from her journey that might just lead to the Peregrine’s skull splattered all over Proceran grounds. She was not particularly prone to mercy when cut deep, and while Amadeus was rather amused that he posed more threat to the Peregrine as a dead mentor to be avenged than a living former villain in the man’s custody he doubted the hero was unaware of the fact. He might be, of course, which was why Amadeus had said nothing. If he was to be killed, it might as well be of some use.
“No,” the Grey Pilgrim calmly said. “That is not what I intend.”
Amadeus cocked his head to the side.
“Is this an attempt at redemption, then?” the Duni drawled. “Truly, Tariq, I am flattered by the implicit compliment but-”
“I can see in you, Amadeus of the Green Stretch,” the Peregrine softly interrupted. “Repentance is foreign to your nature, as it often is the worst of your kind. I would not waste either our hours on such a fool’s errand.”
He cocked an eyebrow.
“Then what, exactly, is your purpose?” Amadeus asked, honestly puzzled.
“You are one of the oldest living villains on Calernia,” the Pilgrim said.
Alaya was older than he by a year and eight months, the Duni thought, and Hye by a great deal more than that – though it would be an oversimplification to call Hye Su truly one of Below’s, in his humble opinion. It seemed, Amadeus thought, that the Pilgrim was in fact correct. Every other villain he knew of was younger than him by either years or decades.
“So I am,” Amadeus said. “Though that was an observation and not an answer.”
“Come dawn, Laurence is going to sever your soul from your earthly coil,” the Pilgrim calmly said. “What will follow that, you need not know, but I will say that this may very well be the last time we will ever speak.”
The Duni’s eyebrow arched.
“Alas, and our acquaintance had barely begun,” he replied.
“In a way, this could be called a vigil,” the Grey Pilgrim said. “Yet I will confess to more selfish motive – you are, perhaps, the closest equivalent to a peer I have in the service of the Gods Below. It would be a waste, to never speak more than a handful of sentences to you.”
Amadeus cocked his head to the side, thinking of the last conversation he’d ever had with Ranker. A Marshal of the Legions of Terror, true, but that was almost the least of what she had been to him. And the last he’d ever seen of her was as a gasping, bloody ruin on a sickbed through an unsteady scrying mirror. The man who’d birthed the plague that took her, that took the two thousand soldiers Amadeus had led into the trap only he had been deemed fit to survive, was now addressing him like the thin pretence of civility between them was anything but that. A pretence. If you can see in me, Pilgrim, can you glimpse the thoroughness of the extinction I will visit upon you given chance? The man who had been the Black Knight smiled, affably, and the sight of the other man’s eyes tightening was the only answer he needed.
“By all means, Pilgrim. I am your captive audience,” Amadeus said.
“The others will not-”
“How like a hero,” the dark-haired man casually interrupted, “to first name me a peer and then proceed to treat me the simpleton.”
There was no apology in him for the sharpness of his tone. The Peregrine and his delightful right hand the Lady de Montfort had spent this entire journey keeping him away from the younger members of their band, there had never been any question of any of them now being in attendance for this indulgence of the Pilgrim’s. The man in grey robes wryly smiled.
“Not unearned,” he conceded. “I assume that there will be terms, Carrion Lord?”
“I am hardly that anymore,” Amadeus amusedly replied. “I offer you the fairest terms I know, Pilgrim: a question for a question.”
“That is civil of you,” the older man replied without a hint of irony.
Amadeus made himself think of taking in hand a stone and smashing it against the Peregrine’s skull until it burst open like an overripe fruit. He considered the matter vividly, seeing to every detail, and then smiled amicably at the hero.
“That,” Tariq said, “was a great deal less civil.”
“Your turn,” Amadeus replied.
Though these days his body was a simple sack of meat with infuriatingly feeble senses, the Duni had been careful to watch for any use of Light or artefact and caught sight of nothing. Which meant this little trick of the hero’s was either an aspect or a gift from Above. At the very least, it did not seem to be outright mind or memory reading. Perhaps a particularly discerning sort of empathy, Amadeus considered, though given the man’s age, breadth of travel and ties to a Choir it might be something more exotic or outright unheard of.
“I am told,” the Pilgrim said, “that you are an intelligent man, and prize reason.”
Amadeus’ lips quirked in dry amusement.
“Intelligence is simple memory and cleverness, neither of which are half so glorified on their own,” he replied. “It should be no different with the pairing of them.”
“But the prizing of reason you do not deny,” the Peregrine stated.
“Insofar as the application of it is useful,” Amadeus acknowledged.
“Then, to be a villain and so cast your lot with them, you must believe in the teachings of the Gods Below,” the older man replied. “What it is, I ask, that you find of worth in them?”
The dark-haired prisoner laughed.
“Simply by asking that question, you have already failed in what you seek to accomplish,” he said.
The Peregrine’s brow creased, but he did not grow irritated with the answer. He would be, Amadeus suspected, a particularly boring man to needle. The Saint was much more entertaining in that regard.
“I do not understand,” Tariq admitted.
“You consider Below as if it were simply a wicked mirror of Above, and seek to understand it by terms it fundamentally does not recognize,” Amadeus said. “Considering the differences in how Named of our respective… sympathies form, I suppose that is an excusable mistake but it is one that precludes ever gaining perspective on the matter.”
“You are a villain,” the Pilgrim slowly said. “You are, therefore, a champion of Below. What is it that you champion?”
They both knew Amadeus to be Nameless, though the Duni suspected that was considered a minor detail compared to his decades as the Black Knight.
“You have put your finger on the crux of the matter,” he said. “As a mortal you championed the ideals of Above – or at least some middling section of them – and fit a particular grove, which as a consequence saw you bestowed power as a blessing to further that cause.”
“A gross oversimplification,” the Pilgrim soberly replied. “Though technically not incorrect.”
“I was – am, I suppose – a villain,” Amadeus said. “And as a mortal, by acquiring power I became worthy of blessing. That is the fundamental difference between your kind and mine, Pilgrim: your Name was a coronation while mine was a confirmation.”
“You argue, then, that the only teaching of Below is the acquisition of power,” the other man said.
“Teaching,” the prisoner sighed. “You speak the word anew as if repetition will make the saddle fit the beast. There are no teachings, Pilgrim, that is the point exact. The exercise of power, of will, is not given meaning. It must be ascribed. That has led to some rather unusual or horrifying uses, I’ll concede, but in my eyes that is more a reflection of human nature than of Below’s.”
“You would absolve your Gods of guilt?” Tariq said, sounding surprised.
“You would absolve humanity of responsibility?” Amadeus asked, scornful. “The deferral of consequence to higher power is the deepest form of moral cowardice conceivable. Even your precious Book agrees, Pilgrim – we have a choice.”
“And knowing this, you still choose to commit evil,” the Grey Pilgrim said.
“And there we reach impasse once more,” he noted. “For you seem to consider some form of goodness our natural state, and so committing an evil a willful deviation from that state. I find such a notion utterly repugnant.”
“Are we born evil, then and only taught to be good?” Tariq pressed.
Amadeus felt a sliver of irritation and willfully curbed his tongue, knowing this lack of sympathy for slow students was one of the reasons he was particularly ill-suited to teaching.
“We are born nothing, and taught a set of… rules for a lack of better term, that allow us to determine what is acceptable behaviour and what is not,” the prisoner said. “What irks me, Pilgrim, is your insistence that these rules are a set of virtues inherent to the fabric Creation instead of covenant between mortals for mortal purposes.”
“Your conception of Creation,” the Pilgrim said, “is utterly barren of morality. It is without principle, without faith, without a single ounce of justice. Is it, in a word, dirt.”
Amadeus had no intention of engaging on the matter of justice – the last time he’d ventured an argument on the subject, the Seraphim had slapped him down through a paved street and left him to bleed to death.
“Indeed,” he casually agreed, unwilling to pursue the debate that if any of the things the Pilgrim had named were inherent instead of ascribed, they became utterly meaningless. “Now, I do believe I am owed quite the question given how your own has considerably strayed.”
“So it has,” the Pilgrim amicably conceded.
“I have made a study of you,” Amadeus said. “And though you’ve left mostly rumour behind I believe you’ve operated in southern Calernia, as well as the upper reaches of the Principate, for more than forty years. You came into your Name before Dread Emperor Nefarious claimed the Tower.”
“More than forty years is accurate,” the Peregrine drily said.
“In that span of time,” the prisoner casually said, “did any villain in those regions achieve particular prominence?”
The Pilgrim cocked his head to the side, considering the matter.
“The Barrow Lord threatened to take the northern half of Levant for the better part of a summer,” he said. “The Princess of Cantal was murdered and then impersonated by the Face-Thief for half a year before they were caught.”
“In summation, the highest peak was a secret victory that did not even last a year?” Amadeus asked.
“Arguably,” Tariq agreed.
“Interesting,” he murmured. “My thanks.”
The Pilgrim frowned.
“Why did you ask?” he said.
“Merely a theory of mine,” Amadeus said.
He knew the hero would glimpse in him the intent to wound, yet also that it was no less true for it. Curiosity, he thought, would do the rest.
“And that theory is?” the Pilgrim patiently asked.
“That you, and to a lesser extent the Saint of Swords, are at least partly responsible the current invasion of the Dead King,” Amadeus said.
The older man stared at him unblinking, for it was not the dark-haired man’s body that would be of interest but whatever sight he used to truthtell. The prisoner smiled, discerning the very moment the Grey Pilgrim realized there was not so much as a hint of a lie. His face went ashen.
“Why?” the Levantine croaked.
“You have been a singularly effective agent for Good in broad and your Choir in particular,” Amadeus said. “To the extent that you’ve just admitted to me that for a span of at least forty years you effectively snuffed out effective villain in over half of Calernia. Did you truly think, Tariq, that this would go without consequence?”
“The Hidden Horror has ignored longer stretches of peace in the past,” the Pilgrim said. “And Praes achieved resurgence.”
“So it did, in a manner of speaking,” Amadeus noted. “It was the only Calernian surface region where you and the Saint weren’t active, after all. Though, of course, as soon as the civil war in Procer ended the Tenth Crusade was declared and the last major active Evil polity on Calernia risked being ended. Perhaps permanently, given the lessons of the last crusader occupation of the Wasteland.”
“Callow could not be allowed to be consumed, Carrion Lord,” the hero harshly said. “All that suffering was brought by the very Conquest you led.”
“It must be infuriating, to realize that sometimes the balance swings the other way,” the villain smiled. “That victory can be perilous for your side as well.”
The Peregrine’s hands tightened.
“I could be wrong, of course,” the prisoner said. “It is only a theory, though one informed by facts and my decades of experience as a villain.”
“You could have kept this up your sleeve,” Tariq said. “Is that not your way? Secrets hoarded until they can be used?”
“Her name,” Amadeus mildly said, “was Ranker of the Hungry Dog tribe. She was a vicious and mistrusting and often unpleasant, but she was also my friend. I loved her, you see, in my own crooked way. And she died choking on her own blood from your plague.”
“She was a soldier,” the Grey Pilgrim said.
“She was,” he agreed. “And so I do not cry of unfairness. And yet.”
The prisoner leaned forward, green eyes glimmering with something cold and hateful and utterly patient.
“So sleep well, Tariq Fleet-foot, wondering what utter ruin your good intentions might have wrought,” Amadeus hissed. “For I loved her nonetheless, and she is dead by your hand.”
Chapter 35: Colloquy
209 thoughts on “Peers”
My god. I’ve fallen in love with Amadeus all over again. We see again what makes him both a fantastic villain and a fantastic mentor. And a few parallels between him and Pilgrim that I actually hadn’t noticed, though aside from their relative ages they are quite different.
He’s got such a high standard for teaching, it’s like awwwww ❤ ❤ ❤
and he falls into mentor mode even while talking to his worst enemy that he strongly hates
this man is incredible
''And a few parallels between him and Pilgrim that I actually hadn’t noticed,"
elaborate? 😀
They’re the old guard. Pilgrim is probably the oldest living Hero, and Amadeus only has Malacia to compete against once you rule out entities like the Dead King. Both of them have been Named for generations and possess great conviction in their respective values. Both of them have defeated dozens of other Named in their careers. I know it’s basically spelled out in the chapter, but I mentioned it because it hadn’t really occurred to me.
TBF Amadeus also still has Assassin and Scribe. I’m just guessing they’re both younger than him ;u;
But yeah ❤
It’s nice to see Black and Pilgrim needle each other. It’s even nicer to see Black throw everything Pilgrim’s done in his face out of spiteful love of a lost friend.
Black wouldn’t do it. Amadeus does.
The changes in characters after they lose their Name are all very interesting, and make me think that the last part of the guide will be Cat and her nameless friends against Names themselves.
And for that reason is erasing Ruling Names first by the Liessen Accords. Maybe they can no longer dissapear, but a step at a time.
Yep, Tariq’s personal hell is going to be really ironic.
‘The greatest tragedy of a hero’s life is to learn that the just war he fought was, in the end, just a war.’
Hot damn, that was good. Amadeus continues to be a treat as a viewpoint character. Reading this it’s easy to understand how he came into a Name in the first place.
Black is just such a fun and fascinating character, he’s such a product of his culture and so much more.
This does a lot to explain why Pilgrim is suddenly a bit more willing to see the Catherine that is rather than just the Black Queen that could be.
Does it?
I am super interested in this interpretation
I’m not Kyle, but ISTM the point is a little askew from what Amadeus actually says:
1) Pilgrim and Saint maintained their own territory as not just Good-aligned, but fully controlled by Good.
2) That didn’t draw disaster all the way to them yet, but it shifted the balance of the continent, allowing Praes to successfully conquer and “turn” Callow for the first time since their beginning. “Successfully” as demonstrated that they did in fact get a Villain onto the throne, without revolt — indeed, Cat held the throne strongly enough that neither Akua’s nor Malicia’s attacks could dislodge the her. So, Callow had been officially “taken” by Below, in the eyes of the gods.
3) But Procer and Levant weren’t enough for the heroes — they tried to cleanse the continent of Evil, barging into the Praes/Callow fight. But at that point, they weren’t defending their own territory, and thanks to Black, they didn’t even have any atrocities to respond to. Their only motive was “oh no, we can’t let Evil keep all that territory, we’ve got to claim it in the name of Good” — which is to say, pure ambition. Even William was really fighting for the angels rather than for Callow, which was why he got defeated.
4) The tipping balance first unleashed Akua, a “traditional” Evil threat, but the reigning powers of Callow noped that, defending their demon-free way of life with steel, blood and fire. So Akua didn’t get to restore the balance on the larger scale with “make Callow more evil”.
5) Not sure where the Fae invasion comes in, but it may simply have been an mirror of Black & Cat trying to change the rules for Above and Below. Need to check the timeline. (Do we have an actual timeline for the series somewhere?)
6) At this point, the villains had defended Callow from both Good and external threats, and crowned their Queen there. But Good’s ambition was unchecked, and they wound up attacking both Praes and Callow. That shifted the balance enough for Malicia to uncork the continent’s reservoir of Evil, namely the Dead King.
7) My guess is that the future has Praes and Callow rebuilding themselves into a stable configuration, with Praes as the Dark Evil (but still not as dark as before Malicia), while Callow stays as a mixed nation, with no named rulers, both villains and heroes staying below apocalyptic levels, and grain trades keeping Praes stable. With real luck, they might even be able to fix some of the Wasteland, easing the pressure there.
Excellent interpretation. Certainly IMO a better explanation than provided in the chapter.
>3) But Procer and Levant weren’t enough for the heroes — they tried to cleanse the continent of Evil, barging into the Praes/Callow fight. But at that point, they weren’t defending their own territory, and thanks to Black, they didn’t even have any atrocities to respond to. Their only motive was “oh no, we can’t let Evil keep all that territory, we’ve got to claim it in the name of Good” — which is to say, pure ambition. Even William was really fighting for the angels rather than for Callow, which was why he got defeated.
That’s definitely my read on it actually!
>5) Not sure where the Fae invasion comes in, but it may simply have been an mirror of Black & Cat trying to change the rules for Above and Below. Need to check the timeline. (Do we have an actual timeline for the series somewhere?)
I mean it was most definitely that, it’s all but said explicitly with Arcadia being a mirror for Creation and the King of Winter wanting freedom.
>6) At this point, the villains had defended Callow from both Good and external threats, and crowned their Queen there. But Good’s ambition was unchecked, and they wound up attacking both Praes and Callow. That shifted the balance enough for Malicia to uncork the continent’s reservoir of Evil, namely the Dead King.
mhm!
>7) My guess is that the future has Praes and Callow rebuilding themselves into a stable configuration, with Praes as the Dark Evil (but still not as dark as before Malicia), while Callow stays as a mixed nation, with no named rulers, both villains and heroes staying below apocalyptic levels, and grain trades keeping Praes stable. With real luck, they might even be able to fix some of the Wasteland, easing the pressure there.
mhm!!!!
Here’s my interpretation which I wrote a bit further down. https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/2019/05/01/peers/comment-page-1/#comment-40651 (In case you haven’t seen it yet, I haven’t gone through all the new comments yet.)
Well, the pendulum swings one way, it’ll swing back the other eventually.
Unless you swing it hard enough. Then it will just spin forever (unless there is friction).
Lord Reginald the 18th
Come now, are we forgetting the very core of the Foundling Philosophy? If you can find a way to swing hard enough, there is no man, god or law in creation that won’t flinch first. Have a little faith, we may yet see the pendulum swing right off it’s hinge.
Or break its cord.
So your telling me that two heroes accomplished what the calamities also did. Sniffing out villain before they blossomed into threats.
Also kudos to author for creating yet another character that I fell in love with while only reading a few short passages.
Stalwart Paladin, bumbling conjured, valiant champion, salutary Alchemist, face thief
I really wish the Bumbling Conjurer could’ve survived his encounter with Warlock. I wonder what Cat Exposure would’ve done to him.
In the battle with Akua during the Three steps alternative heroic reality. Cat becomes a white knight and the bumbling conjured transitions to conjured and brings down mountains.
Was so stoked to see him get some face time after so long away.
Yea, but I would’ve liked to see how he turned out with Black Queen Cat. Similar to Thief going pseudo villainous.
I think that Black’s Monologue here is a pretty hefty endorsement for her having always been a villain, he proposes that ‘Villains’ are not given names, they Claim them, they act in such a way with enough purpose and will in their actions that they fall into a role and a name is created from their skills and personality. So thief, who wanted nothing more than to take back her due from the tower, learned to steal and lie, and got very good at it, thus earning her a name for that purpose.
Amadeus, capable of using his interrogator’s Truth-telling ability to torture them instead. Indeed, truth is a much more potent tool than lies, and also a much harsher blade.
It’s Black’s MO, to inflict great horror and hesitation by using brutal truth as a weapon. He broke a rebellion’s spine by just laying out the facts, and now he just roasted Tariq over the fire. One could agree its one of his favorite pastimes….
Also is it not so sweet that the Pilgrim can’t help using his own powers unlike Amadeus who has had to rely on his own discernment to tell lies.
The Pilgrim is what Black warned not to be, a slave. Thus while the pilgrim gladly assumed the role of a puppet for choirs, Black fought for his position.
Do the predicament they find themselves in Black knew the risk and still made took the steps. The pilgrim just kept smiting regardless of the consequences. Shameful.
Double chapters!?!!!!?!! You are literaturively better than the love child of Gandhi and Jesus
There is one extra chapter of Practical Guide to Evil every month, to be released along with the first chapter of that month. So you can expect the next ‘double chapter’ to be on Monday, June 3rd.
I will assume this comment was meant to be a stand-alone comment instead of a reply to my own comment…
Unless you are some kind of clairvoyant that knows I’m about to post a double chapter for Trails of Ascension in Royal Road tomorrow, in which case I’m flattered to be called the love child of Gandhi and Jesus.
P.S: In case you are, indeed, a Clairvoyant, we might need to have a conversation about the numbers of the lottery in Colombia. XD
Link please. 🙂
My humble webnovel:
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/19719/trails-of-ascension
I hope you enjoy it, any advice is welcomed.
Great, thanks. I’ll start reading it in a few days. I’ll read at least the first 5 chapters. I see you’ve got a cracking pace going; with 45 chapters in 9 months. Impressive effort!
I feel like Black is going to be so freaking smug when he talks to Pilgrim again…
Well if that occurs.
But given how the primary story line is moving, it seems more likely by the chapter, that we get Amadeus saying hello again to his dear old acquaintance.
If he remembers this conversation. I believe it was mentioned he might suffer memory loss
Akua also said the memory loss would be mitigated by a ritual
Amadeus is definitely ‘the one’ for Larat’s due. He will be the one to give final form to the Highway to Keter, making it the most pragmatical dark realm ever in contact with Calernia.
I’m not so sure. It’s certainly possible but I’m swayed more by @Liliet’s argument that it’s actually Cat’s abdication.
As it has been established that the subject need not be voluntary, they (probably Tariq or one of the other Heroes) could knife Kairos in the back and use him as the One.
Unfortunately, since Hierarch is running around loose, Kairos probably isn’t going to die here.
Alternatively, I could see Saint trying to backstab Cat and use Cat as the one, and then we’d get to see the sword that’s a staff that’s a prayer of Cat’s being used. And Saint ending up being the one.
Waitasec.. Heirarch is a ruler, already involved in this fight, and disdainful of his own crown.
Now, that would be quite a blow to Kairos’ plan! And even if Anaxares might be a bit insane right now he might actually be convinced to it if he sees it as a way to finally get free of this imposed position (his Name is like a curse for him, after all).
Although that doesn’t seem likely, since it would then make void of Kairos’ plans of judging the Choir of Judgement.
But that’s an interesting possibility, the consequences would be unknown.
Thinking about it more:
Pros: Most of the folks present (and many others) would be happy to see the insane mind-controller get neutralized. None of the party members need to give up their crown. Heirarch might well do it willingly.
Cons: Kairos might be mad angry. 😉 The travel realm might be hostile to rulers and commanders, which would be rough on army discipline. Anaxares would probably be promptly killed by the telepathic enforcers of his society. Bellerophon might be destabilized and turn into something more dangerous.
Depends who you ask: Kairos and Heirarch probably don’t get to put a Hero and/or a Seraph on trial. That in turn might require Cat to kill Pilgrim.
Saint is not a crowned ruler
It’s not likely that any within the band of five will kill some other member for the +1 crown, because they want the hefty story bonus of being a “band of five” to assure them victory over Divine Baby Larat (or at least make their victory much more likely), and the crowns are a prerequisite for Larat’s apotheosis. So it’s more likely that someone will give up their crown willingly (probably Cat) or that they will take it from Amadeus as some people have hypothesized. TBH it seems unlikely to me that they’d take a “crown” from Amadeus because he doesn’t really seem to have any royal authority to give up in his current situation, either in Callow or in Praes.
(Plus there’s some speculation that he goes on to become Dread Emperor Benevolent, and he couldn’t do that if he gives up his crown here because his reign would be cursed. Of course, this is just speculation….
OTOH maybe even the curse could be nullified if Cat eventually finds that the real root of suffering in Calernia is that their world is bound by stories. Maybe the end of the series involves her breaking whatever mechanism or entity is responsible for that, freeing the people of Calernia to live lives with merely your run-of-the-mill non-supernatural suffering. 😉
(Be safe EE! Cat is coming for you!))
I have been reading but who are in the band of five?
The Named currently present: Cat, Tyrant, Grey Pilgrim, Saint of Swords, Rogue Sorcerer.
It could be, those are the 2 top contender.
But one argument against Catherine abdicating right now would be that she still needs to have them Grand Alliance sit in the peace conference and sign the Liesse Accords, Vivienne is still lacking the weight for it.
Also, just a few chapters ago Cat was mentioning how she still needed the myth of invincibility to keep Callow together, that only works if she is right there at the top.
Viv can inherit the throne, but the process still needs a bit more time to be smoothed (it shouldn’t be much since she was already Lady-Regent, but still).
>she still needs to have them Grand Alliance sit in the peace conference and sign the Liesse Accords, Vivienne is still lacking the weight for it.
Catherine would still be the representative for the Empire Ever Dark and the power behind Vivi’s throne. I don’ think this would be a problem.
>Also, just a few chapters ago Cat was mentioning how she still needed the myth of invincibility to keep Callow together, that only works if she is right there at the top.
She has already surredered. That’s not the path she’s taking anymore
Especially now that we’ve firmly established that abdicating in favor of a successor is how you go about it properly…
…and Catherine sure is ALREADY INTENDING to do just that…
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I don’t think Amadeus has a crown to offer, short of Alaya dropping dead between now and when they are required to be laid at Larat’s feet.
Enjou
What Amadeus has though, is a claim. We know he’s got some claim to a Name, from the Bard. My guess is that he’s one of the potential claimants for the Name of Dread Emperor of Praes. The Legions would support him, after all, because they’re unhappy with Malicia as things stand. He has a very realistic shot at it, if he can get out of the clutches of the heroes.
Since what’s being given up here is “the right to rule” it would mean his claim to potentially take the throne from Malicia would be given up. And since Amadeus loves his homeland and would rather not have the seat in the first place, he’ll never try to claim the title if he knows for certain that it would bring disaster to Praes.
The benefit to Cat there, I think, is that it may make Malicia more inclined to trust her old friend again, because he’s not a potential claimant who she has to worry about taking her place. That may make Malicia more amenable to compromise, or just more inclined to back off and leave Callow alone. Also, given the Bard was needling Amadeus to try to take the position (Mistake!) it will likely wreck the Bard’s plans.
You mean plus-ultimate not-smug, surely? 🙂
How interesting. Seeing the Pilgrim and Black debating the objectivity of morality in a world that actually contains creator gods. What would I not give to see this debate extended… then again, I imagine no such extension would be possible that would have either of them really concede a point; they are, after all, both extremists.
I wonder where Cat’s position falls?
I suppose Catherine’s position falls on Amadeus side. Since Cat has mentioned plenty of times her disdain for the hypocrisy of those who claim that there are higher principles but don’t obey them. A principle can’t be such thing if it is superseded by the whims of a God.
Of course, Cat’s intake into their debate would be more in the spirit of “If they don’t fuck with me, I won’t fuck with them.” But it’s worth keeping in mind one of her most defining quotes:
“Woe on us all, but if the Gods demanded my home be ashes then the Gods will burn.”
I don’t know that Cat would exactly agree with Amadeus here. She seems to believe there are *some* universal moral principles, even if they are not handed out by Gods.
that’s not something Amadeus rejects
Is it not? He seemed pretty intent on ethics as a subjective, socially constructed thing. There is no universality in subjectivity.
Actually, there is.
There is a set of cultural universals that has no known exception in any human society ever. They include cooperation, food sharing, hospitality, admiration of generocity, incest taboo, proscription of murder, proscription of rape, reciprocity, resistance to abuse of power, redress of wrongs…
Admittedly, you might consider these evidence of divine plan or whatever. I call them evidence of morals actually being a human universal that directly follows from our brain architecture (that in guideverse is broadly shared by all intelligent species).
“Subjective” doesn’t mean “arbitrary”. Lots of things are subjective yet exist in reality – wherever there are subjects for them to apply to. There are no morals where there are no sentient beings capable of understanding them.
That’s not entirely true.
I mean, the Egyptian Pharaohs had incestuous tendencies. Admittedly, I think that was mostly just for them, not for the common people.
For that matter, pretty much any hereditary nobility ends up pushing the line on the incest taboo, at least, the modern interpretation of it.
Hell, Darwin married his first cousin. I think FDR was related to Eleanor, too.
Point I’m trying to make is, there is a lot of gray area when it comes to calling the incest taboo truly universal amongst human societies.
It’s a bad example, IMO.
I’d say that any “universal” or seemingly universal traits of human societies appear that way because without them, or at least without most of them, societies generally don’t get off the ground and endure long enough to leave a mark.
Another universal truth… in any society of a decent complexity, the top 1% will find ways to explain why the normal, common sense rules that govern everybody else and keep things ticking along, just don’t apply to them — while trying to keep as much of the pie as possible in their and their children’s hands. 😛
It’s a tug of war as old the first ever chiefdom.
Just because there’s a taboo doesn’t mean it won’t be broken, that’s also a universal XD
Most human societies do not consider first cousin marriage to be incest. That’s actually an American oddity. There have been a few other places and times when cousin marriage has been taboo, but I’m not even sure all of them were incest focused.
Well, I know Slavic cultures, even languages, literally count cousin as a ‘subtype’ of sibling – our words for ‘brother’ and ‘sister’ include in their meaning first and second cousins, at least, and if one wants to refer to cousins further away those words are still used, though it’s rare. “Brother of second degree”, “brother of third degree”, something like that
The idea of marrying a cousin was fucking wild for me as a teenager reading American books and stumbling upon it for the first time, as a matter of fact.
Here’s the thing: it’s an objective rule that that’s how it happens. A universal rule, one might say. An observation over subjective processes and entities that has objective results.
Morality can be both derived by humans from their own minds and experiences, and absolute. Like math.
Sure, but those are universal in practice, not theory. It is possible to create moral frameworks that do not include those. Indeed, I would say Objectivism gets close to denying a few of them.
IDGAF about objectivism. I doubt Amadeus subscribes to it.
“Universal in practice” is close enough. Just because you don’t have a theory that explains them, doesn’t mean it’s actually random or something.
But the argument is about whether morality is somehow inherent to the fabric of Creation, put there by the Gods themselves (like, say, gravity), or a cultural thing humans develop. An argument in favor of the former would imply there is one *true* set of moral values which is at the base of all possible sensical morality.
The latter position, meanwhile, is free to state that there is a set of moral values that objectively maximizes utility in a society when widespread, and should therefore be used at the base of all possible sensical morality.
That assumes an utilitarian model, which restricts you to much less than “all possible sensical morality”. There are good arguments for deontological ethics.
When deontological ethics run into contradiction problems, how do you resolve the contradiction? Do you roll dice, or do you look at greater expected utility (modified by probability)?
I view utilitarianism as basically a general case of deontological ethics: like how all the physics can technically be modeled with quantum mechanics, but most of the time you just want to calculate speed by dividing distance by time.
Except quantum mechanics can’t account for gravity.
Utilitarianism is all fine and dandy unless you consider intent matters. Or you consider utility does not admit a useful total order. Or you consider it’s not even well defined.
It’s not well defined, you are correct, which draws a good parallel with quantum and gravity. It’s a basic model that is more often than not still less useful in practice than deontological rules. Yet what they are useful for is still the same. “Greater total utility” is fancy words for “greater good”; it’s an odd deontological ruleset that does not acknowledge this concept.
It’s entirely possible to explain why taking into account intent is important from a utilitarian point of view. You just have to go beyond the simplistic and account for ripple effects, long term consequences, and how knowledge of your decisions influences those of other people.
This is my claim (which I have no reason to assume Amadeus’s ideas differ from): that ‘greater good’ is defined by people yet in a manner that is consistent and fairly absolute across all of them, and that all the rules of morality are derived from that manually, as best humanity (well, mortals as a whole, in guideverse) has managed over the ages. That the rules are not absolute themselves, merely useful guidelines/heuristics in service of humans’ goals, yet unavoidably so. That in the absence of any divine contact or other outside source, a society is capable of deriving those rules alongside basic math, laws of mechanics and an agricultural calendar.
And that any person living in a society is capable of deriving these rules for themselves, too, if they have the freedom/resources to pursue the question, and they will get consistent results.
Gods Above are unnecessary if not necesarily unhelpful: from where I’m standing, the angel system as I understand it looks like a very useful addition: take what humans have decided are virtues, find individuals who fit the criteria, then empower them to act in accordance with these virtues as best they believe.
Incidentally, Contrition is objectively and inherently kind of a sucky virtue – not very useful as a moral compass, you know? As William has demonstrated and all that. Just because humanity is capable of deriving correct morality, doesn’t mean every single idea they have along the way is equally good and all that.
If something is not even well defined, or not a member of a totally ordered set, maximizing it is not a meaningful or useful concept.
You say utilitarian ethics are the generalization, while conceding that they are more akin to a degenerate case (deontology with a single “rule”: maximize this).
As for the question of intent and your proposed solution, going down the rabbit hole of causal chains only gives weight to speculation and adds further ambiguity.
Really, the problems with going along this idea of maximizing utility are that first, poorly defined as it is, the “greater good” can be used to justify just about anything… and second, with the non-ordering, it sees no way out of some problems. If two goods (or two evils) are non-comparable, utilitarianism offers no insight.
>the “greater good” can be used to justify just about anything
I mean, that’s a feature, not a bug. No rule is absolute.
>and second, with the non-ordering, it sees no way out of some problems. If two goods (or two evils) are non-comparable, utilitarianism offers no insight.
Well, a core tenet is that everything is comparable, though it’s a recognized problem to actually carry out the comparison correctly. A difficulty, not a chasm.
Either way, let’s go back a bit to what we were talking about in the first place:
>An argument in favor of the former would imply there is one *true* set of moral values which is at the base of all possible sensical morality.
My point was that an argument in favor of the latter can make the exact same point, just on a different basis. Whether or not it’s actually correct is a rabbit hole that’s fun to delve into but isn’t actually relevant to the question of
>I don’t know that Cat would exactly agree with Amadeus here. She seems to believe there are *some* universal moral principles, even if they are not handed out by Gods.
…whether Amadeus would agree about the existence of universal moral principles.
Again, game theory is math. That’s pretty fucking universal and pretty fucking true. Cooperation in iterated prisoner’s dilemma is not culture-dependent, not even brain architecture-dependent.
If it can be used to argue for anything, then the theory is vacuous (since it is not consistent). I would hardly call that a feature.
Your tenet, or axiom, of comparability would need to be argued for. A lot.
Game theory is math, but it is only applicable if you are an utilitarian, which already compromises universality, and even assuming everyone is utilitarian it would assume every possible utility function is somehow compatible, which is patently not true.
In any case, Black specifically argues all morality is socially constructed. There is no inherent universality. Meanwhile Cat wants to impose such universality.
It can be used to argue for anything if this anything is justified by the circumstances.
It can be used to argue for anything in a sense that you can always find a smaller number than any other one given, in math.
>In any case, Black specifically argues all morality is socially constructed. There is no inherent universality. Meanwhile Cat wants to impose such universality.
What are you seeing that Cat thinks that Amadeus doesn’t agree with?
You are confusing somewhat the objective rules of “if X, then Y” – if you let out a demon, you damage Creation – and subjective incentives of “I don’t want other people to get hurt”.
Amadeus agrees with Catherine that X does indeed lead to Y. The subjective part is not wanting Y to happen.
It can be used to argue for anything because utility functions are fairly arbitrary.
Cat wants to impose universal morality standards, which to Black would seem futile, or at least misguided.
Black’s approach to morality is essentially “sez you”. I doubt he’d want or welcome Cat’s Accords at all. Outside of how he could exploit them for his own gain, that is.
I don’t understand your point about causality and incentives. Moral theory encompasses both.
Oh, I don’t know about that.
Black might embrace the Accords, or at least significant parts of them.
I doubt he’s going to find much he’ll actually object to in the sections covering “no Angels, no Demons”, for example, though he might make pro forma objections that he’d try to leverage into more concessions.
Probably not, now that he doesn’t have Warlock.
He might, however, take exception to things like prisoner exchanges, or restrictions on undeclared warfare… who knows what goodies Cat has stuffed into that.
He’ll probably welcome restrictions on power levels, since his is low, but restrictions on unfair play in war would harm his chances.
I disagree with your interpretation of Amadeus’s position.
>“Indeed,” he casually agreed, unwilling to pursue the debate that if any of the things the Pilgrim had named were inherent instead of ascribed, they became utterly meaningless.
Note how Amadeus actually appears to care about them not being meaningless, just doesn’t want to debate it there and then.
>In the face of conflict, that will always be how I act. I will reduce all individuals involved to instruments, and seek what I consider the best outcome. I will not spare myself a distinction, though I do not consider this to improve the principle of the behaviour in the slightest.
How is this a ‘sez you’ approach to morality?
I’m not sure you understand what utilitarianism is.
>utility functions are fairly arbitrary.
not as intended, no
Also, “exploit them for his own gain” LMAO. Amadeus??? What do you define as “his own gain”???
He’s not debating whether anyone else’s ethics are sound, though? I called it that but I believe their debate is one of ethical realism vs subjectivism.
An ethical theory based around the maximization of some utility, the form of which depends on ethical considerations by whoever is talking.
“What do you define as ‘his own gain’??”
An increase to the chance of him achieving whatever objective he’s pursuing, according to his priorities.
it’s not… ‘some’ utility. Utility is defined fairly objectively, even if not quite completely. Like ideas like ‘two human lives are worth exactly 2x single human life’ are objective, yeah?
A good way I’ve seen it put is that utilitarianism is embracing the moral duty of beneficence, and declaring all others to be subservient to it & derivative from it.
The choices of how each thing compares to another is subjective. For example, some might argue that a human life is priceless and thus two human lives are incomparable to one. Or, say… how many amputated legs (let’s say, of healthy twenty year olds) are worth a life?
You can develop theories of life-year equivalencies, but that’s just throwing the subjectivity down the math hole a bit. The assumptions of the theory, like exactly how much an amputated leg hampers someone, are still subjective.
And then there are questions of whether all human lives have equal worth, the discussion of which also gets into subjectivity. Is a happier person worth more, since killing them reduces overall happiness more? Is a healthier person worth more, since their death takes away more expected years of life? Is a lonely person worth less, because their death will affect less others? All subjective.
And that’s just talking about human life.
> For example, some might argue that a human life is priceless and thus two human lives are incomparable to one.
So… if that arguer had a choice to save one person or two people, would they flip a coin?
> Or, say… how many amputated legs (let’s say, of healthy twenty year olds) are worth a life?
You do realize medics actually have to have policies on these things, right? What chance of dying is worth an amputated leg?
All this shit is absolutely something that can and needs to be calculated by people who actually have to make these decisions.
And it’s everyone who makes these decisions. How much time off your lifespan, on average, does one smoked cigarette take off? How does the utility of one smoked cigarette compare to the utility of that lost time? Is it worth it?
“Lalala I’m not listening and I make all decisions randomly” is not, in fact, a better system.
Not necessarily flip a coin; however, some ethical systems will arrive at the same conclusion for different reasons, others at different conclusions.
And sure, physicians have policies. Those policies are based off of base assumptions made, much like all policy.
As for people deciding whether to smoke, their brains use much simpler heuristics for the decision.
Mmmm, how do I explain this.
Utility is indeed based on subjective preferences. Like in any other ethical system, you’re going to need to guess at those in absence of complete knowledge. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t actually refer to anything any more than sentimeters and inches being completely arbitrarily chosen units of measurement means they don’t actually measure anything, or a center of a coordinate system being arbitrarily placed means coordinate-based math is useless.
You can, in fact, know other people’s preferences for a fact. You can also act on those preferences like you care what other people and not only you think. “Utility” is an arbitrary measurement unit chosen for ease of discussion.
Being utilitarian just means you’re trying to do the most good you can. Where you do in fact believe that “good” is something that can be objectively measured and not just an illusion of your fevered brain.
I do believe that Amadeus believes that good he does can be objectively measured.
It’s more like relativistic mechanics, where people in different inertial frames of reference can disagree about the length of something, using the same units. Except without a convenient Lorentz transform to convert to someone else’s frame, because it is impossible to completely know someone else’s point of view, only approximations (and even then, only through lots of dialogue).
Yes, it’s a problem.
If you’re utilitarian, you’re supposed to suck it up and deal with the problem, not just say ‘shrug I guess I’ll never know and will just do my own thing the way I like’ but actually try to figure out and approximate what you’re supposed to do to accomodate everyone’s preferences better.
The Choir of Mercy is strongly utilitarian in its approach.
I’m unsure whether the choir is utilitarian or some other form of consequentialism (it seems they do not believe an equal amount of happiness justifies a given amount of suffering).
Also, non-utilitarians don’t just shrug and say “I’ll never know”. They just have a different sort of framework (another form of consequentialism, a deontological view… or even one form of subjectivism).
Yeah, that’s fair. I’m not particularly familiar with other forms of consequentialism.
Oh, and someone could even argue that there is diminishing marginal utility to human lives. Why they would do so, I don’t know, but I am sure argument could be mounted.
Wouldn’t make it correct?
No, but it exposes subjective aspects of utilitarianism.
Okay, at this point I’m just confused what we’re arguing about. You were saying that Amadeus wouldn’t approve of the Accords and reasons Catherine wants them?
I was trying to say Amadeus is a moral subjectivist while the pilgrim is a realist.
And that Cat seems to be trying to create an internationally binding codex to enforce some of her ethics system onto everyone. Amadeus, who has a loose moral framework, would probably never attempt a project like this, and might in fact chafe at such restrictions.
You then argued that Amadeus is an utilitarian and that this is an objective morality theory. I disagree on both points but chose to argue the second.
I’m saying that Amadeus is a secular humanist, as is Catherine. With the belief that an objective morality system exists, but does not originate from being explicitly designated by a higher power.
Kind of like exactly the thing I believe? Just because I can’t explain it coherently / convince you of it, doesn’t mean it’s not a, like… possible, sufficiently self-consistent position?
I did get that you seem to be projecting your system of beliefs onto characters you like. Which is a fair thing to do.
As far as it being a self-consistent position, sure… but it is not the end-all be-all of ethical theory.
I personally interpret Amadeus as a moral subjectivist – he doesn’t believe it is possible to make objective statements about the morality of an action.
He has literally made those objective statements. Like… I’ve quoted this. He and the Calamities both referred to ethics as an objective fixed thing that they don’t get to redefine to their liking.
I’ll need to have another look at this. I’ll add that, in my interpretation, the calamities in general definitely don’t share an overall ethical ideology.
Definitely agreed. It’s just that Sabah said those things about him and about his decision making process…
Utiiltarianism seriously does NOT mean looser moral framework. If anything it is a stricter one since it means there’s always a specific right thing for you to do. One that you could calculate with math if you were omniscient, but since you aren’t you just kind of have to guess / go by deontological rules most of the time, since from utilitarian point of view that’s what they’re for (heuristics for maximizing utility).
One of the important points that differentiates utilitarianism from other ethical frameworks is universality – you are supposed to assign as much weight to complete strangers you’ve never met as to yourself & people close to you. Obviously it’s not how people work, but you’re a better utilitarian the better you approximate it.
I am not trying to convert you to utilitarianism. I am trying to explain how it works from the inside.
Sure, utilitarianism is a form of consequentialism. Problem is Amadeus is not a consequentialist. He’s a subjectivist. If anything, your position is closer to the Pilgrim’s view (minimization of suffering is at least consequentialist).
Cat seems to believe a different consequentialism than the pilgrim… seems to have elements of both deontology and egoism to it.
Wait, how is Amadeus not a consequentialist? Every single time he’s explained his actions – to Catherine, Alaya, himself, Ranker – he was looking at consequences and what would ultimately come of it.
The south will not recover for decades ™
The math holds, it always does with you ™
In the face of conflict, this will always be how I act: reduce agents to pieces on the board and seek the best outcome ™
Amadeus and Tariq are blatantly mirrors to one another, with incredibly similar basic reasoning but very different priors.
Not best ethically. Best for achieving his desired objective of winning against Good.
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>restrictions on unfair play in war would harm his chances.
his chances of WHAT
his goal is to drag Praes out of the Evil-that-always-loses narrative rut. He aims to accomplish this through cutting off the tradition of madmen taking the throne and fucking around. Banning demons is literally what he himself would do if he could. Banning Named rulers is absolutely what he himself would do if he could.
Accords + forcing Praes to obey them IS his win condition. He’ll need to fight no more wars after that, and the restrictions placed on warfare he won’t need to conduct will only make him happier bc as a utilitarian he has this interesting habit of caring, at least a little bit, about literally everyone and valuing every single life.
A finite amount, but valuing.
Amadeus is not doing this out of some great ethical concern that more unhappiness is created by the status quo than by plunging the continent into decades-long civil war. Which is very arguable.
He is motivated by the fact that Evil never wins and he wants a win, DAMMIT. Only one sin: defeat. Only one grace: victory.
He just also happens to want a real, permanent win. It’s also where he and Alaya differ: she is a patriot, he is a zealot.
I’d ask where the fuck you’re getting this, but I actually probably know where. Book 2 Chapter 36, was it?
Amadeus the Madman: a skeptical analysis of the Madman speech (the "rage at the Heavens" one) from PracticalGuideToEvil
As I told you, I’ve had that tab open for ages and not had the energy to interact with it meaningfully. I’ll hurry up and get to it.
Jarthon
I think that Black’s argument here is something that Cat has agreed with the entire time. One of the major themes and most epic moments of Book 1 was “Evil is about believing that something is worth more than being Good” which is in line with Amadeus in this case. Its a very interesting difference that is pretty symbolic of Good and Evil in Practical Guide as a whole; The good guys are good because they choose to follow the people above while the bad guys are bad because they choose to do anything else. That as a whole is what allows Cat to walk the “still evil, but not totally evil” line.
This is fucking fascinating and the best, and I love both that Amadeus has a strong position on this and that his position aligns with mine ❤ ❤ ❤
…too bad the debate was not to happen =x
What I found interesting is that both philosophies are prominent in Christian theology.
Both that there is a better way – a set of rules that people ought to obey to achieve greatness.
And that free will is necessary – God is conspicuously light handed in attempting to compel people to obey. Even to the extent of allowing people to murder his son rather than miraculously intervening. In fact, this is the orthodox answer to the Problem of Evil. Arguing that God allows Evil to exist because it is necessary for free will to exist.
The rule obedience gets most of the attention nowadays, but there are still several denominations that place great emphasis on Free Will. In a diversity of doctrine stretching from the Unitarians to the Mormons.
I would be remiss not to note that is a flawed solution, since free will is obviously limited – I can’t very well, say, be unbound by gravity if I want. It could be just as impossible to commit sin. It also does not really address natural disasters, disease and other impersonal evil. Most address that via the original sin, but that gets back to rule following…
That’s not free will. You seem to be confusing free will with omnipotence. If you can’t control other people you don’t have free will?
Free will is usually defined as having both the capability and opportunity to makes choices. Being able to turn off gravity is not required.
Furthermore, free will assumes that not only do your choices effect you (and others), but that other’s choices effect you.
Natural disasters and other such impersonal evils are a different question. Though there are two response to that. The first is which I was eluding to, that evil must exist for free will to exist. Basically that evil must exist to allow people the opportunity to choose.
The other is to declare that all things (including the wind and earth and sea) have spirits and thus have free will (if possibly more limited than humans). Which is not as extreme as it might sound. After all, animals have free will, even though they are not considered sentient.
I can’t choose to turn of gravity. And I still have free will. It could also be impossible to murder, and we would still have free will. There are plenty of non-murder choices around.
If we lived in a world where murder was impossible, we wouldn’t even notice – and when I talked about the problem of evil, you would react to it with the same dismissiveness you do turning off gravity.
A much-belated quibble here:
> After all, animals have free will, even though they are not considered sentient.
Animals (at least vertebrates) are indeed sentient, capable of perception and feeling. They are not sapient, capable of reasoning and judgement.
Well the problem here is that Evil is pretty definitively, within Christianity, merely the Absence of Good. You have to, in effect, actively choose to be Evil. The Pilgrim would be totally right in that case.
“Evil is the absence of good” is not orthodox Christianity.
I think you are confusing this with a different debate, which is about Damnation. Is it evil for God to damn people to hell? The orthodox answer to that is that damnation is not evil, but rather God withdrawing his presence (which is the source of all that is good) from those that are damned.
Now some academics extend that to arguing that there is no such thing as Evil, and that therefor the Problem of Evil does not exist. But that is not orthodox Christianity, which affirms that Evil exists and is more than just the absence of Good.
Consider that such a definition would make the Edenic state Evil. Since there was neither good nor evil in the Garden of Eden before Adam and Eve partook of the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. If fact, that is usually the scriptural proof used to demonstrate that Free Will necessitates Evil, as it was the choice to partake of the Forbidden Fruit that led to the fallen world.
The whole idea that Evil is the absence of Good is from Summa Theologica, which I would contend is mostly considered to be orthodox.
>affirms that Evil exists
In the same way that we can affirm that Coldness and Darkness exist, and we can feel their presence, but physically they’re nonentities and merely represent an especial lack of heat and light respectively.
>The orthodox answer to that is that damnation is not evil, but rather God withdrawing his presence (which is the source of all that is good) from those that are damned.
Yes, although I’d correct you and say that God never withdraws his presence from the damned, the damned merely refuse to accept Him, and someone who has already been damned is effectively unable to accept Him and truly repent.
>there was neither good nor evil
Neither Adam nor Eve believed there was good or evil present until they ate of the Tree of Knowledge. There’s a ton you can take from that – that Good can’t be distinguished from Evil until there is Evil, that only someone with the knowledge of sin can actually do so, or even that Adam and Eve were metaphorically never ‘in’ Eden, they merely woke up and recognised the Evil around them for what it was. That neither Good nor Evil *existed* in Eden until they ate is nonsense, considering God was there, as was the Serpent. The Edenic state is not Evil, but neither is it Good, because the Edenic state lacks the qualifier to be considered Good or Evil. It’s neither Good nor Evil in the same sense that total emptiness is neither hot nor cold or a transparent medium is neither light nor dark.
Which denomination are you using, in any case? If your sect’s stance is that Evil exists then I guess so.
Just a potato
I feel like Black really outdid himself on this whether on purpose or not. Tariq’s doubts in the battle and negotiations with Cat didn’t make a whole lot of sense considering his supposed skill in story weaving. But with Black crushing his soul like this it makes a lot of sense. Whether for spite or strategy or both it was an excellent bit of maneuvering.
They live in a world that operates on Good vs Evil and yet they can have a debate on morality. I mean, I like fight scenes, and the crazy schemes, and awesome uses of powers, but what I think I really like the most in the series are the philosophical points like this.
That, and the various diplomatic negotiations. 🙂
And then they didn’t have the fucking debate )=
Hah. Nicely done, Amadeus.
The harshest cut is the truth.
And Amadeus had made a career out of embracing and wielding truths.
Hell – Amadeus has a better track record of keeping his word once given than Tariq does. Because lies are bad policy and will turn against you.
That’s the thing about being evil. If you want to have people accept the deals you make, your word must be beyond reproach. If you’re a hero, everyone just accepts that, if you break your word, you must have had a good reason, so it’s perfectly fine to trust you.
>There are no teachings, Pilgrim, that is the point exact.
Ah, so the Sacred Betrayal means a rejection of authorities, teachers and masters both. Even the rejection of that rejection.
The Sacred Betrayal is- quite likely- a Praesi teaching, in the same vein as Iron sharpens Iron, not a Below teaching. Obviously people who treat evil like a religion both exist and are not rare, but I don’t think they’re neccessarily word from the gods.
It sure lines up suspiciously well with the Tenets of Night.
Given the absolute dearth of contact between drow and Praesi, I consider any parallels between these culture to be Evil universals inherent to Below’s philosophy, myself.
It may seem so, but it was the Bard who have them that Deal, they called for Below with the most sacred prayer they could, Murdering priests in their centre of power.
But they didn’t get a face to face meeting with ‘Below’ they got a drink Drowsy with a lute, could it be that she wasn’t speaking for below? That she was just starting the pattern of Iron Sharpens Iron for the very first time? Giving them the rope to hang themselves and set in motion one of the greatest atrocities ever to take place in Calernia? All while still being a Hero? One who had learned how to make Villains from the very best example of them in existence.
Didn’t Neshamah confirm that it was in fact her job as an Intercessor to manage this kind of thing?
This is interesting speculation, though it doesn’t really fit my understanding of her character…
Pzarndt
Typo Thread:
“The Barrow Lord threatened to take the northern half of Levant for the better part of a summer,” he said. “The Princess of Cantal was murdered and then impersonated by the Face-Thief for half a year before they were caught caught.”
Caught is there twice.
the fabric Creation / the fabric of Creation
responsible the current invasion / responsible for the current invasion
snuffed out effective villain / snuffed out effective villainy
Yeah, but that’s because they were caught caught. Like, when it comes to named there’s “caught” and then there’s caught caught.
So Amadeus is “caught” but he’s still clearly working to undermine the heroes and has a card or two left to play.
When one is caught caught they cease to be an active agent in the story.
An easy way to tell the difference is, if you’re asking the question then the person is only “caught”.
Sugar Roll
I love the chapter. Parts of it felt like the usual conversation between a religious person and an atheist.
That’s an astute observation.
I think I’ve said this before, but this is a really good place to say it again:
Way back in college, I happened to read two particular books in the same week: Anton LaVey’s Satanic Bible, and Robert Ringer’s Looking Out For #1″. (The latter is a “business book” first published in 1978, prefiguring the 80’s as the “Me Decade”.) When I realized that both books were pitching the same basic goals with different decorations, I laughed my head off and declined to take either of them as a guide.
Aside: It’s worth noting that LaVey abandoned his own Satanic Church, specifically because so few of the people who came to him were actually interested in increasing their personal power — rather, they just wanted to dress in black and look sinister. Others have taken up his torch since (I’ve heard of a Temple of Set), but I haven’t been following developments.
Robert Ringer, in contrast, has been coming back into vogue every decade or two; his followers wreaked havoc through the 90’s and ‘Naughts, and arguably have claimed real power in current times.
Arg, open tags… I don’t usually ask this, but maybe EE could fix that?
Never mind an edit button, just a preview button would be enough!
Don’t. Tempt. Sod.
Just imagine how many posts and replies would get chopped when the preview widget borks.
Loved this extra chapter so much. Not just for the clever interactions, but mostly because it provides the perfect explanation for why Tariq has been so accommodating in recent chapters (Cat getting Amadeus’ body back, accepting Cat’s surrender, Vivienne negotiating the return of troops for assistance against Karios’ forces, and Cat’s plan to kill a god and make a highway out of him + five man band to fight the Dead King.)
I honestly believe that Tariq would have been much more of an obstacle for many of these if it weren’t for the fact that Amadeus rocked some of Tariq’s foundational beliefs.
Yeah, that’s a good reason for Tariq willing to compromise. Seems like Amadeus shook him to core.
Based on this chapter, it feels like the laws of creation dictates that there should be a balance between good and evil. It may swing one way or the other for a time but eventually creation will bring it back to its natural balanced state.
So if you’re Tariq and you’ve realized you can’t truly get rid of evil, what’s the next best thing? Keep the lesser evils like Catherine and get rid of the really horrible ones like the Dead King.
It’s balance, but not in the sense of scales on equilibrium.
It’s more like a cycle, and while the cycles can be broken and patterns transcended they can’t be stopped with half-measures nor willful thinking, otherwise, all they are doing in putting pressure on a dam.
Ignorance about it allows the pressure to accumulate and once it finally breaks the dam the flood is too strong to be stopped and drowns them all.
It’s the thing that happened with Praes and Callow, since the process of breaking the cycle was broken half-way by Malicia’s stupidity of going back to the ways of Old Evil due to distrusting Amadeus, Callow went out of control and Praes is burning and losing it’s Named at high speed.
I just realized that the wandering bard is probably the entity that enforces that balance. I think in present time she’s working for the side of good because there’s this huge imbalance in the form of Neshemah. I wouldn’t be surprised if the wandering bard was born in the past as a villain in a time where an OP good hero existed. And if that is true, it would make sense why Neshemah calls her the intercessor.
Actually, she explicitly gave DK the go-ahead to “eat the baby”. She might be maintaining the balance against Good now…. but there’s another really spectacular option: Suppose she’s angling for a redemption story for the Drow and Sve Noc?
Night was born of Below, but (per their SOP) is not getting continued assistance from them, their new priestess is Evil-Lite at worst, and Night doesn’t actually have to be an evil thing. The Drow could become a neutral species like humanity.
Neshamah is not an imbalance, he was just revealed to be a balance, also the Bard originates from the times beyond the heroes and villains existence.
Yeah, he’s a balance right now that’s why he’s coming out. Once he evens the scales, he will be an imbalance again and will probably go back to Keter again like the few instances in history where he went out then went back after some time. Unless of course, someone puts an end to him permanently.
Kirroth
And my bet is that this imbalance was deliberately engineered by the Bard. She encouraged Pilgram and Saint’s rise in order to create circumstances where the Dead King would be unleashed in order to …something.
Basically she’s provoking an escalation in order to destabilize the system so she can back door into her true goal without tripping over the restrictions that have been placed on her. I just have no idea what that goal is, unless she wants Cat to replace her so she can die in peace.
that is possible, it should be related to kingdom under, the war allow them to invade the everdark then surround keter.
the bard create this war to attack not just one evil nation but three
That sort of cycle is simply the consequence of an unsteady balance. In our own world, predator/prey interactions show the same pattern — and likewise, it’s entirely possible to break the cycle entirely, if the balance topples (e.g., an extinction, or just a new factor coming into the scene).
I’m not sure I agree. I definitely expected Tariq to do those and wasn’t surprised by his actions in th least.
Then again, it’s possible I’m far too charitable towards his ability to not be an idiot, and he wouldn’t have if it weren’t for this talk.
We’ll probably never know for sure. In previous discussions you’ve certainly influenced me to feel more charitably towards Tariq and I had felt satisfied with your explanation for his actions. Reading this post today though felt much more satisfying. It’s like the potential was certainly there for him to realise his mistakes and he just needed an extra push from Amadeus to get him moving in the right direction. He might have come to the same agreements without the push, but I think they would probably have taken more time and effort by everyone involved.
I think that if the Guide ever gets edited for publication, this interlude will need to move up to well before Pilgrim’s reappearance here, and probably go with his capture.
Maybe? I don’t really get the feeling that Amadeus struck true here with his accusation. I think he just shaped the argument that would hurt Pilgrim: not lying, but not caring to be more accurate than the first thing that came to his head.
IDK. Mental Mouse made a great breakdown of this elsewhere.
Kotawa Ma
I hope that if Cat ever ends up making Black a Mighty she stabs his melodramatic ass in the heart in the process, as payback.
I think that stabbing was already returned as that one in the stomach at Liesse, but I do love how you think ❤
Ali Khan
So I know it’s been heavily implied before but correct me if I’m wrong in saying that this is basically the first outright confirmation that the Gods below are the ones who believe in leaving mortals their agency while the gods above are the ones that argue for control.
Also great to see a more human side to black while staying in form of his absolute rationalist approach. Almost like he’s more human again after losing his name. More prone to not putting all his emotions in a box for later.
Heart-warming reunion with cat soon pls
Yes, it is the first time it was explicitly written. Even if it is only Amadeus’s opinion, his arguments are very convincing.
Well we definitely had plenty of WoG on the topic, and of course “my side is not the one that concerns itself with how people who have power use it” was said back in Book 1,
It still may be a twist of logic, say, Above believes in guiding by defining what’s right and wrong while Below believes giving power is enough to enforce hierarchy of power.
*takes a deep breath*
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaakhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
*coughs from so much screaming*
so, uh, yeah, this sure is happening huh
The margins, you broke them! 😉
i actually didnt expect that
but it sounds appropriate to the level of AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa that this chapter was for my brain
Navi-Hank
Jesu H Christ, stop with the letter string, you’re fucking up the formatting of the mobile site
I’M SORRY I WILL STOP
I THOUGHT IT WASN’T LONG ENOUGH TO GO OUT OF BOUNDS
As a more coherent comment:
– well, this fucking hurt. I wanted everyone to get along so much, I kind of forgot how much bitterness and bad blood there was involved. Fuck;
– I just want to… swaddle Amadeus in a blanket and hug him. Anyone who still thinks he’s “more machine than man” and survives entirely on cold calculation is welcome to buy reading glasses;
– Tariq remains a champion of being utterly awful at reading people even with his Aspect lmao;
– Amadeus DOES have a deeply involved opinion on morality, justice, principles and so on. He just doesnt want to discuss it with Tariq 🙂
– Amadeus is a fucking nerd. He goes on no less than two paragraphs of disgression on his curiosity about the landscape/climate IN THIS FUKING SITUATION. God bless;
– so he did not miss the chance for escape deliberately after all, he just fucked up. Oh Amadeus…
You can take the boy out of the farm, but good luck extracting the horticulturalist and estate manager out of the boy. XD
And on a different point, the part where he was grateful to get to see the barrows, because he wanted to but the campaign never permitted it ;u;
he is a farmboy and a nerd and I love him so much
Mazyne
“The Princess of Cantal was murdered and then impersonated by the Face-Thief for half a year before they were caught.”
Okay, now I’m worried, because there’s been a heavy layer of foreshadowing about Arnaud of Cantal being an extremely skilled actor with no real emotions, and the implications of that could be dire. We’ve seen in Chap. 34 that his alleged aims are very similar to Black’s in a way, the survival of his kingdom at any cost, but I have a hard time buying that’s the whole of it. There could be a new Face-Thief, or maybe the old one just put his soul into him when he was a kid Akua-style.
Which, on top of being a potential “Oh shit” moment, could completely ruin Cat’s plan, because it requires seven crowns to work, and if Arnaud is a usurper, well, that might fuck it all up.
I don’t think it’s likely, but there’s got to be something more at play. Though maybe the childhood trauma of having been raised by a villain who you thought was your mother for six months and never realizing it might actually push someone to become like Arnaud.
Even if he was an usurper, he still has the crown, and nobody’s disputed his right to it. Not even when he knifed a fellow prince, though that’s probably not too unusual for this crowd. If Arnaud is indeed Face-Thief, well then the former-Prince Face-Thief is onboard with the plan.
Oh obviously, and we’ve known that the truth can be stretched quite a bit for story purposes ever since Cat claimed that Black was kind of King of Callow when killing good ol’ Willy, but it could also be stretched in a way that ruins her plan, if for example she needed to take another one of the three crowns she’s brought with her in the Dead King’s lair. The Tyrant or the Dead King could potentially out this information at the last moment while pulling out the real Arnaud or whatever story ace they had up their sleeves, and make a great big speech about how his crown really isn’t one. At this point I’m just looking for things that might fuck Cat over, because something has to eventually, and this one can actually throw a wrench in her plan, whatever it is, without it being completely unrecoverable. Having to convince one more person in her party to throw down their crown would be possible, albeit at a great cost to herself.
Things have been going a little too well for her lately, and although the fact that she hasn’t explained her plan makes it more likely to succeed, I’m still waiting for the other shoe to drop (you’d think at this point Creation would be out of shoes but I don’t think anybody’s counting on it).
Certainly she’ll run into some sort of problem, but using Arnaud that way would be too much of a bait-and-switch. Another reason to think so is that if he were the Face-Thief or his crown was otherwise invalid, Pilgrim would surely have spotted that back at the concord. Given how routinely he uses his Behold aspect, he’d probably long since scanned all the royals, if only to make sure Malicia (or DK, or Cat, or unknown parties) hadn’t slipped a ringer into the Alliance war councils. And he’d have to be an idiot not to take a second look after that heel/face turn!
I’d say that the Dead King, semi-possessed Masego, and Larat, can certainly come up with enough serious complications among them. Not to mention the other members of the band…. That said, Cat has a few complications up her own sleeves. We know about the Nightstaff, and Archer (who, lest we forget, was looking for Masego) is still waiting in the wings,
Why the chapter was so short? :((( I guess those two had much more questions and answers for each other.
Yes, it’s certainly a shame that we won’t get to see more of that conversation.
Luxuria Tenebris
So this is probably nothing, but i thought i should mention that the Face-Thief, someone that was probably a skilled actor, was in charge of the same Cantal. That Arnaud Prince of Cantal, our skilled actor prince, that have not changed heartbeat, is now ruling. Just something i noticed.
That would be a nice little twist. However, even if that isn’t the case and the previous holder of that name is truly dead, Arnaud is currently out of a job and in need of something to fill his time with…
Arnaud might be the son of the Face-Thief, rather than the Face-Thief themselves.
How. Princess. 6 months. lmao what?
Hey, it could be.
That’s Pilgrim’s version after all, there are several possibilities.
1) The Face-Thief impersonated the Princess of Cantal for more than six months.
2) The Face-Thief was a man and impregnated someone from the royal line of Cantal before impersonating the Princess
3) The Face-Thief was a woman and was pregnant before impersonating the Face-Thief, thus giving birth during those six months.
Maybe The Face-Thief was a woman in love with the husband of the Princess of Cantal, which led to jealousy and impersonating her, Yandere style.
We don’t even know the full circumstances, anything could have happened.
in number 3, it should ‘and was pregnant before impersonating the Princess of Cantal’*.
Sorry for the typo :v
1st and 3rd are alright, more so if you combine them, cause anyone born during those 6 months sure as hell ain’t going to be the next monarch.
2 though… That’s just super contrived. Especially if you realize that Princess’ children would be the next in line, then her siblings, then her cousins who would probably feud the hell outta the seat.
SNAKE EATEEER
Why does Black alone get to have modern ethics lessons. I feel like ”grey” pilgrim should have been better versed in morality department and not just have a my side good your side bad view given his name. I mean we literally saw the moment he realized this for himself when he accepted the man who ordered his sisters death was also a geniunly good person. This is just meh man. Don’t cheapen grey to raise black.
The Grey Pilgrim is not ‘grey’ in morality or goals, he is grey in methods.
Tariq believes in morality, the good of people and the Good guidance of the Gods Above and their Angels, he is a priest after all, one might even call him a Prophet, given how he is listening messages from the Angels all the time.
This chapter is in perfect consistency with everything we have seen so far, Tariq hasn’t changed and Amadeus hasn’t changed either.
You might see it as if Amadeus is the one who seems more versed in the subject or morality or ‘having modern ethics lessons’ but that’s simply because Amadeus view is made by cold logic, while Tariq’s view is influenced by his faith.
This is very similar to the endless discussions between religious people and atheists when on that subject:
The believer (Tariq in this case) will argue that morals, justice and good are absolute things because they were decided by a God, while the atheist (loosely Amadeus in this case) will point out that all those things have varied greatly through history (things like slavery, rape, and ritual sacrifice were condoned and even regulated by religions in the past but are not allowed by those same religions today) and are still changing in the present, thus proving that the definitions of those concepts are not inherent to humans but rather creations of human societies, and argue then that the real value of those concepts is in embracing them out of free will and choice, not in having them in the people as part of their intrinsic nature.
Yes yes the argument between grey and black has been echoed irl tons of time, no need to explain the obvious.
This isnt about the argument betwen them, this is about me thinking greys perspective cant possibly be this basic. The man realized for himself that his sisters killer was a good man. The man had to kill his own sisters son. This is the man who accepts the fact that a villain genuinely wants peace and is willing to work with them for the good of the world. Yet his moral compass is above good below bad? I honestly doubt it, this chapter seemed sort of jarring but i guess i had the wrong read on his character.
The thing is, to (some of) us, Black’s argument looks more “modern”, precisely because in our own society (modern Western), religion has been largely shoved out of the position of power it held for most of human history. There are certainly still plenty of religious people around, but religious authorities rarely get to make or enforce laws for our nations anymore, and we increasingly disdain societies where they do.
This has a lot to do with the founding of America, whose founders had had quite enough of religious laws in the public sphere, and especially of competing religions passing laws against each other. More immediately, the initial colonies had multiple different religions in play, and the founders were trying to weld all those groups into a single nation. So, “freedom of religion”, which attempted to establish the new nation as a demilitarized zone with respect to religion. It wasn’t completely effective (notably, Jews and Quakers still got some official flak, let alone atheists), but really, it turned out surprisingly well.
Pilgrim believes in the good of people, he thinks people are born inherently good, while Amadeus argues that people are born neutral and when growing up they choose what to be. That’s the point of their discussion about morality.
What bothered you, however, was Pilgrim’s view of ‘Above is good, Below is evil’ but:
1) He has always been that way and 2) Above and Below refer to the Gods, not to the people who follow them.
So when you point out to the fact that Tariq has seen the man who ordered the murder of his sister being a good ruler and nice person to his family, or the infamous villain queen being genuinely looking for peace, once again I point out that that’s the good in the people that Tariq believes in. It’s just that such belief doesn’t extend to the Gods Below because those are -as far as everyone believes- the source of Evil.
Kinda like a priest can tell you that he believes sinners can be redeemed, but he won’t think the same about Satan.
Notice that he was talking about ‘the teachings of the Gods Below’, trying to make it seem like people were evil because Below corrupted them in some way, something that Amadeus immediately calls him out for, because believing such thing is to ascribe guilt for people’s actions to the Gods, thus cowering from the responsibility of one’s own deeds.
Yeah i guess he can see the people who follow below as honestly good people while seeing below as absolute evil. Though that seems flimsy to me. I gotta say the more i think about it the more what you said about his name seems to fit, that he is grey in method not morality. Yet i still can’t see him as a zealot or a slave of the heavens blindly following their decree like the current white knight. He seems to treat them as peers and what they say as advice rather than command.
That is related to the way each Choir manifest itself to their Chosen Heroes.
Contrition mindrapes people into their service by showing them all their sins so they repent and enter the service of the Heavens as penitents, Judgement boasts a broader perspective bigger than that of any mortal so they claim that makes them the most fitting ones to make a decision, so if they send a command it must be for a reason even if the mortals can’t understand it, while Mercy has a more indirect manner of making people obedient to their words: by showing them results.
It was noted both on epigraphs and on chapters that the Choir of Mercy is one of the most dangerous (even Neshamah thinks this) because they are more manipulative and softer in their approach; Tariq is not technically obligated to follow their command, but all the Ophanim have to do to make him obey their whispers is to say that by doing that he will do good and allievate suffering; it’s in his very nature so he won’t refuse. In the Peregrine Extra Chapters that was shown as the way they trained him into complying to their whispers.
An important part of the Angel-Hero relationships is that the Choirs make their chosen follow them by different methods, and while it ultimately is the person’s choice, very few people are capable of denying an Angel’s words and refusing.
Mercy is the most dangerous because their motto is basically for the greater good. Anything goes if its in the name of the greater good no matter how atrocious ^^
On a different note i wonder how he sees Dartwick. Would he see her as in service of below after she joined up with Cat or still a hero. Doesnt really matter tbh, seems like he doesnt think being a hero or villain makes you good or bad; just that above is good and below is bad. I think they met briefly before she lost her name but i cant really remember what thoughts he had about that, if any.
> Yet i still can’t see him as a zealot or a slave of the heavens blindly following their decree like the current white knight.
Hanno is not that either.
>this is about me thinking greys perspective cant possibly be this basic. The man realized for himself that his sisters killer was a good man
Actually his perspective on that revealed how horrifyingly basic black and white his understanding of the world was. How could the same person possibly do both good and bad things???
Tariq being a dumbass is something that’s 100% well set up within the narrative.
Black lacks pretty harshly in the philosophy department, all in all. He does feel like a first jab at being an existentialist sometimes. That said, ‘modern ethics’ are neither inherently superior to premodern ethics, nor inherently universal – especially when it’s not even the same universe.
So the Bard’s role is to make sure nobody ever wins too hard?
You hit the nail. Both sides use bard one way or the other to keep the game going. She’s probably the biggest reason other then gnomes why no one really innovates on Calernia.
Galvador
Did she ever actually act in a manner to help below? Sve noc was in the name of above afair.
Sve Noc is definitely aligned with Below. It’s stated specifically when the Bard interacted with the sisters millennia ago. Also Night is based on murder to increase personal power, that’s not Above’s game.
Deunan
Loved the chapter. But my brain seems to be running on empty – when did Black loose his name as the black Knight?
He specifically mentions being nameless here
During the scenes before Black’s capture there’s several mentions of Black overusing his aspects and being weakened as a result. By the time the Heroes catch up with him on the boat, Amadeus had lost his name and was no longer the Black Knight.
The thing about the ‘morality’ of Creation reminded me of a certain part of Hogfather by Terry Pratchett.
YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
“So we can believe the big ones?”
YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
“They’re not the same at all!”
YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME…SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
“Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point—”
MY POINT EXACTLY.”
With this in mind, Black isn’t refuting that these things exist, in fact the line here:
if any of the things the Pilgrim had named were inherent instead of ascribed, they became utterly meaningless
directly mirrors what Death says in the above snippet.
In Black’s eyes, as I understand it, Good vs Evil is the argument of Free Will. Sure, Below encourages flying doom fortresses and blowing up an entire city to spite an invading enemy fleet, but at least those that follow Below choose to do so.
I wouldn’t be surprised if at some point in the future, it turns out that in a big revelation, Above isn’t the ‘Good’ side. Merely, the Choirs et al are simply a different form of Evil (or at least are morally grey). Think of all the examples we have; William was ready to brainwash an entire city into Crusade drones, and himself was mindraped into becoming a hero by Contrition. Hanno gives up ALL free will in making the decisions that matter, relying on a literal coinflip decided by his Choir. And the Pilgrim, while less directly influenced, relies on the voices talking to him to guide him into the correct choice.
Hanno has yet to make a single meaningful decision based on his coinflip.
The angels have never helped Tariq make the correct choice except in providing him with information that helps him do so.
William was already contrite before he met the angel.
I think in Black’s eyes, Below is evil but that doesn’t matter because every single choice is still made by people. You can accept its Bestowal and still act like a decent person; and heroes are not more virtuous for having their virtue rewarded. He doesn’t give a shit about the argument of the gods, he’s here for Creation and the people on it.
That last bit aside, YES. I definitely remembered Death’s monologue when discussing this chapter and some people’s confusion on Black’s views ❤
> I think in Black’s eyes, Below is evil but that doesn’t matter because every single choice is still made by people. You can accept its Bestowal and still act like a decent person; and heroes are not more virtuous for having their virtue rewarded. He doesn’t give a shit about the argument of the gods, he’s here for Creation and the people on it.
Yes, yes, a thousand times, YES.
The problem I think with making the Angels a separate entity is that it gives readers a boogeyman to use if they dislike Heroes, while missing the point that a Name (and by extension, contact with Above) is just a confirmation of who you already are. Hanno wanted to seek Justice already, so he found it. Tariq didn’t know how to save people but wanted to, so he learned how. William wanted to make right what he did wrong, so he was provided the means. It’s pretty obviously an Ask and Ye Shall Receive thing, but the point is that none of the Heroes are somehow forced to use their powers. They just honestly believe in their cause, which is why they got the powers to see it through in the first place.
This!!! I wish there was a pin function or something on wordpress.
I didn’t think of Hogfather (should probably get a copy so I can reread it), but the argument is pretty much that of secular humanism. In my own case, the question of whether I “believe in God(s)” hinges on quibbling over the definitions of both “believe” and “God(s)” 😉 … but I certainly believe in people.
Justice, mercy, duty, dignity, honor, kindness… the universe at large does not provide these things, nor care about them. And yet we see them all around us, because we humans created them and those humans who came before us put them them into our world. But like us, these things are living, and fragile. So If we want to keep them in our world, and leave them for those who will come after us, well then it’s up to us to nurture, feed, and protect them.
I view it as intensely adorable of Amadeus to agree with me on this view being far more meaningfully moving than any other I can imagine.
Black’s stance here isn’t free will, it’s just existentialism. His whole point is that righteousness and justice and ‘goodness’ clearly exist, but he’ll be the one to decide what they are. This isn’t in and of itself controversial to our ears, but there’s a reason existentialism hasn’t taken over the world.
And no, I disagree with your interpretation of Above. Above is Good, capital G. Below is Evil, capital E. They’re aligned in a direction, but that doesn’t in and of itself mean you, personally, have to agree with what they say – so they could be lowercase e and lowercase g respectively, if that’s what you want. You can’t point to a single act, hypothetical or otherwise, that’s inherently good or evil if you subscribe to Black’s point of view, so don’t turn around and say that Above is now Evil, capital E, because you disagree with them.
Amadeus has remarked internally, if not externally, that he believes virtues only ARE meaningful if they’re fully intristic to mortals and not anything else. That implies he does believe them meaningful in the first place, which should not be a surprise to anyone who’s been following his perspective closely; he is an idealist.
Just because morals are fully mortal-based doesn’t mean you can say they’re whatever you want them to be. Game theory is math.
And Above and Below definitely do correspond to lowercase good and evil; not only do we have Word of God on that, it’s fairly evident within the narrative itself, too. It’s just that the world is complex enough that “broadly correspond” does not translate to “always lead to”; not to mention that there’s no direct link between the gods and those who claim their side. Catherine can set out to fuck Below over (implicitly in favor of Above) while utilizing powers granted by it, and the Princes can claim divine mandate for their greed with no-one to actually tell them no, until they cross the line far enough for someone like Laurence to come after them.
The Division between the Gods was set our plainly in chapter one, it is a debate ast to whether sentient species should be Ruled over or whether they should be given the chance to rule themselves.
The mistake that the reader makes when reading that, as they have yet to really meet either, is that the latter is the good side, it’s not, the Gods above want to rule in totality, they want their morals and beliefs to be the Default truth with no deviations, as it would be the best for all involved, a utopia with no pain or suffering. Bellow thinks that we should be allowed to innovate and grow on our own, and that power should be earned and paid for, not granted and bestowed.
Does it stroke anyone else as odd that the only totally democratic national in this world is on Below’s side? Almost like rising to power through choices and actions is what it values more than inherited rulership? The tower is the same but to the opposite extreme, the empress/Emporer is decided when the rest of the country decides that they don’t want to fuck with them anymore, not when a damned messenger from below crowns them.
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And… That’s why Tariq was willing to compromise with Cat. He had been shown that his “greater good” doesn’t always mean less suffering. As a matter of fact, he caused a plague more brutal than the one that created *himself* and didn’t bat an eye.
He began his career with a desire to lessen suffering, and now he goes about creating suffering wherever he goes.
He saw that Cat was right all along and he was to blame for the suffering of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands even, and thus he relented, for by working together they could prevent more suffering than himself alone.
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Gangaa 14 December 2020 Update starts as Ganga apologises to krishna, and then says that they all are each other’s strengths and if they are together, then nothing can stop them, as raahat used to say. krishna reminds that she is hungry and ganga leaves to get food. kashish is tensed. later, they get to filling up the passport forms, when kashish comes with milk.
Kashish says that she doesnt want to go to the hospital today. ganga gets stuck at the father’s name column, and says that it wont get ahead until the column is filled. krishna gets an idea and types in something, which gets it accepted and they get an appointment for tomorrow. krishna is happy.
Seeing pulkit tensed, as he remembers what kashish told, supriya says that she knows its her fault, as she distanced herself from him, and he had to find happiness outside. he says that they both are to be blamed, but in their mistake, kashish got sandwiched. she understands but says that it pains when her name is mentioned. they both are tensed. MEanwhile, outside, madhavi comes out to meet sagar, who sits blankly. she tells that she wont leave till everything is okay between pulkit and supriya.
He is shocked and surprised. she tries to make him understand that she is the mother and cant turn away from their problems, and asks him to understand. he says that he is tensed too and wonders what to do, to get them close.
The next morning, sagar suggests to ammaji, that if they wish to get the couple together, they need to get a baby. zoya reminds that supriya cant become a mother. ammaji asks how. sagar says that they can adopt a child. zoya is stunned, and ammaji asks how can she allows someone else’s child in her family. zoya thinks that this shouldnt be, as she cant lose out on niru’s property. madhavi asks if its a sure shot, as the child shall be someone else’s. he tries to make them see, that they both shall adopt the child happily, and they shall be happy once again. niru comes and says that this is right, and it didnt come to his mind, or else he would have adopted it long back, but its good sagar thought of it. all are tensed.
As madhavi and sagar suggest the adoption option to suoriya and pulkit, he immediately gets enraged, and says that there is nothing left in the relationship to be salcvaged now. pulkit says that he might have stayed speechless, in front of ganga and kashish, but it doesnt change anything, that he and supriya are finished, and he cant betray kashish like that. he says that they are mistaken that a child shall save their relation and that noone can solve anything. he leaves. she says that she realises her mistake, as she kept regretting what she didnt have, and forgot what she did, and realised it now.
Madhavi asks her to not talk like this, and atleast consider this as an option. supriya says that she cant take this decision herself, without him, and she doesnt accept it at all, and she shall salvage everything at any cost. sagar says that she knows what needs to be done, and asks for madhavi’s support and she complies readily.
Krishna vehemently assures that ganga acts as both her parents while the officer explains as to how father’s name is necessary, and they need it, or else the form shall not be accepted. ganga asks why not, and why is a father’s nem necessary. he cites the rules, and asks her to get the father’s name with documentation. krishna says that ganga isnt lying. he tells her that her mother has lied to her. she eyes ganga, as he says that she is hiding something from her, and doesnt want to disclose the father’s name. krishna asks her if this is the truth, and if she is hiding anything. ganga is stunned. he points that she isnt responding and asks ganga to tell on.
Ganga asks him not to take care of krishna, as he doesnt have any right, as he is a government servant, and still behaving like this. she reprimands him, while all gather. people ask whats the matter. when they get to know, all start smirking, at the loss of the father’s name. ganga stands up and asks why do they all laugh, and act surprised, as she isnt wrong, and their mentality is, and asks if they would have asked the mother’s name. she points out the double standards of the society citing her reference. she says that she doesnt wish to get a passport for her daughter from narrow minded people like him.
Outside, Ganga is overwhelmed to see that krishna has the fullest faith on her and discards him and his objections altogether. but she is boggled as to why he talked like this. ganga says that not everyone realises the special relation that they share. she explains to krishna, about a certain prayer, which proclaims one person being everything to you. as she explains it all, krishna listens intently, while ganga asks her to forever maintain her faith on her, as they are connected from the heart.
Krishna happily hugs her, while ganga is tensed. she hears the temple bells chanting, and rushes while ganga asks her to go ahead while she attends a call. krishna goes to pray to the lord. she thanks the lord for such a special mother like ganga, and that its good that she has a mother and is sufficient. Later, she asks the priest about the prayer that he recited. while doing so, Krishna is told by the priest, that he doesnt know why her mother talks like this, but it isnt true. he explains that, to be born in this world, one needs both a father and a amother.
Krishna is shocked. he goes onto tell that the father may have separated himself, or might have been dead, but under no circumstances, anyone comes in the world, without a father and with only a mother. she is aghast as she hears this.
As pulkit and sagar discuss adoption formalities, juhi wanders around the house and reaches the puja ghar. zoya is busy explaining to ammaji about the wrong of adoption. zoya asks her to get out, as this isnt her house. ammaji fumes and mumbles. she then finds juhi and asks who is it. zoya explains everything. sagar comes and says that juhi has been adopted.
Gangaa 14 December 2020 Update ends as ammaji is shocked. she asks him to explain everything. he explains why he and madhavi made them take this step. she isnt convinced, and then he takes her to stand outside pulkit’s room, along with zoya, and they find the couple happily bantering something that they hadnt seen for a long time. ammaji is convinced. zoya tries to instigate but fails. she leaves. sagar is amused.
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David Guillod, a film producer behind popular action flicks like “Atomic Blonde” and Netflix’s “Extraction,” was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault just months after he was accused of drugging and raping at least four women in Santa Barbara.
The 53-year-old filmmaker was taken into custody at his home in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles Wednesday night after a woman reported him to the LAPD earlier this month. She told authorities Guillod had sexually assaulted her during an “evening meeting” on Oct. 21, according to a police statement.
The Hollywood executive was out on bail when the alleged incident occurred. He surrendered to authorities in June and was hit with 11 felony counts, including rape, kidnap and rape of a drugged victim.
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Guillod was the head of Primary Wave Entertainment, a talent agency, until actress Jessica Barth accused him in 2017 of sexually assaulting and drugging her five years prior. Her case is among the four currently being investigated by the Santa Barbara authorities.
Guillod, who has also previously been accused of sexually assaulting and drugging an employee during a 2014 retreat, remained behind bars on Thursday. His bail was set at $5 million.
He was most recently an executive producer for the 2020 Netflix film “Extraction,” featuring Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Russo, Mike Larocca and Joe Russo. Guillod is also well-known for executive producing 2017′s “Atomic Blonde” which starred Charlize Theron.
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Posts Tagged ‘exotic cars’
Helicopters, speed and speakeasy cocktails in Las Vegas
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I live for Las Vegas. I don’t know about you but a night club just won’t do. Who needs the potential of a hangover? That thought alone makes me cringe. Moreover, the idea of waiting in line, drinks spilling and the blare of loud speakers are less inviting as I age gracefully. Don’t get it twisted…
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The top automotive brands in the world are on hand to display their latest models at the New York International Auto Show. Rolling out captured a sneak peek of the action before the event opens to the public. Here are the 10 best exotic cars at the New York International Auto Show.
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Romeo Miller‘s affinity for exotic cars was cultivated during the days of Lil Romeo’s father Master P’s major hip-hop success, but now that he’s all grown up, Miller looks to have his own vast collection of luxury automobiles. In between the sexy selfies and photos of beachfront landscapes, Romeo likes to show off a few…
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Joint Research Centre
Health, Consumers and Reference Materials
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC42362
Title: Validation of an Analytical Method to Determine the Content of Sucralose in Beverages - Report on a Method Validation by Collaborative Study Determination of Sucralose in Beverages by Thin Layer Chromatography in Combination with Reagent-free Derivatisation and Ultraviolet/Fluorescence Detection
Authors: DONCHEVA TSANEVA IVANKA; STROKA JOERG
Publisher: OPOCE
JRC N°: JRC42362
Other Identifiers: EUR 23056 EN
URI: http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC42362
Type: EUR - Scientific and Technical Research Reports
Abstract: An inter-laboratory comparison was carried out to evaluate the performance characteristics of a method for the determination of sucralose in beverages, which was developed at the JRC-IRMM. The method is based on high-performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC), and reagent-free derivatisation followed by ultraviolet/fluorescence detection. It was tested for the determination of Sucralose (C12H19Cl3O8; (2R,3R,4R,5S,6R)-2-[(2R,3S,4S,5S)-2,5-bis(chloromethyl)-3,4-dihydroxy-oxolan-2-yl]oxy-5-chloro-6-hydroxymethyl)oxane-3,4-diol; CAS No: 56038-13-2) in carbonated and still alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages at proposed European regulatory limits according to Directive 2003/115/EC ( ). Precise determination of Sucralose levels in some of the matrices for which European legislative limits apply, required a robust and reliable analytical method. HPTLC employing reagent-free derivatisation offered such a reliable but simple, fast, cost-effective and environment friendly method (very limited quantities of organic solvents methanol and acetonitrile were used). Separation of Sucralose was performed by direct application of samples (diluted, degassed and/or filtered, if necessary) on amino-bonded silica gel HPTLC plates without prior cleanup and development with acetonitrile:water. The sweetener was determined after heating of the developed plate to 190°C and quantified both in ultraviolet absorption and fluorescence measurement mode. Beverages spiked with sucralose as well as beverages taken from the market and labelled to contain sucralose, were sent to 14 laboratories in five different countries following IUPAC guidelines. A sample that did not contain measureable amounts of sucralose was spiked at levels of 30.5 mg/L, 100.7 mg/L and 299 mg/L. Recoveries ranged from 104 ¿ 125 % with an average of 112 % for ultraviolet detection and from 98 ¿ 101 % with an average of 100 % for fluorescent detection. Based on results for spiked samples (blind duplicates at three levels), as well as samples containing Sucralose (blind duplicates at three levels and one split level), the relative standard deviation for repeatability (RSDr) ranged from 10 ¿ 31 % for ultraviolet detection and from 9 ¿ 16 % for fluorescence detection. The relative standard deviation for reproducibility (RSDR) ranged from 14 ¿ 31 % for ultraviolet detection and from 9 ¿ 21 % for fluorescence detection. The limit of quantification on the basis of 10x the baseline noise was 6 mg/L and response was linear in the range between 30 ¿ 150 ng/spot. The method is therefore considered suitable for the determination of Sucralose in beverages at the proposed European legislative limits.
JRC Directorate: Health, Consumers and Reference Materials
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Importance of biogeomorphic and spatial properties in assessing a tidal salt marsh vulnerability to sea-level rise
Estuaries and Coasts
By: Karen M. Thorne, Deborah L. Elliott-Fisk, Glenn D. Wylie, William M. Perry, and John Y. Takekawa
Open Access Version: Publisher Index Page
We evaluated the biogeomorphic processes of a large (309 ha) tidal salt marsh and examined factors that influence its ability to keep pace with relative sea-level rise (SLR). Detailed elevation data from 1995 and 2008 were compared with digital elevation models (DEMs) to assess marsh surface elevation change during this time. Overall, 37 % (113 ha) of the marsh increased in elevation at a rate that exceeded SLR, whereas 63 % (196 ha) of the area did not keep pace with SLR. Of the total area, 55 % (169 ha) subsided during the study period, but subsidence varied spatially across the marsh surface. To determine which biogeomorphic and spatial factors contributed to measured elevation change, we collected soil cores and determined percent and origin of organic matter (OM), particle size, bulk density (BD), and distance to nearest bay edge, levee, and channel. We then used Akaike Information Criterion (AICc) model selection to assess those variables most important to determine measured elevation change. Soil stable isotope compositions were evaluated to assess the source of the OM. The samples had limited percent OM by weight (<5.5 %), with mean bulk densities of 0.58 g cm-3, indicating that the soils had high mineral content with a relatively low proportion of pore space. The most parsimonious model with the highest AICc weight (0.53) included distance from bay's edge (i.e., lower intertidal) and distance from levee (i.e., upper intertidal). Close proximity to sediment source was the greatest factor in determining whether an area increased in elevation, whereas areas near landward levees experienced subsidence. Our study indicated that the ability of a marsh to keep pace with SLR varied across the surface, and assessing changes in elevation over time provides an alternative method to long-term accretion monitoring. SLR models that do not consider spatial variability of biogeomorphic and accretion processes may not correctly forecast marsh drowning rates, which may be especially true in modified and urbanized estuaries. In light of SLR, improving our understanding of elevation change in these dynamic marsh systems will play a crucial role in forecasting potential impacts to their sustainability and the survival of these ecosystems.
Estuarine Research Federation
Port Republic, MD
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Ground-Motion Predictions for California-Comparisons of Three Prediction Equations
Open-File Report 2020-1028
Prepared in cooperation with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
By: Erol Kalkan and Vladimir Graizer
https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20201028
Document: Report (6 MB)
First posted April 7, 2020
Earthquake Science Center
350 N. Akron Road
Moffett Field, CA 94035
We systematically evaluate datasets, functional forms, independent parameters of estimation, and resulting ground-motion predictions (as median and aleatory variability) of the Graizer and Kalkan (2015, 2016) (GK15) ground-motion prediction equation (GMPE) with the next generation of attenuation project (NGA-West2) models of Abrahamson and others (2014) (ASK14) and Boore and others (2014) (BSSA14) for application to earthquakes in California. This evaluation is performed in three stages: (1) by comparing attenuation, magnitude scaling, style-of-faulting effects, site response, response-spectral shape and amplitude, and standard deviations; (2) by comparing median predictions, standard deviations, and analyses of residuals with respect to near-field (within 20 kilometers [km] of the fault) and intermediate-field (50 to 70 km from the fault) records from major earthquakes in California, and (3) by comparing total, intra-event, and inter-event residual distributions among the GMPEs with respect to a near-source (within 80 km of the fault) subset of the NGA-West2 database covering 975 ground motions from 73 events in California ranging from moment magnitude 5 to 7.36. The results reveal that the scaling features of the GK15 GMPE and the ASK14 and BSSA14 GMPEs are, in general, similar in terms of distance attenuation but differ in terms of scaling with magnitude, style of faulting, and site effects. The original standard deviations of GMPEs are also different. For the near-source California subset, the three GMPEs result in standard deviations that are similar to each other. The mixed-effect residuals analysis shows that the GK15 GMPE has no perceptible trend with respect to the independent predictors.
Kalkan, E., and Graizer, V., 2020, Ground-motion predictions for California—Comparisons of three prediction equations: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2020–1028, 28 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20201028.
Dataset and Model Applicability Range
Functional Forms and Parameters of GMPEs
Stage 1: Comparisons of Median Predictions
Stage 2: Comparisons with Earthquake Data
Stage 3: Comparisons of Residuals Using the NGA-West2 Database
Open-File Report
10.3133/ofr20201028
Earthquake Hazards Program
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Never Die Alone (2004)
Watch Never Die Alone (2004) Online
A drug kingpin’s return home touches off a turf war.
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Actors: Antwon Tanner, Clifton Powell, David Arquette, DMX, Drew Sidora, Luenell, Michael Ealy
After the Sunset (2004)
Two master thieves (Brosnan and Hayek) are finally retiring after one last succesful mission. Residing in their own tropical paradise, their old nemesis, FBI Agent Stan P. Lloyd shows up…
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Mighty Joe Young (1998)
As a child living in Africa, Jill Young saw her mother killed while protecting wild gorillas from poachers led by Andrei Strasser. Now an adult, Jill cares for an orphaned…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
Mankillers (1987)
A female CIA agent is assigned to train and lead an all-female squad to Colombia to stop a renegade agent who has hired himself out to a drug cartel.
Southern Comfort (1981)
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live…
The Lovebirds (2020)
A couple experiences a defining moment in their relationship when they are unintentionally embroiled in a murder mystery. As their journey to clear their names takes them from one extreme…
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Trending
The Running Man (1987)
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of…
The Sender (1998)
A psychic father and daughter band together with an “angel” in an attempt to save Earth from an extraterrestrial Armageddon. This suspenseful thriller ties together strange occurrences from 1965 in…
BloodRayne: The Third Reich (2011)
Rayne fights against the Nazis in Europe during World War II, encountering Ekart Brand, a Nazi leader whose target is to inject Adolf Hitler with Rayne’s blood in an attempt…
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
San Andreas Mega Quake (2019)
Scientists make a horrible discovery: The “Big One” is coming in two days, with it, California will sink to the ocean. Their only hope is to rupture a volcano that…
Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller
Hard Hunted (1993)
A nuclear trigger has been smuggled to the Middle East by an evil mastermind named Kane, and the weapons could upset the delicate balance of power in the region if…
Kindergarten Cop 2 (2016)
Assigned to recover sensitive stolen data, a gruff FBI agent goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher, but the school’s liberal, politically correct environment is more than he bargained for.
Sheborg Massacre (2016)
When an alien fugitive crash lands into a local puppy farm and begins turning people into machines that feed on puppy flesh, Dylan and her BFF Eddie have to decide…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
Trailer: Never Die Alone (2004)
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The events of this film are about a drama called Walter Campbell who wanted to reconnect with his daughter. One day, Walter traveled to her home in the forest with her kind friend Kim in Big Sur, California. When Walter meets Kim at that time and deals with each other, the two of them link an unexpected relationship that will certainly threaten his relationship that he wanted to bring back with his daughter.
Actors: Matthew Glave,
Matthew Glave 19 August 1963, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
Emily Bett Rickards,
Emily Bett Rickards 24 July 1991, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Jana Winternitz,
Jana Winternitz 25 August 1989, Yolo County, California, USA
Nikki Limo,
Nikki Limo 2 November 1986, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Lily Holleman,
Lily Holleman
Jessica Diggins,
Jessica Diggins
Director: Michael J. Gallagher
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How Do They Make Marshmallows?
Marshmallows are actually a candy, and have existed in present-day form since the mid-1800s. See more pictures of candy.
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Marshmallows are incredibly cool — not only do they taste good, but by lighting them you can create a great source of light in a dark campsite!
Technically, marshmallows are a confection — a candy. They've been around in the form we know them since the mid-1800s.
They are called "marshmallows" because part of the early recipe called for sap from the root of the marshmallow plant.
According to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, a marshmallow is:
1: a pink-flowered European perennial herb (Althaea officinalis) of the mallow family that is naturalized in the eastern U.S. and has a mucilaginous root sometimes used in confectionery and in medicine; 2: a confection made from the root of the marshmallow or from corn syrup, sugar, albumen, and gelatin beaten to a light spongy consistency
That word "mucilaginous" means "jelly-like." Later, the root was replaced by gelatin, and that is how modern marshmallows are made.
There is a very cool cookbook called "Better Than Store Bought" that is now out of print but still available in used bookstores and libraries. It contains the following recipe for making your own marshmallows:
1 envelope unflavored gelatin
Sift the cornstarch and confectioners sugar into a bowl. Lightly grease an 8x8-inch square baking pan and sprinkle 1 tablespoon of the cornstarch-and-sugar mixture into it. Tilt the pan to coat the sides and the bottom. Leave any excess in the pan.
Sprinkle the gelatin into the water in a small saucepan and let soak for five minutes. Add the granulated sugar and stir over low heat until the gelatin and sugar dissolve.
In the large bowl of an electric mixer, combine the gelatin mixture, corn syrup, salt and vanilla and beat for 15 minutes on high speed, until peaks form.
Spread the fluffy mixture in the prepared pan and smooth the top. Leave for two hours or until set.
With a wet knife, cut the marshmallow mixture into quarters and loosen around the edges. Sprinkle the remaining cornstarch-and-sugar mixture on a baking sheet and invert the marshmallow blocks onto it. Cut each quarter into nine pieces and roll each one in the starch and sugar.
Place the marshmallows on a cake rack covered with paper towels and let them stand over night to dry the surface slightly. Store airtight; the marshmallows will keep for a month.
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Processing Chinese relative clauses in context
Edward Gibson, H. H.Iris Wu
This paper presents a self-paced reading experiment comparing the processing of subject-extracted relative clauses (SRCs) and object-extracted relative clauses (ORCs) in supportive contexts in Chinese. It is argued that lack of a consistent pattern in the literature for the comparison between Chinese SRCs and ORCs is due to potential temporary ambiguity in these constructions in null contexts. By placing the materials in contexts biased towards a relative clause (RC) interpretation, we limit the effects of temporary ambiguity. The results of the experiment demonstrate that SRCs are read more slowly than ORCs in supportive contexts. These results provide evidence for working memory-based sentence processing theories whereby processing difficulty increases for connecting sentence elements that are further apart. Some convergent evidence that strengthens these conclusions comes from recent research on aphasic populations where a dissociation between English and Chinese RC processing has been revealed: whereas English aphasic patients have more difficulty with ORCs and Chinese aphasic patients have more difficulty with SRCs (Su, Lee, & Chung, 2007). Taken together, these results support the idea that sentence processing is constrained by working memory limitations.
Sentence processing
Syntactic complexity
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Linguistics and Language
Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Processing Chinese relative clauses in context'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Relative Clauses Arts & Humanities
Short-Term Memory Medicine & Life Sciences
Aphasic Arts & Humanities
experiment Social Sciences
Sentence Processing Arts & Humanities
Working Memory Arts & Humanities
evidence Social Sciences
Gibson, E., & Wu, H. H. I. (2013). Processing Chinese relative clauses in context. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28(1-2), 125-155. https://doi.org/10.1080/01690965.2010.536656
Processing Chinese relative clauses in context. / Gibson, Edward; Wu, H. H.Iris.
In: Language and Cognitive Processes, Vol. 28, No. 1-2, 01.01.2013, p. 125-155.
Gibson, E & Wu, HHI 2013, 'Processing Chinese relative clauses in context', Language and Cognitive Processes, vol. 28, no. 1-2, pp. 125-155. https://doi.org/10.1080/01690965.2010.536656
Gibson E, Wu HHI. Processing Chinese relative clauses in context. Language and Cognitive Processes. 2013 Jan 1;28(1-2):125-155. https://doi.org/10.1080/01690965.2010.536656
Gibson, Edward ; Wu, H. H.Iris. / Processing Chinese relative clauses in context. In: Language and Cognitive Processes. 2013 ; Vol. 28, No. 1-2. pp. 125-155.
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Stilbene like carbazole dimer-based electroluminescent materials
Chih Hsin Chen, Jiann T. Lin, Ming-Chang P. Yeh
Two carbazole dimers (1 and 10) were synthesized from 9-ethyl-9H-carbazole-3-carbaldehyde and 6-bromo-9-ethyl-9H-carbazole-3-carbaldehyde by McMurry C-C coupling reaction. Palladium(0)-catalyzed C-N coupling reactions of 10 and various diarylamines result in the formation of stable carbazole derivatives in good yields. These compounds are fluorescent in blue to yellow region with moderate to good quantum yields. Also, they are thermally stable and capable of hole-transporting due to the presence of the carbazole moieties. The electroluminescent devices fabricated using 1, 2, and 3 as hole-transporters/emitters with a bilayer structure ITO/Cpd/TPBI or Alq3/LiF/Al (Cpd=1, 2, and 3) exhibit good performance (e.g., ηext=1.0-2.1%; ηp=0.9-1.9 lm/W; ηc=2.4-4.8 cd/A at a current density of 100 mA/cm2).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2006.06.067
Carbazole dimmer
McMurry C-C coupling reaction
10.1016/j.tet.2006.06.067
Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Stilbene like carbazole dimer-based electroluminescent materials'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
carbazole Chemical Compounds
Dimers Chemical Compounds
Stilbenes Chemical Compounds
Quantum yield Chemical Compounds
Luminescent devices Chemical Compounds
Lithium Fluoride Chemical Compounds
Palladium Chemical Compounds
Current density Chemical Compounds
Chen, C. H., Lin, J. T., & Yeh, M-C. P. (2006). Stilbene like carbazole dimer-based electroluminescent materials. Tetrahedron, 62(36), 8564-8570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2006.06.067
Stilbene like carbazole dimer-based electroluminescent materials. / Chen, Chih Hsin; Lin, Jiann T.; Yeh, Ming-Chang P.
In: Tetrahedron, Vol. 62, No. 36, 04.09.2006, p. 8564-8570.
Chen, CH, Lin, JT & Yeh, M-CP 2006, 'Stilbene like carbazole dimer-based electroluminescent materials', Tetrahedron, vol. 62, no. 36, pp. 8564-8570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2006.06.067
Chen CH, Lin JT, Yeh M-CP. Stilbene like carbazole dimer-based electroluminescent materials. Tetrahedron. 2006 Sep 4;62(36):8564-8570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2006.06.067
Chen, Chih Hsin ; Lin, Jiann T. ; Yeh, Ming-Chang P. / Stilbene like carbazole dimer-based electroluminescent materials. In: Tetrahedron. 2006 ; Vol. 62, No. 36. pp. 8564-8570.
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AU - Yeh, Ming-Chang P.
N2 - Two carbazole dimers (1 and 10) were synthesized from 9-ethyl-9H-carbazole-3-carbaldehyde and 6-bromo-9-ethyl-9H-carbazole-3-carbaldehyde by McMurry C-C coupling reaction. Palladium(0)-catalyzed C-N coupling reactions of 10 and various diarylamines result in the formation of stable carbazole derivatives in good yields. These compounds are fluorescent in blue to yellow region with moderate to good quantum yields. Also, they are thermally stable and capable of hole-transporting due to the presence of the carbazole moieties. The electroluminescent devices fabricated using 1, 2, and 3 as hole-transporters/emitters with a bilayer structure ITO/Cpd/TPBI or Alq3/LiF/Al (Cpd=1, 2, and 3) exhibit good performance (e.g., ηext=1.0-2.1%; ηp=0.9-1.9 lm/W; ηc=2.4-4.8 cd/A at a current density of 100 mA/cm2).
AB - Two carbazole dimers (1 and 10) were synthesized from 9-ethyl-9H-carbazole-3-carbaldehyde and 6-bromo-9-ethyl-9H-carbazole-3-carbaldehyde by McMurry C-C coupling reaction. Palladium(0)-catalyzed C-N coupling reactions of 10 and various diarylamines result in the formation of stable carbazole derivatives in good yields. These compounds are fluorescent in blue to yellow region with moderate to good quantum yields. Also, they are thermally stable and capable of hole-transporting due to the presence of the carbazole moieties. The electroluminescent devices fabricated using 1, 2, and 3 as hole-transporters/emitters with a bilayer structure ITO/Cpd/TPBI or Alq3/LiF/Al (Cpd=1, 2, and 3) exhibit good performance (e.g., ηext=1.0-2.1%; ηp=0.9-1.9 lm/W; ηc=2.4-4.8 cd/A at a current density of 100 mA/cm2).
KW - Carbazole dimmer
KW - Electroluminescent
KW - McMurry C-C coupling reaction
U2 - 10.1016/j.tet.2006.06.067
DO - 10.1016/j.tet.2006.06.067
JO - Tetrahedron
JF - Tetrahedron
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Dr. Alexandar DJORDJEVICH
BSc-MechE(Belgrade), MSc-MechE(Belgrade), PhD(NewBrunswick), PEng(Canada)
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
YEUNG-Y6617
mealex@cityu.edu.hk
Author IDs
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8395-1244
Scopus Author ID: 6701703695
Qualifications/Experiences
PhD, Radiology/Mechanical Engineering, University of New Brunswick (1989)
Area: Radiotherapy of patients with cancer
MSc, Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade
Area: control systems, parametric system-design methods
BSc, Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade
Area: control for hydro-turbines
Associate Professor (since 1998), City University of Hong Kong, Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management. Won the university's Teaching Excellence Award.
Project Engineer, Atlantic Nuclear Services Ltd, Fredericton, New Brunswick (Canada). Responsible for entire projects from bidding to conclusion. Projects included:
seismic analysis of nuclear piping,
pressure-activated liquid-injection reactor-shutdown system, modelling and analysis;
"Smart Bone" prototype with optical fibre sensors imbedded in composites.
Design Engineer, Engineering Services Department, Research and Productivity Council of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick. Stress, heat transfer and vibration analyses, reverse engineering of parts and structures, and conceptual and detail design of machinery: 3-axes robot de-wirer of pulp bales, potato chips line, trailer for nuclear waste, special purpose railway car,... For Canadian Space Agency, conceptualised "Smart Bone" prototype. Developed a finite element pre-processor which enabled 3-D surfaces containing irregularities (holes or protrusions) to be meshed in 2-D and transformed to their desired shape with no element distortion.
Lecturer, University of New Brunswick, Department of Mechanical Engineering (Canada): two appointments in two consecutive years while on leave from PhD-study.
1985-86 Engineer, Department of Robotics, Institute M.Pupin, Belgrade. Robot and aircraft dynamics. Modelled the dynamic interaction between an aircraft landing gear and its connecting surface - implemented in a flight simulation trainer.
1982-85 Engineer, Dept. of Electro-optics, (military) Technical Experimenting Centre, Belgrade. Performance examination of prototypes and models of targeting and viewing systems: image amplifiers, lasers, laser range-finders, classical optic devices, integrated day-night vision systems with built-in rangefinder and automatic position-data transmission.
Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (2002)
Association of Professional Engineers of New Brunswick, Canada (1993)
Yugoslav Association of Engineers (1986)
International Institution of Engineers (2000)
The Optical Society of America (2000)
Research Interests/Areas
Applications of Optical and Nuclear Physics
RESEARCH, INDLUCING APPLIED RESEARCH
Two patents
Selected 30 publications are in journals with the average JCR Impact Factor exceeding 1.5.
85 citations by others (excluding self-citations).
Received credit in the literature for having given one of only two major methods for precision radiotherapy with intensity-modulated radiation beams (for patients with cancer).
Results of my radiotherapy research have been implemented in a commercial system (Theraplan 300L by Theratronics International Ltd).
Have pioneered the concept of structural deflection-curvature. It has four advantages over the long-established practice of strain measurement.
Have contributed a sensor of deflection-curvature, the only device sensitive to minute curvatures with radii of over kilometer (which is the range found in structures deflected by mechanical loading). Featured in a trade publication Laser Focus World. A research group in China is continuing the development of this sensor.
Developed for NEC (HK) Ltd. an automated passenger control gate for border crossings. It provides the identity extraction and biometric verification for passengers. It features a microprocessor-control for the gate motion, has numerous safety provisions, and discriminates between a passenger's luggage versus an accompanying second person evading the security screening by tailgating the first passenger. Developed a similar facility for vehicular border crossings, which has been adopted and installed in its revised version. Had follow-on projects with the same client.
As Expert Witness in a $10,000,000 High Court case involving a Hong Kong manufacturer's action against a foreign buyer, have discovered a crucial piece of evidence - a letter of appreciation on file.
Successful supervision of two PhD students (in addition to MPhil and MEng students).
Held five Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (as PI), one grant by the Innovation and Technology Fund (as PI for CityU), one contract research grant (PI), and consultancies.
Received the University's "Teaching Excellence Award".
(usually four awards are made annually for the university with almost 1,000 academic staff).
Served on the University's selection panel for Teaching Excellence Awards, 2006.
The only staff in the Faculty of Science and Engineering whose teaching-performance was assessed by numerous (over 40) peers from many departments during the "Teaching Experience Sharing" session - only positive feedback was provided.
Three journal publications on teaching and education (two are in the International Journal of Engineering Education with the SCI Impact Factor > 0.35).
Programme Leader, Bachelor of Engineering in Mechatronic Engineering (includes curriculum planning and the recent OBTL-related programme restructuring).
My students won local and international prizes, including the certificate of excellence in the international WorldSkills mechatronics competition.
EXTERNAL APPOINTMENTS
Editorial Advisory Board Member, International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems.
Co-chair, IAENG Society of Mechanical Engineering, 2006/2007.
External Adviser for "Mechatronics", Open University of Hong Kong.
External PhD Thesis Examiner, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
External MPhil Thesis Examiner, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
External Adviser for a design course, Open University of Hong Kong (since 2005).
Organising Committee Member, three years in a row, the annual Hong Kong Youth Technology Design Competition: "Creative Design of Assistive Products for the Elderly".
Selection Panel Member, Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowships and Scholarships (2003).
Judging Panel Member, IEE Hong Kong Young Members Contest (2003).
Organising Committee Member, "Robo-ball" competition of high schools held as part of the Innovation Expo (2001) in HK Convention Centre (generated great media attention). Guided teams from the CityU region, and organised a regional competition at CityU. One of the schools I coached became the HK finalist, and another a semi-finalist.
Frequent reviewer of journal manuscripts (e.g. Sensors&Actuators, Applied Optics, IEEE T. I&M, Optics Letters, IMechI J. of Eng. in Medicine, Int.J.Eng.Education, Optics Express)
Organising Committee, 15th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand, 2 - 4 December 2008.
Program Committee, the 11th Mechatronics Forum Biennial International Conference, "Mechatronics 2008", University of Limerick, Castletroy, Limerick, Ireland.
IMECS 2006 workshop committee member.
International Scientific Committee Member, 2nd WSEAS International Conference on NON-LINEAR ANALYSIS, NON-LINEAR SYSTEMS and CHAOS (WSEAS NOLASC 2003), Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece, December 29-31, 2003.
Joint Scientific Committee Member, WSEAS multi-conference, Miami, April 21-23, 2004.
International Scientific Committee Member, 7th WSEAS International Conference on Systems, Corfu Island, Greece, July 7-10, 2003.
International Programme Committee Member, 8th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice, 2001 (27-29 August 2001).
Organising Committee Member, The Ninth International Manufacturing Conference in China, 2000 (16-17 August 2000, Hong Kong).
Secretary, CIRP Working Group on Modelling of Machining Operations (Jan. 1997, Paris).
Co-editor, Proceedings of CIRP, "International Symposium on Advanced Design and Manufacture in the Global Manufacturing Ara", 1997 (detail language and style editing of half of all the papers by non-native English speakers, mainly Chinese, 21-22 Aug 1997, HK). Session chairmanship (an incomplete list):
International Manufacturing Conference in China (16-17 August 2000) Session on: Advanced materials processing, and also Session on: Product and process design.
CIRP symposium "Advanced Design and Manufacture in the Global Manufacturing Era", session "An Integrated Reverse Engineering Approach to Reconstruct CAD-Compatible Free-Form Surface Models for Rapid Prototype Manufacturing" (Session FE2AMT), 1997.
Robotics session of the 11th ISPE/IEEE/IFAC International Conference on CAD/CAM, Robotics & Factories of the Future CARS&FOF'95.
ADMINISTRATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS
Programme Leader, Bachelor of Engineering in Mechatronic Engineering.
Member, Departmental Executive Committee (2006-2009).
Faculty Member, CityU's Constructive Alignment Working Group (2004/5).
Twice elected member of the MEEM Research Consultative Forum.
Member, MEEM Research Committee.
Member, FSE Research Committee
Panel Chair and frequently Examiner, for CityU PhD and MPhil theses examinations.
Honours/Awards
Teaching Excellence Award
(City University of Hong Kong)
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LOOKING BEYOND THE RUBBLE TOWARD LOUVERTUREAN STATECRAFT: THE POST-OCCUPATION STATE AND THE HISTORICAL FAULT LINE OF RESPONSIVE GOVERNMENT IN HAITI (1791-2016)
Moise St Louis, Moise St LouisFollow
Carlene J. Edie, Ph.D.
Dean Robinson, Ph.D.
John Higginson, Ph.D.
International and Area Studies | Latin American Studies | Social and Behavioral Sciences
This dissertation posits that the fragility of the Haitian state emerges from a key disjuncture from the state crafted by Northern Louverturean elites during and after the struggle for independence. Louverturean elites crafted a strong state that incorporated and regulated all national cleavages and interests as the basis for legitimacy and stability. This state secured their interests while regulating their capacity to circumvent the interests of other cleavages. Most importantly, it secured the rights of former slaves on whose exploitation other cleavages depended. The destruction of the Louverturean state by neocolonial elites and imposition of a neocolonial national state estranged from the majority of the population lacked the requisite legitimacy. The shift from the Louverturean state to one diametrically opposed to the interests of the majority of its citizens disregarded the integrative and protective measures upon which the Louverturean state secured its legitimacy.
Despite multiple attempts to reconstitute the Louverturean state, it was the neocolonial national state that was consolidated during the American occupation. Following his election in 1957, Francois Duvalier returned to the Louverturean state model by incorporating the Black masses and middle class, expanding the public sector, protecting the sovereignty and autonomy of the nation, regulating commerce, and breaking neocolonial Mulatto stranglehold. Though successful, he was constrained by the existing state structure.
Arguing that the American Occupation consolidated, centralized, and enhanced the state’s capacity to support neocolonial elites’ historical exploitative schemes, this study suggests that by consolidating the neocolonial national state historically deficient in legitimacy and popular support, the Occupation accentuated its disconnection from the population and its institutional and political deficiencies created the conditions for contemporary instability and state failure.
Contemporary political studies of Haiti offer a linear, unidimensional, and incomplete analysis of the Haitian state ignoring Louverturean statecraft. Analyzing Haitian political history and state crafting before, during and after the American Occupation is necessary to understand its contemporary challenges, and its search for democratic accountability. Such an analysis demands an understanding of the centrality of Louverturean statecraft.
St Louis, Moise, "LOOKING BEYOND THE RUBBLE TOWARD LOUVERTUREAN STATECRAFT: THE POST-OCCUPATION STATE AND THE HISTORICAL FAULT LINE OF RESPONSIVE GOVERNMENT IN HAITI (1791-2016)" (2017). Doctoral Dissertations. 1128.
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/1128
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Aftershocks From The On-Demand Fault Lines
I wanted to write a brief post on changes founders and current investors can expect in the on-demand sector. I realize that a well-known startup which raised venture capital from prominent firms has shut down. I do not know much about that particular company, and I have never used that particular service, so the following notes below have little to do with a specific company and all to do with general terms founders and early investors should keep in mind:
Worker Classification: On-demand founders will now encounter investor questions around their philosophies and strategies toward classifying workers. I am not a lawyer, but the most rational explanation I’ve heard so far is that in a true marketplace, the service provider can assign a monetary value to their work, whereas in a managed marketplace, the marketplace itself regulates the payment. In the former, those are probably contractors; the latter begins to sound like employees.
Frequency of Use: I’m a broken record here, but aside from managed marketplaces which can have a subscription component, it requires a strong, weekly active use case to justify the upfront costs these things inevitably require. Predictable frequency is a trump card.
Geographic Expansion: My standard line to founders is, a team has be so operationally excellent that it can, at some point in the future, have systems in place that enable them to launch two (2) geographies in the same week. Lately, I’ve met founders with ambitions to open up international cities after the first cut of U.S. cities, and those conversations excite me.
Unit Economics: Looking at top-line revenue without digging into the unit economics will likely kill any investor discussions unless the team makes the case for going into the red for a while. Mastery of unit economics is a must to convince a big VC to take on the risk of models that require more cash to expand city by city.
Soft- vs Hard Landings: Theory would suggest that with huge companies like Google, Amazon, Uber, eBay, Walmart, Costco, Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, and others who are interested in providing on-demand services, there would be a soft landing for companies that didn’t make it to being an independent company. Well, that hasn’t really happened yet, so people will be skeptical. However, that could happen in the future, and if it’s perceived to be a big/good outcome, that could then re-energize comfort with the sector. Always worth keeping in mind that VCs run exit profiles of potential investments in their diligence and higher valuations in the earlier stage begin to limit exit options. And, with most of these businesses being “tech-enabled” vs pure tech companies, the harder landings could be quite harsh from how M&A departments value existing assets.
As a founder or active early investor in this space helping companies prepare for downstream VC, these issues must be anticipated and addressed. I’d make sure to include 1-2 slides on each issue above. Again, to be clear, I am still looking at this space and more deals will be done in the sector by big VCs. But, issues surrounding these businesses have bubbled up, the gig economy and worker classification, and the lack of real exits in businesses that aren’t wholly defensible in the classic sense of the word. When bits collide with atoms, now we should expect those reactions to ignite more scrutiny.
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26 June 2019 / Arts & Entertainment / Jay Barmann
A Quick And Dirty First-Timers' Guide To Pride Weekend In SF
It is upon us: LGBTQ Pride. Parties have already been happening, but the partying begins in earnest on Thursday and continues through Sunday for this big gay (and lesbian and trans and queer +++) weekend — which is also celebrating the 50th anniversary of the bar riot that started it all.
Next year is technically the 50th anniversary of Pride itself, because what we think of as Pride — originally called Gay Liberation Day in New York — didn't take shape until the year after the Stonewall riots of June 1969. But this year, the first in which World Pride has been celebrated in the US (in NY), marks the 50th anniversary of those riots, which began on June 28, 1969, in which queer people (many of them queer people of color) who were hanging out at the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan's West Village, began throwing bottles at cops who came to raid the bar one too many times — and on the night of Judy Garland's funeral no less.
Here in SF, the Pride movement started with a "gay-in" in Golden Gate Park one year later, in late June 1970, and starting in 1972, the local LGBTQ community began parades down Polk Street, which was then the city's center of gay life.
Below, a few details on where, what, and when, to guide you through a busy weekend, should you choose to participate.
Mr. S Leather 40th Anniversary Party @ Oasis
The grandaddy of leather and fetish gear retailers is celebrating 40 years in SF with a big party at Oasis, coinciding with Pride Week as opposed to the high-holiday festivities the company is most associated with, Folsom Street Fair. There will be DJs, a cigar patio, and yes, demonstrations for those who stay past midnight.
Oasis, 298 11th Street, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. free
Foxes - Pride Kickoff Party @ Virgil's
SF's bygone Mission lesbian bar the Lexington Club has gone virtual, and it is revived each Pride season at this party at Virgil's Sea Room (next door to El Rio). DJ Chelsea Starr will be spinning, as will DJ Jibbz from Swagger Like Us.
Virgil's Sea Room, 3152 Mission Street, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., $5
Trans March @ Dolores Park
The weekend kicks off with the most important march in terms of LGBTQ visibility and protest, as the Bay Area's trans community comes together to march through the city from Dolores Park. As it has in previous years, the parade will begin with a rally and performances in the park, and proceed with a march at 6 p.m. to the Compton's Transgender Cultural District in the Tenderloin.
Dolores Park, 3 p.m. on, free
T4T @ Jolene's
The new queer bar at the edge of the Mission (featured today in the New York Times!) is hosting a post-Trans March party DJ'd by CarrieOnDisco and DJ Eternity.
2700 16th Street, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., $5
Electroluxx Pride @ Public Works
This now annual affair from the Electroluxx crew sold out weeks ago with its presale tickets, but tickets will be available at the door for those who try early. "One-woman funk machine" DJ Holographic is in from Detroit, along with LA DJs Robokid, MASHA, and Roxanne Roll, and SF's Mark O'Brian, Adam Kraft, and superinto.it.
Public Works, 161 Erie Street, 9 p.m. to 4 a.m., $30+
Pound Puppy @ The STUD
An electro party with a fetish-y angle, Pound Puppy will attract an alterna crowd that includes, but does not require, puppy fetishism. Electro beats will be provided by Berlin’s Doc Sleep and New York’s Physical Therapy.
The STUD, Harrison and 9th, 1o p.m. to 4 a.m., $20
Heat @ Great Northern
The circuit-y option for those gay males who want to take their shirts off is at Great Northern, with music by DJs Tony Moran and Dani Toro. Plus: acrobats.
Great Northern, 119 Utah Street, 1o p.m. to 4 a.m., $40+
Dyke March and Rally @ Dolores Park
The least corporate, and some would say the most purely political and festive event of the weekend is Dyke March, beginning with a gathering in Dolores Park that is often bursting at the seams (though recent years have felt a bit smaller/tamer). The march this year will follow the route shown below, heading down 18th Street, hooking left at Valencia, left on 16th up to Castro, and then back down 18th Street to the park. (Though in previous years there have been contingents who have gone their own way.)
Dolores Park, march starts at 5 p.m.
HeadsUp: The #SFDykeMarch is this Saturday, 5 p.m., beginning and ending at Dolores Park. The #FMarket, #JChurch, 22, 24, 33, 35, 37, & 55 will have reroutes. #Pride #SFPride https://t.co/5nCZV4JQiS pic.twitter.com/OF1FMOXZ1r
— SFMTA (@sfmta_muni) June 26, 2019
Family Annual Pride Party @ Beaux
On what used to be called Pink Saturday in the Castro, Beaux is going edgy with a day-into-night party featuring Dragula queens Meatball and Biqtch Puddin, hosted by Adriana Roy.
Beaux, 2344 Market Street, 4 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Pink Block @ Great Northern
This all-day party features Hercules + Love Affair and Poolside both headlining, and a whole day of outdoor dancing starting at noon. Juanita More will be DJing as will Jackie House and Carlos Souffront.
Great Northern, 119 Utah Street, noon to 9 p.m., $40
Fake & Gay @ DNA Lounge
It's an 18+ affair featuring Oakland's amazing Kreayshawn, as well as DJs Ryan Kost, Adam Kraft, and more.
375 11th Street, 9 p.m. til late, $15+
The Big Pride Parade
It starts way down at the bottom of Market Street, and it proceeds to Civic Center, and it takes nearly all day long. (Remember when Apple brought 20,000 people?) It may be the biggest Pride parade in the country, and tons of Bay Area organizations and corporations take part. The fun kicks off at 10:30 a.m. with Dykes on Bikes, and it likely won't wrap up until after 3 p.m. Below is the map of festivities in Civic Center, which will also begin in the morning and go all day. (I recommend seeing the Faerie Freedom area.)
Juanita More's Pride Party @ Jones
Now in its 15th year, drag mother Juanita More's annual Pride blowout remains a draw — and if you want tickets at the door you should arrive early. It gets packed at this outdoor venue, and the performances are always inspiring. DJs this year include Bobby Viteritti, Kim Anh, and Steve Fabus.
620 Jones, Noon to 7 p.m., $50
Hard French Hearts Los Homos @ Mezzanine
80s band Book of Love will be performing at Hard French's annual Pride closer, and there will be the traditional soul-music jam in the alley out back too.
444 Jessie Street, 3 p.m. to 11 p.m., $35
Top image: Thomas Hawk
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Fort Mason Drive-In to Become Satellite Screening Venue for Sundance Film Festival Later This Month
Two Bay Area Contestants Are On Alex Trebek’s Final Episode of ‘Jeopardy!’ Tonight
Day Around The Bay: SFPD Arrests 22 For Dealing Drugs In The Tenderloin
The French Laundry was found not guilty in a pregnancy discrimination case, Kim Petras cancels two SF shows, and Beit Rima is expanding to Cole Valley.
Over 120 LGBTQ Google Employees Say They Don't Want Google Marching In SF's Pride Parade
An open letter from disgruntled Google employees comes after the company refused to allow them to protest from within the company's contingent at Sunday's Pride parade. But SF Pride says Google is still marching.
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How seeds from Moringa tree can be used for water purification
WASHINGTON - A new study by scientists has described how extracts from seeds of the Moringa oleifera tree can be used for water purification.
Researchers from Uppsala University, Sweden, in co-operation with The University of Botswana, carried out the study.
Flocculation of particulate impurities is a common first stage in purification of water.
This often uses addition of either aluminium or iron salts. Aluminium, particularly, has undesirable health implications.
An alternative procedure that uses a natural extract from seeds of the Moringa oleifera tree is used in Africa.
The new research describes how very small amounts of the protein from these seeds can bind strongly to surfaces and thus would cause contaminant particles to aggregate.
A co-operation with the University of Botswana where there is a long interest in exploiting natural products has led to a research project that provides important insight in to the way that protein molecules from the Moringa oleifera seeds interact, binding stongly both to each other and surfaces so as to cause aggregation in to large lumps that are readily removed from the water.
“It is nice to see how the basic interactions of molecules can play a role in solving practical problems,” said Adrian Rennie, Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University.
“Understanding of the process may lead to further development in water purification with materials that are locally available and environmentally friendly,” he added. (ANI)
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Martian Life? Not. Learning From a False Alarm
A few ill-chosen words led to an explosion of speculation — and that matters
By Jeffrey Kluger Dec. 03, 2012
(Updated, Dec. 3, 2012, 1:55 PM)
O.K. folks, let’s take a deep, cleansing breath. In aaand out. Good. Now that we’ve all calmed down, it’s time to discuss Mars — rationally. As you surely heard, NASA was planning to present new findings at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco today about new discoveries made by the Mars Curiosity rover. And as you surely heard, there was a lot of speculation that that news could be really, really big.
“Undisclosed Finding by Mars Rover Fuels Intrigue,” reported the New York Times. “Will NASA soon announce discovery of Martian fossils by Curiosity Rover?” asked Examiner.com. “A fossil? A monolith? Jimmy Hoffa? Mars rover finds … something,” offered the Fox News website.
(MORE: Rover Photos, from the Surface of Mars)
Here’s the buzz-killing reality: forget it. There are no humanoids, bunnies or even bacteria on Mars — at least not that we know of. The big news was that the rover is working perfectly, early scoops of the soil it’s collected are representative of the soil on much of Mars — which means they serves as reliable samples — and the chemistry of the planet is certainly complex enough to have once been home to life or even still be home to it. But we knew that already. Bigger news, if it comes, will take a while. “Curiosity’s middle name is patience and we’re all going to have to have a healthy dose of that,” said project scientist John Grotzinger.
But here’s the good news: if the storm the Mars rumor has kicked up indicates anything, it’s that people care — a lot — about this stuff. You wouldn’t necessarily know that looking at the public shrug the mention of NASA could elicit in recent years, and that’s not entirely unjustified. We’re coming off three decades of repetitive, round-and-round shuttle flights and 14 years of an International Space Station that does … well, what exactly? But then marvelous things happen — Curiosity sets its wheels down on the surface of Mars, Cassini swings through the rings of Saturn, Hubble sends home an image of some violent, violet nebula bigger and more distant than anything we could fathom — and the thrill is suddenly back.
(MORE: Shiny Fleck on Martian Surface! Why It Matters)
We’ve always had a powerful taste for the paradigm-shifting, reality-bending space discovery. We’re a peculiar, questing, deeply irrational species that will devote massive amounts of sweat and treasure to grand explorations that don’t do a single thing to keep us fed or warm or alive but make us exceedingly glad to be alive in the first place. The problem is, we’re also an impatient species, and too often we leap ahead of the progress our great projects have made, wanting the payoff now, the headlines now and missing the exquisite incrementalism that makes the journey possible. That was never more evident than last week.
The problem began with a story by NPR reporter Joe Palca, who visited JPL to interview Grotzinger. In the space world, Grotzinger is a very big get, a lead scientist for the last two rovers and the man whose team in 2004 nailed down the mineralogical evidence proving that water — a great, great deal of it — once flowed on Mars. During his talk with Palca, Grotzinger described findings that would soon be announced from soil and air analyses that Curiosity had been conducting.
“The science team is busily chewing away on [the information] as it comes down,” he said. “This data is going to be one for the history books. It’s looking really good.”
(MORE: Cosmic Old Faithful: Are There Geysers on Mars?)
That set it off. Think Mitt Romney wishes he never said “corporations are people”? Think Bill Clinton wishes he never said “I didn’t inhale”? Grotzinger must surely feel the same way about “one for the history books.” The frenzy got so bad that late last week JPL felt obliged to issue a settle-down press release. “Rumors and speculation that there are major new findings from the mission at this early stage are incorrect,” it read. “The instruments on the rover have not detected any definitive evidence of Martian organics.”
The confusion in this case is in how you define history. When you’re deep in the weeds of any arcane field, even the smallest developments can make huge differences. Baseball nuts pump their fists over a tiny uptick in a lead-off hitter’s on-base percentage, because that means a few more runs, a few more runs means a few more wins and a few more wins might mean making the playoffs instead of sitting home like last year. Political junkies who clicked on Nate Silver’s site a dozen times a day would do the same kind of thing, lying awake at night worrying about the difference between likely and unlikely voters in the 35-to-54 mid-Atlantic demographic because they knew it was on that little fulcrum that counties, then states, then whole elections can flip.
Something similar was going on with Grotzinger. What both the people who overreacted to his words and those who urged caution speculated was that Curiosity had detected methane, a byproduct of biological processes. But it may also be produced by geological interactions, accumulating in pockets below ground and then slowly outgassing to the surface. Still, if methane turns up in a scoop of soil or sniff of air, it’s not unreasonable to speculate that microbes may be present nearby, running through their metabolic cycle and producing waste gas the same way their cousins on Earth do.
(PHOTOS: Martian Vistas: A Look at the Curiosity Rover’s New Home)
It pays, however, for scientists to stay tight-lipped until they’ve nailed down their findings. As TIME reported when the chatter began, the first run of the rover’s chemical sensors turned up what seemed to be definitive evidence of methane, but that was before the engineers had run a complete purge cycle, expelling any trace of atmospheric gasses carried up from Earth. When a full cleansing was done, the methane evidence disappeared.
Whatever Grotzinger knew or suspected about his data at the time, he and NASA were surely not playing cute — using a term like history books to hype a small discovery just to build up public interest. That, after all, only led to public disappointment. Instead, he was probably indulging in a little verbal high-fiving, a mini celebration that might have been better shared with other scientists who understand the limitations of the finding.
“John was excited about the quality and range of information coming in from [Mars] during the day a reporter happened to be sitting in John’s office,” said JPL spokesman Guy Webster in an e-mail to TIME shortly after the comment was made. “As for ‘history books,’ the whole mission is for the history books.”
The lesson for JPL and NASA is straightforward: scientists should be circumspect when outsiders are present, and spokespeople should be ready to put out p.r. blazes the second they occur. The lesson for the rest of us is a bit harder: we need to grow up. It’s not just achieving a great scientific goal like finding extraterrestrial life that counts; it’s the extraordinary fact that we’re able to go looking for it at all. A 1 ton SUV-size car, stuffed with a fantastic suite of scientific instruments, is at this moment sitting on Mars. It drives where we tell it to drive, it runs the experiments we tell it to run.
There’s deep genius in building such an improbable machine and sending it across 154 million miles of void to the precise spot we wanted it to go. And there’s a different, subtler kind of genius to be found in anyone who chooses to follow the bit-at-a-time work the rover will do over the next two-plus years. The men and women of NASA aren’t the only ones allowed down in the weeds. We can all spend a little time there — and we’ll be better, smarter and scientifically wiser if we do.
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A Tale of Two Iguanas: New Species Found Hiding in Plain Sight
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By Tim Knight, Fauna & Flora International June 10, 2020
New iguana species found hiding in plain sight. Credit: FFI
This is the tale of two iguanas. Or five iguanas and counting, if you prefer. Bear with us, because this isn’t straightforward.
For a long time, it was thought that the Eastern Caribbean had just two iguana species – the critically endangered Lesser Antillean iguana and the highly variable common green iguana – but recent investigative work has revealed that there are several new kids on the block. In truth, ‘new’ is something of a misnomer, because these two-meter lizards have been lounging in plain sight for as long as anyone can remember.
FFI has a long history of conserving the Lesser Antillean iguana (Iguana delicatissima), pictured here in the hands of Tashim Fleming of Anguilla National Trust. Credit: Jenny Daltry/FFI
Those in the know – unscrupulous wildlife traders among them, regrettably – have long regarded a number of these lizards as distinctive island varieties. The Saint Lucia iguana, for example, sports broad black bands, while another, the evocatively named Grenadines pink rhino iguana, often turns pinkish white in old age.
Fauna & Flora International (FFI), Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the forestry departments on both Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) and Saint Lucia were unconvinced that the islands’ strikingly marked resident lizards were merely aberrant forms of the green iguana, and they joined forces with French taxonomists to investigate this further.
The common green iguana (Iguana iguana) outcompetes and hybridises with several native Caribbean iguanas. Credit: Juan Pablo Moreiras/FFI
Last year, thanks to DNA sampling that spawned a scientific paper to which FFI and our partners contributed, the Grenadines pink rhino iguana and Saint Lucia iguana were formally recognised as endemic subspecies in their own right. Both are threatened with extinction – with numbers down to just a few hundred in the case of the strictly protected Saint Lucia iguana – and it is illegal to trade either of them internationally without CITES permits from their country of origin.
We are working to conserve these two lizards in light of the threats posed not only by illegal trade, but also by the common green iguana and Central American horned iguana, which are now known to be invasive alien species on many islands in the region. Discarded as unwanted pets, transported as stowaways on cargo boats or swept ashore by hurricanes, the newcomers breed rapidly, outcompeting or hybridizing with the native lizards.
A second invasive species, the Central American horned iguana (Iguana rhinolopha), is an additional unwelcome presence on some islands. Credit: Matthew Morton/Durrell
But the story doesn’t end there.
FFI and the SVG Forestry Department photographed and collected DNA samples from a much larger number of wild iguanas across St Vincent and the Grenadines. Further detailed analysis by the same French scientists who had carried out genetic tests on the previous year’s samples showed conclusively that we were actually dealing with an entirely new species, which we have named the Southern Antilles iguana. Among its many distinguishing features are a cluster of horns on the nose, a high crest, and dark-brown eyes.
FFI is already involved in conserving this newly recognized species by virtue of our ongoing efforts to safeguard two of its subspecies, the very rare Saint Lucia iguana and Grenadines pink rhino iguana, since 2000 and 2016 respectively.
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To add to the complications, juveniles of the invasive iguanas – and any hybrid offspring – are virtually indistinguishable from those of the native pure-bred Southern Antilles iguanas. All of the juvenile iguanas in the Eastern Caribbean are bright green. This can make it difficult for conservationists and law enforcers to tell which species is which.
This newly hatched Saint Lucia iguana (Iguana insularis sanctaluciae) does not yet have the distinctive black banding that will distinguish it in adulthood (see main photo). Credit: Matthew Morton/Durrell
“Saint Lucia used to be called ‘Iyanola’, meaning ‘Land of the Iguanas’,” revealed Pius Haynes, Head of Wildlife at the Saint Lucia Forestry Department and a co-author of one of the papers. “Aside from their great cultural importance, our iguanas have a crucial role in forest regeneration through dispersing seeds.”
The Director of the SVG Forestry Department, Fitzgerald Providence, whose staff participated in the survey, remarked on the importance of discovering that his country has a new iguana species, rather than common green iguanas as previously believed. He emphasized the need to “work with conservation organizations such as FFI and the island communities, along with establishing legislation and policies in the protection of our islands’ biological diversity.”
Adult male Grenadines pink rhino iguana (Iguana insularis insularis) complete with characteristic nasal horns and pinkish-white livery. Credit: Jenny Daltry/FFI
“Caribbean iguanas are in grave danger because of invasive alien species, habitat loss and over-hunting for bushmeat and the pet trade,” said Dr Jenny Daltry, FFI Senior Conservation Biologist and a fellow co-author. “We know what needs to be done, and I am thankful to Darwin Initiative, Global Wildlife Conservation, National Geographic, Species Fund, SVG Environmental Fund and US Fish & Wildlife Service for supporting FFI and our partners thus far.”
Meanwhile, the very dark iguanas native to Montserrat and Saba – and, probably, Redonda – have also been confirmed as an entirely separate species, now known as the melanistic or Saban black iguana. This raises the question of whether to reintroduce this endangered species to the recently restored island of Redonda, where it is also thought to have once occurred, but that’s another story.
So, there you have it. At least until the next installment in the tale.
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Louis Hooffstetter | June 16, 2020 at 6:19 am | Reply
The problem here is the ambiguous definition of the term ‘Species’. These iguanas are in the process of evolving into new species, but because they can still interbreed or hybridize, they are only different subspecies. It’s a stretch to call them different species. That’s like calling different breeds of dogs different species. Imagine an article with the headline: “Scientists have discovered 339 different species of dogs hiding right under our noses”. Nope!
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Devotion and Theology
by Fred Sanders on September 4, 2011
Paul’s prayer for the church at Colossae (Colossians 1:9-14) is a catalog of the blessings he wants God to give them: knowledge, spiritual wisdom, understanding, a worthy walk, eagerness to please God, fruitfulness, growth in knowledge, strength, endurance, patience, and joy. With all of that going on in the prayer, I still think it’s safe to say that the dominant note in the prayer (and in the epistle) is the note of knowledge. Paul wants the Colossians to have knowledge, wisdom, and understanding of God. Among the other things he’s asking God for, he’s asking God to give the Colossians the gift of good theology.
H.C.G. Moule (1841-1920) was a great evangelical Bishop of Durham whose Bible commentaries are always worth consulting. In his Colossian and Philemon Studies, Moule quotes “some one” as having said “beware of an untheological devotion,” and underscores the way Paul asks for “just these ‘theological’ blessings… for a salvation nobly ‘theological.'” Moule says, “He prays that they may not only be warm and earnest, but may know profoundly the reason of their hope.” His summary:
This prayer of St. Paul’s, thus read in the context of the Epistle, is no untimely message for us. In many quarters of our Christendom nothing is more in fashion than “an untheological devotion.” “The religious sentiment” is regarded far and wide as a thing which can live and be healthy with a very minimum of revleation, and with an amost nil of reasoned doctrine; above all of the doctrine of a divine Christ, an atoning Cross, and a rescue from “the authority of the darkness.” But such “sentiment,” however warm, has no ultimate “last” in it. Under very moderate pressure from fashions of thought, and from attractive personalities, it is ready to go as far as possible from the ground on which alone the world, the flesh, and the devil can be really met. (p. 58)
A later commentator, W. H. Griffith Thomas (1861-1924), in his own Studies in Colossians and Philemon, quotes Moule’s remarks and agrees heartily: “Devotional hours do not mean hours when thought is absent… A piety that is mere pietism, evangelicalism that does not continually ponder the profound truths of the New Testament, can never be strong or do any true service to the gospel cause. We must indeed beware of ‘untheological devotion.'” (p. 40)
But Griffith Thomas takes up another theme as well: “We must also beware of an ‘undevotional theology.’
A hard, dry, intellectual study of theology will yield no spiritual fruit. Accuracy in the knowledge of Greek, careful balancing of various aspects of truth, wide knowledge of the doctrinal verities of the New Testament –all of these are essential and most valuable. Unless, however, they are permeated by a spirit of devotion they will fail at the crucial point. Pectus facit theologum — it is the heart that makes the theologian; and a theology that does not spring from spiritual experience is doomed to decay, to deadness, and to disaster. When, therefore, our devotions are theological, and our theology is devotional, we begin to realize the true meaning, blessing, and power of the Christian life. Thus we may go from strength to strength, from grace to grace, from glory to glory. (pp. 40-41)
Two equal and opposite dangers: untheological devotion, and undevotional theology. To avoid them, strive for a theological devotion which will by its nature simultaneously be a devotional theology.
(This is a lightly-revised re-post of a 2006 blog entry. I’m doing a series of Colossians-related re-posts this week because my church is preaching through Colossians, and I’m trying to get back in the habit of daily blogging.)
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Seated to the left of Biden and Obama: Webb (sitting), Mullen, Donilon, Daley, Blinken, Tomason, Brennan, Clapper, McDonough (seated), Clinton, Gates
The bin Laden Situation Room revisited – One year later
By Jamie Crawford
In the annals of American history, the famous photo taken by Pete Souza of President Barack Obama and his national security team monitoring 'Operation Neptune's Spear'–the Navy SEALs raid that killed Osama bin Laden– has achieved icon status. Splashed across newspapers and television screens across the world, the tension in the room seemed palpable to all who saw it. But an interesting footnote to the famous photo is that it was not taken in the actual Situation Room at the White House.
As CNN Terrorism Analyst Peter Bergen reports in his new book "Manhunt," about the decade long search for bin Laden, the room where the photo was taken is actually a smaller room adjoined to the larger Situation Room. Like the Situation Room, the smaller room has secure video and phone communications, but it has a table that can only accommodate seven people Bergen writes, as opposed to the larger table next door which can seat more than a dozen.
Brigadier General Marshall "Brad" Webb, assistant commanding general of Joint Special Operations Command who sits in the center of the famous photo, was monitoring the operation on a screen through a laptop computer. Michael Leiter, then director of the National Counterterrorism Center, went into the room to watch the feed that was being relayed from a secret drone. Secretaries Clinton, Gates, and Vice President Biden soon followed. Moments later Bergen reports, the president walked in and said, "I need to watch this," as he seated himself next to Webb.
In the days and months that followed, many of the people in the room have reflected on that crucial time in U.S. history, what it meant to them, and what they were thinking.
President Barack Obama:
In a recent interview with NBC News, Obama said he thinks the photo was taken at about the time the helicopter went down.
In the days after the raid, Obama told CBS's 60 Minutes that the raid was "the longest 40 minutes" of his life with the possible exception of when his younger daughter Sasha became sick with meningitis when she was three months old.
When they received word the helicopters carrying the Navy SEALs and the bin Laden body had left Pakistani airspace, the first person Obama called was his immediate predecessor, former President George W. Bush to inform him of the operation. Obama also called former President Bill Clinton that evening as well.
Vice President Joe Biden:
Vice President Joe Biden was opposed to going forward with the raid all the way up to the point when Obama made the decision to proceed. In remarks to House Democrats at their annual retreat earlier this year, Biden recalled the final moments before the commander-in-chief made his decision. Obama went around the table of his senior national security team to get their thoughts on whether the operation should go forward.
"He got to me. He said Joe what do you think," Biden recalled. "I said, we owe the man a direct answer. Mr. President, my suggestion is, don't go. We have to do two more things to see if he's there."
Biden told an audience in New York last week that Obama's decision to ultimately go ahead with decision shows the president has a "backbone like a ramrod."
Anthony Blinken – National Security Advisor to Vice President Biden:
On the morning of April 29, President Obama gathered with Tom Donilon, his national security adviser, White House Chief of Staff William Daley, Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough, and his counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, and told the men he had made the decision to go forward with the operation. Anthony Blinken, Biden's national security adviser heard the news shortly thereafter.
In an interview with Bergen, Blinken was somewhat surprised of the decision.
"I thought, 'Man, that is a gutsy call," Blinken told Bergen. "First, we don't know for sure bin Laden is there; the evidence is circumstantial. Second, most of his senior advisors recommended a different course of action."
Obama's presidency and the lessons of history also hung in the balance Blinken thought.
"Leaving that meeting, I think a lot of people had visions of Jimmy Carter in their heads," Blinken told Bergen in reference to the failed attempt by the Carter administration in 1980 to rescue the Americans held hostage at the U.S. embassy in Iran.
John Brennan – Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism:
White House counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan recently told an audience at NYPD headquarters in New York that once Obama made the "gutsy call" to approve the mission, "the minutes passed like hours and days."
When an NYPD official asked Brennan what it was like to be at the White House that evening, Brennan said there "wasn't a sense of exuberance, there were no high fives," he said. "People let out a breath. It was a moment of reflection. This was something we'd all worked toward for a long time."
Brennan recalled leaving the White House at 1:30am and passing by Lafayette Park, where many people had gathered and were chanting, "USA, USA." Brennan said he was hit by a wave of emotion. "I had goose bumps," he said.
James Clapper – Director of National Intelligence:
Clapper told Security Clearance "the tension in the air was palpable" particularly when the helicopter encountered its problem. "There was a lot of tension, and then as it became clear that we were reasonably sure that yes, it was Usama bin Laden, there was, if I can use the phrase, not only emotional closure, but functional closure in that operation illustrated the effectiveness of what an integrated intelligence and operational community could accomplish," he said.
Clapper told Security Clearance he walked with the President through the Rose Garden on their way to the East Room where Obama addressed the nation. It was the first time they had been outdoors for 12 hours, and they could hear the crowds in Lafayette Park. "It was then that it hit me what a momentous event this was, and I'll not forget that" Clapper said.
"It is hard for me to recall a single vignette that carried with it so much importance, and so much symbolism for this country," Clapper said. "As an intelligence professional that has spent 50 years in the business, I cannot remember an event that would approach that raid and its success in my memory."
Hillary Clinton – Secretary of State:
For Secretary Clinton, who was a U.S. Senator from New York on 9/11, the operation provided a sense of closure to her she said recently in an address at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. "We did our very best to try to give the president our honest assessment, and ultimately you know it was his decision which I fully supported because I believed that we had to take the risk and it was a risk."
Watch as Hillary Clinton recounts the mood at the White House during the bin Laden raid.
"It was a pretty intense, tense, stressful time because the people who were actually doing it on the ground were thousands of miles away," she said. "I'm not sure anyone breathed for you know 35 or 37 minutes."
"I wasn't even aware people were taking pictures, the White House photographer obviously was, but you were just so concentrating on what you could see and you could hear. We could see or hear nothing when [the SEALs] went into the house. There was no communication or feedback coming so it was during that time period everyone was particularly focused on just trying to keep calm and keep prepared as to what would happen," Clinton said.
William Daley – White House Chief of Staff:
President Obama's former chief of staff might have come closest to tipping off the press that something monumental was in the works before Obama made his historic address to the nation.
That Saturday evening, Obama, Daley, and many other senior administration officials were attending the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner in Washington. George Stephanopoulos of ABC News had heard from someone that the White House had uncharacteristically closed itself to public tours the next morning. "You guys have something big going on over there?" Bergen writes of Stephanopoulos's surprising query to Daley. "Oh no. It's just a plumbing issue," Daley said, seemingly ending the newsman's curiosity.
In an address to a conference of public relations executives in Chicago last week, Daley called that night of the operation at the White House the "biggest moment of my life in a professional sense."
Tom Donilon – National Security Adviser:
"Well, obviously we're thinking about the successful and safe completion of the mission," Donilon told CNN's Candy Crowley a week after the raid. "That was first and foremost in everybody's mind as we were monitoring the mission as it was ongoing."
"You know, as I look at the picture now though, and focus in on the president, having served three presidents," Donilon told Crowley, "you really are struck by these being quintessentially presidential decisions, and you see it in new experiences that you have."
For Donilon, who watched the president receive divided opinions from his advisers on whether to go forward with the mission, "that's what strikes me now, looking at the president, is that we ask our presidents to make these exceedingly difficult decisions," Donilon said. "And at the end of the day, 300 million Americans are looking to him to make the right decision."
Robert Gates – Secretary of Defense:
Gates, who was the only hold over in Obama's cabinet from the previous administration, said for him, the most difficult moment for him that evening was when one of the Blackhawk helicopters carrying a Navy SEALs team crashed in the courtyard of the bin Laden compound.
Like Biden, he was opposed to the operation involving the SEALs. Gates, who spent a majority of his career at the C.I.A. and was the intelligence liaison at the White House in 1980 during the failed attempt to rescue the American hostages held in Iran, advocated for a much larger operation.
"Well, I think like the rest, I was just transfixed," Gates told CBS's 60 Minutes last year. "And of course, my heart went to my mouth when the helicopter landed in the courtyard, 'cause I knew that wasn't part of the plan. But these guys were just amazing."
Admiral Mike Mullen – Chairman of the Joint Chiefs:
For Mullen, there was also a concern about whether the White House would interfere after the helicopter went down.
Mullen told Bergen his biggest concern "was that someone at the White House would reach in and start micromanaging the mission. It is potentially the great disadvantage about technology that we have these days," he said. "And I was going to put my body in the way of trying to stop that. Obviously, there was one person I couldn't stop doing that, and that was the president."
Audry Tomason – National Counterterrorism Center:
CNN reached out to Audrey Tomason to get her reflections of that evening, but she was unavailable for comment.
Brigadier General Marshall "Brad" Webb – Assistant Commanding General, Joint Special Operations Command:
Webb was the senior officer in the room from Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). The commanding officer of JSOC, Admiral William McRaven, briefed the officials on the operation from his position in Afghanistan. Webb declined to comment to CNN about his role in the operation, or his reflections of the evening.
Denis McDonough – Deputy National Security Advisor:
"I think what strikes me about the picture more than anything is the fact that it speaks to the teamwork that was emblematic," McDonough told CNN's Wolf Blitzer the day after the operation. "The broader teamwork from the IAC, the intelligence community, from the military, from our diplomats, to make sure that this happened in the successful way that it did."
Leon Panetta – Central Intelligence Agency Director:
Panetta, who at that point was the Director of the C.I.A. at the agency headquarters in Langley, VA that evening, but was communicating with Obama and his team via a video link. The Title 50 operation called for the C.I.A. to have operational control, so everyone at the White House was listening to Panetta narrate what was happening.
"There were a number of tense moments going through the operation," now Defense Secretary Panetta said on his way back to the United States from South America last week. "Just the fact that having these helicopters going 150 miles into Pakistan, and the concern about whether or not they would be detected." When one of the helicopters went down at the compound, Panetta said it was "pretty nerve-wracking for a lot of us that, you know, trying to figure out what happens now."
When they received confirmation from the SEAL team that they had killed bin Laden, Panetta said there was a "huge sigh of relief by everybody involved." But with a disabled helicopter down at the compound, it had to be destroyed by members of the team before they were able to leave Pakistani territory. "And so there was a lot of concern about the ability to get everybody back to Afghanistan," Panetta said. "But we were able to do that, and it was at that point that I think everybody kind of looked at everybody and said, 'mission accomplished."
Post by: CNN's Jamie Crawford
Filed under: 1 Year After Bin Laden's Death • 9/11 • Afghanistan • Military • Security Brief
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Analysis: Study shows rise of al Qaeda affiliate in Syria
By Nic Robertson and Paul Cruickshank
A jihadist group with links to al Qaeda has become the most effective of the different factions fighting the regime, according to a new analysis, and now has some 5,000 fighters.
The group is Jabhat al-Nusra, which was designated an al Qaeda affiliate by the United States government last month. It is led by veterans of the Iraqi insurgency "and has shown itself to be the principal force against Assad and the Shabiha," according to the study.
CNN obtained an advance copy of the analysis, set to be released Tuesday by the Quilliam Foundation, a counterterrorism policy institute based in London.
"The civil war in Syria is a gift from the sky for al-Nusra; they are coasting off its energy," the lead author of the report, Noman Benotman, told CNN.
Benotman, a former prominent Libyan Jihadist who was personally acquainted with al Qaeda's top leaders including Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, consulted Western and regional intelligence officials as well as jihadists in Syria, including "al-Nusra sources."
And at a time of optimism that the global threat from al Qaeda terrorism has crested, the study will fuel anxiety in Western capitals that a powerful al Qaeda affiliate may become entrenched in the heart of the Arab world, creating deep challenges in any post- al-Assad Syria, and a new threat to international security.
What's next for Syria in 2013?
Founding meetings
Al-Nusra, according to the report, is a Syrian offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq, aka AQI, the terror outfit founded by the Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
AQI was rebranded the "Islamic State of Iraq" after al-Zarqawi was killed by a U.S. missile strike in 2006. Since the pull-out of U.S. troops from Iraq, ISI has regained strength, feeding off the continued political and sectarian turbulence in Iraq.
When designating al-Nusra a terrorist group in December, the U.S State Department cast the group as "an attempt by AQI to hijack the struggles of the Syrian people for its own malign purposes."
"AQI emir Abu Du'a is in control of both AQI and al-Nusra. Du'a also issues strategic guidance to al-Nusra's emir, Abu Muhammad al-Jawlani, and tasked him to begin operations in Syria," the State Department said.
Benotman says that while Abu Du'a still has significant influence over al-Nusra, the key player in the group is al-Jawlani, a veteran Syrian jihadist who he says appears to have almost certainly been a former close associate of al-Zarqawi.
Al-Jawlani's "leadership is uncontested because of his experience in Iraq," the Quilliam Foundation report found. According to Benotman, al-Jawlani has taken painstaking measures not to reveal his real identity - including wearing a mask to meetings with some of al-Nusra's senior operatives. He was also masked when al-Nusra released a video in January 2012 to announce its formation.
AQI had built up an infrastructure in Syria, establishing safe-houses in Syria from which thousands of volunteers - including many Syrians - traveled to fight in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi's Syrian commanders were also the key channel for financial contributions from the Saudi and Gulf region.
Nada Bakos, a former CIA agent who for several years was the chief targeting officer tracking al-Zarqawi, told CNN that from the early days Syrians were amongst the inner circle of his network. "Some of these commanders are probably now part of al-Nusra," she said.
One Syrian among the inner circle of AQI was Sulayman Khalid Darwish. He's been reported killed in Iraq, but intelligence sources tell CNN his fate remains uncertain, raising the possibility he may now be playing a leadership role in al-Nusra.
According to Benotman, the ultimate aim of al-Nusra is the creation of an Islamic State in Syria and the Levant. To begin with, it set about recruiting fighters and training them, collecting weapons and creating safe havens.
The group suffered a severe setback in April 2012 after the arrest of an operative led to a significant number of members being detained in Damascus, but the group subsequently rebuilt its operations, placing greater emphasis on operational security, Benotman told CNN.
One precaution al-Nusra has taken is communicating through messengers rather than electronically, according to Benotman. "Their operational security is some of the best I've ever seen," he told CNN.
In addition, al-Nusra is "very selective about initiating new members, requiring "tezkiyya," or personal assurance, from two commanders on the front line stating that the recruit has the necessary skills, religious commitment and attitude to join the group," the Quilliam study says.
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From clandestine cells to insurgency
According to the U.S State Department, al-Nusra has claimed responsibility for nearly 600 attacks - "ranging from more than 40 suicide attacks to small arms and improvised explosive device operations - in major city centers including Damascus, Aleppo, Hama, Dara, Homs, Idlib, and Dayr al-Zawr."
Benotman says the group has also carried out executions of media professionals and assassinations of military officers and members of the pro-al-Assad Shabiha militia.
Al-Nusra also focuses on taking control of towns near major highways to control movement; it controls the highway between Aleppo and Hasakah, an important route to Iraq, according to the Quilliam report.
So far the group has only claimed one attack on Syrian government planes and helicopters which "would seem to demonstrate a lack of man-portable air-defence systems (MANPADs), consistent with the international effort to keep these weapons out of jihadist hands," according to the report.
Last month al-Nusra launched two of its most ambitious operations to date. On December 10, the group occupied parts of a military base near Aleppo and two days later claimed responsibility for a coordinated suicide and car bomb attack on the heavily guarded Interior Ministry in the capital.
Al-Nusra's signature tactic, like that of AQI, is using large car and truck bombs driven by suicide bombers. The group has launched several such attacks against security installations in Damascus and Aleppo, sometimes as part of a coordinated assault involving gunmen.
Benotman says that last Summer al-Nusra launched a recruitment drive for suicide bombers and began stockpiling trucks and explosives. He says that weapons shortages among rebel groups means that al-Nusra's campaign of suicide bombings has allowed it to punch above its weight.
Last week al-Nusra demonstrated the lethality of a new tactic - driverless car bombs operated by remote control, Benotman told CNN. He says the technology was used to destroy a gate at an airbase in Idlib and will raise fears that it could one day be used in an attack in the West.
If al-Nusra's fighting strength is some 5,000 members, as the Quilliam report estimates, that would be comparable to U.S. government estimates of AQI at the peak of the Iraq insurgency. But rebel commanders say that the group makes up less than 10% of the brigades fighting the regime.
While al-Nusra is mainly made up of Syrians, it includes a significant number of fighters from other Arab countries. In recent months a growing number have arrived from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, but Iraqis and Jordanians constitute the majority of foreign fighters.
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Cooperation with other rebels
In recent months, videos featuring rebels fighting in Syria have increasingly featured joint-operations between al-Nusra and other rebel groups.
According to the Quilliam Foundation report, al-Nusra often cooperates with other jihadist and Islamist groups such as Sukour al-Sham, which has several thousand fighters, and even with the Free Syrian Army, in a number of strategic battles, though joint operations between these two groups have not been widespread.
According to Benotman, a significant number of Jihadists fighting with other rebel outfits are wary of al Qaeda's hard-line ideology, but al-Nusra has sought to allay concerns by keeping its brand separate from al Qaeda, avoiding targeting civilians, and refraining from spelling out its true agenda.
"Preserving good relations with the other groups and treating them well and turning a blind eye to their mistakes is the foundation in dealing with the other groups, as long as they don't change," al-Nusra leader Mohammed al-Jawlani said in a December audio tape, according to a translation by the SITE Intelligence Group.
Al-Nusra and nine other local Jihadist brigades announced last month they were forming a regional unified command structure called the Mujahideen Shura Council in Deir el-Zour.
Yet according to Benotman's report, al-Nusra has not yet formed any such coalitions with larger Islamist rebel outfits such as Ansar al-Islam, Ahrar al-Sham, and the Deir Ezzor Revolutionary Council, three groups which previously joined together to form the "Liberation Front."
A counterproductive designation?
According to the Quilliam study, "the designation (by the U.S.) of al-Nusra as a terrorist organization has only served to reinforce jihadist support for the group.
Nada Bakos, the former CIA agent agreed, telling CNN the designation may elevate al-Nusra's status amongst Jihadists worldwide, increasing funding and recruitment for the group.
Benotman's study describes relations between al-Nusra and the FSA as mixed, with both realizing they need each other in the short term to topple al-Assad.
"Some FSA brigades threaten to work with al-Nusra if the West does not provide enough weapons while others see al-Nusra as trying to exploit the revolution for their own ends, instead of working for the good of the country. Jabhat al-Nusra and the Free Syrian Army are wary of one another, as they are already vying for popularity amongst the population," Quilliam says.
Syrian children witness war
Bakos, the former CIA official says AQI and al-Nusra are likely replicating the flexible, decentralized, and resilient external operations networks established by al-Zarqawi in the region, and that makes them a force to be reckoned with. Benotman says the al-Zarqawi networks never really went away.
Analysts believe al-Nusra's hostility to the West could create an "over-the-horizon" threat to the United States and its allies if the group is able to secure a foothold in Syria and across the Levant.
In such a scenario al Qaeda aligned groups would be operating within touching distance of borders of Israel, improving their potential to launch a direct attack against the country, long a key proclaimed objective of the terrorist network's leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
The Quilliam Foundation report is sobering reading at a time when increasing sectarian tension and regime brutality in Syria are playing into al-Nusra's hands.
Benotman believes al-Nusra doesn't want a quick end to the al-Assad regime.
"The longer the conflict goes on, the stronger they will get," he told CNN.
Post by: Nic Robertson and Paul Cruickshank
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How's the media getting copy of charge sheet before the accused: Umar Khalid
Umar Khalid has moved court complaining of a leak of information and media trial, says it is affecting his right to a free and fair trial
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For the second time, human rights defender Dr. Umar Khalid has moved court, complaining of a leak of information and media trial. Accused under draconian anti-terrorism provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), Dr. Khalid and his lawyers moved court on January 4 and put on their record concerns regarding a 'vicious media campaign' against him.
According to a report in The Quint they have stated that while the media continues to report from Delhi Police Crime Branch’s supplementary charge sheet under FIR 101, the accused Khalid and his legal team are yet to be supplied a copy of it, even till January 4. However, they stated that the media has been reporting on it regularly, according to the news report, Umar Khalid told the court, "I am saying with absolute dismay that this pattern of media reporting on the charge sheet before the accused get a copy of it, is prejudicial to the trial. Please ask the prosecution and the investigating officer how is it that the media is getting a copy of the charge sheet before the accused is. The media says that in my confessional statements (disclosure statements) I have admitted to my role in the riots, how does that make sense when I gave it in writing that I had not signed any statement while in police custody on 4 October. I am well aware that these confessional statements are not admissible in court, but there is an obvious pattern of selected disclosure statements being leaked, so keeping that in mind I request you ask the Investigating Officer how this is being leaked again and again. This is affecting my right to a free and fair trial."
His friend Banojyotsna had shared a copy of the FIR in October.
Khalid’s advocate Trideep Pais, told the court, "I submitted to the learned duty magistrate that immediately upon the charge sheet being filed, we have experienced that a vicious media campaign starts. Immediately after the charge sheet the media started saying that Umar Khalid had admitted to the riots, to mobilising people, to bring in women as a front, arranged guns etc. However, when you read the same charge sheet you will know that the accused they talk of was not even present in Delhi," reported TQ.
Umar told the court, "I am repeating this, I have already told the court I did not sign any statement. These attempts show that the prosecution is themselves not confident of the evidence against me and want to start a media trial." The application was submitted on January 3 to Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Dinesh Kumar's court, the next hearing is listed for January 5.
Khalid had earlier moved court with the same concern on November 28, when FIR 59 the police’s supplementary charge sheet, against Khalid’s alleged role was reported on by several media houses. According to the report, Khalid’s lawyers were given a copy of that charge sheet on November 28.
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A recent report from RIMS seeks to demystify foreign voluntary workers' compensation insurance and explain to employers why it should be considered a necessity.
By: Courtney DuChene | March 25, 2020
Topics: Workers' Comp | Workers' Comp Forum
With the emergence of COVID-19, the risks of business travel have taken center stage as employees traveling to other countries or even just national conferences brought the risk of disease back into their offices.
Outside of a global pandemic, traveling workers still carry many more risks than employees who sit in an office 15 minutes from their home.
Employees traveling abroad may fear threats to their safety, especially as tense geopolitical situations continue to play out on the national stage and workers injured in another country may not be able to count on workers’ compensation to cover the costs.
Enter foreign voluntary workers’ compensation (FVWC), an insurance product designed to provide workers’ comp coverage to employees who are conducting business outside of their home countries.
RIMS recently released a report on the advantages of FVWC policies and the key considerations risk managers should keep in mind when they are considering a FVWC insurance product.
What Is Foreign Voluntary Workers’ Compensation?
FVWC can be purchased as either an endorsement or a standalone insurance policy. The coverage is considered voluntary because it is not required by law to purchase.
It can be considered necessary by employers, however, especially if they have employees who travel outside of the country frequently.
As an endorsement, FVWC extends domestic workers’ compensation policies for U.S. citizens and U.S. nationals traveling outside of the country. Typically, this type of coverage excludes endemic disease and is limited to a certain number of days, according to the RIMS report.
By contrast, standalone FVWC policies provide coverage for both U.S. and non-U.S. travelers. Non-U.S. traveling employees and expatriates on long-term assignments are also covered under standalone FVWC policies.
Standalone FVWC policies often provide for a broader range of coverage than endorsements, including coverages for the use of multilingual doctors, emergency family travel arrangements and medically-necessary evacuations to countries with more advanced medical teams.
The policies are structured similarly to U.S. workers’ compensation policies with workers’ compensation and employee liability components.
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The RIMS report notes that it’s important to consider coverage overlaps and coverage jurisdictions when looking into FVWC policies.
It’s also important to note that FVWC exists outside of employee benefits, like medical and life insurance. It’s different from business travel accident (BTA) policies, as well, though the two are similar in that they are both non-compulsory policies that cover accidents occurring when an employee is abroad.
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BTA policies can also cover a worker’s spouse, partner or children, whereas FVWC does not.
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A rapid rise in the number and size of renewable energy projects has amplified some risks, highlighting the need for reliable insurance and risk management solutions.
By: AIG | December 21, 2020
The renewable energy sector looks poised to continue its years-long growth trajectory. Falling technology costs, availability of tax credits, rising consumer demand and an urgent need to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions to combat the effects of climate change have all driven interest and investment dollars to wind, solar and battery storage projects.
This growth has continued despite uncertainties introduced by the COVID-19 pandemic. A market outlook report by Deloitte states that as energy demands dropped in the spring amid state shutdowns, the share of energy produced from wind and solar plants actually increased by 2%.
“Renewable energy sources beat coal in the generation mix for 116 days” as of June, compared to just 39 days over the same period last year, according to the report. This demonstrates grid resiliency and reliability — two primary concerns with the scalability of renewable energy projects.
“There are 117 gigawatts of new capacity that will be brought online from wind and solar sources between 2021 and 2023. Additionally, we’re seeing a proliferation of battery storage projects — around 470 megawatts of new battery storage produced in Q3 2020 — to alleviate the risk of unreliable or inconsistent power supply,” said Ian Kirejczyk, Property Underwriter – Energy and Construction at AIG.
Despite these trends, and an ongoing desire from individuals and big corporations alike for cleaner, more sustainable energy, the renewables sector is facing challenges that could stymie its growth.
Here are three key risks the industry is grappling with and how the right insurer-partner can help renewable energy companies keep moving forward.
1) Increased natural hazard exposure in remote building sites
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The demand for more renewable energy has resulted in bigger projects, which require more space.
For that reason, wind, solar and battery storage projects are increasingly sited in remote areas in states that have more available land — mostly Midwest and Southwestern states that are also more vulnerable to natural hazards like wildfire, hail and tornado.
“As new projects are being built, they’re being built in remote areas, and we’re definitely starting to see some of those more catastrophic losses from hail, wind, flooding and wildfire events that impact the ability to access project sites, which can impact maintenance schedules or delay repairs and in turn can result in increased claim costs,” Kirejczyk said.
Advancements in drone technology have alleviated this slightly by allowing for remote loss assessments when physical inspections aren’t feasible, but increased exposure to natural hazards and roadblocks to a quick recovery will remain challenging as renewable energy projects expand into new territory.
2) Increased repair and replacement costs on large projects
Bigger projects also mean increased exposure to equipment failure.
“These units are growing in size and scale. When wind turbines were first commissioned, they were 225 kilowatts and now are pushing five megawatts, from an onshore wind perspective. Offshore, they’re even larger. As the technology has matured, we are seeing a decline in the cost of manufacturing, but an increase in the cost of the repairs. This can be attributed to more complex designs and engineering making repairs more costly,” Kirejczyk said.
According to 2019 research by Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables, a research and consulting firm, the global onshore wind industry spent roughly $8.5 billion on unplanned repairs for component failures, representing 57% of all operations and maintenance costs.
“Unplanned failures can cost the asset owner as much as $30,000 per turbine per year in terms of repairs and spare parts and up to 7 days’ worth of lost production per year. … Capital components alone — gearboxes, generators and blade — can cost up to $10,000 per turbine per year in replacements,” according to the firm’s report.
“Proactive and preventative maintenance programs are key for owners, and they can do a lot of this through remote monitoring and maintenance forecasting powered by artificial intelligence,” Kirejczyk said. Though these tools are becoming more prevalent, adoption remains slow among smaller players.
3) Shortage of skilled contractors to meet demand.
The rapid rise in project demand can only be met with skilled contractors experienced in renewable energy projects. According to the 2017 Global Energy Talent Index Report, 80% of hiring managers in the industry believe there is a skills shortage due to lack of planning for knowledge transfer.
“As the pipeline of these projects under development has risen exponentially, we have seen a rise of claims on the construction and installation of these projects. This points to the limited pool of contractors who are able to install and commission a project successfully,” Kirejczyk said.
“The pool of available, reputable and experienced contractors is small, and everybody wants to partner with those contractors. When there is a lot of competition for skilled labor, the larger owners tend to win out, and startups are more likely to find themselves working with less experienced contractors.
“That’s where we start seeing issues like, for example, micro-cracking in solar panels that aren’t stored, transported or installed correctly. That then leads to performance issues.”
Renewable energy companies — large or small — can protect themselves by not only selecting contractors carefully, but also establishing clear expectations for quality and minimum limits of contractors’ liability coverage.
How One Insurer Supports Sustainable Clean Energy Growth
Though the future of renewable energy looks bright, these factors have nonetheless made the sector difficult to insure.
“From an insurance perspective, we still see attritional claims that are eroding profitability in this industry,” Kirejczyk said.
But loss history can’t shoulder all the blame. Undisciplined risk selection has also driven poor outcomes.
“The lack of profitability may have been due to markets focusing on production goals as opposed to taking a disciplined underwriting approach — not taking the time to get to know their customers yet continuing to support terms and conditions that were set in a soft market,” Kirejczyk said, “which is why we’re coming at this from a little bit of a different angle.”
After several years of watching this market’s growing pains, AIG decided to throw its hat in the ring, mitigating the challenges to profitability through a thoughtful and targeted approach. Amid the proliferation of new projects, the company is focused on asset owners with a track record of success in the business and dedication to the long-term viability of a project.
“We have a specific appetite, and we’re looking for people who are truly invested in this space for the long haul,” Kirejczyk said. “For us, sustainability is not just about supporting the technology, but supporting the major players in the space that care about being here for the long term and are not just looking for a quick return on their investment.”
The support comes in the form of risk management expertise as well as disciplined underwriting. In-house risk engineers with product development and plant management experience have extensive knowledge on how to operate, maintain and protect both renewable energy plants and battery storage projects.
Captive funding abilities can also support larger owners who want to insure more of their risk themselves, but need assistance unlocking their captives’ capabilities. “That’s where AIG can partner with them and take a different approach instead of the traditional risk transfer property contract. The renewable energy space is poised for change and some clients who have captives may look at utilizing them as a means for risk transfer, which is an area in which we specialize and can offer our expertise,” Kirejczyk said.
As the world moves toward a future powered by renewable energy, companies need both reliable insurance coverage and risk management solutions to address their exposures and continue growing sustainably.
“Both consumers and corporations increasingly care about where their power comes from. They want to be good actors toward the environment, but they require a reliable, continuous supply of energy. We know we have a role to play in the transition to cleaner energy and are excited at the opportunity in front of us,” Kirejczyk said.
To learn more, visit https://www.aig.com/business/industry/energy.
This article was produced by the R&I Brand Studio, a unit of the advertising department of Risk & Insurance, in collaboration with AIG. The editorial staff of Risk & Insurance had no role in its preparation.
AIG is a leading international insurance organization serving customers in more than 80 countries and jurisdictions.
COVID-19 and Workers’ Comp: What Current Court Cases Could Mean for the Industry
Five recent suits give employers a peek at the COVID-19-related litigation they could face if they mismanage employee safety during the pandemic.
What If I Build a Cannabis Business and No One Will Insure It?
The booming cannabis industry is still struggling to attract adequate coverage.
Hospital Workers Are Protecting Us; How Ergonomics Can Help Protect Them
At a digital session of the National Ergonomics Conference & ErgoExpo, two experts explain their system for helping health care workers prevent injuries.
Twitter and Your Executives: Why a Social Media Strategy Can Make or Break Your Reputation
While social media has created an extraordinary opportunity for many businesses to reach out to consumers in an instant, some posts are proving an immense risk.
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Barrow Lifeboat Called to Assist Fishing Boat
Volunteer crew from Barrow’s Lifeboat Station launched their inshore lifeboat this afternoon to go to the aid of a broken-down fishing boat with two people on board.
RNLI/Chris Clouter
Barrow ILB 'Vision of Tamworth' with casualty vessel under tow
The call for assistance came from the regional HM Coastguard base in Holyhead at 4-54pm with a request to launch to a 16-foot (4.9 metres) fishing boat, a Seahog Hunter, off the south end of Walney Island.
The crew was paged and the inshore lifeboat, ‘Vision of Tamworth’, was launched at 5-05pm with Andy Baxter at the helm, assisted by Mike Harris and Shaun Hagan. The lifeboat was alongside the casualty within fifteen minutes of launching and after assessing the problem it was decided to take the vessel under tow back to the Ferry Pitching, north of Jubilee Bridge.
The casualty vessel reached the Ferry Pitching at 6-20pm and with the crew now safe, the lifeboat was able to return to the boathouse where it was washed down and prepared for the next launch.
The weather at the time of the incident was fine and clear. The wind was south, south-westerly, Force 2-3, with the next high tide due at 11-32pm with a predicted height of 8.7 metres.
Barrow Lifeboat Station
Chris Clouter
Lifeboat Press Officer, Barrow Lifeboat Station
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Creating Content that Connects!
Trusted Authority
Drone – Rise Above
Get Animated!
YEG Me Podcast
Category: YEG Me Podcast
The host of Yeg Me is Rob LeLacheur. Rob and his family have been in the Edmonton region for over 100 years, dating back to 1905 when his Great Grandfather Silas first came to Edmonton from P.E.I.
He’s been in the content business for many years and felt the time was right to start a new content series, the Yeg Me podcasts. What a great time and opportunity to sit down with so many interesting Edmontonians.
Look for the podcast on all of the major podcast platforms like Spotify, Apple and Google.
Doug McLean – YEG Me about Edmonton Tourism
Doug is with Edmonton Economic Development Corporation. He’s the Director of Events with Edmonton Tourism and shares some great stories of what’s happening in Edmonton’s event world. He is also heavily involved in University Sports and has many great stories to share about his time on the sidelines and courts.
https://exploreedmonton.com
https://www.facebook.com/EdmontonTourism/
Doug’s Twitter
https://twitter.com/dougmclean15
https://www.instagram.com/pkirbysdreamland/
Local love shoutout: http://southislandpie.co/#the-list
So what is Yeg Me all about?
Edmonton is a great city and we wanted to connect with some Edmontonians to learn more about them and more importantly, some of their thoughts and insight about Edmonton (YEG).
Yeg Me is sponsored in part by Road 55. If you or someone you know is looking to grow your business through marketing and strategy, please connect with Road 55.
https://road55.ca
The Podcasts were filmed in the Werkstatt Studio. You can learn more about the studio, located in the heart of the Ice District in Downtown Edmonton by going here:
https://www.werkstatt-yeg.com
Pam Kirby – YEG Me about being a Bear DJ
So much fun sitting down with Pam Kirby for the YEG Me podcast. Pam is the evening host at 100.3 the Bear where you can listen to her from 7pm to midnight through the week.
She came from the Peg but we won’t hold that against her. She’s dabbled in the media and promo industry and has fully landed at the Bear a few years ago.
Some of her uncanny abilities include being able to fall asleep anywhere, like at a Mariners baseball game and in a bathroom at a casino in Las Vegas! She loves the Edmonton YEG arts scene as is hugely supportive of all those improvers out there.
Don’t be afraid to call her during her show. She takes calls from everyone…even from the Remand centre!
http://www.iheartradio.ca/100-3-the-bear/shows/the-pam-kirby-show-1.1761266
https://www.facebook.com/pamkirbyonair/
Twitter – her account is suspended. Not saying…just saying.
The Podcasts were recorded and filmed in the Werkstatt Studio. You can learn more about the studio, located in the heart of the Ice District in Downtown Edmonton by going here:
Carly Klassen – YEG Me about the Alberta Music scene
There is music….and then there is Alberta music! It was great to sit down with Carly Klassen, the Executive Director of Alberta Music on the YEG Me podcast.
She leads the team that is a non-profit, service-based association dedicated to helping professionals in the music industry to succeed in their careers.
From Alberta Bands/Artists, Managers, Publicists, Labels, Studios, Producers, Engineers… they support and connect everyone in the Alberta music industry.
Carly shares a great story about her first day on the job and how she first met a future Juno nominee.
If you’d like to learn more about Alberta Music, please visit:
www.albertamusic.org
Or find them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/albertamusic
Twitter: https://twitter.com/alberta_music
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alberta_music/
Teresa Spinelli – YEG Me about the family business
It was great to sit down with Teresa Spinelli from the Italian Centre. As President of the Italian Centre, she leads a team of over 500 staff with 3 locations in Edmonton and 1 in Calgary.
They are a specialty grocer and gathering place for Alberta families and friends since 1959, the Italian Centre Shop’s long devotion to authentic Italian and European tastes & traditions creates community, love & belonging. Europe’s best-known, most-loved foods all under one roof.
We chatted about the shops, community, the Edmonton YEG food scene and more!
https://www.italiancentre.ca
https://www.facebook.com/Italiancentreshop/
Teresa on Twitter
https://twitter.com/TeresaSpinelli
Stephen Bourdeau – YEG ME about Marathons and events
He is the General Manager for the World Triathlon Series Edmonton which oversees the 2020 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final
As well as the 2018/2019 ITU World Triathlon Series Edmonton.
He’s been a staple in the event business for 20 years with experience as the Festival Director of the Northern Alberta International Children’s Festival, handling media at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver and more!
www.edmonton.triathlon.org
https://www.facebook.com/worldtriathlonedmonton/
https://twitter.com/wts_edmonton
https://www.instagram.com/wts_edmonton
#WTSEdmonton
#DoNorth
Rick Harvey – YEG Me about Edmonton Mentorship
Meet Rick Harvey
One on one chat with one the mentors in my life. He’s left his mark on the leadership community of Edmonton and we were thrilled to have him on the YEG Me podcast.
He has a BIG IDEA: To make leaders and their companies 10 times more effective!
He works to get leaders out of the ISOLATION TRAP!!! He focuses on getting them to start working ON their business instead of always working IN their business.
If you’d like to connect with Rick, please visit his LInkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-harvey-cmc-2270546/
Allan Mott – YEG Me some B-Movie gold
Allan Mott – So much fun to have local Edmontonian Allan join us to talk about his writing career and creative touch points in our community.
To go along with his passion for B-Movies, he’s a book writer too! A few years back he was allowed to publish his own book on the subject, the imaginatively titled Scary Movies, which documented the creation, reaction and relevance of six of his favourite horror movies.
It remains the best of the 12 and ½ books he’s managed to publish thus far (don’t ask about the ½ book, it’s a long story).
As a film theorist (which is a pretentious way to say that he writes really long reviews where the actual quality of the films are usually irrelevant) Allan operates under the belief that anyone can come up with interesting insights while deconstructing Citizen Kane, Persona, The Seventh Seal, 8 ½, Badlands or Breathless, but it takes imagination, hard work and a twisted personality to do the same with Skatetown USA, Don’t Go in the House, Cheerleaders Wild Weekend or Disorderlies.
Which leads us to Vanity Fear, which was once called The House of Glib before Allan got tired of constantly telling people what “glib” meant. Its purpose is to serve as a repository for any cinematic observation Allan wishes to make that is unlikely to ever be printed anywhere else.
In addition to B-Movies and writing, we chat about his love of food and he shared many dishes he hopes others discover in Edmonton.
Here is the coveted Food list that Allan shared with us on the podcast. You have to go enjoy these local dishes in Edmonton!
Brussels Sprouts at Woodwork
Potato Fondant at Partake
Fish Tacos at Tres Carnales
Latte at Coffee Bureau
Lemon Merengue cake at Duchess
Gnocchi at Almanac
Order off the white board at Tokyo Noodle Shop
Fonduta Agnolotti at Bar Bricco
Spicy garlic miso pork ramen at Prairie Noodle House
Hot chicken at Northern Chicken
Eclairs at La Boulle
Blue steel with bacon and smoke at The Burger’s Priest
You can find Allan:
www.vanityfear.com – A pretentious A-Hole’s guide to B-Movie BS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HouseofGlib
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/houseofglib/
Dave Jamieson – YEG Me some Edmonton sports stories
Dave Jamieson of TSN 1260
It was so great to sit down with Dave on the YEG Me podcast. He is a man of many talents!
He once put out a raging barbecue fire with nothing more than an old dish towel and a steely glance, and he now brings his unique and informed perspective on the world of sports to the airwaves of Edmonton.
He’s a former producer, broadcaster and program director at some of the biggest radio stations on the West Coast and in Edmonton, Dave originally hales from the soft streets of Vancouver and most recently spent 14 years as the Edmonton Eskimos Director of Marketing, Communications and Broadcast as well as President of the Edmonton Rush.
He’s no stranger to goings-on behind the scenes of professional sports including his own feelings of inadequacy in a locker room.
You can listen to Dave on TSN 1260 weekdays from noon to 2 pm and he might even allow you to weigh in once in a while as he entertains, bemuses and prevents younger, more talented radio talent from establishing themselves in the market.
Follow Dave on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/jamieson1260
Kyle Dube – YEG Me about getting Edmonton youth out of harms way
Let’s chat with Kyle Dube, the Executive Director of Youcan Youth Services in Edmonton.
An Edmonton champion focused on social justice and moving the city’s youth out of harms way.
Learn more about Youcan: http://www.youcan.ca
Terry Jones – YEG Me some stories from Edmonton’s most prolific sports writer
Edmonton’s most prolific sports columnist, Terry Jones came by to chat about Edmonton sports and more for the YEG Me podcast. He shares a great story about how he got into the writing business and shared his radio DJ talents…. TJ the DJ!
He’s in the Hockey Hall of Fame, recipient of the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award.
Terry is also an inductee of the CFL Sports hall of fame, the Alberta Sports hall of fame and Canadian Sports Media Lifetime Achievement inductee.
He’s covered over 550 Stanley Cup games, 37 Grey Cups, 20 Super Bowls, 16 Olympics and so much more in the sporting world for over 50 years.
SOCIAL HANDLES
https://twitter.com/byterryjones
Yeg Me is sponsored in party by Road 55. If you or someone you know is looking to grow your business through marketing and strategy, please connect with Road 55.
Road 55 Demo Reel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VT_bHhq0lA
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Top 10 Robotics Solution Companies - 2020
We are now at the crossroads of a new technological shift: The robotics revolution. While placing the twenty-first century at a pivotal position in history, robots are transforming business operations around the globe. Robots are saving time by producing a greater magnitude of products while also reducing the amount of wasted material due to their pitch-perfect accuracy. Additionally, robots are also reducing costs for various organizations in the long run while bringing speedy ROIs. But most importantly, robotics is set to irrevocably impact all our lives and those of future generations as well.
Today we have a much more expansive interpretation of what a robot is. The differentiators between smart materials, artificial intelligence, embodiment, biology, and robotics are fading with each passing day. Be it robots that can monitor and repair the natural environment to nanorobots that are able to effectively track and kill cancer, no part of our society or life will be left unaffected by the future of robotics. Therefore, robotics solution providers are continually developing industrial, domestic, medical, and observation robots, among many others.
With a broad understanding of new developments in the robotics solutions space, a distinguished panel of selectors comprising of CEOs, CIOs, VCs, and the editorial board of CIOApplications Europe has compiled a list of the leading robotics solution providers to help organizations select the most promising robotics solution providers. We hope this edition offers you a broad understanding of the best robotics solutions you can choose to augment your business.
We present you CIOApplications Europe’s “Top 10 Robotics Solution Providers — 2020.”
Our subscribers nominate the companies with whom they have collaborated and gotten results. If you think there is a company that deserves to be on our upcoming prestigious annual list of Top 10 Robotics Solution Companies , please write to us about them and the reasons you think they need to be on the list
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Top Robotics Solution Companies
Airtificial
Airtificial robotised a complex manual process of inserting vanes in the cavities of a pump rotor during the automatic assembly of a hydraulic steering pump. Airtificial used a robot with force sensor to solve the application by detecting the force applied to the end in six degrees of freedom and supplying the robot application the necessary human-like sense of touch to solve the problem satisfactorily. With the force sensor, the robot was able to detect the force and torque in the different degrees of freedom, allowing for a constant push and inserting the vanes in the rotor slots
www.airtificial.com
AutoStore, founded in 1996, is a robot technology company that invented and continues to pioneer Cube Storage Automation, the densest order-fulfillment solution in existence. The company’s focus is to marry software and hardware with human abilities to create the future of warehousing. AutoStore is global with installations in over 30 countries in a wide range of industries. All sales are distributed, designed, installed, and serviced by its network of qualified system integrators partners
www.automstore.com
Cobot Lift
Cobot Lift’s technology can significantly increase the lifting capacity of a collaborative robot to 45 kg while only taking up one-fifth of the space required by an industrial robot. While offering a cheaper alternative to facilitate automation, Cobot Lift’s solution is also more flexible than industrial robot deployments. The company’s product, Stationary Cobot Lift, resembles an exoskeleton designed for cobots mounted on the floor. It boosts cobot’s payload from 10 to 45 kg, and an operator can work alongside it without the need for a fence. Another product is the Mobile Cobot Lift, which integrates robot, controller, teach pendant, vacuum tube, pump, and crane in a single unit for maximum flexibility and mobility
cobotlift.com
Deenova
Deenova’s technological solutions are designed to be cost-effective, intuitive, and sensitive. The company’s All-in-one repackaging robot creates unit dose, repacks and labels all pharmaceutical formats: oral solid and liquid medications, such as vials, syringes, ampoules, and all other formats of patches sachet, and suppositories. These unit doses are then loaded on to the company’s All-in-one station, located discretely at various patient care departments across hospitals and pharmacies. Alongside these solutions, Deenova also offers Orbit – a proprietary software for e-prescribing and micro logistics management, capable of automatically generating a reordering list of unit doses based on doctor recommendations in real-time
www.deenova.com
ROBOTICOM
ROBOTICOM designs, engineers, and provides innovative robotic solutions to the market. With the expertise and wisdom gained over 20 years in the business, the company has an innate capacity to meet every need for automation in many different fields, offering custom robotic solutions for individual customers. ROBOTICOM is a brand of FabricaMachinaleSrl, an Epica International company and a pioneer in robotic manufacturing solutions. Businesses associate with ROBOTICOM to achieve a steady level of quality along with the time. On the other hand, ROBOTICOM’S automation solution manages to deliver an output of quality with a steady level of performance and flexibility
www.roboticom.it
Telerob
A worldwide leading company of the development, production and merchandising of remote-controlled robots as well as service vehicles for the deactivation of explosive and incendiary charges
www.telerob.com
GIM Robotics
Operated full stack automation software is working in all weather conditions with centimeter-level positioning
Magazino GmbH
A robotics company based in Munich, Germany. We develop software and build robots that work together with people – autonomously, safely and at a level of navigation and manipulation that nobody before us has reached.This enables us to offer solutions for processes that could not previously be automated and to create intralogistics solutions that are more flexible and efficient than ever before.Our perception-driven robots are deployed in several warehouses and factories in Europe and solve real customer problems. With over 110 employees we’re one of the biggest Advanced-Robotics-Teams
MOV.AI
MOV.AI develops industry-grade operating system and software development framework for autonomous intelligent collaborative robots.MOV.AI’s team consists of best-of-breed robot developers specializing in autonomous robotics, devops, full-stack UI and ROS
Softbankrobotics
Designs robots to empower and benefit humanity
https://robotics.cioapplicationseurope.com/vendors/top-robotics-solution-companies.html
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by Sharon Lee Davies-Tight
THE SIMULTANEOUS VOTE
Black Africans think their brains are in their skin, that’s why they’re always thinking on it, with it, and through it.
Most people want to show off their brains. Blacks want to show off their skin. Not every black from every African country – I don’t suppose.
I wonder though, if there are significant cultural and aesthetic and moral differences among black countries like there are among white countries? Absent modern day immigration.
Do all the black peoples from all the black countries in Africa sing and dance together, eat the same food, think the same thoughts, speak in one black voice like they do in America?
Or, at least that’s the impression professional blacks, those who make a profession out of their skin, want to imprint on the world.
Like one China, one voice, one huge, massive simultaneous vote?
Is that Black Africa too?
China’s changing. That unison, simultaneous strategy keeps the populace tethered to each other.
That’s the same as slavery, and I think the Chinese are waking up to that.
Maybe it’s time for black Africans to wake up too.
Everybody votes for the same thing, when they’re trained to follow the group.
Who do the leaders follow, though?
Not the populace; I can guarantee you that.
CHINA DEMOCRACY PLAN
Communism is dead – because it worked in theory ONLY, not practice. Large parts of the world practiced it and large parts of the world suffered as a result. Only a tiny elite, ruling minority prospered under their own rule, which in essence made them a dictatorship by committee.
If you call yourselves a democracy because you have free elections, but everyone in the country prefers the policies and practices of socialism, then you’re basically a monolithic system of governing, which in essence becomes communism if practiced long enough, since everyone in the nation can’t all be rich, but they can all be at the poverty line, which eventually demoralizes the populace, which then requires a military presence in the civilian population to keep the system that no longer works.
The only time systems of mass control work in providing a more equal balance is when in transition. Once the goal is met, nobody likes it, because it’s too confining and restrictive. Paradoxically, it is always the masses who want and seek and rise up to achieve that equal distribution, only to discover that it produced more disadvantages, rather than fewer.
China’s system has never worked. The reason it appeared to thrive at various times throughout history is because the Chinese people were convinced by their leaders that suffering was a necessary part of the plan.
China’s system lays all the decision-making into the hands of a few old men regarding every single detail of China’s population, land, resources, and on and on.
China’s old men are no different than anybody else’s old men. Old men can’t handle that much responsibility. Young men can’t handle that much responsibility. Nobody’s men can.
Suffering, suffering, suffering. You wear it well. What a lie you projected to the world. Suffering brings you peace, wealth, happiness, ingenuity, invention? Then why do you spend so much time stealing America’s inventions?
Long live China as a democracy. If China becomes a democracy, then China keeps Hong Kong and Taiwan. Everyone is different, but equally worthy to pursue their people’s dreams.
Not all Chinese are the same. Accept that reality as the beginning of what an ultimate Chinese Democracy will look like. Better than any other democracy.
You know how to do it. You dreamed it for centuries.
TRUMP = A PROGRESSIVE PATRIOT
Donald Trump is a patriotic progressive, something I hadn’t seen before in any president, who’s not afraid to engage the people in his decision-making process while actually in office.
What surprises me is that most anti-Trump people have yet to figure out that glaring strategy.
Pick a topic. He throws out a ludicrous position which always leads to floods of feedback, which then he uses to form his stances. Past presidents relied on the CIA for input and suggestions and a few community leaders.
All other political candidates say “we can win but we need your help; we can’t do it alone.” But who has the time for the never-ending activism of knocking on doors, or standing in malls for hours signing up new voters?
With Trump all you have to do is shout out your ideas while you keep doing what you’re doing in your private life.
Brilliant strategy. Most politicians don’t have that confidence to share the stage. Their egos get in the way. Trump shares the stage with everybody.
NANCY PELOSI’S BULLFIGHTING GIRLS
I believe that.
Nancy Pelosi knows Trump is going to win in 2020, so all her efforts are directed now at destroying him rather than forming a viable plan for the future. No matter the plan, she’s knows he’ll still win, which puts her on a search and destroy course of action.
She’s not worried that she’s doing nothing for the country, because she knows he is, so let him keep doing it, while she sets out using cunning and morally corrupt strategies to take him out.
She plans on staying, She can handle those girls. She’ll come to their defense even when it’s a lie, so they’ll back off and let her at him her way.
Yes, they’re little girls in women’s jobs who don’t know how to behave in public and who don’t know how to represent all the people. All they want is for all the people all the time to support their race, religion or gender. They are not for all. If so they would be for white people and they clearly are not. They use white people as their slaves and whores to work or fight for their rights and nobody else’s
There are more poor white people in the USA than all other groups combined. They’re not organized. If they were they’d be called white supremacists – another hate name lobbed at whites who want to preserve their race and who have white pride or who simply are more comfortable among their own. All groups are more comfortable among their own and generally prefer to procreate among their own. There is no crime there.
Forcing people to procreate with other demographics is enslavement. Leave people alone to be with whom they want, instead of doing what some social engineers say is good for all when it isn’t. Stay out of my love, like and hate life.
Hate is a natural human emotion. To legislate emotions is slavery. To pass a law telling people who or what they can love, like or hate is total enslavement of the human mind.
Nancy Pelosi way overstepped her boundaries as a liberal politician and can’t find her way back. She is Stuck in Mussolini Mode. She needs to clean up her own talk and walk before calling somebody out in public to humiliate them – another dictatorial move. She’s trying to colonize the world by having the world come to her. Mussolini tried to expand the Roman Empire by going to the Middle East: Libya, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Albania to name a few of his conquests.
Humans who can’t hate or love are considered mentally ill, which means Nancy Pelosi and her cohorts want to legislate mental illness by humiliating in the public square anyone who expresses their right to love, like or hate anything or anyone they want. It’s a universal expression of pleasure or displeasure on a continuum.
Gays often say you can’t tell someone whom to love. That is correct. I say You can’t tell someone whom or what to hate. People hate for valid reasons, usually when under threats of the perpetrator’s making. So back off legislating emotions. It is not appropriate to dictate to anyone how they should feel. It’s not your place. I’ve seen more hate come out of the democratic party than I’ve witnessed during my seventy years on earth and in a very short time.
Breaking News: Massive amounts of hate directed at white people across the USA and the world – all because a white man said America comes first to Americans. Yes, we take care of our own citizens first. Maybe the rest of the world needs to do the same and stop asking that crazy uncle sam you all love to hate to open his pockets for you. How dare you disrespect our nation, our people that way.
Hey globally, white people are the minority. China, Japan and all the Asians, India-Pakistan, Africa, Middle East, South America, Central America, the United States of Mexico, all the island communities and territories fall under the category of dark skinned people. They got the huge numbers. Europe is all that’s left and that’s quickly changing color. Soon white people will be an endangered color. It’s a scientific fact; stop denying it and calling it racist.
Right now South America is in a mess – always has been. Middle East is a mess and always has been. Africa also a mess. India a mess. Asia a mess. Pakistan helpless. They all want to self-govern and keep the white face out, after the whites build their nations for them. And then when the white face leaves, they all make a mess of it. Too many pull out and migrate to other places to repeat the same story, usually to where the white faces live. But their goal is always the same – turn the new place into the old place and keep the cycle of corruption in play.
There’s a color war in the USA government, thus not a fully functioning government body. It hardly functions at all. That’s what happens when dark colors seek self-rule to the exclusion of everybody else. ‘Join Us’ they all say. But when you do, you’re left behind when the color wheel spins and you notice the color white isn’t on it.
Trump is the only one working for the American people – for all the American people – regardless of color or gender, or religion or status of handicap.
Every dark color group wants Trump to be their private dictator, and if they sense that some other color is getting his attention they go berserk in public communicating through violent, obscene, disturbing gestures and shouts of destruction their demands, like terrorists, like strange creatures mysteriously surfacing out of imaginary lagoons in the middle of every street in America. Then it spreads like a contagion throughout the planet via the media.
Humans imitate each other. It’s their nature to do that. It doesn’t matter the race, religion, culture or gender or anything else. Imitation is the one common denominator we as humans all share. We copy one another’s behavior patterns. I don’t need science to tell me that. I observe it.
So the American people suffer a little under Pelosi’s tyranny, but so what, Trump’s doing a darn good job. She just wants to be boss at any cost. She’s not boss with Trump. She’s boss with a democratically elected president. Trump outplays, outshines, outworks her.
White people are people of color too. White is a color. Nancy Pelosi on a regular basis slams white people; Barack Obama did the same thing. The little girls she keeps protecting from the big bad white guy slams white people. Those girls put white people on the table for the world to humiliate, kill then eat.
Not unlike the bullfighting they all support as a necessary tourist attraction for the brown people in Basque and the dog fights for the black people, and the cock fights for the Asians, forcing white people to fight for them has become the world’s favorite blood sport.
Yet, there is no hate speech law that protects white people – only black, brown, yellow, red – every skin hue except white. Therein lies their glaring prejudice and racism.
No, Donald Trump is not a racist. Nancy Pelosi and her gang of bullfighter girls are the racists. Trash-talking white people, holding white people hostage to their flimsy social plans to transform America into their countries of origin, making poor white people go to the back of the line and pay for other people’s crimes through preferentially based social programs are all racist moves.
All because they couldn’t find the courage to stand up to the dictators in their own countries of origin. Instead, they came to America to stand up to the white people they loved to hate and the public officials whom the citizens of the USA legally elected. They’re too accustomed to coups to work methodically to achieve good things for all citizens. They want it now, and they want it for themselves, so they put all their individual and collective energies into unseating whom they hate and replacing the seat with someone they control.
Donald Trump really doesn’t have a racist bone in his body. His opponents who all want his money are racist against all white people.
Don’t ever tell someone whom you hate that they can’t hate you back or you’ll destroy their lives.
Hating someone isn’t the same as racism. Hating someone is not a crime. Loving someone is not a crime. Liking someone is not a crime. Being angry is not a crime. Crying is not a crime. Being happy is not a crime. Fearing someone is not a crime. Who is trying to take all your defenses away from you? Who is trying to make you into emotionless human robots?
Wake up and get up. What’s wrong with you? Ah, those strange creatures from the imaginary lagoons are scaring you again?
Scare them back. Scare the hell out of ’em. They’re going to kill you anyway.
NSA is on my radar screen. If you have something to say, they’ll read it. Feel free, but be cautious.
RE: Putin says ‘genius musician’ Elton John mistaken on Russia LGBT rights
Russian President Putin gives an interview in Moscow
OSAKA (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that Elton John was “mistaken” about LGBT rights in Russia, while praising the British singer as a musical genius.
Elton John said on Friday he was deeply upset by Putin’s comment that liberal values were “obsolete” and had been rejected by the majority of people in Western nations.
He also accused Putin of hypocrisy for saying that he wanted LGBT people to be happy after reports that gay scenes in “Rocketman”, the movie based on the singer’s life, had been censored in Russia.
“I have a lot of respect for him, he is a genius musician, we all enjoy his music, but I think he is mistaken,” Putin said when asked about Elton John’s comments in Osaka where he was attending a G20 summit.
Putin said Russian authorities had a “relaxed and unprejudiced” attitude towards LGBT people, but decisions about gender identity could only be made by adults and therefore minors need to be “left alone”.
Russian law bans “propaganda of homosexuality among minors”.
Putin also said that while he did not deny the attractiveness of liberal values in general, he was referring to situations where they impinged on traditional lifestyles.
(Reporting by Katya Golubkova; Writing by Olzhas Auyezov; Editing by Alexander Smith)
Source: Putin says ‘genius musician’ Elton John mistaken on Russia LGBT rights
STRATEGIC COMMENT: Being gay isn’t a liberal value as Elton John indicates. It’s a fact that runs through all races, genders, ethnicities, families, many species, political parties, religions and other groups. Elton John’s attempt to make it a liberal issue is prejudicial against all people of all genders. Gay or homosexual propaganda seeks to increase the gay population so that politically they have more clout. For that reason they appear to have attached their ‘right to be gay’ to the democratic party, making being gay a political issue, when it isn’t.
Adult gays having sex with underage boys is a real problem, since those boys haven’t matured yet. Ask any victim of sexual assault by a priest. Hear their stories of enslavement and torture by primarily gay priests.
Although straight men do have sex with young boys, the abuser is most often gay, which means there is a huge pedophilia problem in the gay community, that is not being addressed by the very people who perpetrate and hide its existence. It’s not enough to justify the action by saying straight men do it too. If it’s in your community and you’re hiding it, then it’s your problem.
It is my belief that Elton John is well aware of that problem. What is he doing about it politically?
Five minutes of explicit sex scenes regarding male on male plus oral sex scenes were deleted by the Russian editors of a film called ROCKETMAN, but not only by the Russians. Other cultures found it offensive. You can’t force people to come out of the closet. Each individual knows when it’s safe to do that. It’s not somebody else’s call to make for them.
Elton John evidently wanted to make a pornographic story about his life under the category of general audience or mature content? Explicit oral sex scenes are usually saved for porn-categorized films, not autobiographical films.
Vladimir Putin got it right when he said what adults do is their business, but what the children do is society’s business. Leave the kids out of it.
Most people believe that sex traffickers are only interested in young girls. Not so. They are equally interested in underage boys.
Sex trafficking of underage girls and boys is a huge problem in the USA and around the globe. What is actually being done about it?
What is Elton John doing about it?
By gays focusing so much on their genitals to the exclusion of most everything else, they devalue everything else about them.
Women it seems forever were valued only for their sexuality and/or mothering skills. It took a long time to value women for something beyond their male-assigned gender roles. The likes of Elton John are doing the same to gay people as men did to women. I cannot see that as a forward moving, freedom facilitating strategy.
KNOW WHEN YOU’RE BEING MANIPULATED
“There’s only one thing we want you to do.”
When you hear that don’t respond. Walk away. Don’t ask. They want you to ask. When you ask, they have you where they want you.
Whatever they offered in exchange for that ‘one thing they want you to do’ is something that they know in advance goes against your grain.
If you just ask out of curiosity what that one thing is, they win.
That same offer will then be off the table, because it was never on it. It was a lie told to manipulate you into a corner so they could take from you more than they were willing to fairly compensate.
BEING BLACK OR BROWN PAYS
That’s why Hispanics turned into brown people not that long ago.
They saw black people raking in the dough by exploiting their color.
White people pay.
Big rich white people pay so the blacks don’t ruin their businesses.
So sure. Hey man, we’re brown. Look at our skin. Forget all that Hispanic and Latino and south of the border mumbo jumbo.
WE ARE BROWN.
What’s the matter you don’t like our skin color? That’s hate. That’s prejudice. I didn’t get that job because I’m brown. That’s discrimination.
PAY UP GRINGO. Why don’t you like brown people?
Video games are the epitome of hyperbole.
Exaggeration to make a point. That’s hyperbole and is probably more commonly used than the lie in persuading an opponent or raising an issue. “It weighed a ton” doesn’t mean it actually weighed a ton. It means it weighed a lot, always more than the person looking at it thought it weighed.
Video games by their nature are exaggerated. Everything about the design, the plan, the expectations, the results.
Hyperbole has been around a lot longer than video games. In fact, since humans could communicate, that’s how long it’s been used as a tool to influence. To influence, we exaggerate for the purpose of imprinting the brain, not with the precise wordage, but with the basic message. And it works.
Everybody in the world knows how to identify it, use it and benefit by it – except apparently Millennials, who were raised on video games.
How do you think these games kept your attention long enough to raise you? Hyperbole. Exaggerating to make a point. A tool used to influence; to guide your thoughts thus your actions. It works.
So why do Millennials get so upset by the use of hyperbole, when they were raised on it?
My figure is that they lost often – the game, the video game.
They probably lost more often than they won. So much so, that when they hear someone use hyperbole, they go nuts, off the rails, can’t stand it. Shame them, ban them, name-call them, burn them in effigy, punch them in effigy.
Wow, who could have predicted the result of years of playing arcade or computer video games?
ZERO TOLERANCE FOR HYPERBOLE.
Since everybody uses it to influence others, that leaves the Millennials at a distinct disadvantage in coping with all forms of human interaction and behavior..
Black leaders are popping blacks, just like Israelis pop the Jew populace each time they covet something and don’t want to wade through a process to get it.
When Jews commit massacres in America, it’s the Jew psyche in play. Jew leaders know what to say and do publicly to disengage their own assailants from reality.
Blacks figured out how to mimic Jews to get what they want and are applying that strategy to their own populace. They know what to say and do to incite certain people within their group to act on the groups behalf by rising to commit a massacre in the name of revenge. Who murders a bunch of people because they got fired? It’s the psyche they play on that activates the assailant.
They call it social justice. That’s what happens when particular demographics think, speak and act in unison with an agenda based on superiority and motivated by what they can gain from applying that power over, under and through all other groups.
They’ve been preached hatred of white people and infidels and gentiles (non-Jews) for so long and so consistently that they become mentally ill by the constant nature of the onslaught of negativity fed them by their leaders – in the family, in the government, in their religions, in their businesses, in their private, individual relationships.
Jews formed a religion and government based on the characteristics of their collective personalities, rather than fairness under God-made and human-made laws, which they had no interest in changing just to get along with other people and groups in the world. ‘We are who and what we are and we’re not changing for anybody. So get used to it. Everybody does the same things we do, we just made it work for us and everybody else is jealous.’
They simultaneously, unilaterally and secretly passed a universal ‘street and shadow’ law to suppress any criticism of their ‘ways’, claiming such criticism to be anti-Jew thus ‘hate’, thus punishable by them in any way they deemed fit to stop the criticism and discourage others from engaging in the same behavior – however true and justified.
Jews scream HOLOCAUST and the world stands still for them.
Criticism is what stopped the holocaust, not Jews screaming.
Blacks scream SLAVERY and the world stands still for them.
Criticism is what stopped slavery, not blacks screaming.
They scream to make people fear. Yes. ‘Fear us, because you know what we will do if you don’t. We’ve shown you. And you know how we can pop our own people.’
The assailants aren’t tied to an organization. It’s the group psych they’re tied to. That’s how they get activated.
Jews will kill their own to profit the group. Blacks will kill their own to profit the group. Whites kill their own all the time, but in personal interactions that have nothing to do with the group psyche.
Jews want you to hate them. Blacks now want you to hate them too. They both say they don’t care, but they really do. They manufacture hate like a product for sale. It’s easy to do. They start with the small stuff and blow it up so big that you can’t help but see something, as least a kernel of truth, but the interpretation of the kernel is the lie that works, because of the way it’s manipulated.
Like hair. Blacks cry all over Facebook, ‘white people hate our hair, they forced us to straighten it, do you know how much that costs? They persecuted us over our hair. i cried every day and every night, why don’t you like my hair natural?’
This is what people get killed over. Plain and simple. When they don’t have a big accusation in their tool box they focus on tiny, then enlarge it till it looks grotesque, and white people kneel down and apologize for not liking their hair. The blacks suffering and crying all come together on the post and say two words. Thank you.
That’s a hustle. It happens all over Facebook all the time. Facebook supports it. Heck, they could be the ones engineering it.
When you start telling people what features and characteristics and traits to like in other people, you’ve crossed a line into oppression territory.
I don’t like frizzy hair, fuzzy hair, gooey hair, matted hair. pony tails, pigtails. I tried lots of hairdos. I had a permanent curl and every time I went out in humid weather it all frizzed up. I don’t like frizz on myself. I don’t like angel type hair either that’s so fine you can’t do anything with it. I don’t blame an entire race of people for my insecurities about my hair. Heck, I just buzzed it all off, long before it became fashionable.
So they respond, ‘then you know how we feel’.
I don’t give a damn about your hair; I only care about mine. What is this ‘you know how we feel’ about?
It’s part of the group hustle, to get you to admit something, some small slight that they can attach to you. They don’t like fuzzy hair either, nobody does. It’s too hard to handle. White people could grow their hair down to the floor, but most don’t because it’s too much work to maintain it.
But look, some people are born with no legs and they adjust, so why can’t black people adjust to their fuzzy hair? It is so insignificant. That’s a key right there.
Of course it’s insignificant; that’s why they use it to scam you out of your money. They know they can get you to admit that you don’t like fuzzy hair, then they quickly call it racist, because they’re born with fuzzy hair. Then it’s slam, bam thank you ma’m for opening your wallet so quickly – or your bank account.
They blame you for the high cost of straightening, that they made a decision to purchase. Do you know how much it costs to have somebody else braid your hair or to make all the waves equal in size? That’s not natural either. Being natural costs a lot of money, so their ‘natural’ argument gets deflated.
In the 1970s nobody argued for the right to wear an afro-style hairdo. A lot of people did it. Now if a white person does it, it’s called culture appropriation and they want money from you for the privilege of wearing your hair like them. Truth be told white women straightening their curly hair and white women curling their straight hair has nothing to do with black people. They’ve been doing it forever. And even if it did, so what?
If blacks hate their hair so much, and they do, then why expect white people to like it? Oh I get it, white people will like it so much that they’ll want to look like black people, and then they can get them on cultural appropriation charges which = more money.
When people use their hair as a political tool, you know there’s nothing else in their tool box. If you cave to their terrorist demands, that’s on you. But when you cave on behalf of everybody else, and expect every white person in the world to do as you did, cave to a terrorist group, then you become part of the hustle and part of the oppression.
When white people start defending their rights, they’re called white supremacists or Neo-Nazis. That’s a quick way to get white people to shut up when they’re discriminated against or demonized because of the color of their skin. See, blacks want to keep the oppressed label; they’re not going to give it up to anyone, much less white people, even as they collectively oppress and punish that entire race of people in the name of social justice.
Social Justice is just another way of breaking the law and getting away with it.
So this black dude kills all these white people because he couldn’t stand all the blacks screaming about white people stealing his culture and hating his hair and white people taking his football away, and now his job too. He’s a hero to black people and he knew he would be.
The news media didn’t say that five unarmed whitish people were killed by an armed black person, like they do when the shooter is white and those shot are black. That’s a glaring example of media discrimination, showing a black bias, which communicates the black privilege of socially justifiable homicide.
Whichever way you look at it, he was a suicide bomber – a ticking bomb that Black Lives Matter Terrorists popped.
WHITE-LYNCHING
Brutalizing people is not an effective recruiting strategy. Neither is making enemies to build friendships.
Standing at a 13% population disadvantage, making enemies by bringing white people to their knees and ruining their businesses for offenses committed by other people in the past is a destructive use of small town tactics to gain up town recognition – a recognition that is not sustainable, simply because it is based on the false premise that white people today are responsible for practices that all races and cultures engaged in many years ago.
Contrary to social media and cable opinion outlets the movers and shakers of the world don’t like bullies. They dislike even more those who seek to destroy the businesses in which they invest.
I have yet to see a plan emerge that had a positive global goal attached, which leads not just me but many others to the conclusion that the revenge tactics used by Black Lives Matter Terrorists serve a visceral purpose that cannot and will not translate into financial growth.
USA Census for 1860 was 31.4 million of which 3.9 million or 12.6% total population were slaves and children of slaves.
Slavery ended in 1863.
Population of USA in 2018 was 327.1 million.
By 1863 approximately 3.9 million slaves including their children were legally freed.
Approximately three hundred million people and 156 years later, some 246 million white people, none of whom participated in slavery, are now being held hostage and responsible for deeds that occurred prior to the Emancipation Proclamation Act of 1863 and the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution abolishing slavery. Prior to that time slavery was legal on a Federal level, although in some states it had already been outlawed to varying degrees.
There is no legal precedent for one race of persons to hold accountable another race of persons for cultural and/or socio-economic missteps that in time became abolished. Madison Avenue and Wall Street have nothing to gain and everything to lose by participating in and supporting the white-lynching tactics of ruining white people’s careers and businesses based on a nondescript terrorist agenda for the sole purpose of terrorizing the white race and destroying their culture, careers, businesses and families using revenge tactics to protest an institution that no longer exists.
In that regard they are much like ISIS terrorists who want to return to the past to recoup losses that cannot be recovered, so they take life and limb and liberty from the white people of the present. That is enslavement and torture, which will lead to slaughter if left unchecked.
THE COMPASSIONATE BAND-AID STRATEGY
Using children as tools to commit crimes or as tools to make more money isn’t new. Years ago people had large families, so the children grew up tending the fields and working the farms – being trained early in the execution of their ‘chores’. When factories came along, they were the first in line. ‘Imagine the money we can make with nine kids.’
That was then. Child labor laws in the USA and elsewhere eventually outlawed the use of children for labor. It didn’t matter that the children wanted to work; it was deemed unacceptable considering the conditions under which they were forced to work with no supervision between adult and child or older children and younger children.
Spanish adults use children to storm the USA southern borders, expecting that a forced-entry effort will get them across quicker, giving border officials no choice but to let them go further into the country, due to the mass numbers of people demanding early, ahead of the the line, processing.
The pity (aka compassionate) strategy goes like this: They put the child out front as the negotiating tool to get them across the border by ignoring existing USA laws. They claim to have no money or resources and fully expect the USA government to give them whatever they need to survive at the tax payer expense. Fifteen million did that already with thousands more ready to breach an imaginary border.
There’s no border here. Where’s the border? I can’t see anything. It’s just dirt. Dirt isn’t a border. Dirt doesn’t make a wall. Where’s the wall, the access doors, the streets? Stop looking up at the sky. What are you doing? Oh, I thought maybe the border was in the sky somewhere. Looking for incoming at this late stage makes you look like you’re waiting for a missile launch. Stop it.
The ‘pity for my child even if not for me‘ strategy includes an expectation that they’ll let the parents and the entire family in too. Who will take care of the child in the USA? Hillary Clinton says it takes a village to raise a child and nobody south of the border ever forgot that endorsement for all they do. We need to bring the whole village. Who says? Hillary. Hillary Clinton.
Adult primitive and predatory urges are still in play on the southern continent. Using children as strategies is inhumane regardless of Hillary Clinton’s unintentional endorsement of illegal immigration by writing a book claiming it takes a village to raise a child. But who knows, maybe she did support illegal immigration and that was her way of solidifying her base for an eventual presidential run- twice.
When someone has children for the purpose of exploitation they don’t bond with them. Why would they? They’re preparing to sell them.
Village involvement or not, child labor, child sex, child mutilation and child exploitation of all types needs to end today not in five years. The words ‘minor’ and ‘forced’ are conditions under which enslavement is identified and the conditions under which it flourishes unabated. All countries are involved with child slavery.
Children like to please adults. For adults to use as an excuse for exploiting children, that they like it or don’t mind or they want it, keeps the issues surrounding their exploitation from being properly and quickly addressed. The world needs this now not five years from now. It’s happening right under our noses and everybody turns away because the authorities turn away. If they’re scared of the far-reaching tentacles of the Spanish Mob Cartels, then where does that leave us?
Hispanics don’t care about child labor laws; they don’t care about any law that prohibits them from doing what they want to do. Period. A law?? A law? One might think that they’re coming from completely lawless nations, the way they talk about not knowing anything about laws. What’s a law? A law? Yet, they left those supposedly lawless nations to go to a nation of laws. It’s the laws that make the nation, not the people.
People are the same all over except for a few blips here and there in their DNA. It’s the laws that promote and facilitate progress. Through organization we achieve success, not through constant dissension, upheaval, never ending hustles, coup after coup, after coup. Just go in and take it over. That is the mentality of Spanish-speaking people inhabiting lands south of the USA border.
They are always starting over someplace else to make their own rules – again. Make America Great Again is starting to sound familiar.
We waited for you to change for us. You didn’t do it. So now we make you change. That is the foundation and cornerstone of all their strategies. They never, ever think about changing themselves to fit into somebody else’s program, except to gain access to something else that they want, that means more to them than the temporary enslavement required in their minds to achieve it.
So, the Jews claim them as their ancestors from Basque country.
The Arabs say no way. We look at the behavior, not the historical residence. They’re Nomads, make no mistake about it; they are Nomads – that’s us. We’re south of the border people too. We’re the engineers and architects. Look at Dubai.
Children living with their parents on farms all over the USA are working the fields alongside adults or when the adults are too drunk to work, the children fill in for them. Nobody checks, because nobody cares, as long as the crops get picked.
Not all people with work cards return to their country of origin when the picking season is over. Many just stay rather than bear the expense of a trip home across the border again. Many get pregnant and have babies here; that’s the goal, since the children become an automatic USA citizen by birthright.
The crying children in all these video-taped border scenarios are crying to go home, not crying to go to the USA. The USA border officials weren’t making them cry; their parent’s hysteria and unpredictable actions were making them feel unsafe and wanting to return to a safe place again – home.
It’s easy not to provide a birth certificate. Just say you don’t have one. They are always coached on what to say, which means that what they say is a lie. Well, they threw it away, so technically it isn’t a lie. No record of birth. Yet they’re all Catholics, which means they’re all baptized, which means there is a record. The Catholic Church keeps records of births and the Catholic church is very active in all countries south of the USA border.
Everybody seems to have left out the Catholic Church in all the talk about massive numbers of people living illegally in the USA and now thinking it their right to storm the border with compassion stories to let them in or else. And they are all from Catholic Countries south of the border.
What position does the Pope take? More children. More money for the church.
The Catholic Church is a Kingdom of Children – without a voice.
I was shocked to discover Hispanic Dreamers were thirty year old children. Why wasn’t this common knowledge? The government via the CIA news outlet hides what it doesn’t want the populace to know. What kind of convoluted legal mumbo jumbo accepts that a thirty year old is a dreamer?
Deferred action on the legal status of children who were brought to the USA illegally by some adults. I mean, how long did the USA figure on delaying action? Forever? Come on. Why did it take President Trump to address all these issues?
Do you know what happens when you apply too many band-aids to a sore without removing the old ones before applying a new one? Eventually, they all fall off at once.
That’s where the band-aid strategy always leads. Always. You can count on it.
CORY BOOKER PUNCHES HIMSELF IN THE FACE
Cory Booker (Democratic senator from New Jersey) is not fit to serve.
He is not fit to serve as a member of any public entity while holding such bigoted beliefs about white people. He’s too emotional. He’s too angry, too full of vengeance. He keeps comparing himself to Donald Trump and keeps justifying his bad behaviors by saying Donald Trump does it.
Where does that come from, that ‘monkey see monkey do’ senatorial/congressional strategy? I certainly don’t want a copycat for an elected official deciding my fate from another state every time he votes on federal issues. That’s a kid thing; why are adults doing it?
For some reason he wants to be Donald Trump. I don’t know what he’s going to run on, except his penchant for doing whatever the Donald does. ‘If he can do it, I can do it’ is pretty weak. Not original. So why would anyone vote for someone who lacked original ideas or strategies? That’s what we need in order to get rid of gridlock – original ideas and strategies. There’s no status quo in the democratic party, except Dump on Trump. Pathetic Platform. There’s no cure on the horizon for the Cory Bookers of the world. We don’t need another irritant in the White House; we already have a slew of them.
It’s shocking how so many democrats are copying Donald Trump. We do it because he does it. What a coup for Donald Trump. The sooner you walk back or away from that strategy the happier and more productive and original you’ll become. You show the ugly needy side of yourselves by copying somebody else’s behavior. Why don’t you copy his ingenuity, industry, ambition, work ethic? It’s his coup again. You only copy what you claim to be bad behavior. Why? To show him what it looks like? That’s how you spend your time in congress, spying on Trump so you can copycat his bad behavior to show him what he looks like? That’s weak.
You are not fit to serve anybody, much less this greatly flawed but great nevertheless nation.
I think I should run for president.
Hey, I’m legal, I have the right temperament and the people skills and work ethic for the job. I’m always looking ahead, I’m a good listener and fair. I learn what I don’t know quickly. I’m in good health and live clean. I stand my ground when I know I’m right. I don’t speak my opinion unless I do know I’m right. With new information I reconsider my view.
How many contestants can say all of the above and be telling the truth?
Yeah, none. That’s why I have no interest in politics. It’s the company I’d have to keep. Decisions for all are made from egos, not based on reality. I don’t like being forced to vote the party line, rather than what’s good for the people and structures in the nation.
Yeah, I have a history I can talk about. I don’t fear disclosure. I can and do get along with anyone.
I’m Donald Trump’s worst nightmare. I like him. I understand his strategies. I like power; what can I say. I’m already groomed. The answer is no, though.
I don’t like being the face to somebody else’s words, policies and ideologies.
I’m not going to stay for the group hug. I’m onto something else more exciting.
Bet that scared the boots off ya’.
Hey, I could run the country from home, save a lot of money for the overburdened taxpayer.
Booker made a strategic mistake when he said publicly that he wasn’t going to punch Trump in the face for his fellow democrats. Just yesterday I read it.
There’s that monkey maneuver again – ‘monkey see monkey do’ I want to be like Trump so the closest I can come to being in his skin is to act like him.
That’s a knockout punch to himself that knocked him right out of contention.
Using punching words to somebody’s face publicly as a senator from New Jersey? That’s you? That’s who you are right out of the gate? You couldn’t help yourself; you needed to get that last dig in before you start your love campaign? I’m not going to love you, so don’t ask me to. Just do your job in a professional way – unless you can’t.
If you’re going to do what Trump does as long as it gets you in the White House, then how are we to trust that you’ll put your democrat skin back on once you get there?
You have no justification for that violent outburst. It’s a strategic mistake that colored you violent and vengeful. You wrote the ending yourself. Live with it.
WHICH ONE ARE YOU?
‘Almost always’ and ‘nearly never’ are what most mean when they say ‘always’ or ‘never’.
And most people understand the ‘gist’ of what somebody means. And/or they see the nuances in someone’s speech. Even if a person skips a word or two, most people can fill in the blanks accurately, or accurate enough to get the meaning. Except, of course, the opinion-news-broadcasters looking to pick a fight with or discredit or undermine a guest by focusing on minutia that otherwise would be overlooked by everybody else, except those who want to stall someone from completing their thought or idea or hypothesis or theory or story, you name it, it doesn’t matter because the point is not to allow someone their view.
When you know that someone knows what you mean, but they insist that they don’t by picking apart your sentence structure or grammar or applying the ‘letter of the law’ to every word you utter, thinking they are making you look foolish when in truth, it is they who look the fool, it’s a little annoying isn’t it?
Is it individuals who don’t understand the ‘gist’ or certain individuals who don’t see nuances? Or is that condition, if a condition at all, based on demographics? Certain categories of humans, perhaps who find themselves lacking in the ‘gist’ and ‘nuance’ comprehension departments of communication skills?
THE RARE OPENING
The universe seems to seek out the rare. Where there is an unusual opening or occurrence or event, the universe finds it and enters without knocking.
One might think that because there are so many physical laws that rule what is physical in the universe, even the physical that can’t be seen by human eyes, that the universe would overlook the rare and unpredicted in anything. But it doesn’t.
There is just so much of everything else out there that is controlled by laws, how could it be that rocks and chemicals and energy that can’t think can notice something unusual and gravitate toward it, or seek it out, or protect it? But it does.
Even dark matter matters. It’s protected by everybody’s equations and formulas, without anybody knowing anything about it, except that it exists.
It’s included – the rare.
How could rare be so big? Humans think of rare as being small. Infrequent.
The fact of familiarity in and of itself creates a natural tendency to notice anything out of the ordinary.
The safest place to be is with what’s rare because you have the entire universe behind you.
MY TOM BRADH MUSCLE ANALOGY FOR POLITICIANS – ACTUALLY FOR EVERYBODY
SHOW SOME MUSCLE.
SHOW SOME PLIABILITY.
Yeah, not a punch, not a kick, not a slap or turning of the back, but a pliable move.
Show some pliability in your actions. Different than flexibility, which stretches and conditions only the extreme ends of the muscles, where they attach themselves to the bone and not the middle, biggest part that needs equal attention and consideration for a totally developed package.
Are you neglecting the middle part of the muscle?
Most people do. In fact, nearly all people do.
Put some pliability into your plans to change the world.
You’ll be glad you did.
You will outperform every other politician – on or off the field of politics.
Pick a field any field, the same holds true.
SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT
Democrats need to be taught a lesson. You don’t mess with border security for the purpose of enlarging your political base.
Five billion dollars is nothing.
Take it from the mindless projects Congress funds to get votes for re-election.
A cheap wall is my view.
We spend more on failed military planes that never fly.
Five billion dollars is a drop in the bucket.
We’ve got the money. Spend it.
Since when are Democrats fiscally conservative? They’ll spend more money on processing and maintaining illegal immigrants at the border in a year.
Take it.
If they don’t appropriate five billion for the wall, shut down the government till they do.
We elect people to get done the jobs we want done.
We need emergency funding to get that wall built, then more money to Watch from the Wall at strategic points along the border. We want offices with computerized equipment in the wall, on the wall, under the wall. Stop building from the past. Build from the future. State of the Art in America is beginning to look like something from the past. We don’t want bramble bushes.
Think city. A linear city. Put a lot of talented people to work in every state where the wall runs through it. USA citizens get first preference for jobs – only if they qualify. No affirmative action. Your race or color or creed or lack of citizenship is not a talent nor a skill.
Take it or shut the government down till they do. The Democrats debate and delay forever. They want their name on it; they say they won’t give Trump five billion dollars, as if they’re giving it to him personally. They don’t want to give him credit for leading. Too late for that. How selfish.
It’s the people’s wall.
Refusing to fund the wall means you’re telling every American that they don’t have to lock their doors or put up fences on their property. They’re all safe.
That’s another thing about Congress. We’re tired of politicians telling us we’re safe when we’re not. Yeah, go out and have a street party after we’re attacked to show we’re not afraid of terrorists they always say after the attack, while they hunker down out of sight with armed security guards to protect them. They use us as human shields to spit in the eye of the enemy on their behalf.
Well, we’re not going to take that garbage-talk you throw at us any longer. We want security and we don’t have it.
Build the wall or nobody gets their entitlement checks. Then watch the country go berserk just before Christmas. There will be five billion easy in damages from the riots, that the government will have to pay out in repairs and low-interest loans.
It will look worse than France.
Go ahead Nancy Pelosi, lead your party to the victory wall. Or are you going to steal all the people’s marbles as you run all the way home to your safe mansion?
You waited too long at the people’s expense. Now everybody will pay for that ill-advised procrastination strategy.
after thought: make it a tourist attraction
MANUFACTURED SAD
Anger comes after SAD.
We’re already at anger – for sometime now – which means we got out of SAD mode, as a nation once depressed.
Stop trying to put us back to SAD, which will only result in more anger.
Sad, anger, acceptance, happy, productive.
Simultaneous would be nice. Yes, it’s possible. No one is required to wallow in stages of anything or slow-poke their way through each stage.
You’re trying to lower the temperature by going back to SAD, instead of advancing to HAPPY via acceptance. Everything is SAD on social media now. Not long ago everybody was a racist bigot cunt, now they’re all so so SAD.
Going back to SAD doesn’t lead to happy. It keeps people in the past looking for a happy that’s gone.
Stop with the reverse psychology engineering. It’s not working. You’re confusing people.
Stop telling happy stories with a SAD component. What are you really trying to do here, except create more chaos and uncertainty?
The social engineers created this social media monster, now step back and let people figure how to get out of it on their own.
You made a mess trying to control people’s emotions. That’s oppression in case you can’t see it.
The populace will turn on the social engineers. They’ll figure out who you are. People don’t like their food genetically engineered, what makes you think they want their emotions engineered by terrorist agencies with agendas to control them for somebody else’s benefit?
They’re going to wake up and stop turning against each other, which was your socially engineered plan, and you will become their new target.
Acceptance was the next step to happy and you all pushed everybody back to SAD. Now they’ve got to do that whole anger stint all over again. That’s sadistic and detrimental to society – AT ALL LEVELS. You have a price to pay.
Getting out-of-the-way is your best strategy now.
Nothing I can’t handle.
Nothing I haven’t handled before.
A problem is a problem.
The nature of a problem doesn’t change.
It’s an irritant at its center – lesser or greater depending upon the problem.
How best to neutralize it?
1 – ignore it
2 – placate it
3 – alter it (by altering the components)
4 – destroy it
5 – remove yourself from the equation
6 – live with it
7 – redefine its importance
Jewish is an adjective.
Jew is a noun.
Enter that into your next round of dictionary and word usage books, which you compile and publish for everybody else, with an acceptable usage designation.
Contact McGraw Hill and Simon & Schuster.
“Who does she think she is, talking to us like that?”
Get the feel of it. Own you, not how somebody describes you.
Stop trying to own a word that nobody can say for fear of having their lives made a living hell.
Stop the ‘hell ‘thing and others will stop wanting to destroy you before you destroy them.
When you tell the world that you don’t care that everybody hates you, that signals to them that you think you’re above everybody else and can do whatever you want to whomever you want to do it – with impunity. You set up that circle of hatred so you can keep taking out vengeance on innocent people, making them fear you, so they’ll give you what you want.
That’s terrorism. Instilling fear is terrorism.
It’s odd that you don’t mind being called a terrorist, but scream when somebody calls you a Jew. Yet you want a Jewish state of Israel, based on your Jewness.
That’s some kind of convoluted strategy to take what you want from others. Keep popping them, so you can take the entire bank in reparations for name-calling.
Neo-nazis? Really? I thought they were you. Jews.
Yeah, they’re you.
Neo-Nazis are JEWS.
Nazis are socialists. You know, the people who take somebody’s land to give to somebody else expecting a favor in return?
What are you doing in Mexico anyway?
What? No engineers and architects in Mexico? Brazil? Central America, South America? Honduras??
What are you doing there beneath the radar?
Organizing, funding caravans of poor people funneling and tunneling them out of the regions you want to inhabit?
Found your real land of milk and honey did you?
The 13th Tribe of Israel – in Spain. Opportunity knocked and you walked straight through that door, hiding your tracks behind you by discounting the ‘find’ – Basque Country isn’t really your birth place after all. Such high hopes deflated.
Yeah, it is. So where did your people go?
To the Americas. That’s why so many Jews are in the United States. And now going to Mexico and all the Americas. They’ve been there for a very long time.
Ever notice how Israel cares for the French Jews, no matter where they be? Well, half of Basque country is in France – half in Spain.
They don’t want France nor Spain. They want the Americas, the place to where the Basque people migrated. Self-governing people. They don’t like others telling them what to do. They don’t like other people’s rules and laws. So it would seem.
They never wanted the Middle East. It was given to them by the British. They left that hell long ago; why go back? They took what they could get and have paid dearly for it – and made others pay too.
The Americas, wow, that’s us. Those are our people. Not the stinky poor people who don’t want to work. Send them to the USA, where they’ll be dealt with. We have lots of our people in the USA. In fact, more there than anywhere.
By design?
We do everything by design.
Talk about lucrative. South of our own border. Yeah, we need a wall.
Drugs. Drugs. Jews are big drug takers. Look at Hollywood. Rain forests. Pharmaceuticals. They probably have diamonds and gold too. Silver. Copper. Lush, lush, lush, fertile, fertile. Just enough desert to make a statement – to remind us how far we’ve come. They’ve got everything God promised us. Why do you think they never did anything with it all? God wouldn’t let them – till we arrived.
We’ve arrived. With engineers and architects.
FREE PRESS – A STRATEGY
Some people are using racial, ethnic and gender slurs to get free press. “Any press is good press”. Keeps the person’s name current. It’s so funny to see all these people apologizing in public just to keep their names in lights.
Most of the people whose careers were ruined for saying or doing something unsavory wanted out of their contracts. Another coup!
So many people have been called racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, child molester/pedophile, retard, whitey, cracker, white boy, white trash, nigger, spic, gringo, terrorist, pussies, dicks, pricks, cunts, sluts, asswipes, bitches, fuckwits, towel heads, Hitler, that the terms lost their sting already.
Nobody even cares about nigger anymore. There’s something about calling yourself, your family and friends a racial slur that turns white people off. Black people in Cleveland do it ad nauseam. It’s like they don’t know any other word. Wherever they gather, you hear that word more than any other. If they had to not say it, I think there wouldn’t be much else said. It has about a thousand uses.
Nazi? Really? Okay, I used it – once publicly. At a fur store protesting skinning animals alive. Weiss Furrier.
The Holocaust against all non-human animals is the longest-running mass murder operation and most globally destructive force executed on a daily basis that forms the economic foundations of all countries. That will end.
And when it does who’s going to be there who can truthfully say, “I was with you all along. Every day in every way known to me I was there.” Can you say that? You who fault everybody else for not stepping up and stepping in to stop the Holocaust in Europe. You blame them to this day. Well, don’t think the souls of the ones you ate won’t remember. ‘Everybody else was doing it’ is not justification for joining in and continuing the Holocaust. The world won’t excuse you, because they think you of all people should have led the way, knowing what it was like. There is a moral equivalency there and I know that you know that’s accurate.
If you’re going to make a production and a strategy out of name-calling or restricting word usage by some people and not others, then you need to resign yourselves to living in a chaotic place. It’s best not to engage, but it beats pummeling someone. Remember, names hurt. However, exploiting them to destroy people is unacceptable.
We destroy with greater vengeance and harm inflicted on the lives of people we don’t like, than punishment is meted out via the courts for actual crimes. We convict in the public square, then carry out the punishment when no crime was committed, just because somebody called us a name and we couldn’t handle the criticism.
What kind of democracy is that? It started with the Jews, didn’t it? You couldn’t call a Jew a Jew. Well, you’re not getting that one from me. You set a horrible example that now the world is following to disrupt a nation, the most powerful nation on the planet.
No. Jew is not a slur. Not Ever.
It’s not true that Israel is the vegan capital of the world, is it? You mean all those Russian Jews who you sold Palestinian land to turned vegan? You may have more vegan-option restaurants in Tel-Aviv, but that’s it. You don’t get the title before you earn it. When you create conflict thus prejudice by controlling speech for political or financial gain, a condition of oppression emerges and spreads through all ranks.
You did sell the land, right? You didn’t just give it to Russian maybe-Jews after you bulldozed the Palestinians off of it by bulldozing their structures. Did you?
Yeah, overuse tends to water-down the impact – of anything. Words are no exception.
Did you know that the ones diluting the message and impact by overusing the accusatory words, toward their targets, are the ones offended most by the words? The Jews are the ones calling everybody a Nazi. Nobody really cares anymore; it’s done so often in just about any circumstance where there’s disagreement on an issue. It’s like saying shit or damn. Jews are the ones offended by the word and they use it publicly against their targets more than anybody else.
The Blacks keep saying, “It worked for the Jews; it will work for us”. So, you’re the cause of all these people’s careers being ruined because they call someone a name they call themselves.
So this is the BIG thing to do. Announce to the world that you’re taking the words Jew and Kike (not that anyone uses Kike anymore) off your terrorism watch list. Your need for exclusivity has run its course and is of no further value to the State of Israel. So everybody in the world is free to walk about the cabin.
People still won’t use it, they’ll be afraid of consequences, but they have that option to include Jews into their discourse, instead of hinting by using other words or exaggerated facial expressions to let everybody know who they’re talking about. In addition, it will settle down those late night political puppets who are so far off the planet that they need to lose some of their security to bring them back to reality.
I’m working on a wave effect, no ripple. Low, wide, slow-moving, massive wave.
STRATEGY PLACEHOLDER. If that simple exercise in bringing people back to the planet isn’t instituted quickly, I reserve a space for a strategy I was planning to use elsewhere.
aka PLACEHOLDER ENTRY: BY DESIGN
Animal-eater. That’s my favorite new name. I made that one up. I use it freely. I want to see more of that by others. I wanna hear some screaming. Not in person or in public; on social media only. One name only: animal-eater.
I don’t want to see anybody verbally assaulted and terrorized when they go about their daily lives. Social media only.
ANIMAL EATER!!!!!!!!!!
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GANGSTA (ギャングスタ) Anime Review: Too Fast. Not Furious Enough.
When I first heard that the plans for a Gangsta (ギャングスタ) anime adaptation were confirmed, I was more than happy about it. After all, I was one of the first to pay attention to this story via the EG Scans mangazine. Well, after having watched these twelve episodes, I think I shouldn’t have been that happy.
Read below my review of Gangsta, the anime.
Warning: Spoilers await you.
Tag ranks are seemingly explained in the show, but for many viewers they are still an unknown element of the story. Interesting fact is the status of Nic, whose rank is supposedly much lower than A/0. Whoever understood this from the show – raise your voice in the comments below!
Gangasta is a mafia-based story with many similarities to one relatively recent anime – Togainu no Chi. Since, I have already spoiled a lot of the story in my preview, I will now just discuss how good or bad the adaptation of the manga material was. While Togainu no Chi was an adaptation of a yaoi visual novel, the original material of Gangsta is a manga series. It is a work by Kohske. Another work by the same author is DOODLE (ドードル), which is rather recent.
Worick has the capability to remember many things in a short period of time. It’s the combined force of visual, auditory and who-knows-what memory. A bit of overwhelming study work by the original mangaka. A rare case, but one of the things the anime portrayed okay.
So, the manga is at chapter 39 right now, with some three chapters having been published since episode one of the anime came out. As many of you know, this is not much of content for animating it, but it seems like Manglobe thought it will be the straw to save them from bankruptcy. Well, neither did they do a fine job, nor did it save them. Even though Gangsta was the most anticipated and positively welcomed show in Summer Anime Season 2015.
Even though, the studios working on the project managed to make such a mess, that episode 9.5 “Gangsta recap” has a higher score than the anime itself.
Where did the Gangsta anime go wrong?
Let me summarise what happened in Gangsta:
Gina Paulklee’s tag guild is one of the organisations in the show.
We meet two people. We get to know one is a tag. The other is a gigolo. Then we meet a third one. She’s a prostitute. One and three kill people. The second one doesn’t really kill much in the show. He’s deaf. One and Two knew each other since childhood. Childhood drama. Murdered parents. Drug addictions. Love affairs. Grandmas. Dead mafia boss. Four mafia families. Police. Pills addiction. The tags are not really the strongest, we meet tag Hunters who are stronger. We get to see backgrounds of three different people. One is kidnapped. We met a total of four mafia bosses and were shown their tasks in the city. We also saw one tag-hunting organisation, one tag organisation and the organisation our main trio is in. Also, the police.
Corsica, Cristiano, Monroe and Paulklee – the four families that rule over Ergastulum. Each with their own views and tasks in keeping the town “safe”.
We met nearly 40 characters and were shown the background stories of almost all of them in the form of a flashback or similar. All in all, a lot happened in those 12 episodes.
This is what disappointed me the most, but it was also very obvious once we got to know the number of episodes. Needlessly sped-up story and plot were combined with not the most exceptional of animation techniques. What we got is a third-grade (at best) anime which I personally was happy to see go. No wonder the studio filed for bankruptcy.
Early in the series, Alex Benedetto is portrayed as a fragile, overused prostitute who shoots the supposedly dead body of her former pimp. Then, she ends-up being an addict, a sister, a lover and a good friend.
One thing that makes up is seeing the scenes many fans adored animated. Although they took several episodes less than the necessary time.
Things that are worth in Gangsta?
Definitely the opening and ending theme songs and the animation adjoining them. There is one OP and it is titled “Renegade” by STEREO DIVE FOUNDATION. The ED are two and they are “Yoru no Kuni (夜の国)”, performed by Annabel, and “With You Forever ALEX BENEDETTO” by Mamiko Noto.
Another thing that Gangsta will definitely do is add numbers to the non-moe, non-ecchi genres and give everyone who craves more of the kind another 12 episodes. Sadly, though, the story will probably let them wonder why had thy wasted their time with it.
A gigolo and a member of the Benriya duo, Worick is the illegitimate child of a very important person. His childhood was full of suffering and pain. His current life – of action, blood and caring for his tagged “friend”.
The overall feeling left after having watched all episodes was “Why so fast? Slow down!”, something Black Lagoon or Gungrave never had. If done well, the Gangsta adaptation would have definitely climbed the steps of greatness. Could have been in the same list as those two titles without a problem. But sadly, maybe it will get a remake like Hellsing and Fullmetal Alchemist. We just need to wait for the original content to get completed by Kohske.
Anyway, I will not recommend the Gangsta anime and this is one of the very few titles which make me say this. However, I do hope at least 10 % of you, dear readers, will try out the manga and stick with the real Alex, Worick and Nic in Ergastulum.
A promise from episode 2. Well, she did wear a nice shirt in the following episodes only to end-up wearing the same bold, cheap and prostitute-like clothes for the entire second part of the story.
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7 thoughts on “GANGSTA (ギャングスタ) Anime Review: Too Fast. Not Furious Enough.”
While I appreciate the quality of the review, especially after having seen several episodes of the anime, I would like to ask a question:
I am not some feminist extremist, but would someone who is reading the manga advise on whether there are any strong female characters? I realise the story will be focused on Nick and Worick, but still I am so tired of the whiny females that I won’t be able to stomach another one, even if a secondary character…
Generally speaking, there are some tertiary characters that could be categorised like this. However, they are very vaguely discussed in the show.
I was so eager to watch this…alas. And yes, I will read the manga. :)
If the only thing you can point out as an advantage of this anime is the soundtrack, I can very well grasp the level of nasty this show has reached. ;) To be honest, I have been reading the manga and cannot believe how bad they did with adapting it. I have only seen a couple of episodes, but I don’t think I will be seeing more.
Well… yes. You are right.
Best. Review. Ever.
Aw! thank you : )
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WASHINGTON STATE ENTOMOLOGISTS LOCATE ASIAN GIANT HORNET NEST IN WHATCOM COUNTY– FIRST IN THE US
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Posted By: Louise Richards October 23, 2020
BLAINE – After weeks of trapping and searching, Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) entomologists have located an Asian giant hornet nest on a property in Blaine – the first ever such nest found in the U.S.
The agency plans to attempt an eradication of the nest on Saturday, Oct. 24. Initial plans to eliminate the nest today have been tabled due to the inclement weather.
The successful detection of a nest comes after a WSDA trapper collected two live Asian giant hornets on Oct. 21, caught in a new type of trap the agency had placed in the area. Two more hornets, also living, were found in another trap the morning of Oct. 22 when WSDA staff arrived in the area to tag the previously trapped hornets with radio trackers and follow one back to its nest.
The entomologists were able to attach radio trackers to three hornets, the second of which lead them to the discovery of the nest, found about 4 p.m. on Oct. 22.
The nest is inside the cavity of a tree located on private property near an area cleared for a residential home. While Asian giant hornets normally nest in the ground, they are occasionally found nesting in dead trees. Dozens of the hornets were seen entering and exiting the tree while the WSDA team was present.
The property owner has already provided permission for WSDA staff to eradicate the nest and remove the tree, if necessary.
WSDA has been actively searching for Asian giant hornet nests since the first such hornets were caught earlier this year. The first confirmed detection of an Asian giant hornet in Washington was made in December 2019 and the first hornet trapped in July of this year. Several more were subsequently caught, all in Whatcom County.
Using a network of traps, some set by WSDA staff and hundreds more placed by citizen scientists and other cooperators throughout the state, the entomologists have been diligently tracking sightings of the Asian giant hornet in an ongoing effort to find nests to eliminate them.
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Asian giant hornets are an invasive pest not native to the U.S., are the world’s largest hornet and a predator of honey bees and other insects. A small group of Asian giant hornets can kill an entire honey bee hive in a matter of hours.
Visit agr.wa.gov/hornets to learn more about Asian giant hornets and the state’s trapping and eradication project.
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Heather Taddy
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Facts of Heather Taddy
Birth Date : November 16, 1985
Birth Place : Altoona, Pennsylvania
Marital Status : Single
Horoscope : Scorpio
Height : 5.4 ft
Eye Color : Dark Brown Eyes
Heather Taddy is an American TV personality who is well known for her character as a star of the American paranormal reality television series Paranormal State. She is also known as a cast of Rawhead and The Origin of Species.
Heather Taddy was born on November 16, 1985, in Altoona, Pennsylvania. She is 35 years old as of 2020. However, the identity of her parents and sibling are currently under review. Taddy holds American citizenship but her ethnicity is unknown.
She graduated from Pennsylvania State University in Pennsylvania where she studied the theory of film, media studies, and French.
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From her young age, Taddy showed her interest in singing rather than acting. Following her passion, in her college days, she began her career as a bass player in the group Heavy Radio. She later rose to the media spotlight after appearing on the popular television series of A&E, Paranormal State, which circulated investigations initiated by the Pennsylvania State Unversity College-run Club, The Paranormal Research Society (PRS).
Heather used to work as a Documentary Group, where she traveled across the world, attending and educating paranormally involved families. Heather depicted in the television series as a courageous woman who had been seen isolating herself in the world’s most haunted places.
She has worked with Lorraine Warren, Michelle Belanger, and Chip Coffey, some of the country’s leading investigators and psychics. Taddy appeared after that in many tv shows and movies including Rawhead, Alien Highway, Space Doll (2017), Revelations (2015), The Origin of Species, and many more.
Heather is part of the band Glowworms in addition to her acting career, and recently the band released an album entitled Vapid Era.
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Taddy has an approximated net worth of $1 Million – $5 Million U.S dollars. There are no details about cars and houses available.
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Heather is 5 feet 4 inches tall lady. She has brown hair and brown eyes but further information about her weight and body measurements are unknown.
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CD-9’s Lt. Col. Wendy Rogers: Game On!
Tempe, AZ – Last week, Lt. Col. (ret) Wendy Rogers’ campaign for Arizona’s new 9th Congressional District filed 993 signatures to secure her spot on the ballot, becoming the first Republican candidate to do so.
“We’ve taken the first steps to putting this country back on the right track,” said Lt. Col. Rogers. “First, I want to send my heartfelt thanks to all my volunteers, my family and friends for their hard work in collecting and vetting all these signatures. It’s not easy work, but we all pulled together and made it look easy.”
But now comes the real test. A crowded field of ten candidates – seven Republicans and three Democrats – qualified for the ballot in CD9. “Now that we’re on the ballot, it’s ‘Game On'”, said Rogers. “Our nation is hanging on the edge of a cliff. Our national debt is threatening to plunge us down the same dark road that Europe is taking, our schools are failing, and even the promises we’ve made to our senior citizens are in jeopardy. It’s time to put aside the phony hope and change and start restoring the promise of our great nation.”
For more information about Wendy Rogers, visit her website at www.WendyRogers.org.
Filed Under: Campaigns & Elections, Press Release Tagged With: AZ09, CD-9, Wendy Rogers
(Un)Welcome to Sedona!
May 31, 2012 by Goldwater Institute Leave a Comment
By Christina Sandefur
Just six years ago, Arizonans enacted one of the nation’s strongest protections for property rights. That measure is Proposition 207, and it says the government must compensate you when regulations reduce your property value.
But that protection is under attack. Now that the state and cities can’t pass the buck to individuals and families, governments are realizing just how expensive their regulations can be. So it is unsurprising that they’re doing their best to avoid paying the high price.
The latest attempt comes from Sedona, which made it a crime to rent residential property for fewer than 30 days, and the city defines “rent” very broadly. This means property owners are subject to punishments of up to 6 months in jail and/or a $2,500 fine for engaging in a wide range of activities, including purchasing a time share, contracting for home improvements, and even hiring a babysitter!
Attempting to avoid Prop 207 liability, the city of Sedona tried to masquerade the ordinance as a “health and safety” regulation, which is exempted from Prop 207. But the court of appeals saw through the façade and ruled that the city can’t avoid Prop 207 by merely claiming to advance public health without offering any evidence that the regulation actually does so.
On the taxpayers’ dime, Sedona is challenging that decision in the Arizona Supreme Court. The Goldwater Institute, which has long defended property owners from government attempts to dilute or evade Prop. 207, is supporting Sedona property owners in that case. In 2006, Arizonans demanded genuine protections for their property. Cities should stop wasting taxpayer resources trying to skirt the rules and start respecting their citizens’ rights.
Christina Sandefur is an attorney with the Goldwater Institute.
Goldwater Institute: Giving Property Owners Their Day in Court
Arizona Business Gazette: Court: Owners must be paid for property value
Filed Under: City Government, Property Rights
Walt Opaska Files Signatures for Glendale Mayoral Race
GLENDALE, Ariz. –Walt Opaska, candidate for Glendale mayor, filed more than the 934 signatures required to get his name on the ballot. Opaska filed 1266 qualified signatures of Glendale voters. Opaska’s impressive filing shows that residents are ready for a mayor who puts Glendale first.
“Glendale residents are ready for a change,” Opaska said. “As mayor, I will work for them, not special interests. I will fight to lower taxes, restore city services, and enhance Glendale’s image.”
More about Walt Opaska
Walt Opaska is the son of a teacher and a small businessman. A graduate of the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law, Opaska works for Bryan Cave LLP where he specializes in intellectual property rights.
Opaska is a long-time leader in the Arizona conservative movement. He serves on the executive board of Arizona Right to Life, and he cofounded the Arizona Republican Attorney Association with Phoenix Councilman Bill Gates. He has been active in the fight to lower taxes and end corporate welfare. In 2007, Opaska chaired the No New Sales Tax for Glendale campaign, a grassroots effort opposing Glendale’s ballot initiative to raise the city’s sales tax. In addition to professional and political involvement, he has been actively involved in numerous charitable groups, including the 20-30 Club and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Opaska is married and has a four-year old daughter. To learn more about Walt Opaska and his campaign to be the next mayor of Glendale, please visit www.opaskaformayor.com.
Filed Under: Campaigns & Elections, City Government, Press Release Tagged With: Glendale, Walt Opaska
NFIB Endorses Jesse Kelly in Arizona CD8 Special Election
May 31, 2012 by NFIB/Arizona Leave a Comment
Influential Small-Business Association Supports Candidate with Trusted Small-Business Experience
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 31, 2012 —The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), the nation’s leading small-business association, today endorsed Jesse Kelly (R) to represent Arizona’s 8th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives. Kelly is seeking to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
“Jesse Kelly is the clear voice for small business in this race,” said Lisa Goeas, NFIB Vice President, Political and Grassroots. “In stating that his run for Congress is motivated by three principles: lowering taxes, strengthening the economy, and fostering a climate that allows businesses to grow, Jesse is walking in line with the very motto that NFIB is founded upon. Jesse Kelly will fight for affordable health-care solutions for small-business owners, and will work to get our country back on the path toward fiscal responsibility and economic prosperity.”
“Our members in Congressional District 8 spoke loud and clear when asked which candidate NFIB should support in this race,” said Farrell Quinlan, NFIB State Director for Arizona. “Jesse Kelly received an overwhelming vote of support from NFIB members in his district, making him the clear small-business choice for Congress.”
NFIB has nearly 2,000 members in the 8th Congressional District, alone. Kelly’s endorsement comes from NFIB’s Save America’s Free Enterprise Trust (SAFE), the association’s political action committee, and is based on positions regarding key small-business issues including health care, taxes, and labor and regulatory issues.
Small-business owners and their employees vote in high numbers and are known for actively recruiting friends, family members and acquaintances to go to the polls. NFIB will encourage its members in Arizona to help turn out the small-business vote for Kelly this coming Special Election Day, June 12.
NFIB is the nation’s leading small business association, with offices in Washington, D.C. and all 50 state capitals. Founded in 1943 as a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, NFIB gives small and independent business owners a voice in shaping the public policy issues that affect their business. NFIB’s powerful network of grassroots activists sends their views directly to state and federal lawmakers through our unique member-only ballot, thus playing a critical role in supporting America’s free enterprise system. NFIB’s mission is to promote and protect the right of our members to own, operate and grow their businesses. More information is available online at www.NFIB.com/newsroom.
Filed Under: Arizona Politics, Campaigns & Elections, Endorsements, Press Release, Small Business Tagged With: CD-8, Farrell Quinlan, Gabrielle Giffords, Jesse Kelly, Lisa Goeas, NFIB
Sheriff Arpaio Files Nomination Signatures for Sixth Term
May 30, 2012 by Press Release 4 Comments
More than 15,000 Republican and Independent Voters Sign Petition
PHOENIX, AZ – Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio filed his nomination petition signatures to run for a sixth term as Sheriff.
The Sheriff submitted over 15,000 signatures from Republican and Independent voters throughout Maricopa County. This figure is more than four times the requisite number to qualify for the ballot.
“So many people I’ve never met went out and collected signatures for me all on their own. I know it’s a lot of hard work and I’m grateful for their support,” stated Arpaio.
Chad Willems, Arpaio’s campaign manager, said, “It now appears we have a set field for this campaign. We look forward to comparing Sheriff Arpaio’s record of success against any other candidate in this race.” He continued, “Over the past several months, the level of financial support for Sheriff Joe has reached epic levels.”
Filed Under: Arizona Politics, Campaigns & Elections, County Government, Press Release Tagged With: Maricopa County, Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Congressman Flake Applauds Passage of Secure Border Act
May 30, 2012 by Press Release 16 Comments
Operational Control in Each Border Sector is Key to Achieving Border Security
Washington, D.C. – Republican Congressman Jeff Flake, who represents Arizona’s Sixth District, today praised the passage of H.R. 1299, the Secure Border Act, introduced by Congresswoman Candice Miller of Michigan.
The bill directs the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to create for congressional approval a strategy for gaining operational control of the northern and southern U.S. borders.
“Given that the Obama Administration has given up reporting the level of operational control on the border, it’s no wonder Congress has to force them to come up with an approved plan to achieve it,” said Flake.
In 2011, Congressman Flake introduced in the House H.R. 1507, the Border Security Enforcement Act of 2011, which is focused on achieving operational control of the southern U.S. border by increasing border resources. Senators John McCain and Jon Kyl introduced the legislation in the Senate. Among the 10 key provisions of the bill is the deployment of up to 6,000 National Guard troops and 5,000 additional Border Patrol agents to the United States-Mexico border by 2016. It would create additional Border Patrol stations along the southwest border and six additional permanent Border Patrol Forward Operating Bases and would upgrade existing bases.
Filed Under: Border, Elected Officials, Federal Government, Legislation, Military, National Security, Press Release Tagged With: AZ06, CD-6, Jeff Flake
It’s Time to Give our First Freedom as Much Respect as the Second
May 30, 2012 by Goldwater Institute 1 Comment
By Nick Dranias
Arizonans have the right to bear arms nearly everywhere in this state without having to register anyone or anything with the government. Likewise, as mighty as the pen might be, no one should be forced to register themselves (or their pen) before communicating with elected officials about legislative reform. Yet, Arizona has done just that through its overreaching lobbying laws.
Arizona does not define “lobbying” as lurking in the lobbies of the legislature and trading an expensive steak dinner for an opportunity to bend a legislator’s ear. Instead, Arizona law defines lobbying as “attempting to influence the passage or defeat of any legislation by directly communicating with any legislator.” Even a newspaper columnist who directly emails a link to his latest opinion editorial to a legislator is lobbying if the email dares to express an opinion on a pending or proposed bill or legislative reform.
Although vaguely worded exemptions appear to limit the reach of Arizona’s lobbying regulations, the reality is that no one can freely talk to elected officials in Arizona about legislative reform without being threatened by the government. Even if citizens and citizen groups invoke exemptions to avoid the need to register as lobbyists, as the Goldwater Institute has for its analysts, elected officials will still try to silence or impede public testimony as supposedly impermissible lobbying. This is because Arizona’s complex and lengthy lobbying laws encourage elected officials to believe citizens and citizen groups lack legal authority to speak freely on public policy. In effect, citizens are now presumed to have no inherent right to communicate with their representatives. This is an incredibly dangerous development.
In a free society, no politician should think even for a moment that he can require citizens and public interest groups to get the government’s permission to talk to the government.
Unfortunately, Arizona’s lobbying laws threaten this foundational requirement of our representative republic. For that reason, it is time to reform Arizona’s lobbying laws to more fully protect our First Amendment rights, just as we have reformed Arizona’s gun laws to more robustly protect our Second Amendment rights.
Our first freedom should get at least as much respect as our second.
A longer version of this article originally appeared in the Arizona Capitol Times.
Nick Dranias is the Director of Policy Development and Constitutional Government at the Goldwater Institute.
Goldwater Institute: In Defense of Anonymous Speech
National Archives: The Bill of Rights
Filed Under: Arizona Politics, Constitutional Law, Freedom of Speech, State Government
Vernon Parker Files Petitions for Congress
Phoenix, AZ – Today, Vernon Parker filed over 1,143 signatures with the Arizona Secretary of State’s office to qualify as a Republican candidate for the newly created Congressional District 9.
“I am grateful to my supporters and volunteers supporting our campaign efforts,” said Vernon Parker. “To all of you who walked neighborhoods or stood in front of polling place to collect signatures, I thank you.”
“Our campaign, at its core, is symbolized by our supporters. We are strong in numbers and I am energized by their generous spirit and I will not let you down.”
Filed Under: Campaigns & Elections, Press Release Tagged With: AZ09, CD-9, Vernon Parker
Scottsdale Mayor Jim Lane Hands In 1,625 Nominating Signatures
May 30, 2012 by Press Release 1 Comment
Scottsdale Mayor Jim Lane Hands In 1,625 Nominating Signatures As He Seeks A Second Term To Lead The Greatest City in America
(Scottsdale, Arizona) Scottsdale Mayor Jim Lane’s re-election campaign has submitted 1,625 signatures in order to get on the August 28th Primary ballot. The signatures were handed in Tuesday afternoon to the City Clerk.
The signatures were gathered entirely by volunteers. No paid petition collectors were used. That’s because there are so many supporters who know that Scottsdale is headed in the right direction. Clearly, Scottsdale is better off than it was four years ago. Now is not the time to lose that momentum.
Lane said, “Four years ago, the city budget was in bad shape, our economy was slumping and Scottsdale was losing its way. Today sales tax revenues are up. Jobs are expanding. Crime is down. We are once again a City on the move.”
Unemployment in Scottsdale is down one percent compared to a year ago and the City enjoys one of the lowest unemployment rates in the Valley at 5.9%. The unemployment rate for Maricopa County is 7.4%.
A recent article in the Arizona Republic noted the decrease in unemployment as well as the economic strides Scottsdale has made. To read the article click here.
“Our economic engine is running again thanks to smart growth and important reforms. I hope to finish what we started and ensure that Scottsdale remains the best city in America,” said Lane.
Mayor Lane ran in 2008 on a platform of reform and working to improve the way the city does business. He promised to bring the following to Scottsdale:
Business approach in city governmental operations
Fiscally responsible and efficient government
Citizen-driven government through boards & commissions
Increased accountability & transparency through charter governance reform
These past 4 years have seen:
A $266 million medical school by the Mayo Clinic & ASU
Multi-million expansions by Scottsdale Healthcare on Osborn and Shea Boulevard’s “Care Corridor”
Adding 7,000 acres to the Sonoran Preserve while saving $62 million with newly initiated purchase planning over last three years
Dozens of small businesses opening downtown and throughout Scottsdale
Spring training, Barrett-Jackson, Arabian horse shows and many special events thriving in Scottsdale
Over $150 million in investments planned for McDowell Road
A decrease in crime
A 15% structural budget reduction in City staffing
Mayor Lane has kept his promises. Under his leadership, Scottsdale’s economy has expanded and attracted new investment, while the city continues to be a leader in the arts and setting aside lands for preservation. A copy of Mayor Lane’s 7 minute video can be viewed here. The campaign has also launched Facebook and Twitter pages. For more information please contact Mike Manson.
Filed Under: Campaigns & Elections, City Government, Elected Officials, Press Release Tagged With: Jim Lane, Scottsdale
Steve Chucri Files Over 3,500 Petition Signatures in Race for Maricopa County Supervisor
Maricopa County – Today, the Steve Chucri campaign officially filed its nominating petitions with the Maricopa County Elections Department in order to qualify for the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors District 2 election. In total, the campaign collected over 3,500 signatures.
The campaign far surpassed the required number of 981 signatures, showing the immense support that Chucri has generated across District 2.
“I’m very pleased with the momentum my campaign has been methodically building in preparation of reaching victory on Election Day,” stated Chucri.
Endorsements for Steve Chucri include U. S. Senator Jon Kyl, Congressman Jeff Flake, Congressman Ben Quayle, Congressman David Schweikert, Congressman Paul Gosar, Congressman Trent Franks, State Senate President Steve Pierce, Maricopa County Supervisor Andy Kunasek, Gilbert Mayor John Lewis, Mesa Mayor Scott Smith, Scottsdale Mayor Jim Lane, Chandler Mayor Jay Tibshraeny, and Paradise Valley Mayor Scott LeMarr.
Chucri has served as the President & CEO of the Arizona Restaurant Association (ARA) since 2002. Under his leadership and tireless work ethic, the ARA and restaurant industry has enjoyed a substantial growth in sales in what will amount to a ten billion dollar industry in Arizona this year alone.
As President and CEO of the ARA, Chucri represents business owners and sees firsthand how the actions of local, state, and federal governments can positively or negatively impact restaurants and other small businesses in Arizona. Chucri’s experiences as a businessman, husband, and father have given him invaluable insight into the needs of his community and ensure that, as County Supervisor, he will always put people before politics.
Filed Under: Campaigns & Elections, Endorsements, Press Release Tagged With: Maricopa County, Steve Chucri, Super
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Rare moment that is going viral on the network: The earthquake was destroying everything and caused many casualties, the man returns to drink quiet coffee in the office
Written by SOT.COM.AL 2 Dhjetor 2020
A tragic earthquake in Turkey, but which severely affected the Izmir area, caused many casualties. But, this is the moment that went viral all over the world.
The owner of an advertising agency in Izmir, continued to drink his coffee in the office even though the earthquake was shaking the whole country.
His offices were on the fifth floor of an 8-storey building, but the gentleman did not even take the trouble to get out of the building but returned to drink his coffee.
For more follow the video below:
Recall that on October 30, an earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale was recorded in the Aegean Sea, 17 km off the coast of the town of Seferihisar in Izmir, at 14:51 local time. The epicenter was 16.54 km deep in the sea.
Turkish officials announced Monday afternoon that the death toll from the quake had risen to 91 and the number of injured to 994.
Mutation from South Africa is capable of avoiding antibodies and poses a high threat, scientists sound the alarm: They make the vaccine useless
The protester is arrested, he stole the laptop of the President of the US House of Congress, he intended to sell it to the Russian intelligence! The plan he had is revealed
Sad news! The well-known businessman, the head of one of the most powerful financial groups, is suddenly separated from life
"It makes me extremely sad because it is causing trauma" / Joe Biden's daughter in panic: I fear for his safety on the day of the oath (US intelligence reports uncovered)
"Trump's plan has provoked strong criticism" / Unusual security measures never seen on the eve of President Biden's inauguration, the country will be surrounded by a high fence covered with barbed wire
Protest on Capitol Hill that caused chaos / Hillary Clinton raises strong doubts about the Trump-Putin relationship: I would like to see the telephone conversations, as it is hidden ...
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Today marked the final day of a D-License Coaching Course hosted by CAF Instructor Zunaid Mall in Lusaka, Zambia, as COSAFA continues to leave a lasting legacy across the Southern African region.
The course was staged ahead of the 2019 COSAFA Men’s Under-20 Championship that will be played in the Zambian capital from December 4-14 and sees the best young talent in the region compete for the coveted trophy.
COSAFA has long championed the development of the game on and off the pitch, and while much of the focus is on playing matters, there is always plenty that happens ‘off camera’ to aid the growth of coaches, match officials and administrators.
That is certainly the case again as Mall took the prospective D-License coaches through a course that will now allow them to further their football education at the next level.
The four-day course has been a regular feature at COSAFA tournaments in recent years, where one was also held for budding female coaches during the COSAFA Women’s Championship in South Africa earlier in the year.
We lay the platform for aspiring coaches to further their football education, with the introductory D-License Coaching Course an excellent way for them to test their appetite for coaching, Mall said.
We have taken this course around the Southern African region and provided hundreds of male and female coaches with the tools to take the next step in their careers. We are incredibly proud as COSAFA to be able to do this.
It means we do not just roll into town with our tournaments, play them and go home. We leave a lasting legacy for that country in terms of coaching, and the other workshops, courses and programmes that COSAFA runs.
Other initiatives on the go at the COSAFA Men’s Under-20 Championship are an Elite Referees Course run by top FIFA Instructor Felix Tangawarima together with Jackson Pavaza and Katongo Kabungo, which started on November 28 and finishes on Tuesday.
There will also be an Administration and Management Course led by former FIFA Development Officer Ashford Mamelodi from December 6-10, and a Youth Festival for young, aspiring footballers co-hosted by COSAFA and Spain’s LaLiga on December 13.
COSAFA will also hold Integrity Workshops in partnership with Genius Sports to warn educate players and match officials about the dangers of match-fixing.
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USC hopes to play its first home game this Saturday night (Gamecocks Athletics)
Covid hit the USC men’s basketball program hard this month. The Gamecocks last played a game December 5th. Soon after that loss to Houston, operations were shut down and the Gamecocks had to cancel/postpone games with Wofford, George Washington, Clemson and Kentucky. The holidays came and players went their own way, and they returned to campus this past weekend. Coach Frank Martin said they were tested Sunday and they practiced some Sunday. On the SEC conference call Monday morning, Martin said he expects to play this Saturday’s game against Florida A&M at the Colonial Life Arena, but he doesn’t know how many players he will have available.
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Russia entered the international capital market for the second time this year, taking advantage of the lucky global environment and good appetite for Russian bonds despite Western sanctions against Moscow.
On Thursday, Russia successfully issued $1.25 billion in 10-year Eurobonds, according to the Russian Finance Ministry.
"We saw great interest from investors. New Eurobonds were issued only for foreign buyers, including 53 percent from the United States, 43 percent from Europe and 4 percent from Asia," Finance Minister Anton Siluanov was quoted as saying by RBK.
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'Appetite for Russian Credit Market Rising:' Foreign Investors Rush to Buy Bonds
The finance ministry decided to issue an option in Eurobonds after privatization of oil companies Bashneft and Rosneft was delayed for an indefinite period.
The offer price reached 106.75 percent from the issuance, which accounts for an annual yield of 3.9 percent.
"The issuance was successful. Initially, 106 percent was expected but high demand allowed for improving the borrowing terms. By the time the order book was closed demand was six times higher than supply, reaching over $7.5 billion," Alexander Losev, CEO at Sputnik-Capital Management, told RBK.
The bonds were issued exclusively for foreign investors. Market players noted that the ministry picked up a very lucky time for the issuance and offered a discount to attract more investors.
"The ministry chose the right time to issue Eurobonds because currently the yield on Russian obligations is extremely low," Anton Kiryukhin from Rosbank said.
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Despite the fact that Western sanctions against Russian do not include state borrowings, they have had an impact on bond issuance, Peter Kinsella, an analyst at Commerzbank AG, said.
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Five-star concierges: The wild requests of the mega-rich
(CNN) — When a Qatari sheikh asked a concierge at the Raffles Dubai hotel to deliver a present to hi..
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(CNN) — When a Qatari sheikh asked a concierge at the Raffles Dubai hotel to deliver a present to his wife, the concierge nodded. "Of course, sir. What gift?"A Rolls Royce Ghost, the latest model, the sheikh replied. To be delivered to Qatar by the following evening.The year was 2012. Harold Abonitalla, now chief concierge of Habtoor Palace, considers this his most challenging request in his 14 years as a concierge. "I was in hot water," he recalls. It was a Thursday evening, and with Friday being holy day in Dubai, most shops and services would be closed.
Harold Abonitalla, chief concierge of Habtoor Palace
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He raced to the Rolls Royce showroom, and by 8pm he had collected the Ghost. But how would he transport the $300,000 vehicle 400 miles by sunset the following day? Through his network of contacts he found a fellow concierge with an uncle who worked in cargo. The uncle helped him to secure a plane that could carry the car — at a price.
"It'll cost 350,000 dirhams (approximately $95,000)," Abonitalla told the guest. "Don't give me rates, just do it," said the sheikh.
The golden keys
Going above and beyond to fulfill a guest request is a key quality of any member of Les Clefs d'Or, an international association of elite concierges.
Recognizable by a pair of golden keys pinned to their lapels, the network spans 80 countries and has approximately 4,000 members. They pride themselves on making the impossible possible.
Ela Lanzanas, chief concierge of five-star Fairmont Dubai and member of Les Clefs d'Or, once had to locate a Lebanese hair stylist, persuade him to drop his appointments, and charter a boat to take him out to a guest on a three-day cruise.
"She said she would not have time to go to the salon after their cruise for the fancy dinner in the evening," Lanzanas recalls.
The Clefs d'Or network made it possible. "The most important thing to me is to fulfill a last-minute request and make the guest happy," says Lanzanas. "The lady was very pleased with the way her hair was done."
Providing "pure luxury"
Famous for its luxury hotels, Dubai has no shortage of rooftop pools like this one at Renaissance Downtown Hotel
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"Concierges will accommodate every request so long as it is morally, legally and humanly possible," reads the group's LinkedIn page. Dubai attracts 15.8 million overnight visitors yearly, thanks in large to business travelers and its reputation as a tourist hotspot. Expectations run high.
"Luxury is in the blood of Dubai," says Abey Sam, president of Les Clefs d'Or UAE. "And as a Les Clefs d'Or concierge, it's about (providing) pure luxury."
Guests once handed Sam an unlabeled and almost empty perfume bottle. They had bought it in Dubai some years ago but couldn't remember where exactly where.
According to Sam, Dubai has more than 200 perfume shops — none of them claimed it. So he took the dregs to a manufacturer, who took the chemical readings and recreated the perfume.
"When I gave it to the couple, they were blown away — they had spent four days looking for it," says Sam. "These are the challenges that come to you; and if you are a good concierge you can do it for them."
Concierge vs. technology
"If money pops, everyone listens," says Abonitalla, contemplating how guests' wildest requests are fulfilled. It's guests on a tighter budget that can be more challenging, he says.
These are the guests who use Instagram and plan out their visit before they arrive. "They know what they're talking about," says Abonitalla. "They've researched the place, they know what to expect and they try to squeeze (the) concierge for all their contacts, so they can get discounts for this and that."
The growth of technology has made the role of concierge more competitive. They're up against Google and Instagram, so they need to keep on top of the latest restaurant openings, exhibitions, and the most "'grammable" spots in the city.
However, Sam believes that this is raising the standards. "You need to be more knowledgeable than the guest," he says. "That makes us more competitive and more energetic and more passionate to make sure that we have full knowledge of what we're talking about."
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Miyto
Poor lord Kid, he does not know how to outgrow his trauma.
The fear that was built into those walls will feel much better once it the walls are rebuilt with better experiences. (I do like the visual analogy of the wall and had helped a friend use a similar one for understanding her mind, learning to see past the wall. She decided to make a door so that she didn’t have to deal with all the things at once, but could do so over time.)
Mattias42
Easy words to say…
When it’s not your brain and genuinely horrific power being held together with some spit, grit and duct tape.
Not easy, by any means. Nor is her spiel entirely true. It is, however, good enough. For instance, surviving in a logical manner means accepting some norms, no matter how powerful you are. But a sociopath enjoying incredible temporal success will not understand it. I am not displeased.
It does occur to me that the metaphor, once again, is Allison brute-forcing her way through a problem. Brain surgery with a wrecking ball. The metaphor’s flaws are self-evident, and therefore the prognosis is predictable yet unhappy.
It has been some time since an unambiguous victory, so I would rather be wrong.
Sterling Ericsson
One question this all raises though is whether the whole scenario of “destroying a wall with a wrecking ball” isn’t just a metaphorical visualization of the problem based on Alison’s personality and perceived capabilities.
Do we really know for sure that the inside of Patrick’s mind looks like this and it’s not just a perceived version of the situation, which would be different for different people?
Then again, I suppose this is more like Patrick’s chosen perceived visualization of his mental interior, considering Feral’s was also of her own design.
It’s hard to tell whether Alison is having any direct input on any of it.
Given that Patrick refers to it as a city, and that he is the one directing its security and operations, I am inclined to think it is his thoughts that determine what the metaphor becomes. I never thought that Allison might perceive things differently, though. That is a good insight!
Still. I can’t help but contrast the very Allison wrecking ball with the lush and powerful growths of Technicolor Catgirl Land. They could destroy walls, provide color and nurturing, and bring out the Component in Patrick’s mind.
But he was never known for his excessively trusting attitude, no matter how cute or kind the stranger is. For better or worse, this is a problem that Allison will be the one to solve.
I do think a big point to make with this chapter is that having emotional walls aren’t inherently bad. Emotional distance when making decisions can be a good thing. However, there’s a massive difference between holding off emotions when needed for a choice and closing off all emotions permanently in order to avoid or not address the trauma associated with having emotions.
It would be great if Patrick could work through these issues with a therapist and naturally break down his walls or at least gain the ability to lower and raise them as he wants. But he isn’t exactly in a state to be able to do that and I don’t know if his powers would prevent him from being able to engage that way without direct help like what Alison is doing.
So, in order to give him the ability to fix his walls in the future and actually design them from a more stable base, this does seem like the best option for him. Destroying his emotional barriers right now is the best way to give him the opportunity to rebuild them properly.
DeColumna Vanessa
Where is he going to find a therapist that will work for him? He can hear everything the therapist thinks before opening xer mouth.
I agree, this is a best case scenario for him, come what may on the next few pages.
scottfree
That’s no bad thing: a therapist isn’t going to try and trick him into doing something harmful or unhealthy. The difference is that Patrick has mainly, by the nature of his ability, done more receiving than talking. He may know everything the therapist knows just by commuting into the city on the same train, but unless he’s telling her how he feels he has no knowledge of how to apply her training.
Yeah, that’s my point. With the way his powers work, I don’t think therapy is really an option for him.
Mathew Pederson
Does anyone recall what Allison’s major is? We know she had a philosophy class, so she may be studying exactly this kind of thing. In a sense, Allison *is* the therapist (although one with incomplete training who is using far more proactive methods than is professionally acceptable. It’s almost like she thinks she’s a superhero or something…)
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friendlymosquito
I’d also like to add that HE came to HER for help….so, probably he’ll just have to take what he can get. She’s the only person he even a little bit trusts, and if he doesn’t like how it turns out, well, it’s not like he had a better option.
M. Alan Thomas II
This is definitely a local minimum, as it were; there is no getting better from here without destabilizing the system through a massive and traumatic input that will make things worse before they get better.
craptastic
I read that as “time to put away the walls and grow, the fuck, up” but I guess mega girl doesn’t cuss/swear.
Allison swears routinely. Hopefully not in front of actual children, just the anthromorphic personification of trauma-induced sociopathy? Eh.
Blayne Farson
She’s repeating what was said to her by Patrick so long ago when he gave up being Menace and what she said when she hung up her cape, but walls this time instead of toys, I’m frankly amazed no one else in the comments had mentioned it at the time I posted this, unless I did not see it anyways.
Olivier Faure
R Lex Eaton mentioned it. You’re not special!
R Lex Eaton
That’s not very nice. >>
(also, there’s an infinite number of you in parallel universes who also posted the same thing, so you’re not special either 😛 )
Smartass. XP
Okay so I know Boytoy Lord struck first and it kind of legitimizes self-defense but, wouldn’t it have been interesting if Smol Patrick wasn’t so dumb. Could Alison claim she has the right to take control, over Patrick’s agency and desires, for what she (but not him) considers mental health… if The cutest baby Pat hadn’t tried to murder her?
Alison talks big about the importance of feelings but at the end of the day the moral of this story is “Be strong so that you can impose your worldview by waiting for people to attack you and crushing them back”
Patrick, full real world form, was the one that chose Alison to be involved in this in the first place. He basically invited her in to fix the problem. Her methods of doing so should honestly have been expected by him if he didn’t know/guess already.
He chose her as the method of fixing the issue, whatever that entailed.
ObviousPuppetAccount
He was asking for it?
OH COME ON
I was saying it in a farcical matter, because I agree with what you said. Also, I posted it before you posted your comment, so it wasn’t in reference to you.
I know I know ♥️
Ah, sorry, my bad.
KatherineMW
Allison’s dream in the beginning of the chapter: “Break me as fast as you can. I’m trying to kill you. One day, you’ll put me back together.”
I think it’s possible that he was, quite literally, asking for it.
Tiago Quintana
Many here already predicted the narrative would be on Alison’s side. Their criticism is exactly that it shouldn’t be.
To be fair, if Patrick primed her to smash up his brain, that doesn’t necessarily mean the narrative is on her side. It could mean he’s successfully manipulating her. To what end, I don’t know.
Weatherheight
Never, EVER trust the mastermind. Anyone who believes Doctor Doom or Lex Luther doesn’t have an ulterior motive for practically anything they do is sort of missing the point.
Just once, I want the heroes in a mainstream supers comic realize they’ve been played and done exactly what the villain wanted. And there’s not one thing they can do about it.
Besides Watchmen, of course.
Zorae42
Xanatos is too strong to appear in a mainstream supers comic.
Ian Osmond
She IS doing exactly what the villain wants: help him break down his problems so he can build himself back up as not, or at least less, of a villain.
As of yet, having no outcome, we cannot say that is Patrick’s end goal with confidence.
For all we know, this is an extremely complex plot to suborn Alison’s will.
It could also be exactly as you say.
Or Patrick is trying to suborn Tara’s will.
Or this is where we find out that Clevin has been a latent all along and Patrick has planted the seeds in his mind via verbal suggestion to allow Clevin’s powers to come to the fore, and right now Clevin has burst into a fusion state and is a very slowly expanding ball of energy that has already engulfed 21 city blocks, killing thousands but most importantly killing Sabron DeFae, that bastard who stole Patrick’s favorite toy car when he was four and who totally deserves to die in a way that honestly cannot be linked back to Patrick, I mean, come on, how can it be Patrick’s fault that this guy developed powers oh and incidentally where was MegaGirl during all this, hmmmm?
Super Hero Comics, man.. they be crazy sometimes.
Khlovia
Silly Donkey.
AshlaBoga
Huh, I never thought that was Patrick talking to Alison. But now that seems by far the most likely possibility.
It’s the time of the night when we have to state that a pretty boy passing out drunk and self-destructive on your very bed is not giving consent to mess around with his brain for his so called own good.
I don’t any one of y’all telling me he was asking for it
Tylikcat
I completely agree that passing out on her bed doesn’t constitute consent to brain modification. That said, after being reminded of the “break me as fast as you can” line from Alison’s dream, I can’t help but wonder if Patrick either deliberately or subconsciously primed her to make this decision.
WHICH MEANS PATRICK IS PART OF THE PROBLEM PLAYING INTO BRAIN DIVING CULTURE
Misspel
Wow. I stayed up 30 minutes past my normal bed time reading this discussion. Thanks for having a mostly civil philosophy discussion (those are the best kind).
Well, my biased, unoriginal, tired, 2 cents. I think that Alison is going too far to be considered ethical with how she is attempting to modify Patrick’s mind. But it is entirely in character for her to act this way. Doing something to try and help him would be justified. Trying to destroy everything that could possibly be bad and not worrying about collateral damage or consent as long as it is her very best effort. That is what Alison does to solve problems. She needs to learn to stop a think a little more. And I think that she knows that (it is why she is in college instead of flying around in a mask punching people) but hasn’t completely internalized how that applies to her decision making process.
Right? I feel like I just read a slightly stretched synopsis of Superman: Red Son.
I agree that accountability is incredibly important when creating a functioning, stable and rational power structure. However, this is a triage situation and Alison’s primary responsibility is not to Pat. Power and control are very different things. Alison doesn’t have the experience or luxury to use the later. She’s like a surgeon, cutting for the very first time and… Shit. Okay, cool debate guys. I’ve got to go marathon Weird Al songs now. Cya.
OKAY BUT HE’S A GUY AND HE’S GROSS AND WE DON’T LIKE HIM SO IT’S OKAY TO VIOLATE HIS CONSENT.
(or, well, to interpret ambiguous signals and possible subconscious messages as being consent, in this case)
What if the issue was physical instead of mental?
For example, if your shady friend collapsed drunk and feverish with a hand that’s clearly rotting off. And you’re left with the option of taking him to a hospital (which he wouldn’t want cause he’s done some things), letting him straight up die, or trying to cut the hand off without his explicit consent? Would it be considered acceptable to try and help “for their own good”? I mean, there’s lots of things that could go wrong, and there’s even the potential of making things worse (if you consider immediate death worse).
Do you assume he wouldn’t want to be saved?
The analogy collapses because here Lord Babyboy (and much of the Brain Patrol) seem to thinks the walls are the most amazing thing, likely indicating that Patrick Prime thinks the same.
If you’re friend *wants* to keep his rotting hand then I call breach of consent still, …until you include the “and die” to the end, at which point yes things become ethically messy.
Euthanasia has nothing to do with suicide, people.
As far as I can tell, Patrick doesn’t want to die. In fact, Lord Boy wanted to kill Alison because he saw her presence as a threat to Patrick.
So… Part of the rotting hand is the fever that has him convinced his hand is perfectly fine and completely unrelated to his current dying condition. Or, probably more appropriate, it started out as a finger and he was”perfectly fine” then. The fact that it’s now consumed his whole hand and is clearly becoming lethal is unthinkable to him. He wants the hand and doesn’t want to die. But he really really can’t have both.
The situation changes if he’s not in a position to give any informed consent, be it to decide to act or not act (contrary to sex, in which case it’s never a bad call to refuse to give consent, uninformed or not)
Most importantly though, in this case the important matter is Alison herself. She’s not in a position to take this decision on her own specifically because she has the physical ability to act and break his consent uninformed or not, and nowhere near the authority.
That’s the same thing that happened with Max, all over again.
We must always start off the assumption that powerful people are wrong.
Must we start with that assumption? Could we not instead start with the assumption that everyone wants to help?
The way I see it, in both metaphors, is that doing nothing is more morally reprehensible than doing something, no matter how well trained one is. It could be tied into the Good Samaritan laws- the idea that anyone _should_ try and help, even if they don’t have the medical knowledge to do so, and so have legal protection in case they fail or make things worse.
That suggests, to me, that our society would damn her more for sitting by and doing nothing, than for attempting to help and possibly screwing things up. And she, herself, would feel/think that way as well.
I think, morally, we are all obligated to try and help in the way wee are most confident will fix the damage, whether or not that is the actual best way to do so.
Now, whether or not she’s right from a _treatment_ point of view.. that gets trickier. After all, anti-vaxxers believe they’re ‘helping’ as they systematically dismantle centuries of disease protection, as might someone who once heard about ‘exposure therapy’ and decides to throw spiders on their arachnaphobic friend. Will what Allison is doing help Patrick out? I think yes. But it might not. It might harm things more.
What if, behind that Door, is Patrick’s projective mental powers, and he realized that HE was actually influencing his mother to be ‘evil’ all along, and by breaking it Menace will end up becoming Legion in body as well as mind? We don’t know. But I don’t think that’s an excuse to not try and help.
Well, I believe that if Superman were real he would be morally justified by doing nothing while the world was burning (and infinitely accountable for every actions he instead chose to take) because the alternative is a countless history of tyrannies.
It’s not a perfect model, sure, I would prefer to have some laws enticing good behavior over apathy (though I don’t think a legal obligation to rescue people in immediate danger is necessary, people choose to do it regardless)
Is it that radical a viewpoint? Gurwara himself was talking about the sacred value of inaction an issue ago, and the one he played-acted as criticizing the sanctity of inaction was the tyrant.
You inevitably get to tyranny when morally, ethically or legally people are compelled to act, because people more powerful than others will always exist.
Dan Steadman
I believe that IS a radical viewpoint, it’s also the sort of unpleasant attitude which I associate with many of the things that are wrong in the world. You are essentailly saying that philanthropic actions have no moral justification. If you have the power to do good then you are morally obligated to do nothing. That’s a bit Randian don’t you think? If you help people out of the mud or save lives you are just enabling their weakness?
I think the ethical scales tip in favour of ‘If you are in a position to add positive outcomes without making unreasonable sacrifices then you should’. Otherwise you should probably opt out of society and cease to get any benefit from it’s works. We are social and communal creatures by our nature and we generally (I hope) accept that selfishness is a negative and working to the commmunal good is a positive. I’m not saying everyone should become a self sacrificing martyr because we are not ants. What I am saying is that people who are in a position to do good and in fact do so should be lauded. People in that position who don’t should be viewed with suspicion.
Another thing….People keep saying in these comments, that tyrants represent some sort of ultimate evil as if that were a forgone conclusion. That anyone who imposes their will on others in any way is therefore some sort of representative of evil. I say that is sheer rubbish! Cruelty is the evil that some tyrants impose but any caring mother with a small child exposes the shallow lie that tyrants are automatically evil or even bad.
I’m sorry, I am tired and probably not putting this in the most compelling or clear way but some of these selfish and smug philosophies really seem designed to annoy me in the same way that evangelists, smug in the knowledge that I’m going to hell and they are going to heaven do.
You understood a lot of the thing I said very wrong. Managing to get that I could ever defend that despicable Ayn means I really messed up somewhere in my explanation.
To sum up:
I didn’t say Power is morally obligated to do nothing, I said it should be morally justified in doing nothing. Which obviously shouldn’t get them out of the absolute hatred they deserve if they’re not helping their fellow humans. Of course trying to help others less fortunate is the moral thing to do.
Something less moral to do but also much better to do is let less fortunate people handle their own sticking out of the mud and merely enable them to do so because having Power means running the risk of taking control of their lives, appropriating their struggle, muting their voices. We did quite enough of that already. The best thing Power can do is step aside.
Keeping expecting Power to do good like you want to only keeps its own worldviews alive and we never move forward. It means only it gets to choose. This is why it is necessary to allow for inaction to be justified.
And the last thing you said about tyranny is properly terrifying and I won’t even try to argue it’s validity
Cool, point taken and tyranny was totally the wrong word! I misused it but in my defence so has everyone else on this list. Tyranny is the cruel or unjust use of power. What I meant to say was the the use of power to make others decisions for them is not in itself, necessarily evil.
I think what I’m taking issue with in your stance (and how interesting that your username is Gotham, btw) is that you are equating power with moral bankruptcy. Is it not possible for someone who is morally wholesome to have power? Or even, by acting on good moral standings, to gain power until they are in a position of it?
And I don’t agree with you on the “sacred value of inaction”. I firmly believe in the old adage that states: “All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing”. Inaction in the face of evil or suffering is, in my eyes, the same as a declaration of approval, if not outright abetment of that evil or suffering.
And on the legal side of things, I’m talking less about the laws that _require_ action (of which there are, in some places- I think Canada’s Good Samaritan laws require that you attempt to give aid) and more of laws that prevent repercussions for mistakes made while attempting to ‘do right’- suggesting that the society in which those laws were made values well-meaning action over ‘safe’ inaction.
It’s really interesting to me this instinctive tendency to jump to the defense of power. #NotAllPowerfulMen style. It’s a narrow-minded way to consider things. Yes, powerful people and entitity can be and do some good, but who cares?
It’s not about figuring out the truth of the matter, it’s about creating a mental attitude of absolute, unquestionable and everlasting distrust of authority, to manage to erase years of cultural conditioning that left it ingrained in us that natural trust of Power.
With great power comes great responsibility, they said. They said it so much we didn’t realize it meant we were robbed of ours. The biggest movie franchise in history created a narrative where the literal embodiment of America refuses to have to be accountable for his actions and it’s framed as just as valid a point as the non-tyrant one
We have nothing to lose by never trusting Power. Safe for some amount of mental sanity, maybe (it takes a heavy toll), and Power itself might get sad. Who cares. Power is not affected by the oppressed, especially not by some measly vile disdain.
And ideally, it’s perfectly safe: either Power does nothing/something good, and it gets to live one more day, or Power fucks up even once and it needs to be obliterated /immediately/.
But this model only works if we give inaction a pass. If we don’t, Power always gets to choose. Because we implicitly tell it is has to. Because “evil might triumph if good men did nothing”. Because among its litany of inexcusable lies, Power told us and itself that it could ever be a good man.
So yes I do in fact equate Power with moral bankruptcy. Absolutely, all of the time. Not to fool myself into accepting a quite silly intentional hyperbole as truth, but to force myself to better question and challenge authority. And look at it this way: either I’m not powerful, and it /literally/ doesn’t matter, or I am powerful, and hopeful with enough self-awareness not to absolutely fuck up about it?
I mean clearly it’s the better worldview. It’s not super compelling, granted, but on the other hand yours excuses “mistakes” made by Power thinking it was justified. I simply cannot accept that.
But Power, in a general sense, is what allows for safety. The person who takes charge in a natural disaster, organizing teams to move rubble and distribute aid, is someone with Power- the power to tell someone to do something, and have it done. And really, that’s all that Power boils down to.
Way back in the dawn of society, it was the one who was Strong enough, or Clever enough, or Wise enough to keep themselves and others alive and healthy that was listened to, that had Power- and they became the leaders because of that.
Saying that Power is inherently bad, or dangerous, is saying that we, as humans, should be Prey animals, unable to do anything to protect ourselves. That we shouldn’t have weapons to stop wolves from eating us, or make fires to keep the cold from killing us, or use vaccines and antibiotics to prevent disease from creating epidemics. Because all of those things are Power- and, by their very nature, give those who distribute and create and control them Power as well.
Now, centralized power in this day and age, yes, that can have issues. One person in control of 10 or even 50, that’s Power, but it’s not as dangerous as one person in control of 50,000. Decentralizing the Power is a righteous cause, I’ll agree, but that means, more, of giving everyone _equal_ power, moreso than removing power from others.
On a more personal note: Power is your parent telling the school board that you did nothing wrong when standing up to a bully, and deciding to reward you instead of further punish you. Power is the Fire Marshal telling your neighbor that they can’t aim fireworks at your house. Power is the police officer pulling a rapist off their victim and cuffing them.
It is true, that Power can also be the county sheriff embezzeling funds to buy themselves a house, or the school administration not punishing the bully because their parent is on the school board, or the rapist themself, with greater physical or emotional power than the victim. I will admit that.
I think this argument boils down into the classic “Safety vs. Freedom”. Do you want everyone to have the same Power, the same Freedom to do whatever they want, whether or not it is dangerous to themselves or morally wrong or self-destructive? Or do you want to give that Power to others and reduce your own Freedoms in the hopes that they can keep you Safer?
I fall a little more towards the Safety side of things- I do want my own freedoms, but I’m perfectly willing to give up the freedoms that would allow me to cause significant physical harm to people. (Emotional and social harm? Eh, let everyone work that out themselves.)
But yeah. I just… I mean, correct me if I’m wrong (and I’m not attempting to attack you) but it sounds like your definition of “Power” is “Others who have power over me”- those with more money or social clout who can make things hard for you and those you care about. When I think about Power, I’m thinking about any and all agency that any individual Human may have over the world around them.
I’m not saying we should remove Power. It’s counterproductive and most certainly impossible. I’m only saying we should be absolutely unforgiving. That it’s too dangerous to trust.
Some anthropologists think that early humans erected chiefs not out of merit— they (often he) got privilege and agency, sure, but in return, they also got the actual intended role of Power: be the scapegoat.
That’s what Power should be, first and foremost. The one we destroy when things fail.
When that’s cemented into culture over millennia, maybe then we can start trusting the ones foolish enough to want the job.
Alright. I can see where you’re coming from. In a way, what you’re saying is that the “Great Responsibility” is the burden of perfection balanced by the threat of annihilation. I can understand that.
It seems an odd pairing, though, to say to someone “Go, help us, lead us, command us to do what we could not do on our own, but if we decide we don’t like it, we’re gonna kill you.” And I’m not so certain of how well it could work in this current age, namely due to the state of education. That sort of decision making by the masses almost requires a mob that is intelligent and level-headed enough to see when difficult choices are necessary- else you’d fall into anarchy or idiocracy much too quickly.
You’ve given me something to think about, and I’m glad we had this conversation. Best wishes to you.
Yeah, I know that having the belief that “sometimes violating consent is okay if it’s for their own good” is a pretty dangerous slope. Because people are bad and have used it to excuse terrible things (currently are since ABA and Gay Conversion Therapy are still things that exist). I still personally think in my allegory saving your friend’s life is an acceptable moral choice. I’d similarly be okay with someone forcing their friend into rehab to try and save them. But I can also recognize how someone wouldn’t ever think stepping over that line is acceptable no matter what the motivations or consequences of not acting are.
I will say that with Max she violated his consent for her personal gain/the gain of the many. Here she’s violating Patrick’s consent for his own sake – yeah some of it is self defense and hope that fixing him will get her access to the info she needs, but I believe she is doing this is largely for his benefit. And while what she’s doing does tread some into the dangerous territory of “your way of thinking is wrong so I’m going to forcibly correct it”, it think that since she’s ultimately just trying to fix her hurt friend I’m okay with it… For now. If he magically turns into happy go lucky Patrick or neurotypical Patrick I don’t think I’ll ever forgive her.
I also think that because she’s not in a position of authority I find it more acceptable. Probably seems like weird logic, but I think friends/family “doing what they think is best” feels kinda acceptable (given that’s truly what they’re doing and not overstepping my personal line of what is okay to do against someone’s will). But Doctors being allowed to ignore patients’ requests because “they know better” seems horrifying to me. Maybe it’s a frequency thing or maybe it’s a trust thing.
We haven’t seen a version of Patrick that particularly represents Patrick’s external behavior. Which makes me pretty hesitant to equate fifthPatrick and childPatrick’s opinions on this subject, especially considering Patrick’s tenderness towards Alison. (I’m staying away from the PatrickPrime terminology until we have more support for it.)
I would have thought the same if the Brain Patrol had been in tension over this issue, but instead it seems like even in the midst of open war between the parties, they all appear to defend the greatness of walls. Safe for RK, admittedly.
(And I will stay away from official nomenclature because it is funnier)
No to mention that potentially draws in Transformers analogies, which could take a very unfortunate turn at this point in the story arc…
War is hell.
David Gillon
There’s a well developed set of ethics around informed consent. If the patient can’t communicate then you do the minimum necessary to ensure they can give that informed consent for the rest of what’s needed.
If you’re the metaphoric hammer, then even multiple-personality-disorder looks like a nail?
The multiple-personality-disorder that stands up will be wrecking balled down.
I mean, if you could actually get rid of the other personalities through metaphysical means, I suppose it would be an effective treatment mechanism.
Shjade
Given what Alison has consistently demonstrated in the comic to date, I’m pretty sure she still would’ve felt compelled – if not outright righteous – about taking control of the situation to resolve it as she saw fit when it became clear to her that Patrick would not be resolving it to her satisfaction himself.
I don’t think she would’ve taken quite so abrupt or violent an approach to the problem minus the murder attempt, but I’m pretty sure it would have still been demolition-based to some degree.
“demolition-based”
I don’t think she would’ve. Because if he hadn’t tried to kill her then she could’ve just gotten the information she came for.
I think she would’ve told him that his walls were unhealthy, but as long as he gave her what she needed and let her go, she wouldn’t have taken it upon herself to fix him.
Giacomo Bandini
Alison is defending again attacks… present and future, against her and other persons. At this point Patrick is incredibly dangerous. He is capable to ensnare other person’s mind inside his own, and to hurt and even kill themonce there are inside himself, He is a living weapon, just like Alison, but with an extremally complicated and fragmented personality, which makes him absolutly untrustworty. And beside.. he just tried to kill an innocent woman, for the “crime” of being nice to him. He is a monster who needs to be neutralized. But how? There is no way to neutralize his psychic powers, and physical imprisonment cant stop a psychic attack; and also, she needs to find a way to the waking world, which we are not sure even exist. The only think she can do is change his mind, his motivation who are making him a dangerous monster. It may not work, or even worse things, sure…but there are not many more choices
Suppose a foreign country attacks yours, and you barley defeat them, you make sure they cannot attack you again. So you take away their weapons, of course, but also, you remove their leaders. You do what is necessary to reduce the threat of futures attacks.
By any of that logic Alison should have been disposed of /immediately/, as soon as she threw a mug into someone face or hell, as soon as she destroyed a snack dispenser because she was frustrated.
And I don’t even necessarily disagree, my issue is not what needs to be done but who gets to make that decision.
Patrick is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people. He is trying to kill Alison, he is developing new and apparently uncontrolled powers, and he seems to be relapsing into villany. I do not think it can be paragoned to Alison.
Everyone gets. Everyone of us is making the best he can to assure himself and his loved ones safety. Powerful beings, nations or individuals, simply can do it better.
If you attack me with a baseball bat, when i am around my loved ones, well, and i have not a clear way to escape, and you are not trusty enought to negotiate with, well sorry, but i have to fight back. If i can disarm you and just restrain you well, that is good. But if for whatever reason i cannot do that, and i have to beat you into submission, i will do: i’m aware that doing it i can really harm you, or even kill you, but i cannot allow you to swing that bat around mine or my loved ones heads.
I’m… not criticizing self-defense? Ever?
I’m saying there’s a difference between shooting the robber that breaks into your home and threatens your family (ah, the scenario that literally never happens in reality ♥️) and systemically butchering the [REDACTED] because you say they’re threatening your country. Even if they actually were!
What matters is not the act of self-defense but the scale of the players.
Alison shouldn’t get to choose, because her power gives her actions too much leeway. I know she’s trying to be nice and that’s too bad because she is /too dangerous/.
The … scale of the players?!? I do not get it, If anything the scale is in favor of the mental Patrickes. The sentinel is clearly stronger, and they have the number advantages. Alison has a good idea, but it’s just an idea. She can’t be sure she will be able to pull it of, if it will work before the sentinel kills her, or even if it will work at all. And on the plane of risks, well, Alison is risking her life, the sentinel can kill her, while is not clear what would happen should Alison’s plan work. Maybe mental trauma, maybe catatonia; but maybe he can be actually happy.
I have to say, i like very much your military example, and i think i’m going to use it. You are a general of an army, defending your country. You have been ambushed by an enemy army, lead by an evil king and his tre leautenents: one of them is really evil, the others not so much, in the past one of them even propose you a alliance, but right now they are loyal to the evil general, who is hell bent to destroying you and your country because he is concinced that you are too dangerous for his nation.
His army is clearly stronger and you were forced to reatraet before total defeat. Luckily you were able to retrat in a valley, very well natural defended, where the enemy can’t follow you.Unfortuatly you seem to be trapped too ebcause the only way to leave is fighting the enemy, who is still too strong. So you consider your options: you can wait here, hoping that the enemy will go back home, or that some allied army decided to come to your rescue, or you may try to find a way to escape the valley unnoticed and get back to you capital, so that you can raise a bigger army. But while you wait, you have absolutely no idea on what the enemy is planning: maybe he will discover a way to enter the valley, or he is already marching on your capital.
While you think about that, one of your underlies come to you with a proposition: he suggest a very risky plan to fight the enemy and then, with a surprise move, eliminate the evil king and his leautenents. It’s a good plan, but there is a problem: you do not know for sure the consequences. Probalby the new leaders of the enemy army would be less evil, and it could be reasoned. But maybe it will be even a more evil army; it’s also possible that the army falls in total disarray, and goes back to its own country and devastate it.
What are you gonna do, General Gotham? Would you give the order, or not?
I have /no/ idea what this interminable thought experiment is supposed to stand for, this is fun. Why are there two good lieutenants and one bad one? Why are there lieutenants at all if we just kill them all anyway? Are the first military options still part of the experiment or just there for narrative flavor? What is any of this supposed to reveal? My stance toward utilitarianism? Politics? …mathematical probabilities?
It’s like if the trolley problem took five hours to tell and you had no idea which way the tracks would reorient if you pulled the lever. It’s a puzzle, not a moral dilemma.
Anyway you mentioned the invading army is clearly stronger anyway so most of none of this matters, I’d have no remorse in slaughtering them all in self-defense so I’ll go with whatever plan does it
Dave M
“Since, my friend, you have revealed your deepest fears,
I sentence you to be exposed before your peers!
Tear down the wall!”
I think I read that in a Reagan/ Gorbachev hurt/ comfort fic once.
Of course, I also have a drill scar on my scalp, so I assume some mental trauma is being glossed over.
Coyotzin
I first saw this movie when I was 13 or 14. I had a fever and was a bit delirious.
The movie made perfect sense 🙂
Clearly I didn’t need no education 😀
First time I saw that movie, I was well and truly baked.
Second time I saw it, I was sober as a judge.
Liked it much better the first time, made a heck of a lot more sense the second time.
And that was being a HUGE fan of the album from the first day it was released.
Guancyto
Alison, I know all your heroic instincts are working against you right now, but the point of coming in like a wrecking ball is to NOT get so caught up in making speeches that you let yourself get surrounded by the bad guys.
Locolollipop
I saw that as more of a visual that all his attention is focused on her, thus all the aspects we’ve been presented with being there.
yrsegal
Except that words are, most likely, the best form of attack against Lord Boy she’s got.
It’s okay, Lord Boy shouted “Stop her” hysterically, so he’s basically doomed now.
palmvos
I will provide for lord boy a cape!
Lethologica
To Patrick’s brain, she’s currently the villain. Hence, monologuing.
The genre savvy is strong in this one…
S.I. Rosenbaum
Demolition therapy
Also, this is a very Kirk solution to a problem.
With a fine Kirk Speech to accompany it.
And topped off with an ironic echo.
Devon Jolly
It is? Kirk was the one who’s famous line was “I NEED MY PAIN!” when offered the ability to do super therapy an heal it.
Teka the Budgie
Was that the weird brainwashing Vulcan who was Spock’s bro in the fifth movie?
yeshallbeasgods
That’s the one.
The Improbable Man
I love that line, and I agree that it’s a Kirk solution. Patrick is walling off his pain. He needs to learn to live with it rather than making it disappear.
I get that it’s canon that Sybok was really helping people, but it sure felt like some kind of cult-like brainwashing when I watched that movie. So I understand your perspective, but Kirk was not walling off his pain.
Dan Nicholson
He was helping people. And brainwashing them. You can do both. In his case, he was taking advantage of people’s gratitude for the tremendous relief from pain… and using that to get them to further his own goals. You don’t need unethical mind-control-telepathy for that. Just lacked professional ethics of real therapists. 🙂
Pol Subanajouy
The Kirkiest
I don’t know man, isn’t everything good and bad behind that wall? The emotions of everyone he ever met?
I don’t know if the joy of having the emotional memories of a thousand parents holding their new born babies in their hands weighs up against having to live with knowing what it feels like to murder a single person.
Statistically there must be a lot of really, REALLY bad stuff behind the wall.
A lot of people have done some things that nearly left them broken with guilt or have had stuff happen to them that nearly destroyed them. Some of them probably did get broken and destroyed.
The memories from one person might be managable, but from multiple? I don’t know if anyone is strong enough to handle that, certainly not all in one go.
NotPatrick
This whole speech is just so cringe-worthy. It just conflates so many unrelated things into one big jumbled mess. First, there is no coherent notion of ‘logic’ that embraces all of the uses that either Allison or this Straw-Vulcan version of Patrick want to make of it. For the scattered uses which Patrick has tried to make use of it, ‘logical’ would probably be best understood as meaning something like “conceptually elegant” or “composed primarily of easily understood discrete mathematical structures cumulatively arranged into some clear architecture”. For Allison’s usage, there is literally nothing that ‘logical’ as an adjective would apply to, other than vague allusions that it probably has something to do with formal logic devoid of any axioms. But it definitely has something to do with why machines are gross and various facts about human emotional psychology, except its only to show why Patrick’s unrelated use of the word is not viable. Everything else is just a jumbled comic-book writer’s attempt to teach us what computers are.
“Straw-Vulcan”. Yes, that is a perfect description for Anima. Patrick (and, by extension, Anima), has routinely been shown to absorb knowledge directly from other people’s minds, he (and, by extension, Anima) should know of critical thinking and dialectics and be capable of formulating a proper counter-response (off the top of my head: “Well, no duh, Alison, the point is that logic can regulate our emotions and let us prioritise one over the other in accordance to the situation”) instead of just standing there slack-jawed.
Patrick is not in a state where he capable of thinking clearly.
Also, just because you understand psychology – forget telepathy, consider people who are trained as counselors or psychologists – does not mean that you can reason clearly about yourself, and do not need help from someone else to work through and reflect on your own issues. This is especially true of Patrick – remember the scene on the bed? “You mean, you can’t read your own mind!?”
That does not mean Allison is right, just that Patrick’s behavior fits.
(Long time lurker here, de-lurking to post a comparison to Pink Floyd’s The Wall, but I see someone else beat me to it.)
Honestly, with the reveal that Patrick is capable of editing his own mind, I find it very odd that he also can’t read it.
shink
You both seem to be forgetting the part where everything Anima and Menace do is done through the lens of being unable to analyze Lord Boy’s axioms, or even recognize that they are in fact axioms. To both Menace and Anima the pain and trauma that has shaped Lord Boy’s feelings and caused him to have a desire to shut out the world are the very basis of all decision making. Alison is pointing out that the feelings of Lord Boy is an axiom, and one in desperate need of reexamining.
See “the narrative is on Alison’s side”. 🙂 That the plot aligned things so Alison would be in the right does not validate the justifications she’s using.
The funny thing is that it appears as if Patric was the one to teach her about axioms in the first place. Remember Guwara, the mass hallucination?
pidgey
You’re using the word “appears” pretty freely here.
an odd statement.
3-I
It’s interesting how comments like these always crop up whenever Alison does anything active. Comments about the narrative unrealistically or artificially supports her doing something. Especially considering that when she is being lectured to for months, nobody seems to say it.
Yes, because I made those comments when she fought against Cleaver, or when she went after the invisible killer, or when she founded Valkyrie, or when she attacked the people who tried to kill Feral. Oh, wait, I didn’t!
If you’re going to debate the point, I’d really like it if you did so in good faith. Otherwise, I’m going to ask you to stick to your strawmen and keep me out of it.
You may not have made those comments, but other people did. Because EVERYBODY has different ideas about what Allison should and should not do in any particular circumstance. EVERYBODY here thinks that she’s done some things right and some things wrong.
Including Allison.
Yes. That can be called either “textual analysis” or “having an opinion”, depending on a variety of things, neither of which are inherently bad, as you seem to be making them to be.
… I don’t think they’re bad. I am not sure where I was misleading, and I’d genuinely like to know, so I can correct that impression. That’s one of the things I genuinely like about this comment section.
Oh, I apologise! I mistook you for the same person who made the initial comment. Conflating the two is what gave me that impression (and, to be honest, led to my reply being more aggressive than it should have been. Again, I apologise!).
I’m not going to debate your point. I’m just pointing out a trend I have noticed among the commentariat at large- which, you know, includes people who are not you but say similar things- to favor Alison not taking action.
Pointing out trends that you claim not to have participated in ain’t a strawman argument. You’re not being attacked.
I doesn’t make any sense to talk about anyone’s “axioms” here as a fundamental source of moral principles. First off, logic needs axioms just as much any particular theory. There’s no particular reason why one should prefer classical logic to intuitionist logic or modal logic or constructive logic, so where you’d even draw the line between what is a value-neutral part of logic and what is a part of our actual ‘theory’ is pretty hard to determine. But suppose you manage to agree on a standard neutral ‘logic’ (say, first order classical logic). Now are the non-logical axioms added by something like set theory, number theory or group theory now a part of our moral underpinning? No, of course not, so then we have to come up with a sufficient excuse for them not to count, and then another for the laws of physics and such.
Of course, we still have nothing in our theory with that magical required property of being able to “prompt action”, so we need to add some sort of predicates “Good(x)” “Bad(x)” to allow us to assert the moral significance of certain sorts of things. And for some reason we then decide to primarily use the word “axiom” to refer to axioms containing such predicates. Except in all of this, we still have no particular link between assertions and actions, no particular reason why we should consider a proof of Good(A) as naturally prompting an action. Why is that link so much more natural than some particular entity deciding that any proposition containing the predicate Red should prompt some spinning motion?
What seems unbelievable to me is that the various Patrickuses (Patricki? Patrickpodes?) would have just the required kind of irrational fear of non-logical axioms containing moral predicates necessary to make all of this convoluted criticism possible. Especially when a formulation of their desires wants and goals in terms of utility functions is what would be more conventional, more popular among all the hip reductionists since forever, and would handle all of the supposed hang-ups about explicitly recognizing the motivation behind some action.
I doesn’t make any sense to talk about anyone’s “axioms” here as a fundamental source of moral principles. Logic needs axioms just as much any particular theory. There’s no particular reason why one should prefer classical logic to intuitionist logic or modal logic or constructive logic, so where you’d even draw the line between what is a value-neutral part of logic and what is a part of our actual ‘theory’ is pretty hard to determine. But suppose you manage to agree on a standard neutral ‘logic’ (say, first order classical logic). Now are the non-logical axioms added by something like set theory, number theory or group theory now a part of our moral underpinning? No, of course not, so then we have to come up with a sufficient excuse for them not to count, and then another for the laws of physics and such. Of course, we still have nothing in our theory with that magical required property of being able to “prompt action”, so we need to add some sort of predicates “Good(x)” “Bad(x)” to allow us to assert the moral significance of certain sorts of things. And for some reason we then decide to primarily use the word “axiom” to refer to axioms containing such predicates. Except in all of this, we still have no particular link between assertions and actions, no particular reason why we should consider a proof of Good(A) as naturally prompting an action. Why is that link so much more natural than some particular entity deciding that any proposition containing the predicate Red should prompt some spinning motion?
Patricii? It is derive from the latin, but I always screw up my latin plurals.
Ptorq
Her speech is everything I would expect from someone who took ONE philosophy-related course in college, taught by a guy who wandered in off the street. So, props for internal consistency
Actually, earlier stuff in this chapter suggest that Guwara was a mass hallucination caused by Patric’s current breakdown and evolving power-set. Patric taught Allison the line of BS she’s feeding him. How’s that for a mind-fuck?
elysdir
I didn’t see Gurwara’s presence in Patrick’s mind as an indication that he was a hallucination.
Patrick’s been projecting things at Allison as part of his evolving powers, the real teacher had his mind messed with, and Guwara was a part of Patricks mind. It’s only a small jump to Patrick projecting to the class the Guwara is there teaching them.
The problem with this argument is that Patrick’s broadcasts have been uncontrolled and metaphorical – dreamlike even. But if we presume Gurwara was Patrick-mediated then that’s a conscious, directed narrowcast, and its message was completely inimical to the Lord Boy regime, because it taught Alison to care about the feelings and concerns, i.e. emotions, of others.
So either Patrick is simultaneously unable to control his talent, and to wield it like a master, or we have to introduce a further, rogue element to Patrick’s brain with special powers not possessed by the other avatars.
Split personality. Anima talking about taking over and driving Patrick to street bum when Allison hit him with the loonytoons mug pretty much suggests it. Guwara being in his head and able to do things better than the two or three fighting personalities isn’t that much of a stretch in abnormal psychology and it’s downright expected in Superhero comics. Remember the Onslaught arc from Marvel?
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance puts the lie to her speech, I should think.
Philosophically, Alison’s tirade is pretty sophomoric (in the truest sense of that word).
Urthman
The fact is, all of this is metaphor. There’s no actual wall in Patrick’s brain and Alison isn’t actually swinging a wreckingball inside his skull. I think all she’s actually doing is “forcing” Patrick to pay attention to things he’s deliberately ignored for a long time. And by “forcing” I mean she’s doing something analogous to shouting or waving things at him in ways that he’s unable to ignore.
Alison was able to access Patrick’s power when she jumped into Tara’s mind. But even aside from that, I don’t think any of this is stuff that should be taken lightly. Dealing with trauma is really hard.
AustinC123
‘You can’t derive an ‘ought’ from an ‘is!’ If I smash this brain apart it’ll be because I FEEL LIKE IT!!’
Zac Caslar
Cue up “The Heavy,” because how ya like her now?!
It’s HEROISM TIME!
Ahhhh, I’m having so much fun with this. It takes courage to be that drastic and this is what a heroine is for.
Swing for the fences, Mega Girl.
It’s always a good time to queue up The Heavy.
She’s absolutely right.
In a way, it’s like the distinction between ideology and policy, but on a personal level rather than a governmental one. You’ll see a lot of people (technocrats) saying we need to avoid ideology and just govern by policy, but policy and evidence can’t tell you WHAT you want to achieve, You need a value structure, a worldview, that’s the foundation for deciding what your objectives are, and then use policy and evidence to determine the best way to achieve those objectives.
(Okay, so today is “I jump to every bait I see” day! Let’s get to it!)
This is arguing over labels more than concepts. In my experience, most people who say “govern by policy and evidence” mean “Instead of using 95% ideology and 5% policy and evidence, we should really be closer to 5% ideology and 95% policy and evidence”.
In other words, have a value structure as simple and close to first principles as you can get, and derive the rest from evidence.
Alison, you’ve already established that the status quo is bad. That doesn’t mean your solution is better. Are you ever going to get to establishing that?
…No? Just assuming that breaking the existing system will make things better? You should know enough history to know how stupid that is…
Kind of an untenable alternative when the established order here wants her dead.
She’s been making cracks in the walls since they first met. Outwardly, this seems to have been good for Patrick. And then he started pushing her away.
It’s possible that expulsion would suffice, but yeah, dead is the more likely goal here.
Laurelinde
The trouble is, if the status quo is on the verge of killing Patrick pretty imminently, she doesn’t necessarily have time to work out a better or ideal solution (or doesn’t believe she does.) I feel like part of this is Alison’s tendency to default to ‘when in doubt, break stuff’, yes, but also partly desperation. Patrick needs some kind of brain first aid and possibly there is no one in the world capable of really knowing what to do. (And if there is, there’s no guarantee they’re not part of the conspiracy and would harm him anyway.) At this point, she may well just feel that doing something and having tried is better than sitting back and watching him die.
I’m not convinced that the status quo is on the verge of killing Patrick. Nor that smashing up Patrick’s mind shouldn’t put him into a vegetative state (or at least give him serious brain damage).
nuclearpasta
I disagree wholeheartedly.
Isn’t the most rational and logical thing for a human being to seek its well being? Why should I want death and despair? I wouldn’t define “prioritizing life” as an emotional drive. Even emotionless bacteria do that out of necessity. Emotions are shortcuts that our brain developed in order to instinctively know what’s the most logical thing to do without the effort of actually thinking.
This dualism between logic and emotions as they were incompatible is just a bad sci-fi cliché. (Damn you, Mr. Spock!)
Yeah, Allison is conflating emotions and drives here, which aren’t quite the same thing.
“Seeking its own well being” as being a goal is an unprovable axiom.
We can state that an organism that seeks its own well-being is more likely to survive to reproduce, and therefore will have more evolutionary success. That is a statement which is subject to observation, measurement, science, and logic.
However, to jump from that to “an organism SHOULD seek its own well-being” is a value judgement. At that point, you’ve switched from the physical realm of the observable to the metaphysical realm of ethics and morals.
It’s a pretty simple jump, and the vast majority of ethical systems accept it as a reasonable axiom, but it IS an axiom that has to be taken on faith.
We can state that “seeking one’s own well-being is likely to lead to happiness”, and, if we can agree on a measurable definition of “happiness”, that statement can be part of logic and the observable universe. But to go from that to “being happy is good and is a goal” is, again, a jump to metaphysics.
Aristotle buys that argument, more-or-less, but says that it’s not easy to define “happiness/well-being/eudaemonia (which is his term for “happiness/well-being”). Jeffery Bentham argues that maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain is the goal of ethics, but that has to be spread out over EVERYBODY, not just PERSONAL pleasure/pain. Confucius argues that actions that help the traditional community — one’s family, one’s Emperor, one’s society as a while — are good actions, whether or not they help individuals, and whether or not they cause pleasure or pain. Kant argues that actions are good or bad in themselves, instead of based on their effects. The Catholic Church argues that, in some cases, the same action can be good or evil depending on the purpose of it, and that same “doctrine of double effect” is also part of modern Western medical ethics (for instance, if there is a terminally ill patient who is in great pain, the only painkiller available is morphine or some such, and the only dose of morphine which has a chance of easing their pain also has a good chance of killing the person — then giving them that dose to ease the pain is morally acceptable, but giving them that dose to END their pain isn’t.)
None of those are provable or disprovable. They’re all metaphysical, ethical axioms. While it SEEMS like “continuing to exist” and “not being in pain” are OBJECTIVELY good, their goodness isn’t part of the physical world, and is therefore not part of logic. Once you accept those axioms, THEN you can start using logic on them, but the actual acceptance of them is metaphysical — and we access the metaphysical more through emotion than through logic.
The really annoying thing is that I both disagree fundamentally with Allison and think I could formulate every single one of her arguments better than she does.
I’ll take you up on that, because I am honestly curious.
Why actually do you disagree, and/or how would you formulate her argument?
I think a lot of the discussion here has outlined both good counter-arguments and defenses of Allison’s position.
Regarding why I disagree: I think Allison’s stance, and by extension the stance of real life people who act like Allison, comes from a place of arrogance and naïveté. Allison has barely a year of entry-level philosophy classes under her belt, and yet she’s acting like she’s an authority on how the mind works (while talking to a telepath, who presumably has studied more psychology than her). She’s acting like the stereotypical first year student, who knows enough about her discipline to make some amount, sense, but is completely blind to how much she still has to learn.
Otherwise, she’s conflating value statements and emotions, which aren’t the same thing. She’s also making a lot of vague philosophical-sounding metaphors (“a computer needs a program to run”), which don’t really have a basis in reality. I’m not sure about the “basic cognition requires emotional input” part, but I don’t think it has much basis in reality either. She’s assuming that the walls of the city are only useful to repress his trauma, but for all we know the compartmentalization they represent is the only thing keeping him sane despite his mind-reading powers. She’s also conflating Anima’s goal (“live without irrational desires”) with wanting to be emotionless and mechanical, which is a bit of a jump (though the narrative is kind of pointing in that direction anyway).
I think a more convincing argument for Patrick would be to tell him to look inwards. “Patrick, you’ve been with abuse survivors before, right? Can’t you that what you’re doing to yourself in the same thing people like Cleaver did, compartmentalizing away painful emotions and going for easy solutions? There’s a lot of bad stuff you need to deal with, and you absolutely need tools to protect your mind, but how do you decide what’s bad? With rules you set up when you were 10 years old, that you’ve never updated since? You becoming Menace wasn’t an accident, and you know it’s hurt you. You’re hurting yourself again and again, and the only way to go past that is to try something different. Accept some short term emotional pain now, before it’s too late. Destroying the walls will hurt you, but you will not survive if you don’t rebuild this city better. Come to terms with that.”
(I mean, that would still be massively arrogant and presumptuous, but it would be at least somewhat convincing)
KingOfAllExplosions
“Gross! Machines are worse than brains!”
Someone give this writer a Pulitzer.
Wow, that’s a little mean-spirited.
Another round of “Love the comic, hate the comments”.
Rofl. I tend to agree.
Ricardo Alves Junqueira Pentea
She really does like to decide how people should live, eh?
Well, he did ask for it, though…
Girl presenting as a boy, is arguing with guy mentally presenting as a girl (anima says shes patrics truest form) about the trauma that made him that way and is about to bring a hammer to his head for being “wrong”.
I love how ironic this comic series is.
“Girl presenting as a boy”
Wait, what? Did I miss something?
martynW
Well, she does seem to have adopted the physique of a ten-year-old in this realm, but I think it’s still basically female.
Alison went from being the girl next door to looking like a boy. Dress, hair, lack of any figure, manerisms.
Dawn Smashington
Has anyone else thought that Patrick might be working for whatever the conspiracy is? Like, maybe because she was getting new powers, she became a target for whoever’s been killing supers, and he’s part of that? Am I crazy?
Eileen Young
I think that Alison might be becoming a target not because of her new powers but because she’s starting to make a difference socially with Valkyrie.
To be honest, I’m still not convinced that this “conspiracy” is anything more than the result of an inferiority complex on Patrick’s part.
I tend to agree, but I suspect that there is some sort of little “mini-conspiracies” set/grouping out there that Patrick has somehow linked into one large set/group.
Huh. I think if any part of Patrick is persuaded, glowing green Alison might actually help with the teardown.
TravellingStranger
Can’t say I’m delighted by the whole ‘your way of thinking and feeling is wrong, and you’re a monster because of it’ angle. Being delivered by someone who has never more obviously been a first-year psychology student is just the insult to the injury.
I’m seeing more philosophy there than psychology, but definitely first or second year (at best).
I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much nonsense stuffed in one page and trying to pass it off as compeling phylosophy.
And if Patrick isn’t turned into vegitable by the time this is over I’ll be really dissapointed.
Seastone
I’m surprised she didn’t throw out “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them!” in a thick Scottish accent while she was at it.
With the language she’s using, I think this is more influenced by modern neurology than my boy David Hume, but I can still fantasize about a crossover between SFP and Existential Comics. Maybe she’d make Kant cry when she pointed out he did not, in fact, solve philosophy.
Ray Radlein
Don’t Feuerbach until you see the whites of their eyes
And never pay full price if you can Hegel.
LatePocketwatch
I think I’d take apart the argument more if it wasn’t an interesting bit of character interaction, basically she’s relapsing into what she thinks a costumed hero should be with dramatic one liners that don’t sum up the argument as much as strawman the opposition as an inherently bad quality, immaturity. If the intent was to focus on the argument itself, I think that would have worked better as an after action report or conversation, like when she talks to her shrink or visited that blade cancer guy in jail.
Interesting word choice – relapsing…
This makes me wonder if a part of how Alison is acting here is a function of Patrick’s memories of Alison struggling to reconcile with Alison as she is now (since this area is essentially all about Patrick structuring input into a manageable whole). And THAT is affecting Alison’s reactions, causing her to be more as she was during the foundation experiences the two of them shared.
It doesn’t have to involve telepathic influence. This is likely the first time she’s seen Patrick in his ‘Menace’ costume in years. It would be weirder if she didn’t react to that and she’s not in the most stress free position right now.
Sort of where I was driving towards, but stated more succinctly here.
Full marks.
Not sure I like an epistemology based on the primacy of feelings.
Why isn’t it logical to prioritize life over death? If you look at most of the vicious killers of our history, irrational emotion was usually in the driver’s seat.
because logic is a tool, not an ethos. Logic is used in most religions its just that the starting assumptions are … different … than what other people might make. I can prove death is preferable to life using logic. its all in the assumptions.
Well, you can’t separate the logic from the premises, that’s true, but if you stick with premises as solidly based in reality as possible, logic and reason work pretty well.
Of course, since we’re not omniscient, false premises show up all the time. That’s human. But at least we have to work as hard as possible to avoid it.
But it’s not “logical” to prioritize life over death. Logic doesn’t care one whit about life or death, happiness or despair. Logic CAN help you achieve whatever your goal is, but it can’t give you that goal.
For instance, logic could tell you that the best way to save your town from floods by building a dam, but there is nothing strictly logical about saving your town, that is your own desire. Now, there is perhaps some logic in saving your village if your goal is to “survive” and you depend on the village for that. But desire to survive is not a logical statement itself, and there are probably other logical and easier ways to save yourself (secure your very own house, change its location, change village, etc).
Logic gives you solutions, it doesn’t pose the problems.
I agree, privileged white woman, abuse survivors just need to grow up. Is next chapter going to be her curing someone with major depression by telling them to cheer up and smile more?
This must be the strawmanning of the year. No, not privileged white woman or abuse survivors does not need to grow up. But YES, MONSTERS needs to grow up. Patrick is just not an abuse survivor, but an abuser himself. Change or die.
given that she is trapped, her spotter is trapped, and she is bleeding. she’s being nice and explaining herself. she really doesn’t need to explain anything at this point.
I love how this comic routinely reminds me that reading the comments is always a mistake 🙂
See, I have the opposite reaction. I strongly disagree with about half the comments, but this is one of the few comments sections I know where the comments are actually worthwhile, whether I agree with them or not.
I’ll make the same point I made on the previous page.
We’ve passed beyond what’s best for the patient. Alison is bleeding and Feral is unconscious. Whether Alison’s action is best for Patrick has ceased to be the primary ethical driver. Alison has to take action, because the patient’s internal kangaroo court is not just holding a bomb on her and her unconscious bestie, it’s already started the ten-second countdown, and she has to hope that taking them out of the equation will stop the process and save at least two lives, and hopefully three.
Agreed. Whether what she’s doing is better for him isn’t her primary motivation. In her conversation with Feral, she used the word ‘poison’. She’s also talking about actively destroying parts of Patrick’s mind. She’s not here to selflessly improve his psychological state. She didn’t enter his mind solely to save him and told Anima as much.
She may die. Feral may die. Because Patrick’s power is growing as his mental state continues collapsing, Patrick and others may die if Al fails. If her escape from his mind via poisoning it (again! her word!) also helps him, cool. But survival is primary.
I agree that she’s aware that this is a potentially lethal situation for her and possibly Feral—although I’m not sure how vulnerable that intellectual knowledge actually makes her feel, given that she’s been effectively invincible for years now, and it’s anybody’s guess what Feral can survive, especially after nigh-unending torture in the transplant lab—but I would argue that she is still primarily interested in helping. If she was in rapid-action, move-or-die mode, she wouldn’t be stopping to explain the benefits of her actions to Patrick; she does so because she’s trying to help him as much as possible even if the delay’s potentially harmful to herself.
Sure, Alison should do what she can to minimize harm. However, I would generally propose that stepping into an alien starcraft and smashing things that you dont understand is *not* a good way to stay safe.
I can’t even… Okay, psych major keeping his big mouth shut on this speech.
Suffice to say, she’s taken over Anima’s role now… in the worst possible sense.
Actually I’m quite interested, what are the aspects of this whole speech which you disagreed with?
Remember everyone, Smithy asked for this.
“Machines are worse than brains.”
That’s a value judgment which is highly debatable. An awful lot of psychological dysfunction is a result of cognitive dissonance between reason and affect. One way of coming to grips with cognitive dissonance is to examine it rationally, both the roots of the affective response as well as the experiential input and the rational process. Machines have neither affect or reason – they have programmed functionality (which, BTW, arise out of rational process). An otter banging a shellfish on a rock is using a really primitive machine, but as multifunctional that rock is, it doesn’t ever act cruelly or vindictively. The otter, on the other hand, is still up for debate.
“Basic cognition requires a tremendous amount of emotional input.”
No concrete evidence that this statement is true (although it certainly seems to have a lot of weight in humans). Cognition in humans depends largely on input / feedback loops from neural input and recognizing / establishing patterns, which is not the same thing as affect (or emotion). Affect is an outcome of that neural input and is correlated with cognition, but correlation is not the same thing as causation.
“You’d know that more intuitively if the foundations of this place weren’t designed by a scared infant.”
a) Intuitive insight is based on a non-conscious reason, not necessarily emotional maturity.
b) If we can believe our narrator (Patrick telling us how this all came about), Patrick’s walls were not developed by a scared infant – they were developed by a jaded child, which is far more dangerous. Children have learned to be cruel and deceptive and to reap the rewards thereof.
“Logic can’t prompt action,”
Self evidently false. Strong emotion is more likely to provoke action, but logic can prompt action.
“It’s not logical to prioritize life over death or happiness over suffering. These are judgment calls. Those are value statements. Those are emotions.”
This was fairly reasonable until we got to “those are emotions”. There is a huge difference between a pain response (life over death, lack of pain over pain) and affect. Pain response is evolutionarily reflexive and reasonably consistent across individuals, affect is experientially intuited and is not at all normative. Barring a genetic or nervous defect, all people will pull away from something physically painful; the same thing cannot be said for affect and emotional pain.
“You have to decide who you are based on what you feel, and after that, you can be as logical about those feelings as you like.”
Had Alison said “you have to identify what it is that you’re feeling, and after that you can be as logical about those feelings as you like,’ I could get behind that, but the act of deciding is a rational, logical process. If you “have to decide who you are based on what you feel”, that leaves a big portion of the human race caught in a catch 22 of depression, bipolar, and psychosis disorders, people who have in large measure a great deal of difficulty of reconciling their affect with their cognitive and experiential functioning.
“Time to put away the walls and grow up.”
The implication is that Alison is going to force that choice and she’s going to tear down the walls. That kind of radical deconstruction can work, but more often it ends with an outcome that is less than favorable. It’s nearly always better to give the person an opportunity to “tear down the walls” themselves. If I ever get to that point where that kind of intervention is necessary, call in a freaking professional, not some college student – odds are good enough I could end up worse off and at least the pro would be able to quickly determine what went wrong and how to mitigate it.
Jovial Contrarian
“Holy guacamole, Alison! It turns out that your kinda-sorta-?-friend has mental issues bigger than a dill rabbit on a horn pickle! I mean, it could take YEARS of therapy to get him into shape, and who’s going to take a mind-reader as a client? What are we going to do?”
“… Imma give his thought, ideas, emotions and brain-stuffs a physical form…”
“Yeah, and?”
“… and then Imma punch ’em.”
Alison Green, problem-puncher.
Hey, since she can’t punch her Dad’s cancer can you blame her for wanting to punch her friend’s mental problems?
that is her shtick. she specializes in the one punch solution.
McFrugal
Emotions are chemical alterations of your value structure meant to push the human mind towards decisions that contribute towards survival. They’re essentially just saving you from having to think about things as much. Certainly not necessary to create a value structure. At worst the only base assumption you need is “Survival is good, both of myself and my genes”.
But that IS a base assumption. And it’s one that only sometimes leads to ethical behavior.
JohnTomato
Aristotle does not believe that the purpose of logic is to prove that human beings can have knowledge. (He dismisses excessive scepticism.) The aim of logic is the elaboration of a coherent system that allows us to investigate, classify, and evaluate good and bad forms of reasoning.
All reasoning has a purpose. All reasoning is an attempt to figure something out, to settle some question, to solve some problem. … All reasoning is expressed through, and shaped by, concepts and ideas. All reasoning contains inferences by which we draw conclusions and give meaning to data.
Well okay, but like… start with the outer walls and maybe leave up the building labeled “Insane war criminals and clowns”.
I don’t know sometimes the Joker has a good point…
Alison, honey… you’re going to make Lisa super sad if you keep dumping on machine brains like that.
no, shes not- some of what Alison is saying is probably from Lisa (off screen)
yumtacos
omg am i dumb? i just realized now that the philosophy professor was just an aspect of him too, which he foisted on the whole class as bait to get allison to help integrate the rest of his personality. duh!
David B Huber
None of us can comprehend the enormity of what Patrick has endured. I believe Patrick’s mental state is due to external attack by Gurwara who has been excising his knowledge of the Conspiracy. I believe that Patrick reached out to Alison as a last resort, inviting the one person he trusts into his mind to arbitrate an inner dialog between his fractured coping mechanisms (being unable to read his own mind). I believe Patrick rendered Feral unconscious when she decided it was time to kill him to save Al. And I believe Patrick has manipulated Alison into destroying his inner barriers which have become more hindrance to growth than protection…
If Patrick survives this pupation he will emerge very wise or very insane. Hopefully the insanities will fall beneath the wrecking ball.
ryan almazan
okay serious question what will happen when all the walls come down? Patrick mind is home to thousands and thousands of personality and identity from all the minds he have read, so when the wall comes down what exactly will be left? will it be the Patrick we all know and sometime love or will it be a chaotic amalgamation of all his identity mixed together, or will it be a free for all of all the minds he read each one screaming and fighting for dominance? for the right to exist.
Whoa, where did Lord Boy come from?
from the depths of childhood trauma.
seriously we are in a mind- you travel as quick as thought.
Hey moderator(s) of SFP, quick question. In the previous page I made a comment that said “Ever been to tumblr?”.
Why was this comment deleted?
El S F
(this is what I always think watching trek)
MoonicaMusing
FUCK YEAH ALISON!
Darkoneko Hellsing
Aah, I like how the giant metal ball is just floating behind her.
Quite Likely
Are values and emotions really the same thing? I would say that emotions are things like happiness, sadness, anger, fear, etc. while values are things like caring about human life or human freedom. I can easily imagine someone having plenty of emotions but no values or plenty of values but no emotions.
Kerlyssa
Im supposed to believe that a child soldier with half an english degree is better at psychology than someone who *reads minds* for a living?
No. Thats absolutely absurd. What’s next, will Alison start teaching fishes to swim better?
Danygalw
He can’t read his own mind, and his mental landscape is a city run by a literal child.
We have seen him literally reading his own mind throughout this arc. That was a one-off claim by Alison that never made any sense to begin with.
Now, lets pretend that she was right, and somehow being able to stroll through his mental landscape picking apart thought patterns and memories isn’t reading his own mind.
He is still the *foremost* expert on how human brains work. He has more insight into the human mind than every single psychologist in the world combined, because he gets to see their inner workings 24/7. And yet Alison, who knows *nothing* on the topic(she knows so little she actually considers herself more of an expert than him) is going to be the one that fixes him?
http://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-1/page-19/
…and grow up.
Sazazezer Mililpilipi
If Shockwave truly existed and was truly logical, i imagine that he’s spend all his days standing completely still, doing nothing at all.
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Gerard Baden-Clay Murder Trial – Day 14 – 2nd July, 2014
OUR REPORTS ARE IN DETAIL, UPDATED AS IT HAPPENS, FROM OTHER DIRECT SOURCES
Wednesday, 2nd July, 2014.
CROSS EXAMINATION OF GERARD BADEN-CLAY TODAY
“I just wanted sex” – Gerard Baden-Clay
“I didn’t love my mistress” – Gerard Baden-Clay
GBC is in the witness box, waiting for the jury.
A short delay for legal discussion. Jury is entering court.
GBC is being asked about contact between Allison and Toni and if Allison had his phone each night (The Crown is trying to rattle….yeah).
Fuller, “It was not an option for Toni to not go to the real estate conference on the 20th. You didn’t tell police you had spoken to Toni the afternoon before you reported Allison missing.”
GBC “It didn’t enter my mind to tell police about my conversations with Toni, I just wanted to find Allison.”
Fuller, “You had set rules with Toni to make sure Allison didn’t know you were communicating. At no stage after you dealt with police on the morning of the 20th did you disclose to your family about Toni McHugh.”
GBC, “I told my family after someone in the media said that they were running a story on my affair. I told police about the affair, I didn’t anticipate they would tell the media, but they did. I can’t remember if I spoke to police after they’d spoken to Toni. I answered every question the police asked.”
Fuller, “You refused to give them a statement.”
GBC, “I answered that question. They asked me to provide a statement, my answer was n.” I believe I spoke to homicide. I didn’t know what CIB meant, I didn’t know what a crime scene was.”
Edit – GBC is answering the same today as he did yesterday. Please, he doesn’t know what a “crime scene” is? That WILL HAVE to go against him.
GBC, “I was thankful to police who were dealing with the investigation, they seriously committed resources to it. Police probably kept in contact every day and were at first very responsive.”
Fuller, “I suggest that police were in contact with you every day.”
GBC, “Once a day wasn’t enough, I was desperate for information from the police.”
Edit – and yes we know why……
GBC, “There wasn’t anything to stop me from talking to the police, other than the advice of my lawyer. I met with my lawyer on that first night.”
Fuller, “Your first call to Allison was at 6.32am on the morning she went missing. Your first call to your parents’ address was at 6:44am. Concerned enough to call your parents?”
GBC, “That is correct.”
Fuller, “Which of Allison’s friends did you call at that time of the morning?”
GBC, “None. Her best friend lived beyond walking distance, it was a possibility she had walked to my parents at Kenmore.”
Edit – rubbish, another furphy – they are too far away, much too far away for a walk, especially for someone who walks 1/2 kilometre up the road on a flat surface, then turns around again. What rubbish!
Fuller, “Why did you take the Captiva instead of your own Prado, which was in the way and parked in an easier spot?”
GBC, “The Prado is a bigger car, and had been in an accident.
Edit – so his wife is missing, and the above ding stopped him rushing into the easiest car, to get her in case she had fallen and hurt herself. Really?
Fuller, “There wasn’t significant damage to the Prado, you’d been driving it since the incident. I suggest that the Captiva had been reversed in when you took it.”
GBC, “That isn’t true. I first noticed the toys in the back of the Captiva on Friday morning when I took it to look for Allison.”
PHOTOGRAPH – Prado with panel damage, it is part blocking the driveway.
GBC agrees tha there was nothing stopping him from driving the Prado.
Fuller, “Did you place the toys in the back of the Prado to make it look normal?”
GBC, “They would be unusual items to put in there to look normal.”
Edit – surely he is irritating the jury?
Fuller, “Why didn’t you call Allison’s parents when she went missing?”
GBC, “I called them later on, I thought she’d gone for a walk.”
Fuller, “You didn’t call them at 9.30am.”
GBC, “Yes, after I had been interrogated by the police for a couple of hours.”
Fuller, “You called your own friends first before calling Allison’s friends.”
GBC agreed that he was not prevented from making any calls when he was speaking with police that morning.
Fuller, “You took work calls that morning while speaking to police. As the morning progressed you became more concerned about the nature of the police questions.”
GBC, “No. My father and sister became concerned about the questions, but I wasn’t.”
Fuller, “Why didn’t you let her parents know as the questioning continued?”
GBC, “I didn’t that is when I phoned them.”
Fuller, “Did you think to call Toni to see if she had contacted Allison?”
GBC, “I didn’t even think about it. That morning seemed to travel very quickly.”
Fuller, “Police were called at 7.15am. Police arrived at 8.00am, Allision was more than an hour overdue.”
GBC, “I can’t remember what time Allison was supposed to leave for work, it was 7:00 or 7:30am.”
Fuller, “For Allisoon to not have come home, was significant. She was normally very punctual. Police had been at the house for an hour and a half before you called Allison’s parents. Why did you ring your friends ahead of her friends?”
GBC, “I honestly can’t remember the thought process. I called the Christs because the children were having a sleepover. I wanted them to know she was missing.”
Edit, the above doesn’t sit with me as true.
Fuller, “You had no anticipation that she wasn’t coming home, did you?”
GBC, “If she was found and was in hospital, I needed to let them know.”
Fuller, “So you were planning ahead?”
GBC, “I rang the Cheesmans as I was supposed to go around the prepare for their open house that day.”
Fuller, “So that was about managing the business?”
GBC, “I was concerned about Allison, but had to manage a business too.”
Fuller, “Why did you phone the Crannas?”
GBC, “I don’t know, possibly because he was close by.”
Edit – GBC wanted an audience to full sorry with him.
Fuller is asking about the couple’s insurance and superannuation policies as there were discussions on reducing them.
Fuller is asking GBC about phoning Allison’s life insurance on 1st May, the day she was found.
Fuller, “How did you find out a body had been found?”
GBC, “I was at the office and a media report came through. I called my lawyer when I heard, we met in the city and police came to my barrister’s office. Police confirmed to me that the body was Allison’s.”
Fuller, “You are confident that police confirmed it was Allison? Didn’t they tell you that it possibly was Allison or likely Allison?”
GBC, “I was told definitely”.
Fuller, “When you visited the doctor for your scratches, why didn’t you show her the rest of the injuries?”
GBC, “Maybe the second doctor asked me if I had any other concerns.”
Edit – He doesn’t answer anything directly, what a sleaze.
Fuller, “The first photos police took were of just your face. Why didn’t you tell the police about the scratches on your chest?”
GBC, “They were self inflicted, it just didn’t seem relevant.”
Fuller, “You went to a second doctor that afternoon and showed her the injuries on your chest, as the direction of the lawyer.”
GBC, “I did give my business card to the first doctor I visited to help her find a new house.”
Fuller is asking GBC about the money he owed and the interest he had to pay.
Fuller, “Allison had taken the role of someone you had been paying $100,000.00.”
GBC, “I was not paying Allison a salary.”
Fuller, “A separation with Allison would have had a significant financial impact on you and the business.”
GBC, “Yes. You are asking a lot of hypothetical questions, I have not ever thought about in detail.”
Fuller, “You had told Toni you would separate.”
GBC, “Yes and I told you that was a lie.”
Edit – one lie many lies – that is a liar!
Fuller, “As of 19th April, you were indeed under a number of pressures.
Fuller, “You were under pressures from your wife?”
GBC, “How do you mean? I want to clarify with regard to the conditions that Allison had placed on me. The tracking app was my idea”.
Fuller, “You know how to turn the tracking app off.”
GBC, “Both Allison and I knew how to turn it off. Allison went through a period of nine years with hardly an intimacy. There were a number of people he went to for sex and we’ve talked about some of them. I spoke to Allison about Toni, but not about any of the other women I had a relationship with.”
Fuller, “That is what the start of 2012 was all about – You and Toni organising to be together.”
GBC, “That is not true. We wanted to put the past behind us, with regard to counselling.”
(Rattling chains :D)
Fuller, “You wanted to put the past behind you. You were living a double life, weren’t you?”
GBC, “No, I did not believe I was living a double life at that stage.”
Fuller, “The facade that was Gerard Baden-Clay would fall if Toni McHugh had confronted Allison at the conference. If Allison had found out that you had been seeing, and emailing Toni, you would be exposed.”
GBC, “Sorry is there a question there?”
Edit – what a &^%O
Fuller, “You had sought Allison’s forgiveness, made promises to her, and then gone and done it again with the same woman. You had attended counselling, made promises, but your behaviour hadn’t changed at all.
GBC, “I had.”
Fuller, “Your business was failing, all things were coming together. You killed your wife Mr Baden-Clay.”
GBC, “No I did not.”
Fuller, “You killed her, probably smothered her and she lashed out with her fingernails. She grabbed your clothing, that is why you had the injury under your left shoulder. You overpowered her very quickly, didn’t you?”
GBC, “I never overpowered her”.
Fuller, “Did her jumper come up as you struggled or when you dumped her in the creek?”
GBC, “Your suppositions are absurd. I can’t answer them.
Fuller, “You put her body in the garden, in the leaves, you put her in the car.”
GBC, “I had nothing to do with anything”.
Fuller, “You dumped her body unceremoniously.”
GBC, “The suggestion I would leave my children alone for any time in the middle of the night is absurd, little alone to do the dastardly things you are suggesting.”
Fuller, “You loaded the toys in the back of the car, then cut yourself with a shaver at the bottom edges of the scratches. You let police search the house because you knew there would be nothing they’d find. You put on the facade of a worried husband then called a lawyer.”
Fuller, “Are you certain that you never told Allison she was going to run into Toni the next day? Despite the flashbacks Allison had from seeing Toni?”
CROSS EXAMINATION HAS FINISHED. BYRNE QC TALKS TO GBC.
GBC, “I was never violent with my wife.”
TIME FOR PRACTISED SPINNING:
GBC, “I had only been in an altercation twice. Once as a ten year old standing up for a friend. The second time was defending another friend from a bully when I was 12. I hadn’t ever thrown a punch. Allison and I argued like any couple but never raised voices. Allison and I didn’t ever argue in front of the children.
PHOTOGRAPH – Floor plan of house.
GBC is discussing how sound travels. If the girls made a sound, we could hear it clearly through the house. GBC is talking about the age of the house and the building materials used. One of the girls got up the night of 19th April after they had put them to bed. Allison was on the couch. I did not hear any noises that night.
Byrne, “Please clarify what you meant when you admitted that you had deceived Allison for four years.”
GBC, “I deceived her and my family and friends by not telling them about my infidelities. Deception is a strong word, rather I protected Allison by not telling people about her depression.
Edit –
GBC, “I deceived Toni by making her think that we had a future together. I have no knowledge of criminal behaviour, or how police operate. I just wanted police to be told the truth. This is why I called Toni and asked her about talking to police, I told her to tell them the truth. I had a number of infidelities over the years. The difference was with Toni and I we worked together. It wasn’t who I was brought up to be and I am very ashamed.
That is when I was relieved when things ended with Toni. I had no intention of telling Allison about the other women. I didn’t want to jeopardise things. I was with some of the other women for an extended period of time, many of them concurrent.
I answered a lot of Allison’s questions but there were times when I questioned her about the necessity. The counsellor later explained that it was important for Allison to talk about it. I could see it wasn’t helpful. I liked Carmel Ritchie’s structure of the 15 minute sessions.”
GBC denies that Toni stayed at his house. He said she visited and they had physical relations.
“I gave Toni a separation date I wouldn’t keep because I was worried about her mental strength.”
Edit, so it is fine to have “many, numerous affairs” and to run down these women, yet, GBC says he worries about their mental state? Which is it?
GBC, “I wanted Toni to put me out of her life. Some of the things I said and did were pretty naive and pretty stupid. I had some hope Toni could move on and we’d have some sort of friendship in the distant future. I’ve known Allison for 17 years, Toni for five. I wasn’t worried about them both being at the conference as Allison was non-confrontational. Allison could have been expecting Toni to be there anyway.
———— Edit – Yet – Allison confronted GBC on his affairs———
GBC, “Toni did have a volatile nature but in a public environment was always able to control herself. I really had no concern at all. I had been given Allison’s journal.”
Photograph – Page of Allison’s journal.
GBC is being asked what a series of numbers mean. He said that he doesn’t know. He doesn’t know how long Allison had the journal, although some dates were a couple of years prior. He said he doesn’t know where it was kept.
GBC HAS FINISHED GIVING EVIDENCE
ADJOURNED UNTIL 11:50AM
Defence witness Ashton Ward, managing director of Khemistry has taken the stand.
Mr Ward takes time lapse footage. He placed a camera at Kholo Creek which was retrieved on 20th June, 2014. Mr Ward is explaining how time lapse footage works.
FOOTAGE – Time lapse footage of the creek which shows the tide rising and falling. Logs, leaves and other debris can be seen moving along the creek.
Fuller is asking about the timing of the time lapse footage. Fuller says one second of the footage equals 75 minutes. Fuller commented that Mr Ward had no idea what the area looked like in 2012 and there aren’t any markings on the footage to indicate where the body was.
Dr Michael Roberston, a forensic toxicologist has taken the stand.
Dr Robertson reviewed file documents from Allison’s post mortem. Dr Robertson is talking about Sertralin, also known as Zoloft. Seratonin is a mood altering chemical in the brain, Sertraline increases the levels of seratonin in the brain. The levels of sertraline in Allison’s blood, stomach and liver are being discussed. The average levels of Sertraline for someone taking the drug would be .03 to .05mg per kg in the blood.
Dr Robertson said that “relative to clinical numbers” Allison’s reading was high at .059.
The judge is asking what the point of this comparison is, comparing Allison’s result with someone who is alive. Mr Robertson said that the drug concentrations can both increase and decrease after death. Drug concentrations redistribute. Studies have shown areas like legs are less susceptible to redistribution. Studies show that Sertraline doesn’t move much 24 to 48 hours after death. Allison’s higher reading could be from redistribution or taking more of the drug. The side effects from taking Sertraline could include anxiety, agitation, confusion, thermoregulation.
Another Seratonin Syndrome is unusual behaviour and elevation of body temperature. Suicidal ideation is another side effect that has cropped up from time to time. Seratonin Syndrome happens when your seratonin levels are too high. This can lead to increased agitation, unusual behaviours, confusion, problems with muscle control. Studies show people on anti depressants have a higher risk of suicide.
DR ROBERTSON IS NOW BEING QUESTIONED BY THE CROWN
Dr Robertson agreed that there were only trace levels of Sertraline in Allison’s stomach. Dr Robertson agreed that due to the redistribution of the drug after death, it was possible that there wasn’t any Sertraline in Allison’s stomach at all.
Dr Robertson is discussing redistribution of the concentration of the drug after death. Concentrations will increase in the central region of the body more so than peripheral that is the legs. The study doesn’t mention how long people have been deceased.
Edit – this guy doesn’t seem to be very thorough….
Dr Robertson agreed it would be affected by how long the person had been dead and the position of their body. Another study dealt with people who had been dead 24 to 48 hours. Dr Robertson agreed that the people in the study had 20 fold concentrations in liver after 24 to 48 hours. Allison’s liver was 10 fold.
Dr Robertson, “Broadly speaking, Sertraline is considered low toxicity. The Sertraline in Allison’s liver is not consistent with an acute overdose leading to death. I can’t completely explain the elevated levels of the drug in some parts of Allison’s body.”
Dr Robertson agreed that the levels in Allison’s body were not consistent with Sertraline related deaths. Allison’s stomach contents were inconsistent with ingesting significant quantities of Sertraline before death.
Dr Mark Schramm has been called to the stand.
Dr Schramm is a psychiatrist with 20 years experience, a lot of his work is forensic psychology.
Dr Schramm has prepared a report based on Allison’s psychiatric and medical records.
Schramm, “My report was proof read and approved by a professor in psychology who specialises in suicide. I have seen consultation notes, Allison’s GP file, psychiatrist notes, counsellor notes, autopsy report. I have seen Dr George’s testimony as well as Ms Richie’s. I don’t know whether Allison’ reaction to the anti-malaria medication is a red herring. Allison seemed to complain of a depressed mood, self doubt, lack of confidence and anxiety. Anyone can have panic attacks, anyone with anxiety is prone to them.”
Dr Schramm, “One study shows that 3.4% of people suffering from major depression will take their lives.”
Edit – ALLISON WASN’T SUFFERING FROM DEPRESSION AT THIS TIME, THAT WAS 12 YEARS AGO. This guy has no shame – $$$$$$$$$
Schramm, “It is not universal to leave a suicide note. More than half do not. Unfortunately suicide is a surprise, even in retrospect it is impossible to predict. You should not assume that experts have the answers. It is very much with psychiatry, people will assume we have a much greater power than we do to predict. It is foolish to be completely confident that someone with a history of depression isn’t going to take their life.”
Edit -I don’t like this paid witness.
CROSS EXAMINATION BY DANNY BOYLE
“Dr Scam” agrees that none of the remarks he gave about depression and suicide relate to Allison, they are just general assessments.
Dr Scam is being asked about maternal attachment, if that would count against a suicide risk.
Dr Scam said if there was not a triggering event, that would also count against risk of suicide.
Dr Scam agreed that a person making short and long term plans would also be at lower risk of suicide, if the person making the plans had not yet made the decision to commit suicide.
Danny Boyle, “What if the person has been proactive in the past about seeking assistance?”
Dr Scam, “In general it lowers risk. I did get a sense of Allison’s maternal attachment but I can’t recall where it was said.”
Dr Mark Schramm agrees that symptoms of depression can become worse during pregnancy. Allison never reported any side effects from the anti depressants. There was a sense that sometimes it took several months for Allison to respond to the medication. She seemed to benefit from the antidepressants.
After 2003, suicide was never raised by any psychiatrists, psychologists or counsellors who consulted with Allison.
Dr Schramm said that he hasn’t interviewed Allison or anyone else.
Dr Schramm said Allison suffered from major depression which is a major risk factor of suicide. “One could imagine” the stresses in the marriage could have put Allison at risk of suicide. He said that he has “no idea” but going on the Relationships Australia, this could have made things raw.
Edit – coulda, woulda, shoulda…….
Dr Schramm said that it could also have given her hope. Dr Schramm said that of course depression is a factor for suicide.
Dr Schramm has finished.
Edit – Don’t let the door hit you on the way out (sorry everyone).
MICHAEL BYRNE QC SAYS THAT IS THE CASE FOR THE DEFENCE.
Justice John Byrne said that means all the evidence has been given.
THE JURY HAS BEEN EXCUSED UNTIL 10:00AM MONDAY
FULL TRANSCRIPTION OF GBC’S BLOG:
The Real Estate Expert
The Real Estate Expert blog is your timely update on Brisbane property news, views and issues as seen through the eyes of someone who is living it, breathing it and selling it every day. This is the information you won’t find in any newspaper and which you should have to make sound decisions about buying and selling …
Mr Mum!
27.11.08 The past week I have been trying to do my best impersonation of my dear wife – and struggling!
Allison turned the big “four-o” earlier this year and to mark the occasion she and her best friend have taken a week off at the Golden Door health spa.
Whilst she has been enjoying the rest and quietude, I have been trying to manage the house and transport my three girls to all of their activities – and I am knackered!
It’s a bit of a cliché that most men have no idea how hard it is to run a household, and I thought that I was pretty in tune with the day-to-day routine, but I can honestly say that this week has given me a real insight into the challenges of managing a family. Waking up, getting dressed, having breakfast, making lunches, getting to school, collecting from school, bath, cook dinner, eat dinner, homework, teeth, bed! And that doesn’t include any extracurricular activities like ballet, swimming and music! And, I haven’t done any vacuuming, dusting, cleaning or a single load of washing!
In amongst all of this “domestic duty”, I’ve also been trying to squeeze in some work and assistance with running this business – look out for the two new properties coming to the market this week and the successful sales from last weekend too!
Despite these challenges (and the associated exhaustion!), I have enjoyed some wonderful times with my children both individually and collectively. Whether it be a few minutes playing in the park, a snatched moment whilst getting them ready for bed, or just the simple pleasure of talking about life whilst driving to and from school, kindy and a host of other activities!
The startling revelation personally, has been the realisation that I am NOT superman after all!
Yes, I think that I have managed (alright, “coped” is probably more accurate!) rather well this week (and I have only put the TV on once for “assistance”!), but it would be remiss of me not to mention the terrific support of my sister and friends who have been able to look after Ella (aged 2) during the day so that I can still work during school hours.
So, what’s the upshot of this week? Well, I certainly have a renewed respect for all of the hard work that goes into being a “homemaker”, and the pleasure of being able to spend some more quality time with my three beautiful girls. I’ll certainly be more understanding in the future when I come home from work and find that dinner isn’t on the table with my foot spa pre-warmed! Until next week…. Gerard Baden-Clay
Posted by Gerard Baden-Clay BBus, AFAIM, LREA
Source: http://expertrealestate.blogspot.com.au/2008/11/mr-mum.html
July 1, 2014 by Moonlight | Link | 101 Comments
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Moonlight | July 2, 2014 at 7:43 am
More lies…..
Mr Bigmouth liar said that he has driven over Kholo Creek bridge only since Allison’s death, he doesn’t know the area of the scouts, etc.
Welllllllllll………….. Allison is from Ipswich. Guess the fastest, direct route, without traffic to get to Ipswich?
Of course, this area, driving over Kholo Creek bridge. The area is very overgrown, you don’t see many properties at all…..perfect, hey GBC???
You also can’t tell me that with allllllllllll that ego, that the Real Estate agent who knows this area so well that they can tell you the price of a property from looking at the roof (a game that he played with NBC, boasting how well they knew the properties in their area), didn’t peacock himself and preen himself at the scout camp, with another chance to boast of his hyphenated, made up, name?
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mike0351 | July 2, 2014 at 8:26 am
I’m gobsmacked …. i hope the crown has read this , how the hell could you exlain which is truth and which is fairytale. Great find , you couldnt find a better example of his BS ,,,,
Mike, you can cut off 1/2 hour WITHOUT traffic going this way. It is also a lovely drive.
I wonder if GBC drove over the bridge to attend Allison’s funeral?
RIP Allison | July 2, 2014 at 7:51 pm
Moonlight I lived in that area for 2 months over a decade ago and remembered Kholo Creek and the scout ground. They are well signposted. Unless one drives with your eyes half shut one can’t miss them. This area is in GBC’s back yard. There is NO way he and his entire family did not know Kholo bridge and with their scouting interests also the scout ground, I suspect like the back of their hands.
After Allison went ‘missing’ with my limited exposure to the area I wondered about the bushy areas between Anstead and Karana Downs, because it would be ideal for concealing a body, and lo and behold that ended up where she was found.
So if I in my naivety could think of this, no doubt someone with evil intent would and in fact did – someone who wanted Allison;s body to not be found for 1-2 weeks, and be safe from helicopter or pedestrian searches. Evil!
Back to GHS “helping at Moggill Shops in the floods”. I would like to be corrected, still, as I don’t know to which shops he is referring. There are shops at Bellbowrie and a “corner store” type shop up high opposite Moggill school that didn’t flood. If the strategists and spin doctors aren’t clear, then no-one can question them – the locals can’t say, “GBC wasn’t at Bellbowrie helping us” as he wasn’t clear. Just spinning.
More strategy from he and his spin doctors “Dr Spin Defence” – all trying to have the jury think GBC is upstanding, with he rambling on about how much money he made (which wasn’t as much as he was trying to make it out to be), how he was “this” and “that”, giving so much information, the jury won’t check things like he would drive over the bridge to Ipswich, that he perhaps didn’t help at the floods, so the strategists think. However, we are now in a different age, the age of people caring and being allowed a voice.
As I type out the testimonies, things hit me as not right. They protest to cover themselves when it isn’t necessary which gives me a red flag.
Same as the bridge, that we just spoke about, the bridge he would have crossed to drive to Ipswich, like the locals do. His ramblings were purposeful, similar to those commercials on the new TV stations that go on and on an on, trying to convince you to buy, advertising is what rules our society.
Imagine he giving his business card to the doctor after his wife died to sell her house? He shouldn’t be able to function, if he truly cared, little alone always looking for a lead. His business is his Achilles Heel.
GBC’s product are his lies.
THE BRIDGE TESTIMONY:
Crown prosecutor Todd Fuller QC asked Mr Baden-Clay whether he had been to Kholo Creek prior to his wife’s death.
“I had driven across that bridge in the past yes, when going out along Mt Crosby,” Mr Baden-Clay said.
“You had properties in and around Anstead that you’d had some connection with?” Mr Fuller asked.
“Yes,” Mr Baden-Clay replied.
“Had you had anything to do with the Scout camp?” Mr Fuller said.
“No,” Mr Baden-Clay said.
Gerard Baden-Clay says he didn’t know the location of the creek where his wife’s body was found.
“Did you know one was there?” Mr Fuller asked.
“To be honest with you I’m not sure I knew exactly where it was,” Mr Baden-Clay replied.
Edit – please read sign as you drive over the bridge: (I think there are two bridges on that run of the road)
EDIT: (Standard 101 of lying, when someone says, “To be honest with you”).
The court has previously heard Mr Baden-Clay is the great-grandson of famed Scout movement founder Lord Robert Baden-Powell.
The court has also heard the Scout grounds at Anstead border the creek.
“If you had asked me on the 19th or anytime in April where Kholo Creek Bridge was I would not have been able to tell you. I had no idea,” Mr Baden-Clay said.
“Mr Baden-Clay you deceived your wife for nearly four years didn’t you?” Mr Fuller said.
Mr Fuller soon turned his questioning to Mr Baden-Clay’s character.
Moonlight | July 2, 2014 at 10:23 am
Edit – GBC wanted an audience to feel sorry with him.
Oh just imagine this!!
His wife is ‘tragically’ missing, instead of frantically searching for her, he tidies his house, makes his bed without noticing if the other side had been slept in, moves a portrait of him and his wife which had significance for her, set out teacups for expected visitors, dresses in a suit and cuff links, prepares to send his traumatised children to school so the school can deal with the problem while he phones/texts all his family members and friends, googles ‘pleading the fifth”, calls the police, asks his father to remove a vacuum cleaner and hose from under the house (nearly forgot!), then turns his attention to seeing a lawyer….huh…??? Oh and in the end he fits in calling the missing wife’s parents…in case they are interested…..What the…???!!!!
melbomartin | July 2, 2014 at 11:38 am
Because of course, phoning the insurance company is the first thing on your mind when your missing wife’s body may or may not have been found.
Exactly, melbomartin, this really bothered me. He should be devastated, imagine phoning strangers and talking about your wife’s death at that time. Who would want to do that so soon?
Billboard size bright red flag!
Sad for Allison | July 2, 2014 at 9:31 pm
Yes, and I think Allison’s body was identified by dental records, certainly not that day that GBC says police told him it was definitely Allison’s body that was found. Where is the grief? Where is the being with your children? No, he goes straight to see his solicitor. Surely the jury will see this – I sure hope so! He constantly hides behind his father ‘told him to report her death to the insurance company’, his father ‘told him to seek legal advice’, his sister told him it wasn’t too early to call the police. This man is in his 40’s, is he incapable of thinking for himself? Clearly not, and when he does he still stuffs it up!!
A “number of women”
This is the biggest lie of all. He has continually said Toni was volatile, and yet he wasn’t concerned that his wife and mistress might come across each other and his game would be up? This was two worlds colliding for Gerard, no doubt about it and no ‘placating’ anyone here!
Love this post, Sad for Allison.
Tishy | July 4, 2014 at 12:09 am
That’s Mister Aspiring Lawyer talking. He’s been hitting the books in the clink.
Tishy, you said that so eloquently.
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11,04am:
melbomartin | July 2, 2014 at 12:18 pm
“I can’t answer them on the grounds that I might incriminate myself.”
Moonlight | July 2, 2014 at 12:20 pm
Surely people were rolling their eyes, and found him mealy mouthed with his responses.
Here Mike and Diane:
Interesting that… sound travels and yet Allison at some point during the night placed his phone on the charger next to his bed and somehow got around the treadmill on his side of the bed (oh, but he’s a deep sleeper don’t forget). And Allison managed to change into her walking clothes and leave the house, and in the meantime her pyjamas are nowhere to be seen and he didn’t look for them at any point, and he still heard nothing. That’s right, he only hears the girls. I think it’s called selective hearing, or lying.
Oh my ! He claims he did not care about Toni, wanted to be rid of her and lied to all & sundry about loving her, yet he claims to be worried about her mental health.
His claims to care about his wife but he treats her like a piece of trash and cheats on her behind every bush he can find.
Has he any idea what all the c@#% he is talking sounds like???
I would have thought having had 2 years to get his ducks in a row and his story straight, he would do better than this!!!!!!!!! But it’s good – it is necessary that he is exposed for the evil monster that he is – ditto for accomplices.
Yes, and setting a fake date for Toni would help her mental state – how? Oh that’s right, he was ‘placating’ her. I think it’s called burying your head in the sand, or lying. He is painting a picture of himself as a liar who will say anything to get himself out of a situation and yet he still thinks he looks good. It makes him look like a delusional manipulative liar, but he’s okay with that because he believes in himself. It’s the reason he took the stand, to convince everyone what he believes about himself. It’s called narcissism.
The thing is, Toni isn’t as stupid as GBC attempts to make her out to be. They had a relationship of approximately five years. If GBC placated Toni as he claims, she would have “lost it” as he claims is her personality (which I also don’t think he would put up with, he’d go to the next woman, as he can’t control that type of personality). He isn’t a “yes man” as he would be continuing letting her down. He showed on the stand, if he doesn’t get his own way, and he expects it, he is sarcastic. The email between GBC and Toni stated that they were both in agony being apart, another email he said to Toni, “let me handle it for now”. These aren’t placating words, this is a relationship of TRUST. Toni wouldn’t, for five years, have trusted him, if he didn’t deliver each time. She wouldn’t have protected him until she found out that he was sleeping with other women behind her back.
GBC and Toni had the photos done that Allison discovered just before she was murdered. Withheld evidence.
GBC did keep their relationship going, he did re-connect with Toni, when they weren’t working together, (remember he said he had to sleep with her as they were working together to keep the business going? OMG, what is he going to do in jail with the other inmates…. – hahaha “I shall placate you…”), his excuse of re-connecting was to make sure she was alright. Their relationship was then intimate again. Come on, he must think people don’t have memories.
I think that in the real world, a lot of people rolled their eyes behind his back, GBC thought he was, “the man” and in reality, he wasn’t getting away with his carrying-on tactics that he continues to try, now.
I agree Moonlight! His constant lying is very apparent, and really annoying. But he is what he is, I think his true colours showed.
Now why would the GG & GM portraits which I suspect was part of the final straw for Allison be withheld as evidence? It is yet more proof how he wanted to torment Allison right to the very end. Allison who was kind and loving and wanted nothing from him but to be the same to her. How he treated her in life and death is inexcusable.
More lies, from GBC.
Quote Gerard Baden-Clay: “I answered that question. They asked me to provide a statement, my answer was no.” I believe I spoke to homicide. I didn’t know what CIB meant, I didn’t know what a crime scene was.”
GBC’s interests, his words, his blog:
Surely, some of these movies had crime scenes???????
Favourite Films:
the Mission Impossible series, The Bourne trilogy, most of the James Bond Films – the latest Casino Royale being the best, Lethal Weapon series although the first was definitely the best, Thank You For Smoking, True Lies –
How could you not know what CIB meant? Pull the other one.
GBC’s answers:
“I don’t recall”
“I honestly don’t know”
“Isn’t this a bit personal”
“I didn’t think you’d ask such personal questions”
“I’ve already answered that”.
If someone is honest and not guilty, they would answer with, “yes, no”.
That’s exactly it!! Wonder why someone who claims to have no idea what a ‘crime scene’ is, would know what ‘pleading the fifth” is and be very interested to learn more about it immediately prior to reporting their murdered wife missing…????
As Moonlight mentioned earlier, it is denying stuff and lying about stuff unnecessarily that shows with absolute clarity that he is so GUILTY, trying so hard to cover every track that he is being stupid about it. Great! Go for it GBC!!!!!! Keep showing your true colours!!!
I would say murder is “a bit personal”.
Haha, RIP, perfect, as you say, “pleading the fifth.”
Hilarious, and I love your pick up 😀
Good morning! 😀
It is such a beautiful morning this morning.
GBC makes me sick:
He knows nothing of the Scouts’ land at Anstead?
“Gerard is a keen supporter of the local Scouts and Guides chapter, contributes to the provision of a chaplaincy service at Kenmore State High School …”
Source: https://www.blogger.com/profile/07907839226403813399
BIG porky!!!!!!
Dr Robertson, “Broadly speaking, Sertraline is considered low toxicity. The Sertraline in Allison’s liver is not consistent with an acute overdose leading to death.
ALLISON WASN’T SUFFERING FROM DEPRESSION AT THIS TIME, THAT WAS 12 YEARS AGO. This guy has no shame – $$$$$$$$$. This guy is one opinion, different from all those whom consulted with Allison, shameful. We all know how academic opinion differs. Bottom line is, he didn’t consult, he read notes and he is paid by the defence.
Schramm, “It is not universal to leave a suicide note. More than half do not.
Wouldn’t one argue that a person on antidepressants and seeking counselling would be less likely to take their own life? I imagine untreated depression accounts for many more cases of suicide but I’m no expert.
Moonlight | July 2, 2014 at 1:04 pm
This guy is a paid scammer, in my opinion. How can he negate, as a professional, the other doctors who consulted for years with Allison? In my view, the whole thing is shameful.
DR MARK SCHRAMM:
08/12/12 This Doctor is very arrogant and a little egotistical. He needs to seek help from his own therapist as to why he feels so inferior inside that he has to act so superior. Surely it is an act, no one could be this high and mighty.
he cured my main problems fantastic doctor and i couldnt have got there without him or medication its part of cognative therapy
He is so arrogant and does not take the time to listen. Should not work with patients. He is only interested in drugging me up.
I can’t believe what those other people have written. Dr Schramm is the nicest most caring doctor I heve ever met. He listens and helps and has basically saved my life after years of pain and depressiion and wrong diagnosis. He always has time to talk and really wants to know ME!!.
What a complete waste of time. This guy has no idea! I have never come across such an egotistical doctor as this chap. Seriously make the effort to find someone that knows a little more than this chaps limited knowledge. Classic pill dispenser and hyped up medico legal “know it all’!!
21/03/0 Just another pill dispenser. Gave me ECT as a first line of treatment.
29/08/07 Doesn’t have a very theraputic attitude, likes to prescribe meds and that’s really all.
http://www.ratemds.com/doctor-ratings/120848/Dr-Mark-Schramm-Brisbane-QLD.html
Notwithstanding the fact too that Allison was devoted to her children and it is highly unlikely she would take her life. She was too committed to them and their welfare. Of all the things that has made me sick about this, it is the defence claims that she was somehow not a fit parent that really rub me up the wrong way.
Allison was highly self-aware, and sought professional help for her problems. Who, having been married to a manipulative, lying, cheating husband like hers, who constantly put her down, would not be depressed? No-one would blame her for trying to seek marriage guidance counselling, and then to find out that after she had forgiven him and set conditions, only to discover he was STILL lying and cheating, would not have thought of leaving the marriage. This in my mind is a reason GBC would’ve been very concerned about what might occur at the conference the next day. If Allison left him, his fake persona was blown out of the water – to his family, the community, his business contacts – and this alone would have been enough to spark a rage. Let’s not forget either, despite his denials that he wasn’t overly concerned about his financial situation (yeah, right!) that he stood to lose his daughters and his business by divorcing Allison. If she had suggested or hinted at this, that would’ve been the trigger for a huge explosion on his part.
If you have a look at the white ear head phones that GBC is wearing.
Photographic proof of the lies:
Then, you have a look at which side of the bed they are hanging:
The above is further proof that GBC’s side of the bed is the left hand side, which I call the masculine side, due to the fact the right hand side has feminine belongings on it.
mike0351 | July 2, 2014 at 9:00 pm
Great pick up ,do you know if the prosecution showed these photos and queried him ?
queenslandcountrylady | July 3, 2014 at 5:58 am
That would be the left hand side of the photo is his side.
Meaning the right hand side in real life.
That would mean the right hand side of the photo was Allison’s side.
Meaning the left hand in real life.
The book under the table would be on Allison’s side.
The headphones (great pick up) hanging would be his.
The treadmill is on his side.
Sad for Allison | July 3, 2014 at 6:59 am
I agree that’s the way they slept QCL. Fuller did indeed show the photo and question GBC Mike, and in fact threw a huge amount of doubt as to who placed his phone on its charger at 1.48am on 20th April as he admitted it was next to him when he awoke. The implication of course is GBC didn’t know if Allison came to bed, and also how would she reach over him or squeeze past the treadmill to his side of the bed to place the phone on the charger. I think this was a brilliant point made by the prosecution.
Dearest Queenslandcountrylady,
Isn’t it chilling? Confrontational and ever so sad. Why didn’t he look at that photo, the marital bed and cry? His well thought out timing for crying wasn’t anything to do with reality, as we know.
Agreed, the right bedside table clearly has feminine stuff on, and books underneath, I seem to recall Allison’s journal was found by police under her bedside table…is that correct?
I think it was established in court that the left-hand side of the bed was his, as Fuller asked GBC about the treadmill being on his side of the bed? The look on his face in that photo, I don’t know what it is about his eyes, but they are creepy… I think this every time I see an image of him.
RIP Allison | July 3, 2014 at 12:30 am
I agree Sad for Allison, I feel that too… hard, emotionless, callous, calculating, manipulating….???
I feel an unusually strong aversion actually, have done since that very first day I saw him and sis Livvy on TV….felt like I was looking at evil personified. The very reason for my being here 2 years later! I knew at that moment that Allison would not be found alive and he knew exactly where she was. And every shred of evidence that has come to light since has supported that.
There must be truth to the saying ones eyes are windows to ones soul! We do not like what we see in Gerard’s – SNAP!
How amazing that you had the premonition where Allison would be found RIP! It must give you goosebumps thinking about it. There is something very menacing and malicious about his expression in many photos. The jury would’ve noticed a marked difference in his testimony while the defense were questioning him – voice breaking, sobbing, wiping his eyes, saying ‘sorry’ etc to when he was on the defensive the past 2 days while being cross-examined. I wish I could’ve been in court to get a better sense of it, but I bet they got the impression of the simmering anger below the surface. The consummate liar (by his own admission!) and manipulator. That wouldn’t go down well for the jurors at all.
Some of GBC’s responses were quite sarcastic, he isn’t a broken man from losing his wife, by any means, he cries when it is about him, not about her.
Hi Sad for Allison, I did not think of it as ‘premonition’, it was just a thought when they did not find her for a day or two. I thought well there’s such a vast undisturbed terrain around those “camel humps” – the Kholo Ck towards Karana Downs area, where a body could be concealed.
GBC made many blunders in executing his evil plan, but he used Allison’s phone as a very effective decoy – it kept searchers mulling around the wrong area for around a week or so. I suspect if it was not for the phone signalling from near the BC home, the police would have searched the scout camp & surrounds a lot sooner.
I agree with all you say, and the premonition, too, is amazing, RIP.
When Allison was lost, we drove around the streets, I kept thinking, “the drains, the water, the creek” it was really bothering me, really bothering me.
I just didn’t know where.
I heard, in person, he is very charming, very charismatic, very alluring as a man.
This is what he knows, and what he plays on, and tried to play on in court.
Well I think with his masque removed and all his dirty washing out in the open, the spell was broken. I think his nasty real character – dishonest, deceptive, arrogant, manipulative, abusive, and cruel was plain for all to see. I doubt very much the jury found him charming.
Good RIP, so very good. I have mentioned before, I saw him from a distance, before all this happened, and wasn’t impressed, as I like authentic people. To me, he stood out like a sore thumb.
I smiled at your list of character traits, so well put.
The jury are there to be critical, let us hope.
Hi RIP. Hope you had a nice holiday. I too thought he un-masked himself on the stand. Just ever so slightly.
Just enough that his true colours started to peep through.
Well certainly the jurors would’ve observed the difference between when GBC was in full flight of detailing his trip to Europe and beyond many years ago, waxing on and on and having a chuckle about this that and the other, compared to his answers to Todd Fuller which were short, sharp and somewhat testy. He just had to regain any control or power lost (in his own mind), as in mentioning how many lovers he had when he felt he was being hammered/put in a corner under cross-questioning. How bizarre!
It was also really interesting how he took offence to the suggestion that he’d left his children at home the night of Allison’s death – meanwhile he’s on trial for murdering his wife! That fact was of little importance at that point, I’d have thought but it was important to him. I do wish the prosecution had gone for the jugular in terms of his sense of importance, which was the business, the money, how he was such a failure in that area. Perhaps the prosecution have done enough, and GBC himself certainly helped their case by revealing his true persona.
Like all of us, I feel so frustrated with the subject and hope the jury is well selected.
Gee whiz, if he was trying to be alluring and charming and charismatic in court, (chuckle for empathy);
Methinks he failed miserably. (Um, what was the question there? Indignant ex-postulation re dastardly suggestion. Clears throat, Don’t recall)
At what point should he be reminded this is a Murder trial? Not a travel expo.
Oh, and the number one suspect is himself.
Exactly QCL, I think he truly loves the sound of his own voice (lies are permissable naturally) and let’s face it he hasn’t had the audience of choice for the past 2 years! I think he charms himself, and believes others feel the same about him as he does. He is the only one he loves – not Toni, not Allison, not any of his other flings. His love for his children would be how they reflect back on him and make him feel about himself.
I too have questioned whether he was really ‘present’ to his circumstances and that he was the one on trial during several of the hours he was on the stand. He’s gone back to Arthur Gorrie in the evening and had a think about his testimony, and then the next day of all things feels it necessary to make clear that putting the Find my Friend app on his and Allison’s phone was HIS idea! Who cares, there was so much more at stake at that point during the trial it just beggars belief.
Yes, RIP, perfectly correct.
brissy72 | July 5, 2014 at 7:04 am
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brissy72 | July 3, 2014 at 11:06 pm
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Hello Brissy 72 and Welcome ,
Well Gerry would have us believe he is one of ‘Jesus’s Little Sunbeams’ , but let me tell you he aint foolin me, however we do have to think like a juror and as such must base our decision on what is testified only and i’m far from impressed with the case the crown put forward , let me give you just a couple of examples , firstly i think a lot of people took an interest in the case when we saw his interview with sis Olly by his side , well by his side when she wasnt digging into his back in an attempt to get him to shut his trap , infact i bet afterwards he said ” It only hurt a little bit Livvy … but I’m ok now ” … why didnt they play that and it doesnt matter what question they then asked either of them about it it would be testimony …… and another huge blunder was why was he not asked why on the morning of her dissappearance did he google ‘ taking the 5th’ , as his answer could only be a lie , we’ll never know but it’d need to be the ‘Porkie of the Century’ if it didnt clinch the verdict.
Personally i think he’s as guilty as sin , however much of the crown case appeared as if they didnt want to win , between us ‘lay people ‘ here during the trial we had many extremely prudent questions that may well have stumped him, never once when he avoided answering Mr Fullers questions did he ask GBC again to answer the question that he asked.
You only get one go at trying someone and i wonder why Danny Boyle never said one word and also why the original lead investigator Mark Ainsworth was not called to testify as he faced the media daily until he charged GBC and was never seen again , he did handle the media brilliantly.
We do have the summing up yet and also the Judge to address the jurors , i just hope they feel they heard enough to put away this terrible excuse for a human and that he does his time long and extremely hard.
GBC, in his testimony, said that he tried to phone his policeman friend when Allison first disappeared, I don’t recall a name being given. Probably too much of a stretch.
There are things, though, that bug me, too, I wonder who knows whom…
Interesting article I saw at http://friedgreentomatoes.org/ about psychopaths or narcissists – sounds strangely familiar doesn’t it?
“Charming, seductive and eloquent they are, and they use all those abilities when lying, manipulating and betraying. Psychopaths and narcissists can slash a path of human misery through lives of dozens, or hundreds, and even thousands, of people. They bring pain and suffering to nearly everyone they touch. And yet, somehow, they manage to convince their victims that it is they who are being wronged.
There is a reason for that: they actually do feel that they are victims because somewhere inside, they know that they are not like the majority of the human population, and this knowledge is coupled with a fundamental need to be in control, to be in charge. That they – a minority – cannot be in charge of the majority appears to them as a great injustice, one that they will fight to the death to right!”
Gosh RIP, this is such a good article, thank you so much. It is awful being on the other end of people such as that, they are so conniving and fool 99% of the people around them.
Yes, pretty much sums him up RIP. Trying to convince others of his lies, but at the same time believing it’s okay to lie. God knows what the jurors make of him. Did any of you hear the report from people who were in court on Wednesday saying that GBC passed a note to the bailiff? It was handed to the Judge, and then GBC and his legal team taken outside as the defense knew nothing about the note. The jury weren’t in at that point, and it was brushed over and the jury weren’t told about it. This guy just beggars belief! I don’t think he even gets the gravity of the fact that he’s on the stand for murder.
Justice Byrne’s summing up will be really interesting, and I think will obviously affect which was the verdict goes. I wonder how long the jury will deliberate for, and just hope there isn’t a hung jury if they can’t agree. I’m taking a day off work on Monday to hear the closing arguments. This will be too good to miss!
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I truly believe that the judge’s summing up and direction to the jury will hold the key to conviction or otherwise.
I am taking hope from the “girl thrown over the balcony” verdict – Gittany.
So many similarities in terms of sociopathic behaviour and protestations of innocence after the event.
There is not a single person within my orbit (mind you, I live a pretty cloistered life just caring for Nuns) who believes he is innocent.
If my Nuns (who are immersed in charitable thoughts and belief in the good of all people) are beside themselves with anguish about what they have read/heard, let’s hope that the jury shares some of that same sense of horror and despair.
Should he walk free, I can only attempt to placate myself and others with the knowledge that his life as he knew it is over. (Oh shit, I can never, for the rest of my life, use the word ‘placate’ without thinking of him)
Small consolation, I know.
And what chance of his accomplices being made to face their truths?
Nigel is in this up to his armpits. He may never be brought to justice, but his pathetic manufactured hyphenated name is now tarnished forever more.
LOL now THIS is elqoenceness GHS
mike0351 | July 4, 2014 at 11:56 am
‘ ELQOENCENESS
Ease up Tish ….
I failed primary ‘skool’ and now a bloke’s gunna have his head in a dictionary all bluddy day …
I’ve just got my head around ‘placate’ and GBC is just getting the hang of ‘Guilty’ … lol
gerbilhuntingseason | July 4, 2014 at 2:59 pm
Coming through loud and clear GHS!
A good article here from the Bulletin on 2 July of Todd Fuller’s intense questioning of GBC. How I would’ve loved to be there, but will go on Monday to hear the defence and prosecution’s summing up, and Justice Byrne’s direction to the jury:
http://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/news/baden-clay-not-concerned-about-mistress-phoning-wi/2306708/
MURDER accused Gerard Baden-Clay has testified it was “absurd” to suggest he had physically harmed his wife in any way and “dastardly” to suggest he had unceremoniously dumped her body at the Kholo Creek bridge.
The father of three told Brisbane Supreme Court he would never hurt his wife or leave his children in the middle of the night.
He denied his wife caused long, wide scratches on his face and asserted he had not tried to cover it up.
“You transported her to Kholo Creek and then dumped her underneath the bridge unceremoniously?” Crown prosecutor Todd Fuller suggested.
“No I did not,” Mr Baden-Clay said.
Mr Fuller suggested the accused man was anxious to get back to his children.
“The suggestion that I would leave my children for any time in the middle of the night is absurd, let alone to do the dastardly things you are suggesting,” Mr Baden-Clay said.
Mr Baden-Clay denied there was a risk of catastrophe if his wife and lover came together on April 20, 2012, so he had a decision to make the night of April 19.
He said he did not believe he was living a double life that would be exposed.
“If that came about you would be exposed to your family, your friends, your profession – the façade that was Gerard Baden-Clay would fall wouldn’t it?” Mr Fuller asked.
“If your wife became aware that you were continuing to see Toni McHugh, that you had sex with her again after September, 2011, that you were emailing her and telling her that you loved her and that you would leave your wife for her… you’d be exposed if those things came out?”
Mr Baden-Clay said: “If they did. There are lot of ifs, that’s true. It hadn’t been something I’d considered.”
TODAY’S CROSS-EXAMINATION OF GERARD BADEN-CLAY
Mr Fuller: As of April 19, 2012, you were indeed under a number of pressures weren’t you?
Mr Baden-Clay: There were a number of pressures but they were not significant.
Mr Fuller: You were under pressures from your wife Allison? She was keeping tabs on where you were going?
Mr Baden-Clay: I should clarify … you put to me yesterday that Allison required certain things of me, including that I not go out at night and that I hand over my phone to her, that I put that find friends application on my phone. I should clarify – and it’s been something that bothered me last night because upon reflection of my evidence yesterday I felt satisfied I had answered truthfully and factually all the question you asked, however there is something in amongst that which is not quite accurate. It was actually my suggestion about that application. It was me that found it and me that loaded it on our phones. And showed Allison how to use it. It would be true to then say that Allison asked that we continue to use that application.
Mr Fuller: You also knew how to turn it off?
Allison Baden-Clay.QT file image
Mr Baden-Clay: We both knew how to turn it off that’s correct. The application runs on the phone, links into the GPS on it, links into location service. On occasion it doesn’t’ function or malfunctions and doesn’t seem to work properly and we found that through trial and error the way to restart it was to turn off and turn it back on again
Mr Fuller: And on the one day you needed it, it failed you?
Mr Baden-Clay: And on the one day I needed it, it failed me, that’s correct.
Mr Fuller: Whether it was Allison’s demands of you or your volunteering of those things, it didn’t stop you still meeting up with Toni McHugh?
Mr Baden-Clay: No that’s correct. On a couple of occasions.
Mr Fuller: Or being in contact with her regularly?
Mr Baden-Clay: That is correct.
Mr Fuller: I suggest you wanted to be with Toni McHugh?
Mr Baden-Clay: That’s not correct.
Mr Fuller: She offered things that you didn’t get from your wife, the wife you no longer loved?
Mr Baden-Clay: No that’s not true. Allison and I had recommenced our physical relationship in February of that year. Allison and I had been through a period of about nine years where we hardly had any physical intimacy at all. Yes there were a number of women I went to for sex. We’ve talked about some of them. But Allison and I had recommenced our physical relationship and were rebuilding that.
Mr Fuller: Marriage isn’t just about sex is it?
Mr Baden-Clay: No it is not.
Mr Fuller: A relationship is not just about sex?
Mr Fuller: It’s about trust?
Mr Baden-Clay: It’s about a lot of things, yes.
Mr Fuller: You had betrayed her trust?
Mr Baden-Clay: I had.
Mr Fuller: You were continuing to betray her trust?
Mr Baden-Clay: I was communicating with Toni which she was unaware of. I also had not communicated to her at any stage any of the other women I had a relationship with.
Mr Fuller: I suggest to you that Toni McHugh offered you a different life and you wanted to take that opportunity?
Mr Baden-Clay: That is not correct.
Mr Fuller: That’s why you went back to her in December, 2011, because you realised you made the wrong choice in September, 2011?
Mr Baden-Clay: No.
Mr Fuller: That’s what the start of 2012 was all about – you and Toni McHugh planning how you were going to be living together as a couple.
Mr Baden-Clay: No that’s not correct.
Mr Fuller: You’d even set the end date – July 1, 2012?
Mr Baden-Clay: We’ve discussed that.
Mr Fuller: A wife who is watching your every move, who no longer trusted you?
Mr Baden-Clay: She did trust me.
Mr Fuller: You wanted to wipe the slate clean?
Mr Baden-Clay: We wanted to put the past behind us and move forward, that’s correct.
Mr Fuller: You wanted to put your past behind you?
Mr Baden-Clay: Yes. I was very ashamed of my infidelity and poor behaviour in that regard and wanted to out that behind us.
Mr Fuller: If those two women came together on April 20, there was a real risk of a catastrophe for you?
Mr Baden-Clay: I did not feel that.
Mr Fuller: Your double life would be exposed?
Mr Fuller: You were leading a double life weren’t you?
Mr Baden-Clay: No I did not believe I was leading a double life at that stage.
Mr Fuller: You were telling Toni McHugh you loved her and you didn’t love your wife?
Mr Baden-Clay: I was placating Toni McHugh.
Mr Fuller: You were telling your wife you loved her and you couldn’t go back to Toni McHugh?
Mr Baden-Clay: I did.
Mr Fuller: Your wife had forgiven you once, you had no confidence she would forgive you again did you?
Mr Baden-Clay: I can’t comment on that.
Mr Fuller: If that came about you would be exposed to your family, your friends, your profession – the facade that was Gerard Baden-Clay would fall wouldn’t it?
Mr Baden-Clay: If what, sorry?
Mr Fuller: If Toni McHugh confronted Allison at the conference?
Mr Baden-Clay: It never entered my mind that that that was a concern.
Mr Fuller: If your wife became aware that you were continuing to see Toni McHugh, that you had sex with her again after September, 2011, that you were emailing her and telling her that you loved her and that you would leave your wife for her?
Mr Baden-Clay: Was there a question there?
Mr Fuller: I said you’d be exposed if those things came out?
Mr Baden-Clay: If they did. There are lot of ifs, that’s true. It hadn’t been something I’d considered.
Mr Fuller: You’d be seen to be unfaithful? And in the worse sense in that it had occurred on more than one occasion after you had sought your wife’s forgiveness, made some promises to her and then gone and done it again with the same woman?
Mr Baden-Clay: Correct.
Mr Fuller: Your business wasn’t going well?
Mr Fuller: You had to rely on your friends to invest without security? And if your business failed your friends would lose their money?
Mr Fuller: That was the decision you had to make on the 19th wasn’t it? When all those things were coming together? You killed your wife Mr Baden-Clay?
Mr Baden-Clay: No, did not.
Mr Fuller: You killed her either in or at your house at Brookfield that night in the early hours of the morning?
Mr Fuller: You attacked her and the only way that she could respond was to lash out and claw at your face and leave marks upon it?
Mr Baden-Clay: That is not true.
Mr Fuller: Probably as you smothered here and took her life from her?
Mr Fuller: Perhaps she grabbed at your clothing – is that why you had that injury under your right shoulder?
Mr Baden-Clay: I don’t know.
Mr Fuller: You overpowered her pretty quickly didn’t you?
Mr Baden-Clay: I never overpowered her at all.
Mr Fuller: Perhaps her jumper came up as she tried to fight you off, up over her hands and up around her neck? Or did that happen later as you moved her body or dumped her in the creek?
Mr Baden-Clay: I never did anything to physically harm my wife in any way, ever. So your supposition to then take it further and suggest I did other things as well is absurd and I object to it so I can’t answer your question.
Mr Fuller: Her head came into the contact with the fallen leaves at the back of your house or the side of your house didn’t they?
Mr Fuller: You put her in the Captiva?
Mr Baden-Clay: I did not.
Mr Fuller: She sustained perhaps a minor injury to some part of body that caused her to bleed?
Mr Baden-Clay: I did not have anything to do with anything that you are suggesting.
Mr Fuller: That’s why the blood is on the right-hand-side over the back wheel where the seats are folded down.
Mr Baden-Clay: I had nothing to do with anything you are asking me.
Mr Fuller: It wasn’t enough to noticed but enough to be found? You transported her to Kholo Creek and then dumped her underneath the bridge unceremoniously?
Mr Baden-Clay: No did not.
Mr Fuller: Anxious to get back to your children?
Mr Baden-Clay: The suggestion that I would leave my children for any time in the middle of the night is absurd, let alone to do the dastardly things you are suggesting.
Mr Fuller: That was all done by 1.48am perhaps which is when you put your phone back on its charger?
Mr Fuller: You started covering your tracks then I suggest to you Mr Baden-Clay? The toys in the back of the car. Shaving. Cutting yourself just at the bottom edges to help disguise and give some legitimacy to your claim they were in fact shaving cuts?
Mr Baden-Clay: I didn’t.
Mr Fuller: Then you told everybody they were shaving cuts, anybody who asked? And you were happy for police to search your house?
Mr Baden-Clay: Yes. I had nothing to hide.
Mr Fuller: Because you knew there was nothing to be found?
Mr Baden-Clay: No because I knew I had nothing to hide and I wanted my wife found.
Mr Fuller: You kept up the facade of the concerned husband?
Mr Baden-Clay: I was a concerned husband and I’m a very concerned father. I remain so. It’s not a façade.
Defence barrister Michael Byrne: Were you at any time violent to your wife Allison on April 19, 2012?
Mr Baden-Clay: No I was not. Never on that night or at any time.
Mr Byrne: Throughout your life, have you ever exhibited violence?
Police photographs of marks on Gerard Baden-Clay’s skin used as evidence in court.The Brisbane Times
Mr Baden-Clay: I have been involved in two altercations in my life. The first when I was 10 years old at the second school I attended when we first came to Australia. I went to defend a new found friend of mine who was being bullied and the bully swung around and punched me in the eye. I walked into home later that day backwards and my mother said you have a black eye. To this day I still don’t know how she knew. The second occasion was similar when I was at school in Toowoomba, primary school, I was probably 12 years old. Again somebody was bullying a friend of mine at cricket nets. We got into a scuffle, wrestling more than anything. I’ve never thrown a punch in my life in anger.
Mr Byrne: Your relationship with Allison over the years that you were married – were there arguments?
Mr Baden-Clay: On occasion we certainly did have arguments. I think every married couple probably does.
Mr Byrne: What sort of arguments?
Mr Baden-Clay: There were a variety of things but we never raised our voices to one other. We were always very civil and respectful towards one another. Certainly when we had our children it was our ardent desire that they should never see us in a disagreement with each other.
Baden-Clay not concerned about mistress phoning wife
GERARD Baden-Clay has told the court he was not concerned about his lover Toni McHugh phoning his wife Allison about the real estate conference they would attend together
Under cross-examination from Crown prosecutor Todd Fuller, Mr Baden-Clay said he had not contemplated that the two women might have spoken, nor that such a conversation could be responsible for his wife’s disappearance.
“That wasn’t in my mind,” he told Brisbane Supreme Court.
Mr Fuller said Mr Baden-Clay had testified that Allison had his phone every evening so she could check his emails, phone call log and texts – one of the conditions following his affair.
“Toni McHugh could have contacted Allison?” he suggested.
She had been upset and knew where you lived, Mr Fuller suggested.
“She’d only been in her job for a week so really wasn’t an option for her not to go?” he said.
Mr Baden-Clay agreed.
Mr Fuller suggested Ms McHugh could have called later that night when Mr Baden-Clay was in bed.
He suggested Allison could have “reacted to that and had gone off?”.
Mr Baden-Clay agreed it was a possibility but unlikely because Ms McHugh normally would not contact him outside hours discussed.
“You didn’t contemplate any risk of Toni contacting your wife?” Mr Fuller said.
He told the court he did not tell police about that option because it had not entered his mind.
“I was concerned about where Allison was,” he said.
“I thought she’d gone for a walk.”
Mr Baden-Clay has pleaded not guilty to murdering his wife Allison at their Brookfield home on April 19, 2012, and then dumping her body near the Kholo Creek bridge.
He said the whole police process had been overwhelming because he was not even thinking about anything beyond his wife not returning from her walk.
Mr Baden-Clay said he did not understand what CIB – Criminal Investigation Branch – stood for or what a crime scene was.
“I anticipated she was coming home any minute,” he said.
Mr Baden-Clay could not explain why he called his friends and family before phoning Allison’s friends and family the morning he realised she was missing on April 20, 2012.
He said he was thinking about how the day would pan out and trying to think ahead.
“If Allison was found in hospital with an injury then obviously that would throw all the plans for the evening into disarray,” he said.
Mr Baden-Clay said he did not feel police were keeping him informed enough about the investigation into Allison’s disappearance.
Mr Fuller suggested police contacted him every day of the 11 day before Allison’s body was found at Kholo Creek.
Mr Baden-Clay said that might be the case but text messages were not enough for him.
“I was very concerned about whereabouts of my wife,” he said.
“I desperately wanted to know what was going on.”
queenslandcountrylady | July 5, 2014 at 4:25 pm
Thank-you SFA for delivering this post in this format.
It makes it easier to “listen” just how the whole court session went.
I can almost “hear” him stumbling, and trying hard to revert back to script.
Plus his keenness not to say anything incriminating. I can’t comment etc. Try and sound indignant. Remember above all else “Do not admit anything.”
Your post is much appreciated. I will be thinking of you Monday. I wonder if his voice gets that squeaky whine of his first interview. Also, does his voice get tight when the pressure is upped?
Ah yes QCL, I’d have given much to hear Todd Fuller in action and GBC’s tone of voice and reactions! But when it comes to lying, it’s GBC’s second nature isn’t it? Don’t they say that a lie detector won’t pick up the lies of the narcissist – because they believe the lies they are telling!! He could lie under oath for ever and a day… Not that I think for a minute that the defense team wanted him to take the stand, but hey, it’s his show and he’s calling the shots. He’d put anyone under a bus to get off the charges he’s facing, I wondered at times if he even realised why he was standing on the dock when he gave his lengthy testimony about his detailed trip through Europe 15 years ago. A true narcissist in action, it’s all about me!
In the room I’ll no doubt be in on Monday, I don’t think the screens will pick up the nuances of GBC’s body language. I spent one day in court near the beginning of the trial on the day where NBC, OBW and Allison’s parents were on the stand and saw it in the ‘overflow’ courtroom. You could see and hear them clearly, but my daughter and I had a great deal of trouble identifying GBC on the screen, let alone seeing his reactions.
I think Justice Byrne’s comments to the jury will determine the way the verdict goes. God knows, for jurors there is a lot to digest if they haven’t followed the case for 2 years as many of us have. I hope common sense and justice prevails, but if it doesn’t it will be because the prosecution didn’t present enough evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that GBC killed his beautiful wife Allison. After all, we live in a ‘civilized’ society where we’re assumed innocent unless proven guilty, let’s not forget that.
To me, the biggest lie of all (apart from so many others which GBC seems to think the Judge, jury and public in general should simply just accept) is that he wasn’t concerned about Allison and Toni McHugh being at the same conference together on 20th April. It “never entered his mind”. Really? If Allison had found out that he was still having a relationship with Toni after all his infidelities in the past, she had forgiven him once and would probably not do so again. That meant his fake and duplicitous life would be exposed to the world, he would possibly no longer be living with his children if Allison decided to divorce him, and the enormous financial implications associated with this for his (failing) business.
I think this would be very hard for the jurors to swallow when they weigh everything up. GBC had everything to lose by the two women in his life being at the same conference that day. Allison was becoming more confident and assertive given the recent counselling days before her death. By all accounts (including Jocelyn Frost’s testimony), Toni also had a temper and was becoming more demanding that GBC DO something for once. Two worlds colliding in front of his eyes, plain to see and yet he wasn’t concerned about this?
There’s another big something that stands out like a sore thumb ….
He has never ever shown any concern for Allison’s “real” killer.
Not upset, not wanting vengeance, not suggesting an alternative killer.
Nothing at all. Zip, zero, zilch nada. Just business as usual. (Including with cuff links)
I agree QCL, if you were innocent you’d hardly try to prove that your wife committed suicide would you? You’d be shouting to the world that you were innocent and to find the real killer. But there are too many obstacles in the road – your wife’s phone is missing, her blood is in the back of the Captiva (with a hair in it for good measure), there are leaves in her hair from the home – oh and then there’s that small matter of huge gouges in your cheek. What’s a bloke to do, but get his family in the dock to perjure themselves what a basket-case Allison was, depressed and lying on a couch doing nothing. It literally makes my blood boil – she was his narcissistic supply who made him look good! Without her he was zip, zero, zilch, nada…
RIP Allison | July 6, 2014 at 9:18 am
Perhaps his conscience (if he has any) gets past the problem by considering that not GBC, but alter ego Bruce Overland did it….so he can claim GBC’s not guilty.
I wonder if that’s not what sis Olivia alluded to long ago…said that we’ll see he’s not guilty…wish I knew what she meant. I saw noting but GUILTY…GUILTY….GUILTY!
Is it after a verdict is delivered that any other evidence (that wasn’t allowed during the trisl) can be brought to light?
Yes I would think so brissy. It will be interesting to hear what comes out afterwards, a bit like in Brett Peter Cowan’s trial where we discovered he had raped young boys prior to Daniel Morcombe’s death. Very shocking, and to think that Daniel’s parents knew this all along during the trial and prior, and the jury did not…
Posting for gerbilhuntingseason:
The difference here is that upon acquittal, there is “nothing to see here, folks”
Prior convictions are only raised to help the Judge in determining an appropriate sentence.
If Gerbil walks (slithers) out of this, it’s game over.
Happy to be corrected (well, ecstatic would be a better word)
I agree GHS, and in GBC’s case there are most likely no prior convictions. I was just stating that facts that can come out after a trial can be jaw-dropping in some cases. If GBC walks as you say, it’s all over. Personally, while I believe all arrows point to him, at the end of the day we’re bound by Queensland’s judicial system with evidence presented, summaries made by the defense, prosecution and Judge, and then the jury is left to decide their verdict.
If GBC walks and he is in fact guilty, it will be because the prosecution hasn’t produced sufficient evidence to present a case beyond reasonable doubt to the jury on this particular case. Nothing more and nothing less. While I care very deeply, I remain philosophical about the outcome – why? Because I can’t change it.
I do not know Brissy72 but I do hope so!
I do think a few issues we have noticed over time have not been clarified in court, eg:
• Portraits taken of the two lovers – purpose? Final nail into Allison’s heart?
• Whatever was seen at the Kenmore roundabout & much investigated?
• Rumour of NBC seen at Kenmore roundabout in the night?
• Sighting of cars at the Kholo bridge early morning hours, not mentioned?
• Where was Allison’s pyjamas? GBC’s clothes his daughter saw him in late night?
• Face time call between Bwana & GBC just after midnight, real or fabricated? (Not possible for such very specific info to be random electronic error)
• Googling of ‘pleading the fifth’ on morning of 20/4 before phoning QPS not mentioned
• What other related topics had been googled by GBC over previous weeks?
• What was found in/on the vacuum cleaner & hose NBC wanted to remove the next morning?
• GBC originally telling a friend of Allison that she went for a 10pm walk (not morning walk)
• Enquiries made about Allison’s insurance in weeks before her death
• Why Allison’s insurance was paid while GBC claims he could not afford razor blades?
• Why was only an out of date 15 year old will presented for Allison?
• OW’s testimony that the girls were told Allison fell in a hole and is not coming back – why was she not questioned about this?
• Why did BC clan look so jubilant towards the end of the trial?
….there are likely a good few more which could be added…..
Some may have been dead ends, just rumour, or had logical explanations. But others like the 180 degree turn-around on the face time call are a little more suspicious…..It does make one wonder about the possible meddling behind the scenes to omit incriminating evidence. I hope not, but it is not what was presented but what was OMITTED that worries me a little….
Anyway, time rolls on, so this coming week we will KNOW whether sufficient evidence was presented for justice to prevail for Allison. I sincerely hope so!
Dear RIP
Such a studied collection of unanswered questions.
Many of these (and more) have been swirling around our troubled minds as the trial comes to an end.
As a group that came together with only one objective – that being justice for Allison – we have jointly found many holes in the pasteurised version of events trotted out by the evil Clays.
That many of them have not been incorporated into evidence is frustrating to say the least, but I guess (through gritted teeth and tense jaw) we must accept there is a good enough reason for the Crown to have stood back from tabling such matters.
I wish I knew more about the law. If GBC is acquitted, can the prosecution turn its attention to other potential perpetrators (or accomplices)?
My heart is in my mouth in advance of tomorrow.
But the one fact I cling to is that the Baden-Clay name is forever sullied, no matter the outcome.
Aussies don’t like big-noters, unauthentic people, bullies, de-briefers, bare-faced liars, familial perjury, people who con their friends, screw the staff, belittle their partners, beat their children, placate their mistresses, cynically attend counselling, maintain alias names and several phone accounts, doctor shop, deliberately crash cars, cry crocodile tears when deemed appropriate, google legal terminology, hire lawyers, don’t search for missing loved ones, carry on business as usual, enquire about life insurance policies, trash the reputation and mental health of their wife after her death, and so on.
Oh, I nearly forgot the matter of murder and interference with a corpse., .
I agree with you RIP and GHS, and it’s the reason why I can’t stay away from the summing up tomorrow to hear it first hand for myself. There are so many, many unanswered questions and so much evidence not presented in the trial. I too am not versed in the law, but stand for justice when the victim can no longer speak for herself and for all the women and men out there like Allison. If GBC walks away free, I don’t think he’ll ever be ‘free’ again in the true sense of the word, certainly not in Brisbane. The Baden-Clay name has doubtless been sullied forever. Whether he decides to immigrate to Canada (if they’ll have him) or start a used-car dealership in Logan, who knows? After waiting so many years and following every nuance of this case, we’ll all know the outcome this coming week.
A BIG DAY.
Here is a new link for today, Day 15, Summations and the Judge’s direction to the jury:
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … Hershey and Hamilton are in, but the rest of the American Hockey League still has its sights set on the 14 remaining berths in the 2010 Calder Cup Playoffs as the circuit’s 74th regular season enters its final month.
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Chris Bourque, HER (’06, ’09)
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Duncan Milroy, HOU (2007)
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John Grahame, LE (1999)
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Dean Arsene, SPR (’06, ’09)
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Jared Aulin, SYR (2006)
Jordan LaVallee-Smotherman, SYR (’08)
Derek MacKenzie, SYR (2002)
Andrew Hutchinson, TEX (2004)
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Landon Wilson, TEX (1999)
Andre Deveaux, TOR (2008)
Deryk Engelland, WBS (2006)
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Danny Groulx, WOR (2007)
Additionally, eight AHL head coaches – Abbotsford’s Jim Playfair, Binghamton’s Don Nachbaur, Chicago’s Don Lever, Hartford’s Ken Gernander, Hershey’s Mark French, Milwaukee’s Lane Lambert, Toronto’s Dallas Eakins and Worcester’s Roy Sommer – have won Calder Cups as players, head coaches and/or assistant coaches.
There are also nine AHL players on Clear Day lists who have won Stanley Cups in their careers: Chicago’s Chris Chelios (1986, 2002, 2008); Grand Rapids’ Brad May (2007) and Darren Helm (2008); Hartford’s Anders Eriksson (1998); Lake Erie’s John Grahame (2004); Manitoba’s Mike Keane (1993, 1996, 1999); Portland’s Joe DiPenta (2007); Rockford’s Jassen Cullimore (2004); and Texas’s Andrew Hutchinson (2006).
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TURNSTILES KEEP SPINNING … The games mean even more this time of year, and AHL fans are responding by checking out their favorite teams at their local arenas. More than 208,000 fans attended 35 games over the weekend, and league-wide attendance is up from what it was through 980 games a season ago.
Providence drew 10,110 fans for its Friday night game vs. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, the largest crowd at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center since Mar. 30, 2007. On Saturday, 15,253 fans packed the Bradley Center in Milwaukee, the Admirals’ fourth-largest crowd since joining the AHL in 2001, while 10,148 took in the Chicago Wolves’ game at Allstate Arena and a sellout crowd of 6,862 was inside the Cedar Park Center in Texas. Nearly 18,000 fans took in Manitoba’s two-game weekend set vs. Rockford at the MTS Centre, and 9,614 fans watched Houston battle Peoria at the Toyota Center on Friday.
ETC. … Justin Abdelkader has a point in 10 of his last 11 games (7-7-14) for Grand Rapids, whose current five-game points streak (3-0-1-1) marks its longest since reeling off nine straight wins from Oct. 23 to Nov. 13… Joey MacDonald made 40 saves in Toronto’s 3-0 win at Chicago on Friday, ending the Wolves’ 16-game home points streak (15-0-0-1) and becoming the 21st goaltender in AHL history with 20 career shutouts… Worcester’s Andrew Desjardins racked up a career-high four points (2-2-4) in the Sharks’ 6-2 win over Hershey on Sunday… Springfield completed a sweep of its two-game season series with league-leading Hershey with a 5-4 shootout win on Saturday… Falcons netminder Jean-Philippe Levasseur stopped all six Bears attempts in Saturday’s shootout, then went 5-for-5 against Portland on Sunday… Bridgeport goaltenders Scott Munroe and Nathan Lawson combined to stop all 10 Norfolk shootout attempts last weekend as the Sound Tigers eked out a pair of road wins over the Admirals… Chicago goaltender Peter Mannino has won 14 straight decisions since a 3-1 loss at Hamilton on Jan. 6… David Spina’s hat trick on Mar. 9 vs. Peoria marked the first three-goal effort by a San Antonio player since Spina turned the trick against Lake Erie on Jan. 1, 2009… Division leaders Hershey (4.27), Worcester (3.50), Chicago (3.39) and Hamilton (3.31) are also the league’s top four teams in goals scored per game… Rockford has won six straight home games since a 3-2 loss to Milwaukee on Feb. 13… This Sunday’s game between Abbotsford and Toronto will air live (1:00 ET) from Ricoh Coliseum on CBC in Canada and on NHL Network in the United States.
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Xbox One too noisy? Microsoft will replace it
Microsoft will replace faulty Xbox One game consoles that have proven too noisy for some owners.
If you have a Next Generation Bad Boy from Microsoft side and you are facing loud buzzing or clicking noise problem, when it is running at Full Load, then now no need to worry as Microsoft said that they will replace all Noisy Consoles. After all, you need a quiet system after investing a huge amount of money. If you think that this issue is in the news for the first time, then let me remind you that the previously Xbox 360 was also becoming the victim of this problem and there are lots of cases reported related to this issue.
One user, who posted about the issue in August, called it a “terrible noise,” adding that it “sounds like an old printer and lots of static.”
Although the first complaint was published on August 5, over 800 similar stories hit the forums over the last month as more users experienced the same problem.
Although officials also admit this issue and said that some consoles were creating too much noise and it would exchange the consoles for fully operational models.
Microsoft launched its Xbox One console in November last year, the same this its competitors Sony also launched it’s PS4. Microsoft has so far sold more than 5 million Xbox One consoles to retailers worldwide.
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Visually demanding games like Tetris could help in treatment of PTSD
By Ravi Mandalia | 8 July 2015
A new study has shed light on how visually demanding games like Tetris could help reduce intrusive memories or upsetting flashback resulting from trauma.
Published in Psychological Science, the study asked 52 participants, aged between 18 and 51 and divided in two groups, to watch a 12-minute traumatic film featuring 11 scenes involving death. A day later, one group watched stills of the films to reactivate memory followed by an unrelated activity for 10 minutes, and then played the Tetris video game for 12 minutes. The other group was made to do nothing for the 12 minutes after the unrelated activity.
Over the following week, individuals who had memory reactivation and played Tetris reported experiencing significantly fewer intrusive memories than those that did not. A further experiment established that the combination of reactivation of the memories with playing Tetris was critical.
The authors of the study from Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, Ella James, Emily Holmes and colleagues, concludes that Tetris visually demanding game-playing may have this beneficial effect through disruption of the natural process of memory reconsolidation.
Researchers note that the results implicate that that the frequency of intrusive memories induced by experimental trauma can be reduced by disrupting reconsolidation via a competing cognitive-task procedure, even for established memories.
The work has the potential for developing techniques for reducing the frequency of intrusive memories. Intrusive memories are a core feature of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), such as vividly replaying in one’s mind’s eye the moment of a car crash.
However, the researchers are quick to point out that playing Tetris alone (a nonreactivation control condition) and the control of memory reactivation alone was sufficient to reduce intrusions. This means that if a patient is asked to play a game that they enjoy or are made to remember the trauma would would be unlikely to reduce intrusions.
Rather, their combination is required, and the reduction in intrusive-memory is due to engaging in a visuospatial task within the window of memory reconsolidation, which interferes with intrusive image reconsolidation. Though the results are promising, they do not permit conclusions about task modality specificity, so future work is therefore warranted, the researchers add.
Another limitation with the study was that it involved only one computer game and researchers recommend that in future studies, scientists should look into alternative games hypothesized either to share visuospatial working memory resources with intrusions or to not share such resources.
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TD Financial institution faces Ponzi scheme liquidators in the hunt for $5.7B in trial
TD Financial institution must be held accountable for greater than $5.7 billion Cdn of losses on the collapsed Antigua financial institution of former Texas financier Robert Allen Stanford, legal professionals for its liquidators argued in an Ontario court docket on Monday.
The joint liquidators of Stanford World Financial institution (SIB) allege “negligence and figuring out help” by means of TD, Canada’s second-biggest lender, in permitting SIB to take care of correspondent accounts, in keeping with a observation filed with the Ontario Awesome Court docket of Justice in 2019.
In previous court docket filings, the plaintiffs had sought damages of $7 billion.
Stanford is serving a 110-year jail time period after being convicted in 2012 of operating a $9.2-billion Ponzi scheme.
Correspondent banking is the industry of offering services and products to offshore monetary establishments. The joint liquidators are Grant Thornton within the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands.
The plaintiffs allege that TD knew of the “bizarre dangers” from offering the services and products and that the financial institution was once
due to this fact “reckless.”
“Like everybody else, all the way through the time that Stanford World Financial institution was once a buyer of TD, we had no wisdom of, and no reason why to suspect, any fraudulent process was once going down,” a TD spokesperson stated. “TD isn’t answerable for the fraud dedicated by means of Allen Stanford.”
The trial is scheduled to closing 3 months, a spokesperson for one of the vital plaintiffs’ legal professionals stated.
“If there was once proof enough to warrant prison prosecution, TD would were charged years in the past,” stated James Shanahan, an analyst at Edward Jones. “A judgment or agreement of [more than] $500 million [US] would wonder the marketplace.”
TD estimated relatively imaginable losses from prison and regulatory movements together with the Stanford litigation of between 0 and $951 million Cdn as of Oct. 31. Provisions associated with prison motion shall be taken when a loss turns into possible and an quantity can also be reliably estimated, it stated in its 2020 annual file.
TD stocks rose 0.three according to cent in Toronto on Monday in a normally down marketplace.
In November, a Swiss court docket ordered Societe Generale SA to give up $190 million deposited by means of Stanford, announcing it had did not do right kind due diligence.
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“There are no shortcuts to hard work and perseverance”
On today’s episode of The Brand Called You, we have with us a very accomplished and senior professional from the field of pharmacy, Ms. Maharukh Rustomjee. Maharukh is the Managing Partner at Amaterasu Life Sciences LLP. She has 35 years of experience as a technocrat and entrepreneur in the pharmaceutical world. She has worked with renowned companies like Novartis and GSK. Maharukh is an awarded and highly celebrated professional of the Pharmaceutical field. In this episode, Maharukh shares her journey through the pharma world with giant companies. She shares the three key milestones of her life and career. Her passion for research and an ambition to give back to society led her to start Amaterasu Life Sciences, which is a venture that commercialises research. It carries out research in a collaborative way which creates wealth as well as solves social problems. Maharukh explains in detail, the work done at Amaterasu and the products that have been created as per the consumer need. She believes strongly in ethics, integrity and authenticity. And these values have greatly shaped her business. She describes herself to be a delegator whose leadership style is distinctly participative and democratic. Maharukh believes that the existing gender balance can be removed only when more and more women start being self confident. Her hard work and ambitions have led her to be the successful and strong woman that she is today.
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Maharukh a pharmaceutical design scientist, idea innovator and value builder is the Founder and Managing Partner of Amaterasu Lifesciences LLP incorporated in December 2016.
Amaterasu – a “startup India” recognized company, is a research company endeavoring to build value by developing personnel care, health and wellness as well as pharmaceutical products with a focus on providing solutions for unmet consumer and patient needs. Maharukh’s proven abilities of integrating design concepts and innovation thinking with the rigors of scientific experimentation and scale- up /technology development will fuel the growth of Amaterasu. She has a work experience spanning 35 years as a technocrat and entrepreneur with core competency in formulations research and drug delivery system innovations, phytochemical based healthcare products, intellectual property, manufacturing, regulatory sciences and drug delivery business covering all geographic territories.
Within a short span of 3 years, the company has designed and developed the following innovations through its outsourcing partners and academic institutes
A range of innovative products for preventing and treating friction related contact dermatitis (chafing), patents have been filed and some variants have been already launched in India.
Research on three novel injectables is also progressing rapidly with its institute partner and patents have been filed for two of the inventions. The first product is now ready for pre-clinical testing in animals.
Development of a complex generic – topical product for a US ANDA filing is almost completed and scheduled for scale-up in next few months.
Earlier for 17 years (from 1999 to 2016) she was Co-founder, Promoter Director and Chief Operating Officer at Rubicon Research Pvt Ltd, India’s pioneering and leading contract research and drug delivery company. She was instrumental in nurturing and building the business from scratch to a valuation in excess of USD 30 million (Rs 200 Crores) till she exited the company in December 2016 prior to founding Amaterasu Lifesciences LLP.
Prior to starting her entrepreneurial journey, she worked for 15 years in Novartis, GSK and other pharma companies in research and development, scale-up and technology transfer in various types of dosage forms – orals, liquids, topicals, injectables and many others.
Pharmacy : Institute of Chemical Technology(ICT), Mumbai. (1978-82)
UNIDO Certificate for Specialization in Pharmaceutical Technology : State University of Ghent, Belgium. (1989)
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Klobuchar Makes It to Third Debate, Campaign Says
August 3, 2019 August 2, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar has reached both qualifications to compete in September’s Democratic debate, her campaign announced Friday.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Chief of Staff Leaves to Work on Green New Deal
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Turtle Islands Wildlife Sanctuary
By Berto | May 25, 2020
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Turtle Islands Wildlife Sanctuary, Turtle Islands, Tawi-Tawi
The Turtle Islands, comprised of nine islands, is located at the southwestern tip of the Philippines and north of Borneo. Six of these islands (Taganak, Baguan, Boan, Great Bakkungan, Lihiman, and Langaan) are within Philippine territory while the remaining three (bakkungan Kechil, Gulisan, and Selingan) are under the jurisdiction of Malaysia.
Turtle Islands Heritage Protected Area
In 1996, a bilateral agreement between the governments of the Philippines and Malaysia established the Turtle Islands Heritage Protected Area (TIHPA), the first and only trans-boundary protected area for marine turtles in the world.
The Philippine Turtle Islands were then declared as a protected area called the Turtle Island Wildlife Sanctuary (TIWS) by virtue of Presidential Proclamation No. 171 on August 26, 1999, pursuant to Republic Act No. 7586, also known as the National Integrated Protected Areas System (NIPAS) Act of 1992 and subsequently legislated under the Expanded NIPAS (E-NIPAS) by virtue of RA 11038 or the ENIPAS Act of 2018.
Protected Area Status in the Philippines
is globally recognized as the most important nesting ground for two species of marine turtles, the endangered Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) and the critically endangered Hawksbill Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)
11th nesting area in the world;
one of the remaining major nesting areas of Green Sea Turtle in Southeast Asia.
an estimated 80% of all Green Sea Turtles present in the Philippines are nesting within TIWS.
Baguan island is recognized as its strict protection zone and is open only to protection, monitoring, and research activities.
Apart from its importance to marine turtles, preliminary biological studies of TIWS during the early 1990s indicate that the area supports the remarkable biodiversity of both terrestrial and marine flora and fauna.
Giant Moray (Gymnothorax javanicus)
Olive-backed Sunbird (Nectarinia jugularis woodi)
Yellow Boxfish (Ostracion cubicus)
Mud Volcano, Lihiman island, Turtle Islands
Turtle Islands Wildlife Sanctuary also hosts diverse marine resources with 4 seagrass species and 87 fish species on record and excellent coral conditions on some areas which could produce 884.48 kilograms of fish per hectare.
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What next for Regan Poole?
Manchester United announced this weekend that several players from the academy would be released after not being offered new deals at the club.
James Wilson is probably the most high profile of these, who scored two goals on his Manchester United debut five years ago, but whose career was derailed by a serious injury.
Regan Poole is another player whose time at United has come to an end after the club failed to take up the option of extending his contract a further year.
Having started his career in Cardiff’s academy, Poole moved to Newport when he was 16, only to be offered a trial at United a couple of months later.
Newport’s youth development coach Mike Flynn revealed that several clubs had their eye on the centre-back but that he had done well during his time at Carrington.
“Manchester United have been very impressed with him and decided to make the first move,” said Flynn. “I spoke with Regan earlier and he’s absolutely buzzing. He’s gone up there and done well.”
He stayed at Newport that season had a one-week trial with Liverpool before signing for United a year after first visiting the club, reportedly for £100,000.
Newport’s manager, Terry Butcher, had high hopes for the teenager.
“In the past few days a number of clubs have shown an interest in Regan, but as soon as Manchester United came in there was only really going to be one outcome,” he said. “He’s still very young at 17. He’s got the perfect stage to go and perform and the perfect place to learn. He’ll love it, I’m sure.”
However, with a delay in him receiving international clearance for move from Wales to England, he was unable to play for United until the following February. On the day the clearance was given, he featured for the U-21s against Everton and then included in the Europa League squad list.
He made his first start for the U-21s against Manchester City and put in a man of the match performance, which was topped off by his goal-line clearance to help secure a 1-0 win for his team.
Poole made his debut for the first in a game that is likely better remembered for Marcus Rashford introducing himself to world football, scoring twice on his debut against Midtjylland. The defender replaced Ander Herrera in the last minute of the game. That would be the only appearance he ever made for the first team.
The teenager played well for the U-21s that season, with him scoring three and assisting one in seven appearances, with him being used both in defence and midfield. He proved to be a real threat from set pieces and was beginning to get supporters of our youth team excited for what his future held.
The following season he formed a solid partnership with Axel Tuanzebe in the U-23s, despite him being only 18.
The following season he agreed a loan move to Northampton Town to play for Justin Edinburgh, who had been his manager at Newport.
“Regan is a player I know well from my time at Newport County and he is an exceptionally talented player,” said Edinburgh. “I gave him his debut as a 16 year old and he is a player with a fantastic temperament and someone who is well ahead of his years. He is a central defender who is comfortable on the ball. He is strong, he leaps well and he has all the attributes to be a top, top player. He is mobile and he will complement the other defenders we have at the club well.”
Poole had credited Edinburgh for what he had achieved so far in his career and was excited about being reunited with a manager he got along so well with.
However, by the end of August Edinburgh had lost four games in a row and was replaced Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink as manager who played Poole in midfield. He made 20 appearances for the first team but fell out of favour at the turn of the year and barely featured in the final months of the season.
Poole returned to United last season and featured again for the U-23s but was loaned back to Newport in January.
“United have an option to take up an extension, but I’m not really too sure what their plan is for me,” Poole said last month. “If they take it up then I will stay there, but if not I’ll move on. Everyone knows it’s hard at a big club so when my season is over I’ll find out. I’m enjoying my football with Newport, but I’ve spoken to United’s loan manager. He comes to watch all my games and gives reports back to United on how I’m doing. They are happy with how my loan is going. Hopefully it’s all positive for me there. Wembley will be a big stage and there will be a lot of people watching. Hopefully I can have a good game. I’m at United at the end of the day and I’d love to stay there as long as possible.”
He helped the reach the League 2 play-offs which they lost to Tranmere in the final thanks to a painful 119th minute winner. Poole was obviously gutted but spoke of his hopes of Newport being promoted the following season.
There have been some suggestions that he could return to Cardiff, his first club, who were relegated from the Premier League this season.
Their manager at the time, Russell Slade, later reflected that they had made a mistake in letting Poole leave.
“You don’t want to be losing that type of quality,” he said. “Occasionally one does get away because young players develop at different rates. But clearly a decision was made at that particular time and they got it wrong.”
After being told that he was being released by United, Poole spoke of the impact playing for the club has had on his career, and confirmed that several teams were interested in signing him. For now, he has set his aspirations on graduating from Wales U-21s to Ryan Giggs’ first team.
“I’m still the same player, my aims are still the same and I still feel I can break into the senior team with Wales, and hopefully I can get a move to kick-on and help with that,” he told BBC Sport Wales. “It wasn’t a surprise [that I was released]. I had an idea what was going to happen but I’ve loved every minute there – they improved me as a player. I’ve not really thought about what will happen next but there are a few clubs who are interested. Every footballer wants to play, I need to weigh up what suits me the best and where I can play every game of the season.”
Poole turns 21 later this month and has his whole career ahead. Best of luck to him wherever he ends up.
Scott Patterson
Scott is the editor of RoM and has a season ticket at Old Trafford. He writes for The Mirror, Paddy Power and Red News. He started The Republik of Mancunia in March 2006. Follow @R_o_M on Twitter.
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Best of luck indeed so tough to make it all the way to the first team,hope he goes on to great things.
Hendrix knightsmith June 9, 2019
It is indeed tough to make through to the first team at any club really .
We may have a bit of banter, but all these lads play football to a very good level.
There is a young lad who used to live down the road from me called Dan Barrow. He was on West Brom's book for a while but never made it as a regular first teamer. His dream was always to play at Old Trafford which unfortunately never came true .
He also played for Wales under 17's
He was released by West Brom and went on to have spells at Bath City ,Truro City,Jacksonville Armada ,North Carolina and is now at Portuguese club Boavista .
Although he never hit the heights, he is enjoying life, and is making a decent living whilst experiencing different parts of the world .
He is still only 23 .
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OPPO’s upcoming Find X series smartphones set for launch globally in Q1 2021 to be among the first to feature the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 888 5G Mobile Platform
OPPO looks to continue strengthening collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies to advance global 5G development
2 December 2020, SINGAPORE — OPPO today announced the launch of its next innovative Find X series in Q1 2021 at the annual Snapdragon Tech Summit Digital 2020 hosted by Qualcomm Technologies.
The Find X series will be one of the first 5G smartphone series to be powered by the new flagship Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 888 5G Mobile Platform. At the same time, OPPO will also continue to strengthen its partnership with Qualcomm Technologies and other leading tech partners around the world to accelerate global 5G deployment and the elevation of 5G experiences.
“For a long time, OPPO and Qualcomm Technologies have shared a close relationship. We share similar visions in our pursuit of an ultimate mobile experience,” said Alen Wu, OPPO Vice President and President of Global Sales. “If the past few years were about making 5G a reality, now it is all about realising 5G’s enormous potential. Qualcomm Technologies’ latest Snapdragon 888 5G Mobile Platform offers huge improvements to 5G, imaging and AI experience. We are excited to be one of the first to release flagship smartphone featuring Snapdragon 888 in the first quarter of 2021. We are sure that the next Find X series will deliver an extraordinary all-round experience to users around the globe.”
Powered by the Snapdragon 888 5G Mobile Platform, the New Find X Flagship Series Will Continue to Deliver Excellence in Mobile Performance.
Built with 5nm process technology and incorporating the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ X60 5G Modem-RF System, the industry-leading Snapdragon 888 5G Mobile Platform delivers a stronger overall performance and brings further enhancement to the 5G, imaging, AI, and gaming experiences on OPPO’s next Find X 5G flagship devices.
On top of that, the new flagship series will also push the boundaries of display and camera with OPPO’s proprietary Android’s first 10-bit Full-Path Color Management System launched at the recent OPPO INNO DAY 2020. All of these features will make the next Find X Series among the most anticipated 5G flagship smartphones in 2021.
OPPO has long strived to be a pioneer and promotor of 5G. Over the years, it has launched multiple products powered by Snapdragon 5G mobile platforms. For example, OPPO Reno 5G with Snapdragon 855 was the first 5G smartphone to hit the market in Europe in May 2019.
In June of the same year, OPPO, in collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies and Ericsson, won the “Best 5G Network Development in Europe” award with its Reno 5G.
This year, OPPO launched the 5G-enabled Find X2 Series and the Reno3/Reno4 Series, all powered by the Snapdragon mobile platform. The collaboration between OPPO and Qualcomm Technologies has also expanded into 5G CPE and smartwatches, with a wide variety of Snapdragon-powered smart products.
In pursuit of “Technology for Mankind， Kindness to the World”, OPPO joins forces with Qualcomm Technologies to explore future 5G possibilities.
OPPO’s work with Qualcomm Technologies in 5G goes beyond the development of new products. To accelerate the commercialisation of 5G in global markets, OPPO and Qualcomm Technologies have more than once worked in concert for 5G testing programs with major network operators around the world. For example, OPPO made the industry’s first Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) data call in collaboration with Ericsson, Qualcomm Technologies, Swisscom, and Telstra in December 2019. In July this year, OPPO also helped deploy the first 5G standalone (SA) network in the UK in collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies, Ericsson, and Vodafone.
As of today, OPPO has partnered with more than 70 major mobile network operators worldwide, with more than 40 of them joining OPPO to deliver 5G services. These joint initiatives have ushered in significant business development in regional markets such as Europe, Japan, and Latin America. The success in regional 5G deployments would not have been possible without the collaboration with leading tech companies such as Qualcomm Technologies.
Going forward, OPPO will continue to adhere to its brand belief of “Technology for Mankind， Kindness to the World”, and to embrace open collaboration with partners for mutual benefit. By joining hands with more industry-leading companies such as Qualcomm Technologies, OPPO seeks to discover more value and possibilities in 5G and serve global users with technological innovations in the age of Internet of Experience.
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Home Goal Zone Boys Soccer Unbeaten Holy Cross boys see poll as No. 1 goal
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Unbeaten Holy Cross boys see poll as No. 1 goal
Traditionally, coaches of teams that have experienced a lot of success and established themselves as consistent contenders try to downplay poll rankings in order to motivate their players to keep working hard.
The rationale is that it is more important to stay focused, play well and show how good you are rather than pat yourself on the back about how good a poll voter thinks you are.
The 2020 fall high school athletic season, however, defies all rationale because of the way the COVID-19 pandemic has affected everything. That’s why the No. 1 ranking in Monday’s Connecticut Soccer Coaches Association boys soccer poll carried a little more importance for the Holy Cross soccer team.
“At the end of the year, hoisting a state championship trophy is more important than being No. 1 in a poll,” Holy Cross coach John Teixeira said. “But given 2020 the way it is, where our team can’t win an NVL championship or a state championship, the polls have a little more weight than in a typical year.
“Being No. 1 really means something to our players, because it validates how much hard work they have put in since the loss to Old Saybrook in last year’s Class S state championship game.”
Teixeira sent his players a group text Tuesday congratulating them on being ranked No. 1 in the Class M/Class S state poll, but he followed it up with a reminder that their work wasn’t finished and that their goal should be to remain in that top spot.
“Originally, our goal was to go undefeated, because we knew there weren’t going to be any postseason championships, and we weren’t sure if there would even be any polls,” Teixeira said.
“I knew this team was special. We returned the majority of our kids from the Class S championship game team, and with the closure of Chase (Collegiate), probably 90% of their soccer team came here to provide us with the depth we lacked in the past against the Naugys and bigger schools.”
After having gone winless during the regular season against Naugatuck the last seven years (0-7-1) and being outscored, 18-2, the Crusaders have beaten the Greyhounds twice this year by scores of 2-0 and 3-0.
The Crusaders are 9-0 so far this season with six shutouts. They have been so dominant that two players, Justin Forino and Patrick Osiecki, have averaged more than a goal per game as they have each scored 11, and Aiden Coelho has added eight. Osiecki is also tied for the team lead in assists with Giuseppe Mongelluzzo at eight while Coelho has six.
Teixeira said Mongelluzzo and Kadin Talho are seniors who have matured tremendously over the past three years in terms of soccer I.Q. and the way they use their field vision and skills to create for others.
“Kadin has become one of the best players not only in the league but in the state,” Teixeira said. “His physical touch on the ball is one of the best I’ve seen in years, and he delivers the ball in perfect position because of the work he does. He can play the physical game and utilize his technical ability.”
Forino, one of this year’s leading scorers, was a defensive back last year out of necessity. Osiecki is one of the Chase transfers who complements him perfectly.
“Patrick and Jaiden (Paniagua) came from Chase with their own All-State resumes and fit in like a glove,” Teixeira said. “Patrick leads us in scoring, and Jaiden is a center back with Luke (Zipoli), who anchored our defense last year. As mirror images of one another, they provide a real physical presence on our back line.”
That stout defense is playing in front of goalkeeper Cameron Sivilla, who was forced into action last year as an untested sophomore when starter Aiden Nixon was injured in the NVL semifinals.
“He played like a seasoned veteran and has continued to develop,” Teixeira said. “He allows everyone in front of him to play without worrying about making mistakes, because they have such confidence in him.”
Teixeira said the truly special part of this team is their approach to the game. With the roster up to around 45 players — from the 25-35 the Crusaders normally carry — practices are incredibly spirited.
“Not only do we have depth, but we have talent, and the kids are humble and work their tails off,” Teixeira said. “Every day practice is a pleasure because they challenge each other 100 percent. Some of the battles in drills are as spirited as our games. They don’t take plays off.”
He said the competitiveness and depth have set them up to be successful for years. As such, the No. 1 ranking means more than the fact that the Crusaders are the best team this week or this year.
“I am a believer that what we do now sets the tone for the following years,” Teixeira said. “We don’t live off the success. We continue to build success.”
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Google Finally Bites The Bullet; Sells Motorola To Lenovo for $2.91 Billion
By Mohul Ghosh Last updated Oct 14, 2016
In the year 2012, Google had bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, which it sold yesterday to Lenovo for $2.91, thereby generating a direct loss of $9.59 billion, if we exclude the inflation and other associated costs. Google had to bite this bullet, as ever since this acquisition happened, it was weighing in on their balance sheet and profitability.
Motorola had been bleeding Google badly; some estimates put the loss at $1 billion every year. Google has already lost $2 billion since this acquisition and trimmed the Motorola workforce from 20,000 to 3,800.
Larry Page announced this deal via this blog yesterday as he said, “We’ve just signed an agreement to sell Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion,” adding, “I’m phenomenally impressed with everything the Motorola team has achieved and confident that with Lenovo as a partner, Motorola will build more and more great products for people everywhere.”
Out of $2.91 billion, $1.41 billion would be paid at the close of the deal; $660 million will be hard cash and $750 million via Lenovo shares. The remaining $1.5 billion will be paid via three year promissory notes. Credit Suisse Group is advising Lenovo on this mega-deal while Lazard Ltd advised Google. Google had recovered some of the investment by selling set-top operations of Motorola to Arris Group last year for $2.35 billion.
While prima-facie, it looks like Google lost a lot of money on Motorola, many believe that this deal was not really loss-making and Google actually stands to profit from it indirectly. When Motorola was in Google’s fold, they could not do much due to various anti-competitive SEC or FCC regulations and legalities. But now with Motorola moving out, those concerns are thrown out of the window.
The sell-off by Google is not only strategic, but a well thought out move that will help them immensely in longer run. Stock Market too reacted positively to this acquisition, as Google’s share prices increased 2.5% as it touched $1135 at the time of extended trading.
Colin Gillis, an analyst at BGC Partners said, “They make their money from people watching YouTube ads and doing searches, they don’t necessarily need to be the hardware maker.”
“Motorola’s been a millstone and a drag on results,” Gillis said. “You’re slipping the millstone off your neck.”
The Rise of Lenovo In Electronics Market
Lenovo is currently the largest manufacturer of PC in the world. After this acquisition, Lenovo will join the ranks of Apple as the only company which can provide world class desktops, PC, Laptops, Smartphones and Tablets. Large corporate enterprises can now buy all their gadget requirements from one single company.
Analysts are claiming this to be largest technology deal ever accomplished by a Chinese company. Last week, Lenovo has purchased IBM’s low end server business for $2.3 billion. Earlier, Lenovo has purchased IBM’s Thinkpad series of PC and Laptop in the year 2005.
Smart Move By Google
Several trade analysts are also observing that this is a very smart move by Google, as basically it is outsourcing Android’s handset manufacturing to Lenovo. If we observe closely, and read Larry Pages’ blog, we will understand that right now, Google’s primary focus is to expand Android ecosystem. And this is the reason they had bought Motorola in the first place.
But, it seems that their focus is diluting as they are not able to properly concentrate on the smartphone hardware business. Hence, by allowing Lenovo to deal with the manufacturing and distribution of hardware, they are in a way, strengthening it’s own Android eco-system, thereby creating space for more Google software products and tools.
Even in this deal, out of 17,000 original Motorola patents, Google will retain 15,000 of the most crucial patents and only allow Lenovo to use certain patents, that too under license. Anyone familiar with the tech world will understand that the importance of these patents is far more than the manufacturing and distribution rights.
Larry Page has already said, “Google will retain the vast majority of Motorola’s patents, which we will continue to use to defend the entire Android ecosystem.”
What are your views on this tech mega-deal between Google and Lenovo? Will Motorola resurface as a dominant force in the smartphone market or this deal will seal the fate of Motorola for ever?
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Some random summer thouhts from 30,000 feet….
It was a year ago this past month that Rogers Sportsnet had its last bloodletting. With Darren Millard exiting in August are we at the start of more changes ???
I think we are.
Rob Kerr just announced his departure from 960 and Sportsnet after over 15 years.
I asked Rogers poobah Scott Moore about one individual who I kept hearing had been dismissed and was met with a “no comment”. A few days later those rumors were confirmed, as John Bartlett (the voice of the Habs) replaced Paul Romanuk as the TV voice of the Maple Leafs.
Still with the Leafs…
Anyone else see this?
Thank you @davecadeau and everyone @FAN590. I can not express how much I enjoyed working the Leafs games on a daily basis with @GordStellick and @brown__matt and everyone else who I had the privilege of working with the past 3 years at the Fan. Go Leafs Go!
— Todd Hlushko (@ToddHlushko) August 31, 2018
Could more changes be coming? Details at 11.
I wonder, how much the Blue Jay’s swoon has killed the media buzz at Rogers. I know the box office has been slaughtered but what’s happened to ad revenue?
Here is what I have to believe, not that anyone at Bell or TSN actually cheers against the Jay’s, but this downturn is might good for business.
Having said that how F’N crazy is the sports world going to be in Toronto come September? Seriously with the Leafs adding Tavares and the Raptors dealing DeRozen and picking up Kawhi Leonard, we are in for a crazy crazy sports season.
Could this be the kick in the ass the outlets need to jump-start their audiences? With the Leafs alone the coverage will be endless. Literally.
I mean young and old are going to be tied to the Leafs around the clock. If you are a media outlet and you cannot generate an audience now… shut er down.
This could be a rare opportunity for the outlets to actually grow their respective audience. When the Jays went on their run the #’s were off the charts. I can’t imagine what happens when it’s the Maple Leafs. The Raptors won’t garner that type of excitement until the playoffs but overall sports should be top of mind for many and with the teams expected to be winners…
A couple of other things…
If you have been considering the Athletic and haven’t yet, articles like this one written by John Lott are reason enough to pay. There are several great writers at the Athletic, but guys like Lott bring their A game often and bring content you simply cannot get elsewhere.
Lott’s coverage here on the Josh Donaldson trade is good too. It’s not as good as the work done by the new leader in the Blue Jays media clubhouse, Rob Longley who snagged the only Donaldson interview. Say what you want about the Toronto Sun or other traditional outlets, that good old-fashioned reporting right there. Good on Longley for snagging it.
Still the Blue Jays. Is head honcho Mark Shapiro gone? Lots of rumors swirling lately that indeed he is. Here’s one thought…
Remember the name Sebastian Gatica? Well, last year he escaped as the lone wolf after Rogers cleaned house in the media department with the Blue Jays.
So #BlueJays head of communications Sebastian Gatica is out … why not make a smart and very popular move by bringing back former manager of baseball information @mromanin ? Mal Romanin. Good guy and good at his job. A lot of us are still puzzled why he was let go.
— steve buffery (@Beezersun) September 1, 2018
Or….not.
Remember Patrick O’Sullivan? At one point he looked like he could be a new shinning broadcast light on TSN and that ended. O’Sullivan announced on Twitter recently that a new gig will remove him from Twitter. We hardly knew ya.
Is there a better kickoff than the combined NFL/NCAA college football season??????
Could TSN radio finally be ready to add another voice to its morning show? Let’s hope.
Curious if you listen to sports radio on a regular basis, do you like or even listen to the non-sports bits that some shows feature a lot? I get that there’s too much time to fill then there is material but as I age the bits are getting like SNL skits- too long and too unfunny.
Not sure you saw my post on Twitter but we’ve confirmed that Joe Bowen and Jim Ralph each got new 5-year deals to call Leaf games on the radio. Congrats.
Rumour that won’t go away, Buck and Tabler are both dead men walking on the Jays TV side. All, apparently Dan Shulman has to do is wink and the gig is his. Question is will he wink. Last season we told you Jerry wouldn’t return this season and got raked over the coals in so writing… let’s see where this goes.
I can tell you exactly where I was for all the playoff wins the Blue Jays had during their two world series wins. I knew each player and remember those years fondly. However, man do the Jays/Rogers oversell those teams to their fans. This article was the cover story on Sportsnet.ca this week!
I have no issue with honoring and remembering but wow is it time to give those two teams a rest. We fans get them jammed down our throats all the time. It’s time to sing a different song for a few years, please.
Number one complaint about Jays games this year on air? People aren’t sure who’s calling the games and/or when.
I saw the movie Mile 22. If you like violence it has it. Never before has the box office been so bland with titles even the least bit interesting to consider seeing. I saw the new Mission Impossible flick, slept through 2/3.
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PS Date on article reads as Aug. 05
Martin Cinzar 2 years ago
toronto Sports media has too many old hacks that need to be ousted. I doubt that this uptake in our sports team’s fortunes will change things. Look at the turmoil in Jays broadcasting. And that happened after the upturn. Now that they are sliding why would Shulman want in. As far a resigning Bowen and Ralph. It should have been for TV. Romo will be forgotten almost immediately, Hughson and Simpson, when they will be canned, will leave absolutely no legacy to Leaf hockey history. Scott Moore has not really been hitting anything out of the park since SN picked up hockey.
Thanks for all your hard work and welcome back with a new post. I see changes would be a positive and welcome on the hockey and baseball coverage with Rogers have the most at stake and loose. It’s unfortunate and some good people are pushed aside but ratings drive the money train. Dan Shulman would be a big step in the right direction along with the right colour person.
I have also noticed both Bell and Rogers have both stopped with there big press releases and spin on how great they were in the ratings and eye balls that watched.
AP 2 years ago
I wasn’t sure at first if this was a new post. Date at the top reads Aug 5.
Good stuff nonetheless. Can’t imagine Shapiro being gone already. Either way the baseball team is a trainwreck.
Totally agree with Martin C.’s take.
As for the Jays’ coverage, while I would like to see Shulman fulltime; a change is needed regardless. Buck and Tabler are long past their “best before” dates!
Steve in Waterloo 2 years ago
I think Shapiro/Atkins gets a hard time because the media and the fans loved AA.
By all accounts, AA traded away a lot of the depth of the minor system, and Shapiro said from the outset that reacquiring the depth was his first goal. That’s what he’s been doing.
As for Martinez and Tabler – well, let’s just say I LIKE Martinez with Shulman….
Doug 2 years ago
Please, please learn how to use an apostrophe. Blue Jays, not Blue Jay’s.
This is a damn sports media blog. You would think you would understand how to pluralize a team name. This is grade school stuff.
The Blue Jay’s are in first place.
The Blue Jay’s recent hot streak has them in first place.
Steve Jones 2 years ago
I wait with bated breath the Leafs coverage this year. I can’t get enough of the inane, repetitive speculation and analysis. I expect Bunkis will be able to extend his endless monologues into even deeper takes. Bottom line is more coverage never means there’s more news. Just boring blather served up by talking heads with no real insight. Thank the heavens for podcasts and Spotify. Sports talk radio, at least here, is done.
On the baseball front let’s hope they shake up the tv booth. Buck is insufferable, Tabler has insights that rival grass is green. Shulman would be better. But really what ever happened to silence in baseball. The Yankees crew do it well. Nothing going on, stop talking. Let the game breathe. Let everyone relax. Even with Shulman every second has to have someone spewing out some factoid that adds zero.
People loved AA because of how great the 2015 season was, and he seemed like a nice guy, and was Canadian. I wouldn’t trade 2015, but going all in that year (and in 2013) absolutely put the Jays in the situation they’re in now. That’s OK (they were right to go for it I think), but Shapiro and Atkins really have had their hands tied since they’ve come in (you’ll notice they haven’t traded away one prospect in their entire tenure I believe). They inherited an old, expensive team with no prospects in the higher levels – and high expectations.
This season has sucked, but the farm is #3 ranked in baseball now and the Jays will have almost no payroll committed by 2020. They’re setting themselves up well for a couple years from now. Wish they could have done a better job cashing in on Donaldson, but ultimately this process had to happen.
At the start of Monday’s PTS, Bob announced that the future of Spotlight was unknown due to “internal matters”. He went on to say that he had planned on the shows continuing and was “unhappy” with this; but said that he would not be elaborating on what was going on behind the scenes.
Any thoughts as to what may be going on?
I liked the new feature as it brought back the Bob of old” who is still good when fully engaged with a guest.
Gary M 2 years ago
Agree, Daniel. In fact, people were not so enamored of AA for most of his spotty tenure and his job was hanging by a thread when the team caught fire during the 2015 season.
Anyone know why Ben Wagner takes so many games off? Very unusual for a voice of a baseball team who isn’t an old legend or TV network talent.
Warren 2 years ago
More Shulman on the TV and/or the radio would be fantastic. Buck is well suited to the colour role on TV, and I think he pairs well with Shulman. Buck is one guy who has a distinct style for Play-by-play that is different than his colour-guy role. This pairing would be great on TV, and it would shake Pat Tabler free to say nothing of substance in some other market.
I’m surprised by what I’ve heard on the radio side. Ben Wagner is completely fine, and I really wanted to like his work. But I am finding that he remains a little stiff and he’s stayed pretty bland. He sometimes leaves me a bit disoriented – telling me his reaction without telling me what happened. And maybe it’s just me, but why does he always call the home team “Toronto”, and never ‘the Jays’ or ‘the Blue Jays’? It’s like he hasn’t fully embraced being part of the Jays broadcast – still feels like a fill in guy.
I’m also surprised by Wilner. I think he is doing a great job, and night in, night out, he’s the best voice in the booth when Shulman is not in it. I think he’s a keeper.
MontfromLondonOnt 2 years ago
Gary M –
Strictly my opinion but my guess is Ben Wagner takes so many games off because like a great many erstwhile listeners he can’t take the insufferable Wilner – I never listen anymore to the radio PbP because of Wilner and Schulman – I use Gameday –
Finally, the A teams are mostly back to sports radio this week. In case you were wondering how much Dubas will pay Marner and Nylander, you’re in luck, it consumes sixty percent of every show. They should all listen to an episode of Baseball Central where the central focus is the play and nuances of batting order, hitting, catching, throwing, and not the endless chess move blather about ‘top six, bottom six’ ‘third pairing guy,’ bridge deal’ ‘five, six or eight year contract’ etc, etc, et-fing-cetera.
For all the money Bob claims to have made, he sure makes it a point to work every stat holiday. Does he really need the double time pay on labour day at this point in his life?
The ‘games’ on several of the shows bug the hell out of me. Will post about that later.
The Leafs’ and Raptors’ potential success this year may lead to an increase of interest but I feel that quickly will erode when it is the same old analysts talking about them. The radio scene is stale not because of content but because it is the same people over and over. Do we really need to hear what Kyprios thinks 5 times a day? The only people on the planet who are allowed tp talk about the Raptors apparently are Devlin/Armstrong/Rautins so their message gets stale fast
I’ve stopped listening to sports radio in the morning. Will listen to Overdrive, or PTS if I catch an interview with a guest outside the organization. McKenzie for hockey, Griffin or Shulman for baseball. Gord Miller’s fill-in time in the summer was interesting. It’s always interesting to hear moderators i.e. Miller, Duthie, when they are allowed to voice their opinions.
I’ll switch away from any “games”, other than “Gerry’s percentages”, where at least they are forced to put a number on their speculations, and “what-if” talk becomes focused rather than open-ended and wandering.
You’re not interested in seeing “First Man”? Stories based on historical reality are rarely bland, even at only 50 dB.
J 2 years ago
What’s the speculation up there on Daren Millard? Was he ousted and what’s rumored to be next for him that he left last month? Hopefully not a health issue. Always liked him and saw him as the eventual Ron MacLean replacement when he retires.
@yaz…………Labour Day was the first stat holiday that McCown has worked in a long time……………he definitely didn’t appear on PTS on Good Friday, Victoria Day, Civic Day, etc…………there was no PTS on the Canada Day stat holiday
@Paul G……….thanks for the information………I did not hear McCown say that about Spotlight………that’s very interesting………..I have no idea what the issue might be……….as far as I know they don’t pay the Spotlight guests so I assume it’s not a money issue but I could be wrong……..maybe TSM can use his sources to find out what happened
@J – Steve Simmons tweeted that Darren Millard left Sportsnet to work on the Golden Knights broadcast.
Drumanchor 2 years ago
Humboldt Broncos – TSN
Wondering if anyone has any thoughts on the ads that TSN is showing with regards to the Humboldt Broncos home opener. Am I alone in thinking, “Enough already!!” Clips from the news reports, slow motion images, sad and moody music, etc., it just seems completely exploitive on behalf of TSN. For all I know, Rogers likely has something equally over-the-top for the event, too.
Let these poor boys rest in peace!
Let their families and friends heal without yet another television crew from Toronto telling “their story”. It’s now nothing more than a TV show with a populist bent that’s purpose is for little more than selling advertising.
@ Mike S..you are right. In fact it was Bob’s absences from the Stat. shows that caught my attention this past year; making his recent Labour Day appearance now an exception.
In past years Bob has commented on working the Stats. He said that he actually agreed to it in his prior contracts in return for more time off throughout the year. This past Monday is either an exception or perhaps his current contract (Dec. ’17) calls for only a limited number of such days?
Like yourself I hope that TSM or MIB can shed some light on the other Bob’s interview project. Spotlight is a rare exception to the usual Toronto sports radio fare.
Simmons stirring up the Rogers/Jays objectivity debate again in his Sunday article. Madani already with a fiery retort on Twitter. Madani and others would likely fare better by not responding lest they throw more fuel in the fire. I think it was Shoalts on a Toronto Mike’d Podcast who said ‘Rogers employees know where the line is and not to cross it’.
Can someone here from Sportsnet please post the memo Scott Moore sent out to Sportsnet employees stating how terrific a job Shapiro and Stkins have done?
Switch back to allowing new posts to post immediately then remove any posts you find offensive. The Simmons/Scott Moore story today would have generated a lot of debate. This site is losing its mojo.
While I understand the moderators rationale for delaying posting pending screening; I nonetheless agree with yaz’s last comment. My last comment was submitted early on Saturday afternoon but was not posted until Monday am. When it can take up to two days for comments to appear, it disrupts the natural flow of exchanging insights. This results in a forum that reduces the level of engagement with its readership.
Badry 2 years ago
anyone listen the Fan590 morning show last Thursday? The guest for the NFL segment absolutely roasted Greg Brady and it was great to see him get put in his place.
Saying Kaepernick was comparable to Byron Leftwich was absurd, what a clown. Kaep isn’t a superstar but his career output was 50%+ higher than Leftwich and he also had a much higher peak with his run to the super bowl
yaz – we will discuss that possibility. the racist posts aren’t worth it, in my opinion.
I missed seeing the racist posts and agree with you if they begin again. I think if most of us who are here regularly choose to ignore something offensive knowing it will be removed within 24 hours or so it may bring back the more free flowing debates of old. Either way I’ll always be here and enjoy reading your articles and the comments.
I listened to the Brady / Tanier clip from Sept. 6 (2:05:15) and fail to see how he was roasted. Lefwich comparison aside, if you agree with Brady as I do that Kaepernick doesn’t compare to many of the titans of sport who are the faces of Nike you would see it as a good back and forth debate which it was. Tanier’s tone was of someone who successfully roasted Brady but he did not. There are plenty of media everywhere who are cynical of the Kaepernick campaign, Tamier isn’t one of them.
For those who dislike Overdrive, I challenge you to listen to the Pierre Lebrun clip from the first two minutes of today’s (Tuesday) 5 pm show and not laugh.
Louis 2 years ago
I believe it was Chris Leroux doing colour on last night’s Jay game. Terrible. I’ll cut him slack because he’s new, but there are a lot of people at the station from whom he can learn.
Westdale Rocks 2 years ago
I believe there is a HUGE disconnect between what the media decision-makers like, and what the people like. Scott Moore is up first. Sportsnet’s stable of hockey play by play folks is weak, especially regionally. Moore has put the perennially popular Bob Cole almost out to pasture. Reminds me of what CBS did with Dick Enberg. When they cut back on Enberg, he was easily the best announcer at CBS. Cole may not be the best, but he still has game. Hughson is blah. Regionally….getting rid of Romanuk for Bartlett? Seriously? Best pxp calers in Canada for hockey are Beyak, Cuthbert, Romanuk, Dean Brown, Bowen, Cole and Miller. Not Hughson or Randorf.
On radio, both TSN and The Fan in this region, are guilty of promoting mediocrity. I used to be glued to sports radio. Not anymore. If I turn on and hear George Rusic, Matt Cauz, Garth Wheeler, Michael Landsberg, Elliott “Two-Minute Question” Price, a non-Bob PTS, or US syndicated programming, I’m immediately gone. Don’t care what the topic is, I’m gone. If I hear McCown interviewing someone associated with an event Rogers is covering, I’m gone. If I hear anyone interviewing a player, unless it’s PK Subban or someone with an actual personality, I’m outta there.
Finally, I feel bad for Ben Wagner. He’s not bad, but the one major criticism I have of him is one nobody can control: he’s not Jerry Howarth. Let’s face it, Wagner could have been the second coming of Vin Scully, Mel Allen, Jack Buck or Harry Caray and it wouldn’t have mattered. Maybe in a couple of years, I’ll drift back and start listening again, but it’s too soon. Since 1981, there was one of two voices you could count on hearing: Tom or Jerry. Ben Wagner is not either of those two. No fault of his own, but it’s going to take some time to adjust.
The 1050 morning show has always been underwhelming, however the Breakfast Club on Tuesdays & Fridays was usually worth listening to……………but there has been no Breakfast Club on Tuesdays the last few weeks…………not sure if that means it will now only be once a week…………….meanwhile last Friday’s Breakfast Club podcast was (once again) never made available…………..not sure how that happens
Ben Wagner following Jerry Howarth reminds me of when Matt Devlin followed Chuck Swirsky. At first I couldn’t stand it because he was so boring compared to “the Swirsk”. However, over time I came to appreciate Devlin. Two things helped. First was the way he interacted with the colour guys. Second was listening to him talk about his past work and experiences. I realized he wasn’t someone green with nothing to say.
Jacob R 2 years ago
I’m much like Westdale, I find the roster of radio hosts these days mediocre at best.
People like Wheeler, Petrillo, Ennis, Bunkis, Cauz are BRUTAL – I change the dial as soon as I hear them. The only show I make a point to catch is Overdrive and possibly PTS if there’s an interesting guest or a decent roundtable.
Like most Leaf fans I was ready to parade in the streets when Sportsnet finally turfed Romanuk, but talk about killing the mood with Bartlett. Could you imagine if the Boston Bruins or New York Yankees had to get a new PXP guy and they hired someone that used to work for the Canadiens or Red Sox, that would be considered blasphemy, but apparently that didn’t occur to the folks at Sportsnet. Why would they not take a run at Beyak or someone that Leaf fans enjoy watching – it makes no sense to me.
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COVID-19 Vaccine Updates & Resources
Teton Valley Health will be providing periodic updates in regards to the COVID-19 vaccine.
COVID-19 Vaccine Update – January 15, 2021
Approvals – Only Pfizer and Moderna have EUA’s in the US. Astro Zeneca is not scheduled for review yet.
Second doses – Until and if the FDA modifies the EUA’s we will be giving second doses to everyone who got a first dose. Second doses ideally are administered from 4 days before the due date (21 days after first dose for Pfizer, 28 days for Moderna) through 1 day after. Even if delayed beyond that the second dose should be given. The second dose must be the same brand as the first dose. As of 1/11, the Federal government will no longer “hold” the second dose and will distribute all “held” second doses. The presumption is that supplies will be sufficient to administer second doses in a timely fashion.
Priorities – we are currently in Phase 1a (Health Care Workers & Long Term Care Facility Residents — attached is current list. Please note that the current list is outdated in defining the phases). The state goal is to move the entire state through Phase 1a before moving any part of the state to Phase 1b (Essential Workers & Older Adults). The state COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Committee (CVAC) committee, which determines priorities within Idaho, met 1/8 to revise priorities and the governor authorized adding those 65 and older to the Phase 1b list on 1/12. The governor stated we will vaccinate first responders, K-12 teachers and staff, and frontline essential workers from January 1 until January 31st, then add individuals 65+ to the vaccination list as of February 1.
Administration – Public health will be giving the remainder of Teton county vaccinations for those in category 1a. Broulims, Corner, and TVH will assist in the administration of 1b and beyond. Anyone in category 1a should call EIPH to get scheduled (208-533-3235).
Reaction Rates — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said at present it looks like anaphylaxis cases (allergic reactions) are occurring at a rate of about 11.1 per 1 million vaccine doses given, though the agency cautioned that figure may change as the vaccination effort continues. They recommend urging all sites where Covid-19 vaccines are being administered to be ready to handle anaphylaxis cases, including having epinephrine at the ready. TVH staff are prepared and trained to handle anaphylaxis cases. People who have been vaccinated should stay to be monitored for 15 minutes if they have no history of allergic reactions and 30 minutes if they do. There was no geographic clustering of cases and people who developed anaphylaxis were not all vaccinated from the same batch of vaccine, suggesting whatever is causing the reaction was not limited to a single batch of product.
Status – We have administered doses to all but a few TVH employees who requested vaccine and are at 70% acceptance. Calderwood is complete. EMS is complete. Corner is complete, Broulims is doing Broulims pharmacy. We are working through PT, OT, and ST. Public health is working through emergency responders and dental. TVH is scheduled to begin inoculating teachers Monday, 1/18.
Availability – limited. The state does not know until the end of the prior week how many doses it will get. Current estimates are 20k doses per week for Idaho. EIPH got 2,075 doses this week. Distribution of vaccines will be done based on population for Phase 1b, although this will probably be augmented by percent of doses administered and reported into the state tracking system.
Hospital capacity in the panhandle at 100% of ICU capacity, better in other areas. The effects of positive case identification typically impact hospitalizations 10-12 days after they are first identified.
Positivity rates – Week of Jan. 4 – 27%. We believe that to be the beginning of the holiday surge and will closely monitor. We review positives for use in scheduling therapeutics.
Vaccination Plan – there is no written plan that has been developed by EIPH since numbers of vaccines are unknown. We are building a plan for schools and 65+.
Variants (particularly UK and South African) – Many cases of a COVID-19 virus variant first found in the U.K. have been identified in the U.S.. There is now an Ohio variant and others are expected. Vaccine vendors are testing against the variants to determine if it reduces efficacy. We have no evidence that it does change efficacy.
Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine appears to neutralize a mutation found in the U.K. and South Africa variants of the coronavirus, according to research published Jan. 7 on preprint server bioRxiv. The findings suggest the vaccine neutralizes the N501Y mutation found in more infectious variants. The study has not yet been peer-reviewed.
Callback lists – Given the changing priorities and long lead times for general population we are not maintaining a callback/I want the vaccine list. EIPH does maintain a list and people can call them if they want to be on a list (208-533-3235). We are told that the state will have a single list available to the public starting 1/18.
Cost – Vaccine is free to all, administration fee will be charged to those with health insurance, forgiven for those without health insurance.
Time constraints – Once either a 10 dose Moderna or 6 does Pfizer vial is pierced (first used) we have six hours to complete use of the vial. Other time frames apply prior to the vial being pierced, but given the demand far outstripping supply they are not impacting distribution to TVH.
Teton Valley Health is progressing through the Idaho priority list that appears on our social media. The first week we received 65 doses and these were given to healthcare personnel at TVH. We then received 50 doses which were given to TVH employees and other healthcare workers in the first priority group. Eastern Idaho Public Health also vaccinated people in the first priority group over the last several weeks. Please check our Instagram and Facebook accounts, where we will post which group we are vaccinating each week and a time and place to arrive when we start to vaccinate the public. Please note that the state estimates that we will not get to the second group until February.
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Home>TV news>Week in retrospect: Bones final episode set-up, show renewals and TOP TV moments
Week in retrospect: Bones final episode set-up, show renewals and TOP TV moments
Kristiana KripenaLast Updated: 04/07/2019
BONES: Guest star Pej Vahdat and Tamara Taylor in the "The Final Chapter: The Day In The Life" episode of BONES airing Tuesday, March 21 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. ©2017 Fox Broadcasting Co. Cr: Ray Mickshaw/FOX
TV News items:
David Boreanaz lands his first post-Bones gig
Since Bones is coming to an end, the Bones final episode airs next Tuesday, March 28, the show’s stars will have to find new gigs. But looks like Agent Booth is moving on rather quickly because David Boreanaz has already booked his next role. He will go from playing an FBI agent to embodying a Navy SEAL leader Jason in the CBS upcoming drama pilot about an elite group of solders who take the most dangerous missions for the government.
Katie McGrath is sticking around National City
Although we know for a while that the CW’s Supergirl has been renewed for season 3, finally we have some casting news as well. Looks like Lena Luthor might have a bigger role on Supergirl next season, since Katie McGrath, the woman who plays Lena, has been promoted to a series regular.
Heartland lands season 11
CBC’s Heartland already is the longest-running one-hour scripted drama in the history of Canadian television. But, since this week it was announced that the show is, in fact, getting a season 11, their record will be even hard to beat for any TV series, let alone a Canadian one. So now we can enjoy the last episode of Heartland season 10, which airs today, in peace, because we know that no matter what happens, the show will be back this fall.
Stitchers are back in action
Speaking of new seasons, now we know when the premiere date of Stitchers season 3 is. Since Stitchers is a part of the Freeform’s summer lineup, the show starts its season 3 run on Monday, June 5. It will be occupying Freeform’s 9/8 central slot on Mondays, so you can be sure that the beginnings of your work weeks this summer will be a little brighter.
Suit up, Stretch. We’re back Monday, June 5th. 💧 #StitchersSeason3 #Stitchers pic.twitter.com/X6qK2MXCwa
— Stitchers (@StitchersTV) March 20, 2017
CBS announces their early renewals
And, one of the biggest US TV networks CBS announced their early renewals and 16 shows got picked up for new seasons. Among which were newbie shows like Macgyver, Bull, and Kevin Can Wait, and shows that have been enjoying longer runs like Hawaii Five-0, both NCIS spin-offs, Madam Secretary, Blue Bloods and others.
Important TV moments:
Hook proposes on Once Upon a Time
Although it wasn’t quite the proposal we all were hoping for with an elaborate plan and romantic setting, our favorite Storybrook couple Hook and Emma are in fact engaged. Now we just need to hope that when Hook tells Emma that he killed her grandfather, she will understand and still want to marry him.
Cam and Arastoo’s wedding
In the second-to-last Bones episode, we not only really started to see the beginning of the end of all the main character stories, but we also got to experience Cam and Arastoo’s wedding. Granted it was intercut with scenes from the next day, Kovac’s escape and Zack’s trail, but it was still great to see the two finally tie the knot. Top it all off with an explosion at the end of the episode and you have yourself an amazing set up for Bones final episode, which airs next week.
Jay Halsted is married?
Speaking of weddings and marriages, this week’s Chicago P.D. episode revealed a shocking twist regarding Jay Halsted’s character. It turns out he is still married to his ex-girlfriend Abby. Although they got married in Vegas and it, in Jay’s mind, was a short fling, to Abby is apparently was not, because she didn’t sign the divorce papers, meaning that she and Jay are still married. How about that turn of events?
The Flash and Supergirl crossover
Finally, I can’t forget that this week marked another crossover in the Arrow-verse. We finally saw the much talked about and the much-anticipated musical episode of The Flash, which featured many Supergirl characters. And I have to say, the Supergirl/Flash musical was so much better than anticipated. The songs were fun, the dance numbers were amazingly choreographed and the story, although stood on its own, also propelled the regular story lines of both shows further.
Watch super friends #TheFlash and #Supergirl on the latest episode, now available on The CW App: https://t.co/Mxn4QhcmID pic.twitter.com/TxC65fuE89
— The Flash (@CW_TheFlash) March 23, 2017
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Academy advances 15 doc features, ‘Senna,’ ‘Interrupters’ stunningly snubbed
by: uproxx November 18, 2011
The documentary branch of the Academy is beginning to get as crazy with it’s random snubs as the music branch, I have to say. Today’s announcement of 15 eligible contenders for the Best Documentary Feature category revealed outright snubs of two of the most acclaimed hopefuls of the year — “Senna” and “The Interrupters” — while perhaps less surprisingly, Werner Herzog got the shaft once again for his best film in years, “Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life.”
Errol Morris was also shafted for “Tabloid” (which is embroiled in a lawsuit threat from subject Joyce McKinney), while other high-profile hopefuls like “Being Elmo: A Pupeteer’s Journey” and “Page One: Inside the New York Times” were also ignored.
Interestingly, Wim Wenders’s 3D Pina Bausch ode (and German selection for Best Foreign Language Film) “Pina” made the cut. So did “Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory,” which slated a one-week theatrical qualifying run ahead of its HBO premiere expressly for the purposes of being in this discussion.
Check out the full list of advancing titles below.
“Battle for Brooklyn” (RUMER Inc.)
“Bill Cunningham New York” (First Thought Films)
“Buck” (Cedar Creek Productions)
“Hell and Back Again” (Roast Beef Productions Limited)
“If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front” (Marshall Curry Productions, LLC)
“Jane’s Journey” (NEOS Film GmbH & Co. KG)
“The Loving Story” (Augusta Films)
“Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory” (@radical.media)
“Pina” (Neue Road Movies GmbH)
“Project Nim” (Red Box Films)
“Semper Fi: Always Faithful” (Tied to the Tracks Films, Inc.)
“Sing Your Song” (S2BN Belafonte Productions, LLC)
“Undefeated” (Spitfire Pictures)
“Under Fire: Journalists in Combat” (JUF Pictures, Inc.)
“We Were Here” (Weissman Projects, LLC)
Feel free to offer up your predictions of how this will all shake out in the comments section below. We’ll finally start charting this category via the Contenders section as of next week’s update.
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Tags: ACADEMY AWARDS, BATTLE FOR BROOKLYN, Best Documentary Feature, Bill Cunningham New York, Buck, ERROL MORRIS, Hell and Back Again, If a Tree Falls The Story of the Earth Liberation Front, In Contention, Into the Abyss A Tale of Death a Tale of Life, Janes Journey, PARADISE LOST 3: PURGATORY, PINA, Project Nim, SEMPER FI: ALWAYS FAITHFUL, SENNA, sing your song, Tabloid, The Interrupters, The Loving Story, undefeated, Under Fire Journalists in Combat, We Were Here, WERNER HERZOG
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Usa latest news
Over age 70? Here’s what you need to do to receive a vaccination
Phyllis Patrick, 84, pulls down her sleeve and smiles after getting vaccinated for COVID-19 by CVS pharmacist Angela Nhan at Summit Senior Living in Kearns on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — Utahns at least 70 years old are the latest group in the state eligible for COVID-19 vaccines, but first must sign up for an appointment with their local health departments — a step that hasn’t been easy for many so far.
Some of the state’s 13 health districts are still finalizing plans for next week’s rollout to older Utahns, who follow front-line hospital and other health care workers, long-term care facility residents and staff, emergency services personnel, first responders and school personnel in getting the vaccine.
Gov. Spencer Cox lowered the age threshold from 75 to 70 years old and delegated the responsibility for vaccinations to local health districts in an effort to speed up immunizations against the deadly virus. Cox recently old the Deseret News and KSL editorial boards that basing the program on geography “simplifies the process.”
States around the country are scrambling to get residents vaccinated, especially now that the Trump administration is urging them to include older Americans, experts said during a virtual news conference Thursday held by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
“We have to get some 600 million doses into the arms of Americans to control this pandemic. We’ve known for many months that this was going to be an enormous undertaking. Unfortunately, the rollout has not gone smoothly,” said Dr. Andy Pavia, chief of the University of Utah School of Medicine’s pediatric infectious diseases division.
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A lot of the issues, he said, are a result of a lack of planning and resources. Pavia said there is a concern about the “mismanage between the number of people who are being told they are eligible and the amount of vaccine that’s being distributed and the resources to get that vaccine into people.”
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Rosemary’s Baby: A Valuable Rosetta Stone
Posted on February 3, 2019 January 25, 2020 by markbrahmin
In some important cases, contemporary JEM (Jewish Esoteric Moralization) appears in an especially concise and comprehensive form providing for us, as it were, a “Rosetta stone” more rich in insight than a larger body of JEM. The 1968 film Rosemary’s Baby and the 1967 book from which it was adapted are such works.
The Plot of Rosemary’s Baby runs as follows. Rosemary (Mia Farrow) is a woman living in New York City with her actor husband, Guy Woodhouse (John Cassavetes). Her husband, Guy Woodhouse, a Protestant, is by degrees more sophisticated. In the end, though, he’s your typical oblivious, vain, career-oriented actor. The two are interested in living in an upscale apartment building called the Bramford. Though a swanky setting, the building has a past shrouded in mystery and occult bloodshed.
Indeed, during the early 20th century it is said to have been the base of operations for a notorious coven of witches headed by the Arch-Warlock Adrian Marcato. Among these witches are included the Trent Sisters who “cooked and ate several young children.” Also, the building is a bit out of their price range.
Nevertheless, despite the caveats of their concerned friend “Hutch” (Maurice Evans), they move in. Shortly thereafter they meet the Castevets, an eccentric older couple living in the adjacent unit. Odd happenings steadily occur from there. As the film reveals, the Castevets, Minnie (Ruth Gordon) and Roman (Sidney Blackmer), are ostensibly “Satanists,” the heirs of the Marcato Cult. Their interest in the young couple is with Rosemary’s womb.
Eventually Rosemary finds herself drugged and raped by a serpentine humanoid during what appears to be a “Satanic” ritual. It is clear she’s been sold out by her careerist husband Guy Woodhouse whom effectively bartered her off to the Castevets in exchange for valuable contacts in the theater world. Though, on the other hand, being a woman, Rosemary’s the one who pushed Guy to live in the otherwise unaffordable Bramford.
Finally, at the end of the film, Rosemary gives birth to a devil child who is given the name “Adrian” doubtlessly in honor of Adrian Marcato. Readers should understand that this film depicts the Semitic Bride Gathering Cult of Judaism, particularly as it is aided by the assisting intermediary cult of Christianity. Here youthful Aryan stock is used to continue and maintain a more racially aged Jewry. Below is the evidence.
Esoterically, the setting of the Bramford is the Catholic Church. In fact, in Ira Levin’s book, it is even indicated that the building is owned by the Catholic Church. Yet the clues are multiple.
NAMES & THE BRAMFORD AS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
The references in Rosemary’s name should be immediately recognizable to readers. The last name, Woodhouse, taken from her husband an Aryan Protestant, Guy Woodhouse, conveys the arboreal. This, as our broader study reveals, is a reference to the Aryan or Aryan “stock.” Indeed, the name Guy Woodhouse refers twice to the arboreal. To wit, the name Guy is the Norman French form of Wido. Wido was originally a short form of names beginning with the Germanic element witu “wood” or wit “wide.”
The name Rosemary is a triple reference to the Biblical Mary. To wit, the name may be understood as a reference to the herb ros marinus meaning “dew of the sea.” Hence it becomes a reference to both the sea borne Venus and Mary. The element “Rose” is, as our broader study reveals, a reference to the blood admixture of the Aryan Venus and the Semitic Adonis. There we understand the blood of a Semitic Adonis mixed with the tears of the Aryan Venus to form the first rose. In fact, the building name Bramford is also a reference to this.
Bramford is comprised of two elements, Bram, which is a shortened form of Abraham, and ford meaning: “a place where a river or other body of water is shallow enough to be crossed by wading.” This is certainly a reference to Abraham’s River in Lebanon. This river is also known as Adonis’ River. There the water turns red every February due to soil erosion. In mythology, this reddening is understood as caused by the spilt blood of the slain Adonis flowing into the river’s water. Again it symbolizes intermixture between the Semite and the Aryan.
Hence the author Levin neatly and knowledgeably conflates Christianity and its directly preceding earlier form, the Adonis cult. Again, the Rose, particularly through rosary beads, is also a reference to Mary’s devotion to Christ in Christianity. Esoterically, the setting of the Bramford is the Catholic Church. In fact, in Ira Levin’s book, it is even indicated that the building is owned by the Catholic Church. Yet the clues are multiple.
The name of their neighbor, Roman Castevet, who will turn out to be the chief “Satanist” and witch, is clearly a reference to the Roman Catholic Church. Indeed, the word Roman as an adjective may mean: “of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church.” Likewise, as a noun, it may be a disparaging reference to a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
During Rosemary’s ceremonial rape at the hands of a serpentine devil, the Pope himself will appear assuring her capitulation in this case is not sinful. Obviously, the filmmaker and author intend this to be interpreted as a “Satanic corruption” of church vis-à-vis audiences. Yet through the symbols of the film, it is clear that, instead, the esotericists convey the notion that Christianity is itself “Satanic” or rather, more objectively, a vehicle of Jewish continuance and dominance.
Likewise, it will become evident that Levin and Polanski are making the connection between nuns, witches and even Jewesses that are made in this broader study. Indeed, during one scene, while Rosemary is drifting off to sleep to the muffled voice of Minnie Castevet in the adjoining apartment, she will hear Minnie essentially plotting with Roman to obtain a womb for the “devil baby.” She will dream, however, it is the voice of a scolding nun appearing in a childhood memory. Here we may even find an esoteric suggestion that nuns served as willing accomplices or Trivia-like attendants in a Semitic Bride Gathering Cult during a benighted, medieval period. The broader study will find other such suggestions.
Indeed, one of the Castevets accomplices in the Bramford is an older woman named Ms. Gilmore. The name Gilmore means “Servant of the Virgin Mary.” It is suggestive in this context. More compelling, the last name Castevets, apparently invented, is comprised of the words Caste and vets. Here the Bride Gathering Cult is made explicit. The Castevets have vetted the Aryan breeding stock to breed the “higher caste”, to wit, Jews.
The mysterious Trench sisters, whose reputation haunts the Bramford, are exoterically a reference to a famous murder case where two french maids were convicted of murdering their employer’s wife and daughter in Le Mans France on 1933. The surname Trench means derives from the Old French verb trenchier ‘to cut.’
Terry Gionoffrio, an important figure appearing in the film, has a name containing similar elements as this study reviews. Though with her, a victim figure, it seems suggested that she is the “cut” as opposed to the “cutter.” Here we may find a common circumcision or emasculation reference as well.
In the film and the book, one of the Woodhouses friends, “Jimmy,” attending their housewarming party, will mispronounce the name referring to them as the “Trent Sisters,” only to be corrected by another party guest. Though posing as a bit of naturalistic dialog the mistake is obviously inserted by the careful symbolist Levin as a reference.
The surname Trent is typically considered a topographical name referencing any of the several rivers named “Trent,” in Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Dorset, for instance. Ultimately it is guessed derived from the British name “Trisanton.” Here “tri” means through, across, and “santon” means road. Possibly this is a reference to the Goddess Hecate or Trivia, a Goddess of “cross roads” and a clear precedent for the witch of European folklore. If so it may be a double or triple reference.
Indeed, the reference may also be to the 16th century council of Trent where the Catholic Church initiated a counter-reformation vis-à-vis a rebelling Protestantism. Even more likely it is a reference to Simon of Trent. Simon of Trent is a famous case occurring in 1475 Italy wherein Jews were accused of the ritualistic sacrifice of a non-Jewish child. In Rosemary’s Baby the Trent sisters are understood as having carried out their murders in the basement of the Bramford. The clip below sets this up.
It is possible, Levin and Polanski are esoterically endorsing the idea that Jewish ritual child-sacrifice or “blood gathering” did or does occur as entertained by the Jewish author Ariel Toaff in his 2007 book Passovers of Blood: The Jews of Europe and Ritual Murders. However the symbolism here is deeper and far-reaching.
Here, again, the ritual cannibalism of children is at once a Eucharistic reference and a reference to the destruction of Aryan racial youth and health by absorption into a more aged Semitic element. This is consistent with a common “Consumption motif” pervasive in JEM in which Aryans are understood as fuel or food such as unleavened bread, olive oil or sheaves of wood.
Simon of Trent is a famous case occurring in 1475 Italy wherein Jews were accused of the ritualistic sacrifice of a non-Jewish child. The Trent Sisters who “cooked and ate several young children” are mentioned in the film and are clearly references to Simon of Trent.
Regardless, the reference to it here, in Rosemary’s Baby, reinforces the idea of a hidden controlling Jewry in the “basement” of the Catholic Church. Likewise it reinforces the idea of the church and Christianity more broadly functioning as an accomplice to the Semitic Bride Gathering Cult. After all, as we will see, the Catholic Church is presented in Rosemary’s Baby as simply a front for a hidden controlling Jewry.
HUTCH THE APOLLONIAN & MARCATO THE FALSE “ROMAN” CATHOLIC
The character Hutch appearing in Rosemary’s Baby is another figure that is useful in confirming our understanding of Greco-Roman Religion. By name, manner and appearance we class Hutch a WASP. He is also an Aryan Apollo-figure and this is indicated by his name Edward “Hutch” Hutchinson. The word “Hutch” means “a pen or enclosed coop for small animals.”
Hutch is an Aryan Apollo-figure and this is indicated by his name Edward “Hutch” Hutchinson. The word “Hutch” means “a pen or enclosed coop for small animals.” In short, it is a reference to Apollo, “the Protector of Flocks”, whose name is often understood to mean “enclosure.”
Hence we encounter the “enclosure motif” which is explicated in the larger study. In short, it is a reference to Apollo, “the Protector of Flocks”, whose name is often understood to mean “enclosure.” Edward meaning “wealth guard” is also suggestive in the context of a protector. This, of course, is precisely his role in the film. He warns the Woodhouses against moving into the Bramford. He plays a concerned, parental role vis-à-vis the couple and remains their friend after they move into the Bramford.
Hence we encounter Jewish minds, in Levin and Polanski, conscious of Jews thieving Aryan stock from an Apollonian enclosure a la the Mercury of mythology. Here it is important to note a transactional relationship that will also occur in other works of JEM. Here the Aryan stock is purchased through career and wealth opportunities. But, of course, how else might Mercury, the God of Merchants, steal Apollo’s flock? Likewise, though, we see a contrast between secular “Apolloism,” Hutch, and Christianity, the Bramford.
When Hutch sees that Rosemary has grown gaunt and ill during her pregnancy and learns that she is being prescribed a mysterious “Tannis Root” by Minnie Castevet, he begins looking for answers. Eventually Hutch will succeed in warning Rosemary that the Castevets are, in fact, witches.
Though Hutch will mysteriously fall into a coma during his research, doubtlessly stricken by the sorcery of the Castevets, he will have a book delivered to Rosemary. The book, entitled “All of them Witches,” is a book on witches that details, in particular, the cult of witches believed to have operated in the Bramford. Written in the book, Hutch has scrawled: “the name is an anagram.”
The name in question, found in the book, is Steven Marcato, the son of Adrian Marcato, the notorious Arch-warlock believed to have run a “Satanic Cult” in the Bramford. Indeed, when the letters of the name Steven Marcato are rearranged they become the name of Rosemary’s neighbor Roman Castevet.
The significance here lies partially in the name Roman. Hutch is symbolically revealing to Rosemary that their neighbor is not “Roman”, to wit, he is not a Roman Catholic. Rather, of course, he is a Jew. The name Marcato may have a double significance, the second and more complex of which we will discuss shortly. The word Marcato means: “(of notes or chords in a musical score) strongly accented.” Hence it may suggest foreignness and hence Jewishness.
Indeed, when the letters of the name Steven Marcato are rearranged they become the name of Rosemary’s neighbor Roman Castevet.
The significance here lies partially in the name Roman. Hutch is symbolically revealing to Rosemary that their neighbor is not “Roman”, to wit, he is not a Roman Catholic. Rather, of course, he is a Jew.
“TANNIS ROOT” & MINNIE’S CORRUPTION OF ROSEMARY
As mentioned, Minnie Castevet will give Rosemary a pendant shortly after meeting her. The pendant will contain a bad smelling fungus or mold, green in coloration. Here the JEM color symbolism indicating Green as Jewish or sexual, such as with the Semitic God Osiris, seems to apply. Minnie calls the plant “Tannis Root.” Later, when the Aryan Rosemary has already been impregnated by “The Devil”, a being surely indicated as Jewish as we will discover, Minnie will give Rosemary a foul tasting drink containing “Tannis Root” as an herbal aid for her pregnancy.
Minnie Castevet will give Rosemary a pendant shortly after meeting her. The pendant contains “Tannis Root.” The name “Tannis” is a reference to Tanis Egypt where Moses was discovered in the marshes of the Nile River. In Hebrew it may mean “Jackals” and is closely related to words meaning “dragon”, “sea monster” or “jackal.”
Rosemary detests the drink but Minnie insists on it. The dark joke here is certainly that Rosemary is wearing and drinking Jewish semen or “root.” Here we see, perhaps, a metaphor for a sexually advanced, Jewish Trivia functioning in a corrupting way vis-à-vis the more naïve and innocent Aryan Venus Urania. Hence, Hutch’s concern about the plant metaphorically indicates an Aryan concern about the sexual debasement of Aryan women.
Indeed, the name “Tannis” is a reference to Tanis Egypt where Moses was discovered in the marshes of the Nile River. Minnie’s first name is doubtlessly intended here as a diminutive of Miriam. Miriam, again, is Moses sister who put Moses in the basket of reeds or bulrushes. With reeds and bulrushes, ostensibly, we have a phallic symbol contrasted with the vaginal symbol of the Nile River. Hence we find confirmation for admixing and racial cuckoldry as a primary means to power for Jews. This we must understand is encoded as a Religious prerogative. To be clear, Moses is understood in the symbolism as a cuckolding seed or scion entering Egypt, a cuckoo’s egg.
The name of the city Tanis itself might be understood esoterically as related to the Hebrew word Tannin, תַּנִּין, meaning “serpent”, “dragon” or “sea monster” or tannah or tan, תן/תַּן, meaning “jackal”, “dragon” or “sea monster.” In Modern Hebrew, Tanis תנים may be translated as “jackals.” In other words, it is possible, if not likely, “Tannis Root” is more directly a reference to the phallus or seed of the reptilian “serpent” that eventually rapes Rosemary.
The racial cuckoldry theme is clear in Rosemary’s Baby. After all, in the film, Rosemary’s Aryan husband, Guy Woodhouse, will even be present at the insemination ceremony, willingly cuckolded by “the Devil.” Here, again, Guy Woodhouse has traded his wife’s womb for career success, an acting career secured through the “magic” machinations of the Castevets.
RELIGION AS A FORM OF BLINDING
Guy Woodhouse will only get his break after the Castevets cause a rival actor to go blind, thereby ceding the part to Guy. This loosing of sight or senses is a reoccurring motif in JEM related to the Hamsa symbol. Here we find an esoteric admission of “Jewish conspiracy.”
Likely blindness as a symbol in Judaism is a reference especially to the Biblical city of Dothan. As the broader study reveals, the city of Dothan appears twice in the Hebrew Bible, in the second book of Kings, where Elisha blinds the Arameans, and in Genesis, where Judah, a synonym for the Jewish God, convinces his brothers to sell his Aryan brother Joseph, likely as a catamite, to merchants. As the broader study discusses, in Modern Hebrew Dothan, בְּדֹתָֽן, means “Religion”, “Faith”, “Denomination” and “Edict.” Hence straight away we understand the meaning and purpose of Jewish “Religion”, whether Christian or Jewish. Here the subtext is clearly Jewish dominance, cultural, religious and economic.
This loosing of sight or senses is a reoccurring motif in JEM related to the Hamsa symbol. Here we see Saint Paul, who fell blind for three days after being converted by Christ.
NUMEROLOGY IN ROSEMARY’S BABY
Rosemary learns that she is pregnant and is due on June 28, 1966. That’s 6/66. Our study reveals this as a solar number or a reference to the Aryan. Simply Rosemary is the sought after solar Tipheret, the Aryan breeding stock. Indeed, the day in this date is a solar references as well that confirms this interpretation.
To wit, the number 28 is likely also significant. In Jewish tradition there is a 28-year solar cycle in which the sun returns to its place in Creation every 28 solar years. This is commemorated in April every 28 years with the recitation of Birkat Hachama, ברכת החמה, the “Blessing of The Sun.”
Rosemary learns that she is pregnant and is due on June 28, 1966. That’s 6/66. Our study reveals this as a solar number or a reference to the Aryan. Simply Rosemary is the sought after solar Tipheret, the Aryan breeding stock.
Interestingly, the Hebrew expression itself doesn’t appear to contain the word sun. Rather it is comprised of Birkat, ברכת, meaning “blessing” but also “pool”, “pond” and “lake” and the word, Hachama, החמה meaning “the hot” and “browning.”
Perhaps, as with the metaphor of Baptism, these aqueous references are suggestive of intermixture. The broader metaphor does suggest this. For instance, Jewish tradition indicates that when the Sun completes this 28-year cycle, it has returned to the position when the world was created. Hence metaphorically, the Semite joins with the Aryan, Adonis joins with Venus, to be “recreated.” This is not the only bit of numerology in the film.
Indeed, the apartment unit that the Woodhouses move into was an apartment partitioned from a ten-room apartment unit, the other portion of which is occupied by the Castevets. The ten rooms are doubtlessly a reference to the ten seriphot of the Cabala and, as the broader study discusses, by my estimation, a theme of “multiplicity” or pluralism, a dividing and breaking up of the Aryan monad. The apartment is on the seventh floor. This, perhaps the most common number in Jewish numerology, at least as it appears in JEM, is a reference to Saturn, the Reaper and Castrator.
Indeed, Rosemary’s first ascent into the apartment, up the seven floors, is highly symbolic. During this scene, these numeric details outlined here are oddly emphasized by the realtor as the Woodhouses ascend in the elevator to view the apartment for the first time. Here is Venus Urania being cut from the Aryan father Caelus represented by Guy Woodhouse and the Aryan race more broadly. Yet this motif is implied even more strongly elsewhere in the film.
Terry Gionoffrio & Ms. Gardenia the “Caste-vets” exhausted resources
Indeed, the Castevets had their sights set on another womb before Rosemary’s arrival, a dark brunet, ex-junky named Terry Gionoffrio. Yet Terry will kill herself shortly after the Woodhouses move in, leaping from the seventh floor, seemingly in an effort to deny the Castevets her womb.
Perhaps though, as likely, she was killed when the better and fairer option of Rosemary appeared. With Terry there are strong suggestions of a Saturnine castration or circumcision motif. Indeed, Terry Gionoffrio’s last name appears to be invented. Rather it appears to be comprised of two actual names, Gion and Onofrio. Gion is a family and personal name that appears to be a form of Gidon. Gidon is a Hebrew name that means “hewer.”
This appears verified by Terry’s first name Terry or Theresa which means “to harvest.” The name Onofrio is an adaptation of the Egyptian name Onnophris which means “always happy.” This fits with Terry who will be described by Minnie Castevet after her suicide as “a very happy girl with no reason for self-destruction.” More importantly, Onnophris is an epithet of the god Osiris who is best understood as a Symbolic Synonym of Adonis or Christ. Thus the notion of a harvested vegetation god emerges. That Terry is a brunet and ex-junky is relevant. She is, in a sense, an exhausted resource. With her, the milk has “gone sour.”
It would seem Rosemary was chosen over Terry to bear the child. That Terry is a brunet and ex-junky is relevant. She is, in a sense, an exhausted resource. With her, the milk has “gone sour.”
We learn in the beginning of the film, as well, that a woman named Ms. Gardenia occupied the Woodhouses’ Apartment unit before they moved in. Her name is clearly a reference to the Garden of Eden as much as the reptilian devil that impregnates Rosemary is a reference to the Serpent. The apartment as well, filled with plants that she had been growing, reinforces this idea.
According to the building manager, ostensibly Gardenia was an older women who, like Hutch, fell into a coma and died. Clearly the film indicates that she was seeking to escape the Castevets. Indeed, when the Woodhouses are first viewing the apartment an unfinished letter penned in Gardenia’s name reads cryptically: “I can no longer associate myself….”
Likewise, they find a massive secretary which had been inexplicably pushed in front of a closet containing only towels and a vacuum cleaner. Importantly the closet is also a conduit to the adjoining Castevets apartment, in some sense, symbolically, a gate to Eden as well as a vagina. As this study discusses, the symbol of Baptism, which is a symbol of Semitic and Aryan intermixture, is understood as a “purification ritual.” It functions this way vis-a-vis the Jew who is made more pure through intermixture with the Aryan. Perhaps these cleaning appliances are cleansing or purification symbols.
Certainly Gardenia was at some point “breeding stock” as well, thus Levin and Polanski corroborate the symbol of the Garden of Eden as a symbol for Aryan Genetics, as is explicated in our broader study. That both Gardenia and Terry have Italian last names may suggest an esoteric understanding that Rome, in particular, through the Roman Church, was an important stage of Semitic Bride Gathering for Jews. We remember again that Jews are understood to owe half their lineage to Italian women according to genetic studies. Yet both Gardenia and Terry here become symbols of racial exhaustion.
Dr. Abe Sapirstein, Servant of the Jewish Saturn
Additional confirmation for the “Jewishness” of the Castevets plot comes in the form of the sinister Dr. Abe Sapirstein. Dr. Sapirstein is a doctor that Castevets insist Rosemary go to during her pregnancy. By his last name one might guess that he is a Jew, even a Rabbinical figure. While it is true he is indicated a Jew in the book, understanding him as a Jew, while other figures in the film as not, would be a mistake.
Dr. Sapirstein is a doctor that Castevets insist Rosemary go to during her pregnancy. By his last name one might guess that he is a Jew, even a Rabbinical figure. However this would be a mistake. Name meanings much more frequently hold meanings in JEM.
Abe is, of course, a reference to the Biblical Abraham. As this study explicates, Abraham is an Aryan figure who has entered into a blood covenant with the Jewish God. This study explicates the Jewish God as a monetary figure, hence, in a sense, Abraham might be regarded a bribed Aryan. He is certainly a cuckolded figure as this study explicates. But Sapirstein’s surname provides the deeper meaning. It is a Jewish surname but that is its least important aspect. The name Sapirstein means Sapphire Stone.
Linguists propose that the word Sapphire derives from Sanskrit, Shanipriya (शनिप्रिय). “Shani” (शनि) means “Saturn” and “priya” (प्रिय) means dear, i.e. literally “dear to Saturn.” The reader already knows that Saturn is a reference to the Jewish God. Indeed, Saturn the Reaper and Castrator is a form of the Jewish God especially connected to circumcision. Thus this would especially relate him to Abraham, the first to enter into the circumcision “covenant” with the Jewish God.
“Stone,” suggested by the suffix stien, is more curious here. Normally names meaning “stone” would indicate a Jew and perhaps that is the case here. However the stone may be a reference to the sharpened stones used for circumcision in the Hebrew Bible. Hence perhaps the name is meant to be understood as “Abraham, dear to Saturn’s stone.” Ostensibly, given the broader metaphor, Abe Sapirstein’s status as doctor may also be a reference to “Doctor of the Church,” the great ecclesiastics honored by the Church.
Rosemary eventually becomes ill from Minnie’s Tannis Root but Sapirstein also insists she take it. Eventually she will defy both of them and go to another doctor named Dr. CC. Hill (Charles Gordin). But much to her horror, Hill will betray her and summon Sapirstein to his office to take her away. The name Hill, a chthonic or montane reference is very likely a Jewish identifier.
The symbol of the mountain, for instance, is, like the stone, a Jewish identifier in JEM. Indeed, the Hebrew word Geba, גֶבַע, means “hill” and “a stone.” This may suggest that the symbol of the stone and hill might be treated as synonyms in JEM.
The Jew as Typhon son of Saturn
The impregnating Devil is also given a specific Semitic identity. The clue will be given in a dream, a drugged Rosemary has before the impregnation ceremony. In the dream she will find herself in a nautical setting, on a dock, then eventually on a boat. Much of this is setup, however, to introduce the name and identity of the “Devil” whom will impregnate her. Indeed, at some point, during this sequence, a sailor or boat captain warning of a storm will shout: “Typhoon. Typhoon.” This is a reference to the Greek monster Typhon from which the word Typhoon is derived.
Typhon is generally described as scaled and serpentine in the myths. The devil who rapes Rosemary will appear likewise. Typhon is the son of the Jewish God Saturn. As this study explicates, Typhon is a synonym of the Egyptian God Set or Seth and Seth, the Jewish or proto-Jewish son of Adam. Set is the slayer of Osiris so he is also referenced in Terry Gionoffrio’s name. The deceased character of Ms. Gardenia also seems to conflate this Typhon with the Serpent in the Garden of Eden. In any case, serpents and dragons are Jewish identifiers in JEM.
The being that impregnates Rosemary is identified with the Semitic or Jewish figure of Typhon, serpentine Son of Saturn.
Jew as “Black” lover in Song of Solomon and color symbolism in Rosemary’s Baby
When Rosemary’s “Devil child” is finally conceived it will be given the name “Adrian.” The name “Adrian” has various etymologies. It is a form of Hadrian with the emperor Hadrian being its most famous bearer. Yet this is not the reference here. Indeed, that this devil is no beast of Aryan or “Nazi” despotism is made clear when Roman Castevet celebrates the birth of the child.
Roman cries: “He shall overthrow the mighty and lay waste to their temples. He shall redeem the despised and reap vengeance in the name of the burned and the tortured.” Indeed, “The Devil” is a good democrat! “Burned”?
Given when the book and film were released, 1967 and 1968, possibly this is a reference to the Holocaust, a term only then beginning to circulate. Yet our broader study reveals that “fire” as a motif and in name meanings is a reference to the Jewish God who is described in the Hebrew Bible as a “consuming fire.” This, as this study argues, is also the meaning of the “Holocaust” which may be understood as synonymous with the Jewish God.
Regardless, the name Adrian may also mean “dark or black” or it may mean “sea.” “Black”, particularly in name meanings, is a Jewish identifier in JEM as the broader study will reveal. That this likely the intended meaning of the name is corroborated in the nickname given to the Bramford because of Adrian Maracto’s activities there. As Hutch mentions toward the beginning of the film, it is the “Black Bramford.” In my estimation, remarkably, the name “Adrian” may be a reference, at least in part, to a series of old 9th or 10th Century English works under the Generic name Solomon and Saturn.
Indeed, these works, a series of answer and question dialogs between figures identified as Solomon and Saturn, and dealing with Biblical questions, also fell under the names Adrian and Ritheus as well as Solomon and Marcolf. In short, where Solomon and Saturn are not indicated as the interlocutors, the interlocutors are nevertheless understood as Solomon and Saturn, only under a different name. Hence Adrian becomes Solomon.
Perhaps corroborative of this is the name of Roman Castevets deceased, Arch-Warlock ancestor Adrian Marcato who features centrally in the plot and after whom doubtlessly the Devil Baby is named. Indeed, Marcato may be a reference to Marcolf, and therefore Saturn, as both Marcato and Marcolf are derived, in part, from the Latin name Marcus or Mars.
This is supported by the reference to Saturn in Dr. Sapirstein’s name. On the other hand, again, “Black,” as a name meaning, appears commonly in JEM as a Jewish identifier. As this study will explicate, it may be a reference to the Song of Solomon. There the mysterious lover, identified in Judaism and Christianity as the Jewish God, announces to his fair lover “I am black!”[1]
To the extent “Adrian” might be understood as a reference to Solomon and not the Jewish God more generally, what is the significance of Solomon as “Devil”? The reader will know already that he is the central figure in Freemasonry. Yet it would, of course, be a mistake to regard the reference to Freemasonry and not Jewry. Indeed, it would be wholly unimaginable for a Jewish author and Jewish filmmaker to regard the famous Jewish King, King Solomon, non-Jewish or not representing a Jewish power.
Here it may be meaningful to note that King Solomon was remembered as something of a sorcerer and demonologist. Yet he’s also of the Davidic line and according to Matthew an ancestor of Christ. Indeed, even Christ will laud his wisdom. In any case, would an ancestor of Christ, let alone a direct descendent of David, be also the Devil?
In a manner, yes. After all, what is being indicated in the esotericism of Rosemary’s Baby is simply that “The Devil” is really “The Jew”, whether Solomon or Christ or otherwise. This is also indicated in the esotericism of the Garden of Eden as this study explicates. Indeed, as specific as the reference to Solomon may be taken, it is better understood more broadly. Solomon, like any of the Jewish patriarchs, particularly those descending from Judah, is himself, The Jewish God, by virtue of being a Jew.
In fact, the “Devil” in Rosemary’s Baby may as readily be identified as Christ. After all, Rosemary, a clear reference to Mary in the Bible, is the child’s mother, whilst Solomon’s mother is a woman named Bathsheba.
The Devil’s name Adrian means “black.” As a name meaning, “black” appears commonly in JEM as a Jewish identifier. As this study will explicate, it may be a reference to the Song of Solomon. There the mysterious lover, identified in Judaism and Christianity as the Jewish God, announces to his fair lover “I am black!” Gustave Moreau’s painting above depicts the unnamed female lover in the Song of Solomon.
Other color symbolism in the film includes Rosemary’s striking red outfit on the day of her rape by the reptilian creature. Red is a reference to Semitic and Aryan blood admixture or the racially “wounded” Aryan as this study explicates. Further, Polanski depicts the Woodhouses’ apartment in golden and yellow hues. This is a reference to the sought after golden, blonde, Aryan “Tipheret.” Gold as this study explicates is an Aryan identifier or an identifier of Aryan surfaces, exteriors or appearances.
Rosemary’s Baby as valuable Rosetta Stone
Rosemary’s Baby is in many ways of tremendous value to us. Here we see clearly the Jewish esotericist view of the Aryan Christian. The understanding is certainly of something inferior, at least in knowledge or gnosis, but nevertheless invaluable, coveted, necessary. It seems evident that the Jew, or Jewish Esotericist more specifically, knows precisely what the Christian is thinking but never vice versa. It is a difficult assessment to challenge.
We see here, for instance, the Jewish understanding that Christianity is especially meaningful to women. We see here, also, the Jewish understanding that the Christian religion is entirely mysterious to the Aryan laity or flock of Christianity. Hence the Christian is unmoored, dependent on a God he or she can neither see, understand, nor even trust.
Unable to trust their “own God” and purpose, the Aryan Christian is rendered directionless, malleable. In the end, they may only be told what is good or evil, rather than understand it instinctively. Indeed, dissimilar from the Jew they are not their own God nor do they understand him thus they lack executive powers. If the Pope says its not sinful to have sex with a reptilian humanoid than it is not sinful.
In Rosemary’s Baby we learn the Aryan Christian is rendered directionless and malleable. In the end, they may only be told what is good or evil, rather than understand it instinctively. Indeed, dissimilar from the Jew they are not their own God nor do they understand him thus they lack executive powers.
There is also the suggestion that “sin”, that curious Semitic, Mesopotamian moon God, no matter how repulsive and initially unpleasant, is made erotic by Christianity, even if by taboo. Lastly the Jewish Esotericist understands fully that Christianity is a “horror movie.”
Eternal damnation is the consequence of any misstep. All of this may be applied to Multiculturalism. Today the Aryan multiculturalist is governed psychologically by the Jewish Multiculturalist who is, again, the Gnostic, who “understands bigotry”, who has the moral authority and “sapience” to determine who is a sinner and who is not, one misstep and it is, indeed, eternal damnation.
Likewise we begin to understand why Polanski holds such a high place in the mind of world Jewry. Films like Rosemary’s Baby that are widely celebrated while gleefully depicting Jewish antagonism to Aryan civilization are profound works of JEM, greatly moralizing to Jews and demoralizing to Aryans, whether common members of either group understand the messaging clearly or not. Jews would have at least understood it as depicting Aryan Christians as mad, psychologically vulnerable, sexually accessible, easily manipulated and ultimately degenerate, whatever their pretensions.
In fact Polanski’s unpunished abuse of Aryan children, broadly forgiven or pooh-poohed by world Jewry, also functions as JEM. Consider it in this context: Polanski’s most famous film includes a Devil worshiper, bearing his own uncommon first name, involved in Child sacrifice. That he himself led a cult implicated in drugged rape, child abduction and murder, doubtlessly, likewise, adds to his “gangsta” mystique.
Lastly we should consider if Polański had a particular insight and even connection to the cult of Catholicism, which is evidently still quite strong in Poland, a land where he may trace his father’s roots. He suggests much but what exactly does he know? And what should the Catholic laity know?
[1] Song of Solomon 1:5 “I am black, yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. Do not stare because I am black, for the sun has gazed upon me.” Christians commonly assert this is a description of the woman and not the man (presumed to be Yahweh) in the poem. However no evidence suggests this. Though it is clear that the poem is a dialog between lovers, speakers are not identified from this passage to that. While scholars are able to reach consensus on later passages of the poem as to which speaker is speaking, 1:1–6 is commonly classed “introduction” while 1:17 -2:7 simply Dialogue between lovers. The speaker is addressing the daughters of Jerusalem. Perhaps this suggests a male perspective particularly in the context of a love poem where the male is understood a courter. Likewise 1:6 indicates the speaker a vintner, a male profession in the ancient world, arguably equating him the Semitic Bacchus as was Yahweh by ancient mythographers. Elsewhere in the poem the female, possessing breasts or “shad,” שַׁד, is praised as “fair” or Japheth such as in 4:1. There experts are in agreement, the man is addressing the “Japheth” women. All of this, of course, is weighed against a consistent self-perception appearing in Jewish Esoteric Moralization, where Jews commonly feel themselves to be the darker man vying for fairer stocks.
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dvaci says:
Amazing insights!
The Grand Style says:
Mind-blowing stuff here, as always.
What are your “Top 5” films in terms of Jewish esoteric coding?
markbrahmin says:
Hmmm. I’ll have to think on that. And more articles on cinema are forthcoming. And a book on comic books through Radix – bug Richard Spencer on that front. The remarkable thing is that the phenomena is widespread and more widespread than I might have guessed initially. I’m in the process of taking on a writer to deal specifically with cinema and popular culture. There is just too many plump fruits laying out there that I don’t have the time for. I am focused on explicating the central symbolism that it all references. The key is just training the eyes.
Cockpit says:
Ironically, it would be Polanski’s beautiful, Aryan wife and unborn son that would be ritually sacrificed a year after the release of the film. Curious if Sharon Tate saw in Polanski a means of advancing her own acting career similarly to the character of Guy Woodhouse? It is said Mia Farrow’s husband at the time, Frank Sinatra, forbade her from accepting the role, and ultimately divorced her as a result. It is also said the Polanski and John Cassavetes did not like each other, and clashed during the filming. Anyway, fascinating analysis! I will have to read the book now, after seeing the movie many times.
A lot of interesting history. My study is focused on the myth. But life imitates art.
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The Top 50 K-Pop Songs of 2018 (Day Five: 10-1)
Posted on December 14, 2018 by Nick 30 Comments
The end of the year countdowns are finally here! As always, things kick off with the big one… The Bias List’s top 50 songs of the year! Each day this week, I’ll be counting down ten of the year’s best, until number one is revealed on Friday.
To be eligible for this top 50 list, songs must have had a Korean release as a title or promotional track between Dec. 1st, 2017 and Nov. 30th, 2018.
Make sure to check out the rest of the countdown first!
Day One: 50-41
Day Two: 40-31
Day Three: 30-21
Day Four: 20-11
10. NCT U – Baby Don’t Stop
At their best, NCT meld trendy sounds with SM Entertainment’s penchant for odd, genre-bending arrangements. With only two performers to its name, Baby Don’t Stop reigned as the cream of the 2018 NCT crop thanks to its indelible synth beat and surprisingly buoyant pop hook. The track oozes charisma, positioning every element — from vocal run to squeaky sample — as a vital cog in the percussive machine. (full review)
9. Lovelyz – That Day
It’s hard to get this kind of fluffy synth-pop song exactly right. Too edgy and you lose its simple, cotton-candy appeal. Too cutesy and the whole thing collapses under its own saccharine weight. But Lovelyz — and more specifically, Sweetune — found the perfect balance with That Day. Its muted verses build interest with their jazzy undertones, but it’s that sugar shot of a chorus that lands the song in the top ten. Rarely has the combination of bubbly synths and layered harmonies sounded so refreshing. (full review)
8. Stray Kids – District 9
Idol group debuts should be explosive. They should be ferocious. If not, then what’s the point? In the midst of 2018’s obsession with trap and tropical house, K-pop often forgot just how effective a killer dose of rock guitar can be. District 9 launched Stray Kids with a full-blown identity, distinct enough from other acts to stand out. Its blistering rap verses impressed, but the sheer bombast of the chorus truly threw down the gauntlet. (full review)
7. Sunmi – Heroine
Heroine was the opening salvo to an incredible year for K-pop’s most magnetic diva. Plagiarism accusations aside, this was one of the few 2018 tracks that got away with the instrumental-drop-as-chorus. That’s thanks to a standout arrangement, which moves from sultry and beguiling to slap-your-face commanding with effortless finesse. As you would expect, Sunmi sells both moods with equal ferocity. (full review)
6. Golden Child – It’s U
Is it possible for a pop song to be too in-your-face catchy? I must have thought so back in January when I was more hesitant about It’s U’s charms. But, the track’s incessantly giddy energy won me over quickly. The retro Sweetune synths certainly help, but Golden Child’s infectious eagerness seals the deal. Pop music like this is only effective if everyone involved approaches it with conviction, throwing any sense of irony out the door. It’s U takes its fizzy hooks very seriously, and that earnest attitude pays off. (full review)
5. Sunmi – Siren
Expanding on the sonic touchstones of January’s Heroine, Siren delivered a fleshed-out melody that added a welcome dose of desperation to Sunmi’s hypnotic vocals. Its strong 80’s influence would have been right at home on Wonder Girls’ 2015 retro opus Reboot, but feels downright vital when couched within 2018’s downbeat pop climate. The chugging synth beat puts Siren in a category unto itself, but that instantly memorable chorus solidifies its greatness. (full review)
4. Golden Child – Lady
Golden Child again, you say? Well, hear me out. There were many moody, mid-tempo comebacks this year. With an ear towards current trends, most relied on elements of trap or future bass to drive their angst. In contrast, Lady went full on melodic, hanging a classic pop arrangement over a gorgeous, piano-led instrumental. Its transition from verse to pre-chorus is among the year’s most dynamic moments, surging forward with all the cinematic grandeur of a satisfying drama. (full review)
3. SHINee – Good Evening
When you think about it, it’s easy to express melancholy through the kind of strings-laden balladry favored by so many drama soundtracks. What’s harder is capturing a complicated, bittersweet sentiment, channeled through a high-energy genre more often suited towards jubilant, floor-filling excess. Good Evening pulls off this tricky balance, filtering its hues of grief through a wistful — and ultimately hopeful — catharsis of electrifying deep house. It’s the saddest sequel to View we never thought to ask for. (full review)
2. Golden Child – Genie
I often complained about K-pop’s lack of sharp hooks in 2018. In so many ways, Genie is the polar opposite of that criticism. Here, everything is a hook — and they’re as honed as they come. In fact, the track pulls us through four distinct segments before we even get to its instant-classic chorus. No murky, time-filling verses here!
But what makes Genie a true standout is that it doesn’t rest solely on its catchiness. The song could have easily become throwaway pop fluff, but the rousing, infectious melodies are backed up by a parade of robust vocal arrangements, culminating in a climactic wallop with power notes to spare.
A lesser track would have ditched those last thirty seconds for economy’s sake, but Golden Child know that — despite what the cool kids might say — a high octane, effervescent pop song is still an excellent outlet to showcase skill. From its bombastic dance break to the opening verse’s steadily building percussion, no title track this year offered more bang for your brightly-colored buck. (full review)
1. ONF – Complete
When I consider the pop songs that move me most, it’s all about a sense of propulsion. More than any other artistic medium, music has the power to evoke what it must feel like to fly. ONF’s Complete takes flight from its very first moment, and never lets up.
Its brisk pace has a weightlessness to it, yet feels tightly wound and urgent. But right when it seems like it’s about to slide into comfortable cruising territory, the track yanks you up another level with a rugged guitar-and-brass beat drop straight from the pop gods. It’s a simple trick, and one used infinitely over the past few years. But to my ears, no K-pop song in recent memory has pulled it off with more panache.
Yet, Complete knows not to overplay its hand. Rather than move in expected directions, the instrumental weaves through an enthusiastic rap break and filters into a serene, eye-of-the-storm bridge that clears the air for the climactic finale to punch with maximum potency. It’s this balance between freewheeling energy and taut song construction that makes Complete the perfect pop package, and earns it a well-deserved position at the top of my list. (full review)
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Alex C. says:
Did I miss it? I didn’t see Day6 Shoot Me on your list at all, but definitely thought it would be somewhere in the top 20. You definitely rated it higher than a lot of songs in the Countdown! One of the top 5 Kpop releases for me this year…
No Shoot Me on the countdown, unfortunately. I still like the track quite a bit, but didn’t return to it as much as I would have expected.
bokuranorekishi says:
Ooh, nice top ten. I did enjoy a lot of these songs and quite a few of them would end up in my top 100. Top 10 would definitely look a bit different from yours though.
What was your favorite song of the year?
Oh, sorry for the late response. I would say my favourite song of the year was Soya’s Artist. That chorus won me over.
Solid choice!
oh good list, even if i dont rly agree with it. i was never a huge fan of good evening or complete, but genie is probably my no1 boy group song of the year, together with some others though. same goes for that day + sunmis songs
Always glad to hear some love for Genie!
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Just in order to share opinions, here’s my Top20 (not all of them are title tracks):
1. THE UNI+, Dancing With The Devil
2. BIGFLO, Upside Down / Your Friend
3. ONF, Complete
4. JBJ95, Home
5. SUNMI, Siren
6. SAMUEL, One
7. HOLLAND, I’m Not Afraid
8. IMFACT, Na Na Na
9. EXP EDITION, Gadawada
10. TARGET, Tempest
11. WANNA ONE, Spring Breeze
12. BTS, Idol (Stadium rmx)
13. APRIL, Oh! My Mistake
14. IKON, Killing Me
15. MINZY, All Of You Say
16. S.O.U.L, Get Myself With You
17. NCT 127, Simon Says
18. UNDER NINETEEN, We Are Young
19. NAM TAEHYUN, Star
20. N.TIC, Do You Know Who I Am
Solid list, with a few unexpected choices! It’s surprising how little we matched, though you’ll likely see one or two of these on my Top Album Tracks list later this month.
Christhyan Derick Dias Barbosa says:
Amazing list Nick, thanks for all those incredible recommendations! ONF sure deserve that top spot 😀 !! I’m eager to see your top b-sides, can you tell when it’s coming?
Most likely middle to end of next week!
I always find it interesting to see other people’s lists… mine definitely looks very different to yours 😀 It’s nice to see the different music preferences come through, for example my list has a lot more R&B and rock based songs than yours 🙂 I like Complete, and I think it’s a fun summer song, but it is definitely nowhere near my favourite song of the year.
Now, you can’t just leave a comment like this and not share your top song of the year! 🙂 😉
Hehe I haven’t figured it out yet! I’ve been working on my list for my own blog for a couple of weeks but I keep being unsatisfied. I’ll let you know when I figure it out 😉
yasmine (@violetlily105) says:
i honestly had no idea who is ONF but then i decided to listen to their music when i saw them on the top of your list and i regret nothing..!!💛💛
I’m so happy (and a little jealous) that you get to experience their awesome discography for the first time. If only we could get a comeback so that that awesome discography could grow a little larger…
JYHB says:
I’m here. I did it! I spent a whole night writing for you, really why don’t I start my own blog? Same JYHB content, but – get this – with proper proofreading!
Anyways, before my top 10, it’s worth mentioning that halfway through typing my list, I realized that I had forgotten “No More” by Uni.T, which is an awesome reggae-styled Shinsadong Tiger song that would have hit around 33-35 for me. Other songs that I didn’t forget but which just missed my list are “Thanks” by Seventeen, “My Pace” by Stray Kids, “Genie” by Golcha (sorry TT), and “Tempo” by EXO, and “What The Heck” by Sha Sha.
10. TVXQ – The Chance of Love: I know, I know. But electro-swing always wins. It really does. It always wins. The riffs are great. The melodies are effortlessly cool. The bass line is great. The rhythm is swinging. I would dance to this, and I don’t dance. But I would. I resent you putting this song into the “they ‘matured’ and got more boring” category; this is a bop. In this essay I will
9. Fanatics-Flavor – Milkshake: K-pop continues its inexplicably good run of great songs about ice cream (seriously, “Ice Cream Cake,” Hyuna’s “Ice Cream,” OC’s “Abing Abing” – it’s WEIRD). “Milkshake” is weirdly dark and minor key for a song about ice cream, and more or less just something we don’t hear too often in kpop. The riffs that underlie the rap bits (particularly that phrase-ending one on the lower end of the mix) are excessively good, the pre-chorus/chorus lines are catchy yet just as melancholy as anything with a more overtly sad tone (like “I’m So Sick” or the Aseul songs). Just like Ah-Choo, for a similar example, was a really kind of lachrymose song about sneezing in love, Milkshake manages to be a lachrymose song about ice cream in love.
8. Loona – Hi High: “Hi High” indeed, THIS is the song that out-acid tripped the already abrasive and crazed “Love Bomb.” Besides having maybe the best first 15 seconds in kpop with those icy synths, I didn’t like “Hi High” at all at first – namely because I was convinced spacey gg songs like this needed space for their fizz, and this is the opposite of a spaced-out arrangement. “Why can’t this be arranged like ‘Love & Live’ or ‘Ah-Choo’?” I thought, erroneously. “Hi High” is really just a different animal, and once I switched my mindset from “this instrumental is cluttered” to “this instrumental is cocaine,” then I started to see greatness. Hi High wins out over “Love Bomb” by having that incessant “Hi! High! Hi High! Love! Love!” chorus, which allows the already extremely extra to be realized at full-capacity extraness. I would argue that a more complex melody would have blunted the gg-on-drugs effect by constraining all of those ultra fast arpeggios to the back of the mix
7. iKon – Killing Me: I think I’ve already detailed that I like this song a lot! It plays a lot of the same tricks as Love Scenario with the subtle bookend refrain that starts and ends the song, but manages to be better on the merits of beautiful production and, imo, a more appealing tone. I love, and I mean LOVE, how the post-chorus “drop” is actually a fake-out to a more fleshed out second chorus; I love the dark, surreal pre-chorus melody, I love how the vocals are mixed so that it sounds like the lower frequencies are harmonizing with the main melody (I dunno anything about mixing, but I hear it, and it’s a clever trick). The only thing that could have made this better would have been a more engaging bridge melody because it drags a little there, but is this a serious complaint? No. “Killing Me” is as good as this genre of moody boy group songs will ever get.
6. Dreamcatcher – You and I: Dreamcatcher really toned down the metal for this one, but that’s okay because they kept the songwriting excellence up. Really judging DC songs up until “You and I” is a matter of how much you like the chorus melody on display; they’re all great, and “You and I” is easily the best since “Good Night.” It’s a really a testament that I can sing all of You and I’s chorus without putting any effort into memorizing it, despite my terrible lyric-processing skills (in any language) and there being no real hookiness on display.
5. Sunmi – Siren: Peak good. Sunmi’s the queen. What a chorus. I’m tired but we both know that this deserves a top 10 spot on any list.
4. CLC – To The Sky: Extreme levels of sunny happiness but low levels of cloying aegyo, a highly-rocking guitar base, and plenty of time for the riff-based chorus to get stuck into your head makes “To The Sky” the best CLC song, and easily one of the very best songs of this year. I knew this was going to be a Top 5 of the Year song back when it came out, and the addictive energy definitely held up. Screaming “run to the sky high” was a massive 2018 hobby, because who wouldn’t want to sing along to this?
3 Aseul – Fill Me Up: If you thought I was done with Aseul, you were wrong! SIKE part 5: the ultimate sike. “Fill Me Up” is great. It comes from the school of “random noise that slowly coalesces into a proper song (but only sort of)”. Unlike most of the songs this high on the list, I really don’t know what ingratiated me so hard to “Fill Me Up.” It’s weird; it definitely doesn’t have the same sort of melodic sense as “Sandcastles” or “Always With You,” or really any other song on the album. You just kind of have to listen to it a few times to understand. I certainly kept coming back, to the point where I feel obligated to place it this high.
2. Twice – What Is Love?: If you thought I was done with Twice, you were wrong! Explaining why I like “What Is Love?” so much is probably impossible. It’s just a really good, straightforward pop song, and probably the song I relied on most this year. Twice are good times when everything sucks, and this year sucked massively. However, my massive crush on Twice’s music was a good mainstay, and escapism is what kpop is for – at least to an extent – to most everyone who likes this genre. I’m not a hardcore Once by any stretch (I haven’t been a proper fangirl since I was like 14) but that doesn’t change that Twice were my faves this year, releasing great track after great track. “What Is Love?” just happens to encapsulate everything I like about Twice and kpop in general, so it gets my #2 place.
1. Oh My Girl – Secret Garden: You know it had to be this one, man. I knew in January when this was released that nothing would top it, and boy was I correct. Nothing topped it. “Secret Garden” is masterful in all areas. It just doesn’t get better than this in kpop. It just – it doesn’t. 11/10. The archetypal girl group song realized perfectly on essentially every level.
I think I accurately predicted four of your top ten. I knew Oh My Girl, Twice, Sunmi and iKON would be up there. I’m honestly surprised about TVXQ, but then again I know you like the swing elements a lot more than I do.
Even though it didn’t make my list (I’m team Remember Me), I do like Secret Garden quite a lot. It’s not necessarily the kind of song I gravitate towards, but I enjoy it even more now than I did this time last year. It’s a strong #1. And hey, we both had WM artists at the top!
LOONA is one of the most frustrating things for me, because I see so many people going crazy about them and I just can’t relate. I feel like I didn’t get an invitation to the party.
I love their concept. I love the imagery and the fact that they don’t always head down traditional girl group routes. I just haven’t been able to connect to their music yet. I think I need that one entry point that might make it all click for me.
Your list is a great balance to mine, since it’s like 80% girl groups/female performers and mine was 2/3 male, 1/3 female. It’s fascinating to see where we connect and diverge. Thanks for taking the time to post all these!
None of the Loona songs this year were instant hits with me – I mean, I actually hated Hi High on first listen – and all of them took months before I suddenly had an 100% turn around. This is true with almost every Loona song I ended up liking, actually (Love & Live, Love Cherry Motion, Girl Front, and Eclipse all took varying amounts of time for me to really enjoy). I think the only ones I’ve connected with off the bat are “new” and “Loonatic,” and both of those would be way up on my Top of 2017 list. So, maybe come back to some of the older ones and check if you’ve changed your mind!
I think my boy group/girl group split this year comes down to (a) boy groups riding the skitterskitterLURCH trend much harder than girl groups and (b) upbeat boy group songs, when they do appear, often go down the funk/trop house/Latin pop route and I just don’t like it that much, while upbeat girl group songs stick much closer to classic synthpop sounds and the kind of retro I do like. Not sure why this is, but it’s definitely a pattern. I think a big thing is that you usually use “freewheeling” as a compliment, whereas I’m like “get your melody in line, please.” And girl group songwriting, if it wants to do something different, will push things with its instrumentation/harmonies or 90 counterpoint melodies at once (see: April). Melody lines in general are more to the point, and even when ggs suffer from the dreaded Over-phrasing Plague, vocals rarely sound improvised, just overwrought. Boy group songwriters seem to find more value in improvisation energy (though it’s surely not – it’s k-pop after all)
Also yes, @ WM and Woollim absolutely bringing it this year! Good songs all around.
Woollim and WM are the MVPs of my life.
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you’re definitely a girl with the most basic taste out there and you’re biased too so you should consider stop reviewing songs for real
Ugh, you got me. I guess I’ll pack it up and stop reviewing. In fact, maybe I’ll stop listening to music altogether. Do you want the password so you can take over the site?
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Waking Life, Jared Loughner, and the News Media: Further Notes in Defense of a Humane Film
tags: 60 Minutes, Arizona, Gabrielle Giffords, Jared Loughner, Richard Linklater, Tucson, Waking Life
by Lloyd
Sometimes you want an educated guess to be accurate; other times you most certainly do not.
I surmised on Saturday that the media might latch on to certain themes in Waking Life if it ever became known that accused Arizona shooter Jared Loughner had been a fan of the film. There are clear, undeniable similarities between Loughner’s worldview and some of the film’s secondary themes and minor characters. Specifically, the practice of “lucid” or “conscious” dreaming is discussed, relatively briefly but in very positive terms, in a couple of the movie’s conversations, and this pursuit was a major interest of Loughner’s. Also, three minor characters express outrage in the face of institutional authority and, in two instances, either suicidal or homicidal responses to what they perceive as the irreversibly negative, pervasive influence of pernicious social and political forces. And as we all know, an even more warped, inhuman version of that violent impulse is what we saw from Loughner in Arizona.
Lots of beauty in Waking Life, all lost in the 60 Minutes presentation.
In short, my knowledge and deep appreciation of the film led me to be concerned that Waking Life would somehow be cited as an “influence” on Jared Loughner and perceived as having contributed, directly or indirectly, to last week’s acts of sickening cruelty. After my weekend piece, it was reported on 60 Minutes that Loughner was in fact “obsessed” with Waking Life. The coverage of the “connection” was shallow, unreflective, and intellectually careless—exactly what I expected and feared in many ways.
60 Minutes spent about 30 seconds specifically discussing Waking Life in the midst of a two-minute stretch that focused on Loughner’s philosophical bent toward nihilism and his active embrace of chaos and disorder. The “Loughner’s philosophy” segment is introduced with the words, “A lot of what you’re about to hear isn’t going to make sense.” This condescending intro insists that the ideas about to be presented aren’t worth engaging or attempting to understand. Not in so many words, it says, “If you’re normal, then you’ll turn your brain off right now, because only crazy people would want to think or talk about the stuff you’re about to hear.”
The segment then moves directly to two of Loughner’s former friends who briefly delve into Loughner’s nihilistic beliefs. He “literally believes in nothingness,” says one, drawing a contrast between “not believing in anything” and actually “believing in nothing,” the latter of which implies conviction rather than the lack thereof. It’s an important distinction that could have received a lot more focus, had the segment producers not been so eager to move on to the next piece of exciting video that, in their minds, even further clarified their grim picture of Jared Loughner’s life in the void.
Yes, Waking Life is the star of the show in the next bit, directly connected to the brief presentation of nihilism in the preceding interview. The juxtaposition is maddening because the core message of Waking Life is a clear-eyed denunciation of nihilism as perhaps the worst, most tragically wasteful philosophical path the reflective person can choose as he makes his way through the world. Unfamiliar with the other 90 minutes of the film and/or unconvinced of the importance of portraying it accurately, the 60 Minutes producers choose one of the only scenes they could have possibly chosen to support their point, at least implied, that Waking Life must be a key, foundational piece of Loughner’s views:
[Waking Life character]: Man wants chaos, in fact he’s gotta have it. Depression, strife, riots, murder.
[60 Minutes voiceover]: This character echoes something at the center of Loughner’s apparent delusions, that big government and media conspire to silence the average guy. To protest his lack of voice, the character sets himself on fire.
And, from their perspective, point made. That’s it for Waking Life and its “influence” on Jared Loughner, as the overall segment moves on to other topics, including input from Secret Service experts on other assassins’ motives and mindsets. The entire movie gets 13 words (of the producers’ choosing) to represent it.
But here’s the thing: Waking Life is not a “catchphrase” or “soundbite” movie. It’s deeply unfortunate that it is so reduced in the 60 Minutes treatment of it. Sure, one may attempt to prioritize themes and pull material from the film to defend one’s prioritization—I did as much in my original piece a few days ago. The 60 Minutes folks may argue that their excerpting was no different from anyone else’s, including mine. However, the difference, I have to assume, is that they were coming at Waking Life from a position of unfamiliarity except for the purported connection to Loughner. Hence, their motives in approaching the film, and their beginning hypotheses about it, led them to make their choices without concern for fidelity to the film’s intended meanings.
In short, 60 Minutes did almost exactly what I feared the news media would do in discussing Waking Life if the need to do so ever presented itself while covering the Loughner shootings. Thankfully, it now appears that the Waking Life story angle may quickly die down or go nowhere, as it’s already being publicized that Loughner was strongly under the sway of a series of conspiracy-based documentary films distributed via the Internet. And that’s sure to get the media juices flowing.
Still, I’ve felt compelled, as someone whose life was enhanced (not led astray) because of a connection to Waking Life, to defend what I believe should be the film’s true, positive legacy. It does now seem that my educated guess was right, in that Loughner knew of the film and claimed to have found meaning in it. But I still strongly believe that if Loughner or anyone else attributes the murders in Arizona to the guidance of Waking Life, that attribution is based not in understanding the film’s core meaning, but rather an inability or an unwillingness to do so.
I’ll conclude with a quote from another dream figure who appears in the last minutes of the film, whose words better sum up the “take-home” message of Waking Life. Of course, it’s obvious why 60 Minutes didn’t cherry-pick this one to build a different argument about the film. I thus feel all the more driven to do so:
Life was raging all around me, and every moment was magical. I loved all the people, dealing with all the contradictory impulses. That’s what I loved the most– connecting with the people. Looking back, that’s all that really mattered.
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I think the internet films that Loughner was obsessed with had to do with the Zeitgeist movement (another something generally peaceful).
People grasping for straws in the currents of a tragedy tend to overconnect to the meaningless, and deny the obvious. That poor young man was mentally ill, and left and right dropped the ball in a chance to have a meaningful conversation about the resources available if people think loved ones are having similar problems.
Bad ideas, ideas people get from media and friends, they do have an effect on people’s lives, but a healthy well functioning mind should be able to deal with these ideas.
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Just ran across your article, and thought you might be interested in mine. I’m the actor who played Self-Destructive Man in the film, and it was distressing to hear my piece inserted into the “story” 60 Minutes patched together.
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J.C., your Statesman article is insightful, uplifting, and beautifully written. Thank you for directing me to it. Would that Loughner (and many other intelligent but terribly lost youth) had the capability to take their own journeys, similar to yours, from nihilistic disengagement to an ethic of loving service. I’m still in the midst of mine, as I’m sure you are as well.
I’m also glad you ran into my piece, the second of two that I wrote about Waking Life in the wake of the Tucson shooting. The first one is linked in the opening paragraph above. When I heard that Loughner had been obsessed with both lucid dreaming and nihilism, I thought of Waking Life immediately. I just had this sick feeling that one of the most beautiful movies I’ve ever seen was going to get dragged into the sensational media coverage and grossly distorted in the process. It all seems to have died down now, of course, but I hope you, Richard Linklater, and others associated with Waking Life didn’t face any sort of “backlash”–other than the joking ones your friends gave you, of course!
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India’s strategic win at UNSC
August 17, 2019 August 18, 2019 by Kalyan S, posted in Across the World, News Articles, Views
Inspite of slight tense situation created by our strategic partner Britain, India is able to convince United Nations Security Council that the situation in Kashmir is normal and there is no need to assume any panic.
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Nearly after 54 years, UNSC has Kashmir as a topic of discussion. This meeting was called up by permanent member China and its ally Pakistan claiming havoc in Kashmir after revoking article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan has earlier wrote a formal letter to UNSC for a meeting on Kashmir. UNSC declined an open formal meeting but agreed for a meeting close doors where all the details are not to be made public.
With China backing its move to bring in Kashmir as an international dispute, Pakistan made a final attempt to get US buy-in on Friday. However US, Britain, France and Russia has ruled in favour of India saying Kashmir remains a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan and this cannot be ‘internationalized’.
An anxious moment raised when Britain agreed China’s proposal that an informal outcome to be notified through UNSC president. This could mean that a statement be issued on Kashmir’s situation by UNSC. However eventually 4 out of 5 permanent UN members denied any intervention on Kashmir. India has been appraising the circumstances and on going normal situation to 5 permanent and 10 non permanent members from the day article 370 was revoked
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Key events impacting Economies in 2018
December 23, 2017 by Kalyan S, posted in Across the World, News Articles, Views
Today’s article in ET by Reshmi Khurana and Probal Dasgupta has given a clear insight on key political events that could affect global as well as India’s economy.
With his unconventional leadership style, Trump is redefining US relationship with rest of world, especially with Russia, China and West Asia.
Analysts say, China is all set to fill in any leadership gap that US could not, in global politics. For instance, China is expected to oppose Trump’s move to decertify Presidents Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran in 2015. With support of EU and Russia, this could strongly help represent China’s position as global power.
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US and Russia has different positions in West Asia. US stand to declare Jerusalem as Israel capital has raised tensions. China has already announced it intent to play a role in resolving the dispute, signally itself as a global peace broker. With Russia supporting China here, this would bring both these two countries politically closer. Not sure yet on US sanctions on Russia, but this would also have impact on Russia’s undersea Nordstream pipeline between Germany and Russia. This in turn might strangle the ties between US and EU.
With US supporting Japan and India w.r.t trade in India Ocean region, where China is strategically to start dominate the region, the global relations among these key super power countries would define the economies significantly.
North Korea would be another key flashpoint in 2018. With countries 70th anniversary and South Korea hosting Winter Olympics any aggression on either side would have high impact globally.
Other key event happening is Brexit. While there are still couple of years to see its full affect, things like reduced immigration etc have started showing the impact. With reduced availability of technicians and skilled labour from other EU areas, the labour cost is increasing in UK.
In Summary, 2018 looks to be a crucial year in defining the global economies
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India’s current foreign relations
December 31, 2016 by Kalyan S, posted in Across the World, Indian Economy, News Articles, Views
The dynamics in global relationships are changing frequently. Some have been favourable to India and others are posing challenges for its growth.
India ensured a clear approach on West Asia policy. A combination of investment, defense and security, counter terrorism was understood with Gulf Arabs and Iran. This is done tactfully, while maintaining a a special relationship with Israel. The crown prince of UAE, will be India’s chief guest for Republic Day 2017. Maintaining a deeper relationship with Gulf countries should help further weaken their current unhealthy relation with Pakistan
(image courtesy: Indianexpress.com)
Africa is India’s maritime neighbour separated by Indian Ocean. With huge resources and opportunities evolving, African countries would be definitely a strategic and economic partner to India.
With active participation in Naval exercises and making this years Nuclear deal, India has made a very progress in strengthen the relationship with Japan. It also started passive support to other countries along with Japan in keeping tab on China’s aggression in south China Sea.
Key nations has always been curious about Trump’s strategy. Well, with India it seems to be have positive till now. His ‘remarks’ till now placed India in a comfort zone, also considering his remarks for Pakistan and China. The only thing that is bothering till now is on the visa’s and its impact on IT industry. Experts has given mixed opinions on it, but India need not worry on it immediately.
Relations between Russia and India peaked in October this year after the annual summit held in Goa. Russia has been a reliable partner in defense, nuclear energy. However instances like Russia’s strategies supporting Taliban to check Islamic State would hamper the relationship.
It is quite evident that Pakistan has been one of the biggest threats for India in the area of terrorism. While India can make certain aggressive steps like in Indus Water Treaty, it will have implications. With new man as GHQ, India can wait and see on how Pakistan’s next step.
China has been India’s hindrances for economic growth. At the same time we rely on China on many areas, how India deals with China in 2017 will determine its own global rise.
With alliances and relationships getting complicated globally , India should be cautious choosing its strategies.
(Analysed from Indrani Bagchi, TOI, Stanly John from TheHindu,NILOVA ROY CHAUDHURY, RIR sudanvisiondaily.com)
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Internet of Things(IoT) today
July 24, 2016 by Kalyan S, posted in Across the World, Technology
“If the outside temperature is more than 350 C, turn on AC at my home when I am about to reach in 15 minutes”. Internet of Things (IoT) has grown at a higher pace like many experts predicted few years back . Today, IoT extends from smart homes to wearable watches to healthcare instruments.
The smartphones are multiplying and the electronic sensors are getting cheaper and smarter. At the same time on the infrastructure side, many are adopting cloud with high speed networks. The connection between millions of devices and sensors has become cost efficient now.
These are facilitating the rise of IoT and indicate that many industries are adopting it. Manufacturing, Health Care and Pharma, Heavy machinery, Energy and Utilities, Agriculture, transportation, aerospace industries get greatly benefited with IoT. Also this is helping them to give customers altogether a new experience.
We would have seen the ads in TV for Philips where lights in home are switched on/off automatically based on our needs.
Manufacturing:
There are companies like JBL, heavy machinery that uses IoT to monitor its vehicles and gets alerted before a break happens in any of it equipment. The cost of fixing the break is way higher than fixing before it occurs.
Aerospace:
Virgin airlines recently implemented IoT for a set of its airplanes, that most components on the planes are connected to internet, making the it more live and reducing the maintenance costs.
IoT can enable agriculture by creating a network of connected devices, providing real-time information on weather, data and alerts on soil condition for a type of crop, monitoring for floods etc. There are applications like identifying a sick animal in the cattle and remove them before they infect others
There are already IoT applications that reminds elderly patients to remind the time to take pills, give the cups with prefilled medicines with push of a button. There are devices that monitor the body temperature, urine flow etc and can alert before a heart failure, kidney injury happens.
More work to do:
Like any other evolving technology, IoT has its own obstacles. Some are concerns on data security and privacy – and others at core is skill or expertise to design and implement the IoT. Reports and surveys show there are not enough skilled professional to implement the IoT that meets the current demand. IoT is still as of now complex in nature to implement. However, with many advantages of IoT and need for it, we are sure it will be used widely across globe!
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Is Indian Ocean still India’s Ocean?!
March 16, 2015 by Kalyan S, posted in Across the World, Indian Economy, Views
Prime Minister’s visit to Seychelles, Mauritius and Sri Lanka has infused fresh energy and support to all these Indian Ocean states. Many of the countries in Indian Ocean are crucial for India’s security and economic concerns. As Hindustan Times rightly mentioned, New Delhi has to ensure that Indian Ocean is, strategically, India’s Ocean! This visit has signaled that India is a security provider in strategically crucial sea lanes for global commerce and geopolitics. India is making its maritime safe and secure for the nation’s interest.
(Image taken from http://www.marineline.com website)
What PM did in these three countries was to assert India is still a leader with the ability to safeguard and develop these regions and it does not waste its comparative advantages to China and partly US which are trying to influence their presence.
At the same time this does not mean dominance or an ownership, but India would like these countries to consult it before taking any major strategic decisions. Generally small countries lying in the Naval borders of big Nations can feel venerable. For instance China’s revolution in military affairs (RMA) has raised fears of mineral rights, claims over territories, in the nations of East and South China seas. Where as India will never go for a territorial claim, it would strengthen the defense sectors of those countries to eliminate any external powers in those regions.
It is important and a high time for India to strengthen ties with these nations because:
Seychelles had previously offered refueling and docking facilities to Chinese warships. Sri Lanka too had hosted Chinese submarines for re-supplying. With the mindset of Chinese to send more and more Naval naval escorts to these places, India should ensure it is the “preferred partner” for these kind of activities.
Terrorism through sea is a threat to India
In Summary, Modi has signed two agreements with Seychelles and Mauritius and thus India acquired the infrastructure development rights. By operating and sharing the surveillance systems on these islands, India is slowing ensuring its presence and support in Indian Ocean.
Analyzed from ET and HT.
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India’s inclination towards Russian power !!
May 13, 2014 by Kalyan S, posted in Across the World, Indian Economy, Views
Impact of recent events in Ukraine
The recent events in Ukraine widened the gap between US and Russia. There are good number of nations from EU that are supporting Russia’s standpoint with respect to Ukraine. Russia will host International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in next two weeks. This forum discusses the emerging and growth markets across the world. This year, most participants will be the leaders of Russian, Baltic and European nations; however, US may not join because of Putin’s Ukraine policy.
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All these events, has paved a way for India is to gain access to an alternative economic zone rich in natural resources and wide-ranging market opportunities – Eurasia – mainly in the countries Russia, EU, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. SPIEF is seeing our interest and participation. Over the last few years, there is growing energy partnership between India and Russia. Europe has not yet recovered from its economic crisis. And emerging markets in Eurasia, led by Russia, gives an opportunity to India as a possible alternative to the EU. This region has huge reserves of oil and natural gas, as well as metals and other minerals. Last year, India and Russia decided to cooperate in sectors such as oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, infrastructure, mining, automobiles, fertilizers and aviation.
India could not come to a trade deal with EU, but it could with Russia
In spite of the conflict in the Ukraine, India has backed Russia. India also started pushing for membership in Eurasia Union (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan) that provides free movement of goods, services and people in the region.
Meanwhile, there is delay in expansion of trade, even though EU is India’s largest trading partner. Reasons: India wants EU to provide greater market access in services and pharmaceutical sectors, data security for its IT sector and relaxed visa norms for its professionals. The EU, in turn, wants India for reforms in banking and insurance, wines and spirits, intellectual property etc.
While deal with EU is not going well, India should grab the opportunity in Eurasia. It can become a big economic player in the region where Europe and Asia overlap!!
What’s the problem going in Ukraine?..
February 8, 2014 February 8, 2014 by Kalyan S, posted in Across the World, News Articles, Views
After going through the news today, I could not resist to write this blog on Ukraine that is going through rough situation.
Ukraine is one of the countries that has very old heritage and culture flourished in 4500 BC like that of our old Indus civilization. It is in Eastern Europe, which also shares the border of 2300 KM with Russia along with European countries Poland, Hungary, Romania and two more.
What is the Problem:
Ukraine is in deep economic crisis. Ukraine was supposed to sign an years long pending ‘trade’ deal in November 2013 with European Union that have lot of benefits – once signed can get it out from the current economic crisis. But the president Yanukovych did not sign it under the pressure of Russia negating the deal.
Many people who are eagerly waiting for their promising future from European deal – started the protests in Kiev, the capital city after it failed.
A brief History:
In 1932 Stalin from Russia killed up to 10 million people, mostly in East Ukraine and started occupying. Ukraine that was the “bread basket of Europe” had a rich and ancient culture of farmers, wanted to hold on to their language and their land. As a civilization, Ukraine is a thousand years older than Moscow. Ukrainians had fought for their independence.
Finally Ukraine had got its independence in 1992 when USSR was fallen apart into Russia. But the Russian dominance continues and has grip in east Ukraine.
West Ukraine supports Europe and East Ukraine is still been dominating by Russia.
So what’s happening:
Russia is claiming that it is helping the people of Ukraine by buying €11 billion worth of Ukrainian government bonds and will cut the price of natural gas. But European Union is claiming that it is a sign of corruption and strategy by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s to have Russian’s grip on Ukraine’s resources.
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Wake Up Cafe Abu Dhabi: A tiny little speciality coffee gem
Join The Huntr as we present a closer look inside Wake Up Cafe Abu Dhabi – a tiny little speciality coffee shop in the Al Nahyan neighbourhood…
About the size of a singular parking space, Wake Up Cafe Abu Dhabi has been serving speciality coffee in the UAE capital since 2017. There are no bathrooms and extremely limited seating making this more of a “grab and go” speciality coffee gem than a “sit around and read a book” place. Almond milk is available as a dairy-free milk alternative and the shop is open daily from 7am until 11pm.
Food-wise there’s a small selection of sandwiches and breakfast favourites such as the acai bowl alongside bakes and sweets. Drinks-wise there are a variety of speciality coffees available – including hot and cold creations. The Huntr tried and enjoyed the refreshing Iced Latte (16AED).
http://instagram.com/wake.up.cafe
C133, Shop 8, Al Muallah Building, Muroor Street, Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi, UAE
TAGS: Abu Dhabi, Al Nahyan, Alcohol-Free, Bakes + Sweets, Breakfast, Cafe, Casual Dining, Coffee, Family-Friendly, Homegrown, Open before 8am, Speciality Coffee, Takeaway
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Enjoy free ground shipping on all orders!
Waldan is a family owned and operated American watch brand established in 1979 and headquartered in New York. Considered the “best kept secret” in the world of fine watchmaking, the brand has over 35 years of rich heritage including the harrowing story of survival endured by its founder Oscar Waldan during the second world war. His notable endeavors in the Swiss watch industry that followed include decades of designing, manufacturing and supplying fine timepieces to such notable brands as Tiffany & Co., Tourneau, H. Stern and Neiman Marcus. Oscar Waldan sourced the best quality Swiss components to create timeless watches that would last and be in style forever, although few carried his name on the dial. The watches he created for these industry leaders were exclusively crafted in precious metals, often integrated various mechanical complications and were secretly branded as “Waldan creations” by a hallmark on the inner case backs.
For nearly 30 years, Oscar Waldan designed and manufactured these “Swiss Made” watches, and after various changes in industry dynamics throughout the late 90's and early 2000's, he eventually settled in New York and designed his own collection - the Waldan Classics, with the dream of building his own watch brand.
Now, with the next generation of the Waldan family, Oscar's son Andrew Waldan is carrying the torch and in the process, reshaping the brand. He is honoring the footsteps and history of his father's American Dream story by rebranding and beginning anew as an American watch brand, based in New York where his father laid his roots. Despite the change, Waldan’s brand values have not. No longer made in Switzerland, Waldan remains committed to quality and brings that dedication to crafting timeless watches with a high value proposition to now be designed, made (with mixed domestic and imported parts), individually hand assembled and tested in the United States, and powered by the first American made movements commercially available in decades, all at a new accessible price point for the brand. Waldan remains commited to contributing to the re-emerging American watch industry, and looks to reduce the use of foreign parts on a year by year basis.
This evolution asserts Waldan’s position to modernize and evolve but never forgetting about the design elements, ethos, storytelling and quality craftsmanship that makes a watch a Waldan.
“My father founded Waldan International - Waldan Watches in 1979 as a luxury brand crafting timeless wristwatches adhering to only the finest practices in watch manufacturing. Rare and expensive, these watches were only accessible to a wealthy few. Waldan has always had a firm reputation in the industry for being “a lot of watch for the money”, and today, our revitalized brand and line honors our history, our commitment to quality, and our values in a well made, quality wristwatch that's built to last, built in the USA and accessible to most.”
-Andrew L. Waldan
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Relaxation to Gaussian generalized Gibbs ensembles in quadratic bosonic systems in the thermodynamic limit
Takaaki Monnai, Shohei Morodome, Kazuya Yuasa
Integrable quantum many-body systems are considered to equilibrate to generalized Gibbs ensembles (GGEs) characterized by the expectation values of integrals of motion. We study the dynamics of exactly solvable quadratic bosonic systems in the thermodynamic limit, and show a general mechanism for the relaxation to GGEs, in terms of the diagonal singularity. We show analytically and explicitly that a free bosonic system relaxes from a general (not necessarily Gaussian) initial state under certain physical conditions to a Gaussian GGE. We also show the relaxation to a Gaussian GGE in an exactly solvable coupled system, a harmonic oscillator linearly interacting with bosonic reservoirs.
Physical Review E
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.100.022105
Published - 2019 Aug 5
10.1103/PhysRevE.100.022105
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Monnai, T., Morodome, S., & Yuasa, K. (2019). Relaxation to Gaussian generalized Gibbs ensembles in quadratic bosonic systems in the thermodynamic limit. Physical Review E, 100(2), [022105]. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.100.022105
Relaxation to Gaussian generalized Gibbs ensembles in quadratic bosonic systems in the thermodynamic limit. / Monnai, Takaaki; Morodome, Shohei; Yuasa, Kazuya.
In: Physical Review E, Vol. 100, No. 2, 022105, 05.08.2019.
Monnai, T, Morodome, S & Yuasa, K 2019, 'Relaxation to Gaussian generalized Gibbs ensembles in quadratic bosonic systems in the thermodynamic limit', Physical Review E, vol. 100, no. 2, 022105. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.100.022105
Monnai T, Morodome S, Yuasa K. Relaxation to Gaussian generalized Gibbs ensembles in quadratic bosonic systems in the thermodynamic limit. Physical Review E. 2019 Aug 5;100(2). 022105. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.100.022105
Monnai, Takaaki ; Morodome, Shohei ; Yuasa, Kazuya. / Relaxation to Gaussian generalized Gibbs ensembles in quadratic bosonic systems in the thermodynamic limit. In: Physical Review E. 2019 ; Vol. 100, No. 2.
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Photos: LCD Soundsystem, J. Cole, Andra Day + More at Bonnaroo (Days 1-2)
by Variance Staff
Photo of LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy performing at Bonnaroo 2016, by Dan DeSlover
For those who aren't in Manchester, Tennessee, this weekend for Bonnaroo, we've caught some of the weekend's biggest and best moments.
With an incredible lineup through the four-day fest, there have already been a number of must-see performances, with more to come.
RELATED: Watch Bonnaroo 2016 Streaming Live
Days 1 and 2 (June 9-10) featured stunning sets from the likes of LCD Soundsystem, J. Cole, Andra Day, Leon Bridges, Daughter, Vince Staples, LANY and more.
See photos from the first two days below.
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